1 2005-05-25 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3 * bin/autoconf.as: Don't use "shift 2"; it's not portable enough.
4 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Document this
7 2005-05-24 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
9 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_ECHO_LOG): New macro to factor out
10 common code; used in many places in the tree.
11 (AS_ESCAPE): Make the pattern a bit simpler; use \& insetad of \1.
12 (_AS_ECHO_UNQUOTED): Move the macro lower; no code change.
14 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_ifset): Use m4_ifval.
16 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Merge the two error
17 messages when ac_unique_file is not found.
18 (AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR): Simplify the `if' at the end.
19 (AC_MSG_CHECKING, AC_MSG_RESULT): Put braces around the two echo
20 commands, for consistency with AC_MSG_ERROR and such.
22 * bin/autoconf.as: Make more use of "shift 2" in option processing.
24 * bin/Makefile.am: Merge the two rules for creating scripts.
26 2005-05-23 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
28 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_MSG_RESULT_UNQUOTED): Make
29 obsolete; it was never documented.
30 (AC_CACHE_CHECK): Use AC_MSG_RESULT instead.
32 2005-05-20 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
34 * NEWS: @top_builddir@ is now a dirname, ac_top_builddir will follow.
35 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCDIRS): Rename ...
36 (ac_top_builddir): ... this ...
37 (ac_top_build_prefix): ... to this; the old name is also kept, for
38 backward compatibility.
39 (ac_top_builddir_sub): New variable, without the trailing slash,
41 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): s/@top_builddir@/$ac_top_builddir_sub/
42 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Actions): Rename
43 ac_top_builddir to ac_top_build_prefix.
44 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Rename
45 at_top_builddir to at_top_build_prefix.
46 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
48 2005-05-20 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
50 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Simplify the init
53 2005-05-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
55 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_text_wrap): Don't m4_quote the second
56 argument to m4_foreach. I guess it was necessary in the past,
57 but I think it's a no-op now.
59 2005-05-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
61 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Merge two consecutive
62 ``cat <<_ACEOF'' commands to one.
63 (_AC_CANONICAL_SPLIT): Use expr, not ``echo|sed.''
64 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: On various places, use expr instead of
66 (_AC_CONFIG_SPLIT, _AC_CONFIG_SPLIT_SOURCE_DEST):
67 (_AC_CONFIG_SPLIT_FILE_IN): New macros, to factor out common code.
68 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Use expr to get the numbers from
70 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_SHELL_SYNTAX): Use awk to search for
71 the wrong patterns between ``case'' and ``esac.'' The previous
72 code had false positives.
74 2005-05-14 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
76 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ_ALLOCA): Prepend ${LIBOBJDIR},
78 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions) <AC_FUNC_ALLOCA>:
81 2005-05-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
83 * AUTHORS, BUGS, COPYING, ChangeLog, ChangeLog.0, ChangeLog.1,
84 ChangeLog.2, GNUmakefile, HACKING, Makefile.am, Makefile.cfg,
85 Makefile.maint, NEWS, README, README-alpha, TODO, configure.ac,
86 bin/Makefile.am, bin/autoconf.as, bin/autoheader.in,
87 bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoscan.in,
88 bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in, config/Makefile.am,
89 config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/elisp-comp,
90 config/m4.m4, config/mdate-sh, config/missing, config/texinfo.tex,
91 doc/Makefile.am, doc/fdl.texi, lib/Makefile.am, lib/autom4te.in,
92 lib/freeze.mk, lib/Autom4te/C4che.pm, lib/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm,
93 lib/Autom4te/Channels.pm, lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm,
94 lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm, lib/Autom4te/General.pm,
95 lib/Autom4te/Request.pm, lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm,
96 lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am,
97 lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4,
98 lib/autoconf/autoscan.m4, lib/autoconf/autotest.m4,
99 lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4, lib/autoconf/c.m4,
100 lib/autoconf/fortran.m4, lib/autoconf/functions.m4,
101 lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/headers.m4,
102 lib/autoconf/lang.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4,
103 lib/autoconf/oldnames.m4, lib/autoconf/programs.m4,
104 lib/autoconf/specific.m4, lib/autoconf/status.m4,
105 lib/autoconf/types.m4, lib/autoscan/Makefile.am,
106 lib/autoscan/autoscan.list, lib/autoscan/autoscan.pre,
107 lib/autotest/Makefile.am, lib/autotest/autotest.m4,
108 lib/autotest/general.m4, lib/emacs/Makefile.am,
109 lib/emacs/autoconf-mode.el, lib/emacs/autotest-mode.el,
110 lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am, lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4,
111 lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4, man/Makefile.am, tests/Makefile.am,
112 tests/atlocal.in, tests/autotest.at, tests/base.at, tests/c.at,
113 tests/compile.at, tests/foreign.at, tests/fortran.at,
114 tests/local.at, tests/m4sh.at, tests/m4sugar.at, tests/mktests.sh,
115 tests/semantics.at, tests/suite.at, tests/tools.at,
116 tests/torture.at, tests/wrapper.as:
117 Update FSF postal mail address.
119 2005-05-13 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
121 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR): Remove the broken
123 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_bmatch): Halt with error if we don't get
124 enough arguments, similarly as in m4_bpatsubsts.
126 2005-05-12 Stepan Kasal <address@hidden>
128 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCDIRS): Simplify the computation
131 2005-05-11 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
133 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Make the check
134 for absolute directory names in one loop.
135 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Handle
136 abbreviations of --version and --debug.
138 2005-05-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
140 * doc/autoconf.texi (Autoconf Language): Be more precise about
141 quoting rules. Problems noted by Stepan Kasal.
142 Also, throughout this document, be more careful about white space.
143 "blank", "white space", and "space" all have different meanings
144 and we should be careful to say what we mean.
146 2005-05-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
148 Fix C++ related problems reported by Werner Lemberg.
149 * doc/autoconf.texi (C++ Compiler): Mention .cpp extension.
150 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG(C++)): Set ac_ext to .cpp, not .cc.
151 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_TYPE_SIGNAL): Simplify test, to
152 avoid problems with C++ and throw.
153 * tests/compile.at: .cpp, not .cc.
155 * tests/semantics.at: Prepend LIBOBJDIR, as per 2005-05-02 change.
157 2005-05-05 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
159 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Functions): Typos.
161 2005-05-02 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
163 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJS_NORMALIZE): Prepend each
164 object named in LIBOBJS and LTLIBOBJS with the ${LIBOBJDIR}, as
165 set by latest automake.
167 2005-05-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
169 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): "expr '' \| ''"
170 outputs 0 on GNU/Linux these days.
172 2005-04-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
174 * doc/autoconf.texi (Autoconf Language): Add more description
175 about quoting heuristics.
176 (Limitations of Builtins): Describe "set -" problems.
178 2005-04-29 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
180 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_KEYWORDS): Separate by space,
183 * doc/autoconf.texi (External Software): Replace AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED
184 by AC_DEFINE; it was a mistake.
185 From bug reported against libtool by Dalibor Topic <robilad@kaffe.org>.
187 2005-04-25 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
189 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): A tiny optimization.
191 2005-04-22 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
193 * doc/autoconf.texi (External Software): Quadrigraphs are not
194 processed correctly in AS_HELP_STRING; avoid this in the examples.
195 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_HELP_STRING): Add a FIXME about quadrigraphs.
196 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_text_wrap): Likewise; and rephrase the
197 comment and reduce m4_default([foo], []) to [foo].
198 (m4_strip): Update the explanation.
200 2005-04-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
202 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE, _AC_RUN_IFELSE):
203 Remove core.conftest.* too; it's generated by Tru64 5.1.
204 Problem reported by Jennis Pruett.
205 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4
206 (AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED, AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL):
207 Don't bother to remove core files; AC_RUN_IFELSE should do that
210 2005-04-19 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
212 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_bpatsubsts): Add the b- to comment, too.
214 2005-04-19 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
216 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Handle --docdir.
217 Report from Horst Wente.
219 2005-04-15 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
221 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Fixed a typo in
224 2005-04-14 Gregorio Guidi <greg_g@gentoo.org>
226 * doc/autoconf.texi (External Software, Package Options): Add
227 examples showing how to implement --with-* and --enable-* options.
229 2005-04-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
231 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Look for configure.ac
232 as well as configure.in. Problem reported by Gregorio Guidi.
234 2005-04-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
236 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Use gnulib's current
237 pattern for alloca snippet.
239 2005-04-04 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
241 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_DECIDE_TRACEABLE): Fix a typo.
243 2005-04-01 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
245 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Programs): Fix a typo.
247 2005-04-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
249 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't assume that "date +%s"
250 fails if %s isn't supported. Problem reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
252 2005-03-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
254 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS):
255 Merge `-z option' as well for the benefit of Solaris link flags. Pass
256 whole-archive (-zallextract, -zdefaultextract) options in the hope of
257 unique libraries, for the Sun Fortran 95 8.0 compiler. Bug reported
258 against Libtool by Yury Puhalsky <pooh@cryptopro.ru>.
260 2005-03-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
262 * NEWS: The configure command now warns you if you attempt to use
263 a directory whose name contains a special character like space,
265 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Allow
266 "," in file names. Do not use \@; it's not a portable regexp.
267 * bin/Makefile.am (edit): Likewise.
268 * lib/Makefile.am (edit): Likewise.
269 * tests/Makefile.am (edit): Likewise.
270 * tests/semantics.at: Likewise.
271 * tests/torture.at: Likewise.
272 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_PROGRAM): Likewise.
273 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCDIRS): Likewise.
274 * doc/autoconf.texi (File System Conventions): Warn about
275 unportable file names.
276 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DIRCHECK): New macro.
278 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Use ac_pwd rather than invoking pwd.
279 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Propagate
280 ac_pwd, and quote srcdir.
281 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Quote file name args.
283 * doc/autoconf.texi: Fix some systematic formatting problems.
284 ".)" needs a following @: if not at the end of a sentence, and
285 similarly for "!)". "etc." should be preceded by a comma.
286 "n-th" -> "@var{n}th". pdksh is still buggy, so update its date.
288 2005-03-22 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
290 * doc/autoconf.texi (Input): Mention that AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR's
291 argument is often called 'build-aux'.
293 2005-03-07 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
295 * doc/autoconf.texi (Quotation Rule Of Thumb): Mention that the
296 macro AC_TRY_LINK is obsolete.
297 (Installation Directory Variables): Change `AC_OUTPUT_FILES' to
300 2005-02-24 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
302 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC): Be more careful to skip
303 `/usr/ucb/cc'; use `cl.exe' to distinguish the MS compiler
304 from a Common Lisp's `cl'.
305 (AC_PROG_CXX): Behave according to the documentation: don't
306 search for $ac_tool_prefix$CCC and $CCC, just set CXX=$CCC;
307 make the variable CCC precious; use `cl.exe', not `cl'.
309 2005-02-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
310 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
312 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Redirect stdin from
313 /dev/null, as "configure" shouldn't read stdin, and this insulates
314 us from problems (e.g., when testing for "cl"). Also, do this
315 redirection before invoking "hostname" or "uname", and keep the
316 original input stream available via...
317 (AS_ORIGINAL_STDIN_FD): ... this new macro.
318 (_AC_PREPROC_IFELSE, _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, _AC_LINK_IFELSE): Don't
319 bother with "</dev/null" since it's now done at the top of
321 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX): Likewise.
322 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Likewise.
323 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FLAVOR_GNU): Likewise.
324 * doc/autoconf.texi (File Descriptor Macros): New section.
325 (Printing Messages): Mention it.
326 * tests/base.at (Input/Output): New test.
328 2005-02-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
330 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_ECHO_N_PREPARE): Don't set ECHO_C to
331 newline if neither \c nor -n work, as that would output two
332 newlines. Prefer -n to \c. Reported by Stepan Kasal.
334 2005-02-12 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
336 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_IF): Define by m4_defun, not m4_define.
337 This causes that any required macros inside will get before the if.
338 * doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te.cache): A typo.
340 2005-02-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
342 Undo previous change, except keep the change to
343 lib/autoconf/programs.m4 that replaced grep with shell
344 pattern-matching. This is because net-snmp configure reads stdin.
345 Reported by Noah Misch.
347 2005-02-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
349 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Redirect stdin
350 from /dev/null, as "configure" shouldn't read stdin, and this
351 insulates us from problems (e.g., when testing for "cl").
352 Suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz. Also, do this redirection
353 before invoking "hostname" or "uname".
354 (_AC_PREPROC_IFELSE, _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE,
355 _AC_LINK_IFELSE): Undo previous change, as it's no longer needed.
356 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX): Don't bother with
357 "</dev/null" since it's now done at the top of 'configure'.
358 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Likewise.
359 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FLAVOR_GNU): Likewise.
360 Also, replace grep with shell pattern-matching, to save a process.
362 2005-02-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
364 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_PREPROC_IFELSE, _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE,
365 _AC_LINK_IFELSE): Redirect stdin to /dev/null, in an attempt to
366 avoid thinking that Allegro Common Lisp's "cl" command is a C++
369 2005-02-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
371 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Document that
372 grep -q isn't portable. Improve grep -s explanation.
373 Problem reported by Dan Manthey.
375 2005-02-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
377 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Clarify
378 PATH_SEPARATOR wording; fix typo in IFS. Reported by Gary V. Vaughan.
380 2005-02-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
382 * doc/autoconf.texi: Use @acronym for DJGPP.
383 Fix some @code's that should have been @env's, and vice versa.
384 Sort environment variable names.
385 Mention that shells no longer inherit IFS.
386 Don't recommend PATH_SEPARATOR=';' so strongly.
387 Mention that $RANDOM might expand to the empty string.
388 "symlink" and "soft link" -> "symbolic link".
389 Improve mktemp description (reported by Bruno Haible).
391 2005-02-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
393 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Don't overquote AT_SETUP arg.
394 * tests/m4sh.at (AS_DIRNAME, AS_BASENAME, AS_MKDIR_P, AS_HELP_STRING):
396 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN, AC_PATH_PROG & AC_PATH_PROGS):
399 2005-02-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
401 * NEWS: Mention AT_COPYRIGHT.
403 * tests/local.at (AT_CMP): Use diff directly on input files rather
406 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_SED): Don't look in
407 /usr/xpg4/bin since that sed dumps core (at least on Solaris 8).
409 2005-02-04 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
410 and Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
412 * tests/autotest.at (Empty test suite): New test.
413 * tests/torture.at (Substitute and define special characters)
414 (Substitute a 2000-byte string, Define to a 2000-byte string)
415 (Substitute a newline, Define a newline): New tests.
417 2005-02-04 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
419 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_re_string, m4_re_word): Revert 2002-03-04.
420 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR): Add `m4sugar' to keywords.
421 (AT_CHECK_ENV): Ignore LTLIBOBJS, FC variables, EGREP, FGREP, and SED.
422 * tests/m4sugar.at (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR_TEXT, AT_CHECK_M4RE): New macros.
423 (Standard regular expressions): New test.
424 (m4_warn, m4_require: circular dependencies, m4_text_wrap): Strip
425 excess test name quoting.
426 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_HEADERS_OLD, AC_CHECK_HEADERS_NEW): Pass
427 CPPFLAGS to `configure' instead of setting it in `configure'.
429 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_UNAME): Try only /usr/bin/hostinfo, not
430 any `hostinfo' in $PATH, since hostinfo.exe is a popular file name
433 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_LANG(Fortran), AC_FC_SRCEXT):
434 s/FC_SRCEXT/ac_fc_srcext/; s/FCFLAGS_SRCEXT/ac_fcflags_srcext/.
436 * tests/local.at (AT_CMP): New macro.
437 (AT_DATA_AUTOCONF): Do not call AC_PROG_GREP.
438 (AC_SAVE_STATE): Move environment grep...
439 (AT_CHECK_ENV): to here. Filter out `'$''. Use AT_CMP.
440 (AT_CONFIG_CMP): New macro.
441 (AT_CHECK_MACRO): Run `configure' twice with cache and compare results.
442 * tests/c.at (Extensions): Do not exit early.
443 * tests/atlocal.in: Inherit $GREP.
445 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_C_STD_TRY): New macro.
446 (_AC_PROG_CC_C89, _AC_PROG_CC_C99): Use it.
448 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_COPYRIGHT): Update for 2005.
449 (AC_COPYRIGHT): Factor header comment portion out and move into...
450 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_COPYRIGHT): This.
451 * lib/autotest/general.at (AT_COPYRIGHT): New macro.
452 (AT_INIT): Add Autotest copyright notice. Display copyright notices in
454 * tests/local.at: Add Autoconf test suite copyright notice.
455 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Document AT_COPYRIGHT.
457 2005-02-04 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
458 and Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
460 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): New mkstemp entry.
462 2005-02-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
464 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_re_escape): Escape ?, ^, \, $ too;
465 this fixes a bug tickled by the AT_CAPTURE_FILE change noted below.
467 Try not to generated lines of unlimited length, as POSIX places a
468 2047-byte limit on line length of portable text files.
469 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SUBST, AC_SUBST_FILE):
470 Use newline as a separator, not space.
471 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_TESTED, AT_KEYWORDS): Likewise.
472 (AT_CAPTURE_FILE): Use space-backslash-newline as a separator, not
475 2005-02-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
477 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_SHELL_FN_WORK): Move func_* to
478 as_func_*. Add test to check whether positional parameters
479 are restored after function return.
481 2005-02-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
483 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Mention _,
484 BIN_SH, DUALCASE. Say that variables other than "status" are safe
485 if they contain a lower-case letter. The DUALCASE problem was
486 reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
488 * bin/autoconf.as: Don't exit with status 0 after write failure
489 with --help or --version.
490 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP, _AC_INIT_VERSION): Likewise.
491 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Likewise.
493 2005-02-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
495 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools):
496 Unicos 9 sed limitations.
497 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Try cf77 before fort77
498 to get the option-enhanced interface on older Crays. Try ftn for
499 Fortran 95 (newer Crays).
501 2005-02-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
503 * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Go back to the simple solution, but take
504 care to echo the commands, so the user knows what's going on.
505 Modified from a suggestion by Stepan Kasal.
507 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Mention autopoint,
508 with a cross reference. Derived from a suggestion by Bruce Korb.
510 2005-01-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
512 * doc/autoconf.texi (config.status Invocation): Warn about
513 discrepancy between CONFIG_SHELL and shell used to invoke 'configure'.
514 * doc/install.texi (Defining Variables): Likewise.
515 Based on a proposed patch by Ralf Wildenhues.
517 * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Make sure the required generated files
518 are up to date. Problem and original solution proposed by Stepan Kasal.
519 $(dist_man_MANS:.1=-bin-prereq), $(dist_man_MANS:.1=-tests-prereq),
520 implicit-man-prerequisites): New rules, used by the above.
522 * doc/make-stds.texi, doc/standards.texi: Sync from gnulib.
523 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/install-sh: Likewise.
524 * config/missing, config/texinfo.tex: Likewise.
526 2005-01-29 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
528 Simplify the implementation of m4_require (a.k.a. AC_REQUIRE).
529 Update the long comment explaining it.
531 m4_require no longer writes an ``is required by'' line to the
532 execution stack. It contains only one bit of non-redundant
533 information: that the macro was required, not called. And even
534 this bit is useless in most situations: have you ever met a macro
535 which both calls and requires the same macro?
537 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (_m4_defun_pro): Don't push a diversion...
538 (_m4_defun_pro_outer): ... only via this macro, for the outermost
540 (_m4_defun_epi, _m4_defun_epi_outer): Complementarily.
541 (m4_expansion_stack_pop): Remove the misplaced comment.
542 (m4_require): Don't put the ``is required by'' line to the
543 execution stack; slightly improve the out-of-a-defun error message.
544 (_m4_divert_grow): New macro, counter for the temporary diversions.
545 (_m4_require_call): Use it.
546 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4_require): Expect output without the
547 ``is required by'' messages.
549 2005-01-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
551 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Recommend X
552 rather than x for expr.
554 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT): Avoid subshells when
556 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_EGREP, AC_PROG_FGREP): Likewise.
557 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_LONG_FILE_NAMES): Likewise.
558 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
559 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_WORKS): Likewise.
560 * tests/mktests.sh: Likewise.
562 2005-01-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
564 Have autoheader honor --force.
566 * doc/make-stds.texi, doc/standards.texi: Update from masters.
567 * lib/Autom4te/Channels.pm, lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm
568 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm, lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Update
569 from masters, so that FileUtils.pm's update_file provide --force
571 * bin/autoheader.in: Pass $force to update_file so that
572 config.h.in is always recreated when --force.
574 2005-01-24 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
576 * doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction): Update Peter Simons' address.
578 2005-01-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
580 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Clarify that
581 "if test ! -d foo; ..." is portable. Suggested by Stepan Kasal.
583 2005-01-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
585 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Fix typo in case statement.
586 Warn about newline stripping in `` and $(). Update Solaris
588 (Limitations of Builtins): Use expr "X...", not expr "x...", as
589 X insulates us from future changes to Posix.
590 (Limitations of Usual Tools): For AS_DIRNAME, warn about newline
593 2005-01-19 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
595 * doc/autoconf.texi (Defining Symbols): Delete the false comment that
596 you cannot use AC_DEFINE to define macros containing `[' or `]'.
598 2005-01-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
600 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Document bug
601 in Solaris 8 join. Problem reported by Tomohiro Suzuki on
602 bug-tar mailing list.
604 2005-01-05 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
606 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_copy): Fix the explanation.
608 2005-01-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
610 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C)): Declare longval and
611 ulongval to be static, to avoid unwanted GCC warning. Problem
612 reported by Michael Jennings via Daniel Reed; see
613 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=143852>.
615 2005-01-05 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
617 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Define datarootdir,
618 docdir, htmldir, dvidir, pdfdir, psdir, and localdir. Update
619 datadir, infodir, and mandir. Adjust argument parsing code.
620 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Update help text.
621 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Document
624 2005-01-04 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
626 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): If the Make program does
627 not seem to work, assume it does set $(MAKE).
628 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Update.
630 2005-01-03 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
632 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_REQUIRE): Add a comment about nesting.
634 2005-01-03 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
636 A cleanup of the diversion support in m4sugar.
638 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (_m4_divert): A typo in description.
639 (_m4_divert_n_stack): New macro; the expansion is
640 <newline>m4_divert_stack, if m4_divert_stack is defined, and void
642 (m4_divert, m4_divert_push, m4_divert_pop, m4_init): Use it.
643 (m4_divert_push, m4_divert_pop, _m4_defun_epi): Don't expand the word
644 stored in _m4_divert_diversion or _m4_divert_dump.
645 (m4_divert_pop): When the parameter is given, compare the symbolic
646 name with the last diversion pushed on the stack. Previously, the
647 current diversion was compared with the numeric value of the
648 diversion given as the parameter.
649 (m4_require): If the macro hasn't been expanded yet, call ...
650 (_m4_require_call): this new macro.
652 2005-01-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
654 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE, _AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE):
655 Workarounds for documented `case' limitations.
657 2005-01-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
659 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Warn about
660 sed 'command1;command2'. Problem reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
662 2005-01-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
664 * bin/autoconf.as, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in,
665 bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in,
666 bin/ifnames.in, tests/mktests.sh: Update copyright date to 2005.
668 Patch from Roger Leigh (with some minor changes) as follows:
669 * NEWS: New macros AC_PROG_CC_C89, AC_PROG_CC_C99.
670 Resurrect AC_PROG_CC_STDC.
671 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Add AC_PROG_CC_STDC,
672 AC_PROG_CC_C89, AC_PROG_CC_C99.
673 (Obsolete Macros): Remove AC_PROG_CC_STDC; it's no longer obsolete.
674 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CC_C89, _AC_PROG_CC_C99, AC_PROG_CC_C89,
675 AC_PROG_CC_C99): New macros.
676 (AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Use them.
677 (_AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Remove.
678 (AC_C_PROTOTYPES): Use ac_cv_prog_cc_c89, not ac_cv_prog_cc_stdc.
679 * THANKS: Add Roger Leigh.
681 2004-12-30 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
683 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory): AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
684 signals that the package uses Automake; a `Makefile.am' is typical but
685 not essential. Reported by Magnus Therning.
686 * tests/torture.at (autoreconf.): New banner.
687 (autoreconf and non-AC configure): Rename to `Non-Autoconf
689 (autoreconf an empty directory): Rename to `Empty directory'.
690 (Unusual Automake input files): New test.
692 2004-12-30 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
694 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CAPTURE_FILE): New macro.
695 (AT_SETUP): Clear AT_capture_files.
696 (_AT_CHECK): On failure, log each of AT_capture_files. Fix comment.
697 (AT_KEYWORDS): Fix comment typo.
698 * tests/autotest.at (AT_CHECK_AT): Use AT_CAPTURE_FILE.
699 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_CONFIGURE): Use AT_CAPTURE_FILE.
700 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Document AT_CAPTURE_FILE.
702 2004-12-29 Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>
704 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH):
705 If the variable to set is already set, set ac_cv_path_$1
706 to the preset value so caller can assume ac_cv_path_$1
707 is available. (trivial change)
709 2004-12-27 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
711 * BUGS (Minor Problems): Warn about makefile limitations.
712 * Makefile.am: Find and update `INSTALL' in $(srcdir).
713 * man/Makefile.am: Find and update manual pages in $(srcdir).
715 2004-12-24 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
717 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Test candidate
718 shells in subshell, to avoid noise from ash. (trivial change)
720 2004-12-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
722 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins) <case>: Mention
723 problems with SunOS ksh and backslash escaping, Bourne shells and
724 closing brackets (both within character classes). Bug reported
725 against Libtool by Alexander Kurz <alexander.kurz@qsc.de>.
726 <read>: New entry. Mention non-availability of -r.
728 2004-12-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
730 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_LINE): Don't add srcdir here, to
731 avoid cluttering displayed messages. Rather, prepend srcdir where
732 AT_LINE is used for log files.
734 2004-12-21 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
736 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Quote ``$tmp'' in many places.
737 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): Fix the comment, as traps are
738 no longer part of the macro, quote the occurrence of ``$tmp''.
739 * doc/autoconf.texi (Forbidden Patterns): Typo.
741 2004-12-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
743 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Make sure the "ok" etc. are
744 separated from the test title by forcing a white space.
746 2004-12-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
748 Enable Emacs navigation within testsuite.log files.
750 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CLEANUP): Add an hint for Emacs to
751 use the compilation mode.
752 (AT_LINE): Point to the srcdir.
754 2004-12-19 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
756 * tests/Makefile.am (installcheck-local): Use $(bindir).
757 (check-local, installcheck-local): Pass TESTSUITEFLAGS.
758 * doc/autoconf.texi (Making testsuite Scripts): Recommend the same
759 Makefile.am scheme Autoconf now uses.
761 2004-12-18 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
763 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_qlen, m4_qdelta): New macros.
764 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_SETUP): Use m4_qdelta.
766 2004-12-18 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
768 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_DECIDE_TRACEABLE): New macro.
770 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_ESCAPE_FOR_EXPAND): Remove.
771 (AS_ESCAPE): Fix comment.
772 * tests/autotest.at: Adjust section banner comments.
773 (AT_CHECK_AT): Accept STATUS and STDERR.
774 (AT_CHECK_AT_TEST): Likewise.
775 (Invalid brace-enclosed parameter expansion)
776 (Multiline command from M4 expansion)
777 (Double-M4-quoted command): New tests.
779 2004-12-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
781 * doc/autoconf.texi: Update GNU FDL version from 1.1 to 1.2.
783 2004-12-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
785 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SUBST, AC_SUBST_FILES): Pass $1 to
787 Suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
788 * doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Catch up.
790 2004-12-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
792 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_TEST_PREPARE): Fix comment.
794 2004-12-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
796 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ): We can use AC_SUBST/2,
797 remove the comment which said we cannot.
799 2004-12-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
801 Add a specialized check for resolv.h. Thanks to Gerrit P. Haase,
802 Reini Urban and Paul Eggert for reporting the dependencies.
804 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_RESOLV): New macro.
805 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_HEADER_RESOLV): Document it.
806 (AC_HEADER_STAT): @cvindex{STAT_MACROS_BROKEN}, not @acindex.
808 2004-12-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
810 * bin/autoscan.in: Open autoscan.log only after ``parse_args'';
811 so that eg. ``autoscan --help'' doesn't truncate it.
813 2004-12-15 Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>
815 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Remove
816 generated conftest files.
818 2004-12-13 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
820 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_CHECK) [--trace]: Do not enable shell
821 tracing on commands with possibly-escaped newlines.
822 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Delete documentation of the
823 discontinued behavior and its implications.
824 * tests/autotest.at (BS-newline in command, ^BS-newline in command)
825 (BSx641-newline in command, BS-BS-newline in command)
826 (BSx640-newline in command, Newline-CODE-BS-newline in command)
827 (Single-quote-BS-newline in command)
828 (Single-quote-newline-BS-newline in command): New tests.
830 2004-12-13 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
832 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_EXECUTABLE_P): Use test -f && test -x
833 on platforms where it works.
834 (_AS_TEST_PREPARE): Test for ``test -x''.
835 (_AS_BROKEN_TEST_PREPARE): Nuke.
837 2004-12-13 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
839 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): Move the trap commands ...
840 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): ... here;
841 give only 4-letter prefix to AS_TMPDIR, comment fixed.
842 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FEATURE_CHECK): Don't
843 create the temporary directory.
844 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Work in current directory.
846 2004-12-12 Kelley Cook <kcook@gcc.gnu.org>
848 * bin/autoheader.in: Exit if no AC_CONFIG_HEADERS was found.
851 2004-12-12 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
853 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <expr (:)>: Typo.
855 2004-12-11 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
857 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_CHECK) [--trace]: Rework a shell pattern
858 to avoid using a negated character class. Reported by Nicolas Joly.
859 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_SHELL_SYNTAX): Check for similar constructs.
861 2004-12-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
863 * man/Makefile.am (autoconf.1, autoheader.1, autom4te.1, autoreconf.1,
864 autoscan.1, autoupdate.1, ifnames.1, config.guess.1, config.sub.1):
865 Don't depend on .x file explicitly, since "make" does that for us.
866 Suggested by Stepan Kasal.
868 * bin/Makefile.am (MOSTLYCLEANFILES): Renamed from CLEANFILES.
870 (autoconf, autoheader, autom4te, autoreconf, autoscan, autoupdate,
871 ifnames): Factor common code. And they said it couldn't be done!
873 2004-12-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
875 * bin/.cvsignore: Add autoconf.in.
876 * tests/.cvsignore: Add wrapper.in.
877 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Escape '$' in case pattern.
879 2004-12-09 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
881 * man/Makefile.am (autoconf.1): Regenerate when `autoconf.as' changes.
883 * lib/autotest/general.m4 [--trace] (AT_INIT): Do not `set -v'.
885 * tests/autotest.at: New file.
886 * tests/suite.at: Include it.
887 * tests/Makefile.am: Distribute it.
889 * lib/autotest/general.m4 [--trace] (_AT_CHECK): Do not enable
890 shell tracing on a command that could contain multiple lines.
891 * doc/autoconf.text: Document that fact and its implications.
892 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_ESCAPE_FOR_EXPAND): New macro.
893 * tests/autotest.at (Multiline backquote command substitution,
894 Multiline parameter expansion, Literal multiline command,
895 Multiline parenthetical command substitution): Remove XFAIL.
897 2004-12-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
899 * doc/autoconf.texi (Libraries): Clarify problems with AC_CHECK_LIB
900 and suggest AC_SEARCH_LIBS. Suggested by Noah Misch and Stepan Kasal.
902 2004-12-08 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
904 * configure.ac (test suite): Cease to generate wrapper scripts.
905 * configure: Regenerate.
906 * lib/freeze.mk (MY_AUTOM4TE): Wrap the uninstalled autom4te directly.
907 (m4f_dependencies): Adjust accordingly.
908 * tests/Makefile.am (Wrappers): Generate wrapper scripts.
909 (wrapper.in): Generate it in the build directory.
910 (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Delete wrapper.in.
911 (CLEANFILES): Add wrapper.in.
912 * tests/wrapper.as: Move AS_INIT to very top, preserving copyright in
913 the output. Replace each $as_me with a @wrap_program@.
914 * tests/wrapper.in: Delete it; we always build it.
916 * bin/Makefile.am (autoconf.in): Generate it in the build directory.
917 (EXTRA_DIST): Remove autoconf.in.
918 (CLEANFILES): Add autoconf.in.
919 (autoconf): Find autoconf.in in the build directory.
920 * bin/autoconf.in: Delete it; we always build it.
922 2004-12-08 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
924 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Replace a `tr' with a `sed'. Join
925 PATH members so as to not prepend an empty element. Move a comment.
926 * Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): Build in `tests' last.
927 * tests/Makefile.am (installcheck-local): Add check-local dependencies.
929 2004-12-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
931 * lib/mdate-sh: Don't use "set - x`$ls_command /`", as zsh mishandles
932 the spaces inside $ls_command. Problem reported by Loulou Pouchet in
933 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-12/msg00074.html>.
934 Don't use "set - x"; plain "set x" is enough, and simplifies debugging.
936 2004-12-07 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
938 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETMNTENT): Fix typo in previous
941 2004-12-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
943 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETMNTENT): Check libc before
944 looking elsewhere for getmntent. Problem reported by Mark D. Baushke.
945 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Mention new behavior.
947 2004-12-03 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
949 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_DEFINE, AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED): Factor
950 out the common code to ...
951 (_AC_DEFINE_Q): ... a new macro; simplify the condition about the
952 value of the #define--default to 1, iff the macro was called
953 with exactly one parameter.
955 2004-12-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
957 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MEMCMP): Use
958 "char c = '\200';" rather than "char c = 0x80;" as the
959 latter doesn't conform to the strict C standard due to
960 overflow on signed char hosts.
962 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Prefer -qlanglvl=extc89
963 to -qlanglvl=ansi. We don't want to disable extensions.
965 2004-11-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
967 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): @code{$PATH} -> @env{PATH}.
968 (Using Autotest, testsuite Scripts, Writing testsuite.at):
969 Reword slightly to avoid some English-language problems noted
970 by Ralf Wildenhues in:
971 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-11/msg00027.html
973 2004-11-29 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
975 * NEWS: Add ^L above each release.
977 2004-11-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
979 Fix documentation problems reported by Russ Boylan in
980 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2004-11/msg00056.html>,
981 along with some nearby cruft.
982 * doc/autoconf.texi (Libtool): Libtool can be used without
983 Automake (not without Autoconf).
984 (Introduction): Mention lists.gnu.org.
985 * BUGS: Don't mention bugs.gnu.org.
986 Remove mention of ancient libtool compatibility problem.
987 * NEWS: Mention that bugs.gnu.org is kaput.
988 * README: Likewise. Mention where mailing list archives can be found.
990 2004-11-28 Stepan Kasal <address@ucw.cz>
992 * HACKING: Refer to "coreutils", not "File, Shell or Text utils".
993 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_HELP_STRING): A typo in the comment.
995 2004-11-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
997 * doc/autoconf.texi (Pretty Help Strings): Go back to
998 single-quoting assignments to cache variables.
1000 2004-11-23 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1002 * doc/autoconf.texi (Pretty Help Strings): Fix quoting issues
1003 with the examples; fix the bug in MY_ARG_WITH example reported
1004 by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
1005 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_ENABLE, AC_ARG_ENABLE): Enable
1006 expansion of $1 in the comment emitted to configure.
1008 2004-11-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1010 * doc/autoconf.texi (Pretty Help Strings): Fix typo
1011 in my editing of the previous patch. Problem reported
1012 by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
1014 2004-11-22 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1016 * doc/autoconf.texi (Autoconf Language): Explain that
1017 ``descriptions'' may not be double quotes.
1018 (Quotation Rule Of Thumb): Likewise.
1019 (Pretty Help Strings): Likewise; remove the wrong comment;
1020 simplify the examples and improve their quoting.
1022 2004-11-13 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1024 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Don't check
1025 the $1_found variable, don't test whether the file is executable;
1026 Both things are checked ...
1027 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FEATURE_CHECK): ... here; AS_EXECUTABLE_P replaces
1028 the former ``test -f''.
1029 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_TEST_PREPARE): Fix a typo.
1031 2004-11-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1033 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Avoid cp -r;
1036 2004-11-10 Derek R. Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
1038 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Note `cp -r'
1039 limitations. Reorder paragraphs for clarity.
1041 2004-10-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1043 * doc/autoconf.texi: Standardize spelling of "Posix" (as opposed
1044 to "POSIX" or "@acronym{POSIX}"), and similarly for "DOS
1045 variants", "Unix", and some related minor wording fixups.
1047 (Shellology, Special Shell Variables): Document that the Zsh
1048 problem with NULLCMD was fixed in zsh 3.1.6-dev-18. Thanks
1049 to Alexandre Duret-Lutz for this info.
1051 2004-10-10 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
1053 * doc/autoconf.texi (One-Shot Macros): New node.
1055 2004-09-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1057 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Fix misdescription
1058 of putenv. Problem reported by Michael Wardle.
1060 2004-09-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1062 * doc/autoconf.texi (auindex): New macro.
1063 (AU_DEFUN): Use it to fix the bug when the index contained AC_AU_DEFUN.
1064 Problem reported by Stepan Kasal.
1066 2004-09-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1068 Fix problems reported by Andreas Buening in:
1069 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-04/msg00004.html
1070 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Set SHELL=/bin/sh
1072 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't assume /dev/null is
1073 readable; it's not true in OS/2-emx.
1075 2004-09-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1077 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_XMKMF): If xmkmf returns
1078 "/usr/include", clear ac_x_includes instead of leaving it as "no"
1079 (trivial change). Problem and patch reported by Andrew Church in:
1080 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2004-04/msg00016.html
1082 2004-09-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1084 * doc/autoconf.texi: Give AC_DEFINE and AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED
1085 three args in examples. Problem reported by Frederik Fouvry in:
1086 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2004-09/msg00017.html
1087 Also, fix some minor spacing and punctuation bugs.
1089 2004-09-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
1091 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Swap "cd" and
1092 "case" to restore ordering.
1093 Reported by Stepan Kasal.
1095 2004-08-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
1097 * doc/autoconf.texi: Minor typos and stylos.
1099 2004-08-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1101 * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump to 2.59c.
1103 2004-08-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1107 * README: Add advice about m4 1.4.2.
1109 * Makefile.cfg (wget_files): Remove config.guess, config.sub,
1110 texinfo.tex for now (done by hand now).
1111 * Makefile.maint (wget_files, cvs_files):
1112 Remove ansi2knr.c; nobody uses it.
1113 (ansi2knr.c-url_prefix): Remove.
1114 (cvs-update): Fix test for failure. I don't know why it ever
1117 * doc/autoconf.texi: Update URLs, some of which went stale.
1118 Use @uref rather than @href.
1120 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Have configure
1121 handle "--" as per POSIX. Suggested by Paul Pogonyshev.
1123 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/elisp-comp,
1124 config/install-sh, config/mkinstalldirs, config/texinfo.tex,
1125 doc/fdl.texi, doc/standards.texi: Sync with master copy.
1127 * NEWS, TODO, configure.ac, bin/autoscan.in,
1128 bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in, doc/autoconf.texi,
1129 doc/install.texi, lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm,
1130 lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
1131 lib/autoconf/programs.m4, lib/autoconf/status.m4,
1132 lib/autotest/general.m4, lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4,
1133 lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4, tests/local.at, tests/m4sh.at,
1134 tests/tools.at, tests/torture.at:
1135 Use "file name" rather than "filename" or "path",
1136 to be consistent with the terminology of the GNU coding standards.
1138 2004-08-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1140 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY(C),
1141 AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE): Undo 2004-06-04 change, as it didn't work with
1142 HP-UX 11.23 cc/aCC or Tru64 4.0 cc. Problem reported by Noah Misch in
1143 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-07/msg00004.html>.
1145 More fixes to support spaces in the name of the build directory.
1146 This isn't a complete fix but it's an improvement.
1148 * bin/autoconf.as (autom4te_options): New var.
1149 Use it instead of appending to AUTOM4TE, so that we can allow
1150 spaces in the build directory's absolute name.
1151 * bin/autoheader.in ($autoconf): Allow spaces in file names.
1152 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT, AT_CLEANUP, _AT_CHECK,
1153 AT_CHECK_NOESCAPE): Likewise.
1154 * tests/wrapper.as (testdir, AUTOM4TE_CFG, autom4te_perllibdir,
1155 main program): Likewise.
1157 2004-08-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1159 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Quote $ac_popdir uses.
1160 From Ralf Corsepius in:
1161 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-08/msg00014.html
1163 2004-08-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1165 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Document isinf and
1166 and isnan. From a suggestion by Kevin Ryde.
1168 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (END): Return correct exit status even
1169 if unlink succeeds and sets $?. Needed with Solaris 8's perl 5.00503.
1171 2004-08-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1173 * tests/torture.at (Deep Package): Use configure.in, not configure.ac,
1174 for compatibility with Automake 1.4. Reported by J C Fitzgerald in
1175 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-08/msg00051.html>.
1177 2004-08-04 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
1179 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE): New empty macro.
1180 (AC_CANONICAL_BUILD): Call it to require config.sub and config.guess.
1181 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_INSTALL): Likewise for install-sh.
1182 * doc/autoconf.texi (Input): Document AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE.
1183 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect
1184 AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE. Automake 1.10 will trace it.
1186 2004-08-02 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
1188 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect
1189 AC_CANONICAL_BUILD and AC_CANONICAL_TARGET. Automake 1.9.1 will
1192 2004-07-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1194 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): Set BIN_SH, for
1196 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology): Mention BIN_SH.
1197 Document problem with "`""`" in pdksh POSIX mode.
1199 2004-07-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1201 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): Use "set -o posix"
1202 with pdksh, too. Problem reported by Patrick Welche via
1204 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology): Note that set -o posix is
1205 useful for pkdsh, too.
1207 2004-06-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1209 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Require
1210 _AS_UNSET_PREPARE, so that we can use $as_unset directly.
1211 Don't fail if ENV or BASH_ENV is readonly.
1212 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Don't fail if ENV, MAIL, MAILPATH, LC_ALL,
1213 etc. are read only. Problem reported by Ludovic Courtes.
1215 2004-06-23 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
1217 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): If the shell is
1218 zsh, disable GLOB_SUBST to avoid backslash handling problems.
1221 2004-06-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1223 * doc/autoconf.texi (File System Conventions): Warn about
1224 names like "aux". Problem reported by Eric Blake.
1226 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY (C)): Use division
1227 by zero instead of array size, so that we can use any arithmetic
1228 constant expression (instead of requiring an integer constant
1229 expression). This allows us to test expressions like DBL_MAX <
1230 LDBL_MAX, which didn't conform to the C standard using the old
1232 (AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE): Put back in the tests for LDBL_MAX and LDBL_EPSILON,
1233 now that we can do floating-point tests at compile time.
1235 2004-06-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1237 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE): Don't check LDBL_MAX
1238 and LDBL_EPSILON, as the resulting expression isn't an
1239 integer constant expression and violates the C standard.
1240 Problem reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe. Also, check
1241 for "L" suffix, and check that long double doesn't have
1242 worse range or precision than double, that mixed-mode
1243 arithmetic doesn't generate a diagnostic, that double
1244 constants fit in long double.
1246 2004-06-03 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1248 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add notes on free(NULL),
1249 malloc(0) and realloc(NULL,size).
1251 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Spelling error reported by
1254 2004-05-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1256 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (HAVE_STDBOOL_H): Detect _Bool bug
1257 in HP aC++/ANSI C B3910B A.05.55 [Dec 04 2003]. Problem reported
1260 2004-05-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1262 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Mention that ! COMMAND
1263 can be rewritten using if-then-else. Suggested by Bruno Haible.
1265 2004-05-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1267 * doc/autoconf.texi (testsuite Scripts): Fix typo.
1268 Problem reported by Stepan Kasal.
1270 2004-05-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1272 * tests/Makefile.am (autoconfdir): Fix to match comment (trivial
1273 change). Patch reported by Ralf Wildenhues in
1274 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2004-05/msg00092.html>.
1276 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC): Don't assume that a
1277 function F exists if the compiler and linker let you compile an
1278 expression like (F != 0). Recent versions of GCC optimize away
1279 the reference to F in that case, since every function address must
1280 be nonzero, so the link succeeds even if F does not exist.
1281 Problem reported by Manu in
1282 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2004-05/msg00060.html>.
1284 * doc/autoconf.texi (Systemology): Standardize on the spelling of
1285 "Unix". Many uses changed.
1286 (Limitations of Builtins): Explain better why the ! command isn't
1289 2004-05-22 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
1291 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect
1292 LT_SUPPORTED_TAG in lieu of AC_LIBTOOL_TAGS.
1294 2004-05-19 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1296 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add strerror_r, cross
1297 referencing AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R.
1299 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): In AC_FUNC_CLOSEDIR_VOID,
1300 note pessimistic assumption when cross compiling.
1302 2004-05-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1304 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Note that BSD make
1305 (until 2004) invoked subcommands with sh -e, contra POSIX.
1306 Reported by Kevin Ryde.
1308 2004-05-10 Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
1310 * programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_GREP): Fixed bug where PATH argument handed to
1311 _AC_PATH_PROG_FEATURE_CHECK contained leading whitespace (i.e.
1312 " $PATH:/usr/xpg4/bin"). This resulted in bogus tests, such as
1313 `test -f " /usr/bin/grep"', which _always_ failed.
1314 (AC_PROG_SED): Ditto bogus PATH fix.
1315 * autoconf.texi (AC_PROG_GREP): Properly document that this macro
1316 requires that grep correctly supports _multiple_ `-e' options, rather
1317 than stating only that grep should accept `-e'.
1319 2004-05-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1321 Port to C99, which requires that 'exit' be declared.
1323 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Use AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT
1324 to ensure that stdlib.h is included.
1325 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ_ALLOCA, AC_FUNC_SETPGRP,
1326 AC_FUNC_STRTOD, AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED, AC_FUNC_FORK, _AC_FUNC_FORK,
1327 _AC_FUNC_VFORK, AC_FUNC_WAIT3): Likewise.
1328 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS): Likewise.
1329 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_TYPE_GETGROUPS): Likewise.
1330 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDC): Include <stdlib.h>
1331 when using 'exit' in a test; C99 requires that 'exit' be declared.
1333 2004-05-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1335 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): AC_PROG_GREP
1336 now prefers 'grep' implementations that accept -e.
1337 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Describe problems of traditional
1338 egrep and fgrep with long input lines, and of traditional grep
1340 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_GREP): Check for -e, too.
1341 (_AC_PROG_GREP): Assume 3rd arg is properly quoted for the shell.
1342 All callers changed. Append /usr/xpg4/bin to the PATH, for
1344 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Discard stderr, so we don't bother
1345 the user with complaints about multiple -e options.
1346 * tests/local.at (AC_STATE_SAVE): Use $GREP, not grep.
1347 Define it with AC_PROG_GREP.
1348 * configure.ac (AC_PROG_GREP): Add.
1349 * lib/freeze.mk (GREP): New macro.
1351 2004-05-02 Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
1353 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Consult $SHELL as
1354 a possible candidate only after all others fail, rather than
1355 consulting it first. This improves backward compatibility by
1356 better reflecting the way shell selection occurred in previous
1357 versions of Autoconf, and should help to avoid triggering latent
1358 problems in other packages, such as the one in Automake where zsh
1359 is not handled robustly:
1360 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2004-04/msg00095.html
1361 Although it is not Autoconf's responsibility to work around
1362 problems in Automake, it nevertheless makes sense to avoid
1363 introducing unnecessary incompatibilites.
1365 2004-04-22 Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>,
1366 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
1368 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Don't guess
1369 how deeply nested we are when a suitable tool is found, set the
1370 ac_path_TOOL_found flag.
1371 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FEATURE_CHECK): Encapsulate knowledge of how deeply
1372 nested we are in this macro. Break out of all 3 nested loops if
1373 ac_path_TOOL_found is set.
1375 2004-04-21 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
1377 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Break out
1378 of the _AS_PATH_WALK loop too if GNU flavor is found.
1380 2004-04-21 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
1382 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Update documentation
1383 for `$<'. New entry `Long lines', based on a report from Simon
1384 Josefsson. Augment the documentation for SHELL = @SHELL@ with a
1385 paragraph about DJGPP, based on a mail from Richard Dawe.
1387 2004-04-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1389 * tests/c.at (C keywords): Don't assume that GCC supports
1390 "restrict" and "inline", as sufficiently-old GCC versions do not
1391 (also, GCC configured to be in pedantic C89 mode does not).
1392 Problem reported by Sumit Pandya in:
1393 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-04/msg00092.html
1395 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CC_G, _AC_PROG_CXX_G): Don't
1396 consider -g to work if it generates warnings when plain compiles
1397 don't. Problem reported by Braden McDaniel in:
1398 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2003-07/msg00014.html
1400 * doc/autoconf.texi (Slashes): New section, to document a problem
1401 reported by Jim Meyering in:
1402 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-02/msg00060.html
1404 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Remove potential
1405 linker output files before linking, to work around IRIX 6 linker bug.
1406 Problem reported by Rainer Orth in:
1407 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-02/msg00007.html
1409 2004-04-20 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
1411 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Make the
1412 best tool so far counter rely on the tool path variable name to
1413 avoid checks for one tool being affected by the results of running
1414 the length check on a previous tool.
1416 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_GREP): Take an additional
1417 match expression argument, as different greps have different
1418 regular expression flavours.
1419 (AC_PROG_FGREP): Pass 'FGREP'. fgrep treats all match chars as
1421 (AC_PROG_EGREP): Pass 'EGREP$'.
1422 (AC_PROG_GREP): Pass 'GREP$'.
1424 2004-04-20 Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>
1426 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_GREP): Cache variable
1427 is `ac_cv_path_GREP', not `oc_cv_path_GREP'.
1429 2004-03-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1431 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers, Particular Types, Generic
1432 Types, Specific Compiler Characteristics, System Services,
1433 Obsolete Macros): Use 'long int', 'short int', 'unsigned int'
1434 etc. consistently instead of 'long', 'short', 'unsigned' etc.
1435 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C), AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
1436 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MMAP, AC_FUNC_SELECT_ARGTYPES):
1438 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_SYS_WAIT): Likewise.
1439 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_TYPE_GETGROUPS, AC_TYPE_SIZE_T,
1440 AC_TYPE_OFF_T): Likewise.
1441 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_TYPES: backward compatibility):
1444 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Create an empty aclocal.m4, to
1445 pacify libtool 1.5.2. Fix quoting problems in sed command.
1447 2004-03-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1449 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Structures): AC_STRUCT_TIMEZONE
1450 now defines HAVE_DECL_TZNAME if it is declared, when
1451 HAVE_STRUCT_TM_TM_ZONE is not defined.
1452 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_STRUCT_TIMEZONE): Implement this.
1453 Do not assume atoi. Rely on HAVE_DECL_TZNAME when testing
1456 2004-03-28 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@fftw.org>
1458 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): Corrected
1459 superfluous backslashing of quotes (") in sed expressions;
1460 thanks to Paul Eggert.
1462 2004-03-26 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
1464 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): new name of Intel
1465 Fortran compiler is ifort, also added pghpf; thanks to Nelson
1466 H. F. Beebe for the bug report.
1468 2004-03-26 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@fftw.org>
1470 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): fix for
1471 quoted -cmdline argument in Portland Group compiler (bug
1472 reported by Jeffrey J. Barteet).
1474 2004-03-25 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1476 * doc/autoconf.texi (Specifying Names): Move cross_compiling ovindex to
1477 (Run Time): ... here, where it's now mentioned.
1479 2004-03-19 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
1481 * doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te Invocation): Language Autoconf
1482 inherits from language Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4.
1483 (Customizing autom4te): Adjust example; the cache must now be
1484 disabled for language Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4.
1486 2004-03-16 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
1487 Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>
1489 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PATH_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOL,
1490 AC_CHECK_TOOLS): Warn if a cross-tool is found without
1492 (AC_PATH_TARGET_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOL,
1493 AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOLS): New macros.
1494 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Programs): Document
1495 (AC_PATH_TARGET_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOL,
1496 AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOLS, and warn for future changes
1497 in the behavior of AC_PATH_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOL and
1499 (Specifying Names): Document the reason for these future
1501 * tests/mktests.sh: Do not generate tests for the
1503 * NEWS: Document these changes.
1505 * doc/autoconf.texi: Avoid macros with unbraced arguments,
1506 they make TeX hang up.
1508 2004-03-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@bogus.example.com>
1510 * NEWS: New macro AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF.
1511 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Compiler Characteristics): Document it.
1512 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Use long int rather than
1513 int; avoid "a `$1'" since this isn't grammatical if $1 begins with a
1515 (AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF): New macro.
1516 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Exclude AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF.
1517 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF): Add tests similar to
1520 2004-03-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1522 * bin/Makefile.am (edit): Don't use $< in a context where
1523 POSIX doesn't require support for it. Use $@.in instead.
1524 Problem reported by Anthony N. Frasso in
1525 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-03/msg00008.html>.
1526 * bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in: Add @configure_input@ comment.
1528 2004-02-23 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
1530 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory): Recognize LT_INIT
1531 from the next generation of Libtool.
1532 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoreconf-preselections): Ditto.
1534 2004-02-20 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
1536 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <mkdir>: `mkdir -p'
1537 is not always thread-safe. Report from Nathanael Nerode.
1539 2004-02-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1541 Fix a dependencies problem, stemming from a Autoconf 2.59 build
1542 problem on QNX reported by Stephen Rasku in
1543 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2004-02/msg00066.html>.
1545 * bin/Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/autoconf.in): Depend on
1546 $(m4sh_m4f_dependencies); this removes a FIXME.
1547 * tests/Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/wrapper.in): Likewise.
1548 (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Split into pieces,
1549 one per related section. Add $(srcdir)/wrapper.in.
1551 2004-02-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1553 * doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Emphasize that
1554 AC_SUBST provides no portable way to escape literal newlines.
1556 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Ignore all
1557 flags of the form -lcrt*.o, not just -lcrt[01].o and -lcrtbegin.o.
1558 Darwin uses -lcrt2.o and there's little point to cataloging all
1559 the system variants. Partial fix reported by Andreas Waechter in:
1560 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-02/msg00006.html
1561 for bug reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe in:
1562 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-12/msg00090.html
1564 2004-02-04 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
1566 * doc/autoconf.texi (AU_DEFUN): Fix English,
1567 suggested by Paul Eggert.
1568 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4: Correct reference to
1569 acobsolete.m4, suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
1571 2004-02-02 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
1573 * bin/autoupdate.in: Define __file__ so that warnings
1574 refer to the correct file.
1575 * doc/autoconf.texi (AU_DEFUN): Describe more correctly
1576 the behavior of the third argument.
1577 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4 (AU_DEFUN): Describe more
1578 correctly the behavior of the third argument. Document
1579 what the three macros that AU_DEFUN defines do. Fix
1580 warning message when the third argument includes $0
1581 (reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz).
1583 2004-01-30 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
1584 Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
1585 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1587 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (M4SH-SANITIZE): New diversion.
1588 (AS_INIT): Output shell initialization there. Removed optional
1589 parameter. Expand _AS_SHELL_FN_SPY.
1590 (AS_INIT_WITH_SHELL_FN): Removed.
1591 (_AS_SHELL_FN_SPY): New macro.
1592 (AS_DETECT_REQUIRED, AS_DETECT_SUGGESTED): New
1594 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Remove loop to find better shell
1595 and documentation for the parameter.
1596 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Move it here.
1597 (_AS_SHELL_FN_WORK): Remove shell invocation, reformat.
1598 (_AS_RUN): Move it here, support testing with eval.
1599 (AS_REQUIRE_SHELL_FN): Require shell functions when
1601 (_AS_LINENO_WORKS): Put around braces, we do not
1602 trigger the bash bug anymore.
1603 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Document M4SH-SANITIZE, do not
1604 use AS_INIT_WITH_SHELL_FN.
1605 * bin/autoconf.in, tests/wrapper.in: Regenerated.
1607 2004-01-30 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
1609 * bin/autoupdate.in: Trace AU_DEFINE instead of AU_DEFUN.
1610 * doc/autoconf.texi: Don't say that the third parameter
1612 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4 (AU_DEFINE): New dummy macro.
1613 (AU_DEFUN): Honor the third parameter, create autoupdate
1614 macros with AU_DEFINE.
1615 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_USG, AC_MEMORY_H,
1616 AC_DIR_HEADER): Use AU_DEFUN's third parameter.
1617 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_SAVE): Likewise.
1618 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_RSH): Likewise.
1619 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_HAVE_POUNDBANG,
1620 AC_ARG_ARRAY, AC_CYGWIN, AC_EMXOS2, AC_MINGW32,
1621 AC_XENIX_DIR): Likewise.
1622 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_INT_16_BITS, AC_LONG_64_BITS,
1623 AC_STRUCT_ST_BLKSIZE, AC_STRUCT_ST_RDEV): Likewise.
1624 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Remove FIXME.
1625 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_AU_MACRO): Ignore stderr, check
1626 that the macro is not present anymore in the updated
1628 * tests/tools.at (autoupdate AC_LINK_FILES): Ignore stderr
1631 2004-01-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1633 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Add 2004 to
1635 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_COPYRIGHT): Add 1992 thorugh
1636 2003 (except 1997) to the list of copyright years. This undoes
1637 the 2003-05-22 change, which removed the older years from the list.
1638 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_OUTPUT): Update copyright date to 2004.
1640 2004-01-27 Gary V. Vaugan <gary@gnu.org>
1641 Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>
1643 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_GREP): New macro to test for a
1644 grep or ggrep program in PATH that accepts as long lines as
1646 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_GREP): Factor out the core of
1648 (AC_PROG_EGREP, AC_PROG_FGREP): Use it to find best available
1649 egrep and fgrep respectively if $GREP -E/-F don't work.
1650 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FEATURE_CHECK): Factor out the common core of
1651 _AC_PROG_GREP, and AC_PROG_SED.
1652 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): New helper macro for finding the
1653 longest input length accepted by a command.
1654 (AC_PROG_SED): Use it.
1655 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): Document the changes.
1658 2004-01-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1660 * bin/autoconf.as ($version): Update copyright from 2003 to 2004.
1661 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
1662 bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in: Likewise.
1663 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_COPYRIGHT): Likewise.
1665 * Makefile.in, aclocal.m4, configure, bin/Makefile.in,
1666 bin/autoconf.in, config/Makefile.in, config/config.guess,
1667 config/config.sub, config/install-sh, config/mdate-sh,
1668 config/mkinstalldirs, config/texinfo.tex, doc/Makefile.in,
1669 lib/Makefile.in, lib/Autom4te/Makefile.in,
1670 lib/autoconf/Makefile.in, lib/autoscan/Makefile.in,
1671 lib/autotest/Makefile.in, lib/emacs/Makefile.in,
1672 lib/m4sugar/Makefile.in, man/Makefile.in, man/autoconf.1,
1673 man/autoheader.1, man/autom4te.1, man/autoreconf.1,
1674 man/autoscan.1, man/autoupdate.1, man/config.guess.1,
1675 man/config.sub.1, man/ifnames.1, tests/Makefile.in,
1676 tests/acc.at, tests/acfortran.at, tests/acfunctions.at,
1677 tests/acgeneral.at, tests/acheaders.at, tests/aclang.at,
1678 tests/aclibs.at, tests/acspecific.at, tests/acstatus.at,
1679 tests/actypes.at: Regenerate and/or sync with original
1682 2004-01-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1684 * doc/autoconf.texi (Default Includes): Include <stdint.h> even if
1685 HAVE_INTTYPES_H is defined. This is needed on Tru64 5.1b with
1686 Compac C V6.5-207 (dtk), which defines uintmax_t in <stdint.h> but
1687 not <inttypes.h>. Problem reported by Tim Mooney in
1688 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-01/msg00147.html>.
1689 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS):
1692 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_SED): Use diff, not sed;
1693 otherwise "make check" fails because it forbids cmp (I guess
1694 because cmp treats files as binary on DOS-like systems).
1696 * tests/mktests.sh: Update copyright date to 2004, since some tests
1697 have changed in 2004.
1699 2004-01-23 Gary V. Vaugan <gary@gnu.org>
1701 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_SED): New macro to test for a
1702 non-truncating sed or gsed program in PATH.
1703 * tests/acprograms.at: Add it.
1704 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): Document it.
1707 2004-01-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1709 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Try -std, not -std1, since
1710 -std1 disables some useful extensions on Tru64. Problem reported
1712 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-01/msg00100.html>.
1714 2004-01-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1716 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Document that
1717 AS_MKDIR_P succeeds if the destination is a symbolic link
1718 to an existing directory.
1719 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Note that mkdir -p might not
1720 succeed on symlinks to directories.
1722 2004-01-13 Paul Hilfinger <hilfinger@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
1724 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4 (AU_DEFUN): Grammar fix in comment.
1725 * bin/autoheader.in: Grammar fix in message.
1726 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_MKDIR_P):
1727 Test for dir before calling mkdir -p. (trivial changes)
1729 2004-01-13 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
1731 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsolete Macros): In AC_TRY_COMPILE and
1732 AC_TRY_LINK, s/AC_LANG_SOURCE/AC_LANG_PROGRAM/. (trivial change)
1734 2004-01-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1736 * doc/autoconf.texi (Running the Preprocessor): Correct grammar.
1738 2004-01-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1740 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Fix bug: AC_CHECK_SIZEOF evokes a warning
1741 with `autoconf -Wall,error'. Bug reported by Eric Blake in:
1742 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-01/msg00000.html
1743 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE): Invoke _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, not
1744 AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, since we now assume our caller invokes
1745 AC_LANG_COMPILER_REQUIRE, for symmetry with _AC_COMPUTE_INT_RUN.
1746 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT_RUN): Likewise, for _AC_RUN_IFELSE instead
1747 of AC_RUN_IFELSE; this avoids the warning mentioned above.
1748 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT): Invoke AC_LANG_COMPILER_REQUIRE.
1750 2004-01-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1752 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJS_NORMALIZE): Avoid \$ inside
1753 `"'...'"`, as it's confusing (and I suspect it may not work on
1754 some platforms). The code was incorrect anyway, as it assumed
1755 that \$ evaluated to itself in that context. Reported by
1756 Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
1758 2004-01-07 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
1760 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect AC_LIBTOOL_TAGS
1761 and _LT_AC_TAGCONFIG.
1763 2004-01-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1765 * doc/autoconf.texi (One Macro Call): Fix an incorrect
1766 example, and add more examples. Reported by Eric Sunshine.
1768 2004-01-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1770 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools):
1771 Remove warning against "rm -fr" introduced yesterday; it
1774 * bin/Makefile.am (autoconf, autoheader, autom4te, autoreconf,
1775 autoscan, autoupdate, ifnames): Don't use chmod -w.
1776 * lib/Makefile.am (autom4te.cfg): Likewise.
1777 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Warn against
1780 2004-01-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1781 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
1783 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Speed up sed scripts
1784 by doing lineno substitution only on lines containing "$LINENO".
1786 2004-01-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1788 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_PROGRAM):
1789 Use "rm -f" to remove conftest.sed, not plain "rm".
1790 Bug reported by David Relson in
1791 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-01/msg00011.html>.
1793 * Makefile.am (autom4te-update):
1794 Replace "rm -rf" and "rm -fr" with "rm -f -r", as POSIX requires.
1795 * Makefile.maint (my-distcheck, do-po-update): Likewise.
1796 * doc/autoconf.texi (Guidelines): Likewise.
1797 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Likewise.
1798 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_XMKMF): Likewise.
1799 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_LONG_FILE_NAMES): Likewise.
1800 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
1801 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): Likewise.
1802 * tests/Makefile.am (clean-local): Likewise.
1803 * tests/tortue.at (AC_CONFIG_FILES, HEADERS, LINKS and COMMANDS,
1805 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools):
1806 Warn against "rm -fr".
1808 2004-01-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1810 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Mention that cc
1811 -c -o might not work. From a suggestion by Kevin Ryde.
1812 (C Compiler, Generating Sources, Limitations
1813 of Usual Tools, Limitations of Make, Making testsuite Scripts):
1814 Don't put '-o' after non-options, as POSIX doesn't allow this.
1815 Mention that cc's name might be gcc or c89 or whatever.
1817 2004-01-04 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1819 * doc/autoconf.texi: Add various further index entries.
1821 2003-12-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1823 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory):
1824 Fix typo: mkdir without umask arg.
1826 2003-12-27 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
1828 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make) <Automatic rule rewriting>:
1829 Documents OSF1/Tru64 make behavior. Replace `VPATH = ../src' by
1830 `VPATH = ../pkg/src' in examples to make the OSF1/Tru64 make
1831 explanation clearer.
1833 2003-12-24 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
1835 * doc/autoconf.texi (Default Includes): Fix misspelling of
1836 AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT.
1838 2003-12-03 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
1840 * configure.ac: Test if sh -n works.
1841 * configure: Regenerate.
1842 * tests/atlocal.in: Store the result here.
1843 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_SHELL_SYNTAX): Extracted from
1844 tools.at, looking in atlocal's ac_cv_sh_n_works instead
1845 of explicitly testing.
1846 (AT_CHECK_PERL_SYNTAX): Moved from tools.at.
1847 (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF): Test for the configure script syntax.
1848 * tests/tools.at (Syntax of the shell scripts): Simplify
1849 using AT_CHECK_SHELL_SYNTAX.
1850 (Syntax of the Perl scripts): Remove definition of
1851 AT_CHECK_PERL_SYNTAX.
1853 2003-12-03 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
1855 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_SHELL_FN_WORK): Redirect
1856 stderr to /dev/null.
1857 * bin/autoconf.in: Regenerate.
1858 * bin/wrapper.in: Regenerate.
1860 2003-11-26 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
1862 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE):
1863 Extracted from AS_SHELL_SANITIZE.
1864 (_AS_SHELL_FN_WORK, AS_INIT_WITH_SHELL_FN): New
1866 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Move reinvocation code from
1867 _AS_LINENO_WORKS, use it to find out if shell
1869 (_AS_LINENO_WORKS): Don't find another shell if $LINENO
1871 (AS_INIT): Pass parameter down to AS_SHELL_SANITIZE.
1872 (AS_REQUIRE_SHELL_FN): Test that AS_INIT_WITH_SHELL_FN
1874 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Use AS_INIT_WITH_SHELL_FN.
1875 * bin/autoconf.in: Regenerate.
1876 * tests/wrapper.in: Regenerate.
1877 * tests/tools.at: Test the syntax of tests/autoconf
1878 and tests/testsuite.
1880 2003-11-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
1882 * config/announce-gen (&print_locations, &print_signatures)
1885 No longer rely on Gnus to inline the list of signatures: compute
1888 2003-11-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
1890 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): AC_PROG_LEX can
1891 override some files.
1892 (Input): AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(aux) is a bad idea on DOS.
1893 From Debian Autoconf 2.58.
1895 2003-11-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
1897 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Quote $ac_popdir
1899 From Debian Autoconf 2.58.
1901 2003-11-24 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
1903 * TODO: Remove already done things. Update the part about finding
1904 tools for the target.
1906 2003-11-24 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
1908 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_USG, AC_MEMORY_H, AC_DIR_HEADER):
1909 Make wording more consistent.
1910 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_CYGWIN, AC_EMXOS2, AC_MINGW32):
1911 Explain the transition better.
1912 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_INT_16_BITS, AC_LONG_64_BITS): Explain
1913 the transition better.
1915 2003-11-24 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
1917 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsoleting Macros): Don't document the third
1918 parameter of AU_DEFUN.
1919 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4 (AU_DEFINE): Remove.
1920 (AU_DEFUN): Remove the third parameter, it was not used.
1921 Use AC_DEFUN directly, not AU_DEFINE.
1922 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_LINK_FILES): Move the message into
1923 the expanded body, consistently with other macros such as AC_USG.
1925 2003-11-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1927 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Put at least 14 bytes
1928 into the initial confdefs.h, to work around a bug in NextStep 3.3
1929 patch 3 reported by Eric Sunshine.
1931 2003-11-15 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1933 * doc/autoconf.texi (Using System Type): Revise, showing $host rather
1934 than $target since the latter is not usual, add guidelines on when to
1935 use or not use the system type.
1937 2003-11-12 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
1939 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Fix what looks like a
1940 typo misrepaired by an auto-spellcheck.
1942 2003-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
1944 * bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args): Don't call automake with
1945 --force-missing unless it actually supports it.
1946 From Debian #219336.
1948 2003-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
1950 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.59a.
1953 2003-11-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
1957 2003-11-05 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
1959 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Fix use of AS_SET_CATFILE
1960 so that ac_abs_builddir, ac_abs_top_builddir, ac_abs_srcdir,
1961 and ac_abs_top_srcdir are absolute paths.
1962 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SET_CATFILE): Remove misleading comment.
1964 2003-11-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
1966 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.58a.
1968 2003-11-05 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1970 * doc/autoconf.texi (Using Autotest): Avoid @strong{Note: ...}, since
1971 it provokes a warning from makeinfo about looking like a cross
1972 reference in info output.
1974 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add notes on signal
1975 handler return type, as per AC_TYPE_SIGNAL.
1977 2003-11-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
1980 * doc/standards.texi: Update from master.
1982 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Add AC_FC_FREEFORM.
1984 2003-11-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
1986 AC_CONFIG_FILE([d1/foo:d2/foo]) triggers error messages when
1987 computing the absolute path to d1 in the source hierarchy: it may
1988 not exist at all. So don't cd into it.
1989 From Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
1990 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-10/msg00205.html
1992 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SET_CATFILE): New.
1993 From Paul Eggert, but named after Perl's IO::Spec->catfile.
1994 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Document.
1995 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Use it.
1997 2003-11-03 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
1999 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Structure Checks): Describe
2000 action-if-found and action-if-not-found in AC_CHECK_MEMBERS.
2002 2003-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2004 * tests/fortran.at (GNU Fortran 77): Don't run FC macros.
2006 * doc/autoconf.texi (Language Choice): Document.
2007 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_FREEFORM): Assert
2008 the current language is Fortran.
2010 2003-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2012 * bin/autom4te.in (&freeze): Use a less likely warning separator
2013 than `\n\n', so that `\n\n\n' is valid in warnings.
2014 Reported by Steve Huston.
2016 2003-10-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2018 * Makefile.cfg (local_updates, executable-update): Tweak to be
2019 robust to parallel makes.
2020 Suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
2022 2003-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2024 * Makefile.cfg (executable-update): New.
2025 (local_updates): Call it.
2027 2003-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2029 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_RUN_IFELSE, _AC_INIT_PREPARE):
2030 Don't remove core.* as it may remove valid user files.
2031 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED)
2032 (AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL): Likewise.
2034 2003-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2037 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub: Upgrade from masters.
2039 2003-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2041 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_SRCEXT): Functions using
2042 AC_COMPILE_IFELSE that use break skip the clean up. So do it by
2045 2003-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2047 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LINK_IFELSE, _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE):
2048 Don't forget to remove conftest.err.
2050 2003-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2052 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ): Don't insert twice the
2053 same object file in $LIBOBJS.
2054 Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz & Derek Robert Price.
2055 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Functions): Adjust.
2057 2003-10-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2059 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_TR_SH_PREPARE, _AS_TR_CPP_PREPARE):
2060 Use 'eval', so that the resulting configure scripts work even if
2061 the current directory has a weird file name like 'y%s+%pp%;s%@%_%g'.
2063 2003-10-20 Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
2065 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_WERROR): New macro.
2066 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, _AC_PREPROC_IFELSE)
2067 (_AC_LINK_IFELSE): Check the werror flag.
2068 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Compiler Characteristics): Document
2072 2003-10-20 Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
2074 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_NO_EXECUTABLES): Override
2075 _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT to attempt a link. If linking fails,
2076 override AC_LINK_IFELSE.
2078 2003-10-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2080 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_UNSET_PREPARE): Work around a bug in
2081 pdksh 5.2.14. Bug reported by Ralf Corsepius.
2082 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology): Mention the Korn shell and pdksh.
2083 Mention /usr/dt/bin/dtksh on Solaris.
2084 (Shell Substitutions): Warn about $((...)).
2085 (Parentheses): New section.
2087 2003-10-15 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
2089 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add @prindex for exit.
2090 Add putenv and unsetenv. Add sysconf _SC_PAGE_SIZE.
2092 2003-10-13 Nathanael Nerode <neroden@gcc.gnu.org>
2094 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_FORK): Trivial fix for vfork
2097 2003-10-11 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
2099 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Use the new official
2100 name for the GNU Fortran 95+ compiler, 'gfortran', not 'g95'.
2102 2003-10-10 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
2104 * bin/autoheader.in: Avoid empty first line in --version and
2106 * bin/ifnames.in: Likewise.
2108 2003-10-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2110 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Don't assume -j is solo.
2111 Issue a more-informative diagnostic.
2112 Problems reported by Eric Sunshine.
2114 2003-10-08 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
2116 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): Omit quoted
2117 -mGLOB_options_string stuff for Intel ifc, which can cause
2118 _AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS to fail. Use (faster) case for
2119 pattern-matching instead of grep.
2121 2003-10-08 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
2123 * doc/autoconf.texi: Document new FC Fortran macros.
2125 2003-10-08 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
2127 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR): Stub out a macro
2128 that future autopoint/aclocal/automake/autoreconf will be able
2129 to trace to find where to install local m4 macros.
2130 * doc/autoconf.texi (Input): Document it.
2133 2003-10-06 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
2135 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Add
2136 -lcrtbegin.o to list of ignored flags and fix underquoting of
2139 2003-10-04 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@ab-initio.mit.edu>
2141 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_G): Use language-specific
2142 cache variable instead of $G77 to decide whether to include -O2,
2143 since $G77 is specific to Fortran 77.
2145 2003-10-03 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
2147 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_FREEFORM): Support Absoft "-f
2148 free" flag. Re-order flags tested into rough order of popularity.
2150 2003-10-03 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
2152 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_PROG_FC): Reverse the order of the
2153 arguments so that it can be used with syntax identical to
2154 AC_PROG_F77, and so that we can more easily decide to
2155 remove/deprecate the DIALECT optional argument in the future if it
2157 (AC_FC_FREEFORM): Exit 77 upon failure to fix test suite for
2158 non-freeform-supporting compilers. Document freeform flags.
2160 2003-10-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2162 * configure.ac: Look for emacs, not macs.
2163 Reported by Eric Sunshine.
2165 2003-10-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2167 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoreconf-preselections): Trace AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR.
2168 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory): Create the
2169 AUX_DIR if needed, for sake of automake --add-missing etc.
2170 Suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
2172 2003-10-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2174 * configure.ac: Quotation and formatting changes.
2175 (EMACS): Don't set it if it is not recent enough to support
2179 2003-10-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2181 * bin/ifnames.in (&scan_file): Skip C++ comments.
2184 2003-10-01 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
2186 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Structure Checks):
2187 Fix misspelling of HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_BLOCKS.
2189 2003-10-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2193 2003-09-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2195 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Use Errno.
2196 (lock): Ignore ENOLCK errors. Problem reported Andreas Schwab in
2197 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-09/msg00141.html>.
2199 2003-09-30 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2201 * config/announce-gen (&print_news_deltas): Extracted from...
2202 (&print_changelog_deltas): here.
2203 (&news_file): Rename as...
2206 2003-09-30 Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>
2208 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Remove files which might
2209 have been created when invoking the compiler.
2210 * tests/fortran.at (GNU Fortran 77): Quote $G77.
2212 2003-09-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2216 * config/mkinstalldirs: Upgrade.
2218 2003-09-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2220 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Set DUALCASE=1, for MKS sh.
2221 Problem reported by Lars J. Aas in
2222 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2003-07/msg00042.html>.
2223 (_AS_MKDIR_P_PREPARE): Change "rm -fr ./-p" to the more-conservative
2224 "test -d ./-p && rmdir ./-p". Suggested by Andreas Schwab in:
2225 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2003-09/msg00039.html
2227 2003-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2229 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS): Make sure the
2230 directory for AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS' first argument exists.
2231 This makes valid the invocation of _AC_SRCPATH that follows.
2232 Reported by Eric Sunshine.
2233 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Commands): Adjust.
2235 2003-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2237 * bin/autoscan.in (Autom4te::FileUtils): Use it for find_file.
2238 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
2240 2003-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2242 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_HELP_STRING): Don't overquote the
2244 Actually, use AU_ALIAS.
2247 2003-09-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2249 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_MKDIR_P_PREPARE): If mkdir -p . fails,
2250 rm -fr ./-p to remove junk left behind on NextStep and OpenStep.
2251 Problem reported by Eric Sunshine in:
2252 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2002-12/msg00014.html
2254 2003-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2256 The test suite are sometimes assigning timings incorrectly.
2257 Reported by Henk Krus.
2258 Diagnosed by Nicolas Joly.
2260 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CLEANUP): Rename AT_help as
2262 Instead of making AT_help a sequence of assignments to grow
2263 $at_help_all, just make AT_help_all be the growing contents of
2264 $at_help_all, and make a single assignment in...
2266 (at_times_skip): Flip the meaning and rename as...
2268 (AT_INIT): When summarizing the test that ran, remove
2269 $at_times_file after use, and check it is present before trying to
2272 2003-09-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2276 * bin/Makefile.am (edit): Handle '@configure_input@'.
2277 (autoconf, autoheader, autom4te, autoreconf, autoscan, autoupdate)
2278 (ifnames): chmod -w.
2279 * tests/wrapper.as (AUTOCONF, AUTOM4TE, ): Point to tests/
2280 executables, not bin/ executables! Otherwise all the magic needed
2281 to find non installed files is turned off. This caused a failure
2282 of test 40 and 41 that ran aclocal 1.8 which in turn ran autom4te
2283 as found in its environment (sent by tests/autoreconf): pointing
2284 to bin/autom4te that could not find its files.
2285 * tests/mktests.sh: Force the replacement of generated files, for
2286 the sake of "mv" program that are interactive when overwriting a
2288 * config/install-sh: Upgrade from CVS Automake.
2290 2003-09-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2292 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Document test -h
2293 versus test -L issues.
2295 2003-09-23 Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> and
2296 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2298 Trivial change to support GCC's configuration procedure.
2299 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CPP_WERROR): New macro.
2300 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): Don't warn
2301 about inconsistency if the preprocessor is set to give errors for
2303 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler Characteristics): Document this.
2305 2003-09-13 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
2307 * Makefile.am (autom4te-update, autom4te_files): Fetch Struct.pm
2308 and XFile.pm from Automake.
2309 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Update from Automake.
2311 2003-09-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2315 2003-09-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2317 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/missing,
2318 * lib/Autom4te/Channels.pm, lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm: Update
2321 2003-09-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2323 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): Promote linux/types.h,
2326 2003-09-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2328 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): linux/random.h.
2329 From Peter Hendrickson.
2331 2003-09-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2333 * tests/mktests.sh (au_exclude_egrep): Make it harder to be
2334 willing to edit the output files.
2336 2003-09-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2338 * tests/fortran.at (GNU Fortran 77): Also exercise AC_FC_SRCEXT
2340 * tests/mktests.sh: Skip AC_FC_SRCEXT.
2341 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_FREEFORM): Likewise.
2343 2003-09-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2345 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm (&update_file): s/cannot not/cannot/g.
2346 Reported by Gary Vaughan.
2347 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_m4): Likewise.
2349 2003-09-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2351 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm (&update_file): Be sure not to leave
2354 2003-09-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2356 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS):
2357 Improve the accuracy of the wording about obsolescence.
2358 From a suggestion by Ian Lance Taylor in
2359 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2003-09/msg00044.html>.
2361 2003-09-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2363 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_FREEFORM): Try -ffree-form too,
2364 for the benefit of g77 3.2. Fix suggested by Steven G. Johnson.
2366 2003-09-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2368 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Fix the filtering of
2371 2003-09-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2373 * bin/autom4te.in: Use &fatal where more appropriate than &error.
2374 (freeze): When exiting, use $exit_code.
2375 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4: Comment changes.
2377 2003-09-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2379 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Add AC_FC_FUNC.
2381 2003-09-02 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
2383 Add support for newer Fortran dialects. The F77 interface is
2384 unchanged, and continues to support Fortran 77. New FC macros
2385 correspond to all the old F77 macros, with output variables FC,
2386 FCFLAGS, and FCLIBS. AC_PROG_FC defaults to picking the newest
2387 available dialect, but older dialects can be specified. There are
2388 new macros AC_FC_SRCEXT to set the source extension, and
2389 AC_FC_FREEFORM to accept free-form source files.
2391 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_LANG_PREFIX(C), _AC_LANG_PREFIX(C++)):
2393 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C)): Invoke _AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_FC_HOOKS if defined.
2394 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_LANG(Fortran), _AC_FORTRAN_ASSERT,
2395 _AC_LANG_ABBREV(Fortran), _AC_LANG_PREFIX(Fortran 77),
2396 _AC_LANG_PREFIX(Fortran), _AC_FC, AC_LANG_SOURCE(Fortran),
2397 AC_LANG_PROGRAM(Fortran), AC_LANG_CALL(Fortran),
2398 AC_LANG_PREPROC(Fortran), AC_LANG_COMPILER(Fortran),
2399 _AC_FC_DIALECT_YEAR, _AC_F95_FC, _AC_F90_FC, _AC_F77_FC,
2400 _AC_PROG_FC, AC_PROG_FC, _AC_PROG_FC_G, _AC_PROG_FC_C_O,
2401 AC_PROG_FC_C_O, _AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT, _AC_PROG_FC_V,
2402 _AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS, AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS, _AC_FC_DUMMY_MAIN,
2403 AC_FC_DUMMY_MAIN, _AC_FC_MAIN, AC_FC_MAIN, __AC_FC_NAME_MANGLING,
2404 _AC_FC_WRAPPERS, AC_FC_WRAPPERS, _AC_FC_FUNC, AC_FC_FUNC,
2405 AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_FREEFORM):
2407 (AC_PROG_F77, AC_PROG_F77_C_O, AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS,
2408 AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN, AC_F77_MAIN, _AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING,
2409 AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING, AC_F77_WRAPPERS, AC_F77_FUNC):
2410 Rewrite in terms of the above.
2411 (_AC_PROG_F77_G, _AC_PROG_F77_V_OUTPUT, _AC_PROG_F77_V): Remove.
2412 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_LANG_PREFIX): New macro.
2413 * tests/acfortran.at: Test AC_FC_FREEFORM, AC_FC_FUNC,
2414 AC_FC_MAIN, AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_WRAPPERS, AC_PROG_FC_C_O.
2416 2003-09-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2418 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools, Limitations of Make):
2419 Document problems with timestamp resolution that 'make', 'cp -p', and
2422 2003-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2424 * tests/m4sugar.at (cross_warning): Make sure to enable the
2425 output, so that we can track spurious m4sugar output.
2426 * tests/local.at: Require 2.57.
2427 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR, AT_CHECK_M4SH): Don't m4_default the arguments that
2428 are defaulted by AT_CHECK anyway.
2429 Use AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE.
2430 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: There should be no output at all: add a
2433 2003-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2435 * bin/autoheader.in: Issue the "Using auxiliary..." message only
2436 when -Wobsolete is set.
2437 Set it on by default.
2438 Suggested by Klee Dienes.
2440 2003-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2442 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_FUNC_FSEEKO, AC_SYS_LARGEFILE): More
2446 2003-08-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2448 * doc/autoconf.texi (Output): Make clear that one can run code
2451 2003-08-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2453 * config/announce-gen, GNUmakefile, Makefile.maint: Update from
2456 2003-08-25 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
2458 * bin/autoreconf.in (parse_args): Do not pass --no-force to
2459 Automake versions prior to 1.8.
2461 2003-08-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2463 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): netinet/if_ether.h.
2466 2003-08-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2468 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.57c.
2470 2003-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2474 * Makefile.cfg (local-checks-to-skip): New.
2475 * Makefile.maint (local-check): Rename as...
2476 (local-checks-available): this.
2479 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add Makefile.cfg.
2480 * configure.ac: Require Automake 1.7.6.
2482 2003-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2484 Output stack traces in warnings.
2486 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (_m4_warn): New.
2487 Replace the former...
2488 (m4_warn): Pass the call stack to _m4_warn.
2489 * bin/autom4te.in: Adjust to output the call stack.
2490 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4@&t@_warn): Adjust.
2492 2003-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2494 * lib/Autom4te/Request.pm, lib/Autom4te/C4che.pm: New.
2495 * bin/autom4te.in: Adjust.
2497 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2499 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&file_name_is_absolute): Remove.
2501 (&getopt): Adjust the note and verb channels, depending upon
2503 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoscan.in,
2504 * bin/autoupdate.in: Adjust.
2505 Use &verb, not &verbose.
2507 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2509 * bin/autoheader.in (&parse_args): Use &parse_warnings and
2511 ($help): Use Autom4te::ChannelDefs::usage.
2512 * bin/autoscan.in: Use Autom4te::ChannelDefs.
2513 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: Don't export error: you don't own it.
2515 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2517 First stab at preserving warnings between calls to autom4te,
2518 including when the cache is used.
2520 There are still several issues: (i) there are too many runs of m4
2521 (one for include, one for warnings, and some more), (ii) warnings
2522 spreading on several lines are not handled gracefully, (iii) the
2523 code meant to have the call stack display for errors does not work
2524 (its handling should move from m4 to autom4te).
2526 * bin/autom4te.in Autom4te::Channels, Autom4te::ChannelDefs):
2528 (@preselect): Add m4_warn.
2529 ($exit_status): Remove, use $exit_code.
2530 ($help): Use Autom4te::ChannelDefs::usage.
2531 (&handle_m4): No longer define the m4_warnings.
2532 At each run, extract and report the warnings.
2533 Always cache the result, including if the exit status is on
2534 failure, since if nothing changes, we should result in the same
2535 failure, hence we can use the cache.
2536 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_warning_ifelse, _m4_warning_ifelse)
2537 (_m4_warning_error_ifelse, __m4_warning_error_ifelse, _m4_warn):
2539 (m4_warn): Redefine as a do-nothing: it is its invocation that
2540 matters, as warnings are now reported via traces.
2541 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_DIAGNOSE): Don't make it a copy of
2542 the contents of m4_warn: make it _call_ m4_warn, so that tracing
2543 the latter reveals calls to the former.
2547 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4@&t@_warn): Use existing warning categories.
2549 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2551 * bin/autoreconf.pm (Autom4te::Channels, Autom4te::ChannelDefs):
2554 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2556 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm (&find_file): Walk the @include in
2558 * lib/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm: Doc typos.
2559 (&parse_warnings): Accept a list of warning requests.
2560 (&usage): Return a string, not a side effect.
2561 (cross): New warning category.
2563 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2565 * lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm (&find_configure_ac)
2566 (&require_configure_ac): Accept an optional directory argument.
2567 ($configure_ac): Remove.
2568 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_configure_ac, &canonfile)
2570 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoupdate.in,
2571 * bin/autoscan.in: Adjust.
2573 2003-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2575 * bin/autoheader.in: Remove duplicate 'use Autom4te::FileUtils'.
2576 Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
2578 2003-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2580 * bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
2581 * bin/autom4te: Adjust.
2582 In particular, be Autoconf tools are really silent when properly
2583 working, bind the verbosity of the 'note' channel to $verbose.
2584 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_file, &mtime, &update_file)
2585 (&xsystem, &contents): Remove, since they are exported by...
2586 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm: this.
2588 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&up_to_date_p): Move to...
2589 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm: here.
2591 2003-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2593 * lib/Autom4te/Channels.pm, lib/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm
2594 * lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm, lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm: New,
2597 2003-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2599 * Makefile.am (automake_cvsweb, automake_cvsargs, autom4te_files)
2600 (autom4te-update): New.
2601 * Makefile.cfg (update): Bind autom4te-update.
2603 2003-08-19 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
2605 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Comment various HELP_* diversions.
2606 (PARSE_ARGS_BEGIN): New section for option parsing related
2608 (AT_ARG_OPTION,AT_ARG_OPTION_ARG,_AT_ARG_OPTION): New macros to define
2609 package specific options and associated help.
2611 2003-08-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2613 * config/announce-gen, Makefile.cfg: New.
2614 * Makefile.am: Adjust.
2615 * GNUmakefile, Makefile.maint: Update from CVS Coreutils.
2617 2003-08-19 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
2619 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect
2620 AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR, AC_CONFIG_LINKS, m4_include,
2623 2003-08-19 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
2625 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): Move all args except aclocal.m4? into ...
2626 (Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4): ... this new language.
2627 * doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te Invocation): Mention
2628 Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4.
2630 2003-08-18 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
2632 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Document RUN-IF-FAIL &
2633 RUN-IF-PASS optional arguments.
2635 2003-08-18 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
2637 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Add doc for AS_IF.
2639 2003-08-16 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
2641 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Document defaults for
2642 STDOUT & STDERR arguments.
2644 2003-08-14 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
2646 * lib/autotestgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Reformat test summary line to print
2647 DESCRIPTION rather than FILE and LINE. Shorten result to fit in new,
2648 shorter column three. Add DESCRIPTION to log file content.
2650 2003-08-13 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
2652 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Correct typo in final status
2655 2003-08-12 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
2657 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CHECK): Use new _AT_CHECK API.
2658 (AT_CHECK_NOESCAPE): Move core functionality to...
2659 (_AT_CHECK): ...this new macro.
2661 2003-08-07 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
2663 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CHECK): Move core functionality...
2664 (AT_CHECK_NOESCAPE): ...to this new macro.
2666 2003-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2668 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_UNSET_PREPARE): Work around a bug
2669 in Bash 2.01. Problem reported by Brian Gough in
2670 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-07/msg00106.html>.
2672 2003-07-25 John W. Eaton <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
2674 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Also ignore
2675 -lcrt1.o, for OS X. (trivial change)
2677 2003-07-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2679 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_INLINE): Wrap the '#define inline ...'
2680 inside '#ifndef __cplusplus'. Problem reported by
2683 2003-07-06 Bill Clarke <llib@computer.org>
2685 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MMAP): Cast pointer to
2686 'long', not 'int', for benefit of Sun's recent C++ compilers
2687 (trivial change). See:
2688 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2003-07/msg00007.html
2689 (This really should be 'intptr_t', not 'long', but that would
2692 2003-06-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2694 * lib/Makefile.am (autom4te.cfg): Make it read only.
2695 Depend on Makefile since it contains substitutions.
2697 * lib/autom4te.in (args): Add local.at? for Autotest args.
2698 This change was made on autom4te.cfg which is generated.
2699 Reported by Raja R. Harinath.
2701 2003-06-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2703 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): sys/mount.h.
2704 From Gareth McCaughan.
2706 2003-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2708 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Report a single config.log,
2709 not all of them. This fixes 1. the fact that when testing
2710 Autoconf there are many many config.log, 2. the incorrect use of
2711 top_srcdir to find config.log.
2712 Don't mix the detailed output of failed test with the summary of
2713 failures. Rather, append detailed log afterwards.
2715 2003-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2717 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_CONFIGURE): Adjust to the verbose being
2718 always run: output config.log on $at_group_log.
2720 2003-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2722 * tests/torture.at (#define header templates): Don't use quotes in
2723 C++ comments as it puzzles Emacs' sh font-lock-mode.
2725 2003-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2727 * tests/mktests.sh (au_exclude_egrep): Fix output copyright notice.
2728 * lib/autom4te.cfg (args): Add local.at? for Autotest args.
2729 * tests/atspecific.m4: Rename as...
2730 * tests/local.at: This.
2731 * tests/suite.at: Move the globals into...
2732 * tests/local.at: here.
2733 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
2734 * doc/autoconf.texi (testsuite Scripts): Adjust.
2736 2003-06-21 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
2738 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Extend test program to get an
2739 error from OSF 4.0 Compaq cc in its default almost-ANSI mode, thereby
2740 ensuring we add -std1 for full-ANSI.
2742 * doc/autoconf.texi (hdrindex): New macro.
2743 Add index entries for portability of various standard header files.
2745 2003-06-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2747 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.57b.
2749 2003-06-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2753 2003-06-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2755 * bin/autom4te.in: Don't rely on $HOME being defined.
2756 Reported by Marc Espie as PR/233.
2758 2003-06-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2760 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Use at_times_file only if used.
2763 2003-06-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2765 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/elisp-comp,
2766 * config/install-sh, config/mkinstalldirs, doc/standards.texi:
2767 Update from masters.
2769 2003-06-11 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
2771 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Document AT_XFAIL_IF
2772 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_XFAIL_IF): New macro.
2773 (TEST_SCRIPT): New diversion.
2774 (AT_SETUP): Divert output to TEST_SCRIPT and move some code...
2775 (AT_CLEANUP): ...to here. Undivert TEST_SCRIPT.
2776 (AT_INIT): Support for expected failures.
2778 2003-06-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2780 * bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoheader.in: White space
2782 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&backname): Remove, no longer used by
2783 Autoconf nor Automake.
2784 (&contents): New, from Automake.
2787 2003-05-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2789 * NEWS, doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions),
2790 lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MKTIME): Check that mktime
2791 is the inverse of localtime.
2793 2003-05-25 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
2795 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (END): Print diagnostics to STDERR.
2796 (handle_exec_errors): New function. Work around $! being
2797 altered by WEXITSTATUS.
2798 (xqx, xsystem): Use handle_exec_errors.
2800 2003-05-23 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
2802 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (END): Rewrite exit code processing.
2803 Do not call `_exit()', simply modify `$?'.
2804 (xsystem): Reset $! before running system, and check it afterward.
2805 * tests/tools.at (autoupdating AC_PREREQ): Expect exit status
2806 63 for version mismatches.
2808 2003-05-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2810 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Prefer "TAB-SP" to "SP-TAB", because of
2811 Emacs' dangerous whitespace.el behavior (smashing "useless" spaces in
2812 the middle of a line).
2813 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: Likewise.
2814 Remove useless spaces in comments.
2816 2003-05-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2818 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_version_prereq): Failure causes an
2819 exit 63, so that we (or Automake's "missing") can tell the
2820 difference with a plain failure.
2821 * doc/autoconf.texi (Notices): Adjust.
2823 2003-05-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2825 * Makefile.am, bin/Makefile.am, config/Makefile.am,
2826 * doc/Makefile.am, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am, tests/Makefile.am:
2827 White spaces cleanup.
2829 2003-05-22 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
2830 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2832 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION):
2833 Remove `#include <stdlib.h>' from the list; we should never
2834 make confdefs.h include <stdlib.h> or <cstdlib>, because the
2835 resulting namespace pollution would cause other tests to fail.
2836 Configure scripts run with some older versions of g++ and HP's
2837 aCC would fail due to such an #include. Problems reported by
2838 Matthew Mueller in <http://bugs.debian.org/120704> and by
2840 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2003-05/msg00063.html>.
2841 In the test, use the test declaration before including <stdlib.h>,
2842 as that's closer to how it'll be used.
2844 2003-05-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2846 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): ucred.h.
2849 2003-05-22 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
2851 Overhaul Autotest's logging: generate separate log files
2852 in testsuite.dir/NNN/testsuite.log, and append them to
2853 testsuite.log instead of re-running the test verbosely.
2855 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Use a single redirected
2856 file descriptor, write 0 to at_status_file instead of setting
2857 at_status=0, initialize some new variables (at_status_file,
2858 at_group_log, at_suite_log, at_tee_pipe). Remove the cruft
2859 to rerun the tests, instead append the at_group_log to the
2860 at_suite_log when a test fails.
2861 (AT_SETUP): pipe the test case's output into at_tee_pipe,
2862 with the AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD redirected to stdout.
2863 (AT_CLEANUP): save the output status in $at_status_file
2864 and restore it, redirect the AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD back to
2866 (AT_CHECK): since tests are run with a redirected stdout,
2867 and used to be re-run in verbose mode, turn some $at_verbose
2868 into echo, and don't redirect the output of testing stdout
2871 * lib/autotest/autoconf.texi (testsuite Scripts): Update
2872 the name of the debugging directory and information about
2875 2003-05-22 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
2877 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_REQUIRE): Actually use the 2nd
2880 2003-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2882 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4, lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4
2883 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 lib/autoconf/general.m4
2884 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 lib/autoconf/oldnames.m4
2885 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Fix and adjust copyright notices.
2887 2003-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2889 * aclocal.m4, bin/autoconf.as, lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4,
2890 * lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4, lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4,
2891 * lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/fortran.m4,
2892 * lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/headers.m4,
2893 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4,
2894 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4, lib/autoconf/specific.m4,
2895 * lib/autoconf/status.m4, lib/autoconf/types.m4,
2896 * lib/autotest/general.m4, lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4,
2897 * tests/atspecific.m4, tests/base.at, tests/compile.at,
2898 * tests/foreign.at, tests/m4sh.at, tests/semantics.at,
2899 * tests/tools.at, tests/torture.at:
2900 Whitespace clean up.
2901 Suggested by Jim Meyering.
2903 2003-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2905 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG): Restore smashed
2906 ' \t' as '\t ' so that Emacs' whitespace.el keep it.
2907 Reported by Jim Meyering.
2909 2003-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2911 * doc/autoconf.texi: Replace AC_HELP_STRING AS_HELP_STRING.
2912 Add AC_HELP_STRING to the obsolete macros section.
2914 Use '@.' for sentences that ended in a capital letter.
2917 2003-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2919 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/elisp-comp,
2920 * config/install-sh, config/mdate-sh, config/mkinstalldirs,
2921 * config/texinfo.tex, doc/standards.texi: Update from masters.
2923 2003-05-21 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
2925 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_VAR_SET): Escape the RHS before passing
2928 2003-05-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2930 * bin/autoupdate.in ($m4): Fix quotation.
2931 Reported by Martin Mokrejs.
2933 2003-05-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2935 * ChangeLog, ChangeLog.2, THANKS, lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4:
2936 Remove non-ASCII characters.
2938 2003-05-18 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
2940 * tests/semantics.at (AC_SEARCH_LIBS): New test.
2941 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_HEADERS_OLD,
2942 AC_CHECK_HEADERS_NEW): New tests.
2944 2003-05-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2946 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4: Use the default includes so that
2947 memcmp be declared before being tested.
2948 Reported by Sander Niemeijer.
2949 (AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE, AC_FUNC_GETGROUPS, AC_FUNC_STRNLEN): Likewise.
2950 * doc/autoconf.texi (Default Includes): Document
2951 AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT.
2953 2003-05-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2955 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4: Include signal.h and unistd.h.
2956 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsolete Macros): Adjust.
2957 Reported by Werner LEMBERG and Debian Bug 190886.
2959 2003-05-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2961 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_UNSET_PREPARE): s/FOO/as_foo/ to avoid
2962 user name space clashes.
2963 Reported by Bruno Haible.
2965 2003-05-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2967 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
2968 * bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in (BEGIN): Make
2969 them uniform, and more robust to Perl special characters.
2970 Reported by Martin Mokrejs.
2972 2003-05-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2974 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Skip all Libtools pre 1.4.
2976 2003-05-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2978 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): X11/extensions/scrnsaver.h,
2981 2003-05-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2983 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Improve the
2985 From Matthias Andree.
2987 2003-05-07 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
2989 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm (lock, truncate): Do not pass @_ to flock
2992 2003-05-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2994 Don't try to be smart with aclocal 1.8+ because (i) aclocal no
2995 longer updates aclocal.m4 if useless, (ii) if a file m4_included
2996 by aclocal.m4 is changed it might require the importing of another
2997 m4 extension file, i.e., aclocal must be run.
2999 * bin/autoreconf.in (&run_aclocal, $aclocal_supports_force): New.
3000 (&parse_args): Use --force with aclocal if required and supported.
3001 (&autoreconf_current_directory): Use &run_aclocal.
3003 2003-05-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3005 Lock autom4te's cache.
3007 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm ($me, &name, &lock, &truncate, &seek): New.
3008 * bin/autom4te.in (&Request::save, &Request::load): Use an IO::File
3009 argument instead of a file name, so that the request file remains
3010 open during the whole autom4te run.
3011 ($icache_file): New.
3012 (&freeze): Lock the $icache_file.
3014 2003-04-29 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
3016 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_KEYWORDS): Don't use a comma as the
3017 seperator with m4_append_uniq(). It doesn't work.
3018 (AT_CLEANUP): Add `;' to end of at_help_all.
3019 (AT_INIT): Allow --keywords to be specified more than once. When
3020 grepping $at_help_all for keywords, use the field and keyword
3021 seperators to ensure a complete keyword match. Alter at_prev handling
3022 to support the new --keywords behavior.
3024 2003-04-27 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
3026 * doc/autoconf.texi: Make the dir entries in the autoconf manual
3027 align better with others. I also made some of the individual
3028 entries on one line, for brevity and to make it easier for me to
3029 sort my dir-example file in the Texinfo distribution :).
3031 2003-04-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
3033 * NEWS: Mention the new macro.
3034 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_RESTRICT): New macro.
3035 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Describe AC_C_RESTRICT.
3036 * tests/c.at: Test AC_C_RESTRICT.
3037 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Add exclusion for AC_C_RESTRICT.
3039 2003-04-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3041 * bin/ifnames.in: Skip C++ comments.
3044 2003-04-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3046 * GNUmakefile (SHELL): Don't assume sh is in /bin/.
3047 From Ilya Zakharevich.
3049 2003-04-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3051 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Some about sys/socket.h,
3054 2003-04-01 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
3056 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_INSTALL): Correct syntax error
3057 from Akim's checkin of 2003-03-29.
3059 2003-04-01 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
3061 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Add missing
3062 close-quote for Akim's change from 2003-03-28.
3064 2003-04-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3066 * doc/autoconf.texi (ac, at, ms): Rename these indexes as...
3067 (AC, AT, MS): these.
3068 (shortindexflag, @acindex, @ahindex, @asindex, @atindex, @msindex):
3071 * doc/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): Adjust.
3072 (TEXI2DVI): Make it --batch.
3074 2003-03-31 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
3076 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Revert the checkin from 2003-03-27
3077 which removed the main loop.
3078 Thanks to Akim Demaille.
3080 2003-03-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3082 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_INSTALL): Skip OS/2's install,
3084 From Ilya Zakharevich.
3086 2003-03-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3088 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): The
3089 documentation to read is Autoconf's.
3090 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
3092 2003-03-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3094 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): Suggest
3095 reading the section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled" when the
3096 header causes problems.
3098 2003-03-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3100 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Require aclocal
3101 1.4, otherwise the test fails, as it does support configure.ac.
3102 This fixes the "test 40 failed" bug reports.
3104 2003-03-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3106 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): `#line' portability.
3107 From Paul Eggert and Nelson H. F. Beebe.
3109 2003-03-27 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
3111 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Eliminate main loop and reorganize test
3112 layout in order to allow scripting around test groups.
3114 2003-03-27 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
3116 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (PARSE_ARGS,PARSE_ARGS_END,HELP,HELP_MODES,
3117 HELP_TUNING,HELP_OTHER,HELP_END,PREPARE_TESTS,TESTS_END): Define and
3118 use new diversions in preparation for accepting new arguments and
3119 allowing scripting around tests.
3120 (OPTIONS,TAIL): Remove these diversions to make way for the ones above.
3122 2003-03-26 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
3124 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_VAR): Use AS_HELP_STRING instead of
3125 obsolete AC_HELP_STRING.
3126 (AC_HELP_STRING): AU_DEFUN to...
3127 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_HELP_STRING): ...here.
3128 * tests/m4sh.at (AS_HELP_STRING): New test.
3130 * tests/acgeneral.at: Regenerated.
3132 2003-03-26 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
3134 * lib/autotest/general.m4: s/DEFAULT/DEFAULTS/ since it makes more
3135 sense. Verbosify the diversion definitions comment.
3137 2003-03-26 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
3139 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Remove redundant call to
3142 2003-03-21 Eric Siegerman <eric_97@pobox.com>
3144 * doc/autoconf.texi (Present But Cannot Be Compiled):
3145 Grammar fixes and minor rewording. (trivial change)
3147 2003-03-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3149 Work around a problem noted by Nelson H. F. Beebe with coreutils
3150 4.5.9: Sun c89 (Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3 Patch 111679-08
3151 2002/05/09) rejects '#line 32768 "configure"' because the line
3153 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_SOURCE(C)): Do not generate
3155 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_SOURCE): Fix comment to match this.
3156 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generating Sources): Document this.
3158 2003-03-01 Richard Dawe <rich@phekda.freeserve.co.uk>
3160 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE): Normalize
3161 file name for the m4 program, when it has an "exe" file extension.
3162 DJGPP's error messages include the error code in brackets -
3163 remove the error code during normalization.
3165 2003-02-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3167 * doc/autoconf.texi (Present But Cannot Be Compiled): New.
3169 2003-02-28 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
3171 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Remove the section
3172 about `$<' in inference rules, it was a bogus interpretation of
3173 an old Automake change. Discuss NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and
3174 Tru64 make in the "target lookup" section.
3175 (Automake): Automake 1.5+ no longer requires special tools to be
3176 present on the developer's host.
3178 2003-02-26 Richard Dawe <rich@phekda.freeserve.co.uk>
3180 * bin/autoheader.in (BEGIN): For DJGPP SHELL may not be set
3181 to a shell that can handle redirection or quoting correctly.
3182 Override SHELL with the shell detected by configure.
3183 Use of $^O suggested by Tim van Holder.
3184 * bin/autom4te.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
3185 * bin/autoreconf.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
3186 * bin/autoscan.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
3187 * bin/autoupdate.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
3188 * bin/ifnames.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
3190 * bin/ifnames.in: Add final newline to help and version messages.
3192 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Translate colons,
3193 to cope with DOS-style absolute paths, when constructing
3196 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS, _AC_OUTPUT_FILES):
3197 When constructing paths with IFS=:, quote the path. If we're
3198 constructing a DOS-style absolute path, we don't want to split it
3201 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_CONFIGURE): Fix typo
3204 2003-02-25 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
3206 * bin/autoheader.in: Add missing newline when printing
3207 suggestion how change AC_DEFINE call.
3209 2003-02-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3211 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Fix typo in
3212 2002-09-01 patch by replacing "test -n" with "test -z".
3213 This fixes a bug found by Jeff Painter and reported by Tom Epperly in
3214 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2003-02/msg00139.html>.
3216 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): test -n -> test -z,
3217 to fix a mismatch between example and discussion.
3219 2003-02-24 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
3221 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Add notes on printf
3222 format starting with "-".
3224 2003-02-20 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
3226 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): `foo=bar make -e'
3227 is not portable inside Makefile.
3229 2003-02-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3231 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): When
3232 compiler says yeah, but preproc says nope, compiler is right.
3233 Conversely, prompt the reader to send a bug report to the
3234 maintainers of the package, not of Autoconf.
3236 2003-02-20 Klee Dienes <kdienes@apple.com>
3238 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory): Properly
3239 handle an empty aclocal.m4.
3241 2003-02-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3243 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM): Quote
3247 2002-12-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3249 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C)): Define $1 to an
3250 innocuous variant befor including <limits.h> or <assert.h>. This
3251 works around a bug reported by Albert Chin: HP-UX 11i
3252 (and earlier versions) have a <limits.h> that declares
3253 gettimeofday and many other functions.
3255 2002-12-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3259 * NEWS, configure.ac: Update version.
3261 * doc/fdl.texi: Upgrade to FDL version 1.2.
3263 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C)): Use the function f
3264 nontrivially in main's body, so that f's external declaration is
3265 not optimized away in AIX. This should fix the bug reported by
3267 <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/autoconf/2002-November/014508.html>.
3269 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C),
3270 _AC_PROG_PREPROC_WORKS_IFELSE): Use <limits.h> if __STDC__ is
3271 defined, to support freestanding compilers. This should fix the
3272 bug reported by Momchil Velkov in
3273 <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/autoconf/2002-November/014490.html>.
3275 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsolete Macros): Fix typos (insert empty
3276 arg, AC_DEFINE -> AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED) in documentation for
3277 obsolete AC_CHECK_TYPE. The missing empty arg was reported
3278 by Simon Josefsson in
3279 <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/autoconf-patches/2002-December/008830.html>.
3281 * Makefile.maint (www-gnu): New macro.
3282 (standards.texi-url_prefix, make-stds.texi-url_prefix): Use it, as
3283 the location has moved.
3285 2002-12-02 Martin Frydl <martin@systinet.com>
3287 * bin/autom4te.in (at_flatten): rewritten to avoid M4 problem when
3288 \(.*\) match is too long and there is something more to be checked.
3289 <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/autoconf/2002-November/014524.html>
3291 2002-11-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3295 * config/install-sh: chmod +x.
3297 * config/move-if-change: Indenting changes.
3298 * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Move to...
3299 * configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): here.
3302 2002-11-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3306 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/install-sh:
3307 Update from masters.
3309 2002-11-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3311 * Makefile.maint: Sync with Bison, i.e.:
3312 (po-check): Scan .l and .y files instead of the
3313 .c and the .h files that they generate. This fixes the bug
3314 reported by Tim Van Holder in:
3315 <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bison-patches/2002-November/001352.html>
3316 Look for N_ as well as for _. Try to avoid matching #define for
3320 2002-11-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3322 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Compiling several files at once.
3323 From Paul Eggert and Albert Chin-A-Young.
3325 2002-11-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3327 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Solitary backslashes.
3328 From Paul Eggert and Albert Chin-A-Young.
3330 2002-11-14 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
3332 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C)): Initialize f=$1 rather
3333 than assigning in main, to avoid HP cc +O3 optimizing it away.
3335 2002-11-12 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
3337 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Add -q
3338 option. Process --recheck after parsing all options. Pass -q
3339 option to configure on --recheck.
3340 (AC_OUTPUT): Pass -q from configure to config.status.
3341 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Strip -q from
3342 arguments to record.
3343 * doc/autoconf.texi (config.status Invocation): Document
3344 config.status -q option.
3346 2002-11-07 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
3348 * bin/autoscan.in (scan_file): Scan Makefile.am too. Ignore
3349 Makefile.in if Makefile.am exists.
3350 (output): Strip `.am' from Makefiles. Don't
3351 output AC_CONFIG_FILES if no Makefiles were found.
3353 2002-11-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3355 * Makefile.am (cvs_files): Add elisp-comp, mdate-sh.
3356 (local_updates): New.
3357 * Makefile.maint: Update, from CVS Bison.
3358 (local_updates): New.
3360 2002-11-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3362 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY): Wrap the `f'
3363 declaration in extern "C" too.
3364 Reported by Roberto Bagnara.
3366 2002-11-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3368 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Don't use grep
3370 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Grep -w.
3371 Reported by Ezra Peisach.
3373 2002-11-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3375 * lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4 (_AH_TEMPLATE_OLD, _AH_VERBATIM_OLD):
3377 We _have_ to stop using the old compatibility scheme that tried to
3378 avoid useless backslashes because Libtool 1.4.3 contains a
3379 AC_DEFINE([error_t], [int],
3380 [Define to a type to use for \`error_t' if it is not
3381 otherwise available.])
3382 We _have_ to quote the single quote and backslashes with \. The
3383 old compatibility scheme saw that ` was backslashed, and therefore
3384 did not quote the single quote. Hence before this patch, Autoconf
3385 was not compatible with Libtool.
3387 2002-11-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3389 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Set the following variables,
3390 too: LC_ADDRESS, LC_IDENTIFICATION, LC_MEASUREMENT, LC_MONETARY,
3391 LC_NAME, LC_PAPER, LC_TELEPHONE.
3392 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Mention those vars.
3394 2002-11-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3398 * Makefile.maint (update, cvs-update, po-update, do-po-update):
3400 * config/texinfo.tex: Update.
3402 2002-11-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3404 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf_current_directory): New, extracted
3406 (&autoreconf): here.
3407 ($help, $make, &parse_args, &autoreconf_current_directory):
3409 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Adjust.
3411 2002-10-31 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
3413 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_MALLOC_IF): Change message.
3414 Change name of cache variable to ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull.
3415 (AC_FUNC_MALLOC): Change description of HAVE_MALLOC macro.
3416 (_AC_FUNC_REALLOC_IF): Change message. Change name of cache variable
3417 to ac_cv_func_realloc_0_nonnull.
3418 (AC_FUNC_REALLOC): Change description of HAVE_REALLOC macro.
3420 2002-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3422 The test suite was no longer checking for trailing envvars and files.
3424 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AC_STATE_SAVE): Don't use quadrigraphs here.
3425 (AT_CHECK_ENV): Make sure the `state-ls.before file exists.
3427 2002-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3429 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Use and display
3430 `$(MAKE)' instead of '${MAKE}' to emphasize that we refer to the
3431 Make variable, not a shell variable.
3432 Suggested by Bruno Haible.
3434 2002-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3436 * bin/autom4te.in (load_configuration): Reject #args out of any
3439 2002-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3441 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_MSG_LOG_CONFTEST): New.
3442 (_AC_PREPROC_IFELSE, _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, _AC_LINK_IFELSE)
3443 (_AC_RUN_IFELSE): Use it.
3444 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT):
3445 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Likewise.
3446 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_SOURCE): Don't include confdefs.h,
3449 2002-10-30 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3451 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args, $help): Support --no-cache.
3452 * doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te Invocation): Adjust.
3453 Suggested by Tim van Holder.
3455 2002-10-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3457 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): AC_FUNC_MALLOC and
3458 AC_FUNC_REALLOC check for compatibility with glibc, not POSIX.
3459 Problem reported by Bruno Haible.
3461 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3463 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Templates): Put also in words what the
3464 pictures says to assist free style readers.
3465 (Customizing autom4te): s/--cache=/--cache /.
3467 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3469 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_VFORK): Include stdlib.h and
3471 sparc_address_test returns void.
3472 Use it with an argument, as prototyped.
3475 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3477 * doc/autoconf.texi (Subdirectories): Cygnus dirs have
3478 configure.in, not configure.ac.
3479 Reported by Bruno Haible.
3481 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3483 * tests/torture.at (Deep Package): New test.
3484 (Configuring subdirectories): Don't use a testSubDir as Autotest
3487 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3489 * bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args, $help): Support --warnings.
3490 * doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te): Rename as...
3491 (autom4te Invocation): this, for consistency with the other nodes.
3493 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3495 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): s/automate/autom4te/.
3496 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
3498 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3500 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_QUOTE): The warning about quoted
3501 characters is a back as an `obsolete' warning now.
3502 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
3504 2002-10-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3506 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.54c.
3508 2002-10-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3512 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Adjust to broken libtoolize.
3514 2002-10-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3516 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE): Be robust to different
3517 m4 executable names, and different GNU M4 version.
3518 Reported by Ezra Peisach and Paul Jarc.
3520 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3522 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_VFORK): Really use
3525 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3527 * doc/autoconf.texi: More AC_MSG_FAILURE promotion.
3528 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING):
3529 Die when a simple Fortran program cannot be compiled.
3530 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_CALL, AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY):
3531 Issue a warning if no function is given.
3533 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3535 * doc/autoconf.texi (Run Time): Document AC_RUN_IFELSE.
3536 Move the documentation of AC_TRY_RUN to...
3537 (Obsolete Macros): here.
3538 Adjust all the old samples still using AC_TRY_RUN to AC_RUN_IFELSE.
3539 (autoconf Invocation): Remove the duplicates with `invoking
3541 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDC): Don't use AC_TRY_RUN.
3542 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
3544 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3546 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generating Sources): Document AC_LANG_CALL
3547 and AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY.
3548 (Examining Libraries): Rename as...
3549 (Running the Linker): this.
3550 Document AC_LINK_IFELSE.
3551 Move the documentation of AC_TRY_LINK and AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC to...
3552 (Obsolete Macros): here.
3553 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING): Don't use
3554 AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC nor AC_TRY_LINK.
3555 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (AC_CHECK_LIB, AC_PATH_XTRA): Likewise.
3556 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_USG): Likewise.
3558 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3560 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDC): Don't use AC_TRY_CPP.
3562 More `check config.log' messages.
3564 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_MSG_FAILURE): New.
3565 * doc/autoconf.texi (Printing Messages): Document it.
3566 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Use it when
3568 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT)
3569 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_WORKS, _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O)
3570 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT): Likewise.
3571 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_RUN_IFELSE): Likewise.
3572 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_F77_HOOKS):
3574 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CPP, AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXXCPP):
3577 Deprecate macros with unusual interfaces.
3579 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_TRY_CPP, AC_TRY_LINK)
3580 (AC_TRY_COMPILE, AC_TRY_RUN): AU_DEFUN'ed.
3582 Document the new ones, and proper style.
3584 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generating Sources): New.
3585 Document AC_LANG_CONFTEST, AC_LANG_SOURCE, AC_LANG_PROGRAM.
3586 (Examining Declarations): Rename as...
3587 (Running the Preprocessor): this.
3588 Document AC_PREPROC_IFELSE.
3589 (Examining Syntax): Rename as...
3590 (Running the Compiler): this.
3591 (AC_FOO_IFELSE vs AC_TRY_FOO): New section.
3592 (Obsolete Macros): Move the definition of AC_TRY_CPP and
3593 AC_TRY_COMPILE here.
3595 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3597 Move sections around.
3599 * doc/autoconf.texi (Customizing autom4te): Remove a lost
3601 Reported by Burno Haible.
3602 (Language Choice): Now the first section of...
3603 (Writing Tests): this section.
3604 Make the introduction less C-centric.
3605 (Guidelines, Test Functions): Move to...
3606 (Writing Test Programs): this new section.
3607 (Test Programs): Merge into...
3610 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3612 * lib/freeze.mk ($(AUTOM4TE_CFG)): Add a missing dependency on
3613 autom4te.in that resulted in the need for two `make' runs.
3615 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3617 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.54b.
3619 2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3623 * Makefile.maint: Update from the Coreutils.
3624 (AMTAR): Remove, obsolete.
3625 (automake_repo): Update to redhat.com.
3627 Adjust to the fact that ansi2knr is now hosted by Automake.
3628 * Makefile.am (cvs_files): Add install-sh and mkinstalldirs.
3629 * config/config.guess, config/mkinstalldirs, config/texinfo.tex:
3630 Update from masters.
3631 * lib/autoscan/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST, nodist_autoscanlib_DATA):
3632 autoscan.pre is not to be installed, and autoscan.list is not to
3634 (CLEANFILES): Add autoscan.list.
3635 (autoscan.list): Disable the cache.
3636 * bin/Makefile.am: Include freeze.mk.
3638 2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3640 * bin/autom4te.in (&load_configuration): Take the file as
3642 (&parse_args): Handle -C, --cache.
3644 (MAIN): Load ~/.autom4te.cfg and ./.autom4te.cfg.
3645 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): Pass --cache=autom4te.cache.
3646 * doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te): Document --cache.
3647 Now a subsection of...
3648 (Using autom4te): This new section.
3649 (Customizing autom4te): New.
3650 (autom4te.cache): Adjust.
3652 2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3654 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Headers): More information on how to
3655 use AC_CHECK_HEADERS.
3657 2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3659 * bin/autoconf.as, bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoupdate.in ($help):
3662 2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3664 * bin/autoscan.in (output): Output AC_PREREQ.
3665 (%needed_macros): Add AC_PREREQ so that configure.ac without one
3668 2002-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3670 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): In AC_HEADER_STDBOOL,
3673 2002-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3675 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_traces): Handle @&t@ in traces.
3676 Reported by Peter Eisentraut.
3678 2002-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3680 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDBOOL): Also look for the
3683 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Adjust according to Paul
3684 Eggert's recommandations.
3686 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3688 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDBOOL): New, based on CVS
3689 Bison, by Paul Eggert.
3690 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Document it.
3692 2002-10-22 Aaron M. Ucko <amu@alum.mit.edu>
3694 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Avoid duplicates in
3695 `$ac_configure_args'.
3697 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3699 * doc/autoconf.texi: Use AC_CONFIG_HEADERS in examples.
3700 (AC_ST_BLKSIZE, AC_ST_RDEV): Directly point to AC_CHECK_MEMBERS.
3703 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3705 Restore the 2002-10-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> patch:
3707 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL)
3708 (AC_CHECK_HEADER, _AC_CHECK_HEADER_NEW,_AC_CHECK_HEADER_OLD): Restore.
3709 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_NEW): Rename as...
3710 (AC_CHECK_HEADER): this.
3712 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3714 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Remove incorrect
3715 words about HP-UX cmp: it was actually a user-written cmp.
3717 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3719 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Don't check autoconf's stderr: there
3721 * lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4 (AH_VERBATIM, _AH_VERBATIM_OLD):
3722 Quote for Perl '' strings, not "".
3723 * bin/autoheader.in: Invoke autoconf to get '' strings, not ""
3726 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3728 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_QUOTE): The warning about quoted
3729 characters is a syntax warning now.
3730 (_AS_QUOTE): Accept $2 as list of characters to quote.
3731 * lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4 (AH_VERBATIM, _AH_VERBATIM_OLD):
3732 Quote for Perl, not sh.
3733 * bin/autoheader.in: When $debug, report the file which is
3735 * tests/tools.at (autom4te, autoheader): Exercise @bar, not merely
3736 `@', to tickle Perl's lists.
3737 Reported by Carlos Velasco.
3739 2002-10-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3741 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_m4): Pass --fatal-warning to m4, so that
3742 missing included files _are_ errors.
3743 Thanks to Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
3744 * tests/tools.at (autom4te cache): Adjust.
3745 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE): New.
3746 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR): Use it.
3747 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4_warn, m4_require: circular dependencies):
3749 * tests/tools.at (autom4te): Now it does exit 1.
3751 2002-10-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3753 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CACHE_SAVE): Don't use cmp.
3754 Fixes the `AC_ARG_VAR' test failures.
3755 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Don't use cmp.
3756 * lib/freeze.mk (check-forbidden-patterns): New.
3757 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am, lib/autotest/Makefile.am
3758 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am (check-local): Use it to catch `cmp'.
3759 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): HP-UX' cmp and
3761 Reported months ago by H. Merijn Brand.
3763 2002-10-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3765 * tests/tools.at (autoheader): Put randoms `@' to stress Perl.
3767 2002-10-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3769 * Makefile.maint (wget_files): Remove ansi2knr.c.
3770 (ansi2knr.c-url_prefix): Remove.
3772 2002-10-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3774 Because of caching, some files that no longer exist and are no
3775 longer required can still cause errors.
3776 Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
3778 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Do not prepend `--reload-state'
3779 to frozen files in @ARGV, as @ARGV must remain being a list of
3780 files. Rather, at M4 call sites, use this...
3781 (&files_to_options): New function.
3782 (&freeze): Use &error.
3783 (&up_to_date): If a file that was included according to the cache
3784 is no longer there, then the output is out dated.
3785 (&main): Don't even check whether a file is up to date is anyway
3787 * tests/tools.at (autom4te cache): New.
3789 2002-10-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3791 * bin/autoconf.as: Kill dead options.
3792 * bin/autoupdate.in (&parse_args): Kill old options.
3793 * bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args): Remove dead options.
3795 (&autoreconf): Report the directories we enter *and leave*, so
3796 that error messages can be easily located, and use GNU Make
3797 format, so that Emacs' compile mode understands us.
3798 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&update_file): Use `verbose' to report
3799 if some file was changed instead of `print'.
3800 * bin/autoheader.in: Suggest AC_DEFINE with 3 args when needed.
3801 (&parse_args): Remove the dead options.
3802 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER): Adjust to the new
3803 autoheader's quiet mode.
3804 (AT_CHECK_AUTOUPDATE): Likewise.
3805 * tests/tools.at (autoupdate): Adjust.
3806 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
3808 2002-10-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3810 No longer use CPP to check for the existing of headers: use CC to
3811 check for compilability.
3813 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL)
3814 (AC_CHECK_HEADER, _AC_CHECK_HEADER_OLD): Remove.
3815 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_NEW): Rename as...
3816 (AC_CHECK_HEADER): this.
3818 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Include the failed test
3819 numbers in the Subject suggestion.
3821 2002-10-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3823 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_DECL_SYS_SIGLIST): Obsolete.
3824 Suggest using AC_CHECK_DECLS instead.
3826 2002-10-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3828 * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): Have configure report the value
3831 2002-10-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3833 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_SEPARATOR_PREPARE): Use $$ in the
3834 file name to enable parallel executions.
3835 From Sam Varshavchik.
3837 2002-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3839 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Run autopoint before the first
3840 aclocal invocation, as Gettext macros might not be visible to
3842 Instead of blindly running autopoint, scan configure.ac (not the
3843 traces) for AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION uses, as autopoint does.
3844 Reported by Paul D. Smith.
3846 2002-10-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3848 Work around problems found when POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 is set.
3849 None of this seems to have anything to do with POSIX, really,
3850 but it's how Perl getopt works.
3851 * bin/autom4te.in (parse_args): Configure GetOpt with
3853 * doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te):
3854 --warning -> --warnings.
3855 * lib/autom4te.in: --warning -> --warnings.
3857 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3859 * doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te.cache): New section.
3861 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3863 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoscan-preselections, Autoreconf-preselections)
3864 (Automake-preselections): Update.
3865 * bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoheader.in: Comment changes.
3867 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3869 * lib/autoscan/autoscan.pre: Move all the remaining rules to...
3870 * lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/functions.m4,
3871 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4,
3872 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4, lib/autoconf/types.m4: here.
3874 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3876 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Be robust to
3877 users who use config.site to require for a cache: in this case,
3878 the two last configure runs, using two different sets of
3879 arguments, trigger a legitimate error.
3881 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3883 * tests/m4sh.at (Functions Support, Functions and return Support):
3886 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3888 * bin/Makefile.am (ETAGS_SH, ETAGS_PERL): Update: ifnames and
3889 autoheader are Perl programs.
3890 (autoconf, autoheader, autoreconf, autoupdate, ifnames, autoscan)
3891 (autom4te): Specify that the sources are in the $srcdir.
3892 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Adjust.
3894 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3896 * lib/autoscan/autoscan.pre (st_blksize, st_blocks, st_rdev)
3897 (tm_zone): Move their rules to...
3898 * lib/autoconf/types.m4: here, using AN_ macros.
3899 * lib/autoscan/autoscan.pre (AWK, BISON, INSTALL, LEX, LN, MAKE)
3900 (RANLIB, YACC, awk, bison, byacc, flex, gawk, install, lex, ln)
3901 (make, mawk, nawk, ranlib, yacc): Similarly, move to...
3902 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4: here.
3903 * lib/freeze.mk (ETAGS_FOR_M4, ETAGS_FOR_M4SUGAR)
3904 (ETAGS_FOR_AUTOCONF): New.
3907 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3909 * lib/autoconf/autoscan.m4: New file.
3910 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4: Include it.
3911 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4: Use AN_FUNCTION for all the functions
3912 that were listed in the original autoscan.list.
3913 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4: Similarly with headers.
3914 * lib/freeze.mk (autoconf_m4f_dependencies): Add autoscan.m4.
3915 (.m4.m4f): Don't pass --prepend-include, since that's done by
3916 tests/autom4te itself.
3917 * lib/autoscan/Makefile.am: Include freeze.mk.
3918 (autoscan.list): New target --this file is no longer a source.
3919 (autoscan.pre): New file.
3921 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3923 * bin/autoscan.in (@kinds): Make them singular.
3925 (&init_tables): When --debug, report the list of rules to ease
3926 tracking changes in autoscan.list.
3927 * lib/autoscan/autoscan.list (function): Strip comments, sort.
3929 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3931 * lib/autoscan/functions, lib/autoscan/headers,
3932 * lib/autoscan/identifiers, lib/autoscan/makevars,
3933 * lib/autoscan/programs: Merge into...
3934 * lib/autoscan/autoscan.list: this.
3935 * bin/autoscan.in (&init_tables): Adjust.
3937 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3939 * lib/autoscan/functions, lib/autoscan/headers,
3940 * lib/autoscan/identifiers, lib/autoscan/makevars,
3941 * lib/autoscan/programs: Make the `kind' explicit, i.e., each
3942 `functions' line is now prefixed with `function:'.
3943 * bin/autoscan.in (&init_tables): Adjust.
3945 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3947 From now on, autoscan files must always map a macro name to a
3948 word: there is no `default' macro for autoscan.
3950 * bin/autoscan.in (&init_tables): Reject entries with no macro at
3952 * lib/autoscan/functions, lib/autoscan/headers: Make the macro
3955 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3957 * bin/autoscan.in (%c_keywords): Remove.
3958 (&used): Keep only track of the words we might be interested in.
3959 (&output_kind): It is no longer needed to look for non active
3962 2002-09-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3964 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC): New, stolen from
3965 jm_FUNC_MBRTOWC, by Paul Eggert, from the Coreutils 4.5.1.
3966 * lib/autoscan/functions: Adjust.
3967 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Adjust.
3969 2002-09-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3971 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Some about mv
3973 Thanks to Bill Moseley and Paul Eggert.
3974 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): $2 is the directory into which
3975 the tmpdir must be created.
3976 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Have the tmp
3977 dir be in the build tree, instead of $TMPDIR.
3979 2002-09-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3981 * bin/autoscan.in: Improve the comments.
3982 (&parse_args): Drop obsolete undocumented options.
3983 (&output_kind): Output warnings.
3984 * lib/autoscan/functions: (dcgettext): Now trigger AM_GNU_GETTEXT.
3985 (getwd): Trigger a warning.
3987 2002-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3989 * bin/autoreconf.in: Clarify that -s is meaningless without -i.
3990 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
3991 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Likewise.
3993 2002-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3995 Single suffix rules and seperated dependencies are not portable.
3997 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Update.
3998 (Limitations of Make): Some about `Single Suffix Rules and
3999 Separated Dependencies'.
4000 * bin/Makefile.am (autoconf, autoheader, autoreconf, autoupdate)
4001 (ifnames, autoscan, autom4te): Un-factor into several rules.
4003 2002-09-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4005 * BUGS (Interoperability bugs): New section. Mention libtool
4006 1.4.2, configure.ac, and AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR interoperability bug.
4008 2002-09-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4010 Fix a portability bug reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz: Solaris 8
4011 make handles suffix-rules differently from GNU make.
4013 * bin/Makefile.am (SUFFIXES, .in): Remove.
4014 (autoconf autoheader autoreconf autoupdate ifnames autoscan autom4te):
4015 Move the body of the old .in rule here.
4017 2002-09-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4019 i960 compilers create `b.out' files by default.
4020 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
4022 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT): Remove b.out files.
4023 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Adjust to b.out.
4025 2002-09-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4027 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Remove obsolete
4028 reference to `struct timezone' in the description of
4031 2002-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4035 * config/config.sub, config/config.guess: Update.
4036 * Makefile.maint: Update from bits of the Coreutils 4.5.1.
4037 * Makefile.am: Adjust.
4039 2002-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4041 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Suggest
4042 reading config.log when the compiler is rejected.
4043 Suggested by Guido Draheim.
4045 2002-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4047 * bin/autoreconf.in: Don't use Cwd::chdir, since in its internals
4048 (chdir_init) might hang when stat'ing mounted directories.
4049 Reported by Vance Shipley.
4051 2002-09-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4053 * bin/autoscan.in (&parse_args): Pass a reference to the lists, not
4056 2002-09-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4058 * doc/autoconf.texi (Defining Symbols): Present two different
4059 prototypes for AC_DEFINE and AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED to emphasize the
4060 difference between 1 argument calls, and 2-3 argument calls.
4062 2002-09-12 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
4064 * doc/autoconf.texi: Review grammar and punctuation.
4066 2002-09-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4068 * doc/autoconf.texi: Fix minor formatting, spelling, and
4070 (Defining Symbols): Explain that AC_DEFINE(var) defaults to 1, but
4071 AC_DEFINE(var,,description) does not; and the AC_DEFINE(var) case
4074 2002-09-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4076 * doc/autoconf.texi (Questions): Rename as...
4078 (Defining Directories): New.
4080 2002-09-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4082 * doc/autoconf.texi (Making testsuite Scripts): Update.
4083 Suggested by Nishio Futoshi.
4085 2002-09-09 Koji Arai <JCA02266@nifty.ne.jp>
4087 * doc/autoconf.texi (Making testsuite Scripts): Use `@@' where a
4088 plain `@' is wanted.
4090 2002-09-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4092 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Keep the
4093 `duplicates', since the algorithm was too naive and could keep
4094 `--prefix=1 --prefix=2 --prefix=1' as `--prefix=1 --prefix=2', and
4095 keep `--prefix foo --prefix bar' as `--prefix foo bar'.
4096 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
4097 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Exercise these
4100 2002-09-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4102 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG): Use $srcdir when
4103 looking for a replacement file.
4104 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CHECK_DECLS): Check that the
4105 directory is relative.
4106 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Functions): Clarify the replacement
4107 directory definition.
4108 Reported by Andreas Schwab and Jim Meyering.
4110 2002-09-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4112 * doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Clarify what
4113 precious variables are.
4114 Suggested by Pontus Skoeld.
4116 2002-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4118 * bin/Makefile.am (autoconf, autoheader, autoreconf, autoupdate)
4119 (ifnames, autoscan, autom4te): Since we don't only depend on
4120 configure.ac variables (such as VERSION etc.), but also on prefix
4121 and so forth, depend on Makefile, not configure.ac.
4122 Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
4123 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Adjust.
4125 2002-09-05 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
4127 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): HP-UX trailing backslashes
4128 doesn't seem to be confined to ia64, just say "some versions".
4130 2002-09-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4132 * Makefile.am, doc/Makefile.am: Remove pdf targets, handled by
4134 * Makefile.am (maintainer-clean-local): Remove.
4135 (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Remove COPYING.
4137 2002-09-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4139 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Commands): Remove obsolete
4140 example for AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE. Problem reported by Marcus
4143 2002-09-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4145 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.53d.
4146 * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Require 1.6c, i.e., CVS Automake
4147 as of today, on Automake's team suggestion.
4149 2002-09-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4153 2002-09-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4155 * bin/autom4te.in (parse_args): Don't honor AUTOM4TE_PATH and
4157 * configure.ac: Disable SITE_MACRO_DIR.
4159 2002-09-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@lucent.com>
4161 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_SYS_POSIX_TERMIOS): Reflect renaming: s/am/ac/,
4162 i.e., change am_cv_sys_posix_termios to ac_cv_sys_posix_termios.
4163 Also, tweak grammar: s/make sure to/be sure to/.
4165 2002-09-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4167 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Explain why logical
4168 directory names are generally preferable to physical names.
4170 2002-09-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4172 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&update_file): s/die/error/.
4173 Reported by Raja R. Harinath.
4174 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoscan.in,
4175 * bin/autoupdate.in: Use error instead of die.
4177 2002-09-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4179 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_egrep, au_exclude_egrep): Use
4180 ordinary shell concatenation rather than echo+tr+sed command that
4181 runs afoul of a long-line-related sed bug in Solaris 8.
4183 * bin/autoheader.in (parse_args): --warning -> --warnings.
4185 * bin/autoconf.as: Work even if "ls" outputs "FOO not found" to
4186 stdout, as traditional "ls" does.
4187 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT,
4188 _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O): Likewise.
4189 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Add "ls".
4191 * bin/autoconf.as: Add --prepend-include option. This patch was
4192 applied to bin/autoconf.in in the 2002-07-17 patch by Mark D. Roth,
4193 but bin/autoconf.in is generated automatically from bin/autoconf.as.
4195 * bin/autoconf.in, configure: Regenerate.
4197 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Mention
4198 ENV, MAIL, MAILPATH, PS1, PS2, PS4. Index PWD.
4200 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Unset ENV, MAIL,
4201 MAILPATH and set PS1, PS2, PS4 to default values, to work
4202 around bug in pre-3.0 UWIN ksh reported by Bruce Lilly.
4203 For LC_ALL etc, first try to set to "C" as POSIX requires and as
4204 the Autoconf documentation specifies; fall back to "unset" only if
4205 this fails. Use a shell for-loop for this rather than an m4 loop,
4206 to shorten the output script.
4208 2002-08-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4210 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Mention POSIX
4211 1003.1-2001's requirements for CDPATH. Give a simpler workaround
4212 for the CDPATH problem. Document PWD.
4213 (Limitations of Builtins): Document the problem that "cd $foo" and
4214 "ls $foo" may refer to different directories in shells conforming
4215 to POSIX 1003.1-2001. Use PS1 rather than CDPATH for "unset"
4216 example, since the old example is now out of date.
4218 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Reject FOO if "cd
4219 FOO" and "ls FOO" talk about different directories; this catches
4220 problems when POSIX 1003.1-2001 "cd" fails due to symlink
4223 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Use AS_UNSET instead
4224 of rolling our own unset.
4225 (_AS_PREPARE): $as_unset CDPATH instead of AS_UNSETting it, since
4226 in practice we needn't worry about CDPATH if unset doesn't work.
4228 * Makefile.in, aclocal.m4, bin/Makefile.in,
4229 config/Makefile.in, doc/Makefile.in, lib/Makefile.in,
4230 lib/Autom4te/Makefile.in, lib/autoconf/Makefile.in,
4231 lib/autoscan/Makefile.in, lib/autotest/Makefile.in,
4232 lib/emacs/Makefile.in, lib/m4sugar/Makefile.in, man/Makefile.in,
4233 tests/Makefile.in: Regenerate with Automake 1.6.3.
4235 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/mkinstalldirs:
4238 * configure: Regenerate with self.
4240 2002-08-30 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
4242 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Notes on "cc"
4245 2002-08-29 Rainer Orth <ro@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
4247 * bin/autom4te.in (Request::load): Correctly test for "do" read
4250 2002-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4252 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&xqx): New.
4253 (&xsystem): Use WIFEXITED and WEXITSTATUS instead of decoding $? by
4254 hand, which is not portable.
4256 * bin/autom4te.in: Use them.
4257 Use &error instead of die.
4258 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4_warn, m4_require: circular dependencies):
4261 2002-08-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4263 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_PROG_F77): Remove fc from the
4264 default list of compilers to try, since it was long ago superseded
4265 by the ksh fc builtin. Suggested by Steven G. Johnson.
4267 2002-07-31 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
4269 * doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te): End the option table,
4270 fixing a bug introduced by the previous patch.
4271 (Limitations of Make): Add a 'target lookup' subentry in the
4272 'VPATH' entry. Rewrite all `make' occurences as `@command{make}'.
4274 2002-07-29 Mark D. Roth <roth@feep.net>
4276 * bin/autom4te.in: Remove --include-envvar and --site-macro-subdir
4277 options and use $AUTOM4TE_PATH.
4278 * doc/autoconf.texi: Remove documentation of autom4te
4279 --include-envvar and --site-macro-subdir options and document
4280 use of $AUTOM4TE_PATH.
4281 * lib/autom4te.in: Remove --include-envvar and --site-macro-subdir
4282 arguments from each language section.
4284 2002-07-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4286 * doc/install.texi: Include copyright symbol in copyright notice.
4288 * Makefile.am (MAKEINFO): Remove; it's a user-specified macro.
4290 (AM_MAKEINFOFLAGS): New macro.
4291 * doc/Makefile.am (MAKEINFO, AM_MAKEINFOFLAGS): Likewise.
4292 * Makefile.am (INSTALL): Use the new macros.
4293 Use -o rather than --output, since "missing" does not grok --output.
4295 2002-07-25 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
4297 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Escaped newlines in
4298 comments do not always work. Never trust the exit status of
4301 2002-07-24 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
4303 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make, Making testsuite Scripts):
4304 Untabify, since tabs are not enjoyed by texi2dvi and makeinfo.
4306 2002-07-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4308 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_SEPARATOR_PREPARE):
4309 Use PATH="/nonexistent;.", not PATH=".;.", as FreeBSD ksh2002
4310 apparently treats PATH="nonexistent" as if it contained ".".
4311 Bug reported by Stefan `Sec' Zehl.
4313 2002-07-22 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
4315 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Mention the special
4316 handling of the obj/ directory by BSD make.
4318 2002-07-20 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
4320 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Add HP-UX IA-64 trailing
4323 2002-07-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4325 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): `exit'.
4326 (Programming in M4sh): Ethymology of M4sh.
4328 2002-07-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4330 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_LIBOBJ vs LIBOBJS): More about $U.
4332 2002-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4336 2002-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4338 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub: Update.
4340 2002-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4342 Handle LIBOBJS and LTLIBOBJS once for all, including Libtool's and
4345 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJS_NORMALIZE): New.
4346 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_PRE): Call it.
4347 * tests/semantics.at (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Adjust.
4349 2002-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>,
4350 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
4352 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): Install
4353 _AC_AM_CONFIG_HEADER_HOOK for Automake 1.7.
4355 2002-07-17 Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
4357 * doc/autoconf.texi (Initializing configure): Clarify the
4358 description of the tarname default.
4360 2002-07-17 Andreas Buening <andreas.buening@nexgo.de>
4362 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_FORK): Don't set
4363 ac_cv_func_fork_works before running _AC_FUNC_FORK, do it if the
4366 2002-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4368 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (find_file): Browse the directories in
4369 the order they are given.
4371 2002-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4373 * tests/wrapsh.as, tests/wrappl.as: Merge into...
4374 * tests/wrapper.as: this.
4375 * tests/Makefile.am, configure.ac: Adjust.
4377 2002-07-17 Mark D. Roth <roth@feep.net>
4379 * configure.ac: Add --enable-site-macro-dir option.
4380 * bin/Makefile.am: Expand @SITE_MACRO_DIR@.
4381 * bin/autom4te.in: Add --prepend-include, --include-envvar, and
4382 --site-macro-subdir options.
4383 * bin/autoconf.in: Add --prepend-include option.
4384 * bin/autoheader.in: Add --prepend-include option.
4385 * bin/autoreconf.in: Add --prepend-include option.
4386 * bin/autoscan.in: Add --prepend-include option.
4387 * bin/autoupdate.in: Add --prepend-include option.
4388 * doc/autoconf.texi: Document use of $AC_MACRO_PATH and site
4389 macro directory, remove note that include path directories are
4390 used in reverse order, and document --prepend-include option.
4391 * lib/autom4te.in: Use --prepend-include instead of --include.
4392 * tests/wrapsh.in: Use --prepend-include instead of --include.
4394 2002-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4396 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): `_' is allowed in
4398 * doc/autoconf.texi (Initializing configure): Adjust.
4400 2002-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4402 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_REALLOC, _AC_FUNC_REALLOC)
4403 (_AC_FUNC_MALLOC): New.
4404 (AC_FUNC_MALLOC): Use the latter.
4405 Define HAVE_MALLOC to 0 if broken.
4406 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Adjust.
4408 2002-07-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4410 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BACKSLASH_A): New.
4411 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Adjust.
4413 2002-07-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4415 * doc/autoconf.texi: Properly set the ``header'' part.
4417 2002-07-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4419 * doc/autoconf.texi (Systemology): Some about Darwin.
4421 2002-07-09 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
4423 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_CYGWIN, AC_EMXOS2, AC_MINGW32):
4424 Don't use AC_REQUIRE in AU_DEFUN.
4426 2002-07-09 Art Haas <ahaas@neosoft.com>
4428 * doc/autoconf.texi: Use @enddots{} or @dots{} where appropriate.
4430 2002-07-02 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
4432 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
4433 bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in, lib/Autom4te/General.pm,
4434 lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm, lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Add local variables
4435 so that Emacs setups GNU style for perl-mode and cperl-mode.
4437 2002-06-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4439 * config/install-sh: Quote $src. Prefer || to test's -o option,
4440 as per "Limitations of Builtins".
4441 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_ENV): Likewise, for && vs test -a.
4442 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
4444 * tests/mktests.sh: Use grep instead of fgrep, as per
4445 "Limitations of Builtins".
4447 2002-06-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4449 * tests/wrapsh.as (AUTOCONF, AUTOHEADER, AUTOM4TE, AUTOM4TE_CFG,
4450 autom4te_perllibdir): Set to top build dir or src dir as appropriate,
4451 so that we consistently test the just-built programs.
4452 * tests/wrappl.as: Likewise.
4454 2002-06-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4456 * bin/autoconf.as (AUTOM4TE): Default to a fully qualified path
4457 name, so that symlinks to 'autoconf' work properly. Bug reported
4459 * bin/autoheader.in (AUTOM4TE): Likewise.
4460 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoconf, autoheader): Likewise.
4461 * bin/autoscan.in (autom4te): Likewise.
4462 * bin/autoupdate.in (autom4te): Likewise.
4464 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ_FNMATCH): Also check for
4465 btowc, to fix a portability bug with diffutils-2.8.2/lib/fnmatch.c
4468 2002-06-11 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
4470 * doc/autoconf.texi: Add more dir entries.
4472 2002-06-10 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
4474 * bin/autom4te.in ($cache): Don't define using `$me', the name
4475 of the cache should not depend on the name under which autom4te
4478 2002-06-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4480 * tests/tools.at (autoconf: forbidden tokens, basic)
4481 (autoconf: forbidden tokens, exceptions): Adjust to the change of
4482 words in autom4te.in.
4484 2002-06-07 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
4486 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C)): Use
4487 _AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_F77_HOOKS.
4489 2002-06-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4491 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNC_FNMATCH): Typo,
4493 (AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH): this.
4494 * tests/mktests.sh (exclude_list): Exclude AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH,
4495 AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU.
4497 2002-06-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4499 * doc/autoconf.texi (Systemology): Point to Tru64 docs, and the
4500 Rosetta Stone for Unix.
4502 2002-06-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4504 * bin/autom4te.in (warn_forbidden): When rejecting a token,
4505 suggest m4_pattern_allow.
4506 Suggested by Adam J. Richter.
4508 2002-06-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4510 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Initialize
4511 ac_config_libobj_dir.
4512 (AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR): New.
4513 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_FNMATCH): Split into...
4514 (_AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_IF, _AC_LIBOBJ_FNMATCH): these.
4515 Use ac_config_libobj_dir to find the replacement files.
4516 (AC_FUNC_FNMATCH, AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU): Split into...
4517 (AC_FUNC_FNMATCH, AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU, AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH)
4518 (AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH_GNU): these.
4519 (AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG): Use ac_config_libobj_dir.
4520 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions, Generic Functions): Adjust.
4521 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Don't check
4522 AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG as it requires getloadavg.c which is not shipped.
4524 2002-06-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4526 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_LINKS): Fall back on cp
4529 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Links): Likewise.
4530 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Prefer $(LN_S) to ln -s || ln.
4532 2002-06-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4534 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/texinfo.tex:
4535 Update from masters.
4537 2002-05-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4539 * bin/autom4te.in ($m4): Do not assume that egrep and fgrep exist.
4540 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
4541 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_RUN_LOG_STDERR, AC_EGREP_CPP):
4543 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am (check-local): Likewise.
4544 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_CONFIG_HEADER): Likewise.
4545 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (commentary only): Likewise.
4546 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT, AT_CHECK): Likewise.
4547 * lib/autotest/Makefile.am (check-local): Likewise.
4548 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am (check-local): Likewise.
4549 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CONFIGURE_AC, AT_CHECK_DEFINES): Likewise.
4550 * tests/mktests.sh (egrep): New var; use it instead of plain egrep.
4552 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_EGREP, AC_PROG_FGREP): New macros.
4553 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): Document them.
4554 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Warn that egrep and fgrep may not exist.
4557 2002-05-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4559 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_TYPE_MBSTATE_T): New macro.
4560 * NEWS, doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Types): Document it.
4561 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_FNMATCH): Require it
4562 instead of AC_MBSTATE_T, which never existed.
4564 2002-05-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4566 * doc/autoconf.texi (Hosts and Cross-Compilation): Specify the
4567 version of Autoconf that is discussed.
4569 2002-05-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4571 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_PROG_F77): Remove cf77 and cft77
4572 from the default list of compilers to try. Suggested by
4574 * NEWS: Document the above.
4575 * doc/autoconf.texi (Fortran 77 Compiler): Don't suggest cf77.
4577 2002-05-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4579 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_MEMBER): Work correctly even if
4580 the member is itself an aggregate. Bug reported by Sergey Poznyakoff.
4581 This improves on an earlier suggestion by H. Peter Anvin.
4583 2002-05-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4585 AC_FUNC_FNMATCH now tests only for POSIX compatibility.
4586 AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU also tests for GNU extensions.
4587 Both macros now accept an optional source-dir arg.
4588 New macro AC_GNU_SOURCE to define _GNU_SOURCE.
4590 * NEWS: Document this.
4591 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions, UNIX Variants): Likewise.
4593 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_FNMATCH): New macro.
4594 (AC_FUNC_FNMATCH): Use it. Test only for POSIX conformance,
4595 not for GNU extensions; this undoes part of the 2000-11-03 change,
4596 reverting to 2.13-compatible behavior.
4597 Add new optional argument DIR.
4598 (AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU): New macro.
4600 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_GNU_SOURCE): New macro.
4602 2002-05-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4604 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_TIOCGWINSZ):
4605 Don't require AC_SYS_POSIX_TERMIOS. The test is unnecessary,
4606 and it causes a 'test' syntax error if it fails.
4607 Bug reported by Stephen Gildea.
4609 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED):
4610 If prototypes are supported, use them to check this at compile-time,
4611 instead of trying to check it at run-time. If we must do a run-time
4612 check, assume that setvbuf is standard when cross-compiling, as
4613 nonstandard setvbuf occurs only on ancient and unlikely hosts.
4614 Bug reported by Paul D. Smith.
4616 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG): Add optional
4617 argument specifying location of getloadavg.c. This removes a
4618 FIXME. This idea was taken from Jim Meyering's implementation in
4620 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Document this.
4621 Also, mention HAVE_NLIST_H rather than NLIST_STRUCT, since
4622 that's what the code does; this fixes a bug reported by
4625 2002-05-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4627 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Rewrite to use Gettext's
4628 autopoint instead of gettextize.
4629 ($uses_alocal): Rename as...
4630 ($uses_aclocal): this.
4631 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Adjust.
4632 Suggested by Bruno Haible.
4634 2002-05-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4636 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_map_sep): New.
4638 2002-04-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4640 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Don't age aclocal.m4's input
4641 files to be 1 second older; just set them to be the same time.
4642 Also, sleep 1 second after the first aclocal, to work around
4643 problems with sub-second time stamps on the input files.
4645 2002-04-29 Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnu.org>
4647 * doc/autoconf.texi: Mention "set -e -x" lossage
4648 under node "Limitations of Builtins".
4650 2002-04-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4652 * doc/install.texi: Better wording for setting variables when
4654 From Christian Cornelssen.
4656 2002-04-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4658 * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): If testsuite itself is rewritten because
4659 of lack of $LINENO support, then the test will compare the $LINENO
4660 in testsuite vs. the lineno in the test file. This is wrong, of
4662 Be sure to protect it.
4663 Reported by Patrick Welche.
4665 2002-04-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4667 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsolete Macros): Typo.
4668 Reported by Vladimir Volovich.
4670 2002-04-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4672 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Don't let aclocal.m4 be older
4673 than some of the input files, hence, on the second run of aclocal,
4674 if some of its input are younger, make them older.
4675 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
4677 2002-04-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4679 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): sed and `!'.
4680 Thanks to Paul Eggert.
4682 2002-04-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4684 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Let ac_subst_files
4685 and ac_subst_vars be sh variables containing the list of
4686 AC_SUBST_FILES'ed and AC_SUBST'ed identifiers. Output them in the
4688 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Use them to log them.
4689 (_AC_SUBST, _AC_SUBST_SED_PROGRAM): Remove.
4690 (AC_SUBST, AC_SUBST_FILE): Instead of buliding the
4691 _AC_SUBST_SED_PROGRAM, store the list of output files/variables in
4692 _AC_SUBST_FILES and _AC_SUBST_VARS.
4693 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Adjust.
4695 2002-04-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4697 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Run automake after autoconf and
4698 autoheader, so that automake does not complain about a missing
4699 config.h.in that was to be created.
4701 2002-04-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4703 * bin/autoheader.in (parse_args): --warning takes an argument.
4706 2002-04-22 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
4708 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_RUN_IFELSE): Remove gmon.out
4709 and bb.out when cleaning up.
4711 2002-04-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4715 2002-04-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4717 * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): Fix the Zsh skip pattern.
4719 2002-04-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4721 * doc/autoconf.texi (Pretty Help Strings): Remove a spurious
4723 Reported by Gregory Giannoni.
4725 2002-04-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4727 * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): Skip the test if LINENO cannot be unset.
4728 Fixes false failures on Darwin.
4730 2002-04-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4732 * TODO, bin/autoupdate.in, doc/autoconf.texi,
4733 lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4,
4734 lib/autoconf/status.m4, lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4, tests/m4sh.at,
4735 tests/tools.at: Minor spelling and grammar fixes.
4737 2002-04-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4739 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Fix typos in yesterday's
4740 ZSH_VERSION fixes. Bug reported by Raja R Harinath.
4741 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
4742 * tests/atgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
4744 2002-04-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4746 * NEWS, TODO, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoupdate.in,
4747 doc/autoconf.texi, lib/freeze.mk, lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm,
4748 lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4, lib/autoconf/c.m4,
4749 lib/autoconf/functions.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
4750 lib/autoconf/lang.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4, lib/autoscan/identifiers,
4751 lib/autotest/general.m4, lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4, tests/atgeneral.m4,
4752 tests/atspecific.m4, tests/semantics.at, tests/torture.at:
4753 Minor spelling and grammar fixes.
4755 * doc/autoconf.texi: Follow the outline suggested in the GNU
4756 Sample Texts sections of the Texinfo 4.2 manual. Most
4757 importantly, this makes sure that the copyright notices appear in
4758 all output formats. You probably need Texinfo 4.2 to generate
4761 Fix some bugs when using "$@" when there might be zero positional
4762 arguments in cases where this matters.
4764 * bin/autoconf.as: Rewrite so that the problem does not come up.
4765 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_CHECK_PROG): Likewise.
4766 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_OUTPUT): Likewise.
4767 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
4769 * bin/autoheader.in: Use 'case' statement to work around problem.
4770 * bin/auto4mte.in: Likewise.
4771 * bin/autoreconf.in: Likewise.
4772 * bin/autoscan.in: Likewise.
4773 * bin/autoupdate.in: Likewise.
4774 * bin/ifnames.in: Likewise.
4776 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Document the problem.
4778 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT):
4779 Use Zsh alias to work around problem.
4780 * tests/atgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
4782 * tests/c.at: We can't have zero arguments, so remove workaround
4783 that is not portable to Zsh.
4785 2002-04-19 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
4787 * bin/autoupdate.in (handle_autoconf_macros): Honor AU_DEFUNs
4788 from aclocal.m4 too.
4790 2002-04-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4792 * tests/wrappl.as: New, M4sh precursor of wrappl.in.
4794 2002-04-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4796 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Install the Zsh
4797 workaround for ${1+"$@"}.
4798 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Explain it.
4799 From Oliver Kiddle and Peter Stephenson.
4801 Have M4sh perform minimal shell sanitizing.
4803 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.at (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Split the `_AS_PREPARE_*'
4805 (_AS_PREPARE): this new macro.
4807 (AS_INIT): Invoke AS_SHELL_SANITIZE.
4808 * tests/m4sh.at (AT_DATA_LINENO): Use _AS_PREPARE.
4810 Adjust Autoconf and Autotest.
4812 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Don't invoke
4813 AS_SHELL_SANITIZE, AS_INIT did it, but invoke AS_PREPARE.
4814 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
4815 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS):
4816 Invoke _AS_PREPARE (not AS_PREPARE) in addition to
4819 Use this M4sh to generate Autoconf's shell scripts.
4821 * tests/wrapsh.as: New, precursor of wrapsh.in.
4822 * tests/Makefile.am: Include lib/freeze.mk to get the dependencies
4823 on Autotest and M4sh.
4824 ($(TESTSUITE)): Use $(autotest_m4f_dependencies).
4825 (wrapsh.in): New target.
4826 * bin/autoconf.as: New, precursor of autoconf.in.
4827 (autoconf.in): New target.
4829 2002-04-09 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
4831 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Mention the issue
4832 with indented comments in rules.
4834 2002-04-09 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
4836 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Handle empty
4837 ac_top_builddir when setting ac_abs_top_builddir.
4839 2002-04-06 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
4841 * doc/autoconf.texi (Systemology): Add link to Unix V7 online docs.
4842 (Portable Shell): Cross reference to Systemology.
4844 2002-04-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4846 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Be sure to accumulate the
4847 directories when descending in a SUBDIRS.
4848 Reported by Ezra Peisach.
4850 2002-04-04 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
4852 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_WALK): Only simplify if path
4853 contains no literal separators.
4855 2002-04-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4857 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_CONFIG_FILE, _AC_CONFIG_HEADER)
4858 (_AC_CONFIG_COMMAND, _AC_CONFIG_LINK): New.
4859 Use dnl, not the KILL diversion.
4861 (AC_CONFIG_FILES, AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS)
4862 (AC_CONFIG_LINKS): here.
4864 Don't use the KILL diversion, as it kills spurious output, which
4865 results in failures being hidden.
4866 Use m4_defn where appropriate.
4867 (AC_CONFIG_IF_MEMBER): Kill the real bug: a spurious parenthesis
4868 after the second argument.
4870 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf, Autotest, M4sh): Don't pass --warning
4871 syntax, as it is provided by M4sugar.
4872 * tests/torture.at (Multiple AC_CONFIG_FILES): New.
4874 2002-04-03 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
4876 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_bmatch): Make sure m4_bregexp is not
4877 expanded if $# <= 2.
4879 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Run automake after rerunning
4882 2002-04-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4884 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT_REJECT)
4885 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_REJECT): New.
4886 Also recognize *.bb and *.bbg as compilation byproducts.
4887 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT, _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O)
4888 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT): Use them.
4889 Fixes Debian #138666.
4891 2002-04-02 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
4893 Integrate AC_PROG_CC_STDC into AC_PROG_CC.
4895 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Rename to _AC_PROG_CC_STDC.
4896 AU_DEFUN old name. Use _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE.
4897 (AC_PROG_CC): Call _AC_PROG_CC_STDC.
4898 (AC_C_INLINE): Do not require AC_PROG_CC_STDC.
4900 (AC_C_INLINE): Same.
4901 (AC_C_PROTOTYPES): Same. Require AC_PROG_CC instead.
4902 * doc/autoconf.texi, NEWS: Document.
4903 * tests/mktests.sh (au_exclude_list): Add AC_PROG_CC_STDC and
4906 2002-04-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4908 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Invoke
4909 _AS_MKDIR_P_PREPARE.
4911 2002-03-28 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
4913 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_INLINE): Test with a typedef return value,
4914 to avoid versions of HP C which don't allow that.
4916 2002-03-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4918 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BASENAME_PREPARE): New macro.
4919 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Invoke it.
4920 (AS_BASENAME): AS_REQUIRE it, and use $as_basename.
4922 2002-03-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4924 * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell): Add pointers to FAQs.
4926 2002-03-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4928 * doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction): The GNATS base moved.
4930 2002-03-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4932 * tests/m4sh.at: Don't rely on "PATH=test:$PATH test-1" working
4933 as POSIX requires, as it doesn't work with Zsh.
4934 * doc/autoconf.texi (Assignments): Document the problem.
4936 2002-03-25 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
4938 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Mention more issue
4939 about VPATH, overriding of macros in sub-makes, and handling of
4942 2002-03-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4944 * doc/autoconf.texi (Here-Documents): Mention Solaris 8 dtksh
4945 problem with here-document buffer boundaries.
4947 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Unset ENV and BASH_ENV
4948 when reinvoking the shell, to work around problems with installers
4949 who put strange things like "cd" commands in their environments.
4951 2002-03-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4953 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): s/unknow/unknown/.
4956 2002-03-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4958 * bin/autoscan.in (scan_file): Specify the location in `&used'
4962 2002-03-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4964 * doc/autoconf.texi: Adjust @code/@command, @xref/@ref usage.
4965 From Nishio Futoshi.
4967 2002-03-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4969 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_define_default, m4_fst, m4_map): New.
4971 2002-03-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4973 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Add AS_MKDIR_P.
4974 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Add mkdir section.
4976 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_MKDIR_P_PREPARE): New macro.
4977 (AS_MKDIR_P): Require it. Use mkdir -p if available, falling
4978 back on AS_DIRNAME to compute prefixes otherwise; this is
4979 roughly what mkinstalldirs does. That way, we need not have
4980 our own filename disassembler. The old disassembler did not
4981 work with Solaris 8 dtksh, which is ksh Version M-12/28/93d.
4983 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT, AT_CLEANUP):
4984 Create at_test_all by a series of assignments,
4985 not by a single assignment of a long string. The latter causes ksh
4986 version 11/16/88g to silently misbehave on OpenServer 5.0.6a,
4987 presumably because of a buffer overrun.
4989 2002-03-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4991 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (at_times_skip):
4992 Renamed from at_times. Now a boolean.
4993 ksh93 Version M-12/28/93d doesn't like 'x=times; $x'; it
4994 says 'times: not found'.
4996 2002-03-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4998 * bin/autoreconf.in (&study_gettextize): New.
4999 (&autoreconf): Handle newest gettextize.
5000 Rerun aclocal if needed.
5001 Suggested by Andreas Schwab.
5003 2002-03-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5005 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): More about IFS.
5007 2002-03-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5009 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): New.
5010 Add information about stdint.h and inttypes.h from Paul Eggert.
5012 2002-03-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5014 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Some about `cp
5018 2002-03-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5020 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_BASENAME_EXPR): AS_REQUIRE, not
5023 2002-03-11 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
5025 * configure.ac: Explicitly check for EMACS since AM_PATH_LISPDIR
5026 does not do it if --with-lispdir is given.
5028 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5032 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5034 * doc/autoconf.texi (Subdirectories): Clarify that the
5035 subdirectory should exist.
5037 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5039 * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): 1.6.
5041 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5043 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_m4): Do not foreach with `$_' as it
5044 aliases the actual variables, and modifications of the former
5047 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5049 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_m4): Protect us from corrupted file
5050 because of C-c: have m4 output in tmp files, then mv them.
5052 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5054 * bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in,
5055 * bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in,
5056 * bin/ifnames.in: Copyright update.
5058 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5060 * doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te): New.
5062 2002-03-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5064 * doc/autoconf.texi (Specifying Names): Clarification suggested by
5067 2002-03-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5071 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5073 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_LIBOBJ vs. LIBOBJS): New.
5074 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_INIT): More informative error
5077 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5079 * lib/freeze.mk ($(build_libdir)/m4sugar/version.m4): New, for
5082 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5084 * doc/autoconf.texi (Transforming Names): Equality between target
5085 and host is irrelevant.
5086 (Specifying Names, Canonicalizing): Remove all references to the
5087 backward compatibility hooks. Rather, collect them all into...
5088 (Hosts and Cross-Compilation): this new section.
5089 * doc/install.texi (System Type): Ditto.
5090 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CANONICAL_HOST): Explicitly state
5091 that `--host' implies cross-compilation.
5093 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5095 * doc/autoconf.texi (Evaluation Macros): New.
5096 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_lquote): Remove, it is totally
5098 (_m4_foreach): Define the variant with immediate evaluation so
5099 that it contains exactly the items, not an expression which
5100 evaluation is the current item.
5101 (m4_re_string, m4_re_word): Don't over quote them.
5103 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5105 Instead of having stacking `shift's evaluated at the end, let
5106 `foreach' loops immediately evaluate them.
5108 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_quote, m4_dquote): Use $@ rather than
5109 $*. This is the n-th time I change my mind, but hopefully this is
5112 (m4_text_wrap): Use m4_foreach, which is finally correct _and_
5114 (m4_foreach_quoted, m4_car_quoted, _m4_foreach_quoted): Remove, as
5115 it was only a hack for m4_text_wrap.
5116 (m4_car2): Remove, replaced by...
5118 (_m4_foreach): Adjust.
5119 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Adjust, and use
5120 m4_bpatsubst for clarification.
5122 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5124 * doc/autoconf.texi (Changequote is Evil): New.
5126 2002-03-03 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
5128 * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell): Mention 32-byte #! length limit
5129 on old systems like SunOS.
5131 2002-03-01 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
5133 * lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/fortran.m4,
5134 lib/autoconf/functions.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
5135 lib/autoconf/headers.m4, lib/autoconf/lang.m4,
5136 lib/autoconf/programs.m4, lib/autoconf/status.m4: Improve spelling
5139 2002-02-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5141 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Suggest a title to the
5144 2002-02-28 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
5146 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add va_copy and va_list.
5148 2002-02-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5150 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_SETPGRP): Fix the test.
5153 2002-02-13 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
5155 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm (getline, getlines): New functions,
5156 translate \r\n to \n.
5158 2002-02-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5162 2002-02-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5164 Fix Autoconf PR/209.
5165 Also reported by Frank Denis.
5167 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_WALK): Don't over quote.
5169 2002-02-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5171 Fix Autoconf PR/207:
5172 AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM fails with dashed program names
5174 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM): Just use a fresh
5175 variable when looking for the prefix program.
5176 Now it also works for shell variables.
5178 2002-02-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5180 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): More about
5183 2002-02-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5185 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS): Don't output empty
5186 case/esac, some shells don't support it.
5187 Reported by Zack Weinberg.
5188 * tests/torture.at (AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS with empty commands): New.
5190 2002-02-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5192 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): When handling --keywords, be
5193 sure not to introduce newlines in at_groups.
5194 * lib/autotest/Makefile.am (autotest.m4f): Typo.
5196 2002-02-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5198 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Skip if aclocal
5201 2002-02-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5203 * doc/autoconf.texi (Specific Compiler Characteristics):
5204 Describe HP-UX cc bug workaround more accurately.
5205 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Cast to long,
5207 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Check non-GCC
5208 cross-compilers, too. This undoes some of the most recent change
5211 2002-02-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5213 * tests/Makefile.am (check_SCRIPTS): Use it, instead of WRAPPERS,
5214 to make sure they are up to date when `check' is run.
5216 2002-02-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5218 * doc/autoconf.texi (Making testsuite Scripts): Document
5221 2002-02-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5223 * lib/freeze.mk: New.
5225 2002-02-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5227 Implement `autom4te --freeze'.
5229 * bin/autom4te.in (&freeze): New.
5230 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autotest/general.m4,
5231 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Don't include files given by autom4te.
5233 2002-02-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5235 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Implement `frozen files are
5236 optional are the sum of the previous files on the command line'.
5237 Also, pass `--reload-state=' on them, so...
5239 * lib/autom4te.in (Autotest, Autoconf): Rely on M4sh.
5240 (M4sh): Rely on M4sugar.
5241 (Autotest, M4sh, M4sugar): Use frozen files.
5243 2002-01-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5245 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): Accept $4.
5246 * doc/autoconf.texi (Initializing configure): Adjust.
5248 2002-01-30 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5250 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): Map non
5251 alphanumeric to `-' instead of `_'.
5253 2002-01-30 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5255 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Split into two tests: one
5256 for plain code, the other for cross-compilation code. The latter
5257 is now run with GCC only.
5258 * doc/autoconf.texi (Compilers and Preprocessors): New.
5260 2002-01-30 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5262 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): Support pre-defined
5264 * doc/autoconf.texi (Initializing configure): Explain how to
5265 change AC_INIT default values.
5267 2002-01-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5269 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Use configure.in,
5270 so that aclocal 1.4 works.
5271 Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz and Larry Schmitt.
5273 2002-01-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5275 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): AT_CLEANUP no longer
5278 2002-01-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5280 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't be ridiculous: adjust
5281 AUTOTEST_PATH *after* it was set.
5282 Don't put `.' in the PATH: the user should be precise and `./' if
5283 needed. In addition, given that the test suite does some `cd', if
5284 `.' is in the path, the `tested programs' sections will report
5285 programs found in the test suite's directory, while during the
5286 tests (performed in their own directory), these programs are no
5287 longer visible. In other words, the results is confusing and
5289 * tests/m4sh.at: Adjust: don't rely on `.' being in the PATH.
5291 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5295 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5297 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoscan.in,
5298 * doc/autoconf.texi: Finally add Akim as an author.
5300 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5302 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Use PATH_SEPARATOR.
5303 (_AS_PATH_SEPARATOR_PREPARE): Don't expect $SHELL to be
5304 Bourne. Use /bin/sh.
5305 From Andreas Buening.
5307 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5309 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/texinfo.tex:
5310 Update from masters.
5312 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5314 * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): 1.5b.
5315 * config/auxdir.m4, config/cond.m4, config/depend.m4,
5316 * config/init.m4, config/install-sh.m4, config/lispdir.m4,
5317 * config/missing.m4, config/sanity.m4, config/select.m4,
5318 * config/strip.m4: Remove, to ease sync'ing with any version of
5321 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5323 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS)
5324 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Support -n as --no-create, as documented.
5325 Reported by Geir Ove Myhr.
5327 2002-01-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5329 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MMAP): #Undef malloc.
5331 2002-01-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5333 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (getopt): Use a more GNUish error
5334 message on invalid options.
5335 * bin/autom4te.in (parse_args): Don't use
5336 Autoconf::General::getopt with non valid options.
5338 2002-01-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@lucent.com>
5340 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Initialize
5341 $ac_cv_exeext so we don't use an old, invalid, cached value.
5343 2002-01-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5345 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_STRNLEN): New, from Jim
5347 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Document the strnlen
5349 (Particular Functions): Document AC_FUNC_STRNLEN.
5350 * lib/autoscan/functions: Adjust.
5352 2002-01-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5354 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Don't create
5355 package.m4, since is really depends upon configure.ac, not
5357 * doc/autoconf.texi (testsuite Scripts): Adjust.
5358 * tests/Makefile.am (package.m4): New.
5359 EXTRA_DIST it since its a source.
5361 2002-01-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5363 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Move the AC_SUBST
5364 of PACKAGE_NAME, PACKAGE_TARNAME, PACKAGE_VERSION, PACKAGE_STRING,
5365 and PACKAGE_BUGREPORT from here...
5366 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): to here, since it is unrelated to the
5368 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): AC_DEFINE these symbols.
5369 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Use AT_PACKAGE_*, not PACKAGE_*.
5370 (AT_INIT): No longer catch `^PACKAGE_(BUGREPORT|STRING)$'.
5371 * tests/tools.at (autoheader): Adjust.
5372 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_DEFINES): Adjust.
5374 2002-01-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5376 * bin/autoscan.in (scan_file): Use `&used'.
5378 2002-01-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5380 * doc/autoconf.texi (Output): Improved wording regarding use of
5384 2001-12-18 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
5386 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add notes on sscanf
5387 sometimes needing writable input.
5389 2001-12-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@lucent.com>
5391 * doc/autoconf.texi (New Macros): Tweak wording.
5393 2001-12-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5395 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): We cleaning up the
5396 trailing files, don't apply `-rf' to files which might not be
5397 created by configure (core, core.*, and *.core), but just `rm -f'.
5398 Suggested by Jonathan Kamens.
5400 2001-12-14 Aaron M. Ucko <amu@alum.mit.edu>
5402 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Avoid duplicates in `$ac_configure_args'.
5404 2001-12-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5406 * Makefile.am (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Remove configure.
5408 2001-12-13 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
5410 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Rename buildpath to
5411 abs_builddir, top_buildpath to abs_top_builddir, srcpath to
5412 abs_srcdir, top_srcpath to abs_top_srcdir.
5413 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Adjust.
5414 * NEWS, doc/autoconf.texi, lib/autoconf/autotest.m4,
5415 * tests/atspecific.m4, tests/autoreconf.in, tests/tools.at,
5416 * tests/wrappl.in, tests/wrapsh.in: Adjust.
5418 2001-12-12 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
5420 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_F77_V_OUTPUT): Fix failed
5421 C/Fortran linking on HP/UX, by extracting the Fortran library
5422 search path from the LPATH line in the $F77 -v output.
5424 2001-12-12 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
5426 * doc/autoconf.texi (File Descriptors): Use a clearer layout for the
5427 forbidden file descriptors table.
5429 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5431 * bin/autoscan.in (%c_keywords): Build it at top level.
5432 Map to 1 in order to simplify its uses.
5434 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5436 * bin/autoscan.in (&scan_c_file, &scan_sh_file, &scan_makefile):
5437 Remove $filepath, useless.
5438 (&scan_makefile): Don't remove the $(FOO), ${FOO} and @FOO@
5439 variables, they are really part of the tokens.
5440 Split the input line on spaces and then look for tokens.
5441 Now autoscan ceases to ask for AC_PROG_LEX for the package Bison
5442 because of `lex$U.$(OBJEXT)'.
5443 (&scan_files): Use "@list" instead of join.
5444 * doc/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): Add *.fns.
5446 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5448 * tests/autoreconf.in, tests/autom4te.in, tests/autoupdate.in:
5449 Remove, replaced by...
5450 * tests/wrappl.in: Be common for all the Perl executables.
5451 In particular autoscan and autoheader want -I.
5452 * configure.ac: Adjust.
5453 * lib/autoscan/headers: errno.h is portable.
5455 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5457 * bin/autoscan.in (used): New.
5460 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5462 * bin/autoscan.in (&scan_c_file): Better parsing of CPP
5464 (&scan_sh_file): Remove a duplicate pattern.
5465 (&check_configure_ac): Use long options.
5466 * lib/autoscan/headers (alloca.h): Check with AC_FUNC_ALLOCA.
5468 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5470 * bin/autoscan.in (scan_c_file): Fix the handling of C comments.
5471 Before, having a line containing the opening of a multi line
5472 comment made the whole line be ignored.
5474 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5476 * doc/autoconf.texi (Using an Autotest Test Suite): New.
5477 (testsuite Scripts): Be one of its subsection.
5478 (Autotest Logs): New.
5480 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5482 Test groups are now run two directories deeper.
5484 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Replace srcdir,
5485 top_srcdir and top_builddir with at_srcdir, at_top_srcdir and
5487 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Compute srcdir,
5488 top_srcdir, builddir and top_builddir.
5489 Use `at_*dir' relatively to the directory containing the
5490 suite, use `*dir' when relatively to the current group dir.
5492 2001-11-25 Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
5494 * doc/autoconf.texi, TODO, lib/autoconf/fortran.m4,
5495 lib/autoconf/functions.m4, lib/autoconf/headers.m4,
5496 tests/atgeneral.m4, tests/tools.at, tests/atspecific.m4: Fix
5499 2001-11-22 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
5501 * doc/autoconf.texi (Using System Type): Add an example of `case
5502 $host' usage so people quit using `case $target' everywhere.
5504 2001-11-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5506 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Englishoes
5507 spotted by Jim Meyering.
5509 2001-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5511 This patch implements a `long double' suggestion by Oliver Kiddle.
5513 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY(C)): Make the array
5514 static, to catch errors if the value isn't known at compile-time
5515 and the compiler supports dynamic arrays. Change its name from
5516 `_array_' to `test_array' to avoid potential name clashes.
5517 (AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE): Make it a compile-time test, not a run-time
5518 test. Do not define HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE if `long double' is no
5519 better than double. Catch a bug in GCC 2.95.2 x86.
5520 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Document the above.
5523 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5525 * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): Protect from autom4te's substitution by
5527 * tests/tools.at: Don't protect dnl, AT_DATA_M4SH does.
5529 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5531 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): After having run the test
5532 group, go back to the initial directory, not to at_suite_dir.
5534 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5536 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_DATA_M4SUGAR, AT_DATA_M4SH)
5537 (AT_DATA_AUTOCONF): Also protect @&t@ from autom4te.
5538 (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF, AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER): Pass no --include
5540 (AT_CHECK_CONFIGURE): Use absolute paths.
5541 (_AT_CHECK_AC_MACRO): Create aclocal.m4 with AC_STATE_SAVE in it.
5542 The problem is still the old one: there is no means in M4 (that I
5543 know about) to create a defining macro, because there is no means
5544 to create `$1' etc., therefore, the defining macro ``swallows''
5545 all the arguments meant to the defined macro.
5547 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5549 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_DATA_AUTOCONF): New.
5550 (AT_CONFIGURE_AC): Output the definition of AC_STATE_SAVE in
5552 * tests/aclocal.m4: Remove, as it is no longer used.
5554 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5556 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Change `tests?' into `groups?' in
5557 variable names when referring to a single test group, or to
5558 `suite' when referring to the whole test suite.
5559 `at_last_test' is removed: m4 compute at_format itself.
5560 (at_stdout, at_stder1, at_stderr): New variables.
5561 (AT_CHECK): Use them.
5563 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5565 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Be sure to put `.', relative,
5567 Create `testsuite.dir/003/run' instead of `testsuite.003'.
5568 Do it as soon as a test fails, don't wait till the end of the test
5570 Don't remove $as_me.[0-9]*, since these files no longer exist.
5572 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5574 * tests/tools.at: Use absolute paths, since we are no longer run
5577 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5579 Now that tests are running in their own private dir, there is no
5580 need to list the files to remove at the end of tests groups.
5582 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_CLEANUP_FILE, AT_CLEANUP_FILES):
5583 (AT_data_files, at_data_files): Remove.
5584 (AT_CLEANUP, AT_DATA): Simplify.
5586 Remove the group dir if !debug && !failed.
5587 * tests/atspecific.m4: Adjust.
5589 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5591 Start a new layout for Autotest: `testsuite' creates
5592 `testsuite.dir' in which the at-check-line etc. files are to be
5593 found, and `testsuite.dir/003' where the test group 3 is run.
5595 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): at_tests_dir,
5596 at_check_line_file, at_format, at_test_normalized, at_group_dir
5598 Create the directories.
5599 Use absolute paths for at- files.
5602 2001-11-11 Michael Matz <matz@kde.org>
5604 * m4sugar.m4 (_m4_foreach): Make it linear instead quadratic.
5606 (m4_car): Properly quote arguments.
5608 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5610 * tests/aclocal.m4 (AC_STATE_SAVE): s/LIBOBJS/LIB@&t@OBJS/ to cope
5611 with stricter rules on LIBOBJS.
5613 2001-11-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5615 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_PROTOTYPES): Define __PROTOTYPES too.
5616 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): AC_C_PROTOTYPES now defines
5619 2001-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5621 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETMNTENT): Use AC_CHECK_FUNCS.
5623 2001-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5625 * lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/fortran.m4,
5626 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
5627 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4,
5628 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4, lib/autoconf/specific.m4,
5629 * lib/autoconf/types.m4: When invoking AC_DEFINE and friends,
5630 specify to what the macro should be defined (typically to 1).
5632 2001-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5634 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_STRTOD): AC_SUBST POW_LIB.
5637 2001-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5639 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_LEX_YYTEXT_DECL): Use
5640 AC_TRY_EVAL to run $LEX, not AC_TRY_COMMAND. This validates the
5641 definition used by Automake where LEX is +/- "${missing} lex" and
5642 `missing' itself contains variables.
5644 2001-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5646 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Push KILL at the end.
5647 Now that M4sh pushes BODY, the comments were output at the end of
5650 2001-11-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5652 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Run aclocal before tracing, so
5653 that we can trace macros from aclocal.m4.
5654 Trace AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, not AM_PROG_LIBTOOL, since the latter is
5655 obsoleted, and redirect to the former anyway.
5656 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
5658 2001-11-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5660 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): AC_CONFIG_SUBIDRS are to be
5661 processed only if present.
5662 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Use autoreconf
5663 instead of successive calls to autoconf.
5664 Add a nonexistent subdirectory to exercise the patch above.
5665 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
5667 2001-11-08 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
5669 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Note HP-UX cc
5670 doesn't accept .S files.
5672 2001-11-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5674 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_pattern_forbid): Accepts $2.
5675 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_INTI): Forbid LIBOBJS.
5676 (_AC_LIBOBJ): s/LIBOBJS/LIB@&t@OBJS/.
5677 * bin/autom4te.in (warn_forbidden): New.
5678 (handle_output): Use it.
5679 Read m4_pattern_forbid with messages.
5681 2001-11-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5683 * bin/autom4te.in (--normalize): Remove.
5684 * lib/autom4te.in: Adjust.
5686 2001-11-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5688 * tests/Makefile.am (testsuite): Rename this target as...
5689 ($(TESTSUITE)): this.
5692 2001-11-05 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
5694 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): When removing
5695 the --prefix option, also remove it's argument.
5697 2001-11-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5699 * doc/autoconf.texi (testsuite Invocation): Update.
5700 (Writing testsuite.at): Update.
5702 2001-11-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5704 * doc/autoconf.texi: s/@code/@command/ where appropriate.
5706 2001-11-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5708 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: (&catfile, &canonfile)
5709 (&file_name_is_absolute): New, wrappers around routines from
5711 Use and export them.
5712 (&find_configure_ac): Optionally take a directory where to look at.
5713 * bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args): Trim the configure.ac part of
5715 Default @ARGV to `.', not find_configure_ac.
5716 (&autoreconf): Argument is a directory.
5717 Trace AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS and schedule the subdirs for autoreconf'ing.
5718 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Update.
5720 2001-11-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5722 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (@export_vars, @export_subs)
5723 (@export_forward_subs): New.
5724 Add basename, dirname, and fileparse.
5726 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Fix call to fileparse.
5727 Don't look for aclocal flags if we already know aclocal is not
5729 Move aclocal.m4t only if it exists.
5730 Reported by Ezra Peisach.
5732 2001-11-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5734 * bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args): Work only on the configure.ac
5735 passed on command line, defaulting to ./configure.ac if present.
5736 (&maybe_autoreconf, File::Find): Remove, unused.
5737 (&autoreconf): If autoconf is not used, don't try to trace.
5739 2001-11-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5741 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.52g.
5743 2001-11-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5747 2001-11-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5749 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, doc/standards.texi:
5750 * config/lispdir.m4: Update from masters.
5751 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.52f.
5753 2001-11-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5755 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Set `$aclocal_flags' to ''.
5756 Don't run aclocal when aclocal.m4 is not from aclocal.
5758 Don't run libtoolize and gettextize if --install is not given.
5760 2001-11-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5762 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): _AS_CR_PREPARE needs to
5763 be invoked before _AS_LINENO_PREPARE.
5764 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Use as_cr_digits and as_cr_alnum rather
5765 than character ranges.
5767 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Fix NLS before
5768 invoking AS_BASENAME. Set the locale variables to 'C' if
5769 possible, as POSIX requires this to get the traditional
5771 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Describe the above.
5773 2001-10-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5775 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_WORKS): Do not surround body
5776 with {}, as that triggers a bug in Bash 2.05.
5778 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Use Sed rather than
5779 Awk. Fix the sed prepass to work even if there are multiple
5780 instances of $LINENO on the same line. Do not substitute for
5781 other variables like $LINENOT. Do not check file dates; such a
5782 check is unreliable on sufficiently fast machines, and removing
5783 the check makes the code simpler and more reliable. Check for
5784 output and chmod failures.
5786 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Document
5789 2001-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5791 * tests/Makefile.am (atconfig): Remove this target, Automake
5794 2001-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5796 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Do not
5797 AC_CONFIG_FILES(atlocal) as it means a file atlocal.in *must* be
5798 provided, while it is optional.
5799 * configure.ac: Adjust.
5801 2001-10-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5803 * NEWS, README, configure.ac, lib/Autom4te/General.pm,
5804 lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm:
5805 Require Perl 5.005_03 instead of just 5.005, as some tests fail
5808 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Document some
5809 more LINENO gotchas, particularly with respect to the Awk+Sed hack.
5811 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_WORKS): New macro.
5812 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Use it instead of shell eval, since
5813 eval $LINENO is not portable in practice.
5815 2001-10-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5817 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (backname): New.
5819 2001-10-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5821 * m4/: Remove, merged into...
5824 2001-10-23 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
5826 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology): Mention the problems with bash
5827 2.05's use of ANSI quoting in its `set' builtin.
5829 2001-10-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5831 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R):
5832 Rename ac_cv_func_strerror_r_works to ac_cv_func_strerror_r_char_p,
5833 and rename HAVE_WORKING_STRERROR_R to STRERROR_R_CHAR_P, since
5834 POSIX decided to standardize on the int flavor of strerror_r.
5835 Always do char* test, as there's no reason not to.
5836 Assign to a char* var, to catch strerror_r that returns int*.
5838 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions):
5839 Document the above changes. Also, document the fact that
5840 AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R defines HAVE_DECL_STRERROR_R.
5842 * NEWS: Mention HAVE_WORKING_STRERROR_R -> STRERROR_R_CHAR_P.
5844 2001-10-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5846 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): The name of
5847 the executable was missing from the log.
5849 2001-10-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5851 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&update_file): If destination is
5852 unchanged, remove the source.
5853 (&up_to_date_p): Don't be verbose, be debug.
5854 * bin/autoreconf.in: No longer support --m4dir.
5855 (&autoreconf): Display the full path of the configure.ac we are
5858 Be sure to honor --force with gettextize.
5860 * doc/autoconf.texi: Adjust.
5862 2001-10-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5864 * bin/autoheader.in ($localdir, $m4, $SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX):
5866 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Do not run gettextize when
5867 `intl' is already present, as it refuses unless --force.
5868 (&parse_args): Use -I, --include instead of the old Autoconf
5870 ($localdir, $autoconf_dir): Remove.
5872 (&maybe_autoreconf): New, to preserve $_ for File::Find.
5874 2001-10-19 Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com>
5876 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_AWK): Prefer gawk to mawk.
5877 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): Likewise.
5879 2001-10-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5881 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Name the generated
5882 file in @configure_input@.
5883 Don't mention `automatically' in addition to `generated'.
5884 * tests/torture.at (#define header templates): Adjust.
5886 2001-10-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5888 * lib/emacs/autoconf-mode.el, lib/emacs/autotest-mode.el: In a
5889 comment, explain how to install automatic mode selection.
5892 2001-10-19 Ezra Peisach <epeisach@zif.mit.edu>
5894 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Display the path to the
5895 configure.ac being studied.
5897 2001-10-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5899 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Cast sizeof to unsigned
5900 long, to work around a bug in the HP C compiler version HP92453-01
5903 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_DIRNAME): Use 'dirname' if that works.
5904 (AS_BASENAME_EXPR): New macro.
5905 (AS_BASENAME_SED): Do not assume GNU sed semantics.
5906 (AS_BASENAME): Use 'basename' if that works; then try 'expr';
5907 and fall back on 'sed' only if the other two fail. This makes
5908 AS_BASENAME act more like AS_DIRNAME.
5909 (as_me): Shell-quote the argument of AS_BASENAME, in case $0
5910 contains white space.
5911 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR):
5912 Use AS_DIRNAME, since I think it's now DOS-friendly.
5913 * tests/m4sh.at (DIRNAME_TEST): New arg $3.
5914 Allow "dirname //FOO" to return either / or //, as POSIX allows
5917 2001-10-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5919 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Recognize
5920 `a_out.exe' for OpenVMS 7.1, DEC C 5.5 compiler, via GNV.
5923 2001-10-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5925 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_ECHO_N_PREPARE): m4_defun, not
5927 (_AS_ECHO_N): AS_REQUIREs it.
5929 2001-10-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5931 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS)
5932 (AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT): Move to...
5933 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4: here.
5934 * lib/autoconf/types.m4: Comment changes.
5935 * doc/autoconf.texi: Specify where the default includes are used
5936 in the macro prototypes.
5938 2001-10-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5940 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4 (m4_patsubst, m4_regexp): New
5943 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5945 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Remove debugging code.
5946 (&parse_args): Pass verbosity/debugging options to subtools when
5947 --debug, not when --verbose.
5948 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoreconf-preselections): New.
5951 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5953 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Run libtoolize when appropriate.
5955 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5957 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Adjust.
5958 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Run gettextize when appropriate.
5960 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5962 * tests/tools.at (AT_CHECK_PERL_SYNTAX): Check autoreconf.
5963 (Syntax of the shell scripts): Don't.
5964 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in: Don't
5965 bother with $force since...
5966 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: does.
5968 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5970 * bin/autoreconf.in: Rewrite in Perl.
5971 * configure.ac: Adjust.
5972 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&up_to_date_p): New.
5973 * bin/autom4te.in (&up_to_date_p): Use it.
5975 (&up_to_date): this.
5977 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5979 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_case, m4_bmatch, m4_normalize)
5980 (m4_list_cmp): Use $0 to reinvoke yourself.
5981 (m4_patsubsts): New.
5982 (m4_strip, m4_version_unletter): Use it.
5983 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_DATA_M4SUGAR, AT_DATA_M4SH): Likewise.
5985 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5987 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
5988 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4, lib/autoconf/status.m4,
5989 * lib/autoconf/types.m4, lib/autotest/general.m4,
5990 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4, lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4, tests/atspecific.m4,
5991 * tests/torture.at: Rename m4_regexp, m4_patsubst, and m4_match to
5992 m4_bregexp, m4_bpatsubst, and m4_bmatch.
5993 * doc/autoconf.texi (Redefined M4 Macros): Adjust.
5995 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5997 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Use AS_REQUIRE.
5999 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6001 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_DIRNAME_EXPR): Use AS_REQUIRE.
6002 * tests/tools.at (AT_DATA_FORBIDDEN): Rename/move/duplicate to...
6003 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_DATA_M4SUGAR, AT_DATA_M4SH): here.
6004 * tests/tools.at, tests/m4sh.at: Use it.
6005 * tests/m4sh.at: Don't rely on Autoconf macros.
6006 (DIRNAME_TEST): Also exercise the expr variant.
6007 * tests/m4sugar.at, tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR): The
6008 preferred M4sugar extension is now `.4s'.
6009 * tests/README: Remove.
6011 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6013 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_provide_ifelse): Rename as...
6014 (m4_provide_if): this.
6015 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_REQUIRE): New.
6016 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AS_DEFUN, AC_DEFUN_ONCE, AC_BEFORE)
6017 (AC_REQUIRE, AC_PROVIDE, AC_PROVIDE_IFELSE): Be exact copy of the
6018 M4sugar peer, i.e., drop the `AC_PROVIDE_$1' broken marker.
6020 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6022 Use `add-log-current-defun-function' for ChangeLog creation.
6023 Suggested by Tom Tromey.
6025 * lib/emacs/autotest-mode.el (autotest-mode-map): New.
6026 (autotest-mode): Adjust.
6027 * lib/emacs/autoconf-mode.el (autoconf-mode-map): Modernize, map
6028 'comment-region onto `C-c ;'.
6029 Comments are `#', not `dnl'.
6030 (autoconf-current-defun): New.
6031 (autoconf-font-lock-keywords): Recognize `m4_defun'.
6033 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6035 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_m4_divert(BODY)): Move to...
6036 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: here.
6037 (AS_INIT): Push the BODY diversion, set the #! /bin/sh line.
6038 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_PLAIN_SCRIPT) : Remove.
6039 (AT_INIT): Replace AC_PLAIN_SCRIPT with AS_INIT invocation,
6040 include handle the m4_pattern_*, no longer push the
6041 BODY diversion nor set the /bin/sh line, AS_INIT does it.
6042 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
6043 * tests/base.at: Adjust the tests to use AS_INIT.
6044 * tests/tools.at (AT_DATA_FORBIDDEN): New.
6045 (autoconf: forbidden tokens): Adjust to work on M4sh instead of
6048 2001-10-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6050 * doc/autoconf.texi (config.status Invocation):
6051 CONFIG_SHELL defaults to a shell that supports LINENO if available.
6053 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): If the current
6054 shell does not support LINENO, and if CONFIG_SHELL is unset or
6055 empty, and if we can find a shell that does support LINENO,
6056 then set CONFIG_SHELL to that shell and then re-execute
6057 ourselves with CONFIG_SHELL.
6059 2001-10-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6061 * tests/Makefile.am (clean-local): Don't invoke $(TESTSUITE) if it
6062 doesn't exist. Remove *.tmp, as a .tmp file is created during the
6063 build of $(TESTSUITE).
6065 2001-10-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6067 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Look in the path
6068 iff we are a bareword.
6069 Reported by Raja R Harinath.
6071 2001-10-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6073 * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): New.
6074 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Be sure to set
6075 PATH_SEPARATOR before using it.
6076 Fix the absolute path case/esac pattern.
6077 Provide $0 as fallback for as_myself.
6078 Reported by Raja R Harinath.
6080 2001-10-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6082 * Makefile.am, config/Makefile.am, lib/emacs/Makefile.am,
6083 * m4/Makefile.am, man/Makefile.am: Add/adjust MAINTAINERCLEANFILES.
6085 2001-10-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6087 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): New, extracted from...
6088 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): here. Use it.
6089 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Preserve the exit status of $0.lineno.
6092 2001-10-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6094 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Use a portable
6095 combination of Awk and sed to replace $LINENO.
6097 2001-10-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6099 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): You can't use
6100 "source"; it's not portable. Remove confusing and
6101 somewhat-incorrect example involving "." and "/".
6103 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): "source" -> ".", for
6104 compatibility with POSIX shells.
6106 2001-10-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6108 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Just source 40.lineno
6109 instead of exec'ing to preserve $0 and $@.
6111 2001-10-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6113 * tests/testsuite (AT_INIT) <at_pass_list>: New.
6114 Don't run twice the same test.
6116 2001-10-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6118 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT) <--help>: Catch up with reality.
6119 No longer output the list of tests.
6120 <--list>: New option.
6121 <--full-help>: Remove.
6122 Complete the short/long options duality.
6123 Various small adjustments.
6125 2001-10-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6127 * doc/autoconf.texi: Use @kbd for user input.
6128 Always use `$' as shell prompt.
6130 2001-09-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6132 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_OUTPUT_MAKE_DEFS):
6133 Don't use nested parenthesization. This patch was originally
6134 suggested to bug-autoconf by Philippe De Muyter on 2000-05-28,
6135 but somehow it didn't get incorporated then.
6136 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools):
6137 Clarify remark about sed and nested parenthesization.
6139 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF):
6140 Report an error if the size cannot be determined even though
6142 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE):
6143 Check for `expr' arithmetic overflow, and for compilation failure,
6144 and invoke a new argument $4 if either is discovered.
6145 This makes _AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE more like _AC_COMPUTE_INT_RUN.
6146 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT): Pass IF-FAILS arg to _AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE.
6148 2001-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6150 * lib/emacs/autoconf-mode.el, lib/emacs/autotest-mode.el: New.
6151 * m4/lispdir.m4: New.
6152 * aclocal.m4, configure.ac: Adjust.
6154 2001-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6156 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_VICTIMS): Rename as...
6158 (AT_INIT): More the wrapped section to where it will be expanded.
6159 Output `AT_tested' only when existing.
6160 Catch unexpanded PACKAGE_STRING and PACKAGE_BUGREPORT.
6162 2001-09-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6164 Fix the passing of $? to ACTION-IF-FAILED in AC_TRY_RUN, that
6165 generates too many bug reports.
6167 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_RUN_IFELSE): Pass the right exit
6168 status when executing the ACTION-IF-FALSE.
6169 * tests/base.at (AC_TRY_*): Rename as...
6170 (AC_TRY_COMMAND): this.
6171 (AC_RUN_IFELSE): New.
6172 * tests/compile.at (Extensions, C keywords)
6173 (AC_PROG_CPP requires AC_PROG_CC, GNU Fortran 77)
6174 (Broken/missing compilers, AC_PROG_CPP with warnings)
6175 (AC_PROG_CPP without warnings, AC_PROG_CPP via CC): Move to...
6176 * tests/c.at (Extensions, C keywords)
6177 (Broken/missing compilers, AC_PROG_CPP with warnings)
6178 (AC_PROG_CPP without warnings, AC_PROG_CPP via CC)
6179 (AC_PROG_CPP requires AC_PROG_CC): here and...
6180 * tests/fortran.at (GNU Fortran 77): there.
6181 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoconf Invocation): Fix the example:
6182 AC_TRY_RUN is about compilation, not shell commands.
6183 (Test Programs): AC_TRY_RUN works as used to be advertised.
6185 2001-09-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6187 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Fix bugs spotted by
6189 Be sure to detect when $LINENO always returns the same value.
6190 Look for the original script, basename($0) is certainly not
6192 Pass the CLI arguments to `$as_me.lineno'.
6194 2001-09-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6196 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Dump the whole config.log.
6197 Be sure the close and reopen the LOG fd before and after using tee
6199 <at_tests_pattern>: Adjust to the new format of at_help_all.
6201 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6203 * bin/autom4te.in (parse_args): There can be several invocations
6206 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6208 * doc/autoconf.texi (Top): Wrap in @ifnottex.
6210 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6212 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Compute and provide
6213 ac_buildpath, ac_top_buildpath, ac_srcpath, and ac_top_srcpath.
6214 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Also substitute srcpath, top_srcpath,
6215 builddir, buildpath, top_builddir, and top_buildpath.
6216 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Compute the dir variables *before* changing
6217 the current directory.
6218 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Compute the dir
6219 variables *before* changing the current directory.
6220 Skip nonexistent dirs.
6221 * doc/autoconf.texi (Preset Output Variables): Document these
6224 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Do not reset AT_victims.
6225 Don't compute at_srcdir nor at_top_srcdir.
6227 * tests/tools.at: Hence use top_srcdir.
6229 * tests/Makefile.am, tests/autoconf, tests/autoheader,
6230 * tests/autom4te, tests/autoreconf, tests/autoupdate, tests/ifnames:
6232 * tests/autoreconf.in, tests/wrappl.in, tests/autom4te.in,
6233 * tests/wrapsh.in, tests/autoupdate.in: New.
6234 * tests/Makefile.am (DISTCLEANFILES, EXTRA_DIST): Adjust.
6235 * configure.ac: Build the position independent wrappers.
6237 * man/Makefile.am: Now that test wrappers are position
6238 independent, use them and drop dark envvar magic.
6240 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6242 * doc/autoconf.texi (Common Shell Constructs): Rename as...
6243 (Programming in M4sh): this.
6244 Promote to @section.
6246 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6248 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Dump config.log last.
6249 Pass $at_debug_args to the rerun test suite.
6250 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am (DISTCLEANFILES): New.
6251 * bin/Makefile.am (ETAGS_SH): Don't use characters ranges.
6254 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6256 * bin/autom4te.in (@my_warning): Remove, handled by `autom4te.cfg'.
6258 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6260 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Fix shell
6263 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6265 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&debug): New.
6266 * bin/autom4te.in ($language): Move to...
6268 Handle --language in languages.
6269 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-selections, Autoheader-selections)
6270 (Autoscan-selections): New.
6273 2001-09-23 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
6275 * m4/auxdir.m4, m4/cond.m4, m4/depend.m4, m4/init.m4,
6276 * m4/install-sh.m4, m4/missing.m4, m4/sanity.m4, m4/strip.m4: Updated
6277 to match current versions from CVS Automake.
6279 2001-09-23 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
6281 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Add pdksh output
6284 2001-09-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6286 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4: Create `package.m4'.
6287 * tests/Makefile.am (package.m4): Remove.
6289 2001-09-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6291 Rely on `$LINENO' when possible instead of `__oline__'.
6293 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Provide some form of
6294 `$LINENO' support replacement when not supported.
6295 (_AS_CR_PREPARE, _AS_TR_CPP_PREPARE, _AS_TR_SH_PREPARE): Invoke
6296 them explicitly to be sure they are not output before this section
6297 (via m4_require). Cosmetic only.
6298 * lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
6299 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4: Replace all the occurrences of
6300 `__oline__' with `$LINENO'.
6301 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Document LINENO.
6303 2001-09-21 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
6305 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_FORK): Replaceded an 8-bit
6306 character (u: -> ue) in a code comment.
6307 (AC_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK): Only run 'ln -s' if we know
6310 2001-09-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6312 * Makefile.maint (AUTOM4TE): Neutralize autom4te.
6313 Suggested by Jim Meyering.
6315 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
6317 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4: Use extensions listed in
6318 $ac_executable_extensions when looking for programs.
6320 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
6322 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Fix a small Englisho.
6323 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Fix a small typo. Handle DOS paths when
6324 setting up ac_dir_suffix and ac_top_builddir.
6325 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Default CDPATH to $PATH_SEPARATOR, not ':'.
6327 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
6329 * doc/autoconf.texi (File System Conventions): Clarify the use of
6331 (Special Shell Variables[PATH_SEPARATOR]): Ditto.
6332 (Special Shell Variables[CDPATH]): Mention that $PATH_SEPRATOR should
6333 be used instead of ':'.
6334 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Replace occurrences of ':' in
6335 AUTOTEST_PATH with $PATH_SEPARATOR at test suite startup.
6337 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
6339 * tests/atgeneral.m4: Add basic support for test ranges (e.g. 7-34) as
6340 arguments. Fixed a typo.
6342 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
6344 * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Use @PATH_SEPARATOR@, not ':' to set up
6345 $PATH. Also set AUTOM4TE_CFG, so we can process autom4te properly.
6347 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
6349 * bin/autoscan.in: Add 'exec-perl-if-not-run-by-perl'.
6350 * bin/autoupdate.in: Ditto.
6351 * bin/autoheader.in: Reworded a few comments.
6352 * bin/autoconf.in: Reworded help text for a few options.
6353 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
6354 * bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in: Ditto.
6356 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
6358 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm (open): Simplified the error message (we
6359 already have $file). Set output files to binary mode (helps avoid
6360 CR issues on DOSish systems).
6362 2001-09-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6364 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Englishoes.
6365 From Tim Van Holder and Alexey Mahotkin.
6367 2001-09-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6369 * doc/autoconf.texi (Common Shell Constructs): New node,
6370 documenting AS_DIRNAME.
6371 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Refer to it when discussing dirname.
6372 Also, update discussion of POSIX standard to reflect latest draft.
6374 * lib/autoconf/c.m4:
6375 (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C)): Also support negative values, down to LONG_MIN.
6377 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE):
6378 Do not pass a first argument with leading '-'
6379 to expr, by parenthesizing initial integers that might be negative.
6381 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): AC_FUNC_GETPGRP
6382 now merely checks whether it is an error to pass an argument
6385 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_GETPGRP_TEST): Remove.
6386 (AC_FUNC_GETPGRP): Don't bother with a runtime test. Just check
6387 whether it is a (compile-time) error to pass an argument to
6388 getpgrp. This simpler test supports the revised documentation,
6389 and is all that AC_FUNC_GETPGRP's users really need.
6391 2001-09-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6393 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make) <$<>: New.
6395 2001-09-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6397 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <find>: More about
6399 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Adjust.
6401 2001-09-18 Paul Wagland <paul@wagland.net>
6403 * tests/m4sh.at: Ensure that AS_DIRNAME handles '/', '//' and '///'
6405 Add test for AS_BASENAME.
6406 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Fix AS_BASENAME so that it passes the previous
6407 added test. It now correctly handles /1/2/3/, returning '3' not ''.
6408 Added AS_BASENAME_SED to make the interface the same as AS_DIRNAME.
6409 * tests/base.at: Fixed the expected responses. The old ones were
6411 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Fixed AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM, it now behaves as
6412 the documentation claims it should (and how it behaved in 2.13).
6414 2001-09-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6416 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): No INIT-CMDS in
6417 the AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS invocation.
6418 This also solves the name clash problems.
6419 Don't set the package's ID.
6420 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am (version.m4): Revamp.
6421 No longer to be shipped.
6422 (version.in): Remove.
6423 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
6424 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Adjust.
6425 Use `m4_PACKAGE_STRING'.
6426 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): N-th signature change: now
6427 the only optional argument is the name of the test suite.
6428 Expect `package.m4' to define the package signature.
6429 * lib/autom4te.in (Autotest): Add `package.m4?'.
6430 * tests/Makefile.am (package.m4): New.
6431 * tests/suite.at: ifnames is a victim.
6433 2001-09-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6435 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): Preselect AM_CONDITIONAL,
6436 AC_LIBSOURCE, AC_CONFIG_FILES.
6437 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't abort when a tested
6438 program version string doesn't match the package's.
6439 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CACHE_VAL): Reestablish the space
6442 2001-09-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6444 * lib/autoconf/c.m4: (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C)):
6445 Allow expression to return any value that can fit into unsigned long
6446 (not int, as before). Check for output errors.
6448 2001-09-17 Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>
6450 * lib/autoconf/c.m4: (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C)):
6451 Always include <stdio.h> and <stdlib.h>. Evaluate
6452 the expression in an extra function before these includes. Call
6453 fprintf "%d" only after ensuring the argument is of type 'int'.
6454 Reported by Wayne Chapeskie <waynec@spinnaker.com>.
6456 2001-09-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6458 Fix bug reported by Paul Townsend on AIX 4.3.3.0 with CFLAGS=-O4
6459 or CFLAGS=-O5. In that case, the linker has a relaxed view of
6460 fatal errors, and AC_CHECK_LIB causes it to include libraries even
6461 when they don't exist.
6463 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_DIRENT): Use AC_SEARCH_LIBS,
6464 not AC_CHECK_LIB, so that we don't use -ldir or -lx if we don't
6467 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_ISC_POSIX): Replace the old, crufty
6468 version with the version used by fileutils 4.1, except use
6469 AC_SEARCH_LIBS, not AC_CHECK_LIB, so that we don't use -lcposix if
6472 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_ISC_POSIX): Describe new behavior.
6474 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6476 * tests/base.at, tests/m4sh.at: Be sure to issue the bangshe line
6478 Reported by Gerrit P. Haase.
6480 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6482 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Reset `AT_victims' so that
6483 m4_defn'ing is valid.
6485 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6487 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_append_uniq): New.
6488 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_VICTIMS, AT_KEYWORDS, _AT_CLEANUP_FILE):
6491 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6493 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (_AS_QUOTE_IFELSE, _AS_BOX_INDIR): Use
6495 (m4_re_escape): New.
6496 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_CONFIG_IF_MEMBER): Use it.
6497 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CACHE_SAVE): Use m4_match.
6498 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_CONFIG_IF_MEMBER, AC_CONFIG_LINKS):
6500 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (_AC_CHECK_TYPE_REPLACEMENT_TYPE_P)
6501 (_AC_CHECK_TYPE_MAYBE_TYPE_P, AC_CHECK_MEMBER): Likewise.
6502 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Rename AT_TESTS_ALL as
6503 AT_tests_all for consistency.
6505 (AT_VICTIMS): Similar to AT_KEYWORDS.
6506 (_AT_CLEANUP_FILE_IF): Use m4_match and m4_re_escape.
6508 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6510 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Fix stupid bugs.
6512 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6514 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Create and remove
6515 `$as_me.[0-9]+' instead of `debug-[0-9]+.sh', so that multiple
6516 test suites can cohabit.
6518 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6520 * tests/mktests.sh: Don't output banners for empty test files.
6522 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6524 Test suites can be run independently of configure.
6526 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_ECHO, _AS_ECHO_N_PREPARE): New.
6527 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_ECHO): Remove.
6528 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Adjust: AC_SUBST
6530 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Don't ask for at_n
6532 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Use ECHO_*.
6534 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6536 * bin/ifnames.in: Rewrite in Perl.
6537 * configure.ac: Don't look for AWK.
6538 * tests/tools.at (AWK portability): Remove.
6539 (Syntax of the shell scripts): Don't check ifnames.
6540 (AT_CHECK_PERL_SYNTAX): New.
6541 (Syntax of the Perl scripts): Check ifnames.
6542 * tests/ifnames: New.
6544 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6546 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Let --keywords also match
6548 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AU_MACRO): AT_KEYWORDS(autoupdate).
6549 Remove all the other keywords.
6551 2001-09-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6553 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Remove the diversion HELP and
6554 SETUP: no longer used.
6555 Support -k, --keywords.
6556 <at_help>: Be `no', `short', or `long'.
6557 <at_help_all>: New variable.
6559 (AT_CLEANUP_FILE_IFELSE, AT_CLEANUP_FILE): Rename as...
6560 (_AT_CLEANUP_FILE_IF, _AT_CLEANUP_FILE): these.
6561 (_AT_CLEANUP_FILE_IF): Simplify the regexp.
6562 (AT_SETUP): Reset AT_line, AT_keywords, AT_description.
6563 No longer fill the HELP diversion.
6564 (AT_CLEANUP): Use them.
6565 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_append): Support a separator.
6566 (m4_list_append): Remove.
6568 Spread a few keywords in the Autoconf test suite.
6570 2001-09-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6572 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Don't pass
6573 PATH_SEPARATOR, let M4sh compute it.
6574 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_SEPARATOR_PREPARE): New.
6575 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_SHELL_PATH_WALK): Use PATH_SEPARATOR.
6577 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_WALK): Here.
6578 Simplify when the path is not a literal.
6579 (AS_UNAME): Use it to report PATH.
6580 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE_FS_SEPARATORS): Remove.
6581 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): AC_SUBST PATH_SEPARATOR.
6582 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_INSTALL): Use _AS_PATH_WALK.
6583 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Use _AS_PATH_WALK to
6584 normalize the path, and to look for victims.
6585 * tests/semantics.at (AC_PATH_PROG & AC_PATH_PROGS)
6586 (AC_CHECK_PROG & AC_CHECK_PROGS): Use PATH_SEPARATOR.
6588 2001-09-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6590 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_m4): `< /dev/null' so that GNU M4 1.5
6591 doesn't neutralize SIGINT, making autoconf etc. non interruptible.
6592 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Move the package
6593 related variables into `at_package_*'.
6594 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_VICTIMS): New.
6595 (AT_INIT): Adjust for stand-alone/embedded test suites.
6596 (AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD): Define and use it.
6597 * tests/suite.at (AT_VICTIMS): Use it.
6598 * tests/tools.at (autoupdating AC_PREREQ): Don't depend upon
6601 2001-09-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6603 Move toward possibly stand-alone test suites.
6605 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Stop displaying srcdir everywhere as,
6606 in addition, it introduces useless differences in logs.
6607 (AT_INIT): Let atconfig and atlocal be both optional.
6608 Adjust PATH computation.
6609 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_UNAME): More readable display of PATH.
6611 2001-09-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6613 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am (autoconf.m4f): Depends upon
6616 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6618 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY(C)): Use `_array_'
6619 to avoid GCC warnings.
6622 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6624 * bin/autom4te.in: --language is -l, not -s.
6626 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6628 Be ready to handle filenames as stupid as `dnl.at', for if even
6629 the maintainer is dumb enough to do that...
6631 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_SETUP, AT_LINE): Demonstrates your
6632 excellence in M4 quotation: consider `__file__' is active.
6634 And BTW, when invoking m4, pass the --include in the right order:
6637 * bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoupdate.in: Use reverse when kingtal to
6640 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6642 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: New lib file.
6643 * bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoscan.pl, bin/autom4te.in,
6644 * bin/autoheader.in: Use it.
6646 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6648 * bin/autoupdate.in (&handle_m4_macros) <unm4.m4>: Undefine iff
6651 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6653 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&getopt): Work around the `-' Getopt bug.
6654 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoupdate.in (&parse_args): Adjust.
6656 * bin/autoscan.in: Use `getopt' and `find_files' etc.
6657 Add -I, --include support.
6658 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoscan Invocation): Adjust.
6660 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6662 CVS GNU M4 doesn't like `undefine(undefined)'.
6664 * bin/autoupdate.in (&handle_m4_macros, &handle_autoconf_macros):
6665 New, extracted from main.
6666 Use IO::File wherever possible.
6667 (input.m4): Be constant, use -I instead of hard coding $tmp.
6668 Therefore be a quoted heredoc.
6669 Don't invoke `_au_disable', since ac was not loaded, but just
6672 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6676 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6678 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Fix the
6680 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER): Can create `config.hin~'.
6682 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6684 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): DU 5.0 has
6685 serious problems handling heredocs in heredocs.
6686 Reported by Nicolas Joly.
6688 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6690 * doc/autoconf.texi: Don't promote non `m4_*' M4 macros.
6691 (Making testsuite Scripts): Update.
6693 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6695 * lib/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): Add autom4te.cfg.
6697 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6699 * doc/autoconf.texi (Quadrigraphs): Document `@&t@'.
6700 (testsuite Scripts): There is no such thing as `atconfig.in'.
6701 And actually one diagram is missing: test suite runtime.
6703 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6705 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_file): Browse the includes in the
6708 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6710 * bin/autoupdate.in (@include): `installcheck' revealed the path
6711 to m4sugar was lacking!
6713 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6715 * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): We really have to pass
6716 autom4te_perllibdir.
6718 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6720 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't pass all the args to
6721 debug scripts, in particular passing explicitly listed tests to
6724 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6726 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Strip `.' from `@include'.
6727 * bin/autoupdate.in: Use --include, -I, and --force, -f, too.
6728 Use directly autom4te, not autoconf.
6729 * tests/autoupdate: $top_srcdir/lib is needed too for melt files.
6731 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6733 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Missing eol.
6734 * bin/autoheader.in (%symbol): Strip arguments of macros.
6736 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6738 * doc/autoconf.texi: Catch up -I, --include changes.
6740 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6742 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Die on unknown languages.
6743 * bin/autoheader.in: Run directly autom4te --mode=autoconf, no
6745 Promote --include over --macrodir and other obsolete options.
6747 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6749 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm ($version, $help, &getopt): New.
6750 * bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in: Use them.
6751 * bin/autom4te.in ($autoconf): Pass --force.
6752 `print $out' doesn't print `$_' but `$out'.
6753 * tests/tools.at (Syntax of the Perl scripts): Pass the lib dir.
6754 (autoheader): Pass --force since the test suite goes too fast for
6756 Adjust to the new autoheader messages.
6758 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6760 * bin/autoheader.in: Handle the acconfig.h etc. junk files.
6761 Check the completeness of the #template.
6762 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&update_file): s/remove/unlink/.
6763 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Adjust AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER
6766 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6768 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_file, &update_file): New.
6769 * bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoheader.in: Adjust.
6770 Drop AC_MACRODIR dead for real.
6771 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER): Now autoheader says
6772 `autoheader: `config.hin' is created'.
6773 * tests/tools.at (Syntax of the Perl scripts): Check autoheader.
6775 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6777 * bin/autoheader.in: Rewrite in Perl.
6778 * tests/autoheader: Adjust.
6780 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6782 * bin/autoconf.in (--include, -I): New option.
6783 Map --localdir, --autoconf-dir onto it.
6784 Forward autom4te's options instead of interpreting them.
6785 * bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoheader.in (AC_MACRODIR, autoconf_dir):
6786 There is no such envvar since the inception of autom4te.cfg.
6787 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Uniquify `@include'.
6788 * bin/autoupdate.in: Adjust, and perform more control.
6789 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF): Adjust.
6790 * tests/autoconf: Dittowise.
6792 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6794 * bin/autoconf.in: Don't bother with `acsite.m4' and `aclocal.m4'.
6795 * bin/autom4te.in (&find_file): Support `FILE?' standing for
6797 Use -e, not -f, since /dev/null for instance is OK.
6798 (&parse_args): Adjust.
6799 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): Add `acsite.m4?' and `aclocal.m4?'.
6801 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6803 * configure.ac: Also find tested executables in bin.
6804 * bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
6805 * bin/autoscan.in, autoupdate.in: Use exclusively the name of the
6806 installed peer executables, only PATH is allowed to resolve it.
6807 Pass `autoconf_dir' via options, not via invisible envvars.
6808 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_peer): Remove.
6809 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): `AUTOTEST_PATH=a:b' gives
6810 `abuild:asrc:bbuild:bsrc', not `abuild:bbuild:asrc:bsrc'.
6811 * man/Makefile.am: Let help2man rely on PATH instead of trying to
6812 find the executables for it.
6813 * tests/Makefile.am: Major cleanup. Too lazy to document...
6814 * tests/atlocal.in: Remove all the obscure envvar manipulations.
6816 * tests/atspecific.m4, tests/tools.at: Passing --localdir is
6817 indeed related to running the test suite, while passing
6818 --autoconf-dir and others is related to running non installed
6819 Autoconf executables. So don't do that, leave it to...
6820 * tests/autoconf, tests/autoheader, tests/autom4te, tests/autoupdate,
6821 * tests/autoscan: New.
6822 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR, AT_CHECK_M4SH): Don't
6823 refer to library files: rely on --language.
6825 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6827 * bin/autom4te.in, lib/autom4te.in, bin/autoconf.in:
6828 s/--set/--language/.
6830 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6832 * doc/autoconf.texi: Strip the @nodes.
6833 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
6834 (Initializing configure): Typo.
6836 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6838 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_output): s/@__@/@&t@/.
6839 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
6841 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6843 * Makefile.maint (do-po-update): Wget refuses to overwrite files:
6844 download in a tmp dir.
6846 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6848 * lib/autotest/general.m4: s/AT-devnull/devnull/ since there are
6849 case insensitive OSes out there :(
6850 From Tim Van Holder.
6852 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6854 * lib/autom4te.in: New.
6855 * lib/Makefile.am (edit, autom4te.cfg): New.
6856 * bin/autom4te.in (BEGIN): Simplify.
6857 Rely on `AC_MACRODIR' in addition of `autom4te_perllibdir'.
6858 (&load_configuration): New. Use it.
6859 (&parse_args): Support --mode, --set, and --melt.
6860 * bin/autoconf.in: Simplify and adjust.
6861 * tests/Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE): Use --set.
6862 * tests/atlocal.in: Adjust.
6863 * BUGS: distcheck and check are weak.
6865 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6867 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Use
6868 foo=`(command) 2>/dev/null`
6870 foo=`command` 2>/dev/null
6871 (at-devnull): Rename as...
6873 (--clean): Remove AT-* files too.
6874 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Document `date'.
6875 Reported by Nicolas Joly.
6877 2001-08-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6879 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Don't use single
6880 quotes inside single quotes.
6881 Reported by Nicolas Joly.
6883 2001-08-28 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
6885 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Mention C right shifts.
6887 2001-08-27 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
6889 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Reword some messages.
6890 (AT_INIT): Check for the `times' builtin before using it.
6891 Support test ranges as arguments to the testsuite.
6892 Have -e imply -d as the help text suggested.
6894 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6896 * Makefile.maint: Formatting changes.
6897 (do-po-update, po-update, cvs-update, update): New targets.
6900 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6902 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT) <at_cmd_line>: Remove.
6904 Pass it to debug-*.sh scripts.
6905 <AUTOTEST_PATH>: May contain absolute dir names.
6907 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6909 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Log the command line.
6910 Support `VAR=VAL' as arguments.
6911 Compute PATH _after_ the options processing, so that AUTOTEST_PATH
6912 may be set via the command line.
6914 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6916 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): $2 defaults to $1.
6917 * lib/autotest/autotest.m4 (AT_INIT): Expand AUTOTEST_PATH into
6918 first the build dirs, then the src dirs.
6919 * configure.ac (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Adjust.
6921 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6923 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Output the definition of
6924 at_data_files earlier.
6925 (--clean, -c): New option.
6926 * tests/Makefile.am: Use this option.
6928 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6930 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Rename `ac_dots' as
6931 `ac_top_builddir' to mimic Automake's vocabulary, which much more
6934 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Actions): Document the vars
6935 available in commands.
6936 Emphasize the risks of collisions in init-cmds.
6938 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6940 * doc/autoconf.texi (Input) <AC_INIT>: Move to..
6941 (Initializing configure): this new node.
6943 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6945 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): INSTALL.txt is a dead hack.
6947 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6949 * m4/atconfig.m4 (AT_CONFIG): Remove, replaced by...
6950 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): this.
6952 * m4/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Oops, adjust...
6954 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6956 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AU_DEFINE, AU_DEFUN, AU_ALIAS): Move
6958 * lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4: this new file.
6959 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AH_OUTPUT, AH_VERBATIM)
6960 (_AH_VERBATIM_OLD, AH_TEMPLATE, _AH_TEMPLATE_OLD, AH_TOP, AH_BOTTOM):
6962 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4: this new file.
6964 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6966 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): New.
6967 (_AC_OUTPUT_LINKS, _AC_OUTPUT_FILES, _AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Use it.
6968 Standardize the var names (ac_sub_srcdir -> ac_srcdir, ac_subdir
6970 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): AS_DIRNAME always return a dir name.
6971 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Ditto.
6973 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6975 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4 (AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS)
6976 (AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_POST, AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE, AC_CONFIG_FILES)
6977 (AC_CONFIG_HEADER, AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, AC_CONFIG_IF_MEMBER)
6978 (AC_CONFIG_LINKS, AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS, AC_FILE_DEPENDENCY_TRACE)
6979 (AC_LINK_FILES, AC_LIST_COMMANDS, AC_LIST_COMMANDS_COMMANDS)
6980 (AC_LIST_FILES, AC_LIST_FILES_COMMANDS, AC_LIST_HEADERS)
6981 (AC_LIST_HEADERS_COMMANDS, AC_LIST_LINKS, AC_LIST_LINKS_COMMANDS)
6982 (AC_OUTPUT, AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS, AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_POST)
6983 (AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_PRE, AC_OUTPUT_MAKE_DEFS)
6984 (_AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_INIT, _AC_CONFIG_DEPENDENCIES)
6985 (_AC_CONFIG_DEPENDENCY, _AC_CONFIG_UNIQUE, _AC_LINK_FILES_CNT)
6986 (_AC_LIST_SUBDIRS, _AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS, _AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_CNT)
6987 (_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_INIT, _AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS)
6988 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES, _AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS, _AC_OUTPUT_LINKS)
6989 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Move to...
6990 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: this new file.
6991 * lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am: Adjust.
6992 * tests/Makefile.am, tests/suite.at: Adjust.
6994 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6998 * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Add 1.5 and dist-bzip2.
6999 (AMTAR): Help automake define it.
7000 (INSTALL, install-data-hook): The INSTALL.txt trick is no longer
7001 needed, 1.5 can have a macro and a target with the same name.
7002 * m4/auxdir.m4, m4/cond.m4, m4/depend.m4, m4/install-sh.m4,
7004 * m4/init.m4, m4/sanity.m4: Update.
7005 * doc/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): 1.5 knows the texi2dvi files.
7006 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am, lib/autotest/Makefile.am,
7007 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am, lib/autoscan/Makefile.am,
7008 * lib/Autom4te/Makefile.am, man/Makefile.am: Use dist/nodist.
7010 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7012 Provide a mean to ``AC_PREREQ'' for M4sugar, M4sh and Autotest.
7014 * lib/autoconf/version.in: Remove.
7015 * lib/m4sugar/version.in: New.
7016 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_acversion, m4_version_prereq): New.
7018 * bin/autoupdate.in: Distinguish M4sugar vs. Autoconf macros by
7019 the name of the directory they're in, instead of the filename,
7020 since version.m4 is now in m4sugar, but m4_acversion must not be
7021 classified as an Autoconf macro.
7022 ($input_m4): Don't qualify the path to m4sugar.
7023 Rather, pass autoconf_dir to m4.
7024 * tests/Makefile.am (testsuite): Remove -I top_srcdir, unneeded.
7025 * tests/suite.at: Require 2.52c.
7027 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7029 testsuite.log should include config.log.
7031 * lib/autotest/autotest.m4: New.
7032 * lib/autotest/general.m4, tests/atspecific.m4: Adjust.
7033 * tests/suite.at : Adjust.
7034 (AT_INIT): Log config.log.
7035 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_text_box): New.
7036 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOX_LITERAL): Adjust.
7037 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_CONFIG_LOG): Use them.
7038 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Fix the incredibly messy and buggy completion
7039 of config.log on traps.
7040 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Use AS_BOX.
7041 Use consistently `_ACEOF' for configure's here docs, and `_CSEOF'
7043 Open the log as soon as possible.
7044 Use the same log introduction as configure's.
7046 2001-08-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7048 * doc/autoconf.texi (Indices): New node.
7049 Move indices out of the top level menu and into this submenu.
7051 2001-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7053 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_LEX_YYTEXT_DECL): Use
7055 (AC_DECL_YYTEXT): Fix the previous patch: it points to AC_PROG_LEX.
7057 2001-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7059 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SHELL_PATH_WALK, AC_CHECK_PROG)
7060 (AC_CHECK_PROGS, AC_PATH_PROG, AC_PATH_PROGS, AC_CHECK_TOOL_PREFIX)
7061 (AC_PATH_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOLS): Move to...
7062 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4: here.
7063 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (_AC_PROG_ECHO, AC_PROG_MAKE_SET)
7064 (AC_PROG_RANLIB, AC_PROG_YACC, AC_PROG_LEX, _AC_DECL_YYTEXT)
7065 (AC_PROG_INSTALL, AC_PROG_LN_S, AC_RSH): Move to...
7066 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4: here.
7067 (_AC_DECL_YYTEXT): Rename as...
7068 (_AC_PROG_LEX_YYTEXT_DECL): this.
7069 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am
7070 * tests/Makefile.am, tests/suite.am: Adjust.
7072 2001-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7074 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_LIST_MEMBER_OF, AC_LINKER_OPTION):
7076 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_LIST_MEMBER_IF, _AC_LINKER_OPTION):
7078 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC): Move to...
7079 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4: here.
7080 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SEARCH_LIBS, AC_CHECK_LIB)
7081 (AH_CHECK_LIB): Move to...
7082 * lib/autoconf/libs: this new file.
7083 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_XMKMF, _AC_PATH_X_DIRECT)
7084 (_AC_PATH_X, AC_PATH_X, AC_PATH_XTRA): Move to...
7085 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4: here.
7086 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am: Adjust.
7088 2001-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7090 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_MKDIR_P): Fail if fails.
7091 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Adjust.
7092 (AC_SITE_LOAD): Better logging of config.site.
7094 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7096 * configure.ac (AT_CONFIG): Fix the path.
7097 * m4/atconfig.m4 (AT_CONFIG): Don't use EOF but ATEOF so that 2.52
7100 2001-08-20 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7102 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Prepare the cross-compile
7103 program with AC_LANG_PROGRAM before feeding it to
7104 AC_COMPILE_IFELSE. Cleanup grep usage.
7106 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7108 * ChangeLog, ChangeLog.0, ChangeLog.1, ChangeLog.2, AUTHORS, BUGS,
7109 * NEWS, README, README-alpha, TODO, tests/README: This package is
7110 `Autoconf', not `autoconf' (the executable).
7112 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7114 Info readers seem to need `Index' in the index node title :(
7116 * doc/autoconf.texi: Reverse the 2001-08-15 change which
7117 simplified index node names.
7119 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7121 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): Warn if the
7122 arguments are not literals.
7123 * doc/autoconf.texi (Input) <AC_INIT>: Arguments must be literals.
7124 Specify the output variables, and macros defined.
7126 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7128 * doc/autoconf.texi (Examining Declarations) <AC_TRY_CPP>:
7129 (Examining Syntax) <AC_TRY_COMPILE>
7130 (Examining Libraries) <AC_TRY_LINK>
7131 (Test Programs) <AC_TRY_RUN>: These macros double quote some of
7133 Reported by Werner Lemberg.
7135 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7137 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Compute top_builddir,
7138 top_srcdir and srcdir from at_topbuild_2_topsrc and at_testdir.
7139 Load atlocal late enough to dump it in the log.
7140 * m4/atconfig.m4 (AT_CONFIG): Pass them to atconfig.
7142 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7144 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): New test.
7145 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Say what you are
7147 * m4/atconfig.m4: Be sure the let $[0] be expandable.
7148 (top_srcdir): Fix its computation.
7150 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7152 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS): Say what you do.
7153 * m4/atconfig.m4 (AT_CONFIG): $1 is now the directory where the
7155 Create `atconfig' automagically.
7156 Configure atlocal.in if present.
7157 * tests/atconfig.in: Remove.
7158 * tests/atlocal.in: New.
7159 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
7161 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7163 Huh!?!?! There are still some user EOF tags used, which prevents
7164 their use in AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS for instance...
7166 * lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/specific.m4,
7167 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Rename the EOF tags as `_ACEOF',
7168 `_CSEOF', or `_ATEOF', as appropriate.
7169 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am,
7170 * lib/autotest/Makefile.am (check-local): Enforce this constraint.
7172 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7174 * tests/base.at, tests/m4sh.at, tests/m4sugar.at,
7175 * tests/semantics.at, tests/tools.at, tests/torture.at:
7176 s/^AT_DATA\(([^][]+),/AT_DATA([$1],/.
7178 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7180 Autotest invokes M4sh's initialization.
7182 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Adjust the diversion names.
7183 (AT_INIT): Run AS_INIT.
7184 Use the BINSH diversion to invoke /bin/sh.
7185 * tests/base.at, tests/m4sh.at, tests/m4sugar.at, tests/tools.at:
7186 * tests/torture.at: Respect M4sugar and M4sh macro name spaces.
7188 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7190 Let M4sh have its own diversions.
7192 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_m4_divert(BINSH), _m4_divert(REVISION))
7193 (_m4_divert(NOTICE)): Rename as...
7194 * lib/m4sugar/m4msh.m4 (_m4_divert(BINSH), _m4_divert(HEADER-REVISION))
7195 (_m4_divert(HEADER-COMMENT)): these.
7196 (_m4_divert(HEADER-COPYRIGHT), _m4_divert(HEADER-COPYRIGHT)): New.
7197 (_m4_divert(NOTICE)): New, for Libtool.
7198 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_m4_divert(PREPARE)): Remove, replaced
7199 long ago with `_m4_divert(GROW)'.
7200 (AC_COPYRIGHT, AC_REVISION, _AC_INIT_NOTICE): Adjust.
7202 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7204 * tests/base.at, tests/compile.at, tests/foreign.at,
7205 * tests/m4sh.at, tests/m4sugar.at, tests/mktests.sh,
7206 * tests/semantics.at, tests/suite.at, tests/tools.at,
7207 * tests/torture.at: Ask Autotest mode, not Autoconf mode.
7209 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7211 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_output): Handle @__@.
7213 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7215 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autoconf/oldnames.m4,
7216 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Adjust the license.
7218 2001-08-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7220 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Mention snprintf,
7221 following up on a suggestion by Kevin Ryde.
7223 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7225 * doc/install.texi, doc/autoconf.texi: Use `autoconf', not
7226 `autoconf_manual', as texinfo.tex 2001-06-21.10 chokes on it.
7228 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7230 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Refer to `$as_me.log', not
7231 `$0.log' as for projects where testsuite is in src, we'd have
7232 testsuite.log created in src.
7234 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7236 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Recognize --normalize.
7238 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7240 Start implementing the AC_CHECK_HEADER transition scheme.
7242 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_NEW)
7243 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_OLD, _AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): New.
7244 (AC_CHECK_HEADER): Use them.
7246 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7248 * doc/autoconf.texi: Work around Texinfo buglets.
7249 (Transformation Rules): One example is enough, users are expected
7250 to have their brains on. And BTW, use DESTDIR.
7251 (dvar): New macro. Use it.
7253 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7255 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at) <AT_CHECK>: Complete.
7256 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Use the relative dir when
7257 looking for ChangeLogs.
7259 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7261 * bin/autom4te.in: --normalize is a new option.
7262 * bin/autoconf.in: Use it.
7264 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7266 * bin/Makefile.am, lib/Autom4te/Makefile.am, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am
7267 * lib/autotest/Makefile.am, lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am: Add TAGS support.
7269 2001-08-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7271 * doc/autoconf.texi, doc/install.texi: Put copyright notice at
7274 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7276 * doc/Makefile.am (fu): New index, can't use fn because of defmac.
7279 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7281 * doc/autoconf.texi (pr): New index.
7282 (prindex, findex): Use, merge, and output them.
7283 (Environment Variable Index, Output Variable Index)
7284 (Preprocessor Symbol Index, Autoconf Macro Index, M4 Macro Index)
7285 (Autotest Macro Index): Rename as...
7286 (Environment Variables, Output Variables,Preprocessor Symbols)
7287 (Autoconf Macros, M4 Macros, Autotest Macros): these.
7288 * doc/install.texi: Use @command.
7289 (Environment Variables): Rename as...
7290 (Defining Variables): this.
7292 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7294 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): sprintf's return
7298 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7300 * Makefile.maint (CVS): New.
7301 (local-check): Run changelog-check. last.
7302 (alpha): Don't depend upon local-check, since...
7303 (cvs-dist): depends upon it.
7305 2001-08-15 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
7307 * tests/Makefile.am: Use a clean-local rule to remove
7308 autom4te.cache (it's a directory, not a file.
7309 * Makefile.am: Ditto (but maintainer-clean-local).
7311 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7313 * bin/autom4te.in (@m4_warning): New.
7314 (&handle_m4): Use it.
7315 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4_warn): Pass `-f' to autom4te to ensure the
7316 warnings are issued at each run.
7317 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR, AT_CHECK_M4SH): M4sugar
7320 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7322 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOUPDATE): Perl is now required:
7323 don't waste time running `autoupdate --version' works.
7324 * tests/tools.at (autoupdating AC_PREREQ): Likewise.
7326 2001-08-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7328 * doc/autoconf.texi (ma): Rename this index as...
7331 2001-08-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7333 * Makefile.am: Remove dead code and dead comments.
7334 (pdf, html): New targets.
7335 * doc/autoconf.texi (Using Autotest): New chapter.
7336 * doc/Makefile.am (pdf): New targets.
7337 (CLEANFILES): Adjust.
7339 2001-08-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7341 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Log the start/stop dates and
7342 duration of the test suite.
7344 2001-08-12 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7346 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Explicitelly save and load
7347 endianness for comparison instead of relying on AT_CHECK_ENV.
7349 2001-08-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7351 * doc/autoconf.texi, doc/install.texi: Add a copyright notice
7352 to the INSTALL file.
7354 2001-08-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7356 * NEWS: The autoconf manual now is distributed under the terms
7357 of the GNU Free Documentation License.
7359 * doc/autoconf.texi: Switch from old style copyright notice to FDL.
7360 Add an appendix "Copying This Manual" for the FDL.
7362 * doc/fdl.texi: New file, from
7363 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.texi>.
7365 * doc/Makefile.am (autoconf_TEXINFOS): Add fdl.texi.
7367 2001-08-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7369 * AUTHORS, BUGS, ChangeLog, ChangeLog.0, ChangeLog.1,
7370 ChangeLog.2, GNUmakefile, Makefile.maint, NEWS, README,
7371 README-alpha, TODO, configure.ac, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am,
7372 m4/atconfig.m4, m4/init.m4, m4/m4.m4, m4/missing.m4,
7373 m4/sanity.m4, tests/README, tests/aclocal.m4,
7374 tests/atspecific.m4, tests/base.at, tests/compile.at,
7375 tests/foreign.at, tests/m4sh.at, tests/m4sugar.at,
7376 tests/semantics.at, tests/suite.at, tests/tools.at,
7377 tests/torture.at: Add copyright notice.
7379 * tests/mktests.sh: Update year in copyright notice.
7381 2001-08-12 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7383 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): New test.
7385 2001-08-11 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7387 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Handle ACTION-IF-TRUE,
7388 ACTION-IF-FALSE, and ACTION-IF-UNKNOWN.
7389 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler Characteristics): Update
7390 documentation for AC_C_BIGENDIAN.
7392 2001-08-11 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7394 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Guess endianness by grep'ing
7395 magic values from an object file when cross-compiling.
7396 Based on code by Guido Draheim <Guido.Draheim@gmx.de>.
7398 2001-08-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7400 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_output): Don't use `grep' with side
7402 Suggested by Russ Allbery.
7404 2001-08-10 Ralf Corsepius <corsepiu@faw.uni-ulm.de>
7406 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Propagate the
7407 current $prefix to the sub-configures.
7409 2001-08-09 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
7411 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4: Ignore *.xSYM when looking for an executable
7412 extension (needed on BeOS). Reported by Guido van Rossum.
7414 2001-08-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7416 * bin/autom4te.in ($icache): Load it only if older than autom4te.
7418 2001-08-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7420 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): All the `at-*' are to be
7422 (at-setup-line): Huh? Be a variable `at_setup_line', not a file.
7423 No need to remove the files before and after the each test, before
7424 each test and at the end of the suite is enough.
7425 Display only the children `times', not the shell's.
7426 If the test failed or was skipped, at-times is not available.
7428 2001-08-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7430 Always produce testsuite.log, including when there are no
7431 failures. This helps getting information on skipped tests, and
7432 duration of the tests. Err, implement the latter btw.
7434 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Set up fd 6 for the log.
7435 Dump information on the first run of each test.
7436 (AT_CLEANUP): Create `at-times' containing the duration of the
7439 2001-08-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7441 The use of `dumpstat' revealed that `len' was used although it
7442 should not. m4_text_wrap was using it, but in the Autoconf world
7443 where it is legal. Hence (i) test M4sh in its own world, not
7444 Autoconf's, and (ii), ahem, fix the bug :)
7446 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Be sure the set good quotes, as tracing
7447 does not like `' instead of [].
7448 (AT_INIT): Forbid `^_?AT_'.
7449 And don't output such tokens.
7450 * tests/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): Add `script', `script.s4g',
7451 `script.as', and `autom4te.cache'.
7452 Remove `empty' and `macro' which are no longer used.
7453 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR, AT_CHECK_M4SH): New.
7454 * tests/m4sugar.at: Use it.
7455 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: Use `m4_len' not `len'.
7457 2001-08-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7459 * bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoheader.in: --force, -f is a new option.
7461 2001-08-07 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7463 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_output): Typo in quadrigraph substitution.
7465 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7467 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_ALLOCA, AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE)
7468 (AC_FUNC_FSEEKO, AC_FUNC_OBSTACK): Use AC_LANG_IFELSE, not
7470 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_MAJOR): Likewise.
7471 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_F77_HOOKS)
7472 (AC_F77_MAIN): Likewise.
7474 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7476 Don't rely on M4sugar outputting the patterns in files, since we
7477 might process the output _without_ running m4, hence without these
7480 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_init): No need for `m4_tmpdir'.
7481 * bin/autom4te.in (@Request::includes): Remove, unused.
7482 (@Request::source): Rename as...
7483 (@Request::input): this.
7484 (@preselect): Add `m4_pattern_forbid' and `m4_pattern_allow'.
7485 (&handle_output): Fetch the patterns from the traces.
7486 `$forbidden' and `$allowed' are constant: use m//o.
7487 (&handle_m4): M4sugar no longer wants `m4_tmpdir'.
7488 (m4_pattern_forbid, m4_pattern_allow): Adjust for tracing only.
7490 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7492 `autoconf && autoheader' is sped up. Now, speed up `autoheader &&
7493 autoconf', i.e., in addition to caching traces, cache the output.
7495 * bin/autom4te.in (Request::cache): Rename as...
7496 (Request::id): this.
7497 ($cache, $icache, $tcache, $ocache): New.
7498 (&handle_m4): Save M4 output in the cache instead of $tmp.
7499 (&handle_output): Adjust.
7500 (&up_to_date_p): Check that the output cache is up to date too.
7501 (top level): Run `&handle_m4' iff force or the cache is invalid.
7502 Run `&handle_output' if the output cache is more recent.
7504 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7506 * bin/autom4te.in ($force): New.
7507 (&parse_args, &print_usage): -f, --force is a new option.
7508 (&handle_output): CPP directives might have spaces after `#'.
7509 (&parse_args): The first file only can be frozen.
7511 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7513 Don't let autom4te compute the `include' traces several times:
7514 first check that the trace cache file is up to date, and then
7515 compare its timestamp with that of the output.
7517 * bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoscan.in: Normalize
7518 the preamble. Don't require 5.005 as Autom4te::General does it,
7519 and better yet (use `use', not `require'!).
7520 * lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm: Rename the last occurrences of
7521 Class::Struct as Autom4te::Struct.
7522 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (File::stat): Use it.
7523 (&mtime): New, export it.
7524 * bin/autom4te.in: Use it.
7525 Declare `$req' is invalid if it is outdated.
7526 Don't declare it valid before saving it if something went wrong.
7528 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7530 Autom4te shall not encode Autoconf data, and preselecting traces
7531 must be proposed to the users.
7533 * bin/autom4te.in (@required_trace): Remove.
7535 (&parse_args, &print_usage): -p, --preselect is a new option.
7536 (&up_to_date_p): Adjust.
7537 * bin/autoconf.in: Preselect some Autoconf macros.
7539 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7541 * tests/tools.at (autoconf --trace: user macros): Check traces on
7542 macros invoked without arguments, and macros invoked with multiple
7545 2001-08-03 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7547 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_traces): Fix rewriting of traces without
7550 2001-08-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7552 * bin/autoconf.in ($@): Work around the usual sh bug.
7555 2001-08-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7557 Clean up the handling of the M4 builtins tracing exception.
7559 * bin/autom4te.in (Request::request): Don't complete M4 builtins
7561 (@m4_builtins): Rename as...
7562 (@m4_builtin): this.
7563 (%m4_builtin_alternate_name): New.
7564 (&parse_args): Complete the trace requests with alternate names.
7565 (&handle_traces): Hence no longer do it here.
7566 (&trace_requests): Remove, unused.
7568 2001-08-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7570 * doc/autoconf.texi (Redefined M4 Macros): Document m4_exit,
7573 2001-08-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7575 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_init): Also forbid `_m4_*' tokens.
7576 (m4_divert_pop): Dump the whole diversion stack when a diversion
7578 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_output): Remember of the first
7579 occurrence of a possibly undefined macro, not the last.
7580 Complain about the possibly undefined macros in the same order as
7581 the appear in the output.
7582 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am (autoconf.m4f): List its dependencies.
7583 * tests/tools.at (autoconf: forbidden tokens, basic)
7584 (autoconf: forbidden tokens, exceptions): No longer sort
7585 autoconf's stderr, as it is now deterministic.
7586 Check that `dnl' is caught.
7588 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7590 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.52c.
7592 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7596 * lib/Autom4te/Makefile.am (perllibdir): s/Autoconf/Autom4te/.
7598 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7602 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7604 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: Use `carp' and `croak', not `warn' and
7607 * bin/autoconf.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoupdate.in: Remove your
7608 `END', as `Autom4te::General::END' will be triggered.
7609 * bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoscan.in: Improve error messages accuracy.
7610 * bin/autoupdate.in (File::Compare, File::Copy): Use them instead of
7611 system to run `mv', `rm', and `cmp'.
7613 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7615 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&unique): New.
7616 * bin/autoscan.in (&output): Use it to issue trace requests once.
7618 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7620 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: New.
7621 * bin/autom4te.in (Autom4te::General): Use it.
7622 ($me, $tmp, $verbose, $debug, &mktmpdir, &verbose, &xsystem)
7623 (&find_configure_ac, &find_slave): Remove.
7624 * bin/autoscan.in: Likewise.
7625 * bin/autoupdate.in: Likewise.
7627 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7629 * autoconf.in, autom4te.in, autoscan.in, ifnames.in,
7630 * autoheader.in, autoreconf.in, autoupdate.in: Move to...
7631 * bin: here, new directory.
7632 * lib/Autoconf: Rename as...
7633 * lib/Autom4te: this, to please case insensitive junkie OSes.
7635 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7637 * autom4te.in ($m4): Handle the --nesting-limit.
7638 * autoconf.in (M4): Remove.
7640 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7642 * autoconf.in ($AWK): Remove, no longer used.
7643 * test/tools.at: Use AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF.
7644 (AWK portability): Remove, for autoconf no longer uses AWK.
7645 (Syntax of the Perl scripts): New.
7646 * configure.ac: autoconf no longer needs an AWK with a good
7648 Use a static test on AC_PACKAGE_VERSION.
7649 * autom4te.in (&up_to_date_p): Output depends on the arguments.
7650 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am: Ship version.m4, maintainer file.
7651 * tests/atconfig.in (PERL): New.
7653 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7655 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG(C), AC_LANG_C, _AC_LANG_ABBREV(C))
7656 (AC_LANG(C++), AC_LANG_CPLUSPLUS, _AC_LANG_ABBREV(C++))
7657 (AC_LANG_SOURCE(C), AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C), AC_LANG_CALL(C))
7658 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C), AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY(C))
7659 (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C), _AC_ARG_VAR_CPPFLAGS, _AC_ARG_VAR_LDFLAGS)
7660 (AC_LANG_PREPROC(C), _AC_PROG_PREPROC_WORKS_IFELSE, AC_PROG_CPP)
7661 (AC_LANG_COMPILER(C), ac_cv_prog_gcc, AC_PROG_CC, _AC_PROG_CC_G)
7662 (AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL, AC_PROG_CC_C_O, AC_LANG_PREPROC(C++))
7663 (AC_PROG_CXXCPP, AC_LANG_COMPILER(C++), ac_cv_prog_gxx)
7664 (AC_PROG_CXX, _AC_PROG_CXX_G, _AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION)
7665 (AC_PROG_CC_STDC, AC_C_CROSS, AC_C_CHAR_UNSIGNED, AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE)
7666 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN, AC_C_INLINE, AC_C_CONST, AC_C_VOLATILE)
7667 (AC_C_STRINGIZE, AC_C_PROTOTYPES): Move to...
7668 * lib/autoconf/c.m4: here, new file.
7670 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG(Fortran 77), AC_LANG_FORTRAN77)
7671 (_AC_LANG_ABBREV(Fortran 77), AC_LANG_SOURCE(Fortran 77))
7672 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(Fortran 77), AC_LANG_CALL(Fortran 77))
7673 (AC_LANG_PREPROC(Fortran 77), AC_LANG_COMPILER(Fortran 77))
7674 (ac_cv_prog_g77, AC_PROG_F77, _AC_PROG_F77_G, AC_PROG_F77_C_O)
7675 (_AC_PROG_F77_V_OUTPUT, _AC_PROG_F77_V, AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS)
7676 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN, _AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_F77_HOOKS, AC_F77_MAIN)
7677 (_AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING, AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING, AC_F77_WRAPPERS)
7678 (AC_F77_FUNC): Move to...
7679 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4: here, new file.
7681 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7683 * acfunctions.m4: Rename as...
7684 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4: this.
7685 * acgeneral.m4: Rename as...
7686 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: this.
7687 * acheaders.m4: Rename as...
7688 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4: this.
7689 * aclang.m4: Rename as...
7690 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4: this.
7691 * acoldnames.m4: Rename as...
7692 * lib/autoconf/oldnames.m4: this.
7693 * acspecific.m4: Rename as...
7694 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4: this.
7695 * actypes.m4: Rename as...
7696 * lib/autoconf/types.m4: this.
7697 * autoconf.m4: Rename as...
7698 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4: this.
7700 * m4sugar.m4: Rename as...
7701 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: this.
7702 * m4sh.m4: Rename as...
7703 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: this.
7705 * tests/atgeneral.m4: Rename as...
7706 * lib/autotest/general.m4: this.
7708 * acfunctions: Rename as...
7709 * lib/autoscan/functions: this.
7710 * acheaders: Rename as...
7711 * lib/autoscan/headers: this.
7712 * acidentifiers: Rename as...
7713 * lib/autoscan/identifiers: this.
7714 * aclibraries: Rename as...
7715 * lib/autoscan/libraries: this.
7716 * acmakevars: Rename as...
7717 * lib/autoscan/makevars: this.
7718 * acprograms: Rename as...
7719 * lib/autoscan/programs: this.
7721 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7723 * doc/autoconf.texi: Moving/deleting open files is not portable.
7724 Portability issues for `.' (source), and more information about sed.
7726 2001-07-25 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
7728 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Ignore -libmil (on Solaris),
7729 which has a special meaning and is not a reference to libibmil.a.
7730 Reported by Matteo Frigo.
7732 2001-07-25 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
7734 * autom4te.in (mktmpdir): Strip trailing newline from mktemp
7737 2001-07-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7739 * autoconf.in: Try to define the variables before using them.
7740 * autom4te.in ($perllibdir): Use `$autom4te_perllibdir' as envvar
7741 instead of `$perllibdir'.
7742 * tests/atconfig.in ($autom4te_perllibdir): Export it.
7744 2001-07-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7746 * autoconf.in (ac_LF_and_DOT): Remove, unused.
7748 2001-07-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7750 Let autoconf use autom4te for traces.
7752 * autoconf.in ($task, task trace): Remove, merely pass --trace to
7754 * autoheader.in: Don't pass `-' to autoconf, rather, a tmp file.
7755 (Because I found no way for autom4te to accept `-').
7756 * autom4te.in (&Request::request): Beware of M4 builtins.
7757 (END): Don't try to remove the content of an empty dir.
7758 (&parse_args): Default is `$f:$l:$n:$%', not `$f:$l:$n:$*'.
7759 (&handle_output): Set a default value to `$forbidden'.
7760 * autoupdate.in (&verbose, &xsystem): New, from autom4te.in.
7761 ($autoconf): Pass --debug and --verbose.
7762 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF): Clean up autom4te's
7765 2001-07-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7767 Let autoconf use autom4te to create configure.
7769 * autoconf.in ($automate): New var.
7770 (task script): Use autom4te.
7771 * autom4te.in (File::Spec): Use it.
7773 (&parse_args): --warning is -W, not -w.
7774 Find the top level files.
7775 (&handle_m4): Pass the warnings flags.
7776 Don't report verbosely m4's failures, unless requested.
7777 (&handle_output): Don't complain for forbidden tokens in comments.
7778 Be sure to report all the forbidden tokens within a single line.
7779 (&trace_format_to_m4): Preserve `$_'.
7780 (&handle_traces): Sort the output macros.
7781 (&up_to_date_p): Find the files before trying to get its time stamp.
7783 2001-07-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7785 * Makefile.am: Ship, build and install Autom4te.
7787 * lib/Autoconf/Struct.pm: New, from Automake 1.5.
7788 * configure.in: Require Perl.
7789 * man/autom4te.in: New.
7791 2001-07-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7793 * doc/autoconf.texi (Cache Checkpointing): Use AC_MSG_ERROR in
7794 example, rather than (exit 1); exit (which isn't portable).
7796 2001-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7800 2001-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7802 The C-Fortran 77 hooks are available only once AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN
7803 was run, while they are needed also when it is expanded.
7804 Reported by Nicolas Joly.
7806 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN): Define _AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_F77_HOOKS.
7807 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C)): Use it instead of depending upon
7808 AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN being expanded.
7810 2001-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7812 * configure.in: Bump to 2.51a.
7814 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7818 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7820 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN): Let the interface be more
7821 Autoconfy: $1 = action-if-found, $2 = action-if-not-found.
7823 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7825 The runtime test for AC_FUNC_GETPGRP fails when prototypes are
7826 used. Well, then use the prototypes when you can, and runtime as
7828 Reported by Artur Frysiak
7830 * acfunctions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_GETPGRP_TEST): New.
7831 (AC_FUNC_GETPGRP): Use it.
7832 First try to compile with 0-ary or 1-ary calls.
7834 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7836 * actypes.m4 (_AC_CHECK_TYPE_REPLACEMENT_TYPE_P): `foo_t' is a
7840 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7842 * Makefile.maint: Sync. with cppi 1.10.
7844 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7846 * aclang.m4 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C)): Output F77_DUMMY_MAIN only when
7847 AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN has been run.
7848 From Pavel Roskin and Steven G. Johnson.
7850 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7852 * configure.in: Rename as...
7853 * configure.ac: this.
7855 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7857 * Makefile.am (INSTALL.txt): Don't use $@ and $< in non suffix
7860 * Makefile.maint (release-archive-dir): Rename as...
7861 (release_archive_dir): this, so that it can be specialized in
7864 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7866 * configure.in: Bump to 2.50d.
7868 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7871 * Makefile.maint (alpha): Typo.
7873 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7875 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Macro names and underscore.
7877 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7879 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/texinfo.tex
7880 * doc/standards.texi, doc/make-stds.texi: Update.
7882 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7884 * Makefile.maint (cvs-check, cvs-tag-check, cvs-diff-check): New.
7886 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7888 * Makefile.maint (maintainer-check): Rename as...
7889 (maintainer-distcheck): this.
7890 (changelog-check, static-check): New.
7893 2001-07-14 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
7895 * doc/autoconf.texi (C++ Compilers Characteristics): Last resort
7896 for CXX is g++, not gcc.
7898 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7900 * doc/autoconf.texi (Files): New subsection.
7902 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7904 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler, Fortran 77 Compiler): Be subsections
7906 (Generic Compiler Characteristics): this.
7907 (C++ Compiler): New subsection.
7909 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7911 * autoscan.in: Use IO::File.
7912 Adjust all the routines to use it.
7913 ($log): New file (autoscan.log).
7914 (output): Dump detailed logs into $log, and a shortened version to
7916 (&scan_makefile): Refine the regexp catching tokens in the code.
7917 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoscan Invocation): Document `autoscan.log'
7918 and the `configure.ac' checking feature.
7920 2001-07-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7922 For some AWK, such as on HPUX 11, `xfoo' does not match `foo|^bar'.
7923 Reported by Michael Elizabeth Chastain.
7925 * autoconf.in: Refuse such AWK.
7926 * configure.in: Likewise.
7927 * Makefile.am (acversion.m4): Do not use move-if-change this file
7929 * doc/autoconf.texi (Fortran 77 Compiler): Some typos.
7931 2001-07-10 Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com>
7933 * autoscan.in (&scan_makefile): Improve programs regexp to parse
7934 things like "g++", "file.c" and "some-conf" as tokens.
7935 (&scan_file): Match C++ files extensions.
7936 If the filename extension is C++ then ask for c++.
7938 2001-07-05 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
7940 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN): Use AC_TRY_LINK, not
7941 AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC, to check whether defining a dummy
7942 main-like routine is needed for linking with F77 libs.
7944 2001-07-05 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
7946 * aclocal.m4 (_AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION): Remove conftest*
7948 (_AC_PROG_F77_V_OUTPUT): Remove conftest*, not conftest.* after
7951 2001-07-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7953 * Makefile.am (move_if_change): New. Use it instead of `mv'.
7954 (acversion.m4): Name it `$(srcdir)/acversion.m4' to ease broken
7956 Reported by Nicolas Joly.
7958 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7960 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_RUN_IFELSE): Remove conftest.o when cleaning
7962 * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_WAIT3): Use `break' to silent some
7963 warnings from compilers.
7964 * aclang.m4 (_AC_LANG_COMPILER_GNU): Log the version information
7965 for all the compilers, not only GNU. Hence move from here...
7966 (AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX, AC_PROG_F77): to here.
7968 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7970 * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_STRTOD, AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R)
7971 (AC_FUNC_STRCOLL, AC_FUNC_WAIT3): Use AC_RUN_IFELSE and
7974 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7976 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Actually apply
7977 the ``strings.h'' change claimed below.
7979 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7981 * aclang.m4 (_AC_LANG_COMPILER_GNU): s/-dumpspecs/-v/.
7983 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7985 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Include
7986 strings.h if usable with string.h.
7987 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
7989 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7991 * autoscan.in (&scan_file): Skip FILE if there is FILE.in.
7994 2001-07-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7996 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Specify CONFIG_FILES
7999 2001-07-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8001 * acheaders.m4 (AC_CHECK_HEADER): When INCLUDES are set, use the
8002 compiler, not the preprocessor.
8003 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): No longer use
8004 dedicated code to check for inttypes.h, as AC_CHECK_HEADERS does
8006 * Makefile.am (.m4.m4f): Emphasize M4 error messages and fail
8007 earlier if there are.
8009 2001-07-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8011 * autoscan.in ($initfile): Remove.
8012 (&find_file): Rename as...
8014 Immediately scan the current file, instead of gathering them, and
8015 later having them handled by &scan_files.
8016 (&scan_files): Merely invoke Find::File.
8019 2001-07-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8021 * autoscan.in: Formatting changes, matching the invocation order.
8022 (File::Find): Use it instead of Perl 4's `find.pl'.
8023 (&wanted): Rename as...
8026 2001-07-01 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
8028 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN): Remove conftest* after using
8029 break in the argument to AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC.
8030 (AC_F77_MAIN): Remove conftest* after using break in the
8031 argument to AC_TRY_LINK.
8033 2001-07-01 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
8035 Add alternate 'main' routine detection for linking C/C++ with Fortran,
8036 fixing link failures for e.g. AC_F77_WRAPPERS on NetBSD.
8038 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN): New macro to detect whether a
8039 dummy alternate main is required even if the user provides her own
8041 (AC_F77_MAIN): New macro to detect whether it is possible to
8042 provide an alternate 'main' function name, using the 'main' from
8043 the Fortran libraries.
8044 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C)): Use F77_DUMMY_MAIN, if it is defined, so that
8045 cross-language link tests can be performed successfully.
8046 (_AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING): Require AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN. Also put $FLIBS
8047 after $LIBS, for consistency; this should be the general rule since
8048 the user may want to link to Fortran libraries that require $FLIBS.
8049 * doc/autoconf.texi: Document AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN and AC_F77_MAIN.
8051 2001-06-29 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
8053 * atgeneral.m4 (AT_CHECK): Add a newline to the end of
8054 at-stdout and at-stderr instead of removing the newline
8055 from the echo output, which is not guaranteed to work.
8057 2001-06-28 Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com>
8059 * aclang.m4 (_AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION): Only add declaration to
8060 confdefs.h when non-zero.
8062 2001-06-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8064 * configure.in: Bump to 2.50c.
8066 2001-06-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8070 2001-06-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8074 2001-06-25 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
8076 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_MACRO): Accept one more
8077 argument, AUTOCONF-FLAGS.
8078 * tests/mktests.sh (update_exclude_list): Add
8079 AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS and AC_FUNC_WAIT3.
8080 * tests/semantics.at: Test AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS and
8081 AC_FUNC_WAIT3 with "-W no-obsolete".
8083 2001-06-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8085 * tests/foreign.at (libtool): Fix the `libtoolize --version' decoding.
8087 2001-06-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8089 * autoscan.in (%macro): Now maps from word to list of macros.
8090 (&init_tables): Die when a word which is already handled by
8091 explicit macros is mapped to the default macro.
8092 (&print_unique): Remove, inlined in...
8093 (&output_kind): here.
8094 (File::Basename): Use it.
8095 (&output): Sort the CONFIG_FILES.
8096 * acheaders: Normalize.
8097 * acfunctions: Likewise.
8099 2001-06-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8101 * aclang.m4 (_AC_LANG_COMPILER_GNU): If GNU, dump the compiler
8102 characteristics in the logs.
8103 Suggested by Mo DeJong.
8105 2001-06-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8107 * acfunctions.m4 (AM_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE, AM_FUNC_FNMATCH)
8108 (AM_FUNC_MKTIME, AM_FUNC_OBSTACK, AM_FUNC_STRTOD): Reactivated.
8109 * doc/autoconf.texi (Autoconf 2.13): New section.
8111 2001-06-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8113 * autoconf.in (Task traces): Separate the error messages from the
8114 traces to improve robustness.
8116 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8118 * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): Make it a single test instead of
8119 three as failures are unlikely, and speed matters.
8121 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8123 * doc/autoconf.texi (Redefined M4 Macros): New.
8125 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8127 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Consider
8128 inttypes.h is missing if it conflicts with sys/types.h, as on IRIX
8131 2001-06-23 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
8133 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Defer parsing of
8134 config.status targets to after the evaluation of the INIT-CMDS.
8135 Double quote config.status targets (used to be single quoted).
8137 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8139 * tests/torture.at (CONFIG_FILES, HEADERS, LINKS and COMMANDS):
8140 Check the content of the created file.
8141 Check the ./config.status command line invocation.
8143 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8145 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Reject prehistoric versions.
8147 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8149 * aclang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Try to be robust to
8150 preexisting files matching a.*.
8152 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8154 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Output error messages on
8156 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_ARG_VAR): Update.
8158 2001-06-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8160 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Die instead of warning when
8161 precious variables have changed.
8162 * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): Adjust.
8164 2001-06-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8166 ./configure --program-suffix=foo produces `transform=s,$$,foo,;',
8167 but some sed choke on multiple `;', and other tools (e.g.,
8168 Automake), include the separator themselves.
8170 * acgeneral.m4 (AC_ARG_VAR): Be sure not to leave extra `;'.
8172 2001-06-19 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
8174 * doc/autoconf.texi (Functions Portability): Rename as...
8175 (Function Portability): this.
8176 (Function Portability): Document potential problems with unlink().
8178 2001-06-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8180 * NEWS, doc/autoconf.texi: Document quadrigraphs.
8182 2001-06-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8184 * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_FORK): Fix typos.
8186 2001-06-18 Ruediger Kuhlmann <info@ruediger-kuhlmann.de>
8188 * acfunctions.m4: (AC_FUNC_VFORK) rename as...
8189 (_AC_FUNC_VFORK): this.
8190 Remove AC_DEFINEs and don't guess cross-compilation values.
8191 (_AC_FUNC_FORK): New, check whether fork() isn't just a stub.
8192 (AC_FUNC_FORK): New, use _AC_FUNC_VFORK and _AC_FUNC_FORK to
8193 define HAVE_WORKING_FORK, HAVE_WORKING_VFORK; and vfork to fork if
8195 Guess values if cross-compiling, but warn.
8196 * acfunctions: Add AC_FUNC_FORK.
8197 * doc/autoconf.texi: Document AC_FUNC_FORK. Give example to define
8198 and vfork appropriately.
8200 2001-06-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8202 * doc/autoconf.texi (Functions Portability): New section.
8204 2001-06-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8206 * autoconf.in (M4): Pass --nesting-limit=1024, unless already set
8208 Suggested by Andreas Schwab.
8210 2001-06-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8212 * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_CHOWN, AC_FUNC_CLOSEDIR_VOID)
8213 (AC_FUNC_GETPGRP, AC_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK)
8214 (AC_FUNC_MMAP, AC_FUNC_SELECT_ARGTYPES, _AC_FUNC_STAT)
8215 (AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL): Use AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT.
8216 Don't use AC_TRY_RUN, which double quotes, prefer AC_RUN_IFELSE,
8217 and either AC_LANG_SOURCE or AC_LANG_PROGRAM.
8218 (AC_FUNC_CLOSEDIR_VOID): Protect C++ from `int closedir ();' (or
8221 2001-06-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8223 * doc/autoconf.texi (ms): New index.
8224 (Macro Index): Rename as...
8225 (Autoconf Macro Index): this.
8226 (M4 Macro Index): New appendix.
8227 (Programming in M4): New chapter.
8228 Define M4sugar, M4sh, m4_pattern_forbid, and m4_pattern_allow.
8229 (Quoting): Rename as...
8230 (M$ Quotation): this.
8231 Be part of `Programming in M4).
8233 2001-06-18 Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>
8235 * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): Set variables and export them
8236 in separate statements for compatibility with Tru64 v5.1.
8238 2001-06-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8240 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Be sure to cache the
8241 current values of the precious variables, not the previously
8243 Pass precious variables which are set to config.status.
8244 * doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Document AC_ARG_VAR.
8245 * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): New.
8247 2001-06-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8249 * doc/autoconf.texi: Move AC_FUNC_WAIT3 and
8250 AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS to the obsolete section,
8251 and explain why and how to replace them.
8252 * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_WAIT3): Warn as obsolete.
8253 * acspecific.m4 (AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS): Likewise.
8255 2001-06-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8257 `build_alias', `host_alias', and `target_alias' are not AC_SUBST'd.
8258 Reported by Bruno Haible.
8260 * acgeneral.m4 (AC_ARG_VAR): Move the AC_SUBST, from here...
8261 (_AC_ARG_VAR_PRECIOUS): to here.
8263 2001-06-15 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
8265 * acheaders.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_DIRENT): Instead of defining
8266 an unused pointer use cast to this type and `if' statement to
8267 avoid warnings from the compiler.
8268 (AC_HEADER_TIME): Likewise.
8269 * actypes.m4 (AC_CHECK_MEMBER): s/foo/ac_aggr/. Use the member
8270 in `if' statement to avoid warnings from the compiler. Declare
8271 ac_aggr static to avoid the need to initialize it.
8273 2001-06-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8275 * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell): Move to follow `Writing
8278 2001-06-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8280 * m4/missing.m4, config/missing: Updated to Automake 1.4g's.
8281 Suggested by Alexander Mai.
8283 2001-06-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8285 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Guard
8286 sys/types.h and sys/stat.h, and check for them.
8288 2001-06-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8290 * acheaders.m4 (AC_CHECK_HEADER, AC_CHECK_HEADERS): Support $4 =
8293 2001-06-12 Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
8295 * acspecific.m4 (AC_PATH_XTRA): Check if linking against libX11
8296 succeeds and only try adding libdnet upon a failure.
8298 2001-06-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8300 * autoscan.in (&output_kind): Output the comment only if it exists.
8301 (%kind_comment): Add entry for `programs'.
8302 (&output_programs): Use &output_kind.
8303 (&output_functions, &output_identifiers, &output_headers)
8304 (&output_programs): Inline, and remove.
8306 2001-06-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8308 * autoscan.in (%kind_comment): New.
8310 (output_functions, output_identifiers, output_headers): Use it.
8312 2001-06-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8314 * autoscan.in (&print_unique): Take `$kind' and `$word' as
8315 arguments, to factor indirections into `%macro' and `%used'.
8316 (%generic_macro): Fix a typo.
8318 2001-06-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8321 * autoscan.in (@kinds): Add `libraries'.
8322 Use `@kinds' instead of hard coded lists.
8323 (%programs, %headers, %identifiers, %makevars, %libraries, %functions):
8324 Remove, replaced by...
8327 2001-06-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8329 * autoscan.in (%functions_macros %headers_macros)
8330 (%identifiers_macros %programs_macros %makevars_macros): Remove,
8334 2001-06-11 Raja R Harinath <harinath@cs.umn.edu>
8336 * aclang.m4 (AC_NO_EXECUTABLES): Override
8337 _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_WORKS, not _AC_LANG_COMPILER_WORKS.
8339 2001-06-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8341 * aclang.m4 (AC_NO_EXECUTABLES): Define the macros with their
8343 Reported by Andreas Schwab.
8345 2001-06-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8347 * Makefile.am, Makefile.maint: Typos.
8349 2001-06-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8351 * doc/autoconf.texi (Here-Documents): New section, gathering
8352 documentation about here-documents.
8353 Use `href', not `uref', and other changes.
8355 2001-06-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8357 * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell Programming): Promoted as a
8360 2001-06-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8362 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Complete the
8363 description of the here-docs penalties with Alexandre Oliva's
8366 2001-06-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8368 * doc/autoconf.texi: Talk about here documents and speedups.
8369 Do not use "echo" on arbitrary strings.
8370 Spell "here-documents" consistently with the standard.
8372 2001-06-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8374 * doc/autoconf.texi (Concept Index): Introduce it.
8375 Regenerate the menus.
8377 2001-06-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8379 * Makefile.maint, GNUmakefile: New, from Jim Meyering.
8380 * config/prev-version.txt: New.
8381 * config/move-if-change: New, for GNU libc.
8383 2001-06-06 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
8385 * tests/atgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Remove "/bin/sh" after $SHELL.
8387 2001-06-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8389 * acgeneral.m4 (AC_CHECK_LIB): Fix the cache var name to work
8390 properly when $1 is not a literal.
8391 Fixes PR Autoconf/187, reported by Bram Moolenaar.
8393 2001-06-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8395 Invoking AC_COPYRIGHT before AC_INIT fails.
8397 * Makefile.am (.m4.m4f): Pass --fatal-warnings to m4.
8398 * acgeneral.m4 (_m4_divert(VERSION_FSF))
8399 (_m4_divert(VERSION_USER)): New.
8400 (AC_COPYRIGHT): $2 is the diversion to use.
8401 (_AC_INIT_COPYRIGHT): Use the FSF diversion.
8402 (AC_INIT): Remove dead comments as now it's commutative.
8404 2001-06-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8406 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_LIB): Strengthen to reflect
8409 2001-06-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8411 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): `prefix' and `exec_prefix'
8413 `*dir' variables cannot be NONE.
8414 Reported by Mark Kettenis.
8416 2001-06-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8418 * doc/autoconf.texi: Fix references to Solaris and SunOS versions.
8420 2001-06-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8422 * acgeneral.m4 (AC_VAR_SET, AC_VAR_GET, AC_VAR_TEST_SET)
8423 (AC_VAR_SET_IFELSE, AC_VAR_PUSHDEF and AC_VAR_POPDEF, AC_TR_CPP)
8424 (AC_TR_SH): Move as...
8425 * m4sh.m4 (AS_VAR_SET, AS_VAR_GET, AS_VAR_TEST_SET)
8426 (AS_VAR_SET_IF, AC_VAR_PUSHDEF, AS_VAR_POPDEF, AS_TR_CPP)
8428 (_AS_TR_PREPARE, _AS_CR_PREPARE, _AS_TR_CPP_PREPARE)
8429 (_AS_TR_SH_PREPARE): New.
8430 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Invoke _AS_TR_PREPARE.
8431 * tests/aclocal.m4 (AC_STATE_SAVE): `as_' vars can be modified.
8433 2001-06-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8435 * Makefile.am (.m4.m4f): Pass the options first.
8436 Fixes PR autoconf/182.
8438 2001-06-02 Nathan Sidwell <nathan@codesourcery.com>
8440 GNU getopt, when POSIXLY_CORRECT does not permute options and
8441 arguments. So pass the options first.
8442 Fixes PR autoconf/184.
8444 * autoconf.sh (m4_prefiles, m4f_prefiles): New variables.
8445 (run_m4): Remove files.
8447 Update remainder of script to use them.
8448 (for warning in): Do not use a literal comma as it will not be
8451 2001-06-02 Christian Marquardt <marq@gfz-potsdam.de>
8453 * aclang.m4 (AC_PROG_F77): Add Fujitsu's "frt" to the list of
8454 Fortran compilers to check.
8455 (_AC_PROG_F77_V): Add '-###' as a possible option to print
8456 information on library and object files.
8457 (AC_PROG_CXX): Add Fujitsu's "FCC" to the list of C++ compilers
8460 2001-06-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8462 * autom4te.in (Request::@request): Declare with `vars', not `my',
8463 as it prevents updates via `do FILENAME'.
8465 2001-06-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8467 * configure.in (standards_texi): Remove, dead code.
8469 2001-06-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8473 2001-06-02 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
8475 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Don't rely on $? in the traps
8476 for signals other than 0 - exit with code 1.
8477 * m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): Likewise.
8478 * autoconf.in: Likewise. Also don't rely on exit == exit $?.
8479 * autoheader.in: Likewise.
8480 * autoreconf.in: Likewise.
8481 * tests/torture.at (Signal handling): New test for the above.
8483 2001-06-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8485 * m4sugar.m4 (m4_defn, m4_undefine, m4_popdef): Clarify the error
8488 2001-05-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8490 * acfunctions, acheaders, acidentifiers, acmakevars, acprograms:
8491 Add copyright and comments.
8492 * acheaders: Add stdint.h.
8493 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
8495 2001-05-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8497 * atgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Use $SHELL.
8498 * atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_DEFINES): Skip HAVE_STDINT_H.
8500 2001-05-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8502 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Include
8504 From Paul Eggert and Lars Hecking.
8506 2001-05-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8508 * tests/base.at: Adjust line numbers in error messages.
8510 2001-05-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8512 * tests/base.at, tests/m4sh.at: When using AC_PLAIN_SCRIPT be sure
8513 to emit the bangshe line.
8514 Reported by David Carter.
8516 2001-05-30 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
8518 * aclang.m4 (AC_PROG_F77): Add Compaq's "fort" to the list of
8519 Fortran (95) compilers to check.
8521 2001-05-29 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
8523 * doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction, Pointers): Update the Autoconf
8526 2001-05-23 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
8528 * aclang.m4 (AC_PROG_CPP): Use `break' instead of `break 2' since
8529 _AC_PROG_PREPROC_WORKS_IFELSE expands arguments outside the loop.
8530 (AC_PROG_CXXCPP): Likewise.
8532 2001-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8534 * config: New directory.
8535 * configure.in: AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR it.
8536 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CONFIGURE_AC): Adjust.
8538 2001-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8540 * autoconf.in, autoreconf.in, autoheader.in, autoscan.in, ifnames.in,
8541 * autoupdate.in: Specify the Emacs mode.
8542 * acversion.m4.in: Rename as...
8543 * acversion.m4: this.
8544 * tests/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): More garbage.
8546 2001-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8548 * autoconf.sh, autoreconf.sh, autoheader.sh, autoscan.pl, ifnames.sh:
8550 * autoconf.in, autoreconf.in, autoheader.in, autoscan.in, ifnames.in:
8553 2001-05-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8555 * configure.in: Bump to 2.50a.
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