Paul Eggert [Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:34:09 +0000 (19:34 +0000)]
* lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (_AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_MACRO_VALUE):
If FUNCTION-BODY is nonempty, use AC_LINK_IFELSE rather than
AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, to work around problem with OSF/1 4.0F fseeko
reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe for Coreutils 6.4.
Paul Eggert [Mon, 23 Oct 2006 06:12:40 +0000 (06:12 +0000)]
* NEWS: Remove AC_CACHE_CHECK_INT.
* 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.
Paul Eggert [Sun, 15 Oct 2006 01:12:02 +0000 (01:12 +0000)]
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_LITERAL_IF): Expand $1 before
looking for special shell characters.
* lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_CHECK_FUNC): Do not expand the
macro defined by AS_VAR_PUSHDEF before passing it as a
parameter.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CHECK_FILE, AC_CHECK_DECL):
* lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (AC_SEARCH_LIBS, AC_CHECK_LIB):
* lib/autoconf/types.m4 (_AC_CHECK_TYPE_NEW, AC_CHECK_MEMBER):
* lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL):
(_AC_CHECK_HEADER_NEW, _AC_CHECK_HEADER_OLD, _AC_CHECK_HEADER_DIRENT):
Likewise.
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Quote parameters of
AS_VAR_* properly.
* tests/m4sh.at (AS_LITERAL_IF): New test.
Paul Eggert [Sun, 15 Oct 2006 00:58:25 +0000 (00:58 +0000)]
(Imported from Automake.)
* build-aux/install-sh (posix_mkdir): Reject FreeBSD 6.1 mkdir -p -m,
which incorrectly sets the mode of an existing destination
directory. In some cases the unpatched install-sh could do the
equivalent of "chmod 777 /" or "chmod 0 /" on a buggy FreeBSD
system. We hope this is rare in practice, but it's clearly worth
fixing. Problem reported by Alex Unleashed in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2006-10/msg00012.html>.
Also, don't bother to check for -m bugs unless we're using -m;
suggested by Stepan Kasal.
2006-10-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Import this change from Automake:
2006-08-23 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
* lib/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm (usage): Mention that -Wportability
is enabled by default with gnu and gnits strictness.
Report from Bruno Haible.
2006-03-10 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
* lib/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm: Make -Wportability the default in
gnu and gnits modes.
Import this change from Config:
2006-09-20 Ben Elliston <bje@gnu.org>
* build-aux/config.sub (score, score-*): New.
Import this change from Gnulib:
2006-09-16 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* doc/fdl.texi (ADDENDUM): switch to @heading from @appendixsubsec,
to avoid sectioning errors.
Import these changes from Texinfo:
2006-10-04 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* build-aux/texinfo.tex (\singlequotechar): rename to \codequoteright.
(\quoteexpand): rename to \rquoteexpand.
(\codequoteleft): new def, to look for @set codequotebacktick.
(\lquoteexpand, \quoteexpand): new defs.
(\lquoteChar, \rquoteChar, \dashChar, \underChar: new \chardef's.
(\code): must use new \...Char values, since now ` is active.
2006-08-26 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* build-aux/texinfo.tex (\textdegree): New command.
2006-08-12 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* build-aux/texinfo.tex (error \box0): smaller font.
Ralf Wildenhues [Fri, 13 Oct 2006 05:19:20 +0000 (05:19 +0000)]
* lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_OBSTACK): In the test,
include the default headers, and redefine obstack_chunk_alloc
and obstack_chunk_free. Fixes false failure with glibc.
Paul Eggert [Wed, 11 Oct 2006 21:50:57 +0000 (21:50 +0000)]
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_TEST_X): New macro.
(AS_EXECUTABLE_P): Use as_test_x rather than as_executable_p.
(_AS_TEST_PREPARE): Set as_test_x rather than as_executable_p.
Use a better substitute, by inspecting the output of "ls"
rather than just using ":".
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LINK_IFELSE): Use AS_TEST_X
rather than AS_EXECUTABLE_P, since we needn't worry about
non-regular files here.
Paul Eggert [Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:35:57 +0000 (19:35 +0000)]
* NEWS: Autoconf-generated shell scripts no longer export BIN_SH,
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.
Paul Eggert [Fri, 6 Oct 2006 17:43:55 +0000 (17:43 +0000)]
* lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_PREPROC_WORKS_IFELSE): Remove
comment about ac_cpp_err; it was incorrect, and anyway
ac_cpp_err is being removed below.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_PREPROC_IFELSE): Don't
set ac_cpp_err to 'yesyes' if preproc_warn_flag and werror_flag
are both 'yes'. In fact, don't bother setting ac_cpp_err at all;
nobody uses it.
(_AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, _AC_LINK_IFELSE): Don't log our funky tests
with werror_flag and conftest.err and so forth. This is more
compatible with how _AC_PROG_PREPROC_WORKS_IFELSE behaves,
and anyway the user shouldn't normally want to see this gorp logged.
Problem reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
* lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_WERROR): werror_flag's default is
empty, not 'no', since the rest of the code uses 'test -z'.
Paul Eggert [Wed, 4 Oct 2006 21:16:06 +0000 (21:16 +0000)]
* doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Autoconf-generated
shel scripts no longer export BIN_SH, due to configuration
hassles with this.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE): Don't set BIN_SH
or DUALCASE.
(_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL): Don't look in /usr/bin/posix.
Use AS_EXECUTABLE_P rather than test -f.
(AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Set DUALCASE.
(AS_EXECUTABLE_P): Just invoke as_executable_p.
(_AS_TEST_PREPARE): Default to test -f, rather than to nothing.
Paul Eggert [Wed, 4 Oct 2006 19:10:49 +0000 (19:10 +0000)]
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, _AC_LINK_IFELSE):
Use a single call to AC_DO_TOKENS rather than multiple, for
efficiency.
(_AC_LINK_IFELSE): Test that resulting file is executable.
Problem reported by mwoehlke in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-10/msg00048.html>.
Paul Eggert [Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:57:16 +0000 (20:57 +0000)]
* lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_FSEEKO): Don't compile the
fseeko testing program twice; just use the earlier result.
* lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (_AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_MACRO_VALUE):
Set cache var to 'unknown' (not 'no') if leaving the macro unset
still doesn't let the program compile.
(AC_SYS_LARGEFILE): Test for _LARGE_FILES only if earlier tests
failed.
* lib/autoconf/functions.m4: Fix problems reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
(AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE): Don't bother to check for error.h. Just
include it, without including anything else.
(AC_FUNC_FSEEKO): Avoid gcc -Wall warnings about constant
expressions.
(AC_FUNC_STRNLEN): Require AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS.
* lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE): Check for
`error.h', and include it, for a `error_at_line' prototype.
Use a nonempty format string in the link test.
* lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_WAIT3): Include <sys/wait.h>,
for a declaration of wait3.
* lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (AH_CHECK_LIB): Fix quoting, to be
consistent with _AH_CHECK_FUNCS and _AH_CHECK_HEADERS.
* lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AH_CHECK_HEADERS_DIRENT): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Quote the
argument to `--prefix' for sub-configure scripts.
Pass `--silent' to sub-configure scripts.
* tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Add tests
for both changes.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Fix example to
not show `--silent' being passed to a `configure' re-run.
Paul Eggert [Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:16:34 +0000 (18:16 +0000)]
* doc/autoconf.texi (Input): Clarify role of AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR): Do not check
for the existence of the directory at configure-time. That's
too late, anyway, and possibly the directory isn't part of the
distribution. Problem reported by Stefan Seefeld.
Paul Eggert [Tue, 12 Sep 2006 07:07:32 +0000 (07:07 +0000)]
(_AS_TEST_PREPARE): Avoid bug in UnixWare
7.1.4 /usr/bin/posix/sh described by Tim Rice in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2006-09/msg00017.html>.
* tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_M4): Fix this so that the testsuite
works with GNU M4 1.4.3 again; make the normalized form
match the current m4 message; fix the description.
* test/tools.at (autom4te cache): Adapt to the change.
Paul Eggert [Fri, 8 Sep 2006 22:36:16 +0000 (22:36 +0000)]
* lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MKTIME): Add year_2050_test
to catch glibc bug 2821
<http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2821>.
Merge from gnulib as follows: Use AC_CHECK_HEADERS_ONCE instead of
AC_CHECK_HEADERS, and likewise for AC_CHECK_FUNCS_ONCE and
AC_CHECK_FUNCS. Don't check for stdlib.h, since we now
assume C89.
* lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Prefer xlf90/xlf95 over
f90/f95 because the latter drivers of AIX Fortran 9.1 do not
accept files with extension `.f'. For consistency, also prefer
xlf over f77.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Fortran Compiler): Remove mention of bug
from last patch.
Paul Eggert [Sat, 2 Sep 2006 05:37:07 +0000 (05:37 +0000)]
* NEWS: New macro AC_CACHE_CHECK_INT. It replaces the
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.
Paul Eggert [Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:38:30 +0000 (22:38 +0000)]
* NEWS: AC_FUNC_FNMATCH, AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU, AC_FUNC_GETLOADVG,
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.
Paul Eggert [Fri, 25 Aug 2006 20:48:02 +0000 (20:48 +0000)]
Fix Lex library problem reported to us by Julio Garvia.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): YYTEXT_POINTER is
for the default, which the user can override.
* lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_LEX): Let _AC_PROG_LEX_YYTEXT_DECL
deal with LEXLIB.
(_AC_PROG_LEX_YYTEXT_DECL): Handle caching correctly; the old code
didn't work if some values were cached but not others. Test for
broken lex libraries like native ia64-hp-hpux11.22; see
<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2003-12/msg00337.html>, and
work around the problem by preferring an empty LEXLIB to -lfl or
-ll. Let the user set LEXLIB='' to indicate no library needed.
Paul Eggert [Thu, 24 Aug 2006 22:56:47 +0000 (22:56 +0000)]
Rework to use more-modern build style.
Many files are renamed; all uses of their names were changed.
* .x-sc_trailing_blank: Renamed from .x-sc_trailing_blank.
* .x-sc_useless_cpp_parens: New file.
* build-aux/config.guess: Renamed from config/config.guess. Update.
* build-aux/config.sub: Renamed from config/config.sub. Update.
* build-aux/elisp-comp: Renamed from config/elisp-comp.
* build-aux/install-sh: Renamed from config/install-sh. Update.
* build-aux/mdate-sh: Renamed from config/mdate-sh.
* build-aux/missing: Renamed from config/missing.
* build-aux/texinfo.tex: Renamed from config/texinfo.tex. Update.
* build-aux/vc-list-files: Renamed from config/vc-list-files.
* config/Makefile.am: Removed.
* config/mkinstalldirs: Removed.
* config/move-if-change: Removed.
* m4/m4.m4: Renamed from config/m4.m4. Add (C) to copyright notice.
* Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): Remove config.
(ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS): Include from m4, not config.
(EXTRA_DIST): Add config/announce-gen, config/prev-version.txt.
(WGET, WGETFLAGS): New macros, since Makefile.maint no longer does this.
(autom4te-update): Rewrite with a loop. Get from gnulib, not automake.
Fail if there's an error.
* Makefile.cfg (move_if_change): Remove.
(wget_files): Remove.
(cvs_executable_files): New macro.
(cvs_files): Use it. Remove mkinstalldirs. Add fdl.texi.
(executable-update): Use $(cvs_executable_files).
(local-checks-to-skip): Remove.
* Makefile.maint: Merge from coreutils, plus add our own changes
(gzip_rsyncable): New macro.
(GZIP_ENV): Use it.
(CVS_LIST): Use build-aux/vc-list-files.
(VERSION_REGEXP): New macro.
(local-checks-available): Add patch-check, $(syntax-check-rules),
check-AUTHORS.
(syntax-check-rules): Compute dynamically.
(sc_cast_of_x_alloc_return_value): Work even if no source files.
(sc_cast_of_alloca_return_value): Likewise.
(sc_prohibit_atoi_atof): Simplify regexp.
(sc_no_if_have_config_h, sc_require_config_h):
(sc_prohibit_assert_without_use,
(sc_obsolete_symbols): Check for O_NDELAY.
(sc_texi_notab): Remove.
(sc-changelog): Don't make an exception for '----' lines.
(.re-list): Remove, so we don't have a junk file behind.
(sc_system_h_headers): Remove the need for .re-list.
(sc_the_the): New rule.
(sc_tight_scope): Simplify.
(sc_trailing_space): Renamed from sc_trailing_blank.
(longopt_re): New macro.
(sc_two_space_separator_in_usage): New rule.
(sc_unmarked_diagnostics): Look at all files under CVS.
(sc_useless_cpp_parens, patch-check, check-AUTHORS): New rules.
(news-date-check, changelog-check): Version is OK.
(po-check): Look for lib files even if not in CVS.
(copyright-check): Use $() not ``.
(maintainer-distcheck): Do not depend on changelog-check.
(my-distcheck): Depend on $(release_archive_dir)/$(prev-tgz).
Also check for -Wpointer-arith.
(WGET, WGETFLAGS, tgz-md5, tgz-sha1, bz2-md5, bz2-sha1):
(xdelta-md5, xdelta-sha1, tgz-size, bz2-size, xd-size, rel-check):
Remove.
(announcement): Add --gpg-key-id arg.
(cvs-sv): Remove.
(move_if_change): Just use mv.
(local_updates: Remove wget-update, po-update.
(po_repo, do-po-update, po-update, wget_files, get-targets): Remove.
(config.guess-url_prefix, config.sub-url_prefix): Remove.
(ansi2knr.c-url_prefix, texinfo.tex-url_prefix):
(standards.texi-url_prefix, make-stds.texi-url_prefix, target, url):
($(get-targets)): Remove.
(cvs_files): Remove missing, mkinstalldirs, ansi2knr.c.
(gnulib_repo): Renamed from automake_repo. Get from gnulib now.
(cvs-update): Get from gnulib.
(emut_upload_commands): gnupload is in build-aux now.
(alpha beta major): Add changelog-check. Check version.
* configure.ac (AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR): Renamed from config to build-aux.
(AC_CONFIG_FILES): Remove.
* bin/autoconf.as: Add spaces to avoid distcheck warning.
* config/announce-gen: Sync from coreutils.
* doc/make-stds.texi: Sync from gnulib.
* doc/standards.texi: Likewise.
* man/Makefile.am: Adjust for config -> build-aux renaming.
* tests/Makefile.am: Prefer $(FOO) to @FOO@.
* tests/local.at: Adjust from config -> build-aux renaming.
* tests/tools.at: Likewise.
* tests/torture.at: Likewise.
Paul Eggert [Thu, 24 Aug 2006 18:08:16 +0000 (18:08 +0000)]
* NEWS: The C99 check now tests for vararg macros and 64-bit
preprocessor ints.
* doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Document // comments, va_copy.
* lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CC_C99): Test varargs macros and
64-bit preprocessor ints. Check for static initialization of
long long. Remove unnecessary casts.
Paul Eggert [Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:24:42 +0000 (16:24 +0000)]
* NEWS: Autoconf now uses constructs like "#ifdef HAVE_STDLIB_H"
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.
Paul Eggert [Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:51:35 +0000 (22:51 +0000)]
* doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Document sed
problems with arg script text that doesn't end in newline, and
with '-e a...'. Problems reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
Ralf Wildenhues [Tue, 8 Aug 2006 16:29:04 +0000 (16:29 +0000)]
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): `config.status
--help' should mention that `--version' outputs configuration
settings. Report by Bruno Haible.
Paul Eggert [Mon, 7 Aug 2006 07:10:24 +0000 (07:10 +0000)]
Fix test suite failures reported by Pierre in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2006-08/msg00005.html>.
* lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Don't claim
the compiler created a file "b.out" when it didn't create anything
at all.
* lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_INTERPRETER):
Discard stderr too, when invoking the test script.
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