From: Stefano Lattarini Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 18:48:11 +0000 (+0200) Subject: NEWS: Automake 2.0 will assume "rm -f" without args work X-Git-Tag: v1.13.2b~13 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=15f610e7fd67b0b31c5048fd14dcf72b5e456865;p=thirdparty%2Fautomake.git NEWS: Automake 2.0 will assume "rm -f" without args work Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0d0ea4224..dfcca246c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -39,6 +39,17 @@ * WARNING: Future backward-incompatibilities! + - Makefile recipes generated by Automake 2.0 will expect to use an + 'rm' program that doesn't complain when called without any non-option + argument if the '-f' option is given (so that commands like "rm -f" + and "rm -rf" will act as a no-op, instead of raising usage errors). + Accordingly, AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE will expand new shell code checking + that the default 'rm' program in PATH satisfies this requirement, and + aborting the configure process if this is not the case. This behavior + of 'rm' is very widespread in the wild, and it will be required in the + next POSIX version: + + - Automake 2.0 will require Autoconf 2.70 or later (which is still unreleased at the moment of writing, but is planned to be released before Automake 2.0 is).