[arch-dev-public] [signoff] autoconf 2.63-1

[Ronald van Haren]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Andreas Radke <a.radke at arcor.de> 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