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Re: TODO additions
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: TODO additions |
Date: |
Wed, 06 Nov 2002 23:48:47 -0500 |
> That would be very difficult. Even if we could have Autoconf figure
> out every relevant parameter, and have eliminate the s and m
> directories, that would not eliminate the need for preprocessing of
> src/Makefile.in.
I don't understand why. That's the canonical use of autoconf, and
it's clearly more reliable than using a cpp which may not exist.
Sorry, I don't understand that response at all.
Autoconf substitutes various values into config.h and Makefile.in.
The preprocessing operates on the result. Right now the symbols that
it tests are mostly defined in {s,m}*.h, but if those symbols were
instead defined in config.h thanks to Autoconf, we would still need to
use them to edit the makefile.
I think it will be hard to make Autoconf set those symbols. For
instance, consider the variable ORDINARY_LINK. How would Autoconf
determine that? It is possible that all modern systems use
ORDINARY_LINK and we can eliminate the conditional, but otherwise
I see no substitute for handling it the way we do now.
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