Update to 1.17

source/ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,262 @@
+2022-05-15  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>
+
+	Switch to libtool 2.4.7.
+	* m4/libtool.m4: Update from libtool-2.4.7, with modifications:
+	2008-04-06  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>
+		* m4/libtool.m4 (LT_INIT): When setting LIBTOOL, use
+		CONFIG_SHELL; don't assume that the Makefile.in will set SHELL
+		to ${CONFIG_SHELL}.
+	* m4/ltoptions.m4: Likewise.
+	* m4/ltsugar.m4: Likewise.
+	* m4/ltversion.m4: Likewise.
+	* m4/lt~obsolete.m4: Likewise.
+	* build-aux/ltmain.sh: Update from libtool-2.4.7, with modifications:
+	2017-07-15  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>
+		Allow building statically linked binaries, through
+		LDFLAGS="-static". Apply patch from
+		<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libtool/2017-07/msg00000.html>.
+		* build-aux/ltmain.sh (func_mode_help, func_mode_link): In the
+		link mode, accept option '-static-uninstalled-libs' in place of
+		'-static', and make '-static' an equivalent of '-all-static'.
+
+2022-04-13  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>
+
+	Fix undefined behaviour.
+	* tests/test-shiftseq.c (main2): Make input array larger.
+
+2022-02-12  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>
+
+	Update translations.
+	* po/ro.po: Update Romanian translations.
+	* po/wa.po: Update Walloon translations.
+
+2022-02-12  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>
+
+	Prepare for version 1.17.
+	* configure.ac: Bump version number to 1.17.
+	* include/iconv.h.in (_LIBICONV_VERSION): Likewise.
+	* lib/Makefile.in (LIBICONV_VERSION_INFO): Bump to 9:0:7.
+	* src/iconv.c (print_version): Update copyright year.
+	* windows/iconv.rc: Likewise.
+	* windows/libiconv.rc: Likewise.
+	* README: Update download link.
+
+2022-02-12  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>
+
+	Update source file list (regression 2022-01-23).
+	* lib/Makefile.in (SOURCE_FILES): Add encodings_zos.def, ebcdic*.h.
+	(GENERATED_FILES): Add aliases_zos.h, canonical_zos.h.
+	* tests/Makefile.in (SOURCE_FILES): Add IBM-*.TXT.
+
+2022-01-23  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>
+
+	Update NEWS.
+	* NEWS: Mention the EBCDIC encodings.
+
+2022-01-23  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>
+
+	Optimize the EBCDIC table sizes.
+	* lib/converters.h (DEDUPLICATE_TABLES): New macro.
+	* lib/ebcdic1025.h: Deduplicate tables with ebcdic880.h.
+	* lib/ebcdic1123.h: Deduplicate tables with ebcdic1025.h.
+	* lib/ebcdic1132.h: Deduplicate tables with ebcdic838.h.
+	* lib/ebcdic1153.h: Deduplicate tables with ebcdic870.h.
+	* lib/ebcdic1154.h: Deduplicate tables with ebcdic880.h.
+	* lib/ebcdic1155.h: Deduplicate tables with ebcdic1026.h.
+	* lib/ebcdic1156.h: Deduplicate tables with ebcdic1112.h.
+	* lib/ebcdic1157.h: Deduplicate tables with ebcdic1122.h.
+	* lib/ebcdic1158.h: Deduplicate tables with ebcdic1154.h, ebcdic1123.h.
+	* lib/ebcdic1160.h: Deduplicate tables with ebcdic838.h.
+	* lib/ebcdic1164.h: Deduplicate tables with ebcdic1130.h.
+	* lib/ebcdic1165.h: Deduplicate tables with ebcdic870.h.
+	* lib/ebcdic1166.h: Deduplicate tables with ebcdic1154.h.
+	* lib/ebcdic4971.h: Deduplicate tables with ebcdic875.h.
+	* lib/ebcdic12712.h: Deduplicate tables with ebcdic424.h.
+
+2022-01-23  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>
+
+	New EBCDIC encodings.
+	Reported by Ulrich Schwab and Calvin Buckley via Jack Woehr.
+	* NOTES: Mention how to enable EBCDIC encodings.
+	* tests/IBM-*.TXT: New files.
+	* tools/8bit_tab_to_h.c (main): Emit copyright header with year 2022.
+	* tools/Makefile: Add rules for generating ebcdic*.h.
+	* lib/ebcdic*.h: New files, automatically generated by tools/Makefile.
+	* lib/ebcdic838.h: Tweak reverse mapping manually.
+	* lib/ebcdic1160.h: Likewise.
+	* lib/converters.h: Include all ebcdic*.h.
+	* lib/encodings_zos.def: New file.
+	* lib/genaliases2.c: Include encodings_zos.def.
+	* lib/genflags.c: Likewise.
+	* Makefile.devel (lib/aliases_zos.h lib/canonical_zos.h): New rule.
+	(lib/flags.h, totally-clean): Update.
+	* lib/aliases2.h: Include aliases_zos.h.
+	* lib/iconv.c (USE_ZOS): New macro.
+	Include encodings_zos.def, canonical_zos.h.
+	* README, man/iconv_open.3: Document the IBM-* encodings.
+	* tests/Makefile.in (check-extra-yes): Also test the EBCDIC encodings.
+
+2022-01-04  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>
+
+	Update after gnulib changed.
+	* gnulib-local/m4/alloca.m4 (gl_FUNC_ALLOCA): Set GL_GENERATE_ALLOCA_H
+	instead of ALLOCA_H. Drop AC_SUBST and AM_CONDITIONAL invocations.
+
+2021-09-19  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>
+
+	tests: Avoid check-subst failures in QEMU user-mode environments.
+	* Makefile.devel (GNULIB_MODULES): Add stdbool.
+	(gnulib-imported-files): Copy also tests/qemu.h.
+	* tests/is-native.c: New file.
+	* tests/Makefile.in (is-native, is-native.@OBJEXT@): New targets.
+	(clean): Remove the 'is-native' program.
+	(SOURCE_FILES): Add is-native.c.
+	(IMPORTED_FILES): Add qemu.h.
+	* tests/check-subst: Invoke 'locale charmap' only in native
+	environments.
+
+2021-06-27  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>
+
+	README: Update.
+	Reported at <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60837>.
+	* README: Overhaul the paragraph that mentions iconv.m4.
+
+2021-06-06  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>
+
+	gnulib-local: Put real license notice into the source files.
+	* gnulib-local/lib/alloca.in.h: Use an LGPLv2+ notice.
+
+2021-02-28  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>
+
+	Update DEPENDENCIES.
+	* DEPENDENCIES: List the normal dependencies of a package with an
+	Autoconf-generated configure file.
+
+2021-02-07  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>
+
+	Support creating shared libraries on MidnightBSD.
+	Patch from <https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?10007>.
+	* m4/libtool.m4: Treat MidnightBSD like FreeBSD.
+	* build-aux/ltmain.sh: Likewise.
+
+2021-01-31  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>
+
+	Update after gnulib changed on 2020-08-26.
+	* configure.ac: Test $iconv_arg1, not $am_cv_proto_iconv_arg1.
+
+2021-01-31  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>
+
+	Switch to autoconf 2.71.
+	* autogen.sh: Update comment.
+	* configure.ac: Use AS_HELP_STRING instead of AC_HELP_STRING. Invoke
+	AC_C_BIGENDIAN instead of CL_WORDS_LITTLEENDIAN.
+	* m4/eilseq.m4: Require Autoconf >= 2.61.
+	(AC_EILSEQ): Improve quoting. Use AC_COMPUTE_INT instead of
+	_AC_COMPUTE_INT.
+	* m4/endian.m4: Remove file.
+	* Makefile.in (SOURCE_FILES): Remove it.
+
+2020-12-08  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>
+
+	Switch to autoconf 2.70.
+	* Makefile.devel (AUTOCONF, AUTOHEADER): Remove '-2.69' suffix.
+	* HACKING: Remove sentence about symbolic links.
+	* autogen.sh: Update comment.
+
+2020-08-31  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>
+
+	Fix some -Wcast-qual warning, reported by clang.
+	* lib/iconv.c (compare_by_name): Add more 'const'.
+	(iconv_canonicalize): Cast value to 'unsigned char', not pointer to 'unsigned char *'.
+	* lib/iconv_open1.h: Likewise.
+
+2020-08-30  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>
+
+	Make sure that build-aux/compile is in the tarball.
+	* autogen.sh: Fetch also 'build-aux/compile' through gnulib-tool.
+	* Makefile.devel (srclib/Makefile.in): Don't fetch nor delete
+	'build-aux/compile'.
+	* Makefile.in (AUTOMAKE_IMPORTED_FILES): Remove build-aux/compile.
+	(IMPORTED_FILES): Add build-aux/compile.
+
+2020-08-29  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>
+
+	Update after gnulib changed.
+	* configure.ac (AC_PREREQ): Bump minimum Autoconf version to 2.64.
+
+2020-08-06  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>
+
+	Avoid a GCC warning with GCC >= 7.
+	Reported by Reini Urban <[email protected]>
+	in <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58903>.
+	* lib/gentranslit.c (main): Reset i to 0 each time p gets a new value.
+	Add assertion about i's possible values.
+
+2020-04-05  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>
+
+	Fix an autogen.sh failure (regression from 2016-12-04).
+	Reported by Petr Ovtchenkov <[email protected]> in
+	<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-libiconv/2020-04/msg00003.html>.
+	* autogen.sh: Invoke also the Makefile target srclib/Makefile.in, so as
+	to get build-aux/install-sh. Finish the "copy files" phase before recursing
+	through the subpackages tree through Makefile.devel.
+	* Makefile.devel: Reorder targets.
+
+2020-04-04  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>
+
+	Don't use LGPLv3.
+	* gnulib-local/modules/mbstate (License): Set to LGPLv2+.
+
+2020-04-04  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>
+
+	Change the license of the library from LGPL 2.0 to LGPL 2.1.
+	* COPYING.LIB: Upgrade to LGPL 2.1.
+
+2019-12-23  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>
+
+	Do export the symbol 'locale_charset' (needed by GNU bash).
+	* lib/Makefile.in (DEFS): Define also BUILDING_LIBCHARSET.
+
+2019-09-01  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>
+
+	build: Add support for shallow-cloning of subdirectories.
+	* gitsub.sh (func_usage): Document allowed git options with 'git pull'.
+	(func_pull): Accept GIT_OPTIONS argument.
+	(pull): Parse git options before complaining about too many arguments.
+	Pass the git options to func_pull.
+
+2019-07-05  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>
+
+	Don't export the symbol 'aliases_lookup' on non-ELF platforms.
+	* Makefile.devel (lib/aliases.h, lib/aliases_sysaix.h,
+	lib/aliases_syshpux.h, lib/aliases_sysosf1.h, lib/aliases_syssolaris.h):
+	Add a 'static' keyword in front of the declaration of aliases_lookup.
+
+2019-07-02  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>
+
+	Update to current gnulib.
+	* Makefile.devel (GNULIB_MODULES): Add lib-symbol-visibility.
+	(srclib/Makefile.gnulib): Copy codeset.m4.
+	* srclib/Makefile.am (AM_CFLAGS): Initialize.
+
+2019-07-02  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>
+
+	Drop unused macro gl_GLIBC21.
+	* autogen.sh: Don't copy glibc21.m4.
+
+2019-05-22  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>
+
+	Fix comment.
+	Reported by Paul Hardy <[email protected]>.
+	* lib/jisx0213.h: Fix comment about the underlying standard version.
+
+2019-05-11  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>
+
+	Update bug reporting instructions.
+	* README: Tell users to report bugs in the bug tracker or by email.
+	* src/iconv.c (usage): Likewise.
+	(print_version): Move URL out of translatable string.
+
 2019-04-26  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>
 
 	Update translations.
@@ -17,7 +276,7 @@
 2019-04-26  Bruno Haible  <[email protected]>
 
 	Prepare for version 1.16.
-	* configure.ac: Bump version number to 1.15.
+	* configure.ac: Bump version number to 1.16.
 	* include/iconv.h.in (_LIBICONV_VERSION): Likewise.
 	* lib/Makefile.in (LIBICONV_VERSION_INFO): Bump to 8:1:6.
 	* src/iconv.c (print_version): Update copyright year.

source/DEPENDENCIES

@@ -1 +1,76 @@
-No packages need to be installed before GNU libiconv is installed.
+The following packages should be installed before GNU libiconv is installed
+(runtime dependencies that are also build dependencies):
+
+None.
+
+
+The following packages should be installed when GNU libiconv is installed
+(runtime dependencies, but not build dependencies):
+
+None.
+
+
+The following should be installed when GNU libiconv is built, but are not
+needed later, once it is installed (build dependencies, but not runtime
+dependencies):
+
+* A C runtime, compiler, linker, etc.
+  + Mandatory.
+    Either the platform's native 'cc', or GCC 3.1 or newer.
+  + GCC Homepage:
+    https://gcc.gnu.org/
+  + Download:
+    https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/
+
+* A 'make' utility.
+  + Mandatory.
+    Either the platform's native 'make' (for in-tree builds only),
+    or GNU Make 3.79.1 or newer.
+  + GNU Make Homepage:
+    https://www.gnu.org/software/make/
+  + Download:
+    https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/
+
+* A shell
+  + Mandatory.
+    Either the platform's native 'sh', or Bash.
+  + Homepage:
+    https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/
+  + Download:
+    https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/
+
+* Core POSIX utilities, including:
+    [ basename cat chgrp chmod chown cp dd echo expand expr
+    false hostname install kill ln ls md5sum mkdir mkfifo
+    mknod mv printenv pwd rm rmdir sleep sort tee test touch
+    true uname
+  + Mandatory.
+    Either the platform's native utilities, or GNU coreutils.
+  + Homepage:
+    https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
+  + Download:
+    https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/
+
+* The comparison utilities 'cmp' and 'diff'.
+  + Mandatory.
+    Either the platform's native utilities, or GNU diffutils.
+  + Homepage:
+    https://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/
+  + Download:
+    https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/
+
+* Grep.
+  + Mandatory.
+    Either the platform's native grep, or GNU grep.
+  + Homepage:
+    https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/
+  + Download:
+    https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grep/
+
+* Awk.
+  + Mandatory.
+    Either the platform's native awk, mawk, or nawk, or GNU awk.
+  + Homepage:
+    https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/
+  + Download:
+    https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk/

source/HACKING

@@ -11,11 +11,11 @@ You will need reasonably recent versions of the build tools:
     + Homepage:
       https://gcc.gnu.org/
 
-  * GNU automake
+  * GNU automake 1.16.x
     + Homepage:
       https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/
 
-  * GNU autoconf
+  * GNU autoconf 2.69 or newer
     + Homepage:
       https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/