---
- branch: MAIN
  date: Thu Jan  8 16:40:50 UTC 2015
  files:
  - new: '1.99'
    old: '1.98'
    path: pkgsrc/devel/automake/Makefile
    pathrev: pkgsrc/devel/automake/Makefile@1.99
    type: modified
  - new: '1.21'
    old: '1.20'
    path: pkgsrc/devel/automake/PLIST
    pathrev: pkgsrc/devel/automake/PLIST@1.21
    type: modified
  - new: '1.48'
    old: '1.47'
    path: pkgsrc/devel/automake/distinfo
    pathrev: pkgsrc/devel/automake/distinfo@1.48
    type: modified
  id: 20150108T164050Z.db18a0af3bb943d4278219bd5f119a9ded170f02
  log: |
    Update to 1.15:

    New in 1.15:

    * Improvements and refactorings in the install-sh script:

      - It has been modernized, and now makes the following assumptions
        *unconditionally*:
        (1) a working 'dirname' program is available;
        (2) the ${var:-value} shell parameters substitution works;
        (3) the "set -f" and "set +f" shell commands work, and, respectively,
            disable and enable shell globbing.

      - The script implements stricter error checking, and now it complains
        and bails out if any of the following expectations is not met:
        (1) the options -d and -t are never used together;
        (2) the argument passed to option -t is a directory;
        (3) if there are two or more SOURCEFILE arguments, the
            DESTINATION argument must be a directory.

    * Automake-generated testsuites:

      - The default test-driver used by the Automake-generates testsuites
        now appends the result and exit status of each "plain" test to the
        associated log file (automake bug#11814).

      - The perl implementation of the TAP testsuite driver is no longer
        installed in the Automake's scripts directory, and is instead just
        distributed as a "contrib" addition.  There should be no reason to
        use this implementation anyway in real packages, since the awk+shell
        implementation of the TAP driver (which is documented in the manual)
        is more portable and has feature parity with the perl implementation.

      - The rule generating 'test-suite.log' no longer risk incurring in an
        extra useless "make all" recursive invocation in some corner cases
        (automake bug#16302).

    * Distribution:

      - Automake bug#18286: "make distcheck" could sometimes fail to detect
        files missing from the distribution tarball, especially in those cases
        where both the generated files and their dependencies are explicitly
        in $(srcdir).  An important example of this are *generated* makefile
        fragments included at Automake time in Makefile.am; e.g.:

            ...
            $(srcdir)/fragment.am: $(srcdir)/data.txt $(srcdir)/preproc.sh
                cd $(srcdir) && $(SHELL) preproc.sh <data.txt >fragment.am
            include $(srcdir)/fragment.am
            ...

        If the use forgot to add data.txt and/or preproc.sh in the distribution
        tarball, "make distcheck" would have erroneously succeeded!  This issue
        is now fixed.

      - As a consequence of the previous change, "make distcheck" will run
        using '$(distdir)/_build/sub' as the build directory, rather than
        simply '$(distdir)/_build' (as it was the case for Automake 1.14 and
        earlier).  Consequently, the './configure' and 'make' invocations
        issued by the distcheck recipe now have $(srcdir) equal to '../..',
        rather than to just '..'.  Dependent and similar variables (e.g.,
        '$(top_srcdir)') are also changed accordingly.

        Thus, Makefiles that made assumptions about the exact values of the
        build and source directories used by "make distcheck" will have to
        be adjusted.  Notice that making such assumptions was a bad and
        unsupported practice anyway, since the exact locations of those
        directories should be considered implementation details, and we
        reserve the right to change them at any time.

    * Miscellaneous bugs fixed:

      - The expansion of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE ends once again with a trailing
        newline (bug#16841).  Regression introduced in Automake 1.14.

      - We no longer risk to use '$ac_aux_dir' before it's defined (see
        automake bug#15981). Bug introduced in Automake 1.14.

      - The code used to detect whether the currently used make is GNU make
        or not (relying on the private macro 'am__is_gnu_make') no longer
        risks causing "Arg list too long" for projects using automatic
        dependency tracking and having a ton of source files (bug#18744).

      - Automake tries to offer a more deterministic output for generated
        Makefiles, in the face of the newly-introduced randomization for
        hash keys order in Perl 5.18.

      - In older Automake versions, if a user defined one single Makefile
        fragment (say 'foo.am') to be included via Automake includes in
        his main Makefile.am, and defined a custom make rule to generate that
        file from other data, Automake used to spuriously complain with some
        message like "... overrides Automake target '$(srcdir)/foo.am".
        This bug is now fixed.

      - The user can now extend the special .PRECIOUS target, the same way
        he could already do with the .MAKE .and .PHONY targets.

      - Some confusing typos have been fixed in the manual and in few warning
        messages (automake bug#16827 and bug#16997).
  module: pkgsrc
  subject: 'CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/automake'
  unixtime: '1420735250'
  user: wiz