3 * Version requirements:
5 - Autoconf 2.61a-341 or greater is required.
9 - The autoconf version check implemented by aclocal in aclocal.m4
10 (and new in Automake 1.10) is degraded to a warning. This helps
11 in the common case where the Autoconf versions used are compatible.
13 * Change to Libtool support:
15 - Libtool generic flags are now passed to the install and uninstall
20 - subdir-object mode works now with Fortran (F77, FC, preprocessed
23 - For files with extension .f90, .f95, .f03, or .f08, the flag
24 $(FCFLAGS_f[09]x) computed by AC_FC_SRCEXT is now used in compile rules.
26 - Files with extension .sx are also treated as preprocessed assembler.
28 * Miscellaneous changes:
30 - Automake development is done in a git repository on Savannah now, see
32 http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=automake.git
34 A read-only CVS mirror is provided at
36 cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@pserver.git.sv.gnu.org:/automake.git \
37 checkout -d automake HEAD
39 - "make dist" can now create lzma-compressed tarballs.
41 - Automake is licensed under GPLv3+. `automake --add-missing' will
42 by default install the GPLv3 file as COPYING if it is missing.
43 Note that Automake will never overwrite an existing COPYING file,
44 even when the `--force-missing' option is used.
46 - New shorthand `$(pkglibexecdir)' for `$(libexecdir)/@PACKAGE@'.
48 - install-sh supports -C, which does not update the installed file
49 (and its time stamps) if the contents did not change.
51 - `make install' now installs multiple files in one `install' invocation
52 for files with DATA, HEADERS, PYTHON, LIBRARIES and TEXINFOS primaries.
54 - The "deleted header file problem" for *.m4 files is avoided by
55 stub rules. This allows `make' to trigger a rerun of `aclocal'
56 also if some previously needed macro file has been removed.
58 - The `color-tests' option causes colored test result output on terminals.
60 - New prefix `notrans_' for manpages which should not be transformed
61 by --program-transform.
67 - Fix aix dependency tracking for libtool objects.
69 * Bugs introduced by 1.10:
71 - Fix output of dummy dependency files in presence of post-processed
72 Makefile.in's again, but also cope with long lines.
74 - $(EXEEXT) is automatically appended to filenames of XFAIL_TESTS
75 that have been declared as programs in the same Makefile.
76 This is for consistency with the analogous change to TESTS in 1.10.
78 - Fix order of standard includes to again be `-I. -I$(srcdir)',
79 followed by directories containing config headers.
83 * Version requirements:
85 - Autoconf 2.60 or greater is required.
87 - Perl 5.6 or greater is required.
91 - aclocal now also supports -Wmumble and -Wno-mumble options.
93 - `dirlist' entries (for the aclocal search path) may use shell
94 wildcards such as `*', `?', or `[...]'.
96 - aclocal supports an --install option that will cause system-wide
97 third-party macros to be installed in the local directory
98 specified with the first -I flag. This option also uses #serial
99 lines in M4 files to upgrade local macros.
101 The new aclocal options --dry-run and --diff help to review changes
102 before they are installed.
104 - aclocal now outputs an autoconf version check in aclocal.m4 in
105 projects using automake.
107 For a few years, automake and aclocal have been calling autoconf
108 (or its underlying engine autom4te) to accurately retrieve the
109 data they need from configure.ac and its siblings. Doing so can
110 only work if all autotools use the same version of autoconf. For
111 instance a Makefile.in generated by automake for one version of
112 autoconf may stop working if configure is regenerated with another
113 version of autoconf, and vice versa.
115 This new version check ensures that the whole build system has
116 been generated using the same autoconf version.
118 * Support for new Autoconf macros:
120 - The new AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE Autoconf macro is supported.
122 - If `subdir-objects' is set, and AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR is specified,
123 $(LIBOBJS), $(LTLIBOBJS), $(ALLOCA), and $(LTALLOCA) can be used
124 in different directories. However, only one instance of such a
125 library objects directory is supported.
127 * Change to Libtool support:
129 - Libtool generic flags (those that go before the --mode=MODE option)
130 can be specified using AM_LIBTOOLFLAGS and target_LIBTOOLFLAGS.
132 * Yacc and Lex changes:
134 - The rebuild rules for distributed Yacc and Lex output will avoid
135 overwriting existing files if AM_MAINTAINER_MODE and maintainer-mode
138 - ylwrap is now always used for lex and yacc source files,
139 regardless of whether there is more than one source per directory.
143 - Preprocessed assembler (*.S) compilation now honors CPPFLAGS,
144 AM_CPPFLAGS and per-target _CPPFLAGS, and supports dependency
145 tracking, unlike non-preprocessed assembler (*.s).
147 - subdir-object mode works now with Assembler. Automake assumes
148 that the compiler understands `-c -o'.
150 - Preprocessed assembler (*.S) compilation now also honors
151 $(DEFS) $(DEFAULT_INCLUDES) $(INCLUDES).
153 - Improved support for Objective C:
154 - Autoconf's new AC_PROG_OBJC will enable automatic dependency tracking.
155 - A new section of the manual documents the support.
157 - New support for Unified Parallel C:
158 - AM_PROG_UPC looks for a UPC compiler.
159 - A new section of the manual documents the support.
161 - Per-target flags are now correctly handled in link rules.
163 For instance maude_CFLAGS correctly overrides AM_CFLAGS; likewise
164 for maude_LDFLAGS and AM_LDFLAGS. Previous versions bogusly
165 preferred AM_CFLAGS over maude_CFLAGS while linking, and they
166 used both AM_LDFLAGS and maude_LDFLAGS on the same link command.
168 The fix for compiler flags (i.e., using maude_CFLAGS instead of
169 AM_CFLAGS) should not hurt any package since that is how _CFLAGS
170 is expected to work (and actually works during compilation).
172 However using maude_LDFLAGS "instead of" AM_LDFLAGS rather than
173 "in addition to" breaks backward compatibility with older versions.
174 If your package used both variables, as in
176 AM_LDFLAGS = common flags
178 a_LDFLAGS = more flags
181 and assumed *_LDFLAGS would sum up, you should rewrite it as
183 AM_LDFLAGS = common flags
185 a_LDFLAGS = $(AM_LDFLAGS) more flags
188 This new behavior of *_LDFLAGS is more coherent with other
189 per-target variables, and the way *_LDFLAGS variables were
190 considered internally.
192 * New installation targets:
194 - New targets mandated by GNU Coding Standards:
199 By default they will only install Texinfo manuals.
200 You can customize them with *-local variants:
206 - The undocumented recursive target `uninstall-info' no longer exists.
207 (`uninstall' is in charge of removing all possible documentation
208 flavors, including optional formats such as dvi, ps, or info even
209 when `no-installinfo' is used.)
211 * Miscellaneous changes:
213 - Automake no longer complains if input files for AC_CONFIG_FILES
214 are specified using shell variables.
216 - clean, distribution, or rebuild rules are normally disabled for
217 inputs and outputs of AC_CONFIG_FILES, AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, and
218 AC_CONFIG_LINK specified using shell variables. However, if these
219 variables are used as ${VAR}, and AC_SUBSTed, then Automake will
220 be able to output rules anyway.
221 (See the Automake documentation for AC_CONFIG_FILES.)
223 - $(EXEEXT) is automatically appended to filenames of TESTS
224 that have been declared as programs in the same Makefile.
225 This is mostly useful when some check_PROGRAMS are listed in TESTS.
227 - `-Wportability' has finally been turned on by default for `gnu' and
228 `gnits' strictness. This means, automake will complain about %-rules
229 or $(GNU Make functions) unless you switch to `foreign' strictness or
230 use `-Wno-portability'.
232 - Automake now uses AC_PROG_MKDIR_P (new in Autoconf 2.60), and uses
233 $(MKDIR_P) instead of $(mkdir_p) to create directories. The
234 $(mkdir_p) variable is still defined (to the same value as
235 $(MKDIR_P)) but should be considered obsolete. If you are using
236 $(mkdir_p) in some of your rules, please plan to update them to
237 $(MKDIR_P) at some point.
239 - AM_C_PROTOTYPES and ansi2knr are now documented as being obsolete.
240 They still work in this release, but may be withdrawn in a future one.
242 - Inline compilation rules for gcc3-style dependency tracking are
245 - Automake installs a "Hello World!" example package in $(docdir).
246 This example is used throughout the new "Autotools Introduction"
247 chapter of the manual.
251 * Makefile.in bloat reduction:
253 - Inference rules are used to compile sources in subdirectories when
254 the `subdir-objects' option is used and no per-target flags are
255 used. This should reduce the size of some projects a lot, because
256 Automake used to output an explicit rule for each such object in
259 - Automake no longer outputs three rules (.o, .obj, .lo) for each
260 object that must be built with explicit rules. It just outputs
261 the rules required to build the kind of object considered: either
262 the two .o and .obj rules for usual objects, or the .lo rule for
265 * Change to Libtool support:
267 - Libtool tags are used with libtool versions that support them.
268 (I.e., with Libtool 1.5 or greater.)
270 - Automake is now able to handle setups where a libtool library is
271 conditionally installed in different directories, as in
274 lib_LTLIBRARIES = liba.la
276 pkglib_LTLIBRARIES = liba.la
278 liba_la_SOURCES = ...
280 * Changes to aclocal:
282 - aclocal now ensures that AC_DEFUNs and AU_DEFUNs it discovers are
283 really evaluated, before it decides to include them in aclocal.m4.
284 This solves nasty problems with conditional redefinitions of
285 Autoconf macros in /usr/share/aclocal/*.m4 files causing extraneous
286 *.m4 files to be included in any project using these macros.
287 (Calls to AC_PROG_EGREP causing libtool.m4 to be included is the
288 most famous instance of this bug.)
290 - Do not complain about missing conditionally AC_REQUIREd macros
291 that are not actually used. In 1.8.x aclocal would correctly
292 determine which of these macros were really needed (and include
293 only these in the package); unfortunately it would also require
294 all of them to be present in order to run. This created
295 situations were aclocal would not work on a tarball distributing
296 all the macros it uses. For instance running aclocal on a project
297 containing only the subset of the Gettext macros in use by the
298 project did not work, because gettext conditionally requires other
301 * Portability improvements:
303 - Tar format can be chosen with the new options tar-v7, tar-ustar, and
304 tar-pax. The new option filename-length-max=99 helps diagnosing
305 filenames that are too long for tar-v7. (PR/414)
307 - Variables aumented with `+=' are now automatically flattened (i.e.,
308 trailing backslashes removed) and then wrapped around 80 colummns
309 (adding trailing backslashes). In previous versions, a long series
315 would result in a single-line definition of VAR that could possibly
316 exceed the maximum line length of some make implementations.
318 Non-augmented variables are still output as they are defined in
323 - Support Fortran 90/95 with the new "fc" and "ppfc" languages.
324 Works the same as the old Fortran 77 implementation; just replace
325 F77 with FC everywhere (exception: FFLAGS becomes FCFLAGS).
326 Requires a version of autoconf which provides AC_PROG_FC (>=2.59).
328 - Support for conditional _LISP.
330 - Support for conditional -hook and -local rules (PR/428).
332 - Diagnose AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR calls following AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE. (PR/49)
334 - Automake will not write any Makefile.ins after the first error it
335 encounters. The previous Makefile.ins (if any) will be left in
336 place. (Warnings will not prevent output, but remember they can
337 be turned into errors with -Werror.)
339 - The restriction that SUBDIRS must contain direct children is gone.
342 - The manual tells more about SUBDIRS vs. DIST_SUBDIRS.
343 It also gives an example of nested packages using AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS.
347 * Long standing bugs:
349 - Define DIST_SUBDIRS even when the `no-dist' or `cygnus' options are used
350 so that `make distclean' and `make maintainer-clean' can work.
352 - Define AR and ARFLAGS even when only EXTRA_LIBRARIES are defined.
354 - Fix many rules to please FreeBSD make, which runs commands with `sh -e'.
356 - Polish diagnostic when no input file is found.
360 * Long standing bugs:
362 - Fix AM_PATH_PYTHON to correctly display $PYTHON when it has been
363 overridden by the user.
365 - Honor PATH_SEPARATOR in various places of the Automake package, for
368 - Adjust dependency tracking mode detection to ICC 8.0's new output.
371 - Fix install-sh so it can install the `mv' binary... using `mv'.
373 - Fix tru64 dependency tracking for libtool objects.
375 - Work around Exuberant Ctags when creating a TAGS files in a directory
376 without files to scan but with subdirectories to include.
378 * Bugs introduced by 1.8:
380 - Fix an "internal error" when @LIBOBJS@ is used in a variable that is
381 not defined in the same conditions as the _LDADD that uses it.
383 - Do not warn when JAVAROOT is overridden, this is legitimate.
387 * Long standing bugs:
389 - Quote filenames in installation rules, in case $DESTDIR, $prefix,
390 or any of the other *dir variables contain a space.
392 Please note that Automake does not and cannot support spaces in
393 filenames that are involved during the build. This change affects
394 only installation paths, so that `make install' does not bomb out
395 in packages configured with
396 ./configure --prefix '/c/Program Files'
398 - Fix the depfiles output so it works with GNU sed (<4.1) even when
399 POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.
401 - Do not AC_SUBST(LIBOBJS) in AM_WITH_REGEX. This macro was unusable
402 since Autoconf 2.54, which defines LIBOBJS itself.
404 - Fix a potential (but unlikely) race condition in parallel elisp
405 builds. (Introduced in 1.7.3.)
407 - Do not assume that users override _DEPENDENCIES in all conditions
408 where Automake will try to define them.
410 - Do not use `mkdir -p' in mkinstalldirs, unless this is GNU mkdir.
411 Solaris 8's `mkdir -p' is not thread-safe and can break parallel
414 This fix also affects the $(mkdir_p) variable defined since
415 Automake 1.8. It will be set to `mkdir -p' only if mkdir is GNU
416 mkdir, and to `mkinstalldirs' or `install-sh -d' otherwise.
418 - Secure temporary directory creation in `make distcheck'. (PR/413)
420 - Do not generate two build rules for `parser.h' when the
421 parser appears in two different conditionals.
423 - Work around a Solaris 8 /bin/sh bug in the test for dependency
424 checking. Usually ./configure will not pick this shell; so this
425 fix only helps cases where the shell is forced to /bin/sh.
427 * Bugs introduced by 1.8:
429 - In some situations (hand-written `m4_include's), aclocal would
430 call the `File::Spec->rel2abs' method, which was only introduced
431 in Perl 5.6. This new version reestablish support Perl 5.005.
433 It is likely that the next major Automake releases will require at
434 least Perl 5.6. Consider upgrading your development environment
435 if you are still using the five-year-old Perl 5.005.
437 - Automake would sometimes fail to define rules for targets listed
438 in variables defined in multiple conditions. For instance on
444 it would define only the `a.$(OBJEXT): a.c' rule and omit the
445 `b.$(OBJEXT): b.c' rule.
447 * New sections in manual:
449 - Third-Party Makefiles: how to interface third party Makefiles.
450 - Upgrading: upgrading packages to newer Automake versions.
451 - Multiple Outputs: handling tools that produce many outputs.
455 * A (well known) portability bug slipped in the changes made to
456 install-sh in Automake 1.8.1. The broken install-sh would refuse to
457 install anything on Tru64.
459 * Fix install rules for conditionally built python files. (This never
464 * Bugs introduced by 1.8:
466 - Fix Config.pm import error with old Perl versions (at least
467 5.005_03). One symptom is that aclocal could not find its macro
470 - Automake 1.8 used `mkdir -m 0755 -p --' to ensure that directories
471 created by `make install' are always world readable, even if the
472 installer happens to have an overly restrictive umask (e.g. 077).
473 This was a mistake and has been reverted. There are at least two
474 reasons why we must not use `-m 0755':
475 - it causes special bits like SGID to be ignored,
476 - it may be too restrictive (some setups expect 775 directories).
478 - Fix aclocal to honor definitions located in files which have been
479 m4_included manually. aclocal 1.8 had been updated to check
480 m4_included files for new requirements, but forgot that these
481 m4_included files can also provide new definitions.
483 Note that if you have such a setup, we recommend you get rid of
484 it. In the past, there was a reason to m4_include files manually:
485 aclocal used to duplicate entire M4 files into aclocal.m4, even
486 files that were distributed. Some packages were therefore
487 m4_including the distributed file directly, and playing some
488 tricks to ensure aclocal would not copy that file to aclocal.m4,
489 in order to limit the amount of duplication. Since aclocal 1.8.x
490 will precisely output m4_includes for local M4 files, we recommend
491 that you clean up your setup, removing all manual m4_includes and
492 letting aclocal output them.
494 - Output detailed menus in the Info version if the Automake manual,
495 so that Emacs can locate the indexes.
497 - configure.ac and configure were listed twice in DIST_COMMON (an
498 internal variable where Automake lists configury files to
499 distribute). This was harmless, but unaesthetic.
501 - Use `chmod a-w' instead of `chmod -w' as the latter honors umask.
502 This was an issue only in the Automake package itself, not in
505 - Automake assumed that all AC_CONFIG_LINKS arguments had the form
506 DEST:SRC. This was wrong, as some packages do
507 AC_CONFIG_LINKS($computedlinks). This version no longer abort in
510 - Contrary to mkinstalldirs, $(mkdir_p) was expecting exactly one
511 argument. This caused two kinds of failures:
512 - Rules installing data in a conditionally defined directory
513 failed when that directory was undefined. In this case no
514 argument was supplied.
515 - `make installdirs' failed, because several directories were
516 passed to $(mkdir_p). This was an issue only on platform
517 were $(mkdir_p) is implemented with `install-sh -d'.
518 $(mkdir_p) as been changed to accept 0 or more arguments, as
521 * Long-standing bugs:
523 - Fix an unexpected diagnostic occurring when users attempt
524 to override some internal variables that Automake appends to.
526 - aclocal now scans configure.ac for macro definitions (PR/319).
528 - Fix a portability issue with OSF1/Tru64 Make. If a directory
529 distributes files which are outside itself (this usually occurs
530 when using AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([../dir]) to use auxiliary files
531 from a parent package), then `make distcheck' fails due to an
532 optimization performed by OSF1/Tru64 Make in its VPATH handling.
533 (tests/subpkg2.test failure)
535 - Fix another portability issue with Sun and OSF1/Tru64 Make.
536 In a VPATH-build configuration, `make install' would install
537 nobase_ files to wrong locations.
539 - Fix a Perl `uninitialized value' diagnostic occurring when
540 automake complains that a Texinfo file does not have a
541 @setfilename statement.
543 - Erase config.status.lineno during `make distclean'. This file
544 can be created by config.status. Automake already knew about
545 configure.lineno, but forgot config.status.lineno.
547 - Distribute all files, even those which are built and installed
548 conditionally. This change affects files listed in conditionally
549 defined *_HEADERS and *_PYTHON variable (unless they are nodist_*)
550 as well as those listed in conditionally defined dist_*_DATA,
551 dist_*_JAVA, dist_*_LISP, and dist_*_SCRIPTS variables.
553 - Fix AM_PATH_LISPDIR to avoid \? in sed regular expressions; it
554 doesn't conform to POSIX.
556 - Normalize help strings for configure variables and options added
561 - Check for python2.4 in AM_PATH_PYTHON.
563 * Spurious failures in test suite:
565 - tests/libtool5.test, tests/ltcond.test, tests/ltcond2.test,
566 tests/ltconv.test: fix failures with CVS Libtool.
567 - tests/aclocal6.test: fix failure if autom4te.cache is disabled.
568 - tests/txinfo24.test, tests/txinfo25.test, tests/txinfo28.test:
569 fix failures with old Texinfo versions.
575 - The NEWS file is more verbose.
579 - Autoconf 2.58 or greater is required.
583 - Default source file names in the absence of a _SOURCES declaration
584 are made by removing any target extension before appending `.c', so
585 to make the libtool module `foo.la' from `foo.c', you only need to
588 lib_LTLIBRARIES = foo.la
589 foo_la_LDFLAGS = -module
591 For backward compatibility, foo_la.c will be used instead of
592 foo.c if this file exists or is the explicit target of a rule.
593 However -Wobsolete will warn about this deprecated naming.
595 - AR's `cru' flags are now set in a global ARFLAGS variable instead
596 of being hard-coded in each $(AR) invocation, so they can be
597 substituted from configure.ac. This has been requested by people
598 dealing with non-POSIX ar implementations.
600 - New warning option: -Woverride. This will warn about any user
601 target or variable definitions which override Automake
604 - Texinfo rules back up and restore info files when makeinfo fails.
606 - Texinfo rules now support the `html' target.
607 Running this requires Texinfo 4.0 or greater.
609 `html' is a new recursive target, so if your package mixes
610 hand-crafted `Makefile.in's with Automake-generated
611 `Makefile.in's, you should adjust the former to support (or
612 ignore) this target so that `make html' recurses successfully. If
613 you had a custom `html' rule in your `Makefile.am', it's better to
614 rename it as `html-local', otherwise your rule will override
615 Automake's new rule (you can check that by running `automake
616 -Woverride') and that will stop the recursion to subdirectories.
618 Last but not least, this `html' rule is declared PHONY, even when
619 overridden. Fortunately, it appears that few packages use a
620 non-PHONY `html' rule.
622 - Any file which is m4_included from configure.ac will appear as a
623 configure and Makefile.in dependency, and will be automatically
626 - The rules for rebuilding Makefiles and Makefile.ins will now
627 rebuild all Makefiles and all Makefile.ins at once when one of
628 configure's dependencies has changed. This is considerably faster
629 than previous implementations, where config.status and automake
630 were run separately in each directory (this still happens when you
631 change a Makefile.am locally, without touching configure.ac or
632 friends). Doing this also solves a longstanding issue: these
633 rebuild rules failed to work when adding new directories to the
634 tree, forcing you to run automake manually.
636 - For similar reasons, the rules to rebuild configure,
637 config.status, and aclocal.m4 are now defined in all directories.
638 Note that if you were using the CONFIG_STATUS_DEPENDENCIES and
639 CONFIGURE_DEPENDENCIES (formerly undocumented) variables, you
640 should better define them in all directories. This is easily done
641 using an AC_SUBST (make sure you prefix these dependencies with
642 $(top_srcdir) since this variable will appear at different
643 levels of the build tree).
645 - aclocal will now use `m4_include' instead of copying local m4
646 files into aclocal.m4. (Local m4 files are those you ship with
647 your project, other files will be copied as usual.)
649 Because m4_included files are automatically distributed, it means
650 for most projects there is no point in EXTRA_DISTing the list of
651 m4 files which are used. (You can probably get rid of
652 m4/Makefile.am if you had one.)
654 - aclocal will avoid touching aclocal.m4 when possible, so that
655 Autom4te's cache isn't needlessly invalidated. This behavior can
656 be switched off with the new `--force' option.
658 - aclocal now uses Autoconf's --trace to detect macros which are
659 actually used and will no longer include unused macros simply
660 because they where mentioned. This was often the case for macros
661 called conditionally.
663 - New options no-dist and no-dist-gzip.
665 - compile, depcomp, elisp-comp, install-sh, mdate-sh, mkinstalldirs,
666 py-compile, and ylwrap, now all understand --version and --help.
668 - Automake will now recognize AC_CONFIG_LINKS so far as removing created
669 links as part of the distclean target and including source files in
672 - AM_PATH_PYTHON now supports ACTION-IF-FOUND and ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND
673 argument. The latter can be used to override the default behavior
676 - Automake will exit with $? = 63 on version mismatch. (So does
677 Autoconf 2.58) missing knows this, and in this case it will
678 emulate the tools as if they were absent. Because older versions
679 of Automake and Autoconf did not use this exit code, this change
680 will only be useful in projects generated with future versions of
683 - When using AC_CONFIG_FILES with multiple input files, Automake
684 generates the first ".in" input file for which a ".am" exists.
685 (Former versions would try to use only the first input file.)
687 - lisp_DATA is now allowed. If you are using the empty ELCFILES
688 idiom to disable byte-compilation of lisp_LISP files, it is
689 recommended that you switch to using lisp_DATA. Note that
690 this is not strictly equivalent: lisp_DATA will install elisp
691 files even if emacs is not installed, while *_LISP do not
692 install anything unless emacs is found.
694 - Makefiles will prefer `mkdir -p' over mkinstalldirs if it is
695 available. This selection is achieved through the Makefile
696 variable $(mkdir_p) that is set by AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE to either
697 `mkdir -m 0755 -p --', `$(mkinstalldirs) -m 0755', or
698 `$(install_sh) -m 0755 -d'.
702 - Because `mkdir -p' is available on most platforms, and we can use
703 `install-sh -d' when it is not, the use of the mkinstalldirs
704 script is being phased out. `automake --add-missing' no longer
705 installs it, and if you remove mkinstalldirs from your package,
706 automake will define $(mkinstalldirs) as an alias for $(mkdir_p).
708 Gettext 0.12.1 still requires mkinstalldirs. Fortunately
709 gettextize and autopoint will install it when needed. Automake
710 will continue to define the $(mkinstalldirs) and to distribute
711 mkinstalldirs when this script is in the source tree.
713 - AM_PROG_CC_STDC is now empty. The content of this macro was
714 merged in AC_PROG_CC. If your code uses $am_cv_prog_cc_stdc, you
715 should adjust it to use $ac_cv_prog_cc_stdc instead. (This
716 renaming should be safe, even if you have to support several,
717 versions of Automake, because AC_PROG_CC defines this variable
718 since Autoconf 2.54.)
720 - Some users where using the undocumented ACLOCAL_M4_SOURCES
721 variable to override the aclocal.m4 dependencies computed
722 (inaccurately) by older versions of Automake. Because Automake
723 now tracks configure's m4 dependencies accurately (see m4_include
724 above), the use of ACLOCAL_M4_SOURCES should be considered
725 obsolete and will be flagged as such when running `automake
730 - Defining programs conditionally using Automake conditionals no
731 longer leads to a combinatorial explosion. The following
732 construct used to be troublesome when used with dozens of
747 Likewise for _SOURCES, _LDADD, and _LIBADD variables.
749 - Due to implementation constraints, previous versions of Automake
750 proscribed multiple conditional definitions of some variables
760 All _PROGRAMS, _LDADD, and _LIBADD variables were affected.
761 This restriction has been lifted, and these variables now
762 support multiple conditional definitions as do other variables.
764 - Cleanup the definitions of $(distdir) and $(top_distdir).
765 $(top_distdir) now points to the root of the distribution
766 directory created during `make dist', as it did in Automake 1.4,
767 not to the root of the build tree as it did in intervening
768 versions. Furthermore these two variables are now only defined in
769 the top level Makefile, and passed to sub-directories when running
772 - The --no-force option now correctly checks the Makefile.in's
773 dependencies before deciding not to update it.
775 - Do not assume that make files are called Makefile in cleaning rules.
777 - Update .info files in the source tree, not in the build tree. This
778 is what the GNU Coding Standard recommend. Only Automake 1.7.x
779 used to update these files in the build tree (previous versions did
780 it in the source tree too), and it caused several problems, varying
781 from mere annoyance to portability issues.
783 - COPYING, COPYING.LIB, and COPYING.LESSER are no longer overwritten
784 when --add-missing and --force-missing are used. For backward
785 compatibility --add-missing will continue to install COPYING (in
786 `gnu' strictness) when none of these three files exist, but this
787 use is deprecated: you should better choose a license yourself and
788 install it once for all in your source tree (and in your code
791 - Fix ylwrap so that it does not overwrite header files that haven't
792 changed, as the inline rule already does.
794 - User-defined rules override automake-defined rules for the same
795 targets, even when rules do not have commands. This is not new
796 (and was documented), however some of the automake-generated
797 rules have escaped this principle in former Automake versions.
798 Rules for the following targets are affected by this fix:
800 clean, clean-am, dist-all, distclean, distclean-am, dvi, dvi-am,
801 info, info-am, install-data-am, install-exec-am, install-info,
802 install-info-am, install-man, installcheck-am, maintainer-clean,
803 maintainer-clean-am, mostlyclean, mostlyclean-am, pdf, pdf-am,
804 ps, ps-am, uninstall-am, uninstall-info, uninstall-man
806 Practically it means that an attempt to supplement the dependencies
807 of some target, as in
811 will now *silently override* the automake definition of the
812 rule for this target. Running `automake -Woverride' will diagnose
813 all such overriding definitions.
815 It should be noted that almost all these targets support a *-local
816 variant that is meant to supplement the automake-defined rule
817 (See node `Extending' in the manual). The above rule should
820 clean-local: my-clean-rule
822 These *-local targets have been documented since at least
823 Automake 1.2, so you should not fear the change if you have
824 to support multiple automake versions.
828 - The Automake manual is now distributed under the terms of the GNU FDL.
830 - Targets dist-gzip, dist-bzip2, dist-tarZ, dist-zip are always defined.
832 - core dumps are no longer removed by the cleaning rules. There are
833 at least three reasons for this:
834 1. These files should not be created by any build step,
835 so their removal do not fit any of the cleaning rules.
836 Actually, they may be precious to the developer.
837 2. If such file is created during a build, then it's clearly a
838 bug Automake should not hide. Not removing the file will
839 cause `make distcheck' to complain about its presence.
840 3. Operating systems have different naming conventions for
841 core dump files. A core file on one system might be a
842 completely legitimate data file on another system.
844 - RUNTESTFLAGS, CTAGSFLAGS, ETAGSFLAGS, JAVACFLAGS are no longer
845 defined by Automake. This means that any definition in the
846 environment will be used, unless overridden in the Makefile.am or
847 on the command line. The old behavior, where these variables were
848 defined empty in each Makefile, can be obtained by AC_SUBSTing or
849 AC_ARG_VARing each variable from configure.ac.
851 - CONFIGURE_DEPENDENCIES and CONFIG_STATUS_DEPENDENCIES are now
852 documented. (The is not a new feature, these variables have
853 been there since at least Automake 1.4.)
856 * Fix install-strip to work with nobase_ binaries.
857 * Fix renaming of #line directives in ylwrap.
858 * Rebuild with Autoconf 2.59. (1.7.8 was not installable with pdksh.)
861 * Remove spurious blank lines in cleaning rules introduced in 1.7.7.
862 * Fix detection of Debian's install-info, broken since version 1.5.
863 (Debian bug #213524).
864 * Honor -module if it appears in AM_LDFLAGS (i.e., relax name checking)
865 This was only done for libfoo_LDFLAGS and LDFLAGS in previous versions.
868 * The implementation of automake's --no-force option is unreliable,
869 so this option is ignored in this version. A real fix will appear in
870 Automake 1.8. (Debian Bug #206299)
871 * AM_PATH_PYTHON: really check the whole list of interpreters if no
872 argument is given. (PR/399)
873 * Do not warn about leading `_' in variable names, even with -Wportability.
874 * Support user redefinitions of TEXINFO_TEX.
875 * depcomp: support AIX Compiler version 6.
876 * Fix missing rebuilds during `make dist' with BSD make.
877 (Could produce tarballs containing out-of-date files.)
878 * Resurrect multilib support.
879 * Noteworthy manual updates:
880 - Extending aclocal: how to write m4 macros that won't trigger warnings
882 - A Shared Library: Rewrite and split into subsections.
885 * Fix depcomp's icc mode for ICC 7.1.
886 * Diagnose calls to AC_CONFIG_FILES and friends with not enough arguments.
887 * Fix maintainer-clean's removal of autom4te.cache in VPATH builds.
888 * Fix AM_PATH_LISPDIR to work with POSIXLY_CORRECT=1.
889 * Fix the location reported in some diagnostics related to AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
890 * Remove Latin-1 characters from elisp-comp.
891 * Update the manual's @dircategory to match the Free Software Directory.
894 * Update install-sh's license to remove an advertising clause.
896 * Fix a bug introduced in 1.7.4, related to BUILT_SOURCE handling,
897 that caused invalid Makefile.ins to be generated.
898 * Make sure AM_MAKE_INCLUDE doesn't fail when a `doit' file exists.
899 * New FAQ entry: renamed objects.
902 * Tweak the TAGS rule to support Exuberant Ctags (in addition to
903 the Emacs implementation)
904 * Fix output of aclocal.m4 dependencies in subdirectories.
905 * Use `mv -f' instead of `mv' in fastdep rules.
906 * Upgrade mdate-sh to work on OS/2.
907 * Don't byte-compile elisp files when ELCFILES is set empty.
908 (this documented feature was broken by 1.7.3)
909 * Diagnose trailing backslashes on last line of Makefile.am.
910 * Diagnose whitespace following trailing backslashes.
911 * Multiple tests are now correctly supported in DEJATOOL. (PR/388)
912 * Fix rebuilt rules for AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile:Makefile.in:Makefile.bot])
914 * `make install' will build `BUILT_SOURCES' first.
915 * Minor documentation fixes.
918 * Fix stamp files numbering (when using multiple AC_CONFIG_HEADERS).
919 * Query distutils for `pythondir' and `pythonexecdir', instead of
920 using an hardcoded path. This should allow builds on 64-bit
921 distributions that usually use lib64/ instead of lib/.
922 * AM_PATH_PYTHON will also search for python2.3.
923 * elisp files are now built all at once instead of one by one. Besides
924 incurring a speed-up, this is required to support interdependent elisp files.
926 - `make distcheck' will now work in `_inst/' and `_build' instead
927 of `=inst/' and `=build/'
928 - use `_dirstamp' when the file-system doesn't support `.dirstamp'
929 - install/uninstall `*.i[0-9][0-9]'-style info files
930 - more changes that affect only the Automake package (not its output)
931 * Fix some incompatibilities with upcoming perl-5.10.
932 * Properly quote AC_PACKAGE_TARNAME and AC_PACKAGE_VERSION when defining
935 - dashmstdout and dashXmstdout modes: don't use `-o /dev/null', this
936 is troublesome with gcc and Solaris compilers. (PR/385)
937 - makedepend mode: work with Libtool. (PR/385 too)
939 * better support for unusual gettext setups, such as multiple po/ directories
941 - Flag missing po/ and intl/ directories as warnings, not errors.
942 - Disable these warnings if po/ does not exist.
943 * Noteworthy manual updates:
945 - Document how AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR interacts with missing files.
947 - Document `AM_YFLAGS = -d'. (PR/382)
950 * Fix installation and uninstallation of Info files built in subdirectories.
951 * Do not run `./configure --with-included-gettext' during `make distcheck'
952 if AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external]) is used.
953 * Correctly uninstall renamed man pages.
954 * Do not strip escaped newline in variables defined in one condition
955 and augmented in another condition.
956 * Fix ansi2knr rules for LIBOBJS sources.
957 * Clean all known Texinfo index files, not only those which appear to
958 be used, because we cannot know wich indexes are used in included files.
959 (PR/375, Debian Bug #168671)
960 * Honor only the first @setfilename seen in a Texinfo file.
961 * Treat "required file X not found" diagnostics as errors (exit status 1).
962 * Don't complain that a required file is not found when it is a Makefile
964 * Don't use single suffix inference rules when building `.info'-less
965 Info files, for the sake of Solaris make.
966 * The `check' target now depends on `$(BUILT_SOURCES)'. (PR/359)
967 * Recognize multiple inference rules such as `.a.b .c.d:'. (PR/371)
968 * Warn about multiple inference rules when -Wportability is used. (PR/372)
969 * Fix building of deansified files from subdirectories. (PR/370)
970 * Add missing `fi' in the .c->.obj rules.
971 * Improve install-sh to work even when names contain spaces or certain
972 (but not all) shell metachars.
973 * Fix the following spurious failures in the test suite:
974 depcomp2.test, gnits2.test, gnits3.test, python3.test, texinfo13.test
975 * Noteworthy manual updates:
976 - Augment the section about BUILT_SOURCES.
977 - Mention that AM_PROG_CC_STDC is a relic that is better avoided today.
980 * Honor `ansi2knr' for files built in subdirectories, or using per-targets
982 * Aclocal should now recognize macro names containing parentheses, e.g.
983 AC_DEFUN([AC_LANG_PREPROC(Fortran 90)], [...]).
984 * Erase *.sum and *.log files created by DejaGnu, during `make distclean'.
986 * Install Python files even if they were built. (PR/369)
987 * Have stamp-vti dependent upon configure instead of configure.ac, as the
988 version might not be defined in the latter. (PR/358)
989 * Reorder arguments passed to a couple of commands, so things works
990 when POSIXLY_CORRECT=1.
991 * Fix a regex that can cause Perl to segfault on large input.
993 * Fix distribution of packages that have some sources defined conditionally,
994 as in the `Conditional compilation using Automake conditionals' example
996 * Fix spurious test suite failures on IRIX.
997 * Don't report a required variable as undefined if it has been
998 defined conditionally for the "right" conditions.
999 * Fix cleaning of the /tmp subdirectory used by `make distcheck', in case
1000 `make distcheck' fails.
1001 * Fix distribution of included Makefile fragment, so we don't create
1002 spurious directories in the distribution. (PR/366)
1003 * Don't complain that a target lacks `.$(EXEEXT)' when it has it.
1006 * Autoconf 2.54 is required.
1007 * `aclocal' and `automake' will no longer warn about obsolete
1008 configure macros. This is done by `autoconf -Wobsolete'.
1009 * AM_CONFIG_HEADER, AM_SYS_POSIX_TERMIOS and
1010 AM_HEADER_TIOCGWINSZ_NEEDS_SYS_IOCTL are obsolete (although still
1011 supported). You should use AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, AC_SYS_POSIX_TERMIOS,
1012 and AC_HEADER_TIOCGWINSZ instead. `autoupdate' can upgrade
1013 `configure.ac' for you.
1014 * Support for per-program and per-library `_CPPFLAGS'.
1015 * New `ctags' target (builds CTAGS files).
1016 * Support for -Wmumble and -Wno-mumble, where mumble is a warning category
1017 (see `automake --help' or the manual for a list of them).
1018 * Honor the WARNINGS environment variable.
1019 * Omit the call to depcomp when using gcc3: call the compiler directly.
1020 * A new option, std-options, tests that programs support --help and --version
1021 when `make installcheck' is run. This is enabled by --gnits.
1022 * Texinfo rules now support the `ps' and `pdf' targets.
1023 * Info files are now created in the build directory, not the source directory.
1024 * info_TEXINFOS supports files in subdirectories (this requires Texinfo 4.1
1026 * `make distcheck' will enforce DESTDIR support by attempting
1028 * `+=' can be used in conditionals, even if the augmented variable
1029 was defined for another condition.
1030 * Makefile fragments (inserted with `include') are always distributed.
1031 * Use Autoconf's --trace interface to inspect configure.ac and get
1032 a more accurate view of it.
1033 * Add support for extending aclocal's default macro search path
1034 using a `dirlist' file within the aclocal directory.
1035 * automake --output-dir is deprecated.
1036 * The part of the distcheck target that checks whether uninstall actually
1037 removes all installed files has been moved in a separate target,
1038 distuninstallcheck, so it can be overridden easily.
1042 * Support for AM_INIT_GETTEXT([external])
1043 * Bug fixes, including:
1044 - Fix Automake's own `make install' so it works even if `ln' doesn't.
1045 - nobase_ programs and scripts honor --program-transform correctly.
1046 - Erase configure.lineno during `make distclean'.
1047 - Erase YACC and LEX outputs during `make maintainer-clean'.
1050 * Many bug fixes, including:
1051 - Requiring the current version works.
1052 - Fix "$@" portability issues (for Zsh).
1053 - Fix output of dummy dependency files in presence of post-processed
1055 - Don't compute dependencies in background to avoid races with libtool.
1056 - Fix handling of _OBJECTS variables for targets sharing source variables.
1057 - Check dependency mode for Java when AM_PROG_GCJ is used.
1060 * automake --output-dir is deprecated
1061 * Many bug fixes, including:
1062 - Don't choke on AM_LDFLAGS definitions.
1063 - Clean libtool objects from subdirectories.
1064 - Allow configure variables with reserved suffix and unknown prefix
1065 (e.g. AC_SUBST(mumble_LDFLAGS) when 'mumble' is not a target).
1066 - Fix the definition of AUTOMAKE and ACLOCAL in configure.
1069 * Autoconf 2.52 is required.
1070 * automake no longer run libtoolize.
1071 This is the job of autoreconf (from GNU Autoconf).
1072 * `dist' generates all the archive flavors, as did `dist-all'.
1073 * `dist-gzip' generates the Gzip tar file only.
1074 * Combining Automake Makefile conditionals no longer lead to a combinatorial
1075 explosion. Makefile.in's keep a reasonable size.
1076 * AM_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE, AM_FUNC_STRTOD, AM_FUNC_OBSTACK, AM_PTRDIFF_T
1077 are no longer shipped, since Autoconf 2.52 provides them (both as AM_
1079 * `#line' of Lex and Yacc files are properly set.
1080 * EXTRA_DIST can contain generated directories.
1081 * Support for dot-less extensions in suffix rules.
1082 * The part of the distcheck target that checks whether distclean actually
1083 cleans all built files has been moved in a separate target, distcleancheck,
1084 so it can be overridden easily.
1085 * `make distcheck' will pass additional options defined in
1086 $(DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS) to configure.
1087 * Fixed CDPATH portability problems, in particular for MacOS X.
1088 * Fixed handling of nobase_ targets.
1089 * Fixed support of implicit rules leading to .lo objects.
1090 * Fixed late inclusion of --add-missing files (e.g. depcomp) in DIST_COMMON
1091 * Added uninstall-hook target
1092 * `AC_INIT AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(tarname,version)' is an obsolete construct.
1093 You can now use `AC_INIT(pkgname,version) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' instead.
1094 (Note that "pkgname" is not "tarname", see the manual for details.)
1095 It is also possible to pass a list of global Automake options as
1096 first argument to this new form of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
1097 * Compiler-based assembler is now called `CCAS'; people expected `AS'
1098 to be a real assembler.
1099 * AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE will set STRIP itself when it needs it. Adding
1100 AC_CHECK_TOOL([STRIP], [strip]) manually is no longer required.
1101 * aclocal and automake are also installed with the version number
1102 appended, and some of the install directory names have changed.
1103 This lets you have multiple versions installed simultaneously.
1104 * Support for parsers and lexers in subdirectories.
1107 * Support for `configure.ac'.
1108 * Support for `else COND', `endif COND' and negated conditions `!COND'.
1109 * `make dist-all' is much faster.
1110 * Allows '@' AC_SUBSTs in macro names.
1111 * Faster AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (requires update of `missing' script)
1112 * User-side dependency tracking. Developers no longer need GNU make
1114 * Uses DIST_SUBDIRS in some situations when SUBDIRS is conditional
1115 * Most files are correctly handled if they appear in subdirs
1116 For instance, a _DATA file can appear in a subdir
1117 * GNU tar is no longer required for `make dist'
1118 * Added support for `dist_' and `nodist_' prefixes
1119 * Added support for `nobase_' prefix
1120 * Compiled Java support
1121 * Support for per-executable and per-library compilation flags
1125 * Added support for the Fortran 77 programming language.
1126 * Re-indexed the Automake Texinfo manual.
1127 * Added `AM_FOOFLAGS' variable for each compiler invocation;
1128 e.g. AM_CFLAGS can be used in Makefile.am to set C compiler flags
1129 * Support for latest autoconf, including support for objext
1130 * Can now put `.' in SUBDIRS to control build order
1131 * `include' command and `+=' support for macro assignment
1132 * Dependency tracking no long susceptible to deleted header file problem
1133 * Maintainer mode now a conditional. @MAINT@ is now an anachronism.
1138 * Better Cygwin32 support
1139 * Support for suffix rules with _SOURCES variables
1140 * New options `readme-alpha' and `check-news'; Gnits mode sets these
1141 * @LEXLIB@ no longer required when lex source seen
1142 Lex support in `missing', and new lex macro. Update your missing script.
1143 * Built-in support for assembly
1144 * aclocal gives error if `AM_' macro not found
1145 * Passed YFLAGS, not YACCFLAGS, to yacc
1146 * AM_PROG_CC_STDC does not have to come before AC_PROG_CPP
1147 * Dependencies computed as a side effect of compilation
1148 * Preliminary support for Java
1149 * DESTDIR support at "make install" time
1150 * Improved ansi2knr support; you must use the latest ansi2knr.c (included)
1154 * Better DejaGnu support
1155 * Added no-installinfo option
1156 * Added Emacs Lisp support
1157 * Added --no-force option
1158 * Included `aclocal' program
1159 * Automake will now generate rules to regenerate aclocal.m4, if appropriate
1160 * Now uses `AM_' macro names everywhere
1161 * ansi2knr option can have directory prefix (eg `../lib/ansi2knr')
1162 ansi2knr now works correctly on K&R sources
1163 * Better C++, yacc, lex support
1164 * Will compute _DEPENDENCIES variables automatically if not supplied
1165 * Will interpolate $(...) and ${...} when examining contents of a variable
1166 * .deps files now in build directory, not source directory; dependency
1167 handling generally rewritten
1168 * DATA, MANS and BUILT_SOURCES no longer included in distribution
1169 * can now put config.h into a subdir
1170 * Added dist-all target
1171 * Support for install-info program (see texinfo 3.9)
1172 * Support for "yacc -d"
1173 * configure substitutions are automatically discovered and included
1174 in generated Makefile.in
1175 * Special --cygnus mode
1176 * OMIT_DEPENDENCIES can now hold list of dependencies to be omitted
1177 when making distribution. Some dependencies are auto-ignored.
1178 * Changed how libraries are specified in _LIBRARIES variable
1179 * Full libtool support, from Gord Matzigkeit
1180 * No longer have to explicitly touch stamp-h when using AC_CONFIG_HEADER;
1181 AM_CONFIG_HEADER handles it automatically
1182 * Texinfo output files no longer need .info extension
1183 * Added `missing' support
1185 * Conditionals in Makefile.am, from Ian Taylor
1189 * distcheck target runs install and installcheck targets
1190 * Added preliminary support for DejaGnu.
1195 * More libtool fixes from Gord Matzigkeit; libtool support is still
1197 * Added support for jm_MAINTAINER_MODE
1199 * New "distcheck" target
1203 * mkinstalldirs and mdate-sh now appear in directory specified by
1205 * Removed DIST_SUBDIRS, DIST_OTHER
1206 * AC_ARG_PROGRAM only required when an actual program exists
1207 * dist-hook target now run before distribution packaged up; idea from
1208 Dieter Baron. Other hooks exist, too.
1209 * Preliminary (unfinished) support for libtool
1210 * Added short option names.
1211 * Better "dist" support when gluing together multiple packages
1215 * Documentation updates (many from François Pinard)
1216 * strictness `normal' now renamed to `foreign'
1217 * Renamed --install-missing to --add-missing
1218 * Now handles AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR
1219 * Now handles TESTS macro
1220 * DIST_OTHER renamed to EXTRA_DIST
1221 * DIST_SUBDIRS is deprecated
1222 * @ALLOCA@ and @LIBOBJS@ now work in _LDADD variables
1223 * Better error messages in many cases
1224 * Program names are canonicalized
1225 * Added "check" prefix; from Gord Matzigkeit
1229 * configure.in scanner knows about AC_PATH_XTRA, AC_OUTPUT ":" syntax
1230 * Beginnings of a test suite
1231 * Automatically adds -I options for $(srcdir), ".", and path to config.h
1232 * Doesn't print anything when running
1233 * Beginnings of MAINT_CHARSET support
1234 * Can specify version in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS
1235 * Most errors recognizable by Emacs' M-x next-error
1236 * Added --verbose option
1237 * All "primary" variables now obsolete; use EXTRA_PRIMARY to supply
1238 configure-generated names
1239 * Required macros now distributed in aclocal.m4
1241 * --strictness=gnu is default
1245 * More sophisticated configure.in scanning; now understands ALLOCA and
1246 LIBOBJS directly, handles AC_CONFIG_HEADER more precisely, etc.
1247 * TEXINFOS and MANS now obsolete; use info_TEXINFOS and man_MANS instead.
1248 * CONFIG_HEADER variable now obsolete
1249 * Can handle multiple Texinfo sources
1250 * Allow hierarchies deeper than 2. From Gord Matzigkeit.
1251 * HEADERS variable no longer needed; now can put .h files directly into
1252 foo_SOURCES variable.
1253 * Automake automatically rebuilds files listed in AC_OUTPUT. The
1254 corresponding ".in" files are included in the distribution.
1257 * Added --gnu and --gnits options
1258 * More standards checking
1260 * Cleaned up 'dist' targets
1261 * Added AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS variable and several options
1262 * Now scans configure.in to get some information (preliminary)
1265 * Works with Perl 4 again
1268 * Added --install-missing option.
1269 * Pretty-prints generated macros and rules
1270 * Comments in Makefile.am are placed more intelligently in Makefile.in
1271 * Generates .PHONY target
1272 * Rule or macro in Makefile.am now overrides contents of Automake file
1273 * Substantial cleanups from François Pinard
1277 * Works with Perl 4 again.
1280 * New uniform naming scheme.
1281 * --strictness option
1283 * '.c' files corresponding to '.y' or '.l' files are automatically
1285 * Many bug fixes and cleanups
1288 * Allow objects to be conditionally included in libraries via lib_LIBADD.
1291 * Bug fixes in 'clean' code.
1292 * Now generates 'installdirs' target.
1293 * man page installation reworked.
1294 * 'make dist' no longer re-creates all Makefile.in's.
1297 * Reimplemented in Perl
1298 * Added --amdir option (for debugging)
1299 * Texinfo support cleaned up.
1300 * Automatic de-ANSI-fication cleaned up.
1301 * Cleaned up 'clean' targets.
1304 * Automatic dependency tracking
1305 * More documentation
1306 * New variables DATA and PACKAGEDATA
1307 * SCRIPTS installed using $(INSTALL_SCRIPT)
1308 * No longer uses double-colon rules
1310 * Changes in advance of internationalization
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