Automake 1.7.2b uploaded (beta for 1.7.3)

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

Hi people!

Here is a snapshot of the 1.7.x branch of Automake.

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.7.2b.tar.gz
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.7.2b.tar.bz2
  ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/automake/automake-1.7.2b.tar.gz
  ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/automake/automake-1.7.2b.tar.bz2

This should be reasonably close to what 1.7.3 will be.
Please test it and report any problem you have to <address@hidden>.
I hope we can release 1.7.3 by the middle of next week.

  There is a known bug with VPATH handling of Texinfo and Lex rules
  which isn't fixed here.  This affects all 1.7.x versions for Texinfo
  rules.  I think older versions will also fails on Lex rules but I
  haven't verified.  This is triggered during VPATH builds with (at
  least) Tru64 make, FreeBSD (current) make, and OpenBSD (3.2) make.
  In short, these make implementations will *not* perform a
  VPATH search for dependencies which appear as targets in Makefiles.
  As far as BSD make is concerned this seems to be a recent change in
  its behavior, as I believe it worked fine in the past.
  Fixing this requires too much changes for the 1.7.x branch.

  The following failures in the test suite can denote this bug:
    lex3.test, txinfo3.test, txinfo13.test, txinfo16.test, txinfo18.test

  Please report these failures anyway, with your system's version,
  so we know more precisely where this happens.

Here is a list of changes since 1.7.1.  Those that worry me the more
are the changes to elisp compilation, and the changes to depcomp.  If
you can test these, by all means please do!

Bugs fixed in 1.7.2b:
* Fix stamp files numbering (when using multiple AC_CONFIG_HEADERS).
* Query distutils for `pythondir' and `pythonexecdir', instead of
  using an hardcoded path.  This should allow builds on 64-bit
  distributions that usually use lib64/ instead of lib/.
* AM_PATH_PYTHON will also search for python2.3.
* elisp files are now built all at once instead of one by one. Besides
  incurring a speed-up, this is required to support interdependent elisp files.
* Support for DJGPP:
  - `make distcheck' will now work in `_inst/' and `_build' instead
    of `=inst/' and `=build/'
  - use `_dirstamp' when the file-system doesn't support `.dirstamp'
  - more changes that affect only the Automake package (not its output)
* Fix some incompatibilities with upcoming perl-5.10.
* Properly quote AC_PACKAGE_TARNAME and AC_PACKAGE_VERSION when defining
  PACKAGE and VERSION.
* depcomp fixes:
  - dashmstdout and dashXmstdout modes: don't use `-o /dev/null', this
    is troublesome with gcc and Solaris compilers. (PR/385)
  - makedepend mode: work with Libtool. (PR/385 too)
  - support for ICC.
* better support for unusual gettext setups, such as multiple po/ directories
  (PR/381):
  - Flag missing po/ and intl/ directories as warnings, not errors.
  - Disable these warnings if po/ does not exist.
* Noteworthy manual updates:
  - New FAQ chapter.
  - Document how AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR interacts with missing files.
    (Debian Bug #39542)
  - Document `AM_YFLAGS = -d'.  (PR/382)

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Alexandre Duret-Lutz