Subject: bug#8125: Automake

From: Ralf Wildenhues <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 22:18:55 +0100

close 8125
thanks

Hello David,

thanks for the report.

* David Lisle wrote on Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 08:33:08PM CET:
> There were four messages, however I failed to capture all four. Here
> is the output file from "Make check"

> FAIL: exdir2.test
> FAIL: man2.test
> FAIL: subst.test
> FAIL: transform.test

> =====================================
> 4 of 537 tests failed
> (11 tests were not run)
> Please report to [email-masked]
> =====================================
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/automake-1.9/tests'

You have Automake version 1.9, released in 2004.  It has a security
issue in the 'make dist' rules that it generates.  Please update to
the current version, which is 1.11.1.  It also fixes the above failures
which are triggered by changes in newer Autoconf versions.

Thanks,
Ralf