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-rw-r--r-- | README-maintainer-mode | 8 |
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diff --git a/README-maintainer-mode b/README-maintainer-mode index ee57e8486..fbe508f0c 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. |