From: Stefano Lattarini Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 22:35:03 +0000 (+0100) Subject: NG-NEWS: adjust w.r.t. recent changes in Automake master X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=642fe026018962840aa08b329dad5b5ff9371a4e;p=thirdparty%2Fautomake.git NG-NEWS: adjust w.r.t. recent changes in Automake master The next version of Automake (1.14) is planned to drop few obsolete features that have already been removed in Automake-NG. There is thus no need to list this dropped features in our NG-NEWS file (as Automake-NG will certainly see no stable release before Automake 1.14 is out). Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini --- diff --git a/NG-NEWS b/NG-NEWS index 129da68ae..69d22e44b 100644 --- a/NG-NEWS +++ b/NG-NEWS @@ -271,9 +271,6 @@ Obsolete Features Removed the once-accepted values '.txi' and '.texinfo' are not handled anymore, and their use will trigger an error. -* Support for the long-deprecated name 'configure.in' for the Autoconf - input file (instead of the modern 'configure.ac') has been deprecated. - * If the sources for a target library like 'libfoo.a' or 'libbar.la' are not explicitly specified, mainline Automake looks also (respectively) for the files 'libfoo_a.c' or 'libbar_la.c' as possible default sources. @@ -293,21 +290,6 @@ Obsolete Features Removed Similarly, the $(mkinstallscripts) make variable is not defined anymore; one should use $(MKDIR_P) instead. -* The $(INCLUDES) variable is not anymore passed to the invocations of - compilers with a C-like preprocessing step (as are for example C, C++, - Objective C, preprocessed assembler ...). One should just use - $(AM_CPPFLAGS) instead, which has been supported and recommended for - a long time. - -* Support for DJGPP, Windows 95/98/ME and MS-DOS has been removed. - Of course, MinGW/MSYS and Cygwin on Windows 2000 and later are still - fully supported. - -* Automake-generated Makefiles assume the target systems always support - file names starting with a dot; accordingly, the internal m4 macro - 'AM_SET_LEADING_DOT' and AC_SUBST'd variable 'am__leading_dot' have - been removed. - * The Automake-defined internal make variable '$(ACLOCAL_M4)' has been renamed to '$(am.remake.aclocal-m4)', and should be considered an internal detail.