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[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: automake1.11-1.11.6-2
- From: Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 10:26:21 -0400
- Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: automake1.11-1.11.6-2
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Automake is a tool for automatically generating `Makefile.in's
suitable for use with Autoconf, compliant with the GNU Makefile
standards, and portable to various make implementations. This
package contains the latest version of automake 1.11 system,
automake-1.11.6.
This is a routine packaging update.
This cygwin package, automake1.11, can be installed without conflict
alongside the existing automake1.14 ... automake1.12, and automake1.10
... automake1.4 cygwin packages.
CHANGES SINCE 1.11.6-1
======================================================================
* Rely on cygport to autogenerate setup.hints
* Update config.sub/config.guess to latest standard (supports
cygwin64)
* Use 'alternatives' only for documentation; rely on wrapper
to handle the tools themselves.
* First cygwin64 release
CHANGES (excerpts from upstream announcement):
======================================================================
1.11.6: This message announces the Automake 1.11.6 bug-fixing
1.11.6: release.
1.11.6:
1.11.6: This release FIXES A SECURITY VULNERABILITY (CVE-2012-3386),
1.11.6: so you are strongly encouraged to upgrade your existing
1.11.6: Automake installation ASAP.
1.11.6:
1.11.6: With this release, the recipe of the 'distcheck' target no
1.11.6: longer grants temporary world-wide write permissions on the
1.11.6: extracted distdir. Even if such rights were only granted for
1.11.6: a vanishingly small time window, the implied race condition
1.11.6: proved to be enough to allow a local attacker to run arbitrary
1.11.6: code with the privilegesof the user running "make distcheck".
1.11.6:
1.11.6: The fix of this security vulnerability is the only change
1.11.6: between the earlier 1.11.5 release and the present 1.11.6 one.
1.11.6:
1.11.6: See the original release announcement for details.
1.11.6: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-07/msg00021.html
Testsuite results:
=======================================================
cyg32| 2 of 910 tests failed
cyg32| (41 tests were not run)
cyg64| 5 of 913 tests failed
cyg64| (38 tests were not run)
=======================================================
Testsuite Details:
=====================================
both| FAIL: compile_f90_c_cxx.test
Looks like a bug in the test. It expects a copy of
config.guess/config.sub in the testing directory, but
never copies it there nor runs automake with --add-missing.
cyg32|FAIL: lzma.test
Seems to be a bug in our version of lzma (from xz-5.02). It
reports "lzma: (stdin): Cannot allocate memory" whenever an
attempt is made to compress a stdio stream. (64bit lzma.exe
is newer).
cyg64|FAIL: vala-vapi.test
cyg64|FAIL: vala-vpath.test
cyg64|FAIL: vala-mix.test
cyg64|FAIL: vala-mix2.test
In each case, these tests are skipped on cyg32 (no vala
installed). The failure appears to be a mismatch between the
expectations of the test and the capabilities of my vala:
Any attempt to actally launch valac reports: "error: Unknown
profile posix"
I'm really not too concerned about these failures, since they all appear
to be (a) bugs in the testsuite, or (b) bugs in other programs.
--
Charles Wilson
volunteer automake maintainer for cygwin
====================================================================
To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link
on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to
your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions.
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