-New in 1.12.1:
+New in 1.12.2:
* WARNING: Future backward-incompatibilities!
+ - Future versions of Automake will likely drop support for the
+ long-deprecated 'configure.in' name for the Autoconf input file.
+ You are advised to use the recommended name 'configure.ac' instead.
+
- Autoconf 2.65 or later will be required by the next major Automake
version (1.13). Until now, Automake has required Autoconf version
2.62 or later.
search path are looked up is probably going to be changed in the
next Automake release (1.13).
+* Warnings and deprecations:
+
+ - Automake now issues a warning (in the 'portability' category) if
+ 'configure.in' is used instead of 'configure.ac' as the Autoconf
+ input file. Such a warning will also be present in the next
+ Autoconf version (2.70).
+
+* Cleaning rules:
+
+ - Recursive cleaning rules descends into the $(SUBDIRS) in the natural
+ order (as done by the other recursive rules), rather than in the
+ inverse order. They used to do that in order to work a round a
+ limitation in an older implementation of the automatic dependency
+ tracking support, but that limitation had been lifted years ago
+ already, when the automatic dependency tracking based on side-effects
+ of compilation had been introduced.
+
+ - Cleaning rules for compiled objects (both "plain" and libtool) work
+ better when subdir objects are involved, not triggering a distinct
+ 'rm' invocation for each such object. They do so by removing *any*
+ compiled object file that is in the same directory of a subdir
+ object. See automake bug#10697.
+
+* Silent rules support:
+
+ - A new predefined $(AM_V_P) make variable is provided; it expands
+ to a shell conditional that can be used in recipes to know whether
+ make is being run in silent or verbose mode.
+
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+New in 1.12.1:
+
+* New supported languages:
+
+ - Support for Objective C++ has been added; it should work similarly to
+ the support for Objective C.
+
* Deprecated obsolescent features:
+ - Use of the long-deprecated two- and three-arguments invocation forms
+ of the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macro now elicits a warning in the 'obsolete'
+ category. Starting from the next major Automake release (1.13), such
+ usages won't be allowed anymore.
+
- Support for the "Cygnus-style" trees (enabled by the 'cygnus' option) is
now deprecated (its use triggers a warning in the 'obsolete' category).
It will be removed in the next major Automake release (1.13).
m4 macro are deprecated, eliciting a warning in the 'obsolete'
category. They will be removed in the next major version (1.13).
+* Miscellaneous changes:
+
+ - The Automake test cases now require a proper POSIX-conforming shell.
+ Older non-POSIX Bourne shells (like Solaris 10 /bin/sh) won't be
+ accepted anymore. In most cases, the user shouldn't have to specify
+ such POSIX shell explicitly, since it will be looked up at configure
+ time. Still, when this lookup fails, or when the user wants to
+ override its conclusion, the variable 'AM_TEST_RUNNER_SHELL' can be
+ used (pointing to the shell that will be used to run the Automake
+ test cases).
+
Bugs fixed in 1.12.1:
* Bugs introduced by 1.12:
a non-ANSI one, i.e., if the TERM environment variable has a value of
"dumb".
+ - Several inefficiencies and poor performances in the implementation
+ of the parallel-tests 'check' and 'recheck' targets have been fixed.
+
+ - The post-processing of output "#line" directives done the ylwrap
+ script is more faithful w.r.t. files in a subdirectory; for example,
+ if the processed file is "src/grammar.y", ylwrap will correctly
+ produce directives like:
+ #line 7 "src/grammar.y"
+ rather than like
+ #line 7 "grammar.y"
+ as it did before.
+
+* Bugs with new Perl versions:
+
+ - Aclocal works correctly with perl 5.16.0 (automake bug#11543).
+
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New in 1.12:
rule for this target. Running `automake -Woverride' will diagnose
all such overriding definitions.
- It should be noted that almost all these targets support a *-local
+ It should be noted that almost all of these targets support a *-local
variant that is meant to supplement the automake-defined rule
(See node `Extending' in the manual). The above rule should
be rewritten as
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