* NEWS: Automake 1.14 will warn if a subdir source file is
specified but the 'subdir-objects' option is not given. This
is done to smooth the transition to Automake 2.0, which will
unconditionally assume the behaviour now given only with the
'subdir-objects' option.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com>
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NEWS | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 594bb85..53881df 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -95,6 +95,16 @@ New in 1.14:
<http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13378#35>
<http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13378#44>
+ - The next major Automake version (2.0) will unconditionally turn on
+ the 'subdir-objects' option. I order to smooth out the transition,
+ we now give a warning (in the category 'unsupported') whenever a
+ source file is present in a subdirectory but the 'subdir-object' is
+ not enabled. For example, the following usage will trigger such a
+ warning (of course, assuming the 'subdir-objects' option is off):
+
+ bin_PROGRAMS = sub/foo
+ sub_foo_SOURCES = sub/main.c sub/bar.c
+
- Automake will automatically enhance the AC_PROG_CC autoconf macro
to make it check, at configure time, that the C compiler supports
the combined use of both the "-c -o" options. This "rewrite" of
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1.8.3.rc0.19.g7e6a0cc
