2010-02-11  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

	version 2.9
	* NEWS: Record release date.

	doc: document the release procedure
	* README-release: New file.

2010-02-10  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

	maint: change use of "|" to more maintainable "||" (no semantic change)
	* src/analyze.c (diff_2_files): Using the "||" operator happens to
	be equivalent to using "|" in this case.  It is also clearer and
	less prone to inadvertent bug introduction, in case the variable,
	"changes" were ever to take on a value not in {0,1}.
	Patch by Tim Waugh, via Mike Frysinger.

	portability: avoid "diff - ..." failure at least on *BSD and Solaris
	The new "stdin" test was failing on many types of systems.
	* src/diff.c (compare_files): Guard use of xfreopen (NULL, "rb", ...
	also with O_BINARY, so as to avoid this unnecessary call on
	systems where it's not needed (on some it fails with "Bad address".

	tests: honor VERBOSE
	* tests/basic: Enable "set -x" if $VERBOSE.
	* tests/help-version: Likewise.
	* tests/label-vs-func: Likewise.
	* tests/stdin: Likewise.

2010-02-05  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

	build: update gnulib submodule to latest

	sync with gnulib
	* gl/lib/regcomp.c.diff: Adjust to apply to the latest in gnulib.
	* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.

2010-02-04  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

	build: do not override gnulib-provided AM_CFLAGS options
	Avoid a warning from automake:
	lib/Makefile.am:23: AM_CFLAGS multiply defined in condition TRUE ...
	lib/gnulib.mk:30: ... `AM_CFLAGS' previously defined here
	lib/Makefile.am:18:   `lib/gnulib.mk' included from here

	* lib/Makefile.am (AM_CFLAGS): Append $(WARN_CFLAGS) and
	$(WERROR_CFLAGS), i.e., use "+=", not "=".
	This was introduced via 2009-12-17 commit e58efa5b
	"build: enable warnings and -Werror.",
	but fortunately is not a bug, because the definition
	it would have overridden was always empty.

2010-01-17  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

	maint: add to .gitignore
	* .gitignore: Ignore more.

2010-01-16  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

	doc: add to TODO
	* TODO: Add an item, suggested by Dan Jacobson.

2010-01-13  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

	tests: ensure that an argument of "-" is treated as standard input
	* tests/stdin: New test.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.

2010-01-10  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

	tests: now "make distcheck" runs more tests, incl. syntax-check
	* cfg.mk: Include dist-check.mk, from coreutils.
	* Makefile.am (distcheck-hook): Define rule, to hook to...
	* dist-check.mk: New file.

2010-01-09  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

	build: update gnulib to latest, for fixed syntax-check rule

	maint: record updated NEWS hash
	* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Update to account for GFDL change.

	build: update gnulib submodule to latest

	tests: add a test of basic functionality
	* tests/basic: Start adding tests.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.

	maint: udpate GFDL license to 1.3
	* doc/diff.texi: Update to use GFDL version 1.3.

2010-01-04  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>

	build: allow compilation on cygwin
	* src/Makefile.am (cmp_LDADD): Move LIBICONV...
	(LDADD): ...into global flags, since all programs need it.

2010-01-03  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

	maint: record update-copyright options for this package
	* cfg.mk: Next time, just run "make update-copyright".

	tests: prepend ../src, not "." to PATH
	* tests/help-version: Correct PATH.

2010-01-01  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

	maint: update all FSF copyright year lists to include 2010
	Use this command:
	git ls-files |grep -vE '^(\..*|COPYING|gnulib)$' |xargs \
	env UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_USE_INTERVALS=1 build-aux/update-copyright

2009-12-31  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

	maint: newer gnulib; don't hard-code my GPG key ID
	* cfg.mk (gpg_key_ID): Remove definition, now that maint.mk automates it.
	* gnulib: Update to latest.

	tests: exercise diff -p's function-name matching
	* tests/label-vs-func: New file.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add label-vs-func.
	Reported by Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
	http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.janitors/14260

	tests: use gnulib's init.sh
	* tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add init.sh.
	Remove test-lib.sh.
	* tests/init.sh: New file.
	* tests/test-lib.sh: Remove file.
	* tests/help-version: Use init.sh, not test-lib.sh.

2009-11-28  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

	maint: don't let trailing spaces in diffs perturb make syntax-check
	* .x-sc_space_tab: New file.

2009-11-22  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

	build: enable warnings and -Werror.
	* src/Makefile.am (AM_CFLAGS): Enable warnings and -Werror.
	Set to this: $(WARN_CFLAGS) $(WERROR_CFLAGS)
	* lib/Makefile.am (AM_CFLAGS): Similarly, but use this:
	$(GNULIB_WARN_CFLAGS) $(WERROR_CFLAGS)
	* configure.ac (GNULIB_WARN_CFLAGS): Don't turn off -Wuninitialized.

	build: avoid a warning from gnulib's sh-quote.c
	* gl/lib/sh-quote.c.diff: New file, to avoid a warning.

	maint: avoid warnings via patched versions of gnulib's regex functions
	* gl/lib/regcomp.c.diff: New file.
	* gl/lib/regex_internal.c.diff: Likewise.
	* gl/lib/regex_internal.h.diff: Likewise.
	* gl/lib/regexec.c.diff: Likewise.

	build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2009-11-20  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>

	build: ignore more files
	* .gitignore: Add config.cache, *.exe.

	build: fix test run on cygwin
	This, plus a gnulib update for xalloc-die-tests, are necessary
	for make check to pass on cygwin.

	* tests/Makefile.am (built_programs): Ignore $(EXEEXT).
	* src/Makefile.am (paths.h): Add missing dependency.

2009-11-20  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

	maint: remove vestiges of nanosleep
	* src/Makefile.am (LDADD): Remove $(LIB_NANOSLEEP), now
	that we no longer use the nanosleep module.
	Spotted by Eric Blake.

	maint: don't pull in gnulib's nanosleep unnecessarily
	* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Remove nanosleep.  Not needed.
	Spotted by Eric Blake.

	maint: cfg.mk: remove factored-out ftp host/dir definitions
	* cfg.mk (gnu_ftp_host-alpha, gnu_ftp_host-beta gnu_ftp_host-stable):
	(gnu_rel_host, url_dir_list): Remove definitions.  The defaults,
	now provided by maint.mk, are the same.
	* gnulib: Update for latest, including those maint.mk additions.

	build: link with now-required libraries
	* src/Makefile.am (LDADD): Add gnulib-required libraries.
	(cmp_LDADD): Add $(LIBICONV), for cmp's use of proper_name_utf8.

	maint: lib/xfreopen.c contains translatable strings
	* po/POTFILES.in: Add lib/xfreopen.c.

	maint: remove hard-coded macro definitions provided by intprops.h
	* lib/cmpbuf.c: Include "intprops.h" rather than open-coding macros
	like TYPE_SIGNED and TYPE_MINIMUM.

	maint: add gnulib's announce-gen module
	* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add announce-gen

	build: suppress warnings about bindtextdomain and textdomain
	* src/system.h (bindtextdomain, textdomain) [!ENABLE_NLS]: Define away.

	build: use more gnulib modules
	* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add mktime, nanosleep, strptime
	and timegm.

	use xfreopen rather than freopen
	* src/cmp.c: Include "xfreopen.h".
	Use xfreopen in place of freopen.
	* src/diff.c Likewise, and...
	(main): Set exit_failure to EXIT_TROUBLE, rather than to 2.
	* src/diff3.c: Likewise.
	* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add xfreopen.

	build: enable many warnings
	* configure.ac: Add support for --enable-gcc-warnings.
	* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add manywarnings.
	* Makefile.am (AM_CFLAGS): Add $(WARN_CFLAGS) $(WERROR_CFLAGS)

	build: update gnulib submodule to latest

	maint: add an assertion to suppress clang-detected warning
	The clang static analyzer reported that a NULL parent could be
	dereferenced.  However, that cannot happen, because for all callers,
	the parameter, parent, is always non-NULL at that point.
	* src/diff.c: Include <assert.h>.
	Assert that parent is not NULL.

	maint: remove dead assignment from diff3.c
	* src/diff3.c (make_3way_diff): Remove dead assignment.

2009-11-18  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

	build: update gnulib submodule to latest

	maint: hide build commands behind $(AM_V_GEN)
	* src/Makefile.am (paths.h): Use $(AM_V_GEN), and split a long line.
	* man/Makefile.am ($(dist_man1_MANS)): Use $(AM_V_GEN) here, too.

2009-11-16  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

	build: let automake generate better man-installation rules
	* man/Makefile.am (dist_man1_MANS): Rename from dist_man_MANS,
	to enable better automake-generated installation rules.

	admin: ignore all of gnulib-tests
	* .gitignore: Add gnulib-tests

2009-11-16  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>

	build: avoid link failure when libsigsegv is used
	* src/Makefile.am (LDADD): Link against LIBSIGSEGV.

2009-11-16  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

	maint: define/use PROGRAM_NAME and AUTHORS; use propername module
	* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add propername.
	* src/cmp.c (PROGRAM_NAME, AUTHORS): Define.
	(main): Use them in use of version_etc.
	* src/diff.c (PROGRAM_NAME, AUTHORS, main): Likewise.
	* src/diff3.c (PROGRAM_NAME, AUTHORS, main): Likewise.
	* src/sdiff.c (PROGRAM_NAME, AUTHORS, main): Likewise.
	* src/system.h: Include "propername.h".

	maint: no longer define *_FILENO constants
	* src/system.h (STDIN_FILENO, STDOUT_FILENO, STDERR_FILENO):
	Remove definitions.  Now guaranteed by gnulib.

	maint: bug-diffutils@gnu.org is the new bug-reporting address
	* configure.ac (AC_INIT): Use bug-diffutils@..., not bug-gnu-utils
	as the bug-reporting address.
	* NEWS (Administrivia): Mention this.
	* src/cmp.c (usage): Remove hard-coded address.
	Instead, use gnulib's emit_bug_reporting_address function.
	* src/diff.c (usage, option_help_msgid): Likewise.
	* src/diff3.c (usage): Likewise.
	* src/sdiff.c (usage): Likewise.

	sdiff, diff3: exec diff, not $(bindir)/diff
	* src/Makefile.am (paths.h): Emit a definition of DEFAULT_DIFF_PROGRAM
	that is simply "diff" (or whatever $(transform) would convert that to,
	e.g., "gdiff").  This makes it so that tests can work without first
	installing diff, and so that the binaries do not hard-code $(prefix).
	* NEWS (Changes in behavior): Mention this.

2009-11-14  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

	tests: add the first script; hook up gnulib-tests
	* configure.ac (AC_CONFIG_FILES): Add tests/Makefile and
	gnulib-tests/Makefile.
	* tests/help-version: New file, from coreutils.
	* tests/test-lib.sh: Likewise.
	* tests/Makefile.am: New file, from gzip.
	* Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): Add tests and gnulib-tests.
	* tests/t-local.sh: New, empty(for now) file.

2009-11-13  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

	build: require gettext-0.17
	* configure.ac: Require gettext-0.17; it was released two years ago.

	build: correct gettext configure-time support
	* configure.ac: Use AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external], [need-ngettext]),
	rather than AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external], [need-formatstring-macros]).
	Reported by Martin Jacobs in
	http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.parsers.bison.bugs/3181

2009-11-12  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

	build: generalize autoheader check
	* bootstrap: Look for AC_CONFIG_HEADER as well as AC_CONFIG_HEADERS.

	maint: use a git submodule for gnulib
	* .gitmodules: New file, to track gnulib.
	* gnulib: New file, created by running this:
	git submodule add git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git gnulib

	maint: tell git what it can ignore
	* .gitignore: Ignore generated files.

2009-11-11  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

	build: generate ChangeLog (from git logs) into distribution tarball
	* Makefile.am (dist-hook, gen-ChangeLog): New rules.
	(gen_start_date): Define.
	* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add gitlog-to-changelog.

	admin: update all copyright notices to include the year 2009

	maint/sc: enable the m4 quote check
	* m4/vararrays.m4 (AC_C_VARARRAYS): Quote AC_DEFINE argument.
	* cfg.mk (local-checks-to-skip): Add sc_m4_quote_check.

	build: rely on gnulib's progname module
	* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add progname.
	* cfg.mk (local-checks-to-skip): Add sc_program_name.
	* src/cmp.c: Include progname.h.
	(program_name): Remove declaration.
	(main): Call set_program_name.
	* src/diff.c (main): Likewise.
	* src/diff3.c (main): Likewise.
	* src/sdiff.c (main): Likewise.
	* src/diff.h (program_name): Remove extern declaration.

	maint/sc: enable the space-TAB check
	* doc/diagmeet.note: Use no TABs.
	* ms/config.sed: Use TAB-space, not space-TAB in [].
	* cfg.mk (local-checks-to-skip): Remove sc_space_tab.

	build: rely on gnulib's mbrtowc module
	* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add mbrtowc.
	* src/side.c [!HAVE_MBRTOWC]: Remove now-useless code,
	since gnulib guarantees working <wchar.h> and mbrtowc.
	* cfg.mk (local-checks-to-skip): Remove sc_prohibit_HAVE_MBRTOWC.

	maint/sc: enable check for unmarked diagnostics
	* cfg.mk (local-checks-to-skip): Remove sc_unmarked_diagnostics.
	* src/dir.c (diff_dirs): Mark a diagnostic for translation.

	maint/sc: enable two config.h-checking rules
	* cfg.mk (local-checks-to-skip): Remove sc_require_config_h and
	sc_require_config_h_first.
	(config_h_header): Define.

	maint/sc: enable the po check
	* cfg.mk (local-checks-to-skip): Add sc_po_check.
	* po/POTFILES.in: Update.

	maint/sc: use STREQ, not strcmp(a,b) == 0
	Run this command:
	  git grep -l 'strcmp *([^=]*== *0'|xargs \
	    perl -pi -e 's/\bstrcmp( *\(.*?\)) *== *0/STREQ$1/g'
	and then add the new definition.
	* src/system.h (STREQ): Define.
	* src/cmp.c (main): Use STREQ, not strcmp.
	* src/diff.c (main, compare_files): Likewise.
	* src/diff3.c (main): Likewise.
	* src/sdiff.c (expand_name): Likewise.
	* cfg.mk (local-checks-to-skip): Add sc_prohibit_strcmp.

	maint/sc: enforce "file system" spelling
	* src/system.h: Spell it as two words, not one.
	* ms/config.sed: Likewise.
	* cfg.mk (local-checks-to-skip): Remove sc_file_system.

	maint/sc: enable check for CVS keyword expansion
	* doc/diff.texi: Remove $Id$.
	* cfg.mk (local-checks-to-skip): Remove sc_prohibit_cvs_keyword.

	maint: record previous version
	* .prev-version: New file.

	maint/sc: enable check for duplicate "the"; fix one
	* NEWS: s/the the/the/.
	Adjust style to fit what some of the hooks and release tools expect.
	* cfg.mk (local-checks-to-skip): Remove sc_the_the.
	(old_NEWS_hash): Update.

	maint/sc: remove cast of xmalloc return value
	* lib/prepargs.c (prepend_default_options): Remove useless cast.
	* cfg.mk (local-checks-to-skip): Remove sc_cast_of_x_alloc_return_value.

	maint: rename ChangeLog to ChangeLog-2008
	* ChangeLog-2008: Rename from ChangeLog.
	* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add ChangeLog-2008.
	* .gitignore: Ignore ChangeLog.

	maint/sc: remove useless if-before-free tests
	* src/diff.c (compare-files): Remove useless if stmts.
	* src/dir.c (diff_dirs): Likewise.
	* cfg.mk (local-checks-to-skip): Remove sc_avoid_if_before_free.

	maint: require newer automake, new non-major version string, dist-xz
	* configure.ac: Drop -cvs suffix.  Switch to git-based format.
	Distribute xz-compressed tarballs, too.
	Require automake-1.11.
	Enable automake's --enable-silent-rules option.

	build: update build/release infrastructure
	* bootstrap: Update from gnulib.
	* bootstrap.conf (gnulib-modules): Add do-release-commit-and-tag,
	git-version-gen, gnu-make, gnu-web-doc-update, gnumakefile, gnupload,
	maintainer-makefile, update-copyright.
	* gnulib-tests/Makefile.am: New file.
	* cfg.mk: New file.
	(local-checks-to-skip): List currently-failing tests,
	so that "syntax-check" passes initially.
	(manual_title): Define.
