Re: 2.63b autotest vs. bison testsuite

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 08:16:28PM CEST:
> > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/commit/?id=abe172
> 
> Well, that patch was indeed the cause of a regression.  However, bison was 
> lucky that it was not using a shell comment, which is broken even in 2.63.  
> Here's the patch I'm considering which fixes not only the regression, but 
> also 
> the original bug in handling shell comments, although I'm not sure if my 
> wording in NEWS is the best.

Sounds ok to me.

Cheers,
Ralf

> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
>  GNU Autoconf NEWS - User visible changes.
> 
> +* Major changes in Autoconf 2.64 (2009-??-??) [stable]
> +  Released by Eric Blake, based on git versions 2.63b.*.
> +
> +** Ensure AT_CHECK can support commands that include a # given with
> +   proper m4 quoting.  For shell comments, this is a new feature; for
> +   non-shell comments, this fixes a regression introduced in 2.63b.
> +