* lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_copy): Add second implementation for
public use.
(_m4_copy): New macro, which preserves pushdef stacks.
(_m4_defun_pro_outer): Bypass it, for speed.
(m4_init): Bypass new implementation, since it breaks on m4_defn.
* bin/autoupdate.in (handle_autoconf_macros): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_PREREQ): Undefine before redefining,
now that m4_copy checks this.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Redefined M4 Macros) <m4_copy>: Document
this, as well as m4_rename.
* lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4 (m4_copy): Temporarily redefine when
renaming builtins.
* NEWS: Likewise.
* tests/m4sugar.at (m4@&t@_defn): Enhance test.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
* bin/autoupdate.in (_au___undefine): New macro,...
(_au__undefine): ...wrapped by ifdef to silence m4 warnings.
Reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
Return back to GPLv2+, until the text of the exceptions is
finalized, reverting the change from 2007-07-03 and the first
part of the change from 2007-07-20.
Also:
* COPYING: Revert to GPLv2.
* COPYINGv3: New file, since some auxiliary build tools, used for
building autoconf and not installed, are GPLv3.
* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute COPYINGv3.
* NEWS: Remove mention of GPLv3.
* README: Clarify situation regarding GPLv3.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
This includes escaping of characters special to the shell
as well as special to Perl, e.g., leading `<' or `>'.
For example, when $file starts with `>', `open ">$file"'
wrongly tries to append to a different file.
* bin/autoconf.as: Fix quoting for autom4te options.
* lib/Autom4te/General.pm (shell_quote): New function, taken
from coreutils, written by Jim Meyering.
(mktmpdir): Use it.
* bin/autom4te.in (files_to_options, handle_m4): Use shell_quote
and open_quote.
* bin/autoreconf.in (parse_args): Likewise.
* bin/autoscan.in (main): Likewise.
* bin/autoupdate.in (main): Likewise.
* bin/autoheader.in: Likewise, fixing old insufficient escaping.
* bin/ifnames.in: Likewise, XFile usage fixes.
* tests/tools.at (autom4te and whitespace in file names): Extend
test. Test twice, with special characters allowed on w32, and the
rest. Test leading and trailing whitespace, for `open_quote'.
(autotools and whitespace in file names): New, analogous test.
Reported by Paul Eggert and Benoit Sigoure, additional suggestions
by Russ Allbery and Eric Blake.
distinguish m4sugar macros.
* tests/tools.at (autoupdating with aclocal and m4_include):
New test. Bug reported by Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>,
test case by Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>.
macros without parameters.
* lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4 (AU_ALIAS): Likewise.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Obsoleting Macros): Document AU_ALIAS.
* tests/tools.at (autoupdating AU_ALIAS): New test for AU_ALIAS
`$#' bug.
(autoupdate): Updated to match AU_ALIAS fix.
refer to the correct file.
* doc/autoconf.texi (AU_DEFUN): Describe more correctly
the behavior of the third argument.
* lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4 (AU_DEFUN): Describe more
correctly the behavior of the third argument. Document
what the three macros that AU_DEFUN defines do. Fix
warning message when the third argument includes $0
(reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz).
* doc/autoconf.texi: Don't say that the third parameter
is broken.
* lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4 (AU_DEFINE): New dummy macro.
(AU_DEFUN): Honor the third parameter, create autoupdate
macros with AU_DEFINE.
* lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_USG, AC_MEMORY_H,
AC_DIR_HEADER): Use AU_DEFUN's third parameter.
* lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_SAVE): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_RSH): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_HAVE_POUNDBANG,
AC_ARG_ARRAY, AC_CYGWIN, AC_EMXOS2, AC_MINGW32,
AC_XENIX_DIR): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_INT_16_BITS, AC_LONG_64_BITS,
AC_STRUCT_ST_BLKSIZE, AC_STRUCT_ST_RDEV): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4: Remove FIXME.
* tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_AU_MACRO): Ignore stderr, check
that the macro is not present anymore in the updated
configure.ac.
* tests/tools.at (autoupdate AC_LINK_FILES): Ignore stderr
of autoupdate.
(&verbose): Remove.
(&getopt): Adjust the note and verb channels, depending upon
--verbose.
* bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoscan.in,
* bin/autoupdate.in: Adjust.
Use &verb, not &verbose.
* bin/autom4te: Adjust.
In particular, be Autoconf tools are really silent when properly
working, bind the verbosity of the 'note' channel to $verbose.
* lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_file, &mtime, &update_file)
(&xsystem, &contents): Remove, since they are exported by...
* lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm: this.
More perldoc.
* lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&up_to_date_p): Move to...
* lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm: here.
* bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in (BEGIN): Make
them uniform, and more robust to Perl special characters.
Reported by Martin Mokrej.
to a shell that can handle redirection or quoting correctly.
Override SHELL with the shell detected by configure.
Use of $^O suggested by Tim van Holder.
* bin/autom4te.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
* bin/autoreconf.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
* bin/autoscan.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
* bin/autoupdate.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
* bin/ifnames.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
* bin/ifnames.in: Add final newline to help and version messages.
* lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Translate colons,
to cope with DOS-style absolute paths, when constructing
${ac_make}.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS, _AC_OUTPUT_FILES):
When constructing paths with IFS=:, quote the path. If we're
constructing a DOS-style absolute path, we don't want to split it
on the colon.
* tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_CONFIGURE): Fix typo
in description.
* bin/autoupdate.in (&parse_args): Kill old options.
* bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args): Remove dead options.
Factor some code.
(&autoreconf): Report the directories we enter *and leave*, so
that error messages can be easily located, and use GNU Make
format, so that Emacs' compile mode understands us.
* lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&update_file): Use `verbose' to report
if some file was changed instead of `print'.
* bin/autoheader.in: Suggest AC_DEFINE with 3 args when needed.
(&parse_args): Remove the dead options.
* tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER): Adjust to the new
autoheader's quiet mode.
(AT_CHECK_AUTOUPDATE): Likewise.
* tests/tools.at (autoupdate): Adjust.
* tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in, lib/Autom4te/General.pm,
lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm, lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Add local variables
so that Emacs setups GNU style for perl-mode and cperl-mode.
name, so that symlinks to 'autoconf' work properly. Bug reported
by Bruno Haible.
* bin/autoheader.in (AUTOM4TE): Likewise.
* bin/autoreconf.in (autoconf, autoheader): Likewise.
* bin/autoscan.in (autom4te): Likewise.
* bin/autoupdate.in (autom4te): Likewise.
* bin/autoupdate.in: Ditto.
* bin/autoheader.in: Reworded a few comments.
* bin/autoconf.in: Reworded help text for a few options.
* bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
* bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in: Ditto.
the maintainer is dumb enough to do that...
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_SETUP, AT_LINE): Demonstrates your
excellence in M4 quotation: consider `__file__' is active.
And BTW, when invoking m4, pass the --include in the right order:
the wrong one.
* bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoupdate.in: Use reverse when kingtal to
4m.
