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Thanks to everybody who's submitted changes and additions to Autoconf!
I've incorporated some of them, and am still considering others for
I've incorporated many of them, and am still considering others for
future releases -- but I didn't want to postpone this release indefinitely.
Major changes in release 2.0:
** New files:
* Comes with config.sub and config.guess, and uses them optionally.
* Uses config.cache to cache test results. An alternate cache file
can be selected with the --cache-file=FILE option.
* Uses optional shell scripts $exec_prefix/lib/config.site and
$prefix/lib/config.site to perform site or system specific initializations.
* configure saves compiler output to ./config.log for debugging.
* New file autoconf.m4 loads the rest of the Autoconf macros.
* acsite.m4 is the new name for the system-wide aclocal.m4.
* Has the beginnings of a DejaGnu test suite.
** New macros:
* AC_CACHE_VAL to share results of tests between configure runs.
* AC_DEFUN to define macros, automatically AC_PROVIDE them, and ensure
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configure to config.status.
* AC_OUTPUT and AC_CONFIG_HEADER allow you to override the input-file names.
* AC_OUTPUT automatically substitutes the values of CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS,
CPPFLAGS, and LDFLAGS from the environment, with default values.
CPPFLAGS, and LDFLAGS from the environment.
* AC_PROG_CC and AC_PROG_CXX now set CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, respectively.
* AC_PROG_INSTALL looks for install.sh in the directory specified by
AC_CONFIG_AUXDIR, or srcdir or srcdir/.. or srcdir/../.. by default.
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* AC_HAVE_POUNDBANG replaced with AC_SYS_INTERPRETER, which doesn't
take arguments, for consistency with all of the other specific checks.
** New files:
* Comes with config.sub and config.guess, and uses them optionally.
* Uses config.cache to cache test results. An alternate cache file
can be selected with the --cache-file=FILE option.
* Uses optional shell scripts $exec_prefix/lib/config.site and
$prefix/lib/config.site to perform site or system specific initializations.
* 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.
** New utilities:
* autoscan to generate a preliminary configure.in for a package by
scanning its source code for commonly used nonportable functions,
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** Changed utilities:
* autoheader can take pieces of acconfig.h to replace config.h.{top,bot}.
** Documentation:
* Autoconf manual is reorganized to make information easier to find
and has several new indexes.
Major changes in release 1.11: