Re: generated Makefile wants to run missing after configure (broken --disable-dependency-tracking?)

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Vincent Lefevre wrote on Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 12:11:04PM CEST:
> On 2008-08-31 06:34:44 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > Other than the workarounds already mentioned in this thread, I don't
> > see what Automake can do about it.
> 
> Allow the user to choose AM_MAINTAINER_MODE's default in a clean way.

Well, that's one of the already-mentioned workarounds, no?

> > Really it's the system that should be fixed.
> 
> Unfortunately when the system is no longer supported, this is not
> possible.

Ah, I didn't know that.  Thanks.

> Note also that the "touch" utility from the coreutils
> still supports systems without utime(2).

Interesting.  Up to your report I didn't even know such systems existed.

Cheers,
Ralf