Re: TODO additions

[Andreas Schwab]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

|> I think it will be hard to make Autoconf set those symbols.  For
|> instance, consider the variable ORDINARY_LINK.  How would Autoconf
|> determine that?  It is possible that all modern systems use
|> ORDINARY_LINK and we can eliminate the conditional, but otherwise
|> I see no substitute for handling it the way we do now.

Instead of letting autoconf determine the right [sm]/*.h file, it just
defines the respective symbols instead.  I.e, the configuration database
just moves to a different file.

Andreas.

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