* autoheader.m4 (autoheader::AH_DEFUN): New macro.
* tests/tools.m4: New file, in charge of testing the scripts.
All the dependencies adapted.
* tests/actest.m4 (autoheader::AC_TATOOINE): New macro, used while
testing autoheader.
* tests/atspecific.m4: Create config.hin instead of config.h.in.
quotes.
* libm4.m4 (m4_split): Quote the elements of the list you produce.
* tests/base.m4: New file, testing libm4.
All callers adapted.
Test m4_wrap.
yourself, in order to give better error messages.
(AC_CONFIG_IF_MEMBER): Adapted to the above change.
Quote some regexp active characters ([+.*]).
Suggested by Alexandre Oliva.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Common Behavior): New section, to document
the common behavior of the macros.
(Standard Symbols): New subsection. Describes the transformation
of the AC_DEFINEd names.
(Default Includes): New subsection. Obvious content.
All the ``callers'' updated.
while loops which are breaking conftest.defines and
conftest.undefs into smaller snippets: just use the proper
condition for the while.
Suggested by Alexandre Oliva.
AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS.
Move the definition of AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS here.
(Configuration Links): New section, for AC_CONFIG_LINKS and
AC_LINK_FILES.
(Configuration Files): New section, for AC_CONFIG_FILES.
(Globally) Promote AC_CONFIG_HEADERS over AC_CONFIG_HEADER.
(Using System Type): Don't document AC_CONFIG_LINKS and
AC_LINK_FILES.
(Invoking config.status): Mention CONFIG_COMMANDS.
Document --file and --header.
Talk first of the newest interface of config.status.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Concept Index): New section.
Various entries added.
(Typedefs): Renamed as...
(Types): this. Pay attention to not limiting the documentation to
the typedefs.
(Particular Types): Mention the equivalent generic test.
Promote the GNU coding style at various places.
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.
