-x' and `test -f' to avoid confusing users with error messages.
(AS_MKDIR_P): Invert order of separators in IFS to avoid problem
with some shells adding backslash between fields and parsing the
result for escapes.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Document IFS.
(_AS_QUOTE_IFELSE): Use it.
* tests/atgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT) <SHELL>: Define and use.
<--help> Don't display the options help when tests were selected.
Document -d.
<at_skip_list>: New.
<testsuite.log>: Give a banner, include ChangeLog snippets, list
the failed and skipped tests.
Remove useless $at_traceoff in sub shells, this improves the
readability of the traces by removing testsuite's implementation
details.
(AT_CHECK): Filter out the shell traces from the tested command's
stderr.
Use AS_ESCAPE.
Don't register experr and expout for clean up, as it's hairy and
easier to do from...
Support STDOUT = stdout, and STDERR = stderr.
Force the output of shell traces.
(AT_INIT): Here.
* m4sugar.m4 (m4_divert, m4_divert_push, m4_divert_pop): Keep
track of them in m4_divert_stack.
(m4_divert_pop): Accept the expected current diversion as
argument and m4_fatal if incorrect, or if there is nothing to pop.
(globally): Specify the known m4_divert_pop.
Preserve symbolic values when possible.
* acgeneral.m4: No longer push the first diversion.
Specify the known m4_divert_pop.
(AC_PLAIN_SCRIPT): When m4_divert_push a diversion, m4_wrap its
pop.
(AC_INIT): Run AC_PLAIN_SCRIPT first, not last.
* tests/m4sh.at (AS_DIRNAME & AS_DIRNAME_SED): Can't use m4_defun
without m4_init.
* m4sugar.m4: Likewise.
* m4sugar.m4: Formatting changes.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_DIVERT_PUSH, AC_DIVERT_POP, AC_REQUIRE)
(AC_DIAGNOSE, AC_FATAL, AC_MSG_WARN, AC_MSG_NOTICE, AC_MSG_ERROR):
Use m4_copy to define them, in order to keep a good $0.
(AC_INIT): AC_LANG_PUSH C, not AC_LANG, to initialize the stack.
* aclang.m4 (AC_LANG_PUSH): Dont't use m4_defn on undefined macros.
(AC_LANG_POP): Admit an argument specifying the language we quit
when popping.
Adjust Autoconf's AC_LANG_POPs.
* tests/tools.at (AWK portability): Don't depend on AC_INIT.
(autoconf --trace: user macros): Obviously I
meant TRACE1, not AC_TRACE1.
arguments.
(_m4_expansion_stack): Rename as...
(m4_expansion_stack): this, and change its value: instead of using
the pushdef stack to stack each *line* of the stack, each
definition contains the whole stack. I.e., to display the whole
stack, instead of popdefing and displaying each definition, just
display the current definition.
(m4_expansion_stack_push, m4_expansion_stack_pop): New.
* tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF): Let $2 be the expected
exit status.
* tests/m4sugar.m4 (m4_require: circular dependencies): New test.
m4_flatten and m4_strip.
(m4_join): Use m4_normalize.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_FOREACH): Use m4_normalize.
(AC_CONFIG_HEADERS): Normalize the first argument.
(AC_CONFIG_LINKS): Likewise.
(AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS): Likewise.
(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.
otherwise _m4eof is appended to the output on FreeBSD 4.0.
* tests/atgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Avoid using unbalanced "y"
in sed, use "s" instead.
* tests/mktests.sh: Don't use ? in sed - it's a GNU extension.
Use separate patterns for A[CU]_DEFUN and AC_DEFUN_ONCE.
* sh.m4 (AS_WARN, AS_ERROR): Use AS_MESSAGE.
(_AS_ECHO): Fix quotation.
(AS_MESSAGE): Use `as_me'.
* acgeneral.m4: More banners in the log.
(_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Compute as_me before using it.
of the test suite.
* tests/aclocal.m4 (AC_STATE_SAVE): If egrep fails, remove the
output file.
* tests/atspecific.m4 (_AT_CHECK_AC_MACRO): Don't check `state-*'
if the files are not present.
* m4sugar.m4 (m4_join): Rename as...
(m4_smash): this.
* tests/aclocal.m4 (join): Move as...
* m4sugar.m4 (m4_flatten): this.
* autoconf.sh (trace.m4): Rename m4_smash as m4_flatten.
(m4_cr_letters, m4_cr_LETTERS, m4_cr_Letters, m4_cr_digits)
(m4_cr_symbols1, m4_cr_symbols2, m4_re_string, m4_re_word)
(m4_init): New macros.
(m4_token_allow): Remove.
* acgeneral.m4: Don't push BODY into the diversion stack.
(AC_PLAIN_SCRIPT): Do it.
Call m4_init, define the Autoconf patterns.
(AC_INIT): Use AC_PLAIN_SCRIPT.
Remove the useless `dnl' (those where the current diversion is
KILL).
* autoconf.sh (m4_common): Fix quotation.
(finalize.awk): Load forbidden.rx and allowed.rx.
Split the line into tokens, and check their validity.
* tests/tools.at (Forbidden tokens): Adjust.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <expr>: More
information, thanks to Paul Berrevoets, Paul Eggert and David
Morgan.
* sh.m4 (_AS_EXPR_PREPARE): New.
(AS_DIRNAME): Use it.
* tests/atgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Initialize AT_banner_ordinal.
Execute the epilogue of the tests only if a test was run.
Don't built the value of `at_tests_all' by a for loop: expand
AT_TESTS_ALL.
(AT_SETUP): Build AT_TESTS_ALL.
(AT_BANNER): New.
Adjust all the former banners to use it.
(AT_CHECK): Don't trace the decoding of $?.
* tests/atgeneral.m4 (_m4_divert(SUITE_PRO), _m4_divert(TESTS))
(_m4_divert(SUITE_EPI), _m4_divert(TEST)): New diversions.
Push the first two diversions.
(AT_INIT): Don't.
(AT_INIT, AT_SETUP, AT_CLEANUP): Adjust to use the named
diversions.
(AT_CLEANUP_FILES): New macros.
(AT_SETUP, AT_CHECK, AT_CLEANUP): Use them.
(AT_CHECK): Fix a use of at_verbose.
* tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF, AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER)
(AT_CHECK_CONFIGURE): New macros.
As a known side effect, currently any code outside
AT_SETUP/AT_CLEANUP is discarded.
* acgeneral.m4 (_m4_divert(KILL)): Move to...
* m4sugar.m4: here.
* tests/atgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Use m4_divert_push/pop instead of
m4_divert.
Put all the tests inside a for;case.
Define TESTS.
(AT_SETUP, AT_CLEANUP): Open/close each case.
* tests/atgeneral.m4: Import M4sh.
Adjust the differences on the names of the builtins (define etc.).
(AT_CASE): Remove, use m4_case.
(AT_SETUP): Don't use `AT_group_description', `$1' is OK.
* tests/atspecific.m4 (m4_for, m4_foreach): Remove, use those of
M4sugar.
* tests/m4sugar.at: Strengthen the quotation and adjust to the new
macro names.
* tests/m4sh.at: Ditto.
* tests/torture.at: Ditto.
* tests/base.at: Ditto.
* m4sh.m4: Import M4sugar.
* autoconf.m4: Don't import M4sugar, M4sh does.
* tests/tools.at (Forbidden tokens): Test m4_token_allow.
* m4sugar.m4 (m4_file_append, m4_token_allow): New macros.
* autoconf.sh (task script): Pass `tmp' and `verbose' to
finalize.awk.
(finalize.awk::check_patterns): Eve out from the body.
(finalize.awk): Read `$tmp/tokens_allowed', and don't complain for
these exceptions.
* m4sugar.m4 (_m4_require): $2 defaults to $1.
Rename as...
(m4_require): this.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_REQUIRE): Remove, use m4_require if you want
to get into the gory details.
comments and empty lines.
Check that freezing produced no output.
* m4sugar.m4: Commentize what was not.
* m4sh.m4: Likewise.
* aclang.m4: Formatting changes.
Autoconf's file, do it afterwards, so that Autoconf promotes the
right use, but users still can use the old names.
Of course this revealed numerous non updated uses of old macros in
Autoconf's files. Adjust them.
But for the time being, keep `define' alive for Autoconf.
