Remove --disable-maintainer-mode option from 'configure'. (Bug#11555)

It is confusingly named and rarely useful.  See, for example,
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-12/msg00089.html>.
* INSTALL.BZR: Don't mention --disable-maintainer-mode.
* Makefile.in (MAINTAINER_MODE_FLAG): Remove; all uses removed.
* configure.in: Remove --disable-maintainer-mode.
(USE_MAINTAINER_MODE, MAINT): Remove.
* admin/make-tarball.txt: Don't worry about maintainer mode.
* etc/NEWS: Mention this.

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/admin/ChangeLog b/admin/ChangeLog
index 0c3bbf93873..3ed52c68154 100644
--- a/admin/ChangeLog
+++ b/admin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2012-06-01  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+        Remove --disable-maintainer-mode option from 'configure'.  (Bug#11555)
+        * make-tarball.txt: Don't worry about maintainer mode.
+
 2012-05-28  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
         * CPP-DEFINES: Remove HAVE_SYSINFO.
diff --git a/admin/make-tarball.txt b/admin/make-tarball.txt
index 0acd29bbc13..ea9c4a3c2d1 100644
--- a/admin/make-tarball.txt
+++ b/admin/make-tarball.txt
@@ -28,13 +28,7 @@ For each step, check for possible errors.
     refer to a newer release of Emacs.  (This is probably needed only
     when preparing a major Emacs release, or branching for it.)
 
-5.  Edit configure.in so that maintainer-mode is off by default.
-    (FIXME - need to find a better way of dealing with this.
-     Or maybe it's fine and indeed correct to leave it on?
-     See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-03/msg00859.html
-     and subsequent.)
-
-     autoreconf -i -I m4 --force
+5.   autoreconf -i -I m4 --force
      make bootstrap
 
 6.  Commit etc/AUTHORS, all the files changed by M-x set-version, and