* 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
