From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 17:36:11 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: more TODO updates
X-Git-Tag: Release-1-3d~8
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=359e7b1de69ccd9033bf36f0671b093444ca716e;p=thirdparty%2Fautomake.git

more TODO updates
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diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 7904bc15f..ab73891bf 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -6,9 +6,12 @@
   That's because DEFS is defined in header-vars.am, which is read
   after the user's Makefile.am.
   This will be a problem for any macro defined internally
+    [ fixing this will probabl fix the nasty `exeext redefines
+      foo_PROGRAMS' hack that is in there right now ]
 
 * document user namespace for macro/target names
   adopt some conventions and use uniformly
+    [ this is a good thing for the rewrite ]
 
 * make distcheck uses directories like `=build'.
   Some (very rare) POSIX systems don't support `=' in filenames.
@@ -30,10 +33,14 @@
 
 * reintroduce AM_FUNC_FNMATCH which sets LIBOBJS
   Then have automake know about fnmatch.h.
+    [ probably should wait for autoconf to get right functionality ]
 
 * Add a conditional for dependency tracking
   (what to name it is the biggest problem here)
   (because we want it to flag dist/no-dist -- not just deps)
+    [ this might not really be correctly doable.
+      instead we need a compile-time conditional for this
+      yuck ]
 
 * Allow per-object cflags:
 	bin_PROGRAMS = foo