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| author | Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> | 2010-07-19 15:50:45 -0600 |
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| committer | Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> | 2010-07-19 17:32:04 -0600 |
| commit | f4f4a26c016f8d7859c8958cc20ec3d80fc10ceb (patch) | |
| tree | 42bbf4a742807274402830b1d3dfaff4812d4699 /NEWS | |
| parent | 1fc79ec3575bc15696254267a1b9130c83b2bfdb (diff) | |
| download | autoconf-f4f4a26c016f8d7859c8958cc20ec3d80fc10ceb.tar.gz | |
Relax AC_INIT requirements for PACKAGE and VERSION strings again.
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (AS_LITERAL_HEREDOC_IF): New macro.
(_AS_LITERAL_HEREDOC_IF, _AS_LITERAL_HEREDOC_IF_YES)
(_AS_LITERAL_HEREDOC_IF_NO): New helper macros.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PACKAGE): Use
AS_LITERAL_HEREDOC_IF for PACKAGE and VERSION strings.
* tests/base.at (AC_INIT with unusual version strings): New test.
* tests/m4sh.at (AS@&t@_LITERAL_IF): Extend test.
* NEWS: Update.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -13,6 +13,14 @@ GNU Autoconf NEWS - User visible changes. ** AC_PREPROC_IFELSE now keeps the preprocessed output in the conftest.i file for inspection by the commands in the ACTION-IF-TRUE argument. +** AC_INIT again allows parentheses and other characters that are literal + in both quoted and unquoted here-documents in its PACKAGE and + VERSION arguments. This is relevant for packages not using these + strings nor products like PACKAGE_STRING in other contexts, e.g., + for Automake, and may be subject to further restrictions in the + future. Regression introduced in 2.66. + + * Major changes in Autoconf 2.66 (2010-07-02) [stable] Released by Eric Blake, based on git versions 2.65.*. |