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| author | Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> | 2013-10-30 01:04:04 +0000 |
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| committer | Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> | 2013-10-30 01:04:04 +0000 |
| commit | 82216ce83ba3cdf3572b58e4d9e84886ab02d22d (patch) | |
| tree | 63f66607b3d47bac7d8bf2148c9a583335e643de /NEWS | |
| parent | c0d7b263f438f192852159bfd7e482ad348cef8f (diff) | |
| parent | 8a310a5fa5a908cf8771e44431e5743fb0e8b026 (diff) | |
| download | automake-82216ce83ba3cdf3572b58e4d9e84886ab02d22d.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'micro' into minor
* micro:
tests: fix spurious failure when zip is present but unzip is not
tests: fix spurious failure due to localization issues
NEWS: update with the changes since v1.14
docs: correct typos in the fix-timestamp.sh script
python: byte-compile nobase_*_PYTHON files only once
cosmetics: typofix in the 'missing' script
test: avoid false positives in 'cc-no-c-o' script
test harness: improve catching of usage errors in script 'test-driver'
tests: fix a spurious failure on NetBSD-current
am-ft: make the environment available earlier
NEWS: post-release tweaks (for 1.14.x series)
tests: avoid a spurious failure on MacOS X 10.6.8
tests: don't risk hanging on the 'cl' requirement
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 32 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -31,12 +31,9 @@ - According to this new scheme, the next major version of Automake (the one that had previously been labelled as "1.14") will actually - become "Automake 2.0". Automake 1.14 is *this* release (which is - a minor one). It introduces new features, deprecations and bug - fixes, but no serious backward incompatibility. A partial exception - is given by the behavioural changes in the AM_PROG_CC_C_O macro - (described in details below) but such changes can also be seen as a - fix for the old suboptimal and somewhat confusing behaviour. + become "Automake 2.0". Automake 1.14 has already been released as + the last minor release, and the present one is a bug-fixing release + following up on that one. - See discussion about automake bug#13578 for more details and background: <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13578> @@ -107,6 +104,29 @@ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +New in 1.14.1: + +* Bugs fixed: + + - Fixed a gross inefficiency in the recipes for installing byte-compiled + python files, that was causing an O(N^2) performance on the number N of + files, instead of the expected O(N) performance. Note that this bug + was only relevant when the number of python files was high (which is + unusual in practice). + + - The 'test-driver' script now actually error out with a clear error + message on the most common invalid usages. + + - Several spurious failures/hangs in the testsuite (bugs #14706, #14707, + #14760, #14911, #15181, #15237). + +* Documentation fixes: + + - Fixed typos in the 'fix-timestamp.sh' example script that made it + nonsensical. + +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + New in 1.14: * C compilation, and the AC_PROG_CC and AM_PROG_CC_C_O macros: |