- Update from version 1.17 to 1.18
- Update of rootfile
- Changelog
1.18
* 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. (bug#74847)
- The mdate-sh auxiliary script generally used with Texinfo now uses
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH, if set, instead of the source file's mtime. (bug#77805)
- New option dist-bzip3 for bzip3 compression of distributions. (bug#73795)
- New option --stderr-prefix for tap-driver.sh, to prefix each line of
stderr from a test script with a given string. (bug#72536)
- Support for Algol 68 added, based on the GNU Algol 68 compiler. (bug#75807)
* Bugs fixed
- Do not make Perl warnings fatal, per Perl's recommendation.
(https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2025-01/msg00003.html)
- Avoid Perl 5.41.8+ precedence warning for use of !!.
(https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2025-01/msg00000.html)
- a Perl path containing whitespace now emits a warning instead of
an error, so ./configure PERL='/usr/bin/env perl' can work. (bug#74453)
- 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. (bug#74434)
- The no-dist-built-sources Automake option now operates (hopefully) as
intended, i.e., omits the dependency on $(BUILT_SOURCES) for the
distdir target. (bug#69908)
- Only warn about install.sh being found, instead of it being a fatal
error. (bug#19964)
- The compile script is more robust to Windows configurations;
specifically, avoids double-path translation on MSYS. (bug#75939)
- 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. (bug#76622)
- AM_SILENT_RULES once again always ends with a newline. (bug#72267)
- 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.
(bug#76448)
* Miscellaneous changes
- Only require the presence of an ABOUT-NLS file at the 'gnits'
strictness level.
(https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2024-10/msg00006.html)
Signed-off-by: Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>