kc3-lang/automake

2013-01-28T13:22:12

NEWS: IRIX is still supported; only SGI C compiler depcomp no longer is This change is for the maint branch. The only IRIX-specific support that is going to actually be removed in the next major Automake versions is the depcomp support for the SGI compiler. That means that automatic dependency tracking will no longer work with that compiler, but "normal" compilation should still work, at least until the compiler is supported by Autoconf. So there is no point in alarming our users by stating in the NEWS file that "support for IRIX and the SGI compilers is going to be removed"; after all, while we don't test on nor particularly care about IRIX anymore, that doesn't mean we are deliberately breaking it, and the likelihood of an intended breakage there is very low. See: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2013-01/msg00164.html> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2013-01/msg00165.html> * NEWS (Future backward-incompatibilities: Adjust. Improve explanation of our rationale for dropping SGI support. Fix an unrelated typo while at it. Suggested-by: Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se> Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>