Rename as:
(_AC_PROG_CC_GNU, _AC_PROG_CXX_GNU, _AC_PROG_F77_GNU): these.
Compute the value of GCC, GXX and G77 here.
Set to `no' (instead of empty) if not the GNU compiler.
(AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX, AC_PROG_F77): Adjust.
* doc/autoconf.texi: Adjust.
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 V
// \
=========
_//_ _\_ The ``Eiffel Tower'' Release
* autoupdate.sh: Complete rewrite. See that file for a detailed
explanation. Basically, simulate the name spaces thanks to
`autoconf --trace' and auxiliary files.
No longer use `autoupdate.m4', remove the dependencies.
Synchronize the options and `--help'.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autoupdate): Humanoupdate.
* autoupdate.m4: Delete.
* tests/Makefile.am (FILTER_MACROS): Add `AC_OUTPUT'.
Since `AC_OUTPUT' is now AU_DEFUN'd, it is extracted for testing,
while it was not before.
* tests/tools.m4 (autoupdate): Re-enable. Adjust the expected
output with the right quotation (yeah!).
Pass `-m $top_srcdir': autoupdate want the `.m4' files, not the
frozen files.
* Makefile.am (nodistpkgdataDATA): Move `acversion.m4' to
(distpkgdataDATA): here, so that all the `.m4' files are in the
source hierarchy, not split across src and build.
* acversion.m4.in: Update to today's standards.
* Makefile.am: Adjust.
^
/ U T O U P D A T E I I I
/===+ / It bells, It whistles...
* autoupdate.sh: Complete rewrite. See that file for a detailed
explanation.
* acgeneral.sh: Don't use AU_DEFINE, but AU_DEFUN.
(AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_CNT): Renamed as...
(_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_CNT): this.
* aclang.m4 (_AC_LANG_CURRENT, AC_LANG_STACK): You two are the same
thing, which now we shall name `_AC_LANG'.
All users adjusted.
(AC_LANG_PUSH, AC_LANG_POP): New macros.
(AC_LANG_SAVE, AC_LANG_RESTORE): AU defined.
(AC_PROG_CC_WORKS, AC_PROG_CXXCPP, AC_PROG_CXX_WORKS,
AC_PROG_F77_WORKS, AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS, AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING):
Use them.
(AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Move the requirements at its top.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Language Choice): Document them.
(Old Macros): Welcome AC_LANG_SAVE and AC_LANG_RESTORE.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_DECL_YYTEXT): Rename as
(_AC_DECL_YYTEXT): this.
(AC_PROG_LEX): Use it.
(AC_DECL_YYTEXT): New AU macro.
* doc/autoconf.texi: Adjust.
* doc/autoconf.texi: Use @sc where upper case names were used.
Remove a few useless `dnl'.
Convert some `dnl' into comments.
Promote `$(foo)' in Makefiles, not `${foo}'.
Promote `$foo' in shell scripts, not `${foo}'.
Promote `foo = bar' in Makefiles, not `foo=bar'.
(Language Choice): Document `AC_LANG', move `AC_LANG_C',
`AC_LANG_CPLUSPLUS' and `AC_LANG_FORTRAN77' to
(Old Macros): here.
* doc/install.texi: Fix a typo in the specification of the system
quadruples.
lists in between parens.
(m4_foreach_quoted): new copy of the previous `m4_foreach' which
is still used by `m4_wrap'.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_INCLUDE, AC_INCLUDES): Removed.
(AC_FOREACH): Don't use parens with `m4_foreach'.
(AC_CHECK_MEMBER, AC_CHECK_DECLS, AC_CHECK_TYPES): Adjust the
description.
* acspecific.m4 (AC_STRUCT_TIMEZONE, AC_STRUCT_ST_BLKSIZE,
AC_STRUCT_ST_BLOCKS, AC_STRUCT_ST_RDEV): Adjust.
* autoconf.texi (AC_CHECK_MEMBER, AC_CHECK_DECLS, AC_CHECK_TYPES):
Adjust their documentation.
(AC_INCLUDE): Undocument.
* tests/semantics.m4: Adjust.
* tests/actest.m4: Rename as...
* tests/aclocal.m4: this.
* tests/atspecific.m4: No longer include actest.m4.
* tests/torture.m4: Likewise.
* tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
(AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Use AC_LIBOBJ.
* acspecific.m4 (AC_FUNC_MKTIME, AC_FUNC_MEMCMP,
AC_STRUCT_ST_BLOCKS): Use AC_LIBOBJ.
* doc/autoconf.texi : Adjust so that the user is not encouraged to
use LIBOBJS directly.
(Generic Functions): Document AC_LIBOBJ_DECL and AC_LIBOBJ.
Suggested by Jim Meyering.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_SHELL_TMPDIR): New macro.
(_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Use it.
Use more quoted here docs to improve readability.
Compute `$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+"$[@]"}' to `"[$]@"'.
* autoheader.sh: No longer try to select the needed paragraphs of
`acconfig.h', just dump everything into `config.h.in'.
Implement support for `--warnings'.
Warn the users that these auxiliary files are obsolete when `-W
obsolete'.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autoheader): Adjust.
Reported by Jim Meyering.
* autoheader.sh: Trace AC_DEFINE and AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED to build
the list of $syms which are defined.
* tests/tools.m4 (autoheader): New test.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_SH_QUOTE): Don't double quote. Escape the
double quotes too.
(_AC_ECHO_UNQUOTED): Don't double quote :).
(_AC_ECHO, _AC_ECHO_N): Quote the call to _AC_SH_QUOTE.
The autoheader chain needs to be adjusted.
* acgeneral.m4 (AH_VERBATIM): Just pass two arguments to AH_OUTPUT
instead of trying to build what `autoheader' needs: let it handle
the format by itself.
* autoheader.m4: Adjust.
s,tmp/config.h,tmp/config.hin.
The adjustment revealed that `autoconf --trace' is not robust to
single quotes in its argument.
* autoconf.sh: Fix this issue.
Rename the escape `$*' as `$%'. Implement `$@'.
* doc/autoconf.texi: Adjust.
changing value. On the `configure' script of the fileutils:
mawk '{ sub (/foo/, foo++) }' -> 14s.
mawk '{ if ($0 ~ /foo/) sub (/foo/, foo++) }' -> 0.03s.
mawk '{ sub (/foo/, foo) }' -> 0.03s.
* autoconf.sh (task script, AWK script): Run `sub (__oline__,
oline)' only in the lines that match `__oline__'.
Suggested by Paul Eggert.
section.
Document --help=short and recursive.
Split the `Directory' section into `Installation directories' for
--prefix and --exec-prefix, and all the others into `Fine tuning
of the installation directories'.
In the latter, don't repeat `in DIR', the user understands, and it
comes out better.
Default for --exec-prefix is PREFIX.
Reported by Kathryn Hargreaves.
Move --host before --build.
Fix a test on `$ac_init_help' which was not updated.
* tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_TEST_MACRO): Don't check `env-after' if
the file does not exist, which may happen when a `configure' exits
brutally.
* tests/semantics.m4 (AC_CHECK_MEMBERS, AC_CHECK_TYPES): ANSI C++
forbids members named like their hosting struct, so don't do it.
Use `#' to denote Autoconf comments, not `dnl'.
Put a few `' here and there to avoid misfontification and
misindentation.
Use your base name when reporting errors.
(parse_args::usage): Use $0, use the same order as the other
executables.
(parse_args): Don't dump `--help' on cmd line errors.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Old Macro Names): Rename as...
(Old Macros): this. Change the @table enumeration into a list of
@defmac.
(AC_CHECKING, AC_CHECK_TYPE, AC_COMPILE_CHECK, AC_C_CROSS,
AC_DYNIX_SEQ, AC_HAVE_LIBRARY, AC_IRIX_SUN, AC_LINK_FILES,
AC_OUTPUT, AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS, AC_SCO_INTL, AC_VERBOSE,
AC_XENIX_DIR): Move their descriptions into here.
Kill a few TeX warnings.
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.
* autoconf.sh: Use it when possible to create the dir $tmp.
Stop using variables for tmp files, use their names in $tmp.
[install]: Use the new features of autoconf --trace.
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.
to systems without a real /dev/stderr in the file system or if not
using one of the three free awks. Use
print message | "cat >&2"
...
END { close("cat >&2") }
From Aharon Robbins.
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.
record, this is not portable: mawk and nawk understand it as RS =
"". gawk understands it as expected.
* autoconf.sh (translate_awk::BEGIN): No longer change RS.
(translate_awk::body): Move to the END.
Instead, accumulate the input in `request'.
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.
(m4_case,m4_match): Rewrite to use m4_shiftn (for readability reasons).
(m4_for): Add the STEP argument and some argument-verifying asserts.
(m4_split): Correct spaces to tabulator in regexp.
* 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.
file names.
(translate_awk::BEGIN): Set RS to "0" so that the whole file be a
single record.
(translate_awk::trans): Convert from array to function.
(translate_awk::error): New function.
(translate_awk::main action): Implement support for ${sep}@ and
${sep}*. Use trans() and error().
(translate_awk): Don't put space before user functions call, it is
not portable.
Remove trailing `;', this is not C :).
(task trace): Quote `$traces' when you eval it, to protect the
white spaces.
Propagate `translate_awk' failures to `autoconf.sh'.
Translate the quadrigraphs.
* autoheader.sh: s/-eq/=/.
Uniform ordering of variable initializations, option handling.
Don't use quotes where useless (foo=$1, not foo="$1").
Propagate `run_m4' and `run_m4f'.
Use `$0' in --help.
* autoconf.sh: Likewise.
* autoreconf.sh: Likewise.
* autoupdate.sh: Likewise.
* ifnames.sh: Likewise.
* autoupdate.m4: Small bug: at the end `dnl' is disabled, so use
`m4_dnl'.
* autoconf.sh (initialization): New var, new option.
(option loop): When you need an arg, make sure there is one.
(run_m4f): New var, which content is that of the former...
(run_m4): Don't use m4 frozen state files.
Change all callers.
Don't pass AC_LOCALDIR, not documented, and unused.
(task trace): Honor `--verbose' and `--initialization'.
(globally): Send `--verbose' messages in stderr.
Fix random typos.
* autoconf.sh (debug): New var, new option.
Adjust the trap code.
(task trace): Instead of decoding `m4 --trace' with sed, decode it
with m4 itself.
($silent_m4): New file, which disables m4's `errprint'.
($trace_m4): New file. Logistic for the m4 which is in charge of
decoding the traces of the first.
($translate_awk): Transform a user trace request into $trace_m4
code.
