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Re: [platform-testers] automake-1.16d snapshot
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: [platform-testers] automake-1.16d snapshot |
Date: |
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 22:23:04 -0700 |
On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 8:06 PM Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> wrote:
> We're preparing for a new release, so here's the latest.
> Please give it a spin and report any success or failure.
> I'd like to release 1.16.4 within a week or so.
>
> Thanks to Karl yet again for doing so much of the work.
>
> There have been 41 commits by 11 people in the 35 weeks since 1.16.3.
> See the NEWS below for a brief summary.
>
> Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
> The following people contributed changes to this release:
>
> Allison Karlitskaya (2)
> Dirk Mueller (1)
> Jacob Bachmeyer (1)
> Jim Meyering (7)
> Joshua Root (1)
> Karl Berry (25)
> Mike Frysinger (1)
> Nick Gasson (1)
> Reuben Thomas (2)
> Zack Weinberg (1)
>
> Jim [on behalf of the automake maintainers]
> ==================================================================
>
> Here is the GNU automake home page:
> http://gnu.org/s/automake/
>
> Here are the compressed sources:
> https://meyering.net/automake/automake-1.16d.tar.xz
> https://meyering.net/automake/automake-1.16d.tar.gz
>
> Their GPG signature .sig files are alongside.
>
> ======================================
> NEWS
Oops. I copied the news for 1.6.3 into this snapshot announcement.
Here's the news for the upcoming 1.6.4:
* New features added
- The PYTHON_PREFIX and PYTHON_EXEC_PREFIX variables are now set from
Python's sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix; use the new configure options
--with-python_prefix and --with-python_exec_prefix to specify explicitly.
- Common top-level files can be provided as .md; the non-md version is
used if both are present:
AUTHORS ChangeLog INSTALL NEWS README README-alpha THANKS
- CTAGS, ETAGS, SCOPE variables can be set via configure.
- Silent make output for custom link commands.
- New option "no-dist-built-sources" skips generating $(BUILT_SOURCES)
before building the tarball as part of "make dist", that is,
omits the dependency of $(distdir): $(BUILT_SOURCES).
* Bugs fixed
- automake output more reproducible.
- test-driver less likely to clash with tests writing to the same file.
- DejaGnu tests always use the directory name, testsuite/, for
compatibility with the newer dejagnu-1.6.3 and with prior versions.
* Distribution
- config.sub and config.guess updates include restoration of `...`
for maximum portability.