New in 1.8a:
-* Better support for Fortran 90/95 with the new "fc" and "ppfc" languages.
- Works the same as the old Fortran 77 implementation; just replace F77
- with FC everywhere (exception: FFLAGS becomes FCFLAGS). Requires a
- version of autoconf which provides AC_PROG_FC (>=2.59).
-
-* Libtool tags are used with libtool versions that support them.
- (I.e., with Libtool 1.5 or greater.)
-
-* Makefile.in bloat reduction.
+* Makefile.in bloat reduction:
- Inference rules are used to compile sources in subdirectories when
the `subdir-objects' option is used and no per-target flags are
the two .o and .obj rules for usual objects, or the .lo rule for
libtool objects.
-* Support for conditional _LISP.
+* Change to Libtool support:
-* Automake is now able to handle setups where a libtool library is
- conditionally installed in different directories, as in
+ - Libtool tags are used with libtool versions that support them.
+ (I.e., with Libtool 1.5 or greater.)
- if COND
- lib_LTLIBRARIES = liba.la
- else
- pkglib_LTLIBRARIES = liba.la
- endif
- liba_la_SOURCES = ...
+ - Automake is now able to handle setups where a libtool library is
+ conditionally installed in different directories, as in
+
+ if COND
+ lib_LTLIBRARIES = liba.la
+ else
+ pkglib_LTLIBRARIES = liba.la
+ endif
+ liba_la_SOURCES = ...
* Changes to aclocal:
project did not work, because gettext conditionally requires other
macros.
-* Diagnose AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR calls following AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE. (PR/49)
+* Portability improvement:
+
+ - Tar format can be chosen with the new options tar-v7, tar-ustar, and
+ tar-pax. The new option filename-length-max=99 helps diagnosing
+ filenames that are too long for tar-v7. (PR/414)
+
+ - Variables aumented with `+=' are now automatically flattened (i.e.,
+ trailing backslashes removed) and then wrapped around 80 colummns
+ (adding trailing backslashes). In previous versions, a long series
+ of
+ VAR += value1
+ VAR += value2
+ VAR += value3
+ ...
+ would result in a single-line definition of VAR that could possibly
+ exceed the maximum line length of some make implementations.
+
+ Non-augmented variables are still output as they are defined in
+ the Makefile.am.
+
+* Miscellaneous:
+
+ - Support Fortran 90/95 with the new "fc" and "ppfc" languages.
+ Works the same as the old Fortran 77 implementation; just replace
+ F77 with FC everywhere (exception: FFLAGS becomes FCFLAGS).
+ Requires a version of autoconf which provides AC_PROG_FC (>=2.59).
+
+ - Support for conditional _LISP.
+
+ - Diagnose AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR calls following AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE. (PR/49)
+
+ - Automake stops writing Makefile.ins as soons as it encounters an
+ error. (Warnings will not prevent output, but remember they can
+ be turned into errors with -Werror.)
+
+ - The restriction that SUBDIRS must contain direct children is gone.
+ Do not abuse.
+\f
+Bugs fixed in 1.8.5:
+
+* Long standing bugs:
+
+ - Define DIST_SUBDIRS even when the `no-dist' or `cygnus' options are used
+ so that `make distclean' and `make maintainer-clean' can work.
+
+ - Define AR and ARFLAGS even when only EXTRA_LIBRARIES are defined.
+
+ - Fix many rules to please FreeBSD make, which runs commands with `sh -e'.
+
+ - Polish diagnostic when no input file is found.
+\f
+Bugs fixed in 1.8.4:
+
+* Long standing bugs:
+
+ - Fix AM_PATH_PYTHON to correctly display $PYTHON when it has been
+ overridden by the user.
+
+ - Honor PATH_SEPARATOR in various places of the Automake package, for
+ the sake of OS/2.
+
+ - Adjust dependency tracking mode detection to ICC 8.0's new output.
+ (PR/416)
-* Tar format can be chosen with the new options tar-v7, tar-ustar, and
- tar-pax. The new option filename-length-max=99 helps diagnosing
- filenames that are too long for tar-v7. (PR/414)
+ - Fix install-sh so it can install the `mv' binary... using `mv'.
-* Variables aumented with `+=' are now automatically flattened (i.e.,
- trailing backslashes removed) and then wrapped around 80 colummns
- (adding trailing backslashes). In previous versions, a long series
- of
- VAR += value1
- VAR += value2
- VAR += value3
- ...
- would result in a single-line definition of VAR that could possibly
- exceed the maximum line length of some make implementations.
+ - Fix tru64 dependency tracking for libtool objects.
- Non-augmented variables are still output as they are defined in
- the Makefile.am.
+ - Work around Exuberant Ctags when creating a TAGS files in a directory
+ without files to scan but with subdirectories to include.
-* Automake stops writing Makefile.ins as soons as it encounters an error.
- (Warnings will not prevent output, but remember they can be turned into
- errors with -Werror.)
+* Bugs introduced by 1.8:
+ - Fix an "internal error" when @LIBOBJS@ is used in a variable that is
+ not defined in the same conditions as the _LDADD that uses it.
+
+ - Do not warn when JAVAROOT is overridden, this is legitimate.
+\f
+Bugs fixed in 1.8.3:
+
+* Long standing bugs:
+
+ - Quote filenames in installation rules, in case $DESTDIR, $prefix,
+ or any of the other *dir variables contain a space.
+
+ Please note that Automake does not and cannot support spaces in
+ filenames that are involved during the build. This change affects
+ only installation paths, so that `make install' does not bomb out
+ in packages configured with
+ ./configure --prefix '/c/Program Files'
+
+ - Fix the depfiles output so it works with GNU sed (<4.1) even when
+ POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.
+
+ - Do not AC_SUBST(LIBOBJS) in AM_WITH_REGEX. This macro was unusable
+ since Autoconf 2.54, which defines LIBOBJS itself.
+
+ - Fix a potential (but unlikely) race condition in parallel elisp
+ builds. (Introduced in 1.7.3.)
+
+ - Do not assume that users override _DEPENDENCIES in all conditions
+ where Automake will try to define them.
+
+ - Do not use `mkdir -p' in mkinstalldirs, unless this is GNU mkdir.
+ Solaris 8's `mkdir -p' is not thread-safe and can break parallel
+ builds.
+
+ This fix also affects the $(mkdir_p) variable defined since
+ Automake 1.8. It will be set to `mkdir -p' only if mkdir is GNU
+ mkdir, and to `mkinstalldirs' or `install-sh -d' otherwise.
+
+ - Secure temporary directory creation in `make distcheck'. (PR/413)
+
+ - Do not generate two build rules for `parser.h' when the
+ parser appears in two different conditionals.
+
+ - Work around a Solaris 8 /bin/sh bug in the test for dependency
+ checking. Usually ./configure will not pick this shell; so this
+ fix only helps cases where the shell is forced to /bin/sh.
+
+* Bugs introduced by 1.8:
+
+ - In some situations (hand-written `m4_include's), aclocal would
+ call the `File::Spec->rel2abs' method, which was only introduced
+ in Perl 5.6. This new version reestablish support Perl 5.005.
+
+ It is likely that the next major Automake releases will require at
+ least Perl 5.6. Consider upgrading your development environment
+ if you are still using the five-year-old Perl 5.005.
+
+ - Automake would sometimes fail to define rules for targets listed
+ in variables defined in multiple conditions. For instance on
+ if C1
+ bin_PROGRAMS = a
+ else
+ bin_PROGRAMS = b
+ endif
+ it would define only the `a.$(OBJEXT): a.c' rule and omit the
+ `b.$(OBJEXT): b.c' rule.
+
+* New sections in manual:
+
+ - Third-Party Makefiles: how to interface third party Makefiles.
+ - Upgrading: upgrading packages to newer Automake versions.
+ - Multiple Outputs: handling tools that produce many outputs.
+\f
+Bug fixed in 1.8.2:
+
+* A (well known) portability bug slipped in the changes made to
+ install-sh in Automake 1.8.1. The broken install-sh would refuse to
+ install anything on Tru64.
+
+* Fix install rules for conditionally built python files. (This never
+ really worked.)
+\f
+Bug fixed in 1.8.1:
+
+* Bugs introduced by 1.8:
+
+ - Fix Config.pm import error with old Perl versions (at least
+ 5.005_03). One symptom is that aclocal could not find its macro
+ directory.
+
+ - Automake 1.8 used `mkdir -m 0755 -p --' to ensure that directories
+ created by `make install' are always world readable, even if the
+ installer happens to have an overly restrictive umask (e.g. 077).
+ This was a mistake and has been reverted. There are at least two
+ reasons why we must not use `-m 0755':
+ - it causes special bits like SGID to be ignored,
+ - it may be too restrictive (some setups expect 775 directories).
+
+ - Fix aclocal to honor definitions located in files which have been
+ m4_included manually. aclocal 1.8 had been updated to check
+ m4_included files for new requirements, but forgot that these
+ m4_included files can also provide new definitions.
+
+ Note that if you have such a setup, we recommend you get rid of
+ it. In the past, there was a reason to m4_include files manually:
+ aclocal used to duplicate entire M4 files into aclocal.m4, even
+ files that were distributed. Some packages were therefore
+ m4_including the distributed file directly, and playing some
+ tricks to ensure aclocal would not copy that file to aclocal.m4,
+ in order to limit the amount of duplication. Since aclocal 1.8.x
+ will precisely output m4_includes for local M4 files, we recommend
+ that you clean up your setup, removing all manual m4_includes and
+ letting aclocal output them.
+
+ - Output detailed menus in the Info version if the Automake manual,
+ so that Emacs can locate the indexes.
+
+ - configure.ac and configure were listed twice in DIST_COMMON (an
+ internal variable where Automake lists configury files to
+ distribute). This was harmless, but unaesthetic.
+
+ - Use `chmod a-w' instead of `chmod -w' as the latter honors umask.
+ This was an issue only in the Automake package itself, not in
+ its output.
+
+ - Automake assumed that all AC_CONFIG_LINKS arguments had the form
+ DEST:SRC. This was wrong, as some packages do
+ AC_CONFIG_LINKS($computedlinks). This version no longer abort in
+ that situation.
+
+ - Contrary to mkinstalldirs, $(mkdir_p) was expecting exactly one
+ argument. This caused two kinds of failures:
+ - Rules installing data in a conditionally defined directory
+ failed when that directory was undefined. In this case no
+ argument was supplied.
+ - `make installdirs' failed, because several directories were
+ passed to $(mkdir_p). This was an issue only on platform
+ were $(mkdir_p) is implemented with `install-sh -d'.
+ $(mkdir_p) as been changed to accept 0 or more arguments, as
+ mkinstalldirs did.
+
+* Long-standing bugs:
+
+ - Fix an unexpected diagnostic occurring when users attempt
+ to override some internal variables that Automake appends to.
+
+ - aclocal now scans configure.ac for macro definitions (PR/319).
+
+ - Fix a portability issue with OSF1/Tru64 Make. If a directory
+ distributes files which are outside itself (this usually occurs
+ when using AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([../dir]) to use auxiliary files
+ from a parent package), then `make distcheck' fails due to an
+ optimization performed by OSF1/Tru64 Make in its VPATH handling.
+ (tests/subpkg2.test failure)
+
+ - Fix another portability issue with Sun and OSF1/Tru64 Make.
+ In a VPATH-build configuration, `make install' would install
+ nobase_ files to wrong locations.
+
+ - Fix a Perl `uninitialized value' diagnostic occurring when
+ automake complains that a Texinfo file does not have a
+ @setfilename statement.
+
+ - Erase config.status.lineno during `make distclean'. This file
+ can be created by config.status. Automake already knew about
+ configure.lineno, but forgot config.status.lineno.
+
+ - Distribute all files, even those which are built and installed
+ conditionally. This change affects files listed in conditionally
+ defined *_HEADERS and *_PYTHON variable (unless they are nodist_*)
+ as well as those listed in conditionally defined dist_*_DATA,
+ dist_*_JAVA, dist_*_LISP, and dist_*_SCRIPTS variables.
+
+ - Fix AM_PATH_LISPDIR to avoid \? in sed regular expressions; it
+ doesn't conform to POSIX.
+
+ - Normalize help strings for configure variables and options added
+ by Automake macros.
+
+* Anticipation:
+
+ - Check for python2.4 in AM_PATH_PYTHON.
+
+* Spurious failures in test suite:
+
+ - tests/libtool5.test, tests/ltcond.test, tests/ltcond2.test,
+ tests/ltconv.test: fix failures with CVS Libtool.
+ - tests/aclocal6.test: fix failure if autom4te.cache is disabled.
+ - tests/txinfo24.test, tests/txinfo25.test, tests/txinfo28.test:
+ fix failures with old Texinfo versions.
\f
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