1 GNU Autoconf NEWS - User visible changes.
3 * Major changes in Autoconf 2.64 (2009-??-??) [stable]
4 Released by Eric Blake, based on git versions 2.63b.*.
6 ** Ensure AT_CHECK can support commands that include a # given with
7 proper m4 quoting. For shell comments, this is a new feature; for
8 non-shell comments, this fixes a regression introduced in 2.63b.
10 * Major changes in Autoconf 2.63b (2009-03-31) [beta]
11 Released by Eric Blake, based on git versions 2.63.*.
13 ** The manual is now shipped under the terms of the GNU FDL 1.3.
15 ** AC_REQUIRE now detects the case of an outer macro which first expands
16 then later indirectly requires the same inner macro. Previously,
17 this case led to silent out-of-order expansion (bug present since
18 2.50); it now issues a syntax warning, and duplicates the expansion
19 of the inner macro to guarantee dependencies have been met. See
20 the manual for advice on how to refactor macros in order to avoid
21 the bug in earlier autoconf versions and avoid increased script
22 size in the current version.
24 ** AC_DEFUN_ONCE has improved semantics. Previously, a macro declared
25 with AC_DEFUN_ONCE warned on a second invocation; and out-of-order
26 expansion was still possible. Now, dependencies are guaranteed,
27 and subsequent invocations are a silent no-op. This makes
28 AC_DEFUN_ONCE an ideal macro for silencing AC_REQUIRE warnings.
30 ** The following macros are now defined with AC_DEFUN_ONCE. This means
31 a subtle change in semantics; previously, an AC_DEFUN macro could
32 expand one of these macros multiple times or surround the macro
33 inside shell conditional text to bypass the effects of these
34 macros, but now the macro will expand exactly once, and prior to
35 the start of any enclosing AC_DEFUN macro:
36 AC_CANONICAL_BUILD AC_CANONICAL_HOST AC_CANONICAL_TARGET
37 AC_HEADER_ASSERT AC_PROG_INSTALL AC_PROG_MKDIR_P
38 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS
40 ** AC_LANG_ERLANG works once again (regression introduced in 2.61a).
42 ** AC_HEADER_ASSERT is fixed so that './configure --enable-assert' no
43 longer mistakenly disables assertions.
45 ** AC_INIT now takes an optional fifth parameter that can be used to
46 set AC_PACKAGE_URL, a URL for the package's home page; the URL is
47 used in `configure --help' and is also available via AC_DEFINE.
49 ** Autotest testsuites accept an option --jobs[=N] for parallel testing.
50 This feature is still in testing, and may not work on every
51 platform, help in improving it would be appreciated.
53 ** Autotest testsuites do not attempt to write startup error messages
54 to the log file before that is opened (regression introduced in 2.63).
56 ** Configure scripts now use shell functions. This feature leads to
57 smaller configure files and faster execution.
59 ** Present But Cannot Be Compiled: Autoconf will now proceed with
60 the compiler's result if a header is present but cannot be compiled.
61 The warning is still printed, and you should really fix it by
62 providing a fourth parameter to AC_CHECK_HEADER/AC_CHECK_HEADERS.
64 ** Autoreconf added aclocal to the set of programs affected by the
65 `autoreconf -I dir' option.
67 ** The following documented m4sugar macros are new:
68 m4_chomp m4_chomp_all m4_cleardivert m4_curry m4_default_quoted
69 m4_esyscmd_s m4_map_args m4_map_args_pair m4_map_args_sep
70 m4_map_args_w m4_set_map m4_set_map_sep m4_stack_foreach
71 m4_stack_foreach_lifo m4_stack_foreach_sep
72 m4_stack_foreach_sep_lifo
74 ** The following m4sugar macros are documented now, but in some cases
75 with slightly different semantics than what the previous
76 undocumented version had:
77 m4_copy m4_dumpdefs m4_rename m4_version_prereq
79 ** The m4sugar macro m4_expand has been taught to handle unterminated
80 comments and shell case statements. As a result, it is used
81 internally in more places, such as AC_DEFINE and AT_CHECK. Most
82 uses of AC_DEFINE and AT_CHECK should not behave any differently;
83 however, it may be necessary to add double-quoting around
84 unbalanced `(' where single-quoting used to be sufficient.
86 ** The following documented m4sh macros are new:
87 AS_INIT_GENERATED AS_LINENO_PREPARE AS_ME_PREPARE AS_SET_STATUS
88 AS_VAR_APPEND AS_VAR_ARITH AS_VAR_COPY
90 ** The following m4sh macros are documented now, but in some cases
91 with slightly different semantics than what the previous
92 undocumented version had:
93 AS_ECHO AS_ECHO_N AS_ESCAPE AS_EXIT AS_LITERAL_IF AS_UNSET
94 AS_VAR_IF AS_VAR_POPDEF AS_VAR_PUSHDEF AS_VAR_SET AS_VAR_SET_IF
95 AS_VAR_TEST_SET AS_VERSION_COMPARE
97 ** The m4sh macros AS_IF and AS_CASE can now be used in shell lists.
98 The responsibility for supplying a trailing newline now belongs to
99 the call site, but since most users did not add dnl, this generally
100 results in fewer empty lines in configure.
103 * Major changes in Autoconf 2.63 (2008-09-09) [stable]
104 Released by Eric Blake, based on git versions 2.62.*.
106 ** AC_C_BIGENDIAN does not mistakenly report "universal" for some
107 bigendian hosts, a regression introduced with universal binary
110 ** AC_PATH_X now includes /lib64 and /usr/lib64 in its list of default
113 ** AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS no longer conflicts with an external
114 AC_DEFINE([__EXTENSIONS__]). This fixes a regression introduced in
115 2.62 when using macros such as AC_AIX that were made obsolete in
116 favor of the more portable AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS.
118 ** AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOLS is usable in the non-cross-compile case.
120 ** Newly obsolete macros
121 The following macro has been marked obsolete, since current porting
122 targets can safely assume C89 semantics that signal handlers return
123 void. We have no current plans to remove the macro.
127 ** The macros m4_map and m4_map_sep now ignore any list elements
128 consisting of just empty quotes, and m4_map_sep now expands its
129 separator. This fixes a regression in 2.62 when these macros were
130 first documented, for the sake of clients expecting the semantics
131 that these macros had prior to that time. The new macros m4_mapall
132 and m4_mapall_sep, along with extra quoting of the separator, can
133 be used to get the semantics that m4_map_sep had in 2.62.
135 ** Clients of m4_expand, such as AS_HELP_STRING and AT_SETUP, can now
136 handle properly quoted but otherwise unbalanced parentheses (for
137 some macros, this fixes a regression in 2.62).
139 ** Two new quadrigraphs have been introduced: @{:@ for (, and @:}@ for ),
140 allowing the output of unbalanced parentheses in more contexts.
142 ** The following m4sugar macros are new:
143 m4_cleardivert m4_joinall m4_mapall m4_mapall_sep m4_reverse
144 m4_set_add m4_set_add_all m4_set_contains m4_set_contents
145 m4_set_delete m4_set_difference m4_set_dump m4_set_empty
146 m4_set_foreach m4_set_intersection m4_set_list m4_set_listc
147 m4_set_remove m4_set_size m4_set_union
149 ** The following m4sugar macros now accept multiple arguments, as is the
150 case with underlying m4:
151 m4_defn m4_popdef m4_undefine
153 ** The following m4sugar macros now guarantee linear scaling; they
154 previously had linear scaling with m4 1.6 but quadratic scaling
155 when using m4 1.4.x. All macros built on top of these also gain
156 the scaling improvements.
157 m4_bmatch m4_bpatsubsts m4_case m4_cond m4_do m4_dquote_elt
158 m4_foreach m4_join m4_list_cmp m4_map m4_map_sep m4_max
161 ** AT_KEYWORDS once again performs expansion on its argument, such that
162 AT_KEYWORDS([m4_if([$1], [], [default])]) no longer complains about
163 the possibly unexpanded m4_if [regression introduced in 2.62].
165 ** Config header templates `#undef UNDEFINED /* comment */' do not lead to
166 nested comments any more; regression introduced in 2.62.
169 * Major changes in Autoconf 2.62 (2008-04-05) [stable]
170 Released by Eric Blake, based on git versions 2.61a.*.
172 ** Many optimizations have been applied to make overall execution faster.
174 ** Autotest now makes use of shell functions.
176 ** config.status now uses awk instead of sed also for config headers.
178 - As a side effect, AC_DEFINE and AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED now handle multi-line
179 values, i.e., backslash-newline combinations are handled correctly.
180 Further, for config headers, the total size of values is not limited by
181 the POSIX length limit of text lines any more, only each single line.
183 ** New config variable `top_build_prefix'.
185 ** New Autoconf macros:
186 AC_AUTOCONF_VERSION AC_OPENMP AC_PATH_PROGS_FEATURE_CHECK
188 ** AC_C_BIGENDIAN now supports universal binaries a la Mac OS X.
190 ** AC_C_RESTRICT now prefers to #define 'restrict' to a variant spelling
191 like '__restrict' if the variant spelling is available, as this is
192 more likely to work when mixing C and C++ code.
194 ** AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF's type argument T is now documented better: it must
195 be a string of tokens such that "T y;" is a valid member declaration
198 ** AC_CHECK_SIZEOF now accepts objects as well as types: the general rule
199 is that sizeof (X) works, then AC_CHECK_SIZEOF (X) should work.
201 ** AC_CHECK_TYPE and AC_CHECK_TYPES now work on any C type-name; formerly,
202 they did not work for function types. In C++, they now work on any
203 type-id that can be the operand of sizeof; this is similar to C,
204 except it excludes anonymous struct and union types. Formerly,
205 some (but not all) C++ types involving anonymous struct and union
206 were accepted, though this was not documented.
208 ** AC_CONFIG_LINKS now prefers to link against files in the build tree
209 if found, and it works to link against a file of the same name in
210 the source tree, even if both trees coincide.
212 ** AC_INIT no longer alters $@; regression introduced in 2.60.
214 ** AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS now defines _ALL_SOURCE for Interix platforms.
216 ** AS_HELP_STRING no longer underquotes its first argument; it also handles
217 the case where the first argument contains single-quoted commas.
218 For example, "AS_HELP_STRING([-a, [--arg[=foo]]], [bar])" produces:
219 " -a, --arg[=foo] bar"
220 Additionally, the macro now takes two additional arguments,
221 indent-column and wrap-column; these should not normally be needed,
222 but can be used to fine-tune how the output text is wrapped.
224 ** AC_PROG_INSTALL now requires an install program that can install multiple
225 files into a target directory.
227 ** The command 'autoconf -' now correctly processes a file from stdin.
229 ** 'autoreconf -m' now honors $MAKE.
231 ** For all of the directory arguments for 'configure', such as '--prefix'
232 or '--bindir', trailing slashes are stripped. As an example, if
233 tab completion in the user's shell appends trailing slashes, the
234 command './configure --prefix=/usr/' will still result in an
235 expanded libdir value of /usr/lib, not /usr//lib.
237 ** `configure --help=recursive' now works in read-only trees and from
238 unconfigured build trees.
240 ** If precious variables differ only in whitespace, then the cache consistency
241 check warns instead of fails, and reuses the old value.
243 ** AT_BANNER is now documented.
245 ** AT_SETUP now handles macro expansions properly when calculating line
248 ** Autotest now determines $srcdir correctly.
250 ** Testsuites built by autotest now accept a -C/--directory=DIR option
251 to adjust the working directory prior to creating files.
253 ** Autoconf now requires GNU M4 1.4.5 or later. Earlier versions of M4 have
254 a bug in macro tracing that interferes with the interaction between
255 Autoconf and Automake. GNU M4 1.4.11 or later is recommended. The
256 configure search for a working M4 is improved.
258 ** For portability with the eventual M4 2.0, macros should no longer use
259 anything larger than $9 to refer to arguments.
261 ** Documentation for m4sugar is improved.
263 - The following macros were previously available as undocumented
264 interfaces; the macros are now documented as stable interfaces.
266 __oline__ m4_assert m4_bmatch m4_bpatsubsts m4_car m4_case
267 m4_cdr m4_default m4_divert_once m4_divert_pop m4_divert_push
268 m4_divert_text m4_do m4_errprintn m4_fatal m4_flatten
269 m4_ifndef m4_ifset m4_ifval m4_ifvaln m4_location
270 m4_n m4_shiftn m4_strip m4_warn
272 - The following macros were previously available as undocumented
273 interfaces, but had bug fixes or semantic changes as part of this
274 release. Packages that relied on the undocumented behavior
275 should be analyzed to make sure they will still work with the
276 new documented behavior.
278 m4_cmp m4_list_cmp m4_join m4_map m4_map_sep m4_sign
279 m4_text_box m4_text_wrap m4_version_compare
281 - The m4_wrap macro used to have unspecified order, but now
282 guarantees FIFO order. m4_wrap_lifo was added to guarantee LIFO
285 - Packages using the undocumented m4sugar macro m4_PACKAGE_VERSION
286 should consider using the new AC_AUTOCONF_VERSION instead.
288 - m4sugar macros that are not documented in the manual are still
289 deemed experimental, and should not be used outside of Autoconf.
291 ** The m4sugar macros m4_append and m4_append_uniq, first documented in
292 2.60, have been fixed to treat both the string and the separator
293 arguments consistently with regards to quoting. Prior to this fix,
294 m4_append_uniq could mistakenly duplicate entries if the expansion
295 of the separator resulted in a different string (for example, if it
296 contained quotes, a comma, or a macro name). However, it means
297 that programs previously using
298 m4_append([name], [string], [[, ]])
299 are now using a four-character separator instead of the intended
300 comma and space. If you need portability to earlier versions of
301 Autoconf, you can insert the following snippet after AC_INIT but
302 before any other macro expansions, to enforce the new semantics:
303 m4_pushdef([m4_append], [m4_define([$1],
304 m4_ifdef([$1], [m4_defn([$1])[$3]])[$2])])
305 Additionally, m4_append_uniq now takes optional parameters that can
306 be used to take action depending on whether anything was appended,
307 and warns if a non-empty separator occurs within the string being
308 appended, since that can lead to duplicates.
310 ** The following m4sugar macros are new:
311 m4_append_uniq_w m4_apply m4_combine m4_cond m4_count
312 m4_dquote_elt m4_echo m4_expand m4_ignore m4_make_list m4_max
313 m4_min m4_newline m4_shift2 m4_shift3 m4_unquote m4_wrap_lifo
315 ** Warnings are now generated by default when an installer invokes
316 'configure' with an unknown --enable-* or --with-* option.
317 These warnings can be disabled with the new AC_DISABLE_OPTION_CHECKING
318 macro, or by invoking 'configure' with --disable-option-checking.
320 ** Existing obsolete macros
321 The documentation for the following macros is adjusted to make it
322 more clear that they have previously been marked obsolete, as their
323 functionality can be accomplished by other macros. We have no
324 current plans to remove them from Autoconf.
326 AC_ENABLE AC_STRUCT_ST_BLKSIZE AC_STRUCT_ST_RDEV AC_WITH
328 ** Newly obsolete macros
329 The following macros have been marked obsolete, as they only
330 perform a subset of AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. We have no current
331 plans to remove them.
333 AC_AIX AC_GNU_SOURCE AC_ISC_POSIX AC_MINIX
335 ** AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE is obsolescent.
336 The documentation now says that AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE is obsolescent: it
337 tests for problems that are so old that it is no longer of
338 practical importance on current systems. New programs need not use
339 AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE. We have no current plans to remove it.
341 ** AC_DIAGNOSE, AC_WARNING, and AC_FATAL are obsolescent.
342 The documentation now favors the use of M4sugar macros m4_warn and
343 m4_fatal, since the naming makes it more obvious that the
344 diagnostics are associated with M4 expansion (ie. when running
345 `autoconf'), and offers less confusion with the AC_MSG_ERROR,
346 AC_MSG_FAILURE, and AC_MSG_WARN macros which manage diagnostics
347 when running `configure'. We have no current plans to remove these
351 * Major changes in Autoconf 2.61a (2006-12-11)
353 ** AC_FUNC_FSEEKO was broken in 2.61; it didn't make fseeko and ftello visible
354 on many platforms. This has been fixed.
356 ** AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED is now obsolete. It is still defined for backward
357 compatibility but it does nothing. The macro was already
358 obsolescent, as the last systems to have the problem were those
359 based on SVR2, which became obsolete in 1987. The macro had bugs
360 on some modern systems and could no longer be maintained reliably
361 due to lack of ancient systems to test it on.
363 ** config.status now uses awk instead of sed for most substitutions, for speed.
365 - As a side effect multi-line values of substituted variables no
366 longer have a small limit in total size, though for portability
367 each line should not exceed the POSIX length limit for text lines.
369 - It is now documented that Makefile.in should not contain
370 overlapping variable occurrences, e.g., @VAR1@VAR2@.
371 Autoconf's behavior was always iffy in such cases, and the
372 awk implementation has changed the behavior.
374 ** Many uses of 'echo' have been rewritten so that Autoconf-generated
375 scripts have fewer problems with strings or file names containing
376 embedded special characters such as backslash or leading "-". This
377 was implemented by using `printf '%s\n' "$foo"' instead of `echo
378 "$foo"' when printf works. Due to the implementation technique
379 used, Autoconf-generated scripts now run considerably more slowly
380 on ancient implementations lacking printf. However, this should
381 not be a problem, since Autoconf-generated scripts in practice
382 invariably find a more-modern shell these days.
385 * Major changes in Autoconf 2.61 (2006-11-17)
387 ** New macros AC_C_FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER, AC_C_VARARRAYS.
389 ** AC_ARG_ENABLE and AC_ARG_WITH now allow '.' in feature and package names.
392 * Major changes in Autoconf 2.60b (2006-10-22)
395 Autoconf-generated shell scripts no longer export BIN_SH, due to
396 configuration hassles with this. Installers who need BIN_SH in
397 their environment should set it before invoking 'configure' and
398 'make'. As far as we know, this affects only Unixware installations.
400 ** Obsolescent macros
401 The documentation now says that the following macros are obsolescent,
402 as they are superseded by Gnulib:
404 AC_FUNC_FNMATCH AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU AC_FUNC_GETLOADVG AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH
406 New programs should use the Gnulib counterparts of these macros.
407 We have no current plans to remove them from Autoconf.
409 ** AC_COMPUTE_INT no longer caches or reports results.
411 ** AC_CHECK_DECL now also works with aggregate objects.
413 ** AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS now defines _TANDEM_SOURCE for NonStop platforms.
415 ** GNU M4 1.4.7 or later is now recommended.
418 New M4sugar macro, which is more secure than the POSIX M4 maketemp.
421 Now an alias for m4_mkstemp.
423 * Major changes in Autoconf 2.60a (2006-08-25)
425 ** GNU M4 1.4.6 or later is now recommended.
427 ** The check for C99 now tests for varargs macros, as documented.
428 It also tests that the preprocessor supports 64-bit integers.
430 ** Autoconf now uses constructs like "#ifdef HAVE_STDLIB_H" rather than
431 "#if HAVE_STDLIB_H", so that it now works with "gcc -Wundef -Werror".
433 ** The functionality of the undocumented _AC_COMPUTE_INT is now provided
434 by a public and documented macro, AC_COMPUTE_INT. The parameters to the
435 two macros are different, so autoupdate will not change the old private name
436 to the new one. _AC_COMPUTE_INT may be removed in a future release.
438 ** AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG_INT and AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG_INT now require
439 that long long types be at least 64 bits wide, as C99 and tradition
440 requires. Formerly, they accepted implementations of any width.
443 * Major changes in Autoconf 2.60
445 Released 2006-06-23, by Ralf Wildenhues.
447 ** Autoconf no longer depends on whether m4wrap is FIFO (as Posix requires)
448 or LIFO (as in GNU M4 1.4.x). GNU M4 2.0 is expected to conform to Posix
449 here, so m4wrap/m4_wrap users should no longer depend on LIFO behavior.
451 ** Provide a way to turn off warnings about the changed directory variables.
453 * Major changes in Autoconf 2.59d
455 Released 2006-06-05, by Ralf Wildenhues.
457 ** GNU make now recommended for VPATH builds
458 INSTALL now suggests VPATH builds (e.g., "sh ../srcdir/configure")
459 only if you use GNU make. In practice, other 'make' implementations
460 have too many subtle incompatibilities in their support for VPATH.
461 Many packages (including Autoconf itself) are portable to other
462 'make' implementations, but some packages are not, and recommending
463 GNU make keeps the installation instructions simpler.
465 ** Even more safety checks for the new Directory variables:
466 Warn about suspicious `${datarootdir}' found in config files output.
468 ** AC_TRY_COMMAND, AC_TRY_EVAL, ac_config_guess, ac_config_sub, ac_configure
469 These never-documented macros and variables have been marked with
470 comments saying that they may be removed in a future release,
471 because their use can lead to unintended code being executed.
472 If you need functionality that only these macros or variables
473 currently supply, please write bug-autoconf@gnu.org.
475 ** AC_SUBST, AC_DEFINE
476 Literal arguments to these are passed to m4_pattern_allow now.
479 Passing 'ac_cv_prog_cc_stdc=no' to 'configure' now sets ac_cv_prog_cc_c99
480 and ac_cv_prog_cc_c89 to 'no' as well, for backward compatibility with
481 obsolete K&R tests in the Automake test suite.
490 Now more robust with special characters in file names, or when
491 multiple processes create the same directory at the same time.
493 ** Obsolescent macros
494 The documentation now says that the following macros are obsolescent:
495 they test for problems that are so old that they are no longer of
496 practical importance on current systems.
498 AC_C_BACKSLASH_A AC_FUNC_MEMCMP AC_HEADER_DIRENT
499 AC_C_CONST AC_FUNC_SELECT_ARGTYPES AC_HEADER_STAT
500 AC_C_PROTOTYPES AC_FUNC_SETPGRP AC_HEADER_STDC
501 AC_C_STRINGIZE AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED AC_HEADER_SYS_WAIT
502 AC_C_VOLATILE AC_FUNC_STAT AC_HEADER_TIME
503 AC_FUNC_CLOSEDIR_VOID AC_FUNC_STRFTIME AC_ISC_POSIX
504 AC_FUNC_GETPGRP AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL
505 AC_FUNC_LSTAT AC_FUNC_VPRINTF AC_STRUCT_TM
507 New programs need not use these macros. We have no current plans to
511 For compatibility with future Libtool 2.0, autoreconf will invoke
512 libtoolize with the option `--ltdl' now, if LT_CONFIG_LTDL_DIR is
515 * Major changes in Autoconf 2.59c
517 Released 2006-04-12, by Ralf Wildenhues.
519 ** The configure command now redirects standard input from /dev/null,
520 to help avoid problems with subsidiary commands that might mistakenly
521 read standard input. AS_ORIGINAL_STDIN_FD points to the original
522 standard input before this redirection, if you really want configure to
523 read from standard input.
525 ** Directory variables adjusted to recent changes in the GNU Coding Standards.
526 The following directory variables are new:
528 datarootdir read-only architecture-independent data root [PREFIX/share]
529 localedir locale-specific message catalogs [DATAROOTDIR/locale]
530 docdir documentation root [DATAROOTDIR/doc/PACKAGE]
531 htmldir html documentation [DOCDIR]
532 dvidir dvi documentation [DOCDIR]
533 pdfdir pdf documentation [DOCDIR]
534 psdir ps documentation [DOCDIR]
536 The following variables have new default values:
538 datadir read-only architecture-independent data [DATAROOTDIR]
539 infodir info documentation [DATAROOTDIR/info]
540 mandir man documentation [DATAROOTDIR/man]
542 This means that if you use any of `@datadir@', `@infodir@', or
543 `@mandir@' in a file, you will have to ensure `${datarootdir}' is
544 defined in this file. As a temporary measure, if any of those are
545 found but no mention of `datarootdir', the substitutions will be
546 replaced with values that do not contain `${datarootdir}', and a
547 warning will be issued.
549 ** @top_builddir@ is now a dir name: it is always nonempty and doesn't have
550 a trailing slash. Similar change will be made to ac_top_builddir in a
551 future release; the old style value, which matches (../)*, is (and will
552 continue to be) available as ac_top_build_prefix.
555 New macro to check for support of 'typeof' syntax a la GNU C.
557 ** AC_CHECK_DECLS_ONCE, AC_CHECK_FUNCS_ONCE, AC_CHECK_HEADERS_ONCE
558 New "once-only" variants of commonly-used macros, to make 'configure'
559 smaller and faster in common cases.
562 New macro to check for strtold with C99 semantics.
565 New macro that lets builder disable assertions at 'configure'-time.
568 Now checks for X11/Xlib.h and XrmInitialize (X proper) rather than
569 X11/Intrinsic.h and XtMalloc (Xt).
571 ** AC_PRESERVE_HELP_ORDER
572 New macro that causes `configure' to display help strings for AC_ARG_ENABLE
573 and AC_ARG_WITH arguments in one region, in the order defined. The default
574 behavior is to group options of each classes separately.
576 ** AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX
577 No longer automatically arrange to declare the 'exit' function of C,
578 when a C++ compiler is used. Standard Autoconf macros no longer use
579 'exit', so this is no longer an issue for them. If you use C++, and
580 want to call 'exit', you'll have to arrange for its declaration
581 yourself. But we now suggest you return from 'main' instead.
583 ** AC_PROG_CC_C89, AC_PROG_CC_C99
584 New macros for ISO C99 support. AC_PROG_CC_C89 and AC_PROG_CC_C99
585 check for ANSI C89 and ISO C99 support respectively.
588 Has been unobsoleted, and will check if the compiler supports ISO
589 C99, falling back to ANSI C89 if not. ac_cv_prog_cc_stdc is
590 retained for backwards compatibility, assuming the value of
591 ac_cv_prog_cc_c99 or ac_cv_prog_cc_c89 (whichever is valid, in
594 ** AC_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_INO, AC_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_TYPE
595 New macros for checking commonly-used members of struct dirent.
598 The substituted value can now contain newlines.
601 The substitution now occurs only when @variable@ is on a line by itself,
602 optionally surrounded by spaces and tabs. The whole line is replaced.
604 ** AC_TYPE_LONG_DOUBLE, AC_TYPE_LONG_DOUBLE_WIDER
605 New macros to check for long double, and whether it is wider than double.
606 The old macro AC_C_TYPE_LONG_DOUBLE has been marked as obsolete;
607 applications should switch to the new macro.
609 ** AC_TYPE_INT8_T, AC_TYPE_INT16_T, AC_TYPE_INT32_T, AC_TYPE_INT64_T,
610 AC_TYPE_INTMAX_T, AC_TYPE_INTPTR_T, AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG_INT, AC_TYPE_SSIZE_T,
611 AC_TYPE_UINT8_T, AC_TYPE_UINT16_T, AC_TYPE_UINT32_T, AC_TYPE_UINT64_T,
612 AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T, AC_TYPE_UINTPTR_T, AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG_INT
613 New macros to check for C99 and POSIX types.
615 ** AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS
616 New macro to enable extensions to Posix.
619 New macro which is defined to the name of the first declared config header
620 or undefined if no config headers have been declared yet.
623 The macro correctly handles quadrigraphs now.
625 ** AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE, AS_SHELL_SANITIZE, AS_CASE
626 These macros are new or published now.
629 New macro for copyright notices in testsuite files.
631 ** ALLOCA, LIBOBJS, LTLIBOBJS
632 Object names added to these variables are now prefixed with `${LIBOBJDIR}',
633 as in `${LIBOBJDIR}alloca.o'. LIBOBJDIR is meant to be defined from
634 `Makefile.in' in case the object files lie in a different directory.
635 The LIBOBJDIR feature is experimental.
638 Supports --no-recursive now.
640 ** New macros to support Erlang/OTP.
641 New macros for configuring paths to Erlang tools and libraries:
642 AC_ERLANG_PATH_ERLC, AC_ERLANG_NEED_ERLC, AC_ERLANG_PATH_ERL,
643 AC_ERLANG_NEED_ERL, AC_ERLANG_CHECK_LIB, AC_ERLANG_SUBST_ROOT_DIR,
644 AC_ERLANG_SUBST_LIB_DIR.
646 New macros for configuring installation of Erlang libraries:
647 AC_ERLANG_SUBST_INSTALL_LIB_DIR, AC_ERLANG_SUBST_INSTALL_LIB_SUBDIR.
649 ** The manual now mentions Gnulib more prominently.
651 ** New macros to support Objective C.
652 AC_PROG_OBJC, AC_PROG_OBJCPP.
654 * Major changes in Autoconf 2.59b
656 Released 2004-08-20, by Paul Eggert.
659 New macro that computes the default alignment of a type.
661 ** AC_CHECK_TOOL, AC_PATH_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOLS
662 When cross-compiling, these macros will give a warning if the tool
663 is not prefixed. In the future, unprefixed cross tools will not
664 be detected; please consult the info documentation for information
665 about the reason of this change.
667 ** AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOL, AC_PATH_TARGET_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOLS
668 New macros that detect programs whose name is prefixed with the
669 target type, if the build type and target type are different.
671 ** AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE
672 New trace macro that declares expected auxiliary files.
675 New macro that tests for a grep program that accepts as a long a line
678 ** AC_PROG_EGREP, AC_PROG_FGREP
679 These macros now require AC_PROG_GREP, and try EGREP="$GREP -E" and
680 FGREP="$GREP -F" respectively if possible, or else run a path search for
681 a program that accepts as long a line as possible.
684 New macro that tests for a sed program that truncates as few characters
687 * Major changes in Autoconf 2.59
689 Released 2003-11-04, by Akim Demaille
691 ** ac_abs_builddir etc.
692 Absolute file names were actually relative in 2.58.
694 * Major changes in Autoconf 2.58
696 Released 2003-11-04, by Akim Demaille
699 core.* files are no longer removed, as they may be valid user files.
701 ** autoreconf and auxiliary directory
702 Autoreconf creates the auxiliary directory if needed. This is
703 especially useful for initial "bootstrapping" of fresh CVS checkouts.
705 ** AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR
706 Use this macro to declare the directory for local M4 macros for aclocal.
709 No longer includes twice the same file in LIBOBJS if invoked
712 ** AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS
713 The directory for its first argument is automatically created. For
716 AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS([src/modules.hh], [...])
718 $top_builddir/src/ is created if needed.
720 ** Autotest and local.at
721 The optional file local.at is always included in Autotest test suites.
724 The warnings are always issued, including with cached runs.
725 This became a significant problem since aclocal and automake can
726 run autoconf behind the scene.
728 ** autoheader warnings
729 The warnings of autoheader can be turned off, using --warning.
730 For instance, -Wno-obsolete disables the complaints about acconfig.h
731 and other deprecated constructs.
734 AC_C_RESTRICT, AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT, AC_LANG_ASSERT, AC_LANG_WERROR,
737 ** AC_DECL_SYS_SIGLIST
741 Now checks that mktime is the inverse of localtime.
743 ** Improve DJGPP portability
744 The Autoconf tools and configure behave better under DJGPP.
746 ** Present But Cannot Be Compiled
747 New FAQ section dedicated to the mystic
749 configure: WARNING: pi.h: present but cannot be compiled
750 configure: WARNING: pi.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
751 configure: WARNING: pi.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
754 ** Concurrent executions of autom4te
755 autom4te now locks its internal files, which enables concurrent
756 executions of autom4te, likely to happen if automake, autoconf,
757 autoheader etc. are run simultaneously.
760 Use of Libtool 1.5 and higher is encouraged. Compatibility with
761 Libtool pre-1.4 is not checked.
764 Testsuites no longer rerun failed tests in verbose mode; instead,
765 failures are logged while the test is run.
767 In addition, expected failures can be marked as such.
769 * Major changes in Autoconf 2.57
771 Released 2002-12-03 by Paul Eggert.
773 Bug fixes for problems with AIX linker, with freestanding C compilers,
774 with GNU M4 limitations, and with obsolete copies of GNU documents.
776 The Free Documentation License has been upgraded from 1.1 to 1.2.
778 * Major changes in Autoconf 2.56
780 Released 2002-11-15 by Akim Demaille.
782 One packaging problem fixed (config/install-sh was not executable).
784 * Major changes in Autoconf 2.55
786 Released 2002-11-14 by Akim Demaille.
790 Have your configure.ac checked by autoscan ("autoscan").
791 Try the warning options ("autoreconf -fv -Wall").
795 - AC_CHECK_HEADER, AC_CHECK_HEADERS
796 More information on proper use.
798 - Writing Test Programs
800 This sections explains how to write good test sources to use with
801 AC_COMPILE_IFELSE etc. It documents AC_LANG_PROGRAM and so forth.
803 - AC_FOO_IFELSE vs. AC_TRY_FOO
805 Explains why Autoconf moves from AC_TRY_COMPILE etc. to
806 AC_COMPILE_IFELSE and AC_LANG_PROGRAM etc.
810 - Is more robust to different Gettext installations.
812 - Produces messages (when --verbose) to be understood by Emacs'
815 - Supports -W/--warnings.
818 Once the GNU Build System reinstalled, run `./config.status
819 --recheck && ./config.status && make' if possible.
823 - Supports --cache, and --no-cache.
825 - ~/.autom4te.cfg makes it possible to disable the caching mechanism
826 (autom4te.cache). See `Customizing autom4te' in the documentation.
833 Support for the obsoleted options -m, --macrodir, -l, --localdir is
834 dropped in favor of the safer --include/--prepend-include scheme.
839 AC_COMPILER_IFELSE, AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC, AC_HEADER_STDBOOL,
840 AC_LANG_CONFTEST, AC_LANG_SOURCE, AC_LANG_PROGRAM, AC_LANG_CALL,
841 AC_LANG_FUNC_TRY_LINK, AC_MSG_FAILURE, AC_PREPROC_IFELSE.
844 Obsoleted macros are kept for Autoconf backward compatibility, but
845 should be avoided in configure.ac. Running autoupdate is advised.
848 - AC_DEFINE/AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED
850 We have to stop using the old compatibility scheme --that tried to
851 avoid useless backslashes-- because Libtool 1.4.3 contains a
853 AC_DEFINE([error_t], [int],
854 [Define to a type to use for \`error_t' if it is not
855 otherwise available.])
857 We have to quote the single quotes and backslashes with \. The old
858 compatibility scheme saw that ` was backslashed, and therefore did
859 not quote the single quote... Failure. Hence, Autoconf 2.54 is not
860 compatible with Libtool. Autoconf 2.55 is, but in some cases might
861 produce more \ than wanted.
863 Please, note that in the future the same problem will happen with
864 AC_MSG_*: use `autoreconf -f -Wall'.
868 - Portability of the Autoconf package to Solaris.
870 - Spurious warnings caused by config.status.
871 This bug is benign, but painful: on some systems (typically
872 FreeBSD), warnings such as:
874 config.status: creating Makefile
875 mv: Makefile: set owner/group (was: 1357/0): Operation not permitted
877 could be issued. This is fixed.
880 Simultaneous executions of config.status are possible again.
882 - Precious variables accumulation
884 config.status could stack several copies of the precious variables
888 ** Plans for later versions
892 The compatibility hooks with the old scheme will be completely
893 removed. Please, advice/use `--build', `--host', and `--target'
896 - AC_CHECK_HEADER, AC_CHECK_HEADERS
898 The tests will be stricter, please make sure your invocations are
903 Shell functions will gradually be introduced, probably starting with
904 Autotest. If you know machines which are in use that you suspect
905 *not* to support shell functions, please run the test suite of
906 Autoconf 2.55 on it, and report the results to
907 bug-autoconf@gnu.org.
911 Special characters in AC_MSG_* need not be quoted. Currently,
912 Autoconf has heuristics to decide when a string is escaped, or has
913 to be escaped. This scheme is fragile, and will be removed; the
914 only risk is uglified messages. Please, run `autoreconf -f -Wall'
915 to find occurrences that will be affected.
917 * Major changes in Autoconf 2.54
919 Released 2002-09-13 by Akim Demaille.
923 - autoreconf no longer changes the version of the gettext/po/intl
924 support files. It now adds the files the correspond to the
925 AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION declared in configure.ac.
927 Warning: It now relies on the 'autopoint' program, which is part
928 of GNU gettext 0.11.4 and newer.
930 Please note that you need to have a GNU gettext version that
931 corresponds at least to the AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION declared
932 in configure.ac. You can upgrade to newer GNU gettext versions,
933 though, without needing to change configure.ac.
935 - The -I DIR or --include=DIR option now appends DIR to the include path
936 instead of prepending; this is for consistency with other GNU tools.
937 The new -B DIR or --prepend-include=DIR option has the old behavior.
942 Now handles all the gory details about LIBOBJS and LTLIBOBJS.
943 Please, remove lines such as
945 # This is necessary so that .o files in LIBOBJS are also
946 # built via the ANSI2KNR-filtering rules.
947 LIBOBJS=`echo $LIBOBJS|sed 's/\.o /\$U.o /g;s/\.o$/\$U.o/'`
949 and read the `AC_LIBOBJ vs LIBOBJS' section. Do not define U in
950 your Makefiles either.
952 - AC_CONFIG_LINKS now makes copies if it can't make links.
954 - AC_FUNC_FNMATCH now tests only for POSIX compatibility, reverting to
955 Autoconf 2.13 behavior. The new macro AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU also
956 tests for GNU extensions to fnmatch, and replaces fnmatch if needed.
958 - AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED no longer fails when cross-compiling.
960 - AC_PROG_CC_STDC is integrated into AC_PROG_CC.
962 - AC_PROG_F77 default search no longer includes cf77 and cfg77.
966 AC_C_BACKSLASH_A, AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR, AC_GNU_SOURCE,
967 AC_PROG_EGREP, AC_PROG_FGREP, AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH,
968 AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU, AC_FUNC_REALLOC, AC_TYPE_MBSTATE_T.
971 looks for getloadavg.c in the CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR.
974 Now defines HAVE_MALLOC to 0 if `malloc' does not work, and asks
975 for an AC_LIBOBJ replacement.
979 - Spurious complaints from `m4_bmatch' about invalid regular
980 expressions are suppressed.
982 - Empty top_builddirs are properly handled.
984 - AC_CHECK_MEMBER works correctly when the member is an aggregate.
987 Now colon in the optional path arguments are properly handled.
989 ** Improved portability
991 - Both Autoconf the package, and the scripts it produces, should run
992 more reliably with Zsh. Bear in mind it is the default Bourne shell
995 - Autoconf and the scripts it produces no longer assume the existence of
996 the obsolescent commands egrep and fgrep.
1000 - Limitations of Make
1004 The GNATS base moved to
1005 http://bugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?database=autoconf
1006 (It is no longer available, though.)
1011 Now contains the list of ouput variables and files (AC_SUBST,
1014 * Major changes in Autoconf 2.53
1016 Released 2002-03-08 by Akim Demaille.
1020 Perl 5.005_03 or later is required: autom4te is written in Perl and is
1021 needed by autoconf. autoheader, autoreconf, ifnames, and autoscan are
1027 Argument requirements, output variables, defined macros.
1028 - M4sugar, M4sh, Autotest
1030 - Double quoting macros
1031 AC_TRY_CPP, AC_TRY_COMPILE, AC_TRY_LINK and AC_TRY_RUN.
1033 The Autoconf manual is now distributed under the terms of the GNU FDL.
1034 - Section `Hosts and Cross-Compilation'
1035 Explains the rationale for the 2.5x changes in the cross-compilation
1036 chain, and in the relationships between build, host, and target
1038 Emphasizes that `cross-compilation' == `--host is given'.
1039 If you are working on compilers etc., be sure to read this section.
1040 - Section `AC_LIBOBJ vs. LIBOBJS'
1041 Explains why assigning LIBOBJS directly is now an error.
1042 Details how to update the code.
1047 Now used instead of hard coded line numbers.
1048 This eases the comparison of `configure's, and diminishes the
1049 pressure over control version archives.
1050 Automatic replacement for shells that don't support this feature.
1051 - New output variables
1052 @builddir@, @top_builddir@, @abs_srcdir@, @abs_top_srcdir@, @abs_builddir@,
1057 Autoconf and Autotest modes are provided.
1062 New, used by the Autoconf suite to cache and speed up most processing.
1064 Supported by autom4te, autoconf and autoheader.
1066 Replaces --autoconf-dir and --localdir in autoconf, autoheader,
1067 autoupdate, and autoreconf.
1069 No longer passes --cygnus, --foreign, --gnits, --gnu, --include-deps:
1070 automake options are to be given via AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
1072 Runs gettextize and libtoolize when appropriate.
1074 --m4dir is no longer supported.
1076 Now runs only in the specified directories, defaulting to `.',
1077 but understands AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS for dependent directories.
1078 Before, it used to run on all the `configure.ac' found in the
1080 Independent packages are properly updated.
1084 - The top level $prefix is propagated to the AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS configures.
1086 Under the user pressure, $? is finally available. Probably a mistake.
1087 - AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS now supports the HP/UX f90 compiler.
1088 - Precious variables accumulation
1089 config.status could stack several copies of the precious variables
1091 - AC_PATH_PROG and family.
1092 Works properly when given a literal path.
1094 Somewhere since 2.13, the result had been reversed.
1098 - AC_C_BIGENDIAN supports the cross-compiling case.
1099 - AC_C_BIGENDIAN accepts ACTION-IF-TRUE, ACTION-IF-FALSE, and
1100 ACTION-IF-UNKNOWN arguments. All are facultative, and the default
1101 for ACTION-IF-TRUE is to define WORDS_BIGENDIAN like AC_C_BIGENDIAN
1103 - AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE now succeeds only if `long double' has more range or
1104 precision than `double'.
1109 It now defines the preprocessor symbols PACKAGE_NAME,
1110 PACKAGE_TARNAME, PACKAGE_VERSION, PACKAGE_STRING, and
1114 Admits a fourth optional parameter: the tar name.
1116 - AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS, HEADERS, FILES, LINKS.
1117 Provide the user with srcdir, ac_srcdir, ac_top_srcdir, ac_builddir,
1118 ac_top_builddir, ac_abs_srcdir, ac_abs_top_srcdir, ac_abs_builddir,
1119 ac_abs_top_builddir.
1121 - AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS, HEADERS, FILES, LINKS and AC_OUTPUT.
1122 Are much less expensive when using long lists of files.
1125 Works with shell variables, and non alphanumeric names.
1129 - AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R now sets STRERROR_R_CHAR_P, not HAVE_WORKING_STRERROR_R,
1130 because POSIX 1003.1-200x draft 7 says strerror_r returns int, not char *.
1132 - AC_FUNC_STRTOD substitutes POW_LIB.
1137 * Major changes in Autoconf 2.52
1139 Released 2001-07-18 by Akim Demaille.
1144 This feature was present in autoconf 2.50 but was not documented.
1145 For example, `@<:@' is translated to `[' just before output. This
1146 is useful when writing strings that contain unbalanced quotes, or
1147 other hard-to-quote constructs.
1148 - m4_pattern_forbid, m4_pattern_allow
1149 - Tips for upgrading from 2.13.
1150 - Using autoscan to maintain a configure.ac.
1153 - Now include stdint.h.
1154 - sys/types.h and sys/stat.h are guarded.
1155 - strings.h is included if available, and not conflicting with string.h.
1158 - The test suite is more robust and presents less false failures.
1159 - Invocation of GNU M4 now robust to POSIXLY_CORRECT.
1160 - configure accepts --prefix='' again.
1161 - AC_CHECK_LIB works properly when its first argument is not a
1163 - HAVE_INTTYPES_H is defined only if not conflicting with sys/types.h.
1164 - build_, host_, and target_alias are AC_SUBST as in 2.13.
1165 - AC_ARG_VAR properly propagates precious variables inherited from the
1166 environment to ./config.status.
1167 - Using --program-suffix/--program-prefix is portable.
1168 - Failures to detect the default compiler's output extension are less
1170 - `config.status foo' works properly when `foo' depends on variables
1171 set in an AC_CONFIG_THING INIT-CMD.
1172 - autoheader is more robust to broken input.
1173 - Fixed Fortran name-mangling and link tests on a number of systems,
1174 e.g. NetBSD; see AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN, below.
1177 - AC_CHECK_HEADER and AC_CHECK_HEADERS support a fourth argument to
1178 specify pre-includes. In this case, the headers are compiled with
1179 cc, not merely preprocessed by cpp. Therefore it is the _usability_
1180 of a header which is checked for, not just its availability.
1181 - AC_ARG_VAR refuses to run configure when precious variables have
1183 - Versions of compilers are dumped in the logs.
1184 - AC_CHECK_TYPE recognizes use of `foo_t' as a replacement type.
1187 - AC_PATH_XTRA only adds -ldnet to $LIBS if it's needed to link.
1188 - AC_FUNC_WAIT3 and AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS are obsoleted.
1189 - AM_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE, AM_FUNC_FNMATCH, AM_FUNC_MKTIME,
1190 AM_FUNC_OBSTACK, and AM_FUNC_STRTOD are now activated.
1191 Be sure to read `Upgrading from Version 2.13' to understand why
1192 running `autoupdate' is needed.
1193 - AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN, AC_F77_MAIN: new macros to detect whether
1194 a main-like routine is required/possible when linking C/C++ with
1195 Fortran. Users of e.g. AC_F77_WRAPPERS should be aware of these.
1196 - AC_FUNC_GETPGRG behaves better when cross-compiling.
1198 * Major changes in Autoconf 2.51
1199 There was no release of Autoconf 2.51 since some packagers had used
1200 this version number without permission to ship intermediary versions
1201 of 2.50. The version was skipped to avoid confusion.
1203 * Major changes in Autoconf 2.50
1205 Released 2001-05-21 by Akim Demaille.
1207 ** Lots of bug fixes
1208 There have been far too many to enumerate them here. Check out
1209 ChangeLog if you really want to know more.
1211 ** Improved documentation
1212 In particular, portability issues are better covered.
1215 All the standard GNU Makefile targets are supported. The layout has
1216 changed: m4/ holds the M4 extensions Autoconf needs for its
1217 configuration, doc/ contains the documentation, and tests/ contains
1220 ** Man pages are provided
1221 For autoconf, autoreconf, autoupdate, autoheader, autoscan, ifnames,
1222 config.guess, config.sub.
1226 Provides a safe and powerful means to trace the macro uses. This
1227 provide the parsing layer for tools which need to `study'
1231 Specify what category of warnings should be enabled.
1233 - When recursing into subdirectories, try for configure.gnu before
1234 configure to adapt for packages not using autoconf on case-insensitive
1238 More errors are now caught (circular AC_REQUIRE dependencies,
1239 AC_DEFINE in the action part of an AC_CACHE_CHECK, too many pops
1240 etc.). In addition, their location and call stack are given.
1243 autoupdate is much more powerful, and is able to provide the glue code
1244 which might be needed to move from an old macro to its newer
1247 You are strongly encouraged to use it to modernize both your
1248 `configure.in' and your .m4 extension files.
1251 The internal machinery of autoheader has completely changed. As a
1252 result, using `acconfig.h' should be considered to be obsoleted, and
1253 you are encouraged to get rid of it using the AH macros.
1258 ** Fortran 77 compilers
1259 Globally, the support for Fortran 77 is considerably improved.
1261 Support for automatically determining a Fortran 77 compiler's
1262 name-mangling scheme. New CPP macros F77_FUNC and F77_FUNC_ are
1263 provided to wrap C/C++ identifiers, thus making it easier and more
1264 transparent for C/C++ to call Fortran 77 routines, and Fortran 77 to
1265 call C/C++ routines. See the Texinfo documentation for details.
1268 The test suite no longer uses DejaGNU. It should be easy to submit
1269 test cases in this new framework.
1272 - --help, --help=long, -hl
1273 no longer dumps useless items.
1275 lists only specific options.
1276 - --help=recursive, -hr
1277 displays the help of all the embedded packages.
1278 - Remembers environment variables when reconfiguring.
1279 The previous scheme to set envvar before running configure was
1281 what prevented configure from remembering the environment in which
1282 it was run, therefore --recheck was run in an inconsistent
1283 environment. Now, one should run
1285 and then --recheck will work properly. Variables declared with
1286 AC_ARG_VAR are also preserved.
1288 $build defaults to `config.guess`, $host to $build, and then $target
1290 Cross-compilation is a global status of the package, it no longer
1291 depends upon the current language.
1292 Cross compilation is enabled iff the user specified `--host'.
1293 `configure' now fails if it can't run the executables it compiles,
1294 unless cross-compilation is enabled.
1296 The cache file is disabled by default. The new options
1297 `--config-cache', `-C' set the cache to `config.cache'.
1301 Much faster on most architectures.
1302 - concurrent executions
1303 It is safe to use `make -j' with config.status.
1304 - human interface improved
1305 It is possible to invoke
1306 ./config.status foobar
1307 instead of the former form (still valid)
1308 CONFIG_COMMANDS= CONFIG_HEADERS= CONFIG_LINKS= \
1309 CONFIG_FILES=foobar:foo.in:bar.in \
1311 The same holds for configuration headers and links.
1312 You can instantiate unknown files and headers:
1313 ./config.status --header foo.h:foo.h.in --file bar:baz
1314 - has a useful --help
1315 - accepts special file name "-" for stdin/stdout
1320 Specify additional copyright information.
1323 Now expects the identity of the package as argument.
1327 Most macros, if not all, now strictly follow the `one quotation
1328 level' rule. This results in a more predictable expansion.
1331 A sly bug in the AC_REQUIRE machinery, which could produce incorrect
1332 configure scripts, was fixed by Axel Thimm.
1336 Document and ask for the registration of an envvar.
1339 Specifies the file which `configure' should look for when trying to
1340 find the source tree (used to be handled by AC_INIT).
1342 - AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS
1343 To add new actions to config.status. Should be used instead of
1347 Replaces AC_LINK_FILES.
1349 - AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS, AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS,
1350 AC_CONFIG_LINKS, and AC_CONFIG_FILES
1351 They now obey sh: you should no longer use shell variables as
1352 argument. Instead of
1354 test "$package_foo_enabled" = yes && $my_subdirs="$my_subdirs foo"
1355 AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS($my_subdirs)
1359 if test "$package_foo_enabled" = yes; then
1360 AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS(foo)
1364 To format an Autoconf macro's help string so that it looks pretty
1365 when the user executes `configure --help'.
1368 ** Generic Test Macros
1370 The interface of the AC_CHECK families of macros (decl, header,
1371 type, member, func) is now uniform. They support the same set of
1374 - AC_CHECK_DECL, AC_CHECK_DECLS
1375 To check whether a symbol is declared.
1377 - AC_CHECK_SIZEOF, AC_C_CHAR_UNSIGNED.
1378 No longer need a cross-compilation default.
1381 The test it performs is much more robust than previously, and makes
1382 it possible to test builtin types in addition to typedefs.
1383 It is now schizophrenic:
1384 - AC_CHECK_TYPE(TYPE, REPLACEMENT)
1385 remains for backward compatibility, but its use is discouraged.
1386 - AC_CHECK_TYPE(TYPE, IF-FOUND, IF-NOT-FOUND, INCLUDES)
1387 behaves exactly like the other AC_CHECK macros.
1390 Checks whether given types are supported by the system.
1392 - AC_CHECK_MEMBER, AC_CHECK_MEMBERS
1393 Check for given members in aggregates (e.g., pw_gecos in struct
1397 Checks if the compiler supports ISO C, included when needs special
1401 Checking whether the preprocessor indicates missing includes by the
1402 error code. stderr is checked by AC_TRY_CPP only as a fallback.
1405 Takes a language as argument and replaces AC_LANG_C,
1406 AC_LANG_CPLUSPLUS and AC_LANG_FORTRAN77.
1408 - AC_LANG_PUSH, AC_LANG_POP
1409 Are preferred to AC_LANG_SAVE, AC_LANG_RESTORE.
1412 - AC_FUNC_CHOWN, AC_FUNC_MALLOC, AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R,
1413 AC_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK, AC_FUNC_STAT, AC_FUNC_LSTAT,
1414 AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE, AC_FUNC_OBSTACK, AC_FUNC_STRTOD, AC_FUNC_FSEEKO.
1418 Sets GETGROUPS_LIBS.
1420 - AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG
1421 Defines `HAVE_STRUCT_NLIST_N_UN_N_NAME' instead of `NLIST_NAME_UNION'.
1424 Now integrates `AC_DECL_YYTEXT' which is obsoleted.
1427 Arrange for large-file support.
1429 - AC_EXEEXT, AC_OBJEXT
1430 You are no longer expected to use them: their computation is
1431 performed by default.
1433 ** C++ compatibility
1434 Every macro has been revisited in order to support at best CC=c++.
1436 Major changes in Autoconf 2.14:
1437 There was no release of GNU Autoconf 2.14.
1439 Major changes in Autoconf 2.13:
1441 Released 1999-05-01 by Ben Elliston.
1443 * Support for building on Win32 systems where the only available C or
1444 C++ compiler is the Microsoft Visual C++ command line compiler
1445 (`cl'). Additional support for building on Win32 systems which are
1446 using the Cygwin or Mingw32 environments.
1447 * Support for alternative object file and executable file extensions.
1448 On Win32, for example, these are .obj and .exe. These are discovered
1449 using AC_OBJEXT and AC_EXEEXT, which substitute @OBJEXT@ and
1450 @EXEEXT@ in the output, respectively.
1451 * New macros: AC_CACHE_LOAD, AC_CACHE_SAVE, AC_FUNC_SELECT_ARGTYPES,
1452 AC_VALIDATE_CACHED_SYSTEM_TUPLE, AC_SEARCH_LIBS, AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC,
1453 AC_C_STRINGIZE, AC_CHECK_FILE(S), AC_PROG_F77 (and friends).
1454 * AC_DEFINE now has an optional third argument for a description to be
1455 placed in the config header input file (e.g. config.h.in).
1456 * The C++ code fragment compiled for the C++ compiler test had to be
1457 improved to include an explicit return type for main(). This was
1458 causing failures on systems using recent versions of the EGCS C++
1460 * Fixed an important bug in AC_CHECK_TYPE that would cause a configure
1461 script to report that `sometype_t' was present when only `type_t'
1463 * Merge of the FSF version of config.guess and config.sub to modernize
1464 these scripts. Add support for a few new hosts in config.guess.
1465 Incorporate latest versions of install-sh, mkinstalldirs and
1466 texinfo.tex from the FSF.
1467 * autoreconf is capable of running automake if necessary (and
1469 * Support for Fortran 77. See the Texinfo documentation for details.
1470 * Bug fixes and workarounds for quirky bugs in vendor utilities.
1472 Major changes in Autoconf 2.12:
1474 Released 1996-11-26 by David J. MacKenzie
1476 * AC_OUTPUT and AC_CONFIG_HEADER can create output files by
1477 concatenating multiple input files separated by colons, like so:
1478 AC_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h:conf.pre:config.h.in:conf.post)
1479 AC_OUTPUT(Makefile:Makefile.in:Makefile.rules)
1480 The arguments may be shell variables, to compute the lists on the fly.
1481 * AC_LINK_FILES and AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS may be called multiple times.
1482 * New macro AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS adds more commands to run in config.status.
1485 Major changes in Autoconf 2.11:
1487 Released November 18th, 1996, by David J. MacKenzie
1489 * AC_PROG_CC and AC_PROG_CXX check whether the compiler works.
1490 They also default CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS to "-g -O2" for gcc, instead of "-g -O".
1491 * AC_REPLACE_FUNCS defines HAVE_foo if the system has the function `foo'.
1492 * AC_CONFIG_HEADER expands shell variables in its argument.
1493 * New macros: AC_FUNC_FNMATCH, AC_FUNC_SETPGRP.
1494 * The "checking..." messages and the source code for test programs that
1495 fail are saved in config.log.
1496 * Another workaround has been added for seds with small command length limits.
1497 * config.sub and config.guess recognize more system types.
1500 Major changes in Autoconf 2.10:
1502 Released May 7th, 1996, by Roland McGrath
1505 * The cache variable names used by `AC_CHECK_LIB(LIB, FUNC, ...)' has
1506 changed: now $ac_cv_lib_LIB_FUNC, previously $ac_cv_lib_LIB.
1508 Major changes in Autoconf 2.9:
1510 Released March 16th, 1996, by Roland McGrath
1514 Major changes in Autoconf 2.8:
1516 Released March 8th, 1996, by Roland McGrath
1520 Major changes in Autoconf 2.7:
1522 Released November 22nd, 1995, by David J. MacKenzie
1526 Major changes in Autoconf 2.6:
1528 Released November 20th, 1995, by David J. MacKenzie
1532 Major changes in Autoconf 2.5:
1534 Released November 17th, 1995, by Roland McGrath
1536 * New configure options --bindir, --libdir, --datadir, etc., with
1537 corresponding output variables.
1538 * New macro: AC_CACHE_CHECK, to make using the cache easier.
1539 * config.log contains the command being run as well as any output from it.
1540 * AC_CHECK_LIB can check for libraries with "." or "/" or "+" in their name.
1541 * AC_PROG_INSTALL doesn't cache a name for install-sh, for sharing caches.
1542 * AC_CHECK_PROG, AC_PATH_PROG, AC_CHECK_PROGS, AC_PATH_PROGS, and
1543 AC_CHECK_TOOL can search a path other than $PATH.
1544 * AC_CHECK_SIZEOF takes an optional size to use when cross-compiling.
1546 Major changes in Autoconf 2.4:
1548 Released June 14th, 1995, by David J. MacKenzie
1550 * Fix a few bugs found by Emacs testers.
1552 Major changes in Autoconf 2.3:
1554 Released March 27th, 1995, by David J. MacKenzie
1556 * Fix the cleanup trap in several ways.
1557 * Handle C compilers that are picky about option placement.
1558 * ifnames gets the version number from the right directory.
1560 Major changes in Autoconf 2.2:
1562 Released March 8th, 1995, by David J. MacKenzie
1564 * The ifnames utility is much faster but requires a "new awk" interpreter.
1565 * AC_CHECK_LIB and AC_HAVE_LIBRARY check and add the new
1566 library before existing libs, not after, in case it uses them.
1567 * New macros: AC_FUNC_GETPGRP, AC_CHECK_TOOL.
1568 * Lots of bug fixes.
1569 * Many additions to the TODO file :-)
1571 Major changes in Autoconf 2.1:
1573 Released November 4th, 1994, by David J. MacKenzie
1576 * More explanations in the manual.
1577 * Fix a spurious failure in the testsuite.
1578 * Clarify some warning messages.
1579 * autoreconf by default only rebuilds configure and config.h.in files
1580 that are older than any of their particular input files; there is a
1581 --force option to use after installing a new version of Autoconf.
1583 Thanks to everybody who's submitted changes and additions to Autoconf!
1584 I've incorporated many of them, and am still considering others for
1585 future releases -- but I didn't want to postpone this release indefinitely.
1587 Caution: don't indiscriminately rebuild configure scripts with
1588 Autoconf version 2. Some configure.in files need minor adjustments to
1589 work with it; the documentation has a chapter on upgrading. A few
1590 configure.in files, including those for GNU Emacs and the GNU C
1591 Library, need major changes because they relied on undocumented
1592 internals of version 1. Future releases of those packages will have
1593 updated configure.in files.
1595 It's best to use GNU M4 1.3 (or later) with Autoconf version 2.
1596 Autoconf now makes heavy use of M4 diversions, which were implemented
1597 inefficiently in GNU M4 releases before 1.3.
1599 Major changes in Autoconf 2.0:
1601 Released October 26th, 1994, by David J. MacKenzie
1603 ** New copyright terms:
1604 * There are no restrictions on distribution or use of configure scripts.
1607 * Autoconf manual is reorganized to make information easier to find
1608 and has several new indexes.
1609 * INSTALL is reorganized and clearer and is now made from Texinfo source.
1612 * autoscan to generate a preliminary configure.in for a package by
1613 scanning its source code for commonly used nonportable functions,
1614 programs, and header files.
1615 * ifnames to list the symbols used in #if and #ifdef directives in a
1617 * autoupdate to update a configure.in to use the version 2 macro names.
1618 * autoreconf to recursively remake configure and configuration header
1619 files in a source tree.
1621 ** Changed utilities:
1622 * autoheader can take pieces of acconfig.h to replace config.h.{top,bot}.
1623 * autoconf and autoheader can look for package-local definition files
1624 in an alternate directory.
1627 * AC_CACHE_VAL to share results of tests between configure runs.
1628 * AC_DEFUN to define macros, automatically AC_PROVIDE them, and ensure
1629 that macros invoked with AC_REQUIRE don't interrupt other macros.
1630 * AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM, AC_CANONICAL_HOST, AC_LINK_FILES to
1631 support deciding unguessable features based on the host and target types.
1632 * AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS to recursively configure a source tree.
1633 * AC_ARG_PROGRAM to use the options --program-prefix,
1634 --program-suffix, and --program-transform-name to change the names
1635 of programs being installed.
1636 * AC_PREFIX_DEFAULT to change the default installation prefix.
1637 * AC_TRY_COMPILE to compile a test program without linking it.
1638 * AC_CHECK_TYPE to check whether sys/types.h or stdlib.h defines a given type.
1639 * AC_CHECK_LIB to check for a particular function and library.
1640 * AC_MSG_CHECKING and AC_MSG_RESULT to print test results, on a single line,
1641 whether or not the test succeeds. They obsolete AC_CHECKING and AC_VERBOSE.
1642 * AC_SUBST_FILE to insert one file into another.
1643 * AC_FUNC_MEMCMP to check whether memcmp is 8-bit clean.
1644 * AC_FUNC_STRFTIME to find strftime even if it's in -lintl.
1645 * AC_FUNC_GETMNTENT to find getmntent even if it's in -lsun or -lseq.
1646 * AC_HEADER_SYS_WAIT to check whether sys/wait.h is POSIX.1 compatible.
1649 * Many macros renamed systematically, but old names are accepted for
1650 backward compatibility.
1651 * AC_OUTPUT adds the "automatically generated" comment to
1652 non-Makefiles where it finds @configure_input@ in an input file, to
1653 support files with various comment syntaxes.
1654 * AC_OUTPUT does not replace "prefix" and "exec_prefix" in generated
1655 files when they are not enclosed in @ signs.
1656 * AC_OUTPUT allows the optional environment variable CONFIG_STATUS to
1657 override the file name "config.status".
1658 * AC_OUTPUT takes an optional argument for passing variables from
1659 configure to config.status.
1660 * AC_OUTPUT and AC_CONFIG_HEADER allow you to override the input-file names.
1661 * AC_OUTPUT automatically substitutes the values of CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS,
1662 CPPFLAGS, and LDFLAGS from the environment.
1663 * AC_PROG_CC and AC_PROG_CXX now set CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, respectively.
1664 * AC_PROG_INSTALL looks for install-sh or install.sh in the directory
1665 specified by AC_CONFIG_AUXDIR, or srcdir or srcdir/.. or
1666 srcdir/../.. by default.
1667 * AC_DEFINE, AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED, and AC_SUBST are more robust and smaller.
1668 * AC_DEFINE no longer prints anything, because of the new result reporting
1669 mechanism (AC_MSG_CHECKING and AC_MSG_RESULT).
1670 * AC_VERBOSE pays attention to --quiet/--silent, not --verbose.
1671 * AC_ARG_ENABLE and AC_ARG_WITH support whitespace in the arguments to
1672 --enable- and --with- options.
1673 * AC_CHECK_FUNCS and AC_CHECK_HEADERS take optional shell commands to
1674 execute on success or failure.
1675 * Checking for C functions in C++ works.
1678 * AC_REMOTE_TAPE and AC_RSH removed; too specific to tar and cpio, and
1679 better maintained with them.
1680 * AC_ARG_ARRAY removed because no one was likely using it.
1681 * AC_HAVE_POUNDBANG replaced with AC_SYS_INTERPRETER, which doesn't
1682 take arguments, for consistency with all of the other specific checks.
1685 * Comes with config.sub and config.guess, and uses them optionally.
1686 * Uses config.cache to cache test results. An alternate cache file
1687 can be selected with the --cache-file=FILE option.
1688 * Uses optional shell scripts $prefix/share/config.site and
1689 $prefix/etc/config.site to perform site or system specific initializations.
1690 * configure saves compiler output to ./config.log for debugging.
1691 * New files autoconf.m4 and autoheader.m4 load the other Autoconf macros.
1692 * acsite.m4 is the new name for the system-wide aclocal.m4.
1693 * Has a DejaGnu test suite.
1695 Major changes in Autoconf 1.11:
1697 * AC_PROG_INSTALL calls install.sh with the -c option.
1698 * AC_SET_MAKE cleans up after itself.
1699 * AC_OUTPUT sets prefix and exec_prefix if they weren't set already.
1700 * AC_OUTPUT prevents shells from looking in PATH for config.status.
1702 Plus a few other bug fixes.
1704 Major changes in Autoconf 1.10:
1706 * autoheader uses config.h.bot if present, analogous to config.h.top.
1707 * AC_PROG_INSTALL looks for install.sh in srcdir or srcdir/.. and
1709 * AC_PROG_CXX looks for cxx as a C++ compiler.
1711 Plus several bugs fixed.
1713 Major changes in Autoconf 1.9:
1715 * AC_YYTEXT_POINTER replaces AC_DECLARE_YYTEXT.
1716 * AC_SIZEOF_TYPE generates the cpp symbol name automatically,
1717 and autoheader generates entries for those names automatically.
1718 * AC_FIND_X gets the result from xmkmf correctly.
1719 * AC_FIND_X assumes no X if --without-x was given.
1720 * AC_FIND_XTRA adds libraries to the variable X_EXTRA_LIBS.
1721 * AC_PROG_INSTALL finds OSF/1 installbsd.
1723 Major changes in Autoconf 1.8:
1726 * New macros AC_LANG_C, AC_LANG_CPLUSPLUS, AC_LANG_SAVE, AC_LANG_RESTORE,
1727 AC_PROG_CXX, AC_PROG_CXXCPP, AC_REQUIRE_CPP
1728 for checking both C++ and C features in one configure script.
1729 * New macros AC_CHECKING, AC_VERBOSE, AC_WARN, AC_ERROR for printing messages.
1730 * New macros AC_FIND_XTRA, AC_MMAP, AC_SIZEOF_TYPE, AC_PREREQ,
1731 AC_SET_MAKE, AC_ENABLE.
1734 * AC_FIND_X looks for X in more places.
1735 * AC_PROG_INSTALL defaults to install.sh instead of cp, if it's in srcdir.
1736 install.sh is distributed with Autoconf.
1737 * AC_DECLARE_YYTEXT has been removed because it can't work, pending
1738 a rewrite of quoting in AC_DEFINE.
1739 * AC_OUTPUT adds its comments in C format when substituting in C files.
1740 * AC_COMPILE_CHECK protects its ECHO-TEXT argument with double quotes.
1742 ** New or changed command line options:
1743 * configure accepts --enable-FEATURE[=ARG] and --disable-FEATURE options.
1744 * configure accepts --without-PACKAGE, which sets withval=no.
1745 * configure accepts --x-includes=DIR and --x-libraries=DIR.
1746 * Giving --with-PACKAGE no argument sets withval=yes instead of withval=1.
1747 * configure accepts --help, --version, --silent/--quiet, --no-create options.
1748 * configure accepts and ignores most other Cygnus configure options, and
1749 warns about unknown options.
1750 * config.status accepts --help, --version options.
1752 ** File names and other changes:
1753 * Relative srcdir values are not made absolute.
1754 * The values of @prefix@ and @exec_prefix@ and @top_srcdir@ get substituted.
1755 * Autoconf library files are installed in ${datadir}/autoconf, not ${datadir}.
1756 * autoheader optionally copies config.h.top to the beginning of config.h.in.
1757 * The example Makefile dependencies for configure et al. work better.
1758 * Namespace cleanup: all shell variables used internally by Autoconf
1759 have names beginning with `ac_'.
1761 More big improvements are in process for future releases, but have not
1762 yet been (variously) finished, integrated, tested, or documented enough
1765 Major changes in Autoconf 1.7:
1767 * New macro AC_OBSOLETE.
1768 * Bugs in Makefile.in fixed.
1769 * AC_LONG_FILE_NAMES improved.
1771 Major changes in Autoconf 1.6:
1773 * New macro AC_LONG_64_BITS.
1774 * Multiple .h files can be created.
1775 * AC_FIND_X looks for X files directly if it doesn't find xmkmf.
1776 * AC_ALLOCA defines C_ALLOCA if using alloca.c.
1777 * --with-NAME can take a value, e.g., --with-targets=sun4,hp300bsd.
1778 * Unused --no-create option to configure removed.
1779 * autoheader doesn't change the timestamp of its output file if
1780 the file didn't change.
1781 * All macros that look for libraries now use AC_HAVE_LIBRARY.
1782 * config.status checks three optional environment variables to
1783 modify its behavior.
1784 * The usual bug fixes.
1786 Major changes in Autoconf 1.5:
1788 * New macros AC_FIND_X, AC_OFF_T, AC_STAT_MACROS_BROKEN, AC_REVISION.
1789 * autoconf and autoheader scripts have GNU standards conforming
1790 --version and --help options (they print their message and exit).
1793 Major changes in Autoconf 1.4:
1795 * New macros AC_HAVE_POUNDBANG, AC_TIME_WITH_SYS_TIME, AC_LONG_DOUBLE,
1796 AC_GETGROUPS_T, AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED.
1797 * autoconf and autoheader use the M4 environment variable to determine the
1798 name of the M4 program to use.
1799 * The --macrodir option to autoconf and autoheader specifies the directory
1800 in which acspecific.m4, acgeneral.m4, etc. reside if not the default.
1801 * autoconf and autoheader can take `-' as their file names, which means to
1802 read stdin as input.
1803 * Resulting configure scripts can take a --verbose option which causes them
1804 to print the results of their tests.
1805 * AC_DEFINE quotes its second argument in such a way that spaces, magic
1806 shell characters, etc. will be preserved during various stages of
1807 expansion done by the shell. If you don't want this, use
1808 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED instead.
1809 * Much textual processing done with external calls to tr and sed have been
1810 internalized with builtin M4 `patsubst' and `translit' calls.
1811 * AC_OUTPUT doesn't hardwire the file names it outputs. Instead, you can
1812 set the shell variables `gen_files' and `gen_config' to the list of
1813 file names to output.
1814 * AC_DECLARE_YYTEXT does an AC_SUBST of `LEX_OUTPUT_ROOT', which may be
1815 "lex.yy" or "lexyy", depending on the system.
1816 * AC_PROGRAMS_CHECK takes an optional third arg. If given, it is used as
1818 * If AC_ALLOCA chooses alloca.c, it also defines STACK_DIRECTION.
1819 * AC_CONST works much more reliably on more systems.
1822 Major changes in Autoconf 1.3:
1824 configure no longer requires awk for packages that use a config.h.
1825 Support handling --with-PACKAGE options.
1826 New `autoheader' script to create `config.h.in' from `configure.in'.
1827 Ignore troublesome -lucb and -lPW when searching for alloca.
1828 Rename --exec_prefix to --exec-prefix for GNU standards conformance.
1829 Improve detection of STDC library.
1830 Add AC_HAVE_LIBRARY to check for non-default libraries.
1831 Function checking should work with future GNU libc releases.
1833 Major changes in Autoconf 1.2:
1835 The --srcdir option is now usually unnecessary.
1836 Add a file containing sample comments describing CPP macros.
1837 A comment in config.status tells which host it was configured on.
1838 Substituted variable values can now contain commas.
1839 Fix bugs in various feature checks.
1841 Major changes in Autoconf 1.1:
1843 Added AC_STRCOLL macro.
1844 Made AC_GETLOADAVG check for more things.
1845 AC_OUTPUT argument is now optional.
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