[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: automake-devel-1.6-1

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: automake-devel-1.6-1

[Charles Wilson]

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.

The cygwin build of automake-1.5b passed all of its 323 self
tests.

So, the new version has no *regressions* -- it passes all of
the older 323 selftests -- but fails some of the more
stringent new tests added in 1.6.

--
Chuck Wilson

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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: automake-devel-1.6-1

[Charles Wilson]

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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