(edit).
* m4sh.m4 (AS_UNAME): Eved out from...
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): here.
(_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): Define AC_PACKAGE_NAME.
(_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): AC_SUBST the PACKAGE_ variables.
Propagate their use in the executables and the test suite.
* tests/atgeneral.m4 (PATH): Include only absolute paths.
(AT_INIT): Use AS_UNAME.
* autoreconf.sh: Likewise.
* autoheader.sh: Ditto.
* autoupdate.sh: Similarly.
* doc/autoconf.texi: Adjust.
* tests/atspecific.m4: Be sure to remove configure.in.
Adjust the test suite to use `configure.ac'.
(m4_cr_letters, m4_cr_LETTERS, m4_cr_Letters, m4_cr_digits)
(m4_cr_symbols1, m4_cr_symbols2, m4_re_string, m4_re_word)
(m4_init): New macros.
(m4_token_allow): Remove.
* acgeneral.m4: Don't push BODY into the diversion stack.
(AC_PLAIN_SCRIPT): Do it.
Call m4_init, define the Autoconf patterns.
(AC_INIT): Use AC_PLAIN_SCRIPT.
Remove the useless `dnl' (those where the current diversion is
KILL).
* autoconf.sh (m4_common): Fix quotation.
(finalize.awk): Load forbidden.rx and allowed.rx.
Split the line into tokens, and check their validity.
* tests/tools.at (Forbidden tokens): Adjust.
obsolete options to stderr. Adjust list of options. Correct
processing of options. Process options with values separated by
"=" first, so that abbreviations work. Don't accept "=" with
short options.
* autoheader.sh: Likewise.
* autoreconf.sh: Likewise.
* autoupdate.sh: Likewise.
* ifnames.sh: There is no "--verbose" option.
* doc/autoconf.texi: Option "-A" requires an argument.
(autoreconf Invocation): Document "--install", "--symlink",
"--m4dir" and the options passed to Automake.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_SHELL_DIRNAME): When using m4 the argument
is named `$1' not `$dir'.
When using m4 you ought to quote properly.
When using m4, you should check that there are not too many shell
quotes (inside the macro itself, and where it is called).
When you do this, Autoconf, hm, works better.
* autoheader.sh: No longer try to select the needed paragraphs of
`acconfig.h', just dump everything into `config.h.in'.
Implement support for `--warnings'.
Warn the users that these auxiliary files are obsolete when `-W
obsolete'.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autoheader): Adjust.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Stop global double quoting,
failed experiment.
Merge all the var=val AC_SUBST(var) into AC_SUBST(var, val).
(AC_SUBST): Implement support for 2nd arg.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Adjust.
From Jim Meyering.
* autoheader.sh (usage): The usage is to use $0 here.
(ah_base): Be in TMPDIR.
Install the `trap' before creating the first tmp file.
Also trap on 0.
Make autoconf support --install.
* autoconf.sh (task install): New task. Extract the set of
auxiliary m4 files a configure.in depends upon. Install links
from library files to the local dir so that the packages depends
only on local extensions. Check that the user includes exactly
the files she needs.
Be kind to Automake: list the arguments of selected macros
(for instance AC_SUBST will list each variable which may be
substitued).
* autoconf.sh (--trace, --output): New options.
Implement tracing of macros.
trap also on 0, so that there is no need to rm here and there.
* autoconf.texi (Output): Document --trace and --output.
