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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2021-08-31 17:34:46 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2021-08-31 17:35:42 -0700 |
| commit | e8c2d79ec42c70b6e4fa282bc0c024bf42f0585f (patch) | |
| tree | 2941e62d3d50ea6b9a19d13f8bd4d15b108820cd /NEWS | |
| parent | 3a9802d60156809c139e9b4620bf04917e143ee2 (diff) | |
| download | autoconf-e8c2d79ec42c70b6e4fa282bc0c024bf42f0585f.tar.gz | |
Add commentary for Time::HiRes patches
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@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ GNU Autoconf NEWS - User visible changes. * Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?] ** Backward incompatibilities + +*** Autoconf now requires perl 5.8 (2002) or later. + Generated 'configure' scripts continue to run without perl. + ** New features ** Obsolete features and new warnings @@ -15,6 +19,12 @@ GNU Autoconf NEWS - User visible changes. ** Notable bug fixes +*** Autoconf caches now use finer-grained timestamps. + + Autoconf now uses floating-point numbers rather than integers to + represent cache file timestamps, thus avoiding some problems where + automake incorrectly decides not to regenerate stale caches. + * Noteworthy changes in release 2.71 (2021-01-28) [stable] ** Bug fixes, including: |