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NEWS: IRIX is still supported; only SGI depmode no longer is
authorStefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:41:55 +0000 (13:41 +0100)
committerStefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:42:24 +0000 (13:42 +0100)
commitb9384c4a1b1340aba53b979c7840bb6a1d3e70b2
tree30230a3f17cad74670e23f6b560cc20c5e598051
parent3553601fb233cced3e24827d3aefc213e409d9bc
NEWS: IRIX is still supported; only SGI depmode no longer is

This change is for the master branch (see the similar commit
'v1.13.1b-3-g97f04a5' on the maint branch).

The only IRIX-specific support that is actually removed in master (and
thus in the next major Automake version) is the depcomp support for the
SGI compiler.  That means that automatic dependency tracking will no
longer work with that compiler, but "normal" compilation should still
work, at least until the compiler is supported by Autoconf.

So there is no point in alarming our users by stating in the NEWS file
that "support for IRIX and the SGI compilers has been removed"; after
all, while we don't test on nor particularly care about IRIX anymore,
that doesn't mean we are deliberately breaking it, and the likelihood
of an intended breakage there is very low.

See:
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2013-01/msg00164.html>
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2013-01/msg00165.html>

* NEWS: Adjust.  Improve explanation of our rationale for dropping
support for the SGI compilers.

Suggested-by: Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
NEWS