ac_buildpath, ac_top_buildpath, ac_srcpath, and ac_top_srcpath.
(_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Also substitute srcpath, top_srcpath,
builddir, buildpath, top_builddir, and top_buildpath.
(_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Compute the dir variables *before* changing
the current directory.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Compute the dir
variables *before* changing the current directory.
Skip nonexistent dirs.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Preset Output Variables): Document these
variables.
* lib/autotest/general.m4: Do not reset AT_victims.
Don't compute at_srcdir nor at_top_srcdir.
* tests/tools.at: Hence use top_srcdir.
* tests/Makefile.am, tests/autoconf, tests/autoheader,
* tests/autom4te, tests/autoreconf, tests/autoupdate, tests/ifnames:
Remove.
* tests/autoreconf.in, tests/wrappl.in, tests/autom4te.in,
* tests/wrapsh.in, tests/autoupdate.in: New.
* tests/Makefile.am (DISTCLEANFILES, EXTRA_DIST): Adjust.
* configure.ac: Build the position independent wrappers.
* man/Makefile.am: Now that test wrappers are position
independent, use them and drop dark envvar magic.
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.
* 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?'.
* 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.
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.
but some sed choke on multiple `;', and other tools (e.g.,
Automake), include the separator themselves.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_ARG_VAR): Be sure not to leave extra `;'.
current values of the precious variables, not the previously
cached values.
Pass precious variables which are set to config.status.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Document AC_ARG_VAR.
* tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): New.
