2 * Implement new `where_HOW' scheme.
3 * Handle installable libraries and headers
6 * clean targets not very well tested
8 Should 'distclean' remove $(SCRIPTS)?
9 Should 'maintainer-clean' do "rm -rf .deps"?
10 Should look for clean-local targets in Makefile.am.
12 Consider a --install-missing option to install missing files such as
13 mdate-sh, texinfo.tex, etc.
15 Think about writing a small tool to guess what the local Makefile.am
18 Prettyprint macro definitions, eg:
19 DIST_COMMON = Makefile.in Makefile.am \
22 It might be cool to generate .texi dependencies by grepping for
23 @include. (If done, it should be done the same way C dependency is
26 Rename --include-deps to --insert-deps?
28 Merge common parts of "dist" targets into dist-local.
30 It would be good to check some parts of GNU standards. Already check
31 for install-sh and mkinstalldirs. What else is required to be in
32 package by GNU standards or by automake?
34 Maybe it should be possible to disable all GNU-specific things with
35 --no-gnu? --ignore-standards? But what? And why?
37 Allow ".h" files to appear in blah_SOURCES; just write them out of
38 existence. [ This is nixed for now because of the auto-dependency
41 automake.in: should ".cc" really -> ".${kr}o"? This doesn't really
42 seem right, but maybe it is so names can be rewritten uniformly? Must
45 look in configure.in's AC_OUTPUT command and include those files in
48 Auto-distribute "ChangeLog.[0-9]+"?
50 consider auto-including any file that matches "*.in".
51 [ no: po/Makefile.in shouldn't be included ]
53 must look at mkid to see how it works (for subdir usage)
54 [ right now, it doesn't. i don't see a simple fix right now ]
56 Internationalize. [ gettext doesn't have the necessary machinery yet ]
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61 automatically add its input file to the distribution.
63 Don't hardcode the name of the configuration header. Get it from
64 configure.in (AC_CONFIG_HEADER).
66 Get the list of Makefiles to create from configure.in AC_OUTPUT
68 [ right now we look for any Makefile.am's lying around
69 I think this is better, because it allows use of subdirs
70 which don't use automake -- eg, stuff from gettext ]
72 Should libexec programs have the name transform done on them?
74 Order the output rules sensibly, so FOO_SOURCES and FOO_OBJECTS are
75 together and rules are in the usual order.
77 Make the output minimal: only output definitions for variables that
80 Look at dist's jmake for ideas. [what is this?]
82 Should handle directory hierarchies deeper than 2. Right now there is
83 no support for this at all.
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89 version.texi handling is broken -- it assumes you only have one .texi
91 (*) In any case, the UPDATED information would be different for
92 each .texi file included in a package -- that is my problem.
93 Now, if no package will ever have more than one .texi file
94 (in a given directory), I can just stop worrying about it.
96 If there is ever more than one, we will need to change the name of
97 'version.texi' to be based on the name of the primary .texi file.
98 Will have to be careful here not to violate MS-DOS name limits. Also
99 will need more than one stamp-vti.
101 [ actually, we could just number them. version0.texi, version1.texi,
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109 Defined variables, their meanings, and their effects:
112 INCLUDES -I options to cpp
113 CPPFLAGS more cpp flags
115 COMPILE how to compile a C program
116 LINK how to link a C program
118 DIST_SUBDIRS directories which are copied verbatim into the
119 distribution. Used eg for directories holding
120 only example code (which don't have their own
121 makefile). This variable might be a bad idea.
128 lib_LIBADD code conditionally included in a library
129 This probably needs to be redone anyway.
131 AM_TEXINFOS override form
132 SUFFIXES additional suffixes
134 Document the AC_PROG_MAKE_SET requirement when SUBDIRS is set.
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140 * Need a way to specify library should be installed
141 * Should support standalone library along with subdir library in same
142 Makefile.am. Maybe: turn off "standalone" mode if library's Makefile.am
143 is not only one specd?
144 * Need a way to install library header files.
145 * Need a way to handle shared libraries.
146 It would be really interesting to be able to easily (as the end-user)
147 make many different versions of the library: shared, static, profiling,
150 Some examples to keep in mind while doing this:
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156 Have a program that generates a Makefile on stdout, passes it through
157 a "config.status" style filter, and thence into make. Why bother,
158 other than the gee-whiz factor?
160 Would it be useful to integrate in some way with the Debian package
161 building utility? Must check.