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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
as necessary.  Maybe via m4?  (Eww, sounds like imake.)

** 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.

*** Cache consistency checking: ignore cache if environment
(CC or PATH) differs.

** 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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