Automake 1.8.4. released...

From: Frederick Noronha (FN) (fred_at_bytesforall.org)
Date: 05/02/04

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    Date: 2 May 2004 20:30:16 GMT
    
    

    >>From adl@gnu.org Sun May 2 23:41:19 2004

    We're pleased to announce that Automake 1.8.4 was released on
    April the 25th.

    Automake is a tool for automatically generating `Makefile.in's
    suitable for use with Autoconf, compliant with the GNU Makefile
    standards, and portable to various make implementations.

    This is a bug fix release. The list of bug fixes is appended below.

    You can find the new release here:

        ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.8.4.tar.gz
        ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.8.4.tar.gz.sig
        ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.8.4.tar.bz2
        ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.8.4.tar.bz2.sig
        ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/automake/automake-1.8.4.tar.gz
        ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/automake/automake-1.8.4.tar.gz.sig
        ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/automake/automake-1.8.4.tar.bz2
        ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/automake/automake-1.8.4.tar.bz2.sig

    Soon it will also appear on the sources and GNU mirrors listed here:

        http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
        http://sources.redhat.com/mirrors.html

    Here are the MD5 sums:

        57f405a10fc5990ed6120fbbef3ab502 automake-1.8.4.tar.bz2
        0875b1d44c584decfd0afa60a2381b9d automake-1.8.4.tar.gz

    Please report bugs to <bug-automake@gnu.org>.

    Known issue not fixed in 1.8.4:

      Historically Automake has always tried to generate V7 format
      tarballs during `make dist'. This format is quite antiquated, but
      is portable. It supports filenames with up to 99 characters. When
      given longer filenames some tar implementations will diagnose the
      problem while other will generate broken or non-V7 tarballs. For
      instance GNU tar 1.13.25 will produce an archive with GNU
      extensions, while the latest GNU tar beta (1.13.93) will silently
      truncate filenames.

      Automake 1.9 will have options to select newer tar formats, and
      diagnose long filenames. In the meantime we recommand that people
      who cannot avoid long filenames in their packages stick to GNU tar
      1.13.25.

    Bugs fixed in 1.8.4:

    * Long standing bugs:

      - Fix AM_PATH_PYTHON to correctly display $PYTHON when it has been
        overridden by the user.

      - Honor PATH_SEPARATOR in various places of the Automake package, for
        the sake of OS/2.

      - Adjust dependency tracking mode detection to ICC 8.0's new output.
        (PR/416)

      - Fix install-sh so it can install the `mv' binary... using `mv'.

      - Fix tru64 dependency tracking for libtool objects.

      - Work around Exuberant Ctags when creating a TAGS files in a directory
        without files to scan but with subdirectories to include.

    * Bugs introduced by 1.8:

      - Fix an "internal error" when @LIBOBJS@ is used in a variable that is
        not defined in the same conditions as the _LDADD that uses it.

      - Do not warn when JAVAROOT is overridden, this is legitimate.

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