automake-1.16.4 released [stable]

Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Mon, 26 Jul 2021 15:31:50 -0700
Newsgroups	gmane.org.fsf.announce
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
This is to announce automake-1.16.4, a stable release.

There have been 45 commits by 11 people in the 36 weeks since 1.16.3.
Thanks to Karl yet again for doing so much of the work.

See the NEWS below for a brief summary.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:

  Allison Karlitskaya (2)
  Dirk Mueller (1)
  Jacob Bachmeyer (1)
  Jim Meyering (8)
  Joshua Root (1)
  Karl Berry (26)
  Mike Frysinger (1)
  Nick Gasson (1)
  Reuben Thomas (2)
  Zack Weinberg (1)

Jim [on behalf of the automake maintainers]
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Here is the GNU automake home page:
    http://gnu.org/s/automake/

For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
  http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=automake.git;a=shortlog;h=v1.16.4
or run this command from a git-cloned automake directory:
  git shortlog v1.16.3..v1.16.4

Here are the compressed sources:
  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.16.4.tar.xz (1.6MB)
  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.16.4.tar.gz (2.3MB)

Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]:
  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.16.4.tar.xz.sig
  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.16.4.tar.gz.sig

Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
  https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/automake/automake-1.16.4.tar.xz
  https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/automake/automake-1.16.4.tar.gz

[*] 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-1.16.4.tar.xz.sig

If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:

  gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 7FD9FCCB000BEEEE

and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.

Please report bugs and problems to <[email protected]>,
and send general comments and feedback to <[email protected]>.

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NEWS

* New features added

  - The PYTHON_PREFIX and PYTHON_EXEC_PREFIX variables are now set from
    Python's sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix; use the new configure options
    --with-python_prefix and --with-python_exec_prefix to specify explicitly.

  - Common top-level files can be provided as .md; the non-md version is
    used if both are present:
      AUTHORS ChangeLog INSTALL NEWS README README-alpha THANKS

  - CTAGS, ETAGS, SCOPE variables can be set via configure.

  - Silent make output for custom link commands.

  - New option "no-dist-built-sources" skips generating $(BUILT_SOURCES)
    before building the tarball as part of "make dist", that is,
    omits the dependency of $(distdir): $(BUILT_SOURCES).

* Bugs fixed

  - automake output more reproducible.

  - test-driver less likely to clash with tests writing to the same file.

  - DejaGnu tests always use the directory name, testsuite/, for
    compatibility with the newer dejagnu-1.6.3 and with prior versions.

* Distribution

  - config.sub and config.guess updates include restoration of `...`
    for maximum portability.

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