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TODO: less pressure on 2.50.

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@ -9,10 +9,6 @@ these suggestions... their presence here doesn't imply my endorsement.
* Autoconf 2.50
** AC_SYS_INTERPRETER
Defines $interpval. This is not a standard name. Do we want to keep
this? Clarify our policy on those names.
** AC_INIT(PACKAGE)
Decide with the team whether they prefer that AC_PACKAGE_NAME etc. be
a macro, or a shell variable ac_package_name. Had we used AC_PACKAGE
@ -21,15 +17,6 @@ think of the capitalization! For instance this package is named
`Autoconf', but the tarball is `autoconf-'. What of the space?
Do we need another user input for the name of the tarball?
** config.status
Lars seemed to need to be able to apply both the AC_SUBST and
AC_DEFINE transformation on a single file, which implies that we must
be able to have `.in' files either in srcdir or in builddir. In fact,
have a look at the configuration of Zsh: they patch config.status on
the fly to have it look for the files in builddir instead of srcdir!!!
There is a real problem, Autoconf must help. BTW, why do they need
that?
** Doc: autoconf
Document --install. Should --install `fix' configure.in for the user?
@ -104,6 +91,10 @@ From: Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
* Autoconf 2.51 or so
** AC_SYS_INTERPRETER
Defines $interpval. This is not a standard name. Do we want to keep
this? Clarify our policy on those names.
** AC_PROVIDE
I think it is the epilogue that should provide, not the prologue. Not
clear: there are risks of circular dependencies :(. In fact the
@ -139,6 +130,15 @@ replacement function, it's unreadable.
** Allow --recursive to config.status
So that --recheck does not pass --no-recursive to configure.
** config.status
Lars seemed to need to be able to apply both the AC_SUBST and
AC_DEFINE transformation on a single file, which implies that we must
be able to have `.in' files either in srcdir or in builddir. In fact,
have a look at the configuration of Zsh: they patch config.status on
the fly to have it look for the files in builddir instead of srcdir!!!
There is a real problem, Autoconf must help. BTW, why do they need
that?
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