Add note about inability to use "make distclean" in maintainer mode.

[deliverable/binutils-gdb.git] / README-maintainer-mode

diff --git a/README-maintainer-mode b/README-maintainer-mode
index ee57e8486e4c2a54c574b543c6a21846c5993c79..fbe508f0c6e896b9b07639ff293a100682778dea 100644 (file)
--- 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.