From 0444a62da8f78b58f8819f5e8ec5e4b4daf508ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David MacKenzie Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 20:04:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] some rewording --- NEWS | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index eaab9430..9f51474e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -28,9 +28,9 @@ Major changes in release 2.0: * autoscan to generate a preliminary configure.in for a package by scanning its source code for commonly used nonportable functions, programs, and header files. -* autoupdate to update a configure.in to use the new macro names. * ifnames to list the symbols used in #if and #ifdef directives in a source tree. +* autoupdate to update a configure.in to use the version 2 macro names. * autoreconf to recursively remake configure and configuration header files in a source tree. @@ -49,10 +49,10 @@ Major changes in release 2.0: * AC_ARG_PROGRAM to use the options --program-prefix, --program-suffix, and --program-transform-name to change the names of programs being installed. -* AC_PREFIX_DEFAULT to change the default prefix. +* AC_PREFIX_DEFAULT to change the default installation prefix. * AC_TRY_COMPILE to compile a test program without linking it. -* AC_CHECK_TYPE to check whether sys/types.h defines a given type. -* AC_CHECK_LIB to check for a particular function in a library. +* AC_CHECK_TYPE to check whether sys/types.h or stdlib.h defines a given type. +* AC_CHECK_LIB to check for a particular function and library. * AC_MSG_CHECKING and AC_MSG_RESULT to print test results, on a single line, whether or not the test succeeds. They obsolete AC_CHECKING and AC_VERBOSE. * AC_SUBST_FILE to insert one file into another. @@ -83,9 +83,9 @@ Major changes in release 2.0: * AC_DEFINE, AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED, and AC_SUBST are more robust and smaller. * AC_DEFINE no longer prints anything, because of the new result reporting mechanism (AC_MSG_CHECKING and AC_MSG_RESULT). +* AC_VERBOSE pays attention to --quiet/--silent, not --verbose. * AC_ARG_ENABLE and AC_ARG_WITH support whitespace in the arguments to --enable- and --with- options. -* AC_VERBOSE pays attention to --quiet/--silent, not --verbose. * AC_CHECK_FUNCS and AC_CHECK_HEADERS take optional shell commands to execute on success or failure. * Checking for C functions in C++ works. @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ Major changes in release 2.0: * configure saves compiler output to ./config.log for debugging. * New files autoconf.m4 and autoheader.m4 load the other Autoconf macros. * acsite.m4 is the new name for the system-wide aclocal.m4. -* Has the beginnings of a DejaGnu test suite. +* Has a DejaGnu test suite. Major changes in release 1.11: