5 - The autoconf version check implemented by aclocal in aclocal.m4
6 (and new in Automake 1.10) is degraded to a warning. This helps
7 in the common case where the Autoconf versions used are compatible.
9 * Change to Libtool support:
11 - Libtool generic flags are now passed to the install and uninstall
16 - subdir-object mode works now with Fortran (F77, FC, preprocessed
19 - For files with extension .f90 or .f95, the flag $(FCFLAGS_f9x)
20 computed by AC_FC_SRCEXT is now honored in compile rules.
22 - Files with extension .sx are also treated as preprocessed assembler.
24 * Miscellaneous changes:
26 - Automake development is done in a git repository on Savannah now, see
28 http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=automake.git
30 A read-only CVS mirror is provided at
32 cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@pserver.git.sv.gnu.org:/automake.git \
33 checkout -d automake HEAD
35 - "make dist" can now create lzma-compressed tarballs.
37 - Automake is licensed under GPLv3+. `automake --add-missing' will
38 by default install the GPLv3 file as COPYING if it is missing.
39 Note that Automake will never overwrite an existing COPYING file,
40 even when the `--force-missing' option is used.
42 - New shorthand `$(pkglibexecdir)' for `$(libexecdir)/@PACKAGE@'.
44 - install-sh supports -C, which does not update the installed file
45 (and its time stamps) if the contents did not change.
47 - The "deleted header file problem" for *.m4 files is avoided by
48 stub rules. This allows `make' to trigger a rerun of `aclocal'
49 also if some previously needed macro file has been removed.
51 - The `color-tests' option causes colored test result output on terminals.
57 - Fix aix dependency tracking for libtool objects.
59 * Bugs introduced by 1.10:
61 - Fix output of dummy dependency files in presence of post-processed
62 Makefile.in's again, but also cope with long lines.
64 - $(EXEEXT) is automatically appended to filenames of XFAIL_TESTS
65 that have been declared as programs in the same Makefile.
66 This is for consistency with the analogous change to TESTS in 1.10.
70 * Version requirements:
72 - Autoconf 2.60 or greater is required.
74 - Perl 5.6 or greater is required.
78 - aclocal now also supports -Wmumble and -Wno-mumble options.
80 - `dirlist' entries (for the aclocal search path) may use shell
81 wildcards such as `*', `?', or `[...]'.
83 - aclocal supports an --install option that will cause system-wide
84 third-party macros to be installed in the local directory
85 specified with the first -I flag. This option also uses #serial
86 lines in M4 files to upgrade local macros.
88 The new aclocal options --dry-run and --diff help to review changes
89 before they are installed.
91 - aclocal now outputs an autoconf version check in aclocal.m4 in
92 projects using automake.
94 For a few years, automake and aclocal have been calling autoconf
95 (or its underlying engine autom4te) to accurately retrieve the
96 data they need from configure.ac and its siblings. Doing so can
97 only work if all autotools use the same version of autoconf. For
98 instance a Makefile.in generated by automake for one version of
99 autoconf may stop working if configure is regenerated with another
100 version of autoconf, and vice versa.
102 This new version check ensures that the whole build system has
103 been generated using the same autoconf version.
105 * Support for new Autoconf macros:
107 - The new AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE Autoconf macro is supported.
109 - If `subdir-objects' is set, and AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR is specified,
110 $(LIBOBJS), $(LTLIBOBJS), $(ALLOCA), and $(LTALLOCA) can be used
111 in different directories. However, only one instance of such a
112 library objects directory is supported.
114 * Change to Libtool support:
116 - Libtool generic flags (those that go before the --mode=MODE option)
117 can be specified using AM_LIBTOOLFLAGS and target_LIBTOOLFLAGS.
119 * Yacc and Lex changes:
121 - The rebuild rules for distributed Yacc and Lex output will avoid
122 overwriting existing files if AM_MAINTAINER_MODE and maintainer-mode
125 - ylwrap is now always used for lex and yacc source files,
126 regardless of whether there is more than one source per directory.
130 - Preprocessed assembler (*.S) compilation now honors CPPFLAGS,
131 AM_CPPFLAGS and per-target _CPPFLAGS, and supports dependency
132 tracking, unlike non-preprocessed assembler (*.s).
134 - subdir-object mode works now with Assembler. Automake assumes
135 that the compiler understands `-c -o'.
137 - Preprocessed assembler (*.S) compilation now also honors
138 $(DEFS) $(DEFAULT_INCLUDES) $(INCLUDES).
140 - Improved support for Objective C:
141 - Autoconf's new AC_PROG_OBJC will enable automatic dependency tracking.
142 - A new section of the manual documents the support.
144 - New support for Unified Parallel C:
145 - AM_PROG_UPC looks for a UPC compiler.
146 - A new section of the manual documents the support.
148 - Per-target flags are now correctly handled in link rules.
150 For instance maude_CFLAGS correctly overrides AM_CFLAGS; likewise
151 for maude_LDFLAGS and AM_LDFLAGS. Previous versions bogusly
152 preferred AM_CFLAGS over maude_CFLAGS while linking, and they
153 used both AM_LDFLAGS and maude_LDFLAGS on the same link command.
155 The fix for compiler flags (i.e., using maude_CFLAGS instead of
156 AM_CFLAGS) should not hurt any package since that is how _CFLAGS
157 is expected to work (and actually works during compilation).
159 However using maude_LDFLAGS "instead of" AM_LDFLAGS rather than
160 "in addition to" breaks backward compatibility with older versions.
161 If your package used both variables, as in
163 AM_LDFLAGS = common flags
165 a_LDFLAGS = more flags
168 and assumed *_LDFLAGS would sum up, you should rewrite it as
170 AM_LDFLAGS = common flags
172 a_LDFLAGS = $(AM_LDFLAGS) more flags
175 This new behavior of *_LDFLAGS is more coherent with other
176 per-target variables, and the way *_LDFLAGS variables were
177 considered internally.
179 * New installation targets:
181 - New targets mandated by GNU Coding Standards:
186 By default they will only install Texinfo manuals.
187 You can customize them with *-local variants:
193 - The undocumented recursive target `uninstall-info' no longer exists.
194 (`uninstall' is in charge of removing all possible documentation
195 flavors, including optional formats such as dvi, ps, or info even
196 when `no-installinfo' is used.)
198 * Miscellaneous changes:
200 - Automake no longer complains if input files for AC_CONFIG_FILES
201 are specified using shell variables.
203 - clean, distribution, or rebuild rules are normally disabled for
204 inputs and outputs of AC_CONFIG_FILES, AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, and
205 AC_CONFIG_LINK specified using shell variables. However, if these
206 variables are used as ${VAR}, and AC_SUBSTed, then Automake will
207 be able to output rules anyway.
208 (See the Automake documentation for AC_CONFIG_FILES.)
210 - $(EXEEXT) is automatically appended to filenames of TESTS
211 that have been declared as programs in the same Makefile.
212 This is mostly useful when some check_PROGRAMS are listed in TESTS.
214 - `-Wportability' has finally been turned on by default for `gnu' and
215 `gnits' strictness. This means, automake will complain about %-rules
216 or $(GNU Make functions) unless you switch to `foreign' strictness or
217 use `-Wno-portability'.
219 - Automake now uses AC_PROG_MKDIR_P (new in Autoconf 2.60), and uses
220 $(MKDIR_P) instead of $(mkdir_p) to create directories. The
221 $(mkdir_p) variable is still defined (to the same value as
222 $(MKDIR_P)) but should be considered obsolete. If you are using
223 $(mkdir_p) in some of your rules, please plan to update them to
224 $(MKDIR_P) at some point.
226 - AM_C_PROTOTYPES and ansi2knr are now documented as being obsolete.
227 They still work in this release, but may be withdrawn in a future one.
229 - Inline compilation rules for gcc3-style dependency tracking are
232 - Automake installs a "Hello World!" example package in $(docdir).
233 This example is used throughout the new "Autotools Introduction"
234 chapter of the manual.
238 * Makefile.in bloat reduction:
240 - Inference rules are used to compile sources in subdirectories when
241 the `subdir-objects' option is used and no per-target flags are
242 used. This should reduce the size of some projects a lot, because
243 Automake used to output an explicit rule for each such object in
246 - Automake no longer outputs three rules (.o, .obj, .lo) for each
247 object that must be built with explicit rules. It just outputs
248 the rules required to build the kind of object considered: either
249 the two .o and .obj rules for usual objects, or the .lo rule for
252 * Change to Libtool support:
254 - Libtool tags are used with libtool versions that support them.
255 (I.e., with Libtool 1.5 or greater.)
257 - Automake is now able to handle setups where a libtool library is
258 conditionally installed in different directories, as in
261 lib_LTLIBRARIES = liba.la
263 pkglib_LTLIBRARIES = liba.la
265 liba_la_SOURCES = ...
267 * Changes to aclocal:
269 - aclocal now ensures that AC_DEFUNs and AU_DEFUNs it discovers are
270 really evaluated, before it decides to include them in aclocal.m4.
271 This solves nasty problems with conditional redefinitions of
272 Autoconf macros in /usr/share/aclocal/*.m4 files causing extraneous
273 *.m4 files to be included in any project using these macros.
274 (Calls to AC_PROG_EGREP causing libtool.m4 to be included is the
275 most famous instance of this bug.)
277 - Do not complain about missing conditionally AC_REQUIREd macros
278 that are not actually used. In 1.8.x aclocal would correctly
279 determine which of these macros were really needed (and include
280 only these in the package); unfortunately it would also require
281 all of them to be present in order to run. This created
282 situations were aclocal would not work on a tarball distributing
283 all the macros it uses. For instance running aclocal on a project
284 containing only the subset of the Gettext macros in use by the
285 project did not work, because gettext conditionally requires other
288 * Portability improvements:
290 - Tar format can be chosen with the new options tar-v7, tar-ustar, and
291 tar-pax. The new option filename-length-max=99 helps diagnosing
292 filenames that are too long for tar-v7. (PR/414)
294 - Variables aumented with `+=' are now automatically flattened (i.e.,
295 trailing backslashes removed) and then wrapped around 80 colummns
296 (adding trailing backslashes). In previous versions, a long series
302 would result in a single-line definition of VAR that could possibly
303 exceed the maximum line length of some make implementations.
305 Non-augmented variables are still output as they are defined in
310 - Support Fortran 90/95 with the new "fc" and "ppfc" languages.
311 Works the same as the old Fortran 77 implementation; just replace
312 F77 with FC everywhere (exception: FFLAGS becomes FCFLAGS).
313 Requires a version of autoconf which provides AC_PROG_FC (>=2.59).
315 - Support for conditional _LISP.
317 - Support for conditional -hook and -local rules (PR/428).
319 - Diagnose AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR calls following AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE. (PR/49)
321 - Automake will not write any Makefile.ins after the first error it
322 encounters. The previous Makefile.ins (if any) will be left in
323 place. (Warnings will not prevent output, but remember they can
324 be turned into errors with -Werror.)
326 - The restriction that SUBDIRS must contain direct children is gone.
329 - The manual tells more about SUBDIRS vs. DIST_SUBDIRS.
330 It also gives an example of nested packages using AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS.
334 * Long standing bugs:
336 - Define DIST_SUBDIRS even when the `no-dist' or `cygnus' options are used
337 so that `make distclean' and `make maintainer-clean' can work.
339 - Define AR and ARFLAGS even when only EXTRA_LIBRARIES are defined.
341 - Fix many rules to please FreeBSD make, which runs commands with `sh -e'.
343 - Polish diagnostic when no input file is found.
347 * Long standing bugs:
349 - Fix AM_PATH_PYTHON to correctly display $PYTHON when it has been
350 overridden by the user.
352 - Honor PATH_SEPARATOR in various places of the Automake package, for
355 - Adjust dependency tracking mode detection to ICC 8.0's new output.
358 - Fix install-sh so it can install the `mv' binary... using `mv'.
360 - Fix tru64 dependency tracking for libtool objects.
362 - Work around Exuberant Ctags when creating a TAGS files in a directory
363 without files to scan but with subdirectories to include.
365 * Bugs introduced by 1.8:
367 - Fix an "internal error" when @LIBOBJS@ is used in a variable that is
368 not defined in the same conditions as the _LDADD that uses it.
370 - Do not warn when JAVAROOT is overridden, this is legitimate.
374 * Long standing bugs:
376 - Quote filenames in installation rules, in case $DESTDIR, $prefix,
377 or any of the other *dir variables contain a space.
379 Please note that Automake does not and cannot support spaces in
380 filenames that are involved during the build. This change affects
381 only installation paths, so that `make install' does not bomb out
382 in packages configured with
383 ./configure --prefix '/c/Program Files'
385 - Fix the depfiles output so it works with GNU sed (<4.1) even when
386 POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.
388 - Do not AC_SUBST(LIBOBJS) in AM_WITH_REGEX. This macro was unusable
389 since Autoconf 2.54, which defines LIBOBJS itself.
391 - Fix a potential (but unlikely) race condition in parallel elisp
392 builds. (Introduced in 1.7.3.)
394 - Do not assume that users override _DEPENDENCIES in all conditions
395 where Automake will try to define them.
397 - Do not use `mkdir -p' in mkinstalldirs, unless this is GNU mkdir.
398 Solaris 8's `mkdir -p' is not thread-safe and can break parallel
401 This fix also affects the $(mkdir_p) variable defined since
402 Automake 1.8. It will be set to `mkdir -p' only if mkdir is GNU
403 mkdir, and to `mkinstalldirs' or `install-sh -d' otherwise.
405 - Secure temporary directory creation in `make distcheck'. (PR/413)
407 - Do not generate two build rules for `parser.h' when the
408 parser appears in two different conditionals.
410 - Work around a Solaris 8 /bin/sh bug in the test for dependency
411 checking. Usually ./configure will not pick this shell; so this
412 fix only helps cases where the shell is forced to /bin/sh.
414 * Bugs introduced by 1.8:
416 - In some situations (hand-written `m4_include's), aclocal would
417 call the `File::Spec->rel2abs' method, which was only introduced
418 in Perl 5.6. This new version reestablish support Perl 5.005.
420 It is likely that the next major Automake releases will require at
421 least Perl 5.6. Consider upgrading your development environment
422 if you are still using the five-year-old Perl 5.005.
424 - Automake would sometimes fail to define rules for targets listed
425 in variables defined in multiple conditions. For instance on
431 it would define only the `a.$(OBJEXT): a.c' rule and omit the
432 `b.$(OBJEXT): b.c' rule.
434 * New sections in manual:
436 - Third-Party Makefiles: how to interface third party Makefiles.
437 - Upgrading: upgrading packages to newer Automake versions.
438 - Multiple Outputs: handling tools that produce many outputs.
442 * A (well known) portability bug slipped in the changes made to
443 install-sh in Automake 1.8.1. The broken install-sh would refuse to
444 install anything on Tru64.
446 * Fix install rules for conditionally built python files. (This never
451 * Bugs introduced by 1.8:
453 - Fix Config.pm import error with old Perl versions (at least
454 5.005_03). One symptom is that aclocal could not find its macro
457 - Automake 1.8 used `mkdir -m 0755 -p --' to ensure that directories
458 created by `make install' are always world readable, even if the
459 installer happens to have an overly restrictive umask (e.g. 077).
460 This was a mistake and has been reverted. There are at least two
461 reasons why we must not use `-m 0755':
462 - it causes special bits like SGID to be ignored,
463 - it may be too restrictive (some setups expect 775 directories).
465 - Fix aclocal to honor definitions located in files which have been
466 m4_included manually. aclocal 1.8 had been updated to check
467 m4_included files for new requirements, but forgot that these
468 m4_included files can also provide new definitions.
470 Note that if you have such a setup, we recommend you get rid of
471 it. In the past, there was a reason to m4_include files manually:
472 aclocal used to duplicate entire M4 files into aclocal.m4, even
473 files that were distributed. Some packages were therefore
474 m4_including the distributed file directly, and playing some
475 tricks to ensure aclocal would not copy that file to aclocal.m4,
476 in order to limit the amount of duplication. Since aclocal 1.8.x
477 will precisely output m4_includes for local M4 files, we recommend
478 that you clean up your setup, removing all manual m4_includes and
479 letting aclocal output them.
481 - Output detailed menus in the Info version if the Automake manual,
482 so that Emacs can locate the indexes.
484 - configure.ac and configure were listed twice in DIST_COMMON (an
485 internal variable where Automake lists configury files to
486 distribute). This was harmless, but unaesthetic.
488 - Use `chmod a-w' instead of `chmod -w' as the latter honors umask.
489 This was an issue only in the Automake package itself, not in
492 - Automake assumed that all AC_CONFIG_LINKS arguments had the form
493 DEST:SRC. This was wrong, as some packages do
494 AC_CONFIG_LINKS($computedlinks). This version no longer abort in
497 - Contrary to mkinstalldirs, $(mkdir_p) was expecting exactly one
498 argument. This caused two kinds of failures:
499 - Rules installing data in a conditionally defined directory
500 failed when that directory was undefined. In this case no
501 argument was supplied.
502 - `make installdirs' failed, because several directories were
503 passed to $(mkdir_p). This was an issue only on platform
504 were $(mkdir_p) is implemented with `install-sh -d'.
505 $(mkdir_p) as been changed to accept 0 or more arguments, as
508 * Long-standing bugs:
510 - Fix an unexpected diagnostic occurring when users attempt
511 to override some internal variables that Automake appends to.
513 - aclocal now scans configure.ac for macro definitions (PR/319).
515 - Fix a portability issue with OSF1/Tru64 Make. If a directory
516 distributes files which are outside itself (this usually occurs
517 when using AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([../dir]) to use auxiliary files
518 from a parent package), then `make distcheck' fails due to an
519 optimization performed by OSF1/Tru64 Make in its VPATH handling.
520 (tests/subpkg2.test failure)
522 - Fix another portability issue with Sun and OSF1/Tru64 Make.
523 In a VPATH-build configuration, `make install' would install
524 nobase_ files to wrong locations.
526 - Fix a Perl `uninitialized value' diagnostic occurring when
527 automake complains that a Texinfo file does not have a
528 @setfilename statement.
530 - Erase config.status.lineno during `make distclean'. This file
531 can be created by config.status. Automake already knew about
532 configure.lineno, but forgot config.status.lineno.
534 - Distribute all files, even those which are built and installed
535 conditionally. This change affects files listed in conditionally
536 defined *_HEADERS and *_PYTHON variable (unless they are nodist_*)
537 as well as those listed in conditionally defined dist_*_DATA,
538 dist_*_JAVA, dist_*_LISP, and dist_*_SCRIPTS variables.
540 - Fix AM_PATH_LISPDIR to avoid \? in sed regular expressions; it
541 doesn't conform to POSIX.
543 - Normalize help strings for configure variables and options added
548 - Check for python2.4 in AM_PATH_PYTHON.
550 * Spurious failures in test suite:
552 - tests/libtool5.test, tests/ltcond.test, tests/ltcond2.test,
553 tests/ltconv.test: fix failures with CVS Libtool.
554 - tests/aclocal6.test: fix failure if autom4te.cache is disabled.
555 - tests/txinfo24.test, tests/txinfo25.test, tests/txinfo28.test:
556 fix failures with old Texinfo versions.
562 - The NEWS file is more verbose.
566 - Autoconf 2.58 or greater is required.
570 - Default source file names in the absence of a _SOURCES declaration
571 are made by removing any target extension before appending `.c', so
572 to make the libtool module `foo.la' from `foo.c', you only need to
575 lib_LTLIBRARIES = foo.la
576 foo_la_LDFLAGS = -module
578 For backward compatibility, foo_la.c will be used instead of
579 foo.c if this file exists or is the explicit target of a rule.
580 However -Wobsolete will warn about this deprecated naming.
582 - AR's `cru' flags are now set in a global ARFLAGS variable instead
583 of being hard-coded in each $(AR) invocation, so they can be
584 substituted from configure.ac. This has been requested by people
585 dealing with non-POSIX ar implementations.
587 - New warning option: -Woverride. This will warn about any user
588 target or variable definitions which override Automake
591 - Texinfo rules back up and restore info files when makeinfo fails.
593 - Texinfo rules now support the `html' target.
594 Running this requires Texinfo 4.0 or greater.
596 `html' is a new recursive target, so if your package mixes
597 hand-crafted `Makefile.in's with Automake-generated
598 `Makefile.in's, you should adjust the former to support (or
599 ignore) this target so that `make html' recurses successfully. If
600 you had a custom `html' rule in your `Makefile.am', it's better to
601 rename it as `html-local', otherwise your rule will override
602 Automake's new rule (you can check that by running `automake
603 -Woverride') and that will stop the recursion to subdirectories.
605 Last but not least, this `html' rule is declared PHONY, even when
606 overridden. Fortunately, it appears that few packages use a
607 non-PHONY `html' rule.
609 - Any file which is m4_included from configure.ac will appear as a
610 configure and Makefile.in dependency, and will be automatically
613 - The rules for rebuilding Makefiles and Makefile.ins will now
614 rebuild all Makefiles and all Makefile.ins at once when one of
615 configure's dependencies has changed. This is considerably faster
616 than previous implementations, where config.status and automake
617 were run separately in each directory (this still happens when you
618 change a Makefile.am locally, without touching configure.ac or
619 friends). Doing this also solves a longstanding issue: these
620 rebuild rules failed to work when adding new directories to the
621 tree, forcing you to run automake manually.
623 - For similar reasons, the rules to rebuild configure,
624 config.status, and aclocal.m4 are now defined in all directories.
625 Note that if you were using the CONFIG_STATUS_DEPENDENCIES and
626 CONFIGURE_DEPENDENCIES (formerly undocumented) variables, you
627 should better define them in all directories. This is easily done
628 using an AC_SUBST (make sure you prefix these dependencies with
629 $(top_srcdir) since this variable will appear at different
630 levels of the build tree).
632 - aclocal will now use `m4_include' instead of copying local m4
633 files into aclocal.m4. (Local m4 files are those you ship with
634 your project, other files will be copied as usual.)
636 Because m4_included files are automatically distributed, it means
637 for most projects there is no point in EXTRA_DISTing the list of
638 m4 files which are used. (You can probably get rid of
639 m4/Makefile.am if you had one.)
641 - aclocal will avoid touching aclocal.m4 when possible, so that
642 Autom4te's cache isn't needlessly invalidated. This behavior can
643 be switched off with the new `--force' option.
645 - aclocal now uses Autoconf's --trace to detect macros which are
646 actually used and will no longer include unused macros simply
647 because they where mentioned. This was often the case for macros
648 called conditionally.
650 - New options no-dist and no-dist-gzip.
652 - compile, depcomp, elisp-comp, install-sh, mdate-sh, mkinstalldirs,
653 py-compile, and ylwrap, now all understand --version and --help.
655 - Automake will now recognize AC_CONFIG_LINKS so far as removing created
656 links as part of the distclean target and including source files in
659 - AM_PATH_PYTHON now supports ACTION-IF-FOUND and ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND
660 argument. The latter can be used to override the default behavior
663 - Automake will exit with $? = 63 on version mismatch. (So does
664 Autoconf 2.58) missing knows this, and in this case it will
665 emulate the tools as if they were absent. Because older versions
666 of Automake and Autoconf did not use this exit code, this change
667 will only be useful in projects generated with future versions of
670 - When using AC_CONFIG_FILES with multiple input files, Automake
671 generates the first ".in" input file for which a ".am" exists.
672 (Former versions would try to use only the first input file.)
674 - lisp_DATA is now allowed. If you are using the empty ELCFILES
675 idiom to disable byte-compilation of lisp_LISP files, it is
676 recommended that you switch to using lisp_DATA. Note that
677 this is not strictly equivalent: lisp_DATA will install elisp
678 files even if emacs is not installed, while *_LISP do not
679 install anything unless emacs is found.
681 - Makefiles will prefer `mkdir -p' over mkinstalldirs if it is
682 available. This selection is achieved through the Makefile
683 variable $(mkdir_p) that is set by AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE to either
684 `mkdir -m 0755 -p --', `$(mkinstalldirs) -m 0755', or
685 `$(install_sh) -m 0755 -d'.
689 - Because `mkdir -p' is available on most platforms, and we can use
690 `install-sh -d' when it is not, the use of the mkinstalldirs
691 script is being phased out. `automake --add-missing' no longer
692 installs it, and if you remove mkinstalldirs from your package,
693 automake will define $(mkinstalldirs) as an alias for $(mkdir_p).
695 Gettext 0.12.1 still requires mkinstalldirs. Fortunately
696 gettextize and autopoint will install it when needed. Automake
697 will continue to define the $(mkinstalldirs) and to distribute
698 mkinstalldirs when this script is in the source tree.
700 - AM_PROG_CC_STDC is now empty. The content of this macro was
701 merged in AC_PROG_CC. If your code uses $am_cv_prog_cc_stdc, you
702 should adjust it to use $ac_cv_prog_cc_stdc instead. (This
703 renaming should be safe, even if you have to support several,
704 versions of Automake, because AC_PROG_CC defines this variable
705 since Autoconf 2.54.)
707 - Some users where using the undocumented ACLOCAL_M4_SOURCES
708 variable to override the aclocal.m4 dependencies computed
709 (inaccurately) by older versions of Automake. Because Automake
710 now tracks configure's m4 dependencies accurately (see m4_include
711 above), the use of ACLOCAL_M4_SOURCES should be considered
712 obsolete and will be flagged as such when running `automake
717 - Defining programs conditionally using Automake conditionals no
718 longer leads to a combinatorial explosion. The following
719 construct used to be troublesome when used with dozens of
734 Likewise for _SOURCES, _LDADD, and _LIBADD variables.
736 - Due to implementation constraints, previous versions of Automake
737 proscribed multiple conditional definitions of some variables
747 All _PROGRAMS, _LDADD, and _LIBADD variables were affected.
748 This restriction has been lifted, and these variables now
749 support multiple conditional definitions as do other variables.
751 - Cleanup the definitions of $(distdir) and $(top_distdir).
752 $(top_distdir) now points to the root of the distribution
753 directory created during `make dist', as it did in Automake 1.4,
754 not to the root of the build tree as it did in intervening
755 versions. Furthermore these two variables are now only defined in
756 the top level Makefile, and passed to sub-directories when running
759 - The --no-force option now correctly checks the Makefile.in's
760 dependencies before deciding not to update it.
762 - Do not assume that make files are called Makefile in cleaning rules.
764 - Update .info files in the source tree, not in the build tree. This
765 is what the GNU Coding Standard recommend. Only Automake 1.7.x
766 used to update these files in the build tree (previous versions did
767 it in the source tree too), and it caused several problems, varying
768 from mere annoyance to portability issues.
770 - COPYING, COPYING.LIB, and COPYING.LESSER are no longer overwritten
771 when --add-missing and --force-missing are used. For backward
772 compatibility --add-missing will continue to install COPYING (in
773 `gnu' strictness) when none of these three files exist, but this
774 use is deprecated: you should better choose a license yourself and
775 install it once for all in your source tree (and in your code
778 - Fix ylwrap so that it does not overwrite header files that haven't
779 changed, as the inline rule already does.
781 - User-defined rules override automake-defined rules for the same
782 targets, even when rules do not have commands. This is not new
783 (and was documented), however some of the automake-generated
784 rules have escaped this principle in former Automake versions.
785 Rules for the following targets are affected by this fix:
787 clean, clean-am, dist-all, distclean, distclean-am, dvi, dvi-am,
788 info, info-am, install-data-am, install-exec-am, install-info,
789 install-info-am, install-man, installcheck-am, maintainer-clean,
790 maintainer-clean-am, mostlyclean, mostlyclean-am, pdf, pdf-am,
791 ps, ps-am, uninstall-am, uninstall-info, uninstall-man
793 Practically it means that an attempt to supplement the dependencies
794 of some target, as in
798 will now *silently override* the automake definition of the
799 rule for this target. Running `automake -Woverride' will diagnose
800 all such overriding definitions.
802 It should be noted that almost all these targets support a *-local
803 variant that is meant to supplement the automake-defined rule
804 (See node `Extending' in the manual). The above rule should
807 clean-local: my-clean-rule
809 These *-local targets have been documented since at least
810 Automake 1.2, so you should not fear the change if you have
811 to support multiple automake versions.
815 - The Automake manual is now distributed under the terms of the GNU FDL.
817 - Targets dist-gzip, dist-bzip2, dist-tarZ, dist-zip are always defined.
819 - core dumps are no longer removed by the cleaning rules. There are
820 at least three reasons for this:
821 1. These files should not be created by any build step,
822 so their removal do not fit any of the cleaning rules.
823 Actually, they may be precious to the developer.
824 2. If such file is created during a build, then it's clearly a
825 bug Automake should not hide. Not removing the file will
826 cause `make distcheck' to complain about its presence.
827 3. Operating systems have different naming conventions for
828 core dump files. A core file on one system might be a
829 completely legitimate data file on another system.
831 - RUNTESTFLAGS, CTAGSFLAGS, ETAGSFLAGS, JAVACFLAGS are no longer
832 defined by Automake. This means that any definition in the
833 environment will be used, unless overridden in the Makefile.am or
834 on the command line. The old behavior, where these variables were
835 defined empty in each Makefile, can be obtained by AC_SUBSTing or
836 AC_ARG_VARing each variable from configure.ac.
838 - CONFIGURE_DEPENDENCIES and CONFIG_STATUS_DEPENDENCIES are now
839 documented. (The is not a new feature, these variables have
840 been there since at least Automake 1.4.)
843 * Fix install-strip to work with nobase_ binaries.
844 * Fix renaming of #line directives in ylwrap.
845 * Rebuild with Autoconf 2.59. (1.7.8 was not installable with pdksh.)
848 * Remove spurious blank lines in cleaning rules introduced in 1.7.7.
849 * Fix detection of Debian's install-info, broken since version 1.5.
850 (Debian bug #213524).
851 * Honor -module if it appears in AM_LDFLAGS (i.e., relax name checking)
852 This was only done for libfoo_LDFLAGS and LDFLAGS in previous versions.
855 * The implementation of automake's --no-force option is unreliable,
856 so this option is ignored in this version. A real fix will appear in
857 Automake 1.8. (Debian Bug #206299)
858 * AM_PATH_PYTHON: really check the whole list of interpreters if no
859 argument is given. (PR/399)
860 * Do not warn about leading `_' in variable names, even with -Wportability.
861 * Support user redefinitions of TEXINFO_TEX.
862 * depcomp: support AIX Compiler version 6.
863 * Fix missing rebuilds during `make dist' with BSD make.
864 (Could produce tarballs containing out-of-date files.)
865 * Resurrect multilib support.
866 * Noteworthy manual updates:
867 - Extending aclocal: how to write m4 macros that won't trigger warnings
869 - A Shared Library: Rewrite and split into subsections.
872 * Fix depcomp's icc mode for ICC 7.1.
873 * Diagnose calls to AC_CONFIG_FILES and friends with not enough arguments.
874 * Fix maintainer-clean's removal of autom4te.cache in VPATH builds.
875 * Fix AM_PATH_LISPDIR to work with POSIXLY_CORRECT=1.
876 * Fix the location reported in some diagnostics related to AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
877 * Remove Latin-1 characters from elisp-comp.
878 * Update the manual's @dircategory to match the Free Software Directory.
881 * Update install-sh's license to remove an advertising clause.
883 * Fix a bug introduced in 1.7.4, related to BUILT_SOURCE handling,
884 that caused invalid Makefile.ins to be generated.
885 * Make sure AM_MAKE_INCLUDE doesn't fail when a `doit' file exists.
886 * New FAQ entry: renamed objects.
889 * Tweak the TAGS rule to support Exuberant Ctags (in addition to
890 the Emacs implementation)
891 * Fix output of aclocal.m4 dependencies in subdirectories.
892 * Use `mv -f' instead of `mv' in fastdep rules.
893 * Upgrade mdate-sh to work on OS/2.
894 * Don't byte-compile elisp files when ELCFILES is set empty.
895 (this documented feature was broken by 1.7.3)
896 * Diagnose trailing backslashes on last line of Makefile.am.
897 * Diagnose whitespace following trailing backslashes.
898 * Multiple tests are now correctly supported in DEJATOOL. (PR/388)
899 * Fix rebuilt rules for AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile:Makefile.in:Makefile.bot])
901 * `make install' will build `BUILT_SOURCES' first.
902 * Minor documentation fixes.
905 * Fix stamp files numbering (when using multiple AC_CONFIG_HEADERS).
906 * Query distutils for `pythondir' and `pythonexecdir', instead of
907 using an hardcoded path. This should allow builds on 64-bit
908 distributions that usually use lib64/ instead of lib/.
909 * AM_PATH_PYTHON will also search for python2.3.
910 * elisp files are now built all at once instead of one by one. Besides
911 incurring a speed-up, this is required to support interdependent elisp files.
913 - `make distcheck' will now work in `_inst/' and `_build' instead
914 of `=inst/' and `=build/'
915 - use `_dirstamp' when the file-system doesn't support `.dirstamp'
916 - install/uninstall `*.i[0-9][0-9]'-style info files
917 - more changes that affect only the Automake package (not its output)
918 * Fix some incompatibilities with upcoming perl-5.10.
919 * Properly quote AC_PACKAGE_TARNAME and AC_PACKAGE_VERSION when defining
922 - dashmstdout and dashXmstdout modes: don't use `-o /dev/null', this
923 is troublesome with gcc and Solaris compilers. (PR/385)
924 - makedepend mode: work with Libtool. (PR/385 too)
926 * better support for unusual gettext setups, such as multiple po/ directories
928 - Flag missing po/ and intl/ directories as warnings, not errors.
929 - Disable these warnings if po/ does not exist.
930 * Noteworthy manual updates:
932 - Document how AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR interacts with missing files.
934 - Document `AM_YFLAGS = -d'. (PR/382)
937 * Fix installation and uninstallation of Info files built in subdirectories.
938 * Do not run `./configure --with-included-gettext' during `make distcheck'
939 if AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external]) is used.
940 * Correctly uninstall renamed man pages.
941 * Do not strip escaped newline in variables defined in one condition
942 and augmented in another condition.
943 * Fix ansi2knr rules for LIBOBJS sources.
944 * Clean all known Texinfo index files, not only those which appear to
945 be used, because we cannot know wich indexes are used in included files.
946 (PR/375, Debian Bug #168671)
947 * Honor only the first @setfilename seen in a Texinfo file.
948 * Treat "required file X not found" diagnostics as errors (exit status 1).
949 * Don't complain that a required file is not found when it is a Makefile
951 * Don't use single suffix inference rules when building `.info'-less
952 Info files, for the sake of Solaris make.
953 * The `check' target now depends on `$(BUILT_SOURCES)'. (PR/359)
954 * Recognize multiple inference rules such as `.a.b .c.d:'. (PR/371)
955 * Warn about multiple inference rules when -Wportability is used. (PR/372)
956 * Fix building of deansified files from subdirectories. (PR/370)
957 * Add missing `fi' in the .c->.obj rules.
958 * Improve install-sh to work even when names contain spaces or certain
959 (but not all) shell metachars.
960 * Fix the following spurious failures in the test suite:
961 depcomp2.test, gnits2.test, gnits3.test, python3.test, texinfo13.test
962 * Noteworthy manual updates:
963 - Augment the section about BUILT_SOURCES.
964 - Mention that AM_PROG_CC_STDC is a relic that is better avoided today.
967 * Honor `ansi2knr' for files built in subdirectories, or using per-targets
969 * Aclocal should now recognize macro names containing parentheses, e.g.
970 AC_DEFUN([AC_LANG_PREPROC(Fortran 90)], [...]).
971 * Erase *.sum and *.log files created by DejaGnu, during `make distclean'.
973 * Install Python files even if they were built. (PR/369)
974 * Have stamp-vti dependent upon configure instead of configure.ac, as the
975 version might not be defined in the latter. (PR/358)
976 * Reorder arguments passed to a couple of commands, so things works
977 when POSIXLY_CORRECT=1.
978 * Fix a regex that can cause Perl to segfault on large input.
980 * Fix distribution of packages that have some sources defined conditionally,
981 as in the `Conditional compilation using Automake conditionals' example
983 * Fix spurious test suite failures on IRIX.
984 * Don't report a required variable as undefined if it has been
985 defined conditionally for the "right" conditions.
986 * Fix cleaning of the /tmp subdirectory used by `make distcheck', in case
987 `make distcheck' fails.
988 * Fix distribution of included Makefile fragment, so we don't create
989 spurious directories in the distribution. (PR/366)
990 * Don't complain that a target lacks `.$(EXEEXT)' when it has it.
993 * Autoconf 2.54 is required.
994 * `aclocal' and `automake' will no longer warn about obsolete
995 configure macros. This is done by `autoconf -Wobsolete'.
996 * AM_CONFIG_HEADER, AM_SYS_POSIX_TERMIOS and
997 AM_HEADER_TIOCGWINSZ_NEEDS_SYS_IOCTL are obsolete (although still
998 supported). You should use AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, AC_SYS_POSIX_TERMIOS,
999 and AC_HEADER_TIOCGWINSZ instead. `autoupdate' can upgrade
1000 `configure.ac' for you.
1001 * Support for per-program and per-library `_CPPFLAGS'.
1002 * New `ctags' target (builds CTAGS files).
1003 * Support for -Wmumble and -Wno-mumble, where mumble is a warning category
1004 (see `automake --help' or the manual for a list of them).
1005 * Honor the WARNINGS environment variable.
1006 * Omit the call to depcomp when using gcc3: call the compiler directly.
1007 * A new option, std-options, tests that programs support --help and --version
1008 when `make installcheck' is run. This is enabled by --gnits.
1009 * Texinfo rules now support the `ps' and `pdf' targets.
1010 * Info files are now created in the build directory, not the source directory.
1011 * info_TEXINFOS supports files in subdirectories (this requires Texinfo 4.1
1013 * `make distcheck' will enforce DESTDIR support by attempting
1015 * `+=' can be used in conditionals, even if the augmented variable
1016 was defined for another condition.
1017 * Makefile fragments (inserted with `include') are always distributed.
1018 * Use Autoconf's --trace interface to inspect configure.ac and get
1019 a more accurate view of it.
1020 * Add support for extending aclocal's default macro search path
1021 using a `dirlist' file within the aclocal directory.
1022 * automake --output-dir is deprecated.
1023 * The part of the distcheck target that checks whether uninstall actually
1024 removes all installed files has been moved in a separate target,
1025 distuninstallcheck, so it can be overridden easily.
1029 * Support for AM_INIT_GETTEXT([external])
1030 * Bug fixes, including:
1031 - Fix Automake's own `make install' so it works even if `ln' doesn't.
1032 - nobase_ programs and scripts honor --program-transform correctly.
1033 - Erase configure.lineno during `make distclean'.
1034 - Erase YACC and LEX outputs during `make maintainer-clean'.
1037 * Many bug fixes, including:
1038 - Requiring the current version works.
1039 - Fix "$@" portability issues (for Zsh).
1040 - Fix output of dummy dependency files in presence of post-processed
1042 - Don't compute dependencies in background to avoid races with libtool.
1043 - Fix handling of _OBJECTS variables for targets sharing source variables.
1044 - Check dependency mode for Java when AM_PROG_GCJ is used.
1047 * automake --output-dir is deprecated
1048 * Many bug fixes, including:
1049 - Don't choke on AM_LDFLAGS definitions.
1050 - Clean libtool objects from subdirectories.
1051 - Allow configure variables with reserved suffix and unknown prefix
1052 (e.g. AC_SUBST(mumble_LDFLAGS) when 'mumble' is not a target).
1053 - Fix the definition of AUTOMAKE and ACLOCAL in configure.
1056 * Autoconf 2.52 is required.
1057 * automake no longer run libtoolize.
1058 This is the job of autoreconf (from GNU Autoconf).
1059 * `dist' generates all the archive flavors, as did `dist-all'.
1060 * `dist-gzip' generates the Gzip tar file only.
1061 * Combining Automake Makefile conditionals no longer lead to a combinatorial
1062 explosion. Makefile.in's keep a reasonable size.
1063 * AM_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE, AM_FUNC_STRTOD, AM_FUNC_OBSTACK, AM_PTRDIFF_T
1064 are no longer shipped, since Autoconf 2.52 provides them (both as AM_
1066 * `#line' of Lex and Yacc files are properly set.
1067 * EXTRA_DIST can contain generated directories.
1068 * Support for dot-less extensions in suffix rules.
1069 * The part of the distcheck target that checks whether distclean actually
1070 cleans all built files has been moved in a separate target, distcleancheck,
1071 so it can be overridden easily.
1072 * `make distcheck' will pass additional options defined in
1073 $(DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS) to configure.
1074 * Fixed CDPATH portability problems, in particular for MacOS X.
1075 * Fixed handling of nobase_ targets.
1076 * Fixed support of implicit rules leading to .lo objects.
1077 * Fixed late inclusion of --add-missing files (e.g. depcomp) in DIST_COMMON
1078 * Added uninstall-hook target
1079 * `AC_INIT AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(tarname,version)' is an obsolete construct.
1080 You can now use `AC_INIT(pkgname,version) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' instead.
1081 (Note that "pkgname" is not "tarname", see the manual for details.)
1082 It is also possible to pass a list of global Automake options as
1083 first argument to this new form of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
1084 * Compiler-based assembler is now called `CCAS'; people expected `AS'
1085 to be a real assembler.
1086 * AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE will set STRIP itself when it needs it. Adding
1087 AC_CHECK_TOOL([STRIP], [strip]) manually is no longer required.
1088 * aclocal and automake are also installed with the version number
1089 appended, and some of the install directory names have changed.
1090 This lets you have multiple versions installed simultaneously.
1091 * Support for parsers and lexers in subdirectories.
1094 * Support for `configure.ac'.
1095 * Support for `else COND', `endif COND' and negated conditions `!COND'.
1096 * `make dist-all' is much faster.
1097 * Allows '@' AC_SUBSTs in macro names.
1098 * Faster AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (requires update of `missing' script)
1099 * User-side dependency tracking. Developers no longer need GNU make
1101 * Uses DIST_SUBDIRS in some situations when SUBDIRS is conditional
1102 * Most files are correctly handled if they appear in subdirs
1103 For instance, a _DATA file can appear in a subdir
1104 * GNU tar is no longer required for `make dist'
1105 * Added support for `dist_' and `nodist_' prefixes
1106 * Added support for `nobase_' prefix
1107 * Compiled Java support
1108 * Support for per-executable and per-library compilation flags
1112 * Added support for the Fortran 77 programming language.
1113 * Re-indexed the Automake Texinfo manual.
1114 * Added `AM_FOOFLAGS' variable for each compiler invocation;
1115 e.g. AM_CFLAGS can be used in Makefile.am to set C compiler flags
1116 * Support for latest autoconf, including support for objext
1117 * Can now put `.' in SUBDIRS to control build order
1118 * `include' command and `+=' support for macro assignment
1119 * Dependency tracking no long susceptible to deleted header file problem
1120 * Maintainer mode now a conditional. @MAINT@ is now an anachronism.
1125 * Better Cygwin32 support
1126 * Support for suffix rules with _SOURCES variables
1127 * New options `readme-alpha' and `check-news'; Gnits mode sets these
1128 * @LEXLIB@ no longer required when lex source seen
1129 Lex support in `missing', and new lex macro. Update your missing script.
1130 * Built-in support for assembly
1131 * aclocal gives error if `AM_' macro not found
1132 * Passed YFLAGS, not YACCFLAGS, to yacc
1133 * AM_PROG_CC_STDC does not have to come before AC_PROG_CPP
1134 * Dependencies computed as a side effect of compilation
1135 * Preliminary support for Java
1136 * DESTDIR support at "make install" time
1137 * Improved ansi2knr support; you must use the latest ansi2knr.c (included)
1141 * Better DejaGnu support
1142 * Added no-installinfo option
1143 * Added Emacs Lisp support
1144 * Added --no-force option
1145 * Included `aclocal' program
1146 * Automake will now generate rules to regenerate aclocal.m4, if appropriate
1147 * Now uses `AM_' macro names everywhere
1148 * ansi2knr option can have directory prefix (eg `../lib/ansi2knr')
1149 ansi2knr now works correctly on K&R sources
1150 * Better C++, yacc, lex support
1151 * Will compute _DEPENDENCIES variables automatically if not supplied
1152 * Will interpolate $(...) and ${...} when examining contents of a variable
1153 * .deps files now in build directory, not source directory; dependency
1154 handling generally rewritten
1155 * DATA, MANS and BUILT_SOURCES no longer included in distribution
1156 * can now put config.h into a subdir
1157 * Added dist-all target
1158 * Support for install-info program (see texinfo 3.9)
1159 * Support for "yacc -d"
1160 * configure substitutions are automatically discovered and included
1161 in generated Makefile.in
1162 * Special --cygnus mode
1163 * OMIT_DEPENDENCIES can now hold list of dependencies to be omitted
1164 when making distribution. Some dependencies are auto-ignored.
1165 * Changed how libraries are specified in _LIBRARIES variable
1166 * Full libtool support, from Gord Matzigkeit
1167 * No longer have to explicitly touch stamp-h when using AC_CONFIG_HEADER;
1168 AM_CONFIG_HEADER handles it automatically
1169 * Texinfo output files no longer need .info extension
1170 * Added `missing' support
1172 * Conditionals in Makefile.am, from Ian Taylor
1176 * distcheck target runs install and installcheck targets
1177 * Added preliminary support for DejaGnu.
1182 * More libtool fixes from Gord Matzigkeit; libtool support is still
1184 * Added support for jm_MAINTAINER_MODE
1186 * New "distcheck" target
1190 * mkinstalldirs and mdate-sh now appear in directory specified by
1192 * Removed DIST_SUBDIRS, DIST_OTHER
1193 * AC_ARG_PROGRAM only required when an actual program exists
1194 * dist-hook target now run before distribution packaged up; idea from
1195 Dieter Baron. Other hooks exist, too.
1196 * Preliminary (unfinished) support for libtool
1197 * Added short option names.
1198 * Better "dist" support when gluing together multiple packages
1202 * Documentation updates (many from François Pinard)
1203 * strictness `normal' now renamed to `foreign'
1204 * Renamed --install-missing to --add-missing
1205 * Now handles AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR
1206 * Now handles TESTS macro
1207 * DIST_OTHER renamed to EXTRA_DIST
1208 * DIST_SUBDIRS is deprecated
1209 * @ALLOCA@ and @LIBOBJS@ now work in _LDADD variables
1210 * Better error messages in many cases
1211 * Program names are canonicalized
1212 * Added "check" prefix; from Gord Matzigkeit
1216 * configure.in scanner knows about AC_PATH_XTRA, AC_OUTPUT ":" syntax
1217 * Beginnings of a test suite
1218 * Automatically adds -I options for $(srcdir), ".", and path to config.h
1219 * Doesn't print anything when running
1220 * Beginnings of MAINT_CHARSET support
1221 * Can specify version in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS
1222 * Most errors recognizable by Emacs' M-x next-error
1223 * Added --verbose option
1224 * All "primary" variables now obsolete; use EXTRA_PRIMARY to supply
1225 configure-generated names
1226 * Required macros now distributed in aclocal.m4
1228 * --strictness=gnu is default
1232 * More sophisticated configure.in scanning; now understands ALLOCA and
1233 LIBOBJS directly, handles AC_CONFIG_HEADER more precisely, etc.
1234 * TEXINFOS and MANS now obsolete; use info_TEXINFOS and man_MANS instead.
1235 * CONFIG_HEADER variable now obsolete
1236 * Can handle multiple Texinfo sources
1237 * Allow hierarchies deeper than 2. From Gord Matzigkeit.
1238 * HEADERS variable no longer needed; now can put .h files directly into
1239 foo_SOURCES variable.
1240 * Automake automatically rebuilds files listed in AC_OUTPUT. The
1241 corresponding ".in" files are included in the distribution.
1244 * Added --gnu and --gnits options
1245 * More standards checking
1247 * Cleaned up 'dist' targets
1248 * Added AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS variable and several options
1249 * Now scans configure.in to get some information (preliminary)
1252 * Works with Perl 4 again
1255 * Added --install-missing option.
1256 * Pretty-prints generated macros and rules
1257 * Comments in Makefile.am are placed more intelligently in Makefile.in
1258 * Generates .PHONY target
1259 * Rule or macro in Makefile.am now overrides contents of Automake file
1260 * Substantial cleanups from François Pinard
1264 * Works with Perl 4 again.
1267 * New uniform naming scheme.
1268 * --strictness option
1270 * '.c' files corresponding to '.y' or '.l' files are automatically
1272 * Many bug fixes and cleanups
1275 * Allow objects to be conditionally included in libraries via lib_LIBADD.
1278 * Bug fixes in 'clean' code.
1279 * Now generates 'installdirs' target.
1280 * man page installation reworked.
1281 * 'make dist' no longer re-creates all Makefile.in's.
1284 * Reimplemented in Perl
1285 * Added --amdir option (for debugging)
1286 * Texinfo support cleaned up.
1287 * Automatic de-ANSI-fication cleaned up.
1288 * Cleaned up 'clean' targets.
1291 * Automatic dependency tracking
1292 * More documentation
1293 * New variables DATA and PACKAGEDATA
1294 * SCRIPTS installed using $(INSTALL_SCRIPT)
1295 * No longer uses double-colon rules
1297 * Changes in advance of internationalization
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