Re: [LFS Trac] #5734: automake-1.18

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#5734: automake-1.18
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 Reporter:  Bruce Dubbs  |       Owner:  lfs-book
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  12.4
Component:  Book         |     Version:  git
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |
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Comment (by Bruce Dubbs):

 New in 1.18 (2025-05-25):

 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.

   - The mdate-sh auxiliary script generally used with Texinfo now uses
     SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH, if set, instead of the source file's mtime.

   - New option dist-bzip3 for bzip3 compression of distributions.

   - New option --stderr-prefix for tap-driver.sh, to prefix each line of
     stderr from a test script with a given string.

   - Support for Algol 68 added, based on the GNU Algol 68 compiler.

 Bugs fixed

   - Do not make Perl warnings fatal, per Perl's recommendation.

   - Avoid Perl 5.41.8+ precedence warning for use of !!.

   - a Perl path containing whitespace now emits a warning instead of
     an error, so ./configure PERL='/usr/bin/env perl' can work.

   - 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.

   - The no-dist-built-sources Automake option now operates (hopefully) as
     intended, i.e., omits the dependency on $(BUILT_SOURCES) for the
     distdir target.

   - Only warn about install.sh being found, instead of it being a fatal
     error.

   - The compile script is more robust to Windows configurations;
     specifically, avoids double-path translation on MSYS.

   - 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.

   - AM_SILENT_RULES once again always ends with a newline.

   - 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.

 Miscellaneous changes

   - Only require the presence of an ABOUT-NLS file at the 'gnits'
     strictness level.
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