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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	* st_mtim.m4: New file.

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

	* utimes.m4: Undef stat.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	* isc-posix.m4: New file.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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