X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_SPAMHAUS_DROP,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE From: Charles Wilson Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 07:20:00 -0500 Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: autoconf2.5-2.69-1 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Autoconf is an extensible package of m4 macros that produce shell scripts to automatically configure software source code packages. The autoconf2.5 package contains the latest edition of autoconf in the 2.5x release sequence (which includes 2.60, 2.61, etc). Changes since autoconf2.5-2.68-1 ====================================================================== * update to latest upstream release + see list of upstream changes below * Include applicable portions of Debian patchset 2.69-1 Testsuite results: ====================================================================== There seems to be a problematic race condition when running the tests (Windows 7 64bit, cygwin-1.7.17, as Administrator). Many tests fail with the following error: rm: cannot remove `conftest.exe': Device or resource busy However, re-running the test may succeed. Also, the some of the parallel tests hang and must be manually killed (see below). By iteratively re-running the failed tests manually, a composite testsuite result can be synthesized: ERROR: 493 tests were run, 8 failed (4 expected failures). 10 tests were skipped. That means there are only 4 "real" failures: 203: parallel test execution FAILED (autotest.at:1432) 207: parallel syntax error FAILED (autotest.at:1476) 208: parallel errexit FAILED (autotest.at:1495) 209: parallel autotest and signal handling FAILED (autotest.at:1574) As in 2.65 and 2.67, but unlike 2.68, the parallel tests are again broken on cygwin. This is documented in the BUGS file: Meanwhile, Cygwin has known problems with named fifos that cause failures when attempting parallel tests in an autotest suite. The tests were executed with LANG=en_US.UTF-8 Upstream changes (2.69): ====================================================================== The GNU Autoconf team is pleased to announce the stable release of Autoconf 2.69. Autoconf is an extensible package of M4 macros that produce shell scripts to automatically configure software source code packages. These scripts can adapt the packages to many kinds of UNIX-like systems without manual user intervention. Autoconf creates a configuration script for a package from a template file that lists the operating system features that the package can use, in the form of M4 macro calls. Among other improvements, this release fixes a couple of regressions introduced in previous releases, greatly enhances Fortran support, adds Go support, and updates the documentation license. It also requires that developer have perl 5.6 or newer when running autoconf (although generated configure scripts remain independent of perl, as always). See a more complete list below. * Noteworthy changes in release 2.69 (2012-04-24) [stable] ** Autoconf now requires perl 5.6 or better (but generated configure scripts continue to run without perl). * Noteworthy changes in release 2.68b (2012-03-01) [beta] Released by Eric Blake, based on git versions 2.68.*. ** Autoconf-generated configure scripts now unconditionally re-execute themselves with $CONFIG_SHELL, if that's set in the environment. ** The texinfo documentation no longer specifies "front-cover" or "back-cover" texts, so that it may now be included in Debian's "main" section. ** Support for the Go programming language has been added. The new macro AC_LANG_GO sets variables GOC and GOFLAGS. ** AS_LITERAL_IF again treats '=' as a literal. Regression introduced in 2.66. ** The macro AS_EXECUTABLE_P, present since 2.50, is now documented. ** Macros - AC_PROG_LN_S and AS_LN_S now fall back on 'cp -pR' (not 'cp -p') if 'ln -s' does not work. This works better for symlinks to directories. - New macro AC_HEADER_CHECK_STDBOOL. - New and updated macros for Fortran support: AC_FC_CHECK_BOUNDS to enable array bounds checking AC_F77_IMPLICIT_NONE and AC_FC_IMPLICIT_NONE to disable implicit integer AC_FC_MODULE_EXTENSION to compute the Fortran 90 module name extension AC_FC_MODULE_FLAG for the Fortran 90 module search path flag AC_FC_MODULE_OUTPUT_FLAG for the Fortran 90 module output directory flag AC_FC_PP_SRCEXT for preprocessed Fortran source files extensions AC_FC_PP_DEFINE for the Fortran preprocessor define flag -- Charles Wilson volunteer autoconf maintainer for cygwin ==================================================================== 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. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from 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://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. New in 2.65 ==================================================================== * Major changes in Autoconf 2.65 (2009-11-21) [stable] Released by Eric Blake, based on git versions 2.64.*. ** Autoconf is now licensed under the General Public License version 3 or later (GPLv3+). As with earlier versions, the license includes an exception clause so that you may release a configure script generated by autoconf under the license of your own program. ** New macros to support Objective C++. AC_PROG_OBJCXX AC_PROG_OBJCXXCPP ** The following undocumented autoconf macros, removed in Autoconf 2.64, have been reinstated: AH_CHECK_HEADERS These macros are present only for backwards compatibility purposes. ** The macro AC_LANG_COMPILER no longer fails on embedded systems that lack fopen in the C library, such as AVR or RTEMS (regression introduced in 2.64). ** The AC_FC_FREEFORM macro no longer suffers from a whitespace bug that made it fail with some Fortran compilers (regression introduced in 2.64). ** The AC_TYPE_UINT64_T and AC_TYPE_INT64_T macros have been fixed to no longer mistakenly select a 32-bit type on some compilers (bug present since macros were introduced in 2.59c). ** The AC_FUNC_MMAP macro has been fixed to be portable to systems like Cygwin (bug present since macro was introduced in 2.0). ** The following documented autotest macros are new: AT_CHECK_EUNIT ** The following m4sugar macros now quote their expansion: m4_toupper m4_tolower ** The following m4sugar macros are new: m4_escape ** The m4sugar macro m4_text_wrap now copes with embedded quoting without requiring quadrigraphs. For uses like AC_ARG_VAR([a], [[b c]]), this gives the intuitive behavior of "[b c]" in the output (2.63 gave the output of "[b], [c]", and 2.64 encountered a failure). ** The `$tmp' temporary directory used in config.status is documented for public use now. ** config.status now provides a --config option to produce the configuration. ** Many cache variables used by Autoconf's macros are now documented. ** Configure scripts work better on DJGPP by avoiding a bug present in the DJGPP port of bash 2.04 in handling 'return' in a shell function (regression introduced in 2.64). -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple