Re: maintainer security fix

Eric Blake <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.m4.patches
Message-ID <[email protected]>
According to Eric Blake on 1/5/2010 6:41 AM:
> I'm applying this to branch-1.4 now, and
> will get it ported to branch-1.6 and master later this week.

And this followup.

-- 
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             [email protected]

_______________________________________________
M4-patches mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/m4-patches
m4.patch437 (text/plain, 1.8 KB)
From 36c382bdf8c55629d2cf9c9e5d44f80c6e886e7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Blake <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 10:43:20 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify minimum bootstrap requirements.

* bootstrap: Avoid out-of-date duplicated data.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <[email protected]>
---
 ChangeLog |    3 +++
 bootstrap |   11 ++++++-----
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index da50c55..d60f293 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2010-01-05  Eric Blake  <[email protected]>

+	Clarify minimum bootstrap requirements.
+	* bootstrap: Avoid out-of-date duplicated data.
+
 	Security fix by requiring newer automake features.
 	* configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Add dist-xz, color-tests,
 	parallel-tests, and silent-rules.
diff --git a/bootstrap b/bootstrap
index 791627e..25c07f0 100755
--- a/bootstrap
+++ b/bootstrap
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #! /bin/sh

-# bootstrap (GNU M4) version 2009-12-14
+# bootstrap (GNU M4) version 2010-01-05
 # Written by Gary V. Vaughan  <[email protected]>

 # Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software
@@ -31,10 +31,11 @@
 # locate the right tools:
 #   AUTORECONF, CONFIG_SHELL, GNULIB_SRCDIR, M4, RM, SED

-# This script bootstraps a git or CVS checkout of GNU M4 by correctly
-# calling out to parts of the GNU Build Platform.  Currently this
-# requires GNU Autoconf 2.60, GNU Automake 1.10.1, and bleeding edge
-# git or CVS snapshots of GNU Gnulib.
+# This script bootstraps a git checkout of GNU M4 by correctly calling
+# out to parts of the GNU Build Platform.  See HACKING for a list of
+# prerequisite tools and versions required.  If you are re-running
+# bootstrap on a release tarball rather than using a git checkout,
+# then see the release announcement for the prerequisite tools used.

 # Report bugs to <[email protected]>

-- 
1.6.4.2
signature.asc (application/pgp-signature, 320 B)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin)
Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

iEYEARECAAYFAktEB04ACgkQ84KuGfSFAYDUsgCg0PtInq7n6phF4Fcn5chcYhdD
9oUAniOJ6b1io/0lHEaQG1sg//NZQgmb
=HcXs
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.