Re: New AutoGen

["Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>]

 > From: korbb@egcs.cygnus.com
 >  
 > I have installed a new autogen-4.5.5 in:
 >  
 > [...]
 >  
 > If anyone has problems, please let me know so I can fix it
 > before making an announcement on FreshMeat.  I hope to be
 > ready to do that before LinuxWorld.
 >  
 > Regards,
 >         Bruce



	Actually if portability is a concern, I had lots of trouble.

1.  There are lots of uses of gcc extensions in the source, mainly
"extern inline" and "static inline".

2.  Building when srcdir != builddir was broken.  Some headers
couldn't be found.  Some headers were rebuilt in the builddir.

3.  After trying to update the source, it tried to rebuild some
headers, but that crashed awk (on solaris2.7,) so I had to use gawk.
(I don't think a gawk dependency is a great thing for portability.)

4.  There appear to be some K&R violations, but I won't even get
to these until I can build with an ANSI compiler != gcc. :-)

	If you would please fix the above problems 1-3 and get autogen
to compile with at least one non-gcc compiler, I would greatly
appreciate it.

		Thanks,
		--Kaveh
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