* acgeneral.m4 (AC_OUTPUT_MAKE_DEFS) <confdef2opt.sed>: Reset the
t flag between each cycle.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Some about the t
flag in sed.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE): Do not put two shell
variable assignments in one shell command.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Document.
cannot produce object code.
* aclang.m4 (AC_PROG_F77): Remove f2c from the search list.
* doc/autoconf.texi: Excise mentions of f2c in AC_PROG_F77 docs.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Obsolete Constructs): Move right after
`Recreation a Configuration.
(Invoking autoupdate): Be a subsection of
`Obsolete Constructs'.
(Upgrading): Demote from chapter to section.
Be a section of `Obsolete Constructs'.
Rename as `Autoconf 1'.
Use this technology to compute `sizeof' even when cross-compiling.
Ideas and initial suggestion by Kaveh Ghazi.
Binary search by Bruno Haible.
* aclang.m4 (AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY,
AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY(C), AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY(C++),
AC_LANG_INT_SAVE, AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C), AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C++)): New
macros.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE, _AC_COMPUTE_INT_RUN,
_AC_COMPUTE_INT): New.
(AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Use them.
Check whether the type exists beforehand.
* tests/semantics.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Strengthen.
classes with `case'. Use `expr' instead.
Suggested by Paul Eggert.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Explain expr, the
`x' trick, and negated character classes.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_CHECK_TOOLS): New.
* aclang.m4 (AC_PROG_CXX, AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_F77): Use new
AC_CHECK_TOOLS macro instead of AC_CHECK_PROGS so that a cross
compiler is found by default with --host.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Programs, Manual Configuration):
Describe new AC_CHECK_TOOLS macro. Fix unclear working about
AC_CHECK_PROGS.
* tests/Makefile.am (FILTER_MACROS): Adjust.
* acspecific.m4 (AC_XENIX_DIR, AC_DYNIX_SEQ, AC_IRIX_SUN,
AC_SCO_INTL): Wake up a few zombies.
* doc/autoconf.texi: Adjust.
* tests/aclocal.m4 (AC_ENV_SAVE): Likewise.
(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.
Now work with other languages than C and C++.
* acspecific.m4 (AC_EXEEXT, AC_OBJEXT): Use
AC_COMPILE_IFELSE/AC_LINK_IFELSE and AC_LANG_PROGRAM instead of
ad hoc code.
Use `$ac_ext' instead of listing `.c', `.C' etc.
Use AC_CACHE_CHECK.
* doc/autoconf.texi (System Services): Adjust.
for special environments.
* acspecific.m4 (AC_CYGWIN, AC_EMXOS2, AC_MINGW32): AU defined to
nothing. Replace them by...
(_AC_CYGWIN, _AC_EMXOS2, _AC_MINGW32): these, which are
automatically called by...
(AC_EXEEXT): this.
* doc/autoconf.texi (System Services, Obsolete Macros): Adjust.
into...
(Limitations of Builtins): this new node.
Document limitations of `exit', `export' and `case'.
Welcome the documentation of `test' from...
(Limitations of Usual Tools): here.
`--cache-file=config.cache'.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Let `configure' support
`--config-cache' and `-C'.
Report them in `--help'.
Fix the display of missing argument.
(_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Adjust.
* doc/install.texi (Invoking configure): Rename the node as
(Running configure scripts): this, the name of the chapter.
(Operation Controls): Rename as...
(Invoking configure): this.
Document the new options.
* doc/autoconf.texi (direntry): Huh? What is this `aclocal' doing
here? Point to `Invoking configure'.
(Cache Files): No need to document the disabling of the cache.
Meyering's `chown.m4' serial 4.
(AC_FUNC_GETGROUPS): New macro, based on Jim Meyering's
`getgroups.m4' serial 3.
(AC_FUNC_MEMCMP): Updated, based on Jim Meyering's `memcmp.m4'
serial 3.
(AC_FUNC_MALLOC): New macro, based on Jim Meyering's
`malloc.m4' serial 3.
(AC_FUNC_MMAP): Include `stdlib.h' when `STDC_HEADERS'.
* acfunctions: Sort.
Add `chown' and `malloc', point `getgroups' to `AC_FUNC_GETGROUPS'
instead of `AC_TYPE_GETGROUPS'.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Adjust.
(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.
Rename as:
(_AC_PROG_CC_GNU, _AC_PROG_CXX_GNU, _AC_PROG_F77_GNU): these.
Compute the value of GCC, GXX and G77 here.
Set to `no' (instead of empty) if not the GNU compiler.
(AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX, AC_PROG_F77): Adjust.
* doc/autoconf.texi: Adjust.
Using --host enables cross-compilation.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): `--host' enables cross
compilation.
(AC_CANONICAL_BUILD): The help string should explicitly mention
cross compilation.
* aclang.m4 (AC_LANG(C), AC_LANG(C++), AC_LANG(Fortran 77)): Don't
set `cross_compiling'.
(AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX, AC_PROG_F77): Run your `WORK' partner
only if not cross-compiling.
(AC_PROG_CC_WORKS, AC_PROG_CXX_WORKS, AC_PROG_F77_WORKS):
If does not work, don't assume an implicit cross-compilation:
fail.
* doc/autoconf.texi: Adjust.
(AC_CHECK_MEMBER, AC_CHECK_MEMBERS): Fix to work properly on
`struct f.g.h'.
* acspecific.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG): Use AC_CHECK_HEADERS and
AC_CHECK_MEMBERS instead of performing their task by hand.
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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// \
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_//_ _\_ The ``Eiffel Tower'' Release
* 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.
