README-maintainer-mode revision 130561 
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449887SnsayerNote that if you configure with --enable-maintainer-mode, you will need
549887Snsayerspecial versions of automake, autoconf, libtool and gettext. You will
649887Snsayerfind the sources for these in ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/binutils.
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849887SnsayerNote - "make distclean" does not work with maintainer mode enabled.
949887SnsayerThe Makefiles in the some of the po/ subdirectories depend upon the
1049887SnsayerMakefiles in their parent directories, and distclean will delete the
1149887SnsayerMakefiles in the parent directories before running the Makefiles in
1249887Snsayerthe child directories.  There is no easy way around this (short of
1349887Snsayerchanging the automake macros) as these dependencies need to exist in
1449887Snsayerorder to correctly build the NLS files.
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