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Pre announcing Autoconf 2.59


From: Akim Demaille
Subject: Pre announcing Autoconf 2.59
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 16:12:08 +0100
User-agent: 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:

d4d45eaa1769d45e59dcb131a4af17a0  autoconf-2.59.tar.gz
1ee40f7a676b3cfdc0e3f7cd81551b5f  autoconf-2.59.tar.bz2
bba9f0e4d11c8fa04f328904401a0b92  autoconf-2.58-2.59.xdelta
b141ee21e2088097e49f0bec9ea51d5b5077d40c  autoconf-2.59.tar.gz
d366a07b2d99c95b7f24395aa8a8e023d8b93b69  autoconf-2.59.tar.bz2
41c985308026c1dbdd921e2ceaab95b52f650527  autoconf-2.58-2.59.xdelta

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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