Reverting from 1.7.0-45 [was Re: [1.7]: For the love of god, don't update!]

[Eric Blake]

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According to Dave Korn on 4/6/2009 3:08 AM:
>   I wonder if m4 suddenly changed its behaviour as a result of now being
> locale sensitive, which had knock-on effects on autoconf and bison, which
> causes the trouble by doing something unexpected when generating the ld or ar
> parsers..  I don't have any of LANG or LC_* set in my environment so I thought
> I ought to just have the standard C locale, but I don't understand it well.

I hope not.  M4 doesn't (yet) call setlocale(), so it is supposed to
operate entirely in the C locale even if you HAVE set LC_ALL or friends.

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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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