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Commit	Date	Message
110f6376	2025-05-21T09:49:46	automake: algol68: rename A68C and A68CFLAGS back to A68 and A68FLAGS. From https://bugs.gnu.org/78518, discussion at 78481 (both automake-patches). * bin/automake.in: Rename A68C and A68CFLAGS to A68 and A68FLAGS. * doc/automake.texi: Likewise. * configure.ac: Rename GNU_A68C and GNU_A68FLAGS to GNU_A68 and GNU_A68FLAGS. * lib/Automake/Variable.pm: Likewise. * t/a68-demo.sh: Likewise.
94802547	2025-04-28T15:42:52	automake: algol68: also rename [AM_]A68FLAGS to [AM_]A68CFLAGS. From https://bugs.gnu.org/78033 (automake-patches). * bin/automake.in (a68): change link and compile values. * lib/Automake/Variable.pm: likewise rename. * configure.ac: likewise rename. * doc/automake.texi: likewise rename.
282b016e	2025-04-24T15:07:41	automake: algol68: rename A68 to A68C and AM_PROG_A68 to AM_PROG_A68C. From https://bugs.gnu.org/78033 (automake-patches). While upstreaming the Algol 68 autoconf support it was pointed out that the shell variable A68 should be renamed to A68C and that the macro AC_PROG_A68 should be renamed to AC_PROG_A68C. This is to be more consistent to the support for other languages like Go. This patch updates the Automake side. The Algol 68 code snippets are also updated to use modern stropping, which is the stropping regime now used by default by ga68. * bin/automake.in (a68): change config_vars, libtool_tags et al. * lib/Automake/Variable.pm: likewise rename. * doc/automake.texi: likewise rename. * t/a68-demo.sh: likewise modify.
fc9c308e	2025-02-24T15:35:09	automake: warn about install.sh being found, rather than error. Report from https://bugs.gnu.org/19964. * bin/automake.in (scan_autoconf_files): give a msg 'obsolete' rather than err_am. Mention where install.sh was found. (En passant, fix some doubled words.) * NEWS: mention this.
ba3a673d	2025-02-24T10:30:42	dist: correct sense of no-dist-built-sources option. Primarily from https://bugs.gnu.org/69908. * bin/automake.in (preprocess_file) <DIST_BUILT_SOURCES>: make the option name be "no-dist-built-sources", per Options.pm and automake.texi; then set it with a single !. * lib/am/distdir.am (distdir) [DIST_BUILT_SOURCES]: insert the dependency on $(BUILT_SOURCES) when DIST_BUILT_SOURCES is true, not false; i.e., sense was reversed. * t/dist-no-built-sources.sh: edit the test configure.ac in the no-dist-built-sources case. Rename the testopt value to match the Automake option. * NEWS: mention this.
735a386e	2025-02-21T09:38:52	dist: add bzip3 support. From https://bugs.gnu.org/73795 (automake-patches). * bin/automake.in (handle_dist): add bzip3 support. https://github.com/kspalaiologos/bzip3 * lib/Automake/Options.pm (_is_valid_easy_option): likewise. * lib/am/distdir.am (dist-bzip3): likewise. * t/dist-formats.tap: likewise. * t/dist-bzip3.sh: new test. * t/list-of-tests.mk (handwritten_TESTS): add it. * NEWS: mention this. * THANKS: add Kamila.
bbb06167	2025-02-02T10:11:24	Add support for the Algol 68 programming language. * bin/automake.in: Call register_language for Algol 68. (resolve_linker): handle A68LINK. (%_am_macro_for_cond): Add entry for am__fastdepGA68. * configure.ac: Look for ga68 and set GNU_GA68 and GNU_A68FLAGS if found. * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (%_ac_macro_for_var): Add entries for GA68 and GA68FLAGS. * t/a68-demo.sh: New test. * doc/automake.texi (Algol 68 Support): New section. * NEWS: Add entry for Algol 68.
fc1c3f65	2025-01-31T09:20:47	automake: just use warnings, with no => FATAL. Per Perl recommendation: https://perldoc.perl.org/warnings#Fatal-Warnings Suggested by Collin Funk: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2025-01/msg00003.html And in the Perl discussion: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/22954#issuecomment-2622966302 * bin/aclocal.in: just use warnings, not making them fatal. * bin/automake.in: * contrib/tap-driver.pl: * gen-testsuite-part: * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: * lib/Automake/Condition.pm: * lib/Automake/Config.in: * lib/Automake/Configure_ac.pm: * lib/Automake/DisjConditions.pm: * lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm: * lib/Automake/General.pm: * lib/Automake/Getopt.pm: * lib/Automake/Item.pm: * lib/Automake/ItemDef.pm: * lib/Automake/Language.pm: * lib/Automake/Location.pm: * lib/Automake/Options.pm: * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: * lib/Automake/RuleDef.pm: * lib/Automake/VarDef.pm: * lib/Automake/Variable.pm: * lib/Automake/Version.pm: * lib/Automake/Wrap.pm: * lib/Automake/XFile.pm: * t/ax/deltree.pl: * t/ax/extract-testsuite-summary.pl: * t/check-fd-redirect.sh: * t/tap-signal.tap: * t/tests-environment-fd-redirect.sh: * t/testsuite-summary-count-many.sh:
b5403ee7	2025-01-30T15:34:52	automake: avoid precedence error when using Perl 5.41+. Reported by Igor Todorovski <itodorov@ca.ibm.com> in <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2025-01/msg00000.html>. * bin/automake.in (transform): Parentheses the '!' operators so Perl 5.41.8 doesn't warn about "possible precedence problem".
61075eab	2025-01-01T14:31:02	maint: make update-copyright
a2def8cd	2024-10-20T14:34:39	automake: require ABOUT-NLS only at gnits strictness. From https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2024-10/msg00006.html. * bin/automake.in (handle_gettext): In require_file for ABOUT-NLS, change strictness level from GNU to GNITS. * NEWS: Add notice.
eb20585d	2024-06-18T10:32:09	aclocal: add --aclocal-path option to override ACLOCAL_PATH envvar. From https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2022-01/msg00029.html (plus wording tweaks from Karl; and thanks to Bogdan for research). * bin/aclocal.in (usage): relabel output of m4 search path components to be somewhat more correct (Karl), although it's still a mess. (parse_arguments): add new option --aclocal-path=s. (parse_ACLOCAL_PATH): use $aclocal_path instead of hardwiring envvar. * doc/automake.texi (aclocal Options): document it. (dirlist): new anchor so we can reference it. (Modifying the Macro Search Path: @file{ACLOCAL_PATH}): mention the option. (Possible future incompatibility): tone down; it might never happen. * t/aclocal-path-precedence.sh: test the option. * NEWS: mention the new option.
e09ee974	2024-06-16T08:41:06	aclocal: path separator is ; on OS/2 and Windows. Adapted from and fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/71534. * bin/aclocal.in (parse_ACLOCAL_PATH): use $^O to recognize OS/2 and Windows for the environment path element separator. * NEWS: mention this.
f3752617	2024-06-15T18:18:35	automake: sort keys for reproducibility. Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/25629. * bin/aclocal.in: sort keys for reproducibility. * bin/automake.in: likewise. * contrib/tap-driver.pl: likewise. * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/Condition.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/DisjConditions.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/Getopt.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: likewise. * THANKS: Add Yves. * NEWS: mention this.
4981e599	2024-06-07T10:23:59	doc: modernize version control doc Be more generic about version control instead of saying “CVS”. In the specific examples, use Git instead of CVS.
1d35638b	2024-06-07T08:41:45	maint: spelling and whitespace fixes Most of these spelling fixes are just to comments and documentation. However, some affect tests as follows: * t/cond36.sh (tparse.h): Fix misspelling of dependency. * t/disthook.sh: Fix misspelling of file. * t/help3.sh: Fix misspelling of long option. * t/instdir-ltlib.sh: Fix misspellings of macro names. This causes the test to fail, so someone with libtool expertise needs to look into this. * t/tap-no-spurious-numbers.sh (highno): Fix misspelling of shell var.
fba8c57d	2024-04-27T09:34:15	doc: Vala-related typo in automake.in From https://bugs.gnu.org/70557. * bin/automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): typo.
2fa17ccc	2024-01-23T08:53:18	automake: recommend autoreconf -f with version mismatches. From https://bugs.gnu.org/68674. * bin/automake.in (scan_autoconf_traces): change error to suggest running autoreconf -f. The version mismatch is most likely to happen due to the cache files, which aclocal && automake (the previous recommendation) does not delete. (scan_autoconf_files): likewise. * doc/automake.texi (Auto-generating aclocal.m4): mention autoreconf. Other minor wording changes.
b80b5c47	2024-01-01T11:29:06	maint: make update-copyright
6a2d079b	2023-12-24T15:02:30	doc: typos from codespell. Report and patch: https://bugs.gnu.org/68003. * bin/automake.in: typo from codespell. * configure.ac: likewise. * t/dist-auxdir-many-subdirs.sh: likewise. * t/instmany-mans.sh: likewise. * t/instmany-python.sh: likewise. * t/instmany.sh: likewise. * t/nostdinc.sh: likewise. * t/parallel-tests-fork-bomb.sh: likewise. * t/rm-f-probe.sh: likewise. * t/tap-basic.sh: likewise. * t/test-driver-custom-multitest.sh: likewise. * t/txinfo-vtexi3.sh: likewise.
9ab5c03e	2023-12-24T08:45:50	warn: avoid "only used once" warning for subsecond_mtime. * bin/automake.in (version): uselessly use $Automake::FileUtils::subsecond_mtime a second time to avoid Perl warning.
95c0aa18	2023-12-21T15:46:43	automake: avoid unnecessary use of \K. This fixes (part of) https://bugs.gnu.org/67891 and follows up on https://bugs.gnu.org/55025. * bin/automake.in (generate_makefile) <posix>: avoid use of \K when removing comment and blank lines before a .POSIX target, since Solaris 10 has perl 5.8.4, and \K was added in 5.10.
38f2f397	2023-12-10T09:57:53	automake: pass OBJC and OBJCXX tags to libtool. This helps https://bugs.gnu.org/67539. * bin/automake.in <register_language>: pass libtool_flag of OBJC and OBJCXX for the respective languages.
cfdb83d4	2023-12-10T09:50:51	automake: again revise file mtime resolution support. This patch is from https://bugs.gnu.org/67670. In order for the Automake testsuite to be able to use sub-second delays to control whether certain files are considered newer than others, five(!) separate pieces of software all need to cooperate: automake itself, autoconf's internal `autom4te' utility, the Perl interpreter and its libraries, the sleep(1) shell utility, and finally the filesystem hosting the build directory. The existing tests for this are a combination of inadequate and incorrect. This patch, in conjunction with a patch just committed to Autoconf trunk, https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/commit/?id=39d96e6fff7ceae63b823872602caf4d255a38c8 should make everything much more robust, as follows: - _AM_FILESYSTEM_TIMESTAMP_RESOLUTION is completely rewritten. It no longer looks for autom4te at all, because this macro is invoked unconditionally from AM_INIT, so every project that uses Automake would get this test that's only relevant to Automake's own testsuite. Also, it tries sleeping for as little as one millisecond (smaller delays consistently get rounded up to 1ms on my computer and I expect that's universal), it should accurately detect FAT's two-second resolution now, and it should not be tripped up anymore by running at precisely the moment that will make a 0.1s sleep cross a 1s boundary (this may sound unlikely but it used to cause a couple of test failures every time I ran the automake testsuite on a network filesystem that only supported 1s resolution). - In support of the above, the test for working ls -t moved from AM_SANITY_CHECK to _AM_FILESYSTEM_TIMESTAMP_RESOLUTION. This allowed me to simplify the test for $srcdir/configure being older than a freshly created file. - If automake is capable of reading high-resolution file modification timestamps from the operating system, it prints `Features: subsecond-mtime' as the second line of --version output. (We can't just assume this works for sufficiently new automake, because it depends on whether the Perl interpreter provides this capability, and that's not a simple question of which version of Perl you have, either.) - The Autoconf patch mentioned above adds the same annotation to the output of autom4te --version. - Finally, t/ax/test-defs.in looks for the `Features: subsecond-mtime' string from both automake and autom4te and resets the sleep time to one second if it's not there. There might be a better place to put this, somewhere it'll execute every time the overall testsuite is invoked rather than once for each test, but I couldn't find one. Tested on x86-64-linux with development automake and development autoconf. Previous discussion: - https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2023-03/msg00000.html - https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2023-04/msg00002.html - https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2023-12/msg00005.html - https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=64756 * m4/sanity.m4 (_AM_FILESYSTEM_TIMESTAMP_RESOLUTION): Rewrite for greater reliability. Don't probe autom4te at all here. Check for working ls -t here. (AM_SANITY_CHECK): Do not cache the result. Do not check for working `ls -t' here. Disentangle control flow in the loop probing the relative ages of build and source directory. * lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm: Sync from autoconf. * bin/automake.in (version): Include `Features: subsecond-mtime' in the output if $Automake::FileUtils::subsecond_mtime is true. * configure.ac: Rename the substitution variable MODIFICATION_DELAY to MTIME_RESOLUTION. * t/ax/test-defs.in: Require both $AUTOMAKE and $AUTOM4TE to report support for high-resolution timestamps before setting $sleep to delay for less than one second. * NEWS: Update info.
8cdbdda5	2023-11-21T08:30:00	automake: make the ARFLAGS default 'cr' instead of 'cru'. In some GNU/Linux distributions people started to compile 'ar' binary with --enable-deterministic-archives (binutils project). That, however, in combination with our previous long time working default AR_FLAGS=cru causes warnings on such installations: ar: `u' modifier ignored since `D' is the default (see `U') The 'u' option (at least with GNU binutils) did small optimization during repeated builds because it instructed 'ar' to not open/close unchanged .o files and to rather read their contents from old archive file. However, its removal should not cause a big performance hit for usual workflows. Distributions started using --enable-deterministic-archives knowing that it would disable the 'u', just to rather have a bit more deterministic builds. Also, to justify this change a bit more, keeping 'u' in ARFLAGS could only result in many per-project changes to override Automake's ARFLAGS default, just to silence such warnings. Fixes bug#20082. Reported by Eric Blake. bin/automake.in (handle_libraries): Use 'ARFLAGS=cr' by default. * doc/automake.texi (Building a library): Mention the changed ARFLAGS default. (@c LocalWords): Replace 'cru' with 'cr'. * m4/ar-lib.m4 (AM_PROG_AR): Cut out 'cru' string into separate ARFLAGS variable with new default 'cr'. * NEWS: Document.
1c618bce	2023-10-06T08:18:33	automake: new option posix to emit .POSIX target first. This patch is from https://bugs.gnu.org/55025. * lib/Automake/Options.pm (_is_valid_easy_option): declare new option "posix". * bin/automake.in (generate_makefile): if the "posix" option is present, add a .POSIX special target as the first non-comment line in the Makefile.in files. * NEWS: mention this. * doc/automake.texi: likewise.
5c85a9d3	2023-07-13T15:32:34	texi: assume .texi.in generates .texi. This change refines the fix for https://bugs.gnu.org/54063. * bin/automake.in (scan_texinfo_file): if .texi doesn't exist, but .texi.in exists, read the latter for the Texinfo source. Use the @setfilename argument, if present, to generate rules. * t/txinfo-no-texi-but-texi-in.sh: new test. * t/list-of-tests.mk (handwritten_tests): add it. * doc/automake.texi (Texinfo): document this. * NEWS: mention this. (Doc changes written by Karl.)
0e127700	2023-02-07T22:39:29	Revert "maint: require perl 5.010 or later" This reverts commit 4e3744a15c4d8bdb46c11ead2fb56c5f591b714b. Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes
4f5a624d	2023-02-28T15:14:07	dirstamp: revert change of Jan 11 2023. Fixes (hopefully) automake bug https://bugs.gnu.org/61867. * bin/automake.in: restore explicit per-directory pattern rules, since evidently @D is not supported on BSD-derived makes, whatever POSIX says. That is, revert this commit: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=automake.git;a=commitdiff;h=55f8fcfd08cbf15d65d61dd2db934b6c3171cf06
4e3744a1	2023-02-02T14:13:24	maint: require perl 5.010 or later This is needed for better treatment of high-res timestamps.
55f8fcfd	2023-01-11T22:07:22	dirstamp: switch to a pattern rule We can leverage $(@D) to generate a single pattern rule for all dirstamp rules. This saves many lines in the output -- normally we create 2 rules (or 6 lines) per subdir, and projects that use subdirs tend to use them quite a bit. In the most extreme & unlikely case (1 subdir, no depdir support), the line count is the same. In every other case, it's always a win. Looking at a few real world projects, the line deltas: * GNU libgloss: +3 -66 * GNU newlib: +3 -714 * GNU sim: +3 -138 There shouldn't be any concerns about portability with $(@D) because: (0) This has been in POSIX (and beyond) for decades, (1) We only generate this rule iff we know the dirstamp is in a subdir (so we'd never have a case where $(@D) would expand to the cwd, and that is where a few implementations are known to be buggy), (2) We already rely on $(@D) in our depdir code, and have since 2014 (the Automake 1.16 release).
054b02ce	2023-01-11T21:40:04	dirstamp: use append too instead of truncate We changed the depfiles logic to use >> (append) instead of > (truncate) due to it being slightly faster & nicer to the disk. Do the same with the dirstamp files as we only need the files to exist -- we don't care about their content, and we never put anything in them ourselves. If someone else were to, we clean them up normally with `make clean`. Simple test case on my Linux 6.1 w/ext4 on SSD: @: > foo.txt for (i = 0; i < 1000000; ++i) close(open("foo.txt", O_WRONLY\|O_CREAT\|O_TRUNC, 0666)); -> 769 msec @: >>foo.txt for (i = 0; i < 1000000; ++i) close(open("foo.txt", O_WRONLY\|O_CREAT\|O_APPEND, 0666)); -> 2 sec
f15852df	2023-01-03T21:46:38	rm: convert more cases to am__rm_f Fixes automake bug https://bugs.gnu.org/10828. Clean up a few more cases where we were doing `test ... \|\| rm ...` to avoid calling `rm -f` without arguments by leveraging am__rm_f. These were harder to find in the source due to their constructed nature. The clean programs rules in particular were much more complicated than they needed to be. This logic boiled down to two things: delete the list of programs, and then delete the list without the exeext suffix, but only if the list of programs is non-empty. The check-TESTS rule was converted to am__rm_f, but a simplification was missed where the $list variable is inlined. * bin/automake.in: Delete test -z logic and always call am__rm_f. * contrib/check-html.am: Use $(am__rm_f) helper. * doc/automake.texi: Update examples to match current behavior. * lib/am/check.am: Inline $list variable. * lib/am/progs.am: Rewrite rule to use $(am__rm_f).
34bdde96	2023-01-04T02:00:14	maint: make update-copyright
7191c6b4	2022-10-01T09:02:15	aclocal: protect against Perl undefined warnings. * bin/aclocal.in (usage): check that envvars (ACLOCAL_AUTOMAKE_DIR, ACLOCAL_PATH) are defined before printing values. * HACKING: describe running scripts from checkout, et al.
ff230b29	2022-02-24T22:25:45	automake: fall back gracefully when texinfo inputs don't exist Fixes automake bug https://bugs.gnu.org/54063. The function scanning for @setfilename will fall back to a default value if the input doesn't have one defined. But we need to handle the case where the file doesn't even exist before falling back. * bin/automake.in: Scan /dev/null for @setfilename if input doesn't exist. * t/list-of-tests.mk: Add txinfo-no-setfilename-no-inputs.sh. * t/txinfo-no-setfilename-no-inputs.sh: New test.
c62e7230	2022-02-20T23:30:39	automake: allow required files to be in subdirs Fixes automake bug https://bugs.gnu.org/20300. The internal method for caching path lookups expects the $filename to only be a filename. If it's actually a subdir/file itself, then the cache logic gets confused, and it never matches. This manifests as AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE([subdir/file]) claiming that the subdir/file path doesn't exist even when it does. Before we process any required files, since we already construct the full path locally, reset the dir & file inputs to the final values. * bin/automake.in: Split dir & file name back out from the constructed required file path. * t/auxdir-subsubdir.sh: New test. * t/list-of-tests.mk: Add t/auxdir-subsubdir.sh.
c1b799a0	2022-01-24T02:53:13	texi: pass automatic -I to dvi & pdf generation Fixes automake bug https://bugs.gnu.org/23599. When generating info/html pages, automake adds -I flags to source dirs that contain the texi files, but it doesn't do this for dvi or pdf formats. Instead, automake has been relying on texi2dvi to use makeinfo for expanding macros, and it hasn't done that by default in a long time. Since adding --expand to the texi2dvi call is undesirable (due to bad and unpredictable BEHAVIOR), pass those automatic -I flags directly to TEXI2DVI & TEXI2PDF so they work regardless of --expand behavior. We have to keep the MAKEINFO= setting around as texi2dvi might itself fall back to it if the version of tex is old or broken. * bin/automake.in: Add comment about $makeinfoflags usage. * doc/automake.texi: Mention automatic -I subdir flags. * lib/am/texibuild.am: Pass %MAKEINFOFLAGS% to TEXI2DVI & TEXI2PDF. * t/txinfo-subdir-pr343.sh: Check for -I subdir usage.
975ea4d9	2022-01-19T05:14:47	progs, libs: support _RANLIB overrides Much like we have per-target support for _AR and _LINK, add an _RANLIB override too. This allows selection of specific ranlib tools in case a non-standard archiver tool was forced. * bin/automake.in: Check for _RANLIB per-target settings. * doc/automake.texi: Document _RANLIB override. * lib/am/library.am: Change $(RANLIB) to $(%XLIBRARY%_RANLIB). * t/list-of-tests.mk: Add ranlib_override.sh. * t/ranlib_override.sh: New test. * NEWS: Mention new feature.
4c2c73bf	2022-01-20T02:03:23	aclocal: add m4 search path info to --help Add a short summary to --help of the current paths that will be searched. Make sure to omit this from the man page when running help2man since pre-inst-env specifically clears some and others to the current build directory. * bin/aclocal.in: Include m4 search paths in usage. * doc/local.mk: Run help2man with AUTOMAKE_HELP2MAN=true.
6c8ff6a8	2022-01-12T14:15:12	maint: make update-copyright
4ffbab93	2021-09-10T15:45:29	automake: consistently depend on install-libLTLIBRARIES. Report and patch: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2021-08/msg00016.html * bin/automake.in (generate_makefile): depend on install-libLTLIBRARIES for all PROGRAMS and LTLIBRARIES, such as install-pkglibLTLIBRARIES. * NEWS: mention this.
57688bd5	2021-07-15T18:37:09	automake: silent make output for custom link commands. Patch posted: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2021-07/msg00010.html * bin/automake.in (define_per_target_linker_variable): Use AM_V_${target}_LINK if defined as the verbose variable name for custom link commands. * doc/automake.texi (Program and Library Variables): Document the new variable. * t/link_override.sh: Add extra checks for silent make rules. * NEWS: Mention this. * THANKS: new contributor.
a470a47f	2021-07-11T19:19:42	maint: make update-copyright
314c55f0	2021-07-11T18:34:22	no-dist-built-sources: fix-up * bin/automake.in (preprocess_file): Process new option here, (handle_dist): ... not here. * lib/Automake/Options.pm (_is_valid_easy_option): Remove pure-dist. * lib/am/distdir.am: Don't factor out the duplicate-looking $(MAKE)... command. Otherwise, many dist-using tests would fail for me, e.g., t/aclocal-amflags.sh.
13659a73	2021-07-09T09:03:30	dist: add new "dist-no-built-sources" automake option. Fixes automake bug https://debbugs.gnu.org/49317. * bin/automake.in: implement new option "no-dist-built-sources" to omit the dependency of distdir on $(BUILT_SOURCES). (Allison's original patch used the option name dist-pure; trivially renamed.) * lib/am/distdir.am (distdir) [DIST_BUILT_SOURCES]: conditionalize the dependency. * lib/Automake/Options.pm (_is_valid_easy_option): list it. * doc/automake.texi (List of Automake options): document it. * NEWS: mention it. * t/dist-no-built-sources.sh: test it. * t/list-of-tests.mk (handwritten_TESTS): add it.
16569085	2021-07-01T18:21:51	dist: accept .md versions for README et al. This change was suggested by madmurphy; some ideas were taken from the patch he provided. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2021-06/msg00005.html * bin/automake.in (@toplevelmd_ok): new global, listing the files for which we will accept .md versions. (@common_files): remove those files from there. (handle_dist): check for .md if non-.md is absent. (handle_minor_options): check for README-alpha.md. (check_gnu_standards): accept .md version if present. (check_gnits_standards): likewise. (usage): output list of .md-accepted files. * doc/automake.texi (Basics of Distribution): document. * t/toplevelmd.sh: new test. * t/list-of-tests.mk (handwritten_tests): add it. * NEWS: mention new feature.
4a122012	2021-02-27T09:14:47	automake: sort hash keys needed for reproducible output. This change fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/46744. * bin/automake.in: sort keys, in: handle_LIBOBJS, handle_clean, handle_factored_dependencies, scan_autoconf_traces, lang_vala_finish. * NEWS: mention this.
46420770	2020-12-05T18:19:18	doc: comment Vala -newer test. This change updates https://bugs.gnu.org/44772. * bin/automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): comment that we're checking "C file not older than Vala file", and the log message misleadingly says "reversed".
e83520ff	2020-12-03T11:00:53	warnings: be less forceful about a missing subdir-objects option. This change somewhat ameliorates https://bugs.gnu.org/20699. * bin/automake.in (handle_single_transform): change forward-incompatibility message for subdir-objects to be less draconian and less certain that the change will ever be made. * t/subobj.sh: message text has changed. * doc/automake.texi (Program and Library Variables): mention the unfortunate fact that one directory can clean in a sibling, subdir-objects notwithstanding.
7581ec20	2020-11-27T18:02:08	vala: avoid wrong regeneration of C files. This change might fix https://bugs.gnu.org/44772. * bin/automake.in (lang_val_finish_target): reverse -newer test to handle files being created at the same time causing spurious rebuilds.
782ac400	2020-11-07T18:44:56	vala: improve support, especially builddir vs. srcdir. This change fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/13002. * NEWS: mention these changes. * bin/automake.in: generated C files go in builddir, not srcdir. Distribute the header files generated from VAPI files. * t/vala-libs-distcheck.sh: new test for `make distcheck' of a Vala library. * t/vala-libs-vpath.sh: new test for a VPATH build of a Vala library. * t/vala-libs.sh: add local VAPIs used as external --package to test. * t/vala-recursive-setup.sh: we need to make maintainer-clean at one point to remove stamp files to avoid confusing a VPATH build performed after a non-VPATH build. * t/vala-non-recursive-setup.sh: likewise. * t/vala-parallel.sh: some test paths need changing to take into account that generated C files now go in builddir. * t/vala-per-target-flags.sh: likewise. * t/vala-recursive-setup.sh: likewise. * t/vala-vpath.sh: likewise.
bd09c76a	2020-09-18T13:40:20	Use WARNINGS=none to suppress warnings from autom4te runs. aclocal uses autom4te in trace mode to scan configure.ac for macros whose definition is not yet available. It has a kludge to prevent this from producing spurious warnings, but a cleaner, fully backward compatible, way to get the same effect is to set WARNINGS=none in the environment and not pass down any -W options. (This is better than passing -Wnone on the command line because it automatically inherits to any subprocesses started by autom4te.) Perl’s ‘local’ feature can be used to make the enviironment variable setting temporary, reverting to the previous value when we exit the function. automake also runs autom4te (technically autoconf) in trace mode; warnings from this invocation will not be spurious, but in the common case where the person running automake is going to run autoconf next, they will be duplicated. Therefore, make the same change to automake. * bin/aclocal.in (trace_used_macros) * bin/automake.in (scan_autoconf_traces): Use “local $ENV{WARNINGS}='none'” to suppress warnings from autom4te.
9ae8a896	2020-09-11T16:17:41	Consistently process -W(no-)error after all other warning options. automake and aclocal were processing ‘-W(no-)error’ whenever it appeared on the command line, which means that ‘-Werror,something-strange’ would issue a hard error, but ‘-Wsomething-strange,error’ would only issue a warning. It is not desirable for warnings about unknown warning categories ever to be treated as a hard error; that leads to problems for driver scripts like autoreconf, which would like to pass whatever -W options it got on its own command line down to all the tools and not worry about which tools understand which warning categories. Also, this sort of order dependence is confusing for humans. Change parse_warnings to take just one option, the _complete_ list of warning categories seen on the command line, and to process -Werror / -Wno-error after processing all other warnings options. Thus, unknown warnings categories will always just be a plain warning. This does mean aclocal has to stop using parse_warnings as a Getopt::Long callback, but that’s not a big deal. Similarly, change parse_WARNINGS to record whether ‘error’ appeared in the environment variable, but not activate warnings-are-errors mode itself. parse_warnings picks up the record and honors it, unless it’s overridden by the command line. * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm ($werror): New package global (not exported). (parse_WARNINGS): Do not call switch_warning for ‘error’ / ‘no-error’; just toggle the value of $werror. (parse_warnings): Do not call switch_warning immediately for ‘error’ / ‘no-error’; toggle $werror instead. Call switch_warning ‘error’ at the very end if $werror is true. Remove unused $OPTION argument. * bin/automake.in: parse_warnings now takes only one argument. * bin/aclocal.in: Call parse_warnings after parse_options instead of using it as a parse_options callback.
ab9ef6cf	2020-09-11T14:23:10	Sync ChannelDefs.pm from autoconf. ChannelDefs.pm ought to be kept in sync between automake and autoconf, because it defines the set of valid -W options, and autoreconf assumes that it can pass arbitrary -W options to all of the tools it invokes. However, it isn’t covered by either project’s ‘make fetch’ and it hasn’t actually been in sync for more than 17 years. This patch manually brings over all of the changes made on the autoconf side. Most importantly, there is a new warnings channel ‘cross’, for warnings related to cross-compilation. Also, the ‘usage’ function now returns the text to be put into a usage message, instead of printing it itself. (This is necessary on autoconf’s side.) * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Sync from autoconf. (cross): New warnings channel. (portability-recursive): Document. (usage): Now returns the text to be printed, instead of printing it. (parse_warnings): Second argument may now be a list.
5cafaafd	2020-08-31T18:31:04	perl: use warnings instead of -w; consistent ordering of use, etc. Per thread at: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2020-08/msg00009.html * bin/aclocal.in: use warnings instead of #!...-w; consistent ordering of basic "use" directives, then BEGIN block, then standard modules in ASCII order, then Automake:: modules (not sort), finally use vars. Also sort @ISA lists and use qw(...) in ASCII order. * bin/automake.in: likewise. * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/Condition.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/Config.in: likewise. * lib/Automake/Configure_ac.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/DisjConditions.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/General.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/Getopt.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/Item.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/ItemDef.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/Language.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/Location.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/Options.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/RuleDef.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/VarDef.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/Variable.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/Version.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/Wrap.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/XFile.pm: remove unnecessary imports of Carp, DynaLoader, and File::Basename.
3bbcf683	2020-08-28T16:26:54	automake: if TEST_EXTENSIONS is set to empty, don't look inside it. This change fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/42635. * bin/automake.in (handle_tests): do not use $test_suffixes[0] if it does not exist. * t/test-extensions-empty.sh: new test. * t/list-of-tests.mk (handwritten_TESTS): add it.
cd8ef343	2020-07-26T15:01:34	Install directories mode 755 instead of using umask Problem reported by Antoine Amarilli in: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2019-01/msg00000.html and followed up by Akim Demaille in: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2020-07/msg00040.html * bin/automake.in: Add a comment about this. * lib/install-sh: Ignore umask; just create directories mode 755 unless overridden via -m (for non-intermediate directories only). Also, fix 'umask=$mkdir_umask' typo. * lib/mkinstalldirs: Likewise.
ae911ae2	2020-04-06T18:25:24	cosmetics: typo in comment. This change fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/32100. * bin/aclocal.in (install_file): remove duplicate "the" in "Using the real the destination file ...".
a523b69a	2020-04-05T17:35:51	vala: more precise argument matching. This change fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/18734. * bin/automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): anchor option regexp so that, e.g., an argument "vapi" does not match the option --vapi. * NEWS: mention this (and preceding checklinkx change, sorry).
cf27a3df	2020-01-01T11:44:41	maint: make update-copyright
c1e1dd66	2019-12-16T19:45:22	automake: Ensure space after $(LISP) in tags dependencies. This change fixes automake bug#38139. * bin/automake.in (handle_tags): Concatenate with space in " @config". * t/tags-lisp-space.sh: New test. * t/list-of-tests.mk (handwritten_TESTS): Add it.
5c466eaf	2019-10-04T16:39:24	dist: add dist-zstd option Add support for using the zstd compression algorithm. Use a default compression setting of -19, and ".zst" as the suffix. * bin/automake.in (handle_dist): Add zstd to the list of known dist- suffixes. (preprocess_file): Map ZSTD to dist-zstd. * doc/automake.texi: Document the new option. * lib/Automake/Options.pm (_is_valid_easy_option): Add dist-zstd. * lib/am/distdir.am (dist-zstd): New rule. (?ZSTD?DIST_TARGETS): Add definition. (distcheck): Add a case for .tar.zst. * t/dist-formats.tap: Add tests. * NEWS: Mention the change.
5ae02cc8	2019-10-14T13:46:55	maint: make update-copyright
309a6c47	2019-08-25T21:07:58	automake: do not require @setfilename in Texinfo files Texinfo no longer requires a @setfilename directive in each .texi file, so automake now also relaxes its restriction. * bin/automake.in (scan_texinfo_file): Derive name of info file from name of input file if no @setfilename line occurs in the file. * t/txinfo-no-setfilename.sh: New test. * t/list-of-tests.mk: Add it. * NEWS: Mention it. Fixes automake bugs #36921 and #34201.
51823f14	2018-02-20T23:18:09	bin: Rely only on the shebang line Previously ‘automake’ and ‘aclocal’ were handling the case of being interpreted as a Shell script by using a hack leveraging the fact that Shell and Perl has a compatible syntax intersection allowing those scripts to launch ‘perl’ from the shell. * bin/aclocal.in: Remove cryptic launching hack. * bin/automake.in: Likewise.
74902aa2	2018-03-03T23:50:10	automake: Don't rely on List::Util to provide 'none' This change fixes automake bug#30631. This removes the use of List::Util which is not supported by Perl 5.6, by reimplementing the 'none' subroutine. * lib/Automake/General.pm (none): New subroutine. * bin/automake.in (handle_single_transform): Use it. * t/pm/General.pl: New test. * t/list-of-tests.mk (perl_TESTS): Add it. * NEWS: Update.
dc67b18d	2018-01-04T23:59:00	automake: Add default libtool_tag to cppasm * bin/automake.in (register_language): Define default libtool tag to be CC since CPPASCOMPILE is using CC to call assembler. Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes
bbaa4cdc	2018-01-04T16:19:30	maint: Update copyright years to 2018 This update has been made with 'make update-copyright'.
5e202df2	2017-09-23T12:19:43	maint: Make Emacs use 'makefile-automake-mode' * bin/local.mk: Specify mode name in the first line. * contrib/t/local.mk: Likewise. * doc/local.mk: Likewise. * lib/Automake/local.mk: Likewise. * lib/am/local.mk: Likewise. * lib/local.mk: Likewise. * m4/local.mk: Likewise. * t/local.mk: Likewise.
6cb3b835	2017-09-22T23:06:15	maint: Configure Emacs automatically with ".dir-locals.el" * .dir-locals.el: New Emacs directory configuration file. All perl files adapted.
c2757b97	2017-09-19T13:43:07	maint: Reset master
561f4736	2017-09-19T13:29:18	Merge branch 'minor'
8c81e7b8	2017-09-16T18:08:05	Fix a couple more http: URLs
3562e384	2017-09-16T13:03:36	Prefer https: URLs In Gnulib, Emacs, etc. we are changing ftp: and http: URLs to use https:, to discourage man-in-the-middle attacks when downloading software. The attached patch propagates these changes upstream to Automake. This patch does not affect files that Automake is downstream of, which I'll patch separately. Althouth the resources are not secret, plain HTTP is vulnerable to malicious routers that tamper with responses from GNU servers, and this sort of thing is all too common when people in some other countries browse US-based websites. See, for example: Aceto G, Botta A, Pescapé A, Awan MF, Ahmad T, Qaisar S. Analyzing internet censorship in Pakistan. RTSI 2016. https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RTSI.2016.7740626 HTTPS is not a complete solution here, but it can be a significant help. The GNU project regularly serves up code to users, so we should take some care here.
09c7f53e	2017-09-16T18:08:05	Fix a couple more http: URLs
199e7a44	2017-09-16T13:03:36	Prefer https: URLs In Gnulib, Emacs, etc. we are changing ftp: and http: URLs to use https:, to discourage man-in-the-middle attacks when downloading software. The attached patch propagates these changes upstream to Automake. This patch does not affect files that Automake is downstream of, which I'll patch separately. Althouth the resources are not secret, plain HTTP is vulnerable to malicious routers that tamper with responses from GNU servers, and this sort of thing is all too common when people in some other countries browse US-based websites. See, for example: Aceto G, Botta A, Pescapé A, Awan MF, Ahmad T, Qaisar S. Analyzing internet censorship in Pakistan. RTSI 2016. https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RTSI.2016.7740626 HTTPS is not a complete solution here, but it can be a significant help. The GNU project regularly serves up code to users, so we should take some care here.
333b98f2	2017-08-16T18:16:12	automake: Depend on LIBOBJDIR for LIBOBJS and ALLOCA This change fixes automake bug#27781. * bin/automake.in: Add Makefile dependency on LIBOBJDIR/dirstamp for each LIBOBJS/ALLOCA source file found. * t/list-of-tests.mk (XFAIL_TESTS): Drop t/libobj-no-dependency-tracking.sh. * NEWS: Announce bug fix.
274590d8	2017-09-14T21:01:19	Revert "automake: Handle LTLIBOBJS more specifically" This reverts commit 5521219348c55af354878583b99c5f9d66d6d38a.
f389ecb8	2017-08-31T19:23:42	Merge branch 'minor'
e94c0186	2017-08-31T14:42:13	build: Rename "Makefile.inc" Makefile fragments to "local.mk" This is done to follow a convention used by a lot of GNU packages. * bin/Makefile.inc: Rename to ... * bin/local.mk: ... this. * doc/Makefile.inc: Rename to ... * doc/local.mk: ... this. * lib/Automake/Makefile.inc: Rename to ... * lib/Automake/local.mk: ... this. * lib/am/Makefile.inc: Rename to ... * lib/am/local.mk: ... this. * lib/Makefile.inc: Rename to ... * lib/local.mk: ... this. * m4/Makefile.inc: Rename to ... * m4/local.mk: ... this. * contrib/t/Makefile.inc: Rename to ... * contrib/t/local.mk: ... this. * t/Makefile.inc: Rename to ... * t/local.mk: ... this. Adapt. * Makefile.am: Adapt.
574b20e5	2017-07-08T20:18:45	build: Inline perl prototypes in sources Prototypes allows us to avoid using the '&foo' invocation form when invoking a subroutine before its definition. Previously those prototypes were generated to prevent them from falling out-of-sync with actual definitions. Now we provide a 'check-perl-protos' lint script to ensure that this is not the case. This has the same benefits as generating prototypes while simplifying the bootstrap/build process. * bin/gen-perl-protos: Remove. * bin/Makefile.inc: Adapt. * bootstrap: Likewise. * bin/aclocal.in: Inline prototypes. * bin/automake.in: Likewise. * maintainer/check-perl-protos: New lint script. * maintainer/syntax-checks.mk (sc_perl_protos): New target. (syntax_check_rules): Add it.
99cf7ca5	2017-08-30T23:45:49	build: Generate versioned scripts at make time * configure.ac: Don't generate 'bin/aclocal-${APIVERSION}' and 'bin/automake-${APIVERSION}'. * bin/wrap-aclocal.in: Delete. * bin/wrap-automake.in: Likewise. * bin/Makefile.inc (%D%/automake-$(APIVERSION)) (%D%/aclocal-$(APIVERSION)): New targets. (CLEANFILES): Add them.
ab2d33e6	2017-08-29T21:15:14	aclocal: Support ACLOCAL_AUTOMAKE_DIR environment variable * bin/aclocal.in: Reset '@automake_includes' and '@system_includes' in for build environment. Allow setting '@automake_includes' with ACLOCAL_AUTOMAKE_DIR environment variable. (parse_arguments): Ignore 'dirlist' when '@system_includes' is empty. * doc/automake.texi (aclocal Options): Document ACLOCAL_AUTOMAKE_DIR. * bin/wrap-aclocal.in: Remove extra command line options. * pre-inst-env.in: Set ACLOCAL_AUTOMAKE_DIR and ACLOCAL_PATH environment variables. * t/ax/test-defs.in: Adapt. * t/ansi2knr-no-more.sh (warn_rx): Likewise.
dd0b8142	2017-08-29T14:16:24	config: Support AUTOMAKE_LIBDIR environment variable * lib/Automake/Config.in: Let AUTOMAKE_LIBDIR environment variable override the default location for '$libdir'. * doc/automake.texi (automake Invocation): Document AUTOMAKE_LIBDIR. * pre-inst-env.in (AUTOMAKE_LIBDIR): Set AUTOMAKE_LIBDIR. * bin/wrap-automake.in: Don't use "--libdir" option.
37d403fd	2017-08-29T13:23:24	build: Use PERL5LIB from 'pre-inst-env' script * bin/aclocal.in: Detect build environment with AUTOMAKE_UNINSTALLED. Let 'PERL5LIB' from 'pre-inst-env' define the perl module directories. * bin/automake.in: Likewise. * bin/wrap-aclocal.in: Don't set 'Automake::perl_libdirs' anymore. * bin/wrap-automake.in: Likewise. * t/Makefile.inc (LOG_COMPILER, PL_LOG_COMPILER): Use 'pre-inst-env'. (AM_PL_LOG_FLAGS): Don't set perl module path.
bb64793a	2017-08-29T11:27:52	build: Move wrapped scripts in "bin" directory Those scripts are used both in the build process and for the tests, so it seems clearer to not hide them in "t/wrap" directory. * t/wrap/aclocal.in: Rename to ... * bin/wrap-aclocal.in: ... this. * t/wrap/automake.in: Rename to ... * bin/wrap-automake.in: ... this. * configure.ac: Generate "bin/aclocal-${APIVERSION}" and "bin/automake-${APIVERSION}" at configure time. * t/Makefile.inc (nodist_noinst_SCRIPTS): Move wrapped scripts ... * bin/Makefile.inc (nodist_noinst_SCRIPTS): ... here. * Makefile.am (extend_PATH): Use "bin" directory. * t/ax/test-defs.in (am_bindir): Likewise. * t/get-sysconf.sh: Likewise. * .gitignore: Update.
55212193	2017-08-27T15:27:00	automake: Handle LTLIBOBJS more specifically * bin/automake.in (handle_LIBOBJS_or_ALLOCA): Remove complex regexp substitution when handling LTLIBOBJS.
fd244f28	2015-06-29T09:50:02	aclocal: Avoid problematic string interpolation This fixes bug#20903. Thanks to Eric Bavier for reporting this issue. * bin/aclocal.in (automake_includes): Avoid problematic string interpolation. * NEWS: Update. * THANKS: Thank Eric Bavier. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>
f4e91bfc	2017-03-13T12:41:59	automake: Shorter object file names under subdir-objects Combining the 'subdir-objects' option with target-specific flags had the consequence of producing long object file names. This was done to preventively ensure the uniqueness of object file names. We are now using shorter names by default, and handle long names when an actual conflict is detected. This will hopefully reduce the necessity of using the 'prog_SHORTNAME' facility. Example: previously: AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = subdir-objects bin_PROGRAMS += path/to/foo path_to_foo_CFLAGS = $(AM_CFLAGS) -g resulted in objects: sub/path_to_foo-foo.o now object file name is: sub/foo-foo.o * bin/automake.in (proglist, liblist, ltliblist) (dup_shortnames): New globals. (initialize_per_input): Initialize them. (handle_targets): New subroutine. (handle_single_transform): Truncate object file names when possible. * t/subobj-objname-clash.sh: New test. * t/list-of-tests.mk (handwritten_TESTS): Add it. * NEWS: Update. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>
cc7231cc	2017-06-16T23:07:00	Merge branch 'minor'
c946ae6f	2017-06-16T22:46:16	Merge branch 'micro' into minor
197426b3	2017-05-16T15:59:12	automake: Update 'read_am_file' docstring. * bin/automake.in (read_am_file): Update docstring which was referring to a non existent '%contents' variable.
d8add592	2017-03-02T18:55:53	maint: Update copyright years to 2017. This update has been made with 'make update-copyright'.
1370ce5f	2017-01-01T08:34:49	maint: update copyright dates for 2017 * all files: Run this command, using update-copyright from gnulib: UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_FORCE=1 \ UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_USE_INTERVALS=2 \ UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_MAX_LINE_LENGTH=79 \ update-copyright $(git ls-files)
b3da45ad	2016-09-08T18:58:43	automake: do not emit rule with two dependents On a system using our replacement alloca, make would emit this warning: target '.deps/alloca.Po' given more than once in the same rule That arose because automake would emit a rule depending on both ./.deps/alloca.Po and .deps/alloca.Po. Normally, duplicate dependents are avoided by virtue of their names being keys in the %dep_files hash, but in this case, that particular file was specified in two different ways. * bin/automake.in (handle_ALLOCA): When the $dir prefix is empty, make it './', to ensure that when we add ./.deps/alloca.Po it is deduped. See: http://bugs/gnu/org/22702
455bad28	2016-03-31T16:45:26	Merge branch 'minor'
323dabef	2016-03-31T16:40:20	Merge branch 'micro' into minor
13f00eb4	2016-03-31T16:35:29	automake: port to Perl 5.22 and later Without this change, Perl 5.22 complains "Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated" and this is planned to become a hard error in Perl 5.26. See: http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.22.0/pod/perldelta.pod#A_literal_%22{%22_should_now_be_escaped_in_a_pattern * bin/automake.in (substitute_ac_subst_variables): Escape left brace.
6357a630	2015-01-06T13:17:23	Merge branch 'minor' * minor: deps: fix corner-case "make distclean" bug compile: don't place built object files in $(srcdir), ever ... tests: fix some bugs in an XFAILing test deps: 'subdir-object' option now works when foo_SOURCES contains $(var) NEWS: fix a typo Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

110f6376

2025-05-21T09:49:46

automake: algol68: rename A68C and A68CFLAGS back to A68 and A68FLAGS. From https://bugs.gnu.org/78518, discussion at 78481 (both automake-patches). * bin/automake.in: Rename A68C and A68CFLAGS to A68 and A68FLAGS. * doc/automake.texi: Likewise. * configure.ac: Rename GNU_A68C and GNU_A68FLAGS to GNU_A68 and GNU_A68FLAGS. * lib/Automake/Variable.pm: Likewise. * t/a68-demo.sh: Likewise.

94802547

2025-04-28T15:42:52

automake: algol68: also rename [AM_]A68FLAGS to [AM_]A68CFLAGS. From https://bugs.gnu.org/78033 (automake-patches). * bin/automake.in (a68): change link and compile values. * lib/Automake/Variable.pm: likewise rename. * configure.ac: likewise rename. * doc/automake.texi: likewise rename.

282b016e

2025-04-24T15:07:41

automake: algol68: rename A68 to A68C and AM_PROG_A68 to AM_PROG_A68C. From https://bugs.gnu.org/78033 (automake-patches). While upstreaming the Algol 68 autoconf support it was pointed out that the shell variable A68 should be renamed to A68C and that the macro AC_PROG_A68 should be renamed to AC_PROG_A68C. This is to be more consistent to the support for other languages like Go. This patch updates the Automake side. The Algol 68 code snippets are also updated to use modern stropping, which is the stropping regime now used by default by ga68. * bin/automake.in (a68): change config_vars, libtool_tags et al. * lib/Automake/Variable.pm: likewise rename. * doc/automake.texi: likewise rename. * t/a68-demo.sh: likewise modify.

fc9c308e

2025-02-24T15:35:09

automake: warn about install.sh being found, rather than error. Report from https://bugs.gnu.org/19964. * bin/automake.in (scan_autoconf_files): give a msg 'obsolete' rather than err_am. Mention where install.sh was found. (En passant, fix some doubled words.) * NEWS: mention this.

ba3a673d

2025-02-24T10:30:42

dist: correct sense of no-dist-built-sources option. Primarily from https://bugs.gnu.org/69908. * bin/automake.in (preprocess_file) <DIST_BUILT_SOURCES>: make the option name be "no-dist-built-sources", per Options.pm and automake.texi; then set it with a single !. * lib/am/distdir.am (distdir) [DIST_BUILT_SOURCES]: insert the dependency on $(BUILT_SOURCES) when DIST_BUILT_SOURCES is true, not false; i.e., sense was reversed. * t/dist-no-built-sources.sh: edit the test configure.ac in the no-dist-built-sources case. Rename the testopt value to match the Automake option. * NEWS: mention this.

735a386e

2025-02-21T09:38:52

dist: add bzip3 support. From https://bugs.gnu.org/73795 (automake-patches). * bin/automake.in (handle_dist): add bzip3 support. https://github.com/kspalaiologos/bzip3 * lib/Automake/Options.pm (_is_valid_easy_option): likewise. * lib/am/distdir.am (dist-bzip3): likewise. * t/dist-formats.tap: likewise. * t/dist-bzip3.sh: new test. * t/list-of-tests.mk (handwritten_TESTS): add it. * NEWS: mention this. * THANKS: add Kamila.

bbb06167

2025-02-02T10:11:24

Add support for the Algol 68 programming language. * bin/automake.in: Call register_language for Algol 68. (resolve_linker): handle A68LINK. (%_am_macro_for_cond): Add entry for am__fastdepGA68. * configure.ac: Look for ga68 and set GNU_GA68 and GNU_A68FLAGS if found. * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (%_ac_macro_for_var): Add entries for GA68 and GA68FLAGS. * t/a68-demo.sh: New test. * doc/automake.texi (Algol 68 Support): New section. * NEWS: Add entry for Algol 68.

fc1c3f65

2025-01-31T09:20:47

automake: just use warnings, with no => FATAL. Per Perl recommendation: https://perldoc.perl.org/warnings#Fatal-Warnings Suggested by Collin Funk: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2025-01/msg00003.html And in the Perl discussion: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/22954#issuecomment-2622966302 * bin/aclocal.in: just use warnings, not making them fatal. * bin/automake.in: * contrib/tap-driver.pl: * gen-testsuite-part: * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: * lib/Automake/Condition.pm: * lib/Automake/Config.in: * lib/Automake/Configure_ac.pm: * lib/Automake/DisjConditions.pm: * lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm: * lib/Automake/General.pm: * lib/Automake/Getopt.pm: * lib/Automake/Item.pm: * lib/Automake/ItemDef.pm: * lib/Automake/Language.pm: * lib/Automake/Location.pm: * lib/Automake/Options.pm: * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: * lib/Automake/RuleDef.pm: * lib/Automake/VarDef.pm: * lib/Automake/Variable.pm: * lib/Automake/Version.pm: * lib/Automake/Wrap.pm: * lib/Automake/XFile.pm: * t/ax/deltree.pl: * t/ax/extract-testsuite-summary.pl: * t/check-fd-redirect.sh: * t/tap-signal.tap: * t/tests-environment-fd-redirect.sh: * t/testsuite-summary-count-many.sh:

b5403ee7

2025-01-30T15:34:52

automake: avoid precedence error when using Perl 5.41+. Reported by Igor Todorovski <itodorov@ca.ibm.com> in <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2025-01/msg00000.html>. * bin/automake.in (transform): Parentheses the '!' operators so Perl 5.41.8 doesn't warn about "possible precedence problem".

61075eab

2025-01-01T14:31:02

maint: make update-copyright

a2def8cd

2024-10-20T14:34:39

automake: require ABOUT-NLS only at gnits strictness. From https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2024-10/msg00006.html. * bin/automake.in (handle_gettext): In require_file for ABOUT-NLS, change strictness level from GNU to GNITS. * NEWS: Add notice.

eb20585d

2024-06-18T10:32:09

aclocal: add --aclocal-path option to override ACLOCAL_PATH envvar. From https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2022-01/msg00029.html (plus wording tweaks from Karl; and thanks to Bogdan for research). * bin/aclocal.in (usage): relabel output of m4 search path components to be somewhat more correct (Karl), although it's still a mess. (parse_arguments): add new option --aclocal-path=s. (parse_ACLOCAL_PATH): use $aclocal_path instead of hardwiring envvar. * doc/automake.texi (aclocal Options): document it. (dirlist): new anchor so we can reference it. (Modifying the Macro Search Path: @file{ACLOCAL_PATH}): mention the option. (Possible future incompatibility): tone down; it might never happen. * t/aclocal-path-precedence.sh: test the option. * NEWS: mention the new option.

e09ee974

2024-06-16T08:41:06

aclocal: path separator is ; on OS/2 and Windows. Adapted from and fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/71534. * bin/aclocal.in (parse_ACLOCAL_PATH): use $^O to recognize OS/2 and Windows for the environment path element separator. * NEWS: mention this.

f3752617

2024-06-15T18:18:35

automake: sort keys for reproducibility. Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/25629. * bin/aclocal.in: sort keys for reproducibility. * bin/automake.in: likewise. * contrib/tap-driver.pl: likewise. * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/Condition.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/DisjConditions.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/Getopt.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: likewise. * THANKS: Add Yves. * NEWS: mention this.

4981e599

2024-06-07T10:23:59

doc: modernize version control doc Be more generic about version control instead of saying “CVS”. In the specific examples, use Git instead of CVS.

1d35638b

2024-06-07T08:41:45

maint: spelling and whitespace fixes Most of these spelling fixes are just to comments and documentation. However, some affect tests as follows: * t/cond36.sh (tparse.h): Fix misspelling of dependency. * t/disthook.sh: Fix misspelling of file. * t/help3.sh: Fix misspelling of long option. * t/instdir-ltlib.sh: Fix misspellings of macro names. This causes the test to fail, so someone with libtool expertise needs to look into this. * t/tap-no-spurious-numbers.sh (highno): Fix misspelling of shell var.

fba8c57d

2024-04-27T09:34:15

doc: Vala-related typo in automake.in From https://bugs.gnu.org/70557. * bin/automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): typo.

2fa17ccc

2024-01-23T08:53:18

automake: recommend autoreconf -f with version mismatches. From https://bugs.gnu.org/68674. * bin/automake.in (scan_autoconf_traces): change error to suggest running autoreconf -f. The version mismatch is most likely to happen due to the cache files, which aclocal && automake (the previous recommendation) does not delete. (scan_autoconf_files): likewise. * doc/automake.texi (Auto-generating aclocal.m4): mention autoreconf. Other minor wording changes.

b80b5c47

2024-01-01T11:29:06

maint: make update-copyright

6a2d079b

2023-12-24T15:02:30

doc: typos from codespell. Report and patch: https://bugs.gnu.org/68003. * bin/automake.in: typo from codespell. * configure.ac: likewise. * t/dist-auxdir-many-subdirs.sh: likewise. * t/instmany-mans.sh: likewise. * t/instmany-python.sh: likewise. * t/instmany.sh: likewise. * t/nostdinc.sh: likewise. * t/parallel-tests-fork-bomb.sh: likewise. * t/rm-f-probe.sh: likewise. * t/tap-basic.sh: likewise. * t/test-driver-custom-multitest.sh: likewise. * t/txinfo-vtexi3.sh: likewise.

9ab5c03e

2023-12-24T08:45:50

warn: avoid "only used once" warning for subsecond_mtime. * bin/automake.in (version): uselessly use $Automake::FileUtils::subsecond_mtime a second time to avoid Perl warning.

95c0aa18

2023-12-21T15:46:43

automake: avoid unnecessary use of \K. This fixes (part of) https://bugs.gnu.org/67891 and follows up on https://bugs.gnu.org/55025. * bin/automake.in (generate_makefile) <posix>: avoid use of \K when removing comment and blank lines before a .POSIX target, since Solaris 10 has perl 5.8.4, and \K was added in 5.10.

38f2f397

2023-12-10T09:57:53

automake: pass OBJC and OBJCXX tags to libtool. This helps https://bugs.gnu.org/67539. * bin/automake.in <register_language>: pass libtool_flag of OBJC and OBJCXX for the respective languages.

cfdb83d4

2023-12-10T09:50:51

automake: again revise file mtime resolution support. This patch is from https://bugs.gnu.org/67670. In order for the Automake testsuite to be able to use sub-second delays to control whether certain files are considered newer than others, five(!) separate pieces of software all need to cooperate: automake itself, autoconf's internal `autom4te' utility, the Perl interpreter and its libraries, the sleep(1) shell utility, and finally the filesystem hosting the build directory. The existing tests for this are a combination of inadequate and incorrect. This patch, in conjunction with a patch just committed to Autoconf trunk, https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/commit/?id=39d96e6fff7ceae63b823872602caf4d255a38c8 should make everything much more robust, as follows: - _AM_FILESYSTEM_TIMESTAMP_RESOLUTION is completely rewritten. It no longer looks for autom4te at all, because this macro is invoked unconditionally from AM_INIT, so *every* project that uses Automake would get this test that's only relevant to Automake's own testsuite. Also, it tries sleeping for as little as one millisecond (smaller delays consistently get rounded up to 1ms on my computer and I expect that's universal), it should accurately detect FAT's two-second resolution now, and it should not be tripped up anymore by running at precisely the moment that will make a 0.1s sleep cross a 1s boundary (this may sound unlikely but it used to cause a couple of test failures *every time* I ran the automake testsuite on a network filesystem that only supported 1s resolution). - In support of the above, the test for working ls -t moved from AM_SANITY_CHECK to _AM_FILESYSTEM_TIMESTAMP_RESOLUTION. This allowed me to simplify the test for $srcdir/configure being older than a freshly created file. - If automake is capable of reading high-resolution file modification timestamps from the operating system, it prints `Features: subsecond-mtime' as the second line of --version output. (We can't just assume this works for sufficiently new automake, because it depends on whether the Perl interpreter provides this capability, and that's not a simple question of which version of Perl you have, either.) - The Autoconf patch mentioned above adds the same annotation to the output of autom4te --version. - Finally, t/ax/test-defs.in looks for the `Features: subsecond-mtime' string from both automake and autom4te and resets the sleep time to one second if it's not there. There might be a better place to put this, somewhere it'll execute every time the *overall testsuite* is invoked rather than once for each test, but I couldn't find one. Tested on x86-64-linux with development automake and development autoconf. Previous discussion: - https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2023-03/msg00000.html - https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2023-04/msg00002.html - https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2023-12/msg00005.html - https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=64756 * m4/sanity.m4 (_AM_FILESYSTEM_TIMESTAMP_RESOLUTION): Rewrite for greater reliability. Don't probe autom4te at all here. Check for working ls -t here. (AM_SANITY_CHECK): Do not cache the result. Do not check for working `ls -t' here. Disentangle control flow in the loop probing the relative ages of build and source directory. * lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm: Sync from autoconf. * bin/automake.in (version): Include `Features: subsecond-mtime' in the output if $Automake::FileUtils::subsecond_mtime is true. * configure.ac: Rename the substitution variable MODIFICATION_DELAY to MTIME_RESOLUTION. * t/ax/test-defs.in: Require both $AUTOMAKE and $AUTOM4TE to report support for high-resolution timestamps before setting $sleep to delay for less than one second. * NEWS: Update info.

8cdbdda5

2023-11-21T08:30:00

automake: make the ARFLAGS default 'cr' instead of 'cru'. In some GNU/Linux distributions people started to compile 'ar' binary with --enable-deterministic-archives (binutils project). That, however, in combination with our previous long time working default AR_FLAGS=cru causes warnings on such installations: ar: `u' modifier ignored since `D' is the default (see `U') The 'u' option (at least with GNU binutils) did small optimization during repeated builds because it instructed 'ar' to not open/close unchanged *.o files and to rather read their contents from old archive file. However, its removal should not cause a big performance hit for usual workflows. Distributions started using --enable-deterministic-archives knowing that it would disable the 'u', just to rather have a bit more deterministic builds. Also, to justify this change a bit more, keeping 'u' in ARFLAGS could only result in many per-project changes to override Automake's ARFLAGS default, just to silence such warnings. Fixes bug#20082. Reported by Eric Blake. * bin/automake.in (handle_libraries): Use 'ARFLAGS=cr' by default. * doc/automake.texi (Building a library): Mention the changed ARFLAGS default. (@c LocalWords): Replace 'cru' with 'cr'. * m4/ar-lib.m4 (AM_PROG_AR): Cut out 'cru' string into separate ARFLAGS variable with new default 'cr'. * NEWS: Document.

1c618bce

2023-10-06T08:18:33

automake: new option posix to emit .POSIX target first. This patch is from https://bugs.gnu.org/55025. * lib/Automake/Options.pm (_is_valid_easy_option): declare new option "posix". * bin/automake.in (generate_makefile): if the "posix" option is present, add a .POSIX special target as the first non-comment line in the Makefile.in files. * NEWS: mention this. * doc/automake.texi: likewise.

5c85a9d3

2023-07-13T15:32:34

texi: assume .texi.in generates .texi. This change refines the fix for https://bugs.gnu.org/54063. * bin/automake.in (scan_texinfo_file): if .texi doesn't exist, but .texi.in exists, read the latter for the Texinfo source. Use the @setfilename argument, if present, to generate rules. * t/txinfo-no-texi-but-texi-in.sh: new test. * t/list-of-tests.mk (handwritten_tests): add it. * doc/automake.texi (Texinfo): document this. * NEWS: mention this. (Doc changes written by Karl.)

0e127700

2023-02-07T22:39:29

Revert "maint: require perl 5.010 or later" This reverts commit 4e3744a15c4d8bdb46c11ead2fb56c5f591b714b. Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes

4f5a624d

2023-02-28T15:14:07

dirstamp: revert change of Jan 11 2023. Fixes (hopefully) automake bug https://bugs.gnu.org/61867. * bin/automake.in: restore explicit per-directory pattern rules, since evidently @D is not supported on BSD-derived makes, whatever POSIX says. That is, revert this commit: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=automake.git;a=commitdiff;h=55f8fcfd08cbf15d65d61dd2db934b6c3171cf06

4e3744a1

2023-02-02T14:13:24

maint: require perl 5.010 or later This is needed for better treatment of high-res timestamps.

55f8fcfd

2023-01-11T22:07:22

dirstamp: switch to a pattern rule We can leverage $(@D) to generate a single pattern rule for all dirstamp rules. This saves many lines in the output -- normally we create 2 rules (or 6 lines) per subdir, and projects that use subdirs tend to use them quite a bit. In the most extreme & unlikely case (1 subdir, no depdir support), the line count is the same. In every other case, it's always a win. Looking at a few real world projects, the line deltas: * GNU libgloss: +3 -66 * GNU newlib: +3 -714 * GNU sim: +3 -138 There shouldn't be any concerns about portability with $(@D) because: (0) This has been in POSIX (and beyond) for decades, (1) We only generate this rule iff we know the dirstamp is in a subdir (so we'd never have a case where $(@D) would expand to the cwd, and that is where a few implementations are known to be buggy), (2) We already rely on $(@D) in our depdir code, and have since 2014 (the Automake 1.16 release).

054b02ce

2023-01-11T21:40:04

dirstamp: use append too instead of truncate We changed the depfiles logic to use >> (append) instead of > (truncate) due to it being slightly faster & nicer to the disk. Do the same with the dirstamp files as we only need the files to exist -- we don't care about their content, and we never put anything in them ourselves. If someone else were to, we clean them up normally with `make clean`. Simple test case on my Linux 6.1 w/ext4 on SSD: @: > foo.txt for (i = 0; i < 1000000; ++i) close(open("foo.txt", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666)); -> 769 msec @: >>foo.txt for (i = 0; i < 1000000; ++i) close(open("foo.txt", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_APPEND, 0666)); -> 2 sec

f15852df

2023-01-03T21:46:38

rm: convert more cases to am__rm_f Fixes automake bug https://bugs.gnu.org/10828. Clean up a few more cases where we were doing `test ... || rm ...` to avoid calling `rm -f` without arguments by leveraging am__rm_f. These were harder to find in the source due to their constructed nature. The clean programs rules in particular were much more complicated than they needed to be. This logic boiled down to two things: delete the list of programs, and then delete the list without the exeext suffix, but only if the list of programs is non-empty. The check-TESTS rule was converted to am__rm_f, but a simplification was missed where the $list variable is inlined. * bin/automake.in: Delete test -z logic and always call am__rm_f. * contrib/check-html.am: Use $(am__rm_f) helper. * doc/automake.texi: Update examples to match current behavior. * lib/am/check.am: Inline $list variable. * lib/am/progs.am: Rewrite rule to use $(am__rm_f).

34bdde96

2023-01-04T02:00:14

maint: make update-copyright

7191c6b4

2022-10-01T09:02:15

aclocal: protect against Perl undefined warnings. * bin/aclocal.in (usage): check that envvars (ACLOCAL_AUTOMAKE_DIR, ACLOCAL_PATH) are defined before printing values. * HACKING: describe running scripts from checkout, et al.

ff230b29

2022-02-24T22:25:45

automake: fall back gracefully when texinfo inputs don't exist Fixes automake bug https://bugs.gnu.org/54063. The function scanning for @setfilename will fall back to a default value if the input doesn't have one defined. But we need to handle the case where the file doesn't even exist before falling back. * bin/automake.in: Scan /dev/null for @setfilename if input doesn't exist. * t/list-of-tests.mk: Add txinfo-no-setfilename-no-inputs.sh. * t/txinfo-no-setfilename-no-inputs.sh: New test.

c62e7230

2022-02-20T23:30:39

automake: allow required files to be in subdirs Fixes automake bug https://bugs.gnu.org/20300. The internal method for caching path lookups expects the $filename to only be a filename. If it's actually a subdir/file itself, then the cache logic gets confused, and it never matches. This manifests as AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE([subdir/file]) claiming that the subdir/file path doesn't exist even when it does. Before we process any required files, since we already construct the full path locally, reset the dir & file inputs to the final values. * bin/automake.in: Split dir & file name back out from the constructed required file path. * t/auxdir-subsubdir.sh: New test. * t/list-of-tests.mk: Add t/auxdir-subsubdir.sh.

c1b799a0

2022-01-24T02:53:13

texi: pass automatic -I to dvi & pdf generation Fixes automake bug https://bugs.gnu.org/23599. When generating info/html pages, automake adds -I flags to source dirs that contain the texi files, but it doesn't do this for dvi or pdf formats. Instead, automake has been relying on texi2dvi to use makeinfo for expanding macros, and it hasn't done that by default in a long time. Since adding --expand to the texi2dvi call is undesirable (due to bad and unpredictable BEHAVIOR), pass those automatic -I flags directly to TEXI2DVI & TEXI2PDF so they work regardless of --expand behavior. We have to keep the MAKEINFO= setting around as texi2dvi might itself fall back to it if the version of tex is old or broken. * bin/automake.in: Add comment about $makeinfoflags usage. * doc/automake.texi: Mention automatic -I subdir flags. * lib/am/texibuild.am: Pass %MAKEINFOFLAGS% to TEXI2DVI & TEXI2PDF. * t/txinfo-subdir-pr343.sh: Check for -I subdir usage.

975ea4d9

2022-01-19T05:14:47

progs, libs: support _RANLIB overrides Much like we have per-target support for _AR and _LINK, add an _RANLIB override too. This allows selection of specific ranlib tools in case a non-standard archiver tool was forced. * bin/automake.in: Check for _RANLIB per-target settings. * doc/automake.texi: Document _RANLIB override. * lib/am/library.am: Change $(RANLIB) to $(%XLIBRARY%_RANLIB). * t/list-of-tests.mk: Add ranlib_override.sh. * t/ranlib_override.sh: New test. * NEWS: Mention new feature.

4c2c73bf

2022-01-20T02:03:23

aclocal: add m4 search path info to --help Add a short summary to --help of the current paths that will be searched. Make sure to omit this from the man page when running help2man since pre-inst-env specifically clears some and others to the current build directory. * bin/aclocal.in: Include m4 search paths in usage. * doc/local.mk: Run help2man with AUTOMAKE_HELP2MAN=true.

6c8ff6a8

2022-01-12T14:15:12

maint: make update-copyright

4ffbab93

2021-09-10T15:45:29

automake: consistently depend on install-libLTLIBRARIES. Report and patch: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2021-08/msg00016.html * bin/automake.in (generate_makefile): depend on install-libLTLIBRARIES for all PROGRAMS and LTLIBRARIES, such as install-pkglibLTLIBRARIES. * NEWS: mention this.

57688bd5

2021-07-15T18:37:09

automake: silent make output for custom link commands. Patch posted: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2021-07/msg00010.html * bin/automake.in (define_per_target_linker_variable): Use AM_V_${target}_LINK if defined as the verbose variable name for custom link commands. * doc/automake.texi (Program and Library Variables): Document the new variable. * t/link_override.sh: Add extra checks for silent make rules. * NEWS: Mention this. * THANKS: new contributor.

a470a47f

2021-07-11T19:19:42

maint: make update-copyright

314c55f0

2021-07-11T18:34:22

no-dist-built-sources: fix-up * bin/automake.in (preprocess_file): Process new option here, (handle_dist): ... not here. * lib/Automake/Options.pm (_is_valid_easy_option): Remove pure-dist. * lib/am/distdir.am: Don't factor out the duplicate-looking $(MAKE)... command. Otherwise, many dist-using tests would fail for me, e.g., t/aclocal-amflags.sh.

13659a73

2021-07-09T09:03:30

dist: add new "dist-no-built-sources" automake option. Fixes automake bug https://debbugs.gnu.org/49317. * bin/automake.in: implement new option "no-dist-built-sources" to omit the dependency of distdir on $(BUILT_SOURCES). (Allison's original patch used the option name dist-pure; trivially renamed.) * lib/am/distdir.am (distdir) [DIST_BUILT_SOURCES]: conditionalize the dependency. * lib/Automake/Options.pm (_is_valid_easy_option): list it. * doc/automake.texi (List of Automake options): document it. * NEWS: mention it. * t/dist-no-built-sources.sh: test it. * t/list-of-tests.mk (handwritten_TESTS): add it.

16569085

2021-07-01T18:21:51

dist: accept .md versions for README et al. This change was suggested by madmurphy; some ideas were taken from the patch he provided. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2021-06/msg00005.html * bin/automake.in (@toplevelmd_ok): new global, listing the files for which we will accept .md versions. (@common_files): remove those files from there. (handle_dist): check for .md if non-.md is absent. (handle_minor_options): check for README-alpha.md. (check_gnu_standards): accept .md version if present. (check_gnits_standards): likewise. (usage): output list of .md-accepted files. * doc/automake.texi (Basics of Distribution): document. * t/toplevelmd.sh: new test. * t/list-of-tests.mk (handwritten_tests): add it. * NEWS: mention new feature.

4a122012

2021-02-27T09:14:47

automake: sort hash keys needed for reproducible output. This change fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/46744. * bin/automake.in: sort keys, in: handle_LIBOBJS, handle_clean, handle_factored_dependencies, scan_autoconf_traces, lang_vala_finish. * NEWS: mention this.

46420770

2020-12-05T18:19:18

doc: comment Vala -newer test. This change updates https://bugs.gnu.org/44772. * bin/automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): comment that we're checking "C file not older than Vala file", and the log message misleadingly says "reversed".

e83520ff

2020-12-03T11:00:53

warnings: be less forceful about a missing subdir-objects option. This change somewhat ameliorates https://bugs.gnu.org/20699. * bin/automake.in (handle_single_transform): change forward-incompatibility message for subdir-objects to be less draconian and less certain that the change will ever be made. * t/subobj.sh: message text has changed. * doc/automake.texi (Program and Library Variables): mention the unfortunate fact that one directory can clean in a sibling, subdir-objects notwithstanding.

7581ec20

2020-11-27T18:02:08

vala: avoid wrong regeneration of C files. This change might fix https://bugs.gnu.org/44772. * bin/automake.in (lang_val_finish_target): reverse -newer test to handle files being created at the same time causing spurious rebuilds.

782ac400

2020-11-07T18:44:56

vala: improve support, especially builddir vs. srcdir. This change fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/13002. * NEWS: mention these changes. * bin/automake.in: generated C files go in builddir, not srcdir. Distribute the header files generated from VAPI files. * t/vala-libs-distcheck.sh: new test for `make distcheck' of a Vala library. * t/vala-libs-vpath.sh: new test for a VPATH build of a Vala library. * t/vala-libs.sh: add local VAPIs used as external --package to test. * t/vala-recursive-setup.sh: we need to make maintainer-clean at one point to remove stamp files to avoid confusing a VPATH build performed after a non-VPATH build. * t/vala-non-recursive-setup.sh: likewise. * t/vala-parallel.sh: some test paths need changing to take into account that generated C files now go in builddir. * t/vala-per-target-flags.sh: likewise. * t/vala-recursive-setup.sh: likewise. * t/vala-vpath.sh: likewise.

bd09c76a

2020-09-18T13:40:20

Use WARNINGS=none to suppress warnings from autom4te runs. aclocal uses autom4te in trace mode to scan configure.ac for macros whose definition is not yet available. It has a kludge to prevent this from producing spurious warnings, but a cleaner, fully backward compatible, way to get the same effect is to set WARNINGS=none in the environment and not pass down any -W options. (This is better than passing -Wnone on the command line because it automatically inherits to any subprocesses started by autom4te.) Perl’s ‘local’ feature can be used to make the enviironment variable setting temporary, reverting to the previous value when we exit the function. automake also runs autom4te (technically autoconf) in trace mode; warnings from this invocation will not be *spurious*, but in the common case where the person running automake is going to run autoconf next, they will be duplicated. Therefore, make the same change to automake. * bin/aclocal.in (trace_used_macros) * bin/automake.in (scan_autoconf_traces): Use “local $ENV{WARNINGS}='none'” to suppress warnings from autom4te.

9ae8a896

2020-09-11T16:17:41

Consistently process -W(no-)error after all other warning options. automake and aclocal were processing ‘-W(no-)error’ whenever it appeared on the command line, which means that ‘-Werror,something-strange’ would issue a hard error, but ‘-Wsomething-strange,error’ would only issue a warning. It is not desirable for warnings about unknown warning categories ever to be treated as a hard error; that leads to problems for driver scripts like autoreconf, which would like to pass whatever -W options it got on its own command line down to all the tools and not worry about which tools understand which warning categories. Also, this sort of order dependence is confusing for humans. Change parse_warnings to take just one option, the _complete_ list of warning categories seen on the command line, and to process -Werror / -Wno-error after processing all other warnings options. Thus, unknown warnings categories will always just be a plain warning. This does mean aclocal has to stop using parse_warnings as a Getopt::Long callback, but that’s not a big deal. Similarly, change parse_WARNINGS to record whether ‘error’ appeared in the environment variable, but not activate warnings-are-errors mode itself. parse_warnings picks up the record and honors it, unless it’s overridden by the command line. * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm ($werror): New package global (not exported). (parse_WARNINGS): Do not call switch_warning for ‘error’ / ‘no-error’; just toggle the value of $werror. (parse_warnings): Do not call switch_warning immediately for ‘error’ / ‘no-error’; toggle $werror instead. Call switch_warning ‘error’ at the very end if $werror is true. Remove unused $OPTION argument. * bin/automake.in: parse_warnings now takes only one argument. * bin/aclocal.in: Call parse_warnings after parse_options instead of using it as a parse_options callback.

ab9ef6cf

2020-09-11T14:23:10

Sync ChannelDefs.pm from autoconf. ChannelDefs.pm *ought* to be kept in sync between automake and autoconf, because it defines the set of valid -W options, and autoreconf assumes that it can pass arbitrary -W options to all of the tools it invokes. However, it isn’t covered by either project’s ‘make fetch’ and it hasn’t actually *been* in sync for more than 17 years. This patch manually brings over all of the changes made on the autoconf side. Most importantly, there is a new warnings channel ‘cross’, for warnings related to cross-compilation. Also, the ‘usage’ function now *returns* the text to be put into a usage message, instead of printing it itself. (This is necessary on autoconf’s side.) * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Sync from autoconf. (cross): New warnings channel. (portability-recursive): Document. (usage): Now returns the text to be printed, instead of printing it. (parse_warnings): Second argument may now be a list.

5cafaafd

2020-08-31T18:31:04

perl: use warnings instead of -w; consistent ordering of use, etc. Per thread at: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2020-08/msg00009.html * bin/aclocal.in: use warnings instead of #!...-w; consistent ordering of basic "use" directives, then BEGIN block, then standard modules in ASCII order, then Automake:: modules (not sort), finally use vars. Also sort @ISA lists and use qw(...) in ASCII order. * bin/automake.in: likewise. * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/Condition.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/Config.in: likewise. * lib/Automake/Configure_ac.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/DisjConditions.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/General.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/Getopt.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/Item.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/ItemDef.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/Language.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/Location.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/Options.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/RuleDef.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/VarDef.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/Variable.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/Version.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/Wrap.pm: likewise. * lib/Automake/XFile.pm: remove unnecessary imports of Carp, DynaLoader, and File::Basename.

3bbcf683

2020-08-28T16:26:54

automake: if TEST_EXTENSIONS is set to empty, don't look inside it. This change fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/42635. * bin/automake.in (handle_tests): do not use $test_suffixes[0] if it does not exist. * t/test-extensions-empty.sh: new test. * t/list-of-tests.mk (handwritten_TESTS): add it.

cd8ef343

2020-07-26T15:01:34

Install directories mode 755 instead of using umask Problem reported by Antoine Amarilli in: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2019-01/msg00000.html and followed up by Akim Demaille in: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2020-07/msg00040.html * bin/automake.in: Add a comment about this. * lib/install-sh: Ignore umask; just create directories mode 755 unless overridden via -m (for non-intermediate directories only). Also, fix 'umask=$mkdir_umask' typo. * lib/mkinstalldirs: Likewise.

ae911ae2

2020-04-06T18:25:24

cosmetics: typo in comment. This change fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/32100. * bin/aclocal.in (install_file): remove duplicate "the" in "Using the real the destination file ...".

a523b69a

2020-04-05T17:35:51

vala: more precise argument matching. This change fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/18734. * bin/automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): anchor option regexp so that, e.g., an argument "vapi" does not match the option --vapi. * NEWS: mention this (and preceding checklinkx change, sorry).

cf27a3df

2020-01-01T11:44:41

maint: make update-copyright

c1e1dd66

2019-12-16T19:45:22

automake: Ensure space after $(LISP) in tags dependencies. This change fixes automake bug#38139. * bin/automake.in (handle_tags): Concatenate with space in " @config". * t/tags-lisp-space.sh: New test. * t/list-of-tests.mk (handwritten_TESTS): Add it.

5c466eaf

2019-10-04T16:39:24

dist: add dist-zstd option Add support for using the zstd compression algorithm. Use a default compression setting of -19, and ".zst" as the suffix. * bin/automake.in (handle_dist): Add zstd to the list of known dist- suffixes. (preprocess_file): Map ZSTD to dist-zstd. * doc/automake.texi: Document the new option. * lib/Automake/Options.pm (_is_valid_easy_option): Add dist-zstd. * lib/am/distdir.am (dist-zstd): New rule. (?ZSTD?DIST_TARGETS): Add definition. (distcheck): Add a case for *.tar.zst*. * t/dist-formats.tap: Add tests. * NEWS: Mention the change.

5ae02cc8

2019-10-14T13:46:55

maint: make update-copyright

309a6c47

2019-08-25T21:07:58

automake: do not require @setfilename in Texinfo files Texinfo no longer requires a @setfilename directive in each .texi file, so automake now also relaxes its restriction. * bin/automake.in (scan_texinfo_file): Derive name of info file from name of input file if no @setfilename line occurs in the file. * t/txinfo-no-setfilename.sh: New test. * t/list-of-tests.mk: Add it. * NEWS: Mention it. Fixes automake bugs #36921 and #34201.

51823f14

2018-02-20T23:18:09

bin: Rely only on the shebang line Previously ‘automake’ and ‘aclocal’ were handling the case of being interpreted as a Shell script by using a hack leveraging the fact that Shell and Perl has a compatible syntax intersection allowing those scripts to launch ‘perl’ from the shell. * bin/aclocal.in: Remove cryptic launching hack. * bin/automake.in: Likewise.

74902aa2

2018-03-03T23:50:10

automake: Don't rely on List::Util to provide 'none' This change fixes automake bug#30631. This removes the use of List::Util which is not supported by Perl 5.6, by reimplementing the 'none' subroutine. * lib/Automake/General.pm (none): New subroutine. * bin/automake.in (handle_single_transform): Use it. * t/pm/General.pl: New test. * t/list-of-tests.mk (perl_TESTS): Add it. * NEWS: Update.

dc67b18d

2018-01-04T23:59:00

automake: Add default libtool_tag to cppasm * bin/automake.in (register_language): Define default libtool tag to be CC since CPPASCOMPILE is using CC to call assembler. Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes

bbaa4cdc

2018-01-04T16:19:30

maint: Update copyright years to 2018 This update has been made with 'make update-copyright'.

5e202df2

2017-09-23T12:19:43

maint: Make Emacs use 'makefile-automake-mode' * bin/local.mk: Specify mode name in the first line. * contrib/t/local.mk: Likewise. * doc/local.mk: Likewise. * lib/Automake/local.mk: Likewise. * lib/am/local.mk: Likewise. * lib/local.mk: Likewise. * m4/local.mk: Likewise. * t/local.mk: Likewise.

6cb3b835

2017-09-22T23:06:15

maint: Configure Emacs automatically with ".dir-locals.el" * .dir-locals.el: New Emacs directory configuration file. All perl files adapted.

c2757b97

2017-09-19T13:43:07

maint: Reset master

561f4736

2017-09-19T13:29:18

Merge branch 'minor'

8c81e7b8

2017-09-16T18:08:05

Fix a couple more http: URLs

3562e384

2017-09-16T13:03:36

Prefer https: URLs In Gnulib, Emacs, etc. we are changing ftp: and http: URLs to use https:, to discourage man-in-the-middle attacks when downloading software. The attached patch propagates these changes upstream to Automake. This patch does not affect files that Automake is downstream of, which I'll patch separately. Althouth the resources are not secret, plain HTTP is vulnerable to malicious routers that tamper with responses from GNU servers, and this sort of thing is all too common when people in some other countries browse US-based websites. See, for example: Aceto G, Botta A, Pescapé A, Awan MF, Ahmad T, Qaisar S. Analyzing internet censorship in Pakistan. RTSI 2016. https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RTSI.2016.7740626 HTTPS is not a complete solution here, but it can be a significant help. The GNU project regularly serves up code to users, so we should take some care here.

09c7f53e

2017-09-16T18:08:05

Fix a couple more http: URLs

199e7a44

2017-09-16T13:03:36

Prefer https: URLs In Gnulib, Emacs, etc. we are changing ftp: and http: URLs to use https:, to discourage man-in-the-middle attacks when downloading software. The attached patch propagates these changes upstream to Automake. This patch does not affect files that Automake is downstream of, which I'll patch separately. Althouth the resources are not secret, plain HTTP is vulnerable to malicious routers that tamper with responses from GNU servers, and this sort of thing is all too common when people in some other countries browse US-based websites. See, for example: Aceto G, Botta A, Pescapé A, Awan MF, Ahmad T, Qaisar S. Analyzing internet censorship in Pakistan. RTSI 2016. https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RTSI.2016.7740626 HTTPS is not a complete solution here, but it can be a significant help. The GNU project regularly serves up code to users, so we should take some care here.

333b98f2

2017-08-16T18:16:12

automake: Depend on LIBOBJDIR for LIBOBJS and ALLOCA This change fixes automake bug#27781. * bin/automake.in: Add Makefile dependency on LIBOBJDIR/dirstamp for each LIBOBJS/ALLOCA source file found. * t/list-of-tests.mk (XFAIL_TESTS): Drop t/libobj-no-dependency-tracking.sh. * NEWS: Announce bug fix.

274590d8

2017-09-14T21:01:19

Revert "automake: Handle LTLIBOBJS more specifically" This reverts commit 5521219348c55af354878583b99c5f9d66d6d38a.

f389ecb8

2017-08-31T19:23:42

Merge branch 'minor'

e94c0186

2017-08-31T14:42:13

build: Rename "Makefile.inc" Makefile fragments to "local.mk" This is done to follow a convention used by a lot of GNU packages. * bin/Makefile.inc: Rename to ... * bin/local.mk: ... this. * doc/Makefile.inc: Rename to ... * doc/local.mk: ... this. * lib/Automake/Makefile.inc: Rename to ... * lib/Automake/local.mk: ... this. * lib/am/Makefile.inc: Rename to ... * lib/am/local.mk: ... this. * lib/Makefile.inc: Rename to ... * lib/local.mk: ... this. * m4/Makefile.inc: Rename to ... * m4/local.mk: ... this. * contrib/t/Makefile.inc: Rename to ... * contrib/t/local.mk: ... this. * t/Makefile.inc: Rename to ... * t/local.mk: ... this. Adapt. * Makefile.am: Adapt.

574b20e5

2017-07-08T20:18:45

build: Inline perl prototypes in sources Prototypes allows us to avoid using the '&foo' invocation form when invoking a subroutine before its definition. Previously those prototypes were generated to prevent them from falling out-of-sync with actual definitions. Now we provide a 'check-perl-protos' lint script to ensure that this is not the case. This has the same benefits as generating prototypes while simplifying the bootstrap/build process. * bin/gen-perl-protos: Remove. * bin/Makefile.inc: Adapt. * bootstrap: Likewise. * bin/aclocal.in: Inline prototypes. * bin/automake.in: Likewise. * maintainer/check-perl-protos: New lint script. * maintainer/syntax-checks.mk (sc_perl_protos): New target. (syntax_check_rules): Add it.

99cf7ca5

2017-08-30T23:45:49

build: Generate versioned scripts at make time * configure.ac: Don't generate 'bin/aclocal-${APIVERSION}' and 'bin/automake-${APIVERSION}'. * bin/wrap-aclocal.in: Delete. * bin/wrap-automake.in: Likewise. * bin/Makefile.inc (%D%/automake-$(APIVERSION)) (%D%/aclocal-$(APIVERSION)): New targets. (CLEANFILES): Add them.

ab2d33e6

2017-08-29T21:15:14

aclocal: Support ACLOCAL_AUTOMAKE_DIR environment variable * bin/aclocal.in: Reset '@automake_includes' and '@system_includes' in for build environment. Allow setting '@automake_includes' with ACLOCAL_AUTOMAKE_DIR environment variable. (parse_arguments): Ignore 'dirlist' when '@system_includes' is empty. * doc/automake.texi (aclocal Options): Document ACLOCAL_AUTOMAKE_DIR. * bin/wrap-aclocal.in: Remove extra command line options. * pre-inst-env.in: Set ACLOCAL_AUTOMAKE_DIR and ACLOCAL_PATH environment variables. * t/ax/test-defs.in: Adapt. * t/ansi2knr-no-more.sh (warn_rx): Likewise.

dd0b8142

2017-08-29T14:16:24

config: Support AUTOMAKE_LIBDIR environment variable * lib/Automake/Config.in: Let AUTOMAKE_LIBDIR environment variable override the default location for '$libdir'. * doc/automake.texi (automake Invocation): Document AUTOMAKE_LIBDIR. * pre-inst-env.in (AUTOMAKE_LIBDIR): Set AUTOMAKE_LIBDIR. * bin/wrap-automake.in: Don't use "--libdir" option.

37d403fd

2017-08-29T13:23:24

build: Use PERL5LIB from 'pre-inst-env' script * bin/aclocal.in: Detect build environment with AUTOMAKE_UNINSTALLED. Let 'PERL5LIB' from 'pre-inst-env' define the perl module directories. * bin/automake.in: Likewise. * bin/wrap-aclocal.in: Don't set 'Automake::perl_libdirs' anymore. * bin/wrap-automake.in: Likewise. * t/Makefile.inc (LOG_COMPILER, PL_LOG_COMPILER): Use 'pre-inst-env'. (AM_PL_LOG_FLAGS): Don't set perl module path.

bb64793a

2017-08-29T11:27:52

build: Move wrapped scripts in "bin" directory Those scripts are used both in the build process and for the tests, so it seems clearer to not hide them in "t/wrap" directory. * t/wrap/aclocal.in: Rename to ... * bin/wrap-aclocal.in: ... this. * t/wrap/automake.in: Rename to ... * bin/wrap-automake.in: ... this. * configure.ac: Generate "bin/aclocal-${APIVERSION}" and "bin/automake-${APIVERSION}" at configure time. * t/Makefile.inc (nodist_noinst_SCRIPTS): Move wrapped scripts ... * bin/Makefile.inc (nodist_noinst_SCRIPTS): ... here. * Makefile.am (extend_PATH): Use "bin" directory. * t/ax/test-defs.in (am_bindir): Likewise. * t/get-sysconf.sh: Likewise. * .gitignore: Update.

55212193

2017-08-27T15:27:00

automake: Handle LTLIBOBJS more specifically * bin/automake.in (handle_LIBOBJS_or_ALLOCA): Remove complex regexp substitution when handling LTLIBOBJS.

fd244f28

2015-06-29T09:50:02

aclocal: Avoid problematic string interpolation This fixes bug#20903. Thanks to Eric Bavier for reporting this issue. * bin/aclocal.in (automake_includes): Avoid problematic string interpolation. * NEWS: Update. * THANKS: Thank Eric Bavier. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>

f4e91bfc

2017-03-13T12:41:59

automake: Shorter object file names under subdir-objects Combining the 'subdir-objects' option with target-specific flags had the consequence of producing long object file names. This was done to preventively ensure the uniqueness of object file names. We are now using shorter names by default, and handle long names when an actual conflict is detected. This will hopefully reduce the necessity of using the 'prog_SHORTNAME' facility. Example: previously: AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = subdir-objects bin_PROGRAMS += path/to/foo path_to_foo_CFLAGS = $(AM_CFLAGS) -g resulted in objects: sub/path_to_foo-foo.o now object file name is: sub/foo-foo.o * bin/automake.in (proglist, liblist, ltliblist) (dup_shortnames): New globals. (initialize_per_input): Initialize them. (handle_targets): New subroutine. (handle_single_transform): Truncate object file names when possible. * t/subobj-objname-clash.sh: New test. * t/list-of-tests.mk (handwritten_TESTS): Add it. * NEWS: Update. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>

cc7231cc

2017-06-16T23:07:00

Merge branch 'minor'

c946ae6f

2017-06-16T22:46:16

Merge branch 'micro' into minor

197426b3

2017-05-16T15:59:12

automake: Update 'read_am_file' docstring. * bin/automake.in (read_am_file): Update docstring which was referring to a non existent '%contents' variable.

d8add592

2017-03-02T18:55:53

maint: Update copyright years to 2017. This update has been made with 'make update-copyright'.

1370ce5f

2017-01-01T08:34:49

maint: update copyright dates for 2017 * all files: Run this command, using update-copyright from gnulib: UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_FORCE=1 \ UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_USE_INTERVALS=2 \ UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_MAX_LINE_LENGTH=79 \ update-copyright $(git ls-files)

b3da45ad

2016-09-08T18:58:43

automake: do not emit rule with two dependents On a system using our replacement alloca, make would emit this warning: target '.deps/alloca.Po' given more than once in the same rule That arose because automake would emit a rule depending on both ./.deps/alloca.Po and .deps/alloca.Po. Normally, duplicate dependents are avoided by virtue of their names being keys in the %dep_files hash, but in this case, that particular file was specified in two different ways. * bin/automake.in (handle_ALLOCA): When the $dir prefix is empty, make it './', to ensure that when we add ./.deps/alloca.Po it is deduped. See: http://bugs/gnu/org/22702

455bad28

2016-03-31T16:45:26

Merge branch 'minor'

323dabef

2016-03-31T16:40:20

Merge branch 'micro' into minor

13f00eb4

2016-03-31T16:35:29

automake: port to Perl 5.22 and later Without this change, Perl 5.22 complains "Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated" and this is planned to become a hard error in Perl 5.26. See: http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.22.0/pod/perldelta.pod#A_literal_%22{%22_should_now_be_escaped_in_a_pattern * bin/automake.in (substitute_ac_subst_variables): Escape left brace.

6357a630

2015-01-06T13:17:23

Merge branch 'minor' * minor: deps: fix corner-case "make distclean" bug compile: don't place built object files in $(srcdir), ever ... tests: fix some bugs in an XFAILing test deps: 'subdir-object' option now works when foo_SOURCES contains $(var) NEWS: fix a typo Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

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