-------- Original Message -------- Subject: GNU M4 1.4.13 released (stable) Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:17:09 -0600 From: Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net To: m4-discuss@gnu.org, m4-announce@gnu.org, autotools-announce@gnu.org, info-gnu@gnu.org
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The GNU M4 team is proud to announce the release of M4 1.4.13. M4 is a macro processing language, and among other uses, it is required by GNU Autoconf for generating configure scripts.
This release adds optimizations to improve processing speed. It adds a new configure option, --with-syscmd-shell, to make it possible to select a better shell than /bin/sh for the syscmd builtin. It also patches several portability problems identified since 1.4.12.
For a summary of changes and contributors, see: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/m4.git/log/?id=v1.4.13 or run this command from a git-cloned m4 directory: git shortlog v1.4.12..v1.4.13
To summarize the gnulib-related changes, run this command from a git-cloned gnulib directory: git shortlog v0.0-1196-g8eaac7a..v0.0-2015-gf6778f8
Here are the compressed sources: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.13.tar.gz (1.3MB) ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.13.tar.bz2 (988KB) ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.13.tar.xz (820KB)
Here are the differences since 1.4.12:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.12-1.4.13.diff.gz (538KB)
Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.13.tar.gz.sig ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.13.tar.bz2.sig ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.13.tar.xz.sig ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.12-1.4.13.diff.gz.sig
Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums:
e9e36108b5f9855a82ca4a07ebc0fd2e m4-1.4.13.tar.gz 28f9ccd3ac4da45409251008b911d677 m4-1.4.13.tar.bz2 206b13cb45e95cd2ba60bf401900ab2d m4-1.4.13.tar.xz 75aba989a6dfaa0bbe43d3bcf8d1d47bcd03e39a m4-1.4.13.tar.gz 7ba1834ebf96d0520d526c1c9f5764cc869a9f42 m4-1.4.13.tar.bz2 cc326936397fbf05b046a0c4dd18499f88559ec4 m4-1.4.13.tar.xz
[*] You can use either of the above signature files to verify that the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this:
gpg --verify m4-1.4.13.tar.gz.sig
If that command fails because you don't have the required public key, then run this command to import it:
gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys F4850180
and rerun the `gpg --verify' command.
This release was bootstrapped with the following tools: Autoconf 2.63b Automake 1.10b Gnulib v0.0-2015-gf6778f8
./NEWS
* Noteworthy changes in Version 1.4.13 (2009-04-01) [stable] Released by Eric Blake, based on git version 1.4.12.*
** The manual is now distributed under the terms of FDL 1.3.
** The `divert' and `undivert' builtins have been made more efficient when using temporary files for large diversions.
** The `translit' builtin has been made more efficient when the second argument is short.
** The input engine has been optimized for faster processing.
** The command line option `--debugfile', introduced in 1.4.7, now treats its argument as optional, in order to allow setting the debug output back to stderr when used without an argument; and order is now significant with respect to command line files. You must therefore use `m4 --debugfile=trace file', not `m4 file --debugfile trace'. This change does not affect the deprecated `-o'/`--error-output' option.
** The `syscmd' and `esyscmd' builtins can be configured to use an alternate shell, via the new `configure' option `--with-syscmd-shell'.
** A number of portability improvements inherited from gnulib.
- -- GNU M4 team Eric Blake