From 6eefb0a0bcce8c474fe10e7d4e5ace0e2ce57253 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefano Lattarini Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 10:43:31 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] news: fixlets and updates * NEWS: Here. In particular, report the change in 'missing' semantics. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini --- NEWS | 22 +++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0b3004e..ee16961 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -10,11 +10,12 @@ New in 1.12.2: version (1.13). Until now, Automake has required Autoconf version 2.62 or later. - - Starting from the next major Automake version (1.13), the rules to - build pdf, ps and dvi output from Texinfo input will use the '--tidy' - option by default. Since such an option was introduced in Texinfo - 4.9, this means that Makefiles generated by future Automake versions - will require at least that version of Texinfo. + - Starting from the next major Automake version (1.13), the rules + to build pdf, ps and dvi output from Texinfo input will use the + '--build-dir' option by default. Since such an option was only + introduced in Texinfo 4.9, this means that Makefiles generated by + future Automake versions will require at least that version of + Texinfo. - Starting from the next major Automake version (1.13), the parallel testsuite harness (previously only enabled by the 'parallel-tests' @@ -41,8 +42,8 @@ New in 1.12.2: the next major Automake version (1.13). - Support for the two- and three-arguments invocation forms of the - AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macro will be deprecated in the next minor version - of Automake (1.12.1) and removed in the next major version (1.13). + AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macro is deprecated, and will be removed in the + next major Automake version (1.13). - The '--acdir' option of aclocal is deprecated, and will probably be removed in the next major Automake release (1.13). You should @@ -53,6 +54,13 @@ New in 1.12.2: search path are looked up is probably going to be changed in the next Automake release (1.13). + - The 'missing' script will not try anymore to update the timestamp + of out-of-date files that require a maintainer-specific tool to be + remade, in case the user lacks such a tool (or has a too-old version + of it). In fact, starting from Automake 1.13, all it'll do will be + giving more useful warnings than a bare "command not found" from a + make recipe would. + * Warnings and deprecations: - Automake now issues a warning (in the 'portability' category) if -- 2.7.4