* 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.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Fix use of AS_SET_CATFILE
so that ac_abs_builddir, ac_abs_top_builddir, ac_abs_srcdir,
and ac_abs_top_srcdir are absolute paths.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SET_CATFILE): Remove misleading comment.
Kevin Ryde [Tue, 4 Nov 2003 21:20:12 +0000 (21:20 +0000)]
* doc/autoconf.texi (Using Autotest): Avoid @strong{Note: ...}, since
it provokes a warning from makeinfo about looking like a cross
reference in info output.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add notes on signal
handler return type, as per AC_TYPE_SIGNAL.
Akim Demaille [Tue, 4 Nov 2003 08:32:06 +0000 (08:32 +0000)]
AC_CONFIG_FILE([d1/foo:d2/foo]) triggers error messages when
computing the absolute path to d1 in the source hierarchy: it may
not exist at all. So don't cd into it.
From Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-10/msg00205.html
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SET_CATFILE): New.
From Paul Eggert, but named after Perl's IO::Spec->catfile.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Document.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Use it.
Akim Demaille [Fri, 31 Oct 2003 08:44:46 +0000 (08:44 +0000)]
* tests/fortran.at (GNU Fortran 77): Don't run FC macros.
(GNU Fortran): New.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Language Choice): Document.
* lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_FREEFORM): Assert
the current language is Fortran.
Akim Demaille [Mon, 27 Oct 2003 11:12:49 +0000 (11:12 +0000)]
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_RUN_IFELSE, _AC_INIT_PREPARE):
Don't remove core.* as it may remove valid user files.
* lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED)
(AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL): Likewise.
Akim Demaille [Thu, 23 Oct 2003 07:49:15 +0000 (07:49 +0000)]
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ): Don't insert twice the
same object file in $LIBOBJS.
Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz & Derek Robert Price.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Functions): Adjust.
Gary V. Vaughan [Wed, 8 Oct 2003 13:12:19 +0000 (13:12 +0000)]
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR): Stub out a macro
that future autopoint/aclocal/automake/autoreconf will be able
to trace to find where to install local m4 macros.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Input): Document it.
* NEWS: Updated.
Akim Demaille [Fri, 3 Oct 2003 07:30:01 +0000 (07:30 +0000)]
* lib/autom4te.in (Autoreconf-preselections): Trace AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR.
* bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory): Create the
AUX_DIR if needed, for sake of automake --add-missing etc.
Suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
Paul Eggert [Tue, 30 Sep 2003 19:29:47 +0000 (19:29 +0000)]
* lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Use Errno.
(lock): Ignore ENOLCK errors. Problem reported Andreas Schwab in
<http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-09/msg00141.html>.
* lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Remove files which might
have been created when invoking the compiler.
* tests/fortran.at (GNU Fortran 77): Quote $G77.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS): Make sure the
directory for AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS' first argument exists.
This makes valid the invocation of _AC_SRCPATH that follows.
Reported by Eric Sunshine.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Commands): Adjust.
The test suite are sometimes assigning timings incorrectly.
Reported by Paivio Pollari.
Diagnosed by Nicolas Joly.
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CLEANUP): Rename AT_help as
AT_help_all.
Instead of making AT_help a sequence of assignments to grow
$at_help_all, just make AT_help_all be the growing contents of
$at_help_all, and make a single assignment in...
(AT_INIT): here.
(at_times_skip): Flip the meaning and rename as...
(at_times_p): this.
(AT_INIT): When summarizing the test that ran, remove
$at_times_file after use, and check it is present before trying to
use it.
Version 2.57d.
* bin/Makefile.am (edit): Handle '@configure_input@'.
(autoconf, autoheader, autom4te, autoreconf, autoscan, autoupdate)
(ifnames): chmod -w.
* tests/wrapper.as (AUTOCONF, AUTOM4TE, ): Point to tests/
executables, not bin/ executables! Otherwise all the magic needed
to find non installed files is turned off. This caused a failure
of test 40 and 41 that ran aclocal 1.8 which in turn ran autom4te
as found in its environment (sent by tests/autoreconf): pointing
to bin/autom4te that could not find its files.
* tests/mktests.sh: Force the replacement of generated files, for
the sake of "mv" program that are interactive when overwriting a
-w file.
* config/install-sh: Upgrade from CVS Automake.