Import latest m4/m4.m4.

* submodules/autoconf: Update to autoconf 2.64.
* configure.ac (M4_GNU_OPTION): New define.
* src/output.c (output_skeleton): Use it to resolve FIXME.
* NEWS: Mention this.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
(cherry picked from commit b9ad39c1fb2482e1513cdf9800b31e71b7986b39)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d1e0bc109508f5c681ddfb0a709a2e7958c30693..4ba3b4e4e32233870cb245204b8487e73fc4de34 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2009-08-20  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>
+
+       Import latest m4/m4.m4.
+       * submodules/autoconf: Update to autoconf 2.64.
+       * configure.ac (M4_GNU_OPTION): New define.
+       * src/output.c (output_skeleton): Use it to resolve FIXME.
+       * NEWS: Mention this.
+
 2009-08-19  Joel E. Denny  <jdenny@clemson.edu>
 
        Fix complaints about escape sequences.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b4887427cc2b37393fbc08f57dcc6c5f7bf3e8e5..54a10d8c891d483664380b78e74fb1943b31ba30 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -148,6 +148,8 @@ Bison News
 
 * Changes in version 2.4.2 (????-??-??):
 
+** Detection of GNU M4 1.4.6 or newer during configure is improved.
+
 ** %code is now a permanent feature.
 
   A traditional Yacc prologue directive is written in the form:

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 3e987009b2b4b2ed4608b95ee147d264b6a1294b..4f1b20f94b62c9532b99d395bd3cada897fbec53 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -94,6 +94,8 @@ AC_PROG_YACC
 AC_PROG_RANLIB
 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])

diff --git a/src/output.c b/src/output.c
index 3936aca14669f39a504e949dbd1ea878244dbc79..f739f0e9efa779b9d1fcb752b4bfb4b042a59a0f 100644 (file)
--- a/src/output.c
+++ b/src/output.c
@@ -562,7 +562,7 @@ output_skeleton (void)
 {
   FILE *in;
   int filter_fd[2];
-  char const *argv[9];
+  char const *argv[10];
   pid_t pid;
 
   /* Compute the names of the package data dir and skeleton files.  */
@@ -613,6 +613,19 @@ output_skeleton (void)
   {
     int i = 0;
     argv[i++] = m4;
+
+    /* When POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, GNU M4 1.6 and later disable GNU
+       extensions, which Bison's skeletons depend on.  With older M4,
+       it has no effect.  M4 1.4.12 added a -g/--gnu command-line
+       option to make it explicit that a program wants GNU M4
+       extensions even when POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.
+
+       See the thread starting at
+       <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2008-07/msg00000.html>
+       for details.  */
+    if (*M4_GNU_OPTION)
+      argv[i++] = M4_GNU_OPTION;
+
     argv[i++] = "-I";
     argv[i++] = pkgdatadir;
     if (trace_flag & trace_m4)
@@ -623,25 +636,7 @@ output_skeleton (void)
     argv[i++] = full_skeleton;
     argv[i++] = NULL;
   }
-  /* When POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, some future versions of GNU M4 (most likely
-     2.0) may drop some of the GNU extensions that Bison's skeletons depend
-     upon.  So that the next release of Bison is forward compatible with those
-     future versions of GNU M4, we unset POSIXLY_CORRECT here.
-
-     FIXME: A user might set POSIXLY_CORRECT to affect processes run from
-     macros like m4_syscmd in a custom skeleton.  For now, Bison makes no
-     promises about the behavior of custom skeletons, so this scenario is not a
-     concern.  However, we eventually want to eliminate this shortcoming.  The
-     next release of GNU M4 (1.4.12 or 1.6) will accept the -g command-line
-     option as a no-op, and later releases will accept it to indicate that
-     POSIXLY_CORRECT should be ignored.  Once the GNU M4 versions that accept
-     -g are pervasive, Bison should use -g instead of unsetting
-     POSIXLY_CORRECT.
 
-     See the thread starting at
-     <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2008-07/msg00000.html>
-     for details.  */
-  unsetenv ("POSIXLY_CORRECT");
   init_subpipe ();
   pid = create_subpipe (argv, filter_fd);
   free (full_m4sugar);

diff --git a/submodules/autoconf b/submodules/autoconf
index ef8940d9b5a3fe2866027f82a535915da3e78829..936160f7619cb7fddbc424bb5cb9a2f997d8e166 160000 (submodule)
--- a/submodules/autoconf
+++ b/submodules/autoconf
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit ef8940d9b5a3fe2866027f82a535915da3e78829
+Subproject commit 936160f7619cb7fddbc424bb5cb9a2f997d8e166