given in the prologue of acobsolete.m4.
* acgeneral.m4 (Prologue): Enter the `autoconf' name space.
(AU_DEFUN): New macro.
* autoupdate.m4: New file.
Disable the name spaces `autoconf', and `libm4'. Disable libm4.
* Makefile.am: Tuned to support the changes above.
* autoupdate.sh: Model after autoconf.sh.
Can run on several files at once (for instance m4/*.m4).
Don't touch files that are up to date.
Run m4 on autoupdate.m4f instead of playing with sed.
Use AU_DEFUN.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_LINK_FILES, AC_ENABLE, AC_WITH): Use AU_DEFUN,
remove the call to AC_OBSOLETE.
* acspecific.m4 (AC_CYGWIN32): Likewise.
* acoldnames.m4: Replaced all the definitions via `define' or
`AC_DEFUN' to use `AU_DEFUN'.
* acoldnames.m4: Use `#', not `dnl'.
Don't spread `dnl' everywhere, anyway, we are in a divert(-1).
* autoconf.m4: Likewise.
* autoheader.m4: Likewise.
in the `libm4' name space.
* libm4 (m4_changequote, m4_define, m4_defn, m4_dnl, m4_indir,
m4_undefine): Private copies in the global name space. Used by
the name space mechanisms.
(m4_namespace_register): New macro.
(m4_namespace_define): Use it.
(builtin, changequote, defn, dnl, esyscmd, ifdef, ifelse, indir,
patsubst, popdef, pushdef, regexp, undefine, syscmd, sysval): Put
in the `libm4' name space.
(m4_disable, m4_enable): Use the private m4_indir, otherwise once
`libm4' closed, there is no `indir' available, and therefore no
means to reopen a name space.
output can be problematic with autoupdate.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_INIT_NOTICE): Output ac_includes_default.
(Default includes section): No longer dump ac_includes_default in
AC_DIVERSION_INIT.
* autoheader.m4 (AH_HOOK): Removed.
(AH_DEFUN): Define in the `autoheader' name space.
Use only AH_DEFUN to define macros in this file.
(epilogue): No longer run the `AH_HOOKS', enter the `autoheader'
name space.
* autoconf.sh: Give your name while reporting errors.
Don't spit --help for errors on arguments.
* autoreconf.sh: Likewise.
* autoheader.sh: Likewise.
More temporary files that one can browse when debugging.
Don't ${var}, just $var.
Don't dump --help when the arguments are invalid.
(config_h): Use the empty value instead of `undefined' to check
that it is defined.
* acspecific.m4: Formatting changes.
(Invoking autoconf): A better help on --trace.
(Defining Symbols): Advocate a proper use of the quotes in m4
code, including if the quotes are sometimes useless. It is bad,
very bad not to quote properly, so quote all the examples
properly.
(Cache Files): Use a unary call to define, instead of an empty
$2.
(Using System Type): Watch out TeX wrapping.
(Pretty Help Strings): Don't give too long a snippet of --help.
Promote the coding style of Autoconf. Quote properly.
yourself. This allows to see everything that is AC_PROVIDEd via
autoconf --trace.
(AC_SPECIALIZE): define'd, not AC_DEFUN'd.
(AC_PROVIDE): Use define with a single arg, instead of an empty $2.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_TRY_COMPILER, AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC, AC_CHECK_LIB,
AC_TRY_COMPILE, AC_TRY_LINK, AC_TRY_RUN_NATIVE, AC_CHECK_FUNC):
Use AC_LANG_CASE instead of ifelse (AC_LANG, ...).
(AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC): Quote the body the the AC_DEFUN (whoa, how
could this survive so long?!?).
* doc/autoconf.texi (Header Templates): Promote #if over #ifdef;
and #undef over #define in templates.
* acspecific.m4 (AC_DECL_SYS_SIGLIST, AC_FUNC_MMAP,
AC_FUNC_SETPGRP, AC_FUNC_VFORK, AC_FUNC_SELECT_ARGTYPES): Use #if,
not #ifdef and #ifndef, indent CPP directives.
default headers in the INIT section of configure: the reason is
that AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT is called unquoted, and this results in
an un expected behavior. Thanks to Roman V. Shaposhnick for the
details.
The current implementation is not satisfying: the default headers
are defined in the INIT section even if they are not used.
* acgeneral.m4 (Prologue of AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULTS): Dump the
definition of ac_includes_default in the INIT section of
configure.
(AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULTS): Use it.
test.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Don't over quote $1, some []
were left in the C code, and had the macro fail.
Use AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT.
* doc/autoconf.texi: Mention default includes. Explain stdio.h
must always be given.
* tests/atspecific.m4 (TEST_MACRO): Updated the list of
exceptions.
(AT_CHECK_DEFINES): New macro, to check the content of config.h.
* tests/semantics.m4: All the tests are updated to use
AT_CHECK_DEFINES.
Test AC_CHECK_SIZEOF, AC_CHECK_HEADERS, and AC_CHECK_FUNCS.
Autoconf testing.
* tests/suite.m4 (AT_TEST_MACRO): Moved to
* tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_TEST_MACRO): here.
* tests/syntax.m4 (TEST_MACRO): Moved to
* tests/atspecific.m4 (TEST_MACRO): here. Don't test /^AC_INIT/,
nor /^AC_PROG_(CC|CXX|F77)_(GNU|WORKS)$/: they are already
tried elsewhere.
* tests/Makefile.am: Adjusted.
condition out the test case if __cpluscplus.
Don't document the autoheader template twice, one is enough.
* autoheader.m4 (AC_CONFIG_HEADER): don't hook on this guy, but
on...
(AC_CONFIG_HEADERS), since the former is defined on the latter.
for it. Just quote properly!
condition out the test case if __cpluscplus.
AC_REQUIRE AC_PROG_CC_STDC.
Fix slightly the display of the result (formerly the first run
says `none needed', and later, because of the cache `no').
(AC_C_INLINE, AC_C_VOLATILE): AC_REQUIRE AC_PROG_CC_STDC.
* doc/autoconf.texi (AC_C_CONST): Give a few hints on the
motivation for trusting the C++ compilers.
(AT_CASE): new macro.
(AT_CHECK): Use it. Don't changequote for patsubst, there is no
need.
* tests/syntax.m4 (TEST_MACRO): Don't run AC_ARG_VAR.
Reported by Jim Meyering.
Use AT_CASE.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_CANONICAL_THING): define, not AC_DEFUN.
Don't AC_PROVIDE, there is no need.
When calling `config.sub`, also || exit 1, to catch failures from
config.sub.
* acspecific.m4 (AC_SYS_LONG_FILE_NAMES): Use ac_val, not val.
(AC_EXEEXT): Use ac_file, not file.
* tests/actest.m4: New file, holding extra Autoconf macros used
during the testing.
(AC_ENV_SAVE): New macro, save the sh variables in a file.
* tests/suite.m4 (AT_TEST_MACRO, Generation of configure.in):
include actest.m4, and call twice AC_ENV_SAVE to compare the
variables before and after the macro.
* tests/Makefile.am (macro.m4): Don't test macros that are
required: they will be tested somewhere else.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_CHECK_MEMBER): It is not smart to define
ac_Foo, and use AC_Foo. Got rid of AC_Member_Aggregate and
AC_Member_Member which were complicating more than simplifying.
(AC_CHECK_DECLS): Use m4 lists.
(AC_CHECK_TYPES): A comma was missing.
* autoheader.m4: (AC_CHECK_DECLS): Use m4 lists.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Declarations): AC_CHECK_DELCS uses m4
lists.
* tests/semantics.m4: New file. Collection of semantical tests:
verify that the tests are positive and negative when appropriate.
Test AC_CHECK_MEMBERS, AC_CHECK_DECLS and AC_CHECK_TYPES.
* autoheader.m4 (AH_DEFUN): New macro. Combination of define and
AH_HOOK.
(AC_TRY_RUN, AC_DEFINE, AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED, AC_CHECK_LIB,
AC_CHECK_HEADERS, AC_CHECK_HEADERS_DIRENT, AC_CHECK_DECLS,
AC_CHECK_FUNCS, AC_CHECK_SIZEOF, AC_PROG_LEX, AC_CHECK_MEMBERS,
AC_CHECK_TYPE, AC_FUNC_ALLOCA, AC_CHECK_TYPES, AC_C_CHAR_UNSIGNED,
AC_AIX, AC_F77_WRAPPERS, AC_CONFIG_HEADER): All the former calls
to define and AH_HOOK in autoheader.m4 are replaced by AH_DEFUN.
