Automake 1.6f available (beta for Automake 1.7)

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

Thanks to all people who have send patches and bug reports here is
another beta for Automake 1.7.

Again, please SHOUT LOUD if your package works with Automake 1.6.3 but
doesn't with 1.6f.  Incompatibilities are best fixed before the release.

Please report any issue by mail to <address@hidden>,
or (preferred) at
  http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?database=automake

You can find this snapshot here:

    ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/automake/automake-1.6f.tar.gz
    ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/automake/automake-1.6f.tar.bz2

Here are the news since 1.6.  (There have been only bug fixes since 1.6d.)

New in 1.6f:
* Autoconf 2.54 is required.
* `aclocal' and `automake' will no longer warn about obsolete
  configure macros.  This is done by `autoconf -Wobsolete'.
* AM_CONFIG_HEADER, AM_SYS_POSIX_TERMIOS and
  AM_HEADER_TIOCGWINSZ_NEEDS_SYS_IOCTL are obsolete (although still
  supported).  You should use AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, AC_SYS_POSIX_TERMIOS,
  and AC_HEADER_TIOCGWINSZ instead.  `autoupdate' can upgrade
  `configure.ac' for you.
* Support for per-program and per-library `_CPPFLAGS'.
* New `ctags' target (builds CTAGS files).
* Support for -Wmumble and -Wno-mumble, where mumble is a warning category
  (see `automake --help' or the manual for a list of them).
* Honor the WARNINGS environment variable.
* Omit the call to depcomp when using gcc3: call the compiler directly.
* A new option, std-options, tests that programs support --help and --version
  when `make installcheck' is run.  This is enabled by --gnits.
* Texinfo rules now support the `ps' and `pdf' targets.
* Info files are now created in the build directory, not the source directory.
* info_TEXINFOS supports files in subdirectories (this requires Texinfo 4.1
  or greater).
* `make distcheck' will enforce DESTDIR support by attempting
  a DESTDIR install.
* `+=' can be used in conditionals, even if the augmented variable
  was defined for another condition.
* Makefile fragments (inserted with `include') are always distributed.
* Use Autoconf's --trace interface to inspect configure.ac and get
  a more accurate view of it.
* Add support for extending aclocal's default macro search path
  using a `dirlist' file within the aclocal directory.
* automake --output-dir is deprecated.
* Many bug fixes.

 - Akim, Alexandre, and Tom

-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz