Zack Weinberg wrote: > I'm piggybacking on this thread to point out that there are some > pretty drastic simplifications possible in configure.in. To give > examples: it contains its own logic for determining a 'canonical name' > for the operating system, rather than use AC_CANONICAL_HOST; almost > all the compile checks are using lower-level macros than they ought > to; there are several places where AC_DEFUN should be used to > encapsulate repetitive code, such as the custom checks for functions > like ctermid_r; there are tests that are completely unnecessary, such > as "AC_CHECK_SIZEOF (char, 1)" [sizeof(char)==1 is guarantted by the C > standard]. As Skip says: contributions are welcome. Using a different computation of the canonical name may not be possible, though, without performing major changes e.g. to the Lib/plat-* subdirectories. > Another cleanup that would be nice is to get rid of Modules/Setup and > related; as I understand it, this is only around because the top level > setup.py hasn't been finished yet. (And for a pipe dream, could we > have a way to set the disabled_module_list from the configure command line?) Again, as Skip explains: setup.py will never be able to do what Modules/Setup does. So Modules/Setup must stay, and may survive setup.py. Regards, Martin
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