documentation updates and bug and regression fixes; they will
not introduce new features, nor any backward-incompatibility (any
such incompatibility would be considered a bug, to be fixed with
- a further micro release).
+ a further micro release).
+ Minor versions (e.g., 1.14, 2.1) can introduce new backward
compatible features; the only backward-incompatibilities allowed
* Bugs fixed:
+ - When the 'ustar' option is used, the generated configure script no
+ longer risks hanging during the tests for the availability of the
+ 'pax' utility, even if the user running configure has a UID or GID
+ that requires more than 21 bits to be represented.
+ See automake bug#8343 and bug#13588.
+
- The obsolete macros AM_CONFIG_HEADER or AM_PROG_CC_STDC work once
again, as they did in Automake 1.12.x (albeit printing runtime
warnings in the 'obsolete' category). Removing them has turned
Automake 1.13, has turned out to be a similarly very bad idea,
for exactly the same reason.
- - Aclocal no longer error out if the first local m4 directory (as
- specified by the '-I' option or the 'AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS' or
- 'AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR' macros) doesn't exist; it merely report a
- warning in the 'unsupported' category. This is done to support
- some pre-existing real-world usages; refer to automake bug#13514
- for more details.
+ - aclocal will no longer error out if the first local m4 directory
+ (as specified by the '-I' option or the 'AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS' or
+ 'AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR' macros) doesn't exist; it will merely report
+ a warning in the 'unsupported' category. This is done to support
+ some pre-existing real-world usages. See automake bug#13514.
- - Aclocal no longer consider directories for extra m4 files more than
- once, even if they are specified multiple times. This prevents
- problems in older packages that specify both
+ - aclocal will no longer consider directories for extra m4 files more
+ than once, even if they are specified multiple times. This ensures
+ packages that specify both
AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4]) in configure.ac
ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4 in Makefile.am
- If the 'm4' directory did not exist when aclocal was called the first
- time by autoreconf, an error would have ensued with Automake 1.13 and
- 1.13.1. See automake bug#13514.
+ will work correctly, even when the 'm4' directory contains no
+ package-specific files, but is used only to install third-party
+ m4 files (as can happen with e.g., "libtoolize --install").
+ See automake bug#13514.
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