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kc3-lang/automake/TODO
Tom Tromey
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Merge common parts of "dist" targets into dist-local. It would be good to check some parts of GNU standards: install-sh must exist somewhere (maybe need way to find top srcdir?) mkinstalldirs must exist somewhere Maybe it should be possible to disable all GNU-specific things with --no-gnu? --ignore-standards? But what? And why? Think about modifications so automake can work with a standalone library, eg readline. For instance we need a way to install a library, and a way to install header files. It would also be nice to figure out some good way to deal with shared libs. Allow ".h" files to appear in blah_SOURCES; just write them out of existence. [ This is nixed for now because of the auto-dependency tracking stuff ] separate install-data and install-exec. "install" doesn't need to be "::" rule any more should have "all:: info" in texinfos.am? automake.in: should ".cc" really -> ".${kr}o"? This doesn't really seem right, but maybe it is so names can be rewritten uniformly? Must check automake.in should disallow setting of LC_ALL and LANG variables by Makefile.am. must write rules to handle data files. They should be installed in $(datadir)/$(PACKAGE). What to do if file in list is actually a directory? consider auto-including any file that matches "*.in". must look at mkid to see how it works (for subdir usage) [ right now, it doesn't. i don't see a simple fix right now ] clean.am: clean: if all the macros are empty, the rule expands to: rm -rf which should be fixed Consider automating stamp-vti stuff. What does GNITS say about this? What about this case: multiple .texi files (and thus multiple version.texi's), and a filesystem with short names? What to do? Consider rewriting recursive rules to use static value of SUBDIRS: SUBDIRS = x y z all:: all-x all-y all-z all-x: deps (cd x; $(MAKE) all) Not sure if this is a win or not. But it allows "make -k" to work without hackery. Internationalize. ================================================================ For CONFIG_HEADER, automatically add its input file to the distribution. Don't hardcode the name of the configuration header. Get it from configure.in (AC_CONFIG_HEADER). Get the list of Makefiles to create from configure.in AC_OUTPUT if none are given. [ right now we look for any Makefile.am's lying around I think this is better, because it allows use of subdirs which don't use automake -- eg, stuff from gettext ] Should libexec programs have the name transform done on them? [ No, but it is currently done ] Order the output rules sensibly, so FOO_SOURCES and FOO_OBJECTS are together and rules are in the usual order. Make the output minimal: only output definitions for variables that are used. Rewrite in Perl. Look at dist's jmake for ideas. Should handle directory hierarchies deeper than 2. Right now there is no support for this at all. ================================================================ Document: Defined variables, their meanings, and their effects: DEFS cpp definitions INCLUDES -I options to cpp CPPFLAGS more cpp flags CFLAGS flags to cc SOURCES any sources (do not use) HEADERS header files in this directory CONFIG_HEADER path to config.h SUBDIRS subdirectories to build in. means this is a "top level" directory. PROGRAMS list of programs to build. sources for program `foo' are in foo_SOURCES. objects are auto-build. (only put .c files in foo_SOURCES) LIBPROGRAMS programs to build and install in libexec SCRIPTS programs which are actually scripts (architecture independent) LIBSCRIPTS scripts to build and install in lib LIBRARIES libraries to build. sources for library `foo' are in foo_SOURCES. Only put .c file name in that variable. TEXINFOS texinfo files to build. must end in ".texi" MANS man pages to install HEADERS All .h files in program AM_PROGRAMS like PROGRAMS. If it exists, it is used by automake to determine which programs to generate Makefile parts for. Use this if PROGRAMS is computed at configure time ETAGS_ARGS Extra arguments for etags. If this exists then tags are made. Tags will also be made if either SOURCES or HEADERS is not empty If your Makefile.am includes "@kr@", then ansi->kr conversion is assumed. DIST_OTHER whatever files you want to include in the distribution. Note that most common files (eg "configure.in") are automatically found by automake. DIST_SUBDIRS directories which are copied verbatim into the distribution. Used eg for directories holding only example code (which don't have their own makefile). This variable might be a bad idea. It is assumed that your configure script defines VERSION and PACKAGE. These variables are used when making the distribution. The distribution file will be a gzip'd tar file named PACKAGE-VERSION.tar.gz. ================================================================ Automatic dependency generation: * If a special flag is given to automake, and SOURCES exists, include some auto-dep generating code. This code can depend on gcc and GNU make. (Use gcc's -MMD or -MM option). (--use-deps) * When making distribution, first ensure all dependency files are up to date. Then re-run automake, with flag to include deps in generated Makefile.in (--include-deps) Maybe it would be nice to support dependency computation with tools other than gcc. Maybe make --use-deps the default, and have --included-deps suppress it? Rename --included-deps to --insert-deps?