From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 18:48:57 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: nothign
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nothign
---

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 8ed00cdf..4b4fd1a3 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -301,12 +301,6 @@ David> start with ### to the top of the Makefile.in (in order)?  Sort
 David> of like how Autoconf uses diversions to force initialization
 David> code to the top of configure.
 
-Janos Farkas says:
- suidbins = su
- suidubins = chage cfhn etc etc
- noinst_PROGRAMS = grpconv pwconv id groups $(suidbins) $(suidubins)
-... should work.
-
 Karl Berry says:
 Karl> 2) Your Makefile variable names are generally uppercase, but GNU
 Karl> generally uses lowercase. Not that it matters :-).
@@ -367,14 +361,6 @@ Libraries:
 
 Longer term:
 
-Have a program that generates a Makefile on stdout, passes it through
-a "config.status"-style filter, and thence into make.  Why bother,
-other than the gee-whiz factor?
-
-It might be interesting to figure out how a GNU system could use
-Makefile.am's without resorting to Automake.  This might be impossible
-in a practical sense.
-
 Would it be useful to integrate in some way with the Debian package
 building utility?  Must check.  maybe it would be possible to deal
 with all the different package utilities somehow.  Lately I've been
@@ -384,9 +370,14 @@ The RedHat package utility is called RPM; see
 	ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/code/rpm
 It actually has problems, like no configure script and no documentation.
 
+For Cygnus it would probably be good to be able to handle the native
+package utility on each platform.  There are probably 3 or 4 of these
+(sysv, solaris?, aix?)
+
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 A tool to guess what the local Makefile.am should look like:
+(see Gord's Maint program!)
 
 * Probably integrate with autoscan
 * Use various simple rules to determine what to do: