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[Automake-commit] [SCM] GNU Automake branch, maint, updated. v1.12.1-97-g6eefb0a |
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commit 6eefb0a0bcce8c474fe10e7d4e5ace0e2ce57253
Author: Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden>
Date: Tue Jul 3 10:43:31 2012 +0200
news: fixlets and updates
* NEWS: Here. In particular, report the change in 'missing'
semantics.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden>
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Summary of changes:
NEWS | 22 +++++++++++++++-------
1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 0b3004e..ee16961 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -10,11 +10,12 @@ New in 1.12.2:
version (1.13). Until now, Automake has required Autoconf version
2.62 or later.
- - Starting from the next major Automake version (1.13), the rules to
- build pdf, ps and dvi output from Texinfo input will use the '--tidy'
- option by default. Since such an option was introduced in Texinfo
- 4.9, this means that Makefiles generated by future Automake versions
- will require at least that version of Texinfo.
+ - Starting from the next major Automake version (1.13), the rules
+ to build pdf, ps and dvi output from Texinfo input will use the
+ '--build-dir' option by default. Since such an option was only
+ introduced in Texinfo 4.9, this means that Makefiles generated by
+ future Automake versions will require at least that version of
+ Texinfo.
- Starting from the next major Automake version (1.13), the parallel
testsuite harness (previously only enabled by the 'parallel-tests'
@@ -41,8 +42,8 @@ New in 1.12.2:
the next major Automake version (1.13).
- Support for the two- and three-arguments invocation forms of the
- AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macro will be deprecated in the next minor version
- of Automake (1.12.1) and removed in the next major version (1.13).
+ AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macro is deprecated, and will be removed in the
+ next major Automake version (1.13).
- The '--acdir' option of aclocal is deprecated, and will probably
be removed in the next major Automake release (1.13). You should
@@ -53,6 +54,13 @@ New in 1.12.2:
search path are looked up is probably going to be changed in the
next Automake release (1.13).
+ - The 'missing' script will not try anymore to update the timestamp
+ of out-of-date files that require a maintainer-specific tool to be
+ remade, in case the user lacks such a tool (or has a too-old version
+ of it). In fact, starting from Automake 1.13, all it'll do will be
+ giving more useful warnings than a bare "command not found" from a
+ make recipe would.
+
* Warnings and deprecations:
- Automake now issues a warning (in the 'portability' category) if
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