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-*- outline -*-
Autoconf work:
Required for 2.0:
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* Add AC_{INCLUDE,LIB}_DIR? (Noah Friedman's suggestion.)
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* Fix up quoting for AC_DEFINE; understand and integrate Jim Avera's patches.
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* Document chapter addressing misconceptions.
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* Fix AC_ARG_{ENABLE,WITH}, and AC_REQUIRE interrupting messages.
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Other things:
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* Support host and target dependent hints for things that can't be
automatically determined. Perhaps this could replace or supplement
the current ad-hoc macros for Dynix, SCO, ISC, etc. Or, perhaps there
should be macros for certain functions (statfs, wait) or classes of
functions (POSIX, NIS) that do everything necessary, instead.
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* Support copying and adding "dir" commands to .gdbinit.
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* Add a --indent option to autoconf to call shindent.
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* Doc: Add indexes of concepts, env vars.
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* Supply a template Makefile.in that people can adapt (what GNU hello
was going to be).
** Have CC, DEFS, etc. substitutions.
** Support all of the GNU standard targets.
** Parameterize with make variables to require as little modification
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as necessary. Maybe via m4? (Eww, sounds like imake.)
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** Make it usable both with and without a header file.
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* Mike Haertel's suggestions.
** Provide a file containing decls for alloca, strings, etc. acdecls.h?
** Cross compiling:
*** Error messages include instructions for overriding defaults using
config.site.
*** Distribute a config.site corresponding to a hypothetical bare POSIX system with c89.
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*** Cache consistency checking: ignore cache if environment
(CC or PATH) differs.
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** Site defaults:
*** Convention for consistency checking of env vars and options in config.site so config.site can print obnoxious messages if it doesn't like options or env vars that users use.
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* autoscan: Tell the files that caused inclusion of each macro,
in a dnl comment. (Seems to be hard.)
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* Select the right CONFIG_SHELL automatically (Ultrix, Lynx esp.)
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* Select the right C compiler or POSIX/ANSI C options automatically.
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* Prototypes and IEEE math contributed macros.
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* Functions to check for C++ functions, or C functions under C++.
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* Test suite: more things to test:
** That the shell scripts produce correct output on some simple data.
** Configuration header files. That autoheader does the right thing,
and so does AC_CONFIG_HEADER when autoconf is run.
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