From: Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 13:30:07 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: TODO: less pressure on 2.50.
X-Git-Tag: autoconf-2.50~835
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d293db919858bb12cbe4460abdc50b0cf3c9b694;p=thirdparty%2Fautoconf.git

TODO: less pressure on 2.50.
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diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index cf9976fb5..19456a5a3 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -9,10 +9,6 @@ these suggestions... their presence here doesn't imply my endorsement.
 
 * Autoconf 2.50
 
-** AC_SYS_INTERPRETER
-Defines $interpval.  This is not a standard name.  Do we want to keep
-this?  Clarify our policy on those names.
-
 ** AC_INIT(PACKAGE)
 Decide with the team whether they prefer that AC_PACKAGE_NAME etc. be
 a macro, or a shell variable ac_package_name.  Had we used AC_PACKAGE
@@ -21,15 +17,6 @@ think of the capitalization!  For instance this package is named
 `Autoconf', but the tarball is `autoconf-'.  What of the space?
 Do we need another user input for the name of the tarball?
 
-** config.status
-Lars seemed to need to be able to apply both the AC_SUBST and
-AC_DEFINE transformation on a single file, which implies that we must
-be able to have `.in' files either in srcdir or in builddir.  In fact,
-have a look at the configuration of Zsh: they patch config.status on
-the fly to have it look for the files in builddir instead of srcdir!!!
-There is a real problem, Autoconf must help.  BTW, why do they need
-that?
-
 ** Doc: autoconf
 Document --install.  Should --install `fix' configure.in for the user?
 
@@ -104,6 +91,10 @@ From: Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
 
 * Autoconf 2.51 or so
 
+** AC_SYS_INTERPRETER
+Defines $interpval.  This is not a standard name.  Do we want to keep
+this?  Clarify our policy on those names.
+
 ** AC_PROVIDE
 I think it is the epilogue that should provide, not the prologue.  Not
 clear: there are risks of circular dependencies :(.  In fact the
@@ -139,6 +130,15 @@ replacement function, it's unreadable.
 ** Allow --recursive to config.status
 So that --recheck does not pass --no-recursive to configure.
 
+** config.status
+Lars seemed to need to be able to apply both the AC_SUBST and
+AC_DEFINE transformation on a single file, which implies that we must
+be able to have `.in' files either in srcdir or in builddir.  In fact,
+have a look at the configuration of Zsh: they patch config.status on
+the fly to have it look for the files in builddir instead of srcdir!!!
+There is a real problem, Autoconf must help.  BTW, why do they need
+that?
+
 
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