in the sed script that mangles the awk script: delete up to the
first exclamation mark only.
* tests/torture.at (Substitute and define special characters):
Test '!' too.
the number of substituted variables by using awk instead of sed
for the bulk of the substitutions.
* NEWS: Mention this.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): `|#_!!_#|' is also
forbidden in the output (and thus input) file.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_AWK_LITERAL_LIMIT): New macro.
(_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE): Instead of several sed scripts,
generate just one large awk script for substitutions,
eliminating much of the earlier complexity, while adding some
new complexity. Only expand the substitution templates at
configure time, for smaller configure script size. If
_AC_SUBST_FILES are used, test 'awk' for working getline support
at config.status time. If absent, interpolate through the
shell. The awk script was written with much help
from Paolo Bonzini and Paul Eggert.
(_AC_SED_CMD_NUM, _AC_SED_DELIM_NUM, _AC_SED_FRAG): Removed.
(_AC_SED_FRAG_NUM): Likewise.
(_AC_SUBST_CMDS): Renamed from...
(_AC_SED_CMDS): ...this.
(_AC_OUTPUT_FILE): Use _AC_SUBST_CMDS.
* tests/torture.at (Substitute a 2000-byte string): Also
substitute a line with 1000 words, and a variable with several
long lines.
(Substitute and define special characters): Test awk special
characters, and put substitution input strings `@foo@' in the
output, to test that no recursion happens; test several other
combinations from Paolo Bonzini.
that replaced echo with AS_ECHO where this wasn't necessary.
Problem reportd by Ralf Wildenhues.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_ECHO_PREPARE): Port to Solaris 7,
where "/usr/bin/printf '%s\n' S" dumps core if S is long.
This is Sun bug 4206210. Problem reportd by Ralf Wildenhues.
with a leading '-', or when given any argument containing '\'.
Avoid using 'echo' in these cases.
* bin/Makefile.am $(bin_SCRIPTS): Rewrite to avoid 'echo' entirely.
* lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX, AC_PROG_OBJC): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Likewise.
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
* bin/autoconf.as: Use AS_ECHO rather than plain echo, when the
argument might be unportable.
* lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_C_O): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/erlang.m4 (AC_LANG(Erlang)): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT):
(_AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ENABLE, _AC_INIT_PREPARE):
(_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE, AC_ARG_PROGRAM, _AC_MSG_LOG_CONFTEST):
(AC_RUN_LOG, _AC_RUN_IFELSE, _AC_LIBOBJS_NORMALIZE): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_DIRECT): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH):
(AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCDIRS, _AC_OUTPUT_HEADER):
(_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS, _AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Likewise.
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_CREATE_DEBUGGING_SCRIPT, AT_INIT):
(AT_CLEANUP, _AT_DECIDE_TRACEABLE, _AT_CHECK): Likewise.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE, _AS_ECHO_UNQUOTED):
(_AS_BASENAME_SED, _AS_DIRNAME_SED, AS_MKDIR_P, AS_TMPDIR, AS_UNAME):
(AS_TR_SH, AS_TR_CPP, AS_VAR_GET): Likewise.
* bin/autoconf.as: Redo verbose flag implementation, as the old
scheme wouldn't work with AS_ECHO.
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_MSG_RESULT, AC_MSG_RESULT_UNQUOTED):
Don't use ECHO_T, since ECHO_N is now reliable.
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_PROGRAM): Use sed "$script"
rather than using a here-document to put the script into a file.
(_AC_DO_ECHO): Hoist the eval out of the echo, so that we can
use AS_ECHO.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_VAR_GET): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Use
AS_ECHO_N rather than ECHO_N and ECHO_C. This doesn't fix any
bug, but we might as well stop using ECHO_N and ECHO_C internally.
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_SETUP): Likewise.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_ECHO_N): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS):
(_AC_OUTPUT_MAIN_LOOP): Rework echo so that it has just one
operand, as AS_ECHO requires. Avoid double file name expansion.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Invoke _AS_ECHO_PREPARE.
Don't set as_nl, since _AS_ECHO_PREPARE does that now.
(_AS_PREPARE): Comment that _AS_ECHO_N_PREPARE is just for user code.
(AS_ECHO, AS_ECHO_N, _AS_ECHO_PREPARE): New macros.
* tests/c.at (AC_PROG_CPP without warnings, AC_PROG_CPP via CC):
Double-quote strings that would otherwise contain M4 comments.
* tests/m4sh.at (AS_ECHO and AS_ECHO_N): New test.
code for --enable, --disable, --with, and --without to...
(_AC_INIT_PARSE_ENABLE): ... a new macro.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Package Options):
* NEWS: Document that AC_ARG_ENABLE allows dots, too.
2006-11-13 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): For --with, --without
options, transliterate also dots to underscores.
(_AC_ENABLE_IF): Transliterate also dots to underscores.
* doc/autoconf.texi (External Software): Document that AC_ARG_WITH's
first argument may also contain dots.
ac_cv_type_long_long_int to 'yes' instead of 'cross-compiling'.
Imported from a similar patch to gnulib by Bruno Haible.
2006-11-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): M4-quote and AS_ESCAPE AT_help_all
properly.
(AT_SETUP): M4-quote and AS_ESCAPE the title properly everywhere.
* tests/autotest.at (AT_CHECK_AT_TITLE): Add EXPANDED-TITLE-TO-TEST
argument. Extend to check titles printed by ./micro-suite and
./micro-suite -l and the title in micro-suite.log.
(Backquote in a test title,
Single-quote in a test title,
Double-quote in a test title): Don't expect failure anymore.
(Backslash in a test title): Put a non-whitespace character after the
backslash so that Bourne shells might actually see it as an escape
sequence.
(Brackets in a test title,
Pound in a test title,
Comma in a test title,
Quoted Macro in a test title,
Macro in a test title,
Macro with single-quote in a test title): New tests.
(Macro with backquote in a test title,
Macro with double-quote in a test title,
Macro with backslash in a test title): New tests expected to fail.
* tests/torture.at (#define header templates): M4-quote this title in
AT_SETUP call so that no M4 code is commented inadvertently somewhere.
The visible effect was a stray [] in the testsuite output.
If FUNCTION-BODY is nonempty, use AC_LINK_IFELSE rather than
AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, to work around problem with OSF/1 4.0F fseeko
reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe for Coreutils 6.4.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Caching Results): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_CACHE_CHECK_INT): Renamed from
AC_CACHE_CHECK_INT, since it's no longer public.
* lib/autoconf/types.m4: All uses of AC_CACHE_CHECK_INT changed.
* tests/base.at (AC_COMPUTE_INT): Test this, not AC_CACHE_CHECK_INT.
looking for special shell characters.
* lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_CHECK_FUNC): Do not expand the
macro defined by AS_VAR_PUSHDEF before passing it as a
parameter.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CHECK_FILE, AC_CHECK_DECL):
* lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (AC_SEARCH_LIBS, AC_CHECK_LIB):
* lib/autoconf/types.m4 (_AC_CHECK_TYPE_NEW, AC_CHECK_MEMBER):
* lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL):
(_AC_CHECK_HEADER_NEW, _AC_CHECK_HEADER_OLD, _AC_CHECK_HEADER_DIRENT):
Likewise.
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Quote parameters of
AS_VAR_* properly.
* tests/m4sh.at (AS_LITERAL_IF): New test.
* build-aux/install-sh (posix_mkdir): Reject FreeBSD 6.1 mkdir -p -m,
which incorrectly sets the mode of an existing destination
directory. In some cases the unpatched install-sh could do the
equivalent of "chmod 777 /" or "chmod 0 /" on a buggy FreeBSD
system. We hope this is rare in practice, but it's clearly worth
fixing. Problem reported by Alex Unleashed in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2006-10/msg00012.html>.
Also, don't bother to check for -m bugs unless we're using -m;
suggested by Stepan Kasal.
2006-10-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Import this change from Automake:
2006-08-23 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
* lib/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm (usage): Mention that -Wportability
is enabled by default with gnu and gnits strictness.
Report from Bruno Haible.
2006-03-10 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
* lib/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm: Make -Wportability the default in
gnu and gnits modes.
Import this change from Config:
2006-09-20 Ben Elliston <bje@gnu.org>
* build-aux/config.sub (score, score-*): New.
Import this change from Gnulib:
2006-09-16 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* doc/fdl.texi (ADDENDUM): switch to @heading from @appendixsubsec,
to avoid sectioning errors.
Import these changes from Texinfo:
2006-10-04 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* build-aux/texinfo.tex (\singlequotechar): rename to \codequoteright.
(\quoteexpand): rename to \rquoteexpand.
(\codequoteleft): new def, to look for @set codequotebacktick.
(\lquoteexpand, \quoteexpand): new defs.
(\lquoteChar, \rquoteChar, \dashChar, \underChar: new \chardef's.
(\code): must use new \...Char values, since now ` is active.
2006-08-26 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* build-aux/texinfo.tex (\textdegree): New command.
2006-08-12 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* build-aux/texinfo.tex (error \box0): smaller font.
(AS_EXECUTABLE_P): Use as_test_x rather than as_executable_p.
(_AS_TEST_PREPARE): Set as_test_x rather than as_executable_p.
Use a better substitute, by inspecting the output of "ls"
rather than just using ":".
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LINK_IFELSE): Use AS_TEST_X
rather than AS_EXECUTABLE_P, since we needn't worry about
non-regular files here.
due to configuration hassles with this. See Tonya Underwood's report
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2006-10/msg00003.html>.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Likewise.
2006-10-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): Don't set BIN_SH.
(_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Don't look in /usr/bin/posix.
2006-10-11 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): Move the
initialization which is not inherited through the environment
(_AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): ... to this new macro.
(_AS_RUN): Call _AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE, not AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE.
comment about ac_cpp_err; it was incorrect, and anyway
ac_cpp_err is being removed below.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_PREPROC_IFELSE): Don't
set ac_cpp_err to 'yesyes' if preproc_warn_flag and werror_flag
are both 'yes'. In fact, don't bother setting ac_cpp_err at all;
nobody uses it.
(_AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, _AC_LINK_IFELSE): Don't log our funky tests
with werror_flag and conftest.err and so forth. This is more
compatible with how _AC_PROG_PREPROC_WORKS_IFELSE behaves,
and anyway the user shouldn't normally want to see this gorp logged.
Problem reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
* lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_WERROR): werror_flag's default is
empty, not 'no', since the rest of the code uses 'test -z'.
shel scripts no longer export BIN_SH, due to configuration
hassles with this.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): Don't set BIN_SH
or DUALCASE.
(_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Don't look in /usr/bin/posix.
Use AS_EXECUTABLE_P rather than test -f.
(AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Set DUALCASE.
(AS_EXECUTABLE_P): Just invoke as_executable_p.
(_AS_TEST_PREPARE): Default to test -f, rather than to nothing.
fseeko testing program twice; just use the earlier result.
* lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (_AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_MACRO_VALUE):
Set cache var to 'unknown' (not 'no') if leaving the macro unset
still doesn't let the program compile.
(AC_SYS_LARGEFILE): Test for _LARGE_FILES only if earlier tests
failed.
* lib/autoconf/functions.m4: Fix problems reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
(AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE): Don't bother to check for error.h. Just
include it, without including anything else.
(AC_FUNC_FSEEKO): Avoid gcc -Wall warnings about constant
expressions.
(AC_FUNC_STRNLEN): Require AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS.
* lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE): Check for
`error.h', and include it, for a `error_at_line' prototype.
Use a nonempty format string in the link test.
* lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_WAIT3): Include <sys/wait.h>,
for a declaration of wait3.
warnings (uninitialized value).
(AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL): Likewise, test for and include <utime.h> if
present.
* lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG_INT): Likewise, add
parentheses.
(AC_STRUCT_TM): Likewise, avoid unused variables.
argument to `--prefix' for sub-configure scripts.
Pass `--silent' to sub-configure scripts.
* tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Add tests
for both changes.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Fix example to
not show `--silent' being passed to a `configure' re-run.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR): Do not check
for the existence of the directory at configure-time. That's
too late, anyway, and possibly the directory isn't part of the
distribution. Problem reported by Stefan Seefeld.
to catch glibc bug 2821
<http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2821>.
Merge from gnulib as follows: Use AC_CHECK_HEADERS_ONCE instead of
AC_CHECK_HEADERS, and likewise for AC_CHECK_FUNCS_ONCE and
AC_CHECK_FUNCS. Don't check for stdlib.h, since we now
assume C89.
f90/f95 because the latter drivers of AIX Fortran 9.1 do not
accept files with extension `.f'. For consistency, also prefer
xlf over f77.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Fortran Compiler): Remove mention of bug
from last patch.
old AC_COMPUTE_INT, which now behaves like _AC_COMPUTE_INT
except the first two arguments are reversed.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Caching Results): New macro AC_CACHE_CHECK_INT.
(Generic Compiler Characteristics): AC_COMPUTE_INT no longer
caches nor outputs a diagnostic. Suggested by Bruno Haible.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CACHE_CHECK_INT): New macro,
equivalent to the old AC_COMPUTE_INT.
(AC_COMPUTE_INT): No longer caches or reports. New signature.
All uses changed to AC_CACHE_CHECK_INT.
* tests/base.at (AC_CACHE_CHECK_INT): New test.
* tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_lsit): Add AC_CACHE_CHECK_INT.
