From bea5177adc0c924fe7483509a5e38a6d49319fcb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:57:51 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] AC_PROG_CXX: document change

* NEWS: Document recent change to AC_PROG_CXX.
---
 NEWS | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a9b2226e..974d48d8 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ GNU Autoconf NEWS - User visible changes.
   eliminate the need to specify ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am.
 
 - AC_PROG_CC now prefers C11 if available, falling back on C99 and
-  then on C89 as before.
+  then on C89 as before.  Similarly, AC_PROG_CXX now prefers C++11
+  if available, falling back on C++98.
 
 - AC_PROG_CC is now defined via AC_DEFUN_ONCE, to avoid bloat in 'configure'.
 
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2.47.2