3 * Version requirements:
5 - Autoconf 2.65 or greater is required.
7 - The rules to build PDF and DVI output from Texinfo input now
8 requires Texinfo 4.9 or later.
10 * Obsolete features removed:
12 - Use of the long-deprecated two- and three-arguments invocation forms
13 of the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is not supported anymore.
15 - Support for the "Cygnus-style" trees (once enabled by the 'cygnus'
16 option) has been removed. See discussion about automake bug#11034
19 - The automake-provided '@mkdir_p@' configure substitution and
20 AM_PROG_MKDIR m4 macro have been removed. They had been obsolete
21 since automake 1.10, and actively deprecated since Automake 1.12.1.
22 However, to maintain a degree of backward-compatibility, the make
23 variable '$(mkdir_p)' is still defined (now simple as an alias to
24 '$(MKDIR_P)'). It will probably be removed in future major versions
25 of Automake (probably 1.14).
27 - The deprecated aclocal option '--acdir' has been removed. You
28 should use the options '--automake-acdir' and '--system-acdir'
29 instead (which have been introduced in Automake 1.11.2).
31 - The following long-obsolete m4 macros have been removed:
33 AM_PROG_CC_STDC: superseded by AC_PROG_CC since October 2002
34 fp_PROG_CC_STDC: broken alias for AM_PROG_CC_STDC
35 fp_WITH_DMALLOC: old alias for AM_WITH_DMALLOC
36 AM_CONFIG_HEADER: superseded by AC_CONFIG_HEADERS since July 2002
37 ud_PATH_LISPDIR: old alias for AM_PATH_LISPDIR
38 jm_MAINTAINER_MODE: old alias for AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
39 ud_GNU_GETTEXT: old alias for AM_GNU_GETTEXT
40 gm_PROG_LIBTOOL: old alias for AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
41 fp_C_PROTOTYPES: old alias for AM_C_PROTOTYPES (which was part
42 of the now-removed automatic de-ANSI-fication
45 - All the "old alias" macros in 'm4/obsolete.m4' have been removed.
47 * Changes to Automake-generated testsuite harnesses:
49 - The parallel testsuite harness (previously only enabled by the
50 'parallel-tests' option) is the default one; the older serial
51 testsuite harness will still be available through the use of the
52 'serial-tests' option (introduced in Automake 1.12).
54 * Silent rules support:
56 - Support for silent rules is now always active in Automake-generated
57 Makefiles. So, although the verbose output is still the default,
58 the user can now always use "./configure --enable-silent-rules" or
59 "make V=0" to enable quieter output in the package he's building.
61 - The 'silent-rules' option has now become a no-op, preserved for
62 backward-compatibility only. In particular, its use does not disable
63 the warnings in the 'portability-recursive' category anymore.
67 - The rules to build PDF and DVI files from Texinfo input now use the
68 ' --build-dir' option, to keep the auxiliary files used by texi2dvi
69 and texi2pdf around without cluttering the build directory, and to
70 make it possible to run the "dvi" and "pdf" recipes in parallel.
72 * Automatic remake rules and 'missing' script:
74 - The 'missing' script does not try anymore to update the timestamp
75 of out-of-date files that require a maintainer-specific tool to be
76 remade, in case the user lacks such a tool (or has a too-old version
77 of it). It just give a useful warning, and in some cases also a tip
78 about how to obtain such a tool.
80 - The missing script has thus become useless as a (poor) way to work
81 around the sketched-timestamps issues that can happen for projects
82 that keep generated files committed in their VCS repository. Such
83 projects are now encouraged to write a custom "fix-timestamps.sh"
84 script to avoid such issues; a simple example is provided in the
85 "CVS and generated files" chapter of the automake manual.
89 The user can now define his own recursive targets that recurse
90 in the directories specified in $(SUBDIRS). This can be done by
91 specifying the name of such targets in invocations of the new
92 'AM_EXTRA_RECURSIVE_TARGETS' m4 macro.
94 * Improvements to aclocal and related rebuilds rules:
96 - The Autoconf-provided macro AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR is now traced by
97 aclocal, and can be used to declare the local m4 include directory.
98 Formerly, one had to specify it with an explicit '-I' option to the
101 - The special make variable ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS is deprecated; future
102 Automake versions will warn about its use, and later version will
103 remove support for it altogether.
105 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
109 * WARNING: Future backward-incompatibilities!
111 - Future versions of Automake will likely drop support for the
112 long-deprecated 'configure.in' name for the Autoconf input file.
113 You are advised to use the recommended name 'configure.ac' instead.
115 - Starting from the next major Automake version (1.13), the rules to
116 build pdf, ps and dvi output from Texinfo input will use the '--tidy'
117 option by default. Since such an option was introduced in Texinfo
118 4.9, this means that Makefiles generated by future Automake versions
119 will require at least that version of Texinfo.
121 - Starting from the next major Automake version (1.13), the parallel
122 testsuite harness (previously only enabled by the 'parallel-tests'
123 option) will become the default one; the older serial testsuite
124 harness will still be available through the use of the 'serial-tests'
127 - Support for the two- and three-arguments invocation forms of the
128 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macro is deprecated, and will be removed in the
129 next major Automake version (1.13).
131 - The exact order in which the directories in the aclocal macro
132 search path are looked up is probably going to be changed in the
133 next Automake release (1.13).
135 - The 'missing' script will not try anymore to update the timestamp
136 of out-of-date files that require a maintainer-specific tool to be
137 remade, in case the user lacks such a tool (or has a too-old version
138 of it). In fact, starting from Automake 1.13, all it'll do will be
139 giving more useful warnings than a bare "command not found" from a
144 - The '.m4' files provided by Automake does not define serial numbers
145 anymore. This should cause no difference in the behaviour of aclocal
148 * Automake Testsuite:
150 - Some testsuite weaknesses and spurious failures have been fixed.
152 * Long-standing bugs:
154 - Instead of renaming only self-references of files (typically for
155 #lines), ylwrap now also renames references to the other generated
156 files. This fixes support for GLR and C++ parsers from Bison (PR
157 automake/491 and automake bug#7648): 'parser.c' now properly
158 #includes 'parser.h' instead of 'y.tab.h'.
160 - Generated files unknown to ylwrap are now preserved. This fixes
161 C++ support for Bison (automake bug#7648): location.hh and the
162 like are no longer discarded.
164 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
168 * Warnings and deprecations:
170 - Automake now issues a warning (in the 'portability' category) if
171 'configure.in' is used instead of 'configure.ac' as the Autoconf
172 input file. Such a warning will also be present in the next
173 Autoconf version (2.70).
177 - Recursive cleaning rules descends into the $(SUBDIRS) in the natural
178 order (as done by the other recursive rules), rather than in the
179 inverse order. They used to do that in order to work a round a
180 limitation in an older implementation of the automatic dependency
181 tracking support, but that limitation had been lifted years ago
182 already, when the automatic dependency tracking based on side-effects
183 of compilation had been introduced.
185 - Cleaning rules for compiled objects (both "plain" and libtool) work
186 better when subdir objects are involved, not triggering a distinct
187 'rm' invocation for each such object. They do so by removing *any*
188 compiled object file that is in the same directory of a subdir
189 object. See automake bug#10697.
191 * Silent rules support:
193 - A new predefined $(AM_V_P) make variable is provided; it expands
194 to a shell conditional that can be used in recipes to know whether
195 make is being run in silent or verbose mode.
197 Bugs fixed in 1.12.2:
199 * SECURITY VULNERABILITIES!
201 - The 'distcheck' recipe no longer grants temporary world-write
202 permissions on the extracted distdir. Even if such rights were
203 only granted for a vanishingly small time window, the implied
204 race condition proved to be enough to allow a local attacker
205 to run arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running
206 "make distcheck". This is CVE-2012-3386.
208 * Long-standing bugs:
210 - The "recheck" targets behaves better in the face of build failures
211 related to previously failed tests. For example, if a test is a
212 compiled program that must be rerun by "make recheck", and its
213 compilation fails, it will still be rerun by further "make recheck"
214 invocations. See automake bug#11791.
216 * Bugs introduced by 1.12.1:
218 - Automake provides once again the '$(mkdir_p)' make variable and the
219 '@mkdir_p@' substitution (both as simple aliases for '$(MKDIR_P)'),
220 for better backward-compatibility.
222 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
226 * New supported languages:
228 - Support for Objective C++ has been added; it should work similarly to
229 the support for Objective C.
231 * Deprecated obsolescent features:
233 - Use of the long-deprecated two- and three-arguments invocation forms
234 of the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macro now elicits a warning in the 'obsolete'
235 category. Starting from the next major Automake release (1.13), such
236 usages won't be allowed anymore.
238 - Support for the "Cygnus-style" trees (enabled by the 'cygnus' option) is
239 now deprecated (its use triggers a warning in the 'obsolete' category).
240 It will be removed in the next major Automake release (1.13).
242 - The long-obsolete (since 1.10) automake-provided $(mkdir_p) make
243 variable, @mkdir_p@ configure-time substitution and AM_PROG_MKDIR
244 m4 macro are deprecated, eliciting a warning in the 'obsolete'
247 * Miscellaneous changes:
249 - The Automake test cases now require a proper POSIX-conforming shell.
250 Older non-POSIX Bourne shells (like Solaris 10 /bin/sh) won't be
251 accepted anymore. In most cases, the user shouldn't have to specify
252 such POSIX shell explicitly, since it will be looked up at configure
253 time. Still, when this lookup fails, or when the user wants to
254 override its conclusion, the variable 'AM_TEST_RUNNER_SHELL' can be
255 used (pointing to the shell that will be used to run the Automake
258 Bugs fixed in 1.12.1:
260 * Bugs introduced by 1.12:
262 - Several weaknesses in Automake's own build system and test suite
265 * Bugs introduced by 1.11.3:
267 - When given non-option arguments, aclocal rejects them, instead of
268 silently ignoring them.
270 * Long-standing bugs:
272 - When the 'color-tests' option is in use, forcing of colored testsuite
273 output through "AM_COLOR_TESTS=always" works even if the terminal is
274 a non-ANSI one, i.e., if the TERM environment variable has a value of
277 - Several inefficiencies and poor performances in the implementation
278 of the parallel-tests 'check' and 'recheck' targets have been fixed.
280 - The post-processing of output "#line" directives done the ylwrap
281 script is more faithful w.r.t. files in a subdirectory; for example,
282 if the processed file is "src/grammar.y", ylwrap will correctly
283 produce directives like:
284 #line 7 "src/grammar.y"
289 * Bugs with new Perl versions:
291 - Aclocal works correctly with perl 5.16.0 (automake bug#11543).
293 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
297 * Obsolete features removed:
299 - The never documented nor truly used script 'acinstall' has been
302 - Support for automatic de-ANSI-fication has been removed.
304 - The support for the "obscure" multilib feature has been removed
305 from Automake core (but remains available in the 'contrib/'
306 directory of the Automake distribution).
308 - Support for ".log -> .html" conversion and the check-html and
309 recheck-html targets has been removed from Automake core (but
310 remains available in the 'contrib/' directory of the Automake
313 - The deprecated 'lzma' compression format for distribution archives
314 has been removed, in favor of 'xz' and 'lzip'.
316 - The obsolete AM_WITH_REGEX macro has been removed.
318 - The long-deprecated options '--output-dir', '--Werror' and
319 '--Wno-error' have been removed.
321 - The chapter on the history of Automake has been moved out of the
322 reference manual, into a new dedicated Texinfo file.
326 - New 'cscope' target to build a cscope database for the source tree.
328 * Changes to Automake-generated testsuite harnesses:
330 - The new automake option 'serial-tests' has been introduced. It can
331 be used to explicitly instruct automake to use the older serial
332 testsuite harness. This is still the default at the moment, but it
333 might change in future versions.
335 - The 'recheck' target (provided by the parallel testsuite harness) now
336 depends on the 'all' target. This allows for a better user-experience
337 in test-driven development. See automake bug#11252.
339 - Test scripts that exit with status 99 to signal an "hard error" (e.g.,
340 and unexpected or internal error, or a failure to set up the test case
341 scenario) have their outcome reported as an 'ERROR' now. Previous
342 versions of automake reported such an outcome as a 'FAIL' (the only
343 difference with normal failures being that hard errors were counted
344 as failures even when the test originating them was listed in
347 - The testsuite summary displayed by the parallel-test harness has a
348 completely new format, that always list the numbers of passed, failed,
349 xfailed, xpassed, skipped and errored tests, even when these numbers
350 are zero (but using smart coloring when the color-tests option is in
353 - The default testsuite driver offered by the 'parallel-tests' option is
354 now implemented (partly at least) with the help of automake-provided
355 auxiliary scripts (e.g., 'test-driver'), instead of relying entirely
356 on code in the generated Makefile.in.
357 This has two noteworthy implications. The first one is that projects
358 using the 'parallel-tests' option should now either run automake with
359 the '--add-missing' option, or manually copy the 'test-driver' script
360 into their tree. The second, and more important, implication is that
361 now, when the 'parallel-tests' option is in use, TESTS_ENVIRONMENT can
362 not be used anymore to define a test runner, and the command specified
363 in LOG_COMPILER (and <ext>_LOG_COMPILER) must be a *real* executable
364 program or script. For example, this is still a valid usage (albeit
367 TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = \
368 if test -n '$(STRICT_TESTS)'; then \
369 maybe_errexit='-e'; \
373 LOG_COMPILER = $(SHELL) $$maybe_errexit
375 while this is not anymore:
377 TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = \
378 $(SHELL) `test -n '$(STRICT_TESTS_CHECKING)' && echo ' -e'`
382 TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = \
383 run_with_perl_or_shell () \
385 if grep -q '^#!.*perl' $$1; then
391 LOG_COMPILER = run_with_perl_or_shell
393 - The package authors can now use customary testsuite drivers within
394 the framework provided by the 'parallel-tests' testsuite harness.
395 Consistently with the existing syntax, this can be done by defining
396 special makefile variables 'LOG_DRIVER' and '<ext>_LOG_DRIVER'.
398 - A new developer-reserved variable 'AM_TESTS_FD_REDIRECT' can be used
399 to redirect/define file descriptors used by the test scripts.
401 - The parallel-tests harness generates now, in addition the '.log' files
402 holding the output produced by the test scripts, a new set of '.trs'
403 files, holding "metadata" derived by the execution of the test scripts;
404 among such metadata are the outcomes of the test cases run by a script.
406 - Initial and still experimental support for the TAP test protocol is
409 * Changes to Yacc and Lex support:
411 - C source and header files derived from non-distributed Yacc and/or
412 Lex sources are now removed by a simple "make clean" (while they were
413 previously removed only by "make maintainer-clean").
415 - Slightly backward-incompatible change, relevant only for use of Yacc
416 with C++: the extensions of the header files produced by the Yacc
417 rules are now modelled after the extension of the corresponding
418 sources. For example, yacc files named "foo.y++" and "bar.yy" will
419 produce header files named "foo.h++" and "bar.hh" respectively, where
420 they would have previously produced header files named simply "foo.h"
421 and "bar.h". This change offers better compatibility with 'bison -o'.
423 * Miscellaneous changes:
425 - The AM_PROG_VALAC macro now causes configure to exit with status 77,
426 rather than 1, if the vala compiler found is too old.
428 - The build system of Automake itself now avoids the use of make
429 recursion as much as possible.
431 - Automake now prefers to quote 'like this' or "like this", rather
432 than `like this', in diagnostic message and generated Makefiles,
433 to accommodate the new GNU Coding Standards recommendations.
435 - Automake has a new option '--print-libdir' that prints the path of the
436 directory containing the Automake-provided scripts and data files.
438 - The 'dist' and 'dist-all' targets now can run compressors in parallel.
440 - The rules to create pdf, dvi and ps output from Texinfo files now
441 works better with modern 'texi2dvi' script, by explicitly passing
442 it the '--clean' option to ensure stray auxiliary files are not
443 left to clutter the build directory.
445 - Automake can now generate silenced rules for texinfo outputs.
447 - Some auxiliary files that are automatically distributed by Automake
448 (e.g., 'install-sh', or the 'depcomp' script for packages compiling
449 C sources) might now be listed in the DIST_COMMON variable in many
450 Makefile.in files, rather than in the top-level one.
452 - Messages of types warning or error from 'automake' and 'aclocal'
453 are now prefixed with the respective type, and presence of -Werror
456 - Automake's early configure-time sanity check now tries to avoid
457 sleeping for a second, which slowed down cached configure runs
458 noticeably. In that case, it will check back at the end of the
459 configure script to ensure that at least one second has passed, to
460 avoid time stamp issues with makefile rules rerunning autotools
463 - The warnings in the category 'extra-portability' are now enabled by
464 '-Wall'. In previous versions, one has to use '-Wextra-portability'
469 - Various minor bugfixes for recent or long-standing bugs.
471 * Bugs introduced by 1.11:
473 - The AM_COND_IF macro also works if the shell expression for the
474 conditional is no longer valid for the condition.
476 - The automake-provided parallel testsuite harness does not fail anymore
477 with BSD make used in parallel mode when there are test scripts in a
478 subdirectory, like in:
480 TESTS = sub/foo.test sub/bar.test
482 * Long-standing bugs:
484 - Automake's own build system finally have a real "installcheck" target.
486 - Vala-related cleanup rules are now more complete, and work better in
489 - Files listed with the AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE macro in configure.ac are
490 now automatically distributed also if the directory of the auxiliary
491 files coincides with the top-level directory.
493 - Automake now detects the presence of the '-d' flag in the various
494 '*YFLAGS' variables even when their definitions involve indirections
495 through other variables, such as in:
497 AM_YFLAGS = $(foo_opts)
499 - Automake now complains if a '*YFLAGS' variable has any conditional
500 content, not only a conditional definition.
502 - Explicit enabling and/or disabling of Automake warning categories
503 through the '-W...' options now always takes precedence over the
504 implicit warning level implied by Automake strictness (foreign, gnu
505 or gnits), regardless of the order in which such strictness and
506 warning flags appear. For example, a setting like:
507 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = -Wall --foreign
508 will cause the warnings in category 'portability' to be enabled, even
509 if those warnings are by default disabled in 'foreign' strictness.
511 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
513 Bugs fixed in 1.11.5:
515 * Bugs introduced by 1.11.3:
517 - Vala files with '.vapi' extension are now recognized and handled
518 correctly again. See automake bug#11222.
520 - Vala support work again for projects that contain some program
521 built from '.vala' (and possibly '.c') sources and some other
522 program built from '.c' sources *only*. See automake bug#11229.
524 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
528 * Miscellaneous changes:
530 - The 'ar-lib' script now ignores the "s" (symbol index) and "S" (no
531 symbol index) modifiers as well as the "s" action, as the symbol index
532 is created unconditionally by Microsoft lib. Also, the "q" (quick)
533 action is now a synonym for "r" (replace). Also, the script has been
534 ignoring the "v" (verbose) modifier already since Automake 1.11.3.
536 - When the 'compile' script is used to wrap MSVC, it now accepts an
537 optional space between the -I, -L and -l options and their respective
538 arguments, for better POSIX compliance.
540 - There is an initial, experimental support for automatic dependency
541 tracking with tcc (the Tiny C Compiler). Its associated depmode is
542 currently recognized as "icc" (but this and other details are likely
543 to change in future versions).
545 - Automatic dependency tracking now works also with the IBM XL C/C++
546 compilers, thanks to the new new depmode 'xlc'.
548 Bugs fixed in 1.11.4:
550 * Bugs introduced by 1.11.2:
552 - A definition of 'noinst_PYTHON' before 'python_PYTHON' (or similar)
553 don't cause spurious failures upon "make install" anymore.
555 - The user can now instruct the 'uninstall-info' rule not to update
556 the '${infodir}/dir' file by exporting the environment variable
557 'AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR' to the value "no". This is done for consistency
558 with how the 'install-info' rule operates since automake 1.11.2.
560 * Long-standing bugs:
562 - It is now possible for a foo_SOURCES variable to hold Vala sources
563 together with C header files, as well as with sources and headers for
564 other supported languages (e.g., C++). Previously, only mixing C and
565 Vala sources was supported.
567 - If "aclocal --install" is used, and the first directory specified with
568 '-I' is non-existent, aclocal will now create it before trying to copy
571 - An empty declaration of a "foo_PRIMARY" don't cause anymore the
572 generated install rules to create an empty $(foodir) directory;
573 for example, if Makefile.am contains something like:
577 pkglibexec_SCRIPTS += bar.sh
580 the $(pkglibexec) directory will not be created upon "make install".
582 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
586 * Miscellaneous changes:
588 - Automake's own build system is more silent by default, making use of
589 the 'silent-rules' option.
591 - The master copy of the `gnupload' script is now maintained in gnulib,
594 - The `missing' script doesn't try to wrap calls to `tar' anymore.
596 - "make dist" doesn't wrap `tar' invocations with the `missing' script
597 anymore. Similarly, the obsolescent variable `$(AMTAR)' (which you
598 shouldn't be using BTW ;-) does not invoke the missing script anymore
599 to wrap tar, but simply invokes the `tar' program itself.
601 - "make dist" can now create lzip-compressed tarballs.
603 - In the Automake info documentation, the Top node and the nodes about
604 the invocation of the automake and aclocal programs have been renamed;
605 now, calling "info automake" will open the Top node, while calling
606 "info automake-invocation" and "info aclocal-invocation" will access
607 the nodes about the invocation of respectively automake and aclocal.
609 - Automake is now distributed as a gzip-compressed and an xz-compressed
610 tarball. Previously, bzip2 was used instead of xz.
612 - The last relics of Python 1.5 support have been removed from the
613 AM_PATH_PYTHON macro.
615 - For programs and libraries, automake now detects EXTRA_foo_DEPENDENCIES
616 and adds them to the normal list of dependencies, but without
617 overwriting the foo_DEPENDENCIES variable, which is normally computed
620 Bugs fixed in 1.11.3:
622 * Bugs introduced by 1.11.2:
624 - Automake now correctly recognizes the prefix/primary combination
625 `pkglibexec_SCRIPTS' as valid.
627 - The parallel-tests harness doesn't trip anymore on sed implementations
628 with stricter limits on the length of input lines (problem seen at
631 * Long-standing bugs:
633 - The "deleted header file problem" for *.am files is avoided by stub
634 rules. This allows `make' to trigger a rerun of `automake' also if
635 some previously needed `.am' file has been removed.
637 - The `silent-rules' option now generates working makefiles even
638 for the uncommon `make' implementations that do not support the
639 nested-variables extension to POSIX 2008. For such `make'
640 implementations, whether a build is silent is determined at
641 configure time, and cannot be overridden at make time with
642 `make V=0' or `make V=1'.
644 - Vala support now works better in VPATH setups.
646 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
650 * Changes to aclocal:
652 - The `--acdir' option is deprecated. Now you should use the new options
653 `--automake-acdir' and `--system-acdir' instead.
655 - The `ACLOCAL_PATH' environment variable is now interpreted as a
656 colon-separated list of additional directories to search after the
657 automake internal acdir (by default ${prefix}/share/aclocal-APIVERSION)
658 and before the system acdir (by default ${prefix}/share/aclocal).
660 * Miscellaneous changes:
662 - The Automake support for automatic de-ANSI-fication has been
663 deprecated. It will probably be removed in the next major Automake
666 - The `lzma' compression scheme and associated automake option `dist-lzma'
667 is obsoleted by `xz' and `dist-xz' due to upstream changes.
669 - You may adjust the compression options used in dist-xz and dist-bzip2.
670 The default is now merely -e for xz, but still -9 for bzip; you may
671 specify a different level via the XZ_OPT and BZIP2 envvars respectively.
672 E.g., "make dist-xz XZ_OPT=-7" or "make dist-bzip2 BZIP2=-5"
674 - The `compile' script now converts some options for MSVC for a better
675 user experience. Similarly, the new `ar-lib' script wraps Microsoft lib.
677 - The py-compile script now accepts empty arguments passed to the options
678 `--destdir' and `--basedir', and complains about unrecognized options.
679 Moreover, a non-option argument or a special `--' argument terminates
682 - A developer that needs to pass specific flags to configure at "make
683 distcheck" time can now, and indeed is advised to, do so by defining
684 the developer-reserved makefile variable AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS,
685 instead of the old DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS.
686 The DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS variable should now be reserved for the
687 user; still, the old Makefile.am files that used to define it will
688 still continue to work as before.
690 - New macro AM_PROG_AR that looks for an archiver and wraps it in the new
691 'ar-lib' auxiliary script if the selected archiver is Microsoft lib.
692 This new macro is required for LIBRARIES and LTLIBRARIES when automake
693 is run with -Wextra-portability and -Werror.
695 - When using DejaGnu-based testsuites, the user can extend the `site.exp'
696 file generated by automake-provided rules by defining the special make
697 variable `$(EXTRA_DEJAGNU_SITE_CONFIG)'.
699 - The `install-info' rule can now be instructed not to create/update
700 the `${infodir}/dir' file, by exporting the new environment variable
701 `AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR' to the value "no".
703 Bugs fixed in 1.11.2:
705 * Bugs introduced by 1.11:
707 - The parallel-tests driver no longer produces erroneous results with
708 Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh upon unreadable log files.
710 - The `parallel-tests' test driver does not report spurious successes
711 when used with concurrent FreeBSD make (e.g., "make check -j3").
713 - When the parallel-tests driver is in use, automake now explicitly
714 rejects invalid entries and conditional contents in TEST_EXTENSIONS,
715 instead of issuing confusing and apparently unrelated error messages
716 (e.g., "non-POSIX variable name", "bad characters in variable name",
717 or "redefinition of TEST_EXTENSIONS), or even, in some situations,
718 silently producing broken `Makefile.in' files.
720 - The `silent-rules' option now truly silences all compile rules, even
721 when dependency tracking is disabled. Also, when `silent-rules' is
722 not used, `make' output no longer contains spurious backslash-only
723 lines, thus once again matching what Automake did before 1.11.
725 - The AM_COND_IF macro also works if the shell expression for the
726 conditional is no longer valid for the condition.
728 * Long-standing bugs:
730 - The order of Yacc and Lex flags is fixed to be consistent with other
731 languages: $(AM_YFLAGS) comes before $(YFLAGS), and $(AM_LFLAGS) before
732 $(LFLAGS), so that the user variables override the developer variables.
734 - "make distcheck" now correctly complains also when "make uninstall"
735 leaves one and only one file installed in $(prefix).
737 - A "make uninstall" issued before a "make install", or after a mere
738 "make install-data" or a mere "make install-exec" does not spuriously
741 - Automake now warns about more primary/directory invalid combinations,
742 such as "doc_LIBRARIES" or "pkglib_PROGRAMS".
744 - Rules generated by Automake now try harder to not change any files when
745 `make -n' is invoked. Fixes include compilation of Emacs Lisp, Vala, or
746 Yacc source files and the rule to update config.h.
748 - Several scripts and the parallel-tests testsuite driver now exit with
749 the right exit status upon receiving a signal.
751 - A per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror does not erroneously carry over
752 to the handling of other Makefile.am files.
754 - The code for automatic dependency tracking works around a Solaris
755 make bug triggered by sources containing repeated slashes when the
756 `subdir-objects' option was used.
758 - The makedepend and hp depmodes now work better with VPATH builds.
760 - Java sources specified with check_JAVA are no longer compiled for
761 "make all", but only for "make check".
763 - An usage like "java_JAVA = foo.java" will now cause Automake to warn
764 and error out if `javadir' is undefined, instead of silently producing
765 a broken Makefile.in.
767 - aclocal and automake now honour the configure-time definitions of
768 AUTOCONF and AUTOM4TE when they spawn autoconf or autom4te processes.
770 - The `install-info' recipe no longer tries to guess whether the
771 `install-info' program is from Debian or from GNU, and adaptively
772 change its behaviour; this has proven to be frail and easy to
775 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
777 Bugs fixed in 1.11.1:
779 - Lots of minor bugfixes.
781 * Bugs introduced by 1.11:
783 - The `parallel-tests' test driver works around a GNU make 3.80 bug with
784 trailing white space in the test list (`TESTS = foo $(EMPTY)').
786 * Long standing bugs:
788 - On Darwin 9, `pythondir' and `pyexecdir' pointed below `/Library/Python'
789 even if the `--prefix' argument pointed outside of a system directory.
790 AM_PATH_PYTHON has been fixed to ignore the value returned from python's
791 `get_python_lib' function if it points outside the configured prefix,
792 unless the `--prefix' argument was either `/usr' or below `/System'.
794 - The testsuite does not try to change the mode of `ltmain.sh' files from
795 a Libtool installation (symlinked to test directories) any more.
797 - AM_PROG_GCJ uses AC_CHECK_TOOLS to look for `gcj' now, so that prefixed
798 tools are preferred in a cross-compile setup.
800 - The distribution is tarred up with mode 755 now by the `dist*' targets.
801 This fixes a race condition where untrusted users could modify files
802 in the $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION) distdir before packing if the toplevel
803 build directory was world-searchable. This is CVE-2009-4029.
805 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
809 * Version requirements:
811 - Autoconf 2.62 or greater is required.
813 * Changes to aclocal:
815 - The autoconf version check implemented by aclocal in aclocal.m4
816 (and new in Automake 1.10) is degraded to a warning. This helps
817 in the common case where the Autoconf versions used are compatible.
819 * Changes to automake:
821 - The automake program can run multiple threads for creating most
822 Makefile.in files concurrently, if at least Perl 5.7.2 is available
823 with interpreter-based threads enabled. Set the environment variable
824 AUTOMAKE_JOBS to the maximum number of threads to use, in order to
825 enable this experimental feature.
827 * Changes to Libtool support:
829 - Libtool generic flags are now passed to the install and uninstall
832 - distcheck works with Libtool 2.x even when LT_OUTPUT is used, as
833 config.lt is removed correctly now.
837 - subdir-object mode works now with Fortran (F77, FC, preprocessed
838 Fortran, and Ratfor).
840 - For files with extension .f90, .f95, .f03, or .f08, the flag
841 $(FCFLAGS_f[09]x) computed by AC_FC_SRCEXT is now used in compile rules.
843 - Files with extension .sx are also treated as preprocessed assembler.
845 - The default source file extension (.c) can be overridden with
846 AM_DEFAULT_SOURCE_EXT now.
848 - Python 3.0 is supported now, Python releases prior to 2.0 are no
851 - AM_PATH_PYTHON honors python's idea about the site directory.
853 - There is initial support for the Vala programming language, when using
856 * Miscellaneous changes:
858 - Automake development is done in a git repository on Savannah now, see
860 http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=automake.git
862 A read-only CVS mirror is provided at
864 cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@pserver.git.sv.gnu.org:/automake.git \
865 checkout -d automake HEAD
867 - "make dist" can now create xz-compressed tarballs,
868 as well as (deprecated?) lzma-compressed tarballs.
870 - `automake --add-missing' will by default install the GPLv3 file as
871 COPYING if it is missing. It will also warn that the license file
872 should be added to source control. Note that Automake will never
873 overwrite an existing COPYING file, even when the `--force-missing'
876 - The manual is now distributed under the terms of the GNU FDL 1.3.
878 - Automake ships and installs man pages for automake and aclocal now.
880 - New shorthand `$(pkglibexecdir)' for `$(libexecdir)/@PACKAGE@'.
882 - install-sh supports -C, which does not update the installed file
883 (and its time stamps) if the contents did not change.
885 - The `gnupload' script has been revamped.
887 - The `depcomp' and `compile' scripts now work with MSVC under MSYS.
889 - The targets `install' and `uninstall' are more efficient now, in that
890 for example multiple files from one Automake variable such as
891 `bin_SCRIPTS' are copied in one `install' (or `libtool --mode=install')
892 invocation if they do not have to be renamed.
894 Both install and uninstall may sometimes enter (`cd' into) the target
895 installation directory now, when no build-local scripts are used.
897 Both install and uninstall do not fail anymore but do nothing if an
898 installation directory variable like `bindir' is set to the empty string.
900 For built-in rules, `make install' now fails reliably if installation
901 of a file failed. Conversely, `make uninstall' even succeeds when
902 issued multiple times.
904 These changes may need some adjustments from users: For example,
905 some `install' programs refuse to install multiple copies of the
906 same file in one invocation, so you may need to remove duplicate
907 entries from file lists.
909 Also, within one set of files, say, nobase_data_DATA, the order of
910 installation may be changed, or even unstable among different hosts,
911 due to the use of associative arrays in awk. The increased use of
912 awk matches a similar move in Autoconf to provide for better scaling.
914 Further, most undocumented per-rule install command variables such as
915 binSCRIPT_INSTALL have been removed because they are not needed any
916 more. Packages which use them should be using the appropriate one of
917 INSTALL_{DATA,PROGRAM,SCRIPT} or their install_sh_{DATA,PROGRAM,SCRIPT}
918 counterpart, depending on the type of files and the need for automatic
919 target directory creation.
921 - The "deleted header file problem" for *.m4 files is avoided by
922 stub rules. This allows `make' to trigger a rerun of `aclocal'
923 also if some previously needed macro file has been removed.
925 - Rebuild rules now also work for a removed `subdir/Makefile.in' in
926 an otherwise up to date tree.
928 - The `color-tests' option causes colored test result output on terminals.
930 - The `parallel-tests' option enables a new test driver that allows for
931 parallel test execution, inter-test dependencies, lazy test execution
932 for unit-testing, re-testing only failed tests, and formatted result output
933 as RST (reStructuredText) and HTML. Enabling this option may require some
934 changes to your test suite setup; see the manual for details.
936 - The `silent-rules' option enables Linux kernel-style silent build output.
937 This option requires the widely supported but non-POSIX `make' feature
938 of recursive variable expansion, so do not use it if your package needs
939 to build with `make' implementations that do not support it.
941 To enable less verbose build output, the developer has to use the Automake
942 option `silent-rules' in `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE', or call the `AM_SILENT_RULES'
943 macro. The user may then set the default verbosity by passing the
944 `--enable-silent-rules' option to `configure'. At `make' run time, this
945 default may be overridden using `make V=0' for less verbose, and `make V=1'
946 for backward-compatible verbose output.
948 - New prefix `notrans_' for manpages which should not be transformed
949 by --program-transform.
951 - New macro AM_COND_IF for conditional evaluation and conditional
954 - For AC_CONFIG_LINKS, if source and destination are equal, do not
955 remove the file in a non-VPATH build. Such setups work with Autoconf
958 - AM_MAINTAINER_MODE now allows for an optional argument specifying
961 - AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE may prevent substitution of AC_SUBSTed variables,
962 useful especially for multi-line values.
964 - Automake's early configure-time sanity check now diagnoses an
965 unsafe absolute source directory name and makes configure fail.
967 - The Automake macros and rules cope better with whitespace in the
968 current directory name, as long as the relative path to `configure'
969 does not contain whitespace. To this end, the values of `$(MISSING)'
970 and `$(install_sh)' may contain suitable quoting, and their expansion
971 might need `eval'uation if used outside of a makefile. These
972 undocumented variables may be used in several documented macros such
973 as $(AUTOCONF) or $(MAKEINFO).
977 * Long-standing bugs:
979 - Fix aix dependency tracking for libtool objects.
981 - Work around AIX sh quoting issue in AC_PROG_CC_C_O, leading to
982 unnecessary use of the `compile' script.
984 - For nobase_*_LTLIBRARIES with nonempty directory components, the
985 correct `-rpath' argument is used now.
987 - `config.status --file=Makefile depfiles' now also works with the
988 extra quoting used internally by Autoconf 2.62 and newer
989 (it used to work only without the `--file=' bit).
991 - The `missing' script works better with versioned tool names.
993 - Semantics for `missing help2man' have been revamped:
995 Previously, if `help2man' was not present, `missing help2man' would have
996 the following semantics: if some man page was out of date but present, then
997 a warning would be printed, but the exit status was 0. If the man page was
998 not present at all, then `missing' would create a replacement man page
999 containing an error message, and exit with a status of 2. This does not play
1000 well with `make': the next run will see this particular man page as being up
1001 to date, and will only error out on the next generated man page, if any;
1002 repeat until all pages are done. This was not desirable.
1004 These are the new semantics: if some man page is not present, and help2man
1005 is not either, then `missing' will warn and generate the replacement page
1006 containing the error message, but exit successfully. However, `make dist'
1007 will ensure that no such bogus man pages are packaged into a tarball.
1009 - Targets provided by automake behave better with `make -n', in that they
1010 take care not to create files.
1012 - `config.status Makefile... depfiles' works fine again in the presence of
1013 disabled dependency tracking.
1015 - The default no-op recursive rules for these targets also work with BSD make
1016 now: html, install-html, install-dvi, install-pdf, install-pdf, install-info.
1018 - `make distcheck' works also when both a directory and some file below it
1019 have been added to a distribution variable, such as EXTRA_DIST or *_SOURCES.
1021 - Texinfo dvi, ps, pdf, and html output files are not removed upon
1022 `make mostlyclean' any more; only the LaTeX by-products are.
1024 - Renamed objects also work with the `subdir-objects' option and
1025 source file languages which Automake does not know itself.
1027 - `automake' now correctly complains about variable assignments which are
1028 preceded by a comment, extend over multiple lines with backslash-escaped
1029 newlines, and end in a comment sign. Previous versions would silently
1030 and wrongly ignore such assignments completely.
1032 * Bugs introduced by 1.10:
1034 - Fix output of dummy dependency files in presence of post-processed
1035 Makefile.in's again, but also cope with long lines.
1037 - $(EXEEXT) is automatically appended to filenames of XFAIL_TESTS
1038 that have been declared as programs in the same Makefile.
1039 This is for consistency with the analogous change to TESTS in 1.10.
1041 - Fix order of standard includes to again be `-I. -I$(srcdir)',
1042 followed by directories containing config headers.
1044 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1048 * Version requirements:
1050 - Autoconf 2.60 or greater is required.
1052 - Perl 5.6 or greater is required.
1054 * Changes to aclocal:
1056 - aclocal now also supports -Wmumble and -Wno-mumble options.
1058 - `dirlist' entries (for the aclocal search path) may use shell
1059 wildcards such as `*', `?', or `[...]'.
1061 - aclocal supports an --install option that will cause system-wide
1062 third-party macros to be installed in the local directory
1063 specified with the first -I flag. This option also uses #serial
1064 lines in M4 files to upgrade local macros.
1066 The new aclocal options --dry-run and --diff help to review changes
1067 before they are installed.
1069 - aclocal now outputs an autoconf version check in aclocal.m4 in
1070 projects using automake.
1072 For a few years, automake and aclocal have been calling autoconf
1073 (or its underlying engine autom4te) to accurately retrieve the
1074 data they need from configure.ac and its siblings. Doing so can
1075 only work if all autotools use the same version of autoconf. For
1076 instance a Makefile.in generated by automake for one version of
1077 autoconf may stop working if configure is regenerated with another
1078 version of autoconf, and vice versa.
1080 This new version check ensures that the whole build system has
1081 been generated using the same autoconf version.
1083 * Support for new Autoconf macros:
1085 - The new AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE Autoconf macro is supported.
1087 - If `subdir-objects' is set, and AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR is specified,
1088 $(LIBOBJS), $(LTLIBOBJS), $(ALLOCA), and $(LTALLOCA) can be used
1089 in different directories. However, only one instance of such a
1090 library objects directory is supported.
1092 * Change to Libtool support:
1094 - Libtool generic flags (those that go before the --mode=MODE option)
1095 can be specified using AM_LIBTOOLFLAGS and target_LIBTOOLFLAGS.
1097 * Yacc and Lex changes:
1099 - The rebuild rules for distributed Yacc and Lex output will avoid
1100 overwriting existing files if AM_MAINTAINER_MODE and maintainer-mode
1103 - ylwrap is now always used for lex and yacc source files,
1104 regardless of whether there is more than one source per directory.
1106 * Languages changes:
1108 - Preprocessed assembler (*.S) compilation now honors CPPFLAGS,
1109 AM_CPPFLAGS and per-target _CPPFLAGS, and supports dependency
1110 tracking, unlike non-preprocessed assembler (*.s).
1112 - subdir-object mode works now with Assembler. Automake assumes
1113 that the compiler understands `-c -o'.
1115 - Preprocessed assembler (*.S) compilation now also honors
1116 $(DEFS) $(DEFAULT_INCLUDES) $(INCLUDES).
1118 - Improved support for Objective C:
1119 - Autoconf's new AC_PROG_OBJC will enable automatic dependency tracking.
1120 - A new section of the manual documents the support.
1122 - New support for Unified Parallel C:
1123 - AM_PROG_UPC looks for a UPC compiler.
1124 - A new section of the manual documents the support.
1126 - Per-target flags are now correctly handled in link rules.
1128 For instance maude_CFLAGS correctly overrides AM_CFLAGS; likewise
1129 for maude_LDFLAGS and AM_LDFLAGS. Previous versions bogusly
1130 preferred AM_CFLAGS over maude_CFLAGS while linking, and they
1131 used both AM_LDFLAGS and maude_LDFLAGS on the same link command.
1133 The fix for compiler flags (i.e., using maude_CFLAGS instead of
1134 AM_CFLAGS) should not hurt any package since that is how _CFLAGS
1135 is expected to work (and actually works during compilation).
1137 However using maude_LDFLAGS "instead of" AM_LDFLAGS rather than
1138 "in addition to" breaks backward compatibility with older versions.
1139 If your package used both variables, as in
1141 AM_LDFLAGS = common flags
1142 bin_PROGRAMS = a b c
1143 a_LDFLAGS = more flags
1146 and assumed *_LDFLAGS would sum up, you should rewrite it as
1148 AM_LDFLAGS = common flags
1149 bin_PROGRAMS = a b c
1150 a_LDFLAGS = $(AM_LDFLAGS) more flags
1153 This new behavior of *_LDFLAGS is more coherent with other
1154 per-target variables, and the way *_LDFLAGS variables were
1155 considered internally.
1157 * New installation targets:
1159 - New targets mandated by GNU Coding Standards:
1164 By default they will only install Texinfo manuals.
1165 You can customize them with *-local variants:
1171 - The undocumented recursive target `uninstall-info' no longer exists.
1172 (`uninstall' is in charge of removing all possible documentation
1173 flavors, including optional formats such as dvi, ps, or info even
1174 when `no-installinfo' is used.)
1176 * Miscellaneous changes:
1178 - Automake no longer complains if input files for AC_CONFIG_FILES
1179 are specified using shell variables.
1181 - clean, distribution, or rebuild rules are normally disabled for
1182 inputs and outputs of AC_CONFIG_FILES, AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, and
1183 AC_CONFIG_LINK specified using shell variables. However, if these
1184 variables are used as ${VAR}, and AC_SUBSTed, then Automake will
1185 be able to output rules anyway.
1186 (See the Automake documentation for AC_CONFIG_FILES.)
1188 - $(EXEEXT) is automatically appended to filenames of TESTS
1189 that have been declared as programs in the same Makefile.
1190 This is mostly useful when some check_PROGRAMS are listed in TESTS.
1192 - `-Wportability' has finally been turned on by default for `gnu' and
1193 `gnits' strictness. This means, automake will complain about %-rules
1194 or $(GNU Make functions) unless you switch to `foreign' strictness or
1195 use `-Wno-portability'.
1197 - Automake now uses AC_PROG_MKDIR_P (new in Autoconf 2.60), and uses
1198 $(MKDIR_P) instead of $(mkdir_p) to create directories. The
1199 $(mkdir_p) variable is still defined (to the same value as
1200 $(MKDIR_P)) but should be considered obsolete. If you are using
1201 $(mkdir_p) in some of your rules, please plan to update them to
1202 $(MKDIR_P) at some point.
1204 - AM_C_PROTOTYPES and ansi2knr are now documented as being obsolete.
1205 They still work in this release, but may be withdrawn in a future one.
1207 - Inline compilation rules for gcc3-style dependency tracking are
1210 - Automake installs a "Hello World!" example package in $(docdir).
1211 This example is used throughout the new "Autotools Introduction"
1212 chapter of the manual.
1214 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1218 * Makefile.in bloat reduction:
1220 - Inference rules are used to compile sources in subdirectories when
1221 the `subdir-objects' option is used and no per-target flags are
1222 used. This should reduce the size of some projects a lot, because
1223 Automake used to output an explicit rule for each such object in
1226 - Automake no longer outputs three rules (.o, .obj, .lo) for each
1227 object that must be built with explicit rules. It just outputs
1228 the rules required to build the kind of object considered: either
1229 the two .o and .obj rules for usual objects, or the .lo rule for
1232 * Change to Libtool support:
1234 - Libtool tags are used with libtool versions that support them.
1235 (I.e., with Libtool 1.5 or greater.)
1237 - Automake is now able to handle setups where a libtool library is
1238 conditionally installed in different directories, as in
1241 lib_LTLIBRARIES = liba.la
1243 pkglib_LTLIBRARIES = liba.la
1245 liba_la_SOURCES = ...
1247 * Changes to aclocal:
1249 - aclocal now ensures that AC_DEFUNs and AU_DEFUNs it discovers are
1250 really evaluated, before it decides to include them in aclocal.m4.
1251 This solves nasty problems with conditional redefinitions of
1252 Autoconf macros in /usr/share/aclocal/*.m4 files causing extraneous
1253 *.m4 files to be included in any project using these macros.
1254 (Calls to AC_PROG_EGREP causing libtool.m4 to be included is the
1255 most famous instance of this bug.)
1257 - Do not complain about missing conditionally AC_REQUIREd macros
1258 that are not actually used. In 1.8.x aclocal would correctly
1259 determine which of these macros were really needed (and include
1260 only these in the package); unfortunately it would also require
1261 all of them to be present in order to run. This created
1262 situations were aclocal would not work on a tarball distributing
1263 all the macros it uses. For instance running aclocal on a project
1264 containing only the subset of the Gettext macros in use by the
1265 project did not work, because gettext conditionally requires other
1268 * Portability improvements:
1270 - Tar format can be chosen with the new options tar-v7, tar-ustar, and
1271 tar-pax. The new option filename-length-max=99 helps diagnosing
1272 filenames that are too long for tar-v7. (PR/414)
1274 - Variables aumented with `+=' are now automatically flattened (i.e.,
1275 trailing backslashes removed) and then wrapped around 80 colummns
1276 (adding trailing backslashes). In previous versions, a long series
1282 would result in a single-line definition of VAR that could possibly
1283 exceed the maximum line length of some make implementations.
1285 Non-augmented variables are still output as they are defined in
1290 - Support Fortran 90/95 with the new "fc" and "ppfc" languages.
1291 Works the same as the old Fortran 77 implementation; just replace
1292 F77 with FC everywhere (exception: FFLAGS becomes FCFLAGS).
1293 Requires a version of autoconf which provides AC_PROG_FC (>=2.59).
1295 - Support for conditional _LISP.
1297 - Support for conditional -hook and -local rules (PR/428).
1299 - Diagnose AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR calls following AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE. (PR/49)
1301 - Automake will not write any Makefile.ins after the first error it
1302 encounters. The previous Makefile.ins (if any) will be left in
1303 place. (Warnings will not prevent output, but remember they can
1304 be turned into errors with -Werror.)
1306 - The restriction that SUBDIRS must contain direct children is gone.
1309 - The manual tells more about SUBDIRS vs. DIST_SUBDIRS.
1310 It also gives an example of nested packages using AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS.
1312 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1314 Bugs fixed in 1.8.5:
1316 * Long-standing bugs:
1318 - Define DIST_SUBDIRS even when the `no-dist' or `cygnus' options are used
1319 so that `make distclean' and `make maintainer-clean' can work.
1321 - Define AR and ARFLAGS even when only EXTRA_LIBRARIES are defined.
1323 - Fix many rules to please FreeBSD make, which runs commands with `sh -e'.
1325 - Polish diagnostic when no input file is found.
1327 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1329 Bugs fixed in 1.8.4:
1331 * Long-standing bugs:
1333 - Fix AM_PATH_PYTHON to correctly display $PYTHON when it has been
1334 overridden by the user.
1336 - Honor PATH_SEPARATOR in various places of the Automake package, for
1339 - Adjust dependency tracking mode detection to ICC 8.0's new output.
1342 - Fix install-sh so it can install the `mv' binary... using `mv'.
1344 - Fix tru64 dependency tracking for libtool objects.
1346 - Work around Exuberant Ctags when creating a TAGS files in a directory
1347 without files to scan but with subdirectories to include.
1349 * Bugs introduced by 1.8:
1351 - Fix an "internal error" when @LIBOBJS@ is used in a variable that is
1352 not defined in the same conditions as the _LDADD that uses it.
1354 - Do not warn when JAVAROOT is overridden, this is legitimate.
1356 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1358 Bugs fixed in 1.8.3:
1360 * Long-standing bugs:
1362 - Quote filenames in installation rules, in case $DESTDIR, $prefix,
1363 or any of the other *dir variables contain a space.
1365 Please note that Automake does not and cannot support spaces in
1366 filenames that are involved during the build. This change affects
1367 only installation paths, so that `make install' does not bomb out
1368 in packages configured with
1369 ./configure --prefix '/c/Program Files'
1371 - Fix the depfiles output so it works with GNU sed (<4.1) even when
1372 POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.
1374 - Do not AC_SUBST(LIBOBJS) in AM_WITH_REGEX. This macro was unusable
1375 since Autoconf 2.54, which defines LIBOBJS itself.
1377 - Fix a potential (but unlikely) race condition in parallel elisp
1378 builds. (Introduced in 1.7.3.)
1380 - Do not assume that users override _DEPENDENCIES in all conditions
1381 where Automake will try to define them.
1383 - Do not use `mkdir -p' in mkinstalldirs, unless this is GNU mkdir.
1384 Solaris 8's `mkdir -p' is not thread-safe and can break parallel
1387 This fix also affects the $(mkdir_p) variable defined since
1388 Automake 1.8. It will be set to `mkdir -p' only if mkdir is GNU
1389 mkdir, and to `mkinstalldirs' or `install-sh -d' otherwise.
1391 - Secure temporary directory creation in `make distcheck'. (PR/413)
1393 - Do not generate two build rules for `parser.h' when the
1394 parser appears in two different conditionals.
1396 - Work around a Solaris 8 /bin/sh bug in the test for dependency
1397 checking. Usually ./configure will not pick this shell; so this
1398 fix only helps cases where the shell is forced to /bin/sh.
1400 * Bugs introduced by 1.8:
1402 - In some situations (hand-written `m4_include's), aclocal would
1403 call the `File::Spec->rel2abs' method, which was only introduced
1404 in Perl 5.6. This new version reestablish support Perl 5.005.
1406 It is likely that the next major Automake releases will require at
1407 least Perl 5.6. Consider upgrading your development environment
1408 if you are still using the five-year-old Perl 5.005.
1410 - Automake would sometimes fail to define rules for targets listed
1411 in variables defined in multiple conditions. For instance on
1417 it would define only the `a.$(OBJEXT): a.c' rule and omit the
1418 `b.$(OBJEXT): b.c' rule.
1420 * New sections in manual:
1422 - Third-Party Makefiles: how to interface third party Makefiles.
1423 - Upgrading: upgrading packages to newer Automake versions.
1424 - Multiple Outputs: handling tools that produce many outputs.
1426 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1430 * A (well known) portability bug slipped in the changes made to
1431 install-sh in Automake 1.8.1. The broken install-sh would refuse to
1432 install anything on Tru64.
1434 * Fix install rules for conditionally built python files. (This never
1437 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1441 * Bugs introduced by 1.8:
1443 - Fix Config.pm import error with old Perl versions (at least
1444 5.005_03). One symptom is that aclocal could not find its macro
1447 - Automake 1.8 used `mkdir -m 0755 -p --' to ensure that directories
1448 created by `make install' are always world readable, even if the
1449 installer happens to have an overly restrictive umask (e.g. 077).
1450 This was a mistake and has been reverted. There are at least two
1451 reasons why we must not use `-m 0755':
1452 - it causes special bits like SGID to be ignored,
1453 - it may be too restrictive (some setups expect 775 directories).
1455 - Fix aclocal to honor definitions located in files which have been
1456 m4_included manually. aclocal 1.8 had been updated to check
1457 m4_included files for new requirements, but forgot that these
1458 m4_included files can also provide new definitions.
1460 Note that if you have such a setup, we recommend you get rid of
1461 it. In the past, there was a reason to m4_include files manually:
1462 aclocal used to duplicate entire M4 files into aclocal.m4, even
1463 files that were distributed. Some packages were therefore
1464 m4_including the distributed file directly, and playing some
1465 tricks to ensure aclocal would not copy that file to aclocal.m4,
1466 in order to limit the amount of duplication. Since aclocal 1.8.x
1467 will precisely output m4_includes for local M4 files, we recommend
1468 that you clean up your setup, removing all manual m4_includes and
1469 letting aclocal output them.
1471 - Output detailed menus in the Info version if the Automake manual,
1472 so that Emacs can locate the indexes.
1474 - configure.ac and configure were listed twice in DIST_COMMON (an
1475 internal variable where Automake lists configury files to
1476 distribute). This was harmless, but unaesthetic.
1478 - Use `chmod a-w' instead of `chmod -w' as the latter honors umask.
1479 This was an issue only in the Automake package itself, not in
1482 - Automake assumed that all AC_CONFIG_LINKS arguments had the form
1483 DEST:SRC. This was wrong, as some packages do
1484 AC_CONFIG_LINKS($computedlinks). This version no longer abort in
1487 - Contrary to mkinstalldirs, $(mkdir_p) was expecting exactly one
1488 argument. This caused two kinds of failures:
1489 - Rules installing data in a conditionally defined directory
1490 failed when that directory was undefined. In this case no
1491 argument was supplied.
1492 - `make installdirs' failed, because several directories were
1493 passed to $(mkdir_p). This was an issue only on platform
1494 were $(mkdir_p) is implemented with `install-sh -d'.
1495 $(mkdir_p) as been changed to accept 0 or more arguments, as
1498 * Long-standing bugs:
1500 - Fix an unexpected diagnostic occurring when users attempt
1501 to override some internal variables that Automake appends to.
1503 - aclocal now scans configure.ac for macro definitions (PR/319).
1505 - Fix a portability issue with OSF1/Tru64 Make. If a directory
1506 distributes files which are outside itself (this usually occurs
1507 when using AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([../dir]) to use auxiliary files
1508 from a parent package), then `make distcheck' fails due to an
1509 optimization performed by OSF1/Tru64 Make in its VPATH handling.
1510 (tests/subpkg2.test failure)
1512 - Fix another portability issue with Sun and OSF1/Tru64 Make.
1513 In a VPATH-build configuration, `make install' would install
1514 nobase_ files to wrong locations.
1516 - Fix a Perl `uninitialized value' diagnostic occurring when
1517 automake complains that a Texinfo file does not have a
1518 @setfilename statement.
1520 - Erase config.status.lineno during `make distclean'. This file
1521 can be created by config.status. Automake already knew about
1522 configure.lineno, but forgot config.status.lineno.
1524 - Distribute all files, even those which are built and installed
1525 conditionally. This change affects files listed in conditionally
1526 defined *_HEADERS and *_PYTHON variable (unless they are nodist_*)
1527 as well as those listed in conditionally defined dist_*_DATA,
1528 dist_*_JAVA, dist_*_LISP, and dist_*_SCRIPTS variables.
1530 - Fix AM_PATH_LISPDIR to avoid \? in sed regular expressions; it
1531 doesn't conform to POSIX.
1533 - Normalize help strings for configure variables and options added
1538 - Check for python2.4 in AM_PATH_PYTHON.
1540 * Spurious failures in test suite:
1542 - tests/libtool5.test, tests/ltcond.test, tests/ltcond2.test,
1543 tests/ltconv.test: fix failures with CVS Libtool.
1544 - tests/aclocal6.test: fix failure if autom4te.cache is disabled.
1545 - tests/txinfo24.test, tests/txinfo25.test, tests/txinfo28.test:
1546 fix failures with old Texinfo versions.
1548 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1554 - The NEWS file is more verbose.
1558 - Autoconf 2.58 or greater is required.
1562 - Default source file names in the absence of a _SOURCES declaration
1563 are made by removing any target extension before appending `.c', so
1564 to make the libtool module `foo.la' from `foo.c', you only need to
1567 lib_LTLIBRARIES = foo.la
1568 foo_la_LDFLAGS = -module
1570 For backward compatibility, foo_la.c will be used instead of
1571 foo.c if this file exists or is the explicit target of a rule.
1572 However -Wobsolete will warn about this deprecated naming.
1574 - AR's `cru' flags are now set in a global ARFLAGS variable instead
1575 of being hard-coded in each $(AR) invocation, so they can be
1576 substituted from configure.ac. This has been requested by people
1577 dealing with non-POSIX ar implementations.
1579 - New warning option: -Woverride. This will warn about any user
1580 target or variable definitions which override Automake
1583 - Texinfo rules back up and restore info files when makeinfo fails.
1585 - Texinfo rules now support the `html' target.
1586 Running this requires Texinfo 4.0 or greater.
1588 `html' is a new recursive target, so if your package mixes
1589 hand-crafted `Makefile.in's with Automake-generated
1590 `Makefile.in's, you should adjust the former to support (or
1591 ignore) this target so that `make html' recurses successfully. If
1592 you had a custom `html' rule in your `Makefile.am', it's better to
1593 rename it as `html-local', otherwise your rule will override
1594 Automake's new rule (you can check that by running `automake
1595 -Woverride') and that will stop the recursion to subdirectories.
1597 Last but not least, this `html' rule is declared PHONY, even when
1598 overridden. Fortunately, it appears that few packages use a
1599 non-PHONY `html' rule.
1601 - Any file which is m4_included from configure.ac will appear as a
1602 configure and Makefile.in dependency, and will be automatically
1605 - The rules for rebuilding Makefiles and Makefile.ins will now
1606 rebuild all Makefiles and all Makefile.ins at once when one of
1607 configure's dependencies has changed. This is considerably faster
1608 than previous implementations, where config.status and automake
1609 were run separately in each directory (this still happens when you
1610 change a Makefile.am locally, without touching configure.ac or
1611 friends). Doing this also solves a longstanding issue: these
1612 rebuild rules failed to work when adding new directories to the
1613 tree, forcing you to run automake manually.
1615 - For similar reasons, the rules to rebuild configure,
1616 config.status, and aclocal.m4 are now defined in all directories.
1617 Note that if you were using the CONFIG_STATUS_DEPENDENCIES and
1618 CONFIGURE_DEPENDENCIES (formerly undocumented) variables, you
1619 should better define them in all directories. This is easily done
1620 using an AC_SUBST (make sure you prefix these dependencies with
1621 $(top_srcdir) since this variable will appear at different
1622 levels of the build tree).
1624 - aclocal will now use `m4_include' instead of copying local m4
1625 files into aclocal.m4. (Local m4 files are those you ship with
1626 your project, other files will be copied as usual.)
1628 Because m4_included files are automatically distributed, it means
1629 for most projects there is no point in EXTRA_DISTing the list of
1630 m4 files which are used. (You can probably get rid of
1631 m4/Makefile.am if you had one.)
1633 - aclocal will avoid touching aclocal.m4 when possible, so that
1634 Autom4te's cache isn't needlessly invalidated. This behavior can
1635 be switched off with the new `--force' option.
1637 - aclocal now uses Autoconf's --trace to detect macros which are
1638 actually used and will no longer include unused macros simply
1639 because they where mentioned. This was often the case for macros
1640 called conditionally.
1642 - New options no-dist and no-dist-gzip.
1644 - compile, depcomp, elisp-comp, install-sh, mdate-sh, mkinstalldirs,
1645 py-compile, and ylwrap, now all understand --version and --help.
1647 - Automake will now recognize AC_CONFIG_LINKS so far as removing created
1648 links as part of the distclean target and including source files in
1651 - AM_PATH_PYTHON now supports ACTION-IF-FOUND and ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND
1652 argument. The latter can be used to override the default behavior
1653 (which is to abort).
1655 - Automake will exit with $? = 63 on version mismatch. (So does
1656 Autoconf 2.58) missing knows this, and in this case it will
1657 emulate the tools as if they were absent. Because older versions
1658 of Automake and Autoconf did not use this exit code, this change
1659 will only be useful in projects generated with future versions of
1662 - When using AC_CONFIG_FILES with multiple input files, Automake
1663 generates the first ".in" input file for which a ".am" exists.
1664 (Former versions would try to use only the first input file.)
1666 - lisp_DATA is now allowed. If you are using the empty ELCFILES
1667 idiom to disable byte-compilation of lisp_LISP files, it is
1668 recommended that you switch to using lisp_DATA. Note that
1669 this is not strictly equivalent: lisp_DATA will install elisp
1670 files even if emacs is not installed, while *_LISP do not
1671 install anything unless emacs is found.
1673 - Makefiles will prefer `mkdir -p' over mkinstalldirs if it is
1674 available. This selection is achieved through the Makefile
1675 variable $(mkdir_p) that is set by AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE to either
1676 `mkdir -m 0755 -p --', `$(mkinstalldirs) -m 0755', or
1677 `$(install_sh) -m 0755 -d'.
1681 - Because `mkdir -p' is available on most platforms, and we can use
1682 `install-sh -d' when it is not, the use of the mkinstalldirs
1683 script is being phased out. `automake --add-missing' no longer
1684 installs it, and if you remove mkinstalldirs from your package,
1685 automake will define $(mkinstalldirs) as an alias for $(mkdir_p).
1687 Gettext 0.12.1 still requires mkinstalldirs. Fortunately
1688 gettextize and autopoint will install it when needed. Automake
1689 will continue to define the $(mkinstalldirs) and to distribute
1690 mkinstalldirs when this script is in the source tree.
1692 - AM_PROG_CC_STDC is now empty. The content of this macro was
1693 merged in AC_PROG_CC. If your code uses $am_cv_prog_cc_stdc, you
1694 should adjust it to use $ac_cv_prog_cc_stdc instead. (This
1695 renaming should be safe, even if you have to support several,
1696 versions of Automake, because AC_PROG_CC defines this variable
1697 since Autoconf 2.54.)
1699 - Some users where using the undocumented ACLOCAL_M4_SOURCES
1700 variable to override the aclocal.m4 dependencies computed
1701 (inaccurately) by older versions of Automake. Because Automake
1702 now tracks configure's m4 dependencies accurately (see m4_include
1703 above), the use of ACLOCAL_M4_SOURCES should be considered
1704 obsolete and will be flagged as such when running `automake
1709 - Defining programs conditionally using Automake conditionals no
1710 longer leads to a combinatorial explosion. The following
1711 construct used to be troublesome when used with dozens of
1726 Likewise for _SOURCES, _LDADD, and _LIBADD variables.
1728 - Due to implementation constraints, previous versions of Automake
1729 proscribed multiple conditional definitions of some variables
1739 All _PROGRAMS, _LDADD, and _LIBADD variables were affected.
1740 This restriction has been lifted, and these variables now
1741 support multiple conditional definitions as do other variables.
1743 - Cleanup the definitions of $(distdir) and $(top_distdir).
1744 $(top_distdir) now points to the root of the distribution
1745 directory created during `make dist', as it did in Automake 1.4,
1746 not to the root of the build tree as it did in intervening
1747 versions. Furthermore these two variables are now only defined in
1748 the top level Makefile, and passed to sub-directories when running
1751 - The --no-force option now correctly checks the Makefile.in's
1752 dependencies before deciding not to update it.
1754 - Do not assume that make files are called Makefile in cleaning rules.
1756 - Update .info files in the source tree, not in the build tree. This
1757 is what the GNU Coding Standard recommend. Only Automake 1.7.x
1758 used to update these files in the build tree (previous versions did
1759 it in the source tree too), and it caused several problems, varying
1760 from mere annoyance to portability issues.
1762 - COPYING, COPYING.LIB, and COPYING.LESSER are no longer overwritten
1763 when --add-missing and --force-missing are used. For backward
1764 compatibility --add-missing will continue to install COPYING (in
1765 `gnu' strictness) when none of these three files exist, but this
1766 use is deprecated: you should better choose a license yourself and
1767 install it once for all in your source tree (and in your code
1770 - Fix ylwrap so that it does not overwrite header files that haven't
1771 changed, as the inline rule already does.
1773 - User-defined rules override automake-defined rules for the same
1774 targets, even when rules do not have commands. This is not new
1775 (and was documented), however some of the automake-generated
1776 rules have escaped this principle in former Automake versions.
1777 Rules for the following targets are affected by this fix:
1779 clean, clean-am, dist-all, distclean, distclean-am, dvi, dvi-am,
1780 info, info-am, install-data-am, install-exec-am, install-info,
1781 install-info-am, install-man, installcheck-am, maintainer-clean,
1782 maintainer-clean-am, mostlyclean, mostlyclean-am, pdf, pdf-am,
1783 ps, ps-am, uninstall-am, uninstall-info, uninstall-man
1785 Practically it means that an attempt to supplement the dependencies
1786 of some target, as in
1788 clean: my-clean-rule
1790 will now *silently override* the automake definition of the
1791 rule for this target. Running `automake -Woverride' will diagnose
1792 all such overriding definitions.
1794 It should be noted that almost all of these targets support a *-local
1795 variant that is meant to supplement the automake-defined rule
1796 (See node `Extending' in the manual). The above rule should
1799 clean-local: my-clean-rule
1801 These *-local targets have been documented since at least
1802 Automake 1.2, so you should not fear the change if you have
1803 to support multiple automake versions.
1807 - The Automake manual is now distributed under the terms of the GNU FDL.
1809 - Targets dist-gzip, dist-bzip2, dist-tarZ, dist-zip are always defined.
1811 - core dumps are no longer removed by the cleaning rules. There are
1812 at least three reasons for this:
1813 1. These files should not be created by any build step,
1814 so their removal do not fit any of the cleaning rules.
1815 Actually, they may be precious to the developer.
1816 2. If such file is created during a build, then it's clearly a
1817 bug Automake should not hide. Not removing the file will
1818 cause `make distcheck' to complain about its presence.
1819 3. Operating systems have different naming conventions for
1820 core dump files. A core file on one system might be a
1821 completely legitimate data file on another system.
1823 - RUNTESTFLAGS, CTAGSFLAGS, ETAGSFLAGS, JAVACFLAGS are no longer
1824 defined by Automake. This means that any definition in the
1825 environment will be used, unless overridden in the Makefile.am or
1826 on the command line. The old behavior, where these variables were
1827 defined empty in each Makefile, can be obtained by AC_SUBSTing or
1828 AC_ARG_VARing each variable from configure.ac.
1830 - CONFIGURE_DEPENDENCIES and CONFIG_STATUS_DEPENDENCIES are now
1831 documented. (The is not a new feature, these variables have
1832 been there since at least Automake 1.4.)
1834 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1836 Bugs fixed in 1.7.9:
1837 * Fix install-strip to work with nobase_ binaries.
1838 * Fix renaming of #line directives in ylwrap.
1839 * Rebuild with Autoconf 2.59. (1.7.8 was not installable with pdksh.)
1841 Bugs fixed in 1.7.8:
1842 * Remove spurious blank lines in cleaning rules introduced in 1.7.7.
1843 * Fix detection of Debian's install-info, broken since version 1.5.
1844 (Debian bug #213524).
1845 * Honor -module if it appears in AM_LDFLAGS (i.e., relax name checking)
1846 This was only done for libfoo_LDFLAGS and LDFLAGS in previous versions.
1848 Bugs fixed in 1.7.7:
1849 * The implementation of automake's --no-force option is unreliable,
1850 so this option is ignored in this version. A real fix will appear in
1851 Automake 1.8. (Debian Bug #206299)
1852 * AM_PATH_PYTHON: really check the whole list of interpreters if no
1853 argument is given. (PR/399)
1854 * Do not warn about leading `_' in variable names, even with -Wportability.
1855 * Support user redefinitions of TEXINFO_TEX.
1856 * depcomp: support AIX Compiler version 6.
1857 * Fix missing rebuilds during `make dist' with BSD make.
1858 (Could produce tarballs containing out-of-date files.)
1859 * Resurrect multilib support.
1860 * Noteworthy manual updates:
1861 - Extending aclocal: how to write m4 macros that won't trigger warnings
1863 - A Shared Library: Rewrite and split into subsections.
1865 Bugs fixed in 1.7.6:
1866 * Fix depcomp's icc mode for ICC 7.1.
1867 * Diagnose calls to AC_CONFIG_FILES and friends with not enough arguments.
1868 * Fix maintainer-clean's removal of autom4te.cache in VPATH builds.
1869 * Fix AM_PATH_LISPDIR to work with POSIXLY_CORRECT=1.
1870 * Fix the location reported in some diagnostics related to AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
1871 * Remove Latin-1 characters from elisp-comp.
1872 * Update the manual's @dircategory to match the Free Software Directory.
1874 Bugs fixed in 1.7.5:
1875 * Update install-sh's license to remove an advertising clause.
1876 (Debian bug #191717)
1877 * Fix a bug introduced in 1.7.4, related to BUILT_SOURCE handling,
1878 that caused invalid Makefile.ins to be generated.
1879 * Make sure AM_MAKE_INCLUDE doesn't fail when a `doit' file exists.
1880 * New FAQ entry: renamed objects.
1882 Bugs fixed in 1.7.4:
1883 * Tweak the TAGS rule to support Exuberant Ctags (in addition to
1884 the Emacs implementation)
1885 * Fix output of aclocal.m4 dependencies in subdirectories.
1886 * Use `mv -f' instead of `mv' in fastdep rules.
1887 * Upgrade mdate-sh to work on OS/2.
1888 * Don't byte-compile elisp files when ELCFILES is set empty.
1889 (this documented feature was broken by 1.7.3)
1890 * Diagnose trailing backslashes on last line of Makefile.am.
1891 * Diagnose whitespace following trailing backslashes.
1892 * Multiple tests are now correctly supported in DEJATOOL. (PR/388)
1893 * Fix rebuilt rules for AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile:Makefile.in:Makefile.bot])
1895 * `make install' will build `BUILT_SOURCES' first.
1896 * Minor documentation fixes.
1898 Bugs fixed in 1.7.3:
1899 * Fix stamp files numbering (when using multiple AC_CONFIG_HEADERS).
1900 * Query distutils for `pythondir' and `pythonexecdir', instead of
1901 using an hardcoded path. This should allow builds on 64-bit
1902 distributions that usually use lib64/ instead of lib/.
1903 * AM_PATH_PYTHON will also search for python2.3.
1904 * elisp files are now built all at once instead of one by one. Besides
1905 incurring a speed-up, this is required to support interdependent elisp files.
1906 * Support for DJGPP:
1907 - `make distcheck' will now work in `_inst/' and `_build' instead
1908 of `=inst/' and `=build/'
1909 - use `_dirstamp' when the file-system doesn't support `.dirstamp'
1910 - install/uninstall `*.i[0-9][0-9]'-style info files
1911 - more changes that affect only the Automake package (not its output)
1912 * Fix some incompatibilities with upcoming perl-5.10.
1913 * Properly quote AC_PACKAGE_TARNAME and AC_PACKAGE_VERSION when defining
1914 PACKAGE and VERSION.
1916 - dashmstdout and dashXmstdout modes: don't use `-o /dev/null', this
1917 is troublesome with gcc and Solaris compilers. (PR/385)
1918 - makedepend mode: work with Libtool. (PR/385 too)
1920 * better support for unusual gettext setups, such as multiple po/ directories
1922 - Flag missing po/ and intl/ directories as warnings, not errors.
1923 - Disable these warnings if po/ does not exist.
1924 * Noteworthy manual updates:
1926 - Document how AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR interacts with missing files.
1928 - Document `AM_YFLAGS = -d'. (PR/382)
1930 Bugs fixed in 1.7.2:
1931 * Fix installation and uninstallation of Info files built in subdirectories.
1932 * Do not run `./configure --with-included-gettext' during `make distcheck'
1933 if AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external]) is used.
1934 * Correctly uninstall renamed man pages.
1935 * Do not strip escaped newline in variables defined in one condition
1936 and augmented in another condition.
1937 * Fix ansi2knr rules for LIBOBJS sources.
1938 * Clean all known Texinfo index files, not only those which appear to
1939 be used, because we cannot know which indexes are used in included files.
1940 (PR/375, Debian Bug #168671)
1941 * Honor only the first @setfilename seen in a Texinfo file.
1942 * Treat "required file X not found" diagnostics as errors (exit status 1).
1943 * Don't complain that a required file is not found when it is a Makefile
1945 * Don't use single suffix inference rules when building `.info'-less
1946 Info files, for the sake of Solaris make.
1947 * The `check' target now depends on `$(BUILT_SOURCES)'. (PR/359)
1948 * Recognize multiple inference rules such as `.a.b .c.d:'. (PR/371)
1949 * Warn about multiple inference rules when -Wportability is used. (PR/372)
1950 * Fix building of deansified files from subdirectories. (PR/370)
1951 * Add missing `fi' in the .c->.obj rules.
1952 * Improve install-sh to work even when names contain spaces or certain
1953 (but not all) shell metachars.
1954 * Fix the following spurious failures in the test suite:
1955 depcomp2.test, gnits2.test, gnits3.test, python3.test, texinfo13.test
1956 * Noteworthy manual updates:
1957 - Augment the section about BUILT_SOURCES.
1958 - Mention that AM_PROG_CC_STDC is a relic that is better avoided today.
1960 Bugs fixed in 1.7.1:
1961 * Honor `ansi2knr' for files built in subdirectories, or using per-targets
1963 * Aclocal should now recognize macro names containing parentheses, e.g.
1964 AC_DEFUN([AC_LANG_PREPROC(Fortran 90)], [...]).
1965 * Erase *.sum and *.log files created by DejaGnu, during `make distclean'.
1967 * Install Python files even if they were built. (PR/369)
1968 * Have stamp-vti dependent upon configure instead of configure.ac, as the
1969 version might not be defined in the latter. (PR/358)
1970 * Reorder arguments passed to a couple of commands, so things works
1971 when POSIXLY_CORRECT=1.
1972 * Fix a regex that can cause Perl to segfault on large input.
1974 * Fix distribution of packages that have some sources defined conditionally,
1975 as in the `Conditional compilation using Automake conditionals' example
1977 * Fix spurious test suite failures on IRIX.
1978 * Don't report a required variable as undefined if it has been
1979 defined conditionally for the "right" conditions.
1980 * Fix cleaning of the /tmp subdirectory used by `make distcheck', in case
1981 `make distcheck' fails.
1982 * Fix distribution of included Makefile fragment, so we don't create
1983 spurious directories in the distribution. (PR/366)
1984 * Don't complain that a target lacks `.$(EXEEXT)' when it has it.
1987 * Autoconf 2.54 is required.
1988 * `aclocal' and `automake' will no longer warn about obsolete
1989 configure macros. This is done by `autoconf -Wobsolete'.
1990 * AM_CONFIG_HEADER, AM_SYS_POSIX_TERMIOS and
1991 AM_HEADER_TIOCGWINSZ_NEEDS_SYS_IOCTL are obsolete (although still
1992 supported). You should use AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, AC_SYS_POSIX_TERMIOS,
1993 and AC_HEADER_TIOCGWINSZ instead. `autoupdate' can upgrade
1994 `configure.ac' for you.
1995 * Support for per-program and per-library `_CPPFLAGS'.
1996 * New `ctags' target (builds CTAGS files).
1997 * Support for -Wmumble and -Wno-mumble, where mumble is a warning category
1998 (see `automake --help' or the manual for a list of them).
1999 * Honor the WARNINGS environment variable.
2000 * Omit the call to depcomp when using gcc3: call the compiler directly.
2001 * A new option, std-options, tests that programs support --help and --version
2002 when `make installcheck' is run. This is enabled by --gnits.
2003 * Texinfo rules now support the `ps' and `pdf' targets.
2004 * Info files are now created in the build directory, not the source directory.
2005 * info_TEXINFOS supports files in subdirectories (this requires Texinfo 4.1
2007 * `make distcheck' will enforce DESTDIR support by attempting
2009 * `+=' can be used in conditionals, even if the augmented variable
2010 was defined for another condition.
2011 * Makefile fragments (inserted with `include') are always distributed.
2012 * Use Autoconf's --trace interface to inspect configure.ac and get
2013 a more accurate view of it.
2014 * Add support for extending aclocal's default macro search path
2015 using a `dirlist' file within the aclocal directory.
2016 * automake --output-dir is deprecated.
2017 * The part of the distcheck target that checks whether uninstall actually
2018 removes all installed files has been moved in a separate target,
2019 distuninstallcheck, so it can be overridden easily.
2023 * Support for AM_INIT_GETTEXT([external])
2024 * Bug fixes, including:
2025 - Fix Automake's own `make install' so it works even if `ln' doesn't.
2026 - nobase_ programs and scripts honor --program-transform correctly.
2027 - Erase configure.lineno during `make distclean'.
2028 - Erase YACC and LEX outputs during `make maintainer-clean'.
2031 * Many bug fixes, including:
2032 - Requiring the current version works.
2033 - Fix "$@" portability issues (for Zsh).
2034 - Fix output of dummy dependency files in presence of post-processed
2036 - Don't compute dependencies in background to avoid races with libtool.
2037 - Fix handling of _OBJECTS variables for targets sharing source variables.
2038 - Check dependency mode for Java when AM_PROG_GCJ is used.
2041 * automake --output-dir is deprecated
2042 * Many bug fixes, including:
2043 - Don't choke on AM_LDFLAGS definitions.
2044 - Clean libtool objects from subdirectories.
2045 - Allow configure variables with reserved suffix and unknown prefix
2046 (e.g. AC_SUBST(mumble_LDFLAGS) when 'mumble' is not a target).
2047 - Fix the definition of AUTOMAKE and ACLOCAL in configure.
2050 * Autoconf 2.52 is required.
2051 * automake no longer run libtoolize.
2052 This is the job of autoreconf (from GNU Autoconf).
2053 * `dist' generates all the archive flavors, as did `dist-all'.
2054 * `dist-gzip' generates the Gzip tar file only.
2055 * Combining Automake Makefile conditionals no longer lead to a combinatorial
2056 explosion. Makefile.in's keep a reasonable size.
2057 * AM_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE, AM_FUNC_STRTOD, AM_FUNC_OBSTACK, AM_PTRDIFF_T
2058 are no longer shipped, since Autoconf 2.52 provides them (both as AM_
2060 * `#line' of Lex and Yacc files are properly set.
2061 * EXTRA_DIST can contain generated directories.
2062 * Support for dot-less extensions in suffix rules.
2063 * The part of the distcheck target that checks whether distclean actually
2064 cleans all built files has been moved in a separate target, distcleancheck,
2065 so it can be overridden easily.
2066 * `make distcheck' will pass additional options defined in
2067 $(DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS) to configure.
2068 * Fixed CDPATH portability problems, in particular for MacOS X.
2069 * Fixed handling of nobase_ targets.
2070 * Fixed support of implicit rules leading to .lo objects.
2071 * Fixed late inclusion of --add-missing files (e.g. depcomp) in DIST_COMMON
2072 * Added uninstall-hook target
2073 * `AC_INIT AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(tarname,version)' is an obsolete construct.
2074 You can now use `AC_INIT(pkgname,version) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' instead.
2075 (Note that "pkgname" is not "tarname", see the manual for details.)
2076 It is also possible to pass a list of global Automake options as
2077 first argument to this new form of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
2078 * Compiler-based assembler is now called `CCAS'; people expected `AS'
2079 to be a real assembler.
2080 * AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE will set STRIP itself when it needs it. Adding
2081 AC_CHECK_TOOL([STRIP], [strip]) manually is no longer required.
2082 * aclocal and automake are also installed with the version number
2083 appended, and some of the install directory names have changed.
2084 This lets you have multiple versions installed simultaneously.
2085 * Support for parsers and lexers in subdirectories.
2088 * Support for `configure.ac'.
2089 * Support for `else COND', `endif COND' and negated conditions `!COND'.
2090 * `make dist-all' is much faster.
2091 * Allows '@' AC_SUBSTs in macro names.
2092 * Faster AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (requires update of `missing' script)
2093 * User-side dependency tracking. Developers no longer need GNU make
2095 * Uses DIST_SUBDIRS in some situations when SUBDIRS is conditional
2096 * Most files are correctly handled if they appear in subdirs
2097 For instance, a _DATA file can appear in a subdir
2098 * GNU tar is no longer required for `make dist'
2099 * Added support for `dist_' and `nodist_' prefixes
2100 * Added support for `nobase_' prefix
2101 * Compiled Java support
2102 * Support for per-executable and per-library compilation flags
2106 * Added support for the Fortran 77 programming language.
2107 * Re-indexed the Automake Texinfo manual.
2108 * Added `AM_FOOFLAGS' variable for each compiler invocation;
2109 e.g. AM_CFLAGS can be used in Makefile.am to set C compiler flags
2110 * Support for latest autoconf, including support for objext
2111 * Can now put `.' in SUBDIRS to control build order
2112 * `include' command and `+=' support for macro assignment
2113 * Dependency tracking no long susceptible to deleted header file problem
2114 * Maintainer mode now a conditional. @MAINT@ is now an anachronism.
2119 * Better Cygwin32 support
2120 * Support for suffix rules with _SOURCES variables
2121 * New options `readme-alpha' and `check-news'; Gnits mode sets these
2122 * @LEXLIB@ no longer required when lex source seen
2123 Lex support in `missing', and new lex macro. Update your missing script.
2124 * Built-in support for assembly
2125 * aclocal gives error if `AM_' macro not found
2126 * Passed YFLAGS, not YACCFLAGS, to yacc
2127 * AM_PROG_CC_STDC does not have to come before AC_PROG_CPP
2128 * Dependencies computed as a side effect of compilation
2129 * Preliminary support for Java
2130 * DESTDIR support at "make install" time
2131 * Improved ansi2knr support; you must use the latest ansi2knr.c (included)
2135 * Better DejaGnu support
2136 * Added no-installinfo option
2137 * Added Emacs Lisp support
2138 * Added --no-force option
2139 * Included `aclocal' program
2140 * Automake will now generate rules to regenerate aclocal.m4, if appropriate
2141 * Now uses `AM_' macro names everywhere
2142 * ansi2knr option can have directory prefix (eg `../lib/ansi2knr')
2143 ansi2knr now works correctly on K&R sources
2144 * Better C++, yacc, lex support
2145 * Will compute _DEPENDENCIES variables automatically if not supplied
2146 * Will interpolate $(...) and ${...} when examining contents of a variable
2147 * .deps files now in build directory, not source directory; dependency
2148 handling generally rewritten
2149 * DATA, MANS and BUILT_SOURCES no longer included in distribution
2150 * can now put config.h into a subdir
2151 * Added dist-all target
2152 * Support for install-info program (see texinfo 3.9)
2153 * Support for "yacc -d"
2154 * configure substitutions are automatically discovered and included
2155 in generated Makefile.in
2156 * Special --cygnus mode
2157 * OMIT_DEPENDENCIES can now hold list of dependencies to be omitted
2158 when making distribution. Some dependencies are auto-ignored.
2159 * Changed how libraries are specified in _LIBRARIES variable
2160 * Full libtool support, from Gord Matzigkeit
2161 * No longer have to explicitly touch stamp-h when using AC_CONFIG_HEADER;
2162 AM_CONFIG_HEADER handles it automatically
2163 * Texinfo output files no longer need .info extension
2164 * Added `missing' support
2166 * Conditionals in Makefile.am, from Ian Taylor
2170 * distcheck target runs install and installcheck targets
2171 * Added preliminary support for DejaGnu.
2176 * More libtool fixes from Gord Matzigkeit; libtool support is still
2178 * Added support for jm_MAINTAINER_MODE
2180 * New "distcheck" target
2184 * mkinstalldirs and mdate-sh now appear in directory specified by
2186 * Removed DIST_SUBDIRS, DIST_OTHER
2187 * AC_ARG_PROGRAM only required when an actual program exists
2188 * dist-hook target now run before distribution packaged up; idea from
2189 Dieter Baron. Other hooks exist, too.
2190 * Preliminary (unfinished) support for libtool
2191 * Added short option names.
2192 * Better "dist" support when gluing together multiple packages
2196 * Documentation updates (many from François Pinard)
2197 * strictness `normal' now renamed to `foreign'
2198 * Renamed --install-missing to --add-missing
2199 * Now handles AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR
2200 * Now handles TESTS macro
2201 * DIST_OTHER renamed to EXTRA_DIST
2202 * DIST_SUBDIRS is deprecated
2203 * @ALLOCA@ and @LIBOBJS@ now work in _LDADD variables
2204 * Better error messages in many cases
2205 * Program names are canonicalized
2206 * Added "check" prefix; from Gord Matzigkeit
2210 * configure.in scanner knows about AC_PATH_XTRA, AC_OUTPUT ":" syntax
2211 * Beginnings of a test suite
2212 * Automatically adds -I options for $(srcdir), ".", and path to config.h
2213 * Doesn't print anything when running
2214 * Beginnings of MAINT_CHARSET support
2215 * Can specify version in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS
2216 * Most errors recognizable by Emacs' M-x next-error
2217 * Added --verbose option
2218 * All "primary" variables now obsolete; use EXTRA_PRIMARY to supply
2219 configure-generated names
2220 * Required macros now distributed in aclocal.m4
2222 * --strictness=gnu is default
2226 * More sophisticated configure.in scanning; now understands ALLOCA and
2227 LIBOBJS directly, handles AC_CONFIG_HEADER more precisely, etc.
2228 * TEXINFOS and MANS now obsolete; use info_TEXINFOS and man_MANS instead.
2229 * CONFIG_HEADER variable now obsolete
2230 * Can handle multiple Texinfo sources
2231 * Allow hierarchies deeper than 2. From Gord Matzigkeit.
2232 * HEADERS variable no longer needed; now can put .h files directly into
2233 foo_SOURCES variable.
2234 * Automake automatically rebuilds files listed in AC_OUTPUT. The
2235 corresponding ".in" files are included in the distribution.
2238 * Added --gnu and --gnits options
2239 * More standards checking
2241 * Cleaned up 'dist' targets
2242 * Added AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS variable and several options
2243 * Now scans configure.in to get some information (preliminary)
2246 * Works with Perl 4 again
2249 * Added --install-missing option.
2250 * Pretty-prints generated macros and rules
2251 * Comments in Makefile.am are placed more intelligently in Makefile.in
2252 * Generates .PHONY target
2253 * Rule or macro in Makefile.am now overrides contents of Automake file
2254 * Substantial cleanups from François Pinard
2258 * Works with Perl 4 again.
2261 * New uniform naming scheme.
2262 * --strictness option
2264 * '.c' files corresponding to '.y' or '.l' files are automatically
2266 * Many bug fixes and cleanups
2269 * Allow objects to be conditionally included in libraries via lib_LIBADD.
2272 * Bug fixes in 'clean' code.
2273 * Now generates 'installdirs' target.
2274 * man page installation reworked.
2275 * 'make dist' no longer re-creates all Makefile.in's.
2278 * Reimplemented in Perl
2279 * Added --amdir option (for debugging)
2280 * Texinfo support cleaned up.
2281 * Automatic de-ANSI-fication cleaned up.
2282 * Cleaned up 'clean' targets.
2285 * Automatic dependency tracking
2286 * More documentation
2287 * New variables DATA and PACKAGEDATA
2288 * SCRIPTS installed using $(INSTALL_SCRIPT)
2289 * No longer uses double-colon rules
2291 * Changes in advance of internationalization
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2297 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
2298 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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2302 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
2303 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
2304 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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