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Re: Automake Real Millenium Beta
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Raja R Harinath |
Subject: |
Re: Automake Real Millenium Beta |
Date: |
23 Dec 2000 22:22:33 -0600 |
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Tom Tromey <address@hidden> 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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