It's only used in outer configure and:
"Several years ago François Pinard pointed out several arguments against
this AM_MAINTAINER_MODE macro. Most of them relate to insecurity. By
removing dependencies you get non-dependable builds: changes to sources
files can have no effect on generated files and this can be very
confusing when unnoticed. He adds that security shouldn't be reserved
to maintainers (what --enable-maintainer-mode suggests), on the
contrary. If one user has to modify a Makefile.am, then either
Makefile.in should be updated or a warning should be output (this is
what Automake uses missing for) but the last thing you want is that
nothing happens and the user doesn't notice it (this is what happens
when rebuild rules are disabled by AM_MAINTAINER_MODE).
Jim Meyering, the inventor of the AM_MAINTAINER_MODE macro was swayed
by François's arguments, and got rid of AM_MAINTAINER_MODE in all of
his packages."
Quoted from:
http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/automake/maintainer_002dmode.html
Context
- [Libreoffice] Do we really want to use AM_MAINTAINER_MODE? · Niko Rönkkö
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