* doc/install.texi (Basic Installation): Clarify installcheck
behavior.
(Installation Names): Mention that --prefix only overrides
directory locations not specified on the command line. Prefer
/alternate/directory over /path/to. Remove a sentence targeted to
the developer, not the user.
* THANKS: Update.
Suggested by Alfred M. Szmidt.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
* doc/install.texi (Basic Installation): Mention that INSTALL is
generic, and that not all packages implement all features.
Mention 'make distcheck' for maintainers, and 'make installcheck'
for users. Mention the GNU Coding Standards.
(Installation Names): Mention DESTDIR vs. 'make prefix= install'
as ways to alter the configuration, with caveats of each. Move
--program-prefix discussion...
(Optional Features): ...here. Mention --enable-silent-rules and
use of make V=0.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
* doc/install.texi (Basic Installation): Use better markup.
(Multiple Architectures): Introduce the term VPATH.
(Installation Names): Mention that --prefix must be absolute.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Preset Output Variables)
(Installation Directory Variables): Consistently refer to GNU
Coding Standards.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
* ChangeLog: Relicense under GPL.
* ChangeLog.0: Likewise.
* ChangeLog.1: Likewise.
* ChangeLog.2: Likewise.
* THANKS: Likewise.
* m4/m4.m4: Use latest wording of FSF all-permissive license.
* m4/make-case.m4: Likewise.
* doc/install.texi: Likewise.
* tests/statesave.m4: Relicense to match rest of testsuite; this
file does not need all-permissive license since it is not designed
for reuse by other packages.
* BUGS: Relicense under all-permissive license.
* HACKING: Likewise.
* NEWS: Likewise.
* README: Likewise.
* README-alpha: Likewise.
* README-hacking: Likewise.
* TODO: Likewise.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
* doc/install.texi (Particular Systems): For HP-UX, also recommend
-D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500. Needed for the declaration of mbstate_t on
HP-UX 11.11.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
* doc/install.texi [!autoconf]: Ensure first paragraphs are
indented like all others in a plain text rendering.
* Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/INSTALL): Ensure plaintext formatting.
Reported by Bruno Haible.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
* doc/install.texi (Compiling For Multiple Architectures): Explain
how to create universal binaries on MacOS X.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
Mention that some macros are now documented to be obsolescent.
* doc/autoconf.texi:
Prefer "current" to "modern" to describe
currently-used (albeit perhaps old-fashioned) hosts.
Mention which ancient features no longer need to be worried about.
setgid -> set-group-ID
setuid -> set-user-ID (these are the Posix terms)
Fix some misuses of "only".
(AC_C_BACKSLASH_A, AC_C_CONST, AC_C_PROTOTYPES):
(AC_C_STRINGIZE, AC_C_VOLATILE, AC_FUNC_CLOSEDIR_VOID):
(AC_FUNC_GETPGRP, AC_FUNC_LSTAT, AC_FUNC_MEMCMP):
(AC_FUNC_SELECT_ARGTYPES, AC_FUNC_SETPGRP):
(AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED, AC_FUNC_STAT, AC_FUNC_STRFTIME):
(AC_FUNC_STRNLEN, AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL, AC_FUNC_VPRINTF):
(AC_HEADER_DIRENT, AC_HEADER_STAT, AC_HEADER_STDC):
(AC_HEADER_SYS_WAIT, AC_HEADER_TIME, AC_ISC_POSIX):
(AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL, AC_STRUCT_TM):
Mention that these macros are obsolescent.
(Installation Directory Variables): shall -> should
(File Descriptors): Mention that 0, 1, 2 might get reopened.
Mention that it's now safe to use 3 and 4.
(Limitations of Usual Tools): cp -r is now specified by Posix.
Omit longwinded and obsolescent discussion of cp -f.
Modernize discussion of expr, ls.
(Limitations of Make): Modernize discussion of VPATH builds.
Mention $? as a workaround in some cases.
* doc/install.texi (Basic Installation):
Mention "./configure; make; make install" first. Be more
specific about why this file is generic. Remove unnecessary
parens. Remove misleading "only". Remove obsolete advice
about csh. Don't say "configure" takes awhile; say it
might take a while. Suggest CFLAGS=-g rather than CFLAGS=-O2,
and CC=c99 rather than CC=c89, as these are blessed by current
Posix. Recommend GNU make if doing a VPATH build.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction): Likewise.
Reword to avoid some formatting glitches.
Use "#!/bin/sh", not "#! /bin/sh"; the space isn't needed these days.
Clarify explanation of HP compiler bug.
Redo example output tp match current CVS snapshot.
Use @example.org in email addresses when the examples
might get inadvertently cut-and-pasted into user code.
Remove example of autom4te usage that doesn't seem to work now.
Use modern AC_INIT (except when the example is meant to be
shown with Autoconf 2.13).
Update ksh info for Solaris 9 and later.
KB -> kB.
Modernize description of Automake versions a bit.
Don't claim a future version of Autoconf is near.
Add [] to examples, so that the manual
follows its own advice about quoting better.
* doc/install.texi: Reword to avoid some formatting glitches.
and host is irrelevant.
(Specifying Names, Canonicalizing): Remove all references to the
backward compatibility hooks. Rather, collect them all into...
(Hosts and Cross-Compilation): this new section.
* doc/install.texi (System Type): Ditto.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CANONICAL_HOST): Explicitly state
that `--host' implies cross-compilation.
* acgeneral.m4 (build_alias): Set to host_alias if --build is not
given but --host is, and enable cross-compile auto-detection. If
both are, and are different, enable cross compilation.
(AC_CANONICAL_HOST): Adjust help message.
(cross_compiling): Enclose in quotes when testing.
* aclang.m4 (_AC_LANG_COMPILER_WORKS): If cross_compiling is
maybe, set it to yes or no depending on the result of the
execution test.
* doc/autoconf.texi: Document the change.
* doc/install.texi: Likewise.
`--cache-file=config.cache'.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Let `configure' support
`--config-cache' and `-C'.
Report them in `--help'.
Fix the display of missing argument.
(_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Adjust.
* doc/install.texi (Invoking configure): Rename the node as
(Running configure scripts): this, the name of the chapter.
(Operation Controls): Rename as...
(Invoking configure): this.
Document the new options.
* doc/autoconf.texi (direntry): Huh? What is this `aclocal' doing
here? Point to `Invoking configure'.
(Cache Files): No need to document the disabling of the cache.
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.
* 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.
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.
1999-10-26 Ben Elliston <bje@cygnus.com>
* INSTALL: Regenerate.
1999-09-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* install.texi: Give more details on envvar handling.
