news: update w.r.t. introduction of AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS

* NEWS (Miscellaneous changes): Update.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6d8233e..f18647a 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2011-06-13  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       news: update w.r.t. introduction of AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS
+       * NEWS (Miscellaneous changes): Update.
+
 2011-06-10  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 
        maintcheck: DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS can be defined on make cmdline

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b7f9b54..e292474 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -5,6 +5,14 @@ New in 1.11.0a:
   - The `lzma' compression scheme and associated automake option `dist-lzma'
     is obsoleted by `xz' and `dist-xz' due to upstream changes.
 
+  - A developer that needs to pass specific flags to configure at "make
+    distcheck" time can now, and indeed he's advised to, do so by defining
+    the developer-reserved makefile variable AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS,
+    instead of the old DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS.
+    The DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS variable should now be reserved for the
+    user; still, the old Makefile.am files that used to define it should
+    still continue to work as before.
+
 Bugs fixed in 1.11.0a:
 
 * Bugs introduced by 1.11: