Akim Demaille [Mon, 2 Jun 2003 06:55:03 +0000 (06:55 +0000)]
* bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoheader.in: White space
changes.
* lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&backname): Remove, no longer used by
Autoconf nor Automake.
(&contents): New, from Automake.
PODify.
* lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION):
Remove `#include <stdlib.h>' from the list; we should never
* lib/Autom4te/General.pm (END): Print diagnostics to STDERR.
(handle_exec_errors): New function. Work around $! being
altered by WEXITSTATUS.
(xqx, xsystem): Use handle_exec_errors.
* lib/Autom4te/General.pm (END): Rewrite exit code processing.
Do not call `_exit()', simply modify `$?'.
(xsystem): Reset $! before running system, and check it afterward.
* tests/tools.at (autoupdating AC_PREREQ): Expect exit status
63 for version mismatches.
Akim Demaille [Fri, 23 May 2003 13:58:06 +0000 (13:58 +0000)]
* lib/autoconf/status.m4: Prefer "TAB-SP" to "SP-TAB", because of
Emacs' danger whitespace.el behavior (smashing "useless" spaces in
the middle of a line).
* lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: Likewise.
Remove useless spaces in comments.
Akim Demaille [Fri, 23 May 2003 13:14:30 +0000 (13:14 +0000)]
* lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_version_prereq): Failure causes an
exit 63, so that we (or Automake's "missing") can tell the
difference with a plain failure.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Notices): Adjust.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 23 May 2003 09:36:17 +0000 (09:36 +0000)]
(_AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION):
Remove `#include <stdlib.h>' from the list; we should never
make confdefs.h include <stdlib.h> or <cstdlib>, because the
resulting namespace pollution would cause other tests to fail.
Configure scripts run with some older versions of g++ and HP's
aCC would fail due to such an #include. Problems reported by
Matthew Mueller in <http://bugs.debian.org/120704> and by
Keith Bostic in
<http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2003-05/msg00063.html>.
In the test, use the test declaration before including <stdlib.h>,
as that's closer to how it'll be used.
Paolo Bonzini [Thu, 22 May 2003 21:52:43 +0000 (21:52 +0000)]
Overhaul Autotest's logging: generate separate log files
in testsuite.dir/NNN/testsuite.log, and append them to
testsuite.log instead of re-running the test verbosely.
Adapt documentation. Update NEWS to signal possible bad
interactions between -x and experr.
Akim Demaille [Thu, 22 May 2003 07:43:49 +0000 (07:43 +0000)]
* doc/autoconf.texi: Replace AC_HELP_STRING AS_HELP_STRING.
Add AC_HELP_STRING to the obsolete macros section.
Typos.
Use '@.' for sentences that ended in a capital letter.
From Art Haas.
Akim Demaille [Sat, 17 May 2003 10:30:07 +0000 (10:30 +0000)]
* lib/autoconf/functions.m4: Use the default includes so that
memcmp be declared before being tested.
Reported by Sander Niemeijer.
(AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE, AC_FUNC_GETGROUPS, AC_FUNC_STRNLEN): Likewise.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Default Includes): Document
AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT.
Akim Demaille [Sat, 17 May 2003 09:44:22 +0000 (09:44 +0000)]
* lib/autoconf/specific.m4: Include signal.h and unistd.h.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Obsolete Macros): Adjust.
Reported by Werner LEMBERG and Debian Bug 190886.
Akim Demaille [Fri, 16 May 2003 09:54:46 +0000 (09:54 +0000)]
* bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
* bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in (BEGIN): Make
them uniform, and more robust to Perl special characters.
Reported by Martin Mokrej.
Akim Demaille [Tue, 6 May 2003 15:07:59 +0000 (15:07 +0000)]
Don't try to be smart with aclocal 1.8+ because (i) aclocal no
longer updates aclocal.m4 if useless, (ii) if a file m4_included
by aclocal.m4 is changed it might require the importing of another
m4 extension file, i.e., aclocal must be run.
* bin/autoreconf.in (&run_aclocal, $aclocal_supports_force): New.
(&parse_args): Use --force with aclocal if required and supported.
(&autoreconf_current_directory): Use &run_aclocal.
Akim Demaille [Tue, 6 May 2003 08:51:21 +0000 (08:51 +0000)]
Lock autom4te's cache.
* lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm ($me, &name, &lock, &truncate, &seek): New.
* bin/autom4te.in (&Request::save, &Request::load): Use an IO::File
argument instead of a file name, so that the request file remains
open during the whole autom4te run.
($icache_file): New.
(&freeze): Lock the $icache_file.
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_KEYWORDS): Don't use a comma as the
seperator with m4_append_uniq(). It doesn't work.
(AT_CLEANUP): Add `;' to end of at_help_all.
(AT_INIT): Allow --keywords to be specified more than once. When
grepping $at_help_all for keywords, use the field and keyword
seperators to ensure a complete keyword match. Alter at_prev handling
to support the new --keywords behavior.
Paul Eggert [Mon, 28 Apr 2003 06:24:13 +0000 (06:24 +0000)]
Make the dir entries in the autoconf manual align better with others.
I also made some of the individual entries on one line, for brevity
and to make it easier for me to sort my dir-example file in the
Texinfo distribution :).
Derek Price [Fri, 28 Mar 2003 21:41:39 +0000 (21:41 +0000)]
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (PARSE_ARGS,PARSE_ARGS_END,HELP,HELP_MODES,
HELP_TUNING,HELP_OTHER,HELP_END,PREPARE_TESTS,TESTS_END): Define and
use new diversions in preparation for accepting new arguments and
allowing scripting around tests.
(OPTIONS,TAIL): Remove these diversions to make way for the ones above.
Akim Demaille [Fri, 28 Mar 2003 17:10:27 +0000 (17:10 +0000)]
* tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Require aclocal
1.4, otherwise the test fails, as it does support configure.ac.
This fixes the "test 40 failed" bug reports.
Paul Eggert [Thu, 6 Mar 2003 20:41:34 +0000 (20:41 +0000)]
Work around a problem noted by Nelson H. F. Beebe with coreutils
4.5.9: Sun c89 (Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3 Patch 111679-08
2002/05/09) rejects '#line 32768 "configure"' because the line
number overflows.
Richard Dawe [Mon, 3 Mar 2003 20:13:50 +0000 (20:13 +0000)]
tests/atspecific.m4: Normalize the file name for the m4 program,
when it has an "exe" file extension. DJGPP's error messages include
the error code in brackets - remove the error code during normalization.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Remove the section
about `$<' in inference rules, it was a bogus interpretation of
an old Automake change. Discuss NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and
Tru64 make in the "target lookup" section.
(Automake): Automake 1.5+ no longer requires special tools to be
present on the developer's host.
Akim Demaille [Fri, 28 Feb 2003 10:11:07 +0000 (10:11 +0000)]
* bin/autoheader.in (BEGIN): For DJGPP SHELL may not be set
to a shell that can handle redirection or quoting correctly.
Override SHELL with the shell detected by configure.
Use of $^O suggested by Tim van Holder.
* bin/autom4te.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
* bin/autoreconf.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
* bin/autoscan.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
* bin/autoupdate.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
* bin/ifnames.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
* bin/ifnames.in: Add final newline to help and version messages.
* lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Translate colons,
to cope with DOS-style absolute paths, when constructing
${ac_make}.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS, _AC_OUTPUT_FILES):
When constructing paths with IFS=:, quote the path. If we're
constructing a DOS-style absolute path, we don't want to split it
on the colon.
* tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_CONFIGURE): Fix typo
in description.
Paul Eggert [Tue, 25 Feb 2003 06:45:05 +0000 (06:45 +0000)]
(AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Fix typo in
2002-09-01 patch by replacing "test -n" with "test -z".
This fixes a bug reported by Tom Epperly in
<http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2003-02/msg00139.html>.
Akim Demaille [Thu, 20 Feb 2003 17:15:47 +0000 (17:15 +0000)]
* lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): When
compiler says yeah, but preproc says nope, compiler is right.
Conversely, prompt the reader to send a bug report to the
maintainers of the package, not of Autoconf.