Merge branch 'maint'

[platform/upstream/automake.git] / NEWS

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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@@ -75,6 +75,13 @@ 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
@@ -89,7 +96,7 @@ New in 1.13:
 * Texinfo Support:
 
   - The rules to build PDF and DVI files from Texinfo input now use the
-    ' --build-dir' option, to keep the auxiliary files used by texi2dvi
+    '--build-dir' option, to keep the auxiliary files used by texi2dvi
     and texi2pdf around without cluttering the build directory, and to
     make it possible to run the "dvi" and "pdf" recipes in parallel.
 
@@ -110,10 +117,14 @@ New in 1.13:
 
 * Recursive targets:
 
-  The user can now define his own recursive targets that recurse
-  in the directories specified in $(SUBDIRS).  This can be done by
-  specifying the name of such targets in invocations of the new
-  'AM_EXTRA_RECURSIVE_TARGETS' m4 macro.
+  - The user can now define his own recursive targets that recurse
+    in the directories specified in $(SUBDIRS).  This can be done by
+    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:
 
@@ -163,10 +174,31 @@ New in 1.12.3:
     giving more useful warnings than a bare "command not found" from a
     make recipe would.
 
-* Automake Testsuite:
+* Miscellaneous changes:
+
+  - The '.m4' files provided by Automake does not define serial numbers
+    anymore.  This should cause no difference in the behaviour of aclocal
+    though.
 
   - Some testsuite weaknesses and spurious failures have been fixed.
 
+  - There is initial support for automatic dependency tracking with the
+    Portland Group C/C++ compilers, thanks to the new new depmode 'pgcc'.
+
+Bugs fixed in 1.12.3:
+
+* Long-standing bugs:
+
+  - Instead of renaming only self-references of files (typically for
+    #lines), ylwrap now also renames references to the other generated
+    files.  This fixes support for GLR and C++ parsers from Bison (PR
+    automake/491 and automake bug#7648): 'parser.c' now properly
+    #includes 'parser.h' instead of 'y.tab.h'.
+
+  - Generated files unknown to ylwrap are now preserved.  This fixes
+    C++ support for Bison (automake bug#7648): location.hh and the
+    like are no longer discarded.
+
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 New in 1.12.2: