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@@ -1,11 +1,52 @@ -New in 1.11.0a: +New in 1.11a: + +* Changes to automake: + + - automake now generates silenced rules for texinfo outputs. + + - The deprecated options `--output-dir', `--Werror' and `--Wno-error' + have been removed. + +* New targets: + + - New `cscope' target to build a cscope database for the source tree. * Miscellaneous changes: + - The `dist' and `dist-all' targets now can run compressors in parallel. + - The `lzma' compression scheme and associated automake option `dist-lzma' is obsoleted by `xz' and `dist-xz' due to upstream changes. -Bugs fixed in 1.11.0a: + - "make dist" can now create lzip-compressed tarballs. + + - You may adjust the compression options used in dist-xz and dist-bzip2. + The default is still -9 for each, but you may specify a different + level via the XZ_OPT and BZIP2 envvars respectively. E.g., + "make dist-xz XZ_OPT=-7" or "make dist-xz BZIP2=-5" + + - Messages of types warning or error from `automake' and `aclocal' are now + prefixed with the respective type, and presence of -Werror is noted. + + - The `compile' script now converts some options for MSVC for a better + user experience. Similarly, the new `ar-lib' script wraps Microsoft lib. + + - Automake's early configure-time sanity check now tries to avoid sleeping + for a second, which slowed down cached configure runs noticeably. In that + case, it will check back at the end of the configure script to ensure that + at least one second has passed, to avoid time stamp issues with makefile + rules rerunning autotools programs. + + - For programs and libraries, automake now detects EXTRA_foo_DEPENDENCIES and + adds them to the normal list of dependencies, but without overwriting the + foo_DEPENDENCIES variable, which is normally computed by automake. + + - C source and header files derived from non-distributed Yacc sources are + now removed by "make clean", not only by "make maintainer-clean". + +Bugs fixed in 1.11a: + + - Lots of minor bugfixes. * Bugs introduced by 1.11: @@ -36,6 +77,11 @@ Bugs fixed in 1.11.0a: - AM_PROG_GCJ uses AC_CHECK_TOOLS to look for `gcj' now, so that prefixed tools are preferred in a cross-compile setup. + - The distribution is tarred up with mode 755 now by the `dist*' targets. + This fixes a race condition where untrusted users could modify files + in the $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION) distdir before packing if the toplevel + build directory was world-searchable. This is CVE-2009-4029. + - Several scripts as well as the parallel-tests testsuite driver now exit with the right exit status upon receiving a signal. @@ -54,6 +100,24 @@ Bugs fixed in 1.11.0a: make bug triggered by sources containing repeated slashes when the `subdir-objects' option was used. + - Automake now detects the presence of the `-d' flag in the various + `*YFLAGS' variables even when their definitions involve indirections + through other variables, such as in: + foo_opts = -d + AM_YFLAGS = $(foo_opts) + + - Automake now complains if a `*YFLAGS' variable has any conditional + content, not only a conditional definition. + + - Explicit enabling and/or disabling of Automake warning categories + through the `-W...' options now always takes precedence over the + implicit warning level implied by Automake strictness (foreign, gnu + or gnits), regardless of the order in which such strictness and + warning flags appear. For example, a setting like: + AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = -Wall --foreign + will cause the warnings in category `portability' to be enabled, even + if those warnings are by default disabled in `foreign' strictness. + - The parallel-tests driver now does not produce erroneous results with Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh upon unreadable log files any more. |