GNU Autoconf 2.61 [PSARC/2007/424 FastTrack timeout 07/30/2007]

[Dermot.McCluskey at sun.com]

Richard Lowe wrote:
<snip>

>I don't see any mention of compatibility here, beyond that implied by
>the combination of Uncommitted interfaces and Patch binding.
>
>What are the actual changes to autoconf in this case, it surely can't be solely
>the version number, but that's all that's mentioned.
>  
>

The changes are mostly bug fixes and additional functionality.
A number of macros have been marked obsolete, but not
removed.  I have attached the section of the NEWS file
covering the period since the previous version (2.59).

>Given the Patch binding, I'm assuming you're also going to include
>symlinks in /usr/sfw?
>  
>

Yes - /usr/sfw symlinks will be included and should have been listed.
I propose only included compatibility links for the executables
and not for the manpages and infofiles.  This is consistent with other
packages which have links from /usr/sfw to /usr, such as flex,
ImageMagick and psutils.  The additional interfaces are:

	/usr/sfw/bin/ifnames			Uncommitted	Sym link
	/usr/sfw/bin/autoconf			Uncommitted	Sym link
	/usr/sfw/bin/autoheader			Uncommitted	Sym link
	/usr/sfw/bin/autom4te			Uncommitted	Sym link
	/usr/sfw/bin/autoreconf			Uncommitted	Sym link
	/usr/sfw/bin/autoscan			Uncommitted	Sym link
	/usr/sfw/bin/autoupdate			Uncommitted	Sym link

- Dermot

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