Another status update (finished items removed): * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 09:21:44PM CEST: > > - autoconf-archive URL: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2006-04/msg00150.html
Upstream is looking into this. We may need to point to the new URL, though (but this can safely wait after the alpha). > Then there's the gnulib-additions patch. The non-range part of this is applied; the rest postponed. - After testing CVS Autoconf on some packages, I believe that this patch http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2006-04/msg00045.html will be the single largest source of subtle errors stemming from users' or third-party macros, in packages using C99 or C++, or users trying to compiler some C sources with a C++ compiler. For example, to account for the latter, gnulib macros would need several changes. Should we try to scan the arguments of AC_LANG_PROGRAM and friends for presence of \<exit *( and absence of <c?stdlib.h> and for matching sources issue a warning when autoupdate is run? (This may have a fairly large autom4te runtime overhead.) In any case, this needs prominent mention this in the release announcement (additionally to the NEWS excerpt). - Also, there's the datarootdir issue http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2006-04/msg00060.html that will need special mention. Not sure whether it would need a patch right now. In any case, I can probably do the release either tonight (European time), or it would have to wait for a few days. Cheers, Ralf
