* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_SEPARATOR_PREPARE): Use $$ in the

file name to enable parallel executions.
From Sam Varshavchik.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 9a3d80e3dd2a2160d62cc9a608ad369cff46c523..1c9ec50e054863c4e17c3731c620415c217badfc 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2002-10-11  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>
+
+       * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_SEPARATOR_PREPARE): Use $$ in the
+       file name to enable parallel executions.
+       From Sam Varshavchik.
+
 2002-10-08  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>
 
        * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Run autopoint before the first

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 541a2b0048e1df57a5d232927814e58fecf791be..07bf48475a928cb82f3d7bfb1bed1c9ea0f5b626 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@
 
   could be issued.  This is fixed.
 
+- Parallel Builds
+  Simultaneous executions of config.status are possible again.
+
 * Major changes in Autoconf 2.54
 
   Released September 13th, 2002.

diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index e39c389f2d4ae81c4288926cb4c901d4e3958ab9..97d4ad18d2e8c768223ad46d41e8817e09b8d432 100644 (file)
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ R
 Ruediger Kuhlmann           uck4@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
 Russ Allbery                rra@stanford.edu
 Ryuji Abe                   raeva@t3.rim.or.jp
+Sam Varshavchik             mrsam@courier-mta.com
 Scott Bambrough             scottb@corelcomputer.com
 Scott Stanton               stanton@scriptics.com
 Simon Leinen                simon@lia.di.epfl.ch

diff --git a/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 b/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4
index 3da6ab47dad0dedec3d042b20c49a136533110af..e76818651e0fc711591b0fbfd29c4d526967b2e1 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4
+++ b/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4
@@ -633,15 +633,15 @@ rm -f conf$$ conf$$.exe conf$$.file
 m4_defun([_AS_PATH_SEPARATOR_PREPARE],
 [# The user is always right.
 if test "${PATH_SEPARATOR+set}" != set; then
-  echo "#! /bin/sh" >conftest.sh
-  echo  "exit 0"   >>conftest.sh
-  chmod +x conftest.sh
-  if (PATH="/nonexistent;."; conftest.sh) >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+  echo "#! /bin/sh" >conf$$.sh
+  echo  "exit 0"   >>conf$$.sh
+  chmod +x conf$$.sh
+  if (PATH="/nonexistent;."; conf$$.sh) >/dev/null 2>&1; then
     PATH_SEPARATOR=';'
   else
     PATH_SEPARATOR=:
   fi
-  rm -f conftest.sh
+  rm -f conf$$.sh
 fi
 ])# _AS_PATH_SEPARATOR_PREPARE
 

diff --git a/man/autom4te.1 b/man/autom4te.1
index 2e3da8761a2db57a7f8bd4b5a90263b9a378109a..d90727409e4439e3c3b65e5301347e012d51c829 100644 (file)
--- a/man/autom4te.1
+++ b/man/autom4te.1
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE!  It was generated by help2man 1.29.
-.TH AUTOM4TE "1" "September 2002" "autom4te 2.54a" "User Commands"
+.TH AUTOM4TE "1" "October 2002" "autom4te 2.54a" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 autom4te \- Generate files and scripts thanks to M4
 .SH SYNOPSIS