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Article #1244GNU m4 beta release 1.0.3
From: Francois Pinard
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 02:46
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 02:46
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Hi, people.
I am pleased to announce a new release of GNU m4, now available on
prep.ai.mit.edu, in pub/gnu, as file m4-1.0.3.tar.Z. There are no
diffs, because the sources changed much.
Please note that this is a beta release. You might elect to delay
installation until GNU m4 1.1, letting problems be ironed out first.
All known bugs have been corrected. Here is a list of differences
from previous version:
* GNU m4 now uses an Autoconf-generated configure script, and should
be more easily portable in many ways. (Cray is not supported yet).
* `make check' has been made more portable, please expect no errors.
* `dnl' outputs a diagnostic if immediately followed by `('. Usually,
`dnl' should be followed by newline or whitespace.
* `ifelse' accepts without complaining the common idiom of having only
one argument. This is useful for introducing long comments.
* `eval' always expresses values as signed, whatever the radix.
* M4OPTS environment variable is no longer obeyed.
* `--no-warnings' option is renamed `--silent'.
* Debug lines use a new format more compatible with GNU standards.
* Various bugs have been corrected. See the ChangeLog for details.
* Sources have been fully reindented to comply with GNU standards, and
cleaned up in many ways.
* Sources have been protoized. Non-ANSI compilers are automatically
detected, then sources are unprotoized on the fly before compilation.
* GNU m4 uses newer versions of obstack, regex, getopt, etc.
--
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Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 21:46:40 EST From: Francois Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> Message-ID: <9212200246.AA13488@kovic.IRO.UMontreal.CA> To: info-gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu Subject: GNU m4 beta release 1.0.3 Distribution: world Approved: info-gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!stanford.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!ai-lab!prep.ai.mit.edu!gnulists Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug,gnu.announce Followup-To: gnu.utils.bug Lines: 64