Re: [wdiff-bugs] Build problems fixed, please test for 0.5.4 release

[Denver Gingerich]

On 6/24/07, Santiago Vila <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, Denver Gingerich wrote:
[...]
> > I see from
> > the automake FAQ that some people don't like maintainer mode
> > (http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/maintainer-mode.html).
> >  Is it the right thing to do for this sort of situation?
>
> I don't like maintainer mode either, but only because I'm really a
> packager, not a maintaner. As a packager, I like the fact that GNU packages
> may be built by "./configure; make; make install" without the need of
> automake, autoconf, or anything like that.
>
> If you need mantainer mode to generate files which have proper timestamps,
> enable maintainer mode. Just remember to switch it off before making
> a spanshot tarball, or before making the final release.

Thanks for the tip.  I will do this when I get a chance (hopefully in
the next day or two) and then send out a new pre-test with that change
and the two other changes you mentioned (add "#include <string.h>" and
remove README-alpha dependency).

Denver