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[PATCH 7/8] news: update w.r.t. recent vala changes
From: |
Stefano Lattarini |
Subject: |
[PATCH 7/8] news: update w.r.t. recent vala changes |
Date: |
Sat, 27 Oct 2012 09:22:44 +0200 |
* NEWS: Here.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden>
---
NEWS | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 1c8c401..6377234 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -61,6 +61,30 @@ New in 1.12.5:
giving more useful warnings than a bare "command not found" from a
make recipe would.
+* Vala support:
+
+ - The AM_PROG_VALAC macro has been enhanced to takes two further
+ optional arguments; it's signature now being
+
+ AM_PROG_VALAC([MINIMUM-VERSION], [ACTION-IF-FOUND],
+ [ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND])
+
+ - By default, AM_PROG_VALAC no longer aborts the configure invocation
+ if the Vala compiler found is too old, but simply prints a warning
+ messages (as it did when the Vala compiler was not found). This
+ should avoid unnecessary difficulties for end users that just want
+ to compile the unmodified, distributed Vala-generated C sources,
+ but happens to have an old Vala compiler in their PATH. This fixes
+ automake bug#12688.
+
+ - If no proper Vala compiler is found at configure runtime, AM_PROG_VALAC
+ will set the AC_SUBST'd variable 'VALAC' to 'valac' rather than to ':'.
+ This is a better default, because with it a triggered makefile rule
+ invoking a Vala compilation will clearly fail with an informative error
+ message like "valac: command not found", rather than silently, with
+ the error possibly going unnoticed or triggering harder-to-diagnose
+ fallout failures in later steps.
+
Bugs fixed in 1.12.5:
* Long-standing bugs:
--
1.8.0
- [PATCH 0/8] Vala support: some fixlets, improvements and tweaks, Stefano Lattarini, 2012/10/27
- [PATCH 1/8] vala: add action arguments, for when no proper vala compiler is found, Stefano Lattarini, 2012/10/27
- [PATCH 2/8] vala: style fixes in vala.m4, Stefano Lattarini, 2012/10/27
- [PATCH 3/8] tests: enhance tests on AM_PROG_VALAC, Stefano Lattarini, 2012/10/27
- [PATCH 4/8] docs: document recent changes to AM_PROG_VALAC, Stefano Lattarini, 2012/10/27
- [PATCH 5/8] vala: AM_PROG_VALAC should not produce an error for tool-old valac, Stefano Lattarini, 2012/10/27
- [PATCH 6/8] vala: if no proper compiler found, set $(VALAC) to 'valac', Stefano Lattarini, 2012/10/27
- [PATCH 7/8] news: update w.r.t. recent vala changes,
Stefano Lattarini <=
- [PATCH 8/8] vala: improve comments to AM_PROG_VALAC, Stefano Lattarini, 2012/10/27
- Re: [PATCH 0/8] Vala support: some fixlets, improvements and tweaks, Stefano Lattarini, 2012/10/31