3 * WARNING: Future backward-incompatibilities!
5 - Starting from the next major Automake version (1.13), the rules to
6 build pdf, ps and dvi output from Texinfo input will use the '--tidy'
7 option by default. Since such an option was introduced in Texinfo
8 4.9, this means that Makefiles generated by future Automake versions
9 will require at least that version of Texinfo.
11 - Starting from the next major Automake version (1.13), the parallel
12 testsuite harness (previously only enabled by the 'parallel-tests'
13 option) will become the default one; the older serial testsuite
14 harness will still be available through the use of the 'serial-tests'
17 - The following long-obsolete m4 macros will be removed in the
18 next major Automake version (1.13):
20 AM_PROG_CC_STDC: superseded by AC_PROG_CC since October 2002
21 fp_PROG_CC_STDC: broken alias for AM_PROG_CC_STDC
22 fp_WITH_DMALLOC: old alias for AM_WITH_DMALLOC
23 AM_CONFIG_HEADER: superseded by AC_CONFIG_HEADERS since July 2002
24 ud_PATH_LISPDIR: old alias for AM_PATH_LISPDIR
25 jm_MAINTAINER_MODE: old alias for AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
26 ud_GNU_GETTEXT: old alias for AM_GNU_GETTEXT
27 gm_PROG_LIBTOOL: old alias for AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
28 fp_C_PROTOTYPES: old alias for AM_C_PROTOTYPES (which was part
29 of the now-removed automatic de-ANSI-fication
32 - All the "old alias" macros in 'm4/obsolete.m4' will be removed in
33 the next major Automake version (1.13).
35 - Support for the "Cygnus-style" trees (enabled by the 'cygnus' option)
36 will be deprecated in the next minor version of Automake (1.12.1) and
37 removed in the next major version (1.13).
39 - Support for the two- and three-arguments invocation forms of the
40 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macro will be deprecated in the next minor version
41 of Automake (1.12.1) and removed in the next major version (1.13).
43 - The long-obsolete (since 1.10) automake-provided $(mkdir_p) make
44 variable, @mkdir_p@ substitution and AM_PROG_MKDIR m4 macro will
45 all be deprecated in the next minor version of Automake (1.12.1)
46 and removed in the next major version (1.13).
48 - The '--acdir' option of aclocal is deprecated, and will probably
49 be removed in the next major Automake release (1.13). You should
50 use the options '--automake-acdir' and '--system-acdir' instead
51 (which have been introduced in Automake 1.11.2).
53 - The exact order in which the directories in the aclocal macro
54 search path are looked up is probably going to be changed in the
55 next Automake release (1.13).
57 * Obsolete features removed:
59 - The never documented nor truly used script 'acinstall' has been
62 - Support for automatic de-ANSI-fication has been removed.
64 - The support for the "obscure" multilib feature has been removed
65 from Automake core (but remains available in the 'contrib/'
66 directory of the Automake distribution).
68 - Support for ".log -> .html" conversion and the check-html and
69 recheck-html targets has been removed from Automake core (but
70 remains available in the 'contrib/' directory of the Automake
73 - The deprecated 'lzma' compression format for distribution archives
74 has been removed, in favor of 'xz' and 'lzip'.
76 - The obsolete AM_WITH_REGEX macro has been removed.
78 - The long-deprecated options '--output-dir', '--Werror' and
79 '--Wno-error' have been removed.
81 - The chapter on the history of Automake has been moved out of the
82 reference manual, into a new dedicated Texinfo file.
86 - New 'cscope' target to build a cscope database for the source tree.
88 * Changes to Automake-generated testsuite harnesses:
90 - The new automake option 'serial-tests' has been introduced. It can
91 be used to explicitly instruct automake to use the older serial
92 testsuite harness. This is still the default at the moment, but it
93 might change in future versions.
95 - Test scripts that exit with status 99 to signal an "hard error" (e.g.,
96 and unexpected or internal error, or a failure to set up the test case
97 scenario) have their outcome reported as an 'ERROR' now. Previous
98 versions of automake reported such an outcome as a 'FAIL' (the only
99 difference with normal failures being that hard errors were counted
100 as failures even when the test originating them was listed in
103 - The testsuite summary displayed by the parallel-test harness has a
104 completely new format, that always list the numbers of passed, failed,
105 xfailed, xpassed, skipped and errored tests, even when these numbers
106 are zero (but using smart coloring when the color-tests option is in
109 - The default testsuite driver offered by the 'parallel-tests' option is
110 now implemented (partly at least) with the help of automake-provided
111 auxiliary scripts (e.g., 'test-driver'), instead of relying entirely
112 on code in the generated Makefile.in.
113 This has two noteworthy implications. The first one is that projects
114 using the 'parallel-tests' option should now either run automake with
115 the '--add-missing' option, or manually copy the 'test-driver' script
116 into their tree. The second, and more important, implication is that
117 now, when the 'parallel-tests' option is in use, TESTS_ENVIRONMENT can
118 not be used anymore to define a test runner, and the command specified
119 in LOG_COMPILER (and <ext>_LOG_COMPILER) must be a *real* executable
120 program or script. For example, this is still a valid usage (albeit
123 TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = \
124 if test -n '$(STRICT_TESTS)'; then \
125 maybe_errexit='-e'; \
129 LOG_COMPILER = $(SHELL) $$maybe_errexit
131 while this is not anymore:
133 TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = \
134 $(SHELL) `test -n '$(STRICT_TESTS_CHECKING)' && echo ' -e'`
138 TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = \
139 run_with_perl_or_shell () \
141 if grep -q '^#!.*perl' $$1; then
147 LOG_COMPILER = run_with_perl_or_shell
149 - The package authors can now use customary testsuite drivers within
150 the framework provided by the 'parallel-tests' testsuite harness.
151 Consistently with the existing syntax, this can be done by defining
152 special makefile variables 'LOG_DRIVER' and '<ext>_LOG_DRIVER'.
154 - A new developer-reserved variable 'AM_TESTS_FD_REDIRECT' can be used
155 to redirect/define file descriptors used by the test scripts.
157 - The parallel-tests harness generates now, in addition the '.log' files
158 holding the output produced by the test scripts, a new set of '.trs'
159 files, holding "metadata" derived by the execution of the test scripts;
160 among such metadata are the outcomes of the test cases run by a script.
162 - Initial and still experimental support for the TAP test protocol is
165 * Changes to Yacc and Lex support:
167 - C source and header files derived from non-distributed Yacc and/or
168 Lex sources are now removed by a simple "make clean" (while they were
169 previously removed only by "make maintainer-clean").
171 - Slightly backward-incompatible change, relevant only for use of Yacc
172 with C++: the extensions of the header files produced by the Yacc
173 rules are now modelled after the extension of the corresponding
174 sources. For example, yacc files named "foo.y++" and "bar.yy" will
175 produce header files named "foo.h++" and "bar.hh" respectively, where
176 they would have previously produced header files named simply "foo.h"
177 and "bar.h". This change offers better compatibility with 'bison -o'.
179 * Miscellaneous changes:
181 - The build system of Automake itself now avoids the use of make
182 recursion as much as possible.
184 - Automake now prefers to quote 'like this' or "like this", rather
185 than `like this', in diagnostic message and generated Makefiles,
186 to accommodate the new GNU Coding Standards recommendations.
188 - Automake has a new option '--print-libdir' that prints the path of the
189 directory containing the Automake-provided scripts and data files.
191 - The 'dist' and 'dist-all' targets now can run compressors in parallel.
193 - The rules to create pdf, dvi and ps output from Texinfo files now
194 works better with modern 'texi2dvi' script, by explicitly passing
195 it the '--clean' option to ensure stray auxiliary files are not
196 left to clutter the build directory.
198 - Automake can now generate silenced rules for texinfo outputs.
200 - Some auxiliary files that are automatically distributed by Automake
201 (e.g., 'install-sh', or the 'depcomp' script for packages compiling
202 C sources) might now be listed in the DIST_COMMON variable in many
203 Makefile.in files, rather than in the top-level one.
205 - Messages of types warning or error from 'automake' and 'aclocal'
206 are now prefixed with the respective type, and presence of -Werror
209 - Automake's early configure-time sanity check now tries to avoid
210 sleeping for a second, which slowed down cached configure runs
211 noticeably. In that case, it will check back at the end of the
212 configure script to ensure that at least one second has passed, to
213 avoid time stamp issues with makefile rules rerunning autotools
216 - The warnings in the category 'extra-portability' are now enabled by
217 '-Wall'. In previous versions, one has to use '-Wextra-portability'
222 - Various minor bugfixes for recent or long-standing bugs.
224 * Bugs introduced by 1.11:
226 - The AM_COND_IF macro also works if the shell expression for the
227 conditional is no longer valid for the condition.
229 - The automake-provided parallel testsuite harness does not fail anymore
230 with BSD make used in parallel mode when there are test scripts in a
231 subdirectory, like in:
233 TESTS = sub/foo.test sub/bar.test
235 * Long-standing bugs:
237 - Automake's own build system finally have a real "installcheck" target.
239 - Files listed with the AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE macro in configure.ac are
240 now automatically distributed also if the directory of the auxiliary
241 files coincides with the top-level directory.
243 - Automake now detects the presence of the '-d' flag in the various
244 '*YFLAGS' variables even when their definitions involve indirections
245 through other variables, such as in:
247 AM_YFLAGS = $(foo_opts)
249 - Automake now complains if a '*YFLAGS' variable has any conditional
250 content, not only a conditional definition.
252 - Explicit enabling and/or disabling of Automake warning categories
253 through the '-W...' options now always takes precedence over the
254 implicit warning level implied by Automake strictness (foreign, gnu
255 or gnits), regardless of the order in which such strictness and
256 warning flags appear. For example, a setting like:
257 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = -Wall --foreign
258 will cause the warnings in category 'portability' to be enabled, even
259 if those warnings are by default disabled in 'foreign' strictness.
261 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
263 Bugs fixed in 1.11.5:
265 * Bugs introduced by 1.11.3:
267 - Vala files with '.vapi' extension are now recognized and handled
268 correctly again. See automake bug#11222.
270 - Vala support work again for projects that contain some program
271 built from '.vala' (and possibly '.c') sources and some other
272 program built from '.c' sources *only*. See automake bug#11229.
274 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
278 * WARNING: Future backward-incompatibilities!
280 - The support for the "obscure" multilib feature has been deprecated,
281 and will be moved out of the automake core in the next major Automake
284 - The support for ".log -> .html" conversion and the check-html and
285 recheck-html targets will be removed in the next major Automake
288 - The obsolescent AM_WITH_REGEX macro has been deprecated (since the
289 GNU rx library has been decommissioned), and will be removed in the
290 next major Automake release (1.12).
292 - The `lzma' compression format for distribution archives has been
293 deprecated in favor of `xz' and `lzip', and will be removed in the
294 next major Automake release (1.12).
296 - The `--acdir' option of aclocal is deprecated, and will probably be
297 removed in the next major Automake release (1.12).
299 - The exact order in which the directories in the aclocal macro
300 search path are looked up is probably going to be changed in the
301 next Automake release (1.12).
303 - The Automake support for automatic de-ANSI-fication will be removed
304 in the next major Automake release (1.12).
306 - Starting from the next Automake release (1.12), warnings in the
307 `extra-portability' category will be enabled by `-Wall' (right now,
308 one has to use `-Wextra-portability' explicitly).
310 * Miscellaneous changes:
312 - The 'ar-lib' script now ignores the "s" (symbol index) and "S" (no
313 symbol index) modifiers as well as the "s" action, as the symbol index
314 is created unconditionally by Microsoft lib. Also, the "q" (quick)
315 action is now a synonym for "r" (replace). Also, the script has been
316 ignoring the "v" (verbose) modifier already since Automake 1.11.3.
318 - When the 'compile' script is used to wrap MSVC, it now accepts an
319 optional space between the -I, -L and -l options and their respective
320 arguments, for better POSIX compliance.
322 - There is an initial, experimental support for automatic dependency
323 tracking with tcc (the Tiny C Compiler). Its associated depmode is
324 currently recognized as "icc" (but this and other details are likely
325 to change in future versions).
327 - Automatic dependency tracking now works also with the IBM XL C/C++
328 compilers, thanks to the new new depmode 'xlc'.
330 Bugs fixed in 1.11.4:
332 * Bugs introduced by 1.11.2:
334 - A definition of 'noinst_PYTHON' before 'python_PYTHON' (or similar)
335 don't cause spurious failures upon "make install" anymore.
337 - The user can now instruct the 'uninstall-info' rule not to update
338 the '${infodir}/dir' file by exporting the environment variable
339 'AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR' to the value "no". This is done for consistency
340 with how the 'install-info' rule operates since automake 1.11.2.
342 * Long-standing bugs:
344 - It is now possible for a foo_SOURCES variable to hold Vala sources
345 together with C header files, as well as with sources and headers for
346 other supported languages (e.g., C++). Previously, only mixing C and
347 Vala sources was supported.
349 - If "aclocal --install" is used, and the first directory specified with
350 '-I' is non-existent, aclocal will now create it before trying to copy
353 - An empty declaration of a "foo_PRIMARY" don't cause anymore the
354 generated install rules to create an empty $(foodir) directory;
355 for example, if Makefile.am contains something like:
359 pkglibexec_SCRIPTS += bar.sh
362 the $(pkglibexec) directory will not be created upon "make install".
364 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
368 * Miscellaneous changes:
370 - Automake's own build system is more silent by default, making use of
371 the 'silent-rules' option.
373 - The master copy of the `gnupload' script is now maintained in gnulib,
376 - The `missing' script doesn't try to wrap calls to `tar' anymore.
378 - "make dist" doesn't wrap `tar' invocations with the `missing' script
379 anymore. Similarly, the obsolescent variable `$(AMTAR)' (which you
380 shouldn't be using BTW ;-) does not invoke the missing script anymore
381 to wrap tar, but simply invokes the `tar' program itself.
383 - "make dist" can now create lzip-compressed tarballs.
385 - In the Automake info documentation, the Top node and the nodes about
386 the invocation of the automake and aclocal programs have been renamed;
387 now, calling "info automake" will open the Top node, while calling
388 "info automake-invocation" and "info aclocal-invocation" will access
389 the nodes about the invocation of respectively automake and aclocal.
391 - Automake is now distributed as a gzip-compressed and an xz-compressed
392 tarball. Previously, bzip2 was used instead of xz.
394 - The last relics of Python 1.5 support have been removed from the
395 AM_PATH_PYTHON macro.
397 - For programs and libraries, automake now detects EXTRA_foo_DEPENDENCIES
398 and adds them to the normal list of dependencies, but without
399 overwriting the foo_DEPENDENCIES variable, which is normally computed
402 Bugs fixed in 1.11.3:
404 * Bugs introduced by 1.11.2:
406 - Automake now correctly recognizes the prefix/primary combination
407 `pkglibexec_SCRIPTS' as valid.
409 - The parallel-tests harness doesn't trip anymore on sed implementations
410 with stricter limits on the length of input lines (problem seen at
413 * Long-standing bugs:
415 - The "deleted header file problem" for *.am files is avoided by stub
416 rules. This allows `make' to trigger a rerun of `automake' also if
417 some previously needed `.am' file has been removed.
419 - The `silent-rules' option now generates working makefiles even
420 for the uncommon `make' implementations that do not support the
421 nested-variables extension to POSIX 2008. For such `make'
422 implementations, whether a build is silent is determined at
423 configure time, and cannot be overridden at make time with
424 `make V=0' or `make V=1'.
426 - Vala support now works better in VPATH setups.
428 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
432 * Changes to aclocal:
434 - The `--acdir' option is deprecated. Now you should use the new options
435 `--automake-acdir' and `--system-acdir' instead.
437 - The `ACLOCAL_PATH' environment variable is now interpreted as a
438 colon-separated list of additional directories to search after the
439 automake internal acdir (by default ${prefix}/share/aclocal-APIVERSION)
440 and before the system acdir (by default ${prefix}/share/aclocal).
442 * Miscellaneous changes:
444 - The Automake support for automatic de-ANSI-fication has been
445 deprecated. It will probably be removed in the next major Automake
448 - The `lzma' compression scheme and associated automake option `dist-lzma'
449 is obsoleted by `xz' and `dist-xz' due to upstream changes.
451 - You may adjust the compression options used in dist-xz and dist-bzip2.
452 The default is now merely -e for xz, but still -9 for bzip; you may
453 specify a different level via the XZ_OPT and BZIP2 envvars respectively.
454 E.g., "make dist-xz XZ_OPT=-7" or "make dist-bzip2 BZIP2=-5"
456 - The `compile' script now converts some options for MSVC for a better
457 user experience. Similarly, the new `ar-lib' script wraps Microsoft lib.
459 - The py-compile script now accepts empty arguments passed to the options
460 `--destdir' and `--basedir', and complains about unrecognized options.
461 Moreover, a non-option argument or a special `--' argument terminates
464 - A developer that needs to pass specific flags to configure at "make
465 distcheck" time can now, and indeed is advised to, do so by defining
466 the developer-reserved makefile variable AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS,
467 instead of the old DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS.
468 The DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS variable should now be reserved for the
469 user; still, the old Makefile.am files that used to define it will
470 still continue to work as before.
472 - New macro AM_PROG_AR that looks for an archiver and wraps it in the new
473 'ar-lib' auxiliary script if the selected archiver is Microsoft lib.
474 This new macro is required for LIBRARIES and LTLIBRARIES when automake
475 is run with -Wextra-portability and -Werror.
477 - When using DejaGnu-based testsuites, the user can extend the `site.exp'
478 file generated by automake-provided rules by defining the special make
479 variable `$(EXTRA_DEJAGNU_SITE_CONFIG)'.
481 - The `install-info' rule can now be instructed not to create/update
482 the `${infodir}/dir' file, by exporting the new environment variable
483 `AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR' to the value "no".
485 Bugs fixed in 1.11.2:
487 * Bugs introduced by 1.11:
489 - The parallel-tests driver no longer produces erroneous results with
490 Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh upon unreadable log files.
492 - The `parallel-tests' test driver does not report spurious successes
493 when used with concurrent FreeBSD make (e.g., "make check -j3").
495 - When the parallel-tests driver is in use, automake now explicitly
496 rejects invalid entries and conditional contents in TEST_EXTENSIONS,
497 instead of issuing confusing and apparently unrelated error messages
498 (e.g., "non-POSIX variable name", "bad characters in variable name",
499 or "redefinition of TEST_EXTENSIONS), or even, in some situations,
500 silently producing broken `Makefile.in' files.
502 - The `silent-rules' option now truly silences all compile rules, even
503 when dependency tracking is disabled. Also, when `silent-rules' is
504 not used, `make' output no longer contains spurious backslash-only
505 lines, thus once again matching what Automake did before 1.11.
507 - The AM_COND_IF macro also works if the shell expression for the
508 conditional is no longer valid for the condition.
510 * Long-standing bugs:
512 - The order of Yacc and Lex flags is fixed to be consistent with other
513 languages: $(AM_YFLAGS) comes before $(YFLAGS), and $(AM_LFLAGS) before
514 $(LFLAGS), so that the user variables override the developer variables.
516 - "make distcheck" now correctly complains also when "make uninstall"
517 leaves one and only one file installed in $(prefix).
519 - A "make uninstall" issued before a "make install", or after a mere
520 "make install-data" or a mere "make install-exec" does not spuriously
523 - Automake now warns about more primary/directory invalid combinations,
524 such as "doc_LIBRARIES" or "pkglib_PROGRAMS".
526 - Rules generated by Automake now try harder to not change any files when
527 `make -n' is invoked. Fixes include compilation of Emacs Lisp, Vala, or
528 Yacc source files and the rule to update config.h.
530 - Several scripts and the parallel-tests testsuite driver now exit with
531 the right exit status upon receiving a signal.
533 - A per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror does not erroneously carry over
534 to the handling of other Makefile.am files.
536 - The code for automatic dependency tracking works around a Solaris
537 make bug triggered by sources containing repeated slashes when the
538 `subdir-objects' option was used.
540 - The makedepend and hp depmodes now work better with VPATH builds.
542 - Java sources specified with check_JAVA are no longer compiled for
543 "make all", but only for "make check".
545 - An usage like "java_JAVA = foo.java" will now cause Automake to warn
546 and error out if `javadir' is undefined, instead of silently producing
547 a broken Makefile.in.
549 - aclocal and automake now honour the configure-time definitions of
550 AUTOCONF and AUTOM4TE when they spawn autoconf or autom4te processes.
552 - The `install-info' recipe no longer tries to guess whether the
553 `install-info' program is from Debian or from GNU, and adaptively
554 change its behaviour; this has proven to be frail and easy to
557 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
559 Bugs fixed in 1.11.1:
561 - Lots of minor bugfixes.
563 * Bugs introduced by 1.11:
565 - The `parallel-tests' test driver works around a GNU make 3.80 bug with
566 trailing white space in the test list (`TESTS = foo $(EMPTY)').
568 * Long standing bugs:
570 - On Darwin 9, `pythondir' and `pyexecdir' pointed below `/Library/Python'
571 even if the `--prefix' argument pointed outside of a system directory.
572 AM_PATH_PYTHON has been fixed to ignore the value returned from python's
573 `get_python_lib' function if it points outside the configured prefix,
574 unless the `--prefix' argument was either `/usr' or below `/System'.
576 - The testsuite does not try to change the mode of `ltmain.sh' files from
577 a Libtool installation (symlinked to test directories) any more.
579 - AM_PROG_GCJ uses AC_CHECK_TOOLS to look for `gcj' now, so that prefixed
580 tools are preferred in a cross-compile setup.
582 - The distribution is tarred up with mode 755 now by the `dist*' targets.
583 This fixes a race condition where untrusted users could modify files
584 in the $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION) distdir before packing if the toplevel
585 build directory was world-searchable. This is CVE-2009-4029.
587 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
591 * Version requirements:
593 - Autoconf 2.62 or greater is required.
595 * Changes to aclocal:
597 - The autoconf version check implemented by aclocal in aclocal.m4
598 (and new in Automake 1.10) is degraded to a warning. This helps
599 in the common case where the Autoconf versions used are compatible.
601 * Changes to automake:
603 - The automake program can run multiple threads for creating most
604 Makefile.in files concurrently, if at least Perl 5.7.2 is available
605 with interpreter-based threads enabled. Set the environment variable
606 AUTOMAKE_JOBS to the maximum number of threads to use, in order to
607 enable this experimental feature.
609 * Changes to Libtool support:
611 - Libtool generic flags are now passed to the install and uninstall
614 - distcheck works with Libtool 2.x even when LT_OUTPUT is used, as
615 config.lt is removed correctly now.
619 - subdir-object mode works now with Fortran (F77, FC, preprocessed
620 Fortran, and Ratfor).
622 - For files with extension .f90, .f95, .f03, or .f08, the flag
623 $(FCFLAGS_f[09]x) computed by AC_FC_SRCEXT is now used in compile rules.
625 - Files with extension .sx are also treated as preprocessed assembler.
627 - The default source file extension (.c) can be overridden with
628 AM_DEFAULT_SOURCE_EXT now.
630 - Python 3.0 is supported now, Python releases prior to 2.0 are no
633 - AM_PATH_PYTHON honors python's idea about the site directory.
635 - There is initial support for the Vala programming language, when using
638 * Miscellaneous changes:
640 - Automake development is done in a git repository on Savannah now, see
642 http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=automake.git
644 A read-only CVS mirror is provided at
646 cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@pserver.git.sv.gnu.org:/automake.git \
647 checkout -d automake HEAD
649 - "make dist" can now create xz-compressed tarballs,
650 as well as (deprecated?) lzma-compressed tarballs.
652 - `automake --add-missing' will by default install the GPLv3 file as
653 COPYING if it is missing. It will also warn that the license file
654 should be added to source control. Note that Automake will never
655 overwrite an existing COPYING file, even when the `--force-missing'
658 - The manual is now distributed under the terms of the GNU FDL 1.3.
660 - Automake ships and installs man pages for automake and aclocal now.
662 - New shorthand `$(pkglibexecdir)' for `$(libexecdir)/@PACKAGE@'.
664 - install-sh supports -C, which does not update the installed file
665 (and its time stamps) if the contents did not change.
667 - The `gnupload' script has been revamped.
669 - The `depcomp' and `compile' scripts now work with MSVC under MSYS.
671 - The targets `install' and `uninstall' are more efficient now, in that
672 for example multiple files from one Automake variable such as
673 `bin_SCRIPTS' are copied in one `install' (or `libtool --mode=install')
674 invocation if they do not have to be renamed.
676 Both install and uninstall may sometimes enter (`cd' into) the target
677 installation directory now, when no build-local scripts are used.
679 Both install and uninstall do not fail anymore but do nothing if an
680 installation directory variable like `bindir' is set to the empty string.
682 For built-in rules, `make install' now fails reliably if installation
683 of a file failed. Conversely, `make uninstall' even succeeds when
684 issued multiple times.
686 These changes may need some adjustments from users: For example,
687 some `install' programs refuse to install multiple copies of the
688 same file in one invocation, so you may need to remove duplicate
689 entries from file lists.
691 Also, within one set of files, say, nobase_data_DATA, the order of
692 installation may be changed, or even unstable among different hosts,
693 due to the use of associative arrays in awk. The increased use of
694 awk matches a similar move in Autoconf to provide for better scaling.
696 Further, most undocumented per-rule install command variables such as
697 binSCRIPT_INSTALL have been removed because they are not needed any
698 more. Packages which use them should be using the appropriate one of
699 INSTALL_{DATA,PROGRAM,SCRIPT} or their install_sh_{DATA,PROGRAM,SCRIPT}
700 counterpart, depending on the type of files and the need for automatic
701 target directory creation.
703 - The "deleted header file problem" for *.m4 files is avoided by
704 stub rules. This allows `make' to trigger a rerun of `aclocal'
705 also if some previously needed macro file has been removed.
707 - Rebuild rules now also work for a removed `subdir/Makefile.in' in
708 an otherwise up to date tree.
710 - The `color-tests' option causes colored test result output on terminals.
712 - The `parallel-tests' option enables a new test driver that allows for
713 parallel test execution, inter-test dependencies, lazy test execution
714 for unit-testing, re-testing only failed tests, and formatted result output
715 as RST (reStructuredText) and HTML. Enabling this option may require some
716 changes to your test suite setup; see the manual for details.
718 - The `silent-rules' option enables Linux kernel-style silent build output.
719 This option requires the widely supported but non-POSIX `make' feature
720 of recursive variable expansion, so do not use it if your package needs
721 to build with `make' implementations that do not support it.
723 To enable less verbose build output, the developer has to use the Automake
724 option `silent-rules' in `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE', or call the `AM_SILENT_RULES'
725 macro. The user may then set the default verbosity by passing the
726 `--enable-silent-rules' option to `configure'. At `make' run time, this
727 default may be overridden using `make V=0' for less verbose, and `make V=1'
728 for backward-compatible verbose output.
730 - New prefix `notrans_' for manpages which should not be transformed
731 by --program-transform.
733 - New macro AM_COND_IF for conditional evaluation and conditional
736 - For AC_CONFIG_LINKS, if source and destination are equal, do not
737 remove the file in a non-VPATH build. Such setups work with Autoconf
740 - AM_MAINTAINER_MODE now allows for an optional argument specifying
743 - AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE may prevent substitution of AC_SUBSTed variables,
744 useful especially for multi-line values.
746 - Automake's early configure-time sanity check now diagnoses an
747 unsafe absolute source directory name and makes configure fail.
749 - The Automake macros and rules cope better with whitespace in the
750 current directory name, as long as the relative path to `configure'
751 does not contain whitespace. To this end, the values of `$(MISSING)'
752 and `$(install_sh)' may contain suitable quoting, and their expansion
753 might need `eval'uation if used outside of a makefile. These
754 undocumented variables may be used in several documented macros such
755 as $(AUTOCONF) or $(MAKEINFO).
759 * Long-standing bugs:
761 - Fix aix dependency tracking for libtool objects.
763 - Work around AIX sh quoting issue in AC_PROG_CC_C_O, leading to
764 unnecessary use of the `compile' script.
766 - For nobase_*_LTLIBRARIES with nonempty directory components, the
767 correct `-rpath' argument is used now.
769 - `config.status --file=Makefile depfiles' now also works with the
770 extra quoting used internally by Autoconf 2.62 and newer
771 (it used to work only without the `--file=' bit).
773 - The `missing' script works better with versioned tool names.
775 - Semantics for `missing help2man' have been revamped:
777 Previously, if `help2man' was not present, `missing help2man' would have
778 the following semantics: if some man page was out of date but present, then
779 a warning would be printed, but the exit status was 0. If the man page was
780 not present at all, then `missing' would create a replacement man page
781 containing an error message, and exit with a status of 2. This does not play
782 well with `make': the next run will see this particular man page as being up
783 to date, and will only error out on the next generated man page, if any;
784 repeat until all pages are done. This was not desirable.
786 These are the new semantics: if some man page is not present, and help2man
787 is not either, then `missing' will warn and generate the replacement page
788 containing the error message, but exit successfully. However, `make dist'
789 will ensure that no such bogus man pages are packaged into a tarball.
791 - Targets provided by automake behave better with `make -n', in that they
792 take care not to create files.
794 - `config.status Makefile... depfiles' works fine again in the presence of
795 disabled dependency tracking.
797 - The default no-op recursive rules for these targets also work with BSD make
798 now: html, install-html, install-dvi, install-pdf, install-pdf, install-info.
800 - `make distcheck' works also when both a directory and some file below it
801 have been added to a distribution variable, such as EXTRA_DIST or *_SOURCES.
803 - Texinfo dvi, ps, pdf, and html output files are not removed upon
804 `make mostlyclean' any more; only the LaTeX by-products are.
806 - Renamed objects also work with the `subdir-objects' option and
807 source file languages which Automake does not know itself.
809 - `automake' now correctly complains about variable assignments which are
810 preceded by a comment, extend over multiple lines with backslash-escaped
811 newlines, and end in a comment sign. Previous versions would silently
812 and wrongly ignore such assignments completely.
814 * Bugs introduced by 1.10:
816 - Fix output of dummy dependency files in presence of post-processed
817 Makefile.in's again, but also cope with long lines.
819 - $(EXEEXT) is automatically appended to filenames of XFAIL_TESTS
820 that have been declared as programs in the same Makefile.
821 This is for consistency with the analogous change to TESTS in 1.10.
823 - Fix order of standard includes to again be `-I. -I$(srcdir)',
824 followed by directories containing config headers.
826 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
830 * Version requirements:
832 - Autoconf 2.60 or greater is required.
834 - Perl 5.6 or greater is required.
836 * Changes to aclocal:
838 - aclocal now also supports -Wmumble and -Wno-mumble options.
840 - `dirlist' entries (for the aclocal search path) may use shell
841 wildcards such as `*', `?', or `[...]'.
843 - aclocal supports an --install option that will cause system-wide
844 third-party macros to be installed in the local directory
845 specified with the first -I flag. This option also uses #serial
846 lines in M4 files to upgrade local macros.
848 The new aclocal options --dry-run and --diff help to review changes
849 before they are installed.
851 - aclocal now outputs an autoconf version check in aclocal.m4 in
852 projects using automake.
854 For a few years, automake and aclocal have been calling autoconf
855 (or its underlying engine autom4te) to accurately retrieve the
856 data they need from configure.ac and its siblings. Doing so can
857 only work if all autotools use the same version of autoconf. For
858 instance a Makefile.in generated by automake for one version of
859 autoconf may stop working if configure is regenerated with another
860 version of autoconf, and vice versa.
862 This new version check ensures that the whole build system has
863 been generated using the same autoconf version.
865 * Support for new Autoconf macros:
867 - The new AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE Autoconf macro is supported.
869 - If `subdir-objects' is set, and AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR is specified,
870 $(LIBOBJS), $(LTLIBOBJS), $(ALLOCA), and $(LTALLOCA) can be used
871 in different directories. However, only one instance of such a
872 library objects directory is supported.
874 * Change to Libtool support:
876 - Libtool generic flags (those that go before the --mode=MODE option)
877 can be specified using AM_LIBTOOLFLAGS and target_LIBTOOLFLAGS.
879 * Yacc and Lex changes:
881 - The rebuild rules for distributed Yacc and Lex output will avoid
882 overwriting existing files if AM_MAINTAINER_MODE and maintainer-mode
885 - ylwrap is now always used for lex and yacc source files,
886 regardless of whether there is more than one source per directory.
890 - Preprocessed assembler (*.S) compilation now honors CPPFLAGS,
891 AM_CPPFLAGS and per-target _CPPFLAGS, and supports dependency
892 tracking, unlike non-preprocessed assembler (*.s).
894 - subdir-object mode works now with Assembler. Automake assumes
895 that the compiler understands `-c -o'.
897 - Preprocessed assembler (*.S) compilation now also honors
898 $(DEFS) $(DEFAULT_INCLUDES) $(INCLUDES).
900 - Improved support for Objective C:
901 - Autoconf's new AC_PROG_OBJC will enable automatic dependency tracking.
902 - A new section of the manual documents the support.
904 - New support for Unified Parallel C:
905 - AM_PROG_UPC looks for a UPC compiler.
906 - A new section of the manual documents the support.
908 - Per-target flags are now correctly handled in link rules.
910 For instance maude_CFLAGS correctly overrides AM_CFLAGS; likewise
911 for maude_LDFLAGS and AM_LDFLAGS. Previous versions bogusly
912 preferred AM_CFLAGS over maude_CFLAGS while linking, and they
913 used both AM_LDFLAGS and maude_LDFLAGS on the same link command.
915 The fix for compiler flags (i.e., using maude_CFLAGS instead of
916 AM_CFLAGS) should not hurt any package since that is how _CFLAGS
917 is expected to work (and actually works during compilation).
919 However using maude_LDFLAGS "instead of" AM_LDFLAGS rather than
920 "in addition to" breaks backward compatibility with older versions.
921 If your package used both variables, as in
923 AM_LDFLAGS = common flags
925 a_LDFLAGS = more flags
928 and assumed *_LDFLAGS would sum up, you should rewrite it as
930 AM_LDFLAGS = common flags
932 a_LDFLAGS = $(AM_LDFLAGS) more flags
935 This new behavior of *_LDFLAGS is more coherent with other
936 per-target variables, and the way *_LDFLAGS variables were
937 considered internally.
939 * New installation targets:
941 - New targets mandated by GNU Coding Standards:
946 By default they will only install Texinfo manuals.
947 You can customize them with *-local variants:
953 - The undocumented recursive target `uninstall-info' no longer exists.
954 (`uninstall' is in charge of removing all possible documentation
955 flavors, including optional formats such as dvi, ps, or info even
956 when `no-installinfo' is used.)
958 * Miscellaneous changes:
960 - Automake no longer complains if input files for AC_CONFIG_FILES
961 are specified using shell variables.
963 - clean, distribution, or rebuild rules are normally disabled for
964 inputs and outputs of AC_CONFIG_FILES, AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, and
965 AC_CONFIG_LINK specified using shell variables. However, if these
966 variables are used as ${VAR}, and AC_SUBSTed, then Automake will
967 be able to output rules anyway.
968 (See the Automake documentation for AC_CONFIG_FILES.)
970 - $(EXEEXT) is automatically appended to filenames of TESTS
971 that have been declared as programs in the same Makefile.
972 This is mostly useful when some check_PROGRAMS are listed in TESTS.
974 - `-Wportability' has finally been turned on by default for `gnu' and
975 `gnits' strictness. This means, automake will complain about %-rules
976 or $(GNU Make functions) unless you switch to `foreign' strictness or
977 use `-Wno-portability'.
979 - Automake now uses AC_PROG_MKDIR_P (new in Autoconf 2.60), and uses
980 $(MKDIR_P) instead of $(mkdir_p) to create directories. The
981 $(mkdir_p) variable is still defined (to the same value as
982 $(MKDIR_P)) but should be considered obsolete. If you are using
983 $(mkdir_p) in some of your rules, please plan to update them to
984 $(MKDIR_P) at some point.
986 - AM_C_PROTOTYPES and ansi2knr are now documented as being obsolete.
987 They still work in this release, but may be withdrawn in a future one.
989 - Inline compilation rules for gcc3-style dependency tracking are
992 - Automake installs a "Hello World!" example package in $(docdir).
993 This example is used throughout the new "Autotools Introduction"
994 chapter of the manual.
996 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1000 * Makefile.in bloat reduction:
1002 - Inference rules are used to compile sources in subdirectories when
1003 the `subdir-objects' option is used and no per-target flags are
1004 used. This should reduce the size of some projects a lot, because
1005 Automake used to output an explicit rule for each such object in
1008 - Automake no longer outputs three rules (.o, .obj, .lo) for each
1009 object that must be built with explicit rules. It just outputs
1010 the rules required to build the kind of object considered: either
1011 the two .o and .obj rules for usual objects, or the .lo rule for
1014 * Change to Libtool support:
1016 - Libtool tags are used with libtool versions that support them.
1017 (I.e., with Libtool 1.5 or greater.)
1019 - Automake is now able to handle setups where a libtool library is
1020 conditionally installed in different directories, as in
1023 lib_LTLIBRARIES = liba.la
1025 pkglib_LTLIBRARIES = liba.la
1027 liba_la_SOURCES = ...
1029 * Changes to aclocal:
1031 - aclocal now ensures that AC_DEFUNs and AU_DEFUNs it discovers are
1032 really evaluated, before it decides to include them in aclocal.m4.
1033 This solves nasty problems with conditional redefinitions of
1034 Autoconf macros in /usr/share/aclocal/*.m4 files causing extraneous
1035 *.m4 files to be included in any project using these macros.
1036 (Calls to AC_PROG_EGREP causing libtool.m4 to be included is the
1037 most famous instance of this bug.)
1039 - Do not complain about missing conditionally AC_REQUIREd macros
1040 that are not actually used. In 1.8.x aclocal would correctly
1041 determine which of these macros were really needed (and include
1042 only these in the package); unfortunately it would also require
1043 all of them to be present in order to run. This created
1044 situations were aclocal would not work on a tarball distributing
1045 all the macros it uses. For instance running aclocal on a project
1046 containing only the subset of the Gettext macros in use by the
1047 project did not work, because gettext conditionally requires other
1050 * Portability improvements:
1052 - Tar format can be chosen with the new options tar-v7, tar-ustar, and
1053 tar-pax. The new option filename-length-max=99 helps diagnosing
1054 filenames that are too long for tar-v7. (PR/414)
1056 - Variables aumented with `+=' are now automatically flattened (i.e.,
1057 trailing backslashes removed) and then wrapped around 80 colummns
1058 (adding trailing backslashes). In previous versions, a long series
1064 would result in a single-line definition of VAR that could possibly
1065 exceed the maximum line length of some make implementations.
1067 Non-augmented variables are still output as they are defined in
1072 - Support Fortran 90/95 with the new "fc" and "ppfc" languages.
1073 Works the same as the old Fortran 77 implementation; just replace
1074 F77 with FC everywhere (exception: FFLAGS becomes FCFLAGS).
1075 Requires a version of autoconf which provides AC_PROG_FC (>=2.59).
1077 - Support for conditional _LISP.
1079 - Support for conditional -hook and -local rules (PR/428).
1081 - Diagnose AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR calls following AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE. (PR/49)
1083 - Automake will not write any Makefile.ins after the first error it
1084 encounters. The previous Makefile.ins (if any) will be left in
1085 place. (Warnings will not prevent output, but remember they can
1086 be turned into errors with -Werror.)
1088 - The restriction that SUBDIRS must contain direct children is gone.
1091 - The manual tells more about SUBDIRS vs. DIST_SUBDIRS.
1092 It also gives an example of nested packages using AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS.
1094 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1096 Bugs fixed in 1.8.5:
1098 * Long-standing bugs:
1100 - Define DIST_SUBDIRS even when the `no-dist' or `cygnus' options are used
1101 so that `make distclean' and `make maintainer-clean' can work.
1103 - Define AR and ARFLAGS even when only EXTRA_LIBRARIES are defined.
1105 - Fix many rules to please FreeBSD make, which runs commands with `sh -e'.
1107 - Polish diagnostic when no input file is found.
1109 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1111 Bugs fixed in 1.8.4:
1113 * Long-standing bugs:
1115 - Fix AM_PATH_PYTHON to correctly display $PYTHON when it has been
1116 overridden by the user.
1118 - Honor PATH_SEPARATOR in various places of the Automake package, for
1121 - Adjust dependency tracking mode detection to ICC 8.0's new output.
1124 - Fix install-sh so it can install the `mv' binary... using `mv'.
1126 - Fix tru64 dependency tracking for libtool objects.
1128 - Work around Exuberant Ctags when creating a TAGS files in a directory
1129 without files to scan but with subdirectories to include.
1131 * Bugs introduced by 1.8:
1133 - Fix an "internal error" when @LIBOBJS@ is used in a variable that is
1134 not defined in the same conditions as the _LDADD that uses it.
1136 - Do not warn when JAVAROOT is overridden, this is legitimate.
1138 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1140 Bugs fixed in 1.8.3:
1142 * Long-standing bugs:
1144 - Quote filenames in installation rules, in case $DESTDIR, $prefix,
1145 or any of the other *dir variables contain a space.
1147 Please note that Automake does not and cannot support spaces in
1148 filenames that are involved during the build. This change affects
1149 only installation paths, so that `make install' does not bomb out
1150 in packages configured with
1151 ./configure --prefix '/c/Program Files'
1153 - Fix the depfiles output so it works with GNU sed (<4.1) even when
1154 POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.
1156 - Do not AC_SUBST(LIBOBJS) in AM_WITH_REGEX. This macro was unusable
1157 since Autoconf 2.54, which defines LIBOBJS itself.
1159 - Fix a potential (but unlikely) race condition in parallel elisp
1160 builds. (Introduced in 1.7.3.)
1162 - Do not assume that users override _DEPENDENCIES in all conditions
1163 where Automake will try to define them.
1165 - Do not use `mkdir -p' in mkinstalldirs, unless this is GNU mkdir.
1166 Solaris 8's `mkdir -p' is not thread-safe and can break parallel
1169 This fix also affects the $(mkdir_p) variable defined since
1170 Automake 1.8. It will be set to `mkdir -p' only if mkdir is GNU
1171 mkdir, and to `mkinstalldirs' or `install-sh -d' otherwise.
1173 - Secure temporary directory creation in `make distcheck'. (PR/413)
1175 - Do not generate two build rules for `parser.h' when the
1176 parser appears in two different conditionals.
1178 - Work around a Solaris 8 /bin/sh bug in the test for dependency
1179 checking. Usually ./configure will not pick this shell; so this
1180 fix only helps cases where the shell is forced to /bin/sh.
1182 * Bugs introduced by 1.8:
1184 - In some situations (hand-written `m4_include's), aclocal would
1185 call the `File::Spec->rel2abs' method, which was only introduced
1186 in Perl 5.6. This new version reestablish support Perl 5.005.
1188 It is likely that the next major Automake releases will require at
1189 least Perl 5.6. Consider upgrading your development environment
1190 if you are still using the five-year-old Perl 5.005.
1192 - Automake would sometimes fail to define rules for targets listed
1193 in variables defined in multiple conditions. For instance on
1199 it would define only the `a.$(OBJEXT): a.c' rule and omit the
1200 `b.$(OBJEXT): b.c' rule.
1202 * New sections in manual:
1204 - Third-Party Makefiles: how to interface third party Makefiles.
1205 - Upgrading: upgrading packages to newer Automake versions.
1206 - Multiple Outputs: handling tools that produce many outputs.
1208 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1212 * A (well known) portability bug slipped in the changes made to
1213 install-sh in Automake 1.8.1. The broken install-sh would refuse to
1214 install anything on Tru64.
1216 * Fix install rules for conditionally built python files. (This never
1219 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1223 * Bugs introduced by 1.8:
1225 - Fix Config.pm import error with old Perl versions (at least
1226 5.005_03). One symptom is that aclocal could not find its macro
1229 - Automake 1.8 used `mkdir -m 0755 -p --' to ensure that directories
1230 created by `make install' are always world readable, even if the
1231 installer happens to have an overly restrictive umask (e.g. 077).
1232 This was a mistake and has been reverted. There are at least two
1233 reasons why we must not use `-m 0755':
1234 - it causes special bits like SGID to be ignored,
1235 - it may be too restrictive (some setups expect 775 directories).
1237 - Fix aclocal to honor definitions located in files which have been
1238 m4_included manually. aclocal 1.8 had been updated to check
1239 m4_included files for new requirements, but forgot that these
1240 m4_included files can also provide new definitions.
1242 Note that if you have such a setup, we recommend you get rid of
1243 it. In the past, there was a reason to m4_include files manually:
1244 aclocal used to duplicate entire M4 files into aclocal.m4, even
1245 files that were distributed. Some packages were therefore
1246 m4_including the distributed file directly, and playing some
1247 tricks to ensure aclocal would not copy that file to aclocal.m4,
1248 in order to limit the amount of duplication. Since aclocal 1.8.x
1249 will precisely output m4_includes for local M4 files, we recommend
1250 that you clean up your setup, removing all manual m4_includes and
1251 letting aclocal output them.
1253 - Output detailed menus in the Info version if the Automake manual,
1254 so that Emacs can locate the indexes.
1256 - configure.ac and configure were listed twice in DIST_COMMON (an
1257 internal variable where Automake lists configury files to
1258 distribute). This was harmless, but unaesthetic.
1260 - Use `chmod a-w' instead of `chmod -w' as the latter honors umask.
1261 This was an issue only in the Automake package itself, not in
1264 - Automake assumed that all AC_CONFIG_LINKS arguments had the form
1265 DEST:SRC. This was wrong, as some packages do
1266 AC_CONFIG_LINKS($computedlinks). This version no longer abort in
1269 - Contrary to mkinstalldirs, $(mkdir_p) was expecting exactly one
1270 argument. This caused two kinds of failures:
1271 - Rules installing data in a conditionally defined directory
1272 failed when that directory was undefined. In this case no
1273 argument was supplied.
1274 - `make installdirs' failed, because several directories were
1275 passed to $(mkdir_p). This was an issue only on platform
1276 were $(mkdir_p) is implemented with `install-sh -d'.
1277 $(mkdir_p) as been changed to accept 0 or more arguments, as
1280 * Long-standing bugs:
1282 - Fix an unexpected diagnostic occurring when users attempt
1283 to override some internal variables that Automake appends to.
1285 - aclocal now scans configure.ac for macro definitions (PR/319).
1287 - Fix a portability issue with OSF1/Tru64 Make. If a directory
1288 distributes files which are outside itself (this usually occurs
1289 when using AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([../dir]) to use auxiliary files
1290 from a parent package), then `make distcheck' fails due to an
1291 optimization performed by OSF1/Tru64 Make in its VPATH handling.
1292 (tests/subpkg2.test failure)
1294 - Fix another portability issue with Sun and OSF1/Tru64 Make.
1295 In a VPATH-build configuration, `make install' would install
1296 nobase_ files to wrong locations.
1298 - Fix a Perl `uninitialized value' diagnostic occurring when
1299 automake complains that a Texinfo file does not have a
1300 @setfilename statement.
1302 - Erase config.status.lineno during `make distclean'. This file
1303 can be created by config.status. Automake already knew about
1304 configure.lineno, but forgot config.status.lineno.
1306 - Distribute all files, even those which are built and installed
1307 conditionally. This change affects files listed in conditionally
1308 defined *_HEADERS and *_PYTHON variable (unless they are nodist_*)
1309 as well as those listed in conditionally defined dist_*_DATA,
1310 dist_*_JAVA, dist_*_LISP, and dist_*_SCRIPTS variables.
1312 - Fix AM_PATH_LISPDIR to avoid \? in sed regular expressions; it
1313 doesn't conform to POSIX.
1315 - Normalize help strings for configure variables and options added
1320 - Check for python2.4 in AM_PATH_PYTHON.
1322 * Spurious failures in test suite:
1324 - tests/libtool5.test, tests/ltcond.test, tests/ltcond2.test,
1325 tests/ltconv.test: fix failures with CVS Libtool.
1326 - tests/aclocal6.test: fix failure if autom4te.cache is disabled.
1327 - tests/txinfo24.test, tests/txinfo25.test, tests/txinfo28.test:
1328 fix failures with old Texinfo versions.
1330 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1336 - The NEWS file is more verbose.
1340 - Autoconf 2.58 or greater is required.
1344 - Default source file names in the absence of a _SOURCES declaration
1345 are made by removing any target extension before appending `.c', so
1346 to make the libtool module `foo.la' from `foo.c', you only need to
1349 lib_LTLIBRARIES = foo.la
1350 foo_la_LDFLAGS = -module
1352 For backward compatibility, foo_la.c will be used instead of
1353 foo.c if this file exists or is the explicit target of a rule.
1354 However -Wobsolete will warn about this deprecated naming.
1356 - AR's `cru' flags are now set in a global ARFLAGS variable instead
1357 of being hard-coded in each $(AR) invocation, so they can be
1358 substituted from configure.ac. This has been requested by people
1359 dealing with non-POSIX ar implementations.
1361 - New warning option: -Woverride. This will warn about any user
1362 target or variable definitions which override Automake
1365 - Texinfo rules back up and restore info files when makeinfo fails.
1367 - Texinfo rules now support the `html' target.
1368 Running this requires Texinfo 4.0 or greater.
1370 `html' is a new recursive target, so if your package mixes
1371 hand-crafted `Makefile.in's with Automake-generated
1372 `Makefile.in's, you should adjust the former to support (or
1373 ignore) this target so that `make html' recurses successfully. If
1374 you had a custom `html' rule in your `Makefile.am', it's better to
1375 rename it as `html-local', otherwise your rule will override
1376 Automake's new rule (you can check that by running `automake
1377 -Woverride') and that will stop the recursion to subdirectories.
1379 Last but not least, this `html' rule is declared PHONY, even when
1380 overridden. Fortunately, it appears that few packages use a
1381 non-PHONY `html' rule.
1383 - Any file which is m4_included from configure.ac will appear as a
1384 configure and Makefile.in dependency, and will be automatically
1387 - The rules for rebuilding Makefiles and Makefile.ins will now
1388 rebuild all Makefiles and all Makefile.ins at once when one of
1389 configure's dependencies has changed. This is considerably faster
1390 than previous implementations, where config.status and automake
1391 were run separately in each directory (this still happens when you
1392 change a Makefile.am locally, without touching configure.ac or
1393 friends). Doing this also solves a longstanding issue: these
1394 rebuild rules failed to work when adding new directories to the
1395 tree, forcing you to run automake manually.
1397 - For similar reasons, the rules to rebuild configure,
1398 config.status, and aclocal.m4 are now defined in all directories.
1399 Note that if you were using the CONFIG_STATUS_DEPENDENCIES and
1400 CONFIGURE_DEPENDENCIES (formerly undocumented) variables, you
1401 should better define them in all directories. This is easily done
1402 using an AC_SUBST (make sure you prefix these dependencies with
1403 $(top_srcdir) since this variable will appear at different
1404 levels of the build tree).
1406 - aclocal will now use `m4_include' instead of copying local m4
1407 files into aclocal.m4. (Local m4 files are those you ship with
1408 your project, other files will be copied as usual.)
1410 Because m4_included files are automatically distributed, it means
1411 for most projects there is no point in EXTRA_DISTing the list of
1412 m4 files which are used. (You can probably get rid of
1413 m4/Makefile.am if you had one.)
1415 - aclocal will avoid touching aclocal.m4 when possible, so that
1416 Autom4te's cache isn't needlessly invalidated. This behavior can
1417 be switched off with the new `--force' option.
1419 - aclocal now uses Autoconf's --trace to detect macros which are
1420 actually used and will no longer include unused macros simply
1421 because they where mentioned. This was often the case for macros
1422 called conditionally.
1424 - New options no-dist and no-dist-gzip.
1426 - compile, depcomp, elisp-comp, install-sh, mdate-sh, mkinstalldirs,
1427 py-compile, and ylwrap, now all understand --version and --help.
1429 - Automake will now recognize AC_CONFIG_LINKS so far as removing created
1430 links as part of the distclean target and including source files in
1433 - AM_PATH_PYTHON now supports ACTION-IF-FOUND and ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND
1434 argument. The latter can be used to override the default behavior
1435 (which is to abort).
1437 - Automake will exit with $? = 63 on version mismatch. (So does
1438 Autoconf 2.58) missing knows this, and in this case it will
1439 emulate the tools as if they were absent. Because older versions
1440 of Automake and Autoconf did not use this exit code, this change
1441 will only be useful in projects generated with future versions of
1444 - When using AC_CONFIG_FILES with multiple input files, Automake
1445 generates the first ".in" input file for which a ".am" exists.
1446 (Former versions would try to use only the first input file.)
1448 - lisp_DATA is now allowed. If you are using the empty ELCFILES
1449 idiom to disable byte-compilation of lisp_LISP files, it is
1450 recommended that you switch to using lisp_DATA. Note that
1451 this is not strictly equivalent: lisp_DATA will install elisp
1452 files even if emacs is not installed, while *_LISP do not
1453 install anything unless emacs is found.
1455 - Makefiles will prefer `mkdir -p' over mkinstalldirs if it is
1456 available. This selection is achieved through the Makefile
1457 variable $(mkdir_p) that is set by AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE to either
1458 `mkdir -m 0755 -p --', `$(mkinstalldirs) -m 0755', or
1459 `$(install_sh) -m 0755 -d'.
1463 - Because `mkdir -p' is available on most platforms, and we can use
1464 `install-sh -d' when it is not, the use of the mkinstalldirs
1465 script is being phased out. `automake --add-missing' no longer
1466 installs it, and if you remove mkinstalldirs from your package,
1467 automake will define $(mkinstalldirs) as an alias for $(mkdir_p).
1469 Gettext 0.12.1 still requires mkinstalldirs. Fortunately
1470 gettextize and autopoint will install it when needed. Automake
1471 will continue to define the $(mkinstalldirs) and to distribute
1472 mkinstalldirs when this script is in the source tree.
1474 - AM_PROG_CC_STDC is now empty. The content of this macro was
1475 merged in AC_PROG_CC. If your code uses $am_cv_prog_cc_stdc, you
1476 should adjust it to use $ac_cv_prog_cc_stdc instead. (This
1477 renaming should be safe, even if you have to support several,
1478 versions of Automake, because AC_PROG_CC defines this variable
1479 since Autoconf 2.54.)
1481 - Some users where using the undocumented ACLOCAL_M4_SOURCES
1482 variable to override the aclocal.m4 dependencies computed
1483 (inaccurately) by older versions of Automake. Because Automake
1484 now tracks configure's m4 dependencies accurately (see m4_include
1485 above), the use of ACLOCAL_M4_SOURCES should be considered
1486 obsolete and will be flagged as such when running `automake
1491 - Defining programs conditionally using Automake conditionals no
1492 longer leads to a combinatorial explosion. The following
1493 construct used to be troublesome when used with dozens of
1508 Likewise for _SOURCES, _LDADD, and _LIBADD variables.
1510 - Due to implementation constraints, previous versions of Automake
1511 proscribed multiple conditional definitions of some variables
1521 All _PROGRAMS, _LDADD, and _LIBADD variables were affected.
1522 This restriction has been lifted, and these variables now
1523 support multiple conditional definitions as do other variables.
1525 - Cleanup the definitions of $(distdir) and $(top_distdir).
1526 $(top_distdir) now points to the root of the distribution
1527 directory created during `make dist', as it did in Automake 1.4,
1528 not to the root of the build tree as it did in intervening
1529 versions. Furthermore these two variables are now only defined in
1530 the top level Makefile, and passed to sub-directories when running
1533 - The --no-force option now correctly checks the Makefile.in's
1534 dependencies before deciding not to update it.
1536 - Do not assume that make files are called Makefile in cleaning rules.
1538 - Update .info files in the source tree, not in the build tree. This
1539 is what the GNU Coding Standard recommend. Only Automake 1.7.x
1540 used to update these files in the build tree (previous versions did
1541 it in the source tree too), and it caused several problems, varying
1542 from mere annoyance to portability issues.
1544 - COPYING, COPYING.LIB, and COPYING.LESSER are no longer overwritten
1545 when --add-missing and --force-missing are used. For backward
1546 compatibility --add-missing will continue to install COPYING (in
1547 `gnu' strictness) when none of these three files exist, but this
1548 use is deprecated: you should better choose a license yourself and
1549 install it once for all in your source tree (and in your code
1552 - Fix ylwrap so that it does not overwrite header files that haven't
1553 changed, as the inline rule already does.
1555 - User-defined rules override automake-defined rules for the same
1556 targets, even when rules do not have commands. This is not new
1557 (and was documented), however some of the automake-generated
1558 rules have escaped this principle in former Automake versions.
1559 Rules for the following targets are affected by this fix:
1561 clean, clean-am, dist-all, distclean, distclean-am, dvi, dvi-am,
1562 info, info-am, install-data-am, install-exec-am, install-info,
1563 install-info-am, install-man, installcheck-am, maintainer-clean,
1564 maintainer-clean-am, mostlyclean, mostlyclean-am, pdf, pdf-am,
1565 ps, ps-am, uninstall-am, uninstall-info, uninstall-man
1567 Practically it means that an attempt to supplement the dependencies
1568 of some target, as in
1570 clean: my-clean-rule
1572 will now *silently override* the automake definition of the
1573 rule for this target. Running `automake -Woverride' will diagnose
1574 all such overriding definitions.
1576 It should be noted that almost all these targets support a *-local
1577 variant that is meant to supplement the automake-defined rule
1578 (See node `Extending' in the manual). The above rule should
1581 clean-local: my-clean-rule
1583 These *-local targets have been documented since at least
1584 Automake 1.2, so you should not fear the change if you have
1585 to support multiple automake versions.
1589 - The Automake manual is now distributed under the terms of the GNU FDL.
1591 - Targets dist-gzip, dist-bzip2, dist-tarZ, dist-zip are always defined.
1593 - core dumps are no longer removed by the cleaning rules. There are
1594 at least three reasons for this:
1595 1. These files should not be created by any build step,
1596 so their removal do not fit any of the cleaning rules.
1597 Actually, they may be precious to the developer.
1598 2. If such file is created during a build, then it's clearly a
1599 bug Automake should not hide. Not removing the file will
1600 cause `make distcheck' to complain about its presence.
1601 3. Operating systems have different naming conventions for
1602 core dump files. A core file on one system might be a
1603 completely legitimate data file on another system.
1605 - RUNTESTFLAGS, CTAGSFLAGS, ETAGSFLAGS, JAVACFLAGS are no longer
1606 defined by Automake. This means that any definition in the
1607 environment will be used, unless overridden in the Makefile.am or
1608 on the command line. The old behavior, where these variables were
1609 defined empty in each Makefile, can be obtained by AC_SUBSTing or
1610 AC_ARG_VARing each variable from configure.ac.
1612 - CONFIGURE_DEPENDENCIES and CONFIG_STATUS_DEPENDENCIES are now
1613 documented. (The is not a new feature, these variables have
1614 been there since at least Automake 1.4.)
1616 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1618 Bugs fixed in 1.7.9:
1619 * Fix install-strip to work with nobase_ binaries.
1620 * Fix renaming of #line directives in ylwrap.
1621 * Rebuild with Autoconf 2.59. (1.7.8 was not installable with pdksh.)
1623 Bugs fixed in 1.7.8:
1624 * Remove spurious blank lines in cleaning rules introduced in 1.7.7.
1625 * Fix detection of Debian's install-info, broken since version 1.5.
1626 (Debian bug #213524).
1627 * Honor -module if it appears in AM_LDFLAGS (i.e., relax name checking)
1628 This was only done for libfoo_LDFLAGS and LDFLAGS in previous versions.
1630 Bugs fixed in 1.7.7:
1631 * The implementation of automake's --no-force option is unreliable,
1632 so this option is ignored in this version. A real fix will appear in
1633 Automake 1.8. (Debian Bug #206299)
1634 * AM_PATH_PYTHON: really check the whole list of interpreters if no
1635 argument is given. (PR/399)
1636 * Do not warn about leading `_' in variable names, even with -Wportability.
1637 * Support user redefinitions of TEXINFO_TEX.
1638 * depcomp: support AIX Compiler version 6.
1639 * Fix missing rebuilds during `make dist' with BSD make.
1640 (Could produce tarballs containing out-of-date files.)
1641 * Resurrect multilib support.
1642 * Noteworthy manual updates:
1643 - Extending aclocal: how to write m4 macros that won't trigger warnings
1645 - A Shared Library: Rewrite and split into subsections.
1647 Bugs fixed in 1.7.6:
1648 * Fix depcomp's icc mode for ICC 7.1.
1649 * Diagnose calls to AC_CONFIG_FILES and friends with not enough arguments.
1650 * Fix maintainer-clean's removal of autom4te.cache in VPATH builds.
1651 * Fix AM_PATH_LISPDIR to work with POSIXLY_CORRECT=1.
1652 * Fix the location reported in some diagnostics related to AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
1653 * Remove Latin-1 characters from elisp-comp.
1654 * Update the manual's @dircategory to match the Free Software Directory.
1656 Bugs fixed in 1.7.5:
1657 * Update install-sh's license to remove an advertising clause.
1658 (Debian bug #191717)
1659 * Fix a bug introduced in 1.7.4, related to BUILT_SOURCE handling,
1660 that caused invalid Makefile.ins to be generated.
1661 * Make sure AM_MAKE_INCLUDE doesn't fail when a `doit' file exists.
1662 * New FAQ entry: renamed objects.
1664 Bugs fixed in 1.7.4:
1665 * Tweak the TAGS rule to support Exuberant Ctags (in addition to
1666 the Emacs implementation)
1667 * Fix output of aclocal.m4 dependencies in subdirectories.
1668 * Use `mv -f' instead of `mv' in fastdep rules.
1669 * Upgrade mdate-sh to work on OS/2.
1670 * Don't byte-compile elisp files when ELCFILES is set empty.
1671 (this documented feature was broken by 1.7.3)
1672 * Diagnose trailing backslashes on last line of Makefile.am.
1673 * Diagnose whitespace following trailing backslashes.
1674 * Multiple tests are now correctly supported in DEJATOOL. (PR/388)
1675 * Fix rebuilt rules for AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile:Makefile.in:Makefile.bot])
1677 * `make install' will build `BUILT_SOURCES' first.
1678 * Minor documentation fixes.
1680 Bugs fixed in 1.7.3:
1681 * Fix stamp files numbering (when using multiple AC_CONFIG_HEADERS).
1682 * Query distutils for `pythondir' and `pythonexecdir', instead of
1683 using an hardcoded path. This should allow builds on 64-bit
1684 distributions that usually use lib64/ instead of lib/.
1685 * AM_PATH_PYTHON will also search for python2.3.
1686 * elisp files are now built all at once instead of one by one. Besides
1687 incurring a speed-up, this is required to support interdependent elisp files.
1688 * Support for DJGPP:
1689 - `make distcheck' will now work in `_inst/' and `_build' instead
1690 of `=inst/' and `=build/'
1691 - use `_dirstamp' when the file-system doesn't support `.dirstamp'
1692 - install/uninstall `*.i[0-9][0-9]'-style info files
1693 - more changes that affect only the Automake package (not its output)
1694 * Fix some incompatibilities with upcoming perl-5.10.
1695 * Properly quote AC_PACKAGE_TARNAME and AC_PACKAGE_VERSION when defining
1696 PACKAGE and VERSION.
1698 - dashmstdout and dashXmstdout modes: don't use `-o /dev/null', this
1699 is troublesome with gcc and Solaris compilers. (PR/385)
1700 - makedepend mode: work with Libtool. (PR/385 too)
1702 * better support for unusual gettext setups, such as multiple po/ directories
1704 - Flag missing po/ and intl/ directories as warnings, not errors.
1705 - Disable these warnings if po/ does not exist.
1706 * Noteworthy manual updates:
1708 - Document how AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR interacts with missing files.
1710 - Document `AM_YFLAGS = -d'. (PR/382)
1712 Bugs fixed in 1.7.2:
1713 * Fix installation and uninstallation of Info files built in subdirectories.
1714 * Do not run `./configure --with-included-gettext' during `make distcheck'
1715 if AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external]) is used.
1716 * Correctly uninstall renamed man pages.
1717 * Do not strip escaped newline in variables defined in one condition
1718 and augmented in another condition.
1719 * Fix ansi2knr rules for LIBOBJS sources.
1720 * Clean all known Texinfo index files, not only those which appear to
1721 be used, because we cannot know which indexes are used in included files.
1722 (PR/375, Debian Bug #168671)
1723 * Honor only the first @setfilename seen in a Texinfo file.
1724 * Treat "required file X not found" diagnostics as errors (exit status 1).
1725 * Don't complain that a required file is not found when it is a Makefile
1727 * Don't use single suffix inference rules when building `.info'-less
1728 Info files, for the sake of Solaris make.
1729 * The `check' target now depends on `$(BUILT_SOURCES)'. (PR/359)
1730 * Recognize multiple inference rules such as `.a.b .c.d:'. (PR/371)
1731 * Warn about multiple inference rules when -Wportability is used. (PR/372)
1732 * Fix building of deansified files from subdirectories. (PR/370)
1733 * Add missing `fi' in the .c->.obj rules.
1734 * Improve install-sh to work even when names contain spaces or certain
1735 (but not all) shell metachars.
1736 * Fix the following spurious failures in the test suite:
1737 depcomp2.test, gnits2.test, gnits3.test, python3.test, texinfo13.test
1738 * Noteworthy manual updates:
1739 - Augment the section about BUILT_SOURCES.
1740 - Mention that AM_PROG_CC_STDC is a relic that is better avoided today.
1742 Bugs fixed in 1.7.1:
1743 * Honor `ansi2knr' for files built in subdirectories, or using per-targets
1745 * Aclocal should now recognize macro names containing parentheses, e.g.
1746 AC_DEFUN([AC_LANG_PREPROC(Fortran 90)], [...]).
1747 * Erase *.sum and *.log files created by DejaGnu, during `make distclean'.
1749 * Install Python files even if they were built. (PR/369)
1750 * Have stamp-vti dependent upon configure instead of configure.ac, as the
1751 version might not be defined in the latter. (PR/358)
1752 * Reorder arguments passed to a couple of commands, so things works
1753 when POSIXLY_CORRECT=1.
1754 * Fix a regex that can cause Perl to segfault on large input.
1756 * Fix distribution of packages that have some sources defined conditionally,
1757 as in the `Conditional compilation using Automake conditionals' example
1759 * Fix spurious test suite failures on IRIX.
1760 * Don't report a required variable as undefined if it has been
1761 defined conditionally for the "right" conditions.
1762 * Fix cleaning of the /tmp subdirectory used by `make distcheck', in case
1763 `make distcheck' fails.
1764 * Fix distribution of included Makefile fragment, so we don't create
1765 spurious directories in the distribution. (PR/366)
1766 * Don't complain that a target lacks `.$(EXEEXT)' when it has it.
1769 * Autoconf 2.54 is required.
1770 * `aclocal' and `automake' will no longer warn about obsolete
1771 configure macros. This is done by `autoconf -Wobsolete'.
1772 * AM_CONFIG_HEADER, AM_SYS_POSIX_TERMIOS and
1773 AM_HEADER_TIOCGWINSZ_NEEDS_SYS_IOCTL are obsolete (although still
1774 supported). You should use AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, AC_SYS_POSIX_TERMIOS,
1775 and AC_HEADER_TIOCGWINSZ instead. `autoupdate' can upgrade
1776 `configure.ac' for you.
1777 * Support for per-program and per-library `_CPPFLAGS'.
1778 * New `ctags' target (builds CTAGS files).
1779 * Support for -Wmumble and -Wno-mumble, where mumble is a warning category
1780 (see `automake --help' or the manual for a list of them).
1781 * Honor the WARNINGS environment variable.
1782 * Omit the call to depcomp when using gcc3: call the compiler directly.
1783 * A new option, std-options, tests that programs support --help and --version
1784 when `make installcheck' is run. This is enabled by --gnits.
1785 * Texinfo rules now support the `ps' and `pdf' targets.
1786 * Info files are now created in the build directory, not the source directory.
1787 * info_TEXINFOS supports files in subdirectories (this requires Texinfo 4.1
1789 * `make distcheck' will enforce DESTDIR support by attempting
1791 * `+=' can be used in conditionals, even if the augmented variable
1792 was defined for another condition.
1793 * Makefile fragments (inserted with `include') are always distributed.
1794 * Use Autoconf's --trace interface to inspect configure.ac and get
1795 a more accurate view of it.
1796 * Add support for extending aclocal's default macro search path
1797 using a `dirlist' file within the aclocal directory.
1798 * automake --output-dir is deprecated.
1799 * The part of the distcheck target that checks whether uninstall actually
1800 removes all installed files has been moved in a separate target,
1801 distuninstallcheck, so it can be overridden easily.
1805 * Support for AM_INIT_GETTEXT([external])
1806 * Bug fixes, including:
1807 - Fix Automake's own `make install' so it works even if `ln' doesn't.
1808 - nobase_ programs and scripts honor --program-transform correctly.
1809 - Erase configure.lineno during `make distclean'.
1810 - Erase YACC and LEX outputs during `make maintainer-clean'.
1813 * Many bug fixes, including:
1814 - Requiring the current version works.
1815 - Fix "$@" portability issues (for Zsh).
1816 - Fix output of dummy dependency files in presence of post-processed
1818 - Don't compute dependencies in background to avoid races with libtool.
1819 - Fix handling of _OBJECTS variables for targets sharing source variables.
1820 - Check dependency mode for Java when AM_PROG_GCJ is used.
1823 * automake --output-dir is deprecated
1824 * Many bug fixes, including:
1825 - Don't choke on AM_LDFLAGS definitions.
1826 - Clean libtool objects from subdirectories.
1827 - Allow configure variables with reserved suffix and unknown prefix
1828 (e.g. AC_SUBST(mumble_LDFLAGS) when 'mumble' is not a target).
1829 - Fix the definition of AUTOMAKE and ACLOCAL in configure.
1832 * Autoconf 2.52 is required.
1833 * automake no longer run libtoolize.
1834 This is the job of autoreconf (from GNU Autoconf).
1835 * `dist' generates all the archive flavors, as did `dist-all'.
1836 * `dist-gzip' generates the Gzip tar file only.
1837 * Combining Automake Makefile conditionals no longer lead to a combinatorial
1838 explosion. Makefile.in's keep a reasonable size.
1839 * AM_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE, AM_FUNC_STRTOD, AM_FUNC_OBSTACK, AM_PTRDIFF_T
1840 are no longer shipped, since Autoconf 2.52 provides them (both as AM_
1842 * `#line' of Lex and Yacc files are properly set.
1843 * EXTRA_DIST can contain generated directories.
1844 * Support for dot-less extensions in suffix rules.
1845 * The part of the distcheck target that checks whether distclean actually
1846 cleans all built files has been moved in a separate target, distcleancheck,
1847 so it can be overridden easily.
1848 * `make distcheck' will pass additional options defined in
1849 $(DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS) to configure.
1850 * Fixed CDPATH portability problems, in particular for MacOS X.
1851 * Fixed handling of nobase_ targets.
1852 * Fixed support of implicit rules leading to .lo objects.
1853 * Fixed late inclusion of --add-missing files (e.g. depcomp) in DIST_COMMON
1854 * Added uninstall-hook target
1855 * `AC_INIT AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(tarname,version)' is an obsolete construct.
1856 You can now use `AC_INIT(pkgname,version) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' instead.
1857 (Note that "pkgname" is not "tarname", see the manual for details.)
1858 It is also possible to pass a list of global Automake options as
1859 first argument to this new form of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
1860 * Compiler-based assembler is now called `CCAS'; people expected `AS'
1861 to be a real assembler.
1862 * AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE will set STRIP itself when it needs it. Adding
1863 AC_CHECK_TOOL([STRIP], [strip]) manually is no longer required.
1864 * aclocal and automake are also installed with the version number
1865 appended, and some of the install directory names have changed.
1866 This lets you have multiple versions installed simultaneously.
1867 * Support for parsers and lexers in subdirectories.
1870 * Support for `configure.ac'.
1871 * Support for `else COND', `endif COND' and negated conditions `!COND'.
1872 * `make dist-all' is much faster.
1873 * Allows '@' AC_SUBSTs in macro names.
1874 * Faster AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (requires update of `missing' script)
1875 * User-side dependency tracking. Developers no longer need GNU make
1877 * Uses DIST_SUBDIRS in some situations when SUBDIRS is conditional
1878 * Most files are correctly handled if they appear in subdirs
1879 For instance, a _DATA file can appear in a subdir
1880 * GNU tar is no longer required for `make dist'
1881 * Added support for `dist_' and `nodist_' prefixes
1882 * Added support for `nobase_' prefix
1883 * Compiled Java support
1884 * Support for per-executable and per-library compilation flags
1888 * Added support for the Fortran 77 programming language.
1889 * Re-indexed the Automake Texinfo manual.
1890 * Added `AM_FOOFLAGS' variable for each compiler invocation;
1891 e.g. AM_CFLAGS can be used in Makefile.am to set C compiler flags
1892 * Support for latest autoconf, including support for objext
1893 * Can now put `.' in SUBDIRS to control build order
1894 * `include' command and `+=' support for macro assignment
1895 * Dependency tracking no long susceptible to deleted header file problem
1896 * Maintainer mode now a conditional. @MAINT@ is now an anachronism.
1901 * Better Cygwin32 support
1902 * Support for suffix rules with _SOURCES variables
1903 * New options `readme-alpha' and `check-news'; Gnits mode sets these
1904 * @LEXLIB@ no longer required when lex source seen
1905 Lex support in `missing', and new lex macro. Update your missing script.
1906 * Built-in support for assembly
1907 * aclocal gives error if `AM_' macro not found
1908 * Passed YFLAGS, not YACCFLAGS, to yacc
1909 * AM_PROG_CC_STDC does not have to come before AC_PROG_CPP
1910 * Dependencies computed as a side effect of compilation
1911 * Preliminary support for Java
1912 * DESTDIR support at "make install" time
1913 * Improved ansi2knr support; you must use the latest ansi2knr.c (included)
1917 * Better DejaGnu support
1918 * Added no-installinfo option
1919 * Added Emacs Lisp support
1920 * Added --no-force option
1921 * Included `aclocal' program
1922 * Automake will now generate rules to regenerate aclocal.m4, if appropriate
1923 * Now uses `AM_' macro names everywhere
1924 * ansi2knr option can have directory prefix (eg `../lib/ansi2knr')
1925 ansi2knr now works correctly on K&R sources
1926 * Better C++, yacc, lex support
1927 * Will compute _DEPENDENCIES variables automatically if not supplied
1928 * Will interpolate $(...) and ${...} when examining contents of a variable
1929 * .deps files now in build directory, not source directory; dependency
1930 handling generally rewritten
1931 * DATA, MANS and BUILT_SOURCES no longer included in distribution
1932 * can now put config.h into a subdir
1933 * Added dist-all target
1934 * Support for install-info program (see texinfo 3.9)
1935 * Support for "yacc -d"
1936 * configure substitutions are automatically discovered and included
1937 in generated Makefile.in
1938 * Special --cygnus mode
1939 * OMIT_DEPENDENCIES can now hold list of dependencies to be omitted
1940 when making distribution. Some dependencies are auto-ignored.
1941 * Changed how libraries are specified in _LIBRARIES variable
1942 * Full libtool support, from Gord Matzigkeit
1943 * No longer have to explicitly touch stamp-h when using AC_CONFIG_HEADER;
1944 AM_CONFIG_HEADER handles it automatically
1945 * Texinfo output files no longer need .info extension
1946 * Added `missing' support
1948 * Conditionals in Makefile.am, from Ian Taylor
1952 * distcheck target runs install and installcheck targets
1953 * Added preliminary support for DejaGnu.
1958 * More libtool fixes from Gord Matzigkeit; libtool support is still
1960 * Added support for jm_MAINTAINER_MODE
1962 * New "distcheck" target
1966 * mkinstalldirs and mdate-sh now appear in directory specified by
1968 * Removed DIST_SUBDIRS, DIST_OTHER
1969 * AC_ARG_PROGRAM only required when an actual program exists
1970 * dist-hook target now run before distribution packaged up; idea from
1971 Dieter Baron. Other hooks exist, too.
1972 * Preliminary (unfinished) support for libtool
1973 * Added short option names.
1974 * Better "dist" support when gluing together multiple packages
1978 * Documentation updates (many from François Pinard)
1979 * strictness `normal' now renamed to `foreign'
1980 * Renamed --install-missing to --add-missing
1981 * Now handles AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR
1982 * Now handles TESTS macro
1983 * DIST_OTHER renamed to EXTRA_DIST
1984 * DIST_SUBDIRS is deprecated
1985 * @ALLOCA@ and @LIBOBJS@ now work in _LDADD variables
1986 * Better error messages in many cases
1987 * Program names are canonicalized
1988 * Added "check" prefix; from Gord Matzigkeit
1992 * configure.in scanner knows about AC_PATH_XTRA, AC_OUTPUT ":" syntax
1993 * Beginnings of a test suite
1994 * Automatically adds -I options for $(srcdir), ".", and path to config.h
1995 * Doesn't print anything when running
1996 * Beginnings of MAINT_CHARSET support
1997 * Can specify version in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS
1998 * Most errors recognizable by Emacs' M-x next-error
1999 * Added --verbose option
2000 * All "primary" variables now obsolete; use EXTRA_PRIMARY to supply
2001 configure-generated names
2002 * Required macros now distributed in aclocal.m4
2004 * --strictness=gnu is default
2008 * More sophisticated configure.in scanning; now understands ALLOCA and
2009 LIBOBJS directly, handles AC_CONFIG_HEADER more precisely, etc.
2010 * TEXINFOS and MANS now obsolete; use info_TEXINFOS and man_MANS instead.
2011 * CONFIG_HEADER variable now obsolete
2012 * Can handle multiple Texinfo sources
2013 * Allow hierarchies deeper than 2. From Gord Matzigkeit.
2014 * HEADERS variable no longer needed; now can put .h files directly into
2015 foo_SOURCES variable.
2016 * Automake automatically rebuilds files listed in AC_OUTPUT. The
2017 corresponding ".in" files are included in the distribution.
2020 * Added --gnu and --gnits options
2021 * More standards checking
2023 * Cleaned up 'dist' targets
2024 * Added AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS variable and several options
2025 * Now scans configure.in to get some information (preliminary)
2028 * Works with Perl 4 again
2031 * Added --install-missing option.
2032 * Pretty-prints generated macros and rules
2033 * Comments in Makefile.am are placed more intelligently in Makefile.in
2034 * Generates .PHONY target
2035 * Rule or macro in Makefile.am now overrides contents of Automake file
2036 * Substantial cleanups from François Pinard
2040 * Works with Perl 4 again.
2043 * New uniform naming scheme.
2044 * --strictness option
2046 * '.c' files corresponding to '.y' or '.l' files are automatically
2048 * Many bug fixes and cleanups
2051 * Allow objects to be conditionally included in libraries via lib_LIBADD.
2054 * Bug fixes in 'clean' code.
2055 * Now generates 'installdirs' target.
2056 * man page installation reworked.
2057 * 'make dist' no longer re-creates all Makefile.in's.
2060 * Reimplemented in Perl
2061 * Added --amdir option (for debugging)
2062 * Texinfo support cleaned up.
2063 * Automatic de-ANSI-fication cleaned up.
2064 * Cleaned up 'clean' targets.
2067 * Automatic dependency tracking
2068 * More documentation
2069 * New variables DATA and PACKAGEDATA
2070 * SCRIPTS installed using $(INSTALL_SCRIPT)
2071 * No longer uses double-colon rules
2073 * Changes in advance of internationalization
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