X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=6d83ac536f1ad42a7c063cb89f3e998cf4edd470;hb=52062eb2e135838f946a34e2773a70a02d243d50;hp=dcfd8c1c4c3d57f9f2a14b2314e14ec81719f854;hpb=75b91149b81b38570282008c926eba9eb99b6a29;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fautomake.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index dcfd8c1..6d83ac5 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,25 +1,28 @@ -New in 1.12.1: +New in 1.13: -* WARNING: Future backward-incompatibilities! +* Version requirements: - - 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. + - Autoconf 2.65 or greater is required. - - 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. +* Obsolete features removed: - - 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. + - Use of the long-deprecated two- and three-arguments invocation forms + of the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is not supported anymore. + + - Support for the "Cygnus-style" trees (once enabled by the 'cygnus' + option) has been removed. See discussion about automake bug#11034 + for more background. - - The following long-obsolete m4 macros will be removed in the - next major Automake version (1.13): + - 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. + + - 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). + + - The following long-obsolete m4 macros have been removed: AM_PROG_CC_STDC: superseded by AC_PROG_CC since October 2002 fp_PROG_CC_STDC: broken alias for AM_PROG_CC_STDC @@ -33,18 +36,48 @@ New in 1.12.1: of the now-removed automatic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. + +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +New in 1.12.1: + +* WARNING: Future backward-incompatibilities! + + - 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). @@ -56,6 +89,11 @@ 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 +103,17 @@ 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 +136,15 @@ 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. + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ New in 1.12: