- update to 1.17
- AM_PATH_PYTHON will, after checking "python", prefer any Python 3
version (latest versions checked first) over any Python 2
version. If a specific version of Python 2 is still needed, the
$PYTHON variable should be set beforehand.
- AM_PATH_PYTHON will also search for Python versions 3.20 through 3.10.
It previously searched for 3.9 through 3.0.
- RANLIB may be overridden on a per-target basis.
- AM_TEXI2FLAGS may be defined to pass extra flags to TEXI2DVI & TEXI2PDF.
- New option "posix" to emit the special target .POSIX for make.
- Systems with non-POSIX "rm -f" behavior are now supported, and the
prior intent to drop support for them has been reversed.
The ACCEPT_INFERIOR_RM_PROGRAM setting no longer exists.
- Variables using escaped \# will trigger portability warnings, but be
retained when appended. GNU Make & BSD Makes are known to support it.
- GNU Make's default pattern rules are disabled, for speed and debugging.
(.SUFFIXES was already cleared.)
- For Texinfo documents, if a .texi.in file exists, but no .texi, the
.texi.in will be read. Texinfo source files need not be present at
all, and if present, need not contain @setfilename. Then the file name
as given in the Makefile.am will be used. If @setfilename is present,
it should be the basename of the Texinfo file, extended with .info.
- aclocal has a new option --aclocal-path to override $ACLOCAL_PATH.
- The missing script also supports autoreconf, autogen, and perl.
- test-suite.log now contains basic system information, and the
console message about bug reporting on failure has a bit more detail.
- When using the (default) "parallel" test driver, you can now omit the
output of skipped tests from test-suite.log by defining the
variable IGNORE_SKIPPED_LOGS to a non-empty value. (bug#71422)
- Drop patches now included in 1.17
* tests-Fix-type-defaults-error-in-link_cond.patch
* tests-avoid-implicit-function-declaration-in-depcomp.patch
* tests-don-t-try-to-prevent-flex-from-including-unist.patch
* tests-avoid-implicit-function-declarations.patch
- Drop patch automake-require_file.patch with different upstream fix
- Drop no longer necessary patch
automake-1.13.4-fix-primary-prefix-invalid-couples-test.patch
- Ajust patches automake-suse-vendor.patch and
0001-correct-parameter-parsing-in-test-driver-script.patch