Re: [patch 1/1 v2] support AC_SUBST'able automake rules

[Lars J. Aas]

On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 12:12:40PM -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
: >>>>> "Lars" == Lars J Aas <address@hidden> writes:
: Lars> 2001-02-09  Lars J. Aas  <address@hidden>
: Lars>         * automake.in ($MACRO_PATTERN): Include '@' in name regex.
: Lars>         (&canonicalize): New. Includes '@' in canonical range.
: Lars>         (&check_canonical_spelling, &handle_programs, &handle_libraries,
: Lars>         &handle_ltlibraries, &handle_techinfo): Use &canonicalize.
: 
: Thanks, I checked this in.
: 
: Could you write a documentation patch describing this change?

How's this?

2001-02-11  Lars J. Aas  <address@hidden>

        * ChangeLog: Email address header formatting fixes.
        * NEWS: Document not canonicalizing strudels (@) anymore.
        * automake.texi (Canonicalizing Automake macros): Same.

Index: ChangeLog
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/automake/automake/ChangeLog,v
retrieving revision 1.1017
diff -u -r1.1017 ChangeLog
--- ChangeLog   2001/02/10 19:50:18     1.1017
+++ ChangeLog   2001/02/11 15:19:11
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
        * tests/pr87.test: Added check for blank line after `.c.o' rule.
        Report from Lars J. Aas.
 
-2001-02-07  Lars J. Aas <address@hidden>
+2001-02-07  Lars J. Aas  <address@hidden>
 
        * lisp.am (address@hidden@LISP): Removed extra space.
        * header.am (address@hidden@HEADERS): Removed extra space.
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@
        * automake.in (handle_dist_worker): Remove a line that is now
        in distdir.am.
 
-2001-02-04  Kevin Ryde <address@hidden>
+2001-02-04  Kevin Ryde  <address@hidden>
 
        * automake.in (handle_configure): Call config.status with empty
        CONFIG_LINKS and CONFIG_COMMANDS when regenerating a file.
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@
        * automake.in (handle_dependencies): Switched the DEP_FILES
        definition to be conditional on @address@hidden
 
-2001-02-03  Ville Laurikari <address@hidden>
+2001-02-03  Ville Laurikari  <address@hidden>
 
        * depcomp (aix): New side-effect dependency tracking mode, for
        the C for AIX compiler.
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@
        (handle_dist_worker): Use global dist_dirs.
        (handle_configure): Set dist_dirs entries at toplevel.
 
-2001-02-02  Gordon Sadler <address@hidden>
+2001-02-02  Gordon Sadler  <address@hidden>
 
        * automake.texi (Java Support): Added index, @section.
 
@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@
        or AC_SUBSTs.
        (add_file): Likewise.
 
-2001-01-13  Kevin Ryde <address@hidden>
+2001-01-13  Kevin Ryde  <address@hidden>
 
        * automake.in (handle_ltlibraries): Omit -rpath from
        check_LTLIBRARIES, as per noinst_LTLIBRARIES.
@@ -569,12 +569,12 @@
        * automake.in (libtoolize_files): Removed ltconfig.
        (initialize_global_constants): Added ltconfig to common_files.
 
-2000-12-21  Kevin Ryde <address@hidden>
+2000-12-21  Kevin Ryde  <address@hidden>
 
        * automake.in (handle_footer): Generate .SUFFIXES target when user
        defines suffixes but automake does not.
 
-2000-12-20  Marc Espie <address@hidden>
+2000-12-20  Marc Espie  <address@hidden>
 
        * automake.in (handle_texinfo): Make path of $vtexi explicit in
        dependency.
@@ -668,7 +668,7 @@
        * aclocal.in (write_aclocal): Set up aclocal.m4 header with
        normal comments (#) instead of m4 dnl-type comments.
 
-2000-10-17  Alex Hornby <address@hidden>
+2000-10-17  Alex Hornby  <address@hidden>
 
        * depcomp: Altered sed clause to strip of inclusion depth
        numbers generated by cpp. Also output in gcc style.
@@ -768,7 +768,7 @@
        configure variables that don't satisfy the other constraints.
        Fixes PR automake/68.
 
-2000-04-14  Victor V. Vengerov <address@hidden>
+2000-04-14  Victor V. Vengerov  <address@hidden>
 
        Fix for PR automake/67.
        * automake.in (handle_multilib): remove .am suffix in fragment
@@ -835,7 +835,7 @@
        * lisp.am (address@hidden@LISP): Prefix file with $(DESTDIR).
        From Bruno Haible.
 
-2000-07-13  Kevin Ryde <address@hidden>
+2000-07-13  Kevin Ryde  <address@hidden>
 
        * automake.in (am_install_var): Apply the $(EXEEXT) hack to
        EXTRA_PROGRAMS as well as other _PROGRAMS.
Index: NEWS
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/automake/automake/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.139
diff -u -r1.139 NEWS
--- NEWS        2001/01/16 11:15:20     1.139
+++ NEWS        2001/02/11 15:19:11
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 New in 1.4c:
 * Support for `configure.ac'.
-
+* Allows '@' AC_SUBSTs in macro names.
+
 New in 1.4b:
 * Faster AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (requires update of `missing' script)
 * User-side dependency tracking.  Developers no longer need GNU make
Index: automake.texi
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/automake/automake/automake.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.194
diff -u -r1.194 automake.texi
--- automake.texi       2001/02/04 04:37:10     1.194
+++ automake.texi       2001/02/11 15:19:12
@@ -502,10 +502,12 @@
 supplies.  For instance, program names are rewritten into Makefile macro
 names.  Automake canonicalizes this text, so that it does not have to
 follow Makefile macro naming rules.  All characters in the name except
-for letters, numbers, and the underscore are turned into underscores
-when making macro references.  For example, if your program is named
address@hidden, the derived variable name would be
address@hidden, not @code{sniff-glue_SOURCES}.
+for letters, numbers, the strudel (@@), and the underscore are turned into
+underscores when making macro references.  For example, if your program
+is named @code{sniff-glue}, the derived variable name would be
address@hidden, not @code{sniff-glue_SOURCES}.  The strudel
+is an addition since Automake 1.4c, to make the use of Autoconf
+substitutions in macro names less obfuscating.
 
 @node Examples, Invoking Automake, Generalities, Top
 @chapter Some example packages