NEWS: document fix for bug#14441

Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ab519c4..43da27d 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -87,6 +87,16 @@ New in 1.13.3:
   - Byte-compilation of Emacs lisp files could fail spuriously on Solaris,
     when /bin/ksh or /usr/xpg4/bin/sh were used as shell.
 
+  - The same user-defined suffix being transformed into different
+    Automake-known suffixes in different Makefiles could confuse automake
+    and make it generate inconsistent Makefiles (automake bug#14441).
+    For example, if 'Makefile.am' contained a ".ext.cc:" suffix rule, and
+    'sub/Makefile.am' contained a ".ext.c:" suffix rule, automake would
+    have mistakenly put into 'Makefile.in' rules to compile *.c files
+    into object files, and into 'sub/Makefile.in' rules to compile *.cc
+    files into object files --- rather than the other way around.
+    This is now fixed.
+
 * Testsuite work:
 
   - The test cases no longer have the executable bit set.  This should