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.
* bin/autoupdate.in (&handle_m4_macros, &handle_autoconf_macros):
New, extracted from main.
Use IO::File wherever possible.
(input.m4): Be constant, use -I instead of hard coding $tmp.
Therefore be a quoted heredoc.
Don't invoke `_au_disable', since ac was not loaded, but just
`unm4.m4'.
* bin/autoupdate.in: Use --include, -I, and --force, -f, too.
Use directly autom4te, not autoconf.
* tests/autoupdate: $top_srcdir/lib is needed too for melt files.
* bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in: Use them.
* bin/autom4te.in ($autoconf): Pass --force.
`print $out' doesn't print `$_' but `$out'.
* tests/tools.at (Syntax of the Perl scripts): Pass the lib dir.
(autoheader): Pass --force since the test suite goes too fast for
the time stamps.
Adjust to the new autoheader messages.
* bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoheader.in: Adjust.
Drop AC_MACRODIR dead for real.
* tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER): Now autoheader says
`autoheader: `config.hin' is created'.
* tests/tools.at (Syntax of the Perl scripts): Check autoheader.
Map --localdir, --autoconf-dir onto it.
Forward autom4te's options instead of interpreting them.
* bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoheader.in (AC_MACRODIR, autoconf_dir):
There is no such envvar since the inception of autom4te.cfg.
* bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Uniquify `@include'.
* bin/autoupdate.in: Adjust, and perform more control.
* tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF): Adjust.
* tests/autoconf: Dittowise.
* bin/autom4te.in (&find_file): Support `FILE?' standing for
optionally `FILE'.
Use -e, not -f, since /dev/null for instance is OK.
(&parse_args): Adjust.
* lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): Add `acsite.m4?' and `aclocal.m4?'.
* bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
* bin/autoscan.in, autoupdate.in: Use exclusively the name of the
installed peer executables, only PATH is allowed to resolve it.
Pass `autoconf_dir' via options, not via invisible envvars.
* lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_peer): Remove.
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): `AUTOTEST_PATH=a:b' gives
`abuild:asrc:bbuild:bsrc', not `abuild:bbuild:asrc:bsrc'.
* man/Makefile.am: Let help2man rely on PATH instead of trying to
find the executables for it.
* tests/Makefile.am: Major cleanup. Too lazy to document...
* tests/atlocal.in: Remove all the obscure envvar manipulations.
We only need PERL.
* tests/atspecific.m4, tests/tools.at: Passing --localdir is
indeed related to running the test suite, while passing
--autoconf-dir and others is related to running non installed
Autoconf executables. So don't do that, leave it to...
* tests/autoconf, tests/autoheader, tests/autom4te, tests/autoupdate,
* tests/autoscan: New.
* tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR, AT_CHECK_M4SH): Don't
refer to library files: rely on --language.
* lib/Makefile.am (edit, autom4te.cfg): New.
* bin/autom4te.in (BEGIN): Simplify.
Rely on `AC_MACRODIR' in addition of `autom4te_perllibdir'.
(&load_configuration): New. Use it.
(&parse_args): Support --mode, --set, and --melt.
* bin/autoconf.in: Simplify and adjust.
* tests/Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE): Use --set.
* tests/atlocal.in: Adjust.
* BUGS: distcheck and check are weak.
(AT_INIT): Check for the `times' builtin before using it.
Support test ranges as arguments to the testsuite.
Have -e imply -d as the help text suggested.
`ac_top_builddir' to mimic Automake's vocabulary, which much more
readable.
Adjust callers.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Actions): Document the vars
available in commands.
Emphasize the risks of collisions in init-cmds.
