From:	"Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
To:	<djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com>
Cc:	"DJGPP-Workers" <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	UPDATE: Yet another version of autoconf 2.50
Date:	Sun, 3 Jun 2001 11:00:23 +0200
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Third (and hopefully final) installment of the DJGPP package for
autoconf 2.50 (acnf250[bs].zip on simtelnet).

Changes in this release:

* The 'autoconf' script will now override the SHELL variable, setting
  it to /dev/env/DJDIR/bin/bash.exe.  This allows m4 to run properly,
  as $SHELL needs to point to an actual executable (as opposed to
  just /bin/sh) for advanced uses of the system() library function to
  work.  Note that the same workaround is not present in the
  'autoupdate' script, because that is a perl script and perl itself
  would not use the new value of $SHELL.  So if you want to run
  autoupdate, you'll need to make sure you have $SHELL set up correctly.
* The man pages in the binary distribution are now preformatted, so
  groff is not required.
* The standards.info file was dropped from both the source and binary
  package, as it is not just part of autoconf.  standards.texi is
  still included in the source package.

Known bugs in this version of autoconf:

* AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM is broken; it will set the prefix to the directory
  the program was found in instead of the directory above it.  Since
  this macro is rarely used, this should not be a big problem though.
* Some macros may not be entirely DOS-friendly yet.  If you see some
  code that handles filenames incorrectly, please send a bug report to
  bug-autoconf AT gnu DOT org (with a CC: to me).  The same goes for any other
  bugs you may encounter.

Tim Van Holder

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