Merge branch 'micro' into maint

* micro:
  NEWS: fix typos and grammaros
  NEWS: document fix for bug#14441
  Automake::Rule: consistently prepend underscore to private variables
  Automake::Rule: rename: suffix_rule() -> next_in_suffix_chain()
  Automake::Rule: adjust comments and POD according to previous changes
  Automake::Rule: make private variables lexically scoped
  suffix rules: better distinction between builtin and user-derived
  Automake::Rule: expose suffix rules as a function, not a scalar
  tests: expose automake bug#14441

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c867385d7..aba7a265e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ New in 1.13.3:
 
 * Documentation fixes:
 
-  - The documentation no longer mistakenly report that the obsolete
+  - The documentation no longer mistakenly reports that the obsolete
     'AM_MKDIR_PROG_P' macro and '$(mkdir_p)' make variable are going
     to be removed in Automake 2.0.
 
@@ -226,11 +226,21 @@ 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
     make it clear that they are not meant to be run directly; as
-    explained in t/README, the can only be run through the custom
+    explained in t/README, they can only be run through the custom
     'runtest' script, or by a "make check" invocation.
 
   - The testsuite has seen the introduction of a new helper function
@@ -254,14 +264,14 @@ New in 1.13.2:
 
   - The long-deprecated but still supported two-arguments invocation form
     of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is documented once again.  This seems the sanest
-    thing to do, given that support for such an usage might need to remain
-    in place for a unspecified amount of time in order to cater for people
+    thing to do, given that support for such usage might need to remain
+    in place for an unspecified amount of time in order to cater to people
     who want to define the version number for their package dynamically at
     configure runtime (unfortunately, Autoconf does not yet support this
     scenario, so we cannot delegate the work to it).
 
   - The serial testsuite harness is no longer reported as "deprecated",
-    but as "discouraged".  We have no plan to remove it, not to make its
+    but as "discouraged".  We have no plan to remove it, nor to make its
     use cause runtime warnings.
 
   - The parallel testsuite is no longer reported as "experimental"; it