I think that this change deserves a NEWS entry.
Done in the attached patch.
Regards,
Stefano
From f172370b02eeb0ca96fb1ceaf6620d4208961075 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:36:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Update NEWS w.r.t. better remake rules.
* NEWS: Updated.
---
ChangeLog | 3 +++
NEWS | 3 +++
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f806793..067ff84 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
2010-08-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com>
+ Update NEWS w.r.t. better remake rules.
+ * NEWS: Updated.
+
Testsuite: improve support for non-default autotools.
* tests/defs.in: Fix definition and exporting of $AUTOCONF and
$AUTOMAKE to better honour configure-time overrides. This fixes
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b3d4131..57066f2 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ Bugs fixed in 1.11.0a:
* Long standing bugs:
+ - Automake-generated remake rules now works consistently and correctly
+ even when AUTOCONF and AUTOM4TE are overridden at configure-time.
+
- 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
--
1.7.1
