Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <[email protected]>
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NEWS | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ab519c4..43da27d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -87,6 +87,16 @@ New in 1.13.3:
- Byte-compilation of Emacs lisp files could fail spuriously on Solaris,
when /bin/ksh or /usr/xpg4/bin/sh were used as shell.
+ - The same user-defined suffix being transformed into different
+ Automake-known suffixes in different Makefiles could confuse automake
+ and make it generate inconsistent Makefiles (automake bug#14441).
+ For example, if 'Makefile.am' contained a ".ext.cc:" suffix rule, and
+ 'sub/Makefile.am' contained a ".ext.c:" suffix rule, automake would
+ have mistakenly put into 'Makefile.in' rules to compile *.c files
+ into object files, and into 'sub/Makefile.in' rules to compile *.cc
+ files into object files --- rather than the other way around.
+ This is now fixed.
+
* Testsuite work:
- The test cases no longer have the executable bit set. This should
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1.8.3.rc3.8.g5e49f30
