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GNU Automake 1.9.6 released


From: Alexandre Duret-Lutz
Subject: GNU Automake 1.9.6 released
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 22:50:11 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)

I'm pleased to announce the release of Automake 1.9.6.

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 bugs fixed is appended.

You can find the new release here:

    ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.9.6.tar.gz
    ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.9.6.tar.gz.sig
    ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.9.6.tar.bz2
    ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.9.6.tar.bz2.sig
    ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/automake/automake-1.9.6.tar.gz
    ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/automake/automake-1.9.6.tar.gz.sig
    ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/automake/automake-1.9.6.tar.bz2
    ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/automake/automake-1.9.6.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

Finally, here are the MD5 checksums:

    c60f77a42f103606981d456f1615f5b4  automake-1.9.6.tar.gz
    c11b8100bb311492d8220378fd8bf9e0  automake-1.9.6.tar.bz2

Please report bugs to <address@hidden>.

Bugs fixed in 1.9.6:

* Longstanding bugs:

  - Correctly diagnose `#' comments following trailing backslash.

  - Preserve backslashes preceding `##' lines.

  - Preserve the order of items conditionally appended (+=) to variables.

  - Fix support of installation directory names with spaces on systems
    where mkinstalldirs cannot use `mkdir -p'.

  - Avoid infinite loop in mdate-sh when TIME_STYLE is set.

  - Do not output two definitions of SOURCES (an internal variable).
    One was not formatted and could exceed the maximum line length of
    some third-party tools (e.g., AIX 5.1 grep, breaking dependency
    tracking).

  - Do not empty info files when attempting to rebuild them without makeinfo.

  - Be smarter when a Makefile.am references files in both "./dir" and
    "dir": do not output two rules to create these directories.
    (PR/461)

  - Do not attempt to recover a missing *.elc file if it cannot be
    created because emacs does not exist.

  - Several aclocal fixes for issues occuring when configure.ac
    includes some other m4 files explicitely with m4_include or m4_sinclude.
    (PR/450)

  - depcomp's cpp mode now understands preprocessors that output either
    `#line 42 file' or `# 42 file'.  (Only the latter was supported.)

* Other miscellaneous changes:

  - Update the GPL, and the FSF postal address.

  - Anticipate for python2.5 in AM_PATH_PYTHON.

  - The manual should now compile without any warning from TeX.

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