* autogen macros added Bruce Korb's latest achievement in his autogen project resulted in some fine macro pieces which I have added to an extra subcategorie in the ac-archive sfnet-branch until it gets decided where to put them in the gnu-branch. I did also add a crosslink to http://autogen.sf.net to draw more attraction to his works. Let's see how that works... * some macros updated I had some rework of my own macros to update them to work properly in the 2.5x generation - this is usually related to kill the m4-changequote in there which the multilevel macroisms in the new generation do not particularly like. I do also see that the bigendian_cross functionality is integrated in the cvs-tree which is good to hear but brings up the question what should be done with ac-macros being overrated by autoconf itself. For now, I let them rust in peace ;-) * acinclude tool the growing popularity of the ac-archive has made some flaws to shine out badly stemming from the aclocals-installoption present only in the sfnet-branch. I tried to document the whys in an extra doc section on the frontpage at http://ac-archive.sf.net - and which lead me to invent a new tool called "acinclude" to help me solve the problems atleast for the moment. Well, this is not new code actually but a variant of the "aclocal" tool shipped for quite a time with the gnu autotools. Basically, it will construct an "acinclude.m4" file from the macros living in the ac-archive and other site-wide extension-directories from users or projects. This tool might be a bit controverse, so don't hesitate to hit me hard for any problems around this one ;-)
I had lately not much time to work on the sfnet-branch, so it still carries the code-portions that were added to give the feel of the gnu-branch to some extent. However neither me or Peter had time in the last months to solve out the remaining problems and I noticed that more and more people got to notice the sfnet-branch which was never actually announced as a proper project - I just needed a working place to put up my package files which were already under heavy usage, so I could not wait longer than a week or two after the aclocals-extras were backed out in the gnu-branch cvs. The use of packaging files and version numbers however seems to be regarded as useful, so I will adapt the current packaging system later on to let it stand on its own feet - until then, don't get nervous about the current pile of six rpms of wondrous naming and functionality as I'll clean that up next time around. regards, guido
