Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #5398


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12/22/2023 08:36:00 PM (11 months ago)
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Bruce Dubbs
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  • Ticket #5398 – Description

    initial v1  
    33"There have been 171 commits by 17 people in the 151 weeks since 2.71."
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    5 Mirrors have not caught up yet, but changes can be seen at
    6 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git;a=blobdiff;f=NEWS;h=3d63fd2d5168b5f19778b41b948c06476d67d401;hp=c3bfe3a879d577cf4c0407b27f15f63a44e278c0;hb=6199cff2909e0ac84c9391aa49ed097d6a33268d;hpb=e544a323845c1bcc33729927137b09c681073ebd
     5Noteworthy changes in release 2.72 (2023-12-22) [release]
     6
     7Backward incompatibilities
     8
     9* Configure scripts no longer support pre-1989 C compilers.
     10* Autoconf developers now need Perl 5.10 (2007) or later.
     11* Autoconf users now need GNU M4 1.4.8 (2006) or later.
     12* Some m4sh diversions have been renumbered.
     13* AC_FUNC_GETGROUPS and AC_TYPE_GETGROUPS no longer run test programs.
     14* All internal uses of AC_EGREP_CPP and AC_EGREP_HEADER have been removed.
     15
     16New features
     17
     18* Support for ensuring time_t is Y2038-safe
     19* AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS now enables C23 Annex F extensions
     20  by defining __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__.
     21 
     22Obsolete features and new warnings
     23
     24* Autoconf now quotes 'like this' instead of `like this'.
     25* AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL no longer does anything.
     26
     27Notable bug fixes
     28
     29* autom4te now uses fine-grained file timestamps
     30* AC_HEADER_STDBOOL, AC_CHECK_HEADER_STDBOOL are obsolescent and less picky.
     31* AC_PROG_MKDIR_P now falls back on plain 'mkdir -p'
     32* Better diagnostics for calling m4_warn() with a bad first argument
     33* Improved compatibility with a wide variety of systems and tools
     34  including CheriBSD, Darwin (macOS), GNU Guix, OS/2, z/OS, Bash 5.2,
     35  the BusyBox shell and utilities, Clang/LLVM version 16, the upcoming
     36  GCC version 14, etc.
     37
     38Known bugs
     39
     40* AC_SYS_LARGEFILE and AC_SYS_YEAR2038 only work correctly in C mode.