A new release of m4, 1.4.14-1, is available for download, leaving 1.4.13-2 as previous.
NEWS ==== This is a new upstream release, with upstream NEWS attached. See also /usr/share/doc/m4/. 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....@cygwin.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.
GNU M4 NEWS - User visible changes. * Noteworthy changes in Version 1.4.14 (2010-02-24) [stable] Released by Eric Blake, based on git version 1.4.13.* ** Fix regression introduced in 1.4.12 where executing with stdout closed could crash m4 on exit on some platforms. ** Fix regressions introduced in 1.4.13 in the `esyscmd' builtin, where closed file descriptors could interfere with child execution, and where a child status of 127 made m4 print a spurious message to stderr. ** Fix a security hole in 'make dist', present since at least M4 1.4, that could affect anybody attempting to redistribute modified sources (see Automake CVE-2009-4029). ** A number of portability improvements inherited from gnulib.
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