1 1999-11-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
3 * gettext.m4: Use new AC_CONFIG_LINKS in place of AC_LINK_FILES.
5 1999-11-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
7 * getloadavg.m4: Add `, 1, [FIXME]' to each use of AC_DEFINE.
9 1999-11-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
11 * link-follow.m4 (jm_AC_FUNC_LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK): New file/macro.
12 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_MACROS): Use it here.
14 1999-11-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
16 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): Move some tests from configure.in
17 of textutils, fileutils, and sh-utils into this one (shared between
19 Use `AC_CHECK_MEMBERS((struct stat.st_blksize))' instead of deprecated
22 1999-11-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
24 * ssize_t.m4: Remove file. No longer needed since the new version of
25 AC_CHECK_TYPE checks includes unistd.h.
26 * jm-macros.m4: Use straight `AC_CHECK_TYPE(ssize_t, int)'.
27 Suggestion from Akim Demaille.
29 1999-10-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
31 * uintmax_t.m4: Require 2.14a. Remove backslash before backtick in
33 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: Likewise.
34 * jm-macros.m4: Likewise. Also, use AC_TYPE_SSIZE_T instead
35 * jm-winsz1.m4: Likewise.
37 * const.m4: Remove file, since the fix made it into the experimental
39 * mktime.m4: Likewise.
41 * check-type.m4: Remove file, now that the latest version of
42 AC_CHECK_TYPE takes a third arg to specify additional #includes.
44 * ssize_t.m4: New file, requires experimental version of autoconf.
45 * jm-macros.m4: Use new AC_TYPE_SSIZE_T instead of my hacked
48 1999-10-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
50 * jm-macros.m4: Don't require autoconf-2.14.1.
52 1999-09-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
54 * largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_FLAGS): Work around GCC
55 2.95.1 bug with HP-UX 10.20.
57 1999-09-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
59 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add strdup.
60 Paul Nevai reported a link failure on a NeXT CUBE with NeXTSTEP 3.3
61 due to missing strdup (against sh-utils-2.0).
63 1999-08-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
65 * jm-macros.m4: Require jm_BISON.
68 1999-08-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
70 * m4/largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE): Fix typo: missing comma
71 in value for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS, which broke ports to HP-UX 10.20.
73 1999-08-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
75 * getline.m4: Rename test file from conftestdata to conftest.data
76 to avoid conflicts with `conftest' on 8+3 filesystems.
77 Suggestion from Eli Zaretskii.
79 1999-08-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
81 * jm-macros.m4: Move a 4-line block of code from the configure.in of
82 fileutils and sh-utils (textutils's getline test was inadequate).
83 (AM_FUNC_GETLINE): Run this test.
84 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getdelim.
85 Reported by Bob Proulx.
87 1999-08-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
89 * jm-macros.m4: Add a comment.
91 1999-08-01 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
93 * mktime.m4 (AC_FUNC_MKTIME): Undefine to avoid syntax errors from m4.
95 1999-08-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
97 * lfs.m4: Remove this file.
98 * largefile.m4: New file. It contains the old contents of
99 lfs.m4, except that all names with prefix AC_LFS have been
100 changed to use the prefix AC_SYS_LARGEFILE instead, to be
101 compatible with future autoconf versions. Also, some minor m4
102 quoting problems have been fixed.
104 1999-07-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
106 * ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): Make sure
107 that we can shift, multiply and divide unsigned long long
108 values; Ultrix cc can't do it.
110 1999-07-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
112 * xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): Check whether
113 <inttypes.h> defines strtoumax as a macro (and not as a
116 1999-07-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
118 * gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove unnecessary lines.
119 Fix typo: $nls_cv_header_intl was misspelled as $nsl_cv_header_intl.
120 (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Fix problem with brackets and m4 quoting,
121 and simplify the shell code.
123 1999-07-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
125 * mktime.m4: New file, which is a preview of what should appear
126 in the next public autoconf release.
128 1999-07-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
130 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memmove.
132 1999-07-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
134 * jm-macros.m4: (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getpagesize.
136 1999-05-22 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
138 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memchr.
140 1999-05-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
142 * search-libs.m4 [AC_SEARCH_LIBS]: Quote name in undefine.
143 Add a colon after each `then' in case $4 is empty.
145 1999-05-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
147 * search-libs.m4: New file to override autoconf's AC_SEARCH_LIBS.
149 1999-05-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
151 * jm-mktime.m4: Reflect renaming: AM_FUNC_MKTIME -> AC_FUNC_MKTIME.
153 * jm-macros.m4: Require 2.14.1, since we use newly-renamed
156 1999-05-10 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
158 * jm-mktime.m4, putenv.m4: Fix typos in config.h comments.
160 1999-05-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
162 * lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): -n32, -o32, and -n64 should be in CFLAGS,
163 not CPPFLAGS, so that linking works correctly in IRIX.
165 1999-04-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
167 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add dup2.
169 1999-04-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
171 * xstrtoumax.m4: Require jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
172 AC_REPLACE xstroull if necessary. From Paul Eggert.
173 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Remove strtoull, strtoumax, strtouq.
175 1999-04-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
177 * uintmax_t.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T): Move unsigned long
178 long check into new jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG macro.
179 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): Require
180 jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
181 * ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): New file/macro.
183 * lfs.m4: Port to AIX and HP-UX. Support cross-compilation.
185 1999-04-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
187 * xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): New file/macro.
188 * jm-macros.m4: Use it.
190 1999-04-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
192 * strftime.m4: Remove test for %f.
194 1999-03-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
196 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): New macro, contains the
197 superset of the AC_TYPE_* checks in the textutils, fileutils,
198 and sh-utils, plus AC_TYPE_PID_T. Paul Eggert suggested adding
201 1999-03-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
203 * jm-macros.m4: Define GNU_PACKAGE here.
204 Be sure to AC_SUBST it, once again, so that @GNU_PACKAGE@ is
205 replaced e.g., in the *.sh files of the sh-utils.
207 1999-03-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
209 * jm-macros.m4: s/jm_WITH_REGEX/jm_INCLUDED_REGEX/.
210 * regex.m4 (jm_INCLUDED_REGEX): Rename from jm_WITH_REGEX.
211 Don't depend on AM_GLIBC. Suggestions from Alain Magloire.
213 1999-03-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
215 * jm-winsz1.m4 (jm_WINSIZE_IN_PTEM): New macro.
217 1999-03-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
219 * jm-macros.m4: Use AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED.
221 1999-03-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
223 * jm-glibc-io.m4: Use only those *_unlocked macros that are declared.
225 1999-02-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
227 * gettext.m4 (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Do `changequote' around use of brackets
228 in macro definition. From Eli Zaretskii and Alain Magloire.
230 1999-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
232 * group-member.m4: New file -- extracted from sh-utils' configure.in.
234 1999-02-05 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
235 * gettext.m4: Support DOS-style d:/foo/bar absolute file names.
237 1999-02-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
239 * chown.m4: Use `AC_SUBST(LIBOBJS)' since we set LIBOBJS.
240 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
241 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
242 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
243 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
244 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
245 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
246 * regex.m4: Likewise.
248 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
249 Suggestion from Alain Magloire.
251 * chown.m4: Use `.$ac_objext', not `.o'.
252 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
253 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
254 * getline.m4: Likewise.
255 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
256 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
257 * memcmp.m4: Likewise.
258 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
259 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
260 * regex.m4: Likewise.
262 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
263 Suggestion from Alain Magloire.
265 * jm-macros.m4: Actually invoke jm_WITH_REGEX now that it requires
268 * regex.m4: Add a run-time Test for proper operation of
271 1999-01-31 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
273 * getloadavg.m4: Check for locale.h and the function, setlocale.
275 1999-01-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
277 * check-type.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.
279 * jm-mktime.m4: Make this a wrapper around the official AM_FUNC_MKTIME
280 rather than my private copy, now that the official one is up to date.
281 * mktime.m4: Remove file.
283 * getloadavg.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.
284 * uptime.m4: Likewise.
285 * uintmax_t.m4: Likewise.
287 1999-01-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
289 * jm-macros.m4: Use jm_AFS.
290 * afs.m4: New file (from fileutils' configure.in).
292 * assert.m4: Use the 3-argument forms of AC_DEFINE* macros.
293 * chown.m4: Likewise.
294 * d-ino.m4: Likewise.
295 * d-type.m4: Likewise.
296 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
297 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
298 * gettext.m4: Likewise.
299 * jm-mktime.m4: Likewise.
300 * jm-winsz2.m4: Likewise.
301 * lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
302 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: Likewise.
303 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
304 * memcmp.m4: Likewise.
305 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
306 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
307 * st_mtim.m4: Likewise.
308 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
310 1999-01-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
312 * jm-macros.m4 (ARGMATCH_DIE): Define.
313 (ARGMATCH_DIE_DECL): Define.
315 1999-01-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
317 * Makefile.am.in: Rewrite to avoid using fmt.
318 Reported by Lars Hecking.
320 1999-01-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
322 * fstypename.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of my
324 * inttypes_h.m4: Likewise.
325 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
326 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
327 * readdir.m4: Likewise.
328 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
329 * st_dm_mode.m4: Likewise.
331 * utimbuf.m4: Likewise.
332 * utimes.m4: Likewise.
334 * check-decl.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of the
335 AC_CHECK_FUNCS hack. Now, it's still a hack, but at least the
336 comments in config.h.in are meaningful.
338 * jm-macros.m4: Require autoconf-2.13 here.
340 * regex.m4: By default, don't use the included regex.c on systems
341 with glibc 2. Suggestion from Uli Drepper.
343 1999-01-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
345 * jm-macros.m4: Replace strcasecmp and strncasecmp.
347 1998-12-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
349 * Makefile.am.in (Makefile.am): Simplify rule.
350 Based on a suggestion from Lars Hecking.
352 1998-11-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
354 * lfs.m4: Double-quote the `uname...` expression.
356 1998-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
358 * lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): Add support for HP-UX 10.20 and HP-UX 11.
360 1998-11-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
362 * lstat.m4: Correct comment. POSIX does not permit it to succeed.
365 1998-11-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
367 * stat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_STAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.
368 * lstat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_LSTAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.
370 1998-10-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
372 * check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): Remove macro.
374 1998-10-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
376 * decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLARATION): Don't hard-code which headers to
377 include, though we still hard-code the `require'-like AC_CHECK_HEADERS
378 calls for those previously hard-coded headers. Instead, take a new
380 (jm_CHECK_DECLARATIONS): Reflect interface change.
381 * check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLS): Likewise.
382 (jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): New macro.
384 * mktime.m4: Test for spring-forward gap before long-running test.
386 1998-10-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
388 * mktime.m4: Use the more portable "TZ=PST8PDT,M4.1.0,M10.5.0"
389 instead of "TZ=America/Vancouver". From Paul Eggert.
391 1998-10-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
393 * mktime.m4 (jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME): New file and macro.
394 This adds a test for a recently added compatibility fix for mktime.c.
395 * jm-mktime.m4: Require jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME, not AM_FUNC_MKTIME.
397 1998-09-27 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
399 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_MACROS): Require jm_FUNC_FNMATCH.
401 * fnmatch.m4 (jm_FUNC_FNMATCH): New file/macro. Extracted from
402 ../configure.in, including a change from Gordon Matzigkeit to allow
403 cross-compiling for the Hurd.
405 * glibc.m4: New file/macro to test for the GNU C Library
406 versions 1 and 2. From Gordon Matzigkeit.
409 1998-09-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
411 * chown.m4: Declare locals: before, after. From Andries Brouwer.
413 1998-08-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
415 Port nanosecond-resolution times to UnixWare 2.1.2 and
416 pedantic Solaris 2.6.
418 * st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC): Renamed from
420 * st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC):
421 Generate name of ns member, instead of just 1 or undef.
422 Allow for UnixWare 2.1.2 and Solaris 2.6 if in pedantic mode.
424 1998-08-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
426 * ssize_t.m4 (jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T): Remove file.
427 * check-type.m4: New file. Replacement for AC_CHECK_TYPE.
428 * jm-macros.m4: Use the new AC_CHECK_TYPE(ssize_t, int)
429 instead of jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T.
431 1998-08-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
433 * st_dm_mode.m4: New file. From Johan Danielsson.
435 1998-08-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
437 * st_mtim.m4: Use hack to avoid having to put #undef HAVE_ST_MTIM
438 in acconfig.h manually.
440 1998-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
442 * st_mtim.m4: New file.
444 1998-07-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
446 * utimes.m4: Undef stat.
448 1998-07-25 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
450 * utime.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIME): New file and macro.
451 * utimes.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIMES_NULL): New file and macro.
453 1998-07-09 Manfred Hollstein <manfred@s-direktnet.de>
455 * chown.m4 (jm_FUNC_CHOWN): Add a check to verify that the
456 uid and gid actually remain unchanged.
458 1998-07-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
460 * jm-glibc-io.m4: Remove fclose_unlocked.
462 1998-07-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
464 * regex.m4: Use syscmd, ifelse, and sysval. Mainly as an exercise
465 to prove that this macro can be used in packages without regex.c.
467 1998-07-02 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
469 * gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove intl/libintl.h if <libintl.h>
472 1998-07-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
474 * gettext.m4: Add -lintl if it's found to be necessary.
476 * gettext.m4: New file -- from gettext-0.10.35.
477 * lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
478 * progtest.m4: Likewise.
480 * regex.m4 (jm_WITH_REGEX): New file and macro.
481 * jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.
483 1998-06-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
485 * fstypename.m4: Include sys/param.h. NetBSD 1.3.1 requires this
486 for the definition of NGROUPS (used in a system header included
489 1998-06-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
491 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: New file.
492 * fstypename.m4: New file.
494 * jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.
495 * jm-glibc-io.m4: New file.
497 1998-05-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
499 * jm-macros.m4: Add jm_FUNC_LCHOWN.
500 * lchown.m4: New file.
502 * Makefile.am.in: New file.
503 * Makefile.am (Makefile.am): Depend on Makefile.am.in.
505 1998-05-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
507 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add them.
508 * jm-macros.m4: New file.
509 * utimbuf.m4: New file.
511 1998-05-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
513 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add isc-posix.m4.
515 1998-05-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
517 * isc-posix.m4: New file.
519 1998-05-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
521 * jm-mktime.m4: Use AM_FUNC_MKTIME, now that it's up to date.
523 1998-05-09 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
525 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add ssize_t.m4.
526 (EXTRA_DIST): Remove mktime.m4, now that the new version is included
529 * ssize_t.m4: New file.
530 * mktime.m4: Remove file -- the new automake has this now.
532 1998-04-26 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
534 * assert.m4: New file.
535 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add assert.m4.
537 1998-04-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
539 * prereq.m4 (jm_PREREQ_REGEX): New macro.
540 (jm_PREREQ): Use it here.
542 1998-03-23 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
544 * inttypes_h.m4: Kludges so I don't have to add HAVE_INTTYPES_H
547 1998-03-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
549 * prereq.m4: New file.
550 * error.m4: New file.
551 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add error.m4 and prereq.m4.
553 1998-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
555 * getline.m4: Don't set am_cv_func_working_getline before the
556 cache-check for the same variable -- that defeated the purpose of
557 the test; the test program was never run. This was a problem only
558 on systems with losing getline functions -- HP-UX 10.20 is one.
559 Reported by Bjorn Helgaas.
561 1998-02-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
563 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add perl.m4.
565 1998-01-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
567 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add const.m4.
569 * const.m4: New file. Use an initializer in this declaration
570 typedef int charset[2]; const charset x;
571 Reported by Bob Glickstein.
573 1997-12-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
575 * chown.m4: Fix reversed types on -1 args to chown.
578 1997-12-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
580 * check-decl.m4: s/DECLARATION_/DECL_/g.
581 Add lseek and memchr.
583 * decl.m4: s/HAVE_DECLARATION_/HAVE_DECL_/g.
584 T.E.Dickey <dickey@clark.net> said that some older preprocessors
585 have a 20-character limit on names.
587 1997-11-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
589 * inttypes_h.m4: New file.
590 * uintmax_t.m4: New file.
591 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add inttypes_h.m4 and uintmax_t.m4.