-New in 1.11.0a:
-
* WARNING: Future backward-incompatibilities!
- - The support for the "obscure" multilib feature has been deprecated,
- and will be moved out of the automake core in the next major Automake
- release (1.12).
+ - Starting from the next major Automake version (1.13), the parallel
+ testsuite harness (previously only enabled by the 'parallel-tests'
+ option) will become the default one; the older serial testsuite
+ harness will still be available through the use of the 'serial-tests'
+ option.
+
+ - The following long-obsolete m4 macros will be removed in the
+ next major Automake version (1.13):
+
+ AM_PROG_CC_STDC: superseded by AC_PROG_CC since October 2002
+ fp_PROG_CC_STDC: broken alias for AM_PROG_CC_STDC
+ fp_WITH_DMALLOC: old alias for AM_WITH_DMALLOC
+ AM_CONFIG_HEADER: superseded by AC_CONFIG_HEADERS since July 2002
+ ud_PATH_LISPDIR: old alias for AM_PATH_LISPDIR
+ jm_MAINTAINER_MODE: old alias for AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
+ ud_GNU_GETTEXT: old alias for AM_GNU_GETTEXT
+ gm_PROG_LIBTOOL: old alias for AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
+ fp_C_PROTOTYPES: old alias for AM_C_PROTOTYPES (which was part
+ of the now-removed automatic de-ANSI-fication
+ support of Automake)
+
+ - All the "old alias" macros in 'm4/obsolete.m4' will be removed in
+ 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).
+
+ - The long-obsolete (since 1.10) automake-provided $(mkdir_p) make
+ variable, @mkdir_p@ substitution and AM_PROG_MKDIR m4 macro will
+ all be deprecated in the next minor version of Automake (1.12.1)
+ and removed in the next major 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
+ use the options '--automake-acdir' and '--system-acdir' instead
+ (which have been introduced in Automake 1.11.2).
- - The support for ".log -> .html" conversion and the check-html and
- recheck-html targets will be removed in the next major Automake
- release (1.12).
+ - The exact order in which the directories in the aclocal macro
+ search path are looked up is probably going to be changed in the
+ next Automake release (1.13).
+
+New in 1.11a:
+
+* Obsolete features removed:
+
+ - Support for automatic de-ANSI-fication has been removed.
+
+ - The support for the "obscure" multilib feature has been removed
+ from Automake core (but remains available in the 'contrib/'
+ directory of the Automake distribution).
+
+ - Support for ".log -> .html" conversion and the check-html and
+ recheck-html targets has been removed from Automake core (but
+ remains available in the 'contrib/' directory of the Automake
+ distribution).
+
+ - The deprecated 'lzma' compression format for distribution archives
+ has been removed, in favor of 'xz' and 'lzip'.
+
+ - The obsolete AM_WITH_REGEX macro has been removed.
+
+ - The long-deprecated options '--output-dir', '--Werror' and
+ '--Wno-error' have been removed.
+
+ - The chapter on the history of Automake has been moved out of the
+ reference manual, into a new dedicated Texinfo file.
+
+* New targets:
+
+ - New 'cscope' target to build a cscope database for the source tree.
+
+* Changes to Automake-generated testsuite harnesses:
+
+ - The new automake option 'serial-tests' has been introduced. It can
+ be used to explicitly instruct automake to use the older serial
+ testsuite harness. This is still the default at the moment, but it
+ might change in future versions.
+
+ - Test scripts that exit with status 99 to signal an "hard error" (e.g.,
+ and unexpected or internal error, or a failure to set up the test case
+ scenario) have their outcome reported as an 'ERROR' now. Previous
+ versions of automake reported such an outcome as a 'FAIL' (the only
+ difference with normal failures being that hard errors were counted
+ as failures even when the test originating them was listed in
+ XFAIL_TESTS).
+
+ - The testsuite summary displayed by the parallel-test harness has a
+ completely new format, that always list the numbers of passed, failed,
+ xfailed, xpassed, skipped and errored tests, even when these numbers
+ are zero (but using smart coloring when the color-tests option is in
+ effect).
+
+ - The default testsuite driver offered by the 'parallel-tests' option is
+ now implemented (partly at least) with the help of automake-provided
+ auxiliary scripts (e.g., 'test-driver'), instead of relying entirely
+ on code in the generated Makefile.in.
+ This has two noteworthy implications. The first one is that projects
+ using the 'parallel-tests' option should now either run automake with
+ the '--add-missing' option, or manually copy the 'test-driver' script
+ into their tree. The second, and more important, implication is that
+ now, when the 'parallel-tests' option is in use, TESTS_ENVIRONMENT can
+ not be used anymore to define a test runner, and the command specified
+ in LOG_COMPILER (and <ext>_LOG_COMPILER) must be a *real* executable
+ program or script. For example, this is still a valid usage (albeit
+ a little contorted):
+
+ TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = \
+ if test -n '$(STRICT_TESTS)'; then \
+ maybe_errexit='-e'; \
+ else \
+ maybe_errexit=''; \
+ fi;
+ LOG_COMPILER = $(SHELL) $$maybe_errexit
+
+ while this is not anymore:
+
+ TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = \
+ $(SHELL) `test -n '$(STRICT_TESTS_CHECKING)' && echo ' -e'`
+
+ neither is this:
+
+ TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = \
+ run_with_perl_or_shell () \
+ { \
+ if grep -q '^#!.*perl' $$1; then
+ $(PERL) $$1; \
+ else \
+ $(SHELL) $$1; \
+ fi; \
+ }
+ LOG_COMPILER = run_with_per_or_shell
+
+ - The package authors can now use customary testsuite drivers within
+ the framework provided by the 'parallel-tests' testsuite harness.
+ Consistently with the existing syntax, this can be done by defining
+ special makefile variables 'LOG_DRIVER' and '<ext>_LOG_DRIVER'.
+
+ - A new developer-reserved variable 'AM_TESTS_FD_REDIRECT' can be used
+ to redirect/define file descriptors used by the test scripts.
+
+ - The parallel-tests harness generates now, in addition the '.log' files
+ holding the output produced by the test scripts, a new set of '.trs'
+ files, holding "metadata" derived by the execution of the test scripts;
+ among such metadata are the outcomes of the test cases run by a script.
+
+ - Initial and still experimental support for the TAP test protocol is
+ now provided.
+
+* Changes to Yacc and Lex support:
+
+ - C source and header files derived from non-distributed Yacc and/or
+ Lex sources are now removed by a simple "make clean" (while they were
+ previously removed only by "make maintainer-clean").
+
+ - Slightly backward-incompatible change, relevant only for use of Yacc
+ with C++: the extensions of the header files produced by the Yacc
+ rules are now modelled after the extension of the corresponding
+ sources. For example, yacc files named "foo.y++" and "bar.yy" will
+ produce header files named "foo.h++" and "bar.hh" respectively, where
+ they would have previously produced header files named simply "foo.h"
+ and "bar.h". This change offers better compatibility with 'bison -o'.
- - The `lzma' compression format for distribution archives has been
- deprecated in favor of `xz' and `lzip', and will be removed in the
- next major Automake release (1.12).
+* Miscellaneous changes:
- - The Automake support for automatic de-ANSI-fication will be removed in
- the next major Automake release (1.12).
+ - Automake now prefers to quote 'like this' or "like this", rather
+ than `like this', in diagnostic message and generated Makefiles,
+ to accommodate the new GNU Coding Standards recommendations.
- - The `--acdir' option of aclocal is deprecated, and will probably be
- removed in the next major Automake release (1.12).
+ - Automake has a new option '--print-libdir' that prints the path of the
+ directory containing the Automake-provided scripts and data files.
- - The exact order in which the directories in the aclocal macro
- search path are looked up is probably going to be changed in the
- next Automake release (1.12).
+ - The 'dist' and 'dist-all' targets now can run compressors in parallel.
- - The obsolescent AM_WITH_REGEX macro has been deprecated (since the
- GNU rx library has been decommissioned), and will be removed in the
- next major Automake release (1.12).
+ - Automake can now generate silenced rules for texinfo outputs.
-* Changes to aclocal:
+ - Some auxiliary files that are automatically distributed by Automake
+ (e.g., 'install-sh', or the 'depcomp' script for packages compiling
+ C sources) might now be listed in the DIST_COMMON variable in many
+ Makefile.in files, rather than in the top-level one.
- - The `--acdir' option is deprecated. Now you should use the new options
- `--automake-acdir' and `--system-acdir' instead.
+ - Messages of types warning or error from 'automake' and 'aclocal'
+ are now prefixed with the respective type, and presence of -Werror
+ is noted.
- - The `ACLOCAL_PATH' environment variable is now interpreted as a
- colon-separated list of additional directories to search after the
- automake internal acdir (by default ${prefix}/share/aclocal-APIVERSION)
- and before the system acdir (by default ${prefix}/share/aclocal).
+ - Automake's early configure-time sanity check now tries to avoid
+ sleeping for a second, which slowed down cached configure runs
+ noticeably. In that case, it will check back at the end of the
+ configure script to ensure that at least one second has passed, to
+ avoid time stamp issues with makefile rules rerunning autotools
+ programs.
+
+ - For programs and libraries, automake now detect EXTRA_foo_DEPENDENCIES
+ and adds them to the normal list of dependencies, but without
+ overwriting the foo_DEPENDENCIES variable, which is normally computed
+ by automake.
+
+ - The warnings in the category 'extra-portability' are now enabled by
+ '-Wall'. In previous versions, one has to use '-Wextra-portability'
+ to enable them.
+
+ - The 'ar-lib' script now ignores the "s" (symbol index) and "S" (no
+ symbol index) modifiers as well as the "s" action, as the symbol index
+ is created unconditionally by Microsoft lib. Also, the "q" (quick)
+ action is now a synonym for "r" (replace). Also, the script has been
+ ignoring the "v" (verbose) modifier already since Automake 1.11.3.
+
+ - When the 'compile' script is used to wrap MSVC, it now accepts an
+ optional space between the -I, -L and -l options and their respective
+ arguments, for better POSIX compliance.
+
+Bugs fixed in 1.11a:
+
+ - Various minor bugfixes for recent or long-standing bugs.
+
+* Bugs introduced by 1.11:
+
+ - The AM_COND_IF macro also works if the shell expression for the
+ conditional is no longer valid for the condition.
+
+ - The automake-provided parallel testsuite harness does not fail anymore
+ with BSD make used in parallel mode when there are test scripts in a
+ subdirectory, like in:
+
+ TESTS = sub/foo.test sub/bar.test
+
+* Long-standing bugs:
+
++ - It is now possible for a foo_SOURCES variable to hold Vala sources
++ together with C header files, as well as with sources and headers for
++ other supported languages (e.g., C++). Previously, only mixing C and
++ Vala sources was supported.
++
+ - Automake's own build system finally have a real "installcheck" target.
+
+ - Files listed with the AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE macro in configure.ac are
+ now automatically distributed also if the directory of the auxiliary
+ files coincides with the top-level directory.
+
+ - Automake now detects the presence of the '-d' flag in the various
+ '*YFLAGS' variables even when their definitions involve indirections
+ through other variables, such as in:
+ foo_opts = -d
+ AM_YFLAGS = $(foo_opts)
+
+ - Automake now complains if a '*YFLAGS' variable has any conditional
+ content, not only a conditional definition.
+
+ - Explicit enabling and/or disabling of Automake warning categories
+ through the '-W...' options now always takes precedence over the
+ implicit warning level implied by Automake strictness (foreign, gnu
+ or gnits), regardless of the order in which such strictness and
+ warning flags appear. For example, a setting like:
+ AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = -Wall --foreign
+ will cause the warnings in category 'portability' to be enabled, even
+ if those warnings are by default disabled in 'foreign' strictness.
+
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+New in 1.11.3:
+
+* WARNING: Future backward-incompatibilities!
+
+ - The obsolescent AM_WITH_REGEX macro has been deprecated, since the
+ GNU rx library has been decommissioned.
+
+ - The `lzma' compression format for distribution archives has been
+ deprecated in favor of `xz' and `lzip'.
* Miscellaneous changes:
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