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Re: [ITP] m4
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:15:14 -0500
- Subject: Re: [ITP] m4
- References: <419B5C5F.2070706@byu.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 07:12:47AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
>It appears, according to
>http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-09/msg00287.html, that m4 has
>no a maintainer. It was last uploaded 2 years ago, and 1.4.2 has since
>been released with a security fix that I would like to see. So, I am
>offering to become the maintainer.
>
>I have plans to roll a 1.4.2a from CVS, which promises a 20% speedup of m4
>processing during its most typical use (autoconf), but want to make sure I
>am accepted as a maintainer before I spend time doing that.
>
>sdesc: "GNU implementation of the traditional Unix macro processor."
>ldesc: "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."
>category: Interpreters
>requires: cygwin _update-info-dir
>
>http://home.comcast.net/~ericblake/m4-1.4.2-1.setup.hint
>http://home.comcast.net/~ericblake/m4-1.4.2-1.tar.bz2
>http://home.comcast.net/~ericblake/m4-1.4.2-1-src.tar.bz2
I've uploaded these. Thanks!
I had previously and half-heartedly uploaded a version of m4 but I'm
very happy not to have to maintain it.
Btw, you don't have to put _update-info-dir in setup.hint's. That
happens automatically.
cgf