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GNU m4 TODO - Tasks that need implementing. -*- outline -*-
-Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Tell the maintainers at <bug-m4@gnu.org> if you feel like volunteering
for any of these ideas or if you have others to add.
* KNOWN BUGS
- + m4wrap.1.test fail on Solaris 2.6 using egcs 1.1a compiler (Erick B).
+ + The following patch needs to be ported from the branch:
+ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/m4-patches/2007-03/msg00005.html
+ May be a couple of issues in that thread.
+
+ + The format builtin needs more power to be like printf(1):
+ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/m4-discuss/2007-05/msg00015.html
+ But be aware of compatibility issues in making too many changes.
+ The test case `other-tests/stackovf.test' does not work.
@@ -51,7 +57,8 @@ for any of these ideas or if you have others to add.
patsubst(qindir(`include', f), `b', x)
z'x
- + Use the TOS input quoting for qindir to fix this bug:
+ + Use the TOS input quoting for qindir to fix this undesirable POSIX
+ behavior:
define(`x', -'-)
define(y, defn(`x'))
@@ -74,7 +81,7 @@ for any of these ideas or if you have others to add.
+ Have NULs go really undisturbed through GNU m4
GNU m4 is lousy regarding NULs in streams (this would require
maintaining the string lengths, and avoiding strlen, strcpy,
- etc.).
+ etc.). (Almost there, once argv_ref is ported).
+ The argument count limits are handled for all tokens passed around by
the internals: we should enable attaching these values to text macros
@@ -100,6 +107,10 @@ for any of these ideas or if you have others to add.
asked to load a frozen file that requires versions of modules with
interface versions unsupported by the current release.
+ + The module API should probably use functions, not data exports:
+ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/m4-patches/2007-09/msg00012.html
+ Actually, there are several good ideas for module in that thread.
+
+ Setting of the module search path within m4 scripts:
append(__modulepath__, `/some/modules/live/here')
@@ -115,9 +126,17 @@ for any of these ideas or if you have others to add.
structures.
+ The perl module should only be built if a suitable perl interpreter
- is found on the build machine.
+ is found on the build machine. For that matter, it has been a
+ while since the perl module has even been built, and perl has had
+ new releases in the meantime.
* OTHER TOOLS
- + Automake 1.5 doesn't seem to like pkglibexec_LTLIBRARIES +=
- See modules/Makefile.am.
+ + Automake 1.11 will allow some Makefile.am cleanups:
+ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/m4-patches/2007-08/msg00008.html
+
+ + Copy coreutils' idea of using rsync, not wget, for grabbing .po
+ files efficiently.
+
+ + Use gnulib's build-aux/git-version-gen for reliable version
+ numbers, now that CVS timestamps are no longer available.