Re: FYI: update the TODO file

[Akim Demaille]

 > Committed as obvious.
 > Paolo
 > 2003-11-24  Paolo Bonzini  <address@hidden>

 >      * TODO: Remove already done things.  Update the part
 >      about finding tools for the target.

 > diff -rU3 autoconf-2.59/TODO autoconf-2.59-fix-todo/TODO
 > --- autoconf-2.59/TODO       2003-11-14 20:14:26.000000000 +0100
 > +++ autoconf-2.59-fix-todo/TODO      2003-11-24 00:23:46.000000000 +0100
 > @@ -359,10 +359,6 @@
 
 >  
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 > -* Support creating both config.h and DEFS in the same configure.

AFAIK, this is not done.


 >  
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 > -on hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu, configure is getting the wrong answer for
 > -AC_CHECK_FUNCS(select).
 > -
 > -The problem here is that there's severe name space pollution: when
 > -conftest.c includes <ctype.h> to pick up any __stub macro definitions,
 > -it's getting a prototype declaration for select(), which collides
 > -with the dummy declaration in conftest.c.  (The chain of includes
 > -is conftest.c -> <ctype.h> -> <sys/localedef.h> -> <sys/lc_core.h>
 --> <sys/types.h> -> <sys/select.h>.)
 > -
 > -    #define $ac_func __dummy_$ac_func
 > -    #include <ctype.h>
 > -    #undef $ac_func
 > -From: address@hidden (Karl Heuer)
 > -
 > -The test for the isascii function was failing because that function is
 > -also a macro.  He proposed that the test file look like this:
 > -
 > -/* Remove any macro definition. */
 > -#undef isascii
 > -/* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error.  */
 > -char isascii(); isascii();
 > -
 > -Andreas Schwab

Is this truly done?

 >  
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 > -In a future version (after 2.2), make AC_PROG_{CC,RANLIB,anything else}
 > -use AC_CHECK_TOOL.
 > -From Roland McGrath.

Is this truly done?


 > -
 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > -
 >      ls -lt configure configure.in | sort
 >  doesn't work right if configure.in is from a symlink farm, where the
 >  symlink has either a timestamp of its own, or under BSD 4.4, it has
 > @@ -506,18 +469,19 @@
 >  Here is one simple test
 
 >  if test "x$host" != "x$target"; then
 > -AC_PROGRAMS_CHECK(AR_FOR_TARGET, $target-ar, $target-ar, ar)
 > -AC_PROGRAMS_CHECK(RANLIB_FOR_TARGET, $target-ranlib, $target-ranlib, ranlib)
 > -AC_PROGRAMS_CHECK(GCC_FOR_TARGET, $target-gcc, $target-gcc, gcc)
 > +AC_CHECK_PROGS(AR_FOR_TARGET,
 > +           [$target-ar, $prefix/$target/bin/ar], $target-ar)
 > +AC_CHECK_PROGS(RANLIB_FOR_TARGET, $target-ranlib, $target-ranlib)
 > +           [$target-ranlib, $prefix/$target/bin/ranlib], $target-ranlib)
 > +AC_CHECK_PROGS(GCC_FOR_TARGET, $target-gcc, $target-gcc)
 > +           [$target-gcc, $prefix/$target/bin/gcc], $target-gcc)
 >  fi
 
 > -This could be improved to also look for gcc in PATH, but require the
 > -prefix to contain the target e.g.:
 > -
 > -target=m68k-coff -->GCC_FOR_TARGET = /usr/gnu/m68k-coff/bin/gcc
 > -
 >  From: address@hidden (Axel Nennker)
 
 > +(also look in the autoconf mailing list archives for the proposed
 > +CHECK_TARGET_TOOL macro from Natanael Nerode, a gcc configury guru).
 > +

TODO, indeed :)