+1999-12-26 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+ * jm-macros.m4: Use it here.
+ * nanosleep.m4 (jm_FUNC_NANOSLEEP): New file/macro.
+
+1999-12-23 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+ * jm-macros.m4: Check for clock_gettime (moved from
+ fileutils/configure.in)
+ Check for gettimeofday.
+
+1999-12-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+ * strftime.m4: Remove kludge, now that I'm using the fixed
+ autoconf-2.14a-1999-12-20.
+
+1999-12-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+ * lstat-slash.m4: New file.
+ * jm-macros.m4: Use the new macro:
+ jm_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK.
+
+1999-12-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+ * perl.m4: Require that File::Compare be available, too.
+ Too many systems seem to lack it.
+
+ * strftime.m4: Add checks for most of the cpp macros tested in
+ GNU's strftime.c. Prompted by a patch from Paul Eggert.
+
+1999-11-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
+
+ * m4/largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_FLAGS): Work around a
+ problem with the QNX 4.25 shell, which doesn't propagate exit
+ status of failed commands inside shell assignments.
+
+1999-11-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+ * gettext.m4: Use new AC_CONFIG_LINKS in place of AC_LINK_FILES.
+
+1999-11-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+ * getloadavg.m4: Add `, 1, [FIXME]' to each use of AC_DEFINE.
+
+1999-11-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+ * link-follow.m4 (jm_AC_FUNC_LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK): New file/macro.
+ * jm-macros.m4 (jm_MACROS): Use it here.
+
+1999-11-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+ * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): Move some tests from configure.in
+ of textutils, fileutils, and sh-utils into this one (shared between
+ those packages) file.
+ Use `AC_CHECK_MEMBERS((struct stat.st_blksize))' instead of deprecated
+ AC_STRUCT_ST_BLKSIZE.
+
+1999-11-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+ * ssize_t.m4: Remove file. No longer needed since the new version of
+ AC_CHECK_TYPE checks includes unistd.h.
+ * jm-macros.m4: Use straight `AC_CHECK_TYPE(ssize_t, int)'.
+ Suggestion from Akim Demaille.
+
+1999-10-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+ * uintmax_t.m4: Require 2.14a. Remove backslash before backtick in
+ m4-quoted string.
+ * ls-mntd-fs.m4: Likewise.
+ * jm-macros.m4: Likewise. Also, use AC_TYPE_SSIZE_T instead
+ * jm-winsz1.m4: Likewise.
+
+ * const.m4: Remove file, since the fix made it into the experimental
+ version of autoconf.
+ * mktime.m4: Likewise.
+
+ * check-type.m4: Remove file, now that the latest version of
+ AC_CHECK_TYPE takes a third arg to specify additional #includes.
+
+ * ssize_t.m4: New file, requires experimental version of autoconf.
+ * jm-macros.m4: Use new AC_TYPE_SSIZE_T instead of my hacked
+ AC_CHECK_TYPE.
+
+1999-10-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+ * jm-macros.m4: Don't require autoconf-2.14.1.
+
+1999-09-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
+
+ * largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_FLAGS): Work around GCC
+ 2.95.1 bug with HP-UX 10.20.
+
+1999-09-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+ * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add strdup.
+ Paul Nevai reported a link failure on a NeXT CUBE with NeXTSTEP 3.3
+ due to missing strdup (against sh-utils-2.0).
+
+1999-08-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+ * jm-macros.m4: Require jm_BISON.
+ * 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.
+ * stat.m4: Likewise.
+
+1998-11-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+ * stat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_STAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.
+ * lstat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_LSTAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.
+
+1998-10-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+ * check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): Remove macro.
+
+1998-10-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+ * decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLARATION): Don't hard-code which headers to
+ include, though we still hard-code the `require'-like AC_CHECK_HEADERS
+ calls for those previously hard-coded headers. Instead, take a new
+ parameter.
+ (jm_CHECK_DECLARATIONS): Reflect interface change.
+ * check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLS): Likewise.
+ (jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): New macro.
+
+ * mktime.m4: Test for spring-forward gap before long-running test.
+
+1998-10-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+ * mktime.m4: Use the more portable "TZ=PST8PDT,M4.1.0,M10.5.0"
+ instead of "TZ=America/Vancouver". From Paul Eggert.
+
+1998-10-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+ * mktime.m4 (jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME): New file and macro.
+ This adds a test for a recently added compatibility fix for mktime.c.
+ * jm-mktime.m4: Require jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME, not AM_FUNC_MKTIME.
+
+1998-09-27 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+ * jm-macros.m4 (jm_MACROS): Require jm_FUNC_FNMATCH.
+
+ * fnmatch.m4 (jm_FUNC_FNMATCH): New file/macro. Extracted from
+ ../configure.in, including a change from Gordon Matzigkeit to allow
+ cross-compiling for the Hurd.
+
+ * glibc.m4: New file/macro to test for the GNU C Library
+ versions 1 and 2. From Gordon Matzigkeit.
+ Indent.
+
+1998-09-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+ * chown.m4: Declare locals: before, after. From Andries Brouwer.
+
+1998-08-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
+
+ Port nanosecond-resolution times to UnixWare 2.1.2 and
+ pedantic Solaris 2.6.
+
+ * st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC): Renamed from
+ AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM.
+ * st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC):
+ Generate name of ns member, instead of just 1 or undef.
+ Allow for UnixWare 2.1.2 and Solaris 2.6 if in pedantic mode.
+
+1998-08-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+ * ssize_t.m4 (jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T): Remove file.
+ * check-type.m4: New file. Replacement for AC_CHECK_TYPE.
+ * jm-macros.m4: Use the new AC_CHECK_TYPE(ssize_t, int)
+ instead of jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T.
+
+1998-08-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+ * st_dm_mode.m4: New file. From Johan Danielsson.
+
+1998-08-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+ * st_mtim.m4: Use hack to avoid having to put #undef HAVE_ST_MTIM
+ in acconfig.h manually.
+
+1998-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
+
+ * st_mtim.m4: New file.
+
+1998-07-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+ * utimes.m4: Undef stat.
+
+1998-07-25 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+ * utime.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIME): New file and macro.
+ * utimes.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIMES_NULL): New file and macro.
+
+1998-07-09 Manfred Hollstein <manfred@s-direktnet.de>
+
+ * chown.m4 (jm_FUNC_CHOWN): Add a check to verify that the
+ uid and gid actually remain unchanged.
+
+1998-07-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+ * jm-glibc-io.m4: Remove fclose_unlocked.
+
+1998-07-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+ * regex.m4: Use syscmd, ifelse, and sysval. Mainly as an exercise
+ to prove that this macro can be used in packages without regex.c.
+
+1998-07-02 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+
+ * gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove intl/libintl.h if <libintl.h>
+ is to be used.
+
+1998-07-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+ * gettext.m4: Add -lintl if it's found to be necessary.
+
+ * gettext.m4: New file -- from gettext-0.10.35.
+ * lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
+ * progtest.m4: Likewise.
+
+ * regex.m4 (jm_WITH_REGEX): New file and macro.
+ * jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.
+
+1998-06-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+ * fstypename.m4: Include sys/param.h. NetBSD 1.3.1 requires this
+ for the definition of NGROUPS (used in a system header included
+ by sys/mount.h).
+
+1998-06-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
+
+ * ls-mntd-fs.m4: New file.
+ * fstypename.m4: New file.
+
+ * jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.
+ * jm-glibc-io.m4: New file.
+
1998-05-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
* jm-macros.m4: Add jm_FUNC_LCHOWN.
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>
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