From: Zack Weinberg Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2026 19:31:36 +0000 (-0500) Subject: NEWS: Briefly mention a few more improvements. X-Git-Tag: v2.72.90~2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=553c871542ad8da3697d5ef198321ca33470ca52;p=thirdparty%2Fautoconf.git NEWS: Briefly mention a few more improvements. Specifically, this is meant to cover these commits: 2b56e8c2 autoreconf: don’t fail if gtkdocize is unavailable (#110503) 912567e9 autoreconf: require word boundaries when grepping for macros (#111271) 4774e6bb autoreconf: Adapt to the on-disk situation after autopoint has run. f0d97fb5 autoreconf: Invoke autopoint in more situations. and 9a6c58cf Rename version.m4 to autoconf_version.m4. --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8f0032d76..9decf159e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -58,6 +58,19 @@ GNU Autoconf NEWS - User visible changes. *** config.status now fails with a diagnostic if awk is missing, rather than misbehaving. +*** autoreconf handles projects using GNU Gettext and/or gtk-doc better. + A variety of situations where autoreconf would try to run the + 'autopoint' and/or 'gtkdocize' tools when it shouldn't have, + or *wouldn't* run them when it *should* have, have been corrected. + See , + , + , + . + +*** autoconf no longer installs a file named "version.m4". + This eliminates an annoying (but harmless) warning produced by + Autoconf 2.72 when projects contain their own "version.m4". + * Noteworthy changes in release 2.72 (2023-12-22) [release] ** Backward incompatibilities