refactor: silent rules handling (a little)

[platform/upstream/automake.git] / NEWS

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@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
-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.
@@ -49,6 +53,17 @@ New in 1.12.1:
     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).
+
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+New in 1.12.1:
+
 * New supported languages:
 
   - Support for Objective C++ has been added; it should work similarly to
@@ -56,6 +71,11 @@ New in 1.12.1:
 
 * 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).
@@ -65,6 +85,17 @@ New in 1.12.1:
     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:
@@ -87,6 +118,19 @@ Bugs fixed in 1.12.1:
   - 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: