1 1999-10-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
3 * uintmax_t.m4: Require 2.14a. Remove backslash before backtick in
5 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: Likewise.
6 * jm-macros.m4: Likewise. Also, use AC_TYPE_SSIZE_T instead
7 * jm-winsz1.m4: Likewise.
9 * const.m4: Remove file, since the fix made it into the experimental
11 * mktime.m4: Likewise.
13 * check-type.m4: Remove file, now that the latest version of
14 AC_CHECK_TYPE takes a third arg to specify additional #includes.
16 * ssize_t.m4: New file, requires experimental version of autoconf.
17 * jm-macros.m4: Use new AC_TYPE_SSIZE_T instead of my hacked
20 1999-10-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
22 * jm-macros.m4: Don't require autoconf-2.14.1.
24 1999-09-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
26 * largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_FLAGS): Work around GCC
27 2.95.1 bug with HP-UX 10.20.
29 1999-09-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
31 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add strdup.
32 Paul Nevai reported a link failure on a NeXT CUBE with NeXTSTEP 3.3
33 due to missing strdup (against sh-utils-2.0).
35 1999-08-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
37 * jm-macros.m4: Require jm_BISON.
40 1999-08-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
42 * m4/largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE): Fix typo: missing comma
43 in value for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS, which broke ports to HP-UX 10.20.
45 1999-08-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
47 * getline.m4: Rename test file from conftestdata to conftest.data
48 to avoid conflicts with `conftest' on 8+3 filesystems.
49 Suggestion from Eli Zaretskii.
51 1999-08-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
53 * jm-macros.m4: Move a 4-line block of code from the configure.in of
54 fileutils and sh-utils (textutils's getline test was inadequate).
55 (AM_FUNC_GETLINE): Run this test.
56 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getdelim.
57 Reported by Bob Proulx.
59 1999-08-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
61 * jm-macros.m4: Add a comment.
63 1999-08-01 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
65 * mktime.m4 (AC_FUNC_MKTIME): Undefine to avoid syntax errors from m4.
67 1999-08-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
69 * lfs.m4: Remove this file.
70 * largefile.m4: New file. It contains the old contents of
71 lfs.m4, except that all names with prefix AC_LFS have been
72 changed to use the prefix AC_SYS_LARGEFILE instead, to be
73 compatible with future autoconf versions. Also, some minor m4
74 quoting problems have been fixed.
76 1999-07-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
78 * ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): Make sure
79 that we can shift, multiply and divide unsigned long long
80 values; Ultrix cc can't do it.
82 1999-07-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
84 * xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): Check whether
85 <inttypes.h> defines strtoumax as a macro (and not as a
88 1999-07-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
90 * gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove unnecessary lines.
91 Fix typo: $nls_cv_header_intl was misspelled as $nsl_cv_header_intl.
92 (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Fix problem with brackets and m4 quoting,
93 and simplify the shell code.
95 1999-07-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
97 * mktime.m4: New file, which is a preview of what should appear
98 in the next public autoconf release.
100 1999-07-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
102 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memmove.
104 1999-07-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
106 * jm-macros.m4: (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getpagesize.
108 1999-05-22 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
110 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memchr.
112 1999-05-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
114 * search-libs.m4 [AC_SEARCH_LIBS]: Quote name in undefine.
115 Add a colon after each `then' in case $4 is empty.
117 1999-05-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
119 * search-libs.m4: New file to override autoconf's AC_SEARCH_LIBS.
121 1999-05-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
123 * jm-mktime.m4: Reflect renaming: AM_FUNC_MKTIME -> AC_FUNC_MKTIME.
125 * jm-macros.m4: Require 2.14.1, since we use newly-renamed
128 1999-05-10 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
130 * jm-mktime.m4, putenv.m4: Fix typos in config.h comments.
132 1999-05-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
134 * lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): -n32, -o32, and -n64 should be in CFLAGS,
135 not CPPFLAGS, so that linking works correctly in IRIX.
137 1999-04-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
139 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add dup2.
141 1999-04-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
143 * xstrtoumax.m4: Require jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
144 AC_REPLACE xstroull if necessary. From Paul Eggert.
145 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Remove strtoull, strtoumax, strtouq.
147 1999-04-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
149 * uintmax_t.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T): Move unsigned long
150 long check into new jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG macro.
151 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): Require
152 jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
153 * ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): New file/macro.
155 * lfs.m4: Port to AIX and HP-UX. Support cross-compilation.
157 1999-04-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
159 * xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): New file/macro.
160 * jm-macros.m4: Use it.
162 1999-04-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
164 * strftime.m4: Remove test for %f.
166 1999-03-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
168 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): New macro, contains the
169 superset of the AC_TYPE_* checks in the textutils, fileutils,
170 and sh-utils, plus AC_TYPE_PID_T. Paul Eggert suggested adding
173 1999-03-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
175 * jm-macros.m4: Define GNU_PACKAGE here.
176 Be sure to AC_SUBST it, once again, so that @GNU_PACKAGE@ is
177 replaced e.g., in the *.sh files of the sh-utils.
179 1999-03-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
181 * jm-macros.m4: s/jm_WITH_REGEX/jm_INCLUDED_REGEX/.
182 * regex.m4 (jm_INCLUDED_REGEX): Rename from jm_WITH_REGEX.
183 Don't depend on AM_GLIBC. Suggestions from Alain Magloire.
185 1999-03-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
187 * jm-winsz1.m4 (jm_WINSIZE_IN_PTEM): New macro.
189 1999-03-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
191 * jm-macros.m4: Use AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED.
193 1999-03-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
195 * jm-glibc-io.m4: Use only those *_unlocked macros that are declared.
197 1999-02-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
199 * gettext.m4 (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Do `changequote' around use of brackets
200 in macro definition. From Eli Zaretskii and Alain Magloire.
202 1999-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
204 * group-member.m4: New file -- extracted from sh-utils' configure.in.
206 1999-02-05 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
207 * gettext.m4: Support DOS-style d:/foo/bar absolute file names.
209 1999-02-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
211 * chown.m4: Use `AC_SUBST(LIBOBJS)' since we set LIBOBJS.
212 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
213 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
214 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
215 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
216 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
217 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
218 * regex.m4: Likewise.
220 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
221 Suggestion from Alain Magloire.
223 * chown.m4: Use `.$ac_objext', not `.o'.
224 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
225 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
226 * getline.m4: Likewise.
227 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
228 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
229 * memcmp.m4: Likewise.
230 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
231 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
232 * regex.m4: Likewise.
234 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
235 Suggestion from Alain Magloire.
237 * jm-macros.m4: Actually invoke jm_WITH_REGEX now that it requires
240 * regex.m4: Add a run-time Test for proper operation of
243 1999-01-31 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
245 * getloadavg.m4: Check for locale.h and the function, setlocale.
247 1999-01-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
249 * check-type.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.
251 * jm-mktime.m4: Make this a wrapper around the official AM_FUNC_MKTIME
252 rather than my private copy, now that the official one is up to date.
253 * mktime.m4: Remove file.
255 * getloadavg.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.
256 * uptime.m4: Likewise.
257 * uintmax_t.m4: Likewise.
259 1999-01-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
261 * jm-macros.m4: Use jm_AFS.
262 * afs.m4: New file (from fileutils' configure.in).
264 * assert.m4: Use the 3-argument forms of AC_DEFINE* macros.
265 * chown.m4: Likewise.
266 * d-ino.m4: Likewise.
267 * d-type.m4: Likewise.
268 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
269 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
270 * gettext.m4: Likewise.
271 * jm-mktime.m4: Likewise.
272 * jm-winsz2.m4: Likewise.
273 * lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
274 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: Likewise.
275 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
276 * memcmp.m4: Likewise.
277 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
278 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
279 * st_mtim.m4: Likewise.
280 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
282 1999-01-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
284 * jm-macros.m4 (ARGMATCH_DIE): Define.
285 (ARGMATCH_DIE_DECL): Define.
287 1999-01-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
289 * Makefile.am.in: Rewrite to avoid using fmt.
290 Reported by Lars Hecking.
292 1999-01-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
294 * fstypename.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of my
296 * inttypes_h.m4: Likewise.
297 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
298 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
299 * readdir.m4: Likewise.
300 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
301 * st_dm_mode.m4: Likewise.
303 * utimbuf.m4: Likewise.
304 * utimes.m4: Likewise.
306 * check-decl.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of the
307 AC_CHECK_FUNCS hack. Now, it's still a hack, but at least the
308 comments in config.h.in are meaningful.
310 * jm-macros.m4: Require autoconf-2.13 here.
312 * regex.m4: By default, don't use the included regex.c on systems
313 with glibc 2. Suggestion from Uli Drepper.
315 1999-01-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
317 * jm-macros.m4: Replace strcasecmp and strncasecmp.
319 1998-12-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
321 * Makefile.am.in (Makefile.am): Simplify rule.
322 Based on a suggestion from Lars Hecking.
324 1998-11-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
326 * lfs.m4: Double-quote the `uname...` expression.
328 1998-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
330 * lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): Add support for HP-UX 10.20 and HP-UX 11.
332 1998-11-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
334 * lstat.m4: Correct comment. POSIX does not permit it to succeed.
337 1998-11-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
339 * stat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_STAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.
340 * lstat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_LSTAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.
342 1998-10-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
344 * check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): Remove macro.
346 1998-10-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
348 * decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLARATION): Don't hard-code which headers to
349 include, though we still hard-code the `require'-like AC_CHECK_HEADERS
350 calls for those previously hard-coded headers. Instead, take a new
352 (jm_CHECK_DECLARATIONS): Reflect interface change.
353 * check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLS): Likewise.
354 (jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): New macro.
356 * mktime.m4: Test for spring-forward gap before long-running test.
358 1998-10-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
360 * mktime.m4: Use the more portable "TZ=PST8PDT,M4.1.0,M10.5.0"
361 instead of "TZ=America/Vancouver". From Paul Eggert.
363 1998-10-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
365 * mktime.m4 (jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME): New file and macro.
366 This adds a test for a recently added compatibility fix for mktime.c.
367 * jm-mktime.m4: Require jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME, not AM_FUNC_MKTIME.
369 1998-09-27 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
371 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_MACROS): Require jm_FUNC_FNMATCH.
373 * fnmatch.m4 (jm_FUNC_FNMATCH): New file/macro. Extracted from
374 ../configure.in, including a change from Gordon Matzigkeit to allow
375 cross-compiling for the Hurd.
377 * glibc.m4: New file/macro to test for the GNU C Library
378 versions 1 and 2. From Gordon Matzigkeit.
381 1998-09-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
383 * chown.m4: Declare locals: before, after. From Andries Brouwer.
385 1998-08-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
387 Port nanosecond-resolution times to UnixWare 2.1.2 and
388 pedantic Solaris 2.6.
390 * st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC): Renamed from
392 * st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC):
393 Generate name of ns member, instead of just 1 or undef.
394 Allow for UnixWare 2.1.2 and Solaris 2.6 if in pedantic mode.
396 1998-08-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
398 * ssize_t.m4 (jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T): Remove file.
399 * check-type.m4: New file. Replacement for AC_CHECK_TYPE.
400 * jm-macros.m4: Use the new AC_CHECK_TYPE(ssize_t, int)
401 instead of jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T.
403 1998-08-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
405 * st_dm_mode.m4: New file. From Johan Danielsson.
407 1998-08-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
409 * st_mtim.m4: Use hack to avoid having to put #undef HAVE_ST_MTIM
410 in acconfig.h manually.
412 1998-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
414 * st_mtim.m4: New file.
416 1998-07-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
418 * utimes.m4: Undef stat.
420 1998-07-25 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
422 * utime.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIME): New file and macro.
423 * utimes.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIMES_NULL): New file and macro.
425 1998-07-09 Manfred Hollstein <manfred@s-direktnet.de>
427 * chown.m4 (jm_FUNC_CHOWN): Add a check to verify that the
428 uid and gid actually remain unchanged.
430 1998-07-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
432 * jm-glibc-io.m4: Remove fclose_unlocked.
434 1998-07-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
436 * regex.m4: Use syscmd, ifelse, and sysval. Mainly as an exercise
437 to prove that this macro can be used in packages without regex.c.
439 1998-07-02 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
441 * gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove intl/libintl.h if <libintl.h>
444 1998-07-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
446 * gettext.m4: Add -lintl if it's found to be necessary.
448 * gettext.m4: New file -- from gettext-0.10.35.
449 * lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
450 * progtest.m4: Likewise.
452 * regex.m4 (jm_WITH_REGEX): New file and macro.
453 * jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.
455 1998-06-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
457 * fstypename.m4: Include sys/param.h. NetBSD 1.3.1 requires this
458 for the definition of NGROUPS (used in a system header included
461 1998-06-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
463 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: New file.
464 * fstypename.m4: New file.
466 * jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.
467 * jm-glibc-io.m4: New file.
469 1998-05-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
471 * jm-macros.m4: Add jm_FUNC_LCHOWN.
472 * lchown.m4: New file.
474 * Makefile.am.in: New file.
475 * Makefile.am (Makefile.am): Depend on Makefile.am.in.
477 1998-05-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
479 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add them.
480 * jm-macros.m4: New file.
481 * utimbuf.m4: New file.
483 1998-05-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
485 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add isc-posix.m4.
487 1998-05-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
489 * isc-posix.m4: New file.
491 1998-05-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
493 * jm-mktime.m4: Use AM_FUNC_MKTIME, now that it's up to date.
495 1998-05-09 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
497 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add ssize_t.m4.
498 (EXTRA_DIST): Remove mktime.m4, now that the new version is included
501 * ssize_t.m4: New file.
502 * mktime.m4: Remove file -- the new automake has this now.
504 1998-04-26 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
506 * assert.m4: New file.
507 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add assert.m4.
509 1998-04-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
511 * prereq.m4 (jm_PREREQ_REGEX): New macro.
512 (jm_PREREQ): Use it here.
514 1998-03-23 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
516 * inttypes_h.m4: Kludges so I don't have to add HAVE_INTTYPES_H
519 1998-03-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
521 * prereq.m4: New file.
522 * error.m4: New file.
523 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add error.m4 and prereq.m4.
525 1998-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
527 * getline.m4: Don't set am_cv_func_working_getline before the
528 cache-check for the same variable -- that defeated the purpose of
529 the test; the test program was never run. This was a problem only
530 on systems with losing getline functions -- HP-UX 10.20 is one.
531 Reported by Bjorn Helgaas.
533 1998-02-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
535 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add perl.m4.
537 1998-01-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
539 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add const.m4.
541 * const.m4: New file. Use an initializer in this declaration
542 typedef int charset[2]; const charset x;
543 Reported by Bob Glickstein.
545 1997-12-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
547 * chown.m4: Fix reversed types on -1 args to chown.
550 1997-12-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
552 * check-decl.m4: s/DECLARATION_/DECL_/g.
553 Add lseek and memchr.
555 * decl.m4: s/HAVE_DECLARATION_/HAVE_DECL_/g.
556 T.E.Dickey <dickey@clark.net> said that some older preprocessors
557 have a 20-character limit on names.
559 1997-11-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
561 * inttypes_h.m4: New file.
562 * uintmax_t.m4: New file.
563 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add inttypes_h.m4 and uintmax_t.m4.