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authorTom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>1996-12-04 08:28:28 +0000
committerTom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>1996-12-04 08:28:28 +0000
commitb11d19e5c751a844cdf87ebc8e1d6cb489c158cc (patch)
treeff70744fafd8511bb24b9fb68ce6a9fd50646e30
parent7ae775a8dd09d45c280bd491ea3716be219ffe30 (diff)
downloadautomake-b11d19e5c751a844cdf87ebc8e1d6cb489c158cc.tar.gz
fix to AM_WITH_REGEX
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog8
-rw-r--r--m4/regex.m47
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f8c112d3e..700adc92e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
Wed Dec 4 00:41:23 1996 Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
+ * m4/regex.m4 (AM_WITH_REGEX): Check for GNU regex in libc. From
+ Andreas Schwab.
+
+ * automake.in (parse_arguments): Removed --strictness.
+ (handle_dist_worker): Don't use --strictness.
+ (handle_configure): Ditto.
+ (initialize_global_constants): Don't mention --strictness.
+
* automake.in (handle_merge_targets): Use all-recursive-am instead
of all-recursive-hack. The latter is ugly, according to Joel
Weber.
diff --git a/m4/regex.m4 b/m4/regex.m4
index 3d15c75fd..007b16636 100644
--- a/m4/regex.m4
+++ b/m4/regex.m4
@@ -23,7 +23,12 @@ AC_ARG_WITH(regex,
if test -n "$am_with_regex"; then
AC_MSG_RESULT(regex)
AC_DEFINE(WITH_REGEX)
- LIBOBJS="$LIBOBJS regex.o"
+ AC_CACHE_CHECK([for GNU regex in libc], am_cv_gnu_regex,
+ AC_TRY_LINK([], [extern int re_max_failures; re_max_failures = 1],
+ am_cv_gnu_regex=yes, am_cv_gnu_regex=no))
+ if test $am_cv_gnu_regex = no; then
+ LIBOBJS="$LIBOBJS regex.o"
+ fi
else
AC_MSG_RESULT(rx)
AC_CHECK_FUNC(re_rx_search, , [LIBOBJS="$LIBOBJS rx.o"])