3 * WARNING: Future backward-incompatibilities!
5 - Automake 1.14 will require Autoconf 2.70 or later (which is still
6 unreleased at the moment of writing, but is planned to be released
7 before Automake 1.14 is).
9 - Automake 1.14 will drop support for the long-deprecated 'configure.in'
10 name for the Autoconf input file. You are advised to start using
11 recommended name 'configure.ac' instead, ASAP.
13 - The ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS special make variable will be fully deprecated
14 in Automake 1.14 (where it will raise warnings in the "obsolete"
15 category). You are advised to start relying on the new Automake
16 support for AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS instead (which was introduced in
19 - Support for IRIX and the SGI C/C++ compilers will be removed in
20 Automake 1.14: they have seen their last release in 2006, and SGI
21 is expected to retire support from them in December 2013; see
22 <http://www.sgi.com/services/support/irix_mips_support.html> for
25 - Future versions of Automake might remove support for MS-DOS and
26 Windows 95/98/ME (support for them was offered by relying on the
27 DJGPP project). Note however that both Cygwin and MSYS/MinGW on
28 modern Windows versions will continue to be fully supported.
30 - Support for the long-deprecated INCLUDES variable will be removed
31 altogether in Automake 1.14. The AM_CPPFLAGS variable should be
34 - Automake-provided scripts and makefile recipes might (finally!)
35 start assuming a POSIX shell in Automake 1.14.
37 - Starting from Automake 1.14, third-party m4 files located in the
38 system-wide aclocal directory, as well as in any directory listed
39 in the ACLOCAL_PATH environment variable, will take precedence
40 over "built-in" Automake macros. For example (assuming Automake
41 is installed in the /usr/local hierarchy), a definition of the
42 AM_PROG_VALAC macro found in '/usr/local/share/aclocal/my-vala.m4'
43 should take precedence over the same-named automake-provided macro
44 (defined in '/usr/local/share/aclocal-1.14/vala.m4').
46 * Obsolescent features:
48 - Use of suffix-less info files (that can be specified through the
49 '@setfilename' macro in Texinfo input files) is discouraged, and
50 its use will raise warnings in the 'obsolete' category.
52 - Use of Texinfo input files with '.txi' or '.texinfo' extensions
53 is discouraged, and its use will raise warnings in the 'obsolete'
54 category. You are advised to simply use the '.texi' extension
57 * Documentation fixes:
59 - The long-deprecated but still supported two-arguments invocation form
60 of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is documented once again. This seems the sanest
61 thing to do, given that support for such an usage might need to remain
62 in place for a unspecified amount of time in order to cater for people
63 who want to define the version number for their package dynamically at
64 configure runtime (unfortunately, Autoconf does not yet support this
65 scenario, so we cannot delegate the work to it).
67 - The serial testsuite harness is no longer reported as "deprecated",
68 but as "discouraged". We have no plan to remove it, not to make its
69 use cause runtime warnings.
71 - The parallel testsuite is no longer reported as "experimental"; it
72 is well tested, and should be stable now.
74 - The 'shar' and 'tarZ' distribution formats and the 'dist-shar' and
75 'dist-tarZ' options are obsolescent, and their use is deprecated
78 - Other minor miscellaneous fixes and improvements; in particular,
79 some improvements in cross-references.
83 - The obsolete macros AM_CONFIG_HEADER or AM_PROG_CC_STDC work once
84 again, as they did in Automake 1.12.x (albeit printing runtime
85 warnings in the 'obsolete' category). Removing them has turned
86 out to be a very bad idea, because it complicated distro packing
87 enormously. Making them issue fatal warnings, as we did in
88 Automake 1.13, has turned out to be a similarly very bad idea,
89 for exactly the same reason.
91 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
97 - Use of the obsolete macros AM_CONFIG_HEADER or AM_PROG_CC_STDC now
98 causes a clear and helpful error message, instead of obscure ones
99 (issue introduced in Automake 1.13).
101 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
107 - ylwrap renames properly header guards in generated header files
108 (*.h), instead of leaving Y_TAB_H.
110 - ylwrap now also converts header guards in implementation files
111 (*.c). Because ylwrap failed to rename properly #include in the
112 implementation files, current versions of Bison (e.g., 2.7)
113 duplicate the generated header file in the implementation file.
114 The header guard then protects the implementation file from
115 duplicate definitions from the header file.
117 * Version requirements:
119 - Autoconf 2.65 or greater is now required.
121 - The rules to build PDF and DVI output from Texinfo input now
122 require Texinfo 4.9 or later.
126 - Support for the "Cygnus-style" trees (once enabled by the 'cygnus'
127 option) has been removed. See discussion about automake bug#11034
128 for more background: <http://debbugs.gnu.org/11034>.
130 - The deprecated aclocal option '--acdir' has been removed. You
131 should use the options '--automake-acdir' and '--system-acdir'
132 instead (which have been introduced in Automake 1.11.2).
134 - The following long-obsolete m4 macros have been removed:
136 AM_PROG_CC_STDC: superseded by AC_PROG_CC since October 2002
137 fp_PROG_CC_STDC: broken alias for AM_PROG_CC_STDC
138 fp_WITH_DMALLOC: old alias for AM_WITH_DMALLOC
139 AM_CONFIG_HEADER: superseded by AC_CONFIG_HEADERS since July 2002
140 ud_PATH_LISPDIR: old alias for AM_PATH_LISPDIR
141 jm_MAINTAINER_MODE: old alias for AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
142 ud_GNU_GETTEXT: old alias for AM_GNU_GETTEXT
143 gm_PROG_LIBTOOL: old alias for AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
144 fp_C_PROTOTYPES: old alias for AM_C_PROTOTYPES (which was part
145 of the now-removed automatic de-ANSI-fication
148 - All the "old alias" macros in 'm4/obsolete.m4' have been removed.
150 - Use of the long-deprecated two- and three-arguments invocation forms
151 of the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is no longer documented. It's still supported
152 though (albeit with a warning in the 'obsolete' category), to cater
153 for people who want to define the version number for their package
154 dynamically (e.g., from the current VCS revision). We'll have to
155 continue this support until Autoconf itself is fixed to allow better
156 support for such dynamic version numbers.
158 * Elisp byte-compilation:
160 - The byte compilation of '.el' files into '.elc' files is now done
161 with a suffix rule. This has simplified the compilation process, and
162 more importantly made it less brittle. The downside is that emacs is
163 now invoked once for each '.el' files, which cause some noticeable
164 slowdowns. These should however be mitigated on multicore machines
165 (which are becoming the norm today) if concurrent make ("make -j")
168 - Elisp files placed in a subdirectory are now byte-compiled to '.elc'
169 files in the same subdirectory; for example, byte-compiling of file
170 'sub/foo.el' file will result in 'sub/foo.elc' rather than in
171 'foo.elc'. This behaviour is backward-incompatible with older
172 Automake versions, but it is more natural and more sane. See also
175 - The Emacs invocation performing byte-compilation of '.el' files honors
176 the $(AM_ELCFLAGS) and $(ELCFLAGS) variables; as typical, the former
177 one is developer-reserved and the latter one user-reserved.
179 - The 'elisp-comp' script, once provided by Automake, has been rendered
180 obsoleted by the just-described changes, and thus removed.
182 * Changes to Automake-generated testsuite harnesses:
184 - The parallel testsuite harness (previously only enabled by the
185 'parallel-tests' option) is the default one; the older serial
186 testsuite harness will still be available through the use of the
187 'serial-tests' option (introduced in Automake 1.12).
189 - The 'color-tests' option is now unconditionally activated by default.
190 In particular, this means that testsuite output is now colorized by
191 default if the attached terminal seems to support ANSI escapes, and
192 that the user can force output colorization by setting the variable
193 AM_COLOR_TESTS to "always". The 'color-tests' is still recognized
194 for backward-compatibility, although it's a handled as a no-op now.
196 * Silent rules support:
198 - Support for silent rules is now always active in Automake-generated
199 Makefiles. So, although the verbose output is still the default,
200 the user can now always use "./configure --enable-silent-rules" or
201 "make V=0" to enable quieter output in the package he's building.
203 - The 'silent-rules' option has now become a no-op, preserved for
204 backward-compatibility only. In particular, its use no longer
205 disables the warnings in the 'portability-recursive' category.
209 - The rules to build PDF and DVI files from Texinfo input now require
210 Texinfo 4.9 or later.
212 - The rules to build PDF and DVI files from Texinfo input now use the
213 '--build-dir' option, to keep the auxiliary files used by texi2dvi
214 and texi2pdf around without cluttering the build directory, and to
215 make it possible to run the "dvi" and "pdf" recipes in parallel.
217 * Automatic remake rules and 'missing' script:
219 - The 'missing' script no longer tries to update the timestamp of
220 out-of-date files that require a maintainer-specific tool to be
221 remade, in case the user lacks such a tool (or has a too-old version
222 of it). It just gives a useful warning, and in some cases also a
223 tip about how to obtain such a tool.
225 - The missing script has thus become useless as a (poor) way to work
226 around the sketched-timestamps issues that can happen for projects
227 that keep generated files committed in their VCS repository. Such
228 projects are now encouraged to write a custom "fix-timestamps.sh"
229 script to avoid such issues; a simple example is provided in the
230 "CVS and generated files" chapter of the automake manual.
234 - The user can now define his own recursive targets that recurse
235 in the directories specified in $(SUBDIRS). This can be done by
236 specifying the name of such targets in invocations of the new
237 'AM_EXTRA_RECURSIVE_TARGETS' m4 macro.
241 - Any failure in the recipe of the "tags", "ctags", "cscope" or
242 "cscopelist" targets in a subdirectory is now propagated to the
243 top-level make invocation.
245 - Tags are correctly computed also for files in _SOURCES variables that
246 only list files with non-standard suffixes (see automake bug#12372).
248 * Improvements to aclocal and related rebuilds rules:
250 - Autoconf-provided macros AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR and AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS
251 are now traced by aclocal, and can be used to declare the local m4
252 include directories. Formerly, one had to specify it with an explicit
253 '-I' option to the 'aclocal' invocation.
255 - The special make variable ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS is deprecated; future
256 Automake versions will warn about its use, and later version will
257 remove support for it altogether.
259 * The depcomp script:
261 - Dropped support for libtool 1.4.
263 - Various internal refactorings. They should cause no visible change,
264 but the chance for regression is there anyway, so please report any
265 unexpected or suspicious behaviour.
267 - Support for pre-8.0 versions of the Intel C Compiler has been dropped.
268 This should cause no problem, since icc 8.0 has been released in
269 December 2003 -- almost nine years ago.
271 - Support for tcc (the Tiny C Compiler) has been improved, and is now
272 handled through a dedicated 'tcc' mode.
276 - ylwrap generates header guards with a single '_' for series of non
277 alphabetic characters, instead of several. This is what Bison >=
280 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
282 Bugs fixed in 1.12.6:
284 * Python-related bugs:
286 - The default installation location for python modules has been improved
287 for Python 3 on Debian and Ubuntu systems, changing from:
289 ${prefix}/lib/python3/dist-packages
293 ${prefix}/lib/python3.x/site-packages
295 This change should ensure modules installed using the default ${prefix}
296 "/usr/local" are found by default by system python 3.x installations.
297 See automake bug#10227.
299 - Python byte-compilation supports the new layout mandated by PEP-3147,
300 with its __pycache__ directory (automake bug#8847).
302 * Build system issues:
304 - The maintainer rebuild rules for Makefiles and aclocal.m4 in
305 Automake's own build system works correctly again (bug introduced
310 - The Vala-related tests has been changed to adjust to the removal of
311 the 'posix' profile in the valac compiler. See automake bug#12934
314 - Some spurious testsuite failures related to older tools and systems
317 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
323 - The AM_PROG_VALAC macro has been enhanced to takes two further
324 optional arguments; it's signature now being
326 AM_PROG_VALAC([MINIMUM-VERSION], [ACTION-IF-FOUND],
327 [ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND])
329 - By default, AM_PROG_VALAC no longer aborts the configure invocation
330 if the Vala compiler found is too old, but simply prints a warning
331 messages (as it did when the Vala compiler was not found). This
332 should avoid unnecessary difficulties for end users that just want
333 to compile the unmodified, distributed Vala-generated C sources,
334 but happens to have an old Vala compiler in their PATH. This fixes
337 - If no proper Vala compiler is found at configure runtime, AM_PROG_VALAC
338 will set the AC_SUBST'd variable 'VALAC' to 'valac' rather than to ':'.
339 This is a better default, because with it a triggered makefile rule
340 invoking a Vala compilation will clearly fail with an informative error
341 message like "valac: command not found", rather than silently, with
342 the error possibly going unnoticed or triggering harder-to-diagnose
343 fallout failures in later steps.
345 * Miscellaneous changes:
347 - automake and aclocal no longer honours the 'perllibdir' environment
348 variable. That had always been intended only as an hack required in
349 the testsuite, not meant for any use beyond that.
351 Bugs fixed in 1.12.5:
353 * Long-standing bugs:
355 - Automake no longer generates spurious remake rules invoking autoheader
356 to regenerate the template corresponding to header files specified after
357 the first one in AC_CONFIG_HEADERS (automake bug#12495).
359 - When wrapping Microsoft tools, the 'compile' script falls back to
360 finding classic 'libname.a' style libraries when 'name.lib' and
361 'name.dll.lib' aren't available.
363 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
367 * Warnings and deprecations:
369 - Warnings in the 'obsolete' category are enabled by default both in
370 automake and aclocal.
372 * Miscellaneous changes:
374 - Some testsuite weaknesses and spurious failures have been fixed.
376 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
380 * Miscellaneous changes:
382 - The '.m4' files provided by Automake no longer define serial numbers.
383 This should cause no difference in the behaviour of aclocal though.
385 - Some testsuite weaknesses and spurious failures have been fixed.
387 - There is initial support for automatic dependency tracking with the
388 Portland Group C/C++ compilers, thanks to the new new depmode 'pgcc'.
390 Bugs fixed in 1.12.3:
392 * Long-standing bugs:
394 - Instead of renaming only self-references of files (typically for
395 #lines), ylwrap now also renames references to the other generated
396 files. This fixes support for GLR and C++ parsers from Bison (PR
397 automake/491 and automake bug#7648): 'parser.c' now properly
398 #includes 'parser.h' instead of 'y.tab.h'.
400 - Generated files unknown to ylwrap are now preserved. This fixes
401 C++ support for Bison (automake bug#7648): location.hh and the
402 like are no longer discarded.
404 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
408 * Warnings and deprecations:
410 - Automake now issues a warning (in the 'portability' category) if
411 'configure.in' is used instead of 'configure.ac' as the Autoconf
412 input file. Such a warning will also be present in the next
413 Autoconf version (2.70).
417 - Recursive cleaning rules descends into the $(SUBDIRS) in the natural
418 order (as done by the other recursive rules), rather than in the
419 inverse order. They used to do that in order to work a round a
420 limitation in an older implementation of the automatic dependency
421 tracking support, but that limitation had been lifted years ago
422 already, when the automatic dependency tracking based on side-effects
423 of compilation had been introduced.
425 - Cleaning rules for compiled objects (both "plain" and libtool) work
426 better when subdir objects are involved, not triggering a distinct
427 'rm' invocation for each such object. They do so by removing *any*
428 compiled object file that is in the same directory of a subdir
429 object. See automake bug#10697.
431 * Silent rules support:
433 - A new predefined $(AM_V_P) make variable is provided; it expands
434 to a shell conditional that can be used in recipes to know whether
435 make is being run in silent or verbose mode.
437 Bugs fixed in 1.12.2:
439 * SECURITY VULNERABILITIES!
441 - The 'distcheck' recipe no longer grants temporary world-write
442 permissions on the extracted distdir. Even if such rights were
443 only granted for a vanishingly small time window, the implied
444 race condition proved to be enough to allow a local attacker
445 to run arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running
446 "make distcheck". This is CVE-2012-3386.
448 * Long-standing bugs:
450 - The "recheck" targets behaves better in the face of build failures
451 related to previously failed tests. For example, if a test is a
452 compiled program that must be rerun by "make recheck", and its
453 compilation fails, it will still be rerun by further "make recheck"
454 invocations. See automake bug#11791.
456 * Bugs introduced by 1.12.1:
458 - Automake provides once again the '$(mkdir_p)' make variable and the
459 '@mkdir_p@' substitution (both as simple aliases for '$(MKDIR_P)'),
460 for better backward-compatibility.
462 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
466 * New supported languages:
468 - Support for Objective C++ has been added; it should work similarly to
469 the support for Objective C.
471 * Deprecated obsolescent features:
473 - Use of the long-deprecated two- and three-arguments invocation forms
474 of the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macro now elicits a warning in the 'obsolete'
475 category. Starting from some future major Automake release (likely
476 post-1.13), such usages will no longer be allowed.
478 - Support for the "Cygnus-style" trees (enabled by the 'cygnus' option) is
479 now deprecated (its use triggers a warning in the 'obsolete' category).
480 It will be removed in the next major Automake release (1.13).
482 - The long-obsolete (since 1.10) automake-provided $(mkdir_p) make
483 variable, @mkdir_p@ configure-time substitution and AM_PROG_MKDIR
484 m4 macro are deprecated, eliciting a warning in the 'obsolete'
487 * Miscellaneous changes:
489 - The Automake test cases now require a proper POSIX-conforming shell.
490 Older non-POSIX Bourne shells (like Solaris 10 /bin/sh) will no longer
491 be accepted. In most cases, the user shouldn't have to specify such
492 POSIX shell explicitly, since it will be looked up at configure time.
493 Still, when this lookup fails, or when the user wants to override its
494 conclusion, the variable 'AM_TEST_RUNNER_SHELL' can be used (pointing
495 to the shell that will be used to run the Automake test cases).
497 Bugs fixed in 1.12.1:
499 * Bugs introduced by 1.12:
501 - Several weaknesses in Automake's own build system and test suite
504 * Bugs introduced by 1.11.3:
506 - When given non-option arguments, aclocal rejects them, instead of
507 silently ignoring them.
509 * Long-standing bugs:
511 - When the 'color-tests' option is in use, forcing of colored testsuite
512 output through "AM_COLOR_TESTS=always" works even if the terminal is
513 a non-ANSI one, i.e., if the TERM environment variable has a value of
516 - Several inefficiencies and poor performances in the implementation
517 of the parallel-tests 'check' and 'recheck' targets have been fixed.
519 - The post-processing of output "#line" directives done the ylwrap
520 script is more faithful w.r.t. files in a subdirectory; for example,
521 if the processed file is "src/grammar.y", ylwrap will correctly
522 produce directives like:
523 #line 7 "src/grammar.y"
528 * Bugs with new Perl versions:
530 - Aclocal works correctly with perl 5.16.0 (automake bug#11543).
532 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
536 * Obsolete features removed:
538 - The never documented nor truly used script 'acinstall' has been
541 - Support for automatic de-ANSI-fication has been removed.
543 - The support for the "obscure" multilib feature has been removed
544 from Automake core (but remains available in the 'contrib/'
545 directory of the Automake distribution).
547 - Support for ".log -> .html" conversion and the check-html and
548 recheck-html targets has been removed from Automake core (but
549 remains available in the 'contrib/' directory of the Automake
552 - The deprecated 'lzma' compression format for distribution archives
553 has been removed, in favor of 'xz' and 'lzip'.
555 - The obsolete AM_WITH_REGEX macro has been removed.
557 - The long-deprecated options '--output-dir', '--Werror' and
558 '--Wno-error' have been removed.
560 - The chapter on the history of Automake has been moved out of the
561 reference manual, into a new dedicated Texinfo file.
565 - New 'cscope' target to build a cscope database for the source tree.
567 * Changes to Automake-generated testsuite harnesses:
569 - The new automake option 'serial-tests' has been introduced. It can
570 be used to explicitly instruct automake to use the older serial
571 testsuite harness. This is still the default at the moment, but it
572 might change in future versions.
574 - The 'recheck' target (provided by the parallel testsuite harness) now
575 depends on the 'all' target. This allows for a better user-experience
576 in test-driven development. See automake bug#11252.
578 - Test scripts that exit with status 99 to signal an "hard error" (e.g.,
579 and unexpected or internal error, or a failure to set up the test case
580 scenario) have their outcome reported as an 'ERROR' now. Previous
581 versions of automake reported such an outcome as a 'FAIL' (the only
582 difference with normal failures being that hard errors were counted
583 as failures even when the test originating them was listed in
586 - The testsuite summary displayed by the parallel-test harness has a
587 completely new format, that always list the numbers of passed, failed,
588 xfailed, xpassed, skipped and errored tests, even when these numbers
589 are zero (but using smart coloring when the color-tests option is in
592 - The default testsuite driver offered by the 'parallel-tests' option is
593 now implemented (partly at least) with the help of automake-provided
594 auxiliary scripts (e.g., 'test-driver'), instead of relying entirely
595 on code in the generated Makefile.in.
596 This has two noteworthy implications. The first one is that projects
597 using the 'parallel-tests' option should now either run automake with
598 the '--add-missing' option, or manually copy the 'test-driver' script
599 into their tree. The second, and more important, implication is that
600 now, when the 'parallel-tests' option is in use, TESTS_ENVIRONMENT can
601 no longer be used to define a test runner, and the command specified
602 in LOG_COMPILER (and <ext>_LOG_COMPILER) must be a *real* executable
603 program or script. For example, this is still a valid usage (albeit
606 TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = \
607 if test -n '$(STRICT_TESTS)'; then \
608 maybe_errexit='-e'; \
612 LOG_COMPILER = $(SHELL) $$maybe_errexit
614 OTOH, this is no longer a valid usage:
616 TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = \
617 $(SHELL) `test -n '$(STRICT_TESTS_CHECKING)' && echo ' -e'`
621 TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = \
622 run_with_perl_or_shell () \
624 if grep -q '^#!.*perl' $$1; then
630 LOG_COMPILER = run_with_perl_or_shell
632 - The package authors can now use customary testsuite drivers within
633 the framework provided by the 'parallel-tests' testsuite harness.
634 Consistently with the existing syntax, this can be done by defining
635 special makefile variables 'LOG_DRIVER' and '<ext>_LOG_DRIVER'.
637 - A new developer-reserved variable 'AM_TESTS_FD_REDIRECT' can be used
638 to redirect/define file descriptors used by the test scripts.
640 - The parallel-tests harness generates now, in addition the '.log' files
641 holding the output produced by the test scripts, a new set of '.trs'
642 files, holding "metadata" derived by the execution of the test scripts;
643 among such metadata are the outcomes of the test cases run by a script.
645 - Initial and still experimental support for the TAP test protocol is
648 * Changes to Yacc and Lex support:
650 - C source and header files derived from non-distributed Yacc and/or
651 Lex sources are now removed by a simple "make clean" (while they were
652 previously removed only by "make maintainer-clean").
654 - Slightly backward-incompatible change, relevant only for use of Yacc
655 with C++: the extensions of the header files produced by the Yacc
656 rules are now modelled after the extension of the corresponding
657 sources. For example, yacc files named "foo.y++" and "bar.yy" will
658 produce header files named "foo.h++" and "bar.hh" respectively, where
659 they would have previously produced header files named simply "foo.h"
660 and "bar.h". This change offers better compatibility with 'bison -o'.
662 * Miscellaneous changes:
664 - The AM_PROG_VALAC macro now causes configure to exit with status 77,
665 rather than 1, if the vala compiler found is too old.
667 - The build system of Automake itself now avoids the use of make
668 recursion as much as possible.
670 - Automake now prefers to quote 'like this' or "like this", rather
671 than `like this', in diagnostic message and generated Makefiles,
672 to accommodate the new GNU Coding Standards recommendations.
674 - Automake has a new option '--print-libdir' that prints the path of the
675 directory containing the Automake-provided scripts and data files.
677 - The 'dist' and 'dist-all' targets now can run compressors in parallel.
679 - The rules to create pdf, dvi and ps output from Texinfo files now
680 works better with modern 'texi2dvi' script, by explicitly passing
681 it the '--clean' option to ensure stray auxiliary files are not
682 left to clutter the build directory.
684 - Automake can now generate silenced rules for texinfo outputs.
686 - Some auxiliary files that are automatically distributed by Automake
687 (e.g., 'install-sh', or the 'depcomp' script for packages compiling
688 C sources) might now be listed in the DIST_COMMON variable in many
689 Makefile.in files, rather than in the top-level one.
691 - Messages of types warning or error from 'automake' and 'aclocal'
692 are now prefixed with the respective type, and presence of -Werror
695 - Automake's early configure-time sanity check now tries to avoid
696 sleeping for a second, which slowed down cached configure runs
697 noticeably. In that case, it will check back at the end of the
698 configure script to ensure that at least one second has passed, to
699 avoid time stamp issues with makefile rules rerunning autotools
702 - The warnings in the category 'extra-portability' are now enabled by
703 '-Wall'. In previous versions, one has to use '-Wextra-portability'
708 - Various minor bugfixes for recent or long-standing bugs.
710 * Bugs introduced by 1.11:
712 - The AM_COND_IF macro also works if the shell expression for the
713 conditional is no longer valid for the condition.
715 - The automake-provided parallel testsuite harness no longer fails
716 with BSD make used in parallel mode when there are test scripts in
717 a subdirectory, like in:
719 TESTS = sub/foo.test sub/bar.test
721 * Long-standing bugs:
723 - Automake's own build system finally have a real "installcheck" target.
725 - Vala-related cleanup rules are now more complete, and work better in
728 - Files listed with the AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE macro in configure.ac are
729 now automatically distributed also if the directory of the auxiliary
730 files coincides with the top-level directory.
732 - Automake now detects the presence of the '-d' flag in the various
733 '*YFLAGS' variables even when their definitions involve indirections
734 through other variables, such as in:
736 AM_YFLAGS = $(foo_opts)
738 - Automake now complains if a '*YFLAGS' variable has any conditional
739 content, not only a conditional definition.
741 - Explicit enabling and/or disabling of Automake warning categories
742 through the '-W...' options now always takes precedence over the
743 implicit warning level implied by Automake strictness (foreign, gnu
744 or gnits), regardless of the order in which such strictness and
745 warning flags appear. For example, a setting like:
746 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = -Wall --foreign
747 will cause the warnings in category 'portability' to be enabled, even
748 if those warnings are by default disabled in 'foreign' strictness.
750 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
752 Bugs fixed in 1.11.5:
754 * Bugs introduced by 1.11.3:
756 - Vala files with '.vapi' extension are now recognized and handled
757 correctly again. See automake bug#11222.
759 - Vala support work again for projects that contain some program
760 built from '.vala' (and possibly '.c') sources and some other
761 program built from '.c' sources *only*. See automake bug#11229.
763 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
767 * Miscellaneous changes:
769 - The 'ar-lib' script now ignores the "s" (symbol index) and "S" (no
770 symbol index) modifiers as well as the "s" action, as the symbol index
771 is created unconditionally by Microsoft lib. Also, the "q" (quick)
772 action is now a synonym for "r" (replace). Also, the script has been
773 ignoring the "v" (verbose) modifier already since Automake 1.11.3.
775 - When the 'compile' script is used to wrap MSVC, it now accepts an
776 optional space between the -I, -L and -l options and their respective
777 arguments, for better POSIX compliance.
779 - There is an initial, experimental support for automatic dependency
780 tracking with tcc (the Tiny C Compiler). Its associated depmode is
781 currently recognized as "icc" (but this and other details are likely
782 to change in future versions).
784 - Automatic dependency tracking now works also with the IBM XL C/C++
785 compilers, thanks to the new new depmode 'xlc'.
787 Bugs fixed in 1.11.4:
789 * Bugs introduced by 1.11.2:
791 - A definition of 'noinst_PYTHON' before 'python_PYTHON' (or similar)
792 no longer cause spurious failures upon "make install".
794 - The user can now instruct the 'uninstall-info' rule not to update
795 the '${infodir}/dir' file by exporting the environment variable
796 'AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR' to the value "no". This is done for consistency
797 with how the 'install-info' rule operates since automake 1.11.2.
799 * Long-standing bugs:
801 - It is now possible for a foo_SOURCES variable to hold Vala sources
802 together with C header files, as well as with sources and headers for
803 other supported languages (e.g., C++). Previously, only mixing C and
804 Vala sources was supported.
806 - If "aclocal --install" is used, and the first directory specified with
807 '-I' is non-existent, aclocal will now create it before trying to copy
810 - An empty declaration of a "foo_PRIMARY" no longer cause the generated
811 install rules to create an empty $(foodir) directory; for example, if
812 Makefile.am contains something like:
816 pkglibexec_SCRIPTS += bar.sh
819 the $(pkglibexec) directory will not be created upon "make install".
821 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
825 * Miscellaneous changes:
827 - Automake's own build system is more silent by default, making use of
828 the 'silent-rules' option.
830 - The master copy of the 'gnupload' script is now maintained in gnulib,
833 - The 'missing' script no longer tries to wrap calls to 'tar'.
835 - "make dist" no longer wraps 'tar' invocations with the 'missing'
836 script. Similarly, the obsolescent variable '$(AMTAR)' (which you
837 shouldn't be using BTW ;-) no longer invokes the 'missing' script
838 to wrap tar, but simply invokes the 'tar' program itself.
840 - "make dist" can now create lzip-compressed tarballs.
842 - In the Automake info documentation, the Top node and the nodes about
843 the invocation of the automake and aclocal programs have been renamed;
844 now, calling "info automake" will open the Top node, while calling
845 "info automake-invocation" and "info aclocal-invocation" will access
846 the nodes about the invocation of respectively automake and aclocal.
848 - Automake is now distributed as a gzip-compressed and an xz-compressed
849 tarball. Previously, bzip2 was used instead of xz.
851 - The last relics of Python 1.5 support have been removed from the
852 AM_PATH_PYTHON macro.
854 - For programs and libraries, automake now detects EXTRA_foo_DEPENDENCIES
855 and adds them to the normal list of dependencies, but without
856 overwriting the foo_DEPENDENCIES variable, which is normally computed
859 Bugs fixed in 1.11.3:
861 * Bugs introduced by 1.11.2:
863 - Automake now correctly recognizes the prefix/primary combination
864 'pkglibexec_SCRIPTS' as valid.
866 - The parallel-tests harness no longer trips on sed implementations
867 with stricter limits on the length of input lines (problem seen at
870 * Long-standing bugs:
872 - The "deleted header file problem" for *.am files is avoided by stub
873 rules. This allows 'make' to trigger a rerun of 'automake' also if
874 some previously needed '.am' file has been removed.
876 - The 'silent-rules' option now generates working makefiles even
877 for the uncommon 'make' implementations that do not support the
878 nested-variables extension to POSIX 2008. For such 'make'
879 implementations, whether a build is silent is determined at
880 configure time, and cannot be overridden at make time with
881 "make V=0" or "make V=1".
883 - Vala support now works better in VPATH setups.
885 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
889 * Changes to aclocal:
891 - The `--acdir' option is deprecated. Now you should use the new options
892 `--automake-acdir' and `--system-acdir' instead.
894 - The `ACLOCAL_PATH' environment variable is now interpreted as a
895 colon-separated list of additional directories to search after the
896 automake internal acdir (by default ${prefix}/share/aclocal-APIVERSION)
897 and before the system acdir (by default ${prefix}/share/aclocal).
899 * Miscellaneous changes:
901 - The Automake support for automatic de-ANSI-fication has been
902 deprecated. It will probably be removed in the next major Automake
905 - The `lzma' compression scheme and associated automake option `dist-lzma'
906 is obsoleted by `xz' and `dist-xz' due to upstream changes.
908 - You may adjust the compression options used in dist-xz and dist-bzip2.
909 The default is now merely -e for xz, but still -9 for bzip; you may
910 specify a different level via the XZ_OPT and BZIP2 envvars respectively.
911 E.g., "make dist-xz XZ_OPT=-7" or "make dist-bzip2 BZIP2=-5"
913 - The `compile' script now converts some options for MSVC for a better
914 user experience. Similarly, the new `ar-lib' script wraps Microsoft lib.
916 - The py-compile script now accepts empty arguments passed to the options
917 `--destdir' and `--basedir', and complains about unrecognized options.
918 Moreover, a non-option argument or a special `--' argument terminates
921 - A developer that needs to pass specific flags to configure at "make
922 distcheck" time can now, and indeed is advised to, do so by defining
923 the developer-reserved makefile variable AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS,
924 instead of the old DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS.
925 The DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS variable should now be reserved for the
926 user; still, the old Makefile.am files that used to define it will
927 still continue to work as before.
929 - New macro AM_PROG_AR that looks for an archiver and wraps it in the new
930 'ar-lib' auxiliary script if the selected archiver is Microsoft lib.
931 This new macro is required for LIBRARIES and LTLIBRARIES when automake
932 is run with -Wextra-portability and -Werror.
934 - When using DejaGnu-based testsuites, the user can extend the `site.exp'
935 file generated by automake-provided rules by defining the special make
936 variable `$(EXTRA_DEJAGNU_SITE_CONFIG)'.
938 - The `install-info' rule can now be instructed not to create/update
939 the `${infodir}/dir' file, by exporting the new environment variable
940 `AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR' to the value "no".
942 Bugs fixed in 1.11.2:
944 * Bugs introduced by 1.11:
946 - The parallel-tests driver no longer produces erroneous results with
947 Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh upon unreadable log files.
949 - The `parallel-tests' test driver does not report spurious successes
950 when used with concurrent FreeBSD make (e.g., "make check -j3").
952 - When the parallel-tests driver is in use, automake now explicitly
953 rejects invalid entries and conditional contents in TEST_EXTENSIONS,
954 instead of issuing confusing and apparently unrelated error messages
955 (e.g., "non-POSIX variable name", "bad characters in variable name",
956 or "redefinition of TEST_EXTENSIONS), or even, in some situations,
957 silently producing broken `Makefile.in' files.
959 - The `silent-rules' option now truly silences all compile rules, even
960 when dependency tracking is disabled. Also, when `silent-rules' is
961 not used, `make' output no longer contains spurious backslash-only
962 lines, thus once again matching what Automake did before 1.11.
964 - The AM_COND_IF macro also works if the shell expression for the
965 conditional is no longer valid for the condition.
967 * Long-standing bugs:
969 - The order of Yacc and Lex flags is fixed to be consistent with other
970 languages: $(AM_YFLAGS) comes before $(YFLAGS), and $(AM_LFLAGS) before
971 $(LFLAGS), so that the user variables override the developer variables.
973 - "make distcheck" now correctly complains also when "make uninstall"
974 leaves one and only one file installed in $(prefix).
976 - A "make uninstall" issued before a "make install", or after a mere
977 "make install-data" or a mere "make install-exec" does not spuriously
980 - Automake now warns about more primary/directory invalid combinations,
981 such as "doc_LIBRARIES" or "pkglib_PROGRAMS".
983 - Rules generated by Automake now try harder to not change any files when
984 `make -n' is invoked. Fixes include compilation of Emacs Lisp, Vala, or
985 Yacc source files and the rule to update config.h.
987 - Several scripts and the parallel-tests testsuite driver now exit with
988 the right exit status upon receiving a signal.
990 - A per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror does not erroneously carry over
991 to the handling of other Makefile.am files.
993 - The code for automatic dependency tracking works around a Solaris
994 make bug triggered by sources containing repeated slashes when the
995 `subdir-objects' option was used.
997 - The makedepend and hp depmodes now work better with VPATH builds.
999 - Java sources specified with check_JAVA are no longer compiled for
1000 "make all", but only for "make check".
1002 - An usage like "java_JAVA = foo.java" will now cause Automake to warn
1003 and error out if `javadir' is undefined, instead of silently producing
1004 a broken Makefile.in.
1006 - aclocal and automake now honour the configure-time definitions of
1007 AUTOCONF and AUTOM4TE when they spawn autoconf or autom4te processes.
1009 - The `install-info' recipe no longer tries to guess whether the
1010 `install-info' program is from Debian or from GNU, and adaptively
1011 change its behaviour; this has proven to be frail and easy to
1014 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1016 Bugs fixed in 1.11.1:
1018 - Lots of minor bugfixes.
1020 * Bugs introduced by 1.11:
1022 - The `parallel-tests' test driver works around a GNU make 3.80 bug with
1023 trailing white space in the test list (`TESTS = foo $(EMPTY)').
1025 * Long standing bugs:
1027 - On Darwin 9, `pythondir' and `pyexecdir' pointed below `/Library/Python'
1028 even if the `--prefix' argument pointed outside of a system directory.
1029 AM_PATH_PYTHON has been fixed to ignore the value returned from python's
1030 `get_python_lib' function if it points outside the configured prefix,
1031 unless the `--prefix' argument was either `/usr' or below `/System'.
1033 - The testsuite does not try to change the mode of `ltmain.sh' files from
1034 a Libtool installation (symlinked to test directories) any more.
1036 - AM_PROG_GCJ uses AC_CHECK_TOOLS to look for `gcj' now, so that prefixed
1037 tools are preferred in a cross-compile setup.
1039 - The distribution is tarred up with mode 755 now by the `dist*' targets.
1040 This fixes a race condition where untrusted users could modify files
1041 in the $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION) distdir before packing if the toplevel
1042 build directory was world-searchable. This is CVE-2009-4029.
1044 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1048 * Version requirements:
1050 - Autoconf 2.62 or greater is required.
1052 * Changes to aclocal:
1054 - The autoconf version check implemented by aclocal in aclocal.m4
1055 (and new in Automake 1.10) is degraded to a warning. This helps
1056 in the common case where the Autoconf versions used are compatible.
1058 * Changes to automake:
1060 - The automake program can run multiple threads for creating most
1061 Makefile.in files concurrently, if at least Perl 5.7.2 is available
1062 with interpreter-based threads enabled. Set the environment variable
1063 AUTOMAKE_JOBS to the maximum number of threads to use, in order to
1064 enable this experimental feature.
1066 * Changes to Libtool support:
1068 - Libtool generic flags are now passed to the install and uninstall
1071 - distcheck works with Libtool 2.x even when LT_OUTPUT is used, as
1072 config.lt is removed correctly now.
1074 * Languages changes:
1076 - subdir-object mode works now with Fortran (F77, FC, preprocessed
1077 Fortran, and Ratfor).
1079 - For files with extension .f90, .f95, .f03, or .f08, the flag
1080 $(FCFLAGS_f[09]x) computed by AC_FC_SRCEXT is now used in compile rules.
1082 - Files with extension .sx are also treated as preprocessed assembler.
1084 - The default source file extension (.c) can be overridden with
1085 AM_DEFAULT_SOURCE_EXT now.
1087 - Python 3.0 is supported now, Python releases prior to 2.0 are no
1090 - AM_PATH_PYTHON honors python's idea about the site directory.
1092 - There is initial support for the Vala programming language, when using
1093 Vala 0.7.0 or later.
1095 * Miscellaneous changes:
1097 - Automake development is done in a git repository on Savannah now, see
1099 http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=automake.git
1101 A read-only CVS mirror is provided at
1103 cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@pserver.git.sv.gnu.org:/automake.git \
1104 checkout -d automake HEAD
1106 - "make dist" can now create xz-compressed tarballs,
1107 as well as (deprecated?) lzma-compressed tarballs.
1109 - `automake --add-missing' will by default install the GPLv3 file as
1110 COPYING if it is missing. It will also warn that the license file
1111 should be added to source control. Note that Automake will never
1112 overwrite an existing COPYING file, even when the `--force-missing'
1115 - The manual is now distributed under the terms of the GNU FDL 1.3.
1117 - Automake ships and installs man pages for automake and aclocal now.
1119 - New shorthand `$(pkglibexecdir)' for `$(libexecdir)/@PACKAGE@'.
1121 - install-sh supports -C, which does not update the installed file
1122 (and its time stamps) if the contents did not change.
1124 - The `gnupload' script has been revamped.
1126 - The `depcomp' and `compile' scripts now work with MSVC under MSYS.
1128 - The targets `install' and `uninstall' are more efficient now, in that
1129 for example multiple files from one Automake variable such as
1130 `bin_SCRIPTS' are copied in one `install' (or `libtool --mode=install')
1131 invocation if they do not have to be renamed.
1133 Both install and uninstall may sometimes enter (`cd' into) the target
1134 installation directory now, when no build-local scripts are used.
1136 Both install and uninstall do not fail anymore but do nothing if an
1137 installation directory variable like `bindir' is set to the empty string.
1139 For built-in rules, `make install' now fails reliably if installation
1140 of a file failed. Conversely, `make uninstall' even succeeds when
1141 issued multiple times.
1143 These changes may need some adjustments from users: For example,
1144 some `install' programs refuse to install multiple copies of the
1145 same file in one invocation, so you may need to remove duplicate
1146 entries from file lists.
1148 Also, within one set of files, say, nobase_data_DATA, the order of
1149 installation may be changed, or even unstable among different hosts,
1150 due to the use of associative arrays in awk. The increased use of
1151 awk matches a similar move in Autoconf to provide for better scaling.
1153 Further, most undocumented per-rule install command variables such as
1154 binSCRIPT_INSTALL have been removed because they are not needed any
1155 more. Packages which use them should be using the appropriate one of
1156 INSTALL_{DATA,PROGRAM,SCRIPT} or their install_sh_{DATA,PROGRAM,SCRIPT}
1157 counterpart, depending on the type of files and the need for automatic
1158 target directory creation.
1160 - The "deleted header file problem" for *.m4 files is avoided by
1161 stub rules. This allows `make' to trigger a rerun of `aclocal'
1162 also if some previously needed macro file has been removed.
1164 - Rebuild rules now also work for a removed `subdir/Makefile.in' in
1165 an otherwise up to date tree.
1167 - The `color-tests' option causes colored test result output on terminals.
1169 - The `parallel-tests' option enables a new test driver that allows for
1170 parallel test execution, inter-test dependencies, lazy test execution
1171 for unit-testing, re-testing only failed tests, and formatted result output
1172 as RST (reStructuredText) and HTML. Enabling this option may require some
1173 changes to your test suite setup; see the manual for details.
1175 - The `silent-rules' option enables Linux kernel-style silent build output.
1176 This option requires the widely supported but non-POSIX `make' feature
1177 of recursive variable expansion, so do not use it if your package needs
1178 to build with `make' implementations that do not support it.
1180 To enable less verbose build output, the developer has to use the Automake
1181 option `silent-rules' in `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE', or call the `AM_SILENT_RULES'
1182 macro. The user may then set the default verbosity by passing the
1183 `--enable-silent-rules' option to `configure'. At `make' run time, this
1184 default may be overridden using `make V=0' for less verbose, and `make V=1'
1185 for backward-compatible verbose output.
1187 - New prefix `notrans_' for manpages which should not be transformed
1188 by --program-transform.
1190 - New macro AM_COND_IF for conditional evaluation and conditional
1193 - For AC_CONFIG_LINKS, if source and destination are equal, do not
1194 remove the file in a non-VPATH build. Such setups work with Autoconf
1197 - AM_MAINTAINER_MODE now allows for an optional argument specifying
1198 the default setting.
1200 - AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE may prevent substitution of AC_SUBSTed variables,
1201 useful especially for multi-line values.
1203 - Automake's early configure-time sanity check now diagnoses an
1204 unsafe absolute source directory name and makes configure fail.
1206 - The Automake macros and rules cope better with whitespace in the
1207 current directory name, as long as the relative path to `configure'
1208 does not contain whitespace. To this end, the values of `$(MISSING)'
1209 and `$(install_sh)' may contain suitable quoting, and their expansion
1210 might need `eval'uation if used outside of a makefile. These
1211 undocumented variables may be used in several documented macros such
1212 as $(AUTOCONF) or $(MAKEINFO).
1216 * Long-standing bugs:
1218 - Fix aix dependency tracking for libtool objects.
1220 - Work around AIX sh quoting issue in AC_PROG_CC_C_O, leading to
1221 unnecessary use of the `compile' script.
1223 - For nobase_*_LTLIBRARIES with nonempty directory components, the
1224 correct `-rpath' argument is used now.
1226 - `config.status --file=Makefile depfiles' now also works with the
1227 extra quoting used internally by Autoconf 2.62 and newer
1228 (it used to work only without the `--file=' bit).
1230 - The `missing' script works better with versioned tool names.
1232 - Semantics for `missing help2man' have been revamped:
1234 Previously, if `help2man' was not present, `missing help2man' would have
1235 the following semantics: if some man page was out of date but present, then
1236 a warning would be printed, but the exit status was 0. If the man page was
1237 not present at all, then `missing' would create a replacement man page
1238 containing an error message, and exit with a status of 2. This does not play
1239 well with `make': the next run will see this particular man page as being up
1240 to date, and will only error out on the next generated man page, if any;
1241 repeat until all pages are done. This was not desirable.
1243 These are the new semantics: if some man page is not present, and help2man
1244 is not either, then `missing' will warn and generate the replacement page
1245 containing the error message, but exit successfully. However, `make dist'
1246 will ensure that no such bogus man pages are packaged into a tarball.
1248 - Targets provided by automake behave better with `make -n', in that they
1249 take care not to create files.
1251 - `config.status Makefile... depfiles' works fine again in the presence of
1252 disabled dependency tracking.
1254 - The default no-op recursive rules for these targets also work with BSD make
1255 now: html, install-html, install-dvi, install-pdf, install-pdf, install-info.
1257 - `make distcheck' works also when both a directory and some file below it
1258 have been added to a distribution variable, such as EXTRA_DIST or *_SOURCES.
1260 - Texinfo dvi, ps, pdf, and html output files are not removed upon
1261 `make mostlyclean' any more; only the LaTeX by-products are.
1263 - Renamed objects also work with the `subdir-objects' option and
1264 source file languages which Automake does not know itself.
1266 - `automake' now correctly complains about variable assignments which are
1267 preceded by a comment, extend over multiple lines with backslash-escaped
1268 newlines, and end in a comment sign. Previous versions would silently
1269 and wrongly ignore such assignments completely.
1271 * Bugs introduced by 1.10:
1273 - Fix output of dummy dependency files in presence of post-processed
1274 Makefile.in's again, but also cope with long lines.
1276 - $(EXEEXT) is automatically appended to filenames of XFAIL_TESTS
1277 that have been declared as programs in the same Makefile.
1278 This is for consistency with the analogous change to TESTS in 1.10.
1280 - Fix order of standard includes to again be `-I. -I$(srcdir)',
1281 followed by directories containing config headers.
1283 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1287 * Version requirements:
1289 - Autoconf 2.60 or greater is required.
1291 - Perl 5.6 or greater is required.
1293 * Changes to aclocal:
1295 - aclocal now also supports -Wmumble and -Wno-mumble options.
1297 - `dirlist' entries (for the aclocal search path) may use shell
1298 wildcards such as `*', `?', or `[...]'.
1300 - aclocal supports an --install option that will cause system-wide
1301 third-party macros to be installed in the local directory
1302 specified with the first -I flag. This option also uses #serial
1303 lines in M4 files to upgrade local macros.
1305 The new aclocal options --dry-run and --diff help to review changes
1306 before they are installed.
1308 - aclocal now outputs an autoconf version check in aclocal.m4 in
1309 projects using automake.
1311 For a few years, automake and aclocal have been calling autoconf
1312 (or its underlying engine autom4te) to accurately retrieve the
1313 data they need from configure.ac and its siblings. Doing so can
1314 only work if all autotools use the same version of autoconf. For
1315 instance a Makefile.in generated by automake for one version of
1316 autoconf may stop working if configure is regenerated with another
1317 version of autoconf, and vice versa.
1319 This new version check ensures that the whole build system has
1320 been generated using the same autoconf version.
1322 * Support for new Autoconf macros:
1324 - The new AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE Autoconf macro is supported.
1326 - If `subdir-objects' is set, and AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR is specified,
1327 $(LIBOBJS), $(LTLIBOBJS), $(ALLOCA), and $(LTALLOCA) can be used
1328 in different directories. However, only one instance of such a
1329 library objects directory is supported.
1331 * Change to Libtool support:
1333 - Libtool generic flags (those that go before the --mode=MODE option)
1334 can be specified using AM_LIBTOOLFLAGS and target_LIBTOOLFLAGS.
1336 * Yacc and Lex changes:
1338 - The rebuild rules for distributed Yacc and Lex output will avoid
1339 overwriting existing files if AM_MAINTAINER_MODE and maintainer-mode
1342 - ylwrap is now always used for lex and yacc source files,
1343 regardless of whether there is more than one source per directory.
1345 * Languages changes:
1347 - Preprocessed assembler (*.S) compilation now honors CPPFLAGS,
1348 AM_CPPFLAGS and per-target _CPPFLAGS, and supports dependency
1349 tracking, unlike non-preprocessed assembler (*.s).
1351 - subdir-object mode works now with Assembler. Automake assumes
1352 that the compiler understands `-c -o'.
1354 - Preprocessed assembler (*.S) compilation now also honors
1355 $(DEFS) $(DEFAULT_INCLUDES) $(INCLUDES).
1357 - Improved support for Objective C:
1358 - Autoconf's new AC_PROG_OBJC will enable automatic dependency tracking.
1359 - A new section of the manual documents the support.
1361 - New support for Unified Parallel C:
1362 - AM_PROG_UPC looks for a UPC compiler.
1363 - A new section of the manual documents the support.
1365 - Per-target flags are now correctly handled in link rules.
1367 For instance maude_CFLAGS correctly overrides AM_CFLAGS; likewise
1368 for maude_LDFLAGS and AM_LDFLAGS. Previous versions bogusly
1369 preferred AM_CFLAGS over maude_CFLAGS while linking, and they
1370 used both AM_LDFLAGS and maude_LDFLAGS on the same link command.
1372 The fix for compiler flags (i.e., using maude_CFLAGS instead of
1373 AM_CFLAGS) should not hurt any package since that is how _CFLAGS
1374 is expected to work (and actually works during compilation).
1376 However using maude_LDFLAGS "instead of" AM_LDFLAGS rather than
1377 "in addition to" breaks backward compatibility with older versions.
1378 If your package used both variables, as in
1380 AM_LDFLAGS = common flags
1381 bin_PROGRAMS = a b c
1382 a_LDFLAGS = more flags
1385 and assumed *_LDFLAGS would sum up, you should rewrite it as
1387 AM_LDFLAGS = common flags
1388 bin_PROGRAMS = a b c
1389 a_LDFLAGS = $(AM_LDFLAGS) more flags
1392 This new behavior of *_LDFLAGS is more coherent with other
1393 per-target variables, and the way *_LDFLAGS variables were
1394 considered internally.
1396 * New installation targets:
1398 - New targets mandated by GNU Coding Standards:
1403 By default they will only install Texinfo manuals.
1404 You can customize them with *-local variants:
1410 - The undocumented recursive target `uninstall-info' no longer exists.
1411 (`uninstall' is in charge of removing all possible documentation
1412 flavors, including optional formats such as dvi, ps, or info even
1413 when `no-installinfo' is used.)
1415 * Miscellaneous changes:
1417 - Automake no longer complains if input files for AC_CONFIG_FILES
1418 are specified using shell variables.
1420 - clean, distribution, or rebuild rules are normally disabled for
1421 inputs and outputs of AC_CONFIG_FILES, AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, and
1422 AC_CONFIG_LINK specified using shell variables. However, if these
1423 variables are used as ${VAR}, and AC_SUBSTed, then Automake will
1424 be able to output rules anyway.
1425 (See the Automake documentation for AC_CONFIG_FILES.)
1427 - $(EXEEXT) is automatically appended to filenames of TESTS
1428 that have been declared as programs in the same Makefile.
1429 This is mostly useful when some check_PROGRAMS are listed in TESTS.
1431 - `-Wportability' has finally been turned on by default for `gnu' and
1432 `gnits' strictness. This means, automake will complain about %-rules
1433 or $(GNU Make functions) unless you switch to `foreign' strictness or
1434 use `-Wno-portability'.
1436 - Automake now uses AC_PROG_MKDIR_P (new in Autoconf 2.60), and uses
1437 $(MKDIR_P) instead of $(mkdir_p) to create directories. The
1438 $(mkdir_p) variable is still defined (to the same value as
1439 $(MKDIR_P)) but should be considered obsolete. If you are using
1440 $(mkdir_p) in some of your rules, please plan to update them to
1441 $(MKDIR_P) at some point.
1443 - AM_C_PROTOTYPES and ansi2knr are now documented as being obsolete.
1444 They still work in this release, but may be withdrawn in a future one.
1446 - Inline compilation rules for gcc3-style dependency tracking are
1449 - Automake installs a "Hello World!" example package in $(docdir).
1450 This example is used throughout the new "Autotools Introduction"
1451 chapter of the manual.
1453 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1457 * Makefile.in bloat reduction:
1459 - Inference rules are used to compile sources in subdirectories when
1460 the `subdir-objects' option is used and no per-target flags are
1461 used. This should reduce the size of some projects a lot, because
1462 Automake used to output an explicit rule for each such object in
1465 - Automake no longer outputs three rules (.o, .obj, .lo) for each
1466 object that must be built with explicit rules. It just outputs
1467 the rules required to build the kind of object considered: either
1468 the two .o and .obj rules for usual objects, or the .lo rule for
1471 * Change to Libtool support:
1473 - Libtool tags are used with libtool versions that support them.
1474 (I.e., with Libtool 1.5 or greater.)
1476 - Automake is now able to handle setups where a libtool library is
1477 conditionally installed in different directories, as in
1480 lib_LTLIBRARIES = liba.la
1482 pkglib_LTLIBRARIES = liba.la
1484 liba_la_SOURCES = ...
1486 * Changes to aclocal:
1488 - aclocal now ensures that AC_DEFUNs and AU_DEFUNs it discovers are
1489 really evaluated, before it decides to include them in aclocal.m4.
1490 This solves nasty problems with conditional redefinitions of
1491 Autoconf macros in /usr/share/aclocal/*.m4 files causing extraneous
1492 *.m4 files to be included in any project using these macros.
1493 (Calls to AC_PROG_EGREP causing libtool.m4 to be included is the
1494 most famous instance of this bug.)
1496 - Do not complain about missing conditionally AC_REQUIREd macros
1497 that are not actually used. In 1.8.x aclocal would correctly
1498 determine which of these macros were really needed (and include
1499 only these in the package); unfortunately it would also require
1500 all of them to be present in order to run. This created
1501 situations were aclocal would not work on a tarball distributing
1502 all the macros it uses. For instance running aclocal on a project
1503 containing only the subset of the Gettext macros in use by the
1504 project did not work, because gettext conditionally requires other
1507 * Portability improvements:
1509 - Tar format can be chosen with the new options tar-v7, tar-ustar, and
1510 tar-pax. The new option filename-length-max=99 helps diagnosing
1511 filenames that are too long for tar-v7. (PR/414)
1513 - Variables aumented with `+=' are now automatically flattened (i.e.,
1514 trailing backslashes removed) and then wrapped around 80 colummns
1515 (adding trailing backslashes). In previous versions, a long series
1521 would result in a single-line definition of VAR that could possibly
1522 exceed the maximum line length of some make implementations.
1524 Non-augmented variables are still output as they are defined in
1529 - Support Fortran 90/95 with the new "fc" and "ppfc" languages.
1530 Works the same as the old Fortran 77 implementation; just replace
1531 F77 with FC everywhere (exception: FFLAGS becomes FCFLAGS).
1532 Requires a version of autoconf which provides AC_PROG_FC (>=2.59).
1534 - Support for conditional _LISP.
1536 - Support for conditional -hook and -local rules (PR/428).
1538 - Diagnose AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR calls following AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE. (PR/49)
1540 - Automake will not write any Makefile.ins after the first error it
1541 encounters. The previous Makefile.ins (if any) will be left in
1542 place. (Warnings will not prevent output, but remember they can
1543 be turned into errors with -Werror.)
1545 - The restriction that SUBDIRS must contain direct children is gone.
1548 - The manual tells more about SUBDIRS vs. DIST_SUBDIRS.
1549 It also gives an example of nested packages using AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS.
1551 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1553 Bugs fixed in 1.8.5:
1555 * Long-standing bugs:
1557 - Define DIST_SUBDIRS even when the `no-dist' or `cygnus' options are used
1558 so that `make distclean' and `make maintainer-clean' can work.
1560 - Define AR and ARFLAGS even when only EXTRA_LIBRARIES are defined.
1562 - Fix many rules to please FreeBSD make, which runs commands with `sh -e'.
1564 - Polish diagnostic when no input file is found.
1566 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1568 Bugs fixed in 1.8.4:
1570 * Long-standing bugs:
1572 - Fix AM_PATH_PYTHON to correctly display $PYTHON when it has been
1573 overridden by the user.
1575 - Honor PATH_SEPARATOR in various places of the Automake package, for
1578 - Adjust dependency tracking mode detection to ICC 8.0's new output.
1581 - Fix install-sh so it can install the `mv' binary... using `mv'.
1583 - Fix tru64 dependency tracking for libtool objects.
1585 - Work around Exuberant Ctags when creating a TAGS files in a directory
1586 without files to scan but with subdirectories to include.
1588 * Bugs introduced by 1.8:
1590 - Fix an "internal error" when @LIBOBJS@ is used in a variable that is
1591 not defined in the same conditions as the _LDADD that uses it.
1593 - Do not warn when JAVAROOT is overridden, this is legitimate.
1595 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1597 Bugs fixed in 1.8.3:
1599 * Long-standing bugs:
1601 - Quote filenames in installation rules, in case $DESTDIR, $prefix,
1602 or any of the other *dir variables contain a space.
1604 Please note that Automake does not and cannot support spaces in
1605 filenames that are involved during the build. This change affects
1606 only installation paths, so that `make install' does not bomb out
1607 in packages configured with
1608 ./configure --prefix '/c/Program Files'
1610 - Fix the depfiles output so it works with GNU sed (<4.1) even when
1611 POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.
1613 - Do not AC_SUBST(LIBOBJS) in AM_WITH_REGEX. This macro was unusable
1614 since Autoconf 2.54, which defines LIBOBJS itself.
1616 - Fix a potential (but unlikely) race condition in parallel elisp
1617 builds. (Introduced in 1.7.3.)
1619 - Do not assume that users override _DEPENDENCIES in all conditions
1620 where Automake will try to define them.
1622 - Do not use `mkdir -p' in mkinstalldirs, unless this is GNU mkdir.
1623 Solaris 8's `mkdir -p' is not thread-safe and can break parallel
1626 This fix also affects the $(mkdir_p) variable defined since
1627 Automake 1.8. It will be set to `mkdir -p' only if mkdir is GNU
1628 mkdir, and to `mkinstalldirs' or `install-sh -d' otherwise.
1630 - Secure temporary directory creation in `make distcheck'. (PR/413)
1632 - Do not generate two build rules for `parser.h' when the
1633 parser appears in two different conditionals.
1635 - Work around a Solaris 8 /bin/sh bug in the test for dependency
1636 checking. Usually ./configure will not pick this shell; so this
1637 fix only helps cases where the shell is forced to /bin/sh.
1639 * Bugs introduced by 1.8:
1641 - In some situations (hand-written `m4_include's), aclocal would
1642 call the `File::Spec->rel2abs' method, which was only introduced
1643 in Perl 5.6. This new version reestablish support Perl 5.005.
1645 It is likely that the next major Automake releases will require at
1646 least Perl 5.6. Consider upgrading your development environment
1647 if you are still using the five-year-old Perl 5.005.
1649 - Automake would sometimes fail to define rules for targets listed
1650 in variables defined in multiple conditions. For instance on
1656 it would define only the `a.$(OBJEXT): a.c' rule and omit the
1657 `b.$(OBJEXT): b.c' rule.
1659 * New sections in manual:
1661 - Third-Party Makefiles: how to interface third party Makefiles.
1662 - Upgrading: upgrading packages to newer Automake versions.
1663 - Multiple Outputs: handling tools that produce many outputs.
1665 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1669 * A (well known) portability bug slipped in the changes made to
1670 install-sh in Automake 1.8.1. The broken install-sh would refuse to
1671 install anything on Tru64.
1673 * Fix install rules for conditionally built python files. (This never
1676 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1680 * Bugs introduced by 1.8:
1682 - Fix Config.pm import error with old Perl versions (at least
1683 5.005_03). One symptom is that aclocal could not find its macro
1686 - Automake 1.8 used `mkdir -m 0755 -p --' to ensure that directories
1687 created by `make install' are always world readable, even if the
1688 installer happens to have an overly restrictive umask (e.g. 077).
1689 This was a mistake and has been reverted. There are at least two
1690 reasons why we must not use `-m 0755':
1691 - it causes special bits like SGID to be ignored,
1692 - it may be too restrictive (some setups expect 775 directories).
1694 - Fix aclocal to honor definitions located in files which have been
1695 m4_included manually. aclocal 1.8 had been updated to check
1696 m4_included files for new requirements, but forgot that these
1697 m4_included files can also provide new definitions.
1699 Note that if you have such a setup, we recommend you get rid of
1700 it. In the past, there was a reason to m4_include files manually:
1701 aclocal used to duplicate entire M4 files into aclocal.m4, even
1702 files that were distributed. Some packages were therefore
1703 m4_including the distributed file directly, and playing some
1704 tricks to ensure aclocal would not copy that file to aclocal.m4,
1705 in order to limit the amount of duplication. Since aclocal 1.8.x
1706 will precisely output m4_includes for local M4 files, we recommend
1707 that you clean up your setup, removing all manual m4_includes and
1708 letting aclocal output them.
1710 - Output detailed menus in the Info version if the Automake manual,
1711 so that Emacs can locate the indexes.
1713 - configure.ac and configure were listed twice in DIST_COMMON (an
1714 internal variable where Automake lists configury files to
1715 distribute). This was harmless, but unaesthetic.
1717 - Use `chmod a-w' instead of `chmod -w' as the latter honors umask.
1718 This was an issue only in the Automake package itself, not in
1721 - Automake assumed that all AC_CONFIG_LINKS arguments had the form
1722 DEST:SRC. This was wrong, as some packages do
1723 AC_CONFIG_LINKS($computedlinks). This version no longer abort in
1726 - Contrary to mkinstalldirs, $(mkdir_p) was expecting exactly one
1727 argument. This caused two kinds of failures:
1728 - Rules installing data in a conditionally defined directory
1729 failed when that directory was undefined. In this case no
1730 argument was supplied.
1731 - `make installdirs' failed, because several directories were
1732 passed to $(mkdir_p). This was an issue only on platform
1733 were $(mkdir_p) is implemented with `install-sh -d'.
1734 $(mkdir_p) as been changed to accept 0 or more arguments, as
1737 * Long-standing bugs:
1739 - Fix an unexpected diagnostic occurring when users attempt
1740 to override some internal variables that Automake appends to.
1742 - aclocal now scans configure.ac for macro definitions (PR/319).
1744 - Fix a portability issue with OSF1/Tru64 Make. If a directory
1745 distributes files which are outside itself (this usually occurs
1746 when using AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([../dir]) to use auxiliary files
1747 from a parent package), then `make distcheck' fails due to an
1748 optimization performed by OSF1/Tru64 Make in its VPATH handling.
1749 (tests/subpkg2.test failure)
1751 - Fix another portability issue with Sun and OSF1/Tru64 Make.
1752 In a VPATH-build configuration, `make install' would install
1753 nobase_ files to wrong locations.
1755 - Fix a Perl `uninitialized value' diagnostic occurring when
1756 automake complains that a Texinfo file does not have a
1757 @setfilename statement.
1759 - Erase config.status.lineno during `make distclean'. This file
1760 can be created by config.status. Automake already knew about
1761 configure.lineno, but forgot config.status.lineno.
1763 - Distribute all files, even those which are built and installed
1764 conditionally. This change affects files listed in conditionally
1765 defined *_HEADERS and *_PYTHON variable (unless they are nodist_*)
1766 as well as those listed in conditionally defined dist_*_DATA,
1767 dist_*_JAVA, dist_*_LISP, and dist_*_SCRIPTS variables.
1769 - Fix AM_PATH_LISPDIR to avoid \? in sed regular expressions; it
1770 doesn't conform to POSIX.
1772 - Normalize help strings for configure variables and options added
1777 - Check for python2.4 in AM_PATH_PYTHON.
1779 * Spurious failures in test suite:
1781 - tests/libtool5.test, tests/ltcond.test, tests/ltcond2.test,
1782 tests/ltconv.test: fix failures with CVS Libtool.
1783 - tests/aclocal6.test: fix failure if autom4te.cache is disabled.
1784 - tests/txinfo24.test, tests/txinfo25.test, tests/txinfo28.test:
1785 fix failures with old Texinfo versions.
1787 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1793 - The NEWS file is more verbose.
1797 - Autoconf 2.58 or greater is required.
1801 - Default source file names in the absence of a _SOURCES declaration
1802 are made by removing any target extension before appending `.c', so
1803 to make the libtool module `foo.la' from `foo.c', you only need to
1806 lib_LTLIBRARIES = foo.la
1807 foo_la_LDFLAGS = -module
1809 For backward compatibility, foo_la.c will be used instead of
1810 foo.c if this file exists or is the explicit target of a rule.
1811 However -Wobsolete will warn about this deprecated naming.
1813 - AR's `cru' flags are now set in a global ARFLAGS variable instead
1814 of being hard-coded in each $(AR) invocation, so they can be
1815 substituted from configure.ac. This has been requested by people
1816 dealing with non-POSIX ar implementations.
1818 - New warning option: -Woverride. This will warn about any user
1819 target or variable definitions which override Automake
1822 - Texinfo rules back up and restore info files when makeinfo fails.
1824 - Texinfo rules now support the `html' target.
1825 Running this requires Texinfo 4.0 or greater.
1827 `html' is a new recursive target, so if your package mixes
1828 hand-crafted `Makefile.in's with Automake-generated
1829 `Makefile.in's, you should adjust the former to support (or
1830 ignore) this target so that `make html' recurses successfully. If
1831 you had a custom `html' rule in your `Makefile.am', it's better to
1832 rename it as `html-local', otherwise your rule will override
1833 Automake's new rule (you can check that by running `automake
1834 -Woverride') and that will stop the recursion to subdirectories.
1836 Last but not least, this `html' rule is declared PHONY, even when
1837 overridden. Fortunately, it appears that few packages use a
1838 non-PHONY `html' rule.
1840 - Any file which is m4_included from configure.ac will appear as a
1841 configure and Makefile.in dependency, and will be automatically
1844 - The rules for rebuilding Makefiles and Makefile.ins will now
1845 rebuild all Makefiles and all Makefile.ins at once when one of
1846 configure's dependencies has changed. This is considerably faster
1847 than previous implementations, where config.status and automake
1848 were run separately in each directory (this still happens when you
1849 change a Makefile.am locally, without touching configure.ac or
1850 friends). Doing this also solves a longstanding issue: these
1851 rebuild rules failed to work when adding new directories to the
1852 tree, forcing you to run automake manually.
1854 - For similar reasons, the rules to rebuild configure,
1855 config.status, and aclocal.m4 are now defined in all directories.
1856 Note that if you were using the CONFIG_STATUS_DEPENDENCIES and
1857 CONFIGURE_DEPENDENCIES (formerly undocumented) variables, you
1858 should better define them in all directories. This is easily done
1859 using an AC_SUBST (make sure you prefix these dependencies with
1860 $(top_srcdir) since this variable will appear at different
1861 levels of the build tree).
1863 - aclocal will now use `m4_include' instead of copying local m4
1864 files into aclocal.m4. (Local m4 files are those you ship with
1865 your project, other files will be copied as usual.)
1867 Because m4_included files are automatically distributed, it means
1868 for most projects there is no point in EXTRA_DISTing the list of
1869 m4 files which are used. (You can probably get rid of
1870 m4/Makefile.am if you had one.)
1872 - aclocal will avoid touching aclocal.m4 when possible, so that
1873 Autom4te's cache isn't needlessly invalidated. This behavior can
1874 be switched off with the new `--force' option.
1876 - aclocal now uses Autoconf's --trace to detect macros which are
1877 actually used and will no longer include unused macros simply
1878 because they where mentioned. This was often the case for macros
1879 called conditionally.
1881 - New options no-dist and no-dist-gzip.
1883 - compile, depcomp, elisp-comp, install-sh, mdate-sh, mkinstalldirs,
1884 py-compile, and ylwrap, now all understand --version and --help.
1886 - Automake will now recognize AC_CONFIG_LINKS so far as removing created
1887 links as part of the distclean target and including source files in
1890 - AM_PATH_PYTHON now supports ACTION-IF-FOUND and ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND
1891 argument. The latter can be used to override the default behavior
1892 (which is to abort).
1894 - Automake will exit with $? = 63 on version mismatch. (So does
1895 Autoconf 2.58) missing knows this, and in this case it will
1896 emulate the tools as if they were absent. Because older versions
1897 of Automake and Autoconf did not use this exit code, this change
1898 will only be useful in projects generated with future versions of
1901 - When using AC_CONFIG_FILES with multiple input files, Automake
1902 generates the first ".in" input file for which a ".am" exists.
1903 (Former versions would try to use only the first input file.)
1905 - lisp_DATA is now allowed. If you are using the empty ELCFILES
1906 idiom to disable byte-compilation of lisp_LISP files, it is
1907 recommended that you switch to using lisp_DATA. Note that
1908 this is not strictly equivalent: lisp_DATA will install elisp
1909 files even if emacs is not installed, while *_LISP do not
1910 install anything unless emacs is found.
1912 - Makefiles will prefer `mkdir -p' over mkinstalldirs if it is
1913 available. This selection is achieved through the Makefile
1914 variable $(mkdir_p) that is set by AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE to either
1915 `mkdir -m 0755 -p --', `$(mkinstalldirs) -m 0755', or
1916 `$(install_sh) -m 0755 -d'.
1920 - Because `mkdir -p' is available on most platforms, and we can use
1921 `install-sh -d' when it is not, the use of the mkinstalldirs
1922 script is being phased out. `automake --add-missing' no longer
1923 installs it, and if you remove mkinstalldirs from your package,
1924 automake will define $(mkinstalldirs) as an alias for $(mkdir_p).
1926 Gettext 0.12.1 still requires mkinstalldirs. Fortunately
1927 gettextize and autopoint will install it when needed. Automake
1928 will continue to define the $(mkinstalldirs) and to distribute
1929 mkinstalldirs when this script is in the source tree.
1931 - AM_PROG_CC_STDC is now empty. The content of this macro was
1932 merged in AC_PROG_CC. If your code uses $am_cv_prog_cc_stdc, you
1933 should adjust it to use $ac_cv_prog_cc_stdc instead. (This
1934 renaming should be safe, even if you have to support several,
1935 versions of Automake, because AC_PROG_CC defines this variable
1936 since Autoconf 2.54.)
1938 - Some users where using the undocumented ACLOCAL_M4_SOURCES
1939 variable to override the aclocal.m4 dependencies computed
1940 (inaccurately) by older versions of Automake. Because Automake
1941 now tracks configure's m4 dependencies accurately (see m4_include
1942 above), the use of ACLOCAL_M4_SOURCES should be considered
1943 obsolete and will be flagged as such when running `automake
1948 - Defining programs conditionally using Automake conditionals no
1949 longer leads to a combinatorial explosion. The following
1950 construct used to be troublesome when used with dozens of
1965 Likewise for _SOURCES, _LDADD, and _LIBADD variables.
1967 - Due to implementation constraints, previous versions of Automake
1968 proscribed multiple conditional definitions of some variables
1978 All _PROGRAMS, _LDADD, and _LIBADD variables were affected.
1979 This restriction has been lifted, and these variables now
1980 support multiple conditional definitions as do other variables.
1982 - Cleanup the definitions of $(distdir) and $(top_distdir).
1983 $(top_distdir) now points to the root of the distribution
1984 directory created during `make dist', as it did in Automake 1.4,
1985 not to the root of the build tree as it did in intervening
1986 versions. Furthermore these two variables are now only defined in
1987 the top level Makefile, and passed to sub-directories when running
1990 - The --no-force option now correctly checks the Makefile.in's
1991 dependencies before deciding not to update it.
1993 - Do not assume that make files are called Makefile in cleaning rules.
1995 - Update .info files in the source tree, not in the build tree. This
1996 is what the GNU Coding Standard recommend. Only Automake 1.7.x
1997 used to update these files in the build tree (previous versions did
1998 it in the source tree too), and it caused several problems, varying
1999 from mere annoyance to portability issues.
2001 - COPYING, COPYING.LIB, and COPYING.LESSER are no longer overwritten
2002 when --add-missing and --force-missing are used. For backward
2003 compatibility --add-missing will continue to install COPYING (in
2004 `gnu' strictness) when none of these three files exist, but this
2005 use is deprecated: you should better choose a license yourself and
2006 install it once for all in your source tree (and in your code
2009 - Fix ylwrap so that it does not overwrite header files that haven't
2010 changed, as the inline rule already does.
2012 - User-defined rules override automake-defined rules for the same
2013 targets, even when rules do not have commands. This is not new
2014 (and was documented), however some of the automake-generated
2015 rules have escaped this principle in former Automake versions.
2016 Rules for the following targets are affected by this fix:
2018 clean, clean-am, dist-all, distclean, distclean-am, dvi, dvi-am,
2019 info, info-am, install-data-am, install-exec-am, install-info,
2020 install-info-am, install-man, installcheck-am, maintainer-clean,
2021 maintainer-clean-am, mostlyclean, mostlyclean-am, pdf, pdf-am,
2022 ps, ps-am, uninstall-am, uninstall-info, uninstall-man
2024 Practically it means that an attempt to supplement the dependencies
2025 of some target, as in
2027 clean: my-clean-rule
2029 will now *silently override* the automake definition of the
2030 rule for this target. Running `automake -Woverride' will diagnose
2031 all such overriding definitions.
2033 It should be noted that almost all of these targets support a *-local
2034 variant that is meant to supplement the automake-defined rule
2035 (See node `Extending' in the manual). The above rule should
2038 clean-local: my-clean-rule
2040 These *-local targets have been documented since at least
2041 Automake 1.2, so you should not fear the change if you have
2042 to support multiple automake versions.
2046 - The Automake manual is now distributed under the terms of the GNU FDL.
2048 - Targets dist-gzip, dist-bzip2, dist-tarZ, dist-zip are always defined.
2050 - core dumps are no longer removed by the cleaning rules. There are
2051 at least three reasons for this:
2052 1. These files should not be created by any build step,
2053 so their removal do not fit any of the cleaning rules.
2054 Actually, they may be precious to the developer.
2055 2. If such file is created during a build, then it's clearly a
2056 bug Automake should not hide. Not removing the file will
2057 cause `make distcheck' to complain about its presence.
2058 3. Operating systems have different naming conventions for
2059 core dump files. A core file on one system might be a
2060 completely legitimate data file on another system.
2062 - RUNTESTFLAGS, CTAGSFLAGS, ETAGSFLAGS, JAVACFLAGS are no longer
2063 defined by Automake. This means that any definition in the
2064 environment will be used, unless overridden in the Makefile.am or
2065 on the command line. The old behavior, where these variables were
2066 defined empty in each Makefile, can be obtained by AC_SUBSTing or
2067 AC_ARG_VARing each variable from configure.ac.
2069 - CONFIGURE_DEPENDENCIES and CONFIG_STATUS_DEPENDENCIES are now
2070 documented. (The is not a new feature, these variables have
2071 been there since at least Automake 1.4.)
2073 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2075 Bugs fixed in 1.7.9:
2076 * Fix install-strip to work with nobase_ binaries.
2077 * Fix renaming of #line directives in ylwrap.
2078 * Rebuild with Autoconf 2.59. (1.7.8 was not installable with pdksh.)
2080 Bugs fixed in 1.7.8:
2081 * Remove spurious blank lines in cleaning rules introduced in 1.7.7.
2082 * Fix detection of Debian's install-info, broken since version 1.5.
2083 (Debian bug #213524).
2084 * Honor -module if it appears in AM_LDFLAGS (i.e., relax name checking)
2085 This was only done for libfoo_LDFLAGS and LDFLAGS in previous versions.
2087 Bugs fixed in 1.7.7:
2088 * The implementation of automake's --no-force option is unreliable,
2089 so this option is ignored in this version. A real fix will appear in
2090 Automake 1.8. (Debian Bug #206299)
2091 * AM_PATH_PYTHON: really check the whole list of interpreters if no
2092 argument is given. (PR/399)
2093 * Do not warn about leading `_' in variable names, even with -Wportability.
2094 * Support user redefinitions of TEXINFO_TEX.
2095 * depcomp: support AIX Compiler version 6.
2096 * Fix missing rebuilds during `make dist' with BSD make.
2097 (Could produce tarballs containing out-of-date files.)
2098 * Resurrect multilib support.
2099 * Noteworthy manual updates:
2100 - Extending aclocal: how to write m4 macros that won't trigger warnings
2102 - A Shared Library: Rewrite and split into subsections.
2104 Bugs fixed in 1.7.6:
2105 * Fix depcomp's icc mode for ICC 7.1.
2106 * Diagnose calls to AC_CONFIG_FILES and friends with not enough arguments.
2107 * Fix maintainer-clean's removal of autom4te.cache in VPATH builds.
2108 * Fix AM_PATH_LISPDIR to work with POSIXLY_CORRECT=1.
2109 * Fix the location reported in some diagnostics related to AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
2110 * Remove Latin-1 characters from elisp-comp.
2111 * Update the manual's @dircategory to match the Free Software Directory.
2113 Bugs fixed in 1.7.5:
2114 * Update install-sh's license to remove an advertising clause.
2115 (Debian bug #191717)
2116 * Fix a bug introduced in 1.7.4, related to BUILT_SOURCE handling,
2117 that caused invalid Makefile.ins to be generated.
2118 * Make sure AM_MAKE_INCLUDE doesn't fail when a `doit' file exists.
2119 * New FAQ entry: renamed objects.
2121 Bugs fixed in 1.7.4:
2122 * Tweak the TAGS rule to support Exuberant Ctags (in addition to
2123 the Emacs implementation)
2124 * Fix output of aclocal.m4 dependencies in subdirectories.
2125 * Use `mv -f' instead of `mv' in fastdep rules.
2126 * Upgrade mdate-sh to work on OS/2.
2127 * Don't byte-compile elisp files when ELCFILES is set empty.
2128 (this documented feature was broken by 1.7.3)
2129 * Diagnose trailing backslashes on last line of Makefile.am.
2130 * Diagnose whitespace following trailing backslashes.
2131 * Multiple tests are now correctly supported in DEJATOOL. (PR/388)
2132 * Fix rebuilt rules for AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile:Makefile.in:Makefile.bot])
2134 * `make install' will build `BUILT_SOURCES' first.
2135 * Minor documentation fixes.
2137 Bugs fixed in 1.7.3:
2138 * Fix stamp files numbering (when using multiple AC_CONFIG_HEADERS).
2139 * Query distutils for `pythondir' and `pythonexecdir', instead of
2140 using an hardcoded path. This should allow builds on 64-bit
2141 distributions that usually use lib64/ instead of lib/.
2142 * AM_PATH_PYTHON will also search for python2.3.
2143 * elisp files are now built all at once instead of one by one. Besides
2144 incurring a speed-up, this is required to support interdependent elisp files.
2145 * Support for DJGPP:
2146 - `make distcheck' will now work in `_inst/' and `_build' instead
2147 of `=inst/' and `=build/'
2148 - use `_dirstamp' when the file-system doesn't support `.dirstamp'
2149 - install/uninstall `*.i[0-9][0-9]'-style info files
2150 - more changes that affect only the Automake package (not its output)
2151 * Fix some incompatibilities with upcoming perl-5.10.
2152 * Properly quote AC_PACKAGE_TARNAME and AC_PACKAGE_VERSION when defining
2153 PACKAGE and VERSION.
2155 - dashmstdout and dashXmstdout modes: don't use `-o /dev/null', this
2156 is troublesome with gcc and Solaris compilers. (PR/385)
2157 - makedepend mode: work with Libtool. (PR/385 too)
2159 * better support for unusual gettext setups, such as multiple po/ directories
2161 - Flag missing po/ and intl/ directories as warnings, not errors.
2162 - Disable these warnings if po/ does not exist.
2163 * Noteworthy manual updates:
2165 - Document how AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR interacts with missing files.
2167 - Document `AM_YFLAGS = -d'. (PR/382)
2169 Bugs fixed in 1.7.2:
2170 * Fix installation and uninstallation of Info files built in subdirectories.
2171 * Do not run `./configure --with-included-gettext' during `make distcheck'
2172 if AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external]) is used.
2173 * Correctly uninstall renamed man pages.
2174 * Do not strip escaped newline in variables defined in one condition
2175 and augmented in another condition.
2176 * Fix ansi2knr rules for LIBOBJS sources.
2177 * Clean all known Texinfo index files, not only those which appear to
2178 be used, because we cannot know which indexes are used in included files.
2179 (PR/375, Debian Bug #168671)
2180 * Honor only the first @setfilename seen in a Texinfo file.
2181 * Treat "required file X not found" diagnostics as errors (exit status 1).
2182 * Don't complain that a required file is not found when it is a Makefile
2184 * Don't use single suffix inference rules when building `.info'-less
2185 Info files, for the sake of Solaris make.
2186 * The `check' target now depends on `$(BUILT_SOURCES)'. (PR/359)
2187 * Recognize multiple inference rules such as `.a.b .c.d:'. (PR/371)
2188 * Warn about multiple inference rules when -Wportability is used. (PR/372)
2189 * Fix building of deansified files from subdirectories. (PR/370)
2190 * Add missing `fi' in the .c->.obj rules.
2191 * Improve install-sh to work even when names contain spaces or certain
2192 (but not all) shell metachars.
2193 * Fix the following spurious failures in the test suite:
2194 depcomp2.test, gnits2.test, gnits3.test, python3.test, texinfo13.test
2195 * Noteworthy manual updates:
2196 - Augment the section about BUILT_SOURCES.
2197 - Mention that AM_PROG_CC_STDC is a relic that is better avoided today.
2199 Bugs fixed in 1.7.1:
2200 * Honor `ansi2knr' for files built in subdirectories, or using per-targets
2202 * Aclocal should now recognize macro names containing parentheses, e.g.
2203 AC_DEFUN([AC_LANG_PREPROC(Fortran 90)], [...]).
2204 * Erase *.sum and *.log files created by DejaGnu, during `make distclean'.
2206 * Install Python files even if they were built. (PR/369)
2207 * Have stamp-vti dependent upon configure instead of configure.ac, as the
2208 version might not be defined in the latter. (PR/358)
2209 * Reorder arguments passed to a couple of commands, so things works
2210 when POSIXLY_CORRECT=1.
2211 * Fix a regex that can cause Perl to segfault on large input.
2213 * Fix distribution of packages that have some sources defined conditionally,
2214 as in the `Conditional compilation using Automake conditionals' example
2216 * Fix spurious test suite failures on IRIX.
2217 * Don't report a required variable as undefined if it has been
2218 defined conditionally for the "right" conditions.
2219 * Fix cleaning of the /tmp subdirectory used by `make distcheck', in case
2220 `make distcheck' fails.
2221 * Fix distribution of included Makefile fragment, so we don't create
2222 spurious directories in the distribution. (PR/366)
2223 * Don't complain that a target lacks `.$(EXEEXT)' when it has it.
2226 * Autoconf 2.54 is required.
2227 * `aclocal' and `automake' will no longer warn about obsolete
2228 configure macros. This is done by `autoconf -Wobsolete'.
2229 * AM_CONFIG_HEADER, AM_SYS_POSIX_TERMIOS and
2230 AM_HEADER_TIOCGWINSZ_NEEDS_SYS_IOCTL are obsolete (although still
2231 supported). You should use AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, AC_SYS_POSIX_TERMIOS,
2232 and AC_HEADER_TIOCGWINSZ instead. `autoupdate' can upgrade
2233 `configure.ac' for you.
2234 * Support for per-program and per-library `_CPPFLAGS'.
2235 * New `ctags' target (builds CTAGS files).
2236 * Support for -Wmumble and -Wno-mumble, where mumble is a warning category
2237 (see `automake --help' or the manual for a list of them).
2238 * Honor the WARNINGS environment variable.
2239 * Omit the call to depcomp when using gcc3: call the compiler directly.
2240 * A new option, std-options, tests that programs support --help and --version
2241 when `make installcheck' is run. This is enabled by --gnits.
2242 * Texinfo rules now support the `ps' and `pdf' targets.
2243 * Info files are now created in the build directory, not the source directory.
2244 * info_TEXINFOS supports files in subdirectories (this requires Texinfo 4.1
2246 * `make distcheck' will enforce DESTDIR support by attempting
2248 * `+=' can be used in conditionals, even if the augmented variable
2249 was defined for another condition.
2250 * Makefile fragments (inserted with `include') are always distributed.
2251 * Use Autoconf's --trace interface to inspect configure.ac and get
2252 a more accurate view of it.
2253 * Add support for extending aclocal's default macro search path
2254 using a `dirlist' file within the aclocal directory.
2255 * automake --output-dir is deprecated.
2256 * The part of the distcheck target that checks whether uninstall actually
2257 removes all installed files has been moved in a separate target,
2258 distuninstallcheck, so it can be overridden easily.
2262 * Support for AM_INIT_GETTEXT([external])
2263 * Bug fixes, including:
2264 - Fix Automake's own `make install' so it works even if `ln' doesn't.
2265 - nobase_ programs and scripts honor --program-transform correctly.
2266 - Erase configure.lineno during `make distclean'.
2267 - Erase YACC and LEX outputs during `make maintainer-clean'.
2270 * Many bug fixes, including:
2271 - Requiring the current version works.
2272 - Fix "$@" portability issues (for Zsh).
2273 - Fix output of dummy dependency files in presence of post-processed
2275 - Don't compute dependencies in background to avoid races with libtool.
2276 - Fix handling of _OBJECTS variables for targets sharing source variables.
2277 - Check dependency mode for Java when AM_PROG_GCJ is used.
2280 * automake --output-dir is deprecated
2281 * Many bug fixes, including:
2282 - Don't choke on AM_LDFLAGS definitions.
2283 - Clean libtool objects from subdirectories.
2284 - Allow configure variables with reserved suffix and unknown prefix
2285 (e.g. AC_SUBST(mumble_LDFLAGS) when 'mumble' is not a target).
2286 - Fix the definition of AUTOMAKE and ACLOCAL in configure.
2289 * Autoconf 2.52 is required.
2290 * automake no longer run libtoolize.
2291 This is the job of autoreconf (from GNU Autoconf).
2292 * `dist' generates all the archive flavors, as did `dist-all'.
2293 * `dist-gzip' generates the Gzip tar file only.
2294 * Combining Automake Makefile conditionals no longer lead to a combinatorial
2295 explosion. Makefile.in's keep a reasonable size.
2296 * AM_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE, AM_FUNC_STRTOD, AM_FUNC_OBSTACK, AM_PTRDIFF_T
2297 are no longer shipped, since Autoconf 2.52 provides them (both as AM_
2299 * `#line' of Lex and Yacc files are properly set.
2300 * EXTRA_DIST can contain generated directories.
2301 * Support for dot-less extensions in suffix rules.
2302 * The part of the distcheck target that checks whether distclean actually
2303 cleans all built files has been moved in a separate target, distcleancheck,
2304 so it can be overridden easily.
2305 * `make distcheck' will pass additional options defined in
2306 $(DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS) to configure.
2307 * Fixed CDPATH portability problems, in particular for MacOS X.
2308 * Fixed handling of nobase_ targets.
2309 * Fixed support of implicit rules leading to .lo objects.
2310 * Fixed late inclusion of --add-missing files (e.g. depcomp) in DIST_COMMON
2311 * Added uninstall-hook target
2312 * `AC_INIT AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(tarname,version)' is an obsolete construct.
2313 You can now use `AC_INIT(pkgname,version) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' instead.
2314 (Note that "pkgname" is not "tarname", see the manual for details.)
2315 It is also possible to pass a list of global Automake options as
2316 first argument to this new form of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
2317 * Compiler-based assembler is now called `CCAS'; people expected `AS'
2318 to be a real assembler.
2319 * AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE will set STRIP itself when it needs it. Adding
2320 AC_CHECK_TOOL([STRIP], [strip]) manually is no longer required.
2321 * aclocal and automake are also installed with the version number
2322 appended, and some of the install directory names have changed.
2323 This lets you have multiple versions installed simultaneously.
2324 * Support for parsers and lexers in subdirectories.
2327 * Support for `configure.ac'.
2328 * Support for `else COND', `endif COND' and negated conditions `!COND'.
2329 * `make dist-all' is much faster.
2330 * Allows '@' AC_SUBSTs in macro names.
2331 * Faster AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (requires update of `missing' script)
2332 * User-side dependency tracking. Developers no longer need GNU make
2334 * Uses DIST_SUBDIRS in some situations when SUBDIRS is conditional
2335 * Most files are correctly handled if they appear in subdirs
2336 For instance, a _DATA file can appear in a subdir
2337 * GNU tar is no longer required for `make dist'
2338 * Added support for `dist_' and `nodist_' prefixes
2339 * Added support for `nobase_' prefix
2340 * Compiled Java support
2341 * Support for per-executable and per-library compilation flags
2345 * Added support for the Fortran 77 programming language.
2346 * Re-indexed the Automake Texinfo manual.
2347 * Added `AM_FOOFLAGS' variable for each compiler invocation;
2348 e.g. AM_CFLAGS can be used in Makefile.am to set C compiler flags
2349 * Support for latest autoconf, including support for objext
2350 * Can now put `.' in SUBDIRS to control build order
2351 * `include' command and `+=' support for macro assignment
2352 * Dependency tracking no long susceptible to deleted header file problem
2353 * Maintainer mode now a conditional. @MAINT@ is now an anachronism.
2358 * Better Cygwin32 support
2359 * Support for suffix rules with _SOURCES variables
2360 * New options `readme-alpha' and `check-news'; Gnits mode sets these
2361 * @LEXLIB@ no longer required when lex source seen
2362 Lex support in `missing', and new lex macro. Update your missing script.
2363 * Built-in support for assembly
2364 * aclocal gives error if `AM_' macro not found
2365 * Passed YFLAGS, not YACCFLAGS, to yacc
2366 * AM_PROG_CC_STDC does not have to come before AC_PROG_CPP
2367 * Dependencies computed as a side effect of compilation
2368 * Preliminary support for Java
2369 * DESTDIR support at "make install" time
2370 * Improved ansi2knr support; you must use the latest ansi2knr.c (included)
2374 * Better DejaGnu support
2375 * Added no-installinfo option
2376 * Added Emacs Lisp support
2377 * Added --no-force option
2378 * Included `aclocal' program
2379 * Automake will now generate rules to regenerate aclocal.m4, if appropriate
2380 * Now uses `AM_' macro names everywhere
2381 * ansi2knr option can have directory prefix (eg `../lib/ansi2knr')
2382 ansi2knr now works correctly on K&R sources
2383 * Better C++, yacc, lex support
2384 * Will compute _DEPENDENCIES variables automatically if not supplied
2385 * Will interpolate $(...) and ${...} when examining contents of a variable
2386 * .deps files now in build directory, not source directory; dependency
2387 handling generally rewritten
2388 * DATA, MANS and BUILT_SOURCES no longer included in distribution
2389 * can now put config.h into a subdir
2390 * Added dist-all target
2391 * Support for install-info program (see texinfo 3.9)
2392 * Support for "yacc -d"
2393 * configure substitutions are automatically discovered and included
2394 in generated Makefile.in
2395 * Special --cygnus mode
2396 * OMIT_DEPENDENCIES can now hold list of dependencies to be omitted
2397 when making distribution. Some dependencies are auto-ignored.
2398 * Changed how libraries are specified in _LIBRARIES variable
2399 * Full libtool support, from Gord Matzigkeit
2400 * No longer have to explicitly touch stamp-h when using AC_CONFIG_HEADER;
2401 AM_CONFIG_HEADER handles it automatically
2402 * Texinfo output files no longer need .info extension
2403 * Added `missing' support
2405 * Conditionals in Makefile.am, from Ian Taylor
2409 * distcheck target runs install and installcheck targets
2410 * Added preliminary support for DejaGnu.
2415 * More libtool fixes from Gord Matzigkeit; libtool support is still
2417 * Added support for jm_MAINTAINER_MODE
2419 * New "distcheck" target
2423 * mkinstalldirs and mdate-sh now appear in directory specified by
2425 * Removed DIST_SUBDIRS, DIST_OTHER
2426 * AC_ARG_PROGRAM only required when an actual program exists
2427 * dist-hook target now run before distribution packaged up; idea from
2428 Dieter Baron. Other hooks exist, too.
2429 * Preliminary (unfinished) support for libtool
2430 * Added short option names.
2431 * Better "dist" support when gluing together multiple packages
2435 * Documentation updates (many from François Pinard)
2436 * strictness `normal' now renamed to `foreign'
2437 * Renamed --install-missing to --add-missing
2438 * Now handles AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR
2439 * Now handles TESTS macro
2440 * DIST_OTHER renamed to EXTRA_DIST
2441 * DIST_SUBDIRS is deprecated
2442 * @ALLOCA@ and @LIBOBJS@ now work in _LDADD variables
2443 * Better error messages in many cases
2444 * Program names are canonicalized
2445 * Added "check" prefix; from Gord Matzigkeit
2449 * configure.in scanner knows about AC_PATH_XTRA, AC_OUTPUT ":" syntax
2450 * Beginnings of a test suite
2451 * Automatically adds -I options for $(srcdir), ".", and path to config.h
2452 * Doesn't print anything when running
2453 * Beginnings of MAINT_CHARSET support
2454 * Can specify version in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS
2455 * Most errors recognizable by Emacs' M-x next-error
2456 * Added --verbose option
2457 * All "primary" variables now obsolete; use EXTRA_PRIMARY to supply
2458 configure-generated names
2459 * Required macros now distributed in aclocal.m4
2461 * --strictness=gnu is default
2465 * More sophisticated configure.in scanning; now understands ALLOCA and
2466 LIBOBJS directly, handles AC_CONFIG_HEADER more precisely, etc.
2467 * TEXINFOS and MANS now obsolete; use info_TEXINFOS and man_MANS instead.
2468 * CONFIG_HEADER variable now obsolete
2469 * Can handle multiple Texinfo sources
2470 * Allow hierarchies deeper than 2. From Gord Matzigkeit.
2471 * HEADERS variable no longer needed; now can put .h files directly into
2472 foo_SOURCES variable.
2473 * Automake automatically rebuilds files listed in AC_OUTPUT. The
2474 corresponding ".in" files are included in the distribution.
2477 * Added --gnu and --gnits options
2478 * More standards checking
2480 * Cleaned up 'dist' targets
2481 * Added AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS variable and several options
2482 * Now scans configure.in to get some information (preliminary)
2485 * Works with Perl 4 again
2488 * Added --install-missing option.
2489 * Pretty-prints generated macros and rules
2490 * Comments in Makefile.am are placed more intelligently in Makefile.in
2491 * Generates .PHONY target
2492 * Rule or macro in Makefile.am now overrides contents of Automake file
2493 * Substantial cleanups from François Pinard
2497 * Works with Perl 4 again.
2500 * New uniform naming scheme.
2501 * --strictness option
2503 * '.c' files corresponding to '.y' or '.l' files are automatically
2505 * Many bug fixes and cleanups
2508 * Allow objects to be conditionally included in libraries via lib_LIBADD.
2511 * Bug fixes in 'clean' code.
2512 * Now generates 'installdirs' target.
2513 * man page installation reworked.
2514 * 'make dist' no longer re-creates all Makefile.in's.
2517 * Reimplemented in Perl
2518 * Added --amdir option (for debugging)
2519 * Texinfo support cleaned up.
2520 * Automatic de-ANSI-fication cleaned up.
2521 * Cleaned up 'clean' targets.
2524 * Automatic dependency tracking
2525 * More documentation
2526 * New variables DATA and PACKAGEDATA
2527 * SCRIPTS installed using $(INSTALL_SCRIPT)
2528 * No longer uses double-colon rules
2530 * Changes in advance of internationalization
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