Re: [PATCH] build: enable maintainer mode

Op 02-03-2022 om 02:45 schreef Mike Frysinger:
> On 01 Mar 2022 10:55, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
>> I think the build
>> rules should do the right thing by default.  Only if someone wants to
>> take shortcuts (to reduce the build time and risk misbuilds), they
>> should be able to run ./configure with --disable-maintainer-mode.
> 
> this model makes sense when building from git, but can get into trouble
> when using releases when hitting timestamp skew.

How can the timestamps that came from the tarball get unintentionally
skewed to make 'make' think that 'configure' needs to be regenerated?
I don't see how this could happen.

Benno