GNU Autoconf Archive - News: Noteworthy changes in release 2013.02.02

Noteworthy changes in release 2013.02.02

Item posted by Peter Simons <simons> on Sat 02 Feb 2013 10:24:14 AM UTC.

Support for AIX has been improved in AX_PTHREAD. Further details are available at <http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/index.php?7911>.

AX_BOOST_FILESYSTEM has been improved to work more reliable on non-GNU systems. See <http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7921> for further details.

The new macro AX_LIB_EV has been added, which checks for libev in a pkg-config-like manner. The purpose of the macro is to unifty behaviour between distros that come with libev.pc and systems (e.g. upstream) that don't. Further details are at <http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7938>.

The portability of AX_PYTHON has been improved. Also, the macro now recognizes more recent versions of the Python interpreter, too. See <http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7897> for further details.

Support for cross-compilation in AX_PROG_CC_FOR_BUILD has been improved. See <http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/index.php?7890> for further details.

The new macro AX_PROG_CXX_FOR_BUILD has been added. Further details are available at <http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7891>.

Mac OS X support in AX_OPENMP has been improved. Further details are available at <http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7893>.