Merge branch 'yacc-work' into maint

[platform/upstream/automake.git] / NEWS

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-New in 1.12.2:
+New in 1.12.3:
 
 * WARNING: Future backward-incompatibilities!
 
@@ -66,6 +66,30 @@ New in 1.12.2:
     giving more useful warnings than a bare "command not found" from a
     make recipe would.
 
+* M4 files:
+
+  - The '.m4' files provided by Automake does not define serial numbers
+    anymore.  This should cause no difference in the behaviour of aclocal
+    though.
+
+* Automake Testsuite:
+
+  - Some testsuite weaknesses and spurious failures have been fixed.
+
+* Long-standing bugs:
+
+  - Instead of renaming only self-references of files (typically for
+    #lines), ylwrap now also renames references to the other generated
+    files.  This fixes support for GLR and C++ parsers from Bison (PR
+    automake/491 and automake bug#7648): 'parser.c' now properly
+    #includes 'parser.h' instead of 'y.tab.h'.
+
+  - Generated files unknown to ylwrap are now preserved.  This fixes
+    C++ support for Bison (automake bug#7648): location.hh and the
+    like are no longer discarded.
+
+New in 1.12.2:
+
 * Warnings and deprecations:
 
   - Automake now issues a warning (in the 'portability' category) if