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Stefano Lattarini e833dfe6 2013-05-28T17:52:15 docs: AM_PROG_MKDIR_P: will not be removed in 2.0 release of Automake See the 'PLANS/obsolete-removed/am-prog-mkdir-p.txt' file in the 'maint' branch (as of commit v1.13.2-201-gd99e3f3) for details. * doc/automake.texi: Adjust. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 4ccf9a80 2013-05-09T20:23:40 docs: we still don't have the promised better Java interface Reported by Michael Zucchi: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2013-05/threads.html> See also automake bug#9088. * doc/automake.texi (Java): Adjust and clarify. * THANKS: Update. Reported-by: Michael Zucchi <notzed@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 526df875 2013-04-25T21:03:40 docs: issues with configure substitutions in TESTS Motivated by automake bug#14019. * doc/automake.texi: Currently, when the parallel test harness is in use, configure substitutions in TESTS definitions can only work if they expand to tests that ends with a suffix listed in TEST_EXTENSIONS. Document this limitation. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini fa55c5d8 2013-04-25T21:34:17 docs: add myself and Ralf Wildenhues as authors * doc/automake.texi: Here. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini fd273c14 2013-01-22T13:28:38 docs: '.txi' and '.texinfo' extensions are deprecated And Automake will warn about them (since commit 'v1.13.1-6-ge1ed314'). * doc/automake.texi (Texinfo): Adjust. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 13f1d58a 2013-01-22T13:02:25 docs: more precise cross reference See automake bug#13520. * doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions): Here, cross-reference "List of Automake options" rather then the more generic node "Options". Improve wording while at it. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini a8f36147 2013-01-22T12:30:15 docs: 'dist-shar' and 'dist-tarZ' are obsolescent today Both the options and the formats; and they might be deprecated and removed in future automake versions (see discussion on automake bug#13324). In any case, it's better if the documentation starts advising against their use right now. * doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions): Here. (List of Automake options): And here. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini e5932416 2013-01-22T12:14:20 docs: improve documentation of 'dist-*' targets slightly * doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions): Here. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 6b8f2008 2013-01-22T12:08:43 docs: make even clearer 'dist-gzip' is the default. See automake bug#13520. * doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions): Here. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 7d0372ac 2013-01-22T12:03:35 docs: document 'dist-xz' together with the other 'dist-*' options See automake bug#13520. * doc/automake.texi (List of Automake options): Here. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini ae340386 2013-01-22T10:56:57 docs: 'no-define' option and AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE three-args usage: fixlets See automake bug#13519. * doc/automake.texi: Adjust. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 81527ed5 2013-01-18T12:02:23 docs: parallel-tests is no longer experimental So don't declare it as such in the documentation. Reported by Brandon Black: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2013-01/msg00052.html> * doc/automake.texi: Adjust. * THANKS: Update. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini a7b2069b 2013-01-18T11:39:28 docs: serial-tests are not deprecated, just discouraged We don't plan to remove support for them, nor to have the serial-tests option give any kind of runtime warning, so don't alarm the users still using serial tests with pointless "deprecation" or "obsolescence" warnings. Fixes automake bug#13478. See also: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2013-01/msg00058.html> * doc/automake.texi: Adjust. * THANKS: Update. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 10ead727 2013-01-01T23:29:02 cosmetics: remove few occurrences of trailing whitespace Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 1c48cbe0 2013-01-01T23:06:36 docs: re-introduce mention of two-args AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE invocation Albeit obsolescent and raising warnings in the 'obsolete' category, that usage is still supported, and will need to be until Autoconf improves its handling of configure-time-generated package version numbers. So it's better to explicitly document it again, stating that it is obsoleted but still working (and why), rather then leaving it as Yet Another Undocumented Feature (that will mysteriously and suddenly break some random day in the future). It's worth giving some background about how we ended up in the situation that this patch fixes. We had originally removed support for the long-deprecated two-args AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE invocation (see commit v1.12-67-ge186355). Before that removal could land in a released Automake version, Bob Friesenhahn made a quite compelling point that the two-args AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE invocation could still be useful for modern, maintained packages like GraphicsMagick, at least until Autoconf is fixed to offer better support for "dynamic" package versions (see commit v1.12.2-245-g2abe183 for more in-depth rationales and references). However, in that commit we didn't revert the removal of the *documentation* for this two-arguments AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE invocation (and no rationale for not doing so was given in the commit message). Time to remedy that. Indirectly suggested by Diego Elio Pattenò: <http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2013/01/autotools-mythbuster-automake-pains> * doc/automake.texi: Adjust. * NEWS: Update. * THANKS: Likewise. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini a1de6563 2013-01-01T00:47:33 docs: autom4te cache can break CONFIGURE_DEPENDENCIES In fact, the new test 'remake-configure-dependencies.sh' only works because it disables the autom4te cache :-( That is more of an AUtotools design issue than an Automake bug, so better just document it ... * doc/automake.texi (Rebuilding): ... here. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini a2e9a713 2013-01-01T00:32:34 coverage: test CONFIGURE_DEPENDENCIES * t/remake-configure-dependencies.sh: New test. * t/list-of-tests.mk: Add it. * doc/automake.texi: Reference it in comments. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini f3e8d1cd 2012-12-31T23:29:24 coverage: test CONFIG_STATUS_DEPENDENCIES * t/remake-config-status-dependencies.sh: New test. * t/list-of-tests.mk: Add it. * doc/automake.texi: Reference it in comments. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 7df8b28c 2012-12-31T18:18:37 maint: update copyright year for 2013 (in branch maint) Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini d7bc5227 2012-12-31T14:16:01 docs: adjust comment w.r.t. recent tests renaming Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini de736a22 2012-12-14T10:43:21 Merge branch 'maint' * maint: docs: fixlet about xz compression levels and command line options maint: more files excluded in 'update-copyright' maint: adapt 'update-copyright' recipe to the new $(FETCHFILES) format HACKING: update instructions to update the manuals at www.gnu.org maint: add an explicative comment in Makefile maint: factor out the name of the dir where web manuals are generated maint: rename rules to build/upload web manuals cosmetic: minor variable and rules reordering in Makefile.am docs: build the web manuals for CVS in the builddir, not in the srcdir release: automate uploading of web manuals in CVS docs: AM_CFLAGS: remove reference to non-existing "more detailed" desc tests: avoid two spurious failures on FreeBSD tests: improve 'pkg-config' requirement
Patrick Welche 4d1c1773 2012-12-14T00:21:39 docs: fixlet about xz compression levels and command line options * doc/automake.texi (The types of distributions): To display a progress bar, xz takes "-v" for verbose. Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 86e03ecc 2012-12-09T20:00:15 docs: AM_CFLAGS: remove reference to non-existing "more detailed" desc * doc/automake.texi (Program variables): Here. Reported by NightStrike: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-12/msg00012.html> Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini d7a59576 2012-12-09T21:55:32 Merge branch 'maint' * maint: docs: AM_CFLAGS: remove reference to non-existing "more detailed" desc maintcheck: prefer '$(am__cd)' over plain 'cd' fetch: improve, and reduce code duplication docs: add rule to generate manuals for www.gnu.org docs: copy the 'gendocs.sh' script from Texinfo CVS repository sync: update files from upstream with "make fetch" release: generate a stub for the release announcement release: distinguish major and minor releases tests: avoid two spurious failures on FreeBSD
Stefano Lattarini c47c6605 2012-12-09T20:00:15 docs: AM_CFLAGS: remove reference to non-existing "more detailed" desc * doc/automake.texi (Program variables): Here. Reported by NightStrike: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-12/msg00012.html> Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 326cd5f0 2012-11-14T16:54:38 aclocal: tracing AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS can work with older autoconf as well This will allow our users to interact also with pre-2.70 autoconf without need for the user to add ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am. For example, before this change, in order to have aclocal look for macros in 'm4/dir1' and 'm4/dir2' also when (say) autoconf 2.69 was used, our users would have had to add something like: ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4/dir1 -I m4/dir2 in Makefile.am, in addition to the AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS([m4/dir1 m4/dir2]) in configure.ac. Now, the AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS call is enough. See the long-winded discussion on automake bug#12845 for more details: <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=12845> * aclocal.in ($ac_config_macro_dirs_fallback): New global variable, contains m4 code to issue a fallback definition of AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS as an alias for the private macro _AM_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS. (trace_used_macros): Handle and trace that macro. Do some code reorganization and fix related botched indentation while at it. (write_aclocal): Output '$ac_config_macro_dirs_fallback' early in the generated aclocal.m4. * t/aclocal-macrodirs.tap: Run unconditionally, even with older autoconf. * t/subpkg-macrodir.sh: Likewise. * doc/automake.texi: Document only AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS, rather than AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 153f861b 2012-10-31T12:41:13 Merge branch 'maint' * maint: vala tests: source test-init.sh, not ./defs tests: fix a spurious typo-related failure tests: remove spurious leftover use of 'Exit' tests: can check our recipes avoid trailing backslashes vala: improve comments to AM_PROG_VALAC news: update w.r.t. recent vala changes vala: if no proper compiler found, set $(VALAC) to 'valac' vala: AM_PROG_VALAC should not produce an error for tool-old valac docs: document recent changes to AM_PROG_VALAC tests: enhance tests on AM_PROG_VALAC vala: style fixes in vala.m4 vala: add action arguments, for when no proper vala compiler is found Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 1b187099 2012-10-26T18:01:17 vala: if no proper compiler found, set $(VALAC) to 'valac' This is better than setting it to ':' (as is currently done), because a triggered makefile rule invoking a vala compilation will then clearly fail with an informative error message like "valac: command not found", rather than silently, with the error possibly going unnoticed, or triggering harder-to-diagnose fallout failures in later steps. For a precedent of a similar behaviour, see the AC_PROG_YACC macro. * m4/valac.m4: Implement the new semantic. * doc/automake.texi (Vala Support): Document it. * t/vala4.sh: Adjust. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Sébastien Wilmet 9fe696bc 2012-10-26T17:08:09 vala: AM_PROG_VALAC should not produce an error for tool-old valac This change fixes automake bug#12688. In the AM_PROG_VALAC macro, when the optional parameter specifying the minimum release number is not provided, and/or if the Vala compiler is not found, then there is a _warning_ message. On the other hand, when the version number is specified and if the Vala compiler is too old, there is an _error_ message. This error message is problematic, because for a tarball, the Vala compiler is not required: the generated C code is included in the tarball. So if a user wants to compile the software, he shouldn't need the valac program with the right version. * m4/vala.m4 (AM_PROG_VALAC): Modify to use AC_MSG_WARN instead of AC_MSG_ERROR. * t/vala4.sh: Adjust and enhance. * doc/automake.texi (Vala Support): Likewise. * THANKS: Update. Co-authored-by: Matthieu Baerts <matttbe@glx-dock.org> Co-authored-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 6ecb0a53 2012-10-26T16:50:26 docs: document recent changes to AM_PROG_VALAC * doc/automake.texi (Vala Support): Here. This is a follow-up to recent commit 'v1.12.4-20-gdf202a3', "vala: add action arguments, for when no proper vala compiler is found". Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Jim Meyering df23dafc 2012-10-22T16:14:49 compat: reinstate AM_PROG_MKDIR_P, for gettext Do not remove AM_PROG_MKDIR_P just yet. gettext (latest from git) still AC_REQUIRE's AM_PROG_MKDIR_P via its intl.m4 and po.m4 files, which are pulled into *many* projects. When I try to build one of those projects (coreutils) using the latest from automake.git/master, I see this failure: $ aclocal -I m4 configure.ac:477: warning: AM_PROG_MKDIR_P is m4_require'd \ but not m4_defun'd m4/po.m4:23: AM_PO_SUBDIRS is expanded from... m4/gettext.m4:57: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is expanded from... configure.ac:477: the top level That is because AM_PROG_MKDIR_P was removed (via commit v1.12-20-g8a1c64f) in preparation for the next release of automake. * NEWS: Remove the paragraph that announced the removal of AM_PROG_MKDIR_P. * Makefile.am (dist_automake_ac_DATA): Add m4/mkdirp.m4. * m4/mkdirp.m4: Re-add file. * t/mkdirp-deprecation.sh: Likewise. * t/list-of-tests.mk: Add it. * automake.in: Restore removed code, and adjust comments, s/1.13/1.14/ to reflect new plan for removal. * doc/automake.texi (Obsolete Macros): Restore the section, but now with only one entry: the one for AM_PROG_MKDIR_P.
Stefano Lattarini 7411adcd 2012-10-02T20:34:47 Merge branch 'maint' * maint: config headers: remove stale comment in makefile fragment NEWS: wording and quoting fixlets in few older entries config headers: don't emit rules for headers not generated by autoheader docs: fix minor typo: s/expending/expanding/ sync: update files from upstream with "make fetch" maint: post-release minor version bump maint: typo fixes s/lies into/lies in/ release: stable release 1.12.4 NEWS: minor fix Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 25ffe7d5 2012-09-28T21:27:41 config headers: don't emit rules for headers not generated by autoheader This change fixed automake bug#12495. Even if an AC_CONFIG_HEADERS invocation is passed a list of several files as the first argument, only the first one of those file is considered by autoheader for automatic generation of the corresponding '.in' template. This is done on purpose, and is clearly documented in the Autoconf manual, which (as of the 2.69 version) reads something like this: The autoheader program searches for the first invocation of AC_CONFIG_HEADERS in configure sources to determine the name of the template. If the first call of AC_CONFIG_HEADERS specifies more than one input file name, autoheader uses the first one. That is, an invocation like: AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h config2.h]) should cause autoheader to generate only a 'config.h.in' template, and not also a 'config2.h.in' one. Accordingly, automake, when tracing AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, should generate remake rules only for the template associated to the first input file name passed to that macro. In some situations, however, automake failed to properly limit itself in this way; for example, with an input like: AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h sub/foo.h]) in configure.ac, and with the 'sub' directory listed in the SUBDIRS variable of the top-level Makefile, automake would erroneously generate in 'sub/Makefile.in' a rule to remake the 'foo.h.in' template by invoking autoheader. This issue was likely introduced in commit 'Release-1-8-23-g262bb92' of 2004-01-05. * NEWS: Update. * doc/automake.texi (Optional): Improve wording in the description of hat rules automake generates in response to an 'AC_CONFIG_HEADERS' invocation. * lib/am/remake-hdr.am: Only emit autoheader-invoking remake rules for the %CONFIG_HIN% template if that corresponds to the first argument of AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, as explaned above. Do so using the automake-time conditional %?FIRST-HDR%, that is properly passed ... * automake.in (handle_configure): ... from a 'file_contents' invocation in here. * t/autohdr-subdir-pr12495.sh: New test. * t/list-of-tests.mk: Add it. * THANKS: Update. Helped-by: Hib Eris <hib@hiberis.nl> Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 58ec9d74 2012-09-27T09:43:27 docs: fix minor typo: s/expending/expanding/ * doc/automake.texi (Wildcards): Here. Fixes automake bug#12516. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 076e8fa2 2012-09-05T14:40:52 Merge branch 'maint' * maint: sync: update files from upstream with "make fetch" news: cygnus will be removed in automake 1.13 news: some changes for 1.13 has been "de-planned" news: report that the have seen fixlets after 1.12.3 warns: enable category 'obsolete' by default Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini cf41f5af 2012-09-04T14:50:49 warns: enable category 'obsolete' by default No surprise that our users were bitten by backward-incompatible changes especially hard: the warnings in the 'obsolete' category, that might have informed them of the upcoming incompatibilities, and help them to prepare for the transition, where not enabled by default! * NEWS, doc/automake.texi: Update. * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Enable warnings in the category 'obsolete' by default. * t/warnings-obsolete-default.sh: New test. * t/list-of-tests.mk: Add it. * t/backcompat.sh: Use 'configure.ac' rather than 'configure.in' as autoconf input file, to avoid spurious aclocal errors. * t/backcompat2.sh: Likewise. * t/backcompat3.sh: Likewise. * t/backcompat5.sh: Add '-Wno-obsolete' when invoking aclocal. Adjust heading comments. * t/backcompat6.sh: Likewise. * t/cygnus-imply-foreign.sh: Add '-Wno-obsolete' when invoking automake. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 97998210 2012-08-26T12:55:38 Merge branch 'maint' * maint: docs: don't suggest to use recursive makefile setup tests: fix a timestamp race in python tests tests: fixup: make distcheck-override-infodir pass again sync: update files from upstream with "make fetch" maint: post-release minor version bump release: stable release 1.12.3 maintcheck: fix spurious warnings docs: fix typo: s/make install-info/make uninstall-info/ tests: fixup: make a couple of tests executable Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini ffa41804 2012-08-21T15:03:05 docs: don't suggest to use recursive makefile setup * doc/automake.texi (Introduction): Here, by erroneously telling that "there should generally be one Makefile.am per directory of a project". For reference, see commit 'v1.12.1-25-g61dfb47' of 2012-06-12, "docs: recursive make considered harmful". Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 346d76aa 2012-08-13T15:03:43 docs: fix typo: s/make install-info/make uninstall-info/ * doc/automake.texi (Texinfo): Here. And a minor wording improvement while we are at it. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini c6cc3802 2012-08-13T14:05:40 Merge branch 'maint' * maint: tests: rework tests on AM_PATH_PYTHON cosmetics: fix typos and references in comments typofix: in a test diagnostic readme: fixlets to HACKING Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini cbc0fc85 2012-08-13T12:10:46 cosmetics: fix typos and references in comments * lib/am/check.am: Here. * doc/automake.texi: And here. * t/*.sh: And in several of these tests. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 3e472de1 2012-08-05T11:06:16 Merge branch 'elisp-work' * elisp-work: news: document all the recent elisp-related changes and improvements coverage: byte-compiling elisp files in different subdirectories elisp: honour AM_ELCFLAFS and ELCFLAGS in byte-compilation elisp: --batch implies -q, remove -q elisp: support elisp files in subdirectories properly elisp: simplify suffix rules using emacs '-L' option elisp: no need to "absolutize" $(srcdir) and $(builddir) ... elisp: prefer $(builddir) files over $(srcdir) ones elisp: use suffix rules, get rid of 'elisp-comp' script (mostly a rewrite) coverage: elisp path contains $(srcdir) and $(builddir) coverage: emacs lisp files in subdirectories
Stefano Lattarini 56cd2dda 2012-08-04T14:56:27 elisp: honour AM_ELCFLAFS and ELCFLAGS in byte-compilation * lib/am/lisp.am (.el.elc): Add "$(AM_ELCFLAFS) $(ELCFLAGS)" to the emacs command line. * t/lisp-flags.sh: New test. * t/list-of-tests.mk: Add it. * doc/automake.texi (Emacs Lisp): Update. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 2d5571e7 2012-07-22T16:38:47 check: support colorized testsuite output by default Fixes automake bug#11855. With this change, we make the 'color-tests' option enabled by default. That option remains still silently accepted as a no-op, for backward compatibility. The developer of a package is still free to disable testsuite coloring on a per-makefile basis (by adding "AM_COLOR_TESTS = no" to the Makefile.am) or on a whole-project basis (by AC_SUBST'ing AM_COLOR_TESTS to "no" in configure.ac). But now the user will be able to request the testsuite output to be colorized, if he really wants to: # With GNU make: make AM_COLOR_TESTS=yes check # With non-GNU make: make AM_COLOR_TESTS=yes AM_MAKEFLAGS=AM_COLOR_TESTS=yes check * NEWS: Update. * doc/automake.texi: Updated, and some related minor reformatting and rewording. * automake.in (handle_tests): No need to pass the transform '%COLOR%' when processing "check.am". * lib/am/parallel-tests.am: Remove use of the '%?COLOR%' transform; just act as if it were unconditionally TRUE. * t/color.sh: No need to specify 'color-tests' in 'AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS' nor in 'AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE'. * t/ax/testsuite-summary-checks.sh: Likewise. * t/ax/tap-summary-aux.sh: Likewise. * t/color2.sh: Likewise. Also, ensure that colorized testsuite output can be disabled by default by calling "AC_SUBST([AM_COLOR_TESTS], [no])". * t/tap-realtime.sh: Define 'AM_COLOR_TESTS' to "no" in Makefile.am, to avoid spurious colorization of the output due to the use of the 'expect' program. * t/color-tests-opt.sh: New test, check that the 'color-tests' option is still recognized as a no-op. * t/list-of-tests.mk: Add the new test. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Jack Kelly 226be35f 2012-07-14T21:52:43 elisp: use suffix rules, get rid of 'elisp-comp' script (mostly a rewrite) Motivated by automake bug#11806. Traditionally, automake byte-compiled emacs-lisp '.el' files by invoking 'elisp-comp' on all of them in a bulk; this involved complex timestamping and file-locking logic. It was also brittle in any slightly-unusual setup, because 'elisp-comp' operated by copying all of the elisp files to be compiled into a temporary sub-directory and compiling them in there, the copying the resulting byte-compile files back in the build directory. This patch removes all of that juggling and chicanery in favour of defining a much simpler '.el.elc' suffix rule. Not only this is simpler, but it also interacts better with "make -jN" calls, which are becoming more and more common and useful on today's increasingly multicore systems. * Makefile.am (dist_script_DATA): Remove 'elisp-comp'. * automake.in (@common_files): Likewise. (handle_emacs_lisp): Do not require 'elisp-comp'. * doc/automake.texi: Remove references to 'elisp-comp'. * lib/am/lisp.am: Define elisp compilation via a suffix rule; this basically amounts to a complete re-write of the lisp byte-compilation rules. * lib/elisp-comp: Remove. * t/add-missing.tap: Remove elisp-comp test. * t/dist-auxdir-many-subdirs.sh: Remove reference to elisp-comp. * t/primary-prefix-invalid-couples.tap: Likewise. * t/primary-prefix-valid-couples.sh: Likewise. * t/lisp4.sh: Remove reference to elc-stamp. * t/lisp5.sh: Likewise. * t/lisp6.sh: Likewise. * t/lisp3.sh: Likewise. Also remove the recompilation check that involves a (message) call. * t/lisp7.sh: Remove check for "Warnings can be ignored". Remove reference to elc-stamp. * t/lisp8.sh: Likewise. * t/lispdry.sh: Remove references to elc-stamp. Acked-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 5e0539a3 2012-07-03T21:15:33 Merge branch 'aclocal-trace-macrodir' * aclocal-trace-macrodir: aclocal: deprecate ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS, trace AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR instead Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini cd1a9ccc 2010-10-05T17:14:00 aclocal: deprecate ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS, trace AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR instead Maintaining ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in the Makefile.am to pass extra flags to aclocal is (and have always been) quite of an hack. For example, autoreconf is forced to grep Makefile.am to honour those flags. But this is a bad obsolescent behaviour; in fact, the autotools have moved consistently in the past years from custom grepping of Makefile.am and configure.ac to tracing of m4 macro calls, which is more consistent, more reliable and more flexible. And when autoreconf is not used, the developer is forced to add *by hand* the flags specified by ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS to the aclocal calls not triggered by make rebuild rules; here lie again more duplication and more chances for errors. Moreover, ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS has only two typical use cases: - to instruct aclocal to look for extra macro definition in a local directory (as with "ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4"); and - to further instruct aclocal to copy in that local directory the required third-party .m4 files found in the system-wide directory (as with "ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4 --install"). The first use case can be better covered if aclocal can instead trace and honours call to the AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR autoconf macro; and the second use case shouldn't be considered really legitimate, as it is quite (and subtly) brittle (see automake bug#9037). Thus we now make aclocal trace AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR macro, and act accordingly. For backward compatibility, we continue to support the ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS special variable (although removing any mention of it from the documentation). Future Automake releases will likely start to warn about the use of that variable, and eventually remove support for it altogether. From a suggestion by Eric Blake. This is a much simplified (and IMHO saner) version of the patch series discussed in the threads: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-10/msg00045.html> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-12/msg00156.html> * aclocal.in ($ac_config_macro_dir): New global variable. (trace_used_macros): Also trace the macro 'AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR', and set the '$ac_config_macro_dir' variable accordingly. (parse_arguments): Code for diagnosis of '--install' used without any user-specified include directory moved ... (while (1)): .. into the main loop. Which now also updates the list of user-specified include directories to include the directory given as argument to the call (if any) of 'AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR'. * lib/am/configure.am: Update comments. * NEWS: Updated. * doc/automake.texi: Likewise. Also, stop advising the use of the '--install' in ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS (see automake bug#9037 for a rationale), and remove any reference to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS (which is now considered obsolescent). * t/aclocal-path-install.sh: Adjust grepping check in the aclocal error messages. * t/subpkg.sh: Updated: add 'AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR' call to configure.ac, remove setting of 'ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS' in Makefile.am and use of aclocal command line arguments. * t/subpkg2.sh: Likewise. * t/subdir8.sh: Likewise. * t/remake10c.sh: Likewise. * t/remake8a.sh: Likewise. * t/remake8b.sh: Likewise. * t/aclocal4.sh: Likewise. * t/aclocal6.sh: Likewise. * t/acloca14.sh: Likewise. * t/acloca22.sh: Likewise. * t/aclocal5.sh: Likewise, and do not not invade the Automake namespace (this avoids spurious failures). * t/acloca14b.sh: New test, identical to the previous version of 'acloca14.test'; it is kept to verify backwards compatibility with the use of ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS. * t/acloca22b.sh: Likewise (but for 'acloca22.test'). * t/aclocal-amflags.sh: New test, check for backwards compatibility that ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS still works. * t/remake-macrodir.sh: New test, checking that aclocal's honoring of AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR interacts nicely with automatic rebuild rules. * t/list-of-tests.mk: Add the new tests. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 3da1457d 2012-06-12T14:48:12 recursion: support user-defined recursive targets The user can now define his own recursive targets that recurse in the directories specified in $(SUBDIRS). That can be done by specifying the name of such targets in invocations of the new 'AM_EXTRA_RECURSIVE_TARGETS' m4 macro. The API goes like this: $ cat configure.ac AC_INIT([pkg-name], [1.0] AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE AM_EXTRA_RECURSIVE_TARGETS([foo]) AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile sub/Makefile]) AC_OUTPUT $ cat Makefile.am SUBDIRS = sub foo-local: @echo This will be run by "make foo". $ cat sub/Makefile.am foo-local: @echo This too will be run by a "make foo" issued either in @echo the 'sub/' directory or in the top-level directory. Like for the "default" recursive targets (e.g., 'all' and 'check'), the user-defined recursive targets descend in the $(SUBDIRS) in a depth-first fashion, and process '.' last (unless that is explicitly specified in $(SUBDIRS)). * NEWS, doc/automake.texi: Document the new feature. * automake.in (@extra_recursive_targets): New global variable. (scan_autoconf_traces): Trace macro '_AM_EXTRA_RECURSIVE_TARGETS'. (handle_user_recursion): New subroutine; among other things, it defines the new internal '$(am__extra_recursive_targets)' make variable, and the '*-am', '*-local' and '*-recursive' targets associated with the user-specified user recursive targets. (generate_makefile): Call the new subroutine. * lib/am/subdirs.am (am__recursive_targets): New internal make variable, listing all of '$(RECURSIVE_TARGETS)', '$(RECURSIVE_CLEAN_TARGETS)' and '$(am__extra_recursive_targets)' together. (AM_RECURSIVE_TARGETS): Adjust the definition of this variable ... (.PHONY, .MAKE): ... and the list of dependencies of these special targets to take advantage of the new '$(am__recursive_targets)' variable. ($(am__recursive_targets)): New targets, superseding ... ($(RECURSIVE_TARGETS), $(RECURSIVE_CLEAN_TARGETS)): ... these, and inheriting their rules. This way, the rules to handle recursion for built-in recursive targets (e.g., 'all', 'dvi', 'clean') and for user defined recursive targets are the same. * m4/extra-recurs.m4: New file, contain definition of new macro 'AM_EXTRA_RECURSIVE_TARGETS' and '_AM_EXTRA_RECURSIVE_TARGETS'. These macros are basically dummy, only used for tracing by automake. * m4/Makefile.am (dist_automake_ac_DATA): Update. * t/recurs-user.sh: New test. * t/recurs-user2.sh: Likewise. * t/recurs-user-deeply-nested.sh: Likewise. * t/recurs-user-indir.sh: Likewise. * t/recurs-user-keep-going.sh: Likewise. * t/recurs-user-many.sh: Likewise. * t/recurs-user-no-subdirs.sh: Likewise. * t/recurs-user-no-top-level.sh: Likewise. * t/recurs-user-override.sh: Likewise. * t/recurs-user-phony.sh: Likewise. * t/recurs-user-wrap.sh: Likewise. * t/remake-recurs-user.sh: Likewise. * t/list-of-tests.mk: Update. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 27478539 2012-06-28T10:59:45 Merge branch 'maint' * maint: coverage: tests AM_MISSING_PROG usage docs: document AM_MISSING_PROG Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Eric Blake e677ba93 2012-06-27T15:55:14 docs: document AM_MISSING_PROG Addresses automake bug#11793. This macro has been present for a long time, and coreutils has been relying on it despite no documentation, which argues that it is stable enough to be worth documenting. Furthermore, since we are hoping to change our preferred invocation from 'missing --run program' to 'missing program' in a future version of automake, we need a way for packages to consistently get the preferred invocation form rather than open-coding a call to 'missing'. In particular, the Autoconf manual would love to recommend this macro when discussing how to integrate an autotest suite with automake. * doc/automake.texi (Public Macros): Document AM_MISSING_PROG. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 9465eb26 2012-06-23T00:32:30 Merge branch 'missing-not-touch-just-warn' * missing-not-touch-just-warn: missing: do not touch timestamps; only warn for out-of-date files Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 488de31e 2012-06-21T13:15:05 Merge branch 'maint' * maint: docs: avoid failures with development version of Texinfo (4.13.90) typofix: s/test derivers/test drivers/ in check.am comments typofix: s/env/even/ in comments in GNUmakefile
Stefano Lattarini d0dc4485 2012-06-21T13:13:04 docs: avoid failures with development version of Texinfo (4.13.90) * doc/automake-history.texi: Use '@item' instead of '@itemx' where appropriate. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini a22717df 2012-06-15T11:13:00 missing: do not touch timestamps; only warn for out-of-date files Before this change, the missing script had a twofold role: - it warned the user if some required maintainer tools was missing, or too old; - in such a case, it tried to "fix" the timestamp of the files that should have been rebuilt by that tool (without actually updating the file contents, of course), to allow the build to continue. The second capability used to be quite useful in the days when most projects committed files generated by maintainer-only tools in their VCS repository (today the trend is not to keep such generated files VCS-committed anymore). In such a setup, the "timestamp-fixing" capability of 'missing' was quite useful, in that it allowed users lacking some required maintainer tool to build from a VCS checkout in the face of skewed timestamps (as could have been caused by "cvs update" or "git checkout"). But then, when the automatic remake rules kicked in due to the generated files being *actually out-of-date* (e.g., because the user had modified 'configure.ac' but lacked a modern-enough autoconf to rebuild it), that behaviour of 'missing' caused the same problem that plagued AM_MAINTAINER_MODE; i.e., the user would get non-dependable builds and inconsistent statuses of the build tree -- changes to source files don't reflect on generated files, and this can be very confusing and cause hard-to-spot errors). So we now believe that the best approach to deal with timestamp-related issues is not to have 'missing' to "automagically" try to resolve them (with all the risk and brittleness entailed), but rather to suggest those projects still keeping generated files committed in their VCS to provide a proper (say) 'fix-timestamp.sh' script that touches the timestamp of the checked-out files, to ensure no spurious rebuild will be triggered. As a bonus, such a script can be more aware of the particularities, nooks and corner cases of a project, and thus more reliable than the old 'missing' script. An example of this approach is offered by GNU awk (release 4.0.1, Git tag 'gawk-4.0.1', commit b85b04e8). The GNU awk maintainers commit the Autotools-generated files (configure, Makefile.in, etc.) and other generated in the project's Git repository, but offer a useful script 'bootstrap.sh' that fixes the timestamps of those files, to ensure no useless remake is triggered in a freshly cloned repository: #! /bin/sh # bootstrap.sh --- touch relevant files to avoid out-of-date issues # in Git sandboxes touch aclocal.m4 find awklib -type f -print | xargs touch sleep 1 touch configure sleep 2 touch configh.in sleep 1 touch test/Maketests find . -name Makefile.in -print | xargs touch touch doc/*.info touch po/*.gmo touch po/stamp-po touch awkgram.c touch command.c touch version.c A similar, simplified script is also reported as an example in the manual. * NEWS: Update. * doc/automake.texi (Auxiliary Programs, maintainer-mod): Update. (CVS): Do not suggest that 'missing' can "automagically" fix botched timestamp due to a "cvs update"; this isn't true anymore. Give an example of a custom 'fix-timestamp.sh' script that can be used to obtain the same effect (in a slightly more laborious but also more explicit and less brittle way). Fix some minor typos and improper wordings while we are at it. * lib/missing: Basically rewritten to implement the new semantics. As a side effect (one of the several), the '--run' option is no more required nor recognized. * m4/missing.m4 (AM_MISSING_HAS_RUN): Enhance the test on '$MISSING' to ensure it actually provides the new semantics (by trying the new "witness" option '--is-lightweight'). * lib/am/distdir.am (distdir): No need anymore to check for "bad" distributed man pages that were actually dummy stubs generated by the 'missing' script. * t/missing4.sh: Rename ... * t/remake-aclocal-version-mismatch.sh: ... like this. * t/missing2.sh: Rename ... * t/missing-version-mismatch.sh: ... like this, and adjust to the new semantics. * t/missing3.sh: Adjust to the new semantics. * t/man4.sh: Remove as obsolete. * t/missing.sh: Likewise. * t/missing5.sh: Likewise. * t/txinfo30.sh: Likewise. * t/man6.sh: Adjust grepping checks. * t/remake6.sh: Likewise. * t/list-of-tests.mk: Adjust. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 7c6310c3 2012-06-20T18:35:57 Merge branch 'maint' * maint: bootstrap: overhaul and improve docs: quote 'like this', not `like this'
Stefano Lattarini 8d864157 2012-06-20T17:27:57 docs: quote 'like this', not `like this' * doc/automake.texi: Fix the reported warnings and informative messages from automake to quote 'like this' rather than as `like this'. Do the same for comments and some text in our examples. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini ffe04c8d 2012-06-16T09:16:53 docs: it's not true that DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS is maintainer-reserved At least, not anymore since commit 'v1.11-372-g9760039' of 2001-06-10, "distcheck: add support for AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS". See also automake bug#8784. * doc/automake.texi (Flag Variables Ordering): Do not report 'DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS' as a "variables that are only useful to the maintainer that has no user counterpart": now it is a user-reserved variable, its maintainer-reserved counterpart being 'AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS' . Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 7b1697bd 2012-06-15T10:27:27 Merge branch 'maint' * maint: tests: minor reorganization of few tests fixup: adjust t/list-of-tests.mk for renamed/added tests subdirs: enhance coverage, tweak and rename few tests sync: update files from upstream with "make fetch" py-compile: consistently quote 'like this', not `like this'. docs: recursive make considered harmful docs: clean rules are not run in reverse order of build rules anymore silent: new $(AM_V_P) variable, tell if we're running in silent mode refactor: silent rules handling (a little) refactor: &define_verbose_var: accept a third optional argument + Extra non-trivial edits: These are due to the fact that support for silent rules is enabled unconditionally these days (since commit 'v1.12-34-g14141f2' of 2012-05-01, "silent rules: support for them is always active now"). * automake.in: In the new silent related code, do not ever check whether the 'silent-rules' option is active; just assume support for silent rules is enabled. * t/silent-obsolescent-warns.sh: Remove as obsolete. * t/list-of-tests.mk: Adjust. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini db16f500 2012-06-15T10:09:19 Merge branch 'docs-recursion' into maint * docs-recursion: docs: recursive make considered harmful
Stefano Lattarini 401a2a82 2012-06-15T10:09:04 Merge branch 'silent-custom' into maint * silent-custom: silent: new $(AM_V_P) variable, tell if we're running in silent mode refactor: silent rules handling (a little) refactor: &define_verbose_var: accept a third optional argument Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini b72e9747 2012-06-14T22:47:28 subdirs: enhance coverage, tweak and rename few tests * t/subdir5.sh: Rename ... * t/subdir-add-pr46.sh: ... like this. * t/subdir8.sh: Rename ... * t/subdir-add2-pr46.sh: ... like this. * t/cond2.sh: Rename ... * t/subdir-cond-err.sh: ... like this. * t/subdir9.sh: Rename ... * t/subdir-with-slash.sh: ... like this; improve heading comments. * t/subcond.sh: Rename ... * t/subdir-cond-gettext.sh: ... like this; improve m4 quoting. * t/subcond2.sh: Rename ... * t/subdir-am-cond.sh: ... like this; adjust heading comments. * t/subcond3.sh: Rename ... * t/subdir-ac-subst.sh: ... like this; adjust heading comments. * t/subdir2.sh: Rename ... * t/subdir-subsub.sh: ... like this; enhance so that it also runs './configure' and 'make'. * t/subdir-order.sh: New test, check that the $(SUDBIRS) entries are processed in the order they are specified. * doc/automake.texi: Adjust references to tests. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 61dfb470 2012-06-12T17:24:21 docs: recursive make considered harmful In the documentation, we shouldn't confuse "packages using subdirectories" with "packages using recursive make invocations". A package can have a careful organization in subdirectories, make no (or almost no) use of make recursion (examples of such packages are GNU bison, GNU cppi, and Automake itself). In fact, make recursion should be used as seldom as possible, because it makes the build system more brittle and dependency declarations less faithful. See Peter Miller's article "Recursive Make Considered Harmful" for more a more in-depth discussion: http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/books/rmch/ * doc/automake.texi (Directories): Clarify how a build system based on make recursion does. Observe that such a system, albeit being very widespread, has its own issues and drawbacks, and that one can have a non-recursive setup also for projects using complex directory layout. (Recursing subdirectories): Speak of "packages that use make recursion" rather than of "packages with subdirectories". Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini aca096de 2012-06-12T16:10:19 docs: clean rules are not run in reverse order of build rules anymore At least since commit 'v1.12.1-12-gec6a135' of 2012-06-10, "subdirs: unify rules for "cleaning" and "normal" recursive targets" * doc/automake.texi (Recursing subdirectories): Adjust. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 2ef0a2d3 2012-06-11T21:39:46 Merge branch 'maint' * maint: maintcheck: fix failures, both real and spurious subdir tests: avoid an use of "make -j4", for portability tests: avoid failure due to libtool quirks in C++ demo test tests: fix spurious failures due to missing '$sleep' subdirs: unify rules for "cleaning" and "normal" recursive targets tests: add a "demo" test on C support tests: look for '.lo' rather than '.o' object when using Libtool with C++ cosmetics: few typofixes in older ChangeLogs, suggested by "codespell.py" maint: grammar fixes: s/all these/all of these/ subdir-objects: improve "make mostlyclean" efficiency and flexibility Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 825722a1 2012-06-11T16:12:01 silent: new $(AM_V_P) variable, tell if we're running in silent mode Addresses part of automake bug#8665. * automake.in (handle_silent): Define a new make variable '$(AM_V_P)', that expands to a shell conditional that can be used in make recipes to determine whether they are being run in silent mode or not. The choice of the name derives from the LISP convention of appending the letter 'P' to denote a predicate (see also "the '-P' convention" in the Jargon File); we do so for lack of a better convention. * t/automake.texi, NEWS: Document the new variable. * t/silent6.sh: Adjust and extend. Move out the checks that didn't actually deal with user extension of silent rules ... * t/silent-obsolescent-warns.sh: ... into this test (bound to be removed once 'maint' is merged into the 'master' branch). * t/list-of-tests.mk: Add the new test. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Jim Meyering fa0cd34b 2012-06-10T22:03:49 maint: grammar fixes: s/all these/all of these/ Run this command: git grep -li '\<all.these\>' \ |xargs perl -pi -e 's/\b([Aa])ll these\b/${1}ll of these/'
Stefano Lattarini e92bd2e7 2012-06-02T09:54:17 Merge branch 'maint' * maint: news: document deprecation of configure.in news: put planned backward compatibilities early sync: update files from upstream with "make fetch" maint: deprecate 'configure.in' as autoconf input maint: post-release minor version bump release: stable release 1.12.1 copyright: update copyright years in a couple of files tests: avoid spurious failures with Solaris 9 cscope program maintcheck: fix a spurious failure perf: beginning of a performance testsuite aclocal: declare function prototypes, do not use '&' in function calls news: support for configure.in will be dropped in future automake versions tests: fix botched heading comments in 'lex-clean-cxx.sh' [ng] maintcheck: some tweaks and fixlets help: fix a typo in the list of warning categories maint: version bump after beta release release: beta release 1.12.0b (will become 1.12.1) release: remove overly picky check Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 192d699a 2012-06-01T15:47:17 copyright: update copyright years in a couple of files * doc/help2man, t/aclocal-verbose-install.sh: Update copyright, thanks to "make update-copyright". Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini a12d9e9c 2012-05-27T18:47:46 docs: remove mention of AM_CONFIG_HEADER: it is obsolete and removed now * doc/automake.texi (Variables used when building a program): Remove obsolete mention of AM_CONFIG_HEADER as an alias to AC_CONFIG_HEADERS. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 52062eb2 2012-05-25T14:50:05 Merge branch 'am-init-automake' * am-init-automake: init: obsolete usages of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE not supported anymore Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini e186355f 2012-05-19T11:47:26 init: obsolete usages of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE not supported anymore This is a follow-up on commit v1.12-66-g27136df of 2012-05-06, "init: warn against obsolete usage of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE". With this change, we drop support for the two-arguments and three-arguments invocation forms of the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macro, as in either of: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE($PACKAGE, $VERSION) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE($PACKAGE, $VERSION, NODEFINE) * NEWS, doc/automake.texi: Update. * m4/init.m4 (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Report the two- and three-arguments invocation form as a hard error. * t/aminit-moreargs-deprecation.sh: Renamed ... * t/aminit-moreargs-deprecation.sh: ... to this, and updated to check the new semantics. * t/ac-output-old.tap: Adjust by avoiding old-style uses of AC_INIT and AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE. * t/acsilent.sh: Likewise. * t/dirlist.sh: Likewise. * t/dirlist2.sh: Likewise. * t/req.sh: Likewise. * t/nodef.sh: Remove as obsolete. * t/version.sh: Likewise. * t/version2.sh: Likewise. * t/backcompat.sh: Likewise. * t/backcompat2.sh: Likewise. * t/backcompat3.sh: Likewise. * t/backcompat5.sh: Likewise. * t/backcompat4.sh: Renamed ... * t/backcompat-acout.sh: ... to this. * t/list-of-tests.mk: Adjust. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 5e771b27 2012-05-18T18:00:51 check: the parallel-tests driver is now the default The old serial testsuite driver is still supported, and can be activated by the 'serial-tests' option (introduced by commit 'v1.11-1989-gdeb7773' of 2012-02-20, "automake: new option 'serial-tests'"). * lib/Automake/Options.pm: Now, the 'parallel-tests' option is a no-op (but still explicitly recognized, for backward compatibility), while the 'serial-tests' option is recognized and registered. * automake.in: Adjust to ensure that the parallel test harness is used by default; mostly, this amounts at using "! option('serial-tests')" where "option('parallel-tests')" was used before. * NEWS, doc/automake.texi: Update. * configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Drop 'parallel-tests' option, is redundant now. * defs: In the generated AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE call, use the 'serial-tests' when the serial testsuite harness is to be used, and no option otherwise. * lib/am/check.am: Use (static) conditional '%SERIAL_TESTS%' instead of conditional '%PARALLEL_TESTS%'. * lib/test-driver: Adjust heading comments. * t/ax/extract-testsuite-summary.pl: Likewise. * t/check-exported-srcdir.sh: Likewise. * t/check-subst.sh: Likewise. * t/java-compile-run-nested.sh: Likewise. * t/parallel-tests-dry-run-1.sh: Likewise. * t/parallel-tests-dry-run-2.sh: Likewise. * t/parallel-tests-interrupt.sh: Likewise. * t/parallel-tests-many.sh: Likewise. * t/test-metadata-global-log.sh: Likewise. * t/tests-environment-backcompat.sh: Likewise. * m4/init.m4 (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Adjust a comment. * t/check8.sh: Likewise. * t/check-tests-in-builddir.sh: Likewise. * t/java-compile-run-flat.sh: Adjust a botched comment. * t/ax/tap-summary-aux.sh: Remove explicit use of the 'parallel-tests' option. * t/ax/testsuite-summary-checks.sh: Likewise. * t/aclocal-path-precedence.sh: Likewise. * t/dist-aux-many-subdirs.sh: Likewise. * t/parallel-tests-no-color-in-log.sh: Likewise. * t/parallel-tests-reset-term.sh: Likewise. * t/parallel-tests-subdir.sh: Likewise. * t/check-no-test-driver.sh: Fix setup to adjust to the changed semantics. Update heading comments. * t/parallel-tests-driver-install.sh: Adjust to the new semantic. * t/test-driver-is-distributed.sh: Simplified according to the new semantics. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 7b6129b9 2012-05-18T14:31:36 Merge branch 'maint' * maint: tests: use 'parallel-tests' Automake option by default doc: fix location of Automake's own test-suite.log file yacc tests: avoid a spurious failure with Sun C++ 5.9 self tests: cater for /bin/ksh symlinked to Zsh tests: fix spurious failures due to dpkg install-info Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 8084ae1b 2012-05-17T12:36:23 doc: fix location of Automake's own test-suite.log file * doc/automake.texi (Reporting Bugs): The global testsuite log of Automake is now (basically since we have removed make recursion from the Automake's build system) saved in the file 'test-suite.log', not in the file 'tests/test-suite.log'. Adjust accordingly. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 12405c9f 2012-05-08T12:49:36 Merge branch 'maint' * maint: tests: fix a spurious failure with dash test defs: fix indentation (cosmetic change) tests: remove obsolete uses of $sh_errexit_works configure: search a sturdy POSIX shell to be used in the testsuite tests: shell running test scripts is now named AM_TEST_RUNNER_SHELL fixup: distribute t/README init: warn against obsolete usage of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 27136dfe 2012-03-31T16:39:32 init: warn against obsolete usage of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE Support for the two- and three-arguments invocation forms of the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macro, as in: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE($PACKAGE, $VERSION) or: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE($PACKAGE, $VERSION, NODEFINE) will be removed in the next major Automake release (1.13). Such usages have already been deprecated in the documentation starting from commit v1.11-2015-ge99690a of 23-02-2012 "docs, news: document planned removal of obsolete macros and features". We now start giving runtime warnings as well (in the 'obsolete' category). * NEWS: Update. * m4/init.m4 (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Report the two- and three-arguments form invocation. * automake.in (scan_autoconf_traces): Likewise. * doc/automake.texi: Minor adjustments. Add an @anchor to the location where it's described how to modernize outdated invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, so that it can be referenced from automake warning/error messages. * t/aminit-moreargs-deprecation.sh: New test. * tests/list-of-tests.mk: Add it. * tests/ac-output-old.tap: Adjust by calling automake with the warnings in the 'obsolete' category disabled. * t/backcompat.test: Likewise. * t/backcompat3.test: Likewise. * t/backcompat5.test: Likewise. * t/backcompat6.test: Likewise. * t/version.test: Likewise. * t/version2.test: Likewise. * t/pr2.test: Modernize style of AC_INIT and AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE invocations, and use proper m4 quoting. * t/pr87.test: Likewise. * t/confsub.test: Likewise. * t/install2.test: Likewise. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini adb834eb 2012-05-06T11:04:45 Merge branch 'maint' * maint: m4: prepend m4 builtins with "m4_" docs: fix clumsy grammar in the scripts-based testsuite chapter Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Nick Alcock bd75e7a8 2012-05-04T15:14:43 docs: fix clumsy grammar in the scripts-based testsuite chapter * doc/automake.texi (Scripts-based Testsuites): "We'll have later" is a rare example of English in the Automake manual clearly not written by a native English-speaker: while comprehensible, it can be better formulated. Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes Signed-off-by: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 1e852648 2012-05-04T17:46:51 Merge branch 'maint' * maint: tests: avoid spurious failure on missing Obj C/C++ compiler objc, objc++: test support for compilation flags objc, objc++: add stress test objc, objc++: test automatic dependency tracking objc: reorganize basic tests objc++, objc: add first semantic tests objc++: add first basic test news: announce initial support for Objective C++ objc++: test support for '.mm' suffix in _SOURCES entries objc++: add documentation objc++: initial support for Objective C++
Stefano Lattarini 75b91149 2012-05-04T13:24:23 Merge branch 'objc++' into maint * objc++: objc, objc++: test support for compilation flags objc, objc++: add stress test objc, objc++: test automatic dependency tracking objc: reorganize basic tests objc++, objc: add first semantic tests objc++: add first basic test news: announce initial support for Objective C++ objc++: test support for '.mm' suffix in _SOURCES entries objc++: add documentation objc++: initial support for Objective C++ Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 0fec8df4 2012-05-02T18:15:41 Merge branch 'always-support-silent-rules' * always-support-silent-rules: silent rules: support for them is always active now Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 1ad72bca 2012-05-02T10:52:18 Merge branch 'cygnus-remove' * cygnus-remove: cygnus: remove support for Cygnus-style trees Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini b618b585 2012-05-02T10:26:12 Merge branch 'maint' * maint: cosmetics: fix typo in aclocal m4 directory README cygnus: warn when it's used (flagged as 'obsolete' now) Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 14141f25 2012-05-01T14:23:04 silent rules: support for them is always active now Before this change, support for silent rules was optional and activated only if the 'silent-rules' option was specified. The rationale behind that behaviour was that the silent-rules machinery originally only worked with make implementations supporting nested variables expansions, which isn't (or wasn't) a POSIX-specified features; so that packages wanting to be "extra-portable" couldn't use the silent-rules machinery at all. But after Paul Eggert's commit 'v1.11-598-g8493499' of 25-12-2011, "silent-rules: fallback for makes without nested vars" (motivated by automake bugs #9928 and #10237), Makefiles generated when the 'silent-rules' option is enabled can work also with those make implementations that don't support nested variables expansion (albeit the configure-time selected verbosity cannot be overridden at make runtime in such case). In light of that, and since silent rules are disabled by default even when the 'silent-rules' option is given (unless the developer explicitly makes them enabled by default be calling "AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])" in configure.ac), we can now have the support for silent rules always enabled. The 'silent-rules' option will thus become a no-op, but will reaming a valid option for the time being, for better backward-compatibility. A collateral effect of this change is that the use of the 'silent-rules' option will not anymore automatically disable the warnings in the 'portability-recursive' category. The present change is basically a backport of the Automake-NG commit 'v1.11d-75-g61ca923' of 19-04-2012, "[ng] silent rules: support for them is always active now". Stemmed by this thread on the Automake-NG list: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-ng/2012-04/msg00027.html> * automake.in: Enable silent-rules machinery unconditionally. Reword some comments. Do not switch off warnings in the category 'portability-recursive' anymore if the 'silent-rules' option is given. * m4/init.m4: Call 'AC_REQUIRE' on 'AM_SILENT_RULES' unconditionally. * lib/Automake/Options.pm: Recognize 'silent-rules' as a dummy option. Do not bother anymore checking that it is set in 'configure.ac'. * t/silent.sh: Remove now-redundant calls to AM_SILENT_RULES. * t/silent2.sh: Likewise. * t/silent3.sh: Likewise. * t/silent4.sh: Likewise. * t/silent8.sh: Likewise. * t/silent9.sh: Likewise. * t/silent-lex.sh: Likewise. * t/silent-many-gcc.sh: Likewise. * t/silent-many-generic.sh: Likewise. * t/silent-yacc-headers.sh: Likewise. * t/silent-yacc.sh: Likewise. * t/silentcxx-gcc.sh: Likewise. * t/silentcxx.sh: Likewise. * t/silentf77.sh: Likewise. * t/silentf90.sh: Likewise. * t/help-silent.sh: Likewise. * t/silent-configsite.sh: Likewise, and other minor adjustments. * t/silent7.sh: Likewise. Also, extend to check that silent rules are disabled by default, and remove obsoleted checks about the 'silent-rules' option being rejected in 'AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS'. * t/silent6.sh: Remove now-redundant calls to 'AM_SILENT_RULES'. Call automake with '-Wno-portability-recursive'. Remove other obsoleted checks. * t/dollarvar.sh: Don't expect the use of 'AM_SILENT_RULES' in 'configure.ac' to disable warning in the 'portability-recursive' category anymore. * t/compile_f_c_cxx.sh: Adjust to avoid a spurious failure. * t/silent-amopts.sh: Remove as obsolete. * t/silent-nowarn.sh: Likewise. * t/list-of-tests.mk: Adjust. * NEWS: Update. * doc/automake.texi: Update and simplify accordingly. * configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Remove 'silent-rules' option. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 5b0cc395 2012-04-06T11:18:38 cygnus: remove support for Cygnus-style trees Support for "Cygnus-style" tree as enabled by the 'cygnus' option has been deprecated in the documentation and with runtime warning since Automake 1.12.1. It's now time to remove it. Closes automake bug#11034. * lib/Automake/Options.pm (_process_option_list): Issue a proper error when the 'cygnus' option is seen. * automake.in: Don't handle the 'cygnus' option anymore. * docs/automake.texi: Remove references to cygnus option and Cygnus-style trees. * lib/am/dejagnu.am, lib/am/texinfos.am: Drop special setups for cygnus mode. * NEWS: Update. * t/cygnus-no-more.sh: New test. * t/flavor.sh: Adjust. * t/cygnus-deprecation.sh: Remove. * t/cygnus-check-without-all.sh: Likewise. * t/cygnus-requires-maintainer-mode.sh: Likewise. * t/cygnus-dependency-tracking.sh: Likewise. * t/cygnus-imply-foreign.sh: Likewise. * t/cygnus-no-installinfo.sh: Likewise. * t/cygnus-no-dist.sh: Likewise. * t/clean2.sh: Likewise. * t/txinfo5.sh: Likewise. * t/txinfo5b.sh: Likewise. * t/list-of-tests.mk: Update. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 71cc0e09 2012-03-31T14:53:24 cygnus: warn when it's used (flagged as 'obsolete' now) Support for "Cygnus-style" tree as enabled by the 'cygnus' option is now reported as obsolete when the warnings in the 'obsolete' category are enabled. See automake bug#11034. * automake.in (check_cygnus): Report the use of 'cygnus' mode as obsolete. * NEWS: Update. * docs/automake.texi: Minor adjustments. * t/cygnus-deprecation.sh: New test. * t/list-of-tests.mk: Add it. * tests/cygnus-check-without-all.sh: Adjust by calling automake with the warnings in the 'obsolete' category disabled. * t/cygnus-requires-maintainer-mode.sh: Likewise. * t/cygnus-dependency-tracking.sh: Likewise. * t/cygnus-imply-foreign.sh: Likewise. * t/cygnus-no-installinfo.sh: Likewise. * t/cygnus-no-dist.sh: Likewise. * t/clean2.sh: Likewise. * t/flavor.sh: Likewise. * t/txinfo5.sh: Likewise. * t/txinfo5b.sh: Likewise. * t/library.sh: Remove use of 'cygnus' and 'dejagnu' options, and of AM_MAINTAINER_MODE macro. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Peter Breitenlohner 8becdd30 2012-04-26T15:03:02 objc++: add documentation * doc/automake.texi (Objective C++ Support): New node. (How the Linker is Chosen, Support for Other Languages): Adjust. Signed-off-by: Peter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de> Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 8a1c64fe 2012-04-06T11:24:11 AM_PROG_MKDIR_P: remove as obsolete Support for the obsolescent 'AM_PROG_MKDIR_P' m4 macro (and its output variable '$(mkdir_p)') has in the documentation and with runtime warning since Automake 1.12.1. It's now time to remove it. * automake.in (scan_autoconf_traces): Remove special handling of 'AM_PROG_MKDIR_P'. * m4/mkdirp.m4: Delete. * Makefile.am (dist_automake_ac_DATA): Remove it. * t/mkdirp-deprecation.sh: Delete. * t/list-of-tests.mk: Remove it. * doc/automake.texi: Remove references to the 'AM_MKDIR_P' m4 macro and the '$(mkdir_p)' output variable. * t/gettext-macros.sh: Ensure the gettext-requiring tests will still see the now-removed 'AM_PROG_MKDIR_P' macro as an alias for the 'AC_PROG_MKDIR_P' macro, since even recent versions of gettext uses 'AM_PROG_MKDIR_P' in their '.m4' files. * NEWS: Update. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini d2ca1685 2012-04-06T10:10:12 m4: delete several obsolete macros Support for several obsolescent macros has already been deprecated, and their removal already announced in the documentation and in the NEWS file. It's now time to finally remove them. * m4/dmalloc.m4 (fp_WITH_DMALLOC): Don't define anymore. * m4/maintainer.m4 (jm_MAINTAINER_MODE): Likewise. * m4/lispdir.m4 (ud_PATH_LISPDIR): Likewise. * m4/protos.m4 (fp_C_PROTOTYPES): Likewise. * m4/ccstdc.m4: Delete file. * m4/header.m4: Likewise. * m4/obsol-gt.m4: Likewise. * m4/obsol-lt.m4: Likewise. * m4/obsolete.m4: Likewise. * Makefile.am (dist_automake_ac_DATA): Don't list the deleted '.m4' files anymore. * t/confh.sh: Use 'AC_CONFIG_HEADERS' instead of the now-removed AM_CONFIG_HEADER. * t/confh.sh: Likewise. * t/confh4.sh: Likewise. * t/confh6.sh: Likewise. * t/confh7.sh: Likewise. * t/confh8.sh: Likewise. * t/confsub.sh: Likewise. * t/stamph2.sh: Likewise. * t/subdir6.sh: Likewise. * t/autohdr2.sh: Remove as obsolete. * t/obsolete.sh: Likewise. * t/list-of-tests.mk. Don't list the deleted test cases anymore. * NEWS: Update. * doc/automake.texi: Likewise. In particular ... (Obsolete Macros): Remove this node altogether. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 99217a1b 2012-04-20T19:29:14 docs: remove obsolete references to Autoconf 2.13 Autoconf 2.13 is definitely obsolete today, so giving hints or caveats about it in the Automake documentation is not only obsolescent, but also counter-productive, as it suggests that autoconf 2.13 is still relevant. * doc/automake.texi: Adjust. Related rewordings. Since we are at it, prefer using a more modern autoconf version number (2.68 instead of 2.57) in an example showing how to correctly use 'AC_PREREQ' in third-party .m4 files. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Jim Meyering e0ce774e 2012-04-15T18:44:50 build: use latest help2man, but without locale support * doc/help2man: Update to latest (1.40.8), but built with --disable-nls, which elides the less-portable locale-related code, and with the "use 5.008" manually changed to "use 5.006". Thanks to Brendan O'Dea for the tips. * THANKS: Update Brendan's address.
Jim Meyering 171a31b1 2012-04-13T17:58:04 build: use slightly older help2man, for improved portability Fixes automake bug#11235 * doc/help2man: Downgrade to help2man-1.36.4, so that it does not require Locale/gettext.pm, which is not available on a default Fedora 16 installation. Reported by Stefano Lattarini.
Jim Meyering da0f9ab4 2012-04-12T15:07:19 build: generate doc/*.1 files; include help2man This change is required to avoid making a distributed file depend on a generated (non-distributed) one. The preceding change introduced one such dependency, with the distributed doc/*.1 depending on the generated aclocal and automake files. Here, we avoid the problem by generating the doc/*.1 files rather than distributing them. * doc/help2man: New file, version 1.37.1. * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add doc/help2man. (man1_MANS): Rename from $(dist_man1_MANS). Remove $(srcdir) prefix. (CLEANFILES): Add these files here, rather than to $(MAINTAINERCLEANFILES), since we are no longer distributing them. (update_mans): Use doc/help2man, not $(HELP2MAN). * configure.ac: Don't test for help2man, now that we bundle it.
Stefano Lattarini c0cee9cd 2012-04-06T17:34:50 docs: fix names of relevant test cases in comments * doc/automake.texi: In comments reporting which test(s) check a given feature/idiom, fix the names of the referenced tests, to reflect the recent 'tests/foo.test' => 't/foo.sh' "Great Rename". Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini a4b0f4b5 2012-04-01T11:48:47 maint: remove most recursion in automake's own build system Recursive make-based build systems tend to be slower, more fragile and less faithful than "flat" ones. See Peter Miller's article "Recursive Make Considered Harmful" for more a more in-depth discussion: <http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/books/rmch/> While in the case of automake this isn't a big problem (given the small size of its build systems), it still creates occasional glitches and annoyances. With this change, the use of recursion in Automake's own build system is eliminated *but for the testsuite*. Converting that is a little more tricky, and better left for a later change (or series of changes). See also commit v1.11-769-gfeeb7f6 of 28-03-2012. * contrib/Makefile.am, lib/Makefile.am, m4/Makefile.am, doc/Makefile.am: Removed, their content merged ... * Makefile.am: ... here, with required adjustments and few other "opportunistic" changes. (SUBDIRS): Update. * configure.ac (AC_CONFIG_FILES): Likewise. * .gitignore: Likewise. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini ef6a4829 2012-03-31T18:37:25 Merge branch 'maint' * maint: docs: deprecate 'cygnus' mode, help the transition
Stefano Lattarini d714ec51 2012-03-31T11:04:41 docs: deprecate 'cygnus' mode, help the transition Support for "Cygnus-style" trees (so far enabled by the 'cygnus' option) will be deprecated in one release of the next major series (1.12.x) and removed in the next major release after that (1.13). Better to start warning about this in the manual. * docs/automake.texi: Warn about the oncoming deprecation of the 'cygnus' mode. Suggest some idioms that can be used to retain some effects of the 'cygnus' option. * THANKS: Update. From a suggestion by Joseph S. Myers in automake bug#11034. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 7a56bed0 2012-03-27T22:40:20 Merge branch 'maint' * maint: depcomp: support tcc (Tiny C Compiler) tests: workaround for automatic linker determination and conditionals info: allow user to inhibit pruning of '${infodir}/dir' vala tests: fix spurious failures with older valac (<= 0.7.2) tests: fix a timestamp issue, and other minor buglets tests: fix spurious failure with older autoconf build: remove duplicated entries in $(TESTS) + Extra non-trivia edits: * tests/link_cond.test: Use 'configure.ac', not 'configure.in'. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 619c1b26 2012-03-27T13:10:16 info: allow user to inhibit pruning of '${infodir}/dir' This should have ideally been part of commit 'v1.11-519-g1ec1668' of 23-11-2011 "info: allow user to inhibit creation/update of '${infodir}/dir'". Well, better late than never. * lib/am/texinfos.am (uninstall-info-am): Don't look anymore at the output of "install-info --version" to decide whether to use it to update the '${infodir}/dir' or not; instead, honour the environment variable 'AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR'. To avoid code duplication with ... (install-info-am): ... the recipe of this target, move common code out to ... (am__can_run_installinfo): ... this new internal variable. * tests/install-info-dir.test: Enhance. * doc/automake.texi (Texinfo): Update. * NEWS: Likewise. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini 6f245d73 2012-03-24T16:50:38 docs: terminate unfinished sentence, fix reference to a test case * doc/automake.texi (Using the TAP test protocol): Here. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
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