NEWS: IRIX is still supported; only SGI C compiler depcomp no longer is
authorStefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:22:12 +0000 (13:22 +0100)
committerStefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:31:06 +0000 (13:31 +0100)
commit97f04a5d1f5fba976284ae4b4503b92f79a5cbd1
treeea26ec7f578b16d6b7f42f2f6eff3fbfd3a602f3
parent7bb400fccfab72b7d278fe08b63bbeec3f1b0044
NEWS: IRIX is still supported; only SGI C compiler depcomp no longer is

This change is for the maint branch.

The only IRIX-specific support that is going to actually be removed in
the next major Automake versions is the depcomp support for the SGI
compiler.  That means that automatic dependency tracking will no
longer work with that compiler, but "normal" compilation should still
work, at least until the compiler is supported by Autoconf.

So there is no point in alarming our users by stating in the NEWS file
that "support for IRIX and the SGI compilers is going to be removed";
after all, while we don't test on nor particularly care about IRIX
anymore, that doesn't mean we are deliberately breaking it, and the
likelihood of an intended breakage there is very low.

See:
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2013-01/msg00164.html>
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2013-01/msg00165.html>

* NEWS (Future backward-incompatibilities: Adjust.  Improve explanation
of our rationale for dropping SGI support. Fix an unrelated typo while
at it.

Suggested-by: Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
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