1 1999-11-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
3 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): Move some tests from configure.in
4 of textutils, fileutils, and sh-utils into this one (shared between
7 1999-11-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
9 * ssize_t.m4: Remove file. No longer needed since the new version of
10 AC_CHECK_TYPE checks includes unistd.h.
11 * jm-macros.m4: Use straight `AC_CHECK_TYPE(ssize_t, int)'.
12 Suggestion from Akim Demaille.
14 1999-10-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
16 * uintmax_t.m4: Require 2.14a. Remove backslash before backtick in
18 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: Likewise.
19 * jm-macros.m4: Likewise. Also, use AC_TYPE_SSIZE_T instead
20 * jm-winsz1.m4: Likewise.
22 * const.m4: Remove file, since the fix made it into the experimental
24 * mktime.m4: Likewise.
26 * check-type.m4: Remove file, now that the latest version of
27 AC_CHECK_TYPE takes a third arg to specify additional #includes.
29 * ssize_t.m4: New file, requires experimental version of autoconf.
30 * jm-macros.m4: Use new AC_TYPE_SSIZE_T instead of my hacked
33 1999-10-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
35 * jm-macros.m4: Don't require autoconf-2.14.1.
37 1999-09-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
39 * largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_FLAGS): Work around GCC
40 2.95.1 bug with HP-UX 10.20.
42 1999-09-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
44 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add strdup.
45 Paul Nevai reported a link failure on a NeXT CUBE with NeXTSTEP 3.3
46 due to missing strdup (against sh-utils-2.0).
48 1999-08-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
50 * jm-macros.m4: Require jm_BISON.
53 1999-08-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
55 * m4/largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE): Fix typo: missing comma
56 in value for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS, which broke ports to HP-UX 10.20.
58 1999-08-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
60 * getline.m4: Rename test file from conftestdata to conftest.data
61 to avoid conflicts with `conftest' on 8+3 filesystems.
62 Suggestion from Eli Zaretskii.
64 1999-08-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
66 * jm-macros.m4: Move a 4-line block of code from the configure.in of
67 fileutils and sh-utils (textutils's getline test was inadequate).
68 (AM_FUNC_GETLINE): Run this test.
69 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getdelim.
70 Reported by Bob Proulx.
72 1999-08-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
74 * jm-macros.m4: Add a comment.
76 1999-08-01 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
78 * mktime.m4 (AC_FUNC_MKTIME): Undefine to avoid syntax errors from m4.
80 1999-08-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
82 * lfs.m4: Remove this file.
83 * largefile.m4: New file. It contains the old contents of
84 lfs.m4, except that all names with prefix AC_LFS have been
85 changed to use the prefix AC_SYS_LARGEFILE instead, to be
86 compatible with future autoconf versions. Also, some minor m4
87 quoting problems have been fixed.
89 1999-07-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
91 * ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): Make sure
92 that we can shift, multiply and divide unsigned long long
93 values; Ultrix cc can't do it.
95 1999-07-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
97 * xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): Check whether
98 <inttypes.h> defines strtoumax as a macro (and not as a
101 1999-07-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
103 * gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove unnecessary lines.
104 Fix typo: $nls_cv_header_intl was misspelled as $nsl_cv_header_intl.
105 (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Fix problem with brackets and m4 quoting,
106 and simplify the shell code.
108 1999-07-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
110 * mktime.m4: New file, which is a preview of what should appear
111 in the next public autoconf release.
113 1999-07-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
115 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memmove.
117 1999-07-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
119 * jm-macros.m4: (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getpagesize.
121 1999-05-22 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
123 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memchr.
125 1999-05-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
127 * search-libs.m4 [AC_SEARCH_LIBS]: Quote name in undefine.
128 Add a colon after each `then' in case $4 is empty.
130 1999-05-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
132 * search-libs.m4: New file to override autoconf's AC_SEARCH_LIBS.
134 1999-05-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
136 * jm-mktime.m4: Reflect renaming: AM_FUNC_MKTIME -> AC_FUNC_MKTIME.
138 * jm-macros.m4: Require 2.14.1, since we use newly-renamed
141 1999-05-10 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
143 * jm-mktime.m4, putenv.m4: Fix typos in config.h comments.
145 1999-05-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
147 * lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): -n32, -o32, and -n64 should be in CFLAGS,
148 not CPPFLAGS, so that linking works correctly in IRIX.
150 1999-04-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
152 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add dup2.
154 1999-04-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
156 * xstrtoumax.m4: Require jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
157 AC_REPLACE xstroull if necessary. From Paul Eggert.
158 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Remove strtoull, strtoumax, strtouq.
160 1999-04-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
162 * uintmax_t.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T): Move unsigned long
163 long check into new jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG macro.
164 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): Require
165 jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
166 * ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): New file/macro.
168 * lfs.m4: Port to AIX and HP-UX. Support cross-compilation.
170 1999-04-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
172 * xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): New file/macro.
173 * jm-macros.m4: Use it.
175 1999-04-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
177 * strftime.m4: Remove test for %f.
179 1999-03-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
181 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): New macro, contains the
182 superset of the AC_TYPE_* checks in the textutils, fileutils,
183 and sh-utils, plus AC_TYPE_PID_T. Paul Eggert suggested adding
186 1999-03-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
188 * jm-macros.m4: Define GNU_PACKAGE here.
189 Be sure to AC_SUBST it, once again, so that @GNU_PACKAGE@ is
190 replaced e.g., in the *.sh files of the sh-utils.
192 1999-03-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
194 * jm-macros.m4: s/jm_WITH_REGEX/jm_INCLUDED_REGEX/.
195 * regex.m4 (jm_INCLUDED_REGEX): Rename from jm_WITH_REGEX.
196 Don't depend on AM_GLIBC. Suggestions from Alain Magloire.
198 1999-03-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
200 * jm-winsz1.m4 (jm_WINSIZE_IN_PTEM): New macro.
202 1999-03-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
204 * jm-macros.m4: Use AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED.
206 1999-03-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
208 * jm-glibc-io.m4: Use only those *_unlocked macros that are declared.
210 1999-02-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
212 * gettext.m4 (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Do `changequote' around use of brackets
213 in macro definition. From Eli Zaretskii and Alain Magloire.
215 1999-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
217 * group-member.m4: New file -- extracted from sh-utils' configure.in.
219 1999-02-05 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
220 * gettext.m4: Support DOS-style d:/foo/bar absolute file names.
222 1999-02-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
224 * chown.m4: Use `AC_SUBST(LIBOBJS)' since we set LIBOBJS.
225 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
226 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
227 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
228 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
229 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
230 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
231 * regex.m4: Likewise.
233 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
234 Suggestion from Alain Magloire.
236 * chown.m4: Use `.$ac_objext', not `.o'.
237 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
238 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
239 * getline.m4: Likewise.
240 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
241 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
242 * memcmp.m4: Likewise.
243 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
244 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
245 * regex.m4: Likewise.
247 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
248 Suggestion from Alain Magloire.
250 * jm-macros.m4: Actually invoke jm_WITH_REGEX now that it requires
253 * regex.m4: Add a run-time Test for proper operation of
256 1999-01-31 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
258 * getloadavg.m4: Check for locale.h and the function, setlocale.
260 1999-01-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
262 * check-type.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.
264 * jm-mktime.m4: Make this a wrapper around the official AM_FUNC_MKTIME
265 rather than my private copy, now that the official one is up to date.
266 * mktime.m4: Remove file.
268 * getloadavg.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.
269 * uptime.m4: Likewise.
270 * uintmax_t.m4: Likewise.
272 1999-01-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
274 * jm-macros.m4: Use jm_AFS.
275 * afs.m4: New file (from fileutils' configure.in).
277 * assert.m4: Use the 3-argument forms of AC_DEFINE* macros.
278 * chown.m4: Likewise.
279 * d-ino.m4: Likewise.
280 * d-type.m4: Likewise.
281 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
282 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
283 * gettext.m4: Likewise.
284 * jm-mktime.m4: Likewise.
285 * jm-winsz2.m4: Likewise.
286 * lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
287 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: Likewise.
288 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
289 * memcmp.m4: Likewise.
290 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
291 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
292 * st_mtim.m4: Likewise.
293 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
295 1999-01-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
297 * jm-macros.m4 (ARGMATCH_DIE): Define.
298 (ARGMATCH_DIE_DECL): Define.
300 1999-01-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
302 * Makefile.am.in: Rewrite to avoid using fmt.
303 Reported by Lars Hecking.
305 1999-01-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
307 * fstypename.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of my
309 * inttypes_h.m4: Likewise.
310 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
311 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
312 * readdir.m4: Likewise.
313 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
314 * st_dm_mode.m4: Likewise.
316 * utimbuf.m4: Likewise.
317 * utimes.m4: Likewise.
319 * check-decl.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of the
320 AC_CHECK_FUNCS hack. Now, it's still a hack, but at least the
321 comments in config.h.in are meaningful.
323 * jm-macros.m4: Require autoconf-2.13 here.
325 * regex.m4: By default, don't use the included regex.c on systems
326 with glibc 2. Suggestion from Uli Drepper.
328 1999-01-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
330 * jm-macros.m4: Replace strcasecmp and strncasecmp.
332 1998-12-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
334 * Makefile.am.in (Makefile.am): Simplify rule.
335 Based on a suggestion from Lars Hecking.
337 1998-11-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
339 * lfs.m4: Double-quote the `uname...` expression.
341 1998-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
343 * lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): Add support for HP-UX 10.20 and HP-UX 11.
345 1998-11-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
347 * lstat.m4: Correct comment. POSIX does not permit it to succeed.
350 1998-11-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
352 * stat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_STAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.
353 * lstat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_LSTAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.
355 1998-10-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
357 * check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): Remove macro.
359 1998-10-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
361 * decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLARATION): Don't hard-code which headers to
362 include, though we still hard-code the `require'-like AC_CHECK_HEADERS
363 calls for those previously hard-coded headers. Instead, take a new
365 (jm_CHECK_DECLARATIONS): Reflect interface change.
366 * check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLS): Likewise.
367 (jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): New macro.
369 * mktime.m4: Test for spring-forward gap before long-running test.
371 1998-10-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
373 * mktime.m4: Use the more portable "TZ=PST8PDT,M4.1.0,M10.5.0"
374 instead of "TZ=America/Vancouver". From Paul Eggert.
376 1998-10-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
378 * mktime.m4 (jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME): New file and macro.
379 This adds a test for a recently added compatibility fix for mktime.c.
380 * jm-mktime.m4: Require jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME, not AM_FUNC_MKTIME.
382 1998-09-27 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
384 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_MACROS): Require jm_FUNC_FNMATCH.
386 * fnmatch.m4 (jm_FUNC_FNMATCH): New file/macro. Extracted from
387 ../configure.in, including a change from Gordon Matzigkeit to allow
388 cross-compiling for the Hurd.
390 * glibc.m4: New file/macro to test for the GNU C Library
391 versions 1 and 2. From Gordon Matzigkeit.
394 1998-09-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
396 * chown.m4: Declare locals: before, after. From Andries Brouwer.
398 1998-08-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
400 Port nanosecond-resolution times to UnixWare 2.1.2 and
401 pedantic Solaris 2.6.
403 * st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC): Renamed from
405 * st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC):
406 Generate name of ns member, instead of just 1 or undef.
407 Allow for UnixWare 2.1.2 and Solaris 2.6 if in pedantic mode.
409 1998-08-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
411 * ssize_t.m4 (jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T): Remove file.
412 * check-type.m4: New file. Replacement for AC_CHECK_TYPE.
413 * jm-macros.m4: Use the new AC_CHECK_TYPE(ssize_t, int)
414 instead of jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T.
416 1998-08-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
418 * st_dm_mode.m4: New file. From Johan Danielsson.
420 1998-08-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
422 * st_mtim.m4: Use hack to avoid having to put #undef HAVE_ST_MTIM
423 in acconfig.h manually.
425 1998-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
427 * st_mtim.m4: New file.
429 1998-07-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
431 * utimes.m4: Undef stat.
433 1998-07-25 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
435 * utime.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIME): New file and macro.
436 * utimes.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIMES_NULL): New file and macro.
438 1998-07-09 Manfred Hollstein <manfred@s-direktnet.de>
440 * chown.m4 (jm_FUNC_CHOWN): Add a check to verify that the
441 uid and gid actually remain unchanged.
443 1998-07-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
445 * jm-glibc-io.m4: Remove fclose_unlocked.
447 1998-07-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
449 * regex.m4: Use syscmd, ifelse, and sysval. Mainly as an exercise
450 to prove that this macro can be used in packages without regex.c.
452 1998-07-02 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
454 * gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove intl/libintl.h if <libintl.h>
457 1998-07-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
459 * gettext.m4: Add -lintl if it's found to be necessary.
461 * gettext.m4: New file -- from gettext-0.10.35.
462 * lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
463 * progtest.m4: Likewise.
465 * regex.m4 (jm_WITH_REGEX): New file and macro.
466 * jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.
468 1998-06-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
470 * fstypename.m4: Include sys/param.h. NetBSD 1.3.1 requires this
471 for the definition of NGROUPS (used in a system header included
474 1998-06-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
476 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: New file.
477 * fstypename.m4: New file.
479 * jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.
480 * jm-glibc-io.m4: New file.
482 1998-05-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
484 * jm-macros.m4: Add jm_FUNC_LCHOWN.
485 * lchown.m4: New file.
487 * Makefile.am.in: New file.
488 * Makefile.am (Makefile.am): Depend on Makefile.am.in.
490 1998-05-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
492 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add them.
493 * jm-macros.m4: New file.
494 * utimbuf.m4: New file.
496 1998-05-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
498 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add isc-posix.m4.
500 1998-05-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
502 * isc-posix.m4: New file.
504 1998-05-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
506 * jm-mktime.m4: Use AM_FUNC_MKTIME, now that it's up to date.
508 1998-05-09 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
510 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add ssize_t.m4.
511 (EXTRA_DIST): Remove mktime.m4, now that the new version is included
514 * ssize_t.m4: New file.
515 * mktime.m4: Remove file -- the new automake has this now.
517 1998-04-26 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
519 * assert.m4: New file.
520 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add assert.m4.
522 1998-04-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
524 * prereq.m4 (jm_PREREQ_REGEX): New macro.
525 (jm_PREREQ): Use it here.
527 1998-03-23 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
529 * inttypes_h.m4: Kludges so I don't have to add HAVE_INTTYPES_H
532 1998-03-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
534 * prereq.m4: New file.
535 * error.m4: New file.
536 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add error.m4 and prereq.m4.
538 1998-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
540 * getline.m4: Don't set am_cv_func_working_getline before the
541 cache-check for the same variable -- that defeated the purpose of
542 the test; the test program was never run. This was a problem only
543 on systems with losing getline functions -- HP-UX 10.20 is one.
544 Reported by Bjorn Helgaas.
546 1998-02-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
548 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add perl.m4.
550 1998-01-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
552 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add const.m4.
554 * const.m4: New file. Use an initializer in this declaration
555 typedef int charset[2]; const charset x;
556 Reported by Bob Glickstein.
558 1997-12-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
560 * chown.m4: Fix reversed types on -1 args to chown.
563 1997-12-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
565 * check-decl.m4: s/DECLARATION_/DECL_/g.
566 Add lseek and memchr.
568 * decl.m4: s/HAVE_DECLARATION_/HAVE_DECL_/g.
569 T.E.Dickey <dickey@clark.net> said that some older preprocessors
570 have a 20-character limit on names.
572 1997-11-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
574 * inttypes_h.m4: New file.
575 * uintmax_t.m4: New file.
576 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add inttypes_h.m4 and uintmax_t.m4.