GNU m4 beta release 1.0.3

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1 total messages Started by Francois Pinard Sun, 20 Dec 1992 02:46

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Author: Francois Pinard
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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