Release Digest: GNU, July 10, 2003

Jul 11, 2003, 05:00 (0 Talkback[s])

GNU Automake 1.7.6

We're pleased to announce the release of Automake 1.7.6.

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 bug fixes is appended.

You can find the new release here:

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.7.6.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.7.6.tar.gz
ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/automake/automake-1.7.6.tar.bz2
ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/automake/automake-1.7.6.tar.gz

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:

68c4cbf2c54aff9a26e348e43d941bd5 automake-1.7.6.tar.bz2
9ff7de34f4b347742c01b4b8df55783f automake-1.7.6.tar.gz

Please report bugs to <bug-automake@gnu.org>.

Bugs fixed in 1.7.6:

• Fix depcomp's icc mode for ICC 7.1.
  
• Diagnose calls to AC_CONFIG_FILES and friends with not enough arguments.
• Fix maintainer-clean's removal of autom4te.cache in VPATH builds.
• Fix AM_PATH_LISPDIR to work with POSIXLY_CORRECT=3D1.
• Fix the location reported in some diagnostics related to AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
• Remove Latin-1 characters from elisp-comp.
• Update the manual's @dircategory to match the Free Software Directory.

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Alexandre Duret-Lutz