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* Major changes in Autoconf 2.59b
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Released 2004-08-20, by Paul Eggert.
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** AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF
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New macro that computes the default alignment of a type.
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** AC_CHECK_TOOL, AC_PATH_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TOOLS
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When cross-compiling, these macros will give a warning if the tool
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is not prefixed. In the future, unprefixed cross tools will not
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be detected; please consult the info documentation for information
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about the reason of this change.
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** AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOL, AC_PATH_TARGET_TOOL, AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOLS
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New macros that detect programs whose name is prefixed with the
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target type, if the build type and target type are different.
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** AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE
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New trace macro that declares expected auxiliary files.
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** AC_PROG_GREP
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New macro that tests for a grep program that accepts as a long a line
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as possible.
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** AC_PROG_EGREP, AC_PROG_FGREP
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These macros now require AC_PROG_GREP, and try EGREP="$GREP -E" and
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FGREP="$GREP -F" respectively if possible, or else run a path search for
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a program that accepts as long a line as possible.
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** AC_PROG_SED
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New macro that tests for a sed program that truncates as few characters
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as possible.
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* Major changes in Autoconf 2.59
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Released 2003-11-04, by Akim Demaille
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** ac_abs_builddir etc.
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Absolute file names were actually relative in 2.58.
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* Major changes in Autoconf 2.58
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Released 2003-11-04, by Akim Demaille
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** core.*
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core.* files are no longer removed, as they may be valid user files.
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** autoreconf and auxiliary directory
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Autoreconf creates the auxiliary directory if needed. This is
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especially useful for initial "bootstrapping" of fresh CVS checkouts.
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** AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR
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Use this macro to declare the directory for local m4 macros for aclocal.
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** AC_LIBOBJS
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No longer includes twice the same file in LIBOBJS if invoked
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multiple times.
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** AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS
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The directory for its first argument is automatically created. For
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instance, with
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AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS([src/modules.hh], [...])
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$top_builddir/src/ is created if needed.
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** Autotest and local.at
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The optional file local.at is always included in Autotest test suites.
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** Warnings
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The warnings are always issued, including with cached runs.
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This became a significant problem since aclocal and automake can
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run autoconf behind the scene.
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** autoheader warnings
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The warnings of autoheader can be turned off, using --warning.
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For instance, -Wno-obsolete disables the complaints about acconfig.h
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and other deprecated constructs.
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** New macros
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AC_C_RESTRICT, AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT, AC_LANG_ASSERT, AC_LANG_WERROR,
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AS_SET_CATFILE.
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** AC_DECL_SYS_SIGLIST
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Works again.
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** AC_FUNC_MKTIME
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Now checks that mktime is the inverse of localtime.
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** Improve DJGPP portability
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The Autoconf tools and configure behave better under DJGPP.
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** Present But Cannot Be Compiled
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New FAQ section dedicated to the mystic
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configure: WARNING: pi.h: present but cannot be compiled
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configure: WARNING: pi.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
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configure: WARNING: pi.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
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messages.
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** Concurrent executions of autom4te
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autom4te now locks its internal files, which enables concurrent
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executions of autom4te, likely to happen if automake, autoconf,
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autoheader etc. are run simultaneously.
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** Libtool
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Use of Libtool 1.5 and higher is encouraged. Compatibility with
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Libtool pre-1.4 is not checked.
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** Autotest
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Testsuites no longer rerun failed tests in verbose mode; instead,
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failures are logged while the test is run.
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In addition, expected failures can be marked as such.
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* Major changes in Autoconf 2.57
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Released 2002-12-03 by Paul Eggert.
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Bug fixes for problems with AIX linker, with freestanding C compilers,
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with GNU m4 limitations, and with obsolete copies of GNU documents.
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The Free Documentation License has been upgraded from 1.1 to 1.2.
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* Major changes in Autoconf 2.56
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Released 2002-11-15 by Akim Demaille.
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One packaging problem fixed (config/install-sh was not executable).
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* Major changes in Autoconf 2.55
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Released 2002-11-14 by Akim Demaille.
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Release tips:
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Have your configure.ac checked by autoscan ("autoscan").
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Try the warning options ("autoreconf -fv -Wall").
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** Documentation
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- AC_CHECK_HEADER, AC_CHECK_HEADERS
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More information on proper use.
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- Writing Test Programs
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This sections explains how to write good test sources to use with
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AC_COMPILE_IFELSE etc. It documents AC_LANG_PROGRAMS and so forth.
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- AC_FOO_IFELSE vs. AC_TRY_FOO
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Explains why Autoconf moves from AC_TRY_COMPILE etc. to
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AC_COMPILE_IFELSE and AC_LANG_PROGRAM etc.
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** autoreconf
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- Is more robust to different Gettext installations.
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- Produces messages (when --verbose) to be understood by Emacs'
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compile mode.
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- Supports -W/--warnings.
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- -m/--make
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Once the GNU Build System reinstalled, run `./config.status
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--recheck && ./config.status && make' if possible.
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** autom4te
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- Supports --cache, and --no-cache.
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- ~/.autom4te.cfg makes it possible to disable the caching mechanism
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(autom4te.cache). See `Customizing autom4te' in the documentation.
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** config.status
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Supports --quiet.
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** Obsolete options
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Support for the obsoleted options -m, --macrodir, -l, --localdir is
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dropped in favor of the safer --include/--prepend-include scheme.
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** Macros
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- New macros
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AC_COMPILER_IFELSE, AC_FUNC_MBRTOWC, AC_HEADER_STDBOOL,
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AC_LANG_CONFTEST, AC_LANG_SOURCE, AC_LANG_PROGRAM, AC_LANG_CALL,
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AC_LANG_FUNC_TRY_LINK, AC_MSG_FAILURE, AC_PREPROC_IFELSE.
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- Obsoleted
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Obsoleted macros are kept for Autoconf backward compatibility, but
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should be avoided in configure.ac. Running autoupdate is advised.
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AC_DECL_SYS_SIGLIST.
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- AC_DEFINE/AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED
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We have to stop using the old compatibility scheme --that tried to
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avoid useless backslashes-- because Libtool 1.4.3 contains a
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AC_DEFINE([error_t], [int],
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[Define to a type to use for \`error_t' if it is not
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otherwise available.])
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We have to quote the single quotes and backslashes with \. The old
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compatibility scheme saw that ` was backslashed, and therefore did
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not quote the single quote... Failure. Hence, Autoconf 2.54 is not
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compatible with Libtool. Autoconf 2.55 is, but in some cases might
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produce more \ than wanted.
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Please, note that in the future the same problem will happen with
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AC_MSG_*: use `autoreconf -f -Wall'.
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** Bug Fixes
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- Portability of the Autoconf package to Solaris.
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- Spurious warnings caused by config.status.
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This bug is benign, but painful: on some systems (typically
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FreeBSD), warnings such as:
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config.status: creating Makefile
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mv: Makefile: set owner/group (was: 1357/0): Operation not permitted
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could be issued. This is fixed.
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- Parallel Builds
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Simultaneous executions of config.status are possible again.
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- Precious variables accumulation
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config.status could stack several copies of the precious variables
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assignments.
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** Plans for later versions
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- ./configure <host>
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The compatibility hooks with the old scheme will be completely
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removed. Please, advice/use `--build', `--host', and `--target'
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only.
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- AC_CHECK_HEADER, AC_CHECK_HEADERS
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The tests will be stricter, please make sure your invocations are
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valid.
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- shell functions
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Shell functions will gradually be introduced, probably starting with
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Autotest. If you know machines which are in use that you suspect
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*not* to support shell functions, please run the test suite of
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Autoconf 2.55 on it, and report the results to
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bug-autoconf@gnu.org.
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- AC_MSG_*
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Special characters in AC_MSG_* need not be quoted. Currently,
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Autoconf has heuristics to decide when a string is escaped, or has
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to be escaped. This scheme is fragile, and will be removed; the
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only risk is uglified messages. Please, run `autoreconf -f -Wall'
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to find occurrences that will be affected.
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* Major changes in Autoconf 2.54
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Released 2002-09-13 by Akim Demaille.
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** Executables
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- autoreconf no longer changes the version of the gettext/po/intl
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support files. It now adds the files the correspond to the
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AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION declared in configure.ac.
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Warning: It now relies on the 'autopoint' program, which is part
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of GNU gettext 0.11.4 and newer.
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Please note that you need to have a GNU gettext version that
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corresponds at least to the AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION declared
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in configure.ac. You can upgrade to newer GNU gettext versions,
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though, without needing to change configure.ac.
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- The -I DIR or --include=DIR option now appends DIR to the include path
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instead of prepending; this is for consistency with other GNU tools.
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The new -B DIR or --prepend-include=DIR option has the old behavior.
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** Macros
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- AC_OUTPUT
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Now handles all the gory details about LIBOBJS and LTLIBOBJS.
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Please, remove lines such as
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# This is necessary so that .o files in LIBOBJS are also
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# built via the ANSI2KNR-filtering rules.
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LIBOBJS=`echo $LIBOBJS|sed 's/\.o /\$U.o /g;s/\.o$/\$U.o/'`
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and read the `AC_LIBOBJ vs LIBOBJS' section. Do not define U in
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your Makefiles either.
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- AC_CONFIG_LINKS now makes copies if it can't make links.
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- AC_FUNC_FNMATCH now tests only for POSIX compatibility, reverting to
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Autoconf 2.13 behavior. The new macro AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU also
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tests for GNU extensions to fnmatch, and replaces fnmatch if needed.
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- AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED no longer fails when cross-compiling.
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- AC_PROG_CC_STDC is integrated into AC_PROG_CC.
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- AC_PROG_F77 default search no longer includes cf77 and cfg77.
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- New macros
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AC_C_BACKSLASH_A, AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR, AC_GNU_SOURCE,
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AC_PROG_EGREP, AC_PROG_FGREP, AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH,
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AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU, AC_FUNC_REALLOC, AC_TYPE_MBSTATE_T.
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- AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG
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looks for getloadavg.c in the CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR.
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- AC_FUNC_MALLOC
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Now defines HAVE_MALLOC to 0 if `malloc' does not work, and asks
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for an AC_LIBOBJ replacement.
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** Bug fixes
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- Spurious complaints from `m4_bmatch' about invalid regular
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expressions are suppressed.
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- Empty top_builddirs are properly handled.
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- AC_CHECK_MEMBER works correctly when the member is an aggregate.
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- AC_PATH_PROG
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Now colon in the optional path arguments are properly handled.
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** Improved portability
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- Both Autoconf the package, and the scripts it produces, should run
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more reliably with Zsh. Bear in mind it is the default Bourne shell
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on Darwin.
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- Autoconf and the scripts it produces no longer assume the existence of
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the obsolescent commands egrep and fgrep.
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** Documentation
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- Limitations of Make
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More of them.
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- GNATS
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The GNATS base moved to
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http://bugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?database=autoconf
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(It is no longer available, though.)
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** Misc.
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- config.log
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Now contains the list of ouput variables and files (AC_SUBST,
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AC_SUBST_FILES).
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* Major changes in Autoconf 2.53
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Released 2002-03-08 by Akim Demaille.
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** Requirements
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Perl 5.005_03 or later is required: autom4te is written in Perl and is
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needed by autoconf. autoheader, autoreconf, ifnames, and autoscan are
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rewritten in Perl.
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** Documentation
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- AC_INIT
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Argument requirements, output variables, defined macros.
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- M4sugar, M4sh, Autotest
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First sketch.
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- Double quoting macros
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AC_TRY_CPP, AC_TRY_COMPILE, AC_TRY_LINK and AC_TRY_RUN.
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- Licensing
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The Autoconf manual is now distributed under the terms of the GNU FDL.
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- Section `Hosts and Cross-Compilation'
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Explains the rationale for the 2.5x changes in the cross-compilation
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chain, and in the relationships between build, host, and target
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types.
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Emphasizes that `cross-compilation' == `--host is given'.
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If you are working on compilers etc., be sure to read this section.
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- Section `AC_LIBOBJ vs. LIBOBJS'
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Explains why assigning LIBOBJS directly is now an error.
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Details how to update the code.
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** configure
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- $LINENO
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Now used instead of hard coded line numbers.
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This eases the comparison of `configure's, and diminishes the
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pressure over control version archives.
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Automatic replacement for shells that don't support this feature.
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- New output variables
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@builddir@, @top_builddir@, @abs_srcdir@, @abs_top_srcdir@, @abs_builddir@,
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@abs_top_builddir@.
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** Emacs
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Autoconf and Autotest modes are provided.
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** Executables
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- autom4te
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New, used by the Autoconf suite to cache and speed up most processing.
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- --force, -f
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Supported by autom4te, autoconf and autoheader.
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- --include, -I
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Replaces --autoconf-dir and --localdir in autoconf, autoheader,
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autoupdate, and autoreconf.
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- autoreconf
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No longer passes --cygnus, --foreign, --gnits, --gnu, --include-deps:
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automake options are to be given via AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
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- autoreconf
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Runs gettextize and libtoolize when appropriate.
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- autoreconf
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--m4dir is no longer supported.
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- autoreconf
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Now runs only in the specified directories, defaulting to `.',
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but understands AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS for dependent directories.
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Before, it used to run on all the `configure.ac' found in the
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current tree.
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Independent packages are properly updated.
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** Bug fixes
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- The top level $prefix is propagated to the AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS configures.
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- AC_TRY_RUN
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Under the user pressure, $? is finally available. Probably a mistake.
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- AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS now supports the HP/UX f90 compiler.
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- Precious variables accumulation
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config.status could stack several copies of the precious variables
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assignments.
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- AC_PATH_PROG and family.
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Works properly when given a literal path.
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- AC_FUNC_SETPGRP
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Somewhere since 2.13, the result had been reversed.
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** C Macros
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- AC_C_BIGENDIAN supports the cross-compiling case.
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- AC_C_BIGENDIAN accepts ACTION-IF-TRUE, ACTION-IF-FALSE, and
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ACTION-IF-UNKNOWN arguments. All are facultative, and the default
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for ACTION-IF-TRUE is to define WORDS_BIGENDIAN like AC_C_BIGENDIAN
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always did.
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- AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE now succeeds only if `long double' has more range or
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precision than `double'.
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** Generic macros
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- AC_INIT
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It now defines the preprocessor symbols PACKAGE_NAME,
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PACKAGE_TARNAME, PACKAGE_VERSION, PACKAGE_STRING, and
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PACKAGE_BUGREPORT.
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- AC_INIT
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Admits a fourth optional parameter: the tar name.
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- AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS, HEADERS, FILES, LINKS.
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Provide the user with srcdir, ac_srcdir, ac_top_srcdir, ac_builddir,
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ac_top_builddir, ac_abs_srcdir, ac_abs_top_srcdir, ac_abs_builddir,
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ac_abs_top_builddir.
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- AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS, HEADERS, FILES, LINKS and AC_OUTPUT.
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Are much less expensive when using long lists of files.
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- AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM
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Works with shell variables, and non alphanumeric names.
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** Library macros
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- AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R now sets STRERROR_R_CHAR_P, not HAVE_WORKING_STRERROR_R,
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because POSIX 1003.1-200x draft 7 says strerror_r returns int, not char *.
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- AC_FUNC_STRTOD substitutes POW_LIB.
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- AC_FUNC_STRNLEN
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New.
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* Major changes in Autoconf 2.52
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Released 2001-07-18 by Akim Demaille.
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** Documentation
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- AC_ARG_VAR
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- Quadrigraphs
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This feature was present in autoconf 2.50 but was not documented.
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For example, `@<:@' is translated to `[' just before output. This
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is useful when writing strings that contain unbalanced quotes, or
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other hard-to-quote constructs.
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- m4_pattern_forbid, m4_pattern_allow
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- Tips for upgrading from 2.13.
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- Using autoscan to maintain a configure.ac.
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** Default includes
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- Now include stdint.h.
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- sys/types.h and sys/stat.h are guarded.
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- strings.h is included if available, and not conflicting with string.h.
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** Bug fixes
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- The test suite is more robust and presents less false failures.
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- Invocation of GNU M4 now robust to POSIXLY_CORRECT.
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- configure accepts --prefix='' again.
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- AC_CHECK_LIB works properly when its first argument is not a
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literal.
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- HAVE_INTTYPES_H is defined only if not conflicting with sys/types.h.
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- build_, host_, and target_alias are AC_SUBST as in 2.13.
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- AC_ARG_VAR properly propagates precious variables inherited from the
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environment to ./config.status.
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- Using --program-suffix/--program-prefix is portable.
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- Failures to detect the default compiler's output extension are less
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likely.
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- `config.status foo' works properly when `foo' depends on variables
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set in an AC_CONFIG_THING INIT-CMD.
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- autoheader is more robust to broken input.
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- Fixed Fortran name-mangling and link tests on a number of systems,
|
||
e.g. NetBSD; see AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN, below.
|
||
|
||
** Generic macros
|
||
- AC_CHECK_HEADER and AC_CHECK_HEADERS support a fourth argument to
|
||
specify pre-includes. In this case, the headers are compiled with
|
||
cc, not merely preprocessed by cpp. Therefore it is the _usability_
|
||
of a header which is checked for, not just its availability.
|
||
- AC_ARG_VAR refuses to run configure when precious variables have
|
||
changed.
|
||
- Versions of compilers are dumped in the logs.
|
||
- AC_CHECK_TYPE recognizes use of `foo_t' as a replacement type.
|
||
|
||
** Specific Macros
|
||
- AC_PATH_XTRA only adds -ldnet to $LIBS if it's needed to link.
|
||
- AC_FUNC_WAIT3 and AC_SYS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS are obsoleted.
|
||
- AM_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE, AM_FUNC_FNMATCH, AM_FUNC_MKTIME,
|
||
AM_FUNC_OBSTACK, and AM_FUNC_STRTOD are now activated.
|
||
Be sure to read `Upgrading from Version 2.13' to understand why
|
||
running `autoupdate' is needed.
|
||
- AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN, AC_F77_MAIN: new macros to detect whether
|
||
a main-like routine is required/possible when linking C/C++ with
|
||
Fortran. Users of e.g. AC_F77_WRAPPERS should be aware of these.
|
||
- AC_FUNC_GETPGRG behaves better when cross-compiling.
|
||
|
||
* Major changes in Autoconf 2.51
|
||
There was no release of Autoconf 2.51 since some packagers had used
|
||
this version number without permission to ship intermediary versions
|
||
of 2.50. The version was skipped to avoid confusion.
|
||
|
||
* Major changes in Autoconf 2.50
|
||
|
||
Released 2001-05-21 by Akim Demaille.
|
||
|
||
** Lots of bug fixes
|
||
There have been far too many to enumerate them here. Check out
|
||
ChangeLog if you really want to know more.
|
||
|
||
** Improved documentation
|
||
In particular, portability issues are better covered.
|
||
|
||
** Use of Automake
|
||
All the standard GNU Makefile targets are supported. The layout has
|
||
changed: m4/ holds the m4 extensions Autoconf needs for its
|
||
configuration, doc/ contains the documentation, and tests/ contains
|
||
the test suite.
|
||
|
||
** Man pages are provided
|
||
For autoconf, autoreconf, autoupdate, autoheader, autoscan, ifnames,
|
||
config.guess, config.sub.
|
||
|
||
** autoconf
|
||
- --trace
|
||
Provides a safe and powerful means to trace the macro uses. This
|
||
provide the parsing layer for tools which need to `study'
|
||
configure.in.
|
||
|
||
- --warnings
|
||
Specify what category of warnings should be enabled.
|
||
|
||
- When recursing into subdirectories, try for configure.gnu before
|
||
configure to adapt for packages not using autoconf on case-insensitive
|
||
filesystems.
|
||
|
||
- Diagnostics
|
||
More errors are now caught (circular AC_REQUIRE dependencies,
|
||
AC_DEFINE in the action part of an AC_CACHE_CHECK, too many pops
|
||
etc.). In addition, their location and call stack are given.
|
||
|
||
** autoupdate
|
||
autoupdate is much more powerful, and is able to provide the glue code
|
||
which might be needed to move from an old macro to its newer
|
||
equivalent.
|
||
|
||
You are strongly encouraged to use it to modernize both your
|
||
`configure.in' and your .m4 extension files.
|
||
|
||
** autoheader
|
||
The internal machinery of autoheader has completely changed. As a
|
||
result, using `acconfig.h' should be considered to be obsoleted, and
|
||
you are encouraged to get rid of it using the AH macros.
|
||
|
||
** autoreconf
|
||
Extensive overhaul.
|
||
|
||
** Fortran 77 compilers
|
||
Globally, the support for Fortran 77 is considerably improved.
|
||
|
||
Support for automatically determining a Fortran 77 compiler's
|
||
name-mangling scheme. New CPP macros F77_FUNC and F77_FUNC_ are
|
||
provided to wrap C/C++ identifiers, thus making it easier and more
|
||
transparent for C/C++ to call Fortran 77 routines, and Fortran 77 to
|
||
call C/C++ routines. See the Texinfo documentation for details.
|
||
|
||
** Test suite
|
||
The test suite no longer uses DejaGNU. It should be easy to submit
|
||
test cases in this new framework.
|
||
|
||
** configure
|
||
- --help, --help=long, -hl
|
||
no longer dumps useless items.
|
||
- --help=short, -hs
|
||
lists only specific options.
|
||
- --help=recursive, -hr
|
||
displays the help of all the embedded packages.
|
||
- Remembers environment variables when reconfiguring.
|
||
The previous scheme to set envvar before running configure was
|
||
ENV=VAL ./configure
|
||
what prevented configure from remembering the environment in which
|
||
it was run, therefore --recheck was run in an inconsistent
|
||
environment. Now, one should run
|
||
./configure ENV=VAR
|
||
and then --recheck will work properly. Variables declared with
|
||
AC_ARG_VAR are also preserved.
|
||
- cross-compilation
|
||
$build defaults to `config.guess`, $host to $build, and then $target
|
||
to $host.
|
||
Cross-compilation is a global status of the package, it no longer
|
||
depends upon the current language.
|
||
Cross compilation is enabled iff the user specified `--host'.
|
||
`configure' now fails if it can't run the executables it compiles,
|
||
unless cross-compilation is enabled.
|
||
- Cache file
|
||
The cache file is disabled by default. The new options
|
||
`--config-cache', `-C' set the cache to `config.cache'.
|
||
|
||
** config.status
|
||
- faster
|
||
Much faster on most architectures.
|
||
- concurrent executions
|
||
It is safe to use `make -j' with config.status.
|
||
- human interface improved
|
||
It is possible to invoke
|
||
./config.status foobar
|
||
instead of the former form (still valid)
|
||
CONFIG_COMMANDS= CONFIG_HEADERS= CONFIG_LINKS= \
|
||
CONFIG_FILES=foobar:foo.in:bar.in \
|
||
./config.status
|
||
The same holds for configuration headers and links.
|
||
You can instantiate unknown files and headers:
|
||
./config.status --header foo.h:foo.h.in --file bar:baz
|
||
- has a useful --help
|
||
- accepts special file name "-" for stdin/stdout
|
||
|
||
|
||
** Identity Macros
|
||
- AC_COPYRIGHT
|
||
Specify additional copyright information.
|
||
|
||
- AC_INIT
|
||
Now expects the identity of the package as argument.
|
||
|
||
** General changes.
|
||
- Uniform quotation
|
||
Most macros, if not all, now strictly follow the `one quotation
|
||
level' rule. This results in a more predictable expansion.
|
||
|
||
- AC_REQUIRE
|
||
A sly bug in the AC_REQUIRE machinery, which could produce incorrect
|
||
configure scripts, was fixed by Axel Thimm.
|
||
|
||
** Setup Macros
|
||
- AC_ARG_VAR
|
||
Document and ask for the registration of an envvar.
|
||
|
||
- AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR
|
||
Specifies the file which `configure' should look for when trying to
|
||
find the source tree (used to be handled by AC_INIT).
|
||
|
||
- AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS
|
||
To add new actions to config.status. Should be used instead of
|
||
AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS.
|
||
|
||
- AC_CONFIG_LINKS
|
||
Replaces AC_LINK_FILES.
|
||
|
||
- AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS, AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS,
|
||
AC_CONFIG_LINKS, and AC_CONFIG_FILES
|
||
They now obey sh: you should no longer use shell variables as
|
||
argument. Instead of
|
||
|
||
test "$package_foo_enabled" = yes && $my_subdirs="$my_subdirs foo"
|
||
AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS($my_subdirs)
|
||
|
||
write
|
||
|
||
if test "$package_foo_enabled" = yes; then
|
||
AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS(foo)
|
||
fi
|
||
|
||
- AC_HELP_STRING
|
||
To format an Autoconf macro's help string so that it looks pretty
|
||
when the user executes `configure --help'.
|
||
|
||
|
||
** Generic Test Macros
|
||
- AC_CHECK families
|
||
The interface of the AC_CHECK families of macros (decl, header,
|
||
type, member, func) is now uniform. They support the same set of
|
||
default includes.
|
||
|
||
- AC_CHECK_DECL, AC_CHECK_DECLS
|
||
To check whether a symbol is declared.
|
||
|
||
- AC_CHECK_SIZEOF, AC_C_CHAR_UNSIGNED.
|
||
No longer need a cross-compilation default.
|
||
|
||
- AC_CHECK_TYPE
|
||
The test it performs is much more robust than previously, and makes
|
||
it possible to test builtin types in addition to typedefs.
|
||
It is now schizophrenic:
|
||
- AC_CHECK_TYPE(TYPE, REPLACEMENT)
|
||
remains for backward compatibility, but its use is discouraged.
|
||
- AC_CHECK_TYPE(TYPE, IF-FOUND, IF-NOT-FOUND, INCLUDES)
|
||
behaves exactly like the other AC_CHECK macros.
|
||
|
||
- AC_CHECK_TYPES
|
||
Checks whether given types are supported by the system.
|
||
|
||
- AC_CHECK_MEMBER, AC_CHECK_MEMBERS
|
||
Check for given members in aggregates (e.g., pw_gecos in struct
|
||
passwd).
|
||
|
||
- AC_PROG_CC_STDC
|
||
Checks if the compiler supports ISO C, included when needs special
|
||
options.
|
||
|
||
- AC_PROG_CPP
|
||
Checking whether the preprocessor indicates missing includes by the
|
||
error code. stderr is checked by AC_TRY_CPP only as a fallback.
|
||
|
||
- AC_LANG
|
||
Takes a language as argument and replaces AC_LANG_C,
|
||
AC_LANG_CPLUSPLUS and AC_LANG_FORTRAN77.
|
||
|
||
- AC_LANG_PUSH, AC_LANG_POP
|
||
Are preferred to AC_LANG_SAVE, AC_LANG_RESTORE.
|
||
|
||
** Specific Macros
|
||
- AC_FUNC_CHOWN, AC_FUNC_MALLOC, AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R,
|
||
AC_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK, AC_FUNC_STAT, AC_FUNC_LSTAT,
|
||
AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE, AC_FUNC_OBSTACK, AC_FUNC_STRTOD, AC_FUNC_FSEEKO.
|
||
New.
|
||
|
||
- AC_FUNC_GETGROUPS
|
||
Sets GETGROUPS_LIBS.
|
||
|
||
- AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG
|
||
Defines `HAVE_STRUCT_NLIST_N_UN_N_NAME' instead of `NLIST_NAME_UNION'.
|
||
|
||
- AC_PROG_LEX
|
||
Now integrates `AC_DECL_YYTEXT' which is obsoleted.
|
||
|
||
- AC_SYS_LARGEFILE
|
||
Arrange for large-file support.
|
||
|
||
- AC_EXEEXT, AC_OBJEXT
|
||
You are no longer expected to use them: their computation is
|
||
performed by default.
|
||
|
||
** C++ compatibility
|
||
Every macro has been revisited in order to support at best CC=c++.
|
||
|
||
Major changes in Autoconf 2.14:
|
||
There was no release of GNU Autoconf 2.14.
|
||
|
||
Major changes in Autoconf 2.13:
|
||
|
||
Released 1999-05-01 by Ben Elliston.
|
||
|
||
* Support for building on Win32 systems where the only available C or
|
||
C++ compiler is the Microsoft Visual C++ command line compiler
|
||
(`cl'). Additional support for building on Win32 systems which are
|
||
using the Cygwin or Mingw32 environments.
|
||
* Support for alternative object file and executable file extensions.
|
||
On Win32, for example, these are .obj and .exe. These are discovered
|
||
using AC_OBJEXT and AC_EXEEXT, which substitute @OBJEXT@ and
|
||
@EXEEXT@ in the output, respectively.
|
||
* New macros: AC_CACHE_LOAD, AC_CACHE_SAVE, AC_FUNC_SELECT_ARGTYPES,
|
||
AC_VALIDATE_CACHED_SYSTEM_TUPLE, AC_SEARCH_LIBS, AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC,
|
||
AC_C_STRINGIZE, AC_CHECK_FILE(S), AC_PROG_F77 (and friends).
|
||
* AC_DEFINE now has an optional third argument for a description to be
|
||
placed in the config header input file (e.g. config.h.in).
|
||
* The C++ code fragment compiled for the C++ compiler test had to be
|
||
improved to include an explicit return type for main(). This was
|
||
causing failures on systems using recent versions of the EGCS C++
|
||
compiler.
|
||
* Fixed an important bug in AC_CHECK_TYPE that would cause a configure
|
||
script to report that `sometype_t' was present when only `type_t'
|
||
was defined.
|
||
* Merge of the FSF version of config.guess and config.sub to modernize
|
||
these scripts. Add support for a few new hosts in config.guess.
|
||
Incorporate latest versions of install-sh, mkinstalldirs and
|
||
texinfo.tex from the FSF.
|
||
* autoreconf is capable of running automake if necessary (and
|
||
applicable).
|
||
* Support for Fortran 77. See the Texinfo documentation for details.
|
||
* Bug fixes and workarounds for quirky bugs in vendor utilities.
|
||
|
||
Major changes in Autoconf 2.12:
|
||
|
||
Released 1996-11-26 by David J. MacKenzie
|
||
|
||
* AC_OUTPUT and AC_CONFIG_HEADER can create output files by
|
||
concatenating multiple input files separated by colons, like so:
|
||
AC_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h:conf.pre:config.h.in:conf.post)
|
||
AC_OUTPUT(Makefile:Makefile.in:Makefile.rules)
|
||
The arguments may be shell variables, to compute the lists on the fly.
|
||
* AC_LINK_FILES and AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS may be called multiple times.
|
||
* New macro AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS adds more commands to run in config.status.
|
||
* Bug fixes.
|
||
|
||
Major changes in Autoconf 2.11:
|
||
|
||
Released November 18th, 1996, by David J. MacKenzie
|
||
|
||
* AC_PROG_CC and AC_PROG_CXX check whether the compiler works.
|
||
They also default CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS to "-g -O2" for gcc, instead of "-g -O".
|
||
* AC_REPLACE_FUNCS defines HAVE_foo if the system has the function `foo'.
|
||
* AC_CONFIG_HEADER expands shell variables in its argument.
|
||
* New macros: AC_FUNC_FNMATCH, AC_FUNC_SETPGRP.
|
||
* The "checking..." messages and the source code for test programs that
|
||
fail are saved in config.log.
|
||
* Another workaround has been added for seds with small command length limits.
|
||
* config.sub and config.guess recognize more system types.
|
||
* Bug fixes.
|
||
|
||
Major changes in Autoconf 2.10:
|
||
|
||
Released May 7th, 1996, by Roland McGrath
|
||
|
||
* Bug fixes.
|
||
* The cache variable names used by `AC_CHECK_LIB(LIB, FUNC, ...)' has
|
||
changed: now $ac_cv_lib_LIB_FUNC, previously $ac_cv_lib_LIB.
|
||
|
||
Major changes in Autoconf 2.9:
|
||
|
||
Released March 16th, 1996, by Roland McGrath
|
||
|
||
* Bug fixes.
|
||
|
||
Major changes in Autoconf 2.8:
|
||
|
||
Released March 8th, 1996, by Roland McGrath
|
||
|
||
* Bug fixes.
|
||
|
||
Major changes in Autoconf 2.7:
|
||
|
||
Released November 22nd, 1995, by David J. MacKenzie
|
||
|
||
* Bug fixes.
|
||
|
||
Major changes in Autoconf 2.6:
|
||
|
||
Released November 20th, 1995, by David J. MacKenzie
|
||
|
||
* Bug fixes.
|
||
|
||
Major changes in Autoconf 2.5:
|
||
|
||
Released November 17th, 1995, by Roland McGrath
|
||
|
||
* New configure options --bindir, --libdir, --datadir, etc., with
|
||
corresponding output variables.
|
||
* New macro: AC_CACHE_CHECK, to make using the cache easier.
|
||
* config.log contains the command being run as well as any output from it.
|
||
* AC_CHECK_LIB can check for libraries with "." or "/" or "+" in their name.
|
||
* AC_PROG_INSTALL doesn't cache a name for install-sh, for sharing caches.
|
||
* AC_CHECK_PROG, AC_PATH_PROG, AC_CHECK_PROGS, AC_PATH_PROGS, and
|
||
AC_CHECK_TOOL can search a path other than $PATH.
|
||
* AC_CHECK_SIZEOF takes an optional size to use when cross-compiling.
|
||
|
||
Major changes in Autoconf 2.4:
|
||
|
||
Released June 14th, 1995, by David J. MacKenzie
|
||
|
||
* Fix a few bugs found by Emacs testers.
|
||
|
||
Major changes in Autoconf 2.3:
|
||
|
||
Released March 27th, 1995, by David J. MacKenzie
|
||
|
||
* Fix the cleanup trap in several ways.
|
||
* Handle C compilers that are picky about option placement.
|
||
* ifnames gets the version number from the right directory.
|
||
|
||
Major changes in Autoconf 2.2:
|
||
|
||
Released March 8th, 1995, by David J. MacKenzie
|
||
|
||
* The ifnames utility is much faster but requires a "new awk" interpreter.
|
||
* AC_CHECK_LIB and AC_HAVE_LIBRARY check and add the new
|
||
library before existing libs, not after, in case it uses them.
|
||
* New macros: AC_FUNC_GETPGRP, AC_CHECK_TOOL.
|
||
* Lots of bug fixes.
|
||
* Many additions to the TODO file :-)
|
||
|
||
Major changes in Autoconf 2.1:
|
||
|
||
Released November 4th, 1994, by David J. MacKenzie
|
||
|
||
* Fix C++ problems.
|
||
* More explanations in the manual.
|
||
* Fix a spurious failure in the testsuite.
|
||
* Clarify some warning messages.
|
||
* autoreconf by default only rebuilds configure and config.h.in files
|
||
that are older than any of their particular input files; there is a
|
||
--force option to use after installing a new version of Autoconf.
|
||
|
||
Thanks to everybody who's submitted changes and additions to Autoconf!
|
||
I've incorporated many of them, and am still considering others for
|
||
future releases -- but I didn't want to postpone this release indefinitely.
|
||
|
||
Caution: don't indiscriminately rebuild configure scripts with
|
||
Autoconf version 2. Some configure.in files need minor adjustments to
|
||
work with it; the documentation has a chapter on upgrading. A few
|
||
configure.in files, including those for GNU Emacs and the GNU C
|
||
Library, need major changes because they relied on undocumented
|
||
internals of version 1. Future releases of those packages will have
|
||
updated configure.in files.
|
||
|
||
It's best to use GNU m4 1.3 (or later) with Autoconf version 2.
|
||
Autoconf now makes heavy use of m4 diversions, which were implemented
|
||
inefficiently in GNU m4 releases before 1.3.
|
||
|
||
Major changes in Autoconf 2.0:
|
||
|
||
Released October 26th, 1994, by David J. MacKenzie
|
||
|
||
** New copyright terms:
|
||
* There are no restrictions on distribution or use of configure scripts.
|
||
|
||
** Documentation:
|
||
* Autoconf manual is reorganized to make information easier to find
|
||
and has several new indexes.
|
||
* INSTALL is reorganized and clearer and is now made from Texinfo source.
|
||
|
||
** New utilities:
|
||
* autoscan to generate a preliminary configure.in for a package by
|
||
scanning its source code for commonly used nonportable functions,
|
||
programs, and header files.
|
||
* 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.
|
||
|
||
** Changed utilities:
|
||
* autoheader can take pieces of acconfig.h to replace config.h.{top,bot}.
|
||
* autoconf and autoheader can look for package-local definition files
|
||
in an alternate directory.
|
||
|
||
** New macros:
|
||
* AC_CACHE_VAL to share results of tests between configure runs.
|
||
* AC_DEFUN to define macros, automatically AC_PROVIDE them, and ensure
|
||
that macros invoked with AC_REQUIRE don't interrupt other macros.
|
||
* AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM, AC_CANONICAL_HOST, AC_LINK_FILES to
|
||
support deciding unguessable features based on the host and target types.
|
||
* AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS to recursively configure a source tree.
|
||
* 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 installation prefix.
|
||
* AC_TRY_COMPILE to compile a test program without linking it.
|
||
* 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.
|
||
* AC_FUNC_MEMCMP to check whether memcmp is 8-bit clean.
|
||
* AC_FUNC_STRFTIME to find strftime even if it's in -lintl.
|
||
* AC_FUNC_GETMNTENT to find getmntent even if it's in -lsun or -lseq.
|
||
* AC_HEADER_SYS_WAIT to check whether sys/wait.h is POSIX.1 compatible.
|
||
|
||
** Changed macros:
|
||
* Many macros renamed systematically, but old names are accepted for
|
||
backward compatibility.
|
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* AC_OUTPUT adds the "automatically generated" comment to
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non-Makefiles where it finds @configure_input@ in an input file, to
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* AC_OUTPUT does not replace "prefix" and "exec_prefix" in generated
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files when they are not enclosed in @ signs.
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* AC_OUTPUT allows the optional environment variable CONFIG_STATUS to
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override the file name "config.status".
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* AC_OUTPUT takes an optional argument for passing variables from
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configure to config.status.
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* AC_OUTPUT and AC_CONFIG_HEADER allow you to override the input-file names.
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* AC_OUTPUT automatically substitutes the values of CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS,
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CPPFLAGS, and LDFLAGS from the environment.
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* AC_PROG_CC and AC_PROG_CXX now set CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, respectively.
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* AC_PROG_INSTALL looks for install-sh or install.sh in the directory
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specified by AC_CONFIG_AUXDIR, or srcdir or srcdir/.. or
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srcdir/../.. by default.
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* AC_DEFINE, AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED, and AC_SUBST are more robust and smaller.
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* AC_DEFINE no longer prints anything, because of the new result reporting
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mechanism (AC_MSG_CHECKING and AC_MSG_RESULT).
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* AC_VERBOSE pays attention to --quiet/--silent, not --verbose.
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* AC_ARG_ENABLE and AC_ARG_WITH support whitespace in the arguments to
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--enable- and --with- options.
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* AC_CHECK_FUNCS and AC_CHECK_HEADERS take optional shell commands to
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execute on success or failure.
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* Checking for C functions in C++ works.
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** Removed macros:
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better maintained with them.
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* AC_ARG_ARRAY removed because no one was likely using it.
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* AC_HAVE_POUNDBANG replaced with AC_SYS_INTERPRETER, which doesn't
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take arguments, for consistency with all of the other specific checks.
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** New files:
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* Comes with config.sub and config.guess, and uses them optionally.
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* Uses config.cache to cache test results. An alternate cache file
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can be selected with the --cache-file=FILE option.
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* Uses optional shell scripts $prefix/share/config.site and
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$prefix/etc/config.site to perform site or system specific initializations.
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* configure saves compiler output to ./config.log for debugging.
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* New files autoconf.m4 and autoheader.m4 load the other Autoconf macros.
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* acsite.m4 is the new name for the system-wide aclocal.m4.
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* Has a DejaGnu test suite.
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Major changes in Autoconf 1.11:
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* AC_PROG_INSTALL calls install.sh with the -c option.
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* AC_SET_MAKE cleans up after itself.
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* AC_OUTPUT sets prefix and exec_prefix if they weren't set already.
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* AC_OUTPUT prevents shells from looking in PATH for config.status.
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Plus a few other bug fixes.
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Major changes in Autoconf 1.10:
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* autoheader uses config.h.bot if present, analogous to config.h.top.
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* AC_PROG_INSTALL looks for install.sh in srcdir or srcdir/.. and
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never uses cp.
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* AC_PROG_CXX looks for cxx as a C++ compiler.
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Plus several bugs fixed.
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Major changes in Autoconf 1.9:
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* AC_YYTEXT_POINTER replaces AC_DECLARE_YYTEXT.
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* AC_SIZEOF_TYPE generates the cpp symbol name automatically,
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and autoheader generates entries for those names automatically.
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* AC_FIND_X gets the result from xmkmf correctly.
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* AC_FIND_X assumes no X if --without-x was given.
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* AC_FIND_XTRA adds libraries to the variable X_EXTRA_LIBS.
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* AC_PROG_INSTALL finds OSF/1 installbsd.
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Major changes in Autoconf 1.8:
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** New macros:
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* New macros AC_LANG_C, AC_LANG_CPLUSPLUS, AC_LANG_SAVE, AC_LANG_RESTORE,
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AC_PROG_CXX, AC_PROG_CXXCPP, AC_REQUIRE_CPP
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for checking both C++ and C features in one configure script.
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* New macros AC_CHECKING, AC_VERBOSE, AC_WARN, AC_ERROR for printing messages.
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* New macros AC_FIND_XTRA, AC_MMAP, AC_SIZEOF_TYPE, AC_PREREQ,
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AC_SET_MAKE, AC_ENABLE.
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** Changed macros:
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* AC_FIND_X looks for X in more places.
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* AC_PROG_INSTALL defaults to install.sh instead of cp, if it's in srcdir.
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install.sh is distributed with Autoconf.
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* AC_DECLARE_YYTEXT has been removed because it can't work, pending
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a rewrite of quoting in AC_DEFINE.
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* AC_OUTPUT adds its comments in C format when substituting in C files.
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* AC_COMPILE_CHECK protects its ECHO-TEXT argument with double quotes.
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** New or changed command line options:
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* configure accepts --enable-FEATURE[=ARG] and --disable-FEATURE options.
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* configure accepts --without-PACKAGE, which sets withval=no.
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* configure accepts --x-includes=DIR and --x-libraries=DIR.
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* Giving --with-PACKAGE no argument sets withval=yes instead of withval=1.
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* configure accepts --help, --version, --silent/--quiet, --no-create options.
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* configure accepts and ignores most other Cygnus configure options, and
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warns about unknown options.
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* config.status accepts --help, --version options.
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** File names and other changes:
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* Relative srcdir values are not made absolute.
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* The values of @prefix@ and @exec_prefix@ and @top_srcdir@ get substituted.
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* Autoconf library files are installed in ${datadir}/autoconf, not ${datadir}.
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* autoheader optionally copies config.h.top to the beginning of config.h.in.
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* The example Makefile dependencies for configure et al. work better.
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* Namespace cleanup: all shell variables used internally by Autoconf
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have names beginning with `ac_'.
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More big improvements are in process for future releases, but have not
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yet been (variously) finished, integrated, tested, or documented enough
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to release yet.
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Major changes in Autoconf 1.7:
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* New macro AC_OBSOLETE.
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* Bugs in Makefile.in fixed.
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* AC_LONG_FILE_NAMES improved.
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Major changes in Autoconf 1.6:
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* New macro AC_LONG_64_BITS.
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* Multiple .h files can be created.
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* AC_FIND_X looks for X files directly if it doesn't find xmkmf.
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* AC_ALLOCA defines C_ALLOCA if using alloca.c.
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* --with-NAME can take a value, e.g., --with-targets=sun4,hp300bsd.
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* Unused --no-create option to configure removed.
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* autoheader doesn't change the timestamp of its output file if
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the file didn't change.
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* All macros that look for libraries now use AC_HAVE_LIBRARY.
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* config.status checks three optional environment variables to
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modify its behavior.
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* The usual bug fixes.
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Major changes in Autoconf 1.5:
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* New macros AC_FIND_X, AC_OFF_T, AC_STAT_MACROS_BROKEN, AC_REVISION.
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* autoconf and autoheader scripts have GNU standards conforming
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--version and --help options (they print their message and exit).
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* Many bug fixes.
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Major changes in Autoconf 1.4:
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* New macros AC_HAVE_POUNDBANG, AC_TIME_WITH_SYS_TIME, AC_LONG_DOUBLE,
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AC_GETGROUPS_T, AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED.
|
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* autoconf and autoheader use the M4 environment variable to determine the
|
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name of the m4 program to use.
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* The --macrodir option to autoconf and autoheader specifies the directory
|
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in which acspecific.m4, acgeneral.m4, etc. reside if not the default.
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* autoconf and autoheader can take `-' as their file names, which means to
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read stdin as input.
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* Resulting configure scripts can take a --verbose option which causes them
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to print the results of their tests.
|
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* AC_DEFINE quotes its second argument in such a way that spaces, magic
|
||
shell characters, etc. will be preserved during various stages of
|
||
expansion done by the shell. If you don't want this, use
|
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AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED instead.
|
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* Much textual processing done with external calls to tr and sed have been
|
||
internalized with builtin m4 `patsubst' and `translit' calls.
|
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* AC_OUTPUT doesn't hardwire the file names it outputs. Instead, you can
|
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set the shell variables `gen_files' and `gen_config' to the list of
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||
file names to output.
|
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* AC_DECLARE_YYTEXT does an AC_SUBST of `LEX_OUTPUT_ROOT', which may be
|
||
"lex.yy" or "lexyy", depending on the system.
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||
* AC_PROGRAMS_CHECK takes an optional third arg. If given, it is used as
|
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the default value.
|
||
* If AC_ALLOCA chooses alloca.c, it also defines STACK_DIRECTION.
|
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* AC_CONST works much more reliably on more systems.
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* Many bug fixes.
|
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|
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Major changes in Autoconf 1.3:
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|
||
configure no longer requires awk for packages that use a config.h.
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Support handling --with-PACKAGE options.
|
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New `autoheader' script to create `config.h.in' from `configure.in'.
|
||
Ignore troublesome -lucb and -lPW when searching for alloca.
|
||
Rename --exec_prefix to --exec-prefix for GNU standards conformance.
|
||
Improve detection of STDC library.
|
||
Add AC_HAVE_LIBRARY to check for non-default libraries.
|
||
Function checking should work with future GNU libc releases.
|
||
|
||
Major changes in Autoconf 1.2:
|
||
|
||
The --srcdir option is now usually unnecessary.
|
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Add a file containing sample comments describing CPP macros.
|
||
A comment in config.status tells which host it was configured on.
|
||
Substituted variable values can now contain commas.
|
||
Fix bugs in various feature checks.
|
||
|
||
Major changes in Autoconf 1.1:
|
||
|
||
Added AC_STRCOLL macro.
|
||
Made AC_GETLOADAVG check for more things.
|
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AC_OUTPUT argument is now optional.
|
||
Various bug fixes.
|
||
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||
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GNU Autoconf is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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any later version.
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GNU Autoconf is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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