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This file (NEWS-2.0) lists several incompatibilities planned for a
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future Automake 2.0 release.
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However, the (few) current Automake maintainers have insufficient interest
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and energy to pursue the 2.0 release. We have not even reviewed all
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existing bugs. New maintainers are needed! For more information about
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helping with Automake development:
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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2021-03/msg00018.html
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Therefore, there is no ETA for Automake 2.0, but it is not likely to be
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any time soon. So moving these future issues to a separate file seemed
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warranted. For more info, see the ./PLANS/ directory.
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* WARNING: Future backward-incompatibilities!
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- Makefile recipes generated by Automake 2.0 will expect to use an
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'rm' program that doesn't complain when called without any non-option
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argument if the '-f' option is given (so that commands like "rm -f"
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and "rm -rf" will act as a no-op, instead of raising usage errors).
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This behavior of 'rm' is very widespread in the wild, and it will be
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required in the next POSIX version:
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<http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=542>
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Accordingly, AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE now expands some shell code that checks
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that the default 'rm' program in PATH satisfies this requirement,
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aborting the configure process if this is not the case. For the
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moment, it's still possible to force the configuration process to
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succeed even with a broken 'rm', but that will no longer be the case
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for Automake 2.0.
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- Automake 2.0 will require Autoconf 2.71 or later. Exact
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dependencies are unknowable at ths time.
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- Automake 2.0 will drop support for the long-deprecated 'configure.in'
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name for the Autoconf input file. You are advised to start using the
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recommended name 'configure.ac' instead, ASAP.
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- The ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS special make variable will be fully deprecated in
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Automake 2.0: it will raise warnings in the "obsolete" category (but
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still no hard error of course, for compatibilities with the many, many
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packages that still relies on that variable). You are advised to
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start relying on the new Automake support for AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS
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instead (which was introduced in Automake 1.13).
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- Automake 2.0 will remove support for automatic dependency tracking
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with the SGI C/C++ compilers on IRIX. The SGI depmode has been
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reported broken "in the wild" already, and we don't think investing
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time in debugging and fixing is worthwhile, especially considering
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that SGI has last updated those compilers in 2006, and retired
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support for them in December 2013:
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<http://www.sgi.com/services/support/irix_mips_support.html>
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- Automake 2.0 will remove support for MS-DOS and Windows 95/98/ME
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(support for them was offered by relying on the DJGPP project).
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Note however that both Cygwin and MSYS/MinGW on modern Windows
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versions will continue to be fully supported.
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- Automake-provided scripts and makefile recipes might (finally!)
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start assuming a POSIX shell in Automake 2.0. There still is no
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certainty about this though: we'd first like to wait and see
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whether future Autoconf versions will be enhanced to guarantee
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that such a shell is always found and provided by the checks in
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./configure.
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In 2020, config.guess was changed by its then-maintainer to require
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$(...); the ensuing bug reports and maintenance hassle
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(unfortunately the changes have not been reverted) are a convincing
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argument that we should not require a POSIX shell until Solaris 10,
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at least, is completely gone from the world.
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- Starting from Automake 2.0, third-party m4 files located in the
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system-wide aclocal directory, as well as in any directory listed
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in the ACLOCAL_PATH environment variable, will take precedence
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over "built-in" Automake macros. For example (assuming Automake
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is installed in the /usr/local hierarchy), a definition of the
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AM_PROG_VALAC macro found in '/usr/local/share/aclocal/my-vala.m4'
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should take precedence over the same-named automake-provided macro
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(defined in '/usr/local/share/aclocal-2.0/vala.m4').
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-----
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Copyright (C) 1995-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
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any later version.
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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