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.
(_AC_DIVERT(PARSE_ARGS)): this. Adjust dependencies.
(AC_ARG_WITH): Remove spurious newline.
(AC_ARG_VAR): No longer save precious variables in
ac_configure_args, rather snapshot them twice (one kept
unmodified, another one to be written to/overwritten by the cache
file).
(AC_CACHE_SAVE): Let the cache variables named `ac_cv_env_*'
be overwritten when loading the cache (i.e., don't use the
: ${foo=...} trick).
(_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Compare the two snapshots of the precious
variables.
(_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Call it after having loaded the cache file.
section, Eved off from `Preset Output Variables', i.e., was a
small part of it, grew independent, and is its equal (at least).
(Coding Style): `$#' padding.
* Makefile.am (editsh, editpl): Do what the doc says you do: use
@datadir\@ instead of @''datadir''@.
_AC_PROG_F77_GNU): Use ac_ext. Use ACEOF instead of EOF.
(AC_LANG_CONFTEST): New macro.
(_AC_PROG_CC_G, AC_PROG_CC_C_O, _AC_PROG_CXX_G, AC_PROG_F77_C_O,
_AC_PROG_F77_V_OUTPUT): Use it.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_TRY_CPP, AC_EGREP_CPP, AC_COMPILE_IFELSE,
AC_LINK_IFELSE, AC_RUN_IFELSE): Likewise.
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.
the options, and then optionally a small paragraph.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_DIVERT_ONCE): New macro.
(HELP_VAR_END): New diversion.
(AC_ARG_ENABLE, AC_ARG_WITH, AC_ARG_VAR): Use AC_DIVERT_ONCE.
(AC_ARG_VAR): Follow the --help style.
* acspecific.m4 (AC_PATH_X): Use AC_DIVERT_ONCE.
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.
when detecting the verbose flag than when scanning for linker
options, and as a result the former test failed (under AIX/xlf).
* aclang.m4 (_AC_PROG_F77_V_OUTPUT): New macro to get the
output of linking an F77 program with a given verbose flag,
and preprocess it as required to scan for linker flags.
(_AC_PROG_F77_V): Use the above macro here...
(AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): ...and here, enforcing consistency.
behavior of AC_CONFIG_HEADERS and AC_CONFIG_FILES with respect to
absolute and relative filenames, and stdin/stdout.
(config.status invocation): Likewise.
* autoheader.sh: Be more verbose, and always report your name in
verbose messages.
* autoconf.sh: Likewise.
* autoreconf.sh: Likewise.
(update.sh): Redirect ls's stderr to /dev/null.
leads to unnecessary warnings if both C and Fortran are checked.
(AC_PROG_F77_C_O): AC_REQUIRE AC_PROG_F77 instead of pretend you
need to be AC_BEFORE it.
causes the compiler to output verbose linking information.
(AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Use _AC_PROG_F77_V instead of
simply "-v"
(AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): New algorithm to parse flags, uses
set/shift shell commands.
(AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Set FLIBS at end, after determining
ac_cv_flibs.
