GNU Automake 1.15 Released, Still Preparing For Automake 2.0

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNU Automake 1.15 Released, Still Preparing For Automake 2.0

GNU Automake 1.15 was released today as a bug-fix release and continued warning about Automake 2.0 breakage. The Automake 1.15 release comes one year after the development of this important GNU project has been on rather troubled ground...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTg4MDg

[mark45]

might finally start assuming a POSIX shell is present

Windows doesn't have a posix shell, right? What will they do then?

[Tobu]

From the email:

- Automake 2.0 will remove support for MS-DOS and Windows 95/98/ME
(support for them was offered by relying on the DJGPP project).
Note however that both Cygwin and MSYS/MinGW on modern Windows
versions will continue to be fully supported.

About time. It's better to port the tools than to add crufty compatibility hacks which end up unused and unmaintained.

[vtorri]

Windows doesn't have a posix shell, right? What will they do then?

I use the autotools daily on Windows, with MSYS. There are other terminals which have a POSIX shell on Windows

[rleigh]

Windows and POSIX shell

Windows doesn't have a posix shell, right? What will they do then?

We can hope that Windows includes a POSIX shell eventually, and a proper SSH client etc., but until that time unless you're using cygwin/msys or equivalent you're stuck when it comes to the autotools; they are effectively tied to POSIX and that's unlikely to change anytime soon.

I switched to cmake, which replaced all of autoconf/automake/aclocal/libtool/autopoint etc. with a single tool. It's essentially a self-contained shell in its own right, whose builtin commands can generate build scripts for many different build systems. If you need portability outside Linux/BSD it's the only really good choice out there which does what it says on the tin.