On Wed October 15 2008, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
People (developers) are working on CVS check outs and wonder why the Makefile don't do what they expect rsp. why their autotool-generated files don't get updated, when rebuilding their works.
Cause: They forgot --enable-maintainer-mode.
I guess it would help to add "--enable-maintainer-mode" to the autogen.sh script or create such a script that should be run by maintainers, instead of making everyone type this option manually.
Regards, Till