portability: fix several issues with M4 subprocess.

[bison.git] / NEWS

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@@ -238,6 +238,12 @@ Bison News
 
 * Changes in version 2.4.2 (????-??-??):
 
+** Some portability problems that resulted in failures and livelocks
+   in the test suite on some versions of at least Solaris, AIX, HP-UX,
+   RHEL4, and Tru64 have been fixed.  As part of those fixes, fatal
+   Bison errors no longer cause M4 to report a broken pipe on the
+   affected platforms.
+
 ** `%prec IDENTIFIER' requires IDENTIFIER to be defined separately.
 
   POSIX specifies that an error be reported for any identifier that does
@@ -1369,8 +1375,7 @@ End:
 
 -----
 
-Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,
-2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1995-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
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