Merge branch 'maint'

[platform/upstream/automake.git] / NEWS

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -140,6 +140,16 @@ New in 1.12.2:
     to a shell conditional that can be used in recipes to know whether
     make is being run in silent or verbose mode.
 
+Bugs fixed in 1.12.2:
+
+* Long-standing bugs:
+
+  - The "recheck" targets behaves better in the face of build failures
+    related to previously failed tests.  For example, if a test is a
+    compiled program that must be rerun by "make recheck", and its
+    compilation fails, it will still be rerun by further "make recheck"
+    invocations.  See automake bug#11791.
+
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 New in 1.12.1: