* doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler) <AC_C_CHAR_UNSIGNED>: Mention a
portable alternative to this macro.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Hallvard B Furuseth.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Flatten
whitespace in $ac_config_files and $ac_config_headers.
* tests/torture.at (Parameterized AC_CONFIG_FILES): New test.
Report by Andreas Schwab and Per Øyvind Karlsen.
* THANKS: Update.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_KEYWORDS): Expand argument prior to
converting it to lower case.
* tests/autotest.at (Keywords and ranges): Test this.
* NEWS: Document the fix.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Karsten Hopp.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE): When CR
is the EOL marker, skip a step that would remove and translate
carriage return bytes.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Elbert Pol.
* lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_DIRECT,_AC_PATH_X_XMKMF):
Check for libX11 with extensions dylib la and dll too.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Martin Costabel.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Input): Mention ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS for automake
users.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Chris Pickett.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Runtime): Document that a temporary override
is permissible.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Ineiev, example by Ralf Wildenhues.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction): Expand on primary
vs. secondary goal of autoconf.
* THANKS: Update.
Inspired by Paul Smith.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Site Defaults): Fix typo. Add new example
for FHS.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Jules Colding and Ralf Wildenhues.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LN_S_PREPARE): Avoid errors when `.'
is not writable, use 'cp -p' in this case, in the hope that it
will not actually be needed. Still try removing files, in case
of other write errors.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): For ac_confdir,
use $as_myself, not $0.
(_AC_INIT_HELP): For --help=recursive, if the subdir does not
exist, try again in the the source tree. This change assumes
that the subpackage configure script is capable of running
--help=recursive in the source tree.
* tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories, Deep Package):
Adjust tests to expose both issues, also try invocation as
`sh configure ...' and plain `configure ...' with PATH adjusted.
* NEWS, THANKS: Update.
Report by Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_DEFINE_Q): Check for raw newlines,
which won't work with the preprocessor nor with the awk
implementation.
* tests/torture.at (Define a newline): Test raw newline detection,
removing the XFAIL.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Defining Symbols): Document recent change to
allow backslash-newline.
* THANKS: Update.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
* lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CC_C99): Add support for HP cc, and
avoid deprecation warning with icc.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Ted Bullock.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
* 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.
succeeded, but `ln -s file dir' failed, take care to remove the
leftover target before the next test, to prevent its spurious
failure; also make sure `ln file dir' works before selecting it.
Thanks to Keith Marshall for pointing this out.
* THANKS: Update.
tools, and Erlang as a conf test language.
* lib/autoconf/erlang.m4: New file.
* lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4
* lib/autoconf/Makefile.am (dist_autoconflib_DATA): Add erlang.m4.
* THANKS: Add Romain Lenglet.
signals that the package uses Automake; a `Makefile.am' is typical but
not essential. Reported by Magnus Therning.
* tests/torture.at (autoreconf.): New banner.
(autoreconf and non-AC configure): Rename to `Non-Autoconf
AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS'.
(autoreconf an empty directory): Rename to `Empty directory'.
(Unusual Automake input files): New test.
directory for AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS' first argument exists.
This makes valid the invocation of _AC_SRCPATH that follows.
Reported by Eric Sunshine.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Commands): Adjust.
Reported by Paivio Pollari.
Diagnosed by Nicolas Joly.
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CLEANUP): Rename AT_help as
AT_help_all.
Instead of making AT_help a sequence of assignments to grow
$at_help_all, just make AT_help_all be the growing contents of
$at_help_all, and make a single assignment in...
(AT_INIT): here.
(at_times_skip): Flip the meaning and rename as...
(at_times_p): this.
(AT_INIT): When summarizing the test that ran, remove
$at_times_file after use, and check it is present before trying to
use it.
memcmp be declared before being tested.
Reported by Sander Niemeijer.
(AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE, AC_FUNC_GETGROUPS, AC_FUNC_STRNLEN): Likewise.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Default Includes): Document
AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT.
* bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in (BEGIN): Make
them uniform, and more robust to Perl special characters.
Reported by Martin Mokrej.
to a shell that can handle redirection or quoting correctly.
Override SHELL with the shell detected by configure.
Use of $^O suggested by Tim van Holder.
* bin/autom4te.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
* bin/autoreconf.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
* bin/autoscan.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
* bin/autoupdate.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
* bin/ifnames.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
* bin/ifnames.in: Add final newline to help and version messages.
* lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Translate colons,
to cope with DOS-style absolute paths, when constructing
${ac_make}.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS, _AC_OUTPUT_FILES):
When constructing paths with IFS=:, quote the path. If we're
constructing a DOS-style absolute path, we don't want to split it
on the colon.
* tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_CONFIGURE): Fix typo
in description.
characters is a syntax warning now.
(_AS_QUOTE): Accept $2 as list of characters to quote.
* lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4 (AH_VERBATIM, _AH_VERBATIM_OLD):
Quote for Perl, not sh.
* bin/autoheader.in: When $debug, report the file which is
`do'ne.
* tests/tools.at (autom4te, autoheader): Exercise @bar, not merely
`@', to tickle Perl's lists.
Reported by Carlos Velasco.
Fixes the `AC_ARG_VAR' test failures.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Don't use cmp.
* lib/freeze.mk (check-forbidden-patterns): New.
* lib/autoconf/Makefile.am, lib/autotest/Makefile.am
* lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am (check-local): Use it to catch `cmp'.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): HP-UX' cmp and
/dev/null.
Reported months ago by H. Merijn Brand.
from /tmp.
Thanks to Bill Moseley and Paul Eggert.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): $2 is the directory into which
the tmpdir must be created.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Have the tmp
dir be in the build tree, instead of $TMPDIR.
workaround for ${1+"$@"}.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Explain it.
From Oliver Kiddle and Peter Stephenson.
Have M4sh perform minimal shell sanitizing.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.at (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Split the `_AS_PREPARE_*'
part into...
(_AS_PREPARE): this new macro.
(AS_PREPARE): New.
(AS_INIT): Invoke AS_SHELL_SANITIZE.
* tests/m4sh.at (AT_DATA_LINENO): Use _AS_PREPARE.
Adjust Autoconf and Autotest.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Don't invoke
AS_SHELL_SANITIZE, AS_INIT did it, but invoke AS_PREPARE.
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS):
Invoke _AS_PREPARE (not AS_PREPARE) in addition to
AS_SHELL_SANITIZE.
Use this M4sh to generate Autoconf's shell scripts.
* tests/wrapsh.as: New, precursor of wrapsh.in.
* tests/Makefile.am: Include lib/freeze.mk to get the dependencies
on Autotest and M4sh.
($(TESTSUITE)): Use $(autotest_m4f_dependencies).
(wrapsh.in): New target.
* bin/autoconf.as: New, precursor of autoconf.in.
(autoconf.in): New target.
trailing files, don't apply `-rf' to files which might not be
created by configure (core, core.*, and *.core), but just `rm -f'.
Suggested by Jonathan Kamens.
(Examining Syntax) <AC_TRY_COMPILE>
(Examining Libraries) <AC_TRY_LINK>
(Test Programs) <AC_TRY_RUN>: These macros double quote some of
their arguments.
Reported by Werner Lemberg.
used. Well, then use the prototypes when you can, and runtime as
a last resort.
Reported by Artur Frysiak
* acfunctions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_GETPGRP_TEST): New.
(AC_FUNC_GETPGRP): Use it.
First try to compile with 0-ary or 1-ary calls.
Reported by Michael Elizabeth Chastain.
* autoconf.in: Refuse such AWK.
* configure.in: Likewise.
* Makefile.am (acversion.m4): Do not use move-if-change this file
has dependencies.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Fortran 77 Compiler): Some typos.
(_AC_FUNC_VFORK): this.
Remove AC_DEFINEs and don't guess cross-compilation values.
(_AC_FUNC_FORK): New, check whether fork() isn't just a stub.
(AC_FUNC_FORK): New, use _AC_FUNC_VFORK and _AC_FUNC_FORK to
define HAVE_WORKING_FORK, HAVE_WORKING_VFORK; and vfork to fork if
vfork doesn't work.
Guess values if cross-compiling, but warn.
* acfunctions: Add AC_FUNC_FORK.
* doc/autoconf.texi: Document AC_FUNC_FORK. Give example to define
and vfork appropriately.
Reported by Derek R. Price.
* tests/semantics.at (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): New test.
* acfunctions.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS, _AC_LIBOBJ_ALLOCA): Use
AC_LIBSOURCES.
AC_OUTPUT_MAKE_DEFS to include junky -D switches.
Reported by Wolfgang Mueller.
* tests/torture.at (#define header templates): Include trash in
confdefs.h.
* tests/atgeneral.at (AT_INIT): Don't expect `find' to support
-maxdepth, hence don't use -follow either.
Reported by Nicolas Joly.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_OUTPUT_MAKE_DEFS) <confdef2opt.sed>: In the
`quote' section, `p'rint the result.
If neither `#define' pattern match, just call `d' to start a new
cycle.
Call this sed program with -n.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <expr>: More
information, thanks to Paul Berrevoets, Paul Eggert and David
Morgan.
* sh.m4 (_AS_EXPR_PREPARE): New.
(AS_DIRNAME): Use it.
the new macro...
Reported by Ezra Peisach.
* tests/semantics.m4 (AC_HAVE_FUNCS): New test.
* tests/tools.at (autoupdate): As a benign side effect, updating a
macro that takes no argument produces `UPDATED([])', no longer
`UPDATED()'. Adjust the test.
compiler needs it, it is likely to be required when linking C/C++
with Fortran.
<-YP,*>: Fix the list of arguments to loop on.
Don't mess with the user variable name space.
<ac_ld_run_path>: Prepend LD_RUN_PATH directories with -R only
when running Solaris (without this, link errors occur).
| AC_DEFUN([TEST1], [REQUIRE([TEST2a])REQUIRE([TEST2b])])
| AC_DEFUN([TEST2a], [])
| AC_DEFUN([TEST2b], [REQUIRE([TEST3])])
| AC_DEFUN([TEST3], [REQUIRE([TEST2a])])
|
| AC_INIT
| TEST1
because it produces TEST3; TEST2a; TEST2b; TEST1.
Fix this bug, implement the solution provided by Axel Thimm,
and test AC_REQUIRE.
* acgeneral.m4: Document this implementation.
(_AC_DEFUN_PRO, _AC_DEFUN_EPI, AC_REQUIRE): Be sure that macros
are emitted in the same order as they are expanded.
(AC_REQUIRE): Forbid being calling out of an AC_DEFUN'd macro (in
particular the top level).
* tests/base.m4 (AC_REQUIRE): New test.
under FreeBSD.
Reported by Alec Wolman.
* acspecific.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG): Check for `getloadavg'
without any additional library.
Fixes Autoconf/109.
This is important if you want to redefine AC_INIT or some of its
sub macros (eeerk!), or if you want to use user defined macros
before AC_INIT.
Suggested by Didier Verna.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT): Don't include `acsite.m4' and
`aclocal.m4'.
* autoconf.sh (run_m4, run_m4f): Do it.
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.
arguments, AC_OUTPUT arguments 2 and 3 were not! Currently,
AC_OUTPUT over quotes too: stop that.
Reported by Martin Buchholz.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Output): Don't expand on the ternary
AC_OUTPUT.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_OUTPUT): Don't over quote $2 and $3.
headers if they exist (needed for some missing prototypes) and
corrects the signal handler prototype/definition. The signal
handler prototype is now prepended with an `extern "C"' for C++
compilers since some platforms explicitly require an `extern "C"'
signal handler.
