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-*- outline -*-
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Things it might be nice to do someday. I haven't evaluated all of
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these suggestions... their presence here doesn't imply my endorsement.
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-djm & his successors.
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* Soon
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** --target & AC_ARG_PROGRAM
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Shouldn't *any* `program' be installed as `$target_alias-program' even
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if AC_ARG_PROGRAM is not called? That would be much more predictable.
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Ian?
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** RedHat's Autoconf page
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should be removed.
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** AC_CHECK_TOOL...
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Write a test that checks that it honors the values set by the user.
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** ifnames
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Rewrite in Perl. Drop the AWK dependency. Remove the AWK portability
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tests. Add ifnames to the Perl sanity checks.
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** autom4te and warnings.
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Decide what must be done.
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** Automake 1.6
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*** AC_LIBOBJ_DECL
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Decide with the Automake team whether this macro should list only `.c'
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files, or it should include the `.h' too. For instance the
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AC_FUNC_GNU_GETOPT macro could provide the three files, likewise for
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the macro which allows to choose a regex engine.
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*** Auxiliary files
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It is AC_PROG_LIBTOOL that should tell Automake what are the files to
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ship. We need something similar to AC_LIBOBJ_DECL for all these
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situations.
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* Later
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** Languages
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Integrate other Fortrans etc.
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** AC_CHECK_FUNCS and AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC
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I have still not understood what's the difference between the two
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which requires to have two different sources: AC_LANG_CALL and
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AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY (which names seem to be inappropriate).
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Wouldn't one be enough?
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** Autotest
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Document it.
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** Document AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, AC_LANG_PROGRAM etc.
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And make AC_TRY_COMPILE etc. obsolete.
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** Libtool
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Define once for all the hooks they need, any redefinition of
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AC_PROG_CC etc. is way too dangerous and too limiting. The GCC team
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certainly has requirements too.
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** AC_SEARCH_LIBS
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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
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Subject: AC_SEARCH_LIBS
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I think AC_SEARCH_LIBS has an unfortunate interface.
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ACTION-IF-FOUND is run in addition to the default action. Most
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autoconf macros don't work this way. This is confusing.
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In my case I can't use this macro because it always appends to LIBS.
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I don't want that. Instead I want to use ACTION-IF-FOUND to set my
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own macro.
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Also there is no documentation on the format of library names expected
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by the macro. Even a reference to some other function (e.g., "the
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library name can have the same forms as with AC_HAVE_LIBRARY" (if that
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is true, which I haven't looked up) would be fine.
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** Revamp the language support
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We should probably have a language for C89, and C99. We must give the
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means to the users to specify some needs over the compilers, and
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actually look for a good compiler, instead of stopping at the first
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compiler we find.
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In fact, the AC_CHECK_PROG macro and variations have proved their
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limitation: we really need something more powerful and simpler too.
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We must take into account the specific problems of the GCC team. We
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must extend AC_CHECK_FUNCS in order to use the headers instead of fake
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declarations as we currently do. Default headers could be triggered
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on when C99, but not with the other languages?
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At the end, we should have a simple macro, such as AC_LANG_COMPILER
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for instance, which is built over simpler macros. Each language
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support should come with these simpler macros, but each language
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should follow the same process.
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We also need to check the srcext which are supported by the compiler.
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In fact, this macro is also probably the right place to check for
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objext and exeext.
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** AC_PROG_CC_STDC
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Should be: AC_PROG_CC_ISO? Or even more specific for the ISO version?
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Should include more tests (e.g., AC_C_CONST etc.)? See Peter for very
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useful comments on the technology. Should we make this a new
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language? AC_LANG(ISO C). It would be great to introduce
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AC_LANG_COMPILER in this release too.
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** autoupdate
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We should probably install the files which do not depend upon the
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user, just the Autoconf library files. But conversely autoupdate must
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be opened to user macros, i.e., for instance libtool itself must be
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able to say that AM_PROG_LIBTOOL is now AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, and have
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autoupdate do its job on old configure.ac.
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* Even later
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** Autoscan macros
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Can be introduced even before specializing macros. It just means that
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specializing macros will call them. OTOH, this doubles our work,
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since specializing macros will save us from additional typing. But
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the more powerful autoscan is, the better...
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** Pentateuch
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Heck, there is nothing after `Deuteronomy'! We're stuck, but we
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_must_ update the `history' section. Can't go to `New testament', we
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might hurt feelings? In addition, it means that the Messiah has come,
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which might be slightly presumptuous :). Still, someone fluent in
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English should write it.
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** AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG
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We must find a solution for this macro which needs to find
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`getloadavg.c'.
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** AC_PATH_X
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Hi Robert,
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> Hi, autoconf people. While packaging plotutils-2.2 (just released),
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> I noticed what looks like a small error in the autoconf-2.13 texinfo
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> documentation, the entry for AC_PATH_XTRA, in particular.
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> The documentation says that AC_PATH_XTRA
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> ... adds the C compiler flags that X needs to output variable
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> `X_CFLAGS', and the X linker flags to `X_LIBS'. If X is not
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> available, adds `-DX_DISPLAY_MISSING' to `X_CFLAGS'.
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> It doesn't seem to add -DX_DISPLAY_MISSING to X_CFLAGS. X_DISPLAY_MISSING
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> ends up defined in config.h, instead.
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That's only because you're no doubt using AC_CONFIG_HEADER(..) to send
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your defines to a config.h-style file. If you were to not use
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AC_CONFIG_HEADER and X was not available, then you would see
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-DX_DISPLAY_MISSING being added to @DEFS@ as your output files were being
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generated.
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But you are right--the documentation is not clear about this. I'll change
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it.
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> In fact it looks to me as if right now, X_CFLAGS is used only for
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> specifying directories where X include files are stored, via the `-I' option.
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> Maybe it should really be called X_CPPFLAGS?
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Well, perhaps. If you feel strongly about this, feel free to submit a
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change-request. There is a hyperlink to the bug tracking database from
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http://sourceware.cygnus.com/autoconf/. With the way it reads in the
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manual right now, it's designed to allow the user to set additional flags
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in the environment prior to running configure--and these don't need to be
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limited to just -I flags. Nevertheless, I can see a few clean ways to
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improve this.
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** AC_SYS_INTERPRETER
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Defines $interpval. This is not a standard name. Do we want to keep
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this? Clarify our policy on those names.
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** Allow --recursive to config.status
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So that --recheck does not pass --no-recursive to configure.
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* autoconf.texi
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Move the specific macro documentation blocks into the source files,
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and use a doc-block extraction/merge technique to get docuemntation
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into texi-file. This should help avoid bit-rot in the doc, and make
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the doc easier to update when people add/change macros. The name
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"autodoc" is probably already taken so we probably need another one.
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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* Automake
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** missing.m4
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The test for a recent missing doesn't hide the error messages from the
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old missing.
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** AU_DEFUN
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The section for old macros is not completely up to date. For
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instance, there is still AM_PROG_LIBTOOL. Anyway, since autoupdate
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takes care of them, it is no longer the role of Automake to handle
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this. Most should be removed.
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** Macros now swallowed by Autoconf.
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error.m4, obstack.m4, ptrdiff.m4, strtod.m4, termios.m4, winsz.m4.
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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* m4
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** I18n
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The error messages for indir and dumpdef are uselessly different. Fix
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this for translators.
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** Tracing `builtin'
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F**k! --trace FOO does not catch indir([FOO], $@)!
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** Tracing builtins
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GNU M4 1.4's tracing of builtins is buggy. When run on this input:
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| divert(-1)
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| changequote([, ])
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| define([m4_eval], defn([eval]))
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| eval(1)
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| m4_eval(2)
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| undefine([eval])
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| m4_eval(3)
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it behaves this way:
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| % m4 input.m4 -da -t eval
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| m4trace: -1- eval(1)
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| m4trace: -1- m4_eval(2)
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| m4trace: -1- m4_eval(3)
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| %
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Conversely:
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| % m4 input.m4 -da -t m4_eval
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| %
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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* Autoconf 3
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** Cache name spaces.
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Cf the discussion with Kaveh. One would like to
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AC_CHECK_FUNCS(bar)
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# Do something that changes the environment
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AC_CACHE_PUSH(foo)
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AC_CHECK_FUNCS(bar)
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AC_CACHE_POP
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in order not to erase the results of a check with another.
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** Cache var names
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should depend upon the current language.
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** Use m4 lists?
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I think one sad decision in Autoconf was to use white space separated
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lists for some arguments. For instance AC_CHECK_FUNCS(foo bar). I
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tend to think that, even if it is not as nice, we should use m4 lists,
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i.e., AC_CHECK_FUNCS((foo, bar)) in this case. This would ease
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specializing loops, and more importantly, make them much more robust.
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A typical example of things that can be performed if we use m4 lists
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instead of white space separated lists is the case of things that have
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a space in their names, eg, structures.
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With the current scheme it would be extremely difficult to loop over
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AC_CHECK_STRUCTS(struct foo struct bar), while it natural and well
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defined for m4 lists: AC_CHECK_STRUCTS((struct foo, struct bar)).
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I know that makes a huge difference in syntax, but a major release
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should be ready to settle a new world. We *can* provide helping tools
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for the transition. Considering the benefits, I really think it is
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worth thinking. --akim
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** Forbid shell variables as main arguments
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The fact that we have to support shell variables as main argument
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forbids many interesting constructions (specialization are not always
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possible, equally for AC_REQUIRE'ing macros *with their arguments*).
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Any loop should be handled by m4 itself, and nothing should be hidden
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to it. As a consequence, shell variables on the main arguments become
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useless (the main reason we support shell variables is to allow the
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loop versions of single argument macros, eg, to go from AC_CHECK_FUNC
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to AC_CHECK_FUNCS). --akim
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** Use the @SUBST@ technology also for headers instead of #undef.
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This requires that acconfig.h becomes completely obsolete: autoheader
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should generate all the templates.
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** Specializing loops.
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For instance, make AC_CHECK_FUNC[S] automatically use any particular
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macros for the listed functions.
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This requires to obsolete the feature `break' in ACTION-IF, since all
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the loops are to be handled by m4, not sh.
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** Faces of a test
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Each macro can potentially come with several faces: of course the
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configure snippet (AC_foo), a config.h snippet (AH_foo), a system.h
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snippet (AS_foo), documentation (AD_foo) and, why not, the some C code
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for instance to replace a function.
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The motivation for the `faces' is to encapsulate. It is abnormal that
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once one has a configure macro, then she has to read somewhere to find
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the piece of system.h to use etc. The macros should come in a
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self-contained way, or, said it another way, PnP.
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A major issue is that of specialization. AC_CHECK_HEADER (or another
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name) for instance, will have as an effect, via system.h to include
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the header. But if the test for the header is specific, the generic
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AS_CHECK_HEADER will still be used. Conversely, some headers may not
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require a specific AC_ tests, but a specialized AS_ macro.
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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* Make AC_CHECK_LIB check whether the function is already available
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before checking for the library. This might involve adding another
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kind of cache variable to indicate whether a given function needs a
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given library. The current ac_cv_func_ variables are intended to
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indicate whether the function is in the default libraries, but
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actually also take into account whatever value LIBS had when they
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were checked for.
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Isn't this the issue of AC_SEARCH_LIB? --akim
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How come the list of libraries to browse not an additional parameter
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of AC_CHECK_FUNC, exactly like for the headers? --akim
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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* Add AC_PROG_CC_POSIX to replace the current ad-hoc macros for AIX,
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Minix, ISC, etc.
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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* Support creating both config.h and DEFS in the same configure.
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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* Select the right CONFIG_SHELL automatically (for Ultrix, Lynx especially.)
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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* Doc: Centralize information on POSIX, MS-DOS, cross-compiling, and
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other important topics.
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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* Mike Haertel's suggestions:
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** Provide header files containing decls for alloca, strings, etc.
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** Cross compiling:
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*** Error messages include instructions for overriding defaults using
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config.site.
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*** Distribute a config.site corresponding to a hypothetical bare POSIX system with c89.
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** Site defaults:
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*** 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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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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* Look at user contributed macros:
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IEEE double precision math
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more
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For AC_TYPE_SIGNAL signal handlers, provide a way for code to know
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whether to do "return 0" or "return" (int vs void) to avoid compiler
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warnings. (Roland McGrath)
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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In config.status comment, put the host/target/build types, if used.
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on hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu, configure is getting the wrong answer for
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AC_CHECK_FUNCS(select).
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The problem here is that there's severe name space pollution: when
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conftest.c includes <ctype.h> to pick up any __stub macro definitions,
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it's getting a prototype declaration for select(), which collides
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with the dummy declaration in conftest.c. (The chain of includes
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is conftest.c -> <ctype.h> -> <sys/localedef.h> -> <sys/lc_core.h>
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-> <sys/types.h> -> <sys/select.h>.)
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#define $ac_func __dummy_$ac_func
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#include <ctype.h>
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#undef $ac_func
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From: kwzh@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Karl Heuer)
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The test for the isascii function was failing because that function is
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also a macro. He proposed that the test file look like this:
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/* Remove any macro definition. */
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#undef isascii
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/* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error. */
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char isascii(); isascii();
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Andreas Schwab
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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It would be nice if I could (in the Makefile.in files) set
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the path to config.h. You have config.h ../config.h ../../config.h's all
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over the place, in the findutils-4.1 directory.
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From: "Randall S. Winchester" <rsw@eng.umd.edu>
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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In a future version (after 2.2), make AC_PROG_{CC,RANLIB,anything else}
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use AC_CHECK_TOOL.
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From Roland McGrath.
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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ls -lt configure configure.in | sort
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doesn't work right if configure.in is from a symlink farm, where the
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symlink has either a timestamp of its own, or under BSD 4.4, it has
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the timestamp of the current directory, neither of which
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helps. Changing it to
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ls -Llt configure configure.in | sort
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works for me, though I don't know how portable that is
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_Mark_ <eichin@cygnus.com>
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Here is the thing I would like the most;
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AC_PKG_WITH(PACKAGE, HELP_STRING, PACKAGE-ROOT, PACKAGE-LIBS, PACKAGE-DEFS,
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PACKAGE-CCPFLAGS)
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like
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AC_PKG_WITH(kerberos,,/usr/local/athena,-lkrb -ldes,[KERBEROS KRB4
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CRYPT],include)
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AC_PKG_WITH(hesiod,
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[if hesiod is not in kerberos-root add --with-hesiod-root=somewhere]
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,,-lhesiod,HESIOD,,)
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AC_PKG_WITH(glue,,,-lglue,GLUE,,)
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AC_PKG_WITH(bind,,/usr/local/bind, [lib/resolv.a lib/lib44bsd.a], ,include)
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After the apropriate checks, the existance of the paths, and libs and such
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LIBS=$LIBS $PKG-LIBS
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DEFS=$DEFS $PKG-DEFS
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CPPFLAGS=$PKG-CPPFLAGS $CPPFLAGS
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$PKG-ROOT=$PKG-ROOT
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The cppflags should reverse the order so that you can have;
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-I/usr/local/bind/include -I/usr/local/athena/include
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and
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-L/usr/local/athena/lib -lkrb -ldes /usr/local/bind/lib/libresolv.a
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as order matters.
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also an AC_PKG_CHK_HEADER
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and an AC_PKG_CHK_FUNCTION
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so one can give alternate paths to check for stuff ($PKG-ROOT/lib for
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example)
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From: Randall Winchester
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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AC_C_CROSS assumes that configure was called like 'CC=target-gcc;
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./configure'. I want to write a package that has target dependent
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libraries and host dependent tools. So I don't like to lose the
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distinction between CC and [G]CC_FOR_TARGET. AC_C_CROSS should check
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for equality of target and host.
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It would be great if
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GCC_FOR_TARGET
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AR_FOR_TARGET
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RANLIB_FOR_TARGET
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would be set automatically if host != target.
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AC_LANG_CROSS_C would be nice too, to check header files
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etc. with GCC_FOR_TARGET instead of CC
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Here is one simple test
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if test "x$host" != "x$target"; then
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AC_PROGRAMS_CHECK(AR_FOR_TARGET, $target-ar, $target-ar, ar)
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AC_PROGRAMS_CHECK(RANLIB_FOR_TARGET, $target-ranlib, $target-ranlib, ranlib)
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AC_PROGRAMS_CHECK(GCC_FOR_TARGET, $target-gcc, $target-gcc, gcc)
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fi
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This could be improved to also look for gcc in PATH, but require the
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prefix to contain the target e.g.:
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target=m68k-coff -->GCC_FOR_TARGET = /usr/gnu/m68k-coff/bin/gcc
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From: nennker@cs.tu-berlin.DE (Axel Nennker)
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The problem occurs with the following libc functions in SunOS 5.4:
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fnmatch glob globfree regcomp regexec regerror regfree wordexp wordfree
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It also occurs with a bunch more libposix4 functions that most people
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probably aren't worried about yet, e.g. shm_open.
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All these functions fail with errno set to ENOSYS (89)
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``Operation not applicable''.
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Perhaps Autoconf should have a specific macro for fnmatch, another for
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glob+globfree, another for regcomp+regexec+regerror+regfree, and
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another for wordexp+wordfree. This wouldn't solve the problem in
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general, but it should work for Solaris 2.4. Or Autoconf could limit
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itself to fnmatch and regcomp, the only two functions that I know have
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been a problem so far.
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From Paul Eggert.
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Make easy macros for checking for X functions and libraries, such as Motif.
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There are basically three ways to lock files
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lockf, fnctl, flock
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I'd be interested in adding a macro to pick the "right one" if you're
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interested.
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From: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
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Timezone calculations checks.
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Support different default filesystem layouts, e.g. SVR4, Linux.
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Of course, this can be done locally with config.site.
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I wonder if it is possible to get the path for X11's app-defaults
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directory by autoconf. Moreover, I'd like to have a general way of
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accessing imake variables by autoconf, something like
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AC_DEFINE(WINE_APP_DEFAULTS, AC_IMAKE_VAR(XAPPLOADDIR))
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Slaven Rezic <eserte@cabulja.herceg.de>
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Cache consistency checking: ignore cache if environment
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(CC or PATH) differs.
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From Mike Haertel
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So we need a general mechanism for storing variables' values in the cache,
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and checking if they are the same after reading the cache. Then we can add
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to the list of variables as we come across the need. So far we want
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LD_LIBRARY_PATH and the internal variables for some of (all?) the args.
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From: roland@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Roland McGrath)
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Hmm. That list might include LD_LIBRARY_PATH, LD_RUN_PATH (for solaris),
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and PATH. I can't think of any others so far.
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From: friedman@splode.com (Noah Friedman)
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Every user running X11 usually has a directory like *X11* in his PATH
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variable. By replacing bin by include, you can find good places to
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look for the include files or libraries.
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From: rcb5@win.tue.nl (Richard Verhoeven)
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In most cases, when autoscan suggests something, using the search or
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index command into the Info reader for autoconf manual quickly
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explains me what the test is about. However, for header files and
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functions, the search might fail, because the test is not of the
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specific kind. The Autoconf manual should reflect somewhere all
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header files or functions (non-specific features, generally)
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triggering autoscan to generate tests, and tell in a few words what is
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the problem, and the suggested approach for a solution; that is, how
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one should use the result of testing the feature.
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From: pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
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It would be nice if the configure script would handle an option such as
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--x-libraries="/usr/openwin/lib /usr/dt/lib".
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Rick Boykin <rboykin@cscsun3.larc.nasa.gov>
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Under Solaris 2.4, the regular X includes and libs and the Motif
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includes and libs are in different places. The Emacs configure script
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actually allows dir1:dir2:dir3 --
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if test "${x_libraries}" != NONE && test -n "${x_libraries}"; then
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LD_SWITCH_X_SITE=-L`echo ${x_libraries} | sed -e "s/:/ -L/g"`
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LD_SWITCH_X_SITE_AUX=-R`echo ${x_libraries} | sed -e "s/:/ -R/g"`
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fi
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if test "${x_includes}" != NONE && test -n "${x_includes}"; then
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C_SWITCH_X_SITE=-I`echo ${x_includes} | sed -e "s/:/ -I/g"`
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fi
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What messages should be produced by default, if any?
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Probably only the few most important ones, like which configuration
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name was used, whether X or Xt are in use, etc. The specific
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decisions, and progress messages, should be recorded on the terminal
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only if --verbose is used.
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--silent just supresses the "checking for...result"
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messages, not the "creating FOO" messages.
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I think the default should be to suppress both.
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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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There is no distinction now between
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important decisions (we have X) vs minor decisions (we have lstat).
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However, there are probably only a few things you deem important enough to
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announce and only those few things will need to be changed.
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Perhaps config.status could be written with comments saying what was
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decided.
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From: Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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Another thing I wish for is a macro which figures out which libraries are
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needed for BSD-sytle sockets. AC_PATH_X already detects this
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correctly...so it's just a matter of seperating out the socket-related code.
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From: "Joel N. Weber II" <nemo@koa.iolani.honolulu.hi.us>
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in order to use the AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM macro, I have to have
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install-sh somewhere nearby --- why is this? I have no real reason to
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distribute install-sh, other than that its absence breaks this code.
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Shouldn't the above loop be looking for config.sub and config.guess?
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From: jimb@totoro.bio.indiana.edu (Jim Blandy)
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adding AC_CANONICAL_HOST to my configure.in script caused
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all sorts of odd/unexplained errors. Obviously, I had to go
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get copies of config.guess, config.sub and install-sh from the
|
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autoconf distribution, but the error messages and autoconf docs
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didn't explain that very well.
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From: bostic@bsdi.com (Keith Bostic)
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Perhaps also have AC_TRY_COMPILER try to link an invalid program, and
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die if the compiler seemed to succeed--in which case it's not usable
|
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with autoconf scripts.
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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autoreconf doesn't support having (in the same tree) both directories
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|
that are parts of a larger package (sharing aclocal.m4 and
|
|
acconfig.h), and directories that are independent packages (each with
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|
their own ac*). It assumes that they are all part of the same
|
|
package, if you use --localdir, or that each directory is a separate
|
|
package, if you don't use it.
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autoreconf should automatically figure out which ac* files to use--the
|
|
closest ones up the tree from each directory, probably, unless
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|
overridden by --localdir.
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Also, autoreconf recurses on all subdirectories containing a
|
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configure.in, not just those given by an AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS directive.
|
|
This may not be a problem in practice.
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