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Pre announcing Autoconf 2.59
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Akim Demaille |
Subject: |
Pre announcing Autoconf 2.59 |
Date: |
Wed, 12 Nov 2003 16:12:08 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
The Autoconf team is happy to announce its release 2.59. For the time
being it is only available from my web site, but hopefully it should
be on maintstream servers soon. I'll send the release notification
once Autoconf available "for real".
Akim, on behalf of Alexandre, Jim, Paul and Tom.
Here are the compressed sources:
http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/download/autoconf-2.59.tar.gz (1.2MB)
http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/download/autoconf-2.59.tar.bz2 (909KB)
And here are xdelta-style diffs:
http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/download/autoconf-2.58-2.59.xdelta (11KB)
Here are GPG detached signatures:
http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/download/autoconf-2.59.tar.gz.asc
http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/download/autoconf-2.59.tar.bz2.asc
Here are the MD5 and SHA1 signatures:
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NEWS
* Major changes in Autoconf 2.59
** ac_abs_builddir etc.
Absolute paths were actually relative in 2.58.
* Major changes in Autoconf 2.58
** core.*
core.* files are no longer removed, as they may be valid user files.
** autoreconf and auxiliary directory
Autoreconf creates the auxiliary directory if needed. This is
especially useful for initial "bootstrapping" of fresh CVS checkouts.
** AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR
Use this macro to declare the directory for local m4 macros for aclocal.
** AC_LIBOBJS
No longer includes twice the same file in LIBOBJS if invoked
multiple times.
** AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS
The directory for its first argument is automatically created. For
instance, with
AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS([src/modules.hh], [...])
$top_builddir/src/ is created if needed.
** Autotest and local.at
The optional file local.at is always included in Autotest test suites.
** Warnings
The warnings are always issued, including with cached runs.
This became a significant problem since aclocal and automake can
run autoconf behind the scene.
** autoheader warnings
The warnings of autoheader can be turned off, using --warning.
For instance, -Wno-obsolete disables the complaints about acconfig.h
and other deprecated constructs.
** New macros
AC_C_RESTRICT, AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT, AC_LANG_ASSERT, AC_LANG_WERROR,
AS_SET_CATFILE.
** AC_DECL_SYS_SIGLIST
Works again.
** AC_FUNC_MKTIME
Now checks that mktime is the inverse of localtime.
** Improve DJGPP portability
The Autoconf tools and configure behave better under DJGPP.
** Present But Cannot Be Compiled
New FAQ section dedicated to the mystic
configure: WARNING: pi.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: pi.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: pi.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
messages.
** Concurrent executions of autom4te
autom4te now locks its internal files, which enables concurrent
executions of autom4te, likely to happen if automake, autoconf,
autoheader etc. are run simultaneously.
** Libtool
Use of Libtool 1.5 and higher is encouraged. Compatibility with
Libtool pre-1.4 is not checked.
** Autotest
Testsuites no longer rerun failed tests in verbose mode; instead,
failures are logged while the test is run.
In addition, expected failures can be marked as such.
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