* doc/autoconf.texi (Text processing Macros): Document
m4_version_compare, m4_AUTOCONF_VERSION, m4_PACKAGE_VERSION.
(Redefined M4 Macros): Document m4_ifndef.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_AUTOCONF_VERSION): New macro; we
can't obsolete m4_PACKAGE_VERSION at this time since Autoconf 1.10
used it while it was undocumented.
* NEWS: Document this change.
* lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am (version.m4): Update copyright dates.
* lib/m4sugar/Makefile.in: Regenerate.
* tests/m4sugar.at (m4@&t@_version_compare): New test.
Reported by Bruno Haible.
* lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS): Inline code
from AC_AIX, AC_GNU_SOURCE, AC_MINIX. Add Interix support.
(AC_AIX, AC_GNU_SOURCE, AC_MINIX): Obsolete, and point to
AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS.
(AC_ISC_POSIX): Obsolete, and point to AC_SEARCH_LIBS.
(AC_XENIX_DIR, AC_IRIX_SUN): Promote proper quoting in AU_DEFUN.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Posix Variants): Reword this section,
emphasizing that AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS is the preferred method,
rather than a series of system-specific checks.
(Obsolete Macros): Add AC_AIX, AC_GNU_SOURCE, AC_ISC_POSIX,
AC_MINIX.
* NEWS: Document this change.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Martin Koeppe.
here, this macro is expanded by AC_INIT. Fixes 2.60 regression.
* tests/base.at (configure arguments): New test.
* THANKS: Update.
Report by Olaf Lenz.
file to itself if source and build trees coincide.
* tests/torture.at (AC_CONFIG_LINKS and identical files): New
test.
Report by Sebastian Freundt <hroptatyr@gna.org>.
Problem reported by Fred Kreek in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2007-06/msg00009.html>.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Warn about FPATH.
(Macro Names, Defining Directories): Don't mention PATH as a name
for a fully qualified file name, as this usage violates the GNU
coding standards and we shouldn't recommend it.
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't set PATH to the empty
string and then assume shell builtins like "test" will work.
not a valid shell variable name.
* tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Add AC_ARG_VAR.
* tests/torture.at (AC_SUBST: variable name validation): New test.
Reported by Andreas Schwab.
choice, since that's what we do with --enable-largefile etc.
Redo indenting and assignments to simplify things a bit, and make
the parens work with Emacs.
AC_CHECK_TYPE, AC_CHECK_TYPES.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Generic types): C types must be type-names
(the C terminology), not type-ids (the C++ term). C++ types
must not be anonymous.
* lib/autoconf/types.m4 (_AC_CHECK_TYPE_NEW): Remove special case
for C++; this drops support for anonymous struct and union types,
which were problematic anyway.
* tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_HEADERS_NEW): Adjust test to work even
for C++.
on types imposed by AC_CHECK_TYPE, AC_CHECK_TYPES.
(Generic Compiler Characteristics): AC_CHECK_SIZEOF now works
with objects too. Document the restrictions on its use.
Document the restrictions on AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF's type argument.
* lib/autoconf/types.m4 (_AC_CHECK_TYPE_NEW):
For C, just try sizeof (TYPE) and sizeof ((TYPE)); if the former
works but the latter doesn't, then it's a valid type.
This lets people use function types and so forth.
For C++ there doesn't seem to be a simple solution, so leave it alone.
(AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Allow argument to be a variable.
(AC_CHECK_SIZEOF, AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF): Don't bother to invoke
AC_CHECK_TYPE; that wasn't documented or necessary.
* doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Document this. There is a new
extra argument ACTION-IF-UNIVERSAL.
* lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Implement this.
Add support for Solaris-style _LITTLE_ENDIAN and _BIG_ENDIAN.
Reindent for sanity's sake.
status of rm so we know when it failed.
If cleaning of test dir failed before running the test, warn.
Output the line separator in verbose mode before the warning
to make clear the warning belongs to the following test.
an actual carriage return. Use "ac_cr" to contain the actual
carriage return.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Document problem
with traditional Awk and begin.
* tests/torture.at (Limitations of Builtins): Document the problem
with Bash 2.03 printf.
(Substitute and define special characters):
Remove trailing white space. Work around a bug in Solaris 8 /bin/bash.
AC_SUBST([MKDIR_P]), so that Automake < 1.10 will pick up its
trace, if a package uses AC_PROG_MKDIR_P explicitly. The actual
substitution will still be done by the special code.
Report by Jim Meyering.
all non-NUL characters are ok in substituted values.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SED_CMD_LIMIT): Fix comment typo.
(_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE): Test and use backslash escaping of
carriage return for $AWK, needed for BSD awk.
* tests/torture.at (Substitute and define special characters):
Test all 8 bit non-NUL characters.
Report against Automake by Patrick Welche.
early on the reader side, drop stderr of the input to avoid
`broken pipe' error output; this may happen even with shell
builtin `echo' of some bash versions. Reports by Ian Macdonald
<iamacdo@telkomsa.net> and Sam Sexton <Sam.Sexton@reuters.com>.
preprocessor macro arguments in traced name.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Defining symbols): Document longstanding
support for AC_DEFINE-ing macros with arguments, and document
behavior when the same variable has multiple AC_DEFINEs.
* lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_FC_WRAPPERS): Revert to the
old implementation which AC_DEFINEs the FC_FUNC and FC_FUNC_
macros directly, giving much shorter and simpler code.
space before "$ac_configure_args" to prevent a 'config.status
--recheck' failure if ac_configure_args doesn't contain a leading
space. This works around a problem with the XEmacs configure.ac,
which uses the (undocumented) ac_configure_args variable
inconsistently with Autoconf.
Include <limits.h>, and use its INT_MAX to rewrite the
j loop so that it does not overflow 'int'. Problem reported by
Ralf Wildenhues in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2006-12/msg00084.html>.
Play it safe by shifting left by 1 rather than multiplying by 2,
as GCC is less likely to optimize this away when the value
is signed (when it assumes overflow leads to undefined behavior).
Also, don't assume time_t uses two's complement.
--disable-option-checking to --help output even when
AC_PRESERVE_HELP_ORDER is not used.
(_AC_INIT_PARSE_ENABLE2): Print warnings using actual --enable or
--with argument, rather than argument with [-.] replaced by
underscores.
* NEWS: Fix typo in previous change; the news was in the
wrong section.
--enable-* and --with-* options.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Option Checking): Renamed from
(Configure Option Checking). Tighten up the wording a bit.
(External Software, Package Options): Cross-reference to Option
Checking, and use this to shorten our section.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Prefer test -n
"$x" to test "x$foo" != x.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_OUTPUT): Likewise.
Don't warn if $enable_option_checking is "no".
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Initialize
ac_unrecognized_opts to the empty string.
Don't echo the unrecognized opts, as this might mishandle
backslashes or leading -.
(AC_PRESERVE_HELP_ORDER): Put the --disable-option-checking
usage next to the other --disable-FEATURE options in the
help string.
2006-12-18 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS, _AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS):
(_AC_INIT_PARSE_ENABLE2, _AC_INIT_HELP, _AC_ENABLE_IF):
Print warning for unrecognized --with and --enable options
(AC_DISABLE_OPTION_CHECKING): New macro to disable warnings.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS, _AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS):
Disable option checking when subdirs are configured.
(AC_OUTPUT): If warnings are enabled, print warning about
unrecognized --with and --enable options at the end of
the configure output (as well as at the beginning).
* doc/autoconf.texi (Option Checking): New node.
Document new option warning functionality.
