1 2006-01-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C)): Prefer "defined
4 FOO" to "defined (FOO)".
5 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ_ALLOCA): Likewise.
6 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STAT): Likewise.
7 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_XENIX_DIR): Likewise.
8 * tests/tools.at (ifnames): Likewise.
10 2006-01-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
12 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): Do not pass `-q' to mktemp.
13 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (mktmpdir): Likewise.
14 (END): Improve error message a bit.
15 Reported by Bruce Korb <bkorb@gnu.org>.
17 2006-01-12 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
19 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Ignore
20 `-LIST:' and `-LNO:', for PathScale 2.3 compilers.
22 2006-01-11 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
24 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): On Solaris 8, sys/ptem.h
25 requires sys/stream.h. Reported by Oliver Kiddle.
27 2006-01-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
28 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
30 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): When ensuring writability
31 before the removals of test dirs, use `find' to avoid modification
32 of symlinked directories.
34 2006-01-11 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
36 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN, AC_FC_DUMMY_MAIN):
37 Don't ignore the macro arguments.
39 2006-01-11 David Thompson <dthompsn@vizsolutions.com>
41 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION): Add `exit'
42 declaration that works for MSVC.
44 2006-01-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
46 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT_REJECT):
47 Add `*.map' and `.inf' for Green Hills compiler.
48 Reported by Stefan Seefeld <stefan@codesourcery.com>.
50 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_text_wrap): Handle quadrigraphs
51 correctly: pad with spaces after FIRST_PREFIX if necessary,
52 and compute string lenghts with `m4_qlen' instead of `m4_len'.
53 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_HELP_STRING): Comments updated.
54 * tests/m4sh.at (AS_HELP_STRING): Test extended.
56 Reported by numerous people, numerous times.
58 2006-01-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
60 * bin/autoconf.as, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in
61 * bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in:
62 * lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/status.m4:
63 * lib/autotest/general.m4, tests/local.at:
64 Update copyright year to 2006.
66 * Makefile.maint (sc_root_tests): Use recommend style s/a/b/ for
68 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Use s|a|b|
69 for file names, again. Reported by Noah Misch.
70 (Coding Style): Explain that s|a|b| is preferred for file names.
71 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE): Prefer s/a/b/.
72 (AC_OUTPUT_MAKE_DEFS): Likewise.
73 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
74 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Likewise.
75 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE): Likewise.
77 Fix Posix-conformance bugs re use of { command in sed scripts,
78 and improve the sed-related documentation a bit.
79 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Use
80 our own style advice re 's,a,b,' versus 's|a|b|'. Use "Sed"
81 rather than "sed" when talking about Sed in general.
82 (Particular Programs): Likewise.
83 (Coding Style): y is like s with respect to / and ,.
84 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Document the weird restrictions
85 that Posix has about { }. Use better quoting.
86 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE, _AC_OUTPUT_HEADER):
87 Rewrite to conform to Posix rules about { } in sed scripts.
88 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_DIRNAME_SED, AS_BASENAME_SED): Likewise.
89 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Likewise.
90 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_PROG & AC_CHECK_PROGS):
91 Use our own style advice re 's,a,b,' versus 's|a|b|'.
93 2006-01-05 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
95 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Fix typo.
97 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Ignore
98 singly- or doubly-quoted arguments to `-cmdline', `-ignore',
99 `-def', for the benefit of Portland `pgf90 -Mipa'.
100 Reported by Christopher Hulbert <cchgroupmail@gmail.com>.
102 2006-01-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
104 * doc/autoconf.texi: Update copyright (and other) dates to 2006.
105 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology): Mac OS X 10.2 changed the default
106 shell from zsh to bash.
108 2005-12-31 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
110 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_GREP): Use $PATH_SEPARATOR;
111 ":" caused problems on OS/2-EMX. Suggested by Andrew Belov.
113 2005-12-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
115 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Warn about unbalanced
116 parentheses in $(...). Problem reported by Eric Blake.
118 2005-12-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
120 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools):
121 Mention which characters can be escaped with \ in portable regular
122 expressions used in grep, sed, expr. Mention the leading ^ problem
123 with expr. Clean up some confusing wording. Mention which
124 grep options are portable.
126 2005-12-09 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
128 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE): Fix typo in the comment.
130 2005-12-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
132 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Fix typos in previous
133 patch, noted by Ralf Wildenhues.
135 2005-12-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
137 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): Try `set -o
138 posix' unconditionally, for pdksh in `native sh' emulation.
140 2005-12-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
142 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology): Document eval $? problem
144 (Limitations of Builtins): Likewise.
146 2005-11-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
148 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Pass
149 CONFIG_SHELL in the environment of the configure rerun.
150 * doc/autoconf.texi (Here-Documents, config.status Invocation):
151 Suggest passing CONFIG_SHELL absolute, and in the environment
152 rather than as option.
154 2005-11-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
156 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE):
157 Fix quoting of output line (triggered for many AC_SUBST_FILEs).
158 Fix macro quoting. Fix output for n * 98 substituted variables.
160 2005-11-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
162 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_MAIN_LOOP): Initialize
163 `tmp' to avoid file removal race.
165 2005-11-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
167 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Initialize
168 ac_clean_files and LIBOBJS.
170 2005-11-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
172 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_CHECK_PROG, AC_PATH_PROG):
173 Factor functionality to..
174 (_AC_CHECK_PROG, _AC_PATH_PROG): these new macros, but only
175 `AC_SUBST($1)' in the public version.
176 (AC_CHECK_TOOL, AC_PATH_TOOL, AC_PATH_TARGET_TOOL)
177 (AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOL): Use internal versions for ac_ct_* and
180 2005-11-01 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
182 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_C_O): Remove the comment about 8+3
185 2005-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
187 * NEWS: Move AH_HEADER mention to right place.
189 2005-10-27 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
191 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_C_O): "conftst2" -> "conftest2"
192 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_C_O): Likewise.
194 2005-10-25 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
196 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_C_O): rm -f conftst2.*, not only
198 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_C_O): Likewise.
200 2005-10-24 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
202 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_C_O): Use conftst2.o instead of
203 conftest.o, to see whether the compiler really obeys; rm the object
204 file before and after the test and register it with ac_clean_files.
205 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_C_O): Likewise.
207 2005-10-21 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
209 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE): When determining,
210 the delimiter CEOF$ac_eof: fix quoting of CEOF[0-9]* and modify the
211 code so that the most common case requires less forks.
213 2005-10-20 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
215 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions}: Document that ${10} is
216 not portable; thanks to Paul Eggert and Alexandre.
218 * NEWS: Fix an old typo.
220 2005-10-20 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
222 * doc/autoconf.texi: Typo: s/feature/features/ in ``the features of
223 the latter'', in two places.
225 2005-10-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
227 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generating Sources): AC_LANG_PROGRAMS ->
228 AC_LANG_PROGRAM, fixing a typo. Don't give details about
229 the inner workings of AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY.
230 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_CALL(C)): Reformat to match
231 AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY. This involves returning the value returned
232 by the function rather than ignoring it.
233 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C)): Call the function rather than simply
234 comparing its address. Intel's interprocedural optimization was
235 outsmarting the old heuristic. Problem reported by
238 2005-10-19 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
240 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SUBST): Remove an obsolete comment.
242 2005-10-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
244 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (_m4_map): New macro.
245 (m4_map, m4_map_sep): Use it. Handle the empty list correctly.
247 2005-10-04 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
249 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Really make the subtree writable
250 before removing it (chmod -R u+rwx); there are three instances of this.
252 2005-10-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
253 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
255 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Balance parentheses.
256 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): If the test dir already exists,
257 make its content writable before removing it. Remove an errorneous
258 comment from the end, where the logs of the failed tests are copied
259 to the main log file.
261 2005-09-27 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
263 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Pass --force to autoheader,
264 in case the computer is too quick. Double quote the configure.ac
267 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF): Always pass --force to prevent
268 problems if the testsuite were running too fast.
270 2005-09-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
272 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_DIRECT): Look for X11/Xlib.h
273 and XrmInitialize rather than X11/Intrinsic.h and XtMalloc
274 (which belong to Xt, not X itself). See Debian bug 327655.
275 * NEWS: Mention this.
277 2005-09-07 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
279 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_SOURCE(C)): Remove an incorrect comment.
281 2005-09-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
283 * config/move-if-change: Don't output "$2 is unchanged";
284 suggested by Ben Elliston. Handle weird characters correctly.
286 2005-09-06 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
288 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (AC_SEARCH_LIBS): Merge the two AC_LINK_IFELSE
289 calls, so that the final expansion of this macro is shorter.
290 Create the conftest.$ac_ext outside the `for' loop, to speed the run.
291 Do not use `break' in the argument to AC_LINK_IFELSE, it would skip
292 the cleanup there. Use AS_VAR_* macros, to be more general.
293 * tests/semantics.at (AC_SEARCH_LIBS): Check for the cleanup.
295 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Use AS_IF where appropriate.
297 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_IF): Use m4_default.
299 2005-09-01 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
301 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Headers): Add an index entry
304 2005-08-26 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
306 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_XMKMF): Use shell variable
307 XMKMF to locate xmkmf. Make XMKMF precious. Export CC when
310 2005-08-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
312 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_VERSION_COMPARE_PREPARE):
313 The previous patch didn't work, so try a better one.
315 2005-08-26 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
317 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh) <AS_TR_CPP>: Fix m4 quoting
318 in the example. Reported by Bruno Haible.
319 <AS_TR_SH>: Likewise. Also modify the example to be more convincing:
320 "if $undefined_var;" succeeds with my shell.
322 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CANONICAL_BUILD, AC_CANONICAL_HOST,
323 AC_CANONICAL_TARGET): Define by AC_DEFUN, no need to use AC_DEFUN_ONCE;
324 but change the m4_divert_text to m4_divert_once.
326 2005-08-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
328 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_VERSION_COMPARE_PREPARE):
329 Work around bug in Solaris /usr/xpg4/bin/awk.
330 The bug is present in at least Solaris 8 through 10.
332 2005-08-24 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
334 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_CANONICAL_SPLIT): Simplify; rejecting
335 some evil values and relying on the fact that $* concatenates the
336 parameters by the first character from IFS.
338 2005-08-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>,
339 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
341 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_CONFIG_REGISTER_DEST): When the
342 first header appears, define AH_HEADER.
343 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Headers): Document AH_HEADER.
344 Update limitations about when to call AC_CONFIG_HEADERS.
345 (Configuration Commands): Document that AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE
346 parameter can call AC_SUBST, AC_DEFINE, or AC_CONFIG_FOOS; explain
347 that AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE and AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_POST are not
348 ``Configuration Actions''; fix their index entries.
350 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Process multiple keywords
351 options correctly. Process N-M as M-N if M is smaller than N.
352 Process ranges correctly so that N-N will run only N.
353 Sort and uniquify the tests that will be run. If there is more
354 than one test, reinsert the banners for the tests.
355 * tests/autotest.at (Keywords): Unmark XFAIL.
357 2005-08-23 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
359 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_DEFINE_Q): Strip the parameter list
360 before passing the macro name to AH_TEMPLATE.
362 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): config.status
363 now opens log after option processing; in particular, --version
364 and --help do not touch config.log.
366 * Makefile.maint: Revert the change from 2005-08-12.
368 2005-08-22 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
370 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_ENABLE, AC_ARG_WITH): Factor out
372 (_AC_ENABLE_IF, _AC_ENABLE_IF_ACTION): ... these new macros.
374 2005-08-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
376 * doc/autoconf.texi (Using Autotest, testsuite Scripts)
377 (Autotest Logs, Writing testsuite.at, testsuite Invocation):
380 * doc/autoconf.texi (Defining Symbols, Changed Results):
381 Prepend to LIBS, not append, in examples.
383 2005-08-16 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
385 When building in place, set srcdir="."; suggested by Tim Van Holder.
387 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Do this; to recognize
388 build in place, we need ac_pwd, and thus have to AC_REQUIRE ...
389 (_AC_INIT_DIRCHECK): ... this macro and AC_DEFUN both of them.
390 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCDIRS): Fix a comment: srcdir="."
391 does not mean "no --srcdir option".
393 2005-08-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
395 * tests/autoscan.at (autoscan): New file.
396 * tests/suite.at: Use it.
397 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTSUITE_HAND_AT): Add it.
398 Reported against Libtool by Gideon Go <gideon.go@gmail.com>.
400 * tests/autotest.at (Keywords): Test keywords combinations.
402 2005-08-12 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
404 * Makefile.maint (GZIP_ENV): When checking the help text of gzip,
405 add "2>&1"; gzip 1.2.4 prints help on stderr.
407 2005-07-27 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
409 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_DECIDE_TRACEABLE): The symbol at_reason
410 was pushdef'ed twice while popped only once. Push it only once.
411 (_AT_CHECK): Cosmetic changes to the "case $at_status" command.
413 2005-07-26 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
415 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): The message is now
416 prefixed by mere "===", not "configure: === ".
418 2005-07-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
420 * Makefile.maint: Update from Bison.
422 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_strip): Comment fix---change tab to
423 "<tab>" in comment, so that the point is understandable.
425 2005-07-25 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
427 Rewrite substantial part of lib/autoconf/status.m4.
428 The main change is that CONFIG_FILES, CONFIG_HEADERS, CONFIG_LINKS,
429 and CONFIG_COMMANDS are not processed in four separate loops.
430 Instead, there is one main loop. This alows that the common code
431 is expanded only once, thus config.status (and configure) is smaller.
433 The registration mechnism in AC_CONFIG_FILES and cousins also changed;
434 the AC_LIST_FILES and cousins macros are no longer used.
436 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES, _AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS,
437 _AC_OUTPUT_LINKS, _AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS): Renamed to ...
438 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILE, _AC_OUTPUT_HEADER, _AC_OUTPUT_LINK,
439 _AC_OUTPUT_COMMAND): ..., respectively. These macros no longer
440 contain the initialization, nor the for loop, nor the associated
441 commands; all these go to ...
442 (_AC_OUTPUT_MAIN_LOOP): ... this new macro, called from
443 _AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS.
444 (_AC_CONFIG_SPLIT, _AC_CONFIG_SPLIT_SOURCE_DEST, _AC_CONFIG_SPLIT_FILE_IN):
445 Nuked; the code was merged into _AC_OUTPUT_MAIN_LOOP.
446 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILE): The creation of the sed script ...
447 (AC_OUTPUT): ... and the setup of ac_vpsub goes to ...
448 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE): ... a new macro, also called from
449 _AC_OUTPUT_MAIN_LOOP.
450 (_AC_CONFIG_FILES, _AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, _AC_CONFIG_LINKS,
451 _AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS): Use ...
452 (_AC_CONFIG_FOOS): ... this new macro, which uses these ...
453 (_AC_CONFIG_REGISTER, _AC_CONFIG_REGISTER_DEST): ... new macros.
454 (_AC_CONFIG_FILE, _AC_CONFIG_HEADER, _AC_CONFIG_LINK,
455 _AC_CONFIG_COMMAND, _AC_CONFIG_DEPENDENCIES): No longer needed.
456 (_AC_CONFIG_DEPENDENCY): Update, it uses these ...
457 (_AC_CONFIG_DEPENDENCY_DEFAULT, _AC_FILE_DEPENDENCY_TRACE_COLON):
459 (_AC_CONFIG_UNIQUE): Update.
460 (AC_LIST_FILES, AC_LIST_HEADERS, AC_LIST_LINKS, AC_LIST_COMMANDS):
462 (_AC_LIST_TAGS): ... new common macro.
463 (AC_LIST_FILE_COMMANDS, AC_LIST_HEADER_COMMANDS, AC_LIST_LINK_COMMANDS,
464 AC_LIST_COMMAND_COMMANDS): Replaced by this ...
465 (_AC_LIST_TAG_COMMANDS): ... new common macro.
466 (_AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_INIT): Moved top to the `registration' section;
467 this didn't belong to the `config commands' section.
468 (_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_INIT): Don't initialize, m4_ifdef is our friend.
469 (AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE, AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_PRE,
470 AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_POST): Moved to a new section, these didn't belong
471 to the `config commands' section either.
472 (AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS): Don't touch diversion DEFAULTS.
473 (_AC_LIST_SUBDIRS): Don't initialize, m4_ifdef is our friend.
475 ... and many changes to the comments nearby.
477 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): At the end of the day,
478 set ac_subdirs_all='_AC_LIST_SUBDIRS'.
479 * tests/torture.at (AC_CONFIG_FILES, HEADERS, LINKS and COMMANDS):
480 AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS(command:input,...) is no longer allowed.
481 (#define header templates): The comment at the top of the generated
482 header now includes the name(s) of the source file(s).
484 Several unrelated small changes:
486 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CACHE_VAL): Be didactic, quote the first
487 parameter to AC_DIAGNOSE.
488 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS): Likewise.
489 (_AC_LINK_FILES_CNT): Don't AU_DEFUN this; it causes confusing messages
490 with autoupdate; use m4_define_default inside AU_DEFUNed AC_LINK_FILES.
491 (AC_OUTPUT): In the compatibility code, use m4_ifvaln, to be consistent
493 (AU::AC_OUTPUT): Don't double-quote $2 and $3, the compatibility code
494 in AC_OUTPUT doesn't double-quote it either.
495 * tests/tools.at (autoupdate): AU::AC_OUTPUT no longer double-quotes the
498 2005-07-10 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
500 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): Document which
501 versions of Portland Group compiler produce single- and double-quoted
502 -cmdline argument. Reported by Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@fftw.org>
503 and Ole Holm Nielsen <Ole.H.Nielsen@fysik.dtu.dk>.
505 2005-07-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
507 * tests/local.at (AT_CONFIG_CMP): Ignore lines like "LIBS=''" too.
508 This is a corrected version of yesterday's patch.
510 2005-07-07 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
512 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Report the full
513 path, too; insert a "===" to emphasize the line.
515 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CANONICAL_BUILD): Rename
516 ac_cv_build_alias to ac_build_alias.
517 (AC_CANONICAL_HOST, AC_CANONICAL_TARGET): Simplify.
519 On 2005-02-24, an unintentional AC_SUBST([CC]) was introduced; this
520 change eliminates it. Problem reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
521 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_PRECIOUS): Move the AC_SUBST ...
522 (AC_ARG_VAR): ... here.
523 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Call AC_SUBST for build_alias, host_alias and
526 Keep a list of all precious variables and process them with one simple
527 for loop, instead of expanding all commands, or, OTOH, complicated
528 processing of output of "set".
529 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_PRECIOUS): Acumulate the
530 variable names in new macro...
531 (_AC_PRECIOUS_VARS): ... which will be assigned to ac_precious_vars.
532 (_AC_ARG_VAR_STORE): New macro which writes to diversion PARSE_ARGS
533 a loop to assign all ac_env_* and ac_cv_env_* variables.
534 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Use shell variable ac_precious_vars, divert
536 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): At the end, if _AC_PRECIOUS_VARS is set, assign
537 its value to shell variable ac_precious_vars and call
538 _AC_ARG_VAR_STORE and _AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE.
539 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Don't call
540 _AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE.
542 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Move AC_LANG_PUSH(C)
543 and the AC_SUBSTs ...
546 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Changed the title of
547 the ac_subst_files section in config.log.
549 * tests/local.at (AT_CONFIG_CMP): Revert Paul's previous change.
551 2005-07-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
553 * NEWS: New macro AC_C_TYPEOF.
554 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Document AC_C_TYPEOF.
555 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_TYPEOF): New macro.
556 * tests/c.at (C keywords): Test AC_C_TYPEOF.
558 Fix problems reported by Nicolas Joly.
559 * tests/base.at (Input/Output): Ignore 'loading site script' chatter.
560 * tests/local.at (AT_CONFIG_CMP): Ignore lines like "LIBS=''" too.
561 They are generated by the Tru64 v5.1B shell.
563 2005-07-05 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
565 Fix my changes from 2005-07-01; reported by Noah Misch.
566 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_CONFIG_DEPENDENCIES): Fix the
567 description, the macro now accepts only a single tag.
568 (_AC_CONFIG_UNIQUE): Likewise; s/AC_File/[$1]/
570 Fix cases when the varsions of Autoconf and Autotest don't match.
571 Reported by Noah Misch.
572 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Set also
573 at_top_builddir, for compatibility with older autotest.
574 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): If at_top_build_prefix
575 is not set, use at_top_builddir, for compatibility with older
576 versions of autoconf.
578 2005-07-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
580 * bin/autom4te.in ($m4): Catch usages like --nesting-limit=2048.
581 Problem reported by Patrick Welche.
583 2005-07-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
585 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_PROGRAM): Use &, not |, in
586 sed substitution command, so that we allow | in program prefixes
587 and program suffixes. (& is a problem anyway; we're not fixing
589 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_CONFIG_FILES): Likewise, for
590 configure_input, top_builddir, srcdir, etc.
591 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise, for
592 PATH_SEPARATOR in AUTOTEST_PATH.
594 2005-07-02 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
596 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SITE_LOAD): Rewrite the
597 for loop over config.site files using `set', to allow
598 directory names containing IFS characters.
600 2005-07-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
602 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DIRCHECK): Remove the tests for
603 directories with weird names. Apparently some people like living
604 on the edge. However, improve the test that "pwd" actually does
605 report a name for the working directory.
606 * NEWS: Remove the claim that we test for funny chars in dir names.
608 2005-07-01 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
610 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_FOREACH): Make obsolete; it's
612 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_foreach_w): ... by this new macro.
613 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_CONFIG_DEPENDENCIES, _AC_CONFIG_UNIQUE):
614 Now accept a single tag, not whitespace separated list.
615 (AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS): Call _AC_CONFIG_UNIQUE in a m4_foreach_w loop.
617 2005-06-30 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
619 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Headers): Change the explanation
620 about #include <config.h>.
621 (Generic Functions): Mention the Gnulib project.
622 (Limitations of Usual Tools) <sed>: Another minor rephrasing.
624 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Use a here
625 document to output the default config_* lists to config.status.
626 Don't recognize option --file, if the functionality is not there.
627 Likewise for --header; moreover, recognize --he and --h as shortcuts
628 for --help in that case.
630 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Fix the order of the "sections", so that it
631 matches the order of execution. No code changed.
633 2005-06-30 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
635 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): Fix also for
636 single-quoted -cmdline argument in Portland Group compiler.
637 Reported against LAM by Ole Holm Nielsen <Ole.H.Nielsen@fysik.dtu.dk>.
639 2005-06-30 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
641 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect AC_SUBST_TRACE.
643 2005-06-29 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
645 * doc/autoconf.texi (File Descriptors): ksh doesn't pass open file
646 descriptors to child processes; reported by Norman Gray.
648 2005-06-29 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
650 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_VAR): Move next to _AC_ARG_PRECIOUS.
652 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SUBST_TRACE): New macro, to be traced
653 instead of AC_SUBST; proposed by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
655 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Call AC_SUBST_TRACE for
656 the directory specific variables; but don't call it for configure_input.
658 2005-06-28 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
660 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <sed>: Reword recent
663 2005-06-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
665 * NEWS: Don't worry about spaces in bindir etc. Only srcdir and working
666 directory have inherent problems with special characters like spaces,
667 due to limitations in Make syntax. Problem reported by Alexandre
669 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DIRCHECK): Implement the above.
670 Also, fix Tru64 porting problem with shell patterns,
671 reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
673 2005-06-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
675 * doc/autoconf.texi (Subdirectories): Fix markup typos.
677 2005-06-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
679 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_ENV): Simplify regexp slightly.
681 Fix some more shell quoting problems. Prompted by a bug report
682 from Justace Clutter.
683 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DIRCHECK): Put name of invalid
684 variable into diagnostic. Make the diagnostic an error, not a warning,
685 because we really don't support spaces and suchlike in dir names.
686 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Allow special characters in $ac_unique_file.
687 Don't worry about backslashes in srcdir; it can't happen now.
688 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Allow weird characters in ac_optarg.
689 Simplify ac_optarg handling.
690 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Remove unnecessary and inconsistent quotes.
692 2005-06-22 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
694 Fix AT_CONFIG_CMP for Solaris hosts; idea from Ralf Menzel.
695 * configure.ac: Call AC_PROG_EGREP and AC_PROG_SED.
696 * tests/atlocal.in: Propagate $EGREP and $SED.
697 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_ENV): Use $EGREP, not $GREP -E.
698 (AT_CONFIG_CMP): Use sed instead of grep plumbing.
700 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <grep>: Mention
701 that '\|' is not allowed in BREs; recommend using newline separated
702 list of patterns instead of multiple -e options.
704 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): Remove an old comment.
706 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_CANONICAL_SPLIT): Use AC_SUBST/2.
708 2005-06-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
710 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_CANONICAL_SPLIT): Fix typo.
712 2005-06-21 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
714 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <sed>: Document that
715 b, t, r, w commands require single space, while : cannot have any.
716 (Special Shell Variables): Fix sed code this in the example.
717 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): Likewise; and fix a typo.
718 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_ARG_OPTION): Fix typo in the description.
720 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_split): If the parameter is empty,
721 expand to the empty list. Don't use two pairs of m4_changequote,
724 2005-06-20 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
726 * lib/m4/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_YACC): Declare YACC & YFLAGS precious.
728 2005-06-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
730 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (as_awk_strverscmp): Port to Solaris /bin/awk.
732 Don't mention Solaris versions so much, if a
733 problem is common to all extant versions of Solaris. Say "SunOS
734 4" instead of "SunOS" for SunOS 4.
735 (awk): Mention more of the limitations of traditional Awk.
736 (cat): Don't talk about cat -v.
738 2005-06-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
740 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_VERSION_COMPARE_PREPARE): New macro.
741 (AS_VERSION_COMPARE): New macro. The API is taken from CVS,
742 but the implementation is entirely different and is designed
743 to be compatible with glibc strverscmp.
744 * tests/m4sh.at (AS_VERSION_COMPARE): New test.
746 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Mention expr bug
747 on Mac OS X 10.4 reported by Peter O'Gorman in:
748 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2005-06/msg00041.html
749 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_CANONICAL_SPLIT):
750 Use shell builtins rather than 'expr', to work around expr bug.
752 2005-06-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
754 * doc/autoconf.texi: "filesystem" -> "file system".
755 "behaviour" -> "behavior".
756 Warn about \(...\)* in Solaris sed (written by Ralf Menzel).
757 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Omit blank after ":" sed command,
759 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Likewise.
760 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): Work around problem
761 with Solaris sed. Fix by Ralf Menzel and Stepan Kasal.
763 * man/Makefile.am (MOSTLYCLEANFILES): Add $(srcdir)/*.t.
764 (.x.1): Ignore the time stamp in the .TH line when deciding whether
765 to update the man page. That way, we don't have to check in new
766 man pages every month.
768 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_VAR_TEST_SET): Work even if $1 contains
769 quotes and backslashes. Patch from Derek Price.
771 2005-06-10 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
773 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Document AS_TR_CPP &
776 2005-06-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
778 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't accept Solaris 9's diff
779 -u, since it outputs chatter if the input files are the same.
780 Problem reported by Ralf Menzel.
782 2005-06-08 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
784 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: Undefine include & sinclude rather than
785 renaming them since they are about to be redefined anyhow.
787 2005-06-08 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
789 * doc/autoconf.texi (Redefined M4 Macros): Add index entries for most
790 redefined M4 macros to this node. Document m4_include & m4_sinclude.
791 Move m4_undefine to alphabetical order.
793 2005-06-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
795 * README: Recommend GNU M4 1.4.3 or later.
796 * doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction): Likewise.
797 Reword to avoid some formatting glitches.
798 Use "#!/bin/sh", not "#! /bin/sh"; the space isn't needed these days.
799 Clarify explanation of HP compiler bug.
800 Redo example output tp match current CVS snapshot.
801 Use @example.org in email addresses when the examples
802 might get inadvertently cut-and-pasted into user code.
803 Remove example of autom4te usage that doesn't seem to work now.
804 Use modern AC_INIT (except when the example is meant to be
805 shown with Autoconf 2.13).
806 Update ksh info for Solaris 9 and later.
808 Modernize description of Automake versions a bit.
809 Don't claim a future version of Autoconf is near.
810 * doc/install.texi: Reword to avoid some formatting glitches.
812 2005-06-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
814 * doc/autoconf.texi: Add [] to examples, so that the manual
815 follows its own advice about quoting better.
816 Reword to avoid some formatting glitches.
817 * doc/installt.exi: Reword to avoid some formatting glitches.
819 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins) <case>: Mention
820 Tru64 ksh pattern matching bug. Reported against Libtool by
821 Albert Chin <libtool@mlists.thewrittenword.com> and
822 Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>.
824 2005-06-06 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
826 m4_cdr of one-member list was [[]] (one-member list containing an
827 empty string) instead of [] (an empty list. Callers were skewed to
828 match this misbehaviour. As a consequence of this:
829 - m4_foreach([x], [], [foo]) expanded to `foo', while
830 - the expansion of m4_foreach([x], [[]], [foo]) was empty.
831 This bug has been fixed:
833 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_cdr): If only one argument is given,
834 expand to an empty string; print error msg if called without
836 (m4_foreach, m4_map, m4_map_sep): Don't expect the previous
837 misbehaviour; handle [] and [[]] correctly.
839 2005-06-06 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
841 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Nuke ac_max_here_lines.
842 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): Simplify the sed
843 scripts created and the loop applying them, use _AC_SED_CMD_LIMIT.
845 2005-06-06 Ralf Menzel <menzel@ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (trivial change)
847 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Solaris' awk cannot
848 swallow records with more than 99 fields.
849 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Use the awk builtin `split' to
852 2005-06-04 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
854 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): AIX awk cannot
855 swallow literals longer than 399. Reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
856 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Pass $at_groups though stdin,
857 to workaround this limitation.
859 2005-06-03 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
861 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Find g95 in addition
862 to gfortran, and make these the first two compiler names
863 checked (following the general autoconf preference for gcc).
865 2005-06-03 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
867 * tests/Makefile.am (check_SCRIPTS): Set to $(wrappers).
868 (DISTCLEANFILES): Remove $(check_SCRIPTS).
869 (testsuite): Make sure autotest.m4f is up-to-date before using it.
871 2005-06-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
873 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't create a regular
874 expression of unbounded size when processing the --list
875 option. This runs afoul of a limit of 399 bytes per regular
876 expression on AIX. Problem reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
878 2005-06-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
880 * NEWS: Note yesterday's changes to AC_SUBST and AC_SUBST_FILE.
881 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Reword example
882 for multiline stdbool replacement.
883 (Setting Output Variables): Reword text a bit. Don't
884 give all the details about |#_!!_#|.
885 Reword description of line replacement.
887 2005-05-31 Dan Manthey <dan_manthey@partech.com>
889 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Output variables may
890 now contain newlines, and substituted files must be referenced on
891 a line alone; the sed scripts to substitute them are now very
893 (_AC_SED_CMD_LIMIT): Added; single place to store limit on how many
894 commands can be put in a sed script portably.
895 * doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Document above
896 changes. (Particular Header Checks) <AC_HEADER_STDBOOL>: Give exaple
897 use of multiline substitution.
898 * tests/torture.at: No longer expect substitution of newline to fail.
900 2005-05-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
902 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_SHELL_FN_WORK): Fix diagnostics.
903 From Ralf Menzel (trivial change).
905 2005-05-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
907 * tests/local.at: Don't attempt to check for negated character
908 classes in shell scripts. The test was too brittle.
910 2005-05-25 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
912 * bin/autoconf.as: Don't use "shift 2"; it's not portable enough.
913 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Document this
916 2005-05-24 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
918 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_ECHO_LOG): New macro to factor out
919 common code; used in many places in the tree.
920 (AS_ESCAPE): Make the pattern a bit simpler; use \& insetad of \1.
921 (_AS_ECHO_UNQUOTED): Move the macro lower; no code change.
923 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_ifset): Use m4_ifval.
925 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Merge the two error
926 messages when ac_unique_file is not found.
927 (AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR): Simplify the `if' at the end.
928 (AC_MSG_CHECKING, AC_MSG_RESULT): Put braces around the two echo
929 commands, for consistency with AC_MSG_ERROR and such.
931 * bin/autoconf.as: Make more use of "shift 2" in option processing.
933 * bin/Makefile.am: Merge the two rules for creating scripts.
935 2005-05-23 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
937 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_MSG_RESULT_UNQUOTED): Make
938 obsolete; it was never documented.
939 (AC_CACHE_CHECK): Use AC_MSG_RESULT instead.
941 2005-05-20 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
943 * NEWS: @top_builddir@ is now a dirname, ac_top_builddir will follow.
944 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCDIRS): Rename ...
945 (ac_top_builddir): ... this ...
946 (ac_top_build_prefix): ... to this; the old name is also kept, for
947 backward compatibility.
948 (ac_top_builddir_sub): New variable, without the trailing slash,
950 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): s/@top_builddir@/$ac_top_builddir_sub/
951 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Actions): Rename
952 ac_top_builddir to ac_top_build_prefix.
953 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Rename
954 at_top_builddir to at_top_build_prefix.
955 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
957 2005-05-20 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
959 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Simplify the init
962 2005-05-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
964 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_text_wrap): Don't m4_quote the second
965 argument to m4_foreach. I guess it was necessary in the past,
966 but I think it's a no-op now.
968 2005-05-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
970 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Merge two consecutive
971 ``cat <<_ACEOF'' commands to one.
972 (_AC_CANONICAL_SPLIT): Use expr, not ``echo|sed.''
973 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: On various places, use expr instead of
975 (_AC_CONFIG_SPLIT, _AC_CONFIG_SPLIT_SOURCE_DEST):
976 (_AC_CONFIG_SPLIT_FILE_IN): New macros, to factor out common code.
977 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Use expr to get the numbers from
979 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_SHELL_SYNTAX): Use awk to search for
980 the wrong patterns between ``case'' and ``esac.'' The previous
981 code had false positives.
983 2005-05-14 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
985 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ_ALLOCA): Prepend ${LIBOBJDIR},
987 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions) <AC_FUNC_ALLOCA>:
990 2005-05-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
992 * AUTHORS, BUGS, COPYING, ChangeLog, ChangeLog.0, ChangeLog.1,
993 ChangeLog.2, GNUmakefile, HACKING, Makefile.am, Makefile.cfg,
994 Makefile.maint, NEWS, README, README-alpha, TODO, configure.ac,
995 bin/Makefile.am, bin/autoconf.as, bin/autoheader.in,
996 bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoscan.in,
997 bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in, config/Makefile.am,
998 config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/elisp-comp,
999 config/m4.m4, config/mdate-sh, config/missing, config/texinfo.tex,
1000 doc/Makefile.am, doc/fdl.texi, lib/Makefile.am, lib/autom4te.in,
1001 lib/freeze.mk, lib/Autom4te/C4che.pm, lib/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm,
1002 lib/Autom4te/Channels.pm, lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm,
1003 lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm, lib/Autom4te/General.pm,
1004 lib/Autom4te/Request.pm, lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm,
1005 lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am,
1006 lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4,
1007 lib/autoconf/autoscan.m4, lib/autoconf/autotest.m4,
1008 lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4, lib/autoconf/c.m4,
1009 lib/autoconf/fortran.m4, lib/autoconf/functions.m4,
1010 lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/headers.m4,
1011 lib/autoconf/lang.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4,
1012 lib/autoconf/oldnames.m4, lib/autoconf/programs.m4,
1013 lib/autoconf/specific.m4, lib/autoconf/status.m4,
1014 lib/autoconf/types.m4, lib/autoscan/Makefile.am,
1015 lib/autoscan/autoscan.list, lib/autoscan/autoscan.pre,
1016 lib/autotest/Makefile.am, lib/autotest/autotest.m4,
1017 lib/autotest/general.m4, lib/emacs/Makefile.am,
1018 lib/emacs/autoconf-mode.el, lib/emacs/autotest-mode.el,
1019 lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am, lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4,
1020 lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4, man/Makefile.am, tests/Makefile.am,
1021 tests/atlocal.in, tests/autotest.at, tests/base.at, tests/c.at,
1022 tests/compile.at, tests/foreign.at, tests/fortran.at,
1023 tests/local.at, tests/m4sh.at, tests/m4sugar.at, tests/mktests.sh,
1024 tests/semantics.at, tests/suite.at, tests/tools.at,
1025 tests/torture.at, tests/wrapper.as:
1026 Update FSF postal mail address.
1028 2005-05-13 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1030 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR): Remove the broken
1032 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_bmatch): Halt with error if we don't get
1033 enough arguments, similarly as in m4_bpatsubsts.
1035 2005-05-12 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1037 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCDIRS): Simplify the computation
1040 2005-05-11 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1042 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Make the check
1043 for absolute directory names in one loop.
1044 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Handle
1045 abbreviations of --version and --debug.
1047 2005-05-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1049 * doc/autoconf.texi (Autoconf Language): Be more precise about
1050 quoting rules. Problems noted by Stepan Kasal.
1051 Also, throughout this document, be more careful about white space.
1052 "blank", "white space", and "space" all have different meanings
1053 and we should be careful to say what we mean.
1055 2005-05-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1057 Fix C++ related problems reported by Werner Lemberg.
1058 * doc/autoconf.texi (C++ Compiler): Mention .cpp extension.
1059 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG(C++)): Set ac_ext to .cpp, not .cc.
1060 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_TYPE_SIGNAL): Simplify test, to
1061 avoid problems with C++ and throw.
1062 * tests/compile.at: .cpp, not .cc.
1064 * tests/semantics.at: Prepend LIBOBJDIR, as per 2005-05-02 change.
1066 2005-05-05 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1068 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Functions): Typos.
1070 2005-05-02 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
1072 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJS_NORMALIZE): Prepend each
1073 object named in LIBOBJS and LTLIBOBJS with the ${LIBOBJDIR}, as
1074 set by latest automake.
1076 2005-05-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1078 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): "expr '' \| ''"
1079 outputs 0 on GNU/Linux these days.
1081 2005-04-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1083 * doc/autoconf.texi (Autoconf Language): Add more description
1084 about quoting heuristics.
1085 (Limitations of Builtins): Describe "set -" problems.
1087 2005-04-29 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1089 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_KEYWORDS): Separate by space,
1092 * doc/autoconf.texi (External Software): Replace AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED
1093 by AC_DEFINE; it was a mistake.
1094 From bug reported against libtool by Dalibor Topic <robilad@kaffe.org>.
1096 2005-04-25 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1098 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): A tiny optimization.
1100 2005-04-22 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1102 * doc/autoconf.texi (External Software): Quadrigraphs are not
1103 processed correctly in AS_HELP_STRING; avoid this in the examples.
1104 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_HELP_STRING): Add a FIXME about quadrigraphs.
1105 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_text_wrap): Likewise; and rephrase the
1106 comment and reduce m4_default([foo], []) to [foo].
1107 (m4_strip): Update the explanation.
1109 2005-04-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1111 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE, _AC_RUN_IFELSE):
1112 Remove core.conftest.* too; it's generated by Tru64 5.1.
1113 Problem reported by Jennis Pruett.
1114 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4
1115 (AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED, AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL):
1116 Don't bother to remove core files; AC_RUN_IFELSE should do that
1119 2005-04-19 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1121 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_bpatsubsts): Add the b- to comment, too.
1123 2005-04-19 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
1125 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Handle --docdir.
1126 Report from Horst Wente.
1128 2005-04-15 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1130 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Fixed a typo in
1133 2005-04-14 Gregorio Guidi <greg_g@gentoo.org>
1135 * doc/autoconf.texi (External Software, Package Options): Add
1136 examples showing how to implement --with-* and --enable-* options.
1138 2005-04-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1140 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Look for configure.ac
1141 as well as configure.in. Problem reported by Gregorio Guidi.
1143 2005-04-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1145 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Use gnulib's current
1146 pattern for alloca snippet.
1148 2005-04-04 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1150 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_DECIDE_TRACEABLE): Fix a typo.
1152 2005-04-01 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1154 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Programs): Fix a typo.
1156 2005-04-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1158 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't assume that "date +%s"
1159 fails if %s isn't supported. Problem reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
1161 2005-03-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1163 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS):
1164 Merge `-z option' as well for the benefit of Solaris link flags. Pass
1165 whole-archive (-zallextract, -zdefaultextract) options in the hope of
1166 unique libraries, for the Sun Fortran 95 8.0 compiler. Bug reported
1167 against Libtool by Yury Puhalsky <pooh@cryptopro.ru>.
1169 2005-03-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1171 * NEWS: The configure command now warns you if you attempt to use
1172 a directory whose name contains a special character like space,
1174 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Allow
1175 "," in file names. Do not use \@; it's not a portable regexp.
1176 * bin/Makefile.am (edit): Likewise.
1177 * lib/Makefile.am (edit): Likewise.
1178 * tests/Makefile.am (edit): Likewise.
1179 * tests/semantics.at: Likewise.
1180 * tests/torture.at: Likewise.
1181 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_PROGRAM): Likewise.
1182 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCDIRS): Likewise.
1183 * doc/autoconf.texi (File System Conventions): Warn about
1184 unportable file names.
1185 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DIRCHECK): New macro.
1187 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Use ac_pwd rather than invoking pwd.
1188 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Propagate
1189 ac_pwd, and quote srcdir.
1190 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Quote file name args.
1192 * doc/autoconf.texi: Fix some systematic formatting problems.
1193 ".)" needs a following @: if not at the end of a sentence, and
1194 similarly for "!)". "etc." should be preceded by a comma.
1195 "n-th" -> "@var{n}th". pdksh is still buggy, so update its date.
1197 2005-03-22 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
1199 * doc/autoconf.texi (Input): Mention that AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR's
1200 argument is often called 'build-aux'.
1202 2005-03-07 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1204 * doc/autoconf.texi (Quotation Rule Of Thumb): Mention that the
1205 macro AC_TRY_LINK is obsolete.
1206 (Installation Directory Variables): Change `AC_OUTPUT_FILES' to
1209 2005-02-24 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1211 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC): Be more careful to skip
1212 `/usr/ucb/cc'; use `cl.exe' to distinguish the MS compiler
1213 from a Common Lisp's `cl'.
1214 (AC_PROG_CXX): Behave according to the documentation: don't
1215 search for $ac_tool_prefix$CCC and $CCC, just set CXX=$CCC;
1216 make the variable CCC precious; use `cl.exe', not `cl'.
1218 2005-02-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1219 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
1221 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Redirect stdin from
1222 /dev/null, as "configure" shouldn't read stdin, and this insulates
1223 us from problems (e.g., when testing for "cl"). Also, do this
1224 redirection before invoking "hostname" or "uname", and keep the
1225 original input stream available via...
1226 (AS_ORIGINAL_STDIN_FD): ... this new macro.
1227 (_AC_PREPROC_IFELSE, _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, _AC_LINK_IFELSE): Don't
1228 bother with "</dev/null" since it's now done at the top of
1230 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX): Likewise.
1231 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Likewise.
1232 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FLAVOR_GNU): Likewise.
1233 * doc/autoconf.texi (File Descriptor Macros): New section.
1234 (Printing Messages): Mention it.
1235 * tests/base.at (Input/Output): New test.
1237 2005-02-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1239 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_ECHO_N_PREPARE): Don't set ECHO_C to
1240 newline if neither \c nor -n work, as that would output two
1241 newlines. Prefer -n to \c. Reported by Stepan Kasal.
1243 2005-02-12 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1245 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_IF): Define by m4_defun, not m4_define.
1246 This causes that any required macros inside will get before the if.
1247 * doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te.cache): A typo.
1249 2005-02-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1251 Undo previous change, except keep the change to
1252 lib/autoconf/programs.m4 that replaced grep with shell
1253 pattern-matching. This is because net-snmp configure reads stdin.
1254 Reported by Noah Misch.
1256 2005-02-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1258 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Redirect stdin
1259 from /dev/null, as "configure" shouldn't read stdin, and this
1260 insulates us from problems (e.g., when testing for "cl").
1261 Suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz. Also, do this redirection
1262 before invoking "hostname" or "uname".
1263 (_AC_PREPROC_IFELSE, _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE,
1264 _AC_LINK_IFELSE): Undo previous change, as it's no longer needed.
1265 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX): Don't bother with
1266 "</dev/null" since it's now done at the top of 'configure'.
1267 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Likewise.
1268 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FLAVOR_GNU): Likewise.
1269 Also, replace grep with shell pattern-matching, to save a process.
1271 2005-02-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1273 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_PREPROC_IFELSE, _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE,
1274 _AC_LINK_IFELSE): Redirect stdin to /dev/null, in an attempt to
1275 avoid thinking that Allegro Common Lisp's "cl" command is a C++
1278 2005-02-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1280 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Document that
1281 grep -q isn't portable. Improve grep -s explanation.
1282 Problem reported by Dan Manthey.
1284 2005-02-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1286 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Clarify
1287 PATH_SEPARATOR wording; fix typo in IFS. Reported by Gary V. Vaughan.
1289 2005-02-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1291 * doc/autoconf.texi: Use @acronym for DJGPP.
1292 Fix some @code's that should have been @env's, and vice versa.
1293 Sort environment variable names.
1294 Mention that shells no longer inherit IFS.
1295 Don't recommend PATH_SEPARATOR=';' so strongly.
1296 Mention that $RANDOM might expand to the empty string.
1297 "symlink" and "soft link" -> "symbolic link".
1298 Improve mktemp description (reported by Bruno Haible).
1300 2005-02-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1302 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Don't overquote AT_SETUP arg.
1303 * tests/m4sh.at (AS_DIRNAME, AS_BASENAME, AS_MKDIR_P, AS_HELP_STRING):
1305 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN, AC_PATH_PROG & AC_PATH_PROGS):
1308 2005-02-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1310 * NEWS: Mention AT_COPYRIGHT.
1312 * tests/local.at (AT_CMP): Use diff directly on input files rather
1315 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_SED): Don't look in
1316 /usr/xpg4/bin since that sed dumps core (at least on Solaris 8).
1318 2005-02-04 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
1319 and Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1321 * tests/autotest.at (Empty test suite): New test.
1322 * tests/torture.at (Substitute and define special characters)
1323 (Substitute a 2000-byte string, Define to a 2000-byte string)
1324 (Substitute a newline, Define a newline): New tests.
1326 2005-02-04 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
1328 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_re_string, m4_re_word): Revert 2002-03-04.
1329 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR): Add `m4sugar' to keywords.
1330 (AT_CHECK_ENV): Ignore LTLIBOBJS, FC variables, EGREP, FGREP, and SED.
1331 * tests/m4sugar.at (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR_TEXT, AT_CHECK_M4RE): New macros.
1332 (Standard regular expressions): New test.
1333 (m4_warn, m4_require: circular dependencies, m4_text_wrap): Strip
1334 excess test name quoting.
1335 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_HEADERS_OLD, AC_CHECK_HEADERS_NEW): Pass
1336 CPPFLAGS to `configure' instead of setting it in `configure'.
1338 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_UNAME): Try only /usr/bin/hostinfo, not
1339 any `hostinfo' in $PATH, since hostinfo.exe is a popular file name
1342 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_LANG(Fortran), AC_FC_SRCEXT):
1343 s/FC_SRCEXT/ac_fc_srcext/; s/FCFLAGS_SRCEXT/ac_fcflags_srcext/.
1345 * tests/local.at (AT_CMP): New macro.
1346 (AT_DATA_AUTOCONF): Do not call AC_PROG_GREP.
1347 (AC_SAVE_STATE): Move environment grep...
1348 (AT_CHECK_ENV): to here. Filter out `'$''. Use AT_CMP.
1349 (AT_CONFIG_CMP): New macro.
1350 (AT_CHECK_MACRO): Run `configure' twice with cache and compare results.
1351 * tests/c.at (Extensions): Do not exit early.
1352 * tests/atlocal.in: Inherit $GREP.
1354 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_C_STD_TRY): New macro.
1355 (_AC_PROG_CC_C89, _AC_PROG_CC_C99): Use it.
1357 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_COPYRIGHT): Update for 2005.
1358 (AC_COPYRIGHT): Factor header comment portion out and move into...
1359 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_COPYRIGHT): This.
1360 * lib/autotest/general.at (AT_COPYRIGHT): New macro.
1361 (AT_INIT): Add Autotest copyright notice. Display copyright notices in
1363 * tests/local.at: Add Autoconf test suite copyright notice.
1364 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Document AT_COPYRIGHT.
1366 2005-02-04 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
1367 and Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1369 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): New mkstemp entry.
1371 2005-02-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1373 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_re_escape): Escape ?, ^, \, $ too;
1374 this fixes a bug tickled by the AT_CAPTURE_FILE change noted below.
1376 Try not to generated lines of unlimited length, as POSIX places a
1377 2047-byte limit on line length of portable text files.
1378 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SUBST, AC_SUBST_FILE):
1379 Use newline as a separator, not space.
1380 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_TESTED, AT_KEYWORDS): Likewise.
1381 (AT_CAPTURE_FILE): Use space-backslash-newline as a separator, not
1384 2005-02-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1386 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_SHELL_FN_WORK): Move func_* to
1387 as_func_*. Add test to check whether positional parameters
1388 are restored after function return.
1390 2005-02-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1392 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Mention _,
1393 BIN_SH, DUALCASE. Say that variables other than "status" are safe
1394 if they contain a lower-case letter. The DUALCASE problem was
1395 reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
1397 * bin/autoconf.as: Don't exit with status 0 after write failure
1398 with --help or --version.
1399 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP, _AC_INIT_VERSION): Likewise.
1400 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Likewise.
1402 2005-02-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1404 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools):
1405 Unicos 9 sed limitations.
1406 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Try cf77 before fort77
1407 to get the option-enhanced interface on older Crays. Try ftn for
1408 Fortran 95 (newer Crays).
1410 2005-02-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1412 * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Go back to the simple solution, but take
1413 care to echo the commands, so the user knows what's going on.
1414 Modified from a suggestion by Stepan Kasal.
1416 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Mention autopoint,
1417 with a cross reference. Derived from a suggestion by Bruce Korb.
1419 2005-01-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1421 * doc/autoconf.texi (config.status Invocation): Warn about
1422 discrepancy between CONFIG_SHELL and shell used to invoke 'configure'.
1423 * doc/install.texi (Defining Variables): Likewise.
1424 Based on a proposed patch by Ralf Wildenhues.
1426 * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Make sure the required generated files
1427 are up to date. Problem and original solution proposed by Stepan Kasal.
1428 $(dist_man_MANS:.1=-bin-prereq), $(dist_man_MANS:.1=-tests-prereq),
1429 implicit-man-prerequisites): New rules, used by the above.
1431 * doc/make-stds.texi, doc/standards.texi: Sync from gnulib.
1432 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/install-sh: Likewise.
1433 * config/missing, config/texinfo.tex: Likewise.
1435 2005-01-29 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1437 Simplify the implementation of m4_require (a.k.a. AC_REQUIRE).
1438 Update the long comment explaining it.
1440 m4_require no longer writes an ``is required by'' line to the
1441 execution stack. It contains only one bit of non-redundant
1442 information: that the macro was required, not called. And even
1443 this bit is useless in most situations: have you ever met a macro
1444 which both calls and requires the same macro?
1446 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (_m4_defun_pro): Don't push a diversion...
1447 (_m4_defun_pro_outer): ... only via this macro, for the outermost
1449 (_m4_defun_epi, _m4_defun_epi_outer): Complementarily.
1450 (m4_expansion_stack_pop): Remove the misplaced comment.
1451 (m4_require): Don't put the ``is required by'' line to the
1452 execution stack; slightly improve the out-of-a-defun error message.
1453 (_m4_divert_grow): New macro, counter for the temporary diversions.
1454 (_m4_require_call): Use it.
1455 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4_require): Expect output without the
1456 ``is required by'' messages.
1458 2005-01-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1460 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Recommend X
1461 rather than x for expr.
1463 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT): Avoid subshells when
1465 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_EGREP, AC_PROG_FGREP): Likewise.
1466 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_LONG_FILE_NAMES): Likewise.
1467 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
1468 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_WORKS): Likewise.
1469 * tests/mktests.sh: Likewise.
1471 2005-01-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
1473 Have autoheader honor --force.
1475 * doc/make-stds.texi, doc/standards.texi: Update from masters.
1476 * lib/Autom4te/Channels.pm, lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm
1477 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm, lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Update
1478 from masters, so that FileUtils.pm's update_file provide --force
1480 * bin/autoheader.in: Pass $force to update_file so that
1481 config.h.in is always recreated when --force.
1483 2005-01-24 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1485 * doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction): Update Peter Simons' address.
1487 2005-01-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1489 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Clarify that
1490 "if test ! -d foo; ..." is portable. Suggested by Stepan Kasal.
1492 2005-01-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1494 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Fix typo in case statement.
1495 Warn about newline stripping in `` and $(). Update Solaris
1497 (Limitations of Builtins): Use expr "X...", not expr "x...", as
1498 X insulates us from future changes to Posix.
1499 (Limitations of Usual Tools): For AS_DIRNAME, warn about newline
1502 2005-01-19 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1504 * doc/autoconf.texi (Defining Symbols): Delete the false comment that
1505 you cannot use AC_DEFINE to define macros containing `[' or `]'.
1507 2005-01-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1509 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Document bug
1510 in Solaris 8 join. Problem reported by Tomohiro Suzuki on
1511 bug-tar mailing list.
1513 2005-01-05 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1515 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_copy): Fix the explanation.
1517 2005-01-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1519 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C)): Declare longval and
1520 ulongval to be static, to avoid unwanted GCC warning. Problem
1521 reported by Michael Jennings via Daniel Reed; see
1522 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=143852>.
1524 2005-01-05 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
1526 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Define datarootdir,
1527 docdir, htmldir, dvidir, pdfdir, psdir, and localdir. Update
1528 datadir, infodir, and mandir. Adjust argument parsing code.
1529 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Update help text.
1530 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Document
1533 2005-01-04 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
1535 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): If the Make program does
1536 not seem to work, assume it does set $(MAKE).
1537 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Update.
1539 2005-01-03 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1541 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_REQUIRE): Add a comment about nesting.
1543 2005-01-03 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1545 A cleanup of the diversion support in m4sugar.
1547 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (_m4_divert): A typo in description.
1548 (_m4_divert_n_stack): New macro; the expansion is
1549 <newline>m4_divert_stack, if m4_divert_stack is defined, and void
1551 (m4_divert, m4_divert_push, m4_divert_pop, m4_init): Use it.
1552 (m4_divert_push, m4_divert_pop, _m4_defun_epi): Don't expand the word
1553 stored in _m4_divert_diversion or _m4_divert_dump.
1554 (m4_divert_pop): When the parameter is given, compare the symbolic
1555 name with the last diversion pushed on the stack. Previously, the
1556 current diversion was compared with the numeric value of the
1557 diversion given as the parameter.
1558 (m4_require): If the macro hasn't been expanded yet, call ...
1559 (_m4_require_call): this new macro.
1561 2005-01-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1563 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE, _AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE):
1564 Workarounds for documented `case' limitations.
1566 2005-01-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1568 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Warn about
1569 sed 'command1;command2'. Problem reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
1571 2005-01-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1573 * bin/autoconf.as, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in,
1574 bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in,
1575 bin/ifnames.in, tests/mktests.sh: Update copyright date to 2005.
1577 Patch from Roger Leigh (with some minor changes) as follows:
1578 * NEWS: New macros AC_PROG_CC_C89, AC_PROG_CC_C99.
1579 Resurrect AC_PROG_CC_STDC.
1580 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Add AC_PROG_CC_STDC,
1581 AC_PROG_CC_C89, AC_PROG_CC_C99.
1582 (Obsolete Macros): Remove AC_PROG_CC_STDC; it's no longer obsolete.
1583 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CC_C89, _AC_PROG_CC_C99, AC_PROG_CC_C89,
1584 AC_PROG_CC_C99): New macros.
1585 (AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Use them.
1586 (_AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Remove.
1587 (AC_C_PROTOTYPES): Use ac_cv_prog_cc_c89, not ac_cv_prog_cc_stdc.
1588 * THANKS: Add Roger Leigh.
1590 2004-12-30 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
1592 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory): AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
1593 signals that the package uses Automake; a `Makefile.am' is typical but
1594 not essential. Reported by Magnus Therning.
1595 * tests/torture.at (autoreconf.): New banner.
1596 (autoreconf and non-AC configure): Rename to `Non-Autoconf
1598 (autoreconf an empty directory): Rename to `Empty directory'.
1599 (Unusual Automake input files): New test.
1601 2004-12-30 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
1603 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CAPTURE_FILE): New macro.
1604 (AT_SETUP): Clear AT_capture_files.
1605 (_AT_CHECK): On failure, log each of AT_capture_files. Fix comment.
1606 (AT_KEYWORDS): Fix comment typo.
1607 * tests/autotest.at (AT_CHECK_AT): Use AT_CAPTURE_FILE.
1608 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_CONFIGURE): Use AT_CAPTURE_FILE.
1609 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Document AT_CAPTURE_FILE.
1611 2004-12-29 Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>
1613 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH):
1614 If the variable to set is already set, set ac_cv_path_$1
1615 to the preset value so caller can assume ac_cv_path_$1
1616 is available. (trivial change)
1618 2004-12-27 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
1620 * BUGS (Minor Problems): Warn about makefile limitations.
1621 * Makefile.am: Find and update `INSTALL' in $(srcdir).
1622 * man/Makefile.am: Find and update manual pages in $(srcdir).
1624 2004-12-24 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
1626 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Test candidate
1627 shells in subshell, to avoid noise from ash. (trivial change)
1629 2004-12-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1631 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins) <case>: Mention
1632 problems with SunOS ksh and backslash escaping, Bourne shells and
1633 closing brackets (both within character classes). Bug reported
1634 against Libtool by Alexander Kurz <alexander.kurz@qsc.de>.
1635 <read>: New entry. Mention non-availability of -r.
1637 2004-12-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
1639 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_LINE): Don't add srcdir here, to
1640 avoid cluttering displayed messages. Rather, prepend srcdir where
1641 AT_LINE is used for log files.
1643 2004-12-21 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1645 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Quote ``$tmp'' in many places.
1646 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): Fix the comment, as traps are
1647 no longer part of the macro, quote the occurrence of ``$tmp''.
1648 * doc/autoconf.texi (Forbidden Patterns): Typo.
1650 2004-12-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
1652 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Make sure the "ok" etc. are
1653 separated from the test title by forcing a white space.
1655 2004-12-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
1657 Enable Emacs navigation within testsuite.log files.
1659 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CLEANUP): Add an hint for Emacs to
1660 use the compilation mode.
1661 (AT_LINE): Point to the srcdir.
1663 2004-12-19 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
1665 * tests/Makefile.am (installcheck-local): Use $(bindir).
1666 (check-local, installcheck-local): Pass TESTSUITEFLAGS.
1667 * doc/autoconf.texi (Making testsuite Scripts): Recommend the same
1668 Makefile.am scheme Autoconf now uses.
1670 2004-12-18 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
1672 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_qlen, m4_qdelta): New macros.
1673 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_SETUP): Use m4_qdelta.
1675 2004-12-18 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
1677 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_DECIDE_TRACEABLE): New macro.
1678 (_AT_CHECK): Use it.
1679 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_ESCAPE_FOR_EXPAND): Remove.
1680 (AS_ESCAPE): Fix comment.
1681 * tests/autotest.at: Adjust section banner comments.
1682 (AT_CHECK_AT): Accept STATUS and STDERR.
1683 (AT_CHECK_AT_TEST): Likewise.
1684 (Invalid brace-enclosed parameter expansion)
1685 (Multiline command from M4 expansion)
1686 (Double-M4-quoted command): New tests.
1688 2004-12-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1690 * doc/autoconf.texi: Update GNU FDL version from 1.1 to 1.2.
1692 2004-12-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
1694 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SUBST, AC_SUBST_FILES): Pass $1 to
1696 Suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
1697 * doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Catch up.
1699 2004-12-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1701 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_TEST_PREPARE): Fix comment.
1703 2004-12-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1705 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ): We can use AC_SUBST/2,
1706 remove the comment which said we cannot.
1708 2004-12-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1710 Add a specialized check for resolv.h. Thanks to Gerrit P. Haase,
1711 Reini Urban and Paul Eggert for reporting the dependencies.
1713 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_RESOLV): New macro.
1714 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_HEADER_RESOLV): Document it.
1715 (AC_HEADER_STAT): @cvindex{STAT_MACROS_BROKEN}, not @acindex.
1717 2004-12-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1719 * bin/autoscan.in: Open autoscan.log only after ``parse_args'';
1720 so that eg. ``autoscan --help'' doesn't truncate it.
1722 2004-12-15 Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>
1724 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Remove
1725 generated conftest files.
1727 2004-12-13 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
1729 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_CHECK) [--trace]: Do not enable shell
1730 tracing on commands with possibly-escaped newlines.
1731 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Delete documentation of the
1732 discontinued behavior and its implications.
1733 * tests/autotest.at (BS-newline in command, ^BS-newline in command)
1734 (BSx641-newline in command, BS-BS-newline in command)
1735 (BSx640-newline in command, Newline-CODE-BS-newline in command)
1736 (Single-quote-BS-newline in command)
1737 (Single-quote-newline-BS-newline in command): New tests.
1739 2004-12-13 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1741 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_EXECUTABLE_P): Use test -f && test -x
1742 on platforms where it works.
1743 (_AS_TEST_PREPARE): Test for ``test -x''.
1744 (_AS_BROKEN_TEST_PREPARE): Nuke.
1746 2004-12-13 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1748 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): Move the trap commands ...
1749 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): ... here;
1750 give only 4-letter prefix to AS_TMPDIR, comment fixed.
1751 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FEATURE_CHECK): Don't
1752 create the temporary directory.
1753 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Work in current directory.
1755 2004-12-12 Kelley Cook <kcook@gcc.gnu.org>
1757 * bin/autoheader.in: Exit if no AC_CONFIG_HEADERS was found.
1760 2004-12-12 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
1762 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <expr (:)>: Typo.
1764 2004-12-11 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
1766 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_CHECK) [--trace]: Rework a shell pattern
1767 to avoid using a negated character class. Reported by Nicolas Joly.
1768 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_SHELL_SYNTAX): Check for similar constructs.
1770 2004-12-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1772 * man/Makefile.am (autoconf.1, autoheader.1, autom4te.1, autoreconf.1,
1773 autoscan.1, autoupdate.1, ifnames.1, config.guess.1, config.sub.1):
1774 Don't depend on .x file explicitly, since "make" does that for us.
1775 Suggested by Stepan Kasal.
1777 * bin/Makefile.am (MOSTLYCLEANFILES): Renamed from CLEANFILES.
1779 (autoconf, autoheader, autom4te, autoreconf, autoscan, autoupdate,
1780 ifnames): Factor common code. And they said it couldn't be done!
1782 2004-12-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1784 * bin/.cvsignore: Add autoconf.in.
1785 * tests/.cvsignore: Add wrapper.in.
1786 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Escape '$' in case pattern.
1788 2004-12-09 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
1790 * man/Makefile.am (autoconf.1): Regenerate when `autoconf.as' changes.
1792 * lib/autotest/general.m4 [--trace] (AT_INIT): Do not `set -v'.
1794 * tests/autotest.at: New file.
1795 * tests/suite.at: Include it.
1796 * tests/Makefile.am: Distribute it.
1798 * lib/autotest/general.m4 [--trace] (_AT_CHECK): Do not enable
1799 shell tracing on a command that could contain multiple lines.
1800 * doc/autoconf.text: Document that fact and its implications.
1801 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_ESCAPE_FOR_EXPAND): New macro.
1802 * tests/autotest.at (Multiline backquote command substitution,
1803 Multiline parameter expansion, Literal multiline command,
1804 Multiline parenthetical command substitution): Remove XFAIL.
1806 2004-12-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1808 * doc/autoconf.texi (Libraries): Clarify problems with AC_CHECK_LIB
1809 and suggest AC_SEARCH_LIBS. Suggested by Noah Misch and Stepan Kasal.
1811 2004-12-08 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
1813 * configure.ac (test suite): Cease to generate wrapper scripts.
1814 * configure: Regenerate.
1815 * lib/freeze.mk (MY_AUTOM4TE): Wrap the uninstalled autom4te directly.
1816 (m4f_dependencies): Adjust accordingly.
1817 * tests/Makefile.am (Wrappers): Generate wrapper scripts.
1818 (wrapper.in): Generate it in the build directory.
1819 (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Delete wrapper.in.
1820 (CLEANFILES): Add wrapper.in.
1821 * tests/wrapper.as: Move AS_INIT to very top, preserving copyright in
1822 the output. Replace each $as_me with a @wrap_program@.
1823 * tests/wrapper.in: Delete it; we always build it.
1825 * bin/Makefile.am (autoconf.in): Generate it in the build directory.
1826 (EXTRA_DIST): Remove autoconf.in.
1827 (CLEANFILES): Add autoconf.in.
1828 (autoconf): Find autoconf.in in the build directory.
1829 * bin/autoconf.in: Delete it; we always build it.
1831 2004-12-08 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
1833 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Replace a `tr' with a `sed'. Join
1834 PATH members so as to not prepend an empty element. Move a comment.
1835 * Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): Build in `tests' last.
1836 * tests/Makefile.am (installcheck-local): Add check-local dependencies.
1838 2004-12-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1840 * lib/mdate-sh: Don't use "set - x`$ls_command /`", as zsh mishandles
1841 the spaces inside $ls_command. Problem reported by Loulou Pouchet in
1842 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-12/msg00074.html>.
1843 Don't use "set - x"; plain "set x" is enough, and simplifies debugging.
1845 2004-12-07 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1847 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETMNTENT): Fix typo in previous
1850 2004-12-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1852 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETMNTENT): Check libc before
1853 looking elsewhere for getmntent. Problem reported by Mark D. Baushke.
1854 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Mention new behavior.
1856 2004-12-03 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1858 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_DEFINE, AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED): Factor
1859 out the common code to ...
1860 (_AC_DEFINE_Q): ... a new macro; simplify the condition about the
1861 value of the #define--default to 1, iff the macro was called
1862 with exactly one parameter.
1864 2004-12-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1866 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MEMCMP): Use
1867 "char c = '\200';" rather than "char c = 0x80;" as the
1868 latter doesn't conform to the strict C standard due to
1869 overflow on signed char hosts.
1871 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Prefer -qlanglvl=extc89
1872 to -qlanglvl=ansi. We don't want to disable extensions.
1874 2004-11-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1876 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): @code{$PATH} -> @env{PATH}.
1877 (Using Autotest, testsuite Scripts, Writing testsuite.at):
1878 Reword slightly to avoid some English-language problems noted
1879 by Ralf Wildenhues in:
1880 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-11/msg00027.html
1882 2004-11-29 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1884 * NEWS: Add ^L above each release.
1886 2004-11-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1888 Fix documentation problems reported by Russ Boylan in
1889 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2004-11/msg00056.html>,
1890 along with some nearby cruft.
1891 * doc/autoconf.texi (Libtool): Libtool can be used without
1892 Automake (not without Autoconf).
1893 (Introduction): Mention lists.gnu.org.
1894 * BUGS: Don't mention bugs.gnu.org.
1895 Remove mention of ancient libtool compatibility problem.
1896 * NEWS: Mention that bugs.gnu.org is kaput.
1897 * README: Likewise. Mention where mailing list archives can be found.
1899 2004-11-28 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1901 * HACKING: Refer to "coreutils", not "File, Shell or Text utils".
1902 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_HELP_STRING): A typo in the comment.
1904 2004-11-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1906 * doc/autoconf.texi (Pretty Help Strings): Go back to
1907 single-quoting assignments to cache variables.
1909 2004-11-23 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1911 * doc/autoconf.texi (Pretty Help Strings): Fix quoting issues
1912 with the examples; fix the bug in MY_ARG_WITH example reported
1913 by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
1914 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_ENABLE, AC_ARG_ENABLE): Enable
1915 expansion of $1 in the comment emitted to configure.
1917 2004-11-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1919 * doc/autoconf.texi (Pretty Help Strings): Fix typo
1920 in my editing of the previous patch. Problem reported
1921 by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
1923 2004-11-22 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1925 * doc/autoconf.texi (Autoconf Language): Explain that
1926 ``descriptions'' may not be double quotes.
1927 (Quotation Rule Of Thumb): Likewise.
1928 (Pretty Help Strings): Likewise; remove the wrong comment;
1929 simplify the examples and improve their quoting.
1931 2004-11-13 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1933 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Don't check
1934 the $1_found variable, don't test whether the file is executable;
1935 Both things are checked ...
1936 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FEATURE_CHECK): ... here; AS_EXECUTABLE_P replaces
1937 the former ``test -f''.
1938 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_TEST_PREPARE): Fix a typo.
1940 2004-11-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1942 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Avoid cp -r;
1945 2004-11-10 Derek R. Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
1947 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Note `cp -r'
1948 limitations. Reorder paragraphs for clarity.
1950 2004-10-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1952 * doc/autoconf.texi: Standardize spelling of "Posix" (as opposed
1953 to "POSIX" or "@acronym{POSIX}"), and similarly for "DOS
1954 variants", "Unix", and some related minor wording fixups.
1956 (Shellology, Special Shell Variables): Document that the Zsh
1957 problem with NULLCMD was fixed in zsh 3.1.6-dev-18. Thanks
1958 to Alexandre Duret-Lutz for this info.
1960 2004-10-10 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
1962 * doc/autoconf.texi (One-Shot Macros): New node.
1964 2004-09-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1966 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Fix misdescription
1967 of putenv. Problem reported by Michael Wardle.
1969 2004-09-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1971 * doc/autoconf.texi (auindex): New macro.
1972 (AU_DEFUN): Use it to fix the bug when the index contained AC_AU_DEFUN.
1973 Problem reported by Stepan Kasal.
1975 2004-09-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1977 Fix problems reported by Andreas Buening in:
1978 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-04/msg00004.html
1979 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Set SHELL=/bin/sh
1981 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't assume /dev/null is
1982 readable; it's not true in OS/2-emx.
1984 2004-09-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1986 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_XMKMF): If xmkmf returns
1987 "/usr/include", clear ac_x_includes instead of leaving it as "no"
1988 (trivial change). Problem and patch reported by Andrew Church in:
1989 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2004-04/msg00016.html
1991 2004-09-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1993 * doc/autoconf.texi: Give AC_DEFINE and AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED
1994 three args in examples. Problem reported by Frederik Fouvry in:
1995 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2004-09/msg00017.html
1996 Also, fix some minor spacing and punctuation bugs.
1998 2004-09-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2000 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Swap "cd" and
2001 "case" to restore ordering.
2002 Reported by Stepan Kasal.
2004 2004-08-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2006 * doc/autoconf.texi: Minor typos and stylos.
2008 2004-08-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2010 * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump to 2.59c.
2012 2004-08-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2016 * README: Add advice about m4 1.4.2.
2018 * Makefile.cfg (wget_files): Remove config.guess, config.sub,
2019 texinfo.tex for now (done by hand now).
2020 * Makefile.maint (wget_files, cvs_files):
2021 Remove ansi2knr.c; nobody uses it.
2022 (ansi2knr.c-url_prefix): Remove.
2023 (cvs-update): Fix test for failure. I don't know why it ever
2026 * doc/autoconf.texi: Update URLs, some of which went stale.
2027 Use @uref rather than @href.
2029 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Have configure
2030 handle "--" as per POSIX. Suggested by Paul Pogonyshev.
2032 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/elisp-comp,
2033 config/install-sh, config/mkinstalldirs, config/texinfo.tex,
2034 doc/fdl.texi, doc/standards.texi: Sync with master copy.
2036 * NEWS, TODO, configure.ac, bin/autoscan.in,
2037 bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in, doc/autoconf.texi,
2038 doc/install.texi, lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm,
2039 lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
2040 lib/autoconf/programs.m4, lib/autoconf/status.m4,
2041 lib/autotest/general.m4, lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4,
2042 lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4, tests/local.at, tests/m4sh.at,
2043 tests/tools.at, tests/torture.at:
2044 Use "file name" rather than "filename" or "path",
2045 to be consistent with the terminology of the GNU coding standards.
2047 2004-08-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2049 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY(C),
2050 AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE): Undo 2004-06-04 change, as it didn't work with
2051 HP-UX 11.23 cc/aCC or Tru64 4.0 cc. Problem reported by Noah Misch in
2052 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-07/msg00004.html>.
2054 More fixes to support spaces in the name of the build directory.
2055 This isn't a complete fix but it's an improvement.
2057 * bin/autoconf.as (autom4te_options): New var.
2058 Use it instead of appending to AUTOM4TE, so that we can allow
2059 spaces in the build directory's absolute name.
2060 * bin/autoheader.in ($autoconf): Allow spaces in file names.
2061 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT, AT_CLEANUP, _AT_CHECK,
2062 AT_CHECK_NOESCAPE): Likewise.
2063 * tests/wrapper.as (testdir, AUTOM4TE_CFG, autom4te_perllibdir,
2064 main program): Likewise.
2066 2004-08-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2068 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Quote $ac_popdir uses.
2069 From Ralf Corsepius in:
2070 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-08/msg00014.html
2072 2004-08-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2074 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Document isinf and
2075 and isnan. From a suggestion by Kevin Ryde.
2077 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (END): Return correct exit status even
2078 if unlink succeeds and sets $?. Needed with Solaris 8's perl 5.00503.
2080 2004-08-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2082 * tests/torture.at (Deep Package): Use configure.in, not configure.ac,
2083 for compatibility with Automake 1.4. Reported by J C Fitzgerald in
2084 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-08/msg00051.html>.
2086 2004-08-04 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
2088 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE): New empty macro.
2089 (AC_CANONICAL_BUILD): Call it to require config.sub and config.guess.
2090 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_INSTALL): Likewise for install-sh.
2091 * doc/autoconf.texi (Input): Document AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE.
2092 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect
2093 AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE. Automake 1.10 will trace it.
2095 2004-08-02 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
2097 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect
2098 AC_CANONICAL_BUILD and AC_CANONICAL_TARGET. Automake 1.9.1 will
2101 2004-07-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2103 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): Set BIN_SH, for
2105 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology): Mention BIN_SH.
2106 Document problem with "`""`" in pdksh POSIX mode.
2108 2004-07-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2110 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): Use "set -o posix"
2111 with pdksh, too. Problem reported by Patrick Welche via
2113 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology): Note that set -o posix is
2114 useful for pkdsh, too.
2116 2004-06-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2118 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Require
2119 _AS_UNSET_PREPARE, so that we can use $as_unset directly.
2120 Don't fail if ENV or BASH_ENV is readonly.
2121 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Don't fail if ENV, MAIL, MAILPATH, LC_ALL,
2122 etc. are read only. Problem reported by Ludovic Courtes.
2124 2004-06-23 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
2126 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): If the shell is
2127 zsh, disable GLOB_SUBST to avoid backslash handling problems.
2130 2004-06-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2132 * doc/autoconf.texi (File System Conventions): Warn about
2133 names like "aux". Problem reported by Eric Blake.
2135 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY (C)): Use division
2136 by zero instead of array size, so that we can use any arithmetic
2137 constant expression (instead of requiring an integer constant
2138 expression). This allows us to test expressions like DBL_MAX <
2139 LDBL_MAX, which didn't conform to the C standard using the old
2141 (AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE): Put back in the tests for LDBL_MAX and LDBL_EPSILON,
2142 now that we can do floating-point tests at compile time.
2144 2004-06-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2146 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE): Don't check LDBL_MAX
2147 and LDBL_EPSILON, as the resulting expression isn't an
2148 integer constant expression and violates the C standard.
2149 Problem reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe. Also, check
2150 for "L" suffix, and check that long double doesn't have
2151 worse range or precision than double, that mixed-mode
2152 arithmetic doesn't generate a diagnostic, that double
2153 constants fit in long double.
2155 2004-06-03 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
2157 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add notes on free(NULL),
2158 malloc(0) and realloc(NULL,size).
2160 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Spelling error reported by
2163 2004-05-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2165 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (HAVE_STDBOOL_H): Detect _Bool bug
2166 in HP aC++/ANSI C B3910B A.05.55 [Dec 04 2003]. Problem reported
2169 2004-05-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2171 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Mention that ! COMMAND
2172 can be rewritten using if-then-else. Suggested by Bruno Haible.
2174 2004-05-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2176 * doc/autoconf.texi (testsuite Scripts): Fix typo.
2177 Problem reported by Stepan Kasal.
2179 2004-05-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2181 * tests/Makefile.am (autoconfdir): Fix to match comment (trivial
2182 change). Patch reported by Ralf Wildenhues in
2183 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2004-05/msg00092.html>.
2185 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC): Don't assume that a
2186 function F exists if the compiler and linker let you compile an
2187 expression like (F != 0). Recent versions of GCC optimize away
2188 the reference to F in that case, since every function address must
2189 be nonzero, so the link succeeds even if F does not exist.
2190 Problem reported by Manu in
2191 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2004-05/msg00060.html>.
2193 * doc/autoconf.texi (Systemology): Standardize on the spelling of
2194 "Unix". Many uses changed.
2195 (Limitations of Builtins): Explain better why the ! command isn't
2198 2004-05-22 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
2200 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect
2201 LT_SUPPORTED_TAG in lieu of AC_LIBTOOL_TAGS.
2203 2004-05-19 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
2205 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add strerror_r, cross
2206 referencing AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R.
2208 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): In AC_FUNC_CLOSEDIR_VOID,
2209 note pessimistic assumption when cross compiling.
2211 2004-05-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2213 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Note that BSD make
2214 (until 2004) invoked subcommands with sh -e, contra POSIX.
2215 Reported by Kevin Ryde.
2217 2004-05-10 Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
2219 * programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_GREP): Fixed bug where PATH argument handed to
2220 _AC_PATH_PROG_FEATURE_CHECK contained leading whitespace (i.e.
2221 " $PATH:/usr/xpg4/bin"). This resulted in bogus tests, such as
2222 `test -f " /usr/bin/grep"', which _always_ failed.
2223 (AC_PROG_SED): Ditto bogus PATH fix.
2224 * autoconf.texi (AC_PROG_GREP): Properly document that this macro
2225 requires that grep correctly supports _multiple_ `-e' options, rather
2226 than stating only that grep should accept `-e'.
2228 2004-05-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2230 Port to C99, which requires that 'exit' be declared.
2232 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Use AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT
2233 to ensure that stdlib.h is included.
2234 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ_ALLOCA, AC_FUNC_SETPGRP,
2235 AC_FUNC_STRTOD, AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED, AC_FUNC_FORK, _AC_FUNC_FORK,
2236 _AC_FUNC_VFORK, AC_FUNC_WAIT3): Likewise.
2237 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS): Likewise.
2238 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_TYPE_GETGROUPS): Likewise.
2239 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDC): Include <stdlib.h>
2240 when using 'exit' in a test; C99 requires that 'exit' be declared.
2242 2004-05-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2244 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): AC_PROG_GREP
2245 now prefers 'grep' implementations that accept -e.
2246 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Describe problems of traditional
2247 egrep and fgrep with long input lines, and of traditional grep
2249 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_GREP): Check for -e, too.
2250 (_AC_PROG_GREP): Assume 3rd arg is properly quoted for the shell.
2251 All callers changed. Append /usr/xpg4/bin to the PATH, for
2253 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Discard stderr, so we don't bother
2254 the user with complaints about multiple -e options.
2255 * tests/local.at (AC_STATE_SAVE): Use $GREP, not grep.
2256 Define it with AC_PROG_GREP.
2257 * configure.ac (AC_PROG_GREP): Add.
2258 * lib/freeze.mk (GREP): New macro.
2260 2004-05-02 Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
2262 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Consult $SHELL as
2263 a possible candidate only after all others fail, rather than
2264 consulting it first. This improves backward compatibility by
2265 better reflecting the way shell selection occurred in previous
2266 versions of Autoconf, and should help to avoid triggering latent
2267 problems in other packages, such as the one in Automake where zsh
2268 is not handled robustly:
2269 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2004-04/msg00095.html
2270 Although it is not Autoconf's responsibility to work around
2271 problems in Automake, it nevertheless makes sense to avoid
2272 introducing unnecessary incompatibilites.
2274 2004-04-22 Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>,
2275 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
2277 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Don't guess
2278 how deeply nested we are when a suitable tool is found, set the
2279 ac_path_TOOL_found flag.
2280 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FEATURE_CHECK): Encapsulate knowledge of how deeply
2281 nested we are in this macro. Break out of all 3 nested loops if
2282 ac_path_TOOL_found is set.
2284 2004-04-21 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
2286 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Break out
2287 of the _AS_PATH_WALK loop too if GNU flavor is found.
2289 2004-04-21 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
2291 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Update documentation
2292 for `$<'. New entry `Long lines', based on a report from Simon
2293 Josefsson. Augment the documentation for SHELL = @SHELL@ with a
2294 paragraph about DJGPP, based on a mail from Richard Dawe.
2296 2004-04-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2298 * tests/c.at (C keywords): Don't assume that GCC supports
2299 "restrict" and "inline", as sufficiently-old GCC versions do not
2300 (also, GCC configured to be in pedantic C89 mode does not).
2301 Problem reported by Sumit Pandya in:
2302 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-04/msg00092.html
2304 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CC_G, _AC_PROG_CXX_G): Don't
2305 consider -g to work if it generates warnings when plain compiles
2306 don't. Problem reported by Braden McDaniel in:
2307 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2003-07/msg00014.html
2309 * doc/autoconf.texi (Slashes): New section, to document a problem
2310 reported by Jim Meyering in:
2311 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-02/msg00060.html
2313 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Remove potential
2314 linker output files before linking, to work around IRIX 6 linker bug.
2315 Problem reported by Rainer Orth in:
2316 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-02/msg00007.html
2318 2004-04-20 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
2320 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Make the
2321 best tool so far counter rely on the tool path variable name to
2322 avoid checks for one tool being affected by the results of running
2323 the length check on a previous tool.
2325 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_GREP): Take an additional
2326 match expression argument, as different greps have different
2327 regular expression flavours.
2328 (AC_PROG_FGREP): Pass 'FGREP'. fgrep treats all match chars as
2330 (AC_PROG_EGREP): Pass 'EGREP$'.
2331 (AC_PROG_GREP): Pass 'GREP$'.
2333 2004-04-20 Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>
2335 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_GREP): Cache variable
2336 is `ac_cv_path_GREP', not `oc_cv_path_GREP'.
2338 2004-03-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2340 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers, Particular Types, Generic
2341 Types, Specific Compiler Characteristics, System Services,
2342 Obsolete Macros): Use 'long int', 'short int', 'unsigned int'
2343 etc. consistently instead of 'long', 'short', 'unsigned' etc.
2344 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C), AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
2345 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MMAP, AC_FUNC_SELECT_ARGTYPES):
2347 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_SYS_WAIT): Likewise.
2348 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_TYPE_GETGROUPS, AC_TYPE_SIZE_T,
2349 AC_TYPE_OFF_T): Likewise.
2350 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_TYPES: backward compatibility):
2353 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Create an empty aclocal.m4, to
2354 pacify libtool 1.5.2. Fix quoting problems in sed command.
2356 2004-03-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2358 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Structures): AC_STRUCT_TIMEZONE
2359 now defines HAVE_DECL_TZNAME if it is declared, when
2360 HAVE_STRUCT_TM_TM_ZONE is not defined.
2361 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_STRUCT_TIMEZONE): Implement this.
2362 Do not assume atoi. Rely on HAVE_DECL_TZNAME when testing
2365 2004-03-28 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@fftw.org>
2367 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): Corrected
2368 superfluous backslashing of quotes (") in sed expressions;
2369 thanks to Paul Eggert.
2371 2004-03-26 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
2373 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): new name of Intel
2374 Fortran compiler is ifort, also added pghpf; thanks to Nelson
2375 H. F. Beebe for the bug report.
2377 2004-03-26 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@fftw.org>
2379 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): fix for
2380 quoted -cmdline argument in Portland Group compiler (bug
2381 reported by Jeffrey J. Barteet).
2383 2004-03-25 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
2385 * doc/autoconf.texi (Specifying Names): Move cross_compiling ovindex to
2386 (Run Time): ... here, where it's now mentioned.
2388 2004-03-19 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
2390 * doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te Invocation): Language Autoconf
2391 inherits from language Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4.
2392 (Customizing autom4te): Adjust example; the cache must now be
2393 disabled for language Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4.
2395 2004-03-16 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
2396 Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>
2398 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PATH_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOL,
2399 AC_CHECK_TOOLS): Warn if a cross-tool is found without
2401 (AC_PATH_TARGET_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOL,
2402 AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOLS): New macros.
2403 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Programs): Document
2404 (AC_PATH_TARGET_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOL,
2405 AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOLS, and warn for future changes
2406 in the behavior of AC_PATH_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOL and
2408 (Specifying Names): Document the reason for these future
2410 * tests/mktests.sh: Do not generate tests for the
2412 * NEWS: Document these changes.
2414 * doc/autoconf.texi: Avoid macros with unbraced arguments,
2415 they make TeX hang up.
2417 2004-03-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@bogus.example.com>
2419 * NEWS: New macro AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF.
2420 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Compiler Characteristics): Document it.
2421 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Use long int rather than
2422 int; avoid "a `$1'" since this isn't grammatical if $1 begins with a
2424 (AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF): New macro.
2425 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Exclude AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF.
2426 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF): Add tests similar to
2429 2004-03-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2431 * bin/Makefile.am (edit): Don't use $< in a context where
2432 POSIX doesn't require support for it. Use $@.in instead.
2433 Problem reported by Anthony N. Frasso in
2434 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-03/msg00008.html>.
2435 * bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in: Add @configure_input@ comment.
2437 2004-02-23 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
2439 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory): Recognize LT_INIT
2440 from the next generation of Libtool.
2441 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoreconf-preselections): Ditto.
2443 2004-02-20 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
2445 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <mkdir>: `mkdir -p'
2446 is not always thread-safe. Report from Nathanael Nerode.
2448 2004-02-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2450 Fix a dependencies problem, stemming from a Autoconf 2.59 build
2451 problem on QNX reported by Stephen Rasku in
2452 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2004-02/msg00066.html>.
2454 * bin/Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/autoconf.in): Depend on
2455 $(m4sh_m4f_dependencies); this removes a FIXME.
2456 * tests/Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/wrapper.in): Likewise.
2457 (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Split into pieces,
2458 one per related section. Add $(srcdir)/wrapper.in.
2460 2004-02-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2462 * doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Emphasize that
2463 AC_SUBST provides no portable way to escape literal newlines.
2465 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Ignore all
2466 flags of the form -lcrt*.o, not just -lcrt[01].o and -lcrtbegin.o.
2467 Darwin uses -lcrt2.o and there's little point to cataloging all
2468 the system variants. Partial fix reported by Andreas Waechter in:
2469 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-02/msg00006.html
2470 for bug reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe in:
2471 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-12/msg00090.html
2473 2004-02-04 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
2475 * doc/autoconf.texi (AU_DEFUN): Fix English,
2476 suggested by Paul Eggert.
2477 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4: Correct reference to
2478 acobsolete.m4, suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
2480 2004-02-02 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
2482 * bin/autoupdate.in: Define __file__ so that warnings
2483 refer to the correct file.
2484 * doc/autoconf.texi (AU_DEFUN): Describe more correctly
2485 the behavior of the third argument.
2486 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4 (AU_DEFUN): Describe more
2487 correctly the behavior of the third argument. Document
2488 what the three macros that AU_DEFUN defines do. Fix
2489 warning message when the third argument includes $0
2490 (reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz).
2492 2004-01-30 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
2493 Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
2494 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2496 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (M4SH-SANITIZE): New diversion.
2497 (AS_INIT): Output shell initialization there. Removed optional
2498 parameter. Expand _AS_SHELL_FN_SPY.
2499 (AS_INIT_WITH_SHELL_FN): Removed.
2500 (_AS_SHELL_FN_SPY): New macro.
2501 (AS_DETECT_REQUIRED, AS_DETECT_SUGGESTED): New
2503 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Remove loop to find better shell
2504 and documentation for the parameter.
2505 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Move it here.
2506 (_AS_SHELL_FN_WORK): Remove shell invocation, reformat.
2507 (_AS_RUN): Move it here, support testing with eval.
2508 (AS_REQUIRE_SHELL_FN): Require shell functions when
2510 (_AS_LINENO_WORKS): Put around braces, we do not
2511 trigger the bash bug anymore.
2512 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Document M4SH-SANITIZE, do not
2513 use AS_INIT_WITH_SHELL_FN.
2514 * bin/autoconf.in, tests/wrapper.in: Regenerated.
2516 2004-01-30 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
2518 * bin/autoupdate.in: Trace AU_DEFINE instead of AU_DEFUN.
2519 * doc/autoconf.texi: Don't say that the third parameter
2521 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4 (AU_DEFINE): New dummy macro.
2522 (AU_DEFUN): Honor the third parameter, create autoupdate
2523 macros with AU_DEFINE.
2524 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_USG, AC_MEMORY_H,
2525 AC_DIR_HEADER): Use AU_DEFUN's third parameter.
2526 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_SAVE): Likewise.
2527 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_RSH): Likewise.
2528 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_HAVE_POUNDBANG,
2529 AC_ARG_ARRAY, AC_CYGWIN, AC_EMXOS2, AC_MINGW32,
2530 AC_XENIX_DIR): Likewise.
2531 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_INT_16_BITS, AC_LONG_64_BITS,
2532 AC_STRUCT_ST_BLKSIZE, AC_STRUCT_ST_RDEV): Likewise.
2533 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Remove FIXME.
2534 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_AU_MACRO): Ignore stderr, check
2535 that the macro is not present anymore in the updated
2537 * tests/tools.at (autoupdate AC_LINK_FILES): Ignore stderr
2540 2004-01-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2542 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Add 2004 to
2544 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_COPYRIGHT): Add 1992 thorugh
2545 2003 (except 1997) to the list of copyright years. This undoes
2546 the 2003-05-22 change, which removed the older years from the list.
2547 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_OUTPUT): Update copyright date to 2004.
2549 2004-01-27 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
2550 Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>
2552 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_GREP): New macro to test for a
2553 grep or ggrep program in PATH that accepts as long lines as
2555 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_GREP): Factor out the core of
2557 (AC_PROG_EGREP, AC_PROG_FGREP): Use it to find best available
2558 egrep and fgrep respectively if $GREP -E/-F don't work.
2559 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FEATURE_CHECK): Factor out the common core of
2560 _AC_PROG_GREP, and AC_PROG_SED.
2561 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): New helper macro for finding the
2562 longest input length accepted by a command.
2563 (AC_PROG_SED): Use it.
2564 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): Document the changes.
2567 2004-01-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2569 * bin/autoconf.as ($version): Update copyright from 2003 to 2004.
2570 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
2571 bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in: Likewise.
2572 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_COPYRIGHT): Likewise.
2574 * Makefile.in, aclocal.m4, configure, bin/Makefile.in,
2575 bin/autoconf.in, config/Makefile.in, config/config.guess,
2576 config/config.sub, config/install-sh, config/mdate-sh,
2577 config/mkinstalldirs, config/texinfo.tex, doc/Makefile.in,
2578 lib/Makefile.in, lib/Autom4te/Makefile.in,
2579 lib/autoconf/Makefile.in, lib/autoscan/Makefile.in,
2580 lib/autotest/Makefile.in, lib/emacs/Makefile.in,
2581 lib/m4sugar/Makefile.in, man/Makefile.in, man/autoconf.1,
2582 man/autoheader.1, man/autom4te.1, man/autoreconf.1,
2583 man/autoscan.1, man/autoupdate.1, man/config.guess.1,
2584 man/config.sub.1, man/ifnames.1, tests/Makefile.in,
2585 tests/acc.at, tests/acfortran.at, tests/acfunctions.at,
2586 tests/acgeneral.at, tests/acheaders.at, tests/aclang.at,
2587 tests/aclibs.at, tests/acspecific.at, tests/acstatus.at,
2588 tests/actypes.at: Regenerate and/or sync with original
2591 2004-01-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2593 * doc/autoconf.texi (Default Includes): Include <stdint.h> even if
2594 HAVE_INTTYPES_H is defined. This is needed on Tru64 5.1b with
2595 Compac C V6.5-207 (dtk), which defines uintmax_t in <stdint.h> but
2596 not <inttypes.h>. Problem reported by Tim Mooney in
2597 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-01/msg00147.html>.
2598 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS):
2601 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_SED): Use diff, not sed;
2602 otherwise "make check" fails because it forbids cmp (I guess
2603 because cmp treats files as binary on DOS-like systems).
2605 * tests/mktests.sh: Update copyright date to 2004, since some tests
2606 have changed in 2004.
2608 2004-01-23 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
2610 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_SED): New macro to test for a
2611 non-truncating sed or gsed program in PATH.
2612 * tests/acprograms.at: Add it.
2613 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): Document it.
2616 2004-01-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2618 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Try -std, not -std1, since
2619 -std1 disables some useful extensions on Tru64. Problem reported
2621 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-01/msg00100.html>.
2623 2004-01-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2625 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Document that
2626 AS_MKDIR_P succeeds if the destination is a symbolic link
2627 to an existing directory.
2628 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Note that mkdir -p might not
2629 succeed on symlinks to directories.
2631 2004-01-13 Paul Hilfinger <hilfinger@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
2633 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4 (AU_DEFUN): Grammar fix in comment.
2634 * bin/autoheader.in: Grammar fix in message.
2635 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_MKDIR_P):
2636 Test for dir before calling mkdir -p. (trivial changes)
2638 2004-01-13 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
2640 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsolete Macros): In AC_TRY_COMPILE and
2641 AC_TRY_LINK, s/AC_LANG_SOURCE/AC_LANG_PROGRAM/. (trivial change)
2643 2004-01-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
2645 * doc/autoconf.texi (Running the Preprocessor): Correct grammar.
2647 2004-01-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2649 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Fix bug: AC_CHECK_SIZEOF evokes a warning
2650 with `autoconf -Wall,error'. Bug reported by Eric Blake in:
2651 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-01/msg00000.html
2652 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE): Invoke _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, not
2653 AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, since we now assume our caller invokes
2654 AC_LANG_COMPILER_REQUIRE, for symmetry with _AC_COMPUTE_INT_RUN.
2655 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT_RUN): Likewise, for _AC_RUN_IFELSE instead
2656 of AC_RUN_IFELSE; this avoids the warning mentioned above.
2657 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT): Invoke AC_LANG_COMPILER_REQUIRE.
2659 2004-01-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2661 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJS_NORMALIZE): Avoid \$ inside
2662 `"'...'"`, as it's confusing (and I suspect it may not work on
2663 some platforms). The code was incorrect anyway, as it assumed
2664 that \$ evaluated to itself in that context. Reported by
2665 Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
2667 2004-01-07 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
2669 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect AC_LIBTOOL_TAGS
2670 and _LT_AC_TAGCONFIG.
2672 2004-01-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2674 * doc/autoconf.texi (One Macro Call): Fix an incorrect
2675 example, and add more examples. Reported by Eric Sunshine.
2677 2004-01-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2679 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools):
2680 Remove warning against "rm -fr" introduced yesterday; it
2683 * bin/Makefile.am (autoconf, autoheader, autom4te, autoreconf,
2684 autoscan, autoupdate, ifnames): Don't use chmod -w.
2685 * lib/Makefile.am (autom4te.cfg): Likewise.
2686 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Warn against
2689 2004-01-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2690 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
2692 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Speed up sed scripts
2693 by doing lineno substitution only on lines containing "$LINENO".
2695 2004-01-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2697 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_PROGRAM):
2698 Use "rm -f" to remove conftest.sed, not plain "rm".
2699 Bug reported by David Relson in
2700 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-01/msg00011.html>.
2702 * Makefile.am (autom4te-update):
2703 Replace "rm -rf" and "rm -fr" with "rm -f -r", as POSIX requires.
2704 * Makefile.maint (my-distcheck, do-po-update): Likewise.
2705 * doc/autoconf.texi (Guidelines): Likewise.
2706 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Likewise.
2707 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_XMKMF): Likewise.
2708 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_LONG_FILE_NAMES): Likewise.
2709 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
2710 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): Likewise.
2711 * tests/Makefile.am (clean-local): Likewise.
2712 * tests/tortue.at (AC_CONFIG_FILES, HEADERS, LINKS and COMMANDS,
2714 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools):
2715 Warn against "rm -fr".
2717 2004-01-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2719 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Mention that cc
2720 -c -o might not work. From a suggestion by Kevin Ryde.
2721 (C Compiler, Generating Sources, Limitations
2722 of Usual Tools, Limitations of Make, Making testsuite Scripts):
2723 Don't put '-o' after non-options, as POSIX doesn't allow this.
2724 Mention that cc's name might be gcc or c89 or whatever.
2726 2004-01-04 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
2728 * doc/autoconf.texi: Add various further index entries.
2730 2003-12-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2732 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory):
2733 Fix typo: mkdir without umask arg.
2735 2003-12-27 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
2737 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make) <Automatic rule rewriting>:
2738 Documents OSF1/Tru64 make behavior. Replace `VPATH = ../src' by
2739 `VPATH = ../pkg/src' in examples to make the OSF1/Tru64 make
2740 explanation clearer.
2742 2003-12-24 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
2744 * doc/autoconf.texi (Default Includes): Fix misspelling of
2745 AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT.
2747 2003-12-03 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
2749 * configure.ac: Test if sh -n works.
2750 * configure: Regenerate.
2751 * tests/atlocal.in: Store the result here.
2752 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_SHELL_SYNTAX): Extracted from
2753 tools.at, looking in atlocal's ac_cv_sh_n_works instead
2754 of explicitly testing.
2755 (AT_CHECK_PERL_SYNTAX): Moved from tools.at.
2756 (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF): Test for the configure script syntax.
2757 * tests/tools.at (Syntax of the shell scripts): Simplify
2758 using AT_CHECK_SHELL_SYNTAX.
2759 (Syntax of the Perl scripts): Remove definition of
2760 AT_CHECK_PERL_SYNTAX.
2762 2003-12-03 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
2764 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_SHELL_FN_WORK): Redirect
2765 stderr to /dev/null.
2766 * bin/autoconf.in: Regenerate.
2767 * bin/wrapper.in: Regenerate.
2769 2003-11-26 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
2771 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE):
2772 Extracted from AS_SHELL_SANITIZE.
2773 (_AS_SHELL_FN_WORK, AS_INIT_WITH_SHELL_FN): New
2775 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Move reinvocation code from
2776 _AS_LINENO_WORKS, use it to find out if shell
2778 (_AS_LINENO_WORKS): Don't find another shell if $LINENO
2780 (AS_INIT): Pass parameter down to AS_SHELL_SANITIZE.
2781 (AS_REQUIRE_SHELL_FN): Test that AS_INIT_WITH_SHELL_FN
2783 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Use AS_INIT_WITH_SHELL_FN.
2784 * bin/autoconf.in: Regenerate.
2785 * tests/wrapper.in: Regenerate.
2786 * tests/tools.at: Test the syntax of tests/autoconf
2787 and tests/testsuite.
2789 2003-11-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2791 * config/announce-gen (&print_locations, &print_signatures)
2794 No longer rely on Gnus to inline the list of signatures: compute
2797 2003-11-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2799 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): AC_PROG_LEX can
2800 override some files.
2801 (Input): AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(aux) is a bad idea on DOS.
2802 From Debian Autoconf 2.58.
2804 2003-11-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2806 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Quote $ac_popdir
2808 From Debian Autoconf 2.58.
2810 2003-11-24 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
2812 * TODO: Remove already done things. Update the part about finding
2813 tools for the target.
2815 2003-11-24 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
2817 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_USG, AC_MEMORY_H, AC_DIR_HEADER):
2818 Make wording more consistent.
2819 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_CYGWIN, AC_EMXOS2, AC_MINGW32):
2820 Explain the transition better.
2821 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_INT_16_BITS, AC_LONG_64_BITS): Explain
2822 the transition better.
2824 2003-11-24 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
2826 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsoleting Macros): Don't document the third
2827 parameter of AU_DEFUN.
2828 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4 (AU_DEFINE): Remove.
2829 (AU_DEFUN): Remove the third parameter, it was not used.
2830 Use AC_DEFUN directly, not AU_DEFINE.
2831 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_LINK_FILES): Move the message into
2832 the expanded body, consistently with other macros such as AC_USG.
2834 2003-11-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2836 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Put at least 14 bytes
2837 into the initial confdefs.h, to work around a bug in NextStep 3.3
2838 patch 3 reported by Eric Sunshine.
2840 2003-11-15 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
2842 * doc/autoconf.texi (Using System Type): Revise, showing $host rather
2843 than $target since the latter is not usual, add guidelines on when to
2844 use or not use the system type.
2846 2003-11-12 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
2848 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Fix what looks like a
2849 typo misrepaired by an auto-spellcheck.
2851 2003-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2853 * bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args): Don't call automake with
2854 --force-missing unless it actually supports it.
2855 From Debian #219336.
2857 2003-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2859 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.59a.
2862 2003-11-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2866 2003-11-05 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
2868 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Fix use of AS_SET_CATFILE
2869 so that ac_abs_builddir, ac_abs_top_builddir, ac_abs_srcdir,
2870 and ac_abs_top_srcdir are absolute paths.
2871 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SET_CATFILE): Remove misleading comment.
2873 2003-11-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2875 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.58a.
2877 2003-11-05 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
2879 * doc/autoconf.texi (Using Autotest): Avoid @strong{Note: ...}, since
2880 it provokes a warning from makeinfo about looking like a cross
2881 reference in info output.
2883 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add notes on signal
2884 handler return type, as per AC_TYPE_SIGNAL.
2886 2003-11-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2889 * doc/standards.texi: Update from master.
2891 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Add AC_FC_FREEFORM.
2893 2003-11-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2895 AC_CONFIG_FILE([d1/foo:d2/foo]) triggers error messages when
2896 computing the absolute path to d1 in the source hierarchy: it may
2897 not exist at all. So don't cd into it.
2898 From Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
2899 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-10/msg00205.html
2901 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SET_CATFILE): New.
2902 From Paul Eggert, but named after Perl's IO::Spec->catfile.
2903 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Document.
2904 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Use it.
2906 2003-11-03 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
2908 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Structure Checks): Describe
2909 action-if-found and action-if-not-found in AC_CHECK_MEMBERS.
2911 2003-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2913 * tests/fortran.at (GNU Fortran 77): Don't run FC macros.
2915 * doc/autoconf.texi (Language Choice): Document.
2916 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_FREEFORM): Assert
2917 the current language is Fortran.
2919 2003-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2921 * bin/autom4te.in (&freeze): Use a less likely warning separator
2922 than `\n\n', so that `\n\n\n' is valid in warnings.
2923 Reported by Steve Huston.
2925 2003-10-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2927 * Makefile.cfg (local_updates, executable-update): Tweak to be
2928 robust to parallel makes.
2929 Suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
2931 2003-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2933 * Makefile.cfg (executable-update): New.
2934 (local_updates): Call it.
2936 2003-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2938 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_RUN_IFELSE, _AC_INIT_PREPARE):
2939 Don't remove core.* as it may remove valid user files.
2940 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED)
2941 (AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL): Likewise.
2943 2003-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2946 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub: Upgrade from masters.
2948 2003-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2950 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_SRCEXT): Functions using
2951 AC_COMPILE_IFELSE that use break skip the clean up. So do it by
2954 2003-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2956 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LINK_IFELSE, _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE):
2957 Don't forget to remove conftest.err.
2959 2003-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2961 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ): Don't insert twice the
2962 same object file in $LIBOBJS.
2963 Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz & Derek Robert Price.
2964 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Functions): Adjust.
2966 2003-10-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2968 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_TR_SH_PREPARE, _AS_TR_CPP_PREPARE):
2969 Use 'eval', so that the resulting configure scripts work even if
2970 the current directory has a weird file name like 'y%s+%pp%;s%@%_%g'.
2972 2003-10-20 Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
2974 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_WERROR): New macro.
2975 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, _AC_PREPROC_IFELSE)
2976 (_AC_LINK_IFELSE): Check the werror flag.
2977 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Compiler Characteristics): Document
2981 2003-10-20 Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
2983 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_NO_EXECUTABLES): Override
2984 _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT to attempt a link. If linking fails,
2985 override AC_LINK_IFELSE.
2987 2003-10-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2989 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_UNSET_PREPARE): Work around a bug in
2990 pdksh 5.2.14. Bug reported by Ralf Corsepius.
2991 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology): Mention the Korn shell and pdksh.
2992 Mention /usr/dt/bin/dtksh on Solaris.
2993 (Shell Substitutions): Warn about $((...)).
2994 (Parentheses): New section.
2996 2003-10-15 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
2998 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add @prindex for exit.
2999 Add putenv and unsetenv. Add sysconf _SC_PAGE_SIZE.
3001 2003-10-13 Nathanael Nerode <neroden@gcc.gnu.org>
3003 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_FORK): Trivial fix for vfork
3006 2003-10-11 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
3008 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Use the new official
3009 name for the GNU Fortran 95+ compiler, 'gfortran', not 'g95'.
3011 2003-10-10 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
3013 * bin/autoheader.in: Avoid empty first line in --version and
3015 * bin/ifnames.in: Likewise.
3017 2003-10-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3019 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Don't assume -j is solo.
3020 Issue a more-informative diagnostic.
3021 Problems reported by Eric Sunshine.
3023 2003-10-08 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
3025 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): Omit quoted
3026 -mGLOB_options_string stuff for Intel ifc, which can cause
3027 _AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS to fail. Use (faster) case for
3028 pattern-matching instead of grep.
3030 2003-10-08 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
3032 * doc/autoconf.texi: Document new FC Fortran macros.
3034 2003-10-08 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
3036 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR): Stub out a macro
3037 that future autopoint/aclocal/automake/autoreconf will be able
3038 to trace to find where to install local m4 macros.
3039 * doc/autoconf.texi (Input): Document it.
3042 2003-10-06 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
3044 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Add
3045 -lcrtbegin.o to list of ignored flags and fix underquoting of
3048 2003-10-04 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@ab-initio.mit.edu>
3050 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_G): Use language-specific
3051 cache variable instead of $G77 to decide whether to include -O2,
3052 since $G77 is specific to Fortran 77.
3054 2003-10-03 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
3056 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_FREEFORM): Support Absoft "-f
3057 free" flag. Re-order flags tested into rough order of popularity.
3059 2003-10-03 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
3061 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_PROG_FC): Reverse the order of the
3062 arguments so that it can be used with syntax identical to
3063 AC_PROG_F77, and so that we can more easily decide to
3064 remove/deprecate the DIALECT optional argument in the future if it
3066 (AC_FC_FREEFORM): Exit 77 upon failure to fix test suite for
3067 non-freeform-supporting compilers. Document freeform flags.
3069 2003-10-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3071 * configure.ac: Look for emacs, not macs.
3072 Reported by Eric Sunshine.
3074 2003-10-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3076 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoreconf-preselections): Trace AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR.
3077 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory): Create the
3078 AUX_DIR if needed, for sake of automake --add-missing etc.
3079 Suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
3081 2003-10-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3083 * configure.ac: Quotation and formatting changes.
3084 (EMACS): Don't set it if it is not recent enough to support
3088 2003-10-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3090 * bin/ifnames.in (&scan_file): Skip C++ comments.
3093 2003-10-01 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
3095 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Structure Checks):
3096 Fix misspelling of HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_BLOCKS.
3098 2003-10-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3102 2003-09-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3104 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Use Errno.
3105 (lock): Ignore ENOLCK errors. Problem reported Andreas Schwab in
3106 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-09/msg00141.html>.
3108 2003-09-30 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3110 * config/announce-gen (&print_news_deltas): Extracted from...
3111 (&print_changelog_deltas): here.
3112 (&news_file): Rename as...
3115 2003-09-30 Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>
3117 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Remove files which might
3118 have been created when invoking the compiler.
3119 * tests/fortran.at (GNU Fortran 77): Quote $G77.
3121 2003-09-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3125 * config/mkinstalldirs: Upgrade.
3127 2003-09-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3129 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Set DUALCASE=1, for MKS sh.
3130 Problem reported by Lars J. Aas in
3131 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2003-07/msg00042.html>.
3132 (_AS_MKDIR_P_PREPARE): Change "rm -fr ./-p" to the more-conservative
3133 "test -d ./-p && rmdir ./-p". Suggested by Andreas Schwab in:
3134 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2003-09/msg00039.html
3136 2003-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3138 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS): Make sure the
3139 directory for AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS' first argument exists.
3140 This makes valid the invocation of _AC_SRCPATH that follows.
3141 Reported by Eric Sunshine.
3142 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Commands): Adjust.
3144 2003-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3146 * bin/autoscan.in (Autom4te::FileUtils): Use it for find_file.
3147 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
3149 2003-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3151 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_HELP_STRING): Don't overquote the
3153 Actually, use AU_ALIAS.
3156 2003-09-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3158 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_MKDIR_P_PREPARE): If mkdir -p . fails,
3159 rm -fr ./-p to remove junk left behind on NextStep and OpenStep.
3160 Problem reported by Eric Sunshine in:
3161 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2002-12/msg00014.html
3163 2003-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3165 The test suite are sometimes assigning timings incorrectly.
3166 Reported by Henk Krus.
3167 Diagnosed by Nicolas Joly.
3169 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CLEANUP): Rename AT_help as
3171 Instead of making AT_help a sequence of assignments to grow
3172 $at_help_all, just make AT_help_all be the growing contents of
3173 $at_help_all, and make a single assignment in...
3175 (at_times_skip): Flip the meaning and rename as...
3177 (AT_INIT): When summarizing the test that ran, remove
3178 $at_times_file after use, and check it is present before trying to
3181 2003-09-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3185 * bin/Makefile.am (edit): Handle '@configure_input@'.
3186 (autoconf, autoheader, autom4te, autoreconf, autoscan, autoupdate)
3187 (ifnames): chmod -w.
3188 * tests/wrapper.as (AUTOCONF, AUTOM4TE, ): Point to tests/
3189 executables, not bin/ executables! Otherwise all the magic needed
3190 to find non installed files is turned off. This caused a failure
3191 of test 40 and 41 that ran aclocal 1.8 which in turn ran autom4te
3192 as found in its environment (sent by tests/autoreconf): pointing
3193 to bin/autom4te that could not find its files.
3194 * tests/mktests.sh: Force the replacement of generated files, for
3195 the sake of "mv" program that are interactive when overwriting a
3197 * config/install-sh: Upgrade from CVS Automake.
3199 2003-09-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3201 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Document test -h
3202 versus test -L issues.
3204 2003-09-23 Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> and
3205 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3207 Trivial change to support GCC's configuration procedure.
3208 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CPP_WERROR): New macro.
3209 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): Don't warn
3210 about inconsistency if the preprocessor is set to give errors for
3212 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler Characteristics): Document this.
3214 2003-09-13 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
3216 * Makefile.am (autom4te-update, autom4te_files): Fetch Struct.pm
3217 and XFile.pm from Automake.
3218 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Update from Automake.
3220 2003-09-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3224 2003-09-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3226 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/missing,
3227 * lib/Autom4te/Channels.pm, lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm: Update
3230 2003-09-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3232 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): Promote linux/types.h,
3235 2003-09-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3237 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): linux/random.h.
3238 From Peter Hendrickson.
3240 2003-09-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3242 * tests/mktests.sh (au_exclude_egrep): Make it harder to be
3243 willing to edit the output files.
3245 2003-09-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3247 * tests/fortran.at (GNU Fortran 77): Also exercise AC_FC_SRCEXT
3249 * tests/mktests.sh: Skip AC_FC_SRCEXT.
3250 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_FREEFORM): Likewise.
3252 2003-09-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3254 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm (&update_file): s/cannot not/cannot/g.
3255 Reported by Gary Vaughan.
3256 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_m4): Likewise.
3258 2003-09-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3260 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm (&update_file): Be sure not to leave
3263 2003-09-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3265 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS):
3266 Improve the accuracy of the wording about obsolescence.
3267 From a suggestion by Ian Lance Taylor in
3268 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2003-09/msg00044.html>.
3270 2003-09-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3272 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_FREEFORM): Try -ffree-form too,
3273 for the benefit of g77 3.2. Fix suggested by Steven G. Johnson.
3275 2003-09-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3277 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Fix the filtering of
3280 2003-09-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3282 * bin/autom4te.in: Use &fatal where more appropriate than &error.
3283 (freeze): When exiting, use $exit_code.
3284 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4: Comment changes.
3286 2003-09-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3288 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Add AC_FC_FUNC.
3290 2003-09-02 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
3292 Add support for newer Fortran dialects. The F77 interface is
3293 unchanged, and continues to support Fortran 77. New FC macros
3294 correspond to all the old F77 macros, with output variables FC,
3295 FCFLAGS, and FCLIBS. AC_PROG_FC defaults to picking the newest
3296 available dialect, but older dialects can be specified. There are
3297 new macros AC_FC_SRCEXT to set the source extension, and
3298 AC_FC_FREEFORM to accept free-form source files.
3300 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_LANG_PREFIX(C), _AC_LANG_PREFIX(C++)):
3302 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C)): Invoke _AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_FC_HOOKS if defined.
3303 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_LANG(Fortran), _AC_FORTRAN_ASSERT,
3304 _AC_LANG_ABBREV(Fortran), _AC_LANG_PREFIX(Fortran 77),
3305 _AC_LANG_PREFIX(Fortran), _AC_FC, AC_LANG_SOURCE(Fortran),
3306 AC_LANG_PROGRAM(Fortran), AC_LANG_CALL(Fortran),
3307 AC_LANG_PREPROC(Fortran), AC_LANG_COMPILER(Fortran),
3308 _AC_FC_DIALECT_YEAR, _AC_F95_FC, _AC_F90_FC, _AC_F77_FC,
3309 _AC_PROG_FC, AC_PROG_FC, _AC_PROG_FC_G, _AC_PROG_FC_C_O,
3310 AC_PROG_FC_C_O, _AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT, _AC_PROG_FC_V,
3311 _AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS, AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS, _AC_FC_DUMMY_MAIN,
3312 AC_FC_DUMMY_MAIN, _AC_FC_MAIN, AC_FC_MAIN, __AC_FC_NAME_MANGLING,
3313 _AC_FC_WRAPPERS, AC_FC_WRAPPERS, _AC_FC_FUNC, AC_FC_FUNC,
3314 AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_FREEFORM):
3316 (AC_PROG_F77, AC_PROG_F77_C_O, AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS,
3317 AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN, AC_F77_MAIN, _AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING,
3318 AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING, AC_F77_WRAPPERS, AC_F77_FUNC):
3319 Rewrite in terms of the above.
3320 (_AC_PROG_F77_G, _AC_PROG_F77_V_OUTPUT, _AC_PROG_F77_V): Remove.
3321 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_LANG_PREFIX): New macro.
3322 * tests/acfortran.at: Test AC_FC_FREEFORM, AC_FC_FUNC,
3323 AC_FC_MAIN, AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_WRAPPERS, AC_PROG_FC_C_O.
3325 2003-09-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3327 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools, Limitations of Make):
3328 Document problems with timestamp resolution that 'make', 'cp -p', and
3331 2003-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3333 * tests/m4sugar.at (cross_warning): Make sure to enable the
3334 output, so that we can track spurious m4sugar output.
3335 * tests/local.at: Require 2.57.
3336 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR, AT_CHECK_M4SH): Don't m4_default the arguments that
3337 are defaulted by AT_CHECK anyway.
3338 Use AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE.
3339 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: There should be no output at all: add a
3342 2003-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3344 * bin/autoheader.in: Issue the "Using auxiliary..." message only
3345 when -Wobsolete is set.
3346 Set it on by default.
3347 Suggested by Klee Dienes.
3349 2003-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3351 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_FUNC_FSEEKO, AC_SYS_LARGEFILE): More
3355 2003-08-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3357 * doc/autoconf.texi (Output): Make clear that one can run code
3360 2003-08-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3362 * config/announce-gen, GNUmakefile, Makefile.maint: Update from
3365 2003-08-25 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
3367 * bin/autoreconf.in (parse_args): Do not pass --no-force to
3368 Automake versions prior to 1.8.
3370 2003-08-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3372 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): netinet/if_ether.h.
3375 2003-08-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3377 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.57c.
3379 2003-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3383 * Makefile.cfg (local-checks-to-skip): New.
3384 * Makefile.maint (local-check): Rename as...
3385 (local-checks-available): this.
3388 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add Makefile.cfg.
3389 * configure.ac: Require Automake 1.7.6.
3391 2003-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3393 Output stack traces in warnings.
3395 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (_m4_warn): New.
3396 Replace the former...
3397 (m4_warn): Pass the call stack to _m4_warn.
3398 * bin/autom4te.in: Adjust to output the call stack.
3399 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4@&t@_warn): Adjust.
3401 2003-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3403 * lib/Autom4te/Request.pm, lib/Autom4te/C4che.pm: New.
3404 * bin/autom4te.in: Adjust.
3406 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3408 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&file_name_is_absolute): Remove.
3410 (&getopt): Adjust the note and verb channels, depending upon
3412 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoscan.in,
3413 * bin/autoupdate.in: Adjust.
3414 Use &verb, not &verbose.
3416 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3418 * bin/autoheader.in (&parse_args): Use &parse_warnings and
3420 ($help): Use Autom4te::ChannelDefs::usage.
3421 * bin/autoscan.in: Use Autom4te::ChannelDefs.
3422 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: Don't export error: you don't own it.
3424 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3426 First stab at preserving warnings between calls to autom4te,
3427 including when the cache is used.
3429 There are still several issues: (i) there are too many runs of m4
3430 (one for include, one for warnings, and some more), (ii) warnings
3431 spreading on several lines are not handled gracefully, (iii) the
3432 code meant to have the call stack display for errors does not work
3433 (its handling should move from m4 to autom4te).
3435 * bin/autom4te.in Autom4te::Channels, Autom4te::ChannelDefs):
3437 (@preselect): Add m4_warn.
3438 ($exit_status): Remove, use $exit_code.
3439 ($help): Use Autom4te::ChannelDefs::usage.
3440 (&handle_m4): No longer define the m4_warnings.
3441 At each run, extract and report the warnings.
3442 Always cache the result, including if the exit status is on
3443 failure, since if nothing changes, we should result in the same
3444 failure, hence we can use the cache.
3445 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_warning_ifelse, _m4_warning_ifelse)
3446 (_m4_warning_error_ifelse, __m4_warning_error_ifelse, _m4_warn):
3448 (m4_warn): Redefine as a do-nothing: it is its invocation that
3449 matters, as warnings are now reported via traces.
3450 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_DIAGNOSE): Don't make it a copy of
3451 the contents of m4_warn: make it _call_ m4_warn, so that tracing
3452 the latter reveals calls to the former.
3456 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4@&t@_warn): Use existing warning categories.
3458 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3460 * bin/autoreconf.pm (Autom4te::Channels, Autom4te::ChannelDefs):
3463 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3465 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm (&find_file): Walk the @include in
3467 * lib/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm: Doc typos.
3468 (&parse_warnings): Accept a list of warning requests.
3469 (&usage): Return a string, not a side effect.
3470 (cross): New warning category.
3472 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3474 * lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm (&find_configure_ac)
3475 (&require_configure_ac): Accept an optional directory argument.
3476 ($configure_ac): Remove.
3477 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_configure_ac, &canonfile)
3479 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoupdate.in,
3480 * bin/autoscan.in: Adjust.
3482 2003-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3484 * bin/autoheader.in: Remove duplicate 'use Autom4te::FileUtils'.
3485 Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
3487 2003-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3489 * bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
3490 * bin/autom4te: Adjust.
3491 In particular, be Autoconf tools are really silent when properly
3492 working, bind the verbosity of the 'note' channel to $verbose.
3493 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_file, &mtime, &update_file)
3494 (&xsystem, &contents): Remove, since they are exported by...
3495 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm: this.
3497 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&up_to_date_p): Move to...
3498 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm: here.
3500 2003-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3502 * lib/Autom4te/Channels.pm, lib/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm
3503 * lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm, lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm: New,
3506 2003-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3508 * Makefile.am (automake_cvsweb, automake_cvsargs, autom4te_files)
3509 (autom4te-update): New.
3510 * Makefile.cfg (update): Bind autom4te-update.
3512 2003-08-19 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
3514 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Comment various HELP_* diversions.
3515 (PARSE_ARGS_BEGIN): New section for option parsing related
3517 (AT_ARG_OPTION,AT_ARG_OPTION_ARG,_AT_ARG_OPTION): New macros to define
3518 package specific options and associated help.
3520 2003-08-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3522 * config/announce-gen, Makefile.cfg: New.
3523 * Makefile.am: Adjust.
3524 * GNUmakefile, Makefile.maint: Update from CVS Coreutils.
3526 2003-08-19 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
3528 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect
3529 AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR, AC_CONFIG_LINKS, m4_include,
3532 2003-08-19 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
3534 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): Move all args except aclocal.m4? into ...
3535 (Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4): ... this new language.
3536 * doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te Invocation): Mention
3537 Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4.
3539 2003-08-18 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
3541 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Document RUN-IF-FAIL &
3542 RUN-IF-PASS optional arguments.
3544 2003-08-18 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
3546 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Add doc for AS_IF.
3548 2003-08-16 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
3550 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Document defaults for
3551 STDOUT & STDERR arguments.
3553 2003-08-14 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
3555 * lib/autotestgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Reformat test summary line to print
3556 DESCRIPTION rather than FILE and LINE. Shorten result to fit in new,
3557 shorter column three. Add DESCRIPTION to log file content.
3559 2003-08-13 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
3561 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Correct typo in final status
3564 2003-08-12 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
3566 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CHECK): Use new _AT_CHECK API.
3567 (AT_CHECK_NOESCAPE): Move core functionality to...
3568 (_AT_CHECK): ...this new macro.
3570 2003-08-07 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
3572 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CHECK): Move core functionality...
3573 (AT_CHECK_NOESCAPE): ...to this new macro.
3575 2003-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3577 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_UNSET_PREPARE): Work around a bug
3578 in Bash 2.01. Problem reported by Brian Gough in
3579 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-07/msg00106.html>.
3581 2003-07-25 John W. Eaton <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
3583 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Also ignore
3584 -lcrt1.o, for OS X. (trivial change)
3586 2003-07-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3588 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_INLINE): Wrap the '#define inline ...'
3589 inside '#ifndef __cplusplus'. Problem reported by
3592 2003-07-06 Bill Clarke <llib@computer.org>
3594 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MMAP): Cast pointer to
3595 'long', not 'int', for benefit of Sun's recent C++ compilers
3596 (trivial change). See:
3597 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2003-07/msg00007.html
3598 (This really should be 'intptr_t', not 'long', but that would
3601 2003-06-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3603 * lib/Makefile.am (autom4te.cfg): Make it read only.
3604 Depend on Makefile since it contains substitutions.
3606 * lib/autom4te.in (args): Add local.at? for Autotest args.
3607 This change was made on autom4te.cfg which is generated.
3608 Reported by Raja R. Harinath.
3610 2003-06-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3612 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): sys/mount.h.
3613 From Gareth McCaughan.
3615 2003-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3617 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Report a single config.log,
3618 not all of them. This fixes 1. the fact that when testing
3619 Autoconf there are many many config.log, 2. the incorrect use of
3620 top_srcdir to find config.log.
3621 Don't mix the detailed output of failed test with the summary of
3622 failures. Rather, append detailed log afterwards.
3624 2003-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3626 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_CONFIGURE): Adjust to the verbose being
3627 always run: output config.log on $at_group_log.
3629 2003-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3631 * tests/torture.at (#define header templates): Don't use quotes in
3632 C++ comments as it puzzles Emacs' sh font-lock-mode.
3634 2003-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3636 * tests/mktests.sh (au_exclude_egrep): Fix output copyright notice.
3637 * lib/autom4te.cfg (args): Add local.at? for Autotest args.
3638 * tests/atspecific.m4: Rename as...
3639 * tests/local.at: This.
3640 * tests/suite.at: Move the globals into...
3641 * tests/local.at: here.
3642 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
3643 * doc/autoconf.texi (testsuite Scripts): Adjust.
3645 2003-06-21 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
3647 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Extend test program to get an
3648 error from OSF 4.0 Compaq cc in its default almost-ANSI mode, thereby
3649 ensuring we add -std1 for full-ANSI.
3651 * doc/autoconf.texi (hdrindex): New macro.
3652 Add index entries for portability of various standard header files.
3654 2003-06-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3656 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.57b.
3658 2003-06-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3662 2003-06-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3664 * bin/autom4te.in: Don't rely on $HOME being defined.
3665 Reported by Marc Espie as PR/233.
3667 2003-06-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3669 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Use at_times_file only if used.
3672 2003-06-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3674 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/elisp-comp,
3675 * config/install-sh, config/mkinstalldirs, doc/standards.texi:
3676 Update from masters.
3678 2003-06-11 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
3680 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Document AT_XFAIL_IF
3681 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_XFAIL_IF): New macro.
3682 (TEST_SCRIPT): New diversion.
3683 (AT_SETUP): Divert output to TEST_SCRIPT and move some code...
3684 (AT_CLEANUP): ...to here. Undivert TEST_SCRIPT.
3685 (AT_INIT): Support for expected failures.
3687 2003-06-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3689 * bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoheader.in: White space
3691 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&backname): Remove, no longer used by
3692 Autoconf nor Automake.
3693 (&contents): New, from Automake.
3696 2003-05-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3698 * NEWS, doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions),
3699 lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MKTIME): Check that mktime
3700 is the inverse of localtime.
3702 2003-05-25 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
3704 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (END): Print diagnostics to STDERR.
3705 (handle_exec_errors): New function. Work around $! being
3706 altered by WEXITSTATUS.
3707 (xqx, xsystem): Use handle_exec_errors.
3709 2003-05-23 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
3711 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (END): Rewrite exit code processing.
3712 Do not call `_exit()', simply modify `$?'.
3713 (xsystem): Reset $! before running system, and check it afterward.
3714 * tests/tools.at (autoupdating AC_PREREQ): Expect exit status
3715 63 for version mismatches.
3717 2003-05-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3719 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Prefer "TAB-SP" to "SP-TAB", because of
3720 Emacs' dangerous whitespace.el behavior (smashing "useless" spaces in
3721 the middle of a line).
3722 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: Likewise.
3723 Remove useless spaces in comments.
3725 2003-05-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3727 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_version_prereq): Failure causes an
3728 exit 63, so that we (or Automake's "missing") can tell the
3729 difference with a plain failure.
3730 * doc/autoconf.texi (Notices): Adjust.
3732 2003-05-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3734 * Makefile.am, bin/Makefile.am, config/Makefile.am,
3735 * doc/Makefile.am, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am, tests/Makefile.am:
3736 White spaces cleanup.
3738 2003-05-22 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
3739 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3741 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION):
3742 Remove `#include <stdlib.h>' from the list; we should never
3743 make confdefs.h include <stdlib.h> or <cstdlib>, because the
3744 resulting namespace pollution would cause other tests to fail.
3745 Configure scripts run with some older versions of g++ and HP's
3746 aCC would fail due to such an #include. Problems reported by
3747 Matthew Mueller in <http://bugs.debian.org/120704> and by
3749 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2003-05/msg00063.html>.
3750 In the test, use the test declaration before including <stdlib.h>,
3751 as that's closer to how it'll be used.
3753 2003-05-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3755 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): ucred.h.
3758 2003-05-22 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
3760 Overhaul Autotest's logging: generate separate log files
3761 in testsuite.dir/NNN/testsuite.log, and append them to
3762 testsuite.log instead of re-running the test verbosely.
3764 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Use a single redirected
3765 file descriptor, write 0 to at_status_file instead of setting
3766 at_status=0, initialize some new variables (at_status_file,
3767 at_group_log, at_suite_log, at_tee_pipe). Remove the cruft
3768 to rerun the tests, instead append the at_group_log to the
3769 at_suite_log when a test fails.
3770 (AT_SETUP): pipe the test case's output into at_tee_pipe,
3771 with the AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD redirected to stdout.
3772 (AT_CLEANUP): save the output status in $at_status_file
3773 and restore it, redirect the AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD back to
3775 (AT_CHECK): since tests are run with a redirected stdout,
3776 and used to be re-run in verbose mode, turn some $at_verbose
3777 into echo, and don't redirect the output of testing stdout
3780 * lib/autotest/autoconf.texi (testsuite Scripts): Update
3781 the name of the debugging directory and information about
3784 2003-05-22 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
3786 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_REQUIRE): Actually use the 2nd
3789 2003-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3791 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4, lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4
3792 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 lib/autoconf/general.m4
3793 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 lib/autoconf/oldnames.m4
3794 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Fix and adjust copyright notices.
3796 2003-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3798 * aclocal.m4, bin/autoconf.as, lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4,
3799 * lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4, lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4,
3800 * lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/fortran.m4,
3801 * lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/headers.m4,
3802 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4,
3803 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4, lib/autoconf/specific.m4,
3804 * lib/autoconf/status.m4, lib/autoconf/types.m4,
3805 * lib/autotest/general.m4, lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4,
3806 * tests/atspecific.m4, tests/base.at, tests/compile.at,
3807 * tests/foreign.at, tests/m4sh.at, tests/semantics.at,
3808 * tests/tools.at, tests/torture.at:
3809 Whitespace clean up.
3810 Suggested by Jim Meyering.
3812 2003-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3814 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG): Restore smashed
3815 ' \t' as '\t ' so that Emacs' whitespace.el keep it.
3816 Reported by Jim Meyering.
3818 2003-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3820 * doc/autoconf.texi: Replace AC_HELP_STRING AS_HELP_STRING.
3821 Add AC_HELP_STRING to the obsolete macros section.
3823 Use '@.' for sentences that ended in a capital letter.
3826 2003-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3828 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/elisp-comp,
3829 * config/install-sh, config/mdate-sh, config/mkinstalldirs,
3830 * config/texinfo.tex, doc/standards.texi: Update from masters.
3832 2003-05-21 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
3834 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_VAR_SET): Escape the RHS before passing
3837 2003-05-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3839 * bin/autoupdate.in ($m4): Fix quotation.
3840 Reported by Martin Mokrejs.
3842 2003-05-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3844 * ChangeLog, ChangeLog.2, THANKS, lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4:
3845 Remove non-ASCII characters.
3847 2003-05-18 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
3849 * tests/semantics.at (AC_SEARCH_LIBS): New test.
3850 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_HEADERS_OLD,
3851 AC_CHECK_HEADERS_NEW): New tests.
3853 2003-05-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3855 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4: Use the default includes so that
3856 memcmp be declared before being tested.
3857 Reported by Sander Niemeijer.
3858 (AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE, AC_FUNC_GETGROUPS, AC_FUNC_STRNLEN): Likewise.
3859 * doc/autoconf.texi (Default Includes): Document
3860 AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT.
3862 2003-05-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3864 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4: Include signal.h and unistd.h.
3865 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsolete Macros): Adjust.
3866 Reported by Werner LEMBERG and Debian Bug 190886.
3868 2003-05-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3870 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_UNSET_PREPARE): s/FOO/as_foo/ to avoid
3871 user name space clashes.
3872 Reported by Bruno Haible.
3874 2003-05-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3876 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
3877 * bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in (BEGIN): Make
3878 them uniform, and more robust to Perl special characters.
3879 Reported by Martin Mokrejs.
3881 2003-05-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3883 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Skip all Libtools pre 1.4.
3885 2003-05-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3887 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): X11/extensions/scrnsaver.h,
3890 2003-05-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3892 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Improve the
3894 From Matthias Andree.
3896 2003-05-07 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
3898 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm (lock, truncate): Do not pass @_ to flock
3901 2003-05-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3903 Don't try to be smart with aclocal 1.8+ because (i) aclocal no
3904 longer updates aclocal.m4 if useless, (ii) if a file m4_included
3905 by aclocal.m4 is changed it might require the importing of another
3906 m4 extension file, i.e., aclocal must be run.
3908 * bin/autoreconf.in (&run_aclocal, $aclocal_supports_force): New.
3909 (&parse_args): Use --force with aclocal if required and supported.
3910 (&autoreconf_current_directory): Use &run_aclocal.
3912 2003-05-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3914 Lock autom4te's cache.
3916 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm ($me, &name, &lock, &truncate, &seek): New.
3917 * bin/autom4te.in (&Request::save, &Request::load): Use an IO::File
3918 argument instead of a file name, so that the request file remains
3919 open during the whole autom4te run.
3920 ($icache_file): New.
3921 (&freeze): Lock the $icache_file.
3923 2003-04-29 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
3925 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_KEYWORDS): Don't use a comma as the
3926 seperator with m4_append_uniq(). It doesn't work.
3927 (AT_CLEANUP): Add `;' to end of at_help_all.
3928 (AT_INIT): Allow --keywords to be specified more than once. When
3929 grepping $at_help_all for keywords, use the field and keyword
3930 seperators to ensure a complete keyword match. Alter at_prev handling
3931 to support the new --keywords behavior.
3933 2003-04-27 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
3935 * doc/autoconf.texi: Make the dir entries in the autoconf manual
3936 align better with others. I also made some of the individual
3937 entries on one line, for brevity and to make it easier for me to
3938 sort my dir-example file in the Texinfo distribution :).
3940 2003-04-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
3942 * NEWS: Mention the new macro.
3943 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_RESTRICT): New macro.
3944 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Describe AC_C_RESTRICT.
3945 * tests/c.at: Test AC_C_RESTRICT.
3946 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Add exclusion for AC_C_RESTRICT.
3948 2003-04-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3950 * bin/ifnames.in: Skip C++ comments.
3953 2003-04-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3955 * GNUmakefile (SHELL): Don't assume sh is in /bin/.
3956 From Ilya Zakharevich.
3958 2003-04-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3960 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Some about sys/socket.h,
3963 2003-04-01 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
3965 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_INSTALL): Correct syntax error
3966 from Akim's checkin of 2003-03-29.
3968 2003-04-01 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
3970 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Add missing
3971 close-quote for Akim's change from 2003-03-28.
3973 2003-04-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3975 * doc/autoconf.texi (ac, at, ms): Rename these indexes as...
3976 (AC, AT, MS): these.
3977 (shortindexflag, @acindex, @ahindex, @asindex, @atindex, @msindex):
3980 * doc/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): Adjust.
3981 (TEXI2DVI): Make it --batch.
3983 2003-03-31 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
3985 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Revert the checkin from 2003-03-27
3986 which removed the main loop.
3987 Thanks to Akim Demaille.
3989 2003-03-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3991 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_INSTALL): Skip OS/2's install,
3993 From Ilya Zakharevich.
3995 2003-03-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3997 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): The
3998 documentation to read is Autoconf's.
3999 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
4001 2003-03-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4003 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): Suggest
4004 reading the section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled" when the
4005 header causes problems.
4007 2003-03-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4009 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Require aclocal
4010 1.4, otherwise the test fails, as it does support configure.ac.
4011 This fixes the "test 40 failed" bug reports.
4013 2003-03-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4015 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): `#line' portability.
4016 From Paul Eggert and Nelson H. F. Beebe.
4018 2003-03-27 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
4020 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Eliminate main loop and reorganize test
4021 layout in order to allow scripting around test groups.
4023 2003-03-27 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
4025 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (PARSE_ARGS,PARSE_ARGS_END,HELP,HELP_MODES,
4026 HELP_TUNING,HELP_OTHER,HELP_END,PREPARE_TESTS,TESTS_END): Define and
4027 use new diversions in preparation for accepting new arguments and
4028 allowing scripting around tests.
4029 (OPTIONS,TAIL): Remove these diversions to make way for the ones above.
4031 2003-03-26 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
4033 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_VAR): Use AS_HELP_STRING instead of
4034 obsolete AC_HELP_STRING.
4035 (AC_HELP_STRING): AU_DEFUN to...
4036 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_HELP_STRING): ...here.
4037 * tests/m4sh.at (AS_HELP_STRING): New test.
4039 * tests/acgeneral.at: Regenerated.
4041 2003-03-26 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
4043 * lib/autotest/general.m4: s/DEFAULT/DEFAULTS/ since it makes more
4044 sense. Verbosify the diversion definitions comment.
4046 2003-03-26 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
4048 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Remove redundant call to
4051 2003-03-21 Eric Siegerman <eric_97@pobox.com>
4053 * doc/autoconf.texi (Present But Cannot Be Compiled):
4054 Grammar fixes and minor rewording. (trivial change)
4056 2003-03-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4058 Work around a problem noted by Nelson H. F. Beebe with coreutils
4059 4.5.9: Sun c89 (Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3 Patch 111679-08
4060 2002/05/09) rejects '#line 32768 "configure"' because the line
4062 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_SOURCE(C)): Do not generate
4064 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_SOURCE): Fix comment to match this.
4065 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generating Sources): Document this.
4067 2003-03-01 Richard Dawe <rich@phekda.freeserve.co.uk>
4069 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE): Normalize
4070 file name for the m4 program, when it has an "exe" file extension.
4071 DJGPP's error messages include the error code in brackets -
4072 remove the error code during normalization.
4074 2003-02-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4076 * doc/autoconf.texi (Present But Cannot Be Compiled): New.
4078 2003-02-28 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
4080 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Remove the section
4081 about `$<' in inference rules, it was a bogus interpretation of
4082 an old Automake change. Discuss NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and
4083 Tru64 make in the "target lookup" section.
4084 (Automake): Automake 1.5+ no longer requires special tools to be
4085 present on the developer's host.
4087 2003-02-26 Richard Dawe <rich@phekda.freeserve.co.uk>
4089 * bin/autoheader.in (BEGIN): For DJGPP SHELL may not be set
4090 to a shell that can handle redirection or quoting correctly.
4091 Override SHELL with the shell detected by configure.
4092 Use of $^O suggested by Tim van Holder.
4093 * bin/autom4te.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
4094 * bin/autoreconf.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
4095 * bin/autoscan.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
4096 * bin/autoupdate.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
4097 * bin/ifnames.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
4099 * bin/ifnames.in: Add final newline to help and version messages.
4101 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Translate colons,
4102 to cope with DOS-style absolute paths, when constructing
4105 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS, _AC_OUTPUT_FILES):
4106 When constructing paths with IFS=:, quote the path. If we're
4107 constructing a DOS-style absolute path, we don't want to split it
4110 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_CONFIGURE): Fix typo
4113 2003-02-25 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
4115 * bin/autoheader.in: Add missing newline when printing
4116 suggestion how change AC_DEFINE call.
4118 2003-02-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4120 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Fix typo in
4121 2002-09-01 patch by replacing "test -n" with "test -z".
4122 This fixes a bug found by Jeff Painter and reported by Tom Epperly in
4123 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2003-02/msg00139.html>.
4125 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): test -n -> test -z,
4126 to fix a mismatch between example and discussion.
4128 2003-02-24 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
4130 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Add notes on printf
4131 format starting with "-".
4133 2003-02-20 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
4135 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): `foo=bar make -e'
4136 is not portable inside Makefile.
4138 2003-02-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4140 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): When
4141 compiler says yeah, but preproc says nope, compiler is right.
4142 Conversely, prompt the reader to send a bug report to the
4143 maintainers of the package, not of Autoconf.
4145 2003-02-20 Klee Dienes <kdienes@apple.com>
4147 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory): Properly
4148 handle an empty aclocal.m4.
4150 2003-02-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4152 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM): Quote
4156 2002-12-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4158 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C)): Define $1 to an
4159 innocuous variant befor including <limits.h> or <assert.h>. This
4160 works around a bug reported by Albert Chin: HP-UX 11i
4161 (and earlier versions) have a <limits.h> that declares
4162 gettimeofday and many other functions.
4164 2002-12-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4168 * NEWS, configure.ac: Update version.
4170 * doc/fdl.texi: Upgrade to FDL version 1.2.
4172 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C)): Use the function f
4173 nontrivially in main's body, so that f's external declaration is
4174 not optimized away in AIX. This should fix the bug reported by
4176 <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/autoconf/2002-November/014508.html>.
4178 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C),
4179 _AC_PROG_PREPROC_WORKS_IFELSE): Use <limits.h> if __STDC__ is
4180 defined, to support freestanding compilers. This should fix the
4181 bug reported by Momchil Velkov in
4182 <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/autoconf/2002-November/014490.html>.
4184 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsolete Macros): Fix typos (insert empty
4185 arg, AC_DEFINE -> AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED) in documentation for
4186 obsolete AC_CHECK_TYPE. The missing empty arg was reported
4187 by Simon Josefsson in
4188 <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/autoconf-patches/2002-December/008830.html>.
4190 * Makefile.maint (www-gnu): New macro.
4191 (standards.texi-url_prefix, make-stds.texi-url_prefix): Use it, as
4192 the location has moved.
4194 2002-12-02 Martin Frydl <martin@systinet.com>
4196 * bin/autom4te.in (at_flatten): rewritten to avoid M4 problem when
4197 \(.*\) match is too long and there is something more to be checked.
4198 <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/autoconf/2002-November/014524.html>
4200 2002-11-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4204 * config/install-sh: chmod +x.
4206 * config/move-if-change: Indenting changes.
4207 * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Move to...
4208 * configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): here.
4211 2002-11-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4215 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/install-sh:
4216 Update from masters.
4218 2002-11-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4220 * Makefile.maint: Sync with Bison, i.e.:
4221 (po-check): Scan .l and .y files instead of the
4222 .c and the .h files that they generate. This fixes the bug
4223 reported by Tim Van Holder in:
4224 <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bison-patches/2002-November/001352.html>
4225 Look for N_ as well as for _. Try to avoid matching #define for
4229 2002-11-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4231 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Compiling several files at once.
4232 From Paul Eggert and Albert Chin-A-Young.
4234 2002-11-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4236 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Solitary backslashes.
4237 From Paul Eggert and Albert Chin-A-Young.
4239 2002-11-14 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
4241 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C)): Initialize f=$1 rather
4242 than assigning in main, to avoid HP cc +O3 optimizing it away.
4244 2002-11-12 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
4246 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Add -q
4247 option. Process --recheck after parsing all options. Pass -q
4248 option to configure on --recheck.
4249 (AC_OUTPUT): Pass -q from configure to config.status.
4250 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Strip -q from
4251 arguments to record.
4252 * doc/autoconf.texi (config.status Invocation): Document
4253 config.status -q option.
4255 2002-11-07 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
4257 * bin/autoscan.in (scan_file): Scan Makefile.am too. Ignore
4258 Makefile.in if Makefile.am exists.
4259 (output): Strip `.am' from Makefiles. Don't
4260 output AC_CONFIG_FILES if no Makefiles were found.
4262 2002-11-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4264 * Makefile.am (cvs_files): Add elisp-comp, mdate-sh.
4265 (local_updates): New.
4266 * Makefile.maint: Update, from CVS Bison.
4267 (local_updates): New.
4269 2002-11-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4271 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY): Wrap the `f'
4272 declaration in extern "C" too.
4273 Reported by Roberto Bagnara.
4275 2002-11-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4277 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Don't use grep
4279 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Grep -w.
4280 Reported by Ezra Peisach.
4282 2002-11-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4284 * lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4 (_AH_TEMPLATE_OLD, _AH_VERBATIM_OLD):
4286 We _have_ to stop using the old compatibility scheme that tried to
4287 avoid useless backslashes because Libtool 1.4.3 contains a
4288 AC_DEFINE([error_t], [int],
4289 [Define to a type to use for \`error_t' if it is not
4290 otherwise available.])
4291 We _have_ to quote the single quote and backslashes with \. The
4292 old compatibility scheme saw that ` was backslashed, and therefore
4293 did not quote the single quote. Hence before this patch, Autoconf
4294 was not compatible with Libtool.
4296 2002-11-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4298 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Set the following variables,
4299 too: LC_ADDRESS, LC_IDENTIFICATION, LC_MEASUREMENT, LC_MONETARY,
4300 LC_NAME, LC_PAPER, LC_TELEPHONE.
4301 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Mention those vars.
4303 2002-11-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4307 * Makefile.maint (update, cvs-update, po-update, do-po-update):
4309 * config/texinfo.tex: Update.
4311 2002-11-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4313 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf_current_directory): New, extracted
4315 (&autoreconf): here.
4316 ($help, $make, &parse_args, &autoreconf_current_directory):
4318 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Adjust.
4320 2002-10-31 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
4322 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_MALLOC_IF): Change message.
4323 Change name of cache variable to ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull.
4324 (AC_FUNC_MALLOC): Change description of HAVE_MALLOC macro.
4325 (_AC_FUNC_REALLOC_IF): Change message. Change name of cache variable
4326 to ac_cv_func_realloc_0_nonnull.
4327 (AC_FUNC_REALLOC): Change description of HAVE_REALLOC macro.
4329 2002-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4331 The test suite was no longer checking for trailing envvars and files.
4333 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AC_STATE_SAVE): Don't use quadrigraphs here.
4334 (AT_CHECK_ENV): Make sure the `state-ls.before file exists.
4336 2002-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4338 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Use and display
4339 `$(MAKE)' instead of '${MAKE}' to emphasize that we refer to the
4340 Make variable, not a shell variable.
4341 Suggested by Bruno Haible.
4343 2002-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4345 * bin/autom4te.in (load_configuration): Reject #args out of any
4348 2002-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4350 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_MSG_LOG_CONFTEST): New.
4351 (_AC_PREPROC_IFELSE, _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, _AC_LINK_IFELSE)
4352 (_AC_RUN_IFELSE): Use it.
4353 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT):
4354 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Likewise.
4355 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_SOURCE): Don't include confdefs.h,
4358 2002-10-30 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4360 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args, $help): Support --no-cache.
4361 * doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te Invocation): Adjust.
4362 Suggested by Tim van Holder.
4364 2002-10-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4366 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): AC_FUNC_MALLOC and
4367 AC_FUNC_REALLOC check for compatibility with glibc, not POSIX.
4368 Problem reported by Bruno Haible.
4370 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4372 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Templates): Put also in words what the
4373 pictures says to assist free style readers.
4374 (Customizing autom4te): s/--cache=/--cache /.
4376 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4378 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_VFORK): Include stdlib.h and
4380 sparc_address_test returns void.
4381 Use it with an argument, as prototyped.
4384 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4386 * doc/autoconf.texi (Subdirectories): Cygnus dirs have
4387 configure.in, not configure.ac.
4388 Reported by Bruno Haible.
4390 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4392 * tests/torture.at (Deep Package): New test.
4393 (Configuring subdirectories): Don't use a testSubDir as Autotest
4396 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4398 * bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args, $help): Support --warnings.
4399 * doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te): Rename as...
4400 (autom4te Invocation): this, for consistency with the other nodes.
4402 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4404 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): s/automate/autom4te/.
4405 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
4407 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4409 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_QUOTE): The warning about quoted
4410 characters is a back as an `obsolete' warning now.
4411 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
4413 2002-10-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4415 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.54c.
4417 2002-10-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4421 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Adjust to broken libtoolize.
4423 2002-10-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4425 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE): Be robust to different
4426 m4 executable names, and different GNU M4 version.
4427 Reported by Ezra Peisach and Paul Jarc.
4429 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4431 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_VFORK): Really use
4434 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4436 * doc/autoconf.texi: More AC_MSG_FAILURE promotion.
4437 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING):
4438 Die when a simple Fortran program cannot be compiled.
4439 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_CALL, AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY):
4440 Issue a warning if no function is given.
4442 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4444 * doc/autoconf.texi (Run Time): Document AC_RUN_IFELSE.
4445 Move the documentation of AC_TRY_RUN to...
4446 (Obsolete Macros): here.
4447 Adjust all the old samples still using AC_TRY_RUN to AC_RUN_IFELSE.
4448 (autoconf Invocation): Remove the duplicates with `invoking
4450 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDC): Don't use AC_TRY_RUN.
4451 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
4453 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4455 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generating Sources): Document AC_LANG_CALL
4456 and AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY.
4457 (Examining Libraries): Rename as...
4458 (Running the Linker): this.
4459 Document AC_LINK_IFELSE.
4460 Move the documentation of AC_TRY_LINK and AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC to...
4461 (Obsolete Macros): here.
4462 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING): Don't use
4463 AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC nor AC_TRY_LINK.
4464 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (AC_CHECK_LIB, AC_PATH_XTRA): Likewise.
4465 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_USG): Likewise.
4467 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4469 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDC): Don't use AC_TRY_CPP.
4471 More `check config.log' messages.
4473 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_MSG_FAILURE): New.
4474 * doc/autoconf.texi (Printing Messages): Document it.
4475 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Use it when
4477 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT)
4478 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_WORKS, _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O)
4479 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT): Likewise.
4480 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_RUN_IFELSE): Likewise.
4481 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_F77_HOOKS):
4483 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CPP, AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXXCPP):
4486 Deprecate macros with unusual interfaces.
4488 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_TRY_CPP, AC_TRY_LINK)
4489 (AC_TRY_COMPILE, AC_TRY_RUN): AU_DEFUN'ed.
4491 Document the new ones, and proper style.
4493 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generating Sources): New.
4494 Document AC_LANG_CONFTEST, AC_LANG_SOURCE, AC_LANG_PROGRAM.
4495 (Examining Declarations): Rename as...
4496 (Running the Preprocessor): this.
4497 Document AC_PREPROC_IFELSE.
4498 (Examining Syntax): Rename as...
4499 (Running the Compiler): this.
4500 (AC_FOO_IFELSE vs AC_TRY_FOO): New section.
4501 (Obsolete Macros): Move the definition of AC_TRY_CPP and
4502 AC_TRY_COMPILE here.
4504 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4506 Move sections around.
4508 * doc/autoconf.texi (Customizing autom4te): Remove a lost
4510 Reported by Burno Haible.
4511 (Language Choice): Now the first section of...
4512 (Writing Tests): this section.
4513 Make the introduction less C-centric.
4514 (Guidelines, Test Functions): Move to...
4515 (Writing Test Programs): this new section.
4516 (Test Programs): Merge into...
4519 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4521 * lib/freeze.mk ($(AUTOM4TE_CFG)): Add a missing dependency on
4522 autom4te.in that resulted in the need for two `make' runs.
4524 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4526 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.54b.
4528 2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4532 * Makefile.maint: Update from the Coreutils.
4533 (AMTAR): Remove, obsolete.
4534 (automake_repo): Update to redhat.com.
4536 Adjust to the fact that ansi2knr is now hosted by Automake.
4537 * Makefile.am (cvs_files): Add install-sh and mkinstalldirs.
4538 * config/config.guess, config/mkinstalldirs, config/texinfo.tex:
4539 Update from masters.
4540 * lib/autoscan/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST, nodist_autoscanlib_DATA):
4541 autoscan.pre is not to be installed, and autoscan.list is not to
4543 (CLEANFILES): Add autoscan.list.
4544 (autoscan.list): Disable the cache.
4545 * bin/Makefile.am: Include freeze.mk.
4547 2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4549 * bin/autom4te.in (&load_configuration): Take the file as
4551 (&parse_args): Handle -C, --cache.
4553 (MAIN): Load ~/.autom4te.cfg and ./.autom4te.cfg.
4554 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): Pass --cache=autom4te.cache.
4555 * doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te): Document --cache.
4556 Now a subsection of...
4557 (Using autom4te): This new section.
4558 (Customizing autom4te): New.
4559 (autom4te.cache): Adjust.
4561 2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4563 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Headers): More information on how to
4564 use AC_CHECK_HEADERS.
4566 2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4568 * bin/autoconf.as, bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoupdate.in ($help):
4571 2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4573 * bin/autoscan.in (output): Output AC_PREREQ.
4574 (%needed_macros): Add AC_PREREQ so that configure.ac without one
4577 2002-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4579 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): In AC_HEADER_STDBOOL,
4582 2002-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4584 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_traces): Handle @&t@ in traces.
4585 Reported by Peter Eisentraut.
4587 2002-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4589 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDBOOL): Also look for the
4592 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Adjust according to Paul
4593 Eggert's recommandations.
4595 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4597 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDBOOL): New, based on CVS
4598 Bison, by Paul Eggert.
4599 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Document it.
4601 2002-10-22 Aaron M. Ucko <amu@alum.mit.edu>
4603 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Avoid duplicates in
4604 `$ac_configure_args'.
4606 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4608 * doc/autoconf.texi: Use AC_CONFIG_HEADERS in examples.
4609 (AC_ST_BLKSIZE, AC_ST_RDEV): Directly point to AC_CHECK_MEMBERS.
4612 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4614 Restore the 2002-10-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> patch:
4616 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL)
4617 (AC_CHECK_HEADER, _AC_CHECK_HEADER_NEW,_AC_CHECK_HEADER_OLD): Restore.
4618 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_NEW): Rename as...
4619 (AC_CHECK_HEADER): this.
4621 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4623 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Remove incorrect
4624 words about HP-UX cmp: it was actually a user-written cmp.
4626 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4628 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Don't check autoconf's stderr: there
4630 * lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4 (AH_VERBATIM, _AH_VERBATIM_OLD):
4631 Quote for Perl '' strings, not "".
4632 * bin/autoheader.in: Invoke autoconf to get '' strings, not ""
4635 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4637 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_QUOTE): The warning about quoted
4638 characters is a syntax warning now.
4639 (_AS_QUOTE): Accept $2 as list of characters to quote.
4640 * lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4 (AH_VERBATIM, _AH_VERBATIM_OLD):
4641 Quote for Perl, not sh.
4642 * bin/autoheader.in: When $debug, report the file which is
4644 * tests/tools.at (autom4te, autoheader): Exercise @bar, not merely
4645 `@', to tickle Perl's lists.
4646 Reported by Carlos Velasco.
4648 2002-10-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4650 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_m4): Pass --fatal-warning to m4, so that
4651 missing included files _are_ errors.
4652 Thanks to Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
4653 * tests/tools.at (autom4te cache): Adjust.
4654 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE): New.
4655 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR): Use it.
4656 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4_warn, m4_require: circular dependencies):
4658 * tests/tools.at (autom4te): Now it does exit 1.
4660 2002-10-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4662 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CACHE_SAVE): Don't use cmp.
4663 Fixes the `AC_ARG_VAR' test failures.
4664 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Don't use cmp.
4665 * lib/freeze.mk (check-forbidden-patterns): New.
4666 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am, lib/autotest/Makefile.am
4667 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am (check-local): Use it to catch `cmp'.
4668 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): HP-UX' cmp and
4670 Reported months ago by H. Merijn Brand.
4672 2002-10-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4674 * tests/tools.at (autoheader): Put randoms `@' to stress Perl.
4676 2002-10-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4678 * Makefile.maint (wget_files): Remove ansi2knr.c.
4679 (ansi2knr.c-url_prefix): Remove.
4681 2002-10-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4683 Because of caching, some files that no longer exist and are no
4684 longer required can still cause errors.
4685 Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
4687 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Do not prepend `--reload-state'
4688 to frozen files in @ARGV, as @ARGV must remain being a list of
4689 files. Rather, at M4 call sites, use this...
4690 (&files_to_options): New function.
4691 (&freeze): Use &error.
4692 (&up_to_date): If a file that was included according to the cache
4693 is no longer there, then the output is out dated.
4694 (&main): Don't even check whether a file is up to date is anyway
4696 * tests/tools.at (autom4te cache): New.
4698 2002-10-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4700 * bin/autoconf.as: Kill dead options.
4701 * bin/autoupdate.in (&parse_args): Kill old options.
4702 * bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args): Remove dead options.
4704 (&autoreconf): Report the directories we enter *and leave*, so
4705 that error messages can be easily located, and use GNU Make
4706 format, so that Emacs' compile mode understands us.
4707 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&update_file): Use `verbose' to report
4708 if some file was changed instead of `print'.
4709 * bin/autoheader.in: Suggest AC_DEFINE with 3 args when needed.
4710 (&parse_args): Remove the dead options.
4711 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER): Adjust to the new
4712 autoheader's quiet mode.
4713 (AT_CHECK_AUTOUPDATE): Likewise.
4714 * tests/tools.at (autoupdate): Adjust.
4715 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
4717 2002-10-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4719 No longer use CPP to check for the existing of headers: use CC to
4720 check for compilability.
4722 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL)
4723 (AC_CHECK_HEADER, _AC_CHECK_HEADER_OLD): Remove.
4724 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_NEW): Rename as...
4725 (AC_CHECK_HEADER): this.
4727 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Include the failed test
4728 numbers in the Subject suggestion.
4730 2002-10-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4732 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_DECL_SYS_SIGLIST): Obsolete.
4733 Suggest using AC_CHECK_DECLS instead.
4735 2002-10-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4737 * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): Have configure report the value
4740 2002-10-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4742 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_SEPARATOR_PREPARE): Use $$ in the
4743 file name to enable parallel executions.
4744 From Sam Varshavchik.
4746 2002-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4748 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Run autopoint before the first
4749 aclocal invocation, as Gettext macros might not be visible to
4751 Instead of blindly running autopoint, scan configure.ac (not the
4752 traces) for AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION uses, as autopoint does.
4753 Reported by Paul D. Smith.
4755 2002-10-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4757 Work around problems found when POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 is set.
4758 None of this seems to have anything to do with POSIX, really,
4759 but it's how Perl getopt works.
4760 * bin/autom4te.in (parse_args): Configure GetOpt with
4762 * doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te):
4763 --warning -> --warnings.
4764 * lib/autom4te.in: --warning -> --warnings.
4766 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4768 * doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te.cache): New section.
4770 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4772 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoscan-preselections, Autoreconf-preselections)
4773 (Automake-preselections): Update.
4774 * bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoheader.in: Comment changes.
4776 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4778 * lib/autoscan/autoscan.pre: Move all the remaining rules to...
4779 * lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/functions.m4,
4780 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4,
4781 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4, lib/autoconf/types.m4: here.
4783 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4785 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Be robust to
4786 users who use config.site to require for a cache: in this case,
4787 the two last configure runs, using two different sets of
4788 arguments, trigger a legitimate error.
4790 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4792 * tests/m4sh.at (Functions Support, Functions and return Support):
4795 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4797 * bin/Makefile.am (ETAGS_SH, ETAGS_PERL): Update: ifnames and
4798 autoheader are Perl programs.
4799 (autoconf, autoheader, autoreconf, autoupdate, ifnames, autoscan)
4800 (autom4te): Specify that the sources are in the $srcdir.
4801 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Adjust.
4803 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4805 * lib/autoscan/autoscan.pre (st_blksize, st_blocks, st_rdev)
4806 (tm_zone): Move their rules to...
4807 * lib/autoconf/types.m4: here, using AN_ macros.
4808 * lib/autoscan/autoscan.pre (AWK, BISON, INSTALL, LEX, LN, MAKE)
4809 (RANLIB, YACC, awk, bison, byacc, flex, gawk, install, lex, ln)
4810 (make, mawk, nawk, ranlib, yacc): Similarly, move to...
4811 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4: here.
4812 * lib/freeze.mk (ETAGS_FOR_M4, ETAGS_FOR_M4SUGAR)
4813 (ETAGS_FOR_AUTOCONF): New.
4816 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4818 * lib/autoconf/autoscan.m4: New file.
4819 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4: Include it.
4820 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4: Use AN_FUNCTION for all the functions
4821 that were listed in the original autoscan.list.
4822 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4: Similarly with headers.
4823 * lib/freeze.mk (autoconf_m4f_dependencies): Add autoscan.m4.
4824 (.m4.m4f): Don't pass --prepend-include, since that's done by
4825 tests/autom4te itself.
4826 * lib/autoscan/Makefile.am: Include freeze.mk.
4827 (autoscan.list): New target --this file is no longer a source.
4828 (autoscan.pre): New file.
4830 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4832 * bin/autoscan.in (@kinds): Make them singular.
4834 (&init_tables): When --debug, report the list of rules to ease
4835 tracking changes in autoscan.list.
4836 * lib/autoscan/autoscan.list (function): Strip comments, sort.
4838 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4840 * lib/autoscan/functions, lib/autoscan/headers,
4841 * lib/autoscan/identifiers, lib/autoscan/makevars,
4842 * lib/autoscan/programs: Merge into...
4843 * lib/autoscan/autoscan.list: this.
4844 * bin/autoscan.in (&init_tables): Adjust.
4846 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4848 * lib/autoscan/functions, lib/autoscan/headers,
4849 * lib/autoscan/identifiers, lib/autoscan/makevars,
4850 * lib/autoscan/programs: Make the `kind' explicit, i.e., each
4851 `functions' line is now prefixed with `function:'.
4852 * bin/autoscan.in (&init_tables): Adjust.
4854 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4856 From now on, autoscan files must always map a macro name to a
4857 word: there is no `default' macro for autoscan.
4859 * bin/autoscan.in (&init_tables): Reject entries with no macro at
4861 * lib/autoscan/functions, lib/autoscan/headers: Make the macro
4864 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4866 * bin/autoscan.in (%c_keywords): Remove.
4867 (&used): Keep only track of the words we might be interested in.
4868 (&output_kind): It is no longer needed to look for non active
4871 2002-09-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4873 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC): New, stolen from
4874 jm_FUNC_MBRTOWC, by Paul Eggert, from the Coreutils 4.5.1.
4875 * lib/autoscan/functions: Adjust.
4876 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Adjust.
4878 2002-09-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4880 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Some about mv
4882 Thanks to Bill Moseley and Paul Eggert.
4883 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): $2 is the directory into which
4884 the tmpdir must be created.
4885 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Have the tmp
4886 dir be in the build tree, instead of $TMPDIR.
4888 2002-09-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4890 * bin/autoscan.in: Improve the comments.
4891 (&parse_args): Drop obsolete undocumented options.
4892 (&output_kind): Output warnings.
4893 * lib/autoscan/functions: (dcgettext): Now trigger AM_GNU_GETTEXT.
4894 (getwd): Trigger a warning.
4896 2002-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4898 * bin/autoreconf.in: Clarify that -s is meaningless without -i.
4899 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
4900 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Likewise.
4902 2002-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4904 Single suffix rules and seperated dependencies are not portable.
4906 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Update.
4907 (Limitations of Make): Some about `Single Suffix Rules and
4908 Separated Dependencies'.
4909 * bin/Makefile.am (autoconf, autoheader, autoreconf, autoupdate)
4910 (ifnames, autoscan, autom4te): Un-factor into several rules.
4912 2002-09-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4914 * BUGS (Interoperability bugs): New section. Mention libtool
4915 1.4.2, configure.ac, and AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR interoperability bug.
4917 2002-09-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4919 Fix a portability bug reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz: Solaris 8
4920 make handles suffix-rules differently from GNU make.
4922 * bin/Makefile.am (SUFFIXES, .in): Remove.
4923 (autoconf autoheader autoreconf autoupdate ifnames autoscan autom4te):
4924 Move the body of the old .in rule here.
4926 2002-09-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4928 i960 compilers create `b.out' files by default.
4929 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
4931 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT): Remove b.out files.
4932 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Adjust to b.out.
4934 2002-09-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4936 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Remove obsolete
4937 reference to `struct timezone' in the description of
4940 2002-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4944 * config/config.sub, config/config.guess: Update.
4945 * Makefile.maint: Update from bits of the Coreutils 4.5.1.
4946 * Makefile.am: Adjust.
4948 2002-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4950 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Suggest
4951 reading config.log when the compiler is rejected.
4952 Suggested by Guido Draheim.
4954 2002-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4956 * bin/autoreconf.in: Don't use Cwd::chdir, since in its internals
4957 (chdir_init) might hang when stat'ing mounted directories.
4958 Reported by Vance Shipley.
4960 2002-09-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4962 * bin/autoscan.in (&parse_args): Pass a reference to the lists, not
4965 2002-09-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4967 * doc/autoconf.texi (Defining Symbols): Present two different
4968 prototypes for AC_DEFINE and AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED to emphasize the
4969 difference between 1 argument calls, and 2-3 argument calls.
4971 2002-09-12 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
4973 * doc/autoconf.texi: Review grammar and punctuation.
4975 2002-09-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4977 * doc/autoconf.texi: Fix minor formatting, spelling, and
4979 (Defining Symbols): Explain that AC_DEFINE(var) defaults to 1, but
4980 AC_DEFINE(var,,description) does not; and the AC_DEFINE(var) case
4983 2002-09-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4985 * doc/autoconf.texi (Questions): Rename as...
4987 (Defining Directories): New.
4989 2002-09-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4991 * doc/autoconf.texi (Making testsuite Scripts): Update.
4992 Suggested by Nishio Futoshi.
4994 2002-09-09 Koji Arai <JCA02266@nifty.ne.jp>
4996 * doc/autoconf.texi (Making testsuite Scripts): Use `@@' where a
4997 plain `@' is wanted.
4999 2002-09-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5001 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Keep the
5002 `duplicates', since the algorithm was too naive and could keep
5003 `--prefix=1 --prefix=2 --prefix=1' as `--prefix=1 --prefix=2', and
5004 keep `--prefix foo --prefix bar' as `--prefix foo bar'.
5005 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
5006 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Exercise these
5009 2002-09-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5011 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG): Use $srcdir when
5012 looking for a replacement file.
5013 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CHECK_DECLS): Check that the
5014 directory is relative.
5015 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Functions): Clarify the replacement
5016 directory definition.
5017 Reported by Andreas Schwab and Jim Meyering.
5019 2002-09-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5021 * doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Clarify what
5022 precious variables are.
5023 Suggested by Pontus Skoeld.
5025 2002-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5027 * bin/Makefile.am (autoconf, autoheader, autoreconf, autoupdate)
5028 (ifnames, autoscan, autom4te): Since we don't only depend on
5029 configure.ac variables (such as VERSION etc.), but also on prefix
5030 and so forth, depend on Makefile, not configure.ac.
5031 Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
5032 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Adjust.
5034 2002-09-05 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
5036 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): HP-UX trailing backslashes
5037 doesn't seem to be confined to ia64, just say "some versions".
5039 2002-09-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5041 * Makefile.am, doc/Makefile.am: Remove pdf targets, handled by
5043 * Makefile.am (maintainer-clean-local): Remove.
5044 (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Remove COPYING.
5046 2002-09-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5048 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Commands): Remove obsolete
5049 example for AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE. Problem reported by Marcus
5052 2002-09-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5054 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.53d.
5055 * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Require 1.6c, i.e., CVS Automake
5056 as of today, on Automake's team suggestion.
5058 2002-09-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5062 2002-09-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5064 * bin/autom4te.in (parse_args): Don't honor AUTOM4TE_PATH and
5066 * configure.ac: Disable SITE_MACRO_DIR.
5068 2002-09-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@lucent.com>
5070 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_SYS_POSIX_TERMIOS): Reflect renaming: s/am/ac/,
5071 i.e., change am_cv_sys_posix_termios to ac_cv_sys_posix_termios.
5072 Also, tweak grammar: s/make sure to/be sure to/.
5074 2002-09-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5076 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Explain why logical
5077 directory names are generally preferable to physical names.
5079 2002-09-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5081 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&update_file): s/die/error/.
5082 Reported by Raja R. Harinath.
5083 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoscan.in,
5084 * bin/autoupdate.in: Use error instead of die.
5086 2002-09-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5088 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_egrep, au_exclude_egrep): Use
5089 ordinary shell concatenation rather than echo+tr+sed command that
5090 runs afoul of a long-line-related sed bug in Solaris 8.
5092 * bin/autoheader.in (parse_args): --warning -> --warnings.
5094 * bin/autoconf.as: Work even if "ls" outputs "FOO not found" to
5095 stdout, as traditional "ls" does.
5096 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT,
5097 _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O): Likewise.
5098 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Add "ls".
5100 * bin/autoconf.as: Add --prepend-include option. This patch was
5101 applied to bin/autoconf.in in the 2002-07-17 patch by Mark D. Roth,
5102 but bin/autoconf.in is generated automatically from bin/autoconf.as.
5104 * bin/autoconf.in, configure: Regenerate.
5106 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Mention
5107 ENV, MAIL, MAILPATH, PS1, PS2, PS4. Index PWD.
5109 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Unset ENV, MAIL,
5110 MAILPATH and set PS1, PS2, PS4 to default values, to work
5111 around bug in pre-3.0 UWIN ksh reported by Bruce Lilly.
5112 For LC_ALL etc, first try to set to "C" as POSIX requires and as
5113 the Autoconf documentation specifies; fall back to "unset" only if
5114 this fails. Use a shell for-loop for this rather than an m4 loop,
5115 to shorten the output script.
5117 2002-08-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5119 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Mention POSIX
5120 1003.1-2001's requirements for CDPATH. Give a simpler workaround
5121 for the CDPATH problem. Document PWD.
5122 (Limitations of Builtins): Document the problem that "cd $foo" and
5123 "ls $foo" may refer to different directories in shells conforming
5124 to POSIX 1003.1-2001. Use PS1 rather than CDPATH for "unset"
5125 example, since the old example is now out of date.
5127 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Reject FOO if "cd
5128 FOO" and "ls FOO" talk about different directories; this catches
5129 problems when POSIX 1003.1-2001 "cd" fails due to symlink
5132 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Use AS_UNSET instead
5133 of rolling our own unset.
5134 (_AS_PREPARE): $as_unset CDPATH instead of AS_UNSETting it, since
5135 in practice we needn't worry about CDPATH if unset doesn't work.
5137 * Makefile.in, aclocal.m4, bin/Makefile.in,
5138 config/Makefile.in, doc/Makefile.in, lib/Makefile.in,
5139 lib/Autom4te/Makefile.in, lib/autoconf/Makefile.in,
5140 lib/autoscan/Makefile.in, lib/autotest/Makefile.in,
5141 lib/emacs/Makefile.in, lib/m4sugar/Makefile.in, man/Makefile.in,
5142 tests/Makefile.in: Regenerate with Automake 1.6.3.
5144 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/mkinstalldirs:
5147 * configure: Regenerate with self.
5149 2002-08-30 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
5151 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Notes on "cc"
5154 2002-08-29 Rainer Orth <ro@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
5156 * bin/autom4te.in (Request::load): Correctly test for "do" read
5159 2002-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5161 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&xqx): New.
5162 (&xsystem): Use WIFEXITED and WEXITSTATUS instead of decoding $? by
5163 hand, which is not portable.
5165 * bin/autom4te.in: Use them.
5166 Use &error instead of die.
5167 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4_warn, m4_require: circular dependencies):
5170 2002-08-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5172 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_PROG_F77): Remove fc from the
5173 default list of compilers to try, since it was long ago superseded
5174 by the ksh fc builtin. Suggested by Steven G. Johnson.
5176 2002-07-31 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
5178 * doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te): End the option table,
5179 fixing a bug introduced by the previous patch.
5180 (Limitations of Make): Add a 'target lookup' subentry in the
5181 'VPATH' entry. Rewrite all `make' occurences as `@command{make}'.
5183 2002-07-29 Mark D. Roth <roth@feep.net>
5185 * bin/autom4te.in: Remove --include-envvar and --site-macro-subdir
5186 options and use $AUTOM4TE_PATH.
5187 * doc/autoconf.texi: Remove documentation of autom4te
5188 --include-envvar and --site-macro-subdir options and document
5189 use of $AUTOM4TE_PATH.
5190 * lib/autom4te.in: Remove --include-envvar and --site-macro-subdir
5191 arguments from each language section.
5193 2002-07-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5195 * doc/install.texi: Include copyright symbol in copyright notice.
5197 * Makefile.am (MAKEINFO): Remove; it's a user-specified macro.
5199 (AM_MAKEINFOFLAGS): New macro.
5200 * doc/Makefile.am (MAKEINFO, AM_MAKEINFOFLAGS): Likewise.
5201 * Makefile.am (INSTALL): Use the new macros.
5202 Use -o rather than --output, since "missing" does not grok --output.
5204 2002-07-25 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
5206 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Escaped newlines in
5207 comments do not always work. Never trust the exit status of
5210 2002-07-24 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
5212 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make, Making testsuite Scripts):
5213 Untabify, since tabs are not enjoyed by texi2dvi and makeinfo.
5215 2002-07-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5217 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_SEPARATOR_PREPARE):
5218 Use PATH="/nonexistent;.", not PATH=".;.", as FreeBSD ksh2002
5219 apparently treats PATH="nonexistent" as if it contained ".".
5220 Bug reported by Stefan `Sec' Zehl.
5222 2002-07-22 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
5224 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Mention the special
5225 handling of the obj/ directory by BSD make.
5227 2002-07-20 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
5229 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Add HP-UX IA-64 trailing
5232 2002-07-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5234 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): `exit'.
5235 (Programming in M4sh): Ethymology of M4sh.
5237 2002-07-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5239 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_LIBOBJ vs LIBOBJS): More about $U.
5241 2002-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5245 2002-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5247 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub: Update.
5249 2002-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5251 Handle LIBOBJS and LTLIBOBJS once for all, including Libtool's and
5254 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJS_NORMALIZE): New.
5255 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_PRE): Call it.
5256 * tests/semantics.at (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Adjust.
5258 2002-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>,
5259 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
5261 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): Install
5262 _AC_AM_CONFIG_HEADER_HOOK for Automake 1.7.
5264 2002-07-17 Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
5266 * doc/autoconf.texi (Initializing configure): Clarify the
5267 description of the tarname default.
5269 2002-07-17 Andreas Buening <andreas.buening@nexgo.de>
5271 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_FORK): Don't set
5272 ac_cv_func_fork_works before running _AC_FUNC_FORK, do it if the
5275 2002-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5277 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (find_file): Browse the directories in
5278 the order they are given.
5280 2002-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5282 * tests/wrapsh.as, tests/wrappl.as: Merge into...
5283 * tests/wrapper.as: this.
5284 * tests/Makefile.am, configure.ac: Adjust.
5286 2002-07-17 Mark D. Roth <roth@feep.net>
5288 * configure.ac: Add --enable-site-macro-dir option.
5289 * bin/Makefile.am: Expand @SITE_MACRO_DIR@.
5290 * bin/autom4te.in: Add --prepend-include, --include-envvar, and
5291 --site-macro-subdir options.
5292 * bin/autoconf.in: Add --prepend-include option.
5293 * bin/autoheader.in: Add --prepend-include option.
5294 * bin/autoreconf.in: Add --prepend-include option.
5295 * bin/autoscan.in: Add --prepend-include option.
5296 * bin/autoupdate.in: Add --prepend-include option.
5297 * doc/autoconf.texi: Document use of $AC_MACRO_PATH and site
5298 macro directory, remove note that include path directories are
5299 used in reverse order, and document --prepend-include option.
5300 * lib/autom4te.in: Use --prepend-include instead of --include.
5301 * tests/wrapsh.in: Use --prepend-include instead of --include.
5303 2002-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5305 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): `_' is allowed in
5307 * doc/autoconf.texi (Initializing configure): Adjust.
5309 2002-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5311 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_REALLOC, _AC_FUNC_REALLOC)
5312 (_AC_FUNC_MALLOC): New.
5313 (AC_FUNC_MALLOC): Use the latter.
5314 Define HAVE_MALLOC to 0 if broken.
5315 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Adjust.
5317 2002-07-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5319 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BACKSLASH_A): New.
5320 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Adjust.
5322 2002-07-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5324 * doc/autoconf.texi: Properly set the ``header'' part.
5326 2002-07-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5328 * doc/autoconf.texi (Systemology): Some about Darwin.
5330 2002-07-09 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
5332 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_CYGWIN, AC_EMXOS2, AC_MINGW32):
5333 Don't use AC_REQUIRE in AU_DEFUN.
5335 2002-07-09 Art Haas <ahaas@neosoft.com>
5337 * doc/autoconf.texi: Use @enddots{} or @dots{} where appropriate.
5339 2002-07-02 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
5341 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
5342 bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in, lib/Autom4te/General.pm,
5343 lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm, lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Add local variables
5344 so that Emacs setups GNU style for perl-mode and cperl-mode.
5346 2002-06-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5348 * config/install-sh: Quote $src. Prefer || to test's -o option,
5349 as per "Limitations of Builtins".
5350 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_ENV): Likewise, for && vs test -a.
5351 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
5353 * tests/mktests.sh: Use grep instead of fgrep, as per
5354 "Limitations of Builtins".
5356 2002-06-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5358 * tests/wrapsh.as (AUTOCONF, AUTOHEADER, AUTOM4TE, AUTOM4TE_CFG,
5359 autom4te_perllibdir): Set to top build dir or src dir as appropriate,
5360 so that we consistently test the just-built programs.
5361 * tests/wrappl.as: Likewise.
5363 2002-06-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5365 * bin/autoconf.as (AUTOM4TE): Default to a fully qualified path
5366 name, so that symlinks to 'autoconf' work properly. Bug reported
5368 * bin/autoheader.in (AUTOM4TE): Likewise.
5369 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoconf, autoheader): Likewise.
5370 * bin/autoscan.in (autom4te): Likewise.
5371 * bin/autoupdate.in (autom4te): Likewise.
5373 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ_FNMATCH): Also check for
5374 btowc, to fix a portability bug with diffutils-2.8.2/lib/fnmatch.c
5377 2002-06-11 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
5379 * doc/autoconf.texi: Add more dir entries.
5381 2002-06-10 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
5383 * bin/autom4te.in ($cache): Don't define using `$me', the name
5384 of the cache should not depend on the name under which autom4te
5387 2002-06-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5389 * tests/tools.at (autoconf: forbidden tokens, basic)
5390 (autoconf: forbidden tokens, exceptions): Adjust to the change of
5391 words in autom4te.in.
5393 2002-06-07 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
5395 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C)): Use
5396 _AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_F77_HOOKS.
5398 2002-06-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5400 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNC_FNMATCH): Typo,
5402 (AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH): this.
5403 * tests/mktests.sh (exclude_list): Exclude AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH,
5404 AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU.
5406 2002-06-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5408 * doc/autoconf.texi (Systemology): Point to Tru64 docs, and the
5409 Rosetta Stone for Unix.
5411 2002-06-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5413 * bin/autom4te.in (warn_forbidden): When rejecting a token,
5414 suggest m4_pattern_allow.
5415 Suggested by Adam J. Richter.
5417 2002-06-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5419 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Initialize
5420 ac_config_libobj_dir.
5421 (AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR): New.
5422 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_FNMATCH): Split into...
5423 (_AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_IF, _AC_LIBOBJ_FNMATCH): these.
5424 Use ac_config_libobj_dir to find the replacement files.
5425 (AC_FUNC_FNMATCH, AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU): Split into...
5426 (AC_FUNC_FNMATCH, AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU, AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH)
5427 (AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH_GNU): these.
5428 (AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG): Use ac_config_libobj_dir.
5429 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions, Generic Functions): Adjust.
5430 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Don't check
5431 AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG as it requires getloadavg.c which is not shipped.
5433 2002-06-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5435 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_LINKS): Fall back on cp
5438 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Links): Likewise.
5439 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Prefer $(LN_S) to ln -s || ln.
5441 2002-06-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5443 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/texinfo.tex:
5444 Update from masters.
5446 2002-05-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5448 * bin/autom4te.in ($m4): Do not assume that egrep and fgrep exist.
5449 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
5450 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_RUN_LOG_STDERR, AC_EGREP_CPP):
5452 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am (check-local): Likewise.
5453 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_CONFIG_HEADER): Likewise.
5454 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (commentary only): Likewise.
5455 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT, AT_CHECK): Likewise.
5456 * lib/autotest/Makefile.am (check-local): Likewise.
5457 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am (check-local): Likewise.
5458 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CONFIGURE_AC, AT_CHECK_DEFINES): Likewise.
5459 * tests/mktests.sh (egrep): New var; use it instead of plain egrep.
5461 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_EGREP, AC_PROG_FGREP): New macros.
5462 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): Document them.
5463 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Warn that egrep and fgrep may not exist.
5466 2002-05-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5468 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_TYPE_MBSTATE_T): New macro.
5469 * NEWS, doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Types): Document it.
5470 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_FNMATCH): Require it
5471 instead of AC_MBSTATE_T, which never existed.
5473 2002-05-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5475 * doc/autoconf.texi (Hosts and Cross-Compilation): Specify the
5476 version of Autoconf that is discussed.
5478 2002-05-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5480 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_PROG_F77): Remove cf77 and cft77
5481 from the default list of compilers to try. Suggested by
5483 * NEWS: Document the above.
5484 * doc/autoconf.texi (Fortran 77 Compiler): Don't suggest cf77.
5486 2002-05-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5488 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_MEMBER): Work correctly even if
5489 the member is itself an aggregate. Bug reported by Sergey Poznyakoff.
5490 This improves on an earlier suggestion by H. Peter Anvin.
5492 2002-05-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5494 AC_FUNC_FNMATCH now tests only for POSIX compatibility.
5495 AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU also tests for GNU extensions.
5496 Both macros now accept an optional source-dir arg.
5497 New macro AC_GNU_SOURCE to define _GNU_SOURCE.
5499 * NEWS: Document this.
5500 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions, UNIX Variants): Likewise.
5502 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_FNMATCH): New macro.
5503 (AC_FUNC_FNMATCH): Use it. Test only for POSIX conformance,
5504 not for GNU extensions; this undoes part of the 2000-11-03 change,
5505 reverting to 2.13-compatible behavior.
5506 Add new optional argument DIR.
5507 (AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU): New macro.
5509 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_GNU_SOURCE): New macro.
5511 2002-05-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5513 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_TIOCGWINSZ):
5514 Don't require AC_SYS_POSIX_TERMIOS. The test is unnecessary,
5515 and it causes a 'test' syntax error if it fails.
5516 Bug reported by Stephen Gildea.
5518 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED):
5519 If prototypes are supported, use them to check this at compile-time,
5520 instead of trying to check it at run-time. If we must do a run-time
5521 check, assume that setvbuf is standard when cross-compiling, as
5522 nonstandard setvbuf occurs only on ancient and unlikely hosts.
5523 Bug reported by Paul D. Smith.
5525 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG): Add optional
5526 argument specifying location of getloadavg.c. This removes a
5527 FIXME. This idea was taken from Jim Meyering's implementation in
5529 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Document this.
5530 Also, mention HAVE_NLIST_H rather than NLIST_STRUCT, since
5531 that's what the code does; this fixes a bug reported by
5534 2002-05-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5536 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Rewrite to use Gettext's
5537 autopoint instead of gettextize.
5538 ($uses_alocal): Rename as...
5539 ($uses_aclocal): this.
5540 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Adjust.
5541 Suggested by Bruno Haible.
5543 2002-05-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5545 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_map_sep): New.
5547 2002-04-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5549 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Don't age aclocal.m4's input
5550 files to be 1 second older; just set them to be the same time.
5551 Also, sleep 1 second after the first aclocal, to work around
5552 problems with sub-second time stamps on the input files.
5554 2002-04-29 Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnu.org>
5556 * doc/autoconf.texi: Mention "set -e -x" lossage
5557 under node "Limitations of Builtins".
5559 2002-04-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5561 * doc/install.texi: Better wording for setting variables when
5563 From Christian Cornelssen.
5565 2002-04-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5567 * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): If testsuite itself is rewritten because
5568 of lack of $LINENO support, then the test will compare the $LINENO
5569 in testsuite vs. the lineno in the test file. This is wrong, of
5571 Be sure to protect it.
5572 Reported by Patrick Welche.
5574 2002-04-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5576 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsolete Macros): Typo.
5577 Reported by Vladimir Volovich.
5579 2002-04-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5581 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Don't let aclocal.m4 be older
5582 than some of the input files, hence, on the second run of aclocal,
5583 if some of its input are younger, make them older.
5584 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
5586 2002-04-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5588 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): sed and `!'.
5589 Thanks to Paul Eggert.
5591 2002-04-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5593 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Let ac_subst_files
5594 and ac_subst_vars be sh variables containing the list of
5595 AC_SUBST_FILES'ed and AC_SUBST'ed identifiers. Output them in the
5597 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Use them to log them.
5598 (_AC_SUBST, _AC_SUBST_SED_PROGRAM): Remove.
5599 (AC_SUBST, AC_SUBST_FILE): Instead of buliding the
5600 _AC_SUBST_SED_PROGRAM, store the list of output files/variables in
5601 _AC_SUBST_FILES and _AC_SUBST_VARS.
5602 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Adjust.
5604 2002-04-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5606 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Run automake after autoconf and
5607 autoheader, so that automake does not complain about a missing
5608 config.h.in that was to be created.
5610 2002-04-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5612 * bin/autoheader.in (parse_args): --warning takes an argument.
5615 2002-04-22 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
5617 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_RUN_IFELSE): Remove gmon.out
5618 and bb.out when cleaning up.
5620 2002-04-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5624 2002-04-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5626 * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): Fix the Zsh skip pattern.
5628 2002-04-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5630 * doc/autoconf.texi (Pretty Help Strings): Remove a spurious
5632 Reported by Gregory Giannoni.
5634 2002-04-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5636 * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): Skip the test if LINENO cannot be unset.
5637 Fixes false failures on Darwin.
5639 2002-04-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5641 * TODO, bin/autoupdate.in, doc/autoconf.texi,
5642 lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4,
5643 lib/autoconf/status.m4, lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4, tests/m4sh.at,
5644 tests/tools.at: Minor spelling and grammar fixes.
5646 2002-04-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5648 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Fix typos in yesterday's
5649 ZSH_VERSION fixes. Bug reported by Raja R Harinath.
5650 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
5651 * tests/atgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
5653 2002-04-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5655 * NEWS, TODO, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoupdate.in,
5656 doc/autoconf.texi, lib/freeze.mk, lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm,
5657 lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4, lib/autoconf/c.m4,
5658 lib/autoconf/functions.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
5659 lib/autoconf/lang.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4, lib/autoscan/identifiers,
5660 lib/autotest/general.m4, lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4, tests/atgeneral.m4,
5661 tests/atspecific.m4, tests/semantics.at, tests/torture.at:
5662 Minor spelling and grammar fixes.
5664 * doc/autoconf.texi: Follow the outline suggested in the GNU
5665 Sample Texts sections of the Texinfo 4.2 manual. Most
5666 importantly, this makes sure that the copyright notices appear in
5667 all output formats. You probably need Texinfo 4.2 to generate
5670 Fix some bugs when using "$@" when there might be zero positional
5671 arguments in cases where this matters.
5673 * bin/autoconf.as: Rewrite so that the problem does not come up.
5674 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_CHECK_PROG): Likewise.
5675 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_OUTPUT): Likewise.
5676 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
5678 * bin/autoheader.in: Use 'case' statement to work around problem.
5679 * bin/auto4mte.in: Likewise.
5680 * bin/autoreconf.in: Likewise.
5681 * bin/autoscan.in: Likewise.
5682 * bin/autoupdate.in: Likewise.
5683 * bin/ifnames.in: Likewise.
5685 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Document the problem.
5687 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT):
5688 Use Zsh alias to work around problem.
5689 * tests/atgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
5691 * tests/c.at: We can't have zero arguments, so remove workaround
5692 that is not portable to Zsh.
5694 2002-04-19 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
5696 * bin/autoupdate.in (handle_autoconf_macros): Honor AU_DEFUNs
5697 from aclocal.m4 too.
5699 2002-04-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5701 * tests/wrappl.as: New, M4sh precursor of wrappl.in.
5703 2002-04-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5705 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Install the Zsh
5706 workaround for ${1+"$@"}.
5707 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Explain it.
5708 From Oliver Kiddle and Peter Stephenson.
5710 Have M4sh perform minimal shell sanitizing.
5712 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.at (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Split the `_AS_PREPARE_*'
5714 (_AS_PREPARE): this new macro.
5716 (AS_INIT): Invoke AS_SHELL_SANITIZE.
5717 * tests/m4sh.at (AT_DATA_LINENO): Use _AS_PREPARE.
5719 Adjust Autoconf and Autotest.
5721 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Don't invoke
5722 AS_SHELL_SANITIZE, AS_INIT did it, but invoke AS_PREPARE.
5723 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
5724 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS):
5725 Invoke _AS_PREPARE (not AS_PREPARE) in addition to
5728 Use this M4sh to generate Autoconf's shell scripts.
5730 * tests/wrapsh.as: New, precursor of wrapsh.in.
5731 * tests/Makefile.am: Include lib/freeze.mk to get the dependencies
5732 on Autotest and M4sh.
5733 ($(TESTSUITE)): Use $(autotest_m4f_dependencies).
5734 (wrapsh.in): New target.
5735 * bin/autoconf.as: New, precursor of autoconf.in.
5736 (autoconf.in): New target.
5738 2002-04-09 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
5740 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Mention the issue
5741 with indented comments in rules.
5743 2002-04-09 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
5745 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Handle empty
5746 ac_top_builddir when setting ac_abs_top_builddir.
5748 2002-04-06 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
5750 * doc/autoconf.texi (Systemology): Add link to Unix V7 online docs.
5751 (Portable Shell): Cross reference to Systemology.
5753 2002-04-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5755 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Be sure to accumulate the
5756 directories when descending in a SUBDIRS.
5757 Reported by Ezra Peisach.
5759 2002-04-04 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
5761 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_WALK): Only simplify if path
5762 contains no literal separators.
5764 2002-04-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5766 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_CONFIG_FILE, _AC_CONFIG_HEADER)
5767 (_AC_CONFIG_COMMAND, _AC_CONFIG_LINK): New.
5768 Use dnl, not the KILL diversion.
5770 (AC_CONFIG_FILES, AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS)
5771 (AC_CONFIG_LINKS): here.
5773 Don't use the KILL diversion, as it kills spurious output, which
5774 results in failures being hidden.
5775 Use m4_defn where appropriate.
5776 (AC_CONFIG_IF_MEMBER): Kill the real bug: a spurious parenthesis
5777 after the second argument.
5779 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf, Autotest, M4sh): Don't pass --warning
5780 syntax, as it is provided by M4sugar.
5781 * tests/torture.at (Multiple AC_CONFIG_FILES): New.
5783 2002-04-03 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
5785 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_bmatch): Make sure m4_bregexp is not
5786 expanded if $# <= 2.
5788 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Run automake after rerunning
5791 2002-04-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5793 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT_REJECT)
5794 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_REJECT): New.
5795 Also recognize *.bb and *.bbg as compilation byproducts.
5796 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT, _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O)
5797 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT): Use them.
5798 Fixes Debian #138666.
5800 2002-04-02 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
5802 Integrate AC_PROG_CC_STDC into AC_PROG_CC.
5804 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Rename to _AC_PROG_CC_STDC.
5805 AU_DEFUN old name. Use _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE.
5806 (AC_PROG_CC): Call _AC_PROG_CC_STDC.
5807 (AC_C_INLINE): Do not require AC_PROG_CC_STDC.
5809 (AC_C_INLINE): Same.
5810 (AC_C_PROTOTYPES): Same. Require AC_PROG_CC instead.
5811 * doc/autoconf.texi, NEWS: Document.
5812 * tests/mktests.sh (au_exclude_list): Add AC_PROG_CC_STDC and
5815 2002-04-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5817 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Invoke
5818 _AS_MKDIR_P_PREPARE.
5820 2002-03-28 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
5822 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_INLINE): Test with a typedef return value,
5823 to avoid versions of HP C which don't allow that.
5825 2002-03-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5827 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BASENAME_PREPARE): New macro.
5828 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Invoke it.
5829 (AS_BASENAME): AS_REQUIRE it, and use $as_basename.
5831 2002-03-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5833 * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell): Add pointers to FAQs.
5835 2002-03-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5837 * doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction): The GNATS base moved.
5839 2002-03-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5841 * tests/m4sh.at: Don't rely on "PATH=test:$PATH test-1" working
5842 as POSIX requires, as it doesn't work with Zsh.
5843 * doc/autoconf.texi (Assignments): Document the problem.
5845 2002-03-25 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
5847 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Mention more issue
5848 about VPATH, overriding of macros in sub-makes, and handling of
5851 2002-03-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5853 * doc/autoconf.texi (Here-Documents): Mention Solaris 8 dtksh
5854 problem with here-document buffer boundaries.
5856 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Unset ENV and BASH_ENV
5857 when reinvoking the shell, to work around problems with installers
5858 who put strange things like "cd" commands in their environments.
5860 2002-03-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5862 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): s/unknow/unknown/.
5865 2002-03-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5867 * bin/autoscan.in (scan_file): Specify the location in `&used'
5871 2002-03-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5873 * doc/autoconf.texi: Adjust @code/@command, @xref/@ref usage.
5874 From Nishio Futoshi.
5876 2002-03-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5878 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_define_default, m4_fst, m4_map): New.
5880 2002-03-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5882 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Add AS_MKDIR_P.
5883 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Add mkdir section.
5885 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_MKDIR_P_PREPARE): New macro.
5886 (AS_MKDIR_P): Require it. Use mkdir -p if available, falling
5887 back on AS_DIRNAME to compute prefixes otherwise; this is
5888 roughly what mkinstalldirs does. That way, we need not have
5889 our own filename disassembler. The old disassembler did not
5890 work with Solaris 8 dtksh, which is ksh Version M-12/28/93d.
5892 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT, AT_CLEANUP):
5893 Create at_test_all by a series of assignments,
5894 not by a single assignment of a long string. The latter causes ksh
5895 version 11/16/88g to silently misbehave on OpenServer 5.0.6a,
5896 presumably because of a buffer overrun.
5898 2002-03-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5900 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (at_times_skip):
5901 Renamed from at_times. Now a boolean.
5902 ksh93 Version M-12/28/93d doesn't like 'x=times; $x'; it
5903 says 'times: not found'.
5905 2002-03-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5907 * bin/autoreconf.in (&study_gettextize): New.
5908 (&autoreconf): Handle newest gettextize.
5909 Rerun aclocal if needed.
5910 Suggested by Andreas Schwab.
5912 2002-03-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5914 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): More about IFS.
5916 2002-03-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5918 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): New.
5919 Add information about stdint.h and inttypes.h from Paul Eggert.
5921 2002-03-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5923 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Some about `cp
5927 2002-03-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5929 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_BASENAME_EXPR): AS_REQUIRE, not
5932 2002-03-11 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
5934 * configure.ac: Explicitly check for EMACS since AM_PATH_LISPDIR
5935 does not do it if --with-lispdir is given.
5937 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5941 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5943 * doc/autoconf.texi (Subdirectories): Clarify that the
5944 subdirectory should exist.
5946 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5948 * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): 1.6.
5950 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5952 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_m4): Do not foreach with `$_' as it
5953 aliases the actual variables, and modifications of the former
5956 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5958 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_m4): Protect us from corrupted file
5959 because of C-c: have m4 output in tmp files, then mv them.
5961 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5963 * bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in,
5964 * bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in,
5965 * bin/ifnames.in: Copyright update.
5967 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5969 * doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te): New.
5971 2002-03-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5973 * doc/autoconf.texi (Specifying Names): Clarification suggested by
5976 2002-03-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5980 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5982 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_LIBOBJ vs. LIBOBJS): New.
5983 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_INIT): More informative error
5986 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5988 * lib/freeze.mk ($(build_libdir)/m4sugar/version.m4): New, for
5991 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5993 * doc/autoconf.texi (Transforming Names): Equality between target
5994 and host is irrelevant.
5995 (Specifying Names, Canonicalizing): Remove all references to the
5996 backward compatibility hooks. Rather, collect them all into...
5997 (Hosts and Cross-Compilation): this new section.
5998 * doc/install.texi (System Type): Ditto.
5999 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CANONICAL_HOST): Explicitly state
6000 that `--host' implies cross-compilation.
6002 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6004 * doc/autoconf.texi (Evaluation Macros): New.
6005 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_lquote): Remove, it is totally
6007 (_m4_foreach): Define the variant with immediate evaluation so
6008 that it contains exactly the items, not an expression which
6009 evaluation is the current item.
6010 (m4_re_string, m4_re_word): Don't over quote them.
6012 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6014 Instead of having stacking `shift's evaluated at the end, let
6015 `foreach' loops immediately evaluate them.
6017 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_quote, m4_dquote): Use $@ rather than
6018 $*. This is the n-th time I change my mind, but hopefully this is
6021 (m4_text_wrap): Use m4_foreach, which is finally correct _and_
6023 (m4_foreach_quoted, m4_car_quoted, _m4_foreach_quoted): Remove, as
6024 it was only a hack for m4_text_wrap.
6025 (m4_car2): Remove, replaced by...
6027 (_m4_foreach): Adjust.
6028 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Adjust, and use
6029 m4_bpatsubst for clarification.
6031 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6033 * doc/autoconf.texi (Changequote is Evil): New.
6035 2002-03-03 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
6037 * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell): Mention 32-byte #! length limit
6038 on old systems like SunOS.
6040 2002-03-01 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
6042 * lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/fortran.m4,
6043 lib/autoconf/functions.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
6044 lib/autoconf/headers.m4, lib/autoconf/lang.m4,
6045 lib/autoconf/programs.m4, lib/autoconf/status.m4: Improve spelling
6048 2002-02-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6050 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Suggest a title to the
6053 2002-02-28 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
6055 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add va_copy and va_list.
6057 2002-02-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6059 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_SETPGRP): Fix the test.
6062 2002-02-13 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
6064 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm (getline, getlines): New functions,
6065 translate \r\n to \n.
6067 2002-02-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6071 2002-02-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6073 Fix Autoconf PR/209.
6074 Also reported by Frank Denis.
6076 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_WALK): Don't over quote.
6078 2002-02-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6080 Fix Autoconf PR/207:
6081 AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM fails with dashed program names
6083 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM): Just use a fresh
6084 variable when looking for the prefix program.
6085 Now it also works for shell variables.
6087 2002-02-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6089 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): More about
6092 2002-02-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6094 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS): Don't output empty
6095 case/esac, some shells don't support it.
6096 Reported by Zack Weinberg.
6097 * tests/torture.at (AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS with empty commands): New.
6099 2002-02-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6101 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): When handling --keywords, be
6102 sure not to introduce newlines in at_groups.
6103 * lib/autotest/Makefile.am (autotest.m4f): Typo.
6105 2002-02-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6107 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Skip if aclocal
6110 2002-02-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6112 * doc/autoconf.texi (Specific Compiler Characteristics):
6113 Describe HP-UX cc bug workaround more accurately.
6114 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Cast to long,
6116 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Check non-GCC
6117 cross-compilers, too. This undoes some of the most recent change
6120 2002-02-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6122 * tests/Makefile.am (check_SCRIPTS): Use it, instead of WRAPPERS,
6123 to make sure they are up to date when `check' is run.
6125 2002-02-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6127 * doc/autoconf.texi (Making testsuite Scripts): Document
6130 2002-02-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6132 * lib/freeze.mk: New.
6134 2002-02-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6136 Implement `autom4te --freeze'.
6138 * bin/autom4te.in (&freeze): New.
6139 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autotest/general.m4,
6140 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Don't include files given by autom4te.
6142 2002-02-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6144 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Implement `frozen files are
6145 optional are the sum of the previous files on the command line'.
6146 Also, pass `--reload-state=' on them, so...
6148 * lib/autom4te.in (Autotest, Autoconf): Rely on M4sh.
6149 (M4sh): Rely on M4sugar.
6150 (Autotest, M4sh, M4sugar): Use frozen files.
6152 2002-01-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6154 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): Accept $4.
6155 * doc/autoconf.texi (Initializing configure): Adjust.
6157 2002-01-30 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6159 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): Map non
6160 alphanumeric to `-' instead of `_'.
6162 2002-01-30 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6164 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Split into two tests: one
6165 for plain code, the other for cross-compilation code. The latter
6166 is now run with GCC only.
6167 * doc/autoconf.texi (Compilers and Preprocessors): New.
6169 2002-01-30 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6171 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): Support pre-defined
6173 * doc/autoconf.texi (Initializing configure): Explain how to
6174 change AC_INIT default values.
6176 2002-01-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6178 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Use configure.in,
6179 so that aclocal 1.4 works.
6180 Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz and Larry Schmitt.
6182 2002-01-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6184 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): AT_CLEANUP no longer
6187 2002-01-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6189 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't be ridiculous: adjust
6190 AUTOTEST_PATH *after* it was set.
6191 Don't put `.' in the PATH: the user should be precise and `./' if
6192 needed. In addition, given that the test suite does some `cd', if
6193 `.' is in the path, the `tested programs' sections will report
6194 programs found in the test suite's directory, while during the
6195 tests (performed in their own directory), these programs are no
6196 longer visible. In other words, the results is confusing and
6198 * tests/m4sh.at: Adjust: don't rely on `.' being in the PATH.
6200 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6204 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6206 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoscan.in,
6207 * doc/autoconf.texi: Finally add Akim as an author.
6209 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6211 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Use PATH_SEPARATOR.
6212 (_AS_PATH_SEPARATOR_PREPARE): Don't expect $SHELL to be
6213 Bourne. Use /bin/sh.
6214 From Andreas Buening.
6216 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6218 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/texinfo.tex:
6219 Update from masters.
6221 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6223 * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): 1.5b.
6224 * config/auxdir.m4, config/cond.m4, config/depend.m4,
6225 * config/init.m4, config/install-sh.m4, config/lispdir.m4,
6226 * config/missing.m4, config/sanity.m4, config/select.m4,
6227 * config/strip.m4: Remove, to ease sync'ing with any version of
6230 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6232 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS)
6233 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Support -n as --no-create, as documented.
6234 Reported by Geir Ove Myhr.
6236 2002-01-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6238 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MMAP): #Undef malloc.
6240 2002-01-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6242 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (getopt): Use a more GNUish error
6243 message on invalid options.
6244 * bin/autom4te.in (parse_args): Don't use
6245 Autoconf::General::getopt with non valid options.
6247 2002-01-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@lucent.com>
6249 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Initialize
6250 $ac_cv_exeext so we don't use an old, invalid, cached value.
6252 2002-01-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6254 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_STRNLEN): New, from Jim
6256 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Document the strnlen
6258 (Particular Functions): Document AC_FUNC_STRNLEN.
6259 * lib/autoscan/functions: Adjust.
6261 2002-01-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6263 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Don't create
6264 package.m4, since is really depends upon configure.ac, not
6266 * doc/autoconf.texi (testsuite Scripts): Adjust.
6267 * tests/Makefile.am (package.m4): New.
6268 EXTRA_DIST it since its a source.
6270 2002-01-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6272 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Move the AC_SUBST
6273 of PACKAGE_NAME, PACKAGE_TARNAME, PACKAGE_VERSION, PACKAGE_STRING,
6274 and PACKAGE_BUGREPORT from here...
6275 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): to here, since it is unrelated to the
6277 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): AC_DEFINE these symbols.
6278 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Use AT_PACKAGE_*, not PACKAGE_*.
6279 (AT_INIT): No longer catch `^PACKAGE_(BUGREPORT|STRING)$'.
6280 * tests/tools.at (autoheader): Adjust.
6281 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_DEFINES): Adjust.
6283 2002-01-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6285 * bin/autoscan.in (scan_file): Use `&used'.
6287 2002-01-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6289 * doc/autoconf.texi (Output): Improved wording regarding use of
6293 2001-12-18 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
6295 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add notes on sscanf
6296 sometimes needing writable input.
6298 2001-12-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@lucent.com>
6300 * doc/autoconf.texi (New Macros): Tweak wording.
6302 2001-12-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6304 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): We cleaning up the
6305 trailing files, don't apply `-rf' to files which might not be
6306 created by configure (core, core.*, and *.core), but just `rm -f'.
6307 Suggested by Jonathan Kamens.
6309 2001-12-14 Aaron M. Ucko <amu@alum.mit.edu>
6311 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Avoid duplicates in `$ac_configure_args'.
6313 2001-12-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6315 * Makefile.am (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Remove configure.
6317 2001-12-13 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
6319 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Rename buildpath to
6320 abs_builddir, top_buildpath to abs_top_builddir, srcpath to
6321 abs_srcdir, top_srcpath to abs_top_srcdir.
6322 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Adjust.
6323 * NEWS, doc/autoconf.texi, lib/autoconf/autotest.m4,
6324 * tests/atspecific.m4, tests/autoreconf.in, tests/tools.at,
6325 * tests/wrappl.in, tests/wrapsh.in: Adjust.
6327 2001-12-12 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
6329 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_F77_V_OUTPUT): Fix failed
6330 C/Fortran linking on HP/UX, by extracting the Fortran library
6331 search path from the LPATH line in the $F77 -v output.
6333 2001-12-12 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
6335 * doc/autoconf.texi (File Descriptors): Use a clearer layout for the
6336 forbidden file descriptors table.
6338 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6340 * bin/autoscan.in (%c_keywords): Build it at top level.
6341 Map to 1 in order to simplify its uses.
6343 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6345 * bin/autoscan.in (&scan_c_file, &scan_sh_file, &scan_makefile):
6346 Remove $filepath, useless.
6347 (&scan_makefile): Don't remove the $(FOO), ${FOO} and @FOO@
6348 variables, they are really part of the tokens.
6349 Split the input line on spaces and then look for tokens.
6350 Now autoscan ceases to ask for AC_PROG_LEX for the package Bison
6351 because of `lex$U.$(OBJEXT)'.
6352 (&scan_files): Use "@list" instead of join.
6353 * doc/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): Add *.fns.
6355 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6357 * tests/autoreconf.in, tests/autom4te.in, tests/autoupdate.in:
6358 Remove, replaced by...
6359 * tests/wrappl.in: Be common for all the Perl executables.
6360 In particular autoscan and autoheader want -I.
6361 * configure.ac: Adjust.
6362 * lib/autoscan/headers: errno.h is portable.
6364 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6366 * bin/autoscan.in (used): New.
6369 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6371 * bin/autoscan.in (&scan_c_file): Better parsing of CPP
6373 (&scan_sh_file): Remove a duplicate pattern.
6374 (&check_configure_ac): Use long options.
6375 * lib/autoscan/headers (alloca.h): Check with AC_FUNC_ALLOCA.
6377 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6379 * bin/autoscan.in (scan_c_file): Fix the handling of C comments.
6380 Before, having a line containing the opening of a multi line
6381 comment made the whole line be ignored.
6383 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6385 * doc/autoconf.texi (Using an Autotest Test Suite): New.
6386 (testsuite Scripts): Be one of its subsection.
6387 (Autotest Logs): New.
6389 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6391 Test groups are now run two directories deeper.
6393 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Replace srcdir,
6394 top_srcdir and top_builddir with at_srcdir, at_top_srcdir and
6396 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Compute srcdir,
6397 top_srcdir, builddir and top_builddir.
6398 Use `at_*dir' relatively to the directory containing the
6399 suite, use `*dir' when relatively to the current group dir.
6401 2001-11-25 Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
6403 * doc/autoconf.texi, TODO, lib/autoconf/fortran.m4,
6404 lib/autoconf/functions.m4, lib/autoconf/headers.m4,
6405 tests/atgeneral.m4, tests/tools.at, tests/atspecific.m4: Fix
6408 2001-11-22 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
6410 * doc/autoconf.texi (Using System Type): Add an example of `case
6411 $host' usage so people quit using `case $target' everywhere.
6413 2001-11-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6415 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Englishoes
6416 spotted by Jim Meyering.
6418 2001-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6420 This patch implements a `long double' suggestion by Oliver Kiddle.
6422 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY(C)): Make the array
6423 static, to catch errors if the value isn't known at compile-time
6424 and the compiler supports dynamic arrays. Change its name from
6425 `_array_' to `test_array' to avoid potential name clashes.
6426 (AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE): Make it a compile-time test, not a run-time
6427 test. Do not define HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE if `long double' is no
6428 better than double. Catch a bug in GCC 2.95.2 x86.
6429 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Document the above.
6432 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6434 * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): Protect from autom4te's substitution by
6436 * tests/tools.at: Don't protect dnl, AT_DATA_M4SH does.
6438 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6440 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): After having run the test
6441 group, go back to the initial directory, not to at_suite_dir.
6443 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6445 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_DATA_M4SUGAR, AT_DATA_M4SH)
6446 (AT_DATA_AUTOCONF): Also protect @&t@ from autom4te.
6447 (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF, AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER): Pass no --include
6449 (AT_CHECK_CONFIGURE): Use absolute paths.
6450 (_AT_CHECK_AC_MACRO): Create aclocal.m4 with AC_STATE_SAVE in it.
6451 The problem is still the old one: there is no means in M4 (that I
6452 know about) to create a defining macro, because there is no means
6453 to create `$1' etc., therefore, the defining macro ``swallows''
6454 all the arguments meant to the defined macro.
6456 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6458 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_DATA_AUTOCONF): New.
6459 (AT_CONFIGURE_AC): Output the definition of AC_STATE_SAVE in
6461 * tests/aclocal.m4: Remove, as it is no longer used.
6463 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6465 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Change `tests?' into `groups?' in
6466 variable names when referring to a single test group, or to
6467 `suite' when referring to the whole test suite.
6468 `at_last_test' is removed: m4 compute at_format itself.
6469 (at_stdout, at_stder1, at_stderr): New variables.
6470 (AT_CHECK): Use them.
6472 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6474 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Be sure to put `.', relative,
6476 Create `testsuite.dir/003/run' instead of `testsuite.003'.
6477 Do it as soon as a test fails, don't wait till the end of the test
6479 Don't remove $as_me.[0-9]*, since these files no longer exist.
6481 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6483 * tests/tools.at: Use absolute paths, since we are no longer run
6486 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6488 Now that tests are running in their own private dir, there is no
6489 need to list the files to remove at the end of tests groups.
6491 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_CLEANUP_FILE, AT_CLEANUP_FILES):
6492 (AT_data_files, at_data_files): Remove.
6493 (AT_CLEANUP, AT_DATA): Simplify.
6495 Remove the group dir if !debug && !failed.
6496 * tests/atspecific.m4: Adjust.
6498 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6500 Start a new layout for Autotest: `testsuite' creates
6501 `testsuite.dir' in which the at-check-line etc. files are to be
6502 found, and `testsuite.dir/003' where the test group 3 is run.
6504 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): at_tests_dir,
6505 at_check_line_file, at_format, at_test_normalized, at_group_dir
6507 Create the directories.
6508 Use absolute paths for at- files.
6511 2001-11-11 Michael Matz <matz@kde.org>
6513 * m4sugar.m4 (_m4_foreach): Make it linear instead quadratic.
6515 (m4_car): Properly quote arguments.
6517 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6519 * tests/aclocal.m4 (AC_STATE_SAVE): s/LIBOBJS/LIB@&t@OBJS/ to cope
6520 with stricter rules on LIBOBJS.
6522 2001-11-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6524 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_PROTOTYPES): Define __PROTOTYPES too.
6525 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): AC_C_PROTOTYPES now defines
6528 2001-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6530 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETMNTENT): Use AC_CHECK_FUNCS.
6532 2001-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6534 * lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/fortran.m4,
6535 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
6536 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4,
6537 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4, lib/autoconf/specific.m4,
6538 * lib/autoconf/types.m4: When invoking AC_DEFINE and friends,
6539 specify to what the macro should be defined (typically to 1).
6541 2001-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6543 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_STRTOD): AC_SUBST POW_LIB.
6546 2001-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6548 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_LEX_YYTEXT_DECL): Use
6549 AC_TRY_EVAL to run $LEX, not AC_TRY_COMMAND. This validates the
6550 definition used by Automake where LEX is +/- "${missing} lex" and
6551 `missing' itself contains variables.
6553 2001-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6555 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Push KILL at the end.
6556 Now that M4sh pushes BODY, the comments were output at the end of
6559 2001-11-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6561 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Run aclocal before tracing, so
6562 that we can trace macros from aclocal.m4.
6563 Trace AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, not AM_PROG_LIBTOOL, since the latter is
6564 obsoleted, and redirect to the former anyway.
6565 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
6567 2001-11-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6569 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): AC_CONFIG_SUBIDRS are to be
6570 processed only if present.
6571 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Use autoreconf
6572 instead of successive calls to autoconf.
6573 Add a nonexistent subdirectory to exercise the patch above.
6574 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
6576 2001-11-08 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
6578 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Note HP-UX cc
6579 doesn't accept .S files.
6581 2001-11-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6583 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_pattern_forbid): Accepts $2.
6584 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_INTI): Forbid LIBOBJS.
6585 (_AC_LIBOBJ): s/LIBOBJS/LIB@&t@OBJS/.
6586 * bin/autom4te.in (warn_forbidden): New.
6587 (handle_output): Use it.
6588 Read m4_pattern_forbid with messages.
6590 2001-11-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6592 * bin/autom4te.in (--normalize): Remove.
6593 * lib/autom4te.in: Adjust.
6595 2001-11-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6597 * tests/Makefile.am (testsuite): Rename this target as...
6598 ($(TESTSUITE)): this.
6601 2001-11-05 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
6603 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): When removing
6604 the --prefix option, also remove it's argument.
6606 2001-11-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6608 * doc/autoconf.texi (testsuite Invocation): Update.
6609 (Writing testsuite.at): Update.
6611 2001-11-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6613 * doc/autoconf.texi: s/@code/@command/ where appropriate.
6615 2001-11-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6617 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: (&catfile, &canonfile)
6618 (&file_name_is_absolute): New, wrappers around routines from
6620 Use and export them.
6621 (&find_configure_ac): Optionally take a directory where to look at.
6622 * bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args): Trim the configure.ac part of
6624 Default @ARGV to `.', not find_configure_ac.
6625 (&autoreconf): Argument is a directory.
6626 Trace AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS and schedule the subdirs for autoreconf'ing.
6627 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Update.
6629 2001-11-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6631 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (@export_vars, @export_subs)
6632 (@export_forward_subs): New.
6633 Add basename, dirname, and fileparse.
6635 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Fix call to fileparse.
6636 Don't look for aclocal flags if we already know aclocal is not
6638 Move aclocal.m4t only if it exists.
6639 Reported by Ezra Peisach.
6641 2001-11-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6643 * bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args): Work only on the configure.ac
6644 passed on command line, defaulting to ./configure.ac if present.
6645 (&maybe_autoreconf, File::Find): Remove, unused.
6646 (&autoreconf): If autoconf is not used, don't try to trace.
6648 2001-11-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6650 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.52g.
6652 2001-11-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6656 2001-11-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6658 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, doc/standards.texi:
6659 * config/lispdir.m4: Update from masters.
6660 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.52f.
6662 2001-11-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6664 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Set `$aclocal_flags' to ''.
6665 Don't run aclocal when aclocal.m4 is not from aclocal.
6667 Don't run libtoolize and gettextize if --install is not given.
6669 2001-11-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6671 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): _AS_CR_PREPARE needs to
6672 be invoked before _AS_LINENO_PREPARE.
6673 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Use as_cr_digits and as_cr_alnum rather
6674 than character ranges.
6676 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Fix NLS before
6677 invoking AS_BASENAME. Set the locale variables to 'C' if
6678 possible, as POSIX requires this to get the traditional
6680 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Describe the above.
6682 2001-10-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6684 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_WORKS): Do not surround body
6685 with {}, as that triggers a bug in Bash 2.05.
6687 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Use Sed rather than
6688 Awk. Fix the sed prepass to work even if there are multiple
6689 instances of $LINENO on the same line. Do not substitute for
6690 other variables like $LINENOT. Do not check file dates; such a
6691 check is unreliable on sufficiently fast machines, and removing
6692 the check makes the code simpler and more reliable. Check for
6693 output and chmod failures.
6695 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Document
6698 2001-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6700 * tests/Makefile.am (atconfig): Remove this target, Automake
6703 2001-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6705 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Do not
6706 AC_CONFIG_FILES(atlocal) as it means a file atlocal.in *must* be
6707 provided, while it is optional.
6708 * configure.ac: Adjust.
6710 2001-10-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6712 * NEWS, README, configure.ac, lib/Autom4te/General.pm,
6713 lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm:
6714 Require Perl 5.005_03 instead of just 5.005, as some tests fail
6717 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Document some
6718 more LINENO gotchas, particularly with respect to the Awk+Sed hack.
6720 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_WORKS): New macro.
6721 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Use it instead of shell eval, since
6722 eval $LINENO is not portable in practice.
6724 2001-10-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6726 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (backname): New.
6728 2001-10-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6730 * m4/: Remove, merged into...
6733 2001-10-23 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
6735 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology): Mention the problems with bash
6736 2.05's use of ANSI quoting in its `set' builtin.
6738 2001-10-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6740 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R):
6741 Rename ac_cv_func_strerror_r_works to ac_cv_func_strerror_r_char_p,
6742 and rename HAVE_WORKING_STRERROR_R to STRERROR_R_CHAR_P, since
6743 POSIX decided to standardize on the int flavor of strerror_r.
6744 Always do char* test, as there's no reason not to.
6745 Assign to a char* var, to catch strerror_r that returns int*.
6747 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions):
6748 Document the above changes. Also, document the fact that
6749 AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R defines HAVE_DECL_STRERROR_R.
6751 * NEWS: Mention HAVE_WORKING_STRERROR_R -> STRERROR_R_CHAR_P.
6753 2001-10-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6755 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): The name of
6756 the executable was missing from the log.
6758 2001-10-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6760 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&update_file): If destination is
6761 unchanged, remove the source.
6762 (&up_to_date_p): Don't be verbose, be debug.
6763 * bin/autoreconf.in: No longer support --m4dir.
6764 (&autoreconf): Display the full path of the configure.ac we are
6767 Be sure to honor --force with gettextize.
6769 * doc/autoconf.texi: Adjust.
6771 2001-10-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6773 * bin/autoheader.in ($localdir, $m4, $SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX):
6775 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Do not run gettextize when
6776 `intl' is already present, as it refuses unless --force.
6777 (&parse_args): Use -I, --include instead of the old Autoconf
6779 ($localdir, $autoconf_dir): Remove.
6781 (&maybe_autoreconf): New, to preserve $_ for File::Find.
6783 2001-10-19 Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com>
6785 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_AWK): Prefer gawk to mawk.
6786 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): Likewise.
6788 2001-10-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6790 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Name the generated
6791 file in @configure_input@.
6792 Don't mention `automatically' in addition to `generated'.
6793 * tests/torture.at (#define header templates): Adjust.
6795 2001-10-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6797 * lib/emacs/autoconf-mode.el, lib/emacs/autotest-mode.el: In a
6798 comment, explain how to install automatic mode selection.
6801 2001-10-19 Ezra Peisach <epeisach@zif.mit.edu>
6803 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Display the path to the
6804 configure.ac being studied.
6806 2001-10-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6808 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Cast sizeof to unsigned
6809 long, to work around a bug in the HP C compiler version HP92453-01
6812 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_DIRNAME): Use 'dirname' if that works.
6813 (AS_BASENAME_EXPR): New macro.
6814 (AS_BASENAME_SED): Do not assume GNU sed semantics.
6815 (AS_BASENAME): Use 'basename' if that works; then try 'expr';
6816 and fall back on 'sed' only if the other two fail. This makes
6817 AS_BASENAME act more like AS_DIRNAME.
6818 (as_me): Shell-quote the argument of AS_BASENAME, in case $0
6819 contains white space.
6820 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR):
6821 Use AS_DIRNAME, since I think it's now DOS-friendly.
6822 * tests/m4sh.at (DIRNAME_TEST): New arg $3.
6823 Allow "dirname //FOO" to return either / or //, as POSIX allows
6826 2001-10-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6828 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Recognize
6829 `a_out.exe' for OpenVMS 7.1, DEC C 5.5 compiler, via GNV.
6832 2001-10-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6834 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_ECHO_N_PREPARE): m4_defun, not
6836 (_AS_ECHO_N): AS_REQUIREs it.
6838 2001-10-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6840 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS)
6841 (AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT): Move to...
6842 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4: here.
6843 * lib/autoconf/types.m4: Comment changes.
6844 * doc/autoconf.texi: Specify where the default includes are used
6845 in the macro prototypes.
6847 2001-10-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6849 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4 (m4_patsubst, m4_regexp): New
6852 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6854 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Remove debugging code.
6855 (&parse_args): Pass verbosity/debugging options to subtools when
6856 --debug, not when --verbose.
6857 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoreconf-preselections): New.
6860 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6862 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Run libtoolize when appropriate.
6864 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6866 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Adjust.
6867 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Run gettextize when appropriate.
6869 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6871 * tests/tools.at (AT_CHECK_PERL_SYNTAX): Check autoreconf.
6872 (Syntax of the shell scripts): Don't.
6873 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in: Don't
6874 bother with $force since...
6875 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: does.
6877 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6879 * bin/autoreconf.in: Rewrite in Perl.
6880 * configure.ac: Adjust.
6881 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&up_to_date_p): New.
6882 * bin/autom4te.in (&up_to_date_p): Use it.
6884 (&up_to_date): this.
6886 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6888 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_case, m4_bmatch, m4_normalize)
6889 (m4_list_cmp): Use $0 to reinvoke yourself.
6890 (m4_patsubsts): New.
6891 (m4_strip, m4_version_unletter): Use it.
6892 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_DATA_M4SUGAR, AT_DATA_M4SH): Likewise.
6894 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6896 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
6897 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4, lib/autoconf/status.m4,
6898 * lib/autoconf/types.m4, lib/autotest/general.m4,
6899 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4, lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4, tests/atspecific.m4,
6900 * tests/torture.at: Rename m4_regexp, m4_patsubst, and m4_match to
6901 m4_bregexp, m4_bpatsubst, and m4_bmatch.
6902 * doc/autoconf.texi (Redefined M4 Macros): Adjust.
6904 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6906 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Use AS_REQUIRE.
6908 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6910 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_DIRNAME_EXPR): Use AS_REQUIRE.
6911 * tests/tools.at (AT_DATA_FORBIDDEN): Rename/move/duplicate to...
6912 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_DATA_M4SUGAR, AT_DATA_M4SH): here.
6913 * tests/tools.at, tests/m4sh.at: Use it.
6914 * tests/m4sh.at: Don't rely on Autoconf macros.
6915 (DIRNAME_TEST): Also exercise the expr variant.
6916 * tests/m4sugar.at, tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR): The
6917 preferred M4sugar extension is now `.4s'.
6918 * tests/README: Remove.
6920 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6922 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_provide_ifelse): Rename as...
6923 (m4_provide_if): this.
6924 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_REQUIRE): New.
6925 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AS_DEFUN, AC_DEFUN_ONCE, AC_BEFORE)
6926 (AC_REQUIRE, AC_PROVIDE, AC_PROVIDE_IFELSE): Be exact copy of the
6927 M4sugar peer, i.e., drop the `AC_PROVIDE_$1' broken marker.
6929 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6931 Use `add-log-current-defun-function' for ChangeLog creation.
6932 Suggested by Tom Tromey.
6934 * lib/emacs/autotest-mode.el (autotest-mode-map): New.
6935 (autotest-mode): Adjust.
6936 * lib/emacs/autoconf-mode.el (autoconf-mode-map): Modernize, map
6937 'comment-region onto `C-c ;'.
6938 Comments are `#', not `dnl'.
6939 (autoconf-current-defun): New.
6940 (autoconf-font-lock-keywords): Recognize `m4_defun'.
6942 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6944 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_m4_divert(BODY)): Move to...
6945 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: here.
6946 (AS_INIT): Push the BODY diversion, set the #! /bin/sh line.
6947 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_PLAIN_SCRIPT) : Remove.
6948 (AT_INIT): Replace AC_PLAIN_SCRIPT with AS_INIT invocation,
6949 include handle the m4_pattern_*, no longer push the
6950 BODY diversion nor set the /bin/sh line, AS_INIT does it.
6951 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
6952 * tests/base.at: Adjust the tests to use AS_INIT.
6953 * tests/tools.at (AT_DATA_FORBIDDEN): New.
6954 (autoconf: forbidden tokens): Adjust to work on M4sh instead of
6957 2001-10-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6959 * doc/autoconf.texi (config.status Invocation):
6960 CONFIG_SHELL defaults to a shell that supports LINENO if available.
6962 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): If the current
6963 shell does not support LINENO, and if CONFIG_SHELL is unset or
6964 empty, and if we can find a shell that does support LINENO,
6965 then set CONFIG_SHELL to that shell and then re-execute
6966 ourselves with CONFIG_SHELL.
6968 2001-10-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6970 * tests/Makefile.am (clean-local): Don't invoke $(TESTSUITE) if it
6971 doesn't exist. Remove *.tmp, as a .tmp file is created during the
6972 build of $(TESTSUITE).
6974 2001-10-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6976 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Look in the path
6977 iff we are a bareword.
6978 Reported by Raja R Harinath.
6980 2001-10-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6982 * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): New.
6983 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Be sure to set
6984 PATH_SEPARATOR before using it.
6985 Fix the absolute path case/esac pattern.
6986 Provide $0 as fallback for as_myself.
6987 Reported by Raja R Harinath.
6989 2001-10-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6991 * Makefile.am, config/Makefile.am, lib/emacs/Makefile.am,
6992 * m4/Makefile.am, man/Makefile.am: Add/adjust MAINTAINERCLEANFILES.
6994 2001-10-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6996 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): New, extracted from...
6997 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): here. Use it.
6998 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Preserve the exit status of $0.lineno.
7001 2001-10-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7003 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Use a portable
7004 combination of Awk and sed to replace $LINENO.
7006 2001-10-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7008 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): You can't use
7009 "source"; it's not portable. Remove confusing and
7010 somewhat-incorrect example involving "." and "/".
7012 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): "source" -> ".", for
7013 compatibility with POSIX shells.
7015 2001-10-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7017 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Just source 40.lineno
7018 instead of exec'ing to preserve $0 and $@.
7020 2001-10-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7022 * tests/testsuite (AT_INIT) <at_pass_list>: New.
7023 Don't run twice the same test.
7025 2001-10-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7027 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT) <--help>: Catch up with reality.
7028 No longer output the list of tests.
7029 <--list>: New option.
7030 <--full-help>: Remove.
7031 Complete the short/long options duality.
7032 Various small adjustments.
7034 2001-10-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7036 * doc/autoconf.texi: Use @kbd for user input.
7037 Always use `$' as shell prompt.
7039 2001-09-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7041 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_OUTPUT_MAKE_DEFS):
7042 Don't use nested parenthesization. This patch was originally
7043 suggested to bug-autoconf by Philippe De Muyter on 2000-05-28,
7044 but somehow it didn't get incorporated then.
7045 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools):
7046 Clarify remark about sed and nested parenthesization.
7048 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF):
7049 Report an error if the size cannot be determined even though
7051 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE):
7052 Check for `expr' arithmetic overflow, and for compilation failure,
7053 and invoke a new argument $4 if either is discovered.
7054 This makes _AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE more like _AC_COMPUTE_INT_RUN.
7055 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT): Pass IF-FAILS arg to _AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE.
7057 2001-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7059 * lib/emacs/autoconf-mode.el, lib/emacs/autotest-mode.el: New.
7060 * m4/lispdir.m4: New.
7061 * aclocal.m4, configure.ac: Adjust.
7063 2001-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7065 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_VICTIMS): Rename as...
7067 (AT_INIT): More the wrapped section to where it will be expanded.
7068 Output `AT_tested' only when existing.
7069 Catch unexpanded PACKAGE_STRING and PACKAGE_BUGREPORT.
7071 2001-09-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7073 Fix the passing of $? to ACTION-IF-FAILED in AC_TRY_RUN, that
7074 generates too many bug reports.
7076 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_RUN_IFELSE): Pass the right exit
7077 status when executing the ACTION-IF-FALSE.
7078 * tests/base.at (AC_TRY_*): Rename as...
7079 (AC_TRY_COMMAND): this.
7080 (AC_RUN_IFELSE): New.
7081 * tests/compile.at (Extensions, C keywords)
7082 (AC_PROG_CPP requires AC_PROG_CC, GNU Fortran 77)
7083 (Broken/missing compilers, AC_PROG_CPP with warnings)
7084 (AC_PROG_CPP without warnings, AC_PROG_CPP via CC): Move to...
7085 * tests/c.at (Extensions, C keywords)
7086 (Broken/missing compilers, AC_PROG_CPP with warnings)
7087 (AC_PROG_CPP without warnings, AC_PROG_CPP via CC)
7088 (AC_PROG_CPP requires AC_PROG_CC): here and...
7089 * tests/fortran.at (GNU Fortran 77): there.
7090 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoconf Invocation): Fix the example:
7091 AC_TRY_RUN is about compilation, not shell commands.
7092 (Test Programs): AC_TRY_RUN works as used to be advertised.
7094 2001-09-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7096 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Fix bugs spotted by
7098 Be sure to detect when $LINENO always returns the same value.
7099 Look for the original script, basename($0) is certainly not
7101 Pass the CLI arguments to `$as_me.lineno'.
7103 2001-09-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7105 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Dump the whole config.log.
7106 Be sure the close and reopen the LOG fd before and after using tee
7108 <at_tests_pattern>: Adjust to the new format of at_help_all.
7110 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7112 * bin/autom4te.in (parse_args): There can be several invocations
7115 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7117 * doc/autoconf.texi (Top): Wrap in @ifnottex.
7119 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7121 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Compute and provide
7122 ac_buildpath, ac_top_buildpath, ac_srcpath, and ac_top_srcpath.
7123 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Also substitute srcpath, top_srcpath,
7124 builddir, buildpath, top_builddir, and top_buildpath.
7125 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Compute the dir variables *before* changing
7126 the current directory.
7127 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Compute the dir
7128 variables *before* changing the current directory.
7129 Skip nonexistent dirs.
7130 * doc/autoconf.texi (Preset Output Variables): Document these
7133 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Do not reset AT_victims.
7134 Don't compute at_srcdir nor at_top_srcdir.
7136 * tests/tools.at: Hence use top_srcdir.
7138 * tests/Makefile.am, tests/autoconf, tests/autoheader,
7139 * tests/autom4te, tests/autoreconf, tests/autoupdate, tests/ifnames:
7141 * tests/autoreconf.in, tests/wrappl.in, tests/autom4te.in,
7142 * tests/wrapsh.in, tests/autoupdate.in: New.
7143 * tests/Makefile.am (DISTCLEANFILES, EXTRA_DIST): Adjust.
7144 * configure.ac: Build the position independent wrappers.
7146 * man/Makefile.am: Now that test wrappers are position
7147 independent, use them and drop dark envvar magic.
7149 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7151 * doc/autoconf.texi (Common Shell Constructs): Rename as...
7152 (Programming in M4sh): this.
7153 Promote to @section.
7155 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7157 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Dump config.log last.
7158 Pass $at_debug_args to the rerun test suite.
7159 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am (DISTCLEANFILES): New.
7160 * bin/Makefile.am (ETAGS_SH): Don't use characters ranges.
7163 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7165 * bin/autom4te.in (@my_warning): Remove, handled by `autom4te.cfg'.
7167 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7169 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Fix shell
7172 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7174 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&debug): New.
7175 * bin/autom4te.in ($language): Move to...
7177 Handle --language in languages.
7178 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-selections, Autoheader-selections)
7179 (Autoscan-selections): New.
7182 2001-09-23 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
7184 * m4/auxdir.m4, m4/cond.m4, m4/depend.m4, m4/init.m4,
7185 * m4/install-sh.m4, m4/missing.m4, m4/sanity.m4, m4/strip.m4: Updated
7186 to match current versions from CVS Automake.
7188 2001-09-23 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7190 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Add pdksh output
7193 2001-09-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7195 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4: Create `package.m4'.
7196 * tests/Makefile.am (package.m4): Remove.
7198 2001-09-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7200 Rely on `$LINENO' when possible instead of `__oline__'.
7202 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Provide some form of
7203 `$LINENO' support replacement when not supported.
7204 (_AS_CR_PREPARE, _AS_TR_CPP_PREPARE, _AS_TR_SH_PREPARE): Invoke
7205 them explicitly to be sure they are not output before this section
7206 (via m4_require). Cosmetic only.
7207 * lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
7208 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4: Replace all the occurrences of
7209 `__oline__' with `$LINENO'.
7210 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Document LINENO.
7212 2001-09-21 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
7214 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_FORK): Replaceded an 8-bit
7215 character (u: -> ue) in a code comment.
7216 (AC_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK): Only run 'ln -s' if we know
7219 2001-09-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7221 * Makefile.maint (AUTOM4TE): Neutralize autom4te.
7222 Suggested by Jim Meyering.
7224 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
7226 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4: Use extensions listed in
7227 $ac_executable_extensions when looking for programs.
7229 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
7231 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Fix a small Englisho.
7232 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Fix a small typo. Handle DOS paths when
7233 setting up ac_dir_suffix and ac_top_builddir.
7234 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Default CDPATH to $PATH_SEPARATOR, not ':'.
7236 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
7238 * doc/autoconf.texi (File System Conventions): Clarify the use of
7240 (Special Shell Variables[PATH_SEPARATOR]): Ditto.
7241 (Special Shell Variables[CDPATH]): Mention that $PATH_SEPRATOR should
7242 be used instead of ':'.
7243 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Replace occurrences of ':' in
7244 AUTOTEST_PATH with $PATH_SEPARATOR at test suite startup.
7246 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
7248 * tests/atgeneral.m4: Add basic support for test ranges (e.g. 7-34) as
7249 arguments. Fixed a typo.
7251 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
7253 * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Use @PATH_SEPARATOR@, not ':' to set up
7254 $PATH. Also set AUTOM4TE_CFG, so we can process autom4te properly.
7256 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
7258 * bin/autoscan.in: Add 'exec-perl-if-not-run-by-perl'.
7259 * bin/autoupdate.in: Ditto.
7260 * bin/autoheader.in: Reworded a few comments.
7261 * bin/autoconf.in: Reworded help text for a few options.
7262 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
7263 * bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in: Ditto.
7265 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
7267 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm (open): Simplified the error message (we
7268 already have $file). Set output files to binary mode (helps avoid
7269 CR issues on DOSish systems).
7271 2001-09-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7273 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Englishoes.
7274 From Tim Van Holder and Alexey Mahotkin.
7276 2001-09-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7278 * doc/autoconf.texi (Common Shell Constructs): New node,
7279 documenting AS_DIRNAME.
7280 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Refer to it when discussing dirname.
7281 Also, update discussion of POSIX standard to reflect latest draft.
7283 * lib/autoconf/c.m4:
7284 (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C)): Also support negative values, down to LONG_MIN.
7286 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE):
7287 Do not pass a first argument with leading '-'
7288 to expr, by parenthesizing initial integers that might be negative.
7290 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): AC_FUNC_GETPGRP
7291 now merely checks whether it is an error to pass an argument
7294 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_GETPGRP_TEST): Remove.
7295 (AC_FUNC_GETPGRP): Don't bother with a runtime test. Just check
7296 whether it is a (compile-time) error to pass an argument to
7297 getpgrp. This simpler test supports the revised documentation,
7298 and is all that AC_FUNC_GETPGRP's users really need.
7300 2001-09-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7302 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make) <$<>: New.
7304 2001-09-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7306 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <find>: More about
7308 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Adjust.
7310 2001-09-18 Paul Wagland <paul@wagland.net>
7312 * tests/m4sh.at: Ensure that AS_DIRNAME handles '/', '//' and '///'
7314 Add test for AS_BASENAME.
7315 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Fix AS_BASENAME so that it passes the previous
7316 added test. It now correctly handles /1/2/3/, returning '3' not ''.
7317 Added AS_BASENAME_SED to make the interface the same as AS_DIRNAME.
7318 * tests/base.at: Fixed the expected responses. The old ones were
7320 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Fixed AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM, it now behaves as
7321 the documentation claims it should (and how it behaved in 2.13).
7323 2001-09-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7325 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): No INIT-CMDS in
7326 the AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS invocation.
7327 This also solves the name clash problems.
7328 Don't set the package's ID.
7329 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am (version.m4): Revamp.
7330 No longer to be shipped.
7331 (version.in): Remove.
7332 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
7333 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Adjust.
7334 Use `m4_PACKAGE_STRING'.
7335 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): N-th signature change: now
7336 the only optional argument is the name of the test suite.
7337 Expect `package.m4' to define the package signature.
7338 * lib/autom4te.in (Autotest): Add `package.m4?'.
7339 * tests/Makefile.am (package.m4): New.
7340 * tests/suite.at: ifnames is a victim.
7342 2001-09-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7344 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): Preselect AM_CONDITIONAL,
7345 AC_LIBSOURCE, AC_CONFIG_FILES.
7346 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't abort when a tested
7347 program version string doesn't match the package's.
7348 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CACHE_VAL): Reestablish the space
7351 2001-09-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7353 * lib/autoconf/c.m4: (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C)):
7354 Allow expression to return any value that can fit into unsigned long
7355 (not int, as before). Check for output errors.
7357 2001-09-17 Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>
7359 * lib/autoconf/c.m4: (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C)):
7360 Always include <stdio.h> and <stdlib.h>. Evaluate
7361 the expression in an extra function before these includes. Call
7362 fprintf "%d" only after ensuring the argument is of type 'int'.
7363 Reported by Wayne Chapeskie <waynec@spinnaker.com>.
7365 2001-09-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7367 Fix bug reported by Paul Townsend on AIX 4.3.3.0 with CFLAGS=-O4
7368 or CFLAGS=-O5. In that case, the linker has a relaxed view of
7369 fatal errors, and AC_CHECK_LIB causes it to include libraries even
7370 when they don't exist.
7372 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_DIRENT): Use AC_SEARCH_LIBS,
7373 not AC_CHECK_LIB, so that we don't use -ldir or -lx if we don't
7376 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_ISC_POSIX): Replace the old, crufty
7377 version with the version used by fileutils 4.1, except use
7378 AC_SEARCH_LIBS, not AC_CHECK_LIB, so that we don't use -lcposix if
7381 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_ISC_POSIX): Describe new behavior.
7383 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7385 * tests/base.at, tests/m4sh.at: Be sure to issue the bangshe line
7387 Reported by Gerrit P. Haase.
7389 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7391 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Reset `AT_victims' so that
7392 m4_defn'ing is valid.
7394 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7396 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_append_uniq): New.
7397 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_VICTIMS, AT_KEYWORDS, _AT_CLEANUP_FILE):
7400 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7402 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (_AS_QUOTE_IFELSE, _AS_BOX_INDIR): Use
7404 (m4_re_escape): New.
7405 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_CONFIG_IF_MEMBER): Use it.
7406 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CACHE_SAVE): Use m4_match.
7407 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_CONFIG_IF_MEMBER, AC_CONFIG_LINKS):
7409 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (_AC_CHECK_TYPE_REPLACEMENT_TYPE_P)
7410 (_AC_CHECK_TYPE_MAYBE_TYPE_P, AC_CHECK_MEMBER): Likewise.
7411 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Rename AT_TESTS_ALL as
7412 AT_tests_all for consistency.
7414 (AT_VICTIMS): Similar to AT_KEYWORDS.
7415 (_AT_CLEANUP_FILE_IF): Use m4_match and m4_re_escape.
7417 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7419 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Fix stupid bugs.
7421 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7423 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Create and remove
7424 `$as_me.[0-9]+' instead of `debug-[0-9]+.sh', so that multiple
7425 test suites can cohabit.
7427 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7429 * tests/mktests.sh: Don't output banners for empty test files.
7431 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7433 Test suites can be run independently of configure.
7435 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_ECHO, _AS_ECHO_N_PREPARE): New.
7436 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_ECHO): Remove.
7437 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Adjust: AC_SUBST
7439 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Don't ask for at_n
7441 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Use ECHO_*.
7443 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7445 * bin/ifnames.in: Rewrite in Perl.
7446 * configure.ac: Don't look for AWK.
7447 * tests/tools.at (AWK portability): Remove.
7448 (Syntax of the shell scripts): Don't check ifnames.
7449 (AT_CHECK_PERL_SYNTAX): New.
7450 (Syntax of the Perl scripts): Check ifnames.
7451 * tests/ifnames: New.
7453 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7455 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Let --keywords also match
7457 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AU_MACRO): AT_KEYWORDS(autoupdate).
7458 Remove all the other keywords.
7460 2001-09-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7462 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Remove the diversion HELP and
7463 SETUP: no longer used.
7464 Support -k, --keywords.
7465 <at_help>: Be `no', `short', or `long'.
7466 <at_help_all>: New variable.
7468 (AT_CLEANUP_FILE_IFELSE, AT_CLEANUP_FILE): Rename as...
7469 (_AT_CLEANUP_FILE_IF, _AT_CLEANUP_FILE): these.
7470 (_AT_CLEANUP_FILE_IF): Simplify the regexp.
7471 (AT_SETUP): Reset AT_line, AT_keywords, AT_description.
7472 No longer fill the HELP diversion.
7473 (AT_CLEANUP): Use them.
7474 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_append): Support a separator.
7475 (m4_list_append): Remove.
7477 Spread a few keywords in the Autoconf test suite.
7479 2001-09-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7481 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Don't pass
7482 PATH_SEPARATOR, let M4sh compute it.
7483 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_SEPARATOR_PREPARE): New.
7484 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_SHELL_PATH_WALK): Use PATH_SEPARATOR.
7486 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_WALK): Here.
7487 Simplify when the path is not a literal.
7488 (AS_UNAME): Use it to report PATH.
7489 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE_FS_SEPARATORS): Remove.
7490 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): AC_SUBST PATH_SEPARATOR.
7491 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_INSTALL): Use _AS_PATH_WALK.
7492 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Use _AS_PATH_WALK to
7493 normalize the path, and to look for victims.
7494 * tests/semantics.at (AC_PATH_PROG & AC_PATH_PROGS)
7495 (AC_CHECK_PROG & AC_CHECK_PROGS): Use PATH_SEPARATOR.
7497 2001-09-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7499 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_m4): `< /dev/null' so that GNU M4 1.5
7500 doesn't neutralize SIGINT, making autoconf etc. non interruptible.
7501 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Move the package
7502 related variables into `at_package_*'.
7503 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_VICTIMS): New.
7504 (AT_INIT): Adjust for stand-alone/embedded test suites.
7505 (AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD): Define and use it.
7506 * tests/suite.at (AT_VICTIMS): Use it.
7507 * tests/tools.at (autoupdating AC_PREREQ): Don't depend upon
7510 2001-09-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7512 Move toward possibly stand-alone test suites.
7514 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Stop displaying srcdir everywhere as,
7515 in addition, it introduces useless differences in logs.
7516 (AT_INIT): Let atconfig and atlocal be both optional.
7517 Adjust PATH computation.
7518 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_UNAME): More readable display of PATH.
7520 2001-09-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7522 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am (autoconf.m4f): Depends upon
7525 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7527 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY(C)): Use `_array_'
7528 to avoid GCC warnings.
7531 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7533 * bin/autom4te.in: --language is -l, not -s.
7535 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7537 Be ready to handle filenames as stupid as `dnl.at', for if even
7538 the maintainer is dumb enough to do that...
7540 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_SETUP, AT_LINE): Demonstrates your
7541 excellence in M4 quotation: consider `__file__' is active.
7543 And BTW, when invoking m4, pass the --include in the right order:
7546 * bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoupdate.in: Use reverse when kingtal to
7549 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7551 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: New lib file.
7552 * bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoscan.pl, bin/autom4te.in,
7553 * bin/autoheader.in: Use it.
7555 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7557 * bin/autoupdate.in (&handle_m4_macros) <unm4.m4>: Undefine iff
7560 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7562 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&getopt): Work around the `-' Getopt bug.
7563 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoupdate.in (&parse_args): Adjust.
7565 * bin/autoscan.in: Use `getopt' and `find_files' etc.
7566 Add -I, --include support.
7567 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoscan Invocation): Adjust.
7569 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7571 CVS GNU M4 doesn't like `undefine(undefined)'.
7573 * bin/autoupdate.in (&handle_m4_macros, &handle_autoconf_macros):
7574 New, extracted from main.
7575 Use IO::File wherever possible.
7576 (input.m4): Be constant, use -I instead of hard coding $tmp.
7577 Therefore be a quoted heredoc.
7578 Don't invoke `_au_disable', since ac was not loaded, but just
7581 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7585 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7587 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Fix the
7589 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER): Can create `config.hin~'.
7591 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7593 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): DU 5.0 has
7594 serious problems handling heredocs in heredocs.
7595 Reported by Nicolas Joly.
7597 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7599 * doc/autoconf.texi: Don't promote non `m4_*' M4 macros.
7600 (Making testsuite Scripts): Update.
7602 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7604 * lib/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): Add autom4te.cfg.
7606 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7608 * doc/autoconf.texi (Quadrigraphs): Document `@&t@'.
7609 (testsuite Scripts): There is no such thing as `atconfig.in'.
7610 And actually one diagram is missing: test suite runtime.
7612 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7614 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_file): Browse the includes in the
7617 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7619 * bin/autoupdate.in (@include): `installcheck' revealed the path
7620 to m4sugar was lacking!
7622 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7624 * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): We really have to pass
7625 autom4te_perllibdir.
7627 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7629 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't pass all the args to
7630 debug scripts, in particular passing explicitly listed tests to
7633 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7635 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Strip `.' from `@include'.
7636 * bin/autoupdate.in: Use --include, -I, and --force, -f, too.
7637 Use directly autom4te, not autoconf.
7638 * tests/autoupdate: $top_srcdir/lib is needed too for melt files.
7640 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7642 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Missing eol.
7643 * bin/autoheader.in (%symbol): Strip arguments of macros.
7645 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7647 * doc/autoconf.texi: Catch up -I, --include changes.
7649 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7651 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Die on unknown languages.
7652 * bin/autoheader.in: Run directly autom4te --mode=autoconf, no
7654 Promote --include over --macrodir and other obsolete options.
7656 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7658 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm ($version, $help, &getopt): New.
7659 * bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in: Use them.
7660 * bin/autom4te.in ($autoconf): Pass --force.
7661 `print $out' doesn't print `$_' but `$out'.
7662 * tests/tools.at (Syntax of the Perl scripts): Pass the lib dir.
7663 (autoheader): Pass --force since the test suite goes too fast for
7665 Adjust to the new autoheader messages.
7667 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7669 * bin/autoheader.in: Handle the acconfig.h etc. junk files.
7670 Check the completeness of the #template.
7671 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&update_file): s/remove/unlink/.
7672 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Adjust AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER
7675 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7677 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_file, &update_file): New.
7678 * bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoheader.in: Adjust.
7679 Drop AC_MACRODIR dead for real.
7680 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER): Now autoheader says
7681 `autoheader: `config.hin' is created'.
7682 * tests/tools.at (Syntax of the Perl scripts): Check autoheader.
7684 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7686 * bin/autoheader.in: Rewrite in Perl.
7687 * tests/autoheader: Adjust.
7689 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7691 * bin/autoconf.in (--include, -I): New option.
7692 Map --localdir, --autoconf-dir onto it.
7693 Forward autom4te's options instead of interpreting them.
7694 * bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoheader.in (AC_MACRODIR, autoconf_dir):
7695 There is no such envvar since the inception of autom4te.cfg.
7696 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Uniquify `@include'.
7697 * bin/autoupdate.in: Adjust, and perform more control.
7698 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF): Adjust.
7699 * tests/autoconf: Dittowise.
7701 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7703 * bin/autoconf.in: Don't bother with `acsite.m4' and `aclocal.m4'.
7704 * bin/autom4te.in (&find_file): Support `FILE?' standing for
7706 Use -e, not -f, since /dev/null for instance is OK.
7707 (&parse_args): Adjust.
7708 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): Add `acsite.m4?' and `aclocal.m4?'.
7710 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7712 * configure.ac: Also find tested executables in bin.
7713 * bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
7714 * bin/autoscan.in, autoupdate.in: Use exclusively the name of the
7715 installed peer executables, only PATH is allowed to resolve it.
7716 Pass `autoconf_dir' via options, not via invisible envvars.
7717 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_peer): Remove.
7718 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): `AUTOTEST_PATH=a:b' gives
7719 `abuild:asrc:bbuild:bsrc', not `abuild:bbuild:asrc:bsrc'.
7720 * man/Makefile.am: Let help2man rely on PATH instead of trying to
7721 find the executables for it.
7722 * tests/Makefile.am: Major cleanup. Too lazy to document...
7723 * tests/atlocal.in: Remove all the obscure envvar manipulations.
7725 * tests/atspecific.m4, tests/tools.at: Passing --localdir is
7726 indeed related to running the test suite, while passing
7727 --autoconf-dir and others is related to running non installed
7728 Autoconf executables. So don't do that, leave it to...
7729 * tests/autoconf, tests/autoheader, tests/autom4te, tests/autoupdate,
7730 * tests/autoscan: New.
7731 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR, AT_CHECK_M4SH): Don't
7732 refer to library files: rely on --language.
7734 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7736 * bin/autom4te.in, lib/autom4te.in, bin/autoconf.in:
7737 s/--set/--language/.
7739 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7741 * doc/autoconf.texi: Strip the @nodes.
7742 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
7743 (Initializing configure): Typo.
7745 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7747 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_output): s/@__@/@&t@/.
7748 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
7750 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7752 * Makefile.maint (do-po-update): Wget refuses to overwrite files:
7753 download in a tmp dir.
7755 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7757 * lib/autotest/general.m4: s/AT-devnull/devnull/ since there are
7758 case insensitive OSes out there :(
7759 From Tim Van Holder.
7761 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7763 * lib/autom4te.in: New.
7764 * lib/Makefile.am (edit, autom4te.cfg): New.
7765 * bin/autom4te.in (BEGIN): Simplify.
7766 Rely on `AC_MACRODIR' in addition of `autom4te_perllibdir'.
7767 (&load_configuration): New. Use it.
7768 (&parse_args): Support --mode, --set, and --melt.
7769 * bin/autoconf.in: Simplify and adjust.
7770 * tests/Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE): Use --set.
7771 * tests/atlocal.in: Adjust.
7772 * BUGS: distcheck and check are weak.
7774 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7776 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Use
7777 foo=`(command) 2>/dev/null`
7779 foo=`command` 2>/dev/null
7780 (at-devnull): Rename as...
7782 (--clean): Remove AT-* files too.
7783 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Document `date'.
7784 Reported by Nicolas Joly.
7786 2001-08-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7788 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Don't use single
7789 quotes inside single quotes.
7790 Reported by Nicolas Joly.
7792 2001-08-28 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
7794 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Mention C right shifts.
7796 2001-08-27 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
7798 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Reword some messages.
7799 (AT_INIT): Check for the `times' builtin before using it.
7800 Support test ranges as arguments to the testsuite.
7801 Have -e imply -d as the help text suggested.
7803 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7805 * Makefile.maint: Formatting changes.
7806 (do-po-update, po-update, cvs-update, update): New targets.
7809 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7811 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT) <at_cmd_line>: Remove.
7813 Pass it to debug-*.sh scripts.
7814 <AUTOTEST_PATH>: May contain absolute dir names.
7816 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7818 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Log the command line.
7819 Support `VAR=VAL' as arguments.
7820 Compute PATH _after_ the options processing, so that AUTOTEST_PATH
7821 may be set via the command line.
7823 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7825 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): $2 defaults to $1.
7826 * lib/autotest/autotest.m4 (AT_INIT): Expand AUTOTEST_PATH into
7827 first the build dirs, then the src dirs.
7828 * configure.ac (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Adjust.
7830 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7832 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Output the definition of
7833 at_data_files earlier.
7834 (--clean, -c): New option.
7835 * tests/Makefile.am: Use this option.
7837 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7839 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Rename `ac_dots' as
7840 `ac_top_builddir' to mimic Automake's vocabulary, which much more
7843 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Actions): Document the vars
7844 available in commands.
7845 Emphasize the risks of collisions in init-cmds.
7847 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7849 * doc/autoconf.texi (Input) <AC_INIT>: Move to..
7850 (Initializing configure): this new node.
7852 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7854 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): INSTALL.txt is a dead hack.
7856 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7858 * m4/atconfig.m4 (AT_CONFIG): Remove, replaced by...
7859 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): this.
7861 * m4/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Oops, adjust...
7863 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7865 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AU_DEFINE, AU_DEFUN, AU_ALIAS): Move
7867 * lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4: this new file.
7868 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AH_OUTPUT, AH_VERBATIM)
7869 (_AH_VERBATIM_OLD, AH_TEMPLATE, _AH_TEMPLATE_OLD, AH_TOP, AH_BOTTOM):
7871 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4: this new file.
7873 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7875 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): New.
7876 (_AC_OUTPUT_LINKS, _AC_OUTPUT_FILES, _AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Use it.
7877 Standardize the var names (ac_sub_srcdir -> ac_srcdir, ac_subdir
7879 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): AS_DIRNAME always return a dir name.
7880 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Ditto.
7882 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7884 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4 (AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS)
7885 (AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_POST, AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE, AC_CONFIG_FILES)
7886 (AC_CONFIG_HEADER, AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, AC_CONFIG_IF_MEMBER)
7887 (AC_CONFIG_LINKS, AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS, AC_FILE_DEPENDENCY_TRACE)
7888 (AC_LINK_FILES, AC_LIST_COMMANDS, AC_LIST_COMMANDS_COMMANDS)
7889 (AC_LIST_FILES, AC_LIST_FILES_COMMANDS, AC_LIST_HEADERS)
7890 (AC_LIST_HEADERS_COMMANDS, AC_LIST_LINKS, AC_LIST_LINKS_COMMANDS)
7891 (AC_OUTPUT, AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS, AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_POST)
7892 (AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_PRE, AC_OUTPUT_MAKE_DEFS)
7893 (_AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_INIT, _AC_CONFIG_DEPENDENCIES)
7894 (_AC_CONFIG_DEPENDENCY, _AC_CONFIG_UNIQUE, _AC_LINK_FILES_CNT)
7895 (_AC_LIST_SUBDIRS, _AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS, _AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_CNT)
7896 (_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_INIT, _AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS)
7897 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES, _AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS, _AC_OUTPUT_LINKS)
7898 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Move to...
7899 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: this new file.
7900 * lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am: Adjust.
7901 * tests/Makefile.am, tests/suite.at: Adjust.
7903 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7907 * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Add 1.5 and dist-bzip2.
7908 (AMTAR): Help automake define it.
7909 (INSTALL, install-data-hook): The INSTALL.txt trick is no longer
7910 needed, 1.5 can have a macro and a target with the same name.
7911 * m4/auxdir.m4, m4/cond.m4, m4/depend.m4, m4/install-sh.m4,
7913 * m4/init.m4, m4/sanity.m4: Update.
7914 * doc/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): 1.5 knows the texi2dvi files.
7915 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am, lib/autotest/Makefile.am,
7916 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am, lib/autoscan/Makefile.am,
7917 * lib/Autom4te/Makefile.am, man/Makefile.am: Use dist/nodist.
7919 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7921 Provide a mean to ``AC_PREREQ'' for M4sugar, M4sh and Autotest.
7923 * lib/autoconf/version.in: Remove.
7924 * lib/m4sugar/version.in: New.
7925 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_acversion, m4_version_prereq): New.
7927 * bin/autoupdate.in: Distinguish M4sugar vs. Autoconf macros by
7928 the name of the directory they're in, instead of the filename,
7929 since version.m4 is now in m4sugar, but m4_acversion must not be
7930 classified as an Autoconf macro.
7931 ($input_m4): Don't qualify the path to m4sugar.
7932 Rather, pass autoconf_dir to m4.
7933 * tests/Makefile.am (testsuite): Remove -I top_srcdir, unneeded.
7934 * tests/suite.at: Require 2.52c.
7936 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7938 testsuite.log should include config.log.
7940 * lib/autotest/autotest.m4: New.
7941 * lib/autotest/general.m4, tests/atspecific.m4: Adjust.
7942 * tests/suite.at : Adjust.
7943 (AT_INIT): Log config.log.
7944 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_text_box): New.
7945 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOX_LITERAL): Adjust.
7946 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_CONFIG_LOG): Use them.
7947 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Fix the incredibly messy and buggy completion
7948 of config.log on traps.
7949 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Use AS_BOX.
7950 Use consistently `_ACEOF' for configure's here docs, and `_CSEOF'
7952 Open the log as soon as possible.
7953 Use the same log introduction as configure's.
7955 2001-08-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7957 * doc/autoconf.texi (Indices): New node.
7958 Move indices out of the top level menu and into this submenu.
7960 2001-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7962 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_LEX_YYTEXT_DECL): Use
7964 (AC_DECL_YYTEXT): Fix the previous patch: it points to AC_PROG_LEX.
7966 2001-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7968 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SHELL_PATH_WALK, AC_CHECK_PROG)
7969 (AC_CHECK_PROGS, AC_PATH_PROG, AC_PATH_PROGS, AC_CHECK_TOOL_PREFIX)
7970 (AC_PATH_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOLS): Move to...
7971 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4: here.
7972 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (_AC_PROG_ECHO, AC_PROG_MAKE_SET)
7973 (AC_PROG_RANLIB, AC_PROG_YACC, AC_PROG_LEX, _AC_DECL_YYTEXT)
7974 (AC_PROG_INSTALL, AC_PROG_LN_S, AC_RSH): Move to...
7975 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4: here.
7976 (_AC_DECL_YYTEXT): Rename as...
7977 (_AC_PROG_LEX_YYTEXT_DECL): this.
7978 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am
7979 * tests/Makefile.am, tests/suite.am: Adjust.
7981 2001-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7983 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_LIST_MEMBER_OF, AC_LINKER_OPTION):
7985 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_LIST_MEMBER_IF, _AC_LINKER_OPTION):
7987 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC): Move to...
7988 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4: here.
7989 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SEARCH_LIBS, AC_CHECK_LIB)
7990 (AH_CHECK_LIB): Move to...
7991 * lib/autoconf/libs: this new file.
7992 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_XMKMF, _AC_PATH_X_DIRECT)
7993 (_AC_PATH_X, AC_PATH_X, AC_PATH_XTRA): Move to...
7994 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4: here.
7995 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am: Adjust.
7997 2001-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7999 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_MKDIR_P): Fail if fails.
8000 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Adjust.
8001 (AC_SITE_LOAD): Better logging of config.site.
8003 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8005 * configure.ac (AT_CONFIG): Fix the path.
8006 * m4/atconfig.m4 (AT_CONFIG): Don't use EOF but ATEOF so that 2.52
8009 2001-08-20 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
8011 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Prepare the cross-compile
8012 program with AC_LANG_PROGRAM before feeding it to
8013 AC_COMPILE_IFELSE. Cleanup grep usage.
8015 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8017 * ChangeLog, ChangeLog.0, ChangeLog.1, ChangeLog.2, AUTHORS, BUGS,
8018 * NEWS, README, README-alpha, TODO, tests/README: This package is
8019 `Autoconf', not `autoconf' (the executable).
8021 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8023 Info readers seem to need `Index' in the index node title :(
8025 * doc/autoconf.texi: Reverse the 2001-08-15 change which
8026 simplified index node names.
8028 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8030 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): Warn if the
8031 arguments are not literals.
8032 * doc/autoconf.texi (Input) <AC_INIT>: Arguments must be literals.
8033 Specify the output variables, and macros defined.
8035 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8037 * doc/autoconf.texi (Examining Declarations) <AC_TRY_CPP>:
8038 (Examining Syntax) <AC_TRY_COMPILE>
8039 (Examining Libraries) <AC_TRY_LINK>
8040 (Test Programs) <AC_TRY_RUN>: These macros double quote some of
8042 Reported by Werner Lemberg.
8044 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8046 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Compute top_builddir,
8047 top_srcdir and srcdir from at_topbuild_2_topsrc and at_testdir.
8048 Load atlocal late enough to dump it in the log.
8049 * m4/atconfig.m4 (AT_CONFIG): Pass them to atconfig.
8051 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8053 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): New test.
8054 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Say what you are
8056 * m4/atconfig.m4: Be sure the let $[0] be expandable.
8057 (top_srcdir): Fix its computation.
8059 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8061 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS): Say what you do.
8062 * m4/atconfig.m4 (AT_CONFIG): $1 is now the directory where the
8064 Create `atconfig' automagically.
8065 Configure atlocal.in if present.
8066 * tests/atconfig.in: Remove.
8067 * tests/atlocal.in: New.
8068 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
8070 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8072 Huh!?!?! There are still some user EOF tags used, which prevents
8073 their use in AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS for instance...
8075 * lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/specific.m4,
8076 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Rename the EOF tags as `_ACEOF',
8077 `_CSEOF', or `_ATEOF', as appropriate.
8078 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am,
8079 * lib/autotest/Makefile.am (check-local): Enforce this constraint.
8081 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8083 * tests/base.at, tests/m4sh.at, tests/m4sugar.at,
8084 * tests/semantics.at, tests/tools.at, tests/torture.at:
8085 s/^AT_DATA\(([^][]+),/AT_DATA([$1],/.
8087 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8089 Autotest invokes M4sh's initialization.
8091 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Adjust the diversion names.
8092 (AT_INIT): Run AS_INIT.
8093 Use the BINSH diversion to invoke /bin/sh.
8094 * tests/base.at, tests/m4sh.at, tests/m4sugar.at, tests/tools.at:
8095 * tests/torture.at: Respect M4sugar and M4sh macro name spaces.
8097 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8099 Let M4sh have its own diversions.
8101 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_m4_divert(BINSH), _m4_divert(REVISION))
8102 (_m4_divert(NOTICE)): Rename as...
8103 * lib/m4sugar/m4msh.m4 (_m4_divert(BINSH), _m4_divert(HEADER-REVISION))
8104 (_m4_divert(HEADER-COMMENT)): these.
8105 (_m4_divert(HEADER-COPYRIGHT), _m4_divert(HEADER-COPYRIGHT)): New.
8106 (_m4_divert(NOTICE)): New, for Libtool.
8107 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_m4_divert(PREPARE)): Remove, replaced
8108 long ago with `_m4_divert(GROW)'.
8109 (AC_COPYRIGHT, AC_REVISION, _AC_INIT_NOTICE): Adjust.
8111 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8113 * tests/base.at, tests/compile.at, tests/foreign.at,
8114 * tests/m4sh.at, tests/m4sugar.at, tests/mktests.sh,
8115 * tests/semantics.at, tests/suite.at, tests/tools.at,
8116 * tests/torture.at: Ask Autotest mode, not Autoconf mode.
8118 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8120 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_output): Handle @__@.
8122 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8124 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autoconf/oldnames.m4,
8125 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Adjust the license.
8127 2001-08-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8129 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Mention snprintf,
8130 following up on a suggestion by Kevin Ryde.
8132 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8134 * doc/install.texi, doc/autoconf.texi: Use `autoconf', not
8135 `autoconf_manual', as texinfo.tex 2001-06-21.10 chokes on it.
8137 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8139 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Refer to `$as_me.log', not
8140 `$0.log' as for projects where testsuite is in src, we'd have
8141 testsuite.log created in src.
8143 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8145 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Recognize --normalize.
8147 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8149 Start implementing the AC_CHECK_HEADER transition scheme.
8151 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_NEW)
8152 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_OLD, _AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): New.
8153 (AC_CHECK_HEADER): Use them.
8155 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8157 * doc/autoconf.texi: Work around Texinfo buglets.
8158 (Transformation Rules): One example is enough, users are expected
8159 to have their brains on. And BTW, use DESTDIR.
8160 (dvar): New macro. Use it.
8162 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8164 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at) <AT_CHECK>: Complete.
8165 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Use the relative dir when
8166 looking for ChangeLogs.
8168 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8170 * bin/autom4te.in: --normalize is a new option.
8171 * bin/autoconf.in: Use it.
8173 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8175 * bin/Makefile.am, lib/Autom4te/Makefile.am, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am
8176 * lib/autotest/Makefile.am, lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am: Add TAGS support.
8178 2001-08-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8180 * doc/autoconf.texi, doc/install.texi: Put copyright notice at
8183 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8185 * doc/Makefile.am (fu): New index, can't use fn because of defmac.
8188 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8190 * doc/autoconf.texi (pr): New index.
8191 (prindex, findex): Use, merge, and output them.
8192 (Environment Variable Index, Output Variable Index)
8193 (Preprocessor Symbol Index, Autoconf Macro Index, M4 Macro Index)
8194 (Autotest Macro Index): Rename as...
8195 (Environment Variables, Output Variables,Preprocessor Symbols)
8196 (Autoconf Macros, M4 Macros, Autotest Macros): these.
8197 * doc/install.texi: Use @command.
8198 (Environment Variables): Rename as...
8199 (Defining Variables): this.
8201 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8203 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): sprintf's return
8207 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8209 * Makefile.maint (CVS): New.
8210 (local-check): Run changelog-check. last.
8211 (alpha): Don't depend upon local-check, since...
8212 (cvs-dist): depends upon it.
8214 2001-08-15 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
8216 * tests/Makefile.am: Use a clean-local rule to remove
8217 autom4te.cache (it's a directory, not a file.
8218 * Makefile.am: Ditto (but maintainer-clean-local).
8220 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8222 * bin/autom4te.in (@m4_warning): New.
8223 (&handle_m4): Use it.
8224 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4_warn): Pass `-f' to autom4te to ensure the
8225 warnings are issued at each run.
8226 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR, AT_CHECK_M4SH): M4sugar
8229 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8231 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOUPDATE): Perl is now required:
8232 don't waste time running `autoupdate --version' works.
8233 * tests/tools.at (autoupdating AC_PREREQ): Likewise.
8235 2001-08-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8237 * doc/autoconf.texi (ma): Rename this index as...
8240 2001-08-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8242 * Makefile.am: Remove dead code and dead comments.
8243 (pdf, html): New targets.
8244 * doc/autoconf.texi (Using Autotest): New chapter.
8245 * doc/Makefile.am (pdf): New targets.
8246 (CLEANFILES): Adjust.
8248 2001-08-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8250 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Log the start/stop dates and
8251 duration of the test suite.
8253 2001-08-12 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
8255 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Explicitelly save and load
8256 endianness for comparison instead of relying on AT_CHECK_ENV.
8258 2001-08-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8260 * doc/autoconf.texi, doc/install.texi: Add a copyright notice
8261 to the INSTALL file.
8263 2001-08-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8265 * NEWS: The autoconf manual now is distributed under the terms
8266 of the GNU Free Documentation License.
8268 * doc/autoconf.texi: Switch from old style copyright notice to FDL.
8269 Add an appendix "Copying This Manual" for the FDL.
8271 * doc/fdl.texi: New file, from
8272 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.texi>.
8274 * doc/Makefile.am (autoconf_TEXINFOS): Add fdl.texi.
8276 2001-08-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8278 * AUTHORS, BUGS, ChangeLog, ChangeLog.0, ChangeLog.1,
8279 ChangeLog.2, GNUmakefile, Makefile.maint, NEWS, README,
8280 README-alpha, TODO, configure.ac, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am,
8281 m4/atconfig.m4, m4/init.m4, m4/m4.m4, m4/missing.m4,
8282 m4/sanity.m4, tests/README, tests/aclocal.m4,
8283 tests/atspecific.m4, tests/base.at, tests/compile.at,
8284 tests/foreign.at, tests/m4sh.at, tests/m4sugar.at,
8285 tests/semantics.at, tests/suite.at, tests/tools.at,
8286 tests/torture.at: Add copyright notice.
8288 * tests/mktests.sh: Update year in copyright notice.
8290 2001-08-12 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
8292 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): New test.
8294 2001-08-11 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
8296 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Handle ACTION-IF-TRUE,
8297 ACTION-IF-FALSE, and ACTION-IF-UNKNOWN.
8298 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler Characteristics): Update
8299 documentation for AC_C_BIGENDIAN.
8301 2001-08-11 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
8303 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Guess endianness by grep'ing
8304 magic values from an object file when cross-compiling.
8305 Based on code by Guido Draheim <Guido.Draheim@gmx.de>.
8307 2001-08-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8309 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_output): Don't use `grep' with side
8311 Suggested by Russ Allbery.
8313 2001-08-10 Ralf Corsepius <corsepiu@faw.uni-ulm.de>
8315 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Propagate the
8316 current $prefix to the sub-configures.
8318 2001-08-09 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
8320 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4: Ignore *.xSYM when looking for an executable
8321 extension (needed on BeOS). Reported by Guido van Rossum.
8323 2001-08-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8325 * bin/autom4te.in ($icache): Load it only if older than autom4te.
8327 2001-08-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8329 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): All the `at-*' are to be
8331 (at-setup-line): Huh? Be a variable `at_setup_line', not a file.
8332 No need to remove the files before and after the each test, before
8333 each test and at the end of the suite is enough.
8334 Display only the children `times', not the shell's.
8335 If the test failed or was skipped, at-times is not available.
8337 2001-08-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8339 Always produce testsuite.log, including when there are no
8340 failures. This helps getting information on skipped tests, and
8341 duration of the tests. Err, implement the latter btw.
8343 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Set up fd 6 for the log.
8344 Dump information on the first run of each test.
8345 (AT_CLEANUP): Create `at-times' containing the duration of the
8348 2001-08-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8350 The use of `dumpstat' revealed that `len' was used although it
8351 should not. m4_text_wrap was using it, but in the Autoconf world
8352 where it is legal. Hence (i) test M4sh in its own world, not
8353 Autoconf's, and (ii), ahem, fix the bug :)
8355 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Be sure the set good quotes, as tracing
8356 does not like `' instead of [].
8357 (AT_INIT): Forbid `^_?AT_'.
8358 And don't output such tokens.
8359 * tests/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): Add `script', `script.s4g',
8360 `script.as', and `autom4te.cache'.
8361 Remove `empty' and `macro' which are no longer used.
8362 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR, AT_CHECK_M4SH): New.
8363 * tests/m4sugar.at: Use it.
8364 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: Use `m4_len' not `len'.
8366 2001-08-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8368 * bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoheader.in: --force, -f is a new option.
8370 2001-08-07 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
8372 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_output): Typo in quadrigraph substitution.
8374 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8376 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_ALLOCA, AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE)
8377 (AC_FUNC_FSEEKO, AC_FUNC_OBSTACK): Use AC_LANG_IFELSE, not
8379 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_MAJOR): Likewise.
8380 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_F77_HOOKS)
8381 (AC_F77_MAIN): Likewise.
8383 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8385 Don't rely on M4sugar outputting the patterns in files, since we
8386 might process the output _without_ running m4, hence without these
8389 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_init): No need for `m4_tmpdir'.
8390 * bin/autom4te.in (@Request::includes): Remove, unused.
8391 (@Request::source): Rename as...
8392 (@Request::input): this.
8393 (@preselect): Add `m4_pattern_forbid' and `m4_pattern_allow'.
8394 (&handle_output): Fetch the patterns from the traces.
8395 `$forbidden' and `$allowed' are constant: use m//o.
8396 (&handle_m4): M4sugar no longer wants `m4_tmpdir'.
8397 (m4_pattern_forbid, m4_pattern_allow): Adjust for tracing only.
8399 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8401 `autoconf && autoheader' is sped up. Now, speed up `autoheader &&
8402 autoconf', i.e., in addition to caching traces, cache the output.
8404 * bin/autom4te.in (Request::cache): Rename as...
8405 (Request::id): this.
8406 ($cache, $icache, $tcache, $ocache): New.
8407 (&handle_m4): Save M4 output in the cache instead of $tmp.
8408 (&handle_output): Adjust.
8409 (&up_to_date_p): Check that the output cache is up to date too.
8410 (top level): Run `&handle_m4' iff force or the cache is invalid.
8411 Run `&handle_output' if the output cache is more recent.
8413 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8415 * bin/autom4te.in ($force): New.
8416 (&parse_args, &print_usage): -f, --force is a new option.
8417 (&handle_output): CPP directives might have spaces after `#'.
8418 (&parse_args): The first file only can be frozen.
8420 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8422 Don't let autom4te compute the `include' traces several times:
8423 first check that the trace cache file is up to date, and then
8424 compare its timestamp with that of the output.
8426 * bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoscan.in: Normalize
8427 the preamble. Don't require 5.005 as Autom4te::General does it,
8428 and better yet (use `use', not `require'!).
8429 * lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm: Rename the last occurrences of
8430 Class::Struct as Autom4te::Struct.
8431 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (File::stat): Use it.
8432 (&mtime): New, export it.
8433 * bin/autom4te.in: Use it.
8434 Declare `$req' is invalid if it is outdated.
8435 Don't declare it valid before saving it if something went wrong.
8437 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8439 Autom4te shall not encode Autoconf data, and preselecting traces
8440 must be proposed to the users.
8442 * bin/autom4te.in (@required_trace): Remove.
8444 (&parse_args, &print_usage): -p, --preselect is a new option.
8445 (&up_to_date_p): Adjust.
8446 * bin/autoconf.in: Preselect some Autoconf macros.
8448 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8450 * tests/tools.at (autoconf --trace: user macros): Check traces on
8451 macros invoked without arguments, and macros invoked with multiple
8454 2001-08-03 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
8456 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_traces): Fix rewriting of traces without
8459 2001-08-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8461 * bin/autoconf.in ($@): Work around the usual sh bug.
8464 2001-08-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8466 Clean up the handling of the M4 builtins tracing exception.
8468 * bin/autom4te.in (Request::request): Don't complete M4 builtins
8470 (@m4_builtins): Rename as...
8471 (@m4_builtin): this.
8472 (%m4_builtin_alternate_name): New.
8473 (&parse_args): Complete the trace requests with alternate names.
8474 (&handle_traces): Hence no longer do it here.
8475 (&trace_requests): Remove, unused.
8477 2001-08-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8479 * doc/autoconf.texi (Redefined M4 Macros): Document m4_exit,
8482 2001-08-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8484 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_init): Also forbid `_m4_*' tokens.
8485 (m4_divert_pop): Dump the whole diversion stack when a diversion
8487 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_output): Remember of the first
8488 occurrence of a possibly undefined macro, not the last.
8489 Complain about the possibly undefined macros in the same order as
8490 the appear in the output.
8491 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am (autoconf.m4f): List its dependencies.
8492 * tests/tools.at (autoconf: forbidden tokens, basic)
8493 (autoconf: forbidden tokens, exceptions): No longer sort
8494 autoconf's stderr, as it is now deterministic.
8495 Check that `dnl' is caught.
8497 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8499 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.52c.
8501 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8505 * lib/Autom4te/Makefile.am (perllibdir): s/Autoconf/Autom4te/.
8507 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8511 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8513 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: Use `carp' and `croak', not `warn' and
8516 * bin/autoconf.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoupdate.in: Remove your
8517 `END', as `Autom4te::General::END' will be triggered.
8518 * bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoscan.in: Improve error messages accuracy.
8519 * bin/autoupdate.in (File::Compare, File::Copy): Use them instead of
8520 system to run `mv', `rm', and `cmp'.
8522 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8524 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&unique): New.
8525 * bin/autoscan.in (&output): Use it to issue trace requests once.
8527 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8529 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: New.
8530 * bin/autom4te.in (Autom4te::General): Use it.
8531 ($me, $tmp, $verbose, $debug, &mktmpdir, &verbose, &xsystem)
8532 (&find_configure_ac, &find_slave): Remove.
8533 * bin/autoscan.in: Likewise.
8534 * bin/autoupdate.in: Likewise.
8536 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8538 * autoconf.in, autom4te.in, autoscan.in, ifnames.in,
8539 * autoheader.in, autoreconf.in, autoupdate.in: Move to...
8540 * bin: here, new directory.
8541 * lib/Autoconf: Rename as...
8542 * lib/Autom4te: this, to please case insensitive junkie OSes.
8544 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8546 * autom4te.in ($m4): Handle the --nesting-limit.
8547 * autoconf.in (M4): Remove.
8549 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8551 * autoconf.in ($AWK): Remove, no longer used.
8552 * test/tools.at: Use AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF.
8553 (AWK portability): Remove, for autoconf no longer uses AWK.
8554 (Syntax of the Perl scripts): New.
8555 * configure.ac: autoconf no longer needs an AWK with a good
8557 Use a static test on AC_PACKAGE_VERSION.
8558 * autom4te.in (&up_to_date_p): Output depends on the arguments.
8559 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am: Ship version.m4, maintainer file.
8560 * tests/atconfig.in (PERL): New.
8562 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8564 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG(C), AC_LANG_C, _AC_LANG_ABBREV(C))
8565 (AC_LANG(C++), AC_LANG_CPLUSPLUS, _AC_LANG_ABBREV(C++))
8566 (AC_LANG_SOURCE(C), AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C), AC_LANG_CALL(C))
8567 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C), AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY(C))
8568 (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C), _AC_ARG_VAR_CPPFLAGS, _AC_ARG_VAR_LDFLAGS)
8569 (AC_LANG_PREPROC(C), _AC_PROG_PREPROC_WORKS_IFELSE, AC_PROG_CPP)
8570 (AC_LANG_COMPILER(C), ac_cv_prog_gcc, AC_PROG_CC, _AC_PROG_CC_G)
8571 (AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL, AC_PROG_CC_C_O, AC_LANG_PREPROC(C++))
8572 (AC_PROG_CXXCPP, AC_LANG_COMPILER(C++), ac_cv_prog_gxx)
8573 (AC_PROG_CXX, _AC_PROG_CXX_G, _AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION)
8574 (AC_PROG_CC_STDC, AC_C_CROSS, AC_C_CHAR_UNSIGNED, AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE)
8575 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN, AC_C_INLINE, AC_C_CONST, AC_C_VOLATILE)
8576 (AC_C_STRINGIZE, AC_C_PROTOTYPES): Move to...
8577 * lib/autoconf/c.m4: here, new file.
8579 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG(Fortran 77), AC_LANG_FORTRAN77)
8580 (_AC_LANG_ABBREV(Fortran 77), AC_LANG_SOURCE(Fortran 77))
8581 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(Fortran 77), AC_LANG_CALL(Fortran 77))
8582 (AC_LANG_PREPROC(Fortran 77), AC_LANG_COMPILER(Fortran 77))
8583 (ac_cv_prog_g77, AC_PROG_F77, _AC_PROG_F77_G, AC_PROG_F77_C_O)
8584 (_AC_PROG_F77_V_OUTPUT, _AC_PROG_F77_V, AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS)
8585 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN, _AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_F77_HOOKS, AC_F77_MAIN)
8586 (_AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING, AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING, AC_F77_WRAPPERS)
8587 (AC_F77_FUNC): Move to...
8588 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4: here, new file.
8590 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8592 * acfunctions.m4: Rename as...
8593 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4: this.
8594 * acgeneral.m4: Rename as...
8595 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: this.
8596 * acheaders.m4: Rename as...
8597 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4: this.
8598 * aclang.m4: Rename as...
8599 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4: this.
8600 * acoldnames.m4: Rename as...
8601 * lib/autoconf/oldnames.m4: this.
8602 * acspecific.m4: Rename as...
8603 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4: this.
8604 * actypes.m4: Rename as...
8605 * lib/autoconf/types.m4: this.
8606 * autoconf.m4: Rename as...
8607 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4: this.
8609 * m4sugar.m4: Rename as...
8610 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: this.
8611 * m4sh.m4: Rename as...
8612 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: this.
8614 * tests/atgeneral.m4: Rename as...
8615 * lib/autotest/general.m4: this.
8617 * acfunctions: Rename as...
8618 * lib/autoscan/functions: this.
8619 * acheaders: Rename as...
8620 * lib/autoscan/headers: this.
8621 * acidentifiers: Rename as...
8622 * lib/autoscan/identifiers: this.
8623 * aclibraries: Rename as...
8624 * lib/autoscan/libraries: this.
8625 * acmakevars: Rename as...
8626 * lib/autoscan/makevars: this.
8627 * acprograms: Rename as...
8628 * lib/autoscan/programs: this.
8630 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8632 * doc/autoconf.texi: Moving/deleting open files is not portable.
8633 Portability issues for `.' (source), and more information about sed.
8635 2001-07-25 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
8637 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Ignore -libmil (on Solaris),
8638 which has a special meaning and is not a reference to libibmil.a.
8639 Reported by Matteo Frigo.
8641 2001-07-25 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
8643 * autom4te.in (mktmpdir): Strip trailing newline from mktemp
8646 2001-07-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8648 * autoconf.in: Try to define the variables before using them.
8649 * autom4te.in ($perllibdir): Use `$autom4te_perllibdir' as envvar
8650 instead of `$perllibdir'.
8651 * tests/atconfig.in ($autom4te_perllibdir): Export it.
8653 2001-07-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8655 * autoconf.in (ac_LF_and_DOT): Remove, unused.
8657 2001-07-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8659 Let autoconf use autom4te for traces.
8661 * autoconf.in ($task, task trace): Remove, merely pass --trace to
8663 * autoheader.in: Don't pass `-' to autoconf, rather, a tmp file.
8664 (Because I found no way for autom4te to accept `-').
8665 * autom4te.in (&Request::request): Beware of M4 builtins.
8666 (END): Don't try to remove the content of an empty dir.
8667 (&parse_args): Default is `$f:$l:$n:$%', not `$f:$l:$n:$*'.
8668 (&handle_output): Set a default value to `$forbidden'.
8669 * autoupdate.in (&verbose, &xsystem): New, from autom4te.in.
8670 ($autoconf): Pass --debug and --verbose.
8671 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF): Clean up autom4te's
8674 2001-07-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8676 Let autoconf use autom4te to create configure.
8678 * autoconf.in ($automate): New var.
8679 (task script): Use autom4te.
8680 * autom4te.in (File::Spec): Use it.
8682 (&parse_args): --warning is -W, not -w.
8683 Find the top level files.
8684 (&handle_m4): Pass the warnings flags.
8685 Don't report verbosely m4's failures, unless requested.
8686 (&handle_output): Don't complain for forbidden tokens in comments.
8687 Be sure to report all the forbidden tokens within a single line.
8688 (&trace_format_to_m4): Preserve `$_'.
8689 (&handle_traces): Sort the output macros.
8690 (&up_to_date_p): Find the files before trying to get its time stamp.
8692 2001-07-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8694 * Makefile.am: Ship, build and install Autom4te.
8696 * lib/Autoconf/Struct.pm: New, from Automake 1.5.
8697 * configure.in: Require Perl.
8698 * man/autom4te.in: New.
8700 2001-07-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8702 * doc/autoconf.texi (Cache Checkpointing): Use AC_MSG_ERROR in
8703 example, rather than (exit 1); exit (which isn't portable).
8705 2001-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8709 2001-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8711 The C-Fortran 77 hooks are available only once AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN
8712 was run, while they are needed also when it is expanded.
8713 Reported by Nicolas Joly.
8715 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN): Define _AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_F77_HOOKS.
8716 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C)): Use it instead of depending upon
8717 AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN being expanded.
8719 2001-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8721 * configure.in: Bump to 2.51a.
8723 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8727 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8729 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN): Let the interface be more
8730 Autoconfy: $1 = action-if-found, $2 = action-if-not-found.
8732 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8734 The runtime test for AC_FUNC_GETPGRP fails when prototypes are
8735 used. Well, then use the prototypes when you can, and runtime as
8737 Reported by Artur Frysiak
8739 * acfunctions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_GETPGRP_TEST): New.
8740 (AC_FUNC_GETPGRP): Use it.
8741 First try to compile with 0-ary or 1-ary calls.
8743 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8745 * actypes.m4 (_AC_CHECK_TYPE_REPLACEMENT_TYPE_P): `foo_t' is a
8749 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8751 * Makefile.maint: Sync. with cppi 1.10.
8753 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8755 * aclang.m4 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C)): Output F77_DUMMY_MAIN only when
8756 AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN has been run.
8757 From Pavel Roskin and Steven G. Johnson.
8759 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8761 * configure.in: Rename as...
8762 * configure.ac: this.
8764 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8766 * Makefile.am (INSTALL.txt): Don't use $@ and $< in non suffix
8769 * Makefile.maint (release-archive-dir): Rename as...
8770 (release_archive_dir): this, so that it can be specialized in
8773 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8775 * configure.in: Bump to 2.50d.
8777 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8780 * Makefile.maint (alpha): Typo.
8782 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8784 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Macro names and underscore.
8786 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8788 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/texinfo.tex
8789 * doc/standards.texi, doc/make-stds.texi: Update.
8791 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8793 * Makefile.maint (cvs-check, cvs-tag-check, cvs-diff-check): New.
8795 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8797 * Makefile.maint (maintainer-check): Rename as...
8798 (maintainer-distcheck): this.
8799 (changelog-check, static-check): New.
8802 2001-07-14 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
8804 * doc/autoconf.texi (C++ Compilers Characteristics): Last resort
8805 for CXX is g++, not gcc.
8807 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8809 * doc/autoconf.texi (Files): New subsection.
8811 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8813 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler, Fortran 77 Compiler): Be subsections
8815 (Generic Compiler Characteristics): this.
8816 (C++ Compiler): New subsection.
8818 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8820 * autoscan.in: Use IO::File.
8821 Adjust all the routines to use it.
8822 ($log): New file (autoscan.log).
8823 (output): Dump detailed logs into $log, and a shortened version to
8825 (&scan_makefile): Refine the regexp catching tokens in the code.
8826 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoscan Invocation): Document `autoscan.log'
8827 and the `configure.ac' checking feature.
8829 2001-07-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8831 For some AWK, such as on HPUX 11, `xfoo' does not match `foo|^bar'.
8832 Reported by Michael Elizabeth Chastain.
8834 * autoconf.in: Refuse such AWK.
8835 * configure.in: Likewise.
8836 * Makefile.am (acversion.m4): Do not use move-if-change this file
8838 * doc/autoconf.texi (Fortran 77 Compiler): Some typos.
8840 2001-07-10 Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com>
8842 * autoscan.in (&scan_makefile): Improve programs regexp to parse
8843 things like "g++", "file.c" and "some-conf" as tokens.
8844 (&scan_file): Match C++ files extensions.
8845 If the filename extension is C++ then ask for c++.
8847 2001-07-05 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
8849 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN): Use AC_TRY_LINK, not
8850 AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC, to check whether defining a dummy
8851 main-like routine is needed for linking with F77 libs.
8853 2001-07-05 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
8855 * aclocal.m4 (_AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION): Remove conftest*
8857 (_AC_PROG_F77_V_OUTPUT): Remove conftest*, not conftest.* after
8860 2001-07-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8862 * Makefile.am (move_if_change): New. Use it instead of `mv'.
8863 (acversion.m4): Name it `$(srcdir)/acversion.m4' to ease broken
8865 Reported by Nicolas Joly.
8867 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8869 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_RUN_IFELSE): Remove conftest.o when cleaning
8871 * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_WAIT3): Use `break' to silent some
8872 warnings from compilers.
8873 * aclang.m4 (_AC_LANG_COMPILER_GNU): Log the version information
8874 for all the compilers, not only GNU. Hence move from here...
8875 (AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX, AC_PROG_F77): to here.
8877 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8879 * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_STRTOD, AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R)
8880 (AC_FUNC_STRCOLL, AC_FUNC_WAIT3): Use AC_RUN_IFELSE and
8883 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8885 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Actually apply
8886 the ``strings.h'' change claimed below.
8888 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8890 * aclang.m4 (_AC_LANG_COMPILER_GNU): s/-dumpspecs/-v/.
8892 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8894 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Include
8895 strings.h if usable with string.h.
8896 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
8898 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8900 * autoscan.in (&scan_file): Skip FILE if there is FILE.in.
8903 2001-07-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8905 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Specify CONFIG_FILES
8908 2001-07-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8910 * acheaders.m4 (AC_CHECK_HEADER): When INCLUDES are set, use the
8911 compiler, not the preprocessor.
8912 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): No longer use
8913 dedicated code to check for inttypes.h, as AC_CHECK_HEADERS does
8915 * Makefile.am (.m4.m4f): Emphasize M4 error messages and fail
8916 earlier if there are.
8918 2001-07-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8920 * autoscan.in ($initfile): Remove.
8921 (&find_file): Rename as...
8923 Immediately scan the current file, instead of gathering them, and
8924 later having them handled by &scan_files.
8925 (&scan_files): Merely invoke Find::File.
8928 2001-07-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8930 * autoscan.in: Formatting changes, matching the invocation order.
8931 (File::Find): Use it instead of Perl 4's `find.pl'.
8932 (&wanted): Rename as...
8935 2001-07-01 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
8937 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN): Remove conftest* after using
8938 break in the argument to AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC.
8939 (AC_F77_MAIN): Remove conftest* after using break in the
8940 argument to AC_TRY_LINK.
8942 2001-07-01 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
8944 Add alternate 'main' routine detection for linking C/C++ with Fortran,
8945 fixing link failures for e.g. AC_F77_WRAPPERS on NetBSD.
8947 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN): New macro to detect whether a
8948 dummy alternate main is required even if the user provides her own
8950 (AC_F77_MAIN): New macro to detect whether it is possible to
8951 provide an alternate 'main' function name, using the 'main' from
8952 the Fortran libraries.
8953 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C)): Use F77_DUMMY_MAIN, if it is defined, so that
8954 cross-language link tests can be performed successfully.
8955 (_AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING): Require AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN. Also put $FLIBS
8956 after $LIBS, for consistency; this should be the general rule since
8957 the user may want to link to Fortran libraries that require $FLIBS.
8958 * doc/autoconf.texi: Document AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN and AC_F77_MAIN.
8960 2001-06-29 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
8962 * atgeneral.m4 (AT_CHECK): Add a newline to the end of
8963 at-stdout and at-stderr instead of removing the newline
8964 from the echo output, which is not guaranteed to work.
8966 2001-06-28 Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com>
8968 * aclang.m4 (_AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION): Only add declaration to
8969 confdefs.h when non-zero.
8971 2001-06-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8973 * configure.in: Bump to 2.50c.
8975 2001-06-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8979 2001-06-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8983 2001-06-25 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
8985 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_MACRO): Accept one more
8986 argument, AUTOCONF-FLAGS.
8987 * tests/mktests.sh (update_exclude_list): Add
8988 AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS and AC_FUNC_WAIT3.
8989 * tests/semantics.at: Test AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS and
8990 AC_FUNC_WAIT3 with "-W no-obsolete".
8992 2001-06-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8994 * tests/foreign.at (libtool): Fix the `libtoolize --version' decoding.
8996 2001-06-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8998 * autoscan.in (%macro): Now maps from word to list of macros.
8999 (&init_tables): Die when a word which is already handled by
9000 explicit macros is mapped to the default macro.
9001 (&print_unique): Remove, inlined in...
9002 (&output_kind): here.
9003 (File::Basename): Use it.
9004 (&output): Sort the CONFIG_FILES.
9005 * acheaders: Normalize.
9006 * acfunctions: Likewise.
9008 2001-06-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9010 * aclang.m4 (_AC_LANG_COMPILER_GNU): If GNU, dump the compiler
9011 characteristics in the logs.
9012 Suggested by Mo DeJong.
9014 2001-06-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9016 * acfunctions.m4 (AM_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE, AM_FUNC_FNMATCH)
9017 (AM_FUNC_MKTIME, AM_FUNC_OBSTACK, AM_FUNC_STRTOD): Reactivated.
9018 * doc/autoconf.texi (Autoconf 2.13): New section.
9020 2001-06-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9022 * autoconf.in (Task traces): Separate the error messages from the
9023 traces to improve robustness.
9025 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9027 * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): Make it a single test instead of
9028 three as failures are unlikely, and speed matters.
9030 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9032 * doc/autoconf.texi (Redefined M4 Macros): New.
9034 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9036 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Consider
9037 inttypes.h is missing if it conflicts with sys/types.h, as on IRIX
9040 2001-06-23 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
9042 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Defer parsing of
9043 config.status targets to after the evaluation of the INIT-CMDS.
9044 Double quote config.status targets (used to be single quoted).
9046 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9048 * tests/torture.at (CONFIG_FILES, HEADERS, LINKS and COMMANDS):
9049 Check the content of the created file.
9050 Check the ./config.status command line invocation.
9052 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9054 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Reject prehistoric versions.
9056 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9058 * aclang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Try to be robust to
9059 preexisting files matching a.*.
9061 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9063 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Output error messages on
9065 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_ARG_VAR): Update.
9067 2001-06-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9069 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Die instead of warning when
9070 precious variables have changed.
9071 * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): Adjust.
9073 2001-06-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9075 ./configure --program-suffix=foo produces `transform=s,$$,foo,;',
9076 but some sed choke on multiple `;', and other tools (e.g.,
9077 Automake), include the separator themselves.
9079 * acgeneral.m4 (AC_ARG_VAR): Be sure not to leave extra `;'.
9081 2001-06-19 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
9083 * doc/autoconf.texi (Functions Portability): Rename as...
9084 (Function Portability): this.
9085 (Function Portability): Document potential problems with unlink().
9087 2001-06-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
9089 * NEWS, doc/autoconf.texi: Document quadrigraphs.
9091 2001-06-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9093 * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_FORK): Fix typos.
9095 2001-06-18 Ruediger Kuhlmann <info@ruediger-kuhlmann.de>
9097 * acfunctions.m4: (AC_FUNC_VFORK) rename as...
9098 (_AC_FUNC_VFORK): this.
9099 Remove AC_DEFINEs and don't guess cross-compilation values.
9100 (_AC_FUNC_FORK): New, check whether fork() isn't just a stub.
9101 (AC_FUNC_FORK): New, use _AC_FUNC_VFORK and _AC_FUNC_FORK to
9102 define HAVE_WORKING_FORK, HAVE_WORKING_VFORK; and vfork to fork if
9104 Guess values if cross-compiling, but warn.
9105 * acfunctions: Add AC_FUNC_FORK.
9106 * doc/autoconf.texi: Document AC_FUNC_FORK. Give example to define
9107 and vfork appropriately.
9109 2001-06-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9111 * doc/autoconf.texi (Functions Portability): New section.
9113 2001-06-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9115 * autoconf.in (M4): Pass --nesting-limit=1024, unless already set
9117 Suggested by Andreas Schwab.
9119 2001-06-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9121 * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_CHOWN, AC_FUNC_CLOSEDIR_VOID)
9122 (AC_FUNC_GETPGRP, AC_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK)
9123 (AC_FUNC_MMAP, AC_FUNC_SELECT_ARGTYPES, _AC_FUNC_STAT)
9124 (AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL): Use AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT.
9125 Don't use AC_TRY_RUN, which double quotes, prefer AC_RUN_IFELSE,
9126 and either AC_LANG_SOURCE or AC_LANG_PROGRAM.
9127 (AC_FUNC_CLOSEDIR_VOID): Protect C++ from `int closedir ();' (or
9130 2001-06-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9132 * doc/autoconf.texi (ms): New index.
9133 (Macro Index): Rename as...
9134 (Autoconf Macro Index): this.
9135 (M4 Macro Index): New appendix.
9136 (Programming in M4): New chapter.
9137 Define M4sugar, M4sh, m4_pattern_forbid, and m4_pattern_allow.
9138 (Quoting): Rename as...
9139 (M$ Quotation): this.
9140 Be part of `Programming in M4).
9142 2001-06-18 Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>
9144 * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): Set variables and export them
9145 in separate statements for compatibility with Tru64 v5.1.
9147 2001-06-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9149 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Be sure to cache the
9150 current values of the precious variables, not the previously
9152 Pass precious variables which are set to config.status.
9153 * doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Document AC_ARG_VAR.
9154 * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): New.
9156 2001-06-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
9158 * doc/autoconf.texi: Move AC_FUNC_WAIT3 and
9159 AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS to the obsolete section,
9160 and explain why and how to replace them.
9161 * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_WAIT3): Warn as obsolete.
9162 * acspecific.m4 (AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS): Likewise.
9164 2001-06-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9166 `build_alias', `host_alias', and `target_alias' are not AC_SUBST'd.
9167 Reported by Bruno Haible.
9169 * acgeneral.m4 (AC_ARG_VAR): Move the AC_SUBST, from here...
9170 (_AC_ARG_VAR_PRECIOUS): to here.
9172 2001-06-15 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
9174 * acheaders.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_DIRENT): Instead of defining
9175 an unused pointer use cast to this type and `if' statement to
9176 avoid warnings from the compiler.
9177 (AC_HEADER_TIME): Likewise.
9178 * actypes.m4 (AC_CHECK_MEMBER): s/foo/ac_aggr/. Use the member
9179 in `if' statement to avoid warnings from the compiler. Declare
9180 ac_aggr static to avoid the need to initialize it.
9182 2001-06-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9184 * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell): Move to follow `Writing
9187 2001-06-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9189 * m4/missing.m4, config/missing: Updated to Automake 1.4g's.
9190 Suggested by Alexander Mai.
9192 2001-06-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9194 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Guard
9195 sys/types.h and sys/stat.h, and check for them.
9197 2001-06-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9199 * acheaders.m4 (AC_CHECK_HEADER, AC_CHECK_HEADERS): Support $4 =
9202 2001-06-12 Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
9204 * acspecific.m4 (AC_PATH_XTRA): Check if linking against libX11
9205 succeeds and only try adding libdnet upon a failure.
9207 2001-06-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9209 * autoscan.in (&output_kind): Output the comment only if it exists.
9210 (%kind_comment): Add entry for `programs'.
9211 (&output_programs): Use &output_kind.
9212 (&output_functions, &output_identifiers, &output_headers)
9213 (&output_programs): Inline, and remove.
9215 2001-06-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9217 * autoscan.in (%kind_comment): New.
9219 (output_functions, output_identifiers, output_headers): Use it.
9221 2001-06-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9223 * autoscan.in (&print_unique): Take `$kind' and `$word' as
9224 arguments, to factor indirections into `%macro' and `%used'.
9225 (%generic_macro): Fix a typo.
9227 2001-06-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9230 * autoscan.in (@kinds): Add `libraries'.
9231 Use `@kinds' instead of hard coded lists.
9232 (%programs, %headers, %identifiers, %makevars, %libraries, %functions):
9233 Remove, replaced by...
9236 2001-06-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9238 * autoscan.in (%functions_macros %headers_macros)
9239 (%identifiers_macros %programs_macros %makevars_macros): Remove,
9243 2001-06-11 Raja R Harinath <harinath@cs.umn.edu>
9245 * aclang.m4 (AC_NO_EXECUTABLES): Override
9246 _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_WORKS, not _AC_LANG_COMPILER_WORKS.
9248 2001-06-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9250 * aclang.m4 (AC_NO_EXECUTABLES): Define the macros with their
9252 Reported by Andreas Schwab.
9254 2001-06-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9256 * Makefile.am, Makefile.maint: Typos.
9258 2001-06-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9260 * doc/autoconf.texi (Here-Documents): New section, gathering
9261 documentation about here-documents.
9262 Use `href', not `uref', and other changes.
9264 2001-06-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9266 * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell Programming): Promoted as a
9269 2001-06-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9271 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Complete the
9272 description of the here-docs penalties with Alexandre Oliva's
9275 2001-06-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
9277 * doc/autoconf.texi: Talk about here documents and speedups.
9278 Do not use "echo" on arbitrary strings.
9279 Spell "here-documents" consistently with the standard.
9281 2001-06-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9283 * doc/autoconf.texi (Concept Index): Introduce it.
9284 Regenerate the menus.
9286 2001-06-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9288 * Makefile.maint, GNUmakefile: New, from Jim Meyering.
9289 * config/prev-version.txt: New.
9290 * config/move-if-change: New, for GNU libc.
9292 2001-06-06 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
9294 * tests/atgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Remove "/bin/sh" after $SHELL.
9296 2001-06-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9298 * acgeneral.m4 (AC_CHECK_LIB): Fix the cache var name to work
9299 properly when $1 is not a literal.
9300 Fixes PR Autoconf/187, reported by Bram Moolenaar.
9302 2001-06-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9304 Invoking AC_COPYRIGHT before AC_INIT fails.
9306 * Makefile.am (.m4.m4f): Pass --fatal-warnings to m4.
9307 * acgeneral.m4 (_m4_divert(VERSION_FSF))
9308 (_m4_divert(VERSION_USER)): New.
9309 (AC_COPYRIGHT): $2 is the diversion to use.
9310 (_AC_INIT_COPYRIGHT): Use the FSF diversion.
9311 (AC_INIT): Remove dead comments as now it's commutative.
9313 2001-06-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9315 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_LIB): Strengthen to reflect
9318 2001-06-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9320 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): `prefix' and `exec_prefix'
9322 `*dir' variables cannot be NONE.
9323 Reported by Mark Kettenis.
9325 2001-06-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
9327 * doc/autoconf.texi: Fix references to Solaris and SunOS versions.
9329 2001-06-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9331 * acgeneral.m4 (AC_VAR_SET, AC_VAR_GET, AC_VAR_TEST_SET)
9332 (AC_VAR_SET_IFELSE, AC_VAR_PUSHDEF and AC_VAR_POPDEF, AC_TR_CPP)
9333 (AC_TR_SH): Move as...
9334 * m4sh.m4 (AS_VAR_SET, AS_VAR_GET, AS_VAR_TEST_SET)
9335 (AS_VAR_SET_IF, AC_VAR_PUSHDEF, AS_VAR_POPDEF, AS_TR_CPP)
9337 (_AS_TR_PREPARE, _AS_CR_PREPARE, _AS_TR_CPP_PREPARE)
9338 (_AS_TR_SH_PREPARE): New.
9339 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Invoke _AS_TR_PREPARE.
9340 * tests/aclocal.m4 (AC_STATE_SAVE): `as_' vars can be modified.
9342 2001-06-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9344 * Makefile.am (.m4.m4f): Pass the options first.
9345 Fixes PR autoconf/182.
9347 2001-06-02 Nathan Sidwell <nathan@codesourcery.com>
9349 GNU getopt, when POSIXLY_CORRECT does not permute options and
9350 arguments. So pass the options first.
9351 Fixes PR autoconf/184.
9353 * autoconf.sh (m4_prefiles, m4f_prefiles): New variables.
9354 (run_m4): Remove files.
9356 Update remainder of script to use them.
9357 (for warning in): Do not use a literal comma as it will not be
9360 2001-06-02 Christian Marquardt <marq@gfz-potsdam.de>
9362 * aclang.m4 (AC_PROG_F77): Add Fujitsu's "frt" to the list of
9363 Fortran compilers to check.
9364 (_AC_PROG_F77_V): Add '-###' as a possible option to print
9365 information on library and object files.
9366 (AC_PROG_CXX): Add Fujitsu's "FCC" to the list of C++ compilers
9369 2001-06-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9371 * autom4te.in (Request::@request): Declare with `vars', not `my',
9372 as it prevents updates via `do FILENAME'.
9374 2001-06-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9376 * configure.in (standards_texi): Remove, dead code.
9378 2001-06-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9382 2001-06-02 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
9384 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Don't rely on $? in the traps
9385 for signals other than 0 - exit with code 1.
9386 * m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): Likewise.
9387 * autoconf.in: Likewise. Also don't rely on exit == exit $?.
9388 * autoheader.in: Likewise.
9389 * autoreconf.in: Likewise.
9390 * tests/torture.at (Signal handling): New test for the above.
9392 2001-06-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9394 * m4sugar.m4 (m4_defn, m4_undefine, m4_popdef): Clarify the error
9397 2001-05-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9399 * acfunctions, acheaders, acidentifiers, acmakevars, acprograms:
9400 Add copyright and comments.
9401 * acheaders: Add stdint.h.
9402 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
9404 2001-05-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9406 * atgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Use $SHELL.
9407 * atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_DEFINES): Skip HAVE_STDINT_H.
9409 2001-05-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9411 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Include
9413 From Paul Eggert and Lars Hecking.
9415 2001-05-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9417 * tests/base.at: Adjust line numbers in error messages.
9419 2001-05-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9421 * tests/base.at, tests/m4sh.at: When using AC_PLAIN_SCRIPT be sure
9422 to emit the bangshe line.
9423 Reported by David Carter.
9425 2001-05-30 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
9427 * aclang.m4 (AC_PROG_F77): Add Compaq's "fort" to the list of
9428 Fortran (95) compilers to check.
9430 2001-05-29 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
9432 * doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction, Pointers): Update the Autoconf
9435 2001-05-23 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
9437 * aclang.m4 (AC_PROG_CPP): Use `break' instead of `break 2' since
9438 _AC_PROG_PREPROC_WORKS_IFELSE expands arguments outside the loop.
9439 (AC_PROG_CXXCPP): Likewise.
9441 2001-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9443 * config: New directory.
9444 * configure.in: AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR it.
9445 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CONFIGURE_AC): Adjust.
9447 2001-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9449 * autoconf.in, autoreconf.in, autoheader.in, autoscan.in, ifnames.in,
9450 * autoupdate.in: Specify the Emacs mode.
9451 * acversion.m4.in: Rename as...
9452 * acversion.m4: this.
9453 * tests/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): More garbage.
9455 2001-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9457 * autoconf.sh, autoreconf.sh, autoheader.sh, autoscan.pl, ifnames.sh:
9459 * autoconf.in, autoreconf.in, autoheader.in, autoscan.in, ifnames.in:
9462 2001-05-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9464 * configure.in: Bump to 2.50a.
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9470 This file is part of GNU Autoconf.
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9473 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
9474 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
9477 GNU Autoconf is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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9479 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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9482 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
9483 along with autoconf; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
9484 the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
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