Merge branch 'micro' into minor

* micro:
  cleanup: refactor code to initialize DIST_COMMON
  dist: ordering of files in DIST_COMMON is deterministic now
  tests: refactor some tests on DIST_COMMON
  maint: make output of 'gen-testsuite-part' deterministic
  When computing lispdir, don't load emacs site wide init file.
  PATH: quote $(PATH_SEPARATOR) as well
  Improve detection of GNU make, avoiding "Arg list too long" errors.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2e7f31fda..4d451fc2c 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -111,6 +111,15 @@ New in 1.15:
   - We no longer risk to use '$ac_aux_dir' before it's defined (see
     automake bug#15981). Bug introduced in Automake 1.14.
 
+  - The code used to detect whether the currently used make is GNU make
+    or not (relying on the private macro 'am__is_gnu_make') no longer
+    risks causing "Arg list too long" for projects using automatic
+    dependency tracking and having a ton of source files (bug#18744).
+
+  - Automake tries to offer a more deterministic output for generated
+    Makefiles, in the face of the newly-introduced randomization for
+    hash keys order in Perl 5.18.
+
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 New in 1.14.1:
@@ -126,7 +135,7 @@ New in 1.14.1:
     was only relevant when the number of python files was high (which is
     unusual in practice).
 
-  - Automake try to offer a more reproducible output for warning messages,
+  - Automake try to offer a more deterministic output for warning messages,
     in the face of the newly-introduced randomization for hash keys order
     in Perl 5.18.