This is a test release of this package.

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 tests print these messages:

  checking whether lstat dereferences a symlink specified with a trailing slash...
  checking whether link(2) dereferences a symlink specified with a trailing slash...

then yes or no.
`yes' is good, `no' means it detected that your system needs the stat
wrapper to make ls, rm, and cp (and maybe others tools) do the right thing
with respect to POSIX pathname resolution.  The `ln' program must also
know how `link' deals with trailing slashes, but there's no need for
a wrapper function in that case.

For more details, see the ChangeLog entries, the *_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK
macros in aclocal.m4, tests/ls/symlink-slash, and the wrapper source,
lib/lstat.c (derived from lib/xstat.in), and of course the comments
in the source for the programs themselves.

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