-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 We are pleased to announce the GNU Automake 1.12.6 maintenance release.
Python byte-compilation now supports the new layout mandated by PEP-3147, with its __pycache__ directory (this fixes automake bug#8847). Another minor bug, where to python modules were being installed in improper directories, has been fixed as well (automake bug#10227). In addition, some minor bugs in the Automake's own build system, as well as some spurious testsuite failures and other minor testsuite issues, have been fixed. See below for the detailed list of changes since the previous version, as summarized by the NEWS file. Download here: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.12.6.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.12.6.tar.xz Please report bugs and problems to <bug-autom...@gnu.org>, and send general comments and feedback to <automake@gnu.org>. Thanks to everyone who has reported problems, contributed patches, and helped testing Automake! - -*-*-*- New in 1.12.6: * WARNING: Future backward-incompatibilities! - Future versions of Automake will likely drop support for the long-deprecated 'configure.in' name for the Autoconf input file. You are advised to use the recommended name 'configure.ac' instead. - Support for the "Cygnus-style" trees (as enabled by the 'cygnus' option) will be removed in the next major Automake release (1.13). - The long-obsolete (since automake 1.10) AM_PROG_MKDIR m4 macro will be removed in Automake 1.14. The $(mkdir_p) make variable and the @mkdir_p@ substitution will still remain available (as aliases of $(MKDIR_P)) for the moment, for better backward compatibility. - Autoconf 2.65 or later will be required by the next major Automake version (1.13). Until now, Automake has required Autoconf version 2.62 or later. - Starting from the next major Automake version (1.13), the rules to build pdf, ps and dvi output from Texinfo input will use the '--build-dir' option by default. Since such an option was only introduced in Texinfo 4.9, this means that Makefiles generated by future Automake versions will require at least that version of Texinfo. - Starting from the next major Automake version (1.13), the parallel testsuite harness (previously only enabled by the 'parallel-tests' option) will become the default one; the older serial testsuite harness will still be available through the use of the 'serial-tests' option. - The following long-obsolete m4 macros will be removed in the next major Automake version (1.13): AM_PROG_CC_STDC: superseded by AC_PROG_CC since October 2002 fp_PROG_CC_STDC: broken alias for AM_PROG_CC_STDC fp_WITH_DMALLOC: old alias for AM_WITH_DMALLOC AM_CONFIG_HEADER: superseded by AC_CONFIG_HEADERS since July 2002 ud_PATH_LISPDIR: old alias for AM_PATH_LISPDIR jm_MAINTAINER_MODE: old alias for AM_MAINTAINER_MODE ud_GNU_GETTEXT: old alias for AM_GNU_GETTEXT gm_PROG_LIBTOOL: old alias for AC_PROG_LIBTOOL fp_C_PROTOTYPES: old alias for AM_C_PROTOTYPES (which was part of the now-removed automatic de-ANSI-fication support of Automake) - All the "old alias" macros in 'm4/obsolete.m4' will be removed in the next major Automake version (1.13). - The '--acdir' option of aclocal is deprecated, and will probably be removed in the next major Automake release (1.13). You should use the options '--automake-acdir' and '--system-acdir' instead (which have been introduced in Automake 1.11.2). - The 'missing' script will no longer try to update the timestamp of out-of-date files that require a maintainer-specific tool to be remade, in case the user lacks such a tool (or has a too-old version of it). In fact, starting from Automake 1.13, all it'll do will be giving more useful warnings than a bare "command not found" from a make recipe would. Bugs fixed in 1.12.6: * Python-related bugs: - The default installation location for python modules has been improved for Python 3 on Debian and Ubuntu systems, changing from: ${prefix}/lib/python3/dist-packages to ${prefix}/lib/python3.x/site-packages This change should ensure modules installed using the default ${prefix} "/usr/local" are found by default by system python 3.x installations. See automake bug#10227. - Python byte-compilation supports the new layout mandated by PEP-3147, with its __pycache__ directory (automake bug#8847). * Build system issues: - The maintainer rebuild rules for Makefiles and aclocal.m4 in Automake's own build system works correctly again (bug introduced in Automake 1.12.5). * Testsuite issues: - The Vala-related tests has been changed to adjust to the removal of the 'posix' profile in the valac compiler. 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