Merge branches 'tags-simplify-recursion' and 'color-tests-always'

[platform/upstream/automake.git] / NEWS

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@@ -51,6 +51,13 @@ New in 1.13:
     testsuite harness will still be available through the use of the
     'serial-tests' option (introduced in Automake 1.12).
 
+  - The 'color-tests' option is now unconditionally activated by default.
+    In particular, this means that testsuite output is now colorized by
+    default if the attached terminal seems to support ANSI escapes, and
+    that the user can force output colorization by setting the variable
+    AM_COLOR_TESTS to "always".  The 'color-tests' is still recognized
+    for backward-compatibility, although it's a handled as a no-op now.
+
 * Silent rules support:
 
   - Support for silent rules is now always active in Automake-generated
@@ -91,6 +98,10 @@ New in 1.13:
   specifying the name of such targets in invocations of the new
   'AM_EXTRA_RECURSIVE_TARGETS' m4 macro.
 
+  - Any failure in the recipe of the "tags", "ctags", "cscope" or
+    "cscopelist" targets in a subdirectory is now propagated to the
+    top-level make invocation.
+
 * Improvements to aclocal and related rebuilds rules:
 
   - The Autoconf-provided macro AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR is now traced by