* automake.texi (A Program): Mention `check' prefix.

	(Program and Library Variables): New node.
	(Texinfo): Document UPDATED-MONTH, MAKEINFOFLAGS, and
	AM_MAKEINFOFLAGS.
	(etags): Mention per-program flags.
	(Tests): Document AM_RUNTESTFLAGS; added sectioning; more
	updates.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 33 deletions

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 54a4368cd..fd2e64076 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -55,20 +55,18 @@ Alex Hornby
 > If you install to locations other that bin_ and lib_ then a larger fix
 > is necessary, but this should fix the 90% case.
 
-* Document why putting @FOO@ in _SOURCES doesn't work.
-  This must be done for 1.5
-
 * think about how per-object flags should work.  in particular:
   * how should they be specified?
     using the object name is confusing when .lo/.obj in use
     however, the object name provides a nice interaction with
     per-exe flags
   * how should they interact with per-executable flags?
+  [ this is probably a feature in search of a problem ]
 
 * cross-compilation support:
   programs built and used by the build process need to be
   built for CC_FOR_BUILD
-  introduce a new variable for this
+  introduce a new prefxi for this, e.g. `build_PROGRAMS'
   [ we can do this in an automatic way I think.
     unfortunately it isn't that useful until autoconf has support
     for this sort of thing as well ]
@@ -83,6 +81,11 @@ Alex Hornby
 	    diff -u $@-1 $@-2
 	    rm -f $@-1 $@-2
 
+* one performance enhancement would be to have autoconf write
+  a single file containing all the macro assignments.
+  then read this file via `include'
+  unfortunately this can't be done because of conditionals
+
 * support prog_LIBS as override for LIBS
 
 * Scan configure.in using traces as autoheader does.
@@ -102,11 +105,6 @@ Alex Hornby
 ** per-exe flags don't work for CPPFLAGS/YFLAGS/LFLAGS.  Fix.
 ** LIBOBJS shouldn't be used when there are per-exe flags (?)
 
-* Need a way to pass flags to makeinfo
-  esp --no-split
-
-* test `make clean' with subdir-objects
-
 * Test nodist_SOURCES with lex, yacc, etc.
 
 * Support subdir-objects with fortran
@@ -278,19 +276,10 @@ Alex Hornby
   Then have automake know about fnmatch.h.
     [ probably should wait for autoconf to get right functionality ]
 
-* Every program foo has FOOFLAGS right now.
-  It should also have AM_FOOFLAGS, which can be set in Makefile.am.
-DONE: but needs to be documented
-
 * "make diff" capability
   look at gcc's Makefile.in to see what to do
   or look at maint program
 
-* BUILT_SOURCES should not be distributed, even when they appear in
-  another _SOURCES line. [? or maybe just leave this up to the
-  to-be-defined generic distribution method ]
-  must completely revisit the entire BUILT_SOURCES idea
-
 * in --cygnus, clean-info not generated at top level
 
 * what if an element of a scanned variable looks like
@@ -337,9 +326,6 @@ non-C source in a libtool library specification.
   strictness should only cover requirements
   You should be able to pick and choose options
 
-should clean up texinfos.am; one rule is repeated 3 times, but
-shouldn't be
-
 * rewrite in guile (RMS request)
 at the same time, consider adding a GUI
 could use the same parsing code for the GUI and the standalone version
@@ -484,18 +470,6 @@ Need way to say there are no suffixes in a Makefile (Franc,ois'
 Check to make sure various scripts are executable (IE when looking for
 them in a directory)
 
-Use recode in dist target when MAINT_CHARSET specified.  Read caveats
-in automake.in before doing this.  Note the same problem used to apply
-to the no-dependencies option; maybe it still should?  Note also that
-each Makefile.am must be rewritten at "make dist" time if
-MAINT_CHARSET and DIST_CHARSET are not identical.  NOTE: gettext must
-arrange for all .po files not to be recoded.  In the long term this
-might be a problem (consider when some systems use Unicode but the
-rest do not)
-  MAINT_CHARSET *must* be local to each Makefile.am, to enable
-	merged distributions.
-  DIST_CHARSET must be passed down to subdir makes during a "make dist"
-
 Handle dist-zoo.  Generally add more DOS support.  Maybe run "doschk"
 (why isn't this merged with "pathchk"?) when doing a dist.  Do
 whatever else François says here...