From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Announce: Automake 1.5
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 20:33:43 +0200
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I'm pleased to pre-announce the DJGPP port of Automake 1.5.
I also plan to release a package for libtool 1.4.1 this week.

It should soon be available from the DJGPP archive on Simtel.NET
and its mirrors. You can download it from here:

http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/amake15b.zi
p&name=amake15b.zip
http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/amake15s.zi
p&name=amake15s.zip

In the meantime, I also have them on

http://users.pandora.be/vanholder/amake15b.zip
http://users.pandora.be/vanholder/amake15s.zip

These are the binary and source distributions respectively. If you just
wish to use automake, download the binary distribution.  DSM's are
included for easy installation.

Note: per-executable flags are currently not very DOS-friendly: if
you have separate CFLAGS for programs foo and bar, which share source
file baz.c, you'll end up with rules for foo-baz.o and bar-baz.o.
This usually leads to names that don't fit in 8.3.

Other than that, things should work pretty well.

Official announcement follows:

We're pleased to announce that Automake 1.5 has finally been released.

Automake is a tool that generates GNU Coding Standards compliant
Makefile.in files from shorter template files called Makefile.am.

Automake 1.5 has many major changes from 1.4.  For instance, there is
a new dependency tracking system which eliminates the requirement for
GNU make and gcc.  Per-executable flags have been implemented.
Support for Python and compiled Java (using gcj) has been added.

The release is at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.5.tar.gz
(and mirrors of that site).

 - The Automake Team