Re: Preparing 4.1...

[Mark D. Baushke]

Chad C. Walstrom <address@hidden> writes:

> OK, I think we're about ready to make the 4.1 release.
> send-pr/install-sid has been updated, the debian directory has been
> synchronized, configure.in has been updated in the gnats/ and send-pr/
> directories.  There are a few remaining issues to consider:
> 
>       * Compilation issues on Mac OS X 10.3.x
> 
>       * Core dump issues for Fedora Core 2 (remove optimization in the
>         compile)
> 
>       * libiberty autoconf requires version 2.13 rather than 2.50.
>         We either need to update the configure.in file to work with
>         2.50 or update libiberty to the most recent version (wherever
>         that might be available)

I recommend moving to autoconf 2.59 and consider a transition to
automake 1.9.3.

>       * Should we replace texinfo/texinfo.tex file with a more recent
>         version? (Version 4.2?)

Well, you may do well to consider making sure that the documentation
still looks correct when using something like the makeinfo that comes
with texinfo-4.7 (released 2004-04-10) which is hte latest release of
the texinfo software.

        -- Mark