Disable Automake maintainer mode when building via setup.py

pip doesn't preserve timestamps in tarballs, so half the build system
is going to look as though it has been changed.

Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index a80d046..65c59e1 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@ AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
 m4_pattern_forbid([^AX_],
   [Unexpanded AX_ macro found. Please install GNU autoconf-archive])
 
+# By default, rebuild autotools files on demand; only use ./missing if the
+# user says --disable-maintainer-mode (in particular this is useful when
+# running under pip, which does not preserve timestamps)
+AM_MAINTAINER_MODE([enable])
+
 AX_IS_RELEASE([micro-version])
 AC_DEFINE(DBUS_PYTHON_MAJOR_VERSION, dbus_python_major_version, [dbus-python major version])
 AC_SUBST(DBUS_PYTHON_MAJOR_VERSION, dbus_python_major_version)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c560bc2..7ad9a24 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ class Build(Distribution().get_command_class('build')):
 
         subprocess.check_call([
                 configure,
+                '--disable-maintainer-mode',
                 'PYTHON=' + sys.executable,
                 # Put the documentation, etc. out of the way: we only want
                 # the Python code and extensions