1 1999-11-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
3 * link-follow.m4 (jm_AC_FUNC_LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK): New file/macro.
4 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_MACROS): Use it here.
6 1999-11-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
8 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): Move some tests from configure.in
9 of textutils, fileutils, and sh-utils into this one (shared between
11 Use `AC_CHECK_MEMBERS((struct stat.st_blksize))' instead of deprecated
14 1999-11-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
16 * ssize_t.m4: Remove file. No longer needed since the new version of
17 AC_CHECK_TYPE checks includes unistd.h.
18 * jm-macros.m4: Use straight `AC_CHECK_TYPE(ssize_t, int)'.
19 Suggestion from Akim Demaille.
21 1999-10-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
23 * uintmax_t.m4: Require 2.14a. Remove backslash before backtick in
25 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: Likewise.
26 * jm-macros.m4: Likewise. Also, use AC_TYPE_SSIZE_T instead
27 * jm-winsz1.m4: Likewise.
29 * const.m4: Remove file, since the fix made it into the experimental
31 * mktime.m4: Likewise.
33 * check-type.m4: Remove file, now that the latest version of
34 AC_CHECK_TYPE takes a third arg to specify additional #includes.
36 * ssize_t.m4: New file, requires experimental version of autoconf.
37 * jm-macros.m4: Use new AC_TYPE_SSIZE_T instead of my hacked
40 1999-10-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
42 * jm-macros.m4: Don't require autoconf-2.14.1.
44 1999-09-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
46 * largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_FLAGS): Work around GCC
47 2.95.1 bug with HP-UX 10.20.
49 1999-09-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
51 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add strdup.
52 Paul Nevai reported a link failure on a NeXT CUBE with NeXTSTEP 3.3
53 due to missing strdup (against sh-utils-2.0).
55 1999-08-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
57 * jm-macros.m4: Require jm_BISON.
60 1999-08-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
62 * m4/largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE): Fix typo: missing comma
63 in value for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS, which broke ports to HP-UX 10.20.
65 1999-08-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
67 * getline.m4: Rename test file from conftestdata to conftest.data
68 to avoid conflicts with `conftest' on 8+3 filesystems.
69 Suggestion from Eli Zaretskii.
71 1999-08-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
73 * jm-macros.m4: Move a 4-line block of code from the configure.in of
74 fileutils and sh-utils (textutils's getline test was inadequate).
75 (AM_FUNC_GETLINE): Run this test.
76 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getdelim.
77 Reported by Bob Proulx.
79 1999-08-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
81 * jm-macros.m4: Add a comment.
83 1999-08-01 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
85 * mktime.m4 (AC_FUNC_MKTIME): Undefine to avoid syntax errors from m4.
87 1999-08-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
89 * lfs.m4: Remove this file.
90 * largefile.m4: New file. It contains the old contents of
91 lfs.m4, except that all names with prefix AC_LFS have been
92 changed to use the prefix AC_SYS_LARGEFILE instead, to be
93 compatible with future autoconf versions. Also, some minor m4
94 quoting problems have been fixed.
96 1999-07-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
98 * ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): Make sure
99 that we can shift, multiply and divide unsigned long long
100 values; Ultrix cc can't do it.
102 1999-07-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
104 * xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): Check whether
105 <inttypes.h> defines strtoumax as a macro (and not as a
108 1999-07-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
110 * gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove unnecessary lines.
111 Fix typo: $nls_cv_header_intl was misspelled as $nsl_cv_header_intl.
112 (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Fix problem with brackets and m4 quoting,
113 and simplify the shell code.
115 1999-07-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
117 * mktime.m4: New file, which is a preview of what should appear
118 in the next public autoconf release.
120 1999-07-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
122 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memmove.
124 1999-07-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
126 * jm-macros.m4: (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getpagesize.
128 1999-05-22 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
130 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memchr.
132 1999-05-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
134 * search-libs.m4 [AC_SEARCH_LIBS]: Quote name in undefine.
135 Add a colon after each `then' in case $4 is empty.
137 1999-05-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
139 * search-libs.m4: New file to override autoconf's AC_SEARCH_LIBS.
141 1999-05-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
143 * jm-mktime.m4: Reflect renaming: AM_FUNC_MKTIME -> AC_FUNC_MKTIME.
145 * jm-macros.m4: Require 2.14.1, since we use newly-renamed
148 1999-05-10 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
150 * jm-mktime.m4, putenv.m4: Fix typos in config.h comments.
152 1999-05-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
154 * lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): -n32, -o32, and -n64 should be in CFLAGS,
155 not CPPFLAGS, so that linking works correctly in IRIX.
157 1999-04-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
159 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add dup2.
161 1999-04-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
163 * xstrtoumax.m4: Require jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
164 AC_REPLACE xstroull if necessary. From Paul Eggert.
165 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Remove strtoull, strtoumax, strtouq.
167 1999-04-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
169 * uintmax_t.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T): Move unsigned long
170 long check into new jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG macro.
171 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): Require
172 jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
173 * ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): New file/macro.
175 * lfs.m4: Port to AIX and HP-UX. Support cross-compilation.
177 1999-04-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
179 * xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): New file/macro.
180 * jm-macros.m4: Use it.
182 1999-04-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
184 * strftime.m4: Remove test for %f.
186 1999-03-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
188 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): New macro, contains the
189 superset of the AC_TYPE_* checks in the textutils, fileutils,
190 and sh-utils, plus AC_TYPE_PID_T. Paul Eggert suggested adding
193 1999-03-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
195 * jm-macros.m4: Define GNU_PACKAGE here.
196 Be sure to AC_SUBST it, once again, so that @GNU_PACKAGE@ is
197 replaced e.g., in the *.sh files of the sh-utils.
199 1999-03-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
201 * jm-macros.m4: s/jm_WITH_REGEX/jm_INCLUDED_REGEX/.
202 * regex.m4 (jm_INCLUDED_REGEX): Rename from jm_WITH_REGEX.
203 Don't depend on AM_GLIBC. Suggestions from Alain Magloire.
205 1999-03-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
207 * jm-winsz1.m4 (jm_WINSIZE_IN_PTEM): New macro.
209 1999-03-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
211 * jm-macros.m4: Use AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED.
213 1999-03-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
215 * jm-glibc-io.m4: Use only those *_unlocked macros that are declared.
217 1999-02-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
219 * gettext.m4 (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Do `changequote' around use of brackets
220 in macro definition. From Eli Zaretskii and Alain Magloire.
222 1999-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
224 * group-member.m4: New file -- extracted from sh-utils' configure.in.
226 1999-02-05 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
227 * gettext.m4: Support DOS-style d:/foo/bar absolute file names.
229 1999-02-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
231 * chown.m4: Use `AC_SUBST(LIBOBJS)' since we set LIBOBJS.
232 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
233 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
234 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
235 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
236 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
237 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
238 * regex.m4: Likewise.
240 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
241 Suggestion from Alain Magloire.
243 * chown.m4: Use `.$ac_objext', not `.o'.
244 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
245 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
246 * getline.m4: Likewise.
247 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
248 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
249 * memcmp.m4: Likewise.
250 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
251 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
252 * regex.m4: Likewise.
254 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
255 Suggestion from Alain Magloire.
257 * jm-macros.m4: Actually invoke jm_WITH_REGEX now that it requires
260 * regex.m4: Add a run-time Test for proper operation of
263 1999-01-31 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
265 * getloadavg.m4: Check for locale.h and the function, setlocale.
267 1999-01-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
269 * check-type.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.
271 * jm-mktime.m4: Make this a wrapper around the official AM_FUNC_MKTIME
272 rather than my private copy, now that the official one is up to date.
273 * mktime.m4: Remove file.
275 * getloadavg.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.
276 * uptime.m4: Likewise.
277 * uintmax_t.m4: Likewise.
279 1999-01-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
281 * jm-macros.m4: Use jm_AFS.
282 * afs.m4: New file (from fileutils' configure.in).
284 * assert.m4: Use the 3-argument forms of AC_DEFINE* macros.
285 * chown.m4: Likewise.
286 * d-ino.m4: Likewise.
287 * d-type.m4: Likewise.
288 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
289 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
290 * gettext.m4: Likewise.
291 * jm-mktime.m4: Likewise.
292 * jm-winsz2.m4: Likewise.
293 * lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
294 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: Likewise.
295 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
296 * memcmp.m4: Likewise.
297 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
298 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
299 * st_mtim.m4: Likewise.
300 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
302 1999-01-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
304 * jm-macros.m4 (ARGMATCH_DIE): Define.
305 (ARGMATCH_DIE_DECL): Define.
307 1999-01-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
309 * Makefile.am.in: Rewrite to avoid using fmt.
310 Reported by Lars Hecking.
312 1999-01-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
314 * fstypename.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of my
316 * inttypes_h.m4: Likewise.
317 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
318 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
319 * readdir.m4: Likewise.
320 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
321 * st_dm_mode.m4: Likewise.
323 * utimbuf.m4: Likewise.
324 * utimes.m4: Likewise.
326 * check-decl.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of the
327 AC_CHECK_FUNCS hack. Now, it's still a hack, but at least the
328 comments in config.h.in are meaningful.
330 * jm-macros.m4: Require autoconf-2.13 here.
332 * regex.m4: By default, don't use the included regex.c on systems
333 with glibc 2. Suggestion from Uli Drepper.
335 1999-01-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
337 * jm-macros.m4: Replace strcasecmp and strncasecmp.
339 1998-12-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
341 * Makefile.am.in (Makefile.am): Simplify rule.
342 Based on a suggestion from Lars Hecking.
344 1998-11-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
346 * lfs.m4: Double-quote the `uname...` expression.
348 1998-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
350 * lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): Add support for HP-UX 10.20 and HP-UX 11.
352 1998-11-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
354 * lstat.m4: Correct comment. POSIX does not permit it to succeed.
357 1998-11-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
359 * stat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_STAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.
360 * lstat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_LSTAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.
362 1998-10-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
364 * check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): Remove macro.
366 1998-10-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
368 * decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLARATION): Don't hard-code which headers to
369 include, though we still hard-code the `require'-like AC_CHECK_HEADERS
370 calls for those previously hard-coded headers. Instead, take a new
372 (jm_CHECK_DECLARATIONS): Reflect interface change.
373 * check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLS): Likewise.
374 (jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): New macro.
376 * mktime.m4: Test for spring-forward gap before long-running test.
378 1998-10-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
380 * mktime.m4: Use the more portable "TZ=PST8PDT,M4.1.0,M10.5.0"
381 instead of "TZ=America/Vancouver". From Paul Eggert.
383 1998-10-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
385 * mktime.m4 (jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME): New file and macro.
386 This adds a test for a recently added compatibility fix for mktime.c.
387 * jm-mktime.m4: Require jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME, not AM_FUNC_MKTIME.
389 1998-09-27 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
391 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_MACROS): Require jm_FUNC_FNMATCH.
393 * fnmatch.m4 (jm_FUNC_FNMATCH): New file/macro. Extracted from
394 ../configure.in, including a change from Gordon Matzigkeit to allow
395 cross-compiling for the Hurd.
397 * glibc.m4: New file/macro to test for the GNU C Library
398 versions 1 and 2. From Gordon Matzigkeit.
401 1998-09-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
403 * chown.m4: Declare locals: before, after. From Andries Brouwer.
405 1998-08-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
407 Port nanosecond-resolution times to UnixWare 2.1.2 and
408 pedantic Solaris 2.6.
410 * st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC): Renamed from
412 * st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC):
413 Generate name of ns member, instead of just 1 or undef.
414 Allow for UnixWare 2.1.2 and Solaris 2.6 if in pedantic mode.
416 1998-08-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
418 * ssize_t.m4 (jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T): Remove file.
419 * check-type.m4: New file. Replacement for AC_CHECK_TYPE.
420 * jm-macros.m4: Use the new AC_CHECK_TYPE(ssize_t, int)
421 instead of jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T.
423 1998-08-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
425 * st_dm_mode.m4: New file. From Johan Danielsson.
427 1998-08-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
429 * st_mtim.m4: Use hack to avoid having to put #undef HAVE_ST_MTIM
430 in acconfig.h manually.
432 1998-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
434 * st_mtim.m4: New file.
436 1998-07-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
438 * utimes.m4: Undef stat.
440 1998-07-25 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
442 * utime.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIME): New file and macro.
443 * utimes.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIMES_NULL): New file and macro.
445 1998-07-09 Manfred Hollstein <manfred@s-direktnet.de>
447 * chown.m4 (jm_FUNC_CHOWN): Add a check to verify that the
448 uid and gid actually remain unchanged.
450 1998-07-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
452 * jm-glibc-io.m4: Remove fclose_unlocked.
454 1998-07-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
456 * regex.m4: Use syscmd, ifelse, and sysval. Mainly as an exercise
457 to prove that this macro can be used in packages without regex.c.
459 1998-07-02 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
461 * gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove intl/libintl.h if <libintl.h>
464 1998-07-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
466 * gettext.m4: Add -lintl if it's found to be necessary.
468 * gettext.m4: New file -- from gettext-0.10.35.
469 * lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
470 * progtest.m4: Likewise.
472 * regex.m4 (jm_WITH_REGEX): New file and macro.
473 * jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.
475 1998-06-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
477 * fstypename.m4: Include sys/param.h. NetBSD 1.3.1 requires this
478 for the definition of NGROUPS (used in a system header included
481 1998-06-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
483 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: New file.
484 * fstypename.m4: New file.
486 * jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.
487 * jm-glibc-io.m4: New file.
489 1998-05-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
491 * jm-macros.m4: Add jm_FUNC_LCHOWN.
492 * lchown.m4: New file.
494 * Makefile.am.in: New file.
495 * Makefile.am (Makefile.am): Depend on Makefile.am.in.
497 1998-05-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
499 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add them.
500 * jm-macros.m4: New file.
501 * utimbuf.m4: New file.
503 1998-05-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
505 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add isc-posix.m4.
507 1998-05-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
509 * isc-posix.m4: New file.
511 1998-05-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
513 * jm-mktime.m4: Use AM_FUNC_MKTIME, now that it's up to date.
515 1998-05-09 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
517 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add ssize_t.m4.
518 (EXTRA_DIST): Remove mktime.m4, now that the new version is included
521 * ssize_t.m4: New file.
522 * mktime.m4: Remove file -- the new automake has this now.
524 1998-04-26 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
526 * assert.m4: New file.
527 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add assert.m4.
529 1998-04-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
531 * prereq.m4 (jm_PREREQ_REGEX): New macro.
532 (jm_PREREQ): Use it here.
534 1998-03-23 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
536 * inttypes_h.m4: Kludges so I don't have to add HAVE_INTTYPES_H
539 1998-03-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
541 * prereq.m4: New file.
542 * error.m4: New file.
543 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add error.m4 and prereq.m4.
545 1998-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
547 * getline.m4: Don't set am_cv_func_working_getline before the
548 cache-check for the same variable -- that defeated the purpose of
549 the test; the test program was never run. This was a problem only
550 on systems with losing getline functions -- HP-UX 10.20 is one.
551 Reported by Bjorn Helgaas.
553 1998-02-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
555 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add perl.m4.
557 1998-01-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
559 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add const.m4.
561 * const.m4: New file. Use an initializer in this declaration
562 typedef int charset[2]; const charset x;
563 Reported by Bob Glickstein.
565 1997-12-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
567 * chown.m4: Fix reversed types on -1 args to chown.
570 1997-12-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
572 * check-decl.m4: s/DECLARATION_/DECL_/g.
573 Add lseek and memchr.
575 * decl.m4: s/HAVE_DECLARATION_/HAVE_DECL_/g.
576 T.E.Dickey <dickey@clark.net> said that some older preprocessors
577 have a 20-character limit on names.
579 1997-11-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
581 * inttypes_h.m4: New file.
582 * uintmax_t.m4: New file.
583 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add inttypes_h.m4 and uintmax_t.m4.