-New in 1.11.0a:
+New in 1.12.2:
* WARNING: Future backward-incompatibilities!
- - The support for the "obscure" multilib feature has been deprecated,
- and will be moved out of the automake core in the next major Automake
- release (1.12).
+ - 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.
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - The following long-obsolete m4 macros will be removed in the
+ next major Automake version (1.13):
+
+ AM_PROG_CC_STDC: superseded by AC_PROG_CC since October 2002
+ fp_PROG_CC_STDC: broken alias for AM_PROG_CC_STDC
+ fp_WITH_DMALLOC: old alias for AM_WITH_DMALLOC
+ AM_CONFIG_HEADER: superseded by AC_CONFIG_HEADERS since July 2002
+ ud_PATH_LISPDIR: old alias for AM_PATH_LISPDIR
+ jm_MAINTAINER_MODE: old alias for AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
+ ud_GNU_GETTEXT: old alias for AM_GNU_GETTEXT
+ gm_PROG_LIBTOOL: old alias for AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
+ fp_C_PROTOTYPES: old alias for AM_C_PROTOTYPES (which was part
+ 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).
+
+ - 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 support for ".log -> .html" conversion and the check-html and
- recheck-html targets will be removed in the next major Automake
- release (1.12).
+ - 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).
- - The `lzma' compression format for distribution archives has been
- deprecated in favor of `xz' and `lzip', and will be removed in the
- next major Automake release (1.12).
+* Warnings and deprecations:
- - The Automake support for automatic de-ANSI-fication will be removed in
- the next major Automake release (1.12).
+ - 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).
- - The `--acdir' option of aclocal is deprecated, and will probably be
- removed in the next major Automake release (1.12).
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- - 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 (1.12).
+New in 1.12.1:
- - The obsolescent AM_WITH_REGEX macro has been deprecated (since the
- GNU rx library has been decommissioned), and will be removed in the
- next major Automake release (1.12).
+* New supported languages:
-* Changes to aclocal:
+ - Support for Objective C++ has been added; it should work similarly to
+ the support for Objective C.
- - The `--acdir' option is deprecated. Now you should use the new options
- `--automake-acdir' and `--system-acdir' instead.
+* Deprecated obsolescent features:
- - The `ACLOCAL_PATH' environment variable is now interpreted as a
- colon-separated list of additional directories to search after the
- automake internal acdir (by default ${prefix}/share/aclocal-APIVERSION)
- and before the system acdir (by default ${prefix}/share/aclocal).
+ - 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).
+
+ - 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).
+
+* 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:
+
+ - 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:
+
+ - When the 'color-tests' option is in use, forcing of colored testsuite
+ output through "AM_COLOR_TESTS=always" works even if the terminal is
+ 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).
+
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+New in 1.12:
+
+* Obsolete features removed:
+
+ - The never documented nor truly used script 'acinstall' has been
+ removed.
+
+ - Support for automatic de-ANSI-fication has been removed.
+
+ - The support for the "obscure" multilib feature has been removed
+ from Automake core (but remains available in the 'contrib/'
+ directory of the Automake distribution).
+
+ - Support for ".log -> .html" conversion and the check-html and
+ recheck-html targets has been removed from Automake core (but
+ remains available in the 'contrib/' directory of the Automake
+ distribution).
+
+ - The deprecated 'lzma' compression format for distribution archives
+ has been removed, in favor of 'xz' and 'lzip'.
+
+ - The obsolete AM_WITH_REGEX macro has been removed.
+
+ - The long-deprecated options '--output-dir', '--Werror' and
+ '--Wno-error' have been removed.
+
+ - The chapter on the history of Automake has been moved out of the
+ reference manual, into a new dedicated Texinfo file.
+
+* New targets:
+
+ - New 'cscope' target to build a cscope database for the source tree.
+
+* Changes to Automake-generated testsuite harnesses:
+
+ - The new automake option 'serial-tests' has been introduced. It can
+ be used to explicitly instruct automake to use the older serial
+ testsuite harness. This is still the default at the moment, but it
+ might change in future versions.
+
+ - The 'recheck' target (provided by the parallel testsuite harness) now
+ depends on the 'all' target. This allows for a better user-experience
+ in test-driven development. See automake bug#11252.
+
+ - 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
+ on code in the generated Makefile.in.
+ This has two noteworthy implications. The first one is that projects
+ using the 'parallel-tests' option should now either run automake with
+ the '--add-missing' option, or manually copy the 'test-driver' script
+ into their tree. The second, and more important, implication is that
+ now, when the 'parallel-tests' option is in use, TESTS_ENVIRONMENT can
+ not be used anymore to define a test runner, and the command specified
+ in LOG_COMPILER (and <ext>_LOG_COMPILER) must be a *real* executable
+ program or script. For example, this is still a valid usage (albeit
+ a little contorted):
+
+ TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = \
+ if test -n '$(STRICT_TESTS)'; then \
+ maybe_errexit='-e'; \
+ else \
+ maybe_errexit=''; \
+ fi;
+ LOG_COMPILER = $(SHELL) $$maybe_errexit
+
+ while this is not anymore:
+
+ TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = \
+ $(SHELL) `test -n '$(STRICT_TESTS_CHECKING)' && echo ' -e'`
+
+ neither is this:
+
+ TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = \
+ run_with_perl_or_shell () \
+ { \
+ if grep -q '^#!.*perl' $$1; then
+ $(PERL) $$1; \
+ else \
+ $(SHELL) $$1; \
+ fi; \
+ }
+ LOG_COMPILER = run_with_perl_or_shell
+
+ - The package authors can now use customary testsuite drivers within
+ the framework provided by the 'parallel-tests' testsuite harness.
+ Consistently with the existing syntax, this can be done by defining
+ special makefile variables 'LOG_DRIVER' and '<ext>_LOG_DRIVER'.
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - Initial and still experimental support for the TAP test protocol is
+ now provided.
+
+* Changes to Yacc and Lex support:
+
+ - C source and header files derived from non-distributed Yacc and/or
+ Lex sources are now removed by a simple "make clean" (while they were
+ previously removed only by "make maintainer-clean").
+
+ - Slightly backward-incompatible change, relevant only for use of Yacc
+ with C++: the extensions of the header files produced by the Yacc
+ rules are now modelled after the extension of the corresponding
+ sources. For example, yacc files named "foo.y++" and "bar.yy" will
+ produce header files named "foo.h++" and "bar.hh" respectively, where
+ they would have previously produced header files named simply "foo.h"
+ and "bar.h". This change offers better compatibility with 'bison -o'.
* Miscellaneous changes:
+ - The AM_PROG_VALAC macro now causes configure to exit with status 77,
+ rather than 1, if the vala compiler found is too old.
+
+ - The build system of Automake itself now avoids the use of make
+ recursion as much as possible.
+
+ - Automake now prefers to quote 'like this' or "like this", rather
+ than `like this', in diagnostic message and generated Makefiles,
+ to accommodate the new GNU Coding Standards recommendations.
+
+ - Automake has a new option '--print-libdir' that prints the path of the
+ directory containing the Automake-provided scripts and data files.
+
+ - The 'dist' and 'dist-all' targets now can run compressors in parallel.
+
+ - The rules to create pdf, dvi and ps output from Texinfo files now
+ works better with modern 'texi2dvi' script, by explicitly passing
+ it the '--clean' option to ensure stray auxiliary files are not
+ left to clutter the build directory.
+
+ - Automake can now generate silenced rules for texinfo outputs.
+
+ - Some auxiliary files that are automatically distributed by Automake
+ (e.g., 'install-sh', or the 'depcomp' script for packages compiling
+ C sources) might now be listed in the DIST_COMMON variable in many
+ Makefile.in files, rather than in the top-level one.
+
+ - Messages of types warning or error from 'automake' and 'aclocal'
+ are now prefixed with the respective type, and presence of -Werror
+ is noted.
+
+ - Automake's early configure-time sanity check now tries to avoid
+ sleeping for a second, which slowed down cached configure runs
+ noticeably. In that case, it will check back at the end of the
+ configure script to ensure that at least one second has passed, to
+ avoid time stamp issues with makefile rules rerunning autotools
+ programs.
+
+ - The warnings in the category 'extra-portability' are now enabled by
+ '-Wall'. In previous versions, one has to use '-Wextra-portability'
+ to enable them.
+
+Bugs fixed in 1.12:
+
+ - Various minor bugfixes for recent or long-standing bugs.
+
+* Bugs introduced by 1.11:
+
+ - The AM_COND_IF macro also works if the shell expression for the
+ conditional is no longer valid for the condition.
+
+ - The automake-provided parallel testsuite harness does not fail anymore
+ with BSD make used in parallel mode when there are test scripts in a
+ subdirectory, like in:
+
+ TESTS = sub/foo.test sub/bar.test
+
+* Long-standing bugs:
+
+ - Automake's own build system finally have a real "installcheck" target.
+
+ - Vala-related cleanup rules are now more complete, and work better in
+ a VPATH setup.
+
+ - Files listed with the AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE macro in configure.ac are
+ now automatically distributed also if the directory of the auxiliary
+ files coincides with the top-level directory.
+
+ - Automake now detects the presence of the '-d' flag in the various
+ '*YFLAGS' variables even when their definitions involve indirections
+ through other variables, such as in:
+ foo_opts = -d
+ AM_YFLAGS = $(foo_opts)
+
+ - Automake now complains if a '*YFLAGS' variable has any conditional
+ content, not only a conditional definition.
+
+ - Explicit enabling and/or disabling of Automake warning categories
+ through the '-W...' options now always takes precedence over the
+ implicit warning level implied by Automake strictness (foreign, gnu
+ or gnits), regardless of the order in which such strictness and
+ warning flags appear. For example, a setting like:
+ AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = -Wall --foreign
+ will cause the warnings in category 'portability' to be enabled, even
+ if those warnings are by default disabled in 'foreign' strictness.
+
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Bugs fixed in 1.11.5:
+
+* Bugs introduced by 1.11.3:
+
+ - Vala files with '.vapi' extension are now recognized and handled
+ correctly again. See automake bug#11222.
+
+ - Vala support work again for projects that contain some program
+ built from '.vala' (and possibly '.c') sources and some other
+ program built from '.c' sources *only*. See automake bug#11229.
+
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+New in 1.11.4:
+
+* Miscellaneous changes:
+
+ - The 'ar-lib' script now ignores the "s" (symbol index) and "S" (no
+ symbol index) modifiers as well as the "s" action, as the symbol index
+ is created unconditionally by Microsoft lib. Also, the "q" (quick)
+ action is now a synonym for "r" (replace). Also, the script has been
+ ignoring the "v" (verbose) modifier already since Automake 1.11.3.
+
+ - When the 'compile' script is used to wrap MSVC, it now accepts an
+ optional space between the -I, -L and -l options and their respective
+ arguments, for better POSIX compliance.
+
+ - There is an initial, experimental support for automatic dependency
+ tracking with tcc (the Tiny C Compiler). Its associated depmode is
+ currently recognized as "icc" (but this and other details are likely
+ to change in future versions).
+
- Automatic dependency tracking now works also with the IBM XL C/C++
compilers, thanks to the new new depmode 'xlc'.
+Bugs fixed in 1.11.4:
+
+* Bugs introduced by 1.11.2:
+
+ - A definition of 'noinst_PYTHON' before 'python_PYTHON' (or similar)
+ don't cause spurious failures upon "make install" anymore.
+
+ - The user can now instruct the 'uninstall-info' rule not to update
+ the '${infodir}/dir' file by exporting the environment variable
+ 'AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR' to the value "no". This is done for consistency
+ with how the 'install-info' rule operates since automake 1.11.2.
+
+* Long-standing bugs:
+
+ - It is now possible for a foo_SOURCES variable to hold Vala sources
+ together with C header files, as well as with sources and headers for
+ other supported languages (e.g., C++). Previously, only mixing C and
+ Vala sources was supported.
+
+ - If "aclocal --install" is used, and the first directory specified with
+ '-I' is non-existent, aclocal will now create it before trying to copy
+ files in it.
+
+ - An empty declaration of a "foo_PRIMARY" don't cause anymore the
+ generated install rules to create an empty $(foodir) directory;
+ for example, if Makefile.am contains something like:
+
+ pkglibexec_SCRIPTS =
+ if FALSE
+ pkglibexec_SCRIPTS += bar.sh
+ endif
+
+ the $(pkglibexec) directory will not be created upon "make install".
+
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+New in 1.11.3:
+
+* Miscellaneous changes:
+
- Automake's own build system is more silent by default, making use of
the 'silent-rules' option.
- The last relics of Python 1.5 support have been removed from the
AM_PATH_PYTHON macro.
+ - For programs and libraries, automake now detects EXTRA_foo_DEPENDENCIES
+ and adds them to the normal list of dependencies, but without
+ overwriting the foo_DEPENDENCIES variable, which is normally computed
+ by automake.
+
+Bugs fixed in 1.11.3:
+
+* Bugs introduced by 1.11.2:
+
+ - Automake now correctly recognizes the prefix/primary combination
+ `pkglibexec_SCRIPTS' as valid.
+
+ - The parallel-tests harness doesn't trip anymore on sed implementations
+ with stricter limits on the length of input lines (problem seen at
+ least on Solaris 8).
+
+* Long-standing bugs:
+
+ - The "deleted header file problem" for *.am files is avoided by stub
+ rules. This allows `make' to trigger a rerun of `automake' also if
+ some previously needed `.am' file has been removed.
+
+ - The `silent-rules' option now generates working makefiles even
+ for the uncommon `make' implementations that do not support the
+ nested-variables extension to POSIX 2008. For such `make'
+ implementations, whether a build is silent is determined at
+ configure time, and cannot be overridden at make time with
+ `make V=0' or `make V=1'.
+
+ - Vala support now works better in VPATH setups.
+
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+New in 1.11.2:
+
+* Changes to aclocal:
+
+ - The `--acdir' option is deprecated. Now you should use the new options
+ `--automake-acdir' and `--system-acdir' instead.
+
+ - The `ACLOCAL_PATH' environment variable is now interpreted as a
+ colon-separated list of additional directories to search after the
+ automake internal acdir (by default ${prefix}/share/aclocal-APIVERSION)
+ and before the system acdir (by default ${prefix}/share/aclocal).
+
+* Miscellaneous changes:
+
+ - The Automake support for automatic de-ANSI-fication has been
+ deprecated. It will probably be removed in the next major Automake
+ release (1.12).
+
- The `lzma' compression scheme and associated automake option `dist-lzma'
is obsoleted by `xz' and `dist-xz' due to upstream changes.
- New macro AM_PROG_AR that looks for an archiver and wraps it in the new
'ar-lib' auxiliary script if the selected archiver is Microsoft lib.
This new macro is required for LIBRARIES and LTLIBRARIES when automake
- is run with -Wextra-portability (or -Wall) and -Werror.
+ is run with -Wextra-portability and -Werror.
- When using DejaGnu-based testsuites, the user can extend the `site.exp'
file generated by automake-provided rules by defining the special make
the `${infodir}/dir' file, by exporting the new environment variable
`AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR' to the value "no".
- - For programs and libraries, automake now detects EXTRA_foo_DEPENDENCIES
- and adds them to the normal list of dependencies, but without
- overwriting the foo_DEPENDENCIES variable, which is normally computed
- by automake.
-
- - The 'ar-lib' script now ignores the "s" (symbol index) and "S" (no
- symbol index) modifiers as well as the "s" action, as the symbol index
- is created unconditionally by Microsoft lib. Also, the "q" (quick)
- action is now a synonym for "r" (replace). Also, the script has been
- ignoring the "v" (verbose) modifier already since Automake 1.11.3.
-
- - When the 'compile' script is used to wrap MSVC, it now accepts an
- optional space between the -I, -L and -l options and their respective
- arguments, for better POSIX compliance.
-
- - If "aclocal --install" is used, and the first directory specified with
- '-I' is non-existent, aclocal will now create it before trying to copy
- files in it.
-
-Bugs fixed in 1.11.0a:
-
-* Bugs introduced by 1.11.2:
-
- - Automake now correctly recognizes the prefix/primary combination
- `pkglibexec_SCRIPTS' as valid.
-
- - A definition of 'noinst_PYTHON' before 'python_PYTHON' (or similar)
- don't cause spurious failures upon "make install" anymore.
+Bugs fixed in 1.11.2:
* Bugs introduced by 1.11:
- - The parallel-tests harness doesn't trip anymore on sed implementations
- with stricter limits on the length of input lines (problem seen at
- least on Solaris 8).
+ - The parallel-tests driver no longer produces erroneous results with
+ Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh upon unreadable log files.
- - The `parallel-tests' test driver works around a GNU make 3.80 bug with
- 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 `parallel-tests' test driver does not report spurious successes
+ when used with concurrent FreeBSD make (e.g., "make check -j3").
- When the parallel-tests driver is in use, automake now explicitly
rejects invalid entries and conditional contents in TEST_EXTENSIONS,
not used, `make' output no longer contains spurious backslash-only
lines, thus once again matching what Automake did before 1.11.
- - The `silent-rules' option now generates working makefiles even for
- the uncommon `make' implementations that do not support the
- nested-variables extension to POSIX 2008. For such `make'
- implementations, whether a build is silent is determined at
- configure time, and cannot be overridden at make time with
- `make V=0' or `make V=1'.
-
- - The AM_COND_IF macro also works if the shell expression for the conditional
- is no longer valid for the condition.
+ - The AM_COND_IF macro also works if the shell expression for the
+ conditional is no longer valid for the condition.
* Long-standing bugs:
- - An empty declaration of a "foo_PRIMARY" don't cause anymore the
- generated install rules to create an empty $(foodir) directory;
- for example, if Makefile.am contains something like:
-
- pkglibexec_SCRIPTS =
- if FALSE
- pkglibexec_SCRIPTS += bar.sh
- endif
-
- the $(pkglibexec) directory will not be created upon "make install".
-
- - It is now possible for a foo_SOURCES variable to hold Vala sources
- together with C header files, as well as with sources and headers for
- other supported languages (e.g., C++). Previously, only mixing C and
- Vala sources was supported.
-
- - Vala support now works better in VPATH setups.
-
- - The "deleted header file problem" for *.am files is avoided by stub
- rules. This allows `make' to trigger a rerun of `automake' also if
- some previously needed `.am' file has been removed.
+ - The order of Yacc and Lex flags is fixed to be consistent with other
+ languages: $(AM_YFLAGS) comes before $(YFLAGS), and $(AM_LFLAGS) before
+ $(LFLAGS), so that the user variables override the developer variables.
- "make distcheck" now correctly complains also when "make uninstall"
leaves one and only one file installed in $(prefix).
- Automake now warns about more primary/directory invalid combinations,
such as "doc_LIBRARIES" or "pkglib_PROGRAMS".
- - On Darwin 9, `pythondir' and `pyexecdir' pointed below `/Library/Python'
- even if the `--prefix' argument pointed outside of a system directory.
- AM_PATH_PYTHON has been fixed to ignore the value returned from python's
- `get_python_lib' function if it points outside the configured prefix,
- unless the `--prefix' argument was either `/usr' or below `/System'.
-
- - The testsuite does not try to change the mode of `ltmain.sh' files from
- a Libtool installation (symlinked to test directories) any more.
-
- - AM_PROG_GCJ uses AC_CHECK_TOOLS to look for `gcj' now, so that prefixed
- tools are preferred in a cross-compile setup.
+ - Rules generated by Automake now try harder to not change any files when
+ `make -n' is invoked. Fixes include compilation of Emacs Lisp, Vala, or
+ Yacc source files and the rule to update config.h.
- Several scripts and the parallel-tests testsuite driver now exit with
the right exit status upon receiving a signal.
- A per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror does not erroneously carry over
to the handling of other Makefile.am files.
- - The order of Yacc and Lex flags is now consistent with that of other
- languages: $(AM_YFLAGS) comes before $(YFLAGS), and $(AM_LFLAGS) before
- $(LFLAGS), so that the user variables override the developer variables.
-
- - Rules generated by Automake now try harder not to change any files when
- `make -n' is invoked. Fixes include compilation of Emacs Lisp, Vala, or
- Yacc source files and the rule to update config.h.
-
- The code for automatic dependency tracking works around a Solaris
make bug triggered by sources containing repeated slashes when the
`subdir-objects' option was used.
- - The parallel-tests driver no longer produces erroneous results with
- Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh upon unreadable log files.
-
- The makedepend and hp depmodes now work better with VPATH builds.
- Java sources specified with check_JAVA are no longer compiled for
`install-info' program is from Debian or from GNU, and adaptively
change its behaviour; this has proven to be frail and easy to
regress.
-\f
+
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Bugs fixed in 1.11.1:
+
+ - 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)').
+
+* Long standing bugs:
+
+ - On Darwin 9, `pythondir' and `pyexecdir' pointed below `/Library/Python'
+ even if the `--prefix' argument pointed outside of a system directory.
+ AM_PATH_PYTHON has been fixed to ignore the value returned from python's
+ `get_python_lib' function if it points outside the configured prefix,
+ unless the `--prefix' argument was either `/usr' or below `/System'.
+
+ - The testsuite does not try to change the mode of `ltmain.sh' files from
+ a Libtool installation (symlinked to test directories) any more.
+
+ - AM_PROG_GCJ uses AC_CHECK_TOOLS to look for `gcj' now, so that prefixed
+ tools are preferred in a cross-compile setup.
+
+ - The distribution is tarred up with mode 755 now by the `dist*' targets.
+ This fixes a race condition where untrusted users could modify files
+ in the $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION) distdir before packing if the toplevel
+ build directory was world-searchable. This is CVE-2009-4029.
+
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
New in 1.11:
* Version requirements:
- Fix order of standard includes to again be `-I. -I$(srcdir)',
followed by directories containing config headers.
-\f
+
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
New in 1.10:
* Version requirements:
- Automake installs a "Hello World!" example package in $(docdir).
This example is used throughout the new "Autotools Introduction"
chapter of the manual.
-\f
+
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
New in 1.9:
* Makefile.in bloat reduction:
- The manual tells more about SUBDIRS vs. DIST_SUBDIRS.
It also gives an example of nested packages using AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS.
-\f
+
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
Bugs fixed in 1.8.5:
* Long-standing bugs:
- Fix many rules to please FreeBSD make, which runs commands with `sh -e'.
- Polish diagnostic when no input file is found.
-\f
+
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
Bugs fixed in 1.8.4:
* Long-standing bugs:
not defined in the same conditions as the _LDADD that uses it.
- Do not warn when JAVAROOT is overridden, this is legitimate.
-\f
+
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
Bugs fixed in 1.8.3:
* Long-standing bugs:
- Third-Party Makefiles: how to interface third party Makefiles.
- Upgrading: upgrading packages to newer Automake versions.
- Multiple Outputs: handling tools that produce many outputs.
-\f
+
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
Bug fixed in 1.8.2:
* A (well known) portability bug slipped in the changes made to
* Fix install rules for conditionally built python files. (This never
really worked.)
-\f
+
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
Bug fixed in 1.8.1:
* Bugs introduced by 1.8:
- tests/aclocal6.test: fix failure if autom4te.cache is disabled.
- tests/txinfo24.test, tests/txinfo25.test, tests/txinfo28.test:
fix failures with old Texinfo versions.
-\f
+
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
New in 1.8:
* Meta-News
- CONFIGURE_DEPENDENCIES and CONFIG_STATUS_DEPENDENCIES are now
documented. (The is not a new feature, these variables have
been there since at least Automake 1.4.)
-\f
+
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
Bugs fixed in 1.7.9:
* Fix install-strip to work with nobase_ binaries.
* Fix renaming of #line directives in ylwrap.
* Rebuild with Autoconf 2.59. (1.7.8 was not installable with pdksh.)
-\f
+
Bugs fixed in 1.7.8:
* Remove spurious blank lines in cleaning rules introduced in 1.7.7.
* Fix detection of Debian's install-info, broken since version 1.5.
(Debian bug #213524).
* Honor -module if it appears in AM_LDFLAGS (i.e., relax name checking)
This was only done for libfoo_LDFLAGS and LDFLAGS in previous versions.
-\f
+
Bugs fixed in 1.7.7:
* The implementation of automake's --no-force option is unreliable,
so this option is ignored in this version. A real fix will appear in
- Extending aclocal: how to write m4 macros that won't trigger warnings
with Automake 1.8.
- A Shared Library: Rewrite and split into subsections.
-\f
+
Bugs fixed in 1.7.6:
* Fix depcomp's icc mode for ICC 7.1.
* Diagnose calls to AC_CONFIG_FILES and friends with not enough arguments.
* Fix the location reported in some diagnostics related to AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
* Remove Latin-1 characters from elisp-comp.
* Update the manual's @dircategory to match the Free Software Directory.
-\f
+
Bugs fixed in 1.7.5:
* Update install-sh's license to remove an advertising clause.
(Debian bug #191717)
that caused invalid Makefile.ins to be generated.
* Make sure AM_MAKE_INCLUDE doesn't fail when a `doit' file exists.
* New FAQ entry: renamed objects.
-\f
+
Bugs fixed in 1.7.4:
* Tweak the TAGS rule to support Exuberant Ctags (in addition to
the Emacs implementation)
Makefiles. (PR/389)
* `make install' will build `BUILT_SOURCES' first.
* Minor documentation fixes.
-\f
+
Bugs fixed in 1.7.3:
* Fix stamp files numbering (when using multiple AC_CONFIG_HEADERS).
* Query distutils for `pythondir' and `pythonexecdir', instead of
- Document how AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR interacts with missing files.
(Debian Bug #39542)
- Document `AM_YFLAGS = -d'. (PR/382)
-\f
+
Bugs fixed in 1.7.2:
* Fix installation and uninstallation of Info files built in subdirectories.
* Do not run `./configure --with-included-gettext' during `make distcheck'
and augmented in another condition.
* Fix ansi2knr rules for LIBOBJS sources.
* Clean all known Texinfo index files, not only those which appear to
- be used, because we cannot know wich indexes are used in included files.
+ be used, because we cannot know which indexes are used in included files.
(PR/375, Debian Bug #168671)
* Honor only the first @setfilename seen in a Texinfo file.
* Treat "required file X not found" diagnostics as errors (exit status 1).
* Noteworthy manual updates:
- Augment the section about BUILT_SOURCES.
- Mention that AM_PROG_CC_STDC is a relic that is better avoided today.
-\f
+
Bugs fixed in 1.7.1:
* Honor `ansi2knr' for files built in subdirectories, or using per-targets
flags.
* Fix distribution of included Makefile fragment, so we don't create
spurious directories in the distribution. (PR/366)
* Don't complain that a target lacks `.$(EXEEXT)' when it has it.
-\f
+
New in 1.7:
* Autoconf 2.54 is required.
* `aclocal' and `automake' will no longer warn about obsolete
removes all installed files has been moved in a separate target,
distuninstallcheck, so it can be overridden easily.
* Many bug fixes.
-\f
+
New in 1.6.3:
* Support for AM_INIT_GETTEXT([external])
* Bug fixes, including:
- nobase_ programs and scripts honor --program-transform correctly.
- Erase configure.lineno during `make distclean'.
- Erase YACC and LEX outputs during `make maintainer-clean'.
-\f
+
New in 1.6.2:
* Many bug fixes, including:
- Requiring the current version works.
- Don't compute dependencies in background to avoid races with libtool.
- Fix handling of _OBJECTS variables for targets sharing source variables.
- Check dependency mode for Java when AM_PROG_GCJ is used.
-\f
+
New in 1.6.1:
* automake --output-dir is deprecated
* Many bug fixes, including:
- Allow configure variables with reserved suffix and unknown prefix
(e.g. AC_SUBST(mumble_LDFLAGS) when 'mumble' is not a target).
- Fix the definition of AUTOMAKE and ACLOCAL in configure.
-\f
+
New in 1.6:
* Autoconf 2.52 is required.
* automake no longer run libtoolize.
appended, and some of the install directory names have changed.
This lets you have multiple versions installed simultaneously.
* Support for parsers and lexers in subdirectories.
-\f
+
New in 1.5:
* Support for `configure.ac'.
* Support for `else COND', `endif COND' and negated conditions `!COND'.
* Compiled Java support
* Support for per-executable and per-library compilation flags
* Many bug fixes
-\f
+
New in 1.4:
* Added support for the Fortran 77 programming language.
* Re-indexed the Automake Texinfo manual.
* Dependency tracking no long susceptible to deleted header file problem
* Maintainer mode now a conditional. @MAINT@ is now an anachronism.
* Bug fixes
-\f
+
New in 1.3:
* Bug fixes
* Better Cygwin32 support
* Preliminary support for Java
* DESTDIR support at "make install" time
* Improved ansi2knr support; you must use the latest ansi2knr.c (included)
-\f
+
New in 1.2:
* Bug fixes
* Better DejaGnu support
* Added `missing' support
* Cygwin32 support
* Conditionals in Makefile.am, from Ian Taylor
-\f
+
New in 1.0:
* Bug fixes
* distcheck target runs install and installcheck targets
* Added preliminary support for DejaGnu.
-\f
+
New in 0.33:
* More bug fixes
* More checking
* Added support for jm_MAINTAINER_MODE
* dist-zip support
* New "distcheck" target
-\f
+
New in 0.32:
* Many bug fixes
* mkinstalldirs and mdate-sh now appear in directory specified by
* Preliminary (unfinished) support for libtool
* Added short option names.
* Better "dist" support when gluing together multiple packages
-\f
+
New in 0.31:
* Bug fixes
* Documentation updates (many from François Pinard)
* Better error messages in many cases
* Program names are canonicalized
* Added "check" prefix; from Gord Matzigkeit
-\f
+
New in 0.30:
* Bug fixes
* configure.in scanner knows about AC_PATH_XTRA, AC_OUTPUT ":" syntax
* Required macros now distributed in aclocal.m4
* New documentation
* --strictness=gnu is default
-\f
+
New in 0.29:
* Many bug fixes
* More sophisticated configure.in scanning; now understands ALLOCA and
foo_SOURCES variable.
* Automake automatically rebuilds files listed in AC_OUTPUT. The
corresponding ".in" files are included in the distribution.
-\f
+
New in 0.28:
* Added --gnu and --gnits options
* More standards checking
* Cleaned up 'dist' targets
* Added AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS variable and several options
* Now scans configure.in to get some information (preliminary)
-\f
+
New in 0.27:
* Works with Perl 4 again
-\f
+
New in 0.26:
* Added --install-missing option.
* Pretty-prints generated macros and rules
* Generates .PHONY target
* Rule or macro in Makefile.am now overrides contents of Automake file
* Substantial cleanups from François Pinard
-\f
+
New in 0.25:
* Bug fixes.
* Works with Perl 4 again.
-\f
+
New in 0.24:
* New uniform naming scheme.
* --strictness option
* '.c' files corresponding to '.y' or '.l' files are automatically
distributed.
* Many bug fixes and cleanups
-\f
+
New in 0.23:
* Allow objects to be conditionally included in libraries via lib_LIBADD.
-\f
+
New in 0.22:
* Bug fixes in 'clean' code.
* Now generates 'installdirs' target.
* man page installation reworked.
* 'make dist' no longer re-creates all Makefile.in's.
-\f
+
New in 0.21:
* Reimplemented in Perl
* Added --amdir option (for debugging)
* Texinfo support cleaned up.
* Automatic de-ANSI-fication cleaned up.
* Cleaned up 'clean' targets.
-\f
+
New in 0.20:
* Automatic dependency tracking
* More documentation
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