autoconf/configure.ac
Paul Eggert 05e295b60c Go back to requiring only Perl 5.6+ for users
Commit 61901a1a14 dated 2022-07-10
bumped the Perl requirement to 5.10 or later, because
commit 3a9802d601 dated 2021-08-31
added code using Time::HiRes’s ‘stat’ function, a feature
added in Perl 5.8.9+ or Perl 5.10+, and it was hard
to find Perl 5.8.9 hosts to test with.  Also, requiring Perl 5.10
meant that we could then use operators like Digest::SHA, the // and
//= operators, the regexp \K escape, and ‘state’ variables.

However, that Time::HiRes code, which was taken from Automake, has
recently been made optional by Automake, and it now works again with
Perl 5.6.  And Autoconf is not yet using any other post-5.6 feature,
except when developers run help-extract.pl (something Autoconf users
do not use).  So relax the Autoconf user requirement back to 5.6 as it
was in Autoconf 2.71; although Autoconf developers will need 5.10 or
better, Autoconf users can get by with 5.6.

I ran into this problem when testing the Autoconf release candidate on
Solaris 10, which has Perl 5.8.4.  Oracle says Solaris 10’s
end-of-life is January 2024, so it’s still (barely) a viable porting
target.  Of course with Solaris 10 one must install a recent-enough
GNU m4, but adding a requirement to also install a recent-enough Perl
is a new barrier, and if it’s not needed then it might be better to
wait until it is needed (or until 2024 arrives).

* NEWS: Update news item about Perl 5.6 vs 5.10.
* README-hacking: Bump Perl recommendation to 5.10.
* build-aux/fetch.pl: Do not munge imported code to require 5.10.
2023-03-31 12:52:50 -07:00

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# -*- Autoconf -*-
# Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
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AC_PREREQ([2.69])
# Keep both of these on a single line, and do not use quadrigraphs
# or nested quotes in their values, since the bootstrap script needs
# to be able to extract their values with sed.
m4_define([autoconf_PACKAGE_NAME], [GNU Autoconf])
m4_define([autoconf_PACKAGE_BUGREPORT], [bug-autoconf@gnu.org])
AC_INIT(
m4_defn([autoconf_PACKAGE_NAME]),
[m4_esyscmd([build-aux/git-version-gen .tarball-version])],
m4_defn([autoconf_PACKAGE_BUGREPORT])
)
AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4])
AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11 dist-xz readme-alpha no-texinfo.tex std-options])
# Keep this on a line of its own, since it must be found and processed
# by the 'update-release-year' rule in our Makefile.
RELEASE_YEAR=2023
AC_SUBST([RELEASE_YEAR])
AB_INIT
# We use 'sh -n script' to check that there are no syntax errors
# in the scripts. Although incredible, there are sh implementations
# that go into endless loops with '-n', e.g., SunOS's:
#
# $ uname -a
# SunOS ondine 4.1.3 2 sun4m unknown
# $ cat endless.sh
# while false
# do
# :
# done
# exit 0
# $ time sh endless.sh
# sh endless.sh 0,02s user 0,03s system 78% cpu 0,064 total
# $ time sh -nx endless.sh
# ^Csh -nx endless.sh 3,67s user 0,03s system 63% cpu 5,868 total
#
# Also, some implementations (e.g., Solaris 8) are soooo slow
# that they are unusable on large scripts like our testsuite.
#
# So we must identify a shell whose -n can safely be used.
AC_CACHE_CHECK([for a shell whose -n mode is known to work],
[ac_cv_sh_working_n],
[ac_cv_sh_working_n=none
# Start by trying the shell that autoconf decided to use for this script,
# follow with a hardwired list of shells that are known to work and can
# be identified as such, starting with the ones with the fewest
# syntactic extensions. Unfortunately, several shells that are also
# known to work can't be easily identified (e.g. some BSD shells and dash).
# Try ksh93, which is often buggy, and plain ksh and sh last.
for cand_sh in "$SHELL" pdksh bash zsh ksh93 ksh sh
do
if (
unset BASH_VERSION ZSH_VERSION
"$cand_sh" -c '
test ${BASH_VERSION+y} || # Bash
test ${KSH_VERSION+y} || # pdksh
test ${ZSH_VERSION+y} || # zsh
test ${NETBSD_SHELL+y} || # NetBSD sh
test -n "${.sh.version}" # ksh93; put this last since its syntax is dodgy
'
) 2>/dev/null
then
ac_cv_sh_working_n="$cand_sh"
break
fi
done
])
AC_SUBST([SHELL_N], [$ac_cv_sh_working_n])
AC_MSG_CHECKING([for characters that cannot appear in file names])
AC_CACHE_VAL([ac_cv_unsupported_fs_chars],
[ac_cv_unsupported_fs_chars=
for c in '\\' \" '<' '>' '*' '?' '|'
do
touch "conftest.t${c}t" 2>/dev/null
test -f "conftest.t${c}t" && rm -f "conftest.t${c}t" && continue
# $c cannot be used in a file name.
ac_cv_unsupported_fs_chars=$ac_cv_unsupported_fs_chars$c
done
])
if test -n "$ac_cv_unsupported_fs_chars"; then
AC_MSG_RESULT([$ac_cv_unsupported_fs_chars])
else
AC_MSG_RESULT([none])
fi
AC_SUBST([ac_cv_unsupported_fs_chars])
AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether directories can have trailing spaces],
[ac_cv_dir_trailing_space],
[rm -rf 'conftest.d ' && mkdir 'conftest.d ' && touch 'conftest.d /tfile' 2>/dev/null
stat=$?
rm -rf 'conftest.d '
case $stat$? in #(
00) ac_cv_dir_trailing_space=yes ;; #(
*) ac_cv_dir_trailing_space=no ;;
esac
])
AC_SUBST([ac_cv_dir_trailing_space])
# Initialize the test suite.
AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR([tests])
AC_CONFIG_FILES([tests/atlocal])
AC_PATH_PROG([EXPR], [expr])
## ---- ##
## M4. ##
## ---- ##
# We use an absolute name for GNU m4 so even if users have another m4 first in
# their path, the installer can configure with a path that has GNU m4
# on it and get that path embedded in the installed autoconf and
# autoheader scripts.
AC_PROG_GNU_M4
## ----------- ##
## Man pages. ##
## ----------- ##
AM_MISSING_PROG([HELP2MAN], [help2man])
## ------ ##
## Perl. ##
## ------ ##
# We use an absolute name for perl so the #! line in autoscan will work.
AC_PATH_PROG([PERL], [perl], [no])
AC_SUBST([PERL])dnl
if test "$PERL" = no; then
AC_MSG_ERROR([perl is not found])
fi
$PERL -e 'require 5.006;' || {
AC_MSG_ERROR([Perl 5.006 or better is required])
}
# Find out whether the system supports flock
# Note this test does not try to find out whether it works with this
# particular file system. It merely avoids us running flock on systems
# where that bails out.
AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether $PERL Fcntl::flock is implemented],
[ac_cv_perl_flock_implemented],
[echo lock me > conftest.fil
if $PERL -e 'use Fcntl ":flock"; flock("conftest.fil", LOCK_EX); 1;'; then
ac_cv_perl_flock_implemented=yes
else
ac_cv_perl_flock_implemented=no
fi
rm -f conftest.fil
])
AC_SUBST([PERL_FLOCK], [$ac_cv_perl_flock_implemented])
## ------- ##
## Emacs. ##
## ------- ##
TEST_EMACS=$EMACS
test x"$TEST_EMACS" = xt && TEST_EMACS=
AC_CHECK_PROGS([TEST_EMACS], [emacs xemacs], [no])
# autoconf-mode.el and autotest-mode.el do not work with older version of
# Emacs (i.e. 18.x.x). During byte-compilation, Emacs complains:
# "Variable (broken nil) seen on pass 2 of byte compiler but not pass 1"
# We detect this problem here.
AS_IF([test "$TEST_EMACS" != no],
[AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether $TEST_EMACS is sufficiently recent],
[ac_cv_prog_emacs_ok],
[# Note: The quoted "EOF" is intentional. It protects the ` in the text.
cat >conftest.el << "EOF"
(defvar broken)
(defun broken-mode () (setq broken-defaults `(broken nil)))
EOF
AS_IF([AC_RUN_LOG(
[$TEST_EMACS -batch -q -f batch-byte-compile conftest.el 1>&2])],
[ac_cv_prog_emacs_ok=yes], [ac_cv_prog_emacs_ok=no])
rm -f conftest.el conftest.elc])
AS_IF([test $ac_cv_prog_emacs_ok = no], [TEST_EMACS=no])])
AC_SUBST([EMACS], [$TEST_EMACS])
AM_PATH_LISPDIR
## ---------------- ##
## Grep, sed, awk. ##
## ---------------- ##
AC_PROG_GREP
AC_PROG_EGREP
AC_PROG_SED
# AC_PROG_AWK should have already been performed by AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
# AC_REQUIRE([AC_PROG_AWK]) doesn't work outside of an AC_DEFUN.
m4_provide_if([AC_PROG_AWK], [], [AC_PROG_AWK])
## ----- ##
## Make. ##
## ----- ##
AC_PROG_MAKE_CASE_SENSITIVE
## ------------ ##
## Conclusion. ##
## ------------ ##
dnl Allow maintainer rules under GNU make even in VPATH builds.
AC_CONFIG_LINKS([GNUmakefile:GNUmakefile])
AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])
AC_CONFIG_FILES([lib/version.m4:lib/version.in])
AC_OUTPUT
# Report the state of this version of Autoconf if this is a beta.
m4_bmatch(m4_defn([AC_PACKAGE_VERSION]), [[-a-z]],
[ cat <<EOF
You are about to use an experimental version of Autoconf. Be sure to
read the relevant mailing lists, most importantly <autoconf@gnu.org>.
Below you will find information on the status of this version of Autoconf.
EOF
sed -n '/^\* Status/,$p' $srcdir/BUGS
echo
])dnl