This is to announce automake-1.17.92, a alpha release. See the NEWS below for a brief summary of changes.
Download here: https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.17.92.tar.gz https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.17.92.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 The main change since the previous pretest (1.17.90) is that the environment variable CONFIG_SITE is now set to /dev/null for running the Automake tests, for the sake of a consistent environment. Other changes are mostly in the documentation. There have been 54 commits by 11 people in the 39 weeks since 1.17. Bogdan (1) Bruno Haible (3) Collin Funk (2) Eric Gallager (1) Gavin Smith (1) Jim Meyering (1) Jose Marchesi (2) Kamila Szewczyk (1) Karl Berry (24) Paul Eggert (3) Richard Hansen (15) Thanks to everyone who has contributed. Karl [on behalf of the automake maintainers] ================================================================== Detailed download/signature information follows. 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Then, run a command like this: gpg --verify automake-1.17.92.tar.gz.sig announce-gen: NEWS: no matching lines for '1.17.92' 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-1.17.92.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 c0ec787ba9c52dae9a38c6ba4c02026feca88547 tagged as v1.17.92. For a summary of changes and contributors, see: https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=automake.git;a=shortlog;h=v1.17.92 or run this command from a git-cloned automake directory: git shortlog v1.17..v1.17.92 ============================================================================= New in 1.17.92: * 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) - Only warn about install.sh being found, instead of it being a fatal error. (bug#19964) - The compile script is more robust to Windows configurations; specifically, avoiding double-path translation on MSYS. (bug#75939) - The test infrastructure sets the CONFIG_SITE environment variable to /dev/null, to avoid the local system's Autoconf site defaults from breaking the test environment. (bug#76622) - AM_SILENT_RULES once again always ends with a newline. (bug#72267) - AM_SANITY_CHECK now outputs "no" on failure, so that a complete line is written 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.
