3 * WARNING: Future backward-incompatibilities!
5 - The Automake support for automatic de-ANSI-fication will be removed in
6 the next major Automake release (1.12).
8 - The `--acdir' option of aclocal is deprecated, and will probably be
9 removed in the next major Automake release (1.12).
11 - The exact order in which the directories in the aclocal macro
12 search path are looked up is probably going to be changed in the
13 next Automake release (1.12).
15 - The obsolescent AM_WITH_REGEX macro has been deprecated (since the
16 GNU rx library has been decommissioned), and will be removed in the
17 next major Automake release (1.12).
21 - The `--acdir' option is deprecated. Now you should use the new options
22 `--automake-acdir' and `--system-acdir' instead.
24 - The `ACLOCAL_PATH' environment variable is now interpreted as a
25 colon-separated list of additional directories to search after the
26 automake internal acdir (by default ${prefix}/share/aclocal-APIVERSION)
27 and before the system acdir (by default ${prefix}/share/aclocal).
29 * Miscellaneous changes:
31 - In the Automake info documentation, the Top node and the nodes about
32 the invocation of the automake and aclocal programs have been renamed;
33 now, calling "info automake" will open the Top node, while calling
34 "info automake-invocation" and "info aclocal-invocation" will access
35 the nodes about the invocation of respectively automake and aclocal.
37 - Automake is now distributed as a gzip-compressed and an xz-compressed
38 tarball. Previously, bzip2 was used instead of xz.
40 - The last relics of Python 1.5 support have been removed from the
43 - The `lzma' compression scheme and associated automake option `dist-lzma'
44 is obsoleted by `xz' and `dist-xz' due to upstream changes.
46 - You may adjust the compression options used in dist-xz and dist-bzip2.
47 The default is now merely -e for xz, but still -9 for bzip; you may
48 specify a different level via the XZ_OPT and BZIP2 envvars respectively.
49 E.g., "make dist-xz XZ_OPT=-7" or "make dist-bzip2 BZIP2=-5"
51 - The py-compile script now accepts empty arguments passed to the options
52 `--destdir' and `--basedir', and complains about unrecognized options.
53 Moreover, a non-option argument or a special `--' argument terminates
56 - A developer that needs to pass specific flags to configure at "make
57 distcheck" time can now, and indeed is advised to, do so by defining
58 the developer-reserved makefile variable AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS,
59 instead of the old DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS.
60 The DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS variable should now be reserved for the
61 user; still, the old Makefile.am files that used to define it will
62 still continue to work as before.
64 - When using DejaGnu-based testsuites, the user can extend the `site.exp'
65 file generated by automake-provided rules by defining the special make
66 variable `$(EXTRA_DEJAGNU_SITE_CONFIG)'.
68 - The `install-info' rule can now be instructed not to create/update
69 the `${infodir}/dir' file, by exporting the new environment variable
70 `AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR' to the value "no".
72 Bugs fixed in 1.11.0a:
74 * Bugs introduced by 1.11:
76 - The `parallel-tests' test driver works around a GNU make 3.80 bug with
77 trailing white space in the test list (`TESTS = foo $(EMPTY)'), and
78 does not report spurious successes when used with concurrent FreeBSD
79 make (e.g., "make check -j3").
81 - When the parallel-tests driver is in use, automake now explicitly
82 rejects invalid entries and conditional contents in TEST_EXTENSIONS,
83 instead of issuing confusing and apparently unrelated error messages
84 (e.g., "non-POSIX variable name", "bad characters in variable name",
85 or "redefinition of TEST_EXTENSIONS), or even, in some situations,
86 silently producing broken `Makefile.in' files.
88 - The `silent-rules' option now truly silences all compile rules, even
89 when dependency tracking is disabled. Also, when `silent-rules' is
90 not used, `make' output no longer contains spurious backslash-only
91 lines, thus once again matching what Automake did before 1.11.
93 - The `silent-rules' option now generates working makefiles even for
94 the uncommon `make' implementations that do not support the
95 nested-variables extension to POSIX 2008. For such `make'
96 implementations, whether a build is silent is determined at
97 configure time, and cannot be overridden at make time with
98 `make V=0' or `make V=1'.
100 - The AM_COND_IF macro also works if the shell expression for the conditional
101 is no longer valid for the condition.
103 * Long-standing bugs:
105 - The "deleted header file problem" for *.am files is avoided by stub
106 rules. This allows `make' to trigger a rerun of `automake' also if
107 some previously needed `.am' file has been removed.
109 - "make distcheck" now correctly complains also when "make uninstall"
110 leaves one and only one file installed in $(prefix).
112 - A "make uninstall" issued before a "make install", or after a mere
113 "make install-data" or a mere "make install-exec" does not spuriously
116 - Automake now warns about more primary/directory invalid combinations,
117 such as "doc_LIBRARIES" or "pkglib_PROGRAMS".
119 - On Darwin 9, `pythondir' and `pyexecdir' pointed below `/Library/Python'
120 even if the `--prefix' argument pointed outside of a system directory.
121 AM_PATH_PYTHON has been fixed to ignore the value returned from python's
122 `get_python_lib' function if it points outside the configured prefix,
123 unless the `--prefix' argument was either `/usr' or below `/System'.
125 - The testsuite does not try to change the mode of `ltmain.sh' files from
126 a Libtool installation (symlinked to test directories) any more.
128 - AM_PROG_GCJ uses AC_CHECK_TOOLS to look for `gcj' now, so that prefixed
129 tools are preferred in a cross-compile setup.
131 - Several scripts and the parallel-tests testsuite driver now exit with
132 the right exit status upon receiving a signal.
134 - A per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror does not erroneously carry over
135 to the handling of other Makefile.am files.
137 - The order of Yacc and Lex flags is now consistent with that of other
138 languages: $(AM_YFLAGS) comes before $(YFLAGS), and $(AM_LFLAGS) before
139 $(LFLAGS), so that the user variables override the developer variables.
141 - Rules generated by Automake now try harder not to change any files when
142 `make -n' is invoked. Fixes include compilation of Emacs Lisp, Vala, or
143 Yacc source files and the rule to update config.h.
145 - The code for automatic dependency tracking works around a Solaris
146 make bug triggered by sources containing repeated slashes when the
147 `subdir-objects' option was used.
149 - The parallel-tests driver no longer produces erroneous results with
150 Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh upon unreadable log files.
152 - The makedepend and hp depmodes now work better with VPATH builds.
154 - Java sources specified with check_JAVA are no longer compiled for
155 "make all", but only for "make check".
157 - An usage like "java_JAVA = foo.java" will now cause Automake to warn
158 and error out if `javadir' is undefined, instead of silently producing
159 a broken Makefile.in.
161 - aclocal and automake now honour the configure-time definitions of
162 AUTOCONF and AUTOM4TE when they spawn autoconf or autom4te processes.
164 - The `install-info' recipe no longer tries to guess whether the
165 `install-info' program is from Debian or from GNU, and adaptively
166 change its behaviour; this has proven to be frail and easy to
171 * Version requirements:
173 - Autoconf 2.62 or greater is required.
175 * Changes to aclocal:
177 - The autoconf version check implemented by aclocal in aclocal.m4
178 (and new in Automake 1.10) is degraded to a warning. This helps
179 in the common case where the Autoconf versions used are compatible.
181 * Changes to automake:
183 - The automake program can run multiple threads for creating most
184 Makefile.in files concurrently, if at least Perl 5.7.2 is available
185 with interpreter-based threads enabled. Set the environment variable
186 AUTOMAKE_JOBS to the maximum number of threads to use, in order to
187 enable this experimental feature.
189 * Changes to Libtool support:
191 - Libtool generic flags are now passed to the install and uninstall
194 - distcheck works with Libtool 2.x even when LT_OUTPUT is used, as
195 config.lt is removed correctly now.
199 - subdir-object mode works now with Fortran (F77, FC, preprocessed
200 Fortran, and Ratfor).
202 - For files with extension .f90, .f95, .f03, or .f08, the flag
203 $(FCFLAGS_f[09]x) computed by AC_FC_SRCEXT is now used in compile rules.
205 - Files with extension .sx are also treated as preprocessed assembler.
207 - The default source file extension (.c) can be overridden with
208 AM_DEFAULT_SOURCE_EXT now.
210 - Python 3.0 is supported now, Python releases prior to 2.0 are no
213 - AM_PATH_PYTHON honors python's idea about the site directory.
215 - There is initial support for the Vala programming language, when using
218 * Miscellaneous changes:
220 - Automake development is done in a git repository on Savannah now, see
222 http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=automake.git
224 A read-only CVS mirror is provided at
226 cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@pserver.git.sv.gnu.org:/automake.git \
227 checkout -d automake HEAD
229 - "make dist" can now create xz-compressed tarballs,
230 as well as (deprecated?) lzma-compressed tarballs.
232 - `automake --add-missing' will by default install the GPLv3 file as
233 COPYING if it is missing. It will also warn that the license file
234 should be added to source control. Note that Automake will never
235 overwrite an existing COPYING file, even when the `--force-missing'
238 - The manual is now distributed under the terms of the GNU FDL 1.3.
240 - Automake ships and installs man pages for automake and aclocal now.
242 - New shorthand `$(pkglibexecdir)' for `$(libexecdir)/@PACKAGE@'.
244 - install-sh supports -C, which does not update the installed file
245 (and its time stamps) if the contents did not change.
247 - The `gnupload' script has been revamped.
249 - The `depcomp' and `compile' scripts now work with MSVC under MSYS.
251 - The targets `install' and `uninstall' are more efficient now, in that
252 for example multiple files from one Automake variable such as
253 `bin_SCRIPTS' are copied in one `install' (or `libtool --mode=install')
254 invocation if they do not have to be renamed.
256 Both install and uninstall may sometimes enter (`cd' into) the target
257 installation directory now, when no build-local scripts are used.
259 Both install and uninstall do not fail anymore but do nothing if an
260 installation directory variable like `bindir' is set to the empty string.
262 For built-in rules, `make install' now fails reliably if installation
263 of a file failed. Conversely, `make uninstall' even succeeds when
264 issued multiple times.
266 These changes may need some adjustments from users: For example,
267 some `install' programs refuse to install multiple copies of the
268 same file in one invocation, so you may need to remove duplicate
269 entries from file lists.
271 Also, within one set of files, say, nobase_data_DATA, the order of
272 installation may be changed, or even unstable among different hosts,
273 due to the use of associative arrays in awk. The increased use of
274 awk matches a similar move in Autoconf to provide for better scaling.
276 Further, most undocumented per-rule install command variables such as
277 binSCRIPT_INSTALL have been removed because they are not needed any
278 more. Packages which use them should be using the appropriate one of
279 INSTALL_{DATA,PROGRAM,SCRIPT} or their install_sh_{DATA,PROGRAM,SCRIPT}
280 counterpart, depending on the type of files and the need for automatic
281 target directory creation.
283 - The "deleted header file problem" for *.m4 files is avoided by
284 stub rules. This allows `make' to trigger a rerun of `aclocal'
285 also if some previously needed macro file has been removed.
287 - Rebuild rules now also work for a removed `subdir/Makefile.in' in
288 an otherwise up to date tree.
290 - The `color-tests' option causes colored test result output on terminals.
292 - The `parallel-tests' option enables a new test driver that allows for
293 parallel test execution, inter-test dependencies, lazy test execution
294 for unit-testing, re-testing only failed tests, and formatted result output
295 as RST (reStructuredText) and HTML. Enabling this option may require some
296 changes to your test suite setup; see the manual for details.
298 - The `silent-rules' option enables Linux kernel-style silent build output.
299 This option requires the widely supported but non-POSIX `make' feature
300 of recursive variable expansion, so do not use it if your package needs
301 to build with `make' implementations that do not support it.
303 To enable less verbose build output, the developer has to use the Automake
304 option `silent-rules' in `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE', or call the `AM_SILENT_RULES'
305 macro. The user may then set the default verbosity by passing the
306 `--enable-silent-rules' option to `configure'. At `make' run time, this
307 default may be overridden using `make V=0' for less verbose, and `make V=1'
308 for backward-compatible verbose output.
310 - New prefix `notrans_' for manpages which should not be transformed
311 by --program-transform.
313 - New macro AM_COND_IF for conditional evaluation and conditional
316 - For AC_CONFIG_LINKS, if source and destination are equal, do not
317 remove the file in a non-VPATH build. Such setups work with Autoconf
320 - AM_MAINTAINER_MODE now allows for an optional argument specifying
323 - AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE may prevent substitution of AC_SUBSTed variables,
324 useful especially for multi-line values.
326 - Automake's early configure-time sanity check now diagnoses an
327 unsafe absolute source directory name and makes configure fail.
329 - The Automake macros and rules cope better with whitespace in the
330 current directory name, as long as the relative path to `configure'
331 does not contain whitespace. To this end, the values of `$(MISSING)'
332 and `$(install_sh)' may contain suitable quoting, and their expansion
333 might need `eval'uation if used outside of a makefile. These
334 undocumented variables may be used in several documented macros such
335 as $(AUTOCONF) or $(MAKEINFO).
339 * Long-standing bugs:
341 - Fix aix dependency tracking for libtool objects.
343 - Work around AIX sh quoting issue in AC_PROG_CC_C_O, leading to
344 unnecessary use of the `compile' script.
346 - For nobase_*_LTLIBRARIES with nonempty directory components, the
347 correct `-rpath' argument is used now.
349 - `config.status --file=Makefile depfiles' now also works with the
350 extra quoting used internally by Autoconf 2.62 and newer
351 (it used to work only without the `--file=' bit).
353 - The `missing' script works better with versioned tool names.
355 - Semantics for `missing help2man' have been revamped:
357 Previously, if `help2man' was not present, `missing help2man' would have
358 the following semantics: if some man page was out of date but present, then
359 a warning would be printed, but the exit status was 0. If the man page was
360 not present at all, then `missing' would create a replacement man page
361 containing an error message, and exit with a status of 2. This does not play
362 well with `make': the next run will see this particular man page as being up
363 to date, and will only error out on the next generated man page, if any;
364 repeat until all pages are done. This was not desirable.
366 These are the new semantics: if some man page is not present, and help2man
367 is not either, then `missing' will warn and generate the replacement page
368 containing the error message, but exit successfully. However, `make dist'
369 will ensure that no such bogus man pages are packaged into a tarball.
371 - Targets provided by automake behave better with `make -n', in that they
372 take care not to create files.
374 - `config.status Makefile... depfiles' works fine again in the presence of
375 disabled dependency tracking.
377 - The default no-op recursive rules for these targets also work with BSD make
378 now: html, install-html, install-dvi, install-pdf, install-pdf, install-info.
380 - `make distcheck' works also when both a directory and some file below it
381 have been added to a distribution variable, such as EXTRA_DIST or *_SOURCES.
383 - Texinfo dvi, ps, pdf, and html output files are not removed upon
384 `make mostlyclean' any more; only the LaTeX by-products are.
386 - Renamed objects also work with the `subdir-objects' option and
387 source file languages which Automake does not know itself.
389 - `automake' now correctly complains about variable assignments which are
390 preceded by a comment, extend over multiple lines with backslash-escaped
391 newlines, and end in a comment sign. Previous versions would silently
392 and wrongly ignore such assignments completely.
394 * Bugs introduced by 1.10:
396 - Fix output of dummy dependency files in presence of post-processed
397 Makefile.in's again, but also cope with long lines.
399 - $(EXEEXT) is automatically appended to filenames of XFAIL_TESTS
400 that have been declared as programs in the same Makefile.
401 This is for consistency with the analogous change to TESTS in 1.10.
403 - Fix order of standard includes to again be `-I. -I$(srcdir)',
404 followed by directories containing config headers.
408 * Version requirements:
410 - Autoconf 2.60 or greater is required.
412 - Perl 5.6 or greater is required.
414 * Changes to aclocal:
416 - aclocal now also supports -Wmumble and -Wno-mumble options.
418 - `dirlist' entries (for the aclocal search path) may use shell
419 wildcards such as `*', `?', or `[...]'.
421 - aclocal supports an --install option that will cause system-wide
422 third-party macros to be installed in the local directory
423 specified with the first -I flag. This option also uses #serial
424 lines in M4 files to upgrade local macros.
426 The new aclocal options --dry-run and --diff help to review changes
427 before they are installed.
429 - aclocal now outputs an autoconf version check in aclocal.m4 in
430 projects using automake.
432 For a few years, automake and aclocal have been calling autoconf
433 (or its underlying engine autom4te) to accurately retrieve the
434 data they need from configure.ac and its siblings. Doing so can
435 only work if all autotools use the same version of autoconf. For
436 instance a Makefile.in generated by automake for one version of
437 autoconf may stop working if configure is regenerated with another
438 version of autoconf, and vice versa.
440 This new version check ensures that the whole build system has
441 been generated using the same autoconf version.
443 * Support for new Autoconf macros:
445 - The new AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE Autoconf macro is supported.
447 - If `subdir-objects' is set, and AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR is specified,
448 $(LIBOBJS), $(LTLIBOBJS), $(ALLOCA), and $(LTALLOCA) can be used
449 in different directories. However, only one instance of such a
450 library objects directory is supported.
452 * Change to Libtool support:
454 - Libtool generic flags (those that go before the --mode=MODE option)
455 can be specified using AM_LIBTOOLFLAGS and target_LIBTOOLFLAGS.
457 * Yacc and Lex changes:
459 - The rebuild rules for distributed Yacc and Lex output will avoid
460 overwriting existing files if AM_MAINTAINER_MODE and maintainer-mode
463 - ylwrap is now always used for lex and yacc source files,
464 regardless of whether there is more than one source per directory.
468 - Preprocessed assembler (*.S) compilation now honors CPPFLAGS,
469 AM_CPPFLAGS and per-target _CPPFLAGS, and supports dependency
470 tracking, unlike non-preprocessed assembler (*.s).
472 - subdir-object mode works now with Assembler. Automake assumes
473 that the compiler understands `-c -o'.
475 - Preprocessed assembler (*.S) compilation now also honors
476 $(DEFS) $(DEFAULT_INCLUDES) $(INCLUDES).
478 - Improved support for Objective C:
479 - Autoconf's new AC_PROG_OBJC will enable automatic dependency tracking.
480 - A new section of the manual documents the support.
482 - New support for Unified Parallel C:
483 - AM_PROG_UPC looks for a UPC compiler.
484 - A new section of the manual documents the support.
486 - Per-target flags are now correctly handled in link rules.
488 For instance maude_CFLAGS correctly overrides AM_CFLAGS; likewise
489 for maude_LDFLAGS and AM_LDFLAGS. Previous versions bogusly
490 preferred AM_CFLAGS over maude_CFLAGS while linking, and they
491 used both AM_LDFLAGS and maude_LDFLAGS on the same link command.
493 The fix for compiler flags (i.e., using maude_CFLAGS instead of
494 AM_CFLAGS) should not hurt any package since that is how _CFLAGS
495 is expected to work (and actually works during compilation).
497 However using maude_LDFLAGS "instead of" AM_LDFLAGS rather than
498 "in addition to" breaks backward compatibility with older versions.
499 If your package used both variables, as in
501 AM_LDFLAGS = common flags
503 a_LDFLAGS = more flags
506 and assumed *_LDFLAGS would sum up, you should rewrite it as
508 AM_LDFLAGS = common flags
510 a_LDFLAGS = $(AM_LDFLAGS) more flags
513 This new behavior of *_LDFLAGS is more coherent with other
514 per-target variables, and the way *_LDFLAGS variables were
515 considered internally.
517 * New installation targets:
519 - New targets mandated by GNU Coding Standards:
524 By default they will only install Texinfo manuals.
525 You can customize them with *-local variants:
531 - The undocumented recursive target `uninstall-info' no longer exists.
532 (`uninstall' is in charge of removing all possible documentation
533 flavors, including optional formats such as dvi, ps, or info even
534 when `no-installinfo' is used.)
536 * Miscellaneous changes:
538 - Automake no longer complains if input files for AC_CONFIG_FILES
539 are specified using shell variables.
541 - clean, distribution, or rebuild rules are normally disabled for
542 inputs and outputs of AC_CONFIG_FILES, AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, and
543 AC_CONFIG_LINK specified using shell variables. However, if these
544 variables are used as ${VAR}, and AC_SUBSTed, then Automake will
545 be able to output rules anyway.
546 (See the Automake documentation for AC_CONFIG_FILES.)
548 - $(EXEEXT) is automatically appended to filenames of TESTS
549 that have been declared as programs in the same Makefile.
550 This is mostly useful when some check_PROGRAMS are listed in TESTS.
552 - `-Wportability' has finally been turned on by default for `gnu' and
553 `gnits' strictness. This means, automake will complain about %-rules
554 or $(GNU Make functions) unless you switch to `foreign' strictness or
555 use `-Wno-portability'.
557 - Automake now uses AC_PROG_MKDIR_P (new in Autoconf 2.60), and uses
558 $(MKDIR_P) instead of $(mkdir_p) to create directories. The
559 $(mkdir_p) variable is still defined (to the same value as
560 $(MKDIR_P)) but should be considered obsolete. If you are using
561 $(mkdir_p) in some of your rules, please plan to update them to
562 $(MKDIR_P) at some point.
564 - AM_C_PROTOTYPES and ansi2knr are now documented as being obsolete.
565 They still work in this release, but may be withdrawn in a future one.
567 - Inline compilation rules for gcc3-style dependency tracking are
570 - Automake installs a "Hello World!" example package in $(docdir).
571 This example is used throughout the new "Autotools Introduction"
572 chapter of the manual.
576 * Makefile.in bloat reduction:
578 - Inference rules are used to compile sources in subdirectories when
579 the `subdir-objects' option is used and no per-target flags are
580 used. This should reduce the size of some projects a lot, because
581 Automake used to output an explicit rule for each such object in
584 - Automake no longer outputs three rules (.o, .obj, .lo) for each
585 object that must be built with explicit rules. It just outputs
586 the rules required to build the kind of object considered: either
587 the two .o and .obj rules for usual objects, or the .lo rule for
590 * Change to Libtool support:
592 - Libtool tags are used with libtool versions that support them.
593 (I.e., with Libtool 1.5 or greater.)
595 - Automake is now able to handle setups where a libtool library is
596 conditionally installed in different directories, as in
599 lib_LTLIBRARIES = liba.la
601 pkglib_LTLIBRARIES = liba.la
603 liba_la_SOURCES = ...
605 * Changes to aclocal:
607 - aclocal now ensures that AC_DEFUNs and AU_DEFUNs it discovers are
608 really evaluated, before it decides to include them in aclocal.m4.
609 This solves nasty problems with conditional redefinitions of
610 Autoconf macros in /usr/share/aclocal/*.m4 files causing extraneous
611 *.m4 files to be included in any project using these macros.
612 (Calls to AC_PROG_EGREP causing libtool.m4 to be included is the
613 most famous instance of this bug.)
615 - Do not complain about missing conditionally AC_REQUIREd macros
616 that are not actually used. In 1.8.x aclocal would correctly
617 determine which of these macros were really needed (and include
618 only these in the package); unfortunately it would also require
619 all of them to be present in order to run. This created
620 situations were aclocal would not work on a tarball distributing
621 all the macros it uses. For instance running aclocal on a project
622 containing only the subset of the Gettext macros in use by the
623 project did not work, because gettext conditionally requires other
626 * Portability improvements:
628 - Tar format can be chosen with the new options tar-v7, tar-ustar, and
629 tar-pax. The new option filename-length-max=99 helps diagnosing
630 filenames that are too long for tar-v7. (PR/414)
632 - Variables aumented with `+=' are now automatically flattened (i.e.,
633 trailing backslashes removed) and then wrapped around 80 colummns
634 (adding trailing backslashes). In previous versions, a long series
640 would result in a single-line definition of VAR that could possibly
641 exceed the maximum line length of some make implementations.
643 Non-augmented variables are still output as they are defined in
648 - Support Fortran 90/95 with the new "fc" and "ppfc" languages.
649 Works the same as the old Fortran 77 implementation; just replace
650 F77 with FC everywhere (exception: FFLAGS becomes FCFLAGS).
651 Requires a version of autoconf which provides AC_PROG_FC (>=2.59).
653 - Support for conditional _LISP.
655 - Support for conditional -hook and -local rules (PR/428).
657 - Diagnose AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR calls following AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE. (PR/49)
659 - Automake will not write any Makefile.ins after the first error it
660 encounters. The previous Makefile.ins (if any) will be left in
661 place. (Warnings will not prevent output, but remember they can
662 be turned into errors with -Werror.)
664 - The restriction that SUBDIRS must contain direct children is gone.
667 - The manual tells more about SUBDIRS vs. DIST_SUBDIRS.
668 It also gives an example of nested packages using AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS.
672 * Long-standing bugs:
674 - Define DIST_SUBDIRS even when the `no-dist' or `cygnus' options are used
675 so that `make distclean' and `make maintainer-clean' can work.
677 - Define AR and ARFLAGS even when only EXTRA_LIBRARIES are defined.
679 - Fix many rules to please FreeBSD make, which runs commands with `sh -e'.
681 - Polish diagnostic when no input file is found.
685 * Long-standing bugs:
687 - Fix AM_PATH_PYTHON to correctly display $PYTHON when it has been
688 overridden by the user.
690 - Honor PATH_SEPARATOR in various places of the Automake package, for
693 - Adjust dependency tracking mode detection to ICC 8.0's new output.
696 - Fix install-sh so it can install the `mv' binary... using `mv'.
698 - Fix tru64 dependency tracking for libtool objects.
700 - Work around Exuberant Ctags when creating a TAGS files in a directory
701 without files to scan but with subdirectories to include.
703 * Bugs introduced by 1.8:
705 - Fix an "internal error" when @LIBOBJS@ is used in a variable that is
706 not defined in the same conditions as the _LDADD that uses it.
708 - Do not warn when JAVAROOT is overridden, this is legitimate.
712 * Long-standing bugs:
714 - Quote filenames in installation rules, in case $DESTDIR, $prefix,
715 or any of the other *dir variables contain a space.
717 Please note that Automake does not and cannot support spaces in
718 filenames that are involved during the build. This change affects
719 only installation paths, so that `make install' does not bomb out
720 in packages configured with
721 ./configure --prefix '/c/Program Files'
723 - Fix the depfiles output so it works with GNU sed (<4.1) even when
724 POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.
726 - Do not AC_SUBST(LIBOBJS) in AM_WITH_REGEX. This macro was unusable
727 since Autoconf 2.54, which defines LIBOBJS itself.
729 - Fix a potential (but unlikely) race condition in parallel elisp
730 builds. (Introduced in 1.7.3.)
732 - Do not assume that users override _DEPENDENCIES in all conditions
733 where Automake will try to define them.
735 - Do not use `mkdir -p' in mkinstalldirs, unless this is GNU mkdir.
736 Solaris 8's `mkdir -p' is not thread-safe and can break parallel
739 This fix also affects the $(mkdir_p) variable defined since
740 Automake 1.8. It will be set to `mkdir -p' only if mkdir is GNU
741 mkdir, and to `mkinstalldirs' or `install-sh -d' otherwise.
743 - Secure temporary directory creation in `make distcheck'. (PR/413)
745 - Do not generate two build rules for `parser.h' when the
746 parser appears in two different conditionals.
748 - Work around a Solaris 8 /bin/sh bug in the test for dependency
749 checking. Usually ./configure will not pick this shell; so this
750 fix only helps cases where the shell is forced to /bin/sh.
752 * Bugs introduced by 1.8:
754 - In some situations (hand-written `m4_include's), aclocal would
755 call the `File::Spec->rel2abs' method, which was only introduced
756 in Perl 5.6. This new version reestablish support Perl 5.005.
758 It is likely that the next major Automake releases will require at
759 least Perl 5.6. Consider upgrading your development environment
760 if you are still using the five-year-old Perl 5.005.
762 - Automake would sometimes fail to define rules for targets listed
763 in variables defined in multiple conditions. For instance on
769 it would define only the `a.$(OBJEXT): a.c' rule and omit the
770 `b.$(OBJEXT): b.c' rule.
772 * New sections in manual:
774 - Third-Party Makefiles: how to interface third party Makefiles.
775 - Upgrading: upgrading packages to newer Automake versions.
776 - Multiple Outputs: handling tools that produce many outputs.
780 * A (well known) portability bug slipped in the changes made to
781 install-sh in Automake 1.8.1. The broken install-sh would refuse to
782 install anything on Tru64.
784 * Fix install rules for conditionally built python files. (This never
789 * Bugs introduced by 1.8:
791 - Fix Config.pm import error with old Perl versions (at least
792 5.005_03). One symptom is that aclocal could not find its macro
795 - Automake 1.8 used `mkdir -m 0755 -p --' to ensure that directories
796 created by `make install' are always world readable, even if the
797 installer happens to have an overly restrictive umask (e.g. 077).
798 This was a mistake and has been reverted. There are at least two
799 reasons why we must not use `-m 0755':
800 - it causes special bits like SGID to be ignored,
801 - it may be too restrictive (some setups expect 775 directories).
803 - Fix aclocal to honor definitions located in files which have been
804 m4_included manually. aclocal 1.8 had been updated to check
805 m4_included files for new requirements, but forgot that these
806 m4_included files can also provide new definitions.
808 Note that if you have such a setup, we recommend you get rid of
809 it. In the past, there was a reason to m4_include files manually:
810 aclocal used to duplicate entire M4 files into aclocal.m4, even
811 files that were distributed. Some packages were therefore
812 m4_including the distributed file directly, and playing some
813 tricks to ensure aclocal would not copy that file to aclocal.m4,
814 in order to limit the amount of duplication. Since aclocal 1.8.x
815 will precisely output m4_includes for local M4 files, we recommend
816 that you clean up your setup, removing all manual m4_includes and
817 letting aclocal output them.
819 - Output detailed menus in the Info version if the Automake manual,
820 so that Emacs can locate the indexes.
822 - configure.ac and configure were listed twice in DIST_COMMON (an
823 internal variable where Automake lists configury files to
824 distribute). This was harmless, but unaesthetic.
826 - Use `chmod a-w' instead of `chmod -w' as the latter honors umask.
827 This was an issue only in the Automake package itself, not in
830 - Automake assumed that all AC_CONFIG_LINKS arguments had the form
831 DEST:SRC. This was wrong, as some packages do
832 AC_CONFIG_LINKS($computedlinks). This version no longer abort in
835 - Contrary to mkinstalldirs, $(mkdir_p) was expecting exactly one
836 argument. This caused two kinds of failures:
837 - Rules installing data in a conditionally defined directory
838 failed when that directory was undefined. In this case no
839 argument was supplied.
840 - `make installdirs' failed, because several directories were
841 passed to $(mkdir_p). This was an issue only on platform
842 were $(mkdir_p) is implemented with `install-sh -d'.
843 $(mkdir_p) as been changed to accept 0 or more arguments, as
846 * Long-standing bugs:
848 - Fix an unexpected diagnostic occurring when users attempt
849 to override some internal variables that Automake appends to.
851 - aclocal now scans configure.ac for macro definitions (PR/319).
853 - Fix a portability issue with OSF1/Tru64 Make. If a directory
854 distributes files which are outside itself (this usually occurs
855 when using AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([../dir]) to use auxiliary files
856 from a parent package), then `make distcheck' fails due to an
857 optimization performed by OSF1/Tru64 Make in its VPATH handling.
858 (tests/subpkg2.test failure)
860 - Fix another portability issue with Sun and OSF1/Tru64 Make.
861 In a VPATH-build configuration, `make install' would install
862 nobase_ files to wrong locations.
864 - Fix a Perl `uninitialized value' diagnostic occurring when
865 automake complains that a Texinfo file does not have a
866 @setfilename statement.
868 - Erase config.status.lineno during `make distclean'. This file
869 can be created by config.status. Automake already knew about
870 configure.lineno, but forgot config.status.lineno.
872 - Distribute all files, even those which are built and installed
873 conditionally. This change affects files listed in conditionally
874 defined *_HEADERS and *_PYTHON variable (unless they are nodist_*)
875 as well as those listed in conditionally defined dist_*_DATA,
876 dist_*_JAVA, dist_*_LISP, and dist_*_SCRIPTS variables.
878 - Fix AM_PATH_LISPDIR to avoid \? in sed regular expressions; it
879 doesn't conform to POSIX.
881 - Normalize help strings for configure variables and options added
886 - Check for python2.4 in AM_PATH_PYTHON.
888 * Spurious failures in test suite:
890 - tests/libtool5.test, tests/ltcond.test, tests/ltcond2.test,
891 tests/ltconv.test: fix failures with CVS Libtool.
892 - tests/aclocal6.test: fix failure if autom4te.cache is disabled.
893 - tests/txinfo24.test, tests/txinfo25.test, tests/txinfo28.test:
894 fix failures with old Texinfo versions.
900 - The NEWS file is more verbose.
904 - Autoconf 2.58 or greater is required.
908 - Default source file names in the absence of a _SOURCES declaration
909 are made by removing any target extension before appending `.c', so
910 to make the libtool module `foo.la' from `foo.c', you only need to
913 lib_LTLIBRARIES = foo.la
914 foo_la_LDFLAGS = -module
916 For backward compatibility, foo_la.c will be used instead of
917 foo.c if this file exists or is the explicit target of a rule.
918 However -Wobsolete will warn about this deprecated naming.
920 - AR's `cru' flags are now set in a global ARFLAGS variable instead
921 of being hard-coded in each $(AR) invocation, so they can be
922 substituted from configure.ac. This has been requested by people
923 dealing with non-POSIX ar implementations.
925 - New warning option: -Woverride. This will warn about any user
926 target or variable definitions which override Automake
929 - Texinfo rules back up and restore info files when makeinfo fails.
931 - Texinfo rules now support the `html' target.
932 Running this requires Texinfo 4.0 or greater.
934 `html' is a new recursive target, so if your package mixes
935 hand-crafted `Makefile.in's with Automake-generated
936 `Makefile.in's, you should adjust the former to support (or
937 ignore) this target so that `make html' recurses successfully. If
938 you had a custom `html' rule in your `Makefile.am', it's better to
939 rename it as `html-local', otherwise your rule will override
940 Automake's new rule (you can check that by running `automake
941 -Woverride') and that will stop the recursion to subdirectories.
943 Last but not least, this `html' rule is declared PHONY, even when
944 overridden. Fortunately, it appears that few packages use a
945 non-PHONY `html' rule.
947 - Any file which is m4_included from configure.ac will appear as a
948 configure and Makefile.in dependency, and will be automatically
951 - The rules for rebuilding Makefiles and Makefile.ins will now
952 rebuild all Makefiles and all Makefile.ins at once when one of
953 configure's dependencies has changed. This is considerably faster
954 than previous implementations, where config.status and automake
955 were run separately in each directory (this still happens when you
956 change a Makefile.am locally, without touching configure.ac or
957 friends). Doing this also solves a longstanding issue: these
958 rebuild rules failed to work when adding new directories to the
959 tree, forcing you to run automake manually.
961 - For similar reasons, the rules to rebuild configure,
962 config.status, and aclocal.m4 are now defined in all directories.
963 Note that if you were using the CONFIG_STATUS_DEPENDENCIES and
964 CONFIGURE_DEPENDENCIES (formerly undocumented) variables, you
965 should better define them in all directories. This is easily done
966 using an AC_SUBST (make sure you prefix these dependencies with
967 $(top_srcdir) since this variable will appear at different
968 levels of the build tree).
970 - aclocal will now use `m4_include' instead of copying local m4
971 files into aclocal.m4. (Local m4 files are those you ship with
972 your project, other files will be copied as usual.)
974 Because m4_included files are automatically distributed, it means
975 for most projects there is no point in EXTRA_DISTing the list of
976 m4 files which are used. (You can probably get rid of
977 m4/Makefile.am if you had one.)
979 - aclocal will avoid touching aclocal.m4 when possible, so that
980 Autom4te's cache isn't needlessly invalidated. This behavior can
981 be switched off with the new `--force' option.
983 - aclocal now uses Autoconf's --trace to detect macros which are
984 actually used and will no longer include unused macros simply
985 because they where mentioned. This was often the case for macros
986 called conditionally.
988 - New options no-dist and no-dist-gzip.
990 - compile, depcomp, elisp-comp, install-sh, mdate-sh, mkinstalldirs,
991 py-compile, and ylwrap, now all understand --version and --help.
993 - Automake will now recognize AC_CONFIG_LINKS so far as removing created
994 links as part of the distclean target and including source files in
997 - AM_PATH_PYTHON now supports ACTION-IF-FOUND and ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND
998 argument. The latter can be used to override the default behavior
1001 - Automake will exit with $? = 63 on version mismatch. (So does
1002 Autoconf 2.58) missing knows this, and in this case it will
1003 emulate the tools as if they were absent. Because older versions
1004 of Automake and Autoconf did not use this exit code, this change
1005 will only be useful in projects generated with future versions of
1008 - When using AC_CONFIG_FILES with multiple input files, Automake
1009 generates the first ".in" input file for which a ".am" exists.
1010 (Former versions would try to use only the first input file.)
1012 - lisp_DATA is now allowed. If you are using the empty ELCFILES
1013 idiom to disable byte-compilation of lisp_LISP files, it is
1014 recommended that you switch to using lisp_DATA. Note that
1015 this is not strictly equivalent: lisp_DATA will install elisp
1016 files even if emacs is not installed, while *_LISP do not
1017 install anything unless emacs is found.
1019 - Makefiles will prefer `mkdir -p' over mkinstalldirs if it is
1020 available. This selection is achieved through the Makefile
1021 variable $(mkdir_p) that is set by AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE to either
1022 `mkdir -m 0755 -p --', `$(mkinstalldirs) -m 0755', or
1023 `$(install_sh) -m 0755 -d'.
1027 - Because `mkdir -p' is available on most platforms, and we can use
1028 `install-sh -d' when it is not, the use of the mkinstalldirs
1029 script is being phased out. `automake --add-missing' no longer
1030 installs it, and if you remove mkinstalldirs from your package,
1031 automake will define $(mkinstalldirs) as an alias for $(mkdir_p).
1033 Gettext 0.12.1 still requires mkinstalldirs. Fortunately
1034 gettextize and autopoint will install it when needed. Automake
1035 will continue to define the $(mkinstalldirs) and to distribute
1036 mkinstalldirs when this script is in the source tree.
1038 - AM_PROG_CC_STDC is now empty. The content of this macro was
1039 merged in AC_PROG_CC. If your code uses $am_cv_prog_cc_stdc, you
1040 should adjust it to use $ac_cv_prog_cc_stdc instead. (This
1041 renaming should be safe, even if you have to support several,
1042 versions of Automake, because AC_PROG_CC defines this variable
1043 since Autoconf 2.54.)
1045 - Some users where using the undocumented ACLOCAL_M4_SOURCES
1046 variable to override the aclocal.m4 dependencies computed
1047 (inaccurately) by older versions of Automake. Because Automake
1048 now tracks configure's m4 dependencies accurately (see m4_include
1049 above), the use of ACLOCAL_M4_SOURCES should be considered
1050 obsolete and will be flagged as such when running `automake
1055 - Defining programs conditionally using Automake conditionals no
1056 longer leads to a combinatorial explosion. The following
1057 construct used to be troublesome when used with dozens of
1072 Likewise for _SOURCES, _LDADD, and _LIBADD variables.
1074 - Due to implementation constraints, previous versions of Automake
1075 proscribed multiple conditional definitions of some variables
1085 All _PROGRAMS, _LDADD, and _LIBADD variables were affected.
1086 This restriction has been lifted, and these variables now
1087 support multiple conditional definitions as do other variables.
1089 - Cleanup the definitions of $(distdir) and $(top_distdir).
1090 $(top_distdir) now points to the root of the distribution
1091 directory created during `make dist', as it did in Automake 1.4,
1092 not to the root of the build tree as it did in intervening
1093 versions. Furthermore these two variables are now only defined in
1094 the top level Makefile, and passed to sub-directories when running
1097 - The --no-force option now correctly checks the Makefile.in's
1098 dependencies before deciding not to update it.
1100 - Do not assume that make files are called Makefile in cleaning rules.
1102 - Update .info files in the source tree, not in the build tree. This
1103 is what the GNU Coding Standard recommend. Only Automake 1.7.x
1104 used to update these files in the build tree (previous versions did
1105 it in the source tree too), and it caused several problems, varying
1106 from mere annoyance to portability issues.
1108 - COPYING, COPYING.LIB, and COPYING.LESSER are no longer overwritten
1109 when --add-missing and --force-missing are used. For backward
1110 compatibility --add-missing will continue to install COPYING (in
1111 `gnu' strictness) when none of these three files exist, but this
1112 use is deprecated: you should better choose a license yourself and
1113 install it once for all in your source tree (and in your code
1116 - Fix ylwrap so that it does not overwrite header files that haven't
1117 changed, as the inline rule already does.
1119 - User-defined rules override automake-defined rules for the same
1120 targets, even when rules do not have commands. This is not new
1121 (and was documented), however some of the automake-generated
1122 rules have escaped this principle in former Automake versions.
1123 Rules for the following targets are affected by this fix:
1125 clean, clean-am, dist-all, distclean, distclean-am, dvi, dvi-am,
1126 info, info-am, install-data-am, install-exec-am, install-info,
1127 install-info-am, install-man, installcheck-am, maintainer-clean,
1128 maintainer-clean-am, mostlyclean, mostlyclean-am, pdf, pdf-am,
1129 ps, ps-am, uninstall-am, uninstall-info, uninstall-man
1131 Practically it means that an attempt to supplement the dependencies
1132 of some target, as in
1134 clean: my-clean-rule
1136 will now *silently override* the automake definition of the
1137 rule for this target. Running `automake -Woverride' will diagnose
1138 all such overriding definitions.
1140 It should be noted that almost all these targets support a *-local
1141 variant that is meant to supplement the automake-defined rule
1142 (See node `Extending' in the manual). The above rule should
1145 clean-local: my-clean-rule
1147 These *-local targets have been documented since at least
1148 Automake 1.2, so you should not fear the change if you have
1149 to support multiple automake versions.
1153 - The Automake manual is now distributed under the terms of the GNU FDL.
1155 - Targets dist-gzip, dist-bzip2, dist-tarZ, dist-zip are always defined.
1157 - core dumps are no longer removed by the cleaning rules. There are
1158 at least three reasons for this:
1159 1. These files should not be created by any build step,
1160 so their removal do not fit any of the cleaning rules.
1161 Actually, they may be precious to the developer.
1162 2. If such file is created during a build, then it's clearly a
1163 bug Automake should not hide. Not removing the file will
1164 cause `make distcheck' to complain about its presence.
1165 3. Operating systems have different naming conventions for
1166 core dump files. A core file on one system might be a
1167 completely legitimate data file on another system.
1169 - RUNTESTFLAGS, CTAGSFLAGS, ETAGSFLAGS, JAVACFLAGS are no longer
1170 defined by Automake. This means that any definition in the
1171 environment will be used, unless overridden in the Makefile.am or
1172 on the command line. The old behavior, where these variables were
1173 defined empty in each Makefile, can be obtained by AC_SUBSTing or
1174 AC_ARG_VARing each variable from configure.ac.
1176 - CONFIGURE_DEPENDENCIES and CONFIG_STATUS_DEPENDENCIES are now
1177 documented. (The is not a new feature, these variables have
1178 been there since at least Automake 1.4.)
1180 Bugs fixed in 1.7.9:
1181 * Fix install-strip to work with nobase_ binaries.
1182 * Fix renaming of #line directives in ylwrap.
1183 * Rebuild with Autoconf 2.59. (1.7.8 was not installable with pdksh.)
1185 Bugs fixed in 1.7.8:
1186 * Remove spurious blank lines in cleaning rules introduced in 1.7.7.
1187 * Fix detection of Debian's install-info, broken since version 1.5.
1188 (Debian bug #213524).
1189 * Honor -module if it appears in AM_LDFLAGS (i.e., relax name checking)
1190 This was only done for libfoo_LDFLAGS and LDFLAGS in previous versions.
1192 Bugs fixed in 1.7.7:
1193 * The implementation of automake's --no-force option is unreliable,
1194 so this option is ignored in this version. A real fix will appear in
1195 Automake 1.8. (Debian Bug #206299)
1196 * AM_PATH_PYTHON: really check the whole list of interpreters if no
1197 argument is given. (PR/399)
1198 * Do not warn about leading `_' in variable names, even with -Wportability.
1199 * Support user redefinitions of TEXINFO_TEX.
1200 * depcomp: support AIX Compiler version 6.
1201 * Fix missing rebuilds during `make dist' with BSD make.
1202 (Could produce tarballs containing out-of-date files.)
1203 * Resurrect multilib support.
1204 * Noteworthy manual updates:
1205 - Extending aclocal: how to write m4 macros that won't trigger warnings
1207 - A Shared Library: Rewrite and split into subsections.
1209 Bugs fixed in 1.7.6:
1210 * Fix depcomp's icc mode for ICC 7.1.
1211 * Diagnose calls to AC_CONFIG_FILES and friends with not enough arguments.
1212 * Fix maintainer-clean's removal of autom4te.cache in VPATH builds.
1213 * Fix AM_PATH_LISPDIR to work with POSIXLY_CORRECT=1.
1214 * Fix the location reported in some diagnostics related to AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
1215 * Remove Latin-1 characters from elisp-comp.
1216 * Update the manual's @dircategory to match the Free Software Directory.
1218 Bugs fixed in 1.7.5:
1219 * Update install-sh's license to remove an advertising clause.
1220 (Debian bug #191717)
1221 * Fix a bug introduced in 1.7.4, related to BUILT_SOURCE handling,
1222 that caused invalid Makefile.ins to be generated.
1223 * Make sure AM_MAKE_INCLUDE doesn't fail when a `doit' file exists.
1224 * New FAQ entry: renamed objects.
1226 Bugs fixed in 1.7.4:
1227 * Tweak the TAGS rule to support Exuberant Ctags (in addition to
1228 the Emacs implementation)
1229 * Fix output of aclocal.m4 dependencies in subdirectories.
1230 * Use `mv -f' instead of `mv' in fastdep rules.
1231 * Upgrade mdate-sh to work on OS/2.
1232 * Don't byte-compile elisp files when ELCFILES is set empty.
1233 (this documented feature was broken by 1.7.3)
1234 * Diagnose trailing backslashes on last line of Makefile.am.
1235 * Diagnose whitespace following trailing backslashes.
1236 * Multiple tests are now correctly supported in DEJATOOL. (PR/388)
1237 * Fix rebuilt rules for AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile:Makefile.in:Makefile.bot])
1239 * `make install' will build `BUILT_SOURCES' first.
1240 * Minor documentation fixes.
1242 Bugs fixed in 1.7.3:
1243 * Fix stamp files numbering (when using multiple AC_CONFIG_HEADERS).
1244 * Query distutils for `pythondir' and `pythonexecdir', instead of
1245 using an hardcoded path. This should allow builds on 64-bit
1246 distributions that usually use lib64/ instead of lib/.
1247 * AM_PATH_PYTHON will also search for python2.3.
1248 * elisp files are now built all at once instead of one by one. Besides
1249 incurring a speed-up, this is required to support interdependent elisp files.
1250 * Support for DJGPP:
1251 - `make distcheck' will now work in `_inst/' and `_build' instead
1252 of `=inst/' and `=build/'
1253 - use `_dirstamp' when the file-system doesn't support `.dirstamp'
1254 - install/uninstall `*.i[0-9][0-9]'-style info files
1255 - more changes that affect only the Automake package (not its output)
1256 * Fix some incompatibilities with upcoming perl-5.10.
1257 * Properly quote AC_PACKAGE_TARNAME and AC_PACKAGE_VERSION when defining
1258 PACKAGE and VERSION.
1260 - dashmstdout and dashXmstdout modes: don't use `-o /dev/null', this
1261 is troublesome with gcc and Solaris compilers. (PR/385)
1262 - makedepend mode: work with Libtool. (PR/385 too)
1264 * better support for unusual gettext setups, such as multiple po/ directories
1266 - Flag missing po/ and intl/ directories as warnings, not errors.
1267 - Disable these warnings if po/ does not exist.
1268 * Noteworthy manual updates:
1270 - Document how AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR interacts with missing files.
1272 - Document `AM_YFLAGS = -d'. (PR/382)
1274 Bugs fixed in 1.7.2:
1275 * Fix installation and uninstallation of Info files built in subdirectories.
1276 * Do not run `./configure --with-included-gettext' during `make distcheck'
1277 if AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external]) is used.
1278 * Correctly uninstall renamed man pages.
1279 * Do not strip escaped newline in variables defined in one condition
1280 and augmented in another condition.
1281 * Fix ansi2knr rules for LIBOBJS sources.
1282 * Clean all known Texinfo index files, not only those which appear to
1283 be used, because we cannot know wich indexes are used in included files.
1284 (PR/375, Debian Bug #168671)
1285 * Honor only the first @setfilename seen in a Texinfo file.
1286 * Treat "required file X not found" diagnostics as errors (exit status 1).
1287 * Don't complain that a required file is not found when it is a Makefile
1289 * Don't use single suffix inference rules when building `.info'-less
1290 Info files, for the sake of Solaris make.
1291 * The `check' target now depends on `$(BUILT_SOURCES)'. (PR/359)
1292 * Recognize multiple inference rules such as `.a.b .c.d:'. (PR/371)
1293 * Warn about multiple inference rules when -Wportability is used. (PR/372)
1294 * Fix building of deansified files from subdirectories. (PR/370)
1295 * Add missing `fi' in the .c->.obj rules.
1296 * Improve install-sh to work even when names contain spaces or certain
1297 (but not all) shell metachars.
1298 * Fix the following spurious failures in the test suite:
1299 depcomp2.test, gnits2.test, gnits3.test, python3.test, texinfo13.test
1300 * Noteworthy manual updates:
1301 - Augment the section about BUILT_SOURCES.
1302 - Mention that AM_PROG_CC_STDC is a relic that is better avoided today.
1304 Bugs fixed in 1.7.1:
1305 * Honor `ansi2knr' for files built in subdirectories, or using per-targets
1307 * Aclocal should now recognize macro names containing parentheses, e.g.
1308 AC_DEFUN([AC_LANG_PREPROC(Fortran 90)], [...]).
1309 * Erase *.sum and *.log files created by DejaGnu, during `make distclean'.
1311 * Install Python files even if they were built. (PR/369)
1312 * Have stamp-vti dependent upon configure instead of configure.ac, as the
1313 version might not be defined in the latter. (PR/358)
1314 * Reorder arguments passed to a couple of commands, so things works
1315 when POSIXLY_CORRECT=1.
1316 * Fix a regex that can cause Perl to segfault on large input.
1318 * Fix distribution of packages that have some sources defined conditionally,
1319 as in the `Conditional compilation using Automake conditionals' example
1321 * Fix spurious test suite failures on IRIX.
1322 * Don't report a required variable as undefined if it has been
1323 defined conditionally for the "right" conditions.
1324 * Fix cleaning of the /tmp subdirectory used by `make distcheck', in case
1325 `make distcheck' fails.
1326 * Fix distribution of included Makefile fragment, so we don't create
1327 spurious directories in the distribution. (PR/366)
1328 * Don't complain that a target lacks `.$(EXEEXT)' when it has it.
1331 * Autoconf 2.54 is required.
1332 * `aclocal' and `automake' will no longer warn about obsolete
1333 configure macros. This is done by `autoconf -Wobsolete'.
1334 * AM_CONFIG_HEADER, AM_SYS_POSIX_TERMIOS and
1335 AM_HEADER_TIOCGWINSZ_NEEDS_SYS_IOCTL are obsolete (although still
1336 supported). You should use AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, AC_SYS_POSIX_TERMIOS,
1337 and AC_HEADER_TIOCGWINSZ instead. `autoupdate' can upgrade
1338 `configure.ac' for you.
1339 * Support for per-program and per-library `_CPPFLAGS'.
1340 * New `ctags' target (builds CTAGS files).
1341 * Support for -Wmumble and -Wno-mumble, where mumble is a warning category
1342 (see `automake --help' or the manual for a list of them).
1343 * Honor the WARNINGS environment variable.
1344 * Omit the call to depcomp when using gcc3: call the compiler directly.
1345 * A new option, std-options, tests that programs support --help and --version
1346 when `make installcheck' is run. This is enabled by --gnits.
1347 * Texinfo rules now support the `ps' and `pdf' targets.
1348 * Info files are now created in the build directory, not the source directory.
1349 * info_TEXINFOS supports files in subdirectories (this requires Texinfo 4.1
1351 * `make distcheck' will enforce DESTDIR support by attempting
1353 * `+=' can be used in conditionals, even if the augmented variable
1354 was defined for another condition.
1355 * Makefile fragments (inserted with `include') are always distributed.
1356 * Use Autoconf's --trace interface to inspect configure.ac and get
1357 a more accurate view of it.
1358 * Add support for extending aclocal's default macro search path
1359 using a `dirlist' file within the aclocal directory.
1360 * automake --output-dir is deprecated.
1361 * The part of the distcheck target that checks whether uninstall actually
1362 removes all installed files has been moved in a separate target,
1363 distuninstallcheck, so it can be overridden easily.
1367 * Support for AM_INIT_GETTEXT([external])
1368 * Bug fixes, including:
1369 - Fix Automake's own `make install' so it works even if `ln' doesn't.
1370 - nobase_ programs and scripts honor --program-transform correctly.
1371 - Erase configure.lineno during `make distclean'.
1372 - Erase YACC and LEX outputs during `make maintainer-clean'.
1375 * Many bug fixes, including:
1376 - Requiring the current version works.
1377 - Fix "$@" portability issues (for Zsh).
1378 - Fix output of dummy dependency files in presence of post-processed
1380 - Don't compute dependencies in background to avoid races with libtool.
1381 - Fix handling of _OBJECTS variables for targets sharing source variables.
1382 - Check dependency mode for Java when AM_PROG_GCJ is used.
1385 * automake --output-dir is deprecated
1386 * Many bug fixes, including:
1387 - Don't choke on AM_LDFLAGS definitions.
1388 - Clean libtool objects from subdirectories.
1389 - Allow configure variables with reserved suffix and unknown prefix
1390 (e.g. AC_SUBST(mumble_LDFLAGS) when 'mumble' is not a target).
1391 - Fix the definition of AUTOMAKE and ACLOCAL in configure.
1394 * Autoconf 2.52 is required.
1395 * automake no longer run libtoolize.
1396 This is the job of autoreconf (from GNU Autoconf).
1397 * `dist' generates all the archive flavors, as did `dist-all'.
1398 * `dist-gzip' generates the Gzip tar file only.
1399 * Combining Automake Makefile conditionals no longer lead to a combinatorial
1400 explosion. Makefile.in's keep a reasonable size.
1401 * AM_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE, AM_FUNC_STRTOD, AM_FUNC_OBSTACK, AM_PTRDIFF_T
1402 are no longer shipped, since Autoconf 2.52 provides them (both as AM_
1404 * `#line' of Lex and Yacc files are properly set.
1405 * EXTRA_DIST can contain generated directories.
1406 * Support for dot-less extensions in suffix rules.
1407 * The part of the distcheck target that checks whether distclean actually
1408 cleans all built files has been moved in a separate target, distcleancheck,
1409 so it can be overridden easily.
1410 * `make distcheck' will pass additional options defined in
1411 $(DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS) to configure.
1412 * Fixed CDPATH portability problems, in particular for MacOS X.
1413 * Fixed handling of nobase_ targets.
1414 * Fixed support of implicit rules leading to .lo objects.
1415 * Fixed late inclusion of --add-missing files (e.g. depcomp) in DIST_COMMON
1416 * Added uninstall-hook target
1417 * `AC_INIT AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(tarname,version)' is an obsolete construct.
1418 You can now use `AC_INIT(pkgname,version) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' instead.
1419 (Note that "pkgname" is not "tarname", see the manual for details.)
1420 It is also possible to pass a list of global Automake options as
1421 first argument to this new form of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
1422 * Compiler-based assembler is now called `CCAS'; people expected `AS'
1423 to be a real assembler.
1424 * AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE will set STRIP itself when it needs it. Adding
1425 AC_CHECK_TOOL([STRIP], [strip]) manually is no longer required.
1426 * aclocal and automake are also installed with the version number
1427 appended, and some of the install directory names have changed.
1428 This lets you have multiple versions installed simultaneously.
1429 * Support for parsers and lexers in subdirectories.
1432 * Support for `configure.ac'.
1433 * Support for `else COND', `endif COND' and negated conditions `!COND'.
1434 * `make dist-all' is much faster.
1435 * Allows '@' AC_SUBSTs in macro names.
1436 * Faster AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (requires update of `missing' script)
1437 * User-side dependency tracking. Developers no longer need GNU make
1439 * Uses DIST_SUBDIRS in some situations when SUBDIRS is conditional
1440 * Most files are correctly handled if they appear in subdirs
1441 For instance, a _DATA file can appear in a subdir
1442 * GNU tar is no longer required for `make dist'
1443 * Added support for `dist_' and `nodist_' prefixes
1444 * Added support for `nobase_' prefix
1445 * Compiled Java support
1446 * Support for per-executable and per-library compilation flags
1450 * Added support for the Fortran 77 programming language.
1451 * Re-indexed the Automake Texinfo manual.
1452 * Added `AM_FOOFLAGS' variable for each compiler invocation;
1453 e.g. AM_CFLAGS can be used in Makefile.am to set C compiler flags
1454 * Support for latest autoconf, including support for objext
1455 * Can now put `.' in SUBDIRS to control build order
1456 * `include' command and `+=' support for macro assignment
1457 * Dependency tracking no long susceptible to deleted header file problem
1458 * Maintainer mode now a conditional. @MAINT@ is now an anachronism.
1463 * Better Cygwin32 support
1464 * Support for suffix rules with _SOURCES variables
1465 * New options `readme-alpha' and `check-news'; Gnits mode sets these
1466 * @LEXLIB@ no longer required when lex source seen
1467 Lex support in `missing', and new lex macro. Update your missing script.
1468 * Built-in support for assembly
1469 * aclocal gives error if `AM_' macro not found
1470 * Passed YFLAGS, not YACCFLAGS, to yacc
1471 * AM_PROG_CC_STDC does not have to come before AC_PROG_CPP
1472 * Dependencies computed as a side effect of compilation
1473 * Preliminary support for Java
1474 * DESTDIR support at "make install" time
1475 * Improved ansi2knr support; you must use the latest ansi2knr.c (included)
1479 * Better DejaGnu support
1480 * Added no-installinfo option
1481 * Added Emacs Lisp support
1482 * Added --no-force option
1483 * Included `aclocal' program
1484 * Automake will now generate rules to regenerate aclocal.m4, if appropriate
1485 * Now uses `AM_' macro names everywhere
1486 * ansi2knr option can have directory prefix (eg `../lib/ansi2knr')
1487 ansi2knr now works correctly on K&R sources
1488 * Better C++, yacc, lex support
1489 * Will compute _DEPENDENCIES variables automatically if not supplied
1490 * Will interpolate $(...) and ${...} when examining contents of a variable
1491 * .deps files now in build directory, not source directory; dependency
1492 handling generally rewritten
1493 * DATA, MANS and BUILT_SOURCES no longer included in distribution
1494 * can now put config.h into a subdir
1495 * Added dist-all target
1496 * Support for install-info program (see texinfo 3.9)
1497 * Support for "yacc -d"
1498 * configure substitutions are automatically discovered and included
1499 in generated Makefile.in
1500 * Special --cygnus mode
1501 * OMIT_DEPENDENCIES can now hold list of dependencies to be omitted
1502 when making distribution. Some dependencies are auto-ignored.
1503 * Changed how libraries are specified in _LIBRARIES variable
1504 * Full libtool support, from Gord Matzigkeit
1505 * No longer have to explicitly touch stamp-h when using AC_CONFIG_HEADER;
1506 AM_CONFIG_HEADER handles it automatically
1507 * Texinfo output files no longer need .info extension
1508 * Added `missing' support
1510 * Conditionals in Makefile.am, from Ian Taylor
1514 * distcheck target runs install and installcheck targets
1515 * Added preliminary support for DejaGnu.
1520 * More libtool fixes from Gord Matzigkeit; libtool support is still
1522 * Added support for jm_MAINTAINER_MODE
1524 * New "distcheck" target
1528 * mkinstalldirs and mdate-sh now appear in directory specified by
1530 * Removed DIST_SUBDIRS, DIST_OTHER
1531 * AC_ARG_PROGRAM only required when an actual program exists
1532 * dist-hook target now run before distribution packaged up; idea from
1533 Dieter Baron. Other hooks exist, too.
1534 * Preliminary (unfinished) support for libtool
1535 * Added short option names.
1536 * Better "dist" support when gluing together multiple packages
1540 * Documentation updates (many from François Pinard)
1541 * strictness `normal' now renamed to `foreign'
1542 * Renamed --install-missing to --add-missing
1543 * Now handles AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR
1544 * Now handles TESTS macro
1545 * DIST_OTHER renamed to EXTRA_DIST
1546 * DIST_SUBDIRS is deprecated
1547 * @ALLOCA@ and @LIBOBJS@ now work in _LDADD variables
1548 * Better error messages in many cases
1549 * Program names are canonicalized
1550 * Added "check" prefix; from Gord Matzigkeit
1554 * configure.in scanner knows about AC_PATH_XTRA, AC_OUTPUT ":" syntax
1555 * Beginnings of a test suite
1556 * Automatically adds -I options for $(srcdir), ".", and path to config.h
1557 * Doesn't print anything when running
1558 * Beginnings of MAINT_CHARSET support
1559 * Can specify version in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS
1560 * Most errors recognizable by Emacs' M-x next-error
1561 * Added --verbose option
1562 * All "primary" variables now obsolete; use EXTRA_PRIMARY to supply
1563 configure-generated names
1564 * Required macros now distributed in aclocal.m4
1566 * --strictness=gnu is default
1570 * More sophisticated configure.in scanning; now understands ALLOCA and
1571 LIBOBJS directly, handles AC_CONFIG_HEADER more precisely, etc.
1572 * TEXINFOS and MANS now obsolete; use info_TEXINFOS and man_MANS instead.
1573 * CONFIG_HEADER variable now obsolete
1574 * Can handle multiple Texinfo sources
1575 * Allow hierarchies deeper than 2. From Gord Matzigkeit.
1576 * HEADERS variable no longer needed; now can put .h files directly into
1577 foo_SOURCES variable.
1578 * Automake automatically rebuilds files listed in AC_OUTPUT. The
1579 corresponding ".in" files are included in the distribution.
1582 * Added --gnu and --gnits options
1583 * More standards checking
1585 * Cleaned up 'dist' targets
1586 * Added AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS variable and several options
1587 * Now scans configure.in to get some information (preliminary)
1590 * Works with Perl 4 again
1593 * Added --install-missing option.
1594 * Pretty-prints generated macros and rules
1595 * Comments in Makefile.am are placed more intelligently in Makefile.in
1596 * Generates .PHONY target
1597 * Rule or macro in Makefile.am now overrides contents of Automake file
1598 * Substantial cleanups from François Pinard
1602 * Works with Perl 4 again.
1605 * New uniform naming scheme.
1606 * --strictness option
1608 * '.c' files corresponding to '.y' or '.l' files are automatically
1610 * Many bug fixes and cleanups
1613 * Allow objects to be conditionally included in libraries via lib_LIBADD.
1616 * Bug fixes in 'clean' code.
1617 * Now generates 'installdirs' target.
1618 * man page installation reworked.
1619 * 'make dist' no longer re-creates all Makefile.in's.
1622 * Reimplemented in Perl
1623 * Added --amdir option (for debugging)
1624 * Texinfo support cleaned up.
1625 * Automatic de-ANSI-fication cleaned up.
1626 * Cleaned up 'clean' targets.
1629 * Automatic dependency tracking
1630 * More documentation
1631 * New variables DATA and PACKAGEDATA
1632 * SCRIPTS installed using $(INSTALL_SCRIPT)
1633 * No longer uses double-colon rules
1635 * Changes in advance of internationalization
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