New in 1.13.3:
* Documentation fixes:
- The documentation no longer mistakenly reports that the obsolete
'AM_MKDIR_PROG_P' macro and '$(mkdir_p)' make variable are going
to be removed in Automake 2.0.
* Bugs fixed:
- Byte-compilation of Emacs lisp files could fail spuriously on
Solaris, when /bin/ksh or /usr/xpg4/bin/sh were used as shell.
- If the same user-defined suffixes were transformed into different
Automake-known suffixes in different Makefile.am files in the same
project, automake could get confused and generate inconsistent
Makefiles (automake bug#14441).
For example, if 'Makefile.am' contained a ".ext.cc:" suffix rule,
and 'sub/Makefile.am' contained a ".ext.c:" suffix rule, automake
would have mistakenly placed into 'Makefile.in' rules to compile
"*.c" files into object files, and into 'sub/Makefile.in' rules to
compile "*.cc" files into object files --- rather than the other
way around. This is now fixed.
* Testsuite work:
- The test cases no longer have the executable bit set. This should
make it clear that they are not meant to be run directly; as
explained in t/README, they can only be run through the custom
'runtest' script, or by a "make check" invocation.
- The testsuite has seen the introduction of a new helper function
'run_make', and several related changes. These serve a two-fold
purpose:
1. Remove brittleness due to the use of "make -e" in test cases.
2. Seamlessly allow the use of parallel make ("make -j...") in the
test cases, even where redirection of make output is involved
(see automake bug#11413 for a description of the subtle issues
in this area).
- Several spurious failures have been fixed (they hit especially
MinGW/MSYS builds). See automake bugs #14493, #14494, #14495,
#14498, #14499, #14500, #14501, #14517 and #14528.
- Some other minor miscellaneous changes and fixlets.
65470a34b7