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
7 * jm-winsz1.m4: Likewise.
9 * const.m4: Remove file, since the fix made it into the experimental
12 * check-type.m4: Remove file, now that the latest version of
13 AC_CHECK_TYPE takes a third arg to specify additional #includes.
15 * ssize_t.m4: New file, requires experimental version of autoconf.
16 * jm-macros.m4: Use new AC_TYPE_SSIZE_T instead of my hacked
19 1999-10-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
21 * jm-macros.m4: Don't require autoconf-2.14.1.
23 1999-09-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
25 * largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_FLAGS): Work around GCC
26 2.95.1 bug with HP-UX 10.20.
28 1999-09-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
30 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add strdup.
31 Paul Nevai reported a link failure on a NeXT CUBE with NeXTSTEP 3.3
32 due to missing strdup (against sh-utils-2.0).
34 1999-08-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
36 * jm-macros.m4: Require jm_BISON.
39 1999-08-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
41 * m4/largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE): Fix typo: missing comma
42 in value for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS, which broke ports to HP-UX 10.20.
44 1999-08-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
46 * getline.m4: Rename test file from conftestdata to conftest.data
47 to avoid conflicts with `conftest' on 8+3 filesystems.
48 Suggestion from Eli Zaretskii.
50 1999-08-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
52 * jm-macros.m4: Move a 4-line block of code from the configure.in of
53 fileutils and sh-utils (textutils's getline test was inadequate).
54 (AM_FUNC_GETLINE): Run this test.
55 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getdelim.
56 Reported by Bob Proulx.
58 1999-08-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
60 * jm-macros.m4: Add a comment.
62 1999-08-01 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
64 * mktime.m4 (AC_FUNC_MKTIME): Undefine to avoid syntax errors from m4.
66 1999-08-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
68 * lfs.m4: Remove this file.
69 * largefile.m4: New file. It contains the old contents of
70 lfs.m4, except that all names with prefix AC_LFS have been
71 changed to use the prefix AC_SYS_LARGEFILE instead, to be
72 compatible with future autoconf versions. Also, some minor m4
73 quoting problems have been fixed.
75 1999-07-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
77 * ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): Make sure
78 that we can shift, multiply and divide unsigned long long
79 values; Ultrix cc can't do it.
81 1999-07-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
83 * xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): Check whether
84 <inttypes.h> defines strtoumax as a macro (and not as a
87 1999-07-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
89 * gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove unnecessary lines.
90 Fix typo: $nls_cv_header_intl was misspelled as $nsl_cv_header_intl.
91 (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Fix problem with brackets and m4 quoting,
92 and simplify the shell code.
94 1999-07-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
96 * mktime.m4: New file, which is a preview of what should appear
97 in the next public autoconf release.
99 1999-07-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
101 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memmove.
103 1999-07-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
105 * jm-macros.m4: (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getpagesize.
107 1999-05-22 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
109 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memchr.
111 1999-05-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
113 * search-libs.m4 [AC_SEARCH_LIBS]: Quote name in undefine.
114 Add a colon after each `then' in case $4 is empty.
116 1999-05-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
118 * search-libs.m4: New file to override autoconf's AC_SEARCH_LIBS.
120 1999-05-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
122 * jm-mktime.m4: Reflect renaming: AM_FUNC_MKTIME -> AC_FUNC_MKTIME.
124 * jm-macros.m4: Require 2.14.1, since we use newly-renamed
127 1999-05-10 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
129 * jm-mktime.m4, putenv.m4: Fix typos in config.h comments.
131 1999-05-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
133 * lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): -n32, -o32, and -n64 should be in CFLAGS,
134 not CPPFLAGS, so that linking works correctly in IRIX.
136 1999-04-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
138 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add dup2.
140 1999-04-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
142 * xstrtoumax.m4: Require jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
143 AC_REPLACE xstroull if necessary. From Paul Eggert.
144 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Remove strtoull, strtoumax, strtouq.
146 1999-04-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
148 * uintmax_t.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T): Move unsigned long
149 long check into new jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG macro.
150 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): Require
151 jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
152 * ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): New file/macro.
154 * lfs.m4: Port to AIX and HP-UX. Support cross-compilation.
156 1999-04-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
158 * xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): New file/macro.
159 * jm-macros.m4: Use it.
161 1999-04-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
163 * strftime.m4: Remove test for %f.
165 1999-03-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
167 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): New macro, contains the
168 superset of the AC_TYPE_* checks in the textutils, fileutils,
169 and sh-utils, plus AC_TYPE_PID_T. Paul Eggert suggested adding
172 1999-03-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
174 * jm-macros.m4: Define GNU_PACKAGE here.
175 Be sure to AC_SUBST it, once again, so that @GNU_PACKAGE@ is
176 replaced e.g., in the *.sh files of the sh-utils.
178 1999-03-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
180 * jm-macros.m4: s/jm_WITH_REGEX/jm_INCLUDED_REGEX/.
181 * regex.m4 (jm_INCLUDED_REGEX): Rename from jm_WITH_REGEX.
182 Don't depend on AM_GLIBC. Suggestions from Alain Magloire.
184 1999-03-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
186 * jm-winsz1.m4 (jm_WINSIZE_IN_PTEM): New macro.
188 1999-03-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
190 * jm-macros.m4: Use AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED.
192 1999-03-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
194 * jm-glibc-io.m4: Use only those *_unlocked macros that are declared.
196 1999-02-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
198 * gettext.m4 (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Do `changequote' around use of brackets
199 in macro definition. From Eli Zaretskii and Alain Magloire.
201 1999-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
203 * group-member.m4: New file -- extracted from sh-utils' configure.in.
205 1999-02-05 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
206 * gettext.m4: Support DOS-style d:/foo/bar absolute file names.
208 1999-02-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
210 * chown.m4: Use `AC_SUBST(LIBOBJS)' since we set LIBOBJS.
211 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
212 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
213 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
214 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
215 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
216 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
217 * regex.m4: Likewise.
219 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
220 Suggestion from Alain Magloire.
222 * chown.m4: Use `.$ac_objext', not `.o'.
223 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
224 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
225 * getline.m4: Likewise.
226 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
227 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
228 * memcmp.m4: Likewise.
229 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
230 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
231 * regex.m4: Likewise.
233 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
234 Suggestion from Alain Magloire.
236 * jm-macros.m4: Actually invoke jm_WITH_REGEX now that it requires
239 * regex.m4: Add a run-time Test for proper operation of
242 1999-01-31 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
244 * getloadavg.m4: Check for locale.h and the function, setlocale.
246 1999-01-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
248 * check-type.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.
250 * jm-mktime.m4: Make this a wrapper around the official AM_FUNC_MKTIME
251 rather than my private copy, now that the official one is up to date.
252 * mktime.m4: Remove file.
254 * getloadavg.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.
255 * uptime.m4: Likewise.
256 * uintmax_t.m4: Likewise.
258 1999-01-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
260 * jm-macros.m4: Use jm_AFS.
261 * afs.m4: New file (from fileutils' configure.in).
263 * assert.m4: Use the 3-argument forms of AC_DEFINE* macros.
264 * chown.m4: Likewise.
265 * d-ino.m4: Likewise.
266 * d-type.m4: Likewise.
267 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
268 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
269 * gettext.m4: Likewise.
270 * jm-mktime.m4: Likewise.
271 * jm-winsz2.m4: Likewise.
272 * lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
273 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: Likewise.
274 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
275 * memcmp.m4: Likewise.
276 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
277 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
278 * st_mtim.m4: Likewise.
279 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
281 1999-01-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
283 * jm-macros.m4 (ARGMATCH_DIE): Define.
284 (ARGMATCH_DIE_DECL): Define.
286 1999-01-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
288 * Makefile.am.in: Rewrite to avoid using fmt.
289 Reported by Lars Hecking.
291 1999-01-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
293 * fstypename.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of my
295 * inttypes_h.m4: Likewise.
296 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
297 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
298 * readdir.m4: Likewise.
299 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
300 * st_dm_mode.m4: Likewise.
302 * utimbuf.m4: Likewise.
303 * utimes.m4: Likewise.
305 * check-decl.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of the
306 AC_CHECK_FUNCS hack. Now, it's still a hack, but at least the
307 comments in config.h.in are meaningful.
309 * jm-macros.m4: Require autoconf-2.13 here.
311 * regex.m4: By default, don't use the included regex.c on systems
312 with glibc 2. Suggestion from Uli Drepper.
314 1999-01-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
316 * jm-macros.m4: Replace strcasecmp and strncasecmp.
318 1998-12-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
320 * Makefile.am.in (Makefile.am): Simplify rule.
321 Based on a suggestion from Lars Hecking.
323 1998-11-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
325 * lfs.m4: Double-quote the `uname...` expression.
327 1998-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
329 * lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): Add support for HP-UX 10.20 and HP-UX 11.
331 1998-11-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
333 * lstat.m4: Correct comment. POSIX does not permit it to succeed.
336 1998-11-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
338 * stat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_STAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.
339 * lstat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_LSTAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.
341 1998-10-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
343 * check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): Remove macro.
345 1998-10-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
347 * decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLARATION): Don't hard-code which headers to
348 include, though we still hard-code the `require'-like AC_CHECK_HEADERS
349 calls for those previously hard-coded headers. Instead, take a new
351 (jm_CHECK_DECLARATIONS): Reflect interface change.
352 * check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLS): Likewise.
353 (jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): New macro.
355 * mktime.m4: Test for spring-forward gap before long-running test.
357 1998-10-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
359 * mktime.m4: Use the more portable "TZ=PST8PDT,M4.1.0,M10.5.0"
360 instead of "TZ=America/Vancouver". From Paul Eggert.
362 1998-10-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
364 * mktime.m4 (jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME): New file and macro.
365 This adds a test for a recently added compatibility fix for mktime.c.
366 * jm-mktime.m4: Require jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME, not AM_FUNC_MKTIME.
368 1998-09-27 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
370 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_MACROS): Require jm_FUNC_FNMATCH.
372 * fnmatch.m4 (jm_FUNC_FNMATCH): New file/macro. Extracted from
373 ../configure.in, including a change from Gordon Matzigkeit to allow
374 cross-compiling for the Hurd.
376 * glibc.m4: New file/macro to test for the GNU C Library
377 versions 1 and 2. From Gordon Matzigkeit.
380 1998-09-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
382 * chown.m4: Declare locals: before, after. From Andries Brouwer.
384 1998-08-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
386 Port nanosecond-resolution times to UnixWare 2.1.2 and
387 pedantic Solaris 2.6.
389 * st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC): Renamed from
391 * st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC):
392 Generate name of ns member, instead of just 1 or undef.
393 Allow for UnixWare 2.1.2 and Solaris 2.6 if in pedantic mode.
395 1998-08-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
397 * ssize_t.m4 (jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T): Remove file.
398 * check-type.m4: New file. Replacement for AC_CHECK_TYPE.
399 * jm-macros.m4: Use the new AC_CHECK_TYPE(ssize_t, int)
400 instead of jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T.
402 1998-08-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
404 * st_dm_mode.m4: New file. From Johan Danielsson.
406 1998-08-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
408 * st_mtim.m4: Use hack to avoid having to put #undef HAVE_ST_MTIM
409 in acconfig.h manually.
411 1998-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
413 * st_mtim.m4: New file.
415 1998-07-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
417 * utimes.m4: Undef stat.
419 1998-07-25 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
421 * utime.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIME): New file and macro.
422 * utimes.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIMES_NULL): New file and macro.
424 1998-07-09 Manfred Hollstein <manfred@s-direktnet.de>
426 * chown.m4 (jm_FUNC_CHOWN): Add a check to verify that the
427 uid and gid actually remain unchanged.
429 1998-07-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
431 * jm-glibc-io.m4: Remove fclose_unlocked.
433 1998-07-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
435 * regex.m4: Use syscmd, ifelse, and sysval. Mainly as an exercise
436 to prove that this macro can be used in packages without regex.c.
438 1998-07-02 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
440 * gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove intl/libintl.h if <libintl.h>
443 1998-07-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
445 * gettext.m4: Add -lintl if it's found to be necessary.
447 * gettext.m4: New file -- from gettext-0.10.35.
448 * lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
449 * progtest.m4: Likewise.
451 * regex.m4 (jm_WITH_REGEX): New file and macro.
452 * jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.
454 1998-06-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
456 * fstypename.m4: Include sys/param.h. NetBSD 1.3.1 requires this
457 for the definition of NGROUPS (used in a system header included
460 1998-06-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
462 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: New file.
463 * fstypename.m4: New file.
465 * jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.
466 * jm-glibc-io.m4: New file.
468 1998-05-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
470 * jm-macros.m4: Add jm_FUNC_LCHOWN.
471 * lchown.m4: New file.
473 * Makefile.am.in: New file.
474 * Makefile.am (Makefile.am): Depend on Makefile.am.in.
476 1998-05-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
478 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add them.
479 * jm-macros.m4: New file.
480 * utimbuf.m4: New file.
482 1998-05-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
484 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add isc-posix.m4.
486 1998-05-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
488 * isc-posix.m4: New file.
490 1998-05-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
492 * jm-mktime.m4: Use AM_FUNC_MKTIME, now that it's up to date.
494 1998-05-09 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
496 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add ssize_t.m4.
497 (EXTRA_DIST): Remove mktime.m4, now that the new version is included
500 * ssize_t.m4: New file.
501 * mktime.m4: Remove file -- the new automake has this now.
503 1998-04-26 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
505 * assert.m4: New file.
506 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add assert.m4.
508 1998-04-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
510 * prereq.m4 (jm_PREREQ_REGEX): New macro.
511 (jm_PREREQ): Use it here.
513 1998-03-23 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
515 * inttypes_h.m4: Kludges so I don't have to add HAVE_INTTYPES_H
518 1998-03-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
520 * prereq.m4: New file.
521 * error.m4: New file.
522 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add error.m4 and prereq.m4.
524 1998-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
526 * getline.m4: Don't set am_cv_func_working_getline before the
527 cache-check for the same variable -- that defeated the purpose of
528 the test; the test program was never run. This was a problem only
529 on systems with losing getline functions -- HP-UX 10.20 is one.
530 Reported by Bjorn Helgaas.
532 1998-02-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
534 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add perl.m4.
536 1998-01-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
538 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add const.m4.
540 * const.m4: New file. Use an initializer in this declaration
541 typedef int charset[2]; const charset x;
542 Reported by Bob Glickstein.
544 1997-12-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
546 * chown.m4: Fix reversed types on -1 args to chown.
549 1997-12-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
551 * check-decl.m4: s/DECLARATION_/DECL_/g.
552 Add lseek and memchr.
554 * decl.m4: s/HAVE_DECLARATION_/HAVE_DECL_/g.
555 T.E.Dickey <dickey@clark.net> said that some older preprocessors
556 have a 20-character limit on names.
558 1997-11-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
560 * inttypes_h.m4: New file.
561 * uintmax_t.m4: New file.
562 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add inttypes_h.m4 and uintmax_t.m4.