Home Original page

maintainer mode

Nick Clifton nickc@cygnus.com
Mon Jun 5 14:47:00 GMT 2000 
Hi Philipp,

: while testing the 2.10 branch I also tested enabling maintainer mode and of
: cause all hell broke loose because I was missing the necessary tools. I'll
: investigate that issue a bit more, as I think we don't really need all those
: special versions. At least for the NLS stuff it looks like the only thing
: that's really needed is the cygettext.m4 for aclocal, as this contains the
: definition of CY_GNU_GETTEXT.
: 
: Until that stuff's sorted out, I think it would make much sense to place a
: short readme in the top dir to tell those that dare what's needed. Here's my
: suggestion:
: 
: --- /dev/null	Fri Jun  2 10:53:43 2000
: +++ README-maintainer-mode	Fri Jun  2 22:18:38 2000
: @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
: +
: +                Notes on enabling maintainer mode
: +
: +Note that if you configure with --enable-maintainer-mode, you will need
: +special versions of automake, autoconf, libtool and gettext. You will
: +find the sources for these in ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/binutils .

Well this seems like a good idea to me.  Please check it in.

Cheers
	Nick
More information about the Binutils mailing list