-New in 1.12.1:
+New in 1.13:
-* WARNING: Future backward-incompatibilities!
+* Obsolete features removed:
- - 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.
+ - Support for the "Cygnus-style" trees (once enabled by the 'cygnus'
+ option) has been removed. See discussion about automake bug#11034
+ for more background.
- - Starting from the next major Automake version (1.13), the rules to
- build pdf, ps and dvi output from Texinfo input will use the '--tidy'
- option by default. Since such an option was introduced in Texinfo
- 4.9, this means that Makefiles generated by future Automake versions
- will require at least that version of Texinfo.
+ - The automake-provided $(mkdir_p) make variable, @mkdir_p@ configure
+ time substitution and AM_PROG_MKDIR m4 macro have been removed. They
+ had been obsolete since automake 1.10, and actively deprecated since
+ Automake 1.12.1.
- - Starting from the next major Automake version (1.13), the parallel
- testsuite harness (previously only enabled by the 'parallel-tests'
- option) will become the default one; the older serial testsuite
- harness will still be available through the use of the 'serial-tests'
- option.
+ - The deprecated aclocal option '--acdir' has been removed. You
+ should use the options '--automake-acdir' and '--system-acdir'
+ instead (which have been introduced in Automake 1.11.2).
- - The following long-obsolete m4 macros will be removed in the
- next major Automake version (1.13):
+ - The following long-obsolete m4 macros have been removed:
AM_PROG_CC_STDC: superseded by AC_PROG_CC since October 2002
fp_PROG_CC_STDC: broken alias for AM_PROG_CC_STDC
of the now-removed automatic de-ANSI-fication
support of Automake)
- - All the "old alias" macros in 'm4/obsolete.m4' will be removed in
- the next major Automake version (1.13).
+ - All the "old alias" macros in 'm4/obsolete.m4' have been removed.
- - Support for the "Cygnus-style" trees (enabled by the 'cygnus' option)
- will be deprecated in the next minor version of Automake (1.12.1) and
- removed in the next major version (1.13).
+* Silent rules support:
+
+ - Support for silent rules is now always active in Automake-generated
+ Makefiles. So, although the verbose output is still the default,
+ the user can now always use "./configure --enable-silent-rules" or
+ "make V=0" to enable quieter output in the package he's building.
+
+ - The 'silent-rules' option has now become a no-op, preserved for
+ backward-compatibility only. In particular, its use does not disable
+ the warnings in the 'portability-recursive' category anymore.
+
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+New in 1.12.1:
+
+* WARNING: Future backward-incompatibilities!
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - Starting from the next major Automake version (1.13), the rules to
+ build pdf, ps and dvi output from Texinfo input will use the '--tidy'
+ option by default. Since such an option was introduced in Texinfo
+ 4.9, this means that Makefiles generated by future Automake versions
+ will require at least that version of Texinfo.
+
+ - Starting from the next major Automake version (1.13), the parallel
+ testsuite harness (previously only enabled by the 'parallel-tests'
+ option) will become the default one; the older serial testsuite
+ harness will still be available through the use of the 'serial-tests'
+ option.
- Support for the two- and three-arguments invocation forms of the
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macro will be deprecated in the next minor version
of Automake (1.12.1) and removed in the next major version (1.13).
- - The '--acdir' option of aclocal is deprecated, and will probably
- be removed in the next major Automake release (1.13). You should
- use the options '--automake-acdir' and '--system-acdir' instead
- (which have been introduced in Automake 1.11.2).
-
- The exact order in which the directories in the aclocal macro
search path are looked up is probably going to be changed in the
next Automake release (1.13).
* Deprecated obsolescent features:
+ - 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).
+
- The long-obsolete (since 1.10) automake-provided $(mkdir_p) make
variable, @mkdir_p@ configure-time substitution and AM_PROG_MKDIR
m4 macro are deprecated, eliciting a warning in the 'obsolete'
category. They will be removed in the next major version (1.13).
-* Silent rules support:
-
- - Support for silent rules is now always active in Automake-generated
- Makefiles. So, although the verbose output is still the default,
- the user can now always use "./configure --enable-silent-rules" or
- "make V=0" to enable quieter output in the package he's building.
-
- - The 'silent-rules' option has now become a no-op, preserved for
- backward-compatibility only. In particular, its use will not disable
- the warnings in the 'portability-recursive' category anymore.
-
Bugs fixed in 1.12.1:
* Bugs introduced by 1.12:
- - Several weaknesses in the Automake's own build system test suite
- have been fixed.
+ - Several weaknesses in Automake's own build system and test suite
+ have been fixed.
+
+* Bugs introduced by 1.11.3:
+
+ - When given non-option arguments, aclocal rejects them, instead of
+ silently ignoring them.
* Long-standing bugs:
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.
+
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