Re: Automake Real Millenium Beta

[Raja R Harinath <harinath at cs dot umn dot edu>]

Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
> I think the real start of the new millenium deserves a new Automake as
> well.
> 
> To that end, I've updated the automake version to 1.4b and put a
> release up.  The cvs automake is now `1.4c'.
> 
> There are plenty of bugs left, I'm sure.  Some known issues:
> 
> * The documentation is not nearly up to date
> 
> * There are several bugs that haven't been fixed.  For instance, the
>   new dependency tracking code probably won't work with BSD make.  I
>   don't have a BSD box for testing :-(
> 
> * There are some patches I haven't yet looked at.

Please do consider the patch in 

  http://sources.redhat.com/ml/automake/2000-12/msg00003.html

It cleans up 'depcomp' handling.  

(This may already be on your todo list, but I wanted to make sure
you'll consider this -- the message didn't have a [PATCH] tag, and was
at the end of a thread which you may have missed.)

- Hari
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