On 08/31/2009 08:54 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
While still working to prove Bob wrong on the fixincludes sed issues,
Bob?
- require a better sed,
- split the script in two inside Autoconf (if $extrasub is nonempty),
- allow for extra sed scripts here.
Like a new variable $ac_presub, that is executed as
sed "$ac_presub" | sed "$extrasub; other config.status substitutions"
? I think this is what I like the most. Does the following plan make
sense to you as Autoconf maintainer? (CCing autoc...@gnu.org).
The patch should be easy, so we can get ac_presub in 2.65 and upgrade
GCC from 2.64 to 2.65 as soon as it gets out. The rationale is that
anyway 2.65 is going to have only minor bug fixes besides the two Erlang
patches, some of them too invasive to place them in override.m4.
Regatding the timing of Autoconf 2.65 the DJGPP issue is pending, but it
can probably be fixed only in DJGPP rather than in autoconf, so it
wouldn't prevent releasing Autoconf 2.65 (in fact, having the
possibility to mention it in the release notes would be a reason to
release 2.65 sooner).
Paolo
