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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
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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.
-
- --
- Franc,ois Pinard ``Vivement GNU!'' pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
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