- The `lzma' compression scheme and associated automake option `dist-lzma'
is obsoleted by `xz' and `dist-xz' due to upstream changes.
+ - You may adjust the compression options used in dist-xz and dist-bzip2.
+ The default is now merely -e for xz, but still -9 for bzip; you may
+ specify a different level via the XZ_OPT and BZIP2 envvars respectively.
+ E.g., "make dist-xz XZ_OPT=-7" or "make dist-xz BZIP2=-5"
+
+ - The `compile' script now converts some options for MSVC for a better
+ user experience. Similarly, the new `ar-lib' script wraps Microsoft lib.
+
- The py-compile script now accepts empty arguments passed to the options
`--destdir' and `--basedir', and complains about unrecognized options.
Moreover, a non-option argument or a special `--' argument terminates
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
+ user; still, the old Makefile.am files that used to define it will
still continue to work as before.
+ - New macro AM_PROG_AR that looks for an archiver and wraps it in the new
+ 'ar-lib' auxiliary script if the selected archiver is Microsoft lib.
+ This new macro is required for LIBRARIES and LTLIBRARIES when automake
+ is run with -Wextra-portability and -Werror.
+
- When using DejaGnu-based testsuites, the user can extend the `site.exp'
file generated by automake-provided rules by defining the special make
variable `$(EXTRA_DEJAGNU_SITE_CONFIG)'.
the `${infodir}/dir' file, by exporting the new environment variable
`AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR' to the value "no".
-Bugs fixed in 1.11.0a:
+Bugs fixed in 1.11.1a:
-* Bugs introduced by 1.11:
+* Bugs introduced by 1.11.1:
+
- * Long standing bugs:
++* Long-standing bugs:
- The `parallel-tests' test driver works around a GNU make 3.80 bug with
trailing white space in the test list (`TESTS = foo $(EMPTY)'), and
or "redefinition of TEST_EXTENSIONS), or even, in some situations,
silently producing broken `Makefile.in' files.
- - The `silent-rules' option now also silences all compile rules if dependency
- tracking is disabled. Also, when `silent-rules' is not used, the output from
- `make' does not contain spurious extra lines with only a backslash in them
- any more; it now again matches that from pre-1.11 Automake.
-
- - Several scripts as well as the parallel-tests testsuite driver now
- exit with the right exit status upon receiving a signal.
-
- - The `dist-xz' option now uses `xz -9' for maximum compression.
+ - The `silent-rules' option now truly silences all compile rules, even
+ when dependency tracking is disabled. Also, when `silent-rules' is
+ not used, `make' output no longer contains spurious backslash-only
+ lines, thus once again matching what Automake did before 1.11.
- - The AM_COND_IF macro also works if the shell expression for the conditional
- is no longer valid for the condition.
+ - A per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror does not carry over to the
+ handling of other Makefile.am files any more.
-* Long-standing bugs:
+ - The order of Yacc and Lex flags is fixed to be consistent with other
+ languages: $(AM_YFLAGS) comes before $(YFLAGS), and $(AM_LFLAGS) before
+ $(LFLAGS), so that the user variables override the developer variables.
- "make distcheck" now correctly complains also when "make uninstall"
leaves one and only one file installed in $(prefix).
`get_python_lib' function if it points outside the configured prefix,
unless the `--prefix' argument was either `/usr' or below `/System'.
- - The testsuite does not try to change the mode of `ltmain.sh' files from
- a Libtool installation (symlinked to test directories) any more.
+ - The AM_COND_IF macro also works if the shell expression for the conditional
+ is no longer valid for the condition.
- - AM_PROG_GCJ uses AC_CHECK_TOOLS to look for `gcj' now, so that prefixed
- tools are preferred in a cross-compile setup.
+ - Rules generated by Automake now try harder to not change any files when
+ `make -n' is invoked. Fixes include compilation of Emacs Lisp, Vala, or
+ Yacc source files and the rule to update config.h.
- - Several scripts as well as the parallel-tests testsuite driver now
- exit with the right exit status upon receiving a signal.
-
- - A per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror does not carry over to the
- handling of other Makefile.am files any more.
-
- - The order of Yacc and Lex flags is fixed to be consistent with other
- languages: $(AM_YFLAGS) comes before $(YFLAGS), and $(AM_LFLAGS) before
- $(LFLAGS), so that the user variables override the developer variables.
+ - Several scripts and the parallel-tests testsuite driver now exit with
+ the right exit status upon receiving a signal.
- - Rules generated by Automake now try harder to not change any files when
- `make -n' is invoked. Fixes include compilation of Emacs Lisp, Vala, or
- Yacc source files and the rule to update config.h.
+ - A per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror does not erroneously carry over
+ to the handling of other Makefile.am files.
- - The order of Yacc and Lex flags is now consistent with that of other
- languages: $(AM_YFLAGS) comes before $(YFLAGS), and $(AM_LFLAGS) before
- $(LFLAGS), so that the user variables override the developer variables.
-
- - Rules generated by Automake now try harder not to change any files when
- `make -n' is invoked. Fixes include compilation of Emacs Lisp, Vala, or
- Yacc source files and the rule to update config.h.
-
- The code for automatic dependency tracking works around a Solaris
make bug triggered by sources containing repeated slashes when the
`subdir-objects' option was used.
and error out if `javadir' is undefined, instead of silently producing
a broken Makefile.in.
- - Now aclocal and automake, when they've to spawn autoconf or autom4te
- processes, honour the configure-time definitions of AUTOCONF and
- AUTOM4TE.
+ - aclocal and automake now honour the configure-time definitions of
+ AUTOCONF and AUTOM4TE when they spawn autoconf or autom4te processes.
- - The `install-info' recipe does not try anymore to guess whether the
+ - The `install-info' recipe no longer tries to guess whether the
`install-info' program is from Debian or from GNU, and adaptively
- change its behaviour; this has proven to be frail and easy to regress.
+ change its behaviour; this has proven to be frail and easy to
+ regress.
\f
+Bugs fixed in 1.11.1:
+
+ - Lots of minor bugfixes.
+
+* Bugs introduced by 1.11:
+
+ - The `parallel-tests' test driver works around a GNU make 3.80 bug with
+ trailing white space in the test list (`TESTS = foo $(EMPTY)').
+
+* Long standing bugs:
+
+ - On Darwin 9, `pythondir' and `pyexecdir' pointed below `/Library/Python'
+ even if the `--prefix' argument pointed outside of a system directory.
+ AM_PATH_PYTHON has been fixed to ignore the value returned from python's
+ `get_python_lib' function if it points outside the configured prefix,
+ unless the `--prefix' argument was either `/usr' or below `/System'.
+
+ - The testsuite does not try to change the mode of `ltmain.sh' files from
+ a Libtool installation (symlinked to test directories) any more.
+
+ - AM_PROG_GCJ uses AC_CHECK_TOOLS to look for `gcj' now, so that prefixed
+ tools are preferred in a cross-compile setup.
+
+ - The distribution is tarred up with mode 755 now by the `dist*' targets.
+ This fixes a race condition where untrusted users could modify files
+ in the $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION) distdir before packing if the toplevel
+ build directory was world-searchable. This is CVE-2009-4029.
+\f
New in 1.11:
* Version requirements:
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