Hello Daniel, * Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote on Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 01:54:12AM CET: > In the documentation for AM_MAINTAINER_MODE [0], it states: > > > People use AM_MAINTAINER_MODE either because they do want their users > > (or themselves) annoyed by timestamps lossage (see CVS), or because they > > simply can't stand the rebuild rules and prefer running maintainer tools > > explicitly. > > However, from my (limited) understanding, it seems like maintainer-mode > would *avoid* CVS-generated timestamp annoyances for these files.
Yes. > So shouldn't the text read "...because they do *not* want their users > (or themselves) annoyed..."? Thanks for spotting this. I'm applying this fix, both branches, and putting you in THANKS. Cheers, Ralf * doc/automake.texi (maintainer-mode): Fix logic in AM_MAINTAINER_MODE description. * THANKS: Update. Report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor. diff --git a/doc/automake.texi b/doc/automake.texi index effa23b..0dfa9c7 100644 --- a/doc/automake.texi +++ b/doc/automake.texi @@ -10026,7 +10026,7 @@ The user can override the default setting by passing either @samp{--enable-maintainer-mode} or @samp{--disable-maintainer-mode} to @command{configure}. -People use @code{AM_MAINTAINER_MODE} either because they do want their +People use @code{AM_MAINTAINER_MODE} either because they do not want their users (or themselves) annoyed by timestamps lossage (@pxref{CVS}), or because they simply can't stand the rebuild rules and prefer running maintainer tools explicitly.