Re: [Patch]: upgrade to automake 1.11.1

[Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>]

On Mar 31, 2010, at 10:27 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> Hello Tristan,
> 
> * Tristan Gingold wrote on Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:20:43AM CEST:
>> automake 1.11 has a security issue and gnu.org sites don't allow to
>> upload package that still use automake 1.11.
> 
> How unfortunate.  binutils don't contain nor use the 'make dist' rule
> which contains the bug.  The Automake option 'no-dist' prevents the
> rules to be present in the generated makefiles.

Ah, interesting.

> Why can gnu.org not grep for the presence of the rule instead?
> That's the usual Autoconf-like approach, and distributions are
> going to backport security fixes over upgrading versions, too.
> Jim?
> 
>> I have regenerated files using 1.11.1
> 
> I'd have preferred to avoid version churn between binutils and GCC,
> at this GCC stage, for a purely administrative issue.

Why not updating GCC ?  Sooner or later we will have to update, before the next
binutils release.
Can you clarify briefly the 'administrative issue' ?

>> Ok to apply ?
> 
> I can't approve or reject that.  Have you tested it?
> (Not that I know of any incompatibilities.)

Yes, I rebuilt the tools.  Also binutils 2.20.1 was updated to automake 1.11.1.

Tristan.