Release Digest: GNU, September 12, 2003

automake 1.7.7

We’re pleased to announce the release of Automake 1.7.7.

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://sources.redhat.com/pub/automake/automake-1.7.7.tar.bz2

ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/automake/automake-1.7.7.tar.gz

within a few days it should also appear at

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.7.7.tar.bz2

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.7.7.tar.gz

as well as 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:

4323c25644ed092c3d4fdfef434ab28d automake-1.7.7.tar.bz2
dd7dab16f5d3f30d3e3724cde71cc4c7 automake-1.7.7.tar.gz

This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signatures
by appending “.asc” to the URLs.

Please report bugs to <[email protected]>.

Bugs fixed in 1.7.7:

• The implementation of automake’s –no-force option is
  unreliable, so this option is ignored in this version. A real fix
  will appear in Automake 1.8. (Debian Bug #206299)
• AM_PATH_PYTHON: really check the whole list of interpreters if
  no argument is given. (PR/399)
• Do not warn about leading ‘_’ in variable names, even with
  -Wportability.
• Support user redefinitions of TEXINFO_TEX.
• depcomp: support AIX Compiler version 6.
• Fix missing rebuilds during `make dist’ with BSD make. (Could
  produce tarballs containing out-of-date files.)
• Resurrect multilib support.
• Noteworthy manual updates:
  • Extending aclocal: how to write m4 macros that won’t trigger
    warnings with Automake 1.8.
  • A Shared Library: Rewrite and split into subsections.

——
Alexandre Duret-Lutz