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.
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.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2007-01/msg00077.html
* doc/autoconf.texi (Signed Overflow Examples): Give more
discussion about the allow_superuser_privileges example,
and change it a bit to make things clearer.
(Optimization and Wraparound): Clarify whether the compiler
will generate an infinite loop for the example derived from
Autoconf's mktime test.
(Signed Overflow Advice): Say that -ftrapv is meant for debugging.
Also, clarify unsigned multiplication overflow.
feedback. The most important changes document what happens when
you convert an out-of-range value to a signed integer type, and
say that (sum < a) != (b < 0) reliably detects overflow when sum =
a + b.
rewrite, taking notions from the recent discussion on the gcc and
autoconf mailing lists; please see
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2006-12/msg00091.html
and follow the many links.
(Integer Overflow Basics, Signed Overflow Examples):
(Optimization and Wraparound, Signed Overflow Advice):
(Signed Integer Division): New sections.
SCALAR(0x828309c)
Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free
Software Foundation, Inc.
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.
--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.
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2006-12/msg00026.html>.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Defining Symbols): AC_DEFINE works for
object-like macros only, in the traditional portable character
set.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_DEFINE_TRACE_LITERAL):
Warn about attempts to define things that are not identifiers.
* lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_FC_WRAPPERS): Rewrite to avoid
awful hack that AC_DEFINEd macro names containing parentheses.
too drastic, even if Texinfo in theory requires it for info mode.
(config.status Invocation): Renamed back from Recreating a
Configuration).
(Obsolete config.status Use): Renamed back from Obsolete Recreation.
(Autoconf 2.13): Renamed back from 20th-century Autoconf 2.
not to be a bug in the Autoconf build procedure itself, but rather
a problem with the proprietary `make' programs.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Build Directories): Add a cross reference
to VPATH and Make.
* build-aux/config.guess, build-aux/config.sub, build-aux/texinfo.tex:
* doc/standards.texi: Sync from gnulib.
creating the awk substitution script, handle one input line at a
time, so that the maximum length of a substituted (multi-line)
value is not limited by the size of the sed pattern space.
The trade-off is a slightly repetitive sed script.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Branch labels
can only have up to 7 characters, due to Solaris 10 /bin/sed.
* tests/torture.at (Substitute a 2000-byte string): Increase the
test with several long lines, they should not be caught by sed
limits any more.
years and is too hard to maintain now. The last straw was
reported by Jerker Baeck in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2006-11/msg00102.html>.
* NEWS: AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED is now obsolete.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Move
AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED from here...
(Obsolete Macros): ... to here. Say that it does nothing now.
* lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED):
Turn into (almost) a no-op.
the number of substituted variables by using awk instead of sed
for the bulk of the substitutions.
* NEWS: Mention this.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): `|#_!!_#|' is also
forbidden in the output (and thus input) file.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_AWK_LITERAL_LIMIT): New macro.
(_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE): Instead of several sed scripts,
generate just one large awk script for substitutions,
eliminating much of the earlier complexity, while adding some
new complexity. Only expand the substitution templates at
configure time, for smaller configure script size. If
_AC_SUBST_FILES are used, test 'awk' for working getline support
at config.status time. If absent, interpolate through the
shell. The awk script was written with much help
from Paolo Bonzini and Paul Eggert.
(_AC_SED_CMD_NUM, _AC_SED_DELIM_NUM, _AC_SED_FRAG): Removed.
(_AC_SED_FRAG_NUM): Likewise.
(_AC_SUBST_CMDS): Renamed from...
(_AC_SED_CMDS): ...this.
(_AC_OUTPUT_FILE): Use _AC_SUBST_CMDS.
* tests/torture.at (Substitute a 2000-byte string): Also
substitute a line with 1000 words, and a variable with several
long lines.
(Substitute and define special characters): Test awk special
characters, and put substitution input strings `@foo@' in the
output, to test that no recursion happens; test several other
combinations from Paolo Bonzini.
code for --enable, --disable, --with, and --without to...
(_AC_INIT_PARSE_ENABLE): ... a new macro.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Package Options):
* NEWS: Document that AC_ARG_ENABLE allows dots, too.
2006-11-13 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): For --with, --without
options, transliterate also dots to underscores.
(_AC_ENABLE_IF): Transliterate also dots to underscores.
* doc/autoconf.texi (External Software): Document that AC_ARG_WITH's
first argument may also contain dots.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Caching Results): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_CACHE_CHECK_INT): Renamed from
AC_CACHE_CHECK_INT, since it's no longer public.
* lib/autoconf/types.m4: All uses of AC_CACHE_CHECK_INT changed.
* tests/base.at (AC_COMPUTE_INT): Test this, not AC_CACHE_CHECK_INT.
* build-aux/install-sh (posix_mkdir): Reject FreeBSD 6.1 mkdir -p -m,
which incorrectly sets the mode of an existing destination
directory. In some cases the unpatched install-sh could do the
equivalent of "chmod 777 /" or "chmod 0 /" on a buggy FreeBSD
system. We hope this is rare in practice, but it's clearly worth
fixing. Problem reported by Alex Unleashed in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2006-10/msg00012.html>.
Also, don't bother to check for -m bugs unless we're using -m;
suggested by Stepan Kasal.
2006-10-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Import this change from Automake:
2006-08-23 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
* lib/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm (usage): Mention that -Wportability
is enabled by default with gnu and gnits strictness.
Report from Bruno Haible.
2006-03-10 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
* lib/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm: Make -Wportability the default in
gnu and gnits modes.
Import this change from Config:
2006-09-20 Ben Elliston <bje@gnu.org>
* build-aux/config.sub (score, score-*): New.
Import this change from Gnulib:
2006-09-16 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* doc/fdl.texi (ADDENDUM): switch to @heading from @appendixsubsec,
to avoid sectioning errors.
Import these changes from Texinfo:
2006-10-04 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* build-aux/texinfo.tex (\singlequotechar): rename to \codequoteright.
(\quoteexpand): rename to \rquoteexpand.
(\codequoteleft): new def, to look for @set codequotebacktick.
(\lquoteexpand, \quoteexpand): new defs.
(\lquoteChar, \rquoteChar, \dashChar, \underChar: new \chardef's.
(\code): must use new \...Char values, since now ` is active.
2006-08-26 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* build-aux/texinfo.tex (\textdegree): New command.
2006-08-12 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* build-aux/texinfo.tex (error \box0): smaller font.
due to configuration hassles with this. See Tonya Underwood's report
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2006-10/msg00003.html>.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Likewise.
2006-10-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): Don't set BIN_SH.
(_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Don't look in /usr/bin/posix.
2006-10-11 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): Move the
initialization which is not inherited through the environment
(_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): ... to this new macro.
(_AS_RUN): Call _AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE, not AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE.
shel scripts no longer export BIN_SH, due to configuration
hassles with this.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): Don't set BIN_SH
or DUALCASE.
(_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Don't look in /usr/bin/posix.
Use AS_EXECUTABLE_P rather than test -f.
(AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Set DUALCASE.
(AS_EXECUTABLE_P): Just invoke as_executable_p.
(_AS_TEST_PREPARE): Default to test -f, rather than to nothing.
argument to `--prefix' for sub-configure scripts.
Pass `--silent' to sub-configure scripts.
* tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Add tests
for both changes.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Fix example to
not show `--silent' being passed to a `configure' re-run.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR): Do not check
for the existence of the directory at configure-time. That's
too late, anyway, and possibly the directory isn't part of the
distribution. Problem reported by Stefan Seefeld.
f90/f95 because the latter drivers of AIX Fortran 9.1 do not
accept files with extension `.f'. For consistency, also prefer
xlf over f77.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Fortran Compiler): Remove mention of bug
from last patch.
old AC_COMPUTE_INT, which now behaves like _AC_COMPUTE_INT
except the first two arguments are reversed.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Caching Results): New macro AC_CACHE_CHECK_INT.
(Generic Compiler Characteristics): AC_COMPUTE_INT no longer
caches nor outputs a diagnostic. Suggested by Bruno Haible.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CACHE_CHECK_INT): New macro,
equivalent to the old AC_COMPUTE_INT.
(AC_COMPUTE_INT): No longer caches or reports. New signature.
All uses changed to AC_CACHE_CHECK_INT.
* tests/base.at (AC_CACHE_CHECK_INT): New test.
* tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_lsit): Add AC_CACHE_CHECK_INT.
and AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH are now obsolescent in Autoconf. New
programs should use their Gnulib counterparts.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Likewise.
(Macro Names, testsuite Invocation): Replace uses of these
obsolete macros with uses of non-obsolete macros.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): YYTEXT_POINTER is
for the default, which the user can override.
* lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_LEX): Let _AC_PROG_LEX_YYTEXT_DECL
deal with LEXLIB.
(_AC_PROG_LEX_YYTEXT_DECL): Handle caching correctly; the old code
didn't work if some values were cached but not others. Test for
broken lex libraries like native ia64-hp-hpux11.22; see
<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2003-12/msg00337.html>, and
work around the problem by preferring an empty LEXLIB to -lfl or
-ll. Let the user set LEXLIB='' to indicate no library needed.
rather than "#if HAVE_STDLIB_H", so that it now works with "gcc
-Wundef -Werror". Problem reported by David Fang in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2006-08/msg00045.html>.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Header Templates, Default Includes):
(Particular Functions, Generic Functions, Header Portability):
(Particular Headers, Generic Headers, Generic Declarations, Guidelines):
(Obsolete Macros, AC_FOO_IFELSE vs AC_TRY_FOO):
(Present But Cannot Be Compiled, Preprocessor Symbol Index):
Prefer #ifdef to #if.
* lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Prefer #ifdef to #if.
* lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_ALLOCA, _AC_FUNC_MALLOC_IF):
(AC_FUNC_MKTIME, AC_FUNC_MMAP, _AC_FUNC_REALLOC_IF):
(AC_FUNC_SELECT_ARGTYPES, AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED, _AC_FUNC_VFORK):
Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS):
(AC_HEADER_RESOLV, AC_HEADER_STAT): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_DECL_SYS_SYGLIST):
(AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_STRUCT_TIMEZONE): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STAT): Don't assume that
S_ISDIR etc. are valid for use in #if; POSIX doesn't guarantee
this.
"HP" and "HP-UX". Remove mention of OSF; the old version wasn't
quite right (it talked about "OSF/Tru64", even though the
operating systems were called OSF/1, Digital UNIX, and Tru64 UNIX,
and it even mentioned "OSF 4"!) and at this point there's little
reason to talk about OSF any more, since it died in 1994.
(Specific Compiler Characteristics): Simplify example of
negative-size array.
(File Descriptors): Reorder to make the text flow better.
Remove joke about "appreciate the various levels"; I didn't get it.
Add remark about HP-UX sh -x bug with stderr noted by Bob Proulx in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-06/msg00225.html>.
(File Descriptors, Limitations of Usual Tools):
Tone down the advice against renaming or removing open files.
(Limitations of Usual Tools): Add a new section, on 'rm'.
datarootdir-related errors only if AC_DATAROOTDIR_CHECKED is
not defined.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Changed Directory Variables): New node,
to document the whole `datarootdir' business a bit better.
* NEWS: Update.
* tests/torture.at (datarootdir workaround): Extend test.
Prompted by report by Alexandre Julliard.
Problem reported by Eric Blake.
* doc/autoconf.texi: Likewise.
Use @acronym around BSD, GCC, and GNU when appropriate.
(Why GNU M4): Renamed from "Why GNU m4".
(Redefined M4 Macros): Mention that Posix
m4wrap takes only 1 argument, but GNU M4 1.4.x takes more.
(Buffer Overruns): Mention size_t and ptrdiff_t as alternatives
to int.
* doc/autoconf.texi (): Likewise.
Rework example of m4wrap token-pasting trouble so that it doesn't
care whether it's LIFO or FIFO.
Fix some "contrary to"s that are awkward in English.
(Installation Directory Variables, Build Directories):
(Automatic Remaking, Subdirectories, Fortran Compiler):
(Making testsuite Scripts, Defining Directories):
Quote variable usages better.
(Installation Directory Variables): Fix table item font.
Reword slightly to clarify. Generalize advice about
not using special characters to include all file-related
vars, not just VPATH.
(Special Chars in Variables): Warn about special characters in
$(srcdir) too.
(Assignments): Clarify default-value example as suggested by
Ralf Wildenhues in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2006-06/msg00072.html>.
(Special Shell Variables): Note leading ./ or ../, as suggested
by Stepan Kasal.
(Limitations of Builtins): Under cd, warn about CDPATH.
(The Make Macro MAKEFLAGS): Untabify. Problem reported by
Ralf Wildenhues.
many suggested by Ralf Wildenhues.
Reword to avoid "@code{...}'s" and the like, since it's ugly
with Emacs info mode. discontents -> woes.
Put a few "will"s back. time stamp -> timestamp.
side-effect -> side effect.
follows. Use "makefile" when talking about makefiles
generally (which might be named "makefile" or "Makefile" or even
"foo.mk"), "Makefile" when talking about a specific makefile
called "Makefile". This unclutters the text from weird quotes
(e.g., "`Makefile's" in info mode). Similarly, use "@var{foo}
values" rather than "@var{foo}s" and similar constructs containing
"}s". Use "Make rules" rather than "Makefile rules". Minor
English-language improvements. Change the prefix "sub-" to "sub"
and "re-" to "re".
Put blank lines around examples more consistently.
Avoid "rather" and "very" as intensifiers.
Avoid "will" as an auxiliary.
(Limitations of Make): Split this node into....
(Portable Make, $< in Ordinary Make Rules, Failure in Make Rules):
(Leading _ in Macro Names, Backslash-Newline-Newline):
(Backslash-Newline Comments, Long Lines in Makefiles):
(Macros and Submakes, The Make Macro SHELL, Comments in Make Rules):
(obj/ and Make, make -k Status, VPATH and Make):
(VPATH and Double-colon, $< in Explicit Rules):
(Automatic Rule Rewriting, OSF/Tru64 Directory Magic):
(Make Target Lookup, Single Suffix Rules, Timestamps and Make):
New nodes, resulting from splitup of Limitations of Make.
All cross-references changed. Raise the top node from
a section to a chapter, and all subnodes accordingly.
Redo the introductory wording to match the new organization.
(Installation Directory Variables): Use an example that is
closer to what Autoconf actually does. Mention that VPATH's
value should not contain metacharacters or white space.
(Fortran Compiler): Fix a VPATH bug in an example.
(Leading _ in Macro Names): Mention that this problem is no longer
of practical concern.
(VPATH and Make): Reword the advice to make it clearer
that Autoconf and Automake support VPATH in non-GNU make, but
many packages have bugs in this area.
($< in Explicit Rules): Refer to Build Directories rather
than using a (non-VPATH-safe) example.
(Automatic Rule Rewriting): Mention the sort of disaster that
can ensue with Solaris-style rule rewriting with VPATH.
Drop extra @samp from `@table @samp' item.
(Limitations of Usual Tools): Comment fix.
Do not nest @samp just to point to other table items.
(Writing testsuite.at) <AT_CHECK>: The second argument to
`@dvar' is already @samp'ed.
(Making testsuite Scripts) <AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR>: Likewise,
do not use @var in the second argument.
