-New in 1.11.0a:
+New in 1.11a:
-* WARNING: Future backward-incompatibilities!
-
- - The Automake support for automatic de-ANSI-fication will be removed in
- the next major Automake release (1.12).
+* Changes to automake:
- - The `--acdir' option of aclocal is deprecated, and will probably be
- removed in the next major Automake release (1.12).
+ - automake now generates silenced rules for texinfo outputs.
- - The exact order in which the directories in the aclocal macro
- search path are looked up is probably going to be changed in the
- next Automake release (1.12).
+ - The deprecated options `--output-dir', `--Werror' and `--Wno-error'
+ have been removed.
* Changes to aclocal:
automake internal acdir (by default ${prefix}/share/aclocal-APIVERSION)
and before the system acdir (by default ${prefix}/share/aclocal).
+ - The exact order in which the directories in the aclocal macro
+ search path are looked up is probably going to be changed in the
+ next Automake release (1.12).
+
+* New targets:
+
+ - New `cscope' target to build a cscope database for the source tree.
+
* Miscellaneous changes:
+ - The `dist' and `dist-all' targets now can run compressors in parallel.
+
- The `lzma' compression scheme and associated automake option `dist-lzma'
is obsoleted by `xz' and `dist-xz' due to upstream changes.
+ - "make dist" can now create lzip-compressed tarballs.
+
- You may adjust the compression options used in dist-xz and dist-bzip2.
The default is now merely -e for xz, but still -9 for bzip; you may
specify a different level via the XZ_OPT and BZIP2 envvars respectively.
E.g., "make dist-xz XZ_OPT=-7" or "make dist-bzip2 BZIP2=-5"
+ - Messages of types warning or error from `automake' and `aclocal' are now
+ prefixed with the respective type, and presence of -Werror is noted.
+
+ - The `compile' script now converts some options for MSVC for a better
+ user experience. Similarly, the new `ar-lib' script wraps Microsoft lib.
+
+ - Automake's early configure-time sanity check now tries to avoid sleeping
+ for a second, which slowed down cached configure runs noticeably. In that
+ case, it will check back at the end of the configure script to ensure that
+ at least one second has passed, to avoid time stamp issues with makefile
+ rules rerunning autotools programs.
+
+ - For programs and libraries, automake now detects EXTRA_foo_DEPENDENCIES and
+ adds them to the normal list of dependencies, but without overwriting the
+ foo_DEPENDENCIES variable, which is normally computed by automake.
+
+ - C source and header files derived from non-distributed Yacc sources are
+ now removed by "make clean", not only by "make maintainer-clean".
+
+ - The `compile' script now converts some options for MSVC for a better
+ user experience. Similarly, the new `ar-lib' script wraps Microsoft lib.
+
- The py-compile script now accepts empty arguments passed to the options
`--destdir' and `--basedir', and complains about unrecognized options.
Moreover, a non-option argument or a special `--' argument terminates
user; still, the old Makefile.am files that used to define it will
still continue to work as before.
+ - New macro AM_PROG_AR that looks for an archiver and wraps it in the new
+ 'ar-lib' auxiliary script if the found archiver is Microsoft lib. This
+ new macro is required for LIBRARIES and LTLIBRARIES when automake is
+ run with -Wextra-portability (or -Wall) and -Werror.
+
- When using DejaGnu-based testsuites, the user can extend the `site.exp'
file generated by automake-provided rules by defining the special make
variable `$(EXTRA_DEJAGNU_SITE_CONFIG)'.
the `${infodir}/dir' file, by exporting the new environment variable
`AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR' to the value "no".
-Bugs fixed in 1.11.0a:
+ - Support for automatic de-ANSI-fication has been removed.
+
+Bugs fixed in 1.11a:
+
+ - Lots of minor bugfixes.
* Bugs introduced by 1.11:
- AM_PROG_GCJ uses AC_CHECK_TOOLS to look for `gcj' now, so that prefixed
tools are preferred in a cross-compile setup.
+ - The distribution is tarred up with mode 755 now by the `dist*' targets.
+ This fixes a race condition where untrusted users could modify files
+ in the $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION) distdir before packing if the toplevel
+ build directory was world-searchable. This is CVE-2009-4029.
+
- Several scripts and the parallel-tests testsuite driver now exit with
the right exit status upon receiving a signal.
make bug triggered by sources containing repeated slashes when the
`subdir-objects' option was used.
+ - Automake now detects the presence of the `-d' flag in the various
+ `*YFLAGS' variables even when their definitions involve indirections
+ through other variables, such as in:
+ foo_opts = -d
+ AM_YFLAGS = $(foo_opts)
+
+ - Automake now complains if a `*YFLAGS' variable has any conditional
+ content, not only a conditional definition.
+
+ - Explicit enabling and/or disabling of Automake warning categories
+ through the `-W...' options now always takes precedence over the
+ implicit warning level implied by Automake strictness (foreign, gnu
+ or gnits), regardless of the order in which such strictness and
+ warning flags appear. For example, a setting like:
+ AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = -Wall --foreign
+ will cause the warnings in category `portability' to be enabled, even
+ if those warnings are by default disabled in `foreign' strictness.
+
- The parallel-tests driver no longer produces erroneous results with
Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh upon unreadable log files.
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