1999-09-17 Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>

1999-09-17  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

	* acgeneral.m4 (AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Improve configure's --help.

	* acgeneral.m4 (AC_OUTPUT): Change the root of filenames of
	config.status from $conftest to $confstat.
	The previous patch to make config.status reentrant was wrong,
 	because it changed some `conftest' that are used by configure into
 	`$conftest', while it was for config.status only.  To avoid
 	another confusion like this, all the filenames of config.status
 	should be `$confstat*', and those of configure should be
 	`conftest*'.
	(AC_OUTPUT): Rename the uses of `ac_file' for the sed fragments as
	`ac_sed_frag'.

	* acgeneral.m4 (AC_OUTPUT): This macro used to open the here
 	documents that configure uses to generate config.status, included
 	that of the submacros.  Now, it no longer handles the here
 	documents for its subroutines (it was far to hard to track).
	(AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Open and close your here documents to
	$CONFIG_STATUS.
	(AC_OUTPUT_HEADER): Likewise.
	(AC_OUTPUT_LINKS): Likewise.

	* acgeneral.m4 (AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Move $ac_vpsub and $extrasub
 	from the AC_SUBST substitutions (i.e., that of @SHELL@ etc.) to
 	the specific section (that of @srcdir@ etc.).
	Now the ``general substitution'' section is absolutely uniform.

	* acgeneral.m4 (AC_SUBST): Change sed call from `s%@from@%to%g'
 	into `s%@from@%to%;t t'.
	(AC_SUBST_FILE): Likewise.
	(AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Optimize the sed scripts by branching if there
 	are no `@' on the line. Impressive speed up.

	* Makefile.in (DISTFILES): Add THANKS.

	* THANKS: New file.