* Makefile.maint: Update from the Coreutils.
(AMTAR): Remove, obsolete.
(-automake_repo): Update to redhat.com.
(cvs_file): New.
Adjust to the fact that ansi2knr is now hosted by Automake.
* Maekfile.am (cvs_files): Add install-sh and mkinstalldirs.
* config/config.guess, config/mkinstalldirs, config/texinfo.tex:
Update from masters.
are a few warnings.
* lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4 (AH_VERBATIM, _AH_VERBATIM_OLD):
Quote for Perl '' strings, not "".
* bin/autoheader.in: Invoke autoconf to get '' strings, not ""
strings.
characters is a syntax warning now.
(_AS_QUOTE): Accept $2 as list of characters to quote.
* lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4 (AH_VERBATIM, _AH_VERBATIM_OLD):
Quote for Perl, not sh.
* bin/autoheader.in: When $debug, report the file which is
`do'ne.
* tests/tools.at (autom4te, autoheader): Exercise @bar, not merely
`@', to tickle Perl's lists.
Reported by Carlos Velasco.
Fixes the `AC_ARG_VAR' test failures.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Don't use cmp.
* lib/freeze.mk (check-forbidden-patterns): New.
* lib/autoconf/Makefile.am, lib/autotest/Makefile.am
* lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am (check-local): Use it to catch `cmp'.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): HP-UX' cmp and
/dev/null.
Reported months ago by H. Merijn Brand.
longer required can still cause errors.
Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
* bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Do not prepend `--reload-state'
to frozen files in @ARGV, as @ARGV must remain being a list of
files. Rather, at M4 call sites, use this...
(&files_to_options): New function.
(&freeze): Use &error.
(&up_to_date): If a file that was included according to the cache
is no longer there, then the output is out dated.
(&main): Don't even check whether a file is up to date is anyway
--force is given.
* tests/tools.at (autom4te cache): New.
* bin/autoupdate.in (&parse_args): Kill old options.
* bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args): Remove dead options.
Factor some code.
(&autoreconf): Report the directories we enter *and leave*, so
that error messages can be easily located, and use GNU Make
format, so that Emacs' compile mode understands us.
* lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&update_file): Use `verbose' to report
if some file was changed instead of `print'.
* bin/autoheader.in: Suggest AC_DEFINE with 3 args when needed.
(&parse_args): Remove the dead options.
* tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER): Adjust to the new
autoheader's quiet mode.
(AT_CHECK_AUTOUPDATE): Likewise.
* tests/tools.at (autoupdate): Adjust.
* tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
aclocal invocation, as Gettext macros might not be visible to
aclocal.
Instead of blindly running autopoint, scan configure.ac (not the
traces) for AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION uses, as autopoint does.
Reported by Paul D. Smith.
None of this seems to have anything to do with POSIX, really,
but it's how Perl getopt works.
* bin/autom4te.in (parse_args): Configure GetOpt with
"permute", too.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te):
--warning -> --warnings.
* lib/autom4te.in: --warning -> --warnings.
users who use config.site to require for a cache: in this case,
the two last configure runs, using two different sets of
arguments, trigger a legitimate error.
autoheader are Perl programs.
(autoconf, autoheader, autoreconf, autoupdate, ifnames, autoscan)
(autom4te): Specify that the sources are in the $srcdir.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Adjust.
