1 2005-06-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3 * doc/autoconf.texi (Subdirectories): Fix markup typos.
5 2005-06-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
7 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_ENV): Simplify regexp slightly.
9 Fix some more shell quoting problems. Prompted by a bug report
11 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DIRCHECK): Put name of invalid
12 variable into diagnostic. Make the diagnostic an error, not a warning,
13 because we really don't support spaces and suchlike in dir names.
14 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Allow special characters in $ac_unique_file.
15 Don't worry about backslashes in srcdir; it can't happen now.
16 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Allow weird characters in ac_optarg.
17 Simplify ac_optarg handling.
18 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Remove unnecessary and inconsistent quotes.
20 2005-06-22 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
22 Fix AT_CONFIG_CMP for Solaris hosts; idea from Ralf Menzel.
23 * configure.ac: Call AC_PROG_EGREP and AC_PROG_SED.
24 * tests/atlocal.in: Propagate $EGREP and $SED.
25 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_ENV): Use $EGREP, not $GREP -E.
26 (AT_CONFIG_CMP): Use sed instead of grep plumbing.
28 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <grep>: Mention
29 that '\|' is not allowed in BREs; recommend using newline separated
30 list of patterns instead of multiple -e options.
32 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): Remove an old comment.
34 2005-06-22 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
36 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_CANONICAL_SPLIT): Use AC_SUBST/2.
38 2005-06-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
40 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_CANONICAL_SPLIT): Fix typo.
42 2005-06-21 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
44 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <sed>: Document that
45 b, t, r, w commands require single space, while : cannot have any.
46 (Special Shell Variables): Fix sed code this in the example.
47 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): Likewise; and fix a typo.
48 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_ARG_OPTION): Fix typo in the description.
50 2005-06-21 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
52 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_split): If the parameter is empty,
53 expand to the empty list. Don't use two pairs of m4_changequote,
56 2005-06-20 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
58 * lib/m4/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_YACC): Declare YACC & YFLAGS precious.
60 2005-06-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
62 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (as_awk_strverscmp): Port to Solaris /bin/awk.
64 Don't mention Solaris versions so much, if a
65 problem is common to all extant versions of Solaris. Say "SunOS
66 4" instead of "SunOS" for SunOS 4.
67 (awk): Mention more of the limitations of traditional Awk.
68 (cat): Don't talk about cat -v.
70 2005-06-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
72 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_VERSION_COMPARE_PREPARE): New macro.
73 (AS_VERSION_COMPARE): New macro. The API is taken from CVS,
74 but the implementation is entirely different and is designed
75 to be compatible with glibc strverscmp.
76 * tests/m4sh.at (AS_VERSION_COMPARE): New test.
78 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Mention expr bug
79 on Mac OS X 10.4 reported by Peter O'Gorman in:
80 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2005-06/msg00041.html
81 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_CANONICAL_SPLIT):
82 Use shell builtins rather than 'expr', to work around expr bug.
84 2005-06-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
86 * doc/autoconf.texi: "filesystem" -> "file system".
87 "behaviour" -> "behavior".
88 Warn about \(...\)* in Solaris sed (written by Ralf Menzel).
89 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Omit blank after ":" sed command,
91 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Likewise.
92 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): Work around problem
93 with Solaris sed. Fix by Ralf Menzel and Stepan Kasal.
95 * man/Makefile.am (MOSTLYCLEANFILES): Add $(srcdir)/*.t.
96 (.x.1): Ignore the time stamp in the .TH line when deciding whether
97 to update the man page. That way, we don't have to check in new
98 man pages every month.
100 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_VAR_TEST_SET): Work even if $1 contains
101 quotes and backslashes. Patch from Derek Price.
103 2005-06-10 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
105 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Document AS_TR_CPP &
108 2005-06-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
110 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't accept Solaris 9's diff
111 -u, since it outputs chatter if the input files are the same.
112 Problem reported by Ralf Menzel.
114 2005-06-08 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
116 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: Undefine include & sinclude rather than
117 renaming them since they are about to be redefined anyhow.
119 2005-06-08 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
121 * doc/autoconf.texi (Redefined M4 Macros): Add index entries for most
122 redefined M4 macros to this node. Document m4_include & m4_sinclude.
123 Move m4_undefine to alphabetical order.
125 2005-06-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
127 * README: Recommend GNU M4 1.4.3 or later.
128 * doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction): Likewise.
129 Reword to avoid some formatting glitches.
130 Use "#!/bin/sh", not "#! /bin/sh"; the space isn't needed these days.
131 Clarify explanation of HP compiler bug.
132 Redo example output tp match current CVS snapshot.
133 Use @example.org in email addresses when the examples
134 might get inadvertently cut-and-pasted into user code.
135 Remove example of autom4te usage that doesn't seem to work now.
136 Use modern AC_INIT (except when the example is meant to be
137 shown with Autoconf 2.13).
138 Update ksh info for Solaris 9 and later.
140 Modernize description of Automake versions a bit.
141 Don't claim a future version of Autoconf is near.
142 * doc/install.texi: Reword to avoid some formatting glitches.
144 2005-06-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
146 * doc/autoconf.texi: Add [] to examples, so that the manual
147 follows its own advice about quoting better.
148 Reword to avoid some formatting glitches.
149 * doc/installt.exi: Reword to avoid some formatting glitches.
151 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins) <case>: Mention
152 Tru64 ksh pattern matching bug. Reported against Libtool by
153 Albert Chin <libtool@mlists.thewrittenword.com> and
154 Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>.
156 2005-06-06 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
158 m4_cdr of one-member list was [[]] (one-member list containing an
159 empty string) instead of [] (an empty list. Callers were skewed to
160 match this misbehaviour. As a consequence of this:
161 - m4_foreach([x], [], [foo]) expanded to `foo', while
162 - the expansion of m4_foreach([x], [[]], [foo]) was empty.
165 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_cdr): If only one argument is given,
166 expand to an empty string; print error msg if called without
168 (m4_foreach, m4_map, m4_map_sep): Don't expect the previous
169 misbehaviour; handle [] and [[]] correctly.
171 2005-06-06 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
173 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Nuke ac_max_here_lines.
174 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): Simplify the sed
175 scripts created and the loop applying them, use _AC_SED_CMD_LIMIT.
177 2005-06-06 Ralf Menzel <menzel@ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (trivial change)
179 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Solaris' awk cannot
180 swallow records with more than 99 fields.
181 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Use the awk builtin `split' to
184 2005-06-04 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
186 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): AIX awk cannot
187 swallow literals longer than 399. Reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
188 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Pass $at_groups though stdin,
189 to workaround this limitation.
191 2005-06-03 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
193 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Find g95 in addition
194 to gfortran, and make these the first two compiler names
195 checked (following the general autoconf preference for gcc).
197 2005-06-03 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
199 * tests/Makefile.am (check_SCRIPTS): Set to $(wrappers).
200 (DISTCLEANFILES): Remove $(check_SCRIPTS).
201 (testsuite): Make sure autotest.m4f is up-to-date before using it.
203 2005-06-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
205 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't create a regular
206 expression of unbounded size when processing the --list
207 option. This runs afoul of a limit of 399 bytes per regular
208 expression on AIX. Problem reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
210 2005-06-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
212 * NEWS: Note yesterday's changes to AC_SUBST and AC_SUBST_FILE.
213 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Reword example
214 for multiline stdbool replacement.
215 (Setting Output Variables): Reword text a bit. Don't
216 give all the details about |#_!!_#|.
217 Reword description of line replacement.
219 2005-05-31 Dan Manthey <dan_manthey@partech.com>
221 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Output variables may
222 now contain newlines, and substituted files must be referenced on
223 a line alone; the sed scripts to substitute them are now very
225 (_AC_SED_CMD_LIMIT): Added; single place to store limit on how many
226 commands can be put in a sed script portably.
227 * doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Document above
228 changes. (Particular Header Checks) <AC_HEADER_STDBOOL>: Give exaple
229 use of multiline substitution.
230 * tests/torture.at: No longer expect substitution of newline to fail.
232 2005-05-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
234 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_SHELL_FN_WORK): Fix diagnostics.
235 From Ralf Menzel (trivial change).
237 2005-05-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
239 * tests/local.at: Don't attempt to check for negated character
240 classes in shell scripts. The test was too brittle.
242 2005-05-25 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
244 * bin/autoconf.as: Don't use "shift 2"; it's not portable enough.
245 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Document this
248 2005-05-24 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
250 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_ECHO_LOG): New macro to factor out
251 common code; used in many places in the tree.
252 (AS_ESCAPE): Make the pattern a bit simpler; use \& insetad of \1.
253 (_AS_ECHO_UNQUOTED): Move the macro lower; no code change.
255 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_ifset): Use m4_ifval.
257 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Merge the two error
258 messages when ac_unique_file is not found.
259 (AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR): Simplify the `if' at the end.
260 (AC_MSG_CHECKING, AC_MSG_RESULT): Put braces around the two echo
261 commands, for consistency with AC_MSG_ERROR and such.
263 * bin/autoconf.as: Make more use of "shift 2" in option processing.
265 * bin/Makefile.am: Merge the two rules for creating scripts.
267 2005-05-23 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
269 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_MSG_RESULT_UNQUOTED): Make
270 obsolete; it was never documented.
271 (AC_CACHE_CHECK): Use AC_MSG_RESULT instead.
273 2005-05-20 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
275 * NEWS: @top_builddir@ is now a dirname, ac_top_builddir will follow.
276 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCDIRS): Rename ...
277 (ac_top_builddir): ... this ...
278 (ac_top_build_prefix): ... to this; the old name is also kept, for
279 backward compatibility.
280 (ac_top_builddir_sub): New variable, without the trailing slash,
282 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): s/@top_builddir@/$ac_top_builddir_sub/
283 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Actions): Rename
284 ac_top_builddir to ac_top_build_prefix.
285 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Rename
286 at_top_builddir to at_top_build_prefix.
287 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
289 2005-05-20 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
291 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Simplify the init
294 2005-05-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
296 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_text_wrap): Don't m4_quote the second
297 argument to m4_foreach. I guess it was necessary in the past,
298 but I think it's a no-op now.
300 2005-05-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
302 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Merge two consecutive
303 ``cat <<_ACEOF'' commands to one.
304 (_AC_CANONICAL_SPLIT): Use expr, not ``echo|sed.''
305 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: On various places, use expr instead of
307 (_AC_CONFIG_SPLIT, _AC_CONFIG_SPLIT_SOURCE_DEST):
308 (_AC_CONFIG_SPLIT_FILE_IN): New macros, to factor out common code.
309 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Use expr to get the numbers from
311 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_SHELL_SYNTAX): Use awk to search for
312 the wrong patterns between ``case'' and ``esac.'' The previous
313 code had false positives.
315 2005-05-14 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
317 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ_ALLOCA): Prepend ${LIBOBJDIR},
319 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions) <AC_FUNC_ALLOCA>:
322 2005-05-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
324 * AUTHORS, BUGS, COPYING, ChangeLog, ChangeLog.0, ChangeLog.1,
325 ChangeLog.2, GNUmakefile, HACKING, Makefile.am, Makefile.cfg,
326 Makefile.maint, NEWS, README, README-alpha, TODO, configure.ac,
327 bin/Makefile.am, bin/autoconf.as, bin/autoheader.in,
328 bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoscan.in,
329 bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in, config/Makefile.am,
330 config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/elisp-comp,
331 config/m4.m4, config/mdate-sh, config/missing, config/texinfo.tex,
332 doc/Makefile.am, doc/fdl.texi, lib/Makefile.am, lib/autom4te.in,
333 lib/freeze.mk, lib/Autom4te/C4che.pm, lib/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm,
334 lib/Autom4te/Channels.pm, lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm,
335 lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm, lib/Autom4te/General.pm,
336 lib/Autom4te/Request.pm, lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm,
337 lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am,
338 lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4,
339 lib/autoconf/autoscan.m4, lib/autoconf/autotest.m4,
340 lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4, lib/autoconf/c.m4,
341 lib/autoconf/fortran.m4, lib/autoconf/functions.m4,
342 lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/headers.m4,
343 lib/autoconf/lang.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4,
344 lib/autoconf/oldnames.m4, lib/autoconf/programs.m4,
345 lib/autoconf/specific.m4, lib/autoconf/status.m4,
346 lib/autoconf/types.m4, lib/autoscan/Makefile.am,
347 lib/autoscan/autoscan.list, lib/autoscan/autoscan.pre,
348 lib/autotest/Makefile.am, lib/autotest/autotest.m4,
349 lib/autotest/general.m4, lib/emacs/Makefile.am,
350 lib/emacs/autoconf-mode.el, lib/emacs/autotest-mode.el,
351 lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am, lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4,
352 lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4, man/Makefile.am, tests/Makefile.am,
353 tests/atlocal.in, tests/autotest.at, tests/base.at, tests/c.at,
354 tests/compile.at, tests/foreign.at, tests/fortran.at,
355 tests/local.at, tests/m4sh.at, tests/m4sugar.at, tests/mktests.sh,
356 tests/semantics.at, tests/suite.at, tests/tools.at,
357 tests/torture.at, tests/wrapper.as:
358 Update FSF postal mail address.
360 2005-05-13 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
362 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR): Remove the broken
364 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_bmatch): Halt with error if we don't get
365 enough arguments, similarly as in m4_bpatsubsts.
367 2005-05-12 Stepan Kasal <address@hidden>
369 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCDIRS): Simplify the computation
372 2005-05-11 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
374 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Make the check
375 for absolute directory names in one loop.
376 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Handle
377 abbreviations of --version and --debug.
379 2005-05-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
381 * doc/autoconf.texi (Autoconf Language): Be more precise about
382 quoting rules. Problems noted by Stepan Kasal.
383 Also, throughout this document, be more careful about white space.
384 "blank", "white space", and "space" all have different meanings
385 and we should be careful to say what we mean.
387 2005-05-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
389 Fix C++ related problems reported by Werner Lemberg.
390 * doc/autoconf.texi (C++ Compiler): Mention .cpp extension.
391 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG(C++)): Set ac_ext to .cpp, not .cc.
392 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_TYPE_SIGNAL): Simplify test, to
393 avoid problems with C++ and throw.
394 * tests/compile.at: .cpp, not .cc.
396 * tests/semantics.at: Prepend LIBOBJDIR, as per 2005-05-02 change.
398 2005-05-05 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
400 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Functions): Typos.
402 2005-05-02 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
404 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJS_NORMALIZE): Prepend each
405 object named in LIBOBJS and LTLIBOBJS with the ${LIBOBJDIR}, as
406 set by latest automake.
408 2005-05-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
410 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): "expr '' \| ''"
411 outputs 0 on GNU/Linux these days.
413 2005-04-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
415 * doc/autoconf.texi (Autoconf Language): Add more description
416 about quoting heuristics.
417 (Limitations of Builtins): Describe "set -" problems.
419 2005-04-29 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
421 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_KEYWORDS): Separate by space,
424 * doc/autoconf.texi (External Software): Replace AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED
425 by AC_DEFINE; it was a mistake.
426 From bug reported against libtool by Dalibor Topic <robilad@kaffe.org>.
428 2005-04-25 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
430 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): A tiny optimization.
432 2005-04-22 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
434 * doc/autoconf.texi (External Software): Quadrigraphs are not
435 processed correctly in AS_HELP_STRING; avoid this in the examples.
436 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_HELP_STRING): Add a FIXME about quadrigraphs.
437 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_text_wrap): Likewise; and rephrase the
438 comment and reduce m4_default([foo], []) to [foo].
439 (m4_strip): Update the explanation.
441 2005-04-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
443 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE, _AC_RUN_IFELSE):
444 Remove core.conftest.* too; it's generated by Tru64 5.1.
445 Problem reported by Jennis Pruett.
446 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4
447 (AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED, AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL):
448 Don't bother to remove core files; AC_RUN_IFELSE should do that
451 2005-04-19 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
453 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_bpatsubsts): Add the b- to comment, too.
455 2005-04-19 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
457 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Handle --docdir.
458 Report from Horst Wente.
460 2005-04-15 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
462 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Fixed a typo in
465 2005-04-14 Gregorio Guidi <greg_g@gentoo.org>
467 * doc/autoconf.texi (External Software, Package Options): Add
468 examples showing how to implement --with-* and --enable-* options.
470 2005-04-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
472 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Look for configure.ac
473 as well as configure.in. Problem reported by Gregorio Guidi.
475 2005-04-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
477 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Use gnulib's current
478 pattern for alloca snippet.
480 2005-04-04 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
482 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_DECIDE_TRACEABLE): Fix a typo.
484 2005-04-01 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
486 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Programs): Fix a typo.
488 2005-04-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
490 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't assume that "date +%s"
491 fails if %s isn't supported. Problem reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
493 2005-03-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
495 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS):
496 Merge `-z option' as well for the benefit of Solaris link flags. Pass
497 whole-archive (-zallextract, -zdefaultextract) options in the hope of
498 unique libraries, for the Sun Fortran 95 8.0 compiler. Bug reported
499 against Libtool by Yury Puhalsky <pooh@cryptopro.ru>.
501 2005-03-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
503 * NEWS: The configure command now warns you if you attempt to use
504 a directory whose name contains a special character like space,
506 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Allow
507 "," in file names. Do not use \@; it's not a portable regexp.
508 * bin/Makefile.am (edit): Likewise.
509 * lib/Makefile.am (edit): Likewise.
510 * tests/Makefile.am (edit): Likewise.
511 * tests/semantics.at: Likewise.
512 * tests/torture.at: Likewise.
513 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_PROGRAM): Likewise.
514 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCDIRS): Likewise.
515 * doc/autoconf.texi (File System Conventions): Warn about
516 unportable file names.
517 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DIRCHECK): New macro.
519 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Use ac_pwd rather than invoking pwd.
520 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Propagate
521 ac_pwd, and quote srcdir.
522 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Quote file name args.
524 * doc/autoconf.texi: Fix some systematic formatting problems.
525 ".)" needs a following @: if not at the end of a sentence, and
526 similarly for "!)". "etc." should be preceded by a comma.
527 "n-th" -> "@var{n}th". pdksh is still buggy, so update its date.
529 2005-03-22 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
531 * doc/autoconf.texi (Input): Mention that AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR's
532 argument is often called 'build-aux'.
534 2005-03-07 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
536 * doc/autoconf.texi (Quotation Rule Of Thumb): Mention that the
537 macro AC_TRY_LINK is obsolete.
538 (Installation Directory Variables): Change `AC_OUTPUT_FILES' to
541 2005-02-24 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
543 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC): Be more careful to skip
544 `/usr/ucb/cc'; use `cl.exe' to distinguish the MS compiler
545 from a Common Lisp's `cl'.
546 (AC_PROG_CXX): Behave according to the documentation: don't
547 search for $ac_tool_prefix$CCC and $CCC, just set CXX=$CCC;
548 make the variable CCC precious; use `cl.exe', not `cl'.
550 2005-02-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
551 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
553 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Redirect stdin from
554 /dev/null, as "configure" shouldn't read stdin, and this insulates
555 us from problems (e.g., when testing for "cl"). Also, do this
556 redirection before invoking "hostname" or "uname", and keep the
557 original input stream available via...
558 (AS_ORIGINAL_STDIN_FD): ... this new macro.
559 (_AC_PREPROC_IFELSE, _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, _AC_LINK_IFELSE): Don't
560 bother with "</dev/null" since it's now done at the top of
562 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX): Likewise.
563 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Likewise.
564 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FLAVOR_GNU): Likewise.
565 * doc/autoconf.texi (File Descriptor Macros): New section.
566 (Printing Messages): Mention it.
567 * tests/base.at (Input/Output): New test.
569 2005-02-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
571 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_ECHO_N_PREPARE): Don't set ECHO_C to
572 newline if neither \c nor -n work, as that would output two
573 newlines. Prefer -n to \c. Reported by Stepan Kasal.
575 2005-02-12 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
577 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_IF): Define by m4_defun, not m4_define.
578 This causes that any required macros inside will get before the if.
579 * doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te.cache): A typo.
581 2005-02-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
583 Undo previous change, except keep the change to
584 lib/autoconf/programs.m4 that replaced grep with shell
585 pattern-matching. This is because net-snmp configure reads stdin.
586 Reported by Noah Misch.
588 2005-02-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
590 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Redirect stdin
591 from /dev/null, as "configure" shouldn't read stdin, and this
592 insulates us from problems (e.g., when testing for "cl").
593 Suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz. Also, do this redirection
594 before invoking "hostname" or "uname".
595 (_AC_PREPROC_IFELSE, _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE,
596 _AC_LINK_IFELSE): Undo previous change, as it's no longer needed.
597 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX): Don't bother with
598 "</dev/null" since it's now done at the top of 'configure'.
599 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Likewise.
600 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FLAVOR_GNU): Likewise.
601 Also, replace grep with shell pattern-matching, to save a process.
603 2005-02-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
605 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_PREPROC_IFELSE, _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE,
606 _AC_LINK_IFELSE): Redirect stdin to /dev/null, in an attempt to
607 avoid thinking that Allegro Common Lisp's "cl" command is a C++
610 2005-02-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
612 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Document that
613 grep -q isn't portable. Improve grep -s explanation.
614 Problem reported by Dan Manthey.
616 2005-02-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
618 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Clarify
619 PATH_SEPARATOR wording; fix typo in IFS. Reported by Gary V. Vaughan.
621 2005-02-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
623 * doc/autoconf.texi: Use @acronym for DJGPP.
624 Fix some @code's that should have been @env's, and vice versa.
625 Sort environment variable names.
626 Mention that shells no longer inherit IFS.
627 Don't recommend PATH_SEPARATOR=';' so strongly.
628 Mention that $RANDOM might expand to the empty string.
629 "symlink" and "soft link" -> "symbolic link".
630 Improve mktemp description (reported by Bruno Haible).
632 2005-02-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
634 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Don't overquote AT_SETUP arg.
635 * tests/m4sh.at (AS_DIRNAME, AS_BASENAME, AS_MKDIR_P, AS_HELP_STRING):
637 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN, AC_PATH_PROG & AC_PATH_PROGS):
640 2005-02-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
642 * NEWS: Mention AT_COPYRIGHT.
644 * tests/local.at (AT_CMP): Use diff directly on input files rather
647 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_SED): Don't look in
648 /usr/xpg4/bin since that sed dumps core (at least on Solaris 8).
650 2005-02-04 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
651 and Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
653 * tests/autotest.at (Empty test suite): New test.
654 * tests/torture.at (Substitute and define special characters)
655 (Substitute a 2000-byte string, Define to a 2000-byte string)
656 (Substitute a newline, Define a newline): New tests.
658 2005-02-04 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
660 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_re_string, m4_re_word): Revert 2002-03-04.
661 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR): Add `m4sugar' to keywords.
662 (AT_CHECK_ENV): Ignore LTLIBOBJS, FC variables, EGREP, FGREP, and SED.
663 * tests/m4sugar.at (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR_TEXT, AT_CHECK_M4RE): New macros.
664 (Standard regular expressions): New test.
665 (m4_warn, m4_require: circular dependencies, m4_text_wrap): Strip
666 excess test name quoting.
667 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_HEADERS_OLD, AC_CHECK_HEADERS_NEW): Pass
668 CPPFLAGS to `configure' instead of setting it in `configure'.
670 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_UNAME): Try only /usr/bin/hostinfo, not
671 any `hostinfo' in $PATH, since hostinfo.exe is a popular file name
674 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_LANG(Fortran), AC_FC_SRCEXT):
675 s/FC_SRCEXT/ac_fc_srcext/; s/FCFLAGS_SRCEXT/ac_fcflags_srcext/.
677 * tests/local.at (AT_CMP): New macro.
678 (AT_DATA_AUTOCONF): Do not call AC_PROG_GREP.
679 (AC_SAVE_STATE): Move environment grep...
680 (AT_CHECK_ENV): to here. Filter out `'$''. Use AT_CMP.
681 (AT_CONFIG_CMP): New macro.
682 (AT_CHECK_MACRO): Run `configure' twice with cache and compare results.
683 * tests/c.at (Extensions): Do not exit early.
684 * tests/atlocal.in: Inherit $GREP.
686 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_C_STD_TRY): New macro.
687 (_AC_PROG_CC_C89, _AC_PROG_CC_C99): Use it.
689 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_COPYRIGHT): Update for 2005.
690 (AC_COPYRIGHT): Factor header comment portion out and move into...
691 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_COPYRIGHT): This.
692 * lib/autotest/general.at (AT_COPYRIGHT): New macro.
693 (AT_INIT): Add Autotest copyright notice. Display copyright notices in
695 * tests/local.at: Add Autoconf test suite copyright notice.
696 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Document AT_COPYRIGHT.
698 2005-02-04 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
699 and Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
701 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): New mkstemp entry.
703 2005-02-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
705 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_re_escape): Escape ?, ^, \, $ too;
706 this fixes a bug tickled by the AT_CAPTURE_FILE change noted below.
708 Try not to generated lines of unlimited length, as POSIX places a
709 2047-byte limit on line length of portable text files.
710 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SUBST, AC_SUBST_FILE):
711 Use newline as a separator, not space.
712 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_TESTED, AT_KEYWORDS): Likewise.
713 (AT_CAPTURE_FILE): Use space-backslash-newline as a separator, not
716 2005-02-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
718 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_SHELL_FN_WORK): Move func_* to
719 as_func_*. Add test to check whether positional parameters
720 are restored after function return.
722 2005-02-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
724 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Mention _,
725 BIN_SH, DUALCASE. Say that variables other than "status" are safe
726 if they contain a lower-case letter. The DUALCASE problem was
727 reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
729 * bin/autoconf.as: Don't exit with status 0 after write failure
730 with --help or --version.
731 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP, _AC_INIT_VERSION): Likewise.
732 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Likewise.
734 2005-02-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
736 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools):
737 Unicos 9 sed limitations.
738 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Try cf77 before fort77
739 to get the option-enhanced interface on older Crays. Try ftn for
740 Fortran 95 (newer Crays).
742 2005-02-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
744 * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Go back to the simple solution, but take
745 care to echo the commands, so the user knows what's going on.
746 Modified from a suggestion by Stepan Kasal.
748 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Mention autopoint,
749 with a cross reference. Derived from a suggestion by Bruce Korb.
751 2005-01-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
753 * doc/autoconf.texi (config.status Invocation): Warn about
754 discrepancy between CONFIG_SHELL and shell used to invoke 'configure'.
755 * doc/install.texi (Defining Variables): Likewise.
756 Based on a proposed patch by Ralf Wildenhues.
758 * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Make sure the required generated files
759 are up to date. Problem and original solution proposed by Stepan Kasal.
760 $(dist_man_MANS:.1=-bin-prereq), $(dist_man_MANS:.1=-tests-prereq),
761 implicit-man-prerequisites): New rules, used by the above.
763 * doc/make-stds.texi, doc/standards.texi: Sync from gnulib.
764 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/install-sh: Likewise.
765 * config/missing, config/texinfo.tex: Likewise.
767 2005-01-29 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
769 Simplify the implementation of m4_require (a.k.a. AC_REQUIRE).
770 Update the long comment explaining it.
772 m4_require no longer writes an ``is required by'' line to the
773 execution stack. It contains only one bit of non-redundant
774 information: that the macro was required, not called. And even
775 this bit is useless in most situations: have you ever met a macro
776 which both calls and requires the same macro?
778 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (_m4_defun_pro): Don't push a diversion...
779 (_m4_defun_pro_outer): ... only via this macro, for the outermost
781 (_m4_defun_epi, _m4_defun_epi_outer): Complementarily.
782 (m4_expansion_stack_pop): Remove the misplaced comment.
783 (m4_require): Don't put the ``is required by'' line to the
784 execution stack; slightly improve the out-of-a-defun error message.
785 (_m4_divert_grow): New macro, counter for the temporary diversions.
786 (_m4_require_call): Use it.
787 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4_require): Expect output without the
788 ``is required by'' messages.
790 2005-01-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
792 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Recommend X
793 rather than x for expr.
795 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT): Avoid subshells when
797 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_EGREP, AC_PROG_FGREP): Likewise.
798 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_LONG_FILE_NAMES): Likewise.
799 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
800 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_WORKS): Likewise.
801 * tests/mktests.sh: Likewise.
803 2005-01-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
805 Have autoheader honor --force.
807 * doc/make-stds.texi, doc/standards.texi: Update from masters.
808 * lib/Autom4te/Channels.pm, lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm
809 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm, lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Update
810 from masters, so that FileUtils.pm's update_file provide --force
812 * bin/autoheader.in: Pass $force to update_file so that
813 config.h.in is always recreated when --force.
815 2005-01-24 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
817 * doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction): Update Peter Simons' address.
819 2005-01-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
821 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Clarify that
822 "if test ! -d foo; ..." is portable. Suggested by Stepan Kasal.
824 2005-01-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
826 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Fix typo in case statement.
827 Warn about newline stripping in `` and $(). Update Solaris
829 (Limitations of Builtins): Use expr "X...", not expr "x...", as
830 X insulates us from future changes to Posix.
831 (Limitations of Usual Tools): For AS_DIRNAME, warn about newline
834 2005-01-19 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
836 * doc/autoconf.texi (Defining Symbols): Delete the false comment that
837 you cannot use AC_DEFINE to define macros containing `[' or `]'.
839 2005-01-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
841 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Document bug
842 in Solaris 8 join. Problem reported by Tomohiro Suzuki on
843 bug-tar mailing list.
845 2005-01-05 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
847 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_copy): Fix the explanation.
849 2005-01-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
851 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C)): Declare longval and
852 ulongval to be static, to avoid unwanted GCC warning. Problem
853 reported by Michael Jennings via Daniel Reed; see
854 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=143852>.
856 2005-01-05 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
858 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Define datarootdir,
859 docdir, htmldir, dvidir, pdfdir, psdir, and localdir. Update
860 datadir, infodir, and mandir. Adjust argument parsing code.
861 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Update help text.
862 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Document
865 2005-01-04 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
867 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): If the Make program does
868 not seem to work, assume it does set $(MAKE).
869 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Update.
871 2005-01-03 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
873 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_REQUIRE): Add a comment about nesting.
875 2005-01-03 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
877 A cleanup of the diversion support in m4sugar.
879 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (_m4_divert): A typo in description.
880 (_m4_divert_n_stack): New macro; the expansion is
881 <newline>m4_divert_stack, if m4_divert_stack is defined, and void
883 (m4_divert, m4_divert_push, m4_divert_pop, m4_init): Use it.
884 (m4_divert_push, m4_divert_pop, _m4_defun_epi): Don't expand the word
885 stored in _m4_divert_diversion or _m4_divert_dump.
886 (m4_divert_pop): When the parameter is given, compare the symbolic
887 name with the last diversion pushed on the stack. Previously, the
888 current diversion was compared with the numeric value of the
889 diversion given as the parameter.
890 (m4_require): If the macro hasn't been expanded yet, call ...
891 (_m4_require_call): this new macro.
893 2005-01-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
895 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE, _AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE):
896 Workarounds for documented `case' limitations.
898 2005-01-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
900 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Warn about
901 sed 'command1;command2'. Problem reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
903 2005-01-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
905 * bin/autoconf.as, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in,
906 bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in,
907 bin/ifnames.in, tests/mktests.sh: Update copyright date to 2005.
909 Patch from Roger Leigh (with some minor changes) as follows:
910 * NEWS: New macros AC_PROG_CC_C89, AC_PROG_CC_C99.
911 Resurrect AC_PROG_CC_STDC.
912 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Add AC_PROG_CC_STDC,
913 AC_PROG_CC_C89, AC_PROG_CC_C99.
914 (Obsolete Macros): Remove AC_PROG_CC_STDC; it's no longer obsolete.
915 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CC_C89, _AC_PROG_CC_C99, AC_PROG_CC_C89,
916 AC_PROG_CC_C99): New macros.
917 (AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Use them.
918 (_AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Remove.
919 (AC_C_PROTOTYPES): Use ac_cv_prog_cc_c89, not ac_cv_prog_cc_stdc.
920 * THANKS: Add Roger Leigh.
922 2004-12-30 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
924 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory): AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
925 signals that the package uses Automake; a `Makefile.am' is typical but
926 not essential. Reported by Magnus Therning.
927 * tests/torture.at (autoreconf.): New banner.
928 (autoreconf and non-AC configure): Rename to `Non-Autoconf
930 (autoreconf an empty directory): Rename to `Empty directory'.
931 (Unusual Automake input files): New test.
933 2004-12-30 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
935 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CAPTURE_FILE): New macro.
936 (AT_SETUP): Clear AT_capture_files.
937 (_AT_CHECK): On failure, log each of AT_capture_files. Fix comment.
938 (AT_KEYWORDS): Fix comment typo.
939 * tests/autotest.at (AT_CHECK_AT): Use AT_CAPTURE_FILE.
940 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_CONFIGURE): Use AT_CAPTURE_FILE.
941 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Document AT_CAPTURE_FILE.
943 2004-12-29 Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>
945 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH):
946 If the variable to set is already set, set ac_cv_path_$1
947 to the preset value so caller can assume ac_cv_path_$1
948 is available. (trivial change)
950 2004-12-27 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
952 * BUGS (Minor Problems): Warn about makefile limitations.
953 * Makefile.am: Find and update `INSTALL' in $(srcdir).
954 * man/Makefile.am: Find and update manual pages in $(srcdir).
956 2004-12-24 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
958 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Test candidate
959 shells in subshell, to avoid noise from ash. (trivial change)
961 2004-12-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
963 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins) <case>: Mention
964 problems with SunOS ksh and backslash escaping, Bourne shells and
965 closing brackets (both within character classes). Bug reported
966 against Libtool by Alexander Kurz <alexander.kurz@qsc.de>.
967 <read>: New entry. Mention non-availability of -r.
969 2004-12-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
971 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_LINE): Don't add srcdir here, to
972 avoid cluttering displayed messages. Rather, prepend srcdir where
973 AT_LINE is used for log files.
975 2004-12-21 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
977 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Quote ``$tmp'' in many places.
978 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): Fix the comment, as traps are
979 no longer part of the macro, quote the occurrence of ``$tmp''.
980 * doc/autoconf.texi (Forbidden Patterns): Typo.
982 2004-12-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
984 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Make sure the "ok" etc. are
985 separated from the test title by forcing a white space.
987 2004-12-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
989 Enable Emacs navigation within testsuite.log files.
991 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CLEANUP): Add an hint for Emacs to
992 use the compilation mode.
993 (AT_LINE): Point to the srcdir.
995 2004-12-19 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
997 * tests/Makefile.am (installcheck-local): Use $(bindir).
998 (check-local, installcheck-local): Pass TESTSUITEFLAGS.
999 * doc/autoconf.texi (Making testsuite Scripts): Recommend the same
1000 Makefile.am scheme Autoconf now uses.
1002 2004-12-18 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
1004 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_qlen, m4_qdelta): New macros.
1005 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_SETUP): Use m4_qdelta.
1007 2004-12-18 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
1009 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_DECIDE_TRACEABLE): New macro.
1010 (_AT_CHECK): Use it.
1011 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_ESCAPE_FOR_EXPAND): Remove.
1012 (AS_ESCAPE): Fix comment.
1013 * tests/autotest.at: Adjust section banner comments.
1014 (AT_CHECK_AT): Accept STATUS and STDERR.
1015 (AT_CHECK_AT_TEST): Likewise.
1016 (Invalid brace-enclosed parameter expansion)
1017 (Multiline command from M4 expansion)
1018 (Double-M4-quoted command): New tests.
1020 2004-12-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1022 * doc/autoconf.texi: Update GNU FDL version from 1.1 to 1.2.
1024 2004-12-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
1026 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SUBST, AC_SUBST_FILES): Pass $1 to
1028 Suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
1029 * doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Catch up.
1031 2004-12-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1033 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_TEST_PREPARE): Fix comment.
1035 2004-12-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1037 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ): We can use AC_SUBST/2,
1038 remove the comment which said we cannot.
1040 2004-12-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1042 Add a specialized check for resolv.h. Thanks to Gerrit P. Haase,
1043 Reini Urban and Paul Eggert for reporting the dependencies.
1045 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_RESOLV): New macro.
1046 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_HEADER_RESOLV): Document it.
1047 (AC_HEADER_STAT): @cvindex{STAT_MACROS_BROKEN}, not @acindex.
1049 2004-12-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1051 * bin/autoscan.in: Open autoscan.log only after ``parse_args'';
1052 so that eg. ``autoscan --help'' doesn't truncate it.
1054 2004-12-15 Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>
1056 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Remove
1057 generated conftest files.
1059 2004-12-13 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
1061 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_CHECK) [--trace]: Do not enable shell
1062 tracing on commands with possibly-escaped newlines.
1063 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Delete documentation of the
1064 discontinued behavior and its implications.
1065 * tests/autotest.at (BS-newline in command, ^BS-newline in command)
1066 (BSx641-newline in command, BS-BS-newline in command)
1067 (BSx640-newline in command, Newline-CODE-BS-newline in command)
1068 (Single-quote-BS-newline in command)
1069 (Single-quote-newline-BS-newline in command): New tests.
1071 2004-12-13 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1073 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_EXECUTABLE_P): Use test -f && test -x
1074 on platforms where it works.
1075 (_AS_TEST_PREPARE): Test for ``test -x''.
1076 (_AS_BROKEN_TEST_PREPARE): Nuke.
1078 2004-12-13 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1080 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): Move the trap commands ...
1081 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): ... here;
1082 give only 4-letter prefix to AS_TMPDIR, comment fixed.
1083 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FEATURE_CHECK): Don't
1084 create the temporary directory.
1085 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Work in current directory.
1087 2004-12-12 Kelley Cook <kcook@gcc.gnu.org>
1089 * bin/autoheader.in: Exit if no AC_CONFIG_HEADERS was found.
1092 2004-12-12 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
1094 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <expr (:)>: Typo.
1096 2004-12-11 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
1098 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_CHECK) [--trace]: Rework a shell pattern
1099 to avoid using a negated character class. Reported by Nicolas Joly.
1100 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_SHELL_SYNTAX): Check for similar constructs.
1102 2004-12-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1104 * man/Makefile.am (autoconf.1, autoheader.1, autom4te.1, autoreconf.1,
1105 autoscan.1, autoupdate.1, ifnames.1, config.guess.1, config.sub.1):
1106 Don't depend on .x file explicitly, since "make" does that for us.
1107 Suggested by Stepan Kasal.
1109 * bin/Makefile.am (MOSTLYCLEANFILES): Renamed from CLEANFILES.
1111 (autoconf, autoheader, autom4te, autoreconf, autoscan, autoupdate,
1112 ifnames): Factor common code. And they said it couldn't be done!
1114 2004-12-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1116 * bin/.cvsignore: Add autoconf.in.
1117 * tests/.cvsignore: Add wrapper.in.
1118 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Escape '$' in case pattern.
1120 2004-12-09 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
1122 * man/Makefile.am (autoconf.1): Regenerate when `autoconf.as' changes.
1124 * lib/autotest/general.m4 [--trace] (AT_INIT): Do not `set -v'.
1126 * tests/autotest.at: New file.
1127 * tests/suite.at: Include it.
1128 * tests/Makefile.am: Distribute it.
1130 * lib/autotest/general.m4 [--trace] (_AT_CHECK): Do not enable
1131 shell tracing on a command that could contain multiple lines.
1132 * doc/autoconf.text: Document that fact and its implications.
1133 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_ESCAPE_FOR_EXPAND): New macro.
1134 * tests/autotest.at (Multiline backquote command substitution,
1135 Multiline parameter expansion, Literal multiline command,
1136 Multiline parenthetical command substitution): Remove XFAIL.
1138 2004-12-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1140 * doc/autoconf.texi (Libraries): Clarify problems with AC_CHECK_LIB
1141 and suggest AC_SEARCH_LIBS. Suggested by Noah Misch and Stepan Kasal.
1143 2004-12-08 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
1145 * configure.ac (test suite): Cease to generate wrapper scripts.
1146 * configure: Regenerate.
1147 * lib/freeze.mk (MY_AUTOM4TE): Wrap the uninstalled autom4te directly.
1148 (m4f_dependencies): Adjust accordingly.
1149 * tests/Makefile.am (Wrappers): Generate wrapper scripts.
1150 (wrapper.in): Generate it in the build directory.
1151 (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Delete wrapper.in.
1152 (CLEANFILES): Add wrapper.in.
1153 * tests/wrapper.as: Move AS_INIT to very top, preserving copyright in
1154 the output. Replace each $as_me with a @wrap_program@.
1155 * tests/wrapper.in: Delete it; we always build it.
1157 * bin/Makefile.am (autoconf.in): Generate it in the build directory.
1158 (EXTRA_DIST): Remove autoconf.in.
1159 (CLEANFILES): Add autoconf.in.
1160 (autoconf): Find autoconf.in in the build directory.
1161 * bin/autoconf.in: Delete it; we always build it.
1163 2004-12-08 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
1165 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Replace a `tr' with a `sed'. Join
1166 PATH members so as to not prepend an empty element. Move a comment.
1167 * Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): Build in `tests' last.
1168 * tests/Makefile.am (installcheck-local): Add check-local dependencies.
1170 2004-12-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1172 * lib/mdate-sh: Don't use "set - x`$ls_command /`", as zsh mishandles
1173 the spaces inside $ls_command. Problem reported by Loulou Pouchet in
1174 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-12/msg00074.html>.
1175 Don't use "set - x"; plain "set x" is enough, and simplifies debugging.
1177 2004-12-07 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1179 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETMNTENT): Fix typo in previous
1182 2004-12-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1184 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETMNTENT): Check libc before
1185 looking elsewhere for getmntent. Problem reported by Mark D. Baushke.
1186 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Mention new behavior.
1188 2004-12-03 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1190 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_DEFINE, AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED): Factor
1191 out the common code to ...
1192 (_AC_DEFINE_Q): ... a new macro; simplify the condition about the
1193 value of the #define--default to 1, iff the macro was called
1194 with exactly one parameter.
1196 2004-12-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1198 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MEMCMP): Use
1199 "char c = '\200';" rather than "char c = 0x80;" as the
1200 latter doesn't conform to the strict C standard due to
1201 overflow on signed char hosts.
1203 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Prefer -qlanglvl=extc89
1204 to -qlanglvl=ansi. We don't want to disable extensions.
1206 2004-11-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1208 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): @code{$PATH} -> @env{PATH}.
1209 (Using Autotest, testsuite Scripts, Writing testsuite.at):
1210 Reword slightly to avoid some English-language problems noted
1211 by Ralf Wildenhues in:
1212 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-11/msg00027.html
1214 2004-11-29 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1216 * NEWS: Add ^L above each release.
1218 2004-11-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1220 Fix documentation problems reported by Russ Boylan in
1221 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2004-11/msg00056.html>,
1222 along with some nearby cruft.
1223 * doc/autoconf.texi (Libtool): Libtool can be used without
1224 Automake (not without Autoconf).
1225 (Introduction): Mention lists.gnu.org.
1226 * BUGS: Don't mention bugs.gnu.org.
1227 Remove mention of ancient libtool compatibility problem.
1228 * NEWS: Mention that bugs.gnu.org is kaput.
1229 * README: Likewise. Mention where mailing list archives can be found.
1231 2004-11-28 Stepan Kasal <address@ucw.cz>
1233 * HACKING: Refer to "coreutils", not "File, Shell or Text utils".
1234 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_HELP_STRING): A typo in the comment.
1236 2004-11-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1238 * doc/autoconf.texi (Pretty Help Strings): Go back to
1239 single-quoting assignments to cache variables.
1241 2004-11-23 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1243 * doc/autoconf.texi (Pretty Help Strings): Fix quoting issues
1244 with the examples; fix the bug in MY_ARG_WITH example reported
1245 by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
1246 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_ENABLE, AC_ARG_ENABLE): Enable
1247 expansion of $1 in the comment emitted to configure.
1249 2004-11-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1251 * doc/autoconf.texi (Pretty Help Strings): Fix typo
1252 in my editing of the previous patch. Problem reported
1253 by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
1255 2004-11-22 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1257 * doc/autoconf.texi (Autoconf Language): Explain that
1258 ``descriptions'' may not be double quotes.
1259 (Quotation Rule Of Thumb): Likewise.
1260 (Pretty Help Strings): Likewise; remove the wrong comment;
1261 simplify the examples and improve their quoting.
1263 2004-11-13 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1265 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Don't check
1266 the $1_found variable, don't test whether the file is executable;
1267 Both things are checked ...
1268 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FEATURE_CHECK): ... here; AS_EXECUTABLE_P replaces
1269 the former ``test -f''.
1270 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_TEST_PREPARE): Fix a typo.
1272 2004-11-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1274 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Avoid cp -r;
1277 2004-11-10 Derek R. Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
1279 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Note `cp -r'
1280 limitations. Reorder paragraphs for clarity.
1282 2004-10-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1284 * doc/autoconf.texi: Standardize spelling of "Posix" (as opposed
1285 to "POSIX" or "@acronym{POSIX}"), and similarly for "DOS
1286 variants", "Unix", and some related minor wording fixups.
1288 (Shellology, Special Shell Variables): Document that the Zsh
1289 problem with NULLCMD was fixed in zsh 3.1.6-dev-18. Thanks
1290 to Alexandre Duret-Lutz for this info.
1292 2004-10-10 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
1294 * doc/autoconf.texi (One-Shot Macros): New node.
1296 2004-09-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1298 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Fix misdescription
1299 of putenv. Problem reported by Michael Wardle.
1301 2004-09-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1303 * doc/autoconf.texi (auindex): New macro.
1304 (AU_DEFUN): Use it to fix the bug when the index contained AC_AU_DEFUN.
1305 Problem reported by Stepan Kasal.
1307 2004-09-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1309 Fix problems reported by Andreas Buening in:
1310 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-04/msg00004.html
1311 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Set SHELL=/bin/sh
1313 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't assume /dev/null is
1314 readable; it's not true in OS/2-emx.
1316 2004-09-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1318 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_XMKMF): If xmkmf returns
1319 "/usr/include", clear ac_x_includes instead of leaving it as "no"
1320 (trivial change). Problem and patch reported by Andrew Church in:
1321 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2004-04/msg00016.html
1323 2004-09-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1325 * doc/autoconf.texi: Give AC_DEFINE and AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED
1326 three args in examples. Problem reported by Frederik Fouvry in:
1327 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2004-09/msg00017.html
1328 Also, fix some minor spacing and punctuation bugs.
1330 2004-09-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
1332 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Swap "cd" and
1333 "case" to restore ordering.
1334 Reported by Stepan Kasal.
1336 2004-08-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
1338 * doc/autoconf.texi: Minor typos and stylos.
1340 2004-08-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1342 * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump to 2.59c.
1344 2004-08-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1348 * README: Add advice about m4 1.4.2.
1350 * Makefile.cfg (wget_files): Remove config.guess, config.sub,
1351 texinfo.tex for now (done by hand now).
1352 * Makefile.maint (wget_files, cvs_files):
1353 Remove ansi2knr.c; nobody uses it.
1354 (ansi2knr.c-url_prefix): Remove.
1355 (cvs-update): Fix test for failure. I don't know why it ever
1358 * doc/autoconf.texi: Update URLs, some of which went stale.
1359 Use @uref rather than @href.
1361 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Have configure
1362 handle "--" as per POSIX. Suggested by Paul Pogonyshev.
1364 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/elisp-comp,
1365 config/install-sh, config/mkinstalldirs, config/texinfo.tex,
1366 doc/fdl.texi, doc/standards.texi: Sync with master copy.
1368 * NEWS, TODO, configure.ac, bin/autoscan.in,
1369 bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in, doc/autoconf.texi,
1370 doc/install.texi, lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm,
1371 lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
1372 lib/autoconf/programs.m4, lib/autoconf/status.m4,
1373 lib/autotest/general.m4, lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4,
1374 lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4, tests/local.at, tests/m4sh.at,
1375 tests/tools.at, tests/torture.at:
1376 Use "file name" rather than "filename" or "path",
1377 to be consistent with the terminology of the GNU coding standards.
1379 2004-08-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1381 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY(C),
1382 AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE): Undo 2004-06-04 change, as it didn't work with
1383 HP-UX 11.23 cc/aCC or Tru64 4.0 cc. Problem reported by Noah Misch in
1384 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-07/msg00004.html>.
1386 More fixes to support spaces in the name of the build directory.
1387 This isn't a complete fix but it's an improvement.
1389 * bin/autoconf.as (autom4te_options): New var.
1390 Use it instead of appending to AUTOM4TE, so that we can allow
1391 spaces in the build directory's absolute name.
1392 * bin/autoheader.in ($autoconf): Allow spaces in file names.
1393 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT, AT_CLEANUP, _AT_CHECK,
1394 AT_CHECK_NOESCAPE): Likewise.
1395 * tests/wrapper.as (testdir, AUTOM4TE_CFG, autom4te_perllibdir,
1396 main program): Likewise.
1398 2004-08-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1400 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Quote $ac_popdir uses.
1401 From Ralf Corsepius in:
1402 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-08/msg00014.html
1404 2004-08-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1406 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Document isinf and
1407 and isnan. From a suggestion by Kevin Ryde.
1409 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (END): Return correct exit status even
1410 if unlink succeeds and sets $?. Needed with Solaris 8's perl 5.00503.
1412 2004-08-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1414 * tests/torture.at (Deep Package): Use configure.in, not configure.ac,
1415 for compatibility with Automake 1.4. Reported by J C Fitzgerald in
1416 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-08/msg00051.html>.
1418 2004-08-04 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
1420 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE): New empty macro.
1421 (AC_CANONICAL_BUILD): Call it to require config.sub and config.guess.
1422 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_INSTALL): Likewise for install-sh.
1423 * doc/autoconf.texi (Input): Document AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE.
1424 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect
1425 AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE. Automake 1.10 will trace it.
1427 2004-08-02 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
1429 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect
1430 AC_CANONICAL_BUILD and AC_CANONICAL_TARGET. Automake 1.9.1 will
1433 2004-07-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1435 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): Set BIN_SH, for
1437 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology): Mention BIN_SH.
1438 Document problem with "`""`" in pdksh POSIX mode.
1440 2004-07-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1442 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): Use "set -o posix"
1443 with pdksh, too. Problem reported by Patrick Welche via
1445 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology): Note that set -o posix is
1446 useful for pkdsh, too.
1448 2004-06-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1450 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Require
1451 _AS_UNSET_PREPARE, so that we can use $as_unset directly.
1452 Don't fail if ENV or BASH_ENV is readonly.
1453 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Don't fail if ENV, MAIL, MAILPATH, LC_ALL,
1454 etc. are read only. Problem reported by Ludovic Courtes.
1456 2004-06-23 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
1458 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): If the shell is
1459 zsh, disable GLOB_SUBST to avoid backslash handling problems.
1462 2004-06-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1464 * doc/autoconf.texi (File System Conventions): Warn about
1465 names like "aux". Problem reported by Eric Blake.
1467 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY (C)): Use division
1468 by zero instead of array size, so that we can use any arithmetic
1469 constant expression (instead of requiring an integer constant
1470 expression). This allows us to test expressions like DBL_MAX <
1471 LDBL_MAX, which didn't conform to the C standard using the old
1473 (AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE): Put back in the tests for LDBL_MAX and LDBL_EPSILON,
1474 now that we can do floating-point tests at compile time.
1476 2004-06-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1478 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE): Don't check LDBL_MAX
1479 and LDBL_EPSILON, as the resulting expression isn't an
1480 integer constant expression and violates the C standard.
1481 Problem reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe. Also, check
1482 for "L" suffix, and check that long double doesn't have
1483 worse range or precision than double, that mixed-mode
1484 arithmetic doesn't generate a diagnostic, that double
1485 constants fit in long double.
1487 2004-06-03 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1489 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add notes on free(NULL),
1490 malloc(0) and realloc(NULL,size).
1492 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Spelling error reported by
1495 2004-05-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1497 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (HAVE_STDBOOL_H): Detect _Bool bug
1498 in HP aC++/ANSI C B3910B A.05.55 [Dec 04 2003]. Problem reported
1501 2004-05-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1503 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Mention that ! COMMAND
1504 can be rewritten using if-then-else. Suggested by Bruno Haible.
1506 2004-05-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1508 * doc/autoconf.texi (testsuite Scripts): Fix typo.
1509 Problem reported by Stepan Kasal.
1511 2004-05-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1513 * tests/Makefile.am (autoconfdir): Fix to match comment (trivial
1514 change). Patch reported by Ralf Wildenhues in
1515 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2004-05/msg00092.html>.
1517 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC): Don't assume that a
1518 function F exists if the compiler and linker let you compile an
1519 expression like (F != 0). Recent versions of GCC optimize away
1520 the reference to F in that case, since every function address must
1521 be nonzero, so the link succeeds even if F does not exist.
1522 Problem reported by Manu in
1523 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2004-05/msg00060.html>.
1525 * doc/autoconf.texi (Systemology): Standardize on the spelling of
1526 "Unix". Many uses changed.
1527 (Limitations of Builtins): Explain better why the ! command isn't
1530 2004-05-22 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
1532 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect
1533 LT_SUPPORTED_TAG in lieu of AC_LIBTOOL_TAGS.
1535 2004-05-19 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1537 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add strerror_r, cross
1538 referencing AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R.
1540 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): In AC_FUNC_CLOSEDIR_VOID,
1541 note pessimistic assumption when cross compiling.
1543 2004-05-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1545 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Note that BSD make
1546 (until 2004) invoked subcommands with sh -e, contra POSIX.
1547 Reported by Kevin Ryde.
1549 2004-05-10 Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
1551 * programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_GREP): Fixed bug where PATH argument handed to
1552 _AC_PATH_PROG_FEATURE_CHECK contained leading whitespace (i.e.
1553 " $PATH:/usr/xpg4/bin"). This resulted in bogus tests, such as
1554 `test -f " /usr/bin/grep"', which _always_ failed.
1555 (AC_PROG_SED): Ditto bogus PATH fix.
1556 * autoconf.texi (AC_PROG_GREP): Properly document that this macro
1557 requires that grep correctly supports _multiple_ `-e' options, rather
1558 than stating only that grep should accept `-e'.
1560 2004-05-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1562 Port to C99, which requires that 'exit' be declared.
1564 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Use AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT
1565 to ensure that stdlib.h is included.
1566 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ_ALLOCA, AC_FUNC_SETPGRP,
1567 AC_FUNC_STRTOD, AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED, AC_FUNC_FORK, _AC_FUNC_FORK,
1568 _AC_FUNC_VFORK, AC_FUNC_WAIT3): Likewise.
1569 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS): Likewise.
1570 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_TYPE_GETGROUPS): Likewise.
1571 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDC): Include <stdlib.h>
1572 when using 'exit' in a test; C99 requires that 'exit' be declared.
1574 2004-05-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1576 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): AC_PROG_GREP
1577 now prefers 'grep' implementations that accept -e.
1578 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Describe problems of traditional
1579 egrep and fgrep with long input lines, and of traditional grep
1581 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_GREP): Check for -e, too.
1582 (_AC_PROG_GREP): Assume 3rd arg is properly quoted for the shell.
1583 All callers changed. Append /usr/xpg4/bin to the PATH, for
1585 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Discard stderr, so we don't bother
1586 the user with complaints about multiple -e options.
1587 * tests/local.at (AC_STATE_SAVE): Use $GREP, not grep.
1588 Define it with AC_PROG_GREP.
1589 * configure.ac (AC_PROG_GREP): Add.
1590 * lib/freeze.mk (GREP): New macro.
1592 2004-05-02 Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
1594 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Consult $SHELL as
1595 a possible candidate only after all others fail, rather than
1596 consulting it first. This improves backward compatibility by
1597 better reflecting the way shell selection occurred in previous
1598 versions of Autoconf, and should help to avoid triggering latent
1599 problems in other packages, such as the one in Automake where zsh
1600 is not handled robustly:
1601 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2004-04/msg00095.html
1602 Although it is not Autoconf's responsibility to work around
1603 problems in Automake, it nevertheless makes sense to avoid
1604 introducing unnecessary incompatibilites.
1606 2004-04-22 Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>,
1607 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
1609 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Don't guess
1610 how deeply nested we are when a suitable tool is found, set the
1611 ac_path_TOOL_found flag.
1612 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FEATURE_CHECK): Encapsulate knowledge of how deeply
1613 nested we are in this macro. Break out of all 3 nested loops if
1614 ac_path_TOOL_found is set.
1616 2004-04-21 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
1618 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Break out
1619 of the _AS_PATH_WALK loop too if GNU flavor is found.
1621 2004-04-21 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
1623 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Update documentation
1624 for `$<'. New entry `Long lines', based on a report from Simon
1625 Josefsson. Augment the documentation for SHELL = @SHELL@ with a
1626 paragraph about DJGPP, based on a mail from Richard Dawe.
1628 2004-04-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1630 * tests/c.at (C keywords): Don't assume that GCC supports
1631 "restrict" and "inline", as sufficiently-old GCC versions do not
1632 (also, GCC configured to be in pedantic C89 mode does not).
1633 Problem reported by Sumit Pandya in:
1634 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-04/msg00092.html
1636 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CC_G, _AC_PROG_CXX_G): Don't
1637 consider -g to work if it generates warnings when plain compiles
1638 don't. Problem reported by Braden McDaniel in:
1639 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2003-07/msg00014.html
1641 * doc/autoconf.texi (Slashes): New section, to document a problem
1642 reported by Jim Meyering in:
1643 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-02/msg00060.html
1645 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Remove potential
1646 linker output files before linking, to work around IRIX 6 linker bug.
1647 Problem reported by Rainer Orth in:
1648 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-02/msg00007.html
1650 2004-04-20 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
1652 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Make the
1653 best tool so far counter rely on the tool path variable name to
1654 avoid checks for one tool being affected by the results of running
1655 the length check on a previous tool.
1657 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_GREP): Take an additional
1658 match expression argument, as different greps have different
1659 regular expression flavours.
1660 (AC_PROG_FGREP): Pass 'FGREP'. fgrep treats all match chars as
1662 (AC_PROG_EGREP): Pass 'EGREP$'.
1663 (AC_PROG_GREP): Pass 'GREP$'.
1665 2004-04-20 Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>
1667 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_GREP): Cache variable
1668 is `ac_cv_path_GREP', not `oc_cv_path_GREP'.
1670 2004-03-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1672 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers, Particular Types, Generic
1673 Types, Specific Compiler Characteristics, System Services,
1674 Obsolete Macros): Use 'long int', 'short int', 'unsigned int'
1675 etc. consistently instead of 'long', 'short', 'unsigned' etc.
1676 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C), AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
1677 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MMAP, AC_FUNC_SELECT_ARGTYPES):
1679 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_SYS_WAIT): Likewise.
1680 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_TYPE_GETGROUPS, AC_TYPE_SIZE_T,
1681 AC_TYPE_OFF_T): Likewise.
1682 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_TYPES: backward compatibility):
1685 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Create an empty aclocal.m4, to
1686 pacify libtool 1.5.2. Fix quoting problems in sed command.
1688 2004-03-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1690 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Structures): AC_STRUCT_TIMEZONE
1691 now defines HAVE_DECL_TZNAME if it is declared, when
1692 HAVE_STRUCT_TM_TM_ZONE is not defined.
1693 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_STRUCT_TIMEZONE): Implement this.
1694 Do not assume atoi. Rely on HAVE_DECL_TZNAME when testing
1697 2004-03-28 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@fftw.org>
1699 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): Corrected
1700 superfluous backslashing of quotes (") in sed expressions;
1701 thanks to Paul Eggert.
1703 2004-03-26 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
1705 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): new name of Intel
1706 Fortran compiler is ifort, also added pghpf; thanks to Nelson
1707 H. F. Beebe for the bug report.
1709 2004-03-26 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@fftw.org>
1711 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): fix for
1712 quoted -cmdline argument in Portland Group compiler (bug
1713 reported by Jeffrey J. Barteet).
1715 2004-03-25 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
1717 * doc/autoconf.texi (Specifying Names): Move cross_compiling ovindex to
1718 (Run Time): ... here, where it's now mentioned.
1720 2004-03-19 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
1722 * doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te Invocation): Language Autoconf
1723 inherits from language Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4.
1724 (Customizing autom4te): Adjust example; the cache must now be
1725 disabled for language Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4.
1727 2004-03-16 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
1728 Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>
1730 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PATH_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOL,
1731 AC_CHECK_TOOLS): Warn if a cross-tool is found without
1733 (AC_PATH_TARGET_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOL,
1734 AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOLS): New macros.
1735 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Programs): Document
1736 (AC_PATH_TARGET_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOL,
1737 AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOLS, and warn for future changes
1738 in the behavior of AC_PATH_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOL and
1740 (Specifying Names): Document the reason for these future
1742 * tests/mktests.sh: Do not generate tests for the
1744 * NEWS: Document these changes.
1746 * doc/autoconf.texi: Avoid macros with unbraced arguments,
1747 they make TeX hang up.
1749 2004-03-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@bogus.example.com>
1751 * NEWS: New macro AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF.
1752 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Compiler Characteristics): Document it.
1753 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Use long int rather than
1754 int; avoid "a `$1'" since this isn't grammatical if $1 begins with a
1756 (AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF): New macro.
1757 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Exclude AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF.
1758 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF): Add tests similar to
1761 2004-03-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1763 * bin/Makefile.am (edit): Don't use $< in a context where
1764 POSIX doesn't require support for it. Use $@.in instead.
1765 Problem reported by Anthony N. Frasso in
1766 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-03/msg00008.html>.
1767 * bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in: Add @configure_input@ comment.
1769 2004-02-23 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
1771 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory): Recognize LT_INIT
1772 from the next generation of Libtool.
1773 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoreconf-preselections): Ditto.
1775 2004-02-20 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
1777 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <mkdir>: `mkdir -p'
1778 is not always thread-safe. Report from Nathanael Nerode.
1780 2004-02-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1782 Fix a dependencies problem, stemming from a Autoconf 2.59 build
1783 problem on QNX reported by Stephen Rasku in
1784 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2004-02/msg00066.html>.
1786 * bin/Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/autoconf.in): Depend on
1787 $(m4sh_m4f_dependencies); this removes a FIXME.
1788 * tests/Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/wrapper.in): Likewise.
1789 (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Split into pieces,
1790 one per related section. Add $(srcdir)/wrapper.in.
1792 2004-02-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1794 * doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Emphasize that
1795 AC_SUBST provides no portable way to escape literal newlines.
1797 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Ignore all
1798 flags of the form -lcrt*.o, not just -lcrt[01].o and -lcrtbegin.o.
1799 Darwin uses -lcrt2.o and there's little point to cataloging all
1800 the system variants. Partial fix reported by Andreas Waechter in:
1801 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-02/msg00006.html
1802 for bug reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe in:
1803 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-12/msg00090.html
1805 2004-02-04 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
1807 * doc/autoconf.texi (AU_DEFUN): Fix English,
1808 suggested by Paul Eggert.
1809 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4: Correct reference to
1810 acobsolete.m4, suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
1812 2004-02-02 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
1814 * bin/autoupdate.in: Define __file__ so that warnings
1815 refer to the correct file.
1816 * doc/autoconf.texi (AU_DEFUN): Describe more correctly
1817 the behavior of the third argument.
1818 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4 (AU_DEFUN): Describe more
1819 correctly the behavior of the third argument. Document
1820 what the three macros that AU_DEFUN defines do. Fix
1821 warning message when the third argument includes $0
1822 (reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz).
1824 2004-01-30 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
1825 Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
1826 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1828 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (M4SH-SANITIZE): New diversion.
1829 (AS_INIT): Output shell initialization there. Removed optional
1830 parameter. Expand _AS_SHELL_FN_SPY.
1831 (AS_INIT_WITH_SHELL_FN): Removed.
1832 (_AS_SHELL_FN_SPY): New macro.
1833 (AS_DETECT_REQUIRED, AS_DETECT_SUGGESTED): New
1835 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Remove loop to find better shell
1836 and documentation for the parameter.
1837 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Move it here.
1838 (_AS_SHELL_FN_WORK): Remove shell invocation, reformat.
1839 (_AS_RUN): Move it here, support testing with eval.
1840 (AS_REQUIRE_SHELL_FN): Require shell functions when
1842 (_AS_LINENO_WORKS): Put around braces, we do not
1843 trigger the bash bug anymore.
1844 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Document M4SH-SANITIZE, do not
1845 use AS_INIT_WITH_SHELL_FN.
1846 * bin/autoconf.in, tests/wrapper.in: Regenerated.
1848 2004-01-30 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
1850 * bin/autoupdate.in: Trace AU_DEFINE instead of AU_DEFUN.
1851 * doc/autoconf.texi: Don't say that the third parameter
1853 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4 (AU_DEFINE): New dummy macro.
1854 (AU_DEFUN): Honor the third parameter, create autoupdate
1855 macros with AU_DEFINE.
1856 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_USG, AC_MEMORY_H,
1857 AC_DIR_HEADER): Use AU_DEFUN's third parameter.
1858 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_SAVE): Likewise.
1859 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_RSH): Likewise.
1860 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_HAVE_POUNDBANG,
1861 AC_ARG_ARRAY, AC_CYGWIN, AC_EMXOS2, AC_MINGW32,
1862 AC_XENIX_DIR): Likewise.
1863 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_INT_16_BITS, AC_LONG_64_BITS,
1864 AC_STRUCT_ST_BLKSIZE, AC_STRUCT_ST_RDEV): Likewise.
1865 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Remove FIXME.
1866 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_AU_MACRO): Ignore stderr, check
1867 that the macro is not present anymore in the updated
1869 * tests/tools.at (autoupdate AC_LINK_FILES): Ignore stderr
1872 2004-01-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1874 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Add 2004 to
1876 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_COPYRIGHT): Add 1992 thorugh
1877 2003 (except 1997) to the list of copyright years. This undoes
1878 the 2003-05-22 change, which removed the older years from the list.
1879 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_OUTPUT): Update copyright date to 2004.
1881 2004-01-27 Gary V. Vaugan <gary@gnu.org>
1882 Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>
1884 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_GREP): New macro to test for a
1885 grep or ggrep program in PATH that accepts as long lines as
1887 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_GREP): Factor out the core of
1889 (AC_PROG_EGREP, AC_PROG_FGREP): Use it to find best available
1890 egrep and fgrep respectively if $GREP -E/-F don't work.
1891 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FEATURE_CHECK): Factor out the common core of
1892 _AC_PROG_GREP, and AC_PROG_SED.
1893 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): New helper macro for finding the
1894 longest input length accepted by a command.
1895 (AC_PROG_SED): Use it.
1896 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): Document the changes.
1899 2004-01-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1901 * bin/autoconf.as ($version): Update copyright from 2003 to 2004.
1902 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
1903 bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in: Likewise.
1904 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_COPYRIGHT): Likewise.
1906 * Makefile.in, aclocal.m4, configure, bin/Makefile.in,
1907 bin/autoconf.in, config/Makefile.in, config/config.guess,
1908 config/config.sub, config/install-sh, config/mdate-sh,
1909 config/mkinstalldirs, config/texinfo.tex, doc/Makefile.in,
1910 lib/Makefile.in, lib/Autom4te/Makefile.in,
1911 lib/autoconf/Makefile.in, lib/autoscan/Makefile.in,
1912 lib/autotest/Makefile.in, lib/emacs/Makefile.in,
1913 lib/m4sugar/Makefile.in, man/Makefile.in, man/autoconf.1,
1914 man/autoheader.1, man/autom4te.1, man/autoreconf.1,
1915 man/autoscan.1, man/autoupdate.1, man/config.guess.1,
1916 man/config.sub.1, man/ifnames.1, tests/Makefile.in,
1917 tests/acc.at, tests/acfortran.at, tests/acfunctions.at,
1918 tests/acgeneral.at, tests/acheaders.at, tests/aclang.at,
1919 tests/aclibs.at, tests/acspecific.at, tests/acstatus.at,
1920 tests/actypes.at: Regenerate and/or sync with original
1923 2004-01-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1925 * doc/autoconf.texi (Default Includes): Include <stdint.h> even if
1926 HAVE_INTTYPES_H is defined. This is needed on Tru64 5.1b with
1927 Compac C V6.5-207 (dtk), which defines uintmax_t in <stdint.h> but
1928 not <inttypes.h>. Problem reported by Tim Mooney in
1929 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-01/msg00147.html>.
1930 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS):
1933 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_SED): Use diff, not sed;
1934 otherwise "make check" fails because it forbids cmp (I guess
1935 because cmp treats files as binary on DOS-like systems).
1937 * tests/mktests.sh: Update copyright date to 2004, since some tests
1938 have changed in 2004.
1940 2004-01-23 Gary V. Vaugan <gary@gnu.org>
1942 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_SED): New macro to test for a
1943 non-truncating sed or gsed program in PATH.
1944 * tests/acprograms.at: Add it.
1945 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): Document it.
1948 2004-01-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1950 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Try -std, not -std1, since
1951 -std1 disables some useful extensions on Tru64. Problem reported
1953 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-01/msg00100.html>.
1955 2004-01-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1957 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Document that
1958 AS_MKDIR_P succeeds if the destination is a symbolic link
1959 to an existing directory.
1960 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Note that mkdir -p might not
1961 succeed on symlinks to directories.
1963 2004-01-13 Paul Hilfinger <hilfinger@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
1965 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4 (AU_DEFUN): Grammar fix in comment.
1966 * bin/autoheader.in: Grammar fix in message.
1967 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_MKDIR_P):
1968 Test for dir before calling mkdir -p. (trivial changes)
1970 2004-01-13 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
1972 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsolete Macros): In AC_TRY_COMPILE and
1973 AC_TRY_LINK, s/AC_LANG_SOURCE/AC_LANG_PROGRAM/. (trivial change)
1975 2004-01-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1977 * doc/autoconf.texi (Running the Preprocessor): Correct grammar.
1979 2004-01-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1981 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Fix bug: AC_CHECK_SIZEOF evokes a warning
1982 with `autoconf -Wall,error'. Bug reported by Eric Blake in:
1983 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-01/msg00000.html
1984 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE): Invoke _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, not
1985 AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, since we now assume our caller invokes
1986 AC_LANG_COMPILER_REQUIRE, for symmetry with _AC_COMPUTE_INT_RUN.
1987 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT_RUN): Likewise, for _AC_RUN_IFELSE instead
1988 of AC_RUN_IFELSE; this avoids the warning mentioned above.
1989 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT): Invoke AC_LANG_COMPILER_REQUIRE.
1991 2004-01-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
1993 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJS_NORMALIZE): Avoid \$ inside
1994 `"'...'"`, as it's confusing (and I suspect it may not work on
1995 some platforms). The code was incorrect anyway, as it assumed
1996 that \$ evaluated to itself in that context. Reported by
1997 Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
1999 2004-01-07 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
2001 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect AC_LIBTOOL_TAGS
2002 and _LT_AC_TAGCONFIG.
2004 2004-01-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2006 * doc/autoconf.texi (One Macro Call): Fix an incorrect
2007 example, and add more examples. Reported by Eric Sunshine.
2009 2004-01-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2011 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools):
2012 Remove warning against "rm -fr" introduced yesterday; it
2015 * bin/Makefile.am (autoconf, autoheader, autom4te, autoreconf,
2016 autoscan, autoupdate, ifnames): Don't use chmod -w.
2017 * lib/Makefile.am (autom4te.cfg): Likewise.
2018 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Warn against
2021 2004-01-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2022 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
2024 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Speed up sed scripts
2025 by doing lineno substitution only on lines containing "$LINENO".
2027 2004-01-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2029 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_PROGRAM):
2030 Use "rm -f" to remove conftest.sed, not plain "rm".
2031 Bug reported by David Relson in
2032 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-01/msg00011.html>.
2034 * Makefile.am (autom4te-update):
2035 Replace "rm -rf" and "rm -fr" with "rm -f -r", as POSIX requires.
2036 * Makefile.maint (my-distcheck, do-po-update): Likewise.
2037 * doc/autoconf.texi (Guidelines): Likewise.
2038 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Likewise.
2039 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_XMKMF): Likewise.
2040 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_LONG_FILE_NAMES): Likewise.
2041 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
2042 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): Likewise.
2043 * tests/Makefile.am (clean-local): Likewise.
2044 * tests/tortue.at (AC_CONFIG_FILES, HEADERS, LINKS and COMMANDS,
2046 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools):
2047 Warn against "rm -fr".
2049 2004-01-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2051 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Mention that cc
2052 -c -o might not work. From a suggestion by Kevin Ryde.
2053 (C Compiler, Generating Sources, Limitations
2054 of Usual Tools, Limitations of Make, Making testsuite Scripts):
2055 Don't put '-o' after non-options, as POSIX doesn't allow this.
2056 Mention that cc's name might be gcc or c89 or whatever.
2058 2004-01-04 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
2060 * doc/autoconf.texi: Add various further index entries.
2062 2003-12-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2064 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory):
2065 Fix typo: mkdir without umask arg.
2067 2003-12-27 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
2069 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make) <Automatic rule rewriting>:
2070 Documents OSF1/Tru64 make behavior. Replace `VPATH = ../src' by
2071 `VPATH = ../pkg/src' in examples to make the OSF1/Tru64 make
2072 explanation clearer.
2074 2003-12-24 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
2076 * doc/autoconf.texi (Default Includes): Fix misspelling of
2077 AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT.
2079 2003-12-03 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
2081 * configure.ac: Test if sh -n works.
2082 * configure: Regenerate.
2083 * tests/atlocal.in: Store the result here.
2084 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_SHELL_SYNTAX): Extracted from
2085 tools.at, looking in atlocal's ac_cv_sh_n_works instead
2086 of explicitly testing.
2087 (AT_CHECK_PERL_SYNTAX): Moved from tools.at.
2088 (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF): Test for the configure script syntax.
2089 * tests/tools.at (Syntax of the shell scripts): Simplify
2090 using AT_CHECK_SHELL_SYNTAX.
2091 (Syntax of the Perl scripts): Remove definition of
2092 AT_CHECK_PERL_SYNTAX.
2094 2003-12-03 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
2096 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_SHELL_FN_WORK): Redirect
2097 stderr to /dev/null.
2098 * bin/autoconf.in: Regenerate.
2099 * bin/wrapper.in: Regenerate.
2101 2003-11-26 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
2103 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE):
2104 Extracted from AS_SHELL_SANITIZE.
2105 (_AS_SHELL_FN_WORK, AS_INIT_WITH_SHELL_FN): New
2107 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Move reinvocation code from
2108 _AS_LINENO_WORKS, use it to find out if shell
2110 (_AS_LINENO_WORKS): Don't find another shell if $LINENO
2112 (AS_INIT): Pass parameter down to AS_SHELL_SANITIZE.
2113 (AS_REQUIRE_SHELL_FN): Test that AS_INIT_WITH_SHELL_FN
2115 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Use AS_INIT_WITH_SHELL_FN.
2116 * bin/autoconf.in: Regenerate.
2117 * tests/wrapper.in: Regenerate.
2118 * tests/tools.at: Test the syntax of tests/autoconf
2119 and tests/testsuite.
2121 2003-11-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2123 * config/announce-gen (&print_locations, &print_signatures)
2126 No longer rely on Gnus to inline the list of signatures: compute
2129 2003-11-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2131 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): AC_PROG_LEX can
2132 override some files.
2133 (Input): AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(aux) is a bad idea on DOS.
2134 From Debian Autoconf 2.58.
2136 2003-11-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2138 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Quote $ac_popdir
2140 From Debian Autoconf 2.58.
2142 2003-11-24 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
2144 * TODO: Remove already done things. Update the part about finding
2145 tools for the target.
2147 2003-11-24 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
2149 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_USG, AC_MEMORY_H, AC_DIR_HEADER):
2150 Make wording more consistent.
2151 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_CYGWIN, AC_EMXOS2, AC_MINGW32):
2152 Explain the transition better.
2153 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_INT_16_BITS, AC_LONG_64_BITS): Explain
2154 the transition better.
2156 2003-11-24 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
2158 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsoleting Macros): Don't document the third
2159 parameter of AU_DEFUN.
2160 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4 (AU_DEFINE): Remove.
2161 (AU_DEFUN): Remove the third parameter, it was not used.
2162 Use AC_DEFUN directly, not AU_DEFINE.
2163 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_LINK_FILES): Move the message into
2164 the expanded body, consistently with other macros such as AC_USG.
2166 2003-11-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2168 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Put at least 14 bytes
2169 into the initial confdefs.h, to work around a bug in NextStep 3.3
2170 patch 3 reported by Eric Sunshine.
2172 2003-11-15 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
2174 * doc/autoconf.texi (Using System Type): Revise, showing $host rather
2175 than $target since the latter is not usual, add guidelines on when to
2176 use or not use the system type.
2178 2003-11-12 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
2180 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Fix what looks like a
2181 typo misrepaired by an auto-spellcheck.
2183 2003-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2185 * bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args): Don't call automake with
2186 --force-missing unless it actually supports it.
2187 From Debian #219336.
2189 2003-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2191 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.59a.
2194 2003-11-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2198 2003-11-05 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
2200 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Fix use of AS_SET_CATFILE
2201 so that ac_abs_builddir, ac_abs_top_builddir, ac_abs_srcdir,
2202 and ac_abs_top_srcdir are absolute paths.
2203 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SET_CATFILE): Remove misleading comment.
2205 2003-11-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2207 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.58a.
2209 2003-11-05 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
2211 * doc/autoconf.texi (Using Autotest): Avoid @strong{Note: ...}, since
2212 it provokes a warning from makeinfo about looking like a cross
2213 reference in info output.
2215 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add notes on signal
2216 handler return type, as per AC_TYPE_SIGNAL.
2218 2003-11-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2221 * doc/standards.texi: Update from master.
2223 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Add AC_FC_FREEFORM.
2225 2003-11-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2227 AC_CONFIG_FILE([d1/foo:d2/foo]) triggers error messages when
2228 computing the absolute path to d1 in the source hierarchy: it may
2229 not exist at all. So don't cd into it.
2230 From Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
2231 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-10/msg00205.html
2233 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SET_CATFILE): New.
2234 From Paul Eggert, but named after Perl's IO::Spec->catfile.
2235 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Document.
2236 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Use it.
2238 2003-11-03 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
2240 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Structure Checks): Describe
2241 action-if-found and action-if-not-found in AC_CHECK_MEMBERS.
2243 2003-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2245 * tests/fortran.at (GNU Fortran 77): Don't run FC macros.
2247 * doc/autoconf.texi (Language Choice): Document.
2248 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_FREEFORM): Assert
2249 the current language is Fortran.
2251 2003-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2253 * bin/autom4te.in (&freeze): Use a less likely warning separator
2254 than `\n\n', so that `\n\n\n' is valid in warnings.
2255 Reported by Steve Huston.
2257 2003-10-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2259 * Makefile.cfg (local_updates, executable-update): Tweak to be
2260 robust to parallel makes.
2261 Suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
2263 2003-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2265 * Makefile.cfg (executable-update): New.
2266 (local_updates): Call it.
2268 2003-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2270 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_RUN_IFELSE, _AC_INIT_PREPARE):
2271 Don't remove core.* as it may remove valid user files.
2272 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED)
2273 (AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL): Likewise.
2275 2003-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2278 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub: Upgrade from masters.
2280 2003-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2282 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_SRCEXT): Functions using
2283 AC_COMPILE_IFELSE that use break skip the clean up. So do it by
2286 2003-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2288 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LINK_IFELSE, _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE):
2289 Don't forget to remove conftest.err.
2291 2003-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2293 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ): Don't insert twice the
2294 same object file in $LIBOBJS.
2295 Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz & Derek Robert Price.
2296 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Functions): Adjust.
2298 2003-10-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2300 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_TR_SH_PREPARE, _AS_TR_CPP_PREPARE):
2301 Use 'eval', so that the resulting configure scripts work even if
2302 the current directory has a weird file name like 'y%s+%pp%;s%@%_%g'.
2304 2003-10-20 Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
2306 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_WERROR): New macro.
2307 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, _AC_PREPROC_IFELSE)
2308 (_AC_LINK_IFELSE): Check the werror flag.
2309 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Compiler Characteristics): Document
2313 2003-10-20 Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
2315 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_NO_EXECUTABLES): Override
2316 _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT to attempt a link. If linking fails,
2317 override AC_LINK_IFELSE.
2319 2003-10-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2321 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_UNSET_PREPARE): Work around a bug in
2322 pdksh 5.2.14. Bug reported by Ralf Corsepius.
2323 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology): Mention the Korn shell and pdksh.
2324 Mention /usr/dt/bin/dtksh on Solaris.
2325 (Shell Substitutions): Warn about $((...)).
2326 (Parentheses): New section.
2328 2003-10-15 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
2330 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add @prindex for exit.
2331 Add putenv and unsetenv. Add sysconf _SC_PAGE_SIZE.
2333 2003-10-13 Nathanael Nerode <neroden@gcc.gnu.org>
2335 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_FORK): Trivial fix for vfork
2338 2003-10-11 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
2340 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Use the new official
2341 name for the GNU Fortran 95+ compiler, 'gfortran', not 'g95'.
2343 2003-10-10 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
2345 * bin/autoheader.in: Avoid empty first line in --version and
2347 * bin/ifnames.in: Likewise.
2349 2003-10-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2351 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Don't assume -j is solo.
2352 Issue a more-informative diagnostic.
2353 Problems reported by Eric Sunshine.
2355 2003-10-08 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
2357 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): Omit quoted
2358 -mGLOB_options_string stuff for Intel ifc, which can cause
2359 _AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS to fail. Use (faster) case for
2360 pattern-matching instead of grep.
2362 2003-10-08 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
2364 * doc/autoconf.texi: Document new FC Fortran macros.
2366 2003-10-08 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
2368 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR): Stub out a macro
2369 that future autopoint/aclocal/automake/autoreconf will be able
2370 to trace to find where to install local m4 macros.
2371 * doc/autoconf.texi (Input): Document it.
2374 2003-10-06 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
2376 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Add
2377 -lcrtbegin.o to list of ignored flags and fix underquoting of
2380 2003-10-04 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@ab-initio.mit.edu>
2382 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_G): Use language-specific
2383 cache variable instead of $G77 to decide whether to include -O2,
2384 since $G77 is specific to Fortran 77.
2386 2003-10-03 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
2388 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_FREEFORM): Support Absoft "-f
2389 free" flag. Re-order flags tested into rough order of popularity.
2391 2003-10-03 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
2393 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_PROG_FC): Reverse the order of the
2394 arguments so that it can be used with syntax identical to
2395 AC_PROG_F77, and so that we can more easily decide to
2396 remove/deprecate the DIALECT optional argument in the future if it
2398 (AC_FC_FREEFORM): Exit 77 upon failure to fix test suite for
2399 non-freeform-supporting compilers. Document freeform flags.
2401 2003-10-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2403 * configure.ac: Look for emacs, not macs.
2404 Reported by Eric Sunshine.
2406 2003-10-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2408 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoreconf-preselections): Trace AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR.
2409 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory): Create the
2410 AUX_DIR if needed, for sake of automake --add-missing etc.
2411 Suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
2413 2003-10-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2415 * configure.ac: Quotation and formatting changes.
2416 (EMACS): Don't set it if it is not recent enough to support
2420 2003-10-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2422 * bin/ifnames.in (&scan_file): Skip C++ comments.
2425 2003-10-01 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
2427 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Structure Checks):
2428 Fix misspelling of HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_BLOCKS.
2430 2003-10-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2434 2003-09-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2436 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Use Errno.
2437 (lock): Ignore ENOLCK errors. Problem reported Andreas Schwab in
2438 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-09/msg00141.html>.
2440 2003-09-30 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2442 * config/announce-gen (&print_news_deltas): Extracted from...
2443 (&print_changelog_deltas): here.
2444 (&news_file): Rename as...
2447 2003-09-30 Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>
2449 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Remove files which might
2450 have been created when invoking the compiler.
2451 * tests/fortran.at (GNU Fortran 77): Quote $G77.
2453 2003-09-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2457 * config/mkinstalldirs: Upgrade.
2459 2003-09-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2461 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Set DUALCASE=1, for MKS sh.
2462 Problem reported by Lars J. Aas in
2463 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2003-07/msg00042.html>.
2464 (_AS_MKDIR_P_PREPARE): Change "rm -fr ./-p" to the more-conservative
2465 "test -d ./-p && rmdir ./-p". Suggested by Andreas Schwab in:
2466 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2003-09/msg00039.html
2468 2003-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2470 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS): Make sure the
2471 directory for AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS' first argument exists.
2472 This makes valid the invocation of _AC_SRCPATH that follows.
2473 Reported by Eric Sunshine.
2474 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Commands): Adjust.
2476 2003-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2478 * bin/autoscan.in (Autom4te::FileUtils): Use it for find_file.
2479 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
2481 2003-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2483 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_HELP_STRING): Don't overquote the
2485 Actually, use AU_ALIAS.
2488 2003-09-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2490 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_MKDIR_P_PREPARE): If mkdir -p . fails,
2491 rm -fr ./-p to remove junk left behind on NextStep and OpenStep.
2492 Problem reported by Eric Sunshine in:
2493 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2002-12/msg00014.html
2495 2003-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2497 The test suite are sometimes assigning timings incorrectly.
2498 Reported by Henk Krus.
2499 Diagnosed by Nicolas Joly.
2501 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CLEANUP): Rename AT_help as
2503 Instead of making AT_help a sequence of assignments to grow
2504 $at_help_all, just make AT_help_all be the growing contents of
2505 $at_help_all, and make a single assignment in...
2507 (at_times_skip): Flip the meaning and rename as...
2509 (AT_INIT): When summarizing the test that ran, remove
2510 $at_times_file after use, and check it is present before trying to
2513 2003-09-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2517 * bin/Makefile.am (edit): Handle '@configure_input@'.
2518 (autoconf, autoheader, autom4te, autoreconf, autoscan, autoupdate)
2519 (ifnames): chmod -w.
2520 * tests/wrapper.as (AUTOCONF, AUTOM4TE, ): Point to tests/
2521 executables, not bin/ executables! Otherwise all the magic needed
2522 to find non installed files is turned off. This caused a failure
2523 of test 40 and 41 that ran aclocal 1.8 which in turn ran autom4te
2524 as found in its environment (sent by tests/autoreconf): pointing
2525 to bin/autom4te that could not find its files.
2526 * tests/mktests.sh: Force the replacement of generated files, for
2527 the sake of "mv" program that are interactive when overwriting a
2529 * config/install-sh: Upgrade from CVS Automake.
2531 2003-09-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2533 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Document test -h
2534 versus test -L issues.
2536 2003-09-23 Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> and
2537 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2539 Trivial change to support GCC's configuration procedure.
2540 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CPP_WERROR): New macro.
2541 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): Don't warn
2542 about inconsistency if the preprocessor is set to give errors for
2544 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler Characteristics): Document this.
2546 2003-09-13 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
2548 * Makefile.am (autom4te-update, autom4te_files): Fetch Struct.pm
2549 and XFile.pm from Automake.
2550 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Update from Automake.
2552 2003-09-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2556 2003-09-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2558 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/missing,
2559 * lib/Autom4te/Channels.pm, lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm: Update
2562 2003-09-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2564 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): Promote linux/types.h,
2567 2003-09-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2569 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): linux/random.h.
2570 From Peter Hendrickson.
2572 2003-09-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2574 * tests/mktests.sh (au_exclude_egrep): Make it harder to be
2575 willing to edit the output files.
2577 2003-09-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2579 * tests/fortran.at (GNU Fortran 77): Also exercise AC_FC_SRCEXT
2581 * tests/mktests.sh: Skip AC_FC_SRCEXT.
2582 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_FREEFORM): Likewise.
2584 2003-09-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2586 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm (&update_file): s/cannot not/cannot/g.
2587 Reported by Gary Vaughan.
2588 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_m4): Likewise.
2590 2003-09-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2592 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm (&update_file): Be sure not to leave
2595 2003-09-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2597 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS):
2598 Improve the accuracy of the wording about obsolescence.
2599 From a suggestion by Ian Lance Taylor in
2600 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2003-09/msg00044.html>.
2602 2003-09-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2604 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_FREEFORM): Try -ffree-form too,
2605 for the benefit of g77 3.2. Fix suggested by Steven G. Johnson.
2607 2003-09-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2609 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Fix the filtering of
2612 2003-09-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2614 * bin/autom4te.in: Use &fatal where more appropriate than &error.
2615 (freeze): When exiting, use $exit_code.
2616 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4: Comment changes.
2618 2003-09-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2620 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Add AC_FC_FUNC.
2622 2003-09-02 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
2624 Add support for newer Fortran dialects. The F77 interface is
2625 unchanged, and continues to support Fortran 77. New FC macros
2626 correspond to all the old F77 macros, with output variables FC,
2627 FCFLAGS, and FCLIBS. AC_PROG_FC defaults to picking the newest
2628 available dialect, but older dialects can be specified. There are
2629 new macros AC_FC_SRCEXT to set the source extension, and
2630 AC_FC_FREEFORM to accept free-form source files.
2632 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_LANG_PREFIX(C), _AC_LANG_PREFIX(C++)):
2634 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C)): Invoke _AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_FC_HOOKS if defined.
2635 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_LANG(Fortran), _AC_FORTRAN_ASSERT,
2636 _AC_LANG_ABBREV(Fortran), _AC_LANG_PREFIX(Fortran 77),
2637 _AC_LANG_PREFIX(Fortran), _AC_FC, AC_LANG_SOURCE(Fortran),
2638 AC_LANG_PROGRAM(Fortran), AC_LANG_CALL(Fortran),
2639 AC_LANG_PREPROC(Fortran), AC_LANG_COMPILER(Fortran),
2640 _AC_FC_DIALECT_YEAR, _AC_F95_FC, _AC_F90_FC, _AC_F77_FC,
2641 _AC_PROG_FC, AC_PROG_FC, _AC_PROG_FC_G, _AC_PROG_FC_C_O,
2642 AC_PROG_FC_C_O, _AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT, _AC_PROG_FC_V,
2643 _AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS, AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS, _AC_FC_DUMMY_MAIN,
2644 AC_FC_DUMMY_MAIN, _AC_FC_MAIN, AC_FC_MAIN, __AC_FC_NAME_MANGLING,
2645 _AC_FC_WRAPPERS, AC_FC_WRAPPERS, _AC_FC_FUNC, AC_FC_FUNC,
2646 AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_FREEFORM):
2648 (AC_PROG_F77, AC_PROG_F77_C_O, AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS,
2649 AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN, AC_F77_MAIN, _AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING,
2650 AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING, AC_F77_WRAPPERS, AC_F77_FUNC):
2651 Rewrite in terms of the above.
2652 (_AC_PROG_F77_G, _AC_PROG_F77_V_OUTPUT, _AC_PROG_F77_V): Remove.
2653 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_LANG_PREFIX): New macro.
2654 * tests/acfortran.at: Test AC_FC_FREEFORM, AC_FC_FUNC,
2655 AC_FC_MAIN, AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_WRAPPERS, AC_PROG_FC_C_O.
2657 2003-09-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2659 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools, Limitations of Make):
2660 Document problems with timestamp resolution that 'make', 'cp -p', and
2663 2003-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2665 * tests/m4sugar.at (cross_warning): Make sure to enable the
2666 output, so that we can track spurious m4sugar output.
2667 * tests/local.at: Require 2.57.
2668 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR, AT_CHECK_M4SH): Don't m4_default the arguments that
2669 are defaulted by AT_CHECK anyway.
2670 Use AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE.
2671 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: There should be no output at all: add a
2674 2003-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2676 * bin/autoheader.in: Issue the "Using auxiliary..." message only
2677 when -Wobsolete is set.
2678 Set it on by default.
2679 Suggested by Klee Dienes.
2681 2003-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2683 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_FUNC_FSEEKO, AC_SYS_LARGEFILE): More
2687 2003-08-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2689 * doc/autoconf.texi (Output): Make clear that one can run code
2692 2003-08-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2694 * config/announce-gen, GNUmakefile, Makefile.maint: Update from
2697 2003-08-25 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
2699 * bin/autoreconf.in (parse_args): Do not pass --no-force to
2700 Automake versions prior to 1.8.
2702 2003-08-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2704 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): netinet/if_ether.h.
2707 2003-08-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2709 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.57c.
2711 2003-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2715 * Makefile.cfg (local-checks-to-skip): New.
2716 * Makefile.maint (local-check): Rename as...
2717 (local-checks-available): this.
2720 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add Makefile.cfg.
2721 * configure.ac: Require Automake 1.7.6.
2723 2003-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2725 Output stack traces in warnings.
2727 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (_m4_warn): New.
2728 Replace the former...
2729 (m4_warn): Pass the call stack to _m4_warn.
2730 * bin/autom4te.in: Adjust to output the call stack.
2731 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4@&t@_warn): Adjust.
2733 2003-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2735 * lib/Autom4te/Request.pm, lib/Autom4te/C4che.pm: New.
2736 * bin/autom4te.in: Adjust.
2738 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2740 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&file_name_is_absolute): Remove.
2742 (&getopt): Adjust the note and verb channels, depending upon
2744 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoscan.in,
2745 * bin/autoupdate.in: Adjust.
2746 Use &verb, not &verbose.
2748 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2750 * bin/autoheader.in (&parse_args): Use &parse_warnings and
2752 ($help): Use Autom4te::ChannelDefs::usage.
2753 * bin/autoscan.in: Use Autom4te::ChannelDefs.
2754 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: Don't export error: you don't own it.
2756 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2758 First stab at preserving warnings between calls to autom4te,
2759 including when the cache is used.
2761 There are still several issues: (i) there are too many runs of m4
2762 (one for include, one for warnings, and some more), (ii) warnings
2763 spreading on several lines are not handled gracefully, (iii) the
2764 code meant to have the call stack display for errors does not work
2765 (its handling should move from m4 to autom4te).
2767 * bin/autom4te.in Autom4te::Channels, Autom4te::ChannelDefs):
2769 (@preselect): Add m4_warn.
2770 ($exit_status): Remove, use $exit_code.
2771 ($help): Use Autom4te::ChannelDefs::usage.
2772 (&handle_m4): No longer define the m4_warnings.
2773 At each run, extract and report the warnings.
2774 Always cache the result, including if the exit status is on
2775 failure, since if nothing changes, we should result in the same
2776 failure, hence we can use the cache.
2777 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_warning_ifelse, _m4_warning_ifelse)
2778 (_m4_warning_error_ifelse, __m4_warning_error_ifelse, _m4_warn):
2780 (m4_warn): Redefine as a do-nothing: it is its invocation that
2781 matters, as warnings are now reported via traces.
2782 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_DIAGNOSE): Don't make it a copy of
2783 the contents of m4_warn: make it _call_ m4_warn, so that tracing
2784 the latter reveals calls to the former.
2788 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4@&t@_warn): Use existing warning categories.
2790 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2792 * bin/autoreconf.pm (Autom4te::Channels, Autom4te::ChannelDefs):
2795 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2797 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm (&find_file): Walk the @include in
2799 * lib/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm: Doc typos.
2800 (&parse_warnings): Accept a list of warning requests.
2801 (&usage): Return a string, not a side effect.
2802 (cross): New warning category.
2804 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2806 * lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm (&find_configure_ac)
2807 (&require_configure_ac): Accept an optional directory argument.
2808 ($configure_ac): Remove.
2809 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_configure_ac, &canonfile)
2811 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoupdate.in,
2812 * bin/autoscan.in: Adjust.
2814 2003-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2816 * bin/autoheader.in: Remove duplicate 'use Autom4te::FileUtils'.
2817 Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
2819 2003-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2821 * bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
2822 * bin/autom4te: Adjust.
2823 In particular, be Autoconf tools are really silent when properly
2824 working, bind the verbosity of the 'note' channel to $verbose.
2825 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_file, &mtime, &update_file)
2826 (&xsystem, &contents): Remove, since they are exported by...
2827 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm: this.
2829 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&up_to_date_p): Move to...
2830 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm: here.
2832 2003-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2834 * lib/Autom4te/Channels.pm, lib/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm
2835 * lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm, lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm: New,
2838 2003-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2840 * Makefile.am (automake_cvsweb, automake_cvsargs, autom4te_files)
2841 (autom4te-update): New.
2842 * Makefile.cfg (update): Bind autom4te-update.
2844 2003-08-19 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
2846 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Comment various HELP_* diversions.
2847 (PARSE_ARGS_BEGIN): New section for option parsing related
2849 (AT_ARG_OPTION,AT_ARG_OPTION_ARG,_AT_ARG_OPTION): New macros to define
2850 package specific options and associated help.
2852 2003-08-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2854 * config/announce-gen, Makefile.cfg: New.
2855 * Makefile.am: Adjust.
2856 * GNUmakefile, Makefile.maint: Update from CVS Coreutils.
2858 2003-08-19 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
2860 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect
2861 AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR, AC_CONFIG_LINKS, m4_include,
2864 2003-08-19 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
2866 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): Move all args except aclocal.m4? into ...
2867 (Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4): ... this new language.
2868 * doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te Invocation): Mention
2869 Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4.
2871 2003-08-18 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
2873 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Document RUN-IF-FAIL &
2874 RUN-IF-PASS optional arguments.
2876 2003-08-18 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
2878 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Add doc for AS_IF.
2880 2003-08-16 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
2882 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Document defaults for
2883 STDOUT & STDERR arguments.
2885 2003-08-14 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
2887 * lib/autotestgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Reformat test summary line to print
2888 DESCRIPTION rather than FILE and LINE. Shorten result to fit in new,
2889 shorter column three. Add DESCRIPTION to log file content.
2891 2003-08-13 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
2893 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Correct typo in final status
2896 2003-08-12 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
2898 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CHECK): Use new _AT_CHECK API.
2899 (AT_CHECK_NOESCAPE): Move core functionality to...
2900 (_AT_CHECK): ...this new macro.
2902 2003-08-07 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
2904 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CHECK): Move core functionality...
2905 (AT_CHECK_NOESCAPE): ...to this new macro.
2907 2003-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2909 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_UNSET_PREPARE): Work around a bug
2910 in Bash 2.01. Problem reported by Brian Gough in
2911 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-07/msg00106.html>.
2913 2003-07-25 John W. Eaton <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
2915 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Also ignore
2916 -lcrt1.o, for OS X. (trivial change)
2918 2003-07-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
2920 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_INLINE): Wrap the '#define inline ...'
2921 inside '#ifndef __cplusplus'. Problem reported by
2924 2003-07-06 Bill Clarke <llib@computer.org>
2926 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MMAP): Cast pointer to
2927 'long', not 'int', for benefit of Sun's recent C++ compilers
2928 (trivial change). See:
2929 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2003-07/msg00007.html
2930 (This really should be 'intptr_t', not 'long', but that would
2933 2003-06-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2935 * lib/Makefile.am (autom4te.cfg): Make it read only.
2936 Depend on Makefile since it contains substitutions.
2938 * lib/autom4te.in (args): Add local.at? for Autotest args.
2939 This change was made on autom4te.cfg which is generated.
2940 Reported by Raja R. Harinath.
2942 2003-06-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2944 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): sys/mount.h.
2945 From Gareth McCaughan.
2947 2003-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2949 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Report a single config.log,
2950 not all of them. This fixes 1. the fact that when testing
2951 Autoconf there are many many config.log, 2. the incorrect use of
2952 top_srcdir to find config.log.
2953 Don't mix the detailed output of failed test with the summary of
2954 failures. Rather, append detailed log afterwards.
2956 2003-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2958 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_CONFIGURE): Adjust to the verbose being
2959 always run: output config.log on $at_group_log.
2961 2003-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2963 * tests/torture.at (#define header templates): Don't use quotes in
2964 C++ comments as it puzzles Emacs' sh font-lock-mode.
2966 2003-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2968 * tests/mktests.sh (au_exclude_egrep): Fix output copyright notice.
2969 * lib/autom4te.cfg (args): Add local.at? for Autotest args.
2970 * tests/atspecific.m4: Rename as...
2971 * tests/local.at: This.
2972 * tests/suite.at: Move the globals into...
2973 * tests/local.at: here.
2974 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
2975 * doc/autoconf.texi (testsuite Scripts): Adjust.
2977 2003-06-21 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
2979 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Extend test program to get an
2980 error from OSF 4.0 Compaq cc in its default almost-ANSI mode, thereby
2981 ensuring we add -std1 for full-ANSI.
2983 * doc/autoconf.texi (hdrindex): New macro.
2984 Add index entries for portability of various standard header files.
2986 2003-06-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2988 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.57b.
2990 2003-06-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2994 2003-06-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2996 * bin/autom4te.in: Don't rely on $HOME being defined.
2997 Reported by Marc Espie as PR/233.
2999 2003-06-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3001 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Use at_times_file only if used.
3004 2003-06-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3006 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/elisp-comp,
3007 * config/install-sh, config/mkinstalldirs, doc/standards.texi:
3008 Update from masters.
3010 2003-06-11 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
3012 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Document AT_XFAIL_IF
3013 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_XFAIL_IF): New macro.
3014 (TEST_SCRIPT): New diversion.
3015 (AT_SETUP): Divert output to TEST_SCRIPT and move some code...
3016 (AT_CLEANUP): ...to here. Undivert TEST_SCRIPT.
3017 (AT_INIT): Support for expected failures.
3019 2003-06-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3021 * bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoheader.in: White space
3023 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&backname): Remove, no longer used by
3024 Autoconf nor Automake.
3025 (&contents): New, from Automake.
3028 2003-05-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3030 * NEWS, doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions),
3031 lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MKTIME): Check that mktime
3032 is the inverse of localtime.
3034 2003-05-25 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
3036 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (END): Print diagnostics to STDERR.
3037 (handle_exec_errors): New function. Work around $! being
3038 altered by WEXITSTATUS.
3039 (xqx, xsystem): Use handle_exec_errors.
3041 2003-05-23 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
3043 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (END): Rewrite exit code processing.
3044 Do not call `_exit()', simply modify `$?'.
3045 (xsystem): Reset $! before running system, and check it afterward.
3046 * tests/tools.at (autoupdating AC_PREREQ): Expect exit status
3047 63 for version mismatches.
3049 2003-05-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3051 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Prefer "TAB-SP" to "SP-TAB", because of
3052 Emacs' dangerous whitespace.el behavior (smashing "useless" spaces in
3053 the middle of a line).
3054 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: Likewise.
3055 Remove useless spaces in comments.
3057 2003-05-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3059 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_version_prereq): Failure causes an
3060 exit 63, so that we (or Automake's "missing") can tell the
3061 difference with a plain failure.
3062 * doc/autoconf.texi (Notices): Adjust.
3064 2003-05-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3066 * Makefile.am, bin/Makefile.am, config/Makefile.am,
3067 * doc/Makefile.am, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am, tests/Makefile.am:
3068 White spaces cleanup.
3070 2003-05-22 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
3071 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3073 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION):
3074 Remove `#include <stdlib.h>' from the list; we should never
3075 make confdefs.h include <stdlib.h> or <cstdlib>, because the
3076 resulting namespace pollution would cause other tests to fail.
3077 Configure scripts run with some older versions of g++ and HP's
3078 aCC would fail due to such an #include. Problems reported by
3079 Matthew Mueller in <http://bugs.debian.org/120704> and by
3081 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2003-05/msg00063.html>.
3082 In the test, use the test declaration before including <stdlib.h>,
3083 as that's closer to how it'll be used.
3085 2003-05-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3087 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): ucred.h.
3090 2003-05-22 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
3092 Overhaul Autotest's logging: generate separate log files
3093 in testsuite.dir/NNN/testsuite.log, and append them to
3094 testsuite.log instead of re-running the test verbosely.
3096 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Use a single redirected
3097 file descriptor, write 0 to at_status_file instead of setting
3098 at_status=0, initialize some new variables (at_status_file,
3099 at_group_log, at_suite_log, at_tee_pipe). Remove the cruft
3100 to rerun the tests, instead append the at_group_log to the
3101 at_suite_log when a test fails.
3102 (AT_SETUP): pipe the test case's output into at_tee_pipe,
3103 with the AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD redirected to stdout.
3104 (AT_CLEANUP): save the output status in $at_status_file
3105 and restore it, redirect the AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD back to
3107 (AT_CHECK): since tests are run with a redirected stdout,
3108 and used to be re-run in verbose mode, turn some $at_verbose
3109 into echo, and don't redirect the output of testing stdout
3112 * lib/autotest/autoconf.texi (testsuite Scripts): Update
3113 the name of the debugging directory and information about
3116 2003-05-22 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
3118 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_REQUIRE): Actually use the 2nd
3121 2003-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3123 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4, lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4
3124 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 lib/autoconf/general.m4
3125 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 lib/autoconf/oldnames.m4
3126 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Fix and adjust copyright notices.
3128 2003-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3130 * aclocal.m4, bin/autoconf.as, lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4,
3131 * lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4, lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4,
3132 * lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/fortran.m4,
3133 * lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/headers.m4,
3134 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4,
3135 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4, lib/autoconf/specific.m4,
3136 * lib/autoconf/status.m4, lib/autoconf/types.m4,
3137 * lib/autotest/general.m4, lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4,
3138 * tests/atspecific.m4, tests/base.at, tests/compile.at,
3139 * tests/foreign.at, tests/m4sh.at, tests/semantics.at,
3140 * tests/tools.at, tests/torture.at:
3141 Whitespace clean up.
3142 Suggested by Jim Meyering.
3144 2003-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3146 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG): Restore smashed
3147 ' \t' as '\t ' so that Emacs' whitespace.el keep it.
3148 Reported by Jim Meyering.
3150 2003-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3152 * doc/autoconf.texi: Replace AC_HELP_STRING AS_HELP_STRING.
3153 Add AC_HELP_STRING to the obsolete macros section.
3155 Use '@.' for sentences that ended in a capital letter.
3158 2003-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3160 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/elisp-comp,
3161 * config/install-sh, config/mdate-sh, config/mkinstalldirs,
3162 * config/texinfo.tex, doc/standards.texi: Update from masters.
3164 2003-05-21 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
3166 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_VAR_SET): Escape the RHS before passing
3169 2003-05-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3171 * bin/autoupdate.in ($m4): Fix quotation.
3172 Reported by Martin Mokrejs.
3174 2003-05-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3176 * ChangeLog, ChangeLog.2, THANKS, lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4:
3177 Remove non-ASCII characters.
3179 2003-05-18 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
3181 * tests/semantics.at (AC_SEARCH_LIBS): New test.
3182 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_HEADERS_OLD,
3183 AC_CHECK_HEADERS_NEW): New tests.
3185 2003-05-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3187 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4: Use the default includes so that
3188 memcmp be declared before being tested.
3189 Reported by Sander Niemeijer.
3190 (AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE, AC_FUNC_GETGROUPS, AC_FUNC_STRNLEN): Likewise.
3191 * doc/autoconf.texi (Default Includes): Document
3192 AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT.
3194 2003-05-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3196 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4: Include signal.h and unistd.h.
3197 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsolete Macros): Adjust.
3198 Reported by Werner LEMBERG and Debian Bug 190886.
3200 2003-05-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3202 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_UNSET_PREPARE): s/FOO/as_foo/ to avoid
3203 user name space clashes.
3204 Reported by Bruno Haible.
3206 2003-05-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3208 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
3209 * bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in (BEGIN): Make
3210 them uniform, and more robust to Perl special characters.
3211 Reported by Martin Mokrejs.
3213 2003-05-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3215 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Skip all Libtools pre 1.4.
3217 2003-05-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3219 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): X11/extensions/scrnsaver.h,
3222 2003-05-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3224 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Improve the
3226 From Matthias Andree.
3228 2003-05-07 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
3230 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm (lock, truncate): Do not pass @_ to flock
3233 2003-05-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3235 Don't try to be smart with aclocal 1.8+ because (i) aclocal no
3236 longer updates aclocal.m4 if useless, (ii) if a file m4_included
3237 by aclocal.m4 is changed it might require the importing of another
3238 m4 extension file, i.e., aclocal must be run.
3240 * bin/autoreconf.in (&run_aclocal, $aclocal_supports_force): New.
3241 (&parse_args): Use --force with aclocal if required and supported.
3242 (&autoreconf_current_directory): Use &run_aclocal.
3244 2003-05-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3246 Lock autom4te's cache.
3248 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm ($me, &name, &lock, &truncate, &seek): New.
3249 * bin/autom4te.in (&Request::save, &Request::load): Use an IO::File
3250 argument instead of a file name, so that the request file remains
3251 open during the whole autom4te run.
3252 ($icache_file): New.
3253 (&freeze): Lock the $icache_file.
3255 2003-04-29 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
3257 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_KEYWORDS): Don't use a comma as the
3258 seperator with m4_append_uniq(). It doesn't work.
3259 (AT_CLEANUP): Add `;' to end of at_help_all.
3260 (AT_INIT): Allow --keywords to be specified more than once. When
3261 grepping $at_help_all for keywords, use the field and keyword
3262 seperators to ensure a complete keyword match. Alter at_prev handling
3263 to support the new --keywords behavior.
3265 2003-04-27 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
3267 * doc/autoconf.texi: Make the dir entries in the autoconf manual
3268 align better with others. I also made some of the individual
3269 entries on one line, for brevity and to make it easier for me to
3270 sort my dir-example file in the Texinfo distribution :).
3272 2003-04-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
3274 * NEWS: Mention the new macro.
3275 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_RESTRICT): New macro.
3276 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Describe AC_C_RESTRICT.
3277 * tests/c.at: Test AC_C_RESTRICT.
3278 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Add exclusion for AC_C_RESTRICT.
3280 2003-04-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3282 * bin/ifnames.in: Skip C++ comments.
3285 2003-04-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3287 * GNUmakefile (SHELL): Don't assume sh is in /bin/.
3288 From Ilya Zakharevich.
3290 2003-04-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3292 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Some about sys/socket.h,
3295 2003-04-01 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
3297 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_INSTALL): Correct syntax error
3298 from Akim's checkin of 2003-03-29.
3300 2003-04-01 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
3302 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Add missing
3303 close-quote for Akim's change from 2003-03-28.
3305 2003-04-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3307 * doc/autoconf.texi (ac, at, ms): Rename these indexes as...
3308 (AC, AT, MS): these.
3309 (shortindexflag, @acindex, @ahindex, @asindex, @atindex, @msindex):
3312 * doc/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): Adjust.
3313 (TEXI2DVI): Make it --batch.
3315 2003-03-31 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
3317 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Revert the checkin from 2003-03-27
3318 which removed the main loop.
3319 Thanks to Akim Demaille.
3321 2003-03-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3323 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_INSTALL): Skip OS/2's install,
3325 From Ilya Zakharevich.
3327 2003-03-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3329 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): The
3330 documentation to read is Autoconf's.
3331 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
3333 2003-03-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3335 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): Suggest
3336 reading the section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled" when the
3337 header causes problems.
3339 2003-03-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3341 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Require aclocal
3342 1.4, otherwise the test fails, as it does support configure.ac.
3343 This fixes the "test 40 failed" bug reports.
3345 2003-03-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3347 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): `#line' portability.
3348 From Paul Eggert and Nelson H. F. Beebe.
3350 2003-03-27 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
3352 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Eliminate main loop and reorganize test
3353 layout in order to allow scripting around test groups.
3355 2003-03-27 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
3357 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (PARSE_ARGS,PARSE_ARGS_END,HELP,HELP_MODES,
3358 HELP_TUNING,HELP_OTHER,HELP_END,PREPARE_TESTS,TESTS_END): Define and
3359 use new diversions in preparation for accepting new arguments and
3360 allowing scripting around tests.
3361 (OPTIONS,TAIL): Remove these diversions to make way for the ones above.
3363 2003-03-26 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
3365 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_VAR): Use AS_HELP_STRING instead of
3366 obsolete AC_HELP_STRING.
3367 (AC_HELP_STRING): AU_DEFUN to...
3368 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_HELP_STRING): ...here.
3369 * tests/m4sh.at (AS_HELP_STRING): New test.
3371 * tests/acgeneral.at: Regenerated.
3373 2003-03-26 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
3375 * lib/autotest/general.m4: s/DEFAULT/DEFAULTS/ since it makes more
3376 sense. Verbosify the diversion definitions comment.
3378 2003-03-26 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
3380 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Remove redundant call to
3383 2003-03-21 Eric Siegerman <eric_97@pobox.com>
3385 * doc/autoconf.texi (Present But Cannot Be Compiled):
3386 Grammar fixes and minor rewording. (trivial change)
3388 2003-03-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3390 Work around a problem noted by Nelson H. F. Beebe with coreutils
3391 4.5.9: Sun c89 (Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3 Patch 111679-08
3392 2002/05/09) rejects '#line 32768 "configure"' because the line
3394 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_SOURCE(C)): Do not generate
3396 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_SOURCE): Fix comment to match this.
3397 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generating Sources): Document this.
3399 2003-03-01 Richard Dawe <rich@phekda.freeserve.co.uk>
3401 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE): Normalize
3402 file name for the m4 program, when it has an "exe" file extension.
3403 DJGPP's error messages include the error code in brackets -
3404 remove the error code during normalization.
3406 2003-02-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3408 * doc/autoconf.texi (Present But Cannot Be Compiled): New.
3410 2003-02-28 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
3412 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Remove the section
3413 about `$<' in inference rules, it was a bogus interpretation of
3414 an old Automake change. Discuss NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and
3415 Tru64 make in the "target lookup" section.
3416 (Automake): Automake 1.5+ no longer requires special tools to be
3417 present on the developer's host.
3419 2003-02-26 Richard Dawe <rich@phekda.freeserve.co.uk>
3421 * bin/autoheader.in (BEGIN): For DJGPP SHELL may not be set
3422 to a shell that can handle redirection or quoting correctly.
3423 Override SHELL with the shell detected by configure.
3424 Use of $^O suggested by Tim van Holder.
3425 * bin/autom4te.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
3426 * bin/autoreconf.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
3427 * bin/autoscan.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
3428 * bin/autoupdate.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
3429 * bin/ifnames.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
3431 * bin/ifnames.in: Add final newline to help and version messages.
3433 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Translate colons,
3434 to cope with DOS-style absolute paths, when constructing
3437 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS, _AC_OUTPUT_FILES):
3438 When constructing paths with IFS=:, quote the path. If we're
3439 constructing a DOS-style absolute path, we don't want to split it
3442 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_CONFIGURE): Fix typo
3445 2003-02-25 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
3447 * bin/autoheader.in: Add missing newline when printing
3448 suggestion how change AC_DEFINE call.
3450 2003-02-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3452 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Fix typo in
3453 2002-09-01 patch by replacing "test -n" with "test -z".
3454 This fixes a bug found by Jeff Painter and reported by Tom Epperly in
3455 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2003-02/msg00139.html>.
3457 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): test -n -> test -z,
3458 to fix a mismatch between example and discussion.
3460 2003-02-24 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
3462 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Add notes on printf
3463 format starting with "-".
3465 2003-02-20 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
3467 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): `foo=bar make -e'
3468 is not portable inside Makefile.
3470 2003-02-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3472 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): When
3473 compiler says yeah, but preproc says nope, compiler is right.
3474 Conversely, prompt the reader to send a bug report to the
3475 maintainers of the package, not of Autoconf.
3477 2003-02-20 Klee Dienes <kdienes@apple.com>
3479 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory): Properly
3480 handle an empty aclocal.m4.
3482 2003-02-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3484 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM): Quote
3488 2002-12-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3490 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C)): Define $1 to an
3491 innocuous variant befor including <limits.h> or <assert.h>. This
3492 works around a bug reported by Albert Chin: HP-UX 11i
3493 (and earlier versions) have a <limits.h> that declares
3494 gettimeofday and many other functions.
3496 2002-12-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3500 * NEWS, configure.ac: Update version.
3502 * doc/fdl.texi: Upgrade to FDL version 1.2.
3504 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C)): Use the function f
3505 nontrivially in main's body, so that f's external declaration is
3506 not optimized away in AIX. This should fix the bug reported by
3508 <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/autoconf/2002-November/014508.html>.
3510 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C),
3511 _AC_PROG_PREPROC_WORKS_IFELSE): Use <limits.h> if __STDC__ is
3512 defined, to support freestanding compilers. This should fix the
3513 bug reported by Momchil Velkov in
3514 <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/autoconf/2002-November/014490.html>.
3516 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsolete Macros): Fix typos (insert empty
3517 arg, AC_DEFINE -> AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED) in documentation for
3518 obsolete AC_CHECK_TYPE. The missing empty arg was reported
3519 by Simon Josefsson in
3520 <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/autoconf-patches/2002-December/008830.html>.
3522 * Makefile.maint (www-gnu): New macro.
3523 (standards.texi-url_prefix, make-stds.texi-url_prefix): Use it, as
3524 the location has moved.
3526 2002-12-02 Martin Frydl <martin@systinet.com>
3528 * bin/autom4te.in (at_flatten): rewritten to avoid M4 problem when
3529 \(.*\) match is too long and there is something more to be checked.
3530 <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/autoconf/2002-November/014524.html>
3532 2002-11-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3536 * config/install-sh: chmod +x.
3538 * config/move-if-change: Indenting changes.
3539 * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Move to...
3540 * configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): here.
3543 2002-11-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3547 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/install-sh:
3548 Update from masters.
3550 2002-11-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3552 * Makefile.maint: Sync with Bison, i.e.:
3553 (po-check): Scan .l and .y files instead of the
3554 .c and the .h files that they generate. This fixes the bug
3555 reported by Tim Van Holder in:
3556 <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bison-patches/2002-November/001352.html>
3557 Look for N_ as well as for _. Try to avoid matching #define for
3561 2002-11-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3563 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Compiling several files at once.
3564 From Paul Eggert and Albert Chin-A-Young.
3566 2002-11-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3568 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Solitary backslashes.
3569 From Paul Eggert and Albert Chin-A-Young.
3571 2002-11-14 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
3573 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C)): Initialize f=$1 rather
3574 than assigning in main, to avoid HP cc +O3 optimizing it away.
3576 2002-11-12 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
3578 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Add -q
3579 option. Process --recheck after parsing all options. Pass -q
3580 option to configure on --recheck.
3581 (AC_OUTPUT): Pass -q from configure to config.status.
3582 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Strip -q from
3583 arguments to record.
3584 * doc/autoconf.texi (config.status Invocation): Document
3585 config.status -q option.
3587 2002-11-07 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
3589 * bin/autoscan.in (scan_file): Scan Makefile.am too. Ignore
3590 Makefile.in if Makefile.am exists.
3591 (output): Strip `.am' from Makefiles. Don't
3592 output AC_CONFIG_FILES if no Makefiles were found.
3594 2002-11-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3596 * Makefile.am (cvs_files): Add elisp-comp, mdate-sh.
3597 (local_updates): New.
3598 * Makefile.maint: Update, from CVS Bison.
3599 (local_updates): New.
3601 2002-11-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3603 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY): Wrap the `f'
3604 declaration in extern "C" too.
3605 Reported by Roberto Bagnara.
3607 2002-11-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3609 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Don't use grep
3611 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Grep -w.
3612 Reported by Ezra Peisach.
3614 2002-11-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3616 * lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4 (_AH_TEMPLATE_OLD, _AH_VERBATIM_OLD):
3618 We _have_ to stop using the old compatibility scheme that tried to
3619 avoid useless backslashes because Libtool 1.4.3 contains a
3620 AC_DEFINE([error_t], [int],
3621 [Define to a type to use for \`error_t' if it is not
3622 otherwise available.])
3623 We _have_ to quote the single quote and backslashes with \. The
3624 old compatibility scheme saw that ` was backslashed, and therefore
3625 did not quote the single quote. Hence before this patch, Autoconf
3626 was not compatible with Libtool.
3628 2002-11-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3630 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Set the following variables,
3631 too: LC_ADDRESS, LC_IDENTIFICATION, LC_MEASUREMENT, LC_MONETARY,
3632 LC_NAME, LC_PAPER, LC_TELEPHONE.
3633 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Mention those vars.
3635 2002-11-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3639 * Makefile.maint (update, cvs-update, po-update, do-po-update):
3641 * config/texinfo.tex: Update.
3643 2002-11-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3645 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf_current_directory): New, extracted
3647 (&autoreconf): here.
3648 ($help, $make, &parse_args, &autoreconf_current_directory):
3650 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Adjust.
3652 2002-10-31 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
3654 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_MALLOC_IF): Change message.
3655 Change name of cache variable to ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull.
3656 (AC_FUNC_MALLOC): Change description of HAVE_MALLOC macro.
3657 (_AC_FUNC_REALLOC_IF): Change message. Change name of cache variable
3658 to ac_cv_func_realloc_0_nonnull.
3659 (AC_FUNC_REALLOC): Change description of HAVE_REALLOC macro.
3661 2002-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3663 The test suite was no longer checking for trailing envvars and files.
3665 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AC_STATE_SAVE): Don't use quadrigraphs here.
3666 (AT_CHECK_ENV): Make sure the `state-ls.before file exists.
3668 2002-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3670 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Use and display
3671 `$(MAKE)' instead of '${MAKE}' to emphasize that we refer to the
3672 Make variable, not a shell variable.
3673 Suggested by Bruno Haible.
3675 2002-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3677 * bin/autom4te.in (load_configuration): Reject #args out of any
3680 2002-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3682 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_MSG_LOG_CONFTEST): New.
3683 (_AC_PREPROC_IFELSE, _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, _AC_LINK_IFELSE)
3684 (_AC_RUN_IFELSE): Use it.
3685 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT):
3686 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Likewise.
3687 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_SOURCE): Don't include confdefs.h,
3690 2002-10-30 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3692 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args, $help): Support --no-cache.
3693 * doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te Invocation): Adjust.
3694 Suggested by Tim van Holder.
3696 2002-10-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3698 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): AC_FUNC_MALLOC and
3699 AC_FUNC_REALLOC check for compatibility with glibc, not POSIX.
3700 Problem reported by Bruno Haible.
3702 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3704 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Templates): Put also in words what the
3705 pictures says to assist free style readers.
3706 (Customizing autom4te): s/--cache=/--cache /.
3708 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3710 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_VFORK): Include stdlib.h and
3712 sparc_address_test returns void.
3713 Use it with an argument, as prototyped.
3716 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3718 * doc/autoconf.texi (Subdirectories): Cygnus dirs have
3719 configure.in, not configure.ac.
3720 Reported by Bruno Haible.
3722 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3724 * tests/torture.at (Deep Package): New test.
3725 (Configuring subdirectories): Don't use a testSubDir as Autotest
3728 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3730 * bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args, $help): Support --warnings.
3731 * doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te): Rename as...
3732 (autom4te Invocation): this, for consistency with the other nodes.
3734 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3736 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): s/automate/autom4te/.
3737 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
3739 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3741 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_QUOTE): The warning about quoted
3742 characters is a back as an `obsolete' warning now.
3743 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
3745 2002-10-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3747 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.54c.
3749 2002-10-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3753 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Adjust to broken libtoolize.
3755 2002-10-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3757 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE): Be robust to different
3758 m4 executable names, and different GNU M4 version.
3759 Reported by Ezra Peisach and Paul Jarc.
3761 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3763 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_VFORK): Really use
3766 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3768 * doc/autoconf.texi: More AC_MSG_FAILURE promotion.
3769 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING):
3770 Die when a simple Fortran program cannot be compiled.
3771 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_CALL, AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY):
3772 Issue a warning if no function is given.
3774 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3776 * doc/autoconf.texi (Run Time): Document AC_RUN_IFELSE.
3777 Move the documentation of AC_TRY_RUN to...
3778 (Obsolete Macros): here.
3779 Adjust all the old samples still using AC_TRY_RUN to AC_RUN_IFELSE.
3780 (autoconf Invocation): Remove the duplicates with `invoking
3782 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDC): Don't use AC_TRY_RUN.
3783 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
3785 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3787 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generating Sources): Document AC_LANG_CALL
3788 and AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY.
3789 (Examining Libraries): Rename as...
3790 (Running the Linker): this.
3791 Document AC_LINK_IFELSE.
3792 Move the documentation of AC_TRY_LINK and AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC to...
3793 (Obsolete Macros): here.
3794 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING): Don't use
3795 AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC nor AC_TRY_LINK.
3796 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (AC_CHECK_LIB, AC_PATH_XTRA): Likewise.
3797 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_USG): Likewise.
3799 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3801 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDC): Don't use AC_TRY_CPP.
3803 More `check config.log' messages.
3805 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_MSG_FAILURE): New.
3806 * doc/autoconf.texi (Printing Messages): Document it.
3807 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Use it when
3809 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT)
3810 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_WORKS, _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O)
3811 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT): Likewise.
3812 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_RUN_IFELSE): Likewise.
3813 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_F77_HOOKS):
3815 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CPP, AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXXCPP):
3818 Deprecate macros with unusual interfaces.
3820 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_TRY_CPP, AC_TRY_LINK)
3821 (AC_TRY_COMPILE, AC_TRY_RUN): AU_DEFUN'ed.
3823 Document the new ones, and proper style.
3825 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generating Sources): New.
3826 Document AC_LANG_CONFTEST, AC_LANG_SOURCE, AC_LANG_PROGRAM.
3827 (Examining Declarations): Rename as...
3828 (Running the Preprocessor): this.
3829 Document AC_PREPROC_IFELSE.
3830 (Examining Syntax): Rename as...
3831 (Running the Compiler): this.
3832 (AC_FOO_IFELSE vs AC_TRY_FOO): New section.
3833 (Obsolete Macros): Move the definition of AC_TRY_CPP and
3834 AC_TRY_COMPILE here.
3836 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3838 Move sections around.
3840 * doc/autoconf.texi (Customizing autom4te): Remove a lost
3842 Reported by Burno Haible.
3843 (Language Choice): Now the first section of...
3844 (Writing Tests): this section.
3845 Make the introduction less C-centric.
3846 (Guidelines, Test Functions): Move to...
3847 (Writing Test Programs): this new section.
3848 (Test Programs): Merge into...
3851 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3853 * lib/freeze.mk ($(AUTOM4TE_CFG)): Add a missing dependency on
3854 autom4te.in that resulted in the need for two `make' runs.
3856 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3858 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.54b.
3860 2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3864 * Makefile.maint: Update from the Coreutils.
3865 (AMTAR): Remove, obsolete.
3866 (automake_repo): Update to redhat.com.
3868 Adjust to the fact that ansi2knr is now hosted by Automake.
3869 * Makefile.am (cvs_files): Add install-sh and mkinstalldirs.
3870 * config/config.guess, config/mkinstalldirs, config/texinfo.tex:
3871 Update from masters.
3872 * lib/autoscan/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST, nodist_autoscanlib_DATA):
3873 autoscan.pre is not to be installed, and autoscan.list is not to
3875 (CLEANFILES): Add autoscan.list.
3876 (autoscan.list): Disable the cache.
3877 * bin/Makefile.am: Include freeze.mk.
3879 2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3881 * bin/autom4te.in (&load_configuration): Take the file as
3883 (&parse_args): Handle -C, --cache.
3885 (MAIN): Load ~/.autom4te.cfg and ./.autom4te.cfg.
3886 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): Pass --cache=autom4te.cache.
3887 * doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te): Document --cache.
3888 Now a subsection of...
3889 (Using autom4te): This new section.
3890 (Customizing autom4te): New.
3891 (autom4te.cache): Adjust.
3893 2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3895 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Headers): More information on how to
3896 use AC_CHECK_HEADERS.
3898 2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3900 * bin/autoconf.as, bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoupdate.in ($help):
3903 2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3905 * bin/autoscan.in (output): Output AC_PREREQ.
3906 (%needed_macros): Add AC_PREREQ so that configure.ac without one
3909 2002-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3911 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): In AC_HEADER_STDBOOL,
3914 2002-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3916 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_traces): Handle @&t@ in traces.
3917 Reported by Peter Eisentraut.
3919 2002-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3921 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDBOOL): Also look for the
3924 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Adjust according to Paul
3925 Eggert's recommandations.
3927 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3929 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDBOOL): New, based on CVS
3930 Bison, by Paul Eggert.
3931 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Document it.
3933 2002-10-22 Aaron M. Ucko <amu@alum.mit.edu>
3935 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Avoid duplicates in
3936 `$ac_configure_args'.
3938 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3940 * doc/autoconf.texi: Use AC_CONFIG_HEADERS in examples.
3941 (AC_ST_BLKSIZE, AC_ST_RDEV): Directly point to AC_CHECK_MEMBERS.
3944 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3946 Restore the 2002-10-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> patch:
3948 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL)
3949 (AC_CHECK_HEADER, _AC_CHECK_HEADER_NEW,_AC_CHECK_HEADER_OLD): Restore.
3950 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_NEW): Rename as...
3951 (AC_CHECK_HEADER): this.
3953 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3955 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Remove incorrect
3956 words about HP-UX cmp: it was actually a user-written cmp.
3958 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3960 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Don't check autoconf's stderr: there
3962 * lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4 (AH_VERBATIM, _AH_VERBATIM_OLD):
3963 Quote for Perl '' strings, not "".
3964 * bin/autoheader.in: Invoke autoconf to get '' strings, not ""
3967 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3969 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_QUOTE): The warning about quoted
3970 characters is a syntax warning now.
3971 (_AS_QUOTE): Accept $2 as list of characters to quote.
3972 * lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4 (AH_VERBATIM, _AH_VERBATIM_OLD):
3973 Quote for Perl, not sh.
3974 * bin/autoheader.in: When $debug, report the file which is
3976 * tests/tools.at (autom4te, autoheader): Exercise @bar, not merely
3977 `@', to tickle Perl's lists.
3978 Reported by Carlos Velasco.
3980 2002-10-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3982 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_m4): Pass --fatal-warning to m4, so that
3983 missing included files _are_ errors.
3984 Thanks to Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
3985 * tests/tools.at (autom4te cache): Adjust.
3986 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE): New.
3987 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR): Use it.
3988 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4_warn, m4_require: circular dependencies):
3990 * tests/tools.at (autom4te): Now it does exit 1.
3992 2002-10-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3994 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CACHE_SAVE): Don't use cmp.
3995 Fixes the `AC_ARG_VAR' test failures.
3996 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Don't use cmp.
3997 * lib/freeze.mk (check-forbidden-patterns): New.
3998 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am, lib/autotest/Makefile.am
3999 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am (check-local): Use it to catch `cmp'.
4000 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): HP-UX' cmp and
4002 Reported months ago by H. Merijn Brand.
4004 2002-10-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4006 * tests/tools.at (autoheader): Put randoms `@' to stress Perl.
4008 2002-10-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4010 * Makefile.maint (wget_files): Remove ansi2knr.c.
4011 (ansi2knr.c-url_prefix): Remove.
4013 2002-10-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4015 Because of caching, some files that no longer exist and are no
4016 longer required can still cause errors.
4017 Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
4019 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Do not prepend `--reload-state'
4020 to frozen files in @ARGV, as @ARGV must remain being a list of
4021 files. Rather, at M4 call sites, use this...
4022 (&files_to_options): New function.
4023 (&freeze): Use &error.
4024 (&up_to_date): If a file that was included according to the cache
4025 is no longer there, then the output is out dated.
4026 (&main): Don't even check whether a file is up to date is anyway
4028 * tests/tools.at (autom4te cache): New.
4030 2002-10-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4032 * bin/autoconf.as: Kill dead options.
4033 * bin/autoupdate.in (&parse_args): Kill old options.
4034 * bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args): Remove dead options.
4036 (&autoreconf): Report the directories we enter *and leave*, so
4037 that error messages can be easily located, and use GNU Make
4038 format, so that Emacs' compile mode understands us.
4039 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&update_file): Use `verbose' to report
4040 if some file was changed instead of `print'.
4041 * bin/autoheader.in: Suggest AC_DEFINE with 3 args when needed.
4042 (&parse_args): Remove the dead options.
4043 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER): Adjust to the new
4044 autoheader's quiet mode.
4045 (AT_CHECK_AUTOUPDATE): Likewise.
4046 * tests/tools.at (autoupdate): Adjust.
4047 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
4049 2002-10-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4051 No longer use CPP to check for the existing of headers: use CC to
4052 check for compilability.
4054 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL)
4055 (AC_CHECK_HEADER, _AC_CHECK_HEADER_OLD): Remove.
4056 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_NEW): Rename as...
4057 (AC_CHECK_HEADER): this.
4059 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Include the failed test
4060 numbers in the Subject suggestion.
4062 2002-10-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4064 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_DECL_SYS_SIGLIST): Obsolete.
4065 Suggest using AC_CHECK_DECLS instead.
4067 2002-10-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4069 * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): Have configure report the value
4072 2002-10-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4074 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_SEPARATOR_PREPARE): Use $$ in the
4075 file name to enable parallel executions.
4076 From Sam Varshavchik.
4078 2002-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4080 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Run autopoint before the first
4081 aclocal invocation, as Gettext macros might not be visible to
4083 Instead of blindly running autopoint, scan configure.ac (not the
4084 traces) for AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION uses, as autopoint does.
4085 Reported by Paul D. Smith.
4087 2002-10-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4089 Work around problems found when POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 is set.
4090 None of this seems to have anything to do with POSIX, really,
4091 but it's how Perl getopt works.
4092 * bin/autom4te.in (parse_args): Configure GetOpt with
4094 * doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te):
4095 --warning -> --warnings.
4096 * lib/autom4te.in: --warning -> --warnings.
4098 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4100 * doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te.cache): New section.
4102 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4104 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoscan-preselections, Autoreconf-preselections)
4105 (Automake-preselections): Update.
4106 * bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoheader.in: Comment changes.
4108 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4110 * lib/autoscan/autoscan.pre: Move all the remaining rules to...
4111 * lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/functions.m4,
4112 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4,
4113 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4, lib/autoconf/types.m4: here.
4115 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4117 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Be robust to
4118 users who use config.site to require for a cache: in this case,
4119 the two last configure runs, using two different sets of
4120 arguments, trigger a legitimate error.
4122 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4124 * tests/m4sh.at (Functions Support, Functions and return Support):
4127 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4129 * bin/Makefile.am (ETAGS_SH, ETAGS_PERL): Update: ifnames and
4130 autoheader are Perl programs.
4131 (autoconf, autoheader, autoreconf, autoupdate, ifnames, autoscan)
4132 (autom4te): Specify that the sources are in the $srcdir.
4133 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Adjust.
4135 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4137 * lib/autoscan/autoscan.pre (st_blksize, st_blocks, st_rdev)
4138 (tm_zone): Move their rules to...
4139 * lib/autoconf/types.m4: here, using AN_ macros.
4140 * lib/autoscan/autoscan.pre (AWK, BISON, INSTALL, LEX, LN, MAKE)
4141 (RANLIB, YACC, awk, bison, byacc, flex, gawk, install, lex, ln)
4142 (make, mawk, nawk, ranlib, yacc): Similarly, move to...
4143 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4: here.
4144 * lib/freeze.mk (ETAGS_FOR_M4, ETAGS_FOR_M4SUGAR)
4145 (ETAGS_FOR_AUTOCONF): New.
4148 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4150 * lib/autoconf/autoscan.m4: New file.
4151 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4: Include it.
4152 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4: Use AN_FUNCTION for all the functions
4153 that were listed in the original autoscan.list.
4154 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4: Similarly with headers.
4155 * lib/freeze.mk (autoconf_m4f_dependencies): Add autoscan.m4.
4156 (.m4.m4f): Don't pass --prepend-include, since that's done by
4157 tests/autom4te itself.
4158 * lib/autoscan/Makefile.am: Include freeze.mk.
4159 (autoscan.list): New target --this file is no longer a source.
4160 (autoscan.pre): New file.
4162 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4164 * bin/autoscan.in (@kinds): Make them singular.
4166 (&init_tables): When --debug, report the list of rules to ease
4167 tracking changes in autoscan.list.
4168 * lib/autoscan/autoscan.list (function): Strip comments, sort.
4170 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4172 * lib/autoscan/functions, lib/autoscan/headers,
4173 * lib/autoscan/identifiers, lib/autoscan/makevars,
4174 * lib/autoscan/programs: Merge into...
4175 * lib/autoscan/autoscan.list: this.
4176 * bin/autoscan.in (&init_tables): Adjust.
4178 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4180 * lib/autoscan/functions, lib/autoscan/headers,
4181 * lib/autoscan/identifiers, lib/autoscan/makevars,
4182 * lib/autoscan/programs: Make the `kind' explicit, i.e., each
4183 `functions' line is now prefixed with `function:'.
4184 * bin/autoscan.in (&init_tables): Adjust.
4186 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4188 From now on, autoscan files must always map a macro name to a
4189 word: there is no `default' macro for autoscan.
4191 * bin/autoscan.in (&init_tables): Reject entries with no macro at
4193 * lib/autoscan/functions, lib/autoscan/headers: Make the macro
4196 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4198 * bin/autoscan.in (%c_keywords): Remove.
4199 (&used): Keep only track of the words we might be interested in.
4200 (&output_kind): It is no longer needed to look for non active
4203 2002-09-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4205 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC): New, stolen from
4206 jm_FUNC_MBRTOWC, by Paul Eggert, from the Coreutils 4.5.1.
4207 * lib/autoscan/functions: Adjust.
4208 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Adjust.
4210 2002-09-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4212 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Some about mv
4214 Thanks to Bill Moseley and Paul Eggert.
4215 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): $2 is the directory into which
4216 the tmpdir must be created.
4217 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Have the tmp
4218 dir be in the build tree, instead of $TMPDIR.
4220 2002-09-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4222 * bin/autoscan.in: Improve the comments.
4223 (&parse_args): Drop obsolete undocumented options.
4224 (&output_kind): Output warnings.
4225 * lib/autoscan/functions: (dcgettext): Now trigger AM_GNU_GETTEXT.
4226 (getwd): Trigger a warning.
4228 2002-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4230 * bin/autoreconf.in: Clarify that -s is meaningless without -i.
4231 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
4232 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Likewise.
4234 2002-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4236 Single suffix rules and seperated dependencies are not portable.
4238 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Update.
4239 (Limitations of Make): Some about `Single Suffix Rules and
4240 Separated Dependencies'.
4241 * bin/Makefile.am (autoconf, autoheader, autoreconf, autoupdate)
4242 (ifnames, autoscan, autom4te): Un-factor into several rules.
4244 2002-09-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4246 * BUGS (Interoperability bugs): New section. Mention libtool
4247 1.4.2, configure.ac, and AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR interoperability bug.
4249 2002-09-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4251 Fix a portability bug reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz: Solaris 8
4252 make handles suffix-rules differently from GNU make.
4254 * bin/Makefile.am (SUFFIXES, .in): Remove.
4255 (autoconf autoheader autoreconf autoupdate ifnames autoscan autom4te):
4256 Move the body of the old .in rule here.
4258 2002-09-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4260 i960 compilers create `b.out' files by default.
4261 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
4263 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT): Remove b.out files.
4264 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Adjust to b.out.
4266 2002-09-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4268 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Remove obsolete
4269 reference to `struct timezone' in the description of
4272 2002-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4276 * config/config.sub, config/config.guess: Update.
4277 * Makefile.maint: Update from bits of the Coreutils 4.5.1.
4278 * Makefile.am: Adjust.
4280 2002-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4282 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Suggest
4283 reading config.log when the compiler is rejected.
4284 Suggested by Guido Draheim.
4286 2002-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4288 * bin/autoreconf.in: Don't use Cwd::chdir, since in its internals
4289 (chdir_init) might hang when stat'ing mounted directories.
4290 Reported by Vance Shipley.
4292 2002-09-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4294 * bin/autoscan.in (&parse_args): Pass a reference to the lists, not
4297 2002-09-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4299 * doc/autoconf.texi (Defining Symbols): Present two different
4300 prototypes for AC_DEFINE and AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED to emphasize the
4301 difference between 1 argument calls, and 2-3 argument calls.
4303 2002-09-12 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
4305 * doc/autoconf.texi: Review grammar and punctuation.
4307 2002-09-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4309 * doc/autoconf.texi: Fix minor formatting, spelling, and
4311 (Defining Symbols): Explain that AC_DEFINE(var) defaults to 1, but
4312 AC_DEFINE(var,,description) does not; and the AC_DEFINE(var) case
4315 2002-09-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4317 * doc/autoconf.texi (Questions): Rename as...
4319 (Defining Directories): New.
4321 2002-09-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4323 * doc/autoconf.texi (Making testsuite Scripts): Update.
4324 Suggested by Nishio Futoshi.
4326 2002-09-09 Koji Arai <JCA02266@nifty.ne.jp>
4328 * doc/autoconf.texi (Making testsuite Scripts): Use `@@' where a
4329 plain `@' is wanted.
4331 2002-09-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4333 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Keep the
4334 `duplicates', since the algorithm was too naive and could keep
4335 `--prefix=1 --prefix=2 --prefix=1' as `--prefix=1 --prefix=2', and
4336 keep `--prefix foo --prefix bar' as `--prefix foo bar'.
4337 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
4338 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Exercise these
4341 2002-09-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4343 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG): Use $srcdir when
4344 looking for a replacement file.
4345 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CHECK_DECLS): Check that the
4346 directory is relative.
4347 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Functions): Clarify the replacement
4348 directory definition.
4349 Reported by Andreas Schwab and Jim Meyering.
4351 2002-09-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4353 * doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Clarify what
4354 precious variables are.
4355 Suggested by Pontus Skoeld.
4357 2002-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4359 * bin/Makefile.am (autoconf, autoheader, autoreconf, autoupdate)
4360 (ifnames, autoscan, autom4te): Since we don't only depend on
4361 configure.ac variables (such as VERSION etc.), but also on prefix
4362 and so forth, depend on Makefile, not configure.ac.
4363 Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
4364 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Adjust.
4366 2002-09-05 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
4368 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): HP-UX trailing backslashes
4369 doesn't seem to be confined to ia64, just say "some versions".
4371 2002-09-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4373 * Makefile.am, doc/Makefile.am: Remove pdf targets, handled by
4375 * Makefile.am (maintainer-clean-local): Remove.
4376 (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Remove COPYING.
4378 2002-09-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4380 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Commands): Remove obsolete
4381 example for AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE. Problem reported by Marcus
4384 2002-09-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4386 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.53d.
4387 * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Require 1.6c, i.e., CVS Automake
4388 as of today, on Automake's team suggestion.
4390 2002-09-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4394 2002-09-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4396 * bin/autom4te.in (parse_args): Don't honor AUTOM4TE_PATH and
4398 * configure.ac: Disable SITE_MACRO_DIR.
4400 2002-09-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@lucent.com>
4402 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_SYS_POSIX_TERMIOS): Reflect renaming: s/am/ac/,
4403 i.e., change am_cv_sys_posix_termios to ac_cv_sys_posix_termios.
4404 Also, tweak grammar: s/make sure to/be sure to/.
4406 2002-09-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4408 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Explain why logical
4409 directory names are generally preferable to physical names.
4411 2002-09-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4413 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&update_file): s/die/error/.
4414 Reported by Raja R. Harinath.
4415 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoscan.in,
4416 * bin/autoupdate.in: Use error instead of die.
4418 2002-09-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4420 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_egrep, au_exclude_egrep): Use
4421 ordinary shell concatenation rather than echo+tr+sed command that
4422 runs afoul of a long-line-related sed bug in Solaris 8.
4424 * bin/autoheader.in (parse_args): --warning -> --warnings.
4426 * bin/autoconf.as: Work even if "ls" outputs "FOO not found" to
4427 stdout, as traditional "ls" does.
4428 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT,
4429 _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O): Likewise.
4430 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Add "ls".
4432 * bin/autoconf.as: Add --prepend-include option. This patch was
4433 applied to bin/autoconf.in in the 2002-07-17 patch by Mark D. Roth,
4434 but bin/autoconf.in is generated automatically from bin/autoconf.as.
4436 * bin/autoconf.in, configure: Regenerate.
4438 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Mention
4439 ENV, MAIL, MAILPATH, PS1, PS2, PS4. Index PWD.
4441 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Unset ENV, MAIL,
4442 MAILPATH and set PS1, PS2, PS4 to default values, to work
4443 around bug in pre-3.0 UWIN ksh reported by Bruce Lilly.
4444 For LC_ALL etc, first try to set to "C" as POSIX requires and as
4445 the Autoconf documentation specifies; fall back to "unset" only if
4446 this fails. Use a shell for-loop for this rather than an m4 loop,
4447 to shorten the output script.
4449 2002-08-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4451 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Mention POSIX
4452 1003.1-2001's requirements for CDPATH. Give a simpler workaround
4453 for the CDPATH problem. Document PWD.
4454 (Limitations of Builtins): Document the problem that "cd $foo" and
4455 "ls $foo" may refer to different directories in shells conforming
4456 to POSIX 1003.1-2001. Use PS1 rather than CDPATH for "unset"
4457 example, since the old example is now out of date.
4459 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Reject FOO if "cd
4460 FOO" and "ls FOO" talk about different directories; this catches
4461 problems when POSIX 1003.1-2001 "cd" fails due to symlink
4464 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Use AS_UNSET instead
4465 of rolling our own unset.
4466 (_AS_PREPARE): $as_unset CDPATH instead of AS_UNSETting it, since
4467 in practice we needn't worry about CDPATH if unset doesn't work.
4469 * Makefile.in, aclocal.m4, bin/Makefile.in,
4470 config/Makefile.in, doc/Makefile.in, lib/Makefile.in,
4471 lib/Autom4te/Makefile.in, lib/autoconf/Makefile.in,
4472 lib/autoscan/Makefile.in, lib/autotest/Makefile.in,
4473 lib/emacs/Makefile.in, lib/m4sugar/Makefile.in, man/Makefile.in,
4474 tests/Makefile.in: Regenerate with Automake 1.6.3.
4476 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/mkinstalldirs:
4479 * configure: Regenerate with self.
4481 2002-08-30 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
4483 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Notes on "cc"
4486 2002-08-29 Rainer Orth <ro@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
4488 * bin/autom4te.in (Request::load): Correctly test for "do" read
4491 2002-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4493 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&xqx): New.
4494 (&xsystem): Use WIFEXITED and WEXITSTATUS instead of decoding $? by
4495 hand, which is not portable.
4497 * bin/autom4te.in: Use them.
4498 Use &error instead of die.
4499 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4_warn, m4_require: circular dependencies):
4502 2002-08-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4504 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_PROG_F77): Remove fc from the
4505 default list of compilers to try, since it was long ago superseded
4506 by the ksh fc builtin. Suggested by Steven G. Johnson.
4508 2002-07-31 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
4510 * doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te): End the option table,
4511 fixing a bug introduced by the previous patch.
4512 (Limitations of Make): Add a 'target lookup' subentry in the
4513 'VPATH' entry. Rewrite all `make' occurences as `@command{make}'.
4515 2002-07-29 Mark D. Roth <roth@feep.net>
4517 * bin/autom4te.in: Remove --include-envvar and --site-macro-subdir
4518 options and use $AUTOM4TE_PATH.
4519 * doc/autoconf.texi: Remove documentation of autom4te
4520 --include-envvar and --site-macro-subdir options and document
4521 use of $AUTOM4TE_PATH.
4522 * lib/autom4te.in: Remove --include-envvar and --site-macro-subdir
4523 arguments from each language section.
4525 2002-07-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4527 * doc/install.texi: Include copyright symbol in copyright notice.
4529 * Makefile.am (MAKEINFO): Remove; it's a user-specified macro.
4531 (AM_MAKEINFOFLAGS): New macro.
4532 * doc/Makefile.am (MAKEINFO, AM_MAKEINFOFLAGS): Likewise.
4533 * Makefile.am (INSTALL): Use the new macros.
4534 Use -o rather than --output, since "missing" does not grok --output.
4536 2002-07-25 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
4538 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Escaped newlines in
4539 comments do not always work. Never trust the exit status of
4542 2002-07-24 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
4544 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make, Making testsuite Scripts):
4545 Untabify, since tabs are not enjoyed by texi2dvi and makeinfo.
4547 2002-07-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4549 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_SEPARATOR_PREPARE):
4550 Use PATH="/nonexistent;.", not PATH=".;.", as FreeBSD ksh2002
4551 apparently treats PATH="nonexistent" as if it contained ".".
4552 Bug reported by Stefan `Sec' Zehl.
4554 2002-07-22 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
4556 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Mention the special
4557 handling of the obj/ directory by BSD make.
4559 2002-07-20 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
4561 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Add HP-UX IA-64 trailing
4564 2002-07-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4566 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): `exit'.
4567 (Programming in M4sh): Ethymology of M4sh.
4569 2002-07-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4571 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_LIBOBJ vs LIBOBJS): More about $U.
4573 2002-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4577 2002-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4579 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub: Update.
4581 2002-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4583 Handle LIBOBJS and LTLIBOBJS once for all, including Libtool's and
4586 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJS_NORMALIZE): New.
4587 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_PRE): Call it.
4588 * tests/semantics.at (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Adjust.
4590 2002-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>,
4591 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
4593 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): Install
4594 _AC_AM_CONFIG_HEADER_HOOK for Automake 1.7.
4596 2002-07-17 Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
4598 * doc/autoconf.texi (Initializing configure): Clarify the
4599 description of the tarname default.
4601 2002-07-17 Andreas Buening <andreas.buening@nexgo.de>
4603 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_FORK): Don't set
4604 ac_cv_func_fork_works before running _AC_FUNC_FORK, do it if the
4607 2002-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4609 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (find_file): Browse the directories in
4610 the order they are given.
4612 2002-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4614 * tests/wrapsh.as, tests/wrappl.as: Merge into...
4615 * tests/wrapper.as: this.
4616 * tests/Makefile.am, configure.ac: Adjust.
4618 2002-07-17 Mark D. Roth <roth@feep.net>
4620 * configure.ac: Add --enable-site-macro-dir option.
4621 * bin/Makefile.am: Expand @SITE_MACRO_DIR@.
4622 * bin/autom4te.in: Add --prepend-include, --include-envvar, and
4623 --site-macro-subdir options.
4624 * bin/autoconf.in: Add --prepend-include option.
4625 * bin/autoheader.in: Add --prepend-include option.
4626 * bin/autoreconf.in: Add --prepend-include option.
4627 * bin/autoscan.in: Add --prepend-include option.
4628 * bin/autoupdate.in: Add --prepend-include option.
4629 * doc/autoconf.texi: Document use of $AC_MACRO_PATH and site
4630 macro directory, remove note that include path directories are
4631 used in reverse order, and document --prepend-include option.
4632 * lib/autom4te.in: Use --prepend-include instead of --include.
4633 * tests/wrapsh.in: Use --prepend-include instead of --include.
4635 2002-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4637 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): `_' is allowed in
4639 * doc/autoconf.texi (Initializing configure): Adjust.
4641 2002-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4643 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_REALLOC, _AC_FUNC_REALLOC)
4644 (_AC_FUNC_MALLOC): New.
4645 (AC_FUNC_MALLOC): Use the latter.
4646 Define HAVE_MALLOC to 0 if broken.
4647 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Adjust.
4649 2002-07-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4651 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BACKSLASH_A): New.
4652 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Adjust.
4654 2002-07-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4656 * doc/autoconf.texi: Properly set the ``header'' part.
4658 2002-07-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4660 * doc/autoconf.texi (Systemology): Some about Darwin.
4662 2002-07-09 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
4664 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_CYGWIN, AC_EMXOS2, AC_MINGW32):
4665 Don't use AC_REQUIRE in AU_DEFUN.
4667 2002-07-09 Art Haas <ahaas@neosoft.com>
4669 * doc/autoconf.texi: Use @enddots{} or @dots{} where appropriate.
4671 2002-07-02 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
4673 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
4674 bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in, lib/Autom4te/General.pm,
4675 lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm, lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Add local variables
4676 so that Emacs setups GNU style for perl-mode and cperl-mode.
4678 2002-06-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4680 * config/install-sh: Quote $src. Prefer || to test's -o option,
4681 as per "Limitations of Builtins".
4682 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_ENV): Likewise, for && vs test -a.
4683 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
4685 * tests/mktests.sh: Use grep instead of fgrep, as per
4686 "Limitations of Builtins".
4688 2002-06-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4690 * tests/wrapsh.as (AUTOCONF, AUTOHEADER, AUTOM4TE, AUTOM4TE_CFG,
4691 autom4te_perllibdir): Set to top build dir or src dir as appropriate,
4692 so that we consistently test the just-built programs.
4693 * tests/wrappl.as: Likewise.
4695 2002-06-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4697 * bin/autoconf.as (AUTOM4TE): Default to a fully qualified path
4698 name, so that symlinks to 'autoconf' work properly. Bug reported
4700 * bin/autoheader.in (AUTOM4TE): Likewise.
4701 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoconf, autoheader): Likewise.
4702 * bin/autoscan.in (autom4te): Likewise.
4703 * bin/autoupdate.in (autom4te): Likewise.
4705 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ_FNMATCH): Also check for
4706 btowc, to fix a portability bug with diffutils-2.8.2/lib/fnmatch.c
4709 2002-06-11 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
4711 * doc/autoconf.texi: Add more dir entries.
4713 2002-06-10 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
4715 * bin/autom4te.in ($cache): Don't define using `$me', the name
4716 of the cache should not depend on the name under which autom4te
4719 2002-06-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4721 * tests/tools.at (autoconf: forbidden tokens, basic)
4722 (autoconf: forbidden tokens, exceptions): Adjust to the change of
4723 words in autom4te.in.
4725 2002-06-07 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
4727 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C)): Use
4728 _AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_F77_HOOKS.
4730 2002-06-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4732 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNC_FNMATCH): Typo,
4734 (AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH): this.
4735 * tests/mktests.sh (exclude_list): Exclude AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH,
4736 AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU.
4738 2002-06-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4740 * doc/autoconf.texi (Systemology): Point to Tru64 docs, and the
4741 Rosetta Stone for Unix.
4743 2002-06-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4745 * bin/autom4te.in (warn_forbidden): When rejecting a token,
4746 suggest m4_pattern_allow.
4747 Suggested by Adam J. Richter.
4749 2002-06-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4751 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Initialize
4752 ac_config_libobj_dir.
4753 (AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR): New.
4754 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_FNMATCH): Split into...
4755 (_AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_IF, _AC_LIBOBJ_FNMATCH): these.
4756 Use ac_config_libobj_dir to find the replacement files.
4757 (AC_FUNC_FNMATCH, AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU): Split into...
4758 (AC_FUNC_FNMATCH, AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU, AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH)
4759 (AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH_GNU): these.
4760 (AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG): Use ac_config_libobj_dir.
4761 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions, Generic Functions): Adjust.
4762 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Don't check
4763 AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG as it requires getloadavg.c which is not shipped.
4765 2002-06-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4767 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_LINKS): Fall back on cp
4770 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Links): Likewise.
4771 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Prefer $(LN_S) to ln -s || ln.
4773 2002-06-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4775 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/texinfo.tex:
4776 Update from masters.
4778 2002-05-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4780 * bin/autom4te.in ($m4): Do not assume that egrep and fgrep exist.
4781 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
4782 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_RUN_LOG_STDERR, AC_EGREP_CPP):
4784 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am (check-local): Likewise.
4785 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_CONFIG_HEADER): Likewise.
4786 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (commentary only): Likewise.
4787 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT, AT_CHECK): Likewise.
4788 * lib/autotest/Makefile.am (check-local): Likewise.
4789 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am (check-local): Likewise.
4790 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CONFIGURE_AC, AT_CHECK_DEFINES): Likewise.
4791 * tests/mktests.sh (egrep): New var; use it instead of plain egrep.
4793 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_EGREP, AC_PROG_FGREP): New macros.
4794 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): Document them.
4795 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Warn that egrep and fgrep may not exist.
4798 2002-05-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4800 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_TYPE_MBSTATE_T): New macro.
4801 * NEWS, doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Types): Document it.
4802 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_FNMATCH): Require it
4803 instead of AC_MBSTATE_T, which never existed.
4805 2002-05-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4807 * doc/autoconf.texi (Hosts and Cross-Compilation): Specify the
4808 version of Autoconf that is discussed.
4810 2002-05-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4812 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_PROG_F77): Remove cf77 and cft77
4813 from the default list of compilers to try. Suggested by
4815 * NEWS: Document the above.
4816 * doc/autoconf.texi (Fortran 77 Compiler): Don't suggest cf77.
4818 2002-05-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4820 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_MEMBER): Work correctly even if
4821 the member is itself an aggregate. Bug reported by Sergey Poznyakoff.
4822 This improves on an earlier suggestion by H. Peter Anvin.
4824 2002-05-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4826 AC_FUNC_FNMATCH now tests only for POSIX compatibility.
4827 AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU also tests for GNU extensions.
4828 Both macros now accept an optional source-dir arg.
4829 New macro AC_GNU_SOURCE to define _GNU_SOURCE.
4831 * NEWS: Document this.
4832 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions, UNIX Variants): Likewise.
4834 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_FNMATCH): New macro.
4835 (AC_FUNC_FNMATCH): Use it. Test only for POSIX conformance,
4836 not for GNU extensions; this undoes part of the 2000-11-03 change,
4837 reverting to 2.13-compatible behavior.
4838 Add new optional argument DIR.
4839 (AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU): New macro.
4841 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_GNU_SOURCE): New macro.
4843 2002-05-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4845 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_TIOCGWINSZ):
4846 Don't require AC_SYS_POSIX_TERMIOS. The test is unnecessary,
4847 and it causes a 'test' syntax error if it fails.
4848 Bug reported by Stephen Gildea.
4850 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED):
4851 If prototypes are supported, use them to check this at compile-time,
4852 instead of trying to check it at run-time. If we must do a run-time
4853 check, assume that setvbuf is standard when cross-compiling, as
4854 nonstandard setvbuf occurs only on ancient and unlikely hosts.
4855 Bug reported by Paul D. Smith.
4857 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG): Add optional
4858 argument specifying location of getloadavg.c. This removes a
4859 FIXME. This idea was taken from Jim Meyering's implementation in
4861 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Document this.
4862 Also, mention HAVE_NLIST_H rather than NLIST_STRUCT, since
4863 that's what the code does; this fixes a bug reported by
4866 2002-05-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4868 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Rewrite to use Gettext's
4869 autopoint instead of gettextize.
4870 ($uses_alocal): Rename as...
4871 ($uses_aclocal): this.
4872 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Adjust.
4873 Suggested by Bruno Haible.
4875 2002-05-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4877 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_map_sep): New.
4879 2002-04-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4881 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Don't age aclocal.m4's input
4882 files to be 1 second older; just set them to be the same time.
4883 Also, sleep 1 second after the first aclocal, to work around
4884 problems with sub-second time stamps on the input files.
4886 2002-04-29 Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnu.org>
4888 * doc/autoconf.texi: Mention "set -e -x" lossage
4889 under node "Limitations of Builtins".
4891 2002-04-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4893 * doc/install.texi: Better wording for setting variables when
4895 From Christian Cornelssen.
4897 2002-04-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4899 * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): If testsuite itself is rewritten because
4900 of lack of $LINENO support, then the test will compare the $LINENO
4901 in testsuite vs. the lineno in the test file. This is wrong, of
4903 Be sure to protect it.
4904 Reported by Patrick Welche.
4906 2002-04-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4908 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsolete Macros): Typo.
4909 Reported by Vladimir Volovich.
4911 2002-04-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4913 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Don't let aclocal.m4 be older
4914 than some of the input files, hence, on the second run of aclocal,
4915 if some of its input are younger, make them older.
4916 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
4918 2002-04-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4920 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): sed and `!'.
4921 Thanks to Paul Eggert.
4923 2002-04-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4925 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Let ac_subst_files
4926 and ac_subst_vars be sh variables containing the list of
4927 AC_SUBST_FILES'ed and AC_SUBST'ed identifiers. Output them in the
4929 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Use them to log them.
4930 (_AC_SUBST, _AC_SUBST_SED_PROGRAM): Remove.
4931 (AC_SUBST, AC_SUBST_FILE): Instead of buliding the
4932 _AC_SUBST_SED_PROGRAM, store the list of output files/variables in
4933 _AC_SUBST_FILES and _AC_SUBST_VARS.
4934 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Adjust.
4936 2002-04-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4938 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Run automake after autoconf and
4939 autoheader, so that automake does not complain about a missing
4940 config.h.in that was to be created.
4942 2002-04-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4944 * bin/autoheader.in (parse_args): --warning takes an argument.
4947 2002-04-22 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
4949 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_RUN_IFELSE): Remove gmon.out
4950 and bb.out when cleaning up.
4952 2002-04-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4956 2002-04-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4958 * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): Fix the Zsh skip pattern.
4960 2002-04-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4962 * doc/autoconf.texi (Pretty Help Strings): Remove a spurious
4964 Reported by Gregory Giannoni.
4966 2002-04-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4968 * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): Skip the test if LINENO cannot be unset.
4969 Fixes false failures on Darwin.
4971 2002-04-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4973 * TODO, bin/autoupdate.in, doc/autoconf.texi,
4974 lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4,
4975 lib/autoconf/status.m4, lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4, tests/m4sh.at,
4976 tests/tools.at: Minor spelling and grammar fixes.
4978 2002-04-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4980 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Fix typos in yesterday's
4981 ZSH_VERSION fixes. Bug reported by Raja R Harinath.
4982 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
4983 * tests/atgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
4985 2002-04-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4987 * NEWS, TODO, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoupdate.in,
4988 doc/autoconf.texi, lib/freeze.mk, lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm,
4989 lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4, lib/autoconf/c.m4,
4990 lib/autoconf/functions.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
4991 lib/autoconf/lang.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4, lib/autoscan/identifiers,
4992 lib/autotest/general.m4, lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4, tests/atgeneral.m4,
4993 tests/atspecific.m4, tests/semantics.at, tests/torture.at:
4994 Minor spelling and grammar fixes.
4996 * doc/autoconf.texi: Follow the outline suggested in the GNU
4997 Sample Texts sections of the Texinfo 4.2 manual. Most
4998 importantly, this makes sure that the copyright notices appear in
4999 all output formats. You probably need Texinfo 4.2 to generate
5002 Fix some bugs when using "$@" when there might be zero positional
5003 arguments in cases where this matters.
5005 * bin/autoconf.as: Rewrite so that the problem does not come up.
5006 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_CHECK_PROG): Likewise.
5007 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_OUTPUT): Likewise.
5008 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
5010 * bin/autoheader.in: Use 'case' statement to work around problem.
5011 * bin/auto4mte.in: Likewise.
5012 * bin/autoreconf.in: Likewise.
5013 * bin/autoscan.in: Likewise.
5014 * bin/autoupdate.in: Likewise.
5015 * bin/ifnames.in: Likewise.
5017 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Document the problem.
5019 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT):
5020 Use Zsh alias to work around problem.
5021 * tests/atgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
5023 * tests/c.at: We can't have zero arguments, so remove workaround
5024 that is not portable to Zsh.
5026 2002-04-19 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
5028 * bin/autoupdate.in (handle_autoconf_macros): Honor AU_DEFUNs
5029 from aclocal.m4 too.
5031 2002-04-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5033 * tests/wrappl.as: New, M4sh precursor of wrappl.in.
5035 2002-04-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5037 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Install the Zsh
5038 workaround for ${1+"$@"}.
5039 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Explain it.
5040 From Oliver Kiddle and Peter Stephenson.
5042 Have M4sh perform minimal shell sanitizing.
5044 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.at (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Split the `_AS_PREPARE_*'
5046 (_AS_PREPARE): this new macro.
5048 (AS_INIT): Invoke AS_SHELL_SANITIZE.
5049 * tests/m4sh.at (AT_DATA_LINENO): Use _AS_PREPARE.
5051 Adjust Autoconf and Autotest.
5053 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Don't invoke
5054 AS_SHELL_SANITIZE, AS_INIT did it, but invoke AS_PREPARE.
5055 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
5056 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS):
5057 Invoke _AS_PREPARE (not AS_PREPARE) in addition to
5060 Use this M4sh to generate Autoconf's shell scripts.
5062 * tests/wrapsh.as: New, precursor of wrapsh.in.
5063 * tests/Makefile.am: Include lib/freeze.mk to get the dependencies
5064 on Autotest and M4sh.
5065 ($(TESTSUITE)): Use $(autotest_m4f_dependencies).
5066 (wrapsh.in): New target.
5067 * bin/autoconf.as: New, precursor of autoconf.in.
5068 (autoconf.in): New target.
5070 2002-04-09 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
5072 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Mention the issue
5073 with indented comments in rules.
5075 2002-04-09 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
5077 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Handle empty
5078 ac_top_builddir when setting ac_abs_top_builddir.
5080 2002-04-06 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
5082 * doc/autoconf.texi (Systemology): Add link to Unix V7 online docs.
5083 (Portable Shell): Cross reference to Systemology.
5085 2002-04-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5087 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Be sure to accumulate the
5088 directories when descending in a SUBDIRS.
5089 Reported by Ezra Peisach.
5091 2002-04-04 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
5093 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_WALK): Only simplify if path
5094 contains no literal separators.
5096 2002-04-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5098 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_CONFIG_FILE, _AC_CONFIG_HEADER)
5099 (_AC_CONFIG_COMMAND, _AC_CONFIG_LINK): New.
5100 Use dnl, not the KILL diversion.
5102 (AC_CONFIG_FILES, AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS)
5103 (AC_CONFIG_LINKS): here.
5105 Don't use the KILL diversion, as it kills spurious output, which
5106 results in failures being hidden.
5107 Use m4_defn where appropriate.
5108 (AC_CONFIG_IF_MEMBER): Kill the real bug: a spurious parenthesis
5109 after the second argument.
5111 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf, Autotest, M4sh): Don't pass --warning
5112 syntax, as it is provided by M4sugar.
5113 * tests/torture.at (Multiple AC_CONFIG_FILES): New.
5115 2002-04-03 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
5117 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_bmatch): Make sure m4_bregexp is not
5118 expanded if $# <= 2.
5120 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Run automake after rerunning
5123 2002-04-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5125 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT_REJECT)
5126 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_REJECT): New.
5127 Also recognize *.bb and *.bbg as compilation byproducts.
5128 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT, _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O)
5129 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT): Use them.
5130 Fixes Debian #138666.
5132 2002-04-02 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
5134 Integrate AC_PROG_CC_STDC into AC_PROG_CC.
5136 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Rename to _AC_PROG_CC_STDC.
5137 AU_DEFUN old name. Use _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE.
5138 (AC_PROG_CC): Call _AC_PROG_CC_STDC.
5139 (AC_C_INLINE): Do not require AC_PROG_CC_STDC.
5141 (AC_C_INLINE): Same.
5142 (AC_C_PROTOTYPES): Same. Require AC_PROG_CC instead.
5143 * doc/autoconf.texi, NEWS: Document.
5144 * tests/mktests.sh (au_exclude_list): Add AC_PROG_CC_STDC and
5147 2002-04-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5149 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Invoke
5150 _AS_MKDIR_P_PREPARE.
5152 2002-03-28 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
5154 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_INLINE): Test with a typedef return value,
5155 to avoid versions of HP C which don't allow that.
5157 2002-03-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5159 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BASENAME_PREPARE): New macro.
5160 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Invoke it.
5161 (AS_BASENAME): AS_REQUIRE it, and use $as_basename.
5163 2002-03-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5165 * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell): Add pointers to FAQs.
5167 2002-03-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5169 * doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction): The GNATS base moved.
5171 2002-03-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5173 * tests/m4sh.at: Don't rely on "PATH=test:$PATH test-1" working
5174 as POSIX requires, as it doesn't work with Zsh.
5175 * doc/autoconf.texi (Assignments): Document the problem.
5177 2002-03-25 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
5179 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Mention more issue
5180 about VPATH, overriding of macros in sub-makes, and handling of
5183 2002-03-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5185 * doc/autoconf.texi (Here-Documents): Mention Solaris 8 dtksh
5186 problem with here-document buffer boundaries.
5188 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Unset ENV and BASH_ENV
5189 when reinvoking the shell, to work around problems with installers
5190 who put strange things like "cd" commands in their environments.
5192 2002-03-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5194 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): s/unknow/unknown/.
5197 2002-03-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5199 * bin/autoscan.in (scan_file): Specify the location in `&used'
5203 2002-03-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5205 * doc/autoconf.texi: Adjust @code/@command, @xref/@ref usage.
5206 From Nishio Futoshi.
5208 2002-03-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5210 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_define_default, m4_fst, m4_map): New.
5212 2002-03-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5214 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Add AS_MKDIR_P.
5215 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Add mkdir section.
5217 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_MKDIR_P_PREPARE): New macro.
5218 (AS_MKDIR_P): Require it. Use mkdir -p if available, falling
5219 back on AS_DIRNAME to compute prefixes otherwise; this is
5220 roughly what mkinstalldirs does. That way, we need not have
5221 our own filename disassembler. The old disassembler did not
5222 work with Solaris 8 dtksh, which is ksh Version M-12/28/93d.
5224 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT, AT_CLEANUP):
5225 Create at_test_all by a series of assignments,
5226 not by a single assignment of a long string. The latter causes ksh
5227 version 11/16/88g to silently misbehave on OpenServer 5.0.6a,
5228 presumably because of a buffer overrun.
5230 2002-03-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5232 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (at_times_skip):
5233 Renamed from at_times. Now a boolean.
5234 ksh93 Version M-12/28/93d doesn't like 'x=times; $x'; it
5235 says 'times: not found'.
5237 2002-03-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5239 * bin/autoreconf.in (&study_gettextize): New.
5240 (&autoreconf): Handle newest gettextize.
5241 Rerun aclocal if needed.
5242 Suggested by Andreas Schwab.
5244 2002-03-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5246 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): More about IFS.
5248 2002-03-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5250 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): New.
5251 Add information about stdint.h and inttypes.h from Paul Eggert.
5253 2002-03-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5255 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Some about `cp
5259 2002-03-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5261 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_BASENAME_EXPR): AS_REQUIRE, not
5264 2002-03-11 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
5266 * configure.ac: Explicitly check for EMACS since AM_PATH_LISPDIR
5267 does not do it if --with-lispdir is given.
5269 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5273 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5275 * doc/autoconf.texi (Subdirectories): Clarify that the
5276 subdirectory should exist.
5278 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5280 * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): 1.6.
5282 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5284 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_m4): Do not foreach with `$_' as it
5285 aliases the actual variables, and modifications of the former
5288 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5290 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_m4): Protect us from corrupted file
5291 because of C-c: have m4 output in tmp files, then mv them.
5293 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5295 * bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in,
5296 * bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in,
5297 * bin/ifnames.in: Copyright update.
5299 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5301 * doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te): New.
5303 2002-03-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5305 * doc/autoconf.texi (Specifying Names): Clarification suggested by
5308 2002-03-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5312 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5314 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_LIBOBJ vs. LIBOBJS): New.
5315 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_INIT): More informative error
5318 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5320 * lib/freeze.mk ($(build_libdir)/m4sugar/version.m4): New, for
5323 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5325 * doc/autoconf.texi (Transforming Names): Equality between target
5326 and host is irrelevant.
5327 (Specifying Names, Canonicalizing): Remove all references to the
5328 backward compatibility hooks. Rather, collect them all into...
5329 (Hosts and Cross-Compilation): this new section.
5330 * doc/install.texi (System Type): Ditto.
5331 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CANONICAL_HOST): Explicitly state
5332 that `--host' implies cross-compilation.
5334 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5336 * doc/autoconf.texi (Evaluation Macros): New.
5337 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_lquote): Remove, it is totally
5339 (_m4_foreach): Define the variant with immediate evaluation so
5340 that it contains exactly the items, not an expression which
5341 evaluation is the current item.
5342 (m4_re_string, m4_re_word): Don't over quote them.
5344 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5346 Instead of having stacking `shift's evaluated at the end, let
5347 `foreach' loops immediately evaluate them.
5349 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_quote, m4_dquote): Use $@ rather than
5350 $*. This is the n-th time I change my mind, but hopefully this is
5353 (m4_text_wrap): Use m4_foreach, which is finally correct _and_
5355 (m4_foreach_quoted, m4_car_quoted, _m4_foreach_quoted): Remove, as
5356 it was only a hack for m4_text_wrap.
5357 (m4_car2): Remove, replaced by...
5359 (_m4_foreach): Adjust.
5360 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Adjust, and use
5361 m4_bpatsubst for clarification.
5363 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5365 * doc/autoconf.texi (Changequote is Evil): New.
5367 2002-03-03 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
5369 * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell): Mention 32-byte #! length limit
5370 on old systems like SunOS.
5372 2002-03-01 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
5374 * lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/fortran.m4,
5375 lib/autoconf/functions.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
5376 lib/autoconf/headers.m4, lib/autoconf/lang.m4,
5377 lib/autoconf/programs.m4, lib/autoconf/status.m4: Improve spelling
5380 2002-02-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5382 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Suggest a title to the
5385 2002-02-28 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
5387 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add va_copy and va_list.
5389 2002-02-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5391 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_SETPGRP): Fix the test.
5394 2002-02-13 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
5396 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm (getline, getlines): New functions,
5397 translate \r\n to \n.
5399 2002-02-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5403 2002-02-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5405 Fix Autoconf PR/209.
5406 Also reported by Frank Denis.
5408 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_WALK): Don't over quote.
5410 2002-02-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5412 Fix Autoconf PR/207:
5413 AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM fails with dashed program names
5415 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM): Just use a fresh
5416 variable when looking for the prefix program.
5417 Now it also works for shell variables.
5419 2002-02-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5421 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): More about
5424 2002-02-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5426 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS): Don't output empty
5427 case/esac, some shells don't support it.
5428 Reported by Zack Weinberg.
5429 * tests/torture.at (AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS with empty commands): New.
5431 2002-02-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5433 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): When handling --keywords, be
5434 sure not to introduce newlines in at_groups.
5435 * lib/autotest/Makefile.am (autotest.m4f): Typo.
5437 2002-02-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5439 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Skip if aclocal
5442 2002-02-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5444 * doc/autoconf.texi (Specific Compiler Characteristics):
5445 Describe HP-UX cc bug workaround more accurately.
5446 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Cast to long,
5448 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Check non-GCC
5449 cross-compilers, too. This undoes some of the most recent change
5452 2002-02-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5454 * tests/Makefile.am (check_SCRIPTS): Use it, instead of WRAPPERS,
5455 to make sure they are up to date when `check' is run.
5457 2002-02-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5459 * doc/autoconf.texi (Making testsuite Scripts): Document
5462 2002-02-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5464 * lib/freeze.mk: New.
5466 2002-02-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5468 Implement `autom4te --freeze'.
5470 * bin/autom4te.in (&freeze): New.
5471 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autotest/general.m4,
5472 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Don't include files given by autom4te.
5474 2002-02-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5476 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Implement `frozen files are
5477 optional are the sum of the previous files on the command line'.
5478 Also, pass `--reload-state=' on them, so...
5480 * lib/autom4te.in (Autotest, Autoconf): Rely on M4sh.
5481 (M4sh): Rely on M4sugar.
5482 (Autotest, M4sh, M4sugar): Use frozen files.
5484 2002-01-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5486 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): Accept $4.
5487 * doc/autoconf.texi (Initializing configure): Adjust.
5489 2002-01-30 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5491 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): Map non
5492 alphanumeric to `-' instead of `_'.
5494 2002-01-30 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5496 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Split into two tests: one
5497 for plain code, the other for cross-compilation code. The latter
5498 is now run with GCC only.
5499 * doc/autoconf.texi (Compilers and Preprocessors): New.
5501 2002-01-30 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5503 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): Support pre-defined
5505 * doc/autoconf.texi (Initializing configure): Explain how to
5506 change AC_INIT default values.
5508 2002-01-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5510 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Use configure.in,
5511 so that aclocal 1.4 works.
5512 Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz and Larry Schmitt.
5514 2002-01-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5516 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): AT_CLEANUP no longer
5519 2002-01-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5521 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't be ridiculous: adjust
5522 AUTOTEST_PATH *after* it was set.
5523 Don't put `.' in the PATH: the user should be precise and `./' if
5524 needed. In addition, given that the test suite does some `cd', if
5525 `.' is in the path, the `tested programs' sections will report
5526 programs found in the test suite's directory, while during the
5527 tests (performed in their own directory), these programs are no
5528 longer visible. In other words, the results is confusing and
5530 * tests/m4sh.at: Adjust: don't rely on `.' being in the PATH.
5532 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5536 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5538 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoscan.in,
5539 * doc/autoconf.texi: Finally add Akim as an author.
5541 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5543 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Use PATH_SEPARATOR.
5544 (_AS_PATH_SEPARATOR_PREPARE): Don't expect $SHELL to be
5545 Bourne. Use /bin/sh.
5546 From Andreas Buening.
5548 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5550 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/texinfo.tex:
5551 Update from masters.
5553 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5555 * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): 1.5b.
5556 * config/auxdir.m4, config/cond.m4, config/depend.m4,
5557 * config/init.m4, config/install-sh.m4, config/lispdir.m4,
5558 * config/missing.m4, config/sanity.m4, config/select.m4,
5559 * config/strip.m4: Remove, to ease sync'ing with any version of
5562 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5564 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS)
5565 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Support -n as --no-create, as documented.
5566 Reported by Geir Ove Myhr.
5568 2002-01-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5570 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MMAP): #Undef malloc.
5572 2002-01-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5574 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (getopt): Use a more GNUish error
5575 message on invalid options.
5576 * bin/autom4te.in (parse_args): Don't use
5577 Autoconf::General::getopt with non valid options.
5579 2002-01-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@lucent.com>
5581 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Initialize
5582 $ac_cv_exeext so we don't use an old, invalid, cached value.
5584 2002-01-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5586 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_STRNLEN): New, from Jim
5588 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Document the strnlen
5590 (Particular Functions): Document AC_FUNC_STRNLEN.
5591 * lib/autoscan/functions: Adjust.
5593 2002-01-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5595 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Don't create
5596 package.m4, since is really depends upon configure.ac, not
5598 * doc/autoconf.texi (testsuite Scripts): Adjust.
5599 * tests/Makefile.am (package.m4): New.
5600 EXTRA_DIST it since its a source.
5602 2002-01-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5604 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Move the AC_SUBST
5605 of PACKAGE_NAME, PACKAGE_TARNAME, PACKAGE_VERSION, PACKAGE_STRING,
5606 and PACKAGE_BUGREPORT from here...
5607 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): to here, since it is unrelated to the
5609 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): AC_DEFINE these symbols.
5610 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Use AT_PACKAGE_*, not PACKAGE_*.
5611 (AT_INIT): No longer catch `^PACKAGE_(BUGREPORT|STRING)$'.
5612 * tests/tools.at (autoheader): Adjust.
5613 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_DEFINES): Adjust.
5615 2002-01-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5617 * bin/autoscan.in (scan_file): Use `&used'.
5619 2002-01-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5621 * doc/autoconf.texi (Output): Improved wording regarding use of
5625 2001-12-18 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
5627 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add notes on sscanf
5628 sometimes needing writable input.
5630 2001-12-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@lucent.com>
5632 * doc/autoconf.texi (New Macros): Tweak wording.
5634 2001-12-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5636 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): We cleaning up the
5637 trailing files, don't apply `-rf' to files which might not be
5638 created by configure (core, core.*, and *.core), but just `rm -f'.
5639 Suggested by Jonathan Kamens.
5641 2001-12-14 Aaron M. Ucko <amu@alum.mit.edu>
5643 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Avoid duplicates in `$ac_configure_args'.
5645 2001-12-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5647 * Makefile.am (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Remove configure.
5649 2001-12-13 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
5651 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Rename buildpath to
5652 abs_builddir, top_buildpath to abs_top_builddir, srcpath to
5653 abs_srcdir, top_srcpath to abs_top_srcdir.
5654 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Adjust.
5655 * NEWS, doc/autoconf.texi, lib/autoconf/autotest.m4,
5656 * tests/atspecific.m4, tests/autoreconf.in, tests/tools.at,
5657 * tests/wrappl.in, tests/wrapsh.in: Adjust.
5659 2001-12-12 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
5661 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_F77_V_OUTPUT): Fix failed
5662 C/Fortran linking on HP/UX, by extracting the Fortran library
5663 search path from the LPATH line in the $F77 -v output.
5665 2001-12-12 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
5667 * doc/autoconf.texi (File Descriptors): Use a clearer layout for the
5668 forbidden file descriptors table.
5670 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5672 * bin/autoscan.in (%c_keywords): Build it at top level.
5673 Map to 1 in order to simplify its uses.
5675 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5677 * bin/autoscan.in (&scan_c_file, &scan_sh_file, &scan_makefile):
5678 Remove $filepath, useless.
5679 (&scan_makefile): Don't remove the $(FOO), ${FOO} and @FOO@
5680 variables, they are really part of the tokens.
5681 Split the input line on spaces and then look for tokens.
5682 Now autoscan ceases to ask for AC_PROG_LEX for the package Bison
5683 because of `lex$U.$(OBJEXT)'.
5684 (&scan_files): Use "@list" instead of join.
5685 * doc/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): Add *.fns.
5687 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5689 * tests/autoreconf.in, tests/autom4te.in, tests/autoupdate.in:
5690 Remove, replaced by...
5691 * tests/wrappl.in: Be common for all the Perl executables.
5692 In particular autoscan and autoheader want -I.
5693 * configure.ac: Adjust.
5694 * lib/autoscan/headers: errno.h is portable.
5696 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5698 * bin/autoscan.in (used): New.
5701 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5703 * bin/autoscan.in (&scan_c_file): Better parsing of CPP
5705 (&scan_sh_file): Remove a duplicate pattern.
5706 (&check_configure_ac): Use long options.
5707 * lib/autoscan/headers (alloca.h): Check with AC_FUNC_ALLOCA.
5709 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5711 * bin/autoscan.in (scan_c_file): Fix the handling of C comments.
5712 Before, having a line containing the opening of a multi line
5713 comment made the whole line be ignored.
5715 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5717 * doc/autoconf.texi (Using an Autotest Test Suite): New.
5718 (testsuite Scripts): Be one of its subsection.
5719 (Autotest Logs): New.
5721 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5723 Test groups are now run two directories deeper.
5725 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Replace srcdir,
5726 top_srcdir and top_builddir with at_srcdir, at_top_srcdir and
5728 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Compute srcdir,
5729 top_srcdir, builddir and top_builddir.
5730 Use `at_*dir' relatively to the directory containing the
5731 suite, use `*dir' when relatively to the current group dir.
5733 2001-11-25 Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
5735 * doc/autoconf.texi, TODO, lib/autoconf/fortran.m4,
5736 lib/autoconf/functions.m4, lib/autoconf/headers.m4,
5737 tests/atgeneral.m4, tests/tools.at, tests/atspecific.m4: Fix
5740 2001-11-22 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
5742 * doc/autoconf.texi (Using System Type): Add an example of `case
5743 $host' usage so people quit using `case $target' everywhere.
5745 2001-11-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5747 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Englishoes
5748 spotted by Jim Meyering.
5750 2001-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5752 This patch implements a `long double' suggestion by Oliver Kiddle.
5754 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY(C)): Make the array
5755 static, to catch errors if the value isn't known at compile-time
5756 and the compiler supports dynamic arrays. Change its name from
5757 `_array_' to `test_array' to avoid potential name clashes.
5758 (AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE): Make it a compile-time test, not a run-time
5759 test. Do not define HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE if `long double' is no
5760 better than double. Catch a bug in GCC 2.95.2 x86.
5761 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Document the above.
5764 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5766 * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): Protect from autom4te's substitution by
5768 * tests/tools.at: Don't protect dnl, AT_DATA_M4SH does.
5770 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5772 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): After having run the test
5773 group, go back to the initial directory, not to at_suite_dir.
5775 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5777 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_DATA_M4SUGAR, AT_DATA_M4SH)
5778 (AT_DATA_AUTOCONF): Also protect @&t@ from autom4te.
5779 (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF, AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER): Pass no --include
5781 (AT_CHECK_CONFIGURE): Use absolute paths.
5782 (_AT_CHECK_AC_MACRO): Create aclocal.m4 with AC_STATE_SAVE in it.
5783 The problem is still the old one: there is no means in M4 (that I
5784 know about) to create a defining macro, because there is no means
5785 to create `$1' etc., therefore, the defining macro ``swallows''
5786 all the arguments meant to the defined macro.
5788 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5790 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_DATA_AUTOCONF): New.
5791 (AT_CONFIGURE_AC): Output the definition of AC_STATE_SAVE in
5793 * tests/aclocal.m4: Remove, as it is no longer used.
5795 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5797 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Change `tests?' into `groups?' in
5798 variable names when referring to a single test group, or to
5799 `suite' when referring to the whole test suite.
5800 `at_last_test' is removed: m4 compute at_format itself.
5801 (at_stdout, at_stder1, at_stderr): New variables.
5802 (AT_CHECK): Use them.
5804 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5806 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Be sure to put `.', relative,
5808 Create `testsuite.dir/003/run' instead of `testsuite.003'.
5809 Do it as soon as a test fails, don't wait till the end of the test
5811 Don't remove $as_me.[0-9]*, since these files no longer exist.
5813 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5815 * tests/tools.at: Use absolute paths, since we are no longer run
5818 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5820 Now that tests are running in their own private dir, there is no
5821 need to list the files to remove at the end of tests groups.
5823 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_CLEANUP_FILE, AT_CLEANUP_FILES):
5824 (AT_data_files, at_data_files): Remove.
5825 (AT_CLEANUP, AT_DATA): Simplify.
5827 Remove the group dir if !debug && !failed.
5828 * tests/atspecific.m4: Adjust.
5830 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5832 Start a new layout for Autotest: `testsuite' creates
5833 `testsuite.dir' in which the at-check-line etc. files are to be
5834 found, and `testsuite.dir/003' where the test group 3 is run.
5836 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): at_tests_dir,
5837 at_check_line_file, at_format, at_test_normalized, at_group_dir
5839 Create the directories.
5840 Use absolute paths for at- files.
5843 2001-11-11 Michael Matz <matz@kde.org>
5845 * m4sugar.m4 (_m4_foreach): Make it linear instead quadratic.
5847 (m4_car): Properly quote arguments.
5849 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5851 * tests/aclocal.m4 (AC_STATE_SAVE): s/LIBOBJS/LIB@&t@OBJS/ to cope
5852 with stricter rules on LIBOBJS.
5854 2001-11-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5856 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_PROTOTYPES): Define __PROTOTYPES too.
5857 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): AC_C_PROTOTYPES now defines
5860 2001-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5862 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETMNTENT): Use AC_CHECK_FUNCS.
5864 2001-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5866 * lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/fortran.m4,
5867 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
5868 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4,
5869 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4, lib/autoconf/specific.m4,
5870 * lib/autoconf/types.m4: When invoking AC_DEFINE and friends,
5871 specify to what the macro should be defined (typically to 1).
5873 2001-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5875 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_STRTOD): AC_SUBST POW_LIB.
5878 2001-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5880 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_LEX_YYTEXT_DECL): Use
5881 AC_TRY_EVAL to run $LEX, not AC_TRY_COMMAND. This validates the
5882 definition used by Automake where LEX is +/- "${missing} lex" and
5883 `missing' itself contains variables.
5885 2001-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5887 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Push KILL at the end.
5888 Now that M4sh pushes BODY, the comments were output at the end of
5891 2001-11-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5893 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Run aclocal before tracing, so
5894 that we can trace macros from aclocal.m4.
5895 Trace AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, not AM_PROG_LIBTOOL, since the latter is
5896 obsoleted, and redirect to the former anyway.
5897 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
5899 2001-11-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5901 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): AC_CONFIG_SUBIDRS are to be
5902 processed only if present.
5903 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Use autoreconf
5904 instead of successive calls to autoconf.
5905 Add a nonexistent subdirectory to exercise the patch above.
5906 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
5908 2001-11-08 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
5910 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Note HP-UX cc
5911 doesn't accept .S files.
5913 2001-11-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5915 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_pattern_forbid): Accepts $2.
5916 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_INTI): Forbid LIBOBJS.
5917 (_AC_LIBOBJ): s/LIBOBJS/LIB@&t@OBJS/.
5918 * bin/autom4te.in (warn_forbidden): New.
5919 (handle_output): Use it.
5920 Read m4_pattern_forbid with messages.
5922 2001-11-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5924 * bin/autom4te.in (--normalize): Remove.
5925 * lib/autom4te.in: Adjust.
5927 2001-11-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5929 * tests/Makefile.am (testsuite): Rename this target as...
5930 ($(TESTSUITE)): this.
5933 2001-11-05 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
5935 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): When removing
5936 the --prefix option, also remove it's argument.
5938 2001-11-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5940 * doc/autoconf.texi (testsuite Invocation): Update.
5941 (Writing testsuite.at): Update.
5943 2001-11-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5945 * doc/autoconf.texi: s/@code/@command/ where appropriate.
5947 2001-11-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5949 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: (&catfile, &canonfile)
5950 (&file_name_is_absolute): New, wrappers around routines from
5952 Use and export them.
5953 (&find_configure_ac): Optionally take a directory where to look at.
5954 * bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args): Trim the configure.ac part of
5956 Default @ARGV to `.', not find_configure_ac.
5957 (&autoreconf): Argument is a directory.
5958 Trace AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS and schedule the subdirs for autoreconf'ing.
5959 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Update.
5961 2001-11-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5963 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (@export_vars, @export_subs)
5964 (@export_forward_subs): New.
5965 Add basename, dirname, and fileparse.
5967 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Fix call to fileparse.
5968 Don't look for aclocal flags if we already know aclocal is not
5970 Move aclocal.m4t only if it exists.
5971 Reported by Ezra Peisach.
5973 2001-11-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5975 * bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args): Work only on the configure.ac
5976 passed on command line, defaulting to ./configure.ac if present.
5977 (&maybe_autoreconf, File::Find): Remove, unused.
5978 (&autoreconf): If autoconf is not used, don't try to trace.
5980 2001-11-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5982 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.52g.
5984 2001-11-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5988 2001-11-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5990 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, doc/standards.texi:
5991 * config/lispdir.m4: Update from masters.
5992 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.52f.
5994 2001-11-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5996 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Set `$aclocal_flags' to ''.
5997 Don't run aclocal when aclocal.m4 is not from aclocal.
5999 Don't run libtoolize and gettextize if --install is not given.
6001 2001-11-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6003 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): _AS_CR_PREPARE needs to
6004 be invoked before _AS_LINENO_PREPARE.
6005 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Use as_cr_digits and as_cr_alnum rather
6006 than character ranges.
6008 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Fix NLS before
6009 invoking AS_BASENAME. Set the locale variables to 'C' if
6010 possible, as POSIX requires this to get the traditional
6012 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Describe the above.
6014 2001-10-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6016 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_WORKS): Do not surround body
6017 with {}, as that triggers a bug in Bash 2.05.
6019 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Use Sed rather than
6020 Awk. Fix the sed prepass to work even if there are multiple
6021 instances of $LINENO on the same line. Do not substitute for
6022 other variables like $LINENOT. Do not check file dates; such a
6023 check is unreliable on sufficiently fast machines, and removing
6024 the check makes the code simpler and more reliable. Check for
6025 output and chmod failures.
6027 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Document
6030 2001-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6032 * tests/Makefile.am (atconfig): Remove this target, Automake
6035 2001-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6037 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Do not
6038 AC_CONFIG_FILES(atlocal) as it means a file atlocal.in *must* be
6039 provided, while it is optional.
6040 * configure.ac: Adjust.
6042 2001-10-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6044 * NEWS, README, configure.ac, lib/Autom4te/General.pm,
6045 lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm:
6046 Require Perl 5.005_03 instead of just 5.005, as some tests fail
6049 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Document some
6050 more LINENO gotchas, particularly with respect to the Awk+Sed hack.
6052 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_WORKS): New macro.
6053 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Use it instead of shell eval, since
6054 eval $LINENO is not portable in practice.
6056 2001-10-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6058 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (backname): New.
6060 2001-10-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6062 * m4/: Remove, merged into...
6065 2001-10-23 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
6067 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology): Mention the problems with bash
6068 2.05's use of ANSI quoting in its `set' builtin.
6070 2001-10-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6072 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R):
6073 Rename ac_cv_func_strerror_r_works to ac_cv_func_strerror_r_char_p,
6074 and rename HAVE_WORKING_STRERROR_R to STRERROR_R_CHAR_P, since
6075 POSIX decided to standardize on the int flavor of strerror_r.
6076 Always do char* test, as there's no reason not to.
6077 Assign to a char* var, to catch strerror_r that returns int*.
6079 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions):
6080 Document the above changes. Also, document the fact that
6081 AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R defines HAVE_DECL_STRERROR_R.
6083 * NEWS: Mention HAVE_WORKING_STRERROR_R -> STRERROR_R_CHAR_P.
6085 2001-10-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6087 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): The name of
6088 the executable was missing from the log.
6090 2001-10-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6092 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&update_file): If destination is
6093 unchanged, remove the source.
6094 (&up_to_date_p): Don't be verbose, be debug.
6095 * bin/autoreconf.in: No longer support --m4dir.
6096 (&autoreconf): Display the full path of the configure.ac we are
6099 Be sure to honor --force with gettextize.
6101 * doc/autoconf.texi: Adjust.
6103 2001-10-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6105 * bin/autoheader.in ($localdir, $m4, $SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX):
6107 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Do not run gettextize when
6108 `intl' is already present, as it refuses unless --force.
6109 (&parse_args): Use -I, --include instead of the old Autoconf
6111 ($localdir, $autoconf_dir): Remove.
6113 (&maybe_autoreconf): New, to preserve $_ for File::Find.
6115 2001-10-19 Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com>
6117 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_AWK): Prefer gawk to mawk.
6118 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): Likewise.
6120 2001-10-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6122 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Name the generated
6123 file in @configure_input@.
6124 Don't mention `automatically' in addition to `generated'.
6125 * tests/torture.at (#define header templates): Adjust.
6127 2001-10-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6129 * lib/emacs/autoconf-mode.el, lib/emacs/autotest-mode.el: In a
6130 comment, explain how to install automatic mode selection.
6133 2001-10-19 Ezra Peisach <epeisach@zif.mit.edu>
6135 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Display the path to the
6136 configure.ac being studied.
6138 2001-10-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6140 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Cast sizeof to unsigned
6141 long, to work around a bug in the HP C compiler version HP92453-01
6144 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_DIRNAME): Use 'dirname' if that works.
6145 (AS_BASENAME_EXPR): New macro.
6146 (AS_BASENAME_SED): Do not assume GNU sed semantics.
6147 (AS_BASENAME): Use 'basename' if that works; then try 'expr';
6148 and fall back on 'sed' only if the other two fail. This makes
6149 AS_BASENAME act more like AS_DIRNAME.
6150 (as_me): Shell-quote the argument of AS_BASENAME, in case $0
6151 contains white space.
6152 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR):
6153 Use AS_DIRNAME, since I think it's now DOS-friendly.
6154 * tests/m4sh.at (DIRNAME_TEST): New arg $3.
6155 Allow "dirname //FOO" to return either / or //, as POSIX allows
6158 2001-10-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6160 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Recognize
6161 `a_out.exe' for OpenVMS 7.1, DEC C 5.5 compiler, via GNV.
6164 2001-10-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6166 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_ECHO_N_PREPARE): m4_defun, not
6168 (_AS_ECHO_N): AS_REQUIREs it.
6170 2001-10-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6172 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS)
6173 (AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT): Move to...
6174 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4: here.
6175 * lib/autoconf/types.m4: Comment changes.
6176 * doc/autoconf.texi: Specify where the default includes are used
6177 in the macro prototypes.
6179 2001-10-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6181 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4 (m4_patsubst, m4_regexp): New
6184 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6186 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Remove debugging code.
6187 (&parse_args): Pass verbosity/debugging options to subtools when
6188 --debug, not when --verbose.
6189 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoreconf-preselections): New.
6192 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6194 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Run libtoolize when appropriate.
6196 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6198 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Adjust.
6199 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Run gettextize when appropriate.
6201 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6203 * tests/tools.at (AT_CHECK_PERL_SYNTAX): Check autoreconf.
6204 (Syntax of the shell scripts): Don't.
6205 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in: Don't
6206 bother with $force since...
6207 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: does.
6209 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6211 * bin/autoreconf.in: Rewrite in Perl.
6212 * configure.ac: Adjust.
6213 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&up_to_date_p): New.
6214 * bin/autom4te.in (&up_to_date_p): Use it.
6216 (&up_to_date): this.
6218 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6220 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_case, m4_bmatch, m4_normalize)
6221 (m4_list_cmp): Use $0 to reinvoke yourself.
6222 (m4_patsubsts): New.
6223 (m4_strip, m4_version_unletter): Use it.
6224 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_DATA_M4SUGAR, AT_DATA_M4SH): Likewise.
6226 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6228 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
6229 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4, lib/autoconf/status.m4,
6230 * lib/autoconf/types.m4, lib/autotest/general.m4,
6231 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4, lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4, tests/atspecific.m4,
6232 * tests/torture.at: Rename m4_regexp, m4_patsubst, and m4_match to
6233 m4_bregexp, m4_bpatsubst, and m4_bmatch.
6234 * doc/autoconf.texi (Redefined M4 Macros): Adjust.
6236 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6238 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Use AS_REQUIRE.
6240 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6242 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_DIRNAME_EXPR): Use AS_REQUIRE.
6243 * tests/tools.at (AT_DATA_FORBIDDEN): Rename/move/duplicate to...
6244 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_DATA_M4SUGAR, AT_DATA_M4SH): here.
6245 * tests/tools.at, tests/m4sh.at: Use it.
6246 * tests/m4sh.at: Don't rely on Autoconf macros.
6247 (DIRNAME_TEST): Also exercise the expr variant.
6248 * tests/m4sugar.at, tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR): The
6249 preferred M4sugar extension is now `.4s'.
6250 * tests/README: Remove.
6252 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6254 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_provide_ifelse): Rename as...
6255 (m4_provide_if): this.
6256 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_REQUIRE): New.
6257 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AS_DEFUN, AC_DEFUN_ONCE, AC_BEFORE)
6258 (AC_REQUIRE, AC_PROVIDE, AC_PROVIDE_IFELSE): Be exact copy of the
6259 M4sugar peer, i.e., drop the `AC_PROVIDE_$1' broken marker.
6261 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6263 Use `add-log-current-defun-function' for ChangeLog creation.
6264 Suggested by Tom Tromey.
6266 * lib/emacs/autotest-mode.el (autotest-mode-map): New.
6267 (autotest-mode): Adjust.
6268 * lib/emacs/autoconf-mode.el (autoconf-mode-map): Modernize, map
6269 'comment-region onto `C-c ;'.
6270 Comments are `#', not `dnl'.
6271 (autoconf-current-defun): New.
6272 (autoconf-font-lock-keywords): Recognize `m4_defun'.
6274 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6276 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_m4_divert(BODY)): Move to...
6277 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: here.
6278 (AS_INIT): Push the BODY diversion, set the #! /bin/sh line.
6279 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_PLAIN_SCRIPT) : Remove.
6280 (AT_INIT): Replace AC_PLAIN_SCRIPT with AS_INIT invocation,
6281 include handle the m4_pattern_*, no longer push the
6282 BODY diversion nor set the /bin/sh line, AS_INIT does it.
6283 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
6284 * tests/base.at: Adjust the tests to use AS_INIT.
6285 * tests/tools.at (AT_DATA_FORBIDDEN): New.
6286 (autoconf: forbidden tokens): Adjust to work on M4sh instead of
6289 2001-10-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6291 * doc/autoconf.texi (config.status Invocation):
6292 CONFIG_SHELL defaults to a shell that supports LINENO if available.
6294 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): If the current
6295 shell does not support LINENO, and if CONFIG_SHELL is unset or
6296 empty, and if we can find a shell that does support LINENO,
6297 then set CONFIG_SHELL to that shell and then re-execute
6298 ourselves with CONFIG_SHELL.
6300 2001-10-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6302 * tests/Makefile.am (clean-local): Don't invoke $(TESTSUITE) if it
6303 doesn't exist. Remove *.tmp, as a .tmp file is created during the
6304 build of $(TESTSUITE).
6306 2001-10-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6308 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Look in the path
6309 iff we are a bareword.
6310 Reported by Raja R Harinath.
6312 2001-10-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6314 * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): New.
6315 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Be sure to set
6316 PATH_SEPARATOR before using it.
6317 Fix the absolute path case/esac pattern.
6318 Provide $0 as fallback for as_myself.
6319 Reported by Raja R Harinath.
6321 2001-10-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6323 * Makefile.am, config/Makefile.am, lib/emacs/Makefile.am,
6324 * m4/Makefile.am, man/Makefile.am: Add/adjust MAINTAINERCLEANFILES.
6326 2001-10-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6328 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): New, extracted from...
6329 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): here. Use it.
6330 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Preserve the exit status of $0.lineno.
6333 2001-10-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6335 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Use a portable
6336 combination of Awk and sed to replace $LINENO.
6338 2001-10-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6340 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): You can't use
6341 "source"; it's not portable. Remove confusing and
6342 somewhat-incorrect example involving "." and "/".
6344 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): "source" -> ".", for
6345 compatibility with POSIX shells.
6347 2001-10-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6349 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Just source 40.lineno
6350 instead of exec'ing to preserve $0 and $@.
6352 2001-10-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6354 * tests/testsuite (AT_INIT) <at_pass_list>: New.
6355 Don't run twice the same test.
6357 2001-10-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6359 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT) <--help>: Catch up with reality.
6360 No longer output the list of tests.
6361 <--list>: New option.
6362 <--full-help>: Remove.
6363 Complete the short/long options duality.
6364 Various small adjustments.
6366 2001-10-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6368 * doc/autoconf.texi: Use @kbd for user input.
6369 Always use `$' as shell prompt.
6371 2001-09-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6373 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_OUTPUT_MAKE_DEFS):
6374 Don't use nested parenthesization. This patch was originally
6375 suggested to bug-autoconf by Philippe De Muyter on 2000-05-28,
6376 but somehow it didn't get incorporated then.
6377 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools):
6378 Clarify remark about sed and nested parenthesization.
6380 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF):
6381 Report an error if the size cannot be determined even though
6383 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE):
6384 Check for `expr' arithmetic overflow, and for compilation failure,
6385 and invoke a new argument $4 if either is discovered.
6386 This makes _AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE more like _AC_COMPUTE_INT_RUN.
6387 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT): Pass IF-FAILS arg to _AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE.
6389 2001-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6391 * lib/emacs/autoconf-mode.el, lib/emacs/autotest-mode.el: New.
6392 * m4/lispdir.m4: New.
6393 * aclocal.m4, configure.ac: Adjust.
6395 2001-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6397 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_VICTIMS): Rename as...
6399 (AT_INIT): More the wrapped section to where it will be expanded.
6400 Output `AT_tested' only when existing.
6401 Catch unexpanded PACKAGE_STRING and PACKAGE_BUGREPORT.
6403 2001-09-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6405 Fix the passing of $? to ACTION-IF-FAILED in AC_TRY_RUN, that
6406 generates too many bug reports.
6408 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_RUN_IFELSE): Pass the right exit
6409 status when executing the ACTION-IF-FALSE.
6410 * tests/base.at (AC_TRY_*): Rename as...
6411 (AC_TRY_COMMAND): this.
6412 (AC_RUN_IFELSE): New.
6413 * tests/compile.at (Extensions, C keywords)
6414 (AC_PROG_CPP requires AC_PROG_CC, GNU Fortran 77)
6415 (Broken/missing compilers, AC_PROG_CPP with warnings)
6416 (AC_PROG_CPP without warnings, AC_PROG_CPP via CC): Move to...
6417 * tests/c.at (Extensions, C keywords)
6418 (Broken/missing compilers, AC_PROG_CPP with warnings)
6419 (AC_PROG_CPP without warnings, AC_PROG_CPP via CC)
6420 (AC_PROG_CPP requires AC_PROG_CC): here and...
6421 * tests/fortran.at (GNU Fortran 77): there.
6422 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoconf Invocation): Fix the example:
6423 AC_TRY_RUN is about compilation, not shell commands.
6424 (Test Programs): AC_TRY_RUN works as used to be advertised.
6426 2001-09-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6428 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Fix bugs spotted by
6430 Be sure to detect when $LINENO always returns the same value.
6431 Look for the original script, basename($0) is certainly not
6433 Pass the CLI arguments to `$as_me.lineno'.
6435 2001-09-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6437 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Dump the whole config.log.
6438 Be sure the close and reopen the LOG fd before and after using tee
6440 <at_tests_pattern>: Adjust to the new format of at_help_all.
6442 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6444 * bin/autom4te.in (parse_args): There can be several invocations
6447 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6449 * doc/autoconf.texi (Top): Wrap in @ifnottex.
6451 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6453 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Compute and provide
6454 ac_buildpath, ac_top_buildpath, ac_srcpath, and ac_top_srcpath.
6455 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Also substitute srcpath, top_srcpath,
6456 builddir, buildpath, top_builddir, and top_buildpath.
6457 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Compute the dir variables *before* changing
6458 the current directory.
6459 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Compute the dir
6460 variables *before* changing the current directory.
6461 Skip nonexistent dirs.
6462 * doc/autoconf.texi (Preset Output Variables): Document these
6465 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Do not reset AT_victims.
6466 Don't compute at_srcdir nor at_top_srcdir.
6468 * tests/tools.at: Hence use top_srcdir.
6470 * tests/Makefile.am, tests/autoconf, tests/autoheader,
6471 * tests/autom4te, tests/autoreconf, tests/autoupdate, tests/ifnames:
6473 * tests/autoreconf.in, tests/wrappl.in, tests/autom4te.in,
6474 * tests/wrapsh.in, tests/autoupdate.in: New.
6475 * tests/Makefile.am (DISTCLEANFILES, EXTRA_DIST): Adjust.
6476 * configure.ac: Build the position independent wrappers.
6478 * man/Makefile.am: Now that test wrappers are position
6479 independent, use them and drop dark envvar magic.
6481 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6483 * doc/autoconf.texi (Common Shell Constructs): Rename as...
6484 (Programming in M4sh): this.
6485 Promote to @section.
6487 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6489 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Dump config.log last.
6490 Pass $at_debug_args to the rerun test suite.
6491 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am (DISTCLEANFILES): New.
6492 * bin/Makefile.am (ETAGS_SH): Don't use characters ranges.
6495 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6497 * bin/autom4te.in (@my_warning): Remove, handled by `autom4te.cfg'.
6499 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6501 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Fix shell
6504 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6506 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&debug): New.
6507 * bin/autom4te.in ($language): Move to...
6509 Handle --language in languages.
6510 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-selections, Autoheader-selections)
6511 (Autoscan-selections): New.
6514 2001-09-23 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
6516 * m4/auxdir.m4, m4/cond.m4, m4/depend.m4, m4/init.m4,
6517 * m4/install-sh.m4, m4/missing.m4, m4/sanity.m4, m4/strip.m4: Updated
6518 to match current versions from CVS Automake.
6520 2001-09-23 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
6522 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Add pdksh output
6525 2001-09-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6527 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4: Create `package.m4'.
6528 * tests/Makefile.am (package.m4): Remove.
6530 2001-09-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6532 Rely on `$LINENO' when possible instead of `__oline__'.
6534 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Provide some form of
6535 `$LINENO' support replacement when not supported.
6536 (_AS_CR_PREPARE, _AS_TR_CPP_PREPARE, _AS_TR_SH_PREPARE): Invoke
6537 them explicitly to be sure they are not output before this section
6538 (via m4_require). Cosmetic only.
6539 * lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
6540 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4: Replace all the occurrences of
6541 `__oline__' with `$LINENO'.
6542 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Document LINENO.
6544 2001-09-21 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
6546 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_FORK): Replaceded an 8-bit
6547 character (u: -> ue) in a code comment.
6548 (AC_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK): Only run 'ln -s' if we know
6551 2001-09-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6553 * Makefile.maint (AUTOM4TE): Neutralize autom4te.
6554 Suggested by Jim Meyering.
6556 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
6558 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4: Use extensions listed in
6559 $ac_executable_extensions when looking for programs.
6561 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
6563 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Fix a small Englisho.
6564 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Fix a small typo. Handle DOS paths when
6565 setting up ac_dir_suffix and ac_top_builddir.
6566 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Default CDPATH to $PATH_SEPARATOR, not ':'.
6568 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
6570 * doc/autoconf.texi (File System Conventions): Clarify the use of
6572 (Special Shell Variables[PATH_SEPARATOR]): Ditto.
6573 (Special Shell Variables[CDPATH]): Mention that $PATH_SEPRATOR should
6574 be used instead of ':'.
6575 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Replace occurrences of ':' in
6576 AUTOTEST_PATH with $PATH_SEPARATOR at test suite startup.
6578 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
6580 * tests/atgeneral.m4: Add basic support for test ranges (e.g. 7-34) as
6581 arguments. Fixed a typo.
6583 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
6585 * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Use @PATH_SEPARATOR@, not ':' to set up
6586 $PATH. Also set AUTOM4TE_CFG, so we can process autom4te properly.
6588 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
6590 * bin/autoscan.in: Add 'exec-perl-if-not-run-by-perl'.
6591 * bin/autoupdate.in: Ditto.
6592 * bin/autoheader.in: Reworded a few comments.
6593 * bin/autoconf.in: Reworded help text for a few options.
6594 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
6595 * bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in: Ditto.
6597 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
6599 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm (open): Simplified the error message (we
6600 already have $file). Set output files to binary mode (helps avoid
6601 CR issues on DOSish systems).
6603 2001-09-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6605 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Englishoes.
6606 From Tim Van Holder and Alexey Mahotkin.
6608 2001-09-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6610 * doc/autoconf.texi (Common Shell Constructs): New node,
6611 documenting AS_DIRNAME.
6612 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Refer to it when discussing dirname.
6613 Also, update discussion of POSIX standard to reflect latest draft.
6615 * lib/autoconf/c.m4:
6616 (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C)): Also support negative values, down to LONG_MIN.
6618 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE):
6619 Do not pass a first argument with leading '-'
6620 to expr, by parenthesizing initial integers that might be negative.
6622 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): AC_FUNC_GETPGRP
6623 now merely checks whether it is an error to pass an argument
6626 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_GETPGRP_TEST): Remove.
6627 (AC_FUNC_GETPGRP): Don't bother with a runtime test. Just check
6628 whether it is a (compile-time) error to pass an argument to
6629 getpgrp. This simpler test supports the revised documentation,
6630 and is all that AC_FUNC_GETPGRP's users really need.
6632 2001-09-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6634 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make) <$<>: New.
6636 2001-09-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6638 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <find>: More about
6640 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Adjust.
6642 2001-09-18 Paul Wagland <paul@wagland.net>
6644 * tests/m4sh.at: Ensure that AS_DIRNAME handles '/', '//' and '///'
6646 Add test for AS_BASENAME.
6647 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Fix AS_BASENAME so that it passes the previous
6648 added test. It now correctly handles /1/2/3/, returning '3' not ''.
6649 Added AS_BASENAME_SED to make the interface the same as AS_DIRNAME.
6650 * tests/base.at: Fixed the expected responses. The old ones were
6652 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Fixed AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM, it now behaves as
6653 the documentation claims it should (and how it behaved in 2.13).
6655 2001-09-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6657 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): No INIT-CMDS in
6658 the AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS invocation.
6659 This also solves the name clash problems.
6660 Don't set the package's ID.
6661 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am (version.m4): Revamp.
6662 No longer to be shipped.
6663 (version.in): Remove.
6664 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
6665 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Adjust.
6666 Use `m4_PACKAGE_STRING'.
6667 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): N-th signature change: now
6668 the only optional argument is the name of the test suite.
6669 Expect `package.m4' to define the package signature.
6670 * lib/autom4te.in (Autotest): Add `package.m4?'.
6671 * tests/Makefile.am (package.m4): New.
6672 * tests/suite.at: ifnames is a victim.
6674 2001-09-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6676 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): Preselect AM_CONDITIONAL,
6677 AC_LIBSOURCE, AC_CONFIG_FILES.
6678 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't abort when a tested
6679 program version string doesn't match the package's.
6680 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CACHE_VAL): Reestablish the space
6683 2001-09-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6685 * lib/autoconf/c.m4: (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C)):
6686 Allow expression to return any value that can fit into unsigned long
6687 (not int, as before). Check for output errors.
6689 2001-09-17 Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>
6691 * lib/autoconf/c.m4: (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C)):
6692 Always include <stdio.h> and <stdlib.h>. Evaluate
6693 the expression in an extra function before these includes. Call
6694 fprintf "%d" only after ensuring the argument is of type 'int'.
6695 Reported by Wayne Chapeskie <waynec@spinnaker.com>.
6697 2001-09-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6699 Fix bug reported by Paul Townsend on AIX 4.3.3.0 with CFLAGS=-O4
6700 or CFLAGS=-O5. In that case, the linker has a relaxed view of
6701 fatal errors, and AC_CHECK_LIB causes it to include libraries even
6702 when they don't exist.
6704 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_DIRENT): Use AC_SEARCH_LIBS,
6705 not AC_CHECK_LIB, so that we don't use -ldir or -lx if we don't
6708 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_ISC_POSIX): Replace the old, crufty
6709 version with the version used by fileutils 4.1, except use
6710 AC_SEARCH_LIBS, not AC_CHECK_LIB, so that we don't use -lcposix if
6713 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_ISC_POSIX): Describe new behavior.
6715 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6717 * tests/base.at, tests/m4sh.at: Be sure to issue the bangshe line
6719 Reported by Gerrit P. Haase.
6721 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6723 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Reset `AT_victims' so that
6724 m4_defn'ing is valid.
6726 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6728 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_append_uniq): New.
6729 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_VICTIMS, AT_KEYWORDS, _AT_CLEANUP_FILE):
6732 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6734 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (_AS_QUOTE_IFELSE, _AS_BOX_INDIR): Use
6736 (m4_re_escape): New.
6737 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_CONFIG_IF_MEMBER): Use it.
6738 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CACHE_SAVE): Use m4_match.
6739 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_CONFIG_IF_MEMBER, AC_CONFIG_LINKS):
6741 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (_AC_CHECK_TYPE_REPLACEMENT_TYPE_P)
6742 (_AC_CHECK_TYPE_MAYBE_TYPE_P, AC_CHECK_MEMBER): Likewise.
6743 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Rename AT_TESTS_ALL as
6744 AT_tests_all for consistency.
6746 (AT_VICTIMS): Similar to AT_KEYWORDS.
6747 (_AT_CLEANUP_FILE_IF): Use m4_match and m4_re_escape.
6749 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6751 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Fix stupid bugs.
6753 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6755 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Create and remove
6756 `$as_me.[0-9]+' instead of `debug-[0-9]+.sh', so that multiple
6757 test suites can cohabit.
6759 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6761 * tests/mktests.sh: Don't output banners for empty test files.
6763 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6765 Test suites can be run independently of configure.
6767 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_ECHO, _AS_ECHO_N_PREPARE): New.
6768 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_ECHO): Remove.
6769 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Adjust: AC_SUBST
6771 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Don't ask for at_n
6773 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Use ECHO_*.
6775 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6777 * bin/ifnames.in: Rewrite in Perl.
6778 * configure.ac: Don't look for AWK.
6779 * tests/tools.at (AWK portability): Remove.
6780 (Syntax of the shell scripts): Don't check ifnames.
6781 (AT_CHECK_PERL_SYNTAX): New.
6782 (Syntax of the Perl scripts): Check ifnames.
6783 * tests/ifnames: New.
6785 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6787 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Let --keywords also match
6789 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AU_MACRO): AT_KEYWORDS(autoupdate).
6790 Remove all the other keywords.
6792 2001-09-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6794 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Remove the diversion HELP and
6795 SETUP: no longer used.
6796 Support -k, --keywords.
6797 <at_help>: Be `no', `short', or `long'.
6798 <at_help_all>: New variable.
6800 (AT_CLEANUP_FILE_IFELSE, AT_CLEANUP_FILE): Rename as...
6801 (_AT_CLEANUP_FILE_IF, _AT_CLEANUP_FILE): these.
6802 (_AT_CLEANUP_FILE_IF): Simplify the regexp.
6803 (AT_SETUP): Reset AT_line, AT_keywords, AT_description.
6804 No longer fill the HELP diversion.
6805 (AT_CLEANUP): Use them.
6806 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_append): Support a separator.
6807 (m4_list_append): Remove.
6809 Spread a few keywords in the Autoconf test suite.
6811 2001-09-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6813 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Don't pass
6814 PATH_SEPARATOR, let M4sh compute it.
6815 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_SEPARATOR_PREPARE): New.
6816 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_SHELL_PATH_WALK): Use PATH_SEPARATOR.
6818 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_WALK): Here.
6819 Simplify when the path is not a literal.
6820 (AS_UNAME): Use it to report PATH.
6821 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE_FS_SEPARATORS): Remove.
6822 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): AC_SUBST PATH_SEPARATOR.
6823 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_INSTALL): Use _AS_PATH_WALK.
6824 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Use _AS_PATH_WALK to
6825 normalize the path, and to look for victims.
6826 * tests/semantics.at (AC_PATH_PROG & AC_PATH_PROGS)
6827 (AC_CHECK_PROG & AC_CHECK_PROGS): Use PATH_SEPARATOR.
6829 2001-09-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6831 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_m4): `< /dev/null' so that GNU M4 1.5
6832 doesn't neutralize SIGINT, making autoconf etc. non interruptible.
6833 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Move the package
6834 related variables into `at_package_*'.
6835 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_VICTIMS): New.
6836 (AT_INIT): Adjust for stand-alone/embedded test suites.
6837 (AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD): Define and use it.
6838 * tests/suite.at (AT_VICTIMS): Use it.
6839 * tests/tools.at (autoupdating AC_PREREQ): Don't depend upon
6842 2001-09-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6844 Move toward possibly stand-alone test suites.
6846 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Stop displaying srcdir everywhere as,
6847 in addition, it introduces useless differences in logs.
6848 (AT_INIT): Let atconfig and atlocal be both optional.
6849 Adjust PATH computation.
6850 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_UNAME): More readable display of PATH.
6852 2001-09-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6854 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am (autoconf.m4f): Depends upon
6857 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6859 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY(C)): Use `_array_'
6860 to avoid GCC warnings.
6863 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6865 * bin/autom4te.in: --language is -l, not -s.
6867 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6869 Be ready to handle filenames as stupid as `dnl.at', for if even
6870 the maintainer is dumb enough to do that...
6872 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_SETUP, AT_LINE): Demonstrates your
6873 excellence in M4 quotation: consider `__file__' is active.
6875 And BTW, when invoking m4, pass the --include in the right order:
6878 * bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoupdate.in: Use reverse when kingtal to
6881 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6883 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: New lib file.
6884 * bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoscan.pl, bin/autom4te.in,
6885 * bin/autoheader.in: Use it.
6887 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6889 * bin/autoupdate.in (&handle_m4_macros) <unm4.m4>: Undefine iff
6892 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6894 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&getopt): Work around the `-' Getopt bug.
6895 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoupdate.in (&parse_args): Adjust.
6897 * bin/autoscan.in: Use `getopt' and `find_files' etc.
6898 Add -I, --include support.
6899 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoscan Invocation): Adjust.
6901 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6903 CVS GNU M4 doesn't like `undefine(undefined)'.
6905 * bin/autoupdate.in (&handle_m4_macros, &handle_autoconf_macros):
6906 New, extracted from main.
6907 Use IO::File wherever possible.
6908 (input.m4): Be constant, use -I instead of hard coding $tmp.
6909 Therefore be a quoted heredoc.
6910 Don't invoke `_au_disable', since ac was not loaded, but just
6913 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6917 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6919 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Fix the
6921 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER): Can create `config.hin~'.
6923 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6925 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): DU 5.0 has
6926 serious problems handling heredocs in heredocs.
6927 Reported by Nicolas Joly.
6929 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6931 * doc/autoconf.texi: Don't promote non `m4_*' M4 macros.
6932 (Making testsuite Scripts): Update.
6934 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6936 * lib/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): Add autom4te.cfg.
6938 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6940 * doc/autoconf.texi (Quadrigraphs): Document `@&t@'.
6941 (testsuite Scripts): There is no such thing as `atconfig.in'.
6942 And actually one diagram is missing: test suite runtime.
6944 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6946 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_file): Browse the includes in the
6949 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6951 * bin/autoupdate.in (@include): `installcheck' revealed the path
6952 to m4sugar was lacking!
6954 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6956 * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): We really have to pass
6957 autom4te_perllibdir.
6959 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6961 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't pass all the args to
6962 debug scripts, in particular passing explicitly listed tests to
6965 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6967 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Strip `.' from `@include'.
6968 * bin/autoupdate.in: Use --include, -I, and --force, -f, too.
6969 Use directly autom4te, not autoconf.
6970 * tests/autoupdate: $top_srcdir/lib is needed too for melt files.
6972 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6974 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Missing eol.
6975 * bin/autoheader.in (%symbol): Strip arguments of macros.
6977 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6979 * doc/autoconf.texi: Catch up -I, --include changes.
6981 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6983 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Die on unknown languages.
6984 * bin/autoheader.in: Run directly autom4te --mode=autoconf, no
6986 Promote --include over --macrodir and other obsolete options.
6988 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6990 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm ($version, $help, &getopt): New.
6991 * bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in: Use them.
6992 * bin/autom4te.in ($autoconf): Pass --force.
6993 `print $out' doesn't print `$_' but `$out'.
6994 * tests/tools.at (Syntax of the Perl scripts): Pass the lib dir.
6995 (autoheader): Pass --force since the test suite goes too fast for
6997 Adjust to the new autoheader messages.
6999 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7001 * bin/autoheader.in: Handle the acconfig.h etc. junk files.
7002 Check the completeness of the #template.
7003 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&update_file): s/remove/unlink/.
7004 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Adjust AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER
7007 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7009 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_file, &update_file): New.
7010 * bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoheader.in: Adjust.
7011 Drop AC_MACRODIR dead for real.
7012 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER): Now autoheader says
7013 `autoheader: `config.hin' is created'.
7014 * tests/tools.at (Syntax of the Perl scripts): Check autoheader.
7016 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7018 * bin/autoheader.in: Rewrite in Perl.
7019 * tests/autoheader: Adjust.
7021 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7023 * bin/autoconf.in (--include, -I): New option.
7024 Map --localdir, --autoconf-dir onto it.
7025 Forward autom4te's options instead of interpreting them.
7026 * bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoheader.in (AC_MACRODIR, autoconf_dir):
7027 There is no such envvar since the inception of autom4te.cfg.
7028 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Uniquify `@include'.
7029 * bin/autoupdate.in: Adjust, and perform more control.
7030 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF): Adjust.
7031 * tests/autoconf: Dittowise.
7033 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7035 * bin/autoconf.in: Don't bother with `acsite.m4' and `aclocal.m4'.
7036 * bin/autom4te.in (&find_file): Support `FILE?' standing for
7038 Use -e, not -f, since /dev/null for instance is OK.
7039 (&parse_args): Adjust.
7040 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): Add `acsite.m4?' and `aclocal.m4?'.
7042 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7044 * configure.ac: Also find tested executables in bin.
7045 * bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
7046 * bin/autoscan.in, autoupdate.in: Use exclusively the name of the
7047 installed peer executables, only PATH is allowed to resolve it.
7048 Pass `autoconf_dir' via options, not via invisible envvars.
7049 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_peer): Remove.
7050 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): `AUTOTEST_PATH=a:b' gives
7051 `abuild:asrc:bbuild:bsrc', not `abuild:bbuild:asrc:bsrc'.
7052 * man/Makefile.am: Let help2man rely on PATH instead of trying to
7053 find the executables for it.
7054 * tests/Makefile.am: Major cleanup. Too lazy to document...
7055 * tests/atlocal.in: Remove all the obscure envvar manipulations.
7057 * tests/atspecific.m4, tests/tools.at: Passing --localdir is
7058 indeed related to running the test suite, while passing
7059 --autoconf-dir and others is related to running non installed
7060 Autoconf executables. So don't do that, leave it to...
7061 * tests/autoconf, tests/autoheader, tests/autom4te, tests/autoupdate,
7062 * tests/autoscan: New.
7063 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR, AT_CHECK_M4SH): Don't
7064 refer to library files: rely on --language.
7066 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7068 * bin/autom4te.in, lib/autom4te.in, bin/autoconf.in:
7069 s/--set/--language/.
7071 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7073 * doc/autoconf.texi: Strip the @nodes.
7074 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
7075 (Initializing configure): Typo.
7077 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7079 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_output): s/@__@/@&t@/.
7080 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
7082 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7084 * Makefile.maint (do-po-update): Wget refuses to overwrite files:
7085 download in a tmp dir.
7087 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7089 * lib/autotest/general.m4: s/AT-devnull/devnull/ since there are
7090 case insensitive OSes out there :(
7091 From Tim Van Holder.
7093 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7095 * lib/autom4te.in: New.
7096 * lib/Makefile.am (edit, autom4te.cfg): New.
7097 * bin/autom4te.in (BEGIN): Simplify.
7098 Rely on `AC_MACRODIR' in addition of `autom4te_perllibdir'.
7099 (&load_configuration): New. Use it.
7100 (&parse_args): Support --mode, --set, and --melt.
7101 * bin/autoconf.in: Simplify and adjust.
7102 * tests/Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE): Use --set.
7103 * tests/atlocal.in: Adjust.
7104 * BUGS: distcheck and check are weak.
7106 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7108 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Use
7109 foo=`(command) 2>/dev/null`
7111 foo=`command` 2>/dev/null
7112 (at-devnull): Rename as...
7114 (--clean): Remove AT-* files too.
7115 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Document `date'.
7116 Reported by Nicolas Joly.
7118 2001-08-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7120 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Don't use single
7121 quotes inside single quotes.
7122 Reported by Nicolas Joly.
7124 2001-08-28 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
7126 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Mention C right shifts.
7128 2001-08-27 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
7130 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Reword some messages.
7131 (AT_INIT): Check for the `times' builtin before using it.
7132 Support test ranges as arguments to the testsuite.
7133 Have -e imply -d as the help text suggested.
7135 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7137 * Makefile.maint: Formatting changes.
7138 (do-po-update, po-update, cvs-update, update): New targets.
7141 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7143 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT) <at_cmd_line>: Remove.
7145 Pass it to debug-*.sh scripts.
7146 <AUTOTEST_PATH>: May contain absolute dir names.
7148 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7150 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Log the command line.
7151 Support `VAR=VAL' as arguments.
7152 Compute PATH _after_ the options processing, so that AUTOTEST_PATH
7153 may be set via the command line.
7155 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7157 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): $2 defaults to $1.
7158 * lib/autotest/autotest.m4 (AT_INIT): Expand AUTOTEST_PATH into
7159 first the build dirs, then the src dirs.
7160 * configure.ac (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Adjust.
7162 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7164 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Output the definition of
7165 at_data_files earlier.
7166 (--clean, -c): New option.
7167 * tests/Makefile.am: Use this option.
7169 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7171 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Rename `ac_dots' as
7172 `ac_top_builddir' to mimic Automake's vocabulary, which much more
7175 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Actions): Document the vars
7176 available in commands.
7177 Emphasize the risks of collisions in init-cmds.
7179 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7181 * doc/autoconf.texi (Input) <AC_INIT>: Move to..
7182 (Initializing configure): this new node.
7184 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7186 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): INSTALL.txt is a dead hack.
7188 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7190 * m4/atconfig.m4 (AT_CONFIG): Remove, replaced by...
7191 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): this.
7193 * m4/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Oops, adjust...
7195 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7197 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AU_DEFINE, AU_DEFUN, AU_ALIAS): Move
7199 * lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4: this new file.
7200 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AH_OUTPUT, AH_VERBATIM)
7201 (_AH_VERBATIM_OLD, AH_TEMPLATE, _AH_TEMPLATE_OLD, AH_TOP, AH_BOTTOM):
7203 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4: this new file.
7205 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7207 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): New.
7208 (_AC_OUTPUT_LINKS, _AC_OUTPUT_FILES, _AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Use it.
7209 Standardize the var names (ac_sub_srcdir -> ac_srcdir, ac_subdir
7211 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): AS_DIRNAME always return a dir name.
7212 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Ditto.
7214 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7216 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4 (AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS)
7217 (AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_POST, AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE, AC_CONFIG_FILES)
7218 (AC_CONFIG_HEADER, AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, AC_CONFIG_IF_MEMBER)
7219 (AC_CONFIG_LINKS, AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS, AC_FILE_DEPENDENCY_TRACE)
7220 (AC_LINK_FILES, AC_LIST_COMMANDS, AC_LIST_COMMANDS_COMMANDS)
7221 (AC_LIST_FILES, AC_LIST_FILES_COMMANDS, AC_LIST_HEADERS)
7222 (AC_LIST_HEADERS_COMMANDS, AC_LIST_LINKS, AC_LIST_LINKS_COMMANDS)
7223 (AC_OUTPUT, AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS, AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_POST)
7224 (AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_PRE, AC_OUTPUT_MAKE_DEFS)
7225 (_AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_INIT, _AC_CONFIG_DEPENDENCIES)
7226 (_AC_CONFIG_DEPENDENCY, _AC_CONFIG_UNIQUE, _AC_LINK_FILES_CNT)
7227 (_AC_LIST_SUBDIRS, _AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS, _AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_CNT)
7228 (_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_INIT, _AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS)
7229 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES, _AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS, _AC_OUTPUT_LINKS)
7230 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Move to...
7231 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: this new file.
7232 * lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am: Adjust.
7233 * tests/Makefile.am, tests/suite.at: Adjust.
7235 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7239 * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Add 1.5 and dist-bzip2.
7240 (AMTAR): Help automake define it.
7241 (INSTALL, install-data-hook): The INSTALL.txt trick is no longer
7242 needed, 1.5 can have a macro and a target with the same name.
7243 * m4/auxdir.m4, m4/cond.m4, m4/depend.m4, m4/install-sh.m4,
7245 * m4/init.m4, m4/sanity.m4: Update.
7246 * doc/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): 1.5 knows the texi2dvi files.
7247 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am, lib/autotest/Makefile.am,
7248 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am, lib/autoscan/Makefile.am,
7249 * lib/Autom4te/Makefile.am, man/Makefile.am: Use dist/nodist.
7251 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7253 Provide a mean to ``AC_PREREQ'' for M4sugar, M4sh and Autotest.
7255 * lib/autoconf/version.in: Remove.
7256 * lib/m4sugar/version.in: New.
7257 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_acversion, m4_version_prereq): New.
7259 * bin/autoupdate.in: Distinguish M4sugar vs. Autoconf macros by
7260 the name of the directory they're in, instead of the filename,
7261 since version.m4 is now in m4sugar, but m4_acversion must not be
7262 classified as an Autoconf macro.
7263 ($input_m4): Don't qualify the path to m4sugar.
7264 Rather, pass autoconf_dir to m4.
7265 * tests/Makefile.am (testsuite): Remove -I top_srcdir, unneeded.
7266 * tests/suite.at: Require 2.52c.
7268 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7270 testsuite.log should include config.log.
7272 * lib/autotest/autotest.m4: New.
7273 * lib/autotest/general.m4, tests/atspecific.m4: Adjust.
7274 * tests/suite.at : Adjust.
7275 (AT_INIT): Log config.log.
7276 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_text_box): New.
7277 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOX_LITERAL): Adjust.
7278 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_CONFIG_LOG): Use them.
7279 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Fix the incredibly messy and buggy completion
7280 of config.log on traps.
7281 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Use AS_BOX.
7282 Use consistently `_ACEOF' for configure's here docs, and `_CSEOF'
7284 Open the log as soon as possible.
7285 Use the same log introduction as configure's.
7287 2001-08-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7289 * doc/autoconf.texi (Indices): New node.
7290 Move indices out of the top level menu and into this submenu.
7292 2001-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7294 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_LEX_YYTEXT_DECL): Use
7296 (AC_DECL_YYTEXT): Fix the previous patch: it points to AC_PROG_LEX.
7298 2001-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7300 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SHELL_PATH_WALK, AC_CHECK_PROG)
7301 (AC_CHECK_PROGS, AC_PATH_PROG, AC_PATH_PROGS, AC_CHECK_TOOL_PREFIX)
7302 (AC_PATH_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOLS): Move to...
7303 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4: here.
7304 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (_AC_PROG_ECHO, AC_PROG_MAKE_SET)
7305 (AC_PROG_RANLIB, AC_PROG_YACC, AC_PROG_LEX, _AC_DECL_YYTEXT)
7306 (AC_PROG_INSTALL, AC_PROG_LN_S, AC_RSH): Move to...
7307 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4: here.
7308 (_AC_DECL_YYTEXT): Rename as...
7309 (_AC_PROG_LEX_YYTEXT_DECL): this.
7310 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am
7311 * tests/Makefile.am, tests/suite.am: Adjust.
7313 2001-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7315 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_LIST_MEMBER_OF, AC_LINKER_OPTION):
7317 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_LIST_MEMBER_IF, _AC_LINKER_OPTION):
7319 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC): Move to...
7320 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4: here.
7321 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SEARCH_LIBS, AC_CHECK_LIB)
7322 (AH_CHECK_LIB): Move to...
7323 * lib/autoconf/libs: this new file.
7324 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_XMKMF, _AC_PATH_X_DIRECT)
7325 (_AC_PATH_X, AC_PATH_X, AC_PATH_XTRA): Move to...
7326 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4: here.
7327 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am: Adjust.
7329 2001-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7331 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_MKDIR_P): Fail if fails.
7332 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Adjust.
7333 (AC_SITE_LOAD): Better logging of config.site.
7335 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7337 * configure.ac (AT_CONFIG): Fix the path.
7338 * m4/atconfig.m4 (AT_CONFIG): Don't use EOF but ATEOF so that 2.52
7341 2001-08-20 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7343 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Prepare the cross-compile
7344 program with AC_LANG_PROGRAM before feeding it to
7345 AC_COMPILE_IFELSE. Cleanup grep usage.
7347 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7349 * ChangeLog, ChangeLog.0, ChangeLog.1, ChangeLog.2, AUTHORS, BUGS,
7350 * NEWS, README, README-alpha, TODO, tests/README: This package is
7351 `Autoconf', not `autoconf' (the executable).
7353 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7355 Info readers seem to need `Index' in the index node title :(
7357 * doc/autoconf.texi: Reverse the 2001-08-15 change which
7358 simplified index node names.
7360 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7362 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): Warn if the
7363 arguments are not literals.
7364 * doc/autoconf.texi (Input) <AC_INIT>: Arguments must be literals.
7365 Specify the output variables, and macros defined.
7367 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7369 * doc/autoconf.texi (Examining Declarations) <AC_TRY_CPP>:
7370 (Examining Syntax) <AC_TRY_COMPILE>
7371 (Examining Libraries) <AC_TRY_LINK>
7372 (Test Programs) <AC_TRY_RUN>: These macros double quote some of
7374 Reported by Werner Lemberg.
7376 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7378 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Compute top_builddir,
7379 top_srcdir and srcdir from at_topbuild_2_topsrc and at_testdir.
7380 Load atlocal late enough to dump it in the log.
7381 * m4/atconfig.m4 (AT_CONFIG): Pass them to atconfig.
7383 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7385 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): New test.
7386 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Say what you are
7388 * m4/atconfig.m4: Be sure the let $[0] be expandable.
7389 (top_srcdir): Fix its computation.
7391 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7393 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS): Say what you do.
7394 * m4/atconfig.m4 (AT_CONFIG): $1 is now the directory where the
7396 Create `atconfig' automagically.
7397 Configure atlocal.in if present.
7398 * tests/atconfig.in: Remove.
7399 * tests/atlocal.in: New.
7400 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
7402 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7404 Huh!?!?! There are still some user EOF tags used, which prevents
7405 their use in AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS for instance...
7407 * lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/specific.m4,
7408 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Rename the EOF tags as `_ACEOF',
7409 `_CSEOF', or `_ATEOF', as appropriate.
7410 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am,
7411 * lib/autotest/Makefile.am (check-local): Enforce this constraint.
7413 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7415 * tests/base.at, tests/m4sh.at, tests/m4sugar.at,
7416 * tests/semantics.at, tests/tools.at, tests/torture.at:
7417 s/^AT_DATA\(([^][]+),/AT_DATA([$1],/.
7419 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7421 Autotest invokes M4sh's initialization.
7423 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Adjust the diversion names.
7424 (AT_INIT): Run AS_INIT.
7425 Use the BINSH diversion to invoke /bin/sh.
7426 * tests/base.at, tests/m4sh.at, tests/m4sugar.at, tests/tools.at:
7427 * tests/torture.at: Respect M4sugar and M4sh macro name spaces.
7429 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7431 Let M4sh have its own diversions.
7433 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_m4_divert(BINSH), _m4_divert(REVISION))
7434 (_m4_divert(NOTICE)): Rename as...
7435 * lib/m4sugar/m4msh.m4 (_m4_divert(BINSH), _m4_divert(HEADER-REVISION))
7436 (_m4_divert(HEADER-COMMENT)): these.
7437 (_m4_divert(HEADER-COPYRIGHT), _m4_divert(HEADER-COPYRIGHT)): New.
7438 (_m4_divert(NOTICE)): New, for Libtool.
7439 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_m4_divert(PREPARE)): Remove, replaced
7440 long ago with `_m4_divert(GROW)'.
7441 (AC_COPYRIGHT, AC_REVISION, _AC_INIT_NOTICE): Adjust.
7443 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7445 * tests/base.at, tests/compile.at, tests/foreign.at,
7446 * tests/m4sh.at, tests/m4sugar.at, tests/mktests.sh,
7447 * tests/semantics.at, tests/suite.at, tests/tools.at,
7448 * tests/torture.at: Ask Autotest mode, not Autoconf mode.
7450 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7452 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_output): Handle @__@.
7454 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7456 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autoconf/oldnames.m4,
7457 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Adjust the license.
7459 2001-08-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7461 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Mention snprintf,
7462 following up on a suggestion by Kevin Ryde.
7464 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7466 * doc/install.texi, doc/autoconf.texi: Use `autoconf', not
7467 `autoconf_manual', as texinfo.tex 2001-06-21.10 chokes on it.
7469 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7471 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Refer to `$as_me.log', not
7472 `$0.log' as for projects where testsuite is in src, we'd have
7473 testsuite.log created in src.
7475 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7477 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Recognize --normalize.
7479 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7481 Start implementing the AC_CHECK_HEADER transition scheme.
7483 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_NEW)
7484 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_OLD, _AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): New.
7485 (AC_CHECK_HEADER): Use them.
7487 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7489 * doc/autoconf.texi: Work around Texinfo buglets.
7490 (Transformation Rules): One example is enough, users are expected
7491 to have their brains on. And BTW, use DESTDIR.
7492 (dvar): New macro. Use it.
7494 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7496 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at) <AT_CHECK>: Complete.
7497 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Use the relative dir when
7498 looking for ChangeLogs.
7500 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7502 * bin/autom4te.in: --normalize is a new option.
7503 * bin/autoconf.in: Use it.
7505 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7507 * bin/Makefile.am, lib/Autom4te/Makefile.am, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am
7508 * lib/autotest/Makefile.am, lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am: Add TAGS support.
7510 2001-08-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7512 * doc/autoconf.texi, doc/install.texi: Put copyright notice at
7515 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7517 * doc/Makefile.am (fu): New index, can't use fn because of defmac.
7520 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7522 * doc/autoconf.texi (pr): New index.
7523 (prindex, findex): Use, merge, and output them.
7524 (Environment Variable Index, Output Variable Index)
7525 (Preprocessor Symbol Index, Autoconf Macro Index, M4 Macro Index)
7526 (Autotest Macro Index): Rename as...
7527 (Environment Variables, Output Variables,Preprocessor Symbols)
7528 (Autoconf Macros, M4 Macros, Autotest Macros): these.
7529 * doc/install.texi: Use @command.
7530 (Environment Variables): Rename as...
7531 (Defining Variables): this.
7533 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7535 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): sprintf's return
7539 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7541 * Makefile.maint (CVS): New.
7542 (local-check): Run changelog-check. last.
7543 (alpha): Don't depend upon local-check, since...
7544 (cvs-dist): depends upon it.
7546 2001-08-15 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
7548 * tests/Makefile.am: Use a clean-local rule to remove
7549 autom4te.cache (it's a directory, not a file.
7550 * Makefile.am: Ditto (but maintainer-clean-local).
7552 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7554 * bin/autom4te.in (@m4_warning): New.
7555 (&handle_m4): Use it.
7556 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4_warn): Pass `-f' to autom4te to ensure the
7557 warnings are issued at each run.
7558 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR, AT_CHECK_M4SH): M4sugar
7561 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7563 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOUPDATE): Perl is now required:
7564 don't waste time running `autoupdate --version' works.
7565 * tests/tools.at (autoupdating AC_PREREQ): Likewise.
7567 2001-08-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7569 * doc/autoconf.texi (ma): Rename this index as...
7572 2001-08-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7574 * Makefile.am: Remove dead code and dead comments.
7575 (pdf, html): New targets.
7576 * doc/autoconf.texi (Using Autotest): New chapter.
7577 * doc/Makefile.am (pdf): New targets.
7578 (CLEANFILES): Adjust.
7580 2001-08-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7582 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Log the start/stop dates and
7583 duration of the test suite.
7585 2001-08-12 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7587 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Explicitelly save and load
7588 endianness for comparison instead of relying on AT_CHECK_ENV.
7590 2001-08-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7592 * doc/autoconf.texi, doc/install.texi: Add a copyright notice
7593 to the INSTALL file.
7595 2001-08-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7597 * NEWS: The autoconf manual now is distributed under the terms
7598 of the GNU Free Documentation License.
7600 * doc/autoconf.texi: Switch from old style copyright notice to FDL.
7601 Add an appendix "Copying This Manual" for the FDL.
7603 * doc/fdl.texi: New file, from
7604 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.texi>.
7606 * doc/Makefile.am (autoconf_TEXINFOS): Add fdl.texi.
7608 2001-08-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7610 * AUTHORS, BUGS, ChangeLog, ChangeLog.0, ChangeLog.1,
7611 ChangeLog.2, GNUmakefile, Makefile.maint, NEWS, README,
7612 README-alpha, TODO, configure.ac, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am,
7613 m4/atconfig.m4, m4/init.m4, m4/m4.m4, m4/missing.m4,
7614 m4/sanity.m4, tests/README, tests/aclocal.m4,
7615 tests/atspecific.m4, tests/base.at, tests/compile.at,
7616 tests/foreign.at, tests/m4sh.at, tests/m4sugar.at,
7617 tests/semantics.at, tests/suite.at, tests/tools.at,
7618 tests/torture.at: Add copyright notice.
7620 * tests/mktests.sh: Update year in copyright notice.
7622 2001-08-12 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7624 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): New test.
7626 2001-08-11 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7628 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Handle ACTION-IF-TRUE,
7629 ACTION-IF-FALSE, and ACTION-IF-UNKNOWN.
7630 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler Characteristics): Update
7631 documentation for AC_C_BIGENDIAN.
7633 2001-08-11 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7635 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Guess endianness by grep'ing
7636 magic values from an object file when cross-compiling.
7637 Based on code by Guido Draheim <Guido.Draheim@gmx.de>.
7639 2001-08-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7641 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_output): Don't use `grep' with side
7643 Suggested by Russ Allbery.
7645 2001-08-10 Ralf Corsepius <corsepiu@faw.uni-ulm.de>
7647 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Propagate the
7648 current $prefix to the sub-configures.
7650 2001-08-09 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
7652 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4: Ignore *.xSYM when looking for an executable
7653 extension (needed on BeOS). Reported by Guido van Rossum.
7655 2001-08-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7657 * bin/autom4te.in ($icache): Load it only if older than autom4te.
7659 2001-08-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7661 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): All the `at-*' are to be
7663 (at-setup-line): Huh? Be a variable `at_setup_line', not a file.
7664 No need to remove the files before and after the each test, before
7665 each test and at the end of the suite is enough.
7666 Display only the children `times', not the shell's.
7667 If the test failed or was skipped, at-times is not available.
7669 2001-08-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7671 Always produce testsuite.log, including when there are no
7672 failures. This helps getting information on skipped tests, and
7673 duration of the tests. Err, implement the latter btw.
7675 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Set up fd 6 for the log.
7676 Dump information on the first run of each test.
7677 (AT_CLEANUP): Create `at-times' containing the duration of the
7680 2001-08-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7682 The use of `dumpstat' revealed that `len' was used although it
7683 should not. m4_text_wrap was using it, but in the Autoconf world
7684 where it is legal. Hence (i) test M4sh in its own world, not
7685 Autoconf's, and (ii), ahem, fix the bug :)
7687 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Be sure the set good quotes, as tracing
7688 does not like `' instead of [].
7689 (AT_INIT): Forbid `^_?AT_'.
7690 And don't output such tokens.
7691 * tests/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): Add `script', `script.s4g',
7692 `script.as', and `autom4te.cache'.
7693 Remove `empty' and `macro' which are no longer used.
7694 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR, AT_CHECK_M4SH): New.
7695 * tests/m4sugar.at: Use it.
7696 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: Use `m4_len' not `len'.
7698 2001-08-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7700 * bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoheader.in: --force, -f is a new option.
7702 2001-08-07 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7704 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_output): Typo in quadrigraph substitution.
7706 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7708 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_ALLOCA, AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE)
7709 (AC_FUNC_FSEEKO, AC_FUNC_OBSTACK): Use AC_LANG_IFELSE, not
7711 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_MAJOR): Likewise.
7712 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_F77_HOOKS)
7713 (AC_F77_MAIN): Likewise.
7715 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7717 Don't rely on M4sugar outputting the patterns in files, since we
7718 might process the output _without_ running m4, hence without these
7721 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_init): No need for `m4_tmpdir'.
7722 * bin/autom4te.in (@Request::includes): Remove, unused.
7723 (@Request::source): Rename as...
7724 (@Request::input): this.
7725 (@preselect): Add `m4_pattern_forbid' and `m4_pattern_allow'.
7726 (&handle_output): Fetch the patterns from the traces.
7727 `$forbidden' and `$allowed' are constant: use m//o.
7728 (&handle_m4): M4sugar no longer wants `m4_tmpdir'.
7729 (m4_pattern_forbid, m4_pattern_allow): Adjust for tracing only.
7731 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7733 `autoconf && autoheader' is sped up. Now, speed up `autoheader &&
7734 autoconf', i.e., in addition to caching traces, cache the output.
7736 * bin/autom4te.in (Request::cache): Rename as...
7737 (Request::id): this.
7738 ($cache, $icache, $tcache, $ocache): New.
7739 (&handle_m4): Save M4 output in the cache instead of $tmp.
7740 (&handle_output): Adjust.
7741 (&up_to_date_p): Check that the output cache is up to date too.
7742 (top level): Run `&handle_m4' iff force or the cache is invalid.
7743 Run `&handle_output' if the output cache is more recent.
7745 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7747 * bin/autom4te.in ($force): New.
7748 (&parse_args, &print_usage): -f, --force is a new option.
7749 (&handle_output): CPP directives might have spaces after `#'.
7750 (&parse_args): The first file only can be frozen.
7752 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7754 Don't let autom4te compute the `include' traces several times:
7755 first check that the trace cache file is up to date, and then
7756 compare its timestamp with that of the output.
7758 * bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoscan.in: Normalize
7759 the preamble. Don't require 5.005 as Autom4te::General does it,
7760 and better yet (use `use', not `require'!).
7761 * lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm: Rename the last occurrences of
7762 Class::Struct as Autom4te::Struct.
7763 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (File::stat): Use it.
7764 (&mtime): New, export it.
7765 * bin/autom4te.in: Use it.
7766 Declare `$req' is invalid if it is outdated.
7767 Don't declare it valid before saving it if something went wrong.
7769 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7771 Autom4te shall not encode Autoconf data, and preselecting traces
7772 must be proposed to the users.
7774 * bin/autom4te.in (@required_trace): Remove.
7776 (&parse_args, &print_usage): -p, --preselect is a new option.
7777 (&up_to_date_p): Adjust.
7778 * bin/autoconf.in: Preselect some Autoconf macros.
7780 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7782 * tests/tools.at (autoconf --trace: user macros): Check traces on
7783 macros invoked without arguments, and macros invoked with multiple
7786 2001-08-03 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7788 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_traces): Fix rewriting of traces without
7791 2001-08-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7793 * bin/autoconf.in ($@): Work around the usual sh bug.
7796 2001-08-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7798 Clean up the handling of the M4 builtins tracing exception.
7800 * bin/autom4te.in (Request::request): Don't complete M4 builtins
7802 (@m4_builtins): Rename as...
7803 (@m4_builtin): this.
7804 (%m4_builtin_alternate_name): New.
7805 (&parse_args): Complete the trace requests with alternate names.
7806 (&handle_traces): Hence no longer do it here.
7807 (&trace_requests): Remove, unused.
7809 2001-08-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7811 * doc/autoconf.texi (Redefined M4 Macros): Document m4_exit,
7814 2001-08-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7816 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_init): Also forbid `_m4_*' tokens.
7817 (m4_divert_pop): Dump the whole diversion stack when a diversion
7819 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_output): Remember of the first
7820 occurrence of a possibly undefined macro, not the last.
7821 Complain about the possibly undefined macros in the same order as
7822 the appear in the output.
7823 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am (autoconf.m4f): List its dependencies.
7824 * tests/tools.at (autoconf: forbidden tokens, basic)
7825 (autoconf: forbidden tokens, exceptions): No longer sort
7826 autoconf's stderr, as it is now deterministic.
7827 Check that `dnl' is caught.
7829 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7831 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.52c.
7833 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7837 * lib/Autom4te/Makefile.am (perllibdir): s/Autoconf/Autom4te/.
7839 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7843 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7845 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: Use `carp' and `croak', not `warn' and
7848 * bin/autoconf.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoupdate.in: Remove your
7849 `END', as `Autom4te::General::END' will be triggered.
7850 * bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoscan.in: Improve error messages accuracy.
7851 * bin/autoupdate.in (File::Compare, File::Copy): Use them instead of
7852 system to run `mv', `rm', and `cmp'.
7854 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7856 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&unique): New.
7857 * bin/autoscan.in (&output): Use it to issue trace requests once.
7859 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7861 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: New.
7862 * bin/autom4te.in (Autom4te::General): Use it.
7863 ($me, $tmp, $verbose, $debug, &mktmpdir, &verbose, &xsystem)
7864 (&find_configure_ac, &find_slave): Remove.
7865 * bin/autoscan.in: Likewise.
7866 * bin/autoupdate.in: Likewise.
7868 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7870 * autoconf.in, autom4te.in, autoscan.in, ifnames.in,
7871 * autoheader.in, autoreconf.in, autoupdate.in: Move to...
7872 * bin: here, new directory.
7873 * lib/Autoconf: Rename as...
7874 * lib/Autom4te: this, to please case insensitive junkie OSes.
7876 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7878 * autom4te.in ($m4): Handle the --nesting-limit.
7879 * autoconf.in (M4): Remove.
7881 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7883 * autoconf.in ($AWK): Remove, no longer used.
7884 * test/tools.at: Use AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF.
7885 (AWK portability): Remove, for autoconf no longer uses AWK.
7886 (Syntax of the Perl scripts): New.
7887 * configure.ac: autoconf no longer needs an AWK with a good
7889 Use a static test on AC_PACKAGE_VERSION.
7890 * autom4te.in (&up_to_date_p): Output depends on the arguments.
7891 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am: Ship version.m4, maintainer file.
7892 * tests/atconfig.in (PERL): New.
7894 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7896 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG(C), AC_LANG_C, _AC_LANG_ABBREV(C))
7897 (AC_LANG(C++), AC_LANG_CPLUSPLUS, _AC_LANG_ABBREV(C++))
7898 (AC_LANG_SOURCE(C), AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C), AC_LANG_CALL(C))
7899 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C), AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY(C))
7900 (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C), _AC_ARG_VAR_CPPFLAGS, _AC_ARG_VAR_LDFLAGS)
7901 (AC_LANG_PREPROC(C), _AC_PROG_PREPROC_WORKS_IFELSE, AC_PROG_CPP)
7902 (AC_LANG_COMPILER(C), ac_cv_prog_gcc, AC_PROG_CC, _AC_PROG_CC_G)
7903 (AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL, AC_PROG_CC_C_O, AC_LANG_PREPROC(C++))
7904 (AC_PROG_CXXCPP, AC_LANG_COMPILER(C++), ac_cv_prog_gxx)
7905 (AC_PROG_CXX, _AC_PROG_CXX_G, _AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION)
7906 (AC_PROG_CC_STDC, AC_C_CROSS, AC_C_CHAR_UNSIGNED, AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE)
7907 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN, AC_C_INLINE, AC_C_CONST, AC_C_VOLATILE)
7908 (AC_C_STRINGIZE, AC_C_PROTOTYPES): Move to...
7909 * lib/autoconf/c.m4: here, new file.
7911 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG(Fortran 77), AC_LANG_FORTRAN77)
7912 (_AC_LANG_ABBREV(Fortran 77), AC_LANG_SOURCE(Fortran 77))
7913 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(Fortran 77), AC_LANG_CALL(Fortran 77))
7914 (AC_LANG_PREPROC(Fortran 77), AC_LANG_COMPILER(Fortran 77))
7915 (ac_cv_prog_g77, AC_PROG_F77, _AC_PROG_F77_G, AC_PROG_F77_C_O)
7916 (_AC_PROG_F77_V_OUTPUT, _AC_PROG_F77_V, AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS)
7917 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN, _AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_F77_HOOKS, AC_F77_MAIN)
7918 (_AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING, AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING, AC_F77_WRAPPERS)
7919 (AC_F77_FUNC): Move to...
7920 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4: here, new file.
7922 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7924 * acfunctions.m4: Rename as...
7925 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4: this.
7926 * acgeneral.m4: Rename as...
7927 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: this.
7928 * acheaders.m4: Rename as...
7929 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4: this.
7930 * aclang.m4: Rename as...
7931 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4: this.
7932 * acoldnames.m4: Rename as...
7933 * lib/autoconf/oldnames.m4: this.
7934 * acspecific.m4: Rename as...
7935 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4: this.
7936 * actypes.m4: Rename as...
7937 * lib/autoconf/types.m4: this.
7938 * autoconf.m4: Rename as...
7939 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4: this.
7941 * m4sugar.m4: Rename as...
7942 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: this.
7943 * m4sh.m4: Rename as...
7944 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: this.
7946 * tests/atgeneral.m4: Rename as...
7947 * lib/autotest/general.m4: this.
7949 * acfunctions: Rename as...
7950 * lib/autoscan/functions: this.
7951 * acheaders: Rename as...
7952 * lib/autoscan/headers: this.
7953 * acidentifiers: Rename as...
7954 * lib/autoscan/identifiers: this.
7955 * aclibraries: Rename as...
7956 * lib/autoscan/libraries: this.
7957 * acmakevars: Rename as...
7958 * lib/autoscan/makevars: this.
7959 * acprograms: Rename as...
7960 * lib/autoscan/programs: this.
7962 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7964 * doc/autoconf.texi: Moving/deleting open files is not portable.
7965 Portability issues for `.' (source), and more information about sed.
7967 2001-07-25 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
7969 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Ignore -libmil (on Solaris),
7970 which has a special meaning and is not a reference to libibmil.a.
7971 Reported by Matteo Frigo.
7973 2001-07-25 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
7975 * autom4te.in (mktmpdir): Strip trailing newline from mktemp
7978 2001-07-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7980 * autoconf.in: Try to define the variables before using them.
7981 * autom4te.in ($perllibdir): Use `$autom4te_perllibdir' as envvar
7982 instead of `$perllibdir'.
7983 * tests/atconfig.in ($autom4te_perllibdir): Export it.
7985 2001-07-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7987 * autoconf.in (ac_LF_and_DOT): Remove, unused.
7989 2001-07-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7991 Let autoconf use autom4te for traces.
7993 * autoconf.in ($task, task trace): Remove, merely pass --trace to
7995 * autoheader.in: Don't pass `-' to autoconf, rather, a tmp file.
7996 (Because I found no way for autom4te to accept `-').
7997 * autom4te.in (&Request::request): Beware of M4 builtins.
7998 (END): Don't try to remove the content of an empty dir.
7999 (&parse_args): Default is `$f:$l:$n:$%', not `$f:$l:$n:$*'.
8000 (&handle_output): Set a default value to `$forbidden'.
8001 * autoupdate.in (&verbose, &xsystem): New, from autom4te.in.
8002 ($autoconf): Pass --debug and --verbose.
8003 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF): Clean up autom4te's
8006 2001-07-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8008 Let autoconf use autom4te to create configure.
8010 * autoconf.in ($automate): New var.
8011 (task script): Use autom4te.
8012 * autom4te.in (File::Spec): Use it.
8014 (&parse_args): --warning is -W, not -w.
8015 Find the top level files.
8016 (&handle_m4): Pass the warnings flags.
8017 Don't report verbosely m4's failures, unless requested.
8018 (&handle_output): Don't complain for forbidden tokens in comments.
8019 Be sure to report all the forbidden tokens within a single line.
8020 (&trace_format_to_m4): Preserve `$_'.
8021 (&handle_traces): Sort the output macros.
8022 (&up_to_date_p): Find the files before trying to get its time stamp.
8024 2001-07-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8026 * Makefile.am: Ship, build and install Autom4te.
8028 * lib/Autoconf/Struct.pm: New, from Automake 1.5.
8029 * configure.in: Require Perl.
8030 * man/autom4te.in: New.
8032 2001-07-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8034 * doc/autoconf.texi (Cache Checkpointing): Use AC_MSG_ERROR in
8035 example, rather than (exit 1); exit (which isn't portable).
8037 2001-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8041 2001-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8043 The C-Fortran 77 hooks are available only once AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN
8044 was run, while they are needed also when it is expanded.
8045 Reported by Nicolas Joly.
8047 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN): Define _AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_F77_HOOKS.
8048 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C)): Use it instead of depending upon
8049 AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN being expanded.
8051 2001-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8053 * configure.in: Bump to 2.51a.
8055 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8059 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8061 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN): Let the interface be more
8062 Autoconfy: $1 = action-if-found, $2 = action-if-not-found.
8064 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8066 The runtime test for AC_FUNC_GETPGRP fails when prototypes are
8067 used. Well, then use the prototypes when you can, and runtime as
8069 Reported by Artur Frysiak
8071 * acfunctions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_GETPGRP_TEST): New.
8072 (AC_FUNC_GETPGRP): Use it.
8073 First try to compile with 0-ary or 1-ary calls.
8075 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8077 * actypes.m4 (_AC_CHECK_TYPE_REPLACEMENT_TYPE_P): `foo_t' is a
8081 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8083 * Makefile.maint: Sync. with cppi 1.10.
8085 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8087 * aclang.m4 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C)): Output F77_DUMMY_MAIN only when
8088 AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN has been run.
8089 From Pavel Roskin and Steven G. Johnson.
8091 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8093 * configure.in: Rename as...
8094 * configure.ac: this.
8096 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8098 * Makefile.am (INSTALL.txt): Don't use $@ and $< in non suffix
8101 * Makefile.maint (release-archive-dir): Rename as...
8102 (release_archive_dir): this, so that it can be specialized in
8105 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8107 * configure.in: Bump to 2.50d.
8109 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8112 * Makefile.maint (alpha): Typo.
8114 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8116 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Macro names and underscore.
8118 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8120 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/texinfo.tex
8121 * doc/standards.texi, doc/make-stds.texi: Update.
8123 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8125 * Makefile.maint (cvs-check, cvs-tag-check, cvs-diff-check): New.
8127 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8129 * Makefile.maint (maintainer-check): Rename as...
8130 (maintainer-distcheck): this.
8131 (changelog-check, static-check): New.
8134 2001-07-14 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
8136 * doc/autoconf.texi (C++ Compilers Characteristics): Last resort
8137 for CXX is g++, not gcc.
8139 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8141 * doc/autoconf.texi (Files): New subsection.
8143 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8145 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler, Fortran 77 Compiler): Be subsections
8147 (Generic Compiler Characteristics): this.
8148 (C++ Compiler): New subsection.
8150 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8152 * autoscan.in: Use IO::File.
8153 Adjust all the routines to use it.
8154 ($log): New file (autoscan.log).
8155 (output): Dump detailed logs into $log, and a shortened version to
8157 (&scan_makefile): Refine the regexp catching tokens in the code.
8158 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoscan Invocation): Document `autoscan.log'
8159 and the `configure.ac' checking feature.
8161 2001-07-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8163 For some AWK, such as on HPUX 11, `xfoo' does not match `foo|^bar'.
8164 Reported by Michael Elizabeth Chastain.
8166 * autoconf.in: Refuse such AWK.
8167 * configure.in: Likewise.
8168 * Makefile.am (acversion.m4): Do not use move-if-change this file
8170 * doc/autoconf.texi (Fortran 77 Compiler): Some typos.
8172 2001-07-10 Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com>
8174 * autoscan.in (&scan_makefile): Improve programs regexp to parse
8175 things like "g++", "file.c" and "some-conf" as tokens.
8176 (&scan_file): Match C++ files extensions.
8177 If the filename extension is C++ then ask for c++.
8179 2001-07-05 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
8181 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN): Use AC_TRY_LINK, not
8182 AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC, to check whether defining a dummy
8183 main-like routine is needed for linking with F77 libs.
8185 2001-07-05 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
8187 * aclocal.m4 (_AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION): Remove conftest*
8189 (_AC_PROG_F77_V_OUTPUT): Remove conftest*, not conftest.* after
8192 2001-07-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8194 * Makefile.am (move_if_change): New. Use it instead of `mv'.
8195 (acversion.m4): Name it `$(srcdir)/acversion.m4' to ease broken
8197 Reported by Nicolas Joly.
8199 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8201 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_RUN_IFELSE): Remove conftest.o when cleaning
8203 * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_WAIT3): Use `break' to silent some
8204 warnings from compilers.
8205 * aclang.m4 (_AC_LANG_COMPILER_GNU): Log the version information
8206 for all the compilers, not only GNU. Hence move from here...
8207 (AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX, AC_PROG_F77): to here.
8209 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8211 * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_STRTOD, AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R)
8212 (AC_FUNC_STRCOLL, AC_FUNC_WAIT3): Use AC_RUN_IFELSE and
8215 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8217 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Actually apply
8218 the ``strings.h'' change claimed below.
8220 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8222 * aclang.m4 (_AC_LANG_COMPILER_GNU): s/-dumpspecs/-v/.
8224 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8226 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Include
8227 strings.h if usable with string.h.
8228 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
8230 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8232 * autoscan.in (&scan_file): Skip FILE if there is FILE.in.
8235 2001-07-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8237 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Specify CONFIG_FILES
8240 2001-07-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8242 * acheaders.m4 (AC_CHECK_HEADER): When INCLUDES are set, use the
8243 compiler, not the preprocessor.
8244 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): No longer use
8245 dedicated code to check for inttypes.h, as AC_CHECK_HEADERS does
8247 * Makefile.am (.m4.m4f): Emphasize M4 error messages and fail
8248 earlier if there are.
8250 2001-07-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8252 * autoscan.in ($initfile): Remove.
8253 (&find_file): Rename as...
8255 Immediately scan the current file, instead of gathering them, and
8256 later having them handled by &scan_files.
8257 (&scan_files): Merely invoke Find::File.
8260 2001-07-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8262 * autoscan.in: Formatting changes, matching the invocation order.
8263 (File::Find): Use it instead of Perl 4's `find.pl'.
8264 (&wanted): Rename as...
8267 2001-07-01 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
8269 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN): Remove conftest* after using
8270 break in the argument to AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC.
8271 (AC_F77_MAIN): Remove conftest* after using break in the
8272 argument to AC_TRY_LINK.
8274 2001-07-01 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
8276 Add alternate 'main' routine detection for linking C/C++ with Fortran,
8277 fixing link failures for e.g. AC_F77_WRAPPERS on NetBSD.
8279 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN): New macro to detect whether a
8280 dummy alternate main is required even if the user provides her own
8282 (AC_F77_MAIN): New macro to detect whether it is possible to
8283 provide an alternate 'main' function name, using the 'main' from
8284 the Fortran libraries.
8285 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C)): Use F77_DUMMY_MAIN, if it is defined, so that
8286 cross-language link tests can be performed successfully.
8287 (_AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING): Require AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN. Also put $FLIBS
8288 after $LIBS, for consistency; this should be the general rule since
8289 the user may want to link to Fortran libraries that require $FLIBS.
8290 * doc/autoconf.texi: Document AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN and AC_F77_MAIN.
8292 2001-06-29 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
8294 * atgeneral.m4 (AT_CHECK): Add a newline to the end of
8295 at-stdout and at-stderr instead of removing the newline
8296 from the echo output, which is not guaranteed to work.
8298 2001-06-28 Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com>
8300 * aclang.m4 (_AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION): Only add declaration to
8301 confdefs.h when non-zero.
8303 2001-06-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8305 * configure.in: Bump to 2.50c.
8307 2001-06-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8311 2001-06-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8315 2001-06-25 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
8317 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_MACRO): Accept one more
8318 argument, AUTOCONF-FLAGS.
8319 * tests/mktests.sh (update_exclude_list): Add
8320 AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS and AC_FUNC_WAIT3.
8321 * tests/semantics.at: Test AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS and
8322 AC_FUNC_WAIT3 with "-W no-obsolete".
8324 2001-06-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8326 * tests/foreign.at (libtool): Fix the `libtoolize --version' decoding.
8328 2001-06-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8330 * autoscan.in (%macro): Now maps from word to list of macros.
8331 (&init_tables): Die when a word which is already handled by
8332 explicit macros is mapped to the default macro.
8333 (&print_unique): Remove, inlined in...
8334 (&output_kind): here.
8335 (File::Basename): Use it.
8336 (&output): Sort the CONFIG_FILES.
8337 * acheaders: Normalize.
8338 * acfunctions: Likewise.
8340 2001-06-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8342 * aclang.m4 (_AC_LANG_COMPILER_GNU): If GNU, dump the compiler
8343 characteristics in the logs.
8344 Suggested by Mo DeJong.
8346 2001-06-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8348 * acfunctions.m4 (AM_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE, AM_FUNC_FNMATCH)
8349 (AM_FUNC_MKTIME, AM_FUNC_OBSTACK, AM_FUNC_STRTOD): Reactivated.
8350 * doc/autoconf.texi (Autoconf 2.13): New section.
8352 2001-06-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8354 * autoconf.in (Task traces): Separate the error messages from the
8355 traces to improve robustness.
8357 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8359 * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): Make it a single test instead of
8360 three as failures are unlikely, and speed matters.
8362 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8364 * doc/autoconf.texi (Redefined M4 Macros): New.
8366 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8368 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Consider
8369 inttypes.h is missing if it conflicts with sys/types.h, as on IRIX
8372 2001-06-23 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
8374 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Defer parsing of
8375 config.status targets to after the evaluation of the INIT-CMDS.
8376 Double quote config.status targets (used to be single quoted).
8378 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8380 * tests/torture.at (CONFIG_FILES, HEADERS, LINKS and COMMANDS):
8381 Check the content of the created file.
8382 Check the ./config.status command line invocation.
8384 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8386 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Reject prehistoric versions.
8388 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8390 * aclang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Try to be robust to
8391 preexisting files matching a.*.
8393 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8395 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Output error messages on
8397 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_ARG_VAR): Update.
8399 2001-06-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8401 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Die instead of warning when
8402 precious variables have changed.
8403 * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): Adjust.
8405 2001-06-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8407 ./configure --program-suffix=foo produces `transform=s,$$,foo,;',
8408 but some sed choke on multiple `;', and other tools (e.g.,
8409 Automake), include the separator themselves.
8411 * acgeneral.m4 (AC_ARG_VAR): Be sure not to leave extra `;'.
8413 2001-06-19 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
8415 * doc/autoconf.texi (Functions Portability): Rename as...
8416 (Function Portability): this.
8417 (Function Portability): Document potential problems with unlink().
8419 2001-06-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8421 * NEWS, doc/autoconf.texi: Document quadrigraphs.
8423 2001-06-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8425 * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_FORK): Fix typos.
8427 2001-06-18 Ruediger Kuhlmann <info@ruediger-kuhlmann.de>
8429 * acfunctions.m4: (AC_FUNC_VFORK) rename as...
8430 (_AC_FUNC_VFORK): this.
8431 Remove AC_DEFINEs and don't guess cross-compilation values.
8432 (_AC_FUNC_FORK): New, check whether fork() isn't just a stub.
8433 (AC_FUNC_FORK): New, use _AC_FUNC_VFORK and _AC_FUNC_FORK to
8434 define HAVE_WORKING_FORK, HAVE_WORKING_VFORK; and vfork to fork if
8436 Guess values if cross-compiling, but warn.
8437 * acfunctions: Add AC_FUNC_FORK.
8438 * doc/autoconf.texi: Document AC_FUNC_FORK. Give example to define
8439 and vfork appropriately.
8441 2001-06-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8443 * doc/autoconf.texi (Functions Portability): New section.
8445 2001-06-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8447 * autoconf.in (M4): Pass --nesting-limit=1024, unless already set
8449 Suggested by Andreas Schwab.
8451 2001-06-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8453 * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_CHOWN, AC_FUNC_CLOSEDIR_VOID)
8454 (AC_FUNC_GETPGRP, AC_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK)
8455 (AC_FUNC_MMAP, AC_FUNC_SELECT_ARGTYPES, _AC_FUNC_STAT)
8456 (AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL): Use AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT.
8457 Don't use AC_TRY_RUN, which double quotes, prefer AC_RUN_IFELSE,
8458 and either AC_LANG_SOURCE or AC_LANG_PROGRAM.
8459 (AC_FUNC_CLOSEDIR_VOID): Protect C++ from `int closedir ();' (or
8462 2001-06-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8464 * doc/autoconf.texi (ms): New index.
8465 (Macro Index): Rename as...
8466 (Autoconf Macro Index): this.
8467 (M4 Macro Index): New appendix.
8468 (Programming in M4): New chapter.
8469 Define M4sugar, M4sh, m4_pattern_forbid, and m4_pattern_allow.
8470 (Quoting): Rename as...
8471 (M$ Quotation): this.
8472 Be part of `Programming in M4).
8474 2001-06-18 Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>
8476 * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): Set variables and export them
8477 in separate statements for compatibility with Tru64 v5.1.
8479 2001-06-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8481 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Be sure to cache the
8482 current values of the precious variables, not the previously
8484 Pass precious variables which are set to config.status.
8485 * doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Document AC_ARG_VAR.
8486 * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): New.
8488 2001-06-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8490 * doc/autoconf.texi: Move AC_FUNC_WAIT3 and
8491 AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS to the obsolete section,
8492 and explain why and how to replace them.
8493 * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_WAIT3): Warn as obsolete.
8494 * acspecific.m4 (AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS): Likewise.
8496 2001-06-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8498 `build_alias', `host_alias', and `target_alias' are not AC_SUBST'd.
8499 Reported by Bruno Haible.
8501 * acgeneral.m4 (AC_ARG_VAR): Move the AC_SUBST, from here...
8502 (_AC_ARG_VAR_PRECIOUS): to here.
8504 2001-06-15 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
8506 * acheaders.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_DIRENT): Instead of defining
8507 an unused pointer use cast to this type and `if' statement to
8508 avoid warnings from the compiler.
8509 (AC_HEADER_TIME): Likewise.
8510 * actypes.m4 (AC_CHECK_MEMBER): s/foo/ac_aggr/. Use the member
8511 in `if' statement to avoid warnings from the compiler. Declare
8512 ac_aggr static to avoid the need to initialize it.
8514 2001-06-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8516 * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell): Move to follow `Writing
8519 2001-06-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8521 * m4/missing.m4, config/missing: Updated to Automake 1.4g's.
8522 Suggested by Alexander Mai.
8524 2001-06-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8526 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Guard
8527 sys/types.h and sys/stat.h, and check for them.
8529 2001-06-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8531 * acheaders.m4 (AC_CHECK_HEADER, AC_CHECK_HEADERS): Support $4 =
8534 2001-06-12 Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
8536 * acspecific.m4 (AC_PATH_XTRA): Check if linking against libX11
8537 succeeds and only try adding libdnet upon a failure.
8539 2001-06-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8541 * autoscan.in (&output_kind): Output the comment only if it exists.
8542 (%kind_comment): Add entry for `programs'.
8543 (&output_programs): Use &output_kind.
8544 (&output_functions, &output_identifiers, &output_headers)
8545 (&output_programs): Inline, and remove.
8547 2001-06-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8549 * autoscan.in (%kind_comment): New.
8551 (output_functions, output_identifiers, output_headers): Use it.
8553 2001-06-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8555 * autoscan.in (&print_unique): Take `$kind' and `$word' as
8556 arguments, to factor indirections into `%macro' and `%used'.
8557 (%generic_macro): Fix a typo.
8559 2001-06-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8562 * autoscan.in (@kinds): Add `libraries'.
8563 Use `@kinds' instead of hard coded lists.
8564 (%programs, %headers, %identifiers, %makevars, %libraries, %functions):
8565 Remove, replaced by...
8568 2001-06-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8570 * autoscan.in (%functions_macros %headers_macros)
8571 (%identifiers_macros %programs_macros %makevars_macros): Remove,
8575 2001-06-11 Raja R Harinath <harinath@cs.umn.edu>
8577 * aclang.m4 (AC_NO_EXECUTABLES): Override
8578 _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_WORKS, not _AC_LANG_COMPILER_WORKS.
8580 2001-06-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8582 * aclang.m4 (AC_NO_EXECUTABLES): Define the macros with their
8584 Reported by Andreas Schwab.
8586 2001-06-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8588 * Makefile.am, Makefile.maint: Typos.
8590 2001-06-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8592 * doc/autoconf.texi (Here-Documents): New section, gathering
8593 documentation about here-documents.
8594 Use `href', not `uref', and other changes.
8596 2001-06-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8598 * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell Programming): Promoted as a
8601 2001-06-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8603 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Complete the
8604 description of the here-docs penalties with Alexandre Oliva's
8607 2001-06-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8609 * doc/autoconf.texi: Talk about here documents and speedups.
8610 Do not use "echo" on arbitrary strings.
8611 Spell "here-documents" consistently with the standard.
8613 2001-06-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8615 * doc/autoconf.texi (Concept Index): Introduce it.
8616 Regenerate the menus.
8618 2001-06-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8620 * Makefile.maint, GNUmakefile: New, from Jim Meyering.
8621 * config/prev-version.txt: New.
8622 * config/move-if-change: New, for GNU libc.
8624 2001-06-06 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
8626 * tests/atgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Remove "/bin/sh" after $SHELL.
8628 2001-06-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8630 * acgeneral.m4 (AC_CHECK_LIB): Fix the cache var name to work
8631 properly when $1 is not a literal.
8632 Fixes PR Autoconf/187, reported by Bram Moolenaar.
8634 2001-06-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8636 Invoking AC_COPYRIGHT before AC_INIT fails.
8638 * Makefile.am (.m4.m4f): Pass --fatal-warnings to m4.
8639 * acgeneral.m4 (_m4_divert(VERSION_FSF))
8640 (_m4_divert(VERSION_USER)): New.
8641 (AC_COPYRIGHT): $2 is the diversion to use.
8642 (_AC_INIT_COPYRIGHT): Use the FSF diversion.
8643 (AC_INIT): Remove dead comments as now it's commutative.
8645 2001-06-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8647 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_LIB): Strengthen to reflect
8650 2001-06-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8652 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): `prefix' and `exec_prefix'
8654 `*dir' variables cannot be NONE.
8655 Reported by Mark Kettenis.
8657 2001-06-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8659 * doc/autoconf.texi: Fix references to Solaris and SunOS versions.
8661 2001-06-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8663 * acgeneral.m4 (AC_VAR_SET, AC_VAR_GET, AC_VAR_TEST_SET)
8664 (AC_VAR_SET_IFELSE, AC_VAR_PUSHDEF and AC_VAR_POPDEF, AC_TR_CPP)
8665 (AC_TR_SH): Move as...
8666 * m4sh.m4 (AS_VAR_SET, AS_VAR_GET, AS_VAR_TEST_SET)
8667 (AS_VAR_SET_IF, AC_VAR_PUSHDEF, AS_VAR_POPDEF, AS_TR_CPP)
8669 (_AS_TR_PREPARE, _AS_CR_PREPARE, _AS_TR_CPP_PREPARE)
8670 (_AS_TR_SH_PREPARE): New.
8671 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Invoke _AS_TR_PREPARE.
8672 * tests/aclocal.m4 (AC_STATE_SAVE): `as_' vars can be modified.
8674 2001-06-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8676 * Makefile.am (.m4.m4f): Pass the options first.
8677 Fixes PR autoconf/182.
8679 2001-06-02 Nathan Sidwell <nathan@codesourcery.com>
8681 GNU getopt, when POSIXLY_CORRECT does not permute options and
8682 arguments. So pass the options first.
8683 Fixes PR autoconf/184.
8685 * autoconf.sh (m4_prefiles, m4f_prefiles): New variables.
8686 (run_m4): Remove files.
8688 Update remainder of script to use them.
8689 (for warning in): Do not use a literal comma as it will not be
8692 2001-06-02 Christian Marquardt <marq@gfz-potsdam.de>
8694 * aclang.m4 (AC_PROG_F77): Add Fujitsu's "frt" to the list of
8695 Fortran compilers to check.
8696 (_AC_PROG_F77_V): Add '-###' as a possible option to print
8697 information on library and object files.
8698 (AC_PROG_CXX): Add Fujitsu's "FCC" to the list of C++ compilers
8701 2001-06-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8703 * autom4te.in (Request::@request): Declare with `vars', not `my',
8704 as it prevents updates via `do FILENAME'.
8706 2001-06-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8708 * configure.in (standards_texi): Remove, dead code.
8710 2001-06-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8714 2001-06-02 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
8716 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Don't rely on $? in the traps
8717 for signals other than 0 - exit with code 1.
8718 * m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): Likewise.
8719 * autoconf.in: Likewise. Also don't rely on exit == exit $?.
8720 * autoheader.in: Likewise.
8721 * autoreconf.in: Likewise.
8722 * tests/torture.at (Signal handling): New test for the above.
8724 2001-06-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8726 * m4sugar.m4 (m4_defn, m4_undefine, m4_popdef): Clarify the error
8729 2001-05-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8731 * acfunctions, acheaders, acidentifiers, acmakevars, acprograms:
8732 Add copyright and comments.
8733 * acheaders: Add stdint.h.
8734 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
8736 2001-05-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8738 * atgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Use $SHELL.
8739 * atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_DEFINES): Skip HAVE_STDINT_H.
8741 2001-05-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8743 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Include
8745 From Paul Eggert and Lars Hecking.
8747 2001-05-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8749 * tests/base.at: Adjust line numbers in error messages.
8751 2001-05-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8753 * tests/base.at, tests/m4sh.at: When using AC_PLAIN_SCRIPT be sure
8754 to emit the bangshe line.
8755 Reported by David Carter.
8757 2001-05-30 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
8759 * aclang.m4 (AC_PROG_F77): Add Compaq's "fort" to the list of
8760 Fortran (95) compilers to check.
8762 2001-05-29 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
8764 * doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction, Pointers): Update the Autoconf
8767 2001-05-23 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
8769 * aclang.m4 (AC_PROG_CPP): Use `break' instead of `break 2' since
8770 _AC_PROG_PREPROC_WORKS_IFELSE expands arguments outside the loop.
8771 (AC_PROG_CXXCPP): Likewise.
8773 2001-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8775 * config: New directory.
8776 * configure.in: AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR it.
8777 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CONFIGURE_AC): Adjust.
8779 2001-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8781 * autoconf.in, autoreconf.in, autoheader.in, autoscan.in, ifnames.in,
8782 * autoupdate.in: Specify the Emacs mode.
8783 * acversion.m4.in: Rename as...
8784 * acversion.m4: this.
8785 * tests/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): More garbage.
8787 2001-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8789 * autoconf.sh, autoreconf.sh, autoheader.sh, autoscan.pl, ifnames.sh:
8791 * autoconf.in, autoreconf.in, autoheader.in, autoscan.in, ifnames.in:
8794 2001-05-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8796 * configure.in: Bump to 2.50a.
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8805 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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