* libm4.m4 (m4_append, m4_list_append): Use m4_define, not define.
On my machine the former implementation takes 4mn 40s to run the
test suite. Using m4_define leads to 4mn 15s.
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_SUBST): Use AC_EXPAND_ONCE (which uses
m4_define, not define). 4mn.
(_AC_DIVERT): Don't use m4_case. Starting from those 4mn, if you
just move NORMAL* first in m4_case, the test suite is run in 3mn.
If instead of using m4, you use an `associative array' plus a
wrapper (current implementation), it falls to 2mn.
(m4_case,m4_match): Rewrite to use m4_shiftn (for readability reasons).
(m4_for): Add the STEP argument and some argument-verifying asserts.
(m4_split): Correct spaces to tabulator in regexp.
Suggested by Alexandre Oliva and Lars J. Aas
* libm4.m4 (ifndef): New macro.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_DIVERT): New macro, maps a diversion name to
its value. The diversions now have a short name, e.g., `NOTICE',
instead of the former macros which had long names, e.g.,
`AC_DIVERSION_NOTICE'.
(AC_DIVERT_PUSH): Adjust.
(AC_DIVERT_POP): Use ifndef.
(AC_DIVERSION_CURRENT): Rename as `AC_DIVERT_DIVERSION' to stay
within the `AC_DIVERT' name domain.
Adjust all callers.
* acspecific.m4: Adjust all callers.
comment.
* libm4.m4 (m4_quote): s/$@/$*/.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_COPYRIGHT): Prepend `# ' to the lines that goes
on the top of `configure'. Actually, prepend `@%:@ ' so that
there are as many evaluations on both sides.
(_AC_INIT_VERSION): No longer strip `# '.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_UNGNITS): Renamed as...
(_AC_VERSION_UNLETTER): this. All callers changed.
Implement the scheme proposed by Alexandre Oliva:
Nl -> (N+1).-1.(l#)
(_AC_VERSION_COMPARE): New macro.
(AC_PREREQ): Use it.
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.
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.
