1 1999-09-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
3 * largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_FLAGS): Work around GCC
4 2.95.1 bug with HP-UX 10.20.
6 1999-09-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
8 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add strdup.
9 Paul Nevai reported a link failure on a NeXT CUBE with NeXTSTEP 3.3
10 due to missing strdup (against sh-utils-2.0).
12 1999-08-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
14 * jm-macros.m4: Require jm_BISON.
17 1999-08-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
19 * m4/largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE): Fix typo: missing comma
20 in value for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS, which broke ports to HP-UX 10.20.
22 1999-08-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
24 * getline.m4: Rename test file from conftestdata to conftest.data
25 to avoid conflicts with `conftest' on 8+3 filesystems.
26 Suggestion from Eli Zaretskii.
28 1999-08-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
30 * jm-macros.m4: Move a 4-line block of code from the configure.in of
31 fileutils and sh-utils (textutils's getline test was inadequate).
32 (AM_FUNC_GETLINE): Run this test.
33 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getdelim.
34 Reported by Bob Proulx.
36 1999-08-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
38 * jm-macros.m4: Add a comment.
40 1999-08-01 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
42 * mktime.m4 (AC_FUNC_MKTIME): Undefine to avoid syntax errors from m4.
44 1999-08-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
46 * lfs.m4: Remove this file.
47 * largefile.m4: New file. It contains the old contents of
48 lfs.m4, except that all names with prefix AC_LFS have been
49 changed to use the prefix AC_SYS_LARGEFILE instead, to be
50 compatible with future autoconf versions. Also, some minor m4
51 quoting problems have been fixed.
53 1999-07-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
55 * ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): Make sure
56 that we can shift, multiply and divide unsigned long long
57 values; Ultrix cc can't do it.
59 1999-07-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
61 * xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): Check whether
62 <inttypes.h> defines strtoumax as a macro (and not as a
65 1999-07-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
67 * gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove unnecessary lines.
68 Fix typo: $nls_cv_header_intl was misspelled as $nsl_cv_header_intl.
69 (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Fix problem with brackets and m4 quoting,
70 and simplify the shell code.
72 1999-07-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
74 * mktime.m4: New file, which is a preview of what should appear
75 in the next public autoconf release.
77 1999-07-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
79 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memmove.
81 1999-07-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
83 * jm-macros.m4: (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getpagesize.
85 1999-05-22 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
87 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memchr.
89 1999-05-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
91 * search-libs.m4 [AC_SEARCH_LIBS]: Quote name in undefine.
92 Add a colon after each `then' in case $4 is empty.
94 1999-05-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
96 * search-libs.m4: New file to override autoconf's AC_SEARCH_LIBS.
98 1999-05-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
100 * jm-mktime.m4: Reflect renaming: AM_FUNC_MKTIME -> AC_FUNC_MKTIME.
102 * jm-macros.m4: Require 2.14.1, since we use newly-renamed
105 1999-05-10 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
107 * jm-mktime.m4, putenv.m4: Fix typos in config.h comments.
109 1999-05-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
111 * lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): -n32, -o32, and -n64 should be in CFLAGS,
112 not CPPFLAGS, so that linking works correctly in IRIX.
114 1999-04-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
116 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add dup2.
118 1999-04-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
120 * xstrtoumax.m4: Require jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
121 AC_REPLACE xstroull if necessary. From Paul Eggert.
122 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Remove strtoull, strtoumax, strtouq.
124 1999-04-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
126 * uintmax_t.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T): Move unsigned long
127 long check into new jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG macro.
128 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): Require
129 jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
130 * ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): New file/macro.
132 * lfs.m4: Port to AIX and HP-UX. Support cross-compilation.
134 1999-04-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
136 * xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): New file/macro.
137 * jm-macros.m4: Use it.
139 1999-04-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
141 * strftime.m4: Remove test for %f.
143 1999-03-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
145 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): New macro, contains the
146 superset of the AC_TYPE_* checks in the textutils, fileutils,
147 and sh-utils, plus AC_TYPE_PID_T. Paul Eggert suggested adding
150 1999-03-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
152 * jm-macros.m4: Define GNU_PACKAGE here.
153 Be sure to AC_SUBST it, once again, so that @GNU_PACKAGE@ is
154 replaced e.g., in the *.sh files of the sh-utils.
156 1999-03-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
158 * jm-macros.m4: s/jm_WITH_REGEX/jm_INCLUDED_REGEX/.
159 * regex.m4 (jm_INCLUDED_REGEX): Rename from jm_WITH_REGEX.
160 Don't depend on AM_GLIBC. Suggestions from Alain Magloire.
162 1999-03-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
164 * jm-winsz1.m4 (jm_WINSIZE_IN_PTEM): New macro.
166 1999-03-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
168 * jm-macros.m4: Use AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED.
170 1999-03-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
172 * jm-glibc-io.m4: Use only those *_unlocked macros that are declared.
174 1999-02-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
176 * gettext.m4 (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Do `changequote' around use of brackets
177 in macro definition. From Eli Zaretskii and Alain Magloire.
179 1999-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
181 * group-member.m4: New file -- extracted from sh-utils' configure.in.
183 1999-02-05 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
184 * gettext.m4: Support DOS-style d:/foo/bar absolute file names.
186 1999-02-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
188 * chown.m4: Use `AC_SUBST(LIBOBJS)' since we set LIBOBJS.
189 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
190 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
191 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
192 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
193 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
194 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
195 * regex.m4: Likewise.
197 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
198 Suggestion from Alain Magloire.
200 * chown.m4: Use `.$ac_objext', not `.o'.
201 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
202 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
203 * getline.m4: Likewise.
204 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
205 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
206 * memcmp.m4: Likewise.
207 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
208 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
209 * regex.m4: Likewise.
211 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
212 Suggestion from Alain Magloire.
214 * jm-macros.m4: Actually invoke jm_WITH_REGEX now that it requires
217 * regex.m4: Add a run-time Test for proper operation of
220 1999-01-31 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
222 * getloadavg.m4: Check for locale.h and the function, setlocale.
224 1999-01-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
226 * check-type.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.
228 * jm-mktime.m4: Make this a wrapper around the official AM_FUNC_MKTIME
229 rather than my private copy, now that the official one is up to date.
230 * mktime.m4: Remove file.
232 * getloadavg.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.
233 * uptime.m4: Likewise.
234 * uintmax_t.m4: Likewise.
236 1999-01-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
238 * jm-macros.m4: Use jm_AFS.
239 * afs.m4: New file (from fileutils' configure.in).
241 * assert.m4: Use the 3-argument forms of AC_DEFINE* macros.
242 * chown.m4: Likewise.
243 * d-ino.m4: Likewise.
244 * d-type.m4: Likewise.
245 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
246 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
247 * gettext.m4: Likewise.
248 * jm-mktime.m4: Likewise.
249 * jm-winsz2.m4: Likewise.
250 * lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
251 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: Likewise.
252 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
253 * memcmp.m4: Likewise.
254 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
255 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
256 * st_mtim.m4: Likewise.
257 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
259 1999-01-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
261 * jm-macros.m4 (ARGMATCH_DIE): Define.
262 (ARGMATCH_DIE_DECL): Define.
264 1999-01-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
266 * Makefile.am.in: Rewrite to avoid using fmt.
267 Reported by Lars Hecking.
269 1999-01-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
271 * fstypename.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of my
273 * inttypes_h.m4: Likewise.
274 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
275 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
276 * readdir.m4: Likewise.
277 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
278 * st_dm_mode.m4: Likewise.
280 * utimbuf.m4: Likewise.
281 * utimes.m4: Likewise.
283 * check-decl.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of the
284 AC_CHECK_FUNCS hack. Now, it's still a hack, but at least the
285 comments in config.h.in are meaningful.
287 * jm-macros.m4: Require autoconf-2.13 here.
289 * regex.m4: By default, don't use the included regex.c on systems
290 with glibc 2. Suggestion from Uli Drepper.
292 1999-01-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
294 * jm-macros.m4: Replace strcasecmp and strncasecmp.
296 1998-12-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
298 * Makefile.am.in (Makefile.am): Simplify rule.
299 Based on a suggestion from Lars Hecking.
301 1998-11-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
303 * lfs.m4: Double-quote the `uname...` expression.
305 1998-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
307 * lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): Add support for HP-UX 10.20 and HP-UX 11.
309 1998-11-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
311 * lstat.m4: Correct comment. POSIX does not permit it to succeed.
314 1998-11-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
316 * stat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_STAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.
317 * lstat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_LSTAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.
319 1998-10-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
321 * check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): Remove macro.
323 1998-10-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
325 * decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLARATION): Don't hard-code which headers to
326 include, though we still hard-code the `require'-like AC_CHECK_HEADERS
327 calls for those previously hard-coded headers. Instead, take a new
329 (jm_CHECK_DECLARATIONS): Reflect interface change.
330 * check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLS): Likewise.
331 (jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): New macro.
333 * mktime.m4: Test for spring-forward gap before long-running test.
335 1998-10-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
337 * mktime.m4: Use the more portable "TZ=PST8PDT,M4.1.0,M10.5.0"
338 instead of "TZ=America/Vancouver". From Paul Eggert.
340 1998-10-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
342 * mktime.m4 (jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME): New file and macro.
343 This adds a test for a recently added compatibility fix for mktime.c.
344 * jm-mktime.m4: Require jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME, not AM_FUNC_MKTIME.
346 1998-09-27 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
348 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_MACROS): Require jm_FUNC_FNMATCH.
350 * fnmatch.m4 (jm_FUNC_FNMATCH): New file/macro. Extracted from
351 ../configure.in, including a change from Gordon Matzigkeit to allow
352 cross-compiling for the Hurd.
354 * glibc.m4: New file/macro to test for the GNU C Library
355 versions 1 and 2. From Gordon Matzigkeit.
358 1998-09-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
360 * chown.m4: Declare locals: before, after. From Andries Brouwer.
362 1998-08-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
364 Port nanosecond-resolution times to UnixWare 2.1.2 and
365 pedantic Solaris 2.6.
367 * st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC): Renamed from
369 * st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC):
370 Generate name of ns member, instead of just 1 or undef.
371 Allow for UnixWare 2.1.2 and Solaris 2.6 if in pedantic mode.
373 1998-08-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
375 * ssize_t.m4 (jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T): Remove file.
376 * check-type.m4: New file. Replacement for AC_CHECK_TYPE.
377 * jm-macros.m4: Use the new AC_CHECK_TYPE(ssize_t, int)
378 instead of jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T.
380 1998-08-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
382 * st_dm_mode.m4: New file. From Johan Danielsson.
384 1998-08-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
386 * st_mtim.m4: Use hack to avoid having to put #undef HAVE_ST_MTIM
387 in acconfig.h manually.
389 1998-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
391 * st_mtim.m4: New file.
393 1998-07-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
395 * utimes.m4: Undef stat.
397 1998-07-25 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
399 * utime.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIME): New file and macro.
400 * utimes.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIMES_NULL): New file and macro.
402 1998-07-09 Manfred Hollstein <manfred@s-direktnet.de>
404 * chown.m4 (jm_FUNC_CHOWN): Add a check to verify that the
405 uid and gid actually remain unchanged.
407 1998-07-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
409 * jm-glibc-io.m4: Remove fclose_unlocked.
411 1998-07-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
413 * regex.m4: Use syscmd, ifelse, and sysval. Mainly as an exercise
414 to prove that this macro can be used in packages without regex.c.
416 1998-07-02 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
418 * gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove intl/libintl.h if <libintl.h>
421 1998-07-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
423 * gettext.m4: Add -lintl if it's found to be necessary.
425 * gettext.m4: New file -- from gettext-0.10.35.
426 * lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
427 * progtest.m4: Likewise.
429 * regex.m4 (jm_WITH_REGEX): New file and macro.
430 * jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.
432 1998-06-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
434 * fstypename.m4: Include sys/param.h. NetBSD 1.3.1 requires this
435 for the definition of NGROUPS (used in a system header included
438 1998-06-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
440 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: New file.
441 * fstypename.m4: New file.
443 * jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.
444 * jm-glibc-io.m4: New file.
446 1998-05-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
448 * jm-macros.m4: Add jm_FUNC_LCHOWN.
449 * lchown.m4: New file.
451 * Makefile.am.in: New file.
452 * Makefile.am (Makefile.am): Depend on Makefile.am.in.
454 1998-05-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
456 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add them.
457 * jm-macros.m4: New file.
458 * utimbuf.m4: New file.
460 1998-05-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
462 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add isc-posix.m4.
464 1998-05-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
466 * isc-posix.m4: New file.
468 1998-05-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
470 * jm-mktime.m4: Use AM_FUNC_MKTIME, now that it's up to date.
472 1998-05-09 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
474 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add ssize_t.m4.
475 (EXTRA_DIST): Remove mktime.m4, now that the new version is included
478 * ssize_t.m4: New file.
479 * mktime.m4: Remove file -- the new automake has this now.
481 1998-04-26 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
483 * assert.m4: New file.
484 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add assert.m4.
486 1998-04-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
488 * prereq.m4 (jm_PREREQ_REGEX): New macro.
489 (jm_PREREQ): Use it here.
491 1998-03-23 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
493 * inttypes_h.m4: Kludges so I don't have to add HAVE_INTTYPES_H
496 1998-03-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
498 * prereq.m4: New file.
499 * error.m4: New file.
500 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add error.m4 and prereq.m4.
502 1998-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
504 * getline.m4: Don't set am_cv_func_working_getline before the
505 cache-check for the same variable -- that defeated the purpose of
506 the test; the test program was never run. This was a problem only
507 on systems with losing getline functions -- HP-UX 10.20 is one.
508 Reported by Bjorn Helgaas.
510 1998-02-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
512 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add perl.m4.
514 1998-01-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
516 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add const.m4.
518 * const.m4: New file. Use an initializer in this declaration
519 typedef int charset[2]; const charset x;
520 Reported by Bob Glickstein.
522 1997-12-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
524 * chown.m4: Fix reversed types on -1 args to chown.
527 1997-12-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
529 * check-decl.m4: s/DECLARATION_/DECL_/g.
530 Add lseek and memchr.
532 * decl.m4: s/HAVE_DECLARATION_/HAVE_DECL_/g.
533 T.E.Dickey <dickey@clark.net> said that some older preprocessors
534 have a 20-character limit on names.
536 1997-11-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
538 * inttypes_h.m4: New file.
539 * uintmax_t.m4: New file.
540 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add inttypes_h.m4 and uintmax_t.m4.