Speed up gnulib-tool by doing more string processing through shell built-ins.

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+2009-01-01  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+            Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+       Speed up gnulib-tool by doing more string processing through shell
+       built-ins.
+       * gnulib-tool (fast_func_append): New variable.
+       (func_remove_prefix, func_remove_suffix): New functions.
+       (fast_func_remove_prefix, fast_func_remove_suffix): New variables.
+       (func_filter_filelist): New function.
+       (func_get_dependencies): Use func_remove_suffix instead of sed.
+       (func_get_automake_snippet): Use func_filter_filelist instead of a
+       subshell and sed invocation.
+
+2009-01-01  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+       Fix a security bug.
+       * gnulib-tool (func_import, import, update): Don't allow the characters
+       '"', '$', '`', '\' in macro arguments that become part of commands that
+       are evaluated.
+
+2009-01-01  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+       * gnulib-tool (func_reset_sigpipe): Add more comments.
+
+2009-01-01  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       * gnulib-tool (func_modules_add_dummy, func_emit_lib_Makefile_am,
+       func_emit_tests_Makefile_am, func_import): Abort loops early if we
+       already know the answer.
+
+2009-01-01  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
+
+       * lib/version-etc.c (version_etc_va): Update copyright year.
+
+2008-12-30  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+       * m4/lib-prefix.m4 (AC_LIB_LINKFLAGS_BODY): Don't overwrite
+       LIB${NAME}_PREFIX when considering the dependencies of lib${name}.
+       Reported by Charles Wilson <cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm>.
+
+2008-12-29  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>
+
+       multiarch: avoid autoconf AC_REQUIRE bug
+       * m4/multiarch.m4 (gl_MULTIARCH): Split body...
+       (gl_MULTIARCH_BODY): ...into new macro, to work around bug in Autoconf
+       2.63 and older.
+       Reported by Bruno Haible, and analyzed in
+       http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2008-12/msg00039.html
+
 2008-12-29  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
        * gnulib-tool (func_import): When generating sed-ignore-removed, handle
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        coding: utf-8
        End:
 
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+       Copyright (C) 1997-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
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