* lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING):
Die when a simple Fortran program cannot be compiled.
* lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_CALL, AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY):
Issue a warning if no function is given.
Move the documentation of AC_TRY_RUN to...
(Obsolete Macros): here.
Adjust all the old samples still using AC_TRY_RUN to AC_RUN_IFELSE.
(autoconf Invocation): Remove the duplicates with `invoking
autom4te'.
* lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDC): Don't use AC_TRY_RUN.
* lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Customizing autom4te): Remove a lost
sentence.
Reported by Burno Haible.
(Language Choice): Now the first section of...
(Writing Tests): this section.
Make the introduction less C-centric.
(Guidelines, Test Functions): Move to...
(Writing Test Programs): this new section.
(Test Programs): Merge into...
(Run Time): this.
* Makefile.maint: Update from the Coreutils.
(AMTAR): Remove, obsolete.
(-automake_repo): Update to redhat.com.
(cvs_file): New.
Adjust to the fact that ansi2knr is now hosted by Automake.
* Maekfile.am (cvs_files): Add install-sh and mkinstalldirs.
* config/config.guess, config/mkinstalldirs, config/texinfo.tex:
Update from masters.
are a few warnings.
* lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4 (AH_VERBATIM, _AH_VERBATIM_OLD):
Quote for Perl '' strings, not "".
* bin/autoheader.in: Invoke autoconf to get '' strings, not ""
strings.
characters is a syntax warning now.
(_AS_QUOTE): Accept $2 as list of characters to quote.
* lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4 (AH_VERBATIM, _AH_VERBATIM_OLD):
Quote for Perl, not sh.
* bin/autoheader.in: When $debug, report the file which is
`do'ne.
* tests/tools.at (autom4te, autoheader): Exercise @bar, not merely
`@', to tickle Perl's lists.
Reported by Carlos Velasco.
Fixes the `AC_ARG_VAR' test failures.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Don't use cmp.
* lib/freeze.mk (check-forbidden-patterns): New.
* lib/autoconf/Makefile.am, lib/autotest/Makefile.am
* lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am (check-local): Use it to catch `cmp'.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): HP-UX' cmp and
/dev/null.
Reported months ago by H. Merijn Brand.
longer required can still cause errors.
Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
* bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Do not prepend `--reload-state'
to frozen files in @ARGV, as @ARGV must remain being a list of
files. Rather, at M4 call sites, use this...
(&files_to_options): New function.
(&freeze): Use &error.
(&up_to_date): If a file that was included according to the cache
is no longer there, then the output is out dated.
(&main): Don't even check whether a file is up to date is anyway
--force is given.
* tests/tools.at (autom4te cache): New.
* bin/autoupdate.in (&parse_args): Kill old options.
* bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args): Remove dead options.
Factor some code.
(&autoreconf): Report the directories we enter *and leave*, so
that error messages can be easily located, and use GNU Make
format, so that Emacs' compile mode understands us.
* lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&update_file): Use `verbose' to report
if some file was changed instead of `print'.
* bin/autoheader.in: Suggest AC_DEFINE with 3 args when needed.
(&parse_args): Remove the dead options.
* tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER): Adjust to the new
autoheader's quiet mode.
(AT_CHECK_AUTOUPDATE): Likewise.
* tests/tools.at (autoupdate): Adjust.
* tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
