This is to announce automake-1.18.92, a beta release. This is the first (and hopefully final) pre-release for the upcoming Automake 1.19. Please consider doing us a favour and testing it on different platforms.
This release has only one new feature: AM_OPTIONAL_AUTOMAKE, which lets software packages ask for `dist-XXX' formats that are built only when the matching compression tool is actually installed. Previously, the inclusion of tools not present on the host caused `make dist' to fail on systems that deliberately lack one. Everything else is important bug fixes, a number of them in `make dist' itself. It is also the first beta release in my new capacity as one of the maintainers of automake. There have been 36 commits by 4 people in the 61 weeks since 1.18.1. See the NEWS below for a brief summary. Please report bugs and problems to <[email protected]> (instead of replying to this mail), and send general comments and feedback to <[email protected]>, and patches to <[email protected]>. 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 Thanks to everyone who has contributed! The following people contributed changes to this release: Bruno Haible (2) Kamila Szewczyk (14) Karl Berry (19) Paul Eggert (1) Kamila [on behalf of the automake maintainers] ================================================================== Here is the GNU automake home page: https://gnu.org/s/automake/ Here are the compressed sources: https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.18.92.tar.gz (2.4MB) https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.18.92.tar.xz (1.7MB) Here are the GPG detached signatures: https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.18.92.tar.gz.sig https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.18.92.tar.xz.sig Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth: https://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html Here are the SHA256 and SHA3-256 checksums: File: automake-1.18.92.tar.gz SHA256 sum: 0035b6c0538f9f40c74cee9ec32ac7ed72b500d95e6859bc0d925674f36894d5 SHA3-256 sum: 738fa885334e2ec991397dc9d1f42ae60e1e31a8cfc41955d724e22ab62c1993 File: automake-1.18.92.tar.xz SHA256 sum: bd34b9d717ace3262da8af7a03bcc9ecea4a0957da178c5d8f85340a1431684a SHA3-256 sum: d9e586a354c33126711d157b254496da27bfac6d610e2763ac8c634d2b8b923a Verify the SHA256 checksum with either sha256sum, sha256, or 'shasum -a 256'. Verify the SHA3-256 checksum with 'cksum -a sha3 -l 256 --base64' from coreutils-9.8. 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-1.18.92.tar.gz.sig automake-1.18.92.tar.gz The signature should match the fingerprint of the following key: pub rsa4096 2022-07-31 [SC] 6C22 2EA6 B2BD 216A A406 516A C868 F0B6 DE38 409D uid Kamila Szewczyk <[email protected]> uid Kamila Szewczyk <[email protected]> uid Kamila Szewczyk <[email protected]> uid Kamila Szewczyk <[email protected]> uid Kamila Szewczyk <[email protected]> uid Kamila Szewczyk <[email protected]> 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 0x6C222EA6B2BD216AA406516AC868F0B6DE38409D 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-1.18.92.tar.gz.sig automake-1.18.92.tar.gz This release is based on the automake git repository, available as git clone https://https.git.savannah.gnu.org/git/automake.git with commit b6739fd4e6b0c55dac768f3edc548d35fca8e7c1 tagged as v1.18.92. For a summary of changes and contributors, see: https://gitweb.git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=automake.git;a=shortlog;h=v1.18.92 or run this command from a git-cloned automake directory: git shortlog v1.18.1..v1.18.92 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ New in 1.19 (????-??-??): * New features added - New autoconf macro AM_OPTIONAL_AUTOMAKE. It takes a list of `dist-XXX' option names (dist-bzip2, dist-bzip3, dist-xz, dist-lzip, dist-zstd, dist-zip, dist-shar, dist-tarZ); `make dist' builds each archive when its tool is available and skips it otherwise, without making `make dist' fail. This is for systems that intentionally lack some compression tools. * Bugs fixed - `make dist-bzip2 dist-xz' now succeeds. They share the intermediate uncompressed tarball as a result of another fix. The first goal used to delete it, so every later goal failed with ENOENT. Under GNU make the tarball is now an .INTERMEDIATE file, built once and removed once the last goal is done with it; other make implementations rebuild it per goal. (bug #10975) - Non-zero exit codes of compressors for the dist tarballs no longer abort the job in a state where the empty files are left behind. The shell redirection truncates the archive before the initial invocation, so a zero-length archive could be mistook for a distribution; $(distdir).tar was left too. Both are now removed. This is a natural follow-up fix to bug#19614. - Busybox tar no longer assumed to be GNU tar just because it supports --version. - `make dist' now fails when tar fails, instead of exiting successfully with a truncated archive. - The filename-length-max=N option no longer rejects file names of exactly N characters; as documented, only longer ones are. (bug#81558) - The manual no longer presents 99 characters as the portable limit for file names in any archive format: it is the limit of the v7 format, whereas ustar, the default since Automake 1.18, stores longer names. (bug#81557) - A file that is not currently present is still a part of the distribution if a `Makefile.am' rule can build it. When that rule is inside an Automake conditional, the file is distributed only when the condition is true. (bug#79049) - The `check-DEJAGNU' recipe now honors silent rules (in the non-V=1 scenario). (bug#79086) - Objective C and Objective C++ sources built with Libtool are now compiled and linked with `--tag=OBJC' and `--tag=OBJCXX', when the installed Libtool announces support for those tags (Libtool 2.6.0 and newer). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- With Valediction, Kamila Szewczyk (https://iczelia.net)
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