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Re: RFC: Maintainer mode support
- To: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: RFC: Maintainer mode support
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 19:19:27 +0100 (BST)
- cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, DJ Delorie wrote:
> GCC's configure supports "maintainer mode", whereby certain parts of
> the build can be disabled for the casual developer (assuming those
> parts can be supplied by CVS or aren't needed). Currently, this is
I'll repeat that maintainer modes need to be documented in the GNU Coding
Standards so we know what they should and shouldn't be used for, not in
some GCC-specific documentation (since they aren't GCC-specific) and not
left undocumented or only documented in list archives.
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk