On 06/26/2012 04:56 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >>> AM_MISSING_PROG has been around for a while (git log says it was >>> introduced in 1997, although the current two-argument version appears to >>> date back to commit 9ae48df in Nov 1999), and seems like something >>> stable enough to be worth guaranteeing. >> >> And if we document AM_MISSING_PROG, then autoconf should suggest using it. >> > Or, given that 'missing' in its current lightweight incarnation has become > a more flexible, predictable and probably also more stable tool, it could > be moved (together with the definition of the AM_MISSING_PROG macro) to a > third-party package (either Autoconf or Gnulib). WDYT?
I'm not quite ready for that; it's still pretty heavily tied to automake (the idea of what forms a maintainer tool vs. a normal tool is more automake's domain, not autoconf's). I'm happy to keep 'missing' in automake for a while longer, and remove it from gnulib mirroring, which will give automake the freedom to improve it as an internal tool. >> Furthermore, it might be nice if automake were smarter about autotest >> suites built by autoconf, as the current method for running an autotest >> suite is rather verbose in Makefile.am. >> > Absolutely. Patches welcome ;-) Slowly but surely starting the process of sending patches :) -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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