* TODO: Remove already done things. Update the part
about finding tools for the target.
2003-11-24 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
* lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_USG, AC_MEMORY_H,
AC_DIR_HEADER): Make wording more consistent.
* lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_CYGWIN, AC_EMXOS2,
AC_MINGW32): Explain the transition better.
* lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_INT_16_BITS,
AC_LONG_64_BITS): Explain the transition better.
2003-11-24 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Obsoleting Macros): Don't
document the third parameter of AU_DEFUN.
* lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4 (AU_DEFINE): Remove.
(AU_DEFUN): Remove the third parameter, it was not used.
Use AC_DEFUN directly, not AU_DEFINE.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_LINK_FILES): Move the message
into the expanded body, consistently with other macros
such as AC_USG.
so that ac_abs_builddir, ac_abs_top_builddir, ac_abs_srcdir,
and ac_abs_top_srcdir are absolute paths.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SET_CATFILE): Remove misleading comment.
it provokes a warning from makeinfo about looking like a cross
reference in info output.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add notes on signal
handler return type, as per AC_TYPE_SIGNAL.
computing the absolute path to d1 in the source hierarchy: it may
not exist at all. So don't cd into it.
From Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-10/msg00205.html
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SET_CATFILE): New.
From Paul Eggert, but named after Perl's IO::Spec->catfile.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Document.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Use it.
(GNU Fortran): New.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Language Choice): Document.
* lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_FREEFORM): Assert
the current language is Fortran.
that future autopoint/aclocal/automake/autoreconf will be able
to trace to find where to install local m4 macros.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Input): Document it.
* NEWS: Updated.
* bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory): Create the
AUX_DIR if needed, for sake of automake --add-missing etc.
Suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
directory for AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS' first argument exists.
This makes valid the invocation of _AC_SRCPATH that follows.
Reported by Eric Sunshine.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Commands): Adjust.
Reported by Paivio Pollari.
Diagnosed by Nicolas Joly.
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CLEANUP): Rename AT_help as
AT_help_all.
Instead of making AT_help a sequence of assignments to grow
$at_help_all, just make AT_help_all be the growing contents of
$at_help_all, and make a single assignment in...
(AT_INIT): here.
(at_times_skip): Flip the meaning and rename as...
(at_times_p): this.
(AT_INIT): When summarizing the test that ran, remove
$at_times_file after use, and check it is present before trying to
use it.
* bin/Makefile.am (edit): Handle '@configure_input@'.
(autoconf, autoheader, autom4te, autoreconf, autoscan, autoupdate)
(ifnames): chmod -w.
* tests/wrapper.as (AUTOCONF, AUTOM4TE, ): Point to tests/
executables, not bin/ executables! Otherwise all the magic needed
to find non installed files is turned off. This caused a failure
of test 40 and 41 that ran aclocal 1.8 which in turn ran autom4te
as found in its environment (sent by tests/autoreconf): pointing
to bin/autom4te that could not find its files.
* tests/mktests.sh: Force the replacement of generated files, for
the sake of "mv" program that are interactive when overwriting a
-w file.
* config/install-sh: Upgrade from CVS Automake.
output, so that we can track spurious m4sugar output.
* tests/local.at: Require 2.57.
(AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR, AT_CHECK_M4SH): Don't m4_default the arguments that
are defaulted by AT_CHECK anyway.
Use AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: There should be no output at all: add a
missing dnl.
(&verbose): Remove.
(&getopt): Adjust the note and verb channels, depending upon
--verbose.
* bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoscan.in,
* bin/autoupdate.in: Adjust.
Use &verb, not &verbose.
&parse_WARNINGS.
($help): Use Autom4te::ChannelDefs::usage.
* bin/autoscan.in: Use Autom4te::ChannelDefs.
* lib/Autom4te/General.pm: Don't export error: you don't own it.
including when the cache is used.
There are still several issues: (i) there are too many runs of m4
(one for include, one for warnings, and some more), (ii) warnings
spreading on several lines are not handled gracefully, (iii) the
code meant to have the call stack display for errors does not work
(its handling should move from m4 to autom4te).
* bin/autom4te.in Autom4te::Channels, Autom4te::ChannelDefs):
Use them.
(@preselect): Add m4_warn.
($exit_status): Remove, use $exit_code.
($help): Use Autom4te::ChannelDefs::usage.
(&handle_m4): No longer define the m4_warnings.
At each run, extract and report the warnings.
Always cache the result, including if the exit status is on
failure, since if nothing changes, we should result in the same
failure, hence we can use the cache.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_warning_ifelse, _m4_warning_ifelse)
(_m4_warning_error_ifelse, __m4_warning_error_ifelse, _m4_warn):
Remove.
(m4_warn): Redefine as a do-nothing: it is its invocation that
matters, as warnings are now reported via traces.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_DIAGNOSE): Don't make it a copy of
the contents of m4_warn: make it _call_ m4_warn, so that tracing
the latter reveals calls to the former.
Adjust the tests.
* tests/m4sugar.at (m4@&t@_warn): Use existing warning categories.
forward order.
* lib/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm: Doc typos.
(&parse_warnings): Accept a list of warning requests.
(&usage): Return a string, not a side effect.
(cross): New warning category.
* bin/autom4te: Adjust.
In particular, be Autoconf tools are really silent when properly
working, bind the verbosity of the 'note' channel to $verbose.
* lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_file, &mtime, &update_file)
(&xsystem, &contents): Remove, since they are exported by...
* lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm: this.
More perldoc.
* lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&up_to_date_p): Move to...
* lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm: here.
(PARSE_ARGS_BEGIN): New section for option parsing related
initialization.
(AT_ARG_OPTION,AT_ARG_OPTION_ARG,_AT_ARG_OPTION): New macros to define
package specific options and associated help.
Depend on Makefile since it contains substitutions.
From Paolo Bonzini.
* lib/autom4te.in (args): Add local.at? for Autotest args.
This change was made on autom4te.cfg which is generated.
Reported by Raja R. Harinath.
not all of them. This fixes 1. the fact that when testing
Autoconf there are many many config.log, 2. the incorrect use of
top_srcdir to find config.log.
Don't mix the detailed output of failed test with the summary of
failures. Rather, append detailed log afterwards.
changes.
* lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&backname): Remove, no longer used by
Autoconf nor Automake.
(&contents): New, from Automake.
PODify.
* lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION):
Remove `#include <stdlib.h>' from the list; we should never
Do not call `_exit()', simply modify `$?'.
(xsystem): Reset $! before running system, and check it afterward.
* tests/tools.at (autoupdating AC_PREREQ): Expect exit status
63 for version mismatches.
Emacs' danger whitespace.el behavior (smashing "useless" spaces in
the middle of a line).
* lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: Likewise.
Remove useless spaces in comments.
in testsuite.dir/NNN/testsuite.log, and append them to
testsuite.log instead of re-running the test verbosely.
Adapt documentation. Update NEWS to signal possible bad
interactions between -x and experr.
memcmp be declared before being tested.
Reported by Sander Niemeijer.
(AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE, AC_FUNC_GETGROUPS, AC_FUNC_STRNLEN): Likewise.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Default Includes): Document
AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT.
* bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in (BEGIN): Make
them uniform, and more robust to Perl special characters.
Reported by Martin Mokrej.
longer updates aclocal.m4 if useless, (ii) if a file m4_included
by aclocal.m4 is changed it might require the importing of another
m4 extension file, i.e., aclocal must be run.
* bin/autoreconf.in (&run_aclocal, $aclocal_supports_force): New.
(&parse_args): Use --force with aclocal if required and supported.
(&autoreconf_current_directory): Use &run_aclocal.
* lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm ($me, &name, &lock, &truncate, &seek): New.
* bin/autom4te.in (&Request::save, &Request::load): Use an IO::File
argument instead of a file name, so that the request file remains
open during the whole autom4te run.
($icache_file): New.
(&freeze): Lock the $icache_file.
seperator with m4_append_uniq(). It doesn't work.
(AT_CLEANUP): Add `;' to end of at_help_all.
(AT_INIT): Allow --keywords to be specified more than once. When
grepping $at_help_all for keywords, use the field and keyword
seperators to ensure a complete keyword match. Alter at_prev handling
to support the new --keywords behavior.
HELP_TUNING,HELP_OTHER,HELP_END,PREPARE_TESTS,TESTS_END): Define and
use new diversions in preparation for accepting new arguments and
allowing scripting around tests.
(OPTIONS,TAIL): Remove these diversions to make way for the ones above.
about `$<' in inference rules, it was a bogus interpretation of
an old Automake change. Discuss NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and
Tru64 make in the "target lookup" section.
(Automake): Automake 1.5+ no longer requires special tools to be
present on the developer's host.
to a shell that can handle redirection or quoting correctly.
Override SHELL with the shell detected by configure.
Use of $^O suggested by Tim van Holder.
* bin/autom4te.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
* bin/autoreconf.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
* bin/autoscan.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
* bin/autoupdate.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
* bin/ifnames.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
* bin/ifnames.in: Add final newline to help and version messages.
* lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Translate colons,
to cope with DOS-style absolute paths, when constructing
${ac_make}.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS, _AC_OUTPUT_FILES):
When constructing paths with IFS=:, quote the path. If we're
constructing a DOS-style absolute path, we don't want to split it
on the colon.
* tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_CONFIGURE): Fix typo
in description.
