[SCM] GNU Autoconf source repository annotated tag, v2.63, created. v2.63

[Eric Blake]

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The annotated tag, v2.63 has been created
        at  3306a7a95897f2faaccb005d990cf2ea18ca5c63 (tag)
   tagging  95befd0d6342c1b035a62a6a02948d261b18888f (commit)
  replaces  v2.62
 tagged by  Eric Blake
        on  Tue Sep 9 18:29:45 2008 -0600

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Andreas Schwab (1):
      Replace @item with @itemx where appropriate.

Bruno Haible (2):
      Mention universal binaries in INSTALL.
      Add section to INSTALL about particular systems.

Eric Blake (78):
      ./.prev-version: Record previous version: 2.62.
      Generate web docs for 2.62.
      Update various hacking notes.
      AC_AUTOCONF_VERSION might contain arbitrary macro names.
      Mention more details about git usage in bootstrap.
      Document pdksh exec behavior.
      Support unbalanced () in AT_SETUP by adding two new quadrigraphs.
      Allow unbalanced () in m4_expand.
      Mention m4sugar's internal quote strings.
      Mention Solaris /usr/ucb/tr pitfall.
      Improve behavior of './testsuite 01'.
      Document $(( )) pitfalls.
      Avoid overfull \hbox.
      Fix typo.
      Enforce --help and --version compliance.
      Document some FreeBSD shell bugs.
      Improve documentation of ! issues.
      Document Solaris /bin/sh redirection pitfall.
      Fix 'make dist' regression from 2008-05-08.
      Fix regression in AT_KEYWORDS([Macro]), from 2007-10-18.
      Add URL to previous commit.
      Allow lib64 as a default X library location.
      Mark AC_TYPE_SIGNAL as obsolete.
      Mark AC_TYPE_SIGNAL as obsolete in NEWS, too.
      Resync with gnulib.
      Add comment explaining recent patch.
      Work around M4 1.6 warning on undefined macros.
      Inherit improvements from bison's fork of m4sugar.
      Tighten bound of potential speed of m4_append.
      Avoid failure if version.m4 is omitted but m4_PACKAGE_* unused.
      Revert m4_prepend; it is less efficient, and unused by bison.
      Add m4_joinall.
      Use warnings from m4 when available.
      Reduce overhead of m4_builtin([defn]).
      Support multiple arguments to m4_defn, m4_popdef, and m4_undefine.
      Resync with gnulib.
      Ignore undefined macros, necessary with m4 1.6.
      Part two of GNUmakefile sync.
      Provide O(n) replacement macros for M4 1.4.x.
      Avoid infinite aclocal loop.
      Implement O(n) unique element set creation.
      Avoid _m4_shiftn for m4 1.6 speedup.
      Add m4_reverse, and improve m4_list_cmp.
      One more m4_list_cmp tweak.
      Optimize m4_for.
      Tweak m4_do semantics.
      Add linear m4_bpatsubsts for m4 1.4.x.
      Fix bugs in previous version of m4_bpatsubsts.
      Update some files from upstream.
      AC_C_CHAR_UNSIGNED is not strictly necessary.
      Speed up diversion handling.
      Add linear m4_cond for m4 1.4.x.
      Fix autoheader 2.62 regression on AC_DEFINE([__EXTENSIONS__]).
      Add test for m4_cond.
      Fix m4_cond corner case.
      Optimize m4_bmatch.
      Implement m4_transform_pair, to speed up AS_IF.
      Fix m4_map regression from 2007-10-16.
      Let 'git diff' give better context for doc updates.
      Test m4_transform without tickling shell bugs.
      Tweak wording about SHELL in Makefile.
      Document another make bug.
      Formatting improvements.
      Avoid extra side effects in m4sugar list expansion.
      Add reminder to keep dual implementations in sync.
      * TODO: Add an item for additional m4sugar looping constructs.
      Adjust to recent m4 1.6 change to support m4_debugmode(d).
      Don't let frozen __m4_version__ break downgrade to m4 1.4.x.
      Update invocation documentation.
      Improve INSTALL formatting.
      Fix off-by-one bug in _m4_shiftn.
      Fix manual date information.
      Improve AC_C_BIGENDIAN.
      Relax tone when warning about cross-compiler names.
      Mention that Automake already supports VPATH.
      Resync from gnulib.
      Formatting tweaks to the manual.
      Release Version 2.63.

Jim Meyering (1):
      Avoid shell parse errors after interrupt due to empty ``.

Keith Marshall (1):
      Avoid case-insensitive `make install' vs. `INSTALL' conflict.

Peter Eisentraut (1):
      Format warning and error messages to match GCS.

Peter O'Gorman (1):
      Limit AC_C_BIGENDIAN univeral checks to Mac OS X.

Ralf Wildenhues (13):
      * NEWS: Post-release update.
      New tests: errexit, input from stdin.
      Let AC_MSG_FAILURE report pwd.
      Fix '#undef variable /* comment */' transform in config headers.
      Reorganize autotest files, factorize for parallel execution.
      config.status should not warn when it does not link.
      Fix texinfo macros @dvar, @ovar.
      Fix AC_CONFIG_FILES([$var]) 2.62 regression.
      Fix AC_*_TARGET_TOOL macros.
      Avoid timestamp races for updated input.
      * tests/m4sh.at (AS_IF and AS_CASE): Set the expansion limit back to 1000.
      * TODO: Add item for compiler default flags.
      * NEWS: Fix typo.

Slava Sysoltsev (1):
      Flush buffered output before exit.

Stepan Kasal (4):
      Work around MSYS and Cygwin bugs when dealing with trailing space.
      Add quotes to the header of autoscan-generated source.
      Improve documentation of config.h.in template rules.
      Check for case sensitive make.

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