Hi Paolo, Adding to the discussion from 2010-04-11: One point we did not think about is versioning. New versions of libunistring are released with enhanced functionality (more functions, or bug fixes). If the using package requires that functionality, it imposes a constraint on the libunistring version that it can use. This is also needed by the unit tests: If a package includes the module u8_stpncpy as optional, it may also contain its unit test (written for version 0.9.3). But that unit test is known to fail with a function u8_stpncpy from version 0.9.2.1.
Here's what I'm committing, based on your original patches. This shows only the non-repetitive part of the commit. For the entire commit, please look in git. 2010-05-18 Paolo Bonzini <bonz...@gnu.org> Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> New module 'libunistring-optional'. * modules/libunistring-optional: New file. * m4/libunistring-base.m4: New file. * m4/libunistring-optional.m4: New file. * lib/unicase.in.h: Renamed from lib/unicase.h. * lib/uniconv.in.h: Renamed from lib/uniconv.h. * lib/unictype.in.h: Renamed from lib/unictype.h. * lib/unilbrk.in.h: Renamed from lib/unilbrk.h. * lib/uniname.in.h: Renamed from lib/uniname.h. * lib/uninorm.in.h: Renamed from lib/uninorm.h. * lib/unistdio.in.h: Renamed from lib/unistdio.h. * lib/unistr.in.h: Renamed from lib/unistr.h. * lib/unitypes.in.h: Renamed from lib/unitypes.h. * lib/uniwbrk.in.h: Renamed from lib/uniwbrk.h. * lib/uniwidth.in.h: Renamed from lib/uniwidth.h. * m4/libunistring.m4 (gl_LIBUNISTRING_CORE): Renamed from gl_LIBUNISTRING. If the library was found, determine the installed version and set LIBUNISTRING_VERSION. (gl_LIBUNISTRING): New macro, as a wrapper arount it. Document that it sets LIBUNISTRING_VERSION. If the module libunistring-optional is used, handle a configuration option --with-included-libunistring. * modules/libunistring (Files): Add m4/absolute-header.m4. ======================== modules/libunistring-optional ======================== Description: Try to use system libunistring for Unicode string functions. Files: m4/libunistring-optional.m4 m4/libunistring.m4 m4/absolute-header.m4 Depends-on: havelib iconv configure.ac: gl_LIBUNISTRING_OPTIONAL Makefile.am: Include: Link: $(LTLIBUNISTRING) when linking with libtool, $(LIBUNISTRING) otherwise License: LGPL Maintainer: Paolo Bonzini, Bruno Haible =========================== m4/libunistring-base.m4 =========================== # libunistring-base.m4 serial 1 dnl Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, dnl with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved. dnl From Paolo Bonzini and Bruno Haible. dnl gl_LIBUNISTRING_LIBSOURCE([VERSION], [SourceFile]) dnl Declares that SourceFile should be compiled, unless we are linking dnl with libunistring and its version is >= the given VERSION. dnl SourceFile should be relative to the lib directory and end in '.c'. dnl This macro is to be used for public libunistring API, not for dnl undocumented API. dnl dnl You have to bump the VERSION argument to the next projected version dnl number each time you make a change that affects the behaviour of the dnl functions defined in SourceFile (even if SourceFile itself does not dnl change). AC_DEFUN([gl_LIBUNISTRING_LIBSOURCE], [ AC_REQUIRE([gl_LIBUNISTRING_LIB_PREPARE]) dnl Use the variables HAVE_LIBUNISTRING, LIBUNISTRING_VERSION from dnl gl_LIBUNISTRING_CORE if that macro has been run. if gl_LIBUNISTRING_VERSION_CMP([$1]) then m4_foreach_w([gl_source_file], [$2], [AC_LIBOBJ(m4_bpatsubst(m4_defn([gl_source_file]), [\.c$], [])) ]) fi ]) dnl gl_LIBUNISTRING_LIBHEADER([VERSION], [HeaderFile]) dnl Declares that HeaderFile should be created, unless we are linking dnl with libunistring and its version is >= the given VERSION. dnl HeaderFile should be relative to the lib directory and end in '.h'. dnl Prepares for substituting LIBUNISTRING_HEADERFILE (to HeaderFile or empty). dnl dnl When we are linking with the already installed libunistring and its version dnl is < VERSION, we create HeaderFile here, because we may compile functions dnl (via gl_LIBUNISTRING_LIBSOURCE above) that are not contained in the dnl installed version. dnl When we are linking with the already installed libunistring and its version dnl is > VERSION, we don't create HeaderFile here: it could cause compilation dnl errors in other libunistring header files if some types are missing. dnl dnl You have to bump the VERSION argument to the next projected version dnl number each time you make a non-comment change to the HeaderFile. AC_DEFUN([gl_LIBUNISTRING_LIBHEADER], [ AC_REQUIRE([gl_LIBUNISTRING_LIB_PREPARE]) dnl Use the variables HAVE_LIBUNISTRING, LIBUNISTRING_VERSION from dnl gl_LIBUNISTRING_CORE if that macro has been run. if gl_LIBUNISTRING_VERSION_CMP([$1]) then LIBUNISTRING_[]AS_TR_CPP([$2])='$2' else LIBUNISTRING_[]AS_TR_CPP([$2])= fi AC_SUBST([LIBUNISTRING_]AS_TR_CPP([$2])) ]) dnl Miscellaneous preparations/initializations. AC_DEFUN([gl_LIBUNISTRING_LIB_PREPARE], [ AC_REQUIRE([AC_PROG_AWK]) dnl Sed expressions to extract the parts of a version number. changequote(,) gl_libunistring_sed_extract_major='/^[0-9]/{s/^\([0-9]*\).*/\1/p;q;} i\ 0 q ' gl_libunistring_sed_extract_minor='/^[0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9]/{s/^[0-9]*[.]\([0-9]*\).*/\1/p;q;} i\ 0 q ' gl_libunistring_sed_extract_subminor='/^[0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9]/{s/^[0-9]*[.][0-9]*[.]\([0-9]*\).*/\1/p;q;} i\ 0 q ' changequote([,]) if test "$HAVE_LIBUNISTRING" = yes; then LIBUNISTRING_VERSION_MAJOR=`echo "$LIBUNISTRING_VERSION" | sed -n -e "$gl_libunistring_sed_extract_major"` LIBUNISTRING_VERSION_MINOR=`echo "$LIBUNISTRING_VERSION" | sed -n -e "$gl_libunistring_sed_extract_minor"` LIBUNISTRING_VERSION_SUBMINOR=`echo "$LIBUNISTRING_VERSION" | sed -n -e "$gl_libunistring_sed_extract_subminor"` fi ]) dnl gl_LIBUNISTRING_VERSION_CMP([VERSION]) dnl Expands to a shell statement that evaluates to true if LIBUNISTRING_VERSION dnl is less than the VERSION argument. dnl This is the unoptimized variant: AC_DEFUN([gl_LIBUNISTRING_VERSION_CMP_ORIG], [ { test "$HAVE_LIBUNISTRING" != yes \ || { requested_version_major=`echo '$1' | sed -n -e "$gl_libunistring_sed_extract_major"` requested_version_minor=`echo '$1' | sed -n -e "$gl_libunistring_sed_extract_minor"` requested_version_subminor=`echo '$1' | sed -n -e "$gl_libunistring_sed_extract_subminor"` test $LIBUNISTRING_VERSION_MAJOR -lt $requested_version_major \ || { test $LIBUNISTRING_VERSION_MAJOR -eq $requested_version_major \ && { test $LIBUNISTRING_VERSION_MINOR -lt $requested_version_minor \ || { test $LIBUNISTRING_VERSION_MINOR -eq $requested_version_minor \ && test $LIBUNISTRING_VERSION_SUBMINOR -lt $requested_version_subminor } } } } } ]) dnl This is the optimized variant, that assumes the argument is a literal: AC_DEFUN([gl_LIBUNISTRING_VERSION_CMP], [ { test "$HAVE_LIBUNISTRING" != yes \ || { m4_pushdef([requested_version_major], [gl_LIBUNISTRING_ARG_OR_ZERO(m4_bpatsubst([$1], [^\([0-9]*\).*], [\1]), [])]) m4_pushdef([requested_version_minor], [gl_LIBUNISTRING_ARG_OR_ZERO(m4_bpatsubst([$1], [^[0-9]*[.]\([0-9]*\).*], [\1]), [$1])]) m4_pushdef([requested_version_subminor], [gl_LIBUNISTRING_ARG_OR_ZERO(m4_bpatsubst([$1], [^[0-9]*[.][0-9]*[.]\([0-9]*\).*], [\1]), [$1])]) test $LIBUNISTRING_VERSION_MAJOR -lt requested_version_major \ || { test $LIBUNISTRING_VERSION_MAJOR -eq requested_version_major \ && { test $LIBUNISTRING_VERSION_MINOR -lt requested_version_minor \ || { test $LIBUNISTRING_VERSION_MINOR -eq requested_version_minor \ && test $LIBUNISTRING_VERSION_SUBMINOR -lt requested_version_subminor } } } m4_popdef([requested_version_subminor]) m4_popdef([requested_version_minor]) m4_popdef([requested_version_major]) } } ]) dnl gl_LIBUNISTRING_ARG_OR_ZERO([ARG], [ORIG]) expands to ARG if it is not the dnl same as ORIG, otherwise to 0. m4_define([gl_LIBUNISTRING_ARG_OR_ZERO], [m4_if([$1], [$2], [0], [$1])]) ========================= m4/libunistring-optional.m4 ========================= # libunistring-optional.m4 serial 1 dnl Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, dnl with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved. dnl gl_LIBUNISTRING_OPTIONAL dnl Searches for an installed libunistring or uses the included source code dnl parts. dnl If found, it sets and AC_SUBSTs HAVE_LIBUNISTRING=yes and the LIBUNISTRING dnl and LTLIBUNISTRING variables and augments the CPPFLAGS variable, and dnl #defines HAVE_LIBUNISTRING to 1. Otherwise, it sets and AC_SUBSTs dnl HAVE_LIBUNISTRING=no and LIBUNISTRING and LTLIBUNISTRING to empty. AC_DEFUN([gl_LIBUNISTRING_OPTIONAL], [ dnl gl_LIBUNISTRING does a couple of extra things if this macro is used. AC_REQUIRE([gl_LIBUNISTRING]) AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether to use the included libunistring]) AC_MSG_RESULT([$gl_libunistring_use_included]) ]) =============================================================================== --- m4/libunistring.m4.orig Tue May 18 20:09:19 2010 +++ m4/libunistring.m4 Tue May 18 19:16:07 2010 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# libunistring.m4 serial 5 +# libunistring.m4 serial 6 dnl Copyright (C) 2009-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, @@ -7,12 +7,48 @@ dnl gl_LIBUNISTRING dnl Searches for an installed libunistring. dnl If found, it sets and AC_SUBSTs HAVE_LIBUNISTRING=yes and the LIBUNISTRING -dnl and LTLIBUNISTRING variables and augments the CPPFLAGS variable, and -dnl #defines HAVE_LIBUNISTRING to 1. Otherwise, it sets and AC_SUBSTs -dnl HAVE_LIBUNISTRING=no and LIBUNISTRING and LTLIBUNISTRING to empty. +dnl and LTLIBUNISTRING variables, sets the LIBUNISTRING_VERSION variable, and +dnl augments the CPPFLAGS variable, and #defines HAVE_LIBUNISTRING to 1. +dnl Otherwise, it sets and AC_SUBSTs HAVE_LIBUNISTRING=no and LIBUNISTRING and +dnl LTLIBUNISTRING to empty. AC_DEFUN([gl_LIBUNISTRING], [ + AC_BEFORE([$0], [gl_LIBUNISTRING_LIBSOURCE]) + AC_BEFORE([$0], [gl_LIBUNISTRING_LIBHEADER]) + AC_BEFORE([$0], [gl_LIBUNISTRING_LIB_PREPARE]) + + m4_ifdef([gl_LIBUNISTRING_OPTIONAL], + [ + AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether included libunistring is requested]) + AC_ARG_WITH([included-libunistring], + [ --with-included-libunistring use the libunistring parts included here], + [gl_libunistring_force_included=$withval], + [gl_libunistring_force_included=no]) + AC_MSG_RESULT([$gl_libunistring_force_included]) + gl_libunistring_use_included="$gl_libunistring_force_included" + if test "$gl_libunistring_use_included" = yes; then + dnl Assume that libunistring is not installed until some other macro + dnl explicitly invokes gl_LIBUNISTRING_CORE. + if test -z "$HAVE_LIBUNISTRING"; then + HAVE_LIBUNISTRING=no + fi + LIBUNISTRING= + LTLIBUNISTRING= + else + gl_LIBUNISTRING_CORE + if test $HAVE_LIBUNISTRING = no; then + gl_libunistring_use_included=yes + LIBUNISTRING= + LTLIBUNISTRING= + fi + fi + ], + [gl_LIBUNISTRING_CORE]) +]) + +AC_DEFUN([gl_LIBUNISTRING_CORE], +[ AC_REQUIRE([AM_ICONV]) if test -n "$LIBICONV"; then dnl First, try to link without -liconv. libunistring often depends on @@ -42,4 +78,51 @@ [#include <uniconv.h>], [u8_strconv_from_locale((char*)0);], [no, consider installing GNU libunistring]) fi + if test $HAVE_LIBUNISTRING = yes; then + dnl Determine the installed version. + AC_CACHE_CHECK([for libunistring version], [gl_cv_libunistring_version], + [AC_COMPUTE_INT([gl_libunistring_hexversion], + [_LIBUNISTRING_VERSION], + [#include <unistring/version.h>]) + dnl Versions <= 0.9.3 had a hexversion of 0x0009. + dnl Use other tests to distinguish them. + if test $gl_libunistring_hexversion = 9; then + dnl Version 0.9.2 introduced the header <unistring/cdefs.h>. + AC_TRY_COMPILE([#include <unistring/cdefs.h>], , + [gl_cv_libunistring_version092=true], + [gl_cv_libunistring_version092=false]); + if $gl_cv_libunistring_version092; then + dnl Version 0.9.3 changed a comment in <unistr.h>. + gl_ABSOLUTE_HEADER_ONE([unistr.h]) + if test -n "$gl_cv_absolute_unistr_h" \ + && grep 'Copy no more than N units of SRC to DEST. Return a pointer' $gl_cv_absolute_unistr_h > /dev/null; then + dnl Detected version 0.9.3. + gl_libunistring_hexversion=2307 + else + dnl Detected version 0.9.2. + gl_libunistring_hexversion=2306 + fi + else + dnl Version 0.9.1 introduced the type casing_suffix_context_t. + AC_TRY_COMPILE([#include <unicase.h> + casing_suffix_context_t ct;], , + [gl_cv_libunistring_version091=true], + [gl_cv_libunistring_version091=false]) + if $gl_cv_libunistring_version091; then + dnl Detected version 0.9.1. + gl_libunistring_hexversion=2305 + else + dnl Detected version 0.9. + gl_libunistring_hexversion=2304 + fi + fi + fi + dnl Transform into the usual major.minor.subminor notation. + gl_libunistring_major=`expr $gl_libunistring_hexversion / 65536` + gl_libunistring_minor=`expr $gl_libunistring_hexversion / 256 % 256` + gl_libunistring_subminor=`expr $gl_libunistring_hexversion % 256` + gl_cv_libunistring_version="$gl_libunistring_major.$gl_libunistring_minor.$gl_libunistring_subminor" + ]) + LIBUNISTRING_VERSION="$gl_cv_libunistring_version" + fi ]) --- modules/libunistring.orig Tue May 18 20:09:19 2010 +++ modules/libunistring Tue May 18 19:16:07 2010 @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ Files: m4/libunistring.m4 +m4/absolute-header.m4 Depends-on: havelib