On Sunday 19 August 2012, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > > Partial answer: the current semantics of maintainer-mode is (per > > configure help): > > > > "Turn on debugging and compile time warnings and load all > > compiled modules" > > Umm, WTF? Why?
One reason was to make it easier for httpd developers to run the perl test suite. Otherwise they would always have to enable all modules after a new make install (or not forget some additional configure option).