I'm forwarding this announcement from the Autoconf list in the hope that any OS/2 users who have ever tried Autoconf, will give this one a test.
The Autoconf developers are making an attempt to make it cross-platform so it ought to work on OS/2. So, please try it and report any problems. With any luck the next full release will work on OS/2 straight out of the box. -- John On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:48:15PM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote: > The following message is a courtesy copy of an article > that has been posted to gnu.utils.bug as well. > > > Of course there are still many things that ought to be done in > Autoconf, nevertheless, there is no point in waiting for the day where > Autoconf will be complete (as by definition, there is always something > wrong for someone). > > We aim at releasing 2.53 within the next months. This is also a call > for people ready to: > > - improve the documentation > - upgrade existing specific macros > - import into Autoconf wide spread specific macros > > Thanks! > > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.52g.tar.gz (959 kB) > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.52g.tar.bz2 (735 kB) > > And here are xdelta-style diffs > > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.52f-2.52g.xdelta (50 kB) > > Here are the MD5 and SHA1 signatures for the compressed tar files: > > dcfbcb09bd49c4d3bb241ec77cd79bdf autoconf-2.52g.tar.gz > 28aaa993b7f105ec4fcebf99ecfaf5bd autoconf-2.52g.tar.bz2 > 5bfb084cecb6c15583ecafcc4f4e0eff221e6e1c autoconf-2.52g.tar.gz > 1263c961cabc603186de2b5aeac07ddec9e76267 autoconf-2.52g.tar.bz2 > > NEWS: > > ** Requirements > > Perl 5.005_03 or later is required: autom4te is written in Perl and is > needed by autoconf. autoheader, autoreconf, ifnames, and autoscan are > rewritten in Perl. > > ** Documentation > > - AC_INIT > Argument requirements, output variables, defined macros. > - M4sugar, M4sh, Autotest > First sketch. > - Double quoting macros > AC_TRY_CPP, AC_TRY_COMPILE, AC_TRY_LINK and AC_TRY_RUN. > - Licensing > The Autoconf manual is now distributed under the terms of the GNU FDL. > > ** configure > > - $LINENO > Now used instead of hard coded line numbers. > This eases the comparison of `configure's, and diminishes the > pressure over control version archives. > Automatic replacement for shells that don't support this feature. > - New output variables > @builddir@, @top_builddir@, @abs_srcdir@, @abs_top_srcdir@, @abs_builddir@, > @abs_top_builddir@. > > ** Emacs > > Autoconf and Autotest modes are provided. > > ** Executables > > - autom4te > New, used by the Autoconf suite to cache and speed up most processing. > - --force, -f > Supported by autom4te, autoconf and autoheader. > - --include, -I > Replaces --autoconf-dir and --localdir in autoconf, autoheader, > autoupdate, and autoreconf. > - autoreconf > No longer passes --cygnus, --foreign, --gnits, --gnu, --include-deps: > automake options are to be given via AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS. > - autoreconf > Runs gettextize and libtoolize when appropriate. > - autoreconf > --m4dir is no longer supported. > - autoreconf > Now runs only in the specified directories, defaulting to `.', > but understands AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS for dependent directories. > Before, it used to run on all the `configure.ac' found in the > current tree. > Independent packages are properly updated. > > ** Bug fixes > > - The top level $prefix is propagated to the AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS configures. > - AC_TRY_RUN > Under the user pressure, $? is finally available. Probably a mistake. > - AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS now supports the HP/UX f90 compiler. > - Precious variables accumulation > config.status could stack several copies of the precious variables > assignments. > > ** C Macros > > - AC_C_BIGENDIAN supports the cross-compiling case. > - AC_C_BIGENDIAN accepts ACTION-IF-TRUE, ACTION-IF-FALSE, and > ACTION-IF-UNKNOWN arguments. All are facultative, and the default > for ACTION-IF-TRUE is to define WORDS_BIGENDIAN like AC_C_BIGENDIAN > always did. > - AC_C_LONG_DOUBLE now succeeds only if `long double' has more range or > precision than `double'. > > ** Generic macros > > - AC_INIT > It now defines the preprocessor symbols PACKAGE_NAME, > PACKAGE_TARNAME, PACKAGE_VERSION, PACKAGE_STRING, and > PACKAGE_BUGREPORT. > > - AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS, HEADERS, FILES, LINKS. > Provide the user with srcdir, ac_srcdir, ac_top_srcdir, ac_builddir, > ac_top_builddir, ac_abs_srcdir, ac_abs_top_srcdir, ac_abs_builddir, > ac_abs_top_builddir. > > - AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS, HEADERS, FILES, LINKS and AC_OUTPUT. > Are much less expensive when using long lists of files. > > ** Library macros > > - AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R now sets STRERROR_R_CHAR_P, not HAVE_WORKING_STRERROR_R, > because POSIX 1003.1-200x draft 7 says strerror_r returns int, not char *. > > - AC_FUNC_STRTOD substitutes POW_LIB. > > - AC_FUNC_STRNLEN > New. >
