On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Duft Markus wrote: >>> >>> There is a philosophical stance that the software we develop is >>> intended for the software users rather than the software developer. >>> There is a problem if build behavior is different for the user than >>> for the software developer. >> >> Build behaviour wouldn't change, would it? Makefile.in would have the >> same contents as before.... > > You might notice that stark lack of interest on the list with discussing > this issue since it has been discussed to death several times before. > > Note that normally when one types 'make' the build environment checks to see > if it is up to date, and if is not up to date, then various 'auto' tools are > executed to bring it up to date before any actual building starts. If the > build depends on the list of files which happen to be available in a > directory, then the current list of files needs to be checked and the > makefiles regenerated (if necessary) before any actual building can ensue. > For large projects this could take substantial time.
I thought this only occurred when "maintainer mode" was turned on, and that releases should be made with that turned off. Is that not how it works?