Appendix C
Possible future changes

The starconf system is still quite new, and there are certain features of it which might change in the light of experience. These are summarised here, as a warning of what is not finalised, as reassurance if some of the documentation here seems out of date (in which case tell the document maintainer), and as a note of what aspects might need further discussion.

• The starconf application currently only generates two files – you should not assume this will always be so.
• There are only two options to STAR_DEFAULTS – the set will likely expand.
• The description of the tree-wide bootstrapping process in Sec. 3.2 is likely to change as more of the Starlink legacy and new code is brought under this build system umbrella. The interface to the ‘make world’ build may well change (see Sec. 2.4).
• The default automake strictness is –starlink, which is currently almost identical to the standard automake –foreign strictness. We may change this, and add other files.
• The AC_PROG_FPP macro described in Sec. B will very likely change its interface.