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Noteworthy changes in release 2011.12.21

Item posted by Peter Simons <simons> on Wed 21 Dec 2011 11:13:49 AM UTC.

Error reporting in AX_BERKELEY_DB_CXX has been improved in the case the macro is called without LANG=C++. See <http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7674> for further details.

Solaris support in AX_PTHREAD has been improved. Further details are available at <http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7666>.

Under-quoted use of $CPPFLAGS has been fixed in AX_BOOST_PYTHON. See <http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7673> for further details.

The list of headers required by C++11 (the standard formerly known as C++0x) has been updated in AX_CXX_HEADER_STDCXX_0X. Further details are available at <http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/index.php?7664>.

A bug in AX_WITH_CURSES has been fixed that prevented CURSES_LIB from being used. See <http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/index.php?7651> for further details.

The compiler tests in AX_EXT have been fixed, and support for detection of SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX extensions has been added. See <http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7633> for further details.

The new macro AX_LIB_GDAL has been added which tests the availability of the GDAL/OGR library. Further details are available at <http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7639>.

Fixed Darwin support in AX_ENABLE_BUILDDIR. Further details are available at <http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7619>.

The obsolete macros AX_C_CHECK_FLAG, AX_CFLAGS_GCC_OPTION, AX_CHECK_COMPILER_FLAGS, AX_CHECK_GL, AX_CHECK_GLU, AX_CHECK_GLUT, AX_CHECK_LINKER_FLAGS, AX_CHECK_SUNPRO_C, AX_CPP_CHECK_FLAG, AX_CXX_CHECK_FLAG, AX_CXXCPP_CHECK_FLAG, AX_DEFINE_DIR, AX_FUNC_FORK, AX_GCC_INSTALL_DIR, AX_GXX_VERSION, AX_LANG_COMPILER_MS, AX_LD_CHECK_FLAG, and AX_SNPRINTF_OFLOW have been dropped from the distribution.