Be sure to read this file if you're using a non released Autoconf.
* tests/tools.at (Syntax of the scripts): The non built tools are
in `$top_srcdir', not `..'.
(autoconf --trace): When using `-i' we need the src tree, not the
build tree.
caused strange messages about AC_ARG_PROGRAM.
Reported by Jim Meyering.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_DEFUN_ONCE): Fix the indirection to
m4_defun_once.
* m4sugar.m4 (m4_defun_once): Also define
`m4_location(MACRO-NAME)'. s/ac_warn/m4_warn/.
Use `m4_defn' to read `m4_location'.
* tests/base.at (AC_REQUIRE & AC_DEFUN_ONCE): Two new tests.
be used early.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Call `_AC_INIT_PREPARE_FDS'.
(_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Don't.
(_AC_INIT_PREPARE_ENVIRONMENT, _AC_INIT_PREPARE_FDS): Rename as...
(_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS_ENVIRONMENT, _AC_INIT_DEFAULTS_FDS): these,
since they are called from `_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS', not
`_AC_INIT_PREPARE'.
(_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS_FDS): Dump `$@' in config.log, not
`$ac_configure_args' which is not computed yet.
value of the VARIABLE argument when looking for executables, we
need to set it to the correct value from AC_CHECK_TOOL when not
just passing on the incoming VARIABLE directly.
(AC_CHECK_TOOLS, AC_PATH_TOOL): Likewise.
it includes another AU defined macro.
* autoupdate.sh (input.m4:_au_defun): New macro.
(au.m4): Use it instead of inlining _au_enable/_au_disable
invocations in the definition of all these macros.
(input.m4:__au_enable, input.m4:__au_disable): New macros.
(input.m4:_au_enable, input.m4:_au_disable): Use them.
* tests/mktests.sh (update_exclude_list): Add `AC_OUTPUT'.
Running it twice in a configure.in is not valid.
Add `AC_LINK_FILES' since it requires arguments.
* tests/tools.m4 (autoupdating AC_LINK_FILES): New test.
* 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.
(Special Shell Variables): Adjust.
(Shellology): New section. Introduce bash and zsh.
(Special Shell Variables): Some data on NULLCMD.
(Quotation Thumb Rule): Rename as
(Quotation Rule of Thumb): this.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_SHELL_UNSET): Remove.
(AC_SHELL_UNSETENV): Rename as...
(AC_SHELL_UNSET): this.
(_AC_INIT_PREPARE_ENVIRONMENT): Prepare bash and zsh.
Adjust to AC_SHELL_UNSET.
(AC_INIT): Dispatch your arguments either to _AC_INIT_PACKAGE or
to AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR.
(AU::AC_INIT): New.
* configure.in: Adjust.
Use `#', not `dnl'.
* doc/autoconf.texi (configure.in Layout): Document the new form
of AC_INIT.
Document AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR.
(Obsolete Macros): Document the old one.
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 `$tmp' dir.
Let `config.status' support `--debug'.
(_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Avoid the leading space in `ac_configure_args'.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking config.status): Adjust.
section.
Document --help=short and recursive.
Split the `Directory' section into `Installation directories' for
--prefix and --exec-prefix, and all the others into `Fine tuning
of the installation directories'.
In the latter, don't repeat `in DIR', the user understands, and it
comes out better.
Default for --exec-prefix is PREFIX.
Reported by Kathryn Hargreaves.
Move --host before --build.
Fix a test on `$ac_init_help' which was not updated.
values.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_CACHE_DUMP): New macro.
(AC_CACHE_SAVE, AC_OUTPUT): Use it.
(AC_OUTPUT): Dump confdefs.h into config.log.
(_AC_INIT_PREPARE::config.log): Name the package being configured
if you can.
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.
* autoheader.m4: Dispatch the prototypes next to there AC_
siblings.
(AH_TEMPLATE, AH_VERBATIM): Move to...
* acgeneral.m4: here.
(AH_OUTPUT): New macro.
* autoheader.sh: Run `autoconf --trace' instead of `m4 autoheader.m4'.
* autoheader.m4: Remove.
* Makefile.am: Adjust.
* tests/tools.m4 (AH_DEFUN): Remove, no longer makes sense.
* tests/actests.m4 (autoheader::AC_TATOOINE): Remove, was used by
the test above.
* autoconf.sh: Use it when possible to create the dir $tmp.
Stop using variables for tmp files, use their names in $tmp.
[install]: Use the new features of autoconf --trace.
* 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.
