Re: make bootstrap on trunk fails

[Paul Eggert]

On 02/28/2011 05:38 PM, Glenn Morris wrote:
> I may do that sometimes, yes, because I consider regenerating configure
> and committing it a PITA. I usually don't have the same version of
> autoconf as the last guy, and I dislike adding a large, meaningless
> chunk to the diff.

If this is standard practice, perhaps we should have --enable-maintainer-mode
be the default behavior for 'configure'.  That way, if someone does
a "bzr update" that updates configure.in without updating "configure",
then "make" should do the right thing and run "autoconf" to
rebuild "configure".