From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: TODO additions Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 12:58:31 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200210291902.g9TJ2AY18220@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1037201093 20436 80.91.224.249 (13 Nov 2002 15:24:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 15:24:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: d.love@dl.ac.uk, monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18BzCm-00048x-00 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 16:13:24 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18BzOj-00066k-00 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 16:25:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18BDa1-0001bK-00; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 07:22:13 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18BDLB-0006Ec-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 07:06:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18BDL7-0006DG-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 07:06:51 -0500 Original-Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193] helo=Cantor.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18BDDH-0004w7-00; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 06:58:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Charybdis.suse.de [213.95.15.201]) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A65E144E7; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 12:58:33 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: sykes.suse.de: schwab set sender to schwab@suse.de using -f Original-To: rms@gnu.org X-Yow: I'm having an emotional outburst!! In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 08 Nov 2002 07:06:53 -0500") Original-Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.3.50 (ia64-suse-linux) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:9347 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9347 Richard Stallman writes: |> |> I think it will be hard to make Autoconf set those symbols. For |> |> instance, consider the variable ORDINARY_LINK. How would Autoconf |> |> determine that? It is possible that all modern systems use |> |> ORDINARY_LINK and we can eliminate the conditional, but otherwise |> |> I see no substitute for handling it the way we do now. |> |> Instead of letting autoconf determine the right [sm]/*.h file, it just |> defines the respective symbols instead. |> |> Autoconf does not determine which *.h files to use. |> configure decides that based on the configuration name. Exactly, that's what I meant. |> I therefore challenge anyone to show a way that Autoconf can determine |> the proper value for ORDINARY_LINK. I don't think this is easy. Based on the configuration name? Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."