* lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_cr_all): Swap * and $, so that we
don't end up with $* in EBCDIC.
* NEWS: Document the fix.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Steve Goetze.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Quadrigraphs, Shell Substitutions): Produce
index entries for concepts containing a colon in output formats
other than info.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Generating Sources) <AC_LANG_CONFTEST>:
Enhance documentation, to show that semantic change in 2.63b was
intentional.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Brian J. Murrell, analyzed by Ralf Wildenhues.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Common Shell Constructs) <AS_TR_SH>: Fix
example to expand to valid shell code.
Reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Running the Compiler): Mention that the
object file is available after a successful compile.
(Running the Linker): Likewise for the linker output.
Suggested by Paolo Bonzini.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_ERROR_PREPARE): Rewrite as_fn_error
to take additional first argument STATUS instead of transporting
$? across shell function entry, which does not work with FreeBSD
sh. Shift all other arguments by one, adjust.
(AS_ERROR): Pass EXIT-STATUS, defaulting to $?, to as_fn_error.
Report by Václav Haisman.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
* tests/tools.at (autom4te cache creation): Normalize exit
status of failed redirection to 1, may be 2 with FreeBSD sh.
* THANKS: Update.
Report by Václav Haisman.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Making configure Scripts): Avoid confusion
with listing Makefile.in twice on one line. Add a diagram showing
how automake fits into the picture.
Reported by santilín.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
* lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_REPLACE_FUNC): New helper macro.
(AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Use it to reduce forks when checking for
replacements, by using literal rather than shell variable.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
* doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler) <AC_PROG_CC>: Document a way to
change the default CFLAGS.
(C++ Compiler) <AC_PROG_CXX>: Likewise, for CXXFLAGS.
Reported by Monty Taylor; wording suggested by Paolo Bonzini.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables) <IFS>: Add details
about use of IFS within configure script.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Automake sets up $U in AM_C_PROTOTYPES, but we can't assume that
automake is always in use.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJS_NORMALIZE): Ensure $U is
set if automake did not define it.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Heiko Schlichting, via Julien Élie.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE): Set
ac_cs_awk_cr to '\\r', so that sed portably expands this to '\r'
rather than a literal carriage return, to fix substitution on
Darwin. Regression introduced in 2.63b.
Report by Peter O'Gorman.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
* tests/tools.at (autotools and whitespace in file names): Create
$TMPDIR before potential use like in other whitespace tests.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_MAIN_LOOP): Ensure we
exit with status 1 rather than with that of 'false', for
reproducibility.
(AC_OUTPUT): Ensure to exit 1 in case of config.status failure.
* tests/torture.at (Missing templates): Also test code path
for $srcdir != '.'.
Report by Tim Rice.
* lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MKTIME): ANSIfy KnR function
definitions. Use `const char*' for character literals; cast them
to `char*' for putenv.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Making testsuite Scripts): Rely on automake
feature for recommended autotest snippet, following our own use.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Autoconf Language): Give an example of
improper argument passing.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Juan Carlos Hurtado.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
* tests/tools.at (autom4te preselections): If the cache test
fails, extract the Automake version from the toplevel
Makefile.in file of the source tree; skip, rather than fail
the test group if the automake program has a different version.
* THANKS: Update.
Report by Dieter Jurzitza, fix suggested by Eric Blake.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_LINK): Check $ac_source,
not $srcdir, for being relative or absolute.
* tests/torture.at (AC_CONFIG_LINKS): New test.
(AC_CONFIG_LINKS and identical files): Extend test, avoid some
forks.
Report, patch and testcase example by Peter Breitenlohner.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <tr>: Refine
description of NUL handling. Document set size issue.
Reported by Bruno Haible.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Autoconf Language): Autoconf quote characters
come from m4sugar, not raw m4.
(Active Characters): Mention that it is m4sugar which changes
quotes from `' to [].
* THANKS: Update.
Suggested by Josef Vukovic.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIRS): Revert test for
shtool as install script. Regression introduced in 2.64.
* NEWS, THANKS: Update.
Report by Dmitry Grebeniuk.
This reverts commit 93d9386de9.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
