Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/gnucobol-3.x' into gcos4gnucob…

…ol-3.x

ABOUT-NLS

@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ people who like their own language and write it well, and who are also
 able to synergize with other translators speaking the same language.
 Each translation team has its own mailing list.  The up-to-date list of
 teams can be found at the Free Translation Project's homepage,
-'https://translationproject.org/', in the "Teams" area.
+'http://translationproject.org/', in the "Teams" area.
 
    If you'd like to volunteer to _work_ at translating messages, you
 should become a member of the translating team for your own language.
@@ -1357,7 +1357,7 @@ mere existence a PO file and its wide availability in a distribution.
    If Jun 2014 seems to be old, you may fetch a more recent copy of this
 'ABOUT-NLS' file on most GNU archive sites.  The most up-to-date matrix
 with full percentage details can be found at
-'https://translationproject.org/extra/matrix.html'.
+'http://translationproject.org/extra/matrix.html'.
 
 1.5 Using 'gettext' in new packages
 ===================================
@@ -1376,4 +1376,4 @@ Free Translation Project is also available for packages which are not
 developed inside the GNU project.  Therefore the information given above
 applies also for every other Free Software Project.  Contact
 '[email protected]' to make the '.pot' files available
-to the translation teams.
+to the translation teams.

ChangeLog

@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 
+2024-09-09  Simon Sobisch <[email protected]>
+
+	* README: add documentation for "make checkmanual"
+
 2024-08-10  Simon Sobisch <[email protected]>
 
 	* DEPENDENCIES, NEWS: document usage of libiconv

DEPENDENCIES

@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ The following libraries ARE required WHEN :
 
     JSON-C is distributed under Expat License.
 
-5) charachter encoding support is needed and iconv is not provided
+5) character encoding support is needed and iconv is not provided
    as part of libc
 
     BOTH runtime AND development components required.

DEPENDENCIES.md

@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ Support for GENERATE JSON is provided by *one* of the following:
     JSON-C is distributed under Expat License.
 
 
-charachter encoding support
+character encoding support
 ----------------------------
 
 Support for partial character encoding is provided directly,

NEWS

@@ -86,6 +86,10 @@ NEWS - user visible changes				-*- outline -*-
 ** use the "default" -shared flag to build dynamic libraries on macOS
    so as to fix testuite issues with recent macOS versions
 
+** "make checkmanual" was extended to be also usable with tmux and
+   allows to override the test runner and to attach for screen/tmux sessions,
+   see README for further details
+
 * Known issues in 3.x
 
 ** testsuite:

README

@@ -145,6 +145,23 @@ Tests
     make checkall
 
 
+ You may also optionally perform a series of semi-manual tests to
+ verify a working extended screenio.
+    make checkmanual
+ The test execution is automatic but the user needs to check for
+ the expected result. See tests/run_prog_manual.sh for tweaking the
+ test runner used (which is otherwise deduced from the environment),
+ either in that script or via TESTRUNNER environment variable.
+
+** NOTE **
+   The semi-manual tests need either "xterm", GNU "screen" or "tmux"
+   installed and will run within a detached "cmd" on MSYS based
+   systems otherwise.
+   For running with screen or tmux execute the following from
+   a separate terminal, directly after running the testsuite:
+    tests/run_prog_manual.sh attach
+   ... and leave that using "exit" at the end of the tests
+
 ============
 
 The following is only interesting for advanced use.

README.md

@@ -88,13 +88,33 @@ If the the COBOL85 testsuite is not already in the build- or source-tree,
 `make test` will download it.  For details see tests/cobol85/README.
 
 ** NOTE **
-   The language interpreter "perl" is required to run COBOL85 tests.
+   The language interpreter `perl` is required to run COBOL85 tests.
 
 
  If you want to run both testsuites you can run
 
  *  `make checkall`
 
+
+ You may also optionally perform a series of semi-manual tests to
+ verify a working extended screenio.
+
+ *  `make checkmanual`
+
+ The test execution is automatic but the user needs to check for
+ the expected result. See `tests/run_prog_manual.sh` for tweaking the
+ test runner used (which is otherwise deduced from the environment),
+ either in that script or via TESTRUNNER environment variable.
+
+** NOTE **
+   The semi-manual tests need either `xterm`, GNU `screen` or `tmux`
+   installed and will run within a detached `cmd.exe` on MSYS based
+   systems otherwise.
+   For running with screen or tmux execute the following from
+   a separate terminal, directly after running the testsuite:
+   `tests/run_prog_manual.sh attach`
+   ... and leave that using `exit` at the end of the tests
+
 Installation
 ============
 

bin/ChangeLog

@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@
 	* cob-config.in: echo in same order as arguments; add missing
 	  arguments (--bindir,--libdir,--datadir,--mandir,--includedir)
 
+2023-01-02  Simon Sobisch <[email protected]>
+
+	* cobcrun.c: use libcob's cob_getenv_direct instead of getenv
+
 2022-10-18  Simon Sobisch <[email protected]>
 
 	* cobcrun.c: minor validation - check for empty parameters

build_aux/ChangeLog

@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
 
+2024-09-02  Simon Sobisch <[email protected]>
+
+	* ar-lib, config.guess, config.rpath, config.sub, texinfo.tex: updated
+	  to recent versions from
+	  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/build-aux/
+
 2023-06-03  Simon Sobisch <[email protected]>
 
 	* config.sub, texinfo.tex: updated to recent versions from
@@ -22,13 +28,13 @@
 
 	* bootstrap: drop tarstamp.h generation, done via make
 	* config.guess, config.sub: updated to recent versions from
-	  git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git
+	  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
 
 2022-06-30  Simon Sobisch <[email protected]>
 
 	* config.guess, config.rpath, install-sh, mkinstalldirs, texinfo.tex:
 	  updated to recent versions from
-	  git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git
+	  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
 
 2022-05-30  Simon Sobisch <[email protected]>
 
@@ -43,7 +49,7 @@
 2022-01-07  Simon Sobisch <[email protected]>
 
 	* config.sub, config.guess: updated to recent versions from
-	  git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git to solve build issues
+	  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git to solve build issues
 	  on different machines
 
 2021-10-11  Simon Sobisch <[email protected]>

build_aux/ar-lib

@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 # Wrapper for Microsoft lib.exe
 
 me=ar-lib
-scriptversion=2019-07-04.01; # UTC
+scriptversion=2024-06-19.01; # UTC
 
-# Copyright (C) 2010-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2010-2019,2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 # Written by Peter Rosin <[email protected]>.
 #
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -105,11 +105,15 @@ case $1 in
 Usage: $me [--help] [--version] PROGRAM ACTION ARCHIVE [MEMBER...]
 
 Members may be specified in a file named with @FILE.
+
+Report bugs to <[email protected]>.
+GNU Automake home page: <https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>.
+General help using GNU software: <https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>.
 EOF
     exit $?
     ;;
   -v | --v*)
-    echo "$me, version $scriptversion"
+    echo "$me (GNU Automake) $scriptversion"
     exit $?
     ;;
 esac
@@ -135,6 +139,10 @@ do
       AR="$AR $1"
       shift
       ;;
+    -nologo | -NOLOGO)
+      # We always invoke AR with -nologo, so don't need to add it again.
+      shift
+      ;;
     *)
       action=$1
       shift