Automake 1.9.5b uploaded (beta for 1.9.6)

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

This is a beta for the next bug-fix release of Automake.  The list of
bug fixes is appended.  Some of these fixes are not as trivial as I
whish they were, so please give this beta a try before it gets
promoted into a release (in a week or so, hopefully).

Please send bug reports to <address@hidden>.

You can download this beta here:

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.9.6b.tar.gz
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.9.6b.tar.gz.sig
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.9.6b.tar.bz2
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.9.6b.tar.bz2.sig
  ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/automake/automake-1.9.6b.tar.gz
  ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/automake/automake-1.9.6b.tar.gz.sig
  ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/automake/automake-1.9.6b.tar.bz2
  ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/automake/automake-1.9.6b.tar.bz2.sig

Here are the MD5 checksums:

  78fae5179342671571be965b22744656  automake-1.9.5b.tar.bz2
  2e9427a6ae475c46432d0c005c9d3fd6  automake-1.9.5b.tar.gz

Bugs fixed in 1.9.5b:

* Longstanding bugs:

  - Correctly diagnose `#' comments following trailing backslash.

  - Preserve backslashes preceding `##' lines.

  - Preserve the order of items conditionally appended (+=) to variables.

  - Fix support of directory name with spaces on systems where
    mkinstalldirs cannot use `mkdir -p'.

  - Avoid infinite loop in mdate-sh when TIME_STYLE is set.

  - Do not output two definitions of SOURCES (an internal variable).
    One was not formatted and could exceed the maximum line length of
    some third-party tools (e.g., AIX 5.1 grep, breaking dependency
    tracking).

  - Do not empty info files when attempting to rebuild them without makeinfo.

  - Be smarter when a Makefile.am references files in both "./dir" and
    "dir": do not output two rules to create these directories.
    (PR/461)

  - Do not attempt to recover a missing *.elc file if it cannot be
    created because emacs does not exist.

  - Several aclocal fixes for issues occuring when configure.ac
    includes some other m4 files explicitely with m4_include or m4_sinclude.
    (PR/450)

* Other miscellaneous changes:

  - Update the GPL license, and the FSF postal address.

  - Anticipate for python2.5 in AM_PATH_PYTHON.

  - The manual should now compile without any warning from TeX.

-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz

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