Hi!
Much remains to be done to satisfy the requirements offer the handling
of cross compilation issues in Autoconf, rest assured, it will be
addressed, rest worried, we don't know when :)
Nevertheless, there is a `side effect' of a candidate patch which is
related to parts of the problems, and we need your opinion.
CVS Autoconf proved to be sometimes painful because the avalanche of
warnings due to obsolete(d) constructs. In order to limit this
frightening effect only to the masochists who really want to see their
terminal filled with complainTs, an option `autoconf --warnings' will
be introduced:
autoconf --help:
-W, --warnings=CATEGORY report the warnings falling in CATEGORY
Warning categories include:
`cross' cross compilation issues
`obsolete' use of obsolete macros
`syntax' dubious syntactic constructs
`all' all the warnings
`error' warnings are error
Autoconf used to complain about the cross compilation weaknesses, such
as the infamous AC_TRY_RUN. Do you think this warning should be
enabled by default to remain 100% backwards compatible, or do you
think there should be no warning enabled by default (which is
definitely the cleanest thing to do, hint hint ;).
Akim
