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NEWS * Major changes in Autoconf 2.57b -*- outline -*- ** Autotest and local.at The optional file local.at is always included in Autotest test suites. ** Warnings The warnings are always issued, including with cached runs. This became a significant problem since aclocal and automake can run autoconf behind the scene. ChangeLog entries: ********************************************************************** ChangeLog ********************************************************************** 2003-08-22 Akim Demaille <akim@xxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxx> * lib/Autom4te/Request.pm, lib/Autom4te/C4che.pm: New. * bin/autom4te.in: Adjust. 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@xxxxxxxx> * 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@xxxxxxxx> * bin/autoheader.in (&parse_args): Use &parse_warnings and &parse_WARNINGS. ($help): Use Autom4te::ChannelDefs::usage. * bin/autoscan.in: Use Autom4te::ChannelDefs. * lib/Autom4te/General.pm: Don't export error: you don't own it. 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@xxxxxxxx> First stab at preserving warnings between calls to autom4te, including when the cache is used. There are still several issues: (i) there are too many runs of m4 (one for include, one for warnings, and some more), (ii) warnings spreading on several lines are not handled gracefully, (iii) the code meant to have the call stack display for errors does not work (its handling should move from m4 to autom4te). * bin/autom4te.in Autom4te::Channels, Autom4te::ChannelDefs): Use them. (@preselect): Add m4_warn. ($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@xxxxxxxx> * bin/autoreconf.pm (Autom4te::Channels, Autom4te::ChannelDefs): Use them. 2003-08-21 Akim Demaille <akim@xxxxxxxx> * 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@xxxxxxxx> * 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@xxxxxxxx> * bin/autoheader.in: Remove duplicate 'use Autom4te::FileUtils'. Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz. 2003-08-20 Akim Demaille <akim@xxxxxxxx> * 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@xxxxxxxx> * 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@xxxxxxxx> * Makefile.am (automake_cvsweb, automake_cvsargs, autom4te_files) (autom4te-update): New. * Makefile.cfg (update): Bind autom4te-update. 2003-08-19 Derek Price <derek@xxxxxxxxxxx> * 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@xxxxxxxx> * config/announce-gen, Makefile.cfg: New. * Makefile.am: Adjust. * GNUmakefile, Makefile.maint: Update from CVS Coreutils. 2003-08-19 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@xxxxxxx> * 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@xxxxxxx> * 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@xxxxxxxxxxx> * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Document RUN-IF-FAIL & RUN-IF-PASS optional arguments. 2003-08-18 Derek Price <derek@xxxxxxxxxxx> * doc/autoconf.texi (Programming in M4sh): Add doc for AS_IF. 2003-08-16 Derek Price <derek@xxxxxxxxxxx> * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing testsuite.at): Document defaults for STDOUT & STDERR arguments. 2003-08-14 Derek Price <derek@xxxxxxxxxxx> * 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@xxxxxxxxxxx> * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_INIT): Correct typo in final status output. 2003-08-12 Derek Price <derek@xxxxxxxxxxx> * 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@xxxxxxxxxxx> * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_CHECK): Move core functionality... (AT_CHECK_NOESCAPE): ...to this new macro. 2003-07-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@xxxxxxxxxxx> * 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> * lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 (AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS): Also ignore -lcrt1.o, for OS X. (trivial change) 2003-07-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@xxxxxxxxxxx> * 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@xxxxxxxxxxxx> * 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@xxxxxxxx> * 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@xxxxxxxx> * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): sys/mount.h. From Gareth McCaughan. 2003-06-23 Akim Demaille <akim@xxxxxxxx> * 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@xxxxxxxx> * 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@xxxxxxxx> * 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@xxxxxxxx> * 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@xxxxxxxxxx> * 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@xxxxxxxx> * configure.ac: Bump to 2.57b.
