Do not allow identifiers that start with a negative number.

[bison.git] / configure.ac

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index faba62730a30d2fe1254035419c640490404fae6..2a8027118168abe3a83189d61821f678a1d7f258 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # Configure template for GNU Bison.                   -*-Autoconf-*-
 #
-# Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
-# Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2001-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 #
 # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -16,25 +15,36 @@
 # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 # along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
-# We have strange test case titles, so we need Autoconf 2.61 or better.
-AC_PREREQ(2.61)
+# In order for some versions of Sun Studio to compile our C++ test cases
+# correctly, we need Autoconf 2.64 or better to handle the restrict
+# keyword in at least string.h from gnulib.
+AC_PREREQ(2.64)
 
 AC_INIT([GNU Bison],
         m4_esyscmd([build-aux/git-version-gen .tarball-version]),
         [bug-bison@gnu.org])
-AC_DEFINE([PACKAGE_COPYRIGHT_YEAR], [2008],
+AC_DEFINE([PACKAGE_COPYRIGHT_YEAR], [2011],
           [The copyright year for this package])
-AC_SUBST([PACKAGE_COPYRIGHT_YEAR], [2008])
+AC_SUBST([PACKAGE_COPYRIGHT_YEAR], [2011])
 
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
 
-# We don't have a file m4/Makefile.am, so we need Automake 1.8 or later.
-# We want gnits strictness only when rolling a formal release so that we can,
-# for example, run make dist at other times without being required to add a
-# bogus NEWS entry.
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.8 dist-bzip2]
-                 m4_bmatch(m4_defn([AC_PACKAGE_VERSION]), [-], [gnu], [gnits]))
+# Automake 1.10.3 and 1.11.1 fix a security flaw discussed here:
+#
+#   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autotools.announce/131
+#
+# To avoid 1.11, we make 1.11.1 the minimum version.
+#
+# We want gnits strictness only when rolling a stable release.  For
+# release candidates, we use version strings like 2.4.3_rc1, but gnits
+# doesn't like that, so we let the underscore disable gnits.  Between
+# releases, we want to be able run make dist without being required to
+# add a bogus NEWS entry.  In that case, the version string
+# automatically contains a dash, which we also let disable gnits.
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11.1 dist-bzip2]
+                 m4_bmatch(m4_defn([AC_PACKAGE_VERSION]), [[-_]],
+                           [gnu], [gnits]))
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([lib/config.h:lib/config.hin])
 
 # Checks for the compiler.
@@ -126,7 +136,7 @@ BISON_PREREQ_TIMEVAR
 # We use gnulib, which is only guaranteed to work properly with the
 # latest Gettext.
 AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external], [need-ngettext])
-AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.17])
+AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.18])
 BISON_I18N
 
 # Internationalized parsers.