Automake 1.7.1b prerelease available (beta for Automake 1.7.2)

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

Hi people!

Here is a snapshot of the 1.7.x branch of Automake.

  ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/automake/automake-1.7.1b.tar.bz2
  ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/automake/automake-1.7.1b.tar.gz

This should be reasonably close to what 1.7.2 will be.
Please test it and report any problem you have,
so we can release 1.7.2 soon.

There have been a couple of ansi2knr changes, so it would be nice to
hear from people that are (still) using this.

Please send bug reports to <address@hidden>, or using the 
Gnats interface at 
  http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?database=automake

Bugs fixed in 1.7.1b:
* Fix ansi2knr rules for LIBOBJS sources.
* Clean all known Texinfo index files, not only those which appear to
  be used, because we cannot know wich indexes are used in included files.
  (PR/375, Debian Bug #168671)
* Honor only the first @setfilename seen in a Texinfo file.
* Treat "required file X not found" diagnostics as errors (exit status 1).
* Don't complain that a required file is not found when it is a Makefile
  target. (PR/357)
* Don't use single suffix inference rules when building `.info'-less
  Info files, for the sake of Solaris make.
* The `check' target now depends on `$(BUILT_SOURCES)'. (PR/359)
* Recognize multiple inference rules such as `.a.b .c.d:'. (PR/371)
* Warn about multiple inference rules when -Wportability is used. (PR/372)
* Fix building of deansified files from subdirectories. (PR/370)
* Add missing `fi' in the .c->.obj rules.
* Improve install-sh to work even when names contain spaces or certain
  (but not all) shell metachars.
* Fix the following spurious failures in the test suite:
  gnits2.test, gnits3.test, python3.test, texinfo13.test