Re: RFC: Maintainer mode support

[Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>]

>>>>> "DJ" == DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> writes:

DJ> Perhaps this is an issue for autoconf's documentation as well?

Maintainer mode is an automake invention.  Autoconf doesn't know about
it.

I don't mind if this gets mentioned in the GNU coding standards, as
long as what gets put in there doesn't force me to change the automake
implementation.  That would be obviously wrong, as automake defined it
in the first place.

I don't think putting it in the standards is so very important though.
How could it say anything more than "this disables parts of the
Makefile that are generally only used by maintainers"?  The parts of
the Makefile that get disabled depend on the particular tool.

Tom