We are pleased to announce the Automake 1.11.2b test release. It contains two new minor features (support for the creation of lzip-compressed distribution archives, and for the new variables EXTRA_foo_DEPENDENCIES), some new warnings meant to inform the users about upcoming backward-incompatibilities that will be introduced in the next major and minor versions, and some 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 1.11.2, as summarized by the NEWS file. Download here: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.11.2b.tar.gz ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.11.2b.tar.xz Please report bugs and problems to <bug-autom...@gnu.org>, and send general comments and feedback to <autom...@gnu.org>. Thanks to everyone who has reported problems, contributed patches, and helped testing Automake! -*-*-*- New in 1.11.2b: * WARNING: Future backward-incompatibilities! - The support for the "obscure" multilib feature has been deprecated, and will be moved out of the automake core in the next major Automake release (1.12). - The support for ".log -> .html" conversion and the check-html and recheck-html targets will be removed in the next major Automake release (1.12). - The obsolescent AM_WITH_REGEX macro has been deprecated (since the GNU rx library has been decommissioned), and will be removed in the next major Automake release (1.12). - The `lzma' compression format for distribution archives has been deprecated in favor of `xz' and `lzip', and will be removed in the next major Automake release (1.12). * Miscellaneous changes: - Automake's own build system is more silent by default, making use of the 'silent-rules' option. - The master copy of the `gnupload' script is now maintained in gnulib, not in automake. - The `missing' script don't try to wrap calls to `tar' anymore. - "make dist" doesn't wrap `tar' invocations with the `missing' script anymore. Similarly, the obsolescent variable `$(AMTAR)' (which you shouldn't be using BTW ;-) does not invoke the missing script anymore to wrap tar, but simply invokes the `tar' program itself. - "make dist" can now create lzip-compressed tarballs. - In the Automake info documentation, the Top node and the nodes about the invocation of the automake and aclocal programs have been renamed; now, calling "info automake" will open the Top node, while calling "info automake-invocation" and "info aclocal-invocation" will access the nodes about the invocation of respectively automake and aclocal. - Automake is now distributed as a gzip-compressed and an xz-compressed tarball. Previously, bzip2 was used instead of xz. - The last relics of Python 1.5 support have been removed from the AM_PATH_PYTHON macro. - For programs and libraries, automake now detects EXTRA_foo_DEPENDENCIES and adds them to the normal list of dependencies, but without overwriting the foo_DEPENDENCIES variable, which is normally computed by automake. Bugs fixed in 1.11.2a: * Bugs introduced by 1.11.2: - Automake now correctly recognizes the prefix/primary combination `pkglibexec_SCRIPTS' as valid. - The parallel-tests harness doesn't trip anymore on sed implementations with stricter limits on the length of input lines (problem seen at least on Solaris 8). * Long-standing bugs: - The "deleted header file problem" for *.am files is avoided by stub rules. This allows `make' to trigger a rerun of `automake' also if some previously needed `.am' file has been removed. - The `silent-rules' option now generates working makefiles even for the uncommon `make' implementations that do not support the nested-variables extension to POSIX 2008. For such `make' implementations, whether a build is silent is determined at configure time, and cannot be overridden at make time with `make V=0' or `make V=1'. - Vala support now works better in VPATH setups.
