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1 2006-06-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Set CONFIG_SITE
4 to a nonexistent file, so that we don't have to worry about
5 a local site configuration that doesn't use /usr/local.
6 Problem reported by Keith Marshall in
7 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2006-06/msg00133.html>.
9 2006-06-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
11 * doc/autoconf.texi: Be more consistent about using @acronym with
12 "HP" and "HP-UX". Remove mention of OSF; the old version wasn't
13 quite right (it talked about "OSF/Tru64", even though the
14 operating systems were called OSF/1, Digital UNIX, and Tru64 UNIX,
15 and it even mentioned "OSF 4"!) and at this point there's little
16 reason to talk about OSF any more, since it died in 1994.
17 (Specific Compiler Characteristics): Simplify example of
18 negative-size array.
19 (File Descriptors): Reorder to make the text flow better.
20 Remove joke about "appreciate the various levels"; I didn't get it.
21 Add remark about HP-UX sh -x bug with stderr noted by Bob Proulx in
22 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-06/msg00225.html>.
23 (File Descriptors, Limitations of Usual Tools):
24 Tone down the advice against renaming or removing open files.
25 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Add a new section, on 'rm'.
27 2006-06-26 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
29 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_DIRECT): Use -lX11, not
30 -lXt in LIBS, idea from Karsten Hopp; this was due since
31 this change:
33 2005-09-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
34 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_DIRECT): Look for X11/Xlib.h
35 and XrmInitialize rather than X11/Intrinsic.h and XtMalloc
36 (which belong to Xt, not X itself). See Debian bug 327655.
38 2006-06-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
40 * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump to 2.60a.
41 * NEWS: Update.
43 2006-06-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
45 Version 2.60.
47 * configure.ac, NEWS: Update.
49 2006-06-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
51 * config/texinfo.tex: Sync from upstream.
53 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_traces): Transform the `@S|@'
54 quadrigraph correctly in traces.
56 * NEWS, lib/Autom4te/C4che.pm, lib/autoconf/functions.m4:
57 Fix typos.
59 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILE): Expand tests for
60 datarootdir-related errors only if AC_DATAROOTDIR_CHECKED is
61 not defined.
62 * doc/autoconf.texi (Changed Directory Variables): New node,
63 to document the whole `datarootdir' business a bit better.
64 * NEWS: Update.
65 * tests/torture.at (datarootdir workaround): Extend test.
66 Prompted by report by Alexandre Julliard.
68 2006-06-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
70 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CC_C89): Check for C89 incompatibility
71 when using default mode of IBM C 6 for AIX. Problem and two-line
72 fix reported by Larry Jones.
74 2006-06-22 Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org>
76 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILE): Avoid warning
77 about literal '${datarootdir}' if a definition is found in the
78 output file.
80 2006-06-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
82 * NEWS: Use "M4" rather than "m4" when appropriate.
83 Problem reported by Eric Blake.
84 * doc/autoconf.texi: Likewise.
85 Use @acronym around BSD, GCC, and GNU when appropriate.
86 (Why GNU M4): Renamed from "Why GNU m4".
87 (Redefined M4 Macros): Mention that Posix
88 m4wrap takes only 1 argument, but GNU M4 1.4.x takes more.
89 (Buffer Overruns): Mention size_t and ptrdiff_t as alternatives
90 to int.
92 2006-06-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
94 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_output): Do not forbid the empty
95 pattern.
96 * tests/tools.at (autoconf: the empty token): New test.
98 2006-06-20 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
100 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_init): Merge the two m4_wrap
101 calls, so that we do not care whether they are LIFO or FIFO;
102 in the m4_wrap, do not check which diversion is the topmost
103 one, just check that the stack is balanced at the end.
104 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_INIT): We are going to change the
105 base diversion forever--pop the previous diversion before
106 opening the new one; consequently, remove the m4_wrap call.
107 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
108 * tests/m4sugar.at: Do not use
109 m4_wrap([m4_diversion_pop([..])]), for educational purposes.
111 2006-06-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
112 and Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
114 * NEWS: Document that m4wrap/m4_wrap might not be LIFO.
115 * doc/autoconf.texi (Redefined M4 Macros): Likewise.
116 Rework example of m4wrap token-pasting trouble so that it doesn't
117 care whether it's LIFO or FIFO.
118 Fix some "contrary to"s that are awkward in English.
120 2006-06-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
122 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (_AC_TYPE_INT): Set `$ac_cv_c_int$1_t'
123 to `yes' instead of `int$1_t' if the type is found, for more
124 consistent configure output (where $1 is the number of bits).
125 (_AC_TYPE_UINT): Likewise for `uint$1_t'.
126 Suggested by Bruno Haible.
128 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_INT): Solaris 2.5.1
129 needs _UINT8_T and _UINT64_T defines as well, to avoid clashes
130 with system headers. Report by Bruno Haible.
132 2006-06-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
134 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub: Sync from upstream.
136 * bin/Makefile.am (autoconf.in): Use `--melt' for autom4te,
137 in order to avoid picking up an older installed frozen m4sh.m4f.
138 Besides an outdated shell startup, this could have been created
139 by an earlier M4 version with incompatible frozen file format.
141 2006-06-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
143 * README: Recommend m4 1.4.4 instead of 1.4.3..
144 * doc/autoconf.texi: Likewise.
145 (Special Chars in Names): Say that $(.FOO) is portable, as
146 suggested by Stepan Kasal.
147 (Installation Directory Variables, Build Directories):
148 (Automatic Remaking, Subdirectories, Fortran Compiler):
149 (Making testsuite Scripts, Defining Directories):
150 Quote variable usages better.
151 (Making testsuite Scripts): Add clean-local rule to makefile
152 snippet, by Eric Blake.
153 (Installation Directory Variables): Fix table item font.
154 Reword slightly to clarify. Generalize advice about
155 not using special characters to include all file-related
156 vars, not just VPATH.
157 (Special Chars in Variables): Warn about special characters in
158 $(srcdir) too.
159 (Assignments): Clarify default-value example as suggested by
160 Ralf Wildenhues in
161 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2006-06/msg00072.html>.
162 (Special Shell Variables): Note leading ./ or ../, as suggested
163 by Eric Blake.
164 (Limitations of Builtins): Under cd, warn about CDPATH.
165 (The Make Macro MAKEFLAGS): Untabify. Problem reported by
166 Ralf Wildenhues.
168 2006-06-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
170 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Actions): Remove duplicate
171 `@var', for texi2html.
172 (Systemology): Some more word wrapping, for DVI output.
173 (autom4te Invocation): The short option for `--melt' is `-M',
174 not `-m'.
176 2006-06-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
178 * doc/autoconf.texi: More formatting and English tweaks,
179 many suggested by Ralf Wildenhues.
180 Reword to avoid "@code{...}'s" and the like, since it's ugly
181 with Emacs info mode. discontents -> woes.
182 Put a few "will"s back. time stamp -> timestamp.
183 side-effect -> side effect.
185 2006-06-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
187 * doc/autoconf.texi (Initializing configure, Shell Substitutions):
188 Warn about $@ not persisting. Problem reported by Julien Danjou in
189 <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=372179>.
190 (Special Chars in Names): Renamed from Leading _ in Macro Names.
191 Mention other special chars, too.
193 2006-06-14 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
195 * doc/autoconf.texi (The Make Macro MAKEFLAGS): New node.
197 2006-06-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
199 * doc/autoconf.texi: Some systematic minor improvements, as
200 follows. Use "makefile" when talking about makefiles
201 generally (which might be named "makefile" or "Makefile" or even
202 "foo.mk"), "Makefile" when talking about a specific makefile
203 called "Makefile". This unclutters the text from weird quotes
204 (e.g., "`Makefile's" in info mode). Similarly, use "@var{foo}
205 values" rather than "@var{foo}s" and similar constructs containing
206 "}s". Use "Make rules" rather than "Makefile rules". Minor
207 English-language improvements. Change the prefix "sub-" to "sub"
208 and "re-" to "re".
209 Put blank lines around examples more consistently.
210 Avoid "rather" and "very" as intensifiers.
211 Avoid "will" as an auxiliary.
212 (Limitations of Make): Split this node into....
213 (Portable Make, $< in Ordinary Make Rules, Failure in Make Rules):
214 (Leading _ in Macro Names, Backslash-Newline-Newline):
215 (Backslash-Newline Comments, Long Lines in Makefiles):
216 (Macros and Submakes, The Make Macro SHELL, Comments in Make Rules):
217 (obj/ and Make, make -k Status, VPATH and Make):
218 (VPATH and Double-colon, $< in Explicit Rules):
219 (Automatic Rule Rewriting, OSF/Tru64 Directory Magic):
220 (Make Target Lookup, Single Suffix Rules, Timestamps and Make):
221 New nodes, resulting from splitup of Limitations of Make.
222 All cross-references changed. Raise the top node from
223 a section to a chapter, and all subnodes accordingly.
224 Redo the introductory wording to match the new organization.
225 (Installation Directory Variables): Use an example that is
226 closer to what Autoconf actually does. Mention that VPATH's
227 value should not contain metacharacters or white space.
228 (Fortran Compiler): Fix a VPATH bug in an example.
229 (Leading _ in Macro Names): Mention that this problem is no longer
230 of practical concern.
231 (VPATH and Make): Reword the advice to make it clearer
232 that Autoconf and Automake support VPATH in non-GNU make, but
233 many packages have bugs in this area.
234 ($< in Explicit Rules): Refer to Build Directories rather
235 than using a (non-VPATH-safe) example.
236 (Automatic Rule Rewriting): Mention the sort of disaster that
237 can ensue with Solaris-style rule rewriting with VPATH.
239 2006-06-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
241 * doc/install.texi (Compilers and Options): Weaken the
242 suggestion to use GNU make for VPATH builds.
244 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Add AM_PROG_CXX_C_O,
245 AM_PROG_F77_C_O, AM_PROG_FC_C_O, AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_FREEFORM.
247 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Fix M4 quotation
248 in regular expression.
250 2006-06-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
252 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables):
253 Drop extra @samp from `@table @samp' item.
254 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Comment fix.
255 Do not nest @samp just to point to other table items.
256 (Writing testsuite.at) <AT_CHECK>: The second argument to
257 `@dvar' is already @samp'ed.
258 (Making testsuite Scripts) <AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR>: Likewise,
259 do not use @var in the second argument.
261 2006-06-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
263 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Look for
264 $as_shell.exe too. Problem reported by Andreas Buening in
265 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2006-06/msg00038.html>.
267 2006-06-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
269 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_ALLOCA): Work around
270 `unused variable' compiler warning, for `-Wall -Werror'.
271 Reported by Jaap Haitsma in
272 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2006-06/msg00012.html>.
274 2006-06-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
276 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_C_O): Remove core file, in
277 case the compiler dumps core. Problem reported for
278 OpenServer 5.0.7 by Tim Rice in
279 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2006-06/msg00019.html>.
280 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, _AC_LINK_IFELSE):
281 Likewise.
283 2006-06-06 Tim Rice <tim@multitalents.net>.
285 * lib/freeze.mk: Quiet check-forbidden-patterns so the string
286 "ERROR" only shows up in "make check" output if there is an
287 error.
289 2006-06-06 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
291 * tests/tools.at (automatically allowed tokens): Fix typo.
293 2006-06-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
295 * NEWS: Don't blame non-GNU VPATH compatibility issues on Automake.
297 * doc/autoconf.texi (Integer Overflow): Mention that INT_MIN % -1
298 typically overflows on x86 CPUs, even though the C standard
299 requires otherwise.
301 2006-06-05 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
303 * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump to 2.59e.
304 * NEWS: Update.
306 2006-06-05 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
308 Version 2.59d.
310 * config/texinfo.tex: Sync from upstream.
312 * bin/autoreconf.in: Trace `LT_CONFIG_LTDL_DIR'; if it has been
313 seen, invoke libtoolize with `--ltdl' argument.
314 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoreconf-preselections): Adjust.
315 * NEWS: Update.
316 Suggested by Eric Blake.
318 2006-06-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
320 * NEWS: Whoops! AC_FUNC_STRNLEN isn't obsolescent. Problem
321 reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
322 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_FUNC_STRNLEN): Likewise.
324 2006-06-05 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
326 * THANKS: Update.
328 2006-06-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
330 * doc/autoconf.texi: Modernize some of the references to Solaris.
332 2006-06-05 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
334 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_require): Modify the error
335 message issued by AC_REQUIRE.
336 * tests/m4sugar.at: Check m4_require's error message.
337 * tests/base.at: Check AC_REQUIRE's error message.
338 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_M4): New macro, almost identical
339 to...
340 (AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE): ... which is now a thin wrapper around
341 AT_CHECK_M4.
342 (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF): Use AT_CHECK_M4; no longer support
343 `expout' as the last parameter.
344 * tests/tools.at: Adapt to the above change.
346 2006-06-04 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
348 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Correct
349 information about race-free implementations of mkdir.
351 2006-06-04 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
353 * bin/autoreconf.in (help): Document M4 environment variable.
354 * bin/autoconf.as (Usage): Likewise.
355 * bin/autom4te.in (help): Likewise.
356 * doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te Invocation): Likewise.
358 2006-06-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
360 * NEWS: GNU make now recommended for VPATH builds.
361 Mention that some macros are now documented to be obsolescent.
362 * doc/autoconf.texi:
363 Prefer "current" to "modern" to describe
364 currently-used (albeit perhaps old-fashioned) hosts.
365 Mention which ancient features no longer need to be worried about.
366 setgid -> set-group-ID
367 setuid -> set-user-ID (these are the Posix terms)
368 Fix some misuses of "only".
369 (AC_C_BACKSLASH_A, AC_C_CONST, AC_C_PROTOTYPES):
370 (AC_C_STRINGIZE, AC_C_VOLATILE, AC_FUNC_CLOSEDIR_VOID):
371 (AC_FUNC_GETPGRP, AC_FUNC_LSTAT, AC_FUNC_MEMCMP):
372 (AC_FUNC_SELECT_ARGTYPES, AC_FUNC_SETPGRP):
373 (AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED, AC_FUNC_STAT, AC_FUNC_STRFTIME):
374 (AC_FUNC_STRNLEN, AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL, AC_FUNC_VPRINTF):
375 (AC_HEADER_DIRENT, AC_HEADER_STAT, AC_HEADER_STDC):
376 (AC_HEADER_SYS_WAIT, AC_HEADER_TIME, AC_ISC_POSIX):
377 (AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL, AC_STRUCT_TM):
378 Mention that these macros are obsolescent.
379 (Installation Directory Variables): shall -> should
380 (File Descriptors): Mention that 0, 1, 2 might get reopened.
381 Mention that it's now safe to use 3 and 4.
382 (Limitations of Usual Tools): cp -r is now specified by Posix.
383 Omit longwinded and obsolescent discussion of cp -f.
384 Modernize discussion of expr, ls.
385 (Limitations of Make): Modernize discussion of VPATH builds.
386 Mention $? as a workaround in some cases.
387 * doc/install.texi (Basic Installation):
388 Mention "./configure; make; make install" first. Be more
389 specific about why this file is generic. Remove unnecessary
390 parens. Remove misleading "only". Remove obsolete advice
391 about csh. Don't say "configure" takes awhile; say it
392 might take a while. Suggest CFLAGS=-g rather than CFLAGS=-O2,
393 and CC=c99 rather than CC=c89, as these are blessed by current
394 Posix. Recommend GNU make if doing a VPATH build.
396 2006-06-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
398 * doc/autoconf.texi: Use a consistent style "$ @kbd{...}" for
399 examples involving shell prompts.
401 2006-06-02 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
402 and Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
404 * doc/autoconf.texi (Here-Documents): Add details about the
405 pre-ksh93g bug. Reword slightly to make it clearer. Consistently
406 use "here-documents" instead of "here documents".
408 2006-06-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
410 * config/texinfo.tex, doc/standards.texi: Sync from upstream.
412 2006-06-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
414 * doc/autoconf.texi (File System Conventions): Warn about ":"
415 anywhere in directory names.
417 2006-05-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
419 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_DO_ECHO): Be even more conservative
420 about quoting the case statement, just in case.
421 * doc/autoconf.texi (Here-Documents): Mention that the ksh bug
422 was fixed in ksh93g; reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
424 2006-05-31 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
426 * doc/autoconf.texi (System Services): Do not document
427 overriding EXEEXT via ac_cv_exeext=ext.
428 (Particular Programs) <AC_PROG_MKDIR_P>:
429 Document that ${MKDIR_P} understands --.
430 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MKDIR_P): Improve the
431 comment.
433 2006-05-31 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
435 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DIRNAME_PREPARE): Guard against test
436 argument with leading hyphen. Problem reported by Paul Eggert.
438 2006-05-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
440 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_DO_ECHO): Be more conservative
441 about quoting ac_try: quote all of it, if any of it seems suspicious.
442 This means we don't have to worry about ${ or sed any more.
443 Also, double-quote the case statement, to work around misuses via
444 underquoting as reported by Ralf Wildenhues in
445 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2006-05/msg00169.html>.
446 (_AC_EVAL_STDERR): Revert, since evidently some packages rely on this
447 undocumented and dangerous macro.
448 Problem reported by Ralf Wildenhues in
449 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2006-05/msg00168.html>.
451 2006-05-31 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
453 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DIRNAME_PREPARE): Check whether
454 `dirname -- /' returns `/', for SunOS dirname scripts that escaped.
455 Report by Sam Sirlin <sam@kalessin.jpl.nasa.gov>.
457 2006-05-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
459 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Revert AC_TRY_EVAL and AC_TRY_COMMAND,
460 since evidently some packages rely on the old, broken behavior.
461 Problem reported by Ralf Wildenhues in
462 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2006-05/msg00160.html>.
463 (AC_TRY_EVAL, AC_TRY_COMMAND, _AC_EVAL): Go back to the
464 pre-2006-05-26 definitions, but leave in the comments that
465 these macros are dangerous and should not be used.
466 (_AC_DO_ECHO): Renamed from _AC_EVAL_ECHO. All callers changed.
467 (_AC_DO): Renamed from _AC_EVAL. All callers changed.
468 (_AC_DO_STDERR): Renamed from _AC_EVAL_STDERR. All callers changed.
469 (_AC_DO_VAR): Renamed from AC_TRY_EVAL.
470 (_AC_DO_TOKENS): Renamed from AC_TRY_COMMAND.
472 2006-05-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
474 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_OUTPUT_MAKE_DEFS): Rewrite to avoid
475 the use of 'tr', since this is our only use of 'tr'.
477 2006-05-29 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
478 and Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
480 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE):
481 Don't assume 'grep' works on long lines, since AIX grep doesn't.
483 2005-05-28 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
485 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILE): Do not use `grep' on
486 the output file in the `${datarootdir}' test.
488 2005-05-28 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
489 and Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
491 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILE): If we have not seen
492 mention of `datarootdir' in the input file(s), but literal
493 `${datarootdir}' in the output file, and we haven't warned yet,
494 then warn as well: the user may have (erroneously) used
495 `AC_SUBST([mydatadir], [$datadir/my])' instead of the correct
496 `AC_SUBST([mydatadir], ['${datadir}/my'])'.
497 * tests/torture.at (datarootdir workaround): Extend this test.
498 * NEWS: Update.
500 2006-05-27 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
501 and Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
503 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoheader Invocation): The first argument to
504 `AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED' need not be a literal. Mention the
505 alternatives and clear up the language a bit.
507 2006-05-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
509 * NEWS: Reword notice for AC_TRY_COMMAND, AC_TRY_EVAL,
510 ac_config_guess, ac_config_sub, ac_configure.
511 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS):
512 Fix typo that prevented an unnecessary space from being removed.
513 Problems reported by Ralf Wildenhues in:
514 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2006-05/msg00143.html
516 2006-05-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
518 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs, Limitations of Usual Tools):
519 Use better wording to talk about AC_PROG_MKDIR_P's thread-safety.
520 Don't use the term "thread-safe" to talk about mkdir race
521 conditions, since the problem is more a process than a thread
522 issue. Problem reported by Stepan Kasal in:
523 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2006-05/msg00088.html
524 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MKDIR_P): Use code that mimics
525 the test for 'install' more closely. Look at MKDIR_P first.
526 Look in the PATH, and at /opt/sfw/bin.
527 Look for a 'gmkdir' program as well (Solaris 10 /opt/sfw/bin/gmkdir).
528 Don't bother to try mkdir -p, since we already check mkdir --version;
529 just look at the version number. (There's no easy way to check
530 for race-free implementations.)
531 * tests/tools.at (autoconf: subdirectories): Adjust to above
532 changes, since MKDIR_P now might end in "/mkdir -p".
534 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoheader Invocation): Mention that the
535 first arg of AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED must be a literal.
536 Problem reported by Ben Pfaff in
537 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2006-05/msg00090.html>.
539 * NEWS: Mention that AC_TRY_COMMAND and AC_TRY_EVAL may be removed.
540 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Chars in Variables): New section.
541 (Preset Output Variables): Warn about special chars in CPPFLAGS.
542 (Installation Directory Variables): Quote $(datadir) better.
543 (Limitations of Builtins): Describe some of eval's trickiness.
545 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_C_O): Simplify quoting.
546 * lib/autoconf/fortram.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): Likewise.
547 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Put leading space
548 in front of every arg, not just trailing args. Quote apostrophes.
549 (_AC_EVAL_ECHO): New macro.
550 (_AC_EVAL, AC_EVAL_STDERR): Use it. Quote arg of eval.
551 (AC_TRY_EVAL, AC_TRY_COMMAND): Mention that these macros might get
552 removed.
553 (_AC_LINK_IFELSE): Use proper rule for shell continuation lines,
554 exposed by quoting of eval argument. Put the command on line line
555 so it logs better.
556 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_XMKMF): Use eval more safely.
557 (_AC_PATH_X, AC_PATH_X): Quote more safely.
558 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Use eval more safely.
559 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_LONG_FILE_NAMES): Don't use eval.
560 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Minor style change.
561 Handle special chars in prefix, ac_srcdir, ac_aux_dir.
562 Use eval more safely.
563 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Adjust to above changes.
564 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_VAR_GET): Note that this API needs
565 to be replaced.
566 * tests/base.at (AC_TRY_COMMAND): Use proper rule for shell continuation
567 lines, exposed by quoting of eval argument.
569 2006-05-26 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
570 and Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
572 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Drop the
573 initialization of `ac_cv_exeext', do not override it if it was
574 already set, unless it was set to `no', for compatibility with
575 Autoconf-2.13, and comment this.
576 Do not export `ac_cv_exeext', Libtool hasn't needed this for years.
577 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Likewise, do not export it.
578 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_WORKS, _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_CROSS): Typos.
579 * doc/autoconf.texi (Compilers and Preprocessors) <EXEEXT>:
580 Document that this test may be overridden by setting
581 `ac_cv_exeext'.
583 2006-05-26 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
585 Revert these two patches:
587 2006-04-06 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
588 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O): Inside cache
589 check, s/ac_exeext/ac_cv_exeext/. Fixes regression introduced
590 2006-04-01.
592 2006-04-01 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
593 Clean up _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT* macros.
594 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Don't try to
595 detect exeext, it will be done by _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O; just set
596 ac_file to the name of the default output file and call
597 _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_WORKS. Move the definition of ac_files and the
598 initial `rm' of the candidate files...
599 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT): ... here and simplify them. Moreover, use
600 the same list in subsequent `rm' calls, and for the temporary
601 redefinition of ac_clean_files; call _AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT at the end,
602 and don't call the other _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_* macros directly, use...
603 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_TESTS): ... this new macro.
604 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O): Don't export ac_cv_exeext, it's not needed (or
605 no longer needed) by libtool. Make it a cache check.
606 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_CROSS): Remove the comment, it was obviously
607 copied here by mistake.
608 (AC_NO_EXECUTABLES): Redefine _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_TESTS, not
609 _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT.
610 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX, AC_PROG_OBJC): Do not call
611 _AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT directly.
612 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Likewise.
614 2006-05-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
616 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) < sed (`t')>:
617 Fix description of how the buggy `sed' works.
619 2006-05-25 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
621 Sync from Automake:
623 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm (lock): Allow EOPNOTSUPP, besides
624 ENOLCK. Only mention `make -j' when applicable. Only raise
625 fatal errors when `make -j' is involved. Improve error message.
627 2006-05-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
629 * doc/autoconf.texi (Here-Documents): We now know more about
630 the variable expansion in here documents bug.
631 Thanks to Tim Rice and Stepan Kasal.
633 * doc/autoconf.texi (Making testsuite Scripts): Add an example
634 how to use TESTSUITEFLAGS. Suggested by Eric Blake.
636 2006-05-24 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
638 * tests/autotest.at (Multiline command from M4 expansion):
639 No failure to be expected if the shell quotes newlines in
640 commands in the `set -x' output. Report by Tim Rice.
641 * THANKS: Update.
643 2006-05-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
645 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADER): Don't use shell
646 expansion in the here-documents used by config.status, as that
647 runs afoul of the Korn shell version M-12/28/93d bug described in
648 the Autoconf manual, and this in turn causes a Coreutils 5.95 build to
649 fail as described by Tim Rice and diagnosed by Ralf Wildenhues in
650 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2006-05/msg00082.html>.
652 2006-05-23 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
654 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK):
655 Fix typo introduced with 2006-04-02 change. It reversed the sense
656 of the test.
658 2006-05-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
660 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADER): Simplify ac_dA and
661 ac_dB slightly, to save bytes in the script.
662 Max out at 50 lines, rather than 96; this is more likely
663 (though not guaranteed) to avoid obscure 'sed' failures.
665 2006-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
667 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): UnixWare `tr' may interpret
668 `tr -d -' as bad option argument. Work around this by deleting
669 an unrelated character.
670 Report by Tim Rice <tim@multitalents.net>.
672 2006-05-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,
673 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>,
674 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
676 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): Do not promise that
677 we always prefer the GNU version of the program, and that we
678 search according to PATH; both rules can have exceptions.
679 Update description of AC_PROG_GREP, AC_PROG_EGREP, AC_PROG_FGREP,
680 AC_PROG_SED. Move descriptions of limitations
681 to the Limitations of Usual Tools section.
682 (Limitations of Usual Tools) <sed>: Mention script length
683 limitations with Solaris /usr/ucb/sed.
684 <grep>: Fix wording for empty alternative. Mention that -c and
685 -l should not be combined, and that -E and -F should not be
686 combined.
688 2006-05-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
689 and Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
691 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_SED): Catch script length
692 limits in Solaris 8 /usr/ucb/sed by testing a long script.
694 2006-05-22 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
696 * doc/autoconf.texi (Defining Symbols): Literal parameter of
697 AC_DEFINE is now passed to m4_pattern_allow.
698 * NEWS: Mention that; likewise for AC_SUBST.
699 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_DEFINE_TRACE_LITERAL): Pass
700 the parameter to m4_pattern_allow.
701 * tests/tools.at: Add a check for that.
703 2006-05-22 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
705 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Fix typos.
707 2006-05-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
709 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Remove
710 only the files that this macro generates.
712 2006-05-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
714 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <sed>: For
715 the HP-UX sed limitation of 99 commands, labels do not count.
716 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SED_CMD_LIMIT): Mention that
717 in the comment.
718 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADER): Revert the change from 2006-05-19.
720 2006-05-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
722 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETMNTENT):
723 Import the following fix from coreutils:
725 2006-01-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
727 Invoke AC_CHECK_FUNCS(getmntent) unconditionally so that tests of
728 $ac_cv_func_getmntent (e.g., in gl_LIST_MOUNTED_FILE_SYSTEMS) need
729 not double-quote uses of that variable, to accommodate the rare
730 case in which getmntent is available in none of the libraries
731 checked. This happens at least on FreeBSD 5.0.
733 2006-05-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
735 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIRS): Bring back
736 ac_config_guess, ac_config_sub, and ac_configure, since evidently
737 some other programs unwisely rely on these undocumented vars.
738 But put in warning comments about them.
739 Problem reported by Ralf Wildenhues in
740 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2006-05/msg00068.html>.
741 * NEWS: Document that these variables are intended to go away.
743 2006-05-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
745 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CXX_C_O): Require AC_PROG_CXX,
746 and set the language to C++ (analogous to the equivalent Fortran
747 tests).
749 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CXX_C_O): New macro.
750 * doc/autoconf.texi (C++ Compiler): Document it.
751 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_C_O): Adjust comment.
752 * NEWS: Update.
754 2006-05-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
756 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADER): Fix off-by-one bug
757 that caused config.status to generate 100-command sed scripts; the
758 portable limit is 99.
760 2006-05-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
762 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MKDIR_P): Name temporary
763 variable `ac_d' instead of `d' to avoid infringing namespace.
764 Report by Ralf Menzel.
766 2006-05-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
768 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILE): Don't prepend
769 $ac_top_build_prefix to $MKDIR_P if it's just 'mkdir -p'.
770 * tests/tools.at (autoconf: subdirectories): New test, taken from
771 the corresponding problem report by Ralf Wildenhues in:
772 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2006-05/msg00053.html
774 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH, AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU):
775 Quote some uses of shell variables if they might suffer unexpected
776 globbing. This doesn't fix all instances of quoting problems that
777 I found, just the easy ones that look safe.
778 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR, _AC_INIT_HELP):
779 (AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR_DEFAULT, AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIRS):
780 (AC_CANONICAL_BUILD, AC_CANONICAL_HOST, AC_CANONICAL_TARGET):
781 (AC_CACHE_LOAD, AC_CACHE_SAVE): Likewise.
782 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_XMKMF, _AC_PATH_X_DIRECT): Likewise.
783 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_LONG_FILE_NAMES): Likewise.
784 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_LINK, _AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS):
785 Likewise.
786 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Likewise.
787 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Likewise.
789 2006-05-18 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
791 * bin/autoreconf.in ($help): Reword according to the manual.
792 Suggested by Olly Betts.
794 2006-05-17 Olly Betts <olly@survex.com> (tiny change)
795 and Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
797 * bin/autoreconf.in: Pass the directory argument to
798 `require_configure_ac'. Fix comment.
799 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Expose this.
800 Reported by Olly Betts.
802 2006-05-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
804 * lib/Automake/Configure_ac.pm, lib/Automake/Channels.pm,
805 lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm, lib/Automake/Struct.pm: Sync from
806 Automake as follows:
808 * lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm (find_configure_ac): Use
809 `$configure_in' instead of `configure.in', to preserve
810 directory component.
812 2006-05-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
814 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/texinfo.tex,
815 doc/make-stds.texi, doc/standards.texi: Sync from upstream.
817 2006-05-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
819 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDBOOL): Fix overly-picky
820 test for C99 conformance; (bool) 0.5 is an integer constant
821 expression, but (bool) -0.5 is not. Problem reported by Fedor
822 Sergeev in <http://forum.sun.com/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=96202>.
824 2006-05-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
826 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): AC_PROG_MKDIR_P now
827 sets MKDIR_P, not mkdir_p, to avoid collisions with Automake.
828 Warn about obsolete install-sh files. Remove stray sentence
829 fragment and fix cross reference.
830 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_INSTALL): Don't insist on
831 install -d; this undoes the 2006-05-10 change.
832 (MKDIR_P): Mark with AN_MAKEVAR.
833 (AC_PROG_MKDIR_P): Fall back on $ac_install_sh, not $INSTALL, so
834 that we don't require $INSTALL to be thread-safe. Move comments
835 out of generated code. Require AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR_DEFAULT instead
836 of AC_PROG_INSTALL. Output a message saying that we're checking
837 mkdir -p. Set MKDIR_P rather than mkdir_p. Do special magic for
838 MKDIR_P instead of AC_SUBST.
839 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILE, _AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS):
840 Special magic for MKDIR_P, too.
841 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_MKDIR_P): Remove comment that defeated
842 a dnl.
843 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_ENV): mkdir_p -> MKDIR_P.
845 2006-05-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
847 Sync from Automake, as follows:
849 2006-05-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
850 * config/install-sh: Initialize IFS, so field splitting isn't
851 turned off later.
852 * config/mkinstalldirs: Likewise.
853 * config/missing: Remove superfluous quotes. Replace all uses of
854 `[' by `test', for consistency, and for..
855 * config/missing (sed_minuso, sed_output): New variables.
856 (autom4te, help2man, makeinfo): Use them. Unifies detection of
857 `-o FILE', `--output FILE', `--output=FILE', stricter regex.
858 Fixes `missing' to detect `--output' for help2man. Fixes
859 PR automake/483. Report by Dennis J. Linse.
860 (autom4te): Document in `missing --help'.
862 2006-05-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
864 * NEWS: New macro AC_PROG_MKDIR_P. AS_MKDIR_P is now more robust.
865 * config/install-sh: Don't use 'path' to talk about file names,
866 as per GNU coding standards. Close a race condition reported by Ralf
867 Wildenhues and Stepan Kasal. There is still a race condition
868 on hosts that predate Posix 1003.1-1992, but we can't help this.
869 Don't mishandle weird characters like space on pre-Posix hosts.
870 Invoke mkdir at most once per dir arg on pre-Posix hosts.
871 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Cross-reference to
872 AC_PROG_MKDIR_P from AS_MKDIR_P.
873 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Cross-reference to AC_PROG_MKDIR_P
874 from mkdir. Mention that Autoconf 2.60 install-sh is safe but
875 earlier editions are not (including Automake 1.8.3).
876 Do not suggest mkinstalldirs for thread-safety.
877 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_INSTALL): Insist on an 'install'
878 that understands -d, so that AC_PROG_MKDIR_P can fall back on $INSTALL.
879 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_MKDIR_P): Make it more robust in the
880 presence of special characters and race conditions.
881 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_ENV): Add mkdir_p to the list of variables
882 in Autoconf's name space.
884 2006-05-10 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
885 and Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
887 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MKDIR_P): New macro, taken
888 from Automake with minor changes.
889 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): Document AC_PROG_MKDIR_P.
891 2006-05-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
893 * config/install-sh: Update to Automake CVS version, as follows:
894 2006-04-25 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
895 * lib/install-sh: Simplify the expr implementation of dirname.
896 2006-04-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
897 * lib/install-sh: Handle --, and diagnose unknown options.
899 2006-05-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
901 * tests/Makefile.am (AUTOTEST): Use `$(MY_AUTOM4TE)' instead of
902 `./autom4te' to create `./testsuite', since the `all' target
903 will ensure its presence, but `installcheck' should not create
904 the uninstalled wrappers.
906 * tests/torture.at (Unusual Automake input files): Skip if we
907 detect automake < 1.8.
909 2006-05-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
911 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_STDC): If ac_cv_prog_cc_stdc
912 is set to `no', then that overrides and sets ac_cv_prog_cc_c89
913 and ac_cv_prog_cc_c99 to `no', for backward compatibility.
914 * NEWS: Update.
916 2006-05-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
918 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Take care not to
919 munge (multiple) white space and other oddities.
920 * tests/torture.at (AT_CHECK_AC_ARG_VAR): Make sure to M4-escape
921 single quotes in variable assignment.
922 (AC_ARG_VAR, configure invocation): Adjust tests to expose this
923 and similar failures by adding multiple spaces, tabs, and other
924 special characters.
925 Report and different test suggested by Francesco Romani
926 <fromani@gmail.com> and Andrew Church <achurch@achurch.org>.
928 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): When we escape
929 single quotes, we only need to search for single quotes; this
930 both simplifies the search pattern, and makes us less
931 susceptible to `echo' variations for arguments not containing
932 single quotes.
933 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Likewise.
935 2006-05-04 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
937 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables) <IFS>: Document
938 `$*' and IFS concatenation issue with traditional shells and
939 bash-2.04. Report by Seanster@Seanster.com.
941 2006-05-03 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
943 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Identify more
944 precisely which Mac OS X versions have the od problem.
946 2006-05-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
948 * doc/autoconf.texi: Use @option systematically.
950 2006-05-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
951 and Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
953 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Add a paragraph
954 about 'od'.
955 (Integer Overflow): Mention the special case of integer division
956 overflow.
958 2006-05-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
960 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_CANONICAL_SPLIT): Cater for
961 traditional shells like the Solaris one that do not use the
962 first IFS character for assembling `$*'.
963 Prompted by a related report from autoconf_bug@nro.ca.
965 2006-05-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
966 and Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
968 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins, Limitations of Make):
969 Mention more problems with the -e option.
971 2006-04-30 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
973 * NEWS: Typo.
974 * doc/autoconf.texi (Systemology): Mention the Heirloom Project.
976 * doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction, Pointers): Use `@/' liberally
977 in URLs to improve DVI formatted output (requires texinfo 4.6).
978 (System Services, Systemology, Shellology): Likewise.
979 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Rewrite Mac OS X example for nicer
980 output.
982 * doc/autoconf.texi (Fortran Compiler): Do not use `@ovar' in
983 continuous text.
984 (Runtime): Fix macro argument names to match description:
985 `action-if-found' -> `action-if-true' and similarly.
986 (Obsolete Macros): Likewise.
987 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_COMPILE_IFELSE): Likewise.
988 (AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, AC_TRY_COMPILE, _AC_LINK_IFELSE)
989 (AC_LINK_IFELSE, AC_TRY_LINK, AC_COMPILE_CHECK): Likewise.
991 2006-04-29 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
993 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Clean up markup.
995 * ChangeLog: Typo.
996 * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell): Allow wrapped URLs, for
997 DVI output.
999 2006-04-28 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1001 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Document FreeBSD
1002 /bin/sh set unsorted output.
1003 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_CACHE_DUMP): Adjust.
1004 * tests/local.at: Likewise.
1006 2006-04-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1008 * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable C and C++, Varieties of Unportability):
1009 (Integer Overflow, Null Pointers, Buffer Overruns):
1010 (Floating Point Portability, Exiting Portably): New sections.
1011 (Writing Test Programs): Fix some langauge. Recommend exiting
1012 with status 1, not merely nonzero. Clarify exit declaration.
1013 (Run Time): Move C exit status stuff to new Exiting Portably section.
1014 (Systemology): Mention Posix and levenez. Update v7 reference.
1015 (Portable Shell): Mention the Posix shell.
1017 2006-04-25 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1019 * bin/autoconf.as (me): Replace by as_me.
1021 2006-04-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1023 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Don't use AS_ERROR,
1024 since as_me isn't set yet.
1026 2006-04-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1028 Prepare for deprecation of AS_BASENAME and AS_DIRNAME, and fix
1029 a few minor bugs in this area.
1031 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Comment out the
1032 documentation of AS_BASENAME, for now.
1033 (Shell Substitutions): Do not use AS_DIRNAME in an example.
1034 (Limitations of Builtins) <basename>: Do not refer to
1035 AS_BASENAME.
1036 * bin/autoconf.as (me): Don't use AS_BASENAME.
1037 (dir): Remove the unused variable.
1038 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DETECT_REQUIRED): Renamed from
1039 AS_DETECT_REQUIRED. All uses changed.
1040 (_AS_DETECT_SUGGESTED): Renamed from AS_DETECT_SUGGESTED.
1041 All uses changed.
1042 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Put ;; at the end of a case.
1043 (AS_BASENAME): Use "basename --" to protect against leading "-".
1044 (_AS_BASENAME_EXPR): Renamed from AS_BASENAME_EXPR. All uses changed.
1045 (_AS_BASENAME_SED): Renamed from AS_BASENAME_SED. All uses changed.
1046 (_AS_BASENAME_PREPARE): Reject implementations that cannot handle "--".
1047 (_AS_DIRNAME_PREPARE): Likewise.
1048 (_AS_DIRNAME_EXPR): Renamed from AS_DIRNAME_EXPR. All uses changed.
1049 (_AS_DIRNAME_SED): Renamed from AS_DIRNAME_SED. All uses changed.
1050 (AS_DIRNAME): Use "dirname --".
1052 2006-04-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1054 * doc/autoconf.texi (Runtime): Renamed from "Run Time". All uses
1055 of "run time" and "run-time" changed to "runtime", for consistency.
1056 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4: Likewise (in comment).
1057 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4: Likewise.
1058 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Likewise.
1059 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4: Likewise.
1061 * doc/autoconf.texi (Run Time): Document the exit status situation
1062 with more accuracy and detail.
1064 2006-04-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1066 * doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction): The GNU Autoconf Macro
1067 Archive is not officially `GNU' any more. Update URL.
1068 (Defining Directories): Likewise
1069 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_RESTRICT): Update URL.
1071 2006-04-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1073 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Remove the leading
1074 newline from the `trap' code to finish `config.log'; the NetBSD
1075 /bin/sh resets the exit status after an empty command, as
1076 documented in doc/autoconf.texi.
1077 Reported by Dalibor Topic <robilad@kaffe.org>.
1079 2006-04-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1081 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Clarify AC_C_TYPEOF.
1082 Suggested by Bruno Haible.
1084 2006-04-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1086 * configure.ac (ac_cv_sh_n_works): Don't try to test for it, since
1087 some shells (e.g., Solaris 8 /bin/sh) implement it verrrry slowly.
1088 Instead, just list the shells that we know work.
1089 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_SHELL_SYNTAX): Remove 2nd arg. All uses
1090 changed. Be more cautious about the _cv_ variable.
1091 * tests/tools.at (Syntax of the shell scripts): Check the
1092 _cv_ variable once, at first, to avoid an internal autoconf error
1093 when sh -n does not work.
1095 2006-04-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1097 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm: Sync from Automake.
1099 2006-04-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1101 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_CONFIG_LOG): Don't
1102 use ">&-" since we're only 99.999% sure that this is portable,
1103 and since the MinGW bug is fixed in a different way.
1104 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
1106 2006-04-16 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1108 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Handle --recheck
1109 before opening config.log, to avoid hitting a bug on MinGW.
1111 2006-04-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1113 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_CONFIG_LOG): Close
1114 AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD before reopening it onto the log file.
1115 This works around a MinGW bug reported by Eric Paire.
1116 Make sure that all writes to the log file append to it,
1117 rather than possibly losing data.
1118 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
1120 2006-04-14 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1122 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm (find_file): Fix a typo in the
1123 description.
1125 2006-04-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1127 * NEWS: Update.
1129 * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump to 2.59d.
1131 2006-04-12 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1133 Version 2.59c.
1135 * Makefile.maint (news-date-check): Do not require a leading `*'
1136 before the release date in NEWS.
1138 2006-04-12 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1139 and Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1141 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILE): If the templates for
1142 the instantiated file do not contain the string 'datarootdir'
1143 but contain @datadir@, @docdir@, @infodir@, @localedir@, or
1144 @mandir@, replace the reference '${datarootdir}' by the value.
1145 * tests/torture.at (datarootdir workaround): New test.
1146 * NEWS: Advertise this temporary fixup.
1147 Based on a patch by Bruno Haible, reported and analyzed by
1148 Paul Eggert and Noah Misch.
1150 2006-04-12 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
1152 * tests/autotest.at (Debugging a failed test): Fix comment.
1154 2006-04-12 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1156 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LN_S_PREPARE): Simplify the summary of
1157 all the changes since 2006-04-07.
1159 2006-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1161 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LN_S_PREPARE): If `ln -s file1 file2'
1162 succeeded, but `ln -s file dir' failed, take care to remove the
1163 leftover target before the next test, to prevent its spurious
1164 failure; also make sure `ln file dir' works before selecting it.
1165 Thanks to Keith Marshall for pointing this out.
1166 * THANKS: Update.
1168 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Store quoted variable
1169 assignments in `at_debug_args', so that we put them correctly
1170 in the `run' script.
1171 * tests/autotest.at (Debugging a failed test): Unmark XFAIL.
1172 Reported by Eric Blake.
1174 2006-04-11 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
1176 * tests/autotest.at (AT_CHECK_AT): Add new argument, to allow
1177 top-level tests after micro-suite has been run. Used in...
1178 (Debugging a successful test, Debugging script and environment),
1179 (Debugging a failed test): ...these new tests. The first of these
1180 is fixed by...
1181 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_CREATE_DEBUGGING_SCRIPT): New
1182 macro, split out from...
1183 (AT_INIT): ...here, so that using -d also generates a run script.
1184 Document that -d inhibits top-level logging.
1185 * doc/autoconf.texi (testsuite Invocation): Document that -d only
1186 inhibits top-level logging; debug scripts are created.
1188 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_CHECK): Avoid syntax error on empty
1189 check.
1190 * tests/autotest.at (Empty test, Empty check): New test to check it.
1192 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_CONST, AC_C_VOLATILE): Avoid warnings
1193 from gcc.
1195 2006-04-10 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1197 * tests/mktests.sh: Use "trap '' 0", not "trap 0". Do not touch
1198 the files if a problem appears. Make the empty *.at files
1199 read-only, too. Proposed by Ralf Wildenhues.
1201 2006-04-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1203 * config/Makefile.am: Add comment to force updated Makefile.in.
1205 * lib/freeze.mk: Fix typo in comment. Unlike the last, white
1206 space only patch to this file, this patch causes the Makefile.in
1207 files that include freeze.mk to be updated, and thus have a
1208 newer time stamp again, which in turn makes a pristine CVS
1209 checkout have correct time stamps.
1211 * Makefile.maint (cvs-sv): New macro, to be used..
1212 (config.guess-url_prefix, config.sub-url_prefix)
1213 (texinfo.tex-url_prefix, standards.texi-url_prefix): ..here;
1214 point to CVS text checkout of Gnulib files.
1215 (copyright-check): Bump current year.
1216 (announcement): Do not hard-wire `./announce-gen'.
1217 (cvs-update): Propagate failures of `cvs' and `move-if-change'
1218 correctly.
1219 * Makefile.cfg (executable-update): Use `chmod a+x' instead of
1220 `chmod +x'.
1221 (wget_files): Update config.guess, config.sub, texinfo.tex by
1222 `wget-update', now that their URLs work again.
1224 2006-04-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1226 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Types): Don't use AC_CHECK_TYPE.
1227 Problem noted by Paul D. Smith.
1229 2006-04-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1231 * doc/autoconf.texi: Remove unused words from word list.
1232 * .x-sc_prohibit_atoi_atof, .x-sc_space_tab, .x-sc_sun_os_names,
1233 .x-sc_trailing_space: New files.
1235 * doc/standards.texi: Sync from gnulib.
1237 * NEWS, doc/autoconf.texi (AC_LIBOBJ vs LIBOBJS): Mark
1238 `LIBOBJDIR' as experimental.
1240 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LN_S_PREPARE): MSYS `ln -s' fails
1241 with a target directory; it's internally implemented as `cp'
1242 anyway, but since Autoconf advertises the possibility to use
1243 a target directory when LN_S is `ln -s', we need to find out.
1244 Reported by Rolf Ebert <rolf.ebert.gcc@gmx.de> against MSYS,
1245 analyzed by Keith Marshall <keith.marshall@total.com>.
1247 * THANKS: Update.
1249 2006-04-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1251 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Just output
1252 confdefs.h as-is. In general, if it has backslash-newline or the
1253 like, then it doesn't work either to sort or to remove empty
1254 lines.
1256 2006-04-09 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1258 * tests/Makefile.am (AUTOCONF_FILES): Fix typo in the comment.
1260 2006-04-09 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
1262 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect
1263 _AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE.
1265 2006-04-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1267 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Use '\'' for an
1268 apostrophe within a single-quoted string, as this is the usual
1269 tradition and is easier to read than '"'"'. Don't rely on the
1270 shell treating "$/" like '$/'. Use a more-consistent indenting
1271 style for the trap.
1273 2006-04-09 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
1275 * tests/autotest.at (Backquote command substitution),
1276 (Multiline backquote command substitution): Remove mistaken
1277 AT_NO_CMDSUBST from the 2006-03-14 patch, which was meant to be
1278 applied...
1279 (Parenthetical command substitution, Multiline parenthetical
1280 command substitution): here.
1282 2006-04-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1284 Import macros from gnulib (often changing their name).
1286 * NEWS: AC_C_TYPE_LONG_DOUBLE is now obsolete.
1287 New macros AC_CHECK_DECLS_ONCE, AC_CHECK_FUNCS_ONCE,
1288 AC_CHECK_HEADERS_ONCE, AC_FUNC_STRTOLD, AC_HEADER_ASSERT,
1289 AC_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_INO, AC_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_TYPE,
1290 AC_TYPE_LONG_DOUBLE, AC_TYPE_LONG_DOUBLE_WIDER, AC_TYPE_INT8_T,
1291 AC_TYPE_INT16_T, AC_TYPE_INT32_T, AC_TYPE_INT64_T,
1292 AC_TYPE_INTMAX_T, AC_TYPE_INTPTR_T, AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG_INT,
1293 AC_TYPE_UINT8_T, AC_TYPE_UINT16_T, AC_TYPE_UINT32_T,
1294 AC_TYPE_UINT64_T, AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T, AC_TYPE_UINTPTR_T,
1295 AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG_INT, AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS.
1296 The manual mentions Gnulib more prominently.
1297 * doc/autoconf.texi (Gnulib): New node.
1298 (Pointers): Add Gnulib URL.
1299 (Particular Functions): Alphabetize. Add AC_FUNC_STRTOLD.
1300 (Generic Functions): Add AC_CHECK_FUNCS_ONCE. Refer to new
1301 Gnulib section.
1302 (Particular Headers): Add AC_HEADER_ASSERT. For stdbool.h,
1303 suggest a #define rather than a typedef for _Bool, and mention
1304 Gnulib rather than trying to substitute stdbool code.
1305 (Generic Headers): Add AC_CHECK_HEADERS_ONCE.
1306 (Generic Declarations): Add AC_CHECK_DECLS_ONCE.
1307 (Particular Structures): Add AC_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_INO,
1308 AC_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_TYPE.
1309 (Particular Types): Mention stdint.h and inttypes.h as standard
1310 headers too.
1311 Add AC_TYPE_INT8_T, AC_TYPE_INT16_T, AC_TYPE_INT32_T, AC_TYPE_INT64_T,
1312 AC_TYPE_INTMAX_T, AC_TYPE_INTPTR_T, AC_TYPE_LONG_DOUBLE,
1313 AC_TYPE_LONG_DOUBLE_WIDER, AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG_INT, AC_TYPE_UINT8_T,
1314 AC_TYPE_UINT16_T, AC_TYPE_UINT32_T, AC_TYPE_UINT64_T,
1315 AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T, AC_TYPE_UINTPTR_T, AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG_INT.
1316 (C Compiler): Move AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE to ...
1317 (Obsolete Macros): here. Under AC_LONG_DOUBLE, mention
1318 AC_TYPE_LONG_DOUBLE or AC_TYPE_LONG_DOUBLE_WIDER instead.
1319 (Posix Variants): Add AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS.
1320 (Coding Style). Don't mention m4_expand_once.
1321 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE): Implement via
1322 AC_TYPE_LONG_DOUBLE_WIDER. Now obsolete.
1323 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AH_CHECK_FUNCS): New macro.
1324 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Use it.
1325 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS_ONCE, AC_FUNC_STRTOLD): New macros.
1326 (AC_FUNC_WAIT3): "the Open Group standards" -> "POSIX".
1327 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CHECK_DECLS_ONCE): New macro.
1328 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_CHECK_HEADERS_ONCE): New macro.
1329 (AC_HEADER_ASSERT): New macro.
1330 (AC_HEADER_STDBOOL): Don't assume "#error" works.
1331 Catch a bug in IBM AIX xlc compiler version 6.0.0.0.
1332 Catch a bug in an HP-UX C compiler.
1333 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS): New macro.
1334 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_TYPE_INTMAX_T. AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T):
1335 (AC_TYPE_INTPTR_T, AC_TYPE_UINTPTR_T. AC_TYPE_LONG_DOUBLE):
1336 (AC_TYPE_LONG_DOUBLE_WIDER, AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE, AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG_INT):
1337 (AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG_INT, _AC_TYPE_INT, _AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_INT):
1338 (_AC_STRUCT_DIRENT, AC_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_INO, AC_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_TYPE):
1339 New macros.
1341 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list, au_exclude_list): Do not
1342 use /^foo|bar$/, it does not mean /^(foo|bar)$/.
1344 2006-04-08 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1346 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Fix the wording
1347 of the warning introduced by the 2001-08-28 change.
1349 2006-04-08 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>,
1350 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1352 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CACHE_SAVE): All `ac_cv_env_foo'
1353 variables shall be overriden by the cache.
1354 * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): Test also with a first value
1355 that contains braces.
1357 2006-04-07 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1359 Revert the patch from 2006-04-01 and only improve
1360 _AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL:
1362 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_WALK): Do not optimize; do not
1363 skip nonexistent directories.
1364 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): The optimization is moved here--try
1365 only shell candidates which exist.
1366 (AS_UNAME): No need to give three parameters to _AS_PATH_WALK.
1367 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): No need to give three
1368 parameters to _AS_PATH_WALK.
1370 2006-04-07 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>,
1371 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1373 * bin/autoupdate.in (handle_autoconf_patches): Change the way we
1374 distinguish m4sugar macros.
1375 * tests/tools.at (autoupdating with aclocal and m4_include):
1376 New test. Bug reported by Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>,
1377 test case by Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>.
1379 2006-04-07 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1381 Revert my change from 2006-03-17, in other words:
1382 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): Insert BIN_SH=xpg4
1383 and DUALCASE=1.
1384 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Remove DUALCASE=1.
1385 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables) <BIN_SH>: Say that
1386 it is set.
1388 2006-04-07 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
1390 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Document that
1391 AS_MKDIR_P exits the script on failure.
1392 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Remove redundant AS_ERROR.
1394 2006-04-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1396 * config/elisp-comp, config/install-sh, config/mdate-sh,
1397 config/missing, config/mkinstalldirs: Sync from Automake.
1399 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm, lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm: Sync
1400 from Automake.
1402 * doc/make-stds.texi: Sync from gnulib.
1404 2006-04-06 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
1406 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O): Inside cache
1407 check, s/ac_exeext/ac_cv_exeext/. Fixes regression introduced
1408 2006-04-01.
1410 2006-04-06 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>,
1411 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>,
1412 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,
1413 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1415 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_CACHE_DUMP): Fix the detection of
1416 whether `set' quotes correctly: redirect stderr of the tested
1417 `set', and use a subshell, for Ultrix; use `sed' instead of
1418 `grep' for zsh `set' which may write binary output; match only
1419 at the beginning of a line, to avoid false positives.
1420 In order to avoid false positives by unrelated variables with
1421 multiline content, put the dump algorithm in a subshell and
1422 unset all variables containing newlines (except some which are
1423 special to the shell). Warn about cache variables that are
1424 unset.
1426 2006-04-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1428 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/texinfo.tex:
1429 Sync from upstream.
1431 * tests/mktests.sh: Reword comments.
1433 * tests/mktests.sh: Only skip internal macros starting with
1434 `_AC_' or `__AC_'. Noted by Stepan Kasal.
1435 Update exclusion lists for the test suite to this end:
1436 (AC_ARG_VAR): Do test this now.
1437 (AC_SEARCH_LIBS, AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Need an argument.
1438 (AC_LINKER_OPTION): Remove (renamed to _AC_LINKER_OPTION).
1439 (AC_LIST_MEMBER_OF): Likewise (renamed to _AC_LIST_MEMBER_IF).
1440 (AC_LINK_FILES): Obsoleted since (and thus AU_DEFUN'ed).
1442 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Mention the MSYS
1443 shell issue with double-quoted command substitutions of native
1444 commands.
1445 Reported to MSYS by Mark Cave-Ayland, to Autoconf by Keith
1446 Marshall.
1448 * Makefile.maint (sc_cast_of_argument_to_free): Do not fail when
1449 no file matches the glob, discard the warning, set `nullglob'.
1450 (syntax-check): Likewise.
1451 (sc_cast_of_x_alloc_return_value): Likewise.
1452 (sc_cast_of_alloca_return_value, sc_error_exit_success)
1453 (sc_prohibit_jm_in_m4, .re-list, sc_unmarked_diagnostics)
1454 (m4-check): Likewise.
1455 (sc_system_h_headers): Do not print rule on execution.
1456 (sc_tight_scope): Do not fail for non-existing `src' directory.
1457 (sc_changelog): Skip the Copyright footer.
1458 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4: Remove trailing space.
1460 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: More replacements to
1461 <tab><space> where this makes sense.
1463 2006-04-06 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1465 * tests/Makefile.am (maintainer-check-posix):
1466 s/POSIXLY_CORRECTLY/POSIXLY_CORRECT/
1468 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_CONFIG_FOOS): Append TAGS to
1469 ac_config_<foo>s again, sometimes normalized, sometimes not.
1470 (AC_CONFIG_FILES, AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, AC_CONFIG_LINKS):
1471 (AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS): Do not do so here.
1472 (_AC_CONFIG_REGISTER_DEST): Double quote the tags in macros _AC_LIST_TAGS
1473 and_AC_LIST_TAG_COMMANDS; fixes another regression introduced by the
1474 2005-07-25 rewrite. Noticed by Noah Misch.
1476 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_PRESERVE_HELP_ORDER): Do not define
1477 _AC_PRESERVE_HELP_ORDER, ...
1478 (AC_ARG_ENABLE, AC_ARG_WITH): ... use AC_PROVIDE_IFELSE insetad.
1480 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_VAR): Do not use m4_divert_once
1481 inside m4_expand_once; it is redundant.
1483 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Remove the broken support
1484 for --help from Cygnus `configure.'
1486 2006-04-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1488 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Warn about #error. Follows up
1489 on a patch proposed by Ralf Wildenhues.
1491 2006-04-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1493 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Replace <space>''<tab> with
1494 <tab><space> where this makes sense.
1496 2006-04-05 Howard Chu <hyc@highlandsun.com> (trivial change)
1497 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
1499 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_PRESERVE_HELP_ORDER): New macro.
1500 (AC_ARG_ENABLE, AC_ARG_WITH): Adjust.
1501 * doc/autoconf.texi (Help Formatting): New node.
1502 * NEWS: Announce AC_PRESERVE_HELP_ORDER.
1504 2006-04-05 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1506 * TODO, config/Makefile.am, lib/freeze.mk, lib/autoconf/c.m4,
1507 lib/autoconf/specific.m4, lib/autoconf/status.m4,
1508 lib/autoconf/types.m4, lib/autotest/general.m4,
1509 tests/mktests.sh, tests/torture.at: White space cleanup:
1510 remove some SPACE before TAB, or add quoting ('' or @&t@).
1512 * NEWS, TODO, bin/autoreconf.in: `filesystem' -> `file system'.
1514 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Document `^' vs. `|'.
1516 2006-04-05 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
1518 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Prep AT_*_all, so that an
1519 empty test suite works.
1520 * tests/autotest.at (Empty test suite): Remove xfail.
1522 2006-04-05 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
1524 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_CONFIG_FOOS): Do not append normalized
1525 TAGS to ac_config_<foo>s.
1526 (AC_CONFIG_FILES, AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, AC_CONFIG_LINKS): Do so here.
1527 (AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS): Append NAME to ac_config_commands without
1528 normalizing it, consistent it with previous releases.
1529 * tests/torture.at (Macro calls in AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS tags): New test.
1531 2006-04-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1533 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_BASENAME_EXPR, AS_DIRNAME_EXPR):
1534 Use simplified args that Eric Blake originally suggested.
1536 2006-04-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1538 * tests/mktests.sh: Don't use 'cat'; just read the files directly.
1539 Prefer 'sort -u' to 'sort | uniq'. Filter data before sorting it.
1540 Use 'comm' rather than N instances of grep; this also fixes a bug
1541 whereby substrings were incorrectly matched, causing us to not
1542 generate tests for AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING and AC_FUNC_LSTAT.
1543 (exclude_list): Exclude empty macros.
1544 (ac_exclude_list): Exclude AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT.
1546 Use awk rather than grep -E or egrep, to avoid
1547 portability problems with regular expressions containing newlines.
1548 (exclude_list, ac_exclude_list, au_exclude_list, ac_exclude_script):
1549 Switch from grep to awk syntax.
1550 (ac_exclude_script): Renamed from ac_exclude_egrep.
1551 (au_exclude_script): Renamed from au_exclude_egrep.
1553 2006-04-04 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
1555 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Only `configure.in' evidences
1556 a subdirectory subject to Cygnus `configure'.
1557 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Likewise.
1559 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): Omit the bug
1560 report request when we have no AC_PACKAGE_BUGREPORT.
1562 2006-04-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1564 * THANKS: Update.
1566 * tests/mktests.sh: Update copyright year in the header of the
1567 generated files.
1569 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_INLINE): Do not skip cleanup code.
1570 (AC_C_RESTRICT): Likewise. Furthermore, add a function with a
1571 typedef'ed restricted pointer, to catch a compiler bug on
1572 HP-UX 11.x, and fix warnings so it passes with -Werror.
1573 (_AC_PROG_CC_C99): Likewise.
1574 Reported by Albert Chin <china@thewrittenword.com>.
1575 * tests/mktests.sh: Do not skip AC_C_INLINE, AC_C_RESTRICT.
1577 2006-04-03 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
1579 * bin/autoscan.in (subdirs): New global.
1580 (scan_file): Prune directories with configure{,.{ac,in,gnu}}.
1581 (output): Emit AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS as needed.
1582 * tests/autoscan.at (autoscan): Remove XFAIL.
1584 2006-04-03 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
1586 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CACHE_SAVE): Use AC_MSG_NOTICE.
1588 2006-04-03 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
1590 * THANKS: Add myself.
1592 2006-04-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1594 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Add `at_testdir' to pointer
1595 to log, point to testsuite output tree.
1597 2006-04-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1599 * NEWS: AC_PROG_CC and AC_PROG_CXX no longer declare 'exit'.
1600 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Mention that C++
1601 has trouble with 'exit'.
1602 (Guidelines): Test programs shouldn't use 'exit'.
1603 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION):
1604 Remove; all uses removed.
1605 (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C), AC_C_BIGENDIAN):
1606 Return from 'main' instead of calling 'exit'.
1607 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ_ALLOCA, AC_FUNC_CLOSEDIR_VOID):
1608 (_AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_IF, AC_FUNC_GETGROUPS):
1609 (AC_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK, _AC_FUNC_MALLOC_IF):
1610 (AC_FUNC_MEMCMP, AC_FUNC_MKTIME, AC_FUNC_MMAP, _AC_FUNC_REALLOC_IF):
1611 (AC_FUNC_SETPGRP, _AC_FUNC_STAT, AC_FUNC_STRTOD, AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R):
1612 (AC_FUNC_STRNLEN, AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED, AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL):
1613 (_AC_FUNC_FORK, _AC_FUNC_VFORK, AC_FUNC_WAIT3): Likewise.
1614 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDC): Likewise.
1615 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS): Likewise.
1616 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_TYPE_GETGROUPS): Likewise.
1617 * tests/compile.at: Likewise.
1619 2006-04-02 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
1621 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_PATH_X): Update per 2005-08-26 change.
1623 2006-04-01 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1625 Clean up _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT* macros.
1627 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Don't try to
1628 detect exeext, it will be done by _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O; just set
1629 ac_file to the name of the default output file and call
1630 _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_WORKS. Move the definition of ac_files and the
1631 initial `rm' of the candidate files...
1632 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT): ... here and simplify them. Moreover, use
1633 the same list in subsequent `rm' calls, and for the temporary
1634 redefinition of ac_clean_files; call _AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT at the end,
1635 and don't call the other _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_* macros directly, use...
1636 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_TESTS): ... this new macro.
1637 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O): Don't export ac_cv_exeext, it's not needed (or
1638 no longer needed) by libtool. Make it a cache check.
1639 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_CROSS): Remove the comment, it was obviously
1640 copied here by mistake.
1641 (AC_NO_EXECUTABLES): Redefine _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_TESTS, not
1642 _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT.
1643 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX, AC_PROG_OBJC): Do not call
1644 _AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT directly.
1645 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Likewise.
1647 2006-04-01 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1649 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DIRNAME_PREPARE): New macro.
1650 (AS_DIRNAME): Use it.
1651 (_AS_PREPARE): Add _AS_DIRNAME_PREPARE.
1653 * tests/*.at: Remove the generated ones.
1655 2006-04-01 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1657 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't optimize the first PATH walk.
1659 2006-04-01 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
1661 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_WALK): Optimize nonexistent
1662 directories, unless optional third argument supplied.
1663 (AS_UNAME): Don't optimize PATH walk.
1665 * lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm, lib/autoconf/c.m4: s/non-existent/nonexistent/
1667 2006-04-01 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
1668 and Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1670 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Sort sections as implied by the comments,
1671 and fix some typos.
1673 2006-04-01 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
1675 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_VERSION): Emit script name and
1676 Autoconf version number despite a zero- or one-argument AC_INIT.
1678 * bin/autoreconf.in (parse_args): Multiple -v send --verbose to
1679 subordinate tools.
1680 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (getopt): Make -v and -d incremental.
1681 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Document it.
1683 * doc/autoconf.texi: Use `Cygwin', `MinGW', and `license' consistently.
1684 Append LocalWords so ispell-buffer passes cleanly. Spelling fixes.
1686 2006-04-01 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
1688 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_MKDIR_P): Allow use in shell lists.
1689 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Be tolerant of existing directory when
1690 rm failed to remove it.
1692 2006-04-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1694 * bin/autoupdate.in: Redefine m4_location so that warnings print
1695 the correct lines of the input file by subtracting..
1696 (_au__first_line): ..this new definition.
1698 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_COMPILE_CHECK): Prefer
1699 AC_MSG_CHECKING over obsolete AC_CHECKING in autoupdated code.
1700 Remove stray newline in output.
1701 (AC_FOREACH): AU_DEFUN this as literal for autoupdate, and also
1702 AC_DEFUN this for autoconf, including the obsoletion diagnose.
1703 Fixes autoupdating of code where the replacement output contains
1704 m4sugar macros.
1705 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_SAVE): Likewise.
1706 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Add AC_FOREACH.
1707 (au_exclude_list): Add AC_LANG_SAVE.
1708 * tests/tools.at: Several new tests for all of this.
1709 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsoleting Macros): Give a hint about the
1710 hairy details.
1711 The AC_LANG_SAVE issue was reported against Libtool by
1712 Dalibor Topic <robilad@kaffe.org>, and against Autoconf 2.57 by
1713 Kristian Kvilekval <kris@cs.ucsb.edu>.
1715 2006-04-01 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1717 * bin/autoupdate.in: Handle m4 builtins and m4sugar macros together--
1718 switch all of them on and of when necessary. Fixes the bug when
1719 m4sugar macros (e.g., m4_define) were expanded after the first
1720 automatic update (e.g., after AC_PREREQ or AC_INIT).
1722 2006-03-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1724 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Sharpen the descriptions
1725 of AS_BASENAME and AS_DIRNAME. Reported by Stepan Kasal.
1727 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_BASENAME_EXPR): Handle ///, ////, etc.
1728 correctly. Problem reported by Eric Blake.
1729 (_AS_EXPR_PREPARE): Detect Tru64 expr bug. Problem reported by
1730 Ralf Wildenhues.
1732 2006-03-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1734 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh, Limitations of Usual Tools):
1735 Tighten up the basename/dirname wording.
1737 2006-03-30 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1739 * Makefile.maint (sc_texi_notab): New check: do not use TABs
1740 in texinfo files outside of verbatim environments.
1741 (syntax-check-rules): Update.
1742 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Headers): Conform to it.
1744 2006-03-30 Chris Pickett <cpicke@cs.mcgill.ca> (tiny change)
1746 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Mention that -I for
1747 aclocal cannot be given on the command line.
1749 2006-03-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1751 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Mention AS_BASENAME.
1752 Give an example for AS_DIRNAME instead of referring to Posix..
1753 (File System Conventions): Put discussion of // versus / here, and
1754 modernize it a bit.
1755 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Add basename. Remove verbiage
1756 after dirname, since it got moved to the above sections.
1757 All this was inspired by a patch proposed earlier by Eric Blake.
1759 2006-03-27 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1761 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Quote
1762 `$0' to protect against spaces.
1763 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
1764 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Likewise, for
1765 `$0', $as_me.
1767 2006-03-26 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1769 * bin/autoscan.in: The value of find_configure_ac should be
1770 checked for existence, so we don't barf over a nonexisting
1771 configure.ac. Reported by Laurence Darby <ldarby@tuffmail.com>.
1773 2006-03-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1775 * bin/autoupdate.in: Fix some typos.
1777 2006-03-21 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1779 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Fix typo.
1781 * lib/autoscan/autoscan.list: Refreshed.
1783 2006-03-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1785 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_ENV): Ignore AC_SUBSTed Objective C
1786 and Erlang related variables.
1788 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG(Objective C), AC_LANG_OBJC)
1789 (_AC_LANG_ABBREV(Objective C), _AC_LANG_PREFIX(Objective C))
1790 (AC_LANG_SOURCE(Objective C), AC_LANG_PROGRAM(Objective C))
1791 (AC_LANG_CALL(Objective C), AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(Objective C))
1792 (AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY(Objective C))
1793 (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(Objective C), AC_LANG_PREPROC(Objective C))
1794 (AC_PROG_OBJCPP, AC_LANG_COMPILER(Objective C), AC_PROG_OBJC)
1795 (_AC_PROG_OBJC_G): New macros.
1796 (_AC_ARG_VAR_CPPFLAGS): Adjusted.
1797 * doc/autoconf.texi (Objective C Compiler): New node.
1798 (Preset Output Variables): Document OBJCFLAGS.
1799 (Language Choice): Document `Objective C' language.
1800 (Fortran Compiler): Fix typo.
1801 * NEWS: Updated.
1802 Inspired by a patch from David M. Lloyd <dmlloyd@tds.net>.
1804 2006-03-20 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1806 * doc/autoconf.texi (Default Includes): Fix typo
1807 s/AC_HEADERS_STDC/AC_HEADER_STDC/
1808 (Limitations of Usual Tools): s/unwriteable/unwritable/
1809 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT, _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT):
1810 Fix typos in the comments.
1812 2006-03-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1814 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PATH_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOLS):
1815 Factor out the warning to...
1816 (_AC_TOOL_WARN): ... this new macro; use `cross_compiling'.
1817 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_MACRO_CROSS): Avoid this warning.
1818 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
1820 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE): Do not special
1821 case `ac_delim' when writing the sed script.
1823 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): Removed BIN_SH=xpg4,
1824 moved DUALCASE=1 ...
1825 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): ... here.
1826 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables) <BIN_SH>: Do not say
1827 that it is set.
1829 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_CHECK_PROG): Quote the parameter of
1830 AC_SUBST.
1831 (_AC_PATH_PROG): Store the result to VARIABLE.
1832 (AC_PATH_PROG): No need to set VARIABLE again.
1834 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_MACRO_CROSS): New macro, creates two tests:
1835 the first one is usual AT_CHECK_MACRO test, the second one checks
1836 that the same works when cross-compiling.
1837 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF, AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF struct):
1838 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF, AC_CHECK_SIZEOF struct): Use it.
1840 2006-03-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1842 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Prepend
1843 the directory `/usr/bin/posix' in the shell search, to prefer
1844 the Posix shell not only in subsequent spawns as with `$BIN_SH'
1845 on Tru64.
1847 * doc/autoconf.texi (contents): To fix texi2html output, hide
1848 `@setcontentsaftertitlepage' for HTML.
1849 (Writing Autoconf Macros): Likewise, insert space after `@c'.
1850 (Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy): Likewise, change `@,c' to
1851 `@,{c}'.
1853 2006-03-16 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1855 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PREPARE): Move the IFS setup and CDPATH
1856 sanitizing...
1857 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): ...here; mention _AS_PATH_WALK needs IFS set.
1858 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_CANONICAL_SPLIT): Add an explanation
1859 why IFS is restored so late; thank you, Ralf, for reminding us.
1861 2006-03-15 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
1863 * doc/autoconf.texi (Pretty Help Strings): No need to use cached
1864 variables in the examples.
1866 2006-03-14 Romain Lenglet <rlenglet@users.forge.objectweb.org>
1868 * doc/autoconf.texi (several sections): Cleaned up documentation for
1869 macros in erlang.m4.
1871 2006-03-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1873 * tests/autotest.at (AT_NO_CMDSUBST): New macro to determine
1874 failure condition for `$(cmd)' style command substitutions.
1875 (Parenthetical command substition, Multiline parenthetical
1876 command substition): Use it.
1878 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Missing word.
1879 Reported by Keith Marshall <keith.marshall@total.com>.
1881 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_WALK): Do not forget to reset
1882 IFS even in case of empty `$PATH'.
1884 2006-03-12 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1886 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT) <at_optarg>: Optimize
1887 `expr' away if there is nothing to do.
1888 < --keywords >: Simplify and robustify argument handling.
1889 Revert erroneous comment from 2005-08-23. Extend to allow
1890 keyword negation with `!'.
1891 Update help message. Remove broken code to prevent running
1892 tests multiple times.
1893 * doc/autoconf.texi (testsuite Invocation) < --keywords >:
1894 Update and fix the documentation accordingly.
1895 * tests/autotest.at (Keywords): Renamed to..
1896 (Keywords and ranges): .. this. Extended to make sure negated
1897 keywords, keywords taken from AT_SETUP arguments, and numeric
1898 test ranges work, and that matching is case-insensitive.
1900 2006-03-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1902 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (_AC_CHECK_TYPE_NEW): Use a typedef to
1903 allow to pass unnamed structs even in C++.
1904 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Likewise.
1905 Also fix quoting error in `AC_MSG_FAILURE' arguments.
1906 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF struct, AC_CHECK_SIZEOF
1907 struct): New tests for unnamed structs, each both native and
1908 cross-compiling.
1910 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_TYPEOF): Use typedef to avoid defining
1911 a structure inside a cast, for C++ conformance.
1912 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF): Likewise.
1913 Also fix quoting error in `AC_MSG_FAILURE' arguments.
1915 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_STDC): If we cannot enable C99
1916 nor C89 mode, set `$ac_cv_prog_cc_stdc' to `no' instead of
1917 trying to execute the command `no'.
1919 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_CONFTEST): AC_DEFUN this, not
1920 m4_define, so that the requirements of `AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT' are
1921 expanded outside.
1923 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoconf Invocation): Fix typos in trace
1924 example. Do not emphasize `$%', it is hardly new and special.
1925 Reported by Edouard Bechetoille <ebecheto@ens-lyon.fr>.
1927 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Document
1928 OpenBSD and traditional `grep' failure to handle multiple
1929 patterns separated by newlines.
1931 2006-03-10 Romain Lenglet <rlenglet@users.forge.objectweb.org>
1933 * doc/autoconf.texi (several sections): Add documentation for macros
1934 in erlang.m4.
1936 2006-03-10 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
1938 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsolete Macros): Fix wording of
1939 AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC.
1941 2006-03-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1943 * doc/autoconf.texi: Use @acronym more consistently for acronyms
1944 like BSD, GPL, LGPL. Fix minor English typos.
1945 (AC_STDC_HEADERS, AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL):
1946 Mention that these macros are becoming obsolete.
1947 (AC_STDC_HEADERS, AC_PROG_CC, AC_C_CONST, AC_C_VOLATILE):
1948 Use more modern terminology for which standard is what.
1949 (AC_PROG_CC): Mention gcc first, and remove obsolete references to egcs
1950 and to ansi2knr.
1951 (AC_PROG_CXX): Likewise.
1952 (AC_C_PROTOTYPES, Test Functions, AC_LIBOBJ vs LIBOBJS):
1953 Remove obsolete discussion about how to port to K&R.
1954 (Guidelines for Test Programs): Suggest AC_HEADER_STDBOOL rather than
1955 the obsolescent AC_HEADER_STDC.
1956 (AC_FOO_IFELSE vs AC_TRY_FOO): Don't use #error; test programs
1957 can't rely on it.
1959 2006-03-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1961 * tests/c.at (AC_PROG_CPP without warnings, AC_PROG_CPP via CC):
1962 Remove stdin redirection from /dev/null to allow pipe to work.
1964 2006-03-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1966 * tests/c.at (AC_PROG_CPP without warnings, AC_PROG_CPP via CC):
1967 Require that /lib/cpp include stdio.h correctly. Solaris 10's
1968 doesn't. Problem reported by D'Arcy A MacIsaac and diagnosed by
1969 Ralf Wildenhues.
1971 2006-03-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1973 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SED_CMD_LIMIT): The limit for
1974 HP-UX sed is 99 commands, not 100.
1975 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE): Do not count the `}' of an
1976 _AC_SUBST_FILES fragment. Separate `{' and `r' commands by
1977 newline for portability.
1978 * tests/torture.at (Torturing config.status): Also test 100
1979 AC_SUBST_FILE invocations. Fix test to actually verify the
1980 AC_CONFIG_FILES output.
1981 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Document HP-UX
1982 command, label, and read-file `r' limits. Unify HP-UX spelling.
1984 * tests/Makefile.am (edit, $(wrappers)): Do not use `$<' in
1985 non-suffix rule.
1986 ($(TESTSUITE_GENERATED_AT)): Use `$(srcdir)` for the benefit of
1987 non-GNU make.
1988 (autoconfdir, $(AUTOCONF_FILES)): Likewise.
1989 * tests/mktests.sh: Small shell portability fixes.
1991 2006-03-05 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1993 * doc/autoconf.texi (Caching Results): Fix the examples to use a
1994 recommended quoting style and discard unwanted output.
1996 2006-03-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
1998 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_NORMALIZE_TEST_GROUP_NUMBER): New macro.
1999 (AT_INIT): Use it, to remove arbitrary limit of 999,999 test
2000 cases, and to work around Tru64 expr bug.
2002 2006-03-05 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2004 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Mention Tru64
2005 expr bug that turns the result of a regex match into a number if
2006 possible.
2008 2006-03-04 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2010 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF): Work around
2011 HPUX compiler bug, similarly to AC_CHECK_SIZEOF, as documented
2012 in section `Specific Compiler Characteristics'.
2014 2006-03-04 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
2016 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R): Avoid unused
2017 variable warning.
2019 2006-03-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2021 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADER): Force correct
2022 order of variable initialization, so even the Solaris 2.6 shell
2023 can create a config header correctly. Fixes lots of test suite
2024 failures.
2026 2006-02-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2028 * doc/autoconf.texi (Text processing Macros): New node to
2029 document the m4sugar macros m4_re_escape, m4_tolower,
2030 m4_toupper, m4_split, m4_normalize, m4_append, m4_append_uniq.
2032 2006-02-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2034 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_DIRECT): Fix typo:
2035 XrmInitialize (0) -> XrmInitialize ().
2036 Reported by Toshio Kuratomi.
2038 2006-02-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2040 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_IF): Extend to allow more than one
2041 test, as in `if tests; then cmd1; elif ...; else ...; fi'.
2042 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Adjusted.
2043 * tests/m4sh.at (AS_IF and AS_CASE): Test this. Also make sure
2044 both macros are defun'ed so that required macros are evaluated
2045 outside.
2047 * doc/autoconf.texi (Prerequisite Macros): State more precisely
2048 where a required macro will be expanded.
2049 (Coding Style): Another reason not to use `m4_define'.
2051 2006-02-21 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
2053 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ): Minor optimization.
2055 2006-02-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2057 * doc/autoconf.texi (Looping constructs): New node, to
2058 document m4_for, m4_foreach, m4_foreach_w, and mention
2059 obsolete AC_FOREACH.
2060 (Obsolete Macros): Document AC_FOREACH.
2061 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (_m4_for): Fix declaration comment.
2062 (m4_for): Fix to never loop (almost) endlessly, work correctly
2063 with arithmetic expressions in arguments, a step of zero or
2064 non-integer multiple of the interval, and avoid integer
2065 overflow.
2066 * tests/m4sugar.at: New test for m4_for, m4_foreach, and
2067 m4_foreach_w.
2069 2006-02-20 Romain Lenglet <rlenglet@users.forge.objectweb.org>
2071 Add basic support for Erlang, both for configuring Erlang/OTP
2072 tools, and Erlang as a conf test language.
2073 * lib/autoconf/erlang.m4: New file.
2074 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4: Add erlang.m4.
2075 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am (dist_autoconflib_DATA): Likewise.
2076 * lib/freeze.mk (autoconf_m4f_dependencies): Likewise.
2077 * NEWS: Add short description of new macros.
2078 * THANKS: Add Romain Lenglet.
2080 2006-02-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2082 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology) <pdksh>: Document that pdksh as
2083 native /bin/sh may not set KSH_VERSION (seen on OpenBSD).
2085 2006-02-15 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
2087 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CHECK_DECL): Avoid unused variable
2088 warning.
2090 2006-02-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2092 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_CASE): New macro.
2093 (_AS_CASE): Private helper macro.
2094 * tests/m4sh.at: Basic tests for AS_IF and AS_CASE.
2095 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Document AS_CASE.
2096 Fix syntax of AS_IF description
2097 (Prerequisite Macros): Mention AS_IF and AS_CASE as workarounds
2098 for the AC_REQUIRE mess.
2099 * NEWS: Mention AS_CASE, AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE, and
2100 AS_SHELL_SANITIZE.
2102 2006-02-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2104 * doc/autoconf.texi: Minor style cleanup.
2105 Be consistent about spaces after commas.
2106 Insert [] where empty args look a bit funny.
2107 Fix some "i.e." and "e.g." usages.
2108 Try to avoid "X/Y" usages.
2109 Don't be pedantic about "ISO C99"; just say C99.
2110 Prefer GNU style for spaces in front of parens.
2111 (Function Portability): Comment about C89 versus C99
2112 signed integer division.
2113 (Particular Headers): Use current gnulib style for dirent
2114 includes.
2116 2006-02-14 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2117 and Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2119 * bin/autoupdate.in (handle_autoconf_macros): Fix updating of
2120 macros without parameters.
2121 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4 (AU_ALIAS): Likewise.
2122 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsoleting Macros): Document AU_ALIAS.
2123 * tests/tools.at (autoupdating AU_ALIAS): New test for AU_ALIAS
2124 `$#' bug.
2125 (autoupdate): Updated to match AU_ALIAS fix.
2127 2006-02-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2128 and Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2130 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Document
2131 AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE and AS_SHELL_SANITIZE.
2133 2006-02-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2135 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): Renamed to..
2136 (AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): ..this.
2137 (_AS_RUN, AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Adjusted all callers.
2139 2006-02-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2141 * doc/install.texi (Defining Variables): Tighten up the
2142 CONFIG_SHELL wording.
2144 2006-02-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2145 and Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2147 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): Look at the output
2148 of (set -o) rather than testing whether (set -o posix) succeeds,
2149 to work around a bug in the AIX 5.3 shell. Problem originally
2150 reportd by Howard Chu for libtool.
2152 2006-02-10 J.T. Conklin <jtc@acorntoolworks.com>
2154 * doc/autoconf.texi (Running the Compiler, Running the Linker):
2155 Changes the macro arguments in summaries to match the
2156 descriptions.
2158 2006-02-04 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2160 * doc/install.texi (Defining Variables): Classify the `CONFIG_SHELL'
2161 hint as ``a workaround for a bug.''
2163 2006-01-31 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2165 * bin/autoreconf.in: New option `--no-recursive'.
2166 Improve wording for subpackages a bit.
2167 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Updated.
2168 * NEWS: Updated.
2170 * doc/install.texi (Defining Variables): Put `CONFIG_SHELL'
2171 in environment of `configure', not the command line.
2172 Reported by Howard Chu <hyc@highlandsun.com>.
2174 2006-01-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2176 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Document the
2177 problem with "trap -".
2179 2006-01-23 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@fftw.org>
2181 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS, _AC_FC_DUMMY_MAIN):
2182 (_AC_FC_MAIN, __AC_FC_NAME_MANGLING): Use _AC_LANG in check
2183 messages to differentiate Fortran and Fortran 77 tests.
2184 (AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_FREEFORM): Use AC_LANG_PUSH/POP instead of
2185 AC_LANG_ASSERT, to allow use in mixed-language projects.
2187 2006-01-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2189 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C)): Prefer "defined
2190 FOO" to "defined (FOO)".
2191 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ_ALLOCA): Likewise.
2192 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STAT): Likewise.
2193 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_XENIX_DIR): Likewise.
2194 * tests/tools.at (ifnames): Likewise.
2196 2006-01-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2198 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): Do not pass `-q' to mktemp.
2199 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (mktmpdir): Likewise.
2200 (END): Improve error message a bit.
2201 Reported by Bruce Korb <bkorb@gnu.org>.
2203 2006-01-12 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2205 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Ignore
2206 `-LIST:' and `-LNO:', for PathScale 2.3 compilers.
2208 2006-01-11 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2210 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): On Solaris 8, sys/ptem.h
2211 requires sys/stream.h. Reported by Oliver Kiddle.
2213 2006-01-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2214 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2216 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): When ensuring writability
2217 before the removals of test dirs, use `find' to avoid modification
2218 of symlinked directories.
2220 2006-01-11 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
2222 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN, AC_FC_DUMMY_MAIN):
2223 Don't ignore the macro arguments.
2225 2006-01-11 David Thompson <dthompsn@vizsolutions.com>
2227 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION): Add `exit'
2228 declaration that works for MSVC.
2230 2006-01-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2232 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT_REJECT):
2233 Add `*.map' and `.inf' for Green Hills compiler.
2234 Reported by Stefan Seefeld <stefan@codesourcery.com>.
2236 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_text_wrap): Handle quadrigraphs
2237 correctly: pad with spaces after FIRST_PREFIX if necessary,
2238 and compute string lenghts with `m4_qlen' instead of `m4_len'.
2239 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_HELP_STRING): Comments updated.
2240 * tests/m4sh.at (AS_HELP_STRING): Test extended.
2241 * NEWS: Updated.
2242 Reported by numerous people, numerous times.
2244 2006-01-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2246 * bin/autoconf.as, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in
2247 * bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in:
2248 * lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/status.m4:
2249 * lib/autotest/general.m4, tests/local.at:
2250 Update copyright year to 2006.
2252 * Makefile.maint (sc_root_tests): Use the recommended style s/a/b/ for
2253 sed substitutions.
2254 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Use s|a|b|
2255 for file names, again. Reported by Noah Misch.
2256 (Coding Style): Explain that s|a|b| is preferred for file names.
2257 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE): Prefer s/a/b/.
2258 (AC_OUTPUT_MAKE_DEFS): Likewise.
2259 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
2260 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Likewise.
2261 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE): Likewise.
2263 Fix Posix-conformance bugs re use of { command in sed scripts,
2264 and improve the sed-related documentation a bit.
2265 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Use
2266 our own style advice re 's,a,b,' versus 's|a|b|'. Use "Sed"
2267 rather than "sed" when talking about Sed in general.
2268 (Particular Programs): Likewise.
2269 (Coding Style): y is like s with respect to / and ,.
2270 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Document the weird restrictions
2271 that Posix has about { }. Use better quoting.
2272 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE, _AC_OUTPUT_HEADER):
2273 Rewrite to conform to Posix rules about { } in sed scripts.
2274 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_DIRNAME_SED, AS_BASENAME_SED): Likewise.
2275 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Likewise.
2276 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_PROG & AC_CHECK_PROGS):
2277 Use our own style advice re 's,a,b,' versus 's|a|b|'.
2279 2006-01-05 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2281 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Fix typo.
2283 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Ignore
2284 singly- or doubly-quoted arguments to `-cmdline', `-ignore',
2285 `-def', for the benefit of Portland `pgf90 -Mipa'.
2286 Reported by Christopher Hulbert <cchgroupmail@gmail.com>.
2288 2006-01-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2290 * doc/autoconf.texi: Update copyright (and other) dates to 2006.
2291 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology): Mac OS X 10.2 changed the default
2292 shell from zsh to bash.
2294 2005-12-31 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2296 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_GREP): Use $PATH_SEPARATOR;
2297 ":" caused problems on OS/2-EMX. Suggested by Andrew Belov.
2299 2005-12-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2301 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Warn about unbalanced
2302 parentheses in $(...). Problem reported by Eric Blake.
2304 2005-12-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2306 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools):
2307 Mention which characters can be escaped with \ in portable regular
2308 expressions used in grep, sed, expr. Mention the leading ^ problem
2309 with expr. Clean up some confusing wording. Mention which
2310 grep options are portable.
2312 2005-12-09 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2314 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE): Fix typo in the comment.
2316 2005-12-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2318 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Fix typos in previous
2319 patch, noted by Ralf Wildenhues.
2321 2005-12-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2323 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): Try `set -o
2324 posix' unconditionally, for pdksh in `native sh' emulation.
2326 2005-12-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2328 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology): Document eval $? problem
2329 with ash.
2330 (Limitations of Builtins): Likewise.
2332 2005-11-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2334 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Pass
2335 CONFIG_SHELL in the environment of the configure rerun.
2336 * doc/autoconf.texi (Here-Documents, config.status Invocation):
2337 Suggest passing CONFIG_SHELL absolute, and in the environment
2338 rather than as option.
2340 2005-11-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2342 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE):
2343 Fix quoting of output line (triggered for many AC_SUBST_FILEs).
2344 Fix macro quoting. Fix output for n * 98 substituted variables.
2346 2005-11-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2348 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_MAIN_LOOP): Initialize
2349 `tmp' to avoid file removal race.
2351 2005-11-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2353 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Initialize
2354 ac_clean_files and LIBOBJS.
2356 2005-11-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2358 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_CHECK_PROG, AC_PATH_PROG):
2359 Factor functionality to..
2360 (_AC_CHECK_PROG, _AC_PATH_PROG): these new macros, but only
2361 `AC_SUBST($1)' in the public version.
2362 (AC_CHECK_TOOL, AC_PATH_TOOL, AC_PATH_TARGET_TOOL)
2363 (AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOL): Use internal versions for ac_ct_* and
2364 ac_pt_* variables.
2366 2005-11-01 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2368 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_C_O): Remove the comment about 8+3
2369 filesystems.
2371 2005-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2373 * NEWS: Move AH_HEADER mention to right place.
2375 2005-10-27 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2377 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_C_O): "conftst2" -> "conftest2"
2378 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_C_O): Likewise.
2380 2005-10-25 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2382 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_C_O): rm -f conftst2.*, not only
2383 conftst2.$ac_objext.
2384 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_C_O): Likewise.
2386 2005-10-24 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2388 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_C_O): Use conftst2.o instead of
2389 conftest.o, to see whether the compiler really obeys; rm the object
2390 file before and after the test and register it with ac_clean_files.
2391 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_C_O): Likewise.
2393 2005-10-21 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2395 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE): When determining,
2396 the delimiter CEOF$ac_eof: fix quoting of CEOF[0-9]* and modify the
2397 code so that the most common case requires less forks.
2399 2005-10-20 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2401 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions}: Document that ${10} is
2402 not portable; thanks to Paul Eggert and Alexandre.
2404 * NEWS: Fix an old typo.
2406 2005-10-20 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
2408 * doc/autoconf.texi: Typo: s/feature/features/ in ``the features of
2409 the latter'', in two places.
2411 2005-10-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2413 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generating Sources): AC_LANG_PROGRAMS ->
2414 AC_LANG_PROGRAM, fixing a typo. Don't give details about
2415 the inner workings of AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY.
2416 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_CALL(C)): Reformat to match
2417 AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY. This involves returning the value returned
2418 by the function rather than ignoring it.
2419 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C)): Call the function rather than simply
2420 comparing its address. Intel's interprocedural optimization was
2421 outsmarting the old heuristic. Problem reported by
2422 Mikulas Patocka.
2424 2005-10-19 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2426 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SUBST): Remove an obsolete comment.
2428 2005-10-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2430 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (_m4_map): New macro.
2431 (m4_map, m4_map_sep): Use it. Handle the empty list correctly.
2433 2005-10-04 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2435 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Really make the subtree writable
2436 before removing it (chmod -R u+rwx); there are three instances of this.
2438 2005-10-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2439 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2441 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Balance parentheses.
2442 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): If the test dir already exists,
2443 make its content writable before removing it. Remove an errorneous
2444 comment from the end, where the logs of the failed tests are copied
2445 to the main log file.
2447 2005-09-27 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2449 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Pass --force to autoheader,
2450 in case the computer is too quick. Double quote the configure.ac
2451 snippets.
2453 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF): Always pass --force to prevent
2454 problems if the testsuite were running too fast.
2456 2005-09-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2458 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_DIRECT): Look for X11/Xlib.h
2459 and XrmInitialize rather than X11/Intrinsic.h and XtMalloc
2460 (which belong to Xt, not X itself). See Debian bug 327655.
2461 * NEWS: Mention this.
2463 2005-09-07 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2465 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_SOURCE(C)): Remove an incorrect comment.
2467 2005-09-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2469 * config/move-if-change: Don't output "$2 is unchanged";
2470 suggested by Ben Elliston. Handle weird characters correctly.
2472 2005-09-06 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2474 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (AC_SEARCH_LIBS): Merge the two AC_LINK_IFELSE
2475 calls, so that the final expansion of this macro is shorter.
2476 Create the conftest.$ac_ext outside the `for' loop, to speed the run.
2477 Do not use `break' in the argument to AC_LINK_IFELSE, it would skip
2478 the cleanup there. Use AS_VAR_* macros, to be more general.
2479 * tests/semantics.at (AC_SEARCH_LIBS): Check for the cleanup.
2481 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Use AS_IF where appropriate.
2483 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_IF): Use m4_default.
2485 2005-09-01 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2487 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Headers): Add an index entry
2488 for AH_HEADER.
2490 2005-08-26 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
2492 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_XMKMF): Use shell variable
2493 XMKMF to locate xmkmf. Make XMKMF precious. Export CC when
2494 running xmkmf.
2496 2005-08-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2498 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_VERSION_COMPARE_PREPARE):
2499 The previous patch didn't work, so try a better one.
2501 2005-08-26 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2503 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh) <AS_TR_CPP>: Fix m4 quoting
2504 in the example. Reported by Bruno Haible.
2505 <AS_TR_SH>: Likewise. Also modify the example to be more convincing:
2506 "if $undefined_var;" succeeds with my shell.
2508 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CANONICAL_BUILD, AC_CANONICAL_HOST,
2509 AC_CANONICAL_TARGET): Define by AC_DEFUN, no need to use AC_DEFUN_ONCE;
2510 but change the m4_divert_text to m4_divert_once.
2512 2005-08-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2514 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_VERSION_COMPARE_PREPARE):
2515 Work around bug in Solaris /usr/xpg4/bin/awk.
2516 The bug is present in at least Solaris 8 through 10.
2518 2005-08-24 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2520 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_CANONICAL_SPLIT): Simplify; rejecting
2521 some evil values and relying on the fact that $* concatenates the
2522 parameters by the first character from IFS.
2524 2005-08-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>,
2525 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2527 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_CONFIG_REGISTER_DEST): When the
2528 first header appears, define AH_HEADER.
2529 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Headers): Document AH_HEADER.
2530 Update limitations about when to call AC_CONFIG_HEADERS.
2531 (Configuration Commands): Document that AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE
2532 parameter can call AC_SUBST, AC_DEFINE, or AC_CONFIG_FOOS; explain
2533 that AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE and AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_POST are not
2534 ``Configuration Actions''; fix their index entries.
2536 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Process multiple keywords
2537 options correctly. Process N-M as M-N if M is smaller than N.
2538 Process ranges correctly so that N-N will run only N.
2539 Sort and uniquify the tests that will be run. If there is more
2540 than one test, reinsert the banners for the tests.
2541 * tests/autotest.at (Keywords): Unmark XFAIL.
2543 2005-08-23 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2545 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_DEFINE_Q): Strip the parameter list
2546 before passing the macro name to AH_TEMPLATE.
2548 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): config.status
2549 now opens log after option processing; in particular, --version
2550 and --help do not touch config.log.
2552 * Makefile.maint: Revert the change from 2005-08-12.
2554 2005-08-22 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2556 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_ENABLE, AC_ARG_WITH): Factor out
2557 common code to...
2558 (_AC_ENABLE_IF, _AC_ENABLE_IF_ACTION): ... these new macros.
2560 2005-08-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2562 * doc/autoconf.texi (Using Autotest, testsuite Scripts)
2563 (Autotest Logs, Writing testsuite.at, testsuite Invocation):
2564 Language cleanup.
2566 * doc/autoconf.texi (Defining Symbols, Changed Results):
2567 Prepend to LIBS, not append, in examples.
2569 2005-08-16 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2571 When building in place, set srcdir="."; suggested by Tim Van Holder.
2573 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Do this; to recognize
2574 build in place, we need ac_pwd, and thus have to AC_REQUIRE ...
2575 (_AC_INIT_DIRCHECK): ... this macro and AC_DEFUN both of them.
2576 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCDIRS): Fix a comment: srcdir="."
2577 does not mean "no --srcdir option".
2579 2005-08-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2581 * tests/autoscan.at (autoscan): New file.
2582 * tests/suite.at: Use it.
2583 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTSUITE_HAND_AT): Add it.
2584 Reported against Libtool by Gideon Go <gideon.go@gmail.com>.
2586 * tests/autotest.at (Keywords): Test keywords combinations.
2588 2005-08-12 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2590 * Makefile.maint (GZIP_ENV): When checking the help text of gzip,
2591 add "2>&1"; gzip 1.2.4 prints help on stderr.
2593 2005-07-27 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2595 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_DECIDE_TRACEABLE): The symbol at_reason
2596 was pushdef'ed twice while popped only once. Push it only once.
2597 (_AT_CHECK): Cosmetic changes to the "case $at_status" command.
2599 2005-07-26 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2601 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): The message is now
2602 prefixed by mere "===", not "configure: === ".
2604 2005-07-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2606 * Makefile.maint: Update from Bison.
2608 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_strip): Comment fix---change tab to
2609 "<tab>" in comment, so that the point is understandable.
2611 2005-07-25 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2613 Rewrite substantial part of lib/autoconf/status.m4.
2614 The main change is that CONFIG_FILES, CONFIG_HEADERS, CONFIG_LINKS,
2615 and CONFIG_COMMANDS are not processed in four separate loops.
2616 Instead, there is one main loop. This alows that the common code
2617 is expanded only once, thus config.status (and configure) is smaller.
2619 The registration mechnism in AC_CONFIG_FILES and cousins also changed;
2620 the AC_LIST_FILES and cousins macros are no longer used.
2622 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES, _AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS,
2623 _AC_OUTPUT_LINKS, _AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS): Renamed to ...
2624 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILE, _AC_OUTPUT_HEADER, _AC_OUTPUT_LINK,
2625 _AC_OUTPUT_COMMAND): ..., respectively. These macros no longer
2626 contain the initialization, nor the for loop, nor the associated
2627 commands; all these go to ...
2628 (_AC_OUTPUT_MAIN_LOOP): ... this new macro, called from
2629 _AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS.
2630 (_AC_CONFIG_SPLIT, _AC_CONFIG_SPLIT_SOURCE_DEST, _AC_CONFIG_SPLIT_FILE_IN):
2631 Nuked; the code was merged into _AC_OUTPUT_MAIN_LOOP.
2632 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILE): The creation of the sed script ...
2633 (AC_OUTPUT): ... and the setup of ac_vpsub goes to ...
2634 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE): ... a new macro, also called from
2635 _AC_OUTPUT_MAIN_LOOP.
2636 (_AC_CONFIG_FILES, _AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, _AC_CONFIG_LINKS,
2637 _AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS): Use ...
2638 (_AC_CONFIG_FOOS): ... this new macro, which uses these ...
2639 (_AC_CONFIG_REGISTER, _AC_CONFIG_REGISTER_DEST): ... new macros.
2640 (_AC_CONFIG_FILE, _AC_CONFIG_HEADER, _AC_CONFIG_LINK,
2641 _AC_CONFIG_COMMAND, _AC_CONFIG_DEPENDENCIES): No longer needed.
2642 (_AC_CONFIG_DEPENDENCY): Update, it uses these ...
2643 (_AC_CONFIG_DEPENDENCY_DEFAULT, _AC_FILE_DEPENDENCY_TRACE_COLON):
2644 ... new macros.
2645 (_AC_CONFIG_UNIQUE): Update.
2646 (AC_LIST_FILES, AC_LIST_HEADERS, AC_LIST_LINKS, AC_LIST_COMMANDS):
2647 Replaced by this ...
2648 (_AC_LIST_TAGS): ... new common macro.
2649 (AC_LIST_FILE_COMMANDS, AC_LIST_HEADER_COMMANDS, AC_LIST_LINK_COMMANDS,
2650 AC_LIST_COMMAND_COMMANDS): Replaced by this ...
2651 (_AC_LIST_TAG_COMMANDS): ... new common macro.
2652 (_AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_INIT): Moved top to the `registration' section;
2653 this didn't belong to the `config commands' section.
2654 (_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_INIT): Don't initialize, m4_ifdef is our friend.
2655 (AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE, AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_PRE,
2656 AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_POST): Moved to a new section, these didn't belong
2657 to the `config commands' section either.
2658 (AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS): Don't touch diversion DEFAULTS.
2659 (_AC_LIST_SUBDIRS): Don't initialize, m4_ifdef is our friend.
2661 ... and many changes to the comments nearby.
2663 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): At the end of the day,
2664 set ac_subdirs_all='_AC_LIST_SUBDIRS'.
2665 * tests/torture.at (AC_CONFIG_FILES, HEADERS, LINKS and COMMANDS):
2666 AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS(command:input,...) is no longer allowed.
2667 (#define header templates): The comment at the top of the generated
2668 header now includes the name(s) of the source file(s).
2670 Several unrelated small changes:
2672 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CACHE_VAL): Be didactic, quote the first
2673 parameter to AC_DIAGNOSE.
2674 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS): Likewise.
2675 (_AC_LINK_FILES_CNT): Don't AU_DEFUN this; it causes confusing messages
2676 with autoupdate; use m4_define_default inside AU_DEFUNed AC_LINK_FILES.
2677 (AC_OUTPUT): In the compatibility code, use m4_ifvaln, to be consistent
2678 with AU::AC_OUTPUT.
2679 (AU::AC_OUTPUT): Don't double-quote $2 and $3, the compatibility code
2680 in AC_OUTPUT doesn't double-quote it either.
2681 * tests/tools.at (autoupdate): AU::AC_OUTPUT no longer double-quotes the
2682 parameters.
2684 2005-07-10 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2686 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): Document which
2687 versions of Portland Group compiler produce single- and double-quoted
2688 -cmdline argument. Reported by Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@fftw.org>
2689 and Ole Holm Nielsen <Ole.H.Nielsen@fysik.dtu.dk>.
2691 2005-07-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2693 * tests/local.at (AT_CONFIG_CMP): Ignore lines like "LIBS=''" too.
2694 This is a corrected version of yesterday's patch.
2696 2005-07-07 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2698 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Report the full
2699 path, too; insert a "===" to emphasize the line.
2701 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CANONICAL_BUILD): Rename
2702 ac_cv_build_alias to ac_build_alias.
2703 (AC_CANONICAL_HOST, AC_CANONICAL_TARGET): Simplify.
2705 On 2005-02-24, an unintentional AC_SUBST([CC]) was introduced; this
2706 change eliminates it. Problem reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
2707 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_PRECIOUS): Move the AC_SUBST ...
2708 (AC_ARG_VAR): ... here.
2709 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Call AC_SUBST for build_alias, host_alias and
2710 target_alias.
2712 Keep a list of all precious variables and process them with one simple
2713 for loop, instead of expanding all commands, or, OTOH, complicated
2714 processing of output of "set".
2715 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_PRECIOUS): Acumulate the
2716 variable names in new macro...
2717 (_AC_PRECIOUS_VARS): ... which will be assigned to ac_precious_vars.
2718 (_AC_ARG_VAR_STORE): New macro which writes to diversion PARSE_ARGS
2719 a loop to assign all ac_env_* and ac_cv_env_* variables.
2720 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Use shell variable ac_precious_vars, divert
2721 to INIT_PREPARE.
2722 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): At the end, if _AC_PRECIOUS_VARS is set, assign
2723 its value to shell variable ac_precious_vars and call
2724 _AC_ARG_VAR_STORE and _AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE.
2725 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Don't call
2726 _AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE.
2728 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Move AC_LANG_PUSH(C)
2729 and the AC_SUBSTs ...
2730 (AC_INIT): ... here.
2732 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Changed the title of
2733 the ac_subst_files section in config.log.
2735 * tests/local.at (AT_CONFIG_CMP): Revert Paul's previous change.
2737 2005-07-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2739 * NEWS: New macro AC_C_TYPEOF.
2740 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Document AC_C_TYPEOF.
2741 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_TYPEOF): New macro.
2742 * tests/c.at (C keywords): Test AC_C_TYPEOF.
2744 Fix problems reported by Nicolas Joly.
2745 * tests/base.at (Input/Output): Ignore 'loading site script' chatter.
2746 * tests/local.at (AT_CONFIG_CMP): Ignore lines like "LIBS=''" too.
2747 They are generated by the Tru64 v5.1B shell.
2749 2005-07-05 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2751 Fix my changes from 2005-07-01; reported by Noah Misch.
2752 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_CONFIG_DEPENDENCIES): Fix the
2753 description, the macro now accepts only a single tag.
2754 (_AC_CONFIG_UNIQUE): Likewise; s/AC_File/[$1]/
2756 Fix cases when the varsions of Autoconf and Autotest don't match.
2757 Reported by Noah Misch.
2758 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Set also
2759 at_top_builddir, for compatibility with older autotest.
2760 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): If at_top_build_prefix
2761 is not set, use at_top_builddir, for compatibility with older
2762 versions of autoconf.
2764 2005-07-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2766 * bin/autom4te.in ($m4): Catch usages like --nesting-limit=2048.
2767 Problem reported by Patrick Welche.
2769 2005-07-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2771 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_PROGRAM): Use &, not |, in
2772 sed substitution command, so that we allow | in program prefixes
2773 and program suffixes. (& is a problem anyway; we're not fixing
2774 that here.)
2775 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_CONFIG_FILES): Likewise, for
2776 configure_input, top_builddir, srcdir, etc.
2777 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise, for
2778 PATH_SEPARATOR in AUTOTEST_PATH.
2780 2005-07-02 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
2782 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SITE_LOAD): Rewrite the
2783 for loop over config.site files using `set', to allow
2784 directory names containing IFS characters.
2786 2005-07-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2788 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DIRCHECK): Remove the tests for
2789 directories with weird names. Apparently some people like living
2790 on the edge. However, improve the test that "pwd" actually does
2791 report a name for the working directory.
2792 * NEWS: Remove the claim that we test for funny chars in dir names.
2794 2005-07-01 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2796 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_FOREACH): Make obsolete; it's
2797 replaced ...
2798 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_foreach_w): ... by this new macro.
2799 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_CONFIG_DEPENDENCIES, _AC_CONFIG_UNIQUE):
2800 Now accept a single tag, not whitespace separated list.
2801 (AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS): Call _AC_CONFIG_UNIQUE in a m4_foreach_w loop.
2803 2005-06-30 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2805 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Headers): Change the explanation
2806 about #include <config.h>.
2807 (Generic Functions): Mention the Gnulib project.
2808 (Limitations of Usual Tools) <sed>: Another minor rephrasing.
2810 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Use a here
2811 document to output the default config_* lists to config.status.
2812 Don't recognize option --file, if the functionality is not there.
2813 Likewise for --header; moreover, recognize --he and --h as shortcuts
2814 for --help in that case.
2816 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Fix the order of the "sections", so that it
2817 matches the order of execution. No code changed.
2819 2005-06-30 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2821 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): Fix also for
2822 single-quoted -cmdline argument in Portland Group compiler.
2823 Reported against LAM by Ole Holm Nielsen <Ole.H.Nielsen@fysik.dtu.dk>.
2825 2005-06-30 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
2827 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect AC_SUBST_TRACE.
2829 2005-06-29 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2831 * doc/autoconf.texi (File Descriptors): ksh doesn't pass open file
2832 descriptors to child processes; reported by Norman Gray.
2834 2005-06-29 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2836 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_VAR): Move next to _AC_ARG_PRECIOUS.
2838 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SUBST_TRACE): New macro, to be traced
2839 instead of AC_SUBST; proposed by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
2840 (AC_SUBST): Call it.
2841 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Call AC_SUBST_TRACE for
2842 the directory specific variables; but don't call it for configure_input.
2844 2005-06-28 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
2846 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <sed>: Reword recent
2847 addition.
2849 2005-06-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2851 * NEWS: Don't worry about spaces in bindir etc. Only srcdir and working
2852 directory have inherent problems with special characters like spaces,
2853 due to limitations in Make syntax. Problem reported by Alexandre
2854 Duret-Lutz.
2855 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DIRCHECK): Implement the above.
2856 Also, fix Tru64 porting problem with shell patterns,
2857 reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
2859 2005-06-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2861 * doc/autoconf.texi (Subdirectories): Fix markup typos.
2863 2005-06-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2865 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_ENV): Simplify regexp slightly.
2867 Fix some more shell quoting problems. Prompted by a bug report
2868 from Justace Clutter.
2869 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DIRCHECK): Put name of invalid
2870 variable into diagnostic. Make the diagnostic an error, not a warning,
2871 because we really don't support spaces and suchlike in dir names.
2872 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Allow special characters in $ac_unique_file.
2873 Don't worry about backslashes in srcdir; it can't happen now.
2874 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Allow weird characters in ac_optarg.
2875 Simplify ac_optarg handling.
2876 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Remove unnecessary and inconsistent quotes.
2878 2005-06-22 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2880 Fix AT_CONFIG_CMP for Solaris hosts; idea from Ralf Menzel.
2881 * configure.ac: Call AC_PROG_EGREP and AC_PROG_SED.
2882 * tests/atlocal.in: Propagate $EGREP and $SED.
2883 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_ENV): Use $EGREP, not $GREP -E.
2884 (AT_CONFIG_CMP): Use sed instead of grep plumbing.
2886 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <grep>: Mention
2887 that '\|' is not allowed in BREs; recommend using newline separated
2888 list of patterns instead of multiple -e options.
2890 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): Remove an old comment.
2892 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_CANONICAL_SPLIT): Use AC_SUBST/2.
2894 2005-06-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2896 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_CANONICAL_SPLIT): Fix typo.
2898 2005-06-21 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
2900 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <sed>: Document that
2901 b, t, r, w commands require single space, while : cannot have any.
2902 (Special Shell Variables): Fix sed code this in the example.
2903 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): Likewise; and fix a typo.
2904 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_ARG_OPTION): Fix typo in the description.
2906 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_split): If the parameter is empty,
2907 expand to the empty list. Don't use two pairs of m4_changequote,
2908 it's not necessary.
2910 2005-06-20 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
2912 * lib/m4/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_YACC): Declare YACC & YFLAGS precious.
2914 2005-06-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2916 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (as_awk_strverscmp): Port to Solaris /bin/awk.
2917 * doc/autoconf.texi:
2918 Don't mention Solaris versions so much, if a
2919 problem is common to all extant versions of Solaris. Say "SunOS
2920 4" instead of "SunOS" for SunOS 4.
2921 (awk): Mention more of the limitations of traditional Awk.
2922 (cat): Don't talk about cat -v.
2924 2005-06-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2926 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_VERSION_COMPARE_PREPARE): New macro.
2927 (AS_VERSION_COMPARE): New macro. The API is taken from CVS,
2928 but the implementation is entirely different and is designed
2929 to be compatible with glibc strverscmp.
2930 * tests/m4sh.at (AS_VERSION_COMPARE): New test.
2932 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Mention expr bug
2933 on Mac OS X 10.4 reported by Peter O'Gorman in:
2934 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2005-06/msg00041.html
2935 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_CANONICAL_SPLIT):
2936 Use shell builtins rather than 'expr', to work around expr bug.
2938 2005-06-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2940 * doc/autoconf.texi: "filesystem" -> "file system".
2941 "behaviour" -> "behavior".
2942 Warn about \(...\)* in Solaris sed (written by Ralf Menzel).
2943 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Omit blank after ":" sed command,
2944 as per POSIX.
2945 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Likewise.
2946 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): Work around problem
2947 with Solaris sed. Fix by Ralf Menzel and Stepan Kasal.
2949 * man/Makefile.am (MOSTLYCLEANFILES): Add $(srcdir)/*.t.
2950 (.x.1): Ignore the time stamp in the .TH line when deciding whether
2951 to update the man page. That way, we don't have to check in new
2952 man pages every month.
2954 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_VAR_TEST_SET): Work even if $1 contains
2955 quotes and backslashes. Patch from Derek Price.
2957 2005-06-10 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
2959 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Document AS_TR_CPP &
2960 AS_TR_SH.
2962 2005-06-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2964 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't accept Solaris 9's diff
2965 -u, since it outputs chatter if the input files are the same.
2966 Problem reported by Ralf Menzel.
2968 2005-06-08 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
2970 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: Undefine include & sinclude rather than
2971 renaming them since they are about to be redefined anyhow.
2973 2005-06-08 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
2975 * doc/autoconf.texi (Redefined M4 Macros): Add index entries for most
2976 redefined M4 macros to this node. Document m4_include & m4_sinclude.
2977 Move m4_undefine to alphabetical order.
2979 2005-06-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2981 * README: Recommend GNU M4 1.4.3 or later.
2982 * doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction): Likewise.
2983 Reword to avoid some formatting glitches.
2984 Use "#!/bin/sh", not "#! /bin/sh"; the space isn't needed these days.
2985 Clarify explanation of HP compiler bug.
2986 Redo example output tp match current CVS snapshot.
2987 Use @example.org in email addresses when the examples
2988 might get inadvertently cut-and-pasted into user code.
2989 Remove example of autom4te usage that doesn't seem to work now.
2990 Use modern AC_INIT (except when the example is meant to be
2991 shown with Autoconf 2.13).
2992 Update ksh info for Solaris 9 and later.
2993 KB -> kB.
2994 Modernize description of Automake versions a bit.
2995 Don't claim a future version of Autoconf is near.
2996 * doc/install.texi: Reword to avoid some formatting glitches.
2998 2005-06-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3000 * doc/autoconf.texi: Add [] to examples, so that the manual
3001 follows its own advice about quoting better.
3002 Reword to avoid some formatting glitches.
3003 * doc/installt.exi: Reword to avoid some formatting glitches.
3005 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins) <case>: Mention
3006 Tru64 ksh pattern matching bug. Reported against Libtool by
3007 Albert Chin <libtool@mlists.thewrittenword.com> and
3008 Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>.
3010 2005-06-06 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3012 m4_cdr of one-member list was [[]] (one-member list containing an
3013 empty string) instead of [] (an empty list. Callers were skewed to
3014 match this misbehaviour. As a consequence of this:
3015 - m4_foreach([x], [], [foo]) expanded to `foo', while
3016 - the expansion of m4_foreach([x], [[]], [foo]) was empty.
3017 This bug has been fixed:
3019 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_cdr): If only one argument is given,
3020 expand to an empty string; print error msg if called without
3021 an argument list.
3022 (m4_foreach, m4_map, m4_map_sep): Don't expect the previous
3023 misbehaviour; handle [] and [[]] correctly.
3025 2005-06-06 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3027 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Nuke ac_max_here_lines.
3028 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): Simplify the sed
3029 scripts created and the loop applying them, use _AC_SED_CMD_LIMIT.
3031 2005-06-06 Ralf Menzel <menzel@ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (trivial change)
3033 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Solaris' awk cannot
3034 swallow records with more than 99 fields.
3035 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Use the awk builtin `split' to
3036 parse the long line.
3038 2005-06-04 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3040 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): AIX awk cannot
3041 swallow literals longer than 399. Reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
3042 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Pass $at_groups though stdin,
3043 to workaround this limitation.
3045 2005-06-03 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
3047 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Find g95 in addition
3048 to gfortran, and make these the first two compiler names
3049 checked (following the general autoconf preference for gcc).
3051 2005-06-03 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3053 * tests/Makefile.am (check_SCRIPTS): Set to $(wrappers).
3054 (DISTCLEANFILES): Remove $(check_SCRIPTS).
3055 (testsuite): Make sure autotest.m4f is up-to-date before using it.
3057 2005-06-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3059 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't create a regular
3060 expression of unbounded size when processing the --list
3061 option. This runs afoul of a limit of 399 bytes per regular
3062 expression on AIX. Problem reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
3064 2005-06-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3066 * NEWS: Note yesterday's changes to AC_SUBST and AC_SUBST_FILE.
3067 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Reword example
3068 for multiline stdbool replacement.
3069 (Setting Output Variables): Reword text a bit. Don't
3070 give all the details about |#_!!_#|.
3071 Reword description of line replacement.
3073 2005-05-31 Dan Manthey <dan_manthey@partech.com>
3075 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Output variables may
3076 now contain newlines, and substituted files must be referenced on
3077 a line alone; the sed scripts to substitute them are now very
3078 different.
3079 (_AC_SED_CMD_LIMIT): Added; single place to store limit on how many
3080 commands can be put in a sed script portably.
3081 * doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Document above
3082 changes. (Particular Header Checks) <AC_HEADER_STDBOOL>: Give exaple
3083 use of multiline substitution.
3084 * tests/torture.at: No longer expect substitution of newline to fail.
3086 2005-05-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3088 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_SHELL_FN_WORK): Fix diagnostics.
3089 From Ralf Menzel (trivial change).
3091 2005-05-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3093 * tests/local.at: Don't attempt to check for negated character
3094 classes in shell scripts. The test was too brittle.
3096 2005-05-25 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3098 * bin/autoconf.as: Don't use "shift 2"; it's not portable enough.
3099 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Document this
3100 limitation.
3102 2005-05-24 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3104 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_ECHO_LOG): New macro to factor out
3105 common code; used in many places in the tree.
3106 (AS_ESCAPE): Make the pattern a bit simpler; use \& insetad of \1.
3107 (_AS_ECHO_UNQUOTED): Move the macro lower; no code change.
3109 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_ifset): Use m4_ifval.
3111 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Merge the two error
3112 messages when ac_unique_file is not found.
3113 (AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR): Simplify the `if' at the end.
3114 (AC_MSG_CHECKING, AC_MSG_RESULT): Put braces around the two echo
3115 commands, for consistency with AC_MSG_ERROR and such.
3117 * bin/autoconf.as: Make more use of "shift 2" in option processing.
3119 * bin/Makefile.am: Merge the two rules for creating scripts.
3121 2005-05-23 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3123 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_MSG_RESULT_UNQUOTED): Make
3124 obsolete; it was never documented.
3125 (AC_CACHE_CHECK): Use AC_MSG_RESULT instead.
3127 2005-05-20 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3129 * NEWS: @top_builddir@ is now a dirname, ac_top_builddir will follow.
3130 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCDIRS): Rename ...
3131 (ac_top_builddir): ... this ...
3132 (ac_top_build_prefix): ... to this; the old name is also kept, for
3133 backward compatibility.
3134 (ac_top_builddir_sub): New variable, without the trailing slash,
3135 always nonempty.
3136 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): s/@top_builddir@/$ac_top_builddir_sub/
3137 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Actions): Rename
3138 ac_top_builddir to ac_top_build_prefix.
3139 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Rename
3140 at_top_builddir to at_top_build_prefix.
3141 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
3143 2005-05-20 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3145 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Simplify the init
3146 of confdefs.h .
3148 2005-05-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3150 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_text_wrap): Don't m4_quote the second
3151 argument to m4_foreach. I guess it was necessary in the past,
3152 but I think it's a no-op now.
3154 2005-05-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3156 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Merge two consecutive
3157 ``cat <<_ACEOF'' commands to one.
3158 (_AC_CANONICAL_SPLIT): Use expr, not ``echo|sed.''
3159 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: On various places, use expr instead of
3160 ``echo|sed.''
3161 (_AC_CONFIG_SPLIT, _AC_CONFIG_SPLIT_SOURCE_DEST):
3162 (_AC_CONFIG_SPLIT_FILE_IN): New macros, to factor out common code.
3163 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Use expr to get the numbers from
3164 a range.
3165 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_SHELL_SYNTAX): Use awk to search for
3166 the wrong patterns between ``case'' and ``esac.'' The previous
3167 code had false positives.
3169 2005-05-14 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
3171 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ_ALLOCA): Prepend ${LIBOBJDIR},
3172 as on 2005-05-02.
3173 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions) <AC_FUNC_ALLOCA>:
3174 Mention LIBOBJDIR.
3176 2005-05-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3178 * AUTHORS, BUGS, COPYING, ChangeLog, ChangeLog.0, ChangeLog.1,
3179 ChangeLog.2, GNUmakefile, HACKING, Makefile.am, Makefile.cfg,
3180 Makefile.maint, NEWS, README, README-alpha, TODO, configure.ac,
3181 bin/Makefile.am, bin/autoconf.as, bin/autoheader.in,
3182 bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoscan.in,
3183 bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in, config/Makefile.am,
3184 config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/elisp-comp,
3185 config/m4.m4, config/mdate-sh, config/missing, config/texinfo.tex,
3186 doc/Makefile.am, doc/fdl.texi, lib/Makefile.am, lib/autom4te.in,
3187 lib/freeze.mk, lib/Autom4te/C4che.pm, lib/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm,
3188 lib/Autom4te/Channels.pm, lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm,
3189 lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm, lib/Autom4te/General.pm,
3190 lib/Autom4te/Request.pm, lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm,
3191 lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am,
3192 lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4,
3193 lib/autoconf/autoscan.m4, lib/autoconf/autotest.m4,
3194 lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4, lib/autoconf/c.m4,
3195 lib/autoconf/fortran.m4, lib/autoconf/functions.m4,
3196 lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/headers.m4,
3197 lib/autoconf/lang.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4,
3198 lib/autoconf/oldnames.m4, lib/autoconf/programs.m4,
3199 lib/autoconf/specific.m4, lib/autoconf/status.m4,
3200 lib/autoconf/types.m4, lib/autoscan/Makefile.am,
3201 lib/autoscan/autoscan.list, lib/autoscan/autoscan.pre,
3202 lib/autotest/Makefile.am, lib/autotest/autotest.m4,
3203 lib/autotest/general.m4, lib/emacs/Makefile.am,
3204 lib/emacs/autoconf-mode.el, lib/emacs/autotest-mode.el,
3205 lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am, lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4,
3206 lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4, man/Makefile.am, tests/Makefile.am,
3207 tests/atlocal.in, tests/autotest.at, tests/base.at, tests/c.at,
3208 tests/compile.at, tests/foreign.at, tests/fortran.at,
3209 tests/local.at, tests/m4sh.at, tests/m4sugar.at, tests/mktests.sh,
3210 tests/semantics.at, tests/suite.at, tests/tools.at,
3211 tests/torture.at, tests/wrapper.as:
3212 Update FSF postal mail address.
3214 2005-05-13 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3216 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR): Remove the broken
3217 check.
3218 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_bmatch): Halt with error if we don't get
3219 enough arguments, similarly as in m4_bpatsubsts.
3221 2005-05-12 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3223 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCDIRS): Simplify the computation
3224 of absolute paths.
3226 2005-05-11 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3228 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Make the check
3229 for absolute directory names in one loop.
3230 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Handle
3231 abbreviations of --version and --debug.
3233 2005-05-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3235 * doc/autoconf.texi (Autoconf Language): Be more precise about
3236 quoting rules. Problems noted by Stepan Kasal.
3237 Also, throughout this document, be more careful about white space.
3238 "blank", "white space", and "space" all have different meanings
3239 and we should be careful to say what we mean.
3241 2005-05-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3243 Fix C++ related problems reported by Werner Lemberg.
3244 * doc/autoconf.texi (C++ Compiler): Mention .cpp extension.
3245 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG(C++)): Set ac_ext to .cpp, not .cc.
3246 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_TYPE_SIGNAL): Simplify test, to
3247 avoid problems with C++ and throw.
3248 * tests/compile.at: .cpp, not .cc.
3250 * tests/semantics.at: Prepend LIBOBJDIR, as per 2005-05-02 change.
3252 2005-05-05 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3254 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Functions): Typos.
3256 2005-05-02 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
3258 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJS_NORMALIZE): Prepend each
3259 object named in LIBOBJS and LTLIBOBJS with the ${LIBOBJDIR}, as
3260 set by latest automake.
3262 2005-05-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3264 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): "expr '' \| ''"
3265 outputs 0 on GNU/Linux these days.
3267 2005-04-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3269 * doc/autoconf.texi (Autoconf Language): Add more description
3270 about quoting heuristics.
3271 (Limitations of Builtins): Describe "set -" problems.
3273 2005-04-29 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3275 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_KEYWORDS): Separate by space,
3276 not newline.
3278 * doc/autoconf.texi (External Software): Replace AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED
3279 by AC_DEFINE; it was a mistake.
3280 From bug reported against libtool by Dalibor Topic <robilad@kaffe.org>.
3282 2005-04-25 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3284 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): A tiny optimization.
3286 2005-04-22 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3288 * doc/autoconf.texi (External Software): Quadrigraphs are not
3289 processed correctly in AS_HELP_STRING; avoid this in the examples.
3290 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_HELP_STRING): Add a FIXME about quadrigraphs.
3291 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_text_wrap): Likewise; and rephrase the
3292 comment and reduce m4_default([foo], []) to [foo].
3293 (m4_strip): Update the explanation.
3295 2005-04-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3297 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE, _AC_RUN_IFELSE):
3298 Remove core.conftest.* too; it's generated by Tru64 5.1.
3299 Problem reported by Jennis Pruett.
3300 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4
3301 (AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED, AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL):
3302 Don't bother to remove core files; AC_RUN_IFELSE should do that
3303 for you.
3305 2005-04-19 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3307 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_bpatsubsts): Add the b- to comment, too.
3309 2005-04-19 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
3311 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Handle --docdir.
3312 Report from Horst Wente.
3314 2005-04-15 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3316 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Fixed a typo in
3317 the comment.
3319 2005-04-14 Gregorio Guidi <greg_g@gentoo.org>
3321 * doc/autoconf.texi (External Software, Package Options): Add
3322 examples showing how to implement --with-* and --enable-* options.
3324 2005-04-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3326 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Look for configure.ac
3327 as well as configure.in. Problem reported by Gregorio Guidi.
3329 2005-04-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3331 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Use gnulib's current
3332 pattern for alloca snippet.
3334 2005-04-04 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3336 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_DECIDE_TRACEABLE): Fix a typo.
3338 2005-04-01 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3340 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Programs): Fix a typo.
3342 2005-04-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3344 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't assume that "date +%s"
3345 fails if %s isn't supported. Problem reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
3347 2005-03-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3349 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS):
3350 Merge `-z option' as well for the benefit of Solaris link flags. Pass
3351 whole-archive (-zallextract, -zdefaultextract) options in the hope of
3352 unique libraries, for the Sun Fortran 95 8.0 compiler. Bug reported
3353 against Libtool by Yury Puhalsky <pooh@cryptopro.ru>.
3355 2005-03-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3357 * NEWS: The configure command now warns you if you attempt to use
3358 a directory whose name contains a special character like space,
3359 newline, or "\".
3360 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Allow
3361 "," in file names. Do not use \@; it's not a portable regexp.
3362 * bin/Makefile.am (edit): Likewise.
3363 * lib/Makefile.am (edit): Likewise.
3364 * tests/Makefile.am (edit): Likewise.
3365 * tests/semantics.at: Likewise.
3366 * tests/torture.at: Likewise.
3367 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_PROGRAM): Likewise.
3368 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCDIRS): Likewise.
3369 * doc/autoconf.texi (File System Conventions): Warn about
3370 unportable file names.
3371 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DIRCHECK): New macro.
3372 (AC_INIT): Use it.
3373 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Use ac_pwd rather than invoking pwd.
3374 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Propagate
3375 ac_pwd, and quote srcdir.
3376 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Quote file name args.
3378 * doc/autoconf.texi: Fix some systematic formatting problems.
3379 ".)" needs a following @: if not at the end of a sentence, and
3380 similarly for "!)". "etc." should be preceded by a comma.
3381 "n-th" -> "@var{n}th". pdksh is still buggy, so update its date.
3383 2005-03-22 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
3385 * doc/autoconf.texi (Input): Mention that AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR's
3386 argument is often called 'build-aux'.
3388 2005-03-07 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3390 * doc/autoconf.texi (Quotation Rule Of Thumb): Mention that the
3391 macro AC_TRY_LINK is obsolete.
3392 (Installation Directory Variables): Change `AC_OUTPUT_FILES' to
3393 `AC_CONFIG_FILES'.
3395 2005-02-24 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3397 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC): Be more careful to skip
3398 `/usr/ucb/cc'; use `cl.exe' to distinguish the MS compiler
3399 from a Common Lisp's `cl'.
3400 (AC_PROG_CXX): Behave according to the documentation: don't
3401 search for $ac_tool_prefix$CCC and $CCC, just set CXX=$CCC;
3402 make the variable CCC precious; use `cl.exe', not `cl'.
3404 2005-02-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3405 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
3407 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Redirect stdin from
3408 /dev/null, as "configure" shouldn't read stdin, and this insulates
3409 us from problems (e.g., when testing for "cl"). Also, do this
3410 redirection before invoking "hostname" or "uname", and keep the
3411 original input stream available via...
3412 (AS_ORIGINAL_STDIN_FD): ... this new macro.
3413 (_AC_PREPROC_IFELSE, _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, _AC_LINK_IFELSE): Don't
3414 bother with "</dev/null" since it's now done at the top of
3415 'configure'.
3416 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX): Likewise.
3417 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Likewise.
3418 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FLAVOR_GNU): Likewise.
3419 * doc/autoconf.texi (File Descriptor Macros): New section.
3420 (Printing Messages): Mention it.
3421 * tests/base.at (Input/Output): New test.
3423 2005-02-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3425 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_ECHO_N_PREPARE): Don't set ECHO_C to
3426 newline if neither \c nor -n work, as that would output two
3427 newlines. Prefer -n to \c. Reported by Stepan Kasal.
3429 2005-02-12 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3431 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_IF): Define by m4_defun, not m4_define.
3432 This causes that any required macros inside will get before the if.
3433 * doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te.cache): A typo.
3435 2005-02-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3437 Undo previous change, except keep the change to
3438 lib/autoconf/programs.m4 that replaced grep with shell
3439 pattern-matching. This is because net-snmp configure reads stdin.
3440 Reported by Noah Misch.
3442 2005-02-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3444 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Redirect stdin
3445 from /dev/null, as "configure" shouldn't read stdin, and this
3446 insulates us from problems (e.g., when testing for "cl").
3447 Suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz. Also, do this redirection
3448 before invoking "hostname" or "uname".
3449 (_AC_PREPROC_IFELSE, _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE,
3450 _AC_LINK_IFELSE): Undo previous change, as it's no longer needed.
3451 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX): Don't bother with
3452 "</dev/null" since it's now done at the top of 'configure'.
3453 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Likewise.
3454 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FLAVOR_GNU): Likewise.
3455 Also, replace grep with shell pattern-matching, to save a process.
3457 2005-02-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3459 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_PREPROC_IFELSE, _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE,
3460 _AC_LINK_IFELSE): Redirect stdin to /dev/null, in an attempt to
3461 avoid thinking that Allegro Common Lisp's "cl" command is a C++
3462 compiler.
3464 2005-02-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3466 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Document that
3467 grep -q isn't portable. Improve grep -s explanation.
3468 Problem reported by Dan Manthey.
3470 2005-02-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3472 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Clarify
3473 PATH_SEPARATOR wording; fix typo in IFS. Reported by Gary V. Vaughan.
3475 2005-02-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3477 * doc/autoconf.texi: Use @acronym for DJGPP.
3478 Fix some @code's that should have been @env's, and vice versa.
3479 Sort environment variable names.
3480 Mention that shells no longer inherit IFS.
3481 Don't recommend PATH_SEPARATOR=';' so strongly.
3482 Mention that $RANDOM might expand to the empty string.
3483 "symlink" and "soft link" -> "symbolic link".
3484 Improve mktemp description (reported by Bruno Haible).
3486 2005-02-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3488 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Don't overquote AT_SETUP arg.
3489 * tests/m4sh.at (AS_DIRNAME, AS_BASENAME, AS_MKDIR_P, AS_HELP_STRING):
3490 Likewise.
3491 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN, AC_PATH_PROG & AC_PATH_PROGS):
3492 Likewise.
3494 2005-02-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3496 * NEWS: Mention AT_COPYRIGHT.
3498 * tests/local.at (AT_CMP): Use diff directly on input files rather
3499 than copying them.
3501 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_SED): Don't look in
3502 /usr/xpg4/bin since that sed dumps core (at least on Solaris 8).
3504 2005-02-04 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
3505 and Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3507 * tests/autotest.at (Empty test suite): New test.
3508 * tests/torture.at (Substitute and define special characters)
3509 (Substitute a 2000-byte string, Define to a 2000-byte string)
3510 (Substitute a newline, Define a newline): New tests.
3512 2005-02-04 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
3514 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_re_string, m4_re_word): Revert 2002-03-04.
3515 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR): Add `m4sugar' to keywords.
3516 (AT_CHECK_ENV): Ignore LTLIBOBJS, FC variables, EGREP, FGREP, and SED.
3517 * tests/m4sugar.at (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR_TEXT, AT_CHECK_M4RE): New macros.
3518 (Standard regular expressions): New test.
3519 (m4_warn, m4_require: circular dependencies, m4_text_wrap): Strip
3520 excess test name quoting.
3521 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_HEADERS_OLD, AC_CHECK_HEADERS_NEW): Pass
3522 CPPFLAGS to `configure' instead of setting it in `configure'.
3524 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_UNAME): Try only /usr/bin/hostinfo, not
3525 any `hostinfo' in $PATH, since hostinfo.exe is a popular file name
3526 on some platforms.
3528 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_LANG(Fortran), AC_FC_SRCEXT):
3529 s/FC_SRCEXT/ac_fc_srcext/; s/FCFLAGS_SRCEXT/ac_fcflags_srcext/.
3531 * tests/local.at (AT_CMP): New macro.
3532 (AT_DATA_AUTOCONF): Do not call AC_PROG_GREP.
3533 (AC_SAVE_STATE): Move environment grep...
3534 (AT_CHECK_ENV): to here. Filter out `'$''. Use AT_CMP.
3535 (AT_CONFIG_CMP): New macro.
3536 (AT_CHECK_MACRO): Run `configure' twice with cache and compare results.
3537 * tests/c.at (Extensions): Do not exit early.
3538 * tests/atlocal.in: Inherit $GREP.
3540 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_C_STD_TRY): New macro.
3541 (_AC_PROG_CC_C89, _AC_PROG_CC_C99): Use it.
3543 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_COPYRIGHT): Update for 2005.
3544 (AC_COPYRIGHT): Factor header comment portion out and move into...
3545 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_COPYRIGHT): This.
3546 * lib/autotest/general.at (AT_COPYRIGHT): New macro.
3547 (AT_INIT): Add Autotest copyright notice. Display copyright notices in
3548 --version output.
3549 * tests/local.at: Add Autoconf test suite copyright notice.
3550 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Document AT_COPYRIGHT.
3552 2005-02-04 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
3553 and Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3555 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): New mkstemp entry.
3557 2005-02-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3559 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_re_escape): Escape ?, ^, \, $ too;
3560 this fixes a bug tickled by the AT_CAPTURE_FILE change noted below.
3562 Try not to generated lines of unlimited length, as POSIX places a
3563 2047-byte limit on line length of portable text files.
3564 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SUBST, AC_SUBST_FILE):
3565 Use newline as a separator, not space.
3566 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_TESTED, AT_KEYWORDS): Likewise.
3567 (AT_CAPTURE_FILE): Use space-backslash-newline as a separator, not
3568 space.
3570 2005-02-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3572 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_SHELL_FN_WORK): Move func_* to
3573 as_func_*. Add test to check whether positional parameters
3574 are restored after function return.
3576 2005-02-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3578 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Mention _,
3579 BIN_SH, DUALCASE. Say that variables other than "status" are safe
3580 if they contain a lower-case letter. The DUALCASE problem was
3581 reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
3583 * bin/autoconf.as: Don't exit with status 0 after write failure
3584 with --help or --version.
3585 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP, _AC_INIT_VERSION): Likewise.
3586 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Likewise.
3588 2005-02-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3590 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools):
3591 Unicos 9 sed limitations.
3592 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Try cf77 before fort77
3593 to get the option-enhanced interface on older Crays. Try ftn for
3594 Fortran 95 (newer Crays).
3596 2005-02-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3598 * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Go back to the simple solution, but take
3599 care to echo the commands, so the user knows what's going on.
3600 Modified from a suggestion by Stepan Kasal.
3602 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Mention autopoint,
3603 with a cross reference. Derived from a suggestion by Bruce Korb.
3605 2005-01-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3607 * doc/autoconf.texi (config.status Invocation): Warn about
3608 discrepancy between CONFIG_SHELL and shell used to invoke 'configure'.
3609 * doc/install.texi (Defining Variables): Likewise.
3610 Based on a proposed patch by Ralf Wildenhues.
3612 * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Make sure the required generated files
3613 are up to date. Problem and original solution proposed by Stepan Kasal.
3614 $(dist_man_MANS:.1=-bin-prereq), $(dist_man_MANS:.1=-tests-prereq),
3615 implicit-man-prerequisites): New rules, used by the above.
3617 * doc/make-stds.texi, doc/standards.texi: Sync from gnulib.
3618 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/install-sh: Likewise.
3619 * config/missing, config/texinfo.tex: Likewise.
3621 2005-01-29 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3623 Simplify the implementation of m4_require (a.k.a. AC_REQUIRE).
3624 Update the long comment explaining it.
3626 m4_require no longer writes an ``is required by'' line to the
3627 execution stack. It contains only one bit of non-redundant
3628 information: that the macro was required, not called. And even
3629 this bit is useless in most situations: have you ever met a macro
3630 which both calls and requires the same macro?
3632 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (_m4_defun_pro): Don't push a diversion...
3633 (_m4_defun_pro_outer): ... only via this macro, for the outermost
3634 macro.
3635 (_m4_defun_epi, _m4_defun_epi_outer): Complementarily.
3636 (m4_expansion_stack_pop): Remove the misplaced comment.
3637 (m4_require): Don't put the ``is required by'' line to the
3638 execution stack; slightly improve the out-of-a-defun error message.
3639 (_m4_divert_grow): New macro, counter for the temporary diversions.
3640 (_m4_require_call): Use it.
3641 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4_require): Expect output without the
3642 ``is required by'' messages.
3644 2005-01-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3646 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Recommend X
3647 rather than x for expr.
3649 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT): Avoid subshells when
3650 this is safe.
3651 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_EGREP, AC_PROG_FGREP): Likewise.
3652 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_LONG_FILE_NAMES): Likewise.
3653 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
3654 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_WORKS): Likewise.
3655 * tests/mktests.sh: Likewise.
3657 2005-01-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3659 Have autoheader honor --force.
3661 * doc/make-stds.texi, doc/standards.texi: Update from masters.
3662 * lib/Autom4te/Channels.pm, lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm
3663 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm, lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Update
3664 from masters, so that FileUtils.pm's update_file provide --force
3665 support.
3666 * bin/autoheader.in: Pass $force to update_file so that
3667 config.h.in is always recreated when --force.
3669 2005-01-24 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3671 * doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction): Update Peter Simons' address.
3673 2005-01-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3675 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Clarify that
3676 "if test ! -d foo; ..." is portable. Suggested by Stepan Kasal.
3678 2005-01-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3680 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Fix typo in case statement.
3681 Warn about newline stripping in `` and $(). Update Solaris
3682 version to 9.
3683 (Limitations of Builtins): Use expr "X...", not expr "x...", as
3684 X insulates us from future changes to Posix.
3685 (Limitations of Usual Tools): For AS_DIRNAME, warn about newline
3686 stripping.
3688 2005-01-19 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3690 * doc/autoconf.texi (Defining Symbols): Delete the false comment that
3691 you cannot use AC_DEFINE to define macros containing `[' or `]'.
3693 2005-01-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3695 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Document bug
3696 in Solaris 8 join. Problem reported by Tomohiro Suzuki on
3697 bug-tar mailing list.
3699 2005-01-05 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3701 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_copy): Fix the explanation.
3703 2005-01-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3705 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C)): Declare longval and
3706 ulongval to be static, to avoid unwanted GCC warning. Problem
3707 reported by Michael Jennings via Daniel Reed; see
3708 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=143852>.
3710 2005-01-05 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
3712 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Define datarootdir,
3713 docdir, htmldir, dvidir, pdfdir, psdir, and localdir. Update
3714 datadir, infodir, and mandir. Adjust argument parsing code.
3715 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Update help text.
3716 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Document
3717 new variables.
3719 2005-01-04 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
3721 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): If the Make program does
3722 not seem to work, assume it does set $(MAKE).
3723 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Update.
3725 2005-01-03 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3727 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_REQUIRE): Add a comment about nesting.
3729 2005-01-03 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3731 A cleanup of the diversion support in m4sugar.
3733 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (_m4_divert): A typo in description.
3734 (_m4_divert_n_stack): New macro; the expansion is
3735 <newline>m4_divert_stack, if m4_divert_stack is defined, and void
3736 otherwise.
3737 (m4_divert, m4_divert_push, m4_divert_pop, m4_init): Use it.
3738 (m4_divert_push, m4_divert_pop, _m4_defun_epi): Don't expand the word
3739 stored in _m4_divert_diversion or _m4_divert_dump.
3740 (m4_divert_pop): When the parameter is given, compare the symbolic
3741 name with the last diversion pushed on the stack. Previously, the
3742 current diversion was compared with the numeric value of the
3743 diversion given as the parameter.
3744 (m4_require): If the macro hasn't been expanded yet, call ...
3745 (_m4_require_call): this new macro.
3747 2005-01-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3749 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE, _AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE):
3750 Workarounds for documented `case' limitations.
3752 2005-01-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3754 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Warn about
3755 sed 'command1;command2'. Problem reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
3757 2005-01-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3759 * bin/autoconf.as, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in,
3760 bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in,
3761 bin/ifnames.in, tests/mktests.sh: Update copyright date to 2005.
3763 Patch from Roger Leigh (with some minor changes) as follows:
3764 * NEWS: New macros AC_PROG_CC_C89, AC_PROG_CC_C99.
3765 Resurrect AC_PROG_CC_STDC.
3766 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Add AC_PROG_CC_STDC,
3767 AC_PROG_CC_C89, AC_PROG_CC_C99.
3768 (Obsolete Macros): Remove AC_PROG_CC_STDC; it's no longer obsolete.
3769 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CC_C89, _AC_PROG_CC_C99, AC_PROG_CC_C89,
3770 AC_PROG_CC_C99): New macros.
3771 (AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Use them.
3772 (_AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Remove.
3773 (AC_C_PROTOTYPES): Use ac_cv_prog_cc_c89, not ac_cv_prog_cc_stdc.
3774 * THANKS: Add Roger Leigh.
3776 2004-12-30 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
3778 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory): AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
3779 signals that the package uses Automake; a `Makefile.am' is typical but
3780 not essential. Reported by Magnus Therning.
3781 * tests/torture.at (autoreconf.): New banner.
3782 (autoreconf and non-AC configure): Rename to `Non-Autoconf
3783 AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS'.
3784 (autoreconf an empty directory): Rename to `Empty directory'.
3785 (Unusual Automake input files): New test.
3787 2004-12-30 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
3789 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CAPTURE_FILE): New macro.
3790 (AT_SETUP): Clear AT_capture_files.
3791 (_AT_CHECK): On failure, log each of AT_capture_files. Fix comment.
3792 (AT_KEYWORDS): Fix comment typo.
3793 * tests/autotest.at (AT_CHECK_AT): Use AT_CAPTURE_FILE.
3794 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_CONFIGURE): Use AT_CAPTURE_FILE.
3795 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Document AT_CAPTURE_FILE.
3797 2004-12-29 Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>
3799 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH):
3800 If the variable to set is already set, set ac_cv_path_$1
3801 to the preset value so caller can assume ac_cv_path_$1
3802 is available. (trivial change)
3804 2004-12-27 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
3806 * BUGS (Minor Problems): Warn about makefile limitations.
3807 * Makefile.am: Find and update `INSTALL' in $(srcdir).
3808 * man/Makefile.am: Find and update manual pages in $(srcdir).
3810 2004-12-24 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
3812 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Test candidate
3813 shells in subshell, to avoid noise from ash. (trivial change)
3815 2004-12-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3817 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins) <case>: Mention
3818 problems with SunOS ksh and backslash escaping, Bourne shells and
3819 closing brackets (both within character classes). Bug reported
3820 against Libtool by Alexander Kurz <alexander.kurz@qsc.de>.
3821 <read>: New entry. Mention non-availability of -r.
3823 2004-12-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3825 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_LINE): Don't add srcdir here, to
3826 avoid cluttering displayed messages. Rather, prepend srcdir where
3827 AT_LINE is used for log files.
3829 2004-12-21 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3831 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Quote ``$tmp'' in many places.
3832 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): Fix the comment, as traps are
3833 no longer part of the macro, quote the occurrence of ``$tmp''.
3834 * doc/autoconf.texi (Forbidden Patterns): Typo.
3836 2004-12-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3838 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Make sure the "ok" etc. are
3839 separated from the test title by forcing a white space.
3841 2004-12-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3843 Enable Emacs navigation within testsuite.log files.
3845 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CLEANUP): Add an hint for Emacs to
3846 use the compilation mode.
3847 (AT_LINE): Point to the srcdir.
3849 2004-12-19 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
3851 * tests/Makefile.am (installcheck-local): Use $(bindir).
3852 (check-local, installcheck-local): Pass TESTSUITEFLAGS.
3853 * doc/autoconf.texi (Making testsuite Scripts): Recommend the same
3854 Makefile.am scheme Autoconf now uses.
3856 2004-12-18 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
3858 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_qlen, m4_qdelta): New macros.
3859 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_SETUP): Use m4_qdelta.
3861 2004-12-18 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
3863 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_DECIDE_TRACEABLE): New macro.
3864 (_AT_CHECK): Use it.
3865 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_ESCAPE_FOR_EXPAND): Remove.
3866 (AS_ESCAPE): Fix comment.
3867 * tests/autotest.at: Adjust section banner comments.
3868 (AT_CHECK_AT): Accept STATUS and STDERR.
3869 (AT_CHECK_AT_TEST): Likewise.
3870 (Invalid brace-enclosed parameter expansion)
3871 (Multiline command from M4 expansion)
3872 (Double-M4-quoted command): New tests.
3874 2004-12-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3876 * doc/autoconf.texi: Update GNU FDL version from 1.1 to 1.2.
3878 2004-12-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
3880 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SUBST, AC_SUBST_FILES): Pass $1 to
3881 m4_pattern_allow.
3882 Suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
3883 * doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Catch up.
3885 2004-12-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3887 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_TEST_PREPARE): Fix comment.
3889 2004-12-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3891 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ): We can use AC_SUBST/2,
3892 remove the comment which said we cannot.
3894 2004-12-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3896 Add a specialized check for resolv.h. Thanks to Gerrit P. Haase,
3897 Reini Urban and Paul Eggert for reporting the dependencies.
3899 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_RESOLV): New macro.
3900 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_HEADER_RESOLV): Document it.
3901 (AC_HEADER_STAT): @cvindex{STAT_MACROS_BROKEN}, not @acindex.
3903 2004-12-17 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3905 * bin/autoscan.in: Open autoscan.log only after ``parse_args'';
3906 so that eg. ``autoscan --help'' doesn't truncate it.
3908 2004-12-15 Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>
3910 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Remove
3911 generated conftest files.
3913 2004-12-13 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
3915 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_CHECK) [--trace]: Do not enable shell
3916 tracing on commands with possibly-escaped newlines.
3917 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Delete documentation of the
3918 discontinued behavior and its implications.
3919 * tests/autotest.at (BS-newline in command, ^BS-newline in command)
3920 (BSx641-newline in command, BS-BS-newline in command)
3921 (BSx640-newline in command, Newline-CODE-BS-newline in command)
3922 (Single-quote-BS-newline in command)
3923 (Single-quote-newline-BS-newline in command): New tests.
3925 2004-12-13 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3927 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_EXECUTABLE_P): Use test -f && test -x
3928 on platforms where it works.
3929 (_AS_TEST_PREPARE): Test for ``test -x''.
3930 (_AS_BROKEN_TEST_PREPARE): Nuke.
3932 2004-12-13 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
3934 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): Move the trap commands ...
3935 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): ... here;
3936 give only 4-letter prefix to AS_TMPDIR, comment fixed.
3937 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FEATURE_CHECK): Don't
3938 create the temporary directory.
3939 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Work in current directory.
3941 2004-12-12 Kelley Cook <kcook@gcc.gnu.org>
3943 * bin/autoheader.in: Exit if no AC_CONFIG_HEADERS was found.
3944 (trivial change)
3946 2004-12-12 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
3948 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <expr (:)>: Typo.
3950 2004-12-11 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
3952 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_CHECK) [--trace]: Rework a shell pattern
3953 to avoid using a negated character class. Reported by Nicolas Joly.
3954 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_SHELL_SYNTAX): Check for similar constructs.
3956 2004-12-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3958 * man/Makefile.am (autoconf.1, autoheader.1, autom4te.1, autoreconf.1,
3959 autoscan.1, autoupdate.1, ifnames.1, config.guess.1, config.sub.1):
3960 Don't depend on .x file explicitly, since "make" does that for us.
3961 Suggested by Stepan Kasal.
3963 * bin/Makefile.am (MOSTLYCLEANFILES): Renamed from CLEANFILES.
3964 Add *.tmp.
3965 (autoconf, autoheader, autom4te, autoreconf, autoscan, autoupdate,
3966 ifnames): Factor common code. And they said it couldn't be done!
3968 2004-12-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3970 * bin/.cvsignore: Add autoconf.in.
3971 * tests/.cvsignore: Add wrapper.in.
3972 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Escape '$' in case pattern.
3974 2004-12-09 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
3976 * man/Makefile.am (autoconf.1): Regenerate when `autoconf.as' changes.
3978 * lib/autotest/general.m4 [--trace] (AT_INIT): Do not `set -v'.
3980 * tests/autotest.at: New file.
3981 * tests/suite.at: Include it.
3982 * tests/Makefile.am: Distribute it.
3984 * lib/autotest/general.m4 [--trace] (_AT_CHECK): Do not enable
3985 shell tracing on a command that could contain multiple lines.
3986 * doc/autoconf.text: Document that fact and its implications.
3987 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_ESCAPE_FOR_EXPAND): New macro.
3988 * tests/autotest.at (Multiline backquote command substitution,
3989 Multiline parameter expansion, Literal multiline command,
3990 Multiline parenthetical command substitution): Remove XFAIL.
3992 2004-12-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
3994 * doc/autoconf.texi (Libraries): Clarify problems with AC_CHECK_LIB
3995 and suggest AC_SEARCH_LIBS. Suggested by Noah Misch and Stepan Kasal.
3997 2004-12-08 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
3999 * configure.ac (test suite): Cease to generate wrapper scripts.
4000 * configure: Regenerate.
4001 * lib/freeze.mk (MY_AUTOM4TE): Wrap the uninstalled autom4te directly.
4002 (m4f_dependencies): Adjust accordingly.
4003 * tests/Makefile.am (Wrappers): Generate wrapper scripts.
4004 (wrapper.in): Generate it in the build directory.
4005 (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Delete wrapper.in.
4006 (CLEANFILES): Add wrapper.in.
4007 * tests/wrapper.as: Move AS_INIT to very top, preserving copyright in
4008 the output. Replace each $as_me with a @wrap_program@.
4009 * tests/wrapper.in: Delete it; we always build it.
4011 * bin/Makefile.am (autoconf.in): Generate it in the build directory.
4012 (EXTRA_DIST): Remove autoconf.in.
4013 (CLEANFILES): Add autoconf.in.
4014 (autoconf): Find autoconf.in in the build directory.
4015 * bin/autoconf.in: Delete it; we always build it.
4017 2004-12-08 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
4019 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Replace a `tr' with a `sed'. Join
4020 PATH members so as to not prepend an empty element. Move a comment.
4021 * Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): Build in `tests' last.
4022 * tests/Makefile.am (installcheck-local): Add check-local dependencies.
4024 2004-12-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4026 * lib/mdate-sh: Don't use "set - x`$ls_command /`", as zsh mishandles
4027 the spaces inside $ls_command. Problem reported by Loulou Pouchet in
4028 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-12/msg00074.html>.
4029 Don't use "set - x"; plain "set x" is enough, and simplifies debugging.
4031 2004-12-07 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
4033 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETMNTENT): Fix typo in previous
4034 patch: extra "-l"s.
4036 2004-12-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4038 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETMNTENT): Check libc before
4039 looking elsewhere for getmntent. Problem reported by Mark D. Baushke.
4040 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Mention new behavior.
4042 2004-12-03 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
4044 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_DEFINE, AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED): Factor
4045 out the common code to ...
4046 (_AC_DEFINE_Q): ... a new macro; simplify the condition about the
4047 value of the #define--default to 1, iff the macro was called
4048 with exactly one parameter.
4050 2004-12-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4052 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MEMCMP): Use
4053 "char c = '\200';" rather than "char c = 0x80;" as the
4054 latter doesn't conform to the strict C standard due to
4055 overflow on signed char hosts.
4057 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Prefer -qlanglvl=extc89
4058 to -qlanglvl=ansi. We don't want to disable extensions.
4060 2004-11-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4062 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): @code{$PATH} -> @env{PATH}.
4063 (Using Autotest, testsuite Scripts, Writing testsuite.at):
4064 Reword slightly to avoid some English-language problems noted
4065 by Ralf Wildenhues in:
4066 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-11/msg00027.html
4068 2004-11-29 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
4070 * NEWS: Add ^L above each release.
4072 2004-11-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4074 Fix documentation problems reported by Russ Boylan in
4075 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2004-11/msg00056.html>,
4076 along with some nearby cruft.
4077 * doc/autoconf.texi (Libtool): Libtool can be used without
4078 Automake (not without Autoconf).
4079 (Introduction): Mention lists.gnu.org.
4080 * BUGS: Don't mention bugs.gnu.org.
4081 Remove mention of ancient libtool compatibility problem.
4082 * NEWS: Mention that bugs.gnu.org is kaput.
4083 * README: Likewise. Mention where mailing list archives can be found.
4085 2004-11-28 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
4087 * HACKING: Refer to "coreutils", not "File, Shell or Text utils".
4088 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_HELP_STRING): A typo in the comment.
4090 2004-11-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4092 * doc/autoconf.texi (Pretty Help Strings): Go back to
4093 single-quoting assignments to cache variables.
4095 2004-11-23 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
4097 * doc/autoconf.texi (Pretty Help Strings): Fix quoting issues
4098 with the examples; fix the bug in MY_ARG_WITH example reported
4099 by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
4100 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_ENABLE, AC_ARG_ENABLE): Enable
4101 expansion of $1 in the comment emitted to configure.
4103 2004-11-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4105 * doc/autoconf.texi (Pretty Help Strings): Fix typo
4106 in my editing of the previous patch. Problem reported
4107 by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
4109 2004-11-22 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
4111 * doc/autoconf.texi (Autoconf Language): Explain that
4112 ``descriptions'' may not be double quotes.
4113 (Quotation Rule Of Thumb): Likewise.
4114 (Pretty Help Strings): Likewise; remove the wrong comment;
4115 simplify the examples and improve their quoting.
4117 2004-11-13 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
4119 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Don't check
4120 the $1_found variable, don't test whether the file is executable;
4121 Both things are checked ...
4122 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FEATURE_CHECK): ... here; AS_EXECUTABLE_P replaces
4123 the former ``test -f''.
4124 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_TEST_PREPARE): Fix a typo.
4126 2004-11-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4128 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Avoid cp -r;
4129 use cp -R instead.
4131 2004-11-10 Derek R. Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
4133 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Note `cp -r'
4134 limitations. Reorder paragraphs for clarity.
4136 2004-10-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4138 * doc/autoconf.texi: Standardize spelling of "Posix" (as opposed
4139 to "POSIX" or "@acronym{POSIX}"), and similarly for "DOS
4140 variants", "Unix", and some related minor wording fixups.
4142 (Shellology, Special Shell Variables): Document that the Zsh
4143 problem with NULLCMD was fixed in zsh 3.1.6-dev-18. Thanks
4144 to Alexandre Duret-Lutz for this info.
4146 2004-10-10 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
4148 * doc/autoconf.texi (One-Shot Macros): New node.
4150 2004-09-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4152 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Fix misdescription
4153 of putenv. Problem reported by Michael Wardle.
4155 2004-09-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4157 * doc/autoconf.texi (auindex): New macro.
4158 (AU_DEFUN): Use it to fix the bug when the index contained AC_AU_DEFUN.
4159 Problem reported by Stepan Kasal.
4161 2004-09-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4163 Fix problems reported by Andreas Buening in:
4164 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-04/msg00004.html
4165 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Set SHELL=/bin/sh
4166 in test makefile.
4167 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't assume /dev/null is
4168 readable; it's not true in OS/2-emx.
4170 2004-09-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4172 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_XMKMF): If xmkmf returns
4173 "/usr/include", clear ac_x_includes instead of leaving it as "no"
4174 (trivial change). Problem and patch reported by Andrew Church in:
4175 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2004-04/msg00016.html
4177 2004-09-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4179 * doc/autoconf.texi: Give AC_DEFINE and AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED
4180 three args in examples. Problem reported by Frederik Fouvry in:
4181 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2004-09/msg00017.html
4182 Also, fix some minor spacing and punctuation bugs.
4184 2004-09-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4186 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Swap "cd" and
4187 "case" to restore ordering.
4188 Reported by Stepan Kasal.
4190 2004-08-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4192 * doc/autoconf.texi: Minor typos and stylos.
4194 2004-08-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4196 * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump to 2.59c.
4198 2004-08-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4200 Version 2.59b.
4202 * README: Add advice about m4 1.4.2.
4204 * Makefile.cfg (wget_files): Remove config.guess, config.sub,
4205 texinfo.tex for now (done by hand now).
4206 * Makefile.maint (wget_files, cvs_files):
4207 Remove ansi2knr.c; nobody uses it.
4208 (ansi2knr.c-url_prefix): Remove.
4209 (cvs-update): Fix test for failure. I don't know why it ever
4210 worked...
4212 * doc/autoconf.texi: Update URLs, some of which went stale.
4213 Use @uref rather than @href.
4215 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Have configure
4216 handle "--" as per POSIX. Suggested by Paul Pogonyshev.
4218 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/elisp-comp,
4219 config/install-sh, config/mkinstalldirs, config/texinfo.tex,
4220 doc/fdl.texi, doc/standards.texi: Sync with master copy.
4222 * NEWS, TODO, configure.ac, bin/autoscan.in,
4223 bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in, doc/autoconf.texi,
4224 doc/install.texi, lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm,
4225 lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
4226 lib/autoconf/programs.m4, lib/autoconf/status.m4,
4227 lib/autotest/general.m4, lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4,
4228 lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4, tests/local.at, tests/m4sh.at,
4229 tests/tools.at, tests/torture.at:
4230 Use "file name" rather than "filename" or "path",
4231 to be consistent with the terminology of the GNU coding standards.
4233 2004-08-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4235 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY(C),
4236 AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE): Undo 2004-06-04 change, as it didn't work with
4237 HP-UX 11.23 cc/aCC or Tru64 4.0 cc. Problem reported by Noah Misch in
4238 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-07/msg00004.html>.
4240 More fixes to support spaces in the name of the build directory.
4241 This isn't a complete fix but it's an improvement.
4243 * bin/autoconf.as (autom4te_options): New var.
4244 Use it instead of appending to AUTOM4TE, so that we can allow
4245 spaces in the build directory's absolute name.
4246 * bin/autoheader.in ($autoconf): Allow spaces in file names.
4247 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT, AT_CLEANUP, _AT_CHECK,
4248 AT_CHECK_NOESCAPE): Likewise.
4249 * tests/wrapper.as (testdir, AUTOM4TE_CFG, autom4te_perllibdir,
4250 main program): Likewise.
4252 2004-08-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4254 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Quote $ac_popdir uses.
4255 From Ralf Corsepius in:
4256 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-08/msg00014.html
4258 2004-08-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4260 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Document isinf and
4261 and isnan. From a suggestion by Kevin Ryde.
4263 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (END): Return correct exit status even
4264 if unlink succeeds and sets $?. Needed with Solaris 8's perl 5.00503.
4266 2004-08-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4268 * tests/torture.at (Deep Package): Use configure.in, not configure.ac,
4269 for compatibility with Automake 1.4. Reported by J C Fitzgerald in
4270 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-08/msg00051.html>.
4272 2004-08-04 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
4274 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE): New empty macro.
4275 (AC_CANONICAL_BUILD): Call it to require config.sub and config.guess.
4276 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_INSTALL): Likewise for install-sh.
4277 * doc/autoconf.texi (Input): Document AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE.
4278 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect
4279 AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE. Automake 1.10 will trace it.
4281 2004-08-02 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
4283 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect
4284 AC_CANONICAL_BUILD and AC_CANONICAL_TARGET. Automake 1.9.1 will
4285 trace them.
4287 2004-07-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4289 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): Set BIN_SH, for
4290 Tru64.
4291 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology): Mention BIN_SH.
4292 Document problem with "`""`" in pdksh POSIX mode.
4294 2004-07-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4296 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): Use "set -o posix"
4297 with pdksh, too. Problem reported by Patrick Welche via
4298 Gary V. Vaughan.
4299 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology): Note that set -o posix is
4300 useful for pkdsh, too.
4302 2004-06-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4304 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Require
4305 _AS_UNSET_PREPARE, so that we can use $as_unset directly.
4306 Don't fail if ENV or BASH_ENV is readonly.
4307 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Don't fail if ENV, MAIL, MAILPATH, LC_ALL,
4308 etc. are read only. Problem reported by Ludovic Courtes.
4310 2004-06-23 Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>
4312 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): If the shell is
4313 zsh, disable GLOB_SUBST to avoid backslash handling problems.
4314 (trivial change)
4316 2004-06-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4318 * doc/autoconf.texi (File System Conventions): Warn about
4319 names like "aux". Problem reported by Eric Blake.
4321 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY (C)): Use division
4322 by zero instead of array size, so that we can use any arithmetic
4323 constant expression (instead of requiring an integer constant
4324 expression). This allows us to test expressions like DBL_MAX <
4325 LDBL_MAX, which didn't conform to the C standard using the old
4326 method.
4327 (AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE): Put back in the tests for LDBL_MAX and LDBL_EPSILON,
4328 now that we can do floating-point tests at compile time.
4330 2004-06-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4332 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE): Don't check LDBL_MAX
4333 and LDBL_EPSILON, as the resulting expression isn't an
4334 integer constant expression and violates the C standard.
4335 Problem reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe. Also, check
4336 for "L" suffix, and check that long double doesn't have
4337 worse range or precision than double, that mixed-mode
4338 arithmetic doesn't generate a diagnostic, that double
4339 constants fit in long double.
4341 2004-06-03 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
4343 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add notes on free(NULL),
4344 malloc(0) and realloc(NULL,size).
4346 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Spelling error reported by
4347 Bob Proulx.
4349 2004-05-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4351 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (HAVE_STDBOOL_H): Detect _Bool bug
4352 in HP aC++/ANSI C B3910B A.05.55 [Dec 04 2003]. Problem reported
4353 by Jim Meyering.
4355 2004-05-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4357 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Mention that ! COMMAND
4358 can be rewritten using if-then-else. Suggested by Bruno Haible.
4360 2004-05-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4362 * doc/autoconf.texi (testsuite Scripts): Fix typo.
4363 Problem reported by Stepan Kasal.
4365 2004-05-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4367 * tests/Makefile.am (autoconfdir): Fix to match comment (trivial
4368 change). Patch reported by Ralf Wildenhues in
4369 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2004-05/msg00092.html>.
4371 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC): Don't assume that a
4372 function F exists if the compiler and linker let you compile an
4373 expression like (F != 0). Recent versions of GCC optimize away
4374 the reference to F in that case, since every function address must
4375 be nonzero, so the link succeeds even if F does not exist.
4376 Problem reported by Manu in
4377 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2004-05/msg00060.html>.
4379 * doc/autoconf.texi (Systemology): Standardize on the spelling of
4380 "Unix". Many uses changed.
4381 (Limitations of Builtins): Explain better why the ! command isn't
4382 portable.
4384 2004-05-22 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
4386 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect
4387 LT_SUPPORTED_TAG in lieu of AC_LIBTOOL_TAGS.
4389 2004-05-19 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
4391 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add strerror_r, cross
4392 referencing AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R.
4394 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): In AC_FUNC_CLOSEDIR_VOID,
4395 note pessimistic assumption when cross compiling.
4397 2004-05-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4399 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Note that BSD make
4400 (until 2004) invoked subcommands with sh -e, contra POSIX.
4401 Reported by Kevin Ryde.
4403 2004-05-10 Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
4405 * programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_GREP): Fixed bug where PATH argument handed to
4406 _AC_PATH_PROG_FEATURE_CHECK contained leading whitespace (i.e.
4407 " $PATH:/usr/xpg4/bin"). This resulted in bogus tests, such as
4408 `test -f " /usr/bin/grep"', which _always_ failed.
4409 (AC_PROG_SED): Ditto bogus PATH fix.
4410 * autoconf.texi (AC_PROG_GREP): Properly document that this macro
4411 requires that grep correctly supports _multiple_ `-e' options, rather
4412 than stating only that grep should accept `-e'.
4414 2004-05-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4416 Port to C99, which requires that 'exit' be declared.
4418 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Use AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT
4419 to ensure that stdlib.h is included.
4420 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ_ALLOCA, AC_FUNC_SETPGRP,
4421 AC_FUNC_STRTOD, AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED, AC_FUNC_FORK, _AC_FUNC_FORK,
4422 _AC_FUNC_VFORK, AC_FUNC_WAIT3): Likewise.
4423 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS): Likewise.
4424 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_TYPE_GETGROUPS): Likewise.
4425 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDC): Include <stdlib.h>
4426 when using 'exit' in a test; C99 requires that 'exit' be declared.
4428 2004-05-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
4430 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): AC_PROG_GREP
4431 now prefers 'grep' implementations that accept -e.
4432 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Describe problems of traditional
4433 egrep and fgrep with long input lines, and of traditional grep
4434 with -e.
4435 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_GREP): Check for -e, too.
4436 (_AC_PROG_GREP): Assume 3rd arg is properly quoted for the shell.
4437 All callers changed. Append /usr/xpg4/bin to the PATH, for
4438 Solaris.
4439 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Discard stderr, so we don't bother
4440 the user with complaints about multiple -e options.
4441 * tests/local.at (AC_STATE_SAVE): Use $GREP, not grep.
4442 Define it with AC_PROG_GREP.
4443 * configure.ac (AC_PROG_GREP): Add.
4444 * lib/freeze.mk (GREP): New macro.
4446 2004-05-02 Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
4448 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Consult $SHELL as
4449 a possible candidate only after all others fail, rather than
4450 consulting it first. This improves backward compatibility by
4451 better reflecting the way shell selection occurred in previous
4452 versions of Autoconf, and should help to avoid triggering latent
4453 problems in other packages, such as the one in Automake where zsh
4454 is not handled robustly:
4455 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2004-04/msg00095.html
4456 Although it is not Autoconf's responsibility to work around
4457 problems in Automake, it nevertheless makes sense to avoid
4458 introducing unnecessary incompatibilites.
4460 2004-04-22 Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>,
4461 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
4463 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Don't guess
4464 how deeply nested we are when a suitable tool is found, set the
4465 ac_path_TOOL_found flag.
4466 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FEATURE_CHECK): Encapsulate knowledge of how deeply
4467 nested we are in this macro. Break out of all 3 nested loops if
4468 ac_path_TOOL_found is set.
4470 2004-04-21 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
4472 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Break out
4473 of the _AS_PATH_WALK loop too if GNU flavor is found.
4475 2004-04-21 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
4477 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Update documentation
4478 for `$<'. New entry `Long lines', based on a report from Simon
4479 Josefsson. Augment the documentation for SHELL = @SHELL@ with a
4480 paragraph about DJGPP, based on a mail from Richard Dawe.
4482 2004-04-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4484 * tests/c.at (C keywords): Don't assume that GCC supports
4485 "restrict" and "inline", as sufficiently-old GCC versions do not
4486 (also, GCC configured to be in pedantic C89 mode does not).
4487 Problem reported by Sumit Pandya in:
4488 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-04/msg00092.html
4490 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CC_G, _AC_PROG_CXX_G): Don't
4491 consider -g to work if it generates warnings when plain compiles
4492 don't. Problem reported by Braden McDaniel in:
4493 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2003-07/msg00014.html
4495 * doc/autoconf.texi (Slashes): New section, to document a problem
4496 reported by Jim Meyering in:
4497 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-02/msg00060.html
4499 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Remove potential
4500 linker output files before linking, to work around IRIX 6 linker bug.
4501 Problem reported by Rainer Orth in:
4502 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-02/msg00007.html
4504 2004-04-20 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
4506 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Make the
4507 best tool so far counter rely on the tool path variable name to
4508 avoid checks for one tool being affected by the results of running
4509 the length check on a previous tool.
4511 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_GREP): Take an additional
4512 match expression argument, as different greps have different
4513 regular expression flavours.
4514 (AC_PROG_FGREP): Pass 'FGREP'. fgrep treats all match chars as
4515 literals.
4516 (AC_PROG_EGREP): Pass 'EGREP$'.
4517 (AC_PROG_GREP): Pass 'GREP$'.
4519 2004-04-20 Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>
4521 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_GREP): Cache variable
4522 is `ac_cv_path_GREP', not `oc_cv_path_GREP'.
4524 2004-03-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4526 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers, Particular Types, Generic
4527 Types, Specific Compiler Characteristics, System Services,
4528 Obsolete Macros): Use 'long int', 'short int', 'unsigned int'
4529 etc. consistently instead of 'long', 'short', 'unsigned' etc.
4530 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C), AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
4531 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MMAP, AC_FUNC_SELECT_ARGTYPES):
4532 Likewise.
4533 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_SYS_WAIT): Likewise.
4534 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_TYPE_GETGROUPS, AC_TYPE_SIZE_T,
4535 AC_TYPE_OFF_T): Likewise.
4536 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_TYPES: backward compatibility):
4537 Likewise.
4539 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Create an empty aclocal.m4, to
4540 pacify libtool 1.5.2. Fix quoting problems in sed command.
4542 2004-03-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4544 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Structures): AC_STRUCT_TIMEZONE
4545 now defines HAVE_DECL_TZNAME if it is declared, when
4546 HAVE_STRUCT_TM_TM_ZONE is not defined.
4547 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_STRUCT_TIMEZONE): Implement this.
4548 Do not assume atoi. Rely on HAVE_DECL_TZNAME when testing
4549 for HAVE_TZNAME.
4551 2004-03-28 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@fftw.org>
4553 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): Corrected
4554 superfluous backslashing of quotes (") in sed expressions;
4555 thanks to Paul Eggert.
4557 2004-03-26 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
4559 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): new name of Intel
4560 Fortran compiler is ifort, also added pghpf; thanks to Nelson
4561 H. F. Beebe for the bug report.
4563 2004-03-26 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@fftw.org>
4565 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): fix for
4566 quoted -cmdline argument in Portland Group compiler (bug
4567 reported by Jeffrey J. Barteet).
4569 2004-03-25 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
4571 * doc/autoconf.texi (Specifying Names): Move cross_compiling ovindex to
4572 (Run Time): ... here, where it's now mentioned.
4574 2004-03-19 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
4576 * doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te Invocation): Language Autoconf
4577 inherits from language Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4.
4578 (Customizing autom4te): Adjust example; the cache must now be
4579 disabled for language Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4.
4581 2004-03-16 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
4582 Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>
4584 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PATH_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOL,
4585 AC_CHECK_TOOLS): Warn if a cross-tool is found without
4586 a prefix.
4587 (AC_PATH_TARGET_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOL,
4588 AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOLS): New macros.
4589 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Programs): Document
4590 (AC_PATH_TARGET_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOL,
4591 AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOLS, and warn for future changes
4592 in the behavior of AC_PATH_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOL and
4593 AC_CHECK_TOOLS.
4594 (Specifying Names): Document the reason for these future
4595 behavioral changes.
4596 * tests/mktests.sh: Do not generate tests for the
4597 new macros.
4598 * NEWS: Document these changes.
4600 * doc/autoconf.texi: Avoid macros with unbraced arguments,
4601 they make TeX hang up.
4603 2004-03-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@bogus.example.com>
4605 * NEWS: New macro AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF.
4606 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Compiler Characteristics): Document it.
4607 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Use long int rather than
4608 int; avoid "a `$1'" since this isn't grammatical if $1 begins with a
4609 vowel.
4610 (AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF): New macro.
4611 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Exclude AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF.
4612 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF): Add tests similar to
4613 those for sizeof.
4615 2004-03-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4617 * bin/Makefile.am (edit): Don't use $< in a context where
4618 POSIX doesn't require support for it. Use $@.in instead.
4619 Problem reported by Anthony N. Frasso in
4620 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-03/msg00008.html>.
4621 * bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in: Add @configure_input@ comment.
4623 2004-02-23 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
4625 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory): Recognize LT_INIT
4626 from the next generation of Libtool.
4627 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoreconf-preselections): Ditto.
4629 2004-02-20 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
4631 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <mkdir>: `mkdir -p'
4632 is not always thread-safe. Report from Nathanael Nerode.
4634 2004-02-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4636 Fix a dependencies problem, stemming from a Autoconf 2.59 build
4637 problem on QNX reported by Stephen Rasku in
4638 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2004-02/msg00066.html>.
4640 * bin/Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/autoconf.in): Depend on
4641 $(m4sh_m4f_dependencies); this removes a FIXME.
4642 * tests/Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/wrapper.in): Likewise.
4643 (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Split into pieces,
4644 one per related section. Add $(srcdir)/wrapper.in.
4646 2004-02-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4648 * doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Emphasize that
4649 AC_SUBST provides no portable way to escape literal newlines.
4651 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Ignore all
4652 flags of the form -lcrt*.o, not just -lcrt[01].o and -lcrtbegin.o.
4653 Darwin uses -lcrt2.o and there's little point to cataloging all
4654 the system variants. Partial fix reported by Andreas Waechter in:
4655 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-02/msg00006.html
4656 for bug reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe in:
4657 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-12/msg00090.html
4659 2004-02-04 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
4661 * doc/autoconf.texi (AU_DEFUN): Fix English,
4662 suggested by Paul Eggert.
4663 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4: Correct reference to
4664 acobsolete.m4, suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
4666 2004-02-02 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
4668 * bin/autoupdate.in: Define __file__ so that warnings
4669 refer to the correct file.
4670 * doc/autoconf.texi (AU_DEFUN): Describe more correctly
4671 the behavior of the third argument.
4672 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4 (AU_DEFUN): Describe more
4673 correctly the behavior of the third argument. Document
4674 what the three macros that AU_DEFUN defines do. Fix
4675 warning message when the third argument includes $0
4676 (reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz).
4678 2004-01-30 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
4679 Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
4680 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4682 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (M4SH-SANITIZE): New diversion.
4683 (AS_INIT): Output shell initialization there. Removed optional
4684 parameter. Expand _AS_SHELL_FN_SPY.
4685 (AS_INIT_WITH_SHELL_FN): Removed.
4686 (_AS_SHELL_FN_SPY): New macro.
4687 (AS_DETECT_REQUIRED, AS_DETECT_SUGGESTED): New
4688 macros.
4689 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Remove loop to find better shell
4690 and documentation for the parameter.
4691 (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Move it here.
4692 (_AS_SHELL_FN_WORK): Remove shell invocation, reformat.
4693 (_AS_RUN): Move it here, support testing with eval.
4694 (AS_REQUIRE_SHELL_FN): Require shell functions when
4695 it is used.
4696 (_AS_LINENO_WORKS): Put around braces, we do not
4697 trigger the bash bug anymore.
4698 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Document M4SH-SANITIZE, do not
4699 use AS_INIT_WITH_SHELL_FN.
4700 * bin/autoconf.in, tests/wrapper.in: Regenerated.
4702 2004-01-30 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
4704 * bin/autoupdate.in: Trace AU_DEFINE instead of AU_DEFUN.
4705 * doc/autoconf.texi: Don't say that the third parameter
4706 is broken.
4707 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4 (AU_DEFINE): New dummy macro.
4708 (AU_DEFUN): Honor the third parameter, create autoupdate
4709 macros with AU_DEFINE.
4710 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_USG, AC_MEMORY_H,
4711 AC_DIR_HEADER): Use AU_DEFUN's third parameter.
4712 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_SAVE): Likewise.
4713 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_RSH): Likewise.
4714 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_HAVE_POUNDBANG,
4715 AC_ARG_ARRAY, AC_CYGWIN, AC_EMXOS2, AC_MINGW32,
4716 AC_XENIX_DIR): Likewise.
4717 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_INT_16_BITS, AC_LONG_64_BITS,
4718 AC_STRUCT_ST_BLKSIZE, AC_STRUCT_ST_RDEV): Likewise.
4719 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Remove FIXME.
4720 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_AU_MACRO): Ignore stderr, check
4721 that the macro is not present anymore in the updated
4722 configure.ac.
4723 * tests/tools.at (autoupdate AC_LINK_FILES): Ignore stderr
4724 of autoupdate.
4726 2004-01-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4728 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Add 2004 to
4729 copyright years.
4730 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_COPYRIGHT): Add 1992 thorugh
4731 2003 (except 1997) to the list of copyright years. This undoes
4732 the 2003-05-22 change, which removed the older years from the list.
4733 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_OUTPUT): Update copyright date to 2004.
4735 2004-01-27 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
4736 Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>
4738 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_GREP): New macro to test for a
4739 grep or ggrep program in PATH that accepts as long lines as
4740 possible.
4741 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_GREP): Factor out the core of
4742 AC_PROG_GREP.
4743 (AC_PROG_EGREP, AC_PROG_FGREP): Use it to find best available
4744 egrep and fgrep respectively if $GREP -E/-F don't work.
4745 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FEATURE_CHECK): Factor out the common core of
4746 _AC_PROG_GREP, and AC_PROG_SED.
4747 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): New helper macro for finding the
4748 longest input length accepted by a command.
4749 (AC_PROG_SED): Use it.
4750 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): Document the changes.
4751 * NEWS: Updated.
4753 2004-01-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4755 * bin/autoconf.as ($version): Update copyright from 2003 to 2004.
4756 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
4757 bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in: Likewise.
4758 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_COPYRIGHT): Likewise.
4760 * Makefile.in, aclocal.m4, configure, bin/Makefile.in,
4761 bin/autoconf.in, config/Makefile.in, config/config.guess,
4762 config/config.sub, config/install-sh, config/mdate-sh,
4763 config/mkinstalldirs, config/texinfo.tex, doc/Makefile.in,
4764 lib/Makefile.in, lib/Autom4te/Makefile.in,
4765 lib/autoconf/Makefile.in, lib/autoscan/Makefile.in,
4766 lib/autotest/Makefile.in, lib/emacs/Makefile.in,
4767 lib/m4sugar/Makefile.in, man/Makefile.in, man/autoconf.1,
4768 man/autoheader.1, man/autom4te.1, man/autoreconf.1,
4769 man/autoscan.1, man/autoupdate.1, man/config.guess.1,
4770 man/config.sub.1, man/ifnames.1, tests/Makefile.in,
4771 tests/acc.at, tests/acfortran.at, tests/acfunctions.at,
4772 tests/acgeneral.at, tests/acheaders.at, tests/aclang.at,
4773 tests/aclibs.at, tests/acspecific.at, tests/acstatus.at,
4774 tests/actypes.at: Regenerate and/or sync with original
4775 sources.
4777 2004-01-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4779 * doc/autoconf.texi (Default Includes): Include <stdint.h> even if
4780 HAVE_INTTYPES_H is defined. This is needed on Tru64 5.1b with
4781 Compac C V6.5-207 (dtk), which defines uintmax_t in <stdint.h> but
4782 not <inttypes.h>. Problem reported by Tim Mooney in
4783 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-01/msg00147.html>.
4784 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS):
4785 Likewise.
4787 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_SED): Use diff, not sed;
4788 otherwise "make check" fails because it forbids cmp (I guess
4789 because cmp treats files as binary on DOS-like systems).
4791 * tests/mktests.sh: Update copyright date to 2004, since some tests
4792 have changed in 2004.
4794 2004-01-23 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
4796 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_SED): New macro to test for a
4797 non-truncating sed or gsed program in PATH.
4798 * tests/acprograms.at: Add it.
4799 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): Document it.
4800 * NEWS: Updated.
4802 2004-01-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4804 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Try -std, not -std1, since
4805 -std1 disables some useful extensions on Tru64. Problem reported
4806 by N. Lichtmaier in
4807 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-01/msg00100.html>.
4809 2004-01-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4811 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Document that
4812 AS_MKDIR_P succeeds if the destination is a symbolic link
4813 to an existing directory.
4814 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Note that mkdir -p might not
4815 succeed on symlinks to directories.
4817 2004-01-13 Paul Hilfinger <hilfinger@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
4819 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4 (AU_DEFUN): Grammar fix in comment.
4820 * bin/autoheader.in: Grammar fix in message.
4821 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_MKDIR_P):
4822 Test for dir before calling mkdir -p. (trivial changes)
4824 2004-01-13 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
4826 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsolete Macros): In AC_TRY_COMPILE and
4827 AC_TRY_LINK, s/AC_LANG_SOURCE/AC_LANG_PROGRAM/. (trivial change)
4829 2004-01-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
4831 * doc/autoconf.texi (Running the Preprocessor): Correct grammar.
4833 2004-01-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4835 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Fix bug: AC_CHECK_SIZEOF evokes a warning
4836 with `autoconf -Wall,error'. Bug reported by Eric Blake in:
4837 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-01/msg00000.html
4838 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE): Invoke _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, not
4839 AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, since we now assume our caller invokes
4840 AC_LANG_COMPILER_REQUIRE, for symmetry with _AC_COMPUTE_INT_RUN.
4841 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT_RUN): Likewise, for _AC_RUN_IFELSE instead
4842 of AC_RUN_IFELSE; this avoids the warning mentioned above.
4843 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT): Invoke AC_LANG_COMPILER_REQUIRE.
4845 2004-01-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4847 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJS_NORMALIZE): Avoid \$ inside
4848 `"'...'"`, as it's confusing (and I suspect it may not work on
4849 some platforms). The code was incorrect anyway, as it assumed
4850 that \$ evaluated to itself in that context. Reported by
4851 Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
4853 2004-01-07 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
4855 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect AC_LIBTOOL_TAGS
4856 and _LT_AC_TAGCONFIG.
4858 2004-01-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4860 * doc/autoconf.texi (One Macro Call): Fix an incorrect
4861 example, and add more examples. Reported by Eric Sunshine.
4863 2004-01-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4865 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools):
4866 Remove warning against "rm -fr" introduced yesterday; it
4867 was a false alarm.
4869 * bin/Makefile.am (autoconf, autoheader, autom4te, autoreconf,
4870 autoscan, autoupdate, ifnames): Don't use chmod -w.
4871 * lib/Makefile.am (autom4te.cfg): Likewise.
4872 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Warn against
4873 "chmod -w".
4875 2004-01-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4876 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
4878 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Speed up sed scripts
4879 by doing lineno substitution only on lines containing "$LINENO".
4881 2004-01-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4883 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_PROGRAM):
4884 Use "rm -f" to remove conftest.sed, not plain "rm".
4885 Bug reported by David Relson in
4886 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-01/msg00011.html>.
4888 * Makefile.am (autom4te-update):
4889 Replace "rm -rf" and "rm -fr" with "rm -f -r", as POSIX requires.
4890 * Makefile.maint (my-distcheck, do-po-update): Likewise.
4891 * doc/autoconf.texi (Guidelines): Likewise.
4892 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Likewise.
4893 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_XMKMF): Likewise.
4894 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_LONG_FILE_NAMES): Likewise.
4895 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
4896 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): Likewise.
4897 * tests/Makefile.am (clean-local): Likewise.
4898 * tests/tortue.at (AC_CONFIG_FILES, HEADERS, LINKS and COMMANDS,
4899 srcdir): Likewise.
4900 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools):
4901 Warn against "rm -fr".
4903 2004-01-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4905 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Mention that cc
4906 -c -o might not work. From a suggestion by Kevin Ryde.
4907 (C Compiler, Generating Sources, Limitations
4908 of Usual Tools, Limitations of Make, Making testsuite Scripts):
4909 Don't put '-o' after non-options, as POSIX doesn't allow this.
4910 Mention that cc's name might be gcc or c89 or whatever.
4912 2004-01-04 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
4914 * doc/autoconf.texi: Add various further index entries.
4916 2003-12-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
4918 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory):
4919 Fix typo: mkdir without umask arg.
4921 2003-12-27 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
4923 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make) <Automatic rule rewriting>:
4924 Documents OSF1/Tru64 make behavior. Replace `VPATH = ../src' by
4925 `VPATH = ../pkg/src' in examples to make the OSF1/Tru64 make
4926 explanation clearer.
4928 2003-12-24 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
4930 * doc/autoconf.texi (Default Includes): Fix misspelling of
4931 AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT.
4933 2003-12-03 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
4935 * configure.ac: Test if sh -n works.
4936 * configure: Regenerate.
4937 * tests/atlocal.in: Store the result here.
4938 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_SHELL_SYNTAX): Extracted from
4939 tools.at, looking in atlocal's ac_cv_sh_n_works instead
4940 of explicitly testing.
4941 (AT_CHECK_PERL_SYNTAX): Moved from tools.at.
4942 (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF): Test for the configure script syntax.
4943 * tests/tools.at (Syntax of the shell scripts): Simplify
4944 using AT_CHECK_SHELL_SYNTAX.
4945 (Syntax of the Perl scripts): Remove definition of
4946 AT_CHECK_PERL_SYNTAX.
4948 2003-12-03 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
4950 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_SHELL_FN_WORK): Redirect
4951 stderr to /dev/null.
4952 * bin/autoconf.in: Regenerate.
4953 * bin/wrapper.in: Regenerate.
4955 2003-11-26 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
4957 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE):
4958 Extracted from AS_SHELL_SANITIZE.
4959 (_AS_SHELL_FN_WORK, AS_INIT_WITH_SHELL_FN): New
4960 macros.
4961 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Move reinvocation code from
4962 _AS_LINENO_WORKS, use it to find out if shell
4963 functions work.
4964 (_AS_LINENO_WORKS): Don't find another shell if $LINENO
4965 does not work.
4966 (AS_INIT): Pass parameter down to AS_SHELL_SANITIZE.
4967 (AS_REQUIRE_SHELL_FN): Test that AS_INIT_WITH_SHELL_FN
4968 was called.
4969 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Use AS_INIT_WITH_SHELL_FN.
4970 * bin/autoconf.in: Regenerate.
4971 * tests/wrapper.in: Regenerate.
4972 * tests/tools.at: Test the syntax of tests/autoconf
4973 and tests/testsuite.
4975 2003-11-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4977 * config/announce-gen (&print_locations, &print_signatures)
4978 (&sizes): New.
4979 Use them.
4980 No longer rely on Gnus to inline the list of signatures: compute
4981 them on the fly.
4983 2003-11-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4985 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): AC_PROG_LEX can
4986 override some files.
4987 (Input): AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(aux) is a bad idea on DOS.
4988 From Debian Autoconf 2.58.
4990 2003-11-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
4992 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Quote $ac_popdir
4993 uses.
4994 From Debian Autoconf 2.58.
4996 2003-11-24 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
4998 * TODO: Remove already done things. Update the part about finding
4999 tools for the target.
5001 2003-11-24 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
5003 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_USG, AC_MEMORY_H, AC_DIR_HEADER):
5004 Make wording more consistent.
5005 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_CYGWIN, AC_EMXOS2, AC_MINGW32):
5006 Explain the transition better.
5007 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_INT_16_BITS, AC_LONG_64_BITS): Explain
5008 the transition better.
5010 2003-11-24 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
5012 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsoleting Macros): Don't document the third
5013 parameter of AU_DEFUN.
5014 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4 (AU_DEFINE): Remove.
5015 (AU_DEFUN): Remove the third parameter, it was not used.
5016 Use AC_DEFUN directly, not AU_DEFINE.
5017 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_LINK_FILES): Move the message into
5018 the expanded body, consistently with other macros such as AC_USG.
5020 2003-11-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5022 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Put at least 14 bytes
5023 into the initial confdefs.h, to work around a bug in NextStep 3.3
5024 patch 3 reported by Eric Sunshine.
5026 2003-11-15 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
5028 * doc/autoconf.texi (Using System Type): Revise, showing $host rather
5029 than $target since the latter is not usual, add guidelines on when to
5030 use or not use the system type.
5032 2003-11-12 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
5034 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Fix what looks like a
5035 typo misrepaired by an auto-spellcheck.
5037 2003-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5039 * bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args): Don't call automake with
5040 --force-missing unless it actually supports it.
5041 From Debian #219336.
5043 2003-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5045 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.59a.
5046 Require 2.59.
5048 2003-11-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5050 Version 2.59.
5052 2003-11-05 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
5054 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Fix use of AS_SET_CATFILE
5055 so that ac_abs_builddir, ac_abs_top_builddir, ac_abs_srcdir,
5056 and ac_abs_top_srcdir are absolute paths.
5057 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SET_CATFILE): Remove misleading comment.
5059 2003-11-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5061 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.58a.
5063 2003-11-05 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
5065 * doc/autoconf.texi (Using Autotest): Avoid @strong{Note: ...}, since
5066 it provokes a warning from makeinfo about looking like a cross
5067 reference in info output.
5069 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add notes on signal
5070 handler return type, as per AC_TYPE_SIGNAL.
5072 2003-11-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5074 Version 2.58.
5075 * doc/standards.texi: Update from master.
5077 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Add AC_FC_FREEFORM.
5079 2003-11-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5081 AC_CONFIG_FILE([d1/foo:d2/foo]) triggers error messages when
5082 computing the absolute path to d1 in the source hierarchy: it may
5083 not exist at all. So don't cd into it.
5084 From Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
5085 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-10/msg00205.html
5087 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SET_CATFILE): New.
5088 From Paul Eggert, but named after Perl's IO::Spec->catfile.
5089 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Document.
5090 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Use it.
5092 2003-11-03 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
5094 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Structure Checks): Describe
5095 action-if-found and action-if-not-found in AC_CHECK_MEMBERS.
5097 2003-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5099 * tests/fortran.at (GNU Fortran 77): Don't run FC macros.
5100 (GNU Fortran): New.
5101 * doc/autoconf.texi (Language Choice): Document.
5102 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_FREEFORM): Assert
5103 the current language is Fortran.
5105 2003-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5107 * bin/autom4te.in (&freeze): Use a less likely warning separator
5108 than `\n\n', so that `\n\n\n' is valid in warnings.
5109 Reported by Steve Huston.
5111 2003-10-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5113 * Makefile.cfg (local_updates, executable-update): Tweak to be
5114 robust to parallel makes.
5115 Suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
5117 2003-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5119 * Makefile.cfg (executable-update): New.
5120 (local_updates): Call it.
5122 2003-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5124 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_RUN_IFELSE, _AC_INIT_PREPARE):
5125 Don't remove core.* as it may remove valid user files.
5126 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED)
5127 (AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL): Likewise.
5129 2003-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5131 Version 2.57g.
5132 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub: Upgrade from masters.
5134 2003-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5136 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_SRCEXT): Functions using
5137 AC_COMPILE_IFELSE that use break skip the clean up. So do it by
5138 hand...
5140 2003-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5142 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LINK_IFELSE, _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE):
5143 Don't forget to remove conftest.err.
5145 2003-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5147 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ): Don't insert twice the
5148 same object file in $LIBOBJS.
5149 Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz & Derek Robert Price.
5150 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Functions): Adjust.
5152 2003-10-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5154 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_TR_SH_PREPARE, _AS_TR_CPP_PREPARE):
5155 Use 'eval', so that the resulting configure scripts work even if
5156 the current directory has a weird file name like 'y%s+%pp%;s%@%_%g'.
5158 2003-10-20 Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
5160 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_WERROR): New macro.
5161 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, _AC_PREPROC_IFELSE)
5162 (_AC_LINK_IFELSE): Check the werror flag.
5163 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Compiler Characteristics): Document
5164 AC_LANG_WERROR.
5165 * NEWS: Mention it.
5167 2003-10-20 Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
5169 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_NO_EXECUTABLES): Override
5170 _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT to attempt a link. If linking fails,
5171 override AC_LINK_IFELSE.
5173 2003-10-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5175 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_UNSET_PREPARE): Work around a bug in
5176 pdksh 5.2.14. Bug reported by Ralf Corsepius.
5177 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology): Mention the Korn shell and pdksh.
5178 Mention /usr/dt/bin/dtksh on Solaris.
5179 (Shell Substitutions): Warn about $((...)).
5180 (Parentheses): New section.
5182 2003-10-15 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
5184 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add @prindex for exit.
5185 Add putenv and unsetenv. Add sysconf _SC_PAGE_SIZE.
5187 2003-10-13 Nathanael Nerode <neroden@gcc.gnu.org>
5189 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_FORK): Trivial fix for vfork
5190 cross test.
5192 2003-10-11 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
5194 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Use the new official
5195 name for the GNU Fortran 95+ compiler, 'gfortran', not 'g95'.
5197 2003-10-10 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
5199 * bin/autoheader.in: Avoid empty first line in --version and
5200 --help output.
5201 * bin/ifnames.in: Likewise.
5203 2003-10-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5205 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Don't assume -j is solo.
5206 Issue a more-informative diagnostic.
5207 Problems reported by Eric Sunshine.
5209 2003-10-08 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
5211 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): Omit quoted
5212 -mGLOB_options_string stuff for Intel ifc, which can cause
5213 _AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS to fail. Use (faster) case for
5214 pattern-matching instead of grep.
5216 2003-10-08 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
5218 * doc/autoconf.texi: Document new FC Fortran macros.
5220 2003-10-08 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
5222 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR): Stub out a macro
5223 that future autopoint/aclocal/automake/autoreconf will be able
5224 to trace to find where to install local m4 macros.
5225 * doc/autoconf.texi (Input): Document it.
5226 * NEWS: Updated.
5228 2003-10-06 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
5230 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Add
5231 -lcrtbegin.o to list of ignored flags and fix underquoting of
5232 -lcrt[01].o.
5234 2003-10-04 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@ab-initio.mit.edu>
5236 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_G): Use language-specific
5237 cache variable instead of $G77 to decide whether to include -O2,
5238 since $G77 is specific to Fortran 77.
5240 2003-10-03 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
5242 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_FREEFORM): Support Absoft "-f
5243 free" flag. Re-order flags tested into rough order of popularity.
5245 2003-10-03 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
5247 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_PROG_FC): Reverse the order of the
5248 arguments so that it can be used with syntax identical to
5249 AC_PROG_F77, and so that we can more easily decide to
5250 remove/deprecate the DIALECT optional argument in the future if it
5251 proves troublesome.
5252 (AC_FC_FREEFORM): Exit 77 upon failure to fix test suite for
5253 non-freeform-supporting compilers. Document freeform flags.
5255 2003-10-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5257 * configure.ac: Look for emacs, not macs.
5258 Reported by Eric Sunshine.
5260 2003-10-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5262 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoreconf-preselections): Trace AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR.
5263 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory): Create the
5264 AUX_DIR if needed, for sake of automake --add-missing etc.
5265 Suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
5267 2003-10-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5269 * configure.ac: Quotation and formatting changes.
5270 (EMACS): Don't set it if it is not recent enough to support
5271 autoconf-mode.el.
5272 From Eric Sunshine.
5274 2003-10-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5276 * bin/ifnames.in (&scan_file): Skip C++ comments.
5277 From Jeremy Yallop.
5279 2003-10-01 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
5281 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Structure Checks):
5282 Fix misspelling of HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_BLOCKS.
5284 2003-10-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5286 Version 2.57f.
5288 2003-09-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5290 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Use Errno.
5291 (lock): Ignore ENOLCK errors. Problem reported Andreas Schwab in
5292 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-09/msg00141.html>.
5294 2003-09-30 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5296 * config/announce-gen (&print_news_deltas): Extracted from...
5297 (&print_changelog_deltas): here.
5298 (&news_file): Rename as...
5299 (@news_file): this.
5301 2003-09-30 Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>
5303 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Remove files which might
5304 have been created when invoking the compiler.
5305 * tests/fortran.at (GNU Fortran 77): Quote $G77.
5307 2003-09-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5309 Version 2.57e.
5311 * config/mkinstalldirs: Upgrade.
5313 2003-09-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5315 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Set DUALCASE=1, for MKS sh.
5316 Problem reported by Lars J. Aas in
5317 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2003-07/msg00042.html>.
5318 (_AS_MKDIR_P_PREPARE): Change "rm -fr ./-p" to the more-conservative
5319 "test -d ./-p && rmdir ./-p". Suggested by Andreas Schwab in:
5320 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2003-09/msg00039.html
5322 2003-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5324 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS): Make sure the
5325 directory for AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS' first argument exists.
5326 This makes valid the invocation of _AC_SRCPATH that follows.
5327 Reported by Eric Sunshine.
5328 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Commands): Adjust.
5330 2003-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5332 * bin/autoscan.in (Autom4te::FileUtils): Use it for find_file.
5333 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
5335 2003-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5337 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_HELP_STRING): Don't overquote the
5338 arguments.
5339 Actually, use AU_ALIAS.
5340 From Bruno Haible.
5342 2003-09-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5344 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_MKDIR_P_PREPARE): If mkdir -p . fails,
5345 rm -fr ./-p to remove junk left behind on NextStep and OpenStep.
5346 Problem reported by Eric Sunshine in:
5347 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2002-12/msg00014.html
5349 2003-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5351 The test suite are sometimes assigning timings incorrectly.
5352 Reported by Henk Krus.
5353 Diagnosed by Nicolas Joly.
5355 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CLEANUP): Rename AT_help as
5356 AT_help_all.
5357 Instead of making AT_help a sequence of assignments to grow
5358 $at_help_all, just make AT_help_all be the growing contents of
5359 $at_help_all, and make a single assignment in...
5360 (AT_INIT): here.
5361 (at_times_skip): Flip the meaning and rename as...
5362 (at_times_p): this.
5363 (AT_INIT): When summarizing the test that ran, remove
5364 $at_times_file after use, and check it is present before trying to
5365 use it.
5367 2003-09-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5369 Version 2.57d.
5371 * bin/Makefile.am (edit): Handle '@configure_input@'.
5372 (autoconf, autoheader, autom4te, autoreconf, autoscan, autoupdate)
5373 (ifnames): chmod -w.
5374 * tests/wrapper.as (AUTOCONF, AUTOM4TE, ): Point to tests/
5375 executables, not bin/ executables! Otherwise all the magic needed
5376 to find non installed files is turned off. This caused a failure
5377 of test 40 and 41 that ran aclocal 1.8 which in turn ran autom4te
5378 as found in its environment (sent by tests/autoreconf): pointing
5379 to bin/autom4te that could not find its files.
5380 * tests/mktests.sh: Force the replacement of generated files, for
5381 the sake of "mv" program that are interactive when overwriting a
5382 -w file.
5383 * config/install-sh: Upgrade from CVS Automake.
5385 2003-09-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5387 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Document test -h
5388 versus test -L issues.
5390 2003-09-23 Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> and
5391 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5393 Trivial change to support GCC's configuration procedure.
5394 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CPP_WERROR): New macro.
5395 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): Don't warn
5396 about inconsistency if the preprocessor is set to give errors for
5397 any warning.
5398 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler Characteristics): Document this.
5400 2003-09-13 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
5402 * Makefile.am (autom4te-update, autom4te_files): Fetch Struct.pm
5403 and XFile.pm from Automake.
5404 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Update from Automake.
5406 2003-09-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5408 Version 2.57c.
5410 2003-09-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5412 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/missing,
5413 * lib/Autom4te/Channels.pm, lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm: Update
5414 from masters.
5416 2003-09-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5418 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): Promote linux/types.h,
5419 not asm/types.h.
5421 2003-09-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5423 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): linux/random.h.
5424 From Peter Hendrickson.
5426 2003-09-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5428 * tests/mktests.sh (au_exclude_egrep): Make it harder to be
5429 willing to edit the output files.
5431 2003-09-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5433 * tests/fortran.at (GNU Fortran 77): Also exercise AC_FC_SRCEXT
5434 and AC_FC_FREEFORM.
5435 * tests/mktests.sh: Skip AC_FC_SRCEXT.
5436 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_FREEFORM): Likewise.
5438 2003-09-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5440 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm (&update_file): s/cannot not/cannot/g.
5441 Reported by Gary Vaughan.
5442 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_m4): Likewise.
5444 2003-09-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5446 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm (&update_file): Be sure not to leave
5447 trailing files.
5449 2003-09-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5451 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS):
5452 Improve the accuracy of the wording about obsolescence.
5453 From a suggestion by Ian Lance Taylor in
5454 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2003-09/msg00044.html>.
5456 2003-09-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5458 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_FREEFORM): Try -ffree-form too,
5459 for the benefit of g77 3.2. Fix suggested by Steven G. Johnson.
5461 2003-09-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5463 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Fix the filtering of
5464 AC_FUNC_WAIT3.
5466 2003-09-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5468 * bin/autom4te.in: Use &fatal where more appropriate than &error.
5469 (freeze): When exiting, use $exit_code.
5470 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4: Comment changes.
5472 2003-09-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5474 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Add AC_FC_FUNC.
5476 2003-09-02 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
5478 Add support for newer Fortran dialects. The F77 interface is
5479 unchanged, and continues to support Fortran 77. New FC macros
5480 correspond to all the old F77 macros, with output variables FC,
5481 FCFLAGS, and FCLIBS. AC_PROG_FC defaults to picking the newest
5482 available dialect, but older dialects can be specified. There are
5483 new macros AC_FC_SRCEXT to set the source extension, and
5484 AC_FC_FREEFORM to accept free-form source files.
5486 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_LANG_PREFIX(C), _AC_LANG_PREFIX(C++)):
5487 New macros.
5488 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C)): Invoke _AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_FC_HOOKS if defined.
5489 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_LANG(Fortran), _AC_FORTRAN_ASSERT,
5490 _AC_LANG_ABBREV(Fortran), _AC_LANG_PREFIX(Fortran 77),
5491 _AC_LANG_PREFIX(Fortran), _AC_FC, AC_LANG_SOURCE(Fortran),
5492 AC_LANG_PROGRAM(Fortran), AC_LANG_CALL(Fortran),
5493 AC_LANG_PREPROC(Fortran), AC_LANG_COMPILER(Fortran),
5494 _AC_FC_DIALECT_YEAR, _AC_F95_FC, _AC_F90_FC, _AC_F77_FC,
5495 _AC_PROG_FC, AC_PROG_FC, _AC_PROG_FC_G, _AC_PROG_FC_C_O,
5496 AC_PROG_FC_C_O, _AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT, _AC_PROG_FC_V,
5497 _AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS, AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS, _AC_FC_DUMMY_MAIN,
5498 AC_FC_DUMMY_MAIN, _AC_FC_MAIN, AC_FC_MAIN, __AC_FC_NAME_MANGLING,
5499 _AC_FC_WRAPPERS, AC_FC_WRAPPERS, _AC_FC_FUNC, AC_FC_FUNC,
5500 AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_FREEFORM):
5501 New macros.
5502 (AC_PROG_F77, AC_PROG_F77_C_O, AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS,
5503 AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN, AC_F77_MAIN, _AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING,
5504 AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING, AC_F77_WRAPPERS, AC_F77_FUNC):
5505 Rewrite in terms of the above.
5506 (_AC_PROG_F77_G, _AC_PROG_F77_V_OUTPUT, _AC_PROG_F77_V): Remove.
5507 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_LANG_PREFIX): New macro.
5508 * tests/acfortran.at: Test AC_FC_FREEFORM, AC_FC_FUNC,
5509 AC_FC_MAIN, AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_WRAPPERS, AC_PROG_FC_C_O.
5511 2003-09-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5513 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools, Limitations of Make):
5514 Document problems with timestamp resolution that 'make', 'cp -p', and
5515 'touch -r' have.
5517 2003-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5519 * tests/m4sugar.at (cross_warning): Make sure to enable the
5520 output, so that we can track spurious m4sugar output.
5521 * tests/local.at: Require 2.57.
5522 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR, AT_CHECK_M4SH): Don't m4_default the arguments that
5523 are defaulted by AT_CHECK anyway.
5524 Use AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE.
5525 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: There should be no output at all: add a
5526 missing dnl.
5528 2003-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5530 * bin/autoheader.in: Issue the "Using auxiliary..." message only
5531 when -Wobsolete is set.
5532 Set it on by default.
5533 Suggested by Klee Dienes.
5535 2003-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5537 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_FUNC_FSEEKO, AC_SYS_LARGEFILE): More
5538 documentation.
5539 From Guido Draheim.
5541 2003-08-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5543 * doc/autoconf.texi (Output): Make clear that one can run code
5544 after AC_OUTPUT.
5546 2003-08-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5548 * config/announce-gen, GNUmakefile, Makefile.maint: Update from
5549 CVS Bison.
5551 2003-08-25 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
5553 * bin/autoreconf.in (parse_args): Do not pass --no-force to
5554 Automake versions prior to 1.8.
5556 2003-08-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5558 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): netinet/if_ether.h.
5559 From Ville Karaila.
5561 2003-08-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5563 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.57c.
5565 2003-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5567 Version 2.57b.
5569 * Makefile.cfg (local-checks-to-skip): New.
5570 * Makefile.maint (local-check): Rename as...
5571 (local-checks-available): this.
5572 (local-check): New.
5574 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add Makefile.cfg.
5575 * configure.ac: Require Automake 1.7.6.
5577 2003-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5579 Output stack traces in warnings.
5581 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (_m4_warn): New.
5582 Replace the former...
5583 (m4_warn): Pass the call stack to _m4_warn.
5584 * bin/autom4te.in: Adjust to output the call stack.
5585 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4@&t@_warn): Adjust.
5587 2003-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5589 * lib/Autom4te/Request.pm, lib/Autom4te/C4che.pm: New.
5590 * bin/autom4te.in: Adjust.
5592 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5594 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&file_name_is_absolute): Remove.
5595 (&verbose): Remove.
5596 (&getopt): Adjust the note and verb channels, depending upon
5597 --verbose.
5598 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoscan.in,
5599 * bin/autoupdate.in: Adjust.
5600 Use &verb, not &verbose.
5602 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5604 * bin/autoheader.in (&parse_args): Use &parse_warnings and
5605 &parse_WARNINGS.
5606 ($help): Use Autom4te::ChannelDefs::usage.
5607 * bin/autoscan.in: Use Autom4te::ChannelDefs.
5608 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: Don't export error: you don't own it.
5610 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5612 First stab at preserving warnings between calls to autom4te,
5613 including when the cache is used.
5615 There are still several issues: (i) there are too many runs of m4
5616 (one for include, one for warnings, and some more), (ii) warnings
5617 spreading on several lines are not handled gracefully, (iii) the
5618 code meant to have the call stack display for errors does not work
5619 (its handling should move from m4 to autom4te).
5621 * bin/autom4te.in Autom4te::Channels, Autom4te::ChannelDefs):
5622 Use them.
5623 (@preselect): Add m4_warn.
5624 ($exit_status): Remove, use $exit_code.
5625 ($help): Use Autom4te::ChannelDefs::usage.
5626 (&handle_m4): No longer define the m4_warnings.
5627 At each run, extract and report the warnings.
5628 Always cache the result, including if the exit status is on
5629 failure, since if nothing changes, we should result in the same
5630 failure, hence we can use the cache.
5631 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_warning_ifelse, _m4_warning_ifelse)
5632 (_m4_warning_error_ifelse, __m4_warning_error_ifelse, _m4_warn):
5633 Remove.
5634 (m4_warn): Redefine as a do-nothing: it is its invocation that
5635 matters, as warnings are now reported via traces.
5636 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_DIAGNOSE): Don't make it a copy of
5637 the contents of m4_warn: make it _call_ m4_warn, so that tracing
5638 the latter reveals calls to the former.
5640 Adjust the tests.
5642 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4@&t@_warn): Use existing warning categories.
5644 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5646 * bin/autoreconf.pm (Autom4te::Channels, Autom4te::ChannelDefs):
5647 Use them.
5649 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5651 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm (&find_file): Walk the @include in
5652 forward order.
5653 * lib/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm: Doc typos.
5654 (&parse_warnings): Accept a list of warning requests.
5655 (&usage): Return a string, not a side effect.
5656 (cross): New warning category.
5658 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5660 * lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm (&find_configure_ac)
5661 (&require_configure_ac): Accept an optional directory argument.
5662 ($configure_ac): Remove.
5663 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_configure_ac, &canonfile)
5664 (&catfile): Remove.
5665 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoupdate.in,
5666 * bin/autoscan.in: Adjust.
5668 2003-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5670 * bin/autoheader.in: Remove duplicate 'use Autom4te::FileUtils'.
5671 Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
5673 2003-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5675 * bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
5676 * bin/autom4te: Adjust.
5677 In particular, be Autoconf tools are really silent when properly
5678 working, bind the verbosity of the 'note' channel to $verbose.
5679 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_file, &mtime, &update_file)
5680 (&xsystem, &contents): Remove, since they are exported by...
5681 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm: this.
5682 More perldoc.
5683 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&up_to_date_p): Move to...
5684 * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm: here.
5686 2003-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5688 * lib/Autom4te/Channels.pm, lib/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm
5689 * lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm, lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm: New,
5690 from CVS Automake.
5692 2003-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5694 * Makefile.am (automake_cvsweb, automake_cvsargs, autom4te_files)
5695 (autom4te-update): New.
5696 * Makefile.cfg (update): Bind autom4te-update.
5698 2003-08-19 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
5700 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Comment various HELP_* diversions.
5701 (PARSE_ARGS_BEGIN): New section for option parsing related
5702 initialization.
5703 (AT_ARG_OPTION,AT_ARG_OPTION_ARG,_AT_ARG_OPTION): New macros to define
5704 package specific options and associated help.
5706 2003-08-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5708 * config/announce-gen, Makefile.cfg: New.
5709 * Makefile.am: Adjust.
5710 * GNUmakefile, Makefile.maint: Update from CVS Coreutils.
5712 2003-08-19 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
5714 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect
5715 AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR, AC_CONFIG_LINKS, m4_include,
5716 and m4_sinclude.
5718 2003-08-19 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
5720 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): Move all args except aclocal.m4? into ...
5721 (Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4): ... this new language.
5722 * doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te Invocation): Mention
5723 Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4.
5725 2003-08-18 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
5727 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Document RUN-IF-FAIL &
5728 RUN-IF-PASS optional arguments.
5730 2003-08-18 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
5732 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Add doc for AS_IF.
5734 2003-08-16 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
5736 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Document defaults for
5737 STDOUT & STDERR arguments.
5739 2003-08-14 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
5741 * lib/autotestgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Reformat test summary line to print
5742 DESCRIPTION rather than FILE and LINE. Shorten result to fit in new,
5743 shorter column three. Add DESCRIPTION to log file content.
5745 2003-08-13 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
5747 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Correct typo in final status
5748 output.
5750 2003-08-12 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
5752 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CHECK): Use new _AT_CHECK API.
5753 (AT_CHECK_NOESCAPE): Move core functionality to...
5754 (_AT_CHECK): ...this new macro.
5756 2003-08-07 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
5758 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CHECK): Move core functionality...
5759 (AT_CHECK_NOESCAPE): ...to this new macro.
5761 2003-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5763 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_UNSET_PREPARE): Work around a bug
5764 in Bash 2.01. Problem reported by Brian Gough in
5765 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-07/msg00106.html>.
5767 2003-07-25 John W. Eaton <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
5769 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Also ignore
5770 -lcrt1.o, for OS X. (trivial change)
5772 2003-07-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5774 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_INLINE): Wrap the '#define inline ...'
5775 inside '#ifndef __cplusplus'. Problem reported by
5776 Bob Friesenhahn.
5778 2003-07-06 Bill Clarke <llib@computer.org>
5780 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MMAP): Cast pointer to
5781 'long', not 'int', for benefit of Sun's recent C++ compilers
5782 (trivial change). See:
5783 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2003-07/msg00007.html
5784 (This really should be 'intptr_t', not 'long', but that would
5785 take more work.)
5787 2003-06-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5789 * lib/Makefile.am (autom4te.cfg): Make it read only.
5790 Depend on Makefile since it contains substitutions.
5791 From Paolo Bonzini.
5792 * lib/autom4te.in (args): Add local.at? for Autotest args.
5793 This change was made on autom4te.cfg which is generated.
5794 Reported by Raja R. Harinath.
5796 2003-06-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5798 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): sys/mount.h.
5799 From Gareth McCaughan.
5801 2003-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5803 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Report a single config.log,
5804 not all of them. This fixes 1. the fact that when testing
5805 Autoconf there are many many config.log, 2. the incorrect use of
5806 top_srcdir to find config.log.
5807 Don't mix the detailed output of failed test with the summary of
5808 failures. Rather, append detailed log afterwards.
5810 2003-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5812 * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_CONFIGURE): Adjust to the verbose being
5813 always run: output config.log on $at_group_log.
5815 2003-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5817 * tests/torture.at (#define header templates): Don't use quotes in
5818 C++ comments as it puzzles Emacs' sh font-lock-mode.
5820 2003-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5822 * tests/mktests.sh (au_exclude_egrep): Fix output copyright notice.
5823 * lib/autom4te.cfg (args): Add local.at? for Autotest args.
5824 * tests/atspecific.m4: Rename as...
5825 * tests/local.at: This.
5826 * tests/suite.at: Move the globals into...
5827 * tests/local.at: here.
5828 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
5829 * doc/autoconf.texi (testsuite Scripts): Adjust.
5831 2003-06-21 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
5833 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Extend test program to get an
5834 error from OSF 4.0 Compaq cc in its default almost-ANSI mode, thereby
5835 ensuring we add -std1 for full-ANSI.
5837 * doc/autoconf.texi (hdrindex): New macro.
5838 Add index entries for portability of various standard header files.
5840 2003-06-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5842 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.57b.
5844 2003-06-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5846 Version 2.57a.
5848 2003-06-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5850 * bin/autom4te.in: Don't rely on $HOME being defined.
5851 Reported by Marc Espie as PR/233.
5853 2003-06-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5855 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Use at_times_file only if used.
5856 From Nicolas Joly.
5858 2003-06-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5860 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/elisp-comp,
5861 * config/install-sh, config/mkinstalldirs, doc/standards.texi:
5862 Update from masters.
5864 2003-06-11 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
5866 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Document AT_XFAIL_IF
5867 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_XFAIL_IF): New macro.
5868 (TEST_SCRIPT): New diversion.
5869 (AT_SETUP): Divert output to TEST_SCRIPT and move some code...
5870 (AT_CLEANUP): ...to here. Undivert TEST_SCRIPT.
5871 (AT_INIT): Support for expected failures.
5873 2003-06-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5875 * bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoheader.in: White space
5876 changes.
5877 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&backname): Remove, no longer used by
5878 Autoconf nor Automake.
5879 (&contents): New, from Automake.
5880 PODify.
5882 2003-05-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5884 * NEWS, doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions),
5885 lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MKTIME): Check that mktime
5886 is the inverse of localtime.
5888 2003-05-25 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
5890 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (END): Print diagnostics to STDERR.
5891 (handle_exec_errors): New function. Work around $! being
5892 altered by WEXITSTATUS.
5893 (xqx, xsystem): Use handle_exec_errors.
5895 2003-05-23 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
5897 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (END): Rewrite exit code processing.
5898 Do not call `_exit()', simply modify `$?'.
5899 (xsystem): Reset $! before running system, and check it afterward.
5900 * tests/tools.at (autoupdating AC_PREREQ): Expect exit status
5901 63 for version mismatches.
5903 2003-05-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5905 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Prefer "TAB-SP" to "SP-TAB", because of
5906 Emacs' dangerous whitespace.el behavior (smashing "useless" spaces in
5907 the middle of a line).
5908 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: Likewise.
5909 Remove useless spaces in comments.
5911 2003-05-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5913 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_version_prereq): Failure causes an
5914 exit 63, so that we (or Automake's "missing") can tell the
5915 difference with a plain failure.
5916 * doc/autoconf.texi (Notices): Adjust.
5918 2003-05-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5920 * Makefile.am, bin/Makefile.am, config/Makefile.am,
5921 * doc/Makefile.am, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am, tests/Makefile.am:
5922 White spaces cleanup.
5924 2003-05-22 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
5925 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
5927 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION):
5928 Remove `#include <stdlib.h>' from the list; we should never
5929 make confdefs.h include <stdlib.h> or <cstdlib>, because the
5930 resulting namespace pollution would cause other tests to fail.
5931 Configure scripts run with some older versions of g++ and HP's
5932 aCC would fail due to such an #include. Problems reported by
5933 Matthew Mueller in <http://bugs.debian.org/120704> and by
5934 Keith Bostic in
5935 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2003-05/msg00063.html>.
5936 In the test, use the test declaration before including <stdlib.h>,
5937 as that's closer to how it'll be used.
5939 2003-05-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5941 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): ucred.h.
5942 From Ian Redfern.
5944 2003-05-22 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
5946 Overhaul Autotest's logging: generate separate log files
5947 in testsuite.dir/NNN/testsuite.log, and append them to
5948 testsuite.log instead of re-running the test verbosely.
5950 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Use a single redirected
5951 file descriptor, write 0 to at_status_file instead of setting
5952 at_status=0, initialize some new variables (at_status_file,
5953 at_group_log, at_suite_log, at_tee_pipe). Remove the cruft
5954 to rerun the tests, instead append the at_group_log to the
5955 at_suite_log when a test fails.
5956 (AT_SETUP): pipe the test case's output into at_tee_pipe,
5957 with the AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD redirected to stdout.
5958 (AT_CLEANUP): save the output status in $at_status_file
5959 and restore it, redirect the AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD back to
5960 its original place.
5961 (AT_CHECK): since tests are run with a redirected stdout,
5962 and used to be re-run in verbose mode, turn some $at_verbose
5963 into echo, and don't redirect the output of testing stdout
5964 and stderr.
5966 * lib/autotest/autoconf.texi (testsuite Scripts): Update
5967 the name of the debugging directory and information about
5968 its contents.
5970 2003-05-22 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
5972 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_REQUIRE): Actually use the 2nd
5973 parameter.
5975 2003-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5977 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4, lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4
5978 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 lib/autoconf/general.m4
5979 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 lib/autoconf/oldnames.m4
5980 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Fix and adjust copyright notices.
5982 2003-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
5984 * aclocal.m4, bin/autoconf.as, lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4,
5985 * lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4, lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4,
5986 * lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/fortran.m4,
5987 * lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/headers.m4,
5988 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4,
5989 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4, lib/autoconf/specific.m4,
5990 * lib/autoconf/status.m4, lib/autoconf/types.m4,
5991 * lib/autotest/general.m4, lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4,
5992 * tests/atspecific.m4, tests/base.at, tests/compile.at,
5993 * tests/foreign.at, tests/m4sh.at, tests/semantics.at,
5994 * tests/tools.at, tests/torture.at:
5995 Whitespace clean up.
5996 Suggested by Jim Meyering.
5998 2003-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6000 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG): Restore smashed
6001 ' \t' as '\t ' so that Emacs' whitespace.el keep it.
6002 Reported by Jim Meyering.
6004 2003-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6006 * doc/autoconf.texi: Replace AC_HELP_STRING AS_HELP_STRING.
6007 Add AC_HELP_STRING to the obsolete macros section.
6008 Typos.
6009 Use '@.' for sentences that ended in a capital letter.
6010 From Art Haas.
6012 2003-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6014 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/elisp-comp,
6015 * config/install-sh, config/mdate-sh, config/mkinstalldirs,
6016 * config/texinfo.tex, doc/standards.texi: Update from masters.
6018 2003-05-21 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
6020 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_VAR_SET): Escape the RHS before passing
6021 it to eval.
6023 2003-05-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6025 * bin/autoupdate.in ($m4): Fix quotation.
6026 Reported by Martin Mokrejs.
6028 2003-05-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6030 * ChangeLog, ChangeLog.2, THANKS, lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4:
6031 Remove non-ASCII characters.
6033 2003-05-18 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
6035 * tests/semantics.at (AC_SEARCH_LIBS): New test.
6036 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_HEADERS_OLD,
6037 AC_CHECK_HEADERS_NEW): New tests.
6039 2003-05-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6041 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4: Use the default includes so that
6042 memcmp be declared before being tested.
6043 Reported by Sander Niemeijer.
6044 (AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE, AC_FUNC_GETGROUPS, AC_FUNC_STRNLEN): Likewise.
6045 * doc/autoconf.texi (Default Includes): Document
6046 AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT.
6048 2003-05-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6050 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4: Include signal.h and unistd.h.
6051 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsolete Macros): Adjust.
6052 Reported by Werner LEMBERG and Debian Bug 190886.
6054 2003-05-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6056 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_UNSET_PREPARE): s/FOO/as_foo/ to avoid
6057 user name space clashes.
6058 Reported by Bruno Haible.
6060 2003-05-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6062 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
6063 * bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in (BEGIN): Make
6064 them uniform, and more robust to Perl special characters.
6065 Reported by Martin Mokrejs.
6067 2003-05-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6069 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Skip all Libtools pre 1.4.
6071 2003-05-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6073 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): X11/extensions/scrnsaver.h,
6074 linux/irda.h.
6076 2003-05-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6078 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Improve the
6079 message.
6080 From Matthias Andree.
6082 2003-05-07 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
6084 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm (lock, truncate): Do not pass @_ to flock
6085 and truncate.
6087 2003-05-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6089 Don't try to be smart with aclocal 1.8+ because (i) aclocal no
6090 longer updates aclocal.m4 if useless, (ii) if a file m4_included
6091 by aclocal.m4 is changed it might require the importing of another
6092 m4 extension file, i.e., aclocal must be run.
6094 * bin/autoreconf.in (&run_aclocal, $aclocal_supports_force): New.
6095 (&parse_args): Use --force with aclocal if required and supported.
6096 (&autoreconf_current_directory): Use &run_aclocal.
6098 2003-05-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6100 Lock autom4te's cache.
6102 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm ($me, &name, &lock, &truncate, &seek): New.
6103 * bin/autom4te.in (&Request::save, &Request::load): Use an IO::File
6104 argument instead of a file name, so that the request file remains
6105 open during the whole autom4te run.
6106 ($icache_file): New.
6107 (&freeze): Lock the $icache_file.
6109 2003-04-29 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
6111 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_KEYWORDS): Don't use a comma as the
6112 seperator with m4_append_uniq(). It doesn't work.
6113 (AT_CLEANUP): Add `;' to end of at_help_all.
6114 (AT_INIT): Allow --keywords to be specified more than once. When
6115 grepping $at_help_all for keywords, use the field and keyword
6116 seperators to ensure a complete keyword match. Alter at_prev handling
6117 to support the new --keywords behavior.
6119 2003-04-27 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
6121 * doc/autoconf.texi: Make the dir entries in the autoconf manual
6122 align better with others. I also made some of the individual
6123 entries on one line, for brevity and to make it easier for me to
6124 sort my dir-example file in the Texinfo distribution :).
6126 2003-04-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
6128 * NEWS: Mention the new macro.
6129 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_RESTRICT): New macro.
6130 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Describe AC_C_RESTRICT.
6131 * tests/c.at: Test AC_C_RESTRICT.
6132 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Add exclusion for AC_C_RESTRICT.
6134 2003-04-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6136 * bin/ifnames.in: Skip C++ comments.
6137 From Jeremy Yallop.
6139 2003-04-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6141 * GNUmakefile (SHELL): Don't assume sh is in /bin/.
6142 From Ilya Zakharevich.
6144 2003-04-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6146 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Some about sys/socket.h,
6147 net/if.h, stdlib.h.
6149 2003-04-01 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
6151 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_INSTALL): Correct syntax error
6152 from Akim's checkin of 2003-03-29.
6154 2003-04-01 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
6156 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Add missing
6157 close-quote for Akim's change from 2003-03-28.
6159 2003-04-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6161 * doc/autoconf.texi (ac, at, ms): Rename these indexes as...
6162 (AC, AT, MS): these.
6163 (shortindexflag, @acindex, @ahindex, @asindex, @atindex, @msindex):
6164 New.
6165 Use them.
6166 * doc/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): Adjust.
6167 (TEXI2DVI): Make it --batch.
6169 2003-03-31 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
6171 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Revert the checkin from 2003-03-27
6172 which removed the main loop.
6173 Thanks to Akim Demaille.
6175 2003-03-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6177 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_INSTALL): Skip OS/2's install,
6178 that starts a GUI.
6179 From Ilya Zakharevich.
6181 2003-03-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6183 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): The
6184 documentation to read is Autoconf's.
6185 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
6187 2003-03-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6189 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): Suggest
6190 reading the section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled" when the
6191 header causes problems.
6193 2003-03-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6195 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Require aclocal
6196 1.4, otherwise the test fails, as it does support configure.ac.
6197 This fixes the "test 40 failed" bug reports.
6199 2003-03-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6201 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): `#line' portability.
6202 From Paul Eggert and Nelson H. F. Beebe.
6204 2003-03-27 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
6206 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Eliminate main loop and reorganize test
6207 layout in order to allow scripting around test groups.
6209 2003-03-27 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
6211 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (PARSE_ARGS,PARSE_ARGS_END,HELP,HELP_MODES,
6212 HELP_TUNING,HELP_OTHER,HELP_END,PREPARE_TESTS,TESTS_END): Define and
6213 use new diversions in preparation for accepting new arguments and
6214 allowing scripting around tests.
6215 (OPTIONS,TAIL): Remove these diversions to make way for the ones above.
6217 2003-03-26 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
6219 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_VAR): Use AS_HELP_STRING instead of
6220 obsolete AC_HELP_STRING.
6221 (AC_HELP_STRING): AU_DEFUN to...
6222 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_HELP_STRING): ...here.
6223 * tests/m4sh.at (AS_HELP_STRING): New test.
6225 * tests/acgeneral.at: Regenerated.
6227 2003-03-26 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
6229 * lib/autotest/general.m4: s/DEFAULT/DEFAULTS/ since it makes more
6230 sense. Verbosify the diversion definitions comment.
6232 2003-03-26 Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>
6234 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Remove redundant call to
6235 AS_PREPARE.
6237 2003-03-21 Eric Siegerman <eric_97@pobox.com>
6239 * doc/autoconf.texi (Present But Cannot Be Compiled):
6240 Grammar fixes and minor rewording. (trivial change)
6242 2003-03-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6244 Work around a problem noted by Nelson H. F. Beebe with coreutils
6245 4.5.9: Sun c89 (Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3 Patch 111679-08
6246 2002/05/09) rejects '#line 32768 "configure"' because the line
6247 number overflows.
6248 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_SOURCE(C)): Do not generate
6249 #line directives.
6250 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_SOURCE): Fix comment to match this.
6251 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generating Sources): Document this.
6253 2003-03-01 Richard Dawe <rich@phekda.freeserve.co.uk>
6255 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE): Normalize
6256 file name for the m4 program, when it has an "exe" file extension.
6257 DJGPP's error messages include the error code in brackets -
6258 remove the error code during normalization.
6260 2003-02-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6262 * doc/autoconf.texi (Present But Cannot Be Compiled): New.
6264 2003-02-28 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
6266 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Remove the section
6267 about `$<' in inference rules, it was a bogus interpretation of
6268 an old Automake change. Discuss NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and
6269 Tru64 make in the "target lookup" section.
6270 (Automake): Automake 1.5+ no longer requires special tools to be
6271 present on the developer's host.
6273 2003-02-26 Richard Dawe <rich@phekda.freeserve.co.uk>
6275 * bin/autoheader.in (BEGIN): For DJGPP SHELL may not be set
6276 to a shell that can handle redirection or quoting correctly.
6277 Override SHELL with the shell detected by configure.
6278 Use of $^O suggested by Tim van Holder.
6279 * bin/autom4te.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
6280 * bin/autoreconf.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
6281 * bin/autoscan.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
6282 * bin/autoupdate.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
6283 * bin/ifnames.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
6285 * bin/ifnames.in: Add final newline to help and version messages.
6287 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Translate colons,
6288 to cope with DOS-style absolute paths, when constructing
6289 ${ac_make}.
6291 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS, _AC_OUTPUT_FILES):
6292 When constructing paths with IFS=:, quote the path. If we're
6293 constructing a DOS-style absolute path, we don't want to split it
6294 on the colon.
6296 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_CONFIGURE): Fix typo
6297 in description.
6299 2003-02-25 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
6301 * bin/autoheader.in: Add missing newline when printing
6302 suggestion how change AC_DEFINE call.
6304 2003-02-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6306 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Fix typo in
6307 2002-09-01 patch by replacing "test -n" with "test -z".
6308 This fixes a bug found by Jeff Painter and reported by Tom Epperly in
6309 <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2003-02/msg00139.html>.
6311 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): test -n -> test -z,
6312 to fix a mismatch between example and discussion.
6314 2003-02-24 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
6316 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Add notes on printf
6317 format starting with "-".
6319 2003-02-20 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
6321 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): `foo=bar make -e'
6322 is not portable inside Makefile.
6324 2003-02-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6326 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): When
6327 compiler says yeah, but preproc says nope, compiler is right.
6328 Conversely, prompt the reader to send a bug report to the
6329 maintainers of the package, not of Autoconf.
6331 2003-02-20 Klee Dienes <kdienes@apple.com>
6333 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory): Properly
6334 handle an empty aclocal.m4.
6336 2003-02-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6338 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM): Quote
6339 $ac_prefix_program.
6340 From Larry Jones.
6342 2002-12-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6344 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C)): Define $1 to an
6345 innocuous variant befor including <limits.h> or <assert.h>. This
6346 works around a bug reported by Albert Chin: HP-UX 11i
6347 (and earlier versions) have a <limits.h> that declares
6348 gettimeofday and many other functions.
6350 2002-12-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6352 Version 2.57.
6354 * NEWS, configure.ac: Update version.
6356 * doc/fdl.texi: Upgrade to FDL version 1.2.
6358 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C)): Use the function f
6359 nontrivially in main's body, so that f's external declaration is
6360 not optimized away in AIX. This should fix the bug reported by
6361 Martin Frydl in
6362 <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/autoconf/2002-November/014508.html>.
6364 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C),
6365 _AC_PROG_PREPROC_WORKS_IFELSE): Use <limits.h> if __STDC__ is
6366 defined, to support freestanding compilers. This should fix the
6367 bug reported by Momchil Velkov in
6368 <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/autoconf/2002-November/014490.html>.
6370 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsolete Macros): Fix typos (insert empty
6371 arg, AC_DEFINE -> AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED) in documentation for
6372 obsolete AC_CHECK_TYPE. The missing empty arg was reported
6373 by Simon Josefsson in
6374 <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/autoconf-patches/2002-December/008830.html>.
6376 * Makefile.maint (www-gnu): New macro.
6377 (standards.texi-url_prefix, make-stds.texi-url_prefix): Use it, as
6378 the location has moved.
6380 2002-12-02 Martin Frydl <martin@systinet.com>
6382 * bin/autom4te.in (at_flatten): rewritten to avoid M4 problem when
6383 \(.*\) match is too long and there is something more to be checked.
6384 <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/autoconf/2002-November/014524.html>
6386 2002-11-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6388 Version 2.56.
6390 * config/install-sh: chmod +x.
6391 From Paul Eggert.
6392 * config/move-if-change: Indenting changes.
6393 * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Move to...
6394 * configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): here.
6395 Require 1.7.1.
6397 2002-11-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6399 Version 2.55.
6401 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/install-sh:
6402 Update from masters.
6404 2002-11-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6406 * Makefile.maint: Sync with Bison, i.e.:
6407 (po-check): Scan .l and .y files instead of the
6408 .c and the .h files that they generate. This fixes the bug
6409 reported by Tim Van Holder in:
6410 <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bison-patches/2002-November/001352.html>
6411 Look for N_ as well as for _. Try to avoid matching #define for
6412 N_ and _.
6413 From Paul Eggert.
6415 2002-11-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6417 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Compiling several files at once.
6418 From Paul Eggert and Albert Chin-A-Young.
6420 2002-11-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6422 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Solitary backslashes.
6423 From Paul Eggert and Albert Chin-A-Young.
6425 2002-11-14 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
6427 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C)): Initialize f=$1 rather
6428 than assigning in main, to avoid HP cc +O3 optimizing it away.
6430 2002-11-12 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
6432 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Add -q
6433 option. Process --recheck after parsing all options. Pass -q
6434 option to configure on --recheck.
6435 (AC_OUTPUT): Pass -q from configure to config.status.
6436 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Strip -q from
6437 arguments to record.
6438 * doc/autoconf.texi (config.status Invocation): Document
6439 config.status -q option.
6441 2002-11-07 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
6443 * bin/autoscan.in (scan_file): Scan Makefile.am too. Ignore
6444 Makefile.in if Makefile.am exists.
6445 (output): Strip `.am' from Makefiles. Don't
6446 output AC_CONFIG_FILES if no Makefiles were found.
6448 2002-11-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6450 * Makefile.am (cvs_files): Add elisp-comp, mdate-sh.
6451 (local_updates): New.
6452 * Makefile.maint: Update, from CVS Bison.
6453 (local_updates): New.
6455 2002-11-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6457 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY): Wrap the `f'
6458 declaration in extern "C" too.
6459 Reported by Roberto Bagnara.
6461 2002-11-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6463 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Don't use grep
6464 -w.
6465 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Grep -w.
6466 Reported by Ezra Peisach.
6468 2002-11-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6470 * lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4 (_AH_TEMPLATE_OLD, _AH_VERBATIM_OLD):
6471 Remove.
6472 We _have_ to stop using the old compatibility scheme that tried to
6473 avoid useless backslashes because Libtool 1.4.3 contains a
6474 AC_DEFINE([error_t], [int],
6475 [Define to a type to use for \`error_t' if it is not
6476 otherwise available.])
6477 We _have_ to quote the single quote and backslashes with \. The
6478 old compatibility scheme saw that ` was backslashed, and therefore
6479 did not quote the single quote. Hence before this patch, Autoconf
6480 was not compatible with Libtool.
6482 2002-11-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6484 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Set the following variables,
6485 too: LC_ADDRESS, LC_IDENTIFICATION, LC_MEASUREMENT, LC_MONETARY,
6486 LC_NAME, LC_PAPER, LC_TELEPHONE.
6487 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Mention those vars.
6489 2002-11-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6491 Version 2.54c.
6493 * Makefile.maint (update, cvs-update, po-update, do-po-update):
6494 New.
6495 * config/texinfo.tex: Update.
6497 2002-11-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6499 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf_current_directory): New, extracted
6500 from...
6501 (&autoreconf): here.
6502 ($help, $make, &parse_args, &autoreconf_current_directory):
6503 Support -m/--make.
6504 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Adjust.
6506 2002-10-31 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
6508 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_MALLOC_IF): Change message.
6509 Change name of cache variable to ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull.
6510 (AC_FUNC_MALLOC): Change description of HAVE_MALLOC macro.
6511 (_AC_FUNC_REALLOC_IF): Change message. Change name of cache variable
6512 to ac_cv_func_realloc_0_nonnull.
6513 (AC_FUNC_REALLOC): Change description of HAVE_REALLOC macro.
6515 2002-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6517 The test suite was no longer checking for trailing envvars and files.
6519 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AC_STATE_SAVE): Don't use quadrigraphs here.
6520 (AT_CHECK_ENV): Make sure the `state-ls.before file exists.
6522 2002-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6524 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Use and display
6525 `$(MAKE)' instead of '${MAKE}' to emphasize that we refer to the
6526 Make variable, not a shell variable.
6527 Suggested by Bruno Haible.
6529 2002-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6531 * bin/autom4te.in (load_configuration): Reject #args out of any
6532 language.
6534 2002-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6536 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_MSG_LOG_CONFTEST): New.
6537 (_AC_PREPROC_IFELSE, _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, _AC_LINK_IFELSE)
6538 (_AC_RUN_IFELSE): Use it.
6539 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT):
6540 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Likewise.
6541 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_SOURCE): Don't include confdefs.h,
6542 inline it.
6544 2002-10-30 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6546 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args, $help): Support --no-cache.
6547 * doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te Invocation): Adjust.
6548 Suggested by Tim van Holder.
6550 2002-10-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6552 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): AC_FUNC_MALLOC and
6553 AC_FUNC_REALLOC check for compatibility with glibc, not POSIX.
6554 Problem reported by Bruno Haible.
6556 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6558 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Templates): Put also in words what the
6559 pictures says to assist free style readers.
6560 (Customizing autom4te): s/--cache=/--cache /.
6562 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6564 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_VFORK): Include stdlib.h and
6565 sys/wait.h.
6566 sparc_address_test returns void.
6567 Use it with an argument, as prototyped.
6568 From Bruno Haible.
6570 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6572 * doc/autoconf.texi (Subdirectories): Cygnus dirs have
6573 configure.in, not configure.ac.
6574 Reported by Bruno Haible.
6576 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6578 * tests/torture.at (Deep Package): New test.
6579 (Configuring subdirectories): Don't use a testSubDir as Autotest
6580 now does it itself.
6582 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6584 * bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args, $help): Support --warnings.
6585 * doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te): Rename as...
6586 (autom4te Invocation): this, for consistency with the other nodes.
6588 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6590 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): s/automate/autom4te/.
6591 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
6593 2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6595 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_QUOTE): The warning about quoted
6596 characters is a back as an `obsolete' warning now.
6597 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
6599 2002-10-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6601 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.54c.
6603 2002-10-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6605 Version 2.54b.
6607 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Adjust to broken libtoolize.
6609 2002-10-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6611 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE): Be robust to different
6612 m4 executable names, and different GNU M4 version.
6613 Reported by Ezra Peisach and Paul Jarc.
6615 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6617 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_VFORK): Really use
6618 AC_RUN_IFELSE.
6620 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6622 * doc/autoconf.texi: More AC_MSG_FAILURE promotion.
6623 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING):
6624 Die when a simple Fortran program cannot be compiled.
6625 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_CALL, AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY):
6626 Issue a warning if no function is given.
6628 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6630 * doc/autoconf.texi (Run Time): Document AC_RUN_IFELSE.
6631 Move the documentation of AC_TRY_RUN to...
6632 (Obsolete Macros): here.
6633 Adjust all the old samples still using AC_TRY_RUN to AC_RUN_IFELSE.
6634 (autoconf Invocation): Remove the duplicates with `invoking
6635 autom4te'.
6636 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDC): Don't use AC_TRY_RUN.
6637 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
6639 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6641 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generating Sources): Document AC_LANG_CALL
6642 and AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY.
6643 (Examining Libraries): Rename as...
6644 (Running the Linker): this.
6645 Document AC_LINK_IFELSE.
6646 Move the documentation of AC_TRY_LINK and AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC to...
6647 (Obsolete Macros): here.
6648 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING): Don't use
6649 AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC nor AC_TRY_LINK.
6650 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (AC_CHECK_LIB, AC_PATH_XTRA): Likewise.
6651 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_USG): Likewise.
6653 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6655 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDC): Don't use AC_TRY_CPP.
6657 More `check config.log' messages.
6659 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_MSG_FAILURE): New.
6660 * doc/autoconf.texi (Printing Messages): Document it.
6661 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Use it when
6662 appropriate.
6663 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT)
6664 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_WORKS, _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O)
6665 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT): Likewise.
6666 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_RUN_IFELSE): Likewise.
6667 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_F77_HOOKS):
6668 Likewise.
6669 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CPP, AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXXCPP):
6670 Likewise.
6672 Deprecate macros with unusual interfaces.
6674 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_TRY_CPP, AC_TRY_LINK)
6675 (AC_TRY_COMPILE, AC_TRY_RUN): AU_DEFUN'ed.
6677 Document the new ones, and proper style.
6679 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generating Sources): New.
6680 Document AC_LANG_CONFTEST, AC_LANG_SOURCE, AC_LANG_PROGRAM.
6681 (Examining Declarations): Rename as...
6682 (Running the Preprocessor): this.
6683 Document AC_PREPROC_IFELSE.
6684 (Examining Syntax): Rename as...
6685 (Running the Compiler): this.
6686 (AC_FOO_IFELSE vs AC_TRY_FOO): New section.
6687 (Obsolete Macros): Move the definition of AC_TRY_CPP and
6688 AC_TRY_COMPILE here.
6690 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6692 Move sections around.
6694 * doc/autoconf.texi (Customizing autom4te): Remove a lost
6695 sentence.
6696 Reported by Burno Haible.
6697 (Language Choice): Now the first section of...
6698 (Writing Tests): this section.
6699 Make the introduction less C-centric.
6700 (Guidelines, Test Functions): Move to...
6701 (Writing Test Programs): this new section.
6702 (Test Programs): Merge into...
6703 (Run Time): this.
6705 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6707 * lib/freeze.mk ($(AUTOM4TE_CFG)): Add a missing dependency on
6708 autom4te.in that resulted in the need for two `make' runs.
6710 2002-10-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6712 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.54b.
6714 2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6716 Version 2.54a.
6718 * Makefile.maint: Update from the Coreutils.
6719 (AMTAR): Remove, obsolete.
6720 (automake_repo): Update to redhat.com.
6721 (cvs_file): New.
6722 Adjust to the fact that ansi2knr is now hosted by Automake.
6723 * Makefile.am (cvs_files): Add install-sh and mkinstalldirs.
6724 * config/config.guess, config/mkinstalldirs, config/texinfo.tex:
6725 Update from masters.
6726 * lib/autoscan/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST, nodist_autoscanlib_DATA):
6727 autoscan.pre is not to be installed, and autoscan.list is not to
6728 be shipped.
6729 (CLEANFILES): Add autoscan.list.
6730 (autoscan.list): Disable the cache.
6731 * bin/Makefile.am: Include freeze.mk.
6733 2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6735 * bin/autom4te.in (&load_configuration): Take the file as
6736 argument.
6737 (&parse_args): Handle -C, --cache.
6738 ($help): Adjust.
6739 (MAIN): Load ~/.autom4te.cfg and ./.autom4te.cfg.
6740 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): Pass --cache=autom4te.cache.
6741 * doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te): Document --cache.
6742 Now a subsection of...
6743 (Using autom4te): This new section.
6744 (Customizing autom4te): New.
6745 (autom4te.cache): Adjust.
6747 2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6749 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Headers): More information on how to
6750 use AC_CHECK_HEADERS.
6752 2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6754 * bin/autoconf.as, bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoupdate.in ($help):
6755 Space changes.
6757 2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6759 * bin/autoscan.in (output): Output AC_PREREQ.
6760 (%needed_macros): Add AC_PREREQ so that configure.ac without one
6761 be reported.
6763 2002-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6765 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): In AC_HEADER_STDBOOL,
6766 document _Bool.
6768 2002-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6770 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_traces): Handle @&t@ in traces.
6771 Reported by Peter Eisentraut.
6773 2002-10-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6775 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDBOOL): Also look for the
6776 type _Bool.
6777 Fix a typo.
6778 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Adjust according to Paul
6779 Eggert's recommandations.
6781 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6783 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDBOOL): New, based on CVS
6784 Bison, by Paul Eggert.
6785 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Document it.
6787 2002-10-22 Aaron M. Ucko <amu@alum.mit.edu>
6789 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Avoid duplicates in
6790 `$ac_configure_args'.
6792 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6794 * doc/autoconf.texi: Use AC_CONFIG_HEADERS in examples.
6795 (AC_ST_BLKSIZE, AC_ST_RDEV): Directly point to AC_CHECK_MEMBERS.
6796 From Art Haas.
6798 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6800 Restore the 2002-10-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> patch:
6802 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL)
6803 (AC_CHECK_HEADER, _AC_CHECK_HEADER_NEW,_AC_CHECK_HEADER_OLD): Restore.
6804 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_NEW): Rename as...
6805 (AC_CHECK_HEADER): this.
6807 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6809 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Remove incorrect
6810 words about HP-UX cmp: it was actually a user-written cmp.
6812 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6814 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Don't check autoconf's stderr: there
6815 are a few warnings.
6816 * lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4 (AH_VERBATIM, _AH_VERBATIM_OLD):
6817 Quote for Perl '' strings, not "".
6818 * bin/autoheader.in: Invoke autoconf to get '' strings, not ""
6819 strings.
6821 2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6823 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_QUOTE): The warning about quoted
6824 characters is a syntax warning now.
6825 (_AS_QUOTE): Accept $2 as list of characters to quote.
6826 * lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4 (AH_VERBATIM, _AH_VERBATIM_OLD):
6827 Quote for Perl, not sh.
6828 * bin/autoheader.in: When $debug, report the file which is
6829 `do'ne.
6830 * tests/tools.at (autom4te, autoheader): Exercise @bar, not merely
6831 `@', to tickle Perl's lists.
6832 Reported by Carlos Velasco.
6834 2002-10-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6836 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_m4): Pass --fatal-warning to m4, so that
6837 missing included files _are_ errors.
6838 Thanks to Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
6839 * tests/tools.at (autom4te cache): Adjust.
6840 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE): New.
6841 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR): Use it.
6842 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4_warn, m4_require: circular dependencies):
6843 Adjust.
6844 * tests/tools.at (autom4te): Now it does exit 1.
6846 2002-10-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6848 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CACHE_SAVE): Don't use cmp.
6849 Fixes the `AC_ARG_VAR' test failures.
6850 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Don't use cmp.
6851 * lib/freeze.mk (check-forbidden-patterns): New.
6852 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am, lib/autotest/Makefile.am
6853 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am (check-local): Use it to catch `cmp'.
6854 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): HP-UX' cmp and
6855 /dev/null.
6856 Reported months ago by H. Merijn Brand.
6858 2002-10-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6860 * tests/tools.at (autoheader): Put randoms `@' to stress Perl.
6862 2002-10-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6864 * Makefile.maint (wget_files): Remove ansi2knr.c.
6865 (ansi2knr.c-url_prefix): Remove.
6867 2002-10-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6869 Because of caching, some files that no longer exist and are no
6870 longer required can still cause errors.
6871 Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
6873 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Do not prepend `--reload-state'
6874 to frozen files in @ARGV, as @ARGV must remain being a list of
6875 files. Rather, at M4 call sites, use this...
6876 (&files_to_options): New function.
6877 (&freeze): Use &error.
6878 (&up_to_date): If a file that was included according to the cache
6879 is no longer there, then the output is out dated.
6880 (&main): Don't even check whether a file is up to date is anyway
6881 --force is given.
6882 * tests/tools.at (autom4te cache): New.
6884 2002-10-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6886 * bin/autoconf.as: Kill dead options.
6887 * bin/autoupdate.in (&parse_args): Kill old options.
6888 * bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args): Remove dead options.
6889 Factor some code.
6890 (&autoreconf): Report the directories we enter *and leave*, so
6891 that error messages can be easily located, and use GNU Make
6892 format, so that Emacs' compile mode understands us.
6893 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&update_file): Use `verbose' to report
6894 if some file was changed instead of `print'.
6895 * bin/autoheader.in: Suggest AC_DEFINE with 3 args when needed.
6896 (&parse_args): Remove the dead options.
6897 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER): Adjust to the new
6898 autoheader's quiet mode.
6899 (AT_CHECK_AUTOUPDATE): Likewise.
6900 * tests/tools.at (autoupdate): Adjust.
6901 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
6903 2002-10-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6905 No longer use CPP to check for the existing of headers: use CC to
6906 check for compilability.
6908 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL)
6909 (AC_CHECK_HEADER, _AC_CHECK_HEADER_OLD): Remove.
6910 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_NEW): Rename as...
6911 (AC_CHECK_HEADER): this.
6913 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Include the failed test
6914 numbers in the Subject suggestion.
6916 2002-10-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6918 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_DECL_SYS_SIGLIST): Obsolete.
6919 Suggest using AC_CHECK_DECLS instead.
6921 2002-10-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6923 * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): Have configure report the value
6924 of `precious'.
6926 2002-10-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6928 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_SEPARATOR_PREPARE): Use $$ in the
6929 file name to enable parallel executions.
6930 From Sam Varshavchik.
6932 2002-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6934 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Run autopoint before the first
6935 aclocal invocation, as Gettext macros might not be visible to
6936 aclocal.
6937 Instead of blindly running autopoint, scan configure.ac (not the
6938 traces) for AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION uses, as autopoint does.
6939 Reported by Paul D. Smith.
6941 2002-10-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
6943 Work around problems found when POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 is set.
6944 None of this seems to have anything to do with POSIX, really,
6945 but it's how Perl getopt works.
6946 * bin/autom4te.in (parse_args): Configure GetOpt with
6947 "permute", too.
6948 * doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te):
6949 --warning -> --warnings.
6950 * lib/autom4te.in: --warning -> --warnings.
6952 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6954 * doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te.cache): New section.
6956 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6958 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoscan-preselections, Autoreconf-preselections)
6959 (Automake-preselections): Update.
6960 * bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoheader.in: Comment changes.
6962 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6964 * lib/autoscan/autoscan.pre: Move all the remaining rules to...
6965 * lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/functions.m4,
6966 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4,
6967 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4, lib/autoconf/types.m4: here.
6969 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6971 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Be robust to
6972 users who use config.site to require for a cache: in this case,
6973 the two last configure runs, using two different sets of
6974 arguments, trigger a legitimate error.
6976 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6978 * tests/m4sh.at (Functions Support, Functions and return Support):
6979 New.
6981 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6983 * bin/Makefile.am (ETAGS_SH, ETAGS_PERL): Update: ifnames and
6984 autoheader are Perl programs.
6985 (autoconf, autoheader, autoreconf, autoupdate, ifnames, autoscan)
6986 (autom4te): Specify that the sources are in the $srcdir.
6987 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Adjust.
6989 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
6991 * lib/autoscan/autoscan.pre (st_blksize, st_blocks, st_rdev)
6992 (tm_zone): Move their rules to...
6993 * lib/autoconf/types.m4: here, using AN_ macros.
6994 * lib/autoscan/autoscan.pre (AWK, BISON, INSTALL, LEX, LN, MAKE)
6995 (RANLIB, YACC, awk, bison, byacc, flex, gawk, install, lex, ln)
6996 (make, mawk, nawk, ranlib, yacc): Similarly, move to...
6997 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4: here.
6998 * lib/freeze.mk (ETAGS_FOR_M4, ETAGS_FOR_M4SUGAR)
6999 (ETAGS_FOR_AUTOCONF): New.
7000 Use it.
7002 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7004 * lib/autoconf/autoscan.m4: New file.
7005 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4: Include it.
7006 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4: Use AN_FUNCTION for all the functions
7007 that were listed in the original autoscan.list.
7008 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4: Similarly with headers.
7009 * lib/freeze.mk (autoconf_m4f_dependencies): Add autoscan.m4.
7010 (.m4.m4f): Don't pass --prepend-include, since that's done by
7011 tests/autom4te itself.
7012 * lib/autoscan/Makefile.am: Include freeze.mk.
7013 (autoscan.list): New target --this file is no longer a source.
7014 (autoscan.pre): New file.
7016 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7018 * bin/autoscan.in (@kinds): Make them singular.
7019 Adjust all uses.
7020 (&init_tables): When --debug, report the list of rules to ease
7021 tracking changes in autoscan.list.
7022 * lib/autoscan/autoscan.list (function): Strip comments, sort.
7024 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7026 * lib/autoscan/functions, lib/autoscan/headers,
7027 * lib/autoscan/identifiers, lib/autoscan/makevars,
7028 * lib/autoscan/programs: Merge into...
7029 * lib/autoscan/autoscan.list: this.
7030 * bin/autoscan.in (&init_tables): Adjust.
7032 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7034 * lib/autoscan/functions, lib/autoscan/headers,
7035 * lib/autoscan/identifiers, lib/autoscan/makevars,
7036 * lib/autoscan/programs: Make the `kind' explicit, i.e., each
7037 `functions' line is now prefixed with `function:'.
7038 * bin/autoscan.in (&init_tables): Adjust.
7040 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7042 From now on, autoscan files must always map a macro name to a
7043 word: there is no `default' macro for autoscan.
7045 * bin/autoscan.in (&init_tables): Reject entries with no macro at
7046 all.
7047 * lib/autoscan/functions, lib/autoscan/headers: Make the macro
7048 explicit.
7050 2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7052 * bin/autoscan.in (%c_keywords): Remove.
7053 (&used): Keep only track of the words we might be interested in.
7054 (&output_kind): It is no longer needed to look for non active
7055 checks.
7057 2002-09-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7059 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC): New, stolen from
7060 jm_FUNC_MBRTOWC, by Paul Eggert, from the Coreutils 4.5.1.
7061 * lib/autoscan/functions: Adjust.
7062 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Adjust.
7064 2002-09-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7066 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Some about mv
7067 from /tmp.
7068 Thanks to Bill Moseley and Paul Eggert.
7069 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): $2 is the directory into which
7070 the tmpdir must be created.
7071 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Have the tmp
7072 dir be in the build tree, instead of $TMPDIR.
7074 2002-09-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7076 * bin/autoscan.in: Improve the comments.
7077 (&parse_args): Drop obsolete undocumented options.
7078 (&output_kind): Output warnings.
7079 * lib/autoscan/functions: (dcgettext): Now trigger AM_GNU_GETTEXT.
7080 (getwd): Trigger a warning.
7082 2002-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7084 * bin/autoreconf.in: Clarify that -s is meaningless without -i.
7085 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
7086 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Likewise.
7088 2002-09-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7090 Single suffix rules and seperated dependencies are not portable.
7092 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Update.
7093 (Limitations of Make): Some about `Single Suffix Rules and
7094 Separated Dependencies'.
7095 * bin/Makefile.am (autoconf, autoheader, autoreconf, autoupdate)
7096 (ifnames, autoscan, autom4te): Un-factor into several rules.
7098 2002-09-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7100 * BUGS (Interoperability bugs): New section. Mention libtool
7101 1.4.2, configure.ac, and AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR interoperability bug.
7103 2002-09-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7105 Fix a portability bug reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz: Solaris 8
7106 make handles suffix-rules differently from GNU make.
7108 * bin/Makefile.am (SUFFIXES, .in): Remove.
7109 (autoconf autoheader autoreconf autoupdate ifnames autoscan autom4te):
7110 Move the body of the old .in rule here.
7112 2002-09-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7114 i960 compilers create `b.out' files by default.
7115 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
7117 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT): Remove b.out files.
7118 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Adjust to b.out.
7120 2002-09-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7122 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Remove obsolete
7123 reference to `struct timezone' in the description of
7124 AC_HEADER_TIME.
7126 2002-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7128 Version 2.54.
7130 * config/config.sub, config/config.guess: Update.
7131 * Makefile.maint: Update from bits of the Coreutils 4.5.1.
7132 * Makefile.am: Adjust.
7134 2002-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7136 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Suggest
7137 reading config.log when the compiler is rejected.
7138 Suggested by Guido Draheim.
7140 2002-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7142 * bin/autoreconf.in: Don't use Cwd::chdir, since in its internals
7143 (chdir_init) might hang when stat'ing mounted directories.
7144 Reported by Vance Shipley.
7146 2002-09-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7148 * bin/autoscan.in (&parse_args): Pass a reference to the lists, not
7149 the lists.
7151 2002-09-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7153 * doc/autoconf.texi (Defining Symbols): Present two different
7154 prototypes for AC_DEFINE and AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED to emphasize the
7155 difference between 1 argument calls, and 2-3 argument calls.
7157 2002-09-12 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
7159 * doc/autoconf.texi: Review grammar and punctuation.
7161 2002-09-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7163 * doc/autoconf.texi: Fix minor formatting, spelling, and
7164 grammatical typos.
7165 (Defining Symbols): Explain that AC_DEFINE(var) defaults to 1, but
7166 AC_DEFINE(var,,description) does not; and the AC_DEFINE(var) case
7167 is obsolescent.
7169 2002-09-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7171 * doc/autoconf.texi (Questions): Rename as...
7172 (FAQ): this.
7173 (Defining Directories): New.
7175 2002-09-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7177 * doc/autoconf.texi (Making testsuite Scripts): Update.
7178 Suggested by Nishio Futoshi.
7180 2002-09-09 Koji Arai <JCA02266@nifty.ne.jp>
7182 * doc/autoconf.texi (Making testsuite Scripts): Use `@@' where a
7183 plain `@' is wanted.
7185 2002-09-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7187 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Keep the
7188 `duplicates', since the algorithm was too naive and could keep
7189 `--prefix=1 --prefix=2 --prefix=1' as `--prefix=1 --prefix=2', and
7190 keep `--prefix foo --prefix bar' as `--prefix foo bar'.
7191 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
7192 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Exercise these
7193 cases.
7195 2002-09-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7197 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG): Use $srcdir when
7198 looking for a replacement file.
7199 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CHECK_DECLS): Check that the
7200 directory is relative.
7201 * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Functions): Clarify the replacement
7202 directory definition.
7203 Reported by Andreas Schwab and Jim Meyering.
7205 2002-09-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7207 * doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Clarify what
7208 precious variables are.
7209 Suggested by Pontus Skoeld.
7211 2002-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7213 * bin/Makefile.am (autoconf, autoheader, autoreconf, autoupdate)
7214 (ifnames, autoscan, autom4te): Since we don't only depend on
7215 configure.ac variables (such as VERSION etc.), but also on prefix
7216 and so forth, depend on Makefile, not configure.ac.
7217 Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
7218 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Adjust.
7220 2002-09-05 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
7222 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): HP-UX trailing backslashes
7223 doesn't seem to be confined to ia64, just say "some versions".
7225 2002-09-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7227 * Makefile.am, doc/Makefile.am: Remove pdf targets, handled by
7228 Automake 1.6c.
7229 * Makefile.am (maintainer-clean-local): Remove.
7230 (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Remove COPYING.
7232 2002-09-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7234 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Commands): Remove obsolete
7235 example for AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE. Problem reported by Marcus
7236 Brinkmann.
7238 2002-09-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7240 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.53d.
7241 * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Require 1.6c, i.e., CVS Automake
7242 as of today, on Automake's team suggestion.
7244 2002-09-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7246 Version 2.53c.
7248 2002-09-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7250 * bin/autom4te.in (parse_args): Don't honor AUTOM4TE_PATH and
7251 SITE_MACRO_DIR.
7252 * configure.ac: Disable SITE_MACRO_DIR.
7254 2002-09-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@lucent.com>
7256 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_SYS_POSIX_TERMIOS): Reflect renaming: s/am/ac/,
7257 i.e., change am_cv_sys_posix_termios to ac_cv_sys_posix_termios.
7258 Also, tweak grammar: s/make sure to/be sure to/.
7260 2002-09-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7262 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Explain why logical
7263 directory names are generally preferable to physical names.
7265 2002-09-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7267 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&update_file): s/die/error/.
7268 Reported by Raja R. Harinath.
7269 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoscan.in,
7270 * bin/autoupdate.in: Use error instead of die.
7272 2002-09-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7274 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_egrep, au_exclude_egrep): Use
7275 ordinary shell concatenation rather than echo+tr+sed command that
7276 runs afoul of a long-line-related sed bug in Solaris 8.
7278 * bin/autoheader.in (parse_args): --warning -> --warnings.
7280 * bin/autoconf.as: Work even if "ls" outputs "FOO not found" to
7281 stdout, as traditional "ls" does.
7282 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT,
7283 _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O): Likewise.
7284 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Add "ls".
7286 * bin/autoconf.as: Add --prepend-include option. This patch was
7287 applied to bin/autoconf.in in the 2002-07-17 patch by Mark D. Roth,
7288 but bin/autoconf.in is generated automatically from bin/autoconf.as.
7290 * bin/autoconf.in, configure: Regenerate.
7292 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Mention
7293 ENV, MAIL, MAILPATH, PS1, PS2, PS4. Index PWD.
7295 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Unset ENV, MAIL,
7296 MAILPATH and set PS1, PS2, PS4 to default values, to work
7297 around bug in pre-3.0 UWIN ksh reported by Bruce Lilly.
7298 For LC_ALL etc, first try to set to "C" as POSIX requires and as
7299 the Autoconf documentation specifies; fall back to "unset" only if
7300 this fails. Use a shell for-loop for this rather than an m4 loop,
7301 to shorten the output script.
7303 2002-08-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7305 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Mention POSIX
7306 1003.1-2001's requirements for CDPATH. Give a simpler workaround
7307 for the CDPATH problem. Document PWD.
7308 (Limitations of Builtins): Document the problem that "cd $foo" and
7309 "ls $foo" may refer to different directories in shells conforming
7310 to POSIX 1003.1-2001. Use PS1 rather than CDPATH for "unset"
7311 example, since the old example is now out of date.
7313 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Reject FOO if "cd
7314 FOO" and "ls FOO" talk about different directories; this catches
7315 problems when POSIX 1003.1-2001 "cd" fails due to symlink
7316 spaghetti.
7318 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Use AS_UNSET instead
7319 of rolling our own unset.
7320 (_AS_PREPARE): $as_unset CDPATH instead of AS_UNSETting it, since
7321 in practice we needn't worry about CDPATH if unset doesn't work.
7323 * Makefile.in, aclocal.m4, bin/Makefile.in,
7324 config/Makefile.in, doc/Makefile.in, lib/Makefile.in,
7325 lib/Autom4te/Makefile.in, lib/autoconf/Makefile.in,
7326 lib/autoscan/Makefile.in, lib/autotest/Makefile.in,
7327 lib/emacs/Makefile.in, lib/m4sugar/Makefile.in, man/Makefile.in,
7328 tests/Makefile.in: Regenerate with Automake 1.6.3.
7330 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/mkinstalldirs:
7331 Update.
7333 * configure: Regenerate with self.
7335 2002-08-30 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
7337 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Notes on "cc"
7338 default output.
7340 2002-08-29 Rainer Orth <ro@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
7342 * bin/autom4te.in (Request::load): Correctly test for "do" read
7343 failure.
7345 2002-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7347 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&xqx): New.
7348 (&xsystem): Use WIFEXITED and WEXITSTATUS instead of decoding $? by
7349 hand, which is not portable.
7350 (&error): New.
7351 * bin/autom4te.in: Use them.
7352 Use &error instead of die.
7353 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4_warn, m4_require: circular dependencies):
7354 Adjust.
7356 2002-08-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7358 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_PROG_F77): Remove fc from the
7359 default list of compilers to try, since it was long ago superseded
7360 by the ksh fc builtin. Suggested by Steven G. Johnson.
7362 2002-07-31 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7364 * doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te): End the option table,
7365 fixing a bug introduced by the previous patch.
7366 (Limitations of Make): Add a 'target lookup' subentry in the
7367 'VPATH' entry. Rewrite all `make' occurences as `@command{make}'.
7369 2002-07-29 Mark D. Roth <roth@feep.net>
7371 * bin/autom4te.in: Remove --include-envvar and --site-macro-subdir
7372 options and use $AUTOM4TE_PATH.
7373 * doc/autoconf.texi: Remove documentation of autom4te
7374 --include-envvar and --site-macro-subdir options and document
7375 use of $AUTOM4TE_PATH.
7376 * lib/autom4te.in: Remove --include-envvar and --site-macro-subdir
7377 arguments from each language section.
7379 2002-07-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7381 * doc/install.texi: Include copyright symbol in copyright notice.
7383 * Makefile.am (MAKEINFO): Remove; it's a user-specified macro.
7384 Replace with:
7385 (AM_MAKEINFOFLAGS): New macro.
7386 * doc/Makefile.am (MAKEINFO, AM_MAKEINFOFLAGS): Likewise.
7387 * Makefile.am (INSTALL): Use the new macros.
7388 Use -o rather than --output, since "missing" does not grok --output.
7390 2002-07-25 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7392 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Escaped newlines in
7393 comments do not always work. Never trust the exit status of
7394 `make -k'.
7396 2002-07-24 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
7398 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make, Making testsuite Scripts):
7399 Untabify, since tabs are not enjoyed by texi2dvi and makeinfo.
7401 2002-07-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7403 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_SEPARATOR_PREPARE):
7404 Use PATH="/nonexistent;.", not PATH=".;.", as FreeBSD ksh2002
7405 apparently treats PATH="nonexistent" as if it contained ".".
7406 Bug reported by Stefan `Sec' Zehl.
7408 2002-07-22 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7410 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Mention the special
7411 handling of the obj/ directory by BSD make.
7413 2002-07-20 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
7415 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Add HP-UX IA-64 trailing
7416 backslashes.
7418 2002-07-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7420 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): `exit'.
7421 (Programming in M4sh): Ethymology of M4sh.
7423 2002-07-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7425 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_LIBOBJ vs LIBOBJS): More about $U.
7427 2002-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7429 Version 2.53b.
7431 2002-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7433 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub: Update.
7435 2002-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7437 Handle LIBOBJS and LTLIBOBJS once for all, including Libtool's and
7438 Automake's parts.
7440 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJS_NORMALIZE): New.
7441 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_PRE): Call it.
7442 * tests/semantics.at (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Adjust.
7444 2002-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>,
7445 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7447 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): Install
7448 _AC_AM_CONFIG_HEADER_HOOK for Automake 1.7.
7450 2002-07-17 Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
7452 * doc/autoconf.texi (Initializing configure): Clarify the
7453 description of the tarname default.
7455 2002-07-17 Andreas Buening <andreas.buening@nexgo.de>
7457 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_FORK): Don't set
7458 ac_cv_func_fork_works before running _AC_FUNC_FORK, do it if the
7459 latter was not run.
7461 2002-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7463 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (find_file): Browse the directories in
7464 the order they are given.
7466 2002-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7468 * tests/wrapsh.as, tests/wrappl.as: Merge into...
7469 * tests/wrapper.as: this.
7470 * tests/Makefile.am, configure.ac: Adjust.
7472 2002-07-17 Mark D. Roth <roth@feep.net>
7474 * configure.ac: Add --enable-site-macro-dir option.
7475 * bin/Makefile.am: Expand @SITE_MACRO_DIR@.
7476 * bin/autom4te.in: Add --prepend-include, --include-envvar, and
7477 --site-macro-subdir options.
7478 * bin/autoconf.in: Add --prepend-include option.
7479 * bin/autoheader.in: Add --prepend-include option.
7480 * bin/autoreconf.in: Add --prepend-include option.
7481 * bin/autoscan.in: Add --prepend-include option.
7482 * bin/autoupdate.in: Add --prepend-include option.
7483 * doc/autoconf.texi: Document use of $AC_MACRO_PATH and site
7484 macro directory, remove note that include path directories are
7485 used in reverse order, and document --prepend-include option.
7486 * lib/autom4te.in: Use --prepend-include instead of --include.
7487 * tests/wrapsh.in: Use --prepend-include instead of --include.
7489 2002-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7491 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): `_' is allowed in
7492 tarnames.
7493 * doc/autoconf.texi (Initializing configure): Adjust.
7495 2002-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7497 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_REALLOC, _AC_FUNC_REALLOC)
7498 (_AC_FUNC_MALLOC): New.
7499 (AC_FUNC_MALLOC): Use the latter.
7500 Define HAVE_MALLOC to 0 if broken.
7501 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Adjust.
7503 2002-07-16 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7505 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BACKSLASH_A): New.
7506 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Adjust.
7508 2002-07-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7510 * doc/autoconf.texi: Properly set the ``header'' part.
7512 2002-07-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7514 * doc/autoconf.texi (Systemology): Some about Darwin.
7516 2002-07-09 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7518 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_CYGWIN, AC_EMXOS2, AC_MINGW32):
7519 Don't use AC_REQUIRE in AU_DEFUN.
7521 2002-07-09 Art Haas <ahaas@neosoft.com>
7523 * doc/autoconf.texi: Use @enddots{} or @dots{} where appropriate.
7525 2002-07-02 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7527 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
7528 bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in, lib/Autom4te/General.pm,
7529 lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm, lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Add local variables
7530 so that Emacs setups GNU style for perl-mode and cperl-mode.
7532 2002-06-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7534 * config/install-sh: Quote $src. Prefer || to test's -o option,
7535 as per "Limitations of Builtins".
7536 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_ENV): Likewise, for && vs test -a.
7537 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
7539 * tests/mktests.sh: Use grep instead of fgrep, as per
7540 "Limitations of Builtins".
7542 2002-06-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7544 * tests/wrapsh.as (AUTOCONF, AUTOHEADER, AUTOM4TE, AUTOM4TE_CFG,
7545 autom4te_perllibdir): Set to top build dir or src dir as appropriate,
7546 so that we consistently test the just-built programs.
7547 * tests/wrappl.as: Likewise.
7549 2002-06-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7551 * bin/autoconf.as (AUTOM4TE): Default to a fully qualified path
7552 name, so that symlinks to 'autoconf' work properly. Bug reported
7553 by Bruno Haible.
7554 * bin/autoheader.in (AUTOM4TE): Likewise.
7555 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoconf, autoheader): Likewise.
7556 * bin/autoscan.in (autom4te): Likewise.
7557 * bin/autoupdate.in (autom4te): Likewise.
7559 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ_FNMATCH): Also check for
7560 btowc, to fix a portability bug with diffutils-2.8.2/lib/fnmatch.c
7561 on Solaris 2.5.1.
7563 2002-06-11 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
7565 * doc/autoconf.texi: Add more dir entries.
7567 2002-06-10 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7569 * bin/autom4te.in ($cache): Don't define using `$me', the name
7570 of the cache should not depend on the name under which autom4te
7571 was installed.
7573 2002-06-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7575 * tests/tools.at (autoconf: forbidden tokens, basic)
7576 (autoconf: forbidden tokens, exceptions): Adjust to the change of
7577 words in autom4te.in.
7579 2002-06-07 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
7581 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C)): Use
7582 _AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_F77_HOOKS.
7584 2002-06-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7586 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNC_FNMATCH): Typo,
7587 rename as...
7588 (AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH): this.
7589 * tests/mktests.sh (exclude_list): Exclude AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH,
7590 AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU.
7592 2002-06-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7594 * doc/autoconf.texi (Systemology): Point to Tru64 docs, and the
7595 Rosetta Stone for Unix.
7597 2002-06-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7599 * bin/autom4te.in (warn_forbidden): When rejecting a token,
7600 suggest m4_pattern_allow.
7601 Suggested by Adam J. Richter.
7603 2002-06-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7605 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Initialize
7606 ac_config_libobj_dir.
7607 (AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR): New.
7608 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_FNMATCH): Split into...
7609 (_AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_IF, _AC_LIBOBJ_FNMATCH): these.
7610 Use ac_config_libobj_dir to find the replacement files.
7611 (AC_FUNC_FNMATCH, AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU): Split into...
7612 (AC_FUNC_FNMATCH, AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU, AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH)
7613 (AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH_GNU): these.
7614 (AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG): Use ac_config_libobj_dir.
7615 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions, Generic Functions): Adjust.
7616 * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Don't check
7617 AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG as it requires getloadavg.c which is not shipped.
7619 2002-06-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7621 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_LINKS): Fall back on cp
7622 if ln doesn't work.
7623 * NEWS: Likewise.
7624 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Links): Likewise.
7625 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Prefer $(LN_S) to ln -s || ln.
7627 2002-06-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7629 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/texinfo.tex:
7630 Update from masters.
7632 2002-05-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7634 * bin/autom4te.in ($m4): Do not assume that egrep and fgrep exist.
7635 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
7636 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_RUN_LOG_STDERR, AC_EGREP_CPP):
7637 Likewise.
7638 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am (check-local): Likewise.
7639 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_CONFIG_HEADER): Likewise.
7640 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (commentary only): Likewise.
7641 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT, AT_CHECK): Likewise.
7642 * lib/autotest/Makefile.am (check-local): Likewise.
7643 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am (check-local): Likewise.
7644 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CONFIGURE_AC, AT_CHECK_DEFINES): Likewise.
7645 * tests/mktests.sh (egrep): New var; use it instead of plain egrep.
7647 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_EGREP, AC_PROG_FGREP): New macros.
7648 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): Document them.
7649 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Warn that egrep and fgrep may not exist.
7650 * NEWS: Likewise.
7652 2002-05-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7654 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_TYPE_MBSTATE_T): New macro.
7655 * NEWS, doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Types): Document it.
7656 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_FNMATCH): Require it
7657 instead of AC_MBSTATE_T, which never existed.
7659 2002-05-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7661 * doc/autoconf.texi (Hosts and Cross-Compilation): Specify the
7662 version of Autoconf that is discussed.
7664 2002-05-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7666 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_PROG_F77): Remove cf77 and cft77
7667 from the default list of compilers to try. Suggested by
7668 Kate Hedstrom.
7669 * NEWS: Document the above.
7670 * doc/autoconf.texi (Fortran 77 Compiler): Don't suggest cf77.
7672 2002-05-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7674 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_MEMBER): Work correctly even if
7675 the member is itself an aggregate. Bug reported by Sergey Poznyakoff.
7676 This improves on an earlier suggestion by H. Peter Anvin.
7678 2002-05-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7680 AC_FUNC_FNMATCH now tests only for POSIX compatibility.
7681 AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU also tests for GNU extensions.
7682 Both macros now accept an optional source-dir arg.
7683 New macro AC_GNU_SOURCE to define _GNU_SOURCE.
7685 * NEWS: Document this.
7686 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions, UNIX Variants): Likewise.
7688 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_FNMATCH): New macro.
7689 (AC_FUNC_FNMATCH): Use it. Test only for POSIX conformance,
7690 not for GNU extensions; this undoes part of the 2000-11-03 change,
7691 reverting to 2.13-compatible behavior.
7692 Add new optional argument DIR.
7693 (AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU): New macro.
7695 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_GNU_SOURCE): New macro.
7697 2002-05-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7699 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_TIOCGWINSZ):
7700 Don't require AC_SYS_POSIX_TERMIOS. The test is unnecessary,
7701 and it causes a 'test' syntax error if it fails.
7702 Bug reported by Stephen Gildea.
7704 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED):
7705 If prototypes are supported, use them to check this at compile-time,
7706 instead of trying to check it at run-time. If we must do a run-time
7707 check, assume that setvbuf is standard when cross-compiling, as
7708 nonstandard setvbuf occurs only on ancient and unlikely hosts.
7709 Bug reported by Paul D. Smith.
7711 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG): Add optional
7712 argument specifying location of getloadavg.c. This removes a
7713 FIXME. This idea was taken from Jim Meyering's implementation in
7714 textutils.
7715 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Document this.
7716 Also, mention HAVE_NLIST_H rather than NLIST_STRUCT, since
7717 that's what the code does; this fixes a bug reported by
7718 Paul D. Smith.
7720 2002-05-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7722 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Rewrite to use Gettext's
7723 autopoint instead of gettextize.
7724 ($uses_alocal): Rename as...
7725 ($uses_aclocal): this.
7726 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Adjust.
7727 Suggested by Bruno Haible.
7729 2002-05-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7731 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_map_sep): New.
7733 2002-04-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7735 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Don't age aclocal.m4's input
7736 files to be 1 second older; just set them to be the same time.
7737 Also, sleep 1 second after the first aclocal, to work around
7738 problems with sub-second time stamps on the input files.
7740 2002-04-29 Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnu.org>
7742 * doc/autoconf.texi: Mention "set -e -x" lossage
7743 under node "Limitations of Builtins".
7745 2002-04-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7747 * doc/install.texi: Better wording for setting variables when
7748 running configure.
7749 From Christian Cornelssen.
7751 2002-04-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7753 * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): If testsuite itself is rewritten because
7754 of lack of $LINENO support, then the test will compare the $LINENO
7755 in testsuite vs. the lineno in the test file. This is wrong, of
7756 course.
7757 Be sure to protect it.
7758 Reported by Patrick Welche.
7760 2002-04-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7762 * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsolete Macros): Typo.
7763 Reported by Vladimir Volovich.
7765 2002-04-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7767 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Don't let aclocal.m4 be older
7768 than some of the input files, hence, on the second run of aclocal,
7769 if some of its input are younger, make them older.
7770 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
7772 2002-04-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7774 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): sed and `!'.
7775 Thanks to Paul Eggert.
7777 2002-04-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7779 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Let ac_subst_files
7780 and ac_subst_vars be sh variables containing the list of
7781 AC_SUBST_FILES'ed and AC_SUBST'ed identifiers. Output them in the
7782 DEFAULT diversion.
7783 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Use them to log them.
7784 (_AC_SUBST, _AC_SUBST_SED_PROGRAM): Remove.
7785 (AC_SUBST, AC_SUBST_FILE): Instead of buliding the
7786 _AC_SUBST_SED_PROGRAM, store the list of output files/variables in
7787 _AC_SUBST_FILES and _AC_SUBST_VARS.
7788 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Adjust.
7790 2002-04-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7792 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Run automake after autoconf and
7793 autoheader, so that automake does not complain about a missing
7794 config.h.in that was to be created.
7796 2002-04-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7798 * bin/autoheader.in (parse_args): --warning takes an argument.
7799 Fixes PR/220.
7801 2002-04-22 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
7803 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_RUN_IFELSE): Remove gmon.out
7804 and bb.out when cleaning up.
7806 2002-04-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7808 Version 2.53a.
7810 2002-04-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7812 * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): Fix the Zsh skip pattern.
7814 2002-04-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7816 * doc/autoconf.texi (Pretty Help Strings): Remove a spurious
7817 comma.
7818 Reported by Gregory Giannoni.
7820 2002-04-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7822 * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): Skip the test if LINENO cannot be unset.
7823 Fixes false failures on Darwin.
7825 2002-04-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7827 * TODO, bin/autoupdate.in, doc/autoconf.texi,
7828 lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4,
7829 lib/autoconf/status.m4, lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4, tests/m4sh.at,
7830 tests/tools.at: Minor spelling and grammar fixes.
7832 2002-04-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7834 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Fix typos in yesterday's
7835 ZSH_VERSION fixes. Bug reported by Raja R Harinath.
7836 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
7837 * tests/atgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
7839 2002-04-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7841 * NEWS, TODO, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoupdate.in,
7842 doc/autoconf.texi, lib/freeze.mk, lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm,
7843 lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4, lib/autoconf/c.m4,
7844 lib/autoconf/functions.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
7845 lib/autoconf/lang.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4, lib/autoscan/identifiers,
7846 lib/autotest/general.m4, lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4, tests/atgeneral.m4,
7847 tests/atspecific.m4, tests/semantics.at, tests/torture.at:
7848 Minor spelling and grammar fixes.
7850 * doc/autoconf.texi: Follow the outline suggested in the GNU
7851 Sample Texts sections of the Texinfo 4.2 manual. Most
7852 importantly, this makes sure that the copyright notices appear in
7853 all output formats. You probably need Texinfo 4.2 to generate
7854 the manual now.
7856 Fix some bugs when using "$@" when there might be zero positional
7857 arguments in cases where this matters.
7859 * bin/autoconf.as: Rewrite so that the problem does not come up.
7860 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_CHECK_PROG): Likewise.
7861 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_OUTPUT): Likewise.
7862 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
7864 * bin/autoheader.in: Use 'case' statement to work around problem.
7865 * bin/auto4mte.in: Likewise.
7866 * bin/autoreconf.in: Likewise.
7867 * bin/autoscan.in: Likewise.
7868 * bin/autoupdate.in: Likewise.
7869 * bin/ifnames.in: Likewise.
7871 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Document the problem.
7873 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT):
7874 Use Zsh alias to work around problem.
7875 * tests/atgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
7877 * tests/c.at: We can't have zero arguments, so remove workaround
7878 that is not portable to Zsh.
7880 2002-04-19 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7882 * bin/autoupdate.in (handle_autoconf_macros): Honor AU_DEFUNs
7883 from aclocal.m4 too.
7885 2002-04-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7887 * tests/wrappl.as: New, M4sh precursor of wrappl.in.
7889 2002-04-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7891 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Install the Zsh
7892 workaround for ${1+"$@"}.
7893 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Explain it.
7894 From Oliver Kiddle and Peter Stephenson.
7896 Have M4sh perform minimal shell sanitizing.
7898 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.at (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Split the `_AS_PREPARE_*'
7899 part into...
7900 (_AS_PREPARE): this new macro.
7901 (AS_PREPARE): New.
7902 (AS_INIT): Invoke AS_SHELL_SANITIZE.
7903 * tests/m4sh.at (AT_DATA_LINENO): Use _AS_PREPARE.
7905 Adjust Autoconf and Autotest.
7907 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Don't invoke
7908 AS_SHELL_SANITIZE, AS_INIT did it, but invoke AS_PREPARE.
7909 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
7910 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS):
7911 Invoke _AS_PREPARE (not AS_PREPARE) in addition to
7912 AS_SHELL_SANITIZE.
7914 Use this M4sh to generate Autoconf's shell scripts.
7916 * tests/wrapsh.as: New, precursor of wrapsh.in.
7917 * tests/Makefile.am: Include lib/freeze.mk to get the dependencies
7918 on Autotest and M4sh.
7919 ($(TESTSUITE)): Use $(autotest_m4f_dependencies).
7920 (wrapsh.in): New target.
7921 * bin/autoconf.as: New, precursor of autoconf.in.
7922 (autoconf.in): New target.
7924 2002-04-09 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
7926 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Mention the issue
7927 with indented comments in rules.
7929 2002-04-09 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
7931 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Handle empty
7932 ac_top_builddir when setting ac_abs_top_builddir.
7934 2002-04-06 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
7936 * doc/autoconf.texi (Systemology): Add link to Unix V7 online docs.
7937 (Portable Shell): Cross reference to Systemology.
7939 2002-04-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7941 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Be sure to accumulate the
7942 directories when descending in a SUBDIRS.
7943 Reported by Ezra Peisach.
7945 2002-04-04 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
7947 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_WALK): Only simplify if path
7948 contains no literal separators.
7950 2002-04-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7952 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_CONFIG_FILE, _AC_CONFIG_HEADER)
7953 (_AC_CONFIG_COMMAND, _AC_CONFIG_LINK): New.
7954 Use dnl, not the KILL diversion.
7955 Extracted from...
7956 (AC_CONFIG_FILES, AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS)
7957 (AC_CONFIG_LINKS): here.
7958 Adjust.
7959 Don't use the KILL diversion, as it kills spurious output, which
7960 results in failures being hidden.
7961 Use m4_defn where appropriate.
7962 (AC_CONFIG_IF_MEMBER): Kill the real bug: a spurious parenthesis
7963 after the second argument.
7964 Use m4_defn.
7965 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf, Autotest, M4sh): Don't pass --warning
7966 syntax, as it is provided by M4sugar.
7967 * tests/torture.at (Multiple AC_CONFIG_FILES): New.
7969 2002-04-03 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
7971 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_bmatch): Make sure m4_bregexp is not
7972 expanded if $# <= 2.
7974 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Run automake after rerunning
7975 aclocal.
7977 2002-04-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
7979 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT_REJECT)
7980 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_REJECT): New.
7981 Also recognize *.bb and *.bbg as compilation byproducts.
7982 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT, _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O)
7983 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT): Use them.
7984 Fixes Debian #138666.
7986 2002-04-02 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
7988 Integrate AC_PROG_CC_STDC into AC_PROG_CC.
7990 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Rename to _AC_PROG_CC_STDC.
7991 AU_DEFUN old name. Use _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE.
7992 (AC_PROG_CC): Call _AC_PROG_CC_STDC.
7993 (AC_C_INLINE): Do not require AC_PROG_CC_STDC.
7994 (AC_C_CONST): Same.
7995 (AC_C_INLINE): Same.
7996 (AC_C_PROTOTYPES): Same. Require AC_PROG_CC instead.
7997 * doc/autoconf.texi, NEWS: Document.
7998 * tests/mktests.sh (au_exclude_list): Add AC_PROG_CC_STDC and
7999 AC_C_CROSS.
8001 2002-04-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8003 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Invoke
8004 _AS_MKDIR_P_PREPARE.
8006 2002-03-28 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
8008 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_INLINE): Test with a typedef return value,
8009 to avoid versions of HP C which don't allow that.
8011 2002-03-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8013 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BASENAME_PREPARE): New macro.
8014 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Invoke it.
8015 (AS_BASENAME): AS_REQUIRE it, and use $as_basename.
8017 2002-03-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8019 * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell): Add pointers to FAQs.
8021 2002-03-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8023 * doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction): The GNATS base moved.
8025 2002-03-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8027 * tests/m4sh.at: Don't rely on "PATH=test:$PATH test-1" working
8028 as POSIX requires, as it doesn't work with Zsh.
8029 * doc/autoconf.texi (Assignments): Document the problem.
8031 2002-03-25 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
8033 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Mention more issue
8034 about VPATH, overriding of macros in sub-makes, and handling of
8035 SHELL.
8037 2002-03-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8039 * doc/autoconf.texi (Here-Documents): Mention Solaris 8 dtksh
8040 problem with here-document buffer boundaries.
8042 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Unset ENV and BASH_ENV
8043 when reinvoking the shell, to work around problems with installers
8044 who put strange things like "cd" commands in their environments.
8046 2002-03-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8048 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): s/unknow/unknown/.
8049 From Aaron Ucko.
8051 2002-03-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8053 * bin/autoscan.in (scan_file): Specify the location in `&used'
8054 invocations.
8055 From Nicolas Joly.
8057 2002-03-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8059 * doc/autoconf.texi: Adjust @code/@command, @xref/@ref usage.
8060 From Nishio Futoshi.
8062 2002-03-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8064 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_define_default, m4_fst, m4_map): New.
8066 2002-03-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8068 * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Add AS_MKDIR_P.
8069 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Add mkdir section.
8071 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_MKDIR_P_PREPARE): New macro.
8072 (AS_MKDIR_P): Require it. Use mkdir -p if available, falling
8073 back on AS_DIRNAME to compute prefixes otherwise; this is
8074 roughly what mkinstalldirs does. That way, we need not have
8075 our own filename disassembler. The old disassembler did not
8076 work with Solaris 8 dtksh, which is ksh Version M-12/28/93d.
8078 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT, AT_CLEANUP):
8079 Create at_test_all by a series of assignments,
8080 not by a single assignment of a long string. The latter causes ksh
8081 version 11/16/88g to silently misbehave on OpenServer 5.0.6a,
8082 presumably because of a buffer overrun.
8084 2002-03-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8086 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (at_times_skip):
8087 Renamed from at_times. Now a boolean.
8088 ksh93 Version M-12/28/93d doesn't like 'x=times; $x'; it
8089 says 'times: not found'.
8091 2002-03-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8093 * bin/autoreconf.in (&study_gettextize): New.
8094 (&autoreconf): Handle newest gettextize.
8095 Rerun aclocal if needed.
8096 Suggested by Andreas Schwab.
8098 2002-03-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8100 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): More about IFS.
8102 2002-03-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8104 * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): New.
8105 Add information about stdint.h and inttypes.h from Paul Eggert.
8107 2002-03-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8109 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Some about `cp
8110 -p'.
8111 From Bob Proulx.
8113 2002-03-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8115 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_BASENAME_EXPR): AS_REQUIRE, not
8116 m4_require.
8118 2002-03-11 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
8120 * configure.ac: Explicitly check for EMACS since AM_PATH_LISPDIR
8121 does not do it if --with-lispdir is given.
8123 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8125 Version 2.53.
8127 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8129 * doc/autoconf.texi (Subdirectories): Clarify that the
8130 subdirectory should exist.
8132 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8134 * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): 1.6.
8136 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8138 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_m4): Do not foreach with `$_' as it
8139 aliases the actual variables, and modifications of the former
8140 affect the latter.
8142 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8144 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_m4): Protect us from corrupted file
8145 because of C-c: have m4 output in tmp files, then mv them.
8147 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8149 * bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in,
8150 * bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in,
8151 * bin/ifnames.in: Copyright update.
8153 2002-03-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8155 * doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te): New.
8157 2002-03-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8159 * doc/autoconf.texi (Specifying Names): Clarification suggested by
8160 Kevin Ryde.
8162 2002-03-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8164 Version 2.52i.
8166 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8168 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_LIBOBJ vs. LIBOBJS): New.
8169 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_INIT): More informative error
8170 message for LIBOBJ.
8172 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8174 * lib/freeze.mk ($(build_libdir)/m4sugar/version.m4): New, for
8175 parallel builds.
8177 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8179 * doc/autoconf.texi (Transforming Names): Equality between target
8180 and host is irrelevant.
8181 (Specifying Names, Canonicalizing): Remove all references to the
8182 backward compatibility hooks. Rather, collect them all into...
8183 (Hosts and Cross-Compilation): this new section.
8184 * doc/install.texi (System Type): Ditto.
8185 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CANONICAL_HOST): Explicitly state
8186 that `--host' implies cross-compilation.
8188 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8190 * doc/autoconf.texi (Evaluation Macros): New.
8191 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_lquote): Remove, it is totally
8192 useless.
8193 (_m4_foreach): Define the variant with immediate evaluation so
8194 that it contains exactly the items, not an expression which
8195 evaluation is the current item.
8196 (m4_re_string, m4_re_word): Don't over quote them.
8198 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8200 Instead of having stacking `shift's evaluated at the end, let
8201 `foreach' loops immediately evaluate them.
8203 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_quote, m4_dquote): Use $@ rather than
8204 $*. This is the n-th time I change my mind, but hopefully this is
8205 the last...
8206 (m4_lquote): New.
8207 (m4_text_wrap): Use m4_foreach, which is finally correct _and_
8208 efficient.
8209 (m4_foreach_quoted, m4_car_quoted, _m4_foreach_quoted): Remove, as
8210 it was only a hack for m4_text_wrap.
8211 (m4_car2): Remove, replaced by...
8212 (m4_cdr): New.
8213 (_m4_foreach): Adjust.
8214 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Adjust, and use
8215 m4_bpatsubst for clarification.
8217 2002-03-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8219 * doc/autoconf.texi (Changequote is Evil): New.
8221 2002-03-03 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
8223 * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell): Mention 32-byte #! length limit
8224 on old systems like SunOS.
8226 2002-03-01 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
8228 * lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/fortran.m4,
8229 lib/autoconf/functions.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
8230 lib/autoconf/headers.m4, lib/autoconf/lang.m4,
8231 lib/autoconf/programs.m4, lib/autoconf/status.m4: Improve spelling
8232 of messages.
8234 2002-02-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8236 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Suggest a title to the
8237 message to be sent.
8239 2002-02-28 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
8241 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add va_copy and va_list.
8243 2002-02-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8245 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_SETPGRP): Fix the test.
8246 From Akinori Musha.
8248 2002-02-13 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
8250 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm (getline, getlines): New functions,
8251 translate \r\n to \n.
8253 2002-02-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8255 Version 2.52h.
8257 2002-02-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8259 Fix Autoconf PR/209.
8260 Also reported by Frank Denis.
8262 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_WALK): Don't over quote.
8264 2002-02-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8266 Fix Autoconf PR/207:
8267 AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM fails with dashed program names
8269 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM): Just use a fresh
8270 variable when looking for the prefix program.
8271 Now it also works for shell variables.
8273 2002-02-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8275 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): More about
8276 case/esac.
8278 2002-02-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8280 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS): Don't output empty
8281 case/esac, some shells don't support it.
8282 Reported by Zack Weinberg.
8283 * tests/torture.at (AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS with empty commands): New.
8285 2002-02-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8287 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): When handling --keywords, be
8288 sure not to introduce newlines in at_groups.
8289 * lib/autotest/Makefile.am (autotest.m4f): Typo.
8291 2002-02-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8293 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Skip if aclocal
8294 is not available.
8296 2002-02-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8298 * doc/autoconf.texi (Specific Compiler Characteristics):
8299 Describe HP-UX cc bug workaround more accurately.
8300 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Cast to long,
8301 not unsigned long.
8302 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Check non-GCC
8303 cross-compilers, too. This undoes some of the most recent change
8304 to this file.
8306 2002-02-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8308 * tests/Makefile.am (check_SCRIPTS): Use it, instead of WRAPPERS,
8309 to make sure they are up to date when `check' is run.
8311 2002-02-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8313 * doc/autoconf.texi (Making testsuite Scripts): Document
8314 package.m4.
8316 2002-02-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8318 * lib/freeze.mk: New.
8320 2002-02-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8322 Implement `autom4te --freeze'.
8324 * bin/autom4te.in (&freeze): New.
8325 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autotest/general.m4,
8326 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Don't include files given by autom4te.
8328 2002-02-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8330 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Implement `frozen files are
8331 optional are the sum of the previous files on the command line'.
8332 Also, pass `--reload-state=' on them, so...
8333 (handle_m4): don't.
8334 * lib/autom4te.in (Autotest, Autoconf): Rely on M4sh.
8335 (M4sh): Rely on M4sugar.
8336 (Autotest, M4sh, M4sugar): Use frozen files.
8338 2002-01-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8340 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): Accept $4.
8341 * doc/autoconf.texi (Initializing configure): Adjust.
8343 2002-01-30 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8345 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): Map non
8346 alphanumeric to `-' instead of `_'.
8348 2002-01-30 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8350 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Split into two tests: one
8351 for plain code, the other for cross-compilation code. The latter
8352 is now run with GCC only.
8353 * doc/autoconf.texi (Compilers and Preprocessors): New.
8355 2002-01-30 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8357 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): Support pre-defined
8358 values.
8359 * doc/autoconf.texi (Initializing configure): Explain how to
8360 change AC_INIT default values.
8362 2002-01-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8364 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Use configure.in,
8365 so that aclocal 1.4 works.
8366 Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz and Larry Schmitt.
8368 2002-01-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8370 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): AT_CLEANUP no longer
8371 needs an argument.
8373 2002-01-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8375 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't be ridiculous: adjust
8376 AUTOTEST_PATH *after* it was set.
8377 Don't put `.' in the PATH: the user should be precise and `./' if
8378 needed. In addition, given that the test suite does some `cd', if
8379 `.' is in the path, the `tested programs' sections will report
8380 programs found in the test suite's directory, while during the
8381 tests (performed in their own directory), these programs are no
8382 longer visible. In other words, the results is confusing and
8383 useless.
8384 * tests/m4sh.at: Adjust: don't rely on `.' being in the PATH.
8386 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8388 Version 2.52g.
8390 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8392 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoscan.in,
8393 * doc/autoconf.texi: Finally add Akim as an author.
8395 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8397 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Use PATH_SEPARATOR.
8398 (_AS_PATH_SEPARATOR_PREPARE): Don't expect $SHELL to be
8399 Bourne. Use /bin/sh.
8400 From Andreas Buening.
8402 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8404 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/texinfo.tex:
8405 Update from masters.
8407 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8409 * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): 1.5b.
8410 * config/auxdir.m4, config/cond.m4, config/depend.m4,
8411 * config/init.m4, config/install-sh.m4, config/lispdir.m4,
8412 * config/missing.m4, config/sanity.m4, config/select.m4,
8413 * config/strip.m4: Remove, to ease sync'ing with any version of
8414 Automake.
8416 2002-01-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8418 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS)
8419 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Support -n as --no-create, as documented.
8420 Reported by Geir Ove Myhr.
8422 2002-01-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8424 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MMAP): #Undef malloc.
8426 2002-01-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8428 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (getopt): Use a more GNUish error
8429 message on invalid options.
8430 * bin/autom4te.in (parse_args): Don't use
8431 Autoconf::General::getopt with non valid options.
8433 2002-01-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@lucent.com>
8435 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Initialize
8436 $ac_cv_exeext so we don't use an old, invalid, cached value.
8438 2002-01-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8440 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_STRNLEN): New, from Jim
8441 Meyering.
8442 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Document the strnlen
8443 limitation.
8444 (Particular Functions): Document AC_FUNC_STRNLEN.
8445 * lib/autoscan/functions: Adjust.
8447 2002-01-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8449 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Don't create
8450 package.m4, since is really depends upon configure.ac, not
8451 configure.
8452 * doc/autoconf.texi (testsuite Scripts): Adjust.
8453 * tests/Makefile.am (package.m4): New.
8454 EXTRA_DIST it since its a source.
8456 2002-01-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8458 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Move the AC_SUBST
8459 of PACKAGE_NAME, PACKAGE_TARNAME, PACKAGE_VERSION, PACKAGE_STRING,
8460 and PACKAGE_BUGREPORT from here...
8461 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): to here, since it is unrelated to the
8462 arguments.
8463 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): AC_DEFINE these symbols.
8464 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Use AT_PACKAGE_*, not PACKAGE_*.
8465 (AT_INIT): No longer catch `^PACKAGE_(BUGREPORT|STRING)$'.
8466 * tests/tools.at (autoheader): Adjust.
8467 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_DEFINES): Adjust.
8469 2002-01-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8471 * bin/autoscan.in (scan_file): Use `&used'.
8473 2002-01-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8475 * doc/autoconf.texi (Output): Improved wording regarding use of
8476 AC_OUTPUT.
8477 From Olly Betts.
8479 2001-12-18 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
8481 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add notes on sscanf
8482 sometimes needing writable input.
8484 2001-12-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@lucent.com>
8486 * doc/autoconf.texi (New Macros): Tweak wording.
8488 2001-12-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8490 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): We cleaning up the
8491 trailing files, don't apply `-rf' to files which might not be
8492 created by configure (core, core.*, and *.core), but just `rm -f'.
8493 Suggested by Jonathan Kamens.
8495 2001-12-14 Aaron M. Ucko <amu@alum.mit.edu>
8497 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Avoid duplicates in `$ac_configure_args'.
8499 2001-12-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8501 * Makefile.am (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Remove configure.
8503 2001-12-13 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
8505 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Rename buildpath to
8506 abs_builddir, top_buildpath to abs_top_builddir, srcpath to
8507 abs_srcdir, top_srcpath to abs_top_srcdir.
8508 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Adjust.
8509 * NEWS, doc/autoconf.texi, lib/autoconf/autotest.m4,
8510 * tests/atspecific.m4, tests/autoreconf.in, tests/tools.at,
8511 * tests/wrappl.in, tests/wrapsh.in: Adjust.
8513 2001-12-12 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
8515 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_F77_V_OUTPUT): Fix failed
8516 C/Fortran linking on HP/UX, by extracting the Fortran library
8517 search path from the LPATH line in the $F77 -v output.
8519 2001-12-12 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
8521 * doc/autoconf.texi (File Descriptors): Use a clearer layout for the
8522 forbidden file descriptors table.
8524 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8526 * bin/autoscan.in (%c_keywords): Build it at top level.
8527 Map to 1 in order to simplify its uses.
8529 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8531 * bin/autoscan.in (&scan_c_file, &scan_sh_file, &scan_makefile):
8532 Remove $filepath, useless.
8533 (&scan_makefile): Don't remove the $(FOO), ${FOO} and @FOO@
8534 variables, they are really part of the tokens.
8535 Split the input line on spaces and then look for tokens.
8536 Now autoscan ceases to ask for AC_PROG_LEX for the package Bison
8537 because of `lex$U.$(OBJEXT)'.
8538 (&scan_files): Use "@list" instead of join.
8539 * doc/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): Add *.fns.
8541 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8543 * tests/autoreconf.in, tests/autom4te.in, tests/autoupdate.in:
8544 Remove, replaced by...
8545 * tests/wrappl.in: Be common for all the Perl executables.
8546 In particular autoscan and autoheader want -I.
8547 * configure.ac: Adjust.
8548 * lib/autoscan/headers: errno.h is portable.
8550 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8552 * bin/autoscan.in (used): New.
8553 Use it.
8555 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8557 * bin/autoscan.in (&scan_c_file): Better parsing of CPP
8558 directives.
8559 (&scan_sh_file): Remove a duplicate pattern.
8560 (&check_configure_ac): Use long options.
8561 * lib/autoscan/headers (alloca.h): Check with AC_FUNC_ALLOCA.
8563 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8565 * bin/autoscan.in (scan_c_file): Fix the handling of C comments.
8566 Before, having a line containing the opening of a multi line
8567 comment made the whole line be ignored.
8569 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8571 * doc/autoconf.texi (Using an Autotest Test Suite): New.
8572 (testsuite Scripts): Be one of its subsection.
8573 (Autotest Logs): New.
8575 2001-11-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8577 Test groups are now run two directories deeper.
8579 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Replace srcdir,
8580 top_srcdir and top_builddir with at_srcdir, at_top_srcdir and
8581 at_top_builddir.
8582 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Compute srcdir,
8583 top_srcdir, builddir and top_builddir.
8584 Use `at_*dir' relatively to the directory containing the
8585 suite, use `*dir' when relatively to the current group dir.
8587 2001-11-25 Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
8589 * doc/autoconf.texi, TODO, lib/autoconf/fortran.m4,
8590 lib/autoconf/functions.m4, lib/autoconf/headers.m4,
8591 tests/atgeneral.m4, tests/tools.at, tests/atspecific.m4: Fix
8592 spelling errors.
8594 2001-11-22 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
8596 * doc/autoconf.texi (Using System Type): Add an example of `case
8597 $host' usage so people quit using `case $target' everywhere.
8599 2001-11-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8601 * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Englishoes
8602 spotted by Jim Meyering.
8604 2001-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8606 This patch implements a `long double' suggestion by Oliver Kiddle.
8608 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY(C)): Make the array
8609 static, to catch errors if the value isn't known at compile-time
8610 and the compiler supports dynamic arrays. Change its name from
8611 `_array_' to `test_array' to avoid potential name clashes.
8612 (AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE): Make it a compile-time test, not a run-time
8613 test. Do not define HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE if `long double' is no
8614 better than double. Catch a bug in GCC 2.95.2 x86.
8615 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Document the above.
8616 * NEWS: Likewise.
8618 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8620 * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): Protect from autom4te's substitution by
8621 hand.
8622 * tests/tools.at: Don't protect dnl, AT_DATA_M4SH does.
8624 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8626 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): After having run the test
8627 group, go back to the initial directory, not to at_suite_dir.
8629 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8631 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_DATA_M4SUGAR, AT_DATA_M4SH)
8632 (AT_DATA_AUTOCONF): Also protect @&t@ from autom4te.
8633 (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF, AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER): Pass no --include
8634 option.
8635 (AT_CHECK_CONFIGURE): Use absolute paths.
8636 (_AT_CHECK_AC_MACRO): Create aclocal.m4 with AC_STATE_SAVE in it.
8637 The problem is still the old one: there is no means in M4 (that I
8638 know about) to create a defining macro, because there is no means
8639 to create `$1' etc., therefore, the defining macro ``swallows''
8640 all the arguments meant to the defined macro.
8642 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8644 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_DATA_AUTOCONF): New.
8645 (AT_CONFIGURE_AC): Output the definition of AC_STATE_SAVE in
8646 configure.ac.
8647 * tests/aclocal.m4: Remove, as it is no longer used.
8649 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8651 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Change `tests?' into `groups?' in
8652 variable names when referring to a single test group, or to
8653 `suite' when referring to the whole test suite.
8654 `at_last_test' is removed: m4 compute at_format itself.
8655 (at_stdout, at_stder1, at_stderr): New variables.
8656 (AT_CHECK): Use them.
8658 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8660 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Be sure to put `.', relative,
8661 in PATH.
8662 Create `testsuite.dir/003/run' instead of `testsuite.003'.
8663 Do it as soon as a test fails, don't wait till the end of the test
8664 suite.
8665 Don't remove $as_me.[0-9]*, since these files no longer exist.
8667 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8669 * tests/tools.at: Use absolute paths, since we are no longer run
8670 in place.
8672 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8674 Now that tests are running in their own private dir, there is no
8675 need to list the files to remove at the end of tests groups.
8677 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_CLEANUP_FILE, AT_CLEANUP_FILES):
8678 (AT_data_files, at_data_files): Remove.
8679 (AT_CLEANUP, AT_DATA): Simplify.
8680 (AT_INIT): Adjust.
8681 Remove the group dir if !debug && !failed.
8682 * tests/atspecific.m4: Adjust.
8684 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8686 Start a new layout for Autotest: `testsuite' creates
8687 `testsuite.dir' in which the at-check-line etc. files are to be
8688 found, and `testsuite.dir/003' where the test group 3 is run.
8690 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): at_tests_dir,
8691 at_check_line_file, at_format, at_test_normalized, at_group_dir
8692 are new variables.
8693 Create the directories.
8694 Use absolute paths for at- files.
8695 (AT_CHECK): Adjust.
8697 2001-11-11 Michael Matz <matz@kde.org>
8699 * m4sugar.m4 (_m4_foreach): Make it linear instead quadratic.
8700 (m4_car2): New.
8701 (m4_car): Properly quote arguments.
8703 2001-11-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8705 * tests/aclocal.m4 (AC_STATE_SAVE): s/LIBOBJS/LIB@&t@OBJS/ to cope
8706 with stricter rules on LIBOBJS.
8708 2001-11-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8710 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_PROTOTYPES): Define __PROTOTYPES too.
8711 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): AC_C_PROTOTYPES now defines
8712 __PROTOTYPES too.
8714 2001-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8716 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETMNTENT): Use AC_CHECK_FUNCS.
8718 2001-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8720 * lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/fortran.m4,
8721 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
8722 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4,
8723 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4, lib/autoconf/specific.m4,
8724 * lib/autoconf/types.m4: When invoking AC_DEFINE and friends,
8725 specify to what the macro should be defined (typically to 1).
8727 2001-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8729 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_STRTOD): AC_SUBST POW_LIB.
8730 From Jim Meyering.
8732 2001-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8734 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_LEX_YYTEXT_DECL): Use
8735 AC_TRY_EVAL to run $LEX, not AC_TRY_COMMAND. This validates the
8736 definition used by Automake where LEX is +/- "${missing} lex" and
8737 `missing' itself contains variables.
8739 2001-11-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8741 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Push KILL at the end.
8742 Now that M4sh pushes BODY, the comments were output at the end of
8743 the test suites.
8745 2001-11-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8747 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Run aclocal before tracing, so
8748 that we can trace macros from aclocal.m4.
8749 Trace AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, not AM_PROG_LIBTOOL, since the latter is
8750 obsoleted, and redirect to the former anyway.
8751 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
8753 2001-11-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8755 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): AC_CONFIG_SUBIDRS are to be
8756 processed only if present.
8757 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Use autoreconf
8758 instead of successive calls to autoconf.
8759 Add a nonexistent subdirectory to exercise the patch above.
8760 Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
8762 2001-11-08 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
8764 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Note HP-UX cc
8765 doesn't accept .S files.
8767 2001-11-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8769 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_pattern_forbid): Accepts $2.
8770 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_INTI): Forbid LIBOBJS.
8771 (_AC_LIBOBJ): s/LIBOBJS/LIB@&t@OBJS/.
8772 * bin/autom4te.in (warn_forbidden): New.
8773 (handle_output): Use it.
8774 Read m4_pattern_forbid with messages.
8776 2001-11-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8778 * bin/autom4te.in (--normalize): Remove.
8779 * lib/autom4te.in: Adjust.
8781 2001-11-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8783 * tests/Makefile.am (testsuite): Rename this target as...
8784 ($(TESTSUITE)): this.
8785 From Nicolas Joly.
8787 2001-11-05 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
8789 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): When removing
8790 the --prefix option, also remove it's argument.
8792 2001-11-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8794 * doc/autoconf.texi (testsuite Invocation): Update.
8795 (Writing testsuite.at): Update.
8797 2001-11-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8799 * doc/autoconf.texi: s/@code/@command/ where appropriate.
8801 2001-11-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8803 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: (&catfile, &canonfile)
8804 (&file_name_is_absolute): New, wrappers around routines from
8805 File::Spec.
8806 Use and export them.
8807 (&find_configure_ac): Optionally take a directory where to look at.
8808 * bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args): Trim the configure.ac part of
8809 the arguments.
8810 Default @ARGV to `.', not find_configure_ac.
8811 (&autoreconf): Argument is a directory.
8812 Trace AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS and schedule the subdirs for autoreconf'ing.
8813 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Update.
8815 2001-11-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8817 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (@export_vars, @export_subs)
8818 (@export_forward_subs): New.
8819 Add basename, dirname, and fileparse.
8820 (@EXPORT): Adjust.
8821 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Fix call to fileparse.
8822 Don't look for aclocal flags if we already know aclocal is not
8823 used.
8824 Move aclocal.m4t only if it exists.
8825 Reported by Ezra Peisach.
8827 2001-11-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8829 * bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args): Work only on the configure.ac
8830 passed on command line, defaulting to ./configure.ac if present.
8831 (&maybe_autoreconf, File::Find): Remove, unused.
8832 (&autoreconf): If autoconf is not used, don't try to trace.
8834 2001-11-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8836 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.52g.
8838 2001-11-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8840 Version 2.52f.
8842 2001-11-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8844 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, doc/standards.texi:
8845 * config/lispdir.m4: Update from masters.
8846 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.52f.
8848 2001-11-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8850 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Set `$aclocal_flags' to ''.
8851 Don't run aclocal when aclocal.m4 is not from aclocal.
8852 From Ezra Peisach.
8853 Don't run libtoolize and gettextize if --install is not given.
8855 2001-11-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8857 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): _AS_CR_PREPARE needs to
8858 be invoked before _AS_LINENO_PREPARE.
8859 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Use as_cr_digits and as_cr_alnum rather
8860 than character ranges.
8862 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Fix NLS before
8863 invoking AS_BASENAME. Set the locale variables to 'C' if
8864 possible, as POSIX requires this to get the traditional
8865 behavior.
8866 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Describe the above.
8868 2001-10-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8870 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_WORKS): Do not surround body
8871 with {}, as that triggers a bug in Bash 2.05.
8873 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Use Sed rather than
8874 Awk. Fix the sed prepass to work even if there are multiple
8875 instances of $LINENO on the same line. Do not substitute for
8876 other variables like $LINENOT. Do not check file dates; such a
8877 check is unreliable on sufficiently fast machines, and removing
8878 the check makes the code simpler and more reliable. Check for
8879 output and chmod failures.
8881 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Document
8882 the above.
8884 2001-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8886 * tests/Makefile.am (atconfig): Remove this target, Automake
8887 handles it now.
8889 2001-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8891 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Do not
8892 AC_CONFIG_FILES(atlocal) as it means a file atlocal.in *must* be
8893 provided, while it is optional.
8894 * configure.ac: Adjust.
8896 2001-10-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8898 * NEWS, README, configure.ac, lib/Autom4te/General.pm,
8899 lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm:
8900 Require Perl 5.005_03 instead of just 5.005, as some tests fail
8901 with 5.005_02.
8903 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Document some
8904 more LINENO gotchas, particularly with respect to the Awk+Sed hack.
8906 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_WORKS): New macro.
8907 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Use it instead of shell eval, since
8908 eval $LINENO is not portable in practice.
8910 2001-10-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8912 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (backname): New.
8914 2001-10-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8916 * m4/: Remove, merged into...
8917 * config/: here.
8919 2001-10-23 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
8921 * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology): Mention the problems with bash
8922 2.05's use of ANSI quoting in its `set' builtin.
8924 2001-10-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8926 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R):
8927 Rename ac_cv_func_strerror_r_works to ac_cv_func_strerror_r_char_p,
8928 and rename HAVE_WORKING_STRERROR_R to STRERROR_R_CHAR_P, since
8929 POSIX decided to standardize on the int flavor of strerror_r.
8930 Always do char* test, as there's no reason not to.
8931 Assign to a char* var, to catch strerror_r that returns int*.
8933 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions):
8934 Document the above changes. Also, document the fact that
8935 AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R defines HAVE_DECL_STRERROR_R.
8937 * NEWS: Mention HAVE_WORKING_STRERROR_R -> STRERROR_R_CHAR_P.
8939 2001-10-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8941 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): The name of
8942 the executable was missing from the log.
8944 2001-10-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8946 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&update_file): If destination is
8947 unchanged, remove the source.
8948 (&up_to_date_p): Don't be verbose, be debug.
8949 * bin/autoreconf.in: No longer support --m4dir.
8950 (&autoreconf): Display the full path of the configure.ac we are
8951 studying.
8952 Trace it only once.
8953 Be sure to honor --force with gettextize.
8954 Always run aclocal.
8955 * doc/autoconf.texi: Adjust.
8957 2001-10-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8959 * bin/autoheader.in ($localdir, $m4, $SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX):
8960 Remove, dead.
8961 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Do not run gettextize when
8962 `intl' is already present, as it refuses unless --force.
8963 (&parse_args): Use -I, --include instead of the old Autoconf
8964 options.
8965 ($localdir, $autoconf_dir): Remove.
8966 (@include): New.
8967 (&maybe_autoreconf): New, to preserve $_ for File::Find.
8969 2001-10-19 Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com>
8971 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_AWK): Prefer gawk to mawk.
8972 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): Likewise.
8974 2001-10-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8976 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Name the generated
8977 file in @configure_input@.
8978 Don't mention `automatically' in addition to `generated'.
8979 * tests/torture.at (#define header templates): Adjust.
8981 2001-10-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
8983 * lib/emacs/autoconf-mode.el, lib/emacs/autotest-mode.el: In a
8984 comment, explain how to install automatic mode selection.
8985 From Russ Allbery.
8987 2001-10-19 Ezra Peisach <epeisach@zif.mit.edu>
8989 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Display the path to the
8990 configure.ac being studied.
8992 2001-10-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8994 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Cast sizeof to unsigned
8995 long, to work around a bug in the HP C compiler version HP92453-01
8996 B.11.11.23709.GP.
8998 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_DIRNAME): Use 'dirname' if that works.
8999 (AS_BASENAME_EXPR): New macro.
9000 (AS_BASENAME_SED): Do not assume GNU sed semantics.
9001 (AS_BASENAME): Use 'basename' if that works; then try 'expr';
9002 and fall back on 'sed' only if the other two fail. This makes
9003 AS_BASENAME act more like AS_DIRNAME.
9004 (as_me): Shell-quote the argument of AS_BASENAME, in case $0
9005 contains white space.
9006 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR):
9007 Use AS_DIRNAME, since I think it's now DOS-friendly.
9008 * tests/m4sh.at (DIRNAME_TEST): New arg $3.
9009 Allow "dirname //FOO" to return either / or //, as POSIX allows
9010 either behavior.
9012 2001-10-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9014 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Recognize
9015 `a_out.exe' for OpenVMS 7.1, DEC C 5.5 compiler, via GNV.
9016 From Eric Sharkey.
9018 2001-10-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9020 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_ECHO_N_PREPARE): m4_defun, not
9021 m4_define, since...
9022 (_AS_ECHO_N): AS_REQUIREs it.
9024 2001-10-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9026 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS)
9027 (AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT): Move to...
9028 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4: here.
9029 * lib/autoconf/types.m4: Comment changes.
9030 * doc/autoconf.texi: Specify where the default includes are used
9031 in the macro prototypes.
9033 2001-10-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9035 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4 (m4_patsubst, m4_regexp): New
9036 transition code.
9038 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9040 * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Remove debugging code.
9041 (&parse_args): Pass verbosity/debugging options to subtools when
9042 --debug, not when --verbose.
9043 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoreconf-preselections): New.
9044 (Autoconf): Use it.
9046 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9048 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Run libtoolize when appropriate.
9050 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9052 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Adjust.
9053 * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Run gettextize when appropriate.
9055 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9057 * tests/tools.at (AT_CHECK_PERL_SYNTAX): Check autoreconf.
9058 (Syntax of the shell scripts): Don't.
9059 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in: Don't
9060 bother with $force since...
9061 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: does.
9063 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9065 * bin/autoreconf.in: Rewrite in Perl.
9066 * configure.ac: Adjust.
9067 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&up_to_date_p): New.
9068 * bin/autom4te.in (&up_to_date_p): Use it.
9069 Rename as...
9070 (&up_to_date): this.
9072 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9074 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_case, m4_bmatch, m4_normalize)
9075 (m4_list_cmp): Use $0 to reinvoke yourself.
9076 (m4_patsubsts): New.
9077 (m4_strip, m4_version_unletter): Use it.
9078 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_DATA_M4SUGAR, AT_DATA_M4SH): Likewise.
9080 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9082 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
9083 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4, lib/autoconf/status.m4,
9084 * lib/autoconf/types.m4, lib/autotest/general.m4,
9085 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4, lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4, tests/atspecific.m4,
9086 * tests/torture.at: Rename m4_regexp, m4_patsubst, and m4_match to
9087 m4_bregexp, m4_bpatsubst, and m4_bmatch.
9088 * doc/autoconf.texi (Redefined M4 Macros): Adjust.
9090 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9092 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Use AS_REQUIRE.
9094 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9096 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_DIRNAME_EXPR): Use AS_REQUIRE.
9097 * tests/tools.at (AT_DATA_FORBIDDEN): Rename/move/duplicate to...
9098 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_DATA_M4SUGAR, AT_DATA_M4SH): here.
9099 * tests/tools.at, tests/m4sh.at: Use it.
9100 * tests/m4sh.at: Don't rely on Autoconf macros.
9101 (DIRNAME_TEST): Also exercise the expr variant.
9102 * tests/m4sugar.at, tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR): The
9103 preferred M4sugar extension is now `.4s'.
9104 * tests/README: Remove.
9106 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9108 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_provide_ifelse): Rename as...
9109 (m4_provide_if): this.
9110 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_REQUIRE): New.
9111 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AS_DEFUN, AC_DEFUN_ONCE, AC_BEFORE)
9112 (AC_REQUIRE, AC_PROVIDE, AC_PROVIDE_IFELSE): Be exact copy of the
9113 M4sugar peer, i.e., drop the `AC_PROVIDE_$1' broken marker.
9115 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9117 Use `add-log-current-defun-function' for ChangeLog creation.
9118 Suggested by Tom Tromey.
9120 * lib/emacs/autotest-mode.el (autotest-mode-map): New.
9121 (autotest-mode): Adjust.
9122 * lib/emacs/autoconf-mode.el (autoconf-mode-map): Modernize, map
9123 'comment-region onto `C-c ;'.
9124 Comments are `#', not `dnl'.
9125 (autoconf-current-defun): New.
9126 (autoconf-font-lock-keywords): Recognize `m4_defun'.
9128 2001-10-08 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9130 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_m4_divert(BODY)): Move to...
9131 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: here.
9132 (AS_INIT): Push the BODY diversion, set the #! /bin/sh line.
9133 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_PLAIN_SCRIPT) : Remove.
9134 (AT_INIT): Replace AC_PLAIN_SCRIPT with AS_INIT invocation,
9135 include handle the m4_pattern_*, no longer push the
9136 BODY diversion nor set the /bin/sh line, AS_INIT does it.
9137 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
9138 * tests/base.at: Adjust the tests to use AS_INIT.
9139 * tests/tools.at (AT_DATA_FORBIDDEN): New.
9140 (autoconf: forbidden tokens): Adjust to work on M4sh instead of
9141 Autoconf.
9143 2001-10-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
9145 * doc/autoconf.texi (config.status Invocation):
9146 CONFIG_SHELL defaults to a shell that supports LINENO if available.
9148 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): If the current
9149 shell does not support LINENO, and if CONFIG_SHELL is unset or
9150 empty, and if we can find a shell that does support LINENO,
9151 then set CONFIG_SHELL to that shell and then re-execute
9152 ourselves with CONFIG_SHELL.
9154 2001-10-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
9156 * tests/Makefile.am (clean-local): Don't invoke $(TESTSUITE) if it
9157 doesn't exist. Remove *.tmp, as a .tmp file is created during the
9158 build of $(TESTSUITE).
9160 2001-10-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9162 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Look in the path
9163 iff we are a bareword.
9164 Reported by Raja R Harinath.
9166 2001-10-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9168 * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): New.
9169 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Be sure to set
9170 PATH_SEPARATOR before using it.
9171 Fix the absolute path case/esac pattern.
9172 Provide $0 as fallback for as_myself.
9173 Reported by Raja R Harinath.
9175 2001-10-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9177 * Makefile.am, config/Makefile.am, lib/emacs/Makefile.am,
9178 * m4/Makefile.am, man/Makefile.am: Add/adjust MAINTAINERCLEANFILES.
9180 2001-10-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9182 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): New, extracted from...
9183 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): here. Use it.
9184 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Preserve the exit status of $0.lineno.
9185 From Paul Eggert.
9187 2001-10-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9189 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Use a portable
9190 combination of Awk and sed to replace $LINENO.
9192 2001-10-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
9194 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): You can't use
9195 "source"; it's not portable. Remove confusing and
9196 somewhat-incorrect example involving "." and "/".
9198 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): "source" -> ".", for
9199 compatibility with POSIX shells.
9201 2001-10-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9203 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Just source 40.lineno
9204 instead of exec'ing to preserve $0 and $@.
9206 2001-10-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9208 * tests/testsuite (AT_INIT) <at_pass_list>: New.
9209 Don't run twice the same test.
9211 2001-10-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9213 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT) <--help>: Catch up with reality.
9214 No longer output the list of tests.
9215 <--list>: New option.
9216 <--full-help>: Remove.
9217 Complete the short/long options duality.
9218 Various small adjustments.
9220 2001-10-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9222 * doc/autoconf.texi: Use @kbd for user input.
9223 Always use `$' as shell prompt.
9225 2001-09-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
9227 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_OUTPUT_MAKE_DEFS):
9228 Don't use nested parenthesization. This patch was originally
9229 suggested to bug-autoconf by Philippe De Muyter on 2000-05-28,
9230 but somehow it didn't get incorporated then.
9231 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools):
9232 Clarify remark about sed and nested parenthesization.
9234 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF):
9235 Report an error if the size cannot be determined even though
9236 the type exists.
9237 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE):
9238 Check for `expr' arithmetic overflow, and for compilation failure,
9239 and invoke a new argument $4 if either is discovered.
9240 This makes _AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE more like _AC_COMPUTE_INT_RUN.
9241 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT): Pass IF-FAILS arg to _AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE.
9243 2001-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9245 * lib/emacs/autoconf-mode.el, lib/emacs/autotest-mode.el: New.
9246 * m4/lispdir.m4: New.
9247 * aclocal.m4, configure.ac: Adjust.
9249 2001-09-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9251 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_VICTIMS): Rename as...
9252 (AT_TESTED): this.
9253 (AT_INIT): More the wrapped section to where it will be expanded.
9254 Output `AT_tested' only when existing.
9255 Catch unexpanded PACKAGE_STRING and PACKAGE_BUGREPORT.
9257 2001-09-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9259 Fix the passing of $? to ACTION-IF-FAILED in AC_TRY_RUN, that
9260 generates too many bug reports.
9262 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_RUN_IFELSE): Pass the right exit
9263 status when executing the ACTION-IF-FALSE.
9264 * tests/base.at (AC_TRY_*): Rename as...
9265 (AC_TRY_COMMAND): this.
9266 (AC_RUN_IFELSE): New.
9267 * tests/compile.at (Extensions, C keywords)
9268 (AC_PROG_CPP requires AC_PROG_CC, GNU Fortran 77)
9269 (Broken/missing compilers, AC_PROG_CPP with warnings)
9270 (AC_PROG_CPP without warnings, AC_PROG_CPP via CC): Move to...
9271 * tests/c.at (Extensions, C keywords)
9272 (Broken/missing compilers, AC_PROG_CPP with warnings)
9273 (AC_PROG_CPP without warnings, AC_PROG_CPP via CC)
9274 (AC_PROG_CPP requires AC_PROG_CC): here and...
9275 * tests/fortran.at (GNU Fortran 77): there.
9276 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoconf Invocation): Fix the example:
9277 AC_TRY_RUN is about compilation, not shell commands.
9278 (Test Programs): AC_TRY_RUN works as used to be advertised.
9280 2001-09-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9282 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Fix bugs spotted by
9283 Raja R Harinath:
9284 Be sure to detect when $LINENO always returns the same value.
9285 Look for the original script, basename($0) is certainly not
9286 enough.
9287 Pass the CLI arguments to `$as_me.lineno'.
9289 2001-09-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9291 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Dump the whole config.log.
9292 Be sure the close and reopen the LOG fd before and after using tee
9293 to extend the log.
9294 <at_tests_pattern>: Adjust to the new format of at_help_all.
9296 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9298 * bin/autom4te.in (parse_args): There can be several invocations
9299 of --language now.
9301 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9303 * doc/autoconf.texi (Top): Wrap in @ifnottex.
9305 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9307 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Compute and provide
9308 ac_buildpath, ac_top_buildpath, ac_srcpath, and ac_top_srcpath.
9309 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Also substitute srcpath, top_srcpath,
9310 builddir, buildpath, top_builddir, and top_buildpath.
9311 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Compute the dir variables *before* changing
9312 the current directory.
9313 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Compute the dir
9314 variables *before* changing the current directory.
9315 Skip nonexistent dirs.
9316 * doc/autoconf.texi (Preset Output Variables): Document these
9317 variables.
9319 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Do not reset AT_victims.
9320 Don't compute at_srcdir nor at_top_srcdir.
9322 * tests/tools.at: Hence use top_srcdir.
9324 * tests/Makefile.am, tests/autoconf, tests/autoheader,
9325 * tests/autom4te, tests/autoreconf, tests/autoupdate, tests/ifnames:
9326 Remove.
9327 * tests/autoreconf.in, tests/wrappl.in, tests/autom4te.in,
9328 * tests/wrapsh.in, tests/autoupdate.in: New.
9329 * tests/Makefile.am (DISTCLEANFILES, EXTRA_DIST): Adjust.
9330 * configure.ac: Build the position independent wrappers.
9332 * man/Makefile.am: Now that test wrappers are position
9333 independent, use them and drop dark envvar magic.
9335 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9337 * doc/autoconf.texi (Common Shell Constructs): Rename as...
9338 (Programming in M4sh): this.
9339 Promote to @section.
9341 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9343 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Dump config.log last.
9344 Pass $at_debug_args to the rerun test suite.
9345 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am (DISTCLEANFILES): New.
9346 * bin/Makefile.am (ETAGS_SH): Don't use characters ranges.
9347 From Paul Eggert.
9349 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9351 * bin/autom4te.in (@my_warning): Remove, handled by `autom4te.cfg'.
9353 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9355 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Fix shell
9356 over-escaping.
9358 2001-09-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9360 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&debug): New.
9361 * bin/autom4te.in ($language): Move to...
9362 (parse_args): here.
9363 Handle --language in languages.
9364 * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-selections, Autoheader-selections)
9365 (Autoscan-selections): New.
9366 (Autoconf): Adjust.
9368 2001-09-23 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
9370 * m4/auxdir.m4, m4/cond.m4, m4/depend.m4, m4/init.m4,
9371 * m4/install-sh.m4, m4/missing.m4, m4/sanity.m4, m4/strip.m4: Updated
9372 to match current versions from CVS Automake.
9374 2001-09-23 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
9376 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Add pdksh output
9377 for $LINENO.
9379 2001-09-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9381 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4: Create `package.m4'.
9382 * tests/Makefile.am (package.m4): Remove.
9384 2001-09-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9386 Rely on `$LINENO' when possible instead of `__oline__'.
9388 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Provide some form of
9389 `$LINENO' support replacement when not supported.
9390 (_AS_CR_PREPARE, _AS_TR_CPP_PREPARE, _AS_TR_SH_PREPARE): Invoke
9391 them explicitly to be sure they are not output before this section
9392 (via m4_require). Cosmetic only.
9393 * lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
9394 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4: Replace all the occurrences of
9395 `__oline__' with `$LINENO'.
9396 * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Document LINENO.
9398 2001-09-21 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
9400 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_FORK): Replaceded an 8-bit
9401 character (u: -> ue) in a code comment.
9402 (AC_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK): Only run 'ln -s' if we know
9403 it works.
9405 2001-09-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9407 * Makefile.maint (AUTOM4TE): Neutralize autom4te.
9408 Suggested by Jim Meyering.
9410 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
9412 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4: Use extensions listed in
9413 $ac_executable_extensions when looking for programs.
9415 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
9417 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Fix a small Englisho.
9418 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Fix a small typo. Handle DOS paths when
9419 setting up ac_dir_suffix and ac_top_builddir.
9420 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Default CDPATH to $PATH_SEPARATOR, not ':'.
9422 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
9424 * doc/autoconf.texi (File System Conventions): Clarify the use of
9425 PATH_SEPARATOR.
9426 (Special Shell Variables[PATH_SEPARATOR]): Ditto.
9427 (Special Shell Variables[CDPATH]): Mention that $PATH_SEPRATOR should
9428 be used instead of ':'.
9429 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Replace occurrences of ':' in
9430 AUTOTEST_PATH with $PATH_SEPARATOR at test suite startup.
9432 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
9434 * tests/atgeneral.m4: Add basic support for test ranges (e.g. 7-34) as
9435 arguments. Fixed a typo.
9437 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
9439 * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Use @PATH_SEPARATOR@, not ':' to set up
9440 $PATH. Also set AUTOM4TE_CFG, so we can process autom4te properly.
9442 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
9444 * bin/autoscan.in: Add 'exec-perl-if-not-run-by-perl'.
9445 * bin/autoupdate.in: Ditto.
9446 * bin/autoheader.in: Reworded a few comments.
9447 * bin/autoconf.in: Reworded help text for a few options.
9448 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
9449 * bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in: Ditto.
9451 2001-09-20 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
9453 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm (open): Simplified the error message (we
9454 already have $file). Set output files to binary mode (helps avoid
9455 CR issues on DOSish systems).
9457 2001-09-19 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9459 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Englishoes.
9460 From Tim Van Holder and Alexey Mahotkin.
9462 2001-09-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
9464 * doc/autoconf.texi (Common Shell Constructs): New node,
9465 documenting AS_DIRNAME.
9466 (Limitations of Usual Tools): Refer to it when discussing dirname.
9467 Also, update discussion of POSIX standard to reflect latest draft.
9469 * lib/autoconf/c.m4:
9470 (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C)): Also support negative values, down to LONG_MIN.
9472 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE):
9473 Do not pass a first argument with leading '-'
9474 to expr, by parenthesizing initial integers that might be negative.
9476 * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): AC_FUNC_GETPGRP
9477 now merely checks whether it is an error to pass an argument
9478 to getpgrp.
9480 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_GETPGRP_TEST): Remove.
9481 (AC_FUNC_GETPGRP): Don't bother with a runtime test. Just check
9482 whether it is a (compile-time) error to pass an argument to
9483 getpgrp. This simpler test supports the revised documentation,
9484 and is all that AC_FUNC_GETPGRP's users really need.
9486 2001-09-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9488 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make) <$<>: New.
9490 2001-09-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9492 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <find>: More about
9493 `{}'.
9494 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Adjust.
9496 2001-09-18 Paul Wagland <paul@wagland.net>
9498 * tests/m4sh.at: Ensure that AS_DIRNAME handles '/', '//' and '///'
9499 correctly.
9500 Add test for AS_BASENAME.
9501 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Fix AS_BASENAME so that it passes the previous
9502 added test. It now correctly handles /1/2/3/, returning '3' not ''.
9503 Added AS_BASENAME_SED to make the interface the same as AS_DIRNAME.
9504 * tests/base.at: Fixed the expected responses. The old ones were
9505 one line out...
9506 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Fixed AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM, it now behaves as
9507 the documentation claims it should (and how it behaved in 2.13).
9509 2001-09-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9511 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): No INIT-CMDS in
9512 the AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS invocation.
9513 This also solves the name clash problems.
9514 Don't set the package's ID.
9515 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am (version.m4): Revamp.
9516 No longer to be shipped.
9517 (version.in): Remove.
9518 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
9519 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Adjust.
9520 Use `m4_PACKAGE_STRING'.
9521 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): N-th signature change: now
9522 the only optional argument is the name of the test suite.
9523 Expect `package.m4' to define the package signature.
9524 * lib/autom4te.in (Autotest): Add `package.m4?'.
9525 * tests/Makefile.am (package.m4): New.
9526 * tests/suite.at: ifnames is a victim.
9528 2001-09-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9530 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): Preselect AM_CONDITIONAL,
9531 AC_LIBSOURCE, AC_CONFIG_FILES.
9532 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't abort when a tested
9533 program version string doesn't match the package's.
9534 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CACHE_VAL): Reestablish the space
9535 after `(cached)'.
9537 2001-09-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
9539 * lib/autoconf/c.m4: (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C)):
9540 Allow expression to return any value that can fit into unsigned long
9541 (not int, as before). Check for output errors.
9543 2001-09-17 Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>
9545 * lib/autoconf/c.m4: (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C)):
9546 Always include <stdio.h> and <stdlib.h>. Evaluate
9547 the expression in an extra function before these includes. Call
9548 fprintf "%d" only after ensuring the argument is of type 'int'.
9549 Reported by Wayne Chapeskie <waynec@spinnaker.com>.
9551 2001-09-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
9553 Fix bug reported by Paul Townsend on AIX 4.3.3.0 with CFLAGS=-O4
9554 or CFLAGS=-O5. In that case, the linker has a relaxed view of
9555 fatal errors, and AC_CHECK_LIB causes it to include libraries even
9556 when they don't exist.
9558 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_DIRENT): Use AC_SEARCH_LIBS,
9559 not AC_CHECK_LIB, so that we don't use -ldir or -lx if we don't
9560 need it.
9562 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_ISC_POSIX): Replace the old, crufty
9563 version with the version used by fileutils 4.1, except use
9564 AC_SEARCH_LIBS, not AC_CHECK_LIB, so that we don't use -lcposix if
9565 we don't need it.
9567 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_ISC_POSIX): Describe new behavior.
9569 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9571 * tests/base.at, tests/m4sh.at: Be sure to issue the bangshe line
9572 _first_.
9573 Reported by Gerrit P. Haase.
9575 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9577 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Reset `AT_victims' so that
9578 m4_defn'ing is valid.
9580 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9582 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_append_uniq): New.
9583 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_VICTIMS, AT_KEYWORDS, _AT_CLEANUP_FILE):
9584 Use it.
9586 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9588 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (_AS_QUOTE_IFELSE, _AS_BOX_INDIR): Use
9589 m4_match.
9590 (m4_re_escape): New.
9591 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_CONFIG_IF_MEMBER): Use it.
9592 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CACHE_SAVE): Use m4_match.
9593 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_CONFIG_IF_MEMBER, AC_CONFIG_LINKS):
9594 Likewise.
9595 * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (_AC_CHECK_TYPE_REPLACEMENT_TYPE_P)
9596 (_AC_CHECK_TYPE_MAYBE_TYPE_P, AC_CHECK_MEMBER): Likewise.
9597 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Rename AT_TESTS_ALL as
9598 AT_tests_all for consistency.
9599 Set at_victims.
9600 (AT_VICTIMS): Similar to AT_KEYWORDS.
9601 (_AT_CLEANUP_FILE_IF): Use m4_match and m4_re_escape.
9603 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9605 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Fix stupid bugs.
9607 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9609 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Create and remove
9610 `$as_me.[0-9]+' instead of `debug-[0-9]+.sh', so that multiple
9611 test suites can cohabit.
9613 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9615 * tests/mktests.sh: Don't output banners for empty test files.
9617 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9619 Test suites can be run independently of configure.
9621 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_ECHO, _AS_ECHO_N_PREPARE): New.
9622 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_ECHO): Remove.
9623 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Adjust: AC_SUBST
9624 ECHO_N etc.
9625 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Don't ask for at_n
9626 and at_c.
9627 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Use ECHO_*.
9629 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9631 * bin/ifnames.in: Rewrite in Perl.
9632 * configure.ac: Don't look for AWK.
9633 * tests/tools.at (AWK portability): Remove.
9634 (Syntax of the shell scripts): Don't check ifnames.
9635 (AT_CHECK_PERL_SYNTAX): New.
9636 (Syntax of the Perl scripts): Check ifnames.
9637 * tests/ifnames: New.
9639 2001-09-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9641 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Let --keywords also match
9642 test group titles.
9643 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AU_MACRO): AT_KEYWORDS(autoupdate).
9644 Remove all the other keywords.
9646 2001-09-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9648 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Remove the diversion HELP and
9649 SETUP: no longer used.
9650 Support -k, --keywords.
9651 <at_help>: Be `no', `short', or `long'.
9652 <at_help_all>: New variable.
9653 (AT_KEYWORDS): New.
9654 (AT_CLEANUP_FILE_IFELSE, AT_CLEANUP_FILE): Rename as...
9655 (_AT_CLEANUP_FILE_IF, _AT_CLEANUP_FILE): these.
9656 (_AT_CLEANUP_FILE_IF): Simplify the regexp.
9657 (AT_SETUP): Reset AT_line, AT_keywords, AT_description.
9658 No longer fill the HELP diversion.
9659 (AT_CLEANUP): Use them.
9660 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_append): Support a separator.
9661 (m4_list_append): Remove.
9663 Spread a few keywords in the Autoconf test suite.
9665 2001-09-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9667 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Don't pass
9668 PATH_SEPARATOR, let M4sh compute it.
9669 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_SEPARATOR_PREPARE): New.
9670 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_SHELL_PATH_WALK): Use PATH_SEPARATOR.
9671 Move to...
9672 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_WALK): Here.
9673 Simplify when the path is not a literal.
9674 (AS_UNAME): Use it to report PATH.
9675 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE_FS_SEPARATORS): Remove.
9676 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): AC_SUBST PATH_SEPARATOR.
9677 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_INSTALL): Use _AS_PATH_WALK.
9678 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Use _AS_PATH_WALK to
9679 normalize the path, and to look for victims.
9680 * tests/semantics.at (AC_PATH_PROG & AC_PATH_PROGS)
9681 (AC_CHECK_PROG & AC_CHECK_PROGS): Use PATH_SEPARATOR.
9683 2001-09-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9685 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_m4): `< /dev/null' so that GNU M4 1.5
9686 doesn't neutralize SIGINT, making autoconf etc. non interruptible.
9687 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Move the package
9688 related variables into `at_package_*'.
9689 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_VICTIMS): New.
9690 (AT_INIT): Adjust for stand-alone/embedded test suites.
9691 (AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD): Define and use it.
9692 * tests/suite.at (AT_VICTIMS): Use it.
9693 * tests/tools.at (autoupdating AC_PREREQ): Don't depend upon
9694 at_version.
9696 2001-09-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9698 Move toward possibly stand-alone test suites.
9700 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Stop displaying srcdir everywhere as,
9701 in addition, it introduces useless differences in logs.
9702 (AT_INIT): Let atconfig and atlocal be both optional.
9703 Adjust PATH computation.
9704 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_UNAME): More readable display of PATH.
9706 2001-09-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9708 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am (autoconf.m4f): Depends upon
9709 m4sugar/version.m4.
9711 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9713 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY(C)): Use `_array_'
9714 to avoid GCC warnings.
9715 From Uwe Seimet.
9717 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9719 * bin/autom4te.in: --language is -l, not -s.
9721 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9723 Be ready to handle filenames as stupid as `dnl.at', for if even
9724 the maintainer is dumb enough to do that...
9726 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_SETUP, AT_LINE): Demonstrates your
9727 excellence in M4 quotation: consider `__file__' is active.
9729 And BTW, when invoking m4, pass the --include in the right order:
9730 the wrong one.
9732 * bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoupdate.in: Use reverse when kingtal to
9733 4m.
9735 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9737 * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: New lib file.
9738 * bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoscan.pl, bin/autom4te.in,
9739 * bin/autoheader.in: Use it.
9741 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9743 * bin/autoupdate.in (&handle_m4_macros) <unm4.m4>: Undefine iff
9744 defined.
9746 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9748 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&getopt): Work around the `-' Getopt bug.
9749 * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoupdate.in (&parse_args): Adjust.
9751 * bin/autoscan.in: Use `getopt' and `find_files' etc.
9752 Add -I, --include support.
9753 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoscan Invocation): Adjust.
9755 2001-09-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9757 CVS GNU M4 doesn't like `undefine(undefined)'.
9759 * bin/autoupdate.in (&handle_m4_macros, &handle_autoconf_macros):
9760 New, extracted from main.
9761 Use IO::File wherever possible.
9762 (input.m4): Be constant, use -I instead of hard coding $tmp.
9763 Therefore be a quoted heredoc.
9764 Don't invoke `_au_disable', since ac was not loaded, but just
9765 `unm4.m4'.
9767 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9769 Version 2.52d.
9771 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9773 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Fix the
9774 previous patch.
9775 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER): Can create `config.hin~'.
9777 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9779 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): DU 5.0 has
9780 serious problems handling heredocs in heredocs.
9781 Reported by Nicolas Joly.
9783 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9785 * doc/autoconf.texi: Don't promote non `m4_*' M4 macros.
9786 (Making testsuite Scripts): Update.
9788 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9790 * lib/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): Add autom4te.cfg.
9792 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9794 * doc/autoconf.texi (Quadrigraphs): Document `@&t@'.
9795 (testsuite Scripts): There is no such thing as `atconfig.in'.
9796 And actually one diagram is missing: test suite runtime.
9798 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9800 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_file): Browse the includes in the
9801 inverse order.
9803 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9805 * bin/autoupdate.in (@include): `installcheck' revealed the path
9806 to m4sugar was lacking!
9808 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9810 * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): We really have to pass
9811 autom4te_perllibdir.
9813 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9815 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't pass all the args to
9816 debug scripts, in particular passing explicitly listed tests to
9817 run is stupid.
9819 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9821 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Strip `.' from `@include'.
9822 * bin/autoupdate.in: Use --include, -I, and --force, -f, too.
9823 Use directly autom4te, not autoconf.
9824 * tests/autoupdate: $top_srcdir/lib is needed too for melt files.
9826 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9828 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Missing eol.
9829 * bin/autoheader.in (%symbol): Strip arguments of macros.
9831 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9833 * doc/autoconf.texi: Catch up -I, --include changes.
9835 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9837 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Die on unknown languages.
9838 * bin/autoheader.in: Run directly autom4te --mode=autoconf, no
9839 need for autoconf.
9840 Promote --include over --macrodir and other obsolete options.
9842 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9844 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm ($version, $help, &getopt): New.
9845 * bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in: Use them.
9846 * bin/autom4te.in ($autoconf): Pass --force.
9847 `print $out' doesn't print `$_' but `$out'.
9848 * tests/tools.at (Syntax of the Perl scripts): Pass the lib dir.
9849 (autoheader): Pass --force since the test suite goes too fast for
9850 the time stamps.
9851 Adjust to the new autoheader messages.
9853 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9855 * bin/autoheader.in: Handle the acconfig.h etc. junk files.
9856 Check the completeness of the #template.
9857 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&update_file): s/remove/unlink/.
9858 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Adjust AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER
9859 invocation.
9861 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9863 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_file, &update_file): New.
9864 * bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoheader.in: Adjust.
9865 Drop AC_MACRODIR dead for real.
9866 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER): Now autoheader says
9867 `autoheader: `config.hin' is created'.
9868 * tests/tools.at (Syntax of the Perl scripts): Check autoheader.
9870 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9872 * bin/autoheader.in: Rewrite in Perl.
9873 * tests/autoheader: Adjust.
9875 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9877 * bin/autoconf.in (--include, -I): New option.
9878 Map --localdir, --autoconf-dir onto it.
9879 Forward autom4te's options instead of interpreting them.
9880 * bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoheader.in (AC_MACRODIR, autoconf_dir):
9881 There is no such envvar since the inception of autom4te.cfg.
9882 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Uniquify `@include'.
9883 * bin/autoupdate.in: Adjust, and perform more control.
9884 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF): Adjust.
9885 * tests/autoconf: Dittowise.
9887 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9889 * bin/autoconf.in: Don't bother with `acsite.m4' and `aclocal.m4'.
9890 * bin/autom4te.in (&find_file): Support `FILE?' standing for
9891 optionally `FILE'.
9892 Use -e, not -f, since /dev/null for instance is OK.
9893 (&parse_args): Adjust.
9894 * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): Add `acsite.m4?' and `aclocal.m4?'.
9896 2001-08-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9898 * configure.ac: Also find tested executables in bin.
9899 * bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
9900 * bin/autoscan.in, autoupdate.in: Use exclusively the name of the
9901 installed peer executables, only PATH is allowed to resolve it.
9902 Pass `autoconf_dir' via options, not via invisible envvars.
9903 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_peer): Remove.
9904 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): `AUTOTEST_PATH=a:b' gives
9905 `abuild:asrc:bbuild:bsrc', not `abuild:bbuild:asrc:bsrc'.
9906 * man/Makefile.am: Let help2man rely on PATH instead of trying to
9907 find the executables for it.
9908 * tests/Makefile.am: Major cleanup. Too lazy to document...
9909 * tests/atlocal.in: Remove all the obscure envvar manipulations.
9910 We only need PERL.
9911 * tests/atspecific.m4, tests/tools.at: Passing --localdir is
9912 indeed related to running the test suite, while passing
9913 --autoconf-dir and others is related to running non installed
9914 Autoconf executables. So don't do that, leave it to...
9915 * tests/autoconf, tests/autoheader, tests/autom4te, tests/autoupdate,
9916 * tests/autoscan: New.
9917 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR, AT_CHECK_M4SH): Don't
9918 refer to library files: rely on --language.
9920 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9922 * bin/autom4te.in, lib/autom4te.in, bin/autoconf.in:
9923 s/--set/--language/.
9925 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9927 * doc/autoconf.texi: Strip the @nodes.
9928 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
9929 (Initializing configure): Typo.
9931 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9933 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_output): s/@__@/@&t@/.
9934 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
9936 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9938 * Makefile.maint (do-po-update): Wget refuses to overwrite files:
9939 download in a tmp dir.
9941 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9943 * lib/autotest/general.m4: s/AT-devnull/devnull/ since there are
9944 case insensitive OSes out there :(
9945 From Tim Van Holder.
9947 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9949 * lib/autom4te.in: New.
9950 * lib/Makefile.am (edit, autom4te.cfg): New.
9951 * bin/autom4te.in (BEGIN): Simplify.
9952 Rely on `AC_MACRODIR' in addition of `autom4te_perllibdir'.
9953 (&load_configuration): New. Use it.
9954 (&parse_args): Support --mode, --set, and --melt.
9955 * bin/autoconf.in: Simplify and adjust.
9956 * tests/Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE): Use --set.
9957 * tests/atlocal.in: Adjust.
9958 * BUGS: distcheck and check are weak.
9960 2001-08-29 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9962 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Use
9963 foo=`(command) 2>/dev/null`
9964 not
9965 foo=`command` 2>/dev/null
9966 (at-devnull): Rename as...
9967 (AT-devnull): this.
9968 (--clean): Remove AT-* files too.
9969 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Document `date'.
9970 Reported by Nicolas Joly.
9972 2001-08-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9974 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Don't use single
9975 quotes inside single quotes.
9976 Reported by Nicolas Joly.
9978 2001-08-28 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
9980 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Mention C right shifts.
9982 2001-08-27 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
9984 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Reword some messages.
9985 (AT_INIT): Check for the `times' builtin before using it.
9986 Support test ranges as arguments to the testsuite.
9987 Have -e imply -d as the help text suggested.
9989 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9991 * Makefile.maint: Formatting changes.
9992 (do-po-update, po-update, cvs-update, update): New targets.
9993 (AMTAR): Remove.
9995 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
9997 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT) <at_cmd_line>: Remove.
9998 <at_cmd_line>: New.
9999 Pass it to debug-*.sh scripts.
10000 <AUTOTEST_PATH>: May contain absolute dir names.
10002 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10004 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Log the command line.
10005 Support `VAR=VAL' as arguments.
10006 Compute PATH _after_ the options processing, so that AUTOTEST_PATH
10007 may be set via the command line.
10009 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10011 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): $2 defaults to $1.
10012 * lib/autotest/autotest.m4 (AT_INIT): Expand AUTOTEST_PATH into
10013 first the build dirs, then the src dirs.
10014 * configure.ac (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Adjust.
10016 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10018 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Output the definition of
10019 at_data_files earlier.
10020 (--clean, -c): New option.
10021 * tests/Makefile.am: Use this option.
10023 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10025 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Rename `ac_dots' as
10026 `ac_top_builddir' to mimic Automake's vocabulary, which much more
10027 readable.
10028 Adjust callers.
10029 * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Actions): Document the vars
10030 available in commands.
10031 Emphasize the risks of collisions in init-cmds.
10033 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10035 * doc/autoconf.texi (Input) <AC_INIT>: Move to..
10036 (Initializing configure): this new node.
10038 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10040 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): INSTALL.txt is a dead hack.
10042 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10044 * m4/atconfig.m4 (AT_CONFIG): Remove, replaced by...
10045 * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): this.
10046 New file.
10047 * m4/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Oops, adjust...
10049 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10051 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AU_DEFINE, AU_DEFUN, AU_ALIAS): Move
10052 to...
10053 * lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4: this new file.
10054 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AH_OUTPUT, AH_VERBATIM)
10055 (_AH_VERBATIM_OLD, AH_TEMPLATE, _AH_TEMPLATE_OLD, AH_TOP, AH_BOTTOM):
10056 Move to...
10057 * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4: this new file.
10059 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10061 * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): New.
10062 (_AC_OUTPUT_LINKS, _AC_OUTPUT_FILES, _AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Use it.
10063 Standardize the var names (ac_sub_srcdir -> ac_srcdir, ac_subdir
10064 -> ac_dir).
10065 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): AS_DIRNAME always return a dir name.
10066 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Ditto.
10068 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10070 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4 (AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS)
10071 (AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_POST, AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE, AC_CONFIG_FILES)
10072 (AC_CONFIG_HEADER, AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, AC_CONFIG_IF_MEMBER)
10073 (AC_CONFIG_LINKS, AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS, AC_FILE_DEPENDENCY_TRACE)
10074 (AC_LINK_FILES, AC_LIST_COMMANDS, AC_LIST_COMMANDS_COMMANDS)
10075 (AC_LIST_FILES, AC_LIST_FILES_COMMANDS, AC_LIST_HEADERS)
10076 (AC_LIST_HEADERS_COMMANDS, AC_LIST_LINKS, AC_LIST_LINKS_COMMANDS)
10077 (AC_OUTPUT, AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS, AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_POST)
10078 (AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_PRE, AC_OUTPUT_MAKE_DEFS)
10079 (_AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_INIT, _AC_CONFIG_DEPENDENCIES)
10080 (_AC_CONFIG_DEPENDENCY, _AC_CONFIG_UNIQUE, _AC_LINK_FILES_CNT)
10081 (_AC_LIST_SUBDIRS, _AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS, _AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_CNT)
10082 (_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_INIT, _AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS)
10083 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES, _AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS, _AC_OUTPUT_LINKS)
10084 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Move to...
10085 * lib/autoconf/status.m4: this new file.
10086 * lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am: Adjust.
10087 * tests/Makefile.am, tests/suite.at: Adjust.
10089 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10091 Automake 1.5.
10093 * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Add 1.5 and dist-bzip2.
10094 (AMTAR): Help automake define it.
10095 (INSTALL, install-data-hook): The INSTALL.txt trick is no longer
10096 needed, 1.5 can have a macro and a target with the same name.
10097 * m4/auxdir.m4, m4/cond.m4, m4/depend.m4, m4/install-sh.m4,
10098 * m4/strip.m4: New.
10099 * m4/init.m4, m4/sanity.m4: Update.
10100 * doc/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): 1.5 knows the texi2dvi files.
10101 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am, lib/autotest/Makefile.am,
10102 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am, lib/autoscan/Makefile.am,
10103 * lib/Autom4te/Makefile.am, man/Makefile.am: Use dist/nodist.
10105 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10107 Provide a mean to ``AC_PREREQ'' for M4sugar, M4sh and Autotest.
10109 * lib/autoconf/version.in: Remove.
10110 * lib/m4sugar/version.in: New.
10111 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_acversion, m4_version_prereq): New.
10112 Adjust callers.
10113 * bin/autoupdate.in: Distinguish M4sugar vs. Autoconf macros by
10114 the name of the directory they're in, instead of the filename,
10115 since version.m4 is now in m4sugar, but m4_acversion must not be
10116 classified as an Autoconf macro.
10117 ($input_m4): Don't qualify the path to m4sugar.
10118 Rather, pass autoconf_dir to m4.
10119 * tests/Makefile.am (testsuite): Remove -I top_srcdir, unneeded.
10120 * tests/suite.at: Require 2.52c.
10122 2001-08-27 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10124 testsuite.log should include config.log.
10126 * lib/autotest/autotest.m4: New.
10127 * lib/autotest/general.m4, tests/atspecific.m4: Adjust.
10128 * tests/suite.at : Adjust.
10129 (AT_INIT): Log config.log.
10130 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_text_box): New.
10131 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOX_LITERAL): Adjust.
10132 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_CONFIG_LOG): Use them.
10133 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Fix the incredibly messy and buggy completion
10134 of config.log on traps.
10135 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Use AS_BOX.
10136 Use consistently `_ACEOF' for configure's here docs, and `_CSEOF'
10137 for config.status'.
10138 Open the log as soon as possible.
10139 Use the same log introduction as configure's.
10141 2001-08-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
10143 * doc/autoconf.texi (Indices): New node.
10144 Move indices out of the top level menu and into this submenu.
10146 2001-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10148 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_LEX_YYTEXT_DECL): Use
10149 AC_TRY_COMMAND.
10150 (AC_DECL_YYTEXT): Fix the previous patch: it points to AC_PROG_LEX.
10152 2001-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10154 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SHELL_PATH_WALK, AC_CHECK_PROG)
10155 (AC_CHECK_PROGS, AC_PATH_PROG, AC_PATH_PROGS, AC_CHECK_TOOL_PREFIX)
10156 (AC_PATH_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOLS): Move to...
10157 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4: here.
10158 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (_AC_PROG_ECHO, AC_PROG_MAKE_SET)
10159 (AC_PROG_RANLIB, AC_PROG_YACC, AC_PROG_LEX, _AC_DECL_YYTEXT)
10160 (AC_PROG_INSTALL, AC_PROG_LN_S, AC_RSH): Move to...
10161 * lib/autoconf/programs.m4: here.
10162 (_AC_DECL_YYTEXT): Rename as...
10163 (_AC_PROG_LEX_YYTEXT_DECL): this.
10164 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am
10165 * tests/Makefile.am, tests/suite.am: Adjust.
10167 2001-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10169 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_LIST_MEMBER_OF, AC_LINKER_OPTION):
10170 Move to...
10171 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_LIST_MEMBER_IF, _AC_LINKER_OPTION):
10172 here.
10173 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC): Move to...
10174 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4: here.
10175 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SEARCH_LIBS, AC_CHECK_LIB)
10176 (AH_CHECK_LIB): Move to...
10177 * lib/autoconf/libs: this new file.
10178 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_XMKMF, _AC_PATH_X_DIRECT)
10179 (_AC_PATH_X, AC_PATH_X, AC_PATH_XTRA): Move to...
10180 * lib/autoconf/libs.m4: here.
10181 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am: Adjust.
10183 2001-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10185 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_MKDIR_P): Fail if fails.
10186 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Adjust.
10187 (AC_SITE_LOAD): Better logging of config.site.
10189 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10191 * configure.ac (AT_CONFIG): Fix the path.
10192 * m4/atconfig.m4 (AT_CONFIG): Don't use EOF but ATEOF so that 2.52
10193 can be used.
10195 2001-08-20 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
10197 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Prepare the cross-compile
10198 program with AC_LANG_PROGRAM before feeding it to
10199 AC_COMPILE_IFELSE. Cleanup grep usage.
10201 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10203 * ChangeLog, ChangeLog.0, ChangeLog.1, ChangeLog.2, AUTHORS, BUGS,
10204 * NEWS, README, README-alpha, TODO, tests/README: This package is
10205 `Autoconf', not `autoconf' (the executable).
10207 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10209 Info readers seem to need `Index' in the index node title :(
10211 * doc/autoconf.texi: Reverse the 2001-08-15 change which
10212 simplified index node names.
10214 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10216 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): Warn if the
10217 arguments are not literals.
10218 * doc/autoconf.texi (Input) <AC_INIT>: Arguments must be literals.
10219 Specify the output variables, and macros defined.
10221 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10223 * doc/autoconf.texi (Examining Declarations) <AC_TRY_CPP>:
10224 (Examining Syntax) <AC_TRY_COMPILE>
10225 (Examining Libraries) <AC_TRY_LINK>
10226 (Test Programs) <AC_TRY_RUN>: These macros double quote some of
10227 their arguments.
10228 Reported by Werner Lemberg.
10230 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10232 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Compute top_builddir,
10233 top_srcdir and srcdir from at_topbuild_2_topsrc and at_testdir.
10234 Load atlocal late enough to dump it in the log.
10235 * m4/atconfig.m4 (AT_CONFIG): Pass them to atconfig.
10237 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10239 * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): New test.
10240 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Say what you are
10241 looking for.
10242 * m4/atconfig.m4: Be sure the let $[0] be expandable.
10243 (top_srcdir): Fix its computation.
10245 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10247 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS): Say what you do.
10248 * m4/atconfig.m4 (AT_CONFIG): $1 is now the directory where the
10249 test suite lives.
10250 Create `atconfig' automagically.
10251 Configure atlocal.in if present.
10252 * tests/atconfig.in: Remove.
10253 * tests/atlocal.in: New.
10254 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
10256 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10258 Huh!?!?! There are still some user EOF tags used, which prevents
10259 their use in AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS for instance...
10261 * lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/specific.m4,
10262 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Rename the EOF tags as `_ACEOF',
10263 `_CSEOF', or `_ATEOF', as appropriate.
10264 * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am,
10265 * lib/autotest/Makefile.am (check-local): Enforce this constraint.
10267 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10269 * tests/base.at, tests/m4sh.at, tests/m4sugar.at,
10270 * tests/semantics.at, tests/tools.at, tests/torture.at:
10271 s/^AT_DATA\(([^][]+),/AT_DATA([$1],/.
10273 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10275 Autotest invokes M4sh's initialization.
10277 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Adjust the diversion names.
10278 (AT_INIT): Run AS_INIT.
10279 Use the BINSH diversion to invoke /bin/sh.
10280 * tests/base.at, tests/m4sh.at, tests/m4sugar.at, tests/tools.at:
10281 * tests/torture.at: Respect M4sugar and M4sh macro name spaces.
10283 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10285 Let M4sh have its own diversions.
10287 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_m4_divert(BINSH), _m4_divert(REVISION))
10288 (_m4_divert(NOTICE)): Rename as...
10289 * lib/m4sugar/m4msh.m4 (_m4_divert(BINSH), _m4_divert(HEADER-REVISION))
10290 (_m4_divert(HEADER-COMMENT)): these.
10291 (_m4_divert(HEADER-COPYRIGHT), _m4_divert(HEADER-COPYRIGHT)): New.
10292 (_m4_divert(NOTICE)): New, for Libtool.
10293 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_m4_divert(PREPARE)): Remove, replaced
10294 long ago with `_m4_divert(GROW)'.
10295 (AC_COPYRIGHT, AC_REVISION, _AC_INIT_NOTICE): Adjust.
10297 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10299 * tests/base.at, tests/compile.at, tests/foreign.at,
10300 * tests/m4sh.at, tests/m4sugar.at, tests/mktests.sh,
10301 * tests/semantics.at, tests/suite.at, tests/tools.at,
10302 * tests/torture.at: Ask Autotest mode, not Autoconf mode.
10304 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10306 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_output): Handle @__@.
10308 2001-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10310 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autoconf/oldnames.m4,
10311 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Adjust the license.
10313 2001-08-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
10315 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Mention snprintf,
10316 following up on a suggestion by Kevin Ryde.
10318 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10320 * doc/install.texi, doc/autoconf.texi: Use `autoconf', not
10321 `autoconf_manual', as texinfo.tex 2001-06-21.10 chokes on it.
10323 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10325 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Refer to `$as_me.log', not
10326 `$0.log' as for projects where testsuite is in src, we'd have
10327 testsuite.log created in src.
10329 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10331 * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Recognize --normalize.
10333 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10335 Start implementing the AC_CHECK_HEADER transition scheme.
10337 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_NEW)
10338 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_OLD, _AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): New.
10339 (AC_CHECK_HEADER): Use them.
10341 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10343 * doc/autoconf.texi: Work around Texinfo buglets.
10344 (Transformation Rules): One example is enough, users are expected
10345 to have their brains on. And BTW, use DESTDIR.
10346 (dvar): New macro. Use it.
10348 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10350 * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at) <AT_CHECK>: Complete.
10351 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Use the relative dir when
10352 looking for ChangeLogs.
10354 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10356 * bin/autom4te.in: --normalize is a new option.
10357 * bin/autoconf.in: Use it.
10359 2001-08-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10361 * bin/Makefile.am, lib/Autom4te/Makefile.am, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am
10362 * lib/autotest/Makefile.am, lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am: Add TAGS support.
10364 2001-08-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
10366 * doc/autoconf.texi, doc/install.texi: Put copyright notice at
10367 start, not at end.
10369 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10371 * doc/Makefile.am (fu): New index, can't use fn because of defmac.
10372 Use it.
10374 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10376 * doc/autoconf.texi (pr): New index.
10377 (prindex, findex): Use, merge, and output them.
10378 (Environment Variable Index, Output Variable Index)
10379 (Preprocessor Symbol Index, Autoconf Macro Index, M4 Macro Index)
10380 (Autotest Macro Index): Rename as...
10381 (Environment Variables, Output Variables,Preprocessor Symbols)
10382 (Autoconf Macros, M4 Macros, Autotest Macros): these.
10383 * doc/install.texi: Use @command.
10384 (Environment Variables): Rename as...
10385 (Defining Variables): this.
10387 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10389 * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): sprintf's return
10390 value.
10391 From Kevin Ryde.
10393 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10395 * Makefile.maint (CVS): New.
10396 (local-check): Run changelog-check. last.
10397 (alpha): Don't depend upon local-check, since...
10398 (cvs-dist): depends upon it.
10400 2001-08-15 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
10402 * tests/Makefile.am: Use a clean-local rule to remove
10403 autom4te.cache (it's a directory, not a file.
10404 * Makefile.am: Ditto (but maintainer-clean-local).
10406 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10408 * bin/autom4te.in (@m4_warning): New.
10409 (&handle_m4): Use it.
10410 * tests/m4sugar.at (m4_warn): Pass `-f' to autom4te to ensure the
10411 warnings are issued at each run.
10412 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR, AT_CHECK_M4SH): M4sugar
10413 is in the src tree.
10415 2001-08-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10417 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOUPDATE): Perl is now required:
10418 don't waste time running `autoupdate --version' works.
10419 * tests/tools.at (autoupdating AC_PREREQ): Likewise.
10421 2001-08-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10423 * doc/autoconf.texi (ma): Rename this index as...
10424 (ac): this.
10426 2001-08-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10428 * Makefile.am: Remove dead code and dead comments.
10429 (pdf, html): New targets.
10430 * doc/autoconf.texi (Using Autotest): New chapter.
10431 * doc/Makefile.am (pdf): New targets.
10432 (CLEANFILES): Adjust.
10434 2001-08-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10436 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Log the start/stop dates and
10437 duration of the test suite.
10439 2001-08-12 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
10441 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Explicitelly save and load
10442 endianness for comparison instead of relying on AT_CHECK_ENV.
10444 2001-08-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
10446 * doc/autoconf.texi, doc/install.texi: Add a copyright notice
10447 to the INSTALL file.
10449 2001-08-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
10451 * NEWS: The autoconf manual now is distributed under the terms
10452 of the GNU Free Documentation License.
10454 * doc/autoconf.texi: Switch from old style copyright notice to FDL.
10455 Add an appendix "Copying This Manual" for the FDL.
10457 * doc/fdl.texi: New file, from
10458 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.texi>.
10460 * doc/Makefile.am (autoconf_TEXINFOS): Add fdl.texi.
10462 2001-08-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
10464 * AUTHORS, BUGS, ChangeLog, ChangeLog.0, ChangeLog.1,
10465 ChangeLog.2, GNUmakefile, Makefile.maint, NEWS, README,
10466 README-alpha, TODO, configure.ac, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am,
10467 m4/atconfig.m4, m4/init.m4, m4/m4.m4, m4/missing.m4,
10468 m4/sanity.m4, tests/README, tests/aclocal.m4,
10469 tests/atspecific.m4, tests/base.at, tests/compile.at,
10470 tests/foreign.at, tests/m4sh.at, tests/m4sugar.at,
10471 tests/semantics.at, tests/suite.at, tests/tools.at,
10472 tests/torture.at: Add copyright notice.
10474 * tests/mktests.sh: Update year in copyright notice.
10476 2001-08-12 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
10478 * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): New test.
10480 2001-08-11 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
10482 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Handle ACTION-IF-TRUE,
10483 ACTION-IF-FALSE, and ACTION-IF-UNKNOWN.
10484 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler Characteristics): Update
10485 documentation for AC_C_BIGENDIAN.
10487 2001-08-11 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
10489 * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Guess endianness by grep'ing
10490 magic values from an object file when cross-compiling.
10491 Based on code by Guido Draheim <Guido.Draheim@gmx.de>.
10493 2001-08-10 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10495 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_output): Don't use `grep' with side
10496 effects.
10497 Suggested by Russ Allbery.
10499 2001-08-10 Ralf Corsepius <corsepiu@faw.uni-ulm.de>
10501 * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Propagate the
10502 current $prefix to the sub-configures.
10504 2001-08-09 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
10506 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4: Ignore *.xSYM when looking for an executable
10507 extension (needed on BeOS). Reported by Guido van Rossum.
10509 2001-08-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10511 * bin/autom4te.in ($icache): Load it only if older than autom4te.
10513 2001-08-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10515 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): All the `at-*' are to be
10516 removed.
10517 (at-setup-line): Huh? Be a variable `at_setup_line', not a file.
10518 No need to remove the files before and after the each test, before
10519 each test and at the end of the suite is enough.
10520 Display only the children `times', not the shell's.
10521 If the test failed or was skipped, at-times is not available.
10523 2001-08-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10525 Always produce testsuite.log, including when there are no
10526 failures. This helps getting information on skipped tests, and
10527 duration of the tests. Err, implement the latter btw.
10529 * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Set up fd 6 for the log.
10530 Dump information on the first run of each test.
10531 (AT_CLEANUP): Create `at-times' containing the duration of the
10532 test group.
10534 2001-08-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10536 The use of `dumpstat' revealed that `len' was used although it
10537 should not. m4_text_wrap was using it, but in the Autoconf world
10538 where it is legal. Hence (i) test M4sh in its own world, not
10539 Autoconf's, and (ii), ahem, fix the bug :)
10541 * lib/autotest/general.m4: Be sure the set good quotes, as tracing
10542 does not like `' instead of [].
10543 (AT_INIT): Forbid `^_?AT_'.
10544 And don't output such tokens.
10545 * tests/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): Add `script', `script.s4g',
10546 `script.as', and `autom4te.cache'.
10547 Remove `empty' and `macro' which are no longer used.
10548 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR, AT_CHECK_M4SH): New.
10549 * tests/m4sugar.at: Use it.
10550 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: Use `m4_len' not `len'.
10552 2001-08-07 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10554 * bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoheader.in: --force, -f is a new option.
10556 2001-08-07 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
10558 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_output): Typo in quadrigraph substitution.
10560 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10562 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_ALLOCA, AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE)
10563 (AC_FUNC_FSEEKO, AC_FUNC_OBSTACK): Use AC_LANG_IFELSE, not
10564 AC_TRY_LINK.
10565 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_MAJOR): Likewise.
10566 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_F77_HOOKS)
10567 (AC_F77_MAIN): Likewise.
10569 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10571 Don't rely on M4sugar outputting the patterns in files, since we
10572 might process the output _without_ running m4, hence without these
10573 files.
10575 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_init): No need for `m4_tmpdir'.
10576 * bin/autom4te.in (@Request::includes): Remove, unused.
10577 (@Request::source): Rename as...
10578 (@Request::input): this.
10579 (@preselect): Add `m4_pattern_forbid' and `m4_pattern_allow'.
10580 (&handle_output): Fetch the patterns from the traces.
10581 `$forbidden' and `$allowed' are constant: use m//o.
10582 (&handle_m4): M4sugar no longer wants `m4_tmpdir'.
10583 (m4_pattern_forbid, m4_pattern_allow): Adjust for tracing only.
10585 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10587 `autoconf && autoheader' is sped up. Now, speed up `autoheader &&
10588 autoconf', i.e., in addition to caching traces, cache the output.
10590 * bin/autom4te.in (Request::cache): Rename as...
10591 (Request::id): this.
10592 ($cache, $icache, $tcache, $ocache): New.
10593 (&handle_m4): Save M4 output in the cache instead of $tmp.
10594 (&handle_output): Adjust.
10595 (&up_to_date_p): Check that the output cache is up to date too.
10596 (top level): Run `&handle_m4' iff force or the cache is invalid.
10597 Run `&handle_output' if the output cache is more recent.
10599 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10601 * bin/autom4te.in ($force): New.
10602 (&parse_args, &print_usage): -f, --force is a new option.
10603 (&handle_output): CPP directives might have spaces after `#'.
10604 (&parse_args): The first file only can be frozen.
10606 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10608 Don't let autom4te compute the `include' traces several times:
10609 first check that the trace cache file is up to date, and then
10610 compare its timestamp with that of the output.
10612 * bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoscan.in: Normalize
10613 the preamble. Don't require 5.005 as Autom4te::General does it,
10614 and better yet (use `use', not `require'!).
10615 * lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm: Rename the last occurrences of
10616 Class::Struct as Autom4te::Struct.
10617 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (File::stat): Use it.
10618 (&mtime): New, export it.
10619 * bin/autom4te.in: Use it.
10620 Declare `$req' is invalid if it is outdated.
10621 Don't declare it valid before saving it if something went wrong.
10623 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10625 Autom4te shall not encode Autoconf data, and preselecting traces
10626 must be proposed to the users.
10628 * bin/autom4te.in (@required_trace): Remove.
10629 (@preselect): New.
10630 (&parse_args, &print_usage): -p, --preselect is a new option.
10631 (&up_to_date_p): Adjust.
10632 * bin/autoconf.in: Preselect some Autoconf macros.
10634 2001-08-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10636 * tests/tools.at (autoconf --trace: user macros): Check traces on
10637 macros invoked without arguments, and macros invoked with multiple
10638 lines arguments.
10640 2001-08-03 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
10642 * bin/autom4te.in (handle_traces): Fix rewriting of traces without
10643 arguments.
10645 2001-08-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10647 * bin/autoconf.in ($@): Work around the usual sh bug.
10648 From Nicolas Joly.
10650 2001-08-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10652 Clean up the handling of the M4 builtins tracing exception.
10654 * bin/autom4te.in (Request::request): Don't complete M4 builtins
10655 trace requests.
10656 (@m4_builtins): Rename as...
10657 (@m4_builtin): this.
10658 (%m4_builtin_alternate_name): New.
10659 (&parse_args): Complete the trace requests with alternate names.
10660 (&handle_traces): Hence no longer do it here.
10661 (&trace_requests): Remove, unused.
10663 2001-08-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10665 * doc/autoconf.texi (Redefined M4 Macros): Document m4_exit,
10666 m4_if, and m4_wrap.
10668 2001-08-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10670 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_init): Also forbid `_m4_*' tokens.
10671 (m4_divert_pop): Dump the whole diversion stack when a diversion
10672 mismatch happens.
10673 * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_output): Remember of the first
10674 occurrence of a possibly undefined macro, not the last.
10675 Complain about the possibly undefined macros in the same order as
10676 the appear in the output.
10677 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am (autoconf.m4f): List its dependencies.
10678 * tests/tools.at (autoconf: forbidden tokens, basic)
10679 (autoconf: forbidden tokens, exceptions): No longer sort
10680 autoconf's stderr, as it is now deterministic.
10681 Check that `dnl' is caught.
10683 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10685 * configure.ac: Bump to 2.52c.
10687 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10689 Version 2.52b.
10691 * lib/Autom4te/Makefile.am (perllibdir): s/Autoconf/Autom4te/.
10693 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10695 Version 2.52a.
10697 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10699 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: Use `carp' and `croak', not `warn' and
10700 `die'.
10701 (&END): New.
10702 * bin/autoconf.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoupdate.in: Remove your
10703 `END', as `Autom4te::General::END' will be triggered.
10704 * bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoscan.in: Improve error messages accuracy.
10705 * bin/autoupdate.in (File::Compare, File::Copy): Use them instead of
10706 system to run `mv', `rm', and `cmp'.
10708 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10710 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&unique): New.
10711 * bin/autoscan.in (&output): Use it to issue trace requests once.
10713 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10715 * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: New.
10716 * bin/autom4te.in (Autom4te::General): Use it.
10717 ($me, $tmp, $verbose, $debug, &mktmpdir, &verbose, &xsystem)
10718 (&find_configure_ac, &find_slave): Remove.
10719 * bin/autoscan.in: Likewise.
10720 * bin/autoupdate.in: Likewise.
10722 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10724 * autoconf.in, autom4te.in, autoscan.in, ifnames.in,
10725 * autoheader.in, autoreconf.in, autoupdate.in: Move to...
10726 * bin: here, new directory.
10727 * lib/Autoconf: Rename as...
10728 * lib/Autom4te: this, to please case insensitive junkie OSes.
10730 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10732 * autom4te.in ($m4): Handle the --nesting-limit.
10733 * autoconf.in (M4): Remove.
10735 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10737 * autoconf.in ($AWK): Remove, no longer used.
10738 * test/tools.at: Use AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF.
10739 (AWK portability): Remove, for autoconf no longer uses AWK.
10740 (Syntax of the Perl scripts): New.
10741 * configure.ac: autoconf no longer needs an AWK with a good
10742 regexp engine.
10743 Use a static test on AC_PACKAGE_VERSION.
10744 * autom4te.in (&up_to_date_p): Output depends on the arguments.
10745 * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am: Ship version.m4, maintainer file.
10746 * tests/atconfig.in (PERL): New.
10748 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10750 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG(C), AC_LANG_C, _AC_LANG_ABBREV(C))
10751 (AC_LANG(C++), AC_LANG_CPLUSPLUS, _AC_LANG_ABBREV(C++))
10752 (AC_LANG_SOURCE(C), AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C), AC_LANG_CALL(C))
10753 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C), AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY(C))
10754 (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C), _AC_ARG_VAR_CPPFLAGS, _AC_ARG_VAR_LDFLAGS)
10755 (AC_LANG_PREPROC(C), _AC_PROG_PREPROC_WORKS_IFELSE, AC_PROG_CPP)
10756 (AC_LANG_COMPILER(C), ac_cv_prog_gcc, AC_PROG_CC, _AC_PROG_CC_G)
10757 (AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL, AC_PROG_CC_C_O, AC_LANG_PREPROC(C++))
10758 (AC_PROG_CXXCPP, AC_LANG_COMPILER(C++), ac_cv_prog_gxx)
10759 (AC_PROG_CXX, _AC_PROG_CXX_G, _AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION)
10760 (AC_PROG_CC_STDC, AC_C_CROSS, AC_C_CHAR_UNSIGNED, AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE)
10761 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN, AC_C_INLINE, AC_C_CONST, AC_C_VOLATILE)
10762 (AC_C_STRINGIZE, AC_C_PROTOTYPES): Move to...
10763 * lib/autoconf/c.m4: here, new file.
10765 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG(Fortran 77), AC_LANG_FORTRAN77)
10766 (_AC_LANG_ABBREV(Fortran 77), AC_LANG_SOURCE(Fortran 77))
10767 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(Fortran 77), AC_LANG_CALL(Fortran 77))
10768 (AC_LANG_PREPROC(Fortran 77), AC_LANG_COMPILER(Fortran 77))
10769 (ac_cv_prog_g77, AC_PROG_F77, _AC_PROG_F77_G, AC_PROG_F77_C_O)
10770 (_AC_PROG_F77_V_OUTPUT, _AC_PROG_F77_V, AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS)
10771 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN, _AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_F77_HOOKS, AC_F77_MAIN)
10772 (_AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING, AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING, AC_F77_WRAPPERS)
10773 (AC_F77_FUNC): Move to...
10774 * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4: here, new file.
10776 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10778 * acfunctions.m4: Rename as...
10779 * lib/autoconf/functions.m4: this.
10780 * acgeneral.m4: Rename as...
10781 * lib/autoconf/general.m4: this.
10782 * acheaders.m4: Rename as...
10783 * lib/autoconf/headers.m4: this.
10784 * aclang.m4: Rename as...
10785 * lib/autoconf/lang.m4: this.
10786 * acoldnames.m4: Rename as...
10787 * lib/autoconf/oldnames.m4: this.
10788 * acspecific.m4: Rename as...
10789 * lib/autoconf/specific.m4: this.
10790 * actypes.m4: Rename as...
10791 * lib/autoconf/types.m4: this.
10792 * autoconf.m4: Rename as...
10793 * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4: this.
10795 * m4sugar.m4: Rename as...
10796 * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: this.
10797 * m4sh.m4: Rename as...
10798 * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: this.
10800 * tests/atgeneral.m4: Rename as...
10801 * lib/autotest/general.m4: this.
10803 * acfunctions: Rename as...
10804 * lib/autoscan/functions: this.
10805 * acheaders: Rename as...
10806 * lib/autoscan/headers: this.
10807 * acidentifiers: Rename as...
10808 * lib/autoscan/identifiers: this.
10809 * aclibraries: Rename as...
10810 * lib/autoscan/libraries: this.
10811 * acmakevars: Rename as...
10812 * lib/autoscan/makevars: this.
10813 * acprograms: Rename as...
10814 * lib/autoscan/programs: this.
10816 2001-08-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10818 * doc/autoconf.texi: Moving/deleting open files is not portable.
10819 Portability issues for `.' (source), and more information about sed.
10821 2001-07-25 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
10823 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Ignore -libmil (on Solaris),
10824 which has a special meaning and is not a reference to libibmil.a.
10825 Reported by Matteo Frigo.
10827 2001-07-25 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
10829 * autom4te.in (mktmpdir): Strip trailing newline from mktemp
10830 output.
10832 2001-07-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10834 * autoconf.in: Try to define the variables before using them.
10835 * autom4te.in ($perllibdir): Use `$autom4te_perllibdir' as envvar
10836 instead of `$perllibdir'.
10837 * tests/atconfig.in ($autom4te_perllibdir): Export it.
10839 2001-07-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10841 * autoconf.in (ac_LF_and_DOT): Remove, unused.
10843 2001-07-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10845 Let autoconf use autom4te for traces.
10847 * autoconf.in ($task, task trace): Remove, merely pass --trace to
10848 autom4te.
10849 * autoheader.in: Don't pass `-' to autoconf, rather, a tmp file.
10850 (Because I found no way for autom4te to accept `-').
10851 * autom4te.in (&Request::request): Beware of M4 builtins.
10852 (END): Don't try to remove the content of an empty dir.
10853 (&parse_args): Default is `$f:$l:$n:$%', not `$f:$l:$n:$*'.
10854 (&handle_output): Set a default value to `$forbidden'.
10855 * autoupdate.in (&verbose, &xsystem): New, from autom4te.in.
10856 ($autoconf): Pass --debug and --verbose.
10857 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF): Clean up autom4te's
10858 cache.
10860 2001-07-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10862 Let autoconf use autom4te to create configure.
10864 * autoconf.in ($automate): New var.
10865 (task script): Use autom4te.
10866 * autom4te.in (File::Spec): Use it.
10867 (&find_file): New.
10868 (&parse_args): --warning is -W, not -w.
10869 Find the top level files.
10870 (&handle_m4): Pass the warnings flags.
10871 Don't report verbosely m4's failures, unless requested.
10872 (&handle_output): Don't complain for forbidden tokens in comments.
10873 Be sure to report all the forbidden tokens within a single line.
10874 (&trace_format_to_m4): Preserve `$_'.
10875 (&handle_traces): Sort the output macros.
10876 (&up_to_date_p): Find the files before trying to get its time stamp.
10878 2001-07-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10880 * Makefile.am: Ship, build and install Autom4te.
10881 (SUBDIRS): Add lib.
10882 * lib/Autoconf/Struct.pm: New, from Automake 1.5.
10883 * configure.in: Require Perl.
10884 * man/autom4te.in: New.
10886 2001-07-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
10888 * doc/autoconf.texi (Cache Checkpointing): Use AC_MSG_ERROR in
10889 example, rather than (exit 1); exit (which isn't portable).
10891 2001-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10893 Version 2.52.
10895 2001-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10897 The C-Fortran 77 hooks are available only once AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN
10898 was run, while they are needed also when it is expanded.
10899 Reported by Nicolas Joly.
10901 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN): Define _AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_F77_HOOKS.
10902 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C)): Use it instead of depending upon
10903 AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN being expanded.
10905 2001-07-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10907 * configure.in: Bump to 2.51a.
10909 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10911 Version 2.51.
10913 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10915 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN): Let the interface be more
10916 Autoconfy: $1 = action-if-found, $2 = action-if-not-found.
10918 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10920 The runtime test for AC_FUNC_GETPGRP fails when prototypes are
10921 used. Well, then use the prototypes when you can, and runtime as
10922 a last resort.
10923 Reported by Artur Frysiak
10925 * acfunctions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_GETPGRP_TEST): New.
10926 (AC_FUNC_GETPGRP): Use it.
10927 First try to compile with 0-ary or 1-ary calls.
10929 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10931 * actypes.m4 (_AC_CHECK_TYPE_REPLACEMENT_TYPE_P): `foo_t' is a
10932 replacement type.
10933 From Paul Eggert.
10935 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10937 * Makefile.maint: Sync. with cppi 1.10.
10939 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10941 * aclang.m4 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C)): Output F77_DUMMY_MAIN only when
10942 AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN has been run.
10943 From Pavel Roskin and Steven G. Johnson.
10945 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10947 * configure.in: Rename as...
10948 * configure.ac: this.
10950 2001-07-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10952 * Makefile.am (INSTALL.txt): Don't use $@ and $< in non suffix
10953 rules.
10954 From Marc Espie.
10955 * Makefile.maint (release-archive-dir): Rename as...
10956 (release_archive_dir): this, so that it can be specialized in
10957 Makefile.
10959 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10961 * configure.in: Bump to 2.50d.
10963 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10965 Version 2.50c.
10966 * Makefile.maint (alpha): Typo.
10968 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10970 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Macro names and underscore.
10972 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10974 * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/texinfo.tex
10975 * doc/standards.texi, doc/make-stds.texi: Update.
10977 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10979 * Makefile.maint (cvs-check, cvs-tag-check, cvs-diff-check): New.
10981 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10983 * Makefile.maint (maintainer-check): Rename as...
10984 (maintainer-distcheck): this.
10985 (changelog-check, static-check): New.
10986 Use them.
10988 2001-07-14 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
10990 * doc/autoconf.texi (C++ Compilers Characteristics): Last resort
10991 for CXX is g++, not gcc.
10993 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10995 * doc/autoconf.texi (Files): New subsection.
10997 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
10999 * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler, Fortran 77 Compiler): Be subsections
11000 of...
11001 (Generic Compiler Characteristics): this.
11002 (C++ Compiler): New subsection.
11004 2001-07-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11006 * autoscan.in: Use IO::File.
11007 Adjust all the routines to use it.
11008 ($log): New file (autoscan.log).
11009 (output): Dump detailed logs into $log, and a shortened version to
11010 stderr.
11011 (&scan_makefile): Refine the regexp catching tokens in the code.
11012 * doc/autoconf.texi (autoscan Invocation): Document `autoscan.log'
11013 and the `configure.ac' checking feature.
11015 2001-07-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11017 For some AWK, such as on HPUX 11, `xfoo' does not match `foo|^bar'.
11018 Reported by Michael Elizabeth Chastain.
11020 * autoconf.in: Refuse such AWK.
11021 * configure.in: Likewise.
11022 * Makefile.am (acversion.m4): Do not use move-if-change this file
11023 has dependencies.
11024 * doc/autoconf.texi (Fortran 77 Compiler): Some typos.
11026 2001-07-10 Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com>
11028 * autoscan.in (&scan_makefile): Improve programs regexp to parse
11029 things like "g++", "file.c" and "some-conf" as tokens.
11030 (&scan_file): Match C++ files extensions.
11031 If the filename extension is C++ then ask for c++.
11033 2001-07-05 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
11035 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN): Use AC_TRY_LINK, not
11036 AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC, to check whether defining a dummy
11037 main-like routine is needed for linking with F77 libs.
11039 2001-07-05 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
11041 * aclocal.m4 (_AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION): Remove conftest*
11042 after using break.
11043 (_AC_PROG_F77_V_OUTPUT): Remove conftest*, not conftest.* after
11044 linking.
11046 2001-07-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11048 * Makefile.am (move_if_change): New. Use it instead of `mv'.
11049 (acversion.m4): Name it `$(srcdir)/acversion.m4' to ease broken
11050 Makes' lives.
11051 Reported by Nicolas Joly.
11053 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11055 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_RUN_IFELSE): Remove conftest.o when cleaning
11056 up.
11057 * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_WAIT3): Use `break' to silent some
11058 warnings from compilers.
11059 * aclang.m4 (_AC_LANG_COMPILER_GNU): Log the version information
11060 for all the compilers, not only GNU. Hence move from here...
11061 (AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX, AC_PROG_F77): to here.
11063 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11065 * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_STRTOD, AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R)
11066 (AC_FUNC_STRCOLL, AC_FUNC_WAIT3): Use AC_RUN_IFELSE and
11067 AC_COMPILE_IFELSE.
11069 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11071 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Actually apply
11072 the ``strings.h'' change claimed below.
11074 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11076 * aclang.m4 (_AC_LANG_COMPILER_GNU): s/-dumpspecs/-v/.
11078 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11080 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Include
11081 strings.h if usable with string.h.
11082 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
11084 2001-07-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11086 * autoscan.in (&scan_file): Skip FILE if there is FILE.in.
11087 From Jens Petersen.
11089 2001-07-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11091 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Specify CONFIG_FILES
11092 etc. in the log.
11094 2001-07-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11096 * acheaders.m4 (AC_CHECK_HEADER): When INCLUDES are set, use the
11097 compiler, not the preprocessor.
11098 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): No longer use
11099 dedicated code to check for inttypes.h, as AC_CHECK_HEADERS does
11100 the right thing.
11101 * Makefile.am (.m4.m4f): Emphasize M4 error messages and fail
11102 earlier if there are.
11104 2001-07-03 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11106 * autoscan.in ($initfile): Remove.
11107 (&find_file): Rename as...
11108 (&scan_file): this.
11109 Immediately scan the current file, instead of gathering them, and
11110 later having them handled by &scan_files.
11111 (&scan_files): Merely invoke Find::File.
11112 Adjust.
11114 2001-07-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11116 * autoscan.in: Formatting changes, matching the invocation order.
11117 (File::Find): Use it instead of Perl 4's `find.pl'.
11118 (&wanted): Rename as...
11119 (&find_file): this.
11121 2001-07-01 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
11123 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN): Remove conftest* after using
11124 break in the argument to AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC.
11125 (AC_F77_MAIN): Remove conftest* after using break in the
11126 argument to AC_TRY_LINK.
11128 2001-07-01 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
11130 Add alternate 'main' routine detection for linking C/C++ with Fortran,
11131 fixing link failures for e.g. AC_F77_WRAPPERS on NetBSD.
11133 * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN): New macro to detect whether a
11134 dummy alternate main is required even if the user provides her own
11135 'main'.
11136 (AC_F77_MAIN): New macro to detect whether it is possible to
11137 provide an alternate 'main' function name, using the 'main' from
11138 the Fortran libraries.
11139 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C)): Use F77_DUMMY_MAIN, if it is defined, so that
11140 cross-language link tests can be performed successfully.
11141 (_AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING): Require AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN. Also put $FLIBS
11142 after $LIBS, for consistency; this should be the general rule since
11143 the user may want to link to Fortran libraries that require $FLIBS.
11144 * doc/autoconf.texi: Document AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN and AC_F77_MAIN.
11146 2001-06-29 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
11148 * atgeneral.m4 (AT_CHECK): Add a newline to the end of
11149 at-stdout and at-stderr instead of removing the newline
11150 from the echo output, which is not guaranteed to work.
11152 2001-06-28 Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com>
11154 * aclang.m4 (_AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION): Only add declaration to
11155 confdefs.h when non-zero.
11157 2001-06-28 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11159 * configure.in: Bump to 2.50c.
11161 2001-06-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11163 Version 2.50b.
11165 2001-06-26 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11167 Version 2.50a.
11169 2001-06-25 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
11171 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_MACRO): Accept one more
11172 argument, AUTOCONF-FLAGS.
11173 * tests/mktests.sh (update_exclude_list): Add
11174 AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS and AC_FUNC_WAIT3.
11175 * tests/semantics.at: Test AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS and
11176 AC_FUNC_WAIT3 with "-W no-obsolete".
11178 2001-06-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11180 * tests/foreign.at (libtool): Fix the `libtoolize --version' decoding.
11182 2001-06-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11184 * autoscan.in (%macro): Now maps from word to list of macros.
11185 (&init_tables): Die when a word which is already handled by
11186 explicit macros is mapped to the default macro.
11187 (&print_unique): Remove, inlined in...
11188 (&output_kind): here.
11189 (File::Basename): Use it.
11190 (&output): Sort the CONFIG_FILES.
11191 * acheaders: Normalize.
11192 * acfunctions: Likewise.
11194 2001-06-25 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11196 * aclang.m4 (_AC_LANG_COMPILER_GNU): If GNU, dump the compiler
11197 characteristics in the logs.
11198 Suggested by Mo DeJong.
11200 2001-06-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11202 * acfunctions.m4 (AM_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE, AM_FUNC_FNMATCH)
11203 (AM_FUNC_MKTIME, AM_FUNC_OBSTACK, AM_FUNC_STRTOD): Reactivated.
11204 * doc/autoconf.texi (Autoconf 2.13): New section.
11206 2001-06-24 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11208 * autoconf.in (Task traces): Separate the error messages from the
11209 traces to improve robustness.
11211 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11213 * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): Make it a single test instead of
11214 three as failures are unlikely, and speed matters.
11216 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11218 * doc/autoconf.texi (Redefined M4 Macros): New.
11220 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11222 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Consider
11223 inttypes.h is missing if it conflicts with sys/types.h, as on IRIX
11224 5.3.
11226 2001-06-23 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
11228 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Defer parsing of
11229 config.status targets to after the evaluation of the INIT-CMDS.
11230 Double quote config.status targets (used to be single quoted).
11232 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11234 * tests/torture.at (CONFIG_FILES, HEADERS, LINKS and COMMANDS):
11235 Check the content of the created file.
11236 Check the ./config.status command line invocation.
11238 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11240 * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Reject prehistoric versions.
11242 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11244 * aclang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Try to be robust to
11245 preexisting files matching a.*.
11247 2001-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11249 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Output error messages on
11250 stderr.
11251 * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_ARG_VAR): Update.
11253 2001-06-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11255 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Die instead of warning when
11256 precious variables have changed.
11257 * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): Adjust.
11259 2001-06-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11261 ./configure --program-suffix=foo produces `transform=s,$$,foo,;',
11262 but some sed choke on multiple `;', and other tools (e.g.,
11263 Automake), include the separator themselves.
11265 * acgeneral.m4 (AC_ARG_VAR): Be sure not to leave extra `;'.
11267 2001-06-19 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
11269 * doc/autoconf.texi (Functions Portability): Rename as...
11270 (Function Portability): this.
11271 (Function Portability): Document potential problems with unlink().
11273 2001-06-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
11275 * NEWS, doc/autoconf.texi: Document quadrigraphs.
11277 2001-06-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11279 * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_FORK): Fix typos.
11281 2001-06-18 Ruediger Kuhlmann <info@ruediger-kuhlmann.de>
11283 * acfunctions.m4: (AC_FUNC_VFORK) rename as...
11284 (_AC_FUNC_VFORK): this.
11285 Remove AC_DEFINEs and don't guess cross-compilation values.
11286 (_AC_FUNC_FORK): New, check whether fork() isn't just a stub.
11287 (AC_FUNC_FORK): New, use _AC_FUNC_VFORK and _AC_FUNC_FORK to
11288 define HAVE_WORKING_FORK, HAVE_WORKING_VFORK; and vfork to fork if
11289 vfork doesn't work.
11290 Guess values if cross-compiling, but warn.
11291 * acfunctions: Add AC_FUNC_FORK.
11292 * doc/autoconf.texi: Document AC_FUNC_FORK. Give example to define
11293 and vfork appropriately.
11295 2001-06-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11297 * doc/autoconf.texi (Functions Portability): New section.
11299 2001-06-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11301 * autoconf.in (M4): Pass --nesting-limit=1024, unless already set
11302 in $M4.
11303 Suggested by Andreas Schwab.
11305 2001-06-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11307 * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_CHOWN, AC_FUNC_CLOSEDIR_VOID)
11308 (AC_FUNC_GETPGRP, AC_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK)
11309 (AC_FUNC_MMAP, AC_FUNC_SELECT_ARGTYPES, _AC_FUNC_STAT)
11310 (AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL): Use AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT.
11311 Don't use AC_TRY_RUN, which double quotes, prefer AC_RUN_IFELSE,
11312 and either AC_LANG_SOURCE or AC_LANG_PROGRAM.
11313 (AC_FUNC_CLOSEDIR_VOID): Protect C++ from `int closedir ();' (or
11314 the converse).
11316 2001-06-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11318 * doc/autoconf.texi (ms): New index.
11319 (Macro Index): Rename as...
11320 (Autoconf Macro Index): this.
11321 (M4 Macro Index): New appendix.
11322 (Programming in M4): New chapter.
11323 Define M4sugar, M4sh, m4_pattern_forbid, and m4_pattern_allow.
11324 (Quoting): Rename as...
11325 (M$ Quotation): this.
11326 Be part of `Programming in M4).
11328 2001-06-18 Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>
11330 * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): Set variables and export them
11331 in separate statements for compatibility with Tru64 v5.1.
11333 2001-06-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11335 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Be sure to cache the
11336 current values of the precious variables, not the previously
11337 cached values.
11338 Pass precious variables which are set to config.status.
11339 * doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Document AC_ARG_VAR.
11340 * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): New.
11342 2001-06-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
11344 * doc/autoconf.texi: Move AC_FUNC_WAIT3 and
11345 AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS to the obsolete section,
11346 and explain why and how to replace them.
11347 * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_WAIT3): Warn as obsolete.
11348 * acspecific.m4 (AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS): Likewise.
11350 2001-06-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11352 `build_alias', `host_alias', and `target_alias' are not AC_SUBST'd.
11353 Reported by Bruno Haible.
11355 * acgeneral.m4 (AC_ARG_VAR): Move the AC_SUBST, from here...
11356 (_AC_ARG_VAR_PRECIOUS): to here.
11358 2001-06-15 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
11360 * acheaders.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_DIRENT): Instead of defining
11361 an unused pointer use cast to this type and `if' statement to
11362 avoid warnings from the compiler.
11363 (AC_HEADER_TIME): Likewise.
11364 * actypes.m4 (AC_CHECK_MEMBER): s/foo/ac_aggr/. Use the member
11365 in `if' statement to avoid warnings from the compiler. Declare
11366 ac_aggr static to avoid the need to initialize it.
11368 2001-06-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11370 * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell): Move to follow `Writing
11371 Macros'.
11373 2001-06-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11375 * m4/missing.m4, config/missing: Updated to Automake 1.4g's.
11376 Suggested by Alexander Mai.
11378 2001-06-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11380 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Guard
11381 sys/types.h and sys/stat.h, and check for them.
11383 2001-06-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11385 * acheaders.m4 (AC_CHECK_HEADER, AC_CHECK_HEADERS): Support $4 =
11386 INCLUDES.
11388 2001-06-12 Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
11390 * acspecific.m4 (AC_PATH_XTRA): Check if linking against libX11
11391 succeeds and only try adding libdnet upon a failure.
11393 2001-06-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11395 * autoscan.in (&output_kind): Output the comment only if it exists.
11396 (%kind_comment): Add entry for `programs'.
11397 (&output_programs): Use &output_kind.
11398 (&output_functions, &output_identifiers, &output_headers)
11399 (&output_programs): Inline, and remove.
11401 2001-06-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11403 * autoscan.in (%kind_comment): New.
11404 (output_kind): New.
11405 (output_functions, output_identifiers, output_headers): Use it.
11407 2001-06-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11409 * autoscan.in (&print_unique): Take `$kind' and `$word' as
11410 arguments, to factor indirections into `%macro' and `%used'.
11411 (%generic_macro): Fix a typo.
11413 2001-06-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11415 * aclibraries: New.
11416 * autoscan.in (@kinds): Add `libraries'.
11417 Use `@kinds' instead of hard coded lists.
11418 (%programs, %headers, %identifiers, %makevars, %libraries, %functions):
11419 Remove, replaced by...
11420 (%used): this.
11422 2001-06-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11424 * autoscan.in (%functions_macros %headers_macros)
11425 (%identifiers_macros %programs_macros %makevars_macros): Remove,
11426 replaced by...
11427 (%macro): New.
11429 2001-06-11 Raja R Harinath <harinath@cs.umn.edu>
11431 * aclang.m4 (AC_NO_EXECUTABLES): Override
11432 _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_WORKS, not _AC_LANG_COMPILER_WORKS.
11434 2001-06-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11436 * aclang.m4 (AC_NO_EXECUTABLES): Define the macros with their
11437 trailing new line.
11438 Reported by Andreas Schwab.
11440 2001-06-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11442 * Makefile.am, Makefile.maint: Typos.
11444 2001-06-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11446 * doc/autoconf.texi (Here-Documents): New section, gathering
11447 documentation about here-documents.
11448 Use `href', not `uref', and other changes.
11450 2001-06-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11452 * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell Programming): Promoted as a
11453 chapter.
11455 2001-06-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11457 * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Complete the
11458 description of the here-docs penalties with Alexandre Oliva's
11459 explanations.
11461 2001-06-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
11463 * doc/autoconf.texi: Talk about here documents and speedups.
11464 Do not use "echo" on arbitrary strings.
11465 Spell "here-documents" consistently with the standard.
11467 2001-06-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11469 * doc/autoconf.texi (Concept Index): Introduce it.
11470 Regenerate the menus.
11472 2001-06-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11474 * Makefile.maint, GNUmakefile: New, from Jim Meyering.
11475 * config/prev-version.txt: New.
11476 * config/move-if-change: New, for GNU libc.
11478 2001-06-06 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
11480 * tests/atgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Remove "/bin/sh" after $SHELL.
11482 2001-06-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11484 * acgeneral.m4 (AC_CHECK_LIB): Fix the cache var name to work
11485 properly when $1 is not a literal.
11486 Fixes PR Autoconf/187, reported by Bram Moolenaar.
11488 2001-06-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11490 Invoking AC_COPYRIGHT before AC_INIT fails.
11492 * Makefile.am (.m4.m4f): Pass --fatal-warnings to m4.
11493 * acgeneral.m4 (_m4_divert(VERSION_FSF))
11494 (_m4_divert(VERSION_USER)): New.
11495 (AC_COPYRIGHT): $2 is the diversion to use.
11496 (_AC_INIT_COPYRIGHT): Use the FSF diversion.
11497 (AC_INIT): Remove dead comments as now it's commutative.
11499 2001-06-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11501 * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_LIB): Strengthen to reflect
11502 PR autoconf/187.
11504 2001-06-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11506 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): `prefix' and `exec_prefix'
11507 can be empty.
11508 `*dir' variables cannot be NONE.
11509 Reported by Mark Kettenis.
11511 2001-06-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
11513 * doc/autoconf.texi: Fix references to Solaris and SunOS versions.
11515 2001-06-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11517 * acgeneral.m4 (AC_VAR_SET, AC_VAR_GET, AC_VAR_TEST_SET)
11518 (AC_VAR_SET_IFELSE, AC_VAR_PUSHDEF and AC_VAR_POPDEF, AC_TR_CPP)
11519 (AC_TR_SH): Move as...
11520 * m4sh.m4 (AS_VAR_SET, AS_VAR_GET, AS_VAR_TEST_SET)
11521 (AS_VAR_SET_IF, AC_VAR_PUSHDEF, AS_VAR_POPDEF, AS_TR_CPP)
11522 (AS_TR_SH): these.
11523 (_AS_TR_PREPARE, _AS_CR_PREPARE, _AS_TR_CPP_PREPARE)
11524 (_AS_TR_SH_PREPARE): New.
11525 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Invoke _AS_TR_PREPARE.
11526 * tests/aclocal.m4 (AC_STATE_SAVE): `as_' vars can be modified.
11528 2001-06-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11530 * Makefile.am (.m4.m4f): Pass the options first.
11531 Fixes PR autoconf/182.
11533 2001-06-02 Nathan Sidwell <nathan@codesourcery.com>
11535 GNU getopt, when POSIXLY_CORRECT does not permute options and
11536 arguments. So pass the options first.
11537 Fixes PR autoconf/184.
11539 * autoconf.sh (m4_prefiles, m4f_prefiles): New variables.
11540 (run_m4): Remove files.
11541 (run_m4f): Remove.
11542 Update remainder of script to use them.
11543 (for warning in): Do not use a literal comma as it will not be
11544 split by IFS.
11546 2001-06-02 Christian Marquardt <marq@gfz-potsdam.de>
11548 * aclang.m4 (AC_PROG_F77): Add Fujitsu's "frt" to the list of
11549 Fortran compilers to check.
11550 (_AC_PROG_F77_V): Add '-###' as a possible option to print
11551 information on library and object files.
11552 (AC_PROG_CXX): Add Fujitsu's "FCC" to the list of C++ compilers
11553 to check.
11555 2001-06-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11557 * autom4te.in (Request::@request): Declare with `vars', not `my',
11558 as it prevents updates via `do FILENAME'.
11560 2001-06-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11562 * configure.in (standards_texi): Remove, dead code.
11564 2001-06-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11566 * autom4te.in: New.
11568 2001-06-02 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
11570 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Don't rely on $? in the traps
11571 for signals other than 0 - exit with code 1.
11572 * m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): Likewise.
11573 * autoconf.in: Likewise. Also don't rely on exit == exit $?.
11574 * autoheader.in: Likewise.
11575 * autoreconf.in: Likewise.
11576 * tests/torture.at (Signal handling): New test for the above.
11578 2001-06-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11580 * m4sugar.m4 (m4_defn, m4_undefine, m4_popdef): Clarify the error
11581 message.
11583 2001-05-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11585 * acfunctions, acheaders, acidentifiers, acmakevars, acprograms:
11586 Add copyright and comments.
11587 * acheaders: Add stdint.h.
11588 Suggested by Paul Eggert.
11590 2001-05-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11592 * atgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Use $SHELL.
11593 * atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_DEFINES): Skip HAVE_STDINT_H.
11595 2001-05-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11597 * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Include
11598 stdint.h.
11599 From Paul Eggert and Lars Hecking.
11601 2001-05-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11603 * tests/base.at: Adjust line numbers in error messages.
11605 2001-05-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11607 * tests/base.at, tests/m4sh.at: When using AC_PLAIN_SCRIPT be sure
11608 to emit the bangshe line.
11609 Reported by David Carter.
11611 2001-05-30 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
11613 * aclang.m4 (AC_PROG_F77): Add Compaq's "fort" to the list of
11614 Fortran (95) compilers to check.
11616 2001-05-29 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
11618 * doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction, Pointers): Update the Autoconf
11619 Macro Archive URL.
11621 2001-05-23 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
11623 * aclang.m4 (AC_PROG_CPP): Use `break' instead of `break 2' since
11624 _AC_PROG_PREPROC_WORKS_IFELSE expands arguments outside the loop.
11625 (AC_PROG_CXXCPP): Likewise.
11627 2001-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11629 * config: New directory.
11630 * configure.in: AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR it.
11631 * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CONFIGURE_AC): Adjust.
11633 2001-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11635 * autoconf.in, autoreconf.in, autoheader.in, autoscan.in, ifnames.in,
11636 * autoupdate.in: Specify the Emacs mode.
11637 * acversion.m4.in: Rename as...
11638 * acversion.m4: this.
11639 * tests/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): More garbage.
11641 2001-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11643 * autoconf.sh, autoreconf.sh, autoheader.sh, autoscan.pl, ifnames.sh:
11644 Rename as...
11645 * autoconf.in, autoreconf.in, autoheader.in, autoscan.in, ifnames.in:
11646 these.
11648 2001-05-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
11650 * configure.in: Bump to 2.50a.
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