automake distcheck question

2012-04-12 Thread songbird
[edited and posted from another group after being redirected] hi everyone, :) i'm running Debian (testing) with current automake, autoconf, etc. please note that the example code below does nothing at all, that's not the important part at the moment in this trail of learning, i'm just

bug#11204: automake-1.11.4 test failures, powerpc-darwin8

2012-04-12 Thread David Fang
This looks suspicious: FAIL: distcheck-override-infodir.test (exit: 2) === distcheck-override-infodir: running install-info --version Debian install-info 1.10.21. Copyright (C) 1994,1995 Ian Jackson. This is free software; see the GNU General Pu

bugfix release 1.11.5

2012-04-12 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hello automakers. In consideration of the two serious bugs recently fixed in Automake's Vala support (see bugs #1122 and #11229), I intend to release a bugfix release tomorrow if there is no objection. Below is a screenshot of the (pretty minimal) differences between the tip of the 'branch-1.11'