#+TITLE: GNU Autoconf Archive NEWS -*- mode:org;fill-column:79; -*- #+STARTUP: showall # # Copyright (c) 2011 Autoconf Archive Maintainers # # Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are # permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice # and this notice are preserved. This file is offered as-is, without any # warranty. * Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?] AX_CHECK_MYSQL has been significantly re-factored to fix several bugs. See for further details. New additions AX_PERL_EXT and AX_RUBY_EXT can be used to fetch the linker flags and C compiler flags for compiling and linking Perl/Ruby binary extensions. AX_LIB_HDF5 erroneously defined HAVE_HDF5 even when the library was not detected. This has been fixed. Autoconf 2.68 warnings concerning AX_PTHREAD haven been fixed. AX_WITH_CURSES has been extensively re-written, and the new variants AX_WITH_CURSES_PANEL, AX_WITH_CURSES_MENU, and AX_WITH_CURSES_FORM have been added. See for further details. AX_GCC_INSTALL_DIR, AX_GCC_LIBRARIES_DIR, AX_GCC_VERSION, and AX_GXX_VERSION are non-functional and have been marked obsolete, because they depend on the obsolete AX_GCC_OPTION macro, which has been removed from the archive. * Noteworthy changes in release 2011.07.17 (2011-07-17) [stable] A cut-and-paste error in AX_BOOST_FILESSYTEM has been fixed. See for further details. The macros AX_CHECK_SUNPRO_C and AX_LANG_COMPILER_MS are deprecated in favor of the more generic AX_COMPILER_VENDOR. Several instance of under-quoted arguments have been fixed in AX_CHECK_OPENSSL. See for further details. The new macros AX_CHECK_PREPROC_FLAG, AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG, and AX_CHECK_LINK_FLAG have been added. They are intended to replace AX_CHECK_COMPILER_FLAGS, AX_CHECK_LINKER_FLAGS, AX_C_CHECK_FLAG, AX_CPP_CHECK_FLAG, AX_CXX_CHECK_FLAG, AX_CXXCPP_CHECK_FLAG and AX_LD_CHECK_FLAG. Consequently, the older macros have been marked obsolete, and they'll be removed from the archive in the foreseeable future. Further details can be found at . The new macro AX_APPEND_FLAG, to append a flag to a FLAGS variable, has been added. The convenience wrappers AX_APPEND_COMPILE_FLAGS and AX_APPEND_LINK_FLAGS have been added. Those two macros add the given flags only if the compiler/linker understands them. The obsolete macros AX_CFLAGS_WARN_ALL_ANSI, AX_C_IFDEF, AX_C_PRINTF_THSEP, AX_GCC_OPTION, AX_WITH_GUILE, AX_WITH_PERL, AX_WITH_PYTHON, and AX_WITH_RUBY have been deleted. The new macro AX_CHECK_MYSQL has been added. It is geared specifically toward MySQL plugin development. See for further details. AX_PTHREAD has been extended to check for PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT. See for further details. Several several bugs in AX_CHECK_DEFINE have been fixed. See for further details. The new macros AX_PROG_CC_MPI, AX_PROG_CXX_MPI, AX_PROG_F77_MPI, and AX_PROG_FC_MPI address several shortcomings found in AX_MPI. Further details can be found at , . AX_BOOST_THREAD: Two bugs have been fixed that prevented the macro from being used in cross-compilation environments for Windows on Unix. AX_VAR_TIMEZONE_EXTERNALS, AX_FUNC_WHICH_GETHOSTBYNAME_R, and AX_PTHREAD have been updated to conform with Autoconf 2.68 * Noteworthy changes in release 2011.04.12 (2011-04-12) [stable] AX_LUA has been improved to work correctly with LuaJIT. Changed AX_HAVE_QT to list libraries last, not first. Other previously used ordering will fail when --as-needed is in effect. See for further details. * Noteworthy changes in release 2011.03.17 (2011-03-17) [stable] AX_PATH_GENERIC has been extended to allow setting LIBRARY_LIBS and LIBRARY_CFLAGS variables on configure command line or in the environment to override the normal values returned by `library-config --libs` and `--cflags` respectively. See for further details. AX_LIB_EXPAT has been modified to save the found library in EXPAT_LIBS instead if EXPAT_LDFLAGS. This is necessary to avoid build failures when linking with --as-needed. See for further details. AX_PKG_SWIG has been extended to find SWIG v2 as installed by Ubuntu Maverick and Ubuntu Natty. AX_PROG_SPLINT has been added. The macro provides Automake support for the splint utility. See for further details. Fixed a regression in AX_EXT_HAVE_LIB. The new macro AX_BERKELEY_DB_CXX has been added. It is a variant of AX_BERKELEY_DB that has been adapted to check for C++ headers and libraries. See for further details. * Noteworthy changes in release 2011.01.02 (2011-01-02) [stable] AX_BOOST_BASE has been extended to support non-x86 64-bit architectures, such as PPC64 or Sparc64, too. See for further details. AX_CHECK_ZLIB has been bug-fixed to honor the --with-zlib option. Further details are available at . AX_CHECK_JAVA_HOME has been extended to deal correctly with MacOS X. See for further details. The robustness of AX_PROG_FLEX and AX_PROG_BISON has been improved. See for further details. A bug in AX_EXT_HAVE_LIB has been fixed that prevented the macro from being called several times. See for further details. The new macro AX_CXX_RESTRICT_THIS has been added. It's purpose is to determine whether the C++ compiler supports qualifying a member function with a restricted "this" pointer. See for further details. AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX_0X has been improved to support GCC 4.5.x. Please refer to for further details. The macro AX_GCC_OPTION has been marked obsolete and will be deleted from the archive in the foreseeable future. Its functionality is now provided by AX_C_CHECK_FLAG, AX_CXX_CHECK_FLAG, AX_CPP_CHECK_FLAG, AX_CXXCPP_CHECK_FLAG, and AX_LD_CHECK_FLAG. The license of the following macros has been updated from GPLv2 (with Autoconf exception) to GPLv3 (with Autoconf exception): AX_ARG_WITH_PATH_STYLE, AX_C_BIGENDIAN_CROSS, AX_C_DECLARE_BLOCK, AX_CFLAGS_AIX_OPTION, AX_CFLAGS_FORCE_C89, AX_CFLAGS_GCC_OPTION, AX_CFLAGS_HPUX_OPTION, AX_CFLAGS_IRIX_OPTION, AX_CFLAGS_NO_WRITABLE_STRINGS, AX_CFLAGS_STRICT_PROTOTYPES, AX_CFLAGS_SUN_OPTION, AX_CFLAGS_WARN_ALL_ANSI, AX_CHECK_ALIGNED_ACCESS_REQUIRED, AX_CHECK_DEFINE, AX_CHECK_FUNC_IN, AX_CHECK_SYMBOL, AX_CHECK_TYPEDEF, AX_COND_WITH_LEVEL, AX_CONFIGURE_ARGS, AX_CREATE_GENERIC_CONFIG, AX_CREATE_STDINT_H, AX_CREATE_TARGET_H, AX_DEFINE_SUB_PATH, AX_DIRNAME, AX_ENABLE_BUILDDIR, AX_EXPAND_PREFIX, AX_GCC_CONST_CALL, AX_GCC_MALLOC_CALL, AX_GCC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT, AX_MAINTAINER_MODE_AUTO_SILENT, AX_NOT_ENABLE_FRAME_POINTER, AX_NUMERIC_NAMEDLEVEL, AX_PATCH_LIBTOOL_CHANGING_CMDS_IFS, AX_PATH_LIB_PCRE, AX_PREFIG_CONFIG_H, AX_PROG_CC_CHAR_SUBSCRIPTS, AX_PROG_CP_S, AX_SET_DEFAULT_PATHS_SYSTEM, AX_SPEC_FILE, AX_SPEC_PACKAGE_VERSION, AX_SUBDIR_FILES, AX_SUBST_WITH, AX_SYS_LARGEFILE_SENSITIVE, AX_WARNING_DEFAULT_ACLOCALDIR, and AX_WARNING_DEFAULT_PKGCONFIG. The macros AX_CXX_CPPFLAGS_STD_LANG, AX_CXX_CXXFLAGS_STD_LANG and AX_CXX_LDFLAGS_STD_LANG have been modified to use AX_COMPILER_VENDOR for compiler detection. The new macro AX_ASM_INLINE has been added. It's purpose is to determine whether the C compiler supports in-line assembler instructions. The new macro AX_FORCEINLINE has been added. It's purpose is to determine whether the C compiler supports forced in-lining. The new macro AX_LIB_CGAL_CORE has been added. Further details are available at . The new macro AX_CHECK_LIBRARY has been added. Further details are available at . AX_JNI_INCLUDE_DIR has been fixed to work correctly on MacOS X 10.6.4, where the header is a symbolic link. Further details are available at . * Noteworthy changes in release 2010.10.26 (2010-10-26) [stable] The macros AX_WITH_GUILE, AX_WITH_PERL, AX_WITH_PYTHON, and AX_WITH_RUBY are considered obsolete and will be deleted from the archive in the foreseeable future. Use of obsolete macros can be identified by running autoconf(1) with the flag -Wobsolete. Furthermore, the standard utility autoupdate(1) provides assistance with updating existing "configure.ac" files. AX_PROG_DOXYGEN has been extended to implement "DX_DOT_FEATURE(ON|OFF)". This feature was documented, but it didn't actually exist. Further details are available at . A bug in AX_BOOST_BASE has been fixed that would cause BOOST_LDFLAGS to be detected incorrectly. See for further details. AX_LIB_HDF5 has been extended to support requesting either a serial or a parallel HDF5 installation. Furthermore, the macro can now detect whether or not a Fortran-ready installation is present. Further details are available at . AX_CFLAGS_WARN_ALL has been cleaned up to avoid use of obsolete Autoconf constructs. Also, a new variant of the macro, AX_FCFLAGS_WARN_ALL, has been added to enable support for Fortran. Further details are available at . AX_COMPILER_VENDOR has been extended to support the Clang compiler. Caching issues in AX_BLAS have been remedied. Further details are available at . Plenty of Autoconf 2.68 warnings have been fixed. Added initial version of AX_CC_FOR_BUILD. AX_LUA_LIB_VERSION has been renamed to AX_LUA_HEADERS_VERSION, because that is what the macro is checking, really. A new macro AX_LUA_READLINE has been added. The AX_PREFIX_CONFIG_H macro has been improved to support the system shell "dash". See for further details. The AX_BLAS_F77_FUNC macro has been improved to properly save and restore the value of the $LIBS variable. Furthermore, an extra check was added to verify that the integer size of Fortran (4 or 8 bytes) matches that of BLAS. See for further details. AX_TLS has been updated to usual FOUND/NOT-FOUND interface. Handling of indirectly named shell variables has been fixed in AX_CFLAGS_GCC_OPTION. There have also been improvements to the documentation. See and for further details. * Noteworthy changes in release 2010.08.19 (2010-08-19) [stable] 64-bit support in the boost macros has been improved. Further details are at: . A test logic error in AX_LIB_MYSQL has been fixed. Further details are at . The boost macros for iostreams, regex, serialization, signals, system, test_exec_monitor, unit_test_framework, wave, and wserialization have been patched not to rely on being executed by a 'bash' shell. Also, an under-quoted shell variable has been fixed in AX_BOOST_BASE. The documentation of AX_MPI has been improved. Further details are at . * Noteworthy changes in release 2010.07.06 (2010-07-06) [stable] Fixed compiler warning in AX_PTHREAD's test program for AC_TRY_LINK. * Noteworthy changes in release 2010.06.04 (2010-06-04) [beta] The Autoconf Archive has been declared an official GNU project. Consequently, the web site has moved from to . Old addresses remain valid for the foreseeable future, though. AX_BOOST_DATE_TIME and AX_BOOST_FILESYSTEM have been patched to function correctly on systems that use "dash" as the system shell (i.e. Debian). AX_PTHREAD has been fixed to provide the "-pthreads" flag on 10.6 OS X systems. Fixed use of $EXEEXT in AX_CHECK_JAVA_HOME, AX_PROG_JAVA, AX_PROG_JAVA_WORKS, AX_PROG_JAVAC, and AX_PROG_JAVADOC. Further details can be found at . AX_LIB_LIBKML, a macro to detect Google's libkml library, has been added. See http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7109 for further details. AX_PREFIX_CONFIG_H has been bug-fixed to avoid generating extraneous spaces that would break prefixed macros. AX_F90_MODULE_FLAG has been bug-fixed with regard to the Compaq Alpha Fortran compiler. A typo in the code of AX_PYTHON_EMBED has been fixed that resulted in the function AX_PYTHON_INSIST being undefined. The new AX_LIB_HDF5 macro provides functionality to detect the HDF5 library. The version detection code in AX_PKG_SWIG has been fixed. Previous versions of this macro would fail to accept SWIG 2.0 where SWIG >= 1.3.x was requested. * Noteworthy changes in release 2010.02.14 (2010-02-14) [beta] All macros have been assigned a unique serial number that corresponds to the number of commits that have modified the macro in the Archive's Git repository. Refer to the [[http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool//manual/automake/Serials.html][Automake documentation on serial numbers]] for further details about why these numbers are useful. The text of the all-permissive license has been augmented by an express warranty disclaimer as [[http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/License-Notices-for-Other-Files.html][suggested by the Free Software Foundation]]. AX_CXX_VERBOSE_TERMINATE_HANDLER has been generalized to support architectures other than GNU libstdc++. AX_CHECK_ICU has been extended to support icu-specific CPPFLAGS. AX_BOOST_BASE has been improved to work correctly in a cross-compilation environment and extended to support an ACTION-IF-FOUND/ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND-style API. AX_PTHREAD has been updated to succeed when compiling with -Wall and -Werror. AX_C_IFDEF has been deprecated, because the standard Autoconf macro AC_CHECK_DECL provides the same functionality. AX_C_PRINTF_THSEP has been deprecated because of technical flaws. See http://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/?6848 for further details. AX_RESTORE_FLAGS and AX_SAVE_FLAGS have been added. AX_SYS_LARGEFILE_SENSITIVE has improved support for x86_64 hosts. AX_MPIP has been added. In all macros, calls to the obsolete AC_HELP_STRING function have been replaced with the newer, recommended AS_HELP_STRING. * Noteworthy changes in release 2009.12.16 (2009-12-16) [alpha] All macros that used a prefix other than AX_ -- or no prefix at all -- have been renamed to use AX_ consistently. The new version forward old calls under their old names to the new ones via Autoconf's AU_ALIAS mechanism. The HTML documentation is obsolete. Instead, the archive now ships its documentation in Texinfo format. All macros distributed by the archive are now licensed under terms that do *not* limit the choice of license for the generated configure script. Previous releases didn't meet this requirement because they contained macros that were licensed under GPL or Lesser GPL without an Autoconf Exception. Please refer to the [[ChangeLog]] file for a complete list of changes. * Noteworthy changes in release 2009.07.31 (2009-07-31) [alpha] The archive has moved to Savannah: http://www.nongnu.org/autoconf-archive/ Version 2009-04-26 was the last to be released at autoconf-archive.cryp.to. The version identifier has been changed to a "year.month.day" spelling, rather than the ISO format, because the dot-separated spelling works better for most distributions and for the gnulib infrastructure. The 2009.07.31 release was an internal test release that has never been publicly available.