1 2006-04-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3 * doc/autoconf.texi: Remove unused words from word list.
4 * .x-sc_prohibit_atoi_atof, .x-sc_space_tab, .x-sc_sun_os_names,
5 .x-sc_trailing_space: New files.
7 * doc/standards.texi: Sync from gnulib.
9 * NEWS, doc/autoconf.texi (AC_LIBOBJ vs LIBOBJS): Mark
10 `LIBOBJDIR' as experimental.
12 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LN_S_PREPARE): MSYS `ln -s' fails
13 with a target directory; it's internally implemented as `cp'
14 anyway, but since Autoconf advertises the possibility to use
15 a target directory when LN_S is `ln -s', we need to find out.
16 Reported by Rolf Ebert <rolf.ebert.gcc@gmx.de> against MSYS,
17 analyzed by Keith Marshall <keith.marshall@total.com>.
21 2006-04-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
23 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Just output
24 confdefs.h as-is. In general, if it has backslash-newline or the
25 like, then it doesn't work either to sort or to remove empty
28 2006-04-09 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
30 * tests/Makefile.am (AUTOCONF_FILES): Fix typo in the comment.
32 2006-04-09 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
34 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect
37 2006-04-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
39 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Use '\'' for an
40 apostrophe within a single-quoted string, as this is the usual
41 tradition and is easier to read than '"'"'. Don't rely on the
42 shell treating "$/" like '$/'. Use a more-consistent indenting
45 2006-04-09 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
47 * tests/autotest.at (Backquote command substitution),
48 (Multiline backquote command substitution): Remove mistaken
49 AT_NO_CMDSUBST from the 2006-03-14 patch, which was meant to be
51 (Parenthetical command substitution, Multiline parenthetical
52 command substitution): here.
54 2006-04-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
56 Import macros from gnulib (often changing their name).
58 * NEWS: AC_C_TYPE_LONG_DOUBLE is now obsolete.
59 New macros AC_CHECK_DECLS_ONCE, AC_CHECK_FUNCS_ONCE,
60 AC_CHECK_HEADERS_ONCE, AC_FUNC_STRTOLD, AC_HEADER_ASSERT,
61 AC_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_INO, AC_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_TYPE,
62 AC_TYPE_LONG_DOUBLE, AC_TYPE_LONG_DOUBLE_WIDER, AC_TYPE_INT8_T,
63 AC_TYPE_INT16_T, AC_TYPE_INT32_T, AC_TYPE_INT64_T,
64 AC_TYPE_INTMAX_T, AC_TYPE_INTPTR_T, AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG_INT,
65 AC_TYPE_UINT8_T, AC_TYPE_UINT16_T, AC_TYPE_UINT32_T,
66 AC_TYPE_UINT64_T, AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T, AC_TYPE_UINTPTR_T,
67 AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG_INT, AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS.
68 The manual mentions Gnulib more prominently.
69 * doc/autoconf.texi (Gnulib): New node.
70 (Pointers): Add Gnulib URL.
71 (Particular Functions): Alphabetize. Add AC_FUNC_STRTOLD.
72 (Generic Functions): Add AC_CHECK_FUNCS_ONCE. Refer to new
74 (Particular Headers): Add AC_HEADER_ASSERT. For stdbool.h,
75 suggest a #define rather than a typedef for _Bool, and mention
76 Gnulib rather than trying to substitute stdbool code.
77 (Generic Headers): Add AC_CHECK_HEADERS_ONCE.
78 (Generic Declarations): Add AC_CHECK_DECLS_ONCE.
79 (Particular Structures): Add AC_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_INO,
80 AC_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_TYPE.
81 (Particular Types): Mention stdint.h and inttypes.h as standard
83 Add AC_TYPE_INT8_T, AC_TYPE_INT16_T, AC_TYPE_INT32_T, AC_TYPE_INT64_T,
84 AC_TYPE_INTMAX_T, AC_TYPE_INTPTR_T, AC_TYPE_LONG_DOUBLE,
85 AC_TYPE_LONG_DOUBLE_WIDER, AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG_INT, AC_TYPE_UINT8_T,
86 AC_TYPE_UINT16_T, AC_TYPE_UINT32_T, AC_TYPE_UINT64_T,
87 AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T, AC_TYPE_UINTPTR_T, AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG_INT.
88 (C Compiler): Move AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE to ...
89 (Obsolete Macros): here. Under AC_LONG_DOUBLE, mention
90 AC_TYPE_LONG_DOUBLE or AC_TYPE_LONG_DOUBLE_WIDER instead.
91 (Posix Variants): Add AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS.
92 (Coding Style). Don't mention m4_expand_once.
93 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE): Implement via
94 AC_TYPE_LONG_DOUBLE_WIDER. Now obsolete.
95 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AH_CHECK_FUNCS): New macro.
96 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Use it.
97 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS_ONCE, AC_FUNC_STRTOLD): New macros.
98 (AC_FUNC_WAIT3): "the Open Group standards" -> "POSIX".
99 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CHECK_DECLS_ONCE): New macro.
100 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_CHECK_HEADERS_ONCE): New macro.
101 (AC_HEADER_ASSERT): New macro.
102 (AC_HEADER_STDBOOL): Don't assume "#error" works.
103 Catch a bug in IBM AIX xlc compiler version 6.0.0.0.
104 Catch a bug in an HP-UX C compiler.
105 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS): New macro.
106 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_TYPE_INTMAX_T. AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T):
107 (AC_TYPE_INTPTR_T, AC_TYPE_UINTPTR_T. AC_TYPE_LONG_DOUBLE):
108 (AC_TYPE_LONG_DOUBLE_WIDER, AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE, AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG_INT):
109 (AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG_INT, _AC_TYPE_INT, _AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_INT):
110 (_AC_STRUCT_DIRENT, AC_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_INO, AC_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_TYPE):
113 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list, au_exclude_list): Do not
114 use /^foo|bar$/, it does not mean /^(foo|bar)$/.
116 2006-04-08 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
118 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Fix the wording
119 of the warning introduced by the 2001-08-28 change.
121 2006-04-08 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>,
122 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
124 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CACHE_SAVE): All `ac_cv_env_foo'
125 variables shall be overriden by the cache.
126 * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): Test also with a first value
127 that contains braces.
129 2006-04-07 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
131 Revert the patch from 2006-04-01 and only improve
132 _AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL:
134 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_WALK): Do not optimize; do not
135 skip nonexistent directories.
136 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): The optimization is moved here--try
137 only shell candidates which exist.
138 (AS_UNAME): No need to give three parameters to _AS_PATH_WALK.
139 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): No need to give three
140 parameters to _AS_PATH_WALK.
142 2006-04-07 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>,
143 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
145 * bin/autoupdate.in (handle_autoconf_patches): Change the way we
146 distinguish m4sugar macros.
147 * tests/tools.at (autoupdating with aclocal and m4_include):
148 New test. Bug reported by Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>,
149 test case by Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>.
151 2006-04-07 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
153 Revert my change from 2006-03-17, in other words:
154 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): Insert BIN_SH=xpg4
156 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Remove DUALCASE=1.
157 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables) <BIN_SH>: Say that
160 2006-04-07 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
162 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Document that
163 AS_MKDIR_P exits the script on failure.
164 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Remove redundant AS_ERROR.
166 2006-04-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
168 * config/elisp-comp, config/install-sh, config/mdate-sh,
169 config/missing, config/mkinstalldirs: Sync from Automake.
171 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm, lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm: Sync
174 * doc/make-stds.texi: Sync from gnulib.
176 2006-04-06 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
178 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O): Inside cache
179 check, s/ac_exeext/ac_cv_exeext/. Fixes regression introduced
182 2006-04-06 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>,
183 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>,
184 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,
185 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
187 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_CACHE_DUMP): Fix the detection of
188 whether `set' quotes correctly: redirect stderr of the tested
189 `set', and use a subshell, for Ultrix; use `sed' instead of
190 `grep' for zsh `set' which may write binary output; match only
191 at the beginning of a line, to avoid false positives.
192 In order to avoid false positives by unrelated variables with
193 multiline content, put the dump algorithm in a subshell and
194 unset all variables containing newlines (except some which are
195 special to the shell). Warn about cache variables that are
198 2006-04-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
200 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/texinfo.tex:
203 * tests/mktests.sh: Reword comments.
205 * tests/mktests.sh: Only skip internal macros starting with
206 `_AC_' or `__AC_'. Noted by Stepan Kasal.
207 Update exclusion lists for the test suite to this end:
208 (AC_ARG_VAR): Do test this now.
209 (AC_SEARCH_LIBS, AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Need an argument.
210 (AC_LINKER_OPTION): Remove (renamed to _AC_LINKER_OPTION).
211 (AC_LIST_MEMBER_OF): Likewise (renamed to _AC_LIST_MEMBER_IF).
212 (AC_LINK_FILES): Obsoleted since (and thus AU_DEFUN'ed).
214 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Mention the MSYS
215 shell issue with double-quoted command substitutions of native
217 Reported to MSYS by Mark Cave-Ayland, to Autoconf by Keith
220 * Makefile.maint (sc_cast_of_argument_to_free): Do not fail when
221 no file matches the glob, discard the warning, set `nullglob'.
222 (syntax-check): Likewise.
223 (sc_cast_of_x_alloc_return_value): Likewise.
224 (sc_cast_of_alloca_return_value, sc_error_exit_success)
225 (sc_prohibit_jm_in_m4, .re-list, sc_unmarked_diagnostics)
226 (m4-check): Likewise.
227 (sc_system_h_headers): Do not print rule on execution.
228 (sc_tight_scope): Do not fail for non-existing `src' directory.
229 (sc_changelog): Skip the Copyright footer.
230 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4: Remove trailing space.
232 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: More replacements to
233 <tab><space> where this makes sense.
235 2006-04-06 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
237 * tests/Makefile.am (maintainer-check-posix):
238 s/POSIXLY_CORRECTLY/POSIXLY_CORRECT/
240 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_CONFIG_FOOS): Append TAGS to
241 ac_config_<foo>s again, sometimes normalized, sometimes not.
242 (AC_CONFIG_FILES, AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, AC_CONFIG_LINKS):
243 (AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS): Do not do so here.
244 (_AC_CONFIG_REGISTER_DEST): Double quote the tags in macros _AC_LIST_TAGS
245 and_AC_LIST_TAG_COMMANDS; fixes another regression introduced by the
246 2005-07-25 rewrite. Noticed by Noah Misch.
248 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_PRESERVE_HELP_ORDER): Do not define
249 _AC_PRESERVE_HELP_ORDER, ...
250 (AC_ARG_ENABLE, AC_ARG_WITH): ... use AC_PROVIDE_IFELSE insetad.
252 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_VAR): Do not use m4_divert_once
253 inside m4_expand_once; it is redundant.
255 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Remove the broken support
256 for --help from Cygnus `configure.'
258 2006-04-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
260 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Warn about #error. Follows up
261 on a patch proposed by Ralf Wildenhues.
263 2006-04-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
265 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Replace <space>''<tab> with
266 <tab><space> where this makes sense.
268 2006-04-05 Howard Chu <hyc@highlandsun.com> (trivial change)
269 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
271 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_PRESERVE_HELP_ORDER): New macro.
272 (AC_ARG_ENABLE, AC_ARG_WITH): Adjust.
273 * doc/autoconf.texi (Help Formatting): New node.
274 * NEWS: Announce AC_PRESERVE_HELP_ORDER.
276 2006-04-05 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
278 * TODO, config/Makefile.am, lib/freeze.mk, lib/autoconf/c.m4,
279 lib/autoconf/specific.m4, lib/autoconf/status.m4,
280 lib/autoconf/types.m4, lib/autotest/general.m4,
281 tests/mktests.sh, tests/torture.at: White space cleanup:
282 remove some SPACE before TAB, or add quoting ('' or @&t@).
284 * NEWS, TODO, bin/autoreconf.in: `filesystem' -> `file system'.
286 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Document `^' vs. `|'.
288 2006-04-05 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
290 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Prep AT_*_all, so that an
291 empty test suite works.
292 * tests/autotest.at (Empty test suite): Remove xfail.
294 2006-04-05 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
296 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_CONFIG_FOOS): Do not append normalized
297 TAGS to ac_config_<foo>s.
298 (AC_CONFIG_FILES, AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, AC_CONFIG_LINKS): Do so here.
299 (AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS): Append NAME to ac_config_commands without
300 normalizing it, consistent it with previous releases.
301 * tests/torture.at (Macro calls in AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS tags): New test.
303 2006-04-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
305 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_BASENAME_EXPR, AS_DIRNAME_EXPR):
306 Use simplified args that Eric Blake originally suggested.
308 2006-04-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
310 * tests/mktests.sh: Don't use 'cat'; just read the files directly.
311 Prefer 'sort -u' to 'sort | uniq'. Filter data before sorting it.
312 Use 'comm' rather than N instances of grep; this also fixes a bug
313 whereby substrings were incorrectly matched, causing us to not
314 generate tests for AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING and AC_FUNC_LSTAT.
315 (exclude_list): Exclude empty macros.
316 (ac_exclude_list): Exclude AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT.
318 Use awk rather than grep -E or egrep, to avoid
319 portability problems with regular expressions containing newlines.
320 (exclude_list, ac_exclude_list, au_exclude_list, ac_exclude_script):
321 Switch from grep to awk syntax.
322 (ac_exclude_script): Renamed from ac_exclude_egrep.
323 (au_exclude_script): Renamed from au_exclude_egrep.
325 2006-04-04 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
327 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Only `configure.in' evidences
328 a subdirectory subject to Cygnus `configure'.
329 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Likewise.
331 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): Omit the bug
332 report request when we have no AC_PACKAGE_BUGREPORT.
334 2006-04-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
338 * tests/mktests.sh: Update copyright year in the header of the
341 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_INLINE): Do not skip cleanup code.
342 (AC_C_RESTRICT): Likewise. Furthermore, add a function with a
343 typedef'ed restricted pointer, to catch a compiler bug on
344 HP-UX 11.x, and fix warnings so it passes with -Werror.
345 (_AC_PROG_CC_C99): Likewise.
346 Reported by Albert Chin <china@thewrittenword.com>.
347 * tests/mktests.sh: Do not skip AC_C_INLINE, AC_C_RESTRICT.
349 2006-04-03 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
351 * bin/autoscan.in (subdirs): New global.
352 (scan_file): Prune directories with configure{,.{ac,in,gnu}}.
353 (output): Emit AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS as needed.
354 * tests/autoscan.at (autoscan): Remove XFAIL.
356 2006-04-03 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
358 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CACHE_SAVE): Use AC_MSG_NOTICE.
360 2006-04-03 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
362 * THANKS: Add myself.
364 2006-04-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
366 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Add `at_testdir' to pointer
367 to log, point to testsuite output tree.
369 2006-04-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
371 * NEWS: AC_PROG_CC and AC_PROG_CXX no longer declare 'exit'.
372 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Mention that C++
373 has trouble with 'exit'.
374 (Guidelines): Test programs shouldn't use 'exit'.
375 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION):
376 Remove; all uses removed.
377 (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C), AC_C_BIGENDIAN):
378 Return from 'main' instead of calling 'exit'.
379 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ_ALLOCA, AC_FUNC_CLOSEDIR_VOID):
380 (_AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_IF, AC_FUNC_GETGROUPS):
381 (AC_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK, _AC_FUNC_MALLOC_IF):
382 (AC_FUNC_MEMCMP, AC_FUNC_MKTIME, AC_FUNC_MMAP, _AC_FUNC_REALLOC_IF):
383 (AC_FUNC_SETPGRP, _AC_FUNC_STAT, AC_FUNC_STRTOD, AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R):
384 (AC_FUNC_STRNLEN, AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED, AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL):
385 (_AC_FUNC_FORK, _AC_FUNC_VFORK, AC_FUNC_WAIT3): Likewise.
386 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDC): Likewise.
387 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS): Likewise.
388 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_TYPE_GETGROUPS): Likewise.
389 * tests/compile.at: Likewise.
391 2006-04-02 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
393 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_PATH_X): Update per 2005-08-26 change.
395 2006-04-01 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
397 Clean up _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT* macros.
399 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Don't try to
400 detect exeext, it will be done by _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O; just set
401 ac_file to the name of the default output filei and call
402 _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_WORKS. Move the definition of ac_files and the
403 initial `rm' of the candidate files...
404 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT): ... here and simplify them. Moreover, use
405 the same list in subsequent `rm' calls, and for the temporary
406 redefinition of ac_clean_files; call _AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT at the end,
407 and don't call the other _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_* macros directly, use...
408 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_TESTS): ... this new macro.
409 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O): Don't export ac_cv_exeext, it's not needed (or
410 no longer needed) by libtool. Make it a cache check.
411 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_CROSS): Remove the comment, it was obviously
412 copied here by mistake.
413 (AC_NO_EXECUTABLES): Redefine _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_TESTS, not
415 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX, AC_PROG_OBJC): Do not call
416 _AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT directly.
417 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Likewise.
419 2006-04-01 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
421 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DIRNAME_PREPARE): New macro.
422 (AS_DIRNAME): Use it.
423 (_AS_PREPARE): Add _AS_DIRNAME_PREPARE.
425 * tests/*.at: Remove the generated ones.
427 2006-04-01 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
429 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't optimize the first PATH walk.
431 2006-04-01 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
433 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_WALK): Optimize nonexistent
434 directories, unless optional third argument supplied.
435 (AS_UNAME): Don't optimize PATH walk.
437 * lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm, lib/autoconf/c.m4: s/non-existent/nonexistent/
439 2006-04-01 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
440 and Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
442 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Sort sections as implied by the comments,
445 2006-04-01 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
447 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_VERSION): Emit script name and
448 Autoconf version number despite a zero- or one-argument AC_INIT.
450 * bin/autoreconf.in (parse_args): Multiple -v send --verbose to
452 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (getopt): Make -v and -d incremental.
453 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Document it.
455 * doc/autoconf.texi: Use `Cygwin', `MinGW', and `license' consistently.
456 Append LocalWords so ispell-buffer passes cleanly. Spelling fixes.
458 2006-04-01 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
460 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_MKDIR_P): Allow use in shell lists.
461 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Be tolerant of existing directory when
462 rm failed to remove it.
464 2006-04-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
466 * bin/autoupdate.in: Redefine m4_location so that warnings print
467 the correct lines of the input file by subtracting..
468 (_au__first_line): ..this new definition.
470 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_COMPILE_CHECK): Prefer
471 AC_MSG_CHECKING over obsolete AC_CHECKING in autoupdated code.
472 Remove stray newline in output.
473 (AC_FOREACH): AU_DEFUN this as literal for autoupdate, and also
474 AC_DEFUN this for autoconf, including the obsoletion diagnose.
475 Fixes autoupdating of code where the replacement output contains
477 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_SAVE): Likewise.
478 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Add AC_FOREACH.
479 (au_exclude_list): Add AC_LANG_SAVE.
480 * tests/tools.at: Several new tests for all of this.
481 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsoleting Macros): Give a hint about the
483 The AC_LANG_SAVE issue was reported against Libtool by
484 Dalibor Topic <robilad@kaffe.org>, and against Autoconf 2.57 by
485 Kristian Kvilekval <kris@cs.ucsb.edu>.
487 2006-04-01 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
489 * bin/autoupdate.in: Handle m4 builtins and m4sugar macros together--
490 switch all of them on and of when necessary. Fixes the bug when
491 m4sugar macros (e.g., m4_define) were expanded after the first
492 automatic update (e.g., after AC_PREREQ or AC_INIT).
494 2006-03-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
496 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Sharpen the descriptions
497 of AS_BASENAME and AS_DIRNAME. Reported by Stepan Kasal.
499 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_BASENAME_EXPR): Handle ///, ////, etc.
500 correctly. Problem reported by Eric Blake.
501 (_AS_EXPR_PREPARE): Detect Tru64 expr bug. Problem reported by
504 2006-03-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
506 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh, Limitations of Usual Tools):
507 Tighten up the basename/dirname wording.
509 2006-03-30 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
511 * Makefile.maint (sc_texi_notab): New check: do not use TABs
512 in texinfo files outside of verbatim environments.
513 (syntax-check-rules): Update.
514 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Headers): Conform to it.
516 2006-03-30 Chris Pickett <cpicke@cs.mcgill.ca> (tiny change)
518 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Mention that -I for
519 aclocal cannot be given on the command line.
521 2006-03-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
523 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Mention AS_BASENAME.
524 Give an example for AS_DIRNAME instead of referring to Posix..
525 (File System Conventions): Put discussion of // versus / here, and
527 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Add basename. Remove verbiage
528 after dirname, since it got moved to the above sections.
529 All this was inspired by a patch proposed earlier by Eric Blake.
531 2006-03-27 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
533 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Quote
534 `$0' to protect against spaces.
535 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
536 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Likewise, for
539 2006-03-26 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
541 * bin/autoscan.in: The value of find_configure_ac should be
542 checked for existence, so we don't barf over a nonexisting
543 configure.ac. Reported by Laurence Darby <ldarby@tuffmail.com>.
545 2006-03-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
547 * bin/autoupdate.in: Fix some typos.
549 2006-03-21 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
551 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Fix typo.
553 * lib/autoscan/autoscan.list: Refreshed.
555 2006-03-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
557 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_ENV): Ignore AC_SUBSTed Objective C
558 and Erlang related variables.
560 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG(Objective C), AC_LANG_OBJC)
561 (_AC_LANG_ABBREV(Objective C), _AC_LANG_PREFIX(Objective C))
562 (AC_LANG_SOURCE(Objective C), AC_LANG_PROGRAM(Objective C))
563 (AC_LANG_CALL(Objective C), AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(Objective C))
564 (AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY(Objective C))
565 (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(Objective C), AC_LANG_PREPROC(Objective C))
566 (AC_PROG_OBJCPP, AC_LANG_COMPILER(Objective C), AC_PROG_OBJC)
567 (_AC_PROG_OBJC_G): New macros.
568 (_AC_ARG_VAR_CPPFLAGS): Adjusted.
569 * doc/autoconf.texi (Objective C Compiler): New node.
570 (Preset Output Variables): Document OBJCFLAGS.
571 (Language Choice): Document `Objective C' language.
572 (Fortran Compiler): Fix typo.
574 Inspired by a patch from David M. Lloyd <dmlloyd@tds.net>.
576 2006-03-20 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
578 * doc/autoconf.texi (Default Includes): Fix typo
579 s/AC_HEADERS_STDC/AC_HEADER_STDC/
580 (Limitations of Usual Tools): s/unwriteable/unwritable/
581 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT, _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT):
582 Fix typos in the comments.
584 2006-03-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
586 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PATH_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOLS):
587 Factor out the warning to...
588 (_AC_TOOL_WARN): ... this new macro; use `cross_compiling'.
589 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_MACRO_CROSS): Avoid this warning.
590 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
592 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE): Do not special
593 case `ac_delim' when writing the sed script.
595 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): Removed BIN_SH=xpg4,
597 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): ... here.
598 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables) <BIN_SH>: Do not say
601 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_CHECK_PROG): Quote the parameter of
603 (_AC_PATH_PROG): Store the result to VARIABLE.
604 (AC_PATH_PROG): No need to set VARIABLE again.
606 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_MACRO_CROSS): New macro, creates two tests:
607 the first one is usual AT_CHECK_MACRO test, the second one checks
608 that the same works when cross-compiling.
609 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF, AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF struct):
610 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF, AC_CHECK_SIZEOF struct): Use it.
612 2006-03-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
614 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Prepend
615 the directory `/usr/bin/posix' in the shell search, to prefer
616 the Posix shell not only in subsequent spawns as with `$BIN_SH'
619 * doc/autoconf.texi (contents): To fix texi2html output, hide
620 `@setcontentsaftertitlepage' for HTML.
621 (Writing Autoconf Macros): Likewise, insert space after `@c'.
622 (Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy): Likewise, change `@,c' to
625 2006-03-16 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
627 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PREPARE): Move the IFS setup and CDPATH
629 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): ...here; mention _AS_PATH_WALK needs IFS set.
630 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_CANONICAL_SPLIT): Add an explanation
631 why IFS is restored so late; thank you, Ralf, for reminding us.
633 2006-03-15 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
635 * doc/autoconf.texi (Pretty Help Strings): No need to use cached
636 variables in the examples.
638 2006-03-14 Romain Lenglet <rlenglet@users.forge.objectweb.org>
640 * doc/autoconf.texi (several sections): Cleaned up documentation for
643 2006-03-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
645 * tests/autotest.at (AT_NO_CMDSUBST): New macro to determine
646 failure condition for `$(cmd)' style command substitutions.
647 (Parenthetical command substition, Multiline parenthetical
648 command substition): Use it.
650 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Missing word.
651 Reported by Keith Marshall <keith.marshall@total.com>.
653 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_WALK): Do not forget to reset
654 IFS even in case of empty `$PATH'.
656 2006-03-12 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
658 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT) <at_optarg>: Optimize
659 `expr' away if there is nothing to do.
660 < --keywords >: Simplify and robustify argument handling.
661 Revert erroneous comment from 2005-08-23. Extend to allow
662 keyword negation with `!'.
663 Update help message. Remove broken code to prevent running
664 tests multiple times.
665 * doc/autoconf.texi (testsuite Invocation) < --keywords >:
666 Update and fix the documentation accordingly.
667 * tests/autotest.at (Keywords): Renamed to..
668 (Keywords and ranges): .. this. Extended to make sure negated
669 keywords, keywords taken from AT_SETUP arguments, and numeric
670 test ranges work, and that matching is case-insensitive.
672 2006-03-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
674 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (_AC_CHECK_TYPE_NEW): Use a typedef to
675 allow to pass unnamed structs even in C++.
676 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Likewise.
677 Also fix quoting error in `AC_MSG_FAILURE' arguments.
678 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF struct, AC_CHECK_SIZEOF
679 struct): New tests for unnamed structs, each both native and
682 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_TYPEOF): Use typedef to avoid defining
683 a structure inside a cast, for C++ conformance.
684 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF): Likewise.
685 Also fix quoting error in `AC_MSG_FAILURE' arguments.
687 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_STDC): If we cannot enable C99
688 nor C89 mode, set `$ac_cv_prog_cc_stdc' to `no' instead of
689 trying to execute the command `no'.
691 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_CONFTEST): AC_DEFUN this, not
692 m4_define, so that the requirements of `AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT' are
695 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoconf Invocation): Fix typos in trace
696 example. Do not emphasize `$%', it is hardly new and special.
697 Reported by Edouard Bechetoille <ebecheto@ens-lyon.fr>.
699 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Document
700 OpenBSD and traditional `grep' failure to handle multiple
701 patterns separated by newlines.
703 2006-03-10 Romain Lenglet <rlenglet@users.forge.objectweb.org>
705 * doc/autoconf.texi (several sections): Add documentation for macros
708 2006-03-10 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
710 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsolete Macros): Fix wording of
713 2006-03-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
715 * doc/autoconf.texi: Use @acronym more consistently for acronyms
716 like BSD, GPL, LGPL. Fix minor English typos.
717 (AC_STDC_HEADERS, AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL):
718 Mention that these macros are becoming obsolete.
719 (AC_STDC_HEADERS, AC_PROG_CC, AC_C_CONST, AC_C_VOLATILE):
720 Use more modern terminology for which standard is what.
721 (AC_PROG_CC): Mention gcc first, and remove obsolete references to egcs
723 (AC_PROG_CXX): Likewise.
724 (AC_C_PROTOTYPES, Test Functions, AC_LIBOBJ vs LIBOBJS):
725 Remove obsolete discussion about how to port to K&R.
726 (Guidelines for Test Programs): Suggest AC_HEADER_STDBOOL rather than
727 the obsolescent AC_HEADER_STDC.
728 (AC_FOO_IFELSE vs AC_TRY_FOO): Don't use #error; test programs
731 2006-03-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
733 * tests/c.at (AC_PROG_CPP without warnings, AC_PROG_CPP via CC):
734 Remove stdin redirection from /dev/null to allow pipe to work.
736 2006-03-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
738 * tests/c.at (AC_PROG_CPP without warnings, AC_PROG_CPP via CC):
739 Require that /lib/cpp include stdio.h correctly. Solaris 10's
740 doesn't. Problem reported by D'Arcy A MacIsaac and diagnosed by
743 2006-03-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
745 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SED_CMD_LIMIT): The limit for
746 HP-UX sed is 99 commands, not 100.
747 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE): Do not count the `}' of an
748 _AC_SUBST_FILES fragment. Separate `{' and `r' commands by
749 newline for portability.
750 * tests/torture.at (Torturing config.status): Also test 100
751 AC_SUBST_FILE invocations. Fix test to actually verify the
752 AC_CONFIG_FILES output.
753 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Document HP-UX
754 command, label, and read-file `r' limits. Unify HP-UX spelling.
756 * tests/Makefile.am (edit, $(wrappers)): Do not use `$<' in
758 ($(TESTSUITE_GENERATED_AT)): Use `$(srcdir)` for the benefit of
760 (autoconfdir, $(AUTOCONF_FILES)): Likewise.
761 * tests/mktests.sh: Small shell portability fixes.
763 2006-03-05 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
765 * doc/autoconf.texi (Caching Results): Fix the examples to use a
766 recommended quoting style and discard unwanted output.
768 2006-03-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
770 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_NORMALIZE_TEST_GROUP_NUMBER): New macro.
771 (AT_INIT): Use it, to remove arbitrary limit of 999,999 test
772 cases, and to work around Tru64 expr bug.
774 2006-03-05 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
776 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Mention Tru64
777 expr bug that turns the result of a regex match into a number if
780 2006-03-04 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
782 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF): Work around
783 HPUX compiler bug, similarly to AC_CHECK_SIZEOF, as documented
784 in section `Specific Compiler Characteristics'.
786 2006-03-04 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
788 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R): Avoid unused
791 2006-03-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
793 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADER): Force correct
794 order of variable initialization, so even the Solaris 2.6 shell
795 can create a config header correctly. Fixes lots of test suite
798 2006-02-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
800 * doc/autoconf.texi (Text processing Macros): New node to
801 document the m4sugar macros m4_re_escape, m4_tolower,
802 m4_toupper, m4_split, m4_normalize, m4_append, m4_append_uniq.
804 2006-02-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
806 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_DIRECT): Fix typo:
807 XrmInitialize (0) -> XrmInitialize ().
808 Reported by Toshio Kuratomi.
810 2006-02-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
812 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_IF): Extend to allow more than one
813 test, as in `if tests; then cmd1; elif ...; else ...; fi'.
814 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Adjusted.
815 * tests/m4sh.at (AS_IF and AS_CASE): Test this. Also make sure
816 both macros are defun'ed so that required macros are evaluated
819 * doc/autoconf.texi (Prerequisite Macros): State more precisely
820 where a required macro will be expanded.
821 (Coding Style): Another reason not to use `m4_define'.
823 2006-02-21 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
825 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ): Minor optimization.
827 2006-02-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
829 * doc/autoconf.texi (Looping constructs): New node, to
830 document m4_for, m4_foreach, m4_foreach_w, and mention
832 (Obsolete Macros): Document AC_FOREACH.
833 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (_m4_for): Fix declaration comment.
834 (m4_for): Fix to never loop (almost) endlessly, work correctly
835 with arithmetic expressions in arguments, a step of zero or
836 non-integer multiple of the interval, and avoid integer
838 * tests/m4sugar.at: New test for m4_for, m4_foreach, and
841 2006-02-20 Romain Lenglet <rlenglet@users.forge.objectweb.org>
843 Add basic support for Erlang, both for configuring Erlang/OTP
844 tools, and Erlang as a conf test language.
845 * lib/autoconf/erlang.m4: New file.
846 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4: Add erlang.m4.
847 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am (dist_autoconflib_DATA): Likewise.
848 * lib/freeze.mk (autoconf_m4f_dependencies): Likewise.
849 * NEWS: Add short description of new macros.
850 * THANKS: Add Romain Lenglet.
852 2006-02-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
854 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology) <pdksh>: Document that pdksh as
855 native /bin/sh may not set KSH_VERSION (seen on OpenBSD).
857 2006-02-15 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
859 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CHECK_DECL): Avoid unused variable
862 2006-02-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
864 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_CASE): New macro.
865 (_AS_CASE): Private helper macro.
866 * tests/m4sh.at: Basic tests for AS_IF and AS_CASE.
867 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Document AS_CASE.
868 Fix syntax of AS_IF description
869 (Prerequisite Macros): Mention AS_IF and AS_CASE as workarounds
870 for the AC_REQUIRE mess.
871 * NEWS: Mention AS_CASE, AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE, and
874 2006-02-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
876 * doc/autoconf.texi: Minor style cleanup.
877 Be consistent about spaces after commas.
878 Insert [] where empty args look a bit funny.
879 Fix some "i.e." and "e.g." usages.
880 Try to avoid "X/Y" usages.
881 Don't be pedantic about "ISO C99"; just say C99.
882 Prefer GNU style for spaces in front of parens.
883 (Function Portability): Comment about C89 versus C99
884 signed integer division.
885 (Particular Headers): Use current gnulib style for dirent
888 2006-02-14 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
889 and Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
891 * bin/autoupdate.in (handle_autoconf_macros): Fix updating of
892 macros without parameters.
893 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4 (AU_ALIAS): Likewise.
894 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsoleting Macros): Document AU_ALIAS.
895 * tests/tools.at (autoupdating AU_ALIAS): New test for AU_ALIAS
897 (autoupdate): Updated to match AU_ALIAS fix.
899 2006-02-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
900 and Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
902 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Document
903 AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE and AS_SHELL_SANITIZE.
905 2006-02-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
907 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): Renamed to..
908 (AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): ..this.
909 (_AS_RUN, AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Adjusted all callers.
911 2006-02-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
913 * doc/install.texi (Defining Variables): Tighten up the
914 CONFIG_SHELL wording.
916 2006-02-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
917 and Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
919 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): Look at the output
920 of (set -o) rather than testing whether (set -o posix) succeeds,
921 to work around a bug in the AIX 5.3 shell. Problem originally
922 reportd by Howard Chu for libtool.
924 2006-02-10 J.T. Conklin <jtc@acorntoolworks.com>
926 * doc/autoconf.texi (Running the Compiler, Running the Linker):
927 Changes the macro arguments in summaries to match the
930 2006-02-04 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
932 * doc/install.texi (Defining Variables): Classify the `CONFIG_SHELL'
933 hint as ``a workaround for a bug.''
935 2006-01-31 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
937 * bin/autoreconf.in: New option `--no-recursive'.
938 Improve wording for subpackages a bit.
939 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Updated.
942 * doc/install.texi (Defining Variables): Put `CONFIG_SHELL'
943 in environment of `configure', not the command line.
944 Reported by Howard Chu <hyc@highlandsun.com>.
946 2006-01-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
948 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Document the
949 problem with "trap -".
951 2006-01-23 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@fftw.org>
953 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS, _AC_FC_DUMMY_MAIN):
954 (_AC_FC_MAIN, __AC_FC_NAME_MANGLING): Use _AC_LANG in check
955 messages to differentiate Fortran and Fortran 77 tests.
956 (AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_FREEFORM): Use AC_LANG_PUSH/POP instead of
957 AC_LANG_ASSERT, to allow use in mixed-language projects.
959 2006-01-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
961 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C)): Prefer "defined
962 FOO" to "defined (FOO)".
963 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ_ALLOCA): Likewise.
964 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STAT): Likewise.
965 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_XENIX_DIR): Likewise.
966 * tests/tools.at (ifnames): Likewise.
968 2006-01-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
970 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): Do not pass `-q' to mktemp.
971 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (mktmpdir): Likewise.
972 (END): Improve error message a bit.
973 Reported by Bruce Korb <bkorb@gnu.org>.
975 2006-01-12 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
977 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Ignore
978 `-LIST:' and `-LNO:', for PathScale 2.3 compilers.
980 2006-01-11 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
982 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): On Solaris 8, sys/ptem.h
983 requires sys/stream.h. Reported by Oliver Kiddle.
985 2006-01-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
986 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
988 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): When ensuring writability
989 before the removals of test dirs, use `find' to avoid modification
990 of symlinked directories.
992 2006-01-11 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
994 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN, AC_FC_DUMMY_MAIN):
995 Don't ignore the macro arguments.
997 2006-01-11 David Thompson <dthompsn@vizsolutions.com>
999 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION): Add `exit'
1000 declaration that works for MSVC.
1002 2006-01-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1004 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT_REJECT):
1005 Add `*.map' and `.inf' for Green Hills compiler.
1006 Reported by Stefan Seefeld <stefan@codesourcery.com>.
1008 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_text_wrap): Handle quadrigraphs
1009 correctly: pad with spaces after FIRST_PREFIX if necessary,
1010 and compute string lenghts with `m4_qlen' instead of `m4_len'.
1011 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_HELP_STRING): Comments updated.
1012 * tests/m4sh.at (AS_HELP_STRING): Test extended.
1014 Reported by numerous people, numerous times.
1016 2006-01-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1018 * bin/autoconf.as, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in
1019 * bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in:
1020 * lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/status.m4:
1021 * lib/autotest/general.m4, tests/local.at:
1022 Update copyright year to 2006.
1024 * Makefile.maint (sc_root_tests): Use the recommended style s/a/b/ for
1026 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Use s|a|b|
1027 for file names, again. Reported by Noah Misch.
1028 (Coding Style): Explain that s|a|b| is preferred for file names.
1029 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE): Prefer s/a/b/.
1030 (AC_OUTPUT_MAKE_DEFS): Likewise.
1031 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
1032 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Likewise.
1033 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE): Likewise.
1035 Fix Posix-conformance bugs re use of { command in sed scripts,
1036 and improve the sed-related documentation a bit.
1037 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Use
1038 our own style advice re 's,a,b,' versus 's|a|b|'. Use "Sed"
1039 rather than "sed" when talking about Sed in general.
1040 (Particular Programs): Likewise.
1041 (Coding Style): y is like s with respect to / and ,.
1042 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Document the weird restrictions
1043 that Posix has about { }. Use better quoting.
1044 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE, _AC_OUTPUT_HEADER):
1045 Rewrite to conform to Posix rules about { } in sed scripts.
1046 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_DIRNAME_SED, AS_BASENAME_SED): Likewise.
1047 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Likewise.
1048 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_PROG & AC_CHECK_PROGS):
1049 Use our own style advice re 's,a,b,' versus 's|a|b|'.
1051 2006-01-05 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1053 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Fix typo.
1055 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Ignore
1056 singly- or doubly-quoted arguments to `-cmdline', `-ignore',
1057 `-def', for the benefit of Portland `pgf90 -Mipa'.
1058 Reported by Christopher Hulbert <cchgroupmail@gmail.com>.
1060 2006-01-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1062 * doc/autoconf.texi: Update copyright (and other) dates to 2006.
1063 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology): Mac OS X 10.2 changed the default
1064 shell from zsh to bash.
1066 2005-12-31 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1068 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_GREP): Use $PATH_SEPARATOR;
1069 ":" caused problems on OS/2-EMX. Suggested by Andrew Belov.
1071 2005-12-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1073 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Warn about unbalanced
1074 parentheses in $(...). Problem reported by Eric Blake.
1076 2005-12-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1078 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools):
1079 Mention which characters can be escaped with \ in portable regular
1080 expressions used in grep, sed, expr. Mention the leading ^ problem
1081 with expr. Clean up some confusing wording. Mention which
1082 grep options are portable.
1084 2005-12-09 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1086 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE): Fix typo in the comment.
1088 2005-12-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1090 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Fix typos in previous
1091 patch, noted by Ralf Wildenhues.
1093 2005-12-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1095 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): Try `set -o
1096 posix' unconditionally, for pdksh in `native sh' emulation.
1098 2005-12-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1100 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology): Document eval $? problem
1102 (Limitations of Builtins): Likewise.
1104 2005-11-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1106 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Pass
1107 CONFIG_SHELL in the environment of the configure rerun.
1108 * doc/autoconf.texi (Here-Documents, config.status Invocation):
1109 Suggest passing CONFIG_SHELL absolute, and in the environment
1110 rather than as option.
1112 2005-11-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1114 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE):
1115 Fix quoting of output line (triggered for many AC_SUBST_FILEs).
1116 Fix macro quoting. Fix output for n * 98 substituted variables.
1118 2005-11-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1120 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_MAIN_LOOP): Initialize
1121 `tmp' to avoid file removal race.
1123 2005-11-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1125 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Initialize
1126 ac_clean_files and LIBOBJS.
1128 2005-11-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1130 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_CHECK_PROG, AC_PATH_PROG):
1131 Factor functionality to..
1132 (_AC_CHECK_PROG, _AC_PATH_PROG): these new macros, but only
1133 `AC_SUBST($1)' in the public version.
1134 (AC_CHECK_TOOL, AC_PATH_TOOL, AC_PATH_TARGET_TOOL)
1135 (AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOL): Use internal versions for ac_ct_* and
1138 2005-11-01 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1140 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_C_O): Remove the comment about 8+3
1143 2005-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1145 * NEWS: Move AH_HEADER mention to right place.
1147 2005-10-27 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1149 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_C_O): "conftst2" -> "conftest2"
1150 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_C_O): Likewise.
1152 2005-10-25 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1154 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_C_O): rm -f conftst2.*, not only
1155 conftst2.$ac_objext.
1156 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_C_O): Likewise.
1158 2005-10-24 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1160 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_C_O): Use conftst2.o instead of
1161 conftest.o, to see whether the compiler really obeys; rm the object
1162 file before and after the test and register it with ac_clean_files.
1163 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_C_O): Likewise.
1165 2005-10-21 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1167 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE): When determining,
1168 the delimiter CEOF$ac_eof: fix quoting of CEOF[0-9]* and modify the
1169 code so that the most common case requires less forks.
1171 2005-10-20 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1173 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions}: Document that ${10} is
1174 not portable; thanks to Paul Eggert and Alexandre.
1176 * NEWS: Fix an old typo.
1178 2005-10-20 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
1180 * doc/autoconf.texi: Typo: s/feature/features/ in ``the features of
1181 the latter'', in two places.
1183 2005-10-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1185 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generating Sources): AC_LANG_PROGRAMS ->
1186 AC_LANG_PROGRAM, fixing a typo. Don't give details about
1187 the inner workings of AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY.
1188 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_CALL(C)): Reformat to match
1189 AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY. This involves returning the value returned
1190 by the function rather than ignoring it.
1191 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C)): Call the function rather than simply
1192 comparing its address. Intel's interprocedural optimization was
1193 outsmarting the old heuristic. Problem reported by
1196 2005-10-19 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1198 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SUBST): Remove an obsolete comment.
1200 2005-10-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1202 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (_m4_map): New macro.
1203 (m4_map, m4_map_sep): Use it. Handle the empty list correctly.
1205 2005-10-04 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1207 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Really make the subtree writable
1208 before removing it (chmod -R u+rwx); there are three instances of this.
1210 2005-10-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1211 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1213 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Balance parentheses.
1214 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): If the test dir already exists,
1215 make its content writable before removing it. Remove an errorneous
1216 comment from the end, where the logs of the failed tests are copied
1217 to the main log file.
1219 2005-09-27 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1221 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Pass --force to autoheader,
1222 in case the computer is too quick. Double quote the configure.ac
1225 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF): Always pass --force to prevent
1226 problems if the testsuite were running too fast.
1228 2005-09-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1230 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_DIRECT): Look for X11/Xlib.h
1231 and XrmInitialize rather than X11/Intrinsic.h and XtMalloc
1232 (which belong to Xt, not X itself). See Debian bug 327655.
1233 * NEWS: Mention this.
1235 2005-09-07 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1237 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_SOURCE(C)): Remove an incorrect comment.
1239 2005-09-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1241 * config/move-if-change: Don't output "$2 is unchanged";
1242 suggested by Ben Elliston. Handle weird characters correctly.
1244 2005-09-06 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1246 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (AC_SEARCH_LIBS): Merge the two AC_LINK_IFELSE
1247 calls, so that the final expansion of this macro is shorter.
1248 Create the conftest.$ac_ext outside the `for' loop, to speed the run.
1249 Do not use `break' in the argument to AC_LINK_IFELSE, it would skip
1250 the cleanup there. Use AS_VAR_* macros, to be more general.
1251 * tests/semantics.at (AC_SEARCH_LIBS): Check for the cleanup.
1253 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Use AS_IF where appropriate.
1255 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_IF): Use m4_default.
1257 2005-09-01 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1259 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Headers): Add an index entry
1262 2005-08-26 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
1264 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_XMKMF): Use shell variable
1265 XMKMF to locate xmkmf. Make XMKMF precious. Export CC when
1268 2005-08-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1270 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_VERSION_COMPARE_PREPARE):
1271 The previous patch didn't work, so try a better one.
1273 2005-08-26 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1275 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh) <AS_TR_CPP>: Fix m4 quoting
1276 in the example. Reported by Bruno Haible.
1277 <AS_TR_SH>: Likewise. Also modify the example to be more convincing:
1278 "if $undefined_var;" succeeds with my shell.
1280 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CANONICAL_BUILD, AC_CANONICAL_HOST,
1281 AC_CANONICAL_TARGET): Define by AC_DEFUN, no need to use AC_DEFUN_ONCE;
1282 but change the m4_divert_text to m4_divert_once.
1284 2005-08-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1286 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_VERSION_COMPARE_PREPARE):
1287 Work around bug in Solaris /usr/xpg4/bin/awk.
1288 The bug is present in at least Solaris 8 through 10.
1290 2005-08-24 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1292 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_CANONICAL_SPLIT): Simplify; rejecting
1293 some evil values and relying on the fact that $* concatenates the
1294 parameters by the first character from IFS.
1296 2005-08-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>,
1297 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1299 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_CONFIG_REGISTER_DEST): When the
1300 first header appears, define AH_HEADER.
1301 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Headers): Document AH_HEADER.
1302 Update limitations about when to call AC_CONFIG_HEADERS.
1303 (Configuration Commands): Document that AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE
1304 parameter can call AC_SUBST, AC_DEFINE, or AC_CONFIG_FOOS; explain
1305 that AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE and AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_POST are not
1306 ``Configuration Actions''; fix their index entries.
1308 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Process multiple keywords
1309 options correctly. Process N-M as M-N if M is smaller than N.
1310 Process ranges correctly so that N-N will run only N.
1311 Sort and uniquify the tests that will be run. If there is more
1312 than one test, reinsert the banners for the tests.
1313 * tests/autotest.at (Keywords): Unmark XFAIL.
1315 2005-08-23 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1317 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_DEFINE_Q): Strip the parameter list
1318 before passing the macro name to AH_TEMPLATE.
1320 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): config.status
1321 now opens log after option processing; in particular, --version
1322 and --help do not touch config.log.
1324 * Makefile.maint: Revert the change from 2005-08-12.
1326 2005-08-22 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1328 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_ENABLE, AC_ARG_WITH): Factor out
1330 (_AC_ENABLE_IF, _AC_ENABLE_IF_ACTION): ... these new macros.
1332 2005-08-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1334 * doc/autoconf.texi (Using Autotest, testsuite Scripts)
1335 (Autotest Logs, Writing testsuite.at, testsuite Invocation):
1338 * doc/autoconf.texi (Defining Symbols, Changed Results):
1339 Prepend to LIBS, not append, in examples.
1341 2005-08-16 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1343 When building in place, set srcdir="."; suggested by Tim Van Holder.
1345 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Do this; to recognize
1346 build in place, we need ac_pwd, and thus have to AC_REQUIRE ...
1347 (_AC_INIT_DIRCHECK): ... this macro and AC_DEFUN both of them.
1348 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCDIRS): Fix a comment: srcdir="."
1349 does not mean "no --srcdir option".
1351 2005-08-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1353 * tests/autoscan.at (autoscan): New file.
1354 * tests/suite.at: Use it.
1355 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTSUITE_HAND_AT): Add it.
1356 Reported against Libtool by Gideon Go <gideon.go@gmail.com>.
1358 * tests/autotest.at (Keywords): Test keywords combinations.
1360 2005-08-12 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1362 * Makefile.maint (GZIP_ENV): When checking the help text of gzip,
1363 add "2>&1"; gzip 1.2.4 prints help on stderr.
1365 2005-07-27 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1367 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_DECIDE_TRACEABLE): The symbol at_reason
1368 was pushdef'ed twice while popped only once. Push it only once.
1369 (_AT_CHECK): Cosmetic changes to the "case $at_status" command.
1371 2005-07-26 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1373 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): The message is now
1374 prefixed by mere "===", not "configure: === ".
1376 2005-07-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1378 * Makefile.maint: Update from Bison.
1380 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_strip): Comment fix---change tab to
1381 "<tab>" in comment, so that the point is understandable.
1383 2005-07-25 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1385 Rewrite substantial part of lib/autoconf/status.m4.
1386 The main change is that CONFIG_FILES, CONFIG_HEADERS, CONFIG_LINKS,
1387 and CONFIG_COMMANDS are not processed in four separate loops.
1388 Instead, there is one main loop. This alows that the common code
1389 is expanded only once, thus config.status (and configure) is smaller.
1391 The registration mechnism in AC_CONFIG_FILES and cousins also changed;
1392 the AC_LIST_FILES and cousins macros are no longer used.
1394 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES, _AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS,
1395 _AC_OUTPUT_LINKS, _AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS): Renamed to ...
1396 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILE, _AC_OUTPUT_HEADER, _AC_OUTPUT_LINK,
1397 _AC_OUTPUT_COMMAND): ..., respectively. These macros no longer
1398 contain the initialization, nor the for loop, nor the associated
1399 commands; all these go to ...
1400 (_AC_OUTPUT_MAIN_LOOP): ... this new macro, called from
1401 _AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS.
1402 (_AC_CONFIG_SPLIT, _AC_CONFIG_SPLIT_SOURCE_DEST, _AC_CONFIG_SPLIT_FILE_IN):
1403 Nuked; the code was merged into _AC_OUTPUT_MAIN_LOOP.
1404 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILE): The creation of the sed script ...
1405 (AC_OUTPUT): ... and the setup of ac_vpsub goes to ...
1406 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE): ... a new macro, also called from
1407 _AC_OUTPUT_MAIN_LOOP.
1408 (_AC_CONFIG_FILES, _AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, _AC_CONFIG_LINKS,
1409 _AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS): Use ...
1410 (_AC_CONFIG_FOOS): ... this new macro, which uses these ...
1411 (_AC_CONFIG_REGISTER, _AC_CONFIG_REGISTER_DEST): ... new macros.
1412 (_AC_CONFIG_FILE, _AC_CONFIG_HEADER, _AC_CONFIG_LINK,
1413 _AC_CONFIG_COMMAND, _AC_CONFIG_DEPENDENCIES): No longer needed.
1414 (_AC_CONFIG_DEPENDENCY): Update, it uses these ...
1415 (_AC_CONFIG_DEPENDENCY_DEFAULT, _AC_FILE_DEPENDENCY_TRACE_COLON):
1417 (_AC_CONFIG_UNIQUE): Update.
1418 (AC_LIST_FILES, AC_LIST_HEADERS, AC_LIST_LINKS, AC_LIST_COMMANDS):
1419 Replaced by this ...
1420 (_AC_LIST_TAGS): ... new common macro.
1421 (AC_LIST_FILE_COMMANDS, AC_LIST_HEADER_COMMANDS, AC_LIST_LINK_COMMANDS,
1422 AC_LIST_COMMAND_COMMANDS): Replaced by this ...
1423 (_AC_LIST_TAG_COMMANDS): ... new common macro.
1424 (_AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_INIT): Moved top to the `registration' section;
1425 this didn't belong to the `config commands' section.
1426 (_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_INIT): Don't initialize, m4_ifdef is our friend.
1427 (AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE, AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_PRE,
1428 AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_POST): Moved to a new section, these didn't belong
1429 to the `config commands' section either.
1430 (AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS): Don't touch diversion DEFAULTS.
1431 (_AC_LIST_SUBDIRS): Don't initialize, m4_ifdef is our friend.
1433 ... and many changes to the comments nearby.
1435 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): At the end of the day,
1436 set ac_subdirs_all='_AC_LIST_SUBDIRS'.
1437 * tests/torture.at (AC_CONFIG_FILES, HEADERS, LINKS and COMMANDS):
1438 AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS(command:input,...) is no longer allowed.
1439 (#define header templates): The comment at the top of the generated
1440 header now includes the name(s) of the source file(s).
1442 Several unrelated small changes:
1444 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CACHE_VAL): Be didactic, quote the first
1445 parameter to AC_DIAGNOSE.
1446 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS): Likewise.
1447 (_AC_LINK_FILES_CNT): Don't AU_DEFUN this; it causes confusing messages
1448 with autoupdate; use m4_define_default inside AU_DEFUNed AC_LINK_FILES.
1449 (AC_OUTPUT): In the compatibility code, use m4_ifvaln, to be consistent
1451 (AU::AC_OUTPUT): Don't double-quote $2 and $3, the compatibility code
1452 in AC_OUTPUT doesn't double-quote it either.
1453 * tests/tools.at (autoupdate): AU::AC_OUTPUT no longer double-quotes the
1456 2005-07-10 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1458 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): Document which
1459 versions of Portland Group compiler produce single- and double-quoted
1460 -cmdline argument. Reported by Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@fftw.org>
1461 and Ole Holm Nielsen <Ole.H.Nielsen@fysik.dtu.dk>.
1463 2005-07-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1465 * tests/local.at (AT_CONFIG_CMP): Ignore lines like "LIBS=''" too.
1466 This is a corrected version of yesterday's patch.
1468 2005-07-07 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1470 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Report the full
1471 path, too; insert a "===" to emphasize the line.
1473 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CANONICAL_BUILD): Rename
1474 ac_cv_build_alias to ac_build_alias.
1475 (AC_CANONICAL_HOST, AC_CANONICAL_TARGET): Simplify.
1477 On 2005-02-24, an unintentional AC_SUBST([CC]) was introduced; this
1478 change eliminates it. Problem reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
1479 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_PRECIOUS): Move the AC_SUBST ...
1480 (AC_ARG_VAR): ... here.
1481 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Call AC_SUBST for build_alias, host_alias and
1484 Keep a list of all precious variables and process them with one simple
1485 for loop, instead of expanding all commands, or, OTOH, complicated
1486 processing of output of "set".
1487 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_PRECIOUS): Acumulate the
1488 variable names in new macro...
1489 (_AC_PRECIOUS_VARS): ... which will be assigned to ac_precious_vars.
1490 (_AC_ARG_VAR_STORE): New macro which writes to diversion PARSE_ARGS
1491 a loop to assign all ac_env_* and ac_cv_env_* variables.
1492 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Use shell variable ac_precious_vars, divert
1494 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): At the end, if _AC_PRECIOUS_VARS is set, assign
1495 its value to shell variable ac_precious_vars and call
1496 _AC_ARG_VAR_STORE and _AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE.
1497 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Don't call
1498 _AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE.
1500 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Move AC_LANG_PUSH(C)
1501 and the AC_SUBSTs ...
1502 (AC_INIT): ... here.
1504 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Changed the title of
1505 the ac_subst_files section in config.log.
1507 * tests/local.at (AT_CONFIG_CMP): Revert Paul's previous change.
1509 2005-07-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1511 * NEWS: New macro AC_C_TYPEOF.
1512 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Document AC_C_TYPEOF.
1513 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_TYPEOF): New macro.
1514 * tests/c.at (C keywords): Test AC_C_TYPEOF.
1516 Fix problems reported by Nicolas Joly.
1517 * tests/base.at (Input/Output): Ignore 'loading site script' chatter.
1518 * tests/local.at (AT_CONFIG_CMP): Ignore lines like "LIBS=''" too.
1519 They are generated by the Tru64 v5.1B shell.
1521 2005-07-05 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1523 Fix my changes from 2005-07-01; reported by Noah Misch.
1524 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_CONFIG_DEPENDENCIES): Fix the
1525 description, the macro now accepts only a single tag.
1526 (_AC_CONFIG_UNIQUE): Likewise; s/AC_File/[$1]/
1528 Fix cases when the varsions of Autoconf and Autotest don't match.
1529 Reported by Noah Misch.
1530 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Set also
1531 at_top_builddir, for compatibility with older autotest.
1532 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): If at_top_build_prefix
1533 is not set, use at_top_builddir, for compatibility with older
1534 versions of autoconf.
1536 2005-07-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1538 * bin/autom4te.in ($m4): Catch usages like --nesting-limit=2048.
1539 Problem reported by Patrick Welche.
1541 2005-07-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1543 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_PROGRAM): Use &, not |, in
1544 sed substitution command, so that we allow | in program prefixes
1545 and program suffixes. (& is a problem anyway; we're not fixing
1547 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_CONFIG_FILES): Likewise, for
1548 configure_input, top_builddir, srcdir, etc.
1549 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise, for
1550 PATH_SEPARATOR in AUTOTEST_PATH.
1552 2005-07-02 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
1554 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SITE_LOAD): Rewrite the
1555 for loop over config.site files using `set', to allow
1556 directory names containing IFS characters.
1558 2005-07-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1560 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DIRCHECK): Remove the tests for
1561 directories with weird names. Apparently some people like living
1562 on the edge. However, improve the test that "pwd" actually does
1563 report a name for the working directory.
1564 * NEWS: Remove the claim that we test for funny chars in dir names.
1566 2005-07-01 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1568 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_FOREACH): Make obsolete; it's
1570 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_foreach_w): ... by this new macro.
1571 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_CONFIG_DEPENDENCIES, _AC_CONFIG_UNIQUE):
1572 Now accept a single tag, not whitespace separated list.
1573 (AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS): Call _AC_CONFIG_UNIQUE in a m4_foreach_w loop.
1575 2005-06-30 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1577 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Headers): Change the explanation
1578 about #include <config.h>.
1579 (Generic Functions): Mention the Gnulib project.
1580 (Limitations of Usual Tools) <sed>: Another minor rephrasing.
1582 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Use a here
1583 document to output the default config_* lists to config.status.
1584 Don't recognize option --file, if the functionality is not there.
1585 Likewise for --header; moreover, recognize --he and --h as shortcuts
1586 for --help in that case.
1588 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Fix the order of the "sections", so that it
1589 matches the order of execution. No code changed.
1591 2005-06-30 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1593 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): Fix also for
1594 single-quoted -cmdline argument in Portland Group compiler.
1595 Reported against LAM by Ole Holm Nielsen <Ole.H.Nielsen@fysik.dtu.dk>.
1597 2005-06-30 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
1599 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect AC_SUBST_TRACE.
1601 2005-06-29 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1603 * doc/autoconf.texi (File Descriptors): ksh doesn't pass open file
1604 descriptors to child processes; reported by Norman Gray.
1606 2005-06-29 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1608 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_VAR): Move next to _AC_ARG_PRECIOUS.
1610 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SUBST_TRACE): New macro, to be traced
1611 instead of AC_SUBST; proposed by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
1612 (AC_SUBST): Call it.
1613 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Call AC_SUBST_TRACE for
1614 the directory specific variables; but don't call it for configure_input.
1616 2005-06-28 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
1618 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <sed>: Reword recent
1621 2005-06-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1623 * NEWS: Don't worry about spaces in bindir etc. Only srcdir and working
1624 directory have inherent problems with special characters like spaces,
1625 due to limitations in Make syntax. Problem reported by Alexandre
1627 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DIRCHECK): Implement the above.
1628 Also, fix Tru64 porting problem with shell patterns,
1629 reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
1631 2005-06-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1633 * doc/autoconf.texi (Subdirectories): Fix markup typos.
1635 2005-06-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1637 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_ENV): Simplify regexp slightly.
1639 Fix some more shell quoting problems. Prompted by a bug report
1640 from Justace Clutter.
1641 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DIRCHECK): Put name of invalid
1642 variable into diagnostic. Make the diagnostic an error, not a warning,
1643 because we really don't support spaces and suchlike in dir names.
1644 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Allow special characters in $ac_unique_file.
1645 Don't worry about backslashes in srcdir; it can't happen now.
1646 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Allow weird characters in ac_optarg.
1647 Simplify ac_optarg handling.
1648 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Remove unnecessary and inconsistent quotes.
1650 2005-06-22 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1652 Fix AT_CONFIG_CMP for Solaris hosts; idea from Ralf Menzel.
1653 * configure.ac: Call AC_PROG_EGREP and AC_PROG_SED.
1654 * tests/atlocal.in: Propagate $EGREP and $SED.
1655 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_ENV): Use $EGREP, not $GREP -E.
1656 (AT_CONFIG_CMP): Use sed instead of grep plumbing.
1658 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <grep>: Mention
1659 that '\|' is not allowed in BREs; recommend using newline separated
1660 list of patterns instead of multiple -e options.
1662 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): Remove an old comment.
1664 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_CANONICAL_SPLIT): Use AC_SUBST/2.
1666 2005-06-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1668 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_CANONICAL_SPLIT): Fix typo.
1670 2005-06-21 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1672 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <sed>: Document that
1673 b, t, r, w commands require single space, while : cannot have any.
1674 (Special Shell Variables): Fix sed code this in the example.
1675 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): Likewise; and fix a typo.
1676 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_ARG_OPTION): Fix typo in the description.
1678 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_split): If the parameter is empty,
1679 expand to the empty list. Don't use two pairs of m4_changequote,
1682 2005-06-20 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
1684 * lib/m4/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_YACC): Declare YACC & YFLAGS precious.
1686 2005-06-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1688 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (as_awk_strverscmp): Port to Solaris /bin/awk.
1689 * doc/autoconf.texi:
1690 Don't mention Solaris versions so much, if a
1691 problem is common to all extant versions of Solaris. Say "SunOS
1692 4" instead of "SunOS" for SunOS 4.
1693 (awk): Mention more of the limitations of traditional Awk.
1694 (cat): Don't talk about cat -v.
1696 2005-06-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1698 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_VERSION_COMPARE_PREPARE): New macro.
1699 (AS_VERSION_COMPARE): New macro. The API is taken from CVS,
1700 but the implementation is entirely different and is designed
1701 to be compatible with glibc strverscmp.
1702 * tests/m4sh.at (AS_VERSION_COMPARE): New test.
1704 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Mention expr bug
1705 on Mac OS X 10.4 reported by Peter O'Gorman in:
1706 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2005-06/msg00041.html
1707 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_CANONICAL_SPLIT):
1708 Use shell builtins rather than 'expr', to work around expr bug.
1710 2005-06-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1712 * doc/autoconf.texi: "filesystem" -> "file system".
1713 "behaviour" -> "behavior".
1714 Warn about \(...\)* in Solaris sed (written by Ralf Menzel).
1715 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Omit blank after ":" sed command,
1717 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Likewise.
1718 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): Work around problem
1719 with Solaris sed. Fix by Ralf Menzel and Stepan Kasal.
1721 * man/Makefile.am (MOSTLYCLEANFILES): Add $(srcdir)/*.t.
1722 (.x.1): Ignore the time stamp in the .TH line when deciding whether
1723 to update the man page. That way, we don't have to check in new
1724 man pages every month.
1726 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_VAR_TEST_SET): Work even if $1 contains
1727 quotes and backslashes. Patch from Derek Price.
1729 2005-06-10 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
1731 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Document AS_TR_CPP &
1734 2005-06-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1736 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't accept Solaris 9's diff
1737 -u, since it outputs chatter if the input files are the same.
1738 Problem reported by Ralf Menzel.
1740 2005-06-08 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
1742 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: Undefine include & sinclude rather than
1743 renaming them since they are about to be redefined anyhow.
1745 2005-06-08 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
1747 * doc/autoconf.texi (Redefined M4 Macros): Add index entries for most
1748 redefined M4 macros to this node. Document m4_include & m4_sinclude.
1749 Move m4_undefine to alphabetical order.
1751 2005-06-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1753 * README: Recommend GNU M4 1.4.3 or later.
1754 * doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction): Likewise.
1755 Reword to avoid some formatting glitches.
1756 Use "#!/bin/sh", not "#! /bin/sh"; the space isn't needed these days.
1757 Clarify explanation of HP compiler bug.
1758 Redo example output tp match current CVS snapshot.
1759 Use @example.org in email addresses when the examples
1760 might get inadvertently cut-and-pasted into user code.
1761 Remove example of autom4te usage that doesn't seem to work now.
1762 Use modern AC_INIT (except when the example is meant to be
1763 shown with Autoconf 2.13).
1764 Update ksh info for Solaris 9 and later.
1766 Modernize description of Automake versions a bit.
1767 Don't claim a future version of Autoconf is near.
1768 * doc/install.texi: Reword to avoid some formatting glitches.
1770 2005-06-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1772 * doc/autoconf.texi: Add [] to examples, so that the manual
1773 follows its own advice about quoting better.
1774 Reword to avoid some formatting glitches.
1775 * doc/installt.exi: Reword to avoid some formatting glitches.
1777 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins) <case>: Mention
1778 Tru64 ksh pattern matching bug. Reported against Libtool by
1779 Albert Chin <libtool@mlists.thewrittenword.com> and
1780 Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>.
1782 2005-06-06 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1784 m4_cdr of one-member list was [[]] (one-member list containing an
1785 empty string) instead of [] (an empty list. Callers were skewed to
1786 match this misbehaviour. As a consequence of this:
1787 - m4_foreach([x], [], [foo]) expanded to `foo', while
1788 - the expansion of m4_foreach([x], [[]], [foo]) was empty.
1789 This bug has been fixed:
1791 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_cdr): If only one argument is given,
1792 expand to an empty string; print error msg if called without
1794 (m4_foreach, m4_map, m4_map_sep): Don't expect the previous
1795 misbehaviour; handle [] and [[]] correctly.
1797 2005-06-06 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1799 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Nuke ac_max_here_lines.
1800 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): Simplify the sed
1801 scripts created and the loop applying them, use _AC_SED_CMD_LIMIT.
1803 2005-06-06 Ralf Menzel <menzel@ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (trivial change)
1805 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Solaris' awk cannot
1806 swallow records with more than 99 fields.
1807 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Use the awk builtin `split' to
1808 parse the long line.
1810 2005-06-04 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1812 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): AIX awk cannot
1813 swallow literals longer than 399. Reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
1814 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Pass $at_groups though stdin,
1815 to workaround this limitation.
1817 2005-06-03 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
1819 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Find g95 in addition
1820 to gfortran, and make these the first two compiler names
1821 checked (following the general autoconf preference for gcc).
1823 2005-06-03 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1825 * tests/Makefile.am (check_SCRIPTS): Set to $(wrappers).
1826 (DISTCLEANFILES): Remove $(check_SCRIPTS).
1827 (testsuite): Make sure autotest.m4f is up-to-date before using it.
1829 2005-06-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1831 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't create a regular
1832 expression of unbounded size when processing the --list
1833 option. This runs afoul of a limit of 399 bytes per regular
1834 expression on AIX. Problem reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
1836 2005-06-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1838 * NEWS: Note yesterday's changes to AC_SUBST and AC_SUBST_FILE.
1839 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Reword example
1840 for multiline stdbool replacement.
1841 (Setting Output Variables): Reword text a bit. Don't
1842 give all the details about |#_!!_#|.
1843 Reword description of line replacement.
1845 2005-05-31 Dan Manthey <dan_manthey@partech.com>
1847 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Output variables may
1848 now contain newlines, and substituted files must be referenced on
1849 a line alone; the sed scripts to substitute them are now very
1851 (_AC_SED_CMD_LIMIT): Added; single place to store limit on how many
1852 commands can be put in a sed script portably.
1853 * doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Document above
1854 changes. (Particular Header Checks) <AC_HEADER_STDBOOL>: Give exaple
1855 use of multiline substitution.
1856 * tests/torture.at: No longer expect substitution of newline to fail.
1858 2005-05-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1860 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_SHELL_FN_WORK): Fix diagnostics.
1861 From Ralf Menzel (trivial change).
1863 2005-05-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1865 * tests/local.at: Don't attempt to check for negated character
1866 classes in shell scripts. The test was too brittle.
1868 2005-05-25 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1870 * bin/autoconf.as: Don't use "shift 2"; it's not portable enough.
1871 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Document this
1874 2005-05-24 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1876 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_ECHO_LOG): New macro to factor out
1877 common code; used in many places in the tree.
1878 (AS_ESCAPE): Make the pattern a bit simpler; use \& insetad of \1.
1879 (_AS_ECHO_UNQUOTED): Move the macro lower; no code change.
1881 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_ifset): Use m4_ifval.
1883 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Merge the two error
1884 messages when ac_unique_file is not found.
1885 (AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR): Simplify the `if' at the end.
1886 (AC_MSG_CHECKING, AC_MSG_RESULT): Put braces around the two echo
1887 commands, for consistency with AC_MSG_ERROR and such.
1889 * bin/autoconf.as: Make more use of "shift 2" in option processing.
1891 * bin/Makefile.am: Merge the two rules for creating scripts.
1893 2005-05-23 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1895 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_MSG_RESULT_UNQUOTED): Make
1896 obsolete; it was never documented.
1897 (AC_CACHE_CHECK): Use AC_MSG_RESULT instead.
1899 2005-05-20 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1901 * NEWS: @top_builddir@ is now a dirname, ac_top_builddir will follow.
1902 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCDIRS): Rename ...
1903 (ac_top_builddir): ... this ...
1904 (ac_top_build_prefix): ... to this; the old name is also kept, for
1905 backward compatibility.
1906 (ac_top_builddir_sub): New variable, without the trailing slash,
1908 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): s/@top_builddir@/$ac_top_builddir_sub/
1909 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Actions): Rename
1910 ac_top_builddir to ac_top_build_prefix.
1911 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Rename
1912 at_top_builddir to at_top_build_prefix.
1913 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
1915 2005-05-20 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1917 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Simplify the init
1920 2005-05-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1922 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_text_wrap): Don't m4_quote the second
1923 argument to m4_foreach. I guess it was necessary in the past,
1924 but I think it's a no-op now.
1926 2005-05-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1928 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Merge two consecutive
1929 ``cat <<_ACEOF'' commands to one.
1930 (_AC_CANONICAL_SPLIT): Use expr, not ``echo|sed.''
1931 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: On various places, use expr instead of
1933 (_AC_CONFIG_SPLIT, _AC_CONFIG_SPLIT_SOURCE_DEST):
1934 (_AC_CONFIG_SPLIT_FILE_IN): New macros, to factor out common code.
1935 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Use expr to get the numbers from
1937 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_SHELL_SYNTAX): Use awk to search for
1938 the wrong patterns between ``case'' and ``esac.'' The previous
1939 code had false positives.
1941 2005-05-14 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
1943 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ_ALLOCA): Prepend ${LIBOBJDIR},
1945 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions) <AC_FUNC_ALLOCA>:
1948 2005-05-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1950 * AUTHORS, BUGS, COPYING, ChangeLog, ChangeLog.0, ChangeLog.1,
1951 ChangeLog.2, GNUmakefile, HACKING, Makefile.am, Makefile.cfg,
1952 Makefile.maint, NEWS, README, README-alpha, TODO, configure.ac,
1953 bin/Makefile.am, bin/autoconf.as, bin/autoheader.in,
1954 bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoscan.in,
1955 bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in, config/Makefile.am,
1956 config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/elisp-comp,
1957 config/m4.m4, config/mdate-sh, config/missing, config/texinfo.tex,
1958 doc/Makefile.am, doc/fdl.texi, lib/Makefile.am, lib/autom4te.in,
1959 lib/freeze.mk, lib/Autom4te/C4che.pm, lib/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm,
1960 lib/Autom4te/Channels.pm, lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm,
1961 lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm, lib/Autom4te/General.pm,
1962 lib/Autom4te/Request.pm, lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm,
1963 lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am,
1964 lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4,
1965 lib/autoconf/autoscan.m4, lib/autoconf/autotest.m4,
1966 lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4, lib/autoconf/c.m4,
1967 lib/autoconf/fortran.m4, lib/autoconf/functions.m4,
1968 lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/headers.m4,
1969 lib/autoconf/lang.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4,
1970 lib/autoconf/oldnames.m4, lib/autoconf/programs.m4,
1971 lib/autoconf/specific.m4, lib/autoconf/status.m4,
1972 lib/autoconf/types.m4, lib/autoscan/Makefile.am,
1973 lib/autoscan/autoscan.list, lib/autoscan/autoscan.pre,
1974 lib/autotest/Makefile.am, lib/autotest/autotest.m4,
1975 lib/autotest/general.m4, lib/emacs/Makefile.am,
1976 lib/emacs/autoconf-mode.el, lib/emacs/autotest-mode.el,
1977 lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am, lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4,
1978 lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4, man/Makefile.am, tests/Makefile.am,
1979 tests/atlocal.in, tests/autotest.at, tests/base.at, tests/c.at,
1980 tests/compile.at, tests/foreign.at, tests/fortran.at,
1981 tests/local.at, tests/m4sh.at, tests/m4sugar.at, tests/mktests.sh,
1982 tests/semantics.at, tests/suite.at, tests/tools.at,
1983 tests/torture.at, tests/wrapper.as:
1984 Update FSF postal mail address.
1986 2005-05-13 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1988 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR): Remove the broken
1990 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_bmatch): Halt with error if we don't get
1991 enough arguments, similarly as in m4_bpatsubsts.
1993 2005-05-12 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1995 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCDIRS): Simplify the computation
1998 2005-05-11 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2000 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Make the check
2001 for absolute directory names in one loop.
2002 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Handle
2003 abbreviations of --version and --debug.
2005 2005-05-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2007 * doc/autoconf.texi (Autoconf Language): Be more precise about
2008 quoting rules. Problems noted by Stepan Kasal.
2009 Also, throughout this document, be more careful about white space.
2010 "blank", "white space", and "space" all have different meanings
2011 and we should be careful to say what we mean.
2013 2005-05-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2015 Fix C++ related problems reported by Werner Lemberg.
2016 * doc/autoconf.texi (C++ Compiler): Mention .cpp extension.
2017 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG(C++)): Set ac_ext to .cpp, not .cc.
2018 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_TYPE_SIGNAL): Simplify test, to
2019 avoid problems with C++ and throw.
2020 * tests/compile.at: .cpp, not .cc.
2022 * tests/semantics.at: Prepend LIBOBJDIR, as per 2005-05-02 change.
2024 2005-05-05 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2026 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Functions): Typos.
2028 2005-05-02 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
2030 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJS_NORMALIZE): Prepend each
2031 object named in LIBOBJS and LTLIBOBJS with the ${LIBOBJDIR}, as
2032 set by latest automake.
2034 2005-05-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2036 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): "expr '' \| ''"
2037 outputs 0 on GNU/Linux these days.
2039 2005-04-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2041 * doc/autoconf.texi (Autoconf Language): Add more description
2042 about quoting heuristics.
2043 (Limitations of Builtins): Describe "set -" problems.
2045 2005-04-29 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2047 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_KEYWORDS): Separate by space,
2050 * doc/autoconf.texi (External Software): Replace AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED
2051 by AC_DEFINE; it was a mistake.
2052 From bug reported against libtool by Dalibor Topic <robilad@kaffe.org>.
2054 2005-04-25 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2056 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): A tiny optimization.
2058 2005-04-22 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2060 * doc/autoconf.texi (External Software): Quadrigraphs are not
2061 processed correctly in AS_HELP_STRING; avoid this in the examples.
2062 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_HELP_STRING): Add a FIXME about quadrigraphs.
2063 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_text_wrap): Likewise; and rephrase the
2064 comment and reduce m4_default([foo], []) to [foo].
2065 (m4_strip): Update the explanation.
2067 2005-04-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2069 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE, _AC_RUN_IFELSE):
2070 Remove core.conftest.* too; it's generated by Tru64 5.1.
2071 Problem reported by Jennis Pruett.
2072 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4
2073 (AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED, AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL):
2074 Don't bother to remove core files; AC_RUN_IFELSE should do that
2077 2005-04-19 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2079 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_bpatsubsts): Add the b- to comment, too.
2081 2005-04-19 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
2083 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Handle --docdir.
2084 Report from Horst Wente.
2086 2005-04-15 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2088 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Fixed a typo in
2091 2005-04-14 Gregorio Guidi <greg_g@gentoo.org>
2093 * doc/autoconf.texi (External Software, Package Options): Add
2094 examples showing how to implement --with-* and --enable-* options.
2096 2005-04-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2098 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Look for configure.ac
2099 as well as configure.in. Problem reported by Gregorio Guidi.
2101 2005-04-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2103 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Use gnulib's current
2104 pattern for alloca snippet.
2106 2005-04-04 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2108 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_DECIDE_TRACEABLE): Fix a typo.
2110 2005-04-01 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2112 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Programs): Fix a typo.
2114 2005-04-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2116 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't assume that "date +%s"
2117 fails if %s isn't supported. Problem reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
2119 2005-03-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2121 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS):
2122 Merge `-z option' as well for the benefit of Solaris link flags. Pass
2123 whole-archive (-zallextract, -zdefaultextract) options in the hope of
2124 unique libraries, for the Sun Fortran 95 8.0 compiler. Bug reported
2125 against Libtool by Yury Puhalsky <pooh@cryptopro.ru>.
2127 2005-03-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2129 * NEWS: The configure command now warns you if you attempt to use
2130 a directory whose name contains a special character like space,
2132 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Allow
2133 "," in file names. Do not use \@; it's not a portable regexp.
2134 * bin/Makefile.am (edit): Likewise.
2135 * lib/Makefile.am (edit): Likewise.
2136 * tests/Makefile.am (edit): Likewise.
2137 * tests/semantics.at: Likewise.
2138 * tests/torture.at: Likewise.
2139 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_PROGRAM): Likewise.
2140 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCDIRS): Likewise.
2141 * doc/autoconf.texi (File System Conventions): Warn about
2142 unportable file names.
2143 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DIRCHECK): New macro.
2145 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Use ac_pwd rather than invoking pwd.
2146 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Propagate
2147 ac_pwd, and quote srcdir.
2148 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Quote file name args.
2150 * doc/autoconf.texi: Fix some systematic formatting problems.
2151 ".)" needs a following @: if not at the end of a sentence, and
2152 similarly for "!)". "etc." should be preceded by a comma.
2153 "n-th" -> "@var{n}th". pdksh is still buggy, so update its date.
2155 2005-03-22 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
2157 * doc/autoconf.texi (Input): Mention that AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR's
2158 argument is often called 'build-aux'.
2160 2005-03-07 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2162 * doc/autoconf.texi (Quotation Rule Of Thumb): Mention that the
2163 macro AC_TRY_LINK is obsolete.
2164 (Installation Directory Variables): Change `AC_OUTPUT_FILES' to
2167 2005-02-24 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2169 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC): Be more careful to skip
2170 `/usr/ucb/cc'; use `cl.exe' to distinguish the MS compiler
2171 from a Common Lisp's `cl'.
2172 (AC_PROG_CXX): Behave according to the documentation: don't
2173 search for $ac_tool_prefix$CCC and $CCC, just set CXX=$CCC;
2174 make the variable CCC precious; use `cl.exe', not `cl'.
2176 2005-02-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2177 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
2179 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Redirect stdin from
2180 /dev/null, as "configure" shouldn't read stdin, and this insulates
2181 us from problems (e.g., when testing for "cl"). Also, do this
2182 redirection before invoking "hostname" or "uname", and keep the
2183 original input stream available via...
2184 (AS_ORIGINAL_STDIN_FD): ... this new macro.
2185 (_AC_PREPROC_IFELSE, _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, _AC_LINK_IFELSE): Don't
2186 bother with "</dev/null" since it's now done at the top of
2188 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX): Likewise.
2189 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Likewise.
2190 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FLAVOR_GNU): Likewise.
2191 * doc/autoconf.texi (File Descriptor Macros): New section.
2192 (Printing Messages): Mention it.
2193 * tests/base.at (Input/Output): New test.
2195 2005-02-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2197 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_ECHO_N_PREPARE): Don't set ECHO_C to
2198 newline if neither \c nor -n work, as that would output two
2199 newlines. Prefer -n to \c. Reported by Stepan Kasal.
2201 2005-02-12 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2203 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_IF): Define by m4_defun, not m4_define.
2204 This causes that any required macros inside will get before the if.
2205 * doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te.cache): A typo.
2207 2005-02-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2209 Undo previous change, except keep the change to
2210 lib/autoconf/programs.m4 that replaced grep with shell
2211 pattern-matching. This is because net-snmp configure reads stdin.
2212 Reported by Noah Misch.
2214 2005-02-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2216 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Redirect stdin
2217 from /dev/null, as "configure" shouldn't read stdin, and this
2218 insulates us from problems (e.g., when testing for "cl").
2219 Suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz. Also, do this redirection
2220 before invoking "hostname" or "uname".
2221 (_AC_PREPROC_IFELSE, _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE,
2222 _AC_LINK_IFELSE): Undo previous change, as it's no longer needed.
2223 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX): Don't bother with
2224 "</dev/null" since it's now done at the top of 'configure'.
2225 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Likewise.
2226 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FLAVOR_GNU): Likewise.
2227 Also, replace grep with shell pattern-matching, to save a process.
2229 2005-02-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2231 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_PREPROC_IFELSE, _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE,
2232 _AC_LINK_IFELSE): Redirect stdin to /dev/null, in an attempt to
2233 avoid thinking that Allegro Common Lisp's "cl" command is a C++
2236 2005-02-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2238 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Document that
2239 grep -q isn't portable. Improve grep -s explanation.
2240 Problem reported by Dan Manthey.
2242 2005-02-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2244 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Clarify
2245 PATH_SEPARATOR wording; fix typo in IFS. Reported by Gary V. Vaughan.
2247 2005-02-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2249 * doc/autoconf.texi: Use @acronym for DJGPP.
2250 Fix some @code's that should have been @env's, and vice versa.
2251 Sort environment variable names.
2252 Mention that shells no longer inherit IFS.
2253 Don't recommend PATH_SEPARATOR=';' so strongly.
2254 Mention that $RANDOM might expand to the empty string.
2255 "symlink" and "soft link" -> "symbolic link".
2256 Improve mktemp description (reported by Bruno Haible).
2258 2005-02-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2260 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Don't overquote AT_SETUP arg.
2261 * tests/m4sh.at (AS_DIRNAME, AS_BASENAME, AS_MKDIR_P, AS_HELP_STRING):
2263 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN, AC_PATH_PROG & AC_PATH_PROGS):
2266 2005-02-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2268 * NEWS: Mention AT_COPYRIGHT.
2270 * tests/local.at (AT_CMP): Use diff directly on input files rather
2273 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_SED): Don't look in
2274 /usr/xpg4/bin since that sed dumps core (at least on Solaris 8).
2276 2005-02-04 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
2277 and Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2279 * tests/autotest.at (Empty test suite): New test.
2280 * tests/torture.at (Substitute and define special characters)
2281 (Substitute a 2000-byte string, Define to a 2000-byte string)
2282 (Substitute a newline, Define a newline): New tests.
2284 2005-02-04 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
2286 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_re_string, m4_re_word): Revert 2002-03-04.
2287 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR): Add `m4sugar' to keywords.
2288 (AT_CHECK_ENV): Ignore LTLIBOBJS, FC variables, EGREP, FGREP, and SED.
2289 * tests/m4sugar.at (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR_TEXT, AT_CHECK_M4RE): New macros.
2290 (Standard regular expressions): New test.
2291 (m4_warn, m4_require: circular dependencies, m4_text_wrap): Strip
2292 excess test name quoting.
2293 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_HEADERS_OLD, AC_CHECK_HEADERS_NEW): Pass
2294 CPPFLAGS to `configure' instead of setting it in `configure'.
2296 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_UNAME): Try only /usr/bin/hostinfo, not
2297 any `hostinfo' in $PATH, since hostinfo.exe is a popular file name
2300 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_LANG(Fortran), AC_FC_SRCEXT):
2301 s/FC_SRCEXT/ac_fc_srcext/; s/FCFLAGS_SRCEXT/ac_fcflags_srcext/.
2303 * tests/local.at (AT_CMP): New macro.
2304 (AT_DATA_AUTOCONF): Do not call AC_PROG_GREP.
2305 (AC_SAVE_STATE): Move environment grep...
2306 (AT_CHECK_ENV): to here. Filter out `'$''. Use AT_CMP.
2307 (AT_CONFIG_CMP): New macro.
2308 (AT_CHECK_MACRO): Run `configure' twice with cache and compare results.
2309 * tests/c.at (Extensions): Do not exit early.
2310 * tests/atlocal.in: Inherit $GREP.
2312 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_C_STD_TRY): New macro.
2313 (_AC_PROG_CC_C89, _AC_PROG_CC_C99): Use it.
2315 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_COPYRIGHT): Update for 2005.
2316 (AC_COPYRIGHT): Factor header comment portion out and move into...
2317 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_COPYRIGHT): This.
2318 * lib/autotest/general.at (AT_COPYRIGHT): New macro.
2319 (AT_INIT): Add Autotest copyright notice. Display copyright notices in
2321 * tests/local.at: Add Autoconf test suite copyright notice.
2322 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Document AT_COPYRIGHT.
2324 2005-02-04 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
2325 and Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2327 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): New mkstemp entry.
2329 2005-02-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2331 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_re_escape): Escape ?, ^, \, $ too;
2332 this fixes a bug tickled by the AT_CAPTURE_FILE change noted below.
2334 Try not to generated lines of unlimited length, as POSIX places a
2335 2047-byte limit on line length of portable text files.
2336 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SUBST, AC_SUBST_FILE):
2337 Use newline as a separator, not space.
2338 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_TESTED, AT_KEYWORDS): Likewise.
2339 (AT_CAPTURE_FILE): Use space-backslash-newline as a separator, not
2342 2005-02-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2344 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_SHELL_FN_WORK): Move func_* to
2345 as_func_*. Add test to check whether positional parameters
2346 are restored after function return.
2348 2005-02-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2350 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Mention _,
2351 BIN_SH, DUALCASE. Say that variables other than "status" are safe
2352 if they contain a lower-case letter. The DUALCASE problem was
2353 reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
2355 * bin/autoconf.as: Don't exit with status 0 after write failure
2356 with --help or --version.
2357 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP, _AC_INIT_VERSION): Likewise.
2358 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Likewise.
2360 2005-02-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2362 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools):
2363 Unicos 9 sed limitations.
2364 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Try cf77 before fort77
2365 to get the option-enhanced interface on older Crays. Try ftn for
2366 Fortran 95 (newer Crays).
2368 2005-02-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2370 * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Go back to the simple solution, but take
2371 care to echo the commands, so the user knows what's going on.
2372 Modified from a suggestion by Stepan Kasal.
2374 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Mention autopoint,
2375 with a cross reference. Derived from a suggestion by Bruce Korb.
2377 2005-01-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2379 * doc/autoconf.texi (config.status Invocation): Warn about
2380 discrepancy between CONFIG_SHELL and shell used to invoke 'configure'.
2381 * doc/install.texi (Defining Variables): Likewise.
2382 Based on a proposed patch by Ralf Wildenhues.
2384 * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Make sure the required generated files
2385 are up to date. Problem and original solution proposed by Stepan Kasal.
2386 $(dist_man_MANS:.1=-bin-prereq), $(dist_man_MANS:.1=-tests-prereq),
2387 implicit-man-prerequisites): New rules, used by the above.
2389 * doc/make-stds.texi, doc/standards.texi: Sync from gnulib.
2390 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/install-sh: Likewise.
2391 * config/missing, config/texinfo.tex: Likewise.
2393 2005-01-29 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2395 Simplify the implementation of m4_require (a.k.a. AC_REQUIRE).
2396 Update the long comment explaining it.
2398 m4_require no longer writes an ``is required by'' line to the
2399 execution stack. It contains only one bit of non-redundant
2400 information: that the macro was required, not called. And even
2401 this bit is useless in most situations: have you ever met a macro
2402 which both calls and requires the same macro?
2404 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (_m4_defun_pro): Don't push a diversion...
2405 (_m4_defun_pro_outer): ... only via this macro, for the outermost
2407 (_m4_defun_epi, _m4_defun_epi_outer): Complementarily.
2408 (m4_expansion_stack_pop): Remove the misplaced comment.
2409 (m4_require): Don't put the ``is required by'' line to the
2410 execution stack; slightly improve the out-of-a-defun error message.
2411 (_m4_divert_grow): New macro, counter for the temporary diversions.
2412 (_m4_require_call): Use it.
2413 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4_require): Expect output without the
2414 ``is required by'' messages.
2416 2005-01-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2418 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Recommend X
2419 rather than x for expr.
2421 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT): Avoid subshells when
2423 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_EGREP, AC_PROG_FGREP): Likewise.
2424 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_LONG_FILE_NAMES): Likewise.
2425 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
2426 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_WORKS): Likewise.
2427 * tests/mktests.sh: Likewise.
2429 2005-01-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2431 Have autoheader honor --force.
2433 * doc/make-stds.texi, doc/standards.texi: Update from masters.
2434 * lib/Autom4te/Channels.pm, lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm
2435 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm, lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Update
2436 from masters, so that FileUtils.pm's update_file provide --force
2438 * bin/autoheader.in: Pass $force to update_file so that
2439 config.h.in is always recreated when --force.
2441 2005-01-24 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2443 * doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction): Update Peter Simons' address.
2445 2005-01-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2447 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Clarify that
2448 "if test ! -d foo; ..." is portable. Suggested by Stepan Kasal.
2450 2005-01-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2452 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Fix typo in case statement.
2453 Warn about newline stripping in `` and $(). Update Solaris
2455 (Limitations of Builtins): Use expr "X...", not expr "x...", as
2456 X insulates us from future changes to Posix.
2457 (Limitations of Usual Tools): For AS_DIRNAME, warn about newline
2460 2005-01-19 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2462 * doc/autoconf.texi (Defining Symbols): Delete the false comment that
2463 you cannot use AC_DEFINE to define macros containing `[' or `]'.
2465 2005-01-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2467 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Document bug
2468 in Solaris 8 join. Problem reported by Tomohiro Suzuki on
2469 bug-tar mailing list.
2471 2005-01-05 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2473 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_copy): Fix the explanation.
2475 2005-01-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2477 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C)): Declare longval and
2478 ulongval to be static, to avoid unwanted GCC warning. Problem
2479 reported by Michael Jennings via Daniel Reed; see
2480 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=143852>.
2482 2005-01-05 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
2484 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Define datarootdir,
2485 docdir, htmldir, dvidir, pdfdir, psdir, and localdir. Update
2486 datadir, infodir, and mandir. Adjust argument parsing code.
2487 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Update help text.
2488 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Document
2491 2005-01-04 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
2493 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): If the Make program does
2494 not seem to work, assume it does set $(MAKE).
2495 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Update.
2497 2005-01-03 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2499 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_REQUIRE): Add a comment about nesting.
2501 2005-01-03 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2503 A cleanup of the diversion support in m4sugar.
2505 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (_m4_divert): A typo in description.
2506 (_m4_divert_n_stack): New macro; the expansion is
2507 <newline>m4_divert_stack, if m4_divert_stack is defined, and void
2509 (m4_divert, m4_divert_push, m4_divert_pop, m4_init): Use it.
2510 (m4_divert_push, m4_divert_pop, _m4_defun_epi): Don't expand the word
2511 stored in _m4_divert_diversion or _m4_divert_dump.
2512 (m4_divert_pop): When the parameter is given, compare the symbolic
2513 name with the last diversion pushed on the stack. Previously, the
2514 current diversion was compared with the numeric value of the
2515 diversion given as the parameter.
2516 (m4_require): If the macro hasn't been expanded yet, call ...
2517 (_m4_require_call): this new macro.
2519 2005-01-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2521 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE, _AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE):
2522 Workarounds for documented `case' limitations.
2524 2005-01-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2526 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Warn about
2527 sed 'command1;command2'. Problem reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
2529 2005-01-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2531 * bin/autoconf.as, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in,
2532 bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in,
2533 bin/ifnames.in, tests/mktests.sh: Update copyright date to 2005.
2535 Patch from Roger Leigh (with some minor changes) as follows:
2536 * NEWS: New macros AC_PROG_CC_C89, AC_PROG_CC_C99.
2537 Resurrect AC_PROG_CC_STDC.
2538 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Add AC_PROG_CC_STDC,
2539 AC_PROG_CC_C89, AC_PROG_CC_C99.
2540 (Obsolete Macros): Remove AC_PROG_CC_STDC; it's no longer obsolete.
2541 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CC_C89, _AC_PROG_CC_C99, AC_PROG_CC_C89,
2542 AC_PROG_CC_C99): New macros.
2543 (AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Use them.
2544 (_AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Remove.
2545 (AC_C_PROTOTYPES): Use ac_cv_prog_cc_c89, not ac_cv_prog_cc_stdc.
2546 * THANKS: Add Roger Leigh.
2548 2004-12-30 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
2550 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory): AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
2551 signals that the package uses Automake; a `Makefile.am' is typical but
2552 not essential. Reported by Magnus Therning.
2553 * tests/torture.at (autoreconf.): New banner.
2554 (autoreconf and non-AC configure): Rename to `Non-Autoconf
2556 (autoreconf an empty directory): Rename to `Empty directory'.
2557 (Unusual Automake input files): New test.
2559 2004-12-30 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
2561 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CAPTURE_FILE): New macro.
2562 (AT_SETUP): Clear AT_capture_files.
2563 (_AT_CHECK): On failure, log each of AT_capture_files. Fix comment.
2564 (AT_KEYWORDS): Fix comment typo.
2565 * tests/autotest.at (AT_CHECK_AT): Use AT_CAPTURE_FILE.
2566 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_CONFIGURE): Use AT_CAPTURE_FILE.
2567 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Document AT_CAPTURE_FILE.
2569 2004-12-29 Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>
2571 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH):
2572 If the variable to set is already set, set ac_cv_path_$1
2573 to the preset value so caller can assume ac_cv_path_$1
2574 is available. (trivial change)
2576 2004-12-27 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
2578 * BUGS (Minor Problems): Warn about makefile limitations.
2579 * Makefile.am: Find and update `INSTALL' in $(srcdir).
2580 * man/Makefile.am: Find and update manual pages in $(srcdir).
2582 2004-12-24 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
2584 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Test candidate
2585 shells in subshell, to avoid noise from ash. (trivial change)
2587 2004-12-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2589 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins) <case>: Mention
2590 problems with SunOS ksh and backslash escaping, Bourne shells and
2591 closing brackets (both within character classes). Bug reported
2592 against Libtool by Alexander Kurz <alexander.kurz@qsc.de>.
2593 <read>: New entry. Mention non-availability of -r.
2595 2004-12-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2597 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_LINE): Don't add srcdir here, to
2598 avoid cluttering displayed messages. Rather, prepend srcdir where
2599 AT_LINE is used for log files.
2601 2004-12-21 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2603 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Quote ``$tmp'' in many places.
2604 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): Fix the comment, as traps are
2605 no longer part of the macro, quote the occurrence of ``$tmp''.
2606 * doc/autoconf.texi (Forbidden Patterns): Typo.
2608 2004-12-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2610 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Make sure the "ok" etc. are
2611 separated from the test title by forcing a white space.
2613 2004-12-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2615 Enable Emacs navigation within testsuite.log files.
2617 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CLEANUP): Add an hint for Emacs to
2618 use the compilation mode.
2619 (AT_LINE): Point to the srcdir.
2621 2004-12-19 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
2623 * tests/Makefile.am (installcheck-local): Use $(bindir).
2624 (check-local, installcheck-local): Pass TESTSUITEFLAGS.
2625 * doc/autoconf.texi (Making testsuite Scripts): Recommend the same
2626 Makefile.am scheme Autoconf now uses.
2628 2004-12-18 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
2630 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_qlen, m4_qdelta): New macros.
2631 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_SETUP): Use m4_qdelta.
2633 2004-12-18 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
2635 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_DECIDE_TRACEABLE): New macro.
2636 (_AT_CHECK): Use it.
2637 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_ESCAPE_FOR_EXPAND): Remove.
2638 (AS_ESCAPE): Fix comment.
2639 * tests/autotest.at: Adjust section banner comments.
2640 (AT_CHECK_AT): Accept STATUS and STDERR.
2641 (AT_CHECK_AT_TEST): Likewise.
2642 (Invalid brace-enclosed parameter expansion)
2643 (Multiline command from M4 expansion)
2644 (Double-M4-quoted command): New tests.
2646 2004-12-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2648 * doc/autoconf.texi: Update GNU FDL version from 1.1 to 1.2.
2650 2004-12-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2652 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SUBST, AC_SUBST_FILES): Pass $1 to
2654 Suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
2655 * doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Catch up.
2657 2004-12-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2659 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_TEST_PREPARE): Fix comment.
2661 2004-12-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2663 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ): We can use AC_SUBST/2,
2664 remove the comment which said we cannot.
2666 2004-12-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2668 Add a specialized check for resolv.h. Thanks to Gerrit P. Haase,
2669 Reini Urban and Paul Eggert for reporting the dependencies.
2671 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_RESOLV): New macro.
2672 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_HEADER_RESOLV): Document it.
2673 (AC_HEADER_STAT): @cvindex{STAT_MACROS_BROKEN}, not @acindex.
2675 2004-12-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2677 * bin/autoscan.in: Open autoscan.log only after ``parse_args'';
2678 so that eg. ``autoscan --help'' doesn't truncate it.
2680 2004-12-15 Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>
2682 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Remove
2683 generated conftest files.
2685 2004-12-13 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
2687 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_CHECK) [--trace]: Do not enable shell
2688 tracing on commands with possibly-escaped newlines.
2689 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Delete documentation of the
2690 discontinued behavior and its implications.
2691 * tests/autotest.at (BS-newline in command, ^BS-newline in command)
2692 (BSx641-newline in command, BS-BS-newline in command)
2693 (BSx640-newline in command, Newline-CODE-BS-newline in command)
2694 (Single-quote-BS-newline in command)
2695 (Single-quote-newline-BS-newline in command): New tests.
2697 2004-12-13 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2699 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_EXECUTABLE_P): Use test -f && test -x
2700 on platforms where it works.
2701 (_AS_TEST_PREPARE): Test for ``test -x''.
2702 (_AS_BROKEN_TEST_PREPARE): Nuke.
2704 2004-12-13 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2706 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): Move the trap commands ...
2707 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): ... here;
2708 give only 4-letter prefix to AS_TMPDIR, comment fixed.
2709 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FEATURE_CHECK): Don't
2710 create the temporary directory.
2711 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Work in current directory.
2713 2004-12-12 Kelley Cook <kcook@gcc.gnu.org>
2715 * bin/autoheader.in: Exit if no AC_CONFIG_HEADERS was found.
2718 2004-12-12 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
2720 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <expr (:)>: Typo.
2722 2004-12-11 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
2724 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_CHECK) [--trace]: Rework a shell pattern
2725 to avoid using a negated character class. Reported by Nicolas Joly.
2726 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_SHELL_SYNTAX): Check for similar constructs.
2728 2004-12-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2730 * man/Makefile.am (autoconf.1, autoheader.1, autom4te.1, autoreconf.1,
2731 autoscan.1, autoupdate.1, ifnames.1, config.guess.1, config.sub.1):
2732 Don't depend on .x file explicitly, since "make" does that for us.
2733 Suggested by Stepan Kasal.
2735 * bin/Makefile.am (MOSTLYCLEANFILES): Renamed from CLEANFILES.
2737 (autoconf, autoheader, autom4te, autoreconf, autoscan, autoupdate,
2738 ifnames): Factor common code. And they said it couldn't be done!
2740 2004-12-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2742 * bin/.cvsignore: Add autoconf.in.
2743 * tests/.cvsignore: Add wrapper.in.
2744 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Escape '$' in case pattern.
2746 2004-12-09 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
2748 * man/Makefile.am (autoconf.1): Regenerate when `autoconf.as' changes.
2750 * lib/autotest/general.m4 [--trace] (AT_INIT): Do not `set -v'.
2752 * tests/autotest.at: New file.
2753 * tests/suite.at: Include it.
2754 * tests/Makefile.am: Distribute it.
2756 * lib/autotest/general.m4 [--trace] (_AT_CHECK): Do not enable
2757 shell tracing on a command that could contain multiple lines.
2758 * doc/autoconf.text: Document that fact and its implications.
2759 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_ESCAPE_FOR_EXPAND): New macro.
2760 * tests/autotest.at (Multiline backquote command substitution,
2761 Multiline parameter expansion, Literal multiline command,
2762 Multiline parenthetical command substitution): Remove XFAIL.
2764 2004-12-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2766 * doc/autoconf.texi (Libraries): Clarify problems with AC_CHECK_LIB
2767 and suggest AC_SEARCH_LIBS. Suggested by Noah Misch and Stepan Kasal.
2769 2004-12-08 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
2771 * configure.ac (test suite): Cease to generate wrapper scripts.
2772 * configure: Regenerate.
2773 * lib/freeze.mk (MY_AUTOM4TE): Wrap the uninstalled autom4te directly.
2774 (m4f_dependencies): Adjust accordingly.
2775 * tests/Makefile.am (Wrappers): Generate wrapper scripts.
2776 (wrapper.in): Generate it in the build directory.
2777 (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Delete wrapper.in.
2778 (CLEANFILES): Add wrapper.in.
2779 * tests/wrapper.as: Move AS_INIT to very top, preserving copyright in
2780 the output. Replace each $as_me with a @wrap_program@.
2781 * tests/wrapper.in: Delete it; we always build it.
2783 * bin/Makefile.am (autoconf.in): Generate it in the build directory.
2784 (EXTRA_DIST): Remove autoconf.in.
2785 (CLEANFILES): Add autoconf.in.
2786 (autoconf): Find autoconf.in in the build directory.
2787 * bin/autoconf.in: Delete it; we always build it.
2789 2004-12-08 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
2791 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Replace a `tr' with a `sed'. Join
2792 PATH members so as to not prepend an empty element. Move a comment.
2793 * Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): Build in `tests' last.
2794 * tests/Makefile.am (installcheck-local): Add check-local dependencies.
2796 2004-12-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2798 * lib/mdate-sh: Don't use "set - x`$ls_command /`", as zsh mishandles
2799 the spaces inside $ls_command. Problem reported by Loulou Pouchet in
2800 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-12/msg00074.html>.
2801 Don't use "set - x"; plain "set x" is enough, and simplifies debugging.
2803 2004-12-07 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2805 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETMNTENT): Fix typo in previous
2808 2004-12-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2810 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETMNTENT): Check libc before
2811 looking elsewhere for getmntent. Problem reported by Mark D. Baushke.
2812 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Mention new behavior.
2814 2004-12-03 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2816 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_DEFINE, AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED): Factor
2817 out the common code to ...
2818 (_AC_DEFINE_Q): ... a new macro; simplify the condition about the
2819 value of the #define--default to 1, iff the macro was called
2820 with exactly one parameter.
2822 2004-12-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2824 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MEMCMP): Use
2825 "char c = '\200';" rather than "char c = 0x80;" as the
2826 latter doesn't conform to the strict C standard due to
2827 overflow on signed char hosts.
2829 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Prefer -qlanglvl=extc89
2830 to -qlanglvl=ansi. We don't want to disable extensions.
2832 2004-11-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2834 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): @code{$PATH} -> @env{PATH}.
2835 (Using Autotest, testsuite Scripts, Writing testsuite.at):
2836 Reword slightly to avoid some English-language problems noted
2837 by Ralf Wildenhues in:
2838 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-11/msg00027.html
2840 2004-11-29 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2842 * NEWS: Add ^L above each release.
2844 2004-11-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2846 Fix documentation problems reported by Russ Boylan in
2847 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2004-11/msg00056.html>,
2848 along with some nearby cruft.
2849 * doc/autoconf.texi (Libtool): Libtool can be used without
2850 Automake (not without Autoconf).
2851 (Introduction): Mention lists.gnu.org.
2852 * BUGS: Don't mention bugs.gnu.org.
2853 Remove mention of ancient libtool compatibility problem.
2854 * NEWS: Mention that bugs.gnu.org is kaput.
2855 * README: Likewise. Mention where mailing list archives can be found.
2857 2004-11-28 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2859 * HACKING: Refer to "coreutils", not "File, Shell or Text utils".
2860 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_HELP_STRING): A typo in the comment.
2862 2004-11-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2864 * doc/autoconf.texi (Pretty Help Strings): Go back to
2865 single-quoting assignments to cache variables.
2867 2004-11-23 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2869 * doc/autoconf.texi (Pretty Help Strings): Fix quoting issues
2870 with the examples; fix the bug in MY_ARG_WITH example reported
2871 by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
2872 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_ENABLE, AC_ARG_ENABLE): Enable
2873 expansion of $1 in the comment emitted to configure.
2875 2004-11-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2877 * doc/autoconf.texi (Pretty Help Strings): Fix typo
2878 in my editing of the previous patch. Problem reported
2879 by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
2881 2004-11-22 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2883 * doc/autoconf.texi (Autoconf Language): Explain that
2884 ``descriptions'' may not be double quotes.
2885 (Quotation Rule Of Thumb): Likewise.
2886 (Pretty Help Strings): Likewise; remove the wrong comment;
2887 simplify the examples and improve their quoting.
2889 2004-11-13 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2891 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Don't check
2892 the $1_found variable, don't test whether the file is executable;
2893 Both things are checked ...
2894 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FEATURE_CHECK): ... here; AS_EXECUTABLE_P replaces
2895 the former ``test -f''.
2896 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_TEST_PREPARE): Fix a typo.
2898 2004-11-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2900 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Avoid cp -r;
2903 2004-11-10 Derek R. Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
2905 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Note `cp -r'
2906 limitations. Reorder paragraphs for clarity.
2908 2004-10-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2910 * doc/autoconf.texi: Standardize spelling of "Posix" (as opposed
2911 to "POSIX" or "@acronym{POSIX}"), and similarly for "DOS
2912 variants", "Unix", and some related minor wording fixups.
2914 (Shellology, Special Shell Variables): Document that the Zsh
2915 problem with NULLCMD was fixed in zsh 3.1.6-dev-18. Thanks
2916 to Alexandre Duret-Lutz for this info.
2918 2004-10-10 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
2920 * doc/autoconf.texi (One-Shot Macros): New node.
2922 2004-09-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2924 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Fix misdescription
2925 of putenv. Problem reported by Michael Wardle.
2927 2004-09-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2929 * doc/autoconf.texi (auindex): New macro.
2930 (AU_DEFUN): Use it to fix the bug when the index contained AC_AU_DEFUN.
2931 Problem reported by Stepan Kasal.
2933 2004-09-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2935 Fix problems reported by Andreas Buening in:
2936 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-04/msg00004.html
2937 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Set SHELL=/bin/sh
2939 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't assume /dev/null is
2940 readable; it's not true in OS/2-emx.
2942 2004-09-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2944 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_XMKMF): If xmkmf returns
2945 "/usr/include", clear ac_x_includes instead of leaving it as "no"
2946 (trivial change). Problem and patch reported by Andrew Church in:
2947 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2004-04/msg00016.html
2949 2004-09-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2951 * doc/autoconf.texi: Give AC_DEFINE and AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED
2952 three args in examples. Problem reported by Frederik Fouvry in:
2953 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2004-09/msg00017.html
2954 Also, fix some minor spacing and punctuation bugs.
2956 2004-09-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2958 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Swap "cd" and
2959 "case" to restore ordering.
2960 Reported by Stepan Kasal.
2962 2004-08-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
2964 * doc/autoconf.texi: Minor typos and stylos.
2966 2004-08-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2968 * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump to 2.59c.
2970 2004-08-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2974 * README: Add advice about m4 1.4.2.
2976 * Makefile.cfg (wget_files): Remove config.guess, config.sub,
2977 texinfo.tex for now (done by hand now).
2978 * Makefile.maint (wget_files, cvs_files):
2979 Remove ansi2knr.c; nobody uses it.
2980 (ansi2knr.c-url_prefix): Remove.
2981 (cvs-update): Fix test for failure. I don't know why it ever
2984 * doc/autoconf.texi: Update URLs, some of which went stale.
2985 Use @uref rather than @href.
2987 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Have configure
2988 handle "--" as per POSIX. Suggested by Paul Pogonyshev.
2990 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/elisp-comp,
2991 config/install-sh, config/mkinstalldirs, config/texinfo.tex,
2992 doc/fdl.texi, doc/standards.texi: Sync with master copy.
2994 * NEWS, TODO, configure.ac, bin/autoscan.in,
2995 bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in, doc/autoconf.texi,
2996 doc/install.texi, lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm,
2997 lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
2998 lib/autoconf/programs.m4, lib/autoconf/status.m4,
2999 lib/autotest/general.m4, lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4,
3000 lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4, tests/local.at, tests/m4sh.at,
3001 tests/tools.at, tests/torture.at:
3002 Use "file name" rather than "filename" or "path",
3003 to be consistent with the terminology of the GNU coding standards.
3005 2004-08-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3007 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY(C),
3008 AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE): Undo 2004-06-04 change, as it didn't work with
3009 HP-UX 11.23 cc/aCC or Tru64 4.0 cc. Problem reported by Noah Misch in
3010 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-07/msg00004.html>.
3012 More fixes to support spaces in the name of the build directory.
3013 This isn't a complete fix but it's an improvement.
3015 * bin/autoconf.as (autom4te_options): New var.
3016 Use it instead of appending to AUTOM4TE, so that we can allow
3017 spaces in the build directory's absolute name.
3018 * bin/autoheader.in ($autoconf): Allow spaces in file names.
3019 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT, AT_CLEANUP, _AT_CHECK,
3020 AT_CHECK_NOESCAPE): Likewise.
3021 * tests/wrapper.as (testdir, AUTOM4TE_CFG, autom4te_perllibdir,
3022 main program): Likewise.
3024 2004-08-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3026 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Quote $ac_popdir uses.
3027 From Ralf Corsepius in:
3028 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-08/msg00014.html
3030 2004-08-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3032 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Document isinf and
3033 and isnan. From a suggestion by Kevin Ryde.
3035 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (END): Return correct exit status even
3036 if unlink succeeds and sets $?. Needed with Solaris 8's perl 5.00503.
3038 2004-08-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3040 * tests/torture.at (Deep Package): Use configure.in, not configure.ac,
3041 for compatibility with Automake 1.4. Reported by J C Fitzgerald in
3042 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-08/msg00051.html>.
3044 2004-08-04 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
3046 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE): New empty macro.
3047 (AC_CANONICAL_BUILD): Call it to require config.sub and config.guess.
3048 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_INSTALL): Likewise for install-sh.
3049 * doc/autoconf.texi (Input): Document AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE.
3050 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect
3051 AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE. Automake 1.10 will trace it.
3053 2004-08-02 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
3055 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect
3056 AC_CANONICAL_BUILD and AC_CANONICAL_TARGET. Automake 1.9.1 will
3059 2004-07-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3061 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): Set BIN_SH, for
3063 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology): Mention BIN_SH.
3064 Document problem with "`""`" in pdksh POSIX mode.
3066 2004-07-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3068 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): Use "set -o posix"
3069 with pdksh, too. Problem reported by Patrick Welche via
3071 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology): Note that set -o posix is
3072 useful for pkdsh, too.
3074 2004-06-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3076 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Require
3077 _AS_UNSET_PREPARE, so that we can use $as_unset directly.
3078 Don't fail if ENV or BASH_ENV is readonly.
3079 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Don't fail if ENV, MAIL, MAILPATH, LC_ALL,
3080 etc. are read only. Problem reported by Ludovic Courtes.
3082 2004-06-23 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
3084 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): If the shell is
3085 zsh, disable GLOB_SUBST to avoid backslash handling problems.
3088 2004-06-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3090 * doc/autoconf.texi (File System Conventions): Warn about
3091 names like "aux". Problem reported by Eric Blake.
3093 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY (C)): Use division
3094 by zero instead of array size, so that we can use any arithmetic
3095 constant expression (instead of requiring an integer constant
3096 expression). This allows us to test expressions like DBL_MAX <
3097 LDBL_MAX, which didn't conform to the C standard using the old
3099 (AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE): Put back in the tests for LDBL_MAX and LDBL_EPSILON,
3100 now that we can do floating-point tests at compile time.
3102 2004-06-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3104 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE): Don't check LDBL_MAX
3105 and LDBL_EPSILON, as the resulting expression isn't an
3106 integer constant expression and violates the C standard.
3107 Problem reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe. Also, check
3108 for "L" suffix, and check that long double doesn't have
3109 worse range or precision than double, that mixed-mode
3110 arithmetic doesn't generate a diagnostic, that double
3111 constants fit in long double.
3113 2004-06-03 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
3115 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add notes on free(NULL),
3116 malloc(0) and realloc(NULL,size).
3118 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Spelling error reported by
3121 2004-05-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3123 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (HAVE_STDBOOL_H): Detect _Bool bug
3124 in HP aC++/ANSI C B3910B A.05.55 [Dec 04 2003]. Problem reported
3127 2004-05-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3129 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Mention that ! COMMAND
3130 can be rewritten using if-then-else. Suggested by Bruno Haible.
3132 2004-05-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3134 * doc/autoconf.texi (testsuite Scripts): Fix typo.
3135 Problem reported by Stepan Kasal.
3137 2004-05-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3139 * tests/Makefile.am (autoconfdir): Fix to match comment (trivial
3140 change). Patch reported by Ralf Wildenhues in
3141 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2004-05/msg00092.html>.
3143 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC): Don't assume that a
3144 function F exists if the compiler and linker let you compile an
3145 expression like (F != 0). Recent versions of GCC optimize away
3146 the reference to F in that case, since every function address must
3147 be nonzero, so the link succeeds even if F does not exist.
3148 Problem reported by Manu in
3149 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2004-05/msg00060.html>.
3151 * doc/autoconf.texi (Systemology): Standardize on the spelling of
3152 "Unix". Many uses changed.
3153 (Limitations of Builtins): Explain better why the ! command isn't
3156 2004-05-22 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
3158 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect
3159 LT_SUPPORTED_TAG in lieu of AC_LIBTOOL_TAGS.
3161 2004-05-19 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
3163 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add strerror_r, cross
3164 referencing AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R.
3166 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): In AC_FUNC_CLOSEDIR_VOID,
3167 note pessimistic assumption when cross compiling.
3169 2004-05-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3171 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Note that BSD make
3172 (until 2004) invoked subcommands with sh -e, contra POSIX.
3173 Reported by Kevin Ryde.
3175 2004-05-10 Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
3177 * programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_GREP): Fixed bug where PATH argument handed to
3178 _AC_PATH_PROG_FEATURE_CHECK contained leading whitespace (i.e.
3179 " $PATH:/usr/xpg4/bin"). This resulted in bogus tests, such as
3180 `test -f " /usr/bin/grep"', which _always_ failed.
3181 (AC_PROG_SED): Ditto bogus PATH fix.
3182 * autoconf.texi (AC_PROG_GREP): Properly document that this macro
3183 requires that grep correctly supports _multiple_ `-e' options, rather
3184 than stating only that grep should accept `-e'.
3186 2004-05-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3188 Port to C99, which requires that 'exit' be declared.
3190 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Use AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT
3191 to ensure that stdlib.h is included.
3192 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ_ALLOCA, AC_FUNC_SETPGRP,
3193 AC_FUNC_STRTOD, AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED, AC_FUNC_FORK, _AC_FUNC_FORK,
3194 _AC_FUNC_VFORK, AC_FUNC_WAIT3): Likewise.
3195 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS): Likewise.
3196 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_TYPE_GETGROUPS): Likewise.
3197 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDC): Include <stdlib.h>
3198 when using 'exit' in a test; C99 requires that 'exit' be declared.
3200 2004-05-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3202 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): AC_PROG_GREP
3203 now prefers 'grep' implementations that accept -e.
3204 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Describe problems of traditional
3205 egrep and fgrep with long input lines, and of traditional grep
3207 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_GREP): Check for -e, too.
3208 (_AC_PROG_GREP): Assume 3rd arg is properly quoted for the shell.
3209 All callers changed. Append /usr/xpg4/bin to the PATH, for
3211 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Discard stderr, so we don't bother
3212 the user with complaints about multiple -e options.
3213 * tests/local.at (AC_STATE_SAVE): Use $GREP, not grep.
3214 Define it with AC_PROG_GREP.
3215 * configure.ac (AC_PROG_GREP): Add.
3216 * lib/freeze.mk (GREP): New macro.
3218 2004-05-02 Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
3220 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Consult $SHELL as
3221 a possible candidate only after all others fail, rather than
3222 consulting it first. This improves backward compatibility by
3223 better reflecting the way shell selection occurred in previous
3224 versions of Autoconf, and should help to avoid triggering latent
3225 problems in other packages, such as the one in Automake where zsh
3226 is not handled robustly:
3227 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2004-04/msg00095.html
3228 Although it is not Autoconf's responsibility to work around
3229 problems in Automake, it nevertheless makes sense to avoid
3230 introducing unnecessary incompatibilites.
3232 2004-04-22 Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>,
3233 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
3235 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Don't guess
3236 how deeply nested we are when a suitable tool is found, set the
3237 ac_path_TOOL_found flag.
3238 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FEATURE_CHECK): Encapsulate knowledge of how deeply
3239 nested we are in this macro. Break out of all 3 nested loops if
3240 ac_path_TOOL_found is set.
3242 2004-04-21 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
3244 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Break out
3245 of the _AS_PATH_WALK loop too if GNU flavor is found.
3247 2004-04-21 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
3249 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Update documentation
3250 for `$<'. New entry `Long lines', based on a report from Simon
3251 Josefsson. Augment the documentation for SHELL = @SHELL@ with a
3252 paragraph about DJGPP, based on a mail from Richard Dawe.
3254 2004-04-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3256 * tests/c.at (C keywords): Don't assume that GCC supports
3257 "restrict" and "inline", as sufficiently-old GCC versions do not
3258 (also, GCC configured to be in pedantic C89 mode does not).
3259 Problem reported by Sumit Pandya in:
3260 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-04/msg00092.html
3262 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CC_G, _AC_PROG_CXX_G): Don't
3263 consider -g to work if it generates warnings when plain compiles
3264 don't. Problem reported by Braden McDaniel in:
3265 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2003-07/msg00014.html
3267 * doc/autoconf.texi (Slashes): New section, to document a problem
3268 reported by Jim Meyering in:
3269 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-02/msg00060.html
3271 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Remove potential
3272 linker output files before linking, to work around IRIX 6 linker bug.
3273 Problem reported by Rainer Orth in:
3274 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-02/msg00007.html
3276 2004-04-20 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
3278 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Make the
3279 best tool so far counter rely on the tool path variable name to
3280 avoid checks for one tool being affected by the results of running
3281 the length check on a previous tool.
3283 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_GREP): Take an additional
3284 match expression argument, as different greps have different
3285 regular expression flavours.
3286 (AC_PROG_FGREP): Pass 'FGREP'. fgrep treats all match chars as
3288 (AC_PROG_EGREP): Pass 'EGREP$'.
3289 (AC_PROG_GREP): Pass 'GREP$'.
3291 2004-04-20 Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>
3293 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_GREP): Cache variable
3294 is `ac_cv_path_GREP', not `oc_cv_path_GREP'.
3296 2004-03-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3298 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers, Particular Types, Generic
3299 Types, Specific Compiler Characteristics, System Services,
3300 Obsolete Macros): Use 'long int', 'short int', 'unsigned int'
3301 etc. consistently instead of 'long', 'short', 'unsigned' etc.
3302 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C), AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
3303 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MMAP, AC_FUNC_SELECT_ARGTYPES):
3305 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_SYS_WAIT): Likewise.
3306 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_TYPE_GETGROUPS, AC_TYPE_SIZE_T,
3307 AC_TYPE_OFF_T): Likewise.
3308 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_TYPES: backward compatibility):
3311 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Create an empty aclocal.m4, to
3312 pacify libtool 1.5.2. Fix quoting problems in sed command.
3314 2004-03-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3316 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Structures): AC_STRUCT_TIMEZONE
3317 now defines HAVE_DECL_TZNAME if it is declared, when
3318 HAVE_STRUCT_TM_TM_ZONE is not defined.
3319 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_STRUCT_TIMEZONE): Implement this.
3320 Do not assume atoi. Rely on HAVE_DECL_TZNAME when testing
3323 2004-03-28 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@fftw.org>
3325 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): Corrected
3326 superfluous backslashing of quotes (") in sed expressions;
3327 thanks to Paul Eggert.
3329 2004-03-26 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
3331 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): new name of Intel
3332 Fortran compiler is ifort, also added pghpf; thanks to Nelson
3333 H. F. Beebe for the bug report.
3335 2004-03-26 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@fftw.org>
3337 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): fix for
3338 quoted -cmdline argument in Portland Group compiler (bug
3339 reported by Jeffrey J. Barteet).
3341 2004-03-25 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
3343 * doc/autoconf.texi (Specifying Names): Move cross_compiling ovindex to
3344 (Run Time): ... here, where it's now mentioned.
3346 2004-03-19 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
3348 * doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te Invocation): Language Autoconf
3349 inherits from language Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4.
3350 (Customizing autom4te): Adjust example; the cache must now be
3351 disabled for language Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4.
3353 2004-03-16 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
3354 Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>
3356 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PATH_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOL,
3357 AC_CHECK_TOOLS): Warn if a cross-tool is found without
3359 (AC_PATH_TARGET_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOL,
3360 AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOLS): New macros.
3361 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Programs): Document
3362 (AC_PATH_TARGET_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOL,
3363 AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOLS, and warn for future changes
3364 in the behavior of AC_PATH_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOL and
3366 (Specifying Names): Document the reason for these future
3368 * tests/mktests.sh: Do not generate tests for the
3370 * NEWS: Document these changes.
3372 * doc/autoconf.texi: Avoid macros with unbraced arguments,
3373 they make TeX hang up.
3375 2004-03-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@bogus.example.com>
3377 * NEWS: New macro AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF.
3378 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Compiler Characteristics): Document it.
3379 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Use long int rather than
3380 int; avoid "a `$1'" since this isn't grammatical if $1 begins with a
3382 (AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF): New macro.
3383 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Exclude AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF.
3384 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF): Add tests similar to
3387 2004-03-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3389 * bin/Makefile.am (edit): Don't use $< in a context where
3390 POSIX doesn't require support for it. Use $@.in instead.
3391 Problem reported by Anthony N. Frasso in
3392 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-03/msg00008.html>.
3393 * bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in: Add @configure_input@ comment.
3395 2004-02-23 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
3397 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory): Recognize LT_INIT
3398 from the next generation of Libtool.
3399 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoreconf-preselections): Ditto.
3401 2004-02-20 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
3403 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <mkdir>: `mkdir -p'
3404 is not always thread-safe. Report from Nathanael Nerode.
3406 2004-02-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3408 Fix a dependencies problem, stemming from a Autoconf 2.59 build
3409 problem on QNX reported by Stephen Rasku in
3410 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2004-02/msg00066.html>.
3412 * bin/Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/autoconf.in): Depend on
3413 $(m4sh_m4f_dependencies); this removes a FIXME.
3414 * tests/Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/wrapper.in): Likewise.
3415 (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Split into pieces,
3416 one per related section. Add $(srcdir)/wrapper.in.
3418 2004-02-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3420 * doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Emphasize that
3421 AC_SUBST provides no portable way to escape literal newlines.
3423 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Ignore all
3424 flags of the form -lcrt*.o, not just -lcrt[01].o and -lcrtbegin.o.
3425 Darwin uses -lcrt2.o and there's little point to cataloging all
3426 the system variants. Partial fix reported by Andreas Waechter in:
3427 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-02/msg00006.html
3428 for bug reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe in:
3429 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-12/msg00090.html
3431 2004-02-04 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
3433 * doc/autoconf.texi (AU_DEFUN): Fix English,
3434 suggested by Paul Eggert.
3435 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4: Correct reference to
3436 acobsolete.m4, suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
3438 2004-02-02 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
3440 * bin/autoupdate.in: Define __file__ so that warnings
3441 refer to the correct file.
3442 * doc/autoconf.texi (AU_DEFUN): Describe more correctly
3443 the behavior of the third argument.
3444 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4 (AU_DEFUN): Describe more
3445 correctly the behavior of the third argument. Document
3446 what the three macros that AU_DEFUN defines do. Fix
3447 warning message when the third argument includes $0
3448 (reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz).
3450 2004-01-30 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
3451 Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
3452 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3454 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (M4SH-SANITIZE): New diversion.
3455 (AS_INIT): Output shell initialization there. Removed optional
3456 parameter. Expand _AS_SHELL_FN_SPY.
3457 (AS_INIT_WITH_SHELL_FN): Removed.
3458 (_AS_SHELL_FN_SPY): New macro.
3459 (AS_DETECT_REQUIRED, AS_DETECT_SUGGESTED): New
3461 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Remove loop to find better shell
3462 and documentation for the parameter.
3463 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Move it here.
3464 (_AS_SHELL_FN_WORK): Remove shell invocation, reformat.
3465 (_AS_RUN): Move it here, support testing with eval.
3466 (AS_REQUIRE_SHELL_FN): Require shell functions when
3468 (_AS_LINENO_WORKS): Put around braces, we do not
3469 trigger the bash bug anymore.
3470 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Document M4SH-SANITIZE, do not
3471 use AS_INIT_WITH_SHELL_FN.
3472 * bin/autoconf.in, tests/wrapper.in: Regenerated.
3474 2004-01-30 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
3476 * bin/autoupdate.in: Trace AU_DEFINE instead of AU_DEFUN.
3477 * doc/autoconf.texi: Don't say that the third parameter
3479 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4 (AU_DEFINE): New dummy macro.
3480 (AU_DEFUN): Honor the third parameter, create autoupdate
3481 macros with AU_DEFINE.
3482 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_USG, AC_MEMORY_H,
3483 AC_DIR_HEADER): Use AU_DEFUN's third parameter.
3484 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_SAVE): Likewise.
3485 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_RSH): Likewise.
3486 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_HAVE_POUNDBANG,
3487 AC_ARG_ARRAY, AC_CYGWIN, AC_EMXOS2, AC_MINGW32,
3488 AC_XENIX_DIR): Likewise.
3489 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_INT_16_BITS, AC_LONG_64_BITS,
3490 AC_STRUCT_ST_BLKSIZE, AC_STRUCT_ST_RDEV): Likewise.
3491 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Remove FIXME.
3492 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_AU_MACRO): Ignore stderr, check
3493 that the macro is not present anymore in the updated
3495 * tests/tools.at (autoupdate AC_LINK_FILES): Ignore stderr
3498 2004-01-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3500 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Add 2004 to
3502 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_COPYRIGHT): Add 1992 thorugh
3503 2003 (except 1997) to the list of copyright years. This undoes
3504 the 2003-05-22 change, which removed the older years from the list.
3505 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_OUTPUT): Update copyright date to 2004.
3507 2004-01-27 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
3508 Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>
3510 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_GREP): New macro to test for a
3511 grep or ggrep program in PATH that accepts as long lines as
3513 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_GREP): Factor out the core of
3515 (AC_PROG_EGREP, AC_PROG_FGREP): Use it to find best available
3516 egrep and fgrep respectively if $GREP -E/-F don't work.
3517 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FEATURE_CHECK): Factor out the common core of
3518 _AC_PROG_GREP, and AC_PROG_SED.
3519 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): New helper macro for finding the
3520 longest input length accepted by a command.
3521 (AC_PROG_SED): Use it.
3522 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): Document the changes.
3525 2004-01-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3527 * bin/autoconf.as ($version): Update copyright from 2003 to 2004.
3528 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
3529 bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in: Likewise.
3530 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_COPYRIGHT): Likewise.
3532 * Makefile.in, aclocal.m4, configure, bin/Makefile.in,
3533 bin/autoconf.in, config/Makefile.in, config/config.guess,
3534 config/config.sub, config/install-sh, config/mdate-sh,
3535 config/mkinstalldirs, config/texinfo.tex, doc/Makefile.in,
3536 lib/Makefile.in, lib/Autom4te/Makefile.in,
3537 lib/autoconf/Makefile.in, lib/autoscan/Makefile.in,
3538 lib/autotest/Makefile.in, lib/emacs/Makefile.in,
3539 lib/m4sugar/Makefile.in, man/Makefile.in, man/autoconf.1,
3540 man/autoheader.1, man/autom4te.1, man/autoreconf.1,
3541 man/autoscan.1, man/autoupdate.1, man/config.guess.1,
3542 man/config.sub.1, man/ifnames.1, tests/Makefile.in,
3543 tests/acc.at, tests/acfortran.at, tests/acfunctions.at,
3544 tests/acgeneral.at, tests/acheaders.at, tests/aclang.at,
3545 tests/aclibs.at, tests/acspecific.at, tests/acstatus.at,
3546 tests/actypes.at: Regenerate and/or sync with original
3549 2004-01-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3551 * doc/autoconf.texi (Default Includes): Include <stdint.h> even if
3552 HAVE_INTTYPES_H is defined. This is needed on Tru64 5.1b with
3553 Compac C V6.5-207 (dtk), which defines uintmax_t in <stdint.h> but
3554 not <inttypes.h>. Problem reported by Tim Mooney in
3555 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-01/msg00147.html>.
3556 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS):
3559 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_SED): Use diff, not sed;
3560 otherwise "make check" fails because it forbids cmp (I guess
3561 because cmp treats files as binary on DOS-like systems).
3563 * tests/mktests.sh: Update copyright date to 2004, since some tests
3564 have changed in 2004.
3566 2004-01-23 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
3568 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_SED): New macro to test for a
3569 non-truncating sed or gsed program in PATH.
3570 * tests/acprograms.at: Add it.
3571 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): Document it.
3574 2004-01-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3576 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Try -std, not -std1, since
3577 -std1 disables some useful extensions on Tru64. Problem reported
3579 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-01/msg00100.html>.
3581 2004-01-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3583 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Document that
3584 AS_MKDIR_P succeeds if the destination is a symbolic link
3585 to an existing directory.
3586 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Note that mkdir -p might not
3587 succeed on symlinks to directories.
3589 2004-01-13 Paul Hilfinger <hilfinger@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
3591 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4 (AU_DEFUN): Grammar fix in comment.
3592 * bin/autoheader.in: Grammar fix in message.
3593 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_MKDIR_P):
3594 Test for dir before calling mkdir -p. (trivial changes)
3596 2004-01-13 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
3598 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsolete Macros): In AC_TRY_COMPILE and
3599 AC_TRY_LINK, s/AC_LANG_SOURCE/AC_LANG_PROGRAM/. (trivial change)
3601 2004-01-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
3603 * doc/autoconf.texi (Running the Preprocessor): Correct grammar.
3605 2004-01-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3607 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Fix bug: AC_CHECK_SIZEOF evokes a warning
3608 with `autoconf -Wall,error'. Bug reported by Eric Blake in:
3609 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-01/msg00000.html
3610 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE): Invoke _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, not
3611 AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, since we now assume our caller invokes
3612 AC_LANG_COMPILER_REQUIRE, for symmetry with _AC_COMPUTE_INT_RUN.
3613 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT_RUN): Likewise, for _AC_RUN_IFELSE instead
3614 of AC_RUN_IFELSE; this avoids the warning mentioned above.
3615 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT): Invoke AC_LANG_COMPILER_REQUIRE.
3617 2004-01-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3619 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJS_NORMALIZE): Avoid \$ inside
3620 `"'...'"`, as it's confusing (and I suspect it may not work on
3621 some platforms). The code was incorrect anyway, as it assumed
3622 that \$ evaluated to itself in that context. Reported by
3623 Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
3625 2004-01-07 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
3627 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect AC_LIBTOOL_TAGS
3628 and _LT_AC_TAGCONFIG.
3630 2004-01-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3632 * doc/autoconf.texi (One Macro Call): Fix an incorrect
3633 example, and add more examples. Reported by Eric Sunshine.
3635 2004-01-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3637 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools):
3638 Remove warning against "rm -fr" introduced yesterday; it
3641 * bin/Makefile.am (autoconf, autoheader, autom4te, autoreconf,
3642 autoscan, autoupdate, ifnames): Don't use chmod -w.
3643 * lib/Makefile.am (autom4te.cfg): Likewise.
3644 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Warn against
3647 2004-01-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3648 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
3650 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Speed up sed scripts
3651 by doing lineno substitution only on lines containing "$LINENO".
3653 2004-01-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3655 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_PROGRAM):
3656 Use "rm -f" to remove conftest.sed, not plain "rm".
3657 Bug reported by David Relson in
3658 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-01/msg00011.html>.
3660 * Makefile.am (autom4te-update):
3661 Replace "rm -rf" and "rm -fr" with "rm -f -r", as POSIX requires.
3662 * Makefile.maint (my-distcheck, do-po-update): Likewise.
3663 * doc/autoconf.texi (Guidelines): Likewise.
3664 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Likewise.
3665 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_XMKMF): Likewise.
3666 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_LONG_FILE_NAMES): Likewise.
3667 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
3668 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): Likewise.
3669 * tests/Makefile.am (clean-local): Likewise.
3670 * tests/tortue.at (AC_CONFIG_FILES, HEADERS, LINKS and COMMANDS,
3672 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools):
3673 Warn against "rm -fr".
3675 2004-01-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3677 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Mention that cc
3678 -c -o might not work. From a suggestion by Kevin Ryde.
3679 (C Compiler, Generating Sources, Limitations
3680 of Usual Tools, Limitations of Make, Making testsuite Scripts):
3681 Don't put '-o' after non-options, as POSIX doesn't allow this.
3682 Mention that cc's name might be gcc or c89 or whatever.
3684 2004-01-04 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
3686 * doc/autoconf.texi: Add various further index entries.
3688 2003-12-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3690 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory):
3691 Fix typo: mkdir without umask arg.
3693 2003-12-27 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
3695 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make) <Automatic rule rewriting>:
3696 Documents OSF1/Tru64 make behavior. Replace `VPATH = ../src' by
3697 `VPATH = ../pkg/src' in examples to make the OSF1/Tru64 make
3698 explanation clearer.
3700 2003-12-24 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
3702 * doc/autoconf.texi (Default Includes): Fix misspelling of
3703 AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT.
3705 2003-12-03 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
3707 * configure.ac: Test if sh -n works.
3708 * configure: Regenerate.
3709 * tests/atlocal.in: Store the result here.
3710 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_SHELL_SYNTAX): Extracted from
3711 tools.at, looking in atlocal's ac_cv_sh_n_works instead
3712 of explicitly testing.
3713 (AT_CHECK_PERL_SYNTAX): Moved from tools.at.
3714 (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF): Test for the configure script syntax.
3715 * tests/tools.at (Syntax of the shell scripts): Simplify
3716 using AT_CHECK_SHELL_SYNTAX.
3717 (Syntax of the Perl scripts): Remove definition of
3718 AT_CHECK_PERL_SYNTAX.
3720 2003-12-03 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
3722 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_SHELL_FN_WORK): Redirect
3723 stderr to /dev/null.
3724 * bin/autoconf.in: Regenerate.
3725 * bin/wrapper.in: Regenerate.
3727 2003-11-26 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
3729 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE):
3730 Extracted from AS_SHELL_SANITIZE.
3731 (_AS_SHELL_FN_WORK, AS_INIT_WITH_SHELL_FN): New
3733 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Move reinvocation code from
3734 _AS_LINENO_WORKS, use it to find out if shell
3736 (_AS_LINENO_WORKS): Don't find another shell if $LINENO
3738 (AS_INIT): Pass parameter down to AS_SHELL_SANITIZE.
3739 (AS_REQUIRE_SHELL_FN): Test that AS_INIT_WITH_SHELL_FN
3741 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Use AS_INIT_WITH_SHELL_FN.
3742 * bin/autoconf.in: Regenerate.
3743 * tests/wrapper.in: Regenerate.
3744 * tests/tools.at: Test the syntax of tests/autoconf
3745 and tests/testsuite.
3747 2003-11-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3749 * config/announce-gen (&print_locations, &print_signatures)
3752 No longer rely on Gnus to inline the list of signatures: compute
3755 2003-11-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3757 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): AC_PROG_LEX can
3758 override some files.
3759 (Input): AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(aux) is a bad idea on DOS.
3760 From Debian Autoconf 2.58.
3762 2003-11-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3764 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Quote $ac_popdir
3766 From Debian Autoconf 2.58.
3768 2003-11-24 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
3770 * TODO: Remove already done things. Update the part about finding
3771 tools for the target.
3773 2003-11-24 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
3775 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_USG, AC_MEMORY_H, AC_DIR_HEADER):
3776 Make wording more consistent.
3777 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_CYGWIN, AC_EMXOS2, AC_MINGW32):
3778 Explain the transition better.
3779 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_INT_16_BITS, AC_LONG_64_BITS): Explain
3780 the transition better.
3782 2003-11-24 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
3784 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsoleting Macros): Don't document the third
3785 parameter of AU_DEFUN.
3786 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4 (AU_DEFINE): Remove.
3787 (AU_DEFUN): Remove the third parameter, it was not used.
3788 Use AC_DEFUN directly, not AU_DEFINE.
3789 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_LINK_FILES): Move the message into
3790 the expanded body, consistently with other macros such as AC_USG.
3792 2003-11-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3794 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Put at least 14 bytes
3795 into the initial confdefs.h, to work around a bug in NextStep 3.3
3796 patch 3 reported by Eric Sunshine.
3798 2003-11-15 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
3800 * doc/autoconf.texi (Using System Type): Revise, showing $host rather
3801 than $target since the latter is not usual, add guidelines on when to
3802 use or not use the system type.
3804 2003-11-12 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
3806 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Fix what looks like a
3807 typo misrepaired by an auto-spellcheck.
3809 2003-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3811 * bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args): Don't call automake with
3812 --force-missing unless it actually supports it.
3813 From Debian #219336.
3815 2003-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3817 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.59a.
3820 2003-11-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3824 2003-11-05 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
3826 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Fix use of AS_SET_CATFILE
3827 so that ac_abs_builddir, ac_abs_top_builddir, ac_abs_srcdir,
3828 and ac_abs_top_srcdir are absolute paths.
3829 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SET_CATFILE): Remove misleading comment.
3831 2003-11-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3833 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.58a.
3835 2003-11-05 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
3837 * doc/autoconf.texi (Using Autotest): Avoid @strong{Note: ...}, since
3838 it provokes a warning from makeinfo about looking like a cross
3839 reference in info output.
3841 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add notes on signal
3842 handler return type, as per AC_TYPE_SIGNAL.
3844 2003-11-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3847 * doc/standards.texi: Update from master.
3849 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Add AC_FC_FREEFORM.
3851 2003-11-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3853 AC_CONFIG_FILE([d1/foo:d2/foo]) triggers error messages when
3854 computing the absolute path to d1 in the source hierarchy: it may
3855 not exist at all. So don't cd into it.
3856 From Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
3857 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-10/msg00205.html
3859 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SET_CATFILE): New.
3860 From Paul Eggert, but named after Perl's IO::Spec->catfile.
3861 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Document.
3862 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Use it.
3864 2003-11-03 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
3866 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Structure Checks): Describe
3867 action-if-found and action-if-not-found in AC_CHECK_MEMBERS.
3869 2003-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3871 * tests/fortran.at (GNU Fortran 77): Don't run FC macros.
3873 * doc/autoconf.texi (Language Choice): Document.
3874 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_FREEFORM): Assert
3875 the current language is Fortran.
3877 2003-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3879 * bin/autom4te.in (&freeze): Use a less likely warning separator
3880 than `\n\n', so that `\n\n\n' is valid in warnings.
3881 Reported by Steve Huston.
3883 2003-10-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3885 * Makefile.cfg (local_updates, executable-update): Tweak to be
3886 robust to parallel makes.
3887 Suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
3889 2003-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3891 * Makefile.cfg (executable-update): New.
3892 (local_updates): Call it.
3894 2003-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3896 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_RUN_IFELSE, _AC_INIT_PREPARE):
3897 Don't remove core.* as it may remove valid user files.
3898 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED)
3899 (AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL): Likewise.
3901 2003-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3904 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub: Upgrade from masters.
3906 2003-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3908 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_SRCEXT): Functions using
3909 AC_COMPILE_IFELSE that use break skip the clean up. So do it by
3912 2003-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3914 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LINK_IFELSE, _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE):
3915 Don't forget to remove conftest.err.
3917 2003-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3919 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ): Don't insert twice the
3920 same object file in $LIBOBJS.
3921 Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz & Derek Robert Price.
3922 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Functions): Adjust.
3924 2003-10-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3926 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_TR_SH_PREPARE, _AS_TR_CPP_PREPARE):
3927 Use 'eval', so that the resulting configure scripts work even if
3928 the current directory has a weird file name like 'y%s+%pp%;s%@%_%g'.
3930 2003-10-20 Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
3932 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_WERROR): New macro.
3933 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, _AC_PREPROC_IFELSE)
3934 (_AC_LINK_IFELSE): Check the werror flag.
3935 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Compiler Characteristics): Document
3939 2003-10-20 Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
3941 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_NO_EXECUTABLES): Override
3942 _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT to attempt a link. If linking fails,
3943 override AC_LINK_IFELSE.
3945 2003-10-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3947 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_UNSET_PREPARE): Work around a bug in
3948 pdksh 5.2.14. Bug reported by Ralf Corsepius.
3949 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology): Mention the Korn shell and pdksh.
3950 Mention /usr/dt/bin/dtksh on Solaris.
3951 (Shell Substitutions): Warn about $((...)).
3952 (Parentheses): New section.
3954 2003-10-15 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
3956 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add @prindex for exit.
3957 Add putenv and unsetenv. Add sysconf _SC_PAGE_SIZE.
3959 2003-10-13 Nathanael Nerode <neroden@gcc.gnu.org>
3961 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_FORK): Trivial fix for vfork
3964 2003-10-11 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
3966 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Use the new official
3967 name for the GNU Fortran 95+ compiler, 'gfortran', not 'g95'.
3969 2003-10-10 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
3971 * bin/autoheader.in: Avoid empty first line in --version and
3973 * bin/ifnames.in: Likewise.
3975 2003-10-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3977 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Don't assume -j is solo.
3978 Issue a more-informative diagnostic.
3979 Problems reported by Eric Sunshine.
3981 2003-10-08 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
3983 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): Omit quoted
3984 -mGLOB_options_string stuff for Intel ifc, which can cause
3985 _AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS to fail. Use (faster) case for
3986 pattern-matching instead of grep.
3988 2003-10-08 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
3990 * doc/autoconf.texi: Document new FC Fortran macros.
3992 2003-10-08 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
3994 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR): Stub out a macro
3995 that future autopoint/aclocal/automake/autoreconf will be able
3996 to trace to find where to install local m4 macros.
3997 * doc/autoconf.texi (Input): Document it.
4000 2003-10-06 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
4002 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Add
4003 -lcrtbegin.o to list of ignored flags and fix underquoting of
4006 2003-10-04 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@ab-initio.mit.edu>
4008 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_G): Use language-specific
4009 cache variable instead of $G77 to decide whether to include -O2,
4010 since $G77 is specific to Fortran 77.
4012 2003-10-03 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
4014 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_FREEFORM): Support Absoft "-f
4015 free" flag. Re-order flags tested into rough order of popularity.
4017 2003-10-03 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
4019 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_PROG_FC): Reverse the order of the
4020 arguments so that it can be used with syntax identical to
4021 AC_PROG_F77, and so that we can more easily decide to
4022 remove/deprecate the DIALECT optional argument in the future if it
4024 (AC_FC_FREEFORM): Exit 77 upon failure to fix test suite for
4025 non-freeform-supporting compilers. Document freeform flags.
4027 2003-10-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4029 * configure.ac: Look for emacs, not macs.
4030 Reported by Eric Sunshine.
4032 2003-10-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4034 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoreconf-preselections): Trace AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR.
4035 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory): Create the
4036 AUX_DIR if needed, for sake of automake --add-missing etc.
4037 Suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
4039 2003-10-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4041 * configure.ac: Quotation and formatting changes.
4042 (EMACS): Don't set it if it is not recent enough to support
4046 2003-10-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4048 * bin/ifnames.in (&scan_file): Skip C++ comments.
4051 2003-10-01 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
4053 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Structure Checks):
4054 Fix misspelling of HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_BLOCKS.
4056 2003-10-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4060 2003-09-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4062 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Use Errno.
4063 (lock): Ignore ENOLCK errors. Problem reported Andreas Schwab in
4064 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-09/msg00141.html>.
4066 2003-09-30 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4068 * config/announce-gen (&print_news_deltas): Extracted from...
4069 (&print_changelog_deltas): here.
4070 (&news_file): Rename as...
4073 2003-09-30 Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>
4075 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Remove files which might
4076 have been created when invoking the compiler.
4077 * tests/fortran.at (GNU Fortran 77): Quote $G77.
4079 2003-09-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4083 * config/mkinstalldirs: Upgrade.
4085 2003-09-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4087 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Set DUALCASE=1, for MKS sh.
4088 Problem reported by Lars J. Aas in
4089 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2003-07/msg00042.html>.
4090 (_AS_MKDIR_P_PREPARE): Change "rm -fr ./-p" to the more-conservative
4091 "test -d ./-p && rmdir ./-p". Suggested by Andreas Schwab in:
4092 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2003-09/msg00039.html
4094 2003-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4096 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS): Make sure the
4097 directory for AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS' first argument exists.
4098 This makes valid the invocation of _AC_SRCPATH that follows.
4099 Reported by Eric Sunshine.
4100 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Commands): Adjust.
4102 2003-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4104 * bin/autoscan.in (Autom4te::FileUtils): Use it for find_file.
4105 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
4107 2003-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4109 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_HELP_STRING): Don't overquote the
4111 Actually, use AU_ALIAS.
4114 2003-09-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4116 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_MKDIR_P_PREPARE): If mkdir -p . fails,
4117 rm -fr ./-p to remove junk left behind on NextStep and OpenStep.
4118 Problem reported by Eric Sunshine in:
4119 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2002-12/msg00014.html
4121 2003-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4123 The test suite are sometimes assigning timings incorrectly.
4124 Reported by Henk Krus.
4125 Diagnosed by Nicolas Joly.
4127 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CLEANUP): Rename AT_help as
4129 Instead of making AT_help a sequence of assignments to grow
4130 $at_help_all, just make AT_help_all be the growing contents of
4131 $at_help_all, and make a single assignment in...
4133 (at_times_skip): Flip the meaning and rename as...
4135 (AT_INIT): When summarizing the test that ran, remove
4136 $at_times_file after use, and check it is present before trying to
4139 2003-09-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4143 * bin/Makefile.am (edit): Handle '@configure_input@'.
4144 (autoconf, autoheader, autom4te, autoreconf, autoscan, autoupdate)
4145 (ifnames): chmod -w.
4146 * tests/wrapper.as (AUTOCONF, AUTOM4TE, ): Point to tests/
4147 executables, not bin/ executables! Otherwise all the magic needed
4148 to find non installed files is turned off. This caused a failure
4149 of test 40 and 41 that ran aclocal 1.8 which in turn ran autom4te
4150 as found in its environment (sent by tests/autoreconf): pointing
4151 to bin/autom4te that could not find its files.
4152 * tests/mktests.sh: Force the replacement of generated files, for
4153 the sake of "mv" program that are interactive when overwriting a
4155 * config/install-sh: Upgrade from CVS Automake.
4157 2003-09-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4159 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Document test -h
4160 versus test -L issues.
4162 2003-09-23 Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> and
4163 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4165 Trivial change to support GCC's configuration procedure.
4166 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CPP_WERROR): New macro.
4167 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): Don't warn
4168 about inconsistency if the preprocessor is set to give errors for
4170 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler Characteristics): Document this.
4172 2003-09-13 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
4174 * Makefile.am (autom4te-update, autom4te_files): Fetch Struct.pm
4175 and XFile.pm from Automake.
4176 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Update from Automake.
4178 2003-09-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4182 2003-09-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4184 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/missing,
4185 * lib/Autom4te/Channels.pm, lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm: Update
4188 2003-09-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4190 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): Promote linux/types.h,
4193 2003-09-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4195 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): linux/random.h.
4196 From Peter Hendrickson.
4198 2003-09-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4200 * tests/mktests.sh (au_exclude_egrep): Make it harder to be
4201 willing to edit the output files.
4203 2003-09-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4205 * tests/fortran.at (GNU Fortran 77): Also exercise AC_FC_SRCEXT
4207 * tests/mktests.sh: Skip AC_FC_SRCEXT.
4208 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_FREEFORM): Likewise.
4210 2003-09-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4212 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm (&update_file): s/cannot not/cannot/g.
4213 Reported by Gary Vaughan.
4214 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_m4): Likewise.
4216 2003-09-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4218 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm (&update_file): Be sure not to leave
4221 2003-09-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4223 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS):
4224 Improve the accuracy of the wording about obsolescence.
4225 From a suggestion by Ian Lance Taylor in
4226 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2003-09/msg00044.html>.
4228 2003-09-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4230 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_FREEFORM): Try -ffree-form too,
4231 for the benefit of g77 3.2. Fix suggested by Steven G. Johnson.
4233 2003-09-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4235 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Fix the filtering of
4238 2003-09-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4240 * bin/autom4te.in: Use &fatal where more appropriate than &error.
4241 (freeze): When exiting, use $exit_code.
4242 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4: Comment changes.
4244 2003-09-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4246 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Add AC_FC_FUNC.
4248 2003-09-02 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
4250 Add support for newer Fortran dialects. The F77 interface is
4251 unchanged, and continues to support Fortran 77. New FC macros
4252 correspond to all the old F77 macros, with output variables FC,
4253 FCFLAGS, and FCLIBS. AC_PROG_FC defaults to picking the newest
4254 available dialect, but older dialects can be specified. There are
4255 new macros AC_FC_SRCEXT to set the source extension, and
4256 AC_FC_FREEFORM to accept free-form source files.
4258 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_LANG_PREFIX(C), _AC_LANG_PREFIX(C++)):
4260 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C)): Invoke _AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_FC_HOOKS if defined.
4261 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_LANG(Fortran), _AC_FORTRAN_ASSERT,
4262 _AC_LANG_ABBREV(Fortran), _AC_LANG_PREFIX(Fortran 77),
4263 _AC_LANG_PREFIX(Fortran), _AC_FC, AC_LANG_SOURCE(Fortran),
4264 AC_LANG_PROGRAM(Fortran), AC_LANG_CALL(Fortran),
4265 AC_LANG_PREPROC(Fortran), AC_LANG_COMPILER(Fortran),
4266 _AC_FC_DIALECT_YEAR, _AC_F95_FC, _AC_F90_FC, _AC_F77_FC,
4267 _AC_PROG_FC, AC_PROG_FC, _AC_PROG_FC_G, _AC_PROG_FC_C_O,
4268 AC_PROG_FC_C_O, _AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT, _AC_PROG_FC_V,
4269 _AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS, AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS, _AC_FC_DUMMY_MAIN,
4270 AC_FC_DUMMY_MAIN, _AC_FC_MAIN, AC_FC_MAIN, __AC_FC_NAME_MANGLING,
4271 _AC_FC_WRAPPERS, AC_FC_WRAPPERS, _AC_FC_FUNC, AC_FC_FUNC,
4272 AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_FREEFORM):
4274 (AC_PROG_F77, AC_PROG_F77_C_O, AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS,
4275 AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN, AC_F77_MAIN, _AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING,
4276 AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING, AC_F77_WRAPPERS, AC_F77_FUNC):
4277 Rewrite in terms of the above.
4278 (_AC_PROG_F77_G, _AC_PROG_F77_V_OUTPUT, _AC_PROG_F77_V): Remove.
4279 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_LANG_PREFIX): New macro.
4280 * tests/acfortran.at: Test AC_FC_FREEFORM, AC_FC_FUNC,
4281 AC_FC_MAIN, AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_WRAPPERS, AC_PROG_FC_C_O.
4283 2003-09-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4285 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools, Limitations of Make):
4286 Document problems with timestamp resolution that 'make', 'cp -p', and
4289 2003-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4291 * tests/m4sugar.at (cross_warning): Make sure to enable the
4292 output, so that we can track spurious m4sugar output.
4293 * tests/local.at: Require 2.57.
4294 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR, AT_CHECK_M4SH): Don't m4_default the arguments that
4295 are defaulted by AT_CHECK anyway.
4296 Use AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE.
4297 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: There should be no output at all: add a
4300 2003-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4302 * bin/autoheader.in: Issue the "Using auxiliary..." message only
4303 when -Wobsolete is set.
4304 Set it on by default.
4305 Suggested by Klee Dienes.
4307 2003-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4309 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_FUNC_FSEEKO, AC_SYS_LARGEFILE): More
4313 2003-08-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4315 * doc/autoconf.texi (Output): Make clear that one can run code
4318 2003-08-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4320 * config/announce-gen, GNUmakefile, Makefile.maint: Update from
4323 2003-08-25 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
4325 * bin/autoreconf.in (parse_args): Do not pass --no-force to
4326 Automake versions prior to 1.8.
4328 2003-08-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4330 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): netinet/if_ether.h.
4333 2003-08-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4335 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.57c.
4337 2003-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4341 * Makefile.cfg (local-checks-to-skip): New.
4342 * Makefile.maint (local-check): Rename as...
4343 (local-checks-available): this.
4346 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add Makefile.cfg.
4347 * configure.ac: Require Automake 1.7.6.
4349 2003-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4351 Output stack traces in warnings.
4353 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (_m4_warn): New.
4354 Replace the former...
4355 (m4_warn): Pass the call stack to _m4_warn.
4356 * bin/autom4te.in: Adjust to output the call stack.
4357 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4@&t@_warn): Adjust.
4359 2003-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4361 * lib/Autom4te/Request.pm, lib/Autom4te/C4che.pm: New.
4362 * bin/autom4te.in: Adjust.
4364 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4366 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&file_name_is_absolute): Remove.
4368 (&getopt): Adjust the note and verb channels, depending upon
4370 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoscan.in,
4371 * bin/autoupdate.in: Adjust.
4372 Use &verb, not &verbose.
4374 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4376 * bin/autoheader.in (&parse_args): Use &parse_warnings and
4378 ($help): Use Autom4te::ChannelDefs::usage.
4379 * bin/autoscan.in: Use Autom4te::ChannelDefs.
4380 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: Don't export error: you don't own it.
4382 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4384 First stab at preserving warnings between calls to autom4te,
4385 including when the cache is used.
4387 There are still several issues: (i) there are too many runs of m4
4388 (one for include, one for warnings, and some more), (ii) warnings
4389 spreading on several lines are not handled gracefully, (iii) the
4390 code meant to have the call stack display for errors does not work
4391 (its handling should move from m4 to autom4te).
4393 * bin/autom4te.in Autom4te::Channels, Autom4te::ChannelDefs):
4395 (@preselect): Add m4_warn.
4396 ($exit_status): Remove, use $exit_code.
4397 ($help): Use Autom4te::ChannelDefs::usage.
4398 (&handle_m4): No longer define the m4_warnings.
4399 At each run, extract and report the warnings.
4400 Always cache the result, including if the exit status is on
4401 failure, since if nothing changes, we should result in the same
4402 failure, hence we can use the cache.
4403 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_warning_ifelse, _m4_warning_ifelse)
4404 (_m4_warning_error_ifelse, __m4_warning_error_ifelse, _m4_warn):
4406 (m4_warn): Redefine as a do-nothing: it is its invocation that
4407 matters, as warnings are now reported via traces.
4408 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_DIAGNOSE): Don't make it a copy of
4409 the contents of m4_warn: make it _call_ m4_warn, so that tracing
4410 the latter reveals calls to the former.
4414 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4@&t@_warn): Use existing warning categories.
4416 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4418 * bin/autoreconf.pm (Autom4te::Channels, Autom4te::ChannelDefs):
4421 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4423 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm (&find_file): Walk the @include in
4425 * lib/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm: Doc typos.
4426 (&parse_warnings): Accept a list of warning requests.
4427 (&usage): Return a string, not a side effect.
4428 (cross): New warning category.
4430 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4432 * lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm (&find_configure_ac)
4433 (&require_configure_ac): Accept an optional directory argument.
4434 ($configure_ac): Remove.
4435 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_configure_ac, &canonfile)
4437 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoupdate.in,
4438 * bin/autoscan.in: Adjust.
4440 2003-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4442 * bin/autoheader.in: Remove duplicate 'use Autom4te::FileUtils'.
4443 Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
4445 2003-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4447 * bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
4448 * bin/autom4te: Adjust.
4449 In particular, be Autoconf tools are really silent when properly
4450 working, bind the verbosity of the 'note' channel to $verbose.
4451 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_file, &mtime, &update_file)
4452 (&xsystem, &contents): Remove, since they are exported by...
4453 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm: this.
4455 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&up_to_date_p): Move to...
4456 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm: here.
4458 2003-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4460 * lib/Autom4te/Channels.pm, lib/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm
4461 * lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm, lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm: New,
4464 2003-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4466 * Makefile.am (automake_cvsweb, automake_cvsargs, autom4te_files)
4467 (autom4te-update): New.
4468 * Makefile.cfg (update): Bind autom4te-update.
4470 2003-08-19 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
4472 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Comment various HELP_* diversions.
4473 (PARSE_ARGS_BEGIN): New section for option parsing related
4475 (AT_ARG_OPTION,AT_ARG_OPTION_ARG,_AT_ARG_OPTION): New macros to define
4476 package specific options and associated help.
4478 2003-08-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4480 * config/announce-gen, Makefile.cfg: New.
4481 * Makefile.am: Adjust.
4482 * GNUmakefile, Makefile.maint: Update from CVS Coreutils.
4484 2003-08-19 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
4486 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect
4487 AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR, AC_CONFIG_LINKS, m4_include,
4490 2003-08-19 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
4492 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): Move all args except aclocal.m4? into ...
4493 (Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4): ... this new language.
4494 * doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te Invocation): Mention
4495 Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4.
4497 2003-08-18 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
4499 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Document RUN-IF-FAIL &
4500 RUN-IF-PASS optional arguments.
4502 2003-08-18 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
4504 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Add doc for AS_IF.
4506 2003-08-16 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
4508 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Document defaults for
4509 STDOUT & STDERR arguments.
4511 2003-08-14 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
4513 * lib/autotestgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Reformat test summary line to print
4514 DESCRIPTION rather than FILE and LINE. Shorten result to fit in new,
4515 shorter column three. Add DESCRIPTION to log file content.
4517 2003-08-13 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
4519 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Correct typo in final status
4522 2003-08-12 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
4524 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CHECK): Use new _AT_CHECK API.
4525 (AT_CHECK_NOESCAPE): Move core functionality to...
4526 (_AT_CHECK): ...this new macro.
4528 2003-08-07 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
4530 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CHECK): Move core functionality...
4531 (AT_CHECK_NOESCAPE): ...to this new macro.
4533 2003-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4535 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_UNSET_PREPARE): Work around a bug
4536 in Bash 2.01. Problem reported by Brian Gough in
4537 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-07/msg00106.html>.
4539 2003-07-25 John W. Eaton <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
4541 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Also ignore
4542 -lcrt1.o, for OS X. (trivial change)
4544 2003-07-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4546 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_INLINE): Wrap the '#define inline ...'
4547 inside '#ifndef __cplusplus'. Problem reported by
4550 2003-07-06 Bill Clarke <llib@computer.org>
4552 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MMAP): Cast pointer to
4553 'long', not 'int', for benefit of Sun's recent C++ compilers
4554 (trivial change). See:
4555 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2003-07/msg00007.html
4556 (This really should be 'intptr_t', not 'long', but that would
4559 2003-06-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4561 * lib/Makefile.am (autom4te.cfg): Make it read only.
4562 Depend on Makefile since it contains substitutions.
4564 * lib/autom4te.in (args): Add local.at? for Autotest args.
4565 This change was made on autom4te.cfg which is generated.
4566 Reported by Raja R. Harinath.
4568 2003-06-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4570 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): sys/mount.h.
4571 From Gareth McCaughan.
4573 2003-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4575 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Report a single config.log,
4576 not all of them. This fixes 1. the fact that when testing
4577 Autoconf there are many many config.log, 2. the incorrect use of
4578 top_srcdir to find config.log.
4579 Don't mix the detailed output of failed test with the summary of
4580 failures. Rather, append detailed log afterwards.
4582 2003-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4584 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_CONFIGURE): Adjust to the verbose being
4585 always run: output config.log on $at_group_log.
4587 2003-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4589 * tests/torture.at (#define header templates): Don't use quotes in
4590 C++ comments as it puzzles Emacs' sh font-lock-mode.
4592 2003-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4594 * tests/mktests.sh (au_exclude_egrep): Fix output copyright notice.
4595 * lib/autom4te.cfg (args): Add local.at? for Autotest args.
4596 * tests/atspecific.m4: Rename as...
4597 * tests/local.at: This.
4598 * tests/suite.at: Move the globals into...
4599 * tests/local.at: here.
4600 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
4601 * doc/autoconf.texi (testsuite Scripts): Adjust.
4603 2003-06-21 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
4605 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Extend test program to get an
4606 error from OSF 4.0 Compaq cc in its default almost-ANSI mode, thereby
4607 ensuring we add -std1 for full-ANSI.
4609 * doc/autoconf.texi (hdrindex): New macro.
4610 Add index entries for portability of various standard header files.
4612 2003-06-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4614 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.57b.
4616 2003-06-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4620 2003-06-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4622 * bin/autom4te.in: Don't rely on $HOME being defined.
4623 Reported by Marc Espie as PR/233.
4625 2003-06-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4627 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Use at_times_file only if used.
4630 2003-06-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4632 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/elisp-comp,
4633 * config/install-sh, config/mkinstalldirs, doc/standards.texi:
4634 Update from masters.
4636 2003-06-11 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
4638 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Document AT_XFAIL_IF
4639 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_XFAIL_IF): New macro.
4640 (TEST_SCRIPT): New diversion.
4641 (AT_SETUP): Divert output to TEST_SCRIPT and move some code...
4642 (AT_CLEANUP): ...to here. Undivert TEST_SCRIPT.
4643 (AT_INIT): Support for expected failures.
4645 2003-06-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4647 * bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoheader.in: White space
4649 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&backname): Remove, no longer used by
4650 Autoconf nor Automake.
4651 (&contents): New, from Automake.
4654 2003-05-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4656 * NEWS, doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions),
4657 lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MKTIME): Check that mktime
4658 is the inverse of localtime.
4660 2003-05-25 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
4662 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (END): Print diagnostics to STDERR.
4663 (handle_exec_errors): New function. Work around $! being
4664 altered by WEXITSTATUS.
4665 (xqx, xsystem): Use handle_exec_errors.
4667 2003-05-23 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
4669 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (END): Rewrite exit code processing.
4670 Do not call `_exit()', simply modify `$?'.
4671 (xsystem): Reset $! before running system, and check it afterward.
4672 * tests/tools.at (autoupdating AC_PREREQ): Expect exit status
4673 63 for version mismatches.
4675 2003-05-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4677 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Prefer "TAB-SP" to "SP-TAB", because of
4678 Emacs' dangerous whitespace.el behavior (smashing "useless" spaces in
4679 the middle of a line).
4680 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: Likewise.
4681 Remove useless spaces in comments.
4683 2003-05-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4685 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_version_prereq): Failure causes an
4686 exit 63, so that we (or Automake's "missing") can tell the
4687 difference with a plain failure.
4688 * doc/autoconf.texi (Notices): Adjust.
4690 2003-05-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4692 * Makefile.am, bin/Makefile.am, config/Makefile.am,
4693 * doc/Makefile.am, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am, tests/Makefile.am:
4694 White spaces cleanup.
4696 2003-05-22 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
4697 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4699 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION):
4700 Remove `#include <stdlib.h>' from the list; we should never
4701 make confdefs.h include <stdlib.h> or <cstdlib>, because the
4702 resulting namespace pollution would cause other tests to fail.
4703 Configure scripts run with some older versions of g++ and HP's
4704 aCC would fail due to such an #include. Problems reported by
4705 Matthew Mueller in <http://bugs.debian.org/120704> and by
4707 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2003-05/msg00063.html>.
4708 In the test, use the test declaration before including <stdlib.h>,
4709 as that's closer to how it'll be used.
4711 2003-05-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4713 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): ucred.h.
4716 2003-05-22 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
4718 Overhaul Autotest's logging: generate separate log files
4719 in testsuite.dir/NNN/testsuite.log, and append them to
4720 testsuite.log instead of re-running the test verbosely.
4722 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Use a single redirected
4723 file descriptor, write 0 to at_status_file instead of setting
4724 at_status=0, initialize some new variables (at_status_file,
4725 at_group_log, at_suite_log, at_tee_pipe). Remove the cruft
4726 to rerun the tests, instead append the at_group_log to the
4727 at_suite_log when a test fails.
4728 (AT_SETUP): pipe the test case's output into at_tee_pipe,
4729 with the AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD redirected to stdout.
4730 (AT_CLEANUP): save the output status in $at_status_file
4731 and restore it, redirect the AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD back to
4733 (AT_CHECK): since tests are run with a redirected stdout,
4734 and used to be re-run in verbose mode, turn some $at_verbose
4735 into echo, and don't redirect the output of testing stdout
4738 * lib/autotest/autoconf.texi (testsuite Scripts): Update
4739 the name of the debugging directory and information about
4742 2003-05-22 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
4744 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_REQUIRE): Actually use the 2nd
4747 2003-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4749 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4, lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4
4750 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 lib/autoconf/general.m4
4751 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 lib/autoconf/oldnames.m4
4752 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Fix and adjust copyright notices.
4754 2003-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4756 * aclocal.m4, bin/autoconf.as, lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4,
4757 * lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4, lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4,
4758 * lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/fortran.m4,
4759 * lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/headers.m4,
4760 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4,
4761 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4, lib/autoconf/specific.m4,
4762 * lib/autoconf/status.m4, lib/autoconf/types.m4,
4763 * lib/autotest/general.m4, lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4,
4764 * tests/atspecific.m4, tests/base.at, tests/compile.at,
4765 * tests/foreign.at, tests/m4sh.at, tests/semantics.at,
4766 * tests/tools.at, tests/torture.at:
4767 Whitespace clean up.
4768 Suggested by Jim Meyering.
4770 2003-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4772 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG): Restore smashed
4773 ' \t' as '\t ' so that Emacs' whitespace.el keep it.
4774 Reported by Jim Meyering.
4776 2003-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4778 * doc/autoconf.texi: Replace AC_HELP_STRING AS_HELP_STRING.
4779 Add AC_HELP_STRING to the obsolete macros section.
4781 Use '@.' for sentences that ended in a capital letter.
4784 2003-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4786 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/elisp-comp,
4787 * config/install-sh, config/mdate-sh, config/mkinstalldirs,
4788 * config/texinfo.tex, doc/standards.texi: Update from masters.
4790 2003-05-21 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
4792 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_VAR_SET): Escape the RHS before passing
4795 2003-05-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4797 * bin/autoupdate.in ($m4): Fix quotation.
4798 Reported by Martin Mokrejs.
4800 2003-05-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4802 * ChangeLog, ChangeLog.2, THANKS, lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4:
4803 Remove non-ASCII characters.
4805 2003-05-18 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
4807 * tests/semantics.at (AC_SEARCH_LIBS): New test.
4808 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_HEADERS_OLD,
4809 AC_CHECK_HEADERS_NEW): New tests.
4811 2003-05-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4813 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4: Use the default includes so that
4814 memcmp be declared before being tested.
4815 Reported by Sander Niemeijer.
4816 (AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE, AC_FUNC_GETGROUPS, AC_FUNC_STRNLEN): Likewise.
4817 * doc/autoconf.texi (Default Includes): Document
4818 AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT.
4820 2003-05-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4822 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4: Include signal.h and unistd.h.
4823 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsolete Macros): Adjust.
4824 Reported by Werner LEMBERG and Debian Bug 190886.
4826 2003-05-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4828 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_UNSET_PREPARE): s/FOO/as_foo/ to avoid
4829 user name space clashes.
4830 Reported by Bruno Haible.
4832 2003-05-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4834 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
4835 * bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in (BEGIN): Make
4836 them uniform, and more robust to Perl special characters.
4837 Reported by Martin Mokrejs.
4839 2003-05-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4841 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Skip all Libtools pre 1.4.
4843 2003-05-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4845 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): X11/extensions/scrnsaver.h,
4848 2003-05-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4850 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Improve the
4852 From Matthias Andree.
4854 2003-05-07 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
4856 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm (lock, truncate): Do not pass @_ to flock
4859 2003-05-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4861 Don't try to be smart with aclocal 1.8+ because (i) aclocal no
4862 longer updates aclocal.m4 if useless, (ii) if a file m4_included
4863 by aclocal.m4 is changed it might require the importing of another
4864 m4 extension file, i.e., aclocal must be run.
4866 * bin/autoreconf.in (&run_aclocal, $aclocal_supports_force): New.
4867 (&parse_args): Use --force with aclocal if required and supported.
4868 (&autoreconf_current_directory): Use &run_aclocal.
4870 2003-05-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4872 Lock autom4te's cache.
4874 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm ($me, &name, &lock, &truncate, &seek): New.
4875 * bin/autom4te.in (&Request::save, &Request::load): Use an IO::File
4876 argument instead of a file name, so that the request file remains
4877 open during the whole autom4te run.
4878 ($icache_file): New.
4879 (&freeze): Lock the $icache_file.
4881 2003-04-29 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
4883 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_KEYWORDS): Don't use a comma as the
4884 seperator with m4_append_uniq(). It doesn't work.
4885 (AT_CLEANUP): Add `;' to end of at_help_all.
4886 (AT_INIT): Allow --keywords to be specified more than once. When
4887 grepping $at_help_all for keywords, use the field and keyword
4888 seperators to ensure a complete keyword match. Alter at_prev handling
4889 to support the new --keywords behavior.
4891 2003-04-27 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
4893 * doc/autoconf.texi: Make the dir entries in the autoconf manual
4894 align better with others. I also made some of the individual
4895 entries on one line, for brevity and to make it easier for me to
4896 sort my dir-example file in the Texinfo distribution :).
4898 2003-04-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
4900 * NEWS: Mention the new macro.
4901 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_RESTRICT): New macro.
4902 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Describe AC_C_RESTRICT.
4903 * tests/c.at: Test AC_C_RESTRICT.
4904 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Add exclusion for AC_C_RESTRICT.
4906 2003-04-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4908 * bin/ifnames.in: Skip C++ comments.
4911 2003-04-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4913 * GNUmakefile (SHELL): Don't assume sh is in /bin/.
4914 From Ilya Zakharevich.
4916 2003-04-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4918 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Some about sys/socket.h,
4921 2003-04-01 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
4923 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_INSTALL): Correct syntax error
4924 from Akim's checkin of 2003-03-29.
4926 2003-04-01 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
4928 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Add missing
4929 close-quote for Akim's change from 2003-03-28.
4931 2003-04-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4933 * doc/autoconf.texi (ac, at, ms): Rename these indexes as...
4934 (AC, AT, MS): these.
4935 (shortindexflag, @acindex, @ahindex, @asindex, @atindex, @msindex):
4938 * doc/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): Adjust.
4939 (TEXI2DVI): Make it --batch.
4941 2003-03-31 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
4943 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Revert the checkin from 2003-03-27
4944 which removed the main loop.
4945 Thanks to Akim Demaille.
4947 2003-03-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4949 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_INSTALL): Skip OS/2's install,
4951 From Ilya Zakharevich.
4953 2003-03-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4955 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): The
4956 documentation to read is Autoconf's.
4957 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
4959 2003-03-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4961 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): Suggest
4962 reading the section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled" when the
4963 header causes problems.
4965 2003-03-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4967 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Require aclocal
4968 1.4, otherwise the test fails, as it does support configure.ac.
4969 This fixes the "test 40 failed" bug reports.
4971 2003-03-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4973 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): `#line' portability.
4974 From Paul Eggert and Nelson H. F. Beebe.
4976 2003-03-27 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
4978 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Eliminate main loop and reorganize test
4979 layout in order to allow scripting around test groups.
4981 2003-03-27 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
4983 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (PARSE_ARGS,PARSE_ARGS_END,HELP,HELP_MODES,
4984 HELP_TUNING,HELP_OTHER,HELP_END,PREPARE_TESTS,TESTS_END): Define and
4985 use new diversions in preparation for accepting new arguments and
4986 allowing scripting around tests.
4987 (OPTIONS,TAIL): Remove these diversions to make way for the ones above.
4989 2003-03-26 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
4991 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_VAR): Use AS_HELP_STRING instead of
4992 obsolete AC_HELP_STRING.
4993 (AC_HELP_STRING): AU_DEFUN to...
4994 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_HELP_STRING): ...here.
4995 * tests/m4sh.at (AS_HELP_STRING): New test.
4997 * tests/acgeneral.at: Regenerated.
4999 2003-03-26 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
5001 * lib/autotest/general.m4: s/DEFAULT/DEFAULTS/ since it makes more
5002 sense. Verbosify the diversion definitions comment.
5004 2003-03-26 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
5006 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Remove redundant call to
5009 2003-03-21 Eric Siegerman <eric_97@pobox.com>
5011 * doc/autoconf.texi (Present But Cannot Be Compiled):
5012 Grammar fixes and minor rewording. (trivial change)
5014 2003-03-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5016 Work around a problem noted by Nelson H. F. Beebe with coreutils
5017 4.5.9: Sun c89 (Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3 Patch 111679-08
5018 2002/05/09) rejects '#line 32768 "configure"' because the line
5020 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_SOURCE(C)): Do not generate
5022 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_SOURCE): Fix comment to match this.
5023 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generating Sources): Document this.
5025 2003-03-01 Richard Dawe <rich@phekda.freeserve.co.uk>
5027 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE): Normalize
5028 file name for the m4 program, when it has an "exe" file extension.
5029 DJGPP's error messages include the error code in brackets -
5030 remove the error code during normalization.
5032 2003-02-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5034 * doc/autoconf.texi (Present But Cannot Be Compiled): New.
5036 2003-02-28 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
5038 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Remove the section
5039 about `$<' in inference rules, it was a bogus interpretation of
5040 an old Automake change. Discuss NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and
5041 Tru64 make in the "target lookup" section.
5042 (Automake): Automake 1.5+ no longer requires special tools to be
5043 present on the developer's host.
5045 2003-02-26 Richard Dawe <rich@phekda.freeserve.co.uk>
5047 * bin/autoheader.in (BEGIN): For DJGPP SHELL may not be set
5048 to a shell that can handle redirection or quoting correctly.
5049 Override SHELL with the shell detected by configure.
5050 Use of $^O suggested by Tim van Holder.
5051 * bin/autom4te.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
5052 * bin/autoreconf.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
5053 * bin/autoscan.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
5054 * bin/autoupdate.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
5055 * bin/ifnames.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
5057 * bin/ifnames.in: Add final newline to help and version messages.
5059 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Translate colons,
5060 to cope with DOS-style absolute paths, when constructing
5063 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS, _AC_OUTPUT_FILES):
5064 When constructing paths with IFS=:, quote the path. If we're
5065 constructing a DOS-style absolute path, we don't want to split it
5068 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_CONFIGURE): Fix typo
5071 2003-02-25 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
5073 * bin/autoheader.in: Add missing newline when printing
5074 suggestion how change AC_DEFINE call.
5076 2003-02-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5078 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Fix typo in
5079 2002-09-01 patch by replacing "test -n" with "test -z".
5080 This fixes a bug found by Jeff Painter and reported by Tom Epperly in
5081 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2003-02/msg00139.html>.
5083 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): test -n -> test -z,
5084 to fix a mismatch between example and discussion.
5086 2003-02-24 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
5088 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Add notes on printf
5089 format starting with "-".
5091 2003-02-20 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
5093 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): `foo=bar make -e'
5094 is not portable inside Makefile.
5096 2003-02-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5098 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): When
5099 compiler says yeah, but preproc says nope, compiler is right.
5100 Conversely, prompt the reader to send a bug report to the
5101 maintainers of the package, not of Autoconf.
5103 2003-02-20 Klee Dienes <kdienes@apple.com>
5105 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory): Properly
5106 handle an empty aclocal.m4.
5108 2003-02-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5110 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM): Quote
5114 2002-12-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5116 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C)): Define $1 to an
5117 innocuous variant befor including <limits.h> or <assert.h>. This
5118 works around a bug reported by Albert Chin: HP-UX 11i
5119 (and earlier versions) have a <limits.h> that declares
5120 gettimeofday and many other functions.
5122 2002-12-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5126 * NEWS, configure.ac: Update version.
5128 * doc/fdl.texi: Upgrade to FDL version 1.2.
5130 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C)): Use the function f
5131 nontrivially in main's body, so that f's external declaration is
5132 not optimized away in AIX. This should fix the bug reported by
5134 <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/autoconf/2002-November/014508.html>.
5136 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C),
5137 _AC_PROG_PREPROC_WORKS_IFELSE): Use <limits.h> if __STDC__ is
5138 defined, to support freestanding compilers. This should fix the
5139 bug reported by Momchil Velkov in
5140 <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/autoconf/2002-November/014490.html>.
5142 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsolete Macros): Fix typos (insert empty
5143 arg, AC_DEFINE -> AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED) in documentation for
5144 obsolete AC_CHECK_TYPE. The missing empty arg was reported
5145 by Simon Josefsson in
5146 <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/autoconf-patches/2002-December/008830.html>.
5148 * Makefile.maint (www-gnu): New macro.
5149 (standards.texi-url_prefix, make-stds.texi-url_prefix): Use it, as
5150 the location has moved.
5152 2002-12-02 Martin Frydl <martin@systinet.com>
5154 * bin/autom4te.in (at_flatten): rewritten to avoid M4 problem when
5155 \(.*\) match is too long and there is something more to be checked.
5156 <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/autoconf/2002-November/014524.html>
5158 2002-11-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5162 * config/install-sh: chmod +x.
5164 * config/move-if-change: Indenting changes.
5165 * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Move to...
5166 * configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): here.
5169 2002-11-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5173 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/install-sh:
5174 Update from masters.
5176 2002-11-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5178 * Makefile.maint: Sync with Bison, i.e.:
5179 (po-check): Scan .l and .y files instead of the
5180 .c and the .h files that they generate. This fixes the bug
5181 reported by Tim Van Holder in:
5182 <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bison-patches/2002-November/001352.html>
5183 Look for N_ as well as for _. Try to avoid matching #define for
5187 2002-11-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5189 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Compiling several files at once.
5190 From Paul Eggert and Albert Chin-A-Young.
5192 2002-11-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5194 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Solitary backslashes.
5195 From Paul Eggert and Albert Chin-A-Young.
5197 2002-11-14 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
5199 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C)): Initialize f=$1 rather
5200 than assigning in main, to avoid HP cc +O3 optimizing it away.
5202 2002-11-12 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
5204 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Add -q
5205 option. Process --recheck after parsing all options. Pass -q
5206 option to configure on --recheck.
5207 (AC_OUTPUT): Pass -q from configure to config.status.
5208 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Strip -q from
5209 arguments to record.
5210 * doc/autoconf.texi (config.status Invocation): Document
5211 config.status -q option.
5213 2002-11-07 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
5215 * bin/autoscan.in (scan_file): Scan Makefile.am too. Ignore
5216 Makefile.in if Makefile.am exists.
5217 (output): Strip `.am' from Makefiles. Don't
5218 output AC_CONFIG_FILES if no Makefiles were found.
5220 2002-11-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5222 * Makefile.am (cvs_files): Add elisp-comp, mdate-sh.
5223 (local_updates): New.
5224 * Makefile.maint: Update, from CVS Bison.
5225 (local_updates): New.
5227 2002-11-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5229 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY): Wrap the `f'
5230 declaration in extern "C" too.
5231 Reported by Roberto Bagnara.
5233 2002-11-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5235 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Don't use grep
5237 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Grep -w.
5238 Reported by Ezra Peisach.
5240 2002-11-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5242 * lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4 (_AH_TEMPLATE_OLD, _AH_VERBATIM_OLD):
5244 We _have_ to stop using the old compatibility scheme that tried to
5245 avoid useless backslashes because Libtool 1.4.3 contains a
5246 AC_DEFINE([error_t], [int],
5247 [Define to a type to use for \`error_t' if it is not
5248 otherwise available.])
5249 We _have_ to quote the single quote and backslashes with \. The
5250 old compatibility scheme saw that ` was backslashed, and therefore
5251 did not quote the single quote. Hence before this patch, Autoconf
5252 was not compatible with Libtool.
5254 2002-11-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5256 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Set the following variables,
5257 too: LC_ADDRESS, LC_IDENTIFICATION, LC_MEASUREMENT, LC_MONETARY,
5258 LC_NAME, LC_PAPER, LC_TELEPHONE.
5259 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Mention those vars.
5261 2002-11-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5265 * Makefile.maint (update, cvs-update, po-update, do-po-update):
5267 * config/texinfo.tex: Update.
5269 2002-11-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5271 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf_current_directory): New, extracted
5273 (&autoreconf): here.
5274 ($help, $make, &parse_args, &autoreconf_current_directory):
5276 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Adjust.
5278 2002-10-31 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
5280 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_MALLOC_IF): Change message.
5281 Change name of cache variable to ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull.
5282 (AC_FUNC_MALLOC): Change description of HAVE_MALLOC macro.
5283 (_AC_FUNC_REALLOC_IF): Change message. Change name of cache variable
5284 to ac_cv_func_realloc_0_nonnull.
5285 (AC_FUNC_REALLOC): Change description of HAVE_REALLOC macro.
5287 2002-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5289 The test suite was no longer checking for trailing envvars and files.
5291 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AC_STATE_SAVE): Don't use quadrigraphs here.
5292 (AT_CHECK_ENV): Make sure the `state-ls.before file exists.
5294 2002-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5296 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Use and display
5297 `$(MAKE)' instead of '${MAKE}' to emphasize that we refer to the
5298 Make variable, not a shell variable.
5299 Suggested by Bruno Haible.
5301 2002-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5303 * bin/autom4te.in (load_configuration): Reject #args out of any
5306 2002-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5308 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_MSG_LOG_CONFTEST): New.
5309 (_AC_PREPROC_IFELSE, _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, _AC_LINK_IFELSE)
5310 (_AC_RUN_IFELSE): Use it.
5311 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT):
5312 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Likewise.
5313 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_SOURCE): Don't include confdefs.h,
5316 2002-10-30 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5318 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args, $help): Support --no-cache.
5319 * doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te Invocation): Adjust.
5320 Suggested by Tim van Holder.
5322 2002-10-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5324 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): AC_FUNC_MALLOC and
5325 AC_FUNC_REALLOC check for compatibility with glibc, not POSIX.
5326 Problem reported by Bruno Haible.
5328 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5330 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Templates): Put also in words what the
5331 pictures says to assist free style readers.
5332 (Customizing autom4te): s/--cache=/--cache /.
5334 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5336 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_VFORK): Include stdlib.h and
5338 sparc_address_test returns void.
5339 Use it with an argument, as prototyped.
5342 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5344 * doc/autoconf.texi (Subdirectories): Cygnus dirs have
5345 configure.in, not configure.ac.
5346 Reported by Bruno Haible.
5348 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5350 * tests/torture.at (Deep Package): New test.
5351 (Configuring subdirectories): Don't use a testSubDir as Autotest
5354 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5356 * bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args, $help): Support --warnings.
5357 * doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te): Rename as...
5358 (autom4te Invocation): this, for consistency with the other nodes.
5360 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5362 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): s/automate/autom4te/.
5363 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
5365 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5367 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_QUOTE): The warning about quoted
5368 characters is a back as an `obsolete' warning now.
5369 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
5371 2002-10-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5373 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.54c.
5375 2002-10-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5379 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Adjust to broken libtoolize.
5381 2002-10-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5383 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE): Be robust to different
5384 m4 executable names, and different GNU M4 version.
5385 Reported by Ezra Peisach and Paul Jarc.
5387 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5389 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_VFORK): Really use
5392 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5394 * doc/autoconf.texi: More AC_MSG_FAILURE promotion.
5395 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING):
5396 Die when a simple Fortran program cannot be compiled.
5397 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_CALL, AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY):
5398 Issue a warning if no function is given.
5400 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5402 * doc/autoconf.texi (Run Time): Document AC_RUN_IFELSE.
5403 Move the documentation of AC_TRY_RUN to...
5404 (Obsolete Macros): here.
5405 Adjust all the old samples still using AC_TRY_RUN to AC_RUN_IFELSE.
5406 (autoconf Invocation): Remove the duplicates with `invoking
5408 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDC): Don't use AC_TRY_RUN.
5409 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
5411 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5413 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generating Sources): Document AC_LANG_CALL
5414 and AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY.
5415 (Examining Libraries): Rename as...
5416 (Running the Linker): this.
5417 Document AC_LINK_IFELSE.
5418 Move the documentation of AC_TRY_LINK and AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC to...
5419 (Obsolete Macros): here.
5420 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING): Don't use
5421 AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC nor AC_TRY_LINK.
5422 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (AC_CHECK_LIB, AC_PATH_XTRA): Likewise.
5423 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_USG): Likewise.
5425 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5427 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDC): Don't use AC_TRY_CPP.
5429 More `check config.log' messages.
5431 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_MSG_FAILURE): New.
5432 * doc/autoconf.texi (Printing Messages): Document it.
5433 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Use it when
5435 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT)
5436 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_WORKS, _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O)
5437 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT): Likewise.
5438 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_RUN_IFELSE): Likewise.
5439 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_F77_HOOKS):
5441 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CPP, AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXXCPP):
5444 Deprecate macros with unusual interfaces.
5446 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_TRY_CPP, AC_TRY_LINK)
5447 (AC_TRY_COMPILE, AC_TRY_RUN): AU_DEFUN'ed.
5449 Document the new ones, and proper style.
5451 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generating Sources): New.
5452 Document AC_LANG_CONFTEST, AC_LANG_SOURCE, AC_LANG_PROGRAM.
5453 (Examining Declarations): Rename as...
5454 (Running the Preprocessor): this.
5455 Document AC_PREPROC_IFELSE.
5456 (Examining Syntax): Rename as...
5457 (Running the Compiler): this.
5458 (AC_FOO_IFELSE vs AC_TRY_FOO): New section.
5459 (Obsolete Macros): Move the definition of AC_TRY_CPP and
5460 AC_TRY_COMPILE here.
5462 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5464 Move sections around.
5466 * doc/autoconf.texi (Customizing autom4te): Remove a lost
5468 Reported by Burno Haible.
5469 (Language Choice): Now the first section of...
5470 (Writing Tests): this section.
5471 Make the introduction less C-centric.
5472 (Guidelines, Test Functions): Move to...
5473 (Writing Test Programs): this new section.
5474 (Test Programs): Merge into...
5477 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5479 * lib/freeze.mk ($(AUTOM4TE_CFG)): Add a missing dependency on
5480 autom4te.in that resulted in the need for two `make' runs.
5482 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5484 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.54b.
5486 2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5490 * Makefile.maint: Update from the Coreutils.
5491 (AMTAR): Remove, obsolete.
5492 (automake_repo): Update to redhat.com.
5494 Adjust to the fact that ansi2knr is now hosted by Automake.
5495 * Makefile.am (cvs_files): Add install-sh and mkinstalldirs.
5496 * config/config.guess, config/mkinstalldirs, config/texinfo.tex:
5497 Update from masters.
5498 * lib/autoscan/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST, nodist_autoscanlib_DATA):
5499 autoscan.pre is not to be installed, and autoscan.list is not to
5501 (CLEANFILES): Add autoscan.list.
5502 (autoscan.list): Disable the cache.
5503 * bin/Makefile.am: Include freeze.mk.
5505 2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5507 * bin/autom4te.in (&load_configuration): Take the file as
5509 (&parse_args): Handle -C, --cache.
5511 (MAIN): Load ~/.autom4te.cfg and ./.autom4te.cfg.
5512 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): Pass --cache=autom4te.cache.
5513 * doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te): Document --cache.
5514 Now a subsection of...
5515 (Using autom4te): This new section.
5516 (Customizing autom4te): New.
5517 (autom4te.cache): Adjust.
5519 2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5521 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Headers): More information on how to
5522 use AC_CHECK_HEADERS.
5524 2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5526 * bin/autoconf.as, bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoupdate.in ($help):
5529 2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5531 * bin/autoscan.in (output): Output AC_PREREQ.
5532 (%needed_macros): Add AC_PREREQ so that configure.ac without one
5535 2002-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5537 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): In AC_HEADER_STDBOOL,
5540 2002-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5542 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_traces): Handle @&t@ in traces.
5543 Reported by Peter Eisentraut.
5545 2002-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5547 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDBOOL): Also look for the
5550 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Adjust according to Paul
5551 Eggert's recommandations.
5553 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5555 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDBOOL): New, based on CVS
5556 Bison, by Paul Eggert.
5557 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Document it.
5559 2002-10-22 Aaron M. Ucko <amu@alum.mit.edu>
5561 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Avoid duplicates in
5562 `$ac_configure_args'.
5564 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5566 * doc/autoconf.texi: Use AC_CONFIG_HEADERS in examples.
5567 (AC_ST_BLKSIZE, AC_ST_RDEV): Directly point to AC_CHECK_MEMBERS.
5570 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5572 Restore the 2002-10-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> patch:
5574 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL)
5575 (AC_CHECK_HEADER, _AC_CHECK_HEADER_NEW,_AC_CHECK_HEADER_OLD): Restore.
5576 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_NEW): Rename as...
5577 (AC_CHECK_HEADER): this.
5579 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5581 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Remove incorrect
5582 words about HP-UX cmp: it was actually a user-written cmp.
5584 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5586 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Don't check autoconf's stderr: there
5588 * lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4 (AH_VERBATIM, _AH_VERBATIM_OLD):
5589 Quote for Perl '' strings, not "".
5590 * bin/autoheader.in: Invoke autoconf to get '' strings, not ""
5593 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5595 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_QUOTE): The warning about quoted
5596 characters is a syntax warning now.
5597 (_AS_QUOTE): Accept $2 as list of characters to quote.
5598 * lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4 (AH_VERBATIM, _AH_VERBATIM_OLD):
5599 Quote for Perl, not sh.
5600 * bin/autoheader.in: When $debug, report the file which is
5602 * tests/tools.at (autom4te, autoheader): Exercise @bar, not merely
5603 `@', to tickle Perl's lists.
5604 Reported by Carlos Velasco.
5606 2002-10-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5608 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_m4): Pass --fatal-warning to m4, so that
5609 missing included files _are_ errors.
5610 Thanks to Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
5611 * tests/tools.at (autom4te cache): Adjust.
5612 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE): New.
5613 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR): Use it.
5614 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4_warn, m4_require: circular dependencies):
5616 * tests/tools.at (autom4te): Now it does exit 1.
5618 2002-10-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5620 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CACHE_SAVE): Don't use cmp.
5621 Fixes the `AC_ARG_VAR' test failures.
5622 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Don't use cmp.
5623 * lib/freeze.mk (check-forbidden-patterns): New.
5624 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am, lib/autotest/Makefile.am
5625 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am (check-local): Use it to catch `cmp'.
5626 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): HP-UX' cmp and
5628 Reported months ago by H. Merijn Brand.
5630 2002-10-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5632 * tests/tools.at (autoheader): Put randoms `@' to stress Perl.
5634 2002-10-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5636 * Makefile.maint (wget_files): Remove ansi2knr.c.
5637 (ansi2knr.c-url_prefix): Remove.
5639 2002-10-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5641 Because of caching, some files that no longer exist and are no
5642 longer required can still cause errors.
5643 Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
5645 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Do not prepend `--reload-state'
5646 to frozen files in @ARGV, as @ARGV must remain being a list of
5647 files. Rather, at M4 call sites, use this...
5648 (&files_to_options): New function.
5649 (&freeze): Use &error.
5650 (&up_to_date): If a file that was included according to the cache
5651 is no longer there, then the output is out dated.
5652 (&main): Don't even check whether a file is up to date is anyway
5654 * tests/tools.at (autom4te cache): New.
5656 2002-10-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5658 * bin/autoconf.as: Kill dead options.
5659 * bin/autoupdate.in (&parse_args): Kill old options.
5660 * bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args): Remove dead options.
5662 (&autoreconf): Report the directories we enter *and leave*, so
5663 that error messages can be easily located, and use GNU Make
5664 format, so that Emacs' compile mode understands us.
5665 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&update_file): Use `verbose' to report
5666 if some file was changed instead of `print'.
5667 * bin/autoheader.in: Suggest AC_DEFINE with 3 args when needed.
5668 (&parse_args): Remove the dead options.
5669 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER): Adjust to the new
5670 autoheader's quiet mode.
5671 (AT_CHECK_AUTOUPDATE): Likewise.
5672 * tests/tools.at (autoupdate): Adjust.
5673 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
5675 2002-10-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5677 No longer use CPP to check for the existing of headers: use CC to
5678 check for compilability.
5680 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL)
5681 (AC_CHECK_HEADER, _AC_CHECK_HEADER_OLD): Remove.
5682 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_NEW): Rename as...
5683 (AC_CHECK_HEADER): this.
5685 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Include the failed test
5686 numbers in the Subject suggestion.
5688 2002-10-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5690 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_DECL_SYS_SIGLIST): Obsolete.
5691 Suggest using AC_CHECK_DECLS instead.
5693 2002-10-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5695 * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): Have configure report the value
5698 2002-10-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5700 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_SEPARATOR_PREPARE): Use $$ in the
5701 file name to enable parallel executions.
5702 From Sam Varshavchik.
5704 2002-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5706 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Run autopoint before the first
5707 aclocal invocation, as Gettext macros might not be visible to
5709 Instead of blindly running autopoint, scan configure.ac (not the
5710 traces) for AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION uses, as autopoint does.
5711 Reported by Paul D. Smith.
5713 2002-10-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5715 Work around problems found when POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 is set.
5716 None of this seems to have anything to do with POSIX, really,
5717 but it's how Perl getopt works.
5718 * bin/autom4te.in (parse_args): Configure GetOpt with
5720 * doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te):
5721 --warning -> --warnings.
5722 * lib/autom4te.in: --warning -> --warnings.
5724 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5726 * doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te.cache): New section.
5728 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5730 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoscan-preselections, Autoreconf-preselections)
5731 (Automake-preselections): Update.
5732 * bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoheader.in: Comment changes.
5734 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5736 * lib/autoscan/autoscan.pre: Move all the remaining rules to...
5737 * lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/functions.m4,
5738 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4,
5739 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4, lib/autoconf/types.m4: here.
5741 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5743 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Be robust to
5744 users who use config.site to require for a cache: in this case,
5745 the two last configure runs, using two different sets of
5746 arguments, trigger a legitimate error.
5748 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5750 * tests/m4sh.at (Functions Support, Functions and return Support):
5753 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5755 * bin/Makefile.am (ETAGS_SH, ETAGS_PERL): Update: ifnames and
5756 autoheader are Perl programs.
5757 (autoconf, autoheader, autoreconf, autoupdate, ifnames, autoscan)
5758 (autom4te): Specify that the sources are in the $srcdir.
5759 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Adjust.
5761 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5763 * lib/autoscan/autoscan.pre (st_blksize, st_blocks, st_rdev)
5764 (tm_zone): Move their rules to...
5765 * lib/autoconf/types.m4: here, using AN_ macros.
5766 * lib/autoscan/autoscan.pre (AWK, BISON, INSTALL, LEX, LN, MAKE)
5767 (RANLIB, YACC, awk, bison, byacc, flex, gawk, install, lex, ln)
5768 (make, mawk, nawk, ranlib, yacc): Similarly, move to...
5769 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4: here.
5770 * lib/freeze.mk (ETAGS_FOR_M4, ETAGS_FOR_M4SUGAR)
5771 (ETAGS_FOR_AUTOCONF): New.
5774 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5776 * lib/autoconf/autoscan.m4: New file.
5777 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4: Include it.
5778 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4: Use AN_FUNCTION for all the functions
5779 that were listed in the original autoscan.list.
5780 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4: Similarly with headers.
5781 * lib/freeze.mk (autoconf_m4f_dependencies): Add autoscan.m4.
5782 (.m4.m4f): Don't pass --prepend-include, since that's done by
5783 tests/autom4te itself.
5784 * lib/autoscan/Makefile.am: Include freeze.mk.
5785 (autoscan.list): New target --this file is no longer a source.
5786 (autoscan.pre): New file.
5788 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5790 * bin/autoscan.in (@kinds): Make them singular.
5792 (&init_tables): When --debug, report the list of rules to ease
5793 tracking changes in autoscan.list.
5794 * lib/autoscan/autoscan.list (function): Strip comments, sort.
5796 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5798 * lib/autoscan/functions, lib/autoscan/headers,
5799 * lib/autoscan/identifiers, lib/autoscan/makevars,
5800 * lib/autoscan/programs: Merge into...
5801 * lib/autoscan/autoscan.list: this.
5802 * bin/autoscan.in (&init_tables): Adjust.
5804 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5806 * lib/autoscan/functions, lib/autoscan/headers,
5807 * lib/autoscan/identifiers, lib/autoscan/makevars,
5808 * lib/autoscan/programs: Make the `kind' explicit, i.e., each
5809 `functions' line is now prefixed with `function:'.
5810 * bin/autoscan.in (&init_tables): Adjust.
5812 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5814 From now on, autoscan files must always map a macro name to a
5815 word: there is no `default' macro for autoscan.
5817 * bin/autoscan.in (&init_tables): Reject entries with no macro at
5819 * lib/autoscan/functions, lib/autoscan/headers: Make the macro
5822 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5824 * bin/autoscan.in (%c_keywords): Remove.
5825 (&used): Keep only track of the words we might be interested in.
5826 (&output_kind): It is no longer needed to look for non active
5829 2002-09-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5831 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC): New, stolen from
5832 jm_FUNC_MBRTOWC, by Paul Eggert, from the Coreutils 4.5.1.
5833 * lib/autoscan/functions: Adjust.
5834 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Adjust.
5836 2002-09-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5838 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Some about mv
5840 Thanks to Bill Moseley and Paul Eggert.
5841 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): $2 is the directory into which
5842 the tmpdir must be created.
5843 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Have the tmp
5844 dir be in the build tree, instead of $TMPDIR.
5846 2002-09-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5848 * bin/autoscan.in: Improve the comments.
5849 (&parse_args): Drop obsolete undocumented options.
5850 (&output_kind): Output warnings.
5851 * lib/autoscan/functions: (dcgettext): Now trigger AM_GNU_GETTEXT.
5852 (getwd): Trigger a warning.
5854 2002-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5856 * bin/autoreconf.in: Clarify that -s is meaningless without -i.
5857 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
5858 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Likewise.
5860 2002-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5862 Single suffix rules and seperated dependencies are not portable.
5864 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Update.
5865 (Limitations of Make): Some about `Single Suffix Rules and
5866 Separated Dependencies'.
5867 * bin/Makefile.am (autoconf, autoheader, autoreconf, autoupdate)
5868 (ifnames, autoscan, autom4te): Un-factor into several rules.
5870 2002-09-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5872 * BUGS (Interoperability bugs): New section. Mention libtool
5873 1.4.2, configure.ac, and AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR interoperability bug.
5875 2002-09-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5877 Fix a portability bug reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz: Solaris 8
5878 make handles suffix-rules differently from GNU make.
5880 * bin/Makefile.am (SUFFIXES, .in): Remove.
5881 (autoconf autoheader autoreconf autoupdate ifnames autoscan autom4te):
5882 Move the body of the old .in rule here.
5884 2002-09-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5886 i960 compilers create `b.out' files by default.
5887 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
5889 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT): Remove b.out files.
5890 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Adjust to b.out.
5892 2002-09-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5894 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Remove obsolete
5895 reference to `struct timezone' in the description of
5898 2002-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5902 * config/config.sub, config/config.guess: Update.
5903 * Makefile.maint: Update from bits of the Coreutils 4.5.1.
5904 * Makefile.am: Adjust.
5906 2002-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5908 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Suggest
5909 reading config.log when the compiler is rejected.
5910 Suggested by Guido Draheim.
5912 2002-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5914 * bin/autoreconf.in: Don't use Cwd::chdir, since in its internals
5915 (chdir_init) might hang when stat'ing mounted directories.
5916 Reported by Vance Shipley.
5918 2002-09-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5920 * bin/autoscan.in (&parse_args): Pass a reference to the lists, not
5923 2002-09-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5925 * doc/autoconf.texi (Defining Symbols): Present two different
5926 prototypes for AC_DEFINE and AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED to emphasize the
5927 difference between 1 argument calls, and 2-3 argument calls.
5929 2002-09-12 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
5931 * doc/autoconf.texi: Review grammar and punctuation.
5933 2002-09-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5935 * doc/autoconf.texi: Fix minor formatting, spelling, and
5937 (Defining Symbols): Explain that AC_DEFINE(var) defaults to 1, but
5938 AC_DEFINE(var,,description) does not; and the AC_DEFINE(var) case
5941 2002-09-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5943 * doc/autoconf.texi (Questions): Rename as...
5945 (Defining Directories): New.
5947 2002-09-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5949 * doc/autoconf.texi (Making testsuite Scripts): Update.
5950 Suggested by Nishio Futoshi.
5952 2002-09-09 Koji Arai <JCA02266@nifty.ne.jp>
5954 * doc/autoconf.texi (Making testsuite Scripts): Use `@@' where a
5955 plain `@' is wanted.
5957 2002-09-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5959 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Keep the
5960 `duplicates', since the algorithm was too naive and could keep
5961 `--prefix=1 --prefix=2 --prefix=1' as `--prefix=1 --prefix=2', and
5962 keep `--prefix foo --prefix bar' as `--prefix foo bar'.
5963 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
5964 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Exercise these
5967 2002-09-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5969 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG): Use $srcdir when
5970 looking for a replacement file.
5971 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CHECK_DECLS): Check that the
5972 directory is relative.
5973 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Functions): Clarify the replacement
5974 directory definition.
5975 Reported by Andreas Schwab and Jim Meyering.
5977 2002-09-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5979 * doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Clarify what
5980 precious variables are.
5981 Suggested by Pontus Skoeld.
5983 2002-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5985 * bin/Makefile.am (autoconf, autoheader, autoreconf, autoupdate)
5986 (ifnames, autoscan, autom4te): Since we don't only depend on
5987 configure.ac variables (such as VERSION etc.), but also on prefix
5988 and so forth, depend on Makefile, not configure.ac.
5989 Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
5990 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Adjust.
5992 2002-09-05 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
5994 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): HP-UX trailing backslashes
5995 doesn't seem to be confined to ia64, just say "some versions".
5997 2002-09-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5999 * Makefile.am, doc/Makefile.am: Remove pdf targets, handled by
6001 * Makefile.am (maintainer-clean-local): Remove.
6002 (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Remove COPYING.
6004 2002-09-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6006 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Commands): Remove obsolete
6007 example for AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE. Problem reported by Marcus
6010 2002-09-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6012 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.53d.
6013 * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Require 1.6c, i.e., CVS Automake
6014 as of today, on Automake's team suggestion.
6016 2002-09-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6020 2002-09-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6022 * bin/autom4te.in (parse_args): Don't honor AUTOM4TE_PATH and
6024 * configure.ac: Disable SITE_MACRO_DIR.
6026 2002-09-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@lucent.com>
6028 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_SYS_POSIX_TERMIOS): Reflect renaming: s/am/ac/,
6029 i.e., change am_cv_sys_posix_termios to ac_cv_sys_posix_termios.
6030 Also, tweak grammar: s/make sure to/be sure to/.
6032 2002-09-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6034 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Explain why logical
6035 directory names are generally preferable to physical names.
6037 2002-09-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6039 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&update_file): s/die/error/.
6040 Reported by Raja R. Harinath.
6041 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoscan.in,
6042 * bin/autoupdate.in: Use error instead of die.
6044 2002-09-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6046 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_egrep, au_exclude_egrep): Use
6047 ordinary shell concatenation rather than echo+tr+sed command that
6048 runs afoul of a long-line-related sed bug in Solaris 8.
6050 * bin/autoheader.in (parse_args): --warning -> --warnings.
6052 * bin/autoconf.as: Work even if "ls" outputs "FOO not found" to
6053 stdout, as traditional "ls" does.
6054 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT,
6055 _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O): Likewise.
6056 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Add "ls".
6058 * bin/autoconf.as: Add --prepend-include option. This patch was
6059 applied to bin/autoconf.in in the 2002-07-17 patch by Mark D. Roth,
6060 but bin/autoconf.in is generated automatically from bin/autoconf.as.
6062 * bin/autoconf.in, configure: Regenerate.
6064 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Mention
6065 ENV, MAIL, MAILPATH, PS1, PS2, PS4. Index PWD.
6067 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Unset ENV, MAIL,
6068 MAILPATH and set PS1, PS2, PS4 to default values, to work
6069 around bug in pre-3.0 UWIN ksh reported by Bruce Lilly.
6070 For LC_ALL etc, first try to set to "C" as POSIX requires and as
6071 the Autoconf documentation specifies; fall back to "unset" only if
6072 this fails. Use a shell for-loop for this rather than an m4 loop,
6073 to shorten the output script.
6075 2002-08-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6077 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Mention POSIX
6078 1003.1-2001's requirements for CDPATH. Give a simpler workaround
6079 for the CDPATH problem. Document PWD.
6080 (Limitations of Builtins): Document the problem that "cd $foo" and
6081 "ls $foo" may refer to different directories in shells conforming
6082 to POSIX 1003.1-2001. Use PS1 rather than CDPATH for "unset"
6083 example, since the old example is now out of date.
6085 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Reject FOO if "cd
6086 FOO" and "ls FOO" talk about different directories; this catches
6087 problems when POSIX 1003.1-2001 "cd" fails due to symlink
6090 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Use AS_UNSET instead
6091 of rolling our own unset.
6092 (_AS_PREPARE): $as_unset CDPATH instead of AS_UNSETting it, since
6093 in practice we needn't worry about CDPATH if unset doesn't work.
6095 * Makefile.in, aclocal.m4, bin/Makefile.in,
6096 config/Makefile.in, doc/Makefile.in, lib/Makefile.in,
6097 lib/Autom4te/Makefile.in, lib/autoconf/Makefile.in,
6098 lib/autoscan/Makefile.in, lib/autotest/Makefile.in,
6099 lib/emacs/Makefile.in, lib/m4sugar/Makefile.in, man/Makefile.in,
6100 tests/Makefile.in: Regenerate with Automake 1.6.3.
6102 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/mkinstalldirs:
6105 * configure: Regenerate with self.
6107 2002-08-30 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
6109 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Notes on "cc"
6112 2002-08-29 Rainer Orth <ro@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
6114 * bin/autom4te.in (Request::load): Correctly test for "do" read
6117 2002-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6119 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&xqx): New.
6120 (&xsystem): Use WIFEXITED and WEXITSTATUS instead of decoding $? by
6121 hand, which is not portable.
6123 * bin/autom4te.in: Use them.
6124 Use &error instead of die.
6125 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4_warn, m4_require: circular dependencies):
6128 2002-08-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6130 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_PROG_F77): Remove fc from the
6131 default list of compilers to try, since it was long ago superseded
6132 by the ksh fc builtin. Suggested by Steven G. Johnson.
6134 2002-07-31 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
6136 * doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te): End the option table,
6137 fixing a bug introduced by the previous patch.
6138 (Limitations of Make): Add a 'target lookup' subentry in the
6139 'VPATH' entry. Rewrite all `make' occurences as `@command{make}'.
6141 2002-07-29 Mark D. Roth <roth@feep.net>
6143 * bin/autom4te.in: Remove --include-envvar and --site-macro-subdir
6144 options and use $AUTOM4TE_PATH.
6145 * doc/autoconf.texi: Remove documentation of autom4te
6146 --include-envvar and --site-macro-subdir options and document
6147 use of $AUTOM4TE_PATH.
6148 * lib/autom4te.in: Remove --include-envvar and --site-macro-subdir
6149 arguments from each language section.
6151 2002-07-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6153 * doc/install.texi: Include copyright symbol in copyright notice.
6155 * Makefile.am (MAKEINFO): Remove; it's a user-specified macro.
6157 (AM_MAKEINFOFLAGS): New macro.
6158 * doc/Makefile.am (MAKEINFO, AM_MAKEINFOFLAGS): Likewise.
6159 * Makefile.am (INSTALL): Use the new macros.
6160 Use -o rather than --output, since "missing" does not grok --output.
6162 2002-07-25 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
6164 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Escaped newlines in
6165 comments do not always work. Never trust the exit status of
6168 2002-07-24 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
6170 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make, Making testsuite Scripts):
6171 Untabify, since tabs are not enjoyed by texi2dvi and makeinfo.
6173 2002-07-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6175 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_SEPARATOR_PREPARE):
6176 Use PATH="/nonexistent;.", not PATH=".;.", as FreeBSD ksh2002
6177 apparently treats PATH="nonexistent" as if it contained ".".
6178 Bug reported by Stefan `Sec' Zehl.
6180 2002-07-22 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
6182 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Mention the special
6183 handling of the obj/ directory by BSD make.
6185 2002-07-20 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
6187 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Add HP-UX IA-64 trailing
6190 2002-07-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6192 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): `exit'.
6193 (Programming in M4sh): Ethymology of M4sh.
6195 2002-07-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6197 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_LIBOBJ vs LIBOBJS): More about $U.
6199 2002-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6203 2002-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6205 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub: Update.
6207 2002-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6209 Handle LIBOBJS and LTLIBOBJS once for all, including Libtool's and
6212 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJS_NORMALIZE): New.
6213 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_PRE): Call it.
6214 * tests/semantics.at (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Adjust.
6216 2002-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>,
6217 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
6219 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): Install
6220 _AC_AM_CONFIG_HEADER_HOOK for Automake 1.7.
6222 2002-07-17 Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
6224 * doc/autoconf.texi (Initializing configure): Clarify the
6225 description of the tarname default.
6227 2002-07-17 Andreas Buening <andreas.buening@nexgo.de>
6229 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_FORK): Don't set
6230 ac_cv_func_fork_works before running _AC_FUNC_FORK, do it if the
6233 2002-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6235 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (find_file): Browse the directories in
6236 the order they are given.
6238 2002-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6240 * tests/wrapsh.as, tests/wrappl.as: Merge into...
6241 * tests/wrapper.as: this.
6242 * tests/Makefile.am, configure.ac: Adjust.
6244 2002-07-17 Mark D. Roth <roth@feep.net>
6246 * configure.ac: Add --enable-site-macro-dir option.
6247 * bin/Makefile.am: Expand @SITE_MACRO_DIR@.
6248 * bin/autom4te.in: Add --prepend-include, --include-envvar, and
6249 --site-macro-subdir options.
6250 * bin/autoconf.in: Add --prepend-include option.
6251 * bin/autoheader.in: Add --prepend-include option.
6252 * bin/autoreconf.in: Add --prepend-include option.
6253 * bin/autoscan.in: Add --prepend-include option.
6254 * bin/autoupdate.in: Add --prepend-include option.
6255 * doc/autoconf.texi: Document use of $AC_MACRO_PATH and site
6256 macro directory, remove note that include path directories are
6257 used in reverse order, and document --prepend-include option.
6258 * lib/autom4te.in: Use --prepend-include instead of --include.
6259 * tests/wrapsh.in: Use --prepend-include instead of --include.
6261 2002-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6263 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): `_' is allowed in
6265 * doc/autoconf.texi (Initializing configure): Adjust.
6267 2002-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6269 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_REALLOC, _AC_FUNC_REALLOC)
6270 (_AC_FUNC_MALLOC): New.
6271 (AC_FUNC_MALLOC): Use the latter.
6272 Define HAVE_MALLOC to 0 if broken.
6273 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Adjust.
6275 2002-07-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6277 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BACKSLASH_A): New.
6278 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Adjust.
6280 2002-07-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6282 * doc/autoconf.texi: Properly set the ``header'' part.
6284 2002-07-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6286 * doc/autoconf.texi (Systemology): Some about Darwin.
6288 2002-07-09 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
6290 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_CYGWIN, AC_EMXOS2, AC_MINGW32):
6291 Don't use AC_REQUIRE in AU_DEFUN.
6293 2002-07-09 Art Haas <ahaas@neosoft.com>
6295 * doc/autoconf.texi: Use @enddots{} or @dots{} where appropriate.
6297 2002-07-02 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
6299 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
6300 bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in, lib/Autom4te/General.pm,
6301 lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm, lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Add local variables
6302 so that Emacs setups GNU style for perl-mode and cperl-mode.
6304 2002-06-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6306 * config/install-sh: Quote $src. Prefer || to test's -o option,
6307 as per "Limitations of Builtins".
6308 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_ENV): Likewise, for && vs test -a.
6309 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
6311 * tests/mktests.sh: Use grep instead of fgrep, as per
6312 "Limitations of Builtins".
6314 2002-06-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6316 * tests/wrapsh.as (AUTOCONF, AUTOHEADER, AUTOM4TE, AUTOM4TE_CFG,
6317 autom4te_perllibdir): Set to top build dir or src dir as appropriate,
6318 so that we consistently test the just-built programs.
6319 * tests/wrappl.as: Likewise.
6321 2002-06-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6323 * bin/autoconf.as (AUTOM4TE): Default to a fully qualified path
6324 name, so that symlinks to 'autoconf' work properly. Bug reported
6326 * bin/autoheader.in (AUTOM4TE): Likewise.
6327 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoconf, autoheader): Likewise.
6328 * bin/autoscan.in (autom4te): Likewise.
6329 * bin/autoupdate.in (autom4te): Likewise.
6331 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ_FNMATCH): Also check for
6332 btowc, to fix a portability bug with diffutils-2.8.2/lib/fnmatch.c
6335 2002-06-11 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
6337 * doc/autoconf.texi: Add more dir entries.
6339 2002-06-10 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
6341 * bin/autom4te.in ($cache): Don't define using `$me', the name
6342 of the cache should not depend on the name under which autom4te
6345 2002-06-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6347 * tests/tools.at (autoconf: forbidden tokens, basic)
6348 (autoconf: forbidden tokens, exceptions): Adjust to the change of
6349 words in autom4te.in.
6351 2002-06-07 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
6353 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C)): Use
6354 _AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_F77_HOOKS.
6356 2002-06-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6358 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNC_FNMATCH): Typo,
6360 (AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH): this.
6361 * tests/mktests.sh (exclude_list): Exclude AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH,
6362 AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU.
6364 2002-06-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6366 * doc/autoconf.texi (Systemology): Point to Tru64 docs, and the
6367 Rosetta Stone for Unix.
6369 2002-06-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6371 * bin/autom4te.in (warn_forbidden): When rejecting a token,
6372 suggest m4_pattern_allow.
6373 Suggested by Adam J. Richter.
6375 2002-06-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6377 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Initialize
6378 ac_config_libobj_dir.
6379 (AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR): New.
6380 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_FNMATCH): Split into...
6381 (_AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_IF, _AC_LIBOBJ_FNMATCH): these.
6382 Use ac_config_libobj_dir to find the replacement files.
6383 (AC_FUNC_FNMATCH, AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU): Split into...
6384 (AC_FUNC_FNMATCH, AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU, AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH)
6385 (AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH_GNU): these.
6386 (AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG): Use ac_config_libobj_dir.
6387 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions, Generic Functions): Adjust.
6388 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Don't check
6389 AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG as it requires getloadavg.c which is not shipped.
6391 2002-06-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6393 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_LINKS): Fall back on cp
6396 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Links): Likewise.
6397 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Prefer $(LN_S) to ln -s || ln.
6399 2002-06-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6401 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/texinfo.tex:
6402 Update from masters.
6404 2002-05-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6406 * bin/autom4te.in ($m4): Do not assume that egrep and fgrep exist.
6407 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
6408 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_RUN_LOG_STDERR, AC_EGREP_CPP):
6410 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am (check-local): Likewise.
6411 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_CONFIG_HEADER): Likewise.
6412 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (commentary only): Likewise.
6413 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT, AT_CHECK): Likewise.
6414 * lib/autotest/Makefile.am (check-local): Likewise.
6415 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am (check-local): Likewise.
6416 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CONFIGURE_AC, AT_CHECK_DEFINES): Likewise.
6417 * tests/mktests.sh (egrep): New var; use it instead of plain egrep.
6419 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_EGREP, AC_PROG_FGREP): New macros.
6420 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): Document them.
6421 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Warn that egrep and fgrep may not exist.
6424 2002-05-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6426 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_TYPE_MBSTATE_T): New macro.
6427 * NEWS, doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Types): Document it.
6428 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_FNMATCH): Require it
6429 instead of AC_MBSTATE_T, which never existed.
6431 2002-05-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6433 * doc/autoconf.texi (Hosts and Cross-Compilation): Specify the
6434 version of Autoconf that is discussed.
6436 2002-05-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6438 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_PROG_F77): Remove cf77 and cft77
6439 from the default list of compilers to try. Suggested by
6441 * NEWS: Document the above.
6442 * doc/autoconf.texi (Fortran 77 Compiler): Don't suggest cf77.
6444 2002-05-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6446 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_MEMBER): Work correctly even if
6447 the member is itself an aggregate. Bug reported by Sergey Poznyakoff.
6448 This improves on an earlier suggestion by H. Peter Anvin.
6450 2002-05-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6452 AC_FUNC_FNMATCH now tests only for POSIX compatibility.
6453 AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU also tests for GNU extensions.
6454 Both macros now accept an optional source-dir arg.
6455 New macro AC_GNU_SOURCE to define _GNU_SOURCE.
6457 * NEWS: Document this.
6458 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions, UNIX Variants): Likewise.
6460 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_FNMATCH): New macro.
6461 (AC_FUNC_FNMATCH): Use it. Test only for POSIX conformance,
6462 not for GNU extensions; this undoes part of the 2000-11-03 change,
6463 reverting to 2.13-compatible behavior.
6464 Add new optional argument DIR.
6465 (AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU): New macro.
6467 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_GNU_SOURCE): New macro.
6469 2002-05-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6471 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_TIOCGWINSZ):
6472 Don't require AC_SYS_POSIX_TERMIOS. The test is unnecessary,
6473 and it causes a 'test' syntax error if it fails.
6474 Bug reported by Stephen Gildea.
6476 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED):
6477 If prototypes are supported, use them to check this at compile-time,
6478 instead of trying to check it at run-time. If we must do a run-time
6479 check, assume that setvbuf is standard when cross-compiling, as
6480 nonstandard setvbuf occurs only on ancient and unlikely hosts.
6481 Bug reported by Paul D. Smith.
6483 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG): Add optional
6484 argument specifying location of getloadavg.c. This removes a
6485 FIXME. This idea was taken from Jim Meyering's implementation in
6487 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Document this.
6488 Also, mention HAVE_NLIST_H rather than NLIST_STRUCT, since
6489 that's what the code does; this fixes a bug reported by
6492 2002-05-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6494 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Rewrite to use Gettext's
6495 autopoint instead of gettextize.
6496 ($uses_alocal): Rename as...
6497 ($uses_aclocal): this.
6498 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Adjust.
6499 Suggested by Bruno Haible.
6501 2002-05-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6503 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_map_sep): New.
6505 2002-04-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6507 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Don't age aclocal.m4's input
6508 files to be 1 second older; just set them to be the same time.
6509 Also, sleep 1 second after the first aclocal, to work around
6510 problems with sub-second time stamps on the input files.
6512 2002-04-29 Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnu.org>
6514 * doc/autoconf.texi: Mention "set -e -x" lossage
6515 under node "Limitations of Builtins".
6517 2002-04-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6519 * doc/install.texi: Better wording for setting variables when
6521 From Christian Cornelssen.
6523 2002-04-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6525 * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): If testsuite itself is rewritten because
6526 of lack of $LINENO support, then the test will compare the $LINENO
6527 in testsuite vs. the lineno in the test file. This is wrong, of
6529 Be sure to protect it.
6530 Reported by Patrick Welche.
6532 2002-04-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6534 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsolete Macros): Typo.
6535 Reported by Vladimir Volovich.
6537 2002-04-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6539 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Don't let aclocal.m4 be older
6540 than some of the input files, hence, on the second run of aclocal,
6541 if some of its input are younger, make them older.
6542 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
6544 2002-04-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6546 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): sed and `!'.
6547 Thanks to Paul Eggert.
6549 2002-04-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6551 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Let ac_subst_files
6552 and ac_subst_vars be sh variables containing the list of
6553 AC_SUBST_FILES'ed and AC_SUBST'ed identifiers. Output them in the
6555 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Use them to log them.
6556 (_AC_SUBST, _AC_SUBST_SED_PROGRAM): Remove.
6557 (AC_SUBST, AC_SUBST_FILE): Instead of buliding the
6558 _AC_SUBST_SED_PROGRAM, store the list of output files/variables in
6559 _AC_SUBST_FILES and _AC_SUBST_VARS.
6560 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Adjust.
6562 2002-04-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6564 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Run automake after autoconf and
6565 autoheader, so that automake does not complain about a missing
6566 config.h.in that was to be created.
6568 2002-04-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6570 * bin/autoheader.in (parse_args): --warning takes an argument.
6573 2002-04-22 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
6575 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_RUN_IFELSE): Remove gmon.out
6576 and bb.out when cleaning up.
6578 2002-04-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6582 2002-04-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6584 * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): Fix the Zsh skip pattern.
6586 2002-04-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6588 * doc/autoconf.texi (Pretty Help Strings): Remove a spurious
6590 Reported by Gregory Giannoni.
6592 2002-04-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6594 * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): Skip the test if LINENO cannot be unset.
6595 Fixes false failures on Darwin.
6597 2002-04-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6599 * TODO, bin/autoupdate.in, doc/autoconf.texi,
6600 lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4,
6601 lib/autoconf/status.m4, lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4, tests/m4sh.at,
6602 tests/tools.at: Minor spelling and grammar fixes.
6604 2002-04-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6606 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Fix typos in yesterday's
6607 ZSH_VERSION fixes. Bug reported by Raja R Harinath.
6608 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
6609 * tests/atgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
6611 2002-04-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6613 * NEWS, TODO, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoupdate.in,
6614 doc/autoconf.texi, lib/freeze.mk, lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm,
6615 lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4, lib/autoconf/c.m4,
6616 lib/autoconf/functions.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
6617 lib/autoconf/lang.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4, lib/autoscan/identifiers,
6618 lib/autotest/general.m4, lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4, tests/atgeneral.m4,
6619 tests/atspecific.m4, tests/semantics.at, tests/torture.at:
6620 Minor spelling and grammar fixes.
6622 * doc/autoconf.texi: Follow the outline suggested in the GNU
6623 Sample Texts sections of the Texinfo 4.2 manual. Most
6624 importantly, this makes sure that the copyright notices appear in
6625 all output formats. You probably need Texinfo 4.2 to generate
6628 Fix some bugs when using "$@" when there might be zero positional
6629 arguments in cases where this matters.
6631 * bin/autoconf.as: Rewrite so that the problem does not come up.
6632 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_CHECK_PROG): Likewise.
6633 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_OUTPUT): Likewise.
6634 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
6636 * bin/autoheader.in: Use 'case' statement to work around problem.
6637 * bin/auto4mte.in: Likewise.
6638 * bin/autoreconf.in: Likewise.
6639 * bin/autoscan.in: Likewise.
6640 * bin/autoupdate.in: Likewise.
6641 * bin/ifnames.in: Likewise.
6643 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Document the problem.
6645 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT):
6646 Use Zsh alias to work around problem.
6647 * tests/atgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
6649 * tests/c.at: We can't have zero arguments, so remove workaround
6650 that is not portable to Zsh.
6652 2002-04-19 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
6654 * bin/autoupdate.in (handle_autoconf_macros): Honor AU_DEFUNs
6655 from aclocal.m4 too.
6657 2002-04-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6659 * tests/wrappl.as: New, M4sh precursor of wrappl.in.
6661 2002-04-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6663 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Install the Zsh
6664 workaround for ${1+"$@"}.
6665 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Explain it.
6666 From Oliver Kiddle and Peter Stephenson.
6668 Have M4sh perform minimal shell sanitizing.
6670 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.at (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Split the `_AS_PREPARE_*'
6672 (_AS_PREPARE): this new macro.
6674 (AS_INIT): Invoke AS_SHELL_SANITIZE.
6675 * tests/m4sh.at (AT_DATA_LINENO): Use _AS_PREPARE.
6677 Adjust Autoconf and Autotest.
6679 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Don't invoke
6680 AS_SHELL_SANITIZE, AS_INIT did it, but invoke AS_PREPARE.
6681 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
6682 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS):
6683 Invoke _AS_PREPARE (not AS_PREPARE) in addition to
6686 Use this M4sh to generate Autoconf's shell scripts.
6688 * tests/wrapsh.as: New, precursor of wrapsh.in.
6689 * tests/Makefile.am: Include lib/freeze.mk to get the dependencies
6690 on Autotest and M4sh.
6691 ($(TESTSUITE)): Use $(autotest_m4f_dependencies).
6692 (wrapsh.in): New target.
6693 * bin/autoconf.as: New, precursor of autoconf.in.
6694 (autoconf.in): New target.
6696 2002-04-09 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
6698 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Mention the issue
6699 with indented comments in rules.
6701 2002-04-09 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
6703 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Handle empty
6704 ac_top_builddir when setting ac_abs_top_builddir.
6706 2002-04-06 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
6708 * doc/autoconf.texi (Systemology): Add link to Unix V7 online docs.
6709 (Portable Shell): Cross reference to Systemology.
6711 2002-04-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6713 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Be sure to accumulate the
6714 directories when descending in a SUBDIRS.
6715 Reported by Ezra Peisach.
6717 2002-04-04 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
6719 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_WALK): Only simplify if path
6720 contains no literal separators.
6722 2002-04-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6724 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_CONFIG_FILE, _AC_CONFIG_HEADER)
6725 (_AC_CONFIG_COMMAND, _AC_CONFIG_LINK): New.
6726 Use dnl, not the KILL diversion.
6728 (AC_CONFIG_FILES, AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS)
6729 (AC_CONFIG_LINKS): here.
6731 Don't use the KILL diversion, as it kills spurious output, which
6732 results in failures being hidden.
6733 Use m4_defn where appropriate.
6734 (AC_CONFIG_IF_MEMBER): Kill the real bug: a spurious parenthesis
6735 after the second argument.
6737 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf, Autotest, M4sh): Don't pass --warning
6738 syntax, as it is provided by M4sugar.
6739 * tests/torture.at (Multiple AC_CONFIG_FILES): New.
6741 2002-04-03 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
6743 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_bmatch): Make sure m4_bregexp is not
6744 expanded if $# <= 2.
6746 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Run automake after rerunning
6749 2002-04-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6751 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT_REJECT)
6752 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_REJECT): New.
6753 Also recognize *.bb and *.bbg as compilation byproducts.
6754 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT, _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O)
6755 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT): Use them.
6756 Fixes Debian #138666.
6758 2002-04-02 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
6760 Integrate AC_PROG_CC_STDC into AC_PROG_CC.
6762 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Rename to _AC_PROG_CC_STDC.
6763 AU_DEFUN old name. Use _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE.
6764 (AC_PROG_CC): Call _AC_PROG_CC_STDC.
6765 (AC_C_INLINE): Do not require AC_PROG_CC_STDC.
6767 (AC_C_INLINE): Same.
6768 (AC_C_PROTOTYPES): Same. Require AC_PROG_CC instead.
6769 * doc/autoconf.texi, NEWS: Document.
6770 * tests/mktests.sh (au_exclude_list): Add AC_PROG_CC_STDC and
6773 2002-04-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6775 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Invoke
6776 _AS_MKDIR_P_PREPARE.
6778 2002-03-28 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
6780 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_INLINE): Test with a typedef return value,
6781 to avoid versions of HP C which don't allow that.
6783 2002-03-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6785 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BASENAME_PREPARE): New macro.
6786 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Invoke it.
6787 (AS_BASENAME): AS_REQUIRE it, and use $as_basename.
6789 2002-03-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6791 * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell): Add pointers to FAQs.
6793 2002-03-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6795 * doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction): The GNATS base moved.
6797 2002-03-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6799 * tests/m4sh.at: Don't rely on "PATH=test:$PATH test-1" working
6800 as POSIX requires, as it doesn't work with Zsh.
6801 * doc/autoconf.texi (Assignments): Document the problem.
6803 2002-03-25 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
6805 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Mention more issue
6806 about VPATH, overriding of macros in sub-makes, and handling of
6809 2002-03-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6811 * doc/autoconf.texi (Here-Documents): Mention Solaris 8 dtksh
6812 problem with here-document buffer boundaries.
6814 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Unset ENV and BASH_ENV
6815 when reinvoking the shell, to work around problems with installers
6816 who put strange things like "cd" commands in their environments.
6818 2002-03-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6820 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): s/unknow/unknown/.
6823 2002-03-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6825 * bin/autoscan.in (scan_file): Specify the location in `&used'
6829 2002-03-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6831 * doc/autoconf.texi: Adjust @code/@command, @xref/@ref usage.
6832 From Nishio Futoshi.
6834 2002-03-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6836 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_define_default, m4_fst, m4_map): New.
6838 2002-03-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6840 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Add AS_MKDIR_P.
6841 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Add mkdir section.
6843 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_MKDIR_P_PREPARE): New macro.
6844 (AS_MKDIR_P): Require it. Use mkdir -p if available, falling
6845 back on AS_DIRNAME to compute prefixes otherwise; this is
6846 roughly what mkinstalldirs does. That way, we need not have
6847 our own filename disassembler. The old disassembler did not
6848 work with Solaris 8 dtksh, which is ksh Version M-12/28/93d.
6850 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT, AT_CLEANUP):
6851 Create at_test_all by a series of assignments,
6852 not by a single assignment of a long string. The latter causes ksh
6853 version 11/16/88g to silently misbehave on OpenServer 5.0.6a,
6854 presumably because of a buffer overrun.
6856 2002-03-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6858 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (at_times_skip):
6859 Renamed from at_times. Now a boolean.
6860 ksh93 Version M-12/28/93d doesn't like 'x=times; $x'; it
6861 says 'times: not found'.
6863 2002-03-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6865 * bin/autoreconf.in (&study_gettextize): New.
6866 (&autoreconf): Handle newest gettextize.
6867 Rerun aclocal if needed.
6868 Suggested by Andreas Schwab.
6870 2002-03-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6872 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): More about IFS.
6874 2002-03-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6876 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): New.
6877 Add information about stdint.h and inttypes.h from Paul Eggert.
6879 2002-03-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6881 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Some about `cp
6885 2002-03-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6887 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_BASENAME_EXPR): AS_REQUIRE, not
6890 2002-03-11 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
6892 * configure.ac: Explicitly check for EMACS since AM_PATH_LISPDIR
6893 does not do it if --with-lispdir is given.
6895 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6899 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6901 * doc/autoconf.texi (Subdirectories): Clarify that the
6902 subdirectory should exist.
6904 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6906 * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): 1.6.
6908 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6910 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_m4): Do not foreach with `$_' as it
6911 aliases the actual variables, and modifications of the former
6914 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6916 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_m4): Protect us from corrupted file
6917 because of C-c: have m4 output in tmp files, then mv them.
6919 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6921 * bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in,
6922 * bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in,
6923 * bin/ifnames.in: Copyright update.
6925 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6927 * doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te): New.
6929 2002-03-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6931 * doc/autoconf.texi (Specifying Names): Clarification suggested by
6934 2002-03-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6938 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6940 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_LIBOBJ vs. LIBOBJS): New.
6941 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_INIT): More informative error
6944 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6946 * lib/freeze.mk ($(build_libdir)/m4sugar/version.m4): New, for
6949 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6951 * doc/autoconf.texi (Transforming Names): Equality between target
6952 and host is irrelevant.
6953 (Specifying Names, Canonicalizing): Remove all references to the
6954 backward compatibility hooks. Rather, collect them all into...
6955 (Hosts and Cross-Compilation): this new section.
6956 * doc/install.texi (System Type): Ditto.
6957 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CANONICAL_HOST): Explicitly state
6958 that `--host' implies cross-compilation.
6960 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6962 * doc/autoconf.texi (Evaluation Macros): New.
6963 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_lquote): Remove, it is totally
6965 (_m4_foreach): Define the variant with immediate evaluation so
6966 that it contains exactly the items, not an expression which
6967 evaluation is the current item.
6968 (m4_re_string, m4_re_word): Don't over quote them.
6970 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6972 Instead of having stacking `shift's evaluated at the end, let
6973 `foreach' loops immediately evaluate them.
6975 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_quote, m4_dquote): Use $@ rather than
6976 $*. This is the n-th time I change my mind, but hopefully this is
6979 (m4_text_wrap): Use m4_foreach, which is finally correct _and_
6981 (m4_foreach_quoted, m4_car_quoted, _m4_foreach_quoted): Remove, as
6982 it was only a hack for m4_text_wrap.
6983 (m4_car2): Remove, replaced by...
6985 (_m4_foreach): Adjust.
6986 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Adjust, and use
6987 m4_bpatsubst for clarification.
6989 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6991 * doc/autoconf.texi (Changequote is Evil): New.
6993 2002-03-03 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
6995 * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell): Mention 32-byte #! length limit
6996 on old systems like SunOS.
6998 2002-03-01 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
7000 * lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/fortran.m4,
7001 lib/autoconf/functions.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
7002 lib/autoconf/headers.m4, lib/autoconf/lang.m4,
7003 lib/autoconf/programs.m4, lib/autoconf/status.m4: Improve spelling
7006 2002-02-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7008 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Suggest a title to the
7011 2002-02-28 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
7013 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add va_copy and va_list.
7015 2002-02-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7017 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_SETPGRP): Fix the test.
7020 2002-02-13 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7022 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm (getline, getlines): New functions,
7023 translate \r\n to \n.
7025 2002-02-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7029 2002-02-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7031 Fix Autoconf PR/209.
7032 Also reported by Frank Denis.
7034 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_WALK): Don't over quote.
7036 2002-02-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7038 Fix Autoconf PR/207:
7039 AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM fails with dashed program names
7041 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM): Just use a fresh
7042 variable when looking for the prefix program.
7043 Now it also works for shell variables.
7045 2002-02-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7047 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): More about
7050 2002-02-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7052 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS): Don't output empty
7053 case/esac, some shells don't support it.
7054 Reported by Zack Weinberg.
7055 * tests/torture.at (AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS with empty commands): New.
7057 2002-02-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7059 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): When handling --keywords, be
7060 sure not to introduce newlines in at_groups.
7061 * lib/autotest/Makefile.am (autotest.m4f): Typo.
7063 2002-02-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7065 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Skip if aclocal
7068 2002-02-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7070 * doc/autoconf.texi (Specific Compiler Characteristics):
7071 Describe HP-UX cc bug workaround more accurately.
7072 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Cast to long,
7074 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Check non-GCC
7075 cross-compilers, too. This undoes some of the most recent change
7078 2002-02-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7080 * tests/Makefile.am (check_SCRIPTS): Use it, instead of WRAPPERS,
7081 to make sure they are up to date when `check' is run.
7083 2002-02-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7085 * doc/autoconf.texi (Making testsuite Scripts): Document
7088 2002-02-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7090 * lib/freeze.mk: New.
7092 2002-02-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7094 Implement `autom4te --freeze'.
7096 * bin/autom4te.in (&freeze): New.
7097 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autotest/general.m4,
7098 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Don't include files given by autom4te.
7100 2002-02-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7102 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Implement `frozen files are
7103 optional are the sum of the previous files on the command line'.
7104 Also, pass `--reload-state=' on them, so...
7106 * lib/autom4te.in (Autotest, Autoconf): Rely on M4sh.
7107 (M4sh): Rely on M4sugar.
7108 (Autotest, M4sh, M4sugar): Use frozen files.
7110 2002-01-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7112 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): Accept $4.
7113 * doc/autoconf.texi (Initializing configure): Adjust.
7115 2002-01-30 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7117 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): Map non
7118 alphanumeric to `-' instead of `_'.
7120 2002-01-30 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7122 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Split into two tests: one
7123 for plain code, the other for cross-compilation code. The latter
7124 is now run with GCC only.
7125 * doc/autoconf.texi (Compilers and Preprocessors): New.
7127 2002-01-30 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7129 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): Support pre-defined
7131 * doc/autoconf.texi (Initializing configure): Explain how to
7132 change AC_INIT default values.
7134 2002-01-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7136 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Use configure.in,
7137 so that aclocal 1.4 works.
7138 Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz and Larry Schmitt.
7140 2002-01-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7142 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): AT_CLEANUP no longer
7145 2002-01-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7147 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't be ridiculous: adjust
7148 AUTOTEST_PATH *after* it was set.
7149 Don't put `.' in the PATH: the user should be precise and `./' if
7150 needed. In addition, given that the test suite does some `cd', if
7151 `.' is in the path, the `tested programs' sections will report
7152 programs found in the test suite's directory, while during the
7153 tests (performed in their own directory), these programs are no
7154 longer visible. In other words, the results is confusing and
7156 * tests/m4sh.at: Adjust: don't rely on `.' being in the PATH.
7158 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7162 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7164 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoscan.in,
7165 * doc/autoconf.texi: Finally add Akim as an author.
7167 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7169 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Use PATH_SEPARATOR.
7170 (_AS_PATH_SEPARATOR_PREPARE): Don't expect $SHELL to be
7171 Bourne. Use /bin/sh.
7172 From Andreas Buening.
7174 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7176 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/texinfo.tex:
7177 Update from masters.
7179 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7181 * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): 1.5b.
7182 * config/auxdir.m4, config/cond.m4, config/depend.m4,
7183 * config/init.m4, config/install-sh.m4, config/lispdir.m4,
7184 * config/missing.m4, config/sanity.m4, config/select.m4,
7185 * config/strip.m4: Remove, to ease sync'ing with any version of
7188 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7190 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS)
7191 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Support -n as --no-create, as documented.
7192 Reported by Geir Ove Myhr.
7194 2002-01-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7196 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MMAP): #Undef malloc.
7198 2002-01-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7200 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (getopt): Use a more GNUish error
7201 message on invalid options.
7202 * bin/autom4te.in (parse_args): Don't use
7203 Autoconf::General::getopt with non valid options.
7205 2002-01-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@lucent.com>
7207 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Initialize
7208 $ac_cv_exeext so we don't use an old, invalid, cached value.
7210 2002-01-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7212 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_STRNLEN): New, from Jim
7214 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Document the strnlen
7216 (Particular Functions): Document AC_FUNC_STRNLEN.
7217 * lib/autoscan/functions: Adjust.
7219 2002-01-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7221 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Don't create
7222 package.m4, since is really depends upon configure.ac, not
7224 * doc/autoconf.texi (testsuite Scripts): Adjust.
7225 * tests/Makefile.am (package.m4): New.
7226 EXTRA_DIST it since its a source.
7228 2002-01-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7230 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Move the AC_SUBST
7231 of PACKAGE_NAME, PACKAGE_TARNAME, PACKAGE_VERSION, PACKAGE_STRING,
7232 and PACKAGE_BUGREPORT from here...
7233 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): to here, since it is unrelated to the
7235 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): AC_DEFINE these symbols.
7236 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Use AT_PACKAGE_*, not PACKAGE_*.
7237 (AT_INIT): No longer catch `^PACKAGE_(BUGREPORT|STRING)$'.
7238 * tests/tools.at (autoheader): Adjust.
7239 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_DEFINES): Adjust.
7241 2002-01-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7243 * bin/autoscan.in (scan_file): Use `&used'.
7245 2002-01-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7247 * doc/autoconf.texi (Output): Improved wording regarding use of
7251 2001-12-18 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
7253 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add notes on sscanf
7254 sometimes needing writable input.
7256 2001-12-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@lucent.com>
7258 * doc/autoconf.texi (New Macros): Tweak wording.
7260 2001-12-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7262 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): We cleaning up the
7263 trailing files, don't apply `-rf' to files which might not be
7264 created by configure (core, core.*, and *.core), but just `rm -f'.
7265 Suggested by Jonathan Kamens.
7267 2001-12-14 Aaron M. Ucko <amu@alum.mit.edu>
7269 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Avoid duplicates in `$ac_configure_args'.
7271 2001-12-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7273 * Makefile.am (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Remove configure.
7275 2001-12-13 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
7277 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Rename buildpath to
7278 abs_builddir, top_buildpath to abs_top_builddir, srcpath to
7279 abs_srcdir, top_srcpath to abs_top_srcdir.
7280 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Adjust.
7281 * NEWS, doc/autoconf.texi, lib/autoconf/autotest.m4,
7282 * tests/atspecific.m4, tests/autoreconf.in, tests/tools.at,
7283 * tests/wrappl.in, tests/wrapsh.in: Adjust.
7285 2001-12-12 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
7287 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_F77_V_OUTPUT): Fix failed
7288 C/Fortran linking on HP/UX, by extracting the Fortran library
7289 search path from the LPATH line in the $F77 -v output.
7291 2001-12-12 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
7293 * doc/autoconf.texi (File Descriptors): Use a clearer layout for the
7294 forbidden file descriptors table.
7296 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7298 * bin/autoscan.in (%c_keywords): Build it at top level.
7299 Map to 1 in order to simplify its uses.
7301 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7303 * bin/autoscan.in (&scan_c_file, &scan_sh_file, &scan_makefile):
7304 Remove $filepath, useless.
7305 (&scan_makefile): Don't remove the $(FOO), ${FOO} and @FOO@
7306 variables, they are really part of the tokens.
7307 Split the input line on spaces and then look for tokens.
7308 Now autoscan ceases to ask for AC_PROG_LEX for the package Bison
7309 because of `lex$U.$(OBJEXT)'.
7310 (&scan_files): Use "@list" instead of join.
7311 * doc/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): Add *.fns.
7313 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7315 * tests/autoreconf.in, tests/autom4te.in, tests/autoupdate.in:
7316 Remove, replaced by...
7317 * tests/wrappl.in: Be common for all the Perl executables.
7318 In particular autoscan and autoheader want -I.
7319 * configure.ac: Adjust.
7320 * lib/autoscan/headers: errno.h is portable.
7322 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7324 * bin/autoscan.in (used): New.
7327 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7329 * bin/autoscan.in (&scan_c_file): Better parsing of CPP
7331 (&scan_sh_file): Remove a duplicate pattern.
7332 (&check_configure_ac): Use long options.
7333 * lib/autoscan/headers (alloca.h): Check with AC_FUNC_ALLOCA.
7335 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7337 * bin/autoscan.in (scan_c_file): Fix the handling of C comments.
7338 Before, having a line containing the opening of a multi line
7339 comment made the whole line be ignored.
7341 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7343 * doc/autoconf.texi (Using an Autotest Test Suite): New.
7344 (testsuite Scripts): Be one of its subsection.
7345 (Autotest Logs): New.
7347 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7349 Test groups are now run two directories deeper.
7351 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Replace srcdir,
7352 top_srcdir and top_builddir with at_srcdir, at_top_srcdir and
7354 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Compute srcdir,
7355 top_srcdir, builddir and top_builddir.
7356 Use `at_*dir' relatively to the directory containing the
7357 suite, use `*dir' when relatively to the current group dir.
7359 2001-11-25 Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
7361 * doc/autoconf.texi, TODO, lib/autoconf/fortran.m4,
7362 lib/autoconf/functions.m4, lib/autoconf/headers.m4,
7363 tests/atgeneral.m4, tests/tools.at, tests/atspecific.m4: Fix
7366 2001-11-22 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7368 * doc/autoconf.texi (Using System Type): Add an example of `case
7369 $host' usage so people quit using `case $target' everywhere.
7371 2001-11-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7373 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Englishoes
7374 spotted by Jim Meyering.
7376 2001-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7378 This patch implements a `long double' suggestion by Oliver Kiddle.
7380 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY(C)): Make the array
7381 static, to catch errors if the value isn't known at compile-time
7382 and the compiler supports dynamic arrays. Change its name from
7383 `_array_' to `test_array' to avoid potential name clashes.
7384 (AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE): Make it a compile-time test, not a run-time
7385 test. Do not define HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE if `long double' is no
7386 better than double. Catch a bug in GCC 2.95.2 x86.
7387 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Document the above.
7390 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7392 * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): Protect from autom4te's substitution by
7394 * tests/tools.at: Don't protect dnl, AT_DATA_M4SH does.
7396 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7398 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): After having run the test
7399 group, go back to the initial directory, not to at_suite_dir.
7401 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7403 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_DATA_M4SUGAR, AT_DATA_M4SH)
7404 (AT_DATA_AUTOCONF): Also protect @&t@ from autom4te.
7405 (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF, AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER): Pass no --include
7407 (AT_CHECK_CONFIGURE): Use absolute paths.
7408 (_AT_CHECK_AC_MACRO): Create aclocal.m4 with AC_STATE_SAVE in it.
7409 The problem is still the old one: there is no means in M4 (that I
7410 know about) to create a defining macro, because there is no means
7411 to create `$1' etc., therefore, the defining macro ``swallows''
7412 all the arguments meant to the defined macro.
7414 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7416 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_DATA_AUTOCONF): New.
7417 (AT_CONFIGURE_AC): Output the definition of AC_STATE_SAVE in
7419 * tests/aclocal.m4: Remove, as it is no longer used.
7421 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7423 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Change `tests?' into `groups?' in
7424 variable names when referring to a single test group, or to
7425 `suite' when referring to the whole test suite.
7426 `at_last_test' is removed: m4 compute at_format itself.
7427 (at_stdout, at_stder1, at_stderr): New variables.
7428 (AT_CHECK): Use them.
7430 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7432 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Be sure to put `.', relative,
7434 Create `testsuite.dir/003/run' instead of `testsuite.003'.
7435 Do it as soon as a test fails, don't wait till the end of the test
7437 Don't remove $as_me.[0-9]*, since these files no longer exist.
7439 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7441 * tests/tools.at: Use absolute paths, since we are no longer run
7444 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7446 Now that tests are running in their own private dir, there is no
7447 need to list the files to remove at the end of tests groups.
7449 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_CLEANUP_FILE, AT_CLEANUP_FILES):
7450 (AT_data_files, at_data_files): Remove.
7451 (AT_CLEANUP, AT_DATA): Simplify.
7453 Remove the group dir if !debug && !failed.
7454 * tests/atspecific.m4: Adjust.
7456 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7458 Start a new layout for Autotest: `testsuite' creates
7459 `testsuite.dir' in which the at-check-line etc. files are to be
7460 found, and `testsuite.dir/003' where the test group 3 is run.
7462 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): at_tests_dir,
7463 at_check_line_file, at_format, at_test_normalized, at_group_dir
7465 Create the directories.
7466 Use absolute paths for at- files.
7469 2001-11-11 Michael Matz <matz@kde.org>
7471 * m4sugar.m4 (_m4_foreach): Make it linear instead quadratic.
7473 (m4_car): Properly quote arguments.
7475 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7477 * tests/aclocal.m4 (AC_STATE_SAVE): s/LIBOBJS/LIB@&t@OBJS/ to cope
7478 with stricter rules on LIBOBJS.
7480 2001-11-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7482 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_PROTOTYPES): Define __PROTOTYPES too.
7483 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): AC_C_PROTOTYPES now defines
7486 2001-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7488 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETMNTENT): Use AC_CHECK_FUNCS.
7490 2001-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7492 * lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/fortran.m4,
7493 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
7494 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4,
7495 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4, lib/autoconf/specific.m4,
7496 * lib/autoconf/types.m4: When invoking AC_DEFINE and friends,
7497 specify to what the macro should be defined (typically to 1).
7499 2001-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7501 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_STRTOD): AC_SUBST POW_LIB.
7504 2001-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7506 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_LEX_YYTEXT_DECL): Use
7507 AC_TRY_EVAL to run $LEX, not AC_TRY_COMMAND. This validates the
7508 definition used by Automake where LEX is +/- "${missing} lex" and
7509 `missing' itself contains variables.
7511 2001-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7513 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Push KILL at the end.
7514 Now that M4sh pushes BODY, the comments were output at the end of
7517 2001-11-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7519 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Run aclocal before tracing, so
7520 that we can trace macros from aclocal.m4.
7521 Trace AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, not AM_PROG_LIBTOOL, since the latter is
7522 obsoleted, and redirect to the former anyway.
7523 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
7525 2001-11-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7527 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): AC_CONFIG_SUBIDRS are to be
7528 processed only if present.
7529 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Use autoreconf
7530 instead of successive calls to autoconf.
7531 Add a nonexistent subdirectory to exercise the patch above.
7532 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
7534 2001-11-08 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
7536 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Note HP-UX cc
7537 doesn't accept .S files.
7539 2001-11-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7541 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_pattern_forbid): Accepts $2.
7542 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_INTI): Forbid LIBOBJS.
7543 (_AC_LIBOBJ): s/LIBOBJS/LIB@&t@OBJS/.
7544 * bin/autom4te.in (warn_forbidden): New.
7545 (handle_output): Use it.
7546 Read m4_pattern_forbid with messages.
7548 2001-11-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7550 * bin/autom4te.in (--normalize): Remove.
7551 * lib/autom4te.in: Adjust.
7553 2001-11-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7555 * tests/Makefile.am (testsuite): Rename this target as...
7556 ($(TESTSUITE)): this.
7559 2001-11-05 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7561 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): When removing
7562 the --prefix option, also remove it's argument.
7564 2001-11-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7566 * doc/autoconf.texi (testsuite Invocation): Update.
7567 (Writing testsuite.at): Update.
7569 2001-11-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7571 * doc/autoconf.texi: s/@code/@command/ where appropriate.
7573 2001-11-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7575 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: (&catfile, &canonfile)
7576 (&file_name_is_absolute): New, wrappers around routines from
7578 Use and export them.
7579 (&find_configure_ac): Optionally take a directory where to look at.
7580 * bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args): Trim the configure.ac part of
7582 Default @ARGV to `.', not find_configure_ac.
7583 (&autoreconf): Argument is a directory.
7584 Trace AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS and schedule the subdirs for autoreconf'ing.
7585 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Update.
7587 2001-11-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7589 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (@export_vars, @export_subs)
7590 (@export_forward_subs): New.
7591 Add basename, dirname, and fileparse.
7593 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Fix call to fileparse.
7594 Don't look for aclocal flags if we already know aclocal is not
7596 Move aclocal.m4t only if it exists.
7597 Reported by Ezra Peisach.
7599 2001-11-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7601 * bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args): Work only on the configure.ac
7602 passed on command line, defaulting to ./configure.ac if present.
7603 (&maybe_autoreconf, File::Find): Remove, unused.
7604 (&autoreconf): If autoconf is not used, don't try to trace.
7606 2001-11-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7608 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.52g.
7610 2001-11-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7614 2001-11-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7616 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, doc/standards.texi:
7617 * config/lispdir.m4: Update from masters.
7618 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.52f.
7620 2001-11-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7622 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Set `$aclocal_flags' to ''.
7623 Don't run aclocal when aclocal.m4 is not from aclocal.
7625 Don't run libtoolize and gettextize if --install is not given.
7627 2001-11-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7629 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): _AS_CR_PREPARE needs to
7630 be invoked before _AS_LINENO_PREPARE.
7631 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Use as_cr_digits and as_cr_alnum rather
7632 than character ranges.
7634 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Fix NLS before
7635 invoking AS_BASENAME. Set the locale variables to 'C' if
7636 possible, as POSIX requires this to get the traditional
7638 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Describe the above.
7640 2001-10-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7642 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_WORKS): Do not surround body
7643 with {}, as that triggers a bug in Bash 2.05.
7645 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Use Sed rather than
7646 Awk. Fix the sed prepass to work even if there are multiple
7647 instances of $LINENO on the same line. Do not substitute for
7648 other variables like $LINENOT. Do not check file dates; such a
7649 check is unreliable on sufficiently fast machines, and removing
7650 the check makes the code simpler and more reliable. Check for
7651 output and chmod failures.
7653 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Document
7656 2001-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7658 * tests/Makefile.am (atconfig): Remove this target, Automake
7661 2001-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7663 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Do not
7664 AC_CONFIG_FILES(atlocal) as it means a file atlocal.in *must* be
7665 provided, while it is optional.
7666 * configure.ac: Adjust.
7668 2001-10-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7670 * NEWS, README, configure.ac, lib/Autom4te/General.pm,
7671 lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm:
7672 Require Perl 5.005_03 instead of just 5.005, as some tests fail
7675 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Document some
7676 more LINENO gotchas, particularly with respect to the Awk+Sed hack.
7678 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_WORKS): New macro.
7679 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Use it instead of shell eval, since
7680 eval $LINENO is not portable in practice.
7682 2001-10-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7684 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (backname): New.
7686 2001-10-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7688 * m4/: Remove, merged into...
7691 2001-10-23 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
7693 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology): Mention the problems with bash
7694 2.05's use of ANSI quoting in its `set' builtin.
7696 2001-10-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7698 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R):
7699 Rename ac_cv_func_strerror_r_works to ac_cv_func_strerror_r_char_p,
7700 and rename HAVE_WORKING_STRERROR_R to STRERROR_R_CHAR_P, since
7701 POSIX decided to standardize on the int flavor of strerror_r.
7702 Always do char* test, as there's no reason not to.
7703 Assign to a char* var, to catch strerror_r that returns int*.
7705 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions):
7706 Document the above changes. Also, document the fact that
7707 AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R defines HAVE_DECL_STRERROR_R.
7709 * NEWS: Mention HAVE_WORKING_STRERROR_R -> STRERROR_R_CHAR_P.
7711 2001-10-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7713 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): The name of
7714 the executable was missing from the log.
7716 2001-10-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7718 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&update_file): If destination is
7719 unchanged, remove the source.
7720 (&up_to_date_p): Don't be verbose, be debug.
7721 * bin/autoreconf.in: No longer support --m4dir.
7722 (&autoreconf): Display the full path of the configure.ac we are
7725 Be sure to honor --force with gettextize.
7727 * doc/autoconf.texi: Adjust.
7729 2001-10-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7731 * bin/autoheader.in ($localdir, $m4, $SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX):
7733 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Do not run gettextize when
7734 `intl' is already present, as it refuses unless --force.
7735 (&parse_args): Use -I, --include instead of the old Autoconf
7737 ($localdir, $autoconf_dir): Remove.
7739 (&maybe_autoreconf): New, to preserve $_ for File::Find.
7741 2001-10-19 Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com>
7743 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_AWK): Prefer gawk to mawk.
7744 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): Likewise.
7746 2001-10-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7748 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Name the generated
7749 file in @configure_input@.
7750 Don't mention `automatically' in addition to `generated'.
7751 * tests/torture.at (#define header templates): Adjust.
7753 2001-10-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7755 * lib/emacs/autoconf-mode.el, lib/emacs/autotest-mode.el: In a
7756 comment, explain how to install automatic mode selection.
7759 2001-10-19 Ezra Peisach <epeisach@zif.mit.edu>
7761 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Display the path to the
7762 configure.ac being studied.
7764 2001-10-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7766 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Cast sizeof to unsigned
7767 long, to work around a bug in the HP C compiler version HP92453-01
7770 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_DIRNAME): Use 'dirname' if that works.
7771 (AS_BASENAME_EXPR): New macro.
7772 (AS_BASENAME_SED): Do not assume GNU sed semantics.
7773 (AS_BASENAME): Use 'basename' if that works; then try 'expr';
7774 and fall back on 'sed' only if the other two fail. This makes
7775 AS_BASENAME act more like AS_DIRNAME.
7776 (as_me): Shell-quote the argument of AS_BASENAME, in case $0
7777 contains white space.
7778 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR):
7779 Use AS_DIRNAME, since I think it's now DOS-friendly.
7780 * tests/m4sh.at (DIRNAME_TEST): New arg $3.
7781 Allow "dirname //FOO" to return either / or //, as POSIX allows
7784 2001-10-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7786 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Recognize
7787 `a_out.exe' for OpenVMS 7.1, DEC C 5.5 compiler, via GNV.
7790 2001-10-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7792 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_ECHO_N_PREPARE): m4_defun, not
7794 (_AS_ECHO_N): AS_REQUIREs it.
7796 2001-10-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7798 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS)
7799 (AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT): Move to...
7800 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4: here.
7801 * lib/autoconf/types.m4: Comment changes.
7802 * doc/autoconf.texi: Specify where the default includes are used
7803 in the macro prototypes.
7805 2001-10-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7807 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4 (m4_patsubst, m4_regexp): New
7810 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7812 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Remove debugging code.
7813 (&parse_args): Pass verbosity/debugging options to subtools when
7814 --debug, not when --verbose.
7815 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoreconf-preselections): New.
7818 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7820 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Run libtoolize when appropriate.
7822 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7824 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Adjust.
7825 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Run gettextize when appropriate.
7827 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7829 * tests/tools.at (AT_CHECK_PERL_SYNTAX): Check autoreconf.
7830 (Syntax of the shell scripts): Don't.
7831 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in: Don't
7832 bother with $force since...
7833 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: does.
7835 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7837 * bin/autoreconf.in: Rewrite in Perl.
7838 * configure.ac: Adjust.
7839 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&up_to_date_p): New.
7840 * bin/autom4te.in (&up_to_date_p): Use it.
7842 (&up_to_date): this.
7844 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7846 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_case, m4_bmatch, m4_normalize)
7847 (m4_list_cmp): Use $0 to reinvoke yourself.
7848 (m4_patsubsts): New.
7849 (m4_strip, m4_version_unletter): Use it.
7850 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_DATA_M4SUGAR, AT_DATA_M4SH): Likewise.
7852 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7854 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
7855 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4, lib/autoconf/status.m4,
7856 * lib/autoconf/types.m4, lib/autotest/general.m4,
7857 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4, lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4, tests/atspecific.m4,
7858 * tests/torture.at: Rename m4_regexp, m4_patsubst, and m4_match to
7859 m4_bregexp, m4_bpatsubst, and m4_bmatch.
7860 * doc/autoconf.texi (Redefined M4 Macros): Adjust.
7862 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7864 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Use AS_REQUIRE.
7866 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7868 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_DIRNAME_EXPR): Use AS_REQUIRE.
7869 * tests/tools.at (AT_DATA_FORBIDDEN): Rename/move/duplicate to...
7870 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_DATA_M4SUGAR, AT_DATA_M4SH): here.
7871 * tests/tools.at, tests/m4sh.at: Use it.
7872 * tests/m4sh.at: Don't rely on Autoconf macros.
7873 (DIRNAME_TEST): Also exercise the expr variant.
7874 * tests/m4sugar.at, tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR): The
7875 preferred M4sugar extension is now `.4s'.
7876 * tests/README: Remove.
7878 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7880 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_provide_ifelse): Rename as...
7881 (m4_provide_if): this.
7882 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_REQUIRE): New.
7883 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AS_DEFUN, AC_DEFUN_ONCE, AC_BEFORE)
7884 (AC_REQUIRE, AC_PROVIDE, AC_PROVIDE_IFELSE): Be exact copy of the
7885 M4sugar peer, i.e., drop the `AC_PROVIDE_$1' broken marker.
7887 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7889 Use `add-log-current-defun-function' for ChangeLog creation.
7890 Suggested by Tom Tromey.
7892 * lib/emacs/autotest-mode.el (autotest-mode-map): New.
7893 (autotest-mode): Adjust.
7894 * lib/emacs/autoconf-mode.el (autoconf-mode-map): Modernize, map
7895 'comment-region onto `C-c ;'.
7896 Comments are `#', not `dnl'.
7897 (autoconf-current-defun): New.
7898 (autoconf-font-lock-keywords): Recognize `m4_defun'.
7900 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7902 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_m4_divert(BODY)): Move to...
7903 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: here.
7904 (AS_INIT): Push the BODY diversion, set the #! /bin/sh line.
7905 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_PLAIN_SCRIPT) : Remove.
7906 (AT_INIT): Replace AC_PLAIN_SCRIPT with AS_INIT invocation,
7907 include handle the m4_pattern_*, no longer push the
7908 BODY diversion nor set the /bin/sh line, AS_INIT does it.
7909 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
7910 * tests/base.at: Adjust the tests to use AS_INIT.
7911 * tests/tools.at (AT_DATA_FORBIDDEN): New.
7912 (autoconf: forbidden tokens): Adjust to work on M4sh instead of
7915 2001-10-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7917 * doc/autoconf.texi (config.status Invocation):
7918 CONFIG_SHELL defaults to a shell that supports LINENO if available.
7920 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): If the current
7921 shell does not support LINENO, and if CONFIG_SHELL is unset or
7922 empty, and if we can find a shell that does support LINENO,
7923 then set CONFIG_SHELL to that shell and then re-execute
7924 ourselves with CONFIG_SHELL.
7926 2001-10-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7928 * tests/Makefile.am (clean-local): Don't invoke $(TESTSUITE) if it
7929 doesn't exist. Remove *.tmp, as a .tmp file is created during the
7930 build of $(TESTSUITE).
7932 2001-10-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7934 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Look in the path
7935 iff we are a bareword.
7936 Reported by Raja R Harinath.
7938 2001-10-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7940 * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): New.
7941 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Be sure to set
7942 PATH_SEPARATOR before using it.
7943 Fix the absolute path case/esac pattern.
7944 Provide $0 as fallback for as_myself.
7945 Reported by Raja R Harinath.
7947 2001-10-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7949 * Makefile.am, config/Makefile.am, lib/emacs/Makefile.am,
7950 * m4/Makefile.am, man/Makefile.am: Add/adjust MAINTAINERCLEANFILES.
7952 2001-10-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7954 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): New, extracted from...
7955 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): here. Use it.
7956 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Preserve the exit status of $0.lineno.
7959 2001-10-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7961 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Use a portable
7962 combination of Awk and sed to replace $LINENO.
7964 2001-10-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7966 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): You can't use
7967 "source"; it's not portable. Remove confusing and
7968 somewhat-incorrect example involving "." and "/".
7970 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): "source" -> ".", for
7971 compatibility with POSIX shells.
7973 2001-10-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7975 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Just source 40.lineno
7976 instead of exec'ing to preserve $0 and $@.
7978 2001-10-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7980 * tests/testsuite (AT_INIT) <at_pass_list>: New.
7981 Don't run twice the same test.
7983 2001-10-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7985 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT) <--help>: Catch up with reality.
7986 No longer output the list of tests.
7987 <--list>: New option.
7988 <--full-help>: Remove.
7989 Complete the short/long options duality.
7990 Various small adjustments.
7992 2001-10-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7994 * doc/autoconf.texi: Use @kbd for user input.
7995 Always use `$' as shell prompt.
7997 2001-09-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7999 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_OUTPUT_MAKE_DEFS):
8000 Don't use nested parenthesization. This patch was originally
8001 suggested to bug-autoconf by Philippe De Muyter on 2000-05-28,
8002 but somehow it didn't get incorporated then.
8003 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools):
8004 Clarify remark about sed and nested parenthesization.
8006 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF):
8007 Report an error if the size cannot be determined even though
8009 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE):
8010 Check for `expr' arithmetic overflow, and for compilation failure,
8011 and invoke a new argument $4 if either is discovered.
8012 This makes _AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE more like _AC_COMPUTE_INT_RUN.
8013 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT): Pass IF-FAILS arg to _AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE.
8015 2001-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8017 * lib/emacs/autoconf-mode.el, lib/emacs/autotest-mode.el: New.
8018 * m4/lispdir.m4: New.
8019 * aclocal.m4, configure.ac: Adjust.
8021 2001-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8023 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_VICTIMS): Rename as...
8025 (AT_INIT): More the wrapped section to where it will be expanded.
8026 Output `AT_tested' only when existing.
8027 Catch unexpanded PACKAGE_STRING and PACKAGE_BUGREPORT.
8029 2001-09-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8031 Fix the passing of $? to ACTION-IF-FAILED in AC_TRY_RUN, that
8032 generates too many bug reports.
8034 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_RUN_IFELSE): Pass the right exit
8035 status when executing the ACTION-IF-FALSE.
8036 * tests/base.at (AC_TRY_*): Rename as...
8037 (AC_TRY_COMMAND): this.
8038 (AC_RUN_IFELSE): New.
8039 * tests/compile.at (Extensions, C keywords)
8040 (AC_PROG_CPP requires AC_PROG_CC, GNU Fortran 77)
8041 (Broken/missing compilers, AC_PROG_CPP with warnings)
8042 (AC_PROG_CPP without warnings, AC_PROG_CPP via CC): Move to...
8043 * tests/c.at (Extensions, C keywords)
8044 (Broken/missing compilers, AC_PROG_CPP with warnings)
8045 (AC_PROG_CPP without warnings, AC_PROG_CPP via CC)
8046 (AC_PROG_CPP requires AC_PROG_CC): here and...
8047 * tests/fortran.at (GNU Fortran 77): there.
8048 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoconf Invocation): Fix the example:
8049 AC_TRY_RUN is about compilation, not shell commands.
8050 (Test Programs): AC_TRY_RUN works as used to be advertised.
8052 2001-09-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8054 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Fix bugs spotted by
8056 Be sure to detect when $LINENO always returns the same value.
8057 Look for the original script, basename($0) is certainly not
8059 Pass the CLI arguments to `$as_me.lineno'.
8061 2001-09-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8063 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Dump the whole config.log.
8064 Be sure the close and reopen the LOG fd before and after using tee
8066 <at_tests_pattern>: Adjust to the new format of at_help_all.
8068 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8070 * bin/autom4te.in (parse_args): There can be several invocations
8073 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8075 * doc/autoconf.texi (Top): Wrap in @ifnottex.
8077 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8079 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Compute and provide
8080 ac_buildpath, ac_top_buildpath, ac_srcpath, and ac_top_srcpath.
8081 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Also substitute srcpath, top_srcpath,
8082 builddir, buildpath, top_builddir, and top_buildpath.
8083 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Compute the dir variables *before* changing
8084 the current directory.
8085 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Compute the dir
8086 variables *before* changing the current directory.
8087 Skip nonexistent dirs.
8088 * doc/autoconf.texi (Preset Output Variables): Document these
8091 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Do not reset AT_victims.
8092 Don't compute at_srcdir nor at_top_srcdir.
8094 * tests/tools.at: Hence use top_srcdir.
8096 * tests/Makefile.am, tests/autoconf, tests/autoheader,
8097 * tests/autom4te, tests/autoreconf, tests/autoupdate, tests/ifnames:
8099 * tests/autoreconf.in, tests/wrappl.in, tests/autom4te.in,
8100 * tests/wrapsh.in, tests/autoupdate.in: New.
8101 * tests/Makefile.am (DISTCLEANFILES, EXTRA_DIST): Adjust.
8102 * configure.ac: Build the position independent wrappers.
8104 * man/Makefile.am: Now that test wrappers are position
8105 independent, use them and drop dark envvar magic.
8107 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8109 * doc/autoconf.texi (Common Shell Constructs): Rename as...
8110 (Programming in M4sh): this.
8111 Promote to @section.
8113 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8115 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Dump config.log last.
8116 Pass $at_debug_args to the rerun test suite.
8117 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am (DISTCLEANFILES): New.
8118 * bin/Makefile.am (ETAGS_SH): Don't use characters ranges.
8121 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8123 * bin/autom4te.in (@my_warning): Remove, handled by `autom4te.cfg'.
8125 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8127 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Fix shell
8130 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8132 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&debug): New.
8133 * bin/autom4te.in ($language): Move to...
8135 Handle --language in languages.
8136 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-selections, Autoheader-selections)
8137 (Autoscan-selections): New.
8140 2001-09-23 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
8142 * m4/auxdir.m4, m4/cond.m4, m4/depend.m4, m4/init.m4,
8143 * m4/install-sh.m4, m4/missing.m4, m4/sanity.m4, m4/strip.m4: Updated
8144 to match current versions from CVS Automake.
8146 2001-09-23 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
8148 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Add pdksh output
8151 2001-09-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8153 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4: Create `package.m4'.
8154 * tests/Makefile.am (package.m4): Remove.
8156 2001-09-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8158 Rely on `$LINENO' when possible instead of `__oline__'.
8160 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Provide some form of
8161 `$LINENO' support replacement when not supported.
8162 (_AS_CR_PREPARE, _AS_TR_CPP_PREPARE, _AS_TR_SH_PREPARE): Invoke
8163 them explicitly to be sure they are not output before this section
8164 (via m4_require). Cosmetic only.
8165 * lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
8166 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4: Replace all the occurrences of
8167 `__oline__' with `$LINENO'.
8168 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Document LINENO.
8170 2001-09-21 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
8172 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_FORK): Replaceded an 8-bit
8173 character (u: -> ue) in a code comment.
8174 (AC_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK): Only run 'ln -s' if we know
8177 2001-09-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8179 * Makefile.maint (AUTOM4TE): Neutralize autom4te.
8180 Suggested by Jim Meyering.
8182 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
8184 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4: Use extensions listed in
8185 $ac_executable_extensions when looking for programs.
8187 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
8189 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Fix a small Englisho.
8190 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Fix a small typo. Handle DOS paths when
8191 setting up ac_dir_suffix and ac_top_builddir.
8192 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Default CDPATH to $PATH_SEPARATOR, not ':'.
8194 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
8196 * doc/autoconf.texi (File System Conventions): Clarify the use of
8198 (Special Shell Variables[PATH_SEPARATOR]): Ditto.
8199 (Special Shell Variables[CDPATH]): Mention that $PATH_SEPRATOR should
8200 be used instead of ':'.
8201 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Replace occurrences of ':' in
8202 AUTOTEST_PATH with $PATH_SEPARATOR at test suite startup.
8204 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
8206 * tests/atgeneral.m4: Add basic support for test ranges (e.g. 7-34) as
8207 arguments. Fixed a typo.
8209 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
8211 * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Use @PATH_SEPARATOR@, not ':' to set up
8212 $PATH. Also set AUTOM4TE_CFG, so we can process autom4te properly.
8214 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
8216 * bin/autoscan.in: Add 'exec-perl-if-not-run-by-perl'.
8217 * bin/autoupdate.in: Ditto.
8218 * bin/autoheader.in: Reworded a few comments.
8219 * bin/autoconf.in: Reworded help text for a few options.
8220 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
8221 * bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in: Ditto.
8223 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
8225 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm (open): Simplified the error message (we
8226 already have $file). Set output files to binary mode (helps avoid
8227 CR issues on DOSish systems).
8229 2001-09-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8231 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Englishoes.
8232 From Tim Van Holder and Alexey Mahotkin.
8234 2001-09-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8236 * doc/autoconf.texi (Common Shell Constructs): New node,
8237 documenting AS_DIRNAME.
8238 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Refer to it when discussing dirname.
8239 Also, update discussion of POSIX standard to reflect latest draft.
8241 * lib/autoconf/c.m4:
8242 (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C)): Also support negative values, down to LONG_MIN.
8244 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE):
8245 Do not pass a first argument with leading '-'
8246 to expr, by parenthesizing initial integers that might be negative.
8248 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): AC_FUNC_GETPGRP
8249 now merely checks whether it is an error to pass an argument
8252 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_GETPGRP_TEST): Remove.
8253 (AC_FUNC_GETPGRP): Don't bother with a runtime test. Just check
8254 whether it is a (compile-time) error to pass an argument to
8255 getpgrp. This simpler test supports the revised documentation,
8256 and is all that AC_FUNC_GETPGRP's users really need.
8258 2001-09-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8260 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make) <$<>: New.
8262 2001-09-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8264 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <find>: More about
8266 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Adjust.
8268 2001-09-18 Paul Wagland <paul@wagland.net>
8270 * tests/m4sh.at: Ensure that AS_DIRNAME handles '/', '//' and '///'
8272 Add test for AS_BASENAME.
8273 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Fix AS_BASENAME so that it passes the previous
8274 added test. It now correctly handles /1/2/3/, returning '3' not ''.
8275 Added AS_BASENAME_SED to make the interface the same as AS_DIRNAME.
8276 * tests/base.at: Fixed the expected responses. The old ones were
8278 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Fixed AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM, it now behaves as
8279 the documentation claims it should (and how it behaved in 2.13).
8281 2001-09-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8283 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): No INIT-CMDS in
8284 the AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS invocation.
8285 This also solves the name clash problems.
8286 Don't set the package's ID.
8287 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am (version.m4): Revamp.
8288 No longer to be shipped.
8289 (version.in): Remove.
8290 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
8291 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Adjust.
8292 Use `m4_PACKAGE_STRING'.
8293 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): N-th signature change: now
8294 the only optional argument is the name of the test suite.
8295 Expect `package.m4' to define the package signature.
8296 * lib/autom4te.in (Autotest): Add `package.m4?'.
8297 * tests/Makefile.am (package.m4): New.
8298 * tests/suite.at: ifnames is a victim.
8300 2001-09-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8302 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): Preselect AM_CONDITIONAL,
8303 AC_LIBSOURCE, AC_CONFIG_FILES.
8304 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't abort when a tested
8305 program version string doesn't match the package's.
8306 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CACHE_VAL): Reestablish the space
8309 2001-09-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8311 * lib/autoconf/c.m4: (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C)):
8312 Allow expression to return any value that can fit into unsigned long
8313 (not int, as before). Check for output errors.
8315 2001-09-17 Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>
8317 * lib/autoconf/c.m4: (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C)):
8318 Always include <stdio.h> and <stdlib.h>. Evaluate
8319 the expression in an extra function before these includes. Call
8320 fprintf "%d" only after ensuring the argument is of type 'int'.
8321 Reported by Wayne Chapeskie <waynec@spinnaker.com>.
8323 2001-09-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8325 Fix bug reported by Paul Townsend on AIX 4.3.3.0 with CFLAGS=-O4
8326 or CFLAGS=-O5. In that case, the linker has a relaxed view of
8327 fatal errors, and AC_CHECK_LIB causes it to include libraries even
8328 when they don't exist.
8330 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_DIRENT): Use AC_SEARCH_LIBS,
8331 not AC_CHECK_LIB, so that we don't use -ldir or -lx if we don't
8334 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_ISC_POSIX): Replace the old, crufty
8335 version with the version used by fileutils 4.1, except use
8336 AC_SEARCH_LIBS, not AC_CHECK_LIB, so that we don't use -lcposix if
8339 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_ISC_POSIX): Describe new behavior.
8341 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8343 * tests/base.at, tests/m4sh.at: Be sure to issue the bangshe line
8345 Reported by Gerrit P. Haase.
8347 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8349 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Reset `AT_victims' so that
8350 m4_defn'ing is valid.
8352 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8354 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_append_uniq): New.
8355 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_VICTIMS, AT_KEYWORDS, _AT_CLEANUP_FILE):
8358 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8360 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (_AS_QUOTE_IFELSE, _AS_BOX_INDIR): Use
8362 (m4_re_escape): New.
8363 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_CONFIG_IF_MEMBER): Use it.
8364 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CACHE_SAVE): Use m4_match.
8365 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_CONFIG_IF_MEMBER, AC_CONFIG_LINKS):
8367 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (_AC_CHECK_TYPE_REPLACEMENT_TYPE_P)
8368 (_AC_CHECK_TYPE_MAYBE_TYPE_P, AC_CHECK_MEMBER): Likewise.
8369 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Rename AT_TESTS_ALL as
8370 AT_tests_all for consistency.
8372 (AT_VICTIMS): Similar to AT_KEYWORDS.
8373 (_AT_CLEANUP_FILE_IF): Use m4_match and m4_re_escape.
8375 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8377 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Fix stupid bugs.
8379 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8381 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Create and remove
8382 `$as_me.[0-9]+' instead of `debug-[0-9]+.sh', so that multiple
8383 test suites can cohabit.
8385 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8387 * tests/mktests.sh: Don't output banners for empty test files.
8389 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8391 Test suites can be run independently of configure.
8393 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_ECHO, _AS_ECHO_N_PREPARE): New.
8394 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_ECHO): Remove.
8395 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Adjust: AC_SUBST
8397 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Don't ask for at_n
8399 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Use ECHO_*.
8401 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8403 * bin/ifnames.in: Rewrite in Perl.
8404 * configure.ac: Don't look for AWK.
8405 * tests/tools.at (AWK portability): Remove.
8406 (Syntax of the shell scripts): Don't check ifnames.
8407 (AT_CHECK_PERL_SYNTAX): New.
8408 (Syntax of the Perl scripts): Check ifnames.
8409 * tests/ifnames: New.
8411 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8413 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Let --keywords also match
8415 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AU_MACRO): AT_KEYWORDS(autoupdate).
8416 Remove all the other keywords.
8418 2001-09-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8420 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Remove the diversion HELP and
8421 SETUP: no longer used.
8422 Support -k, --keywords.
8423 <at_help>: Be `no', `short', or `long'.
8424 <at_help_all>: New variable.
8426 (AT_CLEANUP_FILE_IFELSE, AT_CLEANUP_FILE): Rename as...
8427 (_AT_CLEANUP_FILE_IF, _AT_CLEANUP_FILE): these.
8428 (_AT_CLEANUP_FILE_IF): Simplify the regexp.
8429 (AT_SETUP): Reset AT_line, AT_keywords, AT_description.
8430 No longer fill the HELP diversion.
8431 (AT_CLEANUP): Use them.
8432 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_append): Support a separator.
8433 (m4_list_append): Remove.
8435 Spread a few keywords in the Autoconf test suite.
8437 2001-09-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8439 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Don't pass
8440 PATH_SEPARATOR, let M4sh compute it.
8441 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_SEPARATOR_PREPARE): New.
8442 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_SHELL_PATH_WALK): Use PATH_SEPARATOR.
8444 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_WALK): Here.
8445 Simplify when the path is not a literal.
8446 (AS_UNAME): Use it to report PATH.
8447 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE_FS_SEPARATORS): Remove.
8448 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): AC_SUBST PATH_SEPARATOR.
8449 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_INSTALL): Use _AS_PATH_WALK.
8450 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Use _AS_PATH_WALK to
8451 normalize the path, and to look for victims.
8452 * tests/semantics.at (AC_PATH_PROG & AC_PATH_PROGS)
8453 (AC_CHECK_PROG & AC_CHECK_PROGS): Use PATH_SEPARATOR.
8455 2001-09-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8457 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_m4): `< /dev/null' so that GNU M4 1.5
8458 doesn't neutralize SIGINT, making autoconf etc. non interruptible.
8459 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Move the package
8460 related variables into `at_package_*'.
8461 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_VICTIMS): New.
8462 (AT_INIT): Adjust for stand-alone/embedded test suites.
8463 (AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD): Define and use it.
8464 * tests/suite.at (AT_VICTIMS): Use it.
8465 * tests/tools.at (autoupdating AC_PREREQ): Don't depend upon
8468 2001-09-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8470 Move toward possibly stand-alone test suites.
8472 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Stop displaying srcdir everywhere as,
8473 in addition, it introduces useless differences in logs.
8474 (AT_INIT): Let atconfig and atlocal be both optional.
8475 Adjust PATH computation.
8476 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_UNAME): More readable display of PATH.
8478 2001-09-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8480 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am (autoconf.m4f): Depends upon
8483 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8485 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY(C)): Use `_array_'
8486 to avoid GCC warnings.
8489 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8491 * bin/autom4te.in: --language is -l, not -s.
8493 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8495 Be ready to handle filenames as stupid as `dnl.at', for if even
8496 the maintainer is dumb enough to do that...
8498 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_SETUP, AT_LINE): Demonstrates your
8499 excellence in M4 quotation: consider `__file__' is active.
8501 And BTW, when invoking m4, pass the --include in the right order:
8504 * bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoupdate.in: Use reverse when kingtal to
8507 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8509 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: New lib file.
8510 * bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoscan.pl, bin/autom4te.in,
8511 * bin/autoheader.in: Use it.
8513 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8515 * bin/autoupdate.in (&handle_m4_macros) <unm4.m4>: Undefine iff
8518 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8520 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&getopt): Work around the `-' Getopt bug.
8521 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoupdate.in (&parse_args): Adjust.
8523 * bin/autoscan.in: Use `getopt' and `find_files' etc.
8524 Add -I, --include support.
8525 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoscan Invocation): Adjust.
8527 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8529 CVS GNU M4 doesn't like `undefine(undefined)'.
8531 * bin/autoupdate.in (&handle_m4_macros, &handle_autoconf_macros):
8532 New, extracted from main.
8533 Use IO::File wherever possible.
8534 (input.m4): Be constant, use -I instead of hard coding $tmp.
8535 Therefore be a quoted heredoc.
8536 Don't invoke `_au_disable', since ac was not loaded, but just
8539 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8543 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8545 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Fix the
8547 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER): Can create `config.hin~'.
8549 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8551 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): DU 5.0 has
8552 serious problems handling heredocs in heredocs.
8553 Reported by Nicolas Joly.
8555 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8557 * doc/autoconf.texi: Don't promote non `m4_*' M4 macros.
8558 (Making testsuite Scripts): Update.
8560 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8562 * lib/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): Add autom4te.cfg.
8564 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8566 * doc/autoconf.texi (Quadrigraphs): Document `@&t@'.
8567 (testsuite Scripts): There is no such thing as `atconfig.in'.
8568 And actually one diagram is missing: test suite runtime.
8570 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8572 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_file): Browse the includes in the
8575 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8577 * bin/autoupdate.in (@include): `installcheck' revealed the path
8578 to m4sugar was lacking!
8580 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8582 * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): We really have to pass
8583 autom4te_perllibdir.
8585 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8587 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't pass all the args to
8588 debug scripts, in particular passing explicitly listed tests to
8591 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8593 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Strip `.' from `@include'.
8594 * bin/autoupdate.in: Use --include, -I, and --force, -f, too.
8595 Use directly autom4te, not autoconf.
8596 * tests/autoupdate: $top_srcdir/lib is needed too for melt files.
8598 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8600 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Missing eol.
8601 * bin/autoheader.in (%symbol): Strip arguments of macros.
8603 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8605 * doc/autoconf.texi: Catch up -I, --include changes.
8607 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8609 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Die on unknown languages.
8610 * bin/autoheader.in: Run directly autom4te --mode=autoconf, no
8612 Promote --include over --macrodir and other obsolete options.
8614 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8616 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm ($version, $help, &getopt): New.
8617 * bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in: Use them.
8618 * bin/autom4te.in ($autoconf): Pass --force.
8619 `print $out' doesn't print `$_' but `$out'.
8620 * tests/tools.at (Syntax of the Perl scripts): Pass the lib dir.
8621 (autoheader): Pass --force since the test suite goes too fast for
8623 Adjust to the new autoheader messages.
8625 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8627 * bin/autoheader.in: Handle the acconfig.h etc. junk files.
8628 Check the completeness of the #template.
8629 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&update_file): s/remove/unlink/.
8630 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Adjust AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER
8633 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8635 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_file, &update_file): New.
8636 * bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoheader.in: Adjust.
8637 Drop AC_MACRODIR dead for real.
8638 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER): Now autoheader says
8639 `autoheader: `config.hin' is created'.
8640 * tests/tools.at (Syntax of the Perl scripts): Check autoheader.
8642 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8644 * bin/autoheader.in: Rewrite in Perl.
8645 * tests/autoheader: Adjust.
8647 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8649 * bin/autoconf.in (--include, -I): New option.
8650 Map --localdir, --autoconf-dir onto it.
8651 Forward autom4te's options instead of interpreting them.
8652 * bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoheader.in (AC_MACRODIR, autoconf_dir):
8653 There is no such envvar since the inception of autom4te.cfg.
8654 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Uniquify `@include'.
8655 * bin/autoupdate.in: Adjust, and perform more control.
8656 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF): Adjust.
8657 * tests/autoconf: Dittowise.
8659 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8661 * bin/autoconf.in: Don't bother with `acsite.m4' and `aclocal.m4'.
8662 * bin/autom4te.in (&find_file): Support `FILE?' standing for
8664 Use -e, not -f, since /dev/null for instance is OK.
8665 (&parse_args): Adjust.
8666 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): Add `acsite.m4?' and `aclocal.m4?'.
8668 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8670 * configure.ac: Also find tested executables in bin.
8671 * bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
8672 * bin/autoscan.in, autoupdate.in: Use exclusively the name of the
8673 installed peer executables, only PATH is allowed to resolve it.
8674 Pass `autoconf_dir' via options, not via invisible envvars.
8675 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_peer): Remove.
8676 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): `AUTOTEST_PATH=a:b' gives
8677 `abuild:asrc:bbuild:bsrc', not `abuild:bbuild:asrc:bsrc'.
8678 * man/Makefile.am: Let help2man rely on PATH instead of trying to
8679 find the executables for it.
8680 * tests/Makefile.am: Major cleanup. Too lazy to document...
8681 * tests/atlocal.in: Remove all the obscure envvar manipulations.
8683 * tests/atspecific.m4, tests/tools.at: Passing --localdir is
8684 indeed related to running the test suite, while passing
8685 --autoconf-dir and others is related to running non installed
8686 Autoconf executables. So don't do that, leave it to...
8687 * tests/autoconf, tests/autoheader, tests/autom4te, tests/autoupdate,
8688 * tests/autoscan: New.
8689 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR, AT_CHECK_M4SH): Don't
8690 refer to library files: rely on --language.
8692 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8694 * bin/autom4te.in, lib/autom4te.in, bin/autoconf.in:
8695 s/--set/--language/.
8697 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8699 * doc/autoconf.texi: Strip the @nodes.
8700 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
8701 (Initializing configure): Typo.
8703 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8705 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_output): s/@__@/@&t@/.
8706 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
8708 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8710 * Makefile.maint (do-po-update): Wget refuses to overwrite files:
8711 download in a tmp dir.
8713 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8715 * lib/autotest/general.m4: s/AT-devnull/devnull/ since there are
8716 case insensitive OSes out there :(
8717 From Tim Van Holder.
8719 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8721 * lib/autom4te.in: New.
8722 * lib/Makefile.am (edit, autom4te.cfg): New.
8723 * bin/autom4te.in (BEGIN): Simplify.
8724 Rely on `AC_MACRODIR' in addition of `autom4te_perllibdir'.
8725 (&load_configuration): New. Use it.
8726 (&parse_args): Support --mode, --set, and --melt.
8727 * bin/autoconf.in: Simplify and adjust.
8728 * tests/Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE): Use --set.
8729 * tests/atlocal.in: Adjust.
8730 * BUGS: distcheck and check are weak.
8732 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8734 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Use
8735 foo=`(command) 2>/dev/null`
8737 foo=`command` 2>/dev/null
8738 (at-devnull): Rename as...
8740 (--clean): Remove AT-* files too.
8741 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Document `date'.
8742 Reported by Nicolas Joly.
8744 2001-08-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8746 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Don't use single
8747 quotes inside single quotes.
8748 Reported by Nicolas Joly.
8750 2001-08-28 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
8752 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Mention C right shifts.
8754 2001-08-27 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
8756 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Reword some messages.
8757 (AT_INIT): Check for the `times' builtin before using it.
8758 Support test ranges as arguments to the testsuite.
8759 Have -e imply -d as the help text suggested.
8761 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8763 * Makefile.maint: Formatting changes.
8764 (do-po-update, po-update, cvs-update, update): New targets.
8767 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8769 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT) <at_cmd_line>: Remove.
8771 Pass it to debug-*.sh scripts.
8772 <AUTOTEST_PATH>: May contain absolute dir names.
8774 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8776 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Log the command line.
8777 Support `VAR=VAL' as arguments.
8778 Compute PATH _after_ the options processing, so that AUTOTEST_PATH
8779 may be set via the command line.
8781 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8783 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): $2 defaults to $1.
8784 * lib/autotest/autotest.m4 (AT_INIT): Expand AUTOTEST_PATH into
8785 first the build dirs, then the src dirs.
8786 * configure.ac (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Adjust.
8788 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8790 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Output the definition of
8791 at_data_files earlier.
8792 (--clean, -c): New option.
8793 * tests/Makefile.am: Use this option.
8795 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8797 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Rename `ac_dots' as
8798 `ac_top_builddir' to mimic Automake's vocabulary, which much more
8801 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Actions): Document the vars
8802 available in commands.
8803 Emphasize the risks of collisions in init-cmds.
8805 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8807 * doc/autoconf.texi (Input) <AC_INIT>: Move to..
8808 (Initializing configure): this new node.
8810 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8812 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): INSTALL.txt is a dead hack.
8814 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8816 * m4/atconfig.m4 (AT_CONFIG): Remove, replaced by...
8817 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): this.
8819 * m4/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Oops, adjust...
8821 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8823 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AU_DEFINE, AU_DEFUN, AU_ALIAS): Move
8825 * lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4: this new file.
8826 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AH_OUTPUT, AH_VERBATIM)
8827 (_AH_VERBATIM_OLD, AH_TEMPLATE, _AH_TEMPLATE_OLD, AH_TOP, AH_BOTTOM):
8829 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4: this new file.
8831 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8833 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): New.
8834 (_AC_OUTPUT_LINKS, _AC_OUTPUT_FILES, _AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Use it.
8835 Standardize the var names (ac_sub_srcdir -> ac_srcdir, ac_subdir
8837 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): AS_DIRNAME always return a dir name.
8838 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Ditto.
8840 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8842 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4 (AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS)
8843 (AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_POST, AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE, AC_CONFIG_FILES)
8844 (AC_CONFIG_HEADER, AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, AC_CONFIG_IF_MEMBER)
8845 (AC_CONFIG_LINKS, AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS, AC_FILE_DEPENDENCY_TRACE)
8846 (AC_LINK_FILES, AC_LIST_COMMANDS, AC_LIST_COMMANDS_COMMANDS)
8847 (AC_LIST_FILES, AC_LIST_FILES_COMMANDS, AC_LIST_HEADERS)
8848 (AC_LIST_HEADERS_COMMANDS, AC_LIST_LINKS, AC_LIST_LINKS_COMMANDS)
8849 (AC_OUTPUT, AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS, AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_POST)
8850 (AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_PRE, AC_OUTPUT_MAKE_DEFS)
8851 (_AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_INIT, _AC_CONFIG_DEPENDENCIES)
8852 (_AC_CONFIG_DEPENDENCY, _AC_CONFIG_UNIQUE, _AC_LINK_FILES_CNT)
8853 (_AC_LIST_SUBDIRS, _AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS, _AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_CNT)
8854 (_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_INIT, _AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS)
8855 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES, _AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS, _AC_OUTPUT_LINKS)
8856 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Move to...
8857 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: this new file.
8858 * lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am: Adjust.
8859 * tests/Makefile.am, tests/suite.at: Adjust.
8861 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8865 * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Add 1.5 and dist-bzip2.
8866 (AMTAR): Help automake define it.
8867 (INSTALL, install-data-hook): The INSTALL.txt trick is no longer
8868 needed, 1.5 can have a macro and a target with the same name.
8869 * m4/auxdir.m4, m4/cond.m4, m4/depend.m4, m4/install-sh.m4,
8871 * m4/init.m4, m4/sanity.m4: Update.
8872 * doc/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): 1.5 knows the texi2dvi files.
8873 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am, lib/autotest/Makefile.am,
8874 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am, lib/autoscan/Makefile.am,
8875 * lib/Autom4te/Makefile.am, man/Makefile.am: Use dist/nodist.
8877 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8879 Provide a mean to ``AC_PREREQ'' for M4sugar, M4sh and Autotest.
8881 * lib/autoconf/version.in: Remove.
8882 * lib/m4sugar/version.in: New.
8883 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_acversion, m4_version_prereq): New.
8885 * bin/autoupdate.in: Distinguish M4sugar vs. Autoconf macros by
8886 the name of the directory they're in, instead of the filename,
8887 since version.m4 is now in m4sugar, but m4_acversion must not be
8888 classified as an Autoconf macro.
8889 ($input_m4): Don't qualify the path to m4sugar.
8890 Rather, pass autoconf_dir to m4.
8891 * tests/Makefile.am (testsuite): Remove -I top_srcdir, unneeded.
8892 * tests/suite.at: Require 2.52c.
8894 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8896 testsuite.log should include config.log.
8898 * lib/autotest/autotest.m4: New.
8899 * lib/autotest/general.m4, tests/atspecific.m4: Adjust.
8900 * tests/suite.at : Adjust.
8901 (AT_INIT): Log config.log.
8902 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_text_box): New.
8903 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOX_LITERAL): Adjust.
8904 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_CONFIG_LOG): Use them.
8905 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Fix the incredibly messy and buggy completion
8906 of config.log on traps.
8907 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Use AS_BOX.
8908 Use consistently `_ACEOF' for configure's here docs, and `_CSEOF'
8910 Open the log as soon as possible.
8911 Use the same log introduction as configure's.
8913 2001-08-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8915 * doc/autoconf.texi (Indices): New node.
8916 Move indices out of the top level menu and into this submenu.
8918 2001-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8920 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_LEX_YYTEXT_DECL): Use
8922 (AC_DECL_YYTEXT): Fix the previous patch: it points to AC_PROG_LEX.
8924 2001-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8926 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SHELL_PATH_WALK, AC_CHECK_PROG)
8927 (AC_CHECK_PROGS, AC_PATH_PROG, AC_PATH_PROGS, AC_CHECK_TOOL_PREFIX)
8928 (AC_PATH_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOLS): Move to...
8929 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4: here.
8930 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (_AC_PROG_ECHO, AC_PROG_MAKE_SET)
8931 (AC_PROG_RANLIB, AC_PROG_YACC, AC_PROG_LEX, _AC_DECL_YYTEXT)
8932 (AC_PROG_INSTALL, AC_PROG_LN_S, AC_RSH): Move to...
8933 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4: here.
8934 (_AC_DECL_YYTEXT): Rename as...
8935 (_AC_PROG_LEX_YYTEXT_DECL): this.
8936 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am
8937 * tests/Makefile.am, tests/suite.am: Adjust.
8939 2001-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8941 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_LIST_MEMBER_OF, AC_LINKER_OPTION):
8943 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_LIST_MEMBER_IF, _AC_LINKER_OPTION):
8945 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC): Move to...
8946 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4: here.
8947 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SEARCH_LIBS, AC_CHECK_LIB)
8948 (AH_CHECK_LIB): Move to...
8949 * lib/autoconf/libs: this new file.
8950 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_XMKMF, _AC_PATH_X_DIRECT)
8951 (_AC_PATH_X, AC_PATH_X, AC_PATH_XTRA): Move to...
8952 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4: here.
8953 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am: Adjust.
8955 2001-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8957 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_MKDIR_P): Fail if fails.
8958 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Adjust.
8959 (AC_SITE_LOAD): Better logging of config.site.
8961 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8963 * configure.ac (AT_CONFIG): Fix the path.
8964 * m4/atconfig.m4 (AT_CONFIG): Don't use EOF but ATEOF so that 2.52
8967 2001-08-20 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
8969 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Prepare the cross-compile
8970 program with AC_LANG_PROGRAM before feeding it to
8971 AC_COMPILE_IFELSE. Cleanup grep usage.
8973 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8975 * ChangeLog, ChangeLog.0, ChangeLog.1, ChangeLog.2, AUTHORS, BUGS,
8976 * NEWS, README, README-alpha, TODO, tests/README: This package is
8977 `Autoconf', not `autoconf' (the executable).
8979 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8981 Info readers seem to need `Index' in the index node title :(
8983 * doc/autoconf.texi: Reverse the 2001-08-15 change which
8984 simplified index node names.
8986 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8988 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): Warn if the
8989 arguments are not literals.
8990 * doc/autoconf.texi (Input) <AC_INIT>: Arguments must be literals.
8991 Specify the output variables, and macros defined.
8993 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8995 * doc/autoconf.texi (Examining Declarations) <AC_TRY_CPP>:
8996 (Examining Syntax) <AC_TRY_COMPILE>
8997 (Examining Libraries) <AC_TRY_LINK>
8998 (Test Programs) <AC_TRY_RUN>: These macros double quote some of
9000 Reported by Werner Lemberg.
9002 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9004 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Compute top_builddir,
9005 top_srcdir and srcdir from at_topbuild_2_topsrc and at_testdir.
9006 Load atlocal late enough to dump it in the log.
9007 * m4/atconfig.m4 (AT_CONFIG): Pass them to atconfig.
9009 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9011 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): New test.
9012 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Say what you are
9014 * m4/atconfig.m4: Be sure the let $[0] be expandable.
9015 (top_srcdir): Fix its computation.
9017 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9019 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS): Say what you do.
9020 * m4/atconfig.m4 (AT_CONFIG): $1 is now the directory where the
9022 Create `atconfig' automagically.
9023 Configure atlocal.in if present.
9024 * tests/atconfig.in: Remove.
9025 * tests/atlocal.in: New.
9026 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
9028 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9030 Huh!?!?! There are still some user EOF tags used, which prevents
9031 their use in AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS for instance...
9033 * lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/specific.m4,
9034 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Rename the EOF tags as `_ACEOF',
9035 `_CSEOF', or `_ATEOF', as appropriate.
9036 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am,
9037 * lib/autotest/Makefile.am (check-local): Enforce this constraint.
9039 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9041 * tests/base.at, tests/m4sh.at, tests/m4sugar.at,
9042 * tests/semantics.at, tests/tools.at, tests/torture.at:
9043 s/^AT_DATA\(([^][]+),/AT_DATA([$1],/.
9045 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9047 Autotest invokes M4sh's initialization.
9049 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Adjust the diversion names.
9050 (AT_INIT): Run AS_INIT.
9051 Use the BINSH diversion to invoke /bin/sh.
9052 * tests/base.at, tests/m4sh.at, tests/m4sugar.at, tests/tools.at:
9053 * tests/torture.at: Respect M4sugar and M4sh macro name spaces.
9055 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9057 Let M4sh have its own diversions.
9059 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_m4_divert(BINSH), _m4_divert(REVISION))
9060 (_m4_divert(NOTICE)): Rename as...
9061 * lib/m4sugar/m4msh.m4 (_m4_divert(BINSH), _m4_divert(HEADER-REVISION))
9062 (_m4_divert(HEADER-COMMENT)): these.
9063 (_m4_divert(HEADER-COPYRIGHT), _m4_divert(HEADER-COPYRIGHT)): New.
9064 (_m4_divert(NOTICE)): New, for Libtool.
9065 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_m4_divert(PREPARE)): Remove, replaced
9066 long ago with `_m4_divert(GROW)'.
9067 (AC_COPYRIGHT, AC_REVISION, _AC_INIT_NOTICE): Adjust.
9069 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9071 * tests/base.at, tests/compile.at, tests/foreign.at,
9072 * tests/m4sh.at, tests/m4sugar.at, tests/mktests.sh,
9073 * tests/semantics.at, tests/suite.at, tests/tools.at,
9074 * tests/torture.at: Ask Autotest mode, not Autoconf mode.
9076 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9078 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_output): Handle @__@.
9080 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9082 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autoconf/oldnames.m4,
9083 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Adjust the license.
9085 2001-08-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
9087 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Mention snprintf,
9088 following up on a suggestion by Kevin Ryde.
9090 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9092 * doc/install.texi, doc/autoconf.texi: Use `autoconf', not
9093 `autoconf_manual', as texinfo.tex 2001-06-21.10 chokes on it.
9095 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9097 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Refer to `$as_me.log', not
9098 `$0.log' as for projects where testsuite is in src, we'd have
9099 testsuite.log created in src.
9101 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9103 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Recognize --normalize.
9105 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9107 Start implementing the AC_CHECK_HEADER transition scheme.
9109 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_NEW)
9110 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_OLD, _AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): New.
9111 (AC_CHECK_HEADER): Use them.
9113 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9115 * doc/autoconf.texi: Work around Texinfo buglets.
9116 (Transformation Rules): One example is enough, users are expected
9117 to have their brains on. And BTW, use DESTDIR.
9118 (dvar): New macro. Use it.
9120 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9122 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at) <AT_CHECK>: Complete.
9123 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Use the relative dir when
9124 looking for ChangeLogs.
9126 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9128 * bin/autom4te.in: --normalize is a new option.
9129 * bin/autoconf.in: Use it.
9131 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9133 * bin/Makefile.am, lib/Autom4te/Makefile.am, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am
9134 * lib/autotest/Makefile.am, lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am: Add TAGS support.
9136 2001-08-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
9138 * doc/autoconf.texi, doc/install.texi: Put copyright notice at
9141 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9143 * doc/Makefile.am (fu): New index, can't use fn because of defmac.
9146 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9148 * doc/autoconf.texi (pr): New index.
9149 (prindex, findex): Use, merge, and output them.
9150 (Environment Variable Index, Output Variable Index)
9151 (Preprocessor Symbol Index, Autoconf Macro Index, M4 Macro Index)
9152 (Autotest Macro Index): Rename as...
9153 (Environment Variables, Output Variables,Preprocessor Symbols)
9154 (Autoconf Macros, M4 Macros, Autotest Macros): these.
9155 * doc/install.texi: Use @command.
9156 (Environment Variables): Rename as...
9157 (Defining Variables): this.
9159 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9161 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): sprintf's return
9165 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9167 * Makefile.maint (CVS): New.
9168 (local-check): Run changelog-check. last.
9169 (alpha): Don't depend upon local-check, since...
9170 (cvs-dist): depends upon it.
9172 2001-08-15 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
9174 * tests/Makefile.am: Use a clean-local rule to remove
9175 autom4te.cache (it's a directory, not a file.
9176 * Makefile.am: Ditto (but maintainer-clean-local).
9178 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9180 * bin/autom4te.in (@m4_warning): New.
9181 (&handle_m4): Use it.
9182 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4_warn): Pass `-f' to autom4te to ensure the
9183 warnings are issued at each run.
9184 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR, AT_CHECK_M4SH): M4sugar
9187 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9189 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOUPDATE): Perl is now required:
9190 don't waste time running `autoupdate --version' works.
9191 * tests/tools.at (autoupdating AC_PREREQ): Likewise.
9193 2001-08-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9195 * doc/autoconf.texi (ma): Rename this index as...
9198 2001-08-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9200 * Makefile.am: Remove dead code and dead comments.
9201 (pdf, html): New targets.
9202 * doc/autoconf.texi (Using Autotest): New chapter.
9203 * doc/Makefile.am (pdf): New targets.
9204 (CLEANFILES): Adjust.
9206 2001-08-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9208 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Log the start/stop dates and
9209 duration of the test suite.
9211 2001-08-12 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
9213 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Explicitelly save and load
9214 endianness for comparison instead of relying on AT_CHECK_ENV.
9216 2001-08-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
9218 * doc/autoconf.texi, doc/install.texi: Add a copyright notice
9219 to the INSTALL file.
9221 2001-08-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
9223 * NEWS: The autoconf manual now is distributed under the terms
9224 of the GNU Free Documentation License.
9226 * doc/autoconf.texi: Switch from old style copyright notice to FDL.
9227 Add an appendix "Copying This Manual" for the FDL.
9229 * doc/fdl.texi: New file, from
9230 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.texi>.
9232 * doc/Makefile.am (autoconf_TEXINFOS): Add fdl.texi.
9234 2001-08-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
9236 * AUTHORS, BUGS, ChangeLog, ChangeLog.0, ChangeLog.1,
9237 ChangeLog.2, GNUmakefile, Makefile.maint, NEWS, README,
9238 README-alpha, TODO, configure.ac, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am,
9239 m4/atconfig.m4, m4/init.m4, m4/m4.m4, m4/missing.m4,
9240 m4/sanity.m4, tests/README, tests/aclocal.m4,
9241 tests/atspecific.m4, tests/base.at, tests/compile.at,
9242 tests/foreign.at, tests/m4sh.at, tests/m4sugar.at,
9243 tests/semantics.at, tests/suite.at, tests/tools.at,
9244 tests/torture.at: Add copyright notice.
9246 * tests/mktests.sh: Update year in copyright notice.
9248 2001-08-12 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
9250 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): New test.
9252 2001-08-11 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
9254 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Handle ACTION-IF-TRUE,
9255 ACTION-IF-FALSE, and ACTION-IF-UNKNOWN.
9256 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler Characteristics): Update
9257 documentation for AC_C_BIGENDIAN.
9259 2001-08-11 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
9261 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Guess endianness by grep'ing
9262 magic values from an object file when cross-compiling.
9263 Based on code by Guido Draheim <Guido.Draheim@gmx.de>.
9265 2001-08-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9267 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_output): Don't use `grep' with side
9269 Suggested by Russ Allbery.
9271 2001-08-10 Ralf Corsepius <corsepiu@faw.uni-ulm.de>
9273 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Propagate the
9274 current $prefix to the sub-configures.
9276 2001-08-09 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
9278 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4: Ignore *.xSYM when looking for an executable
9279 extension (needed on BeOS). Reported by Guido van Rossum.
9281 2001-08-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9283 * bin/autom4te.in ($icache): Load it only if older than autom4te.
9285 2001-08-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9287 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): All the `at-*' are to be
9289 (at-setup-line): Huh? Be a variable `at_setup_line', not a file.
9290 No need to remove the files before and after the each test, before
9291 each test and at the end of the suite is enough.
9292 Display only the children `times', not the shell's.
9293 If the test failed or was skipped, at-times is not available.
9295 2001-08-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9297 Always produce testsuite.log, including when there are no
9298 failures. This helps getting information on skipped tests, and
9299 duration of the tests. Err, implement the latter btw.
9301 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Set up fd 6 for the log.
9302 Dump information on the first run of each test.
9303 (AT_CLEANUP): Create `at-times' containing the duration of the
9306 2001-08-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9308 The use of `dumpstat' revealed that `len' was used although it
9309 should not. m4_text_wrap was using it, but in the Autoconf world
9310 where it is legal. Hence (i) test M4sh in its own world, not
9311 Autoconf's, and (ii), ahem, fix the bug :)
9313 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Be sure the set good quotes, as tracing
9314 does not like `' instead of [].
9315 (AT_INIT): Forbid `^_?AT_'.
9316 And don't output such tokens.
9317 * tests/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): Add `script', `script.s4g',
9318 `script.as', and `autom4te.cache'.
9319 Remove `empty' and `macro' which are no longer used.
9320 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR, AT_CHECK_M4SH): New.
9321 * tests/m4sugar.at: Use it.
9322 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: Use `m4_len' not `len'.
9324 2001-08-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9326 * bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoheader.in: --force, -f is a new option.
9328 2001-08-07 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
9330 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_output): Typo in quadrigraph substitution.
9332 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9334 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_ALLOCA, AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE)
9335 (AC_FUNC_FSEEKO, AC_FUNC_OBSTACK): Use AC_LANG_IFELSE, not
9337 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_MAJOR): Likewise.
9338 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_F77_HOOKS)
9339 (AC_F77_MAIN): Likewise.
9341 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9343 Don't rely on M4sugar outputting the patterns in files, since we
9344 might process the output _without_ running m4, hence without these
9347 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_init): No need for `m4_tmpdir'.
9348 * bin/autom4te.in (@Request::includes): Remove, unused.
9349 (@Request::source): Rename as...
9350 (@Request::input): this.
9351 (@preselect): Add `m4_pattern_forbid' and `m4_pattern_allow'.
9352 (&handle_output): Fetch the patterns from the traces.
9353 `$forbidden' and `$allowed' are constant: use m//o.
9354 (&handle_m4): M4sugar no longer wants `m4_tmpdir'.
9355 (m4_pattern_forbid, m4_pattern_allow): Adjust for tracing only.
9357 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9359 `autoconf && autoheader' is sped up. Now, speed up `autoheader &&
9360 autoconf', i.e., in addition to caching traces, cache the output.
9362 * bin/autom4te.in (Request::cache): Rename as...
9363 (Request::id): this.
9364 ($cache, $icache, $tcache, $ocache): New.
9365 (&handle_m4): Save M4 output in the cache instead of $tmp.
9366 (&handle_output): Adjust.
9367 (&up_to_date_p): Check that the output cache is up to date too.
9368 (top level): Run `&handle_m4' iff force or the cache is invalid.
9369 Run `&handle_output' if the output cache is more recent.
9371 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9373 * bin/autom4te.in ($force): New.
9374 (&parse_args, &print_usage): -f, --force is a new option.
9375 (&handle_output): CPP directives might have spaces after `#'.
9376 (&parse_args): The first file only can be frozen.
9378 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9380 Don't let autom4te compute the `include' traces several times:
9381 first check that the trace cache file is up to date, and then
9382 compare its timestamp with that of the output.
9384 * bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoscan.in: Normalize
9385 the preamble. Don't require 5.005 as Autom4te::General does it,
9386 and better yet (use `use', not `require'!).
9387 * lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm: Rename the last occurrences of
9388 Class::Struct as Autom4te::Struct.
9389 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (File::stat): Use it.
9390 (&mtime): New, export it.
9391 * bin/autom4te.in: Use it.
9392 Declare `$req' is invalid if it is outdated.
9393 Don't declare it valid before saving it if something went wrong.
9395 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9397 Autom4te shall not encode Autoconf data, and preselecting traces
9398 must be proposed to the users.
9400 * bin/autom4te.in (@required_trace): Remove.
9402 (&parse_args, &print_usage): -p, --preselect is a new option.
9403 (&up_to_date_p): Adjust.
9404 * bin/autoconf.in: Preselect some Autoconf macros.
9406 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9408 * tests/tools.at (autoconf --trace: user macros): Check traces on
9409 macros invoked without arguments, and macros invoked with multiple
9412 2001-08-03 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
9414 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_traces): Fix rewriting of traces without
9417 2001-08-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9419 * bin/autoconf.in ($@): Work around the usual sh bug.
9422 2001-08-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9424 Clean up the handling of the M4 builtins tracing exception.
9426 * bin/autom4te.in (Request::request): Don't complete M4 builtins
9428 (@m4_builtins): Rename as...
9429 (@m4_builtin): this.
9430 (%m4_builtin_alternate_name): New.
9431 (&parse_args): Complete the trace requests with alternate names.
9432 (&handle_traces): Hence no longer do it here.
9433 (&trace_requests): Remove, unused.
9435 2001-08-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9437 * doc/autoconf.texi (Redefined M4 Macros): Document m4_exit,
9440 2001-08-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9442 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_init): Also forbid `_m4_*' tokens.
9443 (m4_divert_pop): Dump the whole diversion stack when a diversion
9445 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_output): Remember of the first
9446 occurrence of a possibly undefined macro, not the last.
9447 Complain about the possibly undefined macros in the same order as
9448 the appear in the output.
9449 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am (autoconf.m4f): List its dependencies.
9450 * tests/tools.at (autoconf: forbidden tokens, basic)
9451 (autoconf: forbidden tokens, exceptions): No longer sort
9452 autoconf's stderr, as it is now deterministic.
9453 Check that `dnl' is caught.
9455 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9457 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.52c.
9459 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9463 * lib/Autom4te/Makefile.am (perllibdir): s/Autoconf/Autom4te/.
9465 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9469 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9471 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: Use `carp' and `croak', not `warn' and
9474 * bin/autoconf.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoupdate.in: Remove your
9475 `END', as `Autom4te::General::END' will be triggered.
9476 * bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoscan.in: Improve error messages accuracy.
9477 * bin/autoupdate.in (File::Compare, File::Copy): Use them instead of
9478 system to run `mv', `rm', and `cmp'.
9480 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9482 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&unique): New.
9483 * bin/autoscan.in (&output): Use it to issue trace requests once.
9485 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9487 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: New.
9488 * bin/autom4te.in (Autom4te::General): Use it.
9489 ($me, $tmp, $verbose, $debug, &mktmpdir, &verbose, &xsystem)
9490 (&find_configure_ac, &find_slave): Remove.
9491 * bin/autoscan.in: Likewise.
9492 * bin/autoupdate.in: Likewise.
9494 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9496 * autoconf.in, autom4te.in, autoscan.in, ifnames.in,
9497 * autoheader.in, autoreconf.in, autoupdate.in: Move to...
9498 * bin: here, new directory.
9499 * lib/Autoconf: Rename as...
9500 * lib/Autom4te: this, to please case insensitive junkie OSes.
9502 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9504 * autom4te.in ($m4): Handle the --nesting-limit.
9505 * autoconf.in (M4): Remove.
9507 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9509 * autoconf.in ($AWK): Remove, no longer used.
9510 * test/tools.at: Use AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF.
9511 (AWK portability): Remove, for autoconf no longer uses AWK.
9512 (Syntax of the Perl scripts): New.
9513 * configure.ac: autoconf no longer needs an AWK with a good
9515 Use a static test on AC_PACKAGE_VERSION.
9516 * autom4te.in (&up_to_date_p): Output depends on the arguments.
9517 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am: Ship version.m4, maintainer file.
9518 * tests/atconfig.in (PERL): New.
9520 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9522 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG(C), AC_LANG_C, _AC_LANG_ABBREV(C))
9523 (AC_LANG(C++), AC_LANG_CPLUSPLUS, _AC_LANG_ABBREV(C++))
9524 (AC_LANG_SOURCE(C), AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C), AC_LANG_CALL(C))
9525 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C), AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY(C))
9526 (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C), _AC_ARG_VAR_CPPFLAGS, _AC_ARG_VAR_LDFLAGS)
9527 (AC_LANG_PREPROC(C), _AC_PROG_PREPROC_WORKS_IFELSE, AC_PROG_CPP)
9528 (AC_LANG_COMPILER(C), ac_cv_prog_gcc, AC_PROG_CC, _AC_PROG_CC_G)
9529 (AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL, AC_PROG_CC_C_O, AC_LANG_PREPROC(C++))
9530 (AC_PROG_CXXCPP, AC_LANG_COMPILER(C++), ac_cv_prog_gxx)
9531 (AC_PROG_CXX, _AC_PROG_CXX_G, _AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION)
9532 (AC_PROG_CC_STDC, AC_C_CROSS, AC_C_CHAR_UNSIGNED, AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE)
9533 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN, AC_C_INLINE, AC_C_CONST, AC_C_VOLATILE)
9534 (AC_C_STRINGIZE, AC_C_PROTOTYPES): Move to...
9535 * lib/autoconf/c.m4: here, new file.
9537 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG(Fortran 77), AC_LANG_FORTRAN77)
9538 (_AC_LANG_ABBREV(Fortran 77), AC_LANG_SOURCE(Fortran 77))
9539 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(Fortran 77), AC_LANG_CALL(Fortran 77))
9540 (AC_LANG_PREPROC(Fortran 77), AC_LANG_COMPILER(Fortran 77))
9541 (ac_cv_prog_g77, AC_PROG_F77, _AC_PROG_F77_G, AC_PROG_F77_C_O)
9542 (_AC_PROG_F77_V_OUTPUT, _AC_PROG_F77_V, AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS)
9543 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN, _AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_F77_HOOKS, AC_F77_MAIN)
9544 (_AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING, AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING, AC_F77_WRAPPERS)
9545 (AC_F77_FUNC): Move to...
9546 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4: here, new file.
9548 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9550 * acfunctions.m4: Rename as...
9551 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4: this.
9552 * acgeneral.m4: Rename as...
9553 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: this.
9554 * acheaders.m4: Rename as...
9555 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4: this.
9556 * aclang.m4: Rename as...
9557 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4: this.
9558 * acoldnames.m4: Rename as...
9559 * lib/autoconf/oldnames.m4: this.
9560 * acspecific.m4: Rename as...
9561 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4: this.
9562 * actypes.m4: Rename as...
9563 * lib/autoconf/types.m4: this.
9564 * autoconf.m4: Rename as...
9565 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4: this.
9567 * m4sugar.m4: Rename as...
9568 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: this.
9569 * m4sh.m4: Rename as...
9570 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: this.
9572 * tests/atgeneral.m4: Rename as...
9573 * lib/autotest/general.m4: this.
9575 * acfunctions: Rename as...
9576 * lib/autoscan/functions: this.
9577 * acheaders: Rename as...
9578 * lib/autoscan/headers: this.
9579 * acidentifiers: Rename as...
9580 * lib/autoscan/identifiers: this.
9581 * aclibraries: Rename as...
9582 * lib/autoscan/libraries: this.
9583 * acmakevars: Rename as...
9584 * lib/autoscan/makevars: this.
9585 * acprograms: Rename as...
9586 * lib/autoscan/programs: this.
9588 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9590 * doc/autoconf.texi: Moving/deleting open files is not portable.
9591 Portability issues for `.' (source), and more information about sed.
9593 2001-07-25 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
9595 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Ignore -libmil (on Solaris),
9596 which has a special meaning and is not a reference to libibmil.a.
9597 Reported by Matteo Frigo.
9599 2001-07-25 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
9601 * autom4te.in (mktmpdir): Strip trailing newline from mktemp
9604 2001-07-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9606 * autoconf.in: Try to define the variables before using them.
9607 * autom4te.in ($perllibdir): Use `$autom4te_perllibdir' as envvar
9608 instead of `$perllibdir'.
9609 * tests/atconfig.in ($autom4te_perllibdir): Export it.
9611 2001-07-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9613 * autoconf.in (ac_LF_and_DOT): Remove, unused.
9615 2001-07-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9617 Let autoconf use autom4te for traces.
9619 * autoconf.in ($task, task trace): Remove, merely pass --trace to
9621 * autoheader.in: Don't pass `-' to autoconf, rather, a tmp file.
9622 (Because I found no way for autom4te to accept `-').
9623 * autom4te.in (&Request::request): Beware of M4 builtins.
9624 (END): Don't try to remove the content of an empty dir.
9625 (&parse_args): Default is `$f:$l:$n:$%', not `$f:$l:$n:$*'.
9626 (&handle_output): Set a default value to `$forbidden'.
9627 * autoupdate.in (&verbose, &xsystem): New, from autom4te.in.
9628 ($autoconf): Pass --debug and --verbose.
9629 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF): Clean up autom4te's
9632 2001-07-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9634 Let autoconf use autom4te to create configure.
9636 * autoconf.in ($automate): New var.
9637 (task script): Use autom4te.
9638 * autom4te.in (File::Spec): Use it.
9640 (&parse_args): --warning is -W, not -w.
9641 Find the top level files.
9642 (&handle_m4): Pass the warnings flags.
9643 Don't report verbosely m4's failures, unless requested.
9644 (&handle_output): Don't complain for forbidden tokens in comments.
9645 Be sure to report all the forbidden tokens within a single line.
9646 (&trace_format_to_m4): Preserve `$_'.
9647 (&handle_traces): Sort the output macros.
9648 (&up_to_date_p): Find the files before trying to get its time stamp.
9650 2001-07-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9652 * Makefile.am: Ship, build and install Autom4te.
9654 * lib/Autoconf/Struct.pm: New, from Automake 1.5.
9655 * configure.in: Require Perl.
9656 * man/autom4te.in: New.
9658 2001-07-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
9660 * doc/autoconf.texi (Cache Checkpointing): Use AC_MSG_ERROR in
9661 example, rather than (exit 1); exit (which isn't portable).
9663 2001-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9667 2001-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9669 The C-Fortran 77 hooks are available only once AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN
9670 was run, while they are needed also when it is expanded.
9671 Reported by Nicolas Joly.
9673 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN): Define _AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_F77_HOOKS.
9674 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C)): Use it instead of depending upon
9675 AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN being expanded.
9677 2001-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9679 * configure.in: Bump to 2.51a.
9681 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9685 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9687 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN): Let the interface be more
9688 Autoconfy: $1 = action-if-found, $2 = action-if-not-found.
9690 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9692 The runtime test for AC_FUNC_GETPGRP fails when prototypes are
9693 used. Well, then use the prototypes when you can, and runtime as
9695 Reported by Artur Frysiak
9697 * acfunctions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_GETPGRP_TEST): New.
9698 (AC_FUNC_GETPGRP): Use it.
9699 First try to compile with 0-ary or 1-ary calls.
9701 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9703 * actypes.m4 (_AC_CHECK_TYPE_REPLACEMENT_TYPE_P): `foo_t' is a
9707 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9709 * Makefile.maint: Sync. with cppi 1.10.
9711 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9713 * aclang.m4 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C)): Output F77_DUMMY_MAIN only when
9714 AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN has been run.
9715 From Pavel Roskin and Steven G. Johnson.
9717 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9719 * configure.in: Rename as...
9720 * configure.ac: this.
9722 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9724 * Makefile.am (INSTALL.txt): Don't use $@ and $< in non suffix
9727 * Makefile.maint (release-archive-dir): Rename as...
9728 (release_archive_dir): this, so that it can be specialized in
9731 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9733 * configure.in: Bump to 2.50d.
9735 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9738 * Makefile.maint (alpha): Typo.
9740 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9742 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Macro names and underscore.
9744 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9746 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/texinfo.tex
9747 * doc/standards.texi, doc/make-stds.texi: Update.
9749 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9751 * Makefile.maint (cvs-check, cvs-tag-check, cvs-diff-check): New.
9753 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9755 * Makefile.maint (maintainer-check): Rename as...
9756 (maintainer-distcheck): this.
9757 (changelog-check, static-check): New.
9760 2001-07-14 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
9762 * doc/autoconf.texi (C++ Compilers Characteristics): Last resort
9763 for CXX is g++, not gcc.
9765 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9767 * doc/autoconf.texi (Files): New subsection.
9769 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9771 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler, Fortran 77 Compiler): Be subsections
9773 (Generic Compiler Characteristics): this.
9774 (C++ Compiler): New subsection.
9776 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9778 * autoscan.in: Use IO::File.
9779 Adjust all the routines to use it.
9780 ($log): New file (autoscan.log).
9781 (output): Dump detailed logs into $log, and a shortened version to
9783 (&scan_makefile): Refine the regexp catching tokens in the code.
9784 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoscan Invocation): Document `autoscan.log'
9785 and the `configure.ac' checking feature.
9787 2001-07-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9789 For some AWK, such as on HPUX 11, `xfoo' does not match `foo|^bar'.
9790 Reported by Michael Elizabeth Chastain.
9792 * autoconf.in: Refuse such AWK.
9793 * configure.in: Likewise.
9794 * Makefile.am (acversion.m4): Do not use move-if-change this file
9796 * doc/autoconf.texi (Fortran 77 Compiler): Some typos.
9798 2001-07-10 Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com>
9800 * autoscan.in (&scan_makefile): Improve programs regexp to parse
9801 things like "g++", "file.c" and "some-conf" as tokens.
9802 (&scan_file): Match C++ files extensions.
9803 If the filename extension is C++ then ask for c++.
9805 2001-07-05 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
9807 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN): Use AC_TRY_LINK, not
9808 AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC, to check whether defining a dummy
9809 main-like routine is needed for linking with F77 libs.
9811 2001-07-05 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
9813 * aclocal.m4 (_AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION): Remove conftest*
9815 (_AC_PROG_F77_V_OUTPUT): Remove conftest*, not conftest.* after
9818 2001-07-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9820 * Makefile.am (move_if_change): New. Use it instead of `mv'.
9821 (acversion.m4): Name it `$(srcdir)/acversion.m4' to ease broken
9823 Reported by Nicolas Joly.
9825 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9827 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_RUN_IFELSE): Remove conftest.o when cleaning
9829 * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_WAIT3): Use `break' to silent some
9830 warnings from compilers.
9831 * aclang.m4 (_AC_LANG_COMPILER_GNU): Log the version information
9832 for all the compilers, not only GNU. Hence move from here...
9833 (AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX, AC_PROG_F77): to here.
9835 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9837 * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_STRTOD, AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R)
9838 (AC_FUNC_STRCOLL, AC_FUNC_WAIT3): Use AC_RUN_IFELSE and
9841 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9843 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Actually apply
9844 the ``strings.h'' change claimed below.
9846 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9848 * aclang.m4 (_AC_LANG_COMPILER_GNU): s/-dumpspecs/-v/.
9850 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9852 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Include
9853 strings.h if usable with string.h.
9854 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
9856 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9858 * autoscan.in (&scan_file): Skip FILE if there is FILE.in.
9861 2001-07-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9863 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Specify CONFIG_FILES
9866 2001-07-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9868 * acheaders.m4 (AC_CHECK_HEADER): When INCLUDES are set, use the
9869 compiler, not the preprocessor.
9870 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): No longer use
9871 dedicated code to check for inttypes.h, as AC_CHECK_HEADERS does
9873 * Makefile.am (.m4.m4f): Emphasize M4 error messages and fail
9874 earlier if there are.
9876 2001-07-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9878 * autoscan.in ($initfile): Remove.
9879 (&find_file): Rename as...
9881 Immediately scan the current file, instead of gathering them, and
9882 later having them handled by &scan_files.
9883 (&scan_files): Merely invoke Find::File.
9886 2001-07-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9888 * autoscan.in: Formatting changes, matching the invocation order.
9889 (File::Find): Use it instead of Perl 4's `find.pl'.
9890 (&wanted): Rename as...
9893 2001-07-01 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
9895 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN): Remove conftest* after using
9896 break in the argument to AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC.
9897 (AC_F77_MAIN): Remove conftest* after using break in the
9898 argument to AC_TRY_LINK.
9900 2001-07-01 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
9902 Add alternate 'main' routine detection for linking C/C++ with Fortran,
9903 fixing link failures for e.g. AC_F77_WRAPPERS on NetBSD.
9905 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN): New macro to detect whether a
9906 dummy alternate main is required even if the user provides her own
9908 (AC_F77_MAIN): New macro to detect whether it is possible to
9909 provide an alternate 'main' function name, using the 'main' from
9910 the Fortran libraries.
9911 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C)): Use F77_DUMMY_MAIN, if it is defined, so that
9912 cross-language link tests can be performed successfully.
9913 (_AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING): Require AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN. Also put $FLIBS
9914 after $LIBS, for consistency; this should be the general rule since
9915 the user may want to link to Fortran libraries that require $FLIBS.
9916 * doc/autoconf.texi: Document AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN and AC_F77_MAIN.
9918 2001-06-29 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
9920 * atgeneral.m4 (AT_CHECK): Add a newline to the end of
9921 at-stdout and at-stderr instead of removing the newline
9922 from the echo output, which is not guaranteed to work.
9924 2001-06-28 Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com>
9926 * aclang.m4 (_AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION): Only add declaration to
9927 confdefs.h when non-zero.
9929 2001-06-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9931 * configure.in: Bump to 2.50c.
9933 2001-06-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9937 2001-06-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9941 2001-06-25 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
9943 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_MACRO): Accept one more
9944 argument, AUTOCONF-FLAGS.
9945 * tests/mktests.sh (update_exclude_list): Add
9946 AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS and AC_FUNC_WAIT3.
9947 * tests/semantics.at: Test AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS and
9948 AC_FUNC_WAIT3 with "-W no-obsolete".
9950 2001-06-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9952 * tests/foreign.at (libtool): Fix the `libtoolize --version' decoding.
9954 2001-06-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9956 * autoscan.in (%macro): Now maps from word to list of macros.
9957 (&init_tables): Die when a word which is already handled by
9958 explicit macros is mapped to the default macro.
9959 (&print_unique): Remove, inlined in...
9960 (&output_kind): here.
9961 (File::Basename): Use it.
9962 (&output): Sort the CONFIG_FILES.
9963 * acheaders: Normalize.
9964 * acfunctions: Likewise.
9966 2001-06-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9968 * aclang.m4 (_AC_LANG_COMPILER_GNU): If GNU, dump the compiler
9969 characteristics in the logs.
9970 Suggested by Mo DeJong.
9972 2001-06-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9974 * acfunctions.m4 (AM_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE, AM_FUNC_FNMATCH)
9975 (AM_FUNC_MKTIME, AM_FUNC_OBSTACK, AM_FUNC_STRTOD): Reactivated.
9976 * doc/autoconf.texi (Autoconf 2.13): New section.
9978 2001-06-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9980 * autoconf.in (Task traces): Separate the error messages from the
9981 traces to improve robustness.
9983 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9985 * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): Make it a single test instead of
9986 three as failures are unlikely, and speed matters.
9988 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9990 * doc/autoconf.texi (Redefined M4 Macros): New.
9992 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9994 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Consider
9995 inttypes.h is missing if it conflicts with sys/types.h, as on IRIX
9998 2001-06-23 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
10000 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Defer parsing of
10001 config.status targets to after the evaluation of the INIT-CMDS.
10002 Double quote config.status targets (used to be single quoted).
10004 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10006 * tests/torture.at (CONFIG_FILES, HEADERS, LINKS and COMMANDS):
10007 Check the content of the created file.
10008 Check the ./config.status command line invocation.
10010 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10012 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Reject prehistoric versions.
10014 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10016 * aclang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Try to be robust to
10017 preexisting files matching a.*.
10019 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10021 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Output error messages on
10023 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_ARG_VAR): Update.
10025 2001-06-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10027 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Die instead of warning when
10028 precious variables have changed.
10029 * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): Adjust.
10031 2001-06-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10033 ./configure --program-suffix=foo produces `transform=s,$$,foo,;',
10034 but some sed choke on multiple `;', and other tools (e.g.,
10035 Automake), include the separator themselves.
10037 * acgeneral.m4 (AC_ARG_VAR): Be sure not to leave extra `;'.
10039 2001-06-19 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
10041 * doc/autoconf.texi (Functions Portability): Rename as...
10042 (Function Portability): this.
10043 (Function Portability): Document potential problems with unlink().
10045 2001-06-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
10047 * NEWS, doc/autoconf.texi: Document quadrigraphs.
10049 2001-06-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10051 * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_FORK): Fix typos.
10053 2001-06-18 Ruediger Kuhlmann <info@ruediger-kuhlmann.de>
10055 * acfunctions.m4: (AC_FUNC_VFORK) rename as...
10056 (_AC_FUNC_VFORK): this.
10057 Remove AC_DEFINEs and don't guess cross-compilation values.
10058 (_AC_FUNC_FORK): New, check whether fork() isn't just a stub.
10059 (AC_FUNC_FORK): New, use _AC_FUNC_VFORK and _AC_FUNC_FORK to
10060 define HAVE_WORKING_FORK, HAVE_WORKING_VFORK; and vfork to fork if
10061 vfork doesn't work.
10062 Guess values if cross-compiling, but warn.
10063 * acfunctions: Add AC_FUNC_FORK.
10064 * doc/autoconf.texi: Document AC_FUNC_FORK. Give example to define
10065 and vfork appropriately.
10067 2001-06-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10069 * doc/autoconf.texi (Functions Portability): New section.
10071 2001-06-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10073 * autoconf.in (M4): Pass --nesting-limit=1024, unless already set
10075 Suggested by Andreas Schwab.
10077 2001-06-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10079 * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_CHOWN, AC_FUNC_CLOSEDIR_VOID)
10080 (AC_FUNC_GETPGRP, AC_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK)
10081 (AC_FUNC_MMAP, AC_FUNC_SELECT_ARGTYPES, _AC_FUNC_STAT)
10082 (AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL): Use AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT.
10083 Don't use AC_TRY_RUN, which double quotes, prefer AC_RUN_IFELSE,
10084 and either AC_LANG_SOURCE or AC_LANG_PROGRAM.
10085 (AC_FUNC_CLOSEDIR_VOID): Protect C++ from `int closedir ();' (or
10088 2001-06-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10090 * doc/autoconf.texi (ms): New index.
10091 (Macro Index): Rename as...
10092 (Autoconf Macro Index): this.
10093 (M4 Macro Index): New appendix.
10094 (Programming in M4): New chapter.
10095 Define M4sugar, M4sh, m4_pattern_forbid, and m4_pattern_allow.
10096 (Quoting): Rename as...
10097 (M$ Quotation): this.
10098 Be part of `Programming in M4).
10100 2001-06-18 Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>
10102 * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): Set variables and export them
10103 in separate statements for compatibility with Tru64 v5.1.
10105 2001-06-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10107 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Be sure to cache the
10108 current values of the precious variables, not the previously
10110 Pass precious variables which are set to config.status.
10111 * doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Document AC_ARG_VAR.
10112 * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): New.
10114 2001-06-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
10116 * doc/autoconf.texi: Move AC_FUNC_WAIT3 and
10117 AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS to the obsolete section,
10118 and explain why and how to replace them.
10119 * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_WAIT3): Warn as obsolete.
10120 * acspecific.m4 (AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS): Likewise.
10122 2001-06-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10124 `build_alias', `host_alias', and `target_alias' are not AC_SUBST'd.
10125 Reported by Bruno Haible.
10127 * acgeneral.m4 (AC_ARG_VAR): Move the AC_SUBST, from here...
10128 (_AC_ARG_VAR_PRECIOUS): to here.
10130 2001-06-15 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
10132 * acheaders.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_DIRENT): Instead of defining
10133 an unused pointer use cast to this type and `if' statement to
10134 avoid warnings from the compiler.
10135 (AC_HEADER_TIME): Likewise.
10136 * actypes.m4 (AC_CHECK_MEMBER): s/foo/ac_aggr/. Use the member
10137 in `if' statement to avoid warnings from the compiler. Declare
10138 ac_aggr static to avoid the need to initialize it.
10140 2001-06-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10142 * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell): Move to follow `Writing
10145 2001-06-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10147 * m4/missing.m4, config/missing: Updated to Automake 1.4g's.
10148 Suggested by Alexander Mai.
10150 2001-06-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10152 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Guard
10153 sys/types.h and sys/stat.h, and check for them.
10155 2001-06-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10157 * acheaders.m4 (AC_CHECK_HEADER, AC_CHECK_HEADERS): Support $4 =
10160 2001-06-12 Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
10162 * acspecific.m4 (AC_PATH_XTRA): Check if linking against libX11
10163 succeeds and only try adding libdnet upon a failure.
10165 2001-06-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10167 * autoscan.in (&output_kind): Output the comment only if it exists.
10168 (%kind_comment): Add entry for `programs'.
10169 (&output_programs): Use &output_kind.
10170 (&output_functions, &output_identifiers, &output_headers)
10171 (&output_programs): Inline, and remove.
10173 2001-06-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10175 * autoscan.in (%kind_comment): New.
10176 (output_kind): New.
10177 (output_functions, output_identifiers, output_headers): Use it.
10179 2001-06-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10181 * autoscan.in (&print_unique): Take `$kind' and `$word' as
10182 arguments, to factor indirections into `%macro' and `%used'.
10183 (%generic_macro): Fix a typo.
10185 2001-06-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10187 * aclibraries: New.
10188 * autoscan.in (@kinds): Add `libraries'.
10189 Use `@kinds' instead of hard coded lists.
10190 (%programs, %headers, %identifiers, %makevars, %libraries, %functions):
10191 Remove, replaced by...
10194 2001-06-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10196 * autoscan.in (%functions_macros %headers_macros)
10197 (%identifiers_macros %programs_macros %makevars_macros): Remove,
10201 2001-06-11 Raja R Harinath <harinath@cs.umn.edu>
10203 * aclang.m4 (AC_NO_EXECUTABLES): Override
10204 _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_WORKS, not _AC_LANG_COMPILER_WORKS.
10206 2001-06-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10208 * aclang.m4 (AC_NO_EXECUTABLES): Define the macros with their
10210 Reported by Andreas Schwab.
10212 2001-06-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10214 * Makefile.am, Makefile.maint: Typos.
10216 2001-06-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10218 * doc/autoconf.texi (Here-Documents): New section, gathering
10219 documentation about here-documents.
10220 Use `href', not `uref', and other changes.
10222 2001-06-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10224 * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell Programming): Promoted as a
10227 2001-06-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10229 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Complete the
10230 description of the here-docs penalties with Alexandre Oliva's
10233 2001-06-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
10235 * doc/autoconf.texi: Talk about here documents and speedups.
10236 Do not use "echo" on arbitrary strings.
10237 Spell "here-documents" consistently with the standard.
10239 2001-06-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10241 * doc/autoconf.texi (Concept Index): Introduce it.
10242 Regenerate the menus.
10244 2001-06-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10246 * Makefile.maint, GNUmakefile: New, from Jim Meyering.
10247 * config/prev-version.txt: New.
10248 * config/move-if-change: New, for GNU libc.
10250 2001-06-06 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
10252 * tests/atgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Remove "/bin/sh" after $SHELL.
10254 2001-06-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10256 * acgeneral.m4 (AC_CHECK_LIB): Fix the cache var name to work
10257 properly when $1 is not a literal.
10258 Fixes PR Autoconf/187, reported by Bram Moolenaar.
10260 2001-06-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10262 Invoking AC_COPYRIGHT before AC_INIT fails.
10264 * Makefile.am (.m4.m4f): Pass --fatal-warnings to m4.
10265 * acgeneral.m4 (_m4_divert(VERSION_FSF))
10266 (_m4_divert(VERSION_USER)): New.
10267 (AC_COPYRIGHT): $2 is the diversion to use.
10268 (_AC_INIT_COPYRIGHT): Use the FSF diversion.
10269 (AC_INIT): Remove dead comments as now it's commutative.
10271 2001-06-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10273 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_LIB): Strengthen to reflect
10276 2001-06-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10278 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): `prefix' and `exec_prefix'
10280 `*dir' variables cannot be NONE.
10281 Reported by Mark Kettenis.
10283 2001-06-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
10285 * doc/autoconf.texi: Fix references to Solaris and SunOS versions.
10287 2001-06-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10289 * acgeneral.m4 (AC_VAR_SET, AC_VAR_GET, AC_VAR_TEST_SET)
10290 (AC_VAR_SET_IFELSE, AC_VAR_PUSHDEF and AC_VAR_POPDEF, AC_TR_CPP)
10291 (AC_TR_SH): Move as...
10292 * m4sh.m4 (AS_VAR_SET, AS_VAR_GET, AS_VAR_TEST_SET)
10293 (AS_VAR_SET_IF, AC_VAR_PUSHDEF, AS_VAR_POPDEF, AS_TR_CPP)
10295 (_AS_TR_PREPARE, _AS_CR_PREPARE, _AS_TR_CPP_PREPARE)
10296 (_AS_TR_SH_PREPARE): New.
10297 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Invoke _AS_TR_PREPARE.
10298 * tests/aclocal.m4 (AC_STATE_SAVE): `as_' vars can be modified.
10300 2001-06-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10302 * Makefile.am (.m4.m4f): Pass the options first.
10303 Fixes PR autoconf/182.
10305 2001-06-02 Nathan Sidwell <nathan@codesourcery.com>
10307 GNU getopt, when POSIXLY_CORRECT does not permute options and
10308 arguments. So pass the options first.
10309 Fixes PR autoconf/184.
10311 * autoconf.sh (m4_prefiles, m4f_prefiles): New variables.
10312 (run_m4): Remove files.
10314 Update remainder of script to use them.
10315 (for warning in): Do not use a literal comma as it will not be
10318 2001-06-02 Christian Marquardt <marq@gfz-potsdam.de>
10320 * aclang.m4 (AC_PROG_F77): Add Fujitsu's "frt" to the list of
10321 Fortran compilers to check.
10322 (_AC_PROG_F77_V): Add '-###' as a possible option to print
10323 information on library and object files.
10324 (AC_PROG_CXX): Add Fujitsu's "FCC" to the list of C++ compilers
10327 2001-06-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10329 * autom4te.in (Request::@request): Declare with `vars', not `my',
10330 as it prevents updates via `do FILENAME'.
10332 2001-06-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10334 * configure.in (standards_texi): Remove, dead code.
10336 2001-06-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10338 * autom4te.in: New.
10340 2001-06-02 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
10342 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Don't rely on $? in the traps
10343 for signals other than 0 - exit with code 1.
10344 * m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): Likewise.
10345 * autoconf.in: Likewise. Also don't rely on exit == exit $?.
10346 * autoheader.in: Likewise.
10347 * autoreconf.in: Likewise.
10348 * tests/torture.at (Signal handling): New test for the above.
10350 2001-06-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10352 * m4sugar.m4 (m4_defn, m4_undefine, m4_popdef): Clarify the error
10355 2001-05-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10357 * acfunctions, acheaders, acidentifiers, acmakevars, acprograms:
10358 Add copyright and comments.
10359 * acheaders: Add stdint.h.
10360 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
10362 2001-05-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10364 * atgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Use $SHELL.
10365 * atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_DEFINES): Skip HAVE_STDINT_H.
10367 2001-05-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10369 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Include
10371 From Paul Eggert and Lars Hecking.
10373 2001-05-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10375 * tests/base.at: Adjust line numbers in error messages.
10377 2001-05-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10379 * tests/base.at, tests/m4sh.at: When using AC_PLAIN_SCRIPT be sure
10380 to emit the bangshe line.
10381 Reported by David Carter.
10383 2001-05-30 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
10385 * aclang.m4 (AC_PROG_F77): Add Compaq's "fort" to the list of
10386 Fortran (95) compilers to check.
10388 2001-05-29 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
10390 * doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction, Pointers): Update the Autoconf
10393 2001-05-23 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
10395 * aclang.m4 (AC_PROG_CPP): Use `break' instead of `break 2' since
10396 _AC_PROG_PREPROC_WORKS_IFELSE expands arguments outside the loop.
10397 (AC_PROG_CXXCPP): Likewise.
10399 2001-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10401 * config: New directory.
10402 * configure.in: AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR it.
10403 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CONFIGURE_AC): Adjust.
10405 2001-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10407 * autoconf.in, autoreconf.in, autoheader.in, autoscan.in, ifnames.in,
10408 * autoupdate.in: Specify the Emacs mode.
10409 * acversion.m4.in: Rename as...
10410 * acversion.m4: this.
10411 * tests/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): More garbage.
10413 2001-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10415 * autoconf.sh, autoreconf.sh, autoheader.sh, autoscan.pl, ifnames.sh:
10417 * autoconf.in, autoreconf.in, autoheader.in, autoscan.in, ifnames.in:
10420 2001-05-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10422 * configure.in: Bump to 2.50a.
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10428 This file is part of GNU Autoconf.
10430 GNU Autoconf is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
10431 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
10432 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
10435 GNU Autoconf is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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