and host is irrelevant.
(Specifying Names, Canonicalizing): Remove all references to the
backward compatibility hooks. Rather, collect them all into...
(Hosts and Cross-Compilation): this new section.
* doc/install.texi (System Type): Ditto.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CANONICAL_HOST): Explicitly state
that `--host' implies cross-compilation.
* acgeneral.m4 (build_alias): Set to host_alias if --build is not
given but --host is, and enable cross-compile auto-detection. If
both are, and are different, enable cross compilation.
(AC_CANONICAL_HOST): Adjust help message.
(cross_compiling): Enclose in quotes when testing.
* aclang.m4 (_AC_LANG_COMPILER_WORKS): If cross_compiling is
maybe, set it to yes or no depending on the result of the
execution test.
* doc/autoconf.texi: Document the change.
* doc/install.texi: Likewise.
`--cache-file=config.cache'.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Let `configure' support
`--config-cache' and `-C'.
Report them in `--help'.
Fix the display of missing argument.
(_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Adjust.
* doc/install.texi (Invoking configure): Rename the node as
(Running configure scripts): this, the name of the chapter.
(Operation Controls): Rename as...
(Invoking configure): this.
Document the new options.
* doc/autoconf.texi (direntry): Huh? What is this `aclocal' doing
here? Point to `Invoking configure'.
(Cache Files): No need to document the disabling of the cache.
Using --host enables cross-compilation.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): `--host' enables cross
compilation.
(AC_CANONICAL_BUILD): The help string should explicitly mention
cross compilation.
* aclang.m4 (AC_LANG(C), AC_LANG(C++), AC_LANG(Fortran 77)): Don't
set `cross_compiling'.
(AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX, AC_PROG_F77): Run your `WORK' partner
only if not cross-compiling.
(AC_PROG_CC_WORKS, AC_PROG_CXX_WORKS, AC_PROG_F77_WORKS):
If does not work, don't assume an implicit cross-compilation:
fail.
* doc/autoconf.texi: Adjust.
* doc/autoconf.texi: Use @sc where upper case names were used.
Remove a few useless `dnl'.
Convert some `dnl' into comments.
Promote `$(foo)' in Makefiles, not `${foo}'.
Promote `$foo' in shell scripts, not `${foo}'.
Promote `foo = bar' in Makefiles, not `foo=bar'.
(Language Choice): Document `AC_LANG', move `AC_LANG_C',
`AC_LANG_CPLUSPLUS' and `AC_LANG_FORTRAN77' to
(Old Macros): here.
* doc/install.texi: Fix a typo in the specification of the system
quadruples.
newbies accidentally use a stale cache file.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Set cache_file to /dev/null
to disable caching by default.
(_AC_INIT_HELP): Adjust the --help message.
(AC_CACHE_LOAD, AC_CACHE_SAVE): Don't print "loading/updating
/dev/null" messages.
* autoconf.texi: Note that caching is disabled, how to enable it,
and that `./config.cache' is the traditional name of the cache file.
* install.texi: Likewise.
1999-10-26 Ben Elliston <bje@cygnus.com>
* INSTALL: Regenerate.
1999-09-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* install.texi: Give more details on envvar handling.
