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
6 Use `AC_CHECK_MEMBERS((struct stat.st_blksize))' instead of deprecated
9 1999-11-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
11 * ssize_t.m4: Remove file. No longer needed since the new version of
12 AC_CHECK_TYPE checks includes unistd.h.
13 * jm-macros.m4: Use straight `AC_CHECK_TYPE(ssize_t, int)'.
14 Suggestion from Akim Demaille.
16 1999-10-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
18 * uintmax_t.m4: Require 2.14a. Remove backslash before backtick in
20 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: Likewise.
21 * jm-macros.m4: Likewise. Also, use AC_TYPE_SSIZE_T instead
22 * jm-winsz1.m4: Likewise.
24 * const.m4: Remove file, since the fix made it into the experimental
26 * mktime.m4: Likewise.
28 * check-type.m4: Remove file, now that the latest version of
29 AC_CHECK_TYPE takes a third arg to specify additional #includes.
31 * ssize_t.m4: New file, requires experimental version of autoconf.
32 * jm-macros.m4: Use new AC_TYPE_SSIZE_T instead of my hacked
35 1999-10-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
37 * jm-macros.m4: Don't require autoconf-2.14.1.
39 1999-09-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
41 * largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_FLAGS): Work around GCC
42 2.95.1 bug with HP-UX 10.20.
44 1999-09-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
46 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add strdup.
47 Paul Nevai reported a link failure on a NeXT CUBE with NeXTSTEP 3.3
48 due to missing strdup (against sh-utils-2.0).
50 1999-08-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
52 * jm-macros.m4: Require jm_BISON.
55 1999-08-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
57 * m4/largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE): Fix typo: missing comma
58 in value for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS, which broke ports to HP-UX 10.20.
60 1999-08-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
62 * getline.m4: Rename test file from conftestdata to conftest.data
63 to avoid conflicts with `conftest' on 8+3 filesystems.
64 Suggestion from Eli Zaretskii.
66 1999-08-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
68 * jm-macros.m4: Move a 4-line block of code from the configure.in of
69 fileutils and sh-utils (textutils's getline test was inadequate).
70 (AM_FUNC_GETLINE): Run this test.
71 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getdelim.
72 Reported by Bob Proulx.
74 1999-08-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
76 * jm-macros.m4: Add a comment.
78 1999-08-01 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
80 * mktime.m4 (AC_FUNC_MKTIME): Undefine to avoid syntax errors from m4.
82 1999-08-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
84 * lfs.m4: Remove this file.
85 * largefile.m4: New file. It contains the old contents of
86 lfs.m4, except that all names with prefix AC_LFS have been
87 changed to use the prefix AC_SYS_LARGEFILE instead, to be
88 compatible with future autoconf versions. Also, some minor m4
89 quoting problems have been fixed.
91 1999-07-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
93 * ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): Make sure
94 that we can shift, multiply and divide unsigned long long
95 values; Ultrix cc can't do it.
97 1999-07-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
99 * xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): Check whether
100 <inttypes.h> defines strtoumax as a macro (and not as a
103 1999-07-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
105 * gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove unnecessary lines.
106 Fix typo: $nls_cv_header_intl was misspelled as $nsl_cv_header_intl.
107 (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Fix problem with brackets and m4 quoting,
108 and simplify the shell code.
110 1999-07-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
112 * mktime.m4: New file, which is a preview of what should appear
113 in the next public autoconf release.
115 1999-07-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
117 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memmove.
119 1999-07-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
121 * jm-macros.m4: (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getpagesize.
123 1999-05-22 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
125 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memchr.
127 1999-05-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
129 * search-libs.m4 [AC_SEARCH_LIBS]: Quote name in undefine.
130 Add a colon after each `then' in case $4 is empty.
132 1999-05-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
134 * search-libs.m4: New file to override autoconf's AC_SEARCH_LIBS.
136 1999-05-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
138 * jm-mktime.m4: Reflect renaming: AM_FUNC_MKTIME -> AC_FUNC_MKTIME.
140 * jm-macros.m4: Require 2.14.1, since we use newly-renamed
143 1999-05-10 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
145 * jm-mktime.m4, putenv.m4: Fix typos in config.h comments.
147 1999-05-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
149 * lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): -n32, -o32, and -n64 should be in CFLAGS,
150 not CPPFLAGS, so that linking works correctly in IRIX.
152 1999-04-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
154 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add dup2.
156 1999-04-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
158 * xstrtoumax.m4: Require jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
159 AC_REPLACE xstroull if necessary. From Paul Eggert.
160 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Remove strtoull, strtoumax, strtouq.
162 1999-04-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
164 * uintmax_t.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T): Move unsigned long
165 long check into new jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG macro.
166 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): Require
167 jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
168 * ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): New file/macro.
170 * lfs.m4: Port to AIX and HP-UX. Support cross-compilation.
172 1999-04-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
174 * xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): New file/macro.
175 * jm-macros.m4: Use it.
177 1999-04-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
179 * strftime.m4: Remove test for %f.
181 1999-03-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
183 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): New macro, contains the
184 superset of the AC_TYPE_* checks in the textutils, fileutils,
185 and sh-utils, plus AC_TYPE_PID_T. Paul Eggert suggested adding
188 1999-03-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
190 * jm-macros.m4: Define GNU_PACKAGE here.
191 Be sure to AC_SUBST it, once again, so that @GNU_PACKAGE@ is
192 replaced e.g., in the *.sh files of the sh-utils.
194 1999-03-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
196 * jm-macros.m4: s/jm_WITH_REGEX/jm_INCLUDED_REGEX/.
197 * regex.m4 (jm_INCLUDED_REGEX): Rename from jm_WITH_REGEX.
198 Don't depend on AM_GLIBC. Suggestions from Alain Magloire.
200 1999-03-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
202 * jm-winsz1.m4 (jm_WINSIZE_IN_PTEM): New macro.
204 1999-03-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
206 * jm-macros.m4: Use AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED.
208 1999-03-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
210 * jm-glibc-io.m4: Use only those *_unlocked macros that are declared.
212 1999-02-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
214 * gettext.m4 (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Do `changequote' around use of brackets
215 in macro definition. From Eli Zaretskii and Alain Magloire.
217 1999-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
219 * group-member.m4: New file -- extracted from sh-utils' configure.in.
221 1999-02-05 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
222 * gettext.m4: Support DOS-style d:/foo/bar absolute file names.
224 1999-02-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
226 * chown.m4: Use `AC_SUBST(LIBOBJS)' since we set LIBOBJS.
227 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
228 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
229 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
230 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
231 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
232 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
233 * regex.m4: Likewise.
235 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
236 Suggestion from Alain Magloire.
238 * chown.m4: Use `.$ac_objext', not `.o'.
239 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
240 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
241 * getline.m4: Likewise.
242 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
243 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
244 * memcmp.m4: Likewise.
245 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
246 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
247 * regex.m4: Likewise.
249 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
250 Suggestion from Alain Magloire.
252 * jm-macros.m4: Actually invoke jm_WITH_REGEX now that it requires
255 * regex.m4: Add a run-time Test for proper operation of
258 1999-01-31 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
260 * getloadavg.m4: Check for locale.h and the function, setlocale.
262 1999-01-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
264 * check-type.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.
266 * jm-mktime.m4: Make this a wrapper around the official AM_FUNC_MKTIME
267 rather than my private copy, now that the official one is up to date.
268 * mktime.m4: Remove file.
270 * getloadavg.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.
271 * uptime.m4: Likewise.
272 * uintmax_t.m4: Likewise.
274 1999-01-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
276 * jm-macros.m4: Use jm_AFS.
277 * afs.m4: New file (from fileutils' configure.in).
279 * assert.m4: Use the 3-argument forms of AC_DEFINE* macros.
280 * chown.m4: Likewise.
281 * d-ino.m4: Likewise.
282 * d-type.m4: Likewise.
283 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
284 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
285 * gettext.m4: Likewise.
286 * jm-mktime.m4: Likewise.
287 * jm-winsz2.m4: Likewise.
288 * lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
289 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: Likewise.
290 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
291 * memcmp.m4: Likewise.
292 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
293 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
294 * st_mtim.m4: Likewise.
295 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
297 1999-01-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
299 * jm-macros.m4 (ARGMATCH_DIE): Define.
300 (ARGMATCH_DIE_DECL): Define.
302 1999-01-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
304 * Makefile.am.in: Rewrite to avoid using fmt.
305 Reported by Lars Hecking.
307 1999-01-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
309 * fstypename.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of my
311 * inttypes_h.m4: Likewise.
312 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
313 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
314 * readdir.m4: Likewise.
315 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
316 * st_dm_mode.m4: Likewise.
318 * utimbuf.m4: Likewise.
319 * utimes.m4: Likewise.
321 * check-decl.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of the
322 AC_CHECK_FUNCS hack. Now, it's still a hack, but at least the
323 comments in config.h.in are meaningful.
325 * jm-macros.m4: Require autoconf-2.13 here.
327 * regex.m4: By default, don't use the included regex.c on systems
328 with glibc 2. Suggestion from Uli Drepper.
330 1999-01-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
332 * jm-macros.m4: Replace strcasecmp and strncasecmp.
334 1998-12-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
336 * Makefile.am.in (Makefile.am): Simplify rule.
337 Based on a suggestion from Lars Hecking.
339 1998-11-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
341 * lfs.m4: Double-quote the `uname...` expression.
343 1998-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
345 * lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): Add support for HP-UX 10.20 and HP-UX 11.
347 1998-11-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
349 * lstat.m4: Correct comment. POSIX does not permit it to succeed.
352 1998-11-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
354 * stat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_STAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.
355 * lstat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_LSTAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.
357 1998-10-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
359 * check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): Remove macro.
361 1998-10-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
363 * decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLARATION): Don't hard-code which headers to
364 include, though we still hard-code the `require'-like AC_CHECK_HEADERS
365 calls for those previously hard-coded headers. Instead, take a new
367 (jm_CHECK_DECLARATIONS): Reflect interface change.
368 * check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLS): Likewise.
369 (jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): New macro.
371 * mktime.m4: Test for spring-forward gap before long-running test.
373 1998-10-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
375 * mktime.m4: Use the more portable "TZ=PST8PDT,M4.1.0,M10.5.0"
376 instead of "TZ=America/Vancouver". From Paul Eggert.
378 1998-10-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
380 * mktime.m4 (jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME): New file and macro.
381 This adds a test for a recently added compatibility fix for mktime.c.
382 * jm-mktime.m4: Require jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME, not AM_FUNC_MKTIME.
384 1998-09-27 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
386 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_MACROS): Require jm_FUNC_FNMATCH.
388 * fnmatch.m4 (jm_FUNC_FNMATCH): New file/macro. Extracted from
389 ../configure.in, including a change from Gordon Matzigkeit to allow
390 cross-compiling for the Hurd.
392 * glibc.m4: New file/macro to test for the GNU C Library
393 versions 1 and 2. From Gordon Matzigkeit.
396 1998-09-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
398 * chown.m4: Declare locals: before, after. From Andries Brouwer.
400 1998-08-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
402 Port nanosecond-resolution times to UnixWare 2.1.2 and
403 pedantic Solaris 2.6.
405 * st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC): Renamed from
407 * st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC):
408 Generate name of ns member, instead of just 1 or undef.
409 Allow for UnixWare 2.1.2 and Solaris 2.6 if in pedantic mode.
411 1998-08-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
413 * ssize_t.m4 (jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T): Remove file.
414 * check-type.m4: New file. Replacement for AC_CHECK_TYPE.
415 * jm-macros.m4: Use the new AC_CHECK_TYPE(ssize_t, int)
416 instead of jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T.
418 1998-08-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
420 * st_dm_mode.m4: New file. From Johan Danielsson.
422 1998-08-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
424 * st_mtim.m4: Use hack to avoid having to put #undef HAVE_ST_MTIM
425 in acconfig.h manually.
427 1998-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
429 * st_mtim.m4: New file.
431 1998-07-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
433 * utimes.m4: Undef stat.
435 1998-07-25 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
437 * utime.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIME): New file and macro.
438 * utimes.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIMES_NULL): New file and macro.
440 1998-07-09 Manfred Hollstein <manfred@s-direktnet.de>
442 * chown.m4 (jm_FUNC_CHOWN): Add a check to verify that the
443 uid and gid actually remain unchanged.
445 1998-07-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
447 * jm-glibc-io.m4: Remove fclose_unlocked.
449 1998-07-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
451 * regex.m4: Use syscmd, ifelse, and sysval. Mainly as an exercise
452 to prove that this macro can be used in packages without regex.c.
454 1998-07-02 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
456 * gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove intl/libintl.h if <libintl.h>
459 1998-07-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
461 * gettext.m4: Add -lintl if it's found to be necessary.
463 * gettext.m4: New file -- from gettext-0.10.35.
464 * lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
465 * progtest.m4: Likewise.
467 * regex.m4 (jm_WITH_REGEX): New file and macro.
468 * jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.
470 1998-06-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
472 * fstypename.m4: Include sys/param.h. NetBSD 1.3.1 requires this
473 for the definition of NGROUPS (used in a system header included
476 1998-06-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
478 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: New file.
479 * fstypename.m4: New file.
481 * jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.
482 * jm-glibc-io.m4: New file.
484 1998-05-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
486 * jm-macros.m4: Add jm_FUNC_LCHOWN.
487 * lchown.m4: New file.
489 * Makefile.am.in: New file.
490 * Makefile.am (Makefile.am): Depend on Makefile.am.in.
492 1998-05-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
494 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add them.
495 * jm-macros.m4: New file.
496 * utimbuf.m4: New file.
498 1998-05-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
500 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add isc-posix.m4.
502 1998-05-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
504 * isc-posix.m4: New file.
506 1998-05-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
508 * jm-mktime.m4: Use AM_FUNC_MKTIME, now that it's up to date.
510 1998-05-09 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
512 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add ssize_t.m4.
513 (EXTRA_DIST): Remove mktime.m4, now that the new version is included
516 * ssize_t.m4: New file.
517 * mktime.m4: Remove file -- the new automake has this now.
519 1998-04-26 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
521 * assert.m4: New file.
522 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add assert.m4.
524 1998-04-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
526 * prereq.m4 (jm_PREREQ_REGEX): New macro.
527 (jm_PREREQ): Use it here.
529 1998-03-23 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
531 * inttypes_h.m4: Kludges so I don't have to add HAVE_INTTYPES_H
534 1998-03-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
536 * prereq.m4: New file.
537 * error.m4: New file.
538 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add error.m4 and prereq.m4.
540 1998-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
542 * getline.m4: Don't set am_cv_func_working_getline before the
543 cache-check for the same variable -- that defeated the purpose of
544 the test; the test program was never run. This was a problem only
545 on systems with losing getline functions -- HP-UX 10.20 is one.
546 Reported by Bjorn Helgaas.
548 1998-02-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
550 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add perl.m4.
552 1998-01-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
554 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add const.m4.
556 * const.m4: New file. Use an initializer in this declaration
557 typedef int charset[2]; const charset x;
558 Reported by Bob Glickstein.
560 1997-12-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
562 * chown.m4: Fix reversed types on -1 args to chown.
565 1997-12-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
567 * check-decl.m4: s/DECLARATION_/DECL_/g.
568 Add lseek and memchr.
570 * decl.m4: s/HAVE_DECLARATION_/HAVE_DECL_/g.
571 T.E.Dickey <dickey@clark.net> said that some older preprocessors
572 have a 20-character limit on names.
574 1997-11-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
576 * inttypes_h.m4: New file.
577 * uintmax_t.m4: New file.
578 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add inttypes_h.m4 and uintmax_t.m4.