Re: Maintainer mode

[Ben Elliston <bje at redhat dot com>]

Frank Ch. Eigler writes:

 > > [make --enable-maintainer-mode => --enable-cgen-maint] [...]
 > > Any thoughts before I put it to the gdb and binutils mailing lists?

 > Right - there should be no problem.

 > > Hopefully this is a step in the right direction of eliminating the
 > > generated files from the tree altogether.

 > I don't think this is a good idea.  The generated files should remain
 > in the tree for self-contained-ness, faster building, and better change
 > isolation.  (If you would like a way of regenerating all the dependent
 > files in all the source trees, then make a shell script to do
 > that.)

Now that I've had time to think about this one, the idea of
eliminating --enable-cgen-maint and removing generated files are
independent.  I am happy with your suggestion to leave the generated
files there--this is what happens now with `configure.in' and
`configure', for instance.

Ben