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Autoconf 2.55. Download, compile, install, torture, and enjoy!
Akim, Alexandre, Jim, Paul, and Tom
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NEWS:
** Documentation
- AC_CHECK_HEADER, AC_CHECK_HEADERS
More information on proper use.
** autoreconf
- Is more robust to different Gettext installations.
- Produces messages (when --verbose) to be understood by Emacs'
compile mode.
** Obsolete options
Support for the obsoleted options -m, --macrodir, -l, --localdir is
dropped in favor of the safer --include/--prepend-include scheme.
** Customization
- ~/.autom4te.cfg makes it possible to disable the caching mechanism
(autom4te.cache). See `Customizing autom4te' in the documentation.
** Macros
- New macros
AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC, AC_HEADER_STDBOOL.
- Obsoleted
Obsoleted macros are kept for Autoconf backward compatibility, but
should be avoided in configure.ac. Running autoupdate is advised.
AC_DECL_SYS_SIGLIST.
** Bug Fixes
- Portability of the Autoconf package to Solaris.
- Spurious warnings caused by config.status.
This bug is benign, but painful: on some systems (typically
FreeBSD), warnings such as:
config.status: creating Makefile
mv: Makefile: set owner/group (was: 1357/0): Operation not permitted
could be issued. This is fixed.
- Parallel Builds
Simultaneous executions of config.status are possible again.
- Precious variables accumulation
config.status could stack several copies of the precious variables
assignments.
** Plans for 2.56
- ./configure <host>
The compatibility hooks with the old scheme will be completely
removed. Please, advice/use `--build', `--host', and `--target'
only.
- AC_CHECK_HEADER, AC_CHECK_HEADERS
The tests will be stricter, please make sure your invocations are
valid.
- shell functions
Shell functions will gradually be introduced, probably starting with
Autotest. If you know machines which are in use that you suspect
*not* to support shell functions, please run the test suite of
Autoconf 2.55 on it, and report the results to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ChangeLog entries:
2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Version 2.54a.
* Makefile.maint: Update from the Coreutils.
(AMTAR): Remove, obsolete.
(automake_repo): Update to redhat.com.
(cvs_file): New.
Adjust to the fact that ansi2knr is now hosted by Automake.
* Makefile.am (cvs_files): Add install-sh and mkinstalldirs.
* config/config.guess, config/mkinstalldirs, config/texinfo.tex:
Update from masters.
* lib/autoscan/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST, nodist_autoscanlib_DATA):
autoscan.pre is not to be installed, and autoscan.list is not to
be shipped.
(CLEANFILES): Add autoscan.list.
(autoscan.list): Disable the cache.
* bin/Makefile.am: Include freeze.mk.
2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* bin/autom4te.in (&load_configuration): Take the file as
argument.
(&parse_args): Handle -C, --cache.
($help): Adjust.
(MAIN): Load ~/.autom4te.cfg and ./.autom4te.cfg.
* lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): Pass --cache=autom4te.cache.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te): Document --cache.
Now a subsection of...
(Using autom4te): This new section.
(Customizing autom4te): New.
(autom4te.cache): Adjust.
2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Headers): More information on how to
use AC_CHECK_HEADERS.
2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* bin/autoconf.as, bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoupdate.in ($help):
Space changes.
2002-10-25 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* bin/autoscan.in (output): Output AC_PREREQ.
(%needed_macros): Add AC_PREREQ so that configure.ac without one
be reported.
2002-10-23 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): In AC_HEADER_STDBOOL,
document _Bool.
2002-10-23 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* bin/autom4te.in (handle_traces): Handle @&t@ in traces.
Reported by Peter Eisentraut.
2002-10-23 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDBOOL): Also look for the
type _Bool.
Fix a typo.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Adjust according to Paul
Eggert's recommandations.
2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDBOOL): New, based on CVS
Bison, by Paul Eggert.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Document it.
2002-10-22 Aaron M. Ucko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Avoid duplicates in
`$ac_configure_args'.
2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* doc/autoconf.texi: Use AC_CONFIG_HEADERS in examples.
(AC_ST_BLKSIZE, AC_ST_RDEV): Directly point to AC_CHECK_MEMBERS.
From Art Haas.
2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Restore the 2002-10-11 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch:
* lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL)
(AC_CHECK_HEADER, _AC_CHECK_HEADER_NEW,_AC_CHECK_HEADER_OLD): Restore.
(_AC_CHECK_HEADER_NEW): Rename as...
(AC_CHECK_HEADER): this.
2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Remove incorrect
words about HP-UX cmp: it was actually a user-written cmp.
2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Don't check autoconf's stderr: there
are a few warnings.
* lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4 (AH_VERBATIM, _AH_VERBATIM_OLD):
Quote for Perl '' strings, not "".
* bin/autoheader.in: Invoke autoconf to get '' strings, not ""
strings.
2002-10-22 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_QUOTE): The warning about quoted
characters is a syntax warning now.
(_AS_QUOTE): Accept $2 as list of characters to quote.
* lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4 (AH_VERBATIM, _AH_VERBATIM_OLD):
Quote for Perl, not sh.
* bin/autoheader.in: When $debug, report the file which is
`do'ne.
* tests/tools.at (autom4te, autoheader): Exercise @bar, not merely
`@', to tickle Perl's lists.
Reported by Carlos Velasco.
2002-10-18 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* bin/autom4te.in (handle_m4): Pass --fatal-warning to m4, so that
missing included files _are_ errors.
Thanks to Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
* tests/tools.at (autom4te cache): Adjust.
* tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE): New.
(AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR): Use it.
* tests/m4sugar.at (m4_warn, m4_require: circular dependencies):
Adjust.
* tests/tools.at (autom4te): Now it does exit 1.
2002-10-17 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CACHE_SAVE): Don't use cmp.
Fixes the `AC_ARG_VAR' test failures.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Don't use cmp.
* lib/freeze.mk (check-forbidden-patterns): New.
* lib/autoconf/Makefile.am, lib/autotest/Makefile.am
* lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am (check-local): Use it to catch `cmp'.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): HP-UX' cmp and
/dev/null.
Reported months ago by H. Merijn Brand.
2002-10-17 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* tests/tools.at (autoheader): Put randoms `@' to stress Perl.
2002-10-16 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Makefile.maint (wget_files): Remove ansi2knr.c.
(ansi2knr.c-url_prefix): Remove.
2002-10-16 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Because of caching, some files that no longer exist and are no
longer required can still cause errors.
Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
* bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Do not prepend `--reload-state'
to frozen files in @ARGV, as @ARGV must remain being a list of
files. Rather, at M4 call sites, use this...
(&files_to_options): New function.
(&freeze): Use &error.
(&up_to_date): If a file that was included according to the cache
is no longer there, then the output is out dated.
(&main): Don't even check whether a file is up to date is anyway
--force is given.
* tests/tools.at (autom4te cache): New.
2002-10-16 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* bin/autoconf.as: Kill dead options.
* bin/autoupdate.in (&parse_args): Kill old options.
* bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args): Remove dead options.
Factor some code.
(&autoreconf): Report the directories we enter *and leave*, so
that error messages can be easily located, and use GNU Make
format, so that Emacs' compile mode understands us.
* lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&update_file): Use `verbose' to report
if some file was changed instead of `print'.
* bin/autoheader.in: Suggest AC_DEFINE with 3 args when needed.
(&parse_args): Remove the dead options.
* tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER): Adjust to the new
autoheader's quiet mode.
(AT_CHECK_AUTOUPDATE): Likewise.
* tests/tools.at (autoupdate): Adjust.
* tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
2002-10-11 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
No longer use CPP to check for the existing of headers: use CC to
check for compilability.
* lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL)
(AC_CHECK_HEADER, _AC_CHECK_HEADER_OLD): Remove.
(_AC_CHECK_HEADER_NEW): Rename as...
(AC_CHECK_HEADER): this.
* lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Include the failed test
numbers in the Subject suggestion.
2002-10-11 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_DECL_SYS_SIGLIST): Obsolete.
Suggest using AC_CHECK_DECLS instead.
2002-10-11 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): Have configure report the value
of `precious'.
2002-10-11 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Run autopoint before the first
aclocal invocation, as Gettext macros might not be visible to
aclocal.
Instead of blindly running autopoint, scan configure.ac (not the
traces) for AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION uses, as autopoint does.
Reported by Paul D. Smith.
2002-10-08 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Work around problems found when POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 is set.
None of this seems to have anything to do with POSIX, really,
but it's how Perl getopt works.
* bin/autom4te.in (parse_args): Configure GetOpt with
"permute", too.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te):
--warning -> --warnings.
* lib/autom4te.in: --warning -> --warnings.
2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te.cache): New section.
2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* lib/autom4te.in (Autoscan-preselections, Autoreconf-preselections)
(Automake-preselections): Update.
* bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoheader.in: Comment changes.
2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* lib/autoscan/autoscan.pre: Move all the remaining rules to...
* lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/functions.m4,
* lib/autoconf/headers.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4,
* lib/autoconf/specific.m4, lib/autoconf/types.m4: here.
2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Be robust to
users who use config.site to require for a cache: in this case,
the two last configure runs, using two different sets of
arguments, trigger a legitimate error.
2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* tests/m4sh.at (Functions Support, Functions and return Support):
New.
2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* bin/Makefile.am (ETAGS_SH, ETAGS_PERL): Update: ifnames and
autoheader are Perl programs.
(autoconf, autoheader, autoreconf, autoupdate, ifnames, autoscan)
(autom4te): Specify that the sources are in the $srcdir.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Adjust.
2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* lib/autoscan/autoscan.pre (st_blksize, st_blocks, st_rdev)
(tm_zone): Move their rules to...
* lib/autoconf/types.m4: here, using AN_ macros.
* lib/autoscan/autoscan.pre (AWK, BISON, INSTALL, LEX, LN, MAKE)
(RANLIB, YACC, awk, bison, byacc, flex, gawk, install, lex, ln)
(make, mawk, nawk, ranlib, yacc): Similarly, move to...
* lib/autoconf/programs.m4: here.
* lib/freeze.mk (ETAGS_FOR_M4, ETAGS_FOR_M4SUGAR)
(ETAGS_FOR_AUTOCONF): New.
Use it.
2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* lib/autoconf/autoscan.m4: New file.
* lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4: Include it.
* lib/autoconf/functions.m4: Use AN_FUNCTION for all the functions
that were listed in the original autoscan.list.
* lib/autoconf/headers.m4: Similarly with headers.
* lib/freeze.mk (autoconf_m4f_dependencies): Add autoscan.m4.
(.m4.m4f): Don't pass --prepend-include, since that's done by
tests/autom4te itself.
* lib/autoscan/Makefile.am: Include freeze.mk.
(autoscan.list): New target --this file is no longer a source.
(autoscan.pre): New file.
2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* bin/autoscan.in (@kinds): Make them singular.
Adjust all uses.
(&init_tables): When --debug, report the list of rules to ease
tracking changes in autoscan.list.
* lib/autoscan/autoscan.list (function): Strip comments, sort.
2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* lib/autoscan/functions, lib/autoscan/headers,
* lib/autoscan/identifiers, lib/autoscan/makevars,
* lib/autoscan/programs: Merge into...
* lib/autoscan/autoscan.list: this.
* bin/autoscan.in (&init_tables): Adjust.
2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* lib/autoscan/functions, lib/autoscan/headers,
* lib/autoscan/identifiers, lib/autoscan/makevars,
* lib/autoscan/programs: Make the `kind' explicit, i.e., each
`functions' line is now prefixed with `function:'.
* bin/autoscan.in (&init_tables): Adjust.
2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From now on, autoscan files must always map a macro name to a
word: there is no `default' macro for autoscan.
* bin/autoscan.in (&init_tables): Reject entries with no macro at
all.
* lib/autoscan/functions, lib/autoscan/headers: Make the macro
explicit.
2002-09-28 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* bin/autoscan.in (%c_keywords): Remove.
(&used): Keep only track of the words we might be interested in.
(&output_kind): It is no longer needed to look for non active
checks.
2002-09-27 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC): New, stolen from
jm_FUNC_MBRTOWC, by Paul Eggert, from the Coreutils 4.5.1.
* lib/autoscan/functions: Adjust.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Adjust.
2002-09-27 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Some about mv
from /tmp.
Thanks to Bill Moseley and Paul Eggert.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): $2 is the directory into which
the tmpdir must be created.
* lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Have the tmp
dir be in the build tree, instead of $TMPDIR.
2002-09-27 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* bin/autoscan.in: Improve the comments.
(&parse_args): Drop obsolete undocumented options.
(&output_kind): Output warnings.
* lib/autoscan/functions: (dcgettext): Now trigger AM_GNU_GETTEXT.
(getwd): Trigger a warning.
2002-09-26 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* bin/autoreconf.in: Clarify that -s is meaningless without -i.
Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
* doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Likewise.
2002-09-26 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Single suffix rules and seperated dependencies are not portable.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Update.
(Limitations of Make): Some about `Single Suffix Rules and
Separated Dependencies'.
* bin/Makefile.am (autoconf, autoheader, autoreconf, autoupdate)
(ifnames, autoscan, autom4te): Un-factor into several rules.
2002-09-25 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* BUGS (Interoperability bugs): New section. Mention libtool
1.4.2, configure.ac, and AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR interoperability bug.
2002-09-24 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fix a portability bug reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz: Solaris 8
make handles suffix-rules differently from GNU make.
* bin/Makefile.am (SUFFIXES, .in): Remove.
(autoconf autoheader autoreconf autoupdate ifnames autoscan autom4te):
Move the body of the old .in rule here.
2002-09-16 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
i960 compilers create `b.out' files by default.
Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
* lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT): Remove b.out files.
(_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Adjust to b.out.
2002-09-13 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Remove obsolete
reference to `struct timezone' in the description of
AC_HEADER_TIME.
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