are a few warnings.
* lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4 (AH_VERBATIM, _AH_VERBATIM_OLD):
Quote for Perl '' strings, not "".
* bin/autoheader.in: Invoke autoconf to get '' strings, not ""
strings.
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.
longer required can still cause errors.
Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
* bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Do not prepend `--reload-state'
to frozen files in @ARGV, as @ARGV must remain being a list of
files. Rather, at M4 call sites, use this...
(&files_to_options): New function.
(&freeze): Use &error.
(&up_to_date): If a file that was included according to the cache
is no longer there, then the output is out dated.
(&main): Don't even check whether a file is up to date is anyway
--force is given.
* tests/tools.at (autom4te cache): New.
* bin/autoupdate.in (&parse_args): Kill old options.
* bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args): Remove dead options.
Factor some code.
(&autoreconf): Report the directories we enter *and leave*, so
that error messages can be easily located, and use GNU Make
format, so that Emacs' compile mode understands us.
* lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&update_file): Use `verbose' to report
if some file was changed instead of `print'.
* bin/autoheader.in: Suggest AC_DEFINE with 3 args when needed.
(&parse_args): Remove the dead options.
* tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER): Adjust to the new
autoheader's quiet mode.
(AT_CHECK_AUTOUPDATE): Likewise.
* tests/tools.at (autoupdate): Adjust.
* tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
aclocal invocation, as Gettext macros might not be visible to
aclocal.
Instead of blindly running autopoint, scan configure.ac (not the
traces) for AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION uses, as autopoint does.
Reported by Paul D. Smith.
autoheader are Perl programs.
(autoconf, autoheader, autoreconf, autoupdate, ifnames, autoscan)
(autom4te): Specify that the sources are in the $srcdir.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Adjust.
* lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4: Include it.
* lib/autoconf/functions.m4: Use AN_FUNCTION for all the functions
that were listed in the original autoscan.list.
* lib/autoconf/headers.m4: Similarly with headers.
* lib/freeze.mk (autoconf_m4f_dependencies): Add autoscan.m4.
(.m4.m4f): Don't pass --prepend-include, since that's done by
tests/autom4te itself.
* lib/autoscan/Makefile.am: Include freeze.mk.
(autoscan.list): New target --this file is no longer a source.
(autoscan.pre): New file.
Adjust all uses.
(&init_tables): When --debug, report the list of rules to ease
tracking changes in autoscan.list.
* lib/autoscan/autoscan.list (function): Strip comments, sort.
* lib/autoscan/identifiers, lib/autoscan/makevars,
* lib/autoscan/programs: Make the `kind' explicit, i.e., each
`functions' line is now prefixed with `function:'.
* bin/autoscan.in (&init_tables): Adjust.
word: there is no `default' macro for autoscan.
* bin/autoscan.in (&init_tables): Reject entries with no macro at
all.
* lib/autoscan/functions, lib/autoscan/headers: Make the macro
explicit.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Update.
(Limitations of Make): Some about `Single Suffix Rules and
Separated Dependencies'.
* bin/Makefile.am (autoconf, autoheader, autoreconf, autoupdate)
(ifnames, autoscan, autom4te): Un-factor into several rules.
make handles suffix-rules differently from GNU make.
(SUFFIXES, .in): Remove.
(autoconf autoheader autoreconf autoupdate ifnames autoscan autom4te):
Move the body of the old .in rule here.
(ifnames, autoscan, autom4te): Since we don't only depend on
configure.ac variables (such as VERSION etc.), but also on prefix
and so forth, depend on Makefile, not configure.ac.
Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Adjust.
(&xsystem): Use WIFEXITED and WEXITSTATUS instead of decoding $? by
hand, which is not portable.
(&error): New.
* bin/autom4te.in: Use them.
Use &error instead of die.
* tests/m4sugar.at (m4_warn, m4_require: circular dependencies):
Adjust.
* bin/autom4te.in: Remove --include-envvar and --site-macro-subdir
options and use $AUTOM4TE_PATH.
* doc/autoconf.texi: Remove documentation of autom4te
--include-envvar and --site-macro-subdir options and document
use of $AUTOM4TE_PATH.
* lib/autom4te.in: Remove --include-envvar and --site-macro-subdir
arguments from each language section.
bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in, lib/Autom4te/General.pm,
lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm, lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Add local variables
so that Emacs setups GNU style for perl-mode and cperl-mode.
name, so that symlinks to 'autoconf' work properly. Bug reported
by Bruno Haible.
* bin/autoheader.in (AUTOM4TE): Likewise.
* bin/autoreconf.in (autoconf, autoheader): Likewise.
* bin/autoscan.in (autom4te): Likewise.
* bin/autoupdate.in (autom4te): Likewise.
files to be 1 second older; just set them to be the same time.
Also, sleep 1 second after the first aclocal, to work around
problems with sub-second time stamps on the input files.
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.
optional are the sum of the previous files on the command line'.
Also, pass `--reload-state=' on them, so...
(handle_m4): don't.
* lib/autom4te.in (Autotest, Autoconf): Rely on M4sh.
(M4sh): Rely on M4sugar.
(Autotest, M4sh, M4sugar): Use frozen files.
Remove $filepath, useless.
(&scan_makefile): Don't remove the $(FOO), ${FOO} and @FOO@
variables, they are really part of the tokens.
Split the input line on spaces and then look for tokens.
Now autoscan ceases to ask for AC_PROG_LEX for the package Bison
because of `lex$U.$(OBJEXT)'.
(&scan_files): Use "@list" instead of join.
* doc/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): Add *.fns.
directives.
(&scan_sh_file): Remove a duplicate pattern.
(&check_configure_ac): Use long options.
* lib/autoscan/headers (alloca.h): Check with AC_FUNC_ALLOCA.
that we can trace macros from aclocal.m4.
Trace AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, not AM_PROG_LIBTOOL, since the latter is
obsoleted, and redirect to the former anyway.
Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
processed only if present.
* tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Use autoreconf
instead of successive calls to autoconf.
Add a nonexistent subdirectory to exercise the patch above.
Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
(&file_name_is_absolute): New, wrappers around routines from
File::Spec.
Use and export them.
(&find_configure_ac): Optionally take a directory where to look at.
* bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args): Trim the configure.ac part of
the arguments.
Default @ARGV to `.', not find_configure_ac.
(&autoreconf): Argument is a directory.
Trace AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS and schedule the subdirs for autoreconf'ing.
* doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Update.
(@export_forward_subs): New.
Add basename, dirname, and fileparse.
(@EXPORT): Adjust.
* bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Fix call to fileparse.
Don't look for aclocal flags if we already know aclocal is not
used.
Move aclocal.m4t only if it exists.
Reported by Ezra Peisach.
passed on command line, defaulting to ./configure.ac if present.
(&maybe_autoreconf, File::Find): Remove, unused.
(&autoreconf): If autoconf is not used, don't try to trace.
unchanged, remove the source.
(&up_to_date_p): Don't be verbose, be debug.
* bin/autoreconf.in: No longer support --m4dir.
(&autoreconf): Display the full path of the configure.ac we are
studying.
Trace it only once.
Be sure to honor --force with gettextize.
Always run aclocal.
* doc/autoconf.texi: Adjust.
Remove, dead.
* bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Do not run gettextize when
`intl' is already present, as it refuses unless --force.
(&parse_args): Use -I, --include instead of the old Autoconf
options.
($localdir, $autoconf_dir): Remove.
(@include): New.
(&maybe_autoreconf): New, to preserve $_ for File::Find.
(&parse_args): Pass verbosity/debugging options to subtools when
--debug, not when --verbose.
* lib/autom4te.in (Autoreconf-preselections): New.
(Autoconf): Use it.
Pass $at_debug_args to the rerun test suite.
* lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am (DISTCLEANFILES): New.
* bin/Makefile.am (ETAGS_SH): Don't use characters ranges.
From Paul Eggert.
* bin/autoupdate.in: Ditto.
* bin/autoheader.in: Reworded a few comments.
* bin/autoconf.in: Reworded help text for a few options.
* bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
* bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in: Ditto.
doesn't neutralize SIGINT, making autoconf etc. non interruptible.
* lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Move the package
related variables into `at_package_*'.
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_VICTIMS): New.
(AT_INIT): Adjust for stand-alone/embedded test suites.
(AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD): Define and use it.
* tests/suite.at (AT_VICTIMS): Use it.
* tests/tools.at (autoupdating AC_PREREQ): Don't depend upon
at_version.
the maintainer is dumb enough to do that...
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_SETUP, AT_LINE): Demonstrates your
excellence in M4 quotation: consider `__file__' is active.
And BTW, when invoking m4, pass the --include in the right order:
the wrong one.
* bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoupdate.in: Use reverse when kingtal to
4m.
* bin/autoupdate.in (&handle_m4_macros, &handle_autoconf_macros):
New, extracted from main.
Use IO::File wherever possible.
(input.m4): Be constant, use -I instead of hard coding $tmp.
Therefore be a quoted heredoc.
Don't invoke `_au_disable', since ac was not loaded, but just
`unm4.m4'.
* bin/autoupdate.in: Use --include, -I, and --force, -f, too.
Use directly autom4te, not autoconf.
* tests/autoupdate: $top_srcdir/lib is needed too for melt files.
* bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in: Use them.
* bin/autom4te.in ($autoconf): Pass --force.
`print $out' doesn't print `$_' but `$out'.
* tests/tools.at (Syntax of the Perl scripts): Pass the lib dir.
(autoheader): Pass --force since the test suite goes too fast for
the time stamps.
Adjust to the new autoheader messages.
* bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoheader.in: Adjust.
Drop AC_MACRODIR dead for real.
* tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER): Now autoheader says
`autoheader: `config.hin' is created'.
* tests/tools.at (Syntax of the Perl scripts): Check autoheader.
Map --localdir, --autoconf-dir onto it.
Forward autom4te's options instead of interpreting them.
* bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoheader.in (AC_MACRODIR, autoconf_dir):
There is no such envvar since the inception of autom4te.cfg.
* bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Uniquify `@include'.
* bin/autoupdate.in: Adjust, and perform more control.
* tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF): Adjust.
* tests/autoconf: Dittowise.
* bin/autom4te.in (&find_file): Support `FILE?' standing for
optionally `FILE'.
Use -e, not -f, since /dev/null for instance is OK.
(&parse_args): Adjust.
* lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): Add `acsite.m4?' and `aclocal.m4?'.
* bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
* bin/autoscan.in, autoupdate.in: Use exclusively the name of the
installed peer executables, only PATH is allowed to resolve it.
Pass `autoconf_dir' via options, not via invisible envvars.
* lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_peer): Remove.
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): `AUTOTEST_PATH=a:b' gives
`abuild:asrc:bbuild:bsrc', not `abuild:bbuild:asrc:bsrc'.
* man/Makefile.am: Let help2man rely on PATH instead of trying to
find the executables for it.
* tests/Makefile.am: Major cleanup. Too lazy to document...
* tests/atlocal.in: Remove all the obscure envvar manipulations.
We only need PERL.
* tests/atspecific.m4, tests/tools.at: Passing --localdir is
indeed related to running the test suite, while passing
--autoconf-dir and others is related to running non installed
Autoconf executables. So don't do that, leave it to...
* tests/autoconf, tests/autoheader, tests/autom4te, tests/autoupdate,
* tests/autoscan: New.
* tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR, AT_CHECK_M4SH): Don't
refer to library files: rely on --language.
* lib/Makefile.am (edit, autom4te.cfg): New.
* bin/autom4te.in (BEGIN): Simplify.
Rely on `AC_MACRODIR' in addition of `autom4te_perllibdir'.
(&load_configuration): New. Use it.
(&parse_args): Support --mode, --set, and --melt.
* bin/autoconf.in: Simplify and adjust.
* tests/Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE): Use --set.
* tests/atlocal.in: Adjust.
* BUGS: distcheck and check are weak.
* Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Add 1.5 and dist-bzip2.
(AMTAR): Help automake define it.
(INSTALL, install-data-hook): The INSTALL.txt trick is no longer
needed, 1.5 can have a macro and a target with the same name.
* m4/auxdir.m4, m4/cond.m4, m4/depend.m4, m4/install-sh.m4,
* m4/strip.m4: New.
* m4/init.m4, m4/sanity.m4: Update.
* doc/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): 1.5 knows the texi2dvi files.
* lib/autoconf/Makefile.am, lib/autotest/Makefile.am,
* lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am, lib/autoscan/Makefile.am,
* lib/Autom4te/Makefile.am, man/Makefile.am: Use dist/nodist.
* lib/autoconf/version.in: Remove.
* lib/m4sugar/version.in: New.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_acversion, m4_version_prereq): New.
Adjust callers.
* bin/autoupdate.in: Distinguish M4sugar vs. Autoconf macros by
the name of the directory they're in, instead of the filename,
since version.m4 is now in m4sugar, but m4_acversion must not be
classified as an Autoconf macro.
($input_m4): Don't qualify the path to m4sugar.
Rather, pass autoconf_dir to m4.
* tests/Makefile.am (testsuite): Remove -I top_srcdir, unneeded.
* tests/suite.at: Require 2.52c.
(&handle_m4): Use it.
* tests/m4sugar.at (m4_warn): Pass `-f' to autom4te to ensure the
warnings are issued at each run.
* tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR, AT_CHECK_M4SH): M4sugar
is in the src tree.
might process the output _without_ running m4, hence without these
files.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_init): No need for `m4_tmpdir'.
* bin/autom4te.in (@Request::includes): Remove, unused.
(@Request::source): Rename as...
(@Request::input): this.
(@preselect): Add `m4_pattern_forbid' and `m4_pattern_allow'.
(&handle_output): Fetch the patterns from the traces.
`$forbidden' and `$allowed' are constant: use m//o.
(&handle_m4): M4sugar no longer wants `m4_tmpdir'.
(m4_pattern_forbid, m4_pattern_allow): Adjust for tracing only.
autoconf', i.e., in addition to caching traces, cache the output.
* bin/autom4te.in (Request::cache): Rename as...
(Request::id): this.
($cache, $icache, $tcache, $ocache): New.
(&handle_m4): Save M4 output in the cache instead of $tmp.
(&handle_output): Adjust.
(&up_to_date_p): Check that the output cache is up to date too.
(top level): Run `&handle_m4' iff force or the cache is invalid.
Run `&handle_output' if the output cache is more recent.
(&parse_args, &print_usage): -f, --force is a new option.
(&handle_output): CPP directives might have spaces after `#'.
(&parse_args): The first file only can be frozen.
first check that the trace cache file is up to date, and then
compare its timestamp with that of the output.
* bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoscan.in: Normalize
the preamble. Don't require 5.005 as Autom4te::General does it,
and better yet (use `use', not `require'!).
* lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm: Rename the last occurrences of
Class::Struct as Autom4te::Struct.
* lib/Autom4te/General.pm (File::stat): Use it.
(&mtime): New, export it.
* bin/autom4te.in: Use it.
Declare `$req' is invalid if it is outdated.
Don't declare it valid before saving it if something went wrong.
must be proposed to the users.
* bin/autom4te.in (@required_trace): Remove.
(@preselect): New.
(&parse_args, &print_usage): -p, --preselect is a new option.
(&up_to_date_p): Adjust.
* bin/autoconf.in: Preselect some Autoconf macros.
