- Update from version 1.16.5 to 1.17
- Update of rootfile
- Changelog
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 3.20 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.
(bug#55025, bug#67891)
- 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.
(bug#10828)
- 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)
- aclocal has a new option --aclocal-path to override $ACLOCAL_PATH.
(https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2022-01/msg00029.html)
- The missing script also supports autoreconf, autogen, and perl.
(https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2015-08/msg00000.html)
- test-suite.log now contains basic system information, and the
console message about bug reporting on failure has a bit more detail.
(bug#68746, bug#71421)
- When using the (default) "parallel" test driver, you can now omit the
output of skipped tests from test-suite.log by defining the
variable IGNORE_SKIPPED_LOGS to a non-empty value. (bug#71422)
* Bugs fixed
- Generated file timestamp checks handle filesystems with subsecond
timestamp granularity dynamically, greatly speeding up the sleep
done by AC_OUTPUT when generating config.status (all packages) and
Automake's make check.
However, this subsecond-mtime support 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 program, make program,
and filesystem that all support subsecond resolution; otherwise, we
fall back to a two-second granularity, not even testing the (common)
1s case since that would induce a 2s delay for all configure scripts
in all packages on all systems that don't support subsecond mtimes.
When everything is supported, a line "Features: subsecond-mtime" is
now printed by automake --version and autom4te --version.
To override this check and delay, e.g. to use 1 second:
am_cv_filesystem_timestamp_resolution=1
export am_cv_filesystem_timestamp_resolution
(commit 720a11531,
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-commit/2022-02/msg00009.html
then bug#60808, bug#64756, bug#67670, bug#68808, bug#71652,
history reviewed in
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2024-06/msg00054.html
and more info in surrounding threads.)
- The default value of $ARFLAGS is now "cr" instead of "cru", to better
support deterministic builds. (bug#20082)
- Automake's make dist now uses -9 instead of --best with gzip,
because Alpine gzip does not support --best. Also, GZIP_ENV is used
only for compression, not decompression, because of the same system.
(bug#68151)
- Dependency files are now empty, instead of "# dummy", for speed.
(https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2022-05/msg00006.html)
- Compiling Python modules with Python 3.5+ uses multiple optimization
levels. (bug#38043)
- If the Python installation "scheme" is set to posix_local (Debian),
it is reset to either deb_system (if the prefix = /usr), or
posix_prefix (otherwise). (bug#54412, bug#64837)
- As a result of the Python scheme change, the installation directory
for Python files again defaults to "site-packages" under the usual
installation prefix, even on systems (generally Debian-based) that
would normally use the "dist-packages" subdirectory under
/usr/local.
- 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 respect 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.
(https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2022-09/msg00002.html)
- Pass any options given to AM_PROG_LEX on to AC_PROG_LEX.
(bug#65600, bug#65730)
- aclocal: recognize ; as path separator on OS/2 and Windows. (bug#71534)
- Hash iterations with external effects now consistently sort keys.
(bug#25629, bug#46744)
- tests: avoid some declaration conflicts for lex et al. on SunOS.
(bug#34151 and others)
- tests: declare yyparse before use and use (void) parameter lists
instead of (), to placate C23. (bug#71425)
- Typos in code and other doc fixes. (bug#68003, bug#68004, et al.)
* 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.
Signed-off-by: Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
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