We're happy to announce the release of Autoconf 2.60b. This is a test version. It is mostly a bug-fix release since 2.60. We hope to generate Autoconf 2.61 soon, based on feedback from this test version. The important changes since Autoconf 2.60a are listed below. The sources and GPG detached signature are here: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.60b.tar.gz ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.60b.tar.gz.sig ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.60b.tar.bz2 ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.60b.tar.bz2.sig Here are the MD5 and SHA-512 checksums: e6aea2171ce025e927c3837968b7f8b0 autoconf-2.60b.tar.gz 03317da28d73aa3327f5e6f328c0f518 autoconf-2.60b.tar.bz2 74a8cd2886a6c81e9d6a51308fe8d0b46cfd964d13db1ffb1066621e6b2f138ae8d5cd4b964de9004c55a3a7c56a5f798c91e965471cb3e30b0429c2470dd9ea autoconf-2.60b.tar.gz 5e28f4ba70a2035db331d1218b39515a8690e6aa1e54ce9e8eeb92f1ba8273bd2aec45d6d92b4dd1d78e311e92b2492b85ca1216d76bbbd830d209e9abc0a687 autoconf-2.60b.tar.bz2 I'd like to thank the other major contributors to this test release, who are Ralf Wildenhues, Stepan Kasal, Eric Blake, Romain Lenglet, and Bruno Haible. NEWS * Major changes in Autoconf 2.60b (2006-10-22) ** BIN_SH Autoconf-generated shell scripts no longer export BIN_SH, due to configuration hassles with this. Installers who need BIN_SH in their environment should set it before invoking 'configure' and 'make'. As far as we know, this affects only Unixware installations. ** Obsolescent macros The documentation now says that the following macros are obsolescent, as they are superseded by Gnulib: AC_FUNC_FNMATCH AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU AC_FUNC_GETLOADVG AC_REPLACE_FNMATCH New programs should use the Gnulib counterparts of these macros. We have no current plans to remove them from Autoconf. ** AC_COMPUTE_INT no longer caches or reports results. ** AC_CHECK_DECL now also works with aggregate objects. ** AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS now defines _TANDEM_SOURCE for NonStop platforms. ** GNU M4 1.4.7 or later is now recommended. ** m4_mkstemp New M4sugar macro, which is more secure than the POSIX M4 maketemp. ** m4_maketemp Now an alias for m4_mkstemp. Here is a link to the ChangeLog entries since 2.60a: http://cvs.sv.gnu.org/viewcvs/autoconf/autoconf/ChangeLog?r1=1.3014&r2=1.3069 _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
