doc: reformat grammar snippets.

[bison.git] / configure.ac

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index f1ebd8de69d683d19a9e3bd8cc70f3884d5dc5de..1fffa67cd461f7b25be5666116678034b2f5ea3b 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 Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2001-2012 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 +15,40 @@
 # 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.  We need Autoconf 2.68 or
+# better to avoid a typo in the `configure --help' entry for the YACC
+# environment variable.
+AC_PREREQ([2.68])
+m4_pattern_forbid([^gl_[A-Z]])
 
 AC_INIT([GNU Bison],
         m4_esyscmd([build-aux/git-version-gen .tarball-version]),
         [bug-bison@gnu.org])
-AC_DEFINE([PACKAGE_COPYRIGHT_YEAR], [2008],
-          [The copyright year for this package])
-AC_SUBST([PACKAGE_COPYRIGHT_YEAR], [2008])
+AC_SUBST([PACKAGE_COPYRIGHT_YEAR], [2012])
+AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([PACKAGE_COPYRIGHT_YEAR], [$PACKAGE_COPYRIGHT_YEAR],
+                   [The copyright year for this package])
 
 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-xz silent-rules]
+                 m4_bmatch(m4_defn([AC_PACKAGE_VERSION]), [[-_]],
+                           [gnu], [gnits]))
+AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([lib/config.h:lib/config.hin])
 
 # Checks for the compiler.
@@ -43,14 +57,14 @@ AC_PROG_CC_STDC
 # Gnulib (early checks).
 gl_EARLY
 
-AC_ARG_ENABLE(gcc-warnings,
+AC_ARG_ENABLE([gcc-warnings],
 [  --enable-gcc-warnings   turn on lots of GCC warnings (not recommended)],
-[case "${enableval}" in
+[case $enable_gcc_warnings in
    yes|no) ;;
-   *)      AC_MSG_ERROR([bad value ${enableval} for gcc-warnings option]) ;;
+   *)  AC_MSG_ERROR([invalid value for --gcc-warnings: $enable_gcc_warnings]);;
  esac],
-             [enableval=no])
-if test "${enableval}" = yes; then
+              [enable_gcc_warnings=no])
+if test "$enable_gcc_warnings" = yes; then
   gl_WARN_ADD([-Werror], [WERROR_CFLAGS])
   AC_SUBST([WERROR_CFLAGS])
   gl_WARN_ADD([-Wall])
@@ -68,7 +82,11 @@ if test "${enableval}" = yes; then
   gl_WARN_ADD([-Wshadow])
   gl_WARN_ADD([-Wstrict-prototypes])
   AC_SUBST([WARN_CFLAGS])
-  AC_DEFINE([lint], 1, [Define to 1 if the compiler is checking for lint.])
+  # Warnings for the test suite only.
+  gl_WARN_ADD([-Wundef], [WARN_CFLAGS_TEST])
+  gl_WARN_ADD([-pedantic], [WARN_CFLAGS_TEST])
+  AC_SUBST([WARN_CXXFLAGS_TEST], ["$WARN_CXXFLAGS $WARN_CFLAGS_TEST"])
+  AC_SUBST([WARN_CFLAGS_TEST], ["$WARN_CFLAGS $WARN_CFLAGS_TEST"])
 fi
 
 BISON_TEST_FOR_WORKING_C_COMPILER
@@ -92,11 +110,10 @@ AC_SUBST([YACC_LIBRARY])
 AC_PROG_LEX
 AC_PROG_YACC
 AC_PROG_RANLIB
-BISON_PROG_GNU_M4
-if test x"$ac_cv_prog_gnu_m4" != xyes; then
-  AC_MSG_ERROR([GNU M4 1.4 is required])
-fi
+AC_PROG_GNU_M4
 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([M4], ["$M4"], [Define to the GNU M4 executable name.])
+AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([M4_GNU_OPTION], ["$M4_GNU"], [Define to "-g" if GNU M4
+supports -g, otherwise to "".])
 AM_MISSING_PROG([HELP2MAN], [help2man])
 AC_PATH_PROG([XSLTPROC], [xsltproc])
 AC_SUBST([XSLTPROC])
@@ -118,9 +135,10 @@ BISON_PREREQ_SUBPIPE
 BISON_PREREQ_TIMEVAR
 
 # Gettext.
-# We've never tested with gettext versions before 0.15, so play it safe.
-AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external], [need-formatstring-macros])
-AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.15])
+# We use gnulib, which is only guaranteed to work properly with the
+# latest Gettext.
+AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external], [need-ngettext])
+AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.18])
 BISON_I18N
 
 # Internationalized parsers.