source: trunk/third/autoconf/ChangeLog @ 20137

2003-11-06  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Version 2.59.

2003-11-05  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <adl@gnu.org>

        * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Fix use of AS_SET_CATFILE
        so that ac_abs_builddir, ac_abs_top_builddir, ac_abs_srcdir,
        and ac_abs_top_srcdir are absolute paths.
        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SET_CATFILE): Remove misleading comment.

2003-11-05  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * configure.ac: Bump to 2.58a.

2003-11-05  Kevin Ryde  <user42@zip.com.au>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Using Autotest): Avoid @strong{Note: ...}, since
        it provokes a warning from makeinfo about looking like a cross
        reference in info output.

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add notes on signal
        handler return type, as per AC_TYPE_SIGNAL.

2003-11-04  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Version 2.58.
        * doc/standards.texi: Update from master.

        * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Add AC_FC_FREEFORM.

2003-11-04  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        AC_CONFIG_FILE([d1/foo:d2/foo]) triggers error messages when
        computing the absolute path to d1 in the source hierarchy: it may
        not exist at all.  So don't cd into it.
        From Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
        http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-10/msg00205.html

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SET_CATFILE): New.
        From Paul Eggert, but named after Perl's IO::Spec->catfile.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Document.
        * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Use it.

2003-11-03  Pavel Roskin  <proski@gnu.org>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Structure Checks): Describe
        action-if-found and action-if-not-found in AC_CHECK_MEMBERS.

2003-10-31  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/fortran.at (GNU Fortran 77): Don't run FC macros.
        (GNU Fortran): New.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Language Choice): Document.
        * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_FREEFORM): Assert
        the current language is Fortran.

2003-10-31  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autom4te.in (&freeze): Use a less likely warning separator
        than `\n\n', so that `\n\n\n' is valid in warnings.
        Reported by Steve Huston.

2003-10-28  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * Makefile.cfg (local_updates, executable-update): Tweak to be
        robust to parallel makes.
        Suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.

2003-10-27  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * Makefile.cfg (executable-update): New.
        (local_updates): Call it.

2003-10-27  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_RUN_IFELSE, _AC_INIT_PREPARE):
        Don't remove core.* as it may remove valid user files.
        * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED)
        (AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL): Likewise.

2003-10-23  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Version 2.57g.
        * config/config.guess, config/config.sub: Upgrade from masters.

2003-10-23  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_SRCEXT): Functions using
        AC_COMPILE_IFELSE that use break skip the clean up.  So do it by
        hand...

2003-10-23  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LINK_IFELSE, _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE):
        Don't forget to remove conftest.err.

2003-10-23  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ): Don't insert twice the
        same object file in $LIBOBJS.
        Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz & Derek Robert Price.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Functions): Adjust.

2003-10-20  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_TR_SH_PREPARE, _AS_TR_CPP_PREPARE):
        Use 'eval', so that the resulting configure scripts work even if
        the current directory has a weird file name like 'y%s+%pp%;s%@%_%g'.

2003-10-20  Daniel Jacobowitz  <drow@mvista.com>

        * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_WERROR): New macro.
        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, _AC_PREPROC_IFELSE)
        (_AC_LINK_IFELSE): Check the werror flag.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Compiler Characteristics): Document
        AC_LANG_WERROR.
        * NEWS: Mention it.

2003-10-20  Daniel Jacobowitz  <drow@mvista.com>

        * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_NO_EXECUTABLES): Override
        _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT to attempt a link.  If linking fails,
        override AC_LINK_IFELSE.

2003-10-15  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_UNSET_PREPARE): Work around a bug in
        pdksh 5.2.14.  Bug reported by Ralf Corsepius.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology): Mention the Korn shell and pdksh.
        Mention /usr/dt/bin/dtksh on Solaris.
        (Shell Substitutions): Warn about $((...)).
        (Parentheses): New section.

2003-10-15  Kevin Ryde  <user42@zip.com.au>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add @prindex for exit.
        Add putenv and unsetenv.  Add sysconf _SC_PAGE_SIZE.

2003-10-13  Nathanael Nerode  <neroden@gcc.gnu.org>

        * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_FORK): Trivial fix for vfork
        cross test.

2003-10-11  Steven G. Johnson  <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>

        * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Use the new official
        name for the GNU Fortran 95+ compiler, 'gfortran', not 'g95'.

2003-10-10  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@suse.de>

        * bin/autoheader.in: Avoid empty first line in --version and
        --help output.
        * bin/ifnames.in: Likewise.

2003-10-09  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Don't assume -j is solo.
        Issue a more-informative diagnostic.
        Problems reported by Eric Sunshine.

2003-10-08  Steven G. Johnson  <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>

        * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT): Omit quoted
        -mGLOB_options_string stuff for Intel ifc, which can cause
        _AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS to fail.  Use (faster) case for
        pattern-matching instead of grep.

2003-10-08  Steven G. Johnson  <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>

        * doc/autoconf.texi: Document new FC Fortran macros.

2003-10-08  Gary V. Vaughan  <gary@gnu.org>

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR): Stub out a macro
        that future autopoint/aclocal/automake/autoreconf will be able
        to trace to find where to install local m4 macros.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Input): Document it.
        * NEWS: Updated.

2003-10-06  Gary V. Vaughan  <gary@gnu.org>

        * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Add
        -lcrtbegin.o to list of ignored flags and fix underquoting of
        -lcrt[01].o.

2003-10-04  Steven G. Johnson  <stevenj@ab-initio.mit.edu>

        * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC_G): Use language-specific
        cache variable instead of $G77 to decide whether to include -O2,
        since $G77 is specific to Fortran 77.

2003-10-03  Steven G. Johnson  <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>

        * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_FREEFORM): Support Absoft "-f
        free" flag.  Re-order flags tested into rough order of popularity.

2003-10-03  Steven G. Johnson  <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>

        * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_PROG_FC): Reverse the order of the
        arguments so that it can be used with syntax identical to
        AC_PROG_F77, and so that we can more easily decide to
        remove/deprecate the DIALECT optional argument in the future if it
        proves troublesome.
        (AC_FC_FREEFORM): Exit 77 upon failure to fix test suite for
        non-freeform-supporting compilers.  Document freeform flags.

2003-10-03  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * configure.ac: Look for emacs, not macs.
        Reported by Eric Sunshine.

2003-10-03  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autom4te.in (Autoreconf-preselections): Trace AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR.
        * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory): Create the
        AUX_DIR if needed, for sake of automake --add-missing etc.
        Suggested by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.

2003-10-03  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * configure.ac: Quotation and formatting changes.
        (EMACS): Don't set it if it is not recent enough to support
        autoconf-mode.el.
        From Eric Sunshine.

2003-10-02  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/ifnames.in (&scan_file): Skip C++ comments.
        From Jeremy Yallop.

2003-10-01  Pavel Roskin  <proski@gnu.org>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Structure Checks):
        Fix misspelling of HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_BLOCKS.

2003-10-01  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Version 2.57f.

2003-09-30  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Use Errno.
        (lock): Ignore ENOLCK errors.  Problem reported Andreas Schwab in
        <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-09/msg00141.html>.

2003-09-30  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * config/announce-gen (&print_news_deltas): Extracted from...
        (&print_changelog_deltas): here.
        (&news_file): Rename as...
        (@news_file): this.

2003-09-30  Nicolas Joly  <njoly@pasteur.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_FC): Remove files which might
        have been created when invoking the compiler.
        * tests/fortran.at (GNU Fortran 77): Quote $G77.

2003-09-29  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Version 2.57e.

        * config/mkinstalldirs: Upgrade.

2003-09-28  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Set DUALCASE=1, for MKS sh.
        Problem reported by Lars J. Aas in
        <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2003-07/msg00042.html>.
        (_AS_MKDIR_P_PREPARE): Change "rm -fr ./-p" to the more-conservative
        "test -d ./-p && rmdir ./-p".  Suggested by Andreas Schwab in:
        http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2003-09/msg00039.html

2003-09-26  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS): Make sure the
        directory for AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS' first argument exists.
        This makes valid the invocation of _AC_SRCPATH that follows.
        Reported by Eric Sunshine.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Commands): Adjust.

2003-09-26  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoscan.in (Autom4te::FileUtils): Use it for find_file.
        Reported by Ralf Corsepius.

2003-09-26  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_HELP_STRING): Don't overquote the
        arguments.
        Actually, use AU_ALIAS.
        From Bruno Haible.

2003-09-26  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_MKDIR_P_PREPARE): If mkdir -p . fails,
        rm -fr ./-p to remove junk left behind on NextStep and OpenStep.
        Problem reported by Eric Sunshine in:
        http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2002-12/msg00014.html

2003-09-26  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        The test suite are sometimes assigning timings incorrectly.
        Reported by Henk Krus.
        Diagnosed by Nicolas Joly.

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CLEANUP): Rename AT_help as
        AT_help_all.
        Instead of making AT_help a sequence of assignments to grow
        $at_help_all, just make AT_help_all be the growing contents of
        $at_help_all, and make a single assignment in...
        (AT_INIT): here.
        (at_times_skip): Flip the meaning and rename as...
        (at_times_p): this.
        (AT_INIT): When summarizing the test that ran, remove
        $at_times_file after use, and check it is present before trying to
        use it.

2003-09-25  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Version 2.57d.

        * bin/Makefile.am (edit): Handle '@configure_input@'.
        (autoconf, autoheader, autom4te, autoreconf, autoscan, autoupdate)
        (ifnames): chmod -w.
        * tests/wrapper.as (AUTOCONF, AUTOM4TE, ): Point to tests/
        executables, not bin/ executables!  Otherwise all the magic needed
        to find non installed files is turned off.  This caused a failure
        of test 40 and 41 that ran aclocal 1.8 which in turn ran autom4te
        as found in its environment (sent by tests/autoreconf): pointing
        to bin/autom4te that could not find its files.
        * tests/mktests.sh: Force the replacement of generated files, for
        the sake of "mv" program that are interactive when overwriting a
        -w file.
        * config/install-sh: Upgrade from CVS Automake.

2003-09-23  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Document test -h
        versus test -L issues.

2003-09-23  Daniel Jacobowitz  <drow@mvista.com> and
            Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>

        Trivial change to support GCC's configuration procedure.
        * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CPP_WERROR): New macro.
        * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): Don't warn
        about inconsistency if the preprocessor is set to give errors for
        any warning.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler Characteristics): Document this.

2003-09-13  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <adl@gnu.org>

        * Makefile.am (autom4te-update, autom4te_files): Fetch Struct.pm
        and XFile.pm from Automake.
        * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Update from Automake.

2003-09-12  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Version 2.57c.

2003-09-12  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/missing,
        * lib/Autom4te/Channels.pm, lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm: Update
        from masters.

2003-09-12  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): Promote linux/types.h,
        not asm/types.h.

2003-09-11  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): linux/random.h.
        From Peter Hendrickson.

2003-09-10  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/mktests.sh (au_exclude_egrep): Make it harder to be
        willing to edit the output files.

2003-09-10  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/fortran.at (GNU Fortran 77): Also exercise AC_FC_SRCEXT
        and AC_FC_FREEFORM.
        * tests/mktests.sh: Skip AC_FC_SRCEXT.
        * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_FREEFORM): Likewise.

2003-09-09  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm (&update_file): s/cannot not/cannot/g.
        Reported by Gary Vaughan.
        * bin/autom4te.in (handle_m4): Likewise.

2003-09-09  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm (&update_file): Be sure not to leave
        trailing files.

2003-09-07  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS):
        Improve the accuracy of the wording about obsolescence.
        From a suggestion by Ian Lance Taylor in
        <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2003-09/msg00044.html>.

2003-09-05  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_FC_FREEFORM): Try -ffree-form too,
        for the benefit of g77 3.2.  Fix suggested by Steven G. Johnson.

2003-09-04  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Fix the filtering of
        AC_FUNC_WAIT3.

2003-09-04  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autom4te.in: Use &fatal where more appropriate than &error.
        (freeze): When exiting, use $exit_code.
        * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4: Comment changes.

2003-09-04  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Add AC_FC_FUNC.

2003-09-02  Steven G. Johnson  <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>

        Add support for newer Fortran dialects.  The F77 interface is
        unchanged, and continues to support Fortran 77.  New FC macros
        correspond to all the old F77 macros, with output variables FC,
        FCFLAGS, and FCLIBS.  AC_PROG_FC defaults to picking the newest
        available dialect, but older dialects can be specified.  There are
        new macros AC_FC_SRCEXT to set the source extension, and
        AC_FC_FREEFORM to accept free-form source files.

        * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_LANG_PREFIX(C), _AC_LANG_PREFIX(C++)):
        New macros.
        (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C)): Invoke _AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_FC_HOOKS if defined.
        * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_LANG(Fortran), _AC_FORTRAN_ASSERT,
        _AC_LANG_ABBREV(Fortran), _AC_LANG_PREFIX(Fortran 77),
        _AC_LANG_PREFIX(Fortran), _AC_FC, AC_LANG_SOURCE(Fortran),
        AC_LANG_PROGRAM(Fortran), AC_LANG_CALL(Fortran),
        AC_LANG_PREPROC(Fortran), AC_LANG_COMPILER(Fortran),
        _AC_FC_DIALECT_YEAR, _AC_F95_FC, _AC_F90_FC, _AC_F77_FC,
        _AC_PROG_FC, AC_PROG_FC, _AC_PROG_FC_G, _AC_PROG_FC_C_O,
        AC_PROG_FC_C_O, _AC_PROG_FC_V_OUTPUT, _AC_PROG_FC_V,
        _AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS, AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS, _AC_FC_DUMMY_MAIN,
        AC_FC_DUMMY_MAIN, _AC_FC_MAIN, AC_FC_MAIN, __AC_FC_NAME_MANGLING,
        _AC_FC_WRAPPERS, AC_FC_WRAPPERS, _AC_FC_FUNC, AC_FC_FUNC,
        AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_FREEFORM):
        New macros.
        (AC_PROG_F77, AC_PROG_F77_C_O, AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS,
        AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN, AC_F77_MAIN, _AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING,
        AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING, AC_F77_WRAPPERS, AC_F77_FUNC):
        Rewrite in terms of the above.
        (_AC_PROG_F77_G, _AC_PROG_F77_V_OUTPUT, _AC_PROG_F77_V): Remove.
        * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_LANG_PREFIX): New macro.
        * tests/acfortran.at: Test AC_FC_FREEFORM, AC_FC_FUNC,
        AC_FC_MAIN, AC_FC_SRCEXT, AC_FC_WRAPPERS, AC_PROG_FC_C_O.

2003-09-02  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools, Limitations of Make):
        Document problems with timestamp resolution that 'make', 'cp -p', and
        'touch -r' have.

2003-08-27  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/m4sugar.at (cross_warning): Make sure to enable the
        output, so that we can track spurious m4sugar output.
        * tests/local.at: Require 2.57.
        (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR, AT_CHECK_M4SH): Don't m4_default the arguments that
        are defaulted by AT_CHECK anyway.
        Use AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE.
        * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: There should be no output at all: add a
        missing dnl.

2003-08-27  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoheader.in: Issue the "Using auxiliary..." message only
        when -Wobsolete is set.
        Set it on by default.
        Suggested by Klee Dienes.

2003-08-27  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_FUNC_FSEEKO, AC_SYS_LARGEFILE): More
        documentation.
        From Guido Draheim.

2003-08-26  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Output): Make clear that one can run code
        after AC_OUTPUT.

2003-08-25  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * config/announce-gen, GNUmakefile, Makefile.maint: Update from
        CVS Bison.

2003-08-25  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <adl@gnu.org>

        * bin/autoreconf.in (parse_args): Do not pass --no-force to
        Automake versions prior to 1.8.

2003-08-25  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): netinet/if_ether.h.
        From Ville Karaila.

2003-08-24  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * configure.ac: Bump to 2.57c.

2003-08-22  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Version 2.57b.

        * Makefile.cfg (local-checks-to-skip): New.
        * Makefile.maint (local-check): Rename as...
        (local-checks-available): this.
        (local-check): New.

        * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add Makefile.cfg.
        * configure.ac: Require Automake 1.7.6.

2003-08-22  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Output stack traces in warnings.

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (_m4_warn): New.
        Replace the former...
        (m4_warn): Pass the call stack to _m4_warn.
        * bin/autom4te.in: Adjust to output the call stack.
        * tests/m4sugar.at (m4@&t@_warn): Adjust.

2003-08-22  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/Autom4te/Request.pm, lib/Autom4te/C4che.pm: New.
        * bin/autom4te.in: Adjust.

2003-08-21  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&file_name_is_absolute): Remove.
        (&verbose): Remove.
        (&getopt): Adjust the note and verb channels, depending upon
        --verbose.
        * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoscan.in,
        * bin/autoupdate.in: Adjust.
        Use &verb, not &verbose.

2003-08-21  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoheader.in (&parse_args): Use &parse_warnings and
        &parse_WARNINGS.
        ($help): Use Autom4te::ChannelDefs::usage.
        * bin/autoscan.in: Use Autom4te::ChannelDefs.
        * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: Don't export error: you don't own it.

2003-08-21  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        First stab at preserving warnings between calls to autom4te,
        including when the cache is used.

        There are still several issues: (i) there are too many runs of m4
        (one for include, one for warnings, and some more), (ii) warnings
        spreading on several lines are not handled gracefully, (iii) the
        code meant to have the call stack display for errors does not work
        (its handling should move from m4 to autom4te).

        * bin/autom4te.in Autom4te::Channels, Autom4te::ChannelDefs):
        Use them.
        (@preselect): Add m4_warn.
        ($exit_status): Remove, use $exit_code.
        ($help): Use Autom4te::ChannelDefs::usage.
        (&handle_m4): No longer define the m4_warnings.
        At each run, extract and report the warnings.
        Always cache the result, including if the exit status is on
        failure, since if nothing changes, we should result in the same
        failure, hence we can use the cache.
        * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_warning_ifelse, _m4_warning_ifelse)
        (_m4_warning_error_ifelse, __m4_warning_error_ifelse, _m4_warn):
        Remove.
        (m4_warn): Redefine as a do-nothing: it is its invocation that
        matters, as warnings are now reported via traces.
        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_DIAGNOSE): Don't make it a copy of
        the contents of m4_warn: make it _call_ m4_warn, so that tracing
        the latter reveals calls to the former.

        Adjust the tests.

        * tests/m4sugar.at (m4@&t@_warn): Use existing warning categories.

2003-08-21  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoreconf.pm (Autom4te::Channels, Autom4te::ChannelDefs):
        Use them.

2003-08-21  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm (&find_file): Walk the @include in
        forward order.
        * lib/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm: Doc typos.
        (&parse_warnings): Accept a list of warning requests.
        (&usage): Return a string, not a side effect.
        (cross): New warning category.

2003-08-21  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm (&find_configure_ac)
        (&require_configure_ac): Accept an optional directory argument.
        ($configure_ac): Remove.
        * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_configure_ac, &canonfile)
        (&catfile): Remove.
        * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoupdate.in,
        * bin/autoscan.in: Adjust.

2003-08-20  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoheader.in: Remove duplicate 'use Autom4te::FileUtils'.
        Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.

2003-08-20  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
        * bin/autom4te: Adjust.
        In particular, be Autoconf tools are really silent when properly
        working, bind the verbosity of the 'note' channel to $verbose.
        * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_file, &mtime, &update_file)
        (&xsystem, &contents): Remove, since they are exported by...
        * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm: this.
        More perldoc.
        * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&up_to_date_p): Move to...
        * lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm: here.

2003-08-20  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/Autom4te/Channels.pm, lib/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm
        * lib/Autom4te/Configure_ac.pm, lib/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm: New,
        from CVS Automake.

2003-08-20  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * Makefile.am (automake_cvsweb, automake_cvsargs, autom4te_files)
        (autom4te-update): New.
        * Makefile.cfg (update): Bind autom4te-update.

2003-08-19  Derek Price  <derek@ximbiot.com>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4: Comment various HELP_* diversions.
        (PARSE_ARGS_BEGIN): New section for option parsing related
        initialization.
        (AT_ARG_OPTION,AT_ARG_OPTION_ARG,_AT_ARG_OPTION): New macros to define
        package specific options and associated help.

2003-08-19  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * config/announce-gen, Makefile.cfg: New.
        * Makefile.am: Adjust.
        * GNUmakefile, Makefile.maint: Update from CVS Coreutils.

2003-08-19  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <adl@gnu.org>

        * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect
        AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR, AC_CONFIG_LINKS, m4_include,
        and m4_sinclude.

2003-08-19  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <adl@gnu.org>

        * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): Move all args except aclocal.m4? into ...
        (Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4): ... this new language.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te Invocation): Mention
        Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4.

2003-08-18  Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Document RUN-IF-FAIL &
        RUN-IF-PASS optional arguments.

2003-08-18  Derek Price  <derek@ximbiot.com>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Add doc for AS_IF.

2003-08-16  Derek Price  <derek@ximbiot.com>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Document defaults for
        STDOUT & STDERR arguments.

2003-08-14  Derek Price  <derek@ximbiot.com>

        * lib/autotestgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Reformat test summary line to print
        DESCRIPTION rather than FILE and LINE.  Shorten result to fit in new,
        shorter column three.  Add DESCRIPTION to log file content.

2003-08-13  Derek Price  <derek@ximbiot.com>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Correct typo in final status
        output.

2003-08-12  Derek Price  <derek@ximbiot.com>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CHECK): Use new _AT_CHECK API.
        (AT_CHECK_NOESCAPE): Move core functionality to...
        (_AT_CHECK): ...this new macro.

2003-08-07  Derek Price  <derek@ximbiot.com>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CHECK): Move core functionality...
        (AT_CHECK_NOESCAPE): ...to this new macro.

2003-07-31  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_UNSET_PREPARE): Work around a bug
        in Bash 2.01.  Problem reported by Brian Gough in
        <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-07/msg00106.html>.

2003-07-25  John W. Eaton  <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu>

        * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Also ignore
        -lcrt1.o, for OS X.  (trivial change)

2003-07-07  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_INLINE): Wrap the '#define inline ...'
        inside '#ifndef __cplusplus'.  Problem reported by
        Bob Friesenhahn.

2003-07-06  Bill Clarke  <llib@computer.org>

        * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MMAP): Cast pointer to
        'long', not 'int', for benefit of Sun's recent C++ compilers
        (trivial change).  See:
        http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2003-07/msg00007.html
        (This really should be 'intptr_t', not 'long', but that would
        take more work.)

2003-06-25  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/Makefile.am (autom4te.cfg): Make it read only.
        Depend on Makefile since it contains substitutions.
        From Paolo Bonzini.
        * lib/autom4te.in (args): Add local.at? for Autotest args.
        This change was made on autom4te.cfg which is generated.
        Reported by Raja R. Harinath.

2003-06-25  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): sys/mount.h.
        From Gareth McCaughan.

2003-06-23  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Report a single config.log,
        not all of them.  This fixes 1. the fact that when testing
        Autoconf there are many many config.log, 2. the incorrect use of
        top_srcdir to find config.log.
        Don't mix the detailed output of failed test with the summary of
        failures.  Rather, append detailed log afterwards.

2003-06-23  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/local.at (AT_CHECK_CONFIGURE): Adjust to the verbose being
        always run: output config.log on $at_group_log.

2003-06-23  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/torture.at (#define header templates): Don't use quotes in
        C++ comments as it puzzles Emacs' sh font-lock-mode.

2003-06-23  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/mktests.sh (au_exclude_egrep): Fix output copyright notice.
        * lib/autom4te.cfg (args): Add local.at? for Autotest args.
        * tests/atspecific.m4: Rename as...
        * tests/local.at: This.
        * tests/suite.at: Move the globals into...
        * tests/local.at: here.
        * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (testsuite Scripts): Adjust.

2003-06-21  Kevin Ryde  <user42@zip.com.au>

        * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Extend test program to get an
        error from OSF 4.0 Compaq cc in its default almost-ANSI mode, thereby
        ensuring we add -std1 for full-ANSI.

        * doc/autoconf.texi (hdrindex): New macro.
        Add index entries for portability of various standard header files.

2003-06-20  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * configure.ac: Bump to 2.57b.

2003-06-20  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Version 2.57a.

2003-06-20  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autom4te.in: Don't rely on $HOME being defined.
        Reported by Marc Espie as PR/233.

2003-06-20  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4: Use at_times_file only if used.
        From Nicolas Joly.

2003-06-20  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/elisp-comp,
        * config/install-sh, config/mkinstalldirs, doc/standards.texi:
        Update from masters.

2003-06-11  Paolo Bonzini  <bonzini@gnu.org>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Document AT_XFAIL_IF
        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_XFAIL_IF): New macro.
        (TEST_SCRIPT): New diversion.
        (AT_SETUP): Divert output to TEST_SCRIPT and move some code...
        (AT_CLEANUP): ...to here.  Undivert TEST_SCRIPT.
        (AT_INIT): Support for expected failures.

2003-06-02  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoheader.in: White space
        changes.
        * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&backname): Remove, no longer used by
        Autoconf nor Automake.
        (&contents): New, from Automake.
        PODify.

2003-05-28  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * NEWS, doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions),
        lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MKTIME): Check that mktime
        is the inverse of localtime.

2003-05-25  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <adl@gnu.org>

        * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (END): Print diagnostics to STDERR.
        (handle_exec_errors): New function.  Work around $! being
        altered by WEXITSTATUS.
        (xqx, xsystem): Use handle_exec_errors.

2003-05-23  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <adl@gnu.org>

        * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (END): Rewrite exit code processing.
        Do not call `_exit()', simply modify `$?'.
        (xsystem): Reset $! before running system, and check it afterward.
        * tests/tools.at (autoupdating AC_PREREQ): Expect exit status
        63 for version mismatches.

2003-05-23  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Prefer "TAB-SP" to "SP-TAB", because of
        Emacs' dangerous whitespace.el behavior (smashing "useless" spaces in
        the middle of a line).
        * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: Likewise.
        Remove useless spaces in comments.

2003-05-23  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_version_prereq): Failure causes an
        exit 63, so that we (or Automake's "missing") can tell the
        difference with a plain failure.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Notices): Adjust.

2003-05-23  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * Makefile.am, bin/Makefile.am, config/Makefile.am,
        * doc/Makefile.am, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am, tests/Makefile.am:
        White spaces cleanup.

2003-05-22  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
            Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (_AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION):
        Remove `#include <stdlib.h>' from the list; we should never
        make confdefs.h include <stdlib.h> or <cstdlib>, because the
        resulting namespace pollution would cause other tests to fail.
        Configure scripts run with some older versions of g++ and HP's
        aCC would fail due to such an #include.  Problems reported by
        Matthew Mueller in <http://bugs.debian.org/120704> and by
        Keith Bostic in
        <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2003-05/msg00063.html>.
        In the test, use the test declaration before including <stdlib.h>,
        as that's closer to how it'll be used.

2003-05-23  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): ucred.h.
        From Ian Redfern.

2003-05-22  Paolo Bonzini  <bonzini@gnu.org>

        Overhaul Autotest's logging: generate separate log files
        in testsuite.dir/NNN/testsuite.log, and append them to
        testsuite.log instead of re-running the test verbosely.

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Use a single redirected
        file descriptor, write 0 to at_status_file instead of setting
        at_status=0, initialize some new variables (at_status_file,
        at_group_log, at_suite_log, at_tee_pipe).  Remove the cruft
        to rerun the tests, instead append the at_group_log to the
        at_suite_log when a test fails.
        (AT_SETUP): pipe the test case's output into at_tee_pipe,
        with the AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD redirected to stdout.
        (AT_CLEANUP): save the output status in $at_status_file
        and restore it, redirect the AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD back to
        its original place.
        (AT_CHECK): since tests are run with a redirected stdout,
        and used to be re-run in verbose mode, turn some $at_verbose
        into echo, and don't redirect the output of testing stdout
        and stderr.

        * lib/autotest/autoconf.texi (testsuite Scripts): Update
        the name of the debugging directory and information about
        its contents.

2003-05-22  Paolo Bonzini  <bonzini@gnu.org>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 [AS_REQUIRE]: actually use the 2nd
        parameter

2003-05-22  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4, lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4
        * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 lib/autoconf/general.m4
        * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 lib/autoconf/oldnames.m4
        * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Fix and adjust copyright notices.

2003-05-22  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * aclocal.m4, bin/autoconf.as, lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4,
        * lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4, lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4,
        * lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/fortran.m4,
        * lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/headers.m4,
        * lib/autoconf/lang.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4,
        * lib/autoconf/programs.m4, lib/autoconf/specific.m4,
        * lib/autoconf/status.m4, lib/autoconf/types.m4,
        * lib/autotest/general.m4, lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4,
        * tests/atspecific.m4, tests/base.at, tests/compile.at,
        * tests/foreign.at, tests/m4sh.at, tests/semantics.at,
        * tests/tools.at, tests/torture.at:
        Whitespace clean up.
        Suggested by Jim Meyering.

2003-05-22  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG): Restore smashed
        ' \t' as '\t ' so that Emacs' whitespace.el keep it.
        Reported by Jim Meyering.

2003-05-22  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi: Replace AC_HELP_STRING AS_HELP_STRING.
        Add AC_HELP_STRING  to the obsolete macros section.
        Typos.
        Use '@.' for sentences that ended in a capital letter.
        From Art Haas.

2003-05-22  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/elisp-comp,
        * config/install-sh, config/mdate-sh, config/mkinstalldirs,
        * config/texinfo.tex, doc/standards.texi: Update from masters.

2003-05-21  Paolo Bonzini  <bonzini@gnu.org>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_VAR_SET): Escape the RHS before passing
        it to eval.

2003-05-21  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoupdate.in ($m4): Fix quotation.
        Reported by Martin Mokrejs.

2003-05-19  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * ChangeLog, ChangeLog.2, THANKS, lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4:
        Remove non-ASCII characters.

2003-05-18  Paolo Bonzini  <bonzini@gnu.org>

        * tests/semantics.at (AC_SEARCH_LIBS): New test.
        * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_HEADERS_OLD,
        AC_CHECK_HEADERS_NEW): New tests.

2003-05-17  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/functions.m4: Use the default includes so that
        memcmp be declared before being tested.
        Reported by Sander Niemeijer.
        (AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE, AC_FUNC_GETGROUPS, AC_FUNC_STRNLEN): Likewise.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Default Includes): Document
        AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT.

2003-05-17  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/specific.m4: Include signal.h and unistd.h.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsolete Macros): Adjust.
        Reported by Werner LEMBERG and Debian Bug 190886.

2003-05-16  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_UNSET_PREPARE): s/FOO/as_foo/ to avoid
        user name space clashes.
        Reported by Bruno Haible.

2003-05-16  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
        * bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in (BEGIN): Make
        them uniform, and more robust to Perl special characters.
        Reported by Martin Mokrejs.

2003-05-14  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Skip all Libtools pre 1.4.

2003-05-14  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): X11/extensions/scrnsaver.h,
        linux/irda.h.

2003-05-12  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Improve the
        message.
        From Matthias Andree.

2003-05-07  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <adl@gnu.org>

        * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm (lock, truncate): Do not pass @_ to flock
        and truncate.

2003-05-06  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Don't try to be smart with aclocal 1.8+ because (i) aclocal no
        longer updates aclocal.m4 if useless, (ii) if a file m4_included
        by aclocal.m4 is changed it might require the importing of another
        m4 extension file, i.e., aclocal must be run.

        * bin/autoreconf.in (&run_aclocal, $aclocal_supports_force): New.
        (&parse_args): Use --force with aclocal if required and supported.
        (&autoreconf_current_directory): Use &run_aclocal.

2003-05-06  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Lock autom4te's cache.

        * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm ($me, &name, &lock, &truncate, &seek): New.
        * bin/autom4te.in (&Request::save, &Request::load): Use an IO::File
        argument instead of a file name, so that the request file remains
        open during the whole autom4te run.
        ($icache_file): New.
        (&freeze): Lock the $icache_file.

2003-04-29  Derek Price  <derek@ximbiot.com>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_KEYWORDS): Don't use a comma as the
        seperator with m4_append_uniq().  It doesn't work.
        (AT_CLEANUP): Add `;' to end of at_help_all.
        (AT_INIT): Allow --keywords to be specified more than once.  When
        grepping $at_help_all for keywords, use the field and keyword
        seperators to ensure a complete keyword match.  Alter at_prev handling
        to support the new --keywords behavior.

2003-04-27  Karl Berry  <karl@freefriends.org>

        * doc/autoconf.texi: Make the dir entries in the autoconf manual
        align better with others.  I also made some of the individual
        entries on one line, for brevity and to make it easier for me to
        sort my dir-example file in the Texinfo distribution :).

2003-04-12  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        * NEWS: Mention the new macro.
        * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_RESTRICT): New macro.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Describe AC_C_RESTRICT.
        * tests/c.at: Test AC_C_RESTRICT.
        * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Add exclusion for AC_C_RESTRICT.

2003-04-08  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/ifnames.in: Skip C++ comments.
        From Jeremy Yallop.

2003-04-08  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * GNUmakefile (SHELL): Don't assume sh is in /bin/.
        From Ilya Zakharevich.

2003-04-08  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Some about sys/socket.h,
        net/if.h, stdlib.h.

2003-04-01  Derek Price  <derek@ximbiot.com>

        * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_INSTALL): Correct syntax error
        from Akim's checkin of 2003-03-29.

2003-04-01  Derek Price  <derek@ximbiot.com>

        * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Add missing
        close-quote for Akim's change from 2003-03-28.

2003-04-01  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (ac, at, ms): Rename these indexes as...
        (AC, AT, MS): these.
        (shortindexflag, @acindex, @ahindex, @asindex, @atindex, @msindex):
        New.
        Use them.
        * doc/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): Adjust.
        (TEXI2DVI): Make it --batch.

2003-03-31  Derek Price  <derek@ximbiot.com>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4: Revert the checkin from 2003-03-27
        which removed the main loop.
        Thanks to Akim Demaille.

2003-03-29  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_INSTALL): Skip OS/2's install,
        that starts a GUI.
        From Ilya Zakharevich.

2003-03-29  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): The
        documentation to read is Autoconf's.
        Suggested by Paul Eggert.

2003-03-28  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): Suggest
        reading the section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled" when the
        header causes problems.

2003-03-28  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Require aclocal
        1.4, otherwise the test fails, as it does support configure.ac.
        This fixes the "test 40 failed" bug reports.

2003-03-28  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): `#line' portability.
        From Paul Eggert and Nelson H. F. Beebe.

2003-03-27  Derek Price  <derek@ximbiot.com>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4: Eliminate main loop and reorganize test
        layout in order to allow scripting around test groups.

2003-03-27  Derek Price  <derek@ximbiot.com>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (PARSE_ARGS,PARSE_ARGS_END,HELP,HELP_MODES,
        HELP_TUNING,HELP_OTHER,HELP_END,PREPARE_TESTS,TESTS_END): Define and
        use new diversions in preparation for accepting new arguments and
        allowing scripting around tests.
        (OPTIONS,TAIL): Remove these diversions to make way for the ones above.

2003-03-26  Derek Price  <derek@ximbiot.com>

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_ARG_VAR): Use AS_HELP_STRING instead of
        obsolete AC_HELP_STRING.
        (AC_HELP_STRING): AU_DEFUN to...
        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_HELP_STRING): ...here.
        * tests/m4sh.at (AS_HELP_STRING): New test.

        * tests/acgeneral.at: Regenerated.

2003-03-26  Derek Price  <derek@ximbiot.com>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4: s/DEFAULT/DEFAULTS/ since it makes more
        sense.  Verbosify the diversion definitions comment.

2003-03-26  Derek Price  <derek@ximbiot.com>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Remove redundant call to
        AS_PREPARE.

2003-03-21  Eric Siegerman  <eric_97@pobox.com>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Present But Cannot Be Compiled):
        Grammar fixes and minor rewording. (trivial change)

2003-03-06  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        Work around a problem noted by Nelson H. F. Beebe with coreutils
        4.5.9: Sun c89 (Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3 Patch 111679-08
        2002/05/09) rejects '#line 32768 "configure"' because the line
        number overflows.
        * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_SOURCE(C)): Do not generate
        #line directives.
        * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_SOURCE): Fix comment to match this.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Generating Sources): Document this.

2003-03-01  Richard Dawe  <rich@phekda.freeserve.co.uk>

        * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE): Normalize
        file name for the m4 program, when it has an "exe" file extension.
        DJGPP's error messages include the error code in brackets -
        remove the error code during normalization.

2003-02-28  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Present But Cannot Be Compiled): New.

2003-02-28  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <adl@gnu.org>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Remove the section
        about `$<' in inference rules, it was a bogus interpretation of
        an old Automake change.  Discuss NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and
        Tru64 make in the "target lookup" section.
        (Automake): Automake 1.5+ no longer requires special tools to be
        present on the developer's host.

2003-02-26  Richard Dawe  <rich@phekda.freeserve.co.uk>

        * bin/autoheader.in (BEGIN): For DJGPP SHELL may not be set
        to a shell that can handle redirection or quoting correctly.
        Override SHELL with the shell detected by configure.
        Use of $^O suggested by Tim van Holder.
        * bin/autom4te.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
        * bin/autoreconf.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
        * bin/autoscan.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
        * bin/autoupdate.in (BEGIN): Likewise.
        * bin/ifnames.in (BEGIN): Likewise.

        * bin/ifnames.in: Add final newline to help and version messages.

        * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Translate colons,
        to cope with DOS-style absolute paths, when constructing
        ${ac_make}.

        * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS, _AC_OUTPUT_FILES):
        When constructing paths with IFS=:, quote the path. If we're
        constructing a DOS-style absolute path, we don't want to split it
        on the colon.

        * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_CONFIGURE): Fix typo
        in description.

2003-02-25  Pavel Roskin  <proski@gnu.org>

        * bin/autoheader.in: Add missing newline when printing
        suggestion how change AC_DEFINE call.

2003-02-24  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Fix typo in
        2002-09-01 patch by replacing "test -n" with "test -z".
        This fixes a bug found by Jeff Painter and reported by Tom Epperly in
        <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2003-02/msg00139.html>.

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): test -n -> test -z,
        to fix a mismatch between example and discussion.

2003-02-24  Kevin Ryde  <user42@zip.com.au>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Add notes on printf
        format starting with "-".

2003-02-20  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <adl@gnu.org>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): `foo=bar make -e'
        is not portable inside Makefile.

2003-02-20  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): When
        compiler says yeah, but preproc says nope, compiler is right.
        Conversely, prompt the reader to send a bug report to the
        maintainers of the package, not of Autoconf.

2003-02-20  Klee Dienes  <kdienes@apple.com>

        * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf_current_directory): Properly
        handle an empty aclocal.m4.

2003-02-20  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM): Quote
        $ac_prefix_program.
        From Larry Jones.

2002-12-23  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C)): Define $1 to an
        innocuous variant befor including <limits.h> or <assert.h>.  This
        works around a bug reported by Albert Chin: HP-UX 11i
        (and earlier versions) have a <limits.h> that declares
        gettimeofday and many other functions.

2002-12-03  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        Version 2.57.

        * NEWS, configure.ac: Update version.

        * doc/fdl.texi: Upgrade to FDL version 1.2.

        * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C)): Use the function f
        nontrivially in main's body, so that f's external declaration is
        not optimized away in AIX.  This should fix the bug reported by
        Martin Frydl in
        <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/autoconf/2002-November/014508.html>.

        * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C),
        _AC_PROG_PREPROC_WORKS_IFELSE): Use <limits.h> if __STDC__ is
        defined, to support freestanding compilers.  This should fix the
        bug reported by Momchil Velkov in
        <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/autoconf/2002-November/014490.html>.

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsolete Macros): Fix typos (insert empty
        arg, AC_DEFINE -> AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED) in documentation for
        obsolete AC_CHECK_TYPE.  The missing empty arg was reported
        by Simon Josefsson in
        <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/autoconf-patches/2002-December/008830.html>.

        * Makefile.maint (www-gnu): New macro.
        (standards.texi-url_prefix, make-stds.texi-url_prefix): Use it, as
        the location has moved.

2002-12-02  Martin Frydl  <martin@systinet.com>

        * bin/autom4te.in (at_flatten): rewritten to avoid M4 problem when
        \(.*\) match is too long and there is something more to be checked.
        <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/autoconf/2002-November/014524.html>

2002-11-15  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Version 2.56.

        * config/install-sh: chmod +x.
        From Paul Eggert.
        * config/move-if-change: Indenting changes.
        * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Move to...
        * configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): here.
        Require 1.7.1.

2002-11-14  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Version 2.55.

        * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/install-sh:
        Update from masters.

2002-11-14  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * Makefile.maint: Sync with Bison, i.e.:
        (po-check): Scan .l and .y files instead of the
        .c and the .h files that they generate.  This fixes the bug
        reported by Tim Van Holder in:
        <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bison-patches/2002-November/001352.html>
        Look for N_ as well as for _.  Try to avoid matching #define for
        N_ and _.
        From Paul Eggert.

2002-11-14  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Compiling several files at once.
        From Paul Eggert and Albert Chin-A-Young.

2002-11-14  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Solitary backslashes.
        From Paul Eggert and Albert Chin-A-Young.

2002-11-14  Kevin Ryde  <user42@zip.com.au>

        * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C)): Initialize f=$1 rather
        than assigning in main, to avoid HP cc +O3 optimizing it away.

2002-11-12  Peter Eisentraut  <peter_e@gmx.net>

        * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Add -q
        option.  Process --recheck after parsing all options.  Pass -q
        option to configure on --recheck.
        (AC_OUTPUT): Pass -q from configure to config.status.
        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Strip -q from
        arguments to record.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (config.status Invocation): Document
        config.status -q option.

2002-11-07  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <adl@gnu.org>

        * bin/autoscan.in (scan_file): Scan Makefile.am too. Ignore
        Makefile.in if Makefile.am exists.
        (output): Strip `.am' from Makefiles.  Don't
        output AC_CONFIG_FILES if no Makefiles were found.

2002-11-07  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * Makefile.am (cvs_files): Add elisp-comp, mdate-sh.
        (local_updates): New.
        * Makefile.maint: Update, from CVS Bison.
        (local_updates): New.

2002-11-06  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY): Wrap the `f'
        declaration in extern "C" too.
        Reported by Roberto Bagnara.

2002-11-06  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Don't use grep
        -w.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Grep -w.
        Reported by Ezra Peisach.

2002-11-05  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4 (_AH_TEMPLATE_OLD, _AH_VERBATIM_OLD):
        Remove.
        We _have_ to stop using the old compatibility scheme that tried to
        avoid useless backslashes because Libtool 1.4.3 contains a
        AC_DEFINE([error_t], [int],
        [Define to a type to use for \`error_t' if it is not
        otherwise available.])
        We _have_ to quote the single quote and backslashes with \.  The
        old compatibility scheme saw that ` was backslashed, and therefore
        did not quote the single quote.  Hence before this patch, Autoconf
        was not compatible with Libtool.

2002-11-04  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Set the following variables,
        too: LC_ADDRESS, LC_IDENTIFICATION, LC_MEASUREMENT, LC_MONETARY,
        LC_NAME, LC_PAPER, LC_TELEPHONE.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Mention those vars.

2002-11-04  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Version 2.54c.

        * Makefile.maint (update, cvs-update, po-update, do-po-update):
        New.
        * config/texinfo.tex: Update.

2002-11-03  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf_current_directory): New, extracted
        from...
        (&autoreconf): here.
        ($help, $make, &parse_args, &autoreconf_current_directory):
        Support -m/--make.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Adjust.

2002-10-31  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>

        * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_MALLOC_IF): Change message.
        Change name of cache variable to ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull.
        (AC_FUNC_MALLOC): Change description of HAVE_MALLOC macro.
        (_AC_FUNC_REALLOC_IF): Change message. Change name of cache variable
        to ac_cv_func_realloc_0_nonnull.
        (AC_FUNC_REALLOC): Change description of HAVE_REALLOC macro.

2002-10-31  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        The test suite was no longer checking for trailing envvars and files.

        * tests/atspecific.m4 (AC_STATE_SAVE): Don't use quadrigraphs here.
        (AT_CHECK_ENV): Make sure the `state-ls.before file exists.

2002-10-31  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Use and display
        `$(MAKE)' instead of '${MAKE}' to emphasize that we refer to the
        Make variable, not a shell variable.
        Suggested by Bruno Haible.

2002-10-31  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autom4te.in (load_configuration): Reject #args out of any
        language.

2002-10-31  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_MSG_LOG_CONFTEST): New.
        (_AC_PREPROC_IFELSE, _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, _AC_LINK_IFELSE)
        (_AC_RUN_IFELSE): Use it.
        * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT):
        (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Likewise.
        * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_SOURCE): Don't include confdefs.h,
        inline it.

2002-10-30  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args, $help): Support --no-cache.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te Invocation): Adjust.
        Suggested by Tim van Holder.

2002-10-29  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): AC_FUNC_MALLOC and
        AC_FUNC_REALLOC check for compatibility with glibc, not POSIX.
        Problem reported by Bruno Haible.

2002-10-29  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Templates): Put also in words what the
        pictures says to assist free style readers.
        (Customizing autom4te): s/--cache=/--cache /.

2002-10-29  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_VFORK): Include stdlib.h and
        sys/wait.h.
        sparc_address_test returns void.
        Use it with an argument, as prototyped.
        From Bruno Haible.

2002-10-29  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Subdirectories): Cygnus dirs have
        configure.in, not configure.ac.
        Reported by Bruno Haible.

2002-10-29  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/torture.at (Deep Package): New test.
        (Configuring subdirectories): Don't use a testSubDir as Autotest
        now does it itself.

2002-10-29  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args, $help): Support --warnings.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te): Rename as...
        (autom4te Invocation): this, for consistency with the other nodes.

2002-10-29  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): s/automate/autom4te/.
        Reported by Ralf Corsepius.

2002-10-29  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_QUOTE): The warning about quoted
        characters is a back as an `obsolete' warning now.
        Reported by Ralf Corsepius.

2002-10-28  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * configure.ac: Bump to 2.54c.

2002-10-28  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Version 2.54b.

        * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Adjust to broken libtoolize.

2002-10-28  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE): Be robust to different
        m4 executable names, and different GNU M4 version.
        Reported by Ezra Peisach and Paul Jarc.

2002-10-27  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_VFORK): Really use
        AC_RUN_IFELSE.

2002-10-27  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi: More AC_MSG_FAILURE promotion.
        * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING):
        Die when a simple Fortran program cannot be compiled.
        * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG_CALL, AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY):
        Issue a warning if no function is given.

2002-10-27  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Run Time): Document AC_RUN_IFELSE.
        Move the documentation of AC_TRY_RUN to...
        (Obsolete Macros): here.
        Adjust all the old samples still using AC_TRY_RUN to AC_RUN_IFELSE.
        (autoconf Invocation): Remove the duplicates with `invoking
        autom4te'.
        * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDC): Don't use AC_TRY_RUN.
        * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.

2002-10-27  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Generating Sources): Document AC_LANG_CALL
        and AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY.
        (Examining Libraries): Rename as...
        (Running the Linker): this.
        Document AC_LINK_IFELSE.
        Move the documentation of AC_TRY_LINK and AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC to...
        (Obsolete Macros): here.
        * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING): Don't use
        AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC nor AC_TRY_LINK.
        * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (AC_CHECK_LIB, AC_PATH_XTRA): Likewise.
        * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_USG): Likewise.

2002-10-27  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDC): Don't use AC_TRY_CPP.

        More `check config.log' messages.

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_MSG_FAILURE): New.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Printing Messages): Document it.
        * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Use it when
        appropriate.
        * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT)
        (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_WORKS, _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O)
        (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT): Likewise.
        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_RUN_IFELSE): Likewise.
        * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_F77_HOOKS):
        Likewise.
        * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CPP, AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXXCPP):
        Likewise.

        Deprecate macros with unusual interfaces.

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_TRY_CPP, AC_TRY_LINK)
        (AC_TRY_COMPILE, AC_TRY_RUN): AU_DEFUN'ed.

        Document the new ones, and proper style.

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Generating Sources): New.
        Document AC_LANG_CONFTEST, AC_LANG_SOURCE, AC_LANG_PROGRAM.
        (Examining Declarations): Rename as...
        (Running the Preprocessor): this.
        Document AC_PREPROC_IFELSE.
        (Examining Syntax): Rename as...
        (Running the Compiler): this.
        (AC_FOO_IFELSE vs AC_TRY_FOO): New section.
        (Obsolete Macros): Move the definition of AC_TRY_CPP and
        AC_TRY_COMPILE here.

2002-10-27  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Move sections around.

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Customizing autom4te): Remove a lost
        sentence.
        Reported by Burno Haible.
        (Language Choice): Now the first section of...
        (Writing Tests): this section.
        Make the introduction less C-centric.
        (Guidelines, Test Functions): Move to...
        (Writing Test Programs): this new section.
        (Test Programs): Merge into...
        (Run Time): this.

2002-10-27  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/freeze.mk ($(AUTOM4TE_CFG)): Add a missing dependency on
        autom4te.in that resulted in the need for two `make' runs.

2002-10-27  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * configure.ac: Bump to 2.54b.

2002-10-25  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Version 2.54a.

        * Makefile.maint: Update from the Coreutils.
        (AMTAR): Remove, obsolete.
        (automake_repo): Update to redhat.com.
        (cvs_file): New.
        Adjust to the fact that ansi2knr is now hosted by Automake.
        * Makefile.am (cvs_files): Add install-sh and mkinstalldirs.
        * config/config.guess, config/mkinstalldirs, config/texinfo.tex:
        Update from masters.
        * lib/autoscan/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST, nodist_autoscanlib_DATA):
        autoscan.pre is not to be installed, and autoscan.list is not to
        be shipped.
        (CLEANFILES): Add autoscan.list.
        (autoscan.list): Disable the cache.
        * bin/Makefile.am: Include freeze.mk.

2002-10-25  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autom4te.in (&load_configuration): Take the file as
        argument.
        (&parse_args): Handle -C, --cache.
        ($help): Adjust.
        (MAIN): Load ~/.autom4te.cfg and ./.autom4te.cfg.
        * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): Pass --cache=autom4te.cache.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te): Document --cache.
        Now a subsection of...
        (Using autom4te): This new section.
        (Customizing autom4te): New.
        (autom4te.cache): Adjust.

2002-10-25  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Headers): More information on how to
        use AC_CHECK_HEADERS.

2002-10-25  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoconf.as, bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoupdate.in ($help):
        Space changes.

2002-10-25  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoscan.in (output): Output AC_PREREQ.
        (%needed_macros): Add AC_PREREQ so that configure.ac without one
        be reported.

2002-10-23  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): In AC_HEADER_STDBOOL,
        document _Bool.

2002-10-23  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autom4te.in (handle_traces): Handle @&t@ in traces.
        Reported by Peter Eisentraut.

2002-10-23  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDBOOL): Also look for the
        type _Bool.
        Fix a typo.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Adjust according to Paul
        Eggert's recommandations.

2002-10-22  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDBOOL): New, based on CVS
        Bison, by Paul Eggert.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Document it.

2002-10-22  Aaron M. Ucko  <amu@alum.mit.edu>

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Avoid duplicates in
        `$ac_configure_args'.

2002-10-22  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi: Use AC_CONFIG_HEADERS in examples.
        (AC_ST_BLKSIZE, AC_ST_RDEV): Directly point to AC_CHECK_MEMBERS.
        From Art Haas.

2002-10-22  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Restore the 2002-10-11  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr> patch:

        * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL)
        (AC_CHECK_HEADER, _AC_CHECK_HEADER_NEW,_AC_CHECK_HEADER_OLD): Restore.
        (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_NEW): Rename as...
        (AC_CHECK_HEADER): this.

2002-10-22  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Remove incorrect
        words about HP-UX cmp: it was actually a user-written cmp.

2002-10-22  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Don't check autoconf's stderr: there
        are a few warnings.
        * lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4 (AH_VERBATIM, _AH_VERBATIM_OLD):
        Quote for Perl '' strings, not "".
        * bin/autoheader.in: Invoke autoconf to get '' strings, not ""
        strings.

2002-10-22  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_QUOTE): The warning about quoted
        characters is a syntax warning now.
        (_AS_QUOTE): Accept $2 as list of characters to quote.
        * lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4 (AH_VERBATIM, _AH_VERBATIM_OLD):
        Quote for Perl, not sh.
        * bin/autoheader.in: When $debug, report the file which is
        `do'ne.
        * tests/tools.at (autom4te, autoheader): Exercise @bar, not merely
        `@', to tickle Perl's lists.
        Reported by Carlos Velasco.

2002-10-18  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autom4te.in (handle_m4): Pass --fatal-warning to m4, so that
        missing included files _are_ errors.
        Thanks to Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
        * tests/tools.at (autom4te cache): Adjust.
        * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOM4TE): New.
        (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR): Use it.
        * tests/m4sugar.at (m4_warn, m4_require: circular dependencies):
        Adjust.
        * tests/tools.at (autom4te): Now it does exit 1.

2002-10-17  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CACHE_SAVE): Don't use cmp.
        Fixes the `AC_ARG_VAR' test failures.
        * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Don't use cmp.
        * lib/freeze.mk (check-forbidden-patterns): New.
        * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am, lib/autotest/Makefile.am
        * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am (check-local): Use it to catch `cmp'.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): HP-UX' cmp and
        /dev/null.
        Reported months ago by H. Merijn Brand.

2002-10-17  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/tools.at (autoheader): Put randoms `@' to stress Perl.

2002-10-16  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * Makefile.maint (wget_files): Remove ansi2knr.c.
        (ansi2knr.c-url_prefix): Remove.

2002-10-16  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Because of caching, some files that no longer exist and are no
        longer required can still cause errors.
        Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.

        * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Do not prepend `--reload-state'
        to frozen files in @ARGV, as @ARGV must remain being a list of
        files.  Rather, at M4 call sites, use this...
        (&files_to_options): New function.
        (&freeze): Use &error.
        (&up_to_date): If a file that was included according to the cache
        is no longer there, then the output is out dated.
        (&main): Don't even check whether a file is up to date is anyway
        --force is given.
        * tests/tools.at (autom4te cache): New.

2002-10-16  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoconf.as: Kill dead options.
        * bin/autoupdate.in (&parse_args): Kill old options.
        * bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args): Remove dead options.
        Factor some code.
        (&autoreconf): Report the directories we enter *and leave*, so
        that error messages can be easily located, and use GNU Make
        format, so that Emacs' compile mode understands us.
        * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&update_file): Use `verbose' to report
        if some file was changed instead of `print'.
        * bin/autoheader.in: Suggest AC_DEFINE with 3 args when needed.
        (&parse_args): Remove the dead options.
        * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER): Adjust to the new
        autoheader's quiet mode.
        (AT_CHECK_AUTOUPDATE): Likewise.
        * tests/tools.at (autoupdate): Adjust.
        * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.

2002-10-11  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        No longer use CPP to check for the existing of headers: use CC to
        check for compilability.

        * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL)
        (AC_CHECK_HEADER, _AC_CHECK_HEADER_OLD): Remove.
        (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_NEW): Rename as...
        (AC_CHECK_HEADER): this.

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Include the failed test
        numbers in the Subject suggestion.

2002-10-11  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_DECL_SYS_SIGLIST): Obsolete.
        Suggest using AC_CHECK_DECLS instead.

2002-10-11  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): Have configure report the value
        of `precious'.

2002-10-11  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_SEPARATOR_PREPARE): Use $$ in the
        file name to enable parallel executions.
        From Sam Varshavchik.

2002-10-08  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Run autopoint before the first
        aclocal invocation, as Gettext macros might not be visible to
        aclocal.
        Instead of blindly running autopoint, scan configure.ac (not the
        traces) for AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION uses, as autopoint does.
        Reported by Paul D. Smith.

2002-10-08  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        Work around problems found when POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 is set.
        None of this seems to have anything to do with POSIX, really,
        but it's how Perl getopt works.
        * bin/autom4te.in (parse_args): Configure GetOpt with
        "permute", too.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te):
        --warning -> --warnings.
        * lib/autom4te.in: --warning -> --warnings.

2002-09-28  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te.cache): New section.

2002-09-28  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autom4te.in (Autoscan-preselections, Autoreconf-preselections)
        (Automake-preselections): Update.
        * bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoheader.in: Comment changes.

2002-09-28  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoscan/autoscan.pre: Move all the remaining rules to...
        * lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/functions.m4,
        * lib/autoconf/headers.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4,
        * lib/autoconf/specific.m4, lib/autoconf/types.m4: here.

2002-09-28  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Be robust to
        users who use config.site to require for a cache: in this case,
        the two last configure runs, using two different sets of
        arguments, trigger a legitimate error.

2002-09-28  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/m4sh.at (Functions Support, Functions and return Support):
        New.

2002-09-28  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/Makefile.am (ETAGS_SH, ETAGS_PERL): Update: ifnames and
        autoheader are Perl programs.
        (autoconf, autoheader, autoreconf, autoupdate, ifnames, autoscan)
        (autom4te): Specify that the sources are in the $srcdir.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Adjust.

2002-09-28  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoscan/autoscan.pre (st_blksize, st_blocks, st_rdev)
        (tm_zone): Move their rules to...
        * lib/autoconf/types.m4: here, using AN_ macros.
        * lib/autoscan/autoscan.pre (AWK, BISON, INSTALL, LEX, LN, MAKE)
        (RANLIB, YACC, awk, bison, byacc, flex, gawk, install, lex, ln)
        (make, mawk, nawk, ranlib, yacc): Similarly, move to...
        * lib/autoconf/programs.m4: here.
        * lib/freeze.mk (ETAGS_FOR_M4, ETAGS_FOR_M4SUGAR)
        (ETAGS_FOR_AUTOCONF): New.
        Use it.

2002-09-28  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/autoscan.m4: New file.
        * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4: Include it.
        * lib/autoconf/functions.m4: Use AN_FUNCTION for all the functions
        that were listed in the original autoscan.list.
        * lib/autoconf/headers.m4: Similarly with headers.
        * lib/freeze.mk (autoconf_m4f_dependencies): Add autoscan.m4.
        (.m4.m4f): Don't pass --prepend-include, since that's done by
        tests/autom4te itself.
        * lib/autoscan/Makefile.am: Include freeze.mk.
        (autoscan.list): New target --this file is no longer a source.
        (autoscan.pre): New file.

2002-09-28  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoscan.in (@kinds): Make them singular.
        Adjust all uses.
        (&init_tables): When --debug, report the list of rules to ease
        tracking changes in autoscan.list.
        * lib/autoscan/autoscan.list (function): Strip comments, sort.

2002-09-28  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoscan/functions, lib/autoscan/headers,
        * lib/autoscan/identifiers, lib/autoscan/makevars,
        * lib/autoscan/programs: Merge into...
        * lib/autoscan/autoscan.list: this.
        * bin/autoscan.in (&init_tables): Adjust.

2002-09-28  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoscan/functions, lib/autoscan/headers,
        * lib/autoscan/identifiers, lib/autoscan/makevars,
        * lib/autoscan/programs: Make the `kind' explicit, i.e., each
        `functions' line is now prefixed with `function:'.
        * bin/autoscan.in (&init_tables): Adjust.

2002-09-28  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        From now on, autoscan files must always map a macro name to a
        word: there is no `default' macro for autoscan.

        * bin/autoscan.in (&init_tables): Reject entries with no macro at
        all.
        * lib/autoscan/functions, lib/autoscan/headers: Make the macro
        explicit.

2002-09-28  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoscan.in (%c_keywords): Remove.
        (&used): Keep only track of the words we might be interested in.
        (&output_kind): It is no longer needed to look for non active
        checks.

2002-09-27  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC): New, stolen from
        jm_FUNC_MBRTOWC, by Paul Eggert, from the Coreutils 4.5.1.
        * lib/autoscan/functions: Adjust.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Adjust.

2002-09-27  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Some about mv
        from /tmp.
        Thanks to Bill Moseley and Paul Eggert.
        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): $2 is the directory into which
        the tmpdir must be created.
        * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Have the tmp
        dir be in the build tree, instead of $TMPDIR.

2002-09-27  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoscan.in: Improve the comments.
        (&parse_args): Drop obsolete undocumented options.
        (&output_kind): Output warnings.
        * lib/autoscan/functions: (dcgettext): Now trigger AM_GNU_GETTEXT.
        (getwd): Trigger a warning.

2002-09-26  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoreconf.in: Clarify that -s is meaningless without -i.
        Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Likewise.

2002-09-26  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Single suffix rules and seperated dependencies are not portable.

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Update.
        (Limitations of Make): Some about `Single Suffix Rules and
        Separated Dependencies'.
        * bin/Makefile.am (autoconf, autoheader, autoreconf, autoupdate)
        (ifnames, autoscan, autom4te): Un-factor into several rules.

2002-09-25  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * BUGS (Interoperability bugs): New section.  Mention libtool
        1.4.2, configure.ac, and AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR interoperability bug.

2002-09-24  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        Fix a portability bug reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz: Solaris 8
        make handles suffix-rules differently from GNU make.

        * bin/Makefile.am (SUFFIXES, .in): Remove.
        (autoconf autoheader autoreconf autoupdate ifnames autoscan autom4te):
        Move the body of the old .in rule here.

2002-09-16  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        i960 compilers create `b.out' files by default.
        Reported by Ralf Corsepius.

        * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT): Remove b.out files.
        (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Adjust to b.out.

2002-09-13  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Headers): Remove obsolete
        reference to `struct timezone' in the description of
        AC_HEADER_TIME.

2002-09-13  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Version 2.54.

        * config/config.sub, config/config.guess: Update.
        * Makefile.maint: Update from bits of the Coreutils 4.5.1.
        * Makefile.am: Adjust.

2002-09-13  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Suggest
        reading config.log when the compiler is rejected.
        Suggested by Guido Draheim.

2002-09-13  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoreconf.in: Don't use Cwd::chdir, since in its internals
        (chdir_init) might hang when stat'ing mounted directories.
        Reported by Vance Shipley.

2002-09-12  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoscan.in (&parse_args): Pass a reference to the lists, not
        the lists.

2002-09-12  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Defining Symbols): Present two different
        prototypes for AC_DEFINE and AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED to emphasize the
        difference between 1 argument calls, and 2-3 argument calls.

2002-09-12  Peter Eisentraut  <peter_e@gmx.net>

        * doc/autoconf.texi: Review grammar and punctuation.

2002-09-11  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * doc/autoconf.texi: Fix minor formatting, spelling, and
        grammatical typos.
        (Defining Symbols): Explain that AC_DEFINE(var) defaults to 1, but
        AC_DEFINE(var,,description) does not; and the AC_DEFINE(var) case
        is obsolescent.

2002-09-11  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Questions): Rename as...
        (FAQ): this.
        (Defining Directories): New.

2002-09-09  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Making testsuite Scripts): Update.
        Suggested by Nishio Futoshi.

2002-09-09  Koji Arai  <JCA02266@nifty.ne.jp>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Making testsuite Scripts): Use `@@' where a
        plain `@' is wanted.

2002-09-09  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Keep the
        `duplicates', since the algorithm was too naive and could keep
        `--prefix=1 --prefix=2 --prefix=1' as `--prefix=1 --prefix=2', and
        keep `--prefix foo --prefix bar' as `--prefix foo bar'.
        Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
        * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Exercise these
        cases.

2002-09-09  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG): Use $srcdir when
        looking for a replacement file.
        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CHECK_DECLS): Check that the
        directory is relative.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Generic Functions): Clarify the replacement
        directory definition.
        Reported by Andreas Schwab and Jim Meyering.

2002-09-06  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Clarify what
        precious variables are.
        Suggested by Pontus Skoeld.

2002-09-05  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/Makefile.am (autoconf, autoheader, autoreconf, autoupdate)
        (ifnames, autoscan, autom4te): Since we don't only depend on
        configure.ac variables (such as VERSION etc.), but also on prefix
        and so forth, depend on Makefile, not configure.ac.
        Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Adjust.

2002-09-05  Kevin Ryde  <user42@zip.com.au>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): HP-UX trailing backslashes
        doesn't seem to be confined to ia64, just say "some versions".

2002-09-04  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * Makefile.am, doc/Makefile.am: Remove pdf targets, handled by
        Automake 1.6c.
        * Makefile.am (maintainer-clean-local): Remove.
        (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Remove COPYING.

2002-09-03  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Commands): Remove obsolete
        example for AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE.  Problem reported by Marcus
        Brinkmann.

2002-09-03  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * configure.ac: Bump to 2.53d.
        * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Require 1.6c, i.e., CVS Automake
        as of today, on Automake's team suggestion.

2002-09-03  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Version 2.53c.

2002-09-02  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autom4te.in (parse_args): Don't honor AUTOM4TE_PATH and
        SITE_MACRO_DIR.
        * configure.ac: Disable SITE_MACRO_DIR.

2002-09-02  Jim Meyering  <meyering@lucent.com>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_SYS_POSIX_TERMIOS): Reflect renaming: s/am/ac/,
        i.e., change am_cv_sys_posix_termios to ac_cv_sys_posix_termios.
        Also, tweak grammar: s/make sure to/be sure to/.

2002-09-02  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Explain why logical
        directory names are generally preferable to physical names.

2002-09-02  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&update_file): s/die/error/.
        Reported by Raja R. Harinath.
        * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoscan.in,
        * bin/autoupdate.in: Use error instead of die.

2002-09-01  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_egrep, au_exclude_egrep): Use
        ordinary shell concatenation rather than echo+tr+sed command that
        runs afoul of a long-line-related sed bug in Solaris 8.

        * bin/autoheader.in (parse_args): --warning -> --warnings.

        * bin/autoconf.as: Work even if "ls" outputs "FOO not found" to
        stdout, as traditional "ls" does.
        * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT,
        _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O): Likewise.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Add "ls".

        * bin/autoconf.as: Add --prepend-include option.  This patch was
        applied to bin/autoconf.in in the 2002-07-17 patch by Mark D. Roth,
        but bin/autoconf.in is generated automatically from bin/autoconf.as.

        * bin/autoconf.in, configure: Regenerate.

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Mention
        ENV, MAIL, MAILPATH, PS1, PS2, PS4.  Index PWD.

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Unset ENV, MAIL,
        MAILPATH and set PS1, PS2, PS4 to default values, to work
        around bug in pre-3.0 UWIN ksh reported by Bruce Lilly.
        For LC_ALL etc, first try to set to "C" as POSIX requires and as
        the Autoconf documentation specifies; fall back to "unset" only if
        this fails.  Use a shell for-loop for this rather than an m4 loop,
        to shorten the output script.

2002-08-30  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Mention POSIX
        1003.1-2001's requirements for CDPATH.  Give a simpler workaround
        for the CDPATH problem.  Document PWD.
        (Limitations of Builtins): Document the problem that "cd $foo" and
        "ls $foo" may refer to different directories in shells conforming
        to POSIX 1003.1-2001.  Use PS1 rather than CDPATH for "unset"
        example, since the old example is now out of date.

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Reject FOO if "cd
        FOO" and "ls FOO" talk about different directories; this catches
        problems when POSIX 1003.1-2001 "cd" fails due to symlink
        spaghetti.

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Use AS_UNSET instead
        of rolling our own unset.
        (_AS_PREPARE): $as_unset CDPATH instead of AS_UNSETting it, since
        in practice we needn't worry about CDPATH if unset doesn't work.

        * Makefile.in, aclocal.m4, bin/Makefile.in,
        config/Makefile.in, doc/Makefile.in, lib/Makefile.in,
        lib/Autom4te/Makefile.in, lib/autoconf/Makefile.in,
        lib/autoscan/Makefile.in, lib/autotest/Makefile.in,
        lib/emacs/Makefile.in, lib/m4sugar/Makefile.in, man/Makefile.in,
        tests/Makefile.in: Regenerate with Automake 1.6.3.

        * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/mkinstalldirs:
        Update.

        * configure: Regenerate with self.

2002-08-30  Kevin Ryde  <user42@zip.com.au>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Notes on "cc"
        default output.

2002-08-29  Rainer Orth  <ro@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>

        * bin/autom4te.in (Request::load): Correctly test for "do" read
        failure.

2002-08-29  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&xqx): New.
        (&xsystem): Use WIFEXITED and WEXITSTATUS instead of decoding $? by
        hand, which is not portable.
        (&error): New.
        * bin/autom4te.in: Use them.
        Use &error instead of die.
        * tests/m4sugar.at (m4_warn, m4_require: circular dependencies):
        Adjust.

2002-08-17  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_PROG_F77): Remove fc from the
        default list of compilers to try, since it was long ago superseded
        by the ksh fc builtin.  Suggested by Steven G. Johnson.

2002-07-31  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <duret_g@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te): End the option table,
        fixing a bug introduced by the previous patch.
        (Limitations of Make): Add a 'target lookup' subentry in the
        'VPATH' entry.  Rewrite all `make' occurences as `@command{make}'.

2002-07-29  Mark D. Roth  <roth@feep.net>

        * bin/autom4te.in: Remove --include-envvar and --site-macro-subdir
        options and use $AUTOM4TE_PATH.
        * doc/autoconf.texi: Remove documentation of autom4te
        --include-envvar and --site-macro-subdir options and document
        use of $AUTOM4TE_PATH.
        * lib/autom4te.in: Remove --include-envvar and --site-macro-subdir
        arguments from each language section.

2002-07-29  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * doc/install.texi: Include copyright symbol in copyright notice.

        * Makefile.am (MAKEINFO): Remove; it's a user-specified macro.
        Replace with:
        (AM_MAKEINFOFLAGS): New macro.
        * doc/Makefile.am (MAKEINFO, AM_MAKEINFOFLAGS): Likewise.
        * Makefile.am (INSTALL): Use the new macros.
        Use -o rather than --output, since "missing" does not grok --output.

2002-07-25  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <duret_g@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Escaped newlines in
        comments do not always work. Never trust the exit status of
        `make -k'.

2002-07-24  Kevin Ryde  <user42@zip.com.au>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make, Making testsuite Scripts):
        Untabify, since tabs are not enjoyed by texi2dvi and makeinfo.

2002-07-23  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_SEPARATOR_PREPARE):
        Use PATH="/nonexistent;.", not PATH=".;.", as FreeBSD ksh2002
        apparently treats PATH="nonexistent" as if it contained ".".
        Bug reported by Stefan `Sec' Zehl.

2002-07-22  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <duret_g@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Mention the special
        handling of the obj/ directory by BSD make.

2002-07-20  Kevin Ryde  <user42@zip.com.au>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Add HP-UX IA-64 trailing
        backslashes.

2002-07-19  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): `exit'.
        (Programming in M4sh): Ethymology of M4sh.

2002-07-19  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_LIBOBJ vs LIBOBJS): More about $U.

2002-07-18  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Version 2.53b.

2002-07-18  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * config/config.guess, config/config.sub: Update.

2002-07-18  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Handle LIBOBJS and LTLIBOBJS once for all, including Libtool's and
        Automake's parts.

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJS_NORMALIZE): New.
        * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_PRE): Call it.
        * tests/semantics.at (AC_REPLACE_FUNCS): Adjust.

2002-07-18  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>,
            Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <duret_g@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): Install
        _AC_AM_CONFIG_HEADER_HOOK for Automake 1.7.

2002-07-17  Russ Allbery  <rra@stanford.edu>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Initializing configure): Clarify the
        description of the tarname default.

2002-07-17  Andreas Buening  <andreas.buening@nexgo.de>

        * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_FORK): Don't set
        ac_cv_func_fork_works before running _AC_FUNC_FORK, do it if the
        latter was not run.

2002-07-17  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (find_file): Browse the directories in
        the order they are given.

2002-07-17  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/wrapsh.as, tests/wrappl.as: Merge into...
        * tests/wrapper.as: this.
        * tests/Makefile.am, configure.ac: Adjust.

2002-07-17  Mark D. Roth  <roth@feep.net>

        * configure.ac: Add --enable-site-macro-dir option.
        * bin/Makefile.am: Expand @SITE_MACRO_DIR@.
        * bin/autom4te.in: Add --prepend-include, --include-envvar, and
        --site-macro-subdir options.
        * bin/autoconf.in: Add --prepend-include option.
        * bin/autoheader.in: Add --prepend-include option.
        * bin/autoreconf.in: Add --prepend-include option.
        * bin/autoscan.in: Add --prepend-include option.
        * bin/autoupdate.in: Add --prepend-include option.
        * doc/autoconf.texi: Document use of $AC_MACRO_PATH and site
        macro directory, remove note that include path directories are
        used in reverse order, and document --prepend-include option.
        * lib/autom4te.in: Use --prepend-include instead of --include.
        * tests/wrapsh.in: Use --prepend-include instead of --include.

2002-07-17  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): `_' is allowed in
        tarnames.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Initializing configure): Adjust.

2002-07-17  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_REALLOC, _AC_FUNC_REALLOC)
        (_AC_FUNC_MALLOC): New.
        (AC_FUNC_MALLOC): Use the latter.
        Define HAVE_MALLOC to 0 if broken.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Adjust.

2002-07-16  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BACKSLASH_A): New.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Adjust.

2002-07-09  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi: Properly set the ``header'' part.

2002-07-09  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Systemology): Some about Darwin.

2002-07-09  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <duret_g@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_CYGWIN, AC_EMXOS2, AC_MINGW32):
        Don't use AC_REQUIRE in AU_DEFUN.

2002-07-09  Art Haas  <ahaas@neosoft.com>

        * doc/autoconf.texi: Use @enddots{} or @dots{} where appropriate.

2002-07-02  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <duret_g@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
        bin/autoupdate.in, bin/ifnames.in, lib/Autom4te/General.pm,
        lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm, lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: Add local variables
        so that Emacs setups GNU style for perl-mode and cperl-mode.

2002-06-27  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * config/install-sh: Quote $src.  Prefer || to test's -o option,
        as per "Limitations of Builtins".
        * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_ENV): Likewise, for && vs test -a.
        * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.

        * tests/mktests.sh: Use grep instead of fgrep, as per
        "Limitations of Builtins".

2002-06-15  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * tests/wrapsh.as (AUTOCONF, AUTOHEADER, AUTOM4TE, AUTOM4TE_CFG,
        autom4te_perllibdir): Set to top build dir or src dir as appropriate,
        so that we consistently test the just-built programs.
        * tests/wrappl.as: Likewise.

2002-06-12  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * bin/autoconf.as (AUTOM4TE): Default to a fully qualified path
        name, so that symlinks to 'autoconf' work properly.  Bug reported
        by Bruno Haible.
        * bin/autoheader.in (AUTOM4TE): Likewise.
        * bin/autoreconf.in (autoconf, autoheader): Likewise.
        * bin/autoscan.in (autom4te): Likewise.
        * bin/autoupdate.in (autom4te): Likewise.

        * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_LIBOBJ_FNMATCH): Also check for
        btowc, to fix a portability bug with diffutils-2.8.2/lib/fnmatch.c
        on Solaris 2.5.1.

2002-06-11  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@suse.de>

        * doc/autoconf.texi: Add more dir entries.

2002-06-10  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <duret_g@epita.fr>

        * bin/autom4te.in ($cache): Don't define using `$me', the name
        of the cache should not depend on the name under which autom4te
        was installed.

2002-06-07  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/tools.at (autoconf: forbidden tokens, basic)
        (autoconf: forbidden tokens, exceptions): Adjust to the change of
        words in autom4te.in.

2002-06-07  Peter Eisentraut  <peter_e@gmx.net>

        * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C)): Use
        _AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_F77_HOOKS.

2002-06-07  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_REPLACE_FUNC_FNMATCH): Typo,
        rename as...
        (AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH): this.
        * tests/mktests.sh (exclude_list): Exclude AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH,
        AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU.

2002-06-07  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Systemology): Point to Tru64 docs, and the
        Rosetta Stone for Unix.

2002-06-07  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autom4te.in (warn_forbidden): When rejecting a token,
        suggest m4_pattern_allow.
        Suggested by Adam J. Richter.

2002-06-07  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Initialize
        ac_config_libobj_dir.
        (AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR): New.
        * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_FNMATCH): Split into...
        (_AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_IF, _AC_LIBOBJ_FNMATCH): these.
        Use ac_config_libobj_dir to find the replacement files.
        (AC_FUNC_FNMATCH, AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU): Split into...
        (AC_FUNC_FNMATCH, AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU, AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH)
        (AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH_GNU): these.
        (AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG): Use ac_config_libobj_dir.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions, Generic Functions): Adjust.
        * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Don't check
        AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG as it requires getloadavg.c which is not shipped.

2002-06-06  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_LINKS): Fall back on cp
        if ln doesn't work.
        * NEWS: Likewise.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Links): Likewise.
        (Limitations of Usual Tools): Prefer $(LN_S) to ln -s || ln.

2002-06-05  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/texinfo.tex:
        Update from masters.

2002-05-29  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * bin/autom4te.in ($m4): Do not assume that egrep and fgrep exist.
        * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Likewise.
        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_RUN_LOG_STDERR, AC_EGREP_CPP):
        Likewise.
        * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am (check-local): Likewise.
        * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_CONFIG_HEADER): Likewise.
        * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (commentary only): Likewise.
        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT, AT_CHECK): Likewise.
        * lib/autotest/Makefile.am (check-local): Likewise.
        * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am (check-local): Likewise.
        * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CONFIGURE_AC, AT_CHECK_DEFINES): Likewise.
        * tests/mktests.sh (egrep): New var; use it instead of plain egrep.

        * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_EGREP, AC_PROG_FGREP): New macros.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): Document them.
        (Limitations of Usual Tools): Warn that egrep and fgrep may not exist.
        * NEWS: Likewise.

2002-05-27  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_TYPE_MBSTATE_T): New macro.
        * NEWS, doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Types): Document it.
        * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_FNMATCH): Require it
        instead of AC_MBSTATE_T, which never existed.

2002-05-23  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Hosts and Cross-Compilation): Specify the
        version of Autoconf that is discussed.

2002-05-22  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_PROG_F77): Remove cf77 and cft77
        from the default list of compilers to try.  Suggested by
        Kate Hedstrom.
        * NEWS: Document the above.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Fortran 77 Compiler): Don't suggest cf77.

2002-05-17  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_MEMBER): Work correctly even if
        the member is itself an aggregate.  Bug reported by Sergey Poznyakoff.
        This improves on an earlier suggestion by H. Peter Anvin.

2002-05-16  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        AC_FUNC_FNMATCH now tests only for POSIX compatibility.
        AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU also tests for GNU extensions.
        Both macros now accept an optional source-dir arg.
        New macro AC_GNU_SOURCE to define _GNU_SOURCE.

        * NEWS: Document this.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions, UNIX Variants): Likewise.

        * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_FNMATCH): New macro.
        (AC_FUNC_FNMATCH): Use it.  Test only for POSIX conformance,
        not for GNU extensions; this undoes part of the 2000-11-03 change,
        reverting to 2.13-compatible behavior.
        Add new optional argument DIR.
        (AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU): New macro.

        * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_GNU_SOURCE): New macro.

2002-05-08  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_TIOCGWINSZ):
        Don't require AC_SYS_POSIX_TERMIOS.  The test is unnecessary,
        and it causes a 'test' syntax error if it fails.
        Bug reported by Stephen Gildea.

        * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED):
        If prototypes are supported, use them to check this at compile-time,
        instead of trying to check it at run-time.  If we must do a run-time
        check, assume that setvbuf is standard when cross-compiling, as
        nonstandard setvbuf occurs only on ancient and unlikely hosts.
        Bug reported by Paul D. Smith.

        * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG): Add optional
        argument specifying location of getloadavg.c.  This removes a
        FIXME.  This idea was taken from Jim Meyering's implementation in
        textutils.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): Document this.
        Also, mention HAVE_NLIST_H rather than NLIST_STRUCT, since
        that's what the code does; this fixes a bug reported by
        Paul D. Smith.

2002-05-03  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Rewrite to use Gettext's
        autopoint instead of gettextize.
        ($uses_alocal): Rename as...
        ($uses_aclocal): this.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Adjust.
        Suggested by Bruno Haible.

2002-05-03  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_map_sep): New.

2002-04-29  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Don't age aclocal.m4's input
        files to be 1 second older; just set them to be the same time.
        Also, sleep 1 second after the first aclocal, to work around
        problems with sub-second time stamps on the input files.

2002-04-29  Thien-Thi Nguyen  <ttn@gnu.org>

        * doc/autoconf.texi: Mention "set -e -x" lossage
        under node "Limitations of Builtins".

2002-04-29  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/install.texi: Better wording for setting variables when
        running configure.
        From Christian Cornelssen.

2002-04-29  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): If testsuite itself is rewritten because
        of lack of $LINENO support, then the test will compare the $LINENO
        in testsuite vs. the lineno in the test file.  This is wrong, of
        course.
        Be sure to protect it.
        Reported by Patrick Welche.

2002-04-25  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Obsolete Macros): Typo.
        Reported by Vladimir Volovich.

2002-04-25  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Don't let aclocal.m4 be older
        than some of the input files, hence, on the second run of aclocal,
        if some of its input are younger, make them older.
        Suggested by Paul Eggert.

2002-04-25  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): sed and `!'.
        Thanks to Paul Eggert.

2002-04-25  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Let ac_subst_files
        and ac_subst_vars be sh variables containing the list of
        AC_SUBST_FILES'ed and AC_SUBST'ed identifiers.  Output them in the
        DEFAULT diversion.
        (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Use them to log them.
        (_AC_SUBST, _AC_SUBST_SED_PROGRAM): Remove.
        (AC_SUBST, AC_SUBST_FILE): Instead of buliding the
        _AC_SUBST_SED_PROGRAM, store the list of output files/variables in
        _AC_SUBST_FILES and _AC_SUBST_VARS.
        * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Adjust.

2002-04-24  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Run automake after autoconf and
        autoheader, so that automake does not complain about a missing
        config.h.in that was to be created.

2002-04-23  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoheader.in (parse_args): --warning takes an argument.
        Fixes PR/220.

2002-04-22  Peter Eisentraut  <peter_e@gmx.net>

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_RUN_IFELSE): Remove gmon.out
        and bb.out when cleaning up.

2002-04-22  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Version 2.53a.

2002-04-22  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): Fix the Zsh skip pattern.

2002-04-22  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Pretty Help Strings): Remove a spurious
        comma.
        Reported by Gregory Giannoni.

2002-04-22  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): Skip the test if LINENO cannot be unset.
        Fixes false failures on Darwin.

2002-04-21  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * TODO, bin/autoupdate.in, doc/autoconf.texi,
        lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4,
        lib/autoconf/status.m4, lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4, tests/m4sh.at,
        tests/tools.at: Minor spelling and grammar fixes.

2002-04-20  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Fix typos in yesterday's
        ZSH_VERSION fixes.  Bug reported by Raja R Harinath.
        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
        * tests/atgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.

2002-04-19  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * NEWS, TODO, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoupdate.in,
        doc/autoconf.texi, lib/freeze.mk, lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm,
        lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4, lib/autoconf/c.m4,
        lib/autoconf/functions.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
        lib/autoconf/lang.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4, lib/autoscan/identifiers,
        lib/autotest/general.m4, lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4, tests/atgeneral.m4,
        tests/atspecific.m4, tests/semantics.at, tests/torture.at:
        Minor spelling and grammar fixes.

        * doc/autoconf.texi: Follow the outline suggested in the GNU
        Sample Texts sections of the Texinfo 4.2 manual.  Most
        importantly, this makes sure that the copyright notices appear in
        all output formats.  You probably need Texinfo 4.2 to generate
        the manual now.

        Fix some bugs when using "$@" when there might be zero positional
        arguments in cases where this matters.

        * bin/autoconf.as: Rewrite so that the problem does not come up.
        * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_CHECK_PROG): Likewise.
        * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_OUTPUT): Likewise.
        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.

        * bin/autoheader.in: Use 'case' statement to work around problem.
        * bin/auto4mte.in: Likewise.
        * bin/autoreconf.in: Likewise.
        * bin/autoscan.in: Likewise.
        * bin/autoupdate.in: Likewise.
        * bin/ifnames.in: Likewise.

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Document the problem.

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT):
        Use Zsh alias to work around problem.
        * tests/atgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.

        * tests/c.at: We can't have zero arguments, so remove workaround
        that is not portable to Zsh.

2002-04-19  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <duret_g@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoupdate.in (handle_autoconf_macros): Honor AU_DEFUNs
        from aclocal.m4 too.

2002-04-12  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/wrappl.as: New, M4sh precursor of wrappl.in.

2002-04-10  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Install the Zsh
        workaround for ${1+"$@"}.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Explain it.
        From Oliver Kiddle and Peter Stephenson.

        Have M4sh perform minimal shell sanitizing.

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.at (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Split the `_AS_PREPARE_*'
        part into...
        (_AS_PREPARE): this new macro.
        (AS_PREPARE): New.
        (AS_INIT): Invoke AS_SHELL_SANITIZE.
        * tests/m4sh.at (AT_DATA_LINENO): Use _AS_PREPARE.

        Adjust Autoconf and Autotest.

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): Don't invoke
        AS_SHELL_SANITIZE, AS_INIT did it, but invoke AS_PREPARE.
        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
        * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS):
        Invoke _AS_PREPARE (not AS_PREPARE) in addition to
        AS_SHELL_SANITIZE.

        Use this M4sh to generate Autoconf's shell scripts.

        * tests/wrapsh.as: New, precursor of wrapsh.in.
        * tests/Makefile.am: Include lib/freeze.mk to get the dependencies
        on Autotest and M4sh.
        ($(TESTSUITE)): Use $(autotest_m4f_dependencies).
        (wrapsh.in): New target.
        * bin/autoconf.as: New, precursor of autoconf.in.
        (autoconf.in): New target.

2002-04-09  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <duret_g@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Mention the issue
        with indented comments in rules.

2002-04-09  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@suse.de>

        * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Handle empty
        ac_top_builddir when setting ac_abs_top_builddir.

2002-04-06  Kevin Ryde  <user42@zip.com.au>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Systemology): Add link to Unix V7 online docs.
        (Portable Shell): Cross reference to Systemology.

2002-04-05  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Be sure to accumulate the
        directories when descending in a SUBDIRS.
        Reported by Ezra Peisach.

2002-04-04  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@suse.de>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_WALK): Only simplify if path
        contains no literal separators.

2002-04-03  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_CONFIG_FILE, _AC_CONFIG_HEADER)
        (_AC_CONFIG_COMMAND, _AC_CONFIG_LINK): New.
        Use dnl, not the KILL diversion.
        Extracted from...
        (AC_CONFIG_FILES, AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS)
        (AC_CONFIG_LINKS): here.
        Adjust.
        Don't use the KILL diversion, as it kills spurious output, which
        results in failures being hidden.
        Use m4_defn where appropriate.
        (AC_CONFIG_IF_MEMBER): Kill the real bug: a spurious parenthesis
        after the second argument.
        Use m4_defn.
        * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf, Autotest, M4sh): Don't pass --warning
        syntax, as it is provided by M4sugar.
        * tests/torture.at (Multiple AC_CONFIG_FILES): New.

2002-04-03  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@suse.de>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_bmatch): Make sure m4_bregexp is not
        expanded if $# <= 2.

        * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Run automake after rerunning
        aclocal.

2002-04-03  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT_REJECT)
        (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_REJECT): New.
        Also recognize *.bb and *.bbg as compilation byproducts.
        (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT, _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_O)
        (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT): Use them.
        Fixes Debian #138666.

2002-04-02  Peter Eisentraut  <peter_e@gmx.net>

        Integrate AC_PROG_CC_STDC into AC_PROG_CC.

        * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Rename to _AC_PROG_CC_STDC.
        AU_DEFUN old name.  Use _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE.
        (AC_PROG_CC): Call _AC_PROG_CC_STDC.
        (AC_C_INLINE): Do not require AC_PROG_CC_STDC.
        (AC_C_CONST): Same.
        (AC_C_INLINE): Same.
        (AC_C_PROTOTYPES): Same.  Require AC_PROG_CC instead.
        * doc/autoconf.texi, NEWS: Document.
        * tests/mktests.sh (au_exclude_list): Add AC_PROG_CC_STDC and
        AC_C_CROSS.

2002-04-02  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Invoke
        _AS_MKDIR_P_PREPARE.

2002-03-28  Kevin Ryde  <user42@zip.com.au>

        * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_INLINE): Test with a typedef return value,
        to avoid versions of HP C which don't allow that.

2002-03-27  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BASENAME_PREPARE): New macro.
        (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Invoke it.
        (AS_BASENAME): AS_REQUIRE it, and use $as_basename.

2002-03-26  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell): Add pointers to FAQs.

2002-03-26  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction): The GNATS base moved.

2002-03-25  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * tests/m4sh.at: Don't rely on "PATH=test:$PATH test-1" working
        as POSIX requires, as it doesn't work with Zsh.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Assignments): Document the problem.

2002-03-25  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <duret_g@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Mention more issue
        about VPATH, overriding of macros in sub-makes, and handling of
        SHELL.

2002-03-21  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Here-Documents): Mention Solaris 8 dtksh
        problem with here-document buffer boundaries.

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Unset ENV and BASH_ENV
        when reinvoking the shell, to work around problems with installers
        who put strange things like "cd" commands in their environments.

2002-03-19  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): s/unknow/unknown/.
        From Aaron Ucko.

2002-03-19  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoscan.in (scan_file): Specify the location in `&used'
        invocations.
        From Nicolas Joly.

2002-03-19  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi: Adjust @code/@command, @xref/@ref usage.
        From Nishio Futoshi.

2002-03-19  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_define_default, m4_fst, m4_map): New.

2002-03-18  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Add AS_MKDIR_P.
        (Limitations of Usual Tools): Add mkdir section.

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_MKDIR_P_PREPARE): New macro.
        (AS_MKDIR_P): Require it.  Use mkdir -p if available, falling
        back on AS_DIRNAME to compute prefixes otherwise; this is
        roughly what mkinstalldirs does.  That way, we need not have
        our own filename disassembler.  The old disassembler did not
        work with Solaris 8 dtksh, which is ksh Version M-12/28/93d.

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT, AT_CLEANUP):
        Create at_test_all by a series of assignments,
        not by a single assignment of a long string.  The latter causes ksh
        version 11/16/88g to silently misbehave on OpenServer 5.0.6a,
        presumably because of a buffer overrun.

2002-03-14  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (at_times_skip):
        Renamed from at_times.  Now a boolean.
        ksh93 Version M-12/28/93d doesn't like 'x=times; $x'; it
        says 'times: not found'.

2002-03-14  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoreconf.in (&study_gettextize): New.
        (&autoreconf): Handle newest gettextize.
        Rerun aclocal if needed.
        Suggested by Andreas Schwab.

2002-03-13  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): More about IFS.

2002-03-13  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): New.
        Add information about stdint.h and inttypes.h from Paul Eggert.

2002-03-13  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Some about `cp
        -p'.
        From Bob Proulx.

2002-03-12  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_BASENAME_EXPR): AS_REQUIRE, not
        m4_require.

2002-03-11  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@suse.de>

        * configure.ac: Explicitly check for EMACS since AM_PATH_LISPDIR
        does not do it if --with-lispdir is given.

2002-03-08  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Version 2.53.

2002-03-08  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Subdirectories): Clarify that the
        subdirectory should exist.

2002-03-08  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): 1.6.

2002-03-08  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_m4): Do not foreach with `$_' as it
        aliases the actual variables, and modifications of the former
        affect the latter.

2002-03-08  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_m4): Protect us from corrupted file
        because of C-c: have m4 output in tmp files, then mv them.

2002-03-08  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in,
        * bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in,
        * bin/ifnames.in: Copyright update.

2002-03-08  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te): New.

2002-03-05  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Specifying Names): Clarification suggested by
        Kevin Ryde.

2002-03-05  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Version 2.52i.

2002-03-04  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_LIBOBJ vs. LIBOBJS): New.
        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_INIT): More informative error
        message for LIBOBJ.

2002-03-04  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/freeze.mk ($(build_libdir)/m4sugar/version.m4): New, for
        parallel builds.

2002-03-04  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Transforming Names): Equality between target
        and host is irrelevant.
        (Specifying Names, Canonicalizing): Remove all references to the
        backward compatibility hooks.  Rather, collect them all into...
        (Hosts and Cross-Compilation): this new section.
        * doc/install.texi (System Type): Ditto.
        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CANONICAL_HOST): Explicitly state
        that `--host' implies cross-compilation.

2002-03-04  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Evaluation Macros): New.
        * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_lquote): Remove, it is totally
        useless.
        (_m4_foreach): Define the variant with immediate evaluation so
        that it contains exactly the items, not an expression which
        evaluation is the current item.
        (m4_re_string, m4_re_word): Don't over quote them.

2002-03-04  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Instead of having stacking `shift's evaluated at the end, let
        `foreach' loops immediately evaluate them.

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_quote, m4_dquote): Use $@ rather than
        $*.  This is the n-th time I change my mind, but hopefully this is
        the last...
        (m4_lquote): New.
        (m4_text_wrap): Use m4_foreach, which is finally correct _and_
        efficient.
        (m4_foreach_quoted, m4_car_quoted, _m4_foreach_quoted): Remove, as
        it was only a hack for m4_text_wrap.
        (m4_car2): Remove, replaced by...
        (m4_cdr): New.
        (_m4_foreach): Adjust.
        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Adjust, and use
        m4_bpatsubst for clarification.

2002-03-04  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Changequote is Evil): New.

2002-03-03  Kevin Ryde  <user42@zip.com.au>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell): Mention 32-byte #! length limit
        on old systems like SunOS.

2002-03-01  Peter Eisentraut  <peter_e@gmx.net>

        * lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/fortran.m4,
        lib/autoconf/functions.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
        lib/autoconf/headers.m4, lib/autoconf/lang.m4,
        lib/autoconf/programs.m4, lib/autoconf/status.m4: Improve spelling
        of messages.

2002-02-28  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Suggest a title to the
        message to be sent.

2002-02-28  Kevin Ryde  <user42@zip.com.au>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add va_copy and va_list.

2002-02-25  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_SETPGRP): Fix the test.
        From Akinori Musha.

2002-02-13  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <duret_g@epita.fr>

        * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm (getline, getlines): New functions,
        translate \r\n to \n.

2002-02-07  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Version 2.52h.

2002-02-07  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Fix Autoconf PR/209.
        Also reported by Frank Denis.

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_WALK): Don't over quote.

2002-02-07  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Fix Autoconf PR/207:
        AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM fails with dashed program names

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM): Just use a fresh
        variable when looking for the prefix program.
        Now it also works for shell variables.

2002-02-07  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): More about
        case/esac.

2002-02-06  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS): Don't output empty
        case/esac, some shells don't support it.
        Reported by Zack Weinberg.
        * tests/torture.at (AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS with empty commands): New.

2002-02-06  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): When handling --keywords, be
        sure not to introduce newlines in at_groups.
        * lib/autotest/Makefile.am (autotest.m4f): Typo.

2002-02-06  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Skip if aclocal
        is not available.

2002-02-05  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Specific Compiler Characteristics):
        Describe HP-UX cc bug workaround more accurately.
        * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Cast to long,
        not unsigned long.
        * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Check non-GCC
        cross-compilers, too.  This undoes some of the most recent change
        to this file.

2002-02-05  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/Makefile.am (check_SCRIPTS): Use it, instead of WRAPPERS,
        to make sure they are up to date when `check' is run.

2002-02-05  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Making testsuite Scripts): Document
        package.m4.

2002-02-05  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/freeze.mk: New.

2002-02-05  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Implement `autom4te --freeze'.

        * bin/autom4te.in (&freeze): New.
        * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autotest/general.m4,
        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Don't include files given by autom4te.

2002-02-05  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Implement `frozen files are
        optional are the sum of the previous files on the command line'.
        Also, pass `--reload-state=' on them, so...
        (handle_m4): don't.
        * lib/autom4te.in (Autotest, Autoconf): Rely on M4sh.
        (M4sh): Rely on M4sugar.
        (Autotest, M4sh, M4sugar): Use frozen files.

2002-01-31  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): Accept $4.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Initializing configure): Adjust.

2002-01-30  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): Map non
        alphanumeric to `-' instead of `_'.

2002-01-30  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Split into two tests: one
        for plain code, the other for cross-compilation code.  The latter
        is now run with GCC only.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Compilers and Preprocessors): New.

2002-01-30  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): Support pre-defined
        values.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Initializing configure): Explain how to
        change AC_INIT default values.

2002-01-29  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Use configure.in,
        so that aclocal 1.4 works.
        Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz and Larry Schmitt.

2002-01-28  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): AT_CLEANUP no longer
        needs an argument.

2002-01-28  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't be ridiculous: adjust
        AUTOTEST_PATH *after* it was set.
        Don't put `.' in the PATH: the user should be precise and `./' if
        needed.  In addition, given that the test suite does some `cd', if
        `.' is in the path, the `tested programs' sections will report
        programs found in the test suite's directory, while during the
        tests (performed in their own directory), these programs are no
        longer visible.  In other words, the results is confusing and
        useless.
        * tests/m4sh.at: Adjust: don't rely on `.' being in the PATH.

2002-01-24  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Version 2.52g.

2002-01-24  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoscan.in,
        * doc/autoconf.texi: Finally add Akim as an author.

2002-01-24  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Use PATH_SEPARATOR.
        (_AS_PATH_SEPARATOR_PREPARE): Don't expect $SHELL to be
        Bourne. Use /bin/sh.
        From Andreas Buening.

2002-01-24  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/texinfo.tex:
        Update from masters.

2002-01-24  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): 1.5b.
        * config/auxdir.m4, config/cond.m4, config/depend.m4,
        * config/init.m4, config/install-sh.m4, config/lispdir.m4,
        * config/missing.m4, config/sanity.m4, config/select.m4,
        * config/strip.m4: Remove, to ease sync'ing with any version of
        Automake.

2002-01-24  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS)
        (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Support -n as --no-create, as documented.
        Reported by Geir Ove Myhr.

2002-01-21  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MMAP): #Undef malloc.

2002-01-21  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (getopt): Use a more GNUish error
        message on invalid options.
        * bin/autom4te.in (parse_args): Don't use
        Autoconf::General::getopt with non valid options.

2002-01-17  Jim Meyering  <meyering@lucent.com>

        * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Initialize
        $ac_cv_exeext so we don't use an old, invalid, cached value.

2002-01-11  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_STRNLEN): New, from Jim
        Meyering.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Document the strnlen
        limitation.
        (Particular Functions): Document AC_FUNC_STRNLEN.
        * lib/autoscan/functions: Adjust.

2002-01-06  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Don't create
        package.m4, since is really depends upon configure.ac, not
        configure.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (testsuite Scripts): Adjust.
        * tests/Makefile.am (package.m4): New.
        EXTRA_DIST it since its a source.

2002-01-06  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): Move the AC_SUBST
        of PACKAGE_NAME, PACKAGE_TARNAME, PACKAGE_VERSION, PACKAGE_STRING,
        and PACKAGE_BUGREPORT from here...
        (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): to here, since it is unrelated to the
        arguments.
        (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): AC_DEFINE these symbols.
        * lib/autotest/general.m4: Use AT_PACKAGE_*, not PACKAGE_*.
        (AT_INIT): No longer catch `^PACKAGE_(BUGREPORT|STRING)$'.
        * tests/tools.at (autoheader): Adjust.
        * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_DEFINES): Adjust.

2002-01-06  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoscan.in (scan_file): Use `&used'.

2002-01-03  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Output): Improved wording regarding use of
        AC_OUTPUT.
        From Olly Betts.

2001-12-18  Kevin Ryde  <user42@zip.com.au>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Add notes on sscanf
        sometimes needing writable input.

2001-12-17  Jim Meyering  <meyering@lucent.com>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (New Macros): Tweak wording.

2001-12-14  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): We cleaning up the
        trailing files, don't apply `-rf' to files which might not be
        created by configure (core, core.*, and *.core), but just `rm -f'.
        Suggested by Jonathan Kamens.

2001-12-14  Aaron M. Ucko  <amu@alum.mit.edu>

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Avoid duplicates in `$ac_configure_args'.

2001-12-14  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * Makefile.am (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Remove configure.

2001-12-13  Peter Eisentraut  <peter_e@gmx.net>

        * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Rename buildpath to
        abs_builddir, top_buildpath to abs_top_builddir, srcpath to
        abs_srcdir, top_srcpath to abs_top_srcdir.
        (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Adjust.
        * NEWS, doc/autoconf.texi, lib/autoconf/autotest.m4,
        * tests/atspecific.m4, tests/autoreconf.in, tests/tools.at,
        * tests/wrappl.in, tests/wrapsh.in: Adjust.

2001-12-12  Steven G. Johnson  <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>

        * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_PROG_F77_V_OUTPUT): Fix failed
        C/Fortran linking on HP/UX, by extracting the Fortran library
        search path from the LPATH line in the $F77 -v output.

2001-12-12  Kevin Ryde  <user42@zip.com.au>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (File Descriptors): Use a clearer layout for the
        forbidden file descriptors table.

2001-11-26  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoscan.in (%c_keywords): Build it at top level.
        Map to 1 in order to simplify its uses.

2001-11-26  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoscan.in (&scan_c_file, &scan_sh_file, &scan_makefile):
        Remove $filepath, useless.
        (&scan_makefile): Don't remove the $(FOO), ${FOO} and @FOO@
        variables, they are really part of the tokens.
        Split the input line on spaces and then look for tokens.
        Now autoscan ceases to ask for AC_PROG_LEX for the package Bison
        because of `lex$U.$(OBJEXT)'.
        (&scan_files): Use "@list" instead of join.
        * doc/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): Add *.fns.

2001-11-26  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/autoreconf.in, tests/autom4te.in, tests/autoupdate.in:
        Remove, replaced by...
        * tests/wrappl.in: Be common for all the Perl executables.
        In particular autoscan and autoheader want -I.
        * configure.ac: Adjust.
        * lib/autoscan/headers: errno.h is portable.

2001-11-26  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoscan.in (used): New.
        Use it.

2001-11-26  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoscan.in (&scan_c_file): Better parsing of CPP
        directives.
        (&scan_sh_file): Remove a duplicate pattern.
        (&check_configure_ac): Use long options.
        * lib/autoscan/headers (alloca.h): Check with AC_FUNC_ALLOCA.

2001-11-26  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoscan.in (scan_c_file): Fix the handling of C comments.
        Before, having a line containing the opening of a multi line
        comment made the whole line be ignored.

2001-11-26  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Using an Autotest Test Suite): New.
        (testsuite Scripts): Be one of its subsection.
        (Autotest Logs): New.

2001-11-26  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Test groups are now run two directories deeper.

        * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Replace srcdir,
        top_srcdir and top_builddir with at_srcdir, at_top_srcdir and
        at_top_builddir.
        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Compute srcdir,
        top_srcdir, builddir and top_builddir.
        Use `at_*dir' relatively to the directory containing the
        suite, use `*dir' when relatively to the current group dir.

2001-11-25  Joseph S. Myers  <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>

        * doc/autoconf.texi, TODO, lib/autoconf/fortran.m4,
        lib/autoconf/functions.m4, lib/autoconf/headers.m4,
        tests/atgeneral.m4, tests/tools.at, tests/atspecific.m4: Fix
        spelling errors.

2001-11-22  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <duret_g@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Using System Type): Add an example of `case
        $host' usage so people quit using `case $target' everywhere.

2001-11-22  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Englishoes
        spotted by Jim Meyering.

2001-11-16  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        This patch implements a `long double' suggestion by Oliver Kiddle.

        * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY(C)): Make the array
        static, to catch errors if the value isn't known at compile-time
        and the compiler supports dynamic arrays.  Change its name from
        `_array_' to `test_array' to avoid potential name clashes.
        (AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE): Make it a compile-time test, not a run-time
        test.  Do not define HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE if `long double' is no
        better than double.  Catch a bug in GCC 2.95.2 x86.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): Document the above.
        * NEWS: Likewise.

2001-11-13  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): Protect from autom4te's substitution by
        hand.
        * tests/tools.at: Don't protect dnl, AT_DATA_M4SH does.

2001-11-13  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): After having run the test
        group, go back to the initial directory, not to at_suite_dir.

2001-11-13  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_DATA_M4SUGAR, AT_DATA_M4SH)
        (AT_DATA_AUTOCONF):  Also protect @&t@ from autom4te.
        (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF, AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER): Pass no --include
        option.
        (AT_CHECK_CONFIGURE): Use absolute paths.
        (_AT_CHECK_AC_MACRO): Create aclocal.m4 with AC_STATE_SAVE in it.
        The problem is still the old one: there is no means in M4 (that I
        know about) to create a defining macro, because there is no means
        to create `$1' etc., therefore, the defining macro ``swallows''
        all the arguments meant to the defined macro.

2001-11-13  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_DATA_AUTOCONF): New.
        (AT_CONFIGURE_AC): Output the definition of AC_STATE_SAVE in
        configure.ac.
        * tests/aclocal.m4: Remove, as it is no longer used.

2001-11-13  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4: Change `tests?' into `groups?' in
        variable names when referring to a single test group, or to
        `suite' when referring to the whole test suite.
        `at_last_test' is removed: m4 compute at_format itself.
        (at_stdout, at_stder1, at_stderr): New variables.
        (AT_CHECK): Use them.

2001-11-13  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Be sure to put `.', relative,
        in PATH.
        Create `testsuite.dir/003/run' instead of `testsuite.003'.
        Do it as soon as a test fails, don't wait till the end of the test
        suite.
        Don't remove $as_me.[0-9]*, since these files no longer exist.

2001-11-13  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/tools.at: Use absolute paths, since we are no longer run
        in place.

2001-11-13  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Now that tests are running in their own private dir, there is no
        need to list the files to remove at the end of tests groups.

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (_AT_CLEANUP_FILE, AT_CLEANUP_FILES):
        (AT_data_files, at_data_files): Remove.
        (AT_CLEANUP, AT_DATA): Simplify.
        (AT_INIT): Adjust.
        Remove the group dir if !debug && !failed.
        * tests/atspecific.m4: Adjust.

2001-11-13  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Start a new layout for Autotest: `testsuite' creates
        `testsuite.dir' in which the at-check-line etc. files are to be
        found, and `testsuite.dir/003' where the test group 3 is run.

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): at_tests_dir,
        at_check_line_file, at_format, at_test_normalized, at_group_dir
        are new variables.
        Create the directories.
        Use absolute paths for at- files.
        (AT_CHECK): Adjust.

2001-11-11  Michael Matz  <matz@kde.org>

        * m4sugar.m4 (_m4_foreach): Make it linear instead quadratic.
        (m4_car2): New.
        (m4_car): Properly quote arguments.

2001-11-13  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/aclocal.m4 (AC_STATE_SAVE): s/LIBOBJS/LIB@&t@OBJS/ to cope
        with stricter rules on LIBOBJS.

2001-11-12  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_PROTOTYPES): Define __PROTOTYPES too.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler): AC_C_PROTOTYPES now defines
        __PROTOTYPES too.

2001-11-12  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETMNTENT): Use AC_CHECK_FUNCS.

2001-11-12  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/fortran.m4,
        * lib/autoconf/functions.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
        * lib/autoconf/headers.m4, lib/autoconf/libs.m4,
        * lib/autoconf/programs.m4, lib/autoconf/specific.m4,
        * lib/autoconf/types.m4: When invoking AC_DEFINE and friends,
        specify to what the macro should be defined (typically to 1).

2001-11-12  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_STRTOD): AC_SUBST POW_LIB.
        From Jim Meyering.

2001-11-12  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_LEX_YYTEXT_DECL): Use
        AC_TRY_EVAL to run $LEX, not AC_TRY_COMMAND.  This validates the
        definition used by Automake where LEX is +/- "${missing} lex" and
        `missing' itself contains variables.

2001-11-12  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Push KILL at the end.
        Now that M4sh pushes BODY, the comments were output at the end of
        the test suites.

2001-11-08  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Run aclocal before tracing, so
        that we can trace macros from aclocal.m4.
        Trace AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, not AM_PROG_LIBTOOL, since the latter is
        obsoleted, and redirect to the former anyway.
        Reported by Ralf Corsepius.

2001-11-08  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): AC_CONFIG_SUBIDRS are to be
        processed only if present.
        * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): Use autoreconf
        instead of successive calls to autoconf.
        Add a nonexistent subdirectory to exercise the patch above.
        Reported by Ralf Corsepius.

2001-11-08  Kevin Ryde  <user42@zip.com.au>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Note HP-UX cc
        doesn't accept .S files.

2001-11-07  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_pattern_forbid): Accepts $2.
        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_INTI): Forbid LIBOBJS.
        (_AC_LIBOBJ): s/LIBOBJS/LIB@&t@OBJS/.
        * bin/autom4te.in (warn_forbidden): New.
        (handle_output): Use it.
        Read m4_pattern_forbid with messages.

2001-11-05  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autom4te.in (--normalize): Remove.
        * lib/autom4te.in: Adjust.

2001-11-05  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/Makefile.am (testsuite): Rename this target as...
        ($(TESTSUITE)): this.
        From Nicolas Joly.

2001-11-05  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <duret_g@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): When removing
        the --prefix option, also remove it's argument.

2001-11-05  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (testsuite Invocation): Update.
        (Writing testsuite.at): Update.

2001-11-03  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi: s/@code/@command/ where appropriate.

2001-11-03  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: (&catfile, &canonfile)
        (&file_name_is_absolute): New, wrappers around routines from
        File::Spec.
        Use and export them.
        (&find_configure_ac): Optionally take a directory where to look at.
        * bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args): Trim the configure.ac part of
        the arguments.
        Default @ARGV to `.', not find_configure_ac.
        (&autoreconf): Argument is a directory.
        Trace AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS and schedule the subdirs for autoreconf'ing.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Update.

2001-11-03  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (@export_vars, @export_subs)
        (@export_forward_subs): New.
        Add basename, dirname, and fileparse.
        (@EXPORT): Adjust.
        * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Fix call to fileparse.
        Don't look for aclocal flags if we already know aclocal is not
        used.
        Move aclocal.m4t only if it exists.
        Reported by Ezra Peisach.

2001-11-03  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args): Work only on the configure.ac
        passed on command line, defaulting to ./configure.ac if present.
        (&maybe_autoreconf, File::Find): Remove, unused.
        (&autoreconf): If autoconf is not used, don't try to trace.

2001-11-02  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * configure.ac: Bump to 2.52g.

2001-11-02  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Version 2.52f.

2001-11-02  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, doc/standards.texi:
        * config/lispdir.m4: Update from masters.
        * configure.ac: Bump to 2.52f.

2001-11-02  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Set `$aclocal_flags' to ''.
        Don't run aclocal when aclocal.m4 is not from aclocal.
        From Ezra Peisach.
        Don't run libtoolize and gettextize if --install is not given.

2001-11-01  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): _AS_CR_PREPARE needs to
        be invoked before _AS_LINENO_PREPARE.
        (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Use as_cr_digits and as_cr_alnum rather
        than character ranges.

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Fix NLS before
        invoking AS_BASENAME.  Set the locale variables to 'C' if
        possible, as POSIX requires this to get the traditional
        behavior.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Describe the above.

2001-10-31  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_WORKS): Do not surround body
        with {}, as that triggers a bug in Bash 2.05.

        (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Use Sed rather than
        Awk.  Fix the sed prepass to work even if there are multiple
        instances of $LINENO on the same line.  Do not substitute for
        other variables like $LINENOT.  Do not check file dates; such a
        check is unreliable on sufficiently fast machines, and removing
        the check makes the code simpler and more reliable.  Check for
        output and chmod failures.

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Document
        the above.

2001-10-31  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/Makefile.am (atconfig): Remove this target, Automake
        handles it now.

2001-10-31  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Do not
        AC_CONFIG_FILES(atlocal) as it means a file atlocal.in *must* be
        provided, while it is optional.
        * configure.ac: Adjust.

2001-10-26  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * NEWS, README, configure.ac, lib/Autom4te/General.pm,
          lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm:
        Require Perl 5.005_03 instead of just 5.005, as some tests fail
        with 5.005_02.

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Document some
        more LINENO gotchas, particularly with respect to the Awk+Sed hack.

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_WORKS): New macro.
        (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Use it instead of shell eval, since
        eval $LINENO is not portable in practice.

2001-10-24  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (backname): New.

2001-10-24  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * m4/: Remove, merged into...
        * config/: here.

2001-10-23  Tim Van Holder  <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Shellology): Mention the problems with bash
        2.05's use of ANSI quoting in its `set' builtin.

2001-10-22  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R):
        Rename ac_cv_func_strerror_r_works to ac_cv_func_strerror_r_char_p,
        and rename HAVE_WORKING_STRERROR_R to STRERROR_R_CHAR_P, since
        POSIX decided to standardize on the int flavor of strerror_r.
        Always do char* test, as there's no reason not to.
        Assign to a char* var, to catch strerror_r that returns int*.

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions):
        Document the above changes.  Also, document the fact that
        AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R defines HAVE_DECL_STRERROR_R.

        * NEWS: Mention HAVE_WORKING_STRERROR_R -> STRERROR_R_CHAR_P.

2001-10-20  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): The name of
        the executable was missing from the log.

2001-10-20  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&update_file): If destination is
        unchanged, remove the source.
        (&up_to_date_p): Don't be verbose, be debug.
        * bin/autoreconf.in: No longer support --m4dir.
        (&autoreconf): Display the full path of the configure.ac we are
        studying.
        Trace it only once.
        Be sure to honor --force with gettextize.
        Always run aclocal.
        * doc/autoconf.texi: Adjust.

2001-10-20  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoheader.in ($localdir, $m4, $SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX):
        Remove, dead.
        * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Do not run gettextize when
        `intl' is already present, as it refuses unless --force.
        (&parse_args): Use -I, --include instead of the old Autoconf
        options.
        ($localdir, $autoconf_dir): Remove.
        (@include): New.
        (&maybe_autoreconf): New, to preserve $_ for File::Find.

2001-10-19  Jens Petersen  <petersen@redhat.com>

        * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_AWK): Prefer gawk to mawk.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Programs): Likewise.

2001-10-19  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Name the generated
        file in @configure_input@.
        Don't mention `automatically' in addition to `generated'.
        * tests/torture.at (#define header templates): Adjust.

2001-10-19  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/emacs/autoconf-mode.el, lib/emacs/autotest-mode.el: In a
        comment, explain how to install automatic mode selection.
        From Russ Allbery.

2001-10-19  Ezra Peisach  <epeisach@zif.mit.edu>

        * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Display the path to the
        configure.ac being studied.

2001-10-18  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF): Cast sizeof to unsigned
        long, to work around a bug in the HP C compiler version HP92453-01
        B.11.11.23709.GP.

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_DIRNAME): Use 'dirname' if that works.
        (AS_BASENAME_EXPR): New macro.
        (AS_BASENAME_SED): Do not assume GNU sed semantics.
        (AS_BASENAME): Use 'basename' if that works; then try 'expr';
        and fall back on 'sed' only if the other two fail.  This makes
        AS_BASENAME act more like AS_DIRNAME.
        (as_me): Shell-quote the argument of AS_BASENAME, in case $0
        contains white space.
        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR):
        Use AS_DIRNAME, since I think it's now DOS-friendly.
        * tests/m4sh.at (DIRNAME_TEST): New arg $3.
        Allow "dirname //FOO" to return either / or //, as POSIX allows
        either behavior.

2001-10-10  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Recognize
        `a_out.exe' for OpenVMS 7.1, DEC C 5.5 compiler, via GNV.
        From Eric Sharkey.

2001-10-10  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_ECHO_N_PREPARE): m4_defun, not
        m4_define, since...
        (_AS_ECHO_N): AS_REQUIREs it.

2001-10-10  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS)
        (AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT): Move to...
        * lib/autoconf/headers.m4: here.
        * lib/autoconf/types.m4: Comment changes.
        * doc/autoconf.texi: Specify where the default includes are used
        in the macro prototypes.

2001-10-09  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4 (m4_patsubst, m4_regexp): New
        transition code.

2001-10-08  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf): Remove debugging code.
        (&parse_args): Pass verbosity/debugging options to subtools when
        --debug, not when --verbose.
        * lib/autom4te.in (Autoreconf-preselections): New.
        (Autoconf): Use it.

2001-10-08  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Run libtoolize when appropriate.

2001-10-08  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Adjust.
        * bin/autoreconf.in (autoreconf): Run gettextize when appropriate.

2001-10-08  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/tools.at (AT_CHECK_PERL_SYNTAX): Check autoreconf.
        (Syntax of the shell scripts): Don't.
        * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in: Don't
        bother with $force since...
        * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: does.

2001-10-08  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoreconf.in: Rewrite in Perl.
        * configure.ac: Adjust.
        * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&up_to_date_p): New.
        * bin/autom4te.in (&up_to_date_p): Use it.
        Rename as...
        (&up_to_date): this.

2001-10-08  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_case, m4_bmatch, m4_normalize)
        (m4_list_cmp): Use $0 to reinvoke yourself.
        (m4_patsubsts): New.
        (m4_strip, m4_version_unletter): Use it.
        * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_DATA_M4SUGAR, AT_DATA_M4SH): Likewise.

2001-10-08  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
        * lib/autoconf/libs.m4, lib/autoconf/status.m4,
        * lib/autoconf/types.m4, lib/autotest/general.m4,
        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4, lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4, tests/atspecific.m4,
        * tests/torture.at: Rename m4_regexp, m4_patsubst, and m4_match to
        m4_bregexp, m4_bpatsubst, and m4_bmatch.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Redefined M4 Macros): Adjust.

2001-10-08  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Use AS_REQUIRE.

2001-10-08  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_DIRNAME_EXPR): Use AS_REQUIRE.
        * tests/tools.at (AT_DATA_FORBIDDEN): Rename/move/duplicate to...
        * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_DATA_M4SUGAR, AT_DATA_M4SH): here.
        * tests/tools.at, tests/m4sh.at: Use it.
        * tests/m4sh.at: Don't rely on Autoconf macros.
        (DIRNAME_TEST): Also exercise the expr variant.
        * tests/m4sugar.at, tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR): The
        preferred M4sugar extension is now `.4s'.
        * tests/README: Remove.

2001-10-08  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_provide_ifelse): Rename as...
        (m4_provide_if): this.
        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_REQUIRE): New.
        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AS_DEFUN, AC_DEFUN_ONCE, AC_BEFORE)
        (AC_REQUIRE, AC_PROVIDE, AC_PROVIDE_IFELSE): Be exact copy of the
        M4sugar peer, i.e., drop the `AC_PROVIDE_$1' broken marker.

2001-10-08  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Use `add-log-current-defun-function' for ChangeLog creation.
        Suggested by Tom Tromey.

        * lib/emacs/autotest-mode.el (autotest-mode-map): New.
        (autotest-mode): Adjust.
        * lib/emacs/autoconf-mode.el (autoconf-mode-map): Modernize, map
        'comment-region onto `C-c ;'.
        Comments are `#', not `dnl'.
        (autoconf-current-defun): New.
        (autoconf-font-lock-keywords): Recognize `m4_defun'.

2001-10-08  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_m4_divert(BODY)): Move to...
        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: here.
        (AS_INIT): Push the BODY diversion, set the #! /bin/sh line.
        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_PLAIN_SCRIPT) : Remove.
        (AT_INIT): Replace AC_PLAIN_SCRIPT with AS_INIT invocation,
        include handle the m4_pattern_*, no longer push the
        BODY diversion nor set the /bin/sh line, AS_INIT does it.
        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Likewise.
        * tests/base.at: Adjust the tests to use AS_INIT.
        * tests/tools.at (AT_DATA_FORBIDDEN): New.
        (autoconf: forbidden tokens): Adjust to work on M4sh instead of
        Autoconf.

2001-10-07  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (config.status Invocation):
        CONFIG_SHELL defaults to a shell that supports LINENO if available.

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): If the current
        shell does not support LINENO, and if CONFIG_SHELL is unset or
        empty, and if we can find a shell that does support LINENO,
        then set CONFIG_SHELL to that shell and then re-execute
        ourselves with CONFIG_SHELL.

2001-10-05  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * tests/Makefile.am (clean-local): Don't invoke $(TESTSUITE) if it
        doesn't exist.  Remove *.tmp, as a .tmp file is created during the
        build of $(TESTSUITE).

2001-10-05  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Look in the path
        iff we are a bareword.
        Reported by Raja R Harinath.

2001-10-05  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/m4sh.at (LINENO): New.
        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Be sure to set
        PATH_SEPARATOR before using it.
        Fix the absolute path case/esac pattern.
        Provide $0 as fallback for as_myself.
        Reported by Raja R Harinath.

2001-10-05  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * Makefile.am, config/Makefile.am, lib/emacs/Makefile.am,
        * m4/Makefile.am, man/Makefile.am: Add/adjust MAINTAINERCLEANFILES.

2001-10-05  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): New, extracted from...
        (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): here.  Use it.
        (_AS_LINENO_PREPARE): Preserve the exit status of $0.lineno.
        From Paul Eggert.

2001-10-04  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Use a portable
        combination of Awk and sed to replace $LINENO.

2001-10-02  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): You can't use
        "source"; it's not portable.  Remove confusing and
        somewhat-incorrect example involving "." and "/".

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): "source" -> ".", for
        compatibility with POSIX shells.

2001-10-02  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Just source 40.lineno
        instead of exec'ing to preserve $0 and $@.

2001-10-01  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/testsuite (AT_INIT) <at_pass_list>: New.
        Don't run twice the same test.

2001-10-01  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT) <--help>: Catch up with reality.
        No longer output the list of tests.
        <--list>: New option.
        <--full-help>: Remove.
        Complete the short/long options duality.
        Various small adjustments.

2001-10-01  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi: Use @kbd for user input.
        Always use `$' as shell prompt.

2001-09-30  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_OUTPUT_MAKE_DEFS):
        Don't use nested parenthesization.  This patch was originally
        suggested to bug-autoconf by Philippe De Muyter on 2000-05-28,
        but somehow it didn't get incorporated then.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools):
        Clarify remark about sed and nested parenthesization.

        * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (AC_CHECK_SIZEOF):
        Report an error if the size cannot be determined even though
        the type exists.
        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE):
        Check for `expr' arithmetic overflow, and for compilation failure,
        and invoke a new argument $4 if either is discovered.
        This makes _AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE more like _AC_COMPUTE_INT_RUN.
        (_AC_COMPUTE_INT): Pass IF-FAILS arg to _AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE.

2001-09-28  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/emacs/autoconf-mode.el, lib/emacs/autotest-mode.el: New.
        * m4/lispdir.m4: New.
        * aclocal.m4, configure.ac: Adjust.

2001-09-28  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_VICTIMS): Rename as...
        (AT_TESTED): this.
        (AT_INIT): More the wrapped section to where it will be expanded.
        Output `AT_tested' only when existing.
        Catch unexpanded PACKAGE_STRING and PACKAGE_BUGREPORT.

2001-09-27  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Fix the passing of $? to ACTION-IF-FAILED in AC_TRY_RUN, that
        generates too many bug reports.

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_RUN_IFELSE): Pass the right exit
        status when executing the ACTION-IF-FALSE.
        * tests/base.at (AC_TRY_*): Rename as...
        (AC_TRY_COMMAND): this.
        (AC_RUN_IFELSE): New.
        * tests/compile.at (Extensions, C keywords)
        (AC_PROG_CPP requires AC_PROG_CC, GNU Fortran 77)
        (Broken/missing compilers, AC_PROG_CPP with warnings)
        (AC_PROG_CPP without warnings, AC_PROG_CPP via CC): Move to...
        * tests/c.at (Extensions, C keywords)
        (Broken/missing compilers, AC_PROG_CPP with warnings)
        (AC_PROG_CPP without warnings, AC_PROG_CPP via CC)
        (AC_PROG_CPP requires AC_PROG_CC): here and...
        * tests/fortran.at (GNU Fortran 77): there.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (autoconf Invocation): Fix the example:
        AC_TRY_RUN is about compilation, not shell commands.
        (Test Programs): AC_TRY_RUN works as used to be advertised.

2001-09-27  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Fix bugs spotted by
        Raja R Harinath:
        Be sure to detect when $LINENO always returns the same value.
        Look for the original script, basename($0) is certainly not
        enough.
        Pass the CLI arguments to `$as_me.lineno'.

2001-09-25  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Dump the whole config.log.
        Be sure the close and reopen the LOG fd before and after using tee
        to extend the log.
        <at_tests_pattern>: Adjust to the new format of at_help_all.

2001-09-23  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autom4te.in (parse_args): There can be several invocations
        of --language now.

2001-09-23  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Top): Wrap in @ifnottex.

2001-09-23  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Compute and provide
        ac_buildpath, ac_top_buildpath, ac_srcpath, and ac_top_srcpath.
        (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Also substitute srcpath, top_srcpath,
        builddir, buildpath, top_builddir, and top_buildpath.
        (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Compute the dir variables *before* changing
        the current directory.
        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Compute the dir
        variables *before* changing the current directory.
        Skip nonexistent dirs.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Preset Output Variables): Document these
        variables.

        * lib/autotest/general.m4: Do not reset AT_victims.
        Don't compute at_srcdir nor at_top_srcdir.

        * tests/tools.at: Hence use top_srcdir.

        * tests/Makefile.am, tests/autoconf, tests/autoheader,
        * tests/autom4te, tests/autoreconf, tests/autoupdate, tests/ifnames:
        Remove.
        * tests/autoreconf.in, tests/wrappl.in, tests/autom4te.in,
        * tests/wrapsh.in, tests/autoupdate.in: New.
        * tests/Makefile.am (DISTCLEANFILES, EXTRA_DIST): Adjust.
        * configure.ac: Build the position independent wrappers.

        * man/Makefile.am: Now that test wrappers are position
        independent, use them and drop dark envvar magic.

2001-09-23  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Common Shell Constructs): Rename as...
        (Programming in M4sh): this.
        Promote to @section.

2001-09-23  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Dump config.log last.
        Pass $at_debug_args to the rerun test suite.
        * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am (DISTCLEANFILES): New.
        * bin/Makefile.am (ETAGS_SH): Don't use characters ranges.
        From Paul Eggert.

2001-09-23  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autom4te.in (@my_warning): Remove, handled by `autom4te.cfg'.

2001-09-23  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Fix shell
        over-escaping.

2001-09-23  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&debug): New.
        * bin/autom4te.in ($language): Move to...
        (parse_args): here.
        Handle --language in languages.
        * lib/autom4te.in (Automake-selections, Autoheader-selections)
        (Autoscan-selections): New.
        (Autoconf): Adjust.

2001-09-23  Tim Van Holder  <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>

        * m4/auxdir.m4, m4/cond.m4, m4/depend.m4, m4/init.m4,
        * m4/install-sh.m4, m4/missing.m4, m4/sanity.m4, m4/strip.m4: Updated
        to match current versions from CVS Automake.

2001-09-23  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <duret_g@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Add pdksh output
        for $LINENO.

2001-09-22  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4: Create `package.m4'.
        * tests/Makefile.am (package.m4): Remove.

2001-09-22  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Rely on `$LINENO' when possible instead of `__oline__'.

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Provide some form of
        `$LINENO' support replacement when not supported.
        (_AS_CR_PREPARE, _AS_TR_CPP_PREPARE, _AS_TR_SH_PREPARE): Invoke
        them explicitly to be sure they are not output before this section
        (via m4_require).  Cosmetic only.
        * lib/autoconf/c.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
        * lib/autoconf/programs.m4: Replace all the occurrences of
        `__oline__' with `$LINENO'.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables): Document LINENO.

2001-09-21  Tim Van Holder  <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>

        * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_FORK): Replaceded an 8-bit
        character (u: -> ue) in a code comment.
        (AC_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK): Only run 'ln -s' if we know
        it works.

2001-09-21  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * Makefile.maint (AUTOM4TE): Neutralize autom4te.
        Suggested by Jim Meyering.

2001-09-20  Tim Van Holder  <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>

        * lib/autoconf/programs.m4: Use extensions listed in
        $ac_executable_extensions when looking for programs.

2001-09-20  Tim Van Holder  <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Fix a small Englisho.
        * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Fix a small typo.  Handle DOS paths when
        setting up ac_dir_suffix and ac_top_builddir.
        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Default CDPATH to $PATH_SEPARATOR, not ':'.

2001-09-20  Tim Van Holder  <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (File System Conventions): Clarify the use of
        PATH_SEPARATOR.
        (Special Shell Variables[PATH_SEPARATOR]): Ditto.
        (Special Shell Variables[CDPATH]): Mention that $PATH_SEPRATOR should
        be used instead of ':'.
        * lib/autotest/general.m4: Replace occurrences of ':' in
        AUTOTEST_PATH with $PATH_SEPARATOR at test suite startup.

2001-09-20  Tim Van Holder  <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>

        * tests/atgeneral.m4: Add basic support for test ranges (e.g. 7-34) as
        arguments.  Fixed a typo.

2001-09-20  Tim Van Holder  <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>

        * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Use @PATH_SEPARATOR@, not ':' to set up
        $PATH.  Also set AUTOM4TE_CFG, so we can process autom4te properly.

2001-09-20  Tim Van Holder  <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>

        * bin/autoscan.in: Add 'exec-perl-if-not-run-by-perl'.
        * bin/autoupdate.in: Ditto.
        * bin/autoheader.in: Reworded a few comments.
        * bin/autoconf.in: Reworded help text for a few options.
        * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
        * bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in: Ditto.

2001-09-20  Tim Van Holder  <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>

        * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm (open): Simplified the error message (we
        already have $file).  Set output files to binary mode (helps avoid
        CR issues on DOSish systems).

2001-09-19  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4: Englishoes.
        From Tim Van Holder and Alexey Mahotkin.

2001-09-18  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Common Shell Constructs): New node,
        documenting AS_DIRNAME.
        (Limitations of Usual Tools): Refer to it when discussing dirname.
        Also, update discussion of POSIX standard to reflect latest draft.

        * lib/autoconf/c.m4:
        (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C)): Also support negative values, down to LONG_MIN.

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_COMPUTE_INT_COMPILE):
        Do not pass a first argument with leading '-'
        to expr, by parenthesizing initial integers that might be negative.

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): AC_FUNC_GETPGRP
        now merely checks whether it is an error to pass an argument
        to getpgrp.

        * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_GETPGRP_TEST): Remove.
        (AC_FUNC_GETPGRP): Don't bother with a runtime test.  Just check
        whether it is a (compile-time) error to pass an argument to
        getpgrp.  This simpler test supports the revised documentation,
        and is all that AC_FUNC_GETPGRP's users really need.

2001-09-18  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make) <$<>: New.

2001-09-18  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <find>: More about
        `{}'.
        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Adjust.

2001-09-18  Paul Wagland  <paul@wagland.net>

        * tests/m4sh.at: Ensure that AS_DIRNAME handles '/', '//' and '///'
        correctly.
        Add test for AS_BASENAME.
        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Fix AS_BASENAME so that it passes the previous
        added test. It now correctly handles /1/2/3/, returning '3' not ''.
        Added AS_BASENAME_SED to make the interface the same as AS_DIRNAME.
        * tests/base.at: Fixed the expected responses. The old ones were
        one line out...
        * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Fixed AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM, it now behaves as
        the documentation claims it should (and how it behaved in 2.13).

2001-09-18  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): No INIT-CMDS in
        the AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS invocation.
        This also solves the name clash problems.
        Don't set the package's ID.
        * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am (version.m4): Revamp.
        No longer to be shipped.
        (version.in): Remove.
        * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
        * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Adjust.
        Use `m4_PACKAGE_STRING'.
        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): N-th signature change: now
        the only optional argument is the name of the test suite.
        Expect `package.m4' to define the package signature.
        * lib/autom4te.in (Autotest): Add `package.m4?'.
        * tests/Makefile.am (package.m4): New.
        * tests/suite.at: ifnames is a victim.

2001-09-18  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): Preselect AM_CONDITIONAL,
        AC_LIBSOURCE, AC_CONFIG_FILES.
        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't abort when a tested
        program version string doesn't match the package's.
        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CACHE_VAL): Reestablish the space
        after `(cached)'.

2001-09-17  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * lib/autoconf/c.m4: (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C)):
        Allow expression to return any value that can fit into unsigned long
        (not int, as before).  Check for output errors.

2001-09-17  Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/c.m4: (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C)):
        Always include <stdio.h> and <stdlib.h>. Evaluate
        the expression in an extra function before these includes. Call
        fprintf "%d" only after ensuring the argument is of type 'int'.
        Reported by Wayne Chapeskie <waynec@spinnaker.com>.

2001-09-17  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        Fix bug reported by Paul Townsend on AIX 4.3.3.0 with CFLAGS=-O4
        or CFLAGS=-O5.  In that case, the linker has a relaxed view of
        fatal errors, and AC_CHECK_LIB causes it to include libraries even
        when they don't exist.

        * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_DIRENT): Use AC_SEARCH_LIBS,
        not AC_CHECK_LIB, so that we don't use -ldir or -lx if we don't
        need it.

        * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_ISC_POSIX): Replace the old, crufty
        version with the version used by fileutils 4.1, except use
        AC_SEARCH_LIBS, not AC_CHECK_LIB, so that we don't use -lcposix if
        we don't need it.

        * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_ISC_POSIX): Describe new behavior.

2001-09-13  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/base.at, tests/m4sh.at: Be sure to issue the bangshe line
        _first_.
        Reported by Gerrit P. Haase.

2001-09-13  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Reset `AT_victims' so that
        m4_defn'ing is valid.

2001-09-13  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_append_uniq): New.
        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_VICTIMS, AT_KEYWORDS, _AT_CLEANUP_FILE):
        Use it.

2001-09-13  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (_AS_QUOTE_IFELSE, _AS_BOX_INDIR): Use
        m4_match.
        (m4_re_escape): New.
        * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_CONFIG_IF_MEMBER): Use it.
        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_CACHE_SAVE): Use m4_match.
        * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (AC_CONFIG_IF_MEMBER, AC_CONFIG_LINKS):
        Likewise.
        * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (_AC_CHECK_TYPE_REPLACEMENT_TYPE_P)
        (_AC_CHECK_TYPE_MAYBE_TYPE_P, AC_CHECK_MEMBER): Likewise.
        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Rename AT_TESTS_ALL as
        AT_tests_all for consistency.
        Set at_victims.
        (AT_VICTIMS): Similar to AT_KEYWORDS.
        (_AT_CLEANUP_FILE_IF): Use m4_match and m4_re_escape.

2001-09-13  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Fix stupid bugs.

2001-09-13  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Create and remove
        `$as_me.[0-9]+' instead of `debug-[0-9]+.sh', so that multiple
        test suites can cohabit.

2001-09-13  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/mktests.sh: Don't output banners for empty test files.

2001-09-13  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Test suites can be run independently of configure.

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_ECHO, _AS_ECHO_N_PREPARE): New.
        * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_ECHO): Remove.
        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Adjust: AC_SUBST
        ECHO_N etc.
        * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Don't ask for at_n
        and at_c.
        * lib/autotest/general.m4: Use ECHO_*.

2001-09-13  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/ifnames.in: Rewrite in Perl.
        * configure.ac: Don't look for AWK.
        * tests/tools.at (AWK portability): Remove.
        (Syntax of the shell scripts): Don't check ifnames.
        (AT_CHECK_PERL_SYNTAX): New.
        (Syntax of the Perl scripts): Check ifnames.
        * tests/ifnames: New.

2001-09-13  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Let --keywords also match
        test group titles.
        * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AU_MACRO): AT_KEYWORDS(autoupdate).
        Remove all the other keywords.

2001-09-10  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Remove the diversion HELP and
        SETUP: no longer used.
        Support -k, --keywords.
        <at_help>: Be `no', `short', or `long'.
        <at_help_all>: New variable.
        (AT_KEYWORDS): New.
        (AT_CLEANUP_FILE_IFELSE, AT_CLEANUP_FILE): Rename as...
        (_AT_CLEANUP_FILE_IF, _AT_CLEANUP_FILE): these.
        (_AT_CLEANUP_FILE_IF): Simplify the regexp.
        (AT_SETUP): Reset AT_line, AT_keywords, AT_description.
        No longer fill the HELP diversion.
        (AT_CLEANUP): Use them.
        * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_append): Support a separator.
        (m4_list_append): Remove.

        Spread a few keywords in the Autoconf test suite.

2001-09-10  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Don't pass
        PATH_SEPARATOR, let M4sh compute it.
        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_SEPARATOR_PREPARE): New.
        * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_SHELL_PATH_WALK): Use PATH_SEPARATOR.
        Move to...
        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_PATH_WALK): Here.
        Simplify when the path is not a literal.
        (AS_UNAME): Use it to report PATH.
        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE_FS_SEPARATORS): Remove.
        (_AC_INIT_DEFAULTS): AC_SUBST PATH_SEPARATOR.
        * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_INSTALL): Use _AS_PATH_WALK.
        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Use _AS_PATH_WALK to
        normalize the path, and to look for victims.
        * tests/semantics.at (AC_PATH_PROG & AC_PATH_PROGS)
        (AC_CHECK_PROG & AC_CHECK_PROGS): Use PATH_SEPARATOR.

2001-09-07  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_m4): `< /dev/null' so that GNU M4 1.5
        doesn't neutralize SIGINT, making autoconf etc. non interruptible.
        * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Move the package
        related variables into `at_package_*'.
        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_VICTIMS): New.
        (AT_INIT): Adjust for stand-alone/embedded test suites.
        (AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD): Define and use it.
        * tests/suite.at (AT_VICTIMS): Use it.
        * tests/tools.at (autoupdating AC_PREREQ): Don't depend upon
        at_version.

2001-09-07  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Move toward possibly stand-alone test suites.

        * lib/autotest/general.m4: Stop displaying srcdir everywhere as,
        in addition, it introduces useless differences in logs.
        (AT_INIT): Let atconfig and atlocal be both optional.
        Adjust PATH computation.
        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_UNAME): More readable display of PATH.

2001-09-07  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am (autoconf.m4f): Depends upon
        m4sugar/version.m4.

2001-09-05  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY(C)): Use `_array_'
        to avoid GCC warnings.
        From Uwe Seimet.

2001-09-05  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autom4te.in: --language is -l, not -s.

2001-09-05  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Be ready to handle filenames as stupid as `dnl.at', for if even
        the maintainer is dumb enough to do that...

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_SETUP, AT_LINE): Demonstrates your
        excellence in M4 quotation: consider `__file__' is active.

        And BTW, when invoking m4, pass the --include in the right order:
        the wrong one.

        * bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoupdate.in: Use reverse when kingtal to
        4m.

2001-09-05  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/Autom4te/XFile.pm: New lib file.
        * bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoscan.pl, bin/autom4te.in,
        * bin/autoheader.in: Use it.

2001-09-05  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoupdate.in (&handle_m4_macros) <unm4.m4>: Undefine iff
        defined.

2001-09-05  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&getopt): Work around the `-' Getopt bug.
        * bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoupdate.in (&parse_args): Adjust.

        * bin/autoscan.in: Use `getopt' and `find_files' etc.
        Add -I, --include support.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (autoscan Invocation): Adjust.

2001-09-05  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        CVS GNU M4 doesn't like `undefine(undefined)'.

        * bin/autoupdate.in (&handle_m4_macros, &handle_autoconf_macros):
        New, extracted from main.
        Use IO::File wherever possible.
        (input.m4): Be constant, use -I instead of hard coding $tmp.
        Therefore be a quoted heredoc.
        Don't invoke `_au_disable', since ac was not loaded, but just
        `unm4.m4'.

2001-08-31  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Version 2.52d.

2001-08-31  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Fix the
        previous patch.
        * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER): Can create `config.hin~'.

2001-08-31  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): DU 5.0 has
        serious problems handling heredocs in heredocs.
        Reported by Nicolas Joly.

2001-08-31  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi: Don't promote non `m4_*' M4 macros.
        (Making testsuite Scripts): Update.

2001-08-31  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): Add autom4te.cfg.

2001-08-31  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Quadrigraphs): Document `@&t@'.
        (testsuite Scripts): There is no such thing as `atconfig.in'.
        And actually one diagram is missing: test suite runtime.

2001-08-31  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_file): Browse the includes in the
        inverse order.

2001-08-31  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoupdate.in (@include): `installcheck' revealed the path
        to m4sugar was lacking!

2001-08-31  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): We really have to pass
        autom4te_perllibdir.

2001-08-31  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Don't pass all the args to
        debug scripts, in particular passing explicitly listed tests to
        run is stupid.

2001-08-31  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Strip `.' from `@include'.
        * bin/autoupdate.in: Use --include, -I, and --force, -f, too.
        Use directly autom4te, not autoconf.
        * tests/autoupdate: $top_srcdir/lib is needed too for melt files.

2001-08-31  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Missing eol.
        * bin/autoheader.in (%symbol): Strip arguments of macros.

2001-08-31  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi: Catch up -I, --include changes.

2001-08-31  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Die on unknown languages.
        * bin/autoheader.in: Run directly autom4te --mode=autoconf, no
        need for autoconf.
        Promote --include over --macrodir and other obsolete options.

2001-08-31  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/Autom4te/General.pm ($version, $help, &getopt): New.
        * bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in: Use them.
        * bin/autom4te.in ($autoconf): Pass --force.
        `print $out' doesn't print `$_' but `$out'.
        * tests/tools.at (Syntax of the Perl scripts): Pass the lib dir.
        (autoheader): Pass --force since the test suite goes too fast for
        the time stamps.
        Adjust to the new autoheader messages.

2001-08-31  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoheader.in: Handle the acconfig.h etc. junk files.
        Check the completeness of the #template.
        * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&update_file): s/remove/unlink/.
        * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Adjust AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER
        invocation.

2001-08-31  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_file, &update_file): New.
        * bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoheader.in: Adjust.
        Drop AC_MACRODIR dead for real.
        * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOHEADER): Now autoheader says
        `autoheader: `config.hin' is created'.
        * tests/tools.at (Syntax of the Perl scripts): Check autoheader.

2001-08-31  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoheader.in: Rewrite in Perl.
        * tests/autoheader: Adjust.

2001-08-31  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoconf.in (--include, -I): New option.
        Map --localdir, --autoconf-dir onto it.
        Forward autom4te's options instead of interpreting them.
        * bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoheader.in (AC_MACRODIR, autoconf_dir):
        There is no such envvar since the inception of autom4te.cfg.
        * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Uniquify `@include'.
        * bin/autoupdate.in: Adjust, and perform more control.
        * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF): Adjust.
        * tests/autoconf: Dittowise.

2001-08-31  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoconf.in: Don't bother with `acsite.m4' and `aclocal.m4'.
        * bin/autom4te.in (&find_file): Support `FILE?' standing for
        optionally `FILE'.
        Use -e, not -f, since /dev/null for instance is OK.
        (&parse_args): Adjust.
        * lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): Add `acsite.m4?' and `aclocal.m4?'.

2001-08-31  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * configure.ac: Also find tested executables in bin.
        * bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autoreconf.in,
        * bin/autoscan.in, autoupdate.in: Use exclusively the name of the
        installed peer executables, only PATH is allowed to resolve it.
        Pass `autoconf_dir' via options, not via invisible envvars.
        * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&find_peer): Remove.
        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): `AUTOTEST_PATH=a:b' gives
        `abuild:asrc:bbuild:bsrc', not `abuild:bbuild:asrc:bsrc'.
        * man/Makefile.am: Let help2man rely on PATH instead of trying to
        find the executables for it.
        * tests/Makefile.am: Major cleanup.  Too lazy to document...
        * tests/atlocal.in: Remove all the obscure envvar manipulations.
        We only need PERL.
        * tests/atspecific.m4, tests/tools.at: Passing --localdir is
        indeed related to running the test suite, while passing
        --autoconf-dir and others is related to running non installed
        Autoconf executables.  So don't do that, leave it to...
        * tests/autoconf, tests/autoheader, tests/autom4te, tests/autoupdate,
        * tests/autoscan: New.
        * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR, AT_CHECK_M4SH): Don't
        refer to library files: rely on --language.

2001-08-29  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autom4te.in, lib/autom4te.in, bin/autoconf.in:
        s/--set/--language/.

2001-08-29  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi: Strip the @nodes.
        Suggested by Paul Eggert.
        (Initializing configure): Typo.

2001-08-29  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_output): s/@__@/@&t@/.
        Suggested by Paul Eggert.

2001-08-29  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * Makefile.maint (do-po-update): Wget refuses to overwrite files:
        download in a tmp dir.

2001-08-29  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4: s/AT-devnull/devnull/ since there are
        case insensitive OSes out there :(
        From Tim Van Holder.

2001-08-29  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autom4te.in: New.
        * lib/Makefile.am (edit, autom4te.cfg): New.
        * bin/autom4te.in (BEGIN): Simplify.
        Rely on `AC_MACRODIR' in addition of `autom4te_perllibdir'.
        (&load_configuration): New.  Use it.
        (&parse_args): Support --mode, --set, and --melt.
        * bin/autoconf.in: Simplify and adjust.
        * tests/Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE): Use --set.
        * tests/atlocal.in: Adjust.
        * BUGS: distcheck and check are weak.

2001-08-29  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4: Use
                foo=`(command) 2>/dev/null`
        not
                foo=`command` 2>/dev/null
        (at-devnull): Rename as...
        (AT-devnull): this.
        (--clean): Remove AT-* files too.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Document `date'.
        Reported by Nicolas Joly.

2001-08-28  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Don't use single
        quotes inside single quotes.
        Reported by Nicolas Joly.

2001-08-28  Kevin Ryde  <user42@zip.com.au>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Mention C right shifts.

2001-08-27  Tim Van Holder  <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4: Reword some messages.
        (AT_INIT): Check for the `times' builtin before using it.
        Support test ranges as arguments to the testsuite.
        Have -e imply -d as the help text suggested.

2001-08-27  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * Makefile.maint: Formatting changes.
        (do-po-update, po-update, cvs-update, update): New targets.
        (AMTAR): Remove.

2001-08-27  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT) <at_cmd_line>: Remove.
        <at_cmd_line>: New.
        Pass it to debug-*.sh scripts.
        <AUTOTEST_PATH>: May contain absolute dir names.

2001-08-27  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Log the command line.
        Support `VAR=VAL' as arguments.
        Compute PATH _after_ the options processing, so that AUTOTEST_PATH
        may be set via the command line.

2001-08-27  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): $2 defaults to $1.
        * lib/autotest/autotest.m4 (AT_INIT): Expand AUTOTEST_PATH into
        first the build dirs, then the src dirs.
        * configure.ac (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Adjust.

2001-08-27  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Output the definition of
        at_data_files earlier.
        (--clean, -c): New option.
        * tests/Makefile.am: Use this option.

2001-08-27  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): Rename `ac_dots' as
        `ac_top_builddir' to mimic Automake's vocabulary, which much more
        readable.
        Adjust callers.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Actions): Document the vars
        available in commands.
        Emphasize the risks of collisions in init-cmds.

2001-08-27  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Input) <AC_INIT>: Move to..
        (Initializing configure): this new node.

2001-08-27  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): INSTALL.txt is a dead hack.

2001-08-27  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * m4/atconfig.m4 (AT_CONFIG): Remove, replaced by...
        * lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): this.
        New file.
        * m4/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Oops, adjust...

2001-08-27  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AU_DEFINE, AU_DEFUN, AU_ALIAS): Move
        to...
        * lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4: this new file.
        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AH_OUTPUT, AH_VERBATIM)
        (_AH_VERBATIM_OLD, AH_TEMPLATE, _AH_TEMPLATE_OLD, AH_TOP, AH_BOTTOM):
        Move to...
        * lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4: this new file.

2001-08-27  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_SRCPATHS): New.
        (_AC_OUTPUT_LINKS, _AC_OUTPUT_FILES, _AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Use it.
        Standardize the var names (ac_sub_srcdir -> ac_srcdir, ac_subdir
        -> ac_dir).
        (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS): AS_DIRNAME always return a dir name.
        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP): Ditto.

2001-08-27  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4 (AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS)
        (AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_POST, AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE, AC_CONFIG_FILES)
        (AC_CONFIG_HEADER, AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, AC_CONFIG_IF_MEMBER)
        (AC_CONFIG_LINKS, AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS, AC_FILE_DEPENDENCY_TRACE)
        (AC_LINK_FILES, AC_LIST_COMMANDS, AC_LIST_COMMANDS_COMMANDS)
        (AC_LIST_FILES, AC_LIST_FILES_COMMANDS, AC_LIST_HEADERS)
        (AC_LIST_HEADERS_COMMANDS, AC_LIST_LINKS, AC_LIST_LINKS_COMMANDS)
        (AC_OUTPUT, AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS, AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_POST)
        (AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_PRE, AC_OUTPUT_MAKE_DEFS)
        (_AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_INIT, _AC_CONFIG_DEPENDENCIES)
        (_AC_CONFIG_DEPENDENCY, _AC_CONFIG_UNIQUE, _AC_LINK_FILES_CNT)
        (_AC_LIST_SUBDIRS, _AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS, _AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_CNT)
        (_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS_INIT, _AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS)
        (_AC_OUTPUT_FILES, _AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS, _AC_OUTPUT_LINKS)
        (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Move to...
        * lib/autoconf/status.m4: this new file.
        * lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am: Adjust.
        * tests/Makefile.am, tests/suite.at: Adjust.

2001-08-27  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Automake 1.5.

        * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Add 1.5 and dist-bzip2.
        (AMTAR): Help automake define it.
        (INSTALL, install-data-hook): The INSTALL.txt trick is no longer
        needed, 1.5 can have a macro and a target with the same name.
        * m4/auxdir.m4, m4/cond.m4, m4/depend.m4, m4/install-sh.m4,
        * m4/strip.m4: New.
        * m4/init.m4, m4/sanity.m4: Update.
        * doc/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): 1.5 knows the texi2dvi files.
        * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am, lib/autotest/Makefile.am,
        * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am, lib/autoscan/Makefile.am,
        * lib/Autom4te/Makefile.am, man/Makefile.am: Use dist/nodist.

2001-08-27  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Provide a mean to ``AC_PREREQ'' for M4sugar, M4sh and Autotest.

        * lib/autoconf/version.in: Remove.
        * lib/m4sugar/version.in: New.
        * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_acversion, m4_version_prereq): New.
        Adjust callers.
        * bin/autoupdate.in: Distinguish M4sugar vs. Autoconf macros by
        the name of the directory they're in, instead of the filename,
        since version.m4 is now in m4sugar, but m4_acversion must not be
        classified as an Autoconf macro.
        ($input_m4): Don't qualify the path to m4sugar.
        Rather, pass autoconf_dir to m4.
        * tests/Makefile.am (testsuite): Remove -I top_srcdir, unneeded.
        * tests/suite.at: Require 2.52c.

2001-08-27  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        testsuite.log should include config.log.

        * lib/autotest/autotest.m4: New.
        * lib/autotest/general.m4, tests/atspecific.m4: Adjust.
        * tests/suite.at : Adjust.
        (AT_INIT): Log config.log.
        * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_text_box): New.
        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_BOX_LITERAL): Adjust.
        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_CONFIG_LOG): Use them.
        (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Fix the incredibly messy and buggy completion
        of config.log on traps.
        (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Use AS_BOX.
        Use consistently `_ACEOF' for configure's here docs, and `_CSEOF'
        for config.status'.
        Open the log as soon as possible.
        Use the same log introduction as configure's.

2001-08-22  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Indices): New node.
        Move indices out of the top level menu and into this submenu.

2001-08-22  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_LEX_YYTEXT_DECL): Use
        AC_TRY_COMMAND.
        (AC_DECL_YYTEXT): Fix the previous patch: it points to AC_PROG_LEX.

2001-08-22  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SHELL_PATH_WALK, AC_CHECK_PROG)
        (AC_CHECK_PROGS, AC_PATH_PROG, AC_PATH_PROGS, AC_CHECK_TOOL_PREFIX)
        (AC_PATH_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOLS): Move to...
        * lib/autoconf/programs.m4: here.
        * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (_AC_PROG_ECHO, AC_PROG_MAKE_SET)
        (AC_PROG_RANLIB, AC_PROG_YACC, AC_PROG_LEX, _AC_DECL_YYTEXT)
        (AC_PROG_INSTALL, AC_PROG_LN_S, AC_RSH): Move to...
        * lib/autoconf/programs.m4: here.
        (_AC_DECL_YYTEXT): Rename as...
        (_AC_PROG_LEX_YYTEXT_DECL): this.
        * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am
        * tests/Makefile.am, tests/suite.am: Adjust.

2001-08-22  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_LIST_MEMBER_OF, AC_LINKER_OPTION):
        Move to...
        * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_LIST_MEMBER_IF, _AC_LINKER_OPTION):
        here.
        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC): Move to...
        * lib/autoconf/functions.m4: here.
        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SEARCH_LIBS, AC_CHECK_LIB)
        (AH_CHECK_LIB): Move to...
        * lib/autoconf/libs: this new file.
        * lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (_AC_PATH_X_XMKMF, _AC_PATH_X_DIRECT)
        (_AC_PATH_X, AC_PATH_X, AC_PATH_XTRA): Move to...
        * lib/autoconf/libs.m4: here.
        * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am: Adjust.

2001-08-22  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_MKDIR_P): Fail if fails.
        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Adjust.
        (AC_SITE_LOAD): Better logging of config.site.

2001-08-20  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * configure.ac (AT_CONFIG): Fix the path.
        * m4/atconfig.m4 (AT_CONFIG): Don't use EOF but ATEOF so that 2.52
        can be used.

2001-08-20  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <duret_g@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Prepare the cross-compile
        program with AC_LANG_PROGRAM before feeding it to
        AC_COMPILE_IFELSE.  Cleanup grep usage.

2001-08-20  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * ChangeLog, ChangeLog.0, ChangeLog.1, ChangeLog.2, AUTHORS, BUGS,
        * NEWS, README, README-alpha, TODO, tests/README: This package is
        `Autoconf', not `autoconf' (the executable).

2001-08-20  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Info readers seem to need `Index' in the index node title :(

        * doc/autoconf.texi: Reverse the 2001-08-15 change which
        simplified index node names.

2001-08-20  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): Warn if the
        arguments are not literals.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Input) <AC_INIT>: Arguments must be literals.
        Specify the output variables, and macros defined.

2001-08-20  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Examining Declarations) <AC_TRY_CPP>:
        (Examining Syntax) <AC_TRY_COMPILE>
        (Examining Libraries) <AC_TRY_LINK>
        (Test Programs) <AC_TRY_RUN>: These macros double quote some of
        their arguments.
        Reported by Werner Lemberg.

2001-08-20  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Compute top_builddir,
        top_srcdir and srcdir from at_topbuild_2_topsrc and at_testdir.
        Load atlocal late enough to dump it in the log.
        * m4/atconfig.m4 (AT_CONFIG): Pass them to atconfig.

2001-08-20  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories): New test.
        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): Say what you are
        looking for.
        * m4/atconfig.m4: Be sure the let $[0] be expandable.
        (top_srcdir): Fix its computation.

2001-08-20  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS): Say what you do.
        * m4/atconfig.m4 (AT_CONFIG): $1 is now the directory where the
        test suite lives.
        Create `atconfig' automagically.
        Configure atlocal.in if present.
        * tests/atconfig.in: Remove.
        * tests/atlocal.in: New.
        * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.

2001-08-20  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Huh!?!?!  There are still some user EOF tags used, which prevents
        their use in AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS for instance...

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4, lib/autoconf/specific.m4,
        * lib/autotest/general.m4: Rename the EOF tags as `_ACEOF',
        `_CSEOF', or `_ATEOF', as appropriate.
        * lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am,
        * lib/autotest/Makefile.am (check-local): Enforce this constraint.

2001-08-20  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/base.at, tests/m4sh.at, tests/m4sugar.at,
        * tests/semantics.at, tests/tools.at, tests/torture.at:
        s/^AT_DATA\(([^][]+),/AT_DATA([$1],/.

2001-08-20  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Autotest invokes M4sh's initialization.

        * lib/autotest/general.m4: Adjust the diversion names.
        (AT_INIT): Run AS_INIT.
        Use the BINSH diversion to invoke /bin/sh.
        * tests/base.at, tests/m4sh.at, tests/m4sugar.at, tests/tools.at:
        * tests/torture.at: Respect M4sugar and M4sh macro name spaces.

2001-08-20  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Let M4sh have its own diversions.

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_m4_divert(BINSH), _m4_divert(REVISION))
        (_m4_divert(NOTICE)): Rename as...
        * lib/m4sugar/m4msh.m4 (_m4_divert(BINSH), _m4_divert(HEADER-REVISION))
        (_m4_divert(HEADER-COMMENT)): these.
        (_m4_divert(HEADER-COPYRIGHT), _m4_divert(HEADER-COPYRIGHT)): New.
        (_m4_divert(NOTICE)): New, for Libtool.
        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_m4_divert(PREPARE)): Remove, replaced
        long ago with `_m4_divert(GROW)'.
        (AC_COPYRIGHT, AC_REVISION, _AC_INIT_NOTICE): Adjust.

2001-08-20  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/base.at, tests/compile.at, tests/foreign.at,
        * tests/m4sh.at, tests/m4sugar.at, tests/mktests.sh,
        * tests/semantics.at, tests/suite.at, tests/tools.at,
        * tests/torture.at: Ask Autotest mode, not Autoconf mode.

2001-08-20  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autom4te.in (handle_output): Handle @__@.

2001-08-20  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autoconf/oldnames.m4,
        * lib/autotest/general.m4: Adjust the license.

2001-08-17  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): Mention snprintf,
        following up on a suggestion by Kevin Ryde.

2001-08-17  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/install.texi, doc/autoconf.texi: Use `autoconf', not
        `autoconf_manual', as texinfo.tex 2001-06-21.10 chokes on it.

2001-08-17  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Refer to `$as_me.log', not
        `$0.log' as for projects where testsuite is in src, we'd have
        testsuite.log created in src.

2001-08-17  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args): Recognize --normalize.

2001-08-17  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Start implementing the AC_CHECK_HEADER transition scheme.

        * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_NEW)
        (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_OLD, _AC_CHECK_HEADER_MONGREL): New.
        (AC_CHECK_HEADER): Use them.

2001-08-17  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi: Work around Texinfo buglets.
        (Transformation Rules): One example is enough, users are expected
        to have their brains on. And BTW, use DESTDIR.
        (dvar): New macro.  Use it.

2001-08-17  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at) <AT_CHECK>: Complete.
        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Use the relative dir when
        looking for ChangeLogs.

2001-08-17  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autom4te.in: --normalize is a new option.
        * bin/autoconf.in: Use it.

2001-08-17  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/Makefile.am, lib/Autom4te/Makefile.am, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am
        * lib/autotest/Makefile.am, lib/m4sugar/Makefile.am: Add TAGS support.

2001-08-16  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * doc/autoconf.texi, doc/install.texi: Put copyright notice at
        start, not at end.

2001-08-15  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/Makefile.am (fu): New index, can't use fn because of defmac.
        Use it.

2001-08-15  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (pr): New index.
        (prindex, findex): Use, merge, and output them.
        (Environment Variable Index, Output Variable Index)
        (Preprocessor Symbol Index, Autoconf Macro Index, M4 Macro Index)
        (Autotest Macro Index): Rename as...
        (Environment Variables, Output Variables,Preprocessor Symbols)
        (Autoconf Macros, M4 Macros, Autotest Macros): these.
        * doc/install.texi: Use @command.
        (Environment Variables): Rename as...
        (Defining Variables): this.

2001-08-15  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Function Portability): sprintf's return
        value.
        From Kevin Ryde.

2001-08-15  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * Makefile.maint (CVS): New.
        (local-check): Run changelog-check. last.
        (alpha): Don't depend upon local-check, since...
        (cvs-dist): depends upon it.

2001-08-15  Tim Van Holder  <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>

        * tests/Makefile.am: Use a clean-local rule to remove
        autom4te.cache (it's a directory, not a file.
        * Makefile.am: Ditto (but maintainer-clean-local).

2001-08-15  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autom4te.in (@m4_warning): New.
        (&handle_m4): Use it.
        * tests/m4sugar.at (m4_warn): Pass `-f' to autom4te to ensure the
        warnings are issued at each run.
        * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR, AT_CHECK_M4SH): M4sugar
        is in the src tree.

2001-08-15  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOUPDATE): Perl is now required:
        don't waste time running `autoupdate --version' works.
        * tests/tools.at (autoupdating AC_PREREQ): Likewise.

2001-08-13  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (ma): Rename this index as...
        (ac): this.

2001-08-13  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * Makefile.am: Remove dead code and dead comments.
        (pdf, html): New targets.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Using Autotest): New chapter.
        * doc/Makefile.am (pdf): New targets.
        (CLEANFILES): Adjust.

2001-08-13  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Log the start/stop dates and
        duration of the test suite.

2001-08-12  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <duret_g@epita.fr>

        * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Explicitelly save and load
        endianness for comparison instead of relying on AT_CHECK_ENV.

2001-08-11  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * doc/autoconf.texi, doc/install.texi: Add a copyright notice
        to the INSTALL file.

2001-08-11  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * NEWS: The autoconf manual now is distributed under the terms
        of the GNU Free Documentation License.

        * doc/autoconf.texi: Switch from old style copyright notice to FDL.
        Add an appendix "Copying This Manual" for the FDL.

        * doc/fdl.texi: New file, from
        <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.texi>.

        * doc/Makefile.am (autoconf_TEXINFOS): Add fdl.texi.

2001-08-10  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * AUTHORS, BUGS, ChangeLog, ChangeLog.0, ChangeLog.1,
        ChangeLog.2, GNUmakefile, Makefile.maint, NEWS, README,
        README-alpha, TODO, configure.ac, lib/autoconf/Makefile.am,
        m4/atconfig.m4, m4/init.m4, m4/m4.m4, m4/missing.m4,
        m4/sanity.m4, tests/README, tests/aclocal.m4,
        tests/atspecific.m4, tests/base.at, tests/compile.at,
        tests/foreign.at, tests/m4sh.at, tests/m4sugar.at,
        tests/semantics.at, tests/suite.at, tests/tools.at,
        tests/torture.at: Add copyright notice.

        * tests/mktests.sh: Update year in copyright notice.

2001-08-12  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <duret_g@epita.fr>

        * tests/semantics.at (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): New test.

2001-08-11  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <duret_g@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Handle ACTION-IF-TRUE,
        ACTION-IF-FALSE, and ACTION-IF-UNKNOWN.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler Characteristics): Update
        documentation for AC_C_BIGENDIAN.

2001-08-11  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <duret_g@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_C_BIGENDIAN): Guess endianness by grep'ing
        magic values from an object file when cross-compiling.
        Based on code by Guido Draheim <Guido.Draheim@gmx.de>.

2001-08-10  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_output): Don't use `grep' with side
        effects.
        Suggested by Russ Allbery.

2001-08-10  Ralf Corsepius  <corsepiu@faw.uni-ulm.de>

        * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): Propagate the
        current $prefix to the sub-configures.

2001-08-09  Tim Van Holder  <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>

        * lib/autoconf/lang.m4: Ignore *.xSYM when looking for an executable
        extension (needed on BeOS).  Reported by Guido van Rossum.

2001-08-09  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autom4te.in ($icache): Load it only if older than autom4te.

2001-08-07  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): All the `at-*' are to be
        removed.
        (at-setup-line): Huh?  Be a variable `at_setup_line', not a file.
        No need to remove the files before and after the each test, before
        each test and at the end of the suite is enough.
        Display only the children `times', not the shell's.
        If the test failed or was skipped, at-times is not available.

2001-08-07  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Always produce testsuite.log, including when there are no
        failures.  This helps getting information on skipped tests, and
        duration of the tests.  Err, implement the latter btw.

        * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Set up fd 6 for the log.
        Dump information on the first run of each test.
        (AT_CLEANUP): Create `at-times' containing the duration of the
        test group.

2001-08-07  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        The use of `dumpstat' revealed that `len' was used although it
        should not.  m4_text_wrap was using it, but in the Autoconf world
        where it is legal.  Hence (i) test M4sh in its own world, not
        Autoconf's, and (ii), ahem, fix the bug :)

        * lib/autotest/general.m4: Be sure the set good quotes, as tracing
        does not like `' instead of [].
        (AT_INIT): Forbid `^_?AT_'.
        And don't output such tokens.
        * tests/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): Add `script', `script.s4g',
        `script.as', and `autom4te.cache'.
        Remove `empty' and `macro' which are no longer used.
        * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_M4SUGAR, AT_CHECK_M4SH): New.
        * tests/m4sugar.at: Use it.
        * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: Use `m4_len' not `len'.

2001-08-07  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoconf.in, bin/autoheader.in: --force, -f is a new option.

2001-08-07  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <duret_g@epita.fr>

        * bin/autom4te.in (handle_output): Typo in quadrigraph substitution.

2001-08-04  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_ALLOCA, AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE)
        (AC_FUNC_FSEEKO, AC_FUNC_OBSTACK): Use AC_LANG_IFELSE, not
        AC_TRY_LINK.
        * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_MAJOR): Likewise.
        * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (_AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_F77_HOOKS)
        (AC_F77_MAIN): Likewise.

2001-08-04  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Don't rely on M4sugar outputting the patterns in files, since we
        might process the output _without_ running m4, hence without these
        files.

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_init): No need for `m4_tmpdir'.
        * bin/autom4te.in (@Request::includes): Remove, unused.
        (@Request::source): Rename as...
        (@Request::input): this.
        (@preselect): Add `m4_pattern_forbid' and `m4_pattern_allow'.
        (&handle_output): Fetch the patterns from the traces.
        `$forbidden' and `$allowed' are constant: use m//o.
        (&handle_m4): M4sugar no longer wants `m4_tmpdir'.
        (m4_pattern_forbid, m4_pattern_allow): Adjust for tracing only.

2001-08-04  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        `autoconf && autoheader' is sped up.  Now, speed up `autoheader &&
        autoconf', i.e., in addition to caching traces, cache the output.

        * bin/autom4te.in (Request::cache): Rename as...
        (Request::id): this.
        ($cache, $icache, $tcache, $ocache): New.
        (&handle_m4): Save M4 output in the cache instead of $tmp.
        (&handle_output): Adjust.
        (&up_to_date_p): Check that the output cache is up to date too.
        (top level): Run `&handle_m4' iff force or the cache is invalid.
        Run `&handle_output' if the output cache is more recent.

2001-08-04  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autom4te.in ($force): New.
        (&parse_args, &print_usage): -f, --force is a new option.
        (&handle_output): CPP directives might have spaces after `#'.
        (&parse_args): The first file only can be frozen.

2001-08-04  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Don't let autom4te compute the `include' traces several times:
        first check that the trace cache file is up to date, and then
        compare its timestamp with that of the output.

        * bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoscan.in: Normalize
        the preamble.  Don't require 5.005 as Autom4te::General does it,
        and better yet (use `use', not `require'!).
        * lib/Autom4te/Struct.pm: Rename the last occurrences of
        Class::Struct as Autom4te::Struct.
        * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (File::stat): Use it.
        (&mtime): New, export it.
        * bin/autom4te.in: Use it.
        Declare `$req' is invalid if it is outdated.
        Don't declare it valid before saving it if something went wrong.

2001-08-04  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Autom4te shall not encode Autoconf data, and preselecting traces
        must be proposed to the users.

        * bin/autom4te.in (@required_trace): Remove.
        (@preselect): New.
        (&parse_args, &print_usage): -p, --preselect is a new option.
        (&up_to_date_p): Adjust.
        * bin/autoconf.in: Preselect some Autoconf macros.

2001-08-04  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/tools.at (autoconf --trace: user macros): Check traces on
        macros invoked without arguments, and macros invoked with multiple
        lines arguments.

2001-08-03  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <duret_g@epita.fr>

        * bin/autom4te.in (handle_traces): Fix rewriting of traces without
        arguments.

2001-08-03  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * bin/autoconf.in ($@): Work around the usual sh bug.
        From Nicolas Joly.

2001-08-03  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Clean up the handling of the M4 builtins tracing exception.

        * bin/autom4te.in (Request::request): Don't complete M4 builtins
        trace requests.
        (@m4_builtins): Rename as...
        (@m4_builtin): this.
        (%m4_builtin_alternate_name): New.
        (&parse_args): Complete the trace requests with alternate names.
        (&handle_traces): Hence no longer do it here.
        (&trace_requests): Remove, unused.

2001-08-03  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Redefined M4 Macros): Document m4_exit,
        m4_if, and m4_wrap.

2001-08-03  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_init): Also forbid `_m4_*' tokens.
        (m4_divert_pop): Dump the whole diversion stack when a diversion
        mismatch happens.
        * bin/autom4te.in (&handle_output): Remember of the first
        occurrence of a possibly undefined macro, not the last.
        Complain about the possibly undefined macros in the same order as
        the appear in the output.
        * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am (autoconf.m4f): List its dependencies.
        * tests/tools.at (autoconf: forbidden tokens, basic)
        (autoconf: forbidden tokens, exceptions): No longer sort
        autoconf's stderr, as it is now deterministic.
        Check that `dnl' is caught.

2001-08-01  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * configure.ac: Bump to 2.52c.

2001-08-01  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Version 2.52b.

        * lib/Autom4te/Makefile.am (perllibdir): s/Autoconf/Autom4te/.

2001-08-01  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Version 2.52a.

2001-08-01  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: Use `carp' and `croak', not `warn' and
        `die'.
        (&END): New.
        * bin/autoconf.in, bin/autom4te.in, bin/autoupdate.in: Remove your
        `END', as `Autom4te::General::END' will be triggered.
        * bin/autoupdate.in, bin/autoscan.in: Improve error messages accuracy.
        * bin/autoupdate.in (File::Compare, File::Copy): Use them instead of
        system to run `mv', `rm', and `cmp'.

2001-08-01  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/Autom4te/General.pm (&unique): New.
        * bin/autoscan.in (&output): Use it to issue trace requests once.

2001-08-01  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: New.
        * bin/autom4te.in (Autom4te::General): Use it.
        ($me, $tmp, $verbose, $debug, &mktmpdir, &verbose, &xsystem)
        (&find_configure_ac, &find_slave): Remove.
        * bin/autoscan.in: Likewise.
        * bin/autoupdate.in: Likewise.

2001-08-01  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * autoconf.in, autom4te.in, autoscan.in, ifnames.in,
        * autoheader.in, autoreconf.in, autoupdate.in: Move to...
        * bin: here, new directory.
        * lib/Autoconf: Rename as...
        * lib/Autom4te: this, to please case insensitive junkie OSes.

2001-08-01  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * autom4te.in ($m4): Handle the --nesting-limit.
        * autoconf.in (M4): Remove.

2001-08-01  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * autoconf.in ($AWK): Remove, no longer used.
        * test/tools.at: Use AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF.
        (AWK portability): Remove, for autoconf no longer uses AWK.
        (Syntax of the Perl scripts): New.
        * configure.ac: autoconf no longer needs an AWK with a good
        regexp engine.
        Use a static test on AC_PACKAGE_VERSION.
        * autom4te.in (&up_to_date_p): Output depends on the arguments.
        * lib/autoconf/Makefile.am: Ship version.m4, maintainer file.
        * tests/atconfig.in (PERL): New.

2001-08-01  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG(C), AC_LANG_C, _AC_LANG_ABBREV(C))
        (AC_LANG(C++), AC_LANG_CPLUSPLUS, _AC_LANG_ABBREV(C++))
        (AC_LANG_SOURCE(C), AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C), AC_LANG_CALL(C))
        (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C), AC_LANG_BOOL_COMPILE_TRY(C))
        (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C), _AC_ARG_VAR_CPPFLAGS, _AC_ARG_VAR_LDFLAGS)
        (AC_LANG_PREPROC(C), _AC_PROG_PREPROC_WORKS_IFELSE, AC_PROG_CPP)
        (AC_LANG_COMPILER(C), ac_cv_prog_gcc, AC_PROG_CC, _AC_PROG_CC_G)
        (AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL, AC_PROG_CC_C_O, AC_LANG_PREPROC(C++))
        (AC_PROG_CXXCPP, AC_LANG_COMPILER(C++), ac_cv_prog_gxx)
        (AC_PROG_CXX, _AC_PROG_CXX_G, _AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION)
        (AC_PROG_CC_STDC, AC_C_CROSS, AC_C_CHAR_UNSIGNED, AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE)
        (AC_C_BIGENDIAN, AC_C_INLINE, AC_C_CONST, AC_C_VOLATILE)
        (AC_C_STRINGIZE, AC_C_PROTOTYPES): Move to...
        * lib/autoconf/c.m4: here, new file.

        * lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (AC_LANG(Fortran 77), AC_LANG_FORTRAN77)
        (_AC_LANG_ABBREV(Fortran 77), AC_LANG_SOURCE(Fortran 77))
        (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(Fortran 77), AC_LANG_CALL(Fortran 77))
        (AC_LANG_PREPROC(Fortran 77), AC_LANG_COMPILER(Fortran 77))
        (ac_cv_prog_g77, AC_PROG_F77, _AC_PROG_F77_G, AC_PROG_F77_C_O)
        (_AC_PROG_F77_V_OUTPUT, _AC_PROG_F77_V, AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS)
        (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN, _AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_F77_HOOKS, AC_F77_MAIN)
        (_AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING, AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING, AC_F77_WRAPPERS)
        (AC_F77_FUNC): Move to...
        * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4: here, new file.

2001-08-01  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * acfunctions.m4: Rename as...
        * lib/autoconf/functions.m4: this.
        * acgeneral.m4: Rename as...
        * lib/autoconf/general.m4: this.
        * acheaders.m4: Rename as...
        * lib/autoconf/headers.m4: this.
        * aclang.m4: Rename as...
        * lib/autoconf/lang.m4: this.
        * acoldnames.m4: Rename as...
        * lib/autoconf/oldnames.m4: this.
        * acspecific.m4: Rename as...
        * lib/autoconf/specific.m4: this.
        * actypes.m4: Rename as...
        * lib/autoconf/types.m4: this.
        * autoconf.m4: Rename as...
        * lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4: this.

        * m4sugar.m4: Rename as...
        * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: this.
        * m4sh.m4: Rename as...
        * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: this.

        * tests/atgeneral.m4: Rename as...
        * lib/autotest/general.m4: this.

        * acfunctions: Rename as...
        * lib/autoscan/functions: this.
        * acheaders: Rename as...
        * lib/autoscan/headers: this.
        * acidentifiers: Rename as...
        * lib/autoscan/identifiers: this.
        * aclibraries: Rename as...
        * lib/autoscan/libraries: this.
        * acmakevars: Rename as...
        * lib/autoscan/makevars: this.
        * acprograms: Rename as...
        * lib/autoscan/programs: this.

2001-08-01  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi: Moving/deleting open files is not portable.
        Portability issues for `.' (source), and more information about sed.

2001-07-25  Steven G. Johnson  <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>

        * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Ignore -libmil (on Solaris),
        which has a special meaning and is not a reference to libibmil.a.
        Reported by Matteo Frigo.

2001-07-25  Pavel Roskin  <proski@gnu.org>

        * autom4te.in (mktmpdir): Strip trailing newline from mktemp
        output.

2001-07-25  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * autoconf.in: Try to define the variables before using them.
        * autom4te.in ($perllibdir): Use `$autom4te_perllibdir' as envvar
        instead of `$perllibdir'.
        * tests/atconfig.in ($autom4te_perllibdir): Export it.

2001-07-25  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * autoconf.in (ac_LF_and_DOT): Remove, unused.

2001-07-24  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Let autoconf use autom4te for traces.

        * autoconf.in ($task, task trace): Remove, merely pass --trace to
        autom4te.
        * autoheader.in: Don't pass `-' to autoconf, rather, a tmp file.
        (Because I found no way for autom4te to accept `-').
        * autom4te.in (&Request::request): Beware of M4 builtins.
        (END): Don't try to remove the content of an empty dir.
        (&parse_args): Default is `$f:$l:$n:$%', not `$f:$l:$n:$*'.
        (&handle_output): Set a default value to `$forbidden'.
        * autoupdate.in (&verbose, &xsystem): New, from autom4te.in.
        ($autoconf): Pass --debug and --verbose.
        * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF): Clean up autom4te's
        cache.

2001-07-24  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Let autoconf use autom4te to create configure.

        * autoconf.in ($automate): New var.
        (task script): Use autom4te.
        * autom4te.in (File::Spec): Use it.
        (&find_file): New.
        (&parse_args): --warning is -W, not -w.
        Find the top level files.
        (&handle_m4): Pass the warnings flags.
        Don't report verbosely m4's failures, unless requested.
        (&handle_output): Don't complain for forbidden tokens in comments.
        Be sure to report all the forbidden tokens within a single line.
        (&trace_format_to_m4): Preserve `$_'.
        (&handle_traces): Sort the output macros.
        (&up_to_date_p): Find the files before trying to get its time stamp.

2001-07-24  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * Makefile.am: Ship, build and install Autom4te.
        (SUBDIRS): Add lib.
        * lib/Autoconf/Struct.pm: New, from Automake 1.5.
        * configure.in: Require Perl.
        * man/autom4te.in: New.

2001-07-19  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Cache Checkpointing): Use AC_MSG_ERROR in
        example, rather than (exit 1); exit (which isn't portable).

2001-07-18  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Version 2.52.

2001-07-18  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        The C-Fortran 77 hooks are available only once AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN
        was run, while they are needed also when it is expanded.
        Reported by Nicolas Joly.

        * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN): Define _AC_LANG_PROGRAM_C_F77_HOOKS.
        (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C)): Use it instead of depending upon
        AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN being expanded.

2001-07-18  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * configure.in: Bump to 2.51a.

2001-07-17  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Version 2.51.

2001-07-17  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN): Let the interface be more
        Autoconfy: $1 = action-if-found, $2 = action-if-not-found.

2001-07-17  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        The runtime test for AC_FUNC_GETPGRP fails when prototypes are
        used.  Well, then use the prototypes when you can, and runtime as
        a last resort.
        Reported by Artur Frysiak

        * acfunctions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_GETPGRP_TEST): New.
        (AC_FUNC_GETPGRP): Use it.
        First try to compile with 0-ary or 1-ary calls.

2001-07-17  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * actypes.m4 (_AC_CHECK_TYPE_REPLACEMENT_TYPE_P): `foo_t' is a
        replacement type.
        From Paul Eggert.

2001-07-17  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * Makefile.maint: Sync. with cppi 1.10.

2001-07-17  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * aclang.m4 (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C)): Output F77_DUMMY_MAIN only when
        AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN has been run.
        From Pavel Roskin and Steven G. Johnson.

2001-07-17  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * configure.in: Rename as...
        * configure.ac: this.

2001-07-17  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * Makefile.am (INSTALL.txt): Don't use $@ and $< in non suffix
        rules.
        From Marc Espie.
        * Makefile.maint (release-archive-dir): Rename as...
        (release_archive_dir): this, so that it can be specialized in
        Makefile.

2001-07-14  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * configure.in: Bump to 2.50d.

2001-07-14  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Version 2.50c.
        * Makefile.maint (alpha): Typo.

2001-07-14  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Macro names and underscore.

2001-07-14  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * config/config.guess, config/config.sub, config/texinfo.tex
        * doc/standards.texi, doc/make-stds.texi: Update.

2001-07-14  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * Makefile.maint (cvs-check, cvs-tag-check, cvs-diff-check): New.

2001-07-14  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * Makefile.maint (maintainer-check): Rename as...
        (maintainer-distcheck): this.
        (changelog-check, static-check): New.
        Use them.

2001-07-14  Kevin Ryde  <user42@zip.com.au>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (C++ Compilers Characteristics): Last resort
        for CXX is g++, not gcc.

2001-07-14  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Files): New subsection.

2001-07-14  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (C Compiler, Fortran 77 Compiler): Be subsections
        of...
        (Generic Compiler Characteristics): this.
        (C++ Compiler): New subsection.

2001-07-14  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * autoscan.in: Use IO::File.
        Adjust all the routines to use it.
        ($log): New file (autoscan.log).
        (output): Dump detailed logs into $log, and a shortened version to
        stderr.
        (&scan_makefile): Refine the regexp catching tokens in the code.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (autoscan Invocation): Document `autoscan.log'
        and the `configure.ac' checking feature.

2001-07-12  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        For some AWK, such as on HPUX 11, `xfoo' does not match `foo|^bar'.
        Reported by Michael Elizabeth Chastain.

        * autoconf.in: Refuse such AWK.
        * configure.in: Likewise.
        * Makefile.am (acversion.m4): Do not use move-if-change this file
        has dependencies.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Fortran 77 Compiler): Some typos.

2001-07-10  Jens Petersen  <petersen@redhat.com>

        * autoscan.in (&scan_makefile): Improve programs regexp to parse
        things like "g++", "file.c" and "some-conf" as tokens.
        (&scan_file): Match C++ files extensions.
        If the filename extension is C++ then ask for c++.

2001-07-05  Steven G. Johnson  <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>

        * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN): Use AC_TRY_LINK, not
        AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC, to check whether defining a dummy
        main-like routine is needed for linking with F77 libs.

2001-07-05  Pavel Roskin  <proski@gnu.org>

        * aclocal.m4 (_AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION): Remove conftest*
        after using break.
        (_AC_PROG_F77_V_OUTPUT): Remove conftest*, not conftest.* after
        linking.

2001-07-05  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * Makefile.am (move_if_change): New.  Use it instead of `mv'.
        (acversion.m4): Name it `$(srcdir)/acversion.m4' to ease broken
        Makes' lives.
        Reported by Nicolas Joly.

2001-07-04  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_RUN_IFELSE): Remove conftest.o when cleaning
        up.
        * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_WAIT3): Use `break' to silent some
        warnings from compilers.
        * aclang.m4 (_AC_LANG_COMPILER_GNU): Log the version information
        for all the compilers, not only GNU.  Hence move from here...
        (AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX, AC_PROG_F77): to here.

2001-07-04  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_STRTOD, AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R)
        (AC_FUNC_STRCOLL, AC_FUNC_WAIT3): Use AC_RUN_IFELSE and
        AC_COMPILE_IFELSE.

2001-07-04  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Actually apply
        the ``strings.h'' change claimed below.

2001-07-04  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * aclang.m4 (_AC_LANG_COMPILER_GNU): s/-dumpspecs/-v/.

2001-07-04  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Include
        strings.h if usable with string.h.
        Suggested by Paul Eggert.

2001-07-04  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * autoscan.in (&scan_file): Skip FILE if there is FILE.in.
        From Jens Petersen.

2001-07-03  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Specify CONFIG_FILES
        etc. in the log.

2001-07-03  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * acheaders.m4 (AC_CHECK_HEADER): When INCLUDES are set, use the
        compiler, not the preprocessor.
        * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): No longer use
        dedicated code to check for inttypes.h, as AC_CHECK_HEADERS does
        the right thing.
        * Makefile.am (.m4.m4f): Emphasize M4 error messages and fail
        earlier if there are.

2001-07-03  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * autoscan.in ($initfile): Remove.
        (&find_file): Rename as...
        (&scan_file): this.
        Immediately scan the current file, instead of gathering them, and
        later having them handled by &scan_files.
        (&scan_files): Merely invoke Find::File.
        Adjust.

2001-07-02  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * autoscan.in: Formatting changes, matching the invocation order.
        (File::Find): Use it instead of Perl 4's `find.pl'.
        (&wanted): Rename as...
        (&find_file): this.

2001-07-01  Pavel Roskin  <proski@gnu.org>

        * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN): Remove conftest* after using
        break in the argument to AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC.
        (AC_F77_MAIN): Remove conftest* after using break in the
        argument to AC_TRY_LINK.

2001-07-01  Steven G. Johnson  <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>

        Add alternate 'main' routine detection for linking C/C++ with Fortran,
        fixing link failures for e.g. AC_F77_WRAPPERS on NetBSD.

        * aclang.m4 (AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN): New macro to detect whether a
        dummy alternate main is required even if the user provides her own
        'main'.
        (AC_F77_MAIN): New macro to detect whether it is possible to
        provide an alternate 'main' function name, using the 'main' from
        the Fortran libraries.
        (AC_LANG_PROGRAM(C)): Use F77_DUMMY_MAIN, if it is defined, so that
        cross-language link tests can be performed successfully.
        (_AC_F77_NAME_MANGLING): Require AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN.  Also put $FLIBS
        after $LIBS, for consistency; this should be the general rule since
        the user may want to link to Fortran libraries that require $FLIBS.
        * doc/autoconf.texi: Document AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN and AC_F77_MAIN.

2001-06-29  Pavel Roskin  <proski@gnu.org>

        * atgeneral.m4 (AT_CHECK): Add a newline to the end of
        at-stdout and at-stderr instead of removing the newline
        from the echo output, which is not guaranteed to work.

2001-06-28  Jens Petersen  <petersen@redhat.com>

        * aclang.m4 (_AC_PROG_CXX_EXIT_DECLARATION): Only add declaration to
        confdefs.h when non-zero.

2001-06-28  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * configure.in: Bump to 2.50c.

2001-06-26  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Version 2.50b.

2001-06-26  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Version 2.50a.

2001-06-25  Pavel Roskin  <proski@gnu.org>

        * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_MACRO): Accept one more
        argument, AUTOCONF-FLAGS.
        * tests/mktests.sh (update_exclude_list): Add
        AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS and AC_FUNC_WAIT3.
        * tests/semantics.at: Test AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS and
        AC_FUNC_WAIT3 with "-W no-obsolete".

2001-06-25  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/foreign.at (libtool): Fix the `libtoolize --version' decoding.

2001-06-25  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * autoscan.in (%macro): Now maps from word to list of macros.
        (&init_tables): Die when a word which is already handled by
        explicit macros is mapped to the default macro.
        (&print_unique): Remove, inlined in...
        (&output_kind): here.
        (File::Basename): Use it.
        (&output): Sort the CONFIG_FILES.
        * acheaders: Normalize.
        * acfunctions: Likewise.

2001-06-25  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * aclang.m4 (_AC_LANG_COMPILER_GNU): If GNU, dump the compiler
        characteristics in the logs.
        Suggested by Mo DeJong.

2001-06-24  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * acfunctions.m4 (AM_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE, AM_FUNC_FNMATCH)
        (AM_FUNC_MKTIME, AM_FUNC_OBSTACK, AM_FUNC_STRTOD): Reactivated.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Autoconf 2.13): New section.

2001-06-24  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * autoconf.in (Task traces): Separate the error messages from the
        traces to improve robustness.

2001-06-23  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): Make it a single test instead of
        three as failures are unlikely, and speed matters.

2001-06-23  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Redefined M4 Macros): New.

2001-06-23  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Consider
        inttypes.h is missing if it conflicts with sys/types.h, as on IRIX
        5.3.

2001-06-23  Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>

        * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Defer parsing of
        config.status targets to after the evaluation of the INIT-CMDS.
        Double quote config.status targets (used to be single quoted).

2001-06-23  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/torture.at (CONFIG_FILES, HEADERS, LINKS and COMMANDS):
        Check the content of the created file.
        Check the ./config.status command line invocation.

2001-06-23  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/foreign.at (Libtool): Reject prehistoric versions.

2001-06-23  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * aclang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Try to be robust to
        preexisting files matching a.*.

2001-06-23  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Output error messages on
        stderr.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (AC_ARG_VAR): Update.

2001-06-21  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Die instead of warning when
        precious variables have changed.
        * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): Adjust.

2001-06-21  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        ./configure --program-suffix=foo produces `transform=s,$$,foo,;',
        but some sed choke on multiple `;', and other tools (e.g.,
        Automake), include the separator themselves.

        * acgeneral.m4 (AC_ARG_VAR): Be sure not to leave extra `;'.

2001-06-19  Tim Van Holder  <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Functions Portability): Rename as...
        (Function Portability): this.
        (Function Portability): Document potential problems with unlink().

2001-06-19  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * NEWS, doc/autoconf.texi: Document quadrigraphs.

2001-06-18  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_FORK): Fix typos.

2001-06-18  Ruediger Kuhlmann  <info@ruediger-kuhlmann.de>

        * acfunctions.m4: (AC_FUNC_VFORK) rename as...
        (_AC_FUNC_VFORK): this.
        Remove AC_DEFINEs and don't guess cross-compilation values.
        (_AC_FUNC_FORK): New, check whether fork() isn't just a stub.
        (AC_FUNC_FORK): New, use _AC_FUNC_VFORK and _AC_FUNC_FORK to
        define HAVE_WORKING_FORK, HAVE_WORKING_VFORK; and vfork to fork if
        vfork doesn't work.
        Guess values if cross-compiling, but warn.
        * acfunctions: Add AC_FUNC_FORK.
        * doc/autoconf.texi: Document AC_FUNC_FORK. Give example to define
        and vfork appropriately.

2001-06-18  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Functions Portability): New section.

2001-06-18  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * autoconf.in (M4): Pass --nesting-limit=1024, unless already set
        in $M4.
        Suggested by Andreas Schwab.

2001-06-18  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_CHOWN, AC_FUNC_CLOSEDIR_VOID)
        (AC_FUNC_GETPGRP, AC_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK)
        (AC_FUNC_MMAP, AC_FUNC_SELECT_ARGTYPES, _AC_FUNC_STAT)
        (AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL): Use AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT.
        Don't use AC_TRY_RUN, which double quotes, prefer AC_RUN_IFELSE,
        and either AC_LANG_SOURCE or AC_LANG_PROGRAM.
        (AC_FUNC_CLOSEDIR_VOID): Protect C++ from `int closedir ();' (or
        the converse).

2001-06-18  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (ms): New index.
        (Macro Index): Rename as...
        (Autoconf Macro Index): this.
        (M4 Macro Index): New appendix.
        (Programming in M4): New chapter.
        Define M4sugar, M4sh, m4_pattern_forbid, and m4_pattern_allow.
        (Quoting): Rename as...
        (M$ Quotation): this.
        Be part of `Programming in M4).

2001-06-18  Nicolas Joly  <njoly@pasteur.fr>

        * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): Set variables and export them
        in separate statements for compatibility with Tru64 v5.1.

2001-06-17  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_ARG_VAR_VALIDATE): Be sure to cache the
        current values of the precious variables, not the previously
        cached values.
        Pass precious variables which are set to config.status.
        * doc/autoconf.texi (Setting Output Variables): Document AC_ARG_VAR.
        * tests/torture.at (AC_ARG_VAR): New.

2001-06-15  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * doc/autoconf.texi: Move AC_FUNC_WAIT3 and
        AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS to the obsolete section,
        and explain why and how to replace them.
        * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_WAIT3): Warn as obsolete.
        * acspecific.m4 (AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS): Likewise.

2001-06-15  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        `build_alias', `host_alias', and `target_alias' are not AC_SUBST'd.
        Reported by Bruno Haible.

        * acgeneral.m4 (AC_ARG_VAR): Move the AC_SUBST, from here...
         (_AC_ARG_VAR_PRECIOUS): to here.

2001-06-15  Pavel Roskin  <proski@gnu.org>

        * acheaders.m4 (_AC_CHECK_HEADER_DIRENT): Instead of defining
        an unused pointer use cast to this type and `if' statement to
        avoid warnings from the compiler.
        (AC_HEADER_TIME): Likewise.
        * actypes.m4 (AC_CHECK_MEMBER): s/foo/ac_aggr/. Use the member
        in `if' statement to avoid warnings from the compiler. Declare
        ac_aggr static to avoid the need to initialize it.

2001-06-14  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell): Move to follow `Writing
        Macros'.

2001-06-13  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * m4/missing.m4, config/missing: Updated to Automake 1.4g's.
        Suggested by Alexander Mai.

2001-06-13  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Guard
        sys/types.h and sys/stat.h, and check for them.

2001-06-13  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * acheaders.m4 (AC_CHECK_HEADER, AC_CHECK_HEADERS): Support $4 =
        INCLUDES.

2001-06-12  Maciej W. Rozycki  <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>

        * acspecific.m4 (AC_PATH_XTRA): Check if linking against libX11
        succeeds and only try adding libdnet upon a failure.

2001-06-12  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * autoscan.in (&output_kind): Output the comment only if it exists.
        (%kind_comment): Add entry for `programs'.
        (&output_programs): Use &output_kind.
        (&output_functions, &output_identifiers, &output_headers)
        (&output_programs): Inline, and remove.

2001-06-12  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * autoscan.in (%kind_comment): New.
        (output_kind): New.
        (output_functions, output_identifiers, output_headers): Use it.

2001-06-12  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * autoscan.in (&print_unique): Take `$kind' and `$word' as
        arguments, to factor indirections into `%macro' and `%used'.
        (%generic_macro): Fix a typo.

2001-06-12  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * aclibraries: New.
        * autoscan.in (@kinds): Add `libraries'.
        Use `@kinds' instead of hard coded lists.
        (%programs, %headers, %identifiers, %makevars, %libraries, %functions):
        Remove, replaced by...
        (%used): this.

2001-06-12  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * autoscan.in (%functions_macros %headers_macros)
        (%identifiers_macros %programs_macros %makevars_macros): Remove,
        replaced by...
        (%macro): New.

2001-06-11  Raja R Harinath  <harinath@cs.umn.edu>

        * aclang.m4 (AC_NO_EXECUTABLES): Override
        _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_WORKS, not _AC_LANG_COMPILER_WORKS.

2001-06-11  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * aclang.m4 (AC_NO_EXECUTABLES): Define the macros with their
        trailing new line.
        Reported by Andreas Schwab.

2001-06-11  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * Makefile.am, Makefile.maint: Typos.

2001-06-09  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Here-Documents): New section, gathering
        documentation about here-documents.
        Use `href', not `uref', and other changes.

2001-06-09  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell Programming): Promoted as a
        chapter.

2001-06-09  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Builtins): Complete the
        description of the here-docs penalties with Alexandre Oliva's
        explanations.

2001-06-01  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * doc/autoconf.texi: Talk about here documents and speedups.
        Do not use "echo" on arbitrary strings.
        Spell "here-documents" consistently with the standard.

2001-06-09  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Concept Index): Introduce it.
        Regenerate the menus.

2001-06-09  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * Makefile.maint, GNUmakefile: New, from Jim Meyering.
        * config/prev-version.txt: New.
        * config/move-if-change: New, for GNU libc.

2001-06-06  Pavel Roskin  <proski@gnu.org>

        * tests/atgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Remove "/bin/sh" after $SHELL.

2001-06-06  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * acgeneral.m4 (AC_CHECK_LIB): Fix the cache var name to work
        properly when $1 is not a literal.
        Fixes PR Autoconf/187, reported by Bram Moolenaar.

2001-06-06  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        Invoking AC_COPYRIGHT before AC_INIT fails.

        * Makefile.am (.m4.m4f): Pass --fatal-warnings to m4.
        * acgeneral.m4 (_m4_divert(VERSION_FSF))
        (_m4_divert(VERSION_USER)): New.
        (AC_COPYRIGHT): $2 is the diversion to use.
        (_AC_INIT_COPYRIGHT): Use the FSF diversion.
        (AC_INIT): Remove dead comments as now it's commutative.

2001-06-06  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_LIB): Strengthen to reflect
        PR autoconf/187.

2001-06-05  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): `prefix' and `exec_prefix'
        can be empty.
        `*dir' variables cannot be NONE.
        Reported by Mark Kettenis.

2001-06-05  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        * doc/autoconf.texi: Fix references to Solaris and SunOS versions.

2001-06-04  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * acgeneral.m4 (AC_VAR_SET, AC_VAR_GET, AC_VAR_TEST_SET)
        (AC_VAR_SET_IFELSE, AC_VAR_PUSHDEF and AC_VAR_POPDEF, AC_TR_CPP)
        (AC_TR_SH): Move as...
        * m4sh.m4 (AS_VAR_SET, AS_VAR_GET, AS_VAR_TEST_SET)
        (AS_VAR_SET_IF, AC_VAR_PUSHDEF, AS_VAR_POPDEF, AS_TR_CPP)
        (AS_TR_SH): these.
        (_AS_TR_PREPARE, _AS_CR_PREPARE, _AS_TR_CPP_PREPARE)
        (_AS_TR_SH_PREPARE): New.
        (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Invoke _AS_TR_PREPARE.
        * tests/aclocal.m4 (AC_STATE_SAVE): `as_' vars can be modified.

2001-06-02  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * Makefile.am (.m4.m4f): Pass the options first.
        Fixes PR autoconf/182.

2001-06-02  Nathan Sidwell  <nathan@codesourcery.com>

        GNU getopt, when POSIXLY_CORRECT does not permute options and
        arguments.  So pass the options first.
        Fixes PR autoconf/184.

        * autoconf.sh (m4_prefiles, m4f_prefiles): New variables.
        (run_m4): Remove files.
        (run_m4f): Remove.
        Update remainder of script to use them.
        (for warning in): Do not use a literal comma as it will not be
        split by IFS.

2001-06-02  Christian Marquardt  <marq@gfz-potsdam.de>

        * aclang.m4 (AC_PROG_F77): Add Fujitsu's "frt" to the list of
        Fortran compilers to check.
        (_AC_PROG_F77_V): Add '-###' as a possible option to print
        information on library and object files.
        (AC_PROG_CXX): Add Fujitsu's "FCC" to the list of C++ compilers
        to check.

2001-06-02  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * autom4te.in (Request::@request): Declare with `vars', not `my',
        as it prevents updates via `do FILENAME'.

2001-06-02  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * configure.in (standards_texi): Remove, dead code.

2001-06-02  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * autom4te.in: New.

2001-06-02  Pavel Roskin  <proski@gnu.org>

        * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Don't rely on $? in the traps
        for signals other than 0 - exit with code 1.
        * m4sh.m4 (AS_TMPDIR): Likewise.
        * autoconf.in: Likewise. Also don't rely on exit == exit $?.
        * autoheader.in: Likewise.
        * autoreconf.in: Likewise.
        * tests/torture.at (Signal handling): New test for the above.

2001-06-01  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * m4sugar.m4 (m4_defn, m4_undefine, m4_popdef): Clarify the error
        message.

2001-05-31  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * acfunctions, acheaders, acidentifiers, acmakevars, acprograms:
        Add copyright and comments.
        * acheaders: Add stdint.h.
        Suggested by Paul Eggert.

2001-05-31  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * atgeneral.m4 (AT_INIT): Use $SHELL.
        * atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_DEFINES): Skip HAVE_STDINT_H.

2001-05-31  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Include
        stdint.h.
        From Paul Eggert and Lars Hecking.

2001-05-31  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/base.at: Adjust line numbers in error messages.

2001-05-31  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * tests/base.at, tests/m4sh.at: When using AC_PLAIN_SCRIPT be sure
        to emit the bangshe line.
        Reported by David Carter.

2001-05-30  Steven G. Johnson  <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>

        * aclang.m4 (AC_PROG_F77): Add Compaq's "fort" to the list of
        Fortran (95) compilers to check.

2001-05-29  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <duret_g@epita.fr>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction, Pointers): Update the Autoconf
        Macro Archive URL.

2001-05-23  Pavel Roskin  <proski@gnu.org>

        * aclang.m4 (AC_PROG_CPP): Use `break' instead of `break 2' since
        _AC_PROG_PREPROC_WORKS_IFELSE expands arguments outside the loop.
        (AC_PROG_CXXCPP): Likewise.

2001-05-22  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * config: New directory.
        * configure.in: AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR it.
        * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CONFIGURE_AC): Adjust.

2001-05-22  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * autoconf.in, autoreconf.in, autoheader.in, autoscan.in, ifnames.in,
        * autoupdate.in: Specify the Emacs mode.
        * acversion.m4.in: Rename as...
        * acversion.m4: this.
        * tests/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): More garbage.

2001-05-22  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * autoconf.sh, autoreconf.sh, autoheader.sh, autoscan.pl, ifnames.sh:
        Rename as...
        * autoconf.in, autoreconf.in, autoheader.in, autoscan.in, ifnames.in:
        these.

2001-05-21  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>

        * configure.in: Bump to 2.50a.

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