Re: TODO update

[Eric Blake]

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According to Ralf Wildenhues on 3/28/2008 9:11 AM:
|> Does anyone have a preference of whether I should release M4 1.4.11
|> first, and update autoconf to recommend it?
|
| If otherwise it doesn't matter to you, yes, please do M4 first.  Thanks.

OK.

|
| FWIW.  This is not exactly what we do.  Even GNU coreutils install does
| not do what the TODO item claimed (namely, creating DIR; it doesn't even
| with -D), nor does install-sh.  So I wonder whether the TODO item should
| be left in but reformulated to match whatever it really desired.  Or
| maybe that which was meant was what we did now?

I think it was safe to delete; the situation now is that you use
AS_MKDIR_P to create directories, then install (determined by
AC_PROG_INSTALL) to put multiple files into one of those directories.

|
|> -For AC_TYPE_SIGNAL signal handlers, provide a way for code to know
|> -whether to do "return 0" or "return" (int vs void) to avoid compiler
|> -warnings.  (Roland McGrath)
|
| In what way is that fixed?

According to the manual:

| All systems we know of in current use return @code{void}.  The
| @code{int} was to support K&R C, where of course @code{void} is not
| available.  @code{AC_TYPE_SIGNAL} (@pxref{Particular Types}) can be
| used to establish the correct type in all cases.

In other words, it's not worth worrying about these days (and if it was,
I'm sure gnulib would be a better place for the solution).

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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