diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f627f227..9b811050 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,20 +1,9 @@ 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 @@ -44,7 +33,7 @@ Major changes in release 2.0: 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. @@ -63,6 +52,17 @@ Major changes in release 2.0: * 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, @@ -75,6 +75,10 @@ Major changes in release 2.0: ** 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: