It’s been five weeks since the release of autoconf 2.69c. Many bugs have been fixed, and I had hoped to be able to put out the final release of 2.70 this week, but there are still some important bugs that need to be fixed before we can do that. (Testing is still very welcome, but I recommend you work from autoconf git trunk - https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/autoconf.git - rather than continuing to use 2.69c. I can make another beta release if that would be helpful.) Here is my current list of issues that ideally would be addressed before the release; for each, see `https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?BUGNUMBER` for details. * Regressions * `AC_LANG_PUSH/AC_LANG_POP` malfunction inside AC_DEFUN (#110294) * `AX_PROG_CC_FOR_BUILD` broken with 2.69c (#110350) * `AC_INIT` quoting headaches (#110349) * Broken `AC_PROG_LEX` macro (#110312) (unreproducible) * Bugs also present in 2.69 * Replace autom4te output file atomically (#110305) (Debian carries a patch for this, but their implementation is not ideal.) * Parallel autotest produces mangled output on Solaris 10 (#110354) (cosmetic; might not be fixable) * Highly desirable enhancements * Revise documentation of when configure enters cross-compilation mode (#110347) * Make it possible to request a specific (non-latest) version of a language standard from `AC_PROG_CC` etc (#110286) At this stage I will only be accepting additions to this list if they are regressions from 2.69. If you discover, or already know of, regressions from 2.69 that aren’t on this list, please **file issues in Savannah** for them. It makes quite a bit of extra work for me if I have to copy bug reports from email into Savannah. (Please do also file issues in Savannah for any other bugs you find, but make clear that it is not a regression and I’ll mark it as not blocking 2.70.) Unfortunately, as of this week, the funding I had to work on the 2.70 release has been completely used up. I’m happy to continue as volunteer release manager for 2.70, but I cannot promise to fix all of these bugs myself using only unpaid hacking time. I’m asking everyone reading this email to chip in and help with these bugs so the 2.70 release can be as good as possible. In most cases, the problem is clear and we just need to develop and test the fix. I’m going to send an email like this every week from now on until the release happens. zw
