From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 16:47:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 3] Copy description of build configuration variables to configure.ac
Message-ID: <e8rbuk$je5$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <7virm7nq7h.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Copy description of build configuration variables from the commentary
>> in the top Makefile (from 'next' branch) to configure.ac, splitting
>> them into "autoconf" sections.
> 
> I do not see much point in this -- they will become out of sync.

> [...] I think you are better off making a list of
> supported and yet to be supported ones in the comment in
> configure.ac, and when you want to see if the list got stale
> over time, grep for '^# Define' from the Makefile and match them
> up.

This is kind of such a list. Also let me point out that this was in _first_
patch of the series, as a kind of TODO list.

Perhaps those which are done, and those which are not implemented should be
marked differently... 

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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