* lib/autotest/general.m4 (BANNERS): New named diversion.
(TESTS_END): Diversion no longer used.
(AT_INIT) <at_func_banner, BANNERS>: Factor all banners into a
shell function, which prints only as needed, using an associative
array of banner text from a special diversion.
<PARSE_ARGS_END>: No longer need awk to find banners.
<TESTS>: Banners are no longer processed by main driver loop, so
we no longer need case statement.
(AT_BANNER): Rewrite to populate new diversion.
(AT_SETUP): Each test invokes its own banner. No output is needed
to the TESTS diversion.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Writing Testsuites): Document slight
semantics change.
* tests/autotest.at (AT_BANNERS): Enhance test.
* NEWS: Document AT_BANNER.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
* lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_append_uniq): Warn if separator
occurs in string, as duplicates may be added.
(_m4_append_uniq): New helper macro.
(m4_append_uniq_w): New macro.
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_TESTED, AT_KEYWORDS): Fix
duplication bug by using new macro.
(AT_INIT) <at_tested>: Restore newline separators. Invoke tested
programs with stdin redirected, so programs that don't
understand --version won't try to behave interactively.
* tests/autotest.at (Tested programs): Catch this bug.
* tests/m4sugar.at (m4@&t@_append): Test new macro.
* tests/local.at (AT_TESTED): Add m4, perl.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Text processing Macros): Document
m4_append_uniq_w, and update text on m4_append.
* NEWS: Document the addition.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LN_S_PREPARE): Avoid errors when `.'
is not writable, use 'cp -p' in this case, in the hope that it
will not actually be needed. Still try removing files, in case
of other write errors.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): For ac_confdir,
use $as_myself, not $0.
(_AC_INIT_HELP): For --help=recursive, if the subdir does not
exist, try again in the the source tree. This change assumes
that the subpackage configure script is capable of running
--help=recursive in the source tree.
* tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories, Deep Package):
Adjust tests to expose both issues, also try invocation as
`sh configure ...' and plain `configure ...' with PATH adjusted.
* NEWS, THANKS: Update.
Report by Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_apply, m4_count, m4_dquote_elt)
(m4_echo, m4_make_list): New documented macros.
(_m4_quote, _m4_shift2): New helper macros.
(m4_map): Change semantics to allow calling macro without
arguments.
(m4_map_sep): Likewise. Also change semantics to quote separator,
to match m4_join and m4_append.
(m4_version_unletter): Fix use of m4_map.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Evaluation Macros): Document m4_apply,
m4_count, m4_dquote_elt, m4_echo, m4_make_list.
(Text processing Macros): Mention m4_dquote as a faster
alternative to joining with commas.
(Looping constructs): Document m4_map, m4_map_sep.
* NEWS: Mention new macros.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
* lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_text_wrap): Don't expand arguments,
and reduce number of expansions.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_HELP_STRING): Rework to use m4_expand,
and to take indent and wrap column numbers.
* tests/m4sh.at (AS@&t@_HELP_STRING): Update the test.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Pretty Help Strings): Document details about
arguments.
(Text processing Macros): Minor tweaks.
* NEWS: Document this change.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
* lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_expand): New macro.
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_SETUP): Use it to preserve
whitespace after single-quoted comma.
* tests/autotest.at (AT_CHECK_AT_TITLE_CHAR): Test this.
* NEWS: Revert caveat about semantics change on comma.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4): Lighten the warning on
using m4sugar; it is stabilizing.
(Redefined M4 Macros): Touch up wording on M4 builtins.
(Evaluation Macros): Document m4_expand.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
* lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_ignore, m4_unquote): New macros.
(m4_version_prereq): Inline constant expansions.
(m4_list_cmp): Reduce number of expansions, by avoiding m4_case.
Rewrite in terms of [] list, not () list.
(_m4_list_cmp, _m4_version_unletter): New helper macros.
(m4_version_unletter): Write wrapper around new implementation to
preserve old semantics.
(m4_version_compare): Pass correct type of list, and avoid
overhead of flattening expressions too early.
(m4_do): Move to be near other quoting macros.
(m4_max, m4_min): Always result in decimal output.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Looping constructs): Add m4_car, m4_cdr.
Move m4_do...
(Evaluation Macros): ...here. Add m4_ignore, m4_unquote.
(Text processing Macros): Move m4_version_compare...
(Number processing Macros): ...to this new node; document m4_cmp,
m4_list_cmp, m4_sign, m4_max, m4_min.
* tests/m4sugar.at (m4@&t@_version_compare): Enhance test, to pick
up on bugs fixed by this patch.
* NEWS: Document new macros.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
* lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: Clean up macro order.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4): Lighten the warning on
using m4sugar; it is stabilizing and useful.
(Redefined M4 Macros): Touch up wording on M4 builtins; sort. Add
m4_divert, m4_undivert, __file__, __line__, __oline__.
(Diagnostics): New node, documenting m4_assert, m4_errprintn,
m4_fatal, m4_location, m4_warn.
(Diversion support): New node, documenting m4_divert_push,
m4_divert_pop, m4_divert_text, m4_divert_once.
(Text processing Macros): Sort. Add m4_flatten, m4_join,
m4_newline, m4_strip, m4_text_box, m4_text_wrap.
(Programming in M4sh, Macro Names): Document namespace
limitations. Mention that non-Automake macros should not begin
with `AM_'.
(Reporting Messages): Mark AC_DIAGNOSE, AC_WARNING, and AC_FATAL
as obsolescent.
(Printing Messages): Change cross-reference.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE): Fix comments.
(_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS_PREPARE): New macro. Rewrite of the config
header machinery for use with awk and placement outside the main
config.status instantiation loop. Retain multi-line defines
through backslash-newline combinations, do not split the script
any more.
(_AC_OUTPUT_HEADER): Simplify accordingly, use $AWK.
(_AC_OUTPUT_MAIN_LOOP): Call _AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS_PREPARE if
needed.
(AC_OUTPUT_MAKE_DEFS): Remove backslash-newline combinations
from define values.
* NEWS: Update.
* tests/torture.at (#define header templates): Extend test by
several more cases: white space before and after `#', macros
with parameters in config.hin and as defines, multi-line macro
values.
(Torturing config.status): Use a define value twice the length
in order to exercise the awk literal string limit.
(Substitute and define special characters): Also try special
delimiter, to exercise the special-case code.
Suggestion by Eric Lemings.
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_SETUP): Only expand description
once; thereafter, use its expansion, properly quoted.
* tests/autotest.at (AT_CHECK_AT_TITLE): Also check macro
expansion with arguments, and check for aligned output.
(AT_CHECK_AT_TITLE_CHAR): Remove XFAILs for tests that now pass.
Add a test for macros with parameters.
* NEWS: Document the semantics change.
* tests/base.at: Fix test titles containing commas.
* tests/compile.at: Likewise.
* tests/tools.at: Likewise.
* tests/torture.at: Likewise.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Text processing Macros): Remove mention of
m4_AUTOCONF_VERSION, and leave m4_PACKAGE_VERSION undocumented
once again.
(Notices): Move AC_PREREQ...
(Versioning): ...to this new section, alongside the new AC_VERSION
alias for the undocumented m4_PACKAGE_VERSION.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_AUTOCONF_VERSION): Revert change.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_VERSION): New macro.
* NEWS: Update to match this rename.
* tests/m4sugar.at (m4@&t@_version_compare): Remove tests of
m4_PACKAGE_VERSION.
* tests/tools.at (autoconf: AC_VERSION): New test.
Suggested by Paolo Bonzini and Benoit Sigoure.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Text processing Macros): Document
m4_version_compare, m4_AUTOCONF_VERSION, m4_PACKAGE_VERSION.
(Redefined M4 Macros): Document m4_ifndef.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_AUTOCONF_VERSION): New macro; we
can't obsolete m4_PACKAGE_VERSION at this time since Autoconf 1.10
used it while it was undocumented.
* NEWS: Document this change.
* lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am (version.m4): Update copyright dates.
* lib/m4sugar/Makefile.in: Regenerate.
* tests/m4sugar.at (m4@&t@_version_compare): New test.
Reported by Bruno Haible.
* lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS): Inline code
from AC_AIX, AC_GNU_SOURCE, AC_MINIX. Add Interix support.
(AC_AIX, AC_GNU_SOURCE, AC_MINIX): Obsolete, and point to
AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS.
(AC_ISC_POSIX): Obsolete, and point to AC_SEARCH_LIBS.
(AC_XENIX_DIR, AC_IRIX_SUN): Promote proper quoting in AU_DEFUN.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Posix Variants): Reword this section,
emphasizing that AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS is the preferred method,
rather than a series of system-specific checks.
(Obsolete Macros): Add AC_AIX, AC_GNU_SOURCE, AC_ISC_POSIX,
AC_MINIX.
* NEWS: Document this change.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Martin Koeppe.
* doc/autoconf.texi: Add anchors to support better
cross-referencing.
(Particular Structures): Move obsolete macros descriptions...
(External Software): Likewise.
(Package Options): Likewise.
(Obsolete Macros): ...to here. Add cross-references to
documentation on replacements.
* NEWS: Mention that these macros have been obsolete for a while
now: AC_STRUCT_ST_BLKSIZE AC_STRUCT_ST_RDEV AC_WITH AC_ENABLE.
AC_CHECK_TYPE, AC_CHECK_TYPES.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Generic types): C types must be type-names
(the C terminology), not type-ids (the C++ term). C++ types
must not be anonymous.
* lib/autoconf/types.m4 (_AC_CHECK_TYPE_NEW): Remove special case
for C++; this drops support for anonymous struct and union types,
which were problematic anyway.
* tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_HEADERS_NEW): Adjust test to work even
for C++.
* doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Document this. There is a new
extra argument ACTION-IF-UNIVERSAL.
* lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Implement this.
Add support for Solaris-style _LITTLE_ENDIAN and _BIG_ENDIAN.
Reindent for sanity's sake.
--disable-option-checking to --help output even when
AC_PRESERVE_HELP_ORDER is not used.
(_AC_INIT_PARSE_ENABLE2): Print warnings using actual --enable or
--with argument, rather than argument with [-.] replaced by
underscores.
* NEWS: Fix typo in previous change; the news was in the
wrong section.
--enable-* and --with-* options.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Option Checking): Renamed from
(Configure Option Checking). Tighten up the wording a bit.
(External Software, Package Options): Cross-reference to Option
Checking, and use this to shorten our section.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Prefer test -n
"$x" to test "x$foo" != x.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_OUTPUT): Likewise.
Don't warn if $enable_option_checking is "no".
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Initialize
ac_unrecognized_opts to the empty string.
Don't echo the unrecognized opts, as this might mishandle
backslashes or leading -.
(AC_PRESERVE_HELP_ORDER): Put the --disable-option-checking
usage next to the other --disable-FEATURE options in the
help string.
2006-12-18 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS, _AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS):
(_AC_INIT_PARSE_ENABLE2, _AC_INIT_HELP, _AC_ENABLE_IF):
Print warning for unrecognized --with and --enable options
(AC_DISABLE_OPTION_CHECKING): New macro to disable warnings.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS, _AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS):
Disable option checking when subdirs are configured.
(AC_OUTPUT): If warnings are enabled, print warning about
unrecognized --with and --enable options at the end of
the configure output (as well as at the beginning).
* doc/autoconf.texi (Option Checking): New node.
Document new option warning functionality.
years and is too hard to maintain now. The last straw was
reported by Jerker Baeck in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2006-11/msg00102.html>.
* NEWS: AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED is now obsolete.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Move
AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED from here...
(Obsolete Macros): ... to here. Say that it does nothing now.
* lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED):
Turn into (almost) a no-op.
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.
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.
* 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.
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.
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.
and AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH are now obsolescent in Autoconf. New
programs should use their Gnulib counterparts.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Likewise.
(Macro Names, testsuite Invocation): Replace uses of these
obsolete macros with uses of non-obsolete macros.
rather than "#if HAVE_STDLIB_H", so that it now works with "gcc
-Wundef -Werror". Problem reported by David Fang in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2006-08/msg00045.html>.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Header Templates, Default Includes):
(Particular Functions, Generic Functions, Header Portability):
(Particular Headers, Generic Headers, Generic Declarations, Guidelines):
(Obsolete Macros, AC_FOO_IFELSE vs AC_TRY_FOO):
(Present But Cannot Be Compiled, Preprocessor Symbol Index):
Prefer #ifdef to #if.
* lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Prefer #ifdef to #if.
* lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_ALLOCA, _AC_FUNC_MALLOC_IF):
(AC_FUNC_MKTIME, AC_FUNC_MMAP, _AC_FUNC_REALLOC_IF):
(AC_FUNC_SELECT_ARGTYPES, AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED, _AC_FUNC_VFORK):
Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS):
(AC_HEADER_RESOLV, AC_HEADER_STAT): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_DECL_SYS_SYGLIST):
(AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_STRUCT_TIMEZONE): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STAT): Don't assume that
S_ISDIR etc. are valid for use in #if; POSIX doesn't guarantee
this.
datarootdir-related errors only if AC_DATAROOTDIR_CHECKED is
not defined.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Changed Directory Variables): New node,
to document the whole `datarootdir' business a bit better.
* NEWS: Update.
* tests/torture.at (datarootdir workaround): Extend test.
Prompted by report by Alexandre Julliard.
Problem reported by Eric Blake.
* doc/autoconf.texi: Likewise.
Use @acronym around BSD, GCC, and GNU when appropriate.
(Why GNU M4): Renamed from "Why GNU m4".
(Redefined M4 Macros): Mention that Posix
m4wrap takes only 1 argument, but GNU M4 1.4.x takes more.
(Buffer Overruns): Mention size_t and ptrdiff_t as alternatives
to int.
* doc/autoconf.texi (): Likewise.
Rework example of m4wrap token-pasting trouble so that it doesn't
care whether it's LIFO or FIFO.
Fix some "contrary to"s that are awkward in English.
Mention that some macros are now documented to be obsolescent.
* doc/autoconf.texi:
Prefer "current" to "modern" to describe
currently-used (albeit perhaps old-fashioned) hosts.
Mention which ancient features no longer need to be worried about.
setgid -> set-group-ID
setuid -> set-user-ID (these are the Posix terms)
Fix some misuses of "only".
(AC_C_BACKSLASH_A, AC_C_CONST, AC_C_PROTOTYPES):
(AC_C_STRINGIZE, AC_C_VOLATILE, AC_FUNC_CLOSEDIR_VOID):
(AC_FUNC_GETPGRP, AC_FUNC_LSTAT, AC_FUNC_MEMCMP):
(AC_FUNC_SELECT_ARGTYPES, AC_FUNC_SETPGRP):
(AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED, AC_FUNC_STAT, AC_FUNC_STRFTIME):
(AC_FUNC_STRNLEN, AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL, AC_FUNC_VPRINTF):
(AC_HEADER_DIRENT, AC_HEADER_STAT, AC_HEADER_STDC):
(AC_HEADER_SYS_WAIT, AC_HEADER_TIME, AC_ISC_POSIX):
(AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL, AC_STRUCT_TM):
Mention that these macros are obsolescent.
(Installation Directory Variables): shall -> should
(File Descriptors): Mention that 0, 1, 2 might get reopened.
Mention that it's now safe to use 3 and 4.
(Limitations of Usual Tools): cp -r is now specified by Posix.
Omit longwinded and obsolescent discussion of cp -f.
Modernize discussion of expr, ls.
(Limitations of Make): Modernize discussion of VPATH builds.
Mention $? as a workaround in some cases.
* doc/install.texi (Basic Installation):
Mention "./configure; make; make install" first. Be more
specific about why this file is generic. Remove unnecessary
parens. Remove misleading "only". Remove obsolete advice
about csh. Don't say "configure" takes awhile; say it
might take a while. Suggest CFLAGS=-g rather than CFLAGS=-O2,
and CC=c99 rather than CC=c89, as these are blessed by current
Posix. Recommend GNU make if doing a VPATH build.
mention of `datarootdir' in the input file(s), but literal
`${datarootdir}' in the output file, and we haven't warned yet,
then warn as well: the user may have (erroneously) used
`AC_SUBST([mydatadir], [$datadir/my])' instead of the correct
`AC_SUBST([mydatadir], ['${datadir}/my'])'.
* tests/torture.at (datarootdir workaround): Extend this test.
* NEWS: Update.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Special Chars in Variables): New section.
(Preset Output Variables): Warn about special chars in CPPFLAGS.
(Installation Directory Variables): Quote $(datadir) better.
(Limitations of Builtins): Describe some of eval's trickiness.
* lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_C_O): Simplify quoting.
* lib/autoconf/fortram.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Put leading space
in front of every arg, not just trailing args. Quote apostrophes.
(_AC_EVAL_ECHO): New macro.
(_AC_EVAL, AC_EVAL_STDERR): Use it. Quote arg of eval.
(AC_TRY_EVAL, AC_TRY_COMMAND): Mention that these macros might get
removed.
(_AC_LINK_IFELSE): Use proper rule for shell continuation lines,
exposed by quoting of eval argument. Put the command on line line
so it logs better.
* lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_XMKMF): Use eval more safely.
(_AC_PATH_X, AC_PATH_X): Quote more safely.
* lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Use eval more safely.
* lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_LONG_FILE_NAMES): Don't use eval.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Minor style change.
Handle special chars in prefix, ac_srcdir, ac_aux_dir.
Use eval more safely.
(_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Adjust to above changes.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_VAR_GET): Note that this API needs
to be replaced.
* tests/base.at (AC_TRY_COMMAND): Use proper rule for shell continuation
lines, exposed by quoting of eval argument.
AC_DEFINE is now passed to m4_pattern_allow.
* NEWS: Mention that; likewise for AC_SUBST.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_DEFINE_TRACE_LITERAL): Pass
the parameter to m4_pattern_allow.
* tests/tools.at: Add a check for that.
ac_config_guess, ac_config_sub, and ac_configure, since evidently
some other programs unwisely rely on these undocumented vars.
But put in warning comments about them.
Problem reported by Ralf Wildenhues in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2006-05/msg00068.html>.
* NEWS: Document that these variables are intended to go away.
* config/install-sh: Don't use 'path' to talk about file names,
as per GNU coding standards. Close a race condition reported by Ralf
Wildenhues and Stepan Kasal. There is still a race condition
on hosts that predate POSIX 1003.1-1992, but we can't help this.
Don't mishandle weird characters like space on pre-POSIX hosts.
Invoke mkdir at most once per dir arg on pre-POSIX hosts.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Cross-reference to
AC_PROG_MKDIR_P from AS_MKDIR_P.
(Limitations of Usual Tools): Cross-reference to AC_PROG_MKDIR_P
from mkdir. Mention that Autoconf 2.60 install-sh is safe but
earlier editions are not (including Automake 1.8.3).
Do not suggest mkinstalldirs for thread-safety.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_MKDIR_P): Make it more robust in the
presence of special characters and race conditions.
* tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_ENV): Add mkdir_p to the list of variables
in Autoconf's name space.
* lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MKDIR_P): New macro, taken
from Automake with minor changes.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): Document AC_PROG_MKDIR_P.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Remove mention of
AS_VAR_SET_BASENAME, AS_VAR_SET_DIRNAME, and AS_BASENAME.
We have to keep AS_DIRNAME since it was part of a stable Autoconf,
but AS_BASENAME doesn't have to be supported.
and AS_BASENAME.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_BASENAME, AS_DIRNAME): Bring these
back, albeit undocumented. Programs now have a grace period
to switch to AS_VAR_SET_DIRNAME and AS_VAR_SET_BASENAME.
AS_VAR_SET_DIRNAME and AS_VAR_SET_BASENAME.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Document this. All uses
changed. The newer interfaces are more reliable, as they allow
implementations that handle trailing newline correctly. For now,
we're in a freeze, so I did not include the more-reliable
implementations, but I wanted to correct the interface before 2.60
goes out.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DETECT_REQUIRED): Renamed from
AS_DETECT_REQUIRED. All uses changed.
(_AS_DETECT_SUGGESTED): Renamed from AS_DETECT_SUGGESTED.
All uses changed.
(_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Put ;; at the end of a case.
(_AS_BASENAME): Renamed from AS_BASENAME. All uses changed.
Use "basename --" to protect against leading "-".
(_AS_BASENAME_EXPR): Renamed from AS_BASENAME_EXPR. All uses changed.
(_AS_BASENAME_SED): Renamed from AS_BASENAME_SED. All uses changed.
(_AS_BASENAME_PREPARE): Reject implementations that cannot handle "--".
(_AS_DIRNAME_PREPARE): Likewise.
(_AS_DIRNAME): Renamed from AS_DIRNAME. All uses changed.
(_AS_DIRNAME_EXPR): Renamed from AS_DIRNAME_EXPR. All uses changed.
(_AS_DIRNAME_SED): Renamed from AS_DIRNAME_SED. All uses changed.
Use "dirname --".
(AS_VAR_SET_BASENAME, AS_VAR_SET_DIRNAME): New macros.
* tests/m4sh.at (AS_VAR_SET_DIRNAME): Renamed from AS_DIRNAME.
Test the new API. Don't test internals, since they're probably
going to change anyway.
(AS_VAR_SET_BASENAME): Likewise, renamed from AS_BASENAME.
* bin/autoconf.as: Don't use AS_BASENAME or AS_DIRNAME. This
removes a bootstrapping problem with the changes described above.
The AS_DIRNAME part wasn't used, anyway, and the AS_BASENAME
part can be done portably without all the deep Autoconf magic.
the instantiated file do not contain the string 'datarootdir'
but contain @datadir@, @docdir@, @infodir@, @localedir@, or
@mandir@, replace the reference '${datarootdir}' by the value.
* tests/torture.at (datarootdir workaround): New test.
* NEWS: Advertise this temporary fixup.
Based on a patch by Bruno Haible, reported and analyzed by
Paul Eggert and Noah Misch.
(_AS_CASE): Private helper macro.
* tests/m4sh.at: Basic tests for AS_IF and AS_CASE.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Document AS_CASE.
Fix syntax of AS_IF description
(Prerequisite Macros): Mention AS_IF and AS_CASE as workarounds
for the AC_REQUIRE mess.
* NEWS: Mention AS_CASE, AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE, and
AS_SHELL_SANITIZE.
correctly: pad with spaces after FIRST_PREFIX if necessary,
and compute string lenghts with `m4_qlen' instead of `m4_len'.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_HELP_STRING): Comments updated.
* tests/m4sh.at (AS_HELP_STRING): Test extended.
* NEWS: Updated.
Reported by numerous people, numerous times.
directories with weird names. Apparently some people like living
on the edge. However, improve the test that "pwd" actually does
report a name for the working directory.
* NEWS: Remove the claim that we test for funny chars in dir names.
directory have inherent problems with special characters like spaces,
due to limitations in Make syntax. Problem reported by Alexandre
Duret-Lutz.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DIRCHECK): Implement the above.
Also, fix Tru64 porting problem with shell patterns,
reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Reword example
for multiline stdbool replacement.
(Setting Output Variables): Reword text a bit. Don't
give all the details about |#_!!_#|.
Reword description of line replacement.
a directory whose name contains a special character like space,
newline, or "\".
* doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Allow
"," in file names. Do not use \@; it's not a portable regexp.
* bin/Makefile.am (edit): Likewise.
* lib/Makefile.am (edit): Likewise.
* tests/Makefile.am (edit): Likewise.
* tests/semantics.at: Likewise.
* tests/torture.at: Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_PROGRAM): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCDIRS): Likewise.
* doc/autoconf.texi (File System Conventions): Warn about
unportable file names.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DIRCHECK): New macro.
(AC_INIT): Use it.
(_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Use ac_pwd rather than invoking pwd.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Propagate
ac_pwd, and quote srcdir.
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Quote file name args.
/dev/null, as "configure" shouldn't read stdin, and this insulates
us from problems (e.g., when testing for "cl"). Also, do this
redirection before invoking "hostname" or "uname", and keep the
original input stream available via...
(AS_ORIGINAL_STDIN_FD): ... this new macro.
(_AC_PREPROC_IFELSE, _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, _AC_LINK_IFELSE): Don't
bother with "</dev/null" since it's now done at the top of
'configure'.
* lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PATH_PROG_FLAVOR_GNU): Likewise.
* doc/autoconf.texi (File Descriptor Macros): New section.
(Printing Messages): Mention it.
* tests/base.at (Input/Output): New test.
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2004-11/msg00056.html>,
along with some nearby cruft.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Libtool): Libtool can be used without
Automake (not without Autoconf).
(Introduction): Mention lists.gnu.org.
* BUGS: Don't mention bugs.gnu.org.
Remove mention of ancient libtool compatibility problem.
* NEWS: Mention that bugs.gnu.org is kaput.
* README: Likewise. Mention where mailing list archives can be found.
(AC_CANONICAL_BUILD): Call it to require config.sub and config.guess.
* lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_INSTALL): Likewise for install-sh.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Input): Document AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE.
* lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect
AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE. Automake 1.10 will trace it.
* lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PATH_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOL,
AC_CHECK_TOOLS): Warn if a cross-tool is found without
a prefix.
(AC_PATH_TARGET_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOL,
AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOLS): New macros.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Programs): Document
(AC_PATH_TARGET_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOL,
AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOLS, and warn for future changes
in the behavior of AC_PATH_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOL and
AC_CHECK_TOOLS.
(Specifying Names): Document the reason for these future
behavioral changes.
* tests/mktests.sh: Do not generate tests for the
new macros.
* NEWS: Document these changes.
* doc/autoconf.texi: Avoid macros with unbraced arguments,
they make TeX hang up.
grep or ggrep program in PATH that accepts as long lines as
possible.
* lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_GREP): Factor out the core of
AC_PROG_GREP.
(AC_PROG_EGREP, AC_PROG_FGREP): Use it to find best available
egrep and fgrep respectively if $GREP -E/-F don't work.
(_AC_PATH_PROG_FEATURE_CHECK): Factor out the common core of
_AC_PROG_GREP, and AC_PROG_SED.
(_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): New helper macro for finding the
longest input length accepted by a command.
(AC_PROG_SED): Use it.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): Document the changes.
* NEWS: Updated.
computing the absolute path to d1 in the source hierarchy: it may
not exist at all. So don't cd into it.
From Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-10/msg00205.html
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SET_CATFILE): New.
From Paul Eggert, but named after Perl's IO::Spec->catfile.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Document.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Use it.
(GNU Fortran): New.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Language Choice): Document.
* lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_FREEFORM): Assert
the current language is Fortran.
that future autopoint/aclocal/automake/autoreconf will be able
to trace to find where to install local m4 macros.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Input): Document it.
* NEWS: Updated.
* bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory): Create the
AUX_DIR if needed, for sake of automake --add-missing etc.
Suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
