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.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d9d26fb859043e4f8d0021a3aadc2fa5a46c4b93..a1df9fd84eb5ca1b929b36ab3e76e4f5e60be7e9 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+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.

diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index 8b573866b496cadc682a022ebe4220b81b683555..a926fa959808977af7d71c7c56e09afb59815ede 100644 (file)
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -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 72fa8372bd6a642875467131a5880ee4553bf461..4a66217620a0750bd9ceff27640018dc8d2e2be5 100644 (file)
--- 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])