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The GNU Autoconf Archive is a collection of more than 500 macros for GNU Autoconf that have been contributed as free software by friendly supporters of the cause from all over the Internet. Every single one of those macros can be re-used without imposing any restrictions whatsoever on the licensing of the generated configure script. In particular, it is possible to use all those macros in configure scripts that are meant for non-free software. This policy is unusual for a Free Software Foundation project. The FSF firmly believes that software ought to be free, and software licenses like the GPL are specifically designed to ensure that derivative work based on free software must be free as well. In case of Autoconf, however, an exception has been made, because Autoconf is at such a pivotal position in the software development tool chain that the benefits from having this tool available as widely as possible outweigh the disadvantage that some authors may choose to use it, too, for proprietary software.

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Registration Date: Thu 05 Mar 2009 01:24:09 AM UTC
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Noteworthy changes in release 2016.09.16 [stable]
     posted by simons, Fri 16 Sep 2016 10:12:44 AM UTC

The following macros were added: AX_BUILD_DATE_EPOCH, AX_CHECK_X86_FEATURES, AX_GCC_X86_CPU_SUPPORTS, AX_OPEN62541_CHECK_H, AX_OPEN62541_CHECK_LIB, and AX_LUAROCKS_ROCK.

While updating AX_CODE_COVERAGE, the variable CODE_COVERAGE_LDFLAGS was renamed to CODE_COVERAGE_LIBS. [...]

Noteworthy changes in release 2016.03.20
     posted by simons, Sun 20 Mar 2016 12:38:12 PM UTC

The following new macros have been added: AX_CHECK_GIRS_GJS, AX_CHECK_GIR_SYMBOLS_GJS, AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX, AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX_14, AX_CZMQ, AX_FC_CHECK_DEFINE, AX_LIB_NETCDF4, AX_PROG_GJS, AX_RESTORE_FLAGS_WITH_PREFIX, AX_SAVE_FLAGS_WITH_PREFIX, AX_VAR_POP, AX_VAR_PUSH, and AX_ZMQ. [...]

Noteworthy changes in release 2015.09.25
     posted by simons, Fri 25 Sep 2015 11:30:49 AM UTC

The Archive no longer releases an "lzip"-compressed tarball. The only supported format now is "xz". The rationale is that xz so widely supported that it seems pointless to archive two release archives on our servers for no apparent reason. [...]

Noteworthy changes in release 2015.02.24
     posted by simons, Tue 24 Feb 2015 11:52:46 AM UTC

AX_CHECK_ENABLE_DEBUG now uses $ax_is_release as default for IS-RELEASE.

AX_IS_RELEASE now supports micro-version policies.

Portability of AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX_0X has been improved.

AX_PROG_HAXE_VERSION is a new macro to detect the presence of Haxe <http://haxe.org>. [...]

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