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Article #508Automake 1.11.2 released
From: Stefano Lattarini
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:48
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:48
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We are pleased to announce the Automake 1.11.2 maintenance release.
It contains a few new minor features, some new warnings meant to inform
the users about backward-incompatibilities that will be introduced in the
next major and minor versions, and a bunch of bugfixes. This release is
almost backward-compatible with older versions, but for the fact that
some deprecated constructs and usages might now be flagged when `-Wall'
and/or `-Wobsolete' are in use.
See below for the detailed list of changes since automake 1.11.1, as
summarized by the NEWS file.
Download here:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.11.2.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.11.2.tar.bz2
Please report bugs and problems to <bug-automake@gnu.org>, and send
general comments and feedback to <automake@gnu.org>.
Thanks to everyone who has reported problems, contributed patches,
and helped testing Automake!
- -*-*-*-
New in 1.11.2:
* WARNING: Future backward-incompatibilities!
- The Automake support for automatic de-ANSI-fication will be removed in
the next major Automake release (1.12).
- The `--acdir' option of aclocal is deprecated, and will probably be
removed in the next major Automake release (1.12).
- The exact order in which the directories in the aclocal macro
search path are looked up is probably going to be changed in the
next Automake release (1.12).
- Starting from the next Automake release (1.12), warnings in the
`extra-portability' category will be enabled by `-Wall' (right now,
one has to use `-Wextra-portability' explicitly).
* Changes to aclocal:
- The `--acdir' option is deprecated. Now you should use the new options
`--automake-acdir' and `--system-acdir' instead.
- The `ACLOCAL_PATH' environment variable is now interpreted as a
colon-separated list of additional directories to search after the
automake internal acdir (by default ${prefix}/share/aclocal-APIVERSION)
and before the system acdir (by default ${prefix}/share/aclocal).
* Miscellaneous changes:
- The `lzma' compression scheme and associated automake option `dist-lzma'
is obsoleted by `xz' and `dist-xz' due to upstream changes.
- You may adjust the compression options used in dist-xz and dist-bzip2.
The default is now merely -e for xz, but still -9 for bzip; you may
specify a different level via the XZ_OPT and BZIP2 envvars respectively.
E.g., "make dist-xz XZ_OPT=-7" or "make dist-bzip2 BZIP2=-5"
- The `compile' script now converts some options for MSVC for a better
user experience. Similarly, the new `ar-lib' script wraps Microsoft lib.
- The py-compile script now accepts empty arguments passed to the options
`--destdir' and `--basedir', and complains about unrecognized options.
Moreover, a non-option argument or a special `--' argument terminates
the list of options.
- A developer that needs to pass specific flags to configure at "make
distcheck" time can now, and indeed is advised to, do so by defining
the developer-reserved makefile variable AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS,
instead of the old DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS.
The DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS variable should now be reserved for the
user; still, the old Makefile.am files that used to define it will
still continue to work as before.
- New macro AM_PROG_AR that looks for an archiver and wraps it in the new
'ar-lib' auxiliary script if the selected archiver is Microsoft lib.
This new macro is required for LIBRARIES and LTLIBRARIES when automake
is run with -Wextra-portability and -Werror.
- When using DejaGnu-based testsuites, the user can extend the `site.exp'
file generated by automake-provided rules by defining the special make
variable `$(EXTRA_DEJAGNU_SITE_CONFIG)'.
- The `install-info' rule can now be instructed not to create/update
the `${infodir}/dir' file, by exporting the new environment variable
`AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR' to the value "no".
Bugs fixed in 1.11.2:
* Bugs introduced by 1.11:
- The parallel-tests driver no longer produces erroneous results with
Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh upon unreadable log files.
- The `parallel-tests' test driver does not report spurious successes
when used with concurrent FreeBSD make (e.g., "make check -j3").
- When the parallel-tests driver is in use, automake now explicitly
rejects invalid entries and conditional contents in TEST_EXTENSIONS,
instead of issuing confusing and apparently unrelated error messages
(e.g., "non-POSIX variable name", "bad characters in variable name",
or "redefinition of TEST_EXTENSIONS), or even, in some situations,
silently producing broken `Makefile.in' files.
- The `silent-rules' option now truly silences all compile rules, even
when dependency tracking is disabled. Also, when `silent-rules' is
not used, `make' output no longer contains spurious backslash-only
lines, thus once again matching what Automake did before 1.11.
- The AM_COND_IF macro also works if the shell expression for the
conditional is no longer valid for the condition.
* Long-standing bugs:
- The order of Yacc and Lex flags is fixed to be consistent with other
languages: $(AM_YFLAGS) comes before $(YFLAGS), and $(AM_LFLAGS) before
$(LFLAGS), so that the user variables override the developer variables.
- "make distcheck" now correctly complains also when "make uninstall"
leaves one and only one file installed in $(prefix).
- A "make uninstall" issued before a "make install", or after a mere
"make install-data" or a mere "make install-exec" does not spuriously
fail anymore.
- Automake now warns about more primary/directory invalid combinations,
such as "doc_LIBRARIES" or "pkglib_PROGRAMS".
- Rules generated by Automake now try harder to not change any files when
`make -n' is invoked. Fixes include compilation of Emacs Lisp, Vala, or
Yacc source files and the rule to update config.h.
- Several scripts and the parallel-tests testsuite driver now exit with
the right exit status upon receiving a signal.
- A per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror does not erroneously carry over
to the handling of other Makefile.am files.
- The code for automatic dependency tracking works around a Solaris
make bug triggered by sources containing repeated slashes when the
`subdir-objects' option was used.
- The makedepend and hp depmodes now work better with VPATH builds.
- Java sources specified with check_JAVA are no longer compiled for
"make all", but only for "make check".
- An usage like "java_JAVA = foo.java" will now cause Automake to warn
and error out if `javadir' is undefined, instead of silently producing
a broken Makefile.in.
- aclocal and automake now honour the configure-time definitions of
AUTOCONF and AUTOM4TE when they spawn autoconf or autom4te processes.
- The `install-info' recipe no longer tries to guess whether the
`install-info' program is from Debian or from GNU, and adaptively
change its behaviour; this has proven to be frail and easy to
regress.
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