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+1999-08-29  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+       * bison.m4: New file.
+
+1999-08-17  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>
+
+       * m4/largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE): Fix typo: missing comma
+       in value for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS, which broke ports to HP-UX 10.20.
+
+1999-08-05  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+       * getline.m4: Rename test file from conftestdata to conftest.data
+       to avoid conflicts with `conftest' on 8+3 filesystems.
+       Suggestion from Eli Zaretskii.
+
+1999-08-04  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+       * jm-macros.m4: Move a 4-line block of code from the configure.in of
+       fileutils and sh-utils (textutils's getline test was inadequate).
+       (AM_FUNC_GETLINE): Run this test.
+       (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getdelim.
+       Reported by Bob Proulx.
+
+1999-08-02  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+       * jm-macros.m4: Add a comment.
+
+1999-08-01  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+       * mktime.m4 (AC_FUNC_MKTIME): Undefine to avoid syntax errors from m4.
+
+1999-08-01  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>
+
+       * lfs.m4: Remove this file.
+       * largefile.m4: New file.  It contains the old contents of
+       lfs.m4, except that all names with prefix AC_LFS have been
+       changed to use the prefix AC_SYS_LARGEFILE instead, to be
+       compatible with future autoconf versions.  Also, some minor m4
+       quoting problems have been fixed.
+
+1999-07-16  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>
+
+       * ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): Make sure
+       that we can shift, multiply and divide unsigned long long
+       values; Ultrix cc can't do it.
+
+1999-07-14  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>
+
+       * xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): Check whether
+       <inttypes.h> defines strtoumax as a macro (and not as a
+       function).
+
+1999-07-05  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>
+
+       * gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove unnecessary lines.
+       Fix typo: $nls_cv_header_intl was misspelled as $nsl_cv_header_intl.
+       (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Fix problem with brackets and m4 quoting,
+       and simplify the shell code.
+
+1999-07-03  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>
+
+       * mktime.m4: New file, which is a preview of what should appear
+       in the next public autoconf release.
+
+1999-07-20  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+       * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memmove.
+
+1999-07-15  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+       * jm-macros.m4: (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getpagesize.
+
+1999-05-22  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+       * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memchr.
+
+1999-05-20  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+       * search-libs.m4 [AC_SEARCH_LIBS]: Quote name in undefine.
+       Add a colon after each `then' in case $4 is empty.
+
+1999-05-16  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+       * search-libs.m4: New file to override autoconf's AC_SEARCH_LIBS.
+
+1999-05-10  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+       * jm-mktime.m4: Reflect renaming: AM_FUNC_MKTIME -> AC_FUNC_MKTIME.
+
+       * jm-macros.m4: Require 2.14.1, since we use newly-renamed
+       AC_FUNC_MKTIME.
+
+1999-05-10  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
+
+       * jm-mktime.m4, putenv.m4: Fix typos in config.h comments.
+
+1999-05-04  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>
+
+       * lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): -n32, -o32, and -n64 should be in CFLAGS,
+       not CPPFLAGS, so that linking works correctly in IRIX.
+
+1999-04-30  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>
+
+       * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add dup2.
+
+1999-04-20  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+       * xstrtoumax.m4: Require jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
+       AC_REPLACE xstroull if necessary.  From Paul Eggert.
+       (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Remove strtoull, strtoumax, strtouq.
+
+1999-04-20  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>
+
+       * uintmax_t.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T): Move unsigned long
+       long check into new jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG macro.
+       * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): Require
+       jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
+       * ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): New file/macro.
+
+       * lfs.m4: Port to AIX and HP-UX.  Support cross-compilation.
+
+1999-04-18  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+       * xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): New file/macro.
+       * jm-macros.m4: Use it.
+
+1999-04-06  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+       * strftime.m4: Remove test for %f.
+
+1999-03-29  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+       * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): New macro, contains the
+       superset of the AC_TYPE_* checks in the textutils, fileutils,
+       and sh-utils, plus AC_TYPE_PID_T.  Paul Eggert suggested adding
+       AC_TYPE_PID_T.
+
+1999-03-28  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+       * jm-macros.m4: Define GNU_PACKAGE here.
+       Be sure to AC_SUBST it, once again, so that @GNU_PACKAGE@ is
+       replaced e.g., in the *.sh files of the sh-utils.
+
+1999-03-20  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+       * jm-macros.m4: s/jm_WITH_REGEX/jm_INCLUDED_REGEX/.
+       * regex.m4 (jm_INCLUDED_REGEX): Rename from jm_WITH_REGEX.
+       Don't depend on AM_GLIBC.  Suggestions from Alain Magloire.
+
+1999-03-19  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+       * jm-winsz1.m4 (jm_WINSIZE_IN_PTEM): New macro.
+
+1999-03-12  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+       * jm-macros.m4: Use AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED.
+
+1999-03-07  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+       * jm-glibc-io.m4: Use only those *_unlocked macros that are declared.
+
+1999-02-17  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+       * gettext.m4 (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Do `changequote' around use of brackets
+       in macro definition.  From Eli Zaretskii and Alain Magloire.
+
+1999-02-07  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+       * group-member.m4: New file -- extracted from sh-utils' configure.in.
+
+       1999-02-05  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
+       * gettext.m4: Support DOS-style d:/foo/bar absolute file names.
+
+1999-02-06  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+       * chown.m4: Use `AC_SUBST(LIBOBJS)' since we set LIBOBJS.
+       * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
+       * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
+       * lstat.m4: Likewise.
+       * malloc.m4: Likewise.
+       * putenv.m4: Likewise.
+       * realloc.m4: Likewise.
+       * regex.m4: Likewise.
+       * stat.m4: Likewise.
+       * strftime.m4: Likewise.
+       Suggestion from Alain Magloire.
+
+       * chown.m4: Use `.$ac_objext', not `.o'.
+       * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
+       * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
+       * getline.m4: Likewise.
+       * lstat.m4: Likewise.
+       * malloc.m4: Likewise.
+       * memcmp.m4: Likewise.
+       * putenv.m4: Likewise.
+       * realloc.m4: Likewise.
+       * regex.m4: Likewise.
+       * stat.m4: Likewise.
+       * strftime.m4: Likewise.
+       Suggestion from Alain Magloire.
+
+       * jm-macros.m4: Actually invoke jm_WITH_REGEX now that it requires
+       an argument.
+
+       * regex.m4: Add a run-time Test for proper operation of
+       re_compile_pattern.
+
+1999-01-31  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+       * getloadavg.m4: Check for locale.h and the function, setlocale.
+
+1999-01-30  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+       * check-type.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.
+
+       * jm-mktime.m4: Make this a wrapper around the official AM_FUNC_MKTIME
+       rather than my private copy, now that the official one is up to date.
+       * mktime.m4: Remove file.
+
+       * getloadavg.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.
+       * uptime.m4: Likewise.
+       * uintmax_t.m4: Likewise.
+
+1999-01-28  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+       * jm-macros.m4: Use jm_AFS.
+       * afs.m4: New file (from fileutils' configure.in).
+
+       * assert.m4: Use the 3-argument forms of AC_DEFINE* macros.
+       * chown.m4: Likewise.
+       * d-ino.m4: Likewise.
+       * d-type.m4: Likewise.
+       * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
+       * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
+       * gettext.m4: Likewise.
+       * jm-mktime.m4: Likewise.
+       * jm-winsz2.m4: Likewise.
+       * lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
+       * ls-mntd-fs.m4: Likewise.
+       * malloc.m4: Likewise.
+       * memcmp.m4: Likewise.
+       * putenv.m4: Likewise.
+       * realloc.m4: Likewise.
+       * st_mtim.m4: Likewise.
+       * strftime.m4: Likewise.
+
+1999-01-16  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+       * jm-macros.m4 (ARGMATCH_DIE): Define.
+       (ARGMATCH_DIE_DECL): Define.
+
+1999-01-12  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+       * Makefile.am.in: Rewrite to avoid using fmt.
+       Reported by Lars Hecking.
+
+1999-01-10  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+       * fstypename.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of my
+       gross kludge.
+       * inttypes_h.m4: Likewise.
+       * lstat.m4: Likewise.
+       * malloc.m4: Likewise.
+       * readdir.m4: Likewise.
+       * realloc.m4: Likewise.
+       * st_dm_mode.m4: Likewise.
+       * stat.m4: Likewise.
+       * utimbuf.m4: Likewise.
+       * utimes.m4: Likewise.
+
+       * check-decl.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of the
+       AC_CHECK_FUNCS hack.  Now, it's still a hack, but at least the
+       comments in config.h.in are meaningful.
+
+       * jm-macros.m4: Require autoconf-2.13 here.
+
+       * regex.m4: By default, don't use the included regex.c on systems
+       with glibc 2.  Suggestion from Uli Drepper.
+
+1999-01-02  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+       * jm-macros.m4: Replace strcasecmp and strncasecmp.
+
+1998-12-18  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+       * Makefile.am.in (Makefile.am): Simplify rule.
+       Based on a suggestion from Lars Hecking.
+
+1998-11-16  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+       * lfs.m4: Double-quote the `uname...` expression.
+
+1998-11-16  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>
+
+       * lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): Add support for HP-UX 10.20 and HP-UX 11.
+
 1998-11-14  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>
 
        * lstat.m4: Correct comment.  POSIX does not permit it to succeed.
        Add lseek and memchr.
 
        * decl.m4: s/HAVE_DECLARATION_/HAVE_DECL_/g.
-       T.E.Dickey <dickey@clark.net> said that some older preprocessors
+       T.E.Dickey <dickey@clark.net> said that some older preprocessors
        have a 20-character limit on names.
 
 1997-11-30  Jim Meyering  <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>