From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18170 invoked by alias); 26 Feb 2008 05:00:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 32331 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Feb 2008 04:57:42 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=6w2RKkhu7vgA:10 a=w_pzkKWiAAAA:8 a=20KFwNOVAAAA:8 a=xe8BsctaAAAA:8 a=2SuKqSHvO05GIItRckAA:9 a=F6LiVj7Kx-96QZsGiOMA:7 a=24WcDmfgf314kOnPkqA4EK4awVIA:4 a=TRvmKqLbH9UA:10 a=7pGOCF1mIgkA:10 a=66msUWWtX2wA:10 a=rPt6xJ-oxjAA:10 a=gHe7eMwbjb6T-oYU9lsA:9 a=i43UjuwvnX_PUYV1SdkA:7 a=89lMMEsMl1Zn1yu7Jv-qJzXf_VoA:4 a=YvKx7zeTAGcA:10 Message-ID: <47C39C46.70201@byu.net> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:00:00 -0000 From: Eric Blake Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com Subject: Updated: m4-1.4.10b-1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------020305030201010404090308" Mailing-List: contact cygwin-announce-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-announce-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List X-SW-Source: 2008-02/txt/msg00038.txt.bz2 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------020305030201010404090308 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-length: 2500 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A new release of m4, 1.4.10b-1, is available, replacing 1.4.10-1 as current. NEWS ==== This is a new upstream release. It is marked as a beta release upstream, but I think it is worth promoting to current right away because of the speed increase it offers to autoconf. (It helps that I'm the upstream developer, and did my development primarily on cygwin ;) See also /usr/share/doc/m4-1.4.10b/. 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.COM@cygwin.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 iD8DBQFHw5xG84KuGfSFAYARAs2oAJ917X+7nFP8qeH9/0EBNAzbUgjGUACfZgBx /qIoKLLIzEwOHPpUFWZSn10= =A5fT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------020305030201010404090308 Content-Type: text/plain; name="NEWS.short" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="NEWS.short" Content-length: 1935 * Noteworthy changes in Version 1.4.10b (2008-02-25) [beta] Released by Eric Blake, based on git version 1.4.10a ** Security fixes for the -F option, for bugs present since -F was introduced in 1.3: Avoid core dump with 'm4 -F file -t undefined', and avoid arbitrary code execution with certain file names. ** Fix regression introduced in 1.4.9b in the `divert' builtin when more than 512 kibibytes are saved in diversions on platforms like NetBSD where fopen(name,"a+") seeks to the end of the file. ** The output of the `maketemp' and `mkstemp' builtins is now quoted if a file was created. This is a minor security fix, because it was possible (although rather unlikely) that an unquoted string could match an existing macro name, such that use of the `mkstemp' output would trigger inadvertent macro expansion and operate on the wrong file name. ** Enhance the `defn' builtin to support concatenation of multiple text arguments, as required by POSIX. However, at this time, it is not possible to concatenate a builtin macro with anything else; a warning is now issued if this is attempted, although a future version of M4 may lift this restriction to match other implementations. ** Enhance the `index' builtin to guarantee linear behavior and often acheive sublinear results, in spite of the surprisingly large number of systems with a brain-dead quadratic strstr(3). ** Enhance the `regexp' and `patsubst' builtins to cache frequently used regular expressions, which speeds up typical Autoconf usage. ** Enhance the `format' builtin to warn for more suspicious usages, such as missing arguments or problems parsing according to the format string. ** Enhance the `ifelse' and `shift' builtins so that tail-recursive algorithms based on `$@' operate in linear, rather than quadratic, time and memory. ** A number of portability improvements inherited from gnulib. --------------020305030201010404090308--