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
