3 * Version requirements:
5 - Autoconf 2.65 or greater is required.
7 * Obsolete features removed:
9 - Use of the long-deprecated two- and three-arguments invocation forms
10 of the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is not supported anymore.
12 - Support for the "Cygnus-style" trees (once enabled by the 'cygnus'
13 option) has been removed. See discussion about automake bug#11034
16 - The automake-provided $(mkdir_p) make variable, @mkdir_p@ configure
17 time substitution and AM_PROG_MKDIR m4 macro have been removed. They
18 had been obsolete since automake 1.10, and actively deprecated since
21 - The deprecated aclocal option '--acdir' has been removed. You
22 should use the options '--automake-acdir' and '--system-acdir'
23 instead (which have been introduced in Automake 1.11.2).
25 - The following long-obsolete m4 macros have been removed:
27 AM_PROG_CC_STDC: superseded by AC_PROG_CC since October 2002
28 fp_PROG_CC_STDC: broken alias for AM_PROG_CC_STDC
29 fp_WITH_DMALLOC: old alias for AM_WITH_DMALLOC
30 AM_CONFIG_HEADER: superseded by AC_CONFIG_HEADERS since July 2002
31 ud_PATH_LISPDIR: old alias for AM_PATH_LISPDIR
32 jm_MAINTAINER_MODE: old alias for AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
33 ud_GNU_GETTEXT: old alias for AM_GNU_GETTEXT
34 gm_PROG_LIBTOOL: old alias for AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
35 fp_C_PROTOTYPES: old alias for AM_C_PROTOTYPES (which was part
36 of the now-removed automatic de-ANSI-fication
39 - All the "old alias" macros in 'm4/obsolete.m4' have been removed.
41 * Changes to Automake-generated testsuite harnesses:
43 - The parallel testsuite harness (previously only enabled by the
44 'parallel-tests' option) is the default one; the older serial
45 testsuite harness will still be available through the use of the
46 'serial-tests' option (introduced in Automake 1.12).
48 * Silent rules support:
50 - Support for silent rules is now always active in Automake-generated
51 Makefiles. So, although the verbose output is still the default,
52 the user can now always use "./configure --enable-silent-rules" or
53 "make V=0" to enable quieter output in the package he's building.
55 - The 'silent-rules' option has now become a no-op, preserved for
56 backward-compatibility only. In particular, its use does not disable
57 the warnings in the 'portability-recursive' category anymore.
59 * Automatic remake rules and 'missing' script:
61 - The 'missing' script does not try anymore to update the timestamp
62 of out-of-date files that require a maintainer-specific tool to be
63 remade, in case the user lacks such a tool (or has a too-old version
64 of it). It just give a useful warning, and in some cases also a tip
65 about how to obtain such a tool.
67 - The missing script has thus become useless as a (poor) way to work
68 around the sketched-timestamps issues that can happen for projects
69 that keep generated files committed in their VCS repository. Such
70 projects are now encouraged to write a custom "fix-timestamps.sh"
71 script to avoid such issues; a simple example is provided in the
72 "CVS and generated files" chapter of the automake manual.
74 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
78 * WARNING: Future backward-incompatibilities!
80 - Future versions of Automake will likely drop support for the
81 long-deprecated 'configure.in' name for the Autoconf input file.
82 You are advised to use the recommended name 'configure.ac' instead.
84 - Starting from the next major Automake version (1.13), the rules to
85 build pdf, ps and dvi output from Texinfo input will use the '--tidy'
86 option by default. Since such an option was introduced in Texinfo
87 4.9, this means that Makefiles generated by future Automake versions
88 will require at least that version of Texinfo.
90 - Starting from the next major Automake version (1.13), the parallel
91 testsuite harness (previously only enabled by the 'parallel-tests'
92 option) will become the default one; the older serial testsuite
93 harness will still be available through the use of the 'serial-tests'
96 - Support for the two- and three-arguments invocation forms of the
97 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macro will be deprecated in the next minor version
98 of Automake (1.12.1) and removed in the next major version (1.13).
100 - The exact order in which the directories in the aclocal macro
101 search path are looked up is probably going to be changed in the
102 next Automake release (1.13).
104 * Warnings and deprecations:
106 - Automake now issues a warning (in the 'portability' category) if
107 'configure.in' is used instead of 'configure.ac' as the Autoconf
108 input file. Such a warning will also be present in the next
109 Autoconf version (2.70).
113 - Recursive cleaning rules descends into the $(SUBDIRS) in the natural
114 order (as done by the other recursive rules), rather than in the
115 inverse order. They used to do that in order to work a round a
116 limitation in an older implementation of the automatic dependency
117 tracking support, but that limitation had been lifted years ago
118 already, when the automatic dependency tracking based on side-effects
119 of compilation had been introduced.
121 - Cleaning rules for compiled objects (both "plain" and libtool) work
122 better when subdir objects are involved, not triggering a distinct
123 'rm' invocation for each such object. They do so by removing *any*
124 compiled object file that is in the same directory of a subdir
125 object. See automake bug#10697.
127 * Silent rules support:
129 - A new predefined $(AM_V_P) make variable is provided; it expands
130 to a shell conditional that can be used in recipes to know whether
131 make is being run in silent or verbose mode.
133 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
137 * New supported languages:
139 - Support for Objective C++ has been added; it should work similarly to
140 the support for Objective C.
142 * Deprecated obsolescent features:
144 - Use of the long-deprecated two- and three-arguments invocation forms
145 of the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macro now elicits a warning in the 'obsolete'
146 category. Starting from the next major Automake release (1.13), such
147 usages won't be allowed anymore.
149 - Support for the "Cygnus-style" trees (enabled by the 'cygnus' option) is
150 now deprecated (its use triggers a warning in the 'obsolete' category).
151 It will be removed in the next major Automake release (1.13).
153 - The long-obsolete (since 1.10) automake-provided $(mkdir_p) make
154 variable, @mkdir_p@ configure-time substitution and AM_PROG_MKDIR
155 m4 macro are deprecated, eliciting a warning in the 'obsolete'
156 category. They will be removed in the next major version (1.13).
158 * Miscellaneous changes:
160 - The Automake test cases now require a proper POSIX-conforming shell.
161 Older non-POSIX Bourne shells (like Solaris 10 /bin/sh) won't be
162 accepted anymore. In most cases, the user shouldn't have to specify
163 such POSIX shell explicitly, since it will be looked up at configure
164 time. Still, when this lookup fails, or when the user wants to
165 override its conclusion, the variable 'AM_TEST_RUNNER_SHELL' can be
166 used (pointing to the shell that will be used to run the Automake
169 Bugs fixed in 1.12.1:
171 * Bugs introduced by 1.12:
173 - Several weaknesses in Automake's own build system and test suite
176 * Bugs introduced by 1.11.3:
178 - When given non-option arguments, aclocal rejects them, instead of
179 silently ignoring them.
181 * Long-standing bugs:
183 - When the 'color-tests' option is in use, forcing of colored testsuite
184 output through "AM_COLOR_TESTS=always" works even if the terminal is
185 a non-ANSI one, i.e., if the TERM environment variable has a value of
188 - Several inefficiencies and poor performances in the implementation
189 of the parallel-tests 'check' and 'recheck' targets have been fixed.
191 - The post-processing of output "#line" directives done the ylwrap
192 script is more faithful w.r.t. files in a subdirectory; for example,
193 if the processed file is "src/grammar.y", ylwrap will correctly
194 produce directives like:
195 #line 7 "src/grammar.y"
200 * Bugs with new Perl versions:
202 - Aclocal works correctly with perl 5.16.0 (automake bug#11543).
204 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
208 * Obsolete features removed:
210 - The never documented nor truly used script 'acinstall' has been
213 - Support for automatic de-ANSI-fication has been removed.
215 - The support for the "obscure" multilib feature has been removed
216 from Automake core (but remains available in the 'contrib/'
217 directory of the Automake distribution).
219 - Support for ".log -> .html" conversion and the check-html and
220 recheck-html targets has been removed from Automake core (but
221 remains available in the 'contrib/' directory of the Automake
224 - The deprecated 'lzma' compression format for distribution archives
225 has been removed, in favor of 'xz' and 'lzip'.
227 - The obsolete AM_WITH_REGEX macro has been removed.
229 - The long-deprecated options '--output-dir', '--Werror' and
230 '--Wno-error' have been removed.
232 - The chapter on the history of Automake has been moved out of the
233 reference manual, into a new dedicated Texinfo file.
237 - New 'cscope' target to build a cscope database for the source tree.
239 * Changes to Automake-generated testsuite harnesses:
241 - The new automake option 'serial-tests' has been introduced. It can
242 be used to explicitly instruct automake to use the older serial
243 testsuite harness. This is still the default at the moment, but it
244 might change in future versions.
246 - The 'recheck' target (provided by the parallel testsuite harness) now
247 depends on the 'all' target. This allows for a better user-experience
248 in test-driven development. See automake bug#11252.
250 - Test scripts that exit with status 99 to signal an "hard error" (e.g.,
251 and unexpected or internal error, or a failure to set up the test case
252 scenario) have their outcome reported as an 'ERROR' now. Previous
253 versions of automake reported such an outcome as a 'FAIL' (the only
254 difference with normal failures being that hard errors were counted
255 as failures even when the test originating them was listed in
258 - The testsuite summary displayed by the parallel-test harness has a
259 completely new format, that always list the numbers of passed, failed,
260 xfailed, xpassed, skipped and errored tests, even when these numbers
261 are zero (but using smart coloring when the color-tests option is in
264 - The default testsuite driver offered by the 'parallel-tests' option is
265 now implemented (partly at least) with the help of automake-provided
266 auxiliary scripts (e.g., 'test-driver'), instead of relying entirely
267 on code in the generated Makefile.in.
268 This has two noteworthy implications. The first one is that projects
269 using the 'parallel-tests' option should now either run automake with
270 the '--add-missing' option, or manually copy the 'test-driver' script
271 into their tree. The second, and more important, implication is that
272 now, when the 'parallel-tests' option is in use, TESTS_ENVIRONMENT can
273 not be used anymore to define a test runner, and the command specified
274 in LOG_COMPILER (and <ext>_LOG_COMPILER) must be a *real* executable
275 program or script. For example, this is still a valid usage (albeit
278 TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = \
279 if test -n '$(STRICT_TESTS)'; then \
280 maybe_errexit='-e'; \
284 LOG_COMPILER = $(SHELL) $$maybe_errexit
286 while this is not anymore:
288 TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = \
289 $(SHELL) `test -n '$(STRICT_TESTS_CHECKING)' && echo ' -e'`
293 TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = \
294 run_with_perl_or_shell () \
296 if grep -q '^#!.*perl' $$1; then
302 LOG_COMPILER = run_with_perl_or_shell
304 - The package authors can now use customary testsuite drivers within
305 the framework provided by the 'parallel-tests' testsuite harness.
306 Consistently with the existing syntax, this can be done by defining
307 special makefile variables 'LOG_DRIVER' and '<ext>_LOG_DRIVER'.
309 - A new developer-reserved variable 'AM_TESTS_FD_REDIRECT' can be used
310 to redirect/define file descriptors used by the test scripts.
312 - The parallel-tests harness generates now, in addition the '.log' files
313 holding the output produced by the test scripts, a new set of '.trs'
314 files, holding "metadata" derived by the execution of the test scripts;
315 among such metadata are the outcomes of the test cases run by a script.
317 - Initial and still experimental support for the TAP test protocol is
320 * Changes to Yacc and Lex support:
322 - C source and header files derived from non-distributed Yacc and/or
323 Lex sources are now removed by a simple "make clean" (while they were
324 previously removed only by "make maintainer-clean").
326 - Slightly backward-incompatible change, relevant only for use of Yacc
327 with C++: the extensions of the header files produced by the Yacc
328 rules are now modelled after the extension of the corresponding
329 sources. For example, yacc files named "foo.y++" and "bar.yy" will
330 produce header files named "foo.h++" and "bar.hh" respectively, where
331 they would have previously produced header files named simply "foo.h"
332 and "bar.h". This change offers better compatibility with 'bison -o'.
334 * Miscellaneous changes:
336 - The AM_PROG_VALAC macro now causes configure to exit with status 77,
337 rather than 1, if the vala compiler found is too old.
339 - The build system of Automake itself now avoids the use of make
340 recursion as much as possible.
342 - Automake now prefers to quote 'like this' or "like this", rather
343 than `like this', in diagnostic message and generated Makefiles,
344 to accommodate the new GNU Coding Standards recommendations.
346 - Automake has a new option '--print-libdir' that prints the path of the
347 directory containing the Automake-provided scripts and data files.
349 - The 'dist' and 'dist-all' targets now can run compressors in parallel.
351 - The rules to create pdf, dvi and ps output from Texinfo files now
352 works better with modern 'texi2dvi' script, by explicitly passing
353 it the '--clean' option to ensure stray auxiliary files are not
354 left to clutter the build directory.
356 - Automake can now generate silenced rules for texinfo outputs.
358 - Some auxiliary files that are automatically distributed by Automake
359 (e.g., 'install-sh', or the 'depcomp' script for packages compiling
360 C sources) might now be listed in the DIST_COMMON variable in many
361 Makefile.in files, rather than in the top-level one.
363 - Messages of types warning or error from 'automake' and 'aclocal'
364 are now prefixed with the respective type, and presence of -Werror
367 - Automake's early configure-time sanity check now tries to avoid
368 sleeping for a second, which slowed down cached configure runs
369 noticeably. In that case, it will check back at the end of the
370 configure script to ensure that at least one second has passed, to
371 avoid time stamp issues with makefile rules rerunning autotools
374 - The warnings in the category 'extra-portability' are now enabled by
375 '-Wall'. In previous versions, one has to use '-Wextra-portability'
380 - Various minor bugfixes for recent or long-standing bugs.
382 * Bugs introduced by 1.11:
384 - The AM_COND_IF macro also works if the shell expression for the
385 conditional is no longer valid for the condition.
387 - The automake-provided parallel testsuite harness does not fail anymore
388 with BSD make used in parallel mode when there are test scripts in a
389 subdirectory, like in:
391 TESTS = sub/foo.test sub/bar.test
393 * Long-standing bugs:
395 - Automake's own build system finally have a real "installcheck" target.
397 - Vala-related cleanup rules are now more complete, and work better in
400 - Files listed with the AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE macro in configure.ac are
401 now automatically distributed also if the directory of the auxiliary
402 files coincides with the top-level directory.
404 - Automake now detects the presence of the '-d' flag in the various
405 '*YFLAGS' variables even when their definitions involve indirections
406 through other variables, such as in:
408 AM_YFLAGS = $(foo_opts)
410 - Automake now complains if a '*YFLAGS' variable has any conditional
411 content, not only a conditional definition.
413 - Explicit enabling and/or disabling of Automake warning categories
414 through the '-W...' options now always takes precedence over the
415 implicit warning level implied by Automake strictness (foreign, gnu
416 or gnits), regardless of the order in which such strictness and
417 warning flags appear. For example, a setting like:
418 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = -Wall --foreign
419 will cause the warnings in category 'portability' to be enabled, even
420 if those warnings are by default disabled in 'foreign' strictness.
422 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
424 Bugs fixed in 1.11.5:
426 * Bugs introduced by 1.11.3:
428 - Vala files with '.vapi' extension are now recognized and handled
429 correctly again. See automake bug#11222.
431 - Vala support work again for projects that contain some program
432 built from '.vala' (and possibly '.c') sources and some other
433 program built from '.c' sources *only*. See automake bug#11229.
435 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
439 * Miscellaneous changes:
441 - The 'ar-lib' script now ignores the "s" (symbol index) and "S" (no
442 symbol index) modifiers as well as the "s" action, as the symbol index
443 is created unconditionally by Microsoft lib. Also, the "q" (quick)
444 action is now a synonym for "r" (replace). Also, the script has been
445 ignoring the "v" (verbose) modifier already since Automake 1.11.3.
447 - When the 'compile' script is used to wrap MSVC, it now accepts an
448 optional space between the -I, -L and -l options and their respective
449 arguments, for better POSIX compliance.
451 - There is an initial, experimental support for automatic dependency
452 tracking with tcc (the Tiny C Compiler). Its associated depmode is
453 currently recognized as "icc" (but this and other details are likely
454 to change in future versions).
456 - Automatic dependency tracking now works also with the IBM XL C/C++
457 compilers, thanks to the new new depmode 'xlc'.
459 Bugs fixed in 1.11.4:
461 * Bugs introduced by 1.11.2:
463 - A definition of 'noinst_PYTHON' before 'python_PYTHON' (or similar)
464 don't cause spurious failures upon "make install" anymore.
466 - The user can now instruct the 'uninstall-info' rule not to update
467 the '${infodir}/dir' file by exporting the environment variable
468 'AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR' to the value "no". This is done for consistency
469 with how the 'install-info' rule operates since automake 1.11.2.
471 * Long-standing bugs:
473 - It is now possible for a foo_SOURCES variable to hold Vala sources
474 together with C header files, as well as with sources and headers for
475 other supported languages (e.g., C++). Previously, only mixing C and
476 Vala sources was supported.
478 - If "aclocal --install" is used, and the first directory specified with
479 '-I' is non-existent, aclocal will now create it before trying to copy
482 - An empty declaration of a "foo_PRIMARY" don't cause anymore the
483 generated install rules to create an empty $(foodir) directory;
484 for example, if Makefile.am contains something like:
488 pkglibexec_SCRIPTS += bar.sh
491 the $(pkglibexec) directory will not be created upon "make install".
493 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
497 * Miscellaneous changes:
499 - Automake's own build system is more silent by default, making use of
500 the 'silent-rules' option.
502 - The master copy of the `gnupload' script is now maintained in gnulib,
505 - The `missing' script doesn't try to wrap calls to `tar' anymore.
507 - "make dist" doesn't wrap `tar' invocations with the `missing' script
508 anymore. Similarly, the obsolescent variable `$(AMTAR)' (which you
509 shouldn't be using BTW ;-) does not invoke the missing script anymore
510 to wrap tar, but simply invokes the `tar' program itself.
512 - "make dist" can now create lzip-compressed tarballs.
514 - In the Automake info documentation, the Top node and the nodes about
515 the invocation of the automake and aclocal programs have been renamed;
516 now, calling "info automake" will open the Top node, while calling
517 "info automake-invocation" and "info aclocal-invocation" will access
518 the nodes about the invocation of respectively automake and aclocal.
520 - Automake is now distributed as a gzip-compressed and an xz-compressed
521 tarball. Previously, bzip2 was used instead of xz.
523 - The last relics of Python 1.5 support have been removed from the
524 AM_PATH_PYTHON macro.
526 - For programs and libraries, automake now detects EXTRA_foo_DEPENDENCIES
527 and adds them to the normal list of dependencies, but without
528 overwriting the foo_DEPENDENCIES variable, which is normally computed
531 Bugs fixed in 1.11.3:
533 * Bugs introduced by 1.11.2:
535 - Automake now correctly recognizes the prefix/primary combination
536 `pkglibexec_SCRIPTS' as valid.
538 - The parallel-tests harness doesn't trip anymore on sed implementations
539 with stricter limits on the length of input lines (problem seen at
542 * Long-standing bugs:
544 - The "deleted header file problem" for *.am files is avoided by stub
545 rules. This allows `make' to trigger a rerun of `automake' also if
546 some previously needed `.am' file has been removed.
548 - The `silent-rules' option now generates working makefiles even
549 for the uncommon `make' implementations that do not support the
550 nested-variables extension to POSIX 2008. For such `make'
551 implementations, whether a build is silent is determined at
552 configure time, and cannot be overridden at make time with
553 `make V=0' or `make V=1'.
555 - Vala support now works better in VPATH setups.
557 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
561 * Changes to aclocal:
563 - The `--acdir' option is deprecated. Now you should use the new options
564 `--automake-acdir' and `--system-acdir' instead.
566 - The `ACLOCAL_PATH' environment variable is now interpreted as a
567 colon-separated list of additional directories to search after the
568 automake internal acdir (by default ${prefix}/share/aclocal-APIVERSION)
569 and before the system acdir (by default ${prefix}/share/aclocal).
571 * Miscellaneous changes:
573 - The Automake support for automatic de-ANSI-fication has been
574 deprecated. It will probably be removed in the next major Automake
577 - The `lzma' compression scheme and associated automake option `dist-lzma'
578 is obsoleted by `xz' and `dist-xz' due to upstream changes.
580 - You may adjust the compression options used in dist-xz and dist-bzip2.
581 The default is now merely -e for xz, but still -9 for bzip; you may
582 specify a different level via the XZ_OPT and BZIP2 envvars respectively.
583 E.g., "make dist-xz XZ_OPT=-7" or "make dist-bzip2 BZIP2=-5"
585 - The `compile' script now converts some options for MSVC for a better
586 user experience. Similarly, the new `ar-lib' script wraps Microsoft lib.
588 - The py-compile script now accepts empty arguments passed to the options
589 `--destdir' and `--basedir', and complains about unrecognized options.
590 Moreover, a non-option argument or a special `--' argument terminates
593 - A developer that needs to pass specific flags to configure at "make
594 distcheck" time can now, and indeed is advised to, do so by defining
595 the developer-reserved makefile variable AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS,
596 instead of the old DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS.
597 The DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS variable should now be reserved for the
598 user; still, the old Makefile.am files that used to define it will
599 still continue to work as before.
601 - New macro AM_PROG_AR that looks for an archiver and wraps it in the new
602 'ar-lib' auxiliary script if the selected archiver is Microsoft lib.
603 This new macro is required for LIBRARIES and LTLIBRARIES when automake
604 is run with -Wextra-portability and -Werror.
606 - When using DejaGnu-based testsuites, the user can extend the `site.exp'
607 file generated by automake-provided rules by defining the special make
608 variable `$(EXTRA_DEJAGNU_SITE_CONFIG)'.
610 - The `install-info' rule can now be instructed not to create/update
611 the `${infodir}/dir' file, by exporting the new environment variable
612 `AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR' to the value "no".
614 Bugs fixed in 1.11.2:
616 * Bugs introduced by 1.11:
618 - The parallel-tests driver no longer produces erroneous results with
619 Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh upon unreadable log files.
621 - The `parallel-tests' test driver does not report spurious successes
622 when used with concurrent FreeBSD make (e.g., "make check -j3").
624 - When the parallel-tests driver is in use, automake now explicitly
625 rejects invalid entries and conditional contents in TEST_EXTENSIONS,
626 instead of issuing confusing and apparently unrelated error messages
627 (e.g., "non-POSIX variable name", "bad characters in variable name",
628 or "redefinition of TEST_EXTENSIONS), or even, in some situations,
629 silently producing broken `Makefile.in' files.
631 - The `silent-rules' option now truly silences all compile rules, even
632 when dependency tracking is disabled. Also, when `silent-rules' is
633 not used, `make' output no longer contains spurious backslash-only
634 lines, thus once again matching what Automake did before 1.11.
636 - The AM_COND_IF macro also works if the shell expression for the
637 conditional is no longer valid for the condition.
639 * Long-standing bugs:
641 - The order of Yacc and Lex flags is fixed to be consistent with other
642 languages: $(AM_YFLAGS) comes before $(YFLAGS), and $(AM_LFLAGS) before
643 $(LFLAGS), so that the user variables override the developer variables.
645 - "make distcheck" now correctly complains also when "make uninstall"
646 leaves one and only one file installed in $(prefix).
648 - A "make uninstall" issued before a "make install", or after a mere
649 "make install-data" or a mere "make install-exec" does not spuriously
652 - Automake now warns about more primary/directory invalid combinations,
653 such as "doc_LIBRARIES" or "pkglib_PROGRAMS".
655 - Rules generated by Automake now try harder to not change any files when
656 `make -n' is invoked. Fixes include compilation of Emacs Lisp, Vala, or
657 Yacc source files and the rule to update config.h.
659 - Several scripts and the parallel-tests testsuite driver now exit with
660 the right exit status upon receiving a signal.
662 - A per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror does not erroneously carry over
663 to the handling of other Makefile.am files.
665 - The code for automatic dependency tracking works around a Solaris
666 make bug triggered by sources containing repeated slashes when the
667 `subdir-objects' option was used.
669 - The makedepend and hp depmodes now work better with VPATH builds.
671 - Java sources specified with check_JAVA are no longer compiled for
672 "make all", but only for "make check".
674 - An usage like "java_JAVA = foo.java" will now cause Automake to warn
675 and error out if `javadir' is undefined, instead of silently producing
676 a broken Makefile.in.
678 - aclocal and automake now honour the configure-time definitions of
679 AUTOCONF and AUTOM4TE when they spawn autoconf or autom4te processes.
681 - The `install-info' recipe no longer tries to guess whether the
682 `install-info' program is from Debian or from GNU, and adaptively
683 change its behaviour; this has proven to be frail and easy to
686 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
688 Bugs fixed in 1.11.1:
690 - Lots of minor bugfixes.
692 * Bugs introduced by 1.11:
694 - The `parallel-tests' test driver works around a GNU make 3.80 bug with
695 trailing white space in the test list (`TESTS = foo $(EMPTY)').
697 * Long standing bugs:
699 - On Darwin 9, `pythondir' and `pyexecdir' pointed below `/Library/Python'
700 even if the `--prefix' argument pointed outside of a system directory.
701 AM_PATH_PYTHON has been fixed to ignore the value returned from python's
702 `get_python_lib' function if it points outside the configured prefix,
703 unless the `--prefix' argument was either `/usr' or below `/System'.
705 - The testsuite does not try to change the mode of `ltmain.sh' files from
706 a Libtool installation (symlinked to test directories) any more.
708 - AM_PROG_GCJ uses AC_CHECK_TOOLS to look for `gcj' now, so that prefixed
709 tools are preferred in a cross-compile setup.
711 - The distribution is tarred up with mode 755 now by the `dist*' targets.
712 This fixes a race condition where untrusted users could modify files
713 in the $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION) distdir before packing if the toplevel
714 build directory was world-searchable. This is CVE-2009-4029.
716 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
720 * Version requirements:
722 - Autoconf 2.62 or greater is required.
724 * Changes to aclocal:
726 - The autoconf version check implemented by aclocal in aclocal.m4
727 (and new in Automake 1.10) is degraded to a warning. This helps
728 in the common case where the Autoconf versions used are compatible.
730 * Changes to automake:
732 - The automake program can run multiple threads for creating most
733 Makefile.in files concurrently, if at least Perl 5.7.2 is available
734 with interpreter-based threads enabled. Set the environment variable
735 AUTOMAKE_JOBS to the maximum number of threads to use, in order to
736 enable this experimental feature.
738 * Changes to Libtool support:
740 - Libtool generic flags are now passed to the install and uninstall
743 - distcheck works with Libtool 2.x even when LT_OUTPUT is used, as
744 config.lt is removed correctly now.
748 - subdir-object mode works now with Fortran (F77, FC, preprocessed
749 Fortran, and Ratfor).
751 - For files with extension .f90, .f95, .f03, or .f08, the flag
752 $(FCFLAGS_f[09]x) computed by AC_FC_SRCEXT is now used in compile rules.
754 - Files with extension .sx are also treated as preprocessed assembler.
756 - The default source file extension (.c) can be overridden with
757 AM_DEFAULT_SOURCE_EXT now.
759 - Python 3.0 is supported now, Python releases prior to 2.0 are no
762 - AM_PATH_PYTHON honors python's idea about the site directory.
764 - There is initial support for the Vala programming language, when using
767 * Miscellaneous changes:
769 - Automake development is done in a git repository on Savannah now, see
771 http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=automake.git
773 A read-only CVS mirror is provided at
775 cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@pserver.git.sv.gnu.org:/automake.git \
776 checkout -d automake HEAD
778 - "make dist" can now create xz-compressed tarballs,
779 as well as (deprecated?) lzma-compressed tarballs.
781 - `automake --add-missing' will by default install the GPLv3 file as
782 COPYING if it is missing. It will also warn that the license file
783 should be added to source control. Note that Automake will never
784 overwrite an existing COPYING file, even when the `--force-missing'
787 - The manual is now distributed under the terms of the GNU FDL 1.3.
789 - Automake ships and installs man pages for automake and aclocal now.
791 - New shorthand `$(pkglibexecdir)' for `$(libexecdir)/@PACKAGE@'.
793 - install-sh supports -C, which does not update the installed file
794 (and its time stamps) if the contents did not change.
796 - The `gnupload' script has been revamped.
798 - The `depcomp' and `compile' scripts now work with MSVC under MSYS.
800 - The targets `install' and `uninstall' are more efficient now, in that
801 for example multiple files from one Automake variable such as
802 `bin_SCRIPTS' are copied in one `install' (or `libtool --mode=install')
803 invocation if they do not have to be renamed.
805 Both install and uninstall may sometimes enter (`cd' into) the target
806 installation directory now, when no build-local scripts are used.
808 Both install and uninstall do not fail anymore but do nothing if an
809 installation directory variable like `bindir' is set to the empty string.
811 For built-in rules, `make install' now fails reliably if installation
812 of a file failed. Conversely, `make uninstall' even succeeds when
813 issued multiple times.
815 These changes may need some adjustments from users: For example,
816 some `install' programs refuse to install multiple copies of the
817 same file in one invocation, so you may need to remove duplicate
818 entries from file lists.
820 Also, within one set of files, say, nobase_data_DATA, the order of
821 installation may be changed, or even unstable among different hosts,
822 due to the use of associative arrays in awk. The increased use of
823 awk matches a similar move in Autoconf to provide for better scaling.
825 Further, most undocumented per-rule install command variables such as
826 binSCRIPT_INSTALL have been removed because they are not needed any
827 more. Packages which use them should be using the appropriate one of
828 INSTALL_{DATA,PROGRAM,SCRIPT} or their install_sh_{DATA,PROGRAM,SCRIPT}
829 counterpart, depending on the type of files and the need for automatic
830 target directory creation.
832 - The "deleted header file problem" for *.m4 files is avoided by
833 stub rules. This allows `make' to trigger a rerun of `aclocal'
834 also if some previously needed macro file has been removed.
836 - Rebuild rules now also work for a removed `subdir/Makefile.in' in
837 an otherwise up to date tree.
839 - The `color-tests' option causes colored test result output on terminals.
841 - The `parallel-tests' option enables a new test driver that allows for
842 parallel test execution, inter-test dependencies, lazy test execution
843 for unit-testing, re-testing only failed tests, and formatted result output
844 as RST (reStructuredText) and HTML. Enabling this option may require some
845 changes to your test suite setup; see the manual for details.
847 - The `silent-rules' option enables Linux kernel-style silent build output.
848 This option requires the widely supported but non-POSIX `make' feature
849 of recursive variable expansion, so do not use it if your package needs
850 to build with `make' implementations that do not support it.
852 To enable less verbose build output, the developer has to use the Automake
853 option `silent-rules' in `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE', or call the `AM_SILENT_RULES'
854 macro. The user may then set the default verbosity by passing the
855 `--enable-silent-rules' option to `configure'. At `make' run time, this
856 default may be overridden using `make V=0' for less verbose, and `make V=1'
857 for backward-compatible verbose output.
859 - New prefix `notrans_' for manpages which should not be transformed
860 by --program-transform.
862 - New macro AM_COND_IF for conditional evaluation and conditional
865 - For AC_CONFIG_LINKS, if source and destination are equal, do not
866 remove the file in a non-VPATH build. Such setups work with Autoconf
869 - AM_MAINTAINER_MODE now allows for an optional argument specifying
872 - AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE may prevent substitution of AC_SUBSTed variables,
873 useful especially for multi-line values.
875 - Automake's early configure-time sanity check now diagnoses an
876 unsafe absolute source directory name and makes configure fail.
878 - The Automake macros and rules cope better with whitespace in the
879 current directory name, as long as the relative path to `configure'
880 does not contain whitespace. To this end, the values of `$(MISSING)'
881 and `$(install_sh)' may contain suitable quoting, and their expansion
882 might need `eval'uation if used outside of a makefile. These
883 undocumented variables may be used in several documented macros such
884 as $(AUTOCONF) or $(MAKEINFO).
888 * Long-standing bugs:
890 - Fix aix dependency tracking for libtool objects.
892 - Work around AIX sh quoting issue in AC_PROG_CC_C_O, leading to
893 unnecessary use of the `compile' script.
895 - For nobase_*_LTLIBRARIES with nonempty directory components, the
896 correct `-rpath' argument is used now.
898 - `config.status --file=Makefile depfiles' now also works with the
899 extra quoting used internally by Autoconf 2.62 and newer
900 (it used to work only without the `--file=' bit).
902 - The `missing' script works better with versioned tool names.
904 - Semantics for `missing help2man' have been revamped:
906 Previously, if `help2man' was not present, `missing help2man' would have
907 the following semantics: if some man page was out of date but present, then
908 a warning would be printed, but the exit status was 0. If the man page was
909 not present at all, then `missing' would create a replacement man page
910 containing an error message, and exit with a status of 2. This does not play
911 well with `make': the next run will see this particular man page as being up
912 to date, and will only error out on the next generated man page, if any;
913 repeat until all pages are done. This was not desirable.
915 These are the new semantics: if some man page is not present, and help2man
916 is not either, then `missing' will warn and generate the replacement page
917 containing the error message, but exit successfully. However, `make dist'
918 will ensure that no such bogus man pages are packaged into a tarball.
920 - Targets provided by automake behave better with `make -n', in that they
921 take care not to create files.
923 - `config.status Makefile... depfiles' works fine again in the presence of
924 disabled dependency tracking.
926 - The default no-op recursive rules for these targets also work with BSD make
927 now: html, install-html, install-dvi, install-pdf, install-pdf, install-info.
929 - `make distcheck' works also when both a directory and some file below it
930 have been added to a distribution variable, such as EXTRA_DIST or *_SOURCES.
932 - Texinfo dvi, ps, pdf, and html output files are not removed upon
933 `make mostlyclean' any more; only the LaTeX by-products are.
935 - Renamed objects also work with the `subdir-objects' option and
936 source file languages which Automake does not know itself.
938 - `automake' now correctly complains about variable assignments which are
939 preceded by a comment, extend over multiple lines with backslash-escaped
940 newlines, and end in a comment sign. Previous versions would silently
941 and wrongly ignore such assignments completely.
943 * Bugs introduced by 1.10:
945 - Fix output of dummy dependency files in presence of post-processed
946 Makefile.in's again, but also cope with long lines.
948 - $(EXEEXT) is automatically appended to filenames of XFAIL_TESTS
949 that have been declared as programs in the same Makefile.
950 This is for consistency with the analogous change to TESTS in 1.10.
952 - Fix order of standard includes to again be `-I. -I$(srcdir)',
953 followed by directories containing config headers.
955 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
959 * Version requirements:
961 - Autoconf 2.60 or greater is required.
963 - Perl 5.6 or greater is required.
965 * Changes to aclocal:
967 - aclocal now also supports -Wmumble and -Wno-mumble options.
969 - `dirlist' entries (for the aclocal search path) may use shell
970 wildcards such as `*', `?', or `[...]'.
972 - aclocal supports an --install option that will cause system-wide
973 third-party macros to be installed in the local directory
974 specified with the first -I flag. This option also uses #serial
975 lines in M4 files to upgrade local macros.
977 The new aclocal options --dry-run and --diff help to review changes
978 before they are installed.
980 - aclocal now outputs an autoconf version check in aclocal.m4 in
981 projects using automake.
983 For a few years, automake and aclocal have been calling autoconf
984 (or its underlying engine autom4te) to accurately retrieve the
985 data they need from configure.ac and its siblings. Doing so can
986 only work if all autotools use the same version of autoconf. For
987 instance a Makefile.in generated by automake for one version of
988 autoconf may stop working if configure is regenerated with another
989 version of autoconf, and vice versa.
991 This new version check ensures that the whole build system has
992 been generated using the same autoconf version.
994 * Support for new Autoconf macros:
996 - The new AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE Autoconf macro is supported.
998 - If `subdir-objects' is set, and AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR is specified,
999 $(LIBOBJS), $(LTLIBOBJS), $(ALLOCA), and $(LTALLOCA) can be used
1000 in different directories. However, only one instance of such a
1001 library objects directory is supported.
1003 * Change to Libtool support:
1005 - Libtool generic flags (those that go before the --mode=MODE option)
1006 can be specified using AM_LIBTOOLFLAGS and target_LIBTOOLFLAGS.
1008 * Yacc and Lex changes:
1010 - The rebuild rules for distributed Yacc and Lex output will avoid
1011 overwriting existing files if AM_MAINTAINER_MODE and maintainer-mode
1014 - ylwrap is now always used for lex and yacc source files,
1015 regardless of whether there is more than one source per directory.
1017 * Languages changes:
1019 - Preprocessed assembler (*.S) compilation now honors CPPFLAGS,
1020 AM_CPPFLAGS and per-target _CPPFLAGS, and supports dependency
1021 tracking, unlike non-preprocessed assembler (*.s).
1023 - subdir-object mode works now with Assembler. Automake assumes
1024 that the compiler understands `-c -o'.
1026 - Preprocessed assembler (*.S) compilation now also honors
1027 $(DEFS) $(DEFAULT_INCLUDES) $(INCLUDES).
1029 - Improved support for Objective C:
1030 - Autoconf's new AC_PROG_OBJC will enable automatic dependency tracking.
1031 - A new section of the manual documents the support.
1033 - New support for Unified Parallel C:
1034 - AM_PROG_UPC looks for a UPC compiler.
1035 - A new section of the manual documents the support.
1037 - Per-target flags are now correctly handled in link rules.
1039 For instance maude_CFLAGS correctly overrides AM_CFLAGS; likewise
1040 for maude_LDFLAGS and AM_LDFLAGS. Previous versions bogusly
1041 preferred AM_CFLAGS over maude_CFLAGS while linking, and they
1042 used both AM_LDFLAGS and maude_LDFLAGS on the same link command.
1044 The fix for compiler flags (i.e., using maude_CFLAGS instead of
1045 AM_CFLAGS) should not hurt any package since that is how _CFLAGS
1046 is expected to work (and actually works during compilation).
1048 However using maude_LDFLAGS "instead of" AM_LDFLAGS rather than
1049 "in addition to" breaks backward compatibility with older versions.
1050 If your package used both variables, as in
1052 AM_LDFLAGS = common flags
1053 bin_PROGRAMS = a b c
1054 a_LDFLAGS = more flags
1057 and assumed *_LDFLAGS would sum up, you should rewrite it as
1059 AM_LDFLAGS = common flags
1060 bin_PROGRAMS = a b c
1061 a_LDFLAGS = $(AM_LDFLAGS) more flags
1064 This new behavior of *_LDFLAGS is more coherent with other
1065 per-target variables, and the way *_LDFLAGS variables were
1066 considered internally.
1068 * New installation targets:
1070 - New targets mandated by GNU Coding Standards:
1075 By default they will only install Texinfo manuals.
1076 You can customize them with *-local variants:
1082 - The undocumented recursive target `uninstall-info' no longer exists.
1083 (`uninstall' is in charge of removing all possible documentation
1084 flavors, including optional formats such as dvi, ps, or info even
1085 when `no-installinfo' is used.)
1087 * Miscellaneous changes:
1089 - Automake no longer complains if input files for AC_CONFIG_FILES
1090 are specified using shell variables.
1092 - clean, distribution, or rebuild rules are normally disabled for
1093 inputs and outputs of AC_CONFIG_FILES, AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, and
1094 AC_CONFIG_LINK specified using shell variables. However, if these
1095 variables are used as ${VAR}, and AC_SUBSTed, then Automake will
1096 be able to output rules anyway.
1097 (See the Automake documentation for AC_CONFIG_FILES.)
1099 - $(EXEEXT) is automatically appended to filenames of TESTS
1100 that have been declared as programs in the same Makefile.
1101 This is mostly useful when some check_PROGRAMS are listed in TESTS.
1103 - `-Wportability' has finally been turned on by default for `gnu' and
1104 `gnits' strictness. This means, automake will complain about %-rules
1105 or $(GNU Make functions) unless you switch to `foreign' strictness or
1106 use `-Wno-portability'.
1108 - Automake now uses AC_PROG_MKDIR_P (new in Autoconf 2.60), and uses
1109 $(MKDIR_P) instead of $(mkdir_p) to create directories. The
1110 $(mkdir_p) variable is still defined (to the same value as
1111 $(MKDIR_P)) but should be considered obsolete. If you are using
1112 $(mkdir_p) in some of your rules, please plan to update them to
1113 $(MKDIR_P) at some point.
1115 - AM_C_PROTOTYPES and ansi2knr are now documented as being obsolete.
1116 They still work in this release, but may be withdrawn in a future one.
1118 - Inline compilation rules for gcc3-style dependency tracking are
1121 - Automake installs a "Hello World!" example package in $(docdir).
1122 This example is used throughout the new "Autotools Introduction"
1123 chapter of the manual.
1125 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1129 * Makefile.in bloat reduction:
1131 - Inference rules are used to compile sources in subdirectories when
1132 the `subdir-objects' option is used and no per-target flags are
1133 used. This should reduce the size of some projects a lot, because
1134 Automake used to output an explicit rule for each such object in
1137 - Automake no longer outputs three rules (.o, .obj, .lo) for each
1138 object that must be built with explicit rules. It just outputs
1139 the rules required to build the kind of object considered: either
1140 the two .o and .obj rules for usual objects, or the .lo rule for
1143 * Change to Libtool support:
1145 - Libtool tags are used with libtool versions that support them.
1146 (I.e., with Libtool 1.5 or greater.)
1148 - Automake is now able to handle setups where a libtool library is
1149 conditionally installed in different directories, as in
1152 lib_LTLIBRARIES = liba.la
1154 pkglib_LTLIBRARIES = liba.la
1156 liba_la_SOURCES = ...
1158 * Changes to aclocal:
1160 - aclocal now ensures that AC_DEFUNs and AU_DEFUNs it discovers are
1161 really evaluated, before it decides to include them in aclocal.m4.
1162 This solves nasty problems with conditional redefinitions of
1163 Autoconf macros in /usr/share/aclocal/*.m4 files causing extraneous
1164 *.m4 files to be included in any project using these macros.
1165 (Calls to AC_PROG_EGREP causing libtool.m4 to be included is the
1166 most famous instance of this bug.)
1168 - Do not complain about missing conditionally AC_REQUIREd macros
1169 that are not actually used. In 1.8.x aclocal would correctly
1170 determine which of these macros were really needed (and include
1171 only these in the package); unfortunately it would also require
1172 all of them to be present in order to run. This created
1173 situations were aclocal would not work on a tarball distributing
1174 all the macros it uses. For instance running aclocal on a project
1175 containing only the subset of the Gettext macros in use by the
1176 project did not work, because gettext conditionally requires other
1179 * Portability improvements:
1181 - Tar format can be chosen with the new options tar-v7, tar-ustar, and
1182 tar-pax. The new option filename-length-max=99 helps diagnosing
1183 filenames that are too long for tar-v7. (PR/414)
1185 - Variables aumented with `+=' are now automatically flattened (i.e.,
1186 trailing backslashes removed) and then wrapped around 80 colummns
1187 (adding trailing backslashes). In previous versions, a long series
1193 would result in a single-line definition of VAR that could possibly
1194 exceed the maximum line length of some make implementations.
1196 Non-augmented variables are still output as they are defined in
1201 - Support Fortran 90/95 with the new "fc" and "ppfc" languages.
1202 Works the same as the old Fortran 77 implementation; just replace
1203 F77 with FC everywhere (exception: FFLAGS becomes FCFLAGS).
1204 Requires a version of autoconf which provides AC_PROG_FC (>=2.59).
1206 - Support for conditional _LISP.
1208 - Support for conditional -hook and -local rules (PR/428).
1210 - Diagnose AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR calls following AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE. (PR/49)
1212 - Automake will not write any Makefile.ins after the first error it
1213 encounters. The previous Makefile.ins (if any) will be left in
1214 place. (Warnings will not prevent output, but remember they can
1215 be turned into errors with -Werror.)
1217 - The restriction that SUBDIRS must contain direct children is gone.
1220 - The manual tells more about SUBDIRS vs. DIST_SUBDIRS.
1221 It also gives an example of nested packages using AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS.
1223 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1225 Bugs fixed in 1.8.5:
1227 * Long-standing bugs:
1229 - Define DIST_SUBDIRS even when the `no-dist' or `cygnus' options are used
1230 so that `make distclean' and `make maintainer-clean' can work.
1232 - Define AR and ARFLAGS even when only EXTRA_LIBRARIES are defined.
1234 - Fix many rules to please FreeBSD make, which runs commands with `sh -e'.
1236 - Polish diagnostic when no input file is found.
1238 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1240 Bugs fixed in 1.8.4:
1242 * Long-standing bugs:
1244 - Fix AM_PATH_PYTHON to correctly display $PYTHON when it has been
1245 overridden by the user.
1247 - Honor PATH_SEPARATOR in various places of the Automake package, for
1250 - Adjust dependency tracking mode detection to ICC 8.0's new output.
1253 - Fix install-sh so it can install the `mv' binary... using `mv'.
1255 - Fix tru64 dependency tracking for libtool objects.
1257 - Work around Exuberant Ctags when creating a TAGS files in a directory
1258 without files to scan but with subdirectories to include.
1260 * Bugs introduced by 1.8:
1262 - Fix an "internal error" when @LIBOBJS@ is used in a variable that is
1263 not defined in the same conditions as the _LDADD that uses it.
1265 - Do not warn when JAVAROOT is overridden, this is legitimate.
1267 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1269 Bugs fixed in 1.8.3:
1271 * Long-standing bugs:
1273 - Quote filenames in installation rules, in case $DESTDIR, $prefix,
1274 or any of the other *dir variables contain a space.
1276 Please note that Automake does not and cannot support spaces in
1277 filenames that are involved during the build. This change affects
1278 only installation paths, so that `make install' does not bomb out
1279 in packages configured with
1280 ./configure --prefix '/c/Program Files'
1282 - Fix the depfiles output so it works with GNU sed (<4.1) even when
1283 POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.
1285 - Do not AC_SUBST(LIBOBJS) in AM_WITH_REGEX. This macro was unusable
1286 since Autoconf 2.54, which defines LIBOBJS itself.
1288 - Fix a potential (but unlikely) race condition in parallel elisp
1289 builds. (Introduced in 1.7.3.)
1291 - Do not assume that users override _DEPENDENCIES in all conditions
1292 where Automake will try to define them.
1294 - Do not use `mkdir -p' in mkinstalldirs, unless this is GNU mkdir.
1295 Solaris 8's `mkdir -p' is not thread-safe and can break parallel
1298 This fix also affects the $(mkdir_p) variable defined since
1299 Automake 1.8. It will be set to `mkdir -p' only if mkdir is GNU
1300 mkdir, and to `mkinstalldirs' or `install-sh -d' otherwise.
1302 - Secure temporary directory creation in `make distcheck'. (PR/413)
1304 - Do not generate two build rules for `parser.h' when the
1305 parser appears in two different conditionals.
1307 - Work around a Solaris 8 /bin/sh bug in the test for dependency
1308 checking. Usually ./configure will not pick this shell; so this
1309 fix only helps cases where the shell is forced to /bin/sh.
1311 * Bugs introduced by 1.8:
1313 - In some situations (hand-written `m4_include's), aclocal would
1314 call the `File::Spec->rel2abs' method, which was only introduced
1315 in Perl 5.6. This new version reestablish support Perl 5.005.
1317 It is likely that the next major Automake releases will require at
1318 least Perl 5.6. Consider upgrading your development environment
1319 if you are still using the five-year-old Perl 5.005.
1321 - Automake would sometimes fail to define rules for targets listed
1322 in variables defined in multiple conditions. For instance on
1328 it would define only the `a.$(OBJEXT): a.c' rule and omit the
1329 `b.$(OBJEXT): b.c' rule.
1331 * New sections in manual:
1333 - Third-Party Makefiles: how to interface third party Makefiles.
1334 - Upgrading: upgrading packages to newer Automake versions.
1335 - Multiple Outputs: handling tools that produce many outputs.
1337 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1341 * A (well known) portability bug slipped in the changes made to
1342 install-sh in Automake 1.8.1. The broken install-sh would refuse to
1343 install anything on Tru64.
1345 * Fix install rules for conditionally built python files. (This never
1348 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1352 * Bugs introduced by 1.8:
1354 - Fix Config.pm import error with old Perl versions (at least
1355 5.005_03). One symptom is that aclocal could not find its macro
1358 - Automake 1.8 used `mkdir -m 0755 -p --' to ensure that directories
1359 created by `make install' are always world readable, even if the
1360 installer happens to have an overly restrictive umask (e.g. 077).
1361 This was a mistake and has been reverted. There are at least two
1362 reasons why we must not use `-m 0755':
1363 - it causes special bits like SGID to be ignored,
1364 - it may be too restrictive (some setups expect 775 directories).
1366 - Fix aclocal to honor definitions located in files which have been
1367 m4_included manually. aclocal 1.8 had been updated to check
1368 m4_included files for new requirements, but forgot that these
1369 m4_included files can also provide new definitions.
1371 Note that if you have such a setup, we recommend you get rid of
1372 it. In the past, there was a reason to m4_include files manually:
1373 aclocal used to duplicate entire M4 files into aclocal.m4, even
1374 files that were distributed. Some packages were therefore
1375 m4_including the distributed file directly, and playing some
1376 tricks to ensure aclocal would not copy that file to aclocal.m4,
1377 in order to limit the amount of duplication. Since aclocal 1.8.x
1378 will precisely output m4_includes for local M4 files, we recommend
1379 that you clean up your setup, removing all manual m4_includes and
1380 letting aclocal output them.
1382 - Output detailed menus in the Info version if the Automake manual,
1383 so that Emacs can locate the indexes.
1385 - configure.ac and configure were listed twice in DIST_COMMON (an
1386 internal variable where Automake lists configury files to
1387 distribute). This was harmless, but unaesthetic.
1389 - Use `chmod a-w' instead of `chmod -w' as the latter honors umask.
1390 This was an issue only in the Automake package itself, not in
1393 - Automake assumed that all AC_CONFIG_LINKS arguments had the form
1394 DEST:SRC. This was wrong, as some packages do
1395 AC_CONFIG_LINKS($computedlinks). This version no longer abort in
1398 - Contrary to mkinstalldirs, $(mkdir_p) was expecting exactly one
1399 argument. This caused two kinds of failures:
1400 - Rules installing data in a conditionally defined directory
1401 failed when that directory was undefined. In this case no
1402 argument was supplied.
1403 - `make installdirs' failed, because several directories were
1404 passed to $(mkdir_p). This was an issue only on platform
1405 were $(mkdir_p) is implemented with `install-sh -d'.
1406 $(mkdir_p) as been changed to accept 0 or more arguments, as
1409 * Long-standing bugs:
1411 - Fix an unexpected diagnostic occurring when users attempt
1412 to override some internal variables that Automake appends to.
1414 - aclocal now scans configure.ac for macro definitions (PR/319).
1416 - Fix a portability issue with OSF1/Tru64 Make. If a directory
1417 distributes files which are outside itself (this usually occurs
1418 when using AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([../dir]) to use auxiliary files
1419 from a parent package), then `make distcheck' fails due to an
1420 optimization performed by OSF1/Tru64 Make in its VPATH handling.
1421 (tests/subpkg2.test failure)
1423 - Fix another portability issue with Sun and OSF1/Tru64 Make.
1424 In a VPATH-build configuration, `make install' would install
1425 nobase_ files to wrong locations.
1427 - Fix a Perl `uninitialized value' diagnostic occurring when
1428 automake complains that a Texinfo file does not have a
1429 @setfilename statement.
1431 - Erase config.status.lineno during `make distclean'. This file
1432 can be created by config.status. Automake already knew about
1433 configure.lineno, but forgot config.status.lineno.
1435 - Distribute all files, even those which are built and installed
1436 conditionally. This change affects files listed in conditionally
1437 defined *_HEADERS and *_PYTHON variable (unless they are nodist_*)
1438 as well as those listed in conditionally defined dist_*_DATA,
1439 dist_*_JAVA, dist_*_LISP, and dist_*_SCRIPTS variables.
1441 - Fix AM_PATH_LISPDIR to avoid \? in sed regular expressions; it
1442 doesn't conform to POSIX.
1444 - Normalize help strings for configure variables and options added
1449 - Check for python2.4 in AM_PATH_PYTHON.
1451 * Spurious failures in test suite:
1453 - tests/libtool5.test, tests/ltcond.test, tests/ltcond2.test,
1454 tests/ltconv.test: fix failures with CVS Libtool.
1455 - tests/aclocal6.test: fix failure if autom4te.cache is disabled.
1456 - tests/txinfo24.test, tests/txinfo25.test, tests/txinfo28.test:
1457 fix failures with old Texinfo versions.
1459 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1465 - The NEWS file is more verbose.
1469 - Autoconf 2.58 or greater is required.
1473 - Default source file names in the absence of a _SOURCES declaration
1474 are made by removing any target extension before appending `.c', so
1475 to make the libtool module `foo.la' from `foo.c', you only need to
1478 lib_LTLIBRARIES = foo.la
1479 foo_la_LDFLAGS = -module
1481 For backward compatibility, foo_la.c will be used instead of
1482 foo.c if this file exists or is the explicit target of a rule.
1483 However -Wobsolete will warn about this deprecated naming.
1485 - AR's `cru' flags are now set in a global ARFLAGS variable instead
1486 of being hard-coded in each $(AR) invocation, so they can be
1487 substituted from configure.ac. This has been requested by people
1488 dealing with non-POSIX ar implementations.
1490 - New warning option: -Woverride. This will warn about any user
1491 target or variable definitions which override Automake
1494 - Texinfo rules back up and restore info files when makeinfo fails.
1496 - Texinfo rules now support the `html' target.
1497 Running this requires Texinfo 4.0 or greater.
1499 `html' is a new recursive target, so if your package mixes
1500 hand-crafted `Makefile.in's with Automake-generated
1501 `Makefile.in's, you should adjust the former to support (or
1502 ignore) this target so that `make html' recurses successfully. If
1503 you had a custom `html' rule in your `Makefile.am', it's better to
1504 rename it as `html-local', otherwise your rule will override
1505 Automake's new rule (you can check that by running `automake
1506 -Woverride') and that will stop the recursion to subdirectories.
1508 Last but not least, this `html' rule is declared PHONY, even when
1509 overridden. Fortunately, it appears that few packages use a
1510 non-PHONY `html' rule.
1512 - Any file which is m4_included from configure.ac will appear as a
1513 configure and Makefile.in dependency, and will be automatically
1516 - The rules for rebuilding Makefiles and Makefile.ins will now
1517 rebuild all Makefiles and all Makefile.ins at once when one of
1518 configure's dependencies has changed. This is considerably faster
1519 than previous implementations, where config.status and automake
1520 were run separately in each directory (this still happens when you
1521 change a Makefile.am locally, without touching configure.ac or
1522 friends). Doing this also solves a longstanding issue: these
1523 rebuild rules failed to work when adding new directories to the
1524 tree, forcing you to run automake manually.
1526 - For similar reasons, the rules to rebuild configure,
1527 config.status, and aclocal.m4 are now defined in all directories.
1528 Note that if you were using the CONFIG_STATUS_DEPENDENCIES and
1529 CONFIGURE_DEPENDENCIES (formerly undocumented) variables, you
1530 should better define them in all directories. This is easily done
1531 using an AC_SUBST (make sure you prefix these dependencies with
1532 $(top_srcdir) since this variable will appear at different
1533 levels of the build tree).
1535 - aclocal will now use `m4_include' instead of copying local m4
1536 files into aclocal.m4. (Local m4 files are those you ship with
1537 your project, other files will be copied as usual.)
1539 Because m4_included files are automatically distributed, it means
1540 for most projects there is no point in EXTRA_DISTing the list of
1541 m4 files which are used. (You can probably get rid of
1542 m4/Makefile.am if you had one.)
1544 - aclocal will avoid touching aclocal.m4 when possible, so that
1545 Autom4te's cache isn't needlessly invalidated. This behavior can
1546 be switched off with the new `--force' option.
1548 - aclocal now uses Autoconf's --trace to detect macros which are
1549 actually used and will no longer include unused macros simply
1550 because they where mentioned. This was often the case for macros
1551 called conditionally.
1553 - New options no-dist and no-dist-gzip.
1555 - compile, depcomp, elisp-comp, install-sh, mdate-sh, mkinstalldirs,
1556 py-compile, and ylwrap, now all understand --version and --help.
1558 - Automake will now recognize AC_CONFIG_LINKS so far as removing created
1559 links as part of the distclean target and including source files in
1562 - AM_PATH_PYTHON now supports ACTION-IF-FOUND and ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND
1563 argument. The latter can be used to override the default behavior
1564 (which is to abort).
1566 - Automake will exit with $? = 63 on version mismatch. (So does
1567 Autoconf 2.58) missing knows this, and in this case it will
1568 emulate the tools as if they were absent. Because older versions
1569 of Automake and Autoconf did not use this exit code, this change
1570 will only be useful in projects generated with future versions of
1573 - When using AC_CONFIG_FILES with multiple input files, Automake
1574 generates the first ".in" input file for which a ".am" exists.
1575 (Former versions would try to use only the first input file.)
1577 - lisp_DATA is now allowed. If you are using the empty ELCFILES
1578 idiom to disable byte-compilation of lisp_LISP files, it is
1579 recommended that you switch to using lisp_DATA. Note that
1580 this is not strictly equivalent: lisp_DATA will install elisp
1581 files even if emacs is not installed, while *_LISP do not
1582 install anything unless emacs is found.
1584 - Makefiles will prefer `mkdir -p' over mkinstalldirs if it is
1585 available. This selection is achieved through the Makefile
1586 variable $(mkdir_p) that is set by AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE to either
1587 `mkdir -m 0755 -p --', `$(mkinstalldirs) -m 0755', or
1588 `$(install_sh) -m 0755 -d'.
1592 - Because `mkdir -p' is available on most platforms, and we can use
1593 `install-sh -d' when it is not, the use of the mkinstalldirs
1594 script is being phased out. `automake --add-missing' no longer
1595 installs it, and if you remove mkinstalldirs from your package,
1596 automake will define $(mkinstalldirs) as an alias for $(mkdir_p).
1598 Gettext 0.12.1 still requires mkinstalldirs. Fortunately
1599 gettextize and autopoint will install it when needed. Automake
1600 will continue to define the $(mkinstalldirs) and to distribute
1601 mkinstalldirs when this script is in the source tree.
1603 - AM_PROG_CC_STDC is now empty. The content of this macro was
1604 merged in AC_PROG_CC. If your code uses $am_cv_prog_cc_stdc, you
1605 should adjust it to use $ac_cv_prog_cc_stdc instead. (This
1606 renaming should be safe, even if you have to support several,
1607 versions of Automake, because AC_PROG_CC defines this variable
1608 since Autoconf 2.54.)
1610 - Some users where using the undocumented ACLOCAL_M4_SOURCES
1611 variable to override the aclocal.m4 dependencies computed
1612 (inaccurately) by older versions of Automake. Because Automake
1613 now tracks configure's m4 dependencies accurately (see m4_include
1614 above), the use of ACLOCAL_M4_SOURCES should be considered
1615 obsolete and will be flagged as such when running `automake
1620 - Defining programs conditionally using Automake conditionals no
1621 longer leads to a combinatorial explosion. The following
1622 construct used to be troublesome when used with dozens of
1637 Likewise for _SOURCES, _LDADD, and _LIBADD variables.
1639 - Due to implementation constraints, previous versions of Automake
1640 proscribed multiple conditional definitions of some variables
1650 All _PROGRAMS, _LDADD, and _LIBADD variables were affected.
1651 This restriction has been lifted, and these variables now
1652 support multiple conditional definitions as do other variables.
1654 - Cleanup the definitions of $(distdir) and $(top_distdir).
1655 $(top_distdir) now points to the root of the distribution
1656 directory created during `make dist', as it did in Automake 1.4,
1657 not to the root of the build tree as it did in intervening
1658 versions. Furthermore these two variables are now only defined in
1659 the top level Makefile, and passed to sub-directories when running
1662 - The --no-force option now correctly checks the Makefile.in's
1663 dependencies before deciding not to update it.
1665 - Do not assume that make files are called Makefile in cleaning rules.
1667 - Update .info files in the source tree, not in the build tree. This
1668 is what the GNU Coding Standard recommend. Only Automake 1.7.x
1669 used to update these files in the build tree (previous versions did
1670 it in the source tree too), and it caused several problems, varying
1671 from mere annoyance to portability issues.
1673 - COPYING, COPYING.LIB, and COPYING.LESSER are no longer overwritten
1674 when --add-missing and --force-missing are used. For backward
1675 compatibility --add-missing will continue to install COPYING (in
1676 `gnu' strictness) when none of these three files exist, but this
1677 use is deprecated: you should better choose a license yourself and
1678 install it once for all in your source tree (and in your code
1681 - Fix ylwrap so that it does not overwrite header files that haven't
1682 changed, as the inline rule already does.
1684 - User-defined rules override automake-defined rules for the same
1685 targets, even when rules do not have commands. This is not new
1686 (and was documented), however some of the automake-generated
1687 rules have escaped this principle in former Automake versions.
1688 Rules for the following targets are affected by this fix:
1690 clean, clean-am, dist-all, distclean, distclean-am, dvi, dvi-am,
1691 info, info-am, install-data-am, install-exec-am, install-info,
1692 install-info-am, install-man, installcheck-am, maintainer-clean,
1693 maintainer-clean-am, mostlyclean, mostlyclean-am, pdf, pdf-am,
1694 ps, ps-am, uninstall-am, uninstall-info, uninstall-man
1696 Practically it means that an attempt to supplement the dependencies
1697 of some target, as in
1699 clean: my-clean-rule
1701 will now *silently override* the automake definition of the
1702 rule for this target. Running `automake -Woverride' will diagnose
1703 all such overriding definitions.
1705 It should be noted that almost all of these targets support a *-local
1706 variant that is meant to supplement the automake-defined rule
1707 (See node `Extending' in the manual). The above rule should
1710 clean-local: my-clean-rule
1712 These *-local targets have been documented since at least
1713 Automake 1.2, so you should not fear the change if you have
1714 to support multiple automake versions.
1718 - The Automake manual is now distributed under the terms of the GNU FDL.
1720 - Targets dist-gzip, dist-bzip2, dist-tarZ, dist-zip are always defined.
1722 - core dumps are no longer removed by the cleaning rules. There are
1723 at least three reasons for this:
1724 1. These files should not be created by any build step,
1725 so their removal do not fit any of the cleaning rules.
1726 Actually, they may be precious to the developer.
1727 2. If such file is created during a build, then it's clearly a
1728 bug Automake should not hide. Not removing the file will
1729 cause `make distcheck' to complain about its presence.
1730 3. Operating systems have different naming conventions for
1731 core dump files. A core file on one system might be a
1732 completely legitimate data file on another system.
1734 - RUNTESTFLAGS, CTAGSFLAGS, ETAGSFLAGS, JAVACFLAGS are no longer
1735 defined by Automake. This means that any definition in the
1736 environment will be used, unless overridden in the Makefile.am or
1737 on the command line. The old behavior, where these variables were
1738 defined empty in each Makefile, can be obtained by AC_SUBSTing or
1739 AC_ARG_VARing each variable from configure.ac.
1741 - CONFIGURE_DEPENDENCIES and CONFIG_STATUS_DEPENDENCIES are now
1742 documented. (The is not a new feature, these variables have
1743 been there since at least Automake 1.4.)
1745 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1747 Bugs fixed in 1.7.9:
1748 * Fix install-strip to work with nobase_ binaries.
1749 * Fix renaming of #line directives in ylwrap.
1750 * Rebuild with Autoconf 2.59. (1.7.8 was not installable with pdksh.)
1752 Bugs fixed in 1.7.8:
1753 * Remove spurious blank lines in cleaning rules introduced in 1.7.7.
1754 * Fix detection of Debian's install-info, broken since version 1.5.
1755 (Debian bug #213524).
1756 * Honor -module if it appears in AM_LDFLAGS (i.e., relax name checking)
1757 This was only done for libfoo_LDFLAGS and LDFLAGS in previous versions.
1759 Bugs fixed in 1.7.7:
1760 * The implementation of automake's --no-force option is unreliable,
1761 so this option is ignored in this version. A real fix will appear in
1762 Automake 1.8. (Debian Bug #206299)
1763 * AM_PATH_PYTHON: really check the whole list of interpreters if no
1764 argument is given. (PR/399)
1765 * Do not warn about leading `_' in variable names, even with -Wportability.
1766 * Support user redefinitions of TEXINFO_TEX.
1767 * depcomp: support AIX Compiler version 6.
1768 * Fix missing rebuilds during `make dist' with BSD make.
1769 (Could produce tarballs containing out-of-date files.)
1770 * Resurrect multilib support.
1771 * Noteworthy manual updates:
1772 - Extending aclocal: how to write m4 macros that won't trigger warnings
1774 - A Shared Library: Rewrite and split into subsections.
1776 Bugs fixed in 1.7.6:
1777 * Fix depcomp's icc mode for ICC 7.1.
1778 * Diagnose calls to AC_CONFIG_FILES and friends with not enough arguments.
1779 * Fix maintainer-clean's removal of autom4te.cache in VPATH builds.
1780 * Fix AM_PATH_LISPDIR to work with POSIXLY_CORRECT=1.
1781 * Fix the location reported in some diagnostics related to AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
1782 * Remove Latin-1 characters from elisp-comp.
1783 * Update the manual's @dircategory to match the Free Software Directory.
1785 Bugs fixed in 1.7.5:
1786 * Update install-sh's license to remove an advertising clause.
1787 (Debian bug #191717)
1788 * Fix a bug introduced in 1.7.4, related to BUILT_SOURCE handling,
1789 that caused invalid Makefile.ins to be generated.
1790 * Make sure AM_MAKE_INCLUDE doesn't fail when a `doit' file exists.
1791 * New FAQ entry: renamed objects.
1793 Bugs fixed in 1.7.4:
1794 * Tweak the TAGS rule to support Exuberant Ctags (in addition to
1795 the Emacs implementation)
1796 * Fix output of aclocal.m4 dependencies in subdirectories.
1797 * Use `mv -f' instead of `mv' in fastdep rules.
1798 * Upgrade mdate-sh to work on OS/2.
1799 * Don't byte-compile elisp files when ELCFILES is set empty.
1800 (this documented feature was broken by 1.7.3)
1801 * Diagnose trailing backslashes on last line of Makefile.am.
1802 * Diagnose whitespace following trailing backslashes.
1803 * Multiple tests are now correctly supported in DEJATOOL. (PR/388)
1804 * Fix rebuilt rules for AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile:Makefile.in:Makefile.bot])
1806 * `make install' will build `BUILT_SOURCES' first.
1807 * Minor documentation fixes.
1809 Bugs fixed in 1.7.3:
1810 * Fix stamp files numbering (when using multiple AC_CONFIG_HEADERS).
1811 * Query distutils for `pythondir' and `pythonexecdir', instead of
1812 using an hardcoded path. This should allow builds on 64-bit
1813 distributions that usually use lib64/ instead of lib/.
1814 * AM_PATH_PYTHON will also search for python2.3.
1815 * elisp files are now built all at once instead of one by one. Besides
1816 incurring a speed-up, this is required to support interdependent elisp files.
1817 * Support for DJGPP:
1818 - `make distcheck' will now work in `_inst/' and `_build' instead
1819 of `=inst/' and `=build/'
1820 - use `_dirstamp' when the file-system doesn't support `.dirstamp'
1821 - install/uninstall `*.i[0-9][0-9]'-style info files
1822 - more changes that affect only the Automake package (not its output)
1823 * Fix some incompatibilities with upcoming perl-5.10.
1824 * Properly quote AC_PACKAGE_TARNAME and AC_PACKAGE_VERSION when defining
1825 PACKAGE and VERSION.
1827 - dashmstdout and dashXmstdout modes: don't use `-o /dev/null', this
1828 is troublesome with gcc and Solaris compilers. (PR/385)
1829 - makedepend mode: work with Libtool. (PR/385 too)
1831 * better support for unusual gettext setups, such as multiple po/ directories
1833 - Flag missing po/ and intl/ directories as warnings, not errors.
1834 - Disable these warnings if po/ does not exist.
1835 * Noteworthy manual updates:
1837 - Document how AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR interacts with missing files.
1839 - Document `AM_YFLAGS = -d'. (PR/382)
1841 Bugs fixed in 1.7.2:
1842 * Fix installation and uninstallation of Info files built in subdirectories.
1843 * Do not run `./configure --with-included-gettext' during `make distcheck'
1844 if AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external]) is used.
1845 * Correctly uninstall renamed man pages.
1846 * Do not strip escaped newline in variables defined in one condition
1847 and augmented in another condition.
1848 * Fix ansi2knr rules for LIBOBJS sources.
1849 * Clean all known Texinfo index files, not only those which appear to
1850 be used, because we cannot know which indexes are used in included files.
1851 (PR/375, Debian Bug #168671)
1852 * Honor only the first @setfilename seen in a Texinfo file.
1853 * Treat "required file X not found" diagnostics as errors (exit status 1).
1854 * Don't complain that a required file is not found when it is a Makefile
1856 * Don't use single suffix inference rules when building `.info'-less
1857 Info files, for the sake of Solaris make.
1858 * The `check' target now depends on `$(BUILT_SOURCES)'. (PR/359)
1859 * Recognize multiple inference rules such as `.a.b .c.d:'. (PR/371)
1860 * Warn about multiple inference rules when -Wportability is used. (PR/372)
1861 * Fix building of deansified files from subdirectories. (PR/370)
1862 * Add missing `fi' in the .c->.obj rules.
1863 * Improve install-sh to work even when names contain spaces or certain
1864 (but not all) shell metachars.
1865 * Fix the following spurious failures in the test suite:
1866 depcomp2.test, gnits2.test, gnits3.test, python3.test, texinfo13.test
1867 * Noteworthy manual updates:
1868 - Augment the section about BUILT_SOURCES.
1869 - Mention that AM_PROG_CC_STDC is a relic that is better avoided today.
1871 Bugs fixed in 1.7.1:
1872 * Honor `ansi2knr' for files built in subdirectories, or using per-targets
1874 * Aclocal should now recognize macro names containing parentheses, e.g.
1875 AC_DEFUN([AC_LANG_PREPROC(Fortran 90)], [...]).
1876 * Erase *.sum and *.log files created by DejaGnu, during `make distclean'.
1878 * Install Python files even if they were built. (PR/369)
1879 * Have stamp-vti dependent upon configure instead of configure.ac, as the
1880 version might not be defined in the latter. (PR/358)
1881 * Reorder arguments passed to a couple of commands, so things works
1882 when POSIXLY_CORRECT=1.
1883 * Fix a regex that can cause Perl to segfault on large input.
1885 * Fix distribution of packages that have some sources defined conditionally,
1886 as in the `Conditional compilation using Automake conditionals' example
1888 * Fix spurious test suite failures on IRIX.
1889 * Don't report a required variable as undefined if it has been
1890 defined conditionally for the "right" conditions.
1891 * Fix cleaning of the /tmp subdirectory used by `make distcheck', in case
1892 `make distcheck' fails.
1893 * Fix distribution of included Makefile fragment, so we don't create
1894 spurious directories in the distribution. (PR/366)
1895 * Don't complain that a target lacks `.$(EXEEXT)' when it has it.
1898 * Autoconf 2.54 is required.
1899 * `aclocal' and `automake' will no longer warn about obsolete
1900 configure macros. This is done by `autoconf -Wobsolete'.
1901 * AM_CONFIG_HEADER, AM_SYS_POSIX_TERMIOS and
1902 AM_HEADER_TIOCGWINSZ_NEEDS_SYS_IOCTL are obsolete (although still
1903 supported). You should use AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, AC_SYS_POSIX_TERMIOS,
1904 and AC_HEADER_TIOCGWINSZ instead. `autoupdate' can upgrade
1905 `configure.ac' for you.
1906 * Support for per-program and per-library `_CPPFLAGS'.
1907 * New `ctags' target (builds CTAGS files).
1908 * Support for -Wmumble and -Wno-mumble, where mumble is a warning category
1909 (see `automake --help' or the manual for a list of them).
1910 * Honor the WARNINGS environment variable.
1911 * Omit the call to depcomp when using gcc3: call the compiler directly.
1912 * A new option, std-options, tests that programs support --help and --version
1913 when `make installcheck' is run. This is enabled by --gnits.
1914 * Texinfo rules now support the `ps' and `pdf' targets.
1915 * Info files are now created in the build directory, not the source directory.
1916 * info_TEXINFOS supports files in subdirectories (this requires Texinfo 4.1
1918 * `make distcheck' will enforce DESTDIR support by attempting
1920 * `+=' can be used in conditionals, even if the augmented variable
1921 was defined for another condition.
1922 * Makefile fragments (inserted with `include') are always distributed.
1923 * Use Autoconf's --trace interface to inspect configure.ac and get
1924 a more accurate view of it.
1925 * Add support for extending aclocal's default macro search path
1926 using a `dirlist' file within the aclocal directory.
1927 * automake --output-dir is deprecated.
1928 * The part of the distcheck target that checks whether uninstall actually
1929 removes all installed files has been moved in a separate target,
1930 distuninstallcheck, so it can be overridden easily.
1934 * Support for AM_INIT_GETTEXT([external])
1935 * Bug fixes, including:
1936 - Fix Automake's own `make install' so it works even if `ln' doesn't.
1937 - nobase_ programs and scripts honor --program-transform correctly.
1938 - Erase configure.lineno during `make distclean'.
1939 - Erase YACC and LEX outputs during `make maintainer-clean'.
1942 * Many bug fixes, including:
1943 - Requiring the current version works.
1944 - Fix "$@" portability issues (for Zsh).
1945 - Fix output of dummy dependency files in presence of post-processed
1947 - Don't compute dependencies in background to avoid races with libtool.
1948 - Fix handling of _OBJECTS variables for targets sharing source variables.
1949 - Check dependency mode for Java when AM_PROG_GCJ is used.
1952 * automake --output-dir is deprecated
1953 * Many bug fixes, including:
1954 - Don't choke on AM_LDFLAGS definitions.
1955 - Clean libtool objects from subdirectories.
1956 - Allow configure variables with reserved suffix and unknown prefix
1957 (e.g. AC_SUBST(mumble_LDFLAGS) when 'mumble' is not a target).
1958 - Fix the definition of AUTOMAKE and ACLOCAL in configure.
1961 * Autoconf 2.52 is required.
1962 * automake no longer run libtoolize.
1963 This is the job of autoreconf (from GNU Autoconf).
1964 * `dist' generates all the archive flavors, as did `dist-all'.
1965 * `dist-gzip' generates the Gzip tar file only.
1966 * Combining Automake Makefile conditionals no longer lead to a combinatorial
1967 explosion. Makefile.in's keep a reasonable size.
1968 * AM_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE, AM_FUNC_STRTOD, AM_FUNC_OBSTACK, AM_PTRDIFF_T
1969 are no longer shipped, since Autoconf 2.52 provides them (both as AM_
1971 * `#line' of Lex and Yacc files are properly set.
1972 * EXTRA_DIST can contain generated directories.
1973 * Support for dot-less extensions in suffix rules.
1974 * The part of the distcheck target that checks whether distclean actually
1975 cleans all built files has been moved in a separate target, distcleancheck,
1976 so it can be overridden easily.
1977 * `make distcheck' will pass additional options defined in
1978 $(DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS) to configure.
1979 * Fixed CDPATH portability problems, in particular for MacOS X.
1980 * Fixed handling of nobase_ targets.
1981 * Fixed support of implicit rules leading to .lo objects.
1982 * Fixed late inclusion of --add-missing files (e.g. depcomp) in DIST_COMMON
1983 * Added uninstall-hook target
1984 * `AC_INIT AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(tarname,version)' is an obsolete construct.
1985 You can now use `AC_INIT(pkgname,version) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' instead.
1986 (Note that "pkgname" is not "tarname", see the manual for details.)
1987 It is also possible to pass a list of global Automake options as
1988 first argument to this new form of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
1989 * Compiler-based assembler is now called `CCAS'; people expected `AS'
1990 to be a real assembler.
1991 * AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE will set STRIP itself when it needs it. Adding
1992 AC_CHECK_TOOL([STRIP], [strip]) manually is no longer required.
1993 * aclocal and automake are also installed with the version number
1994 appended, and some of the install directory names have changed.
1995 This lets you have multiple versions installed simultaneously.
1996 * Support for parsers and lexers in subdirectories.
1999 * Support for `configure.ac'.
2000 * Support for `else COND', `endif COND' and negated conditions `!COND'.
2001 * `make dist-all' is much faster.
2002 * Allows '@' AC_SUBSTs in macro names.
2003 * Faster AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (requires update of `missing' script)
2004 * User-side dependency tracking. Developers no longer need GNU make
2006 * Uses DIST_SUBDIRS in some situations when SUBDIRS is conditional
2007 * Most files are correctly handled if they appear in subdirs
2008 For instance, a _DATA file can appear in a subdir
2009 * GNU tar is no longer required for `make dist'
2010 * Added support for `dist_' and `nodist_' prefixes
2011 * Added support for `nobase_' prefix
2012 * Compiled Java support
2013 * Support for per-executable and per-library compilation flags
2017 * Added support for the Fortran 77 programming language.
2018 * Re-indexed the Automake Texinfo manual.
2019 * Added `AM_FOOFLAGS' variable for each compiler invocation;
2020 e.g. AM_CFLAGS can be used in Makefile.am to set C compiler flags
2021 * Support for latest autoconf, including support for objext
2022 * Can now put `.' in SUBDIRS to control build order
2023 * `include' command and `+=' support for macro assignment
2024 * Dependency tracking no long susceptible to deleted header file problem
2025 * Maintainer mode now a conditional. @MAINT@ is now an anachronism.
2030 * Better Cygwin32 support
2031 * Support for suffix rules with _SOURCES variables
2032 * New options `readme-alpha' and `check-news'; Gnits mode sets these
2033 * @LEXLIB@ no longer required when lex source seen
2034 Lex support in `missing', and new lex macro. Update your missing script.
2035 * Built-in support for assembly
2036 * aclocal gives error if `AM_' macro not found
2037 * Passed YFLAGS, not YACCFLAGS, to yacc
2038 * AM_PROG_CC_STDC does not have to come before AC_PROG_CPP
2039 * Dependencies computed as a side effect of compilation
2040 * Preliminary support for Java
2041 * DESTDIR support at "make install" time
2042 * Improved ansi2knr support; you must use the latest ansi2knr.c (included)
2046 * Better DejaGnu support
2047 * Added no-installinfo option
2048 * Added Emacs Lisp support
2049 * Added --no-force option
2050 * Included `aclocal' program
2051 * Automake will now generate rules to regenerate aclocal.m4, if appropriate
2052 * Now uses `AM_' macro names everywhere
2053 * ansi2knr option can have directory prefix (eg `../lib/ansi2knr')
2054 ansi2knr now works correctly on K&R sources
2055 * Better C++, yacc, lex support
2056 * Will compute _DEPENDENCIES variables automatically if not supplied
2057 * Will interpolate $(...) and ${...} when examining contents of a variable
2058 * .deps files now in build directory, not source directory; dependency
2059 handling generally rewritten
2060 * DATA, MANS and BUILT_SOURCES no longer included in distribution
2061 * can now put config.h into a subdir
2062 * Added dist-all target
2063 * Support for install-info program (see texinfo 3.9)
2064 * Support for "yacc -d"
2065 * configure substitutions are automatically discovered and included
2066 in generated Makefile.in
2067 * Special --cygnus mode
2068 * OMIT_DEPENDENCIES can now hold list of dependencies to be omitted
2069 when making distribution. Some dependencies are auto-ignored.
2070 * Changed how libraries are specified in _LIBRARIES variable
2071 * Full libtool support, from Gord Matzigkeit
2072 * No longer have to explicitly touch stamp-h when using AC_CONFIG_HEADER;
2073 AM_CONFIG_HEADER handles it automatically
2074 * Texinfo output files no longer need .info extension
2075 * Added `missing' support
2077 * Conditionals in Makefile.am, from Ian Taylor
2081 * distcheck target runs install and installcheck targets
2082 * Added preliminary support for DejaGnu.
2087 * More libtool fixes from Gord Matzigkeit; libtool support is still
2089 * Added support for jm_MAINTAINER_MODE
2091 * New "distcheck" target
2095 * mkinstalldirs and mdate-sh now appear in directory specified by
2097 * Removed DIST_SUBDIRS, DIST_OTHER
2098 * AC_ARG_PROGRAM only required when an actual program exists
2099 * dist-hook target now run before distribution packaged up; idea from
2100 Dieter Baron. Other hooks exist, too.
2101 * Preliminary (unfinished) support for libtool
2102 * Added short option names.
2103 * Better "dist" support when gluing together multiple packages
2107 * Documentation updates (many from François Pinard)
2108 * strictness `normal' now renamed to `foreign'
2109 * Renamed --install-missing to --add-missing
2110 * Now handles AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR
2111 * Now handles TESTS macro
2112 * DIST_OTHER renamed to EXTRA_DIST
2113 * DIST_SUBDIRS is deprecated
2114 * @ALLOCA@ and @LIBOBJS@ now work in _LDADD variables
2115 * Better error messages in many cases
2116 * Program names are canonicalized
2117 * Added "check" prefix; from Gord Matzigkeit
2121 * configure.in scanner knows about AC_PATH_XTRA, AC_OUTPUT ":" syntax
2122 * Beginnings of a test suite
2123 * Automatically adds -I options for $(srcdir), ".", and path to config.h
2124 * Doesn't print anything when running
2125 * Beginnings of MAINT_CHARSET support
2126 * Can specify version in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS
2127 * Most errors recognizable by Emacs' M-x next-error
2128 * Added --verbose option
2129 * All "primary" variables now obsolete; use EXTRA_PRIMARY to supply
2130 configure-generated names
2131 * Required macros now distributed in aclocal.m4
2133 * --strictness=gnu is default
2137 * More sophisticated configure.in scanning; now understands ALLOCA and
2138 LIBOBJS directly, handles AC_CONFIG_HEADER more precisely, etc.
2139 * TEXINFOS and MANS now obsolete; use info_TEXINFOS and man_MANS instead.
2140 * CONFIG_HEADER variable now obsolete
2141 * Can handle multiple Texinfo sources
2142 * Allow hierarchies deeper than 2. From Gord Matzigkeit.
2143 * HEADERS variable no longer needed; now can put .h files directly into
2144 foo_SOURCES variable.
2145 * Automake automatically rebuilds files listed in AC_OUTPUT. The
2146 corresponding ".in" files are included in the distribution.
2149 * Added --gnu and --gnits options
2150 * More standards checking
2152 * Cleaned up 'dist' targets
2153 * Added AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS variable and several options
2154 * Now scans configure.in to get some information (preliminary)
2157 * Works with Perl 4 again
2160 * Added --install-missing option.
2161 * Pretty-prints generated macros and rules
2162 * Comments in Makefile.am are placed more intelligently in Makefile.in
2163 * Generates .PHONY target
2164 * Rule or macro in Makefile.am now overrides contents of Automake file
2165 * Substantial cleanups from François Pinard
2169 * Works with Perl 4 again.
2172 * New uniform naming scheme.
2173 * --strictness option
2175 * '.c' files corresponding to '.y' or '.l' files are automatically
2177 * Many bug fixes and cleanups
2180 * Allow objects to be conditionally included in libraries via lib_LIBADD.
2183 * Bug fixes in 'clean' code.
2184 * Now generates 'installdirs' target.
2185 * man page installation reworked.
2186 * 'make dist' no longer re-creates all Makefile.in's.
2189 * Reimplemented in Perl
2190 * Added --amdir option (for debugging)
2191 * Texinfo support cleaned up.
2192 * Automatic de-ANSI-fication cleaned up.
2193 * Cleaned up 'clean' targets.
2196 * Automatic dependency tracking
2197 * More documentation
2198 * New variables DATA and PACKAGEDATA
2199 * SCRIPTS installed using $(INSTALL_SCRIPT)
2200 * No longer uses double-colon rules
2202 * Changes in advance of internationalization
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