From d4fc7db8920528e162a1af5bc28966c3fb393318 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Clifton Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 18:06:17 +0000 Subject: Add note about inability to use "make distclean" in maintainer mode. --- README-maintainer-mode | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'README-maintainer-mode') diff --git a/README-maintainer-mode b/README-maintainer-mode index ee57e8486e4..fbe508f0c6e 100644 --- a/README-maintainer-mode +++ b/README-maintainer-mode @@ -4,3 +4,11 @@ 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. + +Note - "make distclean" does not work with maintainer mode enabled. +The Makefiles in the some of the po/ subdirectories depend upon the +Makefiles in their parent directories, and distclean will delete the +Makefiles in the parent directories before running the Makefiles in +the child directories. There is no easy way around this (short of +changing the automake macros) as these dependencies need to exist in +order to correctly build the NLS files. -- cgit v1.2.1