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1 2006-06-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2 and Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4 * NEWS: Document that m4wrap/m4_wrap might not be LIFO.
5 * doc/autoconf.texi (): Likewise.
6 Rework example of m4wrap token-pasting trouble so that it doesn't
7 care whether it's LIFO or FIFO.
8 Fix some "contrary to"s that are awkward in English.
10 2006-06-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
12 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (_AC_TYPE_INT): Set `$ac_cv_c_int$1_t'
13 to `yes' instead of `int$1_t' if the type is found, for more
14 consistent configure output (where $1 is the number of bits).
15 (_AC_TYPE_UINT): Likewise for `uint$1_t'.
16 Suggested by Bruno Haible.
18 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_INT): Solaris 2.5.1
19 needs _UINT8_T and _UINT64_T defines as well, to avoid clashes
20 with system headers. Report by Bruno Haible.
22 2006-06-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
24 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub: Sync from upstream.
26 * bin/Makefile.am (autoconf.in): Use `--melt' for autom4te,
27 in order to avoid picking up an older installed frozen m4sh.m4f.
28 Besides an outdated shell startup, this could have been created
29 by an earlier M4 version with incompatible frozen file format.
31 2006-06-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
33 * README: Recommend m4 1.4.4 instead of 1.4.3..
34 * doc/autoconf.texi: Likewise.
35 (Special Chars in Names): Say that $(.FOO) is portable, as
36 suggested by Stepan Kasal.
37 (Installation Directory Variables, Build Directories):
38 (Automatic Remaking, Subdirectories, Fortran Compiler):
39 (Making testsuite Scripts, Defining Directories):
40 Quote variable usages better.
41 (Making testsuite Scripts): Add clean-local rule to makefile
42 snippet, by Eric Blake.
43 (Installation Directory Variables): Fix table item font.
44 Reword slightly to clarify. Generalize advice about
45 not using special characters to include all file-related
46 vars, not just VPATH.
47 (Special Chars in Variables): Warn about special characters in
48 $(srcdir) too.
49 (Assignments): Clarify default-value example as suggested by
50 Ralf Wildenhues in
51 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2006-06/msg00072.html>.
52 (Special Shell Variables): Note leading ./ or ../, as suggested
53 by Eric Blake.
54 (Limitations of Builtins): Under cd, warn about CDPATH.
55 (The Make Macro MAKEFLAGS): Untabify. Problem reported by
56 Ralf Wildenhues.
58 2006-06-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
60 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Actions): Remove duplicate
61 `@var', for texi2html.
62 (Systemology): Some more word wrapping, for DVI output.
63 (autom4te Invocation): The short option for `--melt' is `-M',
64 not `-m'.
66 2006-06-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
68 * doc/autoconf.texi: More formatting and English tweaks,
69 many suggested by Ralf Wildenhues.
70 Reword to avoid "@code{...}'s" and the like, since it's ugly
71 with Emacs info mode. discontents -> woes.
72 Put a few "will"s back. time stamp -> timestamp.
73 side-effect -> side effect.
75 2006-06-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
77 * doc/autoconf.texi (Initializing configure, Shell Substitutions):
78 Warn about $@ not persisting. Problem reported by Julien Danjou in
79 <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=372179>.
80 (Special Chars in Names): Renamed from Leading _ in Macro Names.
81 Mention other special chars, too.
83 2006-06-14 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
85 * doc/autoconf.texi (The Make Macro MAKEFLAGS): New node.
87 2006-06-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
89 * doc/autoconf.texi: Some systematic minor improvements, as
90 follows. Use "makefile" when talking about makefiles
91 generally (which might be named "makefile" or "Makefile" or even
92 "foo.mk"), "Makefile" when talking about a specific makefile
93 called "Makefile". This unclutters the text from weird quotes
94 (e.g., "`Makefile's" in info mode). Similarly, use "@var{foo}
95 values" rather than "@var{foo}s" and similar constructs containing
96 "}s". Use "Make rules" rather than "Makefile rules". Minor
97 English-language improvements. Change the prefix "sub-" to "sub"
98 and "re-" to "re".
99 Put blank lines around examples more consistently.
100 Avoid "rather" and "very" as intensifiers.
101 Avoid "will" as an auxiliary.
102 (Limitations of Make): Split this node into....
103 (Portable Make, $< in Ordinary Make Rules, Failure in Make Rules):
104 (Leading _ in Macro Names, Backslash-Newline-Newline):
105 (Backslash-Newline Comments, Long Lines in Makefiles):
106 (Macros and Submakes, The Make Macro SHELL, Comments in Make Rules):
107 (obj/ and Make, make -k Status, VPATH and Make):
108 (VPATH and Double-colon, $< in Explicit Rules):
109 (Automatic Rule Rewriting, OSF/Tru64 Directory Magic):
110 (Make Target Lookup, Single Suffix Rules, Timestamps and Make):
111 New nodes, resulting from splitup of Limitations of Make.
112 All cross-references changed. Raise the top node from
113 a section to a chapter, and all subnodes accordingly.
114 Redo the introductory wording to match the new organization.
115 (Installation Directory Variables): Use an example that is
116 closer to what Autoconf actually does. Mention that VPATH's
117 value should not contain metacharacters or white space.
118 (Fortran Compiler): Fix a VPATH bug in an example.
119 (Leading _ in Macro Names): Mention that this problem is no longer
120 of practical concern.
121 (VPATH and Make): Reword the advice to make it clearer
122 that Autoconf and Automake support VPATH in non-GNU make, but
123 many packages have bugs in this area.
124 ($< in Explicit Rules): Refer to Build Directories rather
125 than using a (non-VPATH-safe) example.
126 (Automatic Rule Rewriting): Mention the sort of disaster that
127 can ensue with Solaris-style rule rewriting with VPATH.
129 2006-06-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
131 * doc/install.texi (Compilers and Options): Weaken the
132 suggestion to use GNU make for VPATH builds.
134 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Add AM_PROG_CXX_C_O,
135 AM_PROG_F77_C_O, AM_PROG_FC_C_O, AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_FREEFORM.
137 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Fix M4 quotation
138 in regular expression.
140 2006-06-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
142 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables):
143 Drop extra @samp from `@table @samp' item.
144 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Comment fix.
145 Do not nest @samp just to point to other table items.
146 (Writing testsuite.at) <AT_CHECK>: The second argument to
147 `@dvar' is already @samp'ed.
148 (Making testsuite Scripts) <AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR>: Likewise,
149 do not use @var in the second argument.
151 2006-06-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
153 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Look for
154 $as_shell.exe too. Problem reported by Andreas Buening in
155 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2006-06/msg00038.html>.
157 2006-06-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
159 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_ALLOCA): Work around
160 `unused variable' compiler warning, for `-Wall -Werror'.
161 Reported by Jaap Haitsma in
162 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2006-06/msg00012.html>.
164 2006-06-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
166 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_C_O): Remove core file, in
167 case the compiler dumps core. Problem reported for
168 OpenServer 5.0.7 by Tim Rice in
169 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2006-06/msg00019.html>.
170 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, _AC_LINK_IFELSE):
171 Likewise.
173 2006-06-06 Tim Rice <tim@multitalents.net>.
175 * lib/freeze.mk: Quiet check-forbidden-patterns so the string
176 "ERROR" only shows up in "make check" output if there is an
177 error.
179 2006-06-06 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
181 * tests/tools.at (automatically allowed tokens): Fix typo.
183 2006-06-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
185 * NEWS: Don't blame non-GNU VPATH compatibility issues on Automake.
187 * doc/autoconf.texi (Integer Overflow): Mention that INT_MIN % -1
188 typically overflows on x86 CPUs, even though the C standard
189 requires otherwise.
191 2006-06-05 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
193 * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump to 2.59e.
194 * NEWS: Update.
196 2006-06-05 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
198 Version 2.59d.
200 * config/texinfo.tex: Sync from upstream.
202 * bin/autoreconf.in: Trace `LT_CONFIG_LTDL_DIR'; if it has been
203 seen, invoke libtoolize with `--ltdl' argument.
204 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoreconf-preselections): Adjust.
205 * NEWS: Update.
206 Suggested by Eric Blake.
208 2006-06-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
210 * NEWS: Whoops! AC_FUNC_STRNLEN isn't obsolescent. Problem
211 reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
212 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_FUNC_STRNLEN): Likewise.
214 2006-06-05 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
216 * THANKS: Update.
218 2006-06-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
220 * doc/autoconf.texi: Modernize some of the references to Solaris.
222 2006-06-05 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
224 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_require): Modify the error
225 message issued by AC_REQUIRE.
226 * tests/m4sugar.at: Check m4_require's error message.
227 * tests/base.at: Check AC_REQUIRE's error message.
228 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_M4): New macro, almost identical
229 to...
230 (AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE): ... which is now a thin wrapper around
231 AT_CHECK_M4.
232 (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF): Use AT_CHECK_M4; no longer support
233 `expout' as the last parameter.
234 * tests/tools.at: Adapt to the above change.
236 2006-06-04 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
238 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Correct
239 information about race-free implementations of mkdir.
241 2006-06-04 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
243 * bin/autoreconf.in (help): Document M4 environment variable.
244 * bin/autoconf.as (Usage): Likewise.
245 * bin/autom4te.in (help): Likewise.
246 * doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te Invocation): Likewise.
248 2006-06-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
250 * NEWS: GNU make now recommended for VPATH builds.
251 Mention that some macros are now documented to be obsolescent.
252 * doc/autoconf.texi:
253 Prefer "current" to "modern" to describe
254 currently-used (albeit perhaps old-fashioned) hosts.
255 Mention which ancient features no longer need to be worried about.
256 setgid -> set-group-ID
257 setuid -> set-user-ID (these are the Posix terms)
258 Fix some misuses of "only".
259 (AC_C_BACKSLASH_A, AC_C_CONST, AC_C_PROTOTYPES):
260 (AC_C_STRINGIZE, AC_C_VOLATILE, AC_FUNC_CLOSEDIR_VOID):
261 (AC_FUNC_GETPGRP, AC_FUNC_LSTAT, AC_FUNC_MEMCMP):
262 (AC_FUNC_SELECT_ARGTYPES, AC_FUNC_SETPGRP):
263 (AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED, AC_FUNC_STAT, AC_FUNC_STRFTIME):
264 (AC_FUNC_STRNLEN, AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL, AC_FUNC_VPRINTF):
265 (AC_HEADER_DIRENT, AC_HEADER_STAT, AC_HEADER_STDC):
266 (AC_HEADER_SYS_WAIT, AC_HEADER_TIME, AC_ISC_POSIX):
267 (AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL, AC_STRUCT_TM):
268 Mention that these macros are obsolescent.
269 (Installation Directory Variables): shall -> should
270 (File Descriptors): Mention that 0, 1, 2 might get reopened.
271 Mention that it's now safe to use 3 and 4.
272 (Limitations of Usual Tools): cp -r is now specified by Posix.
273 Omit longwinded and obsolescent discussion of cp -f.
274 Modernize discussion of expr, ls.
275 (Limitations of Make): Modernize discussion of VPATH builds.
276 Mention $? as a workaround in some cases.
277 * doc/install.texi (Basic Installation):
278 Mention "./configure; make; make install" first. Be more
279 specific about why this file is generic. Remove unnecessary
280 parens. Remove misleading "only". Remove obsolete advice
281 about csh. Don't say "configure" takes awhile; say it
282 might take a while. Suggest CFLAGS=-g rather than CFLAGS=-O2,
283 and CC=c99 rather than CC=c89, as these are blessed by current
284 Posix. Recommend GNU make if doing a VPATH build.
286 2006-06-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
288 * doc/autoconf.texi: Use a consistent style "$ @kbd{...}" for
289 examples involving shell prompts.
291 2006-06-02 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
292 and Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
294 * doc/autoconf.texi (Here-Documents): Add details about the
295 pre-ksh93g bug. Reword slightly to make it clearer. Consistently
296 use "here-documents" instead of "here documents".
298 2006-06-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
300 * config/texinfo.tex, doc/standards.texi: Sync from upstream.
302 2006-06-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
304 * doc/autoconf.texi (File System Conventions): Warn about ":"
305 anywhere in directory names.
307 2006-05-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
309 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_DO_ECHO): Be even more conservative
310 about quoting the case statement, just in case.
311 * doc/autoconf.texi (Here-Documents): Mention that the ksh bug
312 was fixed in ksh93g; reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
314 2006-05-31 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
316 * doc/autoconf.texi (System Services): Do not document
317 overriding EXEEXT via ac_cv_exeext=ext.
318 (Particular Programs) <AC_PROG_MKDIR_P>:
319 Document that ${MKDIR_P} understands --.
320 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MKDIR_P): Improve the
321 comment.
323 2006-05-31 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
325 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DIRNAME_PREPARE): Guard against test
326 argument with leading hyphen. Problem reported by Paul Eggert.
328 2006-05-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
330 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_DO_ECHO): Be more conservative
331 about quoting ac_try: quote all of it, if any of it seems suspicious.
332 This means we don't have to worry about ${ or sed any more.
333 Also, double-quote the case statement, to work around misuses via
334 underquoting as reported by Ralf Wildenhues in
335 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2006-05/msg00169.html>.
336 (_AC_EVAL_STDERR): Revert, since evidently some packages rely on this
337 undocumented and dangerous macro.
338 Problem reported by Ralf Wildenhues in
339 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2006-05/msg00168.html>.
341 2006-05-31 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
343 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DIRNAME_PREPARE): Check whether
344 `dirname -- /' returns `/', for SunOS dirname scripts that escaped.
345 Report by Sam Sirlin <sam@kalessin.jpl.nasa.gov>.
347 2006-05-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
349 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Revert AC_TRY_EVAL and AC_TRY_COMMAND,
350 since evidently some packages rely on the old, broken behavior.
351 Problem reported by Ralf Wildenhues in
352 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2006-05/msg00160.html>.
353 (AC_TRY_EVAL, AC_TRY_COMMAND, _AC_EVAL): Go back to the
354 pre-2006-05-26 definitions, but leave in the comments that
355 these macros are dangerous and should not be used.
356 (_AC_DO_ECHO): Renamed from _AC_EVAL_ECHO. All callers changed.
357 (_AC_DO): Renamed from _AC_EVAL. All callers changed.
358 (_AC_DO_STDERR): Renamed from _AC_EVAL_STDERR. All callers changed.
359 (_AC_DO_VAR): Renamed from AC_TRY_EVAL.
360 (_AC_DO_TOKENS): Renamed from AC_TRY_COMMAND.
362 2006-05-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
364 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_OUTPUT_MAKE_DEFS): Rewrite to avoid
365 the use of 'tr', since this is our only use of 'tr'.
367 2006-05-29 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
368 and Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
370 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE):
371 Don't assume 'grep' works on long lines, since AIX grep doesn't.
373 2005-05-28 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
375 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILE): Do not use `grep' on
376 the output file in the `${datarootdir}' test.
378 2005-05-28 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
379 and Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
381 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILE): If we have not seen
382 mention of `datarootdir' in the input file(s), but literal
383 `${datarootdir}' in the output file, and we haven't warned yet,
384 then warn as well: the user may have (erroneously) used
385 `AC_SUBST([mydatadir], [$datadir/my])' instead of the correct
386 `AC_SUBST([mydatadir], ['${datadir}/my'])'.
387 * tests/torture.at (datarootdir workaround): Extend this test.
388 * NEWS: Update.
390 2006-05-27 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
391 and Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
393 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoheader Invocation): The first argument to
394 `AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED' need not be a literal. Mention the
395 alternatives and clear up the language a bit.
397 2006-05-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
399 * NEWS: Reword notice for AC_TRY_COMMAND, AC_TRY_EVAL,
400 ac_config_guess, ac_config_sub, ac_configure.
401 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS):
402 Fix typo that prevented an unnecessary space from being removed.
403 Problems reported by Ralf Wildenhues in:
404 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2006-05/msg00143.html
406 2006-05-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
408 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs, Limitations of Usual Tools):
409 Use better wording to talk about AC_PROG_MKDIR_P's thread-safety.
410 Don't use the term "thread-safe" to talk about mkdir race
411 conditions, since the problem is more a process than a thread
412 issue. Problem reported by Stepan Kasal in:
413 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2006-05/msg00088.html
414 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MKDIR_P): Use code that mimics
415 the test for 'install' more closely. Look at MKDIR_P first.
416 Look in the PATH, and at /opt/sfw/bin.
417 Look for a 'gmkdir' program as well (Solaris 10 /opt/sfw/bin/gmkdir).
418 Don't bother to try mkdir -p, since we already check mkdir --version;
419 just look at the version number. (There's no easy way to check
420 for race-free implementations.)
421 * tests/tools.at (autoconf: subdirectories): Adjust to above
422 changes, since MKDIR_P now might end in "/mkdir -p".
424 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoheader Invocation): Mention that the
425 first arg of AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED must be a literal.
426 Problem reported by Ben Pfaff in
427 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2006-05/msg00090.html>.
429 * NEWS: Mention that AC_TRY_COMMAND and AC_TRY_EVAL may be removed.
430 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Chars in Variables): New section.
431 (Preset Output Variables): Warn about special chars in CPPFLAGS.
432 (Installation Directory Variables): Quote $(datadir) better.
433 (Limitations of Builtins): Describe some of eval's trickiness.
435 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_C_O): Simplify quoting.
436 * lib/autoconf/fortram.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): Likewise.
437 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Put leading space
438 in front of every arg, not just trailing args. Quote apostrophes.
439 (_AC_EVAL_ECHO): New macro.
440 (_AC_EVAL, AC_EVAL_STDERR): Use it. Quote arg of eval.
441 (AC_TRY_EVAL, AC_TRY_COMMAND): Mention that these macros might get
442 removed.
443 (_AC_LINK_IFELSE): Use proper rule for shell continuation lines,
444 exposed by quoting of eval argument. Put the command on line line
445 so it logs better.
446 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_XMKMF): Use eval more safely.
447 (_AC_PATH_X, AC_PATH_X): Quote more safely.
448 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Use eval more safely.
449 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_LONG_FILE_NAMES): Don't use eval.
450 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Minor style change.
451 Handle special chars in prefix, ac_srcdir, ac_aux_dir.
452 Use eval more safely.
453 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Adjust to above changes.
454 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_VAR_GET): Note that this API needs
455 to be replaced.
456 * tests/base.at (AC_TRY_COMMAND): Use proper rule for shell continuation
457 lines, exposed by quoting of eval argument.
459 2006-05-26 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
460 and Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
462 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Drop the
463 initialization of `ac_cv_exeext', do not override it if it was
464 already set, unless it was set to `no', for compatibility with
465 Autoconf-2.13, and comment this.
466 Do not export `ac_cv_exeext', Libtool hasn't needed this for years.
467 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Likewise, do not export it.
468 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_WORKS, _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_CROSS): Typos.
469 * doc/autoconf.texi (Compilers and Preprocessors) <EXEEXT>:
470 Document that this test may be overridden by setting
471 `ac_cv_exeext'.
473 2006-05-26 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
475 Revert these two patches:
477 2006-04-06 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
478 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O): Inside cache
479 check, s/ac_exeext/ac_cv_exeext/. Fixes regression introduced
480 2006-04-01.
482 2006-04-01 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
483 Clean up _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT* macros.
484 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Don't try to
485 detect exeext, it will be done by _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O; just set
486 ac_file to the name of the default output file and call
487 _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_WORKS. Move the definition of ac_files and the
488 initial `rm' of the candidate files...
489 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT): ... here and simplify them. Moreover, use
490 the same list in subsequent `rm' calls, and for the temporary
491 redefinition of ac_clean_files; call _AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT at the end,
492 and don't call the other _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_* macros directly, use...
493 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_TESTS): ... this new macro.
494 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O): Don't export ac_cv_exeext, it's not needed (or
495 no longer needed) by libtool. Make it a cache check.
496 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_CROSS): Remove the comment, it was obviously
497 copied here by mistake.
498 (AC_NO_EXECUTABLES): Redefine _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_TESTS, not
499 _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT.
500 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX, AC_PROG_OBJC): Do not call
501 _AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT directly.
502 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Likewise.
504 2006-05-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
506 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) < sed (`t')>:
507 Fix description of how the buggy `sed' works.
509 2006-05-25 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
511 Sync from Automake:
513 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm (lock): Allow EOPNOTSUPP, besides
514 ENOLCK. Only mention `make -j' when applicable. Only raise
515 fatal errors when `make -j' is involved. Improve error message.
517 2006-05-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
519 * doc/autoconf.texi (Here-Documents): We now know more about
520 the variable expansion in here documents bug.
521 Thanks to Tim Rice and Stepan Kasal.
523 * doc/autoconf.texi (Making testsuite Scripts): Add an example
524 how to use TESTSUITEFLAGS. Suggested by Eric Blake.
526 2006-05-24 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
528 * tests/autotest.at (Multiline command from M4 expansion):
529 No failure to be expected if the shell quotes newlines in
530 commands in the `set -x' output. Report by Tim Rice.
531 * THANKS: Update.
533 2006-05-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
535 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADER): Don't use shell
536 expansion in the here-documents used by config.status, as that
537 runs afoul of the Korn shell version M-12/28/93d bug described in
538 the Autoconf manual, and this in turn causes a Coreutils 5.95 build to
539 fail as described by Tim Rice and diagnosed by Ralf Wildenhues in
540 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2006-05/msg00082.html>.
542 2006-05-23 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
544 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK):
545 Fix typo introduced with 2006-04-02 change. It reversed the sense
546 of the test.
548 2006-05-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
550 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADER): Simplify ac_dA and
551 ac_dB slightly, to save bytes in the script.
552 Max out at 50 lines, rather than 96; this is more likely
553 (though not guaranteed) to avoid obscure 'sed' failures.
555 2006-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
557 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): UnixWare `tr' may interpret
558 `tr -d -' as bad option argument. Work around this by deleting
559 an unrelated character.
560 Report by Tim Rice <tim@multitalents.net>.
562 2006-05-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,
563 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>,
564 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
566 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): Do not promise that
567 we always prefer the GNU version of the program, and that we
568 search according to PATH; both rules can have exceptions.
569 Update description of AC_PROG_GREP, AC_PROG_EGREP, AC_PROG_FGREP,
570 AC_PROG_SED. Move descriptions of limitations
571 to the Limitations of Usual Tools section.
572 (Limitations of Usual Tools) <sed>: Mention script length
573 limitations with Solaris /usr/ucb/sed.
574 <grep>: Fix wording for empty alternative. Mention that -c and
575 -l should not be combined, and that -E and -F should not be
576 combined.
578 2006-05-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
579 and Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
581 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_SED): Catch script length
582 limits in Solaris 8 /usr/ucb/sed by testing a long script.
584 2006-05-22 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
586 * doc/autoconf.texi (Defining Symbols): Literal parameter of
587 AC_DEFINE is now passed to m4_pattern_allow.
588 * NEWS: Mention that; likewise for AC_SUBST.
589 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_DEFINE_TRACE_LITERAL): Pass
590 the parameter to m4_pattern_allow.
591 * tests/tools.at: Add a check for that.
593 2006-05-22 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
595 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Fix typos.
597 2006-05-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
599 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Remove
600 only the files that this macro generates.
602 2006-05-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
604 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <sed>: For
605 the HP-UX sed limitation of 99 commands, labels do not count.
606 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SED_CMD_LIMIT): Mention that
607 in the comment.
608 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADER): Revert the change from 2006-05-19.
610 2006-05-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
612 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETMNTENT):
613 Import the following fix from coreutils:
615 2006-01-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
617 Invoke AC_CHECK_FUNCS(getmntent) unconditionally so that tests of
618 $ac_cv_func_getmntent (e.g., in gl_LIST_MOUNTED_FILE_SYSTEMS) need
619 not double-quote uses of that variable, to accommodate the rare
620 case in which getmntent is available in none of the libraries
621 checked. This happens at least on FreeBSD 5.0.
623 2006-05-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
625 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIRS): Bring back
626 ac_config_guess, ac_config_sub, and ac_configure, since evidently
627 some other programs unwisely rely on these undocumented vars.
628 But put in warning comments about them.
629 Problem reported by Ralf Wildenhues in
630 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2006-05/msg00068.html>.
631 * NEWS: Document that these variables are intended to go away.
633 2006-05-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
635 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CXX_C_O): Require AC_PROG_CXX,
636 and set the language to C++ (analogous to the equivalent Fortran
637 tests).
639 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CXX_C_O): New macro.
640 * doc/autoconf.texi (C++ Compiler): Document it.
641 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_C_O): Adjust comment.
642 * NEWS: Update.
644 2006-05-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
646 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADER): Fix off-by-one bug
647 that caused config.status to generate 100-command sed scripts; the
648 portable limit is 99.
650 2006-05-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
652 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MKDIR_P): Name temporary
653 variable `ac_d' instead of `d' to avoid infringing namespace.
654 Report by Ralf Menzel.
656 2006-05-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
658 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILE): Don't prepend
659 $ac_top_build_prefix to $MKDIR_P if it's just 'mkdir -p'.
660 * tests/tools.at (autoconf: subdirectories): New test, taken from
661 the corresponding problem report by Ralf Wildenhues in:
662 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2006-05/msg00053.html
664 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH, AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU):
665 Quote some uses of shell variables if they might suffer unexpected
666 globbing. This doesn't fix all instances of quoting problems that
667 I found, just the easy ones that look safe.
668 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR, _AC_INIT_HELP):
669 (AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR_DEFAULT, AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIRS):
670 (AC_CANONICAL_BUILD, AC_CANONICAL_HOST, AC_CANONICAL_TARGET):
671 (AC_CACHE_LOAD, AC_CACHE_SAVE): Likewise.
672 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_XMKMF, _AC_PATH_X_DIRECT): Likewise.
673 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_LONG_FILE_NAMES): Likewise.
674 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_LINK, _AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS):
675 Likewise.
676 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Likewise.
677 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Likewise.
679 2006-05-18 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
681 * bin/autoreconf.in ($help): Reword according to the manual.
682 Suggested by Olly Betts.
684 2006-05-17 Olly Betts <olly@survex.com> (tiny change)
685 and Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
687 * bin/autoreconf.in: Pass the directory argument to
688 `require_configure_ac'. Fix comment.
689 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Expose this.
690 Reported by Olly Betts.
692 2006-05-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
694 * lib/Automake/Configure_ac.pm, lib/Automake/Channels.pm,
695 lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm, lib/Automake/Struct.pm: Sync from
696 Automake as follows:
698 * lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm (find_configure_ac): Use
699 `$configure_in' instead of `configure.in', to preserve
700 directory component.
702 2006-05-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
704 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/texinfo.tex,
705 doc/make-stds.texi, doc/standards.texi: Sync from upstream.
707 2006-05-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
709 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDBOOL): Fix overly-picky
710 test for C99 conformance; (bool) 0.5 is an integer constant
711 expression, but (bool) -0.5 is not. Problem reported by Fedor
712 Sergeev in <http://forum.sun.com/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=96202>.
714 2006-05-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
716 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): AC_PROG_MKDIR_P now
717 sets MKDIR_P, not mkdir_p, to avoid collisions with Automake.
718 Warn about obsolete install-sh files. Remove stray sentence
719 fragment and fix cross reference.
720 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_INSTALL): Don't insist on
721 install -d; this undoes the 2006-05-10 change.
722 (MKDIR_P): Mark with AN_MAKEVAR.
723 (AC_PROG_MKDIR_P): Fall back on $ac_install_sh, not $INSTALL, so
724 that we don't require $INSTALL to be thread-safe. Move comments
725 out of generated code. Require AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR_DEFAULT instead
726 of AC_PROG_INSTALL. Output a message saying that we're checking
727 mkdir -p. Set MKDIR_P rather than mkdir_p. Do special magic for
728 MKDIR_P instead of AC_SUBST.
729 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILE, _AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS):
730 Special magic for MKDIR_P, too.
731 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_MKDIR_P): Remove comment that defeated
732 a dnl.
733 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_ENV): mkdir_p -> MKDIR_P.
735 2006-05-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
737 Sync from Automake, as follows:
739 2006-05-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
740 * config/install-sh: Initialize IFS, so field splitting isn't
741 turned off later.
742 * config/mkinstalldirs: Likewise.
743 * config/missing: Remove superfluous quotes. Replace all uses of
744 `[' by `test', for consistency, and for..
745 * config/missing (sed_minuso, sed_output): New variables.
746 (autom4te, help2man, makeinfo): Use them. Unifies detection of
747 `-o FILE', `--output FILE', `--output=FILE', stricter regex.
748 Fixes `missing' to detect `--output' for help2man. Fixes
749 PR automake/483. Report by Dennis J. Linse.
750 (autom4te): Document in `missing --help'.
752 2006-05-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
754 * NEWS: New macro AC_PROG_MKDIR_P. AS_MKDIR_P is now more robust.
755 * config/install-sh: Don't use 'path' to talk about file names,
756 as per GNU coding standards. Close a race condition reported by Ralf
757 Wildenhues and Stepan Kasal. There is still a race condition
758 on hosts that predate Posix 1003.1-1992, but we can't help this.
759 Don't mishandle weird characters like space on pre-Posix hosts.
760 Invoke mkdir at most once per dir arg on pre-Posix hosts.
761 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Cross-reference to
762 AC_PROG_MKDIR_P from AS_MKDIR_P.
763 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Cross-reference to AC_PROG_MKDIR_P
764 from mkdir. Mention that Autoconf 2.60 install-sh is safe but
765 earlier editions are not (including Automake 1.8.3).
766 Do not suggest mkinstalldirs for thread-safety.
767 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_INSTALL): Insist on an 'install'
768 that understands -d, so that AC_PROG_MKDIR_P can fall back on $INSTALL.
769 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_MKDIR_P): Make it more robust in the
770 presence of special characters and race conditions.
771 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_ENV): Add mkdir_p to the list of variables
772 in Autoconf's name space.
774 2006-05-10 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
775 and Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
777 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MKDIR_P): New macro, taken
778 from Automake with minor changes.
779 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): Document AC_PROG_MKDIR_P.
781 2006-05-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
783 * config/install-sh: Update to Automake CVS version, as follows:
784 2006-04-25 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
785 * lib/install-sh: Simplify the expr implementation of dirname.
786 2006-04-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
787 * lib/install-sh: Handle --, and diagnose unknown options.
789 2006-05-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
791 * tests/Makefile.am (AUTOTEST): Use `$(MY_AUTOM4TE)' instead of
792 `./autom4te' to create `./testsuite', since the `all' target
793 will ensure its presence, but `installcheck' should not create
794 the uninstalled wrappers.
796 * tests/torture.at (Unusual Automake input files): Skip if we
797 detect automake < 1.8.
799 2006-05-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
801 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_STDC): If ac_cv_prog_cc_stdc
802 is set to `no', then that overrides and sets ac_cv_prog_cc_c89
803 and ac_cv_prog_cc_c99 to `no', for backward compatibility.
804 * NEWS: Update.
806 2006-05-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
808 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Take care not to
809 munge (multiple) white space and other oddities.
810 * tests/torture.at (AT_CHECK_AC_ARG_VAR): Make sure to M4-escape
811 single quotes in variable assignment.
812 (AC_ARG_VAR, configure invocation): Adjust tests to expose this
813 and similar failures by adding multiple spaces, tabs, and other
814 special characters.
815 Report and different test suggested by Francesco Romani
816 <fromani@gmail.com> and Andrew Church <achurch@achurch.org>.
818 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): When we escape
819 single quotes, we only need to search for single quotes; this
820 both simplifies the search pattern, and makes us less
821 susceptible to `echo' variations for arguments not containing
822 single quotes.
823 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Likewise.
825 2006-05-04 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
827 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables) <IFS>: Document
828 `$*' and IFS concatenation issue with traditional shells and
829 bash-2.04. Report by Seanster@Seanster.com.
831 2006-05-03 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
833 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Identify more
834 precisely which Mac OS X versions have the od problem.
836 2006-05-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
838 * doc/autoconf.texi: Use @option systematically.
839 (Integer Overflow):
841 2006-05-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
842 and Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
844 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Add a paragraph
845 about 'od'.
846 (Integer Overflow): Mention the special case of integer division
847 overflow.
849 2006-05-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
851 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_CANONICAL_SPLIT): Cater for
852 traditional shells like the Solaris one that do not use the
853 first IFS character for assembling `$*'.
854 Prompted by a related report from autoconf_bug@nro.ca.
856 2006-05-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
857 and Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
859 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins, Limitations of Make):
860 Mention more problems with the -e option.
862 2006-04-30 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
864 * NEWS: Typo.
865 * doc/autoconf.texi (Systemology): Mention the Heirloom Project.
867 * doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction, Pointers): Use `@/' liberally
868 in URLs to improve DVI formatted output (requires texinfo 4.6).
869 (System Services, Systemology, Shellology): Likewise.
870 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Rewrite Mac OS X example for nicer
871 output.
873 * doc/autoconf.texi (Fortran Compiler): Do not use `@ovar' in
874 continuous text.
875 (Runtime): Fix macro argument names to match description:
876 `action-if-found' -> `action-if-true' and similarly.
877 (Obsolete Macros): Likewise.
878 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_COMPILE_IFELSE): Likewise.
879 (AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, AC_TRY_COMPILE, _AC_LINK_IFELSE)
880 (AC_LINK_IFELSE, AC_TRY_LINK, AC_COMPILE_CHECK): Likewise.
882 2006-04-29 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
884 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Clean up markup.
886 * ChangeLog: Typo.
887 * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell): Allow wrapped URLs, for
888 DVI output.
890 2006-04-28 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
892 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Document FreeBSD
893 /bin/sh set unsorted output.
894 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_CACHE_DUMP): Adjust.
895 * tests/local.at: Likewise.
897 2006-04-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
899 * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable C and C++, Varieties of Unportability):
900 (Integer Overflow, Null Pointers, Buffer Overruns):
901 (Floating Point Portability, Exiting Portably): New sections.
902 (Writing Test Programs): Fix some langauge. Recommend exiting
903 with status 1, not merely nonzero. Clarify exit declaration.
904 (Run Time): Move C exit status stuff to new Exiting Portably section.
905 (Systemology): Mention Posix and levenez. Update v7 reference.
906 (Portable Shell): Mention the Posix shell.
908 2006-04-25 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
910 * bin/autoconf.as (me): Replace by as_me.
912 2006-04-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
914 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Don't use AS_ERROR,
915 since as_me isn't set yet.
917 2006-04-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
919 Prepare for deprecation of AS_BASENAME and AS_DIRNAME, and fix
920 a few minor bugs in this area.
922 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Comment out the
923 documentation of AS_BASENAME, for now.
924 (Shell Substitutions): Do not use AS_DIRNAME in an example.
925 (Limitations of Builtins) <basename>: Do not refer to
926 AS_BASENAME.
927 * bin/autoconf.as (me): Don't use AS_BASENAME.
928 (dir): Remove the unused variable.
929 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DETECT_REQUIRED): Renamed from
930 AS_DETECT_REQUIRED. All uses changed.
931 (_AS_DETECT_SUGGESTED): Renamed from AS_DETECT_SUGGESTED.
932 All uses changed.
933 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Put ;; at the end of a case.
934 (AS_BASENAME): Use "basename --" to protect against leading "-".
935 (_AS_BASENAME_EXPR): Renamed from AS_BASENAME_EXPR. All uses changed.
936 (_AS_BASENAME_SED): Renamed from AS_BASENAME_SED. All uses changed.
937 (_AS_BASENAME_PREPARE): Reject implementations that cannot handle "--".
938 (_AS_DIRNAME_PREPARE): Likewise.
939 (_AS_DIRNAME_EXPR): Renamed from AS_DIRNAME_EXPR. All uses changed.
940 (_AS_DIRNAME_SED): Renamed from AS_DIRNAME_SED. All uses changed.
941 (AS_DIRNAME): Use "dirname --".
943 2006-04-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
945 * doc/autoconf.texi (Runtime): Renamed from "Run Time". All uses
946 of "run time" and "run-time" changed to "runtime", for consistency.
947 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4: Likewise (in comment).
948 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4: Likewise.
949 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Likewise.
950 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4: Likewise.
952 * doc/autoconf.texi (Run Time): Document the exit status situation
953 with more accuracy and detail.
955 2006-04-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
957 * doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction): The GNU Autoconf Macro
958 Archive is not officially `GNU' any more. Update URL.
959 (Defining Directories): Likewise
960 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_RESTRICT): Update URL.
962 2006-04-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
964 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Remove the leading
965 newline from the `trap' code to finish `config.log'; the NetBSD
966 /bin/sh resets the exit status after an empty command, as
967 documented in doc/autoconf.texi.
968 Reported by Dalibor Topic <robilad@kaffe.org>.
970 2006-04-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
972 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Clarify AC_C_TYPEOF.
973 Suggested by Bruno Haible.
975 2006-04-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
977 * configure.ac (ac_cv_sh_n_works): Don't try to test for it, since
978 some shells (e.g., Solaris 8 /bin/sh) implement it verrrry slowly.
979 Instead, just list the shells that we know work.
980 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_SHELL_SYNTAX): Remove 2nd arg. All uses
981 changed. Be more cautious about the _cv_ variable.
982 * tests/tools.at (Syntax of the shell scripts): Check the
983 _cv_ variable once, at first, to avoid an internal autoconf error
984 when sh -n does not work.
986 2006-04-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
988 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm: Sync from Automake.
990 2006-04-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
992 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_CONFIG_LOG): Don't
993 use ">&-" since we're only 99.999% sure that this is portable,
994 and since the MinGW bug is fixed in a different way.
995 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
997 2006-04-16 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
999 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Handle --recheck
1000 before opening config.log, to avoid hitting a bug on MinGW.
1002 2006-04-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1004 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_CONFIG_LOG): Close
1005 AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD before reopening it onto the log file.
1006 This works around a MinGW bug reported by Eric Paire.
1007 Make sure that all writes to the log file append to it,
1008 rather than possibly losing data.
1009 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
1011 2006-04-14 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1013 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm (find_file): Fix a typo in the
1014 description.
1016 2006-04-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1018 * NEWS: Update.
1020 * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump to 2.59d.
1022 2006-04-12 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1024 Version 2.59c.
1026 * Makefile.maint (news-date-check): Do not require a leading `*'
1027 before the release date in NEWS.
1029 2006-04-12 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1030 and Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1032 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILE): If the templates for
1033 the instantiated file do not contain the string 'datarootdir'
1034 but contain @datadir@, @docdir@, @infodir@, @localedir@, or
1035 @mandir@, replace the reference '${datarootdir}' by the value.
1036 * tests/torture.at (datarootdir workaround): New test.
1037 * NEWS: Advertise this temporary fixup.
1038 Based on a patch by Bruno Haible, reported and analyzed by
1039 Paul Eggert and Noah Misch.
1041 2006-04-12 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
1043 * tests/autotest.at (Debugging a failed test): Fix comment.
1045 2006-04-12 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1047 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LN_S_PREPARE): Simplify the summary of
1048 all the changes since 2006-04-07.
1050 2006-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1052 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LN_S_PREPARE): If `ln -s file1 file2'
1053 succeeded, but `ln -s file dir' failed, take care to remove the
1054 leftover target before the next test, to prevent its spurious
1055 failure; also make sure `ln file dir' works before selecting it.
1056 Thanks to Keith Marshall for pointing this out.
1057 * THANKS: Update.
1059 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Store quoted variable
1060 assignments in `at_debug_args', so that we put them correctly
1061 in the `run' script.
1062 * tests/autotest.at (Debugging a failed test): Unmark XFAIL.
1063 Reported by Eric Blake.
1065 2006-04-11 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
1067 * tests/autotest.at (AT_CHECK_AT): Add new argument, to allow
1068 top-level tests after micro-suite has been run. Used in...
1069 (Debugging a successful test, Debugging script and environment),
1070 (Debugging a failed test): ...these new tests. The first of these
1071 is fixed by...
1072 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_CREATE_DEBUGGING_SCRIPT): New
1073 macro, split out from...
1074 (AT_INIT): ...here, so that using -d also generates a run script.
1075 Document that -d inhibits top-level logging.
1076 * doc/autoconf.texi (testsuite Invocation): Document that -d only
1077 inhibits top-level logging; debug scripts are created.
1079 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_CHECK): Avoid syntax error on empty
1080 check.
1081 * tests/autotest.at (Empty test, Empty check): New test to check it.
1083 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_CONST, AC_C_VOLATILE): Avoid warnings
1084 from gcc.
1086 2006-04-10 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1088 * tests/mktests.sh: Use "trap '' 0", not "trap 0". Do not touch
1089 the files if a problem appears. Make the empty *.at files
1090 read-only, too. Proposed by Ralf Wildenhues.
1092 2006-04-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1094 * config/Makefile.am: Add comment to force updated Makefile.in.
1096 * lib/freeze.mk: Fix typo in comment. Unlike the last, white
1097 space only patch to this file, this patch causes the Makefile.in
1098 files that include freeze.mk to be updated, and thus have a
1099 newer time stamp again, which in turn makes a pristine CVS
1100 checkout have correct time stamps.
1102 * Makefile.maint (cvs-sv): New macro, to be used..
1103 (config.guess-url_prefix, config.sub-url_prefix)
1104 (texinfo.tex-url_prefix, standards.texi-url_prefix): ..here;
1105 point to CVS text checkout of Gnulib files.
1106 (copyright-check): Bump current year.
1107 (announcement): Do not hard-wire `./announce-gen'.
1108 (cvs-update): Propagate failures of `cvs' and `move-if-change'
1109 correctly.
1110 * Makefile.cfg (executable-update): Use `chmod a+x' instead of
1111 `chmod +x'.
1112 (wget_files): Update config.guess, config.sub, texinfo.tex by
1113 `wget-update', now that their URLs work again.
1115 2006-04-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1117 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Types): Don't use AC_CHECK_TYPE.
1118 Problem noted by Paul D. Smith.
1120 2006-04-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1122 * doc/autoconf.texi: Remove unused words from word list.
1123 * .x-sc_prohibit_atoi_atof, .x-sc_space_tab, .x-sc_sun_os_names,
1124 .x-sc_trailing_space: New files.
1126 * doc/standards.texi: Sync from gnulib.
1128 * NEWS, doc/autoconf.texi (AC_LIBOBJ vs LIBOBJS): Mark
1129 `LIBOBJDIR' as experimental.
1131 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LN_S_PREPARE): MSYS `ln -s' fails
1132 with a target directory; it's internally implemented as `cp'
1133 anyway, but since Autoconf advertises the possibility to use
1134 a target directory when LN_S is `ln -s', we need to find out.
1135 Reported by Rolf Ebert <rolf.ebert.gcc@gmx.de> against MSYS,
1136 analyzed by Keith Marshall <keith.marshall@total.com>.
1138 * THANKS: Update.
1140 2006-04-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1142 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Just output
1143 confdefs.h as-is. In general, if it has backslash-newline or the
1144 like, then it doesn't work either to sort or to remove empty
1145 lines.
1147 2006-04-09 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1149 * tests/Makefile.am (AUTOCONF_FILES): Fix typo in the comment.
1151 2006-04-09 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
1153 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect
1154 _AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE.
1156 2006-04-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1158 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Use '\'' for an
1159 apostrophe within a single-quoted string, as this is the usual
1160 tradition and is easier to read than '"'"'. Don't rely on the
1161 shell treating "$/" like '$/'. Use a more-consistent indenting
1162 style for the trap.
1164 2006-04-09 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
1166 * tests/autotest.at (Backquote command substitution),
1167 (Multiline backquote command substitution): Remove mistaken
1168 AT_NO_CMDSUBST from the 2006-03-14 patch, which was meant to be
1169 applied...
1170 (Parenthetical command substitution, Multiline parenthetical
1171 command substitution): here.
1173 2006-04-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1175 Import macros from gnulib (often changing their name).
1177 * NEWS: AC_C_TYPE_LONG_DOUBLE is now obsolete.
1178 New macros AC_CHECK_DECLS_ONCE, AC_CHECK_FUNCS_ONCE,
1179 AC_CHECK_HEADERS_ONCE, AC_FUNC_STRTOLD, AC_HEADER_ASSERT,
1180 AC_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_INO, AC_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_TYPE,
1181 AC_TYPE_LONG_DOUBLE, AC_TYPE_LONG_DOUBLE_WIDER, AC_TYPE_INT8_T,
1182 AC_TYPE_INT16_T, AC_TYPE_INT32_T, AC_TYPE_INT64_T,
1183 AC_TYPE_INTMAX_T, AC_TYPE_INTPTR_T, AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG_INT,
1184 AC_TYPE_UINT8_T, AC_TYPE_UINT16_T, AC_TYPE_UINT32_T,
1185 AC_TYPE_UINT64_T, AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T, AC_TYPE_UINTPTR_T,
1186 AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG_INT, AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS.
1187 The manual mentions Gnulib more prominently.
1188 * doc/autoconf.texi (Gnulib): New node.
1189 (Pointers): Add Gnulib URL.
1190 (Particular Functions): Alphabetize. Add AC_FUNC_STRTOLD.
1191 (Generic Functions): Add AC_CHECK_FUNCS_ONCE. Refer to new
1192 Gnulib section.
1193 (Particular Headers): Add AC_HEADER_ASSERT. For stdbool.h,
1194 suggest a #define rather than a typedef for _Bool, and mention
1195 Gnulib rather than trying to substitute stdbool code.
1196 (Generic Headers): Add AC_CHECK_HEADERS_ONCE.
1197 (Generic Declarations): Add AC_CHECK_DECLS_ONCE.
1198 (Particular Structures): Add AC_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_INO,
1199 AC_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_TYPE.
1200 (Particular Types): Mention stdint.h and inttypes.h as standard
1201 headers too.
1202 Add AC_TYPE_INT8_T, AC_TYPE_INT16_T, AC_TYPE_INT32_T, AC_TYPE_INT64_T,
1203 AC_TYPE_INTMAX_T, AC_TYPE_INTPTR_T, AC_TYPE_LONG_DOUBLE,
1204 AC_TYPE_LONG_DOUBLE_WIDER, AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG_INT, AC_TYPE_UINT8_T,
1205 AC_TYPE_UINT16_T, AC_TYPE_UINT32_T, AC_TYPE_UINT64_T,
1206 AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T, AC_TYPE_UINTPTR_T, AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG_INT.
1207 (C Compiler): Move AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE to ...
1208 (Obsolete Macros): here. Under AC_LONG_DOUBLE, mention
1209 AC_TYPE_LONG_DOUBLE or AC_TYPE_LONG_DOUBLE_WIDER instead.
1210 (Posix Variants): Add AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS.
1211 (Coding Style). Don't mention m4_expand_once.
1212 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE): Implement via
1213 AC_TYPE_LONG_DOUBLE_WIDER. Now obsolete.
1214 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AH_CHECK_FUNCS): New macro.
1215 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Use it.
1216 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS_ONCE, AC_FUNC_STRTOLD): New macros.
1217 (AC_FUNC_WAIT3): "the Open Group standards" -> "POSIX".
1218 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CHECK_DECLS_ONCE): New macro.
1219 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_CHECK_HEADERS_ONCE): New macro.
1220 (AC_HEADER_ASSERT): New macro.
1221 (AC_HEADER_STDBOOL): Don't assume "#error" works.
1222 Catch a bug in IBM AIX xlc compiler version 6.0.0.0.
1223 Catch a bug in an HP-UX C compiler.
1224 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS): New macro.
1225 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_TYPE_INTMAX_T. AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T):
1226 (AC_TYPE_INTPTR_T, AC_TYPE_UINTPTR_T. AC_TYPE_LONG_DOUBLE):
1227 (AC_TYPE_LONG_DOUBLE_WIDER, AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE, AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG_INT):
1228 (AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG_INT, _AC_TYPE_INT, _AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_INT):
1229 (_AC_STRUCT_DIRENT, AC_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_INO, AC_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_TYPE):
1230 New macros.
1232 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list, au_exclude_list): Do not
1233 use /^foo|bar$/, it does not mean /^(foo|bar)$/.
1235 2006-04-08 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1237 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Fix the wording
1238 of the warning introduced by the 2001-08-28 change.
1240 2006-04-08 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>,
1241 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1243 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CACHE_SAVE): All `ac_cv_env_foo'
1244 variables shall be overriden by the cache.
1245 * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): Test also with a first value
1246 that contains braces.
1248 2006-04-07 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1250 Revert the patch from 2006-04-01 and only improve
1251 _AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL:
1253 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_WALK): Do not optimize; do not
1254 skip nonexistent directories.
1255 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): The optimization is moved here--try
1256 only shell candidates which exist.
1257 (AS_UNAME): No need to give three parameters to _AS_PATH_WALK.
1258 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): No need to give three
1259 parameters to _AS_PATH_WALK.
1261 2006-04-07 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>,
1262 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1264 * bin/autoupdate.in (handle_autoconf_patches): Change the way we
1265 distinguish m4sugar macros.
1266 * tests/tools.at (autoupdating with aclocal and m4_include):
1267 New test. Bug reported by Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>,
1268 test case by Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>.
1270 2006-04-07 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1272 Revert my change from 2006-03-17, in other words:
1273 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): Insert BIN_SH=xpg4
1274 and DUALCASE=1.
1275 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Remove DUALCASE=1.
1276 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables) <BIN_SH>: Say that
1277 it is set.
1279 2006-04-07 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
1281 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Document that
1282 AS_MKDIR_P exits the script on failure.
1283 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Remove redundant AS_ERROR.
1285 2006-04-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1287 * config/elisp-comp, config/install-sh, config/mdate-sh,
1288 config/missing, config/mkinstalldirs: Sync from Automake.
1290 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm, lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm: Sync
1291 from Automake.
1293 * doc/make-stds.texi: Sync from gnulib.
1295 2006-04-06 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
1297 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O): Inside cache
1298 check, s/ac_exeext/ac_cv_exeext/. Fixes regression introduced
1299 2006-04-01.
1301 2006-04-06 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>,
1302 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>,
1303 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,
1304 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1306 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_CACHE_DUMP): Fix the detection of
1307 whether `set' quotes correctly: redirect stderr of the tested
1308 `set', and use a subshell, for Ultrix; use `sed' instead of
1309 `grep' for zsh `set' which may write binary output; match only
1310 at the beginning of a line, to avoid false positives.
1311 In order to avoid false positives by unrelated variables with
1312 multiline content, put the dump algorithm in a subshell and
1313 unset all variables containing newlines (except some which are
1314 special to the shell). Warn about cache variables that are
1315 unset.
1317 2006-04-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1319 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/texinfo.tex:
1320 Sync from upstream.
1322 * tests/mktests.sh: Reword comments.
1324 * tests/mktests.sh: Only skip internal macros starting with
1325 `_AC_' or `__AC_'. Noted by Stepan Kasal.
1326 Update exclusion lists for the test suite to this end:
1327 (AC_ARG_VAR): Do test this now.
1328 (AC_SEARCH_LIBS, AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Need an argument.
1329 (AC_LINKER_OPTION): Remove (renamed to _AC_LINKER_OPTION).
1330 (AC_LIST_MEMBER_OF): Likewise (renamed to _AC_LIST_MEMBER_IF).
1331 (AC_LINK_FILES): Obsoleted since (and thus AU_DEFUN'ed).
1333 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Mention the MSYS
1334 shell issue with double-quoted command substitutions of native
1335 commands.
1336 Reported to MSYS by Mark Cave-Ayland, to Autoconf by Keith
1337 Marshall.
1339 * Makefile.maint (sc_cast_of_argument_to_free): Do not fail when
1340 no file matches the glob, discard the warning, set `nullglob'.
1341 (syntax-check): Likewise.
1342 (sc_cast_of_x_alloc_return_value): Likewise.
1343 (sc_cast_of_alloca_return_value, sc_error_exit_success)
1344 (sc_prohibit_jm_in_m4, .re-list, sc_unmarked_diagnostics)
1345 (m4-check): Likewise.
1346 (sc_system_h_headers): Do not print rule on execution.
1347 (sc_tight_scope): Do not fail for non-existing `src' directory.
1348 (sc_changelog): Skip the Copyright footer.
1349 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4: Remove trailing space.
1351 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: More replacements to
1352 <tab><space> where this makes sense.
1354 2006-04-06 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1356 * tests/Makefile.am (maintainer-check-posix):
1357 s/POSIXLY_CORRECTLY/POSIXLY_CORRECT/
1359 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_CONFIG_FOOS): Append TAGS to
1360 ac_config_<foo>s again, sometimes normalized, sometimes not.
1361 (AC_CONFIG_FILES, AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, AC_CONFIG_LINKS):
1362 (AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS): Do not do so here.
1363 (_AC_CONFIG_REGISTER_DEST): Double quote the tags in macros _AC_LIST_TAGS
1364 and_AC_LIST_TAG_COMMANDS; fixes another regression introduced by the
1365 2005-07-25 rewrite. Noticed by Noah Misch.
1367 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_PRESERVE_HELP_ORDER): Do not define
1368 _AC_PRESERVE_HELP_ORDER, ...
1369 (AC_ARG_ENABLE, AC_ARG_WITH): ... use AC_PROVIDE_IFELSE insetad.
1371 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_VAR): Do not use m4_divert_once
1372 inside m4_expand_once; it is redundant.
1374 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Remove the broken support
1375 for --help from Cygnus `configure.'
1377 2006-04-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1379 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Warn about #error. Follows up
1380 on a patch proposed by Ralf Wildenhues.
1382 2006-04-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1384 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Replace <space>''<tab> with
1385 <tab><space> where this makes sense.
1387 2006-04-05 Howard Chu <hyc@highlandsun.com> (trivial change)
1388 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
1390 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_PRESERVE_HELP_ORDER): New macro.
1391 (AC_ARG_ENABLE, AC_ARG_WITH): Adjust.
1392 * doc/autoconf.texi (Help Formatting): New node.
1393 * NEWS: Announce AC_PRESERVE_HELP_ORDER.
1395 2006-04-05 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1397 * TODO, config/Makefile.am, lib/freeze.mk, lib/autoconf/c.m4,
1398 lib/autoconf/specific.m4, lib/autoconf/status.m4,
1399 lib/autoconf/types.m4, lib/autotest/general.m4,
1400 tests/mktests.sh, tests/torture.at: White space cleanup:
1401 remove some SPACE before TAB, or add quoting ('' or @&t@).
1403 * NEWS, TODO, bin/autoreconf.in: `filesystem' -> `file system'.
1405 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Document `^' vs. `|'.
1407 2006-04-05 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
1409 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Prep AT_*_all, so that an
1410 empty test suite works.
1411 * tests/autotest.at (Empty test suite): Remove xfail.
1413 2006-04-05 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
1415 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_CONFIG_FOOS): Do not append normalized
1416 TAGS to ac_config_<foo>s.
1417 (AC_CONFIG_FILES, AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, AC_CONFIG_LINKS): Do so here.
1418 (AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS): Append NAME to ac_config_commands without
1419 normalizing it, consistent it with previous releases.
1420 * tests/torture.at (Macro calls in AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS tags): New test.
1422 2006-04-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1424 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_BASENAME_EXPR, AS_DIRNAME_EXPR):
1425 Use simplified args that Eric Blake originally suggested.
1427 2006-04-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1429 * tests/mktests.sh: Don't use 'cat'; just read the files directly.
1430 Prefer 'sort -u' to 'sort | uniq'. Filter data before sorting it.
1431 Use 'comm' rather than N instances of grep; this also fixes a bug
1432 whereby substrings were incorrectly matched, causing us to not
1433 generate tests for AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING and AC_FUNC_LSTAT.
1434 (exclude_list): Exclude empty macros.
1435 (ac_exclude_list): Exclude AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT.
1437 Use awk rather than grep -E or egrep, to avoid
1438 portability problems with regular expressions containing newlines.
1439 (exclude_list, ac_exclude_list, au_exclude_list, ac_exclude_script):
1440 Switch from grep to awk syntax.
1441 (ac_exclude_script): Renamed from ac_exclude_egrep.
1442 (au_exclude_script): Renamed from au_exclude_egrep.
1444 2006-04-04 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
1446 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Only `configure.in' evidences
1447 a subdirectory subject to Cygnus `configure'.
1448 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Likewise.
1450 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): Omit the bug
1451 report request when we have no AC_PACKAGE_BUGREPORT.
1453 2006-04-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1455 * THANKS: Update.
1457 * tests/mktests.sh: Update copyright year in the header of the
1458 generated files.
1460 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_INLINE): Do not skip cleanup code.
1461 (AC_C_RESTRICT): Likewise. Furthermore, add a function with a
1462 typedef'ed restricted pointer, to catch a compiler bug on
1463 HP-UX 11.x, and fix warnings so it passes with -Werror.
1464 (_AC_PROG_CC_C99): Likewise.
1465 Reported by Albert Chin <china@thewrittenword.com>.
1466 * tests/mktests.sh: Do not skip AC_C_INLINE, AC_C_RESTRICT.
1468 2006-04-03 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
1470 * bin/autoscan.in (subdirs): New global.
1471 (scan_file): Prune directories with configure{,.{ac,in,gnu}}.
1472 (output): Emit AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS as needed.
1473 * tests/autoscan.at (autoscan): Remove XFAIL.
1475 2006-04-03 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
1477 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CACHE_SAVE): Use AC_MSG_NOTICE.
1479 2006-04-03 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
1481 * THANKS: Add myself.
1483 2006-04-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1485 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Add `at_testdir' to pointer
1486 to log, point to testsuite output tree.
1488 2006-04-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1490 * NEWS: AC_PROG_CC and AC_PROG_CXX no longer declare 'exit'.
1491 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Mention that C++
1492 has trouble with 'exit'.
1493 (Guidelines): Test programs shouldn't use 'exit'.
1494 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION):
1495 Remove; all uses removed.
1496 (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C), AC_C_BIGENDIAN):
1497 Return from 'main' instead of calling 'exit'.
1498 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ_ALLOCA, AC_FUNC_CLOSEDIR_VOID):
1499 (_AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_IF, AC_FUNC_GETGROUPS):
1500 (AC_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK, _AC_FUNC_MALLOC_IF):
1501 (AC_FUNC_MEMCMP, AC_FUNC_MKTIME, AC_FUNC_MMAP, _AC_FUNC_REALLOC_IF):
1502 (AC_FUNC_SETPGRP, _AC_FUNC_STAT, AC_FUNC_STRTOD, AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R):
1503 (AC_FUNC_STRNLEN, AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED, AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL):
1504 (_AC_FUNC_FORK, _AC_FUNC_VFORK, AC_FUNC_WAIT3): Likewise.
1505 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDC): Likewise.
1506 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS): Likewise.
1507 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_TYPE_GETGROUPS): Likewise.
1508 * tests/compile.at: Likewise.
1510 2006-04-02 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
1512 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_PATH_X): Update per 2005-08-26 change.
1514 2006-04-01 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1516 Clean up _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT* macros.
1518 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Don't try to
1519 detect exeext, it will be done by _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O; just set
1520 ac_file to the name of the default output file and call
1521 _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_WORKS. Move the definition of ac_files and the
1522 initial `rm' of the candidate files...
1523 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT): ... here and simplify them. Moreover, use
1524 the same list in subsequent `rm' calls, and for the temporary
1525 redefinition of ac_clean_files; call _AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT at the end,
1526 and don't call the other _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_* macros directly, use...
1527 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_TESTS): ... this new macro.
1528 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O): Don't export ac_cv_exeext, it's not needed (or
1529 no longer needed) by libtool. Make it a cache check.
1530 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_CROSS): Remove the comment, it was obviously
1531 copied here by mistake.
1532 (AC_NO_EXECUTABLES): Redefine _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_TESTS, not
1533 _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT.
1534 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX, AC_PROG_OBJC): Do not call
1535 _AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT directly.
1536 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Likewise.
1538 2006-04-01 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1540 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DIRNAME_PREPARE): New macro.
1541 (AS_DIRNAME): Use it.
1542 (_AS_PREPARE): Add _AS_DIRNAME_PREPARE.
1544 * tests/*.at: Remove the generated ones.
1546 2006-04-01 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1548 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't optimize the first PATH walk.
1550 2006-04-01 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
1552 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_WALK): Optimize nonexistent
1553 directories, unless optional third argument supplied.
1554 (AS_UNAME): Don't optimize PATH walk.
1556 * lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm, lib/autoconf/c.m4: s/non-existent/nonexistent/
1558 2006-04-01 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
1559 and Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1561 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Sort sections as implied by the comments,
1562 and fix some typos.
1564 2006-04-01 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
1566 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_VERSION): Emit script name and
1567 Autoconf version number despite a zero- or one-argument AC_INIT.
1569 * bin/autoreconf.in (parse_args): Multiple -v send --verbose to
1570 subordinate tools.
1571 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (getopt): Make -v and -d incremental.
1572 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Document it.
1574 * doc/autoconf.texi: Use `Cygwin', `MinGW', and `license' consistently.
1575 Append LocalWords so ispell-buffer passes cleanly. Spelling fixes.
1577 2006-04-01 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
1579 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_MKDIR_P): Allow use in shell lists.
1580 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Be tolerant of existing directory when
1581 rm failed to remove it.
1583 2006-04-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1585 * bin/autoupdate.in: Redefine m4_location so that warnings print
1586 the correct lines of the input file by subtracting..
1587 (_au__first_line): ..this new definition.
1589 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_COMPILE_CHECK): Prefer
1590 AC_MSG_CHECKING over obsolete AC_CHECKING in autoupdated code.
1591 Remove stray newline in output.
1592 (AC_FOREACH): AU_DEFUN this as literal for autoupdate, and also
1593 AC_DEFUN this for autoconf, including the obsoletion diagnose.
1594 Fixes autoupdating of code where the replacement output contains
1595 m4sugar macros.
1596 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_SAVE): Likewise.
1597 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Add AC_FOREACH.
1598 (au_exclude_list): Add AC_LANG_SAVE.
1599 * tests/tools.at: Several new tests for all of this.
1600 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsoleting Macros): Give a hint about the
1601 hairy details.
1602 The AC_LANG_SAVE issue was reported against Libtool by
1603 Dalibor Topic <robilad@kaffe.org>, and against Autoconf 2.57 by
1604 Kristian Kvilekval <kris@cs.ucsb.edu>.
1606 2006-04-01 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1608 * bin/autoupdate.in: Handle m4 builtins and m4sugar macros together--
1609 switch all of them on and of when necessary. Fixes the bug when
1610 m4sugar macros (e.g., m4_define) were expanded after the first
1611 automatic update (e.g., after AC_PREREQ or AC_INIT).
1613 2006-03-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1615 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Sharpen the descriptions
1616 of AS_BASENAME and AS_DIRNAME. Reported by Stepan Kasal.
1618 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_BASENAME_EXPR): Handle ///, ////, etc.
1619 correctly. Problem reported by Eric Blake.
1620 (_AS_EXPR_PREPARE): Detect Tru64 expr bug. Problem reported by
1621 Ralf Wildenhues.
1623 2006-03-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1625 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh, Limitations of Usual Tools):
1626 Tighten up the basename/dirname wording.
1628 2006-03-30 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1630 * Makefile.maint (sc_texi_notab): New check: do not use TABs
1631 in texinfo files outside of verbatim environments.
1632 (syntax-check-rules): Update.
1633 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Headers): Conform to it.
1635 2006-03-30 Chris Pickett <cpicke@cs.mcgill.ca> (tiny change)
1637 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Mention that -I for
1638 aclocal cannot be given on the command line.
1640 2006-03-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1642 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Mention AS_BASENAME.
1643 Give an example for AS_DIRNAME instead of referring to Posix..
1644 (File System Conventions): Put discussion of // versus / here, and
1645 modernize it a bit.
1646 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Add basename. Remove verbiage
1647 after dirname, since it got moved to the above sections.
1648 All this was inspired by a patch proposed earlier by Eric Blake.
1650 2006-03-27 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1652 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Quote
1653 `$0' to protect against spaces.
1654 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
1655 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Likewise, for
1656 `$0', $as_me.
1658 2006-03-26 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1660 * bin/autoscan.in: The value of find_configure_ac should be
1661 checked for existence, so we don't barf over a nonexisting
1662 configure.ac. Reported by Laurence Darby <ldarby@tuffmail.com>.
1664 2006-03-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1666 * bin/autoupdate.in: Fix some typos.
1668 2006-03-21 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1670 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Fix typo.
1672 * lib/autoscan/autoscan.list: Refreshed.
1674 2006-03-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1676 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_ENV): Ignore AC_SUBSTed Objective C
1677 and Erlang related variables.
1679 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG(Objective C), AC_LANG_OBJC)
1680 (_AC_LANG_ABBREV(Objective C), _AC_LANG_PREFIX(Objective C))
1681 (AC_LANG_SOURCE(Objective C), AC_LANG_PROGRAM(Objective C))
1682 (AC_LANG_CALL(Objective C), AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(Objective C))
1683 (AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY(Objective C))
1684 (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(Objective C), AC_LANG_PREPROC(Objective C))
1685 (AC_PROG_OBJCPP, AC_LANG_COMPILER(Objective C), AC_PROG_OBJC)
1686 (_AC_PROG_OBJC_G): New macros.
1687 (_AC_ARG_VAR_CPPFLAGS): Adjusted.
1688 * doc/autoconf.texi (Objective C Compiler): New node.
1689 (Preset Output Variables): Document OBJCFLAGS.
1690 (Language Choice): Document `Objective C' language.
1691 (Fortran Compiler): Fix typo.
1692 * NEWS: Updated.
1693 Inspired by a patch from David M. Lloyd <dmlloyd@tds.net>.
1695 2006-03-20 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1697 * doc/autoconf.texi (Default Includes): Fix typo
1698 s/AC_HEADERS_STDC/AC_HEADER_STDC/
1699 (Limitations of Usual Tools): s/unwriteable/unwritable/
1700 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT, _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT):
1701 Fix typos in the comments.
1703 2006-03-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1705 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PATH_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOLS):
1706 Factor out the warning to...
1707 (_AC_TOOL_WARN): ... this new macro; use `cross_compiling'.
1708 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_MACRO_CROSS): Avoid this warning.
1709 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
1711 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE): Do not special
1712 case `ac_delim' when writing the sed script.
1714 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): Removed BIN_SH=xpg4,
1715 moved DUALCASE=1 ...
1716 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): ... here.
1717 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables) <BIN_SH>: Do not say
1718 that it is set.
1720 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_CHECK_PROG): Quote the parameter of
1721 AC_SUBST.
1722 (_AC_PATH_PROG): Store the result to VARIABLE.
1723 (AC_PATH_PROG): No need to set VARIABLE again.
1725 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_MACRO_CROSS): New macro, creates two tests:
1726 the first one is usual AT_CHECK_MACRO test, the second one checks
1727 that the same works when cross-compiling.
1728 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF, AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF struct):
1729 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF, AC_CHECK_SIZEOF struct): Use it.
1731 2006-03-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1733 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Prepend
1734 the directory `/usr/bin/posix' in the shell search, to prefer
1735 the Posix shell not only in subsequent spawns as with `$BIN_SH'
1736 on Tru64.
1738 * doc/autoconf.texi (contents): To fix texi2html output, hide
1739 `@setcontentsaftertitlepage' for HTML.
1740 (Writing Autoconf Macros): Likewise, insert space after `@c'.
1741 (Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy): Likewise, change `@,c' to
1742 `@,{c}'.
1744 2006-03-16 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1746 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PREPARE): Move the IFS setup and CDPATH
1747 sanitizing...
1748 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): ...here; mention _AS_PATH_WALK needs IFS set.
1749 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_CANONICAL_SPLIT): Add an explanation
1750 why IFS is restored so late; thank you, Ralf, for reminding us.
1752 2006-03-15 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1754 * doc/autoconf.texi (Pretty Help Strings): No need to use cached
1755 variables in the examples.
1757 2006-03-14 Romain Lenglet <rlenglet@users.forge.objectweb.org>
1759 * doc/autoconf.texi (several sections): Cleaned up documentation for
1760 macros in erlang.m4.
1762 2006-03-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1764 * tests/autotest.at (AT_NO_CMDSUBST): New macro to determine
1765 failure condition for `$(cmd)' style command substitutions.
1766 (Parenthetical command substition, Multiline parenthetical
1767 command substition): Use it.
1769 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Missing word.
1770 Reported by Keith Marshall <keith.marshall@total.com>.
1772 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_WALK): Do not forget to reset
1773 IFS even in case of empty `$PATH'.
1775 2006-03-12 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1777 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT) <at_optarg>: Optimize
1778 `expr' away if there is nothing to do.
1779 < --keywords >: Simplify and robustify argument handling.
1780 Revert erroneous comment from 2005-08-23. Extend to allow
1781 keyword negation with `!'.
1782 Update help message. Remove broken code to prevent running
1783 tests multiple times.
1784 * doc/autoconf.texi (testsuite Invocation) < --keywords >:
1785 Update and fix the documentation accordingly.
1786 * tests/autotest.at (Keywords): Renamed to..
1787 (Keywords and ranges): .. this. Extended to make sure negated
1788 keywords, keywords taken from AT_SETUP arguments, and numeric
1789 test ranges work, and that matching is case-insensitive.
1791 2006-03-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1793 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (_AC_CHECK_TYPE_NEW): Use a typedef to
1794 allow to pass unnamed structs even in C++.
1795 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Likewise.
1796 Also fix quoting error in `AC_MSG_FAILURE' arguments.
1797 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF struct, AC_CHECK_SIZEOF
1798 struct): New tests for unnamed structs, each both native and
1799 cross-compiling.
1801 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_TYPEOF): Use typedef to avoid defining
1802 a structure inside a cast, for C++ conformance.
1803 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF): Likewise.
1804 Also fix quoting error in `AC_MSG_FAILURE' arguments.
1806 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_STDC): If we cannot enable C99
1807 nor C89 mode, set `$ac_cv_prog_cc_stdc' to `no' instead of
1808 trying to execute the command `no'.
1810 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_CONFTEST): AC_DEFUN this, not
1811 m4_define, so that the requirements of `AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT' are
1812 expanded outside.
1814 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoconf Invocation): Fix typos in trace
1815 example. Do not emphasize `$%', it is hardly new and special.
1816 Reported by Edouard Bechetoille <ebecheto@ens-lyon.fr>.
1818 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Document
1819 OpenBSD and traditional `grep' failure to handle multiple
1820 patterns separated by newlines.
1822 2006-03-10 Romain Lenglet <rlenglet@users.forge.objectweb.org>
1824 * doc/autoconf.texi (several sections): Add documentation for macros
1825 in erlang.m4.
1827 2006-03-10 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
1829 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsolete Macros): Fix wording of
1830 AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC.
1832 2006-03-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1834 * doc/autoconf.texi: Use @acronym more consistently for acronyms
1835 like BSD, GPL, LGPL. Fix minor English typos.
1836 (AC_STDC_HEADERS, AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL):
1837 Mention that these macros are becoming obsolete.
1838 (AC_STDC_HEADERS, AC_PROG_CC, AC_C_CONST, AC_C_VOLATILE):
1839 Use more modern terminology for which standard is what.
1840 (AC_PROG_CC): Mention gcc first, and remove obsolete references to egcs
1841 and to ansi2knr.
1842 (AC_PROG_CXX): Likewise.
1843 (AC_C_PROTOTYPES, Test Functions, AC_LIBOBJ vs LIBOBJS):
1844 Remove obsolete discussion about how to port to K&R.
1845 (Guidelines for Test Programs): Suggest AC_HEADER_STDBOOL rather than
1846 the obsolescent AC_HEADER_STDC.
1847 (AC_FOO_IFELSE vs AC_TRY_FOO): Don't use #error; test programs
1848 can't rely on it.
1850 2006-03-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1852 * tests/c.at (AC_PROG_CPP without warnings, AC_PROG_CPP via CC):
1853 Remove stdin redirection from /dev/null to allow pipe to work.
1855 2006-03-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1857 * tests/c.at (AC_PROG_CPP without warnings, AC_PROG_CPP via CC):
1858 Require that /lib/cpp include stdio.h correctly. Solaris 10's
1859 doesn't. Problem reported by D'Arcy A MacIsaac and diagnosed by
1860 Ralf Wildenhues.
1862 2006-03-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1864 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SED_CMD_LIMIT): The limit for
1865 HP-UX sed is 99 commands, not 100.
1866 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE): Do not count the `}' of an
1867 _AC_SUBST_FILES fragment. Separate `{' and `r' commands by
1868 newline for portability.
1869 * tests/torture.at (Torturing config.status): Also test 100
1870 AC_SUBST_FILE invocations. Fix test to actually verify the
1871 AC_CONFIG_FILES output.
1872 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Document HP-UX
1873 command, label, and read-file `r' limits. Unify HP-UX spelling.
1875 * tests/Makefile.am (edit, $(wrappers)): Do not use `$<' in
1876 non-suffix rule.
1877 ($(TESTSUITE_GENERATED_AT)): Use `$(srcdir)` for the benefit of
1878 non-GNU make.
1879 (autoconfdir, $(AUTOCONF_FILES)): Likewise.
1880 * tests/mktests.sh: Small shell portability fixes.
1882 2006-03-05 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1884 * doc/autoconf.texi (Caching Results): Fix the examples to use a
1885 recommended quoting style and discard unwanted output.
1887 2006-03-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1889 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_NORMALIZE_TEST_GROUP_NUMBER): New macro.
1890 (AT_INIT): Use it, to remove arbitrary limit of 999,999 test
1891 cases, and to work around Tru64 expr bug.
1893 2006-03-05 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1895 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Mention Tru64
1896 expr bug that turns the result of a regex match into a number if
1897 possible.
1899 2006-03-04 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1901 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF): Work around
1902 HPUX compiler bug, similarly to AC_CHECK_SIZEOF, as documented
1903 in section `Specific Compiler Characteristics'.
1905 2006-03-04 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
1907 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R): Avoid unused
1908 variable warning.
1910 2006-03-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1912 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADER): Force correct
1913 order of variable initialization, so even the Solaris 2.6 shell
1914 can create a config header correctly. Fixes lots of test suite
1915 failures.
1917 2006-02-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1919 * doc/autoconf.texi (Text processing Macros): New node to
1920 document the m4sugar macros m4_re_escape, m4_tolower,
1921 m4_toupper, m4_split, m4_normalize, m4_append, m4_append_uniq.
1923 2006-02-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1925 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_DIRECT): Fix typo:
1926 XrmInitialize (0) -> XrmInitialize ().
1927 Reported by Toshio Kuratomi.
1929 2006-02-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1931 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_IF): Extend to allow more than one
1932 test, as in `if tests; then cmd1; elif ...; else ...; fi'.
1933 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Adjusted.
1934 * tests/m4sh.at (AS_IF and AS_CASE): Test this. Also make sure
1935 both macros are defun'ed so that required macros are evaluated
1936 outside.
1938 * doc/autoconf.texi (Prerequisite Macros): State more precisely
1939 where a required macro will be expanded.
1940 (Coding Style): Another reason not to use `m4_define'.
1942 2006-02-21 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
1944 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ): Minor optimization.
1946 2006-02-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1948 * doc/autoconf.texi (Looping constructs): New node, to
1949 document m4_for, m4_foreach, m4_foreach_w, and mention
1950 obsolete AC_FOREACH.
1951 (Obsolete Macros): Document AC_FOREACH.
1952 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (_m4_for): Fix declaration comment.
1953 (m4_for): Fix to never loop (almost) endlessly, work correctly
1954 with arithmetic expressions in arguments, a step of zero or
1955 non-integer multiple of the interval, and avoid integer
1956 overflow.
1957 * tests/m4sugar.at: New test for m4_for, m4_foreach, and
1958 m4_foreach_w.
1960 2006-02-20 Romain Lenglet <rlenglet@users.forge.objectweb.org>
1962 Add basic support for Erlang, both for configuring Erlang/OTP
1963 tools, and Erlang as a conf test language.
1964 * lib/autoconf/erlang.m4: New file.
1965 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4: Add erlang.m4.
1966 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am (dist_autoconflib_DATA): Likewise.
1967 * lib/freeze.mk (autoconf_m4f_dependencies): Likewise.
1968 * NEWS: Add short description of new macros.
1969 * THANKS: Add Romain Lenglet.
1971 2006-02-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1973 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology) <pdksh>: Document that pdksh as
1974 native /bin/sh may not set KSH_VERSION (seen on OpenBSD).
1976 2006-02-15 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
1978 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CHECK_DECL): Avoid unused variable
1979 warning.
1981 2006-02-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1983 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_CASE): New macro.
1984 (_AS_CASE): Private helper macro.
1985 * tests/m4sh.at: Basic tests for AS_IF and AS_CASE.
1986 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Document AS_CASE.
1987 Fix syntax of AS_IF description
1988 (Prerequisite Macros): Mention AS_IF and AS_CASE as workarounds
1989 for the AC_REQUIRE mess.
1990 * NEWS: Mention AS_CASE, AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE, and
1991 AS_SHELL_SANITIZE.
1993 2006-02-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1995 * doc/autoconf.texi: Minor style cleanup.
1996 Be consistent about spaces after commas.
1997 Insert [] where empty args look a bit funny.
1998 Fix some "i.e." and "e.g." usages.
1999 Try to avoid "X/Y" usages.
2000 Don't be pedantic about "ISO C99"; just say C99.
2001 Prefer GNU style for spaces in front of parens.
2002 (Function Portability): Comment about C89 versus C99
2003 signed integer division.
2004 (Particular Headers): Use current gnulib style for dirent
2005 includes.
2007 2006-02-14 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2008 and Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2010 * bin/autoupdate.in (handle_autoconf_macros): Fix updating of
2011 macros without parameters.
2012 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4 (AU_ALIAS): Likewise.
2013 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsoleting Macros): Document AU_ALIAS.
2014 * tests/tools.at (autoupdating AU_ALIAS): New test for AU_ALIAS
2015 `$#' bug.
2016 (autoupdate): Updated to match AU_ALIAS fix.
2018 2006-02-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2019 and Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2021 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Document
2022 AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE and AS_SHELL_SANITIZE.
2024 2006-02-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2026 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): Renamed to..
2027 (AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): ..this.
2028 (_AS_RUN, AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Adjusted all callers.
2030 2006-02-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2032 * doc/install.texi (Defining Variables): Tighten up the
2033 CONFIG_SHELL wording.
2035 2006-02-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2036 and Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2038 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): Look at the output
2039 of (set -o) rather than testing whether (set -o posix) succeeds,
2040 to work around a bug in the AIX 5.3 shell. Problem originally
2041 reportd by Howard Chu for libtool.
2043 2006-02-10 J.T. Conklin <jtc@acorntoolworks.com>
2045 * doc/autoconf.texi (Running the Compiler, Running the Linker):
2046 Changes the macro arguments in summaries to match the
2047 descriptions.
2049 2006-02-04 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2051 * doc/install.texi (Defining Variables): Classify the `CONFIG_SHELL'
2052 hint as ``a workaround for a bug.''
2054 2006-01-31 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2056 * bin/autoreconf.in: New option `--no-recursive'.
2057 Improve wording for subpackages a bit.
2058 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Updated.
2059 * NEWS: Updated.
2061 * doc/install.texi (Defining Variables): Put `CONFIG_SHELL'
2062 in environment of `configure', not the command line.
2063 Reported by Howard Chu <hyc@highlandsun.com>.
2065 2006-01-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2067 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Document the
2068 problem with "trap -".
2070 2006-01-23 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@fftw.org>
2072 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS, _AC_FC_DUMMY_MAIN):
2073 (_AC_FC_MAIN, __AC_FC_NAME_MANGLING): Use _AC_LANG in check
2074 messages to differentiate Fortran and Fortran 77 tests.
2075 (AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_FREEFORM): Use AC_LANG_PUSH/POP instead of
2076 AC_LANG_ASSERT, to allow use in mixed-language projects.
2078 2006-01-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2080 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C)): Prefer "defined
2081 FOO" to "defined (FOO)".
2082 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ_ALLOCA): Likewise.
2083 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STAT): Likewise.
2084 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_XENIX_DIR): Likewise.
2085 * tests/tools.at (ifnames): Likewise.
2087 2006-01-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2089 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): Do not pass `-q' to mktemp.
2090 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (mktmpdir): Likewise.
2091 (END): Improve error message a bit.
2092 Reported by Bruce Korb <bkorb@gnu.org>.
2094 2006-01-12 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2096 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Ignore
2097 `-LIST:' and `-LNO:', for PathScale 2.3 compilers.
2099 2006-01-11 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2101 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): On Solaris 8, sys/ptem.h
2102 requires sys/stream.h. Reported by Oliver Kiddle.
2104 2006-01-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2105 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2107 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): When ensuring writability
2108 before the removals of test dirs, use `find' to avoid modification
2109 of symlinked directories.
2111 2006-01-11 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
2113 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN, AC_FC_DUMMY_MAIN):
2114 Don't ignore the macro arguments.
2116 2006-01-11 David Thompson <dthompsn@vizsolutions.com>
2118 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION): Add `exit'
2119 declaration that works for MSVC.
2121 2006-01-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2123 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT_REJECT):
2124 Add `*.map' and `.inf' for Green Hills compiler.
2125 Reported by Stefan Seefeld <stefan@codesourcery.com>.
2127 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_text_wrap): Handle quadrigraphs
2128 correctly: pad with spaces after FIRST_PREFIX if necessary,
2129 and compute string lenghts with `m4_qlen' instead of `m4_len'.
2130 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_HELP_STRING): Comments updated.
2131 * tests/m4sh.at (AS_HELP_STRING): Test extended.
2132 * NEWS: Updated.
2133 Reported by numerous people, numerous times.
2135 2006-01-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2137 * bin/autoconf.as, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in
2138 * bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in:
2139 * lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/status.m4:
2140 * lib/autotest/general.m4, tests/local.at:
2141 Update copyright year to 2006.
2143 * Makefile.maint (sc_root_tests): Use the recommended style s/a/b/ for
2144 sed substitutions.
2145 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Use s|a|b|
2146 for file names, again. Reported by Noah Misch.
2147 (Coding Style): Explain that s|a|b| is preferred for file names.
2148 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE): Prefer s/a/b/.
2149 (AC_OUTPUT_MAKE_DEFS): Likewise.
2150 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
2151 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Likewise.
2152 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE): Likewise.
2154 Fix Posix-conformance bugs re use of { command in sed scripts,
2155 and improve the sed-related documentation a bit.
2156 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Use
2157 our own style advice re 's,a,b,' versus 's|a|b|'. Use "Sed"
2158 rather than "sed" when talking about Sed in general.
2159 (Particular Programs): Likewise.
2160 (Coding Style): y is like s with respect to / and ,.
2161 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Document the weird restrictions
2162 that Posix has about { }. Use better quoting.
2163 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE, _AC_OUTPUT_HEADER):
2164 Rewrite to conform to Posix rules about { } in sed scripts.
2165 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_DIRNAME_SED, AS_BASENAME_SED): Likewise.
2166 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Likewise.
2167 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_PROG & AC_CHECK_PROGS):
2168 Use our own style advice re 's,a,b,' versus 's|a|b|'.
2170 2006-01-05 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2172 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Fix typo.
2174 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Ignore
2175 singly- or doubly-quoted arguments to `-cmdline', `-ignore',
2176 `-def', for the benefit of Portland `pgf90 -Mipa'.
2177 Reported by Christopher Hulbert <cchgroupmail@gmail.com>.
2179 2006-01-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2181 * doc/autoconf.texi: Update copyright (and other) dates to 2006.
2182 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology): Mac OS X 10.2 changed the default
2183 shell from zsh to bash.
2185 2005-12-31 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2187 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_GREP): Use $PATH_SEPARATOR;
2188 ":" caused problems on OS/2-EMX. Suggested by Andrew Belov.
2190 2005-12-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2192 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Warn about unbalanced
2193 parentheses in $(...). Problem reported by Eric Blake.
2195 2005-12-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2197 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools):
2198 Mention which characters can be escaped with \ in portable regular
2199 expressions used in grep, sed, expr. Mention the leading ^ problem
2200 with expr. Clean up some confusing wording. Mention which
2201 grep options are portable.
2203 2005-12-09 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2205 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE): Fix typo in the comment.
2207 2005-12-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2209 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Fix typos in previous
2210 patch, noted by Ralf Wildenhues.
2212 2005-12-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2214 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): Try `set -o
2215 posix' unconditionally, for pdksh in `native sh' emulation.
2217 2005-12-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2219 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology): Document eval $? problem
2220 with ash.
2221 (Limitations of Builtins): Likewise.
2223 2005-11-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2225 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Pass
2226 CONFIG_SHELL in the environment of the configure rerun.
2227 * doc/autoconf.texi (Here-Documents, config.status Invocation):
2228 Suggest passing CONFIG_SHELL absolute, and in the environment
2229 rather than as option.
2231 2005-11-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2233 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE):
2234 Fix quoting of output line (triggered for many AC_SUBST_FILEs).
2235 Fix macro quoting. Fix output for n * 98 substituted variables.
2237 2005-11-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2239 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_MAIN_LOOP): Initialize
2240 `tmp' to avoid file removal race.
2242 2005-11-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2244 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Initialize
2245 ac_clean_files and LIBOBJS.
2247 2005-11-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2249 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_CHECK_PROG, AC_PATH_PROG):
2250 Factor functionality to..
2251 (_AC_CHECK_PROG, _AC_PATH_PROG): these new macros, but only
2252 `AC_SUBST($1)' in the public version.
2253 (AC_CHECK_TOOL, AC_PATH_TOOL, AC_PATH_TARGET_TOOL)
2254 (AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOL): Use internal versions for ac_ct_* and
2255 ac_pt_* variables.
2257 2005-11-01 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2259 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_C_O): Remove the comment about 8+3
2260 filesystems.
2262 2005-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2264 * NEWS: Move AH_HEADER mention to right place.
2266 2005-10-27 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2268 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_C_O): "conftst2" -> "conftest2"
2269 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_C_O): Likewise.
2271 2005-10-25 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2273 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_C_O): rm -f conftst2.*, not only
2274 conftst2.$ac_objext.
2275 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_C_O): Likewise.
2277 2005-10-24 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2279 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_C_O): Use conftst2.o instead of
2280 conftest.o, to see whether the compiler really obeys; rm the object
2281 file before and after the test and register it with ac_clean_files.
2282 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_C_O): Likewise.
2284 2005-10-21 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2286 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE): When determining,
2287 the delimiter CEOF$ac_eof: fix quoting of CEOF[0-9]* and modify the
2288 code so that the most common case requires less forks.
2290 2005-10-20 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2292 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions}: Document that ${10} is
2293 not portable; thanks to Paul Eggert and Alexandre.
2295 * NEWS: Fix an old typo.
2297 2005-10-20 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
2299 * doc/autoconf.texi: Typo: s/feature/features/ in ``the features of
2300 the latter'', in two places.
2302 2005-10-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2304 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generating Sources): AC_LANG_PROGRAMS ->
2305 AC_LANG_PROGRAM, fixing a typo. Don't give details about
2306 the inner workings of AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY.
2307 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_CALL(C)): Reformat to match
2308 AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY. This involves returning the value returned
2309 by the function rather than ignoring it.
2310 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C)): Call the function rather than simply
2311 comparing its address. Intel's interprocedural optimization was
2312 outsmarting the old heuristic. Problem reported by
2313 Mikulas Patocka.
2315 2005-10-19 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2317 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SUBST): Remove an obsolete comment.
2319 2005-10-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2321 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (_m4_map): New macro.
2322 (m4_map, m4_map_sep): Use it. Handle the empty list correctly.
2324 2005-10-04 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2326 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Really make the subtree writable
2327 before removing it (chmod -R u+rwx); there are three instances of this.
2329 2005-10-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2330 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2332 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Balance parentheses.
2333 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): If the test dir already exists,
2334 make its content writable before removing it. Remove an errorneous
2335 comment from the end, where the logs of the failed tests are copied
2336 to the main log file.
2338 2005-09-27 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2340 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Pass --force to autoheader,
2341 in case the computer is too quick. Double quote the configure.ac
2342 snippets.
2344 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF): Always pass --force to prevent
2345 problems if the testsuite were running too fast.
2347 2005-09-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2349 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_DIRECT): Look for X11/Xlib.h
2350 and XrmInitialize rather than X11/Intrinsic.h and XtMalloc
2351 (which belong to Xt, not X itself). See Debian bug 327655.
2352 * NEWS: Mention this.
2354 2005-09-07 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2356 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_SOURCE(C)): Remove an incorrect comment.
2358 2005-09-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2360 * config/move-if-change: Don't output "$2 is unchanged";
2361 suggested by Ben Elliston. Handle weird characters correctly.
2363 2005-09-06 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2365 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (AC_SEARCH_LIBS): Merge the two AC_LINK_IFELSE
2366 calls, so that the final expansion of this macro is shorter.
2367 Create the conftest.$ac_ext outside the `for' loop, to speed the run.
2368 Do not use `break' in the argument to AC_LINK_IFELSE, it would skip
2369 the cleanup there. Use AS_VAR_* macros, to be more general.
2370 * tests/semantics.at (AC_SEARCH_LIBS): Check for the cleanup.
2372 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Use AS_IF where appropriate.
2374 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_IF): Use m4_default.
2376 2005-09-01 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2378 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Headers): Add an index entry
2379 for AH_HEADER.
2381 2005-08-26 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
2383 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_XMKMF): Use shell variable
2384 XMKMF to locate xmkmf. Make XMKMF precious. Export CC when
2385 running xmkmf.
2387 2005-08-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2389 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_VERSION_COMPARE_PREPARE):
2390 The previous patch didn't work, so try a better one.
2392 2005-08-26 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2394 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh) <AS_TR_CPP>: Fix m4 quoting
2395 in the example. Reported by Bruno Haible.
2396 <AS_TR_SH>: Likewise. Also modify the example to be more convincing:
2397 "if $undefined_var;" succeeds with my shell.
2399 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CANONICAL_BUILD, AC_CANONICAL_HOST,
2400 AC_CANONICAL_TARGET): Define by AC_DEFUN, no need to use AC_DEFUN_ONCE;
2401 but change the m4_divert_text to m4_divert_once.
2403 2005-08-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2405 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_VERSION_COMPARE_PREPARE):
2406 Work around bug in Solaris /usr/xpg4/bin/awk.
2407 The bug is present in at least Solaris 8 through 10.
2409 2005-08-24 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2411 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_CANONICAL_SPLIT): Simplify; rejecting
2412 some evil values and relying on the fact that $* concatenates the
2413 parameters by the first character from IFS.
2415 2005-08-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>,
2416 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2418 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_CONFIG_REGISTER_DEST): When the
2419 first header appears, define AH_HEADER.
2420 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Headers): Document AH_HEADER.
2421 Update limitations about when to call AC_CONFIG_HEADERS.
2422 (Configuration Commands): Document that AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE
2423 parameter can call AC_SUBST, AC_DEFINE, or AC_CONFIG_FOOS; explain
2424 that AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE and AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_POST are not
2425 ``Configuration Actions''; fix their index entries.
2427 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Process multiple keywords
2428 options correctly. Process N-M as M-N if M is smaller than N.
2429 Process ranges correctly so that N-N will run only N.
2430 Sort and uniquify the tests that will be run. If there is more
2431 than one test, reinsert the banners for the tests.
2432 * tests/autotest.at (Keywords): Unmark XFAIL.
2434 2005-08-23 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2436 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_DEFINE_Q): Strip the parameter list
2437 before passing the macro name to AH_TEMPLATE.
2439 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): config.status
2440 now opens log after option processing; in particular, --version
2441 and --help do not touch config.log.
2443 * Makefile.maint: Revert the change from 2005-08-12.
2445 2005-08-22 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2447 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_ENABLE, AC_ARG_WITH): Factor out
2448 common code to...
2449 (_AC_ENABLE_IF, _AC_ENABLE_IF_ACTION): ... these new macros.
2451 2005-08-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2453 * doc/autoconf.texi (Using Autotest, testsuite Scripts)
2454 (Autotest Logs, Writing testsuite.at, testsuite Invocation):
2455 Language cleanup.
2457 * doc/autoconf.texi (Defining Symbols, Changed Results):
2458 Prepend to LIBS, not append, in examples.
2460 2005-08-16 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2462 When building in place, set srcdir="."; suggested by Tim Van Holder.
2464 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Do this; to recognize
2465 build in place, we need ac_pwd, and thus have to AC_REQUIRE ...
2466 (_AC_INIT_DIRCHECK): ... this macro and AC_DEFUN both of them.
2467 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCDIRS): Fix a comment: srcdir="."
2468 does not mean "no --srcdir option".
2470 2005-08-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2472 * tests/autoscan.at (autoscan): New file.
2473 * tests/suite.at: Use it.
2474 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTSUITE_HAND_AT): Add it.
2475 Reported against Libtool by Gideon Go <gideon.go@gmail.com>.
2477 * tests/autotest.at (Keywords): Test keywords combinations.
2479 2005-08-12 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2481 * Makefile.maint (GZIP_ENV): When checking the help text of gzip,
2482 add "2>&1"; gzip 1.2.4 prints help on stderr.
2484 2005-07-27 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2486 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_DECIDE_TRACEABLE): The symbol at_reason
2487 was pushdef'ed twice while popped only once. Push it only once.
2488 (_AT_CHECK): Cosmetic changes to the "case $at_status" command.
2490 2005-07-26 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2492 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): The message is now
2493 prefixed by mere "===", not "configure: === ".
2495 2005-07-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2497 * Makefile.maint: Update from Bison.
2499 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_strip): Comment fix---change tab to
2500 "<tab>" in comment, so that the point is understandable.
2502 2005-07-25 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2504 Rewrite substantial part of lib/autoconf/status.m4.
2505 The main change is that CONFIG_FILES, CONFIG_HEADERS, CONFIG_LINKS,
2506 and CONFIG_COMMANDS are not processed in four separate loops.
2507 Instead, there is one main loop. This alows that the common code
2508 is expanded only once, thus config.status (and configure) is smaller.
2510 The registration mechnism in AC_CONFIG_FILES and cousins also changed;
2511 the AC_LIST_FILES and cousins macros are no longer used.
2513 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES, _AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS,
2514 _AC_OUTPUT_LINKS, _AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS): Renamed to ...
2515 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILE, _AC_OUTPUT_HEADER, _AC_OUTPUT_LINK,
2516 _AC_OUTPUT_COMMAND): ..., respectively. These macros no longer
2517 contain the initialization, nor the for loop, nor the associated
2518 commands; all these go to ...
2519 (_AC_OUTPUT_MAIN_LOOP): ... this new macro, called from
2520 _AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS.
2521 (_AC_CONFIG_SPLIT, _AC_CONFIG_SPLIT_SOURCE_DEST, _AC_CONFIG_SPLIT_FILE_IN):
2522 Nuked; the code was merged into _AC_OUTPUT_MAIN_LOOP.
2523 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILE): The creation of the sed script ...
2524 (AC_OUTPUT): ... and the setup of ac_vpsub goes to ...
2525 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE): ... a new macro, also called from
2526 _AC_OUTPUT_MAIN_LOOP.
2527 (_AC_CONFIG_FILES, _AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, _AC_CONFIG_LINKS,
2528 _AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS): Use ...
2529 (_AC_CONFIG_FOOS): ... this new macro, which uses these ...
2530 (_AC_CONFIG_REGISTER, _AC_CONFIG_REGISTER_DEST): ... new macros.
2531 (_AC_CONFIG_FILE, _AC_CONFIG_HEADER, _AC_CONFIG_LINK,
2532 _AC_CONFIG_COMMAND, _AC_CONFIG_DEPENDENCIES): No longer needed.
2533 (_AC_CONFIG_DEPENDENCY): Update, it uses these ...
2534 (_AC_CONFIG_DEPENDENCY_DEFAULT, _AC_FILE_DEPENDENCY_TRACE_COLON):
2535 ... new macros.
2536 (_AC_CONFIG_UNIQUE): Update.
2537 (AC_LIST_FILES, AC_LIST_HEADERS, AC_LIST_LINKS, AC_LIST_COMMANDS):
2538 Replaced by this ...
2539 (_AC_LIST_TAGS): ... new common macro.
2540 (AC_LIST_FILE_COMMANDS, AC_LIST_HEADER_COMMANDS, AC_LIST_LINK_COMMANDS,
2541 AC_LIST_COMMAND_COMMANDS): Replaced by this ...
2542 (_AC_LIST_TAG_COMMANDS): ... new common macro.
2543 (_AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_INIT): Moved top to the `registration' section;
2544 this didn't belong to the `config commands' section.
2545 (_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_INIT): Don't initialize, m4_ifdef is our friend.
2546 (AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE, AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_PRE,
2547 AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_POST): Moved to a new section, these didn't belong
2548 to the `config commands' section either.
2549 (AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS): Don't touch diversion DEFAULTS.
2550 (_AC_LIST_SUBDIRS): Don't initialize, m4_ifdef is our friend.
2552 ... and many changes to the comments nearby.
2554 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): At the end of the day,
2555 set ac_subdirs_all='_AC_LIST_SUBDIRS'.
2556 * tests/torture.at (AC_CONFIG_FILES, HEADERS, LINKS and COMMANDS):
2557 AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS(command:input,...) is no longer allowed.
2558 (#define header templates): The comment at the top of the generated
2559 header now includes the name(s) of the source file(s).
2561 Several unrelated small changes:
2563 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CACHE_VAL): Be didactic, quote the first
2564 parameter to AC_DIAGNOSE.
2565 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS): Likewise.
2566 (_AC_LINK_FILES_CNT): Don't AU_DEFUN this; it causes confusing messages
2567 with autoupdate; use m4_define_default inside AU_DEFUNed AC_LINK_FILES.
2568 (AC_OUTPUT): In the compatibility code, use m4_ifvaln, to be consistent
2569 with AU::AC_OUTPUT.
2570 (AU::AC_OUTPUT): Don't double-quote $2 and $3, the compatibility code
2571 in AC_OUTPUT doesn't double-quote it either.
2572 * tests/tools.at (autoupdate): AU::AC_OUTPUT no longer double-quotes the
2573 parameters.
2575 2005-07-10 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2577 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): Document which
2578 versions of Portland Group compiler produce single- and double-quoted
2579 -cmdline argument. Reported by Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@fftw.org>
2580 and Ole Holm Nielsen <Ole.H.Nielsen@fysik.dtu.dk>.
2582 2005-07-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2584 * tests/local.at (AT_CONFIG_CMP): Ignore lines like "LIBS=''" too.
2585 This is a corrected version of yesterday's patch.
2587 2005-07-07 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2589 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Report the full
2590 path, too; insert a "===" to emphasize the line.
2592 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CANONICAL_BUILD): Rename
2593 ac_cv_build_alias to ac_build_alias.
2594 (AC_CANONICAL_HOST, AC_CANONICAL_TARGET): Simplify.
2596 On 2005-02-24, an unintentional AC_SUBST([CC]) was introduced; this
2597 change eliminates it. Problem reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
2598 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_PRECIOUS): Move the AC_SUBST ...
2599 (AC_ARG_VAR): ... here.
2600 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Call AC_SUBST for build_alias, host_alias and
2601 target_alias.
2603 Keep a list of all precious variables and process them with one simple
2604 for loop, instead of expanding all commands, or, OTOH, complicated
2605 processing of output of "set".
2606 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_PRECIOUS): Acumulate the
2607 variable names in new macro...
2608 (_AC_PRECIOUS_VARS): ... which will be assigned to ac_precious_vars.
2609 (_AC_ARG_VAR_STORE): New macro which writes to diversion PARSE_ARGS
2610 a loop to assign all ac_env_* and ac_cv_env_* variables.
2611 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Use shell variable ac_precious_vars, divert
2612 to INIT_PREPARE.
2613 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): At the end, if _AC_PRECIOUS_VARS is set, assign
2614 its value to shell variable ac_precious_vars and call
2615 _AC_ARG_VAR_STORE and _AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE.
2616 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Don't call
2617 _AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE.
2619 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Move AC_LANG_PUSH(C)
2620 and the AC_SUBSTs ...
2621 (AC_INIT): ... here.
2623 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Changed the title of
2624 the ac_subst_files section in config.log.
2626 * tests/local.at (AT_CONFIG_CMP): Revert Paul's previous change.
2628 2005-07-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2630 * NEWS: New macro AC_C_TYPEOF.
2631 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Document AC_C_TYPEOF.
2632 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_TYPEOF): New macro.
2633 * tests/c.at (C keywords): Test AC_C_TYPEOF.
2635 Fix problems reported by Nicolas Joly.
2636 * tests/base.at (Input/Output): Ignore 'loading site script' chatter.
2637 * tests/local.at (AT_CONFIG_CMP): Ignore lines like "LIBS=''" too.
2638 They are generated by the Tru64 v5.1B shell.
2640 2005-07-05 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2642 Fix my changes from 2005-07-01; reported by Noah Misch.
2643 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_CONFIG_DEPENDENCIES): Fix the
2644 description, the macro now accepts only a single tag.
2645 (_AC_CONFIG_UNIQUE): Likewise; s/AC_File/[$1]/
2647 Fix cases when the varsions of Autoconf and Autotest don't match.
2648 Reported by Noah Misch.
2649 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Set also
2650 at_top_builddir, for compatibility with older autotest.
2651 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): If at_top_build_prefix
2652 is not set, use at_top_builddir, for compatibility with older
2653 versions of autoconf.
2655 2005-07-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2657 * bin/autom4te.in ($m4): Catch usages like --nesting-limit=2048.
2658 Problem reported by Patrick Welche.
2660 2005-07-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2662 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_PROGRAM): Use &, not |, in
2663 sed substitution command, so that we allow | in program prefixes
2664 and program suffixes. (& is a problem anyway; we're not fixing
2665 that here.)
2666 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_CONFIG_FILES): Likewise, for
2667 configure_input, top_builddir, srcdir, etc.
2668 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise, for
2669 PATH_SEPARATOR in AUTOTEST_PATH.
2671 2005-07-02 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
2673 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SITE_LOAD): Rewrite the
2674 for loop over config.site files using `set', to allow
2675 directory names containing IFS characters.
2677 2005-07-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2679 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DIRCHECK): Remove the tests for
2680 directories with weird names. Apparently some people like living
2681 on the edge. However, improve the test that "pwd" actually does
2682 report a name for the working directory.
2683 * NEWS: Remove the claim that we test for funny chars in dir names.
2685 2005-07-01 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2687 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_FOREACH): Make obsolete; it's
2688 replaced ...
2689 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_foreach_w): ... by this new macro.
2690 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_CONFIG_DEPENDENCIES, _AC_CONFIG_UNIQUE):
2691 Now accept a single tag, not whitespace separated list.
2692 (AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS): Call _AC_CONFIG_UNIQUE in a m4_foreach_w loop.
2694 2005-06-30 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2696 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Headers): Change the explanation
2697 about #include <config.h>.
2698 (Generic Functions): Mention the Gnulib project.
2699 (Limitations of Usual Tools) <sed>: Another minor rephrasing.
2701 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Use a here
2702 document to output the default config_* lists to config.status.
2703 Don't recognize option --file, if the functionality is not there.
2704 Likewise for --header; moreover, recognize --he and --h as shortcuts
2705 for --help in that case.
2707 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Fix the order of the "sections", so that it
2708 matches the order of execution. No code changed.
2710 2005-06-30 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2712 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): Fix also for
2713 single-quoted -cmdline argument in Portland Group compiler.
2714 Reported against LAM by Ole Holm Nielsen <Ole.H.Nielsen@fysik.dtu.dk>.
2716 2005-06-30 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
2718 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect AC_SUBST_TRACE.
2720 2005-06-29 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2722 * doc/autoconf.texi (File Descriptors): ksh doesn't pass open file
2723 descriptors to child processes; reported by Norman Gray.
2725 2005-06-29 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2727 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_VAR): Move next to _AC_ARG_PRECIOUS.
2729 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SUBST_TRACE): New macro, to be traced
2730 instead of AC_SUBST; proposed by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
2731 (AC_SUBST): Call it.
2732 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Call AC_SUBST_TRACE for
2733 the directory specific variables; but don't call it for configure_input.
2735 2005-06-28 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
2737 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <sed>: Reword recent
2738 addition.
2740 2005-06-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2742 * NEWS: Don't worry about spaces in bindir etc. Only srcdir and working
2743 directory have inherent problems with special characters like spaces,
2744 due to limitations in Make syntax. Problem reported by Alexandre
2745 Duret-Lutz.
2746 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DIRCHECK): Implement the above.
2747 Also, fix Tru64 porting problem with shell patterns,
2748 reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
2750 2005-06-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2752 * doc/autoconf.texi (Subdirectories): Fix markup typos.
2754 2005-06-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2756 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_ENV): Simplify regexp slightly.
2758 Fix some more shell quoting problems. Prompted by a bug report
2759 from Justace Clutter.
2760 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DIRCHECK): Put name of invalid
2761 variable into diagnostic. Make the diagnostic an error, not a warning,
2762 because we really don't support spaces and suchlike in dir names.
2763 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Allow special characters in $ac_unique_file.
2764 Don't worry about backslashes in srcdir; it can't happen now.
2765 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Allow weird characters in ac_optarg.
2766 Simplify ac_optarg handling.
2767 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Remove unnecessary and inconsistent quotes.
2769 2005-06-22 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2771 Fix AT_CONFIG_CMP for Solaris hosts; idea from Ralf Menzel.
2772 * configure.ac: Call AC_PROG_EGREP and AC_PROG_SED.
2773 * tests/atlocal.in: Propagate $EGREP and $SED.
2774 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_ENV): Use $EGREP, not $GREP -E.
2775 (AT_CONFIG_CMP): Use sed instead of grep plumbing.
2777 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <grep>: Mention
2778 that '\|' is not allowed in BREs; recommend using newline separated
2779 list of patterns instead of multiple -e options.
2781 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): Remove an old comment.
2783 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_CANONICAL_SPLIT): Use AC_SUBST/2.
2785 2005-06-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2787 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_CANONICAL_SPLIT): Fix typo.
2789 2005-06-21 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2791 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <sed>: Document that
2792 b, t, r, w commands require single space, while : cannot have any.
2793 (Special Shell Variables): Fix sed code this in the example.
2794 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): Likewise; and fix a typo.
2795 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_ARG_OPTION): Fix typo in the description.
2797 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_split): If the parameter is empty,
2798 expand to the empty list. Don't use two pairs of m4_changequote,
2799 it's not necessary.
2801 2005-06-20 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
2803 * lib/m4/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_YACC): Declare YACC & YFLAGS precious.
2805 2005-06-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2807 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (as_awk_strverscmp): Port to Solaris /bin/awk.
2808 * doc/autoconf.texi:
2809 Don't mention Solaris versions so much, if a
2810 problem is common to all extant versions of Solaris. Say "SunOS
2811 4" instead of "SunOS" for SunOS 4.
2812 (awk): Mention more of the limitations of traditional Awk.
2813 (cat): Don't talk about cat -v.
2815 2005-06-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2817 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_VERSION_COMPARE_PREPARE): New macro.
2818 (AS_VERSION_COMPARE): New macro. The API is taken from CVS,
2819 but the implementation is entirely different and is designed
2820 to be compatible with glibc strverscmp.
2821 * tests/m4sh.at (AS_VERSION_COMPARE): New test.
2823 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Mention expr bug
2824 on Mac OS X 10.4 reported by Peter O'Gorman in:
2825 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2005-06/msg00041.html
2826 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_CANONICAL_SPLIT):
2827 Use shell builtins rather than 'expr', to work around expr bug.
2829 2005-06-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2831 * doc/autoconf.texi: "filesystem" -> "file system".
2832 "behaviour" -> "behavior".
2833 Warn about \(...\)* in Solaris sed (written by Ralf Menzel).
2834 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Omit blank after ":" sed command,
2835 as per POSIX.
2836 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Likewise.
2837 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): Work around problem
2838 with Solaris sed. Fix by Ralf Menzel and Stepan Kasal.
2840 * man/Makefile.am (MOSTLYCLEANFILES): Add $(srcdir)/*.t.
2841 (.x.1): Ignore the time stamp in the .TH line when deciding whether
2842 to update the man page. That way, we don't have to check in new
2843 man pages every month.
2845 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_VAR_TEST_SET): Work even if $1 contains
2846 quotes and backslashes. Patch from Derek Price.
2848 2005-06-10 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
2850 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Document AS_TR_CPP &
2851 AS_TR_SH.
2853 2005-06-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2855 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't accept Solaris 9's diff
2856 -u, since it outputs chatter if the input files are the same.
2857 Problem reported by Ralf Menzel.
2859 2005-06-08 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
2861 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: Undefine include & sinclude rather than
2862 renaming them since they are about to be redefined anyhow.
2864 2005-06-08 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
2866 * doc/autoconf.texi (Redefined M4 Macros): Add index entries for most
2867 redefined M4 macros to this node. Document m4_include & m4_sinclude.
2868 Move m4_undefine to alphabetical order.
2870 2005-06-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2872 * README: Recommend GNU M4 1.4.3 or later.
2873 * doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction): Likewise.
2874 Reword to avoid some formatting glitches.
2875 Use "#!/bin/sh", not "#! /bin/sh"; the space isn't needed these days.
2876 Clarify explanation of HP compiler bug.
2877 Redo example output tp match current CVS snapshot.
2878 Use @example.org in email addresses when the examples
2879 might get inadvertently cut-and-pasted into user code.
2880 Remove example of autom4te usage that doesn't seem to work now.
2881 Use modern AC_INIT (except when the example is meant to be
2882 shown with Autoconf 2.13).
2883 Update ksh info for Solaris 9 and later.
2884 KB -> kB.
2885 Modernize description of Automake versions a bit.
2886 Don't claim a future version of Autoconf is near.
2887 * doc/install.texi: Reword to avoid some formatting glitches.
2889 2005-06-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2891 * doc/autoconf.texi: Add [] to examples, so that the manual
2892 follows its own advice about quoting better.
2893 Reword to avoid some formatting glitches.
2894 * doc/installt.exi: Reword to avoid some formatting glitches.
2896 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins) <case>: Mention
2897 Tru64 ksh pattern matching bug. Reported against Libtool by
2898 Albert Chin <libtool@mlists.thewrittenword.com> and
2899 Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>.
2901 2005-06-06 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2903 m4_cdr of one-member list was [[]] (one-member list containing an
2904 empty string) instead of [] (an empty list. Callers were skewed to
2905 match this misbehaviour. As a consequence of this:
2906 - m4_foreach([x], [], [foo]) expanded to `foo', while
2907 - the expansion of m4_foreach([x], [[]], [foo]) was empty.
2908 This bug has been fixed:
2910 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_cdr): If only one argument is given,
2911 expand to an empty string; print error msg if called without
2912 an argument list.
2913 (m4_foreach, m4_map, m4_map_sep): Don't expect the previous
2914 misbehaviour; handle [] and [[]] correctly.
2916 2005-06-06 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2918 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Nuke ac_max_here_lines.
2919 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): Simplify the sed
2920 scripts created and the loop applying them, use _AC_SED_CMD_LIMIT.
2922 2005-06-06 Ralf Menzel <menzel@ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (trivial change)
2924 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Solaris' awk cannot
2925 swallow records with more than 99 fields.
2926 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Use the awk builtin `split' to
2927 parse the long line.
2929 2005-06-04 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2931 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): AIX awk cannot
2932 swallow literals longer than 399. Reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
2933 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Pass $at_groups though stdin,
2934 to workaround this limitation.
2936 2005-06-03 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
2938 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Find g95 in addition
2939 to gfortran, and make these the first two compiler names
2940 checked (following the general autoconf preference for gcc).
2942 2005-06-03 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2944 * tests/Makefile.am (check_SCRIPTS): Set to $(wrappers).
2945 (DISTCLEANFILES): Remove $(check_SCRIPTS).
2946 (testsuite): Make sure autotest.m4f is up-to-date before using it.
2948 2005-06-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2950 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't create a regular
2951 expression of unbounded size when processing the --list
2952 option. This runs afoul of a limit of 399 bytes per regular
2953 expression on AIX. Problem reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
2955 2005-06-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2957 * NEWS: Note yesterday's changes to AC_SUBST and AC_SUBST_FILE.
2958 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Reword example
2959 for multiline stdbool replacement.
2960 (Setting Output Variables): Reword text a bit. Don't
2961 give all the details about |#_!!_#|.
2962 Reword description of line replacement.
2964 2005-05-31 Dan Manthey <dan_manthey@partech.com>
2966 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Output variables may
2967 now contain newlines, and substituted files must be referenced on
2968 a line alone; the sed scripts to substitute them are now very
2969 different.
2970 (_AC_SED_CMD_LIMIT): Added; single place to store limit on how many
2971 commands can be put in a sed script portably.
2972 * doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Document above
2973 changes. (Particular Header Checks) <AC_HEADER_STDBOOL>: Give exaple
2974 use of multiline substitution.
2975 * tests/torture.at: No longer expect substitution of newline to fail.
2977 2005-05-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2979 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_SHELL_FN_WORK): Fix diagnostics.
2980 From Ralf Menzel (trivial change).
2982 2005-05-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2984 * tests/local.at: Don't attempt to check for negated character
2985 classes in shell scripts. The test was too brittle.
2987 2005-05-25 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2989 * bin/autoconf.as: Don't use "shift 2"; it's not portable enough.
2990 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Document this
2991 limitation.
2993 2005-05-24 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2995 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_ECHO_LOG): New macro to factor out
2996 common code; used in many places in the tree.
2997 (AS_ESCAPE): Make the pattern a bit simpler; use \& insetad of \1.
2998 (_AS_ECHO_UNQUOTED): Move the macro lower; no code change.
3000 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_ifset): Use m4_ifval.
3002 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Merge the two error
3003 messages when ac_unique_file is not found.
3004 (AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR): Simplify the `if' at the end.
3005 (AC_MSG_CHECKING, AC_MSG_RESULT): Put braces around the two echo
3006 commands, for consistency with AC_MSG_ERROR and such.
3008 * bin/autoconf.as: Make more use of "shift 2" in option processing.
3010 * bin/Makefile.am: Merge the two rules for creating scripts.
3012 2005-05-23 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3014 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_MSG_RESULT_UNQUOTED): Make
3015 obsolete; it was never documented.
3016 (AC_CACHE_CHECK): Use AC_MSG_RESULT instead.
3018 2005-05-20 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3020 * NEWS: @top_builddir@ is now a dirname, ac_top_builddir will follow.
3021 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCDIRS): Rename ...
3022 (ac_top_builddir): ... this ...
3023 (ac_top_build_prefix): ... to this; the old name is also kept, for
3024 backward compatibility.
3025 (ac_top_builddir_sub): New variable, without the trailing slash,
3026 always nonempty.
3027 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): s/@top_builddir@/$ac_top_builddir_sub/
3028 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Actions): Rename
3029 ac_top_builddir to ac_top_build_prefix.
3030 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Rename
3031 at_top_builddir to at_top_build_prefix.
3032 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
3034 2005-05-20 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3036 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Simplify the init
3037 of confdefs.h .
3039 2005-05-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3041 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_text_wrap): Don't m4_quote the second
3042 argument to m4_foreach. I guess it was necessary in the past,
3043 but I think it's a no-op now.
3045 2005-05-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3047 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Merge two consecutive
3048 ``cat <<_ACEOF'' commands to one.
3049 (_AC_CANONICAL_SPLIT): Use expr, not ``echo|sed.''
3050 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: On various places, use expr instead of
3051 ``echo|sed.''
3052 (_AC_CONFIG_SPLIT, _AC_CONFIG_SPLIT_SOURCE_DEST):
3053 (_AC_CONFIG_SPLIT_FILE_IN): New macros, to factor out common code.
3054 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Use expr to get the numbers from
3055 a range.
3056 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_SHELL_SYNTAX): Use awk to search for
3057 the wrong patterns between ``case'' and ``esac.'' The previous
3058 code had false positives.
3060 2005-05-14 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
3062 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ_ALLOCA): Prepend ${LIBOBJDIR},
3063 as on 2005-05-02.
3064 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions) <AC_FUNC_ALLOCA>:
3065 Mention LIBOBJDIR.
3067 2005-05-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3069 * AUTHORS, BUGS, COPYING, ChangeLog, ChangeLog.0, ChangeLog.1,
3070 ChangeLog.2, GNUmakefile, HACKING, Makefile.am, Makefile.cfg,
3071 Makefile.maint, NEWS, README, README-alpha, TODO, configure.ac,
3072 bin/Makefile.am, bin/autoconf.as, bin/autoheader.in,
3073 bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoscan.in,
3074 bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in, config/Makefile.am,
3075 config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/elisp-comp,
3076 config/m4.m4, config/mdate-sh, config/missing, config/texinfo.tex,
3077 doc/Makefile.am, doc/fdl.texi, lib/Makefile.am, lib/autom4te.in,
3078 lib/freeze.mk, lib/Autom4te/C4che.pm, lib/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm,
3079 lib/Autom4te/Channels.pm, lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm,
3080 lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm, lib/Autom4te/General.pm,
3081 lib/Autom4te/Request.pm, lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm,
3082 lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am,
3083 lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4,
3084 lib/autoconf/autoscan.m4, lib/autoconf/autotest.m4,
3085 lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4, lib/autoconf/c.m4,
3086 lib/autoconf/fortran.m4, lib/autoconf/functions.m4,
3087 lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/headers.m4,
3088 lib/autoconf/lang.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4,
3089 lib/autoconf/oldnames.m4, lib/autoconf/programs.m4,
3090 lib/autoconf/specific.m4, lib/autoconf/status.m4,
3091 lib/autoconf/types.m4, lib/autoscan/Makefile.am,
3092 lib/autoscan/autoscan.list, lib/autoscan/autoscan.pre,
3093 lib/autotest/Makefile.am, lib/autotest/autotest.m4,
3094 lib/autotest/general.m4, lib/emacs/Makefile.am,
3095 lib/emacs/autoconf-mode.el, lib/emacs/autotest-mode.el,
3096 lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am, lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4,
3097 lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4, man/Makefile.am, tests/Makefile.am,
3098 tests/atlocal.in, tests/autotest.at, tests/base.at, tests/c.at,
3099 tests/compile.at, tests/foreign.at, tests/fortran.at,
3100 tests/local.at, tests/m4sh.at, tests/m4sugar.at, tests/mktests.sh,
3101 tests/semantics.at, tests/suite.at, tests/tools.at,
3102 tests/torture.at, tests/wrapper.as:
3103 Update FSF postal mail address.
3105 2005-05-13 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3107 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR): Remove the broken
3108 check.
3109 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_bmatch): Halt with error if we don't get
3110 enough arguments, similarly as in m4_bpatsubsts.
3112 2005-05-12 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3114 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCDIRS): Simplify the computation
3115 of absolute paths.
3117 2005-05-11 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3119 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Make the check
3120 for absolute directory names in one loop.
3121 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Handle
3122 abbreviations of --version and --debug.
3124 2005-05-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3126 * doc/autoconf.texi (Autoconf Language): Be more precise about
3127 quoting rules. Problems noted by Stepan Kasal.
3128 Also, throughout this document, be more careful about white space.
3129 "blank", "white space", and "space" all have different meanings
3130 and we should be careful to say what we mean.
3132 2005-05-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3134 Fix C++ related problems reported by Werner Lemberg.
3135 * doc/autoconf.texi (C++ Compiler): Mention .cpp extension.
3136 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG(C++)): Set ac_ext to .cpp, not .cc.
3137 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_TYPE_SIGNAL): Simplify test, to
3138 avoid problems with C++ and throw.
3139 * tests/compile.at: .cpp, not .cc.
3141 * tests/semantics.at: Prepend LIBOBJDIR, as per 2005-05-02 change.
3143 2005-05-05 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3145 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Functions): Typos.
3147 2005-05-02 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
3149 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJS_NORMALIZE): Prepend each
3150 object named in LIBOBJS and LTLIBOBJS with the ${LIBOBJDIR}, as
3151 set by latest automake.
3153 2005-05-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3155 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): "expr '' \| ''"
3156 outputs 0 on GNU/Linux these days.
3158 2005-04-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3160 * doc/autoconf.texi (Autoconf Language): Add more description
3161 about quoting heuristics.
3162 (Limitations of Builtins): Describe "set -" problems.
3164 2005-04-29 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3166 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_KEYWORDS): Separate by space,
3167 not newline.
3169 * doc/autoconf.texi (External Software): Replace AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED
3170 by AC_DEFINE; it was a mistake.
3171 From bug reported against libtool by Dalibor Topic <robilad@kaffe.org>.
3173 2005-04-25 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3175 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): A tiny optimization.
3177 2005-04-22 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3179 * doc/autoconf.texi (External Software): Quadrigraphs are not
3180 processed correctly in AS_HELP_STRING; avoid this in the examples.
3181 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_HELP_STRING): Add a FIXME about quadrigraphs.
3182 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_text_wrap): Likewise; and rephrase the
3183 comment and reduce m4_default([foo], []) to [foo].
3184 (m4_strip): Update the explanation.
3186 2005-04-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3188 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE, _AC_RUN_IFELSE):
3189 Remove core.conftest.* too; it's generated by Tru64 5.1.
3190 Problem reported by Jennis Pruett.
3191 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4
3192 (AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED, AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL):
3193 Don't bother to remove core files; AC_RUN_IFELSE should do that
3194 for you.
3196 2005-04-19 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3198 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_bpatsubsts): Add the b- to comment, too.
3200 2005-04-19 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
3202 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Handle --docdir.
3203 Report from Horst Wente.
3205 2005-04-15 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3207 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Fixed a typo in
3208 the comment.
3210 2005-04-14 Gregorio Guidi <greg_g@gentoo.org>
3212 * doc/autoconf.texi (External Software, Package Options): Add
3213 examples showing how to implement --with-* and --enable-* options.
3215 2005-04-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3217 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Look for configure.ac
3218 as well as configure.in. Problem reported by Gregorio Guidi.
3220 2005-04-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3222 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Use gnulib's current
3223 pattern for alloca snippet.
3225 2005-04-04 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3227 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_DECIDE_TRACEABLE): Fix a typo.
3229 2005-04-01 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3231 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Programs): Fix a typo.
3233 2005-04-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3235 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't assume that "date +%s"
3236 fails if %s isn't supported. Problem reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
3238 2005-03-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3240 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS):
3241 Merge `-z option' as well for the benefit of Solaris link flags. Pass
3242 whole-archive (-zallextract, -zdefaultextract) options in the hope of
3243 unique libraries, for the Sun Fortran 95 8.0 compiler. Bug reported
3244 against Libtool by Yury Puhalsky <pooh@cryptopro.ru>.
3246 2005-03-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3248 * NEWS: The configure command now warns you if you attempt to use
3249 a directory whose name contains a special character like space,
3250 newline, or "\".
3251 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Allow
3252 "," in file names. Do not use \@; it's not a portable regexp.
3253 * bin/Makefile.am (edit): Likewise.
3254 * lib/Makefile.am (edit): Likewise.
3255 * tests/Makefile.am (edit): Likewise.
3256 * tests/semantics.at: Likewise.
3257 * tests/torture.at: Likewise.
3258 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_PROGRAM): Likewise.
3259 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCDIRS): Likewise.
3260 * doc/autoconf.texi (File System Conventions): Warn about
3261 unportable file names.
3262 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DIRCHECK): New macro.
3263 (AC_INIT): Use it.
3264 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Use ac_pwd rather than invoking pwd.
3265 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Propagate
3266 ac_pwd, and quote srcdir.
3267 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Quote file name args.
3269 * doc/autoconf.texi: Fix some systematic formatting problems.
3270 ".)" needs a following @: if not at the end of a sentence, and
3271 similarly for "!)". "etc." should be preceded by a comma.
3272 "n-th" -> "@var{n}th". pdksh is still buggy, so update its date.
3274 2005-03-22 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
3276 * doc/autoconf.texi (Input): Mention that AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR's
3277 argument is often called 'build-aux'.
3279 2005-03-07 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3281 * doc/autoconf.texi (Quotation Rule Of Thumb): Mention that the
3282 macro AC_TRY_LINK is obsolete.
3283 (Installation Directory Variables): Change `AC_OUTPUT_FILES' to
3284 `AC_CONFIG_FILES'.
3286 2005-02-24 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3288 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC): Be more careful to skip
3289 `/usr/ucb/cc'; use `cl.exe' to distinguish the MS compiler
3290 from a Common Lisp's `cl'.
3291 (AC_PROG_CXX): Behave according to the documentation: don't
3292 search for $ac_tool_prefix$CCC and $CCC, just set CXX=$CCC;
3293 make the variable CCC precious; use `cl.exe', not `cl'.
3295 2005-02-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3296 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
3298 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Redirect stdin from
3299 /dev/null, as "configure" shouldn't read stdin, and this insulates
3300 us from problems (e.g., when testing for "cl"). Also, do this
3301 redirection before invoking "hostname" or "uname", and keep the
3302 original input stream available via...
3303 (AS_ORIGINAL_STDIN_FD): ... this new macro.
3304 (_AC_PREPROC_IFELSE, _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, _AC_LINK_IFELSE): Don't
3305 bother with "</dev/null" since it's now done at the top of
3306 'configure'.
3307 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX): Likewise.
3308 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Likewise.
3309 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FLAVOR_GNU): Likewise.
3310 * doc/autoconf.texi (File Descriptor Macros): New section.
3311 (Printing Messages): Mention it.
3312 * tests/base.at (Input/Output): New test.
3314 2005-02-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3316 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_ECHO_N_PREPARE): Don't set ECHO_C to
3317 newline if neither \c nor -n work, as that would output two
3318 newlines. Prefer -n to \c. Reported by Stepan Kasal.
3320 2005-02-12 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3322 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_IF): Define by m4_defun, not m4_define.
3323 This causes that any required macros inside will get before the if.
3324 * doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te.cache): A typo.
3326 2005-02-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3328 Undo previous change, except keep the change to
3329 lib/autoconf/programs.m4 that replaced grep with shell
3330 pattern-matching. This is because net-snmp configure reads stdin.
3331 Reported by Noah Misch.
3333 2005-02-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3335 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Redirect stdin
3336 from /dev/null, as "configure" shouldn't read stdin, and this
3337 insulates us from problems (e.g., when testing for "cl").
3338 Suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz. Also, do this redirection
3339 before invoking "hostname" or "uname".
3340 (_AC_PREPROC_IFELSE, _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE,
3341 _AC_LINK_IFELSE): Undo previous change, as it's no longer needed.
3342 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX): Don't bother with
3343 "</dev/null" since it's now done at the top of 'configure'.
3344 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Likewise.
3345 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FLAVOR_GNU): Likewise.
3346 Also, replace grep with shell pattern-matching, to save a process.
3348 2005-02-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3350 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_PREPROC_IFELSE, _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE,
3351 _AC_LINK_IFELSE): Redirect stdin to /dev/null, in an attempt to
3352 avoid thinking that Allegro Common Lisp's "cl" command is a C++
3353 compiler.
3355 2005-02-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3357 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Document that
3358 grep -q isn't portable. Improve grep -s explanation.
3359 Problem reported by Dan Manthey.
3361 2005-02-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3363 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Clarify
3364 PATH_SEPARATOR wording; fix typo in IFS. Reported by Gary V. Vaughan.
3366 2005-02-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3368 * doc/autoconf.texi: Use @acronym for DJGPP.
3369 Fix some @code's that should have been @env's, and vice versa.
3370 Sort environment variable names.
3371 Mention that shells no longer inherit IFS.
3372 Don't recommend PATH_SEPARATOR=';' so strongly.
3373 Mention that $RANDOM might expand to the empty string.
3374 "symlink" and "soft link" -> "symbolic link".
3375 Improve mktemp description (reported by Bruno Haible).
3377 2005-02-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3379 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Don't overquote AT_SETUP arg.
3380 * tests/m4sh.at (AS_DIRNAME, AS_BASENAME, AS_MKDIR_P, AS_HELP_STRING):
3381 Likewise.
3382 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN, AC_PATH_PROG & AC_PATH_PROGS):
3383 Likewise.
3385 2005-02-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3387 * NEWS: Mention AT_COPYRIGHT.
3389 * tests/local.at (AT_CMP): Use diff directly on input files rather
3390 than copying them.
3392 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_SED): Don't look in
3393 /usr/xpg4/bin since that sed dumps core (at least on Solaris 8).
3395 2005-02-04 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
3396 and Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3398 * tests/autotest.at (Empty test suite): New test.
3399 * tests/torture.at (Substitute and define special characters)
3400 (Substitute a 2000-byte string, Define to a 2000-byte string)
3401 (Substitute a newline, Define a newline): New tests.
3403 2005-02-04 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
3405 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_re_string, m4_re_word): Revert 2002-03-04.
3406 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR): Add `m4sugar' to keywords.
3407 (AT_CHECK_ENV): Ignore LTLIBOBJS, FC variables, EGREP, FGREP, and SED.
3408 * tests/m4sugar.at (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR_TEXT, AT_CHECK_M4RE): New macros.
3409 (Standard regular expressions): New test.
3410 (m4_warn, m4_require: circular dependencies, m4_text_wrap): Strip
3411 excess test name quoting.
3412 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_HEADERS_OLD, AC_CHECK_HEADERS_NEW): Pass
3413 CPPFLAGS to `configure' instead of setting it in `configure'.
3415 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_UNAME): Try only /usr/bin/hostinfo, not
3416 any `hostinfo' in $PATH, since hostinfo.exe is a popular file name
3417 on some platforms.
3419 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_LANG(Fortran), AC_FC_SRCEXT):
3420 s/FC_SRCEXT/ac_fc_srcext/; s/FCFLAGS_SRCEXT/ac_fcflags_srcext/.
3422 * tests/local.at (AT_CMP): New macro.
3423 (AT_DATA_AUTOCONF): Do not call AC_PROG_GREP.
3424 (AC_SAVE_STATE): Move environment grep...
3425 (AT_CHECK_ENV): to here. Filter out `'$''. Use AT_CMP.
3426 (AT_CONFIG_CMP): New macro.
3427 (AT_CHECK_MACRO): Run `configure' twice with cache and compare results.
3428 * tests/c.at (Extensions): Do not exit early.
3429 * tests/atlocal.in: Inherit $GREP.
3431 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_C_STD_TRY): New macro.
3432 (_AC_PROG_CC_C89, _AC_PROG_CC_C99): Use it.
3434 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_COPYRIGHT): Update for 2005.
3435 (AC_COPYRIGHT): Factor header comment portion out and move into...
3436 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_COPYRIGHT): This.
3437 * lib/autotest/general.at (AT_COPYRIGHT): New macro.
3438 (AT_INIT): Add Autotest copyright notice. Display copyright notices in
3439 --version output.
3440 * tests/local.at: Add Autoconf test suite copyright notice.
3441 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Document AT_COPYRIGHT.
3443 2005-02-04 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
3444 and Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3446 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): New mkstemp entry.
3448 2005-02-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3450 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_re_escape): Escape ?, ^, \, $ too;
3451 this fixes a bug tickled by the AT_CAPTURE_FILE change noted below.
3453 Try not to generated lines of unlimited length, as POSIX places a
3454 2047-byte limit on line length of portable text files.
3455 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SUBST, AC_SUBST_FILE):
3456 Use newline as a separator, not space.
3457 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_TESTED, AT_KEYWORDS): Likewise.
3458 (AT_CAPTURE_FILE): Use space-backslash-newline as a separator, not
3459 space.
3461 2005-02-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3463 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_SHELL_FN_WORK): Move func_* to
3464 as_func_*. Add test to check whether positional parameters
3465 are restored after function return.
3467 2005-02-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3469 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Mention _,
3470 BIN_SH, DUALCASE. Say that variables other than "status" are safe
3471 if they contain a lower-case letter. The DUALCASE problem was
3472 reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
3474 * bin/autoconf.as: Don't exit with status 0 after write failure
3475 with --help or --version.
3476 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP, _AC_INIT_VERSION): Likewise.
3477 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Likewise.
3479 2005-02-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3481 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools):
3482 Unicos 9 sed limitations.
3483 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Try cf77 before fort77
3484 to get the option-enhanced interface on older Crays. Try ftn for
3485 Fortran 95 (newer Crays).
3487 2005-02-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3489 * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Go back to the simple solution, but take
3490 care to echo the commands, so the user knows what's going on.
3491 Modified from a suggestion by Stepan Kasal.
3493 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Mention autopoint,
3494 with a cross reference. Derived from a suggestion by Bruce Korb.
3496 2005-01-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3498 * doc/autoconf.texi (config.status Invocation): Warn about
3499 discrepancy between CONFIG_SHELL and shell used to invoke 'configure'.
3500 * doc/install.texi (Defining Variables): Likewise.
3501 Based on a proposed patch by Ralf Wildenhues.
3503 * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Make sure the required generated files
3504 are up to date. Problem and original solution proposed by Stepan Kasal.
3505 $(dist_man_MANS:.1=-bin-prereq), $(dist_man_MANS:.1=-tests-prereq),
3506 implicit-man-prerequisites): New rules, used by the above.
3508 * doc/make-stds.texi, doc/standards.texi: Sync from gnulib.
3509 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/install-sh: Likewise.
3510 * config/missing, config/texinfo.tex: Likewise.
3512 2005-01-29 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3514 Simplify the implementation of m4_require (a.k.a. AC_REQUIRE).
3515 Update the long comment explaining it.
3517 m4_require no longer writes an ``is required by'' line to the
3518 execution stack. It contains only one bit of non-redundant
3519 information: that the macro was required, not called. And even
3520 this bit is useless in most situations: have you ever met a macro
3521 which both calls and requires the same macro?
3523 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (_m4_defun_pro): Don't push a diversion...
3524 (_m4_defun_pro_outer): ... only via this macro, for the outermost
3525 macro.
3526 (_m4_defun_epi, _m4_defun_epi_outer): Complementarily.
3527 (m4_expansion_stack_pop): Remove the misplaced comment.
3528 (m4_require): Don't put the ``is required by'' line to the
3529 execution stack; slightly improve the out-of-a-defun error message.
3530 (_m4_divert_grow): New macro, counter for the temporary diversions.
3531 (_m4_require_call): Use it.
3532 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4_require): Expect output without the
3533 ``is required by'' messages.
3535 2005-01-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3537 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Recommend X
3538 rather than x for expr.
3540 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT): Avoid subshells when
3541 this is safe.
3542 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_EGREP, AC_PROG_FGREP): Likewise.
3543 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_LONG_FILE_NAMES): Likewise.
3544 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
3545 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_WORKS): Likewise.
3546 * tests/mktests.sh: Likewise.
3548 2005-01-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3550 Have autoheader honor --force.
3552 * doc/make-stds.texi, doc/standards.texi: Update from masters.
3553 * lib/Autom4te/Channels.pm, lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm
3554 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm, lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Update
3555 from masters, so that FileUtils.pm's update_file provide --force
3556 support.
3557 * bin/autoheader.in: Pass $force to update_file so that
3558 config.h.in is always recreated when --force.
3560 2005-01-24 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3562 * doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction): Update Peter Simons' address.
3564 2005-01-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3566 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Clarify that
3567 "if test ! -d foo; ..." is portable. Suggested by Stepan Kasal.
3569 2005-01-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3571 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Fix typo in case statement.
3572 Warn about newline stripping in `` and $(). Update Solaris
3573 version to 9.
3574 (Limitations of Builtins): Use expr "X...", not expr "x...", as
3575 X insulates us from future changes to Posix.
3576 (Limitations of Usual Tools): For AS_DIRNAME, warn about newline
3577 stripping.
3579 2005-01-19 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3581 * doc/autoconf.texi (Defining Symbols): Delete the false comment that
3582 you cannot use AC_DEFINE to define macros containing `[' or `]'.
3584 2005-01-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3586 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Document bug
3587 in Solaris 8 join. Problem reported by Tomohiro Suzuki on
3588 bug-tar mailing list.
3590 2005-01-05 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3592 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_copy): Fix the explanation.
3594 2005-01-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3596 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C)): Declare longval and
3597 ulongval to be static, to avoid unwanted GCC warning. Problem
3598 reported by Michael Jennings via Daniel Reed; see
3599 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=143852>.
3601 2005-01-05 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
3603 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Define datarootdir,
3604 docdir, htmldir, dvidir, pdfdir, psdir, and localdir. Update
3605 datadir, infodir, and mandir. Adjust argument parsing code.
3606 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Update help text.
3607 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Document
3608 new variables.
3610 2005-01-04 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
3612 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): If the Make program does
3613 not seem to work, assume it does set $(MAKE).
3614 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Update.
3616 2005-01-03 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3618 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_REQUIRE): Add a comment about nesting.
3620 2005-01-03 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3622 A cleanup of the diversion support in m4sugar.
3624 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (_m4_divert): A typo in description.
3625 (_m4_divert_n_stack): New macro; the expansion is
3626 <newline>m4_divert_stack, if m4_divert_stack is defined, and void
3627 otherwise.
3628 (m4_divert, m4_divert_push, m4_divert_pop, m4_init): Use it.
3629 (m4_divert_push, m4_divert_pop, _m4_defun_epi): Don't expand the word
3630 stored in _m4_divert_diversion or _m4_divert_dump.
3631 (m4_divert_pop): When the parameter is given, compare the symbolic
3632 name with the last diversion pushed on the stack. Previously, the
3633 current diversion was compared with the numeric value of the
3634 diversion given as the parameter.
3635 (m4_require): If the macro hasn't been expanded yet, call ...
3636 (_m4_require_call): this new macro.
3638 2005-01-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3640 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE, _AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE):
3641 Workarounds for documented `case' limitations.
3643 2005-01-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3645 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Warn about
3646 sed 'command1;command2'. Problem reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
3648 2005-01-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3650 * bin/autoconf.as, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in,
3651 bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in,
3652 bin/ifnames.in, tests/mktests.sh: Update copyright date to 2005.
3654 Patch from Roger Leigh (with some minor changes) as follows:
3655 * NEWS: New macros AC_PROG_CC_C89, AC_PROG_CC_C99.
3656 Resurrect AC_PROG_CC_STDC.
3657 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Add AC_PROG_CC_STDC,
3658 AC_PROG_CC_C89, AC_PROG_CC_C99.
3659 (Obsolete Macros): Remove AC_PROG_CC_STDC; it's no longer obsolete.
3660 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CC_C89, _AC_PROG_CC_C99, AC_PROG_CC_C89,
3661 AC_PROG_CC_C99): New macros.
3662 (AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Use them.
3663 (_AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Remove.
3664 (AC_C_PROTOTYPES): Use ac_cv_prog_cc_c89, not ac_cv_prog_cc_stdc.
3665 * THANKS: Add Roger Leigh.
3667 2004-12-30 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
3669 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory): AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
3670 signals that the package uses Automake; a `Makefile.am' is typical but
3671 not essential. Reported by Magnus Therning.
3672 * tests/torture.at (autoreconf.): New banner.
3673 (autoreconf and non-AC configure): Rename to `Non-Autoconf
3674 AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS'.
3675 (autoreconf an empty directory): Rename to `Empty directory'.
3676 (Unusual Automake input files): New test.
3678 2004-12-30 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
3680 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CAPTURE_FILE): New macro.
3681 (AT_SETUP): Clear AT_capture_files.
3682 (_AT_CHECK): On failure, log each of AT_capture_files. Fix comment.
3683 (AT_KEYWORDS): Fix comment typo.
3684 * tests/autotest.at (AT_CHECK_AT): Use AT_CAPTURE_FILE.
3685 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_CONFIGURE): Use AT_CAPTURE_FILE.
3686 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Document AT_CAPTURE_FILE.
3688 2004-12-29 Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>
3690 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH):
3691 If the variable to set is already set, set ac_cv_path_$1
3692 to the preset value so caller can assume ac_cv_path_$1
3693 is available. (trivial change)
3695 2004-12-27 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
3697 * BUGS (Minor Problems): Warn about makefile limitations.
3698 * Makefile.am: Find and update `INSTALL' in $(srcdir).
3699 * man/Makefile.am: Find and update manual pages in $(srcdir).
3701 2004-12-24 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
3703 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Test candidate
3704 shells in subshell, to avoid noise from ash. (trivial change)
3706 2004-12-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3708 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins) <case>: Mention
3709 problems with SunOS ksh and backslash escaping, Bourne shells and
3710 closing brackets (both within character classes). Bug reported
3711 against Libtool by Alexander Kurz <alexander.kurz@qsc.de>.
3712 <read>: New entry. Mention non-availability of -r.
3714 2004-12-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3716 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_LINE): Don't add srcdir here, to
3717 avoid cluttering displayed messages. Rather, prepend srcdir where
3718 AT_LINE is used for log files.
3720 2004-12-21 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3722 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Quote ``$tmp'' in many places.
3723 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): Fix the comment, as traps are
3724 no longer part of the macro, quote the occurrence of ``$tmp''.
3725 * doc/autoconf.texi (Forbidden Patterns): Typo.
3727 2004-12-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3729 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Make sure the "ok" etc. are
3730 separated from the test title by forcing a white space.
3732 2004-12-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3734 Enable Emacs navigation within testsuite.log files.
3736 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CLEANUP): Add an hint for Emacs to
3737 use the compilation mode.
3738 (AT_LINE): Point to the srcdir.
3740 2004-12-19 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
3742 * tests/Makefile.am (installcheck-local): Use $(bindir).
3743 (check-local, installcheck-local): Pass TESTSUITEFLAGS.
3744 * doc/autoconf.texi (Making testsuite Scripts): Recommend the same
3745 Makefile.am scheme Autoconf now uses.
3747 2004-12-18 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
3749 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_qlen, m4_qdelta): New macros.
3750 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_SETUP): Use m4_qdelta.
3752 2004-12-18 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
3754 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_DECIDE_TRACEABLE): New macro.
3755 (_AT_CHECK): Use it.
3756 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_ESCAPE_FOR_EXPAND): Remove.
3757 (AS_ESCAPE): Fix comment.
3758 * tests/autotest.at: Adjust section banner comments.
3759 (AT_CHECK_AT): Accept STATUS and STDERR.
3760 (AT_CHECK_AT_TEST): Likewise.
3761 (Invalid brace-enclosed parameter expansion)
3762 (Multiline command from M4 expansion)
3763 (Double-M4-quoted command): New tests.
3765 2004-12-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3767 * doc/autoconf.texi: Update GNU FDL version from 1.1 to 1.2.
3769 2004-12-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3771 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SUBST, AC_SUBST_FILES): Pass $1 to
3772 m4_pattern_allow.
3773 Suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
3774 * doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Catch up.
3776 2004-12-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3778 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_TEST_PREPARE): Fix comment.
3780 2004-12-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3782 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ): We can use AC_SUBST/2,
3783 remove the comment which said we cannot.
3785 2004-12-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3787 Add a specialized check for resolv.h. Thanks to Gerrit P. Haase,
3788 Reini Urban and Paul Eggert for reporting the dependencies.
3790 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_RESOLV): New macro.
3791 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_HEADER_RESOLV): Document it.
3792 (AC_HEADER_STAT): @cvindex{STAT_MACROS_BROKEN}, not @acindex.
3794 2004-12-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3796 * bin/autoscan.in: Open autoscan.log only after ``parse_args'';
3797 so that eg. ``autoscan --help'' doesn't truncate it.
3799 2004-12-15 Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>
3801 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Remove
3802 generated conftest files.
3804 2004-12-13 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
3806 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_CHECK) [--trace]: Do not enable shell
3807 tracing on commands with possibly-escaped newlines.
3808 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Delete documentation of the
3809 discontinued behavior and its implications.
3810 * tests/autotest.at (BS-newline in command, ^BS-newline in command)
3811 (BSx641-newline in command, BS-BS-newline in command)
3812 (BSx640-newline in command, Newline-CODE-BS-newline in command)
3813 (Single-quote-BS-newline in command)
3814 (Single-quote-newline-BS-newline in command): New tests.
3816 2004-12-13 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3818 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_EXECUTABLE_P): Use test -f && test -x
3819 on platforms where it works.
3820 (_AS_TEST_PREPARE): Test for ``test -x''.
3821 (_AS_BROKEN_TEST_PREPARE): Nuke.
3823 2004-12-13 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3825 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): Move the trap commands ...
3826 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): ... here;
3827 give only 4-letter prefix to AS_TMPDIR, comment fixed.
3828 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FEATURE_CHECK): Don't
3829 create the temporary directory.
3830 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Work in current directory.
3832 2004-12-12 Kelley Cook <kcook@gcc.gnu.org>
3834 * bin/autoheader.in: Exit if no AC_CONFIG_HEADERS was found.
3835 (trivial change)
3837 2004-12-12 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
3839 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <expr (:)>: Typo.
3841 2004-12-11 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
3843 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_CHECK) [--trace]: Rework a shell pattern
3844 to avoid using a negated character class. Reported by Nicolas Joly.
3845 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_SHELL_SYNTAX): Check for similar constructs.
3847 2004-12-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3849 * man/Makefile.am (autoconf.1, autoheader.1, autom4te.1, autoreconf.1,
3850 autoscan.1, autoupdate.1, ifnames.1, config.guess.1, config.sub.1):
3851 Don't depend on .x file explicitly, since "make" does that for us.
3852 Suggested by Stepan Kasal.
3854 * bin/Makefile.am (MOSTLYCLEANFILES): Renamed from CLEANFILES.
3855 Add *.tmp.
3856 (autoconf, autoheader, autom4te, autoreconf, autoscan, autoupdate,
3857 ifnames): Factor common code. And they said it couldn't be done!
3859 2004-12-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3861 * bin/.cvsignore: Add autoconf.in.
3862 * tests/.cvsignore: Add wrapper.in.
3863 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Escape '$' in case pattern.
3865 2004-12-09 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
3867 * man/Makefile.am (autoconf.1): Regenerate when `autoconf.as' changes.
3869 * lib/autotest/general.m4 [--trace] (AT_INIT): Do not `set -v'.
3871 * tests/autotest.at: New file.
3872 * tests/suite.at: Include it.
3873 * tests/Makefile.am: Distribute it.
3875 * lib/autotest/general.m4 [--trace] (_AT_CHECK): Do not enable
3876 shell tracing on a command that could contain multiple lines.
3877 * doc/autoconf.text: Document that fact and its implications.
3878 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_ESCAPE_FOR_EXPAND): New macro.
3879 * tests/autotest.at (Multiline backquote command substitution,
3880 Multiline parameter expansion, Literal multiline command,
3881 Multiline parenthetical command substitution): Remove XFAIL.
3883 2004-12-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3885 * doc/autoconf.texi (Libraries): Clarify problems with AC_CHECK_LIB
3886 and suggest AC_SEARCH_LIBS. Suggested by Noah Misch and Stepan Kasal.
3888 2004-12-08 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
3890 * configure.ac (test suite): Cease to generate wrapper scripts.
3891 * configure: Regenerate.
3892 * lib/freeze.mk (MY_AUTOM4TE): Wrap the uninstalled autom4te directly.
3893 (m4f_dependencies): Adjust accordingly.
3894 * tests/Makefile.am (Wrappers): Generate wrapper scripts.
3895 (wrapper.in): Generate it in the build directory.
3896 (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Delete wrapper.in.
3897 (CLEANFILES): Add wrapper.in.
3898 * tests/wrapper.as: Move AS_INIT to very top, preserving copyright in
3899 the output. Replace each $as_me with a @wrap_program@.
3900 * tests/wrapper.in: Delete it; we always build it.
3902 * bin/Makefile.am (autoconf.in): Generate it in the build directory.
3903 (EXTRA_DIST): Remove autoconf.in.
3904 (CLEANFILES): Add autoconf.in.
3905 (autoconf): Find autoconf.in in the build directory.
3906 * bin/autoconf.in: Delete it; we always build it.
3908 2004-12-08 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
3910 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Replace a `tr' with a `sed'. Join
3911 PATH members so as to not prepend an empty element. Move a comment.
3912 * Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): Build in `tests' last.
3913 * tests/Makefile.am (installcheck-local): Add check-local dependencies.
3915 2004-12-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3917 * lib/mdate-sh: Don't use "set - x`$ls_command /`", as zsh mishandles
3918 the spaces inside $ls_command. Problem reported by Loulou Pouchet in
3919 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-12/msg00074.html>.
3920 Don't use "set - x"; plain "set x" is enough, and simplifies debugging.
3922 2004-12-07 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3924 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETMNTENT): Fix typo in previous
3925 patch: extra "-l"s.
3927 2004-12-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3929 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETMNTENT): Check libc before
3930 looking elsewhere for getmntent. Problem reported by Mark D. Baushke.
3931 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Mention new behavior.
3933 2004-12-03 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3935 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_DEFINE, AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED): Factor
3936 out the common code to ...
3937 (_AC_DEFINE_Q): ... a new macro; simplify the condition about the
3938 value of the #define--default to 1, iff the macro was called
3939 with exactly one parameter.
3941 2004-12-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3943 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MEMCMP): Use
3944 "char c = '\200';" rather than "char c = 0x80;" as the
3945 latter doesn't conform to the strict C standard due to
3946 overflow on signed char hosts.
3948 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Prefer -qlanglvl=extc89
3949 to -qlanglvl=ansi. We don't want to disable extensions.
3951 2004-11-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3953 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): @code{$PATH} -> @env{PATH}.
3954 (Using Autotest, testsuite Scripts, Writing testsuite.at):
3955 Reword slightly to avoid some English-language problems noted
3956 by Ralf Wildenhues in:
3957 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-11/msg00027.html
3959 2004-11-29 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3961 * NEWS: Add ^L above each release.
3963 2004-11-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3965 Fix documentation problems reported by Russ Boylan in
3966 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2004-11/msg00056.html>,
3967 along with some nearby cruft.
3968 * doc/autoconf.texi (Libtool): Libtool can be used without
3969 Automake (not without Autoconf).
3970 (Introduction): Mention lists.gnu.org.
3971 * BUGS: Don't mention bugs.gnu.org.
3972 Remove mention of ancient libtool compatibility problem.
3973 * NEWS: Mention that bugs.gnu.org is kaput.
3974 * README: Likewise. Mention where mailing list archives can be found.
3976 2004-11-28 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3978 * HACKING: Refer to "coreutils", not "File, Shell or Text utils".
3979 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_HELP_STRING): A typo in the comment.
3981 2004-11-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3983 * doc/autoconf.texi (Pretty Help Strings): Go back to
3984 single-quoting assignments to cache variables.
3986 2004-11-23 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3988 * doc/autoconf.texi (Pretty Help Strings): Fix quoting issues
3989 with the examples; fix the bug in MY_ARG_WITH example reported
3990 by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
3991 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_ENABLE, AC_ARG_ENABLE): Enable
3992 expansion of $1 in the comment emitted to configure.
3994 2004-11-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3996 * doc/autoconf.texi (Pretty Help Strings): Fix typo
3997 in my editing of the previous patch. Problem reported
3998 by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
4000 2004-11-22 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
4002 * doc/autoconf.texi (Autoconf Language): Explain that
4003 ``descriptions'' may not be double quotes.
4004 (Quotation Rule Of Thumb): Likewise.
4005 (Pretty Help Strings): Likewise; remove the wrong comment;
4006 simplify the examples and improve their quoting.
4008 2004-11-13 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
4010 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Don't check
4011 the $1_found variable, don't test whether the file is executable;
4012 Both things are checked ...
4013 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FEATURE_CHECK): ... here; AS_EXECUTABLE_P replaces
4014 the former ``test -f''.
4015 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_TEST_PREPARE): Fix a typo.
4017 2004-11-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4019 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Avoid cp -r;
4020 use cp -R instead.
4022 2004-11-10 Derek R. Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
4024 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Note `cp -r'
4025 limitations. Reorder paragraphs for clarity.
4027 2004-10-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4029 * doc/autoconf.texi: Standardize spelling of "Posix" (as opposed
4030 to "POSIX" or "@acronym{POSIX}"), and similarly for "DOS
4031 variants", "Unix", and some related minor wording fixups.
4033 (Shellology, Special Shell Variables): Document that the Zsh
4034 problem with NULLCMD was fixed in zsh 3.1.6-dev-18. Thanks
4035 to Alexandre Duret-Lutz for this info.
4037 2004-10-10 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
4039 * doc/autoconf.texi (One-Shot Macros): New node.
4041 2004-09-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4043 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Fix misdescription
4044 of putenv. Problem reported by Michael Wardle.
4046 2004-09-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4048 * doc/autoconf.texi (auindex): New macro.
4049 (AU_DEFUN): Use it to fix the bug when the index contained AC_AU_DEFUN.
4050 Problem reported by Stepan Kasal.
4052 2004-09-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4054 Fix problems reported by Andreas Buening in:
4055 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-04/msg00004.html
4056 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Set SHELL=/bin/sh
4057 in test makefile.
4058 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't assume /dev/null is
4059 readable; it's not true in OS/2-emx.
4061 2004-09-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4063 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_XMKMF): If xmkmf returns
4064 "/usr/include", clear ac_x_includes instead of leaving it as "no"
4065 (trivial change). Problem and patch reported by Andrew Church in:
4066 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2004-04/msg00016.html
4068 2004-09-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4070 * doc/autoconf.texi: Give AC_DEFINE and AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED
4071 three args in examples. Problem reported by Frederik Fouvry in:
4072 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2004-09/msg00017.html
4073 Also, fix some minor spacing and punctuation bugs.
4075 2004-09-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4077 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Swap "cd" and
4078 "case" to restore ordering.
4079 Reported by Stepan Kasal.
4081 2004-08-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4083 * doc/autoconf.texi: Minor typos and stylos.
4085 2004-08-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4087 * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump to 2.59c.
4089 2004-08-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4091 Version 2.59b.
4093 * README: Add advice about m4 1.4.2.
4095 * Makefile.cfg (wget_files): Remove config.guess, config.sub,
4096 texinfo.tex for now (done by hand now).
4097 * Makefile.maint (wget_files, cvs_files):
4098 Remove ansi2knr.c; nobody uses it.
4099 (ansi2knr.c-url_prefix): Remove.
4100 (cvs-update): Fix test for failure. I don't know why it ever
4101 worked...
4103 * doc/autoconf.texi: Update URLs, some of which went stale.
4104 Use @uref rather than @href.
4106 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Have configure
4107 handle "--" as per POSIX. Suggested by Paul Pogonyshev.
4109 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/elisp-comp,
4110 config/install-sh, config/mkinstalldirs, config/texinfo.tex,
4111 doc/fdl.texi, doc/standards.texi: Sync with master copy.
4113 * NEWS, TODO, configure.ac, bin/autoscan.in,
4114 bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in, doc/autoconf.texi,
4115 doc/install.texi, lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm,
4116 lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
4117 lib/autoconf/programs.m4, lib/autoconf/status.m4,
4118 lib/autotest/general.m4, lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4,
4119 lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4, tests/local.at, tests/m4sh.at,
4120 tests/tools.at, tests/torture.at:
4121 Use "file name" rather than "filename" or "path",
4122 to be consistent with the terminology of the GNU coding standards.
4124 2004-08-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4126 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY(C),
4127 AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE): Undo 2004-06-04 change, as it didn't work with
4128 HP-UX 11.23 cc/aCC or Tru64 4.0 cc. Problem reported by Noah Misch in
4129 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-07/msg00004.html>.
4131 More fixes to support spaces in the name of the build directory.
4132 This isn't a complete fix but it's an improvement.
4134 * bin/autoconf.as (autom4te_options): New var.
4135 Use it instead of appending to AUTOM4TE, so that we can allow
4136 spaces in the build directory's absolute name.
4137 * bin/autoheader.in ($autoconf): Allow spaces in file names.
4138 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT, AT_CLEANUP, _AT_CHECK,
4139 AT_CHECK_NOESCAPE): Likewise.
4140 * tests/wrapper.as (testdir, AUTOM4TE_CFG, autom4te_perllibdir,
4141 main program): Likewise.
4143 2004-08-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4145 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Quote $ac_popdir uses.
4146 From Ralf Corsepius in:
4147 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-08/msg00014.html
4149 2004-08-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4151 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Document isinf and
4152 and isnan. From a suggestion by Kevin Ryde.
4154 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (END): Return correct exit status even
4155 if unlink succeeds and sets $?. Needed with Solaris 8's perl 5.00503.
4157 2004-08-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4159 * tests/torture.at (Deep Package): Use configure.in, not configure.ac,
4160 for compatibility with Automake 1.4. Reported by J C Fitzgerald in
4161 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-08/msg00051.html>.
4163 2004-08-04 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
4165 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE): New empty macro.
4166 (AC_CANONICAL_BUILD): Call it to require config.sub and config.guess.
4167 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_INSTALL): Likewise for install-sh.
4168 * doc/autoconf.texi (Input): Document AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE.
4169 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect
4170 AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE. Automake 1.10 will trace it.
4172 2004-08-02 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
4174 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect
4175 AC_CANONICAL_BUILD and AC_CANONICAL_TARGET. Automake 1.9.1 will
4176 trace them.
4178 2004-07-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4180 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): Set BIN_SH, for
4181 Tru64.
4182 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology): Mention BIN_SH.
4183 Document problem with "`""`" in pdksh POSIX mode.
4185 2004-07-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4187 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): Use "set -o posix"
4188 with pdksh, too. Problem reported by Patrick Welche via
4189 Gary V. Vaughan.
4190 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology): Note that set -o posix is
4191 useful for pkdsh, too.
4193 2004-06-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4195 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Require
4196 _AS_UNSET_PREPARE, so that we can use $as_unset directly.
4197 Don't fail if ENV or BASH_ENV is readonly.
4198 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Don't fail if ENV, MAIL, MAILPATH, LC_ALL,
4199 etc. are read only. Problem reported by Ludovic Courtes.
4201 2004-06-23 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
4203 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): If the shell is
4204 zsh, disable GLOB_SUBST to avoid backslash handling problems.
4205 (trivial change)
4207 2004-06-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4209 * doc/autoconf.texi (File System Conventions): Warn about
4210 names like "aux". Problem reported by Eric Blake.
4212 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY (C)): Use division
4213 by zero instead of array size, so that we can use any arithmetic
4214 constant expression (instead of requiring an integer constant
4215 expression). This allows us to test expressions like DBL_MAX <
4216 LDBL_MAX, which didn't conform to the C standard using the old
4217 method.
4218 (AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE): Put back in the tests for LDBL_MAX and LDBL_EPSILON,
4219 now that we can do floating-point tests at compile time.
4221 2004-06-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4223 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE): Don't check LDBL_MAX
4224 and LDBL_EPSILON, as the resulting expression isn't an
4225 integer constant expression and violates the C standard.
4226 Problem reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe. Also, check
4227 for "L" suffix, and check that long double doesn't have
4228 worse range or precision than double, that mixed-mode
4229 arithmetic doesn't generate a diagnostic, that double
4230 constants fit in long double.
4232 2004-06-03 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
4234 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add notes on free(NULL),
4235 malloc(0) and realloc(NULL,size).
4237 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Spelling error reported by
4238 Bob Proulx.
4240 2004-05-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4242 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (HAVE_STDBOOL_H): Detect _Bool bug
4243 in HP aC++/ANSI C B3910B A.05.55 [Dec 04 2003]. Problem reported
4244 by Jim Meyering.
4246 2004-05-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4248 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Mention that ! COMMAND
4249 can be rewritten using if-then-else. Suggested by Bruno Haible.
4251 2004-05-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4253 * doc/autoconf.texi (testsuite Scripts): Fix typo.
4254 Problem reported by Stepan Kasal.
4256 2004-05-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4258 * tests/Makefile.am (autoconfdir): Fix to match comment (trivial
4259 change). Patch reported by Ralf Wildenhues in
4260 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2004-05/msg00092.html>.
4262 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC): Don't assume that a
4263 function F exists if the compiler and linker let you compile an
4264 expression like (F != 0). Recent versions of GCC optimize away
4265 the reference to F in that case, since every function address must
4266 be nonzero, so the link succeeds even if F does not exist.
4267 Problem reported by Manu in
4268 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2004-05/msg00060.html>.
4270 * doc/autoconf.texi (Systemology): Standardize on the spelling of
4271 "Unix". Many uses changed.
4272 (Limitations of Builtins): Explain better why the ! command isn't
4273 portable.
4275 2004-05-22 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
4277 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect
4278 LT_SUPPORTED_TAG in lieu of AC_LIBTOOL_TAGS.
4280 2004-05-19 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
4282 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add strerror_r, cross
4283 referencing AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R.
4285 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): In AC_FUNC_CLOSEDIR_VOID,
4286 note pessimistic assumption when cross compiling.
4288 2004-05-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4290 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Note that BSD make
4291 (until 2004) invoked subcommands with sh -e, contra POSIX.
4292 Reported by Kevin Ryde.
4294 2004-05-10 Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
4296 * programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_GREP): Fixed bug where PATH argument handed to
4297 _AC_PATH_PROG_FEATURE_CHECK contained leading whitespace (i.e.
4298 " $PATH:/usr/xpg4/bin"). This resulted in bogus tests, such as
4299 `test -f " /usr/bin/grep"', which _always_ failed.
4300 (AC_PROG_SED): Ditto bogus PATH fix.
4301 * autoconf.texi (AC_PROG_GREP): Properly document that this macro
4302 requires that grep correctly supports _multiple_ `-e' options, rather
4303 than stating only that grep should accept `-e'.
4305 2004-05-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4307 Port to C99, which requires that 'exit' be declared.
4309 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Use AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT
4310 to ensure that stdlib.h is included.
4311 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ_ALLOCA, AC_FUNC_SETPGRP,
4312 AC_FUNC_STRTOD, AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED, AC_FUNC_FORK, _AC_FUNC_FORK,
4313 _AC_FUNC_VFORK, AC_FUNC_WAIT3): Likewise.
4314 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS): Likewise.
4315 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_TYPE_GETGROUPS): Likewise.
4316 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDC): Include <stdlib.h>
4317 when using 'exit' in a test; C99 requires that 'exit' be declared.
4319 2004-05-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4321 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): AC_PROG_GREP
4322 now prefers 'grep' implementations that accept -e.
4323 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Describe problems of traditional
4324 egrep and fgrep with long input lines, and of traditional grep
4325 with -e.
4326 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_GREP): Check for -e, too.
4327 (_AC_PROG_GREP): Assume 3rd arg is properly quoted for the shell.
4328 All callers changed. Append /usr/xpg4/bin to the PATH, for
4329 Solaris.
4330 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Discard stderr, so we don't bother
4331 the user with complaints about multiple -e options.
4332 * tests/local.at (AC_STATE_SAVE): Use $GREP, not grep.
4333 Define it with AC_PROG_GREP.
4334 * configure.ac (AC_PROG_GREP): Add.
4335 * lib/freeze.mk (GREP): New macro.
4337 2004-05-02 Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
4339 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Consult $SHELL as
4340 a possible candidate only after all others fail, rather than
4341 consulting it first. This improves backward compatibility by
4342 better reflecting the way shell selection occurred in previous
4343 versions of Autoconf, and should help to avoid triggering latent
4344 problems in other packages, such as the one in Automake where zsh
4345 is not handled robustly:
4346 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2004-04/msg00095.html
4347 Although it is not Autoconf's responsibility to work around
4348 problems in Automake, it nevertheless makes sense to avoid
4349 introducing unnecessary incompatibilites.
4351 2004-04-22 Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>,
4352 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
4354 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Don't guess
4355 how deeply nested we are when a suitable tool is found, set the
4356 ac_path_TOOL_found flag.
4357 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FEATURE_CHECK): Encapsulate knowledge of how deeply
4358 nested we are in this macro. Break out of all 3 nested loops if
4359 ac_path_TOOL_found is set.
4361 2004-04-21 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
4363 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Break out
4364 of the _AS_PATH_WALK loop too if GNU flavor is found.
4366 2004-04-21 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
4368 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Update documentation
4369 for `$<'. New entry `Long lines', based on a report from Simon
4370 Josefsson. Augment the documentation for SHELL = @SHELL@ with a
4371 paragraph about DJGPP, based on a mail from Richard Dawe.
4373 2004-04-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4375 * tests/c.at (C keywords): Don't assume that GCC supports
4376 "restrict" and "inline", as sufficiently-old GCC versions do not
4377 (also, GCC configured to be in pedantic C89 mode does not).
4378 Problem reported by Sumit Pandya in:
4379 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-04/msg00092.html
4381 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CC_G, _AC_PROG_CXX_G): Don't
4382 consider -g to work if it generates warnings when plain compiles
4383 don't. Problem reported by Braden McDaniel in:
4384 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2003-07/msg00014.html
4386 * doc/autoconf.texi (Slashes): New section, to document a problem
4387 reported by Jim Meyering in:
4388 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-02/msg00060.html
4390 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Remove potential
4391 linker output files before linking, to work around IRIX 6 linker bug.
4392 Problem reported by Rainer Orth in:
4393 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-02/msg00007.html
4395 2004-04-20 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
4397 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Make the
4398 best tool so far counter rely on the tool path variable name to
4399 avoid checks for one tool being affected by the results of running
4400 the length check on a previous tool.
4402 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_GREP): Take an additional
4403 match expression argument, as different greps have different
4404 regular expression flavours.
4405 (AC_PROG_FGREP): Pass 'FGREP'. fgrep treats all match chars as
4406 literals.
4407 (AC_PROG_EGREP): Pass 'EGREP$'.
4408 (AC_PROG_GREP): Pass 'GREP$'.
4410 2004-04-20 Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>
4412 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_GREP): Cache variable
4413 is `ac_cv_path_GREP', not `oc_cv_path_GREP'.
4415 2004-03-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4417 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers, Particular Types, Generic
4418 Types, Specific Compiler Characteristics, System Services,
4419 Obsolete Macros): Use 'long int', 'short int', 'unsigned int'
4420 etc. consistently instead of 'long', 'short', 'unsigned' etc.
4421 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C), AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
4422 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MMAP, AC_FUNC_SELECT_ARGTYPES):
4423 Likewise.
4424 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_SYS_WAIT): Likewise.
4425 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_TYPE_GETGROUPS, AC_TYPE_SIZE_T,
4426 AC_TYPE_OFF_T): Likewise.
4427 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_TYPES: backward compatibility):
4428 Likewise.
4430 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Create an empty aclocal.m4, to
4431 pacify libtool 1.5.2. Fix quoting problems in sed command.
4433 2004-03-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4435 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Structures): AC_STRUCT_TIMEZONE
4436 now defines HAVE_DECL_TZNAME if it is declared, when
4437 HAVE_STRUCT_TM_TM_ZONE is not defined.
4438 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_STRUCT_TIMEZONE): Implement this.
4439 Do not assume atoi. Rely on HAVE_DECL_TZNAME when testing
4440 for HAVE_TZNAME.
4442 2004-03-28 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@fftw.org>
4444 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): Corrected
4445 superfluous backslashing of quotes (") in sed expressions;
4446 thanks to Paul Eggert.
4448 2004-03-26 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
4450 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): new name of Intel
4451 Fortran compiler is ifort, also added pghpf; thanks to Nelson
4452 H. F. Beebe for the bug report.
4454 2004-03-26 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@fftw.org>
4456 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): fix for
4457 quoted -cmdline argument in Portland Group compiler (bug
4458 reported by Jeffrey J. Barteet).
4460 2004-03-25 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
4462 * doc/autoconf.texi (Specifying Names): Move cross_compiling ovindex to
4463 (Run Time): ... here, where it's now mentioned.
4465 2004-03-19 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
4467 * doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te Invocation): Language Autoconf
4468 inherits from language Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4.
4469 (Customizing autom4te): Adjust example; the cache must now be
4470 disabled for language Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4.
4472 2004-03-16 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
4473 Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>
4475 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PATH_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOL,
4476 AC_CHECK_TOOLS): Warn if a cross-tool is found without
4477 a prefix.
4478 (AC_PATH_TARGET_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOL,
4479 AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOLS): New macros.
4480 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Programs): Document
4481 (AC_PATH_TARGET_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOL,
4482 AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOLS, and warn for future changes
4483 in the behavior of AC_PATH_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOL and
4484 AC_CHECK_TOOLS.
4485 (Specifying Names): Document the reason for these future
4486 behavioral changes.
4487 * tests/mktests.sh: Do not generate tests for the
4488 new macros.
4489 * NEWS: Document these changes.
4491 * doc/autoconf.texi: Avoid macros with unbraced arguments,
4492 they make TeX hang up.
4494 2004-03-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@bogus.example.com>
4496 * NEWS: New macro AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF.
4497 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Compiler Characteristics): Document it.
4498 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Use long int rather than
4499 int; avoid "a `$1'" since this isn't grammatical if $1 begins with a
4500 vowel.
4501 (AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF): New macro.
4502 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Exclude AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF.
4503 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF): Add tests similar to
4504 those for sizeof.
4506 2004-03-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4508 * bin/Makefile.am (edit): Don't use $< in a context where
4509 POSIX doesn't require support for it. Use $@.in instead.
4510 Problem reported by Anthony N. Frasso in
4511 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-03/msg00008.html>.
4512 * bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in: Add @configure_input@ comment.
4514 2004-02-23 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
4516 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory): Recognize LT_INIT
4517 from the next generation of Libtool.
4518 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoreconf-preselections): Ditto.
4520 2004-02-20 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
4522 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <mkdir>: `mkdir -p'
4523 is not always thread-safe. Report from Nathanael Nerode.
4525 2004-02-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4527 Fix a dependencies problem, stemming from a Autoconf 2.59 build
4528 problem on QNX reported by Stephen Rasku in
4529 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2004-02/msg00066.html>.
4531 * bin/Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/autoconf.in): Depend on
4532 $(m4sh_m4f_dependencies); this removes a FIXME.
4533 * tests/Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/wrapper.in): Likewise.
4534 (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Split into pieces,
4535 one per related section. Add $(srcdir)/wrapper.in.
4537 2004-02-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4539 * doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Emphasize that
4540 AC_SUBST provides no portable way to escape literal newlines.
4542 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Ignore all
4543 flags of the form -lcrt*.o, not just -lcrt[01].o and -lcrtbegin.o.
4544 Darwin uses -lcrt2.o and there's little point to cataloging all
4545 the system variants. Partial fix reported by Andreas Waechter in:
4546 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-02/msg00006.html
4547 for bug reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe in:
4548 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-12/msg00090.html
4550 2004-02-04 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
4552 * doc/autoconf.texi (AU_DEFUN): Fix English,
4553 suggested by Paul Eggert.
4554 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4: Correct reference to
4555 acobsolete.m4, suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
4557 2004-02-02 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
4559 * bin/autoupdate.in: Define __file__ so that warnings
4560 refer to the correct file.
4561 * doc/autoconf.texi (AU_DEFUN): Describe more correctly
4562 the behavior of the third argument.
4563 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4 (AU_DEFUN): Describe more
4564 correctly the behavior of the third argument. Document
4565 what the three macros that AU_DEFUN defines do. Fix
4566 warning message when the third argument includes $0
4567 (reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz).
4569 2004-01-30 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
4570 Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
4571 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4573 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (M4SH-SANITIZE): New diversion.
4574 (AS_INIT): Output shell initialization there. Removed optional
4575 parameter. Expand _AS_SHELL_FN_SPY.
4576 (AS_INIT_WITH_SHELL_FN): Removed.
4577 (_AS_SHELL_FN_SPY): New macro.
4578 (AS_DETECT_REQUIRED, AS_DETECT_SUGGESTED): New
4579 macros.
4580 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Remove loop to find better shell
4581 and documentation for the parameter.
4582 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Move it here.
4583 (_AS_SHELL_FN_WORK): Remove shell invocation, reformat.
4584 (_AS_RUN): Move it here, support testing with eval.
4585 (AS_REQUIRE_SHELL_FN): Require shell functions when
4586 it is used.
4587 (_AS_LINENO_WORKS): Put around braces, we do not
4588 trigger the bash bug anymore.
4589 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Document M4SH-SANITIZE, do not
4590 use AS_INIT_WITH_SHELL_FN.
4591 * bin/autoconf.in, tests/wrapper.in: Regenerated.
4593 2004-01-30 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
4595 * bin/autoupdate.in: Trace AU_DEFINE instead of AU_DEFUN.
4596 * doc/autoconf.texi: Don't say that the third parameter
4597 is broken.
4598 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4 (AU_DEFINE): New dummy macro.
4599 (AU_DEFUN): Honor the third parameter, create autoupdate
4600 macros with AU_DEFINE.
4601 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_USG, AC_MEMORY_H,
4602 AC_DIR_HEADER): Use AU_DEFUN's third parameter.
4603 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_SAVE): Likewise.
4604 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_RSH): Likewise.
4605 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_HAVE_POUNDBANG,
4606 AC_ARG_ARRAY, AC_CYGWIN, AC_EMXOS2, AC_MINGW32,
4607 AC_XENIX_DIR): Likewise.
4608 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_INT_16_BITS, AC_LONG_64_BITS,
4609 AC_STRUCT_ST_BLKSIZE, AC_STRUCT_ST_RDEV): Likewise.
4610 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Remove FIXME.
4611 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_AU_MACRO): Ignore stderr, check
4612 that the macro is not present anymore in the updated
4613 configure.ac.
4614 * tests/tools.at (autoupdate AC_LINK_FILES): Ignore stderr
4615 of autoupdate.
4617 2004-01-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4619 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Add 2004 to
4620 copyright years.
4621 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_COPYRIGHT): Add 1992 thorugh
4622 2003 (except 1997) to the list of copyright years. This undoes
4623 the 2003-05-22 change, which removed the older years from the list.
4624 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_OUTPUT): Update copyright date to 2004.
4626 2004-01-27 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
4627 Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>
4629 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_GREP): New macro to test for a
4630 grep or ggrep program in PATH that accepts as long lines as
4631 possible.
4632 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_GREP): Factor out the core of
4633 AC_PROG_GREP.
4634 (AC_PROG_EGREP, AC_PROG_FGREP): Use it to find best available
4635 egrep and fgrep respectively if $GREP -E/-F don't work.
4636 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FEATURE_CHECK): Factor out the common core of
4637 _AC_PROG_GREP, and AC_PROG_SED.
4638 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): New helper macro for finding the
4639 longest input length accepted by a command.
4640 (AC_PROG_SED): Use it.
4641 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): Document the changes.
4642 * NEWS: Updated.
4644 2004-01-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4646 * bin/autoconf.as ($version): Update copyright from 2003 to 2004.
4647 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
4648 bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in: Likewise.
4649 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_COPYRIGHT): Likewise.
4651 * Makefile.in, aclocal.m4, configure, bin/Makefile.in,
4652 bin/autoconf.in, config/Makefile.in, config/config.guess,
4653 config/config.sub, config/install-sh, config/mdate-sh,
4654 config/mkinstalldirs, config/texinfo.tex, doc/Makefile.in,
4655 lib/Makefile.in, lib/Autom4te/Makefile.in,
4656 lib/autoconf/Makefile.in, lib/autoscan/Makefile.in,
4657 lib/autotest/Makefile.in, lib/emacs/Makefile.in,
4658 lib/m4sugar/Makefile.in, man/Makefile.in, man/autoconf.1,
4659 man/autoheader.1, man/autom4te.1, man/autoreconf.1,
4660 man/autoscan.1, man/autoupdate.1, man/config.guess.1,
4661 man/config.sub.1, man/ifnames.1, tests/Makefile.in,
4662 tests/acc.at, tests/acfortran.at, tests/acfunctions.at,
4663 tests/acgeneral.at, tests/acheaders.at, tests/aclang.at,
4664 tests/aclibs.at, tests/acspecific.at, tests/acstatus.at,
4665 tests/actypes.at: Regenerate and/or sync with original
4666 sources.
4668 2004-01-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4670 * doc/autoconf.texi (Default Includes): Include <stdint.h> even if
4671 HAVE_INTTYPES_H is defined. This is needed on Tru64 5.1b with
4672 Compac C V6.5-207 (dtk), which defines uintmax_t in <stdint.h> but
4673 not <inttypes.h>. Problem reported by Tim Mooney in
4674 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-01/msg00147.html>.
4675 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS):
4676 Likewise.
4678 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_SED): Use diff, not sed;
4679 otherwise "make check" fails because it forbids cmp (I guess
4680 because cmp treats files as binary on DOS-like systems).
4682 * tests/mktests.sh: Update copyright date to 2004, since some tests
4683 have changed in 2004.
4685 2004-01-23 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
4687 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_SED): New macro to test for a
4688 non-truncating sed or gsed program in PATH.
4689 * tests/acprograms.at: Add it.
4690 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): Document it.
4691 * NEWS: Updated.
4693 2004-01-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4695 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Try -std, not -std1, since
4696 -std1 disables some useful extensions on Tru64. Problem reported
4697 by N. Lichtmaier in
4698 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-01/msg00100.html>.
4700 2004-01-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4702 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Document that
4703 AS_MKDIR_P succeeds if the destination is a symbolic link
4704 to an existing directory.
4705 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Note that mkdir -p might not
4706 succeed on symlinks to directories.
4708 2004-01-13 Paul Hilfinger <hilfinger@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
4710 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4 (AU_DEFUN): Grammar fix in comment.
4711 * bin/autoheader.in: Grammar fix in message.
4712 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_MKDIR_P):
4713 Test for dir before calling mkdir -p. (trivial changes)
4715 2004-01-13 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
4717 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsolete Macros): In AC_TRY_COMPILE and
4718 AC_TRY_LINK, s/AC_LANG_SOURCE/AC_LANG_PROGRAM/. (trivial change)
4720 2004-01-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
4722 * doc/autoconf.texi (Running the Preprocessor): Correct grammar.
4724 2004-01-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4726 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Fix bug: AC_CHECK_SIZEOF evokes a warning
4727 with `autoconf -Wall,error'. Bug reported by Eric Blake in:
4728 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-01/msg00000.html
4729 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE): Invoke _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, not
4730 AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, since we now assume our caller invokes
4731 AC_LANG_COMPILER_REQUIRE, for symmetry with _AC_COMPUTE_INT_RUN.
4732 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT_RUN): Likewise, for _AC_RUN_IFELSE instead
4733 of AC_RUN_IFELSE; this avoids the warning mentioned above.
4734 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT): Invoke AC_LANG_COMPILER_REQUIRE.
4736 2004-01-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4738 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJS_NORMALIZE): Avoid \$ inside
4739 `"'...'"`, as it's confusing (and I suspect it may not work on
4740 some platforms). The code was incorrect anyway, as it assumed
4741 that \$ evaluated to itself in that context. Reported by
4742 Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
4744 2004-01-07 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
4746 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect AC_LIBTOOL_TAGS
4747 and _LT_AC_TAGCONFIG.
4749 2004-01-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4751 * doc/autoconf.texi (One Macro Call): Fix an incorrect
4752 example, and add more examples. Reported by Eric Sunshine.
4754 2004-01-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4756 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools):
4757 Remove warning against "rm -fr" introduced yesterday; it
4758 was a false alarm.
4760 * bin/Makefile.am (autoconf, autoheader, autom4te, autoreconf,
4761 autoscan, autoupdate, ifnames): Don't use chmod -w.
4762 * lib/Makefile.am (autom4te.cfg): Likewise.
4763 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Warn against
4764 "chmod -w".
4766 2004-01-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4767 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
4769 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Speed up sed scripts
4770 by doing lineno substitution only on lines containing "$LINENO".
4772 2004-01-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4774 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_PROGRAM):
4775 Use "rm -f" to remove conftest.sed, not plain "rm".
4776 Bug reported by David Relson in
4777 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-01/msg00011.html>.
4779 * Makefile.am (autom4te-update):
4780 Replace "rm -rf" and "rm -fr" with "rm -f -r", as POSIX requires.
4781 * Makefile.maint (my-distcheck, do-po-update): Likewise.
4782 * doc/autoconf.texi (Guidelines): Likewise.
4783 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Likewise.
4784 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_XMKMF): Likewise.
4785 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_LONG_FILE_NAMES): Likewise.
4786 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
4787 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): Likewise.
4788 * tests/Makefile.am (clean-local): Likewise.
4789 * tests/tortue.at (AC_CONFIG_FILES, HEADERS, LINKS and COMMANDS,
4790 srcdir): Likewise.
4791 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools):
4792 Warn against "rm -fr".
4794 2004-01-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4796 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Mention that cc
4797 -c -o might not work. From a suggestion by Kevin Ryde.
4798 (C Compiler, Generating Sources, Limitations
4799 of Usual Tools, Limitations of Make, Making testsuite Scripts):
4800 Don't put '-o' after non-options, as POSIX doesn't allow this.
4801 Mention that cc's name might be gcc or c89 or whatever.
4803 2004-01-04 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
4805 * doc/autoconf.texi: Add various further index entries.
4807 2003-12-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4809 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory):
4810 Fix typo: mkdir without umask arg.
4812 2003-12-27 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
4814 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make) <Automatic rule rewriting>:
4815 Documents OSF1/Tru64 make behavior. Replace `VPATH = ../src' by
4816 `VPATH = ../pkg/src' in examples to make the OSF1/Tru64 make
4817 explanation clearer.
4819 2003-12-24 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
4821 * doc/autoconf.texi (Default Includes): Fix misspelling of
4822 AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT.
4824 2003-12-03 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
4826 * configure.ac: Test if sh -n works.
4827 * configure: Regenerate.
4828 * tests/atlocal.in: Store the result here.
4829 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_SHELL_SYNTAX): Extracted from
4830 tools.at, looking in atlocal's ac_cv_sh_n_works instead
4831 of explicitly testing.
4832 (AT_CHECK_PERL_SYNTAX): Moved from tools.at.
4833 (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF): Test for the configure script syntax.
4834 * tests/tools.at (Syntax of the shell scripts): Simplify
4835 using AT_CHECK_SHELL_SYNTAX.
4836 (Syntax of the Perl scripts): Remove definition of
4837 AT_CHECK_PERL_SYNTAX.
4839 2003-12-03 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
4841 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_SHELL_FN_WORK): Redirect
4842 stderr to /dev/null.
4843 * bin/autoconf.in: Regenerate.
4844 * bin/wrapper.in: Regenerate.
4846 2003-11-26 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
4848 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE):
4849 Extracted from AS_SHELL_SANITIZE.
4850 (_AS_SHELL_FN_WORK, AS_INIT_WITH_SHELL_FN): New
4851 macros.
4852 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Move reinvocation code from
4853 _AS_LINENO_WORKS, use it to find out if shell
4854 functions work.
4855 (_AS_LINENO_WORKS): Don't find another shell if $LINENO
4856 does not work.
4857 (AS_INIT): Pass parameter down to AS_SHELL_SANITIZE.
4858 (AS_REQUIRE_SHELL_FN): Test that AS_INIT_WITH_SHELL_FN
4859 was called.
4860 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Use AS_INIT_WITH_SHELL_FN.
4861 * bin/autoconf.in: Regenerate.
4862 * tests/wrapper.in: Regenerate.
4863 * tests/tools.at: Test the syntax of tests/autoconf
4864 and tests/testsuite.
4866 2003-11-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4868 * config/announce-gen (&print_locations, &print_signatures)
4869 (&sizes): New.
4870 Use them.
4871 No longer rely on Gnus to inline the list of signatures: compute
4872 them on the fly.
4874 2003-11-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4876 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): AC_PROG_LEX can
4877 override some files.
4878 (Input): AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(aux) is a bad idea on DOS.
4879 From Debian Autoconf 2.58.
4881 2003-11-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4883 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Quote $ac_popdir
4884 uses.
4885 From Debian Autoconf 2.58.
4887 2003-11-24 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
4889 * TODO: Remove already done things. Update the part about finding
4890 tools for the target.
4892 2003-11-24 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
4894 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_USG, AC_MEMORY_H, AC_DIR_HEADER):
4895 Make wording more consistent.
4896 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_CYGWIN, AC_EMXOS2, AC_MINGW32):
4897 Explain the transition better.
4898 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_INT_16_BITS, AC_LONG_64_BITS): Explain
4899 the transition better.
4901 2003-11-24 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
4903 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsoleting Macros): Don't document the third
4904 parameter of AU_DEFUN.
4905 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4 (AU_DEFINE): Remove.
4906 (AU_DEFUN): Remove the third parameter, it was not used.
4907 Use AC_DEFUN directly, not AU_DEFINE.
4908 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_LINK_FILES): Move the message into
4909 the expanded body, consistently with other macros such as AC_USG.
4911 2003-11-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4913 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Put at least 14 bytes
4914 into the initial confdefs.h, to work around a bug in NextStep 3.3
4915 patch 3 reported by Eric Sunshine.
4917 2003-11-15 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
4919 * doc/autoconf.texi (Using System Type): Revise, showing $host rather
4920 than $target since the latter is not usual, add guidelines on when to
4921 use or not use the system type.
4923 2003-11-12 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
4925 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Fix what looks like a
4926 typo misrepaired by an auto-spellcheck.
4928 2003-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4930 * bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args): Don't call automake with
4931 --force-missing unless it actually supports it.
4932 From Debian #219336.
4934 2003-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4936 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.59a.
4937 Require 2.59.
4939 2003-11-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4941 Version 2.59.
4943 2003-11-05 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
4945 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Fix use of AS_SET_CATFILE
4946 so that ac_abs_builddir, ac_abs_top_builddir, ac_abs_srcdir,
4947 and ac_abs_top_srcdir are absolute paths.
4948 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SET_CATFILE): Remove misleading comment.
4950 2003-11-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4952 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.58a.
4954 2003-11-05 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
4956 * doc/autoconf.texi (Using Autotest): Avoid @strong{Note: ...}, since
4957 it provokes a warning from makeinfo about looking like a cross
4958 reference in info output.
4960 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add notes on signal
4961 handler return type, as per AC_TYPE_SIGNAL.
4963 2003-11-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4965 Version 2.58.
4966 * doc/standards.texi: Update from master.
4968 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Add AC_FC_FREEFORM.
4970 2003-11-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4972 AC_CONFIG_FILE([d1/foo:d2/foo]) triggers error messages when
4973 computing the absolute path to d1 in the source hierarchy: it may
4974 not exist at all. So don't cd into it.
4975 From Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
4976 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-10/msg00205.html
4978 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SET_CATFILE): New.
4979 From Paul Eggert, but named after Perl's IO::Spec->catfile.
4980 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Document.
4981 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Use it.
4983 2003-11-03 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
4985 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Structure Checks): Describe
4986 action-if-found and action-if-not-found in AC_CHECK_MEMBERS.
4988 2003-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4990 * tests/fortran.at (GNU Fortran 77): Don't run FC macros.
4991 (GNU Fortran): New.
4992 * doc/autoconf.texi (Language Choice): Document.
4993 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_FREEFORM): Assert
4994 the current language is Fortran.
4996 2003-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4998 * bin/autom4te.in (&freeze): Use a less likely warning separator
4999 than `\n\n', so that `\n\n\n' is valid in warnings.
5000 Reported by Steve Huston.
5002 2003-10-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5004 * Makefile.cfg (local_updates, executable-update): Tweak to be
5005 robust to parallel makes.
5006 Suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
5008 2003-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5010 * Makefile.cfg (executable-update): New.
5011 (local_updates): Call it.
5013 2003-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5015 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_RUN_IFELSE, _AC_INIT_PREPARE):
5016 Don't remove core.* as it may remove valid user files.
5017 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED)
5018 (AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL): Likewise.
5020 2003-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5022 Version 2.57g.
5023 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub: Upgrade from masters.
5025 2003-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5027 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_SRCEXT): Functions using
5028 AC_COMPILE_IFELSE that use break skip the clean up. So do it by
5029 hand...
5031 2003-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5033 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LINK_IFELSE, _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE):
5034 Don't forget to remove conftest.err.
5036 2003-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5038 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ): Don't insert twice the
5039 same object file in $LIBOBJS.
5040 Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz & Derek Robert Price.
5041 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Functions): Adjust.
5043 2003-10-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5045 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_TR_SH_PREPARE, _AS_TR_CPP_PREPARE):
5046 Use 'eval', so that the resulting configure scripts work even if
5047 the current directory has a weird file name like 'y%s+%pp%;s%@%_%g'.
5049 2003-10-20 Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
5051 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_WERROR): New macro.
5052 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, _AC_PREPROC_IFELSE)
5053 (_AC_LINK_IFELSE): Check the werror flag.
5054 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Compiler Characteristics): Document
5055 AC_LANG_WERROR.
5056 * NEWS: Mention it.
5058 2003-10-20 Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
5060 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_NO_EXECUTABLES): Override
5061 _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT to attempt a link. If linking fails,
5062 override AC_LINK_IFELSE.
5064 2003-10-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5066 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_UNSET_PREPARE): Work around a bug in
5067 pdksh 5.2.14. Bug reported by Ralf Corsepius.
5068 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology): Mention the Korn shell and pdksh.
5069 Mention /usr/dt/bin/dtksh on Solaris.
5070 (Shell Substitutions): Warn about $((...)).
5071 (Parentheses): New section.
5073 2003-10-15 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
5075 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add @prindex for exit.
5076 Add putenv and unsetenv. Add sysconf _SC_PAGE_SIZE.
5078 2003-10-13 Nathanael Nerode <neroden@gcc.gnu.org>
5080 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_FORK): Trivial fix for vfork
5081 cross test.
5083 2003-10-11 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
5085 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Use the new official
5086 name for the GNU Fortran 95+ compiler, 'gfortran', not 'g95'.
5088 2003-10-10 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
5090 * bin/autoheader.in: Avoid empty first line in --version and
5091 --help output.
5092 * bin/ifnames.in: Likewise.
5094 2003-10-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5096 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Don't assume -j is solo.
5097 Issue a more-informative diagnostic.
5098 Problems reported by Eric Sunshine.
5100 2003-10-08 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
5102 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): Omit quoted
5103 -mGLOB_options_string stuff for Intel ifc, which can cause
5104 _AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS to fail. Use (faster) case for
5105 pattern-matching instead of grep.
5107 2003-10-08 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
5109 * doc/autoconf.texi: Document new FC Fortran macros.
5111 2003-10-08 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
5113 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR): Stub out a macro
5114 that future autopoint/aclocal/automake/autoreconf will be able
5115 to trace to find where to install local m4 macros.
5116 * doc/autoconf.texi (Input): Document it.
5117 * NEWS: Updated.
5119 2003-10-06 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
5121 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Add
5122 -lcrtbegin.o to list of ignored flags and fix underquoting of
5123 -lcrt[01].o.
5125 2003-10-04 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@ab-initio.mit.edu>
5127 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_G): Use language-specific
5128 cache variable instead of $G77 to decide whether to include -O2,
5129 since $G77 is specific to Fortran 77.
5131 2003-10-03 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
5133 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_FREEFORM): Support Absoft "-f
5134 free" flag. Re-order flags tested into rough order of popularity.
5136 2003-10-03 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
5138 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_PROG_FC): Reverse the order of the
5139 arguments so that it can be used with syntax identical to
5140 AC_PROG_F77, and so that we can more easily decide to
5141 remove/deprecate the DIALECT optional argument in the future if it
5142 proves troublesome.
5143 (AC_FC_FREEFORM): Exit 77 upon failure to fix test suite for
5144 non-freeform-supporting compilers. Document freeform flags.
5146 2003-10-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5148 * configure.ac: Look for emacs, not macs.
5149 Reported by Eric Sunshine.
5151 2003-10-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5153 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoreconf-preselections): Trace AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR.
5154 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory): Create the
5155 AUX_DIR if needed, for sake of automake --add-missing etc.
5156 Suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
5158 2003-10-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5160 * configure.ac: Quotation and formatting changes.
5161 (EMACS): Don't set it if it is not recent enough to support
5162 autoconf-mode.el.
5163 From Eric Sunshine.
5165 2003-10-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5167 * bin/ifnames.in (&scan_file): Skip C++ comments.
5168 From Jeremy Yallop.
5170 2003-10-01 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
5172 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Structure Checks):
5173 Fix misspelling of HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_BLOCKS.
5175 2003-10-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5177 Version 2.57f.
5179 2003-09-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5181 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Use Errno.
5182 (lock): Ignore ENOLCK errors. Problem reported Andreas Schwab in
5183 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-09/msg00141.html>.
5185 2003-09-30 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5187 * config/announce-gen (&print_news_deltas): Extracted from...
5188 (&print_changelog_deltas): here.
5189 (&news_file): Rename as...
5190 (@news_file): this.
5192 2003-09-30 Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>
5194 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Remove files which might
5195 have been created when invoking the compiler.
5196 * tests/fortran.at (GNU Fortran 77): Quote $G77.
5198 2003-09-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5200 Version 2.57e.
5202 * config/mkinstalldirs: Upgrade.
5204 2003-09-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5206 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Set DUALCASE=1, for MKS sh.
5207 Problem reported by Lars J. Aas in
5208 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2003-07/msg00042.html>.
5209 (_AS_MKDIR_P_PREPARE): Change "rm -fr ./-p" to the more-conservative
5210 "test -d ./-p && rmdir ./-p". Suggested by Andreas Schwab in:
5211 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2003-09/msg00039.html
5213 2003-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5215 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS): Make sure the
5216 directory for AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS' first argument exists.
5217 This makes valid the invocation of _AC_SRCPATH that follows.
5218 Reported by Eric Sunshine.
5219 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Commands): Adjust.
5221 2003-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5223 * bin/autoscan.in (Autom4te::FileUtils): Use it for find_file.
5224 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
5226 2003-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5228 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_HELP_STRING): Don't overquote the
5229 arguments.
5230 Actually, use AU_ALIAS.
5231 From Bruno Haible.
5233 2003-09-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5235 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_MKDIR_P_PREPARE): If mkdir -p . fails,
5236 rm -fr ./-p to remove junk left behind on NextStep and OpenStep.
5237 Problem reported by Eric Sunshine in:
5238 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2002-12/msg00014.html
5240 2003-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5242 The test suite are sometimes assigning timings incorrectly.
5243 Reported by Henk Krus.
5244 Diagnosed by Nicolas Joly.
5246 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CLEANUP): Rename AT_help as
5247 AT_help_all.
5248 Instead of making AT_help a sequence of assignments to grow
5249 $at_help_all, just make AT_help_all be the growing contents of
5250 $at_help_all, and make a single assignment in...
5251 (AT_INIT): here.
5252 (at_times_skip): Flip the meaning and rename as...
5253 (at_times_p): this.
5254 (AT_INIT): When summarizing the test that ran, remove
5255 $at_times_file after use, and check it is present before trying to
5256 use it.
5258 2003-09-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5260 Version 2.57d.
5262 * bin/Makefile.am (edit): Handle '@configure_input@'.
5263 (autoconf, autoheader, autom4te, autoreconf, autoscan, autoupdate)
5264 (ifnames): chmod -w.
5265 * tests/wrapper.as (AUTOCONF, AUTOM4TE, ): Point to tests/
5266 executables, not bin/ executables! Otherwise all the magic needed
5267 to find non installed files is turned off. This caused a failure
5268 of test 40 and 41 that ran aclocal 1.8 which in turn ran autom4te
5269 as found in its environment (sent by tests/autoreconf): pointing
5270 to bin/autom4te that could not find its files.
5271 * tests/mktests.sh: Force the replacement of generated files, for
5272 the sake of "mv" program that are interactive when overwriting a
5273 -w file.
5274 * config/install-sh: Upgrade from CVS Automake.
5276 2003-09-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5278 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Document test -h
5279 versus test -L issues.
5281 2003-09-23 Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> and
5282 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5284 Trivial change to support GCC's configuration procedure.
5285 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CPP_WERROR): New macro.
5286 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): Don't warn
5287 about inconsistency if the preprocessor is set to give errors for
5288 any warning.
5289 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler Characteristics): Document this.
5291 2003-09-13 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
5293 * Makefile.am (autom4te-update, autom4te_files): Fetch Struct.pm
5294 and XFile.pm from Automake.
5295 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Update from Automake.
5297 2003-09-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5299 Version 2.57c.
5301 2003-09-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5303 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/missing,
5304 * lib/Autom4te/Channels.pm, lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm: Update
5305 from masters.
5307 2003-09-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5309 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): Promote linux/types.h,
5310 not asm/types.h.
5312 2003-09-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5314 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): linux/random.h.
5315 From Peter Hendrickson.
5317 2003-09-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5319 * tests/mktests.sh (au_exclude_egrep): Make it harder to be
5320 willing to edit the output files.
5322 2003-09-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5324 * tests/fortran.at (GNU Fortran 77): Also exercise AC_FC_SRCEXT
5325 and AC_FC_FREEFORM.
5326 * tests/mktests.sh: Skip AC_FC_SRCEXT.
5327 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_FREEFORM): Likewise.
5329 2003-09-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5331 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm (&update_file): s/cannot not/cannot/g.
5332 Reported by Gary Vaughan.
5333 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_m4): Likewise.
5335 2003-09-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5337 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm (&update_file): Be sure not to leave
5338 trailing files.
5340 2003-09-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5342 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS):
5343 Improve the accuracy of the wording about obsolescence.
5344 From a suggestion by Ian Lance Taylor in
5345 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2003-09/msg00044.html>.
5347 2003-09-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5349 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_FREEFORM): Try -ffree-form too,
5350 for the benefit of g77 3.2. Fix suggested by Steven G. Johnson.
5352 2003-09-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5354 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Fix the filtering of
5355 AC_FUNC_WAIT3.
5357 2003-09-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5359 * bin/autom4te.in: Use &fatal where more appropriate than &error.
5360 (freeze): When exiting, use $exit_code.
5361 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4: Comment changes.
5363 2003-09-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5365 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Add AC_FC_FUNC.
5367 2003-09-02 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
5369 Add support for newer Fortran dialects. The F77 interface is
5370 unchanged, and continues to support Fortran 77. New FC macros
5371 correspond to all the old F77 macros, with output variables FC,
5372 FCFLAGS, and FCLIBS. AC_PROG_FC defaults to picking the newest
5373 available dialect, but older dialects can be specified. There are
5374 new macros AC_FC_SRCEXT to set the source extension, and
5375 AC_FC_FREEFORM to accept free-form source files.
5377 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_LANG_PREFIX(C), _AC_LANG_PREFIX(C++)):
5378 New macros.
5379 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C)): Invoke _AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_FC_HOOKS if defined.
5380 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_LANG(Fortran), _AC_FORTRAN_ASSERT,
5381 _AC_LANG_ABBREV(Fortran), _AC_LANG_PREFIX(Fortran 77),
5382 _AC_LANG_PREFIX(Fortran), _AC_FC, AC_LANG_SOURCE(Fortran),
5383 AC_LANG_PROGRAM(Fortran), AC_LANG_CALL(Fortran),
5384 AC_LANG_PREPROC(Fortran), AC_LANG_COMPILER(Fortran),
5385 _AC_FC_DIALECT_YEAR, _AC_F95_FC, _AC_F90_FC, _AC_F77_FC,
5386 _AC_PROG_FC, AC_PROG_FC, _AC_PROG_FC_G, _AC_PROG_FC_C_O,
5387 AC_PROG_FC_C_O, _AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT, _AC_PROG_FC_V,
5388 _AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS, AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS, _AC_FC_DUMMY_MAIN,
5389 AC_FC_DUMMY_MAIN, _AC_FC_MAIN, AC_FC_MAIN, __AC_FC_NAME_MANGLING,
5390 _AC_FC_WRAPPERS, AC_FC_WRAPPERS, _AC_FC_FUNC, AC_FC_FUNC,
5391 AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_FREEFORM):
5392 New macros.
5393 (AC_PROG_F77, AC_PROG_F77_C_O, AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS,
5394 AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN, AC_F77_MAIN, _AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING,
5395 AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING, AC_F77_WRAPPERS, AC_F77_FUNC):
5396 Rewrite in terms of the above.
5397 (_AC_PROG_F77_G, _AC_PROG_F77_V_OUTPUT, _AC_PROG_F77_V): Remove.
5398 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_LANG_PREFIX): New macro.
5399 * tests/acfortran.at: Test AC_FC_FREEFORM, AC_FC_FUNC,
5400 AC_FC_MAIN, AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_WRAPPERS, AC_PROG_FC_C_O.
5402 2003-09-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5404 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools, Limitations of Make):
5405 Document problems with timestamp resolution that 'make', 'cp -p', and
5406 'touch -r' have.
5408 2003-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5410 * tests/m4sugar.at (cross_warning): Make sure to enable the
5411 output, so that we can track spurious m4sugar output.
5412 * tests/local.at: Require 2.57.
5413 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR, AT_CHECK_M4SH): Don't m4_default the arguments that
5414 are defaulted by AT_CHECK anyway.
5415 Use AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE.
5416 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: There should be no output at all: add a
5417 missing dnl.
5419 2003-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5421 * bin/autoheader.in: Issue the "Using auxiliary..." message only
5422 when -Wobsolete is set.
5423 Set it on by default.
5424 Suggested by Klee Dienes.
5426 2003-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5428 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_FUNC_FSEEKO, AC_SYS_LARGEFILE): More
5429 documentation.
5430 From Guido Draheim.
5432 2003-08-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5434 * doc/autoconf.texi (Output): Make clear that one can run code
5435 after AC_OUTPUT.
5437 2003-08-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5439 * config/announce-gen, GNUmakefile, Makefile.maint: Update from
5440 CVS Bison.
5442 2003-08-25 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
5444 * bin/autoreconf.in (parse_args): Do not pass --no-force to
5445 Automake versions prior to 1.8.
5447 2003-08-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5449 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): netinet/if_ether.h.
5450 From Ville Karaila.
5452 2003-08-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5454 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.57c.
5456 2003-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5458 Version 2.57b.
5460 * Makefile.cfg (local-checks-to-skip): New.
5461 * Makefile.maint (local-check): Rename as...
5462 (local-checks-available): this.
5463 (local-check): New.
5465 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add Makefile.cfg.
5466 * configure.ac: Require Automake 1.7.6.
5468 2003-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5470 Output stack traces in warnings.
5472 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (_m4_warn): New.
5473 Replace the former...
5474 (m4_warn): Pass the call stack to _m4_warn.
5475 * bin/autom4te.in: Adjust to output the call stack.
5476 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4@&t@_warn): Adjust.
5478 2003-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5480 * lib/Autom4te/Request.pm, lib/Autom4te/C4che.pm: New.
5481 * bin/autom4te.in: Adjust.
5483 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5485 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&file_name_is_absolute): Remove.
5486 (&verbose): Remove.
5487 (&getopt): Adjust the note and verb channels, depending upon
5488 --verbose.
5489 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoscan.in,
5490 * bin/autoupdate.in: Adjust.
5491 Use &verb, not &verbose.
5493 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5495 * bin/autoheader.in (&parse_args): Use &parse_warnings and
5496 &parse_WARNINGS.
5497 ($help): Use Autom4te::ChannelDefs::usage.
5498 * bin/autoscan.in: Use Autom4te::ChannelDefs.
5499 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: Don't export error: you don't own it.
5501 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5503 First stab at preserving warnings between calls to autom4te,
5504 including when the cache is used.
5506 There are still several issues: (i) there are too many runs of m4
5507 (one for include, one for warnings, and some more), (ii) warnings
5508 spreading on several lines are not handled gracefully, (iii) the
5509 code meant to have the call stack display for errors does not work
5510 (its handling should move from m4 to autom4te).
5512 * bin/autom4te.in Autom4te::Channels, Autom4te::ChannelDefs):
5513 Use them.
5514 (@preselect): Add m4_warn.
5515 ($exit_status): Remove, use $exit_code.
5516 ($help): Use Autom4te::ChannelDefs::usage.
5517 (&handle_m4): No longer define the m4_warnings.
5518 At each run, extract and report the warnings.
5519 Always cache the result, including if the exit status is on
5520 failure, since if nothing changes, we should result in the same
5521 failure, hence we can use the cache.
5522 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_warning_ifelse, _m4_warning_ifelse)
5523 (_m4_warning_error_ifelse, __m4_warning_error_ifelse, _m4_warn):
5524 Remove.
5525 (m4_warn): Redefine as a do-nothing: it is its invocation that
5526 matters, as warnings are now reported via traces.
5527 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_DIAGNOSE): Don't make it a copy of
5528 the contents of m4_warn: make it _call_ m4_warn, so that tracing
5529 the latter reveals calls to the former.
5531 Adjust the tests.
5533 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4@&t@_warn): Use existing warning categories.
5535 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5537 * bin/autoreconf.pm (Autom4te::Channels, Autom4te::ChannelDefs):
5538 Use them.
5540 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5542 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm (&find_file): Walk the @include in
5543 forward order.
5544 * lib/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm: Doc typos.
5545 (&parse_warnings): Accept a list of warning requests.
5546 (&usage): Return a string, not a side effect.
5547 (cross): New warning category.
5549 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5551 * lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm (&find_configure_ac)
5552 (&require_configure_ac): Accept an optional directory argument.
5553 ($configure_ac): Remove.
5554 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_configure_ac, &canonfile)
5555 (&catfile): Remove.
5556 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoupdate.in,
5557 * bin/autoscan.in: Adjust.
5559 2003-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5561 * bin/autoheader.in: Remove duplicate 'use Autom4te::FileUtils'.
5562 Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
5564 2003-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5566 * bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
5567 * bin/autom4te: Adjust.
5568 In particular, be Autoconf tools are really silent when properly
5569 working, bind the verbosity of the 'note' channel to $verbose.
5570 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_file, &mtime, &update_file)
5571 (&xsystem, &contents): Remove, since they are exported by...
5572 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm: this.
5573 More perldoc.
5574 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&up_to_date_p): Move to...
5575 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm: here.
5577 2003-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5579 * lib/Autom4te/Channels.pm, lib/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm
5580 * lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm, lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm: New,
5581 from CVS Automake.
5583 2003-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5585 * Makefile.am (automake_cvsweb, automake_cvsargs, autom4te_files)
5586 (autom4te-update): New.
5587 * Makefile.cfg (update): Bind autom4te-update.
5589 2003-08-19 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
5591 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Comment various HELP_* diversions.
5592 (PARSE_ARGS_BEGIN): New section for option parsing related
5593 initialization.
5594 (AT_ARG_OPTION,AT_ARG_OPTION_ARG,_AT_ARG_OPTION): New macros to define
5595 package specific options and associated help.
5597 2003-08-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5599 * config/announce-gen, Makefile.cfg: New.
5600 * Makefile.am: Adjust.
5601 * GNUmakefile, Makefile.maint: Update from CVS Coreutils.
5603 2003-08-19 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
5605 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect
5606 AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR, AC_CONFIG_LINKS, m4_include,
5607 and m4_sinclude.
5609 2003-08-19 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
5611 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): Move all args except aclocal.m4? into ...
5612 (Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4): ... this new language.
5613 * doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te Invocation): Mention
5614 Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4.
5616 2003-08-18 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
5618 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Document RUN-IF-FAIL &
5619 RUN-IF-PASS optional arguments.
5621 2003-08-18 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
5623 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Add doc for AS_IF.
5625 2003-08-16 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
5627 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Document defaults for
5628 STDOUT & STDERR arguments.
5630 2003-08-14 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
5632 * lib/autotestgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Reformat test summary line to print
5633 DESCRIPTION rather than FILE and LINE. Shorten result to fit in new,
5634 shorter column three. Add DESCRIPTION to log file content.
5636 2003-08-13 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
5638 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Correct typo in final status
5639 output.
5641 2003-08-12 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
5643 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CHECK): Use new _AT_CHECK API.
5644 (AT_CHECK_NOESCAPE): Move core functionality to...
5645 (_AT_CHECK): ...this new macro.
5647 2003-08-07 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
5649 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CHECK): Move core functionality...
5650 (AT_CHECK_NOESCAPE): ...to this new macro.
5652 2003-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5654 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_UNSET_PREPARE): Work around a bug
5655 in Bash 2.01. Problem reported by Brian Gough in
5656 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-07/msg00106.html>.
5658 2003-07-25 John W. Eaton <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
5660 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Also ignore
5661 -lcrt1.o, for OS X. (trivial change)
5663 2003-07-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5665 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_INLINE): Wrap the '#define inline ...'
5666 inside '#ifndef __cplusplus'. Problem reported by
5667 Bob Friesenhahn.
5669 2003-07-06 Bill Clarke <llib@computer.org>
5671 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MMAP): Cast pointer to
5672 'long', not 'int', for benefit of Sun's recent C++ compilers
5673 (trivial change). See:
5674 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2003-07/msg00007.html
5675 (This really should be 'intptr_t', not 'long', but that would
5676 take more work.)
5678 2003-06-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5680 * lib/Makefile.am (autom4te.cfg): Make it read only.
5681 Depend on Makefile since it contains substitutions.
5682 From Paolo Bonzini.
5683 * lib/autom4te.in (args): Add local.at? for Autotest args.
5684 This change was made on autom4te.cfg which is generated.
5685 Reported by Raja R. Harinath.
5687 2003-06-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5689 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): sys/mount.h.
5690 From Gareth McCaughan.
5692 2003-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5694 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Report a single config.log,
5695 not all of them. This fixes 1. the fact that when testing
5696 Autoconf there are many many config.log, 2. the incorrect use of
5697 top_srcdir to find config.log.
5698 Don't mix the detailed output of failed test with the summary of
5699 failures. Rather, append detailed log afterwards.
5701 2003-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5703 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_CONFIGURE): Adjust to the verbose being
5704 always run: output config.log on $at_group_log.
5706 2003-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5708 * tests/torture.at (#define header templates): Don't use quotes in
5709 C++ comments as it puzzles Emacs' sh font-lock-mode.
5711 2003-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5713 * tests/mktests.sh (au_exclude_egrep): Fix output copyright notice.
5714 * lib/autom4te.cfg (args): Add local.at? for Autotest args.
5715 * tests/atspecific.m4: Rename as...
5716 * tests/local.at: This.
5717 * tests/suite.at: Move the globals into...
5718 * tests/local.at: here.
5719 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
5720 * doc/autoconf.texi (testsuite Scripts): Adjust.
5722 2003-06-21 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
5724 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Extend test program to get an
5725 error from OSF 4.0 Compaq cc in its default almost-ANSI mode, thereby
5726 ensuring we add -std1 for full-ANSI.
5728 * doc/autoconf.texi (hdrindex): New macro.
5729 Add index entries for portability of various standard header files.
5731 2003-06-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5733 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.57b.
5735 2003-06-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5737 Version 2.57a.
5739 2003-06-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5741 * bin/autom4te.in: Don't rely on $HOME being defined.
5742 Reported by Marc Espie as PR/233.
5744 2003-06-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5746 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Use at_times_file only if used.
5747 From Nicolas Joly.
5749 2003-06-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5751 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/elisp-comp,
5752 * config/install-sh, config/mkinstalldirs, doc/standards.texi:
5753 Update from masters.
5755 2003-06-11 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
5757 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Document AT_XFAIL_IF
5758 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_XFAIL_IF): New macro.
5759 (TEST_SCRIPT): New diversion.
5760 (AT_SETUP): Divert output to TEST_SCRIPT and move some code...
5761 (AT_CLEANUP): ...to here. Undivert TEST_SCRIPT.
5762 (AT_INIT): Support for expected failures.
5764 2003-06-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5766 * bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoheader.in: White space
5767 changes.
5768 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&backname): Remove, no longer used by
5769 Autoconf nor Automake.
5770 (&contents): New, from Automake.
5771 PODify.
5773 2003-05-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5775 * NEWS, doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions),
5776 lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MKTIME): Check that mktime
5777 is the inverse of localtime.
5779 2003-05-25 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
5781 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (END): Print diagnostics to STDERR.
5782 (handle_exec_errors): New function. Work around $! being
5783 altered by WEXITSTATUS.
5784 (xqx, xsystem): Use handle_exec_errors.
5786 2003-05-23 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
5788 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (END): Rewrite exit code processing.
5789 Do not call `_exit()', simply modify `$?'.
5790 (xsystem): Reset $! before running system, and check it afterward.
5791 * tests/tools.at (autoupdating AC_PREREQ): Expect exit status
5792 63 for version mismatches.
5794 2003-05-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5796 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Prefer "TAB-SP" to "SP-TAB", because of
5797 Emacs' dangerous whitespace.el behavior (smashing "useless" spaces in
5798 the middle of a line).
5799 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: Likewise.
5800 Remove useless spaces in comments.
5802 2003-05-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5804 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_version_prereq): Failure causes an
5805 exit 63, so that we (or Automake's "missing") can tell the
5806 difference with a plain failure.
5807 * doc/autoconf.texi (Notices): Adjust.
5809 2003-05-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5811 * Makefile.am, bin/Makefile.am, config/Makefile.am,
5812 * doc/Makefile.am, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am, tests/Makefile.am:
5813 White spaces cleanup.
5815 2003-05-22 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
5816 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5818 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION):
5819 Remove `#include <stdlib.h>' from the list; we should never
5820 make confdefs.h include <stdlib.h> or <cstdlib>, because the
5821 resulting namespace pollution would cause other tests to fail.
5822 Configure scripts run with some older versions of g++ and HP's
5823 aCC would fail due to such an #include. Problems reported by
5824 Matthew Mueller in <http://bugs.debian.org/120704> and by
5825 Keith Bostic in
5826 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2003-05/msg00063.html>.
5827 In the test, use the test declaration before including <stdlib.h>,
5828 as that's closer to how it'll be used.
5830 2003-05-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5832 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): ucred.h.
5833 From Ian Redfern.
5835 2003-05-22 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
5837 Overhaul Autotest's logging: generate separate log files
5838 in testsuite.dir/NNN/testsuite.log, and append them to
5839 testsuite.log instead of re-running the test verbosely.
5841 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Use a single redirected
5842 file descriptor, write 0 to at_status_file instead of setting
5843 at_status=0, initialize some new variables (at_status_file,
5844 at_group_log, at_suite_log, at_tee_pipe). Remove the cruft
5845 to rerun the tests, instead append the at_group_log to the
5846 at_suite_log when a test fails.
5847 (AT_SETUP): pipe the test case's output into at_tee_pipe,
5848 with the AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD redirected to stdout.
5849 (AT_CLEANUP): save the output status in $at_status_file
5850 and restore it, redirect the AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD back to
5851 its original place.
5852 (AT_CHECK): since tests are run with a redirected stdout,
5853 and used to be re-run in verbose mode, turn some $at_verbose
5854 into echo, and don't redirect the output of testing stdout
5855 and stderr.
5857 * lib/autotest/autoconf.texi (testsuite Scripts): Update
5858 the name of the debugging directory and information about
5859 its contents.
5861 2003-05-22 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
5863 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_REQUIRE): Actually use the 2nd
5864 parameter.
5866 2003-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5868 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4, lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4
5869 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 lib/autoconf/general.m4
5870 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 lib/autoconf/oldnames.m4
5871 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Fix and adjust copyright notices.
5873 2003-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5875 * aclocal.m4, bin/autoconf.as, lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4,
5876 * lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4, lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4,
5877 * lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/fortran.m4,
5878 * lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/headers.m4,
5879 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4,
5880 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4, lib/autoconf/specific.m4,
5881 * lib/autoconf/status.m4, lib/autoconf/types.m4,
5882 * lib/autotest/general.m4, lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4,
5883 * tests/atspecific.m4, tests/base.at, tests/compile.at,
5884 * tests/foreign.at, tests/m4sh.at, tests/semantics.at,
5885 * tests/tools.at, tests/torture.at:
5886 Whitespace clean up.
5887 Suggested by Jim Meyering.
5889 2003-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5891 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG): Restore smashed
5892 ' \t' as '\t ' so that Emacs' whitespace.el keep it.
5893 Reported by Jim Meyering.
5895 2003-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5897 * doc/autoconf.texi: Replace AC_HELP_STRING AS_HELP_STRING.
5898 Add AC_HELP_STRING to the obsolete macros section.
5899 Typos.
5900 Use '@.' for sentences that ended in a capital letter.
5901 From Art Haas.
5903 2003-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5905 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/elisp-comp,
5906 * config/install-sh, config/mdate-sh, config/mkinstalldirs,
5907 * config/texinfo.tex, doc/standards.texi: Update from masters.
5909 2003-05-21 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
5911 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_VAR_SET): Escape the RHS before passing
5912 it to eval.
5914 2003-05-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5916 * bin/autoupdate.in ($m4): Fix quotation.
5917 Reported by Martin Mokrejs.
5919 2003-05-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5921 * ChangeLog, ChangeLog.2, THANKS, lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4:
5922 Remove non-ASCII characters.
5924 2003-05-18 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
5926 * tests/semantics.at (AC_SEARCH_LIBS): New test.
5927 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_HEADERS_OLD,
5928 AC_CHECK_HEADERS_NEW): New tests.
5930 2003-05-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5932 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4: Use the default includes so that
5933 memcmp be declared before being tested.
5934 Reported by Sander Niemeijer.
5935 (AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE, AC_FUNC_GETGROUPS, AC_FUNC_STRNLEN): Likewise.
5936 * doc/autoconf.texi (Default Includes): Document
5937 AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT.
5939 2003-05-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5941 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4: Include signal.h and unistd.h.
5942 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsolete Macros): Adjust.
5943 Reported by Werner LEMBERG and Debian Bug 190886.
5945 2003-05-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5947 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_UNSET_PREPARE): s/FOO/as_foo/ to avoid
5948 user name space clashes.
5949 Reported by Bruno Haible.
5951 2003-05-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5953 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
5954 * bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in (BEGIN): Make
5955 them uniform, and more robust to Perl special characters.
5956 Reported by Martin Mokrejs.
5958 2003-05-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5960 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Skip all Libtools pre 1.4.
5962 2003-05-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5964 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): X11/extensions/scrnsaver.h,
5965 linux/irda.h.
5967 2003-05-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5969 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Improve the
5970 message.
5971 From Matthias Andree.
5973 2003-05-07 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
5975 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm (lock, truncate): Do not pass @_ to flock
5976 and truncate.
5978 2003-05-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5980 Don't try to be smart with aclocal 1.8+ because (i) aclocal no
5981 longer updates aclocal.m4 if useless, (ii) if a file m4_included
5982 by aclocal.m4 is changed it might require the importing of another
5983 m4 extension file, i.e., aclocal must be run.
5985 * bin/autoreconf.in (&run_aclocal, $aclocal_supports_force): New.
5986 (&parse_args): Use --force with aclocal if required and supported.
5987 (&autoreconf_current_directory): Use &run_aclocal.
5989 2003-05-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5991 Lock autom4te's cache.
5993 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm ($me, &name, &lock, &truncate, &seek): New.
5994 * bin/autom4te.in (&Request::save, &Request::load): Use an IO::File
5995 argument instead of a file name, so that the request file remains
5996 open during the whole autom4te run.
5997 ($icache_file): New.
5998 (&freeze): Lock the $icache_file.
6000 2003-04-29 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
6002 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_KEYWORDS): Don't use a comma as the
6003 seperator with m4_append_uniq(). It doesn't work.
6004 (AT_CLEANUP): Add `;' to end of at_help_all.
6005 (AT_INIT): Allow --keywords to be specified more than once. When
6006 grepping $at_help_all for keywords, use the field and keyword
6007 seperators to ensure a complete keyword match. Alter at_prev handling
6008 to support the new --keywords behavior.
6010 2003-04-27 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
6012 * doc/autoconf.texi: Make the dir entries in the autoconf manual
6013 align better with others. I also made some of the individual
6014 entries on one line, for brevity and to make it easier for me to
6015 sort my dir-example file in the Texinfo distribution :).
6017 2003-04-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
6019 * NEWS: Mention the new macro.
6020 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_RESTRICT): New macro.
6021 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Describe AC_C_RESTRICT.
6022 * tests/c.at: Test AC_C_RESTRICT.
6023 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Add exclusion for AC_C_RESTRICT.
6025 2003-04-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6027 * bin/ifnames.in: Skip C++ comments.
6028 From Jeremy Yallop.
6030 2003-04-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6032 * GNUmakefile (SHELL): Don't assume sh is in /bin/.
6033 From Ilya Zakharevich.
6035 2003-04-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6037 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Some about sys/socket.h,
6038 net/if.h, stdlib.h.
6040 2003-04-01 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
6042 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_INSTALL): Correct syntax error
6043 from Akim's checkin of 2003-03-29.
6045 2003-04-01 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
6047 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Add missing
6048 close-quote for Akim's change from 2003-03-28.
6050 2003-04-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6052 * doc/autoconf.texi (ac, at, ms): Rename these indexes as...
6053 (AC, AT, MS): these.
6054 (shortindexflag, @acindex, @ahindex, @asindex, @atindex, @msindex):
6055 New.
6056 Use them.
6057 * doc/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): Adjust.
6058 (TEXI2DVI): Make it --batch.
6060 2003-03-31 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
6062 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Revert the checkin from 2003-03-27
6063 which removed the main loop.
6064 Thanks to Akim Demaille.
6066 2003-03-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6068 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_INSTALL): Skip OS/2's install,
6069 that starts a GUI.
6070 From Ilya Zakharevich.
6072 2003-03-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6074 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): The
6075 documentation to read is Autoconf's.
6076 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
6078 2003-03-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6080 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): Suggest
6081 reading the section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled" when the
6082 header causes problems.
6084 2003-03-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6086 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Require aclocal
6087 1.4, otherwise the test fails, as it does support configure.ac.
6088 This fixes the "test 40 failed" bug reports.
6090 2003-03-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6092 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): `#line' portability.
6093 From Paul Eggert and Nelson H. F. Beebe.
6095 2003-03-27 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
6097 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Eliminate main loop and reorganize test
6098 layout in order to allow scripting around test groups.
6100 2003-03-27 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
6102 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (PARSE_ARGS,PARSE_ARGS_END,HELP,HELP_MODES,
6103 HELP_TUNING,HELP_OTHER,HELP_END,PREPARE_TESTS,TESTS_END): Define and
6104 use new diversions in preparation for accepting new arguments and
6105 allowing scripting around tests.
6106 (OPTIONS,TAIL): Remove these diversions to make way for the ones above.
6108 2003-03-26 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
6110 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_VAR): Use AS_HELP_STRING instead of
6111 obsolete AC_HELP_STRING.
6112 (AC_HELP_STRING): AU_DEFUN to...
6113 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_HELP_STRING): ...here.
6114 * tests/m4sh.at (AS_HELP_STRING): New test.
6116 * tests/acgeneral.at: Regenerated.
6118 2003-03-26 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
6120 * lib/autotest/general.m4: s/DEFAULT/DEFAULTS/ since it makes more
6121 sense. Verbosify the diversion definitions comment.
6123 2003-03-26 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
6125 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Remove redundant call to
6126 AS_PREPARE.
6128 2003-03-21 Eric Siegerman <eric_97@pobox.com>
6130 * doc/autoconf.texi (Present But Cannot Be Compiled):
6131 Grammar fixes and minor rewording. (trivial change)
6133 2003-03-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6135 Work around a problem noted by Nelson H. F. Beebe with coreutils
6136 4.5.9: Sun c89 (Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3 Patch 111679-08
6137 2002/05/09) rejects '#line 32768 "configure"' because the line
6138 number overflows.
6139 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_SOURCE(C)): Do not generate
6140 #line directives.
6141 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_SOURCE): Fix comment to match this.
6142 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generating Sources): Document this.
6144 2003-03-01 Richard Dawe <rich@phekda.freeserve.co.uk>
6146 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE): Normalize
6147 file name for the m4 program, when it has an "exe" file extension.
6148 DJGPP's error messages include the error code in brackets -
6149 remove the error code during normalization.
6151 2003-02-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6153 * doc/autoconf.texi (Present But Cannot Be Compiled): New.
6155 2003-02-28 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
6157 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Remove the section
6158 about `$<' in inference rules, it was a bogus interpretation of
6159 an old Automake change. Discuss NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and
6160 Tru64 make in the "target lookup" section.
6161 (Automake): Automake 1.5+ no longer requires special tools to be
6162 present on the developer's host.
6164 2003-02-26 Richard Dawe <rich@phekda.freeserve.co.uk>
6166 * bin/autoheader.in (BEGIN): For DJGPP SHELL may not be set
6167 to a shell that can handle redirection or quoting correctly.
6168 Override SHELL with the shell detected by configure.
6169 Use of $^O suggested by Tim van Holder.
6170 * bin/autom4te.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
6171 * bin/autoreconf.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
6172 * bin/autoscan.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
6173 * bin/autoupdate.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
6174 * bin/ifnames.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
6176 * bin/ifnames.in: Add final newline to help and version messages.
6178 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Translate colons,
6179 to cope with DOS-style absolute paths, when constructing
6180 ${ac_make}.
6182 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS, _AC_OUTPUT_FILES):
6183 When constructing paths with IFS=:, quote the path. If we're
6184 constructing a DOS-style absolute path, we don't want to split it
6185 on the colon.
6187 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_CONFIGURE): Fix typo
6188 in description.
6190 2003-02-25 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
6192 * bin/autoheader.in: Add missing newline when printing
6193 suggestion how change AC_DEFINE call.
6195 2003-02-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6197 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Fix typo in
6198 2002-09-01 patch by replacing "test -n" with "test -z".
6199 This fixes a bug found by Jeff Painter and reported by Tom Epperly in
6200 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2003-02/msg00139.html>.
6202 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): test -n -> test -z,
6203 to fix a mismatch between example and discussion.
6205 2003-02-24 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
6207 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Add notes on printf
6208 format starting with "-".
6210 2003-02-20 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
6212 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): `foo=bar make -e'
6213 is not portable inside Makefile.
6215 2003-02-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6217 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): When
6218 compiler says yeah, but preproc says nope, compiler is right.
6219 Conversely, prompt the reader to send a bug report to the
6220 maintainers of the package, not of Autoconf.
6222 2003-02-20 Klee Dienes <kdienes@apple.com>
6224 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory): Properly
6225 handle an empty aclocal.m4.
6227 2003-02-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6229 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM): Quote
6230 $ac_prefix_program.
6231 From Larry Jones.
6233 2002-12-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6235 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C)): Define $1 to an
6236 innocuous variant befor including <limits.h> or <assert.h>. This
6237 works around a bug reported by Albert Chin: HP-UX 11i
6238 (and earlier versions) have a <limits.h> that declares
6239 gettimeofday and many other functions.
6241 2002-12-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6243 Version 2.57.
6245 * NEWS, configure.ac: Update version.
6247 * doc/fdl.texi: Upgrade to FDL version 1.2.
6249 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C)): Use the function f
6250 nontrivially in main's body, so that f's external declaration is
6251 not optimized away in AIX. This should fix the bug reported by
6252 Martin Frydl in
6253 <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/autoconf/2002-November/014508.html>.
6255 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C),
6256 _AC_PROG_PREPROC_WORKS_IFELSE): Use <limits.h> if __STDC__ is
6257 defined, to support freestanding compilers. This should fix the
6258 bug reported by Momchil Velkov in
6259 <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/autoconf/2002-November/014490.html>.
6261 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsolete Macros): Fix typos (insert empty
6262 arg, AC_DEFINE -> AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED) in documentation for
6263 obsolete AC_CHECK_TYPE. The missing empty arg was reported
6264 by Simon Josefsson in
6265 <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/autoconf-patches/2002-December/008830.html>.
6267 * Makefile.maint (www-gnu): New macro.
6268 (standards.texi-url_prefix, make-stds.texi-url_prefix): Use it, as
6269 the location has moved.
6271 2002-12-02 Martin Frydl <martin@systinet.com>
6273 * bin/autom4te.in (at_flatten): rewritten to avoid M4 problem when
6274 \(.*\) match is too long and there is something more to be checked.
6275 <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/autoconf/2002-November/014524.html>
6277 2002-11-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6279 Version 2.56.
6281 * config/install-sh: chmod +x.
6282 From Paul Eggert.
6283 * config/move-if-change: Indenting changes.
6284 * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Move to...
6285 * configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): here.
6286 Require 1.7.1.
6288 2002-11-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6290 Version 2.55.
6292 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/install-sh:
6293 Update from masters.
6295 2002-11-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6297 * Makefile.maint: Sync with Bison, i.e.:
6298 (po-check): Scan .l and .y files instead of the
6299 .c and the .h files that they generate. This fixes the bug
6300 reported by Tim Van Holder in:
6301 <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bison-patches/2002-November/001352.html>
6302 Look for N_ as well as for _. Try to avoid matching #define for
6303 N_ and _.
6304 From Paul Eggert.
6306 2002-11-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6308 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Compiling several files at once.
6309 From Paul Eggert and Albert Chin-A-Young.
6311 2002-11-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6313 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Solitary backslashes.
6314 From Paul Eggert and Albert Chin-A-Young.
6316 2002-11-14 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
6318 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C)): Initialize f=$1 rather
6319 than assigning in main, to avoid HP cc +O3 optimizing it away.
6321 2002-11-12 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
6323 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Add -q
6324 option. Process --recheck after parsing all options. Pass -q
6325 option to configure on --recheck.
6326 (AC_OUTPUT): Pass -q from configure to config.status.
6327 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Strip -q from
6328 arguments to record.
6329 * doc/autoconf.texi (config.status Invocation): Document
6330 config.status -q option.
6332 2002-11-07 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
6334 * bin/autoscan.in (scan_file): Scan Makefile.am too. Ignore
6335 Makefile.in if Makefile.am exists.
6336 (output): Strip `.am' from Makefiles. Don't
6337 output AC_CONFIG_FILES if no Makefiles were found.
6339 2002-11-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6341 * Makefile.am (cvs_files): Add elisp-comp, mdate-sh.
6342 (local_updates): New.
6343 * Makefile.maint: Update, from CVS Bison.
6344 (local_updates): New.
6346 2002-11-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6348 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY): Wrap the `f'
6349 declaration in extern "C" too.
6350 Reported by Roberto Bagnara.
6352 2002-11-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6354 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Don't use grep
6355 -w.
6356 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Grep -w.
6357 Reported by Ezra Peisach.
6359 2002-11-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6361 * lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4 (_AH_TEMPLATE_OLD, _AH_VERBATIM_OLD):
6362 Remove.
6363 We _have_ to stop using the old compatibility scheme that tried to
6364 avoid useless backslashes because Libtool 1.4.3 contains a
6365 AC_DEFINE([error_t], [int],
6366 [Define to a type to use for \`error_t' if it is not
6367 otherwise available.])
6368 We _have_ to quote the single quote and backslashes with \. The
6369 old compatibility scheme saw that ` was backslashed, and therefore
6370 did not quote the single quote. Hence before this patch, Autoconf
6371 was not compatible with Libtool.
6373 2002-11-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6375 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Set the following variables,
6376 too: LC_ADDRESS, LC_IDENTIFICATION, LC_MEASUREMENT, LC_MONETARY,
6377 LC_NAME, LC_PAPER, LC_TELEPHONE.
6378 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Mention those vars.
6380 2002-11-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6382 Version 2.54c.
6384 * Makefile.maint (update, cvs-update, po-update, do-po-update):
6385 New.
6386 * config/texinfo.tex: Update.
6388 2002-11-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6390 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf_current_directory): New, extracted
6391 from...
6392 (&autoreconf): here.
6393 ($help, $make, &parse_args, &autoreconf_current_directory):
6394 Support -m/--make.
6395 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Adjust.
6397 2002-10-31 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
6399 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_MALLOC_IF): Change message.
6400 Change name of cache variable to ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull.
6401 (AC_FUNC_MALLOC): Change description of HAVE_MALLOC macro.
6402 (_AC_FUNC_REALLOC_IF): Change message. Change name of cache variable
6403 to ac_cv_func_realloc_0_nonnull.
6404 (AC_FUNC_REALLOC): Change description of HAVE_REALLOC macro.
6406 2002-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6408 The test suite was no longer checking for trailing envvars and files.
6410 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AC_STATE_SAVE): Don't use quadrigraphs here.
6411 (AT_CHECK_ENV): Make sure the `state-ls.before file exists.
6413 2002-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6415 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Use and display
6416 `$(MAKE)' instead of '${MAKE}' to emphasize that we refer to the
6417 Make variable, not a shell variable.
6418 Suggested by Bruno Haible.
6420 2002-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6422 * bin/autom4te.in (load_configuration): Reject #args out of any
6423 language.
6425 2002-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6427 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_MSG_LOG_CONFTEST): New.
6428 (_AC_PREPROC_IFELSE, _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, _AC_LINK_IFELSE)
6429 (_AC_RUN_IFELSE): Use it.
6430 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT):
6431 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Likewise.
6432 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_SOURCE): Don't include confdefs.h,
6433 inline it.
6435 2002-10-30 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6437 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args, $help): Support --no-cache.
6438 * doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te Invocation): Adjust.
6439 Suggested by Tim van Holder.
6441 2002-10-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6443 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): AC_FUNC_MALLOC and
6444 AC_FUNC_REALLOC check for compatibility with glibc, not POSIX.
6445 Problem reported by Bruno Haible.
6447 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6449 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Templates): Put also in words what the
6450 pictures says to assist free style readers.
6451 (Customizing autom4te): s/--cache=/--cache /.
6453 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6455 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_VFORK): Include stdlib.h and
6456 sys/wait.h.
6457 sparc_address_test returns void.
6458 Use it with an argument, as prototyped.
6459 From Bruno Haible.
6461 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6463 * doc/autoconf.texi (Subdirectories): Cygnus dirs have
6464 configure.in, not configure.ac.
6465 Reported by Bruno Haible.
6467 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6469 * tests/torture.at (Deep Package): New test.
6470 (Configuring subdirectories): Don't use a testSubDir as Autotest
6471 now does it itself.
6473 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6475 * bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args, $help): Support --warnings.
6476 * doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te): Rename as...
6477 (autom4te Invocation): this, for consistency with the other nodes.
6479 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6481 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): s/automate/autom4te/.
6482 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
6484 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6486 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_QUOTE): The warning about quoted
6487 characters is a back as an `obsolete' warning now.
6488 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
6490 2002-10-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6492 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.54c.
6494 2002-10-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6496 Version 2.54b.
6498 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Adjust to broken libtoolize.
6500 2002-10-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6502 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE): Be robust to different
6503 m4 executable names, and different GNU M4 version.
6504 Reported by Ezra Peisach and Paul Jarc.
6506 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6508 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_VFORK): Really use
6509 AC_RUN_IFELSE.
6511 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6513 * doc/autoconf.texi: More AC_MSG_FAILURE promotion.
6514 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING):
6515 Die when a simple Fortran program cannot be compiled.
6516 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_CALL, AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY):
6517 Issue a warning if no function is given.
6519 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6521 * doc/autoconf.texi (Run Time): Document AC_RUN_IFELSE.
6522 Move the documentation of AC_TRY_RUN to...
6523 (Obsolete Macros): here.
6524 Adjust all the old samples still using AC_TRY_RUN to AC_RUN_IFELSE.
6525 (autoconf Invocation): Remove the duplicates with `invoking
6526 autom4te'.
6527 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDC): Don't use AC_TRY_RUN.
6528 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
6530 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6532 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generating Sources): Document AC_LANG_CALL
6533 and AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY.
6534 (Examining Libraries): Rename as...
6535 (Running the Linker): this.
6536 Document AC_LINK_IFELSE.
6537 Move the documentation of AC_TRY_LINK and AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC to...
6538 (Obsolete Macros): here.
6539 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING): Don't use
6540 AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC nor AC_TRY_LINK.
6541 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (AC_CHECK_LIB, AC_PATH_XTRA): Likewise.
6542 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_USG): Likewise.
6544 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6546 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDC): Don't use AC_TRY_CPP.
6548 More `check config.log' messages.
6550 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_MSG_FAILURE): New.
6551 * doc/autoconf.texi (Printing Messages): Document it.
6552 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Use it when
6553 appropriate.
6554 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT)
6555 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_WORKS, _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O)
6556 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT): Likewise.
6557 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_RUN_IFELSE): Likewise.
6558 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_F77_HOOKS):
6559 Likewise.
6560 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CPP, AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXXCPP):
6561 Likewise.
6563 Deprecate macros with unusual interfaces.
6565 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_TRY_CPP, AC_TRY_LINK)
6566 (AC_TRY_COMPILE, AC_TRY_RUN): AU_DEFUN'ed.
6568 Document the new ones, and proper style.
6570 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generating Sources): New.
6571 Document AC_LANG_CONFTEST, AC_LANG_SOURCE, AC_LANG_PROGRAM.
6572 (Examining Declarations): Rename as...
6573 (Running the Preprocessor): this.
6574 Document AC_PREPROC_IFELSE.
6575 (Examining Syntax): Rename as...
6576 (Running the Compiler): this.
6577 (AC_FOO_IFELSE vs AC_TRY_FOO): New section.
6578 (Obsolete Macros): Move the definition of AC_TRY_CPP and
6579 AC_TRY_COMPILE here.
6581 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6583 Move sections around.
6585 * doc/autoconf.texi (Customizing autom4te): Remove a lost
6586 sentence.
6587 Reported by Burno Haible.
6588 (Language Choice): Now the first section of...
6589 (Writing Tests): this section.
6590 Make the introduction less C-centric.
6591 (Guidelines, Test Functions): Move to...
6592 (Writing Test Programs): this new section.
6593 (Test Programs): Merge into...
6594 (Run Time): this.
6596 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6598 * lib/freeze.mk ($(AUTOM4TE_CFG)): Add a missing dependency on
6599 autom4te.in that resulted in the need for two `make' runs.
6601 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6603 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.54b.
6605 2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6607 Version 2.54a.
6609 * Makefile.maint: Update from the Coreutils.
6610 (AMTAR): Remove, obsolete.
6611 (automake_repo): Update to redhat.com.
6612 (cvs_file): New.
6613 Adjust to the fact that ansi2knr is now hosted by Automake.
6614 * Makefile.am (cvs_files): Add install-sh and mkinstalldirs.
6615 * config/config.guess, config/mkinstalldirs, config/texinfo.tex:
6616 Update from masters.
6617 * lib/autoscan/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST, nodist_autoscanlib_DATA):
6618 autoscan.pre is not to be installed, and autoscan.list is not to
6619 be shipped.
6620 (CLEANFILES): Add autoscan.list.
6621 (autoscan.list): Disable the cache.
6622 * bin/Makefile.am: Include freeze.mk.
6624 2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6626 * bin/autom4te.in (&load_configuration): Take the file as
6627 argument.
6628 (&parse_args): Handle -C, --cache.
6629 ($help): Adjust.
6630 (MAIN): Load ~/.autom4te.cfg and ./.autom4te.cfg.
6631 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): Pass --cache=autom4te.cache.
6632 * doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te): Document --cache.
6633 Now a subsection of...
6634 (Using autom4te): This new section.
6635 (Customizing autom4te): New.
6636 (autom4te.cache): Adjust.
6638 2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6640 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Headers): More information on how to
6641 use AC_CHECK_HEADERS.
6643 2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6645 * bin/autoconf.as, bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoupdate.in ($help):
6646 Space changes.
6648 2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6650 * bin/autoscan.in (output): Output AC_PREREQ.
6651 (%needed_macros): Add AC_PREREQ so that configure.ac without one
6652 be reported.
6654 2002-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6656 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): In AC_HEADER_STDBOOL,
6657 document _Bool.
6659 2002-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6661 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_traces): Handle @&t@ in traces.
6662 Reported by Peter Eisentraut.
6664 2002-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6666 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDBOOL): Also look for the
6667 type _Bool.
6668 Fix a typo.
6669 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Adjust according to Paul
6670 Eggert's recommandations.
6672 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6674 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDBOOL): New, based on CVS
6675 Bison, by Paul Eggert.
6676 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Document it.
6678 2002-10-22 Aaron M. Ucko <amu@alum.mit.edu>
6680 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Avoid duplicates in
6681 `$ac_configure_args'.
6683 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6685 * doc/autoconf.texi: Use AC_CONFIG_HEADERS in examples.
6686 (AC_ST_BLKSIZE, AC_ST_RDEV): Directly point to AC_CHECK_MEMBERS.
6687 From Art Haas.
6689 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6691 Restore the 2002-10-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> patch:
6693 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL)
6694 (AC_CHECK_HEADER, _AC_CHECK_HEADER_NEW,_AC_CHECK_HEADER_OLD): Restore.
6695 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_NEW): Rename as...
6696 (AC_CHECK_HEADER): this.
6698 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6700 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Remove incorrect
6701 words about HP-UX cmp: it was actually a user-written cmp.
6703 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6705 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Don't check autoconf's stderr: there
6706 are a few warnings.
6707 * lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4 (AH_VERBATIM, _AH_VERBATIM_OLD):
6708 Quote for Perl '' strings, not "".
6709 * bin/autoheader.in: Invoke autoconf to get '' strings, not ""
6710 strings.
6712 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6714 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_QUOTE): The warning about quoted
6715 characters is a syntax warning now.
6716 (_AS_QUOTE): Accept $2 as list of characters to quote.
6717 * lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4 (AH_VERBATIM, _AH_VERBATIM_OLD):
6718 Quote for Perl, not sh.
6719 * bin/autoheader.in: When $debug, report the file which is
6720 `do'ne.
6721 * tests/tools.at (autom4te, autoheader): Exercise @bar, not merely
6722 `@', to tickle Perl's lists.
6723 Reported by Carlos Velasco.
6725 2002-10-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6727 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_m4): Pass --fatal-warning to m4, so that
6728 missing included files _are_ errors.
6729 Thanks to Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
6730 * tests/tools.at (autom4te cache): Adjust.
6731 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE): New.
6732 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR): Use it.
6733 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4_warn, m4_require: circular dependencies):
6734 Adjust.
6735 * tests/tools.at (autom4te): Now it does exit 1.
6737 2002-10-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6739 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CACHE_SAVE): Don't use cmp.
6740 Fixes the `AC_ARG_VAR' test failures.
6741 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Don't use cmp.
6742 * lib/freeze.mk (check-forbidden-patterns): New.
6743 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am, lib/autotest/Makefile.am
6744 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am (check-local): Use it to catch `cmp'.
6745 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): HP-UX' cmp and
6746 /dev/null.
6747 Reported months ago by H. Merijn Brand.
6749 2002-10-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6751 * tests/tools.at (autoheader): Put randoms `@' to stress Perl.
6753 2002-10-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6755 * Makefile.maint (wget_files): Remove ansi2knr.c.
6756 (ansi2knr.c-url_prefix): Remove.
6758 2002-10-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6760 Because of caching, some files that no longer exist and are no
6761 longer required can still cause errors.
6762 Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
6764 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Do not prepend `--reload-state'
6765 to frozen files in @ARGV, as @ARGV must remain being a list of
6766 files. Rather, at M4 call sites, use this...
6767 (&files_to_options): New function.
6768 (&freeze): Use &error.
6769 (&up_to_date): If a file that was included according to the cache
6770 is no longer there, then the output is out dated.
6771 (&main): Don't even check whether a file is up to date is anyway
6772 --force is given.
6773 * tests/tools.at (autom4te cache): New.
6775 2002-10-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6777 * bin/autoconf.as: Kill dead options.
6778 * bin/autoupdate.in (&parse_args): Kill old options.
6779 * bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args): Remove dead options.
6780 Factor some code.
6781 (&autoreconf): Report the directories we enter *and leave*, so
6782 that error messages can be easily located, and use GNU Make
6783 format, so that Emacs' compile mode understands us.
6784 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&update_file): Use `verbose' to report
6785 if some file was changed instead of `print'.
6786 * bin/autoheader.in: Suggest AC_DEFINE with 3 args when needed.
6787 (&parse_args): Remove the dead options.
6788 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER): Adjust to the new
6789 autoheader's quiet mode.
6790 (AT_CHECK_AUTOUPDATE): Likewise.
6791 * tests/tools.at (autoupdate): Adjust.
6792 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
6794 2002-10-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6796 No longer use CPP to check for the existing of headers: use CC to
6797 check for compilability.
6799 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL)
6800 (AC_CHECK_HEADER, _AC_CHECK_HEADER_OLD): Remove.
6801 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_NEW): Rename as...
6802 (AC_CHECK_HEADER): this.
6804 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Include the failed test
6805 numbers in the Subject suggestion.
6807 2002-10-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6809 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_DECL_SYS_SIGLIST): Obsolete.
6810 Suggest using AC_CHECK_DECLS instead.
6812 2002-10-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6814 * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): Have configure report the value
6815 of `precious'.
6817 2002-10-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6819 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_SEPARATOR_PREPARE): Use $$ in the
6820 file name to enable parallel executions.
6821 From Sam Varshavchik.
6823 2002-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6825 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Run autopoint before the first
6826 aclocal invocation, as Gettext macros might not be visible to
6827 aclocal.
6828 Instead of blindly running autopoint, scan configure.ac (not the
6829 traces) for AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION uses, as autopoint does.
6830 Reported by Paul D. Smith.
6832 2002-10-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6834 Work around problems found when POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 is set.
6835 None of this seems to have anything to do with POSIX, really,
6836 but it's how Perl getopt works.
6837 * bin/autom4te.in (parse_args): Configure GetOpt with
6838 "permute", too.
6839 * doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te):
6840 --warning -> --warnings.
6841 * lib/autom4te.in: --warning -> --warnings.
6843 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6845 * doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te.cache): New section.
6847 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6849 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoscan-preselections, Autoreconf-preselections)
6850 (Automake-preselections): Update.
6851 * bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoheader.in: Comment changes.
6853 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6855 * lib/autoscan/autoscan.pre: Move all the remaining rules to...
6856 * lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/functions.m4,
6857 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4,
6858 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4, lib/autoconf/types.m4: here.
6860 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6862 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Be robust to
6863 users who use config.site to require for a cache: in this case,
6864 the two last configure runs, using two different sets of
6865 arguments, trigger a legitimate error.
6867 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6869 * tests/m4sh.at (Functions Support, Functions and return Support):
6870 New.
6872 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6874 * bin/Makefile.am (ETAGS_SH, ETAGS_PERL): Update: ifnames and
6875 autoheader are Perl programs.
6876 (autoconf, autoheader, autoreconf, autoupdate, ifnames, autoscan)
6877 (autom4te): Specify that the sources are in the $srcdir.
6878 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Adjust.
6880 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6882 * lib/autoscan/autoscan.pre (st_blksize, st_blocks, st_rdev)
6883 (tm_zone): Move their rules to...
6884 * lib/autoconf/types.m4: here, using AN_ macros.
6885 * lib/autoscan/autoscan.pre (AWK, BISON, INSTALL, LEX, LN, MAKE)
6886 (RANLIB, YACC, awk, bison, byacc, flex, gawk, install, lex, ln)
6887 (make, mawk, nawk, ranlib, yacc): Similarly, move to...
6888 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4: here.
6889 * lib/freeze.mk (ETAGS_FOR_M4, ETAGS_FOR_M4SUGAR)
6890 (ETAGS_FOR_AUTOCONF): New.
6891 Use it.
6893 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6895 * lib/autoconf/autoscan.m4: New file.
6896 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4: Include it.
6897 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4: Use AN_FUNCTION for all the functions
6898 that were listed in the original autoscan.list.
6899 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4: Similarly with headers.
6900 * lib/freeze.mk (autoconf_m4f_dependencies): Add autoscan.m4.
6901 (.m4.m4f): Don't pass --prepend-include, since that's done by
6902 tests/autom4te itself.
6903 * lib/autoscan/Makefile.am: Include freeze.mk.
6904 (autoscan.list): New target --this file is no longer a source.
6905 (autoscan.pre): New file.
6907 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6909 * bin/autoscan.in (@kinds): Make them singular.
6910 Adjust all uses.
6911 (&init_tables): When --debug, report the list of rules to ease
6912 tracking changes in autoscan.list.
6913 * lib/autoscan/autoscan.list (function): Strip comments, sort.
6915 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6917 * lib/autoscan/functions, lib/autoscan/headers,
6918 * lib/autoscan/identifiers, lib/autoscan/makevars,
6919 * lib/autoscan/programs: Merge into...
6920 * lib/autoscan/autoscan.list: this.
6921 * bin/autoscan.in (&init_tables): Adjust.
6923 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6925 * lib/autoscan/functions, lib/autoscan/headers,
6926 * lib/autoscan/identifiers, lib/autoscan/makevars,
6927 * lib/autoscan/programs: Make the `kind' explicit, i.e., each
6928 `functions' line is now prefixed with `function:'.
6929 * bin/autoscan.in (&init_tables): Adjust.
6931 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6933 From now on, autoscan files must always map a macro name to a
6934 word: there is no `default' macro for autoscan.
6936 * bin/autoscan.in (&init_tables): Reject entries with no macro at
6937 all.
6938 * lib/autoscan/functions, lib/autoscan/headers: Make the macro
6939 explicit.
6941 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6943 * bin/autoscan.in (%c_keywords): Remove.
6944 (&used): Keep only track of the words we might be interested in.
6945 (&output_kind): It is no longer needed to look for non active
6946 checks.
6948 2002-09-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6950 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC): New, stolen from
6951 jm_FUNC_MBRTOWC, by Paul Eggert, from the Coreutils 4.5.1.
6952 * lib/autoscan/functions: Adjust.
6953 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Adjust.
6955 2002-09-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6957 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Some about mv
6958 from /tmp.
6959 Thanks to Bill Moseley and Paul Eggert.
6960 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): $2 is the directory into which
6961 the tmpdir must be created.
6962 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Have the tmp
6963 dir be in the build tree, instead of $TMPDIR.
6965 2002-09-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6967 * bin/autoscan.in: Improve the comments.
6968 (&parse_args): Drop obsolete undocumented options.
6969 (&output_kind): Output warnings.
6970 * lib/autoscan/functions: (dcgettext): Now trigger AM_GNU_GETTEXT.
6971 (getwd): Trigger a warning.
6973 2002-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6975 * bin/autoreconf.in: Clarify that -s is meaningless without -i.
6976 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
6977 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Likewise.
6979 2002-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6981 Single suffix rules and seperated dependencies are not portable.
6983 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Update.
6984 (Limitations of Make): Some about `Single Suffix Rules and
6985 Separated Dependencies'.
6986 * bin/Makefile.am (autoconf, autoheader, autoreconf, autoupdate)
6987 (ifnames, autoscan, autom4te): Un-factor into several rules.
6989 2002-09-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6991 * BUGS (Interoperability bugs): New section. Mention libtool
6992 1.4.2, configure.ac, and AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR interoperability bug.
6994 2002-09-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6996 Fix a portability bug reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz: Solaris 8
6997 make handles suffix-rules differently from GNU make.
6999 * bin/Makefile.am (SUFFIXES, .in): Remove.
7000 (autoconf autoheader autoreconf autoupdate ifnames autoscan autom4te):
7001 Move the body of the old .in rule here.
7003 2002-09-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7005 i960 compilers create `b.out' files by default.
7006 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
7008 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT): Remove b.out files.
7009 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Adjust to b.out.
7011 2002-09-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7013 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Remove obsolete
7014 reference to `struct timezone' in the description of
7015 AC_HEADER_TIME.
7017 2002-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7019 Version 2.54.
7021 * config/config.sub, config/config.guess: Update.
7022 * Makefile.maint: Update from bits of the Coreutils 4.5.1.
7023 * Makefile.am: Adjust.
7025 2002-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7027 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Suggest
7028 reading config.log when the compiler is rejected.
7029 Suggested by Guido Draheim.
7031 2002-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7033 * bin/autoreconf.in: Don't use Cwd::chdir, since in its internals
7034 (chdir_init) might hang when stat'ing mounted directories.
7035 Reported by Vance Shipley.
7037 2002-09-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7039 * bin/autoscan.in (&parse_args): Pass a reference to the lists, not
7040 the lists.
7042 2002-09-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7044 * doc/autoconf.texi (Defining Symbols): Present two different
7045 prototypes for AC_DEFINE and AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED to emphasize the
7046 difference between 1 argument calls, and 2-3 argument calls.
7048 2002-09-12 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
7050 * doc/autoconf.texi: Review grammar and punctuation.
7052 2002-09-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7054 * doc/autoconf.texi: Fix minor formatting, spelling, and
7055 grammatical typos.
7056 (Defining Symbols): Explain that AC_DEFINE(var) defaults to 1, but
7057 AC_DEFINE(var,,description) does not; and the AC_DEFINE(var) case
7058 is obsolescent.
7060 2002-09-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7062 * doc/autoconf.texi (Questions): Rename as...
7063 (FAQ): this.
7064 (Defining Directories): New.
7066 2002-09-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7068 * doc/autoconf.texi (Making testsuite Scripts): Update.
7069 Suggested by Nishio Futoshi.
7071 2002-09-09 Koji Arai <JCA02266@nifty.ne.jp>
7073 * doc/autoconf.texi (Making testsuite Scripts): Use `@@' where a
7074 plain `@' is wanted.
7076 2002-09-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7078 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Keep the
7079 `duplicates', since the algorithm was too naive and could keep
7080 `--prefix=1 --prefix=2 --prefix=1' as `--prefix=1 --prefix=2', and
7081 keep `--prefix foo --prefix bar' as `--prefix foo bar'.
7082 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
7083 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Exercise these
7084 cases.
7086 2002-09-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7088 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG): Use $srcdir when
7089 looking for a replacement file.
7090 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CHECK_DECLS): Check that the
7091 directory is relative.
7092 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Functions): Clarify the replacement
7093 directory definition.
7094 Reported by Andreas Schwab and Jim Meyering.
7096 2002-09-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7098 * doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Clarify what
7099 precious variables are.
7100 Suggested by Pontus Skoeld.
7102 2002-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7104 * bin/Makefile.am (autoconf, autoheader, autoreconf, autoupdate)
7105 (ifnames, autoscan, autom4te): Since we don't only depend on
7106 configure.ac variables (such as VERSION etc.), but also on prefix
7107 and so forth, depend on Makefile, not configure.ac.
7108 Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
7109 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Adjust.
7111 2002-09-05 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
7113 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): HP-UX trailing backslashes
7114 doesn't seem to be confined to ia64, just say "some versions".
7116 2002-09-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7118 * Makefile.am, doc/Makefile.am: Remove pdf targets, handled by
7119 Automake 1.6c.
7120 * Makefile.am (maintainer-clean-local): Remove.
7121 (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Remove COPYING.
7123 2002-09-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7125 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Commands): Remove obsolete
7126 example for AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE. Problem reported by Marcus
7127 Brinkmann.
7129 2002-09-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7131 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.53d.
7132 * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Require 1.6c, i.e., CVS Automake
7133 as of today, on Automake's team suggestion.
7135 2002-09-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7137 Version 2.53c.
7139 2002-09-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7141 * bin/autom4te.in (parse_args): Don't honor AUTOM4TE_PATH and
7142 SITE_MACRO_DIR.
7143 * configure.ac: Disable SITE_MACRO_DIR.
7145 2002-09-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@lucent.com>
7147 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_SYS_POSIX_TERMIOS): Reflect renaming: s/am/ac/,
7148 i.e., change am_cv_sys_posix_termios to ac_cv_sys_posix_termios.
7149 Also, tweak grammar: s/make sure to/be sure to/.
7151 2002-09-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7153 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Explain why logical
7154 directory names are generally preferable to physical names.
7156 2002-09-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7158 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&update_file): s/die/error/.
7159 Reported by Raja R. Harinath.
7160 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoscan.in,
7161 * bin/autoupdate.in: Use error instead of die.
7163 2002-09-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7165 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_egrep, au_exclude_egrep): Use
7166 ordinary shell concatenation rather than echo+tr+sed command that
7167 runs afoul of a long-line-related sed bug in Solaris 8.
7169 * bin/autoheader.in (parse_args): --warning -> --warnings.
7171 * bin/autoconf.as: Work even if "ls" outputs "FOO not found" to
7172 stdout, as traditional "ls" does.
7173 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT,
7174 _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O): Likewise.
7175 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Add "ls".
7177 * bin/autoconf.as: Add --prepend-include option. This patch was
7178 applied to bin/autoconf.in in the 2002-07-17 patch by Mark D. Roth,
7179 but bin/autoconf.in is generated automatically from bin/autoconf.as.
7181 * bin/autoconf.in, configure: Regenerate.
7183 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Mention
7184 ENV, MAIL, MAILPATH, PS1, PS2, PS4. Index PWD.
7186 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Unset ENV, MAIL,
7187 MAILPATH and set PS1, PS2, PS4 to default values, to work
7188 around bug in pre-3.0 UWIN ksh reported by Bruce Lilly.
7189 For LC_ALL etc, first try to set to "C" as POSIX requires and as
7190 the Autoconf documentation specifies; fall back to "unset" only if
7191 this fails. Use a shell for-loop for this rather than an m4 loop,
7192 to shorten the output script.
7194 2002-08-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7196 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Mention POSIX
7197 1003.1-2001's requirements for CDPATH. Give a simpler workaround
7198 for the CDPATH problem. Document PWD.
7199 (Limitations of Builtins): Document the problem that "cd $foo" and
7200 "ls $foo" may refer to different directories in shells conforming
7201 to POSIX 1003.1-2001. Use PS1 rather than CDPATH for "unset"
7202 example, since the old example is now out of date.
7204 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Reject FOO if "cd
7205 FOO" and "ls FOO" talk about different directories; this catches
7206 problems when POSIX 1003.1-2001 "cd" fails due to symlink
7207 spaghetti.
7209 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Use AS_UNSET instead
7210 of rolling our own unset.
7211 (_AS_PREPARE): $as_unset CDPATH instead of AS_UNSETting it, since
7212 in practice we needn't worry about CDPATH if unset doesn't work.
7214 * Makefile.in, aclocal.m4, bin/Makefile.in,
7215 config/Makefile.in, doc/Makefile.in, lib/Makefile.in,
7216 lib/Autom4te/Makefile.in, lib/autoconf/Makefile.in,
7217 lib/autoscan/Makefile.in, lib/autotest/Makefile.in,
7218 lib/emacs/Makefile.in, lib/m4sugar/Makefile.in, man/Makefile.in,
7219 tests/Makefile.in: Regenerate with Automake 1.6.3.
7221 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/mkinstalldirs:
7222 Update.
7224 * configure: Regenerate with self.
7226 2002-08-30 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
7228 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Notes on "cc"
7229 default output.
7231 2002-08-29 Rainer Orth <ro@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
7233 * bin/autom4te.in (Request::load): Correctly test for "do" read
7234 failure.
7236 2002-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7238 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&xqx): New.
7239 (&xsystem): Use WIFEXITED and WEXITSTATUS instead of decoding $? by
7240 hand, which is not portable.
7241 (&error): New.
7242 * bin/autom4te.in: Use them.
7243 Use &error instead of die.
7244 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4_warn, m4_require: circular dependencies):
7245 Adjust.
7247 2002-08-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7249 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_PROG_F77): Remove fc from the
7250 default list of compilers to try, since it was long ago superseded
7251 by the ksh fc builtin. Suggested by Steven G. Johnson.
7253 2002-07-31 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7255 * doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te): End the option table,
7256 fixing a bug introduced by the previous patch.
7257 (Limitations of Make): Add a 'target lookup' subentry in the
7258 'VPATH' entry. Rewrite all `make' occurences as `@command{make}'.
7260 2002-07-29 Mark D. Roth <roth@feep.net>
7262 * bin/autom4te.in: Remove --include-envvar and --site-macro-subdir
7263 options and use $AUTOM4TE_PATH.
7264 * doc/autoconf.texi: Remove documentation of autom4te
7265 --include-envvar and --site-macro-subdir options and document
7266 use of $AUTOM4TE_PATH.
7267 * lib/autom4te.in: Remove --include-envvar and --site-macro-subdir
7268 arguments from each language section.
7270 2002-07-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7272 * doc/install.texi: Include copyright symbol in copyright notice.
7274 * Makefile.am (MAKEINFO): Remove; it's a user-specified macro.
7275 Replace with:
7276 (AM_MAKEINFOFLAGS): New macro.
7277 * doc/Makefile.am (MAKEINFO, AM_MAKEINFOFLAGS): Likewise.
7278 * Makefile.am (INSTALL): Use the new macros.
7279 Use -o rather than --output, since "missing" does not grok --output.
7281 2002-07-25 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7283 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Escaped newlines in
7284 comments do not always work. Never trust the exit status of
7285 `make -k'.
7287 2002-07-24 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
7289 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make, Making testsuite Scripts):
7290 Untabify, since tabs are not enjoyed by texi2dvi and makeinfo.
7292 2002-07-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7294 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_SEPARATOR_PREPARE):
7295 Use PATH="/nonexistent;.", not PATH=".;.", as FreeBSD ksh2002
7296 apparently treats PATH="nonexistent" as if it contained ".".
7297 Bug reported by Stefan `Sec' Zehl.
7299 2002-07-22 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7301 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Mention the special
7302 handling of the obj/ directory by BSD make.
7304 2002-07-20 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
7306 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Add HP-UX IA-64 trailing
7307 backslashes.
7309 2002-07-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7311 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): `exit'.
7312 (Programming in M4sh): Ethymology of M4sh.
7314 2002-07-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7316 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_LIBOBJ vs LIBOBJS): More about $U.
7318 2002-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7320 Version 2.53b.
7322 2002-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7324 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub: Update.
7326 2002-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7328 Handle LIBOBJS and LTLIBOBJS once for all, including Libtool's and
7329 Automake's parts.
7331 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJS_NORMALIZE): New.
7332 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_PRE): Call it.
7333 * tests/semantics.at (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Adjust.
7335 2002-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>,
7336 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7338 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): Install
7339 _AC_AM_CONFIG_HEADER_HOOK for Automake 1.7.
7341 2002-07-17 Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
7343 * doc/autoconf.texi (Initializing configure): Clarify the
7344 description of the tarname default.
7346 2002-07-17 Andreas Buening <andreas.buening@nexgo.de>
7348 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_FORK): Don't set
7349 ac_cv_func_fork_works before running _AC_FUNC_FORK, do it if the
7350 latter was not run.
7352 2002-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7354 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (find_file): Browse the directories in
7355 the order they are given.
7357 2002-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7359 * tests/wrapsh.as, tests/wrappl.as: Merge into...
7360 * tests/wrapper.as: this.
7361 * tests/Makefile.am, configure.ac: Adjust.
7363 2002-07-17 Mark D. Roth <roth@feep.net>
7365 * configure.ac: Add --enable-site-macro-dir option.
7366 * bin/Makefile.am: Expand @SITE_MACRO_DIR@.
7367 * bin/autom4te.in: Add --prepend-include, --include-envvar, and
7368 --site-macro-subdir options.
7369 * bin/autoconf.in: Add --prepend-include option.
7370 * bin/autoheader.in: Add --prepend-include option.
7371 * bin/autoreconf.in: Add --prepend-include option.
7372 * bin/autoscan.in: Add --prepend-include option.
7373 * bin/autoupdate.in: Add --prepend-include option.
7374 * doc/autoconf.texi: Document use of $AC_MACRO_PATH and site
7375 macro directory, remove note that include path directories are
7376 used in reverse order, and document --prepend-include option.
7377 * lib/autom4te.in: Use --prepend-include instead of --include.
7378 * tests/wrapsh.in: Use --prepend-include instead of --include.
7380 2002-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7382 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): `_' is allowed in
7383 tarnames.
7384 * doc/autoconf.texi (Initializing configure): Adjust.
7386 2002-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7388 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_REALLOC, _AC_FUNC_REALLOC)
7389 (_AC_FUNC_MALLOC): New.
7390 (AC_FUNC_MALLOC): Use the latter.
7391 Define HAVE_MALLOC to 0 if broken.
7392 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Adjust.
7394 2002-07-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7396 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BACKSLASH_A): New.
7397 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Adjust.
7399 2002-07-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7401 * doc/autoconf.texi: Properly set the ``header'' part.
7403 2002-07-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7405 * doc/autoconf.texi (Systemology): Some about Darwin.
7407 2002-07-09 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7409 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_CYGWIN, AC_EMXOS2, AC_MINGW32):
7410 Don't use AC_REQUIRE in AU_DEFUN.
7412 2002-07-09 Art Haas <ahaas@neosoft.com>
7414 * doc/autoconf.texi: Use @enddots{} or @dots{} where appropriate.
7416 2002-07-02 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7418 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
7419 bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in, lib/Autom4te/General.pm,
7420 lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm, lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Add local variables
7421 so that Emacs setups GNU style for perl-mode and cperl-mode.
7423 2002-06-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7425 * config/install-sh: Quote $src. Prefer || to test's -o option,
7426 as per "Limitations of Builtins".
7427 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_ENV): Likewise, for && vs test -a.
7428 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
7430 * tests/mktests.sh: Use grep instead of fgrep, as per
7431 "Limitations of Builtins".
7433 2002-06-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7435 * tests/wrapsh.as (AUTOCONF, AUTOHEADER, AUTOM4TE, AUTOM4TE_CFG,
7436 autom4te_perllibdir): Set to top build dir or src dir as appropriate,
7437 so that we consistently test the just-built programs.
7438 * tests/wrappl.as: Likewise.
7440 2002-06-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7442 * bin/autoconf.as (AUTOM4TE): Default to a fully qualified path
7443 name, so that symlinks to 'autoconf' work properly. Bug reported
7444 by Bruno Haible.
7445 * bin/autoheader.in (AUTOM4TE): Likewise.
7446 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoconf, autoheader): Likewise.
7447 * bin/autoscan.in (autom4te): Likewise.
7448 * bin/autoupdate.in (autom4te): Likewise.
7450 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ_FNMATCH): Also check for
7451 btowc, to fix a portability bug with diffutils-2.8.2/lib/fnmatch.c
7452 on Solaris 2.5.1.
7454 2002-06-11 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
7456 * doc/autoconf.texi: Add more dir entries.
7458 2002-06-10 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7460 * bin/autom4te.in ($cache): Don't define using `$me', the name
7461 of the cache should not depend on the name under which autom4te
7462 was installed.
7464 2002-06-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7466 * tests/tools.at (autoconf: forbidden tokens, basic)
7467 (autoconf: forbidden tokens, exceptions): Adjust to the change of
7468 words in autom4te.in.
7470 2002-06-07 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
7472 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C)): Use
7473 _AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_F77_HOOKS.
7475 2002-06-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7477 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNC_FNMATCH): Typo,
7478 rename as...
7479 (AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH): this.
7480 * tests/mktests.sh (exclude_list): Exclude AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH,
7481 AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU.
7483 2002-06-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7485 * doc/autoconf.texi (Systemology): Point to Tru64 docs, and the
7486 Rosetta Stone for Unix.
7488 2002-06-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7490 * bin/autom4te.in (warn_forbidden): When rejecting a token,
7491 suggest m4_pattern_allow.
7492 Suggested by Adam J. Richter.
7494 2002-06-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7496 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Initialize
7497 ac_config_libobj_dir.
7498 (AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR): New.
7499 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_FNMATCH): Split into...
7500 (_AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_IF, _AC_LIBOBJ_FNMATCH): these.
7501 Use ac_config_libobj_dir to find the replacement files.
7502 (AC_FUNC_FNMATCH, AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU): Split into...
7503 (AC_FUNC_FNMATCH, AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU, AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH)
7504 (AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH_GNU): these.
7505 (AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG): Use ac_config_libobj_dir.
7506 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions, Generic Functions): Adjust.
7507 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Don't check
7508 AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG as it requires getloadavg.c which is not shipped.
7510 2002-06-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7512 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_LINKS): Fall back on cp
7513 if ln doesn't work.
7514 * NEWS: Likewise.
7515 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Links): Likewise.
7516 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Prefer $(LN_S) to ln -s || ln.
7518 2002-06-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7520 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/texinfo.tex:
7521 Update from masters.
7523 2002-05-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7525 * bin/autom4te.in ($m4): Do not assume that egrep and fgrep exist.
7526 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
7527 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_RUN_LOG_STDERR, AC_EGREP_CPP):
7528 Likewise.
7529 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am (check-local): Likewise.
7530 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_CONFIG_HEADER): Likewise.
7531 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (commentary only): Likewise.
7532 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT, AT_CHECK): Likewise.
7533 * lib/autotest/Makefile.am (check-local): Likewise.
7534 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am (check-local): Likewise.
7535 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CONFIGURE_AC, AT_CHECK_DEFINES): Likewise.
7536 * tests/mktests.sh (egrep): New var; use it instead of plain egrep.
7538 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_EGREP, AC_PROG_FGREP): New macros.
7539 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): Document them.
7540 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Warn that egrep and fgrep may not exist.
7541 * NEWS: Likewise.
7543 2002-05-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7545 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_TYPE_MBSTATE_T): New macro.
7546 * NEWS, doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Types): Document it.
7547 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_FNMATCH): Require it
7548 instead of AC_MBSTATE_T, which never existed.
7550 2002-05-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7552 * doc/autoconf.texi (Hosts and Cross-Compilation): Specify the
7553 version of Autoconf that is discussed.
7555 2002-05-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7557 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_PROG_F77): Remove cf77 and cft77
7558 from the default list of compilers to try. Suggested by
7559 Kate Hedstrom.
7560 * NEWS: Document the above.
7561 * doc/autoconf.texi (Fortran 77 Compiler): Don't suggest cf77.
7563 2002-05-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7565 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_MEMBER): Work correctly even if
7566 the member is itself an aggregate. Bug reported by Sergey Poznyakoff.
7567 This improves on an earlier suggestion by H. Peter Anvin.
7569 2002-05-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7571 AC_FUNC_FNMATCH now tests only for POSIX compatibility.
7572 AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU also tests for GNU extensions.
7573 Both macros now accept an optional source-dir arg.
7574 New macro AC_GNU_SOURCE to define _GNU_SOURCE.
7576 * NEWS: Document this.
7577 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions, UNIX Variants): Likewise.
7579 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_FNMATCH): New macro.
7580 (AC_FUNC_FNMATCH): Use it. Test only for POSIX conformance,
7581 not for GNU extensions; this undoes part of the 2000-11-03 change,
7582 reverting to 2.13-compatible behavior.
7583 Add new optional argument DIR.
7584 (AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU): New macro.
7586 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_GNU_SOURCE): New macro.
7588 2002-05-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7590 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_TIOCGWINSZ):
7591 Don't require AC_SYS_POSIX_TERMIOS. The test is unnecessary,
7592 and it causes a 'test' syntax error if it fails.
7593 Bug reported by Stephen Gildea.
7595 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED):
7596 If prototypes are supported, use them to check this at compile-time,
7597 instead of trying to check it at run-time. If we must do a run-time
7598 check, assume that setvbuf is standard when cross-compiling, as
7599 nonstandard setvbuf occurs only on ancient and unlikely hosts.
7600 Bug reported by Paul D. Smith.
7602 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG): Add optional
7603 argument specifying location of getloadavg.c. This removes a
7604 FIXME. This idea was taken from Jim Meyering's implementation in
7605 textutils.
7606 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Document this.
7607 Also, mention HAVE_NLIST_H rather than NLIST_STRUCT, since
7608 that's what the code does; this fixes a bug reported by
7609 Paul D. Smith.
7611 2002-05-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7613 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Rewrite to use Gettext's
7614 autopoint instead of gettextize.
7615 ($uses_alocal): Rename as...
7616 ($uses_aclocal): this.
7617 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Adjust.
7618 Suggested by Bruno Haible.
7620 2002-05-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7622 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_map_sep): New.
7624 2002-04-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7626 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Don't age aclocal.m4's input
7627 files to be 1 second older; just set them to be the same time.
7628 Also, sleep 1 second after the first aclocal, to work around
7629 problems with sub-second time stamps on the input files.
7631 2002-04-29 Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnu.org>
7633 * doc/autoconf.texi: Mention "set -e -x" lossage
7634 under node "Limitations of Builtins".
7636 2002-04-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7638 * doc/install.texi: Better wording for setting variables when
7639 running configure.
7640 From Christian Cornelssen.
7642 2002-04-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7644 * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): If testsuite itself is rewritten because
7645 of lack of $LINENO support, then the test will compare the $LINENO
7646 in testsuite vs. the lineno in the test file. This is wrong, of
7647 course.
7648 Be sure to protect it.
7649 Reported by Patrick Welche.
7651 2002-04-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7653 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsolete Macros): Typo.
7654 Reported by Vladimir Volovich.
7656 2002-04-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7658 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Don't let aclocal.m4 be older
7659 than some of the input files, hence, on the second run of aclocal,
7660 if some of its input are younger, make them older.
7661 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
7663 2002-04-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7665 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): sed and `!'.
7666 Thanks to Paul Eggert.
7668 2002-04-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7670 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Let ac_subst_files
7671 and ac_subst_vars be sh variables containing the list of
7672 AC_SUBST_FILES'ed and AC_SUBST'ed identifiers. Output them in the
7673 DEFAULT diversion.
7674 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Use them to log them.
7675 (_AC_SUBST, _AC_SUBST_SED_PROGRAM): Remove.
7676 (AC_SUBST, AC_SUBST_FILE): Instead of buliding the
7677 _AC_SUBST_SED_PROGRAM, store the list of output files/variables in
7678 _AC_SUBST_FILES and _AC_SUBST_VARS.
7679 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Adjust.
7681 2002-04-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7683 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Run automake after autoconf and
7684 autoheader, so that automake does not complain about a missing
7685 config.h.in that was to be created.
7687 2002-04-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7689 * bin/autoheader.in (parse_args): --warning takes an argument.
7690 Fixes PR/220.
7692 2002-04-22 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
7694 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_RUN_IFELSE): Remove gmon.out
7695 and bb.out when cleaning up.
7697 2002-04-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7699 Version 2.53a.
7701 2002-04-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7703 * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): Fix the Zsh skip pattern.
7705 2002-04-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7707 * doc/autoconf.texi (Pretty Help Strings): Remove a spurious
7708 comma.
7709 Reported by Gregory Giannoni.
7711 2002-04-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7713 * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): Skip the test if LINENO cannot be unset.
7714 Fixes false failures on Darwin.
7716 2002-04-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7718 * TODO, bin/autoupdate.in, doc/autoconf.texi,
7719 lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4,
7720 lib/autoconf/status.m4, lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4, tests/m4sh.at,
7721 tests/tools.at: Minor spelling and grammar fixes.
7723 2002-04-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7725 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Fix typos in yesterday's
7726 ZSH_VERSION fixes. Bug reported by Raja R Harinath.
7727 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
7728 * tests/atgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
7730 2002-04-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7732 * NEWS, TODO, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoupdate.in,
7733 doc/autoconf.texi, lib/freeze.mk, lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm,
7734 lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4, lib/autoconf/c.m4,
7735 lib/autoconf/functions.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
7736 lib/autoconf/lang.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4, lib/autoscan/identifiers,
7737 lib/autotest/general.m4, lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4, tests/atgeneral.m4,
7738 tests/atspecific.m4, tests/semantics.at, tests/torture.at:
7739 Minor spelling and grammar fixes.
7741 * doc/autoconf.texi: Follow the outline suggested in the GNU
7742 Sample Texts sections of the Texinfo 4.2 manual. Most
7743 importantly, this makes sure that the copyright notices appear in
7744 all output formats. You probably need Texinfo 4.2 to generate
7745 the manual now.
7747 Fix some bugs when using "$@" when there might be zero positional
7748 arguments in cases where this matters.
7750 * bin/autoconf.as: Rewrite so that the problem does not come up.
7751 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_CHECK_PROG): Likewise.
7752 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_OUTPUT): Likewise.
7753 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
7755 * bin/autoheader.in: Use 'case' statement to work around problem.
7756 * bin/auto4mte.in: Likewise.
7757 * bin/autoreconf.in: Likewise.
7758 * bin/autoscan.in: Likewise.
7759 * bin/autoupdate.in: Likewise.
7760 * bin/ifnames.in: Likewise.
7762 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Document the problem.
7764 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT):
7765 Use Zsh alias to work around problem.
7766 * tests/atgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
7768 * tests/c.at: We can't have zero arguments, so remove workaround
7769 that is not portable to Zsh.
7771 2002-04-19 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7773 * bin/autoupdate.in (handle_autoconf_macros): Honor AU_DEFUNs
7774 from aclocal.m4 too.
7776 2002-04-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7778 * tests/wrappl.as: New, M4sh precursor of wrappl.in.
7780 2002-04-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7782 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Install the Zsh
7783 workaround for ${1+"$@"}.
7784 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Explain it.
7785 From Oliver Kiddle and Peter Stephenson.
7787 Have M4sh perform minimal shell sanitizing.
7789 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.at (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Split the `_AS_PREPARE_*'
7790 part into...
7791 (_AS_PREPARE): this new macro.
7792 (AS_PREPARE): New.
7793 (AS_INIT): Invoke AS_SHELL_SANITIZE.
7794 * tests/m4sh.at (AT_DATA_LINENO): Use _AS_PREPARE.
7796 Adjust Autoconf and Autotest.
7798 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Don't invoke
7799 AS_SHELL_SANITIZE, AS_INIT did it, but invoke AS_PREPARE.
7800 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
7801 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS):
7802 Invoke _AS_PREPARE (not AS_PREPARE) in addition to
7803 AS_SHELL_SANITIZE.
7805 Use this M4sh to generate Autoconf's shell scripts.
7807 * tests/wrapsh.as: New, precursor of wrapsh.in.
7808 * tests/Makefile.am: Include lib/freeze.mk to get the dependencies
7809 on Autotest and M4sh.
7810 ($(TESTSUITE)): Use $(autotest_m4f_dependencies).
7811 (wrapsh.in): New target.
7812 * bin/autoconf.as: New, precursor of autoconf.in.
7813 (autoconf.in): New target.
7815 2002-04-09 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7817 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Mention the issue
7818 with indented comments in rules.
7820 2002-04-09 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
7822 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Handle empty
7823 ac_top_builddir when setting ac_abs_top_builddir.
7825 2002-04-06 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
7827 * doc/autoconf.texi (Systemology): Add link to Unix V7 online docs.
7828 (Portable Shell): Cross reference to Systemology.
7830 2002-04-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7832 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Be sure to accumulate the
7833 directories when descending in a SUBDIRS.
7834 Reported by Ezra Peisach.
7836 2002-04-04 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
7838 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_WALK): Only simplify if path
7839 contains no literal separators.
7841 2002-04-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7843 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_CONFIG_FILE, _AC_CONFIG_HEADER)
7844 (_AC_CONFIG_COMMAND, _AC_CONFIG_LINK): New.
7845 Use dnl, not the KILL diversion.
7846 Extracted from...
7847 (AC_CONFIG_FILES, AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS)
7848 (AC_CONFIG_LINKS): here.
7849 Adjust.
7850 Don't use the KILL diversion, as it kills spurious output, which
7851 results in failures being hidden.
7852 Use m4_defn where appropriate.
7853 (AC_CONFIG_IF_MEMBER): Kill the real bug: a spurious parenthesis
7854 after the second argument.
7855 Use m4_defn.
7856 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf, Autotest, M4sh): Don't pass --warning
7857 syntax, as it is provided by M4sugar.
7858 * tests/torture.at (Multiple AC_CONFIG_FILES): New.
7860 2002-04-03 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
7862 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_bmatch): Make sure m4_bregexp is not
7863 expanded if $# <= 2.
7865 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Run automake after rerunning
7866 aclocal.
7868 2002-04-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7870 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT_REJECT)
7871 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_REJECT): New.
7872 Also recognize *.bb and *.bbg as compilation byproducts.
7873 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT, _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O)
7874 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT): Use them.
7875 Fixes Debian #138666.
7877 2002-04-02 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
7879 Integrate AC_PROG_CC_STDC into AC_PROG_CC.
7881 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Rename to _AC_PROG_CC_STDC.
7882 AU_DEFUN old name. Use _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE.
7883 (AC_PROG_CC): Call _AC_PROG_CC_STDC.
7884 (AC_C_INLINE): Do not require AC_PROG_CC_STDC.
7885 (AC_C_CONST): Same.
7886 (AC_C_INLINE): Same.
7887 (AC_C_PROTOTYPES): Same. Require AC_PROG_CC instead.
7888 * doc/autoconf.texi, NEWS: Document.
7889 * tests/mktests.sh (au_exclude_list): Add AC_PROG_CC_STDC and
7890 AC_C_CROSS.
7892 2002-04-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7894 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Invoke
7895 _AS_MKDIR_P_PREPARE.
7897 2002-03-28 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
7899 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_INLINE): Test with a typedef return value,
7900 to avoid versions of HP C which don't allow that.
7902 2002-03-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7904 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BASENAME_PREPARE): New macro.
7905 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Invoke it.
7906 (AS_BASENAME): AS_REQUIRE it, and use $as_basename.
7908 2002-03-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7910 * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell): Add pointers to FAQs.
7912 2002-03-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7914 * doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction): The GNATS base moved.
7916 2002-03-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7918 * tests/m4sh.at: Don't rely on "PATH=test:$PATH test-1" working
7919 as POSIX requires, as it doesn't work with Zsh.
7920 * doc/autoconf.texi (Assignments): Document the problem.
7922 2002-03-25 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7924 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Mention more issue
7925 about VPATH, overriding of macros in sub-makes, and handling of
7926 SHELL.
7928 2002-03-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7930 * doc/autoconf.texi (Here-Documents): Mention Solaris 8 dtksh
7931 problem with here-document buffer boundaries.
7933 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Unset ENV and BASH_ENV
7934 when reinvoking the shell, to work around problems with installers
7935 who put strange things like "cd" commands in their environments.
7937 2002-03-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7939 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): s/unknow/unknown/.
7940 From Aaron Ucko.
7942 2002-03-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7944 * bin/autoscan.in (scan_file): Specify the location in `&used'
7945 invocations.
7946 From Nicolas Joly.
7948 2002-03-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7950 * doc/autoconf.texi: Adjust @code/@command, @xref/@ref usage.
7951 From Nishio Futoshi.
7953 2002-03-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7955 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_define_default, m4_fst, m4_map): New.
7957 2002-03-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7959 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Add AS_MKDIR_P.
7960 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Add mkdir section.
7962 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_MKDIR_P_PREPARE): New macro.
7963 (AS_MKDIR_P): Require it. Use mkdir -p if available, falling
7964 back on AS_DIRNAME to compute prefixes otherwise; this is
7965 roughly what mkinstalldirs does. That way, we need not have
7966 our own filename disassembler. The old disassembler did not
7967 work with Solaris 8 dtksh, which is ksh Version M-12/28/93d.
7969 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT, AT_CLEANUP):
7970 Create at_test_all by a series of assignments,
7971 not by a single assignment of a long string. The latter causes ksh
7972 version 11/16/88g to silently misbehave on OpenServer 5.0.6a,
7973 presumably because of a buffer overrun.
7975 2002-03-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7977 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (at_times_skip):
7978 Renamed from at_times. Now a boolean.
7979 ksh93 Version M-12/28/93d doesn't like 'x=times; $x'; it
7980 says 'times: not found'.
7982 2002-03-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7984 * bin/autoreconf.in (&study_gettextize): New.
7985 (&autoreconf): Handle newest gettextize.
7986 Rerun aclocal if needed.
7987 Suggested by Andreas Schwab.
7989 2002-03-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7991 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): More about IFS.
7993 2002-03-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7995 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): New.
7996 Add information about stdint.h and inttypes.h from Paul Eggert.
7998 2002-03-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8000 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Some about `cp
8001 -p'.
8002 From Bob Proulx.
8004 2002-03-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8006 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_BASENAME_EXPR): AS_REQUIRE, not
8007 m4_require.
8009 2002-03-11 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
8011 * configure.ac: Explicitly check for EMACS since AM_PATH_LISPDIR
8012 does not do it if --with-lispdir is given.
8014 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8016 Version 2.53.
8018 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8020 * doc/autoconf.texi (Subdirectories): Clarify that the
8021 subdirectory should exist.
8023 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8025 * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): 1.6.
8027 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8029 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_m4): Do not foreach with `$_' as it
8030 aliases the actual variables, and modifications of the former
8031 affect the latter.
8033 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8035 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_m4): Protect us from corrupted file
8036 because of C-c: have m4 output in tmp files, then mv them.
8038 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8040 * bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in,
8041 * bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in,
8042 * bin/ifnames.in: Copyright update.
8044 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8046 * doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te): New.
8048 2002-03-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8050 * doc/autoconf.texi (Specifying Names): Clarification suggested by
8051 Kevin Ryde.
8053 2002-03-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8055 Version 2.52i.
8057 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8059 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_LIBOBJ vs. LIBOBJS): New.
8060 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_INIT): More informative error
8061 message for LIBOBJ.
8063 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8065 * lib/freeze.mk ($(build_libdir)/m4sugar/version.m4): New, for
8066 parallel builds.
8068 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8070 * doc/autoconf.texi (Transforming Names): Equality between target
8071 and host is irrelevant.
8072 (Specifying Names, Canonicalizing): Remove all references to the
8073 backward compatibility hooks. Rather, collect them all into...
8074 (Hosts and Cross-Compilation): this new section.
8075 * doc/install.texi (System Type): Ditto.
8076 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CANONICAL_HOST): Explicitly state
8077 that `--host' implies cross-compilation.
8079 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8081 * doc/autoconf.texi (Evaluation Macros): New.
8082 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_lquote): Remove, it is totally
8083 useless.
8084 (_m4_foreach): Define the variant with immediate evaluation so
8085 that it contains exactly the items, not an expression which
8086 evaluation is the current item.
8087 (m4_re_string, m4_re_word): Don't over quote them.
8089 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8091 Instead of having stacking `shift's evaluated at the end, let
8092 `foreach' loops immediately evaluate them.
8094 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_quote, m4_dquote): Use $@ rather than
8095 $*. This is the n-th time I change my mind, but hopefully this is
8096 the last...
8097 (m4_lquote): New.
8098 (m4_text_wrap): Use m4_foreach, which is finally correct _and_
8099 efficient.
8100 (m4_foreach_quoted, m4_car_quoted, _m4_foreach_quoted): Remove, as
8101 it was only a hack for m4_text_wrap.
8102 (m4_car2): Remove, replaced by...
8103 (m4_cdr): New.
8104 (_m4_foreach): Adjust.
8105 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Adjust, and use
8106 m4_bpatsubst for clarification.
8108 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8110 * doc/autoconf.texi (Changequote is Evil): New.
8112 2002-03-03 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
8114 * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell): Mention 32-byte #! length limit
8115 on old systems like SunOS.
8117 2002-03-01 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
8119 * lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/fortran.m4,
8120 lib/autoconf/functions.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
8121 lib/autoconf/headers.m4, lib/autoconf/lang.m4,
8122 lib/autoconf/programs.m4, lib/autoconf/status.m4: Improve spelling
8123 of messages.
8125 2002-02-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8127 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Suggest a title to the
8128 message to be sent.
8130 2002-02-28 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
8132 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add va_copy and va_list.
8134 2002-02-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8136 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_SETPGRP): Fix the test.
8137 From Akinori Musha.
8139 2002-02-13 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
8141 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm (getline, getlines): New functions,
8142 translate \r\n to \n.
8144 2002-02-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8146 Version 2.52h.
8148 2002-02-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8150 Fix Autoconf PR/209.
8151 Also reported by Frank Denis.
8153 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_WALK): Don't over quote.
8155 2002-02-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8157 Fix Autoconf PR/207:
8158 AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM fails with dashed program names
8160 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM): Just use a fresh
8161 variable when looking for the prefix program.
8162 Now it also works for shell variables.
8164 2002-02-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8166 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): More about
8167 case/esac.
8169 2002-02-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8171 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS): Don't output empty
8172 case/esac, some shells don't support it.
8173 Reported by Zack Weinberg.
8174 * tests/torture.at (AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS with empty commands): New.
8176 2002-02-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8178 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): When handling --keywords, be
8179 sure not to introduce newlines in at_groups.
8180 * lib/autotest/Makefile.am (autotest.m4f): Typo.
8182 2002-02-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8184 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Skip if aclocal
8185 is not available.
8187 2002-02-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8189 * doc/autoconf.texi (Specific Compiler Characteristics):
8190 Describe HP-UX cc bug workaround more accurately.
8191 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Cast to long,
8192 not unsigned long.
8193 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Check non-GCC
8194 cross-compilers, too. This undoes some of the most recent change
8195 to this file.
8197 2002-02-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8199 * tests/Makefile.am (check_SCRIPTS): Use it, instead of WRAPPERS,
8200 to make sure they are up to date when `check' is run.
8202 2002-02-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8204 * doc/autoconf.texi (Making testsuite Scripts): Document
8205 package.m4.
8207 2002-02-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8209 * lib/freeze.mk: New.
8211 2002-02-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8213 Implement `autom4te --freeze'.
8215 * bin/autom4te.in (&freeze): New.
8216 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autotest/general.m4,
8217 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Don't include files given by autom4te.
8219 2002-02-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8221 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Implement `frozen files are
8222 optional are the sum of the previous files on the command line'.
8223 Also, pass `--reload-state=' on them, so...
8224 (handle_m4): don't.
8225 * lib/autom4te.in (Autotest, Autoconf): Rely on M4sh.
8226 (M4sh): Rely on M4sugar.
8227 (Autotest, M4sh, M4sugar): Use frozen files.
8229 2002-01-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8231 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): Accept $4.
8232 * doc/autoconf.texi (Initializing configure): Adjust.
8234 2002-01-30 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8236 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): Map non
8237 alphanumeric to `-' instead of `_'.
8239 2002-01-30 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8241 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Split into two tests: one
8242 for plain code, the other for cross-compilation code. The latter
8243 is now run with GCC only.
8244 * doc/autoconf.texi (Compilers and Preprocessors): New.
8246 2002-01-30 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8248 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): Support pre-defined
8249 values.
8250 * doc/autoconf.texi (Initializing configure): Explain how to
8251 change AC_INIT default values.
8253 2002-01-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8255 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Use configure.in,
8256 so that aclocal 1.4 works.
8257 Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz and Larry Schmitt.
8259 2002-01-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8261 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): AT_CLEANUP no longer
8262 needs an argument.
8264 2002-01-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8266 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't be ridiculous: adjust
8267 AUTOTEST_PATH *after* it was set.
8268 Don't put `.' in the PATH: the user should be precise and `./' if
8269 needed. In addition, given that the test suite does some `cd', if
8270 `.' is in the path, the `tested programs' sections will report
8271 programs found in the test suite's directory, while during the
8272 tests (performed in their own directory), these programs are no
8273 longer visible. In other words, the results is confusing and
8274 useless.
8275 * tests/m4sh.at: Adjust: don't rely on `.' being in the PATH.
8277 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8279 Version 2.52g.
8281 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8283 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoscan.in,
8284 * doc/autoconf.texi: Finally add Akim as an author.
8286 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8288 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Use PATH_SEPARATOR.
8289 (_AS_PATH_SEPARATOR_PREPARE): Don't expect $SHELL to be
8290 Bourne. Use /bin/sh.
8291 From Andreas Buening.
8293 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8295 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/texinfo.tex:
8296 Update from masters.
8298 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8300 * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): 1.5b.
8301 * config/auxdir.m4, config/cond.m4, config/depend.m4,
8302 * config/init.m4, config/install-sh.m4, config/lispdir.m4,
8303 * config/missing.m4, config/sanity.m4, config/select.m4,
8304 * config/strip.m4: Remove, to ease sync'ing with any version of
8305 Automake.
8307 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8309 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS)
8310 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Support -n as --no-create, as documented.
8311 Reported by Geir Ove Myhr.
8313 2002-01-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8315 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MMAP): #Undef malloc.
8317 2002-01-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8319 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (getopt): Use a more GNUish error
8320 message on invalid options.
8321 * bin/autom4te.in (parse_args): Don't use
8322 Autoconf::General::getopt with non valid options.
8324 2002-01-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@lucent.com>
8326 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Initialize
8327 $ac_cv_exeext so we don't use an old, invalid, cached value.
8329 2002-01-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8331 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_STRNLEN): New, from Jim
8332 Meyering.
8333 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Document the strnlen
8334 limitation.
8335 (Particular Functions): Document AC_FUNC_STRNLEN.
8336 * lib/autoscan/functions: Adjust.
8338 2002-01-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8340 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Don't create
8341 package.m4, since is really depends upon configure.ac, not
8342 configure.
8343 * doc/autoconf.texi (testsuite Scripts): Adjust.
8344 * tests/Makefile.am (package.m4): New.
8345 EXTRA_DIST it since its a source.
8347 2002-01-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8349 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Move the AC_SUBST
8350 of PACKAGE_NAME, PACKAGE_TARNAME, PACKAGE_VERSION, PACKAGE_STRING,
8351 and PACKAGE_BUGREPORT from here...
8352 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): to here, since it is unrelated to the
8353 arguments.
8354 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): AC_DEFINE these symbols.
8355 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Use AT_PACKAGE_*, not PACKAGE_*.
8356 (AT_INIT): No longer catch `^PACKAGE_(BUGREPORT|STRING)$'.
8357 * tests/tools.at (autoheader): Adjust.
8358 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_DEFINES): Adjust.
8360 2002-01-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8362 * bin/autoscan.in (scan_file): Use `&used'.
8364 2002-01-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8366 * doc/autoconf.texi (Output): Improved wording regarding use of
8367 AC_OUTPUT.
8368 From Olly Betts.
8370 2001-12-18 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
8372 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add notes on sscanf
8373 sometimes needing writable input.
8375 2001-12-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@lucent.com>
8377 * doc/autoconf.texi (New Macros): Tweak wording.
8379 2001-12-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8381 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): We cleaning up the
8382 trailing files, don't apply `-rf' to files which might not be
8383 created by configure (core, core.*, and *.core), but just `rm -f'.
8384 Suggested by Jonathan Kamens.
8386 2001-12-14 Aaron M. Ucko <amu@alum.mit.edu>
8388 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Avoid duplicates in `$ac_configure_args'.
8390 2001-12-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8392 * Makefile.am (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Remove configure.
8394 2001-12-13 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
8396 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Rename buildpath to
8397 abs_builddir, top_buildpath to abs_top_builddir, srcpath to
8398 abs_srcdir, top_srcpath to abs_top_srcdir.
8399 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Adjust.
8400 * NEWS, doc/autoconf.texi, lib/autoconf/autotest.m4,
8401 * tests/atspecific.m4, tests/autoreconf.in, tests/tools.at,
8402 * tests/wrappl.in, tests/wrapsh.in: Adjust.
8404 2001-12-12 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
8406 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_F77_V_OUTPUT): Fix failed
8407 C/Fortran linking on HP/UX, by extracting the Fortran library
8408 search path from the LPATH line in the $F77 -v output.
8410 2001-12-12 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
8412 * doc/autoconf.texi (File Descriptors): Use a clearer layout for the
8413 forbidden file descriptors table.
8415 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8417 * bin/autoscan.in (%c_keywords): Build it at top level.
8418 Map to 1 in order to simplify its uses.
8420 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8422 * bin/autoscan.in (&scan_c_file, &scan_sh_file, &scan_makefile):
8423 Remove $filepath, useless.
8424 (&scan_makefile): Don't remove the $(FOO), ${FOO} and @FOO@
8425 variables, they are really part of the tokens.
8426 Split the input line on spaces and then look for tokens.
8427 Now autoscan ceases to ask for AC_PROG_LEX for the package Bison
8428 because of `lex$U.$(OBJEXT)'.
8429 (&scan_files): Use "@list" instead of join.
8430 * doc/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): Add *.fns.
8432 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8434 * tests/autoreconf.in, tests/autom4te.in, tests/autoupdate.in:
8435 Remove, replaced by...
8436 * tests/wrappl.in: Be common for all the Perl executables.
8437 In particular autoscan and autoheader want -I.
8438 * configure.ac: Adjust.
8439 * lib/autoscan/headers: errno.h is portable.
8441 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8443 * bin/autoscan.in (used): New.
8444 Use it.
8446 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8448 * bin/autoscan.in (&scan_c_file): Better parsing of CPP
8449 directives.
8450 (&scan_sh_file): Remove a duplicate pattern.
8451 (&check_configure_ac): Use long options.
8452 * lib/autoscan/headers (alloca.h): Check with AC_FUNC_ALLOCA.
8454 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8456 * bin/autoscan.in (scan_c_file): Fix the handling of C comments.
8457 Before, having a line containing the opening of a multi line
8458 comment made the whole line be ignored.
8460 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8462 * doc/autoconf.texi (Using an Autotest Test Suite): New.
8463 (testsuite Scripts): Be one of its subsection.
8464 (Autotest Logs): New.
8466 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8468 Test groups are now run two directories deeper.
8470 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Replace srcdir,
8471 top_srcdir and top_builddir with at_srcdir, at_top_srcdir and
8472 at_top_builddir.
8473 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Compute srcdir,
8474 top_srcdir, builddir and top_builddir.
8475 Use `at_*dir' relatively to the directory containing the
8476 suite, use `*dir' when relatively to the current group dir.
8478 2001-11-25 Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
8480 * doc/autoconf.texi, TODO, lib/autoconf/fortran.m4,
8481 lib/autoconf/functions.m4, lib/autoconf/headers.m4,
8482 tests/atgeneral.m4, tests/tools.at, tests/atspecific.m4: Fix
8483 spelling errors.
8485 2001-11-22 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
8487 * doc/autoconf.texi (Using System Type): Add an example of `case
8488 $host' usage so people quit using `case $target' everywhere.
8490 2001-11-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8492 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Englishoes
8493 spotted by Jim Meyering.
8495 2001-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8497 This patch implements a `long double' suggestion by Oliver Kiddle.
8499 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY(C)): Make the array
8500 static, to catch errors if the value isn't known at compile-time
8501 and the compiler supports dynamic arrays. Change its name from
8502 `_array_' to `test_array' to avoid potential name clashes.
8503 (AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE): Make it a compile-time test, not a run-time
8504 test. Do not define HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE if `long double' is no
8505 better than double. Catch a bug in GCC 2.95.2 x86.
8506 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Document the above.
8507 * NEWS: Likewise.
8509 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8511 * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): Protect from autom4te's substitution by
8512 hand.
8513 * tests/tools.at: Don't protect dnl, AT_DATA_M4SH does.
8515 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8517 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): After having run the test
8518 group, go back to the initial directory, not to at_suite_dir.
8520 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8522 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_DATA_M4SUGAR, AT_DATA_M4SH)
8523 (AT_DATA_AUTOCONF): Also protect @&t@ from autom4te.
8524 (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF, AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER): Pass no --include
8525 option.
8526 (AT_CHECK_CONFIGURE): Use absolute paths.
8527 (_AT_CHECK_AC_MACRO): Create aclocal.m4 with AC_STATE_SAVE in it.
8528 The problem is still the old one: there is no means in M4 (that I
8529 know about) to create a defining macro, because there is no means
8530 to create `$1' etc., therefore, the defining macro ``swallows''
8531 all the arguments meant to the defined macro.
8533 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8535 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_DATA_AUTOCONF): New.
8536 (AT_CONFIGURE_AC): Output the definition of AC_STATE_SAVE in
8537 configure.ac.
8538 * tests/aclocal.m4: Remove, as it is no longer used.
8540 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8542 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Change `tests?' into `groups?' in
8543 variable names when referring to a single test group, or to
8544 `suite' when referring to the whole test suite.
8545 `at_last_test' is removed: m4 compute at_format itself.
8546 (at_stdout, at_stder1, at_stderr): New variables.
8547 (AT_CHECK): Use them.
8549 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8551 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Be sure to put `.', relative,
8552 in PATH.
8553 Create `testsuite.dir/003/run' instead of `testsuite.003'.
8554 Do it as soon as a test fails, don't wait till the end of the test
8555 suite.
8556 Don't remove $as_me.[0-9]*, since these files no longer exist.
8558 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8560 * tests/tools.at: Use absolute paths, since we are no longer run
8561 in place.
8563 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8565 Now that tests are running in their own private dir, there is no
8566 need to list the files to remove at the end of tests groups.
8568 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_CLEANUP_FILE, AT_CLEANUP_FILES):
8569 (AT_data_files, at_data_files): Remove.
8570 (AT_CLEANUP, AT_DATA): Simplify.
8571 (AT_INIT): Adjust.
8572 Remove the group dir if !debug && !failed.
8573 * tests/atspecific.m4: Adjust.
8575 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8577 Start a new layout for Autotest: `testsuite' creates
8578 `testsuite.dir' in which the at-check-line etc. files are to be
8579 found, and `testsuite.dir/003' where the test group 3 is run.
8581 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): at_tests_dir,
8582 at_check_line_file, at_format, at_test_normalized, at_group_dir
8583 are new variables.
8584 Create the directories.
8585 Use absolute paths for at- files.
8586 (AT_CHECK): Adjust.
8588 2001-11-11 Michael Matz <matz@kde.org>
8590 * m4sugar.m4 (_m4_foreach): Make it linear instead quadratic.
8591 (m4_car2): New.
8592 (m4_car): Properly quote arguments.
8594 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8596 * tests/aclocal.m4 (AC_STATE_SAVE): s/LIBOBJS/LIB@&t@OBJS/ to cope
8597 with stricter rules on LIBOBJS.
8599 2001-11-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8601 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_PROTOTYPES): Define __PROTOTYPES too.
8602 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): AC_C_PROTOTYPES now defines
8603 __PROTOTYPES too.
8605 2001-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8607 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETMNTENT): Use AC_CHECK_FUNCS.
8609 2001-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8611 * lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/fortran.m4,
8612 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
8613 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4,
8614 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4, lib/autoconf/specific.m4,
8615 * lib/autoconf/types.m4: When invoking AC_DEFINE and friends,
8616 specify to what the macro should be defined (typically to 1).
8618 2001-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8620 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_STRTOD): AC_SUBST POW_LIB.
8621 From Jim Meyering.
8623 2001-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8625 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_LEX_YYTEXT_DECL): Use
8626 AC_TRY_EVAL to run $LEX, not AC_TRY_COMMAND. This validates the
8627 definition used by Automake where LEX is +/- "${missing} lex" and
8628 `missing' itself contains variables.
8630 2001-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8632 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Push KILL at the end.
8633 Now that M4sh pushes BODY, the comments were output at the end of
8634 the test suites.
8636 2001-11-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8638 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Run aclocal before tracing, so
8639 that we can trace macros from aclocal.m4.
8640 Trace AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, not AM_PROG_LIBTOOL, since the latter is
8641 obsoleted, and redirect to the former anyway.
8642 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
8644 2001-11-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8646 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): AC_CONFIG_SUBIDRS are to be
8647 processed only if present.
8648 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Use autoreconf
8649 instead of successive calls to autoconf.
8650 Add a nonexistent subdirectory to exercise the patch above.
8651 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
8653 2001-11-08 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
8655 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Note HP-UX cc
8656 doesn't accept .S files.
8658 2001-11-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8660 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_pattern_forbid): Accepts $2.
8661 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_INTI): Forbid LIBOBJS.
8662 (_AC_LIBOBJ): s/LIBOBJS/LIB@&t@OBJS/.
8663 * bin/autom4te.in (warn_forbidden): New.
8664 (handle_output): Use it.
8665 Read m4_pattern_forbid with messages.
8667 2001-11-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8669 * bin/autom4te.in (--normalize): Remove.
8670 * lib/autom4te.in: Adjust.
8672 2001-11-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8674 * tests/Makefile.am (testsuite): Rename this target as...
8675 ($(TESTSUITE)): this.
8676 From Nicolas Joly.
8678 2001-11-05 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
8680 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): When removing
8681 the --prefix option, also remove it's argument.
8683 2001-11-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8685 * doc/autoconf.texi (testsuite Invocation): Update.
8686 (Writing testsuite.at): Update.
8688 2001-11-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8690 * doc/autoconf.texi: s/@code/@command/ where appropriate.
8692 2001-11-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8694 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: (&catfile, &canonfile)
8695 (&file_name_is_absolute): New, wrappers around routines from
8696 File::Spec.
8697 Use and export them.
8698 (&find_configure_ac): Optionally take a directory where to look at.
8699 * bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args): Trim the configure.ac part of
8700 the arguments.
8701 Default @ARGV to `.', not find_configure_ac.
8702 (&autoreconf): Argument is a directory.
8703 Trace AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS and schedule the subdirs for autoreconf'ing.
8704 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Update.
8706 2001-11-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8708 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (@export_vars, @export_subs)
8709 (@export_forward_subs): New.
8710 Add basename, dirname, and fileparse.
8711 (@EXPORT): Adjust.
8712 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Fix call to fileparse.
8713 Don't look for aclocal flags if we already know aclocal is not
8714 used.
8715 Move aclocal.m4t only if it exists.
8716 Reported by Ezra Peisach.
8718 2001-11-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8720 * bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args): Work only on the configure.ac
8721 passed on command line, defaulting to ./configure.ac if present.
8722 (&maybe_autoreconf, File::Find): Remove, unused.
8723 (&autoreconf): If autoconf is not used, don't try to trace.
8725 2001-11-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8727 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.52g.
8729 2001-11-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8731 Version 2.52f.
8733 2001-11-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8735 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, doc/standards.texi:
8736 * config/lispdir.m4: Update from masters.
8737 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.52f.
8739 2001-11-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8741 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Set `$aclocal_flags' to ''.
8742 Don't run aclocal when aclocal.m4 is not from aclocal.
8743 From Ezra Peisach.
8744 Don't run libtoolize and gettextize if --install is not given.
8746 2001-11-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8748 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): _AS_CR_PREPARE needs to
8749 be invoked before _AS_LINENO_PREPARE.
8750 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Use as_cr_digits and as_cr_alnum rather
8751 than character ranges.
8753 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Fix NLS before
8754 invoking AS_BASENAME. Set the locale variables to 'C' if
8755 possible, as POSIX requires this to get the traditional
8756 behavior.
8757 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Describe the above.
8759 2001-10-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8761 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_WORKS): Do not surround body
8762 with {}, as that triggers a bug in Bash 2.05.
8764 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Use Sed rather than
8765 Awk. Fix the sed prepass to work even if there are multiple
8766 instances of $LINENO on the same line. Do not substitute for
8767 other variables like $LINENOT. Do not check file dates; such a
8768 check is unreliable on sufficiently fast machines, and removing
8769 the check makes the code simpler and more reliable. Check for
8770 output and chmod failures.
8772 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Document
8773 the above.
8775 2001-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8777 * tests/Makefile.am (atconfig): Remove this target, Automake
8778 handles it now.
8780 2001-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8782 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Do not
8783 AC_CONFIG_FILES(atlocal) as it means a file atlocal.in *must* be
8784 provided, while it is optional.
8785 * configure.ac: Adjust.
8787 2001-10-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8789 * NEWS, README, configure.ac, lib/Autom4te/General.pm,
8790 lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm:
8791 Require Perl 5.005_03 instead of just 5.005, as some tests fail
8792 with 5.005_02.
8794 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Document some
8795 more LINENO gotchas, particularly with respect to the Awk+Sed hack.
8797 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_WORKS): New macro.
8798 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Use it instead of shell eval, since
8799 eval $LINENO is not portable in practice.
8801 2001-10-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8803 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (backname): New.
8805 2001-10-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8807 * m4/: Remove, merged into...
8808 * config/: here.
8810 2001-10-23 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
8812 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology): Mention the problems with bash
8813 2.05's use of ANSI quoting in its `set' builtin.
8815 2001-10-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8817 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R):
8818 Rename ac_cv_func_strerror_r_works to ac_cv_func_strerror_r_char_p,
8819 and rename HAVE_WORKING_STRERROR_R to STRERROR_R_CHAR_P, since
8820 POSIX decided to standardize on the int flavor of strerror_r.
8821 Always do char* test, as there's no reason not to.
8822 Assign to a char* var, to catch strerror_r that returns int*.
8824 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions):
8825 Document the above changes. Also, document the fact that
8826 AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R defines HAVE_DECL_STRERROR_R.
8828 * NEWS: Mention HAVE_WORKING_STRERROR_R -> STRERROR_R_CHAR_P.
8830 2001-10-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8832 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): The name of
8833 the executable was missing from the log.
8835 2001-10-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8837 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&update_file): If destination is
8838 unchanged, remove the source.
8839 (&up_to_date_p): Don't be verbose, be debug.
8840 * bin/autoreconf.in: No longer support --m4dir.
8841 (&autoreconf): Display the full path of the configure.ac we are
8842 studying.
8843 Trace it only once.
8844 Be sure to honor --force with gettextize.
8845 Always run aclocal.
8846 * doc/autoconf.texi: Adjust.
8848 2001-10-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8850 * bin/autoheader.in ($localdir, $m4, $SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX):
8851 Remove, dead.
8852 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Do not run gettextize when
8853 `intl' is already present, as it refuses unless --force.
8854 (&parse_args): Use -I, --include instead of the old Autoconf
8855 options.
8856 ($localdir, $autoconf_dir): Remove.
8857 (@include): New.
8858 (&maybe_autoreconf): New, to preserve $_ for File::Find.
8860 2001-10-19 Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com>
8862 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_AWK): Prefer gawk to mawk.
8863 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): Likewise.
8865 2001-10-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8867 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Name the generated
8868 file in @configure_input@.
8869 Don't mention `automatically' in addition to `generated'.
8870 * tests/torture.at (#define header templates): Adjust.
8872 2001-10-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8874 * lib/emacs/autoconf-mode.el, lib/emacs/autotest-mode.el: In a
8875 comment, explain how to install automatic mode selection.
8876 From Russ Allbery.
8878 2001-10-19 Ezra Peisach <epeisach@zif.mit.edu>
8880 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Display the path to the
8881 configure.ac being studied.
8883 2001-10-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8885 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Cast sizeof to unsigned
8886 long, to work around a bug in the HP C compiler version HP92453-01
8887 B.11.11.23709.GP.
8889 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_DIRNAME): Use 'dirname' if that works.
8890 (AS_BASENAME_EXPR): New macro.
8891 (AS_BASENAME_SED): Do not assume GNU sed semantics.
8892 (AS_BASENAME): Use 'basename' if that works; then try 'expr';
8893 and fall back on 'sed' only if the other two fail. This makes
8894 AS_BASENAME act more like AS_DIRNAME.
8895 (as_me): Shell-quote the argument of AS_BASENAME, in case $0
8896 contains white space.
8897 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR):
8898 Use AS_DIRNAME, since I think it's now DOS-friendly.
8899 * tests/m4sh.at (DIRNAME_TEST): New arg $3.
8900 Allow "dirname //FOO" to return either / or //, as POSIX allows
8901 either behavior.
8903 2001-10-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8905 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Recognize
8906 `a_out.exe' for OpenVMS 7.1, DEC C 5.5 compiler, via GNV.
8907 From Eric Sharkey.
8909 2001-10-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8911 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_ECHO_N_PREPARE): m4_defun, not
8912 m4_define, since...
8913 (_AS_ECHO_N): AS_REQUIREs it.
8915 2001-10-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8917 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS)
8918 (AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT): Move to...
8919 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4: here.
8920 * lib/autoconf/types.m4: Comment changes.
8921 * doc/autoconf.texi: Specify where the default includes are used
8922 in the macro prototypes.
8924 2001-10-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8926 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4 (m4_patsubst, m4_regexp): New
8927 transition code.
8929 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8931 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Remove debugging code.
8932 (&parse_args): Pass verbosity/debugging options to subtools when
8933 --debug, not when --verbose.
8934 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoreconf-preselections): New.
8935 (Autoconf): Use it.
8937 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8939 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Run libtoolize when appropriate.
8941 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8943 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Adjust.
8944 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Run gettextize when appropriate.
8946 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8948 * tests/tools.at (AT_CHECK_PERL_SYNTAX): Check autoreconf.
8949 (Syntax of the shell scripts): Don't.
8950 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in: Don't
8951 bother with $force since...
8952 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: does.
8954 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8956 * bin/autoreconf.in: Rewrite in Perl.
8957 * configure.ac: Adjust.
8958 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&up_to_date_p): New.
8959 * bin/autom4te.in (&up_to_date_p): Use it.
8960 Rename as...
8961 (&up_to_date): this.
8963 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8965 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_case, m4_bmatch, m4_normalize)
8966 (m4_list_cmp): Use $0 to reinvoke yourself.
8967 (m4_patsubsts): New.
8968 (m4_strip, m4_version_unletter): Use it.
8969 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_DATA_M4SUGAR, AT_DATA_M4SH): Likewise.
8971 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8973 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
8974 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4, lib/autoconf/status.m4,
8975 * lib/autoconf/types.m4, lib/autotest/general.m4,
8976 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4, lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4, tests/atspecific.m4,
8977 * tests/torture.at: Rename m4_regexp, m4_patsubst, and m4_match to
8978 m4_bregexp, m4_bpatsubst, and m4_bmatch.
8979 * doc/autoconf.texi (Redefined M4 Macros): Adjust.
8981 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8983 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Use AS_REQUIRE.
8985 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8987 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_DIRNAME_EXPR): Use AS_REQUIRE.
8988 * tests/tools.at (AT_DATA_FORBIDDEN): Rename/move/duplicate to...
8989 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_DATA_M4SUGAR, AT_DATA_M4SH): here.
8990 * tests/tools.at, tests/m4sh.at: Use it.
8991 * tests/m4sh.at: Don't rely on Autoconf macros.
8992 (DIRNAME_TEST): Also exercise the expr variant.
8993 * tests/m4sugar.at, tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR): The
8994 preferred M4sugar extension is now `.4s'.
8995 * tests/README: Remove.
8997 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8999 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_provide_ifelse): Rename as...
9000 (m4_provide_if): this.
9001 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_REQUIRE): New.
9002 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AS_DEFUN, AC_DEFUN_ONCE, AC_BEFORE)
9003 (AC_REQUIRE, AC_PROVIDE, AC_PROVIDE_IFELSE): Be exact copy of the
9004 M4sugar peer, i.e., drop the `AC_PROVIDE_$1' broken marker.
9006 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9008 Use `add-log-current-defun-function' for ChangeLog creation.
9009 Suggested by Tom Tromey.
9011 * lib/emacs/autotest-mode.el (autotest-mode-map): New.
9012 (autotest-mode): Adjust.
9013 * lib/emacs/autoconf-mode.el (autoconf-mode-map): Modernize, map
9014 'comment-region onto `C-c ;'.
9015 Comments are `#', not `dnl'.
9016 (autoconf-current-defun): New.
9017 (autoconf-font-lock-keywords): Recognize `m4_defun'.
9019 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9021 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_m4_divert(BODY)): Move to...
9022 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: here.
9023 (AS_INIT): Push the BODY diversion, set the #! /bin/sh line.
9024 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_PLAIN_SCRIPT) : Remove.
9025 (AT_INIT): Replace AC_PLAIN_SCRIPT with AS_INIT invocation,
9026 include handle the m4_pattern_*, no longer push the
9027 BODY diversion nor set the /bin/sh line, AS_INIT does it.
9028 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
9029 * tests/base.at: Adjust the tests to use AS_INIT.
9030 * tests/tools.at (AT_DATA_FORBIDDEN): New.
9031 (autoconf: forbidden tokens): Adjust to work on M4sh instead of
9032 Autoconf.
9034 2001-10-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
9036 * doc/autoconf.texi (config.status Invocation):
9037 CONFIG_SHELL defaults to a shell that supports LINENO if available.
9039 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): If the current
9040 shell does not support LINENO, and if CONFIG_SHELL is unset or
9041 empty, and if we can find a shell that does support LINENO,
9042 then set CONFIG_SHELL to that shell and then re-execute
9043 ourselves with CONFIG_SHELL.
9045 2001-10-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
9047 * tests/Makefile.am (clean-local): Don't invoke $(TESTSUITE) if it
9048 doesn't exist. Remove *.tmp, as a .tmp file is created during the
9049 build of $(TESTSUITE).
9051 2001-10-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9053 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Look in the path
9054 iff we are a bareword.
9055 Reported by Raja R Harinath.
9057 2001-10-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9059 * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): New.
9060 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Be sure to set
9061 PATH_SEPARATOR before using it.
9062 Fix the absolute path case/esac pattern.
9063 Provide $0 as fallback for as_myself.
9064 Reported by Raja R Harinath.
9066 2001-10-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9068 * Makefile.am, config/Makefile.am, lib/emacs/Makefile.am,
9069 * m4/Makefile.am, man/Makefile.am: Add/adjust MAINTAINERCLEANFILES.
9071 2001-10-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9073 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): New, extracted from...
9074 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): here. Use it.
9075 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Preserve the exit status of $0.lineno.
9076 From Paul Eggert.
9078 2001-10-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9080 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Use a portable
9081 combination of Awk and sed to replace $LINENO.
9083 2001-10-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
9085 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): You can't use
9086 "source"; it's not portable. Remove confusing and
9087 somewhat-incorrect example involving "." and "/".
9089 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): "source" -> ".", for
9090 compatibility with POSIX shells.
9092 2001-10-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9094 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Just source 40.lineno
9095 instead of exec'ing to preserve $0 and $@.
9097 2001-10-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9099 * tests/testsuite (AT_INIT) <at_pass_list>: New.
9100 Don't run twice the same test.
9102 2001-10-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9104 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT) <--help>: Catch up with reality.
9105 No longer output the list of tests.
9106 <--list>: New option.
9107 <--full-help>: Remove.
9108 Complete the short/long options duality.
9109 Various small adjustments.
9111 2001-10-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9113 * doc/autoconf.texi: Use @kbd for user input.
9114 Always use `$' as shell prompt.
9116 2001-09-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
9118 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_OUTPUT_MAKE_DEFS):
9119 Don't use nested parenthesization. This patch was originally
9120 suggested to bug-autoconf by Philippe De Muyter on 2000-05-28,
9121 but somehow it didn't get incorporated then.
9122 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools):
9123 Clarify remark about sed and nested parenthesization.
9125 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF):
9126 Report an error if the size cannot be determined even though
9127 the type exists.
9128 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE):
9129 Check for `expr' arithmetic overflow, and for compilation failure,
9130 and invoke a new argument $4 if either is discovered.
9131 This makes _AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE more like _AC_COMPUTE_INT_RUN.
9132 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT): Pass IF-FAILS arg to _AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE.
9134 2001-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9136 * lib/emacs/autoconf-mode.el, lib/emacs/autotest-mode.el: New.
9137 * m4/lispdir.m4: New.
9138 * aclocal.m4, configure.ac: Adjust.
9140 2001-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9142 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_VICTIMS): Rename as...
9143 (AT_TESTED): this.
9144 (AT_INIT): More the wrapped section to where it will be expanded.
9145 Output `AT_tested' only when existing.
9146 Catch unexpanded PACKAGE_STRING and PACKAGE_BUGREPORT.
9148 2001-09-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9150 Fix the passing of $? to ACTION-IF-FAILED in AC_TRY_RUN, that
9151 generates too many bug reports.
9153 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_RUN_IFELSE): Pass the right exit
9154 status when executing the ACTION-IF-FALSE.
9155 * tests/base.at (AC_TRY_*): Rename as...
9156 (AC_TRY_COMMAND): this.
9157 (AC_RUN_IFELSE): New.
9158 * tests/compile.at (Extensions, C keywords)
9159 (AC_PROG_CPP requires AC_PROG_CC, GNU Fortran 77)
9160 (Broken/missing compilers, AC_PROG_CPP with warnings)
9161 (AC_PROG_CPP without warnings, AC_PROG_CPP via CC): Move to...
9162 * tests/c.at (Extensions, C keywords)
9163 (Broken/missing compilers, AC_PROG_CPP with warnings)
9164 (AC_PROG_CPP without warnings, AC_PROG_CPP via CC)
9165 (AC_PROG_CPP requires AC_PROG_CC): here and...
9166 * tests/fortran.at (GNU Fortran 77): there.
9167 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoconf Invocation): Fix the example:
9168 AC_TRY_RUN is about compilation, not shell commands.
9169 (Test Programs): AC_TRY_RUN works as used to be advertised.
9171 2001-09-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9173 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Fix bugs spotted by
9174 Raja R Harinath:
9175 Be sure to detect when $LINENO always returns the same value.
9176 Look for the original script, basename($0) is certainly not
9177 enough.
9178 Pass the CLI arguments to `$as_me.lineno'.
9180 2001-09-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9182 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Dump the whole config.log.
9183 Be sure the close and reopen the LOG fd before and after using tee
9184 to extend the log.
9185 <at_tests_pattern>: Adjust to the new format of at_help_all.
9187 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9189 * bin/autom4te.in (parse_args): There can be several invocations
9190 of --language now.
9192 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9194 * doc/autoconf.texi (Top): Wrap in @ifnottex.
9196 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9198 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Compute and provide
9199 ac_buildpath, ac_top_buildpath, ac_srcpath, and ac_top_srcpath.
9200 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Also substitute srcpath, top_srcpath,
9201 builddir, buildpath, top_builddir, and top_buildpath.
9202 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Compute the dir variables *before* changing
9203 the current directory.
9204 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Compute the dir
9205 variables *before* changing the current directory.
9206 Skip nonexistent dirs.
9207 * doc/autoconf.texi (Preset Output Variables): Document these
9208 variables.
9210 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Do not reset AT_victims.
9211 Don't compute at_srcdir nor at_top_srcdir.
9213 * tests/tools.at: Hence use top_srcdir.
9215 * tests/Makefile.am, tests/autoconf, tests/autoheader,
9216 * tests/autom4te, tests/autoreconf, tests/autoupdate, tests/ifnames:
9217 Remove.
9218 * tests/autoreconf.in, tests/wrappl.in, tests/autom4te.in,
9219 * tests/wrapsh.in, tests/autoupdate.in: New.
9220 * tests/Makefile.am (DISTCLEANFILES, EXTRA_DIST): Adjust.
9221 * configure.ac: Build the position independent wrappers.
9223 * man/Makefile.am: Now that test wrappers are position
9224 independent, use them and drop dark envvar magic.
9226 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9228 * doc/autoconf.texi (Common Shell Constructs): Rename as...
9229 (Programming in M4sh): this.
9230 Promote to @section.
9232 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9234 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Dump config.log last.
9235 Pass $at_debug_args to the rerun test suite.
9236 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am (DISTCLEANFILES): New.
9237 * bin/Makefile.am (ETAGS_SH): Don't use characters ranges.
9238 From Paul Eggert.
9240 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9242 * bin/autom4te.in (@my_warning): Remove, handled by `autom4te.cfg'.
9244 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9246 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Fix shell
9247 over-escaping.
9249 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9251 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&debug): New.
9252 * bin/autom4te.in ($language): Move to...
9253 (parse_args): here.
9254 Handle --language in languages.
9255 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-selections, Autoheader-selections)
9256 (Autoscan-selections): New.
9257 (Autoconf): Adjust.
9259 2001-09-23 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
9261 * m4/auxdir.m4, m4/cond.m4, m4/depend.m4, m4/init.m4,
9262 * m4/install-sh.m4, m4/missing.m4, m4/sanity.m4, m4/strip.m4: Updated
9263 to match current versions from CVS Automake.
9265 2001-09-23 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
9267 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Add pdksh output
9268 for $LINENO.
9270 2001-09-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9272 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4: Create `package.m4'.
9273 * tests/Makefile.am (package.m4): Remove.
9275 2001-09-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9277 Rely on `$LINENO' when possible instead of `__oline__'.
9279 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Provide some form of
9280 `$LINENO' support replacement when not supported.
9281 (_AS_CR_PREPARE, _AS_TR_CPP_PREPARE, _AS_TR_SH_PREPARE): Invoke
9282 them explicitly to be sure they are not output before this section
9283 (via m4_require). Cosmetic only.
9284 * lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
9285 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4: Replace all the occurrences of
9286 `__oline__' with `$LINENO'.
9287 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Document LINENO.
9289 2001-09-21 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
9291 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_FORK): Replaceded an 8-bit
9292 character (u: -> ue) in a code comment.
9293 (AC_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK): Only run 'ln -s' if we know
9294 it works.
9296 2001-09-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9298 * Makefile.maint (AUTOM4TE): Neutralize autom4te.
9299 Suggested by Jim Meyering.
9301 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
9303 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4: Use extensions listed in
9304 $ac_executable_extensions when looking for programs.
9306 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
9308 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Fix a small Englisho.
9309 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Fix a small typo. Handle DOS paths when
9310 setting up ac_dir_suffix and ac_top_builddir.
9311 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Default CDPATH to $PATH_SEPARATOR, not ':'.
9313 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
9315 * doc/autoconf.texi (File System Conventions): Clarify the use of
9316 PATH_SEPARATOR.
9317 (Special Shell Variables[PATH_SEPARATOR]): Ditto.
9318 (Special Shell Variables[CDPATH]): Mention that $PATH_SEPRATOR should
9319 be used instead of ':'.
9320 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Replace occurrences of ':' in
9321 AUTOTEST_PATH with $PATH_SEPARATOR at test suite startup.
9323 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
9325 * tests/atgeneral.m4: Add basic support for test ranges (e.g. 7-34) as
9326 arguments. Fixed a typo.
9328 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
9330 * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Use @PATH_SEPARATOR@, not ':' to set up
9331 $PATH. Also set AUTOM4TE_CFG, so we can process autom4te properly.
9333 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
9335 * bin/autoscan.in: Add 'exec-perl-if-not-run-by-perl'.
9336 * bin/autoupdate.in: Ditto.
9337 * bin/autoheader.in: Reworded a few comments.
9338 * bin/autoconf.in: Reworded help text for a few options.
9339 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
9340 * bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in: Ditto.
9342 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
9344 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm (open): Simplified the error message (we
9345 already have $file). Set output files to binary mode (helps avoid
9346 CR issues on DOSish systems).
9348 2001-09-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9350 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Englishoes.
9351 From Tim Van Holder and Alexey Mahotkin.
9353 2001-09-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
9355 * doc/autoconf.texi (Common Shell Constructs): New node,
9356 documenting AS_DIRNAME.
9357 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Refer to it when discussing dirname.
9358 Also, update discussion of POSIX standard to reflect latest draft.
9360 * lib/autoconf/c.m4:
9361 (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C)): Also support negative values, down to LONG_MIN.
9363 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE):
9364 Do not pass a first argument with leading '-'
9365 to expr, by parenthesizing initial integers that might be negative.
9367 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): AC_FUNC_GETPGRP
9368 now merely checks whether it is an error to pass an argument
9369 to getpgrp.
9371 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_GETPGRP_TEST): Remove.
9372 (AC_FUNC_GETPGRP): Don't bother with a runtime test. Just check
9373 whether it is a (compile-time) error to pass an argument to
9374 getpgrp. This simpler test supports the revised documentation,
9375 and is all that AC_FUNC_GETPGRP's users really need.
9377 2001-09-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9379 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make) <$<>: New.
9381 2001-09-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9383 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <find>: More about
9384 `{}'.
9385 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Adjust.
9387 2001-09-18 Paul Wagland <paul@wagland.net>
9389 * tests/m4sh.at: Ensure that AS_DIRNAME handles '/', '//' and '///'
9390 correctly.
9391 Add test for AS_BASENAME.
9392 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Fix AS_BASENAME so that it passes the previous
9393 added test. It now correctly handles /1/2/3/, returning '3' not ''.
9394 Added AS_BASENAME_SED to make the interface the same as AS_DIRNAME.
9395 * tests/base.at: Fixed the expected responses. The old ones were
9396 one line out...
9397 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Fixed AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM, it now behaves as
9398 the documentation claims it should (and how it behaved in 2.13).
9400 2001-09-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9402 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): No INIT-CMDS in
9403 the AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS invocation.
9404 This also solves the name clash problems.
9405 Don't set the package's ID.
9406 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am (version.m4): Revamp.
9407 No longer to be shipped.
9408 (version.in): Remove.
9409 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
9410 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Adjust.
9411 Use `m4_PACKAGE_STRING'.
9412 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): N-th signature change: now
9413 the only optional argument is the name of the test suite.
9414 Expect `package.m4' to define the package signature.
9415 * lib/autom4te.in (Autotest): Add `package.m4?'.
9416 * tests/Makefile.am (package.m4): New.
9417 * tests/suite.at: ifnames is a victim.
9419 2001-09-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9421 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): Preselect AM_CONDITIONAL,
9422 AC_LIBSOURCE, AC_CONFIG_FILES.
9423 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't abort when a tested
9424 program version string doesn't match the package's.
9425 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CACHE_VAL): Reestablish the space
9426 after `(cached)'.
9428 2001-09-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
9430 * lib/autoconf/c.m4: (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C)):
9431 Allow expression to return any value that can fit into unsigned long
9432 (not int, as before). Check for output errors.
9434 2001-09-17 Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>
9436 * lib/autoconf/c.m4: (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C)):
9437 Always include <stdio.h> and <stdlib.h>. Evaluate
9438 the expression in an extra function before these includes. Call
9439 fprintf "%d" only after ensuring the argument is of type 'int'.
9440 Reported by Wayne Chapeskie <waynec@spinnaker.com>.
9442 2001-09-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
9444 Fix bug reported by Paul Townsend on AIX 4.3.3.0 with CFLAGS=-O4
9445 or CFLAGS=-O5. In that case, the linker has a relaxed view of
9446 fatal errors, and AC_CHECK_LIB causes it to include libraries even
9447 when they don't exist.
9449 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_DIRENT): Use AC_SEARCH_LIBS,
9450 not AC_CHECK_LIB, so that we don't use -ldir or -lx if we don't
9451 need it.
9453 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_ISC_POSIX): Replace the old, crufty
9454 version with the version used by fileutils 4.1, except use
9455 AC_SEARCH_LIBS, not AC_CHECK_LIB, so that we don't use -lcposix if
9456 we don't need it.
9458 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_ISC_POSIX): Describe new behavior.
9460 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9462 * tests/base.at, tests/m4sh.at: Be sure to issue the bangshe line
9463 _first_.
9464 Reported by Gerrit P. Haase.
9466 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9468 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Reset `AT_victims' so that
9469 m4_defn'ing is valid.
9471 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9473 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_append_uniq): New.
9474 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_VICTIMS, AT_KEYWORDS, _AT_CLEANUP_FILE):
9475 Use it.
9477 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9479 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (_AS_QUOTE_IFELSE, _AS_BOX_INDIR): Use
9480 m4_match.
9481 (m4_re_escape): New.
9482 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_CONFIG_IF_MEMBER): Use it.
9483 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CACHE_SAVE): Use m4_match.
9484 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_CONFIG_IF_MEMBER, AC_CONFIG_LINKS):
9485 Likewise.
9486 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (_AC_CHECK_TYPE_REPLACEMENT_TYPE_P)
9487 (_AC_CHECK_TYPE_MAYBE_TYPE_P, AC_CHECK_MEMBER): Likewise.
9488 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Rename AT_TESTS_ALL as
9489 AT_tests_all for consistency.
9490 Set at_victims.
9491 (AT_VICTIMS): Similar to AT_KEYWORDS.
9492 (_AT_CLEANUP_FILE_IF): Use m4_match and m4_re_escape.
9494 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9496 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Fix stupid bugs.
9498 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9500 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Create and remove
9501 `$as_me.[0-9]+' instead of `debug-[0-9]+.sh', so that multiple
9502 test suites can cohabit.
9504 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9506 * tests/mktests.sh: Don't output banners for empty test files.
9508 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9510 Test suites can be run independently of configure.
9512 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_ECHO, _AS_ECHO_N_PREPARE): New.
9513 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_ECHO): Remove.
9514 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Adjust: AC_SUBST
9515 ECHO_N etc.
9516 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Don't ask for at_n
9517 and at_c.
9518 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Use ECHO_*.
9520 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9522 * bin/ifnames.in: Rewrite in Perl.
9523 * configure.ac: Don't look for AWK.
9524 * tests/tools.at (AWK portability): Remove.
9525 (Syntax of the shell scripts): Don't check ifnames.
9526 (AT_CHECK_PERL_SYNTAX): New.
9527 (Syntax of the Perl scripts): Check ifnames.
9528 * tests/ifnames: New.
9530 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9532 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Let --keywords also match
9533 test group titles.
9534 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AU_MACRO): AT_KEYWORDS(autoupdate).
9535 Remove all the other keywords.
9537 2001-09-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9539 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Remove the diversion HELP and
9540 SETUP: no longer used.
9541 Support -k, --keywords.
9542 <at_help>: Be `no', `short', or `long'.
9543 <at_help_all>: New variable.
9544 (AT_KEYWORDS): New.
9545 (AT_CLEANUP_FILE_IFELSE, AT_CLEANUP_FILE): Rename as...
9546 (_AT_CLEANUP_FILE_IF, _AT_CLEANUP_FILE): these.
9547 (_AT_CLEANUP_FILE_IF): Simplify the regexp.
9548 (AT_SETUP): Reset AT_line, AT_keywords, AT_description.
9549 No longer fill the HELP diversion.
9550 (AT_CLEANUP): Use them.
9551 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_append): Support a separator.
9552 (m4_list_append): Remove.
9554 Spread a few keywords in the Autoconf test suite.
9556 2001-09-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9558 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Don't pass
9559 PATH_SEPARATOR, let M4sh compute it.
9560 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_SEPARATOR_PREPARE): New.
9561 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_SHELL_PATH_WALK): Use PATH_SEPARATOR.
9562 Move to...
9563 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_WALK): Here.
9564 Simplify when the path is not a literal.
9565 (AS_UNAME): Use it to report PATH.
9566 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE_FS_SEPARATORS): Remove.
9567 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): AC_SUBST PATH_SEPARATOR.
9568 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_INSTALL): Use _AS_PATH_WALK.
9569 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Use _AS_PATH_WALK to
9570 normalize the path, and to look for victims.
9571 * tests/semantics.at (AC_PATH_PROG & AC_PATH_PROGS)
9572 (AC_CHECK_PROG & AC_CHECK_PROGS): Use PATH_SEPARATOR.
9574 2001-09-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9576 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_m4): `< /dev/null' so that GNU M4 1.5
9577 doesn't neutralize SIGINT, making autoconf etc. non interruptible.
9578 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Move the package
9579 related variables into `at_package_*'.
9580 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_VICTIMS): New.
9581 (AT_INIT): Adjust for stand-alone/embedded test suites.
9582 (AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD): Define and use it.
9583 * tests/suite.at (AT_VICTIMS): Use it.
9584 * tests/tools.at (autoupdating AC_PREREQ): Don't depend upon
9585 at_version.
9587 2001-09-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9589 Move toward possibly stand-alone test suites.
9591 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Stop displaying srcdir everywhere as,
9592 in addition, it introduces useless differences in logs.
9593 (AT_INIT): Let atconfig and atlocal be both optional.
9594 Adjust PATH computation.
9595 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_UNAME): More readable display of PATH.
9597 2001-09-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9599 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am (autoconf.m4f): Depends upon
9600 m4sugar/version.m4.
9602 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9604 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY(C)): Use `_array_'
9605 to avoid GCC warnings.
9606 From Uwe Seimet.
9608 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9610 * bin/autom4te.in: --language is -l, not -s.
9612 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9614 Be ready to handle filenames as stupid as `dnl.at', for if even
9615 the maintainer is dumb enough to do that...
9617 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_SETUP, AT_LINE): Demonstrates your
9618 excellence in M4 quotation: consider `__file__' is active.
9620 And BTW, when invoking m4, pass the --include in the right order:
9621 the wrong one.
9623 * bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoupdate.in: Use reverse when kingtal to
9624 4m.
9626 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9628 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: New lib file.
9629 * bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoscan.pl, bin/autom4te.in,
9630 * bin/autoheader.in: Use it.
9632 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9634 * bin/autoupdate.in (&handle_m4_macros) <unm4.m4>: Undefine iff
9635 defined.
9637 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9639 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&getopt): Work around the `-' Getopt bug.
9640 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoupdate.in (&parse_args): Adjust.
9642 * bin/autoscan.in: Use `getopt' and `find_files' etc.
9643 Add -I, --include support.
9644 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoscan Invocation): Adjust.
9646 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9648 CVS GNU M4 doesn't like `undefine(undefined)'.
9650 * bin/autoupdate.in (&handle_m4_macros, &handle_autoconf_macros):
9651 New, extracted from main.
9652 Use IO::File wherever possible.
9653 (input.m4): Be constant, use -I instead of hard coding $tmp.
9654 Therefore be a quoted heredoc.
9655 Don't invoke `_au_disable', since ac was not loaded, but just
9656 `unm4.m4'.
9658 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9660 Version 2.52d.
9662 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9664 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Fix the
9665 previous patch.
9666 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER): Can create `config.hin~'.
9668 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9670 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): DU 5.0 has
9671 serious problems handling heredocs in heredocs.
9672 Reported by Nicolas Joly.
9674 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9676 * doc/autoconf.texi: Don't promote non `m4_*' M4 macros.
9677 (Making testsuite Scripts): Update.
9679 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9681 * lib/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): Add autom4te.cfg.
9683 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9685 * doc/autoconf.texi (Quadrigraphs): Document `@&t@'.
9686 (testsuite Scripts): There is no such thing as `atconfig.in'.
9687 And actually one diagram is missing: test suite runtime.
9689 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9691 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_file): Browse the includes in the
9692 inverse order.
9694 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9696 * bin/autoupdate.in (@include): `installcheck' revealed the path
9697 to m4sugar was lacking!
9699 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9701 * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): We really have to pass
9702 autom4te_perllibdir.
9704 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9706 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't pass all the args to
9707 debug scripts, in particular passing explicitly listed tests to
9708 run is stupid.
9710 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9712 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Strip `.' from `@include'.
9713 * bin/autoupdate.in: Use --include, -I, and --force, -f, too.
9714 Use directly autom4te, not autoconf.
9715 * tests/autoupdate: $top_srcdir/lib is needed too for melt files.
9717 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9719 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Missing eol.
9720 * bin/autoheader.in (%symbol): Strip arguments of macros.
9722 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9724 * doc/autoconf.texi: Catch up -I, --include changes.
9726 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9728 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Die on unknown languages.
9729 * bin/autoheader.in: Run directly autom4te --mode=autoconf, no
9730 need for autoconf.
9731 Promote --include over --macrodir and other obsolete options.
9733 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9735 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm ($version, $help, &getopt): New.
9736 * bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in: Use them.
9737 * bin/autom4te.in ($autoconf): Pass --force.
9738 `print $out' doesn't print `$_' but `$out'.
9739 * tests/tools.at (Syntax of the Perl scripts): Pass the lib dir.
9740 (autoheader): Pass --force since the test suite goes too fast for
9741 the time stamps.
9742 Adjust to the new autoheader messages.
9744 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9746 * bin/autoheader.in: Handle the acconfig.h etc. junk files.
9747 Check the completeness of the #template.
9748 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&update_file): s/remove/unlink/.
9749 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Adjust AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER
9750 invocation.
9752 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9754 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_file, &update_file): New.
9755 * bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoheader.in: Adjust.
9756 Drop AC_MACRODIR dead for real.
9757 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER): Now autoheader says
9758 `autoheader: `config.hin' is created'.
9759 * tests/tools.at (Syntax of the Perl scripts): Check autoheader.
9761 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9763 * bin/autoheader.in: Rewrite in Perl.
9764 * tests/autoheader: Adjust.
9766 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9768 * bin/autoconf.in (--include, -I): New option.
9769 Map --localdir, --autoconf-dir onto it.
9770 Forward autom4te's options instead of interpreting them.
9771 * bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoheader.in (AC_MACRODIR, autoconf_dir):
9772 There is no such envvar since the inception of autom4te.cfg.
9773 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Uniquify `@include'.
9774 * bin/autoupdate.in: Adjust, and perform more control.
9775 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF): Adjust.
9776 * tests/autoconf: Dittowise.
9778 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9780 * bin/autoconf.in: Don't bother with `acsite.m4' and `aclocal.m4'.
9781 * bin/autom4te.in (&find_file): Support `FILE?' standing for
9782 optionally `FILE'.
9783 Use -e, not -f, since /dev/null for instance is OK.
9784 (&parse_args): Adjust.
9785 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): Add `acsite.m4?' and `aclocal.m4?'.
9787 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9789 * configure.ac: Also find tested executables in bin.
9790 * bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
9791 * bin/autoscan.in, autoupdate.in: Use exclusively the name of the
9792 installed peer executables, only PATH is allowed to resolve it.
9793 Pass `autoconf_dir' via options, not via invisible envvars.
9794 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_peer): Remove.
9795 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): `AUTOTEST_PATH=a:b' gives
9796 `abuild:asrc:bbuild:bsrc', not `abuild:bbuild:asrc:bsrc'.
9797 * man/Makefile.am: Let help2man rely on PATH instead of trying to
9798 find the executables for it.
9799 * tests/Makefile.am: Major cleanup. Too lazy to document...
9800 * tests/atlocal.in: Remove all the obscure envvar manipulations.
9801 We only need PERL.
9802 * tests/atspecific.m4, tests/tools.at: Passing --localdir is
9803 indeed related to running the test suite, while passing
9804 --autoconf-dir and others is related to running non installed
9805 Autoconf executables. So don't do that, leave it to...
9806 * tests/autoconf, tests/autoheader, tests/autom4te, tests/autoupdate,
9807 * tests/autoscan: New.
9808 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR, AT_CHECK_M4SH): Don't
9809 refer to library files: rely on --language.
9811 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9813 * bin/autom4te.in, lib/autom4te.in, bin/autoconf.in:
9814 s/--set/--language/.
9816 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9818 * doc/autoconf.texi: Strip the @nodes.
9819 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
9820 (Initializing configure): Typo.
9822 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9824 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_output): s/@__@/@&t@/.
9825 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
9827 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9829 * Makefile.maint (do-po-update): Wget refuses to overwrite files:
9830 download in a tmp dir.
9832 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9834 * lib/autotest/general.m4: s/AT-devnull/devnull/ since there are
9835 case insensitive OSes out there :(
9836 From Tim Van Holder.
9838 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9840 * lib/autom4te.in: New.
9841 * lib/Makefile.am (edit, autom4te.cfg): New.
9842 * bin/autom4te.in (BEGIN): Simplify.
9843 Rely on `AC_MACRODIR' in addition of `autom4te_perllibdir'.
9844 (&load_configuration): New. Use it.
9845 (&parse_args): Support --mode, --set, and --melt.
9846 * bin/autoconf.in: Simplify and adjust.
9847 * tests/Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE): Use --set.
9848 * tests/atlocal.in: Adjust.
9849 * BUGS: distcheck and check are weak.
9851 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9853 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Use
9854 foo=`(command) 2>/dev/null`
9855 not
9856 foo=`command` 2>/dev/null
9857 (at-devnull): Rename as...
9858 (AT-devnull): this.
9859 (--clean): Remove AT-* files too.
9860 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Document `date'.
9861 Reported by Nicolas Joly.
9863 2001-08-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9865 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Don't use single
9866 quotes inside single quotes.
9867 Reported by Nicolas Joly.
9869 2001-08-28 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
9871 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Mention C right shifts.
9873 2001-08-27 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
9875 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Reword some messages.
9876 (AT_INIT): Check for the `times' builtin before using it.
9877 Support test ranges as arguments to the testsuite.
9878 Have -e imply -d as the help text suggested.
9880 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9882 * Makefile.maint: Formatting changes.
9883 (do-po-update, po-update, cvs-update, update): New targets.
9884 (AMTAR): Remove.
9886 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9888 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT) <at_cmd_line>: Remove.
9889 <at_cmd_line>: New.
9890 Pass it to debug-*.sh scripts.
9891 <AUTOTEST_PATH>: May contain absolute dir names.
9893 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9895 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Log the command line.
9896 Support `VAR=VAL' as arguments.
9897 Compute PATH _after_ the options processing, so that AUTOTEST_PATH
9898 may be set via the command line.
9900 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9902 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): $2 defaults to $1.
9903 * lib/autotest/autotest.m4 (AT_INIT): Expand AUTOTEST_PATH into
9904 first the build dirs, then the src dirs.
9905 * configure.ac (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Adjust.
9907 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9909 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Output the definition of
9910 at_data_files earlier.
9911 (--clean, -c): New option.
9912 * tests/Makefile.am: Use this option.
9914 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9916 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Rename `ac_dots' as
9917 `ac_top_builddir' to mimic Automake's vocabulary, which much more
9918 readable.
9919 Adjust callers.
9920 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Actions): Document the vars
9921 available in commands.
9922 Emphasize the risks of collisions in init-cmds.
9924 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9926 * doc/autoconf.texi (Input) <AC_INIT>: Move to..
9927 (Initializing configure): this new node.
9929 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9931 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): INSTALL.txt is a dead hack.
9933 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9935 * m4/atconfig.m4 (AT_CONFIG): Remove, replaced by...
9936 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): this.
9937 New file.
9938 * m4/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Oops, adjust...
9940 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9942 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AU_DEFINE, AU_DEFUN, AU_ALIAS): Move
9943 to...
9944 * lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4: this new file.
9945 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AH_OUTPUT, AH_VERBATIM)
9946 (_AH_VERBATIM_OLD, AH_TEMPLATE, _AH_TEMPLATE_OLD, AH_TOP, AH_BOTTOM):
9947 Move to...
9948 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4: this new file.
9950 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9952 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): New.
9953 (_AC_OUTPUT_LINKS, _AC_OUTPUT_FILES, _AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Use it.
9954 Standardize the var names (ac_sub_srcdir -> ac_srcdir, ac_subdir
9955 -> ac_dir).
9956 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): AS_DIRNAME always return a dir name.
9957 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Ditto.
9959 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9961 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4 (AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS)
9962 (AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_POST, AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE, AC_CONFIG_FILES)
9963 (AC_CONFIG_HEADER, AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, AC_CONFIG_IF_MEMBER)
9964 (AC_CONFIG_LINKS, AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS, AC_FILE_DEPENDENCY_TRACE)
9965 (AC_LINK_FILES, AC_LIST_COMMANDS, AC_LIST_COMMANDS_COMMANDS)
9966 (AC_LIST_FILES, AC_LIST_FILES_COMMANDS, AC_LIST_HEADERS)
9967 (AC_LIST_HEADERS_COMMANDS, AC_LIST_LINKS, AC_LIST_LINKS_COMMANDS)
9968 (AC_OUTPUT, AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS, AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_POST)
9969 (AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_PRE, AC_OUTPUT_MAKE_DEFS)
9970 (_AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_INIT, _AC_CONFIG_DEPENDENCIES)
9971 (_AC_CONFIG_DEPENDENCY, _AC_CONFIG_UNIQUE, _AC_LINK_FILES_CNT)
9972 (_AC_LIST_SUBDIRS, _AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS, _AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_CNT)
9973 (_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_INIT, _AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS)
9974 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES, _AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS, _AC_OUTPUT_LINKS)
9975 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Move to...
9976 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: this new file.
9977 * lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am: Adjust.
9978 * tests/Makefile.am, tests/suite.at: Adjust.
9980 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9982 Automake 1.5.
9984 * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Add 1.5 and dist-bzip2.
9985 (AMTAR): Help automake define it.
9986 (INSTALL, install-data-hook): The INSTALL.txt trick is no longer
9987 needed, 1.5 can have a macro and a target with the same name.
9988 * m4/auxdir.m4, m4/cond.m4, m4/depend.m4, m4/install-sh.m4,
9989 * m4/strip.m4: New.
9990 * m4/init.m4, m4/sanity.m4: Update.
9991 * doc/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): 1.5 knows the texi2dvi files.
9992 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am, lib/autotest/Makefile.am,
9993 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am, lib/autoscan/Makefile.am,
9994 * lib/Autom4te/Makefile.am, man/Makefile.am: Use dist/nodist.
9996 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9998 Provide a mean to ``AC_PREREQ'' for M4sugar, M4sh and Autotest.
10000 * lib/autoconf/version.in: Remove.
10001 * lib/m4sugar/version.in: New.
10002 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_acversion, m4_version_prereq): New.
10003 Adjust callers.
10004 * bin/autoupdate.in: Distinguish M4sugar vs. Autoconf macros by
10005 the name of the directory they're in, instead of the filename,
10006 since version.m4 is now in m4sugar, but m4_acversion must not be
10007 classified as an Autoconf macro.
10008 ($input_m4): Don't qualify the path to m4sugar.
10009 Rather, pass autoconf_dir to m4.
10010 * tests/Makefile.am (testsuite): Remove -I top_srcdir, unneeded.
10011 * tests/suite.at: Require 2.52c.
10013 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10015 testsuite.log should include config.log.
10017 * lib/autotest/autotest.m4: New.
10018 * lib/autotest/general.m4, tests/atspecific.m4: Adjust.
10019 * tests/suite.at : Adjust.
10020 (AT_INIT): Log config.log.
10021 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_text_box): New.
10022 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOX_LITERAL): Adjust.
10023 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_CONFIG_LOG): Use them.
10024 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Fix the incredibly messy and buggy completion
10025 of config.log on traps.
10026 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Use AS_BOX.
10027 Use consistently `_ACEOF' for configure's here docs, and `_CSEOF'
10028 for config.status'.
10029 Open the log as soon as possible.
10030 Use the same log introduction as configure's.
10032 2001-08-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
10034 * doc/autoconf.texi (Indices): New node.
10035 Move indices out of the top level menu and into this submenu.
10037 2001-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10039 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_LEX_YYTEXT_DECL): Use
10040 AC_TRY_COMMAND.
10041 (AC_DECL_YYTEXT): Fix the previous patch: it points to AC_PROG_LEX.
10043 2001-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10045 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SHELL_PATH_WALK, AC_CHECK_PROG)
10046 (AC_CHECK_PROGS, AC_PATH_PROG, AC_PATH_PROGS, AC_CHECK_TOOL_PREFIX)
10047 (AC_PATH_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOLS): Move to...
10048 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4: here.
10049 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (_AC_PROG_ECHO, AC_PROG_MAKE_SET)
10050 (AC_PROG_RANLIB, AC_PROG_YACC, AC_PROG_LEX, _AC_DECL_YYTEXT)
10051 (AC_PROG_INSTALL, AC_PROG_LN_S, AC_RSH): Move to...
10052 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4: here.
10053 (_AC_DECL_YYTEXT): Rename as...
10054 (_AC_PROG_LEX_YYTEXT_DECL): this.
10055 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am
10056 * tests/Makefile.am, tests/suite.am: Adjust.
10058 2001-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10060 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_LIST_MEMBER_OF, AC_LINKER_OPTION):
10061 Move to...
10062 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_LIST_MEMBER_IF, _AC_LINKER_OPTION):
10063 here.
10064 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC): Move to...
10065 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4: here.
10066 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SEARCH_LIBS, AC_CHECK_LIB)
10067 (AH_CHECK_LIB): Move to...
10068 * lib/autoconf/libs: this new file.
10069 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_XMKMF, _AC_PATH_X_DIRECT)
10070 (_AC_PATH_X, AC_PATH_X, AC_PATH_XTRA): Move to...
10071 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4: here.
10072 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am: Adjust.
10074 2001-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10076 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_MKDIR_P): Fail if fails.
10077 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Adjust.
10078 (AC_SITE_LOAD): Better logging of config.site.
10080 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10082 * configure.ac (AT_CONFIG): Fix the path.
10083 * m4/atconfig.m4 (AT_CONFIG): Don't use EOF but ATEOF so that 2.52
10084 can be used.
10086 2001-08-20 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
10088 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Prepare the cross-compile
10089 program with AC_LANG_PROGRAM before feeding it to
10090 AC_COMPILE_IFELSE. Cleanup grep usage.
10092 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10094 * ChangeLog, ChangeLog.0, ChangeLog.1, ChangeLog.2, AUTHORS, BUGS,
10095 * NEWS, README, README-alpha, TODO, tests/README: This package is
10096 `Autoconf', not `autoconf' (the executable).
10098 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10100 Info readers seem to need `Index' in the index node title :(
10102 * doc/autoconf.texi: Reverse the 2001-08-15 change which
10103 simplified index node names.
10105 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10107 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): Warn if the
10108 arguments are not literals.
10109 * doc/autoconf.texi (Input) <AC_INIT>: Arguments must be literals.
10110 Specify the output variables, and macros defined.
10112 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10114 * doc/autoconf.texi (Examining Declarations) <AC_TRY_CPP>:
10115 (Examining Syntax) <AC_TRY_COMPILE>
10116 (Examining Libraries) <AC_TRY_LINK>
10117 (Test Programs) <AC_TRY_RUN>: These macros double quote some of
10118 their arguments.
10119 Reported by Werner Lemberg.
10121 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10123 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Compute top_builddir,
10124 top_srcdir and srcdir from at_topbuild_2_topsrc and at_testdir.
10125 Load atlocal late enough to dump it in the log.
10126 * m4/atconfig.m4 (AT_CONFIG): Pass them to atconfig.
10128 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10130 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): New test.
10131 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Say what you are
10132 looking for.
10133 * m4/atconfig.m4: Be sure the let $[0] be expandable.
10134 (top_srcdir): Fix its computation.
10136 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10138 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS): Say what you do.
10139 * m4/atconfig.m4 (AT_CONFIG): $1 is now the directory where the
10140 test suite lives.
10141 Create `atconfig' automagically.
10142 Configure atlocal.in if present.
10143 * tests/atconfig.in: Remove.
10144 * tests/atlocal.in: New.
10145 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
10147 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10149 Huh!?!?! There are still some user EOF tags used, which prevents
10150 their use in AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS for instance...
10152 * lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/specific.m4,
10153 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Rename the EOF tags as `_ACEOF',
10154 `_CSEOF', or `_ATEOF', as appropriate.
10155 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am,
10156 * lib/autotest/Makefile.am (check-local): Enforce this constraint.
10158 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10160 * tests/base.at, tests/m4sh.at, tests/m4sugar.at,
10161 * tests/semantics.at, tests/tools.at, tests/torture.at:
10162 s/^AT_DATA\(([^][]+),/AT_DATA([$1],/.
10164 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10166 Autotest invokes M4sh's initialization.
10168 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Adjust the diversion names.
10169 (AT_INIT): Run AS_INIT.
10170 Use the BINSH diversion to invoke /bin/sh.
10171 * tests/base.at, tests/m4sh.at, tests/m4sugar.at, tests/tools.at:
10172 * tests/torture.at: Respect M4sugar and M4sh macro name spaces.
10174 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10176 Let M4sh have its own diversions.
10178 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_m4_divert(BINSH), _m4_divert(REVISION))
10179 (_m4_divert(NOTICE)): Rename as...
10180 * lib/m4sugar/m4msh.m4 (_m4_divert(BINSH), _m4_divert(HEADER-REVISION))
10181 (_m4_divert(HEADER-COMMENT)): these.
10182 (_m4_divert(HEADER-COPYRIGHT), _m4_divert(HEADER-COPYRIGHT)): New.
10183 (_m4_divert(NOTICE)): New, for Libtool.
10184 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_m4_divert(PREPARE)): Remove, replaced
10185 long ago with `_m4_divert(GROW)'.
10186 (AC_COPYRIGHT, AC_REVISION, _AC_INIT_NOTICE): Adjust.
10188 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10190 * tests/base.at, tests/compile.at, tests/foreign.at,
10191 * tests/m4sh.at, tests/m4sugar.at, tests/mktests.sh,
10192 * tests/semantics.at, tests/suite.at, tests/tools.at,
10193 * tests/torture.at: Ask Autotest mode, not Autoconf mode.
10195 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10197 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_output): Handle @__@.
10199 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10201 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autoconf/oldnames.m4,
10202 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Adjust the license.
10204 2001-08-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
10206 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Mention snprintf,
10207 following up on a suggestion by Kevin Ryde.
10209 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10211 * doc/install.texi, doc/autoconf.texi: Use `autoconf', not
10212 `autoconf_manual', as texinfo.tex 2001-06-21.10 chokes on it.
10214 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10216 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Refer to `$as_me.log', not
10217 `$0.log' as for projects where testsuite is in src, we'd have
10218 testsuite.log created in src.
10220 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10222 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Recognize --normalize.
10224 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10226 Start implementing the AC_CHECK_HEADER transition scheme.
10228 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_NEW)
10229 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_OLD, _AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): New.
10230 (AC_CHECK_HEADER): Use them.
10232 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10234 * doc/autoconf.texi: Work around Texinfo buglets.
10235 (Transformation Rules): One example is enough, users are expected
10236 to have their brains on. And BTW, use DESTDIR.
10237 (dvar): New macro. Use it.
10239 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10241 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at) <AT_CHECK>: Complete.
10242 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Use the relative dir when
10243 looking for ChangeLogs.
10245 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10247 * bin/autom4te.in: --normalize is a new option.
10248 * bin/autoconf.in: Use it.
10250 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10252 * bin/Makefile.am, lib/Autom4te/Makefile.am, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am
10253 * lib/autotest/Makefile.am, lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am: Add TAGS support.
10255 2001-08-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
10257 * doc/autoconf.texi, doc/install.texi: Put copyright notice at
10258 start, not at end.
10260 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10262 * doc/Makefile.am (fu): New index, can't use fn because of defmac.
10263 Use it.
10265 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10267 * doc/autoconf.texi (pr): New index.
10268 (prindex, findex): Use, merge, and output them.
10269 (Environment Variable Index, Output Variable Index)
10270 (Preprocessor Symbol Index, Autoconf Macro Index, M4 Macro Index)
10271 (Autotest Macro Index): Rename as...
10272 (Environment Variables, Output Variables,Preprocessor Symbols)
10273 (Autoconf Macros, M4 Macros, Autotest Macros): these.
10274 * doc/install.texi: Use @command.
10275 (Environment Variables): Rename as...
10276 (Defining Variables): this.
10278 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10280 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): sprintf's return
10281 value.
10282 From Kevin Ryde.
10284 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10286 * Makefile.maint (CVS): New.
10287 (local-check): Run changelog-check. last.
10288 (alpha): Don't depend upon local-check, since...
10289 (cvs-dist): depends upon it.
10291 2001-08-15 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
10293 * tests/Makefile.am: Use a clean-local rule to remove
10294 autom4te.cache (it's a directory, not a file.
10295 * Makefile.am: Ditto (but maintainer-clean-local).
10297 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10299 * bin/autom4te.in (@m4_warning): New.
10300 (&handle_m4): Use it.
10301 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4_warn): Pass `-f' to autom4te to ensure the
10302 warnings are issued at each run.
10303 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR, AT_CHECK_M4SH): M4sugar
10304 is in the src tree.
10306 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10308 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOUPDATE): Perl is now required:
10309 don't waste time running `autoupdate --version' works.
10310 * tests/tools.at (autoupdating AC_PREREQ): Likewise.
10312 2001-08-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10314 * doc/autoconf.texi (ma): Rename this index as...
10315 (ac): this.
10317 2001-08-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10319 * Makefile.am: Remove dead code and dead comments.
10320 (pdf, html): New targets.
10321 * doc/autoconf.texi (Using Autotest): New chapter.
10322 * doc/Makefile.am (pdf): New targets.
10323 (CLEANFILES): Adjust.
10325 2001-08-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10327 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Log the start/stop dates and
10328 duration of the test suite.
10330 2001-08-12 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
10332 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Explicitelly save and load
10333 endianness for comparison instead of relying on AT_CHECK_ENV.
10335 2001-08-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
10337 * doc/autoconf.texi, doc/install.texi: Add a copyright notice
10338 to the INSTALL file.
10340 2001-08-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
10342 * NEWS: The autoconf manual now is distributed under the terms
10343 of the GNU Free Documentation License.
10345 * doc/autoconf.texi: Switch from old style copyright notice to FDL.
10346 Add an appendix "Copying This Manual" for the FDL.
10348 * doc/fdl.texi: New file, from
10349 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.texi>.
10351 * doc/Makefile.am (autoconf_TEXINFOS): Add fdl.texi.
10353 2001-08-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
10355 * AUTHORS, BUGS, ChangeLog, ChangeLog.0, ChangeLog.1,
10356 ChangeLog.2, GNUmakefile, Makefile.maint, NEWS, README,
10357 README-alpha, TODO, configure.ac, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am,
10358 m4/atconfig.m4, m4/init.m4, m4/m4.m4, m4/missing.m4,
10359 m4/sanity.m4, tests/README, tests/aclocal.m4,
10360 tests/atspecific.m4, tests/base.at, tests/compile.at,
10361 tests/foreign.at, tests/m4sh.at, tests/m4sugar.at,
10362 tests/semantics.at, tests/suite.at, tests/tools.at,
10363 tests/torture.at: Add copyright notice.
10365 * tests/mktests.sh: Update year in copyright notice.
10367 2001-08-12 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
10369 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): New test.
10371 2001-08-11 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
10373 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Handle ACTION-IF-TRUE,
10374 ACTION-IF-FALSE, and ACTION-IF-UNKNOWN.
10375 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler Characteristics): Update
10376 documentation for AC_C_BIGENDIAN.
10378 2001-08-11 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
10380 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Guess endianness by grep'ing
10381 magic values from an object file when cross-compiling.
10382 Based on code by Guido Draheim <Guido.Draheim@gmx.de>.
10384 2001-08-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10386 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_output): Don't use `grep' with side
10387 effects.
10388 Suggested by Russ Allbery.
10390 2001-08-10 Ralf Corsepius <corsepiu@faw.uni-ulm.de>
10392 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Propagate the
10393 current $prefix to the sub-configures.
10395 2001-08-09 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
10397 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4: Ignore *.xSYM when looking for an executable
10398 extension (needed on BeOS). Reported by Guido van Rossum.
10400 2001-08-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10402 * bin/autom4te.in ($icache): Load it only if older than autom4te.
10404 2001-08-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10406 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): All the `at-*' are to be
10407 removed.
10408 (at-setup-line): Huh? Be a variable `at_setup_line', not a file.
10409 No need to remove the files before and after the each test, before
10410 each test and at the end of the suite is enough.
10411 Display only the children `times', not the shell's.
10412 If the test failed or was skipped, at-times is not available.
10414 2001-08-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10416 Always produce testsuite.log, including when there are no
10417 failures. This helps getting information on skipped tests, and
10418 duration of the tests. Err, implement the latter btw.
10420 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Set up fd 6 for the log.
10421 Dump information on the first run of each test.
10422 (AT_CLEANUP): Create `at-times' containing the duration of the
10423 test group.
10425 2001-08-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10427 The use of `dumpstat' revealed that `len' was used although it
10428 should not. m4_text_wrap was using it, but in the Autoconf world
10429 where it is legal. Hence (i) test M4sh in its own world, not
10430 Autoconf's, and (ii), ahem, fix the bug :)
10432 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Be sure the set good quotes, as tracing
10433 does not like `' instead of [].
10434 (AT_INIT): Forbid `^_?AT_'.
10435 And don't output such tokens.
10436 * tests/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): Add `script', `script.s4g',
10437 `script.as', and `autom4te.cache'.
10438 Remove `empty' and `macro' which are no longer used.
10439 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR, AT_CHECK_M4SH): New.
10440 * tests/m4sugar.at: Use it.
10441 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: Use `m4_len' not `len'.
10443 2001-08-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10445 * bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoheader.in: --force, -f is a new option.
10447 2001-08-07 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
10449 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_output): Typo in quadrigraph substitution.
10451 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10453 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_ALLOCA, AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE)
10454 (AC_FUNC_FSEEKO, AC_FUNC_OBSTACK): Use AC_LANG_IFELSE, not
10455 AC_TRY_LINK.
10456 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_MAJOR): Likewise.
10457 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_F77_HOOKS)
10458 (AC_F77_MAIN): Likewise.
10460 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10462 Don't rely on M4sugar outputting the patterns in files, since we
10463 might process the output _without_ running m4, hence without these
10464 files.
10466 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_init): No need for `m4_tmpdir'.
10467 * bin/autom4te.in (@Request::includes): Remove, unused.
10468 (@Request::source): Rename as...
10469 (@Request::input): this.
10470 (@preselect): Add `m4_pattern_forbid' and `m4_pattern_allow'.
10471 (&handle_output): Fetch the patterns from the traces.
10472 `$forbidden' and `$allowed' are constant: use m//o.
10473 (&handle_m4): M4sugar no longer wants `m4_tmpdir'.
10474 (m4_pattern_forbid, m4_pattern_allow): Adjust for tracing only.
10476 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10478 `autoconf && autoheader' is sped up. Now, speed up `autoheader &&
10479 autoconf', i.e., in addition to caching traces, cache the output.
10481 * bin/autom4te.in (Request::cache): Rename as...
10482 (Request::id): this.
10483 ($cache, $icache, $tcache, $ocache): New.
10484 (&handle_m4): Save M4 output in the cache instead of $tmp.
10485 (&handle_output): Adjust.
10486 (&up_to_date_p): Check that the output cache is up to date too.
10487 (top level): Run `&handle_m4' iff force or the cache is invalid.
10488 Run `&handle_output' if the output cache is more recent.
10490 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10492 * bin/autom4te.in ($force): New.
10493 (&parse_args, &print_usage): -f, --force is a new option.
10494 (&handle_output): CPP directives might have spaces after `#'.
10495 (&parse_args): The first file only can be frozen.
10497 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10499 Don't let autom4te compute the `include' traces several times:
10500 first check that the trace cache file is up to date, and then
10501 compare its timestamp with that of the output.
10503 * bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoscan.in: Normalize
10504 the preamble. Don't require 5.005 as Autom4te::General does it,
10505 and better yet (use `use', not `require'!).
10506 * lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm: Rename the last occurrences of
10507 Class::Struct as Autom4te::Struct.
10508 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (File::stat): Use it.
10509 (&mtime): New, export it.
10510 * bin/autom4te.in: Use it.
10511 Declare `$req' is invalid if it is outdated.
10512 Don't declare it valid before saving it if something went wrong.
10514 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10516 Autom4te shall not encode Autoconf data, and preselecting traces
10517 must be proposed to the users.
10519 * bin/autom4te.in (@required_trace): Remove.
10520 (@preselect): New.
10521 (&parse_args, &print_usage): -p, --preselect is a new option.
10522 (&up_to_date_p): Adjust.
10523 * bin/autoconf.in: Preselect some Autoconf macros.
10525 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10527 * tests/tools.at (autoconf --trace: user macros): Check traces on
10528 macros invoked without arguments, and macros invoked with multiple
10529 lines arguments.
10531 2001-08-03 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
10533 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_traces): Fix rewriting of traces without
10534 arguments.
10536 2001-08-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10538 * bin/autoconf.in ($@): Work around the usual sh bug.
10539 From Nicolas Joly.
10541 2001-08-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10543 Clean up the handling of the M4 builtins tracing exception.
10545 * bin/autom4te.in (Request::request): Don't complete M4 builtins
10546 trace requests.
10547 (@m4_builtins): Rename as...
10548 (@m4_builtin): this.
10549 (%m4_builtin_alternate_name): New.
10550 (&parse_args): Complete the trace requests with alternate names.
10551 (&handle_traces): Hence no longer do it here.
10552 (&trace_requests): Remove, unused.
10554 2001-08-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10556 * doc/autoconf.texi (Redefined M4 Macros): Document m4_exit,
10557 m4_if, and m4_wrap.
10559 2001-08-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10561 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_init): Also forbid `_m4_*' tokens.
10562 (m4_divert_pop): Dump the whole diversion stack when a diversion
10563 mismatch happens.
10564 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_output): Remember of the first
10565 occurrence of a possibly undefined macro, not the last.
10566 Complain about the possibly undefined macros in the same order as
10567 the appear in the output.
10568 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am (autoconf.m4f): List its dependencies.
10569 * tests/tools.at (autoconf: forbidden tokens, basic)
10570 (autoconf: forbidden tokens, exceptions): No longer sort
10571 autoconf's stderr, as it is now deterministic.
10572 Check that `dnl' is caught.
10574 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10576 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.52c.
10578 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10580 Version 2.52b.
10582 * lib/Autom4te/Makefile.am (perllibdir): s/Autoconf/Autom4te/.
10584 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10586 Version 2.52a.
10588 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10590 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: Use `carp' and `croak', not `warn' and
10591 `die'.
10592 (&END): New.
10593 * bin/autoconf.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoupdate.in: Remove your
10594 `END', as `Autom4te::General::END' will be triggered.
10595 * bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoscan.in: Improve error messages accuracy.
10596 * bin/autoupdate.in (File::Compare, File::Copy): Use them instead of
10597 system to run `mv', `rm', and `cmp'.
10599 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10601 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&unique): New.
10602 * bin/autoscan.in (&output): Use it to issue trace requests once.
10604 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10606 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: New.
10607 * bin/autom4te.in (Autom4te::General): Use it.
10608 ($me, $tmp, $verbose, $debug, &mktmpdir, &verbose, &xsystem)
10609 (&find_configure_ac, &find_slave): Remove.
10610 * bin/autoscan.in: Likewise.
10611 * bin/autoupdate.in: Likewise.
10613 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10615 * autoconf.in, autom4te.in, autoscan.in, ifnames.in,
10616 * autoheader.in, autoreconf.in, autoupdate.in: Move to...
10617 * bin: here, new directory.
10618 * lib/Autoconf: Rename as...
10619 * lib/Autom4te: this, to please case insensitive junkie OSes.
10621 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10623 * autom4te.in ($m4): Handle the --nesting-limit.
10624 * autoconf.in (M4): Remove.
10626 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10628 * autoconf.in ($AWK): Remove, no longer used.
10629 * test/tools.at: Use AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF.
10630 (AWK portability): Remove, for autoconf no longer uses AWK.
10631 (Syntax of the Perl scripts): New.
10632 * configure.ac: autoconf no longer needs an AWK with a good
10633 regexp engine.
10634 Use a static test on AC_PACKAGE_VERSION.
10635 * autom4te.in (&up_to_date_p): Output depends on the arguments.
10636 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am: Ship version.m4, maintainer file.
10637 * tests/atconfig.in (PERL): New.
10639 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10641 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG(C), AC_LANG_C, _AC_LANG_ABBREV(C))
10642 (AC_LANG(C++), AC_LANG_CPLUSPLUS, _AC_LANG_ABBREV(C++))
10643 (AC_LANG_SOURCE(C), AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C), AC_LANG_CALL(C))
10644 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C), AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY(C))
10645 (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C), _AC_ARG_VAR_CPPFLAGS, _AC_ARG_VAR_LDFLAGS)
10646 (AC_LANG_PREPROC(C), _AC_PROG_PREPROC_WORKS_IFELSE, AC_PROG_CPP)
10647 (AC_LANG_COMPILER(C), ac_cv_prog_gcc, AC_PROG_CC, _AC_PROG_CC_G)
10648 (AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL, AC_PROG_CC_C_O, AC_LANG_PREPROC(C++))
10649 (AC_PROG_CXXCPP, AC_LANG_COMPILER(C++), ac_cv_prog_gxx)
10650 (AC_PROG_CXX, _AC_PROG_CXX_G, _AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION)
10651 (AC_PROG_CC_STDC, AC_C_CROSS, AC_C_CHAR_UNSIGNED, AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE)
10652 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN, AC_C_INLINE, AC_C_CONST, AC_C_VOLATILE)
10653 (AC_C_STRINGIZE, AC_C_PROTOTYPES): Move to...
10654 * lib/autoconf/c.m4: here, new file.
10656 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG(Fortran 77), AC_LANG_FORTRAN77)
10657 (_AC_LANG_ABBREV(Fortran 77), AC_LANG_SOURCE(Fortran 77))
10658 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(Fortran 77), AC_LANG_CALL(Fortran 77))
10659 (AC_LANG_PREPROC(Fortran 77), AC_LANG_COMPILER(Fortran 77))
10660 (ac_cv_prog_g77, AC_PROG_F77, _AC_PROG_F77_G, AC_PROG_F77_C_O)
10661 (_AC_PROG_F77_V_OUTPUT, _AC_PROG_F77_V, AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS)
10662 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN, _AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_F77_HOOKS, AC_F77_MAIN)
10663 (_AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING, AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING, AC_F77_WRAPPERS)
10664 (AC_F77_FUNC): Move to...
10665 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4: here, new file.
10667 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10669 * acfunctions.m4: Rename as...
10670 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4: this.
10671 * acgeneral.m4: Rename as...
10672 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: this.
10673 * acheaders.m4: Rename as...
10674 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4: this.
10675 * aclang.m4: Rename as...
10676 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4: this.
10677 * acoldnames.m4: Rename as...
10678 * lib/autoconf/oldnames.m4: this.
10679 * acspecific.m4: Rename as...
10680 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4: this.
10681 * actypes.m4: Rename as...
10682 * lib/autoconf/types.m4: this.
10683 * autoconf.m4: Rename as...
10684 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4: this.
10686 * m4sugar.m4: Rename as...
10687 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: this.
10688 * m4sh.m4: Rename as...
10689 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: this.
10691 * tests/atgeneral.m4: Rename as...
10692 * lib/autotest/general.m4: this.
10694 * acfunctions: Rename as...
10695 * lib/autoscan/functions: this.
10696 * acheaders: Rename as...
10697 * lib/autoscan/headers: this.
10698 * acidentifiers: Rename as...
10699 * lib/autoscan/identifiers: this.
10700 * aclibraries: Rename as...
10701 * lib/autoscan/libraries: this.
10702 * acmakevars: Rename as...
10703 * lib/autoscan/makevars: this.
10704 * acprograms: Rename as...
10705 * lib/autoscan/programs: this.
10707 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10709 * doc/autoconf.texi: Moving/deleting open files is not portable.
10710 Portability issues for `.' (source), and more information about sed.
10712 2001-07-25 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
10714 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Ignore -libmil (on Solaris),
10715 which has a special meaning and is not a reference to libibmil.a.
10716 Reported by Matteo Frigo.
10718 2001-07-25 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
10720 * autom4te.in (mktmpdir): Strip trailing newline from mktemp
10721 output.
10723 2001-07-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10725 * autoconf.in: Try to define the variables before using them.
10726 * autom4te.in ($perllibdir): Use `$autom4te_perllibdir' as envvar
10727 instead of `$perllibdir'.
10728 * tests/atconfig.in ($autom4te_perllibdir): Export it.
10730 2001-07-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10732 * autoconf.in (ac_LF_and_DOT): Remove, unused.
10734 2001-07-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10736 Let autoconf use autom4te for traces.
10738 * autoconf.in ($task, task trace): Remove, merely pass --trace to
10739 autom4te.
10740 * autoheader.in: Don't pass `-' to autoconf, rather, a tmp file.
10741 (Because I found no way for autom4te to accept `-').
10742 * autom4te.in (&Request::request): Beware of M4 builtins.
10743 (END): Don't try to remove the content of an empty dir.
10744 (&parse_args): Default is `$f:$l:$n:$%', not `$f:$l:$n:$*'.
10745 (&handle_output): Set a default value to `$forbidden'.
10746 * autoupdate.in (&verbose, &xsystem): New, from autom4te.in.
10747 ($autoconf): Pass --debug and --verbose.
10748 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF): Clean up autom4te's
10749 cache.
10751 2001-07-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10753 Let autoconf use autom4te to create configure.
10755 * autoconf.in ($automate): New var.
10756 (task script): Use autom4te.
10757 * autom4te.in (File::Spec): Use it.
10758 (&find_file): New.
10759 (&parse_args): --warning is -W, not -w.
10760 Find the top level files.
10761 (&handle_m4): Pass the warnings flags.
10762 Don't report verbosely m4's failures, unless requested.
10763 (&handle_output): Don't complain for forbidden tokens in comments.
10764 Be sure to report all the forbidden tokens within a single line.
10765 (&trace_format_to_m4): Preserve `$_'.
10766 (&handle_traces): Sort the output macros.
10767 (&up_to_date_p): Find the files before trying to get its time stamp.
10769 2001-07-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10771 * Makefile.am: Ship, build and install Autom4te.
10772 (SUBDIRS): Add lib.
10773 * lib/Autoconf/Struct.pm: New, from Automake 1.5.
10774 * configure.in: Require Perl.
10775 * man/autom4te.in: New.
10777 2001-07-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
10779 * doc/autoconf.texi (Cache Checkpointing): Use AC_MSG_ERROR in
10780 example, rather than (exit 1); exit (which isn't portable).
10782 2001-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10784 Version 2.52.
10786 2001-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10788 The C-Fortran 77 hooks are available only once AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN
10789 was run, while they are needed also when it is expanded.
10790 Reported by Nicolas Joly.
10792 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN): Define _AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_F77_HOOKS.
10793 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C)): Use it instead of depending upon
10794 AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN being expanded.
10796 2001-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10798 * configure.in: Bump to 2.51a.
10800 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10802 Version 2.51.
10804 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10806 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN): Let the interface be more
10807 Autoconfy: $1 = action-if-found, $2 = action-if-not-found.
10809 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10811 The runtime test for AC_FUNC_GETPGRP fails when prototypes are
10812 used. Well, then use the prototypes when you can, and runtime as
10813 a last resort.
10814 Reported by Artur Frysiak
10816 * acfunctions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_GETPGRP_TEST): New.
10817 (AC_FUNC_GETPGRP): Use it.
10818 First try to compile with 0-ary or 1-ary calls.
10820 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10822 * actypes.m4 (_AC_CHECK_TYPE_REPLACEMENT_TYPE_P): `foo_t' is a
10823 replacement type.
10824 From Paul Eggert.
10826 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10828 * Makefile.maint: Sync. with cppi 1.10.
10830 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10832 * aclang.m4 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C)): Output F77_DUMMY_MAIN only when
10833 AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN has been run.
10834 From Pavel Roskin and Steven G. Johnson.
10836 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10838 * configure.in: Rename as...
10839 * configure.ac: this.
10841 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10843 * Makefile.am (INSTALL.txt): Don't use $@ and $< in non suffix
10844 rules.
10845 From Marc Espie.
10846 * Makefile.maint (release-archive-dir): Rename as...
10847 (release_archive_dir): this, so that it can be specialized in
10848 Makefile.
10850 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10852 * configure.in: Bump to 2.50d.
10854 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10856 Version 2.50c.
10857 * Makefile.maint (alpha): Typo.
10859 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10861 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Macro names and underscore.
10863 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10865 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/texinfo.tex
10866 * doc/standards.texi, doc/make-stds.texi: Update.
10868 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10870 * Makefile.maint (cvs-check, cvs-tag-check, cvs-diff-check): New.
10872 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10874 * Makefile.maint (maintainer-check): Rename as...
10875 (maintainer-distcheck): this.
10876 (changelog-check, static-check): New.
10877 Use them.
10879 2001-07-14 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
10881 * doc/autoconf.texi (C++ Compilers Characteristics): Last resort
10882 for CXX is g++, not gcc.
10884 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10886 * doc/autoconf.texi (Files): New subsection.
10888 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10890 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler, Fortran 77 Compiler): Be subsections
10891 of...
10892 (Generic Compiler Characteristics): this.
10893 (C++ Compiler): New subsection.
10895 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10897 * autoscan.in: Use IO::File.
10898 Adjust all the routines to use it.
10899 ($log): New file (autoscan.log).
10900 (output): Dump detailed logs into $log, and a shortened version to
10901 stderr.
10902 (&scan_makefile): Refine the regexp catching tokens in the code.
10903 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoscan Invocation): Document `autoscan.log'
10904 and the `configure.ac' checking feature.
10906 2001-07-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10908 For some AWK, such as on HPUX 11, `xfoo' does not match `foo|^bar'.
10909 Reported by Michael Elizabeth Chastain.
10911 * autoconf.in: Refuse such AWK.
10912 * configure.in: Likewise.
10913 * Makefile.am (acversion.m4): Do not use move-if-change this file
10914 has dependencies.
10915 * doc/autoconf.texi (Fortran 77 Compiler): Some typos.
10917 2001-07-10 Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com>
10919 * autoscan.in (&scan_makefile): Improve programs regexp to parse
10920 things like "g++", "file.c" and "some-conf" as tokens.
10921 (&scan_file): Match C++ files extensions.
10922 If the filename extension is C++ then ask for c++.
10924 2001-07-05 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
10926 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN): Use AC_TRY_LINK, not
10927 AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC, to check whether defining a dummy
10928 main-like routine is needed for linking with F77 libs.
10930 2001-07-05 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
10932 * aclocal.m4 (_AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION): Remove conftest*
10933 after using break.
10934 (_AC_PROG_F77_V_OUTPUT): Remove conftest*, not conftest.* after
10935 linking.
10937 2001-07-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10939 * Makefile.am (move_if_change): New. Use it instead of `mv'.
10940 (acversion.m4): Name it `$(srcdir)/acversion.m4' to ease broken
10941 Makes' lives.
10942 Reported by Nicolas Joly.
10944 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10946 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_RUN_IFELSE): Remove conftest.o when cleaning
10947 up.
10948 * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_WAIT3): Use `break' to silent some
10949 warnings from compilers.
10950 * aclang.m4 (_AC_LANG_COMPILER_GNU): Log the version information
10951 for all the compilers, not only GNU. Hence move from here...
10952 (AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX, AC_PROG_F77): to here.
10954 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10956 * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_STRTOD, AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R)
10957 (AC_FUNC_STRCOLL, AC_FUNC_WAIT3): Use AC_RUN_IFELSE and
10958 AC_COMPILE_IFELSE.
10960 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10962 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Actually apply
10963 the ``strings.h'' change claimed below.
10965 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10967 * aclang.m4 (_AC_LANG_COMPILER_GNU): s/-dumpspecs/-v/.
10969 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10971 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Include
10972 strings.h if usable with string.h.
10973 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
10975 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10977 * autoscan.in (&scan_file): Skip FILE if there is FILE.in.
10978 From Jens Petersen.
10980 2001-07-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10982 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Specify CONFIG_FILES
10983 etc. in the log.
10985 2001-07-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10987 * acheaders.m4 (AC_CHECK_HEADER): When INCLUDES are set, use the
10988 compiler, not the preprocessor.
10989 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): No longer use
10990 dedicated code to check for inttypes.h, as AC_CHECK_HEADERS does
10991 the right thing.
10992 * Makefile.am (.m4.m4f): Emphasize M4 error messages and fail
10993 earlier if there are.
10995 2001-07-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10997 * autoscan.in ($initfile): Remove.
10998 (&find_file): Rename as...
10999 (&scan_file): this.
11000 Immediately scan the current file, instead of gathering them, and
11001 later having them handled by &scan_files.
11002 (&scan_files): Merely invoke Find::File.
11003 Adjust.
11005 2001-07-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11007 * autoscan.in: Formatting changes, matching the invocation order.
11008 (File::Find): Use it instead of Perl 4's `find.pl'.
11009 (&wanted): Rename as...
11010 (&find_file): this.
11012 2001-07-01 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
11014 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN): Remove conftest* after using
11015 break in the argument to AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC.
11016 (AC_F77_MAIN): Remove conftest* after using break in the
11017 argument to AC_TRY_LINK.
11019 2001-07-01 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
11021 Add alternate 'main' routine detection for linking C/C++ with Fortran,
11022 fixing link failures for e.g. AC_F77_WRAPPERS on NetBSD.
11024 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN): New macro to detect whether a
11025 dummy alternate main is required even if the user provides her own
11026 'main'.
11027 (AC_F77_MAIN): New macro to detect whether it is possible to
11028 provide an alternate 'main' function name, using the 'main' from
11029 the Fortran libraries.
11030 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C)): Use F77_DUMMY_MAIN, if it is defined, so that
11031 cross-language link tests can be performed successfully.
11032 (_AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING): Require AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN. Also put $FLIBS
11033 after $LIBS, for consistency; this should be the general rule since
11034 the user may want to link to Fortran libraries that require $FLIBS.
11035 * doc/autoconf.texi: Document AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN and AC_F77_MAIN.
11037 2001-06-29 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
11039 * atgeneral.m4 (AT_CHECK): Add a newline to the end of
11040 at-stdout and at-stderr instead of removing the newline
11041 from the echo output, which is not guaranteed to work.
11043 2001-06-28 Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com>
11045 * aclang.m4 (_AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION): Only add declaration to
11046 confdefs.h when non-zero.
11048 2001-06-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11050 * configure.in: Bump to 2.50c.
11052 2001-06-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11054 Version 2.50b.
11056 2001-06-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11058 Version 2.50a.
11060 2001-06-25 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
11062 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_MACRO): Accept one more
11063 argument, AUTOCONF-FLAGS.
11064 * tests/mktests.sh (update_exclude_list): Add
11065 AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS and AC_FUNC_WAIT3.
11066 * tests/semantics.at: Test AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS and
11067 AC_FUNC_WAIT3 with "-W no-obsolete".
11069 2001-06-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11071 * tests/foreign.at (libtool): Fix the `libtoolize --version' decoding.
11073 2001-06-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11075 * autoscan.in (%macro): Now maps from word to list of macros.
11076 (&init_tables): Die when a word which is already handled by
11077 explicit macros is mapped to the default macro.
11078 (&print_unique): Remove, inlined in...
11079 (&output_kind): here.
11080 (File::Basename): Use it.
11081 (&output): Sort the CONFIG_FILES.
11082 * acheaders: Normalize.
11083 * acfunctions: Likewise.
11085 2001-06-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11087 * aclang.m4 (_AC_LANG_COMPILER_GNU): If GNU, dump the compiler
11088 characteristics in the logs.
11089 Suggested by Mo DeJong.
11091 2001-06-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11093 * acfunctions.m4 (AM_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE, AM_FUNC_FNMATCH)
11094 (AM_FUNC_MKTIME, AM_FUNC_OBSTACK, AM_FUNC_STRTOD): Reactivated.
11095 * doc/autoconf.texi (Autoconf 2.13): New section.
11097 2001-06-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11099 * autoconf.in (Task traces): Separate the error messages from the
11100 traces to improve robustness.
11102 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11104 * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): Make it a single test instead of
11105 three as failures are unlikely, and speed matters.
11107 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11109 * doc/autoconf.texi (Redefined M4 Macros): New.
11111 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11113 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Consider
11114 inttypes.h is missing if it conflicts with sys/types.h, as on IRIX
11115 5.3.
11117 2001-06-23 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
11119 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Defer parsing of
11120 config.status targets to after the evaluation of the INIT-CMDS.
11121 Double quote config.status targets (used to be single quoted).
11123 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11125 * tests/torture.at (CONFIG_FILES, HEADERS, LINKS and COMMANDS):
11126 Check the content of the created file.
11127 Check the ./config.status command line invocation.
11129 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11131 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Reject prehistoric versions.
11133 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11135 * aclang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Try to be robust to
11136 preexisting files matching a.*.
11138 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11140 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Output error messages on
11141 stderr.
11142 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_ARG_VAR): Update.
11144 2001-06-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11146 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Die instead of warning when
11147 precious variables have changed.
11148 * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): Adjust.
11150 2001-06-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11152 ./configure --program-suffix=foo produces `transform=s,$$,foo,;',
11153 but some sed choke on multiple `;', and other tools (e.g.,
11154 Automake), include the separator themselves.
11156 * acgeneral.m4 (AC_ARG_VAR): Be sure not to leave extra `;'.
11158 2001-06-19 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
11160 * doc/autoconf.texi (Functions Portability): Rename as...
11161 (Function Portability): this.
11162 (Function Portability): Document potential problems with unlink().
11164 2001-06-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
11166 * NEWS, doc/autoconf.texi: Document quadrigraphs.
11168 2001-06-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11170 * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_FORK): Fix typos.
11172 2001-06-18 Ruediger Kuhlmann <info@ruediger-kuhlmann.de>
11174 * acfunctions.m4: (AC_FUNC_VFORK) rename as...
11175 (_AC_FUNC_VFORK): this.
11176 Remove AC_DEFINEs and don't guess cross-compilation values.
11177 (_AC_FUNC_FORK): New, check whether fork() isn't just a stub.
11178 (AC_FUNC_FORK): New, use _AC_FUNC_VFORK and _AC_FUNC_FORK to
11179 define HAVE_WORKING_FORK, HAVE_WORKING_VFORK; and vfork to fork if
11180 vfork doesn't work.
11181 Guess values if cross-compiling, but warn.
11182 * acfunctions: Add AC_FUNC_FORK.
11183 * doc/autoconf.texi: Document AC_FUNC_FORK. Give example to define
11184 and vfork appropriately.
11186 2001-06-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11188 * doc/autoconf.texi (Functions Portability): New section.
11190 2001-06-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11192 * autoconf.in (M4): Pass --nesting-limit=1024, unless already set
11193 in $M4.
11194 Suggested by Andreas Schwab.
11196 2001-06-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11198 * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_CHOWN, AC_FUNC_CLOSEDIR_VOID)
11199 (AC_FUNC_GETPGRP, AC_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK)
11200 (AC_FUNC_MMAP, AC_FUNC_SELECT_ARGTYPES, _AC_FUNC_STAT)
11201 (AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL): Use AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT.
11202 Don't use AC_TRY_RUN, which double quotes, prefer AC_RUN_IFELSE,
11203 and either AC_LANG_SOURCE or AC_LANG_PROGRAM.
11204 (AC_FUNC_CLOSEDIR_VOID): Protect C++ from `int closedir ();' (or
11205 the converse).
11207 2001-06-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11209 * doc/autoconf.texi (ms): New index.
11210 (Macro Index): Rename as...
11211 (Autoconf Macro Index): this.
11212 (M4 Macro Index): New appendix.
11213 (Programming in M4): New chapter.
11214 Define M4sugar, M4sh, m4_pattern_forbid, and m4_pattern_allow.
11215 (Quoting): Rename as...
11216 (M$ Quotation): this.
11217 Be part of `Programming in M4).
11219 2001-06-18 Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>
11221 * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): Set variables and export them
11222 in separate statements for compatibility with Tru64 v5.1.
11224 2001-06-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11226 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Be sure to cache the
11227 current values of the precious variables, not the previously
11228 cached values.
11229 Pass precious variables which are set to config.status.
11230 * doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Document AC_ARG_VAR.
11231 * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): New.
11233 2001-06-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
11235 * doc/autoconf.texi: Move AC_FUNC_WAIT3 and
11236 AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS to the obsolete section,
11237 and explain why and how to replace them.
11238 * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_WAIT3): Warn as obsolete.
11239 * acspecific.m4 (AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS): Likewise.
11241 2001-06-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11243 `build_alias', `host_alias', and `target_alias' are not AC_SUBST'd.
11244 Reported by Bruno Haible.
11246 * acgeneral.m4 (AC_ARG_VAR): Move the AC_SUBST, from here...
11247 (_AC_ARG_VAR_PRECIOUS): to here.
11249 2001-06-15 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
11251 * acheaders.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_DIRENT): Instead of defining
11252 an unused pointer use cast to this type and `if' statement to
11253 avoid warnings from the compiler.
11254 (AC_HEADER_TIME): Likewise.
11255 * actypes.m4 (AC_CHECK_MEMBER): s/foo/ac_aggr/. Use the member
11256 in `if' statement to avoid warnings from the compiler. Declare
11257 ac_aggr static to avoid the need to initialize it.
11259 2001-06-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11261 * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell): Move to follow `Writing
11262 Macros'.
11264 2001-06-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11266 * m4/missing.m4, config/missing: Updated to Automake 1.4g's.
11267 Suggested by Alexander Mai.
11269 2001-06-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11271 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Guard
11272 sys/types.h and sys/stat.h, and check for them.
11274 2001-06-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11276 * acheaders.m4 (AC_CHECK_HEADER, AC_CHECK_HEADERS): Support $4 =
11277 INCLUDES.
11279 2001-06-12 Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
11281 * acspecific.m4 (AC_PATH_XTRA): Check if linking against libX11
11282 succeeds and only try adding libdnet upon a failure.
11284 2001-06-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11286 * autoscan.in (&output_kind): Output the comment only if it exists.
11287 (%kind_comment): Add entry for `programs'.
11288 (&output_programs): Use &output_kind.
11289 (&output_functions, &output_identifiers, &output_headers)
11290 (&output_programs): Inline, and remove.
11292 2001-06-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11294 * autoscan.in (%kind_comment): New.
11295 (output_kind): New.
11296 (output_functions, output_identifiers, output_headers): Use it.
11298 2001-06-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11300 * autoscan.in (&print_unique): Take `$kind' and `$word' as
11301 arguments, to factor indirections into `%macro' and `%used'.
11302 (%generic_macro): Fix a typo.
11304 2001-06-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11306 * aclibraries: New.
11307 * autoscan.in (@kinds): Add `libraries'.
11308 Use `@kinds' instead of hard coded lists.
11309 (%programs, %headers, %identifiers, %makevars, %libraries, %functions):
11310 Remove, replaced by...
11311 (%used): this.
11313 2001-06-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11315 * autoscan.in (%functions_macros %headers_macros)
11316 (%identifiers_macros %programs_macros %makevars_macros): Remove,
11317 replaced by...
11318 (%macro): New.
11320 2001-06-11 Raja R Harinath <harinath@cs.umn.edu>
11322 * aclang.m4 (AC_NO_EXECUTABLES): Override
11323 _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_WORKS, not _AC_LANG_COMPILER_WORKS.
11325 2001-06-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11327 * aclang.m4 (AC_NO_EXECUTABLES): Define the macros with their
11328 trailing new line.
11329 Reported by Andreas Schwab.
11331 2001-06-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11333 * Makefile.am, Makefile.maint: Typos.
11335 2001-06-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11337 * doc/autoconf.texi (Here-Documents): New section, gathering
11338 documentation about here-documents.
11339 Use `href', not `uref', and other changes.
11341 2001-06-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11343 * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell Programming): Promoted as a
11344 chapter.
11346 2001-06-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11348 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Complete the
11349 description of the here-docs penalties with Alexandre Oliva's
11350 explanations.
11352 2001-06-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
11354 * doc/autoconf.texi: Talk about here documents and speedups.
11355 Do not use "echo" on arbitrary strings.
11356 Spell "here-documents" consistently with the standard.
11358 2001-06-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11360 * doc/autoconf.texi (Concept Index): Introduce it.
11361 Regenerate the menus.
11363 2001-06-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11365 * Makefile.maint, GNUmakefile: New, from Jim Meyering.
11366 * config/prev-version.txt: New.
11367 * config/move-if-change: New, for GNU libc.
11369 2001-06-06 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
11371 * tests/atgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Remove "/bin/sh" after $SHELL.
11373 2001-06-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11375 * acgeneral.m4 (AC_CHECK_LIB): Fix the cache var name to work
11376 properly when $1 is not a literal.
11377 Fixes PR Autoconf/187, reported by Bram Moolenaar.
11379 2001-06-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11381 Invoking AC_COPYRIGHT before AC_INIT fails.
11383 * Makefile.am (.m4.m4f): Pass --fatal-warnings to m4.
11384 * acgeneral.m4 (_m4_divert(VERSION_FSF))
11385 (_m4_divert(VERSION_USER)): New.
11386 (AC_COPYRIGHT): $2 is the diversion to use.
11387 (_AC_INIT_COPYRIGHT): Use the FSF diversion.
11388 (AC_INIT): Remove dead comments as now it's commutative.
11390 2001-06-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11392 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_LIB): Strengthen to reflect
11393 PR autoconf/187.
11395 2001-06-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11397 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): `prefix' and `exec_prefix'
11398 can be empty.
11399 `*dir' variables cannot be NONE.
11400 Reported by Mark Kettenis.
11402 2001-06-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
11404 * doc/autoconf.texi: Fix references to Solaris and SunOS versions.
11406 2001-06-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11408 * acgeneral.m4 (AC_VAR_SET, AC_VAR_GET, AC_VAR_TEST_SET)
11409 (AC_VAR_SET_IFELSE, AC_VAR_PUSHDEF and AC_VAR_POPDEF, AC_TR_CPP)
11410 (AC_TR_SH): Move as...
11411 * m4sh.m4 (AS_VAR_SET, AS_VAR_GET, AS_VAR_TEST_SET)
11412 (AS_VAR_SET_IF, AC_VAR_PUSHDEF, AS_VAR_POPDEF, AS_TR_CPP)
11413 (AS_TR_SH): these.
11414 (_AS_TR_PREPARE, _AS_CR_PREPARE, _AS_TR_CPP_PREPARE)
11415 (_AS_TR_SH_PREPARE): New.
11416 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Invoke _AS_TR_PREPARE.
11417 * tests/aclocal.m4 (AC_STATE_SAVE): `as_' vars can be modified.
11419 2001-06-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11421 * Makefile.am (.m4.m4f): Pass the options first.
11422 Fixes PR autoconf/182.
11424 2001-06-02 Nathan Sidwell <nathan@codesourcery.com>
11426 GNU getopt, when POSIXLY_CORRECT does not permute options and
11427 arguments. So pass the options first.
11428 Fixes PR autoconf/184.
11430 * autoconf.sh (m4_prefiles, m4f_prefiles): New variables.
11431 (run_m4): Remove files.
11432 (run_m4f): Remove.
11433 Update remainder of script to use them.
11434 (for warning in): Do not use a literal comma as it will not be
11435 split by IFS.
11437 2001-06-02 Christian Marquardt <marq@gfz-potsdam.de>
11439 * aclang.m4 (AC_PROG_F77): Add Fujitsu's "frt" to the list of
11440 Fortran compilers to check.
11441 (_AC_PROG_F77_V): Add '-###' as a possible option to print
11442 information on library and object files.
11443 (AC_PROG_CXX): Add Fujitsu's "FCC" to the list of C++ compilers
11444 to check.
11446 2001-06-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11448 * autom4te.in (Request::@request): Declare with `vars', not `my',
11449 as it prevents updates via `do FILENAME'.
11451 2001-06-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11453 * configure.in (standards_texi): Remove, dead code.
11455 2001-06-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11457 * autom4te.in: New.
11459 2001-06-02 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
11461 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Don't rely on $? in the traps
11462 for signals other than 0 - exit with code 1.
11463 * m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): Likewise.
11464 * autoconf.in: Likewise. Also don't rely on exit == exit $?.
11465 * autoheader.in: Likewise.
11466 * autoreconf.in: Likewise.
11467 * tests/torture.at (Signal handling): New test for the above.
11469 2001-06-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11471 * m4sugar.m4 (m4_defn, m4_undefine, m4_popdef): Clarify the error
11472 message.
11474 2001-05-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11476 * acfunctions, acheaders, acidentifiers, acmakevars, acprograms:
11477 Add copyright and comments.
11478 * acheaders: Add stdint.h.
11479 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
11481 2001-05-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11483 * atgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Use $SHELL.
11484 * atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_DEFINES): Skip HAVE_STDINT_H.
11486 2001-05-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11488 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Include
11489 stdint.h.
11490 From Paul Eggert and Lars Hecking.
11492 2001-05-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11494 * tests/base.at: Adjust line numbers in error messages.
11496 2001-05-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11498 * tests/base.at, tests/m4sh.at: When using AC_PLAIN_SCRIPT be sure
11499 to emit the bangshe line.
11500 Reported by David Carter.
11502 2001-05-30 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
11504 * aclang.m4 (AC_PROG_F77): Add Compaq's "fort" to the list of
11505 Fortran (95) compilers to check.
11507 2001-05-29 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
11509 * doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction, Pointers): Update the Autoconf
11510 Macro Archive URL.
11512 2001-05-23 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
11514 * aclang.m4 (AC_PROG_CPP): Use `break' instead of `break 2' since
11515 _AC_PROG_PREPROC_WORKS_IFELSE expands arguments outside the loop.
11516 (AC_PROG_CXXCPP): Likewise.
11518 2001-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11520 * config: New directory.
11521 * configure.in: AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR it.
11522 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CONFIGURE_AC): Adjust.
11524 2001-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11526 * autoconf.in, autoreconf.in, autoheader.in, autoscan.in, ifnames.in,
11527 * autoupdate.in: Specify the Emacs mode.
11528 * acversion.m4.in: Rename as...
11529 * acversion.m4: this.
11530 * tests/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): More garbage.
11532 2001-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11534 * autoconf.sh, autoreconf.sh, autoheader.sh, autoscan.pl, ifnames.sh:
11535 Rename as...
11536 * autoconf.in, autoreconf.in, autoheader.in, autoscan.in, ifnames.in:
11537 these.
11539 2001-05-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11541 * configure.in: Bump to 2.50a.
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