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@@ -10,6 +10,26 @@ New in 2.0: and later will *unconditionally* behave as older Automake versions did when the 'subdir-objects' option was given. +* Texinfo support: + + - Automake used to implement an undocumented hack causing '.info' files + that appeared to be cleaned (by e.g. being listed in the CLEANFILES + variable) to also be built in the builddir rather than in the srcdir; + this was for backward compatibility with packages such as Texinfo, + which did things like: + + info_TEXINFOS = texinfo.txi info-stnd.texi info.texi + DISTCLEANFILES = texinfo texinfo-* info*.info* + # Do not create info files for distribution. + dist-info: + @: + + in order not to distribute .info files. + + Now that we have the 'info-in-builddir' option that explicitly causes + generated '.info' files to be placed in the builddir, this hack is no + longer necessary. We have thus removed\ it. + * Aclocal search path: - Third-party m4 files located in the system-wide aclocal directory, @@ -308,7 +328,7 @@ New in 1.14: Now that we have the 'info-in-builddir' option that explicitly causes generated '.info' files to be placed in the builddir, this hack should be longer necessary, so we deprecate it with runtime warnings. It will - likely be removed altogether in Automake 2.0. + be removed altogether in Automake 2.0. * Relative directory in Makefile fragments: |