---
- branch: MAIN
  date: Tue Oct  2 17:15:11 UTC 2012
  files:
  - new: '1.86'
    old: '1.85'
    path: pkgsrc/devel/automake/Makefile
    pathrev: pkgsrc/devel/automake/Makefile@1.86
    type: modified
  - new: '1.40'
    old: '1.39'
    path: pkgsrc/devel/automake/distinfo
    pathrev: pkgsrc/devel/automake/distinfo@1.40
    type: modified
  id: 20121002T171511Z.15494733e533b918dc9121fd6564a4ee45453874
  log: |
    Update to 1.12.4:

    New in 1.12.4:

    * 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 1.13.  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          AM_PROG_CC_STDC:    superseded by AC_PROG_CC since October 2002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          AM_CONFIG_HEADER:   superseded by AC_CONFIG_HEADERS since July 2002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 not try anymore 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.

    * Warnings and deprecations:

      - Warnings in the 'obsolete' category are enabled by default both in
        automake and aclocal.

    * Miscellaneous changes:

      - Some testsuite weaknesses and spurious failures have been fixed.
  module: pkgsrc
  subject: 'CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/automake'
  unixtime: '1349198111'
  user: wiz