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| author | Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> | 2002-04-04 13:25:45 +0000 |
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| committer | Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> | 2002-04-04 13:25:45 +0000 |
| commit | 19e8fd19155538139aae0e3f6b774e644f5c9a2c (patch) | |
| tree | 110fed61d476a94c19581e9a9412b5a948243a75 /TODO | |
| parent | b7c024b1726cba814a055ffc961d4cfbb0ce5a17 (diff) | |
| download | autoconf-19e8fd19155538139aae0e3f6b774e644f5c9a2c.tar.gz | |
Update.
Diffstat (limited to 'TODO')
| -rw-r--r-- | TODO | 35 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 23 deletions
@@ -9,14 +9,23 @@ these suggestions... their presence here doesn't imply my endorsement. * Soon +** AC_PROG_INSTALL +This test should be extended to check that install supports the GNU +Install syntax: install FILES... DIR. This will relieve everybody +form having to use mkinstalldirs to create the directories, as install +does it itself. install-sh is already handling this case. This also +makes it simple not to create the directories where nothing will be +installed because of configuration options, which is next to +impossible using the current setting. + +In other words: everything is ready (install-sh and Automake), we just +need a good reimplementation of AC_PROG_INSTALL. + ** --target & AC_ARG_PROGRAM Shouldn't *any* `program' be installed as `$target_alias-program' even if AC_ARG_PROGRAM is not called? That would be much more predictable. Ian? -** RedHat's Autoconf page -should be removed. - ** AC_CHECK_TOOL... Write a test that checks that it honors the values set by the user. @@ -57,9 +66,6 @@ which requires to have two different sources: AC_LANG_CALL and AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY (which names seem to be inappropriate). Wouldn't one be enough? -** Autotest -Document it. - ** Document AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, AC_LANG_PROGRAM etc. And make AC_TRY_COMPILE etc. obsolete. @@ -194,23 +200,6 @@ the doc easier to update when people add/change macros. The name ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -* Automake - -** missing.m4 -The test for a recent missing doesn't hide the error messages from the -old missing. - -** AU_DEFUN -The section for old macros is not completely up to date. For -instance, there is still AM_PROG_LIBTOOL. Anyway, since autoupdate -takes care of them, it is no longer the role of Automake to handle -this. Most should be removed. - -** Macros now swallowed by Autoconf. -error.m4, obstack.m4, ptrdiff.m4, strtod.m4, termios.m4, winsz.m4. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - * m4 ** I18n |