2 * Fix up how 'clean' targets are handled (they should be handled like
4 * Make sure auto-deANSIfication works. note that ansi2knr requires use of
6 * Make installdirs target.
8 Consider a --install-missing option to install missing files such as
9 mdate-sh, texinfo.tex, etc.
11 Prettyprint macro definitions, eg:
12 DIST_COMMON = Makefile.in Makefile.am \
15 It might be cool to generate .texi dependencies by grepping for
16 @include. (If done, it should be done the same way C dependency is
19 Rename --include-deps to --insert-deps?
21 Merge common parts of "dist" targets into dist-local.
23 It would be good to check some parts of GNU standards. Already check
24 for install-sh and mkinstalldirs. What else is required to be in
25 package by GNU standards or by automake?
27 Maybe it should be possible to disable all GNU-specific things with
28 --no-gnu? --ignore-standards? But what? And why?
30 Think about modifications so automake can work with a standalone
31 library, eg readline. For instance we need a way to install a
32 library, and a way to install header files. It would also be nice to
33 figure out some good way to deal with shared libs. When doing this,
34 make sure kpathsea can also be handled.
36 Allow ".h" files to appear in blah_SOURCES; just write them out of
37 existence. [ This is nixed for now because of the auto-dependency
40 should have (moral equivalent of) "all:: info" in texinfos.am?
42 automake.in: should ".cc" really -> ".${kr}o"? This doesn't really
43 seem right, but maybe it is so names can be rewritten uniformly? Must
46 automake.in should disallow setting of LC_ALL and LANG variables by
49 consider auto-including any file that matches "*.in".
51 must look at mkid to see how it works (for subdir usage)
52 [ right now, it doesn't. i don't see a simple fix right now ]
54 clean.am: clean: if all the macros are empty, the rule expands to:
58 Internationalize. [ gettext doesn't have the necessary machinery yet ]
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63 automatically add its input file to the distribution.
65 Don't hardcode the name of the configuration header. Get it from
66 configure.in (AC_CONFIG_HEADER).
68 Get the list of Makefiles to create from configure.in AC_OUTPUT
70 [ right now we look for any Makefile.am's lying around
71 I think this is better, because it allows use of subdirs
72 which don't use automake -- eg, stuff from gettext ]
74 Should libexec programs have the name transform done on them?
76 Order the output rules sensibly, so FOO_SOURCES and FOO_OBJECTS are
77 together and rules are in the usual order.
79 Make the output minimal: only output definitions for variables that
82 Rewrite in Perl. Look at dist's jmake for ideas.
84 Should handle directory hierarchies deeper than 2. Right now there is
85 no support for this at all.
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91 version.texi handling is broken -- it assumes you only have one .texi
93 (*) In any case, the UPDATED information would be different for
94 each .texi file included in a package -- that is my problem.
95 Now, if no package will ever have more than one .texi file
96 (in a given directory), I can just stop worrying about it.
98 If there is ever more than one, we will need to change the name of
99 'version.texi' to be based on the name of the primary .texi file.
100 Will have to be careful here not to violate MS-DOS name limits. Also
101 will need more than one stamp-vti.
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109 Defined variables, their meanings, and their effects:
112 INCLUDES -I options to cpp
113 CPPFLAGS more cpp flags
116 DIST_SUBDIRS directories which are copied verbatim into the
117 distribution. Used eg for directories holding
118 only example code (which don't have their own
119 makefile). This variable might be a bad idea.