-From 29ed3a774de200dd064c7997293b2cfd134ce5c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
-Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 13:04:16 -0500
-Subject: [PATCH 01/13] maint: post-release administrivia
-
-* NEWS: Add header line for next release.
-* .prev-version: Record previous version.
-* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.
----
- .prev-version | 2 +-
- NEWS | 3 +++
- cfg.mk | 2 +-
- 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/.prev-version b/.prev-version
-index 5e1b8b06..587cb39c 100644
---- a/.prev-version
-+++ b/.prev-version
-@@ -1 +1 @@
--2.69
-+2.70
-diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
-index ba418d1a..2a4db5f6 100644
---- a/NEWS
-+++ b/NEWS
-@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
- GNU Autoconf NEWS - User visible changes.
-
-+* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
-+
-+
- * Noteworthy changes in release 2.70 (2020-12-08) [stable]
-
- ** Backward incompatibilities:
-diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
-index 33ad6e06..a15974bf 100644
---- a/cfg.mk
-+++ b/cfg.mk
-@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ update-release-year:
- .PHONY: update-release-year
-
- # Prevent incorrect NEWS edits.
--old_NEWS_hash = b6af714b06666cbc66cd26169a56bd9d
-+old_NEWS_hash = 152f03614545887231fddaf67821b4d4
-
- exclude_file_name_regexp--sc_prohibit_undesirable_word_seq = \
- ^(maint\.mk|build-aux/texinfo\.tex)$$
---
-2.25.1
-
-
-From b693e208691c54fbe07cdf49b9a98358baadcfe2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
-Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 21:47:13 -0500
-Subject: [PATCH 02/13] maint: add outline for future NEWS (release branch).
-
----
- NEWS | 3 ++-
- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
-index 2a4db5f6..56ad10f2 100644
---- a/NEWS
-+++ b/NEWS
-@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
- GNU Autoconf NEWS - User visible changes.
-
--* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
-+* Noteworthy changes in release 2.70.1 (????-??-??) [?]
-
-+** Bug fixes.
-
- * Noteworthy changes in release 2.70 (2020-12-08) [stable]
-
---
-2.25.1
-
-
From efc940dc82763b7b2d6e65f04d15d5972d829c0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 21:35:45 -0500
2.25.1
-From 08bb0fe5b409a4cd86620f114f4366e62b76ef49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
-Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2020 22:48:02 -0800
-Subject: [PATCH 10/13] doc: modernize grep discussion
-
----
- doc/autoconf.texi | 12 ++++++------
- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi
-index 5e17280e..d09aba70 100644
---- a/doc/autoconf.texi
-+++ b/doc/autoconf.texi
-@@ -19291,8 +19291,8 @@ dir=`AS_DIRNAME(["$file"])` # This is more portable.
- @item @command{egrep}
- @c ------------------
- @prindex @command{egrep}
--Posix 1003.1-2001 no longer requires @command{egrep},
--but many hosts do not yet support the Posix
-+Although Posix stopped requiring @command{egrep} in 2001,
-+a few traditional hosts (notably Solaris) do not support the Posix
- replacement @code{grep -E}. Also, some traditional implementations do
- not work on long input lines. To work around these problems, invoke
- @code{AC_PROG_EGREP} and then use @code{$EGREP}.
-@@ -19477,8 +19477,8 @@ expr: More than one '\(' was used.
- @item @command{fgrep}
- @c ------------------
- @prindex @command{fgrep}
--Posix 1003.1-2001 no longer requires @command{fgrep},
--but many hosts do not yet support the Posix
-+Although Posix stopped requiring @command{fgrep} in 2001,
-+a few traditional hosts (notably Solaris) do not support the Posix
- replacement @code{grep -F}. Also, some traditional implementations do
- not work on long input lines. To work around these problems, invoke
- @code{AC_PROG_FGREP} and then use @code{$FGREP}.
-@@ -19519,7 +19519,7 @@ portable scripts should not combine @option{-c} with @option{-l},
- as Posix does not allow this.
-
- Some of the options required by Posix are not portable in practice.
--Don't use @samp{grep -q} to suppress output, because many @command{grep}
-+Don't use @samp{grep -q} to suppress output, because traditional @command{grep}
- implementations (e.g., Solaris) do not support @option{-q}.
- Don't use @samp{grep -s} to suppress output either, because Posix
- says @option{-s} does not suppress output, only some error messages;
-@@ -19537,7 +19537,7 @@ Some traditional @command{grep} implementations do not work on long
- input lines. On AIX the default @code{grep} silently truncates long
- lines on the input before matching.
-
--Also, many implementations do not support multiple regexps
-+Also, traditional implementations do not support multiple regexps
- with @option{-e}: they either reject @option{-e} entirely (e.g., Solaris)
- or honor only the last pattern (e.g., IRIX 6.5 and NeXT). To
- work around these problems, invoke @code{AC_PROG_GREP} and then use
---
-2.25.1
-
-
-From ec2aa28b6427274b214c244d05b32bc4d7e865cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
-Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 10:21:48 -0500
-Subject: [PATCH 11/13] doc: Document another portability problem of 'od'.
-
-* doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Document that decimal output
-is not portable.
----
- doc/autoconf.texi | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++--
- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi
-index d09aba70..db1e0f46 100644
---- a/doc/autoconf.texi
-+++ b/doc/autoconf.texi
-@@ -19782,14 +19782,33 @@ perfectly portable among Posix hosts.
- @c ---------------
- @prindex @command{od}
-
--In Mac OS X 10.3, @command{od} does not support the
-+In MacOS X versions prior to 10.4.3, @command{od} does not support the
- standard Posix options @option{-A}, @option{-j}, @option{-N}, or
- @option{-t}, or the XSI option, @option{-s}. The only
- supported Posix option is @option{-v}, and the only supported
- XSI options are those in @option{-bcdox}. The BSD
- @command{hexdump} program can be used instead.
-
--This problem no longer exists in Mac OS X 10.4.3.
-+In some versions of some operating systems derived from Solaris 11,
-+@command{od} prints decimal byte values padded with zeroes rather than
-+with spaces:
-+
-+@smallexample
-+$ @kbd{printf '#!' | od -A n -t d1 -N 2}
-+ 035 033
-+@end smallexample
-+
-+@noindent
-+instead of
-+
-+@smallexample
-+$ @kbd{printf '#!' | od -A n -t d1 -N 2}
-+ 35 33
-+@end smallexample
-+
-+We have observed this on both OpenIndiana and OmniOS;
-+Illumos may also be affected.
-+As a workaround, you can use octal output (option @code{-t o1}).
-
-
- @item @command{rm}
---
-2.25.1
-
-
From fac6e5e5cf5b974dda2b82d6331d9dcb4b3e0016 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 14:04:22 -0500
