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2011-07-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> remake: add test ensuring that slower remakes don't hang * tests/remake-subdir-long-time.test: New test. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update. Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues. 2011-07-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> remake: fix outdated comment in configure.am * lib/am/configure.am: Fix comment falsified by changes in commit `v1.11-366-gbee9871'. Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues. 2011-05-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> remake: behave better with non-GNU make in subdirectories Currently, with every decent make program, it is possible to rebuild out-of-date autotools-generated files with a simple "make Makefile" -- but for this to work reliably with non-GNU make implementations, the command must be issued from the top-level directory. This patch removes such limitation. * lib/am/configure.am (am--refresh): Depend on `%MAKEFILE%'. * tests/defs.in (using_gmake): New function, backported from the `master' branch (and simplified). * tests/remake-subdir.test: New test. * tests/remake-subdir2.test: Likewise. * tests/remake-subdir-gnu.test: Likewise. * tests/remake-subdir-from-subdir.test: Likewise. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update. 2011-05-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> testsuite: avoid re-running few tests with 'parallel-tests' option Some tests in our testsuite use the 'simple-tests' driver only marginally, or simply as a mean to conveniently check unrelated invariants. It makes little sense to force these tests to also run with the 'parallel-tests' Automake option active, as doing so offers no real gain in coverage, while often causing a measurable overhead in execution time (for an already too-slow testsuite). * tests/pr401.test (parallel_tests): Define to "no", to prevent the generation of a sibling test script using the 'parallel-tests' driver. * tests/pr401b.test: Likewise. * tests/pr401c.test: Likewise. 2011-05-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> testsuite: allow tests to avoid the use of 'parallel-tests' option * tests/gen-parallel-tests: Do not generate "siblings" for tests that explicitly define the `parallel_tests', whether to "yes" or to any other value. Extend heading comments to give a rationale for this behaviour. * tests/README: Update. 2011-05-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> tests/README: update obsoleted advice * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"): Do not suggest to use the `*-p.test' pattern for the names of hand-written tests which use the `parallel-tests' Automake option. Not only is this not respected by the existing tests, but it is more likely to cause conflicts with auto-generated tests. So, suggest to *avoid* using the `*-p.test' pattern in names of hand-written tests instead. (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do not"): When suggesting not to override Makefile variables using command line arguments, do not use the badly outdated variables `U' and 'ANSI2KNR' in the example; instead, use the more common and typical `DESTDIR'. 2011-05-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> test defs: rename requirement 'non-cross' -> 'native' * tests/defs.in (non-cross): Rename requirement ... (native): ... to this, which is clearer and fits the existing lingo better. Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues. 2011-05-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> testsuite: be more cross-compile friendly * tests/defs.in (cross_compiling): New subroutine. (am__tool_prefix): New internal variable. (gcc, g++, gcj): Force the use of the correct "tool prefix" when cross compiling. (gfortran, g77, non-cross): New requirements. 2011-05-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> tests: fix spurious failure of txinfo21.test on FreeBSD * tests/txinfo21.test: Use the `is_newest' subroutine instead of the `ls -t' hack to to determine whether a file has been updated. This is required because at least FreeBSD `ls' do not sort files with the same timestamp in alphabetical order when using the `-t' option. 2011-05-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> tests defs: allow requirements for compilers (mostly dummy) Most of the new requirements that are now accepted in `$required' as consequence of this patch are still dummy. They are planned to be implemented only in master (or in some derived branch), but having them here (even just as no-op) will allow for an easier integration/backporting of potential new testcases. * tests/defs.in (cc, c++, fortran, fortran77): New requirements, still dummy. (flex): New requirement, picking LEX for configure. (lex): New requirement, alias for `flex'. A more appropriate implementation, looking for a generic `lex' program, will follow in the future. (yacc): New requirement, alias for `bison'. A more appropriate implementation, looking for a generic `yacc' program, will follow in the future. 2011-04-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> tests: fix spurious failure in a test on TESTS (VPATH-related) * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: When not using the parallel-tests option, do not check that VPATH components are not present in the displayed test name, since the simple-tests driver do not try to strip them. 2011-04-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> test: self check subroutines for skipping/failing of tests * tests/self-check-report.test: New test. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update. 2011-04-23 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> test defs: new subroutines for test skipping/failing * tests/defs.in (Exit): Move definition of this function earlier. (warn_, skip_, fail_, framework_failure_): New functions, inspired to the homonyms in gnulib's tests/init.sh. ($stderr_fileno_): New global variable, used by the new functions above. * tests/README: Updated. From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues. 2011-04-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> tests: fix typo (copy & paste blunder) in heading comment * tests/maintclean-vpath.test: Correctly refer to the sister test as `maintclean.test', not as `maintclean-vpath.test'. 2011-04-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> tests: remove redundant test `mclean.test' * tests/mclean.test: Remove, it's a weak grepping test completely superseded by the much more complete `maintclean.test'. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update. 2011-04-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> testsuite: more environment sanitization * tests/defs.in: Sanity check: abort if any of `parallel_tests' or `required' is in the environment. ($sed_unindent_prog): Initialize to empty, to avoid interferences from the environment. * tests/self-check-me-in-env.test: Renamed to ... * tests/self-check-env-sanitize.test: ... this, and extended. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update. (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset variables `parallel_tests' and `required'. Adjust comments. 2011-04-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> tests: don't allow `$me' to be overridden from the environment * tests/defs.in: Sanity check: abort if $me is in the environment. * tests/self-check-me-in-env.test: New test. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset variable `me'. (TESTS): Update. Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues. 2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> test defs: allow overriding of `$me' * tests/defs.in ($me): Allow overriding by the including test script. Add some explicative comments. 2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> depcomp tests: don't reject slower dependency extractors * tests/depcomp8b.test: Add the `--enable-dependency-tracking' option to `configure' invocations, so that slower dependency extractors are not rejected. * tests/depcomp8a.test: Likewise. Also ... (foo.c): ... since we are at it, fix spacing to be consistent with GNU coding standards. 2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> m4: add missing serial numbers to a few files Related to automake bug#8483. * m4/amversion.in: Add serial number. * m4/auxdir.m4: Likewise. * m4/gcj.m4: Likewise. * m4/install-sh.m4: Likewise. * m4/mkdirp.m4: Likewise. * m4/python.m4: Likewise. * m4/runlog.m4: Likewise. * m4/strip.m4: Likewise. * m4/upc.m4: Likewise. 2011-04-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> depcomp: correct invalid sed invocation * lib/depcomp: Insert missing -e before '/:$/d'. Otherwise, that use of sed would treat '/:$/d' as a file name. 2011-04-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> maintainer check: quote literal `$' in Makefile rule * Makefile.am (sc_tests_PATH_SEPARATOR): Escape literal `$' character in double-quoted string. Fix a bug in which the rule emitted an erroneously empty substring in its error message. 2011-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> coverage: test for automake bug#8485 (known regression) * tests/yacc-dist-nobuild-subdir.test: New test. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Update. 2011-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> test defs: define default $distdir (help reducing duplication) * tests/defs.in ($distdir): New variable, might be used in testcases checking distribution-related features. * tests/pr9.test: Use it. * tests/subdir9.test: Likewise. * tests/vtexi3.test: Add comment explaining why we redefine $distdir in this test. 2011-04-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> depcomp: fix bugs in tests and in the depcomp script * lib/depcomp (gcc): Remove duplicated `-e' from sed invocation. * tests/depcomp10.test: Make it executable. Fix a blunder that has left part of an intended comment not prefixed by `#', thus causing shell syntax errors. In this same comment, break a too-long reported error message on multiple lines, for clarity. Add reference to the relevant bug report. Add a comment which explains why the test result 'skipped' if the first "make" call fails. Add other useful comments. * tests/depcomp9.test: Slightly improve comments. 2011-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Fix hp depmode for VPATH builds with GNU make. * lib/depcomp: Be sure to remove VPATH-prefixed object from dependency output when creating stub rule. * tests/depcomp10.test: New test. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update. * NEWS: Update. Report by Bruno Haible. 2011-04-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> test defs: fix 'javac' requirement for older JDK versions The Java compiler from JDK 1.5 (and presumably earlier versions) cannot handle the `-version' option by itself; and while it does print the version number, it then errors out with an usage error: $ javac -version javac 1.5.0_22 javac: no source files Usage: javac <options> <source files> ... Luckily, adding the `-help' option to the `javac' invocation seems to fix this problem. * tests/defs.in (javac): Pass also the `-help' option to the `javac' program. Add a comment explaining why it is needed. Report from Ralf Wildenhues. 2011-04-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> test defs: new requirement for the default java compiler * tests/defs.in (for tool in $required): New requirement 'javac'. * tests/java.test: Use it instead of ad-hoc configure check. * tests/java-check.test: Likewise. * tests/instfail-java.test: Likewise. * tests/instdir-java.test: Likewise. 2011-04-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> java: check_JAVA does not cause compilation by "make all" anymore Fixes automake bug#8234. * automake.in (handle_java): Make stamp of class files built from java sources in $(check_JAVA) a dependency of `check' target, not `all' target. * tests/java-check.test: New test. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update. * NEWS: Update. * THANKS: Update. Report from Petteri Räty. 2011-04-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Clarify regex code in depcomp. * lib/depcomp: Add comment why we don't need regex-escaping here. Suggested by Stefano Lattarini. 2011-04-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Fix makedepend depmode for VPATH builds. * lib/depcomp [makedepend]: Remove any VPATH prefix from the object file name, so a rebuild doesn't attempt to update the .Po files in the source tree. * tests/depcomp9.test: New test. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update. * NEWS: Update. 2011-04-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> tests: fix timestamp-related failures Fixes automake bug#8365. * tests/aclocal6.test: Sleep before modifying m4 files that should trigger remake rules. Remove incorrect/obsoleted comments. * tests/subdir5.test: Likewise, and extend a bit. * tests/subdir8.test: Likewise. * tests/pr8365-remake-timing.test: New xfailing test. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update. Report from Sam Steingold. 2011-04-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Create subdirs for generated sources even when not dep tracking. * automake.in (handle_single_transform): If $object is derived and lands in subdir, be sure to output a dirstamp dependency. * tests/yacc5.test: Avoid falsely matching the dirstamp dependency when grepping for a rule. * tests/lex-subobj-nodep.test: New test. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update. * THANKS: Update. Report by Ignacy Gawedzki. Fix locale issue in check-exported-srcdir.test. * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Reformulate glob to not fail in a locale that ignores or interleaves character case. 2011-04-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> docs: better visibility for aclocal in the index * doc/automake.texi (@menu): Rename title for entry 'configure' from "Scanning configure.ac or configure.in" to the more precise "Scanning configure.ac, using aclocal". (@detailmenu): Adjust. (@node configure): Adjust, and extend @cindex calls accordingly. * THANKS: Update. From a report by Maynard Johnson. 2011-03-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> tests: improve tests on "maintainer-clean" target * tests/aclocal6.test: Move checks related to "maintainer-clean" functionalities into ... * tests/maintclean-vpath.test: ... this new test. * tests/maintclean.test: Update heading comments. Extend to also test subdirs. Remove useless disabling of YACC. Fix m4 quoting in configure.in. Add a trailing `:' command. Remove extra blank lines. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update. 2011-03-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> tests: fix unindent to use printf not echo for script. * tests/defs.in: Use printf rather than echo, as the latter may interpret the backslashes in the sed script. Fixes test failures with dash as /bin/sh. 2011-03-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> maintcheck: look for problematic names of testcases The configure.in stub created by default by `tests/defs' obtains the first argument of AC_INIT from the test name, and this can cause some supported autoconf versions to fail with a spurious error if that test name contains the name of an m4 or m4sugar builtin or macro (e.g., `defn' or `m4_undefine'). See for example the bug fixed by commit v1.11-287-g1325a8a. This change add a maintainer check that warns about test names which are possibly problematic in this regard. * Makefile.am (sc_test_names): New maintainer-check target. (syntax_check_rules): Add it. (m4_builtins): New helper variable. (TESTS): Updated according to the following renamings. * tests/include.test: Renamed ... * tests/hdr-vars-defined-once.test: ... to this. * tests/sinclude.test: Renamed ... * tests/m4-inclusion.test: ... to this, and simplified accordingly. * tests/include2.test: Renamed ... * tests/dist-included-parent-dir.test: ... to this, for consistency. 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> tests: fix bug in alloca*.test * tests/alloca.test: Make grepping of automake stderr stricter, add a trailing `:' command; also, add AC_PROG_CC to configure.in, and create a dummy alloca.c file, to ensure that we fail for the proper reason. * tests/alloca2.test: Likewise. Also, look for LT_INIT, not AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, in the error message (bug introduced with commit v1.11-315-gd51e7b7 "libtool: suggest LT_INIT if LTLIBRARIES primary is used"). From a report by Patrick Welche. 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> tests: fix bug (comments-in-var-defn.test + autoconf 2.62) * tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: The configure.in stub created by default, which has the AC_INIT first argument obtained by the test name, causes autoconf 2.62 to fail with a spurious error message like: "configure.in:1: error: defn: undefined macro:". Thus, to prevent this, the test is renamed to ... * tests/comments-in-var-def.test: ... this. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated. 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> cosmetics: convert encoding from ISO-8859 to UTF-8 * ChangeLog.03: Convert encoding to UTF-8. * ChangeLog.96: Likewise. * ChangeLog.98: Likewise. * NEWS: Likewise. * TODO: Likewise. 2011-03-01 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se> test defs: unindent without temporary file * tests/defs.in (commented_sed_unindent_prog): Commented Sed program that strips the "proper" amount of leading whitespace. (unindent): Lazily strip comments from the above program and use it to unindent without using a temporary file. 2011-02-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> libtool: suggest LT_INIT if LTLIBRARIES primary is used When the LTLIBRARIES primary was used, but $(LIBTOOL) wasn't defined, automake suggested to add a call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL in configure.ac. But that macro is deprecated since Libtool version 1.9b (2004-08-29), in favor of the newer LT_INIT. So suggest the use of this latter macro instead. * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (%_am_macro_for_var): Pair 'LIBTOOL' with 'LT_INIT', not with 'AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'. * tests/libtool4.test: Adjust and extend. Also, add a call to macro AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, to help ensuring that automake does not fail for the wrong reasons. * tests/ltinit.test: New test, ensure that automake's libtool support works with LT_INIT-based interface. Thanks to Jack Kelly for the suggestion. 2011-02-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> tests: tempdirs with restrictive permissions are cleaned correctly Before this change, the removal of a temporary test directory containing subdirectories with restrictive permissions (such as 'r--r--r--') could fail. * tests/defs: Ensure that all the subdirectories of a temporary test directory have the 'read', 'write' and 'execute' bits set, before trying to remove it with `rm -rf'. * tests/Makefile.am (clean-local-check): Likewise. 2011-02-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> test defs: add subroutine for input unindenting * tests/defs.in (unindent): New subroutine. 2011-02-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> python: report the 'PYTHON' influential environment variable * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Call AC_ARG_VAR on PYTHON. * doc/automake.texi (Python): Update and extend. * tests/help-python.test: New test. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update. * THANKS (Jack Kelly): Update e-mail address. Suggestion by Jack Kelly. 2011-02-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> tests defs: clear TESTS_ENVIRONMENT variable * tests/defs.in (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset it, so that values from environment won't interfere with the testcases. Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues. 2011-02-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> tests: tweak few tests on simple and parallel test drivers * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Improve heading comments. * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: Likewise. Also, unset the `FOO_EXIT_STATUS' variable, so that any pre-existing value in the environment won't risk to interfere with the test. Suggestions by Ralf Wildenhues. 2011-02-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> coverage: more tests on simple and parallel test drivers * tests/parallel-tests-subdir.test: New test. * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Likewise. * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: Likewise. * tests/check-tests_environment.test: Likewise. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update. 2011-01-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> tests: fix spurious failures in lflags*.test * tests/lflags.test: Remove 'LEX' from the environment, so that it won't be erroneously picked up by `make -e'. * tests/lflags2.test: Likewise. 2011-01-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> docs: color-tests issues with parallel make * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Document that automatic recognition of a capable terminal attached to stdout can fail with some make implementation when running in parallel mode, thus causing colored test output not to be automatically activated when it should. 2011-01-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> tests: avoid instspc.test failures due to make's whitespace trimming * tests/instspc.test: Prepend './' when passing the test characters, to avoid leading whitespace characters to be trimmed from macros set from environment variables. Fixes testsuite failures with HP-UX, IRIX, and Tru64/OSF make. 2011-01-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> coverage: test semantics of "dummy" per-target flags * tests/specflg-dummy.test: New test, ensuring that even "dummy" per-target flags triggers the use of renamed objects. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update. Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues. 2011-01-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> tests defs: sanitize IFS * tests/defs.in ($IFS): Define to <space>, <tab>, <newline>. ($sp): New variable, holding a single whitespace character. ($tab): New variable, holding a tabulation character. ($nl): New variable, holding a newline character. 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> tests: fix VPATH auto-expansion workarounds. * tests/parallel-tests8.test, tests/suffix13.test: Ensure $< is not surrounded by white space, to prevent Solaris make from applying automatic VPATH text expansion. 2011-01-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> tests: fix spurious failures in yflags*.test * tests/yflags.test: Remove 'YACC' from the environment, so that it won't be erroneously picked up by `make -e'. * tests/yflags2.test: Likewise. 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> tests: avoid fn99*.test failures due to buggy AIX 5.3 cp -R. * tests/fn99.test, tests/fn99subdir.test: Skip if an initial `cp -R' of the subdir tree already fails; AIX 5.3 cp messes up its internal memory when copying this tree. 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Add comment to check-TESTS rule working around make 3.80 bug. * lib/am/check.am (check-TESTS): Update comment. 2011-01-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> tests: less strict double-colon spy.test again. * tests/spy.test: We know BSD make doesn't invoke more than one double-colon rule, so no need to expose that failure. 2011-01-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> install-sh: avoid Tru64 sh `test' operator precedence issues. * lib/install-sh: Protect file names and directory components that consist of `=', `(', `)', or `!'. Move protection as early as possible, to avoid errors such as with Tru64 sh `test -z ='. * tests/instsh2.test: Extend test to cover more possibilities. Fixes 1.12 instspc-equal-install.test failure on Tru64/OSF 5.1. 2011-01-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> docs: automake testsuite doesn't use TESTS_ENVIRONMENT anymore * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Do not claim Automake uses TESTS_ENVIRONMENT for the perl driver. Instead, point to the parallel-tests driver. 2011-01-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Allow _AM_DEPENDENCIES to be used later in configure. * m4/depend.m4 (_AM_DEPENDENCIES): Remove a previously existing conftest.dir before recreating it. Fixes bug#7864. Report by Eric Blake, from report by Scott McCreary against M4. 2011-01-18 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> tests: avoid failure on w32 file systems. * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: SKIP if file cannot be turned unreadable. 2011-01-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> tests: allow double-colon spy.test to work with HP-UX make. * tests/spy.test: Fix comment typos. Ensure prerequisites we do not want to depend on are strictly older than the target. Also test with a target out of date wrt. more than one rule. 2011-01-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> tests: remove useless requirements from cond36.test * tests/cond36.test ($required): Remove. Since we are at it, add a trailing `:' command. 2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> parallel-tests: work around Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh read bugs. * lib/am/check.am ($(TEST_SUITE_LOG), recheck, recheck-html): Test file readability before redirecting input from it, to avoid exiting Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh which treats read as special builtin. * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: New test. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update. * NEWS: Update. 2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> * NEWS, README: Update copyright years. Fix parallel-tests.test failure with HP-UX make. * tests/parallel-tests.test: Sleep inside inner tests, so logs are newer than logs of tests they depend on, for HP-UX make. 2011-01-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> docs: ensure example are separated with empty lines in the input * doc/automake.texi (Extending aclocal, Emacs Lisp, Rebuilding) (API Versioning, Renamed Objects, Multiple Outputs): Add empty lines before `@example' and after `@end example' lines, so info output is rendered correctly, and a following @noindent honored. Report by Stefano Lattarini. 2011-01-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> tests: fix comment typo * tests/substref.test: Fix grammar in a comment. 2011-01-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> tests: fix spurious failures in two texinfo tests * tests/txinfo.test ($required): Add 'makeinfo'. * tests/txinfo8.test: Create a dummy 'textutils.info' file, so that make won't try to run makeinfo (which could be unavailable) to build it. Found by NixOS Hydra, reported by Ralf Wildenhues. 2011-01-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Avoid testsuite failures due to Autoconf Fortran change. Autoconf v2.68-21-g727ce95 causes AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS to require computing the canonical host name. Ensure config.guess and config.sub files are present for respective checks. * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Add stub files. * tests/flibs.test: Likewise. * tests/fort4.test: Use $AUTOMAKE -a for installing files. 2011-01-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> docs: clustered '-d' not recognized in YFLAGS This change fixes automake bug#7828. * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Document that automake recognizes '-d' in AM_YFLAGS only if it's not clustered with other options. From a report by Юрий Пухальский. 2011-01-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> tests: add checks on automatically-distributed files Related to automake bug#7819. * tests/autodist.test: New test. * tests/autodist-subdir.test: Likewise. * tests/autodist-acconfig.test: Likewise. * tests/autodist-acconfig-no-subdir.test: Likewise. * tests/autodist-aclocal-m4.test: Likewise. * tests/autodist-config-headers.test: Likewise. * tests/autodist-configure-no-subdir.test: Likewise. * tests/autodist-stamp-vti.test: Likewise. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update. 2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> tests: work around a texi+cygnus bug causing a spurious XFAIL * tests/txinfo5b.test: New test, like txinfo5.test but calling automake with the `-Wno-override' option to work around a bug in the texinfo + cygnus interaction. * tests/txinfo5.test: Update heading comments. * tests/Makefile.am (TEST): Updated. 2011-01-09 Dave Hart <davehart@gmail.com> (tiny change) Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment. * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo. 2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Improve, extend and tweak tests on Texinfo support. * tests/instdir-texi.test: Add a call to `ls -l' after that to `make', for debugging. When looking for required tools, do not redirect the output of "$tool --help" to /dev/null, and do not uselessly run it in a subshell. * tests/txinfo.test: Rewritten to run autoconf, ./configure and make. All checks moved into Makefile.am. * tests/txinfo8.test: Likewise, and modernize the generated configure.in. * tests/txinfo2.test: Moved checks into Makefile.am, and other minor improvements. * tests/txinfo5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related changes. Add trailing `:' command. * tests/txinfo6.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated Makefile.in stricter. * tests/txinfo7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related changes. Add trailing `:' command. Do not add unnecessary stuff to Makefile.am. * tests/txinfo9.test: Verify that more targets which are expected to be generated only once really are. Make grepping less strict, to avoid exposing too much internal details. More minor changes. * tests/txinfo16.test: Add trailing `:'. Prefer cat over echo for appending to configure.in. Updated/fixed heading comments. * tests/txinfo23.test: Likewise, and extended a little by making it check that no info file is created in the $(srcdir). * tests/txinfo24.test: Likewise. * tests/txinfo25.test: Likewise. * tests/txinfo18.test: Add trailing `:'. Prefer cat over echo for appending to configure.in. Also, check that index files are cleaned also by "make clean", not only by "make distclean". * tests/txinfo22.test: Prefer `$me' over hard-coded test name, and added trailing `:' command. This testcase also used to check that automake ignores in-line comments when using variables, but preserves them in the output; these checks (added in commit "Release-1-7f-4-g9177ef8") do not really pertain to this test, so they have been moved ... * tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: ... into this new test. * tests/txinfo4.test: Escape literal dots in grep regexps. Add trailing `:' command. * tests/txinfo29.test: Likewise. Relax grepping of generated Makefile.in w.r.t. whitespaces. Prefer `cat' over `echo' to append to configure.in. * tests/txinfo3.test: Likewise. * tests/vtexi.test: Improve grepping of Makefile.in (sometimes make it stricter, sometimes laxer). Move `set -e' setting just after the inclusion of ./defs. De-uglify a sed command. Other minor cosmetic improvements. * tests/vtexi2.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in stricter. Add trailing `:' command. * tests/vtexi3.test: New test on version.texi support. * tests/vtexi4.test: Likewise. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated. 2011-01-09 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se> Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment. * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo. 2011-01-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> cosmetics: remove trailing whitespaces * doc/automake.texi: Remove trailing whitespaces. * tests/cond13.test: Likewise. * tests/cond14.test: Likewise. * tests/fort4.test: Likewise. * tests/fort5.test: Likewise. * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise. * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise. automake: minor fixes in comments * automake.in: Some minor fixes and enhancements in comments. 2011-01-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Add test coverage for deleted header files. * tests/depcomp6.test, tests/depcomp7.test: Update tests to also check for the deleted header bug. If no dependency tracking mechanism could be found, SKIP rather than exit successfully. Use GNU style spacing and ANSI C prototypes. Fix typos in Rule.pm comments. * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typos in comments. docs: split 'amhello Explained' node. * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Split node ... (amhello's configure.ac Setup Explained) (amhello's Makefile.am Setup Explained) : ... into these two. (Top, Hello World): Adjust, and add @anchor for stable URL links. Suggestion by Karl Berry in automake bug#7766. 2011-01-08 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> docs: reference defining directories in amhello node. * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Point to Autoconf manual for how to convert directory values into macros. (Optional): Fix grammar nit. 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> * NEWS: Fix typo (forgotten word). 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> docs: how to work around checks on invalid primary/directory couples * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): Document the blessed idiom which can be used to work around automake checks on invalid primary/directory couples (such as `lib_PROGRAMS' or `doc_LIBRARIES'). 2011-01-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Sync auxiliary files from upstream. * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex: Sync from upstream. Fix maintainer-check regression. * tests/subobj11a.test: Pass DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS in the environment. Bump copyright years. * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years. * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise. * doc/automake.texi: Likewise. 2010-12-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Work around a bug in file-inclusion mechanism of Solaris make. * automake.in (handle_single_transform): In the name of the dependency file: collapse multiple slash characters into a single one. * tests/subobj11a.test: New test. * tests/subobj11b.test: Likewise. * tests/subobj11c.test: Likewise. * tests/depcomp8a.test: Likewise. * tests/depcomp8b.test: Likewise. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated. * NEWS: Updated. Report by Stefano Lattarini, quick fix by Ralf Wildenhues, final patch and tests by Stefano Lattarini. 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Fix two spurious testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5. * tests/suffix13.test (Makefile.am): Account for VPATH issues on weaker make implementations (e.g. IRIX 6.5). * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise, plus a required related change. Reported by Ralf Wildenhues. The bugs have been there from the first versions of the affected test scripts. 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> docs: cygnus mode doesn't require AM_CYGWIN32 macro. * doc/automake.texi (Cygnus): Mode 'cygnus' does not require the AM_CYGWIN32 macro (and indeed hasn't required it since at least commit Release-1-2-31-g3038064 "merged changes from Cygnus" of 1997-08-25). 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> distlinksbrk.test: Work around botched "make -k". * tests/distlinksbrk.test: Run "make" multiple times and grep its output each time for a single error message, rather than running "make -k" one single time and grepping its output for all the expected error messages. This should work around make implementations with limited (broken?) `-k' support; for more information, see these subthreads on the automake-patches list: - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on HP-UX 11.23", <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00162.html> - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5", <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00166.html> 2010-12-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Fix sed-related buglet in test "subdir5.test" * tests/subdir5.test: Always terminate text passed to the `i' sed command with a newline, to work around limitations in e.g. older OpenBSD sed. 2010-12-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> docs: fix blunder in example about python extension modules * doc/automake.texi (Python): Use `quaternion_la_SOURCES', not `quaternion_SOURCES', to declare the sources of python extension module `quaternion.la'. 2010-12-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> docs: list LTLIBRARIES among Automake primaries * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): List `LTLIBRARIES' among the Automake primaries. 2010-12-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Improve tests on generated portions of configure help screen. * tests/help-depend.test: Grepping of configure help screen relaxed to cater for possible line wrapping, and tightened in other respects. * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise. * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise. * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise. * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise. * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise. * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise. * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise. * tests/help-init.test: Grepping of configure help screen tightened. 2010-12-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Avoid running installed automake from 'libtool --help'. * tests/subobj9.test: Export AUTOCONF and AUTOMAKE. Together with fixed Libtool, this fixes check-coverage to not invoke installed automake. 2010-11-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Fix spurious failures in `silent*.test' for $CC != gcc In some tests on automake-produced silent rules, we forced the use of gcc depmode to improve testsuite coverage; but this has unsurprisingly led to spurious failures when some non-GNU C compilers were used. So we are now careful to require GCC in tests that force gcc depmode. From reports by Ralf Wildenhues. * tests/silent5.test: Test removed, its content split into ... * tests/silent-many-generic.test, tests/silent-many-gcc.test: ... these new sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists "gcc" in $required. * tests/silentlex.test: Test removed, its content split into ... * tests/silent-lex-generic.test, tests/silent-lex-gcc.test: ... these new sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists "gcc" in $required. * tests/silentyacc.test: Test removed, its content split into ... * tests/silent-yacc-generic.test, tests/silent-yacc-gcc.test: ... these new sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists "gcc" in $required. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated. 2010-11-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Tests: consistently use "|| Exit 1" after ". ./defs". * tests/autohdr.test: Use `. ./defs || Exit 1', not bare `. ./defs', for consistency with other tests. * tests/autohdr2.test: Likewise. * tests/autohdr3.test: Likewise. * tests/autohdr4.test: Likewise. * tests/cond23.test: Likewise. * tests/cond24.test: Likewise. * tests/cond25.test: Likewise. * tests/cond26.test: Likewise. * tests/cond27.test: Likewise. * tests/cond28.test: Likewise. * tests/cond29.test: Likewise. * tests/cond30.test: Likewise. * tests/cond31.test: Likewise. * tests/cond32.test: Likewise. * tests/cond33.test: Likewise. * tests/cond34.test: Likewise. * tests/cond35.test: Likewise. * tests/cond36.test: Likewise. * tests/cond37.test: Likewise. * tests/cond38.test: Likewise. * tests/cond39.test: Likewise. * tests/cond40.test: Likewise. * tests/cond41.test: Likewise. * tests/cond42.test: Likewise. * tests/cond43.test: Likewise. * tests/cond44.test: Likewise. * tests/cond45.test: Likewise. * tests/dollarvar.test: Likewise. * tests/dollarvar2.test: Likewise. * tests/hfs.test: Likewise. * tests/libobj14.test: Likewise. * tests/percent.test: Likewise. * tests/percent2.test: Likewise. * tests/phony.test: Likewise. * tests/silent.test: Likewise. * tests/silent2.test: Likewise. * tests/silent3.test: Likewise. * tests/silent4.test: Likewise. * tests/silent5.test: Likewise. * tests/silent6.test: Likewise. * tests/silent7.test: Likewise. * tests/silent9.test: Likewise. * tests/silentcxx.test: Likewise. * tests/silentf77.test: Likewise. * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise. * tests/silentlex.test: Likewise. * tests/silentyacc.test: Likewise. Avoid useless cleaning in some `silent*.test' tests. * tests/silentf77.test: Removed useless calls to "make clean" and "make maintainer-clean". * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise. * tests/silent3.test: Removed useless call to "make distclean". * tests/silent4.test: Likewise. * tests/silent9.test: Likewise. 2010-11-19 Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> Sync config-ml.in from GCC. * config-ml.in: Add Go support: treat GOC and GOCFLAGS like other compiler/flag environment variables. 2010-11-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Automake::Config: remove extra trailing semicolon. * lib/Automake/Config.in: Remove extra trailing semicolon. help4.test: fix botched heading comment. * tests/help4.test: Fixed the heading comment, since it didn't correctly describe what checks the testcase was supposed to perform. help2.test: add checks on aclocal too. * tests/help2.test: Check that also `aclocal --version' and `aclocal --help' work with configure.in and acinclude.m4 both broken. 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Fix spurious failures of silent-rules tests with Sun Fortran. * tests/silentf77.test: Strip from the make output some verbose messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers, to avoid spurious failures. Add a trailing `:' command. * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise. 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Fix spurious failures of silent5.test with Sun Fortran. * tests/silent5.test: Strip from the make output some verbose messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers, to avoid spurious failures. This bug has been there from the very first version of this test script. 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Fix regression in colon{5,6}.test (failures on AIX 5.3). * tests/colon5.test: Also substitute `@SHELL@' with `$SHELL' when post-processing the generated Makefile.in, to work around a bug of AIX 5.3 make which doesn't allow setting the `$(SHELL)' macro on the commend line. Calls to `$MAKE' adjusted accordingly. * tests/colon6.test: Likewise. Regression introduced in commit v1.11-175-gf9fe878 "Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test", and reported by Ralf Wildenhues. 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Fix regression in ansi.test (failure on AIX 5.3). * tests/ansi.test: Remove redundant hackish check done using a hand-postprocessed Makefile.in. This check worked by setting the `$(SHELL)' macro on the command line of make, but this is not supported by the AIX 5.3 make implementation. This bug has been lurking for a long time, and was activated by commit v1.11-125-gc1f6cdb "Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests". Report by Ralf Wildenhues. 2010-11-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> tests: avoid '##'-style comments inside recipe commands. * tests/confh.test, tests/confh8.test: Remove double-hash comments from makefile rule commands, they are not part of the Automake API. 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> tests: work around dash quoting issue in case statements. * tests/color.test, tests/color2.test: Quote variable in case pattern, to avoid skipping tests with dash 0.5.5.1. 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Rebuild menus in the manual. * doc/automake.texi: Rebuild menus (using ^C ^U ^A in emacs). Thanks to Ian Lance Taylor for the suggestion. Fix install-strip when $(STRIP) contains several words. * lib/am/install.am (install-strip): Update comment. Use separate sub-make invocations for empty and nonempty $(STRIP), to fix quoting issues. * tests/strip2.test, tests/strip3.test: New tests. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Adjust. 2010-11-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Fix yaccdry.test failure: require bison. * tests/yaccdry.test: Require bison. Found by NixOS Hydra. 2010-11-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Fix a bug in variable concatenation with `+='. * lib/Automake/VarDef.pm (append): Since the content of the "appended-to" variable is going to be unconditionally normalized later, simply separate the appended value with a single whitespace character, instead of trying to be uselessly smarter by using escaped newlines. This fixes a bug in which extra backslashes where erroneously inserted in the variable's final value. * tests/pluseq11.test: New test, exposing the bug. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update. Reported by Andy Wingo. 2010-11-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Fix bug in rules for creating vala vapi/header files. * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Add forgotten "fi" in an if control structure in a generated make rules. Bug introduced by previous commit `v1.11-221-gd7c1679', and revealed by failure of test `vala2.test'. 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Fix and document rules to not touch the tree with `make -n'. * doc/automake.texi (Multiple Outputs): Document the problem of modifications during dry-run execution, propose solution. * NEWS: Update. * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Split recipe so the stamp file is not removed with GNU `make -n'. (lang_yacc_target_hook): Separate removal of parser output file and header remaking. * lib/am/lisp.am ($(am__ELCFILES)): Determine whether -n was passed to make, take care not to remove any files in that case. * lib/am/remake-hdr.am (%CONFIG_H%): Separate removal of %STAMP% file from induced remaking of config header. * tests/autohdrdry.test, tests/lispdry.test, tests/yaccdry.test: New tests. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update. 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Add FAQ entry for bug reporting instructions. * doc/automake.texi (Reporting Bugs): New section. (Introduction): Refer to it. 2010-10-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Add support for newer python versions. * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Add python2.7 and python3.2 to _AM_PYTHON_INTERPRETER_LIST. Since we are at it, break a long line and fix indentation. * THANKS: Updated. From a report by Thomas Klausner. Add test for `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' macro. * tests/dmalloc.test: New test. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update. Fix nits and bugs in tests `help*.test'. * tests/help4.test: Fix broken sed commands used to strip `-W...' flags away from "$AUTOMAKE" and "$ACLOCAL". * tests/help3.test: Likewise, and fix a botched comment. * tests/help.test: Likewise. Also, use "AUTOMAKE_fails ..." instead of "$AUTOMAKE ... && Exit 1", for consistency and to please maintainer-check. * tests/help2.test: Likewise. 2010-10-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Improve tests `help*.test' (also fixes maintcheck failures). * tests/help.test: To run automake, use `$AUTOMAKE' with all `-W' flags stripped away rather than hard-coded `automake-$APIVERSION', to better honour user-overrides. Similarly for aclocal. * tests/help2.test: Likewise. * tests/help3.test: Likewise. * tests/help4.test: Likewise. 2010-10-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Document and fix expansion of variables before rules. * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Document that variables are expanded before rules. * lib/am/check.am (am__check_post): Reword a bit so it does not get matched as a rule. Suggestion by Ben Pfaff. 2010-10-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Revert "parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue." This reverts commit 24e3b4ee2f8cb9f72dd94a05a893f3d4e88b7835, because it re-opened the bug fixed by v1.11-10-g218e678. 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue. * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new substitution %MAKEFILE%. (generate_makefile): Adjust. * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on w32 (MSYS). * NEWS: Update. Report by Bob Friesenhahn. 2010-09-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Extend tests on `--help' and `--version' options. * tests/help.test: Create a new empty directory and chdir into it, rather than removing already present files. Run the aclocal and automake wrapper scripts directly, instead of relying on $AUTOMAKE and $ACLOCAL. Be sure to correctly match literal dots in aclocal's and automake's stderr. Add a trailing `:' command. * tests/help2.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and `--version' works in directories with broken `configure.in'. * tests/help3.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and `--version' take precedence on the other options. * tests/help4.test: New test, checking that the first among the `--help' and `--version' options to be specified on the command line wins. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated. 2010-09-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Testsuite: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when extending PATH. * tests/compile2.test: Do no uselessly (implicitly) repeat the computation of PATH_SEPARATOR again. * tests/instmany-mans.test: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when extending/redefining PATH. * tests/instmany-python.test: Likewise. * tests/instmany.test: Likewise. * tests/man4.test: Likewise. * tests/mkinst3.test: Likewise. * tests/mmodely.test: Likewise. * tests/multlib.test: Likewise. * tests/txinfo30.test: Likewise. * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"): Updated. * Makefile.am (sc_tests_PATH_SEPARATOR): New maintainer check. (syntax_check_rules): Updated. Testsuite: new variables `$PATH_SEPARATOR' and `$APIVERSION'. * tests/defs.in ($APIVERSION): New AC_SUBST'd variable. ($ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE): Use it. ($PATH_SEPARATOR): New AC_SUBST'd variables. ($PATH): Use it. 2010-09-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Manual: be more agnostic w.r.t. version control system used. * doc/automake.texi (Basics of Distribution): Also refer to `.svn' directories as a type of probably-unwanted files that are copied regardless when adding directories to EXTRA_DIST. (The dist Hook): Show a dist-hook example which removes Subversion `.svn' private directories from distdir, rather than CVS private directories. (missing and AM_MAINTAINER_MODE): Try to be more agnostic w.r.t. the version control system used. Manual: index refer to target "git-dist", not "cvs-dist". * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Index the non-standard example about "git-dist" under the "git-dist" label, not under the "cvs-dist" one. Perl modules: remove references to "Automake CVS repository". * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Update comments to refer to "Automke's git repository" rather than to "Automake's CVS repository". * lib/Automake/Configure_ac.pm: Likewise. * lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm: Likewise. * lib/Automake/Struct.pm: Likewise. * lib/Automake/XFile.pm: Likewise. * lib/Automake/Version.pm (=head1 DESCRIPTION): Refer to "git branches" rather than "CVS branches". Remove obsolete .cvsignore files. * .cvsignore, doc/.cvsignore, lib/.cvsignore, lib/am/.cvsignore, lib/Automake/.cvsignore, lib/Automake/tests/.cvsignore, m4/.cvsignore, tests/.cvsignore: Files deleted. Even when using savannah's CVS readonly mirror there's no way to commit back to the real repository, so this files are not worth maintaining or keeping around. 2010-09-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> * m4/dmalloc.m4: Bump serial number and copyright years. 2010-09-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Fix broken link in `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' help screen. * m4/dmalloc.m4 (AM_WITH_DMALLOC): Refer only to the dmalloc site `http://www.dmalloc.com', not to the dmalloc tarball there (which seems to have been removed, substituted by multiple release tarballs now). 2010-09-17 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Avoid triple-space after period. * automake.in (handle_single_transform): Avoid 3 spaces at sentence end. * ChangeLog.03: Likewise. * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Likewise. * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (_print_message): Likewise. * lib/Automake/Rule.pm (rule): Likewise. * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (var): Likewise. * lib/am/distdir.am: Likewise. * tests/insthook.test: Likewise. 2010-09-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Test automake-generated portions of configure help screen. * tests/help-depend.test: New test. * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise. * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise. * tests/help-init.test: Likewise. * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise. * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise. * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise. * tests/help-regex.test: Likewise. * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise. * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise. * tests/mmode.test: Remove tests on `configure --help' output, they are superseded by tests in `help-maintainer.test'. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update. 2010-09-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> * tests/README: Don't put GCS mandated tools in $required. 2010-09-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> * HACKING: Hint at old commits with `git describe' output. 2010-09-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Fix regression in test `colon4.test'. * tests/colon4.test: Fix botched editing to `configure.in' that made the test useless. Since we are at it, improve comments and make grepping of generated Makefile.in slightly stricter. Regression introduced by change "Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test" (Stefano Lattarini, 2010-08-08). 2010-09-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Do not require "gzip" explicitly in tests. The gzip utility is simply expected to be present on any decent target system for Automake. So it's pointless to put it in $required. * tests/install2.test ($required): Do not require "gzip". * tests/lex3.test: Likewise. * tests/pr9.test: Likewise. From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues. Make some `confh*.test' tests more "semantic" (plus tweakings). * tests/confh.test: Run "autoconf", "configure" and "make check", instead of munging/grepping the generated `Makefile.in'. * tests/confh4.test: Relax the grepping of Makefile.in w.r.t. white spaces. Do not create useless dummy source file `foo.c' and useless dummy header file `acconfig.h'. (configure.in): Remove superfluous call to `AC_OUTPUT'. * tests/confh6.test: Add trailing `:' command. * tests/confh7.test: In comments, add reference to ... * tests/confh8.test: ... this new test, "semantic" sister of `confh7.test'. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated. Prompted by a report from Ralf Wildenhues. Remove useless whitespace padding in XFAIL_TESTS definition. * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Remove whitespace padding. 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue. * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new substitution %MAKEFILE%. (generate_makefile): Adjust. * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on w32 (MSYS). * NEWS: Update. Report by Bob Friesenhahn. Posix 2008 requires make to set errexit. * lib/am/check.am: Update comment. 2010-08-27 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Fix bug in test missing6.test. * tests/missing6.test: Fix the hack used to edit `configure.in', to avoid producing a configure script that breaks with shells that do not support $LINENO. Also throw in a couple of cosmetic changes. 2010-08-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Improve robustness of mdate-sh script. * lib/mdate-sh: Sanitize zsh behavior on startup, to ensure $ls_command is word-split properly upon invocation. (error): New function. (main): Use it. Improve error checking to avoid endless loop in case $ls_command gave bogus output. Fix eval quotation. * tests/mdate6.test: New test, to expose eval quotation error. * tests/Makefile.am: Update. 2010-08-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Fix potential regressions in depcomp{3,5}.test. * tests/depcomp3.test: Do not uselessly escape the character `$' in makefile rules, when it's used to expand a make macro. * tests/depcomp5.test: Likewise. 2010-08-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Docs: clarify how to avoid automatic dependencies tracking. * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Mention that automatic dependencies tracking is enabled by default, but that the package developer can disable it altogether. Add a reference to the proper section for a more in-depth explanation. Fix typo in manual (`Makefile.in' instead of `Makefile.am'). * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Fix typo. 2010-08-16 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> Don't hide the table of contents. * doc/automake.texi: Move the table of contents to the beginning. 2010-08-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Tweak and/or extend some `acloca*.test' tests. * tests/aclocal8.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured output. * tests/aclocal.test: Likewise. Also, add trailing `:' command. * tests/acloca19.test: Likewise. * tests/aclocal5.test: Add trailing `:' command, and prefer `$me' over hard-coded test name. * tests/aclocal6.test: Likewise. * tests/aclocal18.test: Add trailing `:' command, and make some grepping slightly stricter. * tests/acloca14.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `diff' over `cmp', and add some "cosmetic" blank lines. 2010-08-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Tweak and extend tests `pr[!0-9]*.test'. * tests/primary3.test: Add trailing `:' command. * tests/primary.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter. Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing. * tests/primary2.test: Likewise. * tests/prefix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related changes. Add a trailing `:' command. * tests/proginst.test: Likewise. Modernize, improve and extend tests for PR (`pr[0-9]*.test'). * tests/pr2.test: Add trailing `:' command. * tests/pr229.test: Likewise. * tests/pr401.test: Likewise. * tests/pr401b.test: Likewise. * tests/pr401c.test: Likewise. * tests/pr300-prog.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic changes in spacing. * tests/pr300-lib.test: Likewise. * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise, and ensure verbose printing of captured make stdout. * tests/pr211.test: Add trailing `:' command. Also, use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch. * tests/pr204.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic spacing changes. * tests/pr287.test: Likewise, and move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). * tests/pr220.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter. Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing. * tests/pr224.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Do not export `CC=gcc' to configure explicitly (it's already exported globally in ./defs, since we have "gcc" in $required). Use the stub for `configure.in' created by ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch. Do not create dummy files required by "gnu" mode (e.g. README, NEWS), since we run automake in foreign mode anyway. * tests/pr72.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related changes. Extend existing checks a bit. * tests/pr9.test: Likewise. Also, avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated `configure.in', and extend existing checks over the generated tarball a bit. * tests/pr87.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related changes. Add a trailing `:' command. Also, do not create dummy files required by "gnu" mode (e.g. README, NEWS), since we run automake in foreign mode anyway. * tests/pr243.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated `configure.in'. Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related changes. Cosmetic changes to spacing, add trailing `:' command, and add a "FIXME" comment. * tests/pr266.test: Likewise, and add explicit command line switch `--enable-dependecy-tracking' to the ./configure call. * tests/pr279.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated `configure.in'; also, use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch. Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related changes. Add trailing `:' command. * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in stricter. * tests/pr307.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Escape literal dots in grep regular expressions. Also, add a trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes to spacing. Tests for PR: add excerpts from original bug report, for clarity. * tests/pr2.test: Ditto. * tests/pr9.test: Likewise. * tests/pr72.test: Likewise. * tests/pr87.test: Likewise. * tests/pr211.test: Likewise. * tests/pr220.test: Likewise. * tests/pr224.test: Likewise. * tests/pr229.test: Likewise. * tests/pr243.test: Likewise. * tests/pr266.test: Likewise. * tests/pr279.test: Likewise, and tell to keep it in sync with its sister test. * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise. 2010-08-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Tweak, extend and improve tests `cond[a-z]*.test'. * tests/condd.test: Add trailing `:' command. Typofix in comment. * tests/condhook.test: Make sure target `install-data-hook' is not called by `make install', but that data files are installed. Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in. Add trailing `:' command. * tests/condhook2.test: New test, sister test of condhook, with inverted semantic. * tests/condinc2.test: Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in. Prefer trailing `:' command over trailing `Exit 0'. * tests/condman2.test: Enable errexit shell flag, and related changes. Add trailing `:' command. * tests/condman.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless dummy manpages, and use proper m4 quoting in configure.in. * tests/condman3.test: New test, similar to condman.test, but it also runs ./configure and "make install", and check the installed files. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated. Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test. * tests/colon.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Do not create a useless dummy file. Add trailing `:' command. * tests/colon4.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related changes. Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. * tests/colon7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related changes. Improve the generated `configure.in' file. Add trailing `:' command. * tests/colon2.test: Likewise. Also, add some new checks. * tests/colon5.test: Improve the generated `configure.in' file. Add new, much deeper checks. Add trailing `:' command. * tests/colon6.test: Likewise. * tests/colon3.test: Add trailing `:' command. Remove useless comments and echos. Improve the generated `configure.in' file. make some grepping tests stricter. Add a "FIXME" comments about planned improvements. Improve and extend tests `asm*.test'. * tests/asm.test: Use configure.in stub generated by ./defs, and avoid obsoleted autoconf constructs. Make grepping of Automake stderr stricter. Do not create useless source file. Improve verbose messages. Minor cosmetic changes. Tell to keep it in sync with other sister tests asm*.test. * tests/asm2.test: Likewise. * tests/asm3.test: Likewise. Modernize, improve and/or extend test scripts `conf*.test'. * tests/confh5.test: Cosmetic changes. * tests/conff.test: Likewise. * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise. * tests/conflnk.test: Likewise. * tests/conflnk2.test: Likewise. * tests/confsub.test: Likewise. * tests/confvar.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in stricter. * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise. * tests/conflnk3.test: Cosmetic changes. Re-enable a temporarily disabled test (which didn't work with autoconf <= 2.59, but now we are requiring autoconf 2.62, so...) * tests/conflnk4.test: Cosmetic changes, and extend existing tests accordingly to "TODO" comments. * tests/conff2.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter. Add some comments explaining why we don't use the `configure.in' stub preset be ./defs. * tests/confh.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs, rather than writing one from scratch, and do not call AC_OUTPUT. Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related changes. Prefer diff over cmp to compare text files. Prefer perl over sed to fetch the value of $(DIST_COMMON) from Makefile.in. Make grepping of the contents of $(DIST_COMMON) stricter. * tests/confh4.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs, rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping of Makefile.in stricter. * tests/confh5.test: Make grepping of `config.h' stricter. Add a comment. * tests/configure.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in generated `configure.ac'. Do not write `configure.in' two times. Escape literal dots in grep regular expressions. * tests/confincl.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related changes. Prefer fgrep over grep. Other cosmetic changes. * tests/config.test: Renamed to ... * tests/confh6.test: ... this. Fix m4 quoting in `configure.in', and make grepping of `config.h' and `config.h.in' stricter. * tests/conf2.test: Renamed ... * tests/confh7.test: ... to this. Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs, rather than writing one from scratch. Try to run the checks both with and without AC_PROG_CC and AC_OUTPUT in `configure.in'. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated. Minor improvements and fixes in tests `depcomp*.test'. * tests/depcomp.test: Do not create useless dummy source files. Add a trailing `:' command. * tests/depcomp2.test: Use `unset' on the CFLAG variable to ensure it's not in in the environment, rather than exporting it with an empty value. Do not pass CC=gcc to configure, as that's already done in ./defs since we have gcc in $required. Ensure verbose printing of captured stderr, and normalize its checking. Add a trailing `:' command. * tests/depcomp3.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in grep regexps. Always use `: >' rather than `touch' to create empty files. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the created Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:' command. * tests/depcomp4.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in grep regexp. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the created Makefile.am. Ensure verbose printing of captured makes' stoud/stderr. Add a trailing `:' command. * tests/depcomp5.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Quote literal dots and dollar characters in grep regexps. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the created Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:' command. * tests/depcomp6.test: Consistently use m4 quoting in the generated configure.in. Cosmetic fixes to spacing. Make the "dummy" `if' statement required by OpenBSD's sh `set -e' more robust, and add explanatory comments to it. * tests/depcomp7.test: Likewise, and add a trailing `:' command. Separate failing part of test `all.test'. * tests/all.test: Keep only (x)failing part of the test. Working checks moved out to ... * tests/all2.test: ... this new test. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated. Modernize, improve and extend tests `subobj*.test'. * tests/subobjname.test: Add trailing `:' command. * tests/subobj.test: Make grepping of `Makefile.in' stricter. Escape literal dots in grep regexps. * tests/subobj2.test: Add trailing `:' command. Do not use the unportable fgrep option `-e'. * tests/subobj3.test: Add trailing `:' command. (configure.in): Use proper m4 quoting, and avoid obsolescent constructs. * tests/subobj8.test: Likewise. Also, enable `errexit' shell flag, with related changes * tests/subobj4.test: Likewise. Also, make grepping of `Makefile.in' stricter. * tests/subobj5.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs. * tests/subobj6.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Do not create useless dummy ac-init file `f'. * tests/subobj7.test: Do not create useless dummy ac-init file `f'. (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs. * tests/subobj9.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Fail the test if `make distcheck' fails. Ensure verbose printing of captured make stdout. Avoid useless fork by doing simple grep instead of using test -n "`COMMAND | grep ...`". (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests. (Makefile.am): Explicitly mark target "print" as phony. * tests/subobj10.test: Removed duplicated call to `set -e'. Add trailing `:' command. (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests. Remove a couple of obsoleted tests. * tests/fpinstall.test: Removed. * tests/fpinst2.test: Likewise. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated. Bootstrap: updated HACKING entry. * HACKING ("Working with git"): Explain how to override the autoconf and autom4te programs used by the bootstrap process. Bootstrap: fixlet. * bootstrap: Do not remove `lib/Automake/Config.pm' anymore, since we don't generate it. Correctly quote arguments of `eval' builtin. Fixed a botched error message. Removed an extra blank line. Bootstrap: don't search perl in $PATH. * bootstrap: Do not explicitly search perl in $PATH anymore. ($PATH_SEPARATOR): Removed, it's no more needed. Bootstrap: let the user choose which autoconf to use. * bootstrap ($AUTOCONF): New variable, from the environment. ($AUTOM4TE): Likewise, for clarity. Use "$AUTOCONF" instead of calling "autoconf" directly. Minor improvements to tests ar*.test. * tests/ar.test: Add trailing `:' command. * tests/ar2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated Makefile.in stricter. 2010-08-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Fix maintainer-check failure. * tests/cond5.test: Quote sleep argument, this isn't about time stamp differences. Sync auxiliary files from upstream. * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex: Sync from upstream. 2010-08-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Work around a nasty bug (segfault) of Solaris make. * lib/am/check.am (recheck, recheck-html): Trim trailing spaces from $list, to avoid triggering a nasty bug (potential segfault) on Solaris make. 2010-08-06 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se> Make cond5.test more robust on MSYS. * tests/cond5.test: Add delay before the first kill attempt to cater for problems with MSYS bash. 2010-07-31 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Add example git work flow; discuss merge --log in HACKING. * HACKING: Update. Suggestion by Stefano Lattarini. Add more hints for debugging make rules. * doc/automake.texi (Debugging Make Rules): Show command to find out expanded values of variables; point to makefile debugger. * THANKS: Update. Prompted by suggestion from Ludovic Courtès and Andy Wingo. 2010-07-27 Patrick Welche <prlw1@cam.ac.uk> (tiny change) Fix typo in the manual. * doc/automake.texi (Scripts): Fix typo. 2010-07-27 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Document current policy for development with git. * HACKING (Working with git): Overhaul. Prompted by suggestion from Stefano Lattarini. Fix AM_COND_IF for gone-invalid condition shell expression. * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): test contents of $COND_TRUE variable, rather than re-evaluating the shell expression for the condition. * tests/cond40.test: Extend test. * NEWS: Update. Avoid syntax error if IF-TRUE part of AM_COND_IF expands empty. * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): Ensure IF-TRUE part is never empty to avoid shell syntax error if the m4 expansion is empty. * tests/cond40.test: Enhance test. Coverage: bogus option to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE. * tests/init2.test: New test. * tests/Makefile.am: Update. 2010-07-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Modernize and improve test scripts `subdir*.test'. * tests/subdir.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related changes. Use the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. * tests/subdir2.test: Likewise. * tests/subdir4.test: Likewise. * tests/subdir3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related changes. Do not create useless dummy source files. * tests/subdir5.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in (in topdir and in subdirs) stricter. Some minor changes to keep it more in sync with the related test `subdir8.test'. * tests/subdir8.test: Likewise (but with the related test being `subdir5.test' here). * tests/subdir6.test: Cosmetic change in spacing. * tests/subdir9.test: Define and use new variable `$distdir'. Add trailing `:' command. * tests/subdir10.test: Cosmetic consistency-related change. * tests/subdirbuiltsources.test: Cosmetic changes in spacings. (configure.in): Use stub created by `./defs', rather than writing it from scratch. Do not use obsoleted and/or deprecated forms of autoconf/automake macros. Modernize and improve test scripts `dist*.test'. * tests/distcleancheck.test: Do not add useless `-e' option to a $MAKE call. Extend test by grepping stderr of make. * tests/distcom2.test: Do not run the same test script on the Makefile.in twice, but save its output in an intermediate file instead. Make grepping of DIST_COMMON definition stricter. Display the content of more files, to ease debugging. Add a trailing `:' command. Improved heading comments w.r.t. sister test(s). * tests/distcom6.test: Likewise, and avoid to uselessly run autoconf. * tests/distcom3.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured stdout and stderr. Make grepping of captured stderr stricter. Also, add trailing `:' command. * tests/distcom4.test: Declare the target `test' in the generated Makefile.am as `.PHONY'. Display content of more files, to ease debugging. Add trailing `:' command. * tests/distcom5.test: Likewise. Also, factor out common sed script in subroutine `extract_distcommon'. * tests/distcom7.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to write test Makefile.am files. Add a trailing `:' command. * tests/distname.test: Prefer `gzip -d' over `gunzip'. Move the call to `set -e' earlier. Be stricter and more verbose in the checking of the generated tarball. (configure.in): Use the stub provided by ./defs, instead of writing it from scratch. Avoid obsoleted constructs. Remove useless call to `AM_PROG_CC_C_O'. * tests/distdir.test: Various minor improvements/normalizations. * tests/distlinks.test: Likewise. 2010-07-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Improve and extend test cond5.test. * tests/cond5.test: Do not blindly sleep 60 seconds before polling the background automake process, but poll it every 10 seconds for at most 30 times (this makes the test both faster on good machines, and more resilient to spurious timeout-due failures when in low priority or on heavily-loaded systems). Check also that automake writes the expected error messages on the standard error. Enable `errexit' flag, and related changes. Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. 2010-06-26 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Update program --help output to match current GCS. * configure.ac: Set and substitute PACKAGE_URL if AC_PACKAGE_URL is not defined, for compatibility to Autoconf < 2.64. * Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute PACKAGE_BUGREPORT and PACKAGE_URL. (sc_diff_automake_in_automake): Update number of diff lines for additional substitutions. * aclocal.in (usage): Use PACKAGE_BUGREPORT. Point to Automake home page and GNU general help page. * automake.in (usage): Likewise. * doc/automake.texi: New flag PACKAGE_BUGREPORT, to factor email address. (Introduction, Creating amhello, amhello Explained, Options): Use it throughout. * lib/Automake/Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute PACKAGE_BUGREPORT. * lib/Automake/Config.in ($PACKAGE_BUGREPORT): New global. * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Use it for footer of fatal messages. Clean up @var handling in the manual. * doc/automake.texi: Throughout the manual, lower-case @var names, replace a few one-character names. 2010-06-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Fix typo-related bug in test script silent5.test. * tests/silent5.test: Use $EGREP, not $GREP (which is not even defined). Tests: remove useless repetitions of `foreign' automake option. * tests/multlib.test (configure.in): Remove useless use of `foreign' option in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (the `--foreign' option is already in $AUTOMAKE by default, so no point in repeating it). * tests/subobj10.test: Likewise. * tests/subobj9.test: Likewise. * tests/lex3.test (Makefile.am): Similarly, remove useless use of `foreign' option in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS. * tests/lex5.test: Likewise. * tests/pr279.test: Likewise. * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise. * tests/specflg3.test: Likewise. * tests/target-cflags.test: Likewise. Drop useless requirement "gzip" in lex5.test. * tests/lex5.test ($required): Do not list "gzip", as it's never used. 2010-06-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Fix bugs in test script silent5.test. * tests/silent5.test: Fixed a nasty bug (due to the use of grep instead of egrep) that could have led to false negatives. 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Add a test checking that distributed broken symlinks cause `make dist' to fail. * tests/distlinksbrk.test: New test. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated. 2010-06-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Fix minor testsuite issues, update docs, for Yacc/Lex changes. * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Mention AM_YFLAGS, YFLAGS and AM_LFLAGS, LFLAGS in the order in which they now appear in the rules. * NEWS: Update. * tests/lflags.test, tests/lflags2.test, tests/yflags.test, tests/yflags2.test: Prefer `make -e' over `make VAR=VAL', to please maintainer-check. Ensure generated C files contain a declaration, to please compilers. 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Fix bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t. $(AM_FLAGS) and $(FLAGS) precedence. * automake.in: Fix registration of languages "Lex", "Lex (C++)", "Yacc" and "Yacc (C++)", so that $(LFLAGS) has precedence over $(AM_LFLAGS) and $(YFLAGS) has precedence over $(AM_YFLAGS). * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Updated accordingly. * NEWS: Updated. New tests, exposing bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t. $(AM_FLAGS) and $(FLAGS) precedence. * tests/lflags.test: New test, check that user $(LFLAGS) takes precedence over automake (AM_LFLAGS) and (foo_LFLAGS). Still xfailing. * tests/lflags2.test: Likewise. * tests/yflags.test: New test, check that user $(YFLAGS) takes precedence over automake (AM_YFLAGS) and (foo_YFLAGS). Still xfailing. * tests/yflags2.test: Likewise. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Extended accordingly. 2010-06-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Modernize, improve and extend tests `suffix*.test'. * tests/suffix3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related changes. * tests/suffix4.test: Likewise. * tests/suffix6.test: Likewise, and do not create a useless dummy source file. * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise. * tests/suffix5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related changes. Make grepping of Makefile.in slightly stricter. * tests/suffix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related changes. Also, do not redirect grep output to /dev/null, as this might unmotivatedly hide useful information. * tests/suffix2.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Use a more idiomatic way to count text occurrences in Makefile.in with grep. Do not create useless dummy source files. * tests/suffix10.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured make stdout. Minor cosmetic changes. * tests/suffix8.test: Likewise. Also, drop useless call to the env(1) utility, and make grepping of make output stricter by using $FGREP rather than plain grep. * tests/suffix11.test: Likewise. * tests/suffix12.test: Likewise. * tests/suffix9.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to append to the `configure.in' stub. Cosmetic changes. * tests/suffix13.test: Cosmetic spacing change. 2010-06-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Add useful comment in test script ext.test. * tests/ext.test: Add a comment explaining why an apparently useless `if' statement is indeed required. Add useful comment in test script obsolete.test. * tests/obsolete.test: Add a comment explaining why we need an indirection in adding $AUTOUPDATE to $required. Normalize whitespaces in 'tests/Makefile.am'. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Use only spaces, not tabs, in the definition of this variable. 2010-06-12 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Remove a couple of unneeded conditionals from tests. * tests/pr243.test, tests/pr266.test, tests/strip.test: No need for the FOOTEST conditional. 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts. * tests/symlink3.test: Deleted, separated into two new, more complete tests ... * tests/forcemiss.test: ... this one ... * tests/forcemiss2.test: ... and this one. * tests/symlink2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, make test stricter, and skip it if symlink creation is not supported. * tests/postproc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, related changes, and a couple of unrelated cosmetic changes. * tests/recurs.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping of Automake stderr slightly stricter. * tests/substtarg.test: Likewise. * tests/strip.test: Likewise, and move the call to `set -e' earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs'). Also, make sure that the script installed by `make install-script' is equal to the original one. * tests/substref.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Move the call to `set -e' earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs'). Avoid to explicitly export CC for configure (that's already done in ./defs). Avoid potential problems with unpredictable make output. Finally, make grepping of Makefile.in stricter. * tests/substre2.test: Ensure verbose printing of the captured make's output, and make its grepping slightly stricter. * tests/cygwin32.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related changes. Also, do not create useless dummy source/data files. * tests/scripts.test: Likewise. * tests/recurs2.test: Likewise. Also, use the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs'. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated. Modernize, improve and/or fix tests `pluseq*.test. * tests/pluseq5.test: Append to configure.in using cat with an here-doc, not using echo. * tests/pluseq10.test: Make sure that the captured output of `make' command is always displayed. Where possible, use $FGREP instead of grep (this change makes some checks slightly stricter). * tests/pluseq8.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related changes. * tests/pluseq.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless dummy data files, and use better m4 quoting in generated configure.in. * tests/pluseq2.test: Likewise. Also, append to configure.in using cat with an here-doc, not using echo. * tests/pluseq3.test: Likewise. * tests/pluseq4.test: Likewise. * tests/pluseq6.test: Likewise. * tests/pluseq7.test: Do not create useless dummy source file. * tests/pluseq9.test: Slightly extended w.r.t. the grepping of Automake stderr. Some unrelated cosmetic changes. Testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured stderr. * tests/acloca18.test: Print captured stderr before either failing or grepping it. Be sure to send captured stderr to stderr, not to stdout. * tests/ansi3b.test: Likewise. * tests/cond39.test: Likewise. * tests/configure.test: Likewise. * tests/missing3.test: Likewise. * tests/missing6.test: Likewise. * tests/output-order.test: Likewise. * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise. * tests/python6.test: Likewise. * tests/python7.test: Likewise. * tests/python8.test: Likewise. * tests/python9.test: Likewise. * tests/subobj.test: Likewise. * tests/vars3.test: Likewise. * tests/missing4.test: Likewise, and fix a call to grep not to use the `-c' flag. * tests/ansi3.test: Likewise, and rely on the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests. * tests/backsl.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related changes. * tests/backsl2.test: Likewise. * tests/block.test: Likewise. * tests/canon2.test: Likewise. * tests/canon4.test: Likewise. * tests/comment2.test: Likewise. * tests/condlib.test: Likewise. * tests/cond15.test: Likewise, and prefer $FGREP over grep. * tests/canon3.test: Likewise. Also, avoid to create an useless dummy source file. * tests/acoutpt2.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and some related changes. Do some cosmetic improvements in the generated `configure.in' file. * tests/cond4.test: Likewise. * tests/cond14.test: Likewise. * tests/condinc.test: Likewise. * tests/cond7.test: Likewise. Also, remove useless setting of AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am. * tests/ansi.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related changes. Extended, esp. by running autoconf, ./configure and make, and by looking into the distdir. 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Extend tests/README w.r.t. trailing `:' in test scripts. * tests/README (section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"): Explain why apparently redundant trailing `:' and `Exit 0' in test scripts can indeed be useful. 2010-06-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Improve determination of PATH separator in bootstrap script. * bootstrap: Determine what the PATH separator is the same way autoconf does. Minor improvements in bootstrap script. * bootstrap: Consistently use two-spaces indentation. Cosmetic improvement to comments. ($me): New variable, containing program basename. Prepend it to all error messages. Testsuite now works with BSD make in parallel mode. * tests/defs.in: Unset variables __MKLVL__ and MAKE_JOBS_FIFO, which are exported by BSD make when run in parallel mode, and which can confuse make processes spawned by our testsuite. This change fixes a lot of spurious failure when the testsuite is run with BSD make in parallel mode. 2010-06-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts. * tests/sanity.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. * tests/depend2.test: Likewise. Also, call `set -e' just after the inclusion of `./defs', instead that later in the script. * tests/canon5.test: Avoid a useless `|| Exit 1' after a call to $AUTOMAKE, and improve the positioning of an $ACLOCAL call. * tests/exeext4.test: Use $FGREP instead of grep, where possible. Make auxiliary rules in the generated Makefile more silent. These changes make some checks slightly stricter. * tests/ext2.test: Call `Exit 1' if inclusion of `./defs' fails. * tests/gettext2.test: Place final `:' at the end of the script, rather than in the middle. * tests/exeext.test: Call `set -e' just after the inclusion of `./defs', instead that later in the script. * tests/extra5.test: Likewise. * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `mv -f' over plain `mv', just to be sure. * tests/depcomp.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related changes. Also, modernize the generated configure.in. * tests/cond9.test: Likewise. Also, rely on the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. * tests/cond10.test: Likewise. * tests/depcomp2.test: Likewise. * tests/depend3.test: Likewise. * tests/distcom7.test: Likewise. * tests/fortdep.test: Likewise. Also, remove definition of AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am, since that flag is already provided by $AUTOMAKE. * tests/mdate.test: Made stricter, by checking that Automake actually failed, and by making a stricter grep on the error message. Also, set shell `errexit flag'. * tests/python2.test: Improved verbose messages. Make test `ammissing.test' stricter. * tests/ammissing.test: Fail if $ACLOCAL succeeds unexpectedly. Enable `errexit' shell flag. 2010-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts. * tests/subcond.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related minor changes. * tests/subst.test: Likewise. * tests/vars.test: Likewise. * tests/version4.test: Likewise. * tests/vpath.test: Likewise. * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise. * tests/werror.test: Likewise. * tests/whoami.test: Likewise. * tests/tags.test: Likewise, and avoid to crate an useless dummy header file. * tests/acsilent.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided command substitution. * tests/unused.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided command substitution. * tests/version.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs in the generated `configure.in'. * tests/version2.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs in the generated `configure.in'. 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Prefer AUTOMAKE_fails over `$AUTOMAKE | grep' in tests. * tests/ldadd.test: Enable errexit. Use AUTOMAKE_fails so the verbose log contains all output. * tests/mdate.test: Likewise. Prompted by Stefano Lattarini's change to discover.test. 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Improve tests link*.test (enable `errexit' shell flag). * tests/link_c_cxx.test: Enable `errexit shell flag, and related changes. Also, do not create useless source files. * tests/link_dist.test: Likewise. * tests/link_f90_only.test: Likewise. * tests/link_f_only.test: Likewise. * tests/link_fc.test: Likewise. * tests/link_fccxx.test: Likewise. * tests/link_fcxx.test: Likewise. 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Improve ext.test semantics, avoid OpenBSD sh errexit issue. * tests/ext.test: Inside shell compound command, use `if $cmd; then Exit 1; fi' rather than `$cmd && Exit 1', to fix failure with OpenBSD sh introduced with last patch. Actually ensure that a rule for .EXT.o is created for each known extension EXT. 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts. * tests/dash.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related changes. * tests/defun.test: Likewise. * tests/defun2.test: Likewise. * tests/dejagnu.test: Likewise. * tests/double.test: Likewise. * tests/distcom2.test: Likewise. * tests/empty2.test: Likewise. * tests/empty3.test: Likewise. * tests/empty4.test: Likewise. * tests/exdir.test: Likewise. * tests/ext.test: Likewise. * tests/extra.test: Likewise. * tests/extra2.test: Likewise. * tests/extra3.test: Likewise. * tests/extra4.test: Likewise. * tests/flibs.test: Likewise. * tests/fnoc.test: Likewise. * tests/fo.test: Likewise. * tests/instexec.test: Likewise. * tests/ltdeps.test: Likewise. * tests/nodep.test: Likewise. * tests/nodepcomp.test: Likewise. * tests/f90only.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted comments and unnecessary commands. * tests/fonly.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted comments and unnecessary commands. * tests/discover.test: Likewise, and made stricter. Enable `errexit' shell flag in all tests cxx*.test. * tests/cxx.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related minor changes. * tests/cxxansi.test: Likewise. * tests/cxxcpp.test: Likewise. * tests/cxxlibobj.test: Likewise. * tests/cxxlink.test: Likewise. * tests/cxxo.test: Likewise. Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests. * tests/acoutnoq.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related minor changes. * tests/acoutpt.test: Likewise. * tests/acoutqnl.test: Likewise. * tests/amassign.test: Likewise. * tests/ansi2.test: Likewise. * tests/ansi4.test: Likewise. * tests/badprog.test: Likewise. * tests/checkall.test: Likewise. * tests/clean.test: Likewise. * tests/colneq2.test: Likewise. * tests/colon.test: Likewise. * tests/colon5.test: Likewise. * tests/colon6.test: Likewise. * tests/comment.test: Likewise. * tests/compile_f90_c_cxx.test: Likewise. * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Likewise. * tests/cond3.test: Likewise. * tests/cond6.test: Likewise. * tests/cond13.test: Likewise. * tests/conf2.test: Likewise. * tests/confvar.test: Likewise. * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise. * tests/cond8.test: Likewise, plus a cosmetic change. * tests/confh4.test: Likewise. Also, add in the heading comments an excerpt from the original bug report which motivated the creation of this test, to make its purpose clearer. 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Rewrite manual to be gender-neutral. * doc/automake.texi (GNU Build System) (Standard Directory Variables, General Operation, CVS) (Hard-Coded Install Paths, Dependencies As Side Effects): Rewrite text to not contain gender-specific pronouns when speaking about developers or users, either by avoiding pronouns or by addressing them as `you' instead. * THANKS: Update. Report by Christina Gratorp. * AUTHORS: Update. 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Make tests on user extensibility of silent-rules mode stricter. * tests/silent6.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the output produced by `make'. * tests/silent7.test: Likewise. Tests on silent-mode for C/Libtool made stricter. * tests/silent.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the output produced by `make'. * tests/silent2.test: Likewise. * tests/silent4.test: Likewise. * tests/silent9.test: Likewise. * tests/silent3.test: Likewise, and add a final `make distclean' command to keep it better in sync with tests/silent{4,9}.test. Improved test silent5.test. * tests/silent5.test: Remove by hand all generated C files after non-verbose builds, to ensure the following builds are clean. Try to clean and rebuild with the same verbosity and without removing generated sources in between, to check that this does not trigger a different set of rules. Make grepping of make's output stricter. Improved/added some comments. New tests for Automake silent-mode with Fortran. * tests/silentf77.test: New test. * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly. New test `silentcxx.test' (Automake silent-mode with C++). * tests/silentcxx.test: New test. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly. New test `silentyacc.test' (Automake silent-mode with Yacc). * tests/silentyacc.test: New test. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly. New test `silentlex.test' (Automake silent-mode with Lex). * tests/silentlex.test: New test. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly. Relax tests on silent-rules to cater to overly verbose makes. * tests/silent.test: When testing silent builds, don't fail if make's output simply contains the `mv' substring, but only if it contains the `mv ' substring (note the trailing space). * tests/silent2.test: Likewise. * tests/silent3.test: Likewise. * tests/silent4.test: Likewise. * tests/silent5.test: Likewise. * tests/silent9.test: Likewise. 2010-01-24 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Fix silent-rules output for disabled dependency tracking. * lib/am/depend2.am [!%FASTDEP%]: Rework silent-rules variable expansion code to also work in the case where %AMDEP% expands to FALSE at config.status time, using new substitution string %VERBOSE-NODEP%. * automake.in (verbose_nodep_flag): New function, appending `@am__nodep@' to the verbose-variable name. (handle_languages): If dependencies are not disabled, use it to set %VERBOSE-NODEP%. * m4/depend.m4: Substitute am__nodep as '_no', so the second verbose-variable will always expand to an empty string, if dependencies are enabled. * tests/silent5.test: Also test --disable-dependency-tracking; also test per-target flags for non-C language files. * tests/silent9.test: New test, like silent4.test but disable dependency tracking. * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust. * NEWS, THANKS: Update. Report by Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>. 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Extend test on `nostdinc' automake option. * tests/nostdinc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Related and unrelated minor changes. Make the grepping of the generated Makefile.in slightly stricter. Generate and run configure, so that the generated Makefile can be grepped too. 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Make gnupload portable to EBCDIC hosts. * lib/gnupload: Use literal newline as argument for 'tr' rather than \015, for EBCDIC hosts. Also, avoid unportable nested double-quotes and backquotes. * THANKS: Update. Report from Eric Blake and Steve Goetze via gnulib. 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Fix Autoconf version required by Automake's configure. Automake configure script used to tell that automake required autoconf 2.60 or later, but then it checked for autoconf >= 2.62, and if that was not found, it gave an error saying that Automake required configure 2.61a-341 or later. This change should eliminate such inconsistencies. * configure.ac ($required_autoconf_version): New variable. Use it throughout. 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Fix unportable sed script in maintainer-check test. * Makefile.am (sc_tests_Exit_not_exit): Rewrite sed script to not contain semicolon after 'b' or brace commands, for NetBSD. Wildcards are not portable to NetBSD make. * doc/automake.texi (Wildcards): Document portability issue. * tests/extra10.test, tests/extra11.test, tests/extra12.test: Require GNU make. 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter. * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred. Avoid possible false negatives in dejagnu7.test. * tests/dejagnu7.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Also, avoid unportable use of fgrep option `-e'. Fix conflnk3.test to work with Solaris/Heirloom Sh. * tests/conflnk3.test: Use `test -r FILE' and `test ! -r FILE' instead of respectively `test -e FILE' and `test ! -e FILE', since Solaris Sh doesn't grok the latter. Do not SKIP the test if the shell doesn't support `test -e'. 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Fix typo in manual. * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Add missing closing parenthesis. Fix leftover call to removed function macros_dump. * automake.in (read_main_am_file): Call variables_dump, not macros_dump. Print actual error before list of variables. 2010-04-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Minor improvements in comments of test `silent3.test'. * tests/silent3.test: Tell to keep it in sync with `silent9.test' too. 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured output. * tests/acloca14.test, tests/acloca18.test, tests/aclocal.test, tests/fort2.test, tests/help.test, tests/missing3.test, tests/missing6.test: Print captured stdout or stderr before grepping it. 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Make test badopt.test stricter (by enabling `set -e'). * tests/badopt.test: Add call to `set -e'. Due to this change, an unexpected failure in the call to `$ACLOCAL' (whose outcome was previously unchecked) would cause the whole test to fail. Also, bumped the copyright years. Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter. * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred. Use `set -e' in confsub.test (avoids possible false negatives). * tests/confsub.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and related changes (this helps avoiding some possible minor false negatives). Also, bumped copyright years. 2010-04-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Fix -Werror handling for presence of configure.in and configure.ac. * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (Automake::Variable): Do not initialize $configure_ac at the global level, before command-line arguments have been parsed. (require_variables): Initialize it here. * tests/configure.test: New test. * tests/Makefile.am: Update. Report by Stefano Lattarini. 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Avoid possible false negatives in confh5.test. * tests/confh5.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and bumped copyright years. Due to this change, any unexpected failure in calls to $ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE, $AUTOCONF or $AUTOHEADER, or a failure in grepping expected text in output files should now cause the whole test to fail. 2010-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Fixed typo in POD documentation of Automake::Channels. * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Fixed typo in POD documentation: @<...> was used instead of C<...>. 2010-04-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Refactor tests on Automake TESTS color output. * tests/color.test: Tests using the expect program moved out to... * tests/color2.test: ... this new file. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Extended accordingly. 2010-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Fix typos in comments in test confh5.test * tests/confh5.test: Fix a couple of typos in comments. Avoid possible false negatives in canon-name.test. * tests/canon-name.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Improve test description. 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Fix per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror. Before this patch, 'AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = -Werror' in one Makefile.am would carry over to other Makefile.am files treated afterwards by the same thread, causing inconsistent and unstable exit status values. * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (dup_channel_setup) (drop_channel_setup): Save and restore the setting of $warnings_are_errors. * tests/werror3.test: New test. * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust. * NEWS: Update. 2010-04-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Bugfix in confh5.test w.r.t. Solaris/Heirloom Sh. * tests/confh5.test: In the generated Makefile.am: do not use `test ! -e FILE' to check for the non-existence of a file, since that is not supported by Solaris/Heirloom Sh. Make test `aclocal3.test' stricter. * tests/aclocal3.test: Add call to `set -e'. Fail if $ACLOCAL succeds unexpectedly. Add tests checking that symlinks are resolved by `make dist'. * tests/distlinks.test: New test. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly. Suggested by observations from Ralf Wildenhues. 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Use -9 for maximum xz compression with dist-xz. * lib/am/distdir.am (dist-xz, dist, dist-all): Pass -9 to xz. * NEWS, THANKS: Update. Report by Pavel Sanda. 2010-03-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Avoid an unportable use of `$status' shell variable. * Makefile.am (path-check): Don't use the `$status' shell variable in the target's rules, as it's special in Zsh (equivalent to `$?', and readonly). Avoid another use of `chmod -R'. * Makefile.am (path-check): To be safe, do not use `chmod -R' on $(distdir) before removing it (as Solaris `chmod -R' touches symlink targets). Instead, use the cleanup strategy used in distdir.am. 2010-03-28 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Remove uses of @acronym and @sc. * doc/automake.texi (Public Macros, Limitations on File Names): Remove all usage of @acronym and @sc in the manual. Suggested by Karl Berry. 2010-03-13 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> GNU hello uses fdl.texi, not gpl.texi. * doc/automake.texi (Texinfo): Adjust example to upstream change. 2010-03-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Formatting cleanups in macro comments. * automake.in, lib/Automake/Channels.pm, lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm, lib/Automake/Options.pm, lib/Automake/Variable.pm, lib/Automake/XFile.pm, m4/options.m4, m4/substnot.m4: Fix macro comment format. 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Avoid generation of `tests/defs-p' file. * tests/defs.in: In the generated `configure.in' snippet: call `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' with the `parallel-tests' option if the shell variable `parallel_tests' is set to `yes'. * tests/Makefile.am (defs-p): Target removed. (check_SCRIPTS): Removed `defs-p'. (clean-local-check): Do not unlink `defs-p' anymore. ($(parallel_tests)): Transformation rules for the test scripts adjusted. * tests/gen-parallel-tests: Selection rules for the test scripts adjusted. * tests/parallel-tests.test: Set `$parallel_tests' to `yes' then include `./defs' (rather than simply including `./defs-p'). * tests/parallel-tests2.test: Likewise. * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise. * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise. * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise. * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise. * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise. * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise. * tests/parallel-tests9.test: Likewise. * tests/parallel-tests10.test: Likewise. * tests/README (Section "Writing Test Cases" subsection "Do"): Adjusted the parts referring to tests checking `parallel-tests' behaviour. Some other minor related improvements. * tests/.gitignore (defs-p): Removed. 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Remove redundant unset of variable TESTS from some test scripts. * tests/color.test: Do not unset the `TESTS' variable, as it's already unset in the `defs' file. * tests/check5.test: Likewise. * tests/check8.test: Likewise. * tests/check9.test: Likewise. * tests/check10.test: Likewise. * tests/check11.test: Likewise. * tests/parallel-tests.test: Likewise. * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise. * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise. * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise. * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise. * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise. 2010-02-22 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org> Improve help message of mdate-sh. * mdate-sh: mention actual output format in help message. 2010-02-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Deprecate dist-lzma in favor of dist-xz. * doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions, Options): Adjust text to reflect renaming of lzma to xz. * NEWS: Update. Missing deprecation noted by Antonio Diaz Diaz. 2010-02-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Add tests about support of wildcards in EXTRA_DIST. * tests/extra10.test: New test, check basic support of wildcards in EXTRA_DIST. * tests/extra11.test: New test, check more complex usage of wildcards in EXTRA_DIST. * tests/extra12.test: New test, check usage of wildcards in EXTRA_DIST when $builddir != $srcdir. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly. Necessity of these new tests suggested by Braden McDaniel and Ralf Wildenhues. 2010-02-08 Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> Fix copyright statement in gnupload script. * lib/gnupload: Fix copyright statement. 2010-02-06 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> (tiny change) Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Fix exit status of signal handlers in shell scripts. The value of `$?' on entrance to signal handlers in shell scripts cannot be relied upon, so set the exit code explicitly to 128 + SIG<SIGNAL>. * lib/am/check.am (am__check_pre): Use `exit 143' in signal handler. * lib/elisp-comp: Likewise. * lib/install-sh: Likewise. * lib/ylwrap: Likewise. Also, fix script to trap signal 13, not 3. * NEWS, THANKS: Update. Bug report, analysis, and initial patch by Dmitry V. Levin. 2010-02-06 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org> Improve gnupload usage text. * gnupload (usage): Shorten to make more likely to fit on a tty line. Mention CMD in the synopsis. With ..., plural is implied. 2010-01-28 Christos Kontas <xakon@yahoo.com> (tiny change) Fix some typos in the manual * doc/automake.texi (Nested Packages, Rebuilding): Fix typos. 2010-01-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Slighty improve tests acoutbs.test and acoutbs2.test. * tests/acoutbs2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Check that autoconf and configure work, that the file `zot' is created by configure, and that no file containing a backslash in its name is created. * tests/acoutbs.test: Likewise, plus updated copyright years. Fix test acoutbs2.test. * tests/acoutbs2: In the generated configure.in: add proper calls to AC_INIT and AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, and remove explicit definition of PACKAGE and VERSION. Add a call to aclocal before calling automake. Updated copyright years. * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Removed acoutbs2.test. Add forgotten test scripts to $(TESTS). * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Added test scripts present on the filesystem, which were erroneously left out from $(TESTS): acoutbs2.test, badopt.test, extra2.test. (XFAIL_TESTS): Added acoutbs2.test. 2010-01-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Sync auxiliary files from upstream. * INSTALL, lib/INSTALL, lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub: Sync from upstream. Bump copyright years. * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years. * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise. * doc/automake.texi: Likewise. Rotate ChangeLog. * ChangeLog.09: New file, rotated from ... * ChangeLog: ... here. * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute ChangeLog.09. ----- Copyright (C) 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved. ;; Variables: ;; coding: utf-8 ;; End: