1 1999-08-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
3 * jm-macros.m4: Require jm_BISON.
6 1999-08-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
8 * m4/largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE): Fix typo: missing comma
9 in value for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS, which broke ports to HP-UX 10.20.
11 1999-08-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
13 * getline.m4: Rename test file from conftestdata to conftest.data
14 to avoid conflicts with `conftest' on 8+3 filesystems.
15 Suggestion from Eli Zaretskii.
17 1999-08-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
19 * jm-macros.m4: Move a 4-line block of code from the configure.in of
20 fileutils and sh-utils (textutils's getline test was inadequate).
21 (AM_FUNC_GETLINE): Run this test.
22 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getdelim.
23 Reported by Bob Proulx.
25 1999-08-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
27 * jm-macros.m4: Add a comment.
29 1999-08-01 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
31 * mktime.m4 (AC_FUNC_MKTIME): Undefine to avoid syntax errors from m4.
33 1999-08-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
35 * lfs.m4: Remove this file.
36 * largefile.m4: New file. It contains the old contents of
37 lfs.m4, except that all names with prefix AC_LFS have been
38 changed to use the prefix AC_SYS_LARGEFILE instead, to be
39 compatible with future autoconf versions. Also, some minor m4
40 quoting problems have been fixed.
42 1999-07-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
44 * ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): Make sure
45 that we can shift, multiply and divide unsigned long long
46 values; Ultrix cc can't do it.
48 1999-07-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
50 * xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): Check whether
51 <inttypes.h> defines strtoumax as a macro (and not as a
54 1999-07-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
56 * gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove unnecessary lines.
57 Fix typo: $nls_cv_header_intl was misspelled as $nsl_cv_header_intl.
58 (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Fix problem with brackets and m4 quoting,
59 and simplify the shell code.
61 1999-07-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
63 * mktime.m4: New file, which is a preview of what should appear
64 in the next public autoconf release.
66 1999-07-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
68 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memmove.
70 1999-07-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
72 * jm-macros.m4: (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getpagesize.
74 1999-05-22 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
76 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memchr.
78 1999-05-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
80 * search-libs.m4 [AC_SEARCH_LIBS]: Quote name in undefine.
81 Add a colon after each `then' in case $4 is empty.
83 1999-05-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
85 * search-libs.m4: New file to override autoconf's AC_SEARCH_LIBS.
87 1999-05-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
89 * jm-mktime.m4: Reflect renaming: AM_FUNC_MKTIME -> AC_FUNC_MKTIME.
91 * jm-macros.m4: Require 2.14.1, since we use newly-renamed
94 1999-05-10 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
96 * jm-mktime.m4, putenv.m4: Fix typos in config.h comments.
98 1999-05-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
100 * lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): -n32, -o32, and -n64 should be in CFLAGS,
101 not CPPFLAGS, so that linking works correctly in IRIX.
103 1999-04-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
105 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add dup2.
107 1999-04-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
109 * xstrtoumax.m4: Require jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
110 AC_REPLACE xstroull if necessary. From Paul Eggert.
111 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Remove strtoull, strtoumax, strtouq.
113 1999-04-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
115 * uintmax_t.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T): Move unsigned long
116 long check into new jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG macro.
117 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): Require
118 jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
119 * ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): New file/macro.
121 * lfs.m4: Port to AIX and HP-UX. Support cross-compilation.
123 1999-04-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
125 * xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): New file/macro.
126 * jm-macros.m4: Use it.
128 1999-04-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
130 * strftime.m4: Remove test for %f.
132 1999-03-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
134 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): New macro, contains the
135 superset of the AC_TYPE_* checks in the textutils, fileutils,
136 and sh-utils, plus AC_TYPE_PID_T. Paul Eggert suggested adding
139 1999-03-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
141 * jm-macros.m4: Define GNU_PACKAGE here.
142 Be sure to AC_SUBST it, once again, so that @GNU_PACKAGE@ is
143 replaced e.g., in the *.sh files of the sh-utils.
145 1999-03-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
147 * jm-macros.m4: s/jm_WITH_REGEX/jm_INCLUDED_REGEX/.
148 * regex.m4 (jm_INCLUDED_REGEX): Rename from jm_WITH_REGEX.
149 Don't depend on AM_GLIBC. Suggestions from Alain Magloire.
151 1999-03-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
153 * jm-winsz1.m4 (jm_WINSIZE_IN_PTEM): New macro.
155 1999-03-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
157 * jm-macros.m4: Use AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED.
159 1999-03-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
161 * jm-glibc-io.m4: Use only those *_unlocked macros that are declared.
163 1999-02-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
165 * gettext.m4 (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Do `changequote' around use of brackets
166 in macro definition. From Eli Zaretskii and Alain Magloire.
168 1999-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
170 * group-member.m4: New file -- extracted from sh-utils' configure.in.
172 1999-02-05 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
173 * gettext.m4: Support DOS-style d:/foo/bar absolute file names.
175 1999-02-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
177 * chown.m4: Use `AC_SUBST(LIBOBJS)' since we set LIBOBJS.
178 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
179 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
180 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
181 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
182 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
183 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
184 * regex.m4: Likewise.
186 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
187 Suggestion from Alain Magloire.
189 * chown.m4: Use `.$ac_objext', not `.o'.
190 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
191 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
192 * getline.m4: Likewise.
193 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
194 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
195 * memcmp.m4: Likewise.
196 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
197 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
198 * regex.m4: Likewise.
200 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
201 Suggestion from Alain Magloire.
203 * jm-macros.m4: Actually invoke jm_WITH_REGEX now that it requires
206 * regex.m4: Add a run-time Test for proper operation of
209 1999-01-31 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
211 * getloadavg.m4: Check for locale.h and the function, setlocale.
213 1999-01-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
215 * check-type.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.
217 * jm-mktime.m4: Make this a wrapper around the official AM_FUNC_MKTIME
218 rather than my private copy, now that the official one is up to date.
219 * mktime.m4: Remove file.
221 * getloadavg.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.
222 * uptime.m4: Likewise.
223 * uintmax_t.m4: Likewise.
225 1999-01-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
227 * jm-macros.m4: Use jm_AFS.
228 * afs.m4: New file (from fileutils' configure.in).
230 * assert.m4: Use the 3-argument forms of AC_DEFINE* macros.
231 * chown.m4: Likewise.
232 * d-ino.m4: Likewise.
233 * d-type.m4: Likewise.
234 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
235 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
236 * gettext.m4: Likewise.
237 * jm-mktime.m4: Likewise.
238 * jm-winsz2.m4: Likewise.
239 * lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
240 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: Likewise.
241 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
242 * memcmp.m4: Likewise.
243 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
244 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
245 * st_mtim.m4: Likewise.
246 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
248 1999-01-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
250 * jm-macros.m4 (ARGMATCH_DIE): Define.
251 (ARGMATCH_DIE_DECL): Define.
253 1999-01-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
255 * Makefile.am.in: Rewrite to avoid using fmt.
256 Reported by Lars Hecking.
258 1999-01-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
260 * fstypename.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of my
262 * inttypes_h.m4: Likewise.
263 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
264 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
265 * readdir.m4: Likewise.
266 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
267 * st_dm_mode.m4: Likewise.
269 * utimbuf.m4: Likewise.
270 * utimes.m4: Likewise.
272 * check-decl.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of the
273 AC_CHECK_FUNCS hack. Now, it's still a hack, but at least the
274 comments in config.h.in are meaningful.
276 * jm-macros.m4: Require autoconf-2.13 here.
278 * regex.m4: By default, don't use the included regex.c on systems
279 with glibc 2. Suggestion from Uli Drepper.
281 1999-01-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
283 * jm-macros.m4: Replace strcasecmp and strncasecmp.
285 1998-12-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
287 * Makefile.am.in (Makefile.am): Simplify rule.
288 Based on a suggestion from Lars Hecking.
290 1998-11-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
292 * lfs.m4: Double-quote the `uname...` expression.
294 1998-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
296 * lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): Add support for HP-UX 10.20 and HP-UX 11.
298 1998-11-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
300 * lstat.m4: Correct comment. POSIX does not permit it to succeed.
303 1998-11-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
305 * stat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_STAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.
306 * lstat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_LSTAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.
308 1998-10-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
310 * check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): Remove macro.
312 1998-10-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
314 * decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLARATION): Don't hard-code which headers to
315 include, though we still hard-code the `require'-like AC_CHECK_HEADERS
316 calls for those previously hard-coded headers. Instead, take a new
318 (jm_CHECK_DECLARATIONS): Reflect interface change.
319 * check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLS): Likewise.
320 (jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): New macro.
322 * mktime.m4: Test for spring-forward gap before long-running test.
324 1998-10-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
326 * mktime.m4: Use the more portable "TZ=PST8PDT,M4.1.0,M10.5.0"
327 instead of "TZ=America/Vancouver". From Paul Eggert.
329 1998-10-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
331 * mktime.m4 (jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME): New file and macro.
332 This adds a test for a recently added compatibility fix for mktime.c.
333 * jm-mktime.m4: Require jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME, not AM_FUNC_MKTIME.
335 1998-09-27 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
337 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_MACROS): Require jm_FUNC_FNMATCH.
339 * fnmatch.m4 (jm_FUNC_FNMATCH): New file/macro. Extracted from
340 ../configure.in, including a change from Gordon Matzigkeit to allow
341 cross-compiling for the Hurd.
343 * glibc.m4: New file/macro to test for the GNU C Library
344 versions 1 and 2. From Gordon Matzigkeit.
347 1998-09-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
349 * chown.m4: Declare locals: before, after. From Andries Brouwer.
351 1998-08-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
353 Port nanosecond-resolution times to UnixWare 2.1.2 and
354 pedantic Solaris 2.6.
356 * st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC): Renamed from
358 * st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC):
359 Generate name of ns member, instead of just 1 or undef.
360 Allow for UnixWare 2.1.2 and Solaris 2.6 if in pedantic mode.
362 1998-08-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
364 * ssize_t.m4 (jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T): Remove file.
365 * check-type.m4: New file. Replacement for AC_CHECK_TYPE.
366 * jm-macros.m4: Use the new AC_CHECK_TYPE(ssize_t, int)
367 instead of jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T.
369 1998-08-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
371 * st_dm_mode.m4: New file. From Johan Danielsson.
373 1998-08-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
375 * st_mtim.m4: Use hack to avoid having to put #undef HAVE_ST_MTIM
376 in acconfig.h manually.
378 1998-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
380 * st_mtim.m4: New file.
382 1998-07-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
384 * utimes.m4: Undef stat.
386 1998-07-25 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
388 * utime.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIME): New file and macro.
389 * utimes.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIMES_NULL): New file and macro.
391 1998-07-09 Manfred Hollstein <manfred@s-direktnet.de>
393 * chown.m4 (jm_FUNC_CHOWN): Add a check to verify that the
394 uid and gid actually remain unchanged.
396 1998-07-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
398 * jm-glibc-io.m4: Remove fclose_unlocked.
400 1998-07-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
402 * regex.m4: Use syscmd, ifelse, and sysval. Mainly as an exercise
403 to prove that this macro can be used in packages without regex.c.
405 1998-07-02 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
407 * gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove intl/libintl.h if <libintl.h>
410 1998-07-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
412 * gettext.m4: Add -lintl if it's found to be necessary.
414 * gettext.m4: New file -- from gettext-0.10.35.
415 * lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
416 * progtest.m4: Likewise.
418 * regex.m4 (jm_WITH_REGEX): New file and macro.
419 * jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.
421 1998-06-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
423 * fstypename.m4: Include sys/param.h. NetBSD 1.3.1 requires this
424 for the definition of NGROUPS (used in a system header included
427 1998-06-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
429 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: New file.
430 * fstypename.m4: New file.
432 * jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.
433 * jm-glibc-io.m4: New file.
435 1998-05-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
437 * jm-macros.m4: Add jm_FUNC_LCHOWN.
438 * lchown.m4: New file.
440 * Makefile.am.in: New file.
441 * Makefile.am (Makefile.am): Depend on Makefile.am.in.
443 1998-05-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
445 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add them.
446 * jm-macros.m4: New file.
447 * utimbuf.m4: New file.
449 1998-05-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
451 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add isc-posix.m4.
453 1998-05-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
455 * isc-posix.m4: New file.
457 1998-05-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
459 * jm-mktime.m4: Use AM_FUNC_MKTIME, now that it's up to date.
461 1998-05-09 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
463 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add ssize_t.m4.
464 (EXTRA_DIST): Remove mktime.m4, now that the new version is included
467 * ssize_t.m4: New file.
468 * mktime.m4: Remove file -- the new automake has this now.
470 1998-04-26 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
472 * assert.m4: New file.
473 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add assert.m4.
475 1998-04-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
477 * prereq.m4 (jm_PREREQ_REGEX): New macro.
478 (jm_PREREQ): Use it here.
480 1998-03-23 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
482 * inttypes_h.m4: Kludges so I don't have to add HAVE_INTTYPES_H
485 1998-03-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
487 * prereq.m4: New file.
488 * error.m4: New file.
489 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add error.m4 and prereq.m4.
491 1998-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
493 * getline.m4: Don't set am_cv_func_working_getline before the
494 cache-check for the same variable -- that defeated the purpose of
495 the test; the test program was never run. This was a problem only
496 on systems with losing getline functions -- HP-UX 10.20 is one.
497 Reported by Bjorn Helgaas.
499 1998-02-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
501 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add perl.m4.
503 1998-01-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
505 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add const.m4.
507 * const.m4: New file. Use an initializer in this declaration
508 typedef int charset[2]; const charset x;
509 Reported by Bob Glickstein.
511 1997-12-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
513 * chown.m4: Fix reversed types on -1 args to chown.
516 1997-12-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
518 * check-decl.m4: s/DECLARATION_/DECL_/g.
519 Add lseek and memchr.
521 * decl.m4: s/HAVE_DECLARATION_/HAVE_DECL_/g.
522 T.E.Dickey <dickey@clark.net> said that some older preprocessors
523 have a 20-character limit on names.
525 1997-11-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
527 * inttypes_h.m4: New file.
528 * uintmax_t.m4: New file.
529 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add inttypes_h.m4 and uintmax_t.m4.