** Summary changed:

- Update to latest 1.13.4 automake
+ Update to latest 1.14 automake

** Description changed:

- This is a bug-fixing release, that remedies to a minor (and almost
- certainly basically harmless) regression introduced in the previous
- 1.13.3 micro release:
+ This release comes with two important changes:
  
-    When two or more user-defined suffix rules are present in a single
-    Makefile.am, automake 1.13.3 would needlessly include definition
-    of some make variables related to C compilation in the generated
-    Makefile.in (this is bug#14560, reported by Ralf Corsepius).
-    This is fixed in automake 1.13.4.
+   1. It introduces a new feature aimed at making the implementation
+      of non-recursive build systems more convenient and manageable
+      (thanks to the new support for the '%reldir%' and '%canon_reldir%'
+      automake-time substitutions).
  
- Apart from few minor testsuite enhancements, the fix for the bug
- reported above is only relevant change between Automake 1.13.3
- and Automake 1.13.4, so we omit the usual detailed excerpt from
- NEWS.
+   2. It improves the handling of C compiles not supporting the conjunct
+      use of the '-c' and '-o' options (unfortunately, this improvement
+      comes with a couple of minor backward-incompatibilities, described
+      in detail in the NEWS section below).  Among th other things, this
+      means that you no longer need to explicitly call the AM_PROG_CC_C_O
+      macro yourself in configure.ac (pre-existing invocation of this
+      macro are of course still accepted and correctly working, for the
+      sake of backward-compatibility).
  
- Download the new release here:
+ The 1.14 release also introduces new (non-fatal) runtime warnings to
+ simplify the transition to Automake 2.0.  You are free to ignore such
+ warnings for now, but should address them before the transition to
+ Automake 2.0 (whose ETA is about one year from now, maybe more, so no
+ need to hurry yet).
  
-   ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.13.4.tar.gz
-   ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.13.4.tar.xz
+ More info:
+ 
+    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2013-06/msg00040.html
+ 
+ Download here:
+ 
+   ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.14.tar.gz
+   ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.14.tar.xz

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