autoconf/ChangeLog
Akim Demaille a89977e147 * autoconf.in (M4): Pass --nesting-limit=1024, unless already set
in $M4.
Suggested by Andreas Schwab.
2001-06-18 18:15:24 +00:00

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2001-06-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* autoconf.in (M4): Pass --nesting-limit=1024, unless already set
in $M4.
Suggested by Andreas Schwab.
2001-06-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_CHOWN, AC_FUNC_CLOSEDIR_VOID)
(AC_FUNC_GETPGRP, AC_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK)
(AC_FUNC_MMAP, AC_FUNC_SELECT_ARGTYPES, _AC_FUNC_STAT)
(AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL): Use AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT.
Don't use AC_TRY_RUN, which double quotes, prefer AC_RUN_IFELSE,
and either AC_LANG_SOURCE or AC_LANG_PROGRAM.
(AC_FUNC_CLOSEDIR_VOID): Protect C++ from `int closedir ();' (or
the converse).
2001-06-18 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* doc/autoconf.texi (ms): New index.
(Macro Index): Rename as...
(Autoconf Macro Index): this.
(M4 Macro Index): New appendix.
(Programming in M4): New chapter.
Define M4sugar, M4sh, m4_pattern_forbid, and m4_pattern_allow.
(Quoting): Rename as...
(M$ Quotation): this.
Be part of `Programming in M4).
2001-06-18 Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>
* tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): Set variables and export them
in separate statements for compatibility with Tru64 v5.1.
2001-06-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Be sure to cache the
current values of the precious variables, not the previously
cached values.
Pass precious variables which are set to config.status.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Document AC_ARG_VAR.
* tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): New.
2001-06-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* doc/autoconf.texi: Move AC_FUNC_WAIT3 and
AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS to the obsolete section,
and explain why and how to replace them.
* acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_WAIT3): Warn as obsolete.
* acspecific.m4 (AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS): Likewise.
2001-06-15 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
`build_alias' and so on are not AC_SUBST'd.
Reported by Bruno Haible.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_ARG_VAR): Move the AC_SUBST, from here...
(_AC_ARG_VAR_PRECIOUS): to here.
2001-06-15 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
* acheaders.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_DIRENT): Instead of defining
an unused pointer use cast to this type and `if' statement to
avoid warnings from the compiler.
(AC_HEADER_TIME): Likewise.
* actypes.m4 (AC_CHECK_MEMBER): s/foo/ac_aggr/. Use the member
in `if' statement to avoid warnings from the compiler. Declare
ac_aggr static to avoid the need to initialize it.
2001-06-14 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell): Move after `Writing Macros'.
2001-06-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* m4/missing.m4, config/missing: Updated to Automake 1.4g's.
Suggested by Alexander Mai.
2001-06-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Guard
sys/types.h and sys/stat.h, and check for them.
2001-06-13 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* acheaders.m4 (AC_CHECK_HEADER, AC_CHECK_HEADERS): Support $4 =
INCLUDES.
2001-06-12 Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
* acspecific.m4 (AC_PATH_XTRA): Check if linking against libX11
succeeds and only try adding libdnet upon a failure.
2001-06-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* autoscan.in (&output_kind): Output the comment only if it exists.
(%kind_comment): Add entry for `programs'.
(&output_programs): Use &output_kind.
(&output_functions, &output_identifiers, &output_headers)
(&output_programs): Inline, and remove.
2001-06-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* autoscan.in (%kind_comment): New.
(output_kind): New.
(output_functions, output_identifiers, output_headers): Use it.
2001-06-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* autoscan.in (&print_unique): Take `$kind' and `$word' as
arguments, to factor indirections into `%macro' and `%used'.
(%generic_macro): Fix a typo.
2001-06-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* aclibraries: New.
* autoscan.in (@kinds): Add `libraries'.
Use `@kinds' instead of hard coded lists.
(%programs, %headers, %identifiers, %makevars, %libraries, %functions):
Remove, replaced by...
(%used): this.
2001-06-12 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* autoscan.in (%functions_macros %headers_macros)
(%identifiers_macros %programs_macros %makevars_macros): Remove,
replaced by...
(%macro): New.
2001-06-11 Raja R Harinath <harinath@cs.umn.edu>
* aclang.m4 (AC_NO_EXECUTABLES): Override
_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_WORKS, not _AC_LANG_COMPILER_WORKS.
2001-06-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* aclang.m4 (AC_NO_EXECUTABLES): Define the macros with their
trailing new line.
Reported by Andreas Schwab.
2001-06-11 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* Makefile.am, Makefile.maint: Typos.
2001-06-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Here-Documents): New section, gathering
documentation about here-documents.
Use `href', not `uref', and other changes.
2001-06-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell Programming): Promoted as a
chapter.
2001-06-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Complete the
description of the here-docs penalties with Alexandre Oliva's
explanations.
2001-06-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* doc/autoconf.texi: Talk about here documents and speedups.
Do not use "echo" on arbitrary strings.
Spell "here-documents" consistently with the standard.
2001-06-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Concept Index): Introduce it.
Regenerate the menus.
2001-06-09 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* Makefile.maint, GNUmakefile: New, from Jim Meyering.
* config/prev-version.txt: New.
* config/move-if-change: New, for GNU libc.
2001-06-06 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
* tests/atgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Remove "/bin/sh" after $SHELL.
2001-06-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_CHECK_LIB): Fix the cache var name to work
properly when $1 is not a literal.
Fixes PR Autoconf/187, reported by Bram Moolenaar.
2001-06-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
Invoking AC_COPYRIGHT before AC_INIT fails.
* Makefile.am (.m4.m4f): Pass --fatal-warnings to m4.
* acgeneral.m4 (_m4_divert(VERSION_FSF))
(_m4_divert(VERSION_USER)): New.
(AC_COPYRIGHT): $2 is the diversion to use.
(_AC_INIT_COPYRIGHT): Use the FSF diversion.
(AC_INIT): Remove dead comments as now it's commutative.
2001-06-06 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_LIB): Strengthen to reflect
PR autoconf/187.
2001-06-05 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): `prefix' and `exec_prefix'
can be empty.
`*dir' variables cannot be NONE.
Reported by Mark Kettenis.
2001-06-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* doc/autoconf.texi: Fix references to Solaris and SunOS versions.
2001-06-04 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_VAR_SET, AC_VAR_GET, AC_VAR_TEST_SET)
(AC_VAR_SET_IFELSE, AC_VAR_PUSHDEF and AC_VAR_POPDEF, AC_TR_CPP)
(AC_TR_SH): Move as...
* m4sh.m4 (AS_VAR_SET, AS_VAR_GET, AS_VAR_TEST_SET)
(AS_VAR_SET_IF, AC_VAR_PUSHDEF, AS_VAR_POPDEF, AS_TR_CPP)
(AS_TR_SH): these.
(_AS_TR_PREPARE, _AS_CR_PREPARE, _AS_TR_CPP_PREPARE)
(_AS_TR_SH_PREPARE): New.
(AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Invoke _AS_TR_PREPARE.
* tests/aclocal.m4 (AC_STATE_SAVE): `as_' vars can be modified.
2001-06-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* Makefile.am (.m4.m4f): Pass the options first.
Fixes PR autoconf/182.
2001-06-02 Nathan Sidwell <nathan@codesourcery.com>
GNU getopt, when POSIXLY_CORRECT does not permute options and
arguments. So pass the options first.
Fixes PR autoconf/184.
* autoconf.sh (m4_prefiles, m4f_prefiles): New variables.
(run_m4): Remove files.
(run_m4f): Remove.
Update remainder of script to use them.
(for warning in): Do not use a literal comma as it will not be
split by IFS.
2001-06-02 Christian Marquardt <marq@gfz-potsdam.de>
* aclang.m4 (AC_PROG_F77): Add Fujitsu's "frt" to the list of
Fortran compilers to check.
(_AC_PROG_F77_V): Add '-###' as a possible option to print
information on library and object files.
(AC_PROG_CXX): Add Fujitsu's "FCC" to the list of C++ compilers
to check.
2001-06-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* autom4te.in (Request::@request): Declare with `vars', not `my',
as it prevents updates via `do FILENAME'.
2001-06-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* configure.in (standards_texi): Remove, dead code.
2001-06-02 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* autom4te.in: New.
2001-06-02 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Don't rely on $? in the traps
for signals other than 0 - exit with code 1.
* m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): Likewise.
* autoconf.in: Likewise. Also don't rely on exit == exit $?.
* autoheader.in: Likewise.
* autoreconf.in: Likewise.
* tests/torture.at (Signal handling): New test for the above.
2001-06-01 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* m4sugar.m4 (m4_defn, m4_undefine, m4_popdef): Clarify the error
message.
2001-05-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* acfunctions, acheaders, acidentifiers, acmakevars, acprograms:
Add copyright and comments.
* acheaders: Add stdint.h.
Suggested by Paul Eggert.
2001-05-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* atgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Use $SHELL.
* atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_DEFINES): Skip HAVE_STDINT_H.
2001-05-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Include
stdint.h.
From Paul Eggert and Lars Hecking.
2001-05-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* tests/base.at: Adjust line numbers in error messages.
2001-05-31 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* tests/base.at, tests/m4sh.at: When using AC_PLAIN_SCRIPT be sure
to emit the bangshe line.
Reported by David Carter.
2001-05-30 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
* aclang.m4 (AC_PROG_F77): Add Compaq's "fort" to the list of
Fortran (95) compilers to check.
2001-05-29 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction, Pointers): Update the Autoconf
Macro Archive URL.
2001-05-23 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
* aclang.m4 (AC_PROG_CPP): Use `break' instead of `break 2' since
_AC_PROG_PREPROC_WORKS_IFELSE expands arguments outside the loop.
(AC_PROG_CXXCPP): Likewise.
2001-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* config: New directory.
* configure.in: AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR it.
* tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CONFIGURE_AC): Adjust.
2001-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* autoconf.in, autoreconf.in, autoheader.in, autoscan.in, ifnames.in,
* autoupdate.in: Specify the Emacs mode.
* acversion.m4.in: Rename as...
* acversion.m4: this.
* tests/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): More garbage.
2001-05-22 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* autoconf.sh, autoreconf.sh, autoheader.sh, autoscan.pl, ifnames.sh:
Rename as...
* autoconf.in, autoreconf.in, autoheader.in, autoscan.in, ifnames.in:
these.
2001-05-21 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
* configure.in: Bump to 2.50a.