First the good news: 5.9.0rc2 is up on sourceforge.
Next, the bad news: 5.9.0rc2 will not build cleanly unless you have
exactly the version of automake I used. Normally, you shouldn't need
*any* version automake to build the tarball releases.
5.9.0rc3, which fixes the problem, will be up shortly. Thank you for
your patience.
--Jim
P.S. I will be wearing a virtual brown paper bag all day.