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Autoconf 2.54c is relased
From: |
Akim Demaille |
Subject: |
Autoconf 2.54c is relased |
Date: |
04 Nov 2002 11:12:32 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Honest Recruiter) |
The Autoconf team -- Akim, Alexandre, Jim, Paul, and Tom -- is happy
to annonce the second beta of forthcoming Autoconf 2.55. Download,
compile, install, torture, and enjoy!
- Why should I upgrade from 2.54?
A few bug fixes, improved portability, no known incompatibility with
2.54 and 2.55, forthcoming Gettext release might require 2.55.
Running `autoreconf -fv' should be enough.
- Why should I upgrade from 2.13?
This version is no longer maintained. It does not address recent
architectures, recent compilers etc. We know that upgrading from 2.13
to 2.5x is not an easy task, especially because the Autoconf 2.13 was
extremely tolerant to incorrect macro invocations, but waiting longer
endangers the portability of your package and only delays the
conversation to newer Autoconf versions. Worse: some maintainers now
spend a significant amount of time fixing bugs in 2.13 or backporting
macros from 2.55.
- Where can I find it?
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.54c.tar.gz (1.1 MB)
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.54c.tar.bz2 (792 KB)
And here are xdelta-style diffs
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.54b-2.54c.xdelta (17 KB)
Here are the MD5 and SHA1 signatures:
ab431fb26babf82de8fda486afb94350 autoconf-2.54c.tar.gz
db32dbbcd1bf2f8ca7713faa58bc905e autoconf-2.54c.tar.bz2
39bdbfc39b0581bda303e3b42a550714 autoconf-2.54b-2.54c.xdelta
807d67c59445ddac573dd8c9a42ac668b83020f0 autoconf-2.54c.tar.gz
9968922141aaf313ed145fe19d27669fd5f89189 autoconf-2.54c.tar.bz2
dd01917057f9f456e96259734ebc56a2b22f11ef autoconf-2.54b-2.54c.xdelta
NEWS:
Release tips:
Have your configure.ac checked by autoscan ("autoscan").
Try the warning options ("autoreconf -fv -Wall").
** Documentation
- AC_CHECK_HEADER, AC_CHECK_HEADERS
More information on proper use.
- Writing Test Programs
This sections explains how to write good test sources to use with
AC_COMPILE_IFELSE etc. It documents AC_LANG_PROGRAMS and so forth.
- AC_FOO_IFELSE vs. AC_TRY_FOO
Explains why Autoconf moves from AC_TRY_COMPILE etc. to
AC_COMPILE_IFELSE and AC_LANG_PROGRAM etc.
** autoreconf
- Is more robust to different Gettext installations.
- Produces messages (when --verbose) to be understood by Emacs'
compile mode.
- Supports -W/--warnings.
- -m/--make
Once the GNU Build System reinstalled, run `./config.status
--recheck && ./config.status && make' if possible.
** autom4te
- Supports --cache, and --no-cache.
- ~/.autom4te.cfg makes it possible to disable the caching mechanism
(autom4te.cache). See `Customizing autom4te' in the documentation.
** Obsolete options
Support for the obsoleted options -m, --macrodir, -l, --localdir is
dropped in favor of the safer --include/--prepend-include scheme.
** Macros
- New macros
AC_COMPILER_IFELSE, AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC, AC_HEADER_STDBOOL,
AC_LANG_CONFTEST, AC_LANG_SOURCE, AC_LANG_PROGRAM, AC_LANG_CALL,
AC_LANG_FUNC_TRY_LINK, AC_MSG_FAILURE, AC_PREPROC_IFELSE.
- Obsoleted
Obsoleted macros are kept for Autoconf backward compatibility, but
should be avoided in configure.ac. Running autoupdate is advised.
AC_DECL_SYS_SIGLIST.
** Bug Fixes
- Portability of the Autoconf package to Solaris.
- Spurious warnings caused by config.status.
This bug is benign, but painful: on some systems (typically
FreeBSD), warnings such as:
config.status: creating Makefile
mv: Makefile: set owner/group (was: 1357/0): Operation not permitted
could be issued. This is fixed.
- Parallel Builds
Simultaneous executions of config.status are possible again.
- Precious variables accumulation
config.status could stack several copies of the precious variables
assignments.
** Plans for 2.56
- ./configure <host>
The compatibility hooks with the old scheme will be completely
removed. Please, advice/use `--build', `--host', and `--target'
only.
- AC_CHECK_HEADER, AC_CHECK_HEADERS
The tests will be stricter, please make sure your invocations are
valid.
- shell functions
Shell functions will gradually be introduced, probably starting with
Autotest. If you know machines which are in use that you suspect
*not* to support shell functions, please run the test suite of
Autoconf 2.55 on it, and report the results to
address@hidden
ChangeLog entries:
**********************************************************************
ChangeLog 4 Nov 2002 08:47:39 -0000 1.2092
**********************************************************************
2002-11-04 Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
Version 2.54c.
* Makefile.maint (update, cvs-update, po-update, do-po-update):
New.
* config/texinfo.tex: Update.
2002-11-03 Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
* bin/autoreconf.in (&autoreconf_current_directory): New, extracted
from...
(&autoreconf): here.
($help, $make, &parse_args, &autoreconf_current_directory):
Support -m/--make.
* doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Adjust.
2002-10-31 Bruno Haible <address@hidden>
* lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_MALLOC_IF): Change message.
Change name of cache variable to ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull.
(AC_FUNC_MALLOC): Change description of HAVE_MALLOC macro.
(_AC_FUNC_REALLOC_IF): Change message. Change name of cache variable
to ac_cv_func_realloc_0_nonnull.
(AC_FUNC_REALLOC): Change description of HAVE_REALLOC macro.
2002-10-31 Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
The test suite was no longer checking for trailing envvars and files.
* tests/atspecific.m4 (AC_STATE_SAVE): Don't use quadrigraphs here.
(AT_CHECK_ENV): Make sure the `state-ls.before file exists.
2002-10-31 Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
* lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (AC_PROG_MAKE_SET): Use and display
`$(MAKE)' instead of '${MAKE}' to emphasize that we refer to the
Make variable, not a shell variable.
Suggested by Bruno Haible.
2002-10-31 Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
* bin/autom4te.in (load_configuration): Reject #args out of any
language.
2002-10-31 Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_MSG_LOG_CONFTEST): New.
(_AC_PREPROC_IFELSE, _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, _AC_LINK_IFELSE)
(_AC_RUN_IFELSE): Use it.
* lib/autoconf/lang.m4 (_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT):
(_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT_DEFAULT): Likewise.
* lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_SOURCE): Don't include confdefs.h,
inline it.
2002-10-30 Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
* bin/autom4te.in (&parse_args, $help): Support --no-cache.
* doc/autoconf.texi (autom4te Invocation): Adjust.
Suggested by Tim van Holder.
2002-10-29 Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Particular Functions): AC_FUNC_MALLOC and
AC_FUNC_REALLOC check for compatibility with glibc, not POSIX.
Problem reported by Bruno Haible.
2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Header Templates): Put also in words what the
pictures says to assist free style readers.
(Customizing autom4te): s/--cache=/--cache /.
2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
* lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (_AC_FUNC_VFORK): Include stdlib.h and
sys/wait.h.
sparc_address_test returns void.
Use it with an argument, as prototyped.
From Bruno Haible.
2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Subdirectories): Cygnus dirs have
configure.in, not configure.ac.
Reported by Bruno Haible.
2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
* tests/torture.at (Deep Package): New test.
(Configuring subdirectories): Don't use a testSubDir as Autotest
now does it itself.
2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
* bin/autoreconf.in (&parse_args, $help): Support --warnings.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Invoking autom4te): Rename as...
(autom4te Invocation): this, for consistency with the other nodes.
2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
* lib/autom4te.in (Autoconf): s/automate/autom4te/.
Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
2002-10-29 Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_QUOTE): The warning about quoted
characters is a back as an `obsolete' warning now.
Reported by Ralf Corsepius.
2002-10-28 Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
* configure.ac: Bump to 2.54c.
Deprecate macros with unusual interfaces.
- Autoconf 2.54c is relased,
Akim Demaille <=