From: David MacKenzie Date: Sat, 27 Aug 1994 11:55:26 +0000 (+0000) Subject: more explanations X-Git-Tag: fsf-origin~504 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e7763fa443cf6069b58c59daadb3565844330403;p=thirdparty%2Fautoconf.git more explanations --- diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 7e4546b89..f6610df0d 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ Things it would be nice to maybe do someday: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -* Fix AC_REQUIRE interrupting messages. +* Prevent AC_REQUIRE from interrupting messages. I have a patch to do this, +but it makes autoconf take 3 times as long to run. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @@ -16,15 +17,16 @@ Things it would be nice to maybe do someday: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -* Look at Jim Avera's code to allow [ and ] in patterns and AC_DEFINE args. +* Look at Jim Avera's code to allow [ and ] in egrep patterns and +AC_DEFINE args. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -* 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. +* Replace the current ad-hoc macros for Dynix, SCO, ISC, etc. +Perhaps there should be macros for certain functions (statfs, wait) or +classes of functions (POSIX, NIS) that do everything necessary, instead. +Select the right CONFIG_SHELL automatically (Ultrix, Lynx esp.) +Select the right C compiler and POSIX/ANSI C options automatically. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @@ -75,14 +77,6 @@ in a dnl comment. (Seems to be hard.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -* Select the right CONFIG_SHELL automatically (Ultrix, Lynx esp.) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -* Select the right C compiler or POSIX/ANSI C options automatically. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - * Look at user contributed macros: prototypes, IEEE double precision math, shared libraries, various other things.