1 1999-08-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
3 * getline.m4: Rename test file from conftestdata to conftest.data
4 to avoid conflicts with `conftest' on 8+3 filesystems.
5 Suggestion from Eli Zaretskii.
7 1999-08-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
9 * jm-macros.m4: Move a 4-line block of code from the configure.in of
10 fileutils and sh-utils (textutils's getline test was inadequate).
11 (AM_FUNC_GETLINE): Run this test.
12 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getdelim.
13 Reported by Bob Proulx.
15 1999-08-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
17 * jm-macros.m4: Add a comment.
19 1999-08-01 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
21 * mktime.m4 (AC_FUNC_MKTIME): Undefine to avoid syntax errors from m4.
23 1999-08-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
25 * lfs.m4: Remove this file.
26 * largefile.m4: New file. It contains the old contents of
27 lfs.m4, except that all names with prefix AC_LFS have been
28 changed to use the prefix AC_SYS_LARGEFILE instead, to be
29 compatible with future autoconf versions. Also, some minor m4
30 quoting problems have been fixed.
32 1999-07-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
34 * ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): Make sure
35 that we can shift, multiply and divide unsigned long long
36 values; Ultrix cc can't do it.
38 1999-07-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
40 * xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): Check whether
41 <inttypes.h> defines strtoumax as a macro (and not as a
44 1999-07-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
46 * gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove unnecessary lines.
47 Fix typo: $nls_cv_header_intl was misspelled as $nsl_cv_header_intl.
48 (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Fix problem with brackets and m4 quoting,
49 and simplify the shell code.
51 1999-07-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
53 * mktime.m4: New file, which is a preview of what should appear
54 in the next public autoconf release.
56 1999-07-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
58 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memmove.
60 1999-07-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
62 * jm-macros.m4: (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getpagesize.
64 1999-05-22 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
66 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memchr.
68 1999-05-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
70 * search-libs.m4 [AC_SEARCH_LIBS]: Quote name in undefine.
71 Add a colon after each `then' in case $4 is empty.
73 1999-05-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
75 * search-libs.m4: New file to override autoconf's AC_SEARCH_LIBS.
77 1999-05-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
79 * jm-mktime.m4: Reflect renaming: AM_FUNC_MKTIME -> AC_FUNC_MKTIME.
81 * jm-macros.m4: Require 2.14.1, since we use newly-renamed
84 1999-05-10 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
86 * jm-mktime.m4, putenv.m4: Fix typos in config.h comments.
88 1999-05-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
90 * lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): -n32, -o32, and -n64 should be in CFLAGS,
91 not CPPFLAGS, so that linking works correctly in IRIX.
93 1999-04-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
95 * jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add dup2.
97 1999-04-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
99 * xstrtoumax.m4: Require jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
100 AC_REPLACE xstroull if necessary. From Paul Eggert.
101 (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Remove strtoull, strtoumax, strtouq.
103 1999-04-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
105 * uintmax_t.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T): Move unsigned long
106 long check into new jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG macro.
107 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): Require
108 jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
109 * ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): New file/macro.
111 * lfs.m4: Port to AIX and HP-UX. Support cross-compilation.
113 1999-04-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
115 * xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): New file/macro.
116 * jm-macros.m4: Use it.
118 1999-04-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
120 * strftime.m4: Remove test for %f.
122 1999-03-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
124 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): New macro, contains the
125 superset of the AC_TYPE_* checks in the textutils, fileutils,
126 and sh-utils, plus AC_TYPE_PID_T. Paul Eggert suggested adding
129 1999-03-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
131 * jm-macros.m4: Define GNU_PACKAGE here.
132 Be sure to AC_SUBST it, once again, so that @GNU_PACKAGE@ is
133 replaced e.g., in the *.sh files of the sh-utils.
135 1999-03-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
137 * jm-macros.m4: s/jm_WITH_REGEX/jm_INCLUDED_REGEX/.
138 * regex.m4 (jm_INCLUDED_REGEX): Rename from jm_WITH_REGEX.
139 Don't depend on AM_GLIBC. Suggestions from Alain Magloire.
141 1999-03-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
143 * jm-winsz1.m4 (jm_WINSIZE_IN_PTEM): New macro.
145 1999-03-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
147 * jm-macros.m4: Use AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED.
149 1999-03-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
151 * jm-glibc-io.m4: Use only those *_unlocked macros that are declared.
153 1999-02-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
155 * gettext.m4 (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Do `changequote' around use of brackets
156 in macro definition. From Eli Zaretskii and Alain Magloire.
158 1999-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
160 * group-member.m4: New file -- extracted from sh-utils' configure.in.
162 1999-02-05 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
163 * gettext.m4: Support DOS-style d:/foo/bar absolute file names.
165 1999-02-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
167 * chown.m4: Use `AC_SUBST(LIBOBJS)' since we set LIBOBJS.
168 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
169 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
170 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
171 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
172 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
173 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
174 * regex.m4: Likewise.
176 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
177 Suggestion from Alain Magloire.
179 * chown.m4: Use `.$ac_objext', not `.o'.
180 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
181 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
182 * getline.m4: Likewise.
183 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
184 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
185 * memcmp.m4: Likewise.
186 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
187 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
188 * regex.m4: Likewise.
190 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
191 Suggestion from Alain Magloire.
193 * jm-macros.m4: Actually invoke jm_WITH_REGEX now that it requires
196 * regex.m4: Add a run-time Test for proper operation of
199 1999-01-31 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
201 * getloadavg.m4: Check for locale.h and the function, setlocale.
203 1999-01-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
205 * check-type.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.
207 * jm-mktime.m4: Make this a wrapper around the official AM_FUNC_MKTIME
208 rather than my private copy, now that the official one is up to date.
209 * mktime.m4: Remove file.
211 * getloadavg.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.
212 * uptime.m4: Likewise.
213 * uintmax_t.m4: Likewise.
215 1999-01-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
217 * jm-macros.m4: Use jm_AFS.
218 * afs.m4: New file (from fileutils' configure.in).
220 * assert.m4: Use the 3-argument forms of AC_DEFINE* macros.
221 * chown.m4: Likewise.
222 * d-ino.m4: Likewise.
223 * d-type.m4: Likewise.
224 * fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
225 * getgroups.m4: Likewise.
226 * gettext.m4: Likewise.
227 * jm-mktime.m4: Likewise.
228 * jm-winsz2.m4: Likewise.
229 * lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
230 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: Likewise.
231 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
232 * memcmp.m4: Likewise.
233 * putenv.m4: Likewise.
234 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
235 * st_mtim.m4: Likewise.
236 * strftime.m4: Likewise.
238 1999-01-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
240 * jm-macros.m4 (ARGMATCH_DIE): Define.
241 (ARGMATCH_DIE_DECL): Define.
243 1999-01-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
245 * Makefile.am.in: Rewrite to avoid using fmt.
246 Reported by Lars Hecking.
248 1999-01-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
250 * fstypename.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of my
252 * inttypes_h.m4: Likewise.
253 * lstat.m4: Likewise.
254 * malloc.m4: Likewise.
255 * readdir.m4: Likewise.
256 * realloc.m4: Likewise.
257 * st_dm_mode.m4: Likewise.
259 * utimbuf.m4: Likewise.
260 * utimes.m4: Likewise.
262 * check-decl.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of the
263 AC_CHECK_FUNCS hack. Now, it's still a hack, but at least the
264 comments in config.h.in are meaningful.
266 * jm-macros.m4: Require autoconf-2.13 here.
268 * regex.m4: By default, don't use the included regex.c on systems
269 with glibc 2. Suggestion from Uli Drepper.
271 1999-01-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
273 * jm-macros.m4: Replace strcasecmp and strncasecmp.
275 1998-12-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
277 * Makefile.am.in (Makefile.am): Simplify rule.
278 Based on a suggestion from Lars Hecking.
280 1998-11-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
282 * lfs.m4: Double-quote the `uname...` expression.
284 1998-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
286 * lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): Add support for HP-UX 10.20 and HP-UX 11.
288 1998-11-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
290 * lstat.m4: Correct comment. POSIX does not permit it to succeed.
293 1998-11-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
295 * stat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_STAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.
296 * lstat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_LSTAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.
298 1998-10-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
300 * check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): Remove macro.
302 1998-10-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
304 * decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLARATION): Don't hard-code which headers to
305 include, though we still hard-code the `require'-like AC_CHECK_HEADERS
306 calls for those previously hard-coded headers. Instead, take a new
308 (jm_CHECK_DECLARATIONS): Reflect interface change.
309 * check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLS): Likewise.
310 (jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): New macro.
312 * mktime.m4: Test for spring-forward gap before long-running test.
314 1998-10-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
316 * mktime.m4: Use the more portable "TZ=PST8PDT,M4.1.0,M10.5.0"
317 instead of "TZ=America/Vancouver". From Paul Eggert.
319 1998-10-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
321 * mktime.m4 (jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME): New file and macro.
322 This adds a test for a recently added compatibility fix for mktime.c.
323 * jm-mktime.m4: Require jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME, not AM_FUNC_MKTIME.
325 1998-09-27 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
327 * jm-macros.m4 (jm_MACROS): Require jm_FUNC_FNMATCH.
329 * fnmatch.m4 (jm_FUNC_FNMATCH): New file/macro. Extracted from
330 ../configure.in, including a change from Gordon Matzigkeit to allow
331 cross-compiling for the Hurd.
333 * glibc.m4: New file/macro to test for the GNU C Library
334 versions 1 and 2. From Gordon Matzigkeit.
337 1998-09-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
339 * chown.m4: Declare locals: before, after. From Andries Brouwer.
341 1998-08-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
343 Port nanosecond-resolution times to UnixWare 2.1.2 and
344 pedantic Solaris 2.6.
346 * st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC): Renamed from
348 * st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC):
349 Generate name of ns member, instead of just 1 or undef.
350 Allow for UnixWare 2.1.2 and Solaris 2.6 if in pedantic mode.
352 1998-08-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
354 * ssize_t.m4 (jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T): Remove file.
355 * check-type.m4: New file. Replacement for AC_CHECK_TYPE.
356 * jm-macros.m4: Use the new AC_CHECK_TYPE(ssize_t, int)
357 instead of jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T.
359 1998-08-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
361 * st_dm_mode.m4: New file. From Johan Danielsson.
363 1998-08-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
365 * st_mtim.m4: Use hack to avoid having to put #undef HAVE_ST_MTIM
366 in acconfig.h manually.
368 1998-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
370 * st_mtim.m4: New file.
372 1998-07-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
374 * utimes.m4: Undef stat.
376 1998-07-25 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
378 * utime.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIME): New file and macro.
379 * utimes.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIMES_NULL): New file and macro.
381 1998-07-09 Manfred Hollstein <manfred@s-direktnet.de>
383 * chown.m4 (jm_FUNC_CHOWN): Add a check to verify that the
384 uid and gid actually remain unchanged.
386 1998-07-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
388 * jm-glibc-io.m4: Remove fclose_unlocked.
390 1998-07-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
392 * regex.m4: Use syscmd, ifelse, and sysval. Mainly as an exercise
393 to prove that this macro can be used in packages without regex.c.
395 1998-07-02 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
397 * gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove intl/libintl.h if <libintl.h>
400 1998-07-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
402 * gettext.m4: Add -lintl if it's found to be necessary.
404 * gettext.m4: New file -- from gettext-0.10.35.
405 * lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
406 * progtest.m4: Likewise.
408 * regex.m4 (jm_WITH_REGEX): New file and macro.
409 * jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.
411 1998-06-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
413 * fstypename.m4: Include sys/param.h. NetBSD 1.3.1 requires this
414 for the definition of NGROUPS (used in a system header included
417 1998-06-28 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
419 * ls-mntd-fs.m4: New file.
420 * fstypename.m4: New file.
422 * jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.
423 * jm-glibc-io.m4: New file.
425 1998-05-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
427 * jm-macros.m4: Add jm_FUNC_LCHOWN.
428 * lchown.m4: New file.
430 * Makefile.am.in: New file.
431 * Makefile.am (Makefile.am): Depend on Makefile.am.in.
433 1998-05-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
435 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add them.
436 * jm-macros.m4: New file.
437 * utimbuf.m4: New file.
439 1998-05-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
441 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add isc-posix.m4.
443 1998-05-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
445 * isc-posix.m4: New file.
447 1998-05-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
449 * jm-mktime.m4: Use AM_FUNC_MKTIME, now that it's up to date.
451 1998-05-09 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
453 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add ssize_t.m4.
454 (EXTRA_DIST): Remove mktime.m4, now that the new version is included
457 * ssize_t.m4: New file.
458 * mktime.m4: Remove file -- the new automake has this now.
460 1998-04-26 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
462 * assert.m4: New file.
463 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add assert.m4.
465 1998-04-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com>
467 * prereq.m4 (jm_PREREQ_REGEX): New macro.
468 (jm_PREREQ): Use it here.
470 1998-03-23 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
472 * inttypes_h.m4: Kludges so I don't have to add HAVE_INTTYPES_H
475 1998-03-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
477 * prereq.m4: New file.
478 * error.m4: New file.
479 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add error.m4 and prereq.m4.
481 1998-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
483 * getline.m4: Don't set am_cv_func_working_getline before the
484 cache-check for the same variable -- that defeated the purpose of
485 the test; the test program was never run. This was a problem only
486 on systems with losing getline functions -- HP-UX 10.20 is one.
487 Reported by Bjorn Helgaas.
489 1998-02-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
491 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add perl.m4.
493 1998-01-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
495 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add const.m4.
497 * const.m4: New file. Use an initializer in this declaration
498 typedef int charset[2]; const charset x;
499 Reported by Bob Glickstein.
501 1997-12-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
503 * chown.m4: Fix reversed types on -1 args to chown.
506 1997-12-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
508 * check-decl.m4: s/DECLARATION_/DECL_/g.
509 Add lseek and memchr.
511 * decl.m4: s/HAVE_DECLARATION_/HAVE_DECL_/g.
512 T.E.Dickey <dickey@clark.net> said that some older preprocessors
513 have a 20-character limit on names.
515 1997-11-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>
517 * inttypes_h.m4: New file.
518 * uintmax_t.m4: New file.
519 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add inttypes_h.m4 and uintmax_t.m4.