X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-Id: Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:31:16 -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:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: m4-1.4.7-1 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, 1.4.7-1, is available, replacing 1.4.6-1 as current. NEWS ==== This is a new upstream release. From the NEWS file, the changes since 1.4.6 are listed below. See also /usr/share/doc/m4-1.4.7/. 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 1.4.7 - 25 September 2006, by Eric Blake (CVS version 1.4.6a) * Fix regression from 1.4.5 in handling a file that ends in a macro expansion without arguments instead of a newline. * The define and pushdef macros now warn when the first argument is not a string, rather than silently doing nothing. * Standard input can now be read more than once, as in 'm4 - file -', and is not closed until all wrapped text is handled. This makes a difference when stdin is not a regular file, and also fixes bugs when using the syscmd or esyscmd macros from wrapped text. * When standard input is a seekable file, the m4exit, syscmd, and esyscmd macros now restore the current position to the next unread byte rather than discarding an arbitrary amount of buffered data. * SysV command-line compatibility is no longer a goal of GNU M4; the focus will be instead on POSIX compatibility. This release continues to support previous usage, but adds warnings in areas which will allow a future version of GNU M4 to use its own extensions without being tied to the SysV command line interface. * The no-op compatibility command line options -B, -N, -S, -T, and --diversions may be withdrawn or assigned new meanings in future releases, so they now issue a warning if used. * A new command line option -i replaces the compatibility -e as the short spelling of --interactive, for consistency with other GNU tools; a warning is issued if the old spelling is used, and it may be assigned new meaning in future releases. * A new command line option --debugfile replaces the options -o and --error-output as the preferred spelling. The old options were misleading in their names and inconsistent with other GNU tools; they are still silently accepted, but no longer documented in --help, and may be assigned new meanings in future releases. -----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 iD8DBQFFGJD084KuGfSFAYARAh3qAKCJa5bcoAU2swh0x2nzzb39EBElQACgog6I NMbnMlKDyRc1dzcseRLieXA= =K4my -----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/