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| author | Joel E. Denny <jdenny@clemson.edu> | 2010-01-19 18:08:48 -0500 |
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| committer | Joel E. Denny <jdenny@clemson.edu> | 2010-01-20 00:17:02 -0500 |
| commit | 9736697d6d8f9e719cae8b22ff842c5098c7edcb (patch) | |
| tree | 792885c6639b9c8a1457feb5263a9670fe66fa2e | |
| parent | e2f3fda11aade4ba42dda61bd9899ce47606cfc3 (diff) | |
| download | bison-9736697d6d8f9e719cae8b22ff842c5098c7edcb.tar.gz | |
build: require Automake 1.11.1 to avoid a security flaw.
* HACKING (Release Procedure): Don't document Automake security
flaw here.
* configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Require 1.11.1, and explain
why here.
| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | HACKING | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | configure.ac | 9 |
3 files changed, 15 insertions, 8 deletions
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@ 2010-01-19 Joel E. Denny <jdenny@clemson.edu> + build: require Automake 1.11.1 to avoid a security flaw. + * HACKING (Release Procedure): Don't document Automake security + flaw here. + * configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Require 1.11.1, and explain + why here. + +2010-01-19 Joel E. Denny <jdenny@clemson.edu> + gnulib: update to latest. 2010-01-19 Joel E. Denny <jdenny@clemson.edu> @@ -234,12 +234,6 @@ The log message can be simply: Bison 2.3b -** make distcheck -Be sure to use automake 1.10.3, 1.11.1, or later in order to avoid the -security issue described here: - - http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autotools.announce/131 - ** Push Once `make distcheck' passes, push your changes and the tag. `git push' without arguments will not push the tag. diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 72fa8372..4a662176 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -28,11 +28,16 @@ AC_SUBST([PACKAGE_COPYRIGHT_YEAR], [2008]) AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux]) AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4]) -# We don't have a file m4/Makefile.am, so we need Automake 1.8 or later. +# Automake 1.10.3 and 1.11.1 fix a security flaw discussed here: +# +# http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autotools.announce/131 +# +# To avoid 1.11, we make 1.11.1 the minimum version. +# # We want gnits strictness only when rolling a formal release so that we can, # for example, run make dist at other times without being required to add a # bogus NEWS entry. -AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.8 dist-bzip2] +AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11.1 dist-bzip2] m4_bmatch(m4_defn([AC_PACKAGE_VERSION]), [-], [gnu], [gnits])) AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([lib/config.h:lib/config.hin]) |