Automake 1.16

[Thomas Martitz]

Hello,

are there any plans to release Automake 1.16?

Currently, there is still a nasty bug in 1.15 that is fixed in the
development code (I'm talking about the "foo_SOURCES containing
variables like $(srcdir)/foo.c" one). Also, I would like to see a
release that ships my shorter object file name work. Both issues are
raised from time to time, so a release would be welcome.

At last, 1.15 is rather old by now. A fresh release would be a good sign
of life.

Best regards.

[Bob Friesenhahn]

Post by Thomas Martitz
Hello,
are there any plans to release Automake 1.16?
Currently, there is still a nasty bug in 1.15 that is fixed in the
development code (I'm talking about the "foo_SOURCES containing variables
like $(srcdir)/foo.c" one). Also, I would like to see a release that ships my
shorter object file name work. Both issues are raised from time to time, so a
release would be welcome.
At last, 1.15 is rather old by now. A fresh release would be a good sign of
life.

I just used ftp to ftp.gnu.org and used 'ls -ltr' of the
/pub/gnu/automake directory to check upload dates and see that the
latest Automake is 1.15.1 dated June 19, 2017. This is not very old.
Does it still have the bug which is causing a problem for you?

Bob

[Mathieu Lirzin]

Hello,

Post by Bob Friesenhahn

Post by Thomas Martitz
are there any plans to release Automake 1.16?
Currently, there is still a nasty bug in 1.15 that is fixed in the
development code (I'm talking about the "foo_SOURCES containing
variables like $(srcdir)/foo.c" one). Also, I would like to see a
release that ships my shorter object file name work. Both issues are
raised from time to time, so a release would be welcome.
At last, 1.15 is rather old by now. A fresh release would be a good
sign of life.

Hopefully 1.15.1 was already a good sign of life. :)

The commit fixing this bug you are referring to has been made in 2015,
so I agree it should be released soon. I expect to release 1.16 before
the end of the year.

Post by Bob Friesenhahn
I just used ftp to ftp.gnu.org and used 'ls -ltr' of the
/pub/gnu/automake directory to check upload dates and see that the
latest Automake is 1.15.1 dated June 19, 2017. This is not very
old. Does it still have the bug which is causing a problem for you?

The bugfix was pushed in "minor" branch (for 1.16 release) because it
was considered by previous maintainer as adding an extra feature. As a
consequence Automake 1.15.1 which was a "micro" release didn't include
it.

Thanks.