The GNU Automake 1.16j development snapshot is now available. Download here:
https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.16j.tar.xz
https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.16j.tar.gz
Hello,
No major issue found during my mass rebuild against dependent packages on Fedora-rawhide.
LGTM.
We intend for automake 1.17 to be released soon, essentially with only
bug fixes for whatever is found in this pretest. So please do test if at
all possible.
The main change from 1.16i was another attempt at making the "subsecond
mtime" support reliable and backward compatible. That is, to work with
autoconf-2.72 (which supports subsecond mtimes) and earlier versions
(which don't). See below for the detailed list of changes since the
previous version, as summarized by the NEWS file.
In general, it's our primary goal to preserve compatibility. If this
release of Automake induces failure in a setup that was previously
working, please let us know.
Please report bugs and problems to <bug-automake@gnu.org>,
and send general comments and feedback to <automake@gnu.org>,
and patches to <automake-patches@gnu.org>.
Thanks to everyone who has reported problems, contributed patches,
and helped test Automake!
With special thanks to Bogdan, Mike Frysinger, Nick Bowler, and
Zack Weinberg for their numerous contributions. This release could not
have happened without them.
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New in (what will be) 1.17:
* New features added
- AM_PATH_PYTHON will, after checking "python", prefer any Python 3
version (latest versions checked first) over any Python 2
version. If a specific version of Python 2 is still needed, the
$PYTHON variable should be set beforehand.
- AM_PATH_PYTHON will also search for Python versions 3.15 through 3.10.
It previously searched for 3.9 through 3.0. (bug#53530)
- RANLIB may be overridden on a per-target basis.
- AM_TEXI2FLAGS may be defined to pass extra flags to TEXI2DVI & TEXI2PDF.
- New option "posix" to emit the special target .POSIX for make.
- Systems with non-POSIX "rm -f" behavior are now supported, and the
prior intent to drop support for them has been reversed.
The ACCEPT_INFERIOR_RM_PROGRAM setting no longer exists.
- Variables using escaped \# will trigger portability warnings, but be
retained when appended. GNU Make & BSD Makes are known to support it.
(bug#7610)
- GNU Make's default pattern rules are disabled, for speed and debugging.
(.SUFFIXES was already cleared.) (bug#64743)
- For Texinfo documents, if a .texi.in file exists, but no .texi, the
.texi.in will be read. Texinfo source files need not be present at
all, and if present, need not contain @setfilename. Then the file name
as given in the Makefile.am will be used. If @setfilename is present,
it should be the basename of the Texinfo file, extended with .info.
(bug#54063)
- The missing script also supports autoreconf, autogen, and perl.
* Bugs fixed
- Generated file timestamp checks handle filesystems with sub-second
timestamp granularity dynamically, greatly speeding up make check,
etc. However, this requires an autom4te from Autoconf 2.72 or later
(or random test failures and other timing problems may ensue), as
well as a Perl, sleep utility, and filesystem that supports
sub-second resolution; otherwise, we fall back to one-second
granularity as before. When everything is supported, a line
`Features: subsecond-mtime' is now printed by automake --version
and autom4te --version. (bug#64756, bug#67670)
- The default value of $ARFLAGS is now "cr" instead of "cru", to better
support deterministic builds. (bug#20082)
- Dependency files are now empty, instead of '# dummy', for speed.
- Compiling Python modules with Python 3.5+ uses multiple optimization
levels. (bug#38043)
- When compiling Emacs Lisp files, emacs is run with --no-site-file to
disable user config files that might hang or access the terminal;
and -Q is not used, since its support and behavior varies. (bug#58102)
- Emacs Lisp compilations respects silent make output.
- Automake no longer incorrectly warns that the POSIX make variables
$(*D) and the like are non-POSIX. Unfortunately, the make
implementations which do not correctly implement all the POSIX
variables are not detected, but this seems to have little impact
in practice. (bug#9587)
- Pass libtool tags OBJC and OBJCXX for the respective languages.
(bug#67539)
- distcleancheck ignores "silly rename" files (.nfs* .smb* .__afs*)
that can show up on network file systems.
- tests: avoid some declaration conflicts for lex et al. on SunOS.
(bug#34151 and others)
- Pass any options given to AM_PROG_LEX on to AC_PROG_LEX.
(bug#65600, bug#65730)
* Obsolescence:
- py-compile no longer supports Python 0.x or 1.x versions. Python 2.0,
released in 2000, is currently the minimum required version.
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