years and is too hard to maintain now. The last straw was
reported by Jerker Baeck in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2006-11/msg00102.html>.
* NEWS: AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED is now obsolete.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Move
AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED from here...
(Obsolete Macros): ... to here. Say that it does nothing now.
* lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED):
Turn into (almost) a no-op.
in the sed script that mangles the awk script: delete up to the
first exclamation mark only.
* tests/torture.at (Substitute and define special characters):
Test '!' too.
the number of substituted variables by using awk instead of sed
for the bulk of the substitutions.
* NEWS: Mention this.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): `|#_!!_#|' is also
forbidden in the output (and thus input) file.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_AWK_LITERAL_LIMIT): New macro.
(_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE): Instead of several sed scripts,
generate just one large awk script for substitutions,
eliminating much of the earlier complexity, while adding some
new complexity. Only expand the substitution templates at
configure time, for smaller configure script size. If
_AC_SUBST_FILES are used, test 'awk' for working getline support
at config.status time. If absent, interpolate through the
shell. The awk script was written with much help
from Paolo Bonzini and Paul Eggert.
(_AC_SED_CMD_NUM, _AC_SED_DELIM_NUM, _AC_SED_FRAG): Removed.
(_AC_SED_FRAG_NUM): Likewise.
(_AC_SUBST_CMDS): Renamed from...
(_AC_SED_CMDS): ...this.
(_AC_OUTPUT_FILE): Use _AC_SUBST_CMDS.
* tests/torture.at (Substitute a 2000-byte string): Also
substitute a line with 1000 words, and a variable with several
long lines.
(Substitute and define special characters): Test awk special
characters, and put substitution input strings `@foo@' in the
output, to test that no recursion happens; test several other
combinations from Paolo Bonzini.
that replaced echo with AS_ECHO where this wasn't necessary.
Problem reportd by Ralf Wildenhues.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_ECHO_PREPARE): Port to Solaris 7,
where "/usr/bin/printf '%s\n' S" dumps core if S is long.
This is Sun bug 4206210. Problem reportd by Ralf Wildenhues.
(BS-BS-newline in command, BSx640-newline in command):
(Newline-CODE-BS-newline in command):
(Single-quote-BS-newline in command):
(Single-quote-newline-BS-newline in command):
Use printf '%s\n' instead of echo, for portability to hosts
where echo interprets backslashes. This will break on hosts
that lack printf, but for now let's assume all such hosts
are dead (if not, we should get reports of test failures).
with a leading '-', or when given any argument containing '\'.
Avoid using 'echo' in these cases.
* bin/Makefile.am $(bin_SCRIPTS): Rewrite to avoid 'echo' entirely.
* lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX, AC_PROG_OBJC): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Likewise.
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
* bin/autoconf.as: Use AS_ECHO rather than plain echo, when the
argument might be unportable.
* lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_C_O): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/erlang.m4 (AC_LANG(Erlang)): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT):
(_AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ENABLE, _AC_INIT_PREPARE):
(_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE, AC_ARG_PROGRAM, _AC_MSG_LOG_CONFTEST):
(AC_RUN_LOG, _AC_RUN_IFELSE, _AC_LIBOBJS_NORMALIZE): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_DIRECT): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH):
(AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCDIRS, _AC_OUTPUT_HEADER):
(_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS, _AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Likewise.
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_CREATE_DEBUGGING_SCRIPT, AT_INIT):
(AT_CLEANUP, _AT_DECIDE_TRACEABLE, _AT_CHECK): Likewise.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE, _AS_ECHO_UNQUOTED):
(_AS_BASENAME_SED, _AS_DIRNAME_SED, AS_MKDIR_P, AS_TMPDIR, AS_UNAME):
(AS_TR_SH, AS_TR_CPP, AS_VAR_GET): Likewise.
* bin/autoconf.as: Redo verbose flag implementation, as the old
scheme wouldn't work with AS_ECHO.
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_MSG_RESULT, AC_MSG_RESULT_UNQUOTED):
Don't use ECHO_T, since ECHO_N is now reliable.
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_PROGRAM): Use sed "$script"
rather than using a here-document to put the script into a file.
(_AC_DO_ECHO): Hoist the eval out of the echo, so that we can
use AS_ECHO.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_VAR_GET): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Use
AS_ECHO_N rather than ECHO_N and ECHO_C. This doesn't fix any
bug, but we might as well stop using ECHO_N and ECHO_C internally.
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_SETUP): Likewise.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_ECHO_N): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS):
(_AC_OUTPUT_MAIN_LOOP): Rework echo so that it has just one
operand, as AS_ECHO requires. Avoid double file name expansion.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Invoke _AS_ECHO_PREPARE.
Don't set as_nl, since _AS_ECHO_PREPARE does that now.
(_AS_PREPARE): Comment that _AS_ECHO_N_PREPARE is just for user code.
(AS_ECHO, AS_ECHO_N, _AS_ECHO_PREPARE): New macros.
* tests/c.at (AC_PROG_CPP without warnings, AC_PROG_CPP via CC):
Double-quote strings that would otherwise contain M4 comments.
* tests/m4sh.at (AS_ECHO and AS_ECHO_N): New test.
code for --enable, --disable, --with, and --without to...
(_AC_INIT_PARSE_ENABLE): ... a new macro.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Package Options):
* NEWS: Document that AC_ARG_ENABLE allows dots, too.
2006-11-13 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): For --with, --without
options, transliterate also dots to underscores.
(_AC_ENABLE_IF): Transliterate also dots to underscores.
* doc/autoconf.texi (External Software): Document that AC_ARG_WITH's
first argument may also contain dots.
ac_cv_type_long_long_int to 'yes' instead of 'cross-compiling'.
Imported from a similar patch to gnulib by Bruno Haible.
2006-11-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): M4-quote and AS_ESCAPE AT_help_all
properly.
(AT_SETUP): M4-quote and AS_ESCAPE the title properly everywhere.
* tests/autotest.at (AT_CHECK_AT_TITLE): Add EXPANDED-TITLE-TO-TEST
argument. Extend to check titles printed by ./micro-suite and
./micro-suite -l and the title in micro-suite.log.
(Backquote in a test title,
Single-quote in a test title,
Double-quote in a test title): Don't expect failure anymore.
(Backslash in a test title): Put a non-whitespace character after the
backslash so that Bourne shells might actually see it as an escape
sequence.
(Brackets in a test title,
Pound in a test title,
Comma in a test title,
Quoted Macro in a test title,
Macro in a test title,
Macro with single-quote in a test title): New tests.
(Macro with backquote in a test title,
Macro with double-quote in a test title,
Macro with backslash in a test title): New tests expected to fail.
* tests/torture.at (#define header templates): M4-quote this title in
AT_SETUP call so that no M4 code is commented inadvertently somewhere.
The visible effect was a stray [] in the testsuite output.
since powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build
5363) simply issues a warning when dividing by zero at compile
time. Problem reported by Elias Pipping.
If FUNCTION-BODY is nonempty, use AC_LINK_IFELSE rather than
AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, to work around problem with OSF/1 4.0F fseeko
reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe for Coreutils 6.4.
