1 1999-12-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
3 * lstat-slash.m4: New file.
4 * jm-macros.m4: Use the new macro:
5 jm_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK.
7 1999-12-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
9 * perl.m4: Require that File::Compare be available, too.
10 Too many systems seem to lack it.
12 * strftime.m4: Add checks for most of the cpp macros tested in
13 GNU's strftime.c. Prompted by a patch from Paul Eggert.
15 1999-11-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
17 * m4/largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_FLAGS): Work around a
18 problem with the QNX 4.25 shell, which doesn't propagate exit
19 status of failed commands inside shell assignments.
21 1999-11-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
23 * gettext.m4: Use new AC_CONFIG_LINKS in place of AC_LINK_FILES.
25 1999-11-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
27 * getloadavg.m4: Add `, 1, [FIXME]' to each use of AC_DEFINE.
29 1999-11-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
31 * link-follow.m4 (jm_AC_FUNC_LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK): New file/macro.
32 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_MACROS): Use it here.
34 1999-11-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
36 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): Move some tests from configure.in
37 of textutils, fileutils, and sh-utils into this one (shared between
39 Use `AC_CHECK_MEMBERS((struct stat.st_blksize))' instead of deprecated
42 1999-11-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
44 * ssize_t.m4: Remove file. No longer needed since the new version of
45 AC_CHECK_TYPE checks includes unistd.h.
46 * jm-macros.m4: Use straight `AC_CHECK_TYPE(ssize_t, int)'.
47 Suggestion from Akim Demaille.
49 1999-10-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
51 * uintmax_t.m4: Require 2.14a. Remove backslash before backtick in
53 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: Likewise.
54 * jm-macros.m4: Likewise. Also, use AC_TYPE_SSIZE_T instead
55 * jm-winsz1.m4: Likewise.
57 * const.m4: Remove file, since the fix made it into the experimental
59 * mktime.m4: Likewise.
61 * check-type.m4: Remove file, now that the latest version of
62 AC_CHECK_TYPE takes a third arg to specify additional #includes.
64 * ssize_t.m4: New file, requires experimental version of autoconf.
65 * jm-macros.m4: Use new AC_TYPE_SSIZE_T instead of my hacked
68 1999-10-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
70 * jm-macros.m4: Don't require autoconf-2.14.1.
72 1999-09-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
74 * largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_FLAGS): Work around GCC
75 2.95.1 bug with HP-UX 10.20.
77 1999-09-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
79 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add strdup.
80 Paul Nevai reported a link failure on a NeXT CUBE with NeXTSTEP 3.3
81 due to missing strdup (against sh-utils-2.0).
83 1999-08-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
85 * jm-macros.m4: Require jm_BISON.
88 1999-08-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
90 * m4/largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE): Fix typo: missing comma
91 in value for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS, which broke ports to HP-UX 10.20.
93 1999-08-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
95 * getline.m4: Rename test file from conftestdata to conftest.data
96 to avoid conflicts with `conftest' on 8+3 filesystems.
97 Suggestion from Eli Zaretskii.
99 1999-08-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
101 * jm-macros.m4: Move a 4-line block of code from the configure.in of
102 fileutils and sh-utils (textutils's getline test was inadequate).
103 (AM_FUNC_GETLINE): Run this test.
104 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getdelim.
105 Reported by Bob Proulx.
107 1999-08-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
109 * jm-macros.m4: Add a comment.
111 1999-08-01 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
113 * mktime.m4 (AC_FUNC_MKTIME): Undefine to avoid syntax errors from m4.
115 1999-08-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
117 * lfs.m4: Remove this file.
118 * largefile.m4: New file. It contains the old contents of
119 lfs.m4, except that all names with prefix AC_LFS have been
120 changed to use the prefix AC_SYS_LARGEFILE instead, to be
121 compatible with future autoconf versions. Also, some minor m4
122 quoting problems have been fixed.
124 1999-07-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
126 * ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): Make sure
127 that we can shift, multiply and divide unsigned long long
128 values; Ultrix cc can't do it.
130 1999-07-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
132 * xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): Check whether
133 <inttypes.h> defines strtoumax as a macro (and not as a
136 1999-07-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
138 * gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove unnecessary lines.
139 Fix typo: $nls_cv_header_intl was misspelled as $nsl_cv_header_intl.
140 (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Fix problem with brackets and m4 quoting,
141 and simplify the shell code.
143 1999-07-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
145 * mktime.m4: New file, which is a preview of what should appear
146 in the next public autoconf release.
148 1999-07-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
150 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memmove.
152 1999-07-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
154 * jm-macros.m4: (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getpagesize.
156 1999-05-22 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
158 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memchr.
160 1999-05-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
162 * search-libs.m4 [AC_SEARCH_LIBS]: Quote name in undefine.
163 Add a colon after each `then' in case $4 is empty.
165 1999-05-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
167 * search-libs.m4: New file to override autoconf's AC_SEARCH_LIBS.
169 1999-05-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
171 * jm-mktime.m4: Reflect renaming: AM_FUNC_MKTIME -> AC_FUNC_MKTIME.
173 * jm-macros.m4: Require 2.14.1, since we use newly-renamed
176 1999-05-10 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
178 * jm-mktime.m4, putenv.m4: Fix typos in config.h comments.
180 1999-05-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
182 * lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): -n32, -o32, and -n64 should be in CFLAGS,
183 not CPPFLAGS, so that linking works correctly in IRIX.
185 1999-04-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
187 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add dup2.
189 1999-04-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
191 * xstrtoumax.m4: Require jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
192 AC_REPLACE xstroull if necessary. From Paul Eggert.
193 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Remove strtoull, strtoumax, strtouq.
195 1999-04-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
197 * uintmax_t.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T): Move unsigned long
198 long check into new jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG macro.
199 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): Require
200 jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
201 * ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): New file/macro.
203 * lfs.m4: Port to AIX and HP-UX. Support cross-compilation.
205 1999-04-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
207 * xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): New file/macro.
208 * jm-macros.m4: Use it.
210 1999-04-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
212 * strftime.m4: Remove test for %f.
214 1999-03-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
216 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): New macro, contains the
217 superset of the AC_TYPE_* checks in the textutils, fileutils,
218 and sh-utils, plus AC_TYPE_PID_T. Paul Eggert suggested adding
221 1999-03-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
223 * jm-macros.m4: Define GNU_PACKAGE here.
224 Be sure to AC_SUBST it, once again, so that @GNU_PACKAGE@ is
225 replaced e.g., in the *.sh files of the sh-utils.
227 1999-03-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
229 * jm-macros.m4: s/jm_WITH_REGEX/jm_INCLUDED_REGEX/.
230 * regex.m4 (jm_INCLUDED_REGEX): Rename from jm_WITH_REGEX.
231 Don't depend on AM_GLIBC. Suggestions from Alain Magloire.
233 1999-03-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
235 * jm-winsz1.m4 (jm_WINSIZE_IN_PTEM): New macro.
237 1999-03-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
239 * jm-macros.m4: Use AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED.
241 1999-03-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
243 * jm-glibc-io.m4: Use only those *_unlocked macros that are declared.
245 1999-02-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
247 * gettext.m4 (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Do `changequote' around use of brackets
248 in macro definition. From Eli Zaretskii and Alain Magloire.
250 1999-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
252 * group-member.m4: New file -- extracted from sh-utils' configure.in.
254 1999-02-05 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
255 * gettext.m4: Support DOS-style d:/foo/bar absolute file names.
257 1999-02-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
259 * chown.m4: Use `AC_SUBST(LIBOBJS)' since we set LIBOBJS.
260 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
261 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
262 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
263 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
264 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
265 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
266 * regex.m4: Likewise.
268 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
269 Suggestion from Alain Magloire.
271 * chown.m4: Use `.$ac_objext', not `.o'.
272 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
273 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
274 * getline.m4: Likewise.
275 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
276 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
277 * memcmp.m4: Likewise.
278 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
279 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
280 * regex.m4: Likewise.
282 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
283 Suggestion from Alain Magloire.
285 * jm-macros.m4: Actually invoke jm_WITH_REGEX now that it requires
288 * regex.m4: Add a run-time Test for proper operation of
291 1999-01-31 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
293 * getloadavg.m4: Check for locale.h and the function, setlocale.
295 1999-01-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
297 * check-type.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.
299 * jm-mktime.m4: Make this a wrapper around the official AM_FUNC_MKTIME
300 rather than my private copy, now that the official one is up to date.
301 * mktime.m4: Remove file.
303 * getloadavg.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.
304 * uptime.m4: Likewise.
305 * uintmax_t.m4: Likewise.
307 1999-01-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
309 * jm-macros.m4: Use jm_AFS.
310 * afs.m4: New file (from fileutils' configure.in).
312 * assert.m4: Use the 3-argument forms of AC_DEFINE* macros.
313 * chown.m4: Likewise.
314 * d-ino.m4: Likewise.
315 * d-type.m4: Likewise.
316 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
317 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
318 * gettext.m4: Likewise.
319 * jm-mktime.m4: Likewise.
320 * jm-winsz2.m4: Likewise.
321 * lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
322 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: Likewise.
323 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
324 * memcmp.m4: Likewise.
325 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
326 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
327 * st_mtim.m4: Likewise.
328 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
330 1999-01-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
332 * jm-macros.m4 (ARGMATCH_DIE): Define.
333 (ARGMATCH_DIE_DECL): Define.
335 1999-01-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
337 * Makefile.am.in: Rewrite to avoid using fmt.
338 Reported by Lars Hecking.
340 1999-01-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
342 * fstypename.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of my
344 * inttypes_h.m4: Likewise.
345 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
346 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
347 * readdir.m4: Likewise.
348 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
349 * st_dm_mode.m4: Likewise.
351 * utimbuf.m4: Likewise.
352 * utimes.m4: Likewise.
354 * check-decl.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of the
355 AC_CHECK_FUNCS hack. Now, it's still a hack, but at least the
356 comments in config.h.in are meaningful.
358 * jm-macros.m4: Require autoconf-2.13 here.
360 * regex.m4: By default, don't use the included regex.c on systems
361 with glibc 2. Suggestion from Uli Drepper.
363 1999-01-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
365 * jm-macros.m4: Replace strcasecmp and strncasecmp.
367 1998-12-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
369 * Makefile.am.in (Makefile.am): Simplify rule.
370 Based on a suggestion from Lars Hecking.
372 1998-11-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
374 * lfs.m4: Double-quote the `uname...` expression.
376 1998-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
378 * lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): Add support for HP-UX 10.20 and HP-UX 11.
380 1998-11-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
382 * lstat.m4: Correct comment. POSIX does not permit it to succeed.
385 1998-11-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
387 * stat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_STAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.
388 * lstat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_LSTAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.
390 1998-10-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
392 * check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): Remove macro.
394 1998-10-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
396 * decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLARATION): Don't hard-code which headers to
397 include, though we still hard-code the `require'-like AC_CHECK_HEADERS
398 calls for those previously hard-coded headers. Instead, take a new
400 (jm_CHECK_DECLARATIONS): Reflect interface change.
401 * check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLS): Likewise.
402 (jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): New macro.
404 * mktime.m4: Test for spring-forward gap before long-running test.
406 1998-10-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
408 * mktime.m4: Use the more portable "TZ=PST8PDT,M4.1.0,M10.5.0"
409 instead of "TZ=America/Vancouver". From Paul Eggert.
411 1998-10-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
413 * mktime.m4 (jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME): New file and macro.
414 This adds a test for a recently added compatibility fix for mktime.c.
415 * jm-mktime.m4: Require jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME, not AM_FUNC_MKTIME.
417 1998-09-27 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
419 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_MACROS): Require jm_FUNC_FNMATCH.
421 * fnmatch.m4 (jm_FUNC_FNMATCH): New file/macro. Extracted from
422 ../configure.in, including a change from Gordon Matzigkeit to allow
423 cross-compiling for the Hurd.
425 * glibc.m4: New file/macro to test for the GNU C Library
426 versions 1 and 2. From Gordon Matzigkeit.
429 1998-09-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
431 * chown.m4: Declare locals: before, after. From Andries Brouwer.
433 1998-08-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
435 Port nanosecond-resolution times to UnixWare 2.1.2 and
436 pedantic Solaris 2.6.
438 * st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC): Renamed from
440 * st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC):
441 Generate name of ns member, instead of just 1 or undef.
442 Allow for UnixWare 2.1.2 and Solaris 2.6 if in pedantic mode.
444 1998-08-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
446 * ssize_t.m4 (jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T): Remove file.
447 * check-type.m4: New file. Replacement for AC_CHECK_TYPE.
448 * jm-macros.m4: Use the new AC_CHECK_TYPE(ssize_t, int)
449 instead of jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T.
451 1998-08-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
453 * st_dm_mode.m4: New file. From Johan Danielsson.
455 1998-08-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
457 * st_mtim.m4: Use hack to avoid having to put #undef HAVE_ST_MTIM
458 in acconfig.h manually.
460 1998-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
462 * st_mtim.m4: New file.
464 1998-07-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
466 * utimes.m4: Undef stat.
468 1998-07-25 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
470 * utime.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIME): New file and macro.
471 * utimes.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIMES_NULL): New file and macro.
473 1998-07-09 Manfred Hollstein <manfred@s-direktnet.de>
475 * chown.m4 (jm_FUNC_CHOWN): Add a check to verify that the
476 uid and gid actually remain unchanged.
478 1998-07-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
480 * jm-glibc-io.m4: Remove fclose_unlocked.
482 1998-07-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
484 * regex.m4: Use syscmd, ifelse, and sysval. Mainly as an exercise
485 to prove that this macro can be used in packages without regex.c.
487 1998-07-02 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
489 * gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove intl/libintl.h if <libintl.h>
492 1998-07-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
494 * gettext.m4: Add -lintl if it's found to be necessary.
496 * gettext.m4: New file -- from gettext-0.10.35.
497 * lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
498 * progtest.m4: Likewise.
500 * regex.m4 (jm_WITH_REGEX): New file and macro.
501 * jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.
503 1998-06-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
505 * fstypename.m4: Include sys/param.h. NetBSD 1.3.1 requires this
506 for the definition of NGROUPS (used in a system header included
509 1998-06-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
511 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: New file.
512 * fstypename.m4: New file.
514 * jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.
515 * jm-glibc-io.m4: New file.
517 1998-05-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
519 * jm-macros.m4: Add jm_FUNC_LCHOWN.
520 * lchown.m4: New file.
522 * Makefile.am.in: New file.
523 * Makefile.am (Makefile.am): Depend on Makefile.am.in.
525 1998-05-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
527 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add them.
528 * jm-macros.m4: New file.
529 * utimbuf.m4: New file.
531 1998-05-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
533 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add isc-posix.m4.
535 1998-05-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
537 * isc-posix.m4: New file.
539 1998-05-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
541 * jm-mktime.m4: Use AM_FUNC_MKTIME, now that it's up to date.
543 1998-05-09 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
545 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add ssize_t.m4.
546 (EXTRA_DIST): Remove mktime.m4, now that the new version is included
549 * ssize_t.m4: New file.
550 * mktime.m4: Remove file -- the new automake has this now.
552 1998-04-26 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
554 * assert.m4: New file.
555 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add assert.m4.
557 1998-04-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
559 * prereq.m4 (jm_PREREQ_REGEX): New macro.
560 (jm_PREREQ): Use it here.
562 1998-03-23 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
564 * inttypes_h.m4: Kludges so I don't have to add HAVE_INTTYPES_H
567 1998-03-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
569 * prereq.m4: New file.
570 * error.m4: New file.
571 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add error.m4 and prereq.m4.
573 1998-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
575 * getline.m4: Don't set am_cv_func_working_getline before the
576 cache-check for the same variable -- that defeated the purpose of
577 the test; the test program was never run. This was a problem only
578 on systems with losing getline functions -- HP-UX 10.20 is one.
579 Reported by Bjorn Helgaas.
581 1998-02-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
583 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add perl.m4.
585 1998-01-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
587 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add const.m4.
589 * const.m4: New file. Use an initializer in this declaration
590 typedef int charset[2]; const charset x;
591 Reported by Bob Glickstein.
593 1997-12-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
595 * chown.m4: Fix reversed types on -1 args to chown.
598 1997-12-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
600 * check-decl.m4: s/DECLARATION_/DECL_/g.
601 Add lseek and memchr.
603 * decl.m4: s/HAVE_DECLARATION_/HAVE_DECL_/g.
604 T.E.Dickey <dickey@clark.net> said that some older preprocessors
605 have a 20-character limit on names.
607 1997-11-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
609 * inttypes_h.m4: New file.
610 * uintmax_t.m4: New file.
611 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add inttypes_h.m4 and uintmax_t.m4.