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.
* 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.
* autoconf.in ($automate): New var.
(task script): Use autom4te.
* autom4te.in (File::Spec): Use it.
(&find_file): New.
(&parse_args): --warning is -W, not -w.
Find the top level files.
(&handle_m4): Pass the warnings flags.
Don't report verbosely m4's failures, unless requested.
(&handle_output): Don't complain for forbidden tokens in comments.
Be sure to report all the forbidden tokens within a single line.
(&trace_format_to_m4): Preserve `$_'.
(&handle_traces): Sort the output macros.
(&up_to_date_p): Find the files before trying to get its time stamp.
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.
compiler, not the preprocessor.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): No longer use
dedicated code to check for inttypes.h, as AC_CHECK_HEADERS does
the right thing.
* Makefile.am (.m4.m4f): Emphasize M4 error messages and fail
earlier if there are.
* Makefile.am (.m4.m4f): Pass --fatal-warnings to m4.
* acgeneral.m4 (_m4_divert(VERSION_FSF))
(_m4_divert(VERSION_USER)): New.
(AC_COPYRIGHT): $2 is the diversion to use.
(_AC_INIT_COPYRIGHT): Use the FSF diversion.
(AC_INIT): Remove dead comments as now it's commutative.
(edit).
* m4sh.m4 (AS_UNAME): Eved out from...
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): here.
(_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): Define AC_PACKAGE_NAME.
(_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): AC_SUBST the PACKAGE_ variables.
Propagate their use in the executables and the test suite.
* tests/atgeneral.m4 (PATH): Include only absolute paths.
(AT_INIT): Use AS_UNAME.
`0'. Test and fix.
Reported by Assar Westerlund.
* Makefile.am (maintainer-check): New target.
* tests/Makefile.am (maintainer-check, maintainer-check-posix)
(maintainer-check-c++, expr): Likewise.
* configure.in (EXPR): Look for it.
* tests/atgeneral.m4 (AT_CHECK): Propagate $2's default value.
* tests/compile.at (Extensions): New test.
* aclang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT, _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O):
Distinguish files with or without a dot.
* autoreconf.sh: Likewise.
* autoheader.sh: Ditto.
* autoupdate.sh: Similarly.
* doc/autoconf.texi: Adjust.
* tests/atspecific.m4: Be sure to remove configure.in.
Adjust the test suite to use `configure.ac'.
