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Re: Autoconf now recommends M4 1.4.6
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Eric Blake |
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Re: Autoconf now recommends M4 1.4.6 |
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Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:33:44 -0600 |
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According to Paul Eggert on 8/25/2006 11:24 AM:
> Now that 1.4.6 is out, and fixes some serious buffer overruns, I
> installed this:
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> 2006-08-25 Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
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> * NEWS: Recommend M4 1.4.6 instead of 1.4.5.
Thanks for doing that. I also hope (but have not tried to benchmark) that
plugging the memory leak in m4's regexp/patsubst macros will speed
autoconf performance since so many m4sugar macros rely on regular expressions.
- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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