X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-Id: Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:08:12 -0600 From: Eric Blake Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060719 Thunderbird/1.5.0.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: m4-1.4.6-1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List X-Mailer: Perl5 Mail::Internet v1.74 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A new release of m4, 1.4.6-1, is available, replacing 1.4.5-1 as current. NEWS ==== This is a new upstream release. From the NEWS file, the changes since 1.4.5 are listed below. See also /usr/share/doc/m4-1.4.6/. You must rebuild from source if you want the experimental changeword feature enabled, as using it can slow down normal operation, and since it will disappear from the eventual m4 2.0. DESCRIPTION =========== m4 is an implementation of the traditional Unix macro processor. It is mostly SVR4 compatible although it has some extensions (for example, handling more than 9 positional parameters to macros). GNU m4 also has built-in functions for including files, running shell commands, doing arithmetic, etc. UPDATE ====== To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'm4' from the 'Interpreters' category. DOWNLOAD: ========= Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. 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NEWS file extract: ================== Version 1.4.6 - 25 August 2006, by Eric Blake (CVS version 1.4.5a) * Fix buffer overruns in regexp and patsubst macros when handed a trailing backslash in the replacement text, or when handling \n substitutions beyond the number of \(\) groups. * Fix memory leak in regexp, patsubst, and changeword macros. * The format macro now understands %F, %g, and %G. * When loading frozen files, m4 now exits with status 63 if version mismatch is detected. * Fix bugs that occurred when invoked with stdout or stderr closed, and detect write failures to stdout or to the target of the debugfile macro. In particular, the syscmd and esyscmd macros can no longer interfere with the debug stream or diversions. * The m4exit macro now converts values outside the range 0-255 to 1. * It is now an error if a command-line input file ends in the middle of a comment, matching the behavior of mid-string and mid-argument collection. * The dnl macro now warns if end of file is encountered instead of a newline. * The error message when end of file is encountered now uses the file and line where the dangling construct started, rather than `NONE:0:'. * The debugmode and __file__ macros, and the -s/--synclines option, now show what directory a file was found in when the -I/--include option or M4PATH variable had an effect. * The changequote and changecom macros now work with 8-bit characters, and quotes and comments that begin with `(' are properly recognized following a word. * The new macro __program__ is added, which allows the input file to issue an error message that resembles messages from m4. Warning and error messages have been reformatted to comply with GNU Coding Standards. * The errprint, m4wrap, and shift macros are now recognized only with arguments. * The index, substr, translit, regexp, and patsubst macros now produce output when given only one argument, but still warn about a missing second argument. * The patsubst macro now reliably finds zero-length matches at the end of a string. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE7xJc84KuGfSFAYARAjX8AJ9kQIP+y3ZO3VLm9lgJz4rgfItnjQCbBMzC TdakkQHALS3JAjM2/HDaHPM= =thig -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/