-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 We are pleased to announce the GNU Automake 1.13.1 maintenance release.
This is a bug-fixing release, partly remedying to the too-abrupt removal on our part of some long-obsoleted macros which were however still used "in the wild": AM_CONFIG_HEADER and (to a much lesser degree) AM_PROG_CC_STDC. Now the use of these obsolete macros elicit clear and helpful error messages, rather than obscure failures that give no hint about to the reason behind them. You can download the new release here: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.13.1.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.13.1.tar.xz Please report bugs and problems to <bug-autom...@gnu.org>, and send general comments and feedback to <automake@gnu.org>. Below we also report, once again, the list of planned future backward incompatibilities, for which Automake clients should begin to prepare ASAP (albeit such incompatibilities will likely not be introduced for several months to come). Thanks to everyone who has reported problems, contributed patches, and helped testing Automake! - -*-*-*- * WARNING: Future backward-incompatibilities! - - Automake 1.14 will require Autoconf 2.70 or later (which is still unreleased at the moment of writing, but is planned to be released in a few days, and certainly before Automake 1.14 is). - - Automake 1.14 will drop support for the long-deprecated 'configure.in' name for the Autoconf input file. You are advised to start using the recommended name 'configure.ac' instead, ASAP. - - 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; but you are advised to stop using ASAP. - - The ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS special make variable will be fully deprecated in Automake 1.14 (where it will raise warnings in the "obsolete" category). You are advised to start relying on the new Automake support for AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS instead (which was introduced in the 1.13 release). - - Support for IRIX and the SGI C/C++ compilers will be removed in Automake 1.14: they have seen their last release in 2006, and SGI is expected to retire support from them in December 2013; see <http://www.sgi.com/services/support/irix_mips_support.html> for more information. - - Future versions of Automake might remove support for MS-DOS and Windows 95/98/ME (support for them was offered by relying on the DJGPP project). Note however that both Cygwin and MSYS/MinGW on modern Windows versions will continue to be fully supported. - - Support for the long-deprecated INCLUDES variable will be removed altogether in Automake 1.14. The AM_CPPFLAGS variable should be used instead. - - Automake-provided scripts and makefile recipes might (finally!) start assuming a POSIX shell in Automake 1.14. - - Starting from Automake 1.14, third-party m4 files located in the system-wide aclocal directory, as well as in any directory listed in the ACLOCAL_PATH environment variable, will take precedence over "built-in" Automake macros. For example (assuming Automake is installed in the /usr/local hierarchy), a definition of the AM_PROG_VALAC macro found in '/usr/local/share/aclocal/my-vala.m4' should take precedence over the same-named automake-provided macro (defined in '/usr/local/share/aclocal-1.14/vala.m4'). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQ4t5AAAoJEPyBjhdCn5bqNd8P/2EMWDsmPWJFzn0azpmWKSPC 1NMWOLR4kCbaOjnSOQKCbVgUxVsV6MQBHGUY/6r7MK46EaKFkQEI1KutMK9mveaa CiqE+rE/Gg8ex+rfX3Svnu+RhBM/NT2+1AlxvAWOxP2IQEdR75+KJx/p/3/Y6DPM uq1rPu8U+xhSDaGCjS6NH7i9LQy7/DmW0K/W34a0og3yV88uCxwakUCSuJvOr1GK yGG05ewJu/9nv+0hpEtl2/eLg1uZvm/qWQLxoeIdhhVEZhvm3ON64Fov2l4/uAzU dXzJpVCdH50WihyLNt68dEFnEebK7MMgiRKbDBWxDcZR9hAYEyvnOYvmqUbpCMVE fua3RrX37rgNXu2UPIbuFykXouiJ41HSS27K31SZjX+ELS9cZuAvJvOXYnhE9qjB A8PEP0LPt/8RQxhdapk4XbOjOXbcNADPYr3ZDZH3VUwCU2AI46Fz5PkRQeY1UvrB ztXxxqjfNI0lt7dfbGbJ3MwlJZqlBMaMDfhEHKszbFpiyM9D+GtgASAzzTT0WwHx Z/qe3Eyhys37/1Twz2D+HVZGcErTWPCDYDjXqzGyhzHu19nGQx7IhNPgGTSjx5fD aFkgN+tn4lu0B5qKoh99zfH0LbwbGK7KXfMVoyfZVml+JRoMSJvelhMwi+Sfe+Fi 5iFG1v5jZnblI5hu2aSV =KJmy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
