Hi Eric,
[ limiting to autoconf ]
* Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 09:54:27PM CET:
>
> Either we need to update the various gnulib macros borrowed from CVS
> autoconf to override bugs in autoconf 2.59, or we need to release
> autoconf 2.60.
(Don't do the former, please, if you ask me. No end of trouble, and
gnulib maintainers seem not very eager to fix macro discrepancies.)
> What are the remaining issues in the way of releasing autoconf 2.60?
I can only speak for myself, so here's a list of stuff that IMVHO would
be nice to have:
- I have a patch cooking to make AS_IF n-ary (hopefully done tonight)
- The m4_for* patch needs at least one more round of bugfixing
(hint: try bounds that are arithmetic expressions themselves..)
- It would be good to document
m4_split
m4_normalize
m4_defun/m4_require (maybe not (yet))
There are plenty other useful m4_* macros that are not documented yet.
But if documenting them also means having to fix (many of) them, it
would be best to leave that to after 2.60. I can produce a list if
desired.
- Fix detection of Fortran libs for Intel Fortran 7.1
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.patches/2294
I can probably look into this one; IIRC some newer compiler version
did something slightly different though and needed taken care of as
well.
- Easily recreating the last configure args:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.general/5719
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs/4734
Even a more limited solution than the ones proposed in above thread
would already help.
I plan to work on above issues in the given order, but would of course
welcome anyone to beat me to it. ;-)
Oh, IIRC it would need someone to actually produce (an alpha release
and) a release (no raised hand here).
Cheers,
Ralf
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