1 1999-09-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
3 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add strdup.
4 Paul Nevai reported a link failure on a NeXT CUBE with NeXTSTEP 3.3
5 due to missing strdup (against sh-utils-2.0).
7 1999-08-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
9 * jm-macros.m4: Require jm_BISON.
12 1999-08-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
14 * m4/largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE): Fix typo: missing comma
15 in value for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS, which broke ports to HP-UX 10.20.
17 1999-08-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
19 * getline.m4: Rename test file from conftestdata to conftest.data
20 to avoid conflicts with `conftest' on 8+3 filesystems.
21 Suggestion from Eli Zaretskii.
23 1999-08-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
25 * jm-macros.m4: Move a 4-line block of code from the configure.in of
26 fileutils and sh-utils (textutils's getline test was inadequate).
27 (AM_FUNC_GETLINE): Run this test.
28 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getdelim.
29 Reported by Bob Proulx.
31 1999-08-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
33 * jm-macros.m4: Add a comment.
35 1999-08-01 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
37 * mktime.m4 (AC_FUNC_MKTIME): Undefine to avoid syntax errors from m4.
39 1999-08-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
41 * lfs.m4: Remove this file.
42 * largefile.m4: New file. It contains the old contents of
43 lfs.m4, except that all names with prefix AC_LFS have been
44 changed to use the prefix AC_SYS_LARGEFILE instead, to be
45 compatible with future autoconf versions. Also, some minor m4
46 quoting problems have been fixed.
48 1999-07-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
50 * ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): Make sure
51 that we can shift, multiply and divide unsigned long long
52 values; Ultrix cc can't do it.
54 1999-07-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
56 * xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): Check whether
57 <inttypes.h> defines strtoumax as a macro (and not as a
60 1999-07-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
62 * gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove unnecessary lines.
63 Fix typo: $nls_cv_header_intl was misspelled as $nsl_cv_header_intl.
64 (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Fix problem with brackets and m4 quoting,
65 and simplify the shell code.
67 1999-07-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
69 * mktime.m4: New file, which is a preview of what should appear
70 in the next public autoconf release.
72 1999-07-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
74 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memmove.
76 1999-07-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
78 * jm-macros.m4: (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getpagesize.
80 1999-05-22 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
82 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memchr.
84 1999-05-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
86 * search-libs.m4 [AC_SEARCH_LIBS]: Quote name in undefine.
87 Add a colon after each `then' in case $4 is empty.
89 1999-05-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
91 * search-libs.m4: New file to override autoconf's AC_SEARCH_LIBS.
93 1999-05-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
95 * jm-mktime.m4: Reflect renaming: AM_FUNC_MKTIME -> AC_FUNC_MKTIME.
97 * jm-macros.m4: Require 2.14.1, since we use newly-renamed
100 1999-05-10 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
102 * jm-mktime.m4, putenv.m4: Fix typos in config.h comments.
104 1999-05-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
106 * lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): -n32, -o32, and -n64 should be in CFLAGS,
107 not CPPFLAGS, so that linking works correctly in IRIX.
109 1999-04-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
111 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add dup2.
113 1999-04-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
115 * xstrtoumax.m4: Require jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
116 AC_REPLACE xstroull if necessary. From Paul Eggert.
117 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Remove strtoull, strtoumax, strtouq.
119 1999-04-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
121 * uintmax_t.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T): Move unsigned long
122 long check into new jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG macro.
123 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): Require
124 jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
125 * ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): New file/macro.
127 * lfs.m4: Port to AIX and HP-UX. Support cross-compilation.
129 1999-04-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
131 * xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): New file/macro.
132 * jm-macros.m4: Use it.
134 1999-04-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
136 * strftime.m4: Remove test for %f.
138 1999-03-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
140 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): New macro, contains the
141 superset of the AC_TYPE_* checks in the textutils, fileutils,
142 and sh-utils, plus AC_TYPE_PID_T. Paul Eggert suggested adding
145 1999-03-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
147 * jm-macros.m4: Define GNU_PACKAGE here.
148 Be sure to AC_SUBST it, once again, so that @GNU_PACKAGE@ is
149 replaced e.g., in the *.sh files of the sh-utils.
151 1999-03-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
153 * jm-macros.m4: s/jm_WITH_REGEX/jm_INCLUDED_REGEX/.
154 * regex.m4 (jm_INCLUDED_REGEX): Rename from jm_WITH_REGEX.
155 Don't depend on AM_GLIBC. Suggestions from Alain Magloire.
157 1999-03-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
159 * jm-winsz1.m4 (jm_WINSIZE_IN_PTEM): New macro.
161 1999-03-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
163 * jm-macros.m4: Use AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED.
165 1999-03-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
167 * jm-glibc-io.m4: Use only those *_unlocked macros that are declared.
169 1999-02-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
171 * gettext.m4 (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Do `changequote' around use of brackets
172 in macro definition. From Eli Zaretskii and Alain Magloire.
174 1999-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
176 * group-member.m4: New file -- extracted from sh-utils' configure.in.
178 1999-02-05 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
179 * gettext.m4: Support DOS-style d:/foo/bar absolute file names.
181 1999-02-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
183 * chown.m4: Use `AC_SUBST(LIBOBJS)' since we set LIBOBJS.
184 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
185 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
186 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
187 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
188 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
189 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
190 * regex.m4: Likewise.
192 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
193 Suggestion from Alain Magloire.
195 * chown.m4: Use `.$ac_objext', not `.o'.
196 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
197 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
198 * getline.m4: Likewise.
199 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
200 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
201 * memcmp.m4: Likewise.
202 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
203 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
204 * regex.m4: Likewise.
206 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
207 Suggestion from Alain Magloire.
209 * jm-macros.m4: Actually invoke jm_WITH_REGEX now that it requires
212 * regex.m4: Add a run-time Test for proper operation of
215 1999-01-31 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
217 * getloadavg.m4: Check for locale.h and the function, setlocale.
219 1999-01-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
221 * check-type.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.
223 * jm-mktime.m4: Make this a wrapper around the official AM_FUNC_MKTIME
224 rather than my private copy, now that the official one is up to date.
225 * mktime.m4: Remove file.
227 * getloadavg.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.
228 * uptime.m4: Likewise.
229 * uintmax_t.m4: Likewise.
231 1999-01-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
233 * jm-macros.m4: Use jm_AFS.
234 * afs.m4: New file (from fileutils' configure.in).
236 * assert.m4: Use the 3-argument forms of AC_DEFINE* macros.
237 * chown.m4: Likewise.
238 * d-ino.m4: Likewise.
239 * d-type.m4: Likewise.
240 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
241 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
242 * gettext.m4: Likewise.
243 * jm-mktime.m4: Likewise.
244 * jm-winsz2.m4: Likewise.
245 * lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
246 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: Likewise.
247 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
248 * memcmp.m4: Likewise.
249 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
250 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
251 * st_mtim.m4: Likewise.
252 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
254 1999-01-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
256 * jm-macros.m4 (ARGMATCH_DIE): Define.
257 (ARGMATCH_DIE_DECL): Define.
259 1999-01-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
261 * Makefile.am.in: Rewrite to avoid using fmt.
262 Reported by Lars Hecking.
264 1999-01-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
266 * fstypename.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of my
268 * inttypes_h.m4: Likewise.
269 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
270 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
271 * readdir.m4: Likewise.
272 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
273 * st_dm_mode.m4: Likewise.
275 * utimbuf.m4: Likewise.
276 * utimes.m4: Likewise.
278 * check-decl.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of the
279 AC_CHECK_FUNCS hack. Now, it's still a hack, but at least the
280 comments in config.h.in are meaningful.
282 * jm-macros.m4: Require autoconf-2.13 here.
284 * regex.m4: By default, don't use the included regex.c on systems
285 with glibc 2. Suggestion from Uli Drepper.
287 1999-01-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
289 * jm-macros.m4: Replace strcasecmp and strncasecmp.
291 1998-12-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
293 * Makefile.am.in (Makefile.am): Simplify rule.
294 Based on a suggestion from Lars Hecking.
296 1998-11-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
298 * lfs.m4: Double-quote the `uname...` expression.
300 1998-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
302 * lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): Add support for HP-UX 10.20 and HP-UX 11.
304 1998-11-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
306 * lstat.m4: Correct comment. POSIX does not permit it to succeed.
309 1998-11-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
311 * stat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_STAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.
312 * lstat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_LSTAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.
314 1998-10-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
316 * check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): Remove macro.
318 1998-10-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
320 * decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLARATION): Don't hard-code which headers to
321 include, though we still hard-code the `require'-like AC_CHECK_HEADERS
322 calls for those previously hard-coded headers. Instead, take a new
324 (jm_CHECK_DECLARATIONS): Reflect interface change.
325 * check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLS): Likewise.
326 (jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): New macro.
328 * mktime.m4: Test for spring-forward gap before long-running test.
330 1998-10-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
332 * mktime.m4: Use the more portable "TZ=PST8PDT,M4.1.0,M10.5.0"
333 instead of "TZ=America/Vancouver". From Paul Eggert.
335 1998-10-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
337 * mktime.m4 (jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME): New file and macro.
338 This adds a test for a recently added compatibility fix for mktime.c.
339 * jm-mktime.m4: Require jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME, not AM_FUNC_MKTIME.
341 1998-09-27 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
343 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_MACROS): Require jm_FUNC_FNMATCH.
345 * fnmatch.m4 (jm_FUNC_FNMATCH): New file/macro. Extracted from
346 ../configure.in, including a change from Gordon Matzigkeit to allow
347 cross-compiling for the Hurd.
349 * glibc.m4: New file/macro to test for the GNU C Library
350 versions 1 and 2. From Gordon Matzigkeit.
353 1998-09-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
355 * chown.m4: Declare locals: before, after. From Andries Brouwer.
357 1998-08-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
359 Port nanosecond-resolution times to UnixWare 2.1.2 and
360 pedantic Solaris 2.6.
362 * st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC): Renamed from
364 * st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC):
365 Generate name of ns member, instead of just 1 or undef.
366 Allow for UnixWare 2.1.2 and Solaris 2.6 if in pedantic mode.
368 1998-08-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
370 * ssize_t.m4 (jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T): Remove file.
371 * check-type.m4: New file. Replacement for AC_CHECK_TYPE.
372 * jm-macros.m4: Use the new AC_CHECK_TYPE(ssize_t, int)
373 instead of jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T.
375 1998-08-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
377 * st_dm_mode.m4: New file. From Johan Danielsson.
379 1998-08-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
381 * st_mtim.m4: Use hack to avoid having to put #undef HAVE_ST_MTIM
382 in acconfig.h manually.
384 1998-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
386 * st_mtim.m4: New file.
388 1998-07-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
390 * utimes.m4: Undef stat.
392 1998-07-25 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
394 * utime.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIME): New file and macro.
395 * utimes.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIMES_NULL): New file and macro.
397 1998-07-09 Manfred Hollstein <manfred@s-direktnet.de>
399 * chown.m4 (jm_FUNC_CHOWN): Add a check to verify that the
400 uid and gid actually remain unchanged.
402 1998-07-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
404 * jm-glibc-io.m4: Remove fclose_unlocked.
406 1998-07-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
408 * regex.m4: Use syscmd, ifelse, and sysval. Mainly as an exercise
409 to prove that this macro can be used in packages without regex.c.
411 1998-07-02 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
413 * gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove intl/libintl.h if <libintl.h>
416 1998-07-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
418 * gettext.m4: Add -lintl if it's found to be necessary.
420 * gettext.m4: New file -- from gettext-0.10.35.
421 * lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
422 * progtest.m4: Likewise.
424 * regex.m4 (jm_WITH_REGEX): New file and macro.
425 * jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.
427 1998-06-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
429 * fstypename.m4: Include sys/param.h. NetBSD 1.3.1 requires this
430 for the definition of NGROUPS (used in a system header included
433 1998-06-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
435 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: New file.
436 * fstypename.m4: New file.
438 * jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.
439 * jm-glibc-io.m4: New file.
441 1998-05-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
443 * jm-macros.m4: Add jm_FUNC_LCHOWN.
444 * lchown.m4: New file.
446 * Makefile.am.in: New file.
447 * Makefile.am (Makefile.am): Depend on Makefile.am.in.
449 1998-05-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
451 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add them.
452 * jm-macros.m4: New file.
453 * utimbuf.m4: New file.
455 1998-05-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
457 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add isc-posix.m4.
459 1998-05-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
461 * isc-posix.m4: New file.
463 1998-05-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
465 * jm-mktime.m4: Use AM_FUNC_MKTIME, now that it's up to date.
467 1998-05-09 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
469 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add ssize_t.m4.
470 (EXTRA_DIST): Remove mktime.m4, now that the new version is included
473 * ssize_t.m4: New file.
474 * mktime.m4: Remove file -- the new automake has this now.
476 1998-04-26 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
478 * assert.m4: New file.
479 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add assert.m4.
481 1998-04-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
483 * prereq.m4 (jm_PREREQ_REGEX): New macro.
484 (jm_PREREQ): Use it here.
486 1998-03-23 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
488 * inttypes_h.m4: Kludges so I don't have to add HAVE_INTTYPES_H
491 1998-03-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
493 * prereq.m4: New file.
494 * error.m4: New file.
495 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add error.m4 and prereq.m4.
497 1998-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
499 * getline.m4: Don't set am_cv_func_working_getline before the
500 cache-check for the same variable -- that defeated the purpose of
501 the test; the test program was never run. This was a problem only
502 on systems with losing getline functions -- HP-UX 10.20 is one.
503 Reported by Bjorn Helgaas.
505 1998-02-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
507 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add perl.m4.
509 1998-01-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
511 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add const.m4.
513 * const.m4: New file. Use an initializer in this declaration
514 typedef int charset[2]; const charset x;
515 Reported by Bob Glickstein.
517 1997-12-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
519 * chown.m4: Fix reversed types on -1 args to chown.
522 1997-12-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
524 * check-decl.m4: s/DECLARATION_/DECL_/g.
525 Add lseek and memchr.
527 * decl.m4: s/HAVE_DECLARATION_/HAVE_DECL_/g.
528 T.E.Dickey <dickey@clark.net> said that some older preprocessors
529 have a 20-character limit on names.
531 1997-11-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
533 * inttypes_h.m4: New file.
534 * uintmax_t.m4: New file.
535 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add inttypes_h.m4 and uintmax_t.m4.