X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=1612a364c2d1cc41a6c4b407728a3e97f02d3c8a;hb=e18ac4b80c7817b124880f007ba1c796f8ac9794;hp=e8e59ced740b1d723a3f97732f3dca70ccaf5e1a;hpb=b105d40dc70fde616dd222c03ae642317fa205a6;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fautomake.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e8e59ce..1612a36 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,41 +1,31 @@ -New in 1.12.1: - -* Deprecated obsolescent features: +New in 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). +* Version requirements: -Bugs fixed in 1.12.1: + - Autoconf 2.65 or greater is required. -* Long-standing bugs: + - The rules to build PDF and DVI output from Texinfo input now + requires Texinfo 4.9 or later. - - 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". +* Obsolete features removed: -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + - Use of the long-deprecated two- and three-arguments invocation forms + of the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is not supported anymore. -New in 1.12: + - Support for the "Cygnus-style" trees (once enabled by the 'cygnus' + option) has been removed. See discussion about automake bug#11034 + for more background. -* WARNING: Future backward-incompatibilities! + - The automake-provided $(mkdir_p) make variable, @mkdir_p@ configure + time substitution and AM_PROG_MKDIR m4 macro have been removed. They + had been obsolete since automake 1.10, and actively deprecated since + Automake 1.12.1. - - 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. + - The deprecated aclocal option '--acdir' has been removed. You + should use the options '--automake-acdir' and '--system-acdir' + instead (which have been introduced in Automake 1.11.2). - - 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): + - The following long-obsolete m4 macros have been removed: AM_PROG_CC_STDC: superseded by AC_PROG_CC since October 2002 fp_PROG_CC_STDC: broken alias for AM_PROG_CC_STDC @@ -49,26 +39,192 @@ New in 1.12: 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). + - All the "old alias" macros in 'm4/obsolete.m4' have been removed. + +* Changes to Automake-generated testsuite harnesses: + + - The parallel testsuite harness (previously only enabled by the + 'parallel-tests' option) is the default one; the older serial + testsuite harness will still be available through the use of the + 'serial-tests' option (introduced in Automake 1.12). + +* Silent rules support: + + - Support for silent rules is now always active in Automake-generated + Makefiles. So, although the verbose output is still the default, + the user can now always use "./configure --enable-silent-rules" or + "make V=0" to enable quieter output in the package he's building. + + - The 'silent-rules' option has now become a no-op, preserved for + backward-compatibility only. In particular, its use does not disable + the warnings in the 'portability-recursive' category anymore. + +* Texinfo Support: + + - The rules to build PDF and DVI files from Texinfo input now use the + ' --build-dir' option, to keep the auxiliary files used by texi2dvi + and texi2pdf around without cluttering the build directory, and to + make it possible to run the "dvi" and "pdf" recipes in parallel. + +* Automatic remake rules and 'missing' script: + + - The 'missing' script does not try anymore to update the timestamp + of out-of-date files that require a maintainer-specific tool to be + remade, in case the user lacks such a tool (or has a too-old version + of it). It just give a useful warning, and in some cases also a tip + about how to obtain such a tool. + + - The missing script has thus become useless as a (poor) way to work + around the sketched-timestamps issues that can happen for projects + that keep generated files committed in their VCS repository. Such + projects are now encouraged to write a custom "fix-timestamps.sh" + script to avoid such issues; a simple example is provided in the + "CVS and generated files" chapter of the automake manual. + +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - - 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). +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. + + - 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. - 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 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). +* 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). + +* Cleaning rules: + + - Recursive cleaning rules descends into the $(SUBDIRS) in the natural + order (as done by the other recursive rules), rather than in the + inverse order. They used to do that in order to work a round a + limitation in an older implementation of the automatic dependency + tracking support, but that limitation had been lifted years ago + already, when the automatic dependency tracking based on side-effects + of compilation had been introduced. + + - Cleaning rules for compiled objects (both "plain" and libtool) work + better when subdir objects are involved, not triggering a distinct + 'rm' invocation for each such object. They do so by removing *any* + compiled object file that is in the same directory of a subdir + object. See automake bug#10697. + +* Silent rules support: + + - A new predefined $(AM_V_P) make variable is provided; it expands + to a shell conditional that can be used in recipes to know whether + make is being run in silent or verbose mode. + +Bugs fixed in 1.12.2: + +* Long-standing bugs: + + - The "recheck" targets behaves better in the face of build failures + related to previously failed tests. For example, if a test is a + compiled program that must be rerun by "make recheck", and its + compilation fails, it will still be rerun by further "make recheck" + invocations. See automake bug#11791. + +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +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 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 @@ -1566,7 +1722,7 @@ New in 1.8: rule for this target. Running `automake -Woverride' will diagnose all such overriding definitions. - It should be noted that almost all these targets support a *-local + It should be noted that almost all of these targets support a *-local variant that is meant to supplement the automake-defined rule (See node `Extending' in the manual). The above rule should be rewritten as