This is to announce automake-1.17.90, a alpha release. See the NEWS below for a brief summary of changes.
Download here: https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.17.90.tar.gz https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.17.90.tar.xz Please report bugs and problems to <bug-autom...@gnu.org> (instead of replying to this mail), and send general comments and feedback to <automake@gnu.org>, and patches to <automake-patc...@gnu.org>. If you install this test release in its own prefix (recommended) and you use libtool, you'll need to arrange for the libtool m4 files to be found by aclocal. For info on this, see: https://gnu.org/s/automake/manual/automake.html#Libtool-library-used-but-LIBTOOL-is-undefined There have been 47 commits by 11 people in the 33 weeks since 1.17. The following people committed changes for this release: Bogdan (1) Bruno Haible (3) Collin Funk (2) Eric Gallager (1) Gavin Smith (1) Jim Meyering (1) Jose Marchesi (1) Kamila Szewczyk (1) Karl Berry (19) Paul Eggert (3) Richard Hansen (14) Thanks to everyone who has contributed! Karl [on behalf of the automake maintainers] ================================================================== Detailed download/signature information follows. Here is the GNU automake home page: https://gnu.org/s/automake/ Here are the compressed sources: https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.17.90.tar.gz (2.3MB) https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.17.90.tar.xz (1.6MB) Here are the GPG detached signatures: https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.17.90.tar.gz.sig https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.17.90.tar.xz.sig Here are the SHA1 and SHA256 checksums: File: automake-1.17.90.tar.gz SHA1 sum: 1750415bd9ccb684a35195fe7f94fb25bc7e6770 SHA256 sum: 86979593364da61bb145cc5aa3a1362c755910be4b25a4228faea8a4def3905f File: automake-1.17.90.tar.xz SHA1 sum: c617c67bccb9663e70705bfc170511c643d53e85 SHA256 sum: 32ed7d86ef6bcc294a3b9de8ca1831e6cba7e258ad33dd15df956b2d2eccac8d Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this: gpg --verify automake-1.17.90.tar.gz.sig The signature should match the fingerprint of the following key: pub rsa2048 2012-06-12 [SC] 17D3 311B 14BC 0F24 8267 BF02 0716 748A 30D1 55AD uid Karl Berry <k...@freefriends.org> If that command fails because you don't have the required public key, or that public key has expired, try the following commands to retrieve or refresh it, and then rerun the 'gpg --verify' command. gpg --recv-keys 0x17D3311B14BC0F248267BF020716748A30D155AD As a last resort to find the key, you can try the official GNU keyring: wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-keyring.gpg gpg --keyring gnu-keyring.gpg --verify automake-1.17.90.tar.gz.sig This release is based on the automake git repository, available as git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/automake.git with commit 1349c729d092f147a2e663b1b21dd626b9643191 tagged as v1.17.90. For a summary of changes and contributors, see: https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=automake.git;a=shortlog;h=v1.17.90 or run this command from a git-cloned automake directory: git shortlog v1.17..v1.17.90 ============================================================================= New in 1.17.90 (after 1.17): * New features added - Default tar format is now ustar, mainly to support longer filenames; the tar-v7 and other explicit options to force a particular tar format are unchanged and still override the default. (bug#74847) - New option dist-bzip3 for bzip3 compression of distributions. (bug#73795) - New option --stderr-prefix for tap-driver.sh, to prefix each line of stderr from a test script with a given string. (bug#72536) - Support for Algol 68 added, based on the GNU Algol 68 compiler. (bug#75807) * Bugs fixed - Do not make Perl warnings fatal, per Perl's recommendation. (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2025-01/msg00003.html) - Avoid Perl 5.41.8+ precedence warning for use of !!. (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2025-01/msg00000.html) - a Perl path containing whitespace now emits a warning instead of an error, so ./configure PERL='/usr/bin/env perl' can work. (bug#74453) - The py-compile script once again does nothing (successfully) if the PYTHON environment variable is set to ":", or anything that isn't a Python interpreter (according to $PYTHON -V). Exception: if PYTHON is set to "false", do nothing but exit unsuccessfully, also to match previous behavior. (bug#74434) - The no-dist-built-sources Automake option hopefully now operates as intended, i.e., omits the dependency on $(BUILT_SOURCES) for the distdir target. (bug#69908) - The compile script is more robust to Windows configurations; specifically, avoiding double-path translation on MSYS. (bug#75939) - Only warn about install.sh being found, instead of it being a fatal error. (bug#19964) - AM_SILENT_RULES once again always ends with a newline. (bug#72267) - AM_SANITY_CHECK outputs "no" on failure, so that a complete line is printed to stdout before the error message is written to stderr. (bug#76448) * Miscellaneous changes - Only require the presence of an ABOUT-NLS file at the 'gnits' strictness level.
