The GNU Autoconf team is pleased to announce the stable release of
Autoconf 2.67. Autoconf is an extensible package of M4 macros that
produce shell scripts to automatically configure software source code
packages. These scripts can adapt the packages to many kinds of
UNIX-like systems without manual user intervention. Autoconf creates a
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This release fixes a few regressions introduced in previous releases,
and is primarily focused on bug fixes. It also includes a few new
features, documented below.
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* Noteworthy changes in release 2.68 (2010-09-22) [stable]
Released by Eric Blake, based on git versions 2.67.*.
** AC_MSG_ERROR (and AS_ERROR) can once again be followed immediately by
`dnl'. Regression introduced in 2.66.
** AC_INIT again allows URLs with '?' for its BUG-REPORT argument.
Regression introduced in 2.66.
** AC_REPLACE_FUNCS again allows a non-literal argument, such as a shell
variable that expands to a list of functions to check. Regression
introduced in 2.66.
** AT_BANNER() with empty argument will cause visual separation from
previous
test category.
** The macros AC_PREPROC_IFELSE, AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, AC_LINK_IFELSE, and
AC_RUN_IFELSE now warn if the first argument failed to use
AC_LANG_SOURCE or AC_LANG_PROGRAM to generate the conftest file
contents. A new macro AC_LANG_DEFINES_PROVIDED exists if you have
a compelling reason why you cannot use AC_LANG_SOURCE but must
avoid the warning.
** The macro m4_define_default is now documented.
** Symlinked config.cache files are supported; configure now tries to
update non-symlinked cache files atomically, so that concurrent
configure
runs do not leave behind broken cache files. It is still unspecified
which subset or union of results is cached though.
** Autotest testsuites should not contain long text lines any more, and be
portable even when very many test groups are used.
** AT_CHECK semantics with respect to the Autotest variable $at_status and
shell execution environment of the arguments are documented now.
** AC_FC_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS now tolerates output from newer gfortran.
** Newly obsolete macros
The following macros have been marked obsolete. New programs
should use the corresponding Gnulib modules. Gnulib not only
detects a larger set of portability problems with these functions,
but also provides complete workarounds.
AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE AC_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK
AC_FUNC_MKTIME AC_FUNC_STRTOD
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The GNU Autoconf team
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