1 1999-11-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
3 * ssize_t.m4: Remove file. No longer needed since the new version of
4 AC_CHECK_TYPE checks includes unistd.h.
5 * jm-macros.m4: Use straight `AC_CHECK_TYPE(ssize_t, int)'.
6 Suggestion from Akim Demaille.
8 1999-10-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
10 * uintmax_t.m4: Require 2.14a. Remove backslash before backtick in
12 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: Likewise.
13 * jm-macros.m4: Likewise. Also, use AC_TYPE_SSIZE_T instead
14 * jm-winsz1.m4: Likewise.
16 * const.m4: Remove file, since the fix made it into the experimental
18 * mktime.m4: Likewise.
20 * check-type.m4: Remove file, now that the latest version of
21 AC_CHECK_TYPE takes a third arg to specify additional #includes.
23 * ssize_t.m4: New file, requires experimental version of autoconf.
24 * jm-macros.m4: Use new AC_TYPE_SSIZE_T instead of my hacked
27 1999-10-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
29 * jm-macros.m4: Don't require autoconf-2.14.1.
31 1999-09-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
33 * largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_FLAGS): Work around GCC
34 2.95.1 bug with HP-UX 10.20.
36 1999-09-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
38 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add strdup.
39 Paul Nevai reported a link failure on a NeXT CUBE with NeXTSTEP 3.3
40 due to missing strdup (against sh-utils-2.0).
42 1999-08-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
44 * jm-macros.m4: Require jm_BISON.
47 1999-08-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
49 * m4/largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE): Fix typo: missing comma
50 in value for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS, which broke ports to HP-UX 10.20.
52 1999-08-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
54 * getline.m4: Rename test file from conftestdata to conftest.data
55 to avoid conflicts with `conftest' on 8+3 filesystems.
56 Suggestion from Eli Zaretskii.
58 1999-08-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
60 * jm-macros.m4: Move a 4-line block of code from the configure.in of
61 fileutils and sh-utils (textutils's getline test was inadequate).
62 (AM_FUNC_GETLINE): Run this test.
63 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getdelim.
64 Reported by Bob Proulx.
66 1999-08-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
68 * jm-macros.m4: Add a comment.
70 1999-08-01 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
72 * mktime.m4 (AC_FUNC_MKTIME): Undefine to avoid syntax errors from m4.
74 1999-08-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
76 * lfs.m4: Remove this file.
77 * largefile.m4: New file. It contains the old contents of
78 lfs.m4, except that all names with prefix AC_LFS have been
79 changed to use the prefix AC_SYS_LARGEFILE instead, to be
80 compatible with future autoconf versions. Also, some minor m4
81 quoting problems have been fixed.
83 1999-07-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
85 * ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): Make sure
86 that we can shift, multiply and divide unsigned long long
87 values; Ultrix cc can't do it.
89 1999-07-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
91 * xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): Check whether
92 <inttypes.h> defines strtoumax as a macro (and not as a
95 1999-07-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
97 * gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove unnecessary lines.
98 Fix typo: $nls_cv_header_intl was misspelled as $nsl_cv_header_intl.
99 (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Fix problem with brackets and m4 quoting,
100 and simplify the shell code.
102 1999-07-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
104 * mktime.m4: New file, which is a preview of what should appear
105 in the next public autoconf release.
107 1999-07-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
109 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memmove.
111 1999-07-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
113 * jm-macros.m4: (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getpagesize.
115 1999-05-22 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
117 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memchr.
119 1999-05-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
121 * search-libs.m4 [AC_SEARCH_LIBS]: Quote name in undefine.
122 Add a colon after each `then' in case $4 is empty.
124 1999-05-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
126 * search-libs.m4: New file to override autoconf's AC_SEARCH_LIBS.
128 1999-05-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
130 * jm-mktime.m4: Reflect renaming: AM_FUNC_MKTIME -> AC_FUNC_MKTIME.
132 * jm-macros.m4: Require 2.14.1, since we use newly-renamed
135 1999-05-10 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
137 * jm-mktime.m4, putenv.m4: Fix typos in config.h comments.
139 1999-05-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
141 * lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): -n32, -o32, and -n64 should be in CFLAGS,
142 not CPPFLAGS, so that linking works correctly in IRIX.
144 1999-04-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
146 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add dup2.
148 1999-04-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
150 * xstrtoumax.m4: Require jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
151 AC_REPLACE xstroull if necessary. From Paul Eggert.
152 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Remove strtoull, strtoumax, strtouq.
154 1999-04-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
156 * uintmax_t.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T): Move unsigned long
157 long check into new jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG macro.
158 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): Require
159 jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
160 * ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): New file/macro.
162 * lfs.m4: Port to AIX and HP-UX. Support cross-compilation.
164 1999-04-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
166 * xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): New file/macro.
167 * jm-macros.m4: Use it.
169 1999-04-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
171 * strftime.m4: Remove test for %f.
173 1999-03-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
175 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): New macro, contains the
176 superset of the AC_TYPE_* checks in the textutils, fileutils,
177 and sh-utils, plus AC_TYPE_PID_T. Paul Eggert suggested adding
180 1999-03-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
182 * jm-macros.m4: Define GNU_PACKAGE here.
183 Be sure to AC_SUBST it, once again, so that @GNU_PACKAGE@ is
184 replaced e.g., in the *.sh files of the sh-utils.
186 1999-03-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
188 * jm-macros.m4: s/jm_WITH_REGEX/jm_INCLUDED_REGEX/.
189 * regex.m4 (jm_INCLUDED_REGEX): Rename from jm_WITH_REGEX.
190 Don't depend on AM_GLIBC. Suggestions from Alain Magloire.
192 1999-03-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
194 * jm-winsz1.m4 (jm_WINSIZE_IN_PTEM): New macro.
196 1999-03-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
198 * jm-macros.m4: Use AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED.
200 1999-03-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
202 * jm-glibc-io.m4: Use only those *_unlocked macros that are declared.
204 1999-02-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
206 * gettext.m4 (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Do `changequote' around use of brackets
207 in macro definition. From Eli Zaretskii and Alain Magloire.
209 1999-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
211 * group-member.m4: New file -- extracted from sh-utils' configure.in.
213 1999-02-05 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
214 * gettext.m4: Support DOS-style d:/foo/bar absolute file names.
216 1999-02-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
218 * chown.m4: Use `AC_SUBST(LIBOBJS)' since we set LIBOBJS.
219 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
220 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
221 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
222 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
223 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
224 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
225 * regex.m4: Likewise.
227 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
228 Suggestion from Alain Magloire.
230 * chown.m4: Use `.$ac_objext', not `.o'.
231 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
232 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
233 * getline.m4: Likewise.
234 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
235 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
236 * memcmp.m4: Likewise.
237 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
238 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
239 * regex.m4: Likewise.
241 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
242 Suggestion from Alain Magloire.
244 * jm-macros.m4: Actually invoke jm_WITH_REGEX now that it requires
247 * regex.m4: Add a run-time Test for proper operation of
250 1999-01-31 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
252 * getloadavg.m4: Check for locale.h and the function, setlocale.
254 1999-01-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
256 * check-type.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.
258 * jm-mktime.m4: Make this a wrapper around the official AM_FUNC_MKTIME
259 rather than my private copy, now that the official one is up to date.
260 * mktime.m4: Remove file.
262 * getloadavg.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.
263 * uptime.m4: Likewise.
264 * uintmax_t.m4: Likewise.
266 1999-01-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
268 * jm-macros.m4: Use jm_AFS.
269 * afs.m4: New file (from fileutils' configure.in).
271 * assert.m4: Use the 3-argument forms of AC_DEFINE* macros.
272 * chown.m4: Likewise.
273 * d-ino.m4: Likewise.
274 * d-type.m4: Likewise.
275 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
276 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
277 * gettext.m4: Likewise.
278 * jm-mktime.m4: Likewise.
279 * jm-winsz2.m4: Likewise.
280 * lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
281 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: Likewise.
282 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
283 * memcmp.m4: Likewise.
284 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
285 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
286 * st_mtim.m4: Likewise.
287 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
289 1999-01-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
291 * jm-macros.m4 (ARGMATCH_DIE): Define.
292 (ARGMATCH_DIE_DECL): Define.
294 1999-01-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
296 * Makefile.am.in: Rewrite to avoid using fmt.
297 Reported by Lars Hecking.
299 1999-01-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
301 * fstypename.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of my
303 * inttypes_h.m4: Likewise.
304 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
305 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
306 * readdir.m4: Likewise.
307 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
308 * st_dm_mode.m4: Likewise.
310 * utimbuf.m4: Likewise.
311 * utimes.m4: Likewise.
313 * check-decl.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of the
314 AC_CHECK_FUNCS hack. Now, it's still a hack, but at least the
315 comments in config.h.in are meaningful.
317 * jm-macros.m4: Require autoconf-2.13 here.
319 * regex.m4: By default, don't use the included regex.c on systems
320 with glibc 2. Suggestion from Uli Drepper.
322 1999-01-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
324 * jm-macros.m4: Replace strcasecmp and strncasecmp.
326 1998-12-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
328 * Makefile.am.in (Makefile.am): Simplify rule.
329 Based on a suggestion from Lars Hecking.
331 1998-11-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
333 * lfs.m4: Double-quote the `uname...` expression.
335 1998-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
337 * lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): Add support for HP-UX 10.20 and HP-UX 11.
339 1998-11-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
341 * lstat.m4: Correct comment. POSIX does not permit it to succeed.
344 1998-11-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
346 * stat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_STAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.
347 * lstat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_LSTAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.
349 1998-10-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
351 * check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): Remove macro.
353 1998-10-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
355 * decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLARATION): Don't hard-code which headers to
356 include, though we still hard-code the `require'-like AC_CHECK_HEADERS
357 calls for those previously hard-coded headers. Instead, take a new
359 (jm_CHECK_DECLARATIONS): Reflect interface change.
360 * check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLS): Likewise.
361 (jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): New macro.
363 * mktime.m4: Test for spring-forward gap before long-running test.
365 1998-10-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
367 * mktime.m4: Use the more portable "TZ=PST8PDT,M4.1.0,M10.5.0"
368 instead of "TZ=America/Vancouver". From Paul Eggert.
370 1998-10-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
372 * mktime.m4 (jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME): New file and macro.
373 This adds a test for a recently added compatibility fix for mktime.c.
374 * jm-mktime.m4: Require jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME, not AM_FUNC_MKTIME.
376 1998-09-27 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
378 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_MACROS): Require jm_FUNC_FNMATCH.
380 * fnmatch.m4 (jm_FUNC_FNMATCH): New file/macro. Extracted from
381 ../configure.in, including a change from Gordon Matzigkeit to allow
382 cross-compiling for the Hurd.
384 * glibc.m4: New file/macro to test for the GNU C Library
385 versions 1 and 2. From Gordon Matzigkeit.
388 1998-09-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
390 * chown.m4: Declare locals: before, after. From Andries Brouwer.
392 1998-08-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
394 Port nanosecond-resolution times to UnixWare 2.1.2 and
395 pedantic Solaris 2.6.
397 * st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC): Renamed from
399 * st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC):
400 Generate name of ns member, instead of just 1 or undef.
401 Allow for UnixWare 2.1.2 and Solaris 2.6 if in pedantic mode.
403 1998-08-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
405 * ssize_t.m4 (jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T): Remove file.
406 * check-type.m4: New file. Replacement for AC_CHECK_TYPE.
407 * jm-macros.m4: Use the new AC_CHECK_TYPE(ssize_t, int)
408 instead of jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T.
410 1998-08-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
412 * st_dm_mode.m4: New file. From Johan Danielsson.
414 1998-08-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
416 * st_mtim.m4: Use hack to avoid having to put #undef HAVE_ST_MTIM
417 in acconfig.h manually.
419 1998-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
421 * st_mtim.m4: New file.
423 1998-07-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
425 * utimes.m4: Undef stat.
427 1998-07-25 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
429 * utime.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIME): New file and macro.
430 * utimes.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIMES_NULL): New file and macro.
432 1998-07-09 Manfred Hollstein <manfred@s-direktnet.de>
434 * chown.m4 (jm_FUNC_CHOWN): Add a check to verify that the
435 uid and gid actually remain unchanged.
437 1998-07-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
439 * jm-glibc-io.m4: Remove fclose_unlocked.
441 1998-07-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
443 * regex.m4: Use syscmd, ifelse, and sysval. Mainly as an exercise
444 to prove that this macro can be used in packages without regex.c.
446 1998-07-02 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
448 * gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove intl/libintl.h if <libintl.h>
451 1998-07-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
453 * gettext.m4: Add -lintl if it's found to be necessary.
455 * gettext.m4: New file -- from gettext-0.10.35.
456 * lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
457 * progtest.m4: Likewise.
459 * regex.m4 (jm_WITH_REGEX): New file and macro.
460 * jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.
462 1998-06-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
464 * fstypename.m4: Include sys/param.h. NetBSD 1.3.1 requires this
465 for the definition of NGROUPS (used in a system header included
468 1998-06-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
470 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: New file.
471 * fstypename.m4: New file.
473 * jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.
474 * jm-glibc-io.m4: New file.
476 1998-05-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
478 * jm-macros.m4: Add jm_FUNC_LCHOWN.
479 * lchown.m4: New file.
481 * Makefile.am.in: New file.
482 * Makefile.am (Makefile.am): Depend on Makefile.am.in.
484 1998-05-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
486 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add them.
487 * jm-macros.m4: New file.
488 * utimbuf.m4: New file.
490 1998-05-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
492 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add isc-posix.m4.
494 1998-05-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
496 * isc-posix.m4: New file.
498 1998-05-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
500 * jm-mktime.m4: Use AM_FUNC_MKTIME, now that it's up to date.
502 1998-05-09 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
504 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add ssize_t.m4.
505 (EXTRA_DIST): Remove mktime.m4, now that the new version is included
508 * ssize_t.m4: New file.
509 * mktime.m4: Remove file -- the new automake has this now.
511 1998-04-26 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
513 * assert.m4: New file.
514 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add assert.m4.
516 1998-04-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
518 * prereq.m4 (jm_PREREQ_REGEX): New macro.
519 (jm_PREREQ): Use it here.
521 1998-03-23 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
523 * inttypes_h.m4: Kludges so I don't have to add HAVE_INTTYPES_H
526 1998-03-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
528 * prereq.m4: New file.
529 * error.m4: New file.
530 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add error.m4 and prereq.m4.
532 1998-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
534 * getline.m4: Don't set am_cv_func_working_getline before the
535 cache-check for the same variable -- that defeated the purpose of
536 the test; the test program was never run. This was a problem only
537 on systems with losing getline functions -- HP-UX 10.20 is one.
538 Reported by Bjorn Helgaas.
540 1998-02-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
542 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add perl.m4.
544 1998-01-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
546 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add const.m4.
548 * const.m4: New file. Use an initializer in this declaration
549 typedef int charset[2]; const charset x;
550 Reported by Bob Glickstein.
552 1997-12-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
554 * chown.m4: Fix reversed types on -1 args to chown.
557 1997-12-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
559 * check-decl.m4: s/DECLARATION_/DECL_/g.
560 Add lseek and memchr.
562 * decl.m4: s/HAVE_DECLARATION_/HAVE_DECL_/g.
563 T.E.Dickey <dickey@clark.net> said that some older preprocessors
564 have a 20-character limit on names.
566 1997-11-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
568 * inttypes_h.m4: New file.
569 * uintmax_t.m4: New file.
570 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add inttypes_h.m4 and uintmax_t.m4.