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Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:

> That's poor-man's AM_MAINTAINER_MODE.

But it doesn't do the same thing.  If you want AM_MAINTAINER_MODE, why
not actually use it?  At least that means you can configure it to
DTRT and leave it as long as you keep config.status intact.

> |> configure shouldn't be rebuilt unconditionally anyway; it
> |> should depend on configure.in.  This used to just work.
>
> That creates too many problems in released tarballs or pretests for people
> not having the right autotools.

How come?  I can only think that means the tarballs are built
incorrectly regarding timestamps.  If so, it could be a problem with
other things, such as .info files depending on .texi.