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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: automake-devel-1.6-1
- From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 18:38:33 -0400
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: automake-devel-1.6-1
- References: <20020422145847.4D85C1B961@redhat.com>
FWIW, pr300-lib.test, pr300-ltlib.test, and pr300-prog.test failures
were not cygwin-specific, and are corrected in post-automake-1.6 CVS.
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/automake/2002-03/msg00054.html
A careful reading of this thread:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/automake/2002-04/msg00033.html
seems to imply that dirforbid.test failure was also corrected in
post-automake-1.6 CVS (unfortunately, the crucial message was in private
correspondence; there's a gap in the mailinglist record).
So, the four test failures suffered by our build of automake-1.6 are not
cygwin-specific, and have already been fixed...in automake-1.6.1.
Automake-1.6.1 was released about a week ago, and Autoconf-2.53a was
posted today (e.g. autoconf-2.54 is expected Real Soon Now(tm)). Once
autoconf-2.54 is release, I'll do a test rollout of ac-2.54 and am-1.6.1.
--Chuck
New in Automake 1.6.1:
* automake --output-dir is deprecated
* Many bug fixes, including:
- Don't choke on AM_LDFLAGS definitions.
- Clean libtool objects from subdirectories.
- Allow configure variables with reserved suffix and unknown prefix
(e.g. AC_SUBST(mumble_LDFLAGS) when 'mumble' is not a target).
- Fix the definition of AUTOMAKE and ACLOCAL in configure.
(plus, they apparently have fixed the four test failures noted in the
cygwin automake-1.6 build, which seem to have been endemic and not
cygwin-specific).
NEWS for Autoconf-2.53a (and presumably 2.54):
** Executables
- autoreconf is adjusted to GNU Gettext 0.11.
** Macros
- AC_PROG_CC_STDC is integrated into AC_PROG_CC.
** Bug fixes
- Spurious complaints from `m4_bmatch' about invalid regular
expressions are suppressed.
- Empty top_builddirs are properly handled.
- AC_PATH_PROG
Now colon in the optional path arguments are properly handled.
** Improved Zsh portability
Both Autoconf the package, and the scripts it produces, should run
more reliably with Zsh. Bear in mind it is the default Bourne shell
on Darwin.
** Documentation
- Limitations of Make
More of them.
Charles Wilson wrote:
> Version 1.6-1 of the automake-devel package, which has been
> available as a test release for a month now with no complaints,
> has been marked 'current'. It contains GNU automake-1.6,
> installed into /usr/autotool/devel.
>
> Full disclosure: GNU automake 1.6 adds 29 new internal
> self tests. The cygwin build fails four of these new tests:
> 'dirforbid.test'
> 'pr300-lib.test'
> 'pr300-ltlib.test'
> 'pr300-prog.test'
> OTOH, the cygwin build does pass the other 350 self tests.
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