On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Andreas Radke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > just a minor bump including now the info file. please signoff. > > see > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autotools-announce/2008-09/msg00002.html > > -Andy > > GNU Autoconf NEWS - User visible changes. > > * Major changes in Autoconf 2.63 (2008-09-09) [stable] > Released by Eric Blake, based on git versions 2.62.*. > > ** AC_C_BIGENDIAN does not mistakenly report "universal" for some > bigendian hosts, a regression introduced with universal binary > support in 2.62. > > ** AC_PATH_X now includes /lib64 and /usr/lib64 in its list of default > library directories. > > ** AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS no longer conflicts with an external > AC_DEFINE([__EXTENSIONS__]). This fixes a regression introduced in > 2.62 when using macros such as AC_AIX that were made obsolete in > favor of the more portable AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. > > ** AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOLS is usable in the non-cross-compile case. > > ** Newly obsolete macros > The following macro has been marked obsolete, since current porting > targets can safely assume C89 semantics that signal handlers return > void. We have no current plans to remove the macro. > > AC_TYPE_SIGNAL > > ** The macros m4_map and m4_map_sep now ignore any list elements > consisting of just empty quotes, and m4_map_sep now expands its > separator. This fixes a regression in 2.62 when these macros were > first documented, for the sake of clients expecting the semantics > that these macros had prior to that time. The new macros m4_mapall > and m4_mapall_sep, along with extra quoting of the separator, can > be used to get the semantics that m4_map_sep had in 2.62. > > ** Clients of m4_expand, such as AS_HELP_STRING and AT_SETUP, can now > handle properly quoted but otherwise unbalanced parentheses (for > some macros, this fixes a regression in 2.62). > > ** Two new quadrigraphs have been introduced: @{:@ for (, and @:}@ > for ), allowing the output of unbalanced parentheses in more contexts. > > ** The following m4sugar macros are new: > m4_joinall m4_mapall m4_mapall_sep m4_reverse m4_set_add > m4_set_add_all m4_set_contains m4_set_contents m4_set_delete > m4_set_difference m4_set_dump m4_set_empty m4_set_foreach > m4_set_intersection m4_set_list m4_set_listc m4_set_remove > m4_set_size m4_set_union > > ** The following m4sugar macros now accept multiple arguments, as is the > case with underlying m4: > m4_defn m4_popdef m4_undefine > > ** The following m4sugar macros now guarantee linear scaling; they > previously had linear scaling with m4 1.6 but quadratic scaling > when using m4 1.4.x. All macros built on top of these also gain > the scaling improvements. > m4_bmatch m4_bpatsubsts m4_case m4_cond m4_do m4_dquote_elt > m4_foreach m4_join m4_list_cmp m4_map m4_map_sep m4_max > m4_min m4_shiftn > > ** AT_KEYWORDS once again performs expansion on its argument, such that > AT_KEYWORDS([m4_if([$1], [], [default])]) no longer complains about > the possibly unexpanded m4_if [regression introduced in 2.62]. > > ** Config header templates `#undef UNDEFINED /* comment */' do not lead > to nested comments any more; regression introduced in 2.62. >
signoff both architectures. I can still build packages using autoreconf and I can view the info page. Ronald
