-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.
- All the "old alias" macros in 'm4/obsolete.m4' will be removed in
the next major Automake version (1.13).
- - 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).
-
- 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).
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).
+
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+
+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).
+
- 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 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.
+
+ - 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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