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5 * Combining Automake Makefile conditionals no longer lead to a combinatorial
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34 * GNU tar is no longer required for `make dist'
35 * Added support for `dist_' and `nodist_' prefixes
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50 * Maintainer mode now a conditional. @MAINT@ is now an anachronism.
55 * Better Cygwin32 support
56 * Support for suffix rules with _SOURCES variables
57 * New options `readme-alpha' and `check-news'; Gnits mode sets these
58 * @LEXLIB@ no longer required when lex source seen
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71 * Better DejaGNU support
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77 * Now uses `AM_' macro names everywhere
78 * ansi2knr option can have directory prefix (eg `../lib/ansi2knr')
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82 * Will interpolate $(...) and ${...} when examining contents of a variable
83 * .deps files now in build directory, not source directory; dependency
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85 * DATA, MANS and BUILT_SOURCES no longer included in distribution
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87 * Added dist-all target
88 * Support for install-info program (see texinfo 3.9)
89 * Support for "yacc -d"
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102 * Conditionals in Makefile.am, from Ian Taylor
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124 * dist-hook target now run before distribution packaged up; idea from
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126 * Preliminary (unfinished) support for libtool
127 * Added short option names.
128 * Better "dist" support when gluing together multiple packages
132 * Documentation updates (many from François Pinard)
133 * strictness `normal' now renamed to `foreign'
134 * Renamed --install-missing to --add-missing
135 * Now handles AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR
136 * Now handles TESTS macro
137 * DIST_OTHER renamed to EXTRA_DIST
138 * DIST_SUBDIRS is deprecated
139 * @ALLOCA@ and @LIBOBJS@ now work in _LDADD variables
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141 * Program names are canonicalized
142 * Added "check" prefix; from Gord Matzigkeit
146 * configure.in scanner knows about AC_PATH_XTRA, AC_OUTPUT ":" syntax
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148 * Automatically adds -I options for $(srcdir), ".", and path to config.h
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150 * Beginnings of MAINT_CHARSET support
151 * Can specify version in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS
152 * Most errors recognizable by Emacs' M-x next-error
153 * Added --verbose option
154 * All "primary" variables now obsolete; use EXTRA_PRIMARY to supply
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156 * Required macros now distributed in aclocal.m4
158 * --strictness=gnu is default
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163 LIBOBJS directly, handles AC_CONFIG_HEADER more precisely, etc.
164 * TEXINFOS and MANS now obsolete; use info_TEXINFOS and man_MANS instead.
165 * CONFIG_HEADER variable now obsolete
166 * Can handle multiple Texinfo sources
167 * Allow hierarchies deeper than 2. From Gord Matzigkeit.
168 * HEADERS variable no longer needed; now can put .h files directly into
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170 * Automake automatically rebuilds files listed in AC_OUTPUT. The
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174 * Added --gnu and --gnits options
175 * More standards checking
177 * Cleaned up 'dist' targets
178 * Added AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS variable and several options
179 * Now scans configure.in to get some information (preliminary)
182 * Works with Perl 4 again
185 * Added --install-missing option.
186 * Pretty-prints generated macros and rules
187 * Comments in Makefile.am are placed more intelligently in Makefile.in
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210 * man page installation reworked.
211 * 'make dist' no longer re-creates all Makefile.in's.
214 * Reimplemented in Perl
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216 * Texinfo support cleaned up.
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227 * Changes in advance of internationalization
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