source: vendor/autoconf/2.13/ChangeLog@ 3159

1999-01-05  Ben Elliston  <[email protected]>

        * Version 2.13.

1999-01-04  Ben Elliston  <[email protected]>

        * autoconf.texi (AC_CHECK_FILE): Document.
        (AC_CHECK_FILES): Likewise.
        (AC_SEARCH_LIBS): Likewise.
        (AC_FUNC_SELECT_ARGTYPES): Use Jeff Garzik's version.
        (AC_C_STRINGIZE): Likewise.
        (AC_CYGWIN): Document.
        (AC_EXEEXT): Likewise.
        (AC_OBJEXT): Likewise.
        (AC_MINGW32): Likewise.
        (AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC): Likewise.
        (AC_VALIDATE_CACHED_SYSTEM_TUPLE): Likewise.
        
1999-01-01  Ben Elliston  <[email protected]>

        * NEWS: Update.

        * acspecific.m4 (AC_PROG_CXX_WORKS): Specify an explicit return
        type for `main' to keep modern C++ compilers happy.

1998-12-28  Jeff Garzik  <[email protected]>

        * autoconf.texi:
          (AC_SEARCH_LIBS, AC_CHECK_FILE, AC_CHECK_FILES,
           AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC): Document.
          (AC_CHECK_LIB): Indicate the absence of
                action-if-not-found will not kill default action.
          (AC_SYS_INTERPRETER): Alphabetize with rest of section,
                s/ac_cv_sys_interpreter/interpval/

        * acgeneral.m4:
          (AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC): Fix arg transposition.
          (AC_SEARCH_LIBS): Require autoconf 2.13, add other-libs arg.
          (AC_CHECK_FILES): Add underscore to HAVE_file define.

        * acspecific.m4:
          (AC_SYS_INTERPRETER): New shell var 'interpval' stores
                internal var ac_cv_sys_interpreter.

1998-12-27  Ben Elliston  <[email protected]>

        * autoconf.texi (AC_PROG_INSTALL): Update.
        (AC_FUNC_ALLOCA): Correct code fragment.
        (AC_FUNC_SELECT_ARGTYPES): Document.
        (AC_C_STRINGIZE): Likewise.
        (AC_VALIDATE_CACHED_SYSTEM_TUPLE): Likewise.
        
        * acspecific.m4 (AC_CYGWIN): Rename from `AC_CYGWIN32'.
        (AC_CYGWIN32): Warn about deprecated usage. Forward to AC_CYGWIN.

        * config.sub: Drop `32' from `Cygwin32'.

        * config.guess: Likewise.

        * NEWS: Update.

        * configure: Rebuild.

1998-12-26  Ben Elliston  <[email protected]>

        * autoreconf.sh (stamp): Add missing quote.

        * mkinstalldirs: Write output which is not diagnostic to standard
        output and not standard error. Suggested by Steve Robbins
        <[email protected]>.

1998-12-11  Matthew D. Langston  <[email protected]>
        
        * acconfig.h, acgeneral.m4, acspecific.m4, autoconf.texi: Change
        all of the Fortran 77 code to use the new `F77' prefix instead of
        the older `FC' prefix.

1998-12-11  Ben Elliston  <[email protected]>

        * acgeneral.m4 (AC_ACVERSION): Bump to 2.13.

        * autoconf.texi (EDITION): Likewise.
        (VERSION): Likewise.

1998-10-30  Jeff Garzik <[email protected]>

        * autoconf.texi: Document AC_CACHE_LOAD and AC_CACHE_SAVE. Explain
        how AC_CACHE_SAVE can be used as a means of syncing the cache to
        disk prior to doing something potentially fatal in configure.

1998-10-29  Alexandre Oliva  <[email protected]>

        * autoreconf.sh: Support several automake command line options,
        and run aclocal and automake when needed. Also, create stamp files
        just like automake's Makefiles would do for config headers.
        Additional contributions from Tom Tromey <[email protected]>.
        
1998-10-24  Matthew D. Langston  <[email protected]>

        * acgeneral.m4 (AC_LANG_FORTRAN77): Remove [] (i.e. the m4 quotes)
        since it was confusing the testsuite.  Also make `f77' the default
        for FC, otherwise the testsuite fails.

        * autoconf.texi (Fortran 77 Compiler Characteristics): Added new
        node documenting the new AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS macro.

        * acspecific.m4 (AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): New macro to determine
        the linker flags (e.g. `-L' and `-l') for the Fortran 77 intrinsic
        and run-time libraries.

1998-10-24  Ben Elliston  <[email protected]>

        * acspecific.m4 (AC_FUNC_SELECT_ARGTYPES): New macro. Detects the
        types of formal arguments to select(). Contributed by Lars Hecking
        <[email protected]>.

        * acconfig.h (SELECT_TYPE_ARG1): Add.
        (SELECT_TYPE_ARG234): Likewise.
        (SELECT_TYPE_ARG5): Likewise.

        * config.guess: Hide warnings emitted by the HP linker when
        generating a PA 2.0 object file. Contributed by Marcus Thiessel
        <[email protected]>.
        
1998-10-20  Ben Elliston  <[email protected]>

        * acgeneral.m4 (AC_LANG_RESTORE): Fix a typo spotted by Noah
        Elliott <[email protected]>.

1998-10-09  Tom Tromey  <[email protected]>

        * Makefile.in (autoconf.m4f): New target.
        (autoheader.m4f): Likewise.

1998-10-08  Ben Elliston  <[email protected]>

        * acgeneral.m4 (AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC): Fix macro ordering.

Sun Oct  4 21:57:20 1998  Tom Tromey  <[email protected]>

        * autoconf.texi (Defining Symbols): Documented third argument to
        AC_DEFINE.
        * autoheader.m4 (AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED): Generate `verbatim'
        assignment if third argument given.
        (AC_DEFINE): Likewise.
        * acgeneral.m4 (AC_DEFINE): Handle case where $# is 3.
        (AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED): Likewise.
        * autoheader.sh: Echo $verbatim if not empty.

1998-10-03  Ben Elliston  <[email protected]>

        * acconfig.h (FC_NO_MINUS_C_MINUS_O): Add to complete the Fortran
        77 support.

        * README: Update bug reporting address. Include maintainer info.

1998-10-02  Ben Elliston  <[email protected]>

        * acgeneral.m4 (AC_VALIDATE_CACHED_SYSTEM_TUPLE): New macro. This
        macro can be used to ensure that a configure script will not run
        on a second system without removing the cache and re-running
        configure. Contributed by Alexandre Oliva <[email protected]>.

1998-09-29  Ben Elliston  <[email protected]>

        * acgeneral.m4 (AC_SEARCH_LIBS): New macro. Searches a series of
        libraries for a given function. Contributed by Jim Blandy
        <[email protected]>.
        (AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC): New macro. Again, from Jim.

1998-09-28  Ben Elliston  <[email protected]>

        * config.guess: Detect multiprocessor DC/OSx running on Pyramid
        MIServer machines.  Contributed by Graham K. Jenkins
        <[email protected]>.

        * acgeneral.m4 (AC_CHECK_PROG): Fix a bug if the supplied path
        contains colons. This was observed with some versions of NetBSD
        `sh' and some versions of `bash'.
        (AC_PATH_PROG): Likewise. Contributed by Tom Yu <[email protected]>.

1998-09-27  Ben Elliston  <[email protected]>

        * Makefile.in (all): Generate frozen .m4 files at build time.
        (install): Do not freeze .m4 files. Install pre-frozen .m4f files
        using $(INSTALL_DATA).
        (.m4.m4f): Freeze files if m4 supports stored internal state.
        Contributed by Karl Heuer <[email protected]>.
        
        * install-sh: Import latest version from the FSF.

        * mkinstalldirs: Likewise.

        * config.guess: Apply the sysconf(2) test to HP 9000/600-series,
        9000/802, 9000/804 and 9000/892 machines.  Contributed by Pavel
        Roskin <[email protected]>.
        Detect UnixWare 7.  Contributed by Paul Gampe <[email protected]>.

        * acspecific.m4 (AC_PROG_INSTALL): Substitute `INSTALL_SCRIPT'.
        Contributed by Franc,ois Pinard <[email protected]>.
        (AC_C_STRINGIZE): New macro to test the availability of the
        stringizing operator in the C preprocessor. Contributed by Arnold
        Robbins <[email protected]> on behalf of the GNU AWK project.

        * acconfig.h (HAVE_STRINGIZE): Add for the AC_C_STRINGIZE macro.
                
        * testsuite/Makefile.in (check): If DejaGNU is not installed,
        print a warning and skip the `dejacheck' target (which will fail).
        (site.exp): Use tests to guard commands from generating error
        messages if `site.exp' or `site.bak' do not exist. Contributed by
        Karl Heuer <[email protected]>.
        (dejacheck): Remove unused target.
        
1998-09-26  Ben Elliston  <[email protected]>

        * texinfo.tex: Import latest version from the FSF.

        * config.guess: Treat all SPARC variant processors running BSD/OS
        as just `sparc' for compatibility reasons.  Contributed by Chris
        Torek <[email protected]>.

        * acgeneral.m4 (AC_CHECK_FILE): New macro. Checks for the
        existence of a file in the file system (native only).
        Contributed by Ken Raeburn <[email protected]>.
        (AC_CHECK_FILES): Likewise.

1998-09-15  Didier Verna  <[email protected]>

        * acspecific.m4 (AC_PATH_XTRA): use X_EXTRA_LIBS add-on libraries 
        in the test for libICE. It is needed at least under Solaris.

1998-09-15  Ben Elliston  <[email protected]>

        * config.guess: Handle strange processor ID assignments on AIX
        machines.  Contributed by Didier Desseaux <[email protected]>.

Sat Sep 12 16:25:00 1998  Aaron Crane  <[email protected]>

        * acgeneral.m4 (AC_CHECK_TYPE): Changed the egrep regex to avoid
        incorrectly assuming that if foobar_t is defined, then so is
        bar_t.

Tue Sep  8 14:06:04 1998  Matthew D. Langston  <[email protected]>

        * acgeneral.m4: Make the following macros Fortran 77 aware
        (i.e. conditionalize whether to `#include "confdefs.h"', etc.):
        (AC_TRY_COMPILE)
        (AC_TRY_LINK)
        (AC_CHECK_LIB)

        * acgeneral.m4 (AC_LANG_FORTRAN77): Rename `AC_LANG_FORTRAN' to
        `AC_LANG_FORTRAN77'.  Change the Fortran 77 language macro from
        `FORTRAN' to `FORTRAN77'.
        (AC_LANG_RESTORE): Change the Fortran 77 language macro from
        `FORTRAN' to `FORTRAN77'

        * autoconf.texi: Updated Fortran 77 documentation, particularly
        for `AC_TRY_COMPILE', `AC_TRY_LINK' and `AC_CHECK_LIB'.

Thu Sep  3 09:34:39 1998  Matthew D. Langston  <[email protected]>

        * autoconf.texi: Added Fortran 77 documentation.

        * acspecific.m4 (AC_PROG_FC): New macro.  Determine a Fortran
        compiler to use.
        (AC_PROG_FC_WORKS): New macro.
        (AC_PROG_FC_GNU): New macro.
        (AC_PROG_FC_G): New macro.
        (AC_PROG_FC_C_O): New macro.

        * acgeneral.m4: Add FFLAGS (Fortran 77 flags).
        (AC_LANG_FORTRAN): New macro.
        (AC_LANG_RESTORE): Make Fortran 77 aware.
        (AC_TRY_COMPILER): Make Fortran 77 aware (i.e. conditionalize
        whether to `#include "confdefs.h"').

Thu Jun 18 12:13:27 1998  Ian Lance Taylor  <[email protected]>

        * acspecific.m4 (AC_EXEEXT): Correct setting of ac_exeext when
        there is no extension.

Mon Jun  1 12:30:39 1998  Ian Lance Taylor  <[email protected]>

        * acgeneral.m4 (AC_CHECK_PROG): Set IFS to just ":" when searching
        through PATH.
        (AC_PATH_PROG): Likewise.
        * acspecific.m4 (AC_PROG_INSTALL): Likewise.
        (AC_PROG_CC): On cygwin32, if neither gcc nor cc
        are found, look for cl.
        (AC_PROG_CXX): Look for cl after all other choices.
        * configure: Rebuild.

Thu May 28 18:37:36 1998  Ian Lance Taylor  <[email protected]>

        * acgeneral.m4 (AC_ACVERSION): Bump to 2.12.2.

        Add support for Visual C++:
        * acgeneral.m4 (ac_exeext, ac_objext): New variables.
        (ac_link): Use ac_exeext.
        (AC_TRY_COMPILER, AC_TRY_LINK, AC_TRY_RUN_NATIVE): Likewise.
        (AC_TRY_CPP): Remove lines from stderr which contain only the name
        of the file.
        (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Use ac_objext.
        * acspecific.m4 (AC_PROG_CC): Check whether compiler supports -g
        even if it is not gcc.
        (AC_PROG_CXX): Likewise.
        (AC_PROG_CPP): Try running the compiler with the -nologo option.
        (AC_FUNC_ALLOCA): Check for _MSC_VER.  Use ac_objext.
        (AC_FUNC_MEMCMP): Use ac_objext.
        (AC_STRUCT_ST_BLOCKS): Likewise.
        (AC_OBJEXT): New macro.
        (AC_CYGWIN32, AC_MINGW32, AC_EXEEXT): New macros.
        * configure: Rebuild.

        * Makefile.in (editsh): Substitute for SHELL.
        (Makefile, config.status): Use $(SHELL) when running
        config.status.
        * autoconf.sh: Change initial /bin/sh to @SHELL@.
        * autoheader.sh: Likewise.
        * autoreconf.sh: Likewise.
        * autoupdate.sh: Likewise.
        * ifnames.sh: Likewise.

Thu Apr 30 16:29:00 1998  Syd Polk  <[email protected]>

        * acspecific.m4 (SETPGRP_VOID): The test for setpgrp needs
        to have unistd.h included or the DEC compiler does not
        flag the error that triggers setting the variable.

Tue Nov 18 14:21:38 1997  Eric Mumpower  <[email protected]>

        * autoreconf.sh: Do the right thing when AC_CONFIG_HEADER is
        given more than one filename. As noted in the "Invoking
        autoheader" node of the info files, autoheader will use the first
        file argument given to AC_CONFIG_HEADER. Prior to this patch,
        autoreconf would end up executing incorrect shell code (e.g.
        "test ! -f 1.h 2.h.in") in such cases.
        Patch submitted in parallel to [email protected].
        
Fri Oct  3 18:10:39 1997  Ian Lance Taylor  <[email protected]>

        * acgeneral.m4 (AC_CACHE_SAVE): Add a grep when checking whether
        set quotes correctly, to avoid a cache overflow on HP-UX 9.
        * configure: Rebuild.

Wed Sep 11 15:35:19 1997  Chris Provenzano  <[email protected]>

        * acgeneral.m4 : Always set SHELL and substitute SHELL.
        When looking for a path for an executable allow the
        user to override with an DOS path.
        * configure : New configure generated by autoconf.

Thu Sep  4 22:30:40 1997  Jeffrey A Law  ([email protected])

        * acspecific (AC_PROC_INSTALL): Don't use installbsd on OSF..

Wed Sep  3 23:00:44 1997  Chris Provenzano  <[email protected]>

        * configure : New configure generated by autoconf.
        * Makefile.in : Set SHELL=@SHELL@. configure now substiutes
        ${CONFIG_SHELL-/bin/sh} in for @SHELL@ at configure time.

Mon Aug 11 01:40:37 1997  Jason Molenda  <[email protected]>

        * acspecific (AC_FUNC_VFORK): If cross-compiling, set
        $ac_cv_func_vfork_works to $ac_cv_func_vfork (assume vfork works
        if present).

Tue Aug  5 23:00:05 1997  Ian Lance Taylor  <[email protected]>

        * acgeneral.m4 (AC_VERSION): Set to 2.12.1.
        (AC_CANONICAL_HOST): Use CONFIG_SHELL to run $ac_config_sub and
        $ac_config_guess.
        (AC_CANONICAL_TARGET, AC_CANONICAL_BUILD): Likewise.

Tue Dec 10 19:38:59 1996  David J MacKenzie  <[email protected]>

        * acgeneral.m4 (AC_CACHE_SAVE): Use grep to prevent overflowing
        HP-UX 9.05 /bin/sh buffer in case statement.  From Eric Backus
        <[email protected]>.

Mon Dec  9 23:39:17 1996  David J MacKenzie  <[email protected]>

        * acspecific.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG): Add a semicolon between
        shell variable assignments; the evaluation order varies between
        implementations. 

Tue Nov 26 13:00:28 1996  David J MacKenzie  <[email protected]>

        * Version 2.12.

Wed Nov 20 13:00:21 1996  David J MacKenzie  <[email protected]>

        * Test release 2.11.2.

        * acgeneral.m4 (AC_OUTPUT): Remove a now-wrong test for whether to
        make an unquoted here document.
        (AC_CACHE_SAVE): Double-up backslashes in double quotes.
        From Paul Eggert.

        * Test release 2.11.1.

        * acgeneral.m4 (AC_TRY_COMPILE, AC_TRY_LINK): Make the final
        newline consistent with the other AC_TRY_* macros: no final dnl
        is needed to avoid extraneous blank lines.
        (AC_CHECK_LIB, AC_HAVE_LIBRARY, AC_COMPILE_CHECK): Remove
        extraneous dnl's.
        (AC_DIVERSION_CMDS, AC_DIVERSION_ICMDS): New macros.
        (AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS, AC_OUTPUT): Use them instead of appending to
        list macros.

        * acgeneral.m4 (AC_CACHE_SAVE): Handle cache variable values
        correctly even if they contain single quote, or are quoted by
        the shell.  From Paul Eggert <[email protected]>.
        (AC_INIT_PREPARE): Set LC_MESSAGES to C if set.
        From Hans Olsson <[email protected]>.
        Set LC_CTYPE to C if set.
        From [email protected] (Thomas Winder).
        * autoconf.sh, autoheader.sh: Likewise set LC_MESSAGES and LC_CTYPE.

Tue Nov 19 10:29:06 1996  David J MacKenzie  <[email protected]>

        * testsuite/autoconf.g/sizeof.exp: Use the v2 macro name.

        * acgeneral.m4 (AC_OUTPUT_FILES, AC_OUTPUT_HEADER): Support
        creating output files from multiple pieces, concatenated.
        Suggested by "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>.
        (AC_LINK_FILES): If called more than once, concatenate the
        arguments.  From Roland McGrath.
        (AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS): Likewise.
        (AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS): New macro.  Suggested by
        Tom Tromey <[email protected]>.
        (AC_OUTPUT): Use the lists it sets.

        * acgeneral.m4 (AC_TRY_RUN_NATIVE): Fail if linking fails, like
        AC_TRY_LINK.
        (AC_TRY_RUN): Don't require AC_C_CROSS.
        (AC_TRY_COMPILER): New macro.
        (AC_LANG_C, AC_LANG_CPLUSPLUS): Set cross_compiling.
        * acspecific.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_WORKS, AC_PROG_CXX_WORKS): Use
        AC_TRY_COMPILER instead of AC_TRY_LINK.
        (AC_PROG_CC_GNU, AC_PROG_CC_G): Split out of AC_PROG_CC.
        (AC_PROG_CXX_GNU, AC_PROG_CXX_G): Split out of AC_PROG_CXX.