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@@ -140,7 +140,14 @@ New in 2.0:
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-New in 1.16:
+New in ?.?.?:
+
+* Miscellaneous changes
+
+ - When subdir-objects is in effect, Automake will now construct
+ shorter object file names when no programs and libraries name
+ clashes are encountered. This should make the discouraged use of
+ 'foo_SHORTNAME' unnecessary in many cases.
* Bugs fixed:
@@ -181,15 +188,29 @@ New in 1.16:
This was the second part of automake bug#13928.
+ - Installed 'aclocal' m4 macros can now accept installation directories
+ containing '@' characters (automake bug#20903)
+
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New in 1.15.1:
+* Bugs fixed:
+
+ - The code has been adapted to remove a warning present since Perl
+ 5.22 stating that "Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated".
+ This warning has become an hard error in Perl 5.26 (bug#22372).
+
+ - The generated Makefiles do not rely on the obsolescent GZIP
+ environment variable which was used for passing arguments to
+ 'gzip'. Compatibility with old versions has been
+ preserved. (bug#20132)
+
* Miscellaneous changes:
- Support the Windows version of the Intel C Compiler (icl) in the
- 'compile' script in the same way the (compatible) Microsoft C Compiler
- is supported.
+ 'compile' script in the same way the (compatible) Microsoft C
+ Compiler is supported.
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