Re: 1.16.90 regression: configure now takes 7 seconds to start

Karl Berry <[email protected]> Wed, 19 Jun 2024 14:30:46 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.general
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    have to say --enable-maintainer-mode

Personally I agree with you, in theory, but I think it is too big of a
change to make. As I understand it. GNU package authors have their
source repos and have never had to say --enable-maintainer-mode before
to get their Makefiles etc. rebuilt. I don't think that would be a
welcome change.

Maintainers who want it can choose that (AM_MAINTAINER_MODE), but I
don't think we should change the default. -k