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Maintainer mode
Doug Evans writes:
> Ben Elliston writes:
> > After thinking about it a bit, I am ready to propose that the opcodes
> > and sim Makefile.am's be modified so that they no longer rely on
> > `--enable-cgen-maint', but instead use the @MAINTAINER_MODE@
> > substitutions provided by AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to determine whether or
> > not to include rules for automatically regenerating files.
> >
> > The advantages here are obvious: you need not remember an extra option
> > to `configure' and it works more obviously.
>
> I recognize the reasons why one would want to do this.
> I didn't do this because it carries extra burdens I wasn't prepared
> to dump on binutils/gdb people.
Plus, turning on maintainer-mode often caused lots of trivial diffs
in lots of Makefile.in's/configure.in's (for me anyway).
When I'm hacking on cgen stuff, I'd rather just not be put the
the trouble of having to deal with all of that. ymmv of course.