1 1999-12-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
3 * perl.m4: Require that File::Compare be available, too.
4 Too many systems seem to lack it.
6 * strftime.m4: Add checks for most of the cpp macros tested in
7 GNU's strftime.c. Prompted by a patch from Paul Eggert.
9 1999-11-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
11 * m4/largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_FLAGS): Work around a
12 problem with the QNX 4.25 shell, which doesn't propagate exit
13 status of failed commands inside shell assignments.
15 1999-11-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
17 * gettext.m4: Use new AC_CONFIG_LINKS in place of AC_LINK_FILES.
19 1999-11-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
21 * getloadavg.m4: Add `, 1, [FIXME]' to each use of AC_DEFINE.
23 1999-11-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
25 * link-follow.m4 (jm_AC_FUNC_LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK): New file/macro.
26 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_MACROS): Use it here.
28 1999-11-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
30 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): Move some tests from configure.in
31 of textutils, fileutils, and sh-utils into this one (shared between
33 Use `AC_CHECK_MEMBERS((struct stat.st_blksize))' instead of deprecated
36 1999-11-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
38 * ssize_t.m4: Remove file. No longer needed since the new version of
39 AC_CHECK_TYPE checks includes unistd.h.
40 * jm-macros.m4: Use straight `AC_CHECK_TYPE(ssize_t, int)'.
41 Suggestion from Akim Demaille.
43 1999-10-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
45 * uintmax_t.m4: Require 2.14a. Remove backslash before backtick in
47 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: Likewise.
48 * jm-macros.m4: Likewise. Also, use AC_TYPE_SSIZE_T instead
49 * jm-winsz1.m4: Likewise.
51 * const.m4: Remove file, since the fix made it into the experimental
53 * mktime.m4: Likewise.
55 * check-type.m4: Remove file, now that the latest version of
56 AC_CHECK_TYPE takes a third arg to specify additional #includes.
58 * ssize_t.m4: New file, requires experimental version of autoconf.
59 * jm-macros.m4: Use new AC_TYPE_SSIZE_T instead of my hacked
62 1999-10-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
64 * jm-macros.m4: Don't require autoconf-2.14.1.
66 1999-09-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
68 * largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_FLAGS): Work around GCC
69 2.95.1 bug with HP-UX 10.20.
71 1999-09-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
73 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add strdup.
74 Paul Nevai reported a link failure on a NeXT CUBE with NeXTSTEP 3.3
75 due to missing strdup (against sh-utils-2.0).
77 1999-08-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
79 * jm-macros.m4: Require jm_BISON.
82 1999-08-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
84 * m4/largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE): Fix typo: missing comma
85 in value for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS, which broke ports to HP-UX 10.20.
87 1999-08-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
89 * getline.m4: Rename test file from conftestdata to conftest.data
90 to avoid conflicts with `conftest' on 8+3 filesystems.
91 Suggestion from Eli Zaretskii.
93 1999-08-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
95 * jm-macros.m4: Move a 4-line block of code from the configure.in of
96 fileutils and sh-utils (textutils's getline test was inadequate).
97 (AM_FUNC_GETLINE): Run this test.
98 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getdelim.
99 Reported by Bob Proulx.
101 1999-08-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
103 * jm-macros.m4: Add a comment.
105 1999-08-01 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
107 * mktime.m4 (AC_FUNC_MKTIME): Undefine to avoid syntax errors from m4.
109 1999-08-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
111 * lfs.m4: Remove this file.
112 * largefile.m4: New file. It contains the old contents of
113 lfs.m4, except that all names with prefix AC_LFS have been
114 changed to use the prefix AC_SYS_LARGEFILE instead, to be
115 compatible with future autoconf versions. Also, some minor m4
116 quoting problems have been fixed.
118 1999-07-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
120 * ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): Make sure
121 that we can shift, multiply and divide unsigned long long
122 values; Ultrix cc can't do it.
124 1999-07-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
126 * xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): Check whether
127 <inttypes.h> defines strtoumax as a macro (and not as a
130 1999-07-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
132 * gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove unnecessary lines.
133 Fix typo: $nls_cv_header_intl was misspelled as $nsl_cv_header_intl.
134 (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Fix problem with brackets and m4 quoting,
135 and simplify the shell code.
137 1999-07-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
139 * mktime.m4: New file, which is a preview of what should appear
140 in the next public autoconf release.
142 1999-07-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
144 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memmove.
146 1999-07-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
148 * jm-macros.m4: (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getpagesize.
150 1999-05-22 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
152 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memchr.
154 1999-05-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
156 * search-libs.m4 [AC_SEARCH_LIBS]: Quote name in undefine.
157 Add a colon after each `then' in case $4 is empty.
159 1999-05-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
161 * search-libs.m4: New file to override autoconf's AC_SEARCH_LIBS.
163 1999-05-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
165 * jm-mktime.m4: Reflect renaming: AM_FUNC_MKTIME -> AC_FUNC_MKTIME.
167 * jm-macros.m4: Require 2.14.1, since we use newly-renamed
170 1999-05-10 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
172 * jm-mktime.m4, putenv.m4: Fix typos in config.h comments.
174 1999-05-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
176 * lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): -n32, -o32, and -n64 should be in CFLAGS,
177 not CPPFLAGS, so that linking works correctly in IRIX.
179 1999-04-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
181 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add dup2.
183 1999-04-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
185 * xstrtoumax.m4: Require jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
186 AC_REPLACE xstroull if necessary. From Paul Eggert.
187 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Remove strtoull, strtoumax, strtouq.
189 1999-04-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
191 * uintmax_t.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T): Move unsigned long
192 long check into new jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG macro.
193 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): Require
194 jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
195 * ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): New file/macro.
197 * lfs.m4: Port to AIX and HP-UX. Support cross-compilation.
199 1999-04-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
201 * xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): New file/macro.
202 * jm-macros.m4: Use it.
204 1999-04-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
206 * strftime.m4: Remove test for %f.
208 1999-03-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
210 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): New macro, contains the
211 superset of the AC_TYPE_* checks in the textutils, fileutils,
212 and sh-utils, plus AC_TYPE_PID_T. Paul Eggert suggested adding
215 1999-03-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
217 * jm-macros.m4: Define GNU_PACKAGE here.
218 Be sure to AC_SUBST it, once again, so that @GNU_PACKAGE@ is
219 replaced e.g., in the *.sh files of the sh-utils.
221 1999-03-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
223 * jm-macros.m4: s/jm_WITH_REGEX/jm_INCLUDED_REGEX/.
224 * regex.m4 (jm_INCLUDED_REGEX): Rename from jm_WITH_REGEX.
225 Don't depend on AM_GLIBC. Suggestions from Alain Magloire.
227 1999-03-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
229 * jm-winsz1.m4 (jm_WINSIZE_IN_PTEM): New macro.
231 1999-03-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
233 * jm-macros.m4: Use AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED.
235 1999-03-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
237 * jm-glibc-io.m4: Use only those *_unlocked macros that are declared.
239 1999-02-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
241 * gettext.m4 (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Do `changequote' around use of brackets
242 in macro definition. From Eli Zaretskii and Alain Magloire.
244 1999-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
246 * group-member.m4: New file -- extracted from sh-utils' configure.in.
248 1999-02-05 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
249 * gettext.m4: Support DOS-style d:/foo/bar absolute file names.
251 1999-02-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
253 * chown.m4: Use `AC_SUBST(LIBOBJS)' since we set LIBOBJS.
254 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
255 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
256 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
257 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
258 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
259 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
260 * regex.m4: Likewise.
262 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
263 Suggestion from Alain Magloire.
265 * chown.m4: Use `.$ac_objext', not `.o'.
266 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
267 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
268 * getline.m4: Likewise.
269 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
270 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
271 * memcmp.m4: Likewise.
272 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
273 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
274 * regex.m4: Likewise.
276 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
277 Suggestion from Alain Magloire.
279 * jm-macros.m4: Actually invoke jm_WITH_REGEX now that it requires
282 * regex.m4: Add a run-time Test for proper operation of
285 1999-01-31 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
287 * getloadavg.m4: Check for locale.h and the function, setlocale.
289 1999-01-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
291 * check-type.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.
293 * jm-mktime.m4: Make this a wrapper around the official AM_FUNC_MKTIME
294 rather than my private copy, now that the official one is up to date.
295 * mktime.m4: Remove file.
297 * getloadavg.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.
298 * uptime.m4: Likewise.
299 * uintmax_t.m4: Likewise.
301 1999-01-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
303 * jm-macros.m4: Use jm_AFS.
304 * afs.m4: New file (from fileutils' configure.in).
306 * assert.m4: Use the 3-argument forms of AC_DEFINE* macros.
307 * chown.m4: Likewise.
308 * d-ino.m4: Likewise.
309 * d-type.m4: Likewise.
310 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
311 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
312 * gettext.m4: Likewise.
313 * jm-mktime.m4: Likewise.
314 * jm-winsz2.m4: Likewise.
315 * lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
316 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: Likewise.
317 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
318 * memcmp.m4: Likewise.
319 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
320 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
321 * st_mtim.m4: Likewise.
322 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
324 1999-01-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
326 * jm-macros.m4 (ARGMATCH_DIE): Define.
327 (ARGMATCH_DIE_DECL): Define.
329 1999-01-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
331 * Makefile.am.in: Rewrite to avoid using fmt.
332 Reported by Lars Hecking.
334 1999-01-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
336 * fstypename.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of my
338 * inttypes_h.m4: Likewise.
339 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
340 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
341 * readdir.m4: Likewise.
342 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
343 * st_dm_mode.m4: Likewise.
345 * utimbuf.m4: Likewise.
346 * utimes.m4: Likewise.
348 * check-decl.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of the
349 AC_CHECK_FUNCS hack. Now, it's still a hack, but at least the
350 comments in config.h.in are meaningful.
352 * jm-macros.m4: Require autoconf-2.13 here.
354 * regex.m4: By default, don't use the included regex.c on systems
355 with glibc 2. Suggestion from Uli Drepper.
357 1999-01-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
359 * jm-macros.m4: Replace strcasecmp and strncasecmp.
361 1998-12-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
363 * Makefile.am.in (Makefile.am): Simplify rule.
364 Based on a suggestion from Lars Hecking.
366 1998-11-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
368 * lfs.m4: Double-quote the `uname...` expression.
370 1998-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
372 * lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): Add support for HP-UX 10.20 and HP-UX 11.
374 1998-11-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
376 * lstat.m4: Correct comment. POSIX does not permit it to succeed.
379 1998-11-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
381 * stat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_STAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.
382 * lstat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_LSTAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.
384 1998-10-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
386 * check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): Remove macro.
388 1998-10-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
390 * decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLARATION): Don't hard-code which headers to
391 include, though we still hard-code the `require'-like AC_CHECK_HEADERS
392 calls for those previously hard-coded headers. Instead, take a new
394 (jm_CHECK_DECLARATIONS): Reflect interface change.
395 * check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLS): Likewise.
396 (jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): New macro.
398 * mktime.m4: Test for spring-forward gap before long-running test.
400 1998-10-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
402 * mktime.m4: Use the more portable "TZ=PST8PDT,M4.1.0,M10.5.0"
403 instead of "TZ=America/Vancouver". From Paul Eggert.
405 1998-10-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
407 * mktime.m4 (jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME): New file and macro.
408 This adds a test for a recently added compatibility fix for mktime.c.
409 * jm-mktime.m4: Require jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME, not AM_FUNC_MKTIME.
411 1998-09-27 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
413 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_MACROS): Require jm_FUNC_FNMATCH.
415 * fnmatch.m4 (jm_FUNC_FNMATCH): New file/macro. Extracted from
416 ../configure.in, including a change from Gordon Matzigkeit to allow
417 cross-compiling for the Hurd.
419 * glibc.m4: New file/macro to test for the GNU C Library
420 versions 1 and 2. From Gordon Matzigkeit.
423 1998-09-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
425 * chown.m4: Declare locals: before, after. From Andries Brouwer.
427 1998-08-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
429 Port nanosecond-resolution times to UnixWare 2.1.2 and
430 pedantic Solaris 2.6.
432 * st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC): Renamed from
434 * st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC):
435 Generate name of ns member, instead of just 1 or undef.
436 Allow for UnixWare 2.1.2 and Solaris 2.6 if in pedantic mode.
438 1998-08-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
440 * ssize_t.m4 (jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T): Remove file.
441 * check-type.m4: New file. Replacement for AC_CHECK_TYPE.
442 * jm-macros.m4: Use the new AC_CHECK_TYPE(ssize_t, int)
443 instead of jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T.
445 1998-08-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
447 * st_dm_mode.m4: New file. From Johan Danielsson.
449 1998-08-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
451 * st_mtim.m4: Use hack to avoid having to put #undef HAVE_ST_MTIM
452 in acconfig.h manually.
454 1998-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
456 * st_mtim.m4: New file.
458 1998-07-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
460 * utimes.m4: Undef stat.
462 1998-07-25 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
464 * utime.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIME): New file and macro.
465 * utimes.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIMES_NULL): New file and macro.
467 1998-07-09 Manfred Hollstein <manfred@s-direktnet.de>
469 * chown.m4 (jm_FUNC_CHOWN): Add a check to verify that the
470 uid and gid actually remain unchanged.
472 1998-07-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
474 * jm-glibc-io.m4: Remove fclose_unlocked.
476 1998-07-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
478 * regex.m4: Use syscmd, ifelse, and sysval. Mainly as an exercise
479 to prove that this macro can be used in packages without regex.c.
481 1998-07-02 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
483 * gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove intl/libintl.h if <libintl.h>
486 1998-07-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
488 * gettext.m4: Add -lintl if it's found to be necessary.
490 * gettext.m4: New file -- from gettext-0.10.35.
491 * lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
492 * progtest.m4: Likewise.
494 * regex.m4 (jm_WITH_REGEX): New file and macro.
495 * jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.
497 1998-06-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
499 * fstypename.m4: Include sys/param.h. NetBSD 1.3.1 requires this
500 for the definition of NGROUPS (used in a system header included
503 1998-06-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
505 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: New file.
506 * fstypename.m4: New file.
508 * jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.
509 * jm-glibc-io.m4: New file.
511 1998-05-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
513 * jm-macros.m4: Add jm_FUNC_LCHOWN.
514 * lchown.m4: New file.
516 * Makefile.am.in: New file.
517 * Makefile.am (Makefile.am): Depend on Makefile.am.in.
519 1998-05-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
521 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add them.
522 * jm-macros.m4: New file.
523 * utimbuf.m4: New file.
525 1998-05-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
527 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add isc-posix.m4.
529 1998-05-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
531 * isc-posix.m4: New file.
533 1998-05-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
535 * jm-mktime.m4: Use AM_FUNC_MKTIME, now that it's up to date.
537 1998-05-09 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
539 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add ssize_t.m4.
540 (EXTRA_DIST): Remove mktime.m4, now that the new version is included
543 * ssize_t.m4: New file.
544 * mktime.m4: Remove file -- the new automake has this now.
546 1998-04-26 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
548 * assert.m4: New file.
549 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add assert.m4.
551 1998-04-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
553 * prereq.m4 (jm_PREREQ_REGEX): New macro.
554 (jm_PREREQ): Use it here.
556 1998-03-23 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
558 * inttypes_h.m4: Kludges so I don't have to add HAVE_INTTYPES_H
561 1998-03-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
563 * prereq.m4: New file.
564 * error.m4: New file.
565 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add error.m4 and prereq.m4.
567 1998-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
569 * getline.m4: Don't set am_cv_func_working_getline before the
570 cache-check for the same variable -- that defeated the purpose of
571 the test; the test program was never run. This was a problem only
572 on systems with losing getline functions -- HP-UX 10.20 is one.
573 Reported by Bjorn Helgaas.
575 1998-02-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
577 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add perl.m4.
579 1998-01-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
581 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add const.m4.
583 * const.m4: New file. Use an initializer in this declaration
584 typedef int charset[2]; const charset x;
585 Reported by Bob Glickstein.
587 1997-12-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
589 * chown.m4: Fix reversed types on -1 args to chown.
592 1997-12-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
594 * check-decl.m4: s/DECLARATION_/DECL_/g.
595 Add lseek and memchr.
597 * decl.m4: s/HAVE_DECLARATION_/HAVE_DECL_/g.
598 T.E.Dickey <dickey@clark.net> said that some older preprocessors
599 have a 20-character limit on names.
601 1997-11-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
603 * inttypes_h.m4: New file.
604 * uintmax_t.m4: New file.
605 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add inttypes_h.m4 and uintmax_t.m4.