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test harness: use new `.trs' files to hold test metadata

With this change, the test harness will keep test metadata in
dedicated `.trs' files, instead of having them embedded into the
`.log' files.  This allows for easier forward-compatibility and
extension of test metadata, and for more flexibility in the
format of the `.log' files.  Note that this change makes the
`:end-metadata:' field obsolete.

* doc/automake.texi (Parallel Test Harness, Log files generation
and test results recording): Document the new APIs and behaviour;
some related minor rewordings and fixlets.
* NEWS: Update.
* automake.in (handle_tests): When bringing in the content of
`check2.am', substitute %BASE% with the basename of the `.log'
file being created by a rule.  Add the generated `.trs' files
to the list of files to be cleaned by "make mostlyclean".
* lib/am/check.am (am__test_driver_flags): Rename ...
(am__common_driver_flags): ... to this, and remove the flags
`--test-name' and `--log-file' from it: they are now define in
the proper rules in `check2.am'.
(am__TEST_BASES): New internal variable, holding the names of
the tests, with any registered extension removed.
(am__stealth_MAKE): New internal variable, can be used instead of
$(MAKE) in recipes requiring a recursive call to make, but which
are not intended to be executed by "make -n".
(.log.trs): New suffix rule, to recover from deletion of `.trs'
files.
($(TEST_SUITE_LOG)): Almost completely rewritten to follow the
new API of "test logs in `.log' files, test metadata in `.trs'
files".  It goes to some length to work correctly in face of
unreadable or missing `.log' and `.trs' files, and to error out
with proper error messages when this is not possible.
[%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Also remove relevant "stale"
`.trs' files (in addition to `.log files) before remaking the
$(TEST_SUITE_LOG).
(recheck, recheck-html): Look for the `:recheck:' field in the
`.trs' files, not in the `.log' files.
* lib/am/check2.am (?GENERIC?%EXT%.log, ?!GENERIC?%OBJ%): Adjust
the call to the test driver, in particularly passing the new
option `--trs-file'.
[%am__EXEEXT%] (?GENERIC?%EXT%$(EXEEXT).log): Likewise.
* lib/tap-driver ($USAGE): Adjust the help screen.
(Getopt::Long::GetOptions): Handle the `--trs-file' option,
through the use of ...
($trs_file): ... this new global variable.
(finish): Write metadata for the test run to `$trs_file' rather
then to `$log_file', through the use of ...
(write_test_results): ... this new function.
* lib/test-driver (print_usage): Update the help screen.
(Option parsing): Handle the `--trs-file' option, through the
use of ...
($resfile): ... this new global variable.
(Main code): Write metadata for the test run to `$trsfile' rather
than to `$logfile'.
Minor related adjustments to comments.
* tests/.gitignore: Ignore `*.trs' files.
* tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: Moved ...
* tests/parallel-tests-unreadable.test: ... to this, and extended
to also check the semantics for unreadable `.trs' files.
* tests/test-driver-end-metadata.test: Deleted as obsolete.
* tests/test-driver-metadata-no-leading-space.test: Likewise.
* tests/test-driver-global-log.test: Renamed ...
* tests/test-metadata-global-log.test: ... to this, and modified
as to verify the new APIs and semantics.
* tests/test-driver-recheck: Renamed ...
* tests/test-metadata-recheck.test: ... to this, and modified
likewise.
* tests/parallel-tests-once.test: New test.
* tests/parallel-tests-make-n.test: Likewise.
* test-metadata-results.test: Likewise.
* test-missing.test: Likewise.
* test-missing2.test: Likewise.
* test-trs-basic.test: Likewise.
* test-trs-recover.test: Likewise.
* test-trs-recover2.test: Likewise.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

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2011-08-01  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	test harness: use new `.trs' files to hold test metadata
	With this change, the test harness will keep test metadata in
	dedicated `.trs' files, instead of having them embedded into the
	`.log' files.  This allows for easier forward-compatibility and
	extension of test metadata, and for more flexibility in the
	format of the `.log' files.  Note that this change makes the
	`:end-metadata:' field obsolete.
	* doc/automake.texi (Parallel Test Harness, Log files generation
	and test results recording): Document the new APIs and behaviour;
	some related minor rewordings and fixlets.
	* NEWS: Update.
	* automake.in (handle_tests): When bringing in the content of
	`check2.am', substitute %BASE% with the basename of the `.log'
	file being created by a rule.  Add the generated `.trs' files
	to the list of files to be cleaned by "make mostlyclean".
	* lib/am/check.am (am__test_driver_flags): Rename ...
	(am__common_driver_flags): ... to this, and remove the flags
	`--test-name' and `--log-file' from it: they are now define in
	the proper rules in `check2.am'.
	(am__TEST_BASES): New internal variable, holding the names of
	the tests, with any registered extension removed.
	(am__stealth_MAKE): New internal variable, can be used instead of
	$(MAKE) in recipes requiring a recursive call to make, but which
	are not intended to be executed by "make -n".
	(.log.trs): New suffix rule, to recover from deletion of `.trs'
	files.
	($(TEST_SUITE_LOG)): Almost completely rewritten to follow the
	new API of "test logs in `.log' files, test metadata in `.trs'
	files".  It goes to some length to work correctly in face of
	unreadable or missing `.log' and `.trs' files, and to error out
	with proper error messages when this is not possible.
	[%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Also remove relevant "stale"
	`.trs' files (in addition to `.log files) before remaking the
	$(TEST_SUITE_LOG).
	(recheck, recheck-html): Look for the `:recheck:' field in the
	`.trs' files, not in the `.log' files.
	* lib/am/check2.am (?GENERIC?%EXT%.log, ?!GENERIC?%OBJ%): Adjust
	the call to the test driver, in particularly passing the new
	option `--trs-file'.
	[%am__EXEEXT%] (?GENERIC?%EXT%$(EXEEXT).log): Likewise.
	* lib/tap-driver ($USAGE): Adjust the help screen.
	(Getopt::Long::GetOptions): Handle the `--trs-file' option,
	through the use of ...
	($trs_file): ... this new global variable.
	(finish): Write metadata for the test run to `$trs_file' rather
	then to `$log_file', through the use of ...
	(write_test_results): ... this new function.
	* lib/test-driver (print_usage): Update the help screen.
	(Option parsing): Handle the `--trs-file' option, through the
	use of ...
	($resfile): ... this new global variable.
	(Main code): Write metadata for the test run to `$trsfile' rather
	than to `$logfile'.
	Minor related adjustments to comments.
	* tests/.gitignore: Ignore `*.trs' files.
	* tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: Moved ...
	* tests/parallel-tests-unreadable.test: ... to this, and extended
	to also check the semantics for unreadable `.trs' files.
	* tests/test-driver-end-metadata.test: Deleted as obsolete.
	* tests/test-driver-metadata-no-leading-space.test: Likewise.
	* tests/test-driver-global-log.test: Renamed ...
	* tests/test-metadata-global-log.test: ... to this, and modified
	as to verify the new APIs and semantics.
	* tests/test-driver-recheck: Renamed ...
	* tests/test-metadata-recheck.test: ... to this, and modified
	likewise.
	* tests/parallel-tests-once.test: New test.
	* tests/parallel-tests-make-n.test: Likewise.
	* test-metadata-results.test: Likewise.
	* test-missing.test: Likewise.
	* test-missing2.test: Likewise.
	* test-trs-basic.test: Likewise.
	* test-trs-recover.test: Likewise.
	* test-trs-recover2.test: Likewise.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

2011-07-27  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	test harness: allow more metadata in log files
	This change reworks and improves the parallel test harness to use
	more specialized reStructuredText fields in the log files (instead
	of relying on specially-placed of "magic lines" and more indirect
	semantical formatting); the new fields are the following:
	 - ":recheck:": tell whether the associated test will have to be
	   re-run by "make recheck";
	 - ":copy-in-global-log:": tell whether the content of the log
	   file should be copied in the "global log" `test-suite.log';
	 - ":end-metadata:", which inhibits the scanning of the rest of
	   the log file (for what concerns test metadata).
	Also, the special `:test-result:' value "END" has been removed,
	superseded by the new `:end-metadata:' field.
	* doc/automake.texi (Log files generation and test results
	recording): Document the new API and semantics.  Remove or fix
	some obsolete comments.
	* lib/am/check.am ($(TEST_SUITE_LOG), recheck, recheck-html):
	Adjust comments and code.
	* lib/tap-driver (finish): Adjust, with the help of ...
	(must_recheck, copy_in_global_log): ... these new functions.
	* lib/test-driver (Main code): Adjust, with the help of ...
	($recheck, $gcopy): ... these new variables.
	* tests/trivial-test-driver: Update to obey the new APIs.
	* tests/test-driver-recheck.test: Likewise.
	* tests/test-driver-global-log.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-passthrough.test: Relax the test, avoiding to check
	what is written in `test-suite.log'; such check has been moved ...
	* tests/tap-global-log.test: ... in this new test, and extended.
	* tests/test-driver-metadata-no-leading-space.test: New test.
	* tests/test-driver-end-test-results.test: Removed, it checked
	the old APIs; superseded by ...
	* tests/test-driver-end-metadata.test: ... this new test.
	* tests/tap-log.test: Improve syncing with ...
	* tests/test-log.test: ... this new test.
	* tests/parallel-tests.test: Remove some duplication w.r.t. this
	last new test.  Updated heading comments.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

2011-07-27  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	testsuite: fix a spurious failure with non-bash shells
	* tests/tap-fancy2.test: Remove an unportable use of backslashes
	with the `echo' builtin, which was causing some shells (among them
	bash and Debian /bin/ksh) to print a `\\' string, while other
	shells (among them zsh, dash, and Solaris /bin/sh and /bin/ksh)
	were unexpectedly printing a single `\' character.  Since we are
	at it, add a sanity check to ensure that this issue does not
	resurface.

2011-07-27  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	testsuite: fix spurious failures with Solaris /bin/sh
	* tests/tap-more.test: Use `echo > file', not `: > file', to
	create empty files in the "for" loops; this is required since,
	as documented in the autoconf manual, Solaris 10 /bin/sh
	"optimizes" away the `:' command after the first iteration,
	even if it is redirected.
	* tests/test-driver-custom-multitest-recheck2.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-numeric-description.test: Partial rewrite to avoid
	using positional parameters from the 10th onward, which are
	unportable to Solaris /bin/sh (using `${10}' causes the shell
	to die with "bad substitution").

2011-07-31  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	simple tests: support developer-defined fd redirections
	Motivated by coreutils bug#8846, and related discussions:
	 <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8846>
	 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2011-06/msg00002.html>
	In those threads it has been shown how problematic it can be to do
	portable file descriptor redirections in the testsuite when using
	the Automake testsuite harness.  This change should remedy to that
	situation.
	* lib/am/check2.am (?GENERIC?%EXT%$(EXEEXT).log,
	?GENERIC?%EXT%.log, ?!GENERIC?%OBJ%): Append redirection defined
	in $(AM_TESTS_FD_REDIRECT) to the command-line invocations of the
	test scripts.
	* lib/am/check.am [!%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] $(check-TESTS): Likewise.
	* NEWS: Update.
	* doc/automake.texi (Script-based Testsuites): Document the new
	feature.
	* tests/check-fd-redirect.test: New test.
	* tests/parallel-tests-fd-redirect.test: Likewise.
	* tests/parallel-tests-am_tests_environment.test: Remove checks
	about the use of redirections in AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT: they would
	check deprecated (if not undefined) behaviour now.  Strengthen a
	couple of still valid checks, to keep the test more in sync with
	the documentation.  Improve debugging information.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

2011-07-22  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	docs: rework and extend documentation on testsuites support
	* doc/automake.texi (Generalities about Testing): New section.
	(Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Section removed, merged
	into ...
	(Simple Tests): ... this one, which on the other hand has been
	subdivided into ...
	(Script-based Testsuites, Serial Test Harness, Parallel Test
	Harness): ... these new subsection.
	(DejaGnu Tests): Minor adjustments.
	Other related typofixes and rewordings throughout the manual;
	in particular, avoid to use the term "test driver" for three
	different concepts (and use instead "test harness" and "test
	runner" where appropriate).
	* tests/tap-doc.test: New test.
	* tests/tap-no-disable-hard-error.test: Likewise.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

2011-07-18  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	tap: support colorization of testsuite progress output
	* lib/tap-driver (%COLORS): New variable (definition extracted
	from `lib/am/check.am:$(am__tty_colors)', with some obvious
	adjustments.
	(report): Adjust to colorize console output when required,
	using ...
	(decorate_result): ... this new function.
	(colored): New function, used by the one above.
	* tests/tap-summary.test: Also run the checks when `color-tests'
	is in use.
	* tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Remove `tap-color.test'.

2011-07-18  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	tap: some preparatory refactoring (2)
	This is a follow-up simplification.
	* lib/tap-driver (console_output): Renamed ...
	(report): ... to this, and extended to appropriately register
	the test results when needed.
	(testsuite_error, handle_tap_comment, handle_tap_test,
	handle_tap_plan): Adjusted accordingly.

2011-07-18  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	tap: some preparatory refactoring (1)
	This refactoring is aimed at simplifying the introduction of
	colored console output for the TAP driver.
	* lib/tap-driver (console_output): Now accept two arguments, the
	first one indicating which kind of thing is to be displayed (for
	now only a test result or a diagnostic comment), and the second
	one (if present) the message associated to it.
	(handle_tap_test, handle_tap_comment, handle_tap_plan,
	testsuite_error): Adapt to the new `console_output' interface.

2011-07-18  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	tap: add experimental TAP-aware driver
	* doc/automake.texi (Using the TAP test protocol): New section.
	(Overview of Custom Test Drivers Support): Minor updates.
	* lib/tap-driver: New script, TAP-aware test driver for Automake;
	implemented in perl and based on TAP::Parser.
	* lib/Makefile.am (dist_script_DATA): Add it.
	* tests/tap-autonumber.test: New test.
	* tests/tap-bailout.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-basic.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-deps.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-diagnostic.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-empty.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-empty-diagnostic.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-escape-directive.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-exit.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-fancy.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-fancy2.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-global-result.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-html.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-log.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-merge-stdout-stderr.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-more.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-more2.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-no-merge-stdout-stderr.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-no-spurious-summary.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-no-spurious.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-not-ok-skip.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-numeric-description.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-out-of-order.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-passthrough.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-plan.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-plan-errors.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-plan-corner.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-realtime.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-recheck-logs.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-recheck.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-skip-whole.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-summary.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-todo-skip.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-todo-skip-together.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-todo-skip-whitespace.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-skipall-whitespace.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-unplanned.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-whitespace-normalization.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-with-and-without-number.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-xfail-tests.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-bad-prog.test: New xfailing test.
	* tests/tap-color.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-plan-corner2.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-message-0.test: Likewise.
	* tests/tap-signal.test: Likewise.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Update.

2011-07-07  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	test defs: new auxiliary function 'count_test_results'
	* tests/defs (count_test_results): New function.
	* tests/check11.test: Use it.
	* tests/test-driver-custom-multitest.test: Likewise.
	* tests/test-driver-custom-multitest-recheck.test: Likewise.
	* tests/test-driver-custom-multitest-recheck2.test: Likewise.
	* tests/parallel-tests-log-override-recheck.test: Likewise.
	* tests/parallel-tests-log-override-recheck.test: Likewise.
	* tests/parallel-tests-no-spurious-summary.test: Likewise, and
	slightly improve debugging output.
	* tests/parallel-tests.test: Make use of `count_test_results'.
	Also, make grepping of "make check" output slightly stricter
	* tests/parallel-tests9.test: Likewise.
	* tests/parallel-tests-log-override-2.test: Likewise, and throw
	in a small optimization.

2011-07-07  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	parallel-tests: simplify testsuite summary
	Prefer a more deterministic, "tabular" format for the testsuite
	summary, always listing the numbers of passed, failed, xfailed,
	xpassed, skipped and errored tests, even when these numbers are
	zero.  This simplify the logic of testsuite summary creation,
	makes it more easily machine-parseable, and will probably allow
	for easier addition of new kinds of test results in the future.
	* lib/am/check.am (am__tty_colors_dummy): New make variable, to
	reduce code duplication.  Extracted from previous versions of
	$(am__tty_colors), and extended by defining two new variables
	`$mgn' and `$brg'.
	[%?COLOR%, %!?COLOR%] (am__tty_colors): Use that new variable.
	(am__text_box): Delete, is not needed anymore.
	($(TEST_SUITE_LOG)): Rewrite associated rules to implement the
	new testsuite summary format.
	* NEWS: Update.
	* tests/check10.test: Don't run with the parallel-tests harness
	too, that makes no sense anymore.
	* tests/color.test: Update and adjust.
	* tests/color2.test: Likewise.
	* tests/parallel-tests.test: Likewise.
	* tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
	* tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
	* tests/parallel-tests9.test: Likewise.
	* tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: Likewise.
	* tests/parallel-tests-empty-testlogs.test: Likewise.
	* tests/parallel-tests-log-override-recheck.test: Likewise.
	* tests/parallel-tests-no-spurious-summary.test: Likewise.
	* tests/test-driver-custom-multitest.test: Likewise.
	* tests/test-driver-end-test-results.test: Likewise.
	* tests/parallel-tests-no-color-in-log.test: New test.
	* tests/testsuite-summary-color.test: Likewise.
	* tests/testsuite-summary-count.test: Likewise.
	* tests/testsuite-summary-count-many.test: Likewise.
	* tests/testsuite-summary-reference-log.test: Likewise.
	* tests/testsuite-summary-checks.sh: New auxiliary script, used
	by the new tests above.
	* tests/extract-testsuite-summary: Likewise.
	* tests/trivial-test-driver: Optimize for speed when there are
	lots of of tests.
	* tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute them.
	(testsuite-summary-color.log, testsuite-summary-count.log): Depend
	on them.
	(testsuite-summary-count-many.log): Depend on the auxiliary scripts
	'trivial-test-driver' and 'extract-testsuite-summary'.
	(TESTS): Update.

2011-07-07  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	parallel-tests: new recognized test result 'ERROR'
	* lib/am/check.am ($(TEST_SUITE_LOG)): Recognize a new test result
	`ERROR'.  Use it when encountering unreadable test logs (previously
	a simple `FAIL' was used in this situations).
	* lib/test-driver: Set the global test result to `ERROR' when the
	test exit status is 99.  When doing colorized output, color `ERROR'
	results in magenta.
	* doc/automake.texi (Log files generation and test results
	recording): Update by listing `ERROR' too among the list of valid
	`:test-results:' arguments.
	* NEWS: Update.
	* tests/trivial-test-driver: Update.
	* tests/parallel-tests.test: Likewise.
	* tests/parallel-tests-harderror.test: Likewise.
	* tests/parallel-tests-no-spurious-summary.test: Likewise.
	* tests/test-driver-global-log.test: Likewise.
	* tests/test-driver-recheck.test: Likewise.
	* tests/test-driver-custom-multitest-recheck.test: Likewise.
	* tests/test-driver-custom-multitest-recheck2.test: Likewise.
	* tests/test-driver-custom-multitest.test: Likewise.
	* tests/test-driver-custom-no-html.test: Likewise.
	* tests/test-driver-end-test-results.test: Likewise.
	* tests/color.test: Likewise.  Also, make stricter, and also test
	from VPATH.
	* tests/color2.test: Likewise, and improve syncing with color.test.
	* tests/parallel-tests-exit-statuses.test: New test.
	* tests/parallel-tests-console-output.test: Likewise.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

2011-07-07  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	parallel-tests: make parsing of test results safer
	The new code for parsing the testsuite-generated `.log' files,
	as introduced in commit `v1.11-872-gc96b881', considers each
	`:test-result:' field anywhere in a `.log' file as a declaration
	of a test result, and accounts for it as such in the testsuite
	summary.  Unfortunately this could easily cause spurious test
	failures being reported in the testsuite summary.  This happened
	in practice with the Automake's own testsuite; for example:
	  $ make check TESTS='check12-p.test'; echo exit: $?
	  ...
	  PASS: check12-p.test
	  =====================================
	  4 of 5 tests failed
	  See tests/test-suite.log
	  Please report to bug-automake@gnu.org
	  =====================================
	  make[2]: *** [test-suite.log] Error 1
	  make: *** [check-am] Error 2
	  exit: 2
	This change introduces a new special `:test-result:' "END", that,
	when seen, prevents the rest of the log file from being parsed.
	For more information, refer to the thread:
	<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2011-06/msg00199.html>
	* lib/am/check.am ($(TEST_SUITE_LOG)): Stop the parsing of a log
	file as soon as the special ":test-result:END" directive is seen.
	Related changes and enhancements.
	* lib/test-driver: Protect the rest of the log after the result
	lined with a ":test-result:END" directive.
	* doc/automake.texi (Log files generation and test results
	recording): Update, and related improvements.
	* tests/parallel-tests-no-spurious-summary.test: New test.
	* tests/test-driver-end-test-results.test: Likewise.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

2011-06-29  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	docs: document custom test drivers and protocols
	* doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Note that the TESTS_ENVIRONMENT
	use suggested here is not portable to 'parallel-tests'.
	(Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Document new restrictions on
	the uses of TESTS_ENVIRONMENT and AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT.
	(Custom Test Drivers): New section and node.
	(Overview of Custom Test Drivers Support): New subsection.
	(Declaring Custom Test Drivers in @file{Makefile.am}): Likewise.
	(APIs for Custom Test Drivers): Likewise.
	(Options): Update description of color-tests.
	* lib/am/check ($(TEST_SUITE_LOG)): Remove comments that have been
	moved into the manual.
	(recheck, recheck-html): Minor adjustments to better conform to the
	documentation (this should cause no semantic changes w.r.t. the
	former behaviour); minor improvements and extensions to existing
	comments.
	* tests/test-driver-create-log-dir.test: New test.
	* tests/test-driver-strip-vpath.test: Likewise.
	* tests/test-driver-global-log.test: Likewise.
	* tests/test-driver-recheck.test: Likewise.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

2011-06-29   Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	docs: explain why AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT must be semicolon-terminated
	* doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Ditto, and
	related adjustments.
	Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.

2011-06-29  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	docs: fix unportable example of AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT usage
	* doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): The
	old example on AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT relied on unportable shell
	features, and in particular didn't work with various Korn
	Shells (see also commit `v1.11-925-g29ca903').  Give another
	example, simpler this time, but still inspired to real-world
	usage (the GNU coreutils testsuite).

2011-06-23   Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	docs: avoid a footnote, some related rewordings and improvements
	* doc/automake.texi (Dist): Reword the part about automatically
	distributed files to avoid a footnote.  Since we are at it, extend
	a bit, and add an example and a reference to a relevant test case.

2011-06-23   Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	docs: minor cosmetic fixes
	* doc/automake.texi: Break few overly long lines, throughout the
	file.
	("Simple Tests"): Move @vindex for XFAIL_TESTS to the correct
	position, i.e., before and not after the paragraph where it is
	introduced.
	("Options" @item ansi2knr): Use @pxref instead of @xref.  This
	fixes a texinfo warning.
	("Other things Automake recognizes" @item AM_C_PROTOTYPES): Use
	@pxref instead of @ref.

2011-06-23   Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	help: improve text about automatically-distributed files
	This change fixes automake bug#7819.
	* automake.in (usage): Distinguish between files that are always
	automatically distributed when found, and those which are only
	"under certain conditions".
	* doc/automake.texi (Basics of Distribution): Update accordingly.
	* tests/autodist-subdir.test: Update.
	* tests/autodist-no-duplicate.test: Likewise.
	* tests/autodist.test: Likewise.
	(configure.in): Remove useless call to AM_MAINTAINER_MODE.

2011-06-23   Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	refactor: split 'usage' subroutine in automake
	This change is related to automake bug#7819.
	* automake.in (print_autodist_files): New subroutine,
	extracted from ...
	(usage): ... this, which now uses it.
	* tests/autodist-no-duplicate.test: New test.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

2011-06-23  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	tests: fix bug in 'autodist.test'
	* tests/autodist.test: Avoid spurious failure due to no
	`defs-static' file being found in the parent directory.

2011-06-21  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	parallel-tests: allow each test to have multiple results
	With this change, we improve the code creating the `test-suite.log'
	global log and the console testsuite summary to make it	able to
	grasp multiple results per test script.  This is required in order
	to introduce the planned support for test protocols, like TAP and
	SubUnit, which can indeed run multiple tests per test script, each
	with its individual result.
	The implementation makes use of a custom reStructuredText field
	`:test-result:'.
	Note that no new documentation is added by this change; that is
	be left for follow-up changes.
	* lib/check.am ($(TEST_SUITE_LOG)): When processing .log files,
	recognize a report of a test's result only if it is declared with
	the custom `:test-result:' reStructuredText field placed at the
	beginning of a line.  Extend and add explanatory comments.
	(recheck, recheck-html): Add explanatory comments.
	* lib/test-driver: Write an appropriate reStructuredText field
	`:test-result:' in the generated log file.  Use a reStructuredText
	transition to better separate the test outcome report from the
	test script's registered output.  Improve comments.
	* tests/test-driver-custom-xfail-tests.test: Adjust.
	* tests/parallel-tests7.test: Adjust.
	* tests/parallel-tests-empty-testlogs.test: New test.
	* tests/parallel-tests-recheck-override.test: Likewise.
	* tests/parallel-tests2.test: Extend and keep more in-sync with ...
	* tests/test-driver-custom-html.test: ... this new related test.
	* tests/test-driver-custom-no-html.test: New test.
	* tests/test-driver-custom-multitest.test: Likewise.
	* tests/test-driver-custom-multitest-recheck.test: Likewise.
	* tests/test-driver-custom-multitest-recheck2.test: Likewise.
	* tests/trivial-test-driver: New file, used by the last four tests
	above.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
	(EXTRA_DIST): Distribute `trivial-test-driver'.
	(test-driver-custom-multitest.log): Depend on `trivial-test-driver'.
	(test-driver-custom-multitest-recheck.log): Likewise.
	(test-driver-custom-multitest-recheck2.log): Likewise.
	(test-driver-custom-html.log): Likewise.

2011-06-21  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	parallel-tests: allow custom driver scripts
	Allow suffix-based definition of custom "driver script" for the
	test scripts.  These driver scripts will be responsible of
	launching the tests (or their corresponding $(LOG_COMPILER), if
	they have an associated one), interpreting and displaying the
	test results, and writing the `.log' files.
	This new API should allow easy and flexible use of different
	test protocols in the future; in particular, we plan to use it
	to implement TAP and SubUnit harnesses.
	Note that no new documentation is added by this change; that is
	be left for follow-up changes.
	* automake.in (handle_tests): Define default for $(LOG_DRIVER),
	and, for any registered test extension `<ext>', define defaults
	for $(<ext>_LOG_DRIVER).  Substitute %DRIVER% using these new
	variables, instead of the old internal $(am__test_driver).  When
	processing check2.am, also substitute %DRIVER_FLAGS%.
	Require auxiliary script `test-driver' only if no driver has been
	explicitly defined for the test script kinds.
	* am/check2.am (?GENERIC?%EXT%$(EXEEXT).log, ?GENERIC?%EXT%.log,
	?!GENERIC?%OBJ%): Pass the %DRIVER_FLAGS% to the %DRIVER% call.
	* tests/parallel-tests-no-extra-driver.test: New test.
	* tests/test-driver-custom.test: Likewise.
	* tests/test-driver-custom-xfail-tests.test: Likewise.
	* tests/test-driver-fail.test: Likewise.
	* tests/Makefile.am: Update.
	* NEWS: Update.

2011-06-21  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	parallel-tests: add auxiliary script 'test-driver', refactor
	This refactoring should cause no API of functionality change,
	and is meant only to simplify the future implementation of TAP
	and SubUnit testsuite drivers.  More precisely, our roadmap is
	to move most of the "testsuite driving" features out of the
	Automake-generated Makefiles, and into external scripts with
	well-defined interfaces.  This will allow the user to define
	its own personalized testsuite drivers, and will also offer us
	a framework upon which to implement our new TAP and SubUnit
	drivers, all in a very unobtrusive way and retaining an high
	degree of code reuse and backward-compatibility.
	* lib/test-driver: New auxiliary script.
	* lib/Makefile.am (dist_SCRIPT_DATA): Add it.
	* automake.in (handle_tests): Require the new auxiliary script
	`test-driver', and define a new internal makefile variable
	`$(am__test_driver)', used to call it.  Perform new substitution
	on `DRIVER' when processing the `check2.am' file.
	* lib/check.am (am__tty_colors): Define new shell variable
	`$am__color_tests'.
	(am__rst_section): Removed, its role taken over by the new
	`test-driver' script.
	(am__test_driver_flags): New variable, contains the command
	line options passed to `test-driver'.
	(am__check_pre): Do not deal with temporary files and exit
	traps anymore, as the `test-driver' script takes care of that
	now.  Define shell variable `$am__enable_hard_errors', used by
	`$(am__test_driver_flags)'.  Reorder so that we don't need to
	save and restore the value of the `TERM' environment variable
	anymore.
	Other related adjustments.
	(am__check_post): Remove, as its role has been completely taken
	over by the `test-driver' script.
	* am/check2.am (?GENERIC?%EXT%$(EXEEXT).log, ?GENERIC?%EXT%.log,
	?!GENERIC?%OBJ%): Call the test script through the Automake
	substituted `%DRIVER%', and honor the command-line options
	in `$(am__test_driver_flags)'.  Do not call the obsoleted
	`$(am__check_post)' anymore.
	* doc/automake.texi (Auxiliary Programs): Mention the new
	`test-driver' script.
	(Optional): Mention `test-driver' in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR.
	Since we are at it, break the list of auxiliary scripts by
	placing one per line, to simplify potential future additions
	of new scripts.
	* tests/check.test: Adjust.
	* tests/check2.test : Likewise.
	* tests/check3.test : Likewise.
	* tests/check4.test : Likewise.
	* tests/check10.test: Likewise.
	* tests/color.test: Likewise.
	* tests/color2.test: Likewise.
	* tests/comment9.test: Likewise.
	* tests/dejagnu.test: Likewise.
	* tests/exeext4.test: Likewise.
	* tests/maken3.test: Likewise.
	* tests/maken4.test: Likewise.
	* tests/parallel-tests-interrupt.test: Likewise.
	* tests/posixsubst-tests.test: Likewise.
	* tests/repeated-options.test: Likewise.
	* tests/check-no-test-driver.test: New test.
	* tests/parallel-test-driver-install.test: Likewise.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
	* NEWS: Update.

2011-06-21  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	maintcheck: extend 'sc_tests_plain_*' checks
	* Makefile.am (sc_tests_plain_autom4te): New check.
	(sc_tests_plain_autoreconf): Likewise.
	(sc_tests_plain_autoheader): Likewise.
	(syntax_check_rules): Update.

2011-06-21  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	tests: interactions between TESTS_ENVIRONMENT and LOG_COMPILER
	* tests/tests-environment-and-log-compiler.test: New test,
	checking that we can use variables and functions set by
	TESTS_ENVIRONMENT and AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT in LOG_COMPILER
	and LOG_FLAGS (for tests both with and without registered
	extensions).
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

2011-06-20  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	maintcheck: avoid few spurious failures
	* Makefile.am (sc_tests_plain_aclocal, sc_tests_plain_perl,
	sc_tests_plain_autoconf, sc_tests_plain_automake,
	sc_tests_plain_autoupate): Be stricter in matching an erroneous
	literal command, i.e., `aclocal', `automake', `perl', etc.

2011-06-20  Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>  (tiny change)

	check: don't use multi-line coloring for the report
	"less -R" can't handle multi-line coloring as it is done for the
	check reports of the serial and parallel testsuite, because of
	performance reasons.  Thus, color each line of the check report
	by its own.
	* lib/am/check.am (am__text_box): Accept colors for lines, and
	color each line by its own.
	[%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] $(TEST_SUITE_LOG): Let am__text_box handle
	the line coloring.
	[!%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] $(check-TESTS): Color each report line by
	its own.
	* THANKS: Update.

2011-06-18  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	docs: AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS is for corner cases
	* doc/automake.texi (Checking the Distribution): Explain that the
	developers should take care of making their code buildable without
	requiring any special configure options, so that in general
	AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS shouldn't be used.  Give an example
	of where its use is legitimate.
	Suggestions from Ralf Wildenhues and Eric Blake.

2011-06-14  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	ansi2knr: deprecate, it will go away in the next major release
	* doc/automake.texi: Loudly and repeatedly state that the old
	de-ANSI-fication features are now deprecated and will be removed
	in the next major Automake release.  Other related adjustments.
	* lib/Automake/Options.pm (_process_option_list ): Give a warning
	in the `obsolete' category when the `ansi2knr' option is used.
	* m4/protos.m4 (AM_C_PROTOTYPES): Deprecate this macro: a warning
	in the `obsolete' category will be emitted it if is used.
	* tests/ansi2knr-deprecation.test: New test.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
	* tests/ansi.test: Adjust, by calling autoconf and/or automake
	with the `-Wno-obsolete' flag.
	* tests/ansi10.test: Likewise.
	* tests/ansi2.test: Likewise.
	* tests/ansi3.test: Likewise.
	* tests/ansi3b.test: Likewise.
	* tests/ansi4.test: Likewise.
	* tests/ansi5.test: Likewise.
	* tests/ansi6.test: Likewise.
	* tests/ansi7.test: Likewise.
	* tests/ansi8.test: Likewise.
	* tests/ansi9.test: Likewise.
	* tests/cxxansi.test: Likewise.
	* tests/libobj8.test: Likewise.
	* NEWS: Update about the future planned backward-incompatibility
	due to the removal of de-ANSI-fication feature.

2011-06-19  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	docs: primary/prefix combination "pkglib_PROGRAMS" is now invalid
	* doc/automake.texi (Program Sources): pkglib_PROGRAMS is not a
	valid combination anymore, so don't document it.  Inconsistency
	introduced in commit `v1.11-373-g9ca6326'.

2011-06-19  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

	docs: replace obsolete @vindex entry with a useful one
	* doc/automake.texi (Program Sources): Do not index obsolete
	pkglib_PROGRAMS here.  Do index pkglibexec_PROGRAMS.

2011-06-18  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	tests: more checks on portable fd redirection in TESTS_ENVIRONMENT
	* tests/tests-environment-fd-redirect.test: Extend by also using
	a perl script among the tests.  Run the test shell script with
	the `errexit' flag active.  Export `VERBOSE' to yes when running
	"make check", to give more debugging information in case of
	failures.  Look for a Korn Shell also in `/usr/bin', not on only
	in `/bin'.

2011-06-13  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	tests: optimize tests on primary/prefix mismatch for speed
	* tests/primary-prefix-invalid-couples.test: Partial rewrite, in
	order to use just a single automake invocation rather than one
	invocation for each invalid primary/prefix couple.  This improves
	the test script execution time by an order of magnitude.
	Since we are at it, throw in some other improvements to avoid
	unrelated automake warnings and failures that could potentially
	cause false positives w.r.t. the automake exit status.

2011-06-13  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	news: update w.r.t. introduction of AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS
	* NEWS (Miscellaneous changes): Update.

2011-06-10  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	maintcheck: DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS can be defined on make cmdline
	* Makefile.am (sc_tests_overriding_macros_on_cmdline): It's now
	acceptable that the test scripts override DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS
	on the make command line.  Update comments accordingly.  Since we
	are at it, make the relevant grepping rules slightly tighter.

2011-06-10  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	distcheck: add support for AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS
	* doc/automake.texi (Checking the Distribution): Suggest to use
	AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS, not DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS, to
	define (in the top-level Makefile.am) extra flags to be passed
	to configure at "make distcheck" time; DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS
	should be reserved for the user.  Add proper `@vindex' directive.
	Document that AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS is not honoured in a
	subpackage Makefile.am, but the flags in it are passed down to
	the configure script of the subpackage.
	* lib/am/distdir.am (distcheck): Also pass the flags in
	$(AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS) to the configure invocation.
	Update comments.
	* tests/defs.in.test (AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS,
	DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS): Unset in case they are exported in
	the environment, they might improperly influence our testsuite.
	* tests/distcheck-configure-flags.test: New test.
	* tests/distcheck-configure-flags-am.test: Likewise.
	* tests/distcheck-configure-flags-subpkg.test: Likewise.
	* distcheck-hook.test: Likewise.
	* distcheck-hook2.test: Likewise.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
	Closes automake bug#8784.

2010-06-09  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	docs: better documentation for silent make rules
	* doc/automake.texi (Options): Detailed description of the
	automake option `silent-rules' moved from here ...
	(Silent Make): ... into this new chapter, expanded, improved,
	and subdivided into ...
	(Make verbosity, Tricks For Silencing Make,
	Automake silent-rules Option): ... these new sections.
	(@menu, @detailmenu): Update.
	* tests/silent-configsite.test: New test, checking that the
	user can control default mode of silent-rules from config.site,
	as is documented in the manual.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.

2011-06-11  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Warnings about primary/prefix mismatch fixed and extended.
	* automake.in (%standard_prefix): Add `doc' and `locale'.
	Rename `pkgdatadir' to `pkgdata'.  Similarly for`pkglibdir',
	`pkgincludedir' and `pkglibexecdir'.
	(handle_programs): List `pkglibexec', not `pkglib', among the
	prefixes valid for the `PROGRAMS' primary.
	(handle_data): List also `doc' among the prefixes valid for
	the `DATA' primary.  This is required by automake's own build
	system.
	* tests/dirforbid.test: Test removed, superseded by ...
	* tests/primary-prefix-invalid-couples.test: ... this new test.
	* tests/primary-prefix-valid-couples.test: New test.
	* tests/primary-prefix-couples-documented-valid.test: Likewise.
	* tests/primary-prefix-couples-force-valid.test: Likewise.
	* tests/java3.test: Adjusted, and extended a bit.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
	* NEWS: Updated.
	From a report by Eric Blake.

2011-06-14  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	tests: check portable fd redirection in TESTS_ENVIRONMENT
	* tests/tests-environment-fd-redirect.test: New test.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
	Motivated by coreutils bug#8846:
	 <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8846>
	See also following CC:ed thread on bug-autoconf list:
	 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2011-06/msg00002.html>

2011-06-08  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	test defs: new function 'fatal_', for hard errors
	Before this patch, the only way offered by tests/defs to
	properly signal a hard error was the `framework_failure_'
	function.  But the error message issued by that function,
	as its name would suggest, refers to a set-up failure in the
	testsuite, while hard errors can obviously also be due to
	other reasons.  The best way to fix this inconsistency is to
	introduce a new function with a more general error message.
	Inspired by a recent similar change to Gnulib's tests/init.sh.
	* tests/defs.in (fatal_): New function.
	* tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
	Suggest the use of `fatal_', not of `framework_failure_', for
	generic hard errors.  The latter should be reserved for "real"
	set-up failures.

2011-06-05  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	tests: fix typo-related error in auxdir2.test
	* tests/auxdir2.test (configure.in):  Close m4 quoting in the
	argument to AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR.  Without this, aclocal fails with
	"ERROR: end of file in string".  This problem hasn't been exposed
	by the testsuite before because this test is in XFAIL_TESTS, so
	its failure went unnoticed, even if it was due to a wrong cause.
	Bug introduced in commit v1.11-249-g49ac3de.

2011-06-02  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	maintcheck: fix some more failures
	* tests/instdir-ltlib.test: Use creative quoting to avoid
	spuriously triggering the `sc_rm_minus_f' maintainer check.
	* tests/instdir-prog.test: Likewise.
	* tests/instspc-data.test: Use creative quoting to avoid
	spuriously triggering the `sc_tests_Exit_not_exit' maintainer
	check.

2011-06-02  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	maintcheck: fix some failures, extend some checks
	* Makefile.am (sc_diff_automake_in_automake): Update, as we
	now expect 9 lines, not 8, to be changed from `automake.in'
	to `automake'.
	(sc_diff_aclocal_in_aclocal): New maintainer check, similar to
	the above, and checking that only 10 lines are changed from
	`aclocal.in' to `aclocal'.
	(syntax_check_rules): Update.
	(sc_tests_Exit_not_exit): Exempt self tests `self-check-*.test'
	from this check, as they can legitimately use the bare `exit'
	builtin in various places.
	* doc/automake.texi (Python): Remove stray `@' from the end of
	a line.  Typo introduced in commit `v1.11-312-g5bf7af6'.
	* tests/depcomp8a.test: Pass DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS to make
	from the environment rather than from the command line, to
	pacify the `sc_tests_overriding_macros_on_cmdline' maintainer
	check.
	* tests/depcomp8b.test: Likewise.

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/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.

2011-05-29  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	automake, aclocal: honour configure-time AUTOCONF and AUTOM4TE
	Currently, the Automake's own configure script allow definition
	of AUTOCONF and AUTOM4TE, expected to point respectively to an
	autoconf and autom4te programs.  But while these definitions are
	honoured in the Automake's build systems and test suite, they
	were *not* honoured in the generated `automake' and `aclocal'
	scripts.  This behaviour, apart from being wrong in that it does
	not allow the user enough freedom in choosing his tools, also
	caused inconsistencies in the test suite, brining to spurious
	failures.
	Problem reported by Graham Reitz on the automake list; see thread:
	<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2011-05/msg00022.html>
	* automake.in ($traces): Use `@am_AUTOCONF', not simply `autoconf'.
	* aclocal.in ($traces): Use `@am_AUTOM4TE', not simply `autom4te'.
	* Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute also `@am_AUTOCONF' and
	`@am_AUTOM4TE'.
	* NEWS: Update.
	* THANKS: Update.

2011-05-29  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	build: the user can override AUTOM4TE, AUTORECONF and AUTOUPDATE too
	Our build system allows the user to override AUTOCONF and AUTOHEADER
	at configure time, and honours these overrides in our testsuite.
	But it didn't do the same with AUTOM4TE, AUTORECONF and AUTOUPDATE.
	This change fixes that inconsistency.
	* configure.ac (am_AUTOM4TE, am_AUTOUPDATE, am_AUTORECONF): New
	AC_SUBSTitutions.  Update comments.
	* tests/defs.in ($AUTOUPDATE): Default to `@am_AUTOUPDATE@' now.
	($AUTOM4TE): New variable, defaulting to `@am_AUTOM4TE@'.
	($AUTORECONF): New variable, defaulting to `@am_AUTORECONF@'.
	* doc/Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/amhello-1.0.tar.gz): Update.

2011-05-22  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	parallel-tests: stricter checks on DISABLE_HARD_ERRORS support
	* tests/parallel-tests-harderror.test: New test, doing more
	in-depth checks on DISABLE_HARD_ERRORS.
	* tests/parallel-tests.test: Remove tests on DISABLE_HARD_ERRORS,
	now redundant.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

2011-05-22  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
	    Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	tests/README: fix example about `make -e' usage
	* tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"): When
	some variable is never initialized in the Makefile, `-e' is not
	necessary in order to override it.  DESTDIR is such a variable: we
	ensure that we do not ever initialize it.  And as such, it is quite
	portable to use:
	  $ make DESTDIR=/foo/bar install
	and in fact, quite widely used.
	So our example about when `make -e' is required, which references
	the `DESTDIR' variable, is poorly chosen, if not downright wrong.
	Rewrite it to use `prefix' as the overridden variable instead.

2011-05-27  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	testsuite: each test case depends on `defs-static'
	* tests/Makefile.am ($(TEST_LOGS)): Depends on `defs-static' too.
	Simplify comments.

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.

2011-05-15  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	tests: fix portability issues in 'repeated-options.test'
	* tests/repeated-options.test: Do not assume that object files
	have `.o' suffix and executables have no default suffix; instead,
	use `$(OBJEXT)' and `$(EXEEXT)'.

2011-05-11  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	check: document and test $(TEST_SUITE_LOG) overriding
	* doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Explain
	how and why TEST_SUITE_LOG can be overridden at runtime.
	* tests/parallel-tests-log-override-1.test: New test, check that
	the newly documented idiom and similar usages are truly supported.
	* tests/parallel-tests-log-override-2.test: Likewise.
	* tests/parallel-tests-log-override-recheck.test: Likewise.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

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.

2011-05-07  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	tests: fix spurious failure of extradep.test on FreeBSD
	* tests/extradep.test: When using `ls -t' to determine whether a
	file has been updated, make sure to use as reference a file whose
	timestamp is expected to be *strictly* older that that of the file
	being checked.  This is required because at least FreeBSD `ls' do
	not sort files with the same timestamp in alphabetical order when
	using the `-t' option.
	* tests/extradep2.test: Likewise.

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.

2011-05-03  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	tests: add forgotten test scripts to $(TESTS)
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Added test scripts  man[678].test,
	which have been present on the filesystem and in the repository,
	but which had erroneously been left out from $(TESTS).

2011-05-03  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	tests: ensure verbose printing of captured make output
	* tests/libtool7.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured
	make output.
	* tests/libtool9.test: Likewise.

2011-05-03  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	tests: fix spurious failure in 'color2.test'
	* tests/color2.test: If $MAKE contains command-line arguments (as
	in e.g., "make -j2"), expect's directive "spawn $env(MAKE)" fails
	spuriously, because it tries to run "$MAKE" as a single command.
	Fix this with proper uses of the TCL `eval' builtin.

2011-05-01  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	tests: fix self check spurious failure with older bash versions
	* tests/self-check-cleanup.test: Add trailing `:' to the test code
	passed to $SHELL, otherwise older versions of bash (at least 2.05
	and 3.2.39) fail to correctly remove the temporary directory in
	the exit trap.

2011-04-29  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	testsuite: more environment sanitization
	* tests/defs: Move the checks verifying that the variables `me',
	`parallel_tests' and `required' aren't set in the environment ...
	* tests/defs-static.in: ... in here, with some optimizations to
	avoid useless forks.  Also, do the same checks for the variables
	`original_AUTOMAKE' and `original_ACLOCAL' too.
	* tests/self-check-env-sanitize.test: Update.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset also variables
	`original_AUTOMAKE' and `original_ACLOCAL'.

2011-04-24  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	tests: fix spurious failure (non-renamed AM_TESTS_SETUP usage)
	* tests/parallel-tests-reset-term.test: Use AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT
	instead of AM_TESTS_SETUP (which has been removed in commit
	v1.11-349-g12f48fa).
	Fix spurious failure introduced by merge `v1.11-781-gfeed175'.

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.

2011-04-24  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	tests: fix spurious failure in self-check-env-sanitize.test
	* tests/self-check-env-sanitize.test: Open file descriptor `5'
	to stdout.
	Fix spurious failure introduced by merge `v1.11-788-g3b0c8d5'.

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.

2011-04-19  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	tests: in self-checks, use $SHELL, not /bin/sh
	* tests/self-check-me-in-env.test: Include `./defs-static' to get
	the definition of `$SHELL'.  Use `$SHELL' instead of `/bin/sh' to
	execute the tests.

2011-04-19  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	tests: prefer AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT to TESTS_ENVIRONMENT
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Renamed to ...
	(AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): ... this.

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.

2011-04-18  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	check: rename AM_TESTS_SETUP -> AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT
	The AM_TESTS_SETUP naming was not a good one after all.  It may
	be technically more correct than AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT, but the
	latter is a better one simply because it is easier to remember,
	and even if you've never heard of it and only know the semantics
	of TESTS_ENVIRONMENT, you can have a straightforward way to
	figure out how AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT would work.
	* tests/check.am (am__check_pre): Update.
	* doc/automake.in (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Update.
	* tests/parallel-tests-am_tests_setup.test: Renamed ...
	* tests/parallel-tests-am_tests_environment.test: ... to this,
	and updated.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
	Suggestion and motivation 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>

	coverage: more tests on the parallel-tests driver
	* tests/parallel-tests-interrupt.test: New test.
	* tests/parallel-tests-reset-term.test: Likewise.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

2011-04-17  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	check: new developer-reserved AM_TESTS_SETUP variable
	For reference, see the discussion at:
	<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2011-01/msg00213.html>
	* lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (am__check_pre): Pass also
	$(AM_TESTS_SETUP).  Comments updated, and some typos fixed.
	* doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Document
	AM_TESTS_SETUP.  Reorder some of the existing documentation a bit.
	* tests/parallel-tests-am_tests_setup.test: New test.
	From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.

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
	Fixes 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  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	tests: fix few bugs in self checks
	Related to automake bug#8508.
	* tests/self-check-cleanup.test: Be laxer when grepping output
	from `ls -l', to account for ACLs and SELinux-only files.
	* tests/self-check-dir.test: Source `defs-static' to read in the
	correct definition for $SHELL.
	* tests/self-check-me.test: Likewise, and extend a bit.
	Report from Jim Meyering.

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.

2011-04-14  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	tests: fix typo in python5b.test
	* tests/python5b.test: Remove extra `:' from $PATH redefinition.

2011-04-14  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	tests: remove redundant settings of `errexit' shell flag
	* tests/autodist-acconfig.test: Do not set the `errexit'
	shell flag, as it is already set by `tests/defs'.
	* 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/autodist-subdir.test: Likewise.
	* tests/autodist.test: Likewise.
	* tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Likewise.
	* tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: Likewise.
	* tests/check-tests_environment.test: Likewise.
	* tests/help-python.test: Likewise.
	* tests/java-check.test: Likewise.
	* tests/java-extra.test: Likewise.
	* tests/java-noinst.test: Likewise.
	* tests/lex-subobj-nodep.test: Likewise.
	* tests/ltinit.test: Likewise.
	* tests/m4-inclusion.test: Likewise.
	* tests/maintclean-vpath.test: Likewise.
	* tests/parallel-tests-subdir.test: Likewise.
	* tests/pr8365-remake-timing.test: Likewise.
	* tests/python-dist.test: Likewise.
	* tests/python-vars.test: Likewise.
	* tests/python-virtualenv.test: Likewise.
	* tests/python5b.test: Likewise.
	* tests/specflg-dummy.test: Likewise.
	* tests/yacc-dist-nobuild-subdir.test: Likewise.
	
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 $distdir (help reducing duplication)
	* tests/defs ($distdir): New variable, might be used in
	testcases checking distribution-related features.
	* tests/pr9.test: Use it.
	* tests/subdir9.test: Likewise.
	* tests/lex3.test: Likewise.
	* tests/lexvpath.test: Likewise.
	* tests/remake-moved-m4-file.test: Likewise.
	* tests/remake-renamed-m4-file.test: Likewise.
	* tests/remake-renamed-m4-macro-and-file.test: Likewise.
	* tests/yacc-basic.test: Likewise.
	* tests/yacc-d-basic.test: Likewise.
	* tests/yacc-d-vpath.test: Likewise.
	* tests/yacc-dist-nobuild.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/java-extra.test: Likewise.
	* tests/java-noinst.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  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
	    Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>

	coverage: add tests on remake rules in more complex situations
	* tests/defs (using_gmake): New function.
	(for tool in $required): Use it when $tool is 'GNUmake'.
	* tests/remake-moved-m4-file.test: New test.
	* tests/remake-deleted-m4-file.test: Likewise.
	* tests/remake-renamed-m4-file.test: Likewise.
	* tests/remake-renamed-m4-macro-and-file.test: Likewise.
	* tests/remake-renamed-m4-macro.test: Likewise.
	* tests/remake-add-acsubst-gnulib.test: Likewise.
	* tests/remake-add-header-gnulib.test: Likewise.
	* tests/remake-remove-header-gnulib.test: Likewise.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

2011-04-09  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	typofix in 'tests/defs'
	* tests/defs: Fix typo (`itslef' instead of `itself') in
	comments.

2011-04-06  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	coverage: more on java support EXTRA_ and noinst_ prefixes
	* tests/java-extra.test: New test, checking support for the
	prefix `EXTRA_' with the JAVA primary.
	* tests/java-noinst.test: New test, checking support for the
	prefix `noinst_' with the JAVA primary.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

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.

2011-03-17  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	cosmetics: better use of m4 quoting and m4sugar macros
	* m4/dmalloc.m4: Better use of m4 quoting.  Bump serial number.
	* m4/gcj.m4: Likewise.
	* m4/init.m4: Likewise.
	* m4/install-sh.m4: Likewise.
	* m4/lex.m4: Likewise.
	* m4/multi.m4: Likewise.
	* m4/option.m4: Likewise.
	* m4/python.m4: Likewise.
	* m4/sanity.m4: Likewise.
	* m4/cond.m4: Likewise.  Also, prefer the m4sugar macro 'm4_if'
	over the plain m4 macro 'ifelse'.
	* m4/depend.m4: Likewise.

2011-03-17  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	tests: add test about deprecated use of AC_INIT
	* tests/deprecated-acinit.test: New test, check that automake
	and autoconf complain about an old-style AC_INIT call used with
	a new-style AM_AUTOMAKE_INIT call.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

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  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	tests: extend checks on the 'unindent' shell function
	* tests/self-check-unindent.test: Also check that multiple
	instances of 'unindent'	can run in parallel (this was not
	the case when that function used temporary files).

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.

2011-02-25  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	tests: add testcases sanity-checking the testsuite
	Helper subroutines, variables and other pieces of code defined
	in the `tests/defs' and used by many testcases are non-obvious,
	and tricky to get to work portably; but until now, they weren't
	tested at all in a clear and self-contained way.
	This change should remedy to the situation.
	* tests/self-check-cleanup.test: New test, check removal of
	temporary test working directory by `./defs'.
	* tests/self-check-dir.test: New test, check that tests using
	`./defs' create a proper temporary directory, and run in it.
	* tests/self-check-exit.test: New test, check that, in case of
	failing commands, the correct exit status is passed to the exit
	trap installed by the `./defs' script.
	* tests/self-check-is_newest.test: New test, checking the
	`is_newest' subroutine.
	* tests/self-check-me.test: New test, checking that $me gets
	defined automatically by `tests/defs' if not set, and that it
	can be overridden from either the shell or the environment.
	* tests/self-check-sanity.test: New test, check that the sanity
	checks performed by the `tests/defs' script works correctly.
	* tests/self-check-unindent.test: New test, checking the
	`unindent' subroutine.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

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.
	* tests/instspc-tests.sh: Use it.

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.

2011-02-15  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	tests: `instspc-*.test': do not create useless source file
	* tests/instspc-tests.sh (create_input_data): Do not create
	unused source file `source2.c'.

2011-02-15  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	tests: optimize `instspc-*.test' for speed
	After the split of `instspc.test' into various generated tests,
	the running time of the testsuite has noticeably increased, since
	all these new generated tests must run aclocal, autoconf and
	automake, whereas previously they were run only once (at the
	beginning of `instspc.test').  But luckily, since the new tests
	share the same input files for the autotools, this situation can
	be easily worked around (at the expenses of a slight increase of
	complexity for the testsuite scaffolding).
	* tests/instspc-data.test: New helper test, properly calling
	the `instspc-tests.sh' script to generate input data for the
	others `instspc-*.test' tests.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add `instspc-data.test'.
	($(instspc_tests:.test=.log)): Depend on its log file.
	(instspc-data.log): Depend on `instspc-tests.sh'.
	* tests/instspc-tests.sh: Recognize new action `generate-data',
	and use it to create hand-written and autotools-generated static
	files shared by all the `instspc-*.test' tests.
	When sourced by the `instspc-*.test' tests, use those previously
	created files instead of recreating them from scratch.
	(unindent, create_input_data): New subroutines.
	Some other related changes and refactorings.
	From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.

2011-02-14  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	python: fix spurious failure in tests
	* tests/python-vars.test: Ignore cached values from config.site
	by exporting CONFIG_SITE=/dev/null.  Be laxer in matching the
	expected values of output variables `pythondir' and `pyexecdir',
	since they can change quite unpredictably among different python
	installations.  Also, avoid "hyping" debugging output, thus
	offering smaller trace output and more informative diff.
	Report and suggestions by Ralf Wildenhues.
	* tests/python-virtualenv.test: Require python, since we call it
	even after the virtualenv has been deactivated.  Ignore cached
	values from config.site by exporting CONFIG_SITE=/dev/null.

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.

2011-02-06  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	python: extend and improve tests, fix minor glitches
	* m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Ensure the "checking ..." messages
	from configure are always complete, even in case of failure.  Tiny
	cosmetic improvement in info/error messages.
	* tests/python.test: Also check that automake complains if the
	PYTHON primary is used but the `py-compile' script is not present.
	Make grepping of generated Makefile.in laxer w.r.t. whitespace.
	Add trailing `:' command.
	* tests/python2.test: Remove repeated calls aclocal: they are
	useless because configure.in is never modified.  Make grepping
	of automake stderr more comprehensive.  Remove the pre-existing
	`py-compile' file before trying to install it with `--add-missing'.
	Add trailing `:' command.
	* tests/python3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
	* tests/python11.test: Likewise.
	* tests/python4.test: Likewise.  Also, try to pass PYTHON config
	variable to configure from the environment, rather than only from
	the command line.
	* tests/python5.test: Ensure that the "checking ..." messages from
	configure are always complete.  Use proper m4 quoting.  Add a
	trailing `:' command.
	* tests/python6.test: Simplify test logic, by checking for files
	created by configure rather then grepping its output.
	* tests/python7.test: Likewise.
	* tests/python8.test: Also check that `$PYTHON' is meaningfully
	set in the ACTION-IF-TRUE argument of AM_PATH_PYTHON.
	* tests/python9.test: Likewise.
	* tests/python10.test: Add trailing `:' command.
	(Makefile.am): Declare `disttest' target as `.PHONY', and add
	an `ls -l' to its recipe, for debugging.
	* tests/nobase-python.test: In testing "make uninstall" and
	"make install" results, prefer idioms that make verbose logs
	more helpful.  Remove a couple of lines of dead code.  Add a
	trailing `:' command.
	* tests/python5b.test: New test, checking that configure performs
	the check on the python version even when the choice of the python
	interpreter is forced by the user.
	* tests/python-dist.test: New test, checking the distribution of
	*_PYTHON files.
	* tests/python-vars.test: New test, checking that AM_PATH_PYTHON
	correctly set all the output variables advertised in the manual.
	* tests/python-virtualenv.test: New test, checking that python
	support offered by automake works well with "virtual python
	environments" created by the `virtualenv' program.
	* tests/instdir-prog.test: Also check `$(pyexecdir)'.  Existing
	checks made slightly stricter.
	* tests/instdir-prog.test: Also check `$(pyexecdir)'.  Existing
	* tests/instdir-ltlib.test: Likewise.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

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  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 ($IFS): Define to <space>, <tab>, <newline>.
	($sp): New variable, holding a single whitespace character.
	($tab): New variable, holding a tabulation character.
	($nl): New variable, holding a newline character.

2011-01-23  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

	tests: avoid instspc* failures due to make's whitespace trimming
	* tests/instspc-tests.sh: 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 and Tru64/OSF make.

2011-01-22  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

	tests: fix VPATH auto-expansion workarounds.
	* tests/suffix10.test, tests/suffix11.test, tests/suffix12.test,
	tests/suffix3.test, tests/suffix5.test, tests/suffix8.test:
	Ensure $< is not surrounded by white space, to prevent Solaris
	make from applying automatic VPATH text expansion.

	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.

2011-01-21  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

	tests: check for presence of cscope with redirected input.
	* tests/defs: Add required test for cscope.
	Fixes cscope3.test hang with Sun C 5.9 cscope.

	tests: avoid false failure in cygnus-dependency-tracking.test.
	* tests/cygnus-dependency-tracking.test: Be less restrictive
	when grepping the compiler error message, GCC 3.4.6 on FreeBSD
	does not mention an undefined symbol.

2011-01-20  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

	tests: revert not turning off errexit in instspc-test.sh
	* tests/instspc-tests.sh: Turn off errexit while sourcing defs,
	the scripts might still not be clean.

2011-01-19  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

	tests: work around Tru64 sh -e issues for instspc*.test.
	Apparently, Tru64 sh does not like turning off errexit mode,
	and gets confused.
	* tests/defs: Document 'errexit' cleanliness requirement.
	* tests/defs-static.in: Likewise.  Avoid error from command
	substitution to abort instspc*.test with Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh.
	* tests/instspc-tests.sh: Drop now-unneeded temporary errexit
	dropping.  Add strategic '|| Exit' to let tests work on Tru64.

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.

2011-01-17  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

	Avoid local $_ perl variable, for Perl before 5.9.1.
	* lib/Automake/Options.pm (_process_option_list): Do not
	lexically localize $_.  Fixes bootstrap on AIX 5.1.
	Bug introduced in commit `v1.11-622-gf90a06c'.

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>

	tests: avoid failing command substitution in errexit mode.
	* tests/vartypo2.test, tests/vartypos.test: Rewrite to not use
	a command substitution with a nonzero exit status, that causes
	IRIX and Tru64/OSF sh to fail the whole test.

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.

2011-01-15  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	tests: hard error in case of internal failures or signal caught
	* tests/defs: Exit with status 99 (hard error) rather than
	1 (failure) on unexpected/internal errors, or when a signal
	is caught by the client script.

	Tests defs: don't let useless variables leak in test scripts.
	* tests/defs ($priv_check_temp, $overwrite_status, $ro_dir_temp,
	$create_status, $r2h, $libtool_found, $gettext_found, $aclocaldir,
	$extra_includes): Unset once they've served their purpose.

2011-01-16  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

	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.

2011-01-15  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Update docs w.r.t. warning and strictness options.
	* doc/automake.texi (Strictness): Document that some warnings are
	turned off by default in `foreign' strictness.
	(Options): Divide into new sections "Options generalities" and
	"List of Automake options".  Fix typo (colon instead of full
	stop).  Document option precedence (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS wins over
	AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE which wins over command line).  Also document
	interactions between options specifying strictness and those
	specifying warnings.

	More tests on warnings/strictness precedence.
	* tests/warning-groups-win-over-strictness.test: New test, similar
	to `warnings-win-over-strictness.test', but checking the explicit
	catch-all warning flags (like `-Wall' and `-Wnone').
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

	Update NEWS about the warnings-over-strictness precedence.
	* NEWS: Automake explicit warning levels always take precedence
	over the implicit warning levels implied by Automake strictness.

	For PR automake/547:
	Warnings win over strictness in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
	Ensure that, for what concerns the options specified in
	AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS, explicitly-defined warnings always take
	precedence over implicit strictness-implied warnings.
	This finally fixes Automake bug#7669 a.k.a. PR/547.
	* automake.in (handle_options): Call 'process_option_list'
	only once per set of options.
	* lib/Automake/Options.pm (process_global_option_list,
	process_option_list): Add sanity checks.
	($_options_processed, $_global_options_processed): New
	internal variables, used by the sanity checks above.
	* tests/warnings-win-over-strictness.test: Extend.

	For PR automake/547:
	Change signature of 'Automake::Options::_process_option_list()'.
	This only modifies internal details in the automake implementation,
	bearing no externally visible effect, but preparing the way for the
	final fix of Automake bug#7669 a.k.a. PR/547.
	* lib/Automake/Options.pm (_process_option_list): Accept as
	arguments a list of hash references with keys 'option' and 'where',
	where 'option' is an option as might occur in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS or
	AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, and 'where' is the location where it occurred.
	(process_option_list, process_global_option_list): Updated.
	* automake.in (handle_options, scan_autoconf_traces): Update.

	Add more tests about AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
	In view of soon-to-follow refactorings (still in the pursuit of a
	fix for Automake bug#7669 a.k.a. PR/547), add some more tests on
	AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS support, to prevent obvious regressions.
	* tests/amopts-variable-expansion.test: New test.
	* tests/amopts-location.test: Likewise.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

	For PR automake/547:
	Warnings win over strictness in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
	This change ensures that, for what concerns the options specified
	in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE,  explicitly-defined warnings always take
	precedence over implicit strictness-implied warnings.  Related to
	Automake bug#7669 a.k.a. PR/547.
	* lib/Automake/Options.pm (_process_option_list): Parse explicit
	warnings only after the strictness level has been set.  Fix POD
	documentation.
	* tests/warnings-win-over-strictness.test: Extend.

	For PR automake/547:
	Warnings win over strictness on command line.
	Ensure that, on the command line at least, explicitly defined
	warnings always take precedence over implicit strictness-implied
	warnings.  Related to Automake bug#7669 a.k.a. PR/547.
	* automake.in (parse_arguments): Parse warnings only after the
	strictness level has been processed.
	* tests/gnuwarn.test: Update, plus miscellaneous improvements.
	* tests/warnings-win-over-strictness.test: New test.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

	More tests on warnings and strictness.
	* tests/warnings-strictness-interactions.test: New test.
	* tests/warnings-unknown.test: Likewise.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

	New test on silent-rules mode and portability warnings.
	* tests/silent-nowarn.test: New test.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

	Add new tests on strictness and warnings precedence and overriding.
	* tests/strictness-override.test: New test.
	* tests/strictness-precedence.test: New test.
	* tests/warnings-override.test: New test.
	* tests/warnings-precedence.test: New test.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

2011-01-15  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

	Fix remake rule-induced test failures with HP-UX make.
	* tests/remake1a.test: Require GNU make.

2011-01-15  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

	Fix remake rule-induced test failures with HP-UX make.
	* tests/colon6.test: Update timestamp of subdir Makefile, so we
	do not spuriously invoke the nonexistent toplevel am--refresh
	rule.

	tests: fix typos in colon6.test
	* tests/colon6.test: Fix typos.

2011-01-15  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
	    Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	tests: explain MSYS setup failure issue, improve test.
	* tests/defs: Add comment and failure message, improve fail
	logic.

2011-01-15  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

	Fix libobj2.test failure with non-GNU make: define $(AR).
	* tests/libobj2.test: Ensure $(AR) is suitably defined.

2011-01-15  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

	tests: avoid spurious failures due to fork failure in test setup
	* tests/defs: Ensure $me is always nonempty, to avoid spurious
	failures on MinGW/MSYS in case the preceding sed command could
	not be spawned.

	Avoid configure warnings from wait about reused PIDs.
	* m4/sanity.m4 (AM_SANITY_CHECK): Hide wait stderr output.
	Fixes spurious failure of depcomp2.test.

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: do not force yacc-requiring tests to use bison
	* tests/defs.in: New required entry 'yacc'.  Remove old
	required entry 'bison'.
	* tests/cond35.test ($required): Require yacc, not bison.
	* tests/cond36.test: Likewise.
	* tests/pr204.test: Likewise.
	* tests/silent-many-gcc.test: Likewise.
	* tests/silent-many-generic.test: Likewise.
	* tests/silent-yacc-gcc.test: Likewise.
	* tests/silent-yacc-generic.test: Likewise.
	* tests/subpkg.test: Likewise.
	* tests/suffix10.test: Likewise.
	* tests/yacc-basic.test: Likewise.
	* tests/yacc-clean.test: Likewise.
	* tests/yacc-d-basic.test: Likewise.
	* tests/yacc-d-vpath.test: Likewise.
	* tests/yacc-dist-nobuild.test: Likewise.
	* tests/yacc-nodist.test: Likewise.
	* tests/yacc4.test: Likewise.
	* tests/yacc6.test: Likewise.
	* tests/yacc7.test: Likewise.
	* tests/yacc8.test: Likewise.
	* tests/yaccdry.test: Likewise.
	* tests/yaccvpath.test: Likewise.

2011-01-11  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	tests: more consistent checks about invalid options
	* tests/aclocal.test: Grepping of automake stderr for messages
	reporting invalid options made stricter.
	* tests/no-outdir-option.test: Likewise.  Also, create a dummy
	`Makefile.am', to ensure that the automake failures are really
	caused only by unrecognized options.
	* tests/automake.test: Added trailing `:' command.  Removed
	redundant checks on `--help' and `--version' option (already
	performed in the test `help*.test').

2011-01-11  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	tests: enable 'errexit' shell flag by default.
	* tests/defs: Enable `errexit' shell flag (near the end).
	Removed redundant comment about the enabling of shell traces.
	* tests/README (Writing test cases): Update, and use nicer
	formatting in a couple of places.
	* All tests: Adjusted by removing now-redundant calls to
	'set -e'.

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.

2011-01-09  Peter Rosin  <peda@lysator.liu.se>

	Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
	* lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.

2011-01-11  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	tests: texinfo unrecognized extensions
	* tests/txinfo-unrecognized-extension.test: New test.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

	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.

2011-01-11  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	tests: fix spurious failure in 'tests/yflags-conditional.test'
	* tests/yflags-conditional.test: Filter out message "warnings are
	treated as errors" from automake stderr, to avoid a false positive
	when grepping for extraneous warning messages.

2011-01-10  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	yacc: warn about conditional content in *YFLAGS variables
	This change fixes automake bug#7804.
	* automake.in (lang_yacc_target_hook): Warn if any of the relevant
	*YFLAGS variables has conditional contents (not only a conditional
	definition).  Related refactoring.
	* NEWS: Updated.
	* tests/yflags-conditional.test: Updated and extended.
	* tests/yflags-conditional-force.test: New test.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.

2011-01-08  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	yacc: support variable expansions in *YFLAGS definition.
	This change fixes automake bug#7800.
	* automake.in (lang_yacc_target_hook): Use 'value_as_list_recursive'
	instead of 'variable_value' to get the value of *YFLAGS variables.
	Related changes.
	($DASH_D_PATTERN): Removed.
	* tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Remove yflags-var-expand.test.
	* tests/yacc-clean.test: Remove workaround for now-fixed bug.
	* NEWS: Update.

2011-01-08  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	yacc: more tests on *YFLAGS support
	* tests/yflags-var-expand.test: New test, still xfailing.  It
	exposes automake bug#7800 -- "automake fails to honor `-d' in
	AM_YFLAGS when variable expansions are involved".
	* tests/yflags-d-false-positive.test: New test, checking that
	automake do not spuriously see `-d' in *YFLAGS when that isn't
	really there.
	* tests/yflags-force-override.test: New test, checking that
	automake can cope with definition of the YFLAGS variable in
	Makefile.am (even if that is an extremely bad practice, as that
	variable is user-reserved).
	* tests/yflags-cmdline-override.test: New test, checking that
	automake can cope with user-redefinition of YFLAGS at configure
	time and/or at make time.
	* tests/yflags-conditional.test: New test, checks that automake
	warns on conditionally-defined *YFLAGS variables.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Update.

2011-01-08  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	yacc: extend and improve tests
	* tests/yacc-basic.test: Also check that the intermediate C file
	is mentioned in the generated Makefile.in, and that it is created
	by the first make invocation.
	* tests/yacc3.test: Test removed, superseded by ...
	* tests/yacc-d-basic.test: ... this new test.
	* tests/yacc2.test: Add reference to that new test in the heading
	comments.
	* tests/yacc-d-vpath.test: New test.
	* tests/yaccvpath.test: Updated heading comments.  Do not require
	gcc anymore, as any working C compiler should be enough.  Remove
	redundant comments.
	* tests/yacc-nodist.test: New test.
	* tests/yacc-dist-nobuild.test: New test.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

2010-12-13  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Extend, fix and improve tests on Lex and Yacc support.
	* tests/lexcpp.test: New test script, on support for Lex + C++.
	* tests/lexvpath.test: New test script, test build and rebuild
	rules for lexers in VPATH setup.
	* tests/yacc-basic.test: New test script, run simple "semantic"
	checks on basic Yacc support (similarly to what lex3.test does
	for Lex support).
	* tests/lex.test: Don't create useless dummy source file joe.l.
	Remove extra blank lines.
	* tests/lex4.test: Add trailing `:' command.  Do not create dummy
	useless lex source file.
	* tests/lex2.test: Likewise.  Call automake with the `-a' option,
	so that it doesn't fail for the absence of `ylwrap' script.  Make
	grepping of automake stderr stricter.
	* tests/yacc7.test: Add trailing `:' command.  Enable `errexit'
	shell flag earlier (just after having sourced ./defs).
	* tests/yacc4.test: Likewise.  Also ...
	(configure.in): Use pre-populated skeleton set up by ./defs,
	instead of writing one from scratch.
	Other minor cosmetic changes.
	* tests/yacc5.test: Likewise.
	* tests/yaccvpath.test: Likewise. Also ...
	($distdir): New variable.
	Use it throughout.
	* tests/lex5.test: Likewise.
	* tests/lex3.test: Likewise.  Check the distdir, rather than
	grepping the distribution tarball.  Extend the test on the
	created binary, and be sure to avoid hangs.  Add some comments.
	* tests/yacc.test: Use stricter grepping.  Add trailing `:'.
	* tests/yacc6.test: Likewise.
	* tests/yacc3.test: Likewise.  Do not create the unused file
	`Makefile.sed'.  Remove useless rules from Makefile.am.  Other
	minor cosmetic changes.
	* tests/yacc2.test: Make grepping of generated `Makefile.in' and
	of automake error messages stricter.  Do not redirect output of
	grep to /dev/null.  Move call to aclocal earlier.  Reduce the
	number of empty blank lines.  Fix a typo in comments.
	* tests/yacc8.test: Fixed bugs that reduced the completeness of
	the tests.  Added trailing `:' command.
	(configure.in): Use pre-populated skeleton set up by ./defs,
	instead of writing one from scratch.
	* tests/yaccpp.test: Test also extensions `.y++', `.ypp', and
	`.yxx', rather than only `.yy'.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

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/libobj17.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.

2011-01-07  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	yacc: "make clean" removes .c and .h files from non-distributed .y
	Previously, while automake did *not* distribute C source and header
	files derived from non-distributed Yacc sources, it still caused
	them to be removed only by "make maintainer-clean" only, and not by
	simply "make clean" or "make distclean".
	This caused "make distcheck" to fail, unless the developer put
	those generated .c and .h files in CLEANFILES or in DISTCLEANFILES
	by hand.
	This change fixes this issue, by making non-distributed `.c' and
	`.h' files generated by non-distributed Yacc sources cleaned by
	"make clean".
	* tests/automake.in (lang_yacc_target_hook): Make C source and
	header files derived from non-distributed Yacc files cleaned by
	"make clean", not only by "make maintainer-clean".
	* tests/yacc-clean.test: New test.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
	* NEWS: Update.

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').

2010-01-03  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Tests: normalize use of the 'errexit' shell flag.
	* tests/maken3.test (check_targets): Remove redundant call to
	'set -e'.
	* tests/maken4.test: Likewise.
	* tests/ansi5.test: Call 'set -e' just after './defs' has been
	sourced.
	* tests/ansi6.test: Likewise.
	* tests/ansi7.test: Likewise.
	* tests/cond16.test: Likewise.
	* tests/cond17.test: Likewise.
	* tests/cond18.test: Likewise.
	* tests/cond19.test: Likewise.
	* tests/cond20.test: Likewise.
	* tests/cond21.test: Likewise.
	* tests/instdat2.test: Likewise.
	* tests/instdir-texi.test: Likewise.
	* tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
	* tests/remake1a.test: Likewise.
	* tests/ccnoco.test: Likewise, and add trailing `:' command.
	* tests/comment4.test: Likewise.
	* tests/gcj4.test: Likewise.
	* tests/nodist2.test: Likewise.
	* tests/nodist3.test: Enable 'errexit' shell flag (this should
	have been done in commit v1.11-248-g317e17b, but the relevant
	hunk has been forgotten somehow).
	* tests/output.test: Likewise.
	* tests/gnits2.test: Likewise, and display captured stderr to
	script's stderr, not to script's stdout.
	* tests/gnits3.test: Likewise.  Also, prefer 'cat' over 'echo'
	to append to Makefile.am, and really check that the exit status
	of "make installcheck" indicates failure.

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.

	Avoid caching bug in cygnus mode test.
	* tests/cygnus-requires-maintainer-mode.test: Remove
	autom4te.cache directory before rerunning aclocal, to
	remove trace caches.

	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  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	* NEWS: Add missing blank line between two entries.

2010-12-23  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Improve and extend tests `suffix*.test'.
	* tests/suffix.test: Check that suffix rules for C compilation are
	only included once.  Try also with a static library.
	* tests/suffix2.test: Add a new grep to help potential debugging.
	Do not run automake with the `--add-missing' options, since we
	already create all the needed auxiliary files.  Try also *without*
	the `no-dependencies' automake option.
	* tests/suffix4.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in stricter.
	* tests/suffix3.test: Rewritten to run also autoconf, ./configure
	and make.
	* tests/suffix5.test: Likewise.
	* tests/suffix6.test: Fix botched recipe indentation (eight spaces
	were used instead of a tabulation character).  Extend to check
	that `.obj' is handled like `.$(OBJEXT)' (as is done for `.o').
	Improved parsing & grepping of generated Makefile.in.  Other minor
	fixes and improvements.
	* tests/suffix10.test: Move some checks in Makefile.am.  Also run
	"make all".
	* tests/suffix12.test: Likewise, and account for VPATH issues in
	weaker make implementations.
	* tests/suffix11.test: Likewise.  Also, run "make distcheck", for
	completeness, and related changes.
	* tests/suffix8.test: Likewise.  Also, do not put `gcc' anymore
	in $required.
	* tests/suffix13.test: Do not use the `--force-missing' automake
	option unnecessarily.
	* tests/suffix6b.test: New test, semantic sister of `suffix6.test'.
	* tests/suffix6c.test: Likewise.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.

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>

	Add some tests on 'cygnus' mode.
	* tests/clean2.test: Extend.
	* tests/cygnus-check-without-all.test: New test.
	* tests/cygnus-dependency-tracking.test: Likewise.
	* tests/cygnus-distclean.test: Likewise.
	* tests/cygnus-imply-foreign.test: Likewise.
	* tests/cygnus-no-dist.test: Likewise.
	* tests/cygnus-no-installinfo.test: Likewise.
	* tests/cygnus-requires-maintainer-mode.test: Likewise.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

2010-12-22  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Fix parallel testsuite run with Zsh.
	This change deals with a Zsh incompatibility in the handling
	of the special shell variable `$0' in sourced files; this
	incompatibility used to cause utter breakage when the
	Automake testsuite was run in parallel mode with Zsh as
	the $(TEST_LOG_COMPILER).
	For more information, please refer to the thread "Fix parallel
	testsuite run with zsh" on automake-patches, dated 2010-12-22:
	 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-12/msg00135.html>
	This change works around the problems described above for Zsh 4.3
	or later, and offers better error messages (instead of random
	failures) for earlier Zsh version.
	* tests/README (Supported shells): When describing the manual
	workaround about the Zsh incompatibility in the handling of `$0',
	tell that it is now needed only with Zsh versions preceding 4.3.
	Done also some minor rewordings.
	* tests/defs-static.in ($argv0): New variable, offers a workaround
	for the Zsh incompatibility in the handling of `$0'.
	Abort if that variable cannot be correctly set (can happen only
	in older Zsh version).
	* tests/defs ($me): Define using `$argv0', not `$0'.

2010-12-22  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Tests defs: keep track of original $AUTOMAKE and $ACLOCAL values.
	This is especially useful for tests which might want to run
	automake and aclocal without additional flags and warnings.
	* tests/defs-static.in ($original_ACLOCAL): New variable.
	($original_AUTOMAKE): Likewise.
	* tests/help.test: Use them.
	* tests/help2.test: Likewise.
	* tests/help3.test: Likewise.
	* tests/help4.test: Likewise.
	From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.

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>

	Minor improvements to test 'amopts.test'.
	* tests/amopts.test: Remove botched comment.  Make grepping of
	automake stderr slighty stricter.  Add trailing `:' command.

2010-12-21  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	backcompat6.test: avoid comments inside recipe commands.
	* tests/backcompat6.test: Remove shell comments from makefile rule
	commands, as they are not portable to (at least) Tru64 make.

2010-12-21  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	man8.test: avoid comments inside recipe commands.
	* tests/man8.test: Remove shell comments from makefile rule
	commands, as they are not portable to (at least) Tru64 make.

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.

2010-12-21  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Fix spurious failures in tests on AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR.
	* tests/auxdir7.test: Do not try to needlessly overwrite the files
	`install-sh' and `missing'.  This avoid spurious failures in "make
	distcheck", when those files might be copied as read-only from the
	`lib' directory.
	* tests/auxdir8.test: Likewise.

2010-12-18  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Make test 'posixsubst-script' portable to MinGW/MSYS.
	* tests/posixsubst-script.test: Ensure that the generated dummy
	scripts really start with a shebang line, to work around a
	limitation of 'test -x' on MinGW/MSYS.
	Reported by Ralf Wildenhues.

	Improve comments in tests `posixsubst*.test'.
	* tests/posixsubst-data.test: Improve comment explaining why we
	try also empty match suffix.
	* tests/posixsubst-extradist.test: Likewise.
	* tests/posixsubst-ldadd.test: Likewise.
	* tests/posixsubst-libraries.test: Likewise.
	* tests/posixsubst-ltlibraries.test: Likewise.
	* tests/posixsubst-programs.test: Likewise.
	* tests/posixsubst-scripts.test: Likewise.
	* tests/posixsubst-sources.test: Likewise.
	* tests/posixsubst-tests.test: Likewise.
	Suggested by Ralf Wildenhues.

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.

2010-12-13  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
	    Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

	Tests defs: requirement 'xsi-shell' must be synced with libtool.
	* tests/defs (xsi-shell): Add comment telling to keep the
	XSI-conformance checks in sync with libtool.

2010-12-17  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Minor cleanups in canon7.test.
	* tests/canon7.test (_foo_bar_SOURCES): Remove libs.c.
	(configure.in): Remove AC_PROG_CXX.

2010-12-16  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

	Avoid false positive in sc_tests_plain_make maintainer-check.
	* Makefile.am (sc_tests_plain_make): Ensure to only match full
	`make' words.  Avoid false positive with remake11.test.

2010-12-16  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

	Fix canon7.test failure.
	* tests/canon7.test (_foo_bar_SOURCES): Add foobar.c.
	(lib.h, libd.c, libs.c): Use const for constant strings.

2010-12-16  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

	Fix typos in test comments.
	* tests/posixsubst-data.test, tests/posixsubst-extradist.test,
	tests/posixsubst-ldadd.test, tests/posixsubst-libraries.test,
	tests/posixsubst-ltlibraries.test, tests/posixsubst-programs.test,
	tests/posixsubst-scripts.test, tests/posixsubst-sources.test,
	tests/posixsubst-tests.test: Fix typos.

2010-12-14  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	More uses of AS_HELP_STRING in automake macros.
	* m4/depend.m4 (AM_DEP_TRACK): Use `AS_HELP_STRING' to format
	the help message added to the generated configure.
	* m4/dmalloc.m4 (AM_WITH_DMALLOC): Likewise.
	* m4/lispdir.m4 (AM_PATH_LISPDIR): Likewise.
	* m4/maintainer.m4 (AM_MAINTAINER_MODE): Likewise.
	* m4/multi.m4 (AM_ENABLE_MULTILIB): Likewise.
	Also, bumped all serial numbers of the modified m4 files.

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.

2010-12-15  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Extended tests on AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR.
	* tests/auxdir.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag.  Prefer `$me'
	over hard-coded test name.  Use proper m4 quoting.  Add trailing
	`:' command.
	* tests/auxdir2.test: Likewise.  Try to call automake also with
	the `-a' option, so that it will not fail for spurious reasons.
	* tests/auxdir3.test: Add an explanatory comment and a trailing
	`:' command.
	* tests/auxdir4.test: Prefer `$me' over hard-coded test name.
	Make grepping of automake stderr slightly stricter.  Also, now
	this test just checks about Automake's reaction to unportable
	auxiliary directory names (and it has been extended in this
	respect).  Moved the checks about non-existent auxiliary
	directories to ...
	* tests/auxdir5.test: ... this new test.
	* tests/auxdir6.test: New test.
	* tests/auxdir7.test: Likewise.
	* tests/auxdir8.test: Likewise.
	* tests/auxdir9.test: Likewise.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.

2010-12-06  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Tests: extend checks on remake rules.
	This adds proper semantical tests (i.e. run make to check the
	rebuild rules are correctly triggered) in addition to tentative
	grepping of the generated Makefile.in(s).
	* tests/remake.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
	changes.  Modernize `configure.in'.  Add trailing `:' command.
	Improve heading comments, and add a reference to new sister test
	remake1a.test.
	* tests/remake3.test: Likewise (but with sister test being
	remake3a.test).
	* tests/remake2.test: Improve heading comments.  Enable `errexit'
	shell flag, and related changes.  Modernize `configure.in'.  Make
	grepping of `Makefile.in' slightly stricter.  Add trailing `:'
	command.
	* tests/remake5.test: Also run the `distcheck' target.  Add
	trailing `:' command.  Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
	* tests/remake4.test: Prefer `$me' over hard-coded test name.
	* tests/remake7.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
	./defs, rather than writing it from scratch.
	* tests/remake6.test: Likewise.  Also, add trailing `:' command,
	and ensure verbose printing of captured make output.
	* tests/remake1a.test: New test, sister of remake.test.
	* tests/remake3a.test: New test, sister of remake3.test.
	* tests/remake8a.test: New test.
	* tests/remake8b.test: Likewise.
	* tests/remake9a.test: Likewise.
	* tests/remake9b.test: Likewise.
	* tests/remake9c.test: Likewise.
	* tests/remake9d.test: Likewise.
	* tests/remake10a.test: Likewise.
	* tests/remake10b.test: Likewise.
	* tests/remake10c.test: Likewise.
	* tests/remake11.test: Likewise.
	* tests/remake12.test: Likewise.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.

2010-12-11  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Improve and extend tests on canonicalization.
	* tests/canon-name.test: Add trailing `:' command.  When writing
	configure.in, prefer to use $me instead of hard-coding the test
	name.
	* tests/canon3.test: Prefer trailing `:' over trailing `Exit 0'.
	* tests/canon4.test: Likewise.  Make grepping of Makefile.in
	stricter.  Improve heading comment, and add reference to ...
	* tests/canon6.test: ... this new test (sister test of the
	previous one).
	* tests/canon.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to append
	text to configure.in.  Extend grepping of Automake stderr.  Add
	trailing `:' command.
	* tests/canon5.test: Likewise.
	* tests/canon7.test: New file, stress test on canonicalization.
	* tests/canon8.test: New test, for better coverage (check that
	the `@' character is not transliterated in canonicalizations).
	* tests/Makefile.am: Updated.

2010-12-13  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Libobj tests: refer to automake bug tracker for limitations.
	* tests/libobj15b.test (configure.in): In the comment explaining
	why an apparently redundant AC_OUTPUT is indeed needed, refer
	to the relevant entry in the Automake bug tracker rather than
	describing the bug in detail with a FIXME-style comment.
	* tests/libobj15c.test: Likewise.
	* tests/libobj20b.test: Likewise.

	Libobj tests: do not use `##' automake comments in-line.
	* tests/libobj19.test (Makefile.am): Do not use inline `##'
	comments in the definition of AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
	* tests/libobj20c.test: Likewise.
	Report by Ralf Wildenhues.

2010-12-13  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

	Fix testsuite failure of check12.test without DejaGNU.
	* tests/check12.test: Require runtest.

2010-12-12  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Tests defs: more uses of $top_testsrcdir.
	* tests/compile6.test: Use `$top_testsrcdir' instead of
	`$testsrcdir/..'.

2010-11-12  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Tests required tools: also try `-v' option for GNU compilers.
	* tests/defs.in: In the loop on "$required" tools, for gcc
	and g++, also run "gcc -v" (resp. "g++ -v"), to get more
	information, and for consistency with gcj.

2010-11-12  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
	    Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

	Tests defs: avoid some useless subshells.
	* tests/defs: In the loop on "$required" tools: avoid subshells
	where not needed.

2010-12-09  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Extend tests on AC_LIBOBJ and friends.
	* tests/aclibobj.test: Removed, superseded by ...
	* tests/libobj-basic.test: ... this new test, which runs autoconf,
	./configure and make, to ensure everything really works.
	* tests/libobj3.test: Add trailing `:' command.  Escape literal
	dot in grep regexp.
	* tests/libobj4.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
	changes.  Add trailing `:' command.  Use proper m4 quoting.
	* tests/ltlibobjs.test: Likewise.
	* tests/libobj5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
	changes.  Add trailing `:' command.  Make more robust by using
	longer filenames to be grepped.
	* tests/libobj8.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
	changes.  Add trailing `:' command.  Use the configure.in
	stub provided by ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch.
	* tests/libobj2.test: Likewise.  Also, add calls to autoconf,
	./configure and make, to ensure everything really works.
	* tests/libobj7.test: Likewise, and ensure that at least one
	function listed in AC_REPLACE_FUNCTIONS is truly replaced.
	* tests/libobj13.test: Make grepping of Automake stderr slightly
	stricter.  Add trailing `:' command.
	* tests/libobj12.test: Likewise.  Also, prefer "cat + here-doc"
	over "echo" to append to Makefile.am, and some cosmetic changes
	in spacing.
	* tests/libobj14.test: Call `Exit 1' if sourcing of ./defs fails.
	Slighty improve m4 quoting.  Add trailing `:' command.
	* tests/libobj10.test: Add calls to autoconf, ./configure and
	make, to ensure everything really works.  Also, remove tests that
	nonexistent source for AC_LIBOBJ cause an Automake failure: this
	is already checked by ...
	* tests/libobj15a.test: ... this new test.
	* tests/libobj15b.test: New test, sister test of libobj15a.test,
	checks AC_LIBSOURCE instead of AC_LIBOBJ.
	* tests/libobj15c.test: New test, sister test of libobj15a.test,
	checks AC_LIBSOURCES instead of AC_LIBOBJ.
	* tests/libobj11.test: Removed, superseded by ...
	* tests/libobj16a.test: ... this new test.
	* tests/libobj16b.test: New test, sister test of libobj16a.test,
	but using oldish/deprecated idioms.
	* tests/libobj17.test: New test.
	* tests/libobj18.test: Likewise.
	* tests/libobj19.test: Likewise.
	* tests/libobj20a.test: Likewise.
	* tests/libobj20b.test: Likewise.
	* tests/libobj20c.test: Likewise.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.

2010-12-08  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Test `$(var:suf=rpl)' expansion in special automake variables.
	* tests/posixsubst-data.test: New test.
	* tests/posixsubst-extradist.test: Likewise.
	* tests/posixsubst-ldadd.test: Likewise.
	* tests/posixsubst-libraries.test: Likewise.
	* tests/posixsubst-ltlibraries.test: Likewise.
	* tests/posixsubst-programs.test: Likewise.
	* tests/posixsubst-scripts.test: Likewise.
	* tests/posixsubst-sources.test: Likewise.
	* tests/posixsubst-tests.test: Likewise.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

2010-12-07  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Make tests `colon*.test' more "semantic".
	Prefer running configure and make over grepping the generated
	files; this is both more correct and less fragile.
	* tests/colon.test: Made more "semantic", as described above.
	* tests/colon5.test: Likewise.
	* tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
	* tests/colon7.test: Likewise.
	* tests/colon2.test: Likewise, and improve syncing with sister
	test `colon3.test'.
	* tests/colon3.test: Likewise (but with the sister test being
	`colon2.test' here).

2010-12-10  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Extend and improve tests on DejaGnu support.
	* tests/dejagnu.test: Do not create useless dummy test script.
	Add trailing `:' command.  In heading comments, add reference
	to ...
	* tests/check12.test: ... this new "semantic" test, covering
	concurrent use of dejagnu tests, simple tests and `check-local'
	target.
	* tests/dejagnu2.test: Make test more reliable, by avoid weak
	grepping of make output.  Prefer `cat' over `echo' to append
	to configure.in.  Quote literal dots in grep regexps.  Prefer
	`grep -c ...' over `grep ... | wc -l'.  Make grepping of
	automake stderr slightly stricter.  Add trailing `:' command.
	* tests/dejagnu3.test: Prefer `cat' over `echo' to append to
	configure.in.  Check stderr of expected-to-fail "make" call.
	Remove extra blank lines from Makefile.am.
	* tests/dejagnu4.test: Prefer `cat' over `echo' to append to
	configure.in.  Prefer `mv -f' over plain `mv' when the target
	file already exists.  Avoid extra mkdir calls by creating more
	directories at once.  Better use of blank lines.  Check that
	the `*.log' and `*.sum' files are created by runtest also when
	"make check" fails.
	* tests/dejagnu7.test: Prefer `cat' over `echo' to append to
	configure.in.  Better use of blank lines.  Add a trailing `:'
	command.
	* tests/dejagnu6.test: Likewise, and give the dejagnu test a
	more descriptive name.
	* tests/dejagnu5.test: Likewise.  Also, simply define package
	name to `$me' rather than using a non-obvious sed script to
	extract it from `AC_INIT', and write the Makefile.am with only
	one command.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.

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.

2010-12-06  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Separate checks on target overriding into multiple test scripts.
	* tests/overrid.test: Deleted, its contents separated into ...
	* tests/override-suggest-local.test: ... this new test ...
	* tests/override-html.test: ... and this new test ...
	* tests/override-conditional-1.test: ... and this new test ...
	* tests/override-conditional-2.test: ... and this new test (still
	xfailing).
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Updated.

	Enable `set -e' in more tests (plus some tweakings).
	* tests/implicit.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
	changes.  Add trailing `:' command.
	* tests/insh2.test: Likewise.
	* tests/instman2.test: Likewise.
	* tests/interp.test: Likewise.
	* tests/interp2.test: Likewise.
	* tests/library.test: Likewise.
	* tests/mclean.test: Likewise.
	* tests/info.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
	changes.  Add trailing `:' command.  Remove useless chaff from
	generated Makefile.am.  Add a "FIXME" comment.
	* tests/include.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
	changes.  Add trailing `:' command.  Prefer cat + here-doc over
	echo to append to configure.in.  Make tests more robust by using
	longer and less common names to grep.  Remove an useless call to
	echo.  Remove an useless subshell.
	* tests/header.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
	changes.  Use proper m4 quoting.  Add excerpts from the original
	report of the bug tested for by this script.
	* tests/gcj.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
	changes.  Use proper m4 quoting.  Add trailing `:' command.
	* tests/gcj3.test: Likewise.
	* tests/ldflags.test: Likewise.
	* tests/libtool.test: Likewise.
	* tests/listval.test: Likewise.
	* tests/javaprim.test: Likewise, and prefer cat + here-doc over
	echo to append to configure.in.
	* tests/javasubst.test: Likewise.
	* tests/discorver.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag.  Prefer
	trailing `:' over trailing `Exit 0'.
	* tests/instdat.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
	changes.  Use proper m4 quoting.  Avoid useless subshell.  Prefer
	cat + here-doc over echo to append to configure.in.
	* tests/libtool2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
	changes.  Add trailing `:' command.  Use the configure.in
	stub provided by ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch.

	Modernize, improve and/or tweak some test scripts.
	* tests/maintclean.test: Use proper m4 quoting.  Add trailing `:'
	command.
	* tests/sinclude.test: Likewise, and add a couple of blank lines,
	for clarity.
	* tests/make.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier in
	the script (just after inclusion of ./defs).  Use the configure.in
	stub created by ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch.  Some
	cosmetic changes in spacing.  Ensure we wait enough time before
	touching configure.in to trigger the rebuild rules.
	* tests/makej.test: Use `$me' instead of hard-coding the test
	name.  Add trailing `:' command.
	* tests/version7.test: Likewise.
	* tests/space.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
	changes.
	* tests/makevars.test: Likewise.  Also, prefer trailing `:' over
	trailing `Exit 0', and be more tolerant of white spaces when
	grepping Makefile.in.

2010-12-02  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	* tests/silent8.test: Use "|| Exit 1" after ". ./defs".

	Enable `set -e' in more tests (plus some tweakings).
	* tests/mkinstall.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
	changes.  Add a trailing `:' command, if needed.
	* tests/mdate2.test: Likewise.
	* tests/objc.test: Likewise.
	* tests/noinst.test: Likewise.
	* tests/outdir.test: Likewise.
	* tests/number.test: Likewise.
	* tests/pluseq.test: Likewise.
	* tests/req.test: Likewise.
	* tests/rulepat.test: Likewise.
	* tests/specflg6.test: Likewise.
	* tests/spell3.test: Likewise.
	* tests/parse.test: Likewise, and ...
	(configure.in): Use the stub created by ./defs, rather than
	writing it from scratch.  Remove useless calls to AC_PROG_RANLIB
	and AC_OUTPUT.
	* tests/mdate4.test: Likewise.
	* tests/mkinstall.test: Likewise, and ...
	(configure.in): ... drop useless call to `AC_OUTPUT'.
	* tests/output.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
	changes.  Add a trailing `:' command.
	(configure.in): Modernize.
	* tests/output2.test: Likewise.
	* tests/output3.test: Likewise.
	* tests/output4.test: Likewise.
	* tests/mdate3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
	changes.  Prefer `$me' over hard-coded test name.  Do not move
	non-existent or useless files in the build auxiliary directory.
	* tests/nodistdir.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
	changes.  Prefer trailing `:' over trailing `Exit 0'.
	* tests/nodist.test: Likewise.  Also, prefer cat + here-doc over
	echo to create input test files, and do not create useless dummy
	C source files.
	* tests/nodist2.test: Likewise.
	* tests/ppf77.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
	changes.  Add a trailing `:' command.  Do not create useless
	dummy source files.
	* tests/spelling.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
	changes.  Add a trailing `:' command.  Also, grep Automake error
	message.
	* tests/specflg3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
	changes.  Avoid unportable use of `-e' option of fgrep.  Prefer
	trailing `:' over trailing `Exit 0'.  Remove extra empty lines,
	and cosmetic changes to whitespaces.
	* tests/obsolete.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
	changes.  Improve verbosity.  Other miscellaneous changes.

2010-11-30  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Improve and extend tests on `:=' variable assignments.
	* tests/colneq.test: Avoid redundant use of variable assignments
	in Makefile.am.  Use command-line automake options instead of
	editing AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS in Makefile.am.  Make grepping of the
	generated Makefile.in slightly stricter.  Add a trailing `:'
	command.
	* tests/colneq2.test: Do not create unneeded dummy files.  Run
	also autoconf, ./configure and make.  Add trailing `:' command.
	* tests/colneq3.test: New test, similar to colneq.test, but
	running also autoconf, ./configure and make.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

2010-11-26  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Remove long-deprecated options --Werror and --Wno-error.
	These options has been deprecated at least since commit
	"Release-1-6-1b-35-gc037f20", dated 2002-07-06.
	* automake.in (parse_arguments): Do not recognize anymore options
	`--Werror' and `--Wno-error' as synonyms of respectively `-Werror'
	and `-Wno-error'.
	* tests/werror.test: Update: use `-Werror' instead of `--Werror'.
	* NEWS: Update.

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.

2010-11-20  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	release-stats: account for more generated tests.
	* Makefile.am (release-stats): Be sure to take into account all
	the generated tests, by grepping the test scripts to decide which
	ones of them are automatically generated.

2010-11-20  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Code cleanup after removal of option `--output-directory'.
	* automake.in ($output_directory): Remove, it's unconditionally
	defined to `.' and used only ...
	(generate_makefile): ... in this subroutine, which now has been
	edited and simplified accordingly.

	Remove obsolete automake option `--output-directory'.
	This option has been deprecated since version 1.7 (2002/2003).
	* automake.in ($output_directory): Define to `.' unconditionally.
	(parse_arguments): Remove handling of equivalent options `-o' and
	`--output-directory'.
	* tests/outdir.test: Removed.
	* tests/no-outdir-option.test: New test.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
	* NEWS: Updated.

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.

2010-11-19  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	New test on repeated automake options.
	* tests/repeated-options.test: New test, check that automake
	does not complain on repeated options, nor generate broken or
	incorrect makefiles.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.

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>

	backcompat5.test: avoid '##'-style comments inside recipe commands.
	* tests/backcompat5.test: Remove double-hash comments
	from makefile rule commands, they are not part of the
	Automake API.  Fixes testsuite failure with Tru64 make.

	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.

2010-11-16  Peter Rosin  <peda@lysator.liu.se>

	Skip MSVC oriented tests if the shell is not capable.
	* tests/defs: New required entry 'xsi-shell'.
	* tests/ar-lib.test, tests/compile3.test, tests/compile6.test:
	Require a XSI capable shell.
	Reported by Ralf Wildenhues.

2010-11-15  Peter Rosin  <peda@lysator.liu.se>

	compile: clear the `eat' variable earlier.
	* lib/compile: Clear the `eat' variable earlier.
	($scriptversion): Update.
	* tests/compile3.test: Prevent regressions.

2010-11-14  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

	More stable configure output from sanity check.
	* m4/sanity.m4 (AM_SANITY_CHECK): Always print check line
	about ensuring newer files, even if we don't actually need
	to wait any more.

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.

2010-11-12  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Fix bug in test `backcompat6.test' (MSYS portability).
	* tests/backcompat6.test (Makefile.am): Grep the output from the
	test program, rather than diffing it, to avoid spurious failures
	on MinGW/MSYS due to LF vs. CRLF line endings.
	Reported by Ralf Wildenhues.

2010-11-13  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Deprecate obsolete macro AM_WITH_REGEX.
	* m4/regex.m4: Document the `AM_WITH_REGEX' macro as obsolete,
	and state that it should be removed two years from now.
	(AM_WITH_REGEX): Raise an m4-time warning of the "obsolete"
	category when this macro is used.
	* doc/automake.texi (Public Macros): Move description of
	`AM_WITH_REGEX' from here ...
	(Obsolete Macros): ... to here, and declare it as obsolete
	and "to be removed in a future version".
	* tests/regex-obsolete.test: New test.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

2010-11-08  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Improve and extend tests on man pages support.
	* tests/man.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related changes.
	Make grepping of generated Makefile.in slightly stricter.
	* tests/man3.test:  Add trailing `:' command.
	* tests/man5.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to append to
	configure.in.
	* tests/man2.test: Likewise, and add trailing `:' command.
	* tests/man4.test: More thorough and consistent checking of make
	error messages.  Place fake `help2man' program in a new `bin'
	directory rather than in `.'.  Move the checks using the real
	`help2man' program to ...
	* tests/man6.test: ... this new test, and extend them.  This test
	passes with GNU make and Solaris make, still fails with BSD make.
	* tests/man7.test: New test, extracted from old man4.test, which
	checks for a bug in maintainer-clean w.r.t. generated manpages.
	* tests/man8.test: New test, extracted from old man4.test, which
	checks for a bug in distcheck w.r.t. generated manpages.  Passes
	with GNU make and Solaris make, still fails with BSD make.

2010-11-08  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Minor improvements and extensions to various tests.
	* tests/defun.test: Also run autoconf and grep the generated
	configure to make sure that aclocal truly picks up all the
	required macros.
	* tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Prefer trailing `:' over trailing
	`Exit 0'.  Do not create useless dummy source files.  Do not set
	useless `$(foo_LDADD)' variable in `Makefile.am'.  Do not call
	useless macro `AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS' in `configure.in'.
	* tests/compile_f90_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
	* tests/suffix10.test: Slightly stricter grepping of make output.
	* tests/compile.test: Add trailing `:' command.
	* tests/defun2.test: Likewise.
	* tests/vars3.test: Likewise.
	* tests/vartar.test: Likewise.
	* tests/vars.test: Likewise.  Also, extend test by checking
	that the definition of `MY_FLAGS*' variables is preserved in
	the generated `Makefile.in'.
	* tests/stamph2.test: Prefer trailing `:' over trailing `Exit 0'.
	Use proper m4 quoting in `configure.in'.

2010-11-11  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Tests defs: improve messages for skipped tests.
	* tests/defs: Give meaningful messages about the reasons of a
	test skip; this is especially useful as this file is run without
	verbose xtraces on.  Related reorderings in the code and new
	comments.

2010-11-10  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Tests defs: move static definitions in a new file `defs-static'.
	The new file is meant to be idempotent w.r.t. multiple inclusions.
	* tests/defs.in: Removed, its contents split among ...
	* tests/defs-static.in: ... this new file ...
	* tests/defs: ... and this new file, including the former.
	* configure.ac (AC_CONFIG_FILES): Remove `tests/defs', add
	`tests/defs-static'.
	(AC_CONFIG_LINKS): Add `tests/defs'.
	* tests/Makefile.am ($(parallel_tests)): Update.
	($(instspc_tests)): Likewise.
	* tests/.gitignore: Update.

	Tests defs: $testsbuilddir is now AC_SUBST'ed.
	* tests/defs.in ($testsbuilddir): Substitute from @abs_builddir@.
	Add sanity check on $testsbuilddir, similar to those on
	$testsrcdir and $top_testsrcdir.

	Tests defs: do not print message "Running test $0" anymore.
	* tests/defs.in: Printing the message "=== Running test $0" at
	the beginning of each tests made sense when Automake used the old
	test-driver, which sent all the output directly to stdout/stderr.
	Now that the parallel test-driver is used, which saves output of
	each test in its corresponding log file, that old message is just
	useless noise.

	Tests defs: rename $curdir -> $testbuilddir
	* tests/defs.in: Rename $curdir to $testbuildir, for clarity and
	consistency with $testsrcdir and $top_testsrcdir.

	Tests defs: prefer "$curdir" over "`pwd`".
	* tests/defs.in: We already save the value of `pwd` in $curdir
	early in the file, so there no need to recalculate it later, when
	the current working directory is not changed.

	Tests defs: use `$me' in more error messages.
	* tests/defs.in: Also use `$me' in error messages referring to
	missing `defs' or `defs.in', since that variable is now defined
	before those checks.

	Tests defs: do not use `Exit' where plain `exit' suffices.
	* tests/defs.in: Use "exit 77" rather than "Exit 77" to skip the
	test when required libtool/gettext macros are not found, since
	such skips would take place before the exit trap is installed.

	Tests defs: improve and extends comments.
	* tests/defs.in: Improve and extends some comments, especially in
	relation with the changes introduced by the previous reordering.

	Tests defs: various reorderings.
	* tests/defs.in: Reordered various snippets of code in a
	clearer way.

2010-11-09  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Fix bug in test `backcompat4.test' (stale autom4te cache).
	* tests/backcompat4.test: Remove stale autom4te cache directory
	before re-running aclocal and automake.  Also, since we are at
	it, be more verbose in displaying contents of generated files,
	to ease debuggability.
	Reported by Ralf Wildenhues.

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.

2010-11-07  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Modernize, improve and/or tweak various test scripts.
	* tests/stamph2.test: Improve m4 quoting in `configure.in', and
	prefer trailing `:' over trailing `Exit 0'.
	* tests/syntax.test: Escape literal dots in grep regexps.
	* tests/copy.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag.  Extend test by
	checking with `test' utility that the script `install-sh' is
	copied, but not symlinked.
	* tests/depdist.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
	in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs).  Avoid obsoleted
	constructs in generated `configure.in'.  Prefer to do our checks
	by running configure and make over grepping Makefile.in.
	* tests/target-cflags: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag
	earlier in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Use the
	`configure.in' stub created by `./defs', rather than writing it
	from scratch.
	* tests/target-clash: Do not uselessly run autoconf.
	* tests/ctarget1.test: Renamed ...
	* tests/cond-basic.test: ... to this.  Use the `configure.in' stub
	created by `./defs', rather than writing it from scratch.
	Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just
	after inclusion of ./defs).  Other minor cosmetic changes.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.

2010-11-06  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	New tests on obsoleted usages of automake/autoconf macros (such
	as AC_INIT, AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE and AC_OUTPUT).
	* tests/backcompat.test: New test script.
	* tests/backcompat2.test: Likewise.
	* tests/backcompat3.test: Likewise.
	* tests/backcompat4.test: Likewise.
	* tests/backcompat5.test: Likewise.
	* tests/backcompat6.test: Likewise.
	* tests/init.test: Extended and improved, esp. by trying more
	combinations of calls to AC_INIT and AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE with few
	arguments.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.

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.

2010-11-05  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Fix potential bug in generated tests `instpc-*.test'.
	This bug is due to the changes introduced by the recently-merged
	"tests-init" branch.  In that branch, `tests/defs' didn't define
	anymore `$srcdir', instead defining directly `$testsrcdir'; but
	the generated tests were using `$srcdir', hence the bug.
	Luckily, since the Automake parallel test driver automatically
	exports `srcdir' to a proper value, that prevented the bug from
	manifesting itself.
	* tests/Makefile.am ($(instspc_tests)): In the generated test
	scripts, use `$testsrcdir', not `$srcdir'.

2010-11-03  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Overhauled and modularized tests in `instspc.test'.
	The test `instspc.test' was way too big and fragile.  Its running
	time was very long.  It also produced a log that was nearly
	unreadable due to its length, making it very difficult to find
	out the reason for failures.
	Also, it was too much monolithic, with a single (maybe spurious)
	failure in a corner case causing the whole test to fail (even if
	everything worked as expected in the other 99% of cases).
	The present change should solve these problems, by separating
	`instspc.test' into many smaller, self-contained, auto-generated
	tests.
	* tests/instspc.test: Removed.
	* tests/instspc-tests.sh: New script, fulfilling a double role:
	1. it generates a Makefile.am snippet `tests/instspc-tests.am',
	containing the definition of a list of new tests which will take
	over the older `instspc.test', and
	2. it is sourced by said generated tests with proper parameters
	pre-set, to run the "meat" of the checks.
	This apparent abuse is indeed required because the test generation
	code and test execution code are inevitably intertwined.
	* tests/Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/instspc-tests.am): Include this
	snippet, which (among the other things) defines ...
	(instspc_tests): ... this new macro, containing the list of the
	newly generated `instspc*.test' tests, and ...
	(instspc_xfail_tests): ... this new macro, containing the list
	of the `instspc*.test' tests expected to fail.
	($(instspc_tests)): New rule, generates the `instspc*.test' tests.
	($(instspc_tests:.test=.log)): New rule, registers the dependency
	of all `instspc*.test' tests on the `instspc-tests.sh' script.
	(TESTS): Add `$(instspc_tests)', remove `instspc.test'.
	(XFAIL_TESTS): Add `$(xfail_instspc_tests)'.
	(EXTRA_DIST): Distribute instspc-tests.sh.
	(MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Added $(instspc_tests).
	Other minor cosmetic changes.
	* bootstrap: Generate instspc-tests.am.
	* tests/.gitignore: Updated.

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.

2010-10-07  Peter Rosin  <peda@lysator.liu.se>

	depcomp: add new one-pass depmode for MSVC 7 and later.
	* lib/depcomp: Add new depmodes 'msvc7' and 'msvc7msys' which
	make use of the -showIncludes option added in MSVC 7.
	* m4/depend.m4 (_AM_DEPENDENCIES): Handle the new depmodes
	similarly to 'msvisualcpp' and 'msvcmsys' as MSVC does not
	support the -o option.

2010-10-05  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>

	dist-xz, dist-bzip2: don't hard-code -9: honor envvar settings
	* lib/am/distdir.am (dist-xz): Do not hard-code xz's -9: that
	made it impossible to override.  Instead, use its XZ_OPT envvar,
	defaulting to -9 if not defined.  Thus no change in behavior
	when XZ_OPT is not set, and now, this rule honors the setting
	of that envvar when it is set.  Suggested by Lasse Collin.
	(dist-bzip2): Likewise for it's corresponding envvar: BZIP2.
	* NEWS (Miscellaneous changes): Mention it.
	* doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions): Describe the
	newly enabled environment variables.

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>

	tests: fix ar-lib.test for echo that interprets backslashes.
	* tests/ar-lib.test: Use printf instead of echo.  Avoid test -a.
	More robust quoting.

2010-10-03  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

	maintainer-check coverage for variables before rules.
	* Makefile.am (sc_ensure_testsuite_has_run): Suggest keeping
	around the test directories.
	(sc_tests_makefile_variable_order): New rule with a heuristic to
	catch ordering violations.

	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>

	Coverage and minor fixes for variable typo detection.
	* automake.in (check_typos): Remove `EXTRA_' prefix when
	computing canonical name.
	* tests/vartypo2.test, tests/vartypos.test: New tests.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

	Implement EXTRA_maude_DEPENDENCIES for programs and libraries.
	* automake.in (handle_programs, handle_libraries)
	(handle_ltlibraries): Mark EXTRA_*_DEPENDENCIES as recognized.
	* doc/automake.texi (Linking, Program and Library Variables)
	(LIBOBJS): Document EXTRA_*_DEPENDENCIES.
	* lib/am/library.am (%LIBRARY%): Also depend on
	$(EXTRA_%XLIBRARY%_DEPENDENCIES).
	* lib/am/ltlibrary.am (%LTLIBRARY%): Also depend on
	(%XLTLIBRARY%_DEPENDENCIES).
	* lib/am/program.am (%PROGRAM%%EXEEXT%): Also depend on
	$(EXTRA_%XPROGRAM%_DEPENDENCIES).
	* tests/extradep.test, tests/extradep2.test: New tests.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
	* NEWS: Update.
	Suggested by Eric Blake.

	tests: avoid running into timing issues due to sanity change.
	* tests/acloca10.test, tests/acloca18.test, tests/aclocal9.test:
	Insert strategic sleep before aclocal reruns, to ensure files
	are newer.
	* tests/python11.test: Use --force for repeated autotools runs.
	Reports from the NixOS Hydra build daemon via Ludovic Courtès.

	Fix timestamp issues by ensuring configure takes at least a second.
	* m4/sanity.m4 (AM_SANITY_CHECK): If we didn't sleep here,
	start a sleep in the background and wait for it to finish
	before creating config.status, hopefully fixing all spurious
	testsuite failures involving botched time stamps.
	* NEWS: Update.
	Reports by Ludovic Courtès, Peter Breitenlohner, and others.

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).

2010-09-21  Peter Rosin  <peda@lysator.liu.se>

	compile: implement library search to support MSVC static linking
	* lib/compile (func_cl_wrapper): Implement library search and
	-static option so that the user can select whether to prefer
	dll import libraries or static libraries.  This enables MSVC to
	link against dlls generated by libtool without requiring libtool
	or workarounds such as -lfoo.dll etc.  Makes the tests/static.at
	test case in libtool pass.
	* tests/compile3.test: Don't trip up if there happens to exist
	a "foo" library in the library search path.
	* tests/compile6.test: New test, verifying the library search.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

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.

2010-09-14  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Prefer `$(am__cd)' to plain `cd' in our Makefiles.
	* Makefile.am (recheck, dist-hook, git-dist, path-check, fetch)
	(release-stats): Use `$(am__cd)' rather than plain `cd'.
	* tests/Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/parallel-tests.am): Likewise.

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.

2010-09-09  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Use AS_HELP_STRING in AM_SILENT_RULES.
	* m4/silent.m4 (AM_SILENT_RULES): Use `AS_HELP_STRING' to format
	help message regarding configure options `--enable-silent-rules'
	and `--disable-silent-rules'.  Also throw in a couple of cosmetic
	changes in the related `case' statement (indentation, balancing
	of parentheses).
	* THANKS: Update.
	From a report by Jeff A. Daily.

2010-09-08  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	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.

2010-09-08  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	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.

2010-09-06  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Tests defs: remove variable $testaclocaldir.
	* tests/defs.in ($testaclocaldir): Removed.
	* tests/aclocal.test: Use `$top_testsrcdir/m4' directly, not
	`$testaclocaldir'.

	Tests defs: $srcdir and $top_srcdir renaming.
	* tests/defs.in ($srcdir): Remove, define $testsrcdir directly.
	* tests/Makefile.am ($(parallel_tests)): Generation of derived
	tests updated.

	Tests defs: new variable $top_testsrcdir.
	* tests/defs.in ($top_testsrcdir): Define unconditionally
	to @abs_top_srcdir@.  Use it throughout.
	* tests/ar-lib.test: Use `$top_testsrcdir' instead of
	`$testsrcdir/..'.
	* tests/auxdir.test: Likewise.
	* tests/compile.test: Likewise.
	* tests/compile2.test: Likewise.
	* tests/compile3.test: Likewise.
	* tests/compile5.test: Likewise.
	* tests/mdate6.test: Likewise.
	* tests/mkinst3.test: Likewise.
	* tests/multlib.test: Likewise.
	* tests/txinfo22.test: Likewise.

	Tests defs: $srcdir is unconditionally substituted.
	* tests/defs.in ($srcdir): Define unconditionally to @abs_srcdir@.
	Remove code for $srcdir normalization, which is now useless.

2010-09-02  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Tests defs: make spacing more consistent.
	* tests/defs.in: Make spacing more consistent in indentation.
	Especially, indent using only spaces, not tabs.  Also, move
	a comment to a better position.

	Improve code for requiring libtool and gettext in tests.
	* tests/defs.in: Stricter (and more correct) detection of wheter
	libtool, libtoolize and/or gettext are in $required.


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.

2010-09-02  Peter Rosin  <peda@lysator.liu.se>

	Make ar-lib support backslashed files in archives.
	* lib/ar-lib: If an archive member contains a backslash, make sure
	it is escaped when the archive member is extracted.
	* tests/ar-lib.test: Test the above.

2010-08-31  Peter Rosin  <peda@lysator.liu.se>

	Do file name conversion for object files in the compile wrapper.
	* lib/compile (func_cl_wrapper): Do file name conversion for object
	files (i.e. extensions .obj, .OBJ, .o and .O) if needed.
	* tests/compile4.test: Test the above.

2010-08-21  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

	Speed up removal of auxiliary linker output files for ltlibraries.
	* lib/am/ltlib.am (clean-%DIR%LTLIBRARIES): Rewrite using just
	one `rm' invocation.
	Report by Bob Friesenhahn.

	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.

2010-08-16  Peter Rosin  <peda@lysator.liu.se>

	Optimize compile script on MSYS.
	* lib/compile (func_file_conv): Add new argument 'lazy' which
	takes an optional list of conversion types where the requested
	conversion isn't needed.
	(func_cl_wrapper): Take advantage of the above for cases where
	MSYS is doing the conversion for us.
	Suggested by Ralf Wildenhues.

2010-08-16  Peter Rosin  <peda@lysator.liu.se>

	Support more C++ file extensions for MSVC in the compile script.
	* lib/compile (func_cl_wrapper): MSVC only recognizes the .cpp
	file extension as C++, unless it's given a hint. So hint about
	.cc, .CC, .cxx, .CXX, c++ and C++. Also do path conversion on
	.c, .cpp, .CPP, .lib, .LIB and .Lib files.
	* tests/compile3.test: Test the C++ hinting.

2010-08-12  Peter Rosin  <peda@lysator.liu.se>

	Enable the use of "link -lib" as the wrapped archiver.
	* lib/ar-lib: Enable the use of "link -lib" as the wrapped
	archiver, as well as allowing some other options to be passed
	through to the wrapped archiver.
	* tests/ar-lib.test: Test the above.

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-dependency-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 CFLAGS 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.

2010-08-06  Peter Rosin  <peda@lysator.liu.se>

	Add new auxiliary 'ar-lib' script, wrapping Microsoft lib.
	* lib/ar-lib: New auxiliary script.
	* lib/Makefile.am: Add above.
	* tests/ar-lib.test: New test.
	* tests/Makefile.am: Add above.
	* automake.in (@common_files): Distribute the 'ar-lib' script.
	* doc/automake.texi (Auxiliary Programs): Mention the new
	'ar-lib' script.
	(Optional): Mention 'ar-lib' in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR.
	* NEWS: Update.

2010-08-07  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

	Fix shell pattern negation in compile script.
	* lib/compile (func_file_conv): Use `!' not `^' for pattern
	negation.

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.

2010-08-01  Peter Rosin  <peda@lysator.liu.se>

	Wrap some MSVC options in the compile script.
	* lib/compile: MSVC supports naming the output file, the option
	is just not called -o, so transform -o into the appropriate form
	for MSVC. Also wrap some other options while at it (-L, -l, -Wl,
	-Xlinker and -I) and convert file names to windows form where
	needed for those options to make MSVC more usable in an
	autotooled environment.
	* doc/automake.texi (Auxiliary Programs): Document the above
	extension of the compile script.
	* NEWS: Updated.
	* tests/defs.in: New required entry 'cl'.
	* tests/compile3.test: New test.
	* tests/compile4.test: New test.
	* tests/compile5.test: New test.
	* tests/Makefile.am: Update.

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.

2010-06-13  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	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.

	Parallel tests generation: improve comments (tiny change).
	* tests/Makefile.am ($(parallel_tests)): Added useful comment to
	generated tests.

	Tests defs: truly get rid of `$am_defs_included' (unused variable)
	 * tests/defs.in ($am_defs_included): Remove, its now unused.  It
	should have been removed in a previous changeset, but the removal
	was done only partially (oversight).

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.

2010-06-12  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	cscope.test: ensure verbose printing of captured stderr.
	* tests/cscope.test: Print captured stderr before failing.

2010-06-12  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	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>
	    Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

	Fix error in generation of parallel tests.
	* tests/defs.in ($am_skip_defs): New variable, to be used when
	./defs must be sourced multiple times.  If set, unset it and
	only define $srcdir; otherwise, also go through the rest of
	the script.
	($am_defs_included): Remove, no more needed.
	* tests/Makefile.am ($(parallel_tests)): Update accordingly,
	using only $srcdir from defs.
	Fixes potential test failures of tests that use $required.

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'.

2010-06-07  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
	    Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

	Improve declaration of dependencies in the testsuite.
	* tests/Makefile.am (check_SCRIPTS): Remove.  Instead, let ...
	($(TEST_LOGS)): ... all test logs depend on the scripts.
	* test/gen-parallel-tests: For each parallel test foo-p.test,
	let `foo-p.log' also depend on `foo.test', since it is sourced.

2010-06-06  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

	Coverage for TAGS_DEPENDENCIES warning.
	* tests/tags2.test: New test.
	* tests/Makefile.am: Update.

	Coverage for use of anachronistic variables.
	* tests/oldvars.test: New test.
	* tests/Makefile.am: Update.

	Testsuite coverage for bogus macro file serial numbers.
	* tests/acloca18.test: Also test ill-formed serial numbers
	and serial numbers after macro definitions.

	Coverage for aclocal diagnosing underquoted macros.
	* tests/acloca23.test: New test.
	* tests/Makefile.am: Update.

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  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

	More minor message fixes.
	* aclocal.in (scan_file): Fix recommended info command line.
	* automake.in (handle_lib_objects): No need to prepend function
	name to prog_error message.
	(handle_tags): Add missing word and missing space in error
	message.
	(handle_dist): Add missing closing single quote in message.
	Line-wrap one long message for readability.

2010-06-06  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
	    Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

	Fix distcheck failure with distributed generated parallel tests.
	* tests/Makefile.am ($(parallel_tests)): Cope with $(srcdir)
	being different from the value at developer `make dist' time.
	* tests/defs.in: Protect against multiple inclusion, by using ...
	($am_defs_included): ... this new variable.
	($srcdir): Do not compute, but simply define to `@abs_srcdir@'
	as substituted by configure.
	Report, suggestions and first fix by Ralf Wildenhues, final
	patch by Stefano Lattarini.

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>

	Tiny fix in silent8.test (display output of `make' command).
	* tests/silent8.test: Make sure that the captured output of `make'
	command is always displayed.

	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.

2010-05-23  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 truncated comment in Makefile.am.
	* Makefile.am (sc_tests_logs_duplicate_prefixes): Fix unfinished
	sentence in comment.
	Report by Stefano Lattarini.

	Relax silent8.test for NetBSD make.
	* tests/silent8.test: Accept ./foo.info in output as well.

	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>

	Warning and error message formatting cleanups.
	* aclocal.in (parse_arguments, main): Remove trailing period or
	newline in error or warning messages, avoid capitalization of
	the first word of a message.
	* automake.in (check_user_variables, handle_languages)
	(handle_ltlibraries, scan_aclocal_m4, scan_autoconf_config_files)
	(scan_autoconf_files, cond_stack_if, require_file_internal)
	(usage, generate_makefile, parse_arguments): Likewise.
	* lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm (set_strictness): Likewise.
	* lib/Automake/Configure_ac.pm (find_configure_ac): Likewise.
	* lib/Automake/Options.pm (set_strictness): Likewise.
	* lib/Automake/Rule.pm (define): Likewise.
	* lib/Automake/Variable.pm (define, variables_dump): Likewise.
	* tests/ltinstloc.test, tests/suffix11.test: Adjust expected
	error message.
	* lib/Automake/Channels.pm (setup_channel): Reword error message
	to be the same as in msg.

	Fix placing of ellipses in English text and synopses.
	* Makefile.am: Be sure to add a space before `...' in natural
	language text.
	* automake.in (scan_autoconf_traces): Likewise.
	* lib/Automake/Rule.pm (define): Likewise.
	* lib/Automake/Variable.pm (define): Likewise.
	* lib/am/dejagnu.am: Likewise.
	* lib/am/progs.am: Likewise.
	* lib/gnupload (dprint, upload): Likewise.
	* tests/confdeps.test: Likewise.
	* tests/location.test: Adjust expected output.
	* automake.in (usage): In synopsis, use singular for OPTION,
	* remove space before ellipsis.
	* aclocal.in (usage): Likewise.  Also, fix indentation.

	Fix more duplicate message prefixes.
	* lib/Automake/XFile.pm (seek): Do not prepend $me.
	($me): Remove now-unused package-global.
	* aclocal.in (check_acinclude): Remove duplicate 'warning: '
	prefix.

	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.

2010-04-22  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>

	Print 'warnings are treated as errors' note if needed.
	* lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Fix typo in comment.
	(_print_message): If -Werror is enabled, print a 'warnings are
	treated as errors' note before the first such warning.
	* tests/warnopts.test: Adjust comment to mention expected warning.
	Adjust code to ignore 'warnings are treated as errors' note.
	* tests/location.test: Adjust expected output with -Werror.
	* tests/werror4.test: New test.
	* tests/Makefile.am: Update.
	* NEWS: Update.

	Ensure we don't print 'warning:' or 'error:' twice.
	* Makefile.am (sc_ensure_testsuite_has_run): New helper rule.
	(sc_tests_logs_duplicate_prefixes): New rule, to check for
	wrong-looking warning and error messages in the test suite logs.
	* aclocal.in (scan_configure_dep, scan_file): Remove duplicate
	`warning: ' prefix.
	* tests/vars3.test: Rename variable to avoid false positive.

	Prepend type to warning, error, and fatal messages.
	For the first part of messages of types `error' or `fatal',
	prepend `error: ' to the message.  Prepend `warning: ' to
	warning messages, whatever the setting of -Werror.
	* lib/Automake/Channels.pm (partial): Move up definition.
	(_format_message): Emit `header' and `footer' strings only with
	the first resp. last part of a set of partial messages.
	* lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Add missing '1;' statement at the
	end of the module.
	(Automake::ChannelDefs): Setup warning channels with header
	`warning: ', error and fatal messages with header `error: '.
	* tests/condinc2.test, tests/ltinstloc.test: Adjust expected
	error messages.
	* tests/comment5.test: Likewise.  Also, include stack notes
	should not start with `error:'.
	* tests/location.test: Likewise.  Also, try both -Werror and
	-Wno-error.
	* NEWS: Update.
	Report by Bruno Haible.

	Fix capitalization of error messages, reword one message.
	* lib/Automake/Variable.pm (define): Do not capitalize the first
	word in the error message.
	* automake.in (require_file_internal): Likewise.  Also, reword
	and line-wrap for better readability.
	* tests/distcom7.test, tests/pluseq5.test, tests/pluseq9.test:
	Adjust tests.

	Fix connected warnings about obsolete exeext override.
	* lib/Automake/Rule.pm (define): Merge two warnings that belong
	together, by setting the 'partial' flag for the first one.

	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.

2010-04-11  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Avoid possible false negatives in cond46.test.
	* tests/cond46.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag (and bumped
	copyright years).  Due to this change, the testcase should now
	fail on unexpected failures in calls to $ACLOCAL/$AUTOMAKE (whose
	outcomes were previously unchecked), and on failures in grepping
	the expected diagnostic in Automake stderr.

2010-04-04  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

	Generated tests are now just a thin layer around other tests.
	* tests/Makefile.am: Rewrite the rule to generate the `*-p.test'
	test scripts so that any of them simply includes the corresponding
	`*.test' script (after setting `$parallel_tests' to `yes').
	* tests/.gitignore: Add wildcard for temporary files used in the
	generation of `*-p.test' tests.

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.

2010-03-01  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

	Fix cscope test on systems without working Fortran compiler.
	* tests/cscope.test: Skip remainder of test if `$MAKE all' fails.
	* THANKS: Update.
	Report by Peter Johansson.

2010-02-24  Antonio Diaz Diaz  <ant_diaz@teleline.es>  (tiny change)
	    Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

	Add lzip compression support.
	* automake.in (handle_dist): Recognize dist-lzip.
	(make_paragraphs): Map LZIP to dist-lzip.
	* doc/automake.texi (Dist): Add dist-lzip.
	(Options): Likewise.
	* lib/Automake/Options.pm (_process_option_list): Add dist-lzip.
	* lib/am/distdir.am
	(dist dist-all): Add command to create an lzip-compressed tarball.
	(distcheck): Handle lzip-compressed tarballs just like the others.
	* tests/defs.in: Test for lzip, too.
	* tests/lzip.test: New file, based on nogzip.test.
	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add lzip.test.
	* NEWS: Update.

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.

2010-01-24  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>.

2010-01-17  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.

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