test harness: improve catching of usage errors in script 'test-driver'

[platform/upstream/automake.git] / NEWS

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@@ -31,12 +31,9 @@
 
   - According to this new scheme, the next major version of Automake
     (the one that had previously been labelled as "1.14") will actually
-    become "Automake 2.0".  Automake 1.14 is *this* release (which is
-    a minor one).  It introduces new features, deprecations and bug
-    fixes, but no serious backward incompatibility.  A partial exception
-    is given by the behavioural changes in the AM_PROG_CC_C_O macro
-    (described in details below) but such changes can also be seen as a
-    fix for the old suboptimal and somewhat confusing behaviour.
+    become "Automake 2.0".  Automake 1.14 has already been released as
+    the last minor release, and the present one is a bug-fixing release
+    following up on that one.
 
   - See discussion about automake bug#13578 for more details and
     background: <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13578>
@@ -148,9 +145,9 @@ New in 1.14:
          macro behind the scenes.
 
       2. It caches the check result in the 'am_cv_prog_cc_c_o' variable,
-         and not in a 'ac_cv_prog_cc_*_c_o' variable whose exact name
-         in only dynamically computed *at configure runtime* from the
-         content of the '$CC' variable.
+         and not in a 'ac_cv_prog_cc_*_c_o' variable whose exact name is
+         dynamically computed only at configure runtime (really!) from
+         the content of the '$CC' variable.
 
       3. It no longer automatically AC_DEFINE the C preprocessor
          symbol 'NO_MINUS_C_MINUS_O'.