[Patch]: upgrade to automake 1.11.1

Ralf Wildenhues Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de
Wed Mar 31 08:34:00 GMT 2010


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.

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.

> Ok to apply ?

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

> bfd/
> 2010-03-31  Tristan Gingold  <gingold@adacore.com>
> 
> 	* Makefile.in, aclocal.m4: Regenerate with automake 1.11.1
[...]

Cheers,
Ralf



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