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Diffstat (limited to 'TODO')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 33 deletions
@@ -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... |