`config.status'. Fix and test.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Use
`$ac_configure_args' directly, no via a tmp variable.
* tests/torture.m4 (command line interface): Test with more than
one argument.
(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.
`\$foo', the quotes are needed only for `\$[1]', `\$[@]' etc.
Prefer `$$1' to `[$]$1', `$foo' to `[$]foo', `$[1]' to `[$]1' etc.
* aclang.m4: Likewise.
* acspecific.m4: Likewise.
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.
^
/ U T O U P D A T E I I I
/===+ / It bells, It whistles...
* autoupdate.sh: Complete rewrite. See that file for a detailed
explanation.
* acgeneral.sh: Don't use AU_DEFINE, but AU_DEFUN.
(AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_CNT): Renamed as...
(_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_CNT): this.
* 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.
lists in between parens.
(m4_foreach_quoted): new copy of the previous `m4_foreach' which
is still used by `m4_wrap'.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_INCLUDE, AC_INCLUDES): Removed.
(AC_FOREACH): Don't use parens with `m4_foreach'.
(AC_CHECK_MEMBER, AC_CHECK_DECLS, AC_CHECK_TYPES): Adjust the
description.
* acspecific.m4 (AC_STRUCT_TIMEZONE, AC_STRUCT_ST_BLKSIZE,
AC_STRUCT_ST_BLOCKS, AC_STRUCT_ST_RDEV): Adjust.
* autoconf.texi (AC_CHECK_MEMBER, AC_CHECK_DECLS, AC_CHECK_TYPES):
Adjust their documentation.
(AC_INCLUDE): Undocument.
* tests/semantics.m4: Adjust.
* tests/actest.m4: Rename as...
* tests/aclocal.m4: this.
* tests/atspecific.m4: No longer include actest.m4.
* tests/torture.m4: Likewise.
* tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
(AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Use AC_LIBOBJ.
* acspecific.m4 (AC_FUNC_MKTIME, AC_FUNC_MEMCMP,
AC_STRUCT_ST_BLOCKS): Use AC_LIBOBJ.
* doc/autoconf.texi : Adjust so that the user is not encouraged to
use LIBOBJS directly.
(Generic Functions): Document AC_LIBOBJ_DECL and AC_LIBOBJ.
Suggested by Jim Meyering.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_SHELL_TMPDIR): New macro.
(_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Use it.
Use more quoted here docs to improve readability.
Compute `$me' and use it in the error messages.
Define `$configure' and `$configure_args' to avoid continuously
mixing the uses of `configure' and `config.status' evaluation in a
single line.
Define `$SHELL' and use it.
Simplify all the unjustified `[$]foo' into `$foo', the quotes
are needed only for `$[1]', `$[@]' etc.
Replace all the uses of `ac_cs_root' with files in the tmp dir of
`config.status'.
Remove a few `rm' covered by the removal of the `$tmp' dir.
Let `config.status' support `--debug'.
(_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Avoid the leading space in `ac_configure_args'.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking config.status): Adjust.
Unix 4.0x and 5.0 because `"$@"' expands into an empty parameter
(instead of nothing) when there are no positional parameters.
From Nicolas Joly.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_CHECK_PROG, AC_CHECK_PROGS): Prefer
`$$1' to `[$]$1', `$foo' to `[$]foo', `$[1]' to `[$]1', and
`${1+"$[@]"}' to `"[$]@"'.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_SH_QUOTE): Don't double quote. Escape the
double quotes too.
(_AC_ECHO_UNQUOTED): Don't double quote :).
(_AC_ECHO, _AC_ECHO_N): Quote the call to _AC_SH_QUOTE.
The autoheader chain needs to be adjusted.
* acgeneral.m4 (AH_VERBATIM): Just pass two arguments to AH_OUTPUT
instead of trying to build what `autoheader' needs: let it handle
the format by itself.
* autoheader.m4: Adjust.
s,tmp/config.h,tmp/config.hin.
The adjustment revealed that `autoconf --trace' is not robust to
single quotes in its argument.
* autoconf.sh: Fix this issue.
Rename the escape `$*' as `$%'. Implement `$@'.
* doc/autoconf.texi: Adjust.
section.
Document --help=short and recursive.
Split the `Directory' section into `Installation directories' for
--prefix and --exec-prefix, and all the others into `Fine tuning
of the installation directories'.
In the latter, don't repeat `in DIR', the user understands, and it
comes out better.
Default for --exec-prefix is PREFIX.
Reported by Kathryn Hargreaves.
Move --host before --build.
Fix a test on `$ac_init_help' which was not updated.
values.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_CACHE_DUMP): New macro.
(AC_CACHE_SAVE, AC_OUTPUT): Use it.
(AC_OUTPUT): Dump confdefs.h into config.log.
(_AC_INIT_PREPARE::config.log): Name the package being configured
if you can.
newbies accidentally use a stale cache file.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Set cache_file to /dev/null
to disable caching by default.
(_AC_INIT_HELP): Adjust the --help message.
(AC_CACHE_LOAD, AC_CACHE_SAVE): Don't print "loading/updating
/dev/null" messages.
* autoconf.texi: Note that caching is disabled, how to enable it,
and that `./config.cache' is the traditional name of the cache file.
* install.texi: Likewise.
