This is a test release of this package.
Please do not send reports about this release to any
GNU mailing list or newsgroup.

I've used test versions of both autoconf and automake to
generate some of the files in this release.  If you modify
files like configure.in, m4/*.m4, aclocal.m4, or any Makefile.am,
then don't be surprised if what gets regenerated no longer works.
Sorry for any inconvenience.  I'll try very hard to be using
publicly available versions of such tools for the next official
release.

With 4.0l, I've changed the way lstat works in ls (and hence, in dir and
vdir too) and in rm.  This means that the lib/lstat.c wrapper will be
used on most systems (but not Linux).  In most cases, the added overhead
won't be too high, but if you run `ls' on lots of symlink args, each
specified with a trailing slash, then you might see a performance impact.
The new configure-time test prints this message:

  checking whether lstat dereferences a symlink specified with a trailing slash...

then yes or no.
`yes' is good, `no' means it detected that your system needs the wrapper
to make ls (and probably others tools I haven't looked into yet) do the
right thing wrt POSIX pathname resolution.

For more details, see the ChangeLog entries, m4/lstat-slash.m4,
tests/ls/symlink-slash, and the wrapper source, lib/lstat.c (derived
from lib/xstat.in).

Please send comments and problem reports to meyering@na-net.ornl.gov.
