From 2d47361d9b5a8f313408c940ed23a24592db88f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefano Lattarini Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:59:05 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] NEWS: improve wording for automake bug#13514 fix Helped-by: Jack Kelly Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini --- NEWS | 24 ++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 06c012fee..6597626ee 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -127,23 +127,23 @@ New in 1.13.2: Automake 1.13, has turned out to be a similarly very bad idea, for exactly the same reason. - - Aclocal no longer error out if the first local m4 directory (as - specified by the '-I' option or the 'AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS' or - 'AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR' macros) doesn't exist; it merely report a - warning in the 'unsupported' category. This is done to support - some pre-existing real-world usages; refer to automake bug#13514 - for more details. + - aclocal will no longer error out if the first local m4 directory + (as specified by the '-I' option or the 'AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS' or + 'AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR' macros) doesn't exist; it will merely report + a warning in the 'unsupported' category. This is done to support + some pre-existing real-world usages. See automake bug#13514. - - Aclocal no longer consider directories for extra m4 files more than - once, even if they are specified multiple times. This prevents - problems in older packages that specify both + - aclocal will no longer consider directories for extra m4 files more + than once, even if they are specified multiple times. This ensures + packages that specify both AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4]) in configure.ac ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4 in Makefile.am - If the 'm4' directory did not exist when aclocal was called the first - time by autoreconf, an error would have ensued with Automake 1.13 and - 1.13.1. See automake bug#13514. + will work correctly, even when the 'm4' directory contains no + package-specific files, but is used only to install third-party + m4 files (as can happen with e.g., "libtoolize --install"). + See automake bug#13514. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- 2.11.4.GIT