- The deprecated options `--output-dir', `--Werror' and `--Wno-error'
have been removed.
+* Changes to aclocal:
+
+ - The `--acdir' option is deprecated. Now you should use th new options
+ `--automake-acdir' and `--system-acdir' instead.
+
* New targets:
- New `cscope' target to build a cscope database for the source tree.
* Changes to Automake-generated testsuite harnesses:
+ - Test scripts that exit with status 99 to signal an "hard error" (e.g.,
+ and unexpected or internal error, or a failure to set up the test case
+ scenario) have their outcome reported as an 'ERROR' now. Previous
+ versions of automake reported such an outcome as a 'FAIL' (the only
+ difference with normal failures being that hard errors were counted
+ as failures even when the test originating them was listed in
+ XFAIL_TESTS).
+
+ - The testsuite summary displayed by the parallel-test harness has a
+ completely new format, that always list the numbers of passed, failed,
+ xfailed, xpassed, skipped and errored tests, even when these numbers
+ are zero (but using smart coloring when the color-tests option is in
+ effect).
+
- The default testsuite driver offered by the 'parallel-tests' option is
now implemented (partly at least) with the help of automake-provided
auxiliary scripts (e.g., `test-driver'), instead of relying entirely
Consistently with the existing syntax, this can be done by defining
special makefile variables `LOG_DRIVER' and `<ext>_LOG_DRIVER'.
-* WARNING: Future backward-incompatibilities!
+ - A new developer-reserved variable `AM_TESTS_FD_REDIRECT' can be used
+ to redirect/define file descriptors used by the test scripts.
+
+ - The parallel-tests harness generates now, in addition the `.log' files
+ holding the output produced by the test scripts, a new set of `.trs'
+ files, holding "metadata" derived by the execution of the test scripts;
+ among such metadata are the outcomes of the test cases run by a script.
- - The Automake support for automatic de-ANSI-fication will be removed in
- the next major Automake release (1.12).
+ - Initial and still experimental support for the TAP test protocol is
+ now provided.
* Miscellaneous changes:
- C source and header files derived from non-distributed Yacc sources are
now removed by "make clean", not only by "make maintainer-clean".
+ - 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
+ the list of options.
+
- A developer that needs to pass specific flags to configure at "make
distcheck" time can now, and indeed he's advised to, do so by defining
the developer-reserved makefile variable AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS,
user; still, the old Makefile.am files that used to define it should
still continue to work as before.
+ - Support for automatic de-ANSI-fication has been removed.
+
Bugs fixed in 1.11a:
- Lots of minor bugfixes.
* Bugs introduced by 1.11:
- The `parallel-tests' test driver works around a GNU make 3.80 bug with
- trailing white space in the test list (`TESTS = foo $(EMPTY)').
+ trailing white space in the test list (`TESTS = foo $(EMPTY)'), and
+ does not report spurious successes when used with concurrent FreeBSD
+ make (e.g., "make check -j3").
- The `silent-rules' option now also silences all compile rules if dependency
tracking is disabled. Also, when `silent-rules' is not used, the output from
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