+New in 1.13:
+
+* Version requirements:
+
+ - Autoconf 2.65 or greater is required.
+
+ - The rules to build PDF and DVI output from Texinfo input now
+ requires Texinfo 4.9 or later.
+
+ - 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 automake-provided '@mkdir_p@' configure 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.
+ However, to maintain a degree of backward-compatibility, the make
+ variable '$(mkdir_p)' is still defined (now simple as an alias to
+ '$(MKDIR_P)'). It will probably be removed in future major versions
+ of Automake (probably 1.14).
+
+ - 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+ AM_PROG_CC_STDC: superseded by AC_PROG_CC since October 2002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
+ fp_WITH_DMALLOC: old alias for AM_WITH_DMALLOC
+ AM_CONFIG_HEADER: superseded by AC_CONFIG_HEADERS since July 2002
+ ud_PATH_LISPDIR: old alias for AM_PATH_LISPDIR
+ jm_MAINTAINER_MODE: old alias for AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
+ ud_GNU_GETTEXT: old alias for AM_GNU_GETTEXT
+ gm_PROG_LIBTOOL: old alias for AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
+ fp_C_PROTOTYPES: old alias for AM_C_PROTOTYPES (which was part
+ of the now-removed automatic de-ANSI-fication
+ support of Automake)
+
+ - All the "old alias" macros in 'm4/obsolete.m4' have been removed.
+
+* Obsolescent features:
+
+ - Use of the long-deprecated two- and three-arguments invocation forms
+ of the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is no longer documented. It's still supported
+ though (albeit with a warning in the 'obsolete' category), to cater
+ for people who want to define the version number for their package
+ dynamically (e.g., from the current VCS revision). We'll have to
+ continue this support until Autoconf itself is fixed to allow better
+ support for such dynamic version numbers.
+
+* Elisp byte-compilation:
+
+ - The byte compilation of '.el' files into '.elc' files is now done
+ with a suffix rule. This has simplified the compilation process, and
+ more importantly made it less brittle. The downside is that emacs is
+ now invoked once for each '.el' files, which cause some noticeable
+ slowdowns. These should however be mitigated on multicore machines
+ (which are becoming the norm today) if concurrent make ("make -j")
+ is used.
+
+ - Elisp files placed in a subdirectory are now byte-compiled to '.elc'
+ files in the same subdirectory; for example, byte-compiling of file
+ 'sub/foo.el' file will result in 'sub/foo.elc' rather than in
+ 'foo.elc'. This behaviour is backward-incompatible with older
+ Automake versions, but it is more natural and more sane. See also
+ automake bug#7441.
+
+ - The Emacs invocation performing byte-compilation of '.el' files honors
+ the $(AM_ELCFLAGS) and $(ELCFLAGS) variables; as typical, the former
+ one is developer-reserved and the latter one user-reserved.
+
+ - The 'elisp-comp' script, once provided by Automake, has been rendered
+ obsoleted by the just-described changes, and thus 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).
+
+ - The 'color-tests' option is now unconditionally activated by default.
+ In particular, this means that testsuite output is now colorized by
+ default if the attached terminal seems to support ANSI escapes, and
+ that the user can force output colorization by setting the variable
+ AM_COLOR_TESTS to "always". The 'color-tests' is still recognized
+ for backward-compatibility, although it's a handled as a no-op now.
+
+* 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 no longer
+ disables the warnings in the 'portability-recursive' category.
+
+* 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 no longer tries 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.
+
+* Recursive targets:
+
+ - The user can now define his own recursive targets that recurse
+ in the directories specified in $(SUBDIRS). This can be done by
+ specifying the name of such targets in invocations of the new
+ 'AM_EXTRA_RECURSIVE_TARGETS' m4 macro.
+
+* Tags:
+
+ - Any failure in the recipe of the "tags", "ctags", "cscope" or
+ "cscopelist" targets in a subdirectory is now propagated to the
+ top-level make invocation.
+
+ - Tags are correctly computed also for files in _SOURCES variables that
+ only list files with non-standard suffixes (see automake bug#12372).
+
+* Improvements to aclocal and related rebuilds rules:
+
+ - Autoconf-provided macros AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR and AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS
+ (the latter of which will only be present since Autoconf 2.70) are
+ now traced by aclocal, and can be used to declare the local m4 include
+ directories. Formerly, one had to specify it with an explicit '-I'
+ option to the 'aclocal' invocation.
+
+ - The special make variable ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS is deprecated; future
+ Automake versions will warn about its use, and later version will
+ remove support for it altogether.
+
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
New in 1.12.6:
* WARNING: Future backward-incompatibilities!
option) will be removed in the next major Automake release (1.13).
- The long-obsolete (since automake 1.10) AM_PROG_MKDIR m4 macro will
- be removed in Automake 1.13. The $(mkdir_p) make variable and the
+ be removed in Automake 1.14. The $(mkdir_p) make variable and the
@mkdir_p@ substitution will still remain available (as aliases of
$(MKDIR_P)) for the moment, for better backward compatibility.
Bugs fixed in 1.12.6:
- * Bugs introduced in 1.12.5:
+ * Python-related bugs:
- - The maintainer rebuild rules for Makefiles and aclocal.m4 in Automake's
- own build system works correctly again.
+ - The default installation location for python modules has been improved
+ for Python 3 on Debian and Ubuntu systems, changing from:
+
+ ${prefix}/lib/python3/dist-packages
+
+ to
+
+ ${prefix}/lib/python3.x/site-packages
+
+ This change should ensure modules installed using the default ${prefix}
+ "/usr/local" are found by default by system python 3.x installations.
+ See automake bug#10227.
+
+ - Python byte-compilation supports the new layout mandated by PEP-3147,
+ with its __pycache__ directory (automake bug#8847).
+
+ * Build system issues:
+
+ - The maintainer rebuild rules for Makefiles and aclocal.m4 in
+ Automake's own build system works correctly again (bug introduced
+ in Automake 1.12.5).
+
+ * Testsuite issues:
+
+ - The Vala-related tests has been changed to adjust to the removal of
+ the 'posix' profile in the valac compiler. See automake bug#12934
+ a.k.a. bug#12522.
+
+ - Some spurious testsuite failures related to older tools and systems
+ have been fixed.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
finding classic 'libname.a' style libraries when 'name.lib' and
'name.dll.lib' aren't available.
- - Python byte-compilation supports the new layout mandated by PEP-3147,
- with its __pycache__ directory (automake bug#8847).
-
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