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author | Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> | 2015-01-05 22:47:06 +0100 |
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committer | Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> | 2015-01-05 22:47:06 +0100 |
commit | b01fbe9ce27f7b1194c3748f4d4e5d12c4e90329 (patch) | |
tree | a3fa289d823eb7562c4dd162210ba124d3c62dc6 /NEWS | |
parent | 36812809ab75a07e5e8387986fc35a805d80fa36 (diff) | |
parent | bece0a2752b5456b76dfa7b5d807376eab266402 (diff) | |
download | automake-b01fbe9ce27f7b1194c3748f4d4e5d12c4e90329.tar.gz |
Merge branch 'minor'
* minor:
sync: update third-part files from upstream
maint: fix typo in error message of a maintainer-only rule
maint: bump version number 1.15 -> 1.15a ('minor' Git branch)
release: stable minor release 1.15
NEWS: minor improvements and fixed some typos and grammaros
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
-rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 38 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 19 deletions
@@ -113,8 +113,8 @@ New in 2.0: with the SGI C/C++ compilers on IRIX. The SGI depmode has been reported broken "in the wild" already, and we don't think investing time in debugging and fixing is worthwhile, especially considering - that SGI has last updated those compilers in 2006, and is expected - to retire support for them in December 2013: + that SGI has last updated those compilers in 2006, and retired + support for them in December 2013: <http://www.sgi.com/services/support/irix_mips_support.html> - Automake 2.0 will remove support for MS-DOS and Windows 95/98/ME @@ -151,24 +151,24 @@ New in 1.15: (3) the "set -f" and "set +f" shell commands work, and, respectively, disable and enable shell globbing. - - The script implements stricter error checking, an it will now complain - and bail out if: - (1) the options -d and -t are used together; - (2) the argument passed to option -t must be a directory; + - The script implements stricter error checking, and now it complains + and bails out if any of the following expectations is not met: + (1) the options -d and -t are never used together; + (2) the argument passed to option -t is a directory; (3) if there are two or more SOURCEFILE arguments, the DESTINATION argument must be a directory. * Automake-generated testsuites: - The default test-driver used by the Automake-generates testsuites - now append the result and exit status of each "plain" test to the + now appends the result and exit status of each "plain" test to the associated log file (automake bug#11814). - The perl implementation of the TAP testsuite driver is no longer installed in the Automake's scripts directory, and is instead just distributed as a "contrib" addition. There should be no reason to use this implementation anyway in real packages, since the awk+shell - implementation of the TAP driver (that is documented in the manual) + implementation of the TAP driver (which is documented in the manual) is more portable and has feature parity with the perl implementation. - The rule generating 'test-suite.log' no longer risk incurring in an @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ New in 1.15: * Distribution: - Automake bug#18286: "make distcheck" could sometimes fail to detect - missing files in the distribution tarball, especially in those cases + files missing from the distribution tarball, especially in those cases where both the generated files and their dependencies are explicitly in $(srcdir). An important example of this are *generated* makefile fragments included at Automake time in Makefile.am; e.g.: @@ -195,11 +195,11 @@ New in 1.15: - As a consequence of the previous change, "make distcheck" will run using '$(distdir)/_build/sub' as the build directory, rather than - simply '$(distdir)/_build' (as it was with Automake 1.14 and earlier). - Consequently, the './configure' and 'make' invocations issued by the - distcheck recipe will have $(srcdir) equal to '../..', rather than to - just '..' (as it was with Automake 1.14 and earlier). Dependent and - similar variables (e.g., top_srcdir) are also changed accordingly. + simply '$(distdir)/_build' (as it was the case for Automake 1.14 and + earlier). Consequently, the './configure' and 'make' invocations + issued by the distcheck recipe now have $(srcdir) equal to '../..', + rather than to just '..'. Dependent and similar variables (e.g., + '$(top_srcdir)') are also changed accordingly. Thus, Makefiles that made assumptions about the exact values of the build and source directories used by "make distcheck" will have to @@ -226,17 +226,17 @@ New in 1.15: hash keys order in Perl 5.18. - In older Automake versions, if a user defined one single Makefile - fragment (say 'foo.am') to be included (via Automake includes) in + fragment (say 'foo.am') to be included via Automake includes in his main Makefile.am, and defined a custom make rule to generate that - file from other data, Automake used to spuriously complain about with - something like "... overrides Automake target '$(srcdir)/foo.am". + file from other data, Automake used to spuriously complain with some + message like "... overrides Automake target '$(srcdir)/foo.am". This bug is now fixed. - The user can now extend the special .PRECIOUS target, the same way he could already do with the .MAKE .and .PHONY targets. - - Fixed confusing typos in the manual and in some warning messages - (automake bug#16827 and bug#16997). + - Some confusing typos have been fixed in the manual and in few warning + messages (automake bug#16827 and bug#16997). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |