1 1999-08-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
5 1999-08-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
7 * m4/largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE): Fix typo: missing comma
8 in value for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS, which broke ports to HP-UX 10.20.
10 1999-08-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
12 * getline.m4: Rename test file from conftestdata to conftest.data
13 to avoid conflicts with `conftest' on 8+3 filesystems.
14 Suggestion from Eli Zaretskii.
16 1999-08-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
18 * jm-macros.m4: Move a 4-line block of code from the configure.in of
19 fileutils and sh-utils (textutils's getline test was inadequate).
20 (AM_FUNC_GETLINE): Run this test.
21 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getdelim.
22 Reported by Bob Proulx.
24 1999-08-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
26 * jm-macros.m4: Add a comment.
28 1999-08-01 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
30 * mktime.m4 (AC_FUNC_MKTIME): Undefine to avoid syntax errors from m4.
32 1999-08-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
34 * lfs.m4: Remove this file.
35 * largefile.m4: New file. It contains the old contents of
36 lfs.m4, except that all names with prefix AC_LFS have been
37 changed to use the prefix AC_SYS_LARGEFILE instead, to be
38 compatible with future autoconf versions. Also, some minor m4
39 quoting problems have been fixed.
41 1999-07-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
43 * ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): Make sure
44 that we can shift, multiply and divide unsigned long long
45 values; Ultrix cc can't do it.
47 1999-07-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
49 * xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): Check whether
50 <inttypes.h> defines strtoumax as a macro (and not as a
53 1999-07-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
55 * gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove unnecessary lines.
56 Fix typo: $nls_cv_header_intl was misspelled as $nsl_cv_header_intl.
57 (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Fix problem with brackets and m4 quoting,
58 and simplify the shell code.
60 1999-07-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
62 * mktime.m4: New file, which is a preview of what should appear
63 in the next public autoconf release.
65 1999-07-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
67 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memmove.
69 1999-07-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
71 * jm-macros.m4: (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getpagesize.
73 1999-05-22 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
75 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memchr.
77 1999-05-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
79 * search-libs.m4 [AC_SEARCH_LIBS]: Quote name in undefine.
80 Add a colon after each `then' in case $4 is empty.
82 1999-05-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
84 * search-libs.m4: New file to override autoconf's AC_SEARCH_LIBS.
86 1999-05-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
88 * jm-mktime.m4: Reflect renaming: AM_FUNC_MKTIME -> AC_FUNC_MKTIME.
90 * jm-macros.m4: Require 2.14.1, since we use newly-renamed
93 1999-05-10 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
95 * jm-mktime.m4, putenv.m4: Fix typos in config.h comments.
97 1999-05-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
99 * lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): -n32, -o32, and -n64 should be in CFLAGS,
100 not CPPFLAGS, so that linking works correctly in IRIX.
102 1999-04-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
104 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add dup2.
106 1999-04-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
108 * xstrtoumax.m4: Require jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
109 AC_REPLACE xstroull if necessary. From Paul Eggert.
110 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Remove strtoull, strtoumax, strtouq.
112 1999-04-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
114 * uintmax_t.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T): Move unsigned long
115 long check into new jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG macro.
116 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): Require
117 jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
118 * ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): New file/macro.
120 * lfs.m4: Port to AIX and HP-UX. Support cross-compilation.
122 1999-04-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
124 * xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): New file/macro.
125 * jm-macros.m4: Use it.
127 1999-04-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
129 * strftime.m4: Remove test for %f.
131 1999-03-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
133 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): New macro, contains the
134 superset of the AC_TYPE_* checks in the textutils, fileutils,
135 and sh-utils, plus AC_TYPE_PID_T. Paul Eggert suggested adding
138 1999-03-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
140 * jm-macros.m4: Define GNU_PACKAGE here.
141 Be sure to AC_SUBST it, once again, so that @GNU_PACKAGE@ is
142 replaced e.g., in the *.sh files of the sh-utils.
144 1999-03-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
146 * jm-macros.m4: s/jm_WITH_REGEX/jm_INCLUDED_REGEX/.
147 * regex.m4 (jm_INCLUDED_REGEX): Rename from jm_WITH_REGEX.
148 Don't depend on AM_GLIBC. Suggestions from Alain Magloire.
150 1999-03-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
152 * jm-winsz1.m4 (jm_WINSIZE_IN_PTEM): New macro.
154 1999-03-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
156 * jm-macros.m4: Use AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED.
158 1999-03-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
160 * jm-glibc-io.m4: Use only those *_unlocked macros that are declared.
162 1999-02-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
164 * gettext.m4 (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Do `changequote' around use of brackets
165 in macro definition. From Eli Zaretskii and Alain Magloire.
167 1999-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
169 * group-member.m4: New file -- extracted from sh-utils' configure.in.
171 1999-02-05 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
172 * gettext.m4: Support DOS-style d:/foo/bar absolute file names.
174 1999-02-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
176 * chown.m4: Use `AC_SUBST(LIBOBJS)' since we set LIBOBJS.
177 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
178 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
179 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
180 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
181 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
182 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
183 * regex.m4: Likewise.
185 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
186 Suggestion from Alain Magloire.
188 * chown.m4: Use `.$ac_objext', not `.o'.
189 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
190 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
191 * getline.m4: Likewise.
192 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
193 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
194 * memcmp.m4: Likewise.
195 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
196 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
197 * regex.m4: Likewise.
199 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
200 Suggestion from Alain Magloire.
202 * jm-macros.m4: Actually invoke jm_WITH_REGEX now that it requires
205 * regex.m4: Add a run-time Test for proper operation of
208 1999-01-31 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
210 * getloadavg.m4: Check for locale.h and the function, setlocale.
212 1999-01-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
214 * check-type.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.
216 * jm-mktime.m4: Make this a wrapper around the official AM_FUNC_MKTIME
217 rather than my private copy, now that the official one is up to date.
218 * mktime.m4: Remove file.
220 * getloadavg.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.
221 * uptime.m4: Likewise.
222 * uintmax_t.m4: Likewise.
224 1999-01-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
226 * jm-macros.m4: Use jm_AFS.
227 * afs.m4: New file (from fileutils' configure.in).
229 * assert.m4: Use the 3-argument forms of AC_DEFINE* macros.
230 * chown.m4: Likewise.
231 * d-ino.m4: Likewise.
232 * d-type.m4: Likewise.
233 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
234 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
235 * gettext.m4: Likewise.
236 * jm-mktime.m4: Likewise.
237 * jm-winsz2.m4: Likewise.
238 * lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
239 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: Likewise.
240 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
241 * memcmp.m4: Likewise.
242 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
243 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
244 * st_mtim.m4: Likewise.
245 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
247 1999-01-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
249 * jm-macros.m4 (ARGMATCH_DIE): Define.
250 (ARGMATCH_DIE_DECL): Define.
252 1999-01-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
254 * Makefile.am.in: Rewrite to avoid using fmt.
255 Reported by Lars Hecking.
257 1999-01-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
259 * fstypename.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of my
261 * inttypes_h.m4: Likewise.
262 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
263 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
264 * readdir.m4: Likewise.
265 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
266 * st_dm_mode.m4: Likewise.
268 * utimbuf.m4: Likewise.
269 * utimes.m4: Likewise.
271 * check-decl.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of the
272 AC_CHECK_FUNCS hack. Now, it's still a hack, but at least the
273 comments in config.h.in are meaningful.
275 * jm-macros.m4: Require autoconf-2.13 here.
277 * regex.m4: By default, don't use the included regex.c on systems
278 with glibc 2. Suggestion from Uli Drepper.
280 1999-01-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
282 * jm-macros.m4: Replace strcasecmp and strncasecmp.
284 1998-12-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
286 * Makefile.am.in (Makefile.am): Simplify rule.
287 Based on a suggestion from Lars Hecking.
289 1998-11-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
291 * lfs.m4: Double-quote the `uname...` expression.
293 1998-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
295 * lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): Add support for HP-UX 10.20 and HP-UX 11.
297 1998-11-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
299 * lstat.m4: Correct comment. POSIX does not permit it to succeed.
302 1998-11-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
304 * stat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_STAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.
305 * lstat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_LSTAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.
307 1998-10-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
309 * check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): Remove macro.
311 1998-10-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
313 * decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLARATION): Don't hard-code which headers to
314 include, though we still hard-code the `require'-like AC_CHECK_HEADERS
315 calls for those previously hard-coded headers. Instead, take a new
317 (jm_CHECK_DECLARATIONS): Reflect interface change.
318 * check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLS): Likewise.
319 (jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): New macro.
321 * mktime.m4: Test for spring-forward gap before long-running test.
323 1998-10-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
325 * mktime.m4: Use the more portable "TZ=PST8PDT,M4.1.0,M10.5.0"
326 instead of "TZ=America/Vancouver". From Paul Eggert.
328 1998-10-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
330 * mktime.m4 (jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME): New file and macro.
331 This adds a test for a recently added compatibility fix for mktime.c.
332 * jm-mktime.m4: Require jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME, not AM_FUNC_MKTIME.
334 1998-09-27 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
336 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_MACROS): Require jm_FUNC_FNMATCH.
338 * fnmatch.m4 (jm_FUNC_FNMATCH): New file/macro. Extracted from
339 ../configure.in, including a change from Gordon Matzigkeit to allow
340 cross-compiling for the Hurd.
342 * glibc.m4: New file/macro to test for the GNU C Library
343 versions 1 and 2. From Gordon Matzigkeit.
346 1998-09-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
348 * chown.m4: Declare locals: before, after. From Andries Brouwer.
350 1998-08-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
352 Port nanosecond-resolution times to UnixWare 2.1.2 and
353 pedantic Solaris 2.6.
355 * st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC): Renamed from
357 * st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC):
358 Generate name of ns member, instead of just 1 or undef.
359 Allow for UnixWare 2.1.2 and Solaris 2.6 if in pedantic mode.
361 1998-08-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
363 * ssize_t.m4 (jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T): Remove file.
364 * check-type.m4: New file. Replacement for AC_CHECK_TYPE.
365 * jm-macros.m4: Use the new AC_CHECK_TYPE(ssize_t, int)
366 instead of jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T.
368 1998-08-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
370 * st_dm_mode.m4: New file. From Johan Danielsson.
372 1998-08-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
374 * st_mtim.m4: Use hack to avoid having to put #undef HAVE_ST_MTIM
375 in acconfig.h manually.
377 1998-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
379 * st_mtim.m4: New file.
381 1998-07-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
383 * utimes.m4: Undef stat.
385 1998-07-25 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
387 * utime.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIME): New file and macro.
388 * utimes.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIMES_NULL): New file and macro.
390 1998-07-09 Manfred Hollstein <manfred@s-direktnet.de>
392 * chown.m4 (jm_FUNC_CHOWN): Add a check to verify that the
393 uid and gid actually remain unchanged.
395 1998-07-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
397 * jm-glibc-io.m4: Remove fclose_unlocked.
399 1998-07-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
401 * regex.m4: Use syscmd, ifelse, and sysval. Mainly as an exercise
402 to prove that this macro can be used in packages without regex.c.
404 1998-07-02 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
406 * gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove intl/libintl.h if <libintl.h>
409 1998-07-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
411 * gettext.m4: Add -lintl if it's found to be necessary.
413 * gettext.m4: New file -- from gettext-0.10.35.
414 * lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
415 * progtest.m4: Likewise.
417 * regex.m4 (jm_WITH_REGEX): New file and macro.
418 * jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.
420 1998-06-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
422 * fstypename.m4: Include sys/param.h. NetBSD 1.3.1 requires this
423 for the definition of NGROUPS (used in a system header included
426 1998-06-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
428 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: New file.
429 * fstypename.m4: New file.
431 * jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.
432 * jm-glibc-io.m4: New file.
434 1998-05-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
436 * jm-macros.m4: Add jm_FUNC_LCHOWN.
437 * lchown.m4: New file.
439 * Makefile.am.in: New file.
440 * Makefile.am (Makefile.am): Depend on Makefile.am.in.
442 1998-05-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
444 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add them.
445 * jm-macros.m4: New file.
446 * utimbuf.m4: New file.
448 1998-05-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
450 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add isc-posix.m4.
452 1998-05-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
454 * isc-posix.m4: New file.
456 1998-05-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
458 * jm-mktime.m4: Use AM_FUNC_MKTIME, now that it's up to date.
460 1998-05-09 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
462 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add ssize_t.m4.
463 (EXTRA_DIST): Remove mktime.m4, now that the new version is included
466 * ssize_t.m4: New file.
467 * mktime.m4: Remove file -- the new automake has this now.
469 1998-04-26 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
471 * assert.m4: New file.
472 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add assert.m4.
474 1998-04-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
476 * prereq.m4 (jm_PREREQ_REGEX): New macro.
477 (jm_PREREQ): Use it here.
479 1998-03-23 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
481 * inttypes_h.m4: Kludges so I don't have to add HAVE_INTTYPES_H
484 1998-03-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
486 * prereq.m4: New file.
487 * error.m4: New file.
488 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add error.m4 and prereq.m4.
490 1998-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
492 * getline.m4: Don't set am_cv_func_working_getline before the
493 cache-check for the same variable -- that defeated the purpose of
494 the test; the test program was never run. This was a problem only
495 on systems with losing getline functions -- HP-UX 10.20 is one.
496 Reported by Bjorn Helgaas.
498 1998-02-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
500 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add perl.m4.
502 1998-01-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
504 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add const.m4.
506 * const.m4: New file. Use an initializer in this declaration
507 typedef int charset[2]; const charset x;
508 Reported by Bob Glickstein.
510 1997-12-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
512 * chown.m4: Fix reversed types on -1 args to chown.
515 1997-12-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
517 * check-decl.m4: s/DECLARATION_/DECL_/g.
518 Add lseek and memchr.
520 * decl.m4: s/HAVE_DECLARATION_/HAVE_DECL_/g.
521 T.E.Dickey <dickey@clark.net> said that some older preprocessors
522 have a 20-character limit on names.
524 1997-11-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
526 * inttypes_h.m4: New file.
527 * uintmax_t.m4: New file.
528 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add inttypes_h.m4 and uintmax_t.m4.