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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 18:47:36 +0000
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: ANNOUNCE: Release 2 of DJGPP packages of automake 1.7.2
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Hello.

I'd like to announce release 2 of DJGPP packages of automake 1.7.2. This
release is a bugfix release, fixing:

* automake now uses bash as the shell. This fixes a problem where automake
  would complain that configure.in or configure.ac did not invoke
  the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macro, when it did.

If you are using release 1 of 1.7.2, please upgrade.

But what is automake? From its README:

"This is Automake, a Makefile generator.  It was inspired by the 4.4BSD
make and include files, but aims to be portable and to conform to the
GNU standards for Makefile variables and targets.

Automake is a Perl script.  The input files are called Makefile.am.
The output files are called Makefile.in; they are intended for use
with Autoconf.  Automake requires certain things to be done in your
configure.in."

The DJGPP binary and source packages of automake 1.7.2 require the DJGPP
binary package of autoconf 2.57 to be installed.

If you wish to use automake and read its documentation in info format, you
only need to download the binary package (amak172b.zip). If you wish to read
its documentation in DVI, HTML or PostScript, you need to download the
documentation package (amak172d.zip). If you wish to read the sources, rebuild
from sources or run the automake testsuite, you need to download the source
package (amak172s.zip).

Binaries:
http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/amak172b.zip&name=amak172b.zip

Documentation:
http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/amak172d.zip&name=amak172d.zip

Sources:
http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/amak172s.zip&name=amak172s.zip

Before you install automake 1.7.2, please read the readme.dos file.

http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/djgpp/automake/1.7.2/readme.dos

Thanks to Tim van Holder for initial starter patch for automake
and the discussions we had about the auto* tools.

Please direct any further discussions about this port
to comp.os.msdos.djgpp newsgroup (or write to its e-mail gateway
djgpp AT delorie DOT com). I try to read the DJGPP newsgroup on a regular basis,
but also please feel free to contact me by e-mail (address below).

Regards,

-- 
Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]