Paul Eggert [Sun, 19 Nov 2006 01:14:34 +0000 (01:14 +0000)]
* tests/autotest.at (BSx641-newline in command):
(BS-BS-newline in command, BSx640-newline in command):
(Newline-CODE-BS-newline in command):
(Single-quote-BS-newline in command):
(Single-quote-newline-BS-newline in command):
Use printf '%s\n' instead of echo, for portability to hosts
where echo interprets backslashes. This will break on hosts
that lack printf, but for now let's assume all such hosts
are dead (if not, we should get reports of test failures).
Paul Eggert [Fri, 17 Nov 2006 21:04:54 +0000 (21:04 +0000)]
'echo' has some portability problems, when given a first argument
with a leading '-', or when given any argument containing '\'.
Avoid using 'echo' in these cases.
* bin/Makefile.am $(bin_SCRIPTS): Rewrite to avoid 'echo' entirely.
* lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX, AC_PROG_OBJC): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Likewise.
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
* bin/autoconf.as: Use AS_ECHO rather than plain echo, when the
argument might be unportable.
* lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_C_O): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/erlang.m4 (AC_LANG(Erlang)): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT):
(_AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ENABLE, _AC_INIT_PREPARE):
(_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE, AC_ARG_PROGRAM, _AC_MSG_LOG_CONFTEST):
(AC_RUN_LOG, _AC_RUN_IFELSE, _AC_LIBOBJS_NORMALIZE): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_DIRECT): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH):
(AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCDIRS, _AC_OUTPUT_HEADER):
(_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS, _AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Likewise.
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_CREATE_DEBUGGING_SCRIPT, AT_INIT):
(AT_CLEANUP, _AT_DECIDE_TRACEABLE, _AT_CHECK): Likewise.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE, _AS_ECHO_UNQUOTED):
(_AS_BASENAME_SED, _AS_DIRNAME_SED, AS_MKDIR_P, AS_TMPDIR, AS_UNAME):
(AS_TR_SH, AS_TR_CPP, AS_VAR_GET): Likewise.
* bin/autoconf.as: Redo verbose flag implementation, as the old
scheme wouldn't work with AS_ECHO.
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_MSG_RESULT, AC_MSG_RESULT_UNQUOTED):
Don't use ECHO_T, since ECHO_N is now reliable.
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_PROGRAM): Use sed "$script"
rather than using a here-document to put the script into a file.
(_AC_DO_ECHO): Hoist the eval out of the echo, so that we can
use AS_ECHO.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_VAR_GET): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH): Use
AS_ECHO_N rather than ECHO_N and ECHO_C. This doesn't fix any
bug, but we might as well stop using ECHO_N and ECHO_C internally.
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_SETUP): Likewise.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_ECHO_N): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS):
(_AC_OUTPUT_MAIN_LOOP): Rework echo so that it has just one
operand, as AS_ECHO requires. Avoid double file name expansion.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Invoke _AS_ECHO_PREPARE.
Don't set as_nl, since _AS_ECHO_PREPARE does that now.
(_AS_PREPARE): Comment that _AS_ECHO_N_PREPARE is just for user code.
(AS_ECHO, AS_ECHO_N, _AS_ECHO_PREPARE): New macros.
* tests/c.at (AC_PROG_CPP without warnings, AC_PROG_CPP via CC):
Double-quote strings that would otherwise contain M4 comments.
* tests/m4sh.at (AS_ECHO and AS_ECHO_N): New test.
Paul Eggert [Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:17:38 +0000 (09:17 +0000)]
* tests/autotest.at (Macro with backslash in a test title):
Comment out for now, as this tests neither fails nor passes
reliably. Problem reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
Paul Eggert [Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:16:27 +0000 (00:16 +0000)]
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Factor out
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.
Paul Eggert [Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:40:06 +0000 (20:40 +0000)]
* NEWS: Document the AC_ARG_WITH change.
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.
Paul Eggert [Thu, 9 Nov 2006 21:03:54 +0000 (21:03 +0000)]
* tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Exclude AC_PROG_CXX_C_O, for
benefit of platforms like Solaris+GCC where it is common to have a
non-working g++ installation.
Paul Eggert [Wed, 8 Nov 2006 21:44:32 +0000 (21:44 +0000)]
* lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG_INT): Set
ac_cv_type_long_long_int to 'yes' instead of 'cross-compiling'.
Imported from a similar patch to gnulib by Bruno Haible.
Paul Eggert [Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:05:33 +0000 (23:05 +0000)]
Handle special characters in test case titles correctly.
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): M4-quote and AS_ESCAPE AT_help_all
properly.
(AT_SETUP): M4-quote and AS_ESCAPE the title properly everywhere.
* tests/autotest.at (AT_CHECK_AT_TITLE): Add EXPANDED-TITLE-TO-TEST
argument. Extend to check titles printed by ./micro-suite and
./micro-suite -l and the title in micro-suite.log.
(Backquote in a test title,
Single-quote in a test title,
Double-quote in a test title): Don't expect failure anymore.
(Backslash in a test title): Put a non-whitespace character after the
backslash so that Bourne shells might actually see it as an escape
sequence.
(Brackets in a test title,
Pound in a test title,
Comma in a test title,
Quoted Macro in a test title,
Macro in a test title,
Macro with single-quote in a test title): New tests.
(Macro with backquote in a test title,
Macro with double-quote in a test title,
Macro with backslash in a test title): New tests expected to fail.
* tests/torture.at (#define header templates): M4-quote this title in
AT_SETUP call so that no M4 code is commented inadvertently somewhere.
The visible effect was a stray [] in the testsuite output.
Paul Eggert [Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:30:32 +0000 (19:30 +0000)]
* tests/base.at (AC_COMPUTE_INT): Test **0** rather than 1 / 0,
since powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build
5363) simply issues a warning when dividing by zero at compile
time. Problem reported by Elias Pipping.
Eric Blake [Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:32:11 +0000 (16:32 +0000)]
* THANKS: Update.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Evaluation Macros): Improve the example to
show effect on macros that expand with commas.
Reported by Joel E. Denny.
Eric Blake [Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:32:11 +0000 (16:32 +0000)]
* THANKS: Update.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Evaluation Macros): Improve the example to
show effect on macros that expand with commas.
Reported by Joel E. Denny.
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.
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