prepare for 1.4.9b

[Eric Blake]

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I'm checking this in, and will shortly be sending the 1.4.9b beta release
announcement.  There are enough changes that we need some feedback and bug
fixes before releasing 1.4.10; for example, I intend to work around
mingw's broken strtod.

2007-05-29  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>

        Beta Release 1.4.9b:
        * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump version number.
        * NEWS: Describe changes since 1.4.9.


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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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Index: NEWS
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/m4/m4/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.1.2.103
diff -u -p -r1.1.1.1.2.103 NEWS
--- NEWS        29 May 2007 13:19:46 -0000      1.1.1.1.2.103
+++ NEWS        30 May 2007 02:13:20 -0000
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ GNU M4 NEWS - User visible changes.
 Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software
 Foundation, Inc.
 
-Version 1.4.10 - ?? ??? 2007, by ????  (CVS version 1.4.9a)
+Version 1.4.9b - 29 Mar 2007, by Eric Blake  (CVS version 1.4.9a)
 
 * Fix regression introduced in 1.4.9 in the `eval' builtin when performing
   division.
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ Version 1.4.10 - ?? ??? 2007, by ????  (
 * The `format' builtin now understands formats such as %a, %A, and %'hhd,
   and works around a number of platform printf bugs.  Furthermore, the
   sequence format(%*.*d,-1,-1,1) no longer outputs random data.
+* The testsuite is improved to also run gnulib portability tests for the
+  features that M4 imports from gnulib.
 
 Version 1.4.9 - 23 Mar 2007, by Eric Blake  (CVS version 1.4.8c)
 
Index: configure.ac
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/m4/m4/configure.ac,v
retrieving revision 1.36.2.40
diff -u -p -r1.36.2.40 configure.ac
--- configure.ac        28 May 2007 17:07:03 -0000      1.36.2.40
+++ configure.ac        30 May 2007 02:13:20 -0000
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 # 02110-1301  USA
 
 AC_PREREQ([2.60])
-AC_INIT([GNU M4], [1.4.9a], address@hidden)
+AC_INIT([GNU M4], [1.4.9b], address@hidden)
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.9.6 dist-bzip2 gnu])
 PACKAGE=$PACKAGE_TARNAME; AC_SUBST([PACKAGE])
 VERSION=$PACKAGE_VERSION; AC_SUBST([VERSION])