-* Major changes in Autoconf 2.50 -*- outline -*-
+* Major changes in Autoconf 2.50a -*- outline -*-
+\f
+* Major changes in Autoconf 2.50
** Lots of bug fixes
-Way too many for us to spell them out. Check out ChangeLog if you
-really want to know more.
+There have been far too many to enumerate them here. Check out
+ChangeLog if you really want to know more.
** Improved documentation
-In particular portability issues are better covered.
+In particular, portability issues are better covered.
** Use of Automake
All the standard GNU Makefile targets are supported. The layout has
changed: m4/ holds the m4 extensions Autoconf needs for its
-configuration, doc/ contains the documentation, and tests/ the test
-suite.
+configuration, doc/ contains the documentation, and tests/ contains
+the test suite.
** Man pages are provided
For autoconf, autoreconf, autoupdate, autoheader, autoscan, ifnames,
which might be needed to move from an old macro to its newer
equivalent.
-You are strongly encouraged to use it both to modernize your
-`configure.in', but also your .m4 extension files.
+You are strongly encouraged to use it to modernize both your
+`configure.in' and your .m4 extension files.
** autoheader
The internal machinery of autoheader has completely changed. As a
-result, using an `acconfig.h' should be considered as obsoleted, and
+result, using `acconfig.h' should be considered to be obsoleted, and
you are encouraged to get rid of it using the AH macros.
** autoreconf
-Deep overhaul.
+Extensive overhaul.
** Fortran 77 compilers
Globally, the support for Fortran 77 is considerably improved.
-Support for automatically determining a Fortran 77 compilers
+Support for automatically determining a Fortran 77 compiler's
name-mangling scheme. New CPP macros F77_FUNC and F77_FUNC_ are
provided to wrap C/C++ identifiers, thus making it easier and more
transparent for C/C++ to call Fortran 77 routines, and Fortran 77 to
** Test suite
The test suite no longer uses DejaGNU. It should be easy to submit
-test cases in this new frame work.
+test cases in this new framework.
** configure
- --help, --help=long, -hl