1 1999-10-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
3 * uintmax_t.m4: Require 2.14a. Remove backslash before backtick in
5 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: Likewise.
6 * jm-macros.m4: Likewise. Also, use AC_TYPE_SSIZE_T instead
8 * const.m4: Remove file, since the fix made it into the experimental
11 * check-type.m4: Remove file, now that the latest version of
12 AC_CHECK_TYPE takes a third arg to specify additional #includes.
14 * ssize_t.m4: New file, requires experimental version of autoconf.
15 * jm-macros.m4: Use new AC_TYPE_SSIZE_T instead of my hacked
18 1999-10-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
20 * jm-macros.m4: Don't require autoconf-2.14.1.
22 1999-09-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
24 * largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_FLAGS): Work around GCC
25 2.95.1 bug with HP-UX 10.20.
27 1999-09-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
29 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add strdup.
30 Paul Nevai reported a link failure on a NeXT CUBE with NeXTSTEP 3.3
31 due to missing strdup (against sh-utils-2.0).
33 1999-08-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
35 * jm-macros.m4: Require jm_BISON.
38 1999-08-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
40 * m4/largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE): Fix typo: missing comma
41 in value for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS, which broke ports to HP-UX 10.20.
43 1999-08-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
45 * getline.m4: Rename test file from conftestdata to conftest.data
46 to avoid conflicts with `conftest' on 8+3 filesystems.
47 Suggestion from Eli Zaretskii.
49 1999-08-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
51 * jm-macros.m4: Move a 4-line block of code from the configure.in of
52 fileutils and sh-utils (textutils's getline test was inadequate).
53 (AM_FUNC_GETLINE): Run this test.
54 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getdelim.
55 Reported by Bob Proulx.
57 1999-08-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
59 * jm-macros.m4: Add a comment.
61 1999-08-01 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
63 * mktime.m4 (AC_FUNC_MKTIME): Undefine to avoid syntax errors from m4.
65 1999-08-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
67 * lfs.m4: Remove this file.
68 * largefile.m4: New file. It contains the old contents of
69 lfs.m4, except that all names with prefix AC_LFS have been
70 changed to use the prefix AC_SYS_LARGEFILE instead, to be
71 compatible with future autoconf versions. Also, some minor m4
72 quoting problems have been fixed.
74 1999-07-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
76 * ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): Make sure
77 that we can shift, multiply and divide unsigned long long
78 values; Ultrix cc can't do it.
80 1999-07-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
82 * xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): Check whether
83 <inttypes.h> defines strtoumax as a macro (and not as a
86 1999-07-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
88 * gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove unnecessary lines.
89 Fix typo: $nls_cv_header_intl was misspelled as $nsl_cv_header_intl.
90 (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Fix problem with brackets and m4 quoting,
91 and simplify the shell code.
93 1999-07-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
95 * mktime.m4: New file, which is a preview of what should appear
96 in the next public autoconf release.
98 1999-07-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
100 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memmove.
102 1999-07-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
104 * jm-macros.m4: (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getpagesize.
106 1999-05-22 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
108 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memchr.
110 1999-05-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
112 * search-libs.m4 [AC_SEARCH_LIBS]: Quote name in undefine.
113 Add a colon after each `then' in case $4 is empty.
115 1999-05-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
117 * search-libs.m4: New file to override autoconf's AC_SEARCH_LIBS.
119 1999-05-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
121 * jm-mktime.m4: Reflect renaming: AM_FUNC_MKTIME -> AC_FUNC_MKTIME.
123 * jm-macros.m4: Require 2.14.1, since we use newly-renamed
126 1999-05-10 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
128 * jm-mktime.m4, putenv.m4: Fix typos in config.h comments.
130 1999-05-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
132 * lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): -n32, -o32, and -n64 should be in CFLAGS,
133 not CPPFLAGS, so that linking works correctly in IRIX.
135 1999-04-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
137 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add dup2.
139 1999-04-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
141 * xstrtoumax.m4: Require jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
142 AC_REPLACE xstroull if necessary. From Paul Eggert.
143 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Remove strtoull, strtoumax, strtouq.
145 1999-04-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
147 * uintmax_t.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T): Move unsigned long
148 long check into new jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG macro.
149 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): Require
150 jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
151 * ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): New file/macro.
153 * lfs.m4: Port to AIX and HP-UX. Support cross-compilation.
155 1999-04-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
157 * xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): New file/macro.
158 * jm-macros.m4: Use it.
160 1999-04-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
162 * strftime.m4: Remove test for %f.
164 1999-03-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
166 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): New macro, contains the
167 superset of the AC_TYPE_* checks in the textutils, fileutils,
168 and sh-utils, plus AC_TYPE_PID_T. Paul Eggert suggested adding
171 1999-03-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
173 * jm-macros.m4: Define GNU_PACKAGE here.
174 Be sure to AC_SUBST it, once again, so that @GNU_PACKAGE@ is
175 replaced e.g., in the *.sh files of the sh-utils.
177 1999-03-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
179 * jm-macros.m4: s/jm_WITH_REGEX/jm_INCLUDED_REGEX/.
180 * regex.m4 (jm_INCLUDED_REGEX): Rename from jm_WITH_REGEX.
181 Don't depend on AM_GLIBC. Suggestions from Alain Magloire.
183 1999-03-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
185 * jm-winsz1.m4 (jm_WINSIZE_IN_PTEM): New macro.
187 1999-03-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
189 * jm-macros.m4: Use AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED.
191 1999-03-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
193 * jm-glibc-io.m4: Use only those *_unlocked macros that are declared.
195 1999-02-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
197 * gettext.m4 (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Do `changequote' around use of brackets
198 in macro definition. From Eli Zaretskii and Alain Magloire.
200 1999-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
202 * group-member.m4: New file -- extracted from sh-utils' configure.in.
204 1999-02-05 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
205 * gettext.m4: Support DOS-style d:/foo/bar absolute file names.
207 1999-02-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
209 * chown.m4: Use `AC_SUBST(LIBOBJS)' since we set LIBOBJS.
210 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
211 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
212 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
213 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
214 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
215 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
216 * regex.m4: Likewise.
218 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
219 Suggestion from Alain Magloire.
221 * chown.m4: Use `.$ac_objext', not `.o'.
222 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
223 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
224 * getline.m4: Likewise.
225 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
226 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
227 * memcmp.m4: Likewise.
228 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
229 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
230 * regex.m4: Likewise.
232 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
233 Suggestion from Alain Magloire.
235 * jm-macros.m4: Actually invoke jm_WITH_REGEX now that it requires
238 * regex.m4: Add a run-time Test for proper operation of
241 1999-01-31 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
243 * getloadavg.m4: Check for locale.h and the function, setlocale.
245 1999-01-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
247 * check-type.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.
249 * jm-mktime.m4: Make this a wrapper around the official AM_FUNC_MKTIME
250 rather than my private copy, now that the official one is up to date.
251 * mktime.m4: Remove file.
253 * getloadavg.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.
254 * uptime.m4: Likewise.
255 * uintmax_t.m4: Likewise.
257 1999-01-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
259 * jm-macros.m4: Use jm_AFS.
260 * afs.m4: New file (from fileutils' configure.in).
262 * assert.m4: Use the 3-argument forms of AC_DEFINE* macros.
263 * chown.m4: Likewise.
264 * d-ino.m4: Likewise.
265 * d-type.m4: Likewise.
266 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
267 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
268 * gettext.m4: Likewise.
269 * jm-mktime.m4: Likewise.
270 * jm-winsz2.m4: Likewise.
271 * lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
272 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: Likewise.
273 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
274 * memcmp.m4: Likewise.
275 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
276 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
277 * st_mtim.m4: Likewise.
278 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
280 1999-01-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
282 * jm-macros.m4 (ARGMATCH_DIE): Define.
283 (ARGMATCH_DIE_DECL): Define.
285 1999-01-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
287 * Makefile.am.in: Rewrite to avoid using fmt.
288 Reported by Lars Hecking.
290 1999-01-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
292 * fstypename.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of my
294 * inttypes_h.m4: Likewise.
295 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
296 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
297 * readdir.m4: Likewise.
298 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
299 * st_dm_mode.m4: Likewise.
301 * utimbuf.m4: Likewise.
302 * utimes.m4: Likewise.
304 * check-decl.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of the
305 AC_CHECK_FUNCS hack. Now, it's still a hack, but at least the
306 comments in config.h.in are meaningful.
308 * jm-macros.m4: Require autoconf-2.13 here.
310 * regex.m4: By default, don't use the included regex.c on systems
311 with glibc 2. Suggestion from Uli Drepper.
313 1999-01-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
315 * jm-macros.m4: Replace strcasecmp and strncasecmp.
317 1998-12-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
319 * Makefile.am.in (Makefile.am): Simplify rule.
320 Based on a suggestion from Lars Hecking.
322 1998-11-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
324 * lfs.m4: Double-quote the `uname...` expression.
326 1998-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
328 * lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): Add support for HP-UX 10.20 and HP-UX 11.
330 1998-11-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
332 * lstat.m4: Correct comment. POSIX does not permit it to succeed.
335 1998-11-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
337 * stat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_STAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.
338 * lstat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_LSTAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.
340 1998-10-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
342 * check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): Remove macro.
344 1998-10-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
346 * decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLARATION): Don't hard-code which headers to
347 include, though we still hard-code the `require'-like AC_CHECK_HEADERS
348 calls for those previously hard-coded headers. Instead, take a new
350 (jm_CHECK_DECLARATIONS): Reflect interface change.
351 * check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLS): Likewise.
352 (jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): New macro.
354 * mktime.m4: Test for spring-forward gap before long-running test.
356 1998-10-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
358 * mktime.m4: Use the more portable "TZ=PST8PDT,M4.1.0,M10.5.0"
359 instead of "TZ=America/Vancouver". From Paul Eggert.
361 1998-10-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
363 * mktime.m4 (jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME): New file and macro.
364 This adds a test for a recently added compatibility fix for mktime.c.
365 * jm-mktime.m4: Require jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME, not AM_FUNC_MKTIME.
367 1998-09-27 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
369 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_MACROS): Require jm_FUNC_FNMATCH.
371 * fnmatch.m4 (jm_FUNC_FNMATCH): New file/macro. Extracted from
372 ../configure.in, including a change from Gordon Matzigkeit to allow
373 cross-compiling for the Hurd.
375 * glibc.m4: New file/macro to test for the GNU C Library
376 versions 1 and 2. From Gordon Matzigkeit.
379 1998-09-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
381 * chown.m4: Declare locals: before, after. From Andries Brouwer.
383 1998-08-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
385 Port nanosecond-resolution times to UnixWare 2.1.2 and
386 pedantic Solaris 2.6.
388 * st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC): Renamed from
390 * st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC):
391 Generate name of ns member, instead of just 1 or undef.
392 Allow for UnixWare 2.1.2 and Solaris 2.6 if in pedantic mode.
394 1998-08-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
396 * ssize_t.m4 (jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T): Remove file.
397 * check-type.m4: New file. Replacement for AC_CHECK_TYPE.
398 * jm-macros.m4: Use the new AC_CHECK_TYPE(ssize_t, int)
399 instead of jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T.
401 1998-08-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
403 * st_dm_mode.m4: New file. From Johan Danielsson.
405 1998-08-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
407 * st_mtim.m4: Use hack to avoid having to put #undef HAVE_ST_MTIM
408 in acconfig.h manually.
410 1998-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
412 * st_mtim.m4: New file.
414 1998-07-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
416 * utimes.m4: Undef stat.
418 1998-07-25 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
420 * utime.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIME): New file and macro.
421 * utimes.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIMES_NULL): New file and macro.
423 1998-07-09 Manfred Hollstein <manfred@s-direktnet.de>
425 * chown.m4 (jm_FUNC_CHOWN): Add a check to verify that the
426 uid and gid actually remain unchanged.
428 1998-07-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
430 * jm-glibc-io.m4: Remove fclose_unlocked.
432 1998-07-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
434 * regex.m4: Use syscmd, ifelse, and sysval. Mainly as an exercise
435 to prove that this macro can be used in packages without regex.c.
437 1998-07-02 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
439 * gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove intl/libintl.h if <libintl.h>
442 1998-07-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
444 * gettext.m4: Add -lintl if it's found to be necessary.
446 * gettext.m4: New file -- from gettext-0.10.35.
447 * lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
448 * progtest.m4: Likewise.
450 * regex.m4 (jm_WITH_REGEX): New file and macro.
451 * jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.
453 1998-06-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
455 * fstypename.m4: Include sys/param.h. NetBSD 1.3.1 requires this
456 for the definition of NGROUPS (used in a system header included
459 1998-06-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
461 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: New file.
462 * fstypename.m4: New file.
464 * jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.
465 * jm-glibc-io.m4: New file.
467 1998-05-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
469 * jm-macros.m4: Add jm_FUNC_LCHOWN.
470 * lchown.m4: New file.
472 * Makefile.am.in: New file.
473 * Makefile.am (Makefile.am): Depend on Makefile.am.in.
475 1998-05-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
477 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add them.
478 * jm-macros.m4: New file.
479 * utimbuf.m4: New file.
481 1998-05-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
483 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add isc-posix.m4.
485 1998-05-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
487 * isc-posix.m4: New file.
489 1998-05-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
491 * jm-mktime.m4: Use AM_FUNC_MKTIME, now that it's up to date.
493 1998-05-09 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
495 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add ssize_t.m4.
496 (EXTRA_DIST): Remove mktime.m4, now that the new version is included
499 * ssize_t.m4: New file.
500 * mktime.m4: Remove file -- the new automake has this now.
502 1998-04-26 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
504 * assert.m4: New file.
505 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add assert.m4.
507 1998-04-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
509 * prereq.m4 (jm_PREREQ_REGEX): New macro.
510 (jm_PREREQ): Use it here.
512 1998-03-23 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
514 * inttypes_h.m4: Kludges so I don't have to add HAVE_INTTYPES_H
517 1998-03-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
519 * prereq.m4: New file.
520 * error.m4: New file.
521 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add error.m4 and prereq.m4.
523 1998-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
525 * getline.m4: Don't set am_cv_func_working_getline before the
526 cache-check for the same variable -- that defeated the purpose of
527 the test; the test program was never run. This was a problem only
528 on systems with losing getline functions -- HP-UX 10.20 is one.
529 Reported by Bjorn Helgaas.
531 1998-02-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
533 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add perl.m4.
535 1998-01-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
537 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add const.m4.
539 * const.m4: New file. Use an initializer in this declaration
540 typedef int charset[2]; const charset x;
541 Reported by Bob Glickstein.
543 1997-12-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
545 * chown.m4: Fix reversed types on -1 args to chown.
548 1997-12-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
550 * check-decl.m4: s/DECLARATION_/DECL_/g.
551 Add lseek and memchr.
553 * decl.m4: s/HAVE_DECLARATION_/HAVE_DECL_/g.
554 T.E.Dickey <dickey@clark.net> said that some older preprocessors
555 have a 20-character limit on names.
557 1997-11-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
559 * inttypes_h.m4: New file.
560 * uintmax_t.m4: New file.
561 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add inttypes_h.m4 and uintmax_t.m4.