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commit 34b2d5646829ac93ccc78acaaacbd7a4558dea3c
Author: Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden>
Date:   Sun Jan 1 14:22:35 2012 +0100

    news: fix botched merges, rebase on 1.11.2a NEWS version
    
    The NEWS file is unfortunately written in a format that doesn't
    lend itself very well to automatic merges; the recent merges of
    maint into master have left it full of blunders and in a somewhat
    inconsistent state.
    
    Another orthogonal issue is that the current version of NEWS
    still reports all the changes since the last 1.11 version, rather
    than since the latest maintenance version 1.11.2, or, even better,
    since the planned next maintenance version 1.11.3.
    
    * NEWS: Fix blunders and errors from botched merges.  Rebase the
    file on the NEWS file from branch-1.11 (from which automake 1.11.3
    is expected to be released).

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Summary of changes:
 NEWS |  290 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
 1 files changed, 168 insertions(+), 122 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6f6051b..699f2af 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,27 +1,16 @@
 New in 1.11a:
 
-* Changes to automake:
+* Obsolete features removed:
 
-  - automake now generates silenced rules for texinfo outputs.
+  - Support for automatic de-ANSI-fication has been removed.
 
-  - The deprecated options `--output-dir', `--Werror' and `--Wno-error'
-    have been removed.
+  - The deprecated `lzma' compression format for distribution archives
+    has been removed, in favor of `xz' and `lzip'.
 
   - The obsolete AM_WITH_REGEX macro has been removed.
 
-* Changes to aclocal:
-
-  - The `--acdir' option is deprecated.  Now you should use the new options
-    `--automake-acdir' and `--system-acdir' instead.
-
-  - The `ACLOCAL_PATH' environment variable is now interpreted as a
-    colon-separated list of additional directories to search after the
-    automake internal acdir (by default ${prefix}/share/aclocal-APIVERSION)
-    and before the system acdir (by default ${prefix}/share/aclocal).
-
-  - The exact order in which the directories in the aclocal macro
-    search path are looked up is probably going to be changed in the
-    next Automake release (1.12).
+  - The deprecated options `--output-dir', `--Werror' and `--Wno-error'
+    have been removed.
 
 * New targets:
 
@@ -99,14 +88,96 @@ New in 1.11a:
   - Initial and still experimental support for the TAP test protocol is
     now provided.
 
-* Changes related to distribution tarballs:
+* Miscellaneous changes:
 
   - The `dist' and `dist-all' targets now can run compressors in parallel.
 
-  - "make dist" can now create lzip-compressed tarballs.
+  - Automake can now generate silenced rules for texinfo outputs.
 
-  - The deprecated `lzma' compression format for distribution archives
-    has been removed, in favor of `xz' and `lzip'.
+  - Some auxiliary files that are automatically distributed by Automake
+    (e.g., `install-sh', or the `depcomp' script for packages compiling
+    C sources) might now be listed in the DIST_COMMON variable in many
+    Makefile.in files, rather than in the top-level one.
+
+  - Messages of types warning or error from `automake' and `aclocal'
+    are now prefixed with the respective type, and presence of -Werror
+    is noted.
+
+  - Automake's early configure-time sanity check now tries to avoid
+    sleeping for a second, which slowed down cached configure runs
+    noticeably.  In that case, it will check back at the end of the
+    configure script to ensure that at least one second has passed, to
+    avoid time stamp issues with makefile rules rerunning autotools
+    programs.
+
+  - For programs and libraries, automake now detect EXTRA_foo_DEPENDENCIES
+    and adds them to the normal list of dependencies, but without
+    overwriting the foo_DEPENDENCIES variable, which is normally computed
+    by automake.
+
+  - C source and header files derived from non-distributed Yacc sources
+    are now removed by "make clean", not only by "make maintainer-clean".
+
+  - The warnings in the category `extra-portability' are now enabled by
+    `-Wall'.  In previous versions, one has to use `-Wextra-portability'
+    to enable them.
+
+Bugs fixed in 1.11a:
+
+  - Various minor bugfixes.
+
+* Bugs introduced by 1.11:
+
+  - The AM_COND_IF macro also works if the shell expression for the
+    conditional is no longer valid for the condition.
+
+* Long-standing bugs:
+
+  - Automake's own build system finally have a real "installcheck" target.
+
+  - Files listed with the AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE macro in configure.ac are
+    now automatically distributed also if the directory of the auxiliary
+    files coincides with the top-level directory.
+
+  - Automake now detects the presence of the `-d' flag in the various
+    `*YFLAGS' variables even when their definitions involve indirections
+    through other variables, such as in:
+      foo_opts = -d
+      AM_YFLAGS = $(foo_opts)
+
+  - Automake now complains if a `*YFLAGS' variable has any conditional
+    content, not only a conditional definition.
+
+  - Explicit enabling and/or disabling of Automake warning categories
+    through the `-W...' options now always takes precedence over the
+    implicit warning level implied by Automake strictness (foreign, gnu
+    or gnits), regardless of the order in which such strictness and
+    warning flags appear.  For example, a setting like:
+      AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = -Wall --foreign
+    will cause the warnings in category `portability' to be enabled, even
+    if those warnings are by default disabled in `foreign' strictness.
+
+
+New in 1.11.2a:
+
+* WARNING: Future backward-incompatibilities!
+
+  - The obsolescent AM_WITH_REGEX  macro has been deprecated, since the
+    GNU rx library has been decommissioned.
+
+  - The `lzma' compression format for distribution archives has been
+    deprecated in favor of `xz' and `lzip'.
+
+  - The `--acdir' option of aclocal is deprecated, and will probably be
+    removed in the next major Automake release (1.12). [FIXME]
+
+  - The exact order in which the directories in the aclocal macro
+    search path are looked up is probably going to be changed in the
+    next Automake release (1.12). [FIXME]
+
+* Miscellaneous changes:
+
+  - "make dist" can now create lzip-compressed tarballs.
 
   - In the Automake info documentation, the Top node and the nodes about
     the invocation of the automake and aclocal programs have been renamed;
@@ -120,41 +191,46 @@ New in 1.11a:
   - The last relics of Python 1.5 support have been removed from the
     AM_PATH_PYTHON macro.
 
-  - The `lzma' compression scheme and associated automake option `dist-lzma'
-    is obsoleted by `xz' and `dist-xz' due to upstream changes.
+Bugs fixed in 1.11.2a:
 
-  - "make dist" can now create lzip-compressed tarballs.
+* Long-standing bugs:
 
-  - You may adjust the compression options used in dist-xz and dist-bzip2.
-    The default is now merely -e for xz, but still -9 for bzip;  you may
-    specify a different level via the XZ_OPT and BZIP2 envvars respectively.
-    E.g., "make dist-xz XZ_OPT=-7" or "make dist-bzip2 BZIP2=-5"
+  - The "deleted header file problem" for *.am files is avoided by stub
+    rules.  This allows `make' to trigger a rerun of `automake' also if
+    some previously needed `.am' file has been removed.
 
-  - Some auxiliary files that are automatically distributed by Automake
-    (e.g., `install-sh', or the `depcomp' script for packages compiling
-    C sources) might now be listed in the DIST_COMMON variable in many
-    Makefile.in files, rather than in the top-level one.
+  - The `silent-rules' option now generates working makefiles even
+    for the uncommon `make' implementations that do not support the
+    nested-variables extension to POSIX 2008.  For such `make'
+    implementations, whether a build is silent is determined at
+    configure time, and cannot be overridden at make time with
+    `make V=0' or `make V=1'.
 
-* Miscellaneous changes:
+
+New in 1.11.2:
 
-  - Messages of types warning or error from `automake' and `aclocal' are now
-    prefixed with the respective type, and presence of -Werror is noted.
+* Changes to aclocal:
 
-  - The `compile' script now converts some options for MSVC for a better
-    user experience.  Similarly, the new `ar-lib' script wraps Microsoft lib.
+  - The `--acdir' option is deprecated.  Now you should use the new options
+    `--automake-acdir' and `--system-acdir' instead.
+
+  - The `ACLOCAL_PATH' environment variable is now interpreted as a
+    colon-separated list of additional directories to search after the
+    automake internal acdir (by default ${prefix}/share/aclocal-APIVERSION)
+    and before the system acdir (by default ${prefix}/share/aclocal).
 
-  - Automake's early configure-time sanity check now tries to avoid sleeping
-    for a second, which slowed down cached configure runs noticeably.  In that
-    case, it will check back at the end of the configure script to ensure that
-    at least one second has passed, to avoid time stamp issues with makefile
-    rules rerunning autotools programs.
+* Miscellaneous changes:
 
-  - For programs and libraries, automake now detects EXTRA_foo_DEPENDENCIES and
-    adds them to the normal list of dependencies, but without overwriting the
-    foo_DEPENDENCIES variable, which is normally computed by automake.
+  - The Automake support for automatic de-ANSI-fication has been
+    deprecated.
+
+  - The `lzma' compression scheme and associated automake option `dist-lzma'
+    is obsoleted by `xz' and `dist-xz' due to upstream changes.
 
-  - C source and header files derived from non-distributed Yacc sources are
-    now removed by "make clean", not only by "make maintainer-clean".
+  - You may adjust the compression options used in dist-xz and dist-bzip2.
+    The default is now merely -e for xz, but still -9 for bzip;  you may
+    specify a different level via the XZ_OPT and BZIP2 envvars respectively.
+    E.g., "make dist-xz XZ_OPT=-7" or "make dist-bzip2 BZIP2=-5"
 
   - The `compile' script now converts some options for MSVC for a better
     user experience.  Similarly, the new `ar-lib' script wraps Microsoft lib.
@@ -173,9 +249,9 @@ New in 1.11a:
     still continue to work as before.
 
   - New macro AM_PROG_AR that looks for an archiver and wraps it in the new
-    'ar-lib' auxiliary script if the found archiver is Microsoft lib.  This
-    new macro is required for LIBRARIES and LTLIBRARIES when automake is
-    run with -Wextra-portability (or -Wall) and -Werror.
+    'ar-lib' auxiliary script if the selected archiver is Microsoft lib.
+    This new macro is required for LIBRARIES and LTLIBRARIES when automake
+    is run with -Wextra-portability and -Werror.
 
   - When using DejaGnu-based testsuites, the user can extend the `site.exp'
     file generated by automake-provided rules by defining the special make
@@ -185,18 +261,15 @@ New in 1.11a:
     the `${infodir}/dir' file, by exporting the new environment variable
     `AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR' to the value "no".
 
-  - Support for automatic de-ANSI-fication has been removed.
-
-Bugs fixed in 1.11a:
-
-  - Lots of minor bugfixes.
+Bugs fixed in 1.11.2:
 
 * Bugs introduced by 1.11:
 
-  - The `parallel-tests' test driver works around a GNU make 3.80 bug with
-    trailing white space in the test list (`TESTS = foo $(EMPTY)'), and
-    does not report spurious successes when used with concurrent FreeBSD
-    make (e.g., "make check -j3").
+  - The parallel-tests driver no longer produces erroneous results with
+    Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh upon unreadable log files.
+
+  - The `parallel-tests' test driver does not report spurious successes
+    when used with concurrent FreeBSD make (e.g., "make check -j3").
 
   - When the parallel-tests driver is in use, automake now explicitly
     rejects invalid entries and conditional contents in TEST_EXTENSIONS,
@@ -210,27 +283,14 @@ Bugs fixed in 1.11a:
     not used, `make' output no longer contains spurious backslash-only
     lines, thus once again matching what Automake did before 1.11.
 
-  - The `silent-rules' option now generates working makefiles even for
-    the uncommon `make' implementations that do not support the
-    nested-variables extension to POSIX 2008.  For such `make'
-    implementations, whether a build is silent is determined at
-    configure time, and cannot be overridden at make time with
-    `make V=0' or `make V=1'.
-
-  - The AM_COND_IF macro also works if the shell expression for the conditional
-    is no longer valid for the condition.
+  - The AM_COND_IF macro also works if the shell expression for the
+    conditional is no longer valid for the condition.
 
 * Long-standing bugs:
 
-  - Automake's own build system finally have a real "installcheck" target.
-
-  - Files listed with the AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE macro in configure.ac are
-    now automatically distributed also if the directory of the auxiliary
-    files coincides with the top-level directory.
-
-  - The "deleted header file problem" for *.am files is avoided by stub
-    rules.  This allows `make' to trigger a rerun of `automake' also if
-    some previously needed `.am' file has been removed.
+  - The order of Yacc and Lex flags is fixed to be consistent with other
+    languages: $(AM_YFLAGS) comes before $(YFLAGS), and $(AM_LFLAGS) before
+    $(LFLAGS), so that the user variables override the developer variables.
 
   - "make distcheck" now correctly complains also when "make uninstall"
     leaves one and only one file installed in $(prefix).
@@ -242,22 +302,9 @@ Bugs fixed in 1.11a:
   - Automake now warns about more primary/directory invalid combinations,
     such as "doc_LIBRARIES" or "pkglib_PROGRAMS".
 
-  - On Darwin 9, `pythondir' and `pyexecdir' pointed below `/Library/Python'
-    even if the `--prefix' argument pointed outside of a system directory.
-    AM_PATH_PYTHON has been fixed to ignore the value returned from python's
-    `get_python_lib' function if it points outside the configured prefix,
-    unless the `--prefix' argument was either `/usr' or below `/System'.
-
-  - The testsuite does not try to change the mode of `ltmain.sh' files from
-    a Libtool installation (symlinked to test directories) any more.
-
-  - AM_PROG_GCJ uses AC_CHECK_TOOLS to look for `gcj' now, so that prefixed
-    tools are preferred in a cross-compile setup.
-
-  - The distribution is tarred up with mode 755 now by the `dist*' targets.
-    This fixes a race condition where untrusted users could modify files
-    in the $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION) distdir before packing if the toplevel
-    build directory was world-searchable.  This is CVE-2009-4029.
+  - Rules generated by Automake now try harder to not change any files when
+    `make -n' is invoked.  Fixes include compilation of Emacs Lisp, Vala, or
+    Yacc source files and the rule to update config.h.
 
   - Several scripts and the parallel-tests testsuite driver now exit with
     the right exit status upon receiving a signal.
@@ -265,39 +312,10 @@ Bugs fixed in 1.11a:
   - A per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror does not erroneously carry over
     to the handling of other Makefile.am files.
 
-  - The order of Yacc and Lex flags is now consistent with that of other
-    languages: $(AM_YFLAGS) comes before $(YFLAGS), and $(AM_LFLAGS) before
-    $(LFLAGS), so that the user variables override the developer variables.
-
-  - Rules generated by Automake now try harder not to change any files when
-    `make -n' is invoked.  Fixes include compilation of Emacs Lisp, Vala, or
-    Yacc source files and the rule to update config.h.
-
   - The code for automatic dependency tracking works around a Solaris
     make bug triggered by sources containing repeated slashes when the
     `subdir-objects' option was used.
 
-  - Automake now detects the presence of the `-d' flag in the various
-    `*YFLAGS' variables even when their definitions involve indirections
-    through other variables, such as in:
-      foo_opts = -d
-      AM_YFLAGS = $(foo_opts)
-
-  - Automake now complains if a `*YFLAGS' variable has any conditional
-    content, not only a conditional definition.
-
-  - Explicit enabling and/or disabling of Automake warning categories
-    through the `-W...' options now always takes precedence over the
-    implicit warning level implied by Automake strictness (foreign, gnu
-    or gnits),  regardless of the order in which such strictness and
-    warning flags appear.  For example, a setting like:
-      AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = -Wall --foreign
-    will cause the warnings in category `portability' to be enabled, even
-    if those warnings are by default disabled in `foreign' strictness.
-
-  - The parallel-tests driver no longer produces erroneous results with
-    Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh upon unreadable log files.
-
   - The makedepend and hp depmodes now work better with VPATH builds.
 
   - Java sources specified with check_JAVA are no longer compiled for
@@ -315,6 +333,34 @@ Bugs fixed in 1.11a:
     change its behaviour; this has proven to be frail and easy to
     regress.
 
+Bugs fixed in 1.11.1:
+
+  - Lots of minor bugfixes.
+
+* Bugs introduced by 1.11:
+
+  - The `parallel-tests' test driver works around a GNU make 3.80 bug with
+    trailing white space in the test list (`TESTS = foo $(EMPTY)').
+
+* Long standing bugs:
+
+  - On Darwin 9, `pythondir' and `pyexecdir' pointed below `/Library/Python'
+    even if the `--prefix' argument pointed outside of a system directory.
+    AM_PATH_PYTHON has been fixed to ignore the value returned from python's
+    `get_python_lib' function if it points outside the configured prefix,
+    unless the `--prefix' argument was either `/usr' or below `/System'.
+
+  - The testsuite does not try to change the mode of `ltmain.sh' files from
+    a Libtool installation (symlinked to test directories) any more.
+
+  - AM_PROG_GCJ uses AC_CHECK_TOOLS to look for `gcj' now, so that prefixed
+    tools are preferred in a cross-compile setup.
+
+  - The distribution is tarred up with mode 755 now by the `dist*' targets.
+    This fixes a race condition where untrusted users could modify files
+    in the $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION) distdir before packing if the toplevel
+    build directory was world-searchable.  This is CVE-2009-4029.
+
 New in 1.11:
 
 * Version requirements:


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