contains all the possible subdirs for `--help=recursive', and
another, `subdirs' which can be built dynamically for launching
sub configurations.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS): Define `subdirs' dynamically.
Define `ac_subdirs_all' statically.
Warn if the argument is not a literal.
(AC_LIST_SUBDIRS): Rename as...
(_AC_LIST_SUBDIRS): this.
(_AC_INIT_HELP): Loop over `ac_subdirs_all', not `subdirs'.
(_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Loop over `subdirs', not `AC_LIST_SUBDIRS'.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Subdirectories): Adjust.
* acgeneral.m4: Replace all the `test ! -d foo && bar' with
`test -d foo || bar'.
* Makefile.am (.m4.m4f): Stop hiding what you're doing.
Don't check for GNU m4, let it die.
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* autoupdate.sh: Complete rewrite. See that file for a detailed
explanation. Basically, simulate the name spaces thanks to
`autoconf --trace' and auxiliary files.
No longer use `autoupdate.m4', remove the dependencies.
Synchronize the options and `--help'.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autoupdate): Humanoupdate.
* autoupdate.m4: Delete.
* tests/Makefile.am (FILTER_MACROS): Add `AC_OUTPUT'.
Since `AC_OUTPUT' is now AU_DEFUN'd, it is extracted for testing,
while it was not before.
* tests/tools.m4 (autoupdate): Re-enable. Adjust the expected
output with the right quotation (yeah!).
Pass `-m $top_srcdir': autoupdate want the `.m4' files, not the
frozen files.
* Makefile.am (nodistpkgdataDATA): Move `acversion.m4' to
(distpkgdataDATA): here, so that all the `.m4' files are in the
source hierarchy, not split across src and build.
* acversion.m4.in: Update to today's standards.
* Makefile.am: Adjust.
* aclang.m4 (_AC_LANG_CURRENT, AC_LANG_STACK): You two are the same
thing, which now we shall name `_AC_LANG'.
All users adjusted.
(AC_LANG_PUSH, AC_LANG_POP): New macros.
(AC_LANG_SAVE, AC_LANG_RESTORE): AU defined.
(AC_PROG_CC_WORKS, AC_PROG_CXXCPP, AC_PROG_CXX_WORKS,
AC_PROG_F77_WORKS, AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS, AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING):
Use them.
(AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Move the requirements at its top.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Language Choice): Document them.
(Old Macros): Welcome AC_LANG_SAVE and AC_LANG_RESTORE.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_DECL_YYTEXT): Rename as
(_AC_DECL_YYTEXT): this.
(AC_PROG_LEX): Use it.
(AC_DECL_YYTEXT): New AU macro.
* doc/autoconf.texi: Adjust.
* doc/autoconf.texi: Use @sc where upper case names were used.
Remove a few useless `dnl'.
Convert some `dnl' into comments.
Promote `$(foo)' in Makefiles, not `${foo}'.
Promote `$foo' in shell scripts, not `${foo}'.
Promote `foo = bar' in Makefiles, not `foo=bar'.
(Language Choice): Document `AC_LANG', move `AC_LANG_C',
`AC_LANG_CPLUSPLUS' and `AC_LANG_FORTRAN77' to
(Old Macros): here.
* doc/install.texi: Fix a typo in the specification of the system
quadruples.
lists in between parens.
(m4_foreach_quoted): new copy of the previous `m4_foreach' which
is still used by `m4_wrap'.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_INCLUDE, AC_INCLUDES): Removed.
(AC_FOREACH): Don't use parens with `m4_foreach'.
(AC_CHECK_MEMBER, AC_CHECK_DECLS, AC_CHECK_TYPES): Adjust the
description.
* acspecific.m4 (AC_STRUCT_TIMEZONE, AC_STRUCT_ST_BLKSIZE,
AC_STRUCT_ST_BLOCKS, AC_STRUCT_ST_RDEV): Adjust.
* autoconf.texi (AC_CHECK_MEMBER, AC_CHECK_DECLS, AC_CHECK_TYPES):
Adjust their documentation.
(AC_INCLUDE): Undocument.
* tests/semantics.m4: Adjust.
* tests/actest.m4: Rename as...
* tests/aclocal.m4: this.
* tests/atspecific.m4: No longer include actest.m4.
* tests/torture.m4: Likewise.
* tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
(AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Use AC_LIBOBJ.
* acspecific.m4 (AC_FUNC_MKTIME, AC_FUNC_MEMCMP,
AC_STRUCT_ST_BLOCKS): Use AC_LIBOBJ.
* doc/autoconf.texi : Adjust so that the user is not encouraged to
use LIBOBJS directly.
(Generic Functions): Document AC_LIBOBJ_DECL and AC_LIBOBJ.
Suggested by Jim Meyering.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_SHELL_TMPDIR): New macro.
(_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Use it.
Use more quoted here docs to improve readability.
Compute `$me' and use it in the error messages.
Define `$configure' and `$configure_args' to avoid continuously
mixing the uses of `configure' and `config.status' evaluation in a
single line.
Define `$SHELL' and use it.
Simplify all the unjustified `[$]foo' into `$foo', the quotes
are needed only for `$[1]', `$[@]' etc.
Replace all the uses of `ac_cs_root' with files in the tmp dir of
`config.status'.
Remove a few `rm' covered by the removal of the `$tmp' dir.
Let `config.status' support `--debug'.
(_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Avoid the leading space in `ac_configure_args'.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking config.status): Adjust.
* 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_SH_QUOTE): Don't double quote. Escape the
double quotes too.
(_AC_ECHO_UNQUOTED): Don't double quote :).
(_AC_ECHO, _AC_ECHO_N): Quote the call to _AC_SH_QUOTE.
The autoheader chain needs to be adjusted.
* acgeneral.m4 (AH_VERBATIM): Just pass two arguments to AH_OUTPUT
instead of trying to build what `autoheader' needs: let it handle
the format by itself.
* autoheader.m4: Adjust.
s,tmp/config.h,tmp/config.hin.
The adjustment revealed that `autoconf --trace' is not robust to
single quotes in its argument.
* autoconf.sh: Fix this issue.
Rename the escape `$*' as `$%'. Implement `$@'.
* doc/autoconf.texi: Adjust.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Old Macro Names): Rename as...
(Old Macros): this. Change the @table enumeration into a list of
@defmac.
(AC_CHECKING, AC_CHECK_TYPE, AC_COMPILE_CHECK, AC_C_CROSS,
AC_DYNIX_SEQ, AC_HAVE_LIBRARY, AC_IRIX_SUN, AC_LINK_FILES,
AC_OUTPUT, AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS, AC_SCO_INTL, AC_VERBOSE,
AC_XENIX_DIR): Move their descriptions into here.
Kill a few TeX warnings.
newbies accidentally use a stale cache file.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Set cache_file to /dev/null
to disable caching by default.
(_AC_INIT_HELP): Adjust the --help message.
(AC_CACHE_LOAD, AC_CACHE_SAVE): Don't print "loading/updating
/dev/null" messages.
* autoconf.texi: Note that caching is disabled, how to enable it,
and that `./config.cache' is the traditional name of the cache file.
* install.texi: Likewise.
arguments, AC_OUTPUT arguments 2 and 3 were not! Currently,
AC_OUTPUT over quotes too: stop that.
Reported by Martin Buchholz.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Output): Don't expand on the ternary
AC_OUTPUT.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_OUTPUT): Don't over quote $2 and $3.
(AC_REVISION): Require AC_INIT, not _AC_INIT_BINSH.
(AC_INIT): Do what _AC_INIT_BINSH used to.
Don't require _AC_INIT_VERSION, just call it.
Rename as _AC_INIT.
(AC_INIT): New macro, single expansion wrapper around _AC_INIT.
(_AC_COPYRIGHT_SEPARATOR): New.
(AC_COPYRIGHT): Use it.
Require AC_INIT, not _AC_INIT_VERSION.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Versions): Promote as first section of
`Setup'.
Rename as `Notices'.
Document AC_COPYRIGHT.
Don't give false reasons for placing AC_REVISION before AC_INIT,
the place no longer matters.
* 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.
`configure --help'.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_DIVERSION_HELP_BEGIN, AC_DIVERSION_HELP_ENABLE,
AC_DIVERSION_HELP_WITH, AC_DIVERSION_HELP_VAR,
AC_DIVERSION_HELP_END): New diversion numbers.
(AC_EXPAND_ONCE): New macro.
(AC_PROVIDE_IF): New macro.
(AC_BEFORE, AC_REQUIRE): Use it.
(AC_REQUIRE): Don't use indir.
(_AC_ARG_ENABLE_HELP_PROLOGUE, _AC_ARG_WITH_HELP_PROLOGUE,
_AC_ARG_VAR_HELP_PROLOGUE): New macros.
(AC_ARG_ENABLE, AC_ARG_WITH, AC_ARG_VAR): Expand once the
_HELP_PROLOGUE macro which corresponds.
(_AC_INIT_HELP): Adjust to AC_DIVERSION_HELP_BEGIN and
AC_DIVERSION_HELP_END.
(_AC_INIT_NOTICE, _AC_INIT_HELP): Remove the sh code which handled
the optional help strings.
Some CVS tricks were used so that history is kept in both the top
directory, and in doc/.
* doc/Makefile.am: New file.
* Makefile.am: Adjusted.
* configure.in: Adjusted.
* autoconf.texi: Moved from here to...
* doc/autoconf.texi: here.
* make-stdts.texi: Likewise.
* install.texi: Likewise.
* texinfo.tex: Likewise.
* acgeneral.m4 (AU_DEFINE): New macros, pulled out from AU_DEFUN.
Defines a macro in `autoupdate::' with all the required wrapping
for `autoupdate'.
(AU_DEFUN): Use it.
(AC_OUTPUT): When dispatching your arguments, use ifval, not
ifset!
Dispath actions to AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS not AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS, to
avoid unneeded warnings for obsolete use of AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS.
(autoupdate::AC_OUTPUT): New macro.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Writing configure.in, the example): Don't
advocate AC_OUTPUT with args.
(Output, AC_OUTPUT with args): Simplify the documentation, and
provide the translation into the new scheme.
Propagate what remained into the proper sections.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS): AU_DEFUNed in terms of
AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS.
(AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_CNT): New variable, declared both in
`autoconf::' and `autoupdate::'.
(AC_OUTPUT): Register your arguments to AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS only if
there are to avoid spurious `run autoupdate' messages.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Libraries): Document the changes.
