On 06/28/2012 12:01 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > 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. > OK, agreed.
Thanks, Stefano