path: root/m4/ChangeLog

1999-12-07  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* perl.m4: Require that File::Compare be available, too.
	Too many systems seem to lack it.

	* strftime.m4: Add checks for most of the cpp macros tested in
	GNU's strftime.c.  Prompted by a patch from Paul Eggert.

1999-11-18  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* m4/largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_FLAGS): Work around a
	problem with the QNX 4.25 shell, which doesn't propagate exit
	status of failed commands inside shell assignments.

1999-11-17  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* gettext.m4: Use new AC_CONFIG_LINKS in place of AC_LINK_FILES.

1999-11-07  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* getloadavg.m4: Add `, 1, [FIXME]' to each use of AC_DEFINE.

1999-11-06  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* link-follow.m4 (jm_AC_FUNC_LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK): New file/macro.
	* jm-macros.m4 (jm_MACROS): Use it here.

1999-11-05  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): Move some tests from configure.in
	of textutils, fileutils, and sh-utils into this one (shared between
	those packages) file.
	Use `AC_CHECK_MEMBERS((struct stat.st_blksize))' instead of deprecated
	AC_STRUCT_ST_BLKSIZE.

1999-11-03  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* ssize_t.m4: Remove file.  No longer needed since the new version of
	AC_CHECK_TYPE checks includes unistd.h.
	* jm-macros.m4: Use straight `AC_CHECK_TYPE(ssize_t, int)'.
	Suggestion from Akim Demaille.

1999-10-30  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* uintmax_t.m4: Require 2.14a.  Remove backslash before backtick in
	m4-quoted string.
	* ls-mntd-fs.m4: Likewise.
	* jm-macros.m4: Likewise.  Also, use AC_TYPE_SSIZE_T instead
	* jm-winsz1.m4: Likewise.

	* const.m4: Remove file, since the fix made it into the experimental
	version of autoconf.
	* mktime.m4: Likewise.

	* check-type.m4: Remove file, now that the latest version of
	AC_CHECK_TYPE takes a third arg to specify additional #includes.

	* ssize_t.m4: New file, requires experimental version of autoconf.
	* jm-macros.m4: Use new AC_TYPE_SSIZE_T instead of my hacked
	AC_CHECK_TYPE.

1999-10-04  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* jm-macros.m4: Don't require autoconf-2.14.1.

1999-09-22  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_FLAGS): Work around GCC
	2.95.1 bug with HP-UX 10.20.

1999-09-17  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add strdup.
	Paul Nevai reported a link failure on a NeXT CUBE with NeXTSTEP 3.3
	due to missing strdup (against sh-utils-2.0).

1999-08-29  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* jm-macros.m4: Require jm_BISON.
	* bison.m4: New file.

1999-08-17  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* m4/largefile.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE): Fix typo: missing comma
	in value for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS, which broke ports to HP-UX 10.20.

1999-08-05  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* getline.m4: Rename test file from conftestdata to conftest.data
	to avoid conflicts with `conftest' on 8+3 filesystems.
	Suggestion from Eli Zaretskii.

1999-08-04  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* jm-macros.m4: Move a 4-line block of code from the configure.in of
	fileutils and sh-utils (textutils's getline test was inadequate).
	(AM_FUNC_GETLINE): Run this test.
	(AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getdelim.
	Reported by Bob Proulx.

1999-08-02  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* jm-macros.m4: Add a comment.

1999-08-01  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* mktime.m4 (AC_FUNC_MKTIME): Undefine to avoid syntax errors from m4.

1999-08-01  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* lfs.m4: Remove this file.
	* largefile.m4: New file.  It contains the old contents of
	lfs.m4, except that all names with prefix AC_LFS have been
	changed to use the prefix AC_SYS_LARGEFILE instead, to be
	compatible with future autoconf versions.  Also, some minor m4
	quoting problems have been fixed.

1999-07-16  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): Make sure
	that we can shift, multiply and divide unsigned long long
	values; Ultrix cc can't do it.

1999-07-14  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): Check whether
	<inttypes.h> defines strtoumax as a macro (and not as a
	function).

1999-07-05  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove unnecessary lines.
	Fix typo: $nls_cv_header_intl was misspelled as $nsl_cv_header_intl.
	(AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Fix problem with brackets and m4 quoting,
	and simplify the shell code.

1999-07-03  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* mktime.m4: New file, which is a preview of what should appear
	in the next public autoconf release.

1999-07-20  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memmove.

1999-07-15  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* jm-macros.m4: (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Check for getpagesize.

1999-05-22  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add memchr.

1999-05-20  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* search-libs.m4 [AC_SEARCH_LIBS]: Quote name in undefine.
	Add a colon after each `then' in case $4 is empty.

1999-05-16  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* search-libs.m4: New file to override autoconf's AC_SEARCH_LIBS.

1999-05-10  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* jm-mktime.m4: Reflect renaming: AM_FUNC_MKTIME -> AC_FUNC_MKTIME.

	* jm-macros.m4: Require 2.14.1, since we use newly-renamed
	AC_FUNC_MKTIME.

1999-05-10  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de>

	* jm-mktime.m4, putenv.m4: Fix typos in config.h comments.

1999-05-04  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): -n32, -o32, and -n64 should be in CFLAGS,
	not CPPFLAGS, so that linking works correctly in IRIX.

1999-04-30  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* jm-macros.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Add dup2.

1999-04-20  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* xstrtoumax.m4: Require jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
	AC_REPLACE xstroull if necessary.  From Paul Eggert.
	(AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Remove strtoull, strtoumax, strtouq.

1999-04-20  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* uintmax_t.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T): Move unsigned long
	long check into new jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG macro.
	* jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): Require
	jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG.
	* ulonglong.m4 (jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG): New file/macro.

	* lfs.m4: Port to AIX and HP-UX.  Support cross-compilation.

1999-04-18  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* xstrtoumax.m4 (jm_AC_PREREQ_XSTRTOUMAX): New file/macro.
	* jm-macros.m4: Use it.

1999-04-06  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* strftime.m4: Remove test for %f.

1999-03-29  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* jm-macros.m4 (jm_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): New macro, contains the
	superset of the AC_TYPE_* checks in the textutils, fileutils,
	and sh-utils, plus AC_TYPE_PID_T.  Paul Eggert suggested adding
	AC_TYPE_PID_T.

1999-03-28  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* jm-macros.m4: Define GNU_PACKAGE here.
	Be sure to AC_SUBST it, once again, so that @GNU_PACKAGE@ is
	replaced e.g., in the *.sh files of the sh-utils.

1999-03-20  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* jm-macros.m4: s/jm_WITH_REGEX/jm_INCLUDED_REGEX/.
	* regex.m4 (jm_INCLUDED_REGEX): Rename from jm_WITH_REGEX.
	Don't depend on AM_GLIBC.  Suggestions from Alain Magloire.

1999-03-19  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* jm-winsz1.m4 (jm_WINSIZE_IN_PTEM): New macro.

1999-03-12  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* jm-macros.m4: Use AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED.

1999-03-07  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* jm-glibc-io.m4: Use only those *_unlocked macros that are declared.

1999-02-17  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* gettext.m4 (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Do `changequote' around use of brackets
	in macro definition.  From Eli Zaretskii and Alain Magloire.

1999-02-07  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* group-member.m4: New file -- extracted from sh-utils' configure.in.

	1999-02-05  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
	* gettext.m4: Support DOS-style d:/foo/bar absolute file names.

1999-02-06  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* chown.m4: Use `AC_SUBST(LIBOBJS)' since we set LIBOBJS.
	* fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
	* getgroups.m4: Likewise.
	* lstat.m4: Likewise.
	* malloc.m4: Likewise.
	* putenv.m4: Likewise.
	* realloc.m4: Likewise.
	* regex.m4: Likewise.
	* stat.m4: Likewise.
	* strftime.m4: Likewise.
	Suggestion from Alain Magloire.

	* chown.m4: Use `.$ac_objext', not `.o'.
	* fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
	* getgroups.m4: Likewise.
	* getline.m4: Likewise.
	* lstat.m4: Likewise.
	* malloc.m4: Likewise.
	* memcmp.m4: Likewise.
	* putenv.m4: Likewise.
	* realloc.m4: Likewise.
	* regex.m4: Likewise.
	* stat.m4: Likewise.
	* strftime.m4: Likewise.
	Suggestion from Alain Magloire.

	* jm-macros.m4: Actually invoke jm_WITH_REGEX now that it requires
	an argument.

	* regex.m4: Add a run-time Test for proper operation of
	re_compile_pattern.

1999-01-31  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* getloadavg.m4: Check for locale.h and the function, setlocale.

1999-01-30  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* check-type.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.

	* jm-mktime.m4: Make this a wrapper around the official AM_FUNC_MKTIME
	rather than my private copy, now that the official one is up to date.
	* mktime.m4: Remove file.

	* getloadavg.m4: Use 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE.
	* uptime.m4: Likewise.
	* uintmax_t.m4: Likewise.

1999-01-28  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* jm-macros.m4: Use jm_AFS.
	* afs.m4: New file (from fileutils' configure.in).

	* assert.m4: Use the 3-argument forms of AC_DEFINE* macros.
	* chown.m4: Likewise.
	* d-ino.m4: Likewise.
	* d-type.m4: Likewise.
	* fnmatch.m4: Likewise.
	* getgroups.m4: Likewise.
	* gettext.m4: Likewise.
	* jm-mktime.m4: Likewise.
	* jm-winsz2.m4: Likewise.
	* lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
	* ls-mntd-fs.m4: Likewise.
	* malloc.m4: Likewise.
	* memcmp.m4: Likewise.
	* putenv.m4: Likewise.
	* realloc.m4: Likewise.
	* st_mtim.m4: Likewise.
	* strftime.m4: Likewise.

1999-01-16  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* jm-macros.m4 (ARGMATCH_DIE): Define.
	(ARGMATCH_DIE_DECL): Define.

1999-01-12  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* Makefile.am.in: Rewrite to avoid using fmt.
	Reported by Lars Hecking.

1999-01-10  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* fstypename.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of my
	gross kludge.
	* inttypes_h.m4: Likewise.
	* lstat.m4: Likewise.
	* malloc.m4: Likewise.
	* readdir.m4: Likewise.
	* realloc.m4: Likewise.
	* st_dm_mode.m4: Likewise.
	* stat.m4: Likewise.
	* utimbuf.m4: Likewise.
	* utimes.m4: Likewise.

	* check-decl.m4: Use the new 3-arg form of AC_DEFINE instead of the
	AC_CHECK_FUNCS hack.  Now, it's still a hack, but at least the
	comments in config.h.in are meaningful.

	* jm-macros.m4: Require autoconf-2.13 here.

	* regex.m4: By default, don't use the included regex.c on systems
	with glibc 2.  Suggestion from Uli Drepper.

1999-01-02  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* jm-macros.m4: Replace strcasecmp and strncasecmp.

1998-12-18  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* Makefile.am.in (Makefile.am): Simplify rule.
	Based on a suggestion from Lars Hecking.

1998-11-16  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* lfs.m4: Double-quote the `uname...` expression.

1998-11-16  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* lfs.m4 (AC_LFS): Add support for HP-UX 10.20 and HP-UX 11.

1998-11-14  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* lstat.m4: Correct comment.  POSIX does not permit it to succeed.
	* stat.m4: Likewise.

1998-11-03  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* stat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_STAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.
	* lstat.m4: Rewrite to set HAVE_LSTAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG.

1998-10-18  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): Remove macro.

1998-10-17  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLARATION): Don't hard-code which headers to
	include, though we still hard-code the `require'-like AC_CHECK_HEADERS
	calls for those previously hard-coded headers.  Instead, take a new
	parameter.
	(jm_CHECK_DECLARATIONS): Reflect interface change.
	* check-decl.m4 (jm_CHECK_DECLS): Likewise.
	(jm_CHECK_DECL_LOCALTIME_R): New macro.

	* mktime.m4: Test for spring-forward gap before long-running test.

1998-10-14  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* mktime.m4: Use the more portable "TZ=PST8PDT,M4.1.0,M10.5.0"
	instead of "TZ=America/Vancouver".  From Paul Eggert.

1998-10-11  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* mktime.m4 (jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME): New file and macro.
	This adds a test for a recently added compatibility fix for mktime.c.
	* jm-mktime.m4: Require jm_AM_FUNC_MKTIME, not AM_FUNC_MKTIME.

1998-09-27  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* jm-macros.m4 (jm_MACROS): Require jm_FUNC_FNMATCH.

	* fnmatch.m4 (jm_FUNC_FNMATCH): New file/macro.  Extracted from
	../configure.in, including a change from Gordon Matzigkeit to allow
	cross-compiling for the Hurd.

	* glibc.m4: New file/macro to test for the GNU C Library
	versions 1 and 2.  From Gordon Matzigkeit.
	Indent.

1998-09-21  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* chown.m4: Declare locals: before, after.  From Andries Brouwer.

1998-08-18  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	Port nanosecond-resolution times to UnixWare 2.1.2 and
	pedantic Solaris 2.6.

	* st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC): Renamed from
	AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM.
	* st_mtim.m4 (AC_STRUCT_ST_MTIM_NSEC):
	Generate name of ns member, instead of just 1 or undef.
	Allow for UnixWare 2.1.2 and Solaris 2.6 if in pedantic mode.

1998-08-15  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* ssize_t.m4 (jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T): Remove file.
	* check-type.m4: New file.  Replacement for AC_CHECK_TYPE.
	* jm-macros.m4: Use the new AC_CHECK_TYPE(ssize_t, int)
	instead of jm_TYPE_SSIZE_T.

1998-08-12  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* st_dm_mode.m4: New file.  From Johan Danielsson.

1998-08-02  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* st_mtim.m4: Use hack to avoid having to put #undef HAVE_ST_MTIM
	in acconfig.h manually.

1998-07-31  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* st_mtim.m4: New file.

1998-07-28  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* utimes.m4: Undef stat.

1998-07-25  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* utime.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIME): New file and macro.
	* utimes.m4 (jm_FUNC_UTIMES_NULL): New file and macro.

1998-07-09  Manfred Hollstein  <manfred@s-direktnet.de>

	* chown.m4 (jm_FUNC_CHOWN): Add a check to verify that the
	uid and gid actually remain unchanged.

1998-07-07  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* jm-glibc-io.m4: Remove fclose_unlocked.

1998-07-04  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* regex.m4: Use syscmd, ifelse, and sysval.  Mainly as an exercise
	to prove that this macro can be used in packages without regex.c.

1998-07-02  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

	* gettext.m4 (AM_WITH_NLS): Remove intl/libintl.h if <libintl.h>
	is to be used.

1998-07-03  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* gettext.m4: Add -lintl if it's found to be necessary.

	* gettext.m4: New file -- from gettext-0.10.35.
	* lcmessage.m4: Likewise.
	* progtest.m4: Likewise.

	* regex.m4 (jm_WITH_REGEX): New file and macro.
	* jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.

1998-06-29  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* fstypename.m4: Include sys/param.h.  NetBSD 1.3.1 requires this
	for the definition of NGROUPS (used in a system header included
	by sys/mount.h).

1998-06-28  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* ls-mntd-fs.m4: New file.
	* fstypename.m4: New file.

	* jm-macros.m4: Require the new macro.
	* jm-glibc-io.m4: New file.

1998-05-19  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* jm-macros.m4: Add jm_FUNC_LCHOWN.
	* lchown.m4: New file.

	* Makefile.am.in: New file.
	* Makefile.am (Makefile.am): Depend on Makefile.am.in.

1998-05-14  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add them.
	* jm-macros.m4: New file.
	* utimbuf.m4: New file.

1998-05-12  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add isc-posix.m4.

1998-05-11  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* isc-posix.m4: New file.

1998-05-10  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* jm-mktime.m4: Use AM_FUNC_MKTIME, now that it's up to date.

1998-05-09  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add ssize_t.m4.
	(EXTRA_DIST): Remove mktime.m4, now that the new version is included
	with automake.

	* ssize_t.m4: New file.
	* mktime.m4: Remove file -- the new automake has this now.

1998-04-26  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* assert.m4: New file.
	* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add assert.m4.

1998-04-05  Jim Meyering  <meyering@ascend.com>

	* prereq.m4 (jm_PREREQ_REGEX): New macro.
	(jm_PREREQ): Use it here.

1998-03-23  Jim Meyering  <meyering@eng.ascend.com>

	* inttypes_h.m4: Kludges so I don't have to add HAVE_INTTYPES_H
	in acconfig.h.

1998-03-15  Jim Meyering  <meyering@eng.ascend.com>

	* prereq.m4: New file.
	* error.m4: New file.
	* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add error.m4 and prereq.m4.

1998-02-07  Jim Meyering  <meyering@eng.ascend.com>

	* getline.m4: Don't set am_cv_func_working_getline before the
	cache-check for the same variable -- that defeated the purpose of
	the test; the test program was never run.  This was a problem only
	on systems with losing getline functions -- HP-UX 10.20 is one.
	Reported by Bjorn Helgaas.

1998-02-06  Jim Meyering  <meyering@eng.ascend.com>

	* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add perl.m4.

1998-01-10  Jim Meyering  <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>

	* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add const.m4.

	* const.m4: New file.  Use an initializer in this declaration
	typedef int charset[2]; const charset x;
	Reported by Bob Glickstein.

1997-12-21  Jim Meyering  <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>

	* chown.m4: Fix reversed types on -1 args to chown.
	From Kaveh Ghazi.

1997-12-14  Jim Meyering  <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>

	* check-decl.m4: s/DECLARATION_/DECL_/g.
	Add lseek and memchr.

	* decl.m4: s/HAVE_DECLARATION_/HAVE_DECL_/g.
	T.E.Dickey <dickey@clark.net> said that some older preprocessors
	have a 20-character limit on names.

1997-11-30  Jim Meyering  <meyering@na-net.ornl.gov>

	* inttypes_h.m4: New file.
	* uintmax_t.m4: New file.
	* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add inttypes_h.m4 and uintmax_t.m4.