X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-Id: Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:16:31 -0700 From: Eric Blake Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061025 Thunderbird/1.5.0.8 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: m4-1.4.8-1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------040205030600000408020709" 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 --------------040205030600000408020709 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A new release of m4, 1.4.8-1, is available, replacing 1.4.7-1 as current. NEWS ==== This is a new upstream release. From the NEWS file, the changes since 1.4.7 are listed below. See also /usr/share/doc/m4-1.4.8/. 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. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: ========== If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. - -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin m4 maintainer CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: ================================= To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-YOU=YOURDOMAIN DOT COM AT cygwin DOT com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFYouv84KuGfSFAYARAg34AJ0W+bXuSKYwEIUOM0z73kW62GC5jwCgz657 nP1LXmH/lt0rkqwfzl9HvFA= =bAEa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------040205030600000408020709 Content-Type: text/plain; name="NEWS.short" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="NEWS.short" Version 1.4.8 - 20 November 2006, by Eric Blake (CVS version 1.4.7a) * The `divert' macro and `-H'/`--hashsize' command line option no longer cause a core dump when handed extra large values. Also, `divert' now uses memory proportional to the number of diversions in use, rather than to the maximum diversion number encountered, so that large diversion numbers are less likely to exhaust system memory; and is no longer limited by the maximum number of file descriptors. * The `--help' and `--version' command line options now consistently override all earlier options. For example, `m4 --debugfile=trace --help' now no longer accidentally creates an empty file `trace'. * The `-L'/`--nesting-limit' command line option can now be set to 0 to remove the default limit of 1024. However, it is still possible that heavily nested input can cause abrupt program termination due to stack overflow. * Problems encountered when writing to standard error, such as with the `errprint' macro, now always cause a non-zero exit status. * Warnings and errors issued during macro expansion are now consistently reported at the line where the macro name was detected, rather than where the close parenthesis resides. Text wrapped by `m4wrap' now remembers the location that was in effect when m4wrap was invoked, rather than changing to line 0 and the empty string for a file. The macros `__line__' and `__file__' now work correctly even as the last token in an included file. * The `builtin' and `indir' macros now transparently handle builtin tokens generated by `defn'. * When diversions created by the `divert' macro collect enough text that M4 must use temporary files, the environment variable $TMPDIR is now consulted, and a better effort is made to clean up those files in the event of a fatal signal. * The `mkstemp' builtin is added with the same GNU semantics as `maketemp', based on the recommendation of POSIX to deprecate the POSIX semantics of `maketemp' as inherently insecure. In GNU mode (no -G supplied on the command line), `maketemp' silently retains the secure GNU semantics, but a future release of M4 will change this to emit a warning. In traditional mode (m4 -G), `maketemp' now uses the POSIX-mandated insecure semantics, and issues a warning that you should convert your script to use `mkstemp' instead. Additionally, `mkstemp' and `maketemp' are now well-defined even if the template argument does not end in six `X' characters. * The manual has been improved, including a new section on a composite macro `foreach'. * The `changecom' and `changequote' macros now treat an empty second argument the same as if it were missing, rather than using the empty string and making it impossible to end a comment or quote. * The `translit' macro now operates in linear instead of quadratic time, and is now eight-bit clean. * The `-D', `-U', `-s', and `-t' command line options now take effect after any files encountered earlier on the command line, rather than up front, as is done in traditional implementations and required by POSIX. --------------040205030600000408020709 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- 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/ --------------040205030600000408020709--