| New in 1.1e: |
| * Bug fixes |
| * Better DejaGNU support |
| * Added no-installinfo option |
| * Added Emacs Lisp support |
| * Added --no-force option |
| * Included `aclocal' program |
| * Automake will now generate rules to regenerate aclocal.m4, if appropriate |
| * Now uses `AM_' macro names everywhere |
| * ansi2knr option can have directory prefix (eg `../lib/ansi2knr') |
| * Better C++, yacc, lex support |
| * Random files listed in AC_OUTPUT now removed by "make clean" |
| * Will compute _DEPENDENCIES variables automatically if not supplied |
| * Will interpolate $(...) and ${...} when examining contents of a variable |
| * .deps files now in build directory, not source directory; dependency |
| handling generally rewritten |
| |
| New in 1.0: |
| * Bug fixes |
| * distcheck target runs install and installcheck targets |
| * Added preliminary support for DejaGNU. |
| |
| New in 0.33: |
| * More bug fixes |
| * More checking |
| * More libtool fixes from Gord Matzigkeit; libtool support is still |
| preliminary however |
| * Added support for jm_MAINTAINER_MODE |
| * dist-zip support |
| * New "distcheck" target |
| |
| New in 0.32: |
| * Many bug fixes |
| * mkinstalldirs and mdate-sh now appear in directory specified by |
| AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR. |
| * Removed DIST_SUBDIRS, DIST_OTHER |
| * AC_ARG_PROGRAM only required when an actual program exists |
| * dist-hook target now run before distribution packaged up; idea from |
| Dieter Baron. Other hooks exist, too. |
| * Preliminary (unfinished) support for libtool |
| * Added short option names. |
| * Better "dist" support when gluing together multiple packages |
| |
| New in 0.31: |
| * Bug fixes |
| * Documentation updates (many from François Pinard) |
| * strictness `normal' now renamed to `foreign' |
| * Renamed --install-missing to --add-missing |
| * Now handles AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR |
| * Now handles TESTS macro |
| * DIST_OTHER renamed to EXTRA_DIST |
| * DIST_SUBDIRS is deprecated |
| * @ALLOCA@ and @LIBOBJS@ now work in _LDADD variables |
| * Better error messages in many cases |
| * Program names are canonicalized |
| * Added "check" prefix; from Gord Matzigkeit |
| |
| New in 0.30: |
| * Bug fixes |
| * configure.in scanner knows about AC_PATH_XTRA, AC_OUTPUT ":" syntax |
| * Beginnings of a test suite |
| * Automatically adds -I options for $(srcdir), ".", and path to config.h |
| * Doesn't print anything when running |
| * Beginnings of MAINT_CHARSET support |
| * Can specify version in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS |
| * Most errors recognizable by Emacs' M-x next-error |
| * Added --verbose option |
| * All "primary" variables now obsolete; use EXTRA_PRIMARY to supply |
| configure-generated names |
| * Required macros now distributed in aclocal.m4 |
| * New documentation |
| * --strictness=gnu is default |
| |
| New in 0.29: |
| * Many bug fixes |
| * More sophisticated configure.in scanning; now understands ALLOCA and |
| LIBOBJS directly, handles AC_CONFIG_HEADER more precisely, etc. |
| * TEXINFOS and MANS now obsolete; use info_TEXINFOS and man_MANS instead. |
| * CONFIG_HEADER variable now obsolete |
| * Can handle multiple Texinfo sources |
| * Allow hierarchies deeper than 2. From Gord Matzigkeit. |
| * HEADERS variable no longer needed; now can put .h files directly into |
| foo_SOURCES variable. |
| * Automake automatically rebuilds files listed in AC_OUTPUT. The |
| corresponding ".in" files are included in the distribution. |
| |
| New in 0.28: |
| * Added --gnu and --gnits options |
| * More standards checking |
| * Bug fixes |
| * Cleaned up 'dist' targets |
| * Added AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS variable and several options |
| * Now scans configure.in to get some information (preliminary) |
| |
| New in 0.27: |
| * Works with Perl 4 again |
| |
| New in 0.26: |
| * Added --install-missing option. |
| * Pretty-prints generated macros and rules |
| * Comments in Makefile.am are placed more intelligently in Makefile.in |
| * Generates .PHONY target |
| * Rule or macro in Makefile.am now overrides contents of Automake file |
| * Substantial cleanups from François Pinard |
| |
| New in 0.25: |
| * Bug fixes. |
| * Works with Perl 4 again. |
| |
| New in 0.24: |
| * New uniform naming scheme. |
| * --strictness option |
| * Works with Perl 5 |
| * '.c' files corresponding to '.y' or '.l' files are automatically |
| distributed. |
| * Many bug fixes and cleanups |
| |
| New in 0.23: |
| * Allow objects to be conditionally included in libraries via lib_LIBADD. |
| |
| New in 0.22: |
| * Bug fixes in 'clean' code. |
| * Now generates 'installdirs' target. |
| * man page installation reworked. |
| * 'make dist' no longer re-creates all Makefile.in's. |
| |
| New in 0.21: |
| * Reimplemented in Perl |
| * Added --amdir option (for debugging) |
| * Texinfo support cleaned up. |
| * Automatic de-ANSI-fication cleaned up. |
| * Cleaned up 'clean' targets. |
| |
| New in 0.20: |
| * Automatic dependency tracking |
| * More documentation |
| * New variables DATA and PACKAGEDATA |
| * SCRIPTS installed using $(INSTALL_SCRIPT) |
| * No longer uses double-colon rules |
| * Bug fixes |
| * Changes in advance of internationalization |
