Be sure to read this file if you're using a non released Autoconf.
* tests/tools.at (Syntax of the scripts): The non built tools are
in `$top_srcdir', not `..'.
(autoconf --trace): When using `-i' we need the src tree, not the
build tree.
caused strange messages about AC_ARG_PROGRAM.
Reported by Jim Meyering.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_DEFUN_ONCE): Fix the indirection to
m4_defun_once.
* m4sugar.m4 (m4_defun_once): Also define
`m4_location(MACRO-NAME)'. s/ac_warn/m4_warn/.
Use `m4_defn' to read `m4_location'.
* tests/base.at (AC_REQUIRE & AC_DEFUN_ONCE): Two new tests.
be used early.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Call `_AC_INIT_PREPARE_FDS'.
(_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Don't.
(_AC_INIT_PREPARE_ENVIRONMENT, _AC_INIT_PREPARE_FDS): Rename as...
(_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS_ENVIRONMENT, _AC_INIT_DEFAULTS_FDS): these,
since they are called from `_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS', not
`_AC_INIT_PREPARE'.
(_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS_FDS): Dump `$@' in config.log, not
`$ac_configure_args' which is not computed yet.
value of the VARIABLE argument when looking for executables, we
need to set it to the correct value from AC_CHECK_TOOL when not
just passing on the incoming VARIABLE directly.
(AC_CHECK_TOOLS, AC_PATH_TOOL): Likewise.
it includes another AU defined macro.
* autoupdate.sh (input.m4:_au_defun): New macro.
(au.m4): Use it instead of inlining _au_enable/_au_disable
invocations in the definition of all these macros.
(input.m4:__au_enable, input.m4:__au_disable): New macros.
(input.m4:_au_enable, input.m4:_au_disable): Use them.
* tests/mktests.sh (update_exclude_list): Add `AC_OUTPUT'.
Running it twice in a configure.in is not valid.
Add `AC_LINK_FILES' since it requires arguments.
* tests/tools.m4 (autoupdating AC_LINK_FILES): New test.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_SHELL_DIRNAME): When using m4 the argument
is named `$1' not `$dir'.
When using m4 you ought to quote properly.
When using m4, you should check that there are not too many shell
quotes (inside the macro itself, and where it is called).
When you do this, Autoconf, hm, works better.
(Special Shell Variables): Adjust.
(Shellology): New section. Introduce bash and zsh.
(Special Shell Variables): Some data on NULLCMD.
(Quotation Thumb Rule): Rename as
(Quotation Rule of Thumb): this.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_SHELL_UNSET): Remove.
(AC_SHELL_UNSETENV): Rename as...
(AC_SHELL_UNSET): this.
(_AC_INIT_PREPARE_ENVIRONMENT): Prepare bash and zsh.
Adjust to AC_SHELL_UNSET.
(AC_INIT): Dispatch your arguments either to _AC_INIT_PACKAGE or
to AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR.
(AU::AC_INIT): New.
* configure.in: Adjust.
Use `#', not `dnl'.
* doc/autoconf.texi (configure.in Layout): Document the new form
of AC_INIT.
Document AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR.
(Obsolete Macros): Document the old one.
Suggested by Jim Meyering.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_SHELL_TMPDIR): New macro.
(_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Use it.
Use more quoted here docs to improve readability.
Compute `$me' and use it in the error messages.
Define `$configure' and `$configure_args' to avoid continuously
mixing the uses of `configure' and `config.status' evaluation in a
single line.
Define `$SHELL' and use it.
Simplify all the unjustified `[$]foo' into `$foo', the quotes
are needed only for `$[1]', `$[@]' etc.
Replace all the uses of `ac_cs_root' with files in the tmp dir of
`config.status'.
Remove a few `rm' covered by the removal of the `$tmp' dir.
Let `config.status' support `--debug'.
(_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Avoid the leading space in `ac_configure_args'.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking config.status): Adjust.
section.
Document --help=short and recursive.
Split the `Directory' section into `Installation directories' for
--prefix and --exec-prefix, and all the others into `Fine tuning
of the installation directories'.
In the latter, don't repeat `in DIR', the user understands, and it
comes out better.
Default for --exec-prefix is PREFIX.
Reported by Kathryn Hargreaves.
Move --host before --build.
Fix a test on `$ac_init_help' which was not updated.
values.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_CACHE_DUMP): New macro.
(AC_CACHE_SAVE, AC_OUTPUT): Use it.
(AC_OUTPUT): Dump confdefs.h into config.log.
(_AC_INIT_PREPARE::config.log): Name the package being configured
if you can.
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.
* autoheader.m4: Dispatch the prototypes next to there AC_
siblings.
(AH_TEMPLATE, AH_VERBATIM): Move to...
* acgeneral.m4: here.
(AH_OUTPUT): New macro.
* autoheader.sh: Run `autoconf --trace' instead of `m4 autoheader.m4'.
* autoheader.m4: Remove.
* Makefile.am: Adjust.
* tests/tools.m4 (AH_DEFUN): Remove, no longer makes sense.
* tests/actests.m4 (autoheader::AC_TATOOINE): Remove, was used by
the test above.
* autoconf.sh: Use it when possible to create the dir $tmp.
Stop using variables for tmp files, use their names in $tmp.
[install]: Use the new features of autoconf --trace.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Stop global double quoting,
failed experiment.
Merge all the var=val AC_SUBST(var) into AC_SUBST(var, val).
(AC_SUBST): Implement support for 2nd arg.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Adjust.
Some CVS tricks were used so that history is kept in both the top
directory, and in doc/.
* doc/Makefile.am: New file.
* Makefile.am: Adjusted.
* configure.in: Adjusted.
* autoconf.texi: Moved from here to...
* doc/autoconf.texi: here.
* make-stdts.texi: Likewise.
* install.texi: Likewise.
* texinfo.tex: Likewise.
Also remove trailing blanks.
* tests/Makefile.am (testsuite): Use sed instead of cat.
* tests/torture.m4: No longer check for a trailing space.
* autoconf.sh: Likewise.
* 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.
Introduce a new style of testing, independent from DejaGNU.
Introduce the logistics.
* configure.in: Initialize AT, and output tests/atconfig, and
tests/Makefile.
* m4/atconfig.m4: New file.
* m4/Makefile.am: Adjusted.
* aclocal.m4: Include atconfig.m4.
* Makefile.am: Adjusted.
* tests/Makefile.am: New file.
* tests/atgeneral.m4: Likewise.
* tests/atconfig.in: Likewise.
Write tests.
* tests/syntax.m4: New file, in charge of checking the validity of
the sh code produced by the macros defined in acspecific.m4.
acgeneral.m4 is not checked here, because these macros require
arguments.
* tests/suite.m4: New file. Run syntax.m4.
Require GNU m4 1.4 (well 1.3 in fact).
Because we are ready to handle the case where there are no frozen
files, we *have* to pass a -I, which is dangerous in conjunction
with the silent including of `aclocal.m4': you may include things
that were not expected. Since anyway handling pre 1.3 complicates
the task, just require an m4 which supports reloading of frozen
files.
* acspecific.m4 (AC_PROG_GNU_M4): Check for --reload.
* autoconf.sh: Likewise
* autoheader.sh: Likewise.
* configure.in: Explicitly state the m4 version you want.
Create man pages for the executables.
* Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): Add `man' and prepend `.' so that
executables be built before help2man is run.
* configure.in (AC_OUTPUT): Add man/Makefile.
AC_MSG_ERROR, not AC_ERROR.
Check for missing help2man.
* man/Makefile.am: New file.
* man/autoconf.x: Likewise.
* man/autoreconf.x: Likewise.
* man/autoheader.x: Likewise.
* man/autoscan.x: Likewise.
* man/autoupdate.x: Likewise.
* man/ifnames.x: Likewise.
* man/common.x: Likewise.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_COMPILE_CHECK, AC_TRY_COMPILE,
AC_TRY_RUN_NATIVE, AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Use @PND@ instead of
[#]: it looses the editors that try to match the pairs of (), []
etc.
Formatting changes.
* acspecific.m4: Formatting changes.
* configure: Regenerate.
* aclocal.m4: New generated file.
* Makefile.in: Regenerate with Automake.
* testsuite/Makefile.in: Likewise.
1999-10-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
Use Automake. Based on files from Ben Elliston.
* acgeneral.m4: No longer define AC_ACVERSION, include
acversion.m4.
* acversion.m4.in: New AC_CONFIG_FILE.
* acspecific.m4: Few formating changes.
* autoconf.texi: No longer define EDITION, VERSION and UPDATED:
include version.texi.
AC_OUTPUT the Makefiles mentioned below and acversion.m4.
* configure.in: Use AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
Do not AC_ARG_PROGRAM: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE does it.
* Makefile.am: New file.
* mdate-sh: Likewise.
* missing: Likewise.
* testsuite/Makefile.am: Likewise.
* configure.in: Check if an appropriate version of GNU m4 is
installed at configure-time rather than at runtime. From Pavel
Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>. Fix for autoconf/2.
Fix for autoconf/28.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_OUTPUT_MAKE_DEFS): Don't assume LF is \012, use
`echo` followed by a non-blank, within quotes.
* autoheader.sh (syms): Likewise.
* configure: Rebuilt.
