as well.
(_AC_INIT_HELP): Likewise.
(NEWS): Note checking for configure.gnu.
* doc/autoconf.texi: Document checking for configure.gnu when
recursing subdirectories.
what languages are affected by CPPFLAGS, LDFLAGS and LIBS.
Extended description of LDFLAGS and LIBS.
(Compilers and Preprocessors, C Compiler Characteristics):
Recommend Automake as the source of ansi2knr.
(Autoconf Language, Quotation and Nested Macros): English fixes.
(Quotation and Nested Macros): Unclear example replaced with
an explanation of when m4 expands quotes. Added explanation why
unquoted calls are dangerous.
function calls.
Reported by John David Anglin.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Start the AWK
section.
* tests/tools.m4 (AWK portability): New test.
operator when \(\) is used, and matches a string longer than 120
characters.
Reported by Geoff Keating.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Some words about
this.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_SHELL_DIRNAME): Fall back to echo|sed if expr
fails.
From Paul Eggert.
* acspecific.m4 (_AC_HEADER_TIOCGWINSZ_IN_TERMIOS_H,
_AC_HEADER_TIOCGWINSZ_IN_SYS_IOCTL, AC_HEADER_TIOCGWINSZ,
AC_SYS_POSIX_TERMIOS): New macros from both Automake and the
fileutils.
AC_CANONICAL_* revamping.
Reported by Peter Eisentraut.
In fact, let's just use the precious variables handling.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_VALIDATE_CACHED_SYSTEM_TUPLE): Obsoleted.
(_AC_ARG_VAR_PRECIOUS): New macro, eved from...
(AC_ARG_VAR): this macro. Adjust.
(_AC_INIT_PREPARE): `build_alias', `host_alias', and
`target_alias' are precious.
* doc/autoconf.texi: Adjust.
section, Eved off from `Preset Output Variables', i.e., was a
small part of it, grew independent, and is its equal (at least).
(Coding Style): `$#' padding.
* Makefile.am (editsh, editpl): Do what the doc says you do: use
@datadir\@ instead of @''datadir''@.
way of accessing Fortran name-mangling information other than
through CPP, and without having to know the different possible
name-mangling schemes.
* autoconf.texi: Documented AC_F77_FUNC
`size_t' which are often used too.
Fix a bug which prevents recognition of `bool' and `char'.
(_AC_CHECK_TYPE_MAYBE_TYPE_P): New macro.
(AC_CHECK_TYPE): Use it.
_AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING.
(_AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING): Use independent checks for the
name mangling of symbols with and without underscores.
Use algorithm with for loops instead of recursive macro calls.
(AC_F77_WRAPPERS): Adapt to changes in _AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Fortran 77 Compiler Characteristics):
Remove documentation of AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING.
Remove documentation of f77_case and f77_underscore.
Replace AC_F77_FUNC_WRAPPER with AC_F77_WRAPPERS.
Macros): Don't give boring internal details.
(Language Choice): Typo.
(Limitations of Builtins): Some about `!', `set', `$@'.
(Coding Style): Some about $[@] quotation.
Some about cross-compilation.
In fact, rename this option as -A, --autoconf-dir.
* autoconf.sh: Complain when -m, --macrodir is used.
Accept -A, --autoconf-dir.
Use $autoconf_dir instead of $AC_MACRODIR.
Adjust --help.
* autoheader.sh: Likewise.
* autoscan.sh: Likewise.
* autoupdate.sh: Likewise.
Use $optarg.
* autoreconf.sh: Likewise.
* doc/autoconf.texi: Adjust.
* tests: Adjust the test suite.
behavior of AC_CONFIG_HEADERS and AC_CONFIG_FILES with respect to
absolute and relative filenames, and stdin/stdout.
(config.status invocation): Likewise.
* autoreconf.sh (update.sh): Use `ls -1dt' instead of `-lt'.
Use test instead of sed.
<automake>: If automake is used, always run it: it has its own
mechanism not to update if unneeded.
In fact, honor the most recent specification in the concatenation
of `syntax',$WARNINGS,<options> in that order.
Implement support for `none' and `noCATEGORY' so that the options
may override the previous choices.
Suggested by Didier Verna.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_WARNING_IFELSE): New macro.
(AC_WARNING_IFELSE): Use this macro to implement the new specs.
(AC_WARNING): The empty category must not be used, default to
`syntax'.
* doc/autoconf.texi (autoconf Invocation, Reporting Messages): Adjust.
* autoconf.sh: Adjust.
Use `optarg' to fetch the arguments of options.
Fix a bug in the handling of `--trace='.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_CACHE_VAL): Typo: the macro was complaining iff
it shouldn't have.
* doc/autoconf.texi: Free Franc,ois Pinard from iftex and ifinfo,
use @,c.
Don't use `@code{m4}' when you mean M4, just as you shall not say
`@code{cc}' when you refer to the C language.
