1 1999-11-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
3 * getloadavg.m4: Add `, 1, [FIXME]' to each use of AC_DEFINE.
5 1999-11-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
7 * link-follow.m4 (jm_AC_FUNC_LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK): New file/macro.
8 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_MACROS): Use it here.
10 1999-11-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
12 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): Move some tests from configure.in
13 of textutils, fileutils, and sh-utils into this one (shared between
15 Use `AC_CHECK_MEMBERS((struct stat.st_blksize))' instead of deprecated
18 1999-11-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
20 * ssize_t.m4: Remove file. No longer needed since the new version of
21 AC_CHECK_TYPE checks includes unistd.h.
22 * jm-macros.m4: Use straight `AC_CHECK_TYPE(ssize_t, int)'.
23 Suggestion from Akim Demaille.
25 1999-10-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
27 * uintmax_t.m4: Require 2.14a. Remove backslash before backtick in
29 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: Likewise.
30 * jm-macros.m4: Likewise. Also, use AC_TYPE_SSIZE_T instead
31 * jm-winsz1.m4: Likewise.
33 * const.m4: Remove file, since the fix made it into the experimental
35 * mktime.m4: Likewise.
37 * check-type.m4: Remove file, now that the latest version of
38 AC_CHECK_TYPE takes a third arg to specify additional #includes.
40 * ssize_t.m4: New file, requires experimental version of autoconf.
41 * jm-macros.m4: Use new AC_TYPE_SSIZE_T instead of my hacked
44 1999-10-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
46 * jm-macros.m4: Don't require autoconf-2.14.1.
48 1999-09-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
50 * largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_FLAGS): Work around GCC
51 2.95.1 bug with HP-UX 10.20.
53 1999-09-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
55 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add strdup.
56 Paul Nevai reported a link failure on a NeXT CUBE with NeXTSTEP 3.3
57 due to missing strdup (against sh-utils-2.0).
59 1999-08-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
61 * jm-macros.m4: Require jm_BISON.
64 1999-08-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
66 * m4/largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE): Fix typo: missing comma
67 in value for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS, which broke ports to HP-UX 10.20.
69 1999-08-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
71 * getline.m4: Rename test file from conftestdata to conftest.data
72 to avoid conflicts with `conftest' on 8+3 filesystems.
73 Suggestion from Eli Zaretskii.
75 1999-08-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
77 * jm-macros.m4: Move a 4-line block of code from the configure.in of
78 fileutils and sh-utils (textutils's getline test was inadequate).
79 (AM_FUNC_GETLINE): Run this test.
80 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getdelim.
81 Reported by Bob Proulx.
83 1999-08-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
85 * jm-macros.m4: Add a comment.
87 1999-08-01 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
89 * mktime.m4 (AC_FUNC_MKTIME): Undefine to avoid syntax errors from m4.
91 1999-08-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
93 * lfs.m4: Remove this file.
94 * largefile.m4: New file. It contains the old contents of
95 lfs.m4, except that all names with prefix AC_LFS have been
96 changed to use the prefix AC_SYS_LARGEFILE instead, to be
97 compatible with future autoconf versions. Also, some minor m4
98 quoting problems have been fixed.
100 1999-07-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
102 * ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): Make sure
103 that we can shift, multiply and divide unsigned long long
104 values; Ultrix cc can't do it.
106 1999-07-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
108 * xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): Check whether
109 <inttypes.h> defines strtoumax as a macro (and not as a
112 1999-07-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
114 * gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove unnecessary lines.
115 Fix typo: $nls_cv_header_intl was misspelled as $nsl_cv_header_intl.
116 (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Fix problem with brackets and m4 quoting,
117 and simplify the shell code.
119 1999-07-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
121 * mktime.m4: New file, which is a preview of what should appear
122 in the next public autoconf release.
124 1999-07-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
126 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memmove.
128 1999-07-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
130 * jm-macros.m4: (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getpagesize.
132 1999-05-22 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
134 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memchr.
136 1999-05-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
138 * search-libs.m4 [AC_SEARCH_LIBS]: Quote name in undefine.
139 Add a colon after each `then' in case $4 is empty.
141 1999-05-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
143 * search-libs.m4: New file to override autoconf's AC_SEARCH_LIBS.
145 1999-05-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
147 * jm-mktime.m4: Reflect renaming: AM_FUNC_MKTIME -> AC_FUNC_MKTIME.
149 * jm-macros.m4: Require 2.14.1, since we use newly-renamed
152 1999-05-10 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
154 * jm-mktime.m4, putenv.m4: Fix typos in config.h comments.
156 1999-05-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
158 * lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): -n32, -o32, and -n64 should be in CFLAGS,
159 not CPPFLAGS, so that linking works correctly in IRIX.
161 1999-04-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
163 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add dup2.
165 1999-04-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
167 * xstrtoumax.m4: Require jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
168 AC_REPLACE xstroull if necessary. From Paul Eggert.
169 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Remove strtoull, strtoumax, strtouq.
171 1999-04-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
173 * uintmax_t.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T): Move unsigned long
174 long check into new jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG macro.
175 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): Require
176 jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
177 * ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): New file/macro.
179 * lfs.m4: Port to AIX and HP-UX. Support cross-compilation.
181 1999-04-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
183 * xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): New file/macro.
184 * jm-macros.m4: Use it.
186 1999-04-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
188 * strftime.m4: Remove test for %f.
190 1999-03-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
192 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): New macro, contains the
193 superset of the AC_TYPE_* checks in the textutils, fileutils,
194 and sh-utils, plus AC_TYPE_PID_T. Paul Eggert suggested adding
197 1999-03-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
199 * jm-macros.m4: Define GNU_PACKAGE here.
200 Be sure to AC_SUBST it, once again, so that @GNU_PACKAGE@ is
201 replaced e.g., in the *.sh files of the sh-utils.
203 1999-03-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
205 * jm-macros.m4: s/jm_WITH_REGEX/jm_INCLUDED_REGEX/.
206 * regex.m4 (jm_INCLUDED_REGEX): Rename from jm_WITH_REGEX.
207 Don't depend on AM_GLIBC. Suggestions from Alain Magloire.
209 1999-03-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
211 * jm-winsz1.m4 (jm_WINSIZE_IN_PTEM): New macro.
213 1999-03-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
215 * jm-macros.m4: Use AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED.
217 1999-03-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
219 * jm-glibc-io.m4: Use only those *_unlocked macros that are declared.
221 1999-02-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
223 * gettext.m4 (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Do `changequote' around use of brackets
224 in macro definition. From Eli Zaretskii and Alain Magloire.
226 1999-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
228 * group-member.m4: New file -- extracted from sh-utils' configure.in.
230 1999-02-05 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
231 * gettext.m4: Support DOS-style d:/foo/bar absolute file names.
233 1999-02-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
235 * chown.m4: Use `AC_SUBST(LIBOBJS)' since we set LIBOBJS.
236 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
237 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
238 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
239 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
240 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
241 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
242 * regex.m4: Likewise.
244 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
245 Suggestion from Alain Magloire.
247 * chown.m4: Use `.$ac_objext', not `.o'.
248 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
249 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
250 * getline.m4: Likewise.
251 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
252 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
253 * memcmp.m4: Likewise.
254 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
255 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
256 * regex.m4: Likewise.
258 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
259 Suggestion from Alain Magloire.
261 * jm-macros.m4: Actually invoke jm_WITH_REGEX now that it requires
264 * regex.m4: Add a run-time Test for proper operation of
267 1999-01-31 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
269 * getloadavg.m4: Check for locale.h and the function, setlocale.
271 1999-01-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
273 * check-type.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.
275 * jm-mktime.m4: Make this a wrapper around the official AM_FUNC_MKTIME
276 rather than my private copy, now that the official one is up to date.
277 * mktime.m4: Remove file.
279 * getloadavg.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.
280 * uptime.m4: Likewise.
281 * uintmax_t.m4: Likewise.
283 1999-01-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
285 * jm-macros.m4: Use jm_AFS.
286 * afs.m4: New file (from fileutils' configure.in).
288 * assert.m4: Use the 3-argument forms of AC_DEFINE* macros.
289 * chown.m4: Likewise.
290 * d-ino.m4: Likewise.
291 * d-type.m4: Likewise.
292 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
293 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
294 * gettext.m4: Likewise.
295 * jm-mktime.m4: Likewise.
296 * jm-winsz2.m4: Likewise.
297 * lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
298 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: Likewise.
299 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
300 * memcmp.m4: Likewise.
301 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
302 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
303 * st_mtim.m4: Likewise.
304 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
306 1999-01-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
308 * jm-macros.m4 (ARGMATCH_DIE): Define.
309 (ARGMATCH_DIE_DECL): Define.
311 1999-01-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
313 * Makefile.am.in: Rewrite to avoid using fmt.
314 Reported by Lars Hecking.
316 1999-01-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
318 * fstypename.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of my
320 * inttypes_h.m4: Likewise.
321 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
322 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
323 * readdir.m4: Likewise.
324 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
325 * st_dm_mode.m4: Likewise.
327 * utimbuf.m4: Likewise.
328 * utimes.m4: Likewise.
330 * check-decl.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of the
331 AC_CHECK_FUNCS hack. Now, it's still a hack, but at least the
332 comments in config.h.in are meaningful.
334 * jm-macros.m4: Require autoconf-2.13 here.
336 * regex.m4: By default, don't use the included regex.c on systems
337 with glibc 2. Suggestion from Uli Drepper.
339 1999-01-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
341 * jm-macros.m4: Replace strcasecmp and strncasecmp.
343 1998-12-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
345 * Makefile.am.in (Makefile.am): Simplify rule.
346 Based on a suggestion from Lars Hecking.
348 1998-11-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
350 * lfs.m4: Double-quote the `uname...` expression.
352 1998-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
354 * lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): Add support for HP-UX 10.20 and HP-UX 11.
356 1998-11-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
358 * lstat.m4: Correct comment. POSIX does not permit it to succeed.
361 1998-11-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
363 * stat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_STAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.
364 * lstat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_LSTAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.
366 1998-10-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
368 * check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): Remove macro.
370 1998-10-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
372 * decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLARATION): Don't hard-code which headers to
373 include, though we still hard-code the `require'-like AC_CHECK_HEADERS
374 calls for those previously hard-coded headers. Instead, take a new
376 (jm_CHECK_DECLARATIONS): Reflect interface change.
377 * check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLS): Likewise.
378 (jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): New macro.
380 * mktime.m4: Test for spring-forward gap before long-running test.
382 1998-10-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
384 * mktime.m4: Use the more portable "TZ=PST8PDT,M4.1.0,M10.5.0"
385 instead of "TZ=America/Vancouver". From Paul Eggert.
387 1998-10-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
389 * mktime.m4 (jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME): New file and macro.
390 This adds a test for a recently added compatibility fix for mktime.c.
391 * jm-mktime.m4: Require jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME, not AM_FUNC_MKTIME.
393 1998-09-27 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
395 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_MACROS): Require jm_FUNC_FNMATCH.
397 * fnmatch.m4 (jm_FUNC_FNMATCH): New file/macro. Extracted from
398 ../configure.in, including a change from Gordon Matzigkeit to allow
399 cross-compiling for the Hurd.
401 * glibc.m4: New file/macro to test for the GNU C Library
402 versions 1 and 2. From Gordon Matzigkeit.
405 1998-09-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
407 * chown.m4: Declare locals: before, after. From Andries Brouwer.
409 1998-08-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
411 Port nanosecond-resolution times to UnixWare 2.1.2 and
412 pedantic Solaris 2.6.
414 * st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC): Renamed from
416 * st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC):
417 Generate name of ns member, instead of just 1 or undef.
418 Allow for UnixWare 2.1.2 and Solaris 2.6 if in pedantic mode.
420 1998-08-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
422 * ssize_t.m4 (jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T): Remove file.
423 * check-type.m4: New file. Replacement for AC_CHECK_TYPE.
424 * jm-macros.m4: Use the new AC_CHECK_TYPE(ssize_t, int)
425 instead of jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T.
427 1998-08-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
429 * st_dm_mode.m4: New file. From Johan Danielsson.
431 1998-08-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
433 * st_mtim.m4: Use hack to avoid having to put #undef HAVE_ST_MTIM
434 in acconfig.h manually.
436 1998-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
438 * st_mtim.m4: New file.
440 1998-07-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
442 * utimes.m4: Undef stat.
444 1998-07-25 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
446 * utime.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIME): New file and macro.
447 * utimes.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIMES_NULL): New file and macro.
449 1998-07-09 Manfred Hollstein <manfred@s-direktnet.de>
451 * chown.m4 (jm_FUNC_CHOWN): Add a check to verify that the
452 uid and gid actually remain unchanged.
454 1998-07-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
456 * jm-glibc-io.m4: Remove fclose_unlocked.
458 1998-07-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
460 * regex.m4: Use syscmd, ifelse, and sysval. Mainly as an exercise
461 to prove that this macro can be used in packages without regex.c.
463 1998-07-02 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
465 * gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove intl/libintl.h if <libintl.h>
468 1998-07-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
470 * gettext.m4: Add -lintl if it's found to be necessary.
472 * gettext.m4: New file -- from gettext-0.10.35.
473 * lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
474 * progtest.m4: Likewise.
476 * regex.m4 (jm_WITH_REGEX): New file and macro.
477 * jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.
479 1998-06-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
481 * fstypename.m4: Include sys/param.h. NetBSD 1.3.1 requires this
482 for the definition of NGROUPS (used in a system header included
485 1998-06-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
487 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: New file.
488 * fstypename.m4: New file.
490 * jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.
491 * jm-glibc-io.m4: New file.
493 1998-05-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
495 * jm-macros.m4: Add jm_FUNC_LCHOWN.
496 * lchown.m4: New file.
498 * Makefile.am.in: New file.
499 * Makefile.am (Makefile.am): Depend on Makefile.am.in.
501 1998-05-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
503 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add them.
504 * jm-macros.m4: New file.
505 * utimbuf.m4: New file.
507 1998-05-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
509 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add isc-posix.m4.
511 1998-05-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
513 * isc-posix.m4: New file.
515 1998-05-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
517 * jm-mktime.m4: Use AM_FUNC_MKTIME, now that it's up to date.
519 1998-05-09 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
521 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add ssize_t.m4.
522 (EXTRA_DIST): Remove mktime.m4, now that the new version is included
525 * ssize_t.m4: New file.
526 * mktime.m4: Remove file -- the new automake has this now.
528 1998-04-26 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
530 * assert.m4: New file.
531 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add assert.m4.
533 1998-04-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
535 * prereq.m4 (jm_PREREQ_REGEX): New macro.
536 (jm_PREREQ): Use it here.
538 1998-03-23 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
540 * inttypes_h.m4: Kludges so I don't have to add HAVE_INTTYPES_H
543 1998-03-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
545 * prereq.m4: New file.
546 * error.m4: New file.
547 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add error.m4 and prereq.m4.
549 1998-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
551 * getline.m4: Don't set am_cv_func_working_getline before the
552 cache-check for the same variable -- that defeated the purpose of
553 the test; the test program was never run. This was a problem only
554 on systems with losing getline functions -- HP-UX 10.20 is one.
555 Reported by Bjorn Helgaas.
557 1998-02-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
559 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add perl.m4.
561 1998-01-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
563 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add const.m4.
565 * const.m4: New file. Use an initializer in this declaration
566 typedef int charset[2]; const charset x;
567 Reported by Bob Glickstein.
569 1997-12-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
571 * chown.m4: Fix reversed types on -1 args to chown.
574 1997-12-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
576 * check-decl.m4: s/DECLARATION_/DECL_/g.
577 Add lseek and memchr.
579 * decl.m4: s/HAVE_DECLARATION_/HAVE_DECL_/g.
580 T.E.Dickey <dickey@clark.net> said that some older preprocessors
581 have a 20-character limit on names.
583 1997-11-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
585 * inttypes_h.m4: New file.
586 * uintmax_t.m4: New file.
587 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add inttypes_h.m4 and uintmax_t.m4.