diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 6e29ea7..915f016 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -658,6 +658,9 @@
 LDFLAGS
 CXXFLAGS
 CXX
+MAINT
+MAINTAINER_MODE_FALSE
+MAINTAINER_MODE_TRUE
 AM_BACKSLASH
 AM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY
 AM_DEFAULT_V
@@ -727,6 +730,7 @@
 ac_user_opts='
 enable_option_checking
 enable_silent_rules
+enable_maintainer_mode
 enable_dependency_tracking
 enable_doxygen_doc
 enable_doxygen_dot
@@ -1367,6 +1371,9 @@
   --enable-FEATURE[=ARG]  include FEATURE [ARG=yes]
   --enable-silent-rules   less verbose build output (undo: "make V=1")
   --disable-silent-rules  verbose build output (undo: "make V=0")
+  --enable-maintainer-mode
+                          enable make rules and dependencies not useful (and
+                          sometimes confusing) to the casual installer
   --enable-dependency-tracking
                           do not reject slow dependency extractors
   --disable-dependency-tracking
@@ -2465,6 +2472,29 @@
 
 ac_config_headers="$ac_config_headers config.h"
 
+
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... " >&6; }
+    # Check whether --enable-maintainer-mode was given.
+if test "${enable_maintainer_mode+set}" = set; then :
+  enableval=$enable_maintainer_mode; USE_MAINTAINER_MODE=$enableval
+else
+  USE_MAINTAINER_MODE=no
+fi
+
+  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $USE_MAINTAINER_MODE" >&5
+$as_echo "$USE_MAINTAINER_MODE" >&6; }
+   if test $USE_MAINTAINER_MODE = yes; then
+  MAINTAINER_MODE_TRUE=
+  MAINTAINER_MODE_FALSE='#'
+else
+  MAINTAINER_MODE_TRUE='#'
+  MAINTAINER_MODE_FALSE=
+fi
+
+  MAINT=$MAINTAINER_MODE_TRUE
+
+
 ac_ext=cpp
 ac_cpp='$CXXCPP $CPPFLAGS'
 ac_compile='$CXX -c $CXXFLAGS $CPPFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext >&5'
@@ -6540,6 +6570,10 @@
   am__EXEEXT_FALSE=
 fi
 
+if test -z "${MAINTAINER_MODE_TRUE}" && test -z "${MAINTAINER_MODE_FALSE}"; then
+  as_fn_error $? "conditional \"MAINTAINER_MODE\" was never defined.
+Usually this means the macro was only invoked conditionally." "$LINENO" 5
+fi
 if test -z "${AMDEP_TRUE}" && test -z "${AMDEP_FALSE}"; then
   as_fn_error $? "conditional \"AMDEP\" was never defined.
 Usually this means the macro was only invoked conditionally." "$LINENO" 5