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.
they don't break the second time you run configure).
* aclang.m4 (AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING): Extract f77_case,
f77_underscore from cache variable.
(AC_F77_WRAPPERS): Get rid of ac_cv_f77_wrappers, it's useless.
Simplify the nested case-esac into a single one.
Simplify the documentation strings of CPP symbols.
* autoheader.m4: Dispatch the prototypes next to there AC_
siblings.
(AH_TEMPLATE, AH_VERBATIM): Move to...
* acgeneral.m4: here.
(AH_OUTPUT): New macro.
* autoheader.sh: Run `autoconf --trace' instead of `m4 autoheader.m4'.
* autoheader.m4: Remove.
* Makefile.am: Adjust.
* tests/tools.m4 (AH_DEFUN): Remove, no longer makes sense.
* tests/actests.m4 (autoheader::AC_TATOOINE): Remove, was used by
the test above.
fnmatch ("/tmp", "[/\\]")
The backslash must not be last.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP, AC_PATH_PROG, _AC_OUTPUT_FILES,
_AC_OUTPUT_LINKS, _AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Always make `\' be the
first character in all the `[]' of `case' patterns.
AC_LANG_CALL(FORTRAN77)): New macros.
(AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC): Use it.
(AC_TRY_CPP): Argument was output twice.
(AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, AC_LINK_IFELSE): Output $3 only if needed.
programs.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_LANG_DISPATCH): New macro.
(AC_LANG): Use it.
(AC_LANG_SOURCE, AC_LANG_SOURCE(C), AC_LANG_SOURCE(C++),
AC_LANG_SOURCE(FORTRAN77)): New macros.
(AC_TRY_COMPILER, AC_EGREP_CPP, AC_TRY_RUN_NATIVE): Use
AC_LANG_SOURCE.
be used before AC_INIT, but they do require it. But then, the
argument of the explicit AC_INIT call is lost.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR): New macro.
(_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Adjust.
(_AC_INIT): Pass your argument to AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR.
* libm4.m4 (m4_append, m4_list_append): Use m4_define, not define.
On my machine the former implementation takes 4mn 40s to run the
test suite. Using m4_define leads to 4mn 15s.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_SUBST): Use AC_EXPAND_ONCE (which uses
m4_define, not define). 4mn.
(_AC_DIVERT): Don't use m4_case. Starting from those 4mn, if you
just move NORMAL* first in m4_case, the test suite is run in 3mn.
If instead of using m4, you use an `associative array' plus a
wrapper (current implementation), it falls to 2mn.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES, _AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS,
_AC_OUTPUT_LINKS, _AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS): Prefer
for i in : $is; do test $i = : && continue
over
for i in .. $is; do if test $i != ..; then
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): New macro, pulled out from...
(_AC_INIT_PREPARE): No longer compute `srcdir'.
(_AC_INIT): Use _AC_INIT_SRCDIR.
(AC_INIT): Don't forget to pass the argument to _AC_INIT.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_PACKAGE): New macro.
(_AC_COPYRIGHT_SEPARATOR): Remove.
(AC_COPYRIGHT): Adjust.
(_AC_INIT_HELP, _AC_INIT_VERSION): Name the package you configure
when you want.
(_AC_INIT): Adjust.
* configure.in (AC_PACKAGE): Add.
of $ac_xdir. Not only is `test -e' not portable, but the test isn't
necessary at all; the following mkdir ends up accomplishing the
same goal. Suggestion from Alexandre Oliva.
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.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE_ENVIRONMENT): New macro.
Handle the NLS envvars, and IFS.
(_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Use it, no longer set the NLS envvars.
(_AC_WHICH_A, AC_PATH_PROG): Rely on the default IFS.
* acspecific.m4 (AC_PROG_INSTALL, AC_FUNC_SELECT_ARGTYPES):
Likewise.
AC_TRY_LINK, AC_TRY_RUN_NATIVE): Simplify the removal of the
contest files: don't remove them before running the actions, just
remove them at the end of the macro.
* acspecific.m4 (AC_FUNC_SELECT_ARGTYPES): Use a single cache
variable instead of three.
Use AC_CACHE_CHECK.
Shorten the name of the var loops, they are no longer cached.
Include sys/types.h unconditionally.
`select' returns an int, fixes Autoconf/46.
Don't display parens in the user messages.
(AC_REVISION): Require AC_INIT, not _AC_INIT_BINSH.
(AC_INIT): Do what _AC_INIT_BINSH used to.
Don't require _AC_INIT_VERSION, just call it.
Rename as _AC_INIT.
(AC_INIT): New macro, single expansion wrapper around _AC_INIT.
(_AC_COPYRIGHT_SEPARATOR): New.
(AC_COPYRIGHT): Use it.
Require AC_INIT, not _AC_INIT_VERSION.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Versions): Promote as first section of
`Setup'.
Rename as `Notices'.
Document AC_COPYRIGHT.
Don't give false reasons for placing AC_REVISION before AC_INIT,
the place no longer matters.
CONFIG_FILES, we had to expand _AC_OUTPUT_FILES into the KILL
diversion, because it is AC_OUTPUT_FILES which undiverted the
AC_SUBST sed script at its proper place, otherwise it would have
been undiverted at the end of `configure', leading to an sh syntax
error.
Now that we no longer use a diversion, we don't need to call
AC_OUTPUT_FILES if useless.
(AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Rename as _AC_OUTPUT_FILES.
(AC_OUTPUT_LINKS): Rename as _AC_OUTPUT_LINKS.
Automake calls it, and usually users do too. If it happens,
`--program-prefix=g' actually prepend two (or more) `g'.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_DEFUN_ONCE): New macro.
(AC_ARG_PROGRAM): AC_DEFUNed_ONCE. Or is it AC_DEFUN_ONCE'd? :).
No longer AC_EXPAND_ONCE the help string, the macro itself is
expanded at most once.
Rename the here-doc tag EOF_SED as EOF.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Stop global double quoting,
failed experiment.
Merge all the var=val AC_SUBST(var) into AC_SUBST(var, val).
(AC_SUBST): Implement support for 2nd arg.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Adjust.
Suggested by Alexandre Oliva and Lars J. Aas
* libm4.m4 (ifndef): New macro.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_DIVERT): New macro, maps a diversion name to
its value. The diversions now have a short name, e.g., `NOTICE',
instead of the former macros which had long names, e.g.,
`AC_DIVERSION_NOTICE'.
(AC_DIVERT_PUSH): Adjust.
(AC_DIVERT_POP): Use ifndef.
(AC_DIVERSION_CURRENT): Rename as `AC_DIVERT_DIVERSION' to stay
within the `AC_DIVERT' name domain.
Adjust all callers.
* acspecific.m4: Adjust all callers.
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.
comment.
* libm4.m4 (m4_quote): s/$@/$*/.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_COPYRIGHT): Prepend `# ' to the lines that goes
on the top of `configure'. Actually, prepend `@%:@ ' so that
there are as many evaluations on both sides.
(_AC_INIT_VERSION): No longer strip `# '.
`configure'. And after all, it suits to `configure --version' too.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_DIVERSION_DEFAULTS, AC_DIVERSION_INIT_PREPARE):
New diversion numbers.
(AC_DIVERSION_INIT): Renamed as...
(AC_DIVERSION_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): this.
(AC_DIVERT_POP): Instead of going into wild endless loops when
there are more pops than pushes, die with dignity.
(AC_COPYRIGHT): New macro.
(_AC_INIT_NOTICE): Move definition of `ac_includes_default' from
here...
(_AC_INIT_PREPARE): to here.
(_AC_INIT_NOTICE): Remove.
(AC_INIT): Use it to install Autoconf's Copyright.
(_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): New macro.
(AC_INIT): Use it.
(AC_PREFIX_DEFAULTS): Dump in AC_DIVERSION_DEFAULTS.
(_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Dump in AC_DIVERSION_INIT_PREPARE.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_DIVERSION_DEFAULTS): New diversion number.
(_AC_INIT_NOTICE): Move definition of `ac_includes_default' from
here...
(_AC_INIT_PREPARE): to here.
(_AC_INIT_NOTICE): Play with your diversion yourself, don't let
(AC_INIT): do it for you.
(_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): New macro.
(AC_INIT): Use it.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_EXPAND_ONCE): AC_PROVIDE yourself, in case
there is no AC_DEFUN associated with the text to expand.
(_AC_ARG_ENABLE_HELP_PROLOGUE, _AC_ARG_WITH_HELP_PROLOGUE,
_AC_ARG_VAR_HELP_PROLOGUE): Remove, instead...
(AC_ARG_ENABLE, AC_ARG_WITH, AC_ARG_VAR): do it yourself.
`configure --help'.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_DIVERSION_HELP_BEGIN, AC_DIVERSION_HELP_ENABLE,
AC_DIVERSION_HELP_WITH, AC_DIVERSION_HELP_VAR,
AC_DIVERSION_HELP_END): New diversion numbers.
(AC_EXPAND_ONCE): New macro.
(AC_PROVIDE_IF): New macro.
(AC_BEFORE, AC_REQUIRE): Use it.
(AC_REQUIRE): Don't use indir.
(_AC_ARG_ENABLE_HELP_PROLOGUE, _AC_ARG_WITH_HELP_PROLOGUE,
_AC_ARG_VAR_HELP_PROLOGUE): New macros.
(AC_ARG_ENABLE, AC_ARG_WITH, AC_ARG_VAR): Expand once the
_HELP_PROLOGUE macro which corresponds.
(_AC_INIT_HELP): Adjust to AC_DIVERSION_HELP_BEGIN and
AC_DIVERSION_HELP_END.
(_AC_INIT_NOTICE, _AC_INIT_HELP): Remove the sh code which handled
the optional help strings.
(_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): this.
Move the display of help and version strings to...
(_AC_INIT_HELP, _AC_INIT_VERSION): here.
(AC_INIT): Adjust. Also, fix quotation.
Any character before the colon is accepted because network drives
can be assigned characters outside the [a-zA-Z] range. DOS-style
relative paths (?:foo/bar) are also considered absolute for
Autoconf's purposes since the path '../?:foo/bar' is invalid.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Treat DOS-style paths (?:*') as
absolute.
(AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Likewise.
(AC_PATH_PROG): Make pattern for matching DOS-style paths the same
as that used in AC_OUTPUT_FILES and AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS.
(AC_CHECK_PROG): Use it. Use ifval.
(AC_CHECK_PROGS): Use ifval. Fix the quoting.
* tests/semantics.m4: Test AC_CHECK_PROG.
* tests/Makefile.am (EGREP_EXCLUDE): Add /AC_CHECK_PROGS?/.
They're back to save the world.
* acspecific.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_C_O, AC_PROG_F77_C_O,
AC_PROG_MAKE_SET, AC_TYPE_GETGROUPS, AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG,
AC_FUNC_MKTIME, AC_STRUCT_TIMEZONE, AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Blast
that jelly o' changequote. Set the quotes free.
`configure', not `config.status', hence use `conftest' for tmp
files, not `$ac_cs_root'.
Removed forgotten developer comment.
Double quoting the whole body is nicer than just the part that
needs to be.
From Dan Ackroyd.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS, AC_INIT_PREPARE,
AC_CACHE_SAVE, AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM, AC_OUTPUT,
_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS, AC_OUTPUT_MAKE_DEFS, AC_OUTPUT_FILES,
_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS, AC_OUTPUT_LINKS, AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Quit
playing with changequotes, @BKL@ and Co.! Just quote properly.
Test it.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): Renamed as...
(_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): this. All callers changed.
Don't mess with changequote, just quote properly.
Bug 1. Because of the `#' in `ac_dA', the quotes <<>> were not
removed, and therefore the sed script contained `<<define>>'
instead of `define'. Now that the block is properly quoted, there
is no need to quote `define'.
Bug 2. Once a `#define' substitution performed, we were branching
to the top of the sed script (`t top'). This resulted in an
endless substitution of `#define foo 1' to `#define foo 1'.
Branching is not enough: you also have to fetch the next input
line, i.e., use `t' instead of `t t' in ac_dD, and don't output
`: top' in `config.defines'.
Though it was correct for `#undef' templates, just apply the same
transformation to `ac_uD' and `config.undefs'.
Bug 3. Don't try to preserve what was behind the value in the
template, since on
#define NAME "bar baz"
it leads to
#define NAME 1 baz"
Now `ac_dB' catches everything behind the NAME (making sure there
is at least a space) and `ac_dC' only outputs a space.
* tests/torture.m4: Check that various forms of `#define' header
templates are properly handled.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): It is smarter to use a
quoted here doc to output the section providing defaults for
CONFIG_*.
Don't rm the CONFIG_FILES here but in..
(AC_OUTPUT_FILES) [test -n "$CONFIG_FILES"]: here.
Hm, actually, no, just don't remove them at all, let the newly
created files replace the old ones, exactly as in
AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS.
From Graham Jenkins.
`AC_CHECK_TYPE',
Based on ideas from Paul Eggert and Alexandre Oliva.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_CHECK_TYPE_INTERNAL): Renamed as
(_AC_CHECK_TYPE_NEW): this.
(AC_CHECK_TYPES): Adjusted.
(AC_CHECK_TYPE): Renamed as
(_AC_CHECK_TYPE_OLD): This. Adjusted to _AC_CHECK_TYPE_NEW.
No longer support extra includes, stick to 2.13's interface.
(_AC_CHECK_TYPE_BUILTIN_P): New macro.
(AC_CHECK_TYPE): New macro.
* autoheader.m4 (autoheader::AC_CHECK_TYPE): Renamed as...
(autoheader::_AC_CHECK_TYPE_OLD): this.
* tests/atspecific.m4 (TEST_MACRO): Skip /^_AC_/ macros.
* tests/semantics.m4: Test the choices of AC_CHECK_TYPE (wrt _NEW
or _OLD implemenation).
* doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Types): Reorganized. Explain
everything about AC_CHECK_TYPE and Co.
AC_LINK_FILES($from, $to)
`$from' and `$to' can be lists, hence `AC_CONFIG_LINKS($to:$from)'
is wrong.
Reported by H.J. Lu.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_LINK_FILES): Replace the m4-glue code from
AC_LINK_FILES to AC_CONFIG_LINKS, with sh-glue code.
Give a detailed update message.
(_AC_LINK_FILES_CNT): New variable. Initialize.
* tests/tools.m4 (autoupdate): No longer exercise `autoupdate'
with AC_LINK_FILES.
`configure' and `config.status'.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Renamed as...
(_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): this.
Change the error messages from
value: invalid feature name
to
invalid feature: value
Invite the user to try --help for invalid options.
(AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Likewise.
(_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS): This. All callers changed.
Disable the verbose message until Automake uses the new features
of `config.status'.
Reported by Jim Meyering.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS, getopt loop): Always define
ac_optarg as the rhs of the first `=', not only on `-.*=', so that
`configure var=val' defines ac_optarg=val.
Improve the robustness to shell special characters:
- Use grep when checking that shell variable names are valid.
- Quote the quotes in ac_optarg before `eval var='$ac_optarg''.
- Quote the quotes when building ac_configure_args.
* tests/torture.m4: Test that `./configure foo=bar' works properly.
* acgeneral.m4 (AU_DEFINE): New macros, pulled out from AU_DEFUN.
Defines a macro in `autoupdate::' with all the required wrapping
for `autoupdate'.
(AU_DEFUN): Use it.
(AC_OUTPUT): When dispatching your arguments, use ifval, not
ifset!
Dispath actions to AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS not AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS, to
avoid unneeded warnings for obsolete use of AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS.
(autoupdate::AC_OUTPUT): New macro.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Writing configure.in, the example): Don't
advocate AC_OUTPUT with args.
(Output, AC_OUTPUT with args): Simplify the documentation, and
provide the translation into the new scheme.
Propagate what remained into the proper sections.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS): AU_DEFUNed in terms of
AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS.
(AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_CNT): New variable, declared both in
`autoconf::' and `autoupdate::'.
(AC_OUTPUT): Register your arguments to AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS only if
there are to avoid spurious `run autoupdate' messages.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Libraries): Document the changes.
are none.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_OUTPUT): Don't register $1 to `AC_CONFIG_FILES'
if $1 is empty.
Normalize the names of the sections in `config.status --help'.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_INIT): New macro which will
collect the `INIT-CMDS'.
(AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS, AC_CONFIG_LINKS, AC_CONFIG_HEADERS,
AC_CONFIG_FILES): Use it, and also temporarily divert to -1
instead of spamming dnl everywhere.
(AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Make sure to output the INIT-CMDS
before the other sections, it'd be a pity to initialize after the
use :).
* doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Actions): New section,
documenting the common behavior of AC_CONFIG_FILES,
AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, macro AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS, and AC_CONFIG_LINKS.
(Configuration Files): Document $2 and $3 of AC_CONFIG_FILES.
(Configuration Headers): Document $2 and $3 of AC_CONFIG_HEADERS.
(Configuration Commands): Document $2 and $3 of AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS.
(Configuration Links): Document $2 and $3 of AC_CONFIG_FILES.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_UNGNITS): Renamed as...
(_AC_VERSION_UNLETTER): this. All callers changed.
Implement the scheme proposed by Alexandre Oliva:
Nl -> (N+1).-1.(l#)
(_AC_VERSION_COMPARE): New macro.
(AC_PREREQ): Use it.
yourself, in order to give better error messages.
(AC_CONFIG_IF_MEMBER): Adapted to the above change.
Quote some regexp active characters ([+.*]).
Suggested by Alexandre Oliva.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Common Behavior): New section, to document
the common behavior of the macros.
(Standard Symbols): New subsection. Describes the transformation
of the AC_DEFINEd names.
(Default Includes): New subsection. Obvious content.
All the ``callers'' updated.
while loops which are breaking conftest.defines and
conftest.undefs into smaller snippets: just use the proper
condition for the while.
Suggested by Alexandre Oliva.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Concept Index): New section.
Various entries added.
(Typedefs): Renamed as...
(Types): this. Pay attention to not limiting the documentation to
the typedefs.
(Particular Types): Mention the equivalent generic test.
Promote the GNU coding style at various places.
given in the prologue of acobsolete.m4.
* acgeneral.m4 (Prologue): Enter the `autoconf' name space.
(AU_DEFUN): New macro.
* autoupdate.m4: New file.
Disable the name spaces `autoconf', and `libm4'. Disable libm4.
* Makefile.am: Tuned to support the changes above.
* autoupdate.sh: Model after autoconf.sh.
Can run on several files at once (for instance m4/*.m4).
Don't touch files that are up to date.
Run m4 on autoupdate.m4f instead of playing with sed.
Use AU_DEFUN.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_LINK_FILES, AC_ENABLE, AC_WITH): Use AU_DEFUN,
remove the call to AC_OBSOLETE.
* acspecific.m4 (AC_CYGWIN32): Likewise.
* acoldnames.m4: Replaced all the definitions via `define' or
`AC_DEFUN' to use `AU_DEFUN'.
* acoldnames.m4: Use `#', not `dnl'.
Don't spread `dnl' everywhere, anyway, we are in a divert(-1).
* autoconf.m4: Likewise.
* autoheader.m4: Likewise.
output can be problematic with autoupdate.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_INIT_NOTICE): Output ac_includes_default.
(Default includes section): No longer dump ac_includes_default in
AC_DIVERSION_INIT.
* autoconf.sh: Give your name while reporting errors.
Don't spit --help for errors on arguments.
* autoreconf.sh: Likewise.
* autoheader.sh: Likewise.
More temporary files that one can browse when debugging.
Don't ${var}, just $var.
Don't dump --help when the arguments are invalid.
(config_h): Use the empty value instead of `undefined' to check
that it is defined.
* acspecific.m4: Formatting changes.
yourself. This allows to see everything that is AC_PROVIDEd via
autoconf --trace.
(AC_SPECIALIZE): define'd, not AC_DEFUN'd.
(AC_PROVIDE): Use define with a single arg, instead of an empty $2.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_TRY_COMPILER, AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC, AC_CHECK_LIB,
AC_TRY_COMPILE, AC_TRY_LINK, AC_TRY_RUN_NATIVE, AC_CHECK_FUNC):
Use AC_LANG_CASE instead of ifelse (AC_LANG, ...).
(AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC): Quote the body the the AC_DEFUN (whoa, how
could this survive so long?!?).
* doc/autoconf.texi (Header Templates): Promote #if over #ifdef;
and #undef over #define in templates.
* acspecific.m4 (AC_DECL_SYS_SIGLIST, AC_FUNC_MMAP,
AC_FUNC_SETPGRP, AC_FUNC_VFORK, AC_FUNC_SELECT_ARGTYPES): Use #if,
not #ifdef and #ifndef, indent CPP directives.
default headers in the INIT section of configure: the reason is
that AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT is called unquoted, and this results in
an un expected behavior. Thanks to Roman V. Shaposhnick for the
details.
The current implementation is not satisfying: the default headers
are defined in the INIT section even if they are not used.
* acgeneral.m4 (Prologue of AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULTS): Dump the
definition of ac_includes_default in the INIT section of
configure.
(AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULTS): Use it.
test.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Don't over quote $1, some []
were left in the C code, and had the macro fail.
Use AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT.
* doc/autoconf.texi: Mention default includes. Explain stdio.h
must always be given.
* tests/atspecific.m4 (TEST_MACRO): Updated the list of
exceptions.
(AT_CHECK_DEFINES): New macro, to check the content of config.h.
* tests/semantics.m4: All the tests are updated to use
AT_CHECK_DEFINES.
Test AC_CHECK_SIZEOF, AC_CHECK_HEADERS, and AC_CHECK_FUNCS.
condition out the test case if __cpluscplus.
Don't document the autoheader template twice, one is enough.
* autoheader.m4 (AC_CONFIG_HEADER): don't hook on this guy, but
on...
(AC_CONFIG_HEADERS), since the former is defined on the latter.
for it. Just quote properly!
condition out the test case if __cpluscplus.
AC_REQUIRE AC_PROG_CC_STDC.
Fix slightly the display of the result (formerly the first run
says `none needed', and later, because of the cache `no').
(AC_C_INLINE, AC_C_VOLATILE): AC_REQUIRE AC_PROG_CC_STDC.
* doc/autoconf.texi (AC_C_CONST): Give a few hints on the
motivation for trusting the C++ compilers.
(AT_CASE): new macro.
(AT_CHECK): Use it. Don't changequote for patsubst, there is no
need.
* tests/syntax.m4 (TEST_MACRO): Don't run AC_ARG_VAR.
Reported by Jim Meyering.
Use AT_CASE.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_CANONICAL_THING): define, not AC_DEFUN.
Don't AC_PROVIDE, there is no need.
When calling `config.sub`, also || exit 1, to catch failures from
config.sub.
* acspecific.m4 (AC_SYS_LONG_FILE_NAMES): Use ac_val, not val.
(AC_EXEEXT): Use ac_file, not file.
* tests/actest.m4: New file, holding extra Autoconf macros used
during the testing.
(AC_ENV_SAVE): New macro, save the sh variables in a file.
* tests/suite.m4 (AT_TEST_MACRO, Generation of configure.in):
include actest.m4, and call twice AC_ENV_SAVE to compare the
variables before and after the macro.
* tests/Makefile.am (macro.m4): Don't test macros that are
required: they will be tested somewhere else.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_CHECK_MEMBER): It is not smart to define
ac_Foo, and use AC_Foo. Got rid of AC_Member_Aggregate and
AC_Member_Member which were complicating more than simplifying.
(AC_CHECK_DECLS): Use m4 lists.
(AC_CHECK_TYPES): A comma was missing.
* autoheader.m4: (AC_CHECK_DECLS): Use m4 lists.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Declarations): AC_CHECK_DELCS uses m4
lists.
* tests/semantics.m4: New file. Collection of semantical tests:
verify that the tests are positive and negative when appropriate.
Test AC_CHECK_MEMBERS, AC_CHECK_DECLS and AC_CHECK_TYPES.
* autoheader.m4 (AH_DEFUN): New macro. Combination of define and
AH_HOOK.
(AC_TRY_RUN, AC_DEFINE, AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED, AC_CHECK_LIB,
AC_CHECK_HEADERS, AC_CHECK_HEADERS_DIRENT, AC_CHECK_DECLS,
AC_CHECK_FUNCS, AC_CHECK_SIZEOF, AC_PROG_LEX, AC_CHECK_MEMBERS,
AC_CHECK_TYPE, AC_FUNC_ALLOCA, AC_CHECK_TYPES, AC_C_CHAR_UNSIGNED,
AC_AIX, AC_F77_WRAPPERS, AC_CONFIG_HEADER): All the former calls
to define and AH_HOOK in autoheader.m4 are replaced by AH_DEFUN.
Fix the bugs discovered.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_CANONICAL_THING): Quote the
AC_REQUIRE([AC_CANONICAL_HOST]). Bug triggered by the use of
AC_CANONICAL_BUILD alone in configure.in. Also, quote the
arguments of macros (eg, ifelse([$1]...), not ifelse($1...)).
(m4_case): New macro.
(AC_LINKER_OPTION): Don't clash with user's name space
(s/i/ac_link_opt).
(AC_LIST_MEMBER_OF). You mean AC_FATAL, not AC_MSG_ERROR.
Quote properly the argument.
dnl out the empty lines that result from m4 pure code.
Don't pollute the user name space.
Use AC_SHELL_IFELSE.
(AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING): Don't use `test -o'. There are still
name space problems.
* tests/Makefile.am (macros.m4): Also fetch the macros from
acgeneral.m4.
Fix the discovered bugs.
* tests/atgeneral.m4 (AT_CHECK): Don't just exit 1 when you want
to propagate the failure of a test: exit with the same exit
status, at least to preserve 77 (=ignore).
* tests/syntax.m4 (TEST_MACRO): Run also autoheader. Don't run
this test on all the macros, some just cannot run without
arguments.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): In the if egrep/fi for
#define templates, add a `:' to prevent syntax errors in
config.status when there are no AC_DEFINE performed.
* autoheader.m4 (AH_TEMPLATE): Don't use _AC_SH_QUOTE here, use it
in...
(AH_VERBATIM): here. Now AH_C_UNSIGNED_CHAR is no longer failing
(formerly it would produce a non backslashed backquote, which
made sh choke).
extern software (so that the test suite doesn't fail on them).
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_MSG_ERROR, AC_MSG_ERROR_UNQUOTED): Allow an
optional $2: exit status.
* doc/autoconf.texi: Document.
* acspecific.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_WORKS, PROG_CXX_WORKS,
AC_PROG_F77_WORKS): Exit 77 if the compiler does not work.
