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commit 456953a61b7d0b0c60e4487d9b625e66288db928
Author: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
Date:   Mon Apr 5 08:06:17 2010 -0600

    Fix m4_cr_all for EBCDIC.
    
    * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_cr_all): Swap * and $, so that we
    don't end up with $* in EBCDIC.
    * NEWS: Document the fix.
    * THANKS: Update.
    Reported by Steve Goetze.
    
    Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

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Summary of changes:
 ChangeLog              |    9 +++++++++
 NEWS                   |    2 ++
 THANKS                 |    1 +
 lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 |    5 ++++-
 4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 9b8c75c..181de16 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+2010-04-05  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>
+
+       Fix m4_cr_all for EBCDIC.
+       * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_cr_all): Swap * and $, so that we
+       don't end up with $* in EBCDIC.
+       * NEWS: Document the fix.
+       * THANKS: Update.
+       Reported by Steve Goetze.
+
 2010-03-28  Ralf Wildenhues  <address@hidden>
 
        Do not use @acronym in the manual.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 207325e..afd8907 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ GNU Autoconf NEWS - User visible changes.
 ** AC_PROG_INSTALL correctly uses `shtool' again.  Regression introduced
    in 2.64.
 
+** Autoconf should work on EBCDIC hosts.
+
 * Major changes in Autoconf 2.65 (2009-11-21) [stable]
   Released by Eric Blake, based on git versions 2.64.*.
 
diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index 300d1e8..21aeb89 100644
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -362,6 +362,7 @@ Stephen Gildea              address@hidden
 Stephen Rasku               address@hidden
 Stephen P. Schaefer         address@hidden
 Steve Chamberlain           address@hidden
+Steve Goetze                address@hidden
 Steve Huston                address@hidden
 Steve Robbins               address@hidden
 Steven G. Johnson           address@hidden
diff --git a/lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 b/lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4
index 06ac4c6..15fbd35 100644
--- a/lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4
+++ b/lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4
@@ -2192,13 +2192,16 @@ m4_defn([m4_cr_digits])dnl
 # characters via m4_translit must deal with the fact that m4_translit does
 # not add quotes to the output.
 #
+# In EBCDIC, $ is immediately followed by *, which leads to problems
+# if m4_cr_all is inlined into a macro definition; so swap them.
+#
 # It is mainly useful in generating inverted character range maps, for use
 # in places where m4_translit is faster than an equivalent m4_bpatsubst;
 # the regex `[^a-z]' is equivalent to:
 #  m4_translit(m4_dquote(m4_defn([m4_cr_all])), [a-z])
 m4_define([m4_cr_all],
 m4_translit(m4_dquote(m4_format(m4_dquote(m4_for(
-  ,1,255,,[[%c]]))m4_for([i],1,255,,[,i]))), [-])-)
+  ,1,255,,[[%c]]))m4_for([i],1,255,,[,i]))), [$*-], [*$])-)
 
 
 # _m4_define_cr_not(CATEGORY)


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