1 2011-12-27 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3 news: better visibility for planned backward incompatibilities
4 * NEWS (New in 1.11.2): Explicitly report that support for
5 automatic de-ANSI-fication has been deprecated. Move news
6 entries about planned backward incompatibilities ...
7 (New in 1.11.2a): ... here.
9 2011-12-27 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
11 tests: drop unnecessary requirement in 'subpkg.test'
12 * tests/subpkg.test ($required): Drop "bison", it is not required
13 anymore since commit `v1.11-502-g7e5ae80'.
15 2011-12-27 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
17 gitlog-to-changelog: new auxiliary script, synced from gnulib
19 We have plans to stop maintaining a version-controlled ChangeLog
20 file in the Automake repository, and instead begin to generate it
21 automatically from the git log messages. To do so, we will use
22 the `gitlog-to-changelog' script from gnulib.
24 * lib/gitlog-to-changelog: New, synced from gnulib.
25 * Makefile.am (fetch): Fetch and sync it.
26 * lib/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute it.
28 2011-12-27 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
30 docs: "aclocal --install -I /abs/dir" actually copies files
32 This change is for automake bug#8407.
34 In the past, there had been some debate and confusion about
35 whether "aclocal --install" should copy third-party .m4 files
36 in the first directory passed to the `-I' option even when
37 such directory was given as an absolute path, or whether it
38 was better to do so only for directories specified with a
41 The rationale for this latter behaviour was that, before the
42 existence of the `ACLOCAL_PATH' variable, the only way (a poor
43 way, I might add) for a common user to extend the search path
44 of a system-wide installation of aclocal was to export something
45 like ACLOCAL="aclocal -I /my/extra/macros" in the environment.
46 Today, the correct way to proceed is undoubtedly through the
47 use of ACLOCAL_PATH, so we can settle the question once and for
48 all, and start verifying the correct behaviour of `-I' with a
51 * tests/aclocal-install-absdir.test: New test.
52 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
53 * doc/automake.texi (aclocal Options): Be more explicit about
54 this part of `--install' semantics.
56 2011-12-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
58 docs: fix node names for automake and aclocal invocations
60 With the older node names, an "info automake" command issued
61 from the command line would have opened the node about the
62 invocation of the automake program, rather than the Top node
63 of the automake documentation. To invoke the Top node, one
64 had to issue the command "info Automake" instead (note the
65 different capitalization). This was suboptimal, and certainly
68 With this change, "info automake" will open the Top node of the
69 automake documentation; to access the nodes about the invocation
70 of the automake and aclocal program, one has now to issue "info
71 automake-invocation" and "info aclocal-invocation" respectively.
73 This change fixes automake bug#8071.
75 See also commits `v2.61a-22-ge9215d1' and `v2.61a-72-g8c07b48' in
76 the autoconf git repository, which tackled a similar issue.
78 * doc/automake.texi (@direntry): Rename nodes `aclocal' and
79 `automake' to `aclocal-invocation' and `automake-invocation'
83 2011-12-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
85 tests: tweak tests on silent-rules for makes without nested vars
86 * tests/silent-nested-vars.test: Define $MAKE to `./mymake' in
87 the environment, so that it will be automatically picked up by
88 configure. Related tweaks and simplifications.
89 Remove the checks verifying that silent rules are respected also
90 when the 'subdir-objects' option is set, the checks testing the
91 old syntax for user-defined silent rules, and the tests using
92 the default $MAKE programs: they are redundant w.r.t. other test
93 cases. Related simplifications.
94 Remove the temporary files used in a sanity check as soon as they
95 are not needed anymore.
96 Do not capture also the standard error of configure: we only want
97 to grep its standard output.
98 Consistently use `stdout' for the name of files where to save the
99 standard output captured from make and configure, for consistency
101 Make grepping of configure output and of the generated Makefile
103 Improve and tweak the `mymake' script a little.
104 * tests/silent6.test: Make grepping of make stdout slightly
105 stricter. After having configured with silent rules disabled,
106 try to force the use silent rules with `make V=1'.
108 2011-12-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
110 silent-rules: fallback for makes without nested vars
112 This fixes two problems reported for Automake (Bug#9928, Bug#10237)
113 and is in response to a bug report for building coreutils on HP
114 NonStop OS (Bug#10234). The problem is that HP NonStop 'make'
115 treats a line like "AM_V_CC = $(am__v_CC_$(V))" as one that
116 expands a macro with the funny name am__v_CC_$(V instead of the
117 desired name am__v_CC_1 or am__v_CC_0, and since the funny macro
118 is not defined the line is equivalent to "AM_V_CC = )"; this
119 inserts a stray ")" when $(AM_V_CC) is used, which eventually
120 causes 'make' to fail.
122 The basic idea is that instead of generating Makefile.in lines like
123 "AM_V_CC = $(am__v_CC_$(V))", we generate
124 "AM_V_CC = $(am__v_CC_@AM_V@)". We then AC_SUBST $(V) for @AM_V@
125 in the usual case where `make' supports nested variables,
126 and substitute 1 (or 0) otherwise. Similarly for usages like
127 $(am__v_CC_$(AM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY)).
129 With this change, make implementations that doesn't grasp nested
130 variable expansions will still be able to run Makefiles generated
131 using the silent-rules option. They won't allow the user to
132 override the make verbosity at runtime through redefinition of
133 $(V) (as in "make V=0"); but this is still an improvement over not
134 being able to work at all.
136 * NEWS: Document this.
137 * automake.in (define_verbose_var): When defining the variables,
138 use @AM_V@ rather than $(V), and use @AM_DEFAULT_V@ rather than
139 $(AM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY).
140 * doc/automake.texi (Automake silent-rules Option): Explain new system.
141 * m4/silent.m4 (AM_SILENT_RULES): Check whether `make' supports
142 nested variables, and substitute AM_V and AM_DEFAULT_V accordingly.
143 * tests/silent-nested-vars.test: New test.
144 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
146 2011-12-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
148 gitignore: use only one .gitignore file, in the top-level directory
149 * doc/.gitignore, doc/amhello/.gitignore, lib/Automake/.gitignore,
150 lib/Automake/tests/.gitignore, tests/.gitignore: Deleted, their
151 contents merged into ...
152 * .gitignore: ... this top-level file. Since we are at it, improve
153 it by anchoring files where it makes sense.
155 2011-12-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
157 tests: one more fixlet for gettext macros requirement
158 * tests/gettext-macros.test (configure.in): Add calls to
159 AC_INIT and AC_PROG_CC, to avoid a spurious failure in the
160 later aclocal invocation.
161 Luckily, this wart wasn't causing any spurious SKIP or FAIL,
162 but only the redundant addition to the `-Wno-syntax' option
163 to some aclocal invocations in the gettext tests.
165 2011-12-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
167 tests: fix handling of gettext macros requirement
169 The code introduced in the earlier change `v1.11-581-gb7d67d5'
170 and aimed at automatically fetching all the .m4 files provided by
171 gettext has proven inadequate, since it hasn't managed to truly
172 and always get *all* the required .m4 files. For example, it has
173 failed to fetch the file `intldir.m4' (present in gettext 0.18.1,
174 and where the macro `AM_GNU_GETTEXT_INTL_SUBDIR' is defined),
175 which in turn has caused spurious SKIPs of at least the test
178 The reason for this debacle is that autopoint looks at the version
179 specified in AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION to decide which version of the
180 gettext infrastructure to bring in; since we were unconditionally
181 specifying the older 0.10.35 version, the newer `.m4' files weren't
184 * tests/gettext-macros.test: In AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION, instead
185 of unconditionally specifying the older 0.10.35 version, specify
186 the version of the available `gettextize' or `autopoint' program,
187 dynamically extracted with the help of ...
188 (extract_program_version):... this new function, and saved ...
189 ($autopoint_version): ... in this new variable.
191 2011-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
193 tests: fix failure due to debugging code forgotten into a test
194 * tests/missing-tar.test: Don't ever call the `missing' script
195 with `sh -x'; this was used for debugging, but an instance of
196 it slipped into the committed test case. Bug revealed by a
197 failure on a Solaris 10 system with GNU tar installed as `gtar'.
199 2011-12-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
201 tests: avoid spurious failure of libtool and gettext tests
203 On Solaris 10 (and presumably earlier), /bin/sh trips up on
204 here-documents that contains a command substitution *and* are
205 fed to a shell function:
215 # An apparently innocuous function ...
217 # ... but hilarity ensues!
221 /tmp/sh137723: cannot open
225 We need to work around this misbehaviour in a couple of our
226 tests (whose failures where causing cascading failures in a
229 * tests/gettext-macros.test: Avoid the use of command substitution
230 in a here-document passed to the `indent' function, by using the
231 `echo' builtin instead.
232 * tests/libtool-macros.test: Likewise.
235 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2011-12/msg00001.html>
237 2011-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
239 hacking: distribute it, and mention it in the ChangeLog
240 Not distributing the HACKING file might make it more difficult,
241 for some random curious user, to get informed about or interested
242 in the Automake development process, or to send us patches.
243 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add HACKING.
244 * HACKING: It's OK to distribute this file, and to mention it in
247 2011-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
249 regex: deprecate the obsolete macro AM_WITH_REGEX
250 This is a backport of commit v1.11-433-g37b0aee.
251 Today, practically nobody uses the GNU rx library, which, according
252 to its own website <http://www.gnu.org/software/rx/rx.html>, has
253 been "decommissioned". Consequently, the automake-provided macro
254 AM_WITH_REGEX is not used nor required anymore. Deprecate it, so
255 that it will be possible to safely remove it in the next major
257 * m4/regex.m4 (AM_WITH_REGEX): Give a warning of the class
258 `obsolete' when this macro is used.
259 * doc/automake.texi (Public Macros): Move description of
260 `AM_WITH_REGEX' from here ...
261 (Obsolete Macros): ... to here, and declare it as obsolete
262 and "to be removed in a future version".
263 * tests/regex-obsolete.test: New test.
264 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
267 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00131.html>
269 2011-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
271 maint: distribute .xz tarballs, not .bz2 ones
272 Many GNU packages are moving towards xz-compressed tarballs, so
273 let's follow suit, by dropping the creation and distribution of
274 a bzip2-compressed tarball and switching to xz instead.
275 For compatibility and safeness, we will continue to create and
276 distribute a gzip-compressed tarball as well.
277 * configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Drop `dist-bzip2', add
280 Suggested by Jim Meyering.
282 2011-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
284 include: avoid "deleted .am file" problem
285 * automake.in (handle_configure): When processing `configure.am',
286 also expand `HAVE-MAKEFILE-IN-DEPS' to a boolean telling whether
287 `MAKEFILE-IN-DEPS' is empty or not.
288 * lib/am/configure.am [?HAVE-MAKEFILE-IN-DEPS?]
289 (%MAKEFILE-IN-DEPS%): New target without dependencies, to
290 avoid the "deleted .am file" problem. Emit this only when
291 `?HAVE-MAKEFILE-IN-DEPS?' is true, to avoid generating an
292 "empty" dependency declaration.
293 * tests/deleted-am.test: Make grepping of error message stricter.
294 * tests/dist-missing-am.test: Likewise.
295 * tests/remake-deleted-am.test: New test.
296 * tests/remake-deleted-am-2.test: Likewise.
297 * tests/remake-deleted-am-subdir.test: Likewise.
298 * tests/remake-renamed-am.test: Likewise.
299 * tests/makefile-deps.test: Likewise.
300 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add the new tests.
302 Fixes automake bug#9768.
303 Report by Peter Johansson.
304 See also commit `Release-1-10-40-gd0ebf71', which fixed a similar
305 problem for .m4 files included by configure.ac.
307 2011-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
309 maint: better use of autoconf 2.68 features
310 * configure.ac: Now that Automake requires autoconf 2.68 for its
311 own bootstrapping and build system, we can assume that PACKAGE_URL
312 gets automatically AC_SUBT'd.
314 2011-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
316 cosmetics: use proper m4 quoting in configure.ac
317 * configure.ac (AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR): Use proper m4 quoting
319 (AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR): Likewise.
320 (AC_PROG_PATH): Likewise.
322 2011-12-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
324 tests: better handling of gettext and libtool requirements
326 This change fixes automake bug#9807.
328 Before this change, the automake testsuite only looked for the
329 `.m4' files containing libtool and gettext macros definitions in
330 the directory `${prefix}/share/aclocal' (and in the directories
331 specified by the `dirlist' file in there, if any), where ${prefix}
332 was the configure-time automake installation prefix (defaulting
335 This approach had various shortcomings and disadvantages. Let's
336 briefly describe the three major ones.
338 First, on most GNU/Linux systems, a libtool or gettext installed
339 from distro-provided packages (e.g., by dpkg on Debian/Ubuntu, or
340 by rmp on RedHat/Fedora) would have `/usr', not `/usr/local', as
341 its ${prefix}; so, trying to run the automake testsuite with a
342 simple "./configure && make && make check" would have failed to
343 execute the libtool and gettext tests on most GNU/Linux distros.
344 It's true that it was quite easy to work around this issue, by
345 creating a proper `/usr/local/share/aclocal/dirlist' file with
346 an entry pointing to `/usr/share/aclocal' (a workaround in fact
347 used by most automake developers); but the typical user wasn't
348 aware of the necessity of this trick, so the libtool and gettext
349 tests was usually skipped on testsuite runs "in the wild", thus
350 needlessly reducing coverage.
352 Second, the older testsuite behaviour made more difficult for
353 the developers to run the testsuite with non-default libtool or
354 gettext. For example, assume the developer is working on a system
355 that has a default libtool version 1.5 installed in the /usr/local
356 hierarchy; to improve coverage, the developer installs also a more
357 modern libtool version, say 2.4, in its home directory, let's say
358 in ~/libtool-2.4; he then tries to run the automake testsuite with
359 this more modern libtool by doing an (apparently) simple:
360 $ PATH=$HOME/libtool-2.4:$PATH make check
361 But the automake testsuite would still look for libtool macros in
362 /usr/local/share/aclocal, not in ~/libtool-2.4/share/aclocal, so
363 the wrong version of the macros would be picked up, and the tests
364 would either fail spuriously or (which would be worse) pass without
365 truly covering the libtool version the developers was thinking to
367 Worse again, the automake testsuite would *unconditionally* look
368 for libtool macros in /usr/local/share/aclocal, so even something
370 $ export ACLOCAL_PATH=$HOME/libtool-2.4/share/aclocal
371 $ PATH=$HOME/libtool-2.4:$PATH make check
374 Third and last, during a "make distcheck", automake is configured
375 with a ${prefix} pointing to a proper subdirectory of the build
376 directory (usually `pwd`/_inst), which gets created on-the-fly;
377 in this case, with the old approach, the automake testsuite never
378 found the libtool and gettext macro files, ans so the libtool and
379 gettext tests was *always* skipped in a "make distcheck".
381 * tests/libtool-macros.test: New helper test, looking (with the
382 help of the `libtoolize' script) for libtool macro files required
383 by most libtool tests, and making them easily accessible.
384 * tests/gettext-macros.test: New helper test, looking (with the
385 help of the `libtoolize' script) for libtool macro files required
386 by most libtool tests, and making them easily accessible.
387 * tests/defs.in: Update to make it rely on the results and setups
388 of `libtool-macros.test' and `gettext-macros.test'.
389 * tests/Makefile.am: Declare dependency of all the logs of libtool
390 tests from `libtool-macros.log', and all the logs of gettext tests
391 from `gettext-macros.log'.
392 (TESTS): Add the new tests.
394 2011-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
396 fix: typos and grammaros in comments of the new test
397 * tests/get-sysconf.test: Fix few typos, grammaros and botched
398 wording. Reported by Eric Blake.
400 2011-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
402 tests: report useful system information in 'test-suite.log'
403 It has already happened various times that a user has run the
404 automake testsuite, experienced a failure, read the messages
405 telling him "See tests/test-suite.log" and "Please report to
406 bug-automake@gnu.org", and done exactly that -- sending us only
407 the contents of `tests/test-suite.log', which are usually not
408 enough to start debugging the reported failure. So we have to
409 ask him for more details, and usually also for the `config.log'
410 file generated by configure. It's time to fix this recurring
411 feedback inefficiency. We do so by creating a dummy test case
412 that takes care of copying the contents of `config.log', plus
413 other useful system information, in the final `test-suite.log'.
414 * tests/get-sysconf.test: New test, gathering system information
415 and then always terminating with a SKIP, so that its output gets
416 copied in `test-suite.log'.
417 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
419 2011-12-07 Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> (tiny change)
421 python: remove relics for Python 1.5 support
422 * m4/python.m4: The comments in here claim to support only
423 Python >= 2.0, yet this file still has specific support for
424 Python 1.5. Just remove it, python 1.5 is 12 years old now,
425 and practically defunct.
427 See also commit `Release-1-10-205-gd5bec12', "Support for
428 Python 3.0, drop support for pre-2.0."
430 2011-12-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
432 configure: remove extraneous 'eval's from AM_RUN_LOG invocations
433 * configure.ac: Remove extra 'eval's from AM_RUN_LOG invocations;
434 for example, instead of "AM_RUN_LOG([eval $PERL --version])",
435 simply use "AM_RUN_LOG([$PERL --version])"
437 2011-12-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
439 configure: report TeX version in config.log
440 * configure.ac: If possible, report the version of the selected
441 TeX program; this should render the logs more informative.
443 2011-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
445 maint: snapshots from `maint' are still development snapshots
446 The maintenance-oriented development line in the `maint' branch,
447 while being usually pretty stable and 99% backward-compatible,
448 is not always right off production-quality; but until now, the
449 Automake package version declared in configure.ac hid this fact,
450 since it appeared to be the version of a stable release (e.g.,
452 * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump version to "1.11.0a".
454 2011-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
456 configure: print proper message for test releases
457 * configure.ac: If the current release is detected to be a test
458 release or a development snapshot, print a proper warning for
460 * README-alpha: Delete, it's obsolete now (and in fact this file
461 hasn't been touched in eleven years, since release 1.4b or so).
462 * HACKING (Release procedure): Don't say to update README-alpha.
464 2011-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
466 devel: help in comparing Makefile.in from different commits
467 Now that the generated Makefile.in, configure and aclocal.m4 files
468 are no longer committed in Automake's git repository, a simple
469 "git diff" or "git log" no longer shows if and how a change in
470 Automake results in changes to the Makefile.in files and/or
471 configure script of its own build system. Still, the ability to
472 peek so easily at such differences has proved itself quite useful
473 in the past, often revealing inconsistencies and blunders, and
474 sometimes even bugs; so it would be a pity to lose that altogether.
475 With this change, we add a new maintainer recipe that re-introduces
476 much of that capability, by generating and comparing on the fly the
477 Makefile.in, configure and aclocal.m4 derived from two arbitrary
478 commits of the Automake repository.
479 * Makefile.am (autodiffs, compare-autodiffs): New phony targets.
481 2011-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
483 repo: don't commit generated files in the git repository anymore
484 It has been quite some time since autoconf and libtool have stopped
485 committing the generated autotools files in their git repositories,
486 with no significant ill effects we're aware of. It's true that the
487 autoconf bootstrap process has now the minor annoyance that a
488 pre-installed autoconf is required to complete it; but luckily
489 automake will not have a similar annoyance, since our bootstrap
490 script take care, through some hoops, to use the very automake and
491 aclocal versions from the current git checkout to generate the
492 required aclocal.m4 and Makefile.in files. In fact, this has been
493 a necessity also in the past, because automake has been known to
494 use in its own build system new development features that hadn't
495 been present in any previously released automake distribution.
496 * .gitignore: Ignore configure, aclocal.m4, and all the
498 * configure.ac (AC_PREREQ): New macro call, to require the
499 latest autoconf (2.68 for the moment).
501 2011-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
503 missing: don't try to re-run tar with a munged command line
504 * lib/missing: If the default `tar' program fails with the given
505 arguments, and GNU tar is not available, don't try to re-run the
506 default `tar' with a munged command line (e.g., ditching possibly
507 unportable options), as that could be subtly alter the intended
508 semantics (and maybe even create a somewhat corrupted tarball).
509 Also, it's worth noting that the main purpose of the `missing'
510 script is to allow a non-developer to build the package in the
511 face of slightly-skewed timestamps, not to provide wrappers for
512 all the maintainer tools -- so we don't have to try too hard
513 when `missing' is just called to wrap `tar'.
514 * tests/missing-tar.test: New test.
515 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
517 2011-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
519 missing: inform the user if GNU tar is called
520 * lib/missing: If the code trying to run GNU tar is reached, it
521 means that the previous attempt to run the default tar program
522 has failed, very likely producing some error message. At this
523 point, just running GNU tar without further comments might be
526 2011-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
528 missing: if GNU tar exists but fails when called, give up
529 * lib/missing: If the code trying to run GNU tar is reached,
530 don't continue if the invoked GNU tar program fails, as there
531 is little point in doing so (and can even be confusing and
534 2011-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
536 missing: miscellaneous fixlets
537 * lib/missing: Some shells, such as Solaris or FreeBSD /bin/sh,
538 warn about missing programs before performing redirections.
539 Therefore, where we have to silently check whether a program
540 exists, perform redirections on a subshell.
541 Remove redundant uses of double-quotes in variable definitions.
542 Delete an extra blank line.
544 2011-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
546 maint: remove executable bit from automake.in
547 * automake.in: This file is not meant to be executed, only to
548 be preprocessed to create the `automake' script; so don't leave
551 2011-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
553 maint: post-release version bump
554 * configure.ac, NEWS: Bump version to 1.11.2a, as per HACKING
557 2011-12-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
559 Stable release 1.11.2
560 * configure.ac: Bump copyright years.
561 (AC_INIT): Bump version number to 1.11.2.
563 * doc/automake.texi (Release Statistics): Update, as suggested
564 by "make release-stats".
566 2011-12-20 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
568 tests: fix spurious failure on systems lacking unistd.h
569 This is for automake bug#10324.
570 * tests/silent-lex-generic.test (foo.l): Add a dummy #define of
571 YY_NO_UNISTD_H, so that the generated foo.c file won't require
572 unistd.h to be present (it is not present when compiling with,
575 2011-12-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
577 test defs: hack to support autoconf-wrapper programs
578 * tests/defs.in ($AUTOCONF): Add a dummy `-B' option to the
579 autoconf invocation, so that, when the Debian autoconf wrapper
580 is involved, it will correctly dispatch an autoconf >= 2.50
581 instead of defaulting to autoconf 2.13.
582 ($AUTOHEADER, $AUTORECONF): Likewise, but for autoheader and
583 autoreconf respectively.
584 Reported by Bruno Haible:
585 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2011-12/msg00039.html>
587 2011-12-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
589 tests: fix a minor spurious failure with FreeBSD make
590 * tests/remake-am-pr10111.test: Avoid using `#' comments in
591 makefile recipes, as these have been confusing FreeBSD make.
592 The failure was masked by the fact that this test is currently
594 Suggested by a report from Bruno Haible.
596 2011-12-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
598 tests: make two test scripts executable
599 * tests/remake-am-pr10111.test: Make executable.
600 * tests/remake-m4-pr10111.test: Likewise.
602 2011-12-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
604 readme: reference webpages for automake mailing lists
605 * README: Rationalize and reorganize the (brief) description of
606 the automake mailing lists. In particular, instead of suggesting
607 the reader to write to the `-request' addresses to subscribe to
608 mailing lists, point him to the relevant webpages, where he can
609 also subscribe via a web form.
611 2011-12-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
613 readme: update advice about testsuite execution
614 * README: Now that the automake testsuite uses the parallel-tests
615 driver, there is no need for the user to capture the stdout of
616 "make check" to determine which tests have failed: a detailed log
617 is automatically saved into the `tests/test-suite.log' file.
618 Since we are at it, improve the wording by dropping an extra
621 2011-12-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
623 readme: don't reference the old homepage at sources.redhat.com
624 * README: Don't reference the old homepage at sources.redhat.com,
625 which is no longer active; reference the homepage on www.gnu.org
626 instead. See also automake bug#10157 and bug#10248.
627 * tests/README: Likewise, and remove related extra-pedantic advice
628 about copyright papers for test cases (we'll ask for those papers
629 explicitly when we think they are warranted).
631 2011-12-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
633 hacking: some more fixlets
634 * HACKING (Release Procedure): Place the list of pre-release
635 bootstrap-and-test commands on a line of its own, so it's easy to
636 select and then paste it into a terminal window.
637 Fix the explanation of "make git-release", as, since the previous
638 change, "make git-release" would simply run "make dist" rather
639 than "make distcheck".
640 Suggestion from Jim Meyering.
642 2011-12-12 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
644 * NEWS: Fix typo in 'make dist-bzip2' description.
646 2011-12-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
648 release: don't run "make distcheck" automatically
649 * Makefile.am (git-dist): The developers should test extensively
650 before finally creating the release tarball; so don't run "make
651 distcheck" on their behalf here; instead ...
652 * HACKING (Release procedure): ... state here that "make check"
653 and "make distcheck" should be run before calling "make git-dist".
655 2011-12-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
657 maint: post-release version bump
658 * configure.ac, NEWS: Bump version to 1.11.1c, as per HACKING
661 2011-12-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
663 Beta version 1.11.1b (will become 1.11.2)
664 * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump version number to 1.11.1b.
666 * doc/automake.texi (Release Statistics): Update, as suggested
667 by "make release-stats".
669 2011-12-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
671 news: fix other blunders
672 * NEWS: Remove some duplicated entries, and reorder some others,
673 and rename a subsection. This blunders are probably due to a
676 2011-12-09 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
677 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
679 dist-xz, dist-bzip2: don't hard-code -9, honor envvar settings
680 Before the present change, automake-generated `dist-xz' rule used
681 a hard-coded `xz -9'. That was a problem because on this front,
682 xz differs from gzip and bzip2. While the latter two don't incur
683 any run-time decompression penalty for using a higher compression
684 level, specifying -9 with xz imposes a potentially fatal virtual
685 memory requirement on any client that wants to decompress your
687 People have complained that a tarball compressed with -9 cannot
688 be uncompressed in a low-memory environment (wrt-based embedded).
689 Hence, instead of defaulting to -9, which is useful only for very
690 large tarballs, it defaults to -e (equivalent to -6e). This
691 limits the default memory requirements imposed on decompressors,
692 yet still gives very good compression ratios.
693 * lib/am/distdir.am (dist-xz): Do not hard-code xz's -9: that made
694 it impossible to override. Actually don't default to -9, either,
695 since that induced inordinately large virtual memory usage when
696 merely decompressing. Instead, use its XZ_OPT envvar, defaulting
697 to -e if not defined. Suggested by Lasse Collin.
698 (dist, dist-all) [?XZ?]: Likewise
699 (dist-bzip2): Similarly, do not hard-code -9, but do continue to
700 use -9 by default. Honor the BZIP2 envvar.
701 (dist, dist-all) [?BZIP2?]: Likewise
703 * doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions): Describe the
704 newly enabled environment variables.
706 2011-12-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
708 * NEWS: Fix typos, grammaros and suboptimal wording.
709 Reported by Jim Meyering.
711 2011-12-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
713 maint: sync auxiliary files from upstream
714 * lib/texinfo.tex: Synced from upstream, by "make fetch".
715 * lib/config.guess: Likewise.
716 * lib/config.sub: Likewise.
718 2011-12-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
720 tests: fix spurious failures due to missing 'yywrap()' function
722 The AC_PROG_LEX Autoconf macro does not diagnose a failure to find
723 the "lex library" expected to provide a `yywrap' function (function
724 which is required to link most lex-generated programs). On the
725 contrary, when all the link attempts (i.e., with `-ll' and `-lfl')
726 fail, configure declares that no lex library is needed, and simply
727 proceeds with the configuration process -- only for the build to
728 possibly fail later, at make time.
730 This behaviour is intended; the Autoconf manual reads:
731 ``You are encouraged to use Flex in your sources, since it is
732 both more pleasant to use than plain Lex and the C source it
733 produces is portable. In order to ensure portability, however,
734 you must either provide a function `yywrap' or, if you don't use
735 it (e.g., your scanner has no `#include'-like feature), simply
736 include a `%noyywrap' statement in the scanner's source.''
738 This AC_PROG_LEX behaviour is causing some spurious failures of
739 the Automake testsuite in environments which lack a proper library
740 providing `yywrap' (this happens for example on Fedora-based
741 systems). The proper workaround is to simply provide a fall-back
742 implementation of `yywrap' in our lexers.
744 See also partially-overlapping commit `v1.11-871-geb147a1' (from
745 the 'testsuite-work' branch), which was motivated by similar
746 spurious failures experienced when cross-compiling.
748 From a report by Jim Meyering:
749 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2011-10/msg00092.html>
751 * tests/cond35.test: Provide a dummy `yywrap' function.
752 * tests/lex3.test: Likewise.
753 * tests/silent-lex-generic.test: Likewise.
754 * tests/silent-lex-gcc.test: Likewise.
755 * tests/silent-many-generic.test: Likewise.
756 * tests/silent-many-gcc.test: Likewise.
758 2011-12-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
760 depcomp: spelling fix
761 * lib/depcomp (-h): Fix misspelling in usage diagnostic.
763 2011-11-28 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
765 tests: fix 'distcheck-override-infodir.test' on Cygwin
766 * tests/distcheck-override-infodir.test (Makefile.am): Do not add
767 any `/' between $(DESTDIR) and the following paths. Otherwise,
768 when $(DESTDIR) is empty, the recipes will try to access files
769 with a leading double slash, which have an implementation-defined
770 interpretation (e.g., for Cygwin, they mean UNC paths).
772 2011-11-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
774 cosmetics: typofix in comments
775 * tests/remake-am-pr10111.test (Makefile.am): Fix typo in comments.
777 Reported by Krzysztof Żelechowski.
779 2011-11-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
781 coverage: undistributed '.am' and '.m4' files are diagnosed
782 The stub rules emitted to work around the "deleted header problem"
783 for `.m4' files (included by autoconf in e.g., configure.ac) and
784 for `.am' files (included by automake in e.g., Makefile.am) should
785 not prevent "make" from correctly complaining when such a required
786 file is missing from a distribution tarball.
787 * tests/dist-missing-am.test: New test.
788 * tests/dist-missing-m4.test: Likewise.
789 * tests/dist-missing-included-m4.test: Likewise.
790 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add them.
791 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
793 2011-11-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
795 coverage: required but missing '.am' and '.m4' files are diagnosed
796 The stub rules emitted to work around the "deleted header problem"
797 for `.m4' files (included by autoconf in e.g., configure.ac) and
798 for `.am' files (included by automake in e.g., Makefile.am) should
799 not prevent the remake rules from correctly erroring out when a
800 still-required file is missing.
801 * tests/deleted-am.test: New test.
802 * tests/deleted-m4.test: Likewise.
803 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add them.
805 2011-11-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
807 coverage: expose automake bug#10111 in the testsuite
808 * tests/remake-am-pr10111.test: New test, xfailing.
809 * tests/remake-m4-pr10111.test: Likewise.
810 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Add them.
812 2011-11-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
814 texinfo: work around Solaris 10 xpg4 shell bug in install rules
815 * lib/am/texinfos.am (install-html-am): Use an extra variable
816 indirection to work around a bug in Solaris 10 /usr/xpg4/bin/sh.
817 Bug revealed by a failure of `txinfo21.test'. See also:
818 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2011-11/msg00005.html>
819 <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=10026#23>
821 2011-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
823 configure: report perl version in config.log
824 * configure.ac: Report the version of the selected perl interpreter
825 in config.log; this should render the logs more informative.
827 2011-11-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
829 tests: fix spurious failure with older install-info
830 * tests/install-info-dir.test (foo.texi): Also add proper
831 `@settitle', `@dircategory' and `@direntry' directive, otherwise
832 older versions of `install-info' (e.g., 4.8) will fail to create
833 the `dir' index file in ${infodir}.
834 Problem revealed by a failure on NetBSD 5.1.
836 2011-11-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
838 maintcheck: fix spurious failure in 'color2.test'
839 * tests/color2.test: Avoid creative quoting to avoid a spurious
840 failure of the `sc_tests_Exit_not_exit' maintainer check.
842 2011-11-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
844 tests: fix spurious error in 'uninstall-fail.test' on Solaris
845 * tests/uninstall-fail.test: Solaris 10 /usr/xpg4/bin/sh can add
846 a line number before the `:' in the error messages issued by shell
847 builtins. Account for that in our grepping of make output.
849 2011-11-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
851 tests: fix typo in 'uninstall-fail.test'
852 * tests/uninstall-fail.test: Always use `$rm_f_is_silent_on_error'
853 instead of the bogus `$rm_f_is_silent_on_failure'.
855 2011-11-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
857 tests: avoid a spurious failure of 'ltinit.test' MinGW
858 * tests/ltinit.test: Be laxer in grepping configure output, to
859 avoid spurious failures on systems which lack POSIX dynamic
860 linking (e.g., MinGW), or when cross-compiling for such systems.
861 See also commit `v1.11-855-ge9e5d4a'.
862 Report and suggestion from Peter Rosin.
864 2011-11-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
866 tests: testsuite is now safe to run with dmake in parallel mode
867 * tests/defs.in: Unset variables DMAKE_CHILD, DMAKE_DEF_PRINTED
868 and DMAKE_MAX_JOBS, which are exported by Solaris dmake when run
869 in parallel mode, and which might confuse make processes spawned
872 2011-11-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
874 tests: fix spurious failures w.r.t. parallel make and colorization
875 * tests/color2.test: Skip the test if the $MAKE program fails to
876 consider the standard output as a tty when spawned by `expect'.
877 This is required for make implementations, like FreeBSD make and
878 Solaris dmake, that redirect the output of recipes to temporary
879 files or pipes when run in parallel mode. Since we are at it,
880 simplify the detection of a working `expect' program, and throw
881 in other minor simplifications.
883 2011-11-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
885 tests: fix spurious failure in 'distcheck-override-infodir.test'
886 * tests/distcheck-override-infodir.test ($required): Add
889 2011-11-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
891 tests: avoid another failure of 'uninstall-fail.test' on Solaris
892 * tests/uninstall-fail.test: On Solaris 10, if `/bin/rm' is run
893 with the `-f' option, it doesn't print any error message when
894 failing to remove a file (due to e.g., "Permission denied").
895 Yikes. Cater to this incompatibility, by relaxing the test when
896 a faulty `rm' is detected.
898 2011-11-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
900 tests: various minor tweakings, mostly related to AM_PROG_AR
901 * tests/alloca2.test: Ensure we don't experience a spurious failure
902 due to a missing `AM_PROG_AR' macro or a missing `ar-lib' auxiliary
904 * tests/libtool4.test: Likewise.
905 * tests/ldadd.test: Likewise. Since we are at it, make grepping of
906 automake stderr stricter.
907 * tests/reqd2.test: Likewise.
908 * tests/pr211.test: Ensure automake fails also with `-Wnone', since
909 the error we are testing for is an hard error, not a mere warning.
910 * tests/syntax.test: Likewise, and ensure we don't fail to other
911 errors by removing use of `lib_LTLIBRARIES' in Makefile.am. Since
912 we are at it, make grepping of automake stderr stricter.
914 2011-11-05 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
916 ar-lib: fix configure output for "unrecognized archiver interface"
917 * m4/ar-lib.m4: Ensure that, even when an error is hit while trying
918 to determine the archiver interface kind, the "checking archiver
919 interface" message from configure is properly terminated before
920 an error message is printed, to avoid slightly garbled output.
921 * tests/ar4.test: Enhance.
922 * tests/ar5.test: Likewise.
924 2011-11-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
926 warnings: fix buglets for portability warnings
927 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm (switch_warning): Ensure the
928 correct implications and inter-dependencies between warnings
929 in the categories `portability', `extra-portability' and
930 `recursive-portability' are respected. Also add detailed
931 explicative comments, and references to the relevant tests.
932 * tests/dollarvar2.test: Update and extend. Also, remove
933 some unnecessary uses of `--force' option in automake calls.
934 * tests/extra-portability3.test: New test.
935 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
937 2011-11-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
939 tests: extend tests on 'extra-portability' warning category
940 * tests/extra-portability.test: Redefine `$AUTOMAKE' to ensure we
941 have complete control over the automake options. Extend by using
942 also a setup where no `portability' warning is present (only an
943 `extra-portability' warning is). Other minor extensions. Remove
944 some redundant, verbose comments about the expected diagnostic.
946 2011-11-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
948 tests: fix broken backport of tests on `extra-portability' warnings
949 * tests/extra-portability2.test: Ensure all the automake invocations
950 have the warnings in the `extra-portability' category enabled.
951 Report by Peter Rosin.
953 2011-11-08 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
955 tests: fix broken backport of AM_PROG_AR tests
956 * tests/ar-lib3.test: Explicitly request -Wextra-portability
957 in order to trigger the expected error.
958 * tests/ar-lib4.test: Likewise.
960 2011-11-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
962 warnings: 'extra-portability' category is not implied by '-Wall'
963 This change is only intended for the 1.11.x series. In automake
964 1.12, `-Wall' will be meant to enable `-Wextra-portability'.
965 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm (switch_warning): Do not enable
966 extra-portability warnings when `-Wall' is given. Use ...
967 ($have_extra_portability ): ... this new global variable.
968 Add a trailing "1;" to avoid spurious errors upon the importing
970 * tests/extra-portability.test: Update and extend.
973 2011-11-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
975 tests: various minor tweakings, mostly related to AM_PROG_AR
976 * tests/alloca.test: Adjust to new portability requirements due
977 to the new AM_PROG_AR macro.
978 * tests/discover.test: Likewise.
979 * tests/libobj3.test: Likewise.
980 * tests/pluseq7.test: Likewise. Also, make grepping of automake
981 expected error message stricter.
982 * tests/stdlib.test: Likewise, and extend the test a bit.
983 * tests/parse.test (configure.in): Remove redundant call to
985 * tests/library2.test: Adjust to new portability requirements
986 due to the new AM_PROG_AR macro. Also ...
987 (configure.in): ... add call to AC_PROG_CC, to ensure automake
988 really fails for the expected reason.
990 2011-11-03 Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> (tiny change)
991 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
993 maint-mode: fix botched configure messages
994 This change fixes automake bug#9890.
995 * m4/maintainer.m4 (AM_MAINTAINER_MODE): Fix the "checking ..."
996 configure message related to the enabling/disabling of maintainer
998 * tests/help-maintainer.test: Renamed ...
999 * tests/maintmode-configure-msg.test: ... to this, and extended
1000 to cover the fixed bug. Also, since we are at it, make grepping
1001 of configure help screens stricter, and throw in some few other
1002 changes to reduce code duplication and enhance readability.
1003 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1004 * THANKS: Update with Zack's new e-mail address.
1005 Report and initial patch by Zack Weinberg, test cases added by
1008 2011-10-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1010 info: allow user to inhibit creation/update of '${infodir}/dir'
1011 With this change, we allow the user to request the install-info
1012 rules not to update the `${infodir}/dir' file, by setting the
1013 environment variable `AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR' to the value "no".
1014 This is especially useful to distro packagers, and is a definite
1015 improvement over our previous hack of looking whether the
1016 `install-info' program was the Debian or GNU version -- hack
1017 which had been silently broken with recent versions of debian
1018 install-info BTW (probably since dpkg 1.15.4, 2009-09-06).
1019 This change fixes automake bug#9773. See also Debian Bug#543992.
1020 * lib/am/texinfos.am: Don't look anymore at the output of
1021 `install-info --version' to decide whether to use it to update
1022 the `${infodir}/dir' or not; instead, honour the environment
1023 variable `AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR'.
1024 * tests/install-info-dir.test: New test.
1025 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
1026 * tests/defs: Also unset `AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR', to avoid unwanted
1027 interferences from the environment.
1028 * doc/automake.texi (Texinfo): Update.
1031 Report by Jonathan Nieder.
1033 2011-10-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1035 deps: partially revert commit `v1.11-512-geeee551'
1036 This change partly reverts commit "Create subdirs for generated
1037 sources even when not dep tracking", of 2011-04-02.
1038 That commit had caused the bugs #8485 and #8526. Since we are
1039 nearing the bug-fixing automake release 1.11.2, the safest policy
1040 at the moment is to just revert the problematic hunks: an older,
1041 known bug is better than a regression.
1042 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): Don't add a dirstamp
1043 dependency, even when $object is derived and lands in a subdir.
1044 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Add lex-subobj-nodep.test,
1045 remove yacc-dist-nobuild-subdir.test.
1047 2011-10-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1049 tests: few improvements to some `ar-lib' related tests
1051 * tests/ar-lib5a.test (Makefile.am): Also check that the target
1052 library has truly been created.
1053 (ar-lib): Use the real `ar-lib' script (mildly patched) rather
1054 than a dummy one, to ensure better "real-life coverage". Fix
1055 botched shebang line.
1056 * tests/ar-lib5b.test: Extend the PATH variable to make the dummy
1057 `lib' script accessible, instead of explicitly calling it by its
1058 relative/absolute path.
1059 (ar-lib): Fix botched shebang line.
1060 (bin/lib): Likewise. Also, add explicative comments, and make
1063 2011-10-24 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
1065 Merge branch 'maint' into msvc
1067 * tests/subpkg-yacc.test: Adjust to new portability requirements due
1068 to the new AM_PROG_AR macro.
1070 2011-10-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1072 dejagnu: allow the package developer to extend site.exp
1073 Fixes automake bug#7873.
1074 * lib/am/dejagnu.am (site.exp): Depend from the files listed in
1075 $(EXTRA_DEJAGNU_SITE_CONFIG), if any. Append their contents to
1076 the generated site.exp (still preserving user edits).
1077 * doc/automake.texi (Dejagnu Tests): Update.
1078 * tests/dejagnu-siteexp-append.test: New test.
1079 * tests/dejagnu-siteexp-extend.test: Likewise.
1080 * tests/dejagnu-siteexp-useredit.test: Likewise.
1081 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1083 Suggestion by Rainer Orth.
1085 2011-10-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1087 dejagnu: ensure 'srcdir' is defined as a relative directory
1088 This change fixes automake bug#7833.
1089 * lib/am/dejagnu.am (check-DEJAGNU): Prefer using plain $(srcdir)
1090 over calculating and using the absolute path of $(srcdir).
1091 * tests/dejagnu-relative-srcdir.test: New test.
1092 * tests/dejagnu-absolute-builddir.test: Likewise.
1093 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1094 Report by Ian Lance Taylor. Suggestions by Ralf Wildenhues.
1096 2010-12-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1098 Fix testsuite failure of check12.test without DejaGNU.
1099 * tests/check12.test: Require runtest.
1101 2010-12-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1103 Extend and improve tests on DejaGnu support.
1104 * tests/dejagnu.test: Do not create useless dummy test script.
1105 Add trailing `:' command. In heading comments, add reference
1107 * tests/check12.test: ... this new "semantic" test, covering
1108 concurrent use of dejagnu tests, simple tests and `check-local'
1110 * tests/dejagnu2.test: Make test more reliable, by avoid weak
1111 grepping of make output. Prefer `cat' over `echo' to append
1112 to configure.in. Quote literal dots in grep regexps. Prefer
1113 `grep -c ...' over `grep ... | wc -l'. Make grepping of
1114 automake stderr slightly stricter. Add trailing `:' command.
1115 * tests/dejagnu3.test: Prefer `cat' over `echo' to append to
1116 configure.in. Check stderr of expected-to-fail "make" call.
1117 Remove extra blank lines from Makefile.am.
1118 * tests/dejagnu4.test: Prefer `cat' over `echo' to append to
1119 configure.in. Prefer `mv -f' over plain `mv' when the target
1120 file already exists. Avoid extra mkdir calls by creating more
1121 directories at once. Better use of blank lines. Check that
1122 the `*.log' and `*.sum' files are created by runtest also when
1124 * tests/dejagnu7.test: Prefer `cat' over `echo' to append to
1125 configure.in. Better use of blank lines. Add a trailing `:'
1127 * tests/dejagnu6.test: Likewise, and give the dejagnu test a
1128 more descriptive name.
1129 * tests/dejagnu5.test: Likewise. Also, simply define package
1130 name to `$me' rather than using a non-obvious sed script to
1131 extract it from `AC_INIT', and write the Makefile.am with only
1133 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1135 2011-10-21 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
1137 * THANKS: Fix whitespace issue.
1139 2011-10-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1141 tests: fix spurious failure with FreeBSD make and Yacc in VPATH
1142 * tests/subpkg.test: Some cosmetic adjustments. Move the tests
1143 checking that $(YLWRAP) is defined and installed properly when
1144 ylwrap is in a default auxdir found in a parent package ...
1145 * tests/subpkg-yacc.test: ... into this new test, which carefully
1146 avoids to trigger the known bug#7884 (combo FreeBSD make plus Yacc
1148 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1150 2011-10-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1152 tests: avoid spurious failure in 'parallel-tests3.test'
1153 This fixes automake bug#8788.
1154 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: To ensure that the serial run of
1155 the dummy testsuite is still ongoing when the parallel run has
1156 terminated, use `kill -0', not a bare `kill'. This will prevent
1157 a testsuite crash on NetBSD 5.1, and a testsuite hang on FreeBSD
1158 8.2. Also, since we are at it, try harder to avoid possible
1159 hangs of the script in other unusual situations.
1161 2011-10-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1163 tests: fix spurious failures with "chatty" make implementations
1164 * tests/distcheck-missing-m4.test: On failure, some make
1165 implementations (such as Solaris make) print the whole failed
1166 recipe on standard output. This was causing a spurious failure
1167 in the checks grepping the output from make. Work around this.
1168 * tests/distcheck-outdated-m4.test: Likewise.
1170 2011-10-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1172 tests: fix spurious failure on fast machines
1173 * tests/aclocal-path-precedence.test: Also remove the `configure'
1174 script between different test runs, to ensure it is always remade
1175 by autoconf. Add proper explicative comments.
1177 2011-10-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1179 tests: avoid spurious failure of 'uninstall-fail.test' on Solaris
1180 * tests/uninstall-fail.test: All the Solaris 10 shells (/bin/sh,
1181 /bin/ksh, and /usr/xpg4/bin/sh), upon failing to chdir to a
1182 directory with the `cd' builtin, print a message like:
1183 "sh: /root: permission denied"
1184 which doesn't report the `cd' builtin anywhere. Relax the grepping
1185 of the error message accordingly.
1187 2011-10-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1189 tests: avoid spurious failure of 'uninstall-fail.test' on Cygwin
1190 * tests/uninstall-fail.test: Be sure to really skip this test
1191 on systems that allows files to be removed from unwritable
1192 directories. Motivated by a spurious failure on Cygwin 1.5.
1194 2011-10-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1196 tests: fix spurious failure with autoconf 2.62
1197 * tests/aclocal-path-precedence.test: Rewrite configure.in,
1198 rather than appending to it, to avoid spurious failures (at
1199 least with autoconf 2.62) due to repeated calls to AC_INIT.
1200 Also, add package name and version arguments to AC_INIT, to
1201 avoid spurious errors from automake.
1203 2011-10-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1205 docs: avoid using colon character inside arguments of @pxref
1206 Fixes automake bug#9753
1207 * doc/automake.texi (VPATH Builds): Avoid using colon character
1208 `:' inside arguments of @pxref, as this can cause problems in
1209 the generated `.info' files, and such an usage will be explicitly
1210 forbidden by future texinfo documentation.
1212 Reported by Дилян Палаузов.
1214 2011-10-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1216 parallel-tests: warn on conditional TEST_EXTENSIONS definition
1217 Before this change, automake would have still bailed out, but
1218 with a confusing error message (about an invalid redefinition
1219 of TEST_EXTENSIONS).
1220 * automake.in (handle_tests): Warn explicitly if TEST_EXTENSIONS
1221 has conditional contents.
1222 * tests/test-extensions-con.test: New test.
1223 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
1226 2011-10-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1228 parallel-tests: don't allow @substitutions@ in TEST_EXTENSIONS
1229 Even after the last commit `v1.11-476-g90bea64', the checks
1230 performed by automake on entries in $(TEST_EXTENSIONS) tried to
1231 allow for @substitited@ stuff. This however ends up allowing
1232 quite brittle setups, which, most importantly, are of no real
1233 practical usefulness anyway. So it's better to just disallow
1234 @substitutions@ in TEST_EXTENSIONS altogether, offering a clear
1235 error message, instead of risking weird bugs and unexpected
1236 behaviors in the generated Makefile.in.
1237 * automake.in ($TEST_EXTENSION_PATTERN): Turned from a regular
1239 (is_valid_test_extension): ... into this subroutine. Don't allow
1240 generic @substitutions@ anymore (possibly making an exception for
1241 `@EXEEXT@' under the proper circumstances).
1242 * tests/test-extensions.test: Adjust and extend.
1244 2011-10-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1246 tests: fix spurious failure in 'insthook.test'
1247 * tests/insthook.test (Makefile.am): Add a proper `uninstall-hook'
1248 target to remove the symlink created by the `install-exec-hook'
1249 target; this prevents "make distcheck" from failing spuriously.
1250 Since we are at it, delete an extra blank line, and add a trailing
1253 2011-10-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1255 maintcheck: fix spurious failure
1256 * lib/am/distdir.am: Use `$(infodir)', not `${infodir}', to avoid
1257 complaints from the `sc_no_brace_variable_expansions' maintainer
1260 2011-10-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1262 fix: make a test script executable
1263 * tests/nobase-nodist.test: Make executable.
1265 2011-10-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1267 coverage: expose automake bug#9651
1268 * tests/dist-auxfile.test: New test, xfailing.
1269 * tests/dist-auxfile-2.test: Likewise.
1270 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Add them.
1272 2011-10-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1274 parallel-tests: automake error our on invalid TEST_EXTENSIONS
1275 This change fixes automake bug#9400.
1276 * automake.in (handle_tests): Bail out if a suffix specified in
1277 TEST_EXTENSIONS would produce an invalid `xxx_LOG_COMPILER'
1278 variable or an invalid suffix rule. Before this change, automake
1279 would have issued a confusing error messages (about invalid or
1280 non-POSIX variables being defined), and in some situations would
1281 have even produced a broken `Makefile.in' file.
1282 ($TEST_EXTENSION_PATTERN): New helper variable.
1283 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Document
1284 the limitations on TEST_EXTENSIONS explicitly.
1286 * tests/test-extensions.test: New test.
1287 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1289 2011-09-28 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1291 docs: don't suggest installing `.m4' files in hard-coded location
1292 This change fixes automake bug#7988.
1293 * doc/automake.texi (aclocal Options): State that the use of
1294 the `--print-ac-dir' option to determine the directory where
1295 third-party packages can install their `.m4' files is discouraged
1297 (Extending aclocal): Suggest telling the user about ACLOCAL_PATH.
1299 Report by Peter Johansson.
1301 2011-09-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1303 distuninstallcheck: fail also when only one file is left installed
1304 This change fixes automake bug#9579.
1305 * lib/am/distdir.am (distuninstallcheck): Be stricter in ignoring
1306 a potential `dir' file created by install-info and left installed.
1307 Also, be more careful about "this can't happen" kind of errors.
1308 (am__distuninstallcheck_listfiles): New internal helper macro.
1309 * tests/distcheck-pr9579.test: New test.
1310 * tests/distcheck-override-infodir.test: Likewise.
1311 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add them.
1312 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
1313 Report by Nick Bowler.
1315 2011-09-28 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1317 maintcheck: fix usage of `cd' instead of `$(am__cd)'
1318 * lib/am/inst-vars.am (am__uninstall_files_from_dir): Use
1319 `$(am__cd)', not plain `cd'.
1321 2011-09-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1323 uninstall: "make uninstall" before "make install" works
1324 This change fixes automake bug#9578.
1325 * lib/am/inst-vars.am (am__uninstall_files_from_dir): New internal
1326 macro, that defines a shell code fragment to uninstall files from
1328 * lib/am/data.am (uninstall-%DIR%%PRIMARY%): Use it, to reduce code
1329 duplication and improve consistency and correctness.
1330 * lib/am/libs.am (uninstall-%DIR%LIBRARIES): Likewise.
1331 * lib/am/lisp.am (uninstall-%DIR%LISP): Likewise.
1332 * lib/am/mans.am (uninstall-man%SECTION%): Likewise.
1333 * lib/am/python.am (uninstall-%DIR%LIBRARIES): Likewise.
1334 * lib/am/scripts.am (uninstall-%DIR%SCRIPTS): Likewise.
1335 * tests/uninstall-pr9578.test: New test.
1336 * tests/uninstall-fail.test: New test.
1337 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add them.
1338 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
1339 Report by Nick Bowler.
1341 2011-09-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1343 tests: fix tests on aclocal search path precedences
1344 * tests/aclocal-path-precedence.test: Call `$ACLOCAL' with the
1345 proper overridden system acdir.
1347 2011-09-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1351 2011-09-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1353 docs: document planned precedence changes in aclocal search path
1354 * doc/automake.texi (Macro Search Path): Explicitly state that the
1355 lookup order for extra directories of `.m4' files will be changed
1356 in the next major release.
1359 2011-09-19 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
1360 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1362 aclocal: handle ACLOCAL_PATH environment variable
1363 * aclocal.in (parse_ACLOCAL_PATH): New function, parse ACLOCAL_PATH
1364 as a colon-separated list of directories to be included in the
1366 * doc/automake.texi (Macro Search Path): Document new behavior and
1367 the precedence rules for various elements of the search path.
1368 * tests/aclocal-path.test: New test.
1369 * tests/aclocal-path-install.test: Likewise.
1370 * tests/aclocal-path-install-serial.test: Likewise.
1371 * tests/aclocal-path-precedence.test: Likewise.
1372 * tests/aclocal-path-nonexistent.test: Likewise.
1373 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add them.
1375 * tests/distcheck-missing-m4.test: Extend by also checking
1376 interactions with ACLOCAL_PATH.
1377 * tests/distcheck-outdated-m4.test: Likewise, and fix a couple
1378 of botched comments since we are at it.
1380 2011-09-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1382 tests: fix spurious failure in 'primary-prefix-valid-couples.test'
1383 * tests/primary-prefix-valid-couples.test: After commit
1384 v1.11-464-gc9dfc36, `java_JAVA' is not a valid prefix/primary
1385 combination by default anymore: one has to explicitly define
1386 $(javadir) to make it so. So just drop `java_JAVA' from our
1387 Makefile.am Also, since we are at it, ...
1388 (configure.in): ... remove AM_PROG_GCJ from here, as it's not
1391 2011-09-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1393 docs: deprecate JAVA primary
1394 * doc/automake.texi (Java): Deprecate the JAVA primary, stating
1395 that it will become obsolete in automake 1.12 and probably removed
1396 altogether in automake 1.13. Reflect this in the section title,
1397 by appending the string "(deprecated feature)".
1398 (@menu, @detailmenu): Update.
1399 (Java Support with gcj): The cross-referenced support for bytecode
1400 compilation with the JAVA primary is rudimentary and deprecated.
1401 State that explicitly.
1403 2011-09-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1405 docs: clearer distinction between `.java' with javac and with gcj
1406 * doc/automake.texi (Java support): Rename this node ...
1407 (Java support with gcj): ... to this, and change its title from
1408 "Compiling Java sources" to "Compiling Java sources using gcj".
1409 (@detailmenu, @menu, @cindex): Update and make more precise.
1410 (Java): Change the title of this node from simply "Java" to
1411 "Java bytecode compilation".
1412 (@detailmenu, @menu, @cindex): Update and make more precise.
1414 2011-09-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1416 java: complain if java_JAVA is used but $(javadir) is undefined
1417 Fixes automake bug#8461.
1418 * automake.in (handle_java): Remove inappropriate "java" argument
1419 from the calls to `&am_install_var' and `&am_primary_prefixes'.
1420 * tests/instdir-java.test (Makefile.am): Define `$(javadir)'.
1421 * tests/javadir-undefined.test: New test.
1422 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
1425 2011-09-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1427 cosmetics: fix various typos and grammaros
1429 * tests/py-compile-basic.test: Likewise.
1430 * tests/py-compile-basedir.test: Fix botched wording in comments.
1431 * tests/py-compile-option-terminate.test: Fix typo and incomplete
1433 Suggestions by Peter Rosin.
1435 2011-09-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1437 coverage: test interactions of `nobase_' and `nodist_'
1438 * tests/nobase-nodist.test: New test.
1439 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
1441 2011-09-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1443 java: fix various blunders in test 'java-mix.test'
1444 * tests/java-mix.test: Add missing call to `set -e'. Fix inverted
1445 semantics (`.java' files are expected *not* to be distributed by
1446 default, not the other way round). Fix various typos in the name
1447 of the `.java' files. Correct other minor blunders. Improve some
1450 2011-04-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1452 java: allow both JAVA and nobase_JAVA in the same Makefile.am
1453 * automake.in (handle_java): Also strip `nobase_' from the given
1454 prefix, when needed.
1455 * tests/java-clean.test: Update and extend.
1456 * tests/java-compile-install.test: Likewise.
1457 * tests/java-no-duplicate.test: Likewise.
1458 * tests/java-sources.test: Likewise.
1459 * tests/java-noinst.test: Likewise.
1460 * tests/java-mix-dist-nodist.test: Renamed to ...
1461 * tests/java-mix.test: ... this, and extended.
1462 * tests/java-nobase.test: New test, still xfailing due to
1464 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Update.
1466 2011-04-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1468 java: allow both dist_JAVA and nodist_JAVA in the same Makefile.am
1469 Fixes automake bug#8434.
1470 * automake.in (handle_java): Strip `dist_' and `nodist_' from
1471 the given prefix. Define a new internal Makefile variable
1472 `am__java_sources'. Related adjustments.
1473 * lib/am/java.am (JAVAC, JAVAROOT, CLASSPATH_ENV): Define only the
1474 first time this am file is processed.
1475 (class%DIR%.stamp): Stamp file renamed ...
1476 (class%NDIR%.stamp): ... to this, so that the `dist_' and `nodist_'
1477 prefixes are stripped from the name of the stampfile. Adjust
1478 declaration of dependencies by using the new automake-generated
1479 internal variable `$(am__java_sources)'. In the rule, use `$@'
1480 as the name of the target, rather than hard-coding it.
1481 * tests/java.test: Update and extend.
1482 * tests/java-no-duplicate.test: New test.
1483 * tests/java-mix-dist-nodist.test: Likewise.
1484 * tests/java-compile-and-install.test: Likewise.
1485 * tests/java-clean.test: Likewise.
1486 * tests/java-sources.test: Likewise.
1487 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1489 2011-09-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1491 tests: fix spurious failure on fast machines
1492 * tests/aclocal-acdir.test: Avoid spurious failures due to caching
1493 issues, by cleaning the autom4te cache between all the aclocal
1494 invocations, and by always calling autoconf with the `--force'
1497 2011-09-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1499 aclocal: better URL reference in error message
1500 * aclocal.in (scan_file): In the error message about underquoted
1501 definitions, reference the automake page at `www.gnu.org', not
1502 at `sources.redhat.com'.
1504 2011-09-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1506 coverage: distcheck-hook to catch missing/outdated *.m4 files
1507 Related to automake bug#9037.
1508 * tests/distcheck-missing-m4.test: New test.
1509 * tests/distcheck-outdated-m4.test: Likewise.
1510 * tests/distcheck-hook-m4.am: New data file, used by the new
1512 * tests/Makefile.am (distcheck-m4-missing.log,
1513 distcheck-m4-outdated.log): Depend on it.
1514 (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute it.
1515 (TESTS): Add the new tests.
1517 2011-09-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1519 aclocal: more granularity in acdir overriding
1520 Before this change, using the `--acdir' option caused aclocal to
1521 redefine both the directory of automake-provided m4 macros and the
1522 directory of third-party system-wide m4 macros. With this change,
1523 we deprecate the `--acdir' aclocal option, and introduce two new
1524 options `--automake-acdir' and `--system-acdir', to allow for more
1526 * aclocal.in (@automake_includes, @system_includes,
1527 @user_includes): Fix and extend comments.
1529 (handle_acdir_option): New function.
1530 (parse_arguments): Recognize new options `--system-acdir' and
1531 `automake-acdir', and handle `--acdir' using the new function
1532 above. Simplify logic by assuming that the directory of
1533 third-party system-wide m4 files always exists.
1534 * tests/aclocal.in: Update to use the new options, instead of
1535 the deprecated. `--acdir'.
1536 * m4/dirlist: Move ...
1537 * m4/acdir/dirlist: ... here.
1538 * m4/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Update.
1539 (m4datadir): Rename ...
1540 (automake_acdir): ... to this. Accordingly, ...
1541 (dist_m4data_DATA): ... rename this ...
1542 (dist_automake_ac_DATA): ... to this.
1543 (system_acdir): New, directory.
1544 (dist_system_ac_DATA): New, defined to an empty value; this will
1545 ensure that the $(system_acdir) directory will be created by
1547 * tests/aclocal.test: Remove check about the `--print-ac-dir'
1548 option of aclocal, it has been moved into ...
1549 * tests/aclocal-print-acdir.test: ... this new test, and quite
1551 * tests/aclocal-acdir.test: New test.
1552 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add the new tests.
1553 * NEWS, bootstrap: Update.
1554 * doc/automake.texi (aclocal Options, Macro Search Path): Update.
1556 2011-10-21 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
1558 warnings: new 'extra-portability' category, for AM_PROG_AR
1559 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Register new extra-portability
1561 (switch_warning): Turn off extra-portability if portability is
1562 turned off, and turn on portability if extra-portability is
1564 (set_strictness): Silence extra-portability for --gnits, --gnu
1566 * tests/extra-portability2.test: New test, checking that the
1567 extra-portability channel is silenced by --gnits, --gnu and
1569 * doc/automake.texi (Invoking Automake): Document the new warning
1570 category and its interaction with the portability category.
1571 * tests/extra-portability.test: New test, checking the interaction
1572 between the portability and extra-portability warning categories.
1573 * automake.in (handle_libraries, handle_ltlibraries): Move the
1574 AM_PROG_AR warnings to the new extra-portability channel.
1575 * tests/ar2.test: Adjust to the new warning channel.
1576 * tests/pr300-lib.test: Likewise.
1577 * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise.
1578 * tests/pr307.test: Likewise.
1579 * tests/pr401.test: Likewise.
1580 * tests/pr401b.test: Likewise.
1581 * tests/pr401c.test: Likewise.
1582 * tests/pr72.test: Likewise.
1584 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1586 2011-10-21 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
1587 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1588 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1590 Add new 'AM_PROG_AR' macro, triggering the 'ar-lib' script.
1591 * m4/ar-lib.m4: New macro AM_PROG_AR, which locates an
1592 archiver and triggers the auxiliary 'ar-lib' script if needed.
1593 * m4/Makefile.am (dist_m4data_DATA): Update.
1594 * automake.in ($seen_ar): New variable.
1595 (scan_autoconf_traces): Set it.
1596 (handle_libraries, handle_ltlibraries): Require AM_PROG_AR for
1598 * doc/automake.texi (Public Macros): Mention the new
1600 (Subpackages): Add AM_PROG_AR to the example.
1601 (A Library): Adjust recommendations for AR given the new
1603 * All relevant tests: Adjust to new portability requirements due
1604 to the new AM_PROG_AR macro.
1605 * tests/ar-lib2.test: New test, checking that AM_PROG_AR triggers
1607 * tests/ar-lib3.test: New test, checking that lib_LIBRARIES
1608 requires AM_PROG_AR.
1609 * tests/ar-lib4.test: New test, checking that lib_LTLIBRARIES
1610 requires AM_PROG_AR.
1611 * tests/ar-lib5a.test: New test, checking that AM_PROG_AR triggers
1612 use of ar-lib when the archiver is Microsoft lib.
1613 * tests/ar-lib5b.test: New test, checking that AM_PROG_AR triggers
1614 use of ar-lib when the archiver is a faked lib.
1615 * tests/ar-lib6a.test: New test, checking the ordering of
1616 AM_PROG_AR and LT_INIT.
1617 * tests/ar-lib6b.test: New test, checking the ordering of
1618 AM_PROG_AR and AC_PROG_LIBTOOL.
1619 * tests/ar-lib7.test: New test, checking that automake warns
1620 if ar-lib is missing.
1621 * tests/ar3.test: New test, checking that AR and ARFLAGS may
1622 be overridden by the user even if AM_PROG_AR is used.
1623 * tests/ar4.test: New test, checking that AM_PROG_AR bails out
1624 if it cannot determine the archiver interface.
1625 * tests/ar5.test: New test, checking that AM_PROG_AR runs its
1626 optional argument if it cannot determine the archiver interface.
1627 * tests/defs.in: New required entry 'lib'.
1628 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1631 2011-09-05 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
1633 * tests/amhello-binpkg.test: Add missing $EXEEXT usage.
1635 2011-09-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1637 fix: list test 'vala-vpath.test' in XFAIL_TESTS
1638 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Update.
1640 2011-09-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1642 tests: simplify wrapper for aclocal
1643 * tests/aclocal.in: Remove use of $ACLOCAL_TESTSUITE_FLAGS and
1644 extra `-I' flags; they are not really required, since the file
1645 `m4/amversion.m4' is generated in the srcdir anyway.
1646 * tests/acloca10.test: Remove use of $ACLOCAL_TESTSUITE_FLAGS.
1647 * tests/acloca18.test: Likewise.
1648 * tests/defs.in: Don't nullify $ACLOCAL_TESTSUITE_FLAGS, and do
1651 2011-09-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1653 coverage: vala support failing for VPATH from-scratch builds
1654 * tests/vala-vpath.test: New test, xfailing.
1655 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1657 From a report by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek.
1658 Related to automake bug#8753.
1660 2011-09-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1662 docs: report few more automake parsing limitations
1663 Partly motivated by automake bug#8360.
1664 * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Report few more automake
1665 limitations w.r.t. parsing of unusual makefile constructs. Related
1667 * tests/doc-parsing-buglets-colneq-subst.test: New test.
1668 * tests/doc-parsing-buglets-tabs.test: Likewise.
1669 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1671 2011-08-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1673 tests: list "forgotten" test script in TESTS
1674 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Also list ...
1675 * tests/java-empty-classpath.test: ... this test. Since we are
1676 at it, remove trailing whitespace from a couple of lines.
1678 2011-08-25 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
1680 ylwrap: fix unusual indentation whitespace
1681 * lib/ylwrap: Convert tabs to spaces.
1682 Reported by Karl Berry.
1684 2011-08-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1686 * THANKS (Daniel Richard G.): Update e-mail address.
1688 2011-08-16 Daniel Richard G. <skunk@iskunk.org> (tiny change)
1689 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1691 java: avoid compilation errors when CLASSPATH is empty
1692 * lib/am/java.am (CLASSPATH_ENV): When redefining `$CLASSPATH',
1693 do not append an empty component in case the previous value of
1694 CLASSPATH is empty or unset.
1695 * tests/java-empty-classpath.test: New test.
1696 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1697 Fixes automake bug#9306.
1699 2011-08-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1701 parallel-tests: no more spurious successes for FreeBSD make
1702 Work around a bug of FreeBSD make bug that was causing the
1703 automake-generated "check" target to complete with success
1704 even if some tests failed; this happened only when FreeBSD
1705 make was run in concurrent mode (as in, e.g., "make -j2
1706 check"). The bug is not present in NetBSD make.
1707 This change fixes automake bug#9245:
1708 <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=9245>
1709 See also FreeBSD PR bin/159730:
1710 <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=159730>
1711 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] $(TEST_SUITE_LOG): Use a
1712 more "safe" (and apparently redundant) idiom to exit with error,
1713 so that the non-zero exit status is picked up also by FreeBSD
1714 make when it's running in concurrent mode.
1716 * tests/check-concurrency-bug9245.test: New test.
1717 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1719 2011-08-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1721 hacking: we now require autoconf 2.68
1722 * HACKING ("Working in git"): Use autoconf and autom4te 2.68,
1723 not 2.67, in the examples.
1725 2011-08-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1727 test defs: more environment cleanup
1728 * tests/defs.in: Also unset variables AM_COLOR_TESTS and
1729 AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT.
1731 2011-08-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1733 tests: fix spurious failure with Solaris make
1734 * tests/distcheck-configure-flags-am.test: Avoid using `+=' too
1735 liberally with AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS, since the line breaks
1736 so introduced, in conjunction with single quotes, might confuse
1739 2011-08-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1741 maintcheck: fix maintainer-check failures, both real and spurious
1742 * tests/amhello-binpkg.test: Use "$MAKE", not bare "make".
1743 * Makefile.am (sc_perl_local): Also allow perl special variable
1744 `$~' to be localized. And be slightly laxer in the regexp, to
1745 allow for usages like "local $_ = $foo;".
1746 (sc_tests_overriding_macros_on_cmdline): Also allow for command
1747 line overriding of the `DISABLE_HARD_ERRORS' make variable. Try
1748 to avoid false positives for usages like "$MAKE || st=$?".
1750 2011-08-03 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
1752 docs: how to use '-I' option in AM_CPPFLAGS for best VPATH support
1753 * doc/automake.texi (Program Variables): Recommend -I options to
1754 both the build directory and the source directory when needed.
1756 2011-07-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1758 tests: relax a test on amhello examples to cater to Solaris tar
1759 * tests/amhello-binpkg.test: When the tar implementation in use
1760 is not GNU tar, relax the tests on tar output, to avoid spurious
1761 failures. For example, "tar cvf ..." with GNU tar can output
1762 lines like "./usr/bin/hello" on the standard output, while with
1763 Solaris tar it can output lines like "a ./usr/bin/hello 8K" on
1764 standard output, and with Heirloom tar it can output lines like
1765 "a ./usr/bin/hello 15 tape blocks" on standard error.
1767 2011-07-15 Benoit Sigoure <tsunanet@gmail.com>
1769 docs: add references between the 2 sections on java support
1770 * doc/automake.texi (Java Support, Java): Add cross-references.
1772 2011-07-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1774 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
1775 * INSTALL, lib/INSTALL, lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub,
1776 lib/texinfo.tex: Sync from upstream.
1778 2011-07-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1780 tests: fix weakness in 'tests-environment-backcompat.test'
1781 * tests/tests-environment-backcompat.test: Do not override the
1782 content of xfailing test `baz.test' with a "weaker" version that
1783 fails unconditionally: the test must fail only when the 'strict'
1784 pragma is in use, in order not to reduce coverage.
1786 2011-07-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1788 docs, tests: synchronize examples on silent-rules from config.site
1789 * doc/automake.texi (Automake silent-rules Option): Reference test
1790 'silent-configsite.test' in comments.
1792 2011-07-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1794 tests: portability fixes in tests on amhello examples
1795 * tests/amhello-binpkg.test: Don't use "tar xzf too.tag.gz" to
1796 extract a gzip-compressed tarball, that's unportable to some
1797 tar implementations; use the "gzip -dc fo.tar.gz | tar xf -"
1799 * tests/amhello-cflags.test: Likewise.
1800 * tests/amhello-cross-compile.test: Likewise.
1801 Suggestion from Ralf Wildenhues.
1803 2011-07-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1805 remake: add test ensuring that slower remakes don't hang
1806 * tests/remake-subdir-long-time.test: New test.
1807 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1808 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
1810 2011-07-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1812 remake: fix outdated comment in configure.am
1813 * lib/am/configure.am: Fix comment falsified by changes in
1814 commit `v1.11-366-gbee9871'.
1815 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
1817 2011-07-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1819 docs, tests: synchronize examples from docs to tests
1820 * tests/README (Writing test cases): Give suggestions on how to
1821 keep test cases and examples in the documentation synchronized.
1822 * doc/automake.texi: Improve or fix existing testcase-referencing
1823 comments, and add many new ones.
1824 * HACKING (Administrivia): Suggest to test complex examples and
1825 idioms from the manual.
1826 * tests/specflg8.test: Improve synchronization with the example
1828 * tests/output11.test:Likewise.
1829 * tests/txinfo21.test:Likewise.
1830 * tests/interp.test: Likewise. Since we are at it, and enable
1831 the `errexit' shell flag, do related changes, and add trailing
1833 * tests/amhello-cflags.test: New test.
1834 * tests/amhello-cross-compile.test: Likewise.
1835 * tests/amhello-binpkg.test: Likewise.
1836 * tests/tests-environment-backcompat.test: Likewise.
1837 * tests/parallel-tests-log-compiler-example.test: Likewise.
1838 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1840 2011-06-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1842 docs: avoid a footnote, some related rewordings and improvements
1843 * doc/automake.texi (Dist): Reword the part about automatically
1844 distributed files to avoid a footnote. Since we are at it, extend
1845 a bit, and add an example and a reference to a relevant test case.
1847 2011-06-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1849 docs: minor cosmetic fixes
1850 * doc/automake.texi: Break few overly long lines, throughout the
1852 ("Simple Tests"): Move @vindex for XFAIL_TESTS to the correct
1853 position, i.e., before and not after the paragraph where it is
1855 ("Options" @item ansi2knr): Use @pxref instead of @xref. This
1856 fixes a texinfo warning.
1857 ("Other things Automake recognizes" @item AM_C_PROTOTYPES): Use
1858 @pxref instead of @ref.
1860 2011-06-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1862 help: improve text about automatically-distributed files
1863 This change fixes automake bug#7819.
1864 * automake.in (usage): Distinguish between files that are always
1865 automatically distributed when found, and those which are only
1866 "under certain conditions".
1867 * doc/automake.texi (Basics of Distribution): Update accordingly.
1868 * tests/autodist-subdir.test: Update.
1869 * tests/autodist-no-duplicate.test: Likewise.
1870 * tests/autodist.test: Likewise.
1871 (configure.in): Remove useless call to AM_MAINTAINER_MODE.
1873 2011-06-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1875 refactor: split 'usage' subroutine in automake
1876 This change is related to automake bug#7819.
1877 * automake.in (print_autodist_files): New subroutine,
1879 (usage): ... this, which now uses it.
1880 * tests/autodist-no-duplicate.test: New test.
1881 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1883 2011-06-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1885 tests: fix bug in 'autodist.test'
1886 * tests/autodist.test: Avoid spurious failure due to no
1887 `defs-static' file being found in the parent directory.
1889 2011-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1891 maintcheck: extend 'sc_tests_plain_*' checks
1892 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_plain_autom4te): New check.
1893 (sc_tests_plain_autoreconf): Likewise.
1894 (sc_tests_plain_autoheader): Likewise.
1895 (syntax_check_rules): Update.
1897 2011-06-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1899 maintcheck: avoid few spurious failures
1900 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_plain_aclocal, sc_tests_plain_perl,
1901 sc_tests_plain_autoconf, sc_tests_plain_automake,
1902 sc_tests_plain_autoupate): Be stricter in matching an erroneous
1903 literal command, i.e., `aclocal', `automake', `perl', etc.
1905 2011-06-20 Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com> (tiny change)
1907 check: don't use multi-line coloring for the report
1908 "less -R" can't handle multi-line coloring as it is done for the
1909 check reports of the serial and parallel testsuite, because of
1910 performance reasons. Thus, color each line of the check report
1912 * lib/am/check.am (am__text_box): Accept colors for lines, and
1913 color each line by its own.
1914 [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] $(TEST_SUITE_LOG): Let am__text_box handle
1916 [!%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] $(check-TESTS): Color each report line by
1920 2011-06-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1922 docs: AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS is for corner cases
1923 * doc/automake.texi (Checking the Distribution): Explain that the
1924 developers should take care of making their code buildable without
1925 requiring any special configure options, so that in general
1926 AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS shouldn't be used. Give an example
1927 of where its use is legitimate.
1928 Suggestions from Ralf Wildenhues and Eric Blake.
1930 2011-06-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1932 ansi2knr: deprecate, it will go away in the next major release
1933 * doc/automake.texi: Loudly and repeatedly state that the old
1934 de-ANSI-fication features are now deprecated and will be removed
1935 in the next major Automake release. Other related adjustments.
1936 * lib/Automake/Options.pm (_process_option_list ): Give a warning
1937 in the `obsolete' category when the `ansi2knr' option is used.
1938 * m4/protos.m4 (AM_C_PROTOTYPES): Deprecate this macro: a warning
1939 in the `obsolete' category will be emitted it if is used.
1940 * tests/ansi2knr-deprecation.test: New test.
1941 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1942 * tests/ansi.test: Adjust, by calling autoconf and/or automake
1943 with the `-Wno-obsolete' flag.
1944 * tests/ansi10.test: Likewise.
1945 * tests/ansi2.test: Likewise.
1946 * tests/ansi3.test: Likewise.
1947 * tests/ansi3b.test: Likewise.
1948 * tests/ansi4.test: Likewise.
1949 * tests/ansi5.test: Likewise.
1950 * tests/ansi6.test: Likewise.
1951 * tests/ansi7.test: Likewise.
1952 * tests/ansi8.test: Likewise.
1953 * tests/ansi9.test: Likewise.
1954 * tests/cxxansi.test: Likewise.
1955 * tests/libobj8.test: Likewise.
1956 * NEWS: Update about the future planned backward-incompatibility
1957 due to the removal of de-ANSI-fication feature.
1959 2011-06-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1961 docs: primary/prefix combination "pkglib_PROGRAMS" is now invalid
1962 * doc/automake.texi (Program Sources): pkglib_PROGRAMS is not a
1963 valid combination anymore, so don't document it. Inconsistency
1964 introduced in commit `v1.11-373-g9ca6326'.
1966 2011-06-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
1968 docs: replace obsolete @vindex entry with a useful one
1969 * doc/automake.texi (Program Sources): Do not index obsolete
1970 pkglib_PROGRAMS here. Do index pkglibexec_PROGRAMS.
1972 2011-06-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1974 tests: optimize tests on primary/prefix mismatch for speed
1975 * tests/primary-prefix-invalid-couples.test: Partial rewrite, in
1976 order to use just a single automake invocation rather than one
1977 invocation for each invalid primary/prefix couple. This improves
1978 the test script execution time by an order of magnitude.
1979 Since we are at it, throw in some other improvements to avoid
1980 unrelated automake warnings and failures that could potentially
1981 cause false positives w.r.t. the automake exit status.
1983 2011-06-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1985 news: update w.r.t. introduction of AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS
1986 * NEWS (Miscellaneous changes): Update.
1988 2011-06-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1990 maintcheck: DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS can be defined on make cmdline
1991 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_overriding_macros_on_cmdline): It's now
1992 acceptable that the test scripts override DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS
1993 on the make command line. Update comments accordingly. Since we
1994 are at it, make the relevant grepping rules slightly tighter.
1996 2011-06-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1998 distcheck: add support for AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS
1999 * doc/automake.texi (Checking the Distribution): Suggest to use
2000 AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS, not DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS, to
2001 define (in the top-level Makefile.am) extra flags to be passed
2002 to configure at "make distcheck" time; DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS
2003 should be reserved for the user. Add proper `@vindex' directive.
2004 Document that AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS is not honoured in a
2005 subpackage Makefile.am, but the flags in it are passed down to
2006 the configure script of the subpackage.
2007 * lib/am/distdir.am (distcheck): Also pass the flags in
2008 $(AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS) to the configure invocation.
2010 * tests/defs.in.test (AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS,
2011 DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS): Unset in case they are exported in
2012 the environment, they might improperly influence our testsuite.
2013 * tests/distcheck-configure-flags.test: New test.
2014 * tests/distcheck-configure-flags-am.test: Likewise.
2015 * tests/distcheck-configure-flags-subpkg.test: Likewise.
2016 * distcheck-hook.test: Likewise.
2017 * distcheck-hook2.test: Likewise.
2018 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
2019 Closes automake bug#8784.
2021 2010-06-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2023 docs: better documentation for silent make rules
2024 * doc/automake.texi (Options): Detailed description of the
2025 automake option `silent-rules' moved from here ...
2026 (Silent Make): ... into this new chapter, expanded, improved,
2027 and subdivided into ...
2028 (Make verbosity, Tricks For Silencing Make,
2029 Automake silent-rules Option): ... these new sections.
2030 (@menu, @detailmenu): Update.
2031 * tests/silent-configsite.test: New test, checking that the
2032 user can control default mode of silent-rules from config.site,
2033 as is documented in the manual.
2034 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
2036 2011-06-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2038 Warnings about primary/prefix mismatch fixed and extended.
2039 * automake.in (%standard_prefix): Add `doc' and `locale'.
2040 Rename `pkgdatadir' to `pkgdata'. Similarly for`pkglibdir',
2041 `pkgincludedir' and `pkglibexecdir'.
2042 (handle_programs): List `pkglibexec', not `pkglib', among the
2043 prefixes valid for the `PROGRAMS' primary.
2044 (handle_data): List also `doc' among the prefixes valid for
2045 the `DATA' primary. This is required by automake's own build
2047 * tests/dirforbid.test: Test removed, superseded by ...
2048 * tests/primary-prefix-invalid-couples.test: ... this new test.
2049 * tests/primary-prefix-valid-couples.test: New test.
2050 * tests/primary-prefix-couples-documented-valid.test: Likewise.
2051 * tests/primary-prefix-couples-force-valid.test: Likewise.
2052 * tests/java3.test: Adjusted, and extended a bit.
2053 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
2055 From a report by Eric Blake.
2057 2011-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2059 test defs: new function 'fatal_', for hard errors
2060 Before this patch, the only way offered by tests/defs to
2061 properly signal a hard error was the `framework_failure_'
2062 function. But the error message issued by that function,
2063 as its name would suggest, refers to a set-up failure in the
2064 testsuite, while hard errors can obviously also be due to
2065 other reasons. The best way to fix this inconsistency is to
2066 introduce a new function with a more general error message.
2067 Inspired by a recent similar change to Gnulib's tests/init.sh.
2068 * tests/defs.in (fatal_): New function.
2069 * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
2070 Suggest the use of `fatal_', not of `framework_failure_', for
2071 generic hard errors. The latter should be reserved for "real"
2074 2011-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2076 py-compile: '--' and non-option arguments terminate the option list
2077 * lib/py-compile: Any non-option argument, or the special `--'
2078 argument, now explicitly terminates the list of options.
2079 * tests/py-compile-option-terminate.test: New test.
2080 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
2083 2011-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2085 py-compile: complain on unrecognized options
2086 * lib/py-compile: Complain on unrecognized options. Don't be too
2087 lax in matching `--help' and `--version' options.
2088 * tests/py-compile-usage.test: Extend accordingly.
2091 2011-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2093 py-compile: normalize error and help messages
2094 * lib/py-compile: Now error messages do not begin with a capital
2095 letter, nor end with a period, as per GNU standards. Prepend the
2096 error messages with the name of the script, not with its path.
2097 When an invalid usage is recognized, always display the customary
2098 message "Try `py-compile --help' ..." on a line of its own.
2099 ($me): New variable, containing the name of the
2100 program, i.e., `py-compile'. Use it throughout.
2101 (usage_error): New function, used to display error messages about
2103 * tests/py-compile-usage.test: Extend and tighten accordingly.
2105 2011-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2107 python tests: add "unit tests" on py-compile
2108 * tests/py-compile-basic.test: New test.
2109 * tests/py-compile-basic2.test: New test.
2110 * tests/py-compile-basedir.test: Likewise.
2111 * tests/py-compile-destdir.test: Likewise.
2112 * tests/py-compile-env.test: Likewise.
2113 * tests/py-compile-usage.test: Likewise.
2114 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
2115 Tested with python 2.0.1, 2.4.6, 2.6.6, 2.7.1, and 3.1.3.
2117 2011-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2119 py-compile: the '--destdir' option now accepts a blank argument
2120 * lib/py-compile (Option parsing): Do not count an empty argument
2121 to `--destdir' or `--basedir' as a missing argument.
2122 * lib/python.am: Simplify accordingly, passing the `--destdir'
2123 option to py-compile unconditionally, even if `$(DESTDIR)' is
2127 2011-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2129 python: run the 'py-compile' script with $(SHELL)
2130 * lib/python.am (install-%DIR%PYTHON): Run each instance of
2131 py-compile using $(SHELL). Since we are at it, break overly
2133 (am__py_compile): New variable, to reduce code duplication.
2135 2011-06-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2137 maintcheck: fix some failures, extend some checks
2138 * Makefile.am (sc_diff_automake_in_automake): Update, as we
2139 now expect 9 lines, not 8, to be changed from `automake.in'
2141 (sc_diff_aclocal_in_aclocal): New maintainer check, similar to
2142 the above, and checking that only 10 lines are changed from
2143 `aclocal.in' to `aclocal'.
2144 (syntax_check_rules): Update.
2145 (sc_tests_Exit_not_exit): Exempt self tests `self-check-*.test'
2146 from this check, as they can legitimately use the bare `exit'
2147 builtin in various places.
2148 * doc/automake.texi (Python): Remove stray `@' from the end of
2149 a line. Typo introduced in commit `v1.11-312-g5bf7af6'.
2150 * tests/depcomp8a.test: Pass DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS to make
2151 from the environment rather than from the command line, to
2152 pacify the `sc_tests_overriding_macros_on_cmdline' maintainer
2154 * tests/depcomp8b.test: Likewise.
2156 2011-05-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2158 remake: behave better with non-GNU make in subdirectories
2159 Currently, with every decent make program, it is possible to
2160 rebuild out-of-date autotools-generated files with a simple
2161 "make Makefile" -- but for this to work reliably with non-GNU
2162 make implementations, the command must be issued from the
2163 top-level directory. This patch removes such limitation.
2164 * lib/am/configure.am (am--refresh): Depend on `%MAKEFILE%'.
2165 * tests/defs.in (using_gmake): New function, backported from the
2166 `master' branch (and simplified).
2167 * tests/remake-subdir.test: New test.
2168 * tests/remake-subdir2.test: Likewise.
2169 * tests/remake-subdir-gnu.test: Likewise.
2170 * tests/remake-subdir-from-subdir.test: Likewise.
2171 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
2173 2011-05-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2175 automake, aclocal: honour configure-time AUTOCONF and AUTOM4TE
2176 Currently, the Automake's own configure script allow definition
2177 of AUTOCONF and AUTOM4TE, expected to point respectively to an
2178 autoconf and autom4te programs. But while these definitions are
2179 honoured in the Automake's build systems and test suite, they
2180 were *not* honoured in the generated `automake' and `aclocal'
2181 scripts. This behaviour, apart from being wrong in that it does
2182 not allow the user enough freedom in choosing his tools, also
2183 caused inconsistencies in the test suite, brining to spurious
2185 Problem reported by Graham Reitz on the automake list; see thread:
2186 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2011-05/msg00022.html>
2187 * automake.in ($traces): Use `@am_AUTOCONF', not simply `autoconf'.
2188 * aclocal.in ($traces): Use `@am_AUTOM4TE', not simply `autom4te'.
2189 * Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute also `@am_AUTOCONF' and
2194 2011-05-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2196 build: the user can override AUTOM4TE, AUTORECONF and AUTOUPDATE too
2197 Our build system allows the user to override AUTOCONF and AUTOHEADER
2198 at configure time, and honours these overrides in our testsuite.
2199 But it didn't do the same with AUTOM4TE, AUTORECONF and AUTOUPDATE.
2200 This change fixes that inconsistency.
2201 * configure.ac (am_AUTOM4TE, am_AUTOUPDATE, am_AUTORECONF): New
2202 AC_SUBSTitutions. Update comments.
2203 * tests/defs.in ($AUTOUPDATE): Default to `@am_AUTOUPDATE@' now.
2204 ($AUTOM4TE): New variable, defaulting to `@am_AUTOM4TE@'.
2205 ($AUTORECONF): New variable, defaulting to `@am_AUTORECONF@'.
2206 * doc/Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/amhello-1.0.tar.gz): Update.
2208 2011-05-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2209 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2211 tests/README: fix example about `make -e' usage
2212 * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"): When
2213 some variable is never initialized in the Makefile, `-e' is not
2214 necessary in order to override it. DESTDIR is such a variable: we
2215 ensure that we do not ever initialize it. And as such, it is quite
2217 $ make DESTDIR=/foo/bar install
2218 and in fact, quite widely used.
2219 So our example about when `make -e' is required, which references
2220 the `DESTDIR' variable, is poorly chosen, if not downright wrong.
2221 Rewrite it to use `prefix' as the overridden variable instead.
2223 2011-05-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2225 parallel-tests: stricter checks on DISABLE_HARD_ERRORS support
2226 * tests/parallel-tests-harderror.test: New test, doing more
2227 in-depth checks on DISABLE_HARD_ERRORS.
2228 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Remove tests on DISABLE_HARD_ERRORS,
2230 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
2232 2011-05-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2234 testsuite: avoid re-running few tests with 'parallel-tests' option
2235 Some tests in our testsuite use the 'simple-tests' driver only
2236 marginally, or simply as a mean to conveniently check unrelated
2237 invariants. It makes little sense to force these tests to also
2238 run with the 'parallel-tests' Automake option active, as doing so
2239 offers no real gain in coverage, while often causing a measurable
2240 overhead in execution time (for an already too-slow testsuite).
2241 * tests/pr401.test (parallel_tests): Define to "no", to prevent
2242 the generation of a sibling test script using the 'parallel-tests'
2244 * tests/pr401b.test: Likewise.
2245 * tests/pr401c.test: Likewise.
2247 2011-05-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2249 testsuite: allow tests to avoid the use of 'parallel-tests' option
2250 * tests/gen-parallel-tests: Do not generate "siblings" for tests
2251 that explicitly define the `parallel_tests', whether to "yes" or
2252 to any other value. Extend heading comments to give a rationale
2254 * tests/README: Update.
2256 2011-05-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2258 tests/README: update obsoleted advice
2259 * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
2260 Do not suggest to use the `*-p.test' pattern for the names of
2261 hand-written tests which use the `parallel-tests' Automake option.
2262 Not only is this not respected by the existing tests, but it is
2263 more likely to cause conflicts with auto-generated tests.
2264 So, suggest to *avoid* using the `*-p.test' pattern in names
2265 of hand-written tests instead.
2266 (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do not"): When
2267 suggesting not to override Makefile variables using command
2268 line arguments, do not use the badly outdated variables `U'
2269 and 'ANSI2KNR' in the example; instead, use the more common
2270 and typical `DESTDIR'.
2272 2011-05-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2274 test defs: rename requirement 'non-cross' -> 'native'
2275 * tests/defs.in (non-cross): Rename requirement ...
2276 (native): ... to this, which is clearer and fits the
2277 existing lingo better.
2278 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
2280 2011-05-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2282 testsuite: be more cross-compile friendly
2283 * tests/defs.in (cross_compiling): New subroutine.
2284 (am__tool_prefix): New internal variable.
2285 (gcc, g++, gcj): Force the use of the correct "tool prefix"
2286 when cross compiling.
2287 (gfortran, g77, non-cross): New requirements.
2289 2011-05-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2291 check: document and test $(TEST_SUITE_LOG) overriding
2292 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Explain
2293 how and why TEST_SUITE_LOG can be overridden at runtime.
2294 * tests/parallel-tests-log-override-1.test: New test, check that
2295 the newly documented idiom and similar usages are truly supported.
2296 * tests/parallel-tests-log-override-2.test: Likewise.
2297 * tests/parallel-tests-log-override-recheck.test: Likewise.
2298 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
2300 2011-05-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2302 tests: fix spurious failure of txinfo21.test on FreeBSD
2303 * tests/txinfo21.test: Use the `is_newest' subroutine instead of
2304 the `ls -t' hack to to determine whether a file has been updated.
2305 This is required because at least FreeBSD `ls' do not sort files
2306 with the same timestamp in alphabetical order when using the `-t'
2309 2011-05-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2311 tests defs: allow requirements for compilers (mostly dummy)
2312 Most of the new requirements that are now accepted in `$required'
2313 as consequence of this patch are still dummy. They are planned
2314 to be implemented only in master (or in some derived branch), but
2315 having them here (even just as no-op) will allow for an easier
2316 integration/backporting of potential new testcases.
2317 * tests/defs.in (cc, c++, fortran, fortran77): New requirements,
2319 (flex): New requirement, picking LEX for configure.
2320 (lex): New requirement, alias for `flex'. A more appropriate
2321 implementation, looking for a generic `lex' program, will follow
2323 (yacc): New requirement, alias for `bison'. A more appropriate
2324 implementation, looking for a generic `yacc' program, will follow
2327 2011-04-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2329 tests: fix spurious failure in a test on TESTS (VPATH-related)
2330 * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: When not using the
2331 parallel-tests option, do not check that VPATH components are
2332 not present in the displayed test name, since the simple-tests
2333 driver do not try to strip them.
2335 2011-04-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2337 test: self check subroutines for skipping/failing of tests
2338 * tests/self-check-report.test: New test.
2339 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
2341 2011-04-23 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
2342 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2344 test defs: new subroutines for test skipping/failing
2345 * tests/defs.in (Exit): Move definition of this function earlier.
2346 (warn_, skip_, fail_, framework_failure_): New functions, inspired
2347 to the homonyms in gnulib's tests/init.sh.
2348 ($stderr_fileno_): New global variable, used by the new functions
2350 * tests/README: Updated.
2351 From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
2353 2011-04-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2355 tests: fix typo (copy & paste blunder) in heading comment
2356 * tests/maintclean-vpath.test: Correctly refer to the sister test
2357 as `maintclean.test', not as `maintclean-vpath.test'.
2359 2011-04-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2361 tests: remove redundant test `mclean.test'
2362 * tests/mclean.test: Remove, it's a weak grepping test completely
2363 superseded by the much more complete `maintclean.test'.
2364 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
2366 2011-04-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2368 testsuite: more environment sanitization
2369 * tests/defs.in: Sanity check: abort if any of `parallel_tests'
2370 or `required' is in the environment.
2371 ($sed_unindent_prog): Initialize to empty, to avoid interferences
2372 from the environment.
2373 * tests/self-check-me-in-env.test: Renamed to ...
2374 * tests/self-check-env-sanitize.test: ... this, and extended.
2375 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
2376 (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset variables `parallel_tests' and
2377 `required'. Adjust comments.
2379 2011-04-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2381 tests: don't allow `$me' to be overridden from the environment
2382 * tests/defs.in: Sanity check: abort if $me is in the environment.
2383 * tests/self-check-me-in-env.test: New test.
2384 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset variable `me'.
2386 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
2388 2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2390 test defs: allow overriding of `$me'
2391 * tests/defs.in ($me): Allow overriding by the including test
2392 script. Add some explicative comments.
2394 2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2396 depcomp tests: don't reject slower dependency extractors
2397 * tests/depcomp8b.test: Add the `--enable-dependency-tracking'
2398 option to `configure' invocations, so that slower dependency
2399 extractors are not rejected.
2400 * tests/depcomp8a.test: Likewise. Also ...
2401 (foo.c): ... since we are at it, fix spacing to be consistent
2402 with GNU coding standards.
2404 2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2406 m4: add missing serial numbers to a few files
2407 Related to automake bug#8483.
2408 * m4/amversion.in: Add serial number.
2409 * m4/auxdir.m4: Likewise.
2410 * m4/gcj.m4: Likewise.
2411 * m4/install-sh.m4: Likewise.
2412 * m4/mkdirp.m4: Likewise.
2413 * m4/python.m4: Likewise.
2414 * m4/runlog.m4: Likewise.
2415 * m4/strip.m4: Likewise.
2416 * m4/upc.m4: Likewise.
2418 2011-04-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
2420 depcomp: correct invalid sed invocation
2421 * lib/depcomp: Insert missing -e before '/:$/d'.
2422 Otherwise, that use of sed would treat '/:$/d' as a file name.
2424 2011-04-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2426 maintainer check: quote literal `$' in Makefile rule
2427 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_PATH_SEPARATOR): Escape literal `$'
2428 character in double-quoted string. Fix a bug in which the rule
2429 emitted an erroneously empty substring in its error message.
2431 2011-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2433 coverage: test for automake bug#8485 (known regression)
2434 * tests/yacc-dist-nobuild-subdir.test: New test.
2435 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Update.
2437 2011-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2439 test defs: define default $distdir (help reducing duplication)
2440 * tests/defs.in ($distdir): New variable, might be used in
2441 testcases checking distribution-related features.
2442 * tests/pr9.test: Use it.
2443 * tests/subdir9.test: Likewise.
2444 * tests/vtexi3.test: Add comment explaining why we redefine
2445 $distdir in this test.
2447 2011-04-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2449 depcomp: fix bugs in tests and in the depcomp script
2450 * lib/depcomp (gcc): Remove duplicated `-e' from sed invocation.
2451 * tests/depcomp10.test: Make it executable. Fix a blunder that
2452 has left part of an intended comment not prefixed by `#', thus
2453 causing shell syntax errors. In this same comment, break a
2454 too-long reported error message on multiple lines, for clarity.
2455 Add reference to the relevant bug report. Add a comment which
2456 explains why the test result 'skipped' if the first "make" call
2457 fails. Add other useful comments.
2458 * tests/depcomp9.test: Slightly improve comments.
2460 2011-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2462 Fix hp depmode for VPATH builds with GNU make.
2463 * lib/depcomp: Be sure to remove VPATH-prefixed object from
2464 dependency output when creating stub rule.
2465 * tests/depcomp10.test: New test.
2466 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
2468 Report by Bruno Haible.
2470 2011-04-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2472 test defs: fix 'javac' requirement for older JDK versions
2473 The Java compiler from JDK 1.5 (and presumably earlier versions)
2474 cannot handle the `-version' option by itself; and while it does
2475 print the version number, it then errors out with an usage error:
2478 javac: no source files
2479 Usage: javac <options> <source files>
2481 Luckily, adding the `-help' option to the `javac' invocation
2482 seems to fix this problem.
2483 * tests/defs.in (javac): Pass also the `-help' option to the
2484 `javac' program. Add a comment explaining why it is needed.
2485 Report from Ralf Wildenhues.
2487 2011-04-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2489 test defs: new requirement for the default java compiler
2490 * tests/defs.in (for tool in $required): New requirement 'javac'.
2491 * tests/java.test: Use it instead of ad-hoc configure check.
2492 * tests/java-check.test: Likewise.
2493 * tests/instfail-java.test: Likewise.
2494 * tests/instdir-java.test: Likewise.
2496 2011-04-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2498 java: check_JAVA does not cause compilation by "make all" anymore
2499 Fixes automake bug#8234.
2500 * automake.in (handle_java): Make stamp of class files built from
2501 java sources in $(check_JAVA) a dependency of `check' target, not
2503 * tests/java-check.test: New test.
2504 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
2507 Report from Petteri Räty.
2509 2011-04-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2511 Clarify regex code in depcomp.
2512 * lib/depcomp: Add comment why we don't need regex-escaping here.
2513 Suggested by Stefano Lattarini.
2515 2011-04-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2517 Fix makedepend depmode for VPATH builds.
2518 * lib/depcomp [makedepend]: Remove any VPATH prefix from the
2519 object file name, so a rebuild doesn't attempt to update the
2520 .Po files in the source tree.
2521 * tests/depcomp9.test: New test.
2522 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
2525 2011-04-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2527 tests: fix timestamp-related failures
2528 Fixes automake bug#8365.
2529 * tests/aclocal6.test: Sleep before modifying m4 files that should
2530 trigger remake rules. Remove incorrect/obsoleted comments.
2531 * tests/subdir5.test: Likewise, and extend a bit.
2532 * tests/subdir8.test: Likewise.
2533 * tests/pr8365-remake-timing.test: New xfailing test.
2534 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
2535 Report from Sam Steingold.
2537 2011-04-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2539 Create subdirs for generated sources even when not dep tracking.
2540 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): If $object is derived
2541 and lands in subdir, be sure to output a dirstamp dependency.
2542 * tests/yacc5.test: Avoid falsely matching the dirstamp
2543 dependency when grepping for a rule.
2544 * tests/lex-subobj-nodep.test: New test.
2545 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
2547 Report by Ignacy Gawedzki.
2549 Fix locale issue in check-exported-srcdir.test.
2550 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Reformulate glob to not fail
2551 in a locale that ignores or interleaves character case.
2553 2011-04-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2555 docs: better visibility for aclocal in the index
2556 * doc/automake.texi (@menu): Rename title for entry 'configure'
2557 from "Scanning configure.ac or configure.in" to the more precise
2558 "Scanning configure.ac, using aclocal".
2559 (@detailmenu): Adjust.
2560 (@node configure): Adjust, and extend @cindex calls accordingly.
2562 From a report by Maynard Johnson.
2564 2011-03-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2566 tests: improve tests on "maintainer-clean" target
2567 * tests/aclocal6.test: Move checks related to "maintainer-clean"
2568 functionalities into ...
2569 * tests/maintclean-vpath.test: ... this new test.
2570 * tests/maintclean.test: Update heading comments. Extend to also
2571 test subdirs. Remove useless disabling of YACC. Fix m4 quoting
2572 in configure.in. Add a trailing `:' command. Remove extra blank
2574 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
2576 2011-03-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2578 tests: fix unindent to use printf not echo for script.
2579 * tests/defs.in: Use printf rather than echo, as the latter may
2580 interpret the backslashes in the sed script. Fixes test
2581 failures with dash as /bin/sh.
2583 2011-03-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2584 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2586 maintcheck: look for problematic names of testcases
2587 The configure.in stub created by default by `tests/defs' obtains
2588 the first argument of AC_INIT from the test name, and this can
2589 cause some supported autoconf versions to fail with a spurious
2590 error if that test name contains the name of an m4 or m4sugar
2591 builtin or macro (e.g., `defn' or `m4_undefine').
2592 See for example the bug fixed by commit v1.11-287-g1325a8a.
2593 This change add a maintainer check that warns about test names
2594 which are possibly problematic in this regard.
2595 * Makefile.am (sc_test_names): New maintainer-check target.
2596 (syntax_check_rules): Add it.
2597 (m4_builtins): New helper variable.
2598 (TESTS): Updated according to the following renamings.
2599 * tests/include.test: Renamed ...
2600 * tests/hdr-vars-defined-once.test: ... to this.
2601 * tests/sinclude.test: Renamed ...
2602 * tests/m4-inclusion.test: ... to this, and simplified
2604 * tests/include2.test: Renamed ...
2605 * tests/dist-included-parent-dir.test: ... to this, for
2608 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2610 tests: fix bug in alloca*.test
2611 * tests/alloca.test: Make grepping of automake stderr stricter,
2612 add a trailing `:' command; also, add AC_PROG_CC to configure.in,
2613 and create a dummy alloca.c file, to ensure that we fail for the
2615 * tests/alloca2.test: Likewise. Also, look for LT_INIT, not
2616 AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, in the error message (bug introduced with commit
2617 v1.11-315-gd51e7b7 "libtool: suggest LT_INIT if LTLIBRARIES
2619 From a report by Patrick Welche.
2621 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2623 tests: fix bug (comments-in-var-defn.test + autoconf 2.62)
2624 * tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: The configure.in stub created
2625 by default, which has the AC_INIT first argument obtained by the
2626 test name, causes autoconf 2.62 to fail with a spurious error
2627 message like: "configure.in:1: error: defn: undefined macro:".
2628 Thus, to prevent this, the test is renamed to ...
2629 * tests/comments-in-var-def.test: ... this.
2630 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
2632 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2634 cosmetics: convert encoding from ISO-8859 to UTF-8
2635 * ChangeLog.03: Convert encoding to UTF-8.
2636 * ChangeLog.96: Likewise.
2637 * ChangeLog.98: Likewise.
2641 2011-03-01 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
2643 test defs: unindent without temporary file
2644 * tests/defs.in (commented_sed_unindent_prog): Commented Sed program
2645 that strips the "proper" amount of leading whitespace.
2646 (unindent): Lazily strip comments from the above program and use it
2647 to unindent without using a temporary file.
2649 2011-02-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2651 libtool: suggest LT_INIT if LTLIBRARIES primary is used
2652 When the LTLIBRARIES primary was used, but $(LIBTOOL) wasn't
2653 defined, automake suggested to add a call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
2654 in configure.ac. But that macro is deprecated since Libtool
2655 version 1.9b (2004-08-29), in favor of the newer LT_INIT. So
2656 suggest the use of this latter macro instead.
2657 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (%_am_macro_for_var): Pair 'LIBTOOL'
2658 with 'LT_INIT', not with 'AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'.
2659 * tests/libtool4.test: Adjust and extend. Also, add a call to
2660 macro AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, to help ensuring that automake
2661 does not fail for the wrong reasons.
2662 * tests/ltinit.test: New test, ensure that automake's libtool
2663 support works with LT_INIT-based interface.
2664 Thanks to Jack Kelly for the suggestion.
2666 2011-02-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2668 tests: tempdirs with restrictive permissions are cleaned correctly
2669 Before this change, the removal of a temporary test directory
2670 containing subdirectories with restrictive permissions (such as
2671 'r--r--r--') could fail.
2672 * tests/defs: Ensure that all the subdirectories of a temporary
2673 test directory have the 'read', 'write' and 'execute' bits set,
2674 before trying to remove it with `rm -rf'.
2675 * tests/Makefile.am (clean-local-check): Likewise.
2677 2011-02-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2678 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2680 test defs: add subroutine for input unindenting
2681 * tests/defs.in (unindent): New subroutine.
2683 2011-02-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2685 python: report the 'PYTHON' influential environment variable
2686 * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Call AC_ARG_VAR on PYTHON.
2687 * doc/automake.texi (Python): Update and extend.
2688 * tests/help-python.test: New test.
2689 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
2690 * THANKS (Jack Kelly): Update e-mail address.
2691 Suggestion by Jack Kelly.
2693 2011-02-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2695 tests defs: clear TESTS_ENVIRONMENT variable
2696 * tests/defs.in (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset it, so that values
2697 from environment won't interfere with the testcases.
2698 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
2700 2011-02-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2702 tests: tweak few tests on simple and parallel test drivers
2703 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Improve heading comments.
2704 * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: Likewise. Also, unset the
2705 `FOO_EXIT_STATUS' variable, so that any pre-existing value in the
2706 environment won't risk to interfere with the test.
2707 Suggestions by Ralf Wildenhues.
2709 2011-02-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2711 coverage: more tests on simple and parallel test drivers
2712 * tests/parallel-tests-subdir.test: New test.
2713 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Likewise.
2714 * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: Likewise.
2715 * tests/check-tests_environment.test: Likewise.
2716 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
2718 2011-01-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2720 tests: fix spurious failures in lflags*.test
2721 * tests/lflags.test: Remove 'LEX' from the environment, so
2722 that it won't be erroneously picked up by `make -e'.
2723 * tests/lflags2.test: Likewise.
2725 2011-01-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2727 docs: color-tests issues with parallel make
2728 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Document that automatic
2729 recognition of a capable terminal attached to stdout can fail
2730 with some make implementation when running in parallel mode,
2731 thus causing colored test output not to be automatically
2732 activated when it should.
2734 2011-01-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2736 tests: avoid instspc.test failures due to make's whitespace trimming
2737 * tests/instspc.test: Prepend './' when passing the test
2738 characters, to avoid leading whitespace characters to be trimmed
2739 from macros set from environment variables. Fixes testsuite
2740 failures with HP-UX, IRIX, and Tru64/OSF make.
2742 2011-01-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2744 coverage: test semantics of "dummy" per-target flags
2745 * tests/specflg-dummy.test: New test, ensuring that even "dummy"
2746 per-target flags triggers the use of renamed objects.
2747 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
2748 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
2750 2011-01-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2752 tests defs: sanitize IFS
2753 * tests/defs.in ($IFS): Define to <space>, <tab>, <newline>.
2754 ($sp): New variable, holding a single whitespace character.
2755 ($tab): New variable, holding a tabulation character.
2756 ($nl): New variable, holding a newline character.
2758 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2760 tests: fix VPATH auto-expansion workarounds.
2761 * tests/parallel-tests8.test, tests/suffix13.test:
2762 Ensure $< is not surrounded by white space, to prevent Solaris
2763 make from applying automatic VPATH text expansion.
2765 2011-01-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2767 tests: fix spurious failures in yflags*.test
2768 * tests/yflags.test: Remove 'YACC' from the environment, so
2769 that it won't be erroneously picked up by `make -e'.
2770 * tests/yflags2.test: Likewise.
2772 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2774 tests: avoid fn99*.test failures due to buggy AIX 5.3 cp -R.
2775 * tests/fn99.test, tests/fn99subdir.test: Skip if an initial
2776 `cp -R' of the subdir tree already fails; AIX 5.3 cp messes
2777 up its internal memory when copying this tree.
2779 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2780 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2782 Add comment to check-TESTS rule working around make 3.80 bug.
2783 * lib/am/check.am (check-TESTS): Update comment.
2785 2011-01-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2787 tests: less strict double-colon spy.test again.
2788 * tests/spy.test: We know BSD make doesn't invoke more than one
2789 double-colon rule, so no need to expose that failure.
2791 2011-01-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2793 install-sh: avoid Tru64 sh `test' operator precedence issues.
2794 * lib/install-sh: Protect file names and directory components
2795 that consist of `=', `(', `)', or `!'. Move protection as early
2796 as possible, to avoid errors such as with Tru64 sh `test -z ='.
2797 * tests/instsh2.test: Extend test to cover more possibilities.
2798 Fixes 1.12 instspc-equal-install.test failure on Tru64/OSF 5.1.
2800 2011-01-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2801 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2803 docs: automake testsuite doesn't use TESTS_ENVIRONMENT anymore
2804 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Do not claim Automake uses
2805 TESTS_ENVIRONMENT for the perl driver. Instead, point to the
2806 parallel-tests driver.
2808 2011-01-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2810 Allow _AM_DEPENDENCIES to be used later in configure.
2811 * m4/depend.m4 (_AM_DEPENDENCIES): Remove a previously existing
2812 conftest.dir before recreating it.
2814 Report by Eric Blake, from report by Scott McCreary against M4.
2816 2011-01-18 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2818 tests: avoid failure on w32 file systems.
2819 * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: SKIP if file cannot
2820 be turned unreadable.
2822 2011-01-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2824 tests: allow double-colon spy.test to work with HP-UX make.
2825 * tests/spy.test: Fix comment typos. Ensure prerequisites we
2826 do not want to depend on are strictly older than the target.
2827 Also test with a target out of date wrt. more than one rule.
2829 2011-01-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2831 tests: remove useless requirements from cond36.test
2832 * tests/cond36.test ($required): Remove.
2833 Since we are at it, add a trailing `:' command.
2835 2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2836 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2838 parallel-tests: work around Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh read bugs.
2839 * lib/am/check.am ($(TEST_SUITE_LOG), recheck, recheck-html):
2840 Test file readability before redirecting input from it, to avoid
2841 exiting Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh which treats read as special builtin.
2842 * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: New test.
2843 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
2846 2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2848 * NEWS, README: Update copyright years.
2850 2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2852 Fix parallel-tests.test failure with HP-UX make.
2853 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Sleep inside inner tests, so logs
2854 are newer than logs of tests they depend on, for HP-UX make.
2856 2011-01-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2858 docs: ensure example are separated with empty lines in the input
2859 * doc/automake.texi (Extending aclocal, Emacs Lisp, Rebuilding)
2860 (API Versioning, Renamed Objects, Multiple Outputs): Add empty
2861 lines before `@example' and after `@end example' lines, so info
2862 output is rendered correctly, and a following @noindent honored.
2863 Report by Stefano Lattarini.
2865 2011-01-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
2867 tests: fix comment typo
2868 * tests/substref.test: Fix grammar in a comment.
2870 2011-01-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2872 tests: fix spurious failures in two texinfo tests
2873 * tests/txinfo.test ($required): Add 'makeinfo'.
2874 * tests/txinfo8.test: Create a dummy 'textutils.info' file, so
2875 that make won't try to run makeinfo (which could be unavailable)
2877 Found by NixOS Hydra, reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
2879 2011-01-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2881 Avoid testsuite failures due to Autoconf Fortran change.
2882 Autoconf v2.68-21-g727ce95 causes AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS to
2883 require computing the canonical host name. Ensure config.guess
2884 and config.sub files are present for respective checks.
2885 * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Add stub files.
2886 * tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
2887 * tests/fort4.test: Use $AUTOMAKE -a for installing files.
2889 2011-01-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2891 docs: clustered '-d' not recognized in YFLAGS
2892 This change fixes automake bug#7828.
2893 * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Document that automake
2894 recognizes '-d' in AM_YFLAGS only if it's not clustered with
2896 From a report by Юрий Пухальский.
2898 2011-01-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2900 tests: add checks on automatically-distributed files
2901 Related to automake bug#7819.
2902 * tests/autodist.test: New test.
2903 * tests/autodist-subdir.test: Likewise.
2904 * tests/autodist-acconfig.test: Likewise.
2905 * tests/autodist-acconfig-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
2906 * tests/autodist-aclocal-m4.test: Likewise.
2907 * tests/autodist-config-headers.test: Likewise.
2908 * tests/autodist-configure-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
2909 * tests/autodist-stamp-vti.test: Likewise.
2910 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
2912 2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2914 tests: work around a texi+cygnus bug causing a spurious XFAIL
2915 * tests/txinfo5b.test: New test, like txinfo5.test but calling
2916 automake with the `-Wno-override' option to work around a bug
2917 in the texinfo + cygnus interaction.
2918 * tests/txinfo5.test: Update heading comments.
2919 * tests/Makefile.am (TEST): Updated.
2921 2011-01-09 Dave Hart <davehart@gmail.com> (tiny change)
2923 Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
2924 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
2926 2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2928 Improve, extend and tweak tests on Texinfo support.
2929 * tests/instdir-texi.test: Add a call to `ls -l' after that to
2930 `make', for debugging. When looking for required tools, do not
2931 redirect the output of "$tool --help" to /dev/null, and do not
2932 uselessly run it in a subshell.
2933 * tests/txinfo.test: Rewritten to run autoconf, ./configure and
2934 make. All checks moved into Makefile.am.
2935 * tests/txinfo8.test: Likewise, and modernize the generated
2937 * tests/txinfo2.test: Moved checks into Makefile.am, and other
2939 * tests/txinfo5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
2940 changes. Add trailing `:' command.
2941 * tests/txinfo6.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
2942 Makefile.in stricter.
2943 * tests/txinfo7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
2944 changes. Add trailing `:' command. Do not add unnecessary stuff
2946 * tests/txinfo9.test: Verify that more targets which are expected
2947 to be generated only once really are. Make grepping less strict,
2948 to avoid exposing too much internal details. More minor changes.
2949 * tests/txinfo16.test: Add trailing `:'. Prefer cat over echo
2950 for appending to configure.in. Updated/fixed heading comments.
2951 * tests/txinfo23.test: Likewise, and extended a little by making
2952 it check that no info file is created in the $(srcdir).
2953 * tests/txinfo24.test: Likewise.
2954 * tests/txinfo25.test: Likewise.
2955 * tests/txinfo18.test: Add trailing `:'. Prefer cat over echo
2956 for appending to configure.in. Also, check that index files are
2957 cleaned also by "make clean", not only by "make distclean".
2958 * tests/txinfo22.test: Prefer `$me' over hard-coded test name,
2959 and added trailing `:' command. This testcase also used to check
2960 that automake ignores in-line comments when using variables, but
2961 preserves them in the output; these checks (added in commit
2962 "Release-1-7f-4-g9177ef8") do not really pertain to this test,
2963 so they have been moved ...
2964 * tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: ... into this new test.
2965 * tests/txinfo4.test: Escape literal dots in grep regexps. Add
2966 trailing `:' command.
2967 * tests/txinfo29.test: Likewise. Relax grepping of generated
2968 Makefile.in w.r.t. whitespaces. Prefer `cat' over `echo' to
2969 append to configure.in.
2970 * tests/txinfo3.test: Likewise.
2971 * tests/vtexi.test: Improve grepping of Makefile.in (sometimes
2972 make it stricter, sometimes laxer). Move `set -e' setting just
2973 after the inclusion of ./defs. De-uglify a sed command. Other
2974 minor cosmetic improvements.
2975 * tests/vtexi2.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in stricter. Add
2976 trailing `:' command.
2977 * tests/vtexi3.test: New test on version.texi support.
2978 * tests/vtexi4.test: Likewise.
2979 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
2981 2011-01-09 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
2983 Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
2984 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
2986 2011-01-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2988 cosmetics: remove trailing whitespaces
2989 * doc/automake.texi: Remove trailing whitespaces.
2990 * tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
2991 * tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
2992 * tests/fort4.test: Likewise.
2993 * tests/fort5.test: Likewise.
2994 * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
2995 * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
2997 automake: minor fixes in comments
2998 * automake.in: Some minor fixes and enhancements in comments.
3000 2011-01-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3002 Add test coverage for deleted header files.
3003 * tests/depcomp6.test, tests/depcomp7.test: Update tests to
3004 also check for the deleted header bug. If no dependency
3005 tracking mechanism could be found, SKIP rather than exit
3006 successfully. Use GNU style spacing and ANSI C prototypes.
3008 Fix typos in Rule.pm comments.
3009 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typos in comments.
3011 docs: split 'amhello Explained' node.
3012 * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Split node ...
3013 (amhello's configure.ac Setup Explained)
3014 (amhello's Makefile.am Setup Explained) : ... into these two.
3015 (Top, Hello World): Adjust, and add @anchor for stable URL links.
3016 Suggestion by Karl Berry in automake bug#7766.
3018 2011-01-08 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
3019 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
3021 docs: reference defining directories in amhello node.
3022 * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Point to Autoconf
3023 manual for how to convert directory values into macros.
3024 (Optional): Fix grammar nit.
3026 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3028 * NEWS: Fix typo (forgotten word).
3030 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3031 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3033 docs: how to work around checks on invalid primary/directory couples
3034 * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): Document the blessed idiom which can
3035 be used to work around automake checks on invalid primary/directory
3036 couples (such as `lib_PROGRAMS' or `doc_LIBRARIES').
3038 2011-01-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3040 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
3041 * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
3044 Fix maintainer-check regression.
3045 * tests/subobj11a.test: Pass DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS in the
3048 Bump copyright years.
3049 * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
3050 * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
3051 * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
3053 2010-12-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3054 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3056 Work around a bug in file-inclusion mechanism of Solaris make.
3057 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): In the name of the
3058 dependency file: collapse multiple slash characters into a single
3060 * tests/subobj11a.test: New test.
3061 * tests/subobj11b.test: Likewise.
3062 * tests/subobj11c.test: Likewise.
3063 * tests/depcomp8a.test: Likewise.
3064 * tests/depcomp8b.test: Likewise.
3065 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
3067 Report by Stefano Lattarini, quick fix by Ralf Wildenhues, final
3068 patch and tests by Stefano Lattarini.
3070 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3072 Fix two spurious testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5.
3073 * tests/suffix13.test (Makefile.am): Account for VPATH issues on
3074 weaker make implementations (e.g. IRIX 6.5).
3075 * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise, plus a required related
3077 Reported by Ralf Wildenhues. The bugs have been there from the
3078 first versions of the affected test scripts.
3080 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3082 docs: cygnus mode doesn't require AM_CYGWIN32 macro.
3083 * doc/automake.texi (Cygnus): Mode 'cygnus' does not require
3084 the AM_CYGWIN32 macro (and indeed hasn't required it since at
3085 least commit Release-1-2-31-g3038064 "merged changes from
3086 Cygnus" of 1997-08-25).
3088 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3090 distlinksbrk.test: Work around botched "make -k".
3091 * tests/distlinksbrk.test: Run "make" multiple times and grep
3092 its output each time for a single error message, rather than
3093 running "make -k" one single time and grepping its output for
3094 all the expected error messages. This should work around make
3095 implementations with limited (broken?) `-k' support; for more
3096 information, see these subthreads on the automake-patches list:
3097 - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on HP-UX 11.23",
3098 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00162.html>
3099 - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5",
3100 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00166.html>
3102 2010-12-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3104 Fix sed-related buglet in test "subdir5.test"
3105 * tests/subdir5.test: Always terminate text passed to the
3106 `i' sed command with a newline, to work around limitations
3107 in e.g. older OpenBSD sed.
3109 2010-12-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3111 docs: fix blunder in example about python extension modules
3112 * doc/automake.texi (Python): Use `quaternion_la_SOURCES',
3113 not `quaternion_SOURCES', to declare the sources of python
3114 extension module `quaternion.la'.
3116 2010-12-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3118 docs: list LTLIBRARIES among Automake primaries
3119 * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): List `LTLIBRARIES' among
3120 the Automake primaries.
3122 2010-12-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3124 Improve tests on generated portions of configure help screen.
3125 * tests/help-depend.test: Grepping of configure help screen
3126 relaxed to cater for possible line wrapping, and tightened in
3128 * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
3129 * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
3130 * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
3131 * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
3132 * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
3133 * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
3134 * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
3135 * tests/help-init.test: Grepping of configure help screen
3138 2010-12-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3140 Avoid running installed automake from 'libtool --help'.
3141 * tests/subobj9.test: Export AUTOCONF and AUTOMAKE.
3142 Together with fixed Libtool, this fixes check-coverage to not
3143 invoke installed automake.
3145 2010-11-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3147 Fix spurious failures in `silent*.test' for $CC != gcc
3148 In some tests on automake-produced silent rules, we forced the
3149 use of gcc depmode to improve testsuite coverage; but this has
3150 unsurprisingly led to spurious failures when some non-GNU C
3151 compilers were used. So we are now careful to require GCC in
3152 tests that force gcc depmode.
3153 From reports by Ralf Wildenhues.
3154 * tests/silent5.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
3155 * tests/silent-many-generic.test, tests/silent-many-gcc.test: ...
3156 these new sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode
3157 and lists "gcc" in $required.
3158 * tests/silentlex.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
3159 * tests/silent-lex-generic.test, tests/silent-lex-gcc.test: ...
3160 these new sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode
3161 and lists "gcc" in $required.
3162 * tests/silentyacc.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
3163 * tests/silent-yacc-generic.test, tests/silent-yacc-gcc.test: ...
3164 these new sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and
3165 lists "gcc" in $required.
3166 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
3168 2010-11-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3170 Tests: consistently use "|| Exit 1" after ". ./defs".
3171 * tests/autohdr.test: Use `. ./defs || Exit 1', not bare
3172 `. ./defs', for consistency with other tests.
3173 * tests/autohdr2.test: Likewise.
3174 * tests/autohdr3.test: Likewise.
3175 * tests/autohdr4.test: Likewise.
3176 * tests/cond23.test: Likewise.
3177 * tests/cond24.test: Likewise.
3178 * tests/cond25.test: Likewise.
3179 * tests/cond26.test: Likewise.
3180 * tests/cond27.test: Likewise.
3181 * tests/cond28.test: Likewise.
3182 * tests/cond29.test: Likewise.
3183 * tests/cond30.test: Likewise.
3184 * tests/cond31.test: Likewise.
3185 * tests/cond32.test: Likewise.
3186 * tests/cond33.test: Likewise.
3187 * tests/cond34.test: Likewise.
3188 * tests/cond35.test: Likewise.
3189 * tests/cond36.test: Likewise.
3190 * tests/cond37.test: Likewise.
3191 * tests/cond38.test: Likewise.
3192 * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
3193 * tests/cond40.test: Likewise.
3194 * tests/cond41.test: Likewise.
3195 * tests/cond42.test: Likewise.
3196 * tests/cond43.test: Likewise.
3197 * tests/cond44.test: Likewise.
3198 * tests/cond45.test: Likewise.
3199 * tests/dollarvar.test: Likewise.
3200 * tests/dollarvar2.test: Likewise.
3201 * tests/hfs.test: Likewise.
3202 * tests/libobj14.test: Likewise.
3203 * tests/percent.test: Likewise.
3204 * tests/percent2.test: Likewise.
3205 * tests/phony.test: Likewise.
3206 * tests/silent.test: Likewise.
3207 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
3208 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
3209 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
3210 * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
3211 * tests/silent6.test: Likewise.
3212 * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
3213 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
3214 * tests/silentcxx.test: Likewise.
3215 * tests/silentf77.test: Likewise.
3216 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
3217 * tests/silentlex.test: Likewise.
3218 * tests/silentyacc.test: Likewise.
3220 Avoid useless cleaning in some `silent*.test' tests.
3221 * tests/silentf77.test: Removed useless calls to "make clean"
3222 and "make maintainer-clean".
3223 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
3224 * tests/silent3.test: Removed useless call to "make distclean".
3225 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
3226 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
3228 2010-11-19 Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
3230 Sync config-ml.in from GCC.
3231 * config-ml.in: Add Go support: treat GOC and GOCFLAGS like other
3232 compiler/flag environment variables.
3234 2010-11-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3236 Automake::Config: remove extra trailing semicolon.
3237 * lib/Automake/Config.in: Remove extra trailing semicolon.
3239 help4.test: fix botched heading comment.
3240 * tests/help4.test: Fixed the heading comment, since it
3241 didn't correctly describe what checks the testcase was
3242 supposed to perform.
3244 help2.test: add checks on aclocal too.
3245 * tests/help2.test: Check that also `aclocal --version' and
3246 `aclocal --help' work with configure.in and acinclude.m4 both
3249 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3251 Fix spurious failures of silent-rules tests with Sun Fortran.
3252 * tests/silentf77.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
3253 messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers, to
3254 avoid spurious failures. Add a trailing `:' command.
3255 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
3257 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3259 Fix spurious failures of silent5.test with Sun Fortran.
3260 * tests/silent5.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
3261 messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers,
3262 to avoid spurious failures. This bug has been there from the
3263 very first version of this test script.
3265 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3267 Fix regression in colon{5,6}.test (failures on AIX 5.3).
3268 * tests/colon5.test: Also substitute `@SHELL@' with `$SHELL' when
3269 post-processing the generated Makefile.in, to work around a bug
3270 of AIX 5.3 make which doesn't allow setting the `$(SHELL)' macro
3271 on the commend line. Calls to `$MAKE' adjusted accordingly.
3272 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
3273 Regression introduced in commit v1.11-175-gf9fe878 "Modernize,
3274 improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test", and reported by Ralf
3277 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3279 Fix regression in ansi.test (failure on AIX 5.3).
3280 * tests/ansi.test: Remove redundant hackish check done using a
3281 hand-postprocessed Makefile.in. This check worked by setting
3282 the `$(SHELL)' macro on the command line of make, but this is
3283 not supported by the AIX 5.3 make implementation.
3284 This bug has been lurking for a long time, and was activated by
3285 commit v1.11-125-gc1f6cdb "Enable `errexit' shell flag in various
3286 tests". Report by Ralf Wildenhues.
3288 2010-11-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3290 tests: avoid '##'-style comments inside recipe commands.
3291 * tests/confh.test, tests/confh8.test: Remove
3292 double-hash comments from makefile rule commands, they
3293 are not part of the Automake API.
3295 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3297 tests: work around dash quoting issue in case statements.
3298 * tests/color.test, tests/color2.test: Quote variable in case
3299 pattern, to avoid skipping tests with dash 0.5.5.1.
3301 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3303 Rebuild menus in the manual.
3304 * doc/automake.texi: Rebuild menus (using ^C ^U ^A in emacs).
3305 Thanks to Ian Lance Taylor for the suggestion.
3307 Fix install-strip when $(STRIP) contains several words.
3308 * lib/am/install.am (install-strip): Update comment. Use
3309 separate sub-make invocations for empty and nonempty $(STRIP),
3310 to fix quoting issues.
3311 * tests/strip2.test, tests/strip3.test: New tests.
3312 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Adjust.
3314 2010-11-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3316 Fix yaccdry.test failure: require bison.
3317 * tests/yaccdry.test: Require bison.
3318 Found by NixOS Hydra.
3320 2010-11-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3322 Fix a bug in variable concatenation with `+='.
3323 * lib/Automake/VarDef.pm (append): Since the content of the
3324 "appended-to" variable is going to be unconditionally normalized
3325 later, simply separate the appended value with a single whitespace
3326 character, instead of trying to be uselessly smarter by using
3327 escaped newlines. This fixes a bug in which extra backslashes
3328 where erroneously inserted in the variable's final value.
3329 * tests/pluseq11.test: New test, exposing the bug.
3330 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
3331 Reported by Andy Wingo.
3333 2010-11-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3335 Fix bug in rules for creating vala vapi/header files.
3336 * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Add forgotten "fi" in an
3337 if control structure in a generated make rules. Bug introduced
3338 by previous commit `v1.11-221-gd7c1679', and revealed by failure
3339 of test `vala2.test'.
3341 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3343 Fix and document rules to not touch the tree with `make -n'.
3344 * doc/automake.texi (Multiple Outputs): Document the problem of
3345 modifications during dry-run execution, propose solution.
3347 * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Split recipe so the
3348 stamp file is not removed with GNU `make -n'.
3349 (lang_yacc_target_hook): Separate removal of parser output file
3350 and header remaking.
3351 * lib/am/lisp.am ($(am__ELCFILES)): Determine whether -n was
3352 passed to make, take care not to remove any files in that case.
3353 * lib/am/remake-hdr.am (%CONFIG_H%): Separate removal of
3354 %STAMP% file from induced remaking of config header.
3355 * tests/autohdrdry.test, tests/lispdry.test, tests/yaccdry.test:
3357 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
3359 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3361 Add FAQ entry for bug reporting instructions.
3362 * doc/automake.texi (Reporting Bugs): New section.
3363 (Introduction): Refer to it.
3365 2010-10-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3367 Add support for newer python versions.
3368 * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Add python2.7 and python3.2 to
3369 _AM_PYTHON_INTERPRETER_LIST. Since we are at it, break a long
3370 line and fix indentation.
3372 From a report by Thomas Klausner.
3374 Add test for `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' macro.
3375 * tests/dmalloc.test: New test.
3376 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
3378 Fix nits and bugs in tests `help*.test'.
3379 * tests/help4.test: Fix broken sed commands used to strip `-W...'
3380 flags away from "$AUTOMAKE" and "$ACLOCAL".
3381 * tests/help3.test: Likewise, and fix a botched comment.
3382 * tests/help.test: Likewise. Also, use "AUTOMAKE_fails ..."
3383 instead of "$AUTOMAKE ... && Exit 1", for consistency and to
3384 please maintainer-check.
3385 * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
3387 2010-10-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3388 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3390 Improve tests `help*.test' (also fixes maintcheck failures).
3391 * tests/help.test: To run automake, use `$AUTOMAKE' with all `-W'
3392 flags stripped away rather than hard-coded `automake-$APIVERSION',
3393 to better honour user-overrides. Similarly for aclocal.
3394 * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
3395 * tests/help3.test: Likewise.
3396 * tests/help4.test: Likewise.
3398 2010-10-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3400 Document and fix expansion of variables before rules.
3401 * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Document that variables
3402 are expanded before rules.
3403 * lib/am/check.am (am__check_post): Reword a bit so it does not
3404 get matched as a rule.
3405 Suggestion by Ben Pfaff.
3407 2010-10-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3409 Revert "parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue."
3410 This reverts commit 24e3b4ee2f8cb9f72dd94a05a893f3d4e88b7835,
3411 because it re-opened the bug fixed by v1.11-10-g218e678.
3413 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3415 parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
3416 * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
3417 substitution %MAKEFILE%.
3418 (generate_makefile): Adjust.
3419 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
3420 sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
3421 input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
3424 Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
3426 2010-09-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3428 Extend tests on `--help' and `--version' options.
3429 * tests/help.test: Create a new empty directory and chdir into
3430 it, rather than removing already present files. Run the aclocal
3431 and automake wrapper scripts directly, instead of relying on
3432 $AUTOMAKE and $ACLOCAL. Be sure to correctly match literal dots
3433 in aclocal's and automake's stderr. Add a trailing `:' command.
3434 * tests/help2.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
3435 `--version' works in directories with broken `configure.in'.
3436 * tests/help3.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
3437 `--version' take precedence on the other options.
3438 * tests/help4.test: New test, checking that the first among the
3439 `--help' and `--version' options to be specified on the command
3441 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
3443 2010-09-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3445 Testsuite: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when extending PATH.
3446 * tests/compile2.test: Do no uselessly (implicitly) repeat the
3447 computation of PATH_SEPARATOR again.
3448 * tests/instmany-mans.test: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when
3449 extending/redefining PATH.
3450 * tests/instmany-python.test: Likewise.
3451 * tests/instmany.test: Likewise.
3452 * tests/man4.test: Likewise.
3453 * tests/mkinst3.test: Likewise.
3454 * tests/mmodely.test: Likewise.
3455 * tests/multlib.test: Likewise.
3456 * tests/txinfo30.test: Likewise.
3457 * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
3459 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_PATH_SEPARATOR): New maintainer check.
3460 (syntax_check_rules): Updated.
3462 Testsuite: new variables `$PATH_SEPARATOR' and `$APIVERSION'.
3463 * tests/defs.in ($APIVERSION): New AC_SUBST'd variable.
3464 ($ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE): Use it.
3465 ($PATH_SEPARATOR): New AC_SUBST'd variables.
3468 2010-09-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3470 Manual: be more agnostic w.r.t. version control system used.
3471 * doc/automake.texi (Basics of Distribution): Also refer to `.svn'
3472 directories as a type of probably-unwanted files that are copied
3473 regardless when adding directories to EXTRA_DIST.
3474 (The dist Hook): Show a dist-hook example which removes Subversion
3475 `.svn' private directories from distdir, rather than CVS private
3477 (missing and AM_MAINTAINER_MODE): Try to be more agnostic w.r.t.
3478 the version control system used.
3480 Manual: index refer to target "git-dist", not "cvs-dist".
3481 * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Index the non-standard
3482 example about "git-dist" under the "git-dist" label, not under
3485 Perl modules: remove references to "Automake CVS repository".
3486 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Update comments to refer to "Automke's
3487 git repository" rather than to "Automake's CVS repository".
3488 * lib/Automake/Configure_ac.pm: Likewise.
3489 * lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm: Likewise.
3490 * lib/Automake/Struct.pm: Likewise.
3491 * lib/Automake/XFile.pm: Likewise.
3492 * lib/Automake/Version.pm (=head1 DESCRIPTION): Refer to "git
3493 branches" rather than "CVS branches".
3495 Remove obsolete .cvsignore files.
3496 * .cvsignore, doc/.cvsignore, lib/.cvsignore, lib/am/.cvsignore,
3497 lib/Automake/.cvsignore, lib/Automake/tests/.cvsignore,
3498 m4/.cvsignore, tests/.cvsignore: Files deleted. Even when using
3499 savannah's CVS readonly mirror there's no way to commit back to
3500 the real repository, so this files are not worth maintaining or
3503 2010-09-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3505 * m4/dmalloc.m4: Bump serial number and copyright years.
3507 2010-09-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3509 Fix broken link in `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' help screen.
3510 * m4/dmalloc.m4 (AM_WITH_DMALLOC): Refer only to the dmalloc site
3511 `http://www.dmalloc.com', not to the dmalloc tarball there (which
3512 seems to have been removed, substituted by multiple release
3515 2010-09-17 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
3517 Avoid triple-space after period.
3518 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): Avoid 3 spaces at
3520 * ChangeLog.03: Likewise.
3521 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Likewise.
3522 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (_print_message): Likewise.
3523 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm (rule): Likewise.
3524 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (var): Likewise.
3525 * lib/am/distdir.am: Likewise.
3526 * tests/insthook.test: Likewise.
3528 2010-09-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3530 Test automake-generated portions of configure help screen.
3531 * tests/help-depend.test: New test.
3532 * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
3533 * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
3534 * tests/help-init.test: Likewise.
3535 * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
3536 * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
3537 * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
3538 * tests/help-regex.test: Likewise.
3539 * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
3540 * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
3541 * tests/mmode.test: Remove tests on `configure --help' output,
3542 they are superseded by tests in `help-maintainer.test'.
3543 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
3545 2010-09-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3547 * tests/README: Don't put GCS mandated tools in $required.
3549 2010-09-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3551 * HACKING: Hint at old commits with `git describe' output.
3553 2010-09-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3555 Fix regression in test `colon4.test'.
3556 * tests/colon4.test: Fix botched editing to `configure.in'
3557 that made the test useless. Since we are at it, improve
3558 comments and make grepping of generated Makefile.in slightly
3560 Regression introduced by change "Modernize, improve and/or
3561 extend tests `colon*.test" (Stefano Lattarini, 2010-08-08).
3563 2010-09-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3565 Do not require "gzip" explicitly in tests.
3566 The gzip utility is simply expected to be present on any decent
3567 target system for Automake. So it's pointless to put it in
3569 * tests/install2.test ($required): Do not require "gzip".
3570 * tests/lex3.test: Likewise.
3571 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
3572 From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
3574 2010-09-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3576 Make some `confh*.test' tests more "semantic" (plus tweakings).
3577 * tests/confh.test: Run "autoconf", "configure" and "make check",
3578 instead of munging/grepping the generated `Makefile.in'.
3579 * tests/confh4.test: Relax the grepping of Makefile.in w.r.t.
3580 white spaces. Do not create useless dummy source file `foo.c'
3581 and useless dummy header file `acconfig.h'.
3582 (configure.in): Remove superfluous call to `AC_OUTPUT'.
3583 * tests/confh6.test: Add trailing `:' command.
3584 * tests/confh7.test: In comments, add reference to ...
3585 * tests/confh8.test: ... this new test, "semantic" sister
3587 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
3588 Prompted by a report from Ralf Wildenhues.
3590 2010-09-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3592 Remove useless whitespace padding in XFAIL_TESTS definition.
3593 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Remove whitespace padding.
3595 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3597 parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
3598 * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
3599 substitution %MAKEFILE%.
3600 (generate_makefile): Adjust.
3601 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
3602 sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
3603 input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
3606 Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
3608 Posix 2008 requires make to set errexit.
3609 * lib/am/check.am: Update comment.
3611 2010-08-27 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3613 Fix bug in test missing6.test.
3614 * tests/missing6.test: Fix the hack used to edit `configure.in',
3615 to avoid producing a configure script that breaks with shells
3616 that do not support $LINENO. Also throw in a couple of cosmetic
3619 2010-08-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3621 Improve robustness of mdate-sh script.
3622 * lib/mdate-sh: Sanitize zsh behavior on startup, to ensure
3623 $ls_command is word-split properly upon invocation.
3624 (error): New function.
3625 (main): Use it. Improve error checking to avoid endless loop
3626 in case $ls_command gave bogus output. Fix eval quotation.
3627 * tests/mdate6.test: New test, to expose eval quotation error.
3628 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
3630 2010-08-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3632 Fix potential regressions in depcomp{3,5}.test.
3633 * tests/depcomp3.test: Do not uselessly escape the character `$'
3634 in makefile rules, when it's used to expand a make macro.
3635 * tests/depcomp5.test: Likewise.
3637 2010-08-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3638 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3640 Docs: clarify how to avoid automatic dependencies tracking.
3641 * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Mention that
3642 automatic dependencies tracking is enabled by default, but that
3643 the package developer can disable it altogether. Add a reference
3644 to the proper section for a more in-depth explanation.
3646 Fix typo in manual (`Makefile.in' instead of `Makefile.am').
3647 * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Fix typo.
3649 2010-08-16 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
3651 Don't hide the table of contents.
3652 * doc/automake.texi: Move the table of contents to the beginning.
3654 2010-08-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3656 Tweak and/or extend some `acloca*.test' tests.
3657 * tests/aclocal8.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured
3659 * tests/aclocal.test: Likewise. Also, add trailing `:'
3661 * tests/acloca19.test: Likewise.
3662 * tests/aclocal5.test: Add trailing `:' command, and prefer
3663 `$me' over hard-coded test name.
3664 * tests/aclocal6.test: Likewise.
3665 * tests/aclocal18.test: Add trailing `:' command, and make
3666 some grepping slightly stricter.
3667 * tests/acloca14.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `diff' over
3668 `cmp', and add some "cosmetic" blank lines.
3670 2010-08-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3672 Tweak and extend tests `pr[!0-9]*.test'.
3673 * tests/primary3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
3674 * tests/primary.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
3675 Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
3676 * tests/primary2.test: Likewise.
3677 * tests/prefix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
3678 changes. Add a trailing `:' command.
3679 * tests/proginst.test: Likewise.
3681 Modernize, improve and extend tests for PR (`pr[0-9]*.test').
3682 * tests/pr2.test: Add trailing `:' command.
3683 * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
3684 * tests/pr401.test: Likewise.
3685 * tests/pr401b.test: Likewise.
3686 * tests/pr401c.test: Likewise.
3687 * tests/pr300-prog.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic changes in
3689 * tests/pr300-lib.test: Likewise.
3690 * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise, and ensure verbose printing
3691 of captured make stdout.
3692 * tests/pr211.test: Add trailing `:' command. Also, use the
3693 `configure.in' stub created by ./defs, rather than writing it
3695 * tests/pr204.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic spacing changes.
3696 * tests/pr287.test: Likewise, and move setting of `errexit' shell
3697 flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs).
3698 * tests/pr220.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
3699 Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
3700 * tests/pr224.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
3701 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Do not export
3702 `CC=gcc' to configure explicitly (it's already exported globally
3703 in ./defs, since we have "gcc" in $required). Use the stub for
3704 `configure.in' created by ./defs, rather than writing it from
3705 scratch. Do not create dummy files required by "gnu" mode (e.g.
3706 README, NEWS), since we run automake in foreign mode anyway.
3707 * tests/pr72.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
3708 changes. Extend existing checks a bit.
3709 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise. Also, avoid obsolescent constructs in
3710 the generated `configure.in', and extend existing checks over the
3711 generated tarball a bit.
3712 * tests/pr87.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
3713 changes. Add a trailing `:' command. Also, do not create dummy
3714 files required by "gnu" mode (e.g. README, NEWS), since we run
3715 automake in foreign mode anyway.
3716 * tests/pr243.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
3717 `configure.in'. Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
3718 changes. Cosmetic changes to spacing, add trailing `:' command,
3719 and add a "FIXME" comment.
3720 * tests/pr266.test: Likewise, and add explicit command line switch
3721 `--enable-dependecy-tracking' to the ./configure call.
3722 * tests/pr279.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
3723 `configure.in'; also, use the `configure.in' stub created by
3724 ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch. Enable `errexit'
3725 shell flag, and related changes. Add trailing `:' command.
3726 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
3728 * tests/pr307.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
3729 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Escape literal
3730 dots in grep regular expressions. Also, add a trailing `:'
3731 command, and cosmetic changes to spacing.
3733 Tests for PR: add excerpts from original bug report, for clarity.
3734 * tests/pr2.test: Ditto.
3735 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
3736 * tests/pr72.test: Likewise.
3737 * tests/pr87.test: Likewise.
3738 * tests/pr211.test: Likewise.
3739 * tests/pr220.test: Likewise.
3740 * tests/pr224.test: Likewise.
3741 * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
3742 * tests/pr243.test: Likewise.
3743 * tests/pr266.test: Likewise.
3744 * tests/pr279.test: Likewise, and tell to keep it in sync
3745 with its sister test.
3746 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
3748 2010-08-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3750 Tweak, extend and improve tests `cond[a-z]*.test'.
3751 * tests/condd.test: Add trailing `:' command. Typofix in
3753 * tests/condhook.test: Make sure target `install-data-hook' is
3754 not called by `make install', but that data files are installed.
3755 Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in. Add trailing `:' command.
3756 * tests/condhook2.test: New test, sister test of condhook, with
3758 * tests/condinc2.test: Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
3759 Prefer trailing `:' command over trailing `Exit 0'.
3760 * tests/condman2.test: Enable errexit shell flag, and related
3761 changes. Add trailing `:' command.
3762 * tests/condman.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless
3763 dummy manpages, and use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
3764 * tests/condman3.test: New test, similar to condman.test, but
3765 it also runs ./configure and "make install", and check the
3767 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
3769 Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test.
3770 * tests/colon.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
3771 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Do not create
3772 a useless dummy file. Add trailing `:' command.
3773 * tests/colon4.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
3774 related changes. Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
3775 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
3776 * tests/colon7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
3777 changes. Improve the generated `configure.in' file. Add
3778 trailing `:' command.
3779 * tests/colon2.test: Likewise. Also, add some new checks.
3780 * tests/colon5.test: Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
3781 Add new, much deeper checks. Add trailing `:' command.
3782 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
3783 * tests/colon3.test: Add trailing `:' command. Remove useless
3784 comments and echos. Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
3785 make some grepping tests stricter. Add a "FIXME" comments about
3786 planned improvements.
3788 Improve and extend tests `asm*.test'.
3789 * tests/asm.test: Use configure.in stub generated by ./defs,
3790 and avoid obsoleted autoconf constructs. Make grepping of
3791 Automake stderr stricter. Do not create useless source file.
3792 Improve verbose messages. Minor cosmetic changes. Tell to
3793 keep it in sync with other sister tests asm*.test.
3794 * tests/asm2.test: Likewise.
3795 * tests/asm3.test: Likewise.
3797 Modernize, improve and/or extend test scripts `conf*.test'.
3798 * tests/confh5.test: Cosmetic changes.
3799 * tests/conff.test: Likewise.
3800 * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise.
3801 * tests/conflnk.test: Likewise.
3802 * tests/conflnk2.test: Likewise.
3803 * tests/confsub.test: Likewise.
3804 * tests/confvar.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
3806 * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
3807 * tests/conflnk3.test: Cosmetic changes. Re-enable a temporarily
3808 disabled test (which didn't work with autoconf <= 2.59, but now we
3809 are requiring autoconf 2.62, so...)
3810 * tests/conflnk4.test: Cosmetic changes, and extend existing tests
3811 accordingly to "TODO" comments.
3812 * tests/conff2.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
3813 Add some comments explaining why we don't use the `configure.in'
3814 stub preset be ./defs.
3815 * tests/confh.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
3816 rather than writing one from scratch, and do not call AC_OUTPUT.
3817 Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related changes. Prefer diff over
3818 cmp to compare text files. Prefer perl over sed to fetch the value
3819 of $(DIST_COMMON) from Makefile.in. Make grepping of the contents
3820 of $(DIST_COMMON) stricter.
3821 * tests/confh4.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
3822 rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping of Makefile.in
3824 * tests/confh5.test: Make grepping of `config.h' stricter. Add a
3826 * tests/configure.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in generated
3827 `configure.ac'. Do not write `configure.in' two times. Escape
3828 literal dots in grep regular expressions.
3829 * tests/confincl.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
3830 changes. Prefer fgrep over grep. Other cosmetic changes.
3831 * tests/config.test: Renamed to ...
3832 * tests/confh6.test: ... this. Fix m4 quoting in `configure.in',
3833 and make grepping of `config.h' and `config.h.in' stricter.
3834 * tests/conf2.test: Renamed ...
3835 * tests/confh7.test: ... to this. Use the `configure.in' stub
3836 created by ./defs, rather than writing one from scratch. Try to
3837 run the checks both with and without AC_PROG_CC and AC_OUTPUT in
3839 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
3841 Minor improvements and fixes in tests `depcomp*.test'.
3842 * tests/depcomp.test: Do not create useless dummy source files.
3843 Add a trailing `:' command.
3844 * tests/depcomp2.test: Use `unset' on the CFLAG variable to ensure
3845 it's not in in the environment, rather than exporting it with an
3846 empty value. Do not pass CC=gcc to configure, as that's already
3847 done in ./defs since we have gcc in $required. Ensure verbose
3848 printing of captured stderr, and normalize its checking. Add a
3849 trailing `:' command.
3850 * tests/depcomp3.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
3851 grep regexps. Always use `: >' rather than `touch' to create empty
3852 files. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the created
3853 Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:' command.
3854 * tests/depcomp4.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
3855 grep regexp. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the
3856 created Makefile.am. Ensure verbose printing of captured makes'
3857 stoud/stderr. Add a trailing `:' command.
3858 * tests/depcomp5.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
3859 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Quote literal dots
3860 and dollar characters in grep regexps. Explicitly declare phony
3861 targets as such in the created Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:'
3863 * tests/depcomp6.test: Consistently use m4 quoting in the generated
3864 configure.in. Cosmetic fixes to spacing. Make the "dummy" `if'
3865 statement required by OpenBSD's sh `set -e' more robust, and add
3866 explanatory comments to it.
3867 * tests/depcomp7.test: Likewise, and add a trailing `:' command.
3869 Separate failing part of test `all.test'.
3870 * tests/all.test: Keep only (x)failing part of the test. Working
3871 checks moved out to ...
3872 * tests/all2.test: ... this new test.
3873 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
3875 Modernize, improve and extend tests `subobj*.test'.
3876 * tests/subobjname.test: Add trailing `:' command.
3877 * tests/subobj.test: Make grepping of `Makefile.in' stricter.
3878 Escape literal dots in grep regexps.
3879 * tests/subobj2.test: Add trailing `:' command. Do not use the
3880 unportable fgrep option `-e'.
3881 * tests/subobj3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
3882 (configure.in): Use proper m4 quoting, and avoid obsolescent
3884 * tests/subobj8.test: Likewise. Also, enable `errexit' shell
3885 flag, with related changes
3886 * tests/subobj4.test: Likewise. Also, make grepping of
3887 `Makefile.in' stricter.
3888 * tests/subobj5.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of
3889 `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
3891 (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
3892 writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
3893 * tests/subobj6.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of
3894 `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
3895 of ./defs). Do not create useless dummy ac-init file `f'.
3896 * tests/subobj7.test: Do not create useless dummy ac-init file
3898 (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
3899 writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
3900 * tests/subobj9.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
3901 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Fail the test if
3902 `make distcheck' fails. Ensure verbose printing of captured make
3903 stdout. Avoid useless fork by doing simple grep instead of using
3904 test -n "`COMMAND | grep ...`".
3905 (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
3906 (Makefile.am): Explicitly mark target "print" as phony.
3907 * tests/subobj10.test: Removed duplicated call to `set -e'. Add
3908 trailing `:' command.
3909 (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
3911 Remove a couple of obsoleted tests.
3912 * tests/fpinstall.test: Removed.
3913 * tests/fpinst2.test: Likewise.
3914 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
3916 Bootstrap: updated HACKING entry.
3917 * HACKING ("Working with git"): Explain how to override the
3918 autoconf and autom4te programs used by the bootstrap process.
3921 * bootstrap: Do not remove `lib/Automake/Config.pm' anymore,
3922 since we don't generate it. Correctly quote arguments of
3923 `eval' builtin. Fixed a botched error message. Removed an
3926 Bootstrap: don't search perl in $PATH.
3927 * bootstrap: Do not explicitly search perl in $PATH anymore.
3928 ($PATH_SEPARATOR): Removed, it's no more needed.
3930 Bootstrap: let the user choose which autoconf to use.
3931 * bootstrap ($AUTOCONF): New variable, from the environment.
3932 ($AUTOM4TE): Likewise, for clarity.
3933 Use "$AUTOCONF" instead of calling "autoconf" directly.
3935 Minor improvements to tests ar*.test.
3936 * tests/ar.test: Add trailing `:' command.
3937 * tests/ar2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
3938 Makefile.in stricter.
3940 2010-08-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3942 Fix maintainer-check failure.
3943 * tests/cond5.test: Quote sleep argument, this isn't about
3944 time stamp differences.
3946 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
3947 * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
3950 2010-08-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3952 Work around a nasty bug (segfault) of Solaris make.
3953 * lib/am/check.am (recheck, recheck-html): Trim trailing spaces
3954 from $list, to avoid triggering a nasty bug (potential segfault)
3957 2010-08-06 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
3959 Make cond5.test more robust on MSYS.
3960 * tests/cond5.test: Add delay before the first kill attempt to
3961 cater for problems with MSYS bash.
3963 2010-11-16 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
3965 Skip MSVC oriented tests if the shell is not capable.
3966 * tests/defs: New required entry 'xsi-shell'.
3967 * tests/ar-lib.test, tests/compile3.test, tests/compile6.test:
3968 Require a XSI capable shell.
3969 Reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
3971 2010-11-15 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
3973 compile: clear the `eat' variable earlier.
3974 * lib/compile: Clear the `eat' variable earlier.
3975 ($scriptversion): Update.
3976 * tests/compile3.test: Prevent regressions.
3978 2010-10-07 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
3980 depcomp: add new one-pass depmode for MSVC 7 and later.
3981 * lib/depcomp: Add new depmodes 'msvc7' and 'msvc7msys' which
3982 make use of the -showIncludes option added in MSVC 7.
3983 * m4/depend.m4 (_AM_DEPENDENCIES): Handle the new depmodes
3984 similarly to 'msvisualcpp' and 'msvcmsys' as MSVC does not
3985 support the -o option.
3987 2010-10-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3989 tests: fix ar-lib.test for echo that interprets backslashes.
3990 * tests/ar-lib.test: Use printf instead of echo. Avoid test -a.
3991 More robust quoting.
3993 2010-09-21 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
3995 compile: implement library search to support MSVC static linking
3996 * lib/compile (func_cl_wrapper): Implement library search and
3997 -static option so that the user can select whether to prefer
3998 dll import libraries or static libraries. This enables MSVC to
3999 link against dlls generated by libtool without requiring libtool
4000 or workarounds such as -lfoo.dll etc. Makes the tests/static.at
4001 test case in libtool pass.
4002 * tests/compile3.test: Don't trip up if there happens to exist
4003 a "foo" library in the library search path.
4004 * tests/compile6.test: New test, verifying the library search.
4005 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
4007 2010-09-02 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
4009 Make ar-lib support backslashed files in archives.
4010 * lib/ar-lib: If an archive member contains a backslash, make sure
4011 it is escaped when the archive member is extracted.
4012 * tests/ar-lib.test: Test the above.
4014 2010-08-31 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
4016 Do file name conversion for object files in the compile wrapper.
4017 * lib/compile (func_cl_wrapper): Do file name conversion for object
4018 files (i.e. extensions .obj, .OBJ, .o and .O) if needed.
4019 * tests/compile4.test: Test the above.
4021 2010-08-16 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
4023 Optimize compile script on MSYS.
4024 * lib/compile (func_file_conv): Add new argument 'lazy' which
4025 takes an optional list of conversion types where the requested
4026 conversion isn't needed.
4027 (func_cl_wrapper): Take advantage of the above for cases where
4028 MSYS is doing the conversion for us.
4029 Suggested by Ralf Wildenhues.
4031 2010-08-16 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
4033 Support more C++ file extensions for MSVC in the compile script.
4034 * lib/compile (func_cl_wrapper): MSVC only recognizes the .cpp
4035 file extension as C++, unless it's given a hint. So hint about
4036 .cc, .CC, .cxx, .CXX, c++ and C++. Also do path conversion on
4037 .c, .cpp, .CPP, .lib, .LIB and .Lib files.
4038 * tests/compile3.test: Test the C++ hinting.
4040 2010-08-12 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
4042 Enable the use of "link -lib" as the wrapped archiver.
4043 * lib/ar-lib: Enable the use of "link -lib" as the wrapped
4044 archiver, as well as allowing some other options to be passed
4045 through to the wrapped archiver.
4046 * tests/ar-lib.test: Test the above.
4048 2010-08-06 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
4050 Add new auxiliary 'ar-lib' script, wrapping Microsoft lib.
4051 * lib/ar-lib: New auxiliary script.
4052 * lib/Makefile.am: Add above.
4053 * tests/ar-lib.test: New test.
4054 * tests/Makefile.am: Add above.
4055 * automake.in (@common_files): Distribute the 'ar-lib' script.
4056 * doc/automake.texi (Auxiliary Programs): Mention the new
4058 (Optional): Mention 'ar-lib' in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR.
4061 2010-08-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4063 Fix shell pattern negation in compile script.
4064 * lib/compile (func_file_conv): Use `!' not `^' for pattern
4067 2010-08-01 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
4069 Wrap some MSVC options in the compile script.
4070 * lib/compile: MSVC supports naming the output file, the option
4071 is just not called -o, so transform -o into the appropriate form
4072 for MSVC. Also wrap some other options while at it (-L, -l, -Wl,
4073 -Xlinker and -I) and convert file names to windows form where
4074 needed for those options to make MSVC more usable in an
4075 autotooled environment.
4076 * doc/automake.texi (Auxiliary Programs): Document the above
4077 extension of the compile script.
4079 * tests/defs.in: New required entry 'cl'.
4080 * tests/compile3.test: New test.
4081 * tests/compile4.test: New test.
4082 * tests/compile5.test: New test.
4083 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
4085 2010-07-31 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4087 Add example git work flow; discuss merge --log in HACKING.
4089 Suggestion by Stefano Lattarini.
4091 Add more hints for debugging make rules.
4092 * doc/automake.texi (Debugging Make Rules): Show command to find
4093 out expanded values of variables; point to makefile debugger.
4095 Prompted by suggestion from Ludovic Courtès and Andy Wingo.
4097 2010-07-27 Patrick Welche <prlw1@cam.ac.uk> (tiny change)
4099 Fix typo in the manual.
4100 * doc/automake.texi (Scripts): Fix typo.
4102 2010-07-27 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4104 Document current policy for development with git.
4105 * HACKING (Working with git): Overhaul.
4106 Prompted by suggestion from Stefano Lattarini.
4108 Fix AM_COND_IF for gone-invalid condition shell expression.
4109 * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): test contents of $COND_TRUE
4110 variable, rather than re-evaluating the shell expression for
4112 * tests/cond40.test: Extend test.
4115 Avoid syntax error if IF-TRUE part of AM_COND_IF expands empty.
4116 * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): Ensure IF-TRUE part is never empty
4117 to avoid shell syntax error if the m4 expansion is empty.
4118 * tests/cond40.test: Enhance test.
4120 Coverage: bogus option to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
4121 * tests/init2.test: New test.
4122 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
4124 2010-07-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4126 Modernize and improve test scripts `subdir*.test'.
4127 * tests/subdir.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
4128 changes. Use the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs',
4129 rather than writing one from scratch.
4130 * tests/subdir2.test: Likewise.
4131 * tests/subdir4.test: Likewise.
4132 * tests/subdir3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
4133 changes. Do not create useless dummy source files.
4134 * tests/subdir5.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in (in topdir
4135 and in subdirs) stricter. Some minor changes to keep it more
4136 in sync with the related test `subdir8.test'.
4137 * tests/subdir8.test: Likewise (but with the related test being
4138 `subdir5.test' here).
4139 * tests/subdir6.test: Cosmetic change in spacing.
4140 * tests/subdir9.test: Define and use new variable `$distdir'. Add
4141 trailing `:' command.
4142 * tests/subdir10.test: Cosmetic consistency-related change.
4143 * tests/subdirbuiltsources.test: Cosmetic changes in spacings.
4144 (configure.in): Use stub created by `./defs', rather than writing
4145 it from scratch. Do not use obsoleted and/or deprecated forms of
4146 autoconf/automake macros.
4148 Modernize and improve test scripts `dist*.test'.
4149 * tests/distcleancheck.test: Do not add useless `-e' option to
4150 a $MAKE call. Extend test by grepping stderr of make.
4151 * tests/distcom2.test: Do not run the same test script on the
4152 Makefile.in twice, but save its output in an intermediate file
4153 instead. Make grepping of DIST_COMMON definition stricter.
4154 Display the content of more files, to ease debugging. Add a
4155 trailing `:' command. Improved heading comments w.r.t. sister
4157 * tests/distcom6.test: Likewise, and avoid to uselessly run
4159 * tests/distcom3.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured stdout
4160 and stderr. Make grepping of captured stderr stricter. Also,
4161 add trailing `:' command.
4162 * tests/distcom4.test: Declare the target `test' in the generated
4163 Makefile.am as `.PHONY'. Display content of more files, to ease
4164 debugging. Add trailing `:' command.
4165 * tests/distcom5.test: Likewise. Also, factor out common sed
4166 script in subroutine `extract_distcommon'.
4167 * tests/distcom7.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to write
4168 test Makefile.am files. Add a trailing `:' command.
4169 * tests/distname.test: Prefer `gzip -d' over `gunzip'. Move the
4170 call to `set -e' earlier. Be stricter and more verbose in the
4171 checking of the generated tarball.
4172 (configure.in): Use the stub provided by ./defs, instead of
4173 writing it from scratch. Avoid obsoleted constructs. Remove
4174 useless call to `AM_PROG_CC_C_O'.
4175 * tests/distdir.test: Various minor improvements/normalizations.
4176 * tests/distlinks.test: Likewise.
4178 2010-07-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4180 Improve and extend test cond5.test.
4181 * tests/cond5.test: Do not blindly sleep 60 seconds before polling
4182 the background automake process, but poll it every 10 seconds for
4183 at most 30 times (this makes the test both faster on good machines,
4184 and more resilient to spurious timeout-due failures when in low
4185 priority or on heavily-loaded systems).
4186 Check also that automake writes the expected error messages on the
4188 Enable `errexit' flag, and related changes.
4189 Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs', rather than
4190 writing one from scratch.
4192 2010-06-26 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4194 Update program --help output to match current GCS.
4195 * configure.ac: Set and substitute PACKAGE_URL if AC_PACKAGE_URL
4196 is not defined, for compatibility to Autoconf < 2.64.
4197 * Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute PACKAGE_BUGREPORT and
4199 (sc_diff_automake_in_automake): Update number of diff lines for
4200 additional substitutions.
4201 * aclocal.in (usage): Use PACKAGE_BUGREPORT. Point to Automake
4202 home page and GNU general help page.
4203 * automake.in (usage): Likewise.
4204 * doc/automake.texi: New flag PACKAGE_BUGREPORT, to factor email
4206 (Introduction, Creating amhello, amhello Explained, Options):
4208 * lib/Automake/Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute
4210 * lib/Automake/Config.in ($PACKAGE_BUGREPORT): New global.
4211 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Use it for footer of fatal
4214 Clean up @var handling in the manual.
4215 * doc/automake.texi: Throughout the manual, lower-case @var
4216 names, replace a few one-character names.
4218 2010-06-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4220 Fix typo-related bug in test script silent5.test.
4221 * tests/silent5.test: Use $EGREP, not $GREP (which is not even
4224 Tests: remove useless repetitions of `foreign' automake option.
4225 * tests/multlib.test (configure.in): Remove useless use of
4226 `foreign' option in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (the `--foreign' option is
4227 already in $AUTOMAKE by default, so no point in repeating it).
4228 * tests/subobj10.test: Likewise.
4229 * tests/subobj9.test: Likewise.
4230 * tests/lex3.test (Makefile.am): Similarly, remove useless use
4231 of `foreign' option in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
4232 * tests/lex5.test: Likewise.
4233 * tests/pr279.test: Likewise.
4234 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
4235 * tests/specflg3.test: Likewise.
4236 * tests/target-cflags.test: Likewise.
4238 Drop useless requirement "gzip" in lex5.test.
4239 * tests/lex5.test ($required): Do not list "gzip", as it's
4242 2010-06-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4244 Fix bugs in test script silent5.test.
4245 * tests/silent5.test: Fixed a nasty bug (due to the use of grep
4246 instead of egrep) that could have led to false negatives.
4248 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4250 Add a test checking that distributed broken symlinks cause
4251 `make dist' to fail.
4252 * tests/distlinksbrk.test: New test.
4253 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
4255 2010-06-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4257 Fix minor testsuite issues, update docs, for Yacc/Lex changes.
4258 * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Mention AM_YFLAGS, YFLAGS
4259 and AM_LFLAGS, LFLAGS in the order in which they now appear in
4262 * tests/lflags.test, tests/lflags2.test, tests/yflags.test,
4263 tests/yflags2.test: Prefer `make -e' over `make VAR=VAL', to
4264 please maintainer-check. Ensure generated C files contain a
4265 declaration, to please compilers.
4267 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4269 Fix bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t. $(AM_FLAGS) and
4270 $(FLAGS) precedence.
4271 * automake.in: Fix registration of languages "Lex", "Lex (C++)",
4272 "Yacc" and "Yacc (C++)", so that $(LFLAGS) has precedence over
4273 $(AM_LFLAGS) and $(YFLAGS) has precedence over $(AM_YFLAGS).
4274 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Updated accordingly.
4277 New tests, exposing bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t.
4278 $(AM_FLAGS) and $(FLAGS) precedence.
4279 * tests/lflags.test: New test, check that user $(LFLAGS) takes
4280 precedence over automake (AM_LFLAGS) and (foo_LFLAGS). Still
4282 * tests/lflags2.test: Likewise.
4283 * tests/yflags.test: New test, check that user $(YFLAGS) takes
4284 precedence over automake (AM_YFLAGS) and (foo_YFLAGS). Still
4286 * tests/yflags2.test: Likewise.
4287 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Extended accordingly.
4289 2010-06-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4291 Modernize, improve and extend tests `suffix*.test'.
4292 * tests/suffix3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
4294 * tests/suffix4.test: Likewise.
4295 * tests/suffix6.test: Likewise, and do not create a useless dummy
4297 * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
4298 * tests/suffix5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
4299 changes. Make grepping of Makefile.in slightly stricter.
4300 * tests/suffix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
4301 changes. Also, do not redirect grep output to /dev/null, as this
4302 might unmotivatedly hide useful information.
4303 * tests/suffix2.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
4304 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Use a more
4305 idiomatic way to count text occurrences in Makefile.in with
4306 grep. Do not create useless dummy source files.
4307 * tests/suffix10.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured make
4308 stdout. Minor cosmetic changes.
4309 * tests/suffix8.test: Likewise. Also, drop useless call to the
4310 env(1) utility, and make grepping of make output stricter by using
4311 $FGREP rather than plain grep.
4312 * tests/suffix11.test: Likewise.
4313 * tests/suffix12.test: Likewise.
4314 * tests/suffix9.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to append to
4315 the `configure.in' stub. Cosmetic changes.
4316 * tests/suffix13.test: Cosmetic spacing change.
4318 2010-06-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4320 Add useful comment in test script ext.test.
4321 * tests/ext.test: Add a comment explaining why an apparently
4322 useless `if' statement is indeed required.
4324 2010-06-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4326 Add useful comment in test script obsolete.test.
4327 * tests/obsolete.test: Add a comment explaining why we need
4328 an indirection in adding $AUTOUPDATE to $required.
4330 Normalize whitespaces in 'tests/Makefile.am'.
4331 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Use only spaces, not tabs, in the
4332 definition of this variable.
4334 2010-06-12 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4336 Remove a couple of unneeded conditionals from tests.
4337 * tests/pr243.test, tests/pr266.test, tests/strip.test: No need
4338 for the FOOTEST conditional.
4340 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4342 Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
4343 * tests/symlink3.test: Deleted, separated into two new, more
4345 * tests/forcemiss.test: ... this one ...
4346 * tests/forcemiss2.test: ... and this one.
4347 * tests/symlink2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, make test
4348 stricter, and skip it if symlink creation is not supported.
4349 * tests/postproc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, related
4350 changes, and a couple of unrelated cosmetic changes.
4351 * tests/recurs.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
4352 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping
4353 of Automake stderr slightly stricter.
4354 * tests/substtarg.test: Likewise.
4355 * tests/strip.test: Likewise, and move the call to `set -e'
4356 earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs'). Also, make sure
4357 that the script installed by `make install-script' is equal to
4359 * tests/substref.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
4360 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Move the call
4361 to `set -e' earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs').
4362 Avoid to explicitly export CC for configure (that's already done
4363 in ./defs). Avoid potential problems with unpredictable make
4364 output. Finally, make grepping of Makefile.in stricter.
4365 * tests/substre2.test: Ensure verbose printing of the captured
4366 make's output, and make its grepping slightly stricter.
4367 * tests/cygwin32.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
4368 changes. Also, do not create useless dummy source/data files.
4369 * tests/scripts.test: Likewise.
4370 * tests/recurs2.test: Likewise. Also, use the `configure.in'
4371 stub created by `./defs'.
4372 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
4374 Modernize, improve and/or fix tests `pluseq*.test.
4375 * tests/pluseq5.test: Append to configure.in using cat with an
4376 here-doc, not using echo.
4377 * tests/pluseq10.test: Make sure that the captured output of
4378 `make' command is always displayed. Where possible, use $FGREP
4379 instead of grep (this change makes some checks slightly stricter).
4380 * tests/pluseq8.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
4382 * tests/pluseq.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless dummy
4383 data files, and use better m4 quoting in generated configure.in.
4384 * tests/pluseq2.test: Likewise. Also, append to configure.in
4385 using cat with an here-doc, not using echo.
4386 * tests/pluseq3.test: Likewise.
4387 * tests/pluseq4.test: Likewise.
4388 * tests/pluseq6.test: Likewise.
4389 * tests/pluseq7.test: Do not create useless dummy source file.
4390 * tests/pluseq9.test: Slightly extended w.r.t. the grepping of
4391 Automake stderr. Some unrelated cosmetic changes.
4393 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4395 Testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured stderr.
4396 * tests/acloca18.test: Print captured stderr before either failing
4397 or grepping it. Be sure to send captured stderr to stderr, not to
4399 * tests/ansi3b.test: Likewise.
4400 * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
4401 * tests/configure.test: Likewise.
4402 * tests/missing3.test: Likewise.
4403 * tests/missing6.test: Likewise.
4404 * tests/output-order.test: Likewise.
4405 * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise.
4406 * tests/python6.test: Likewise.
4407 * tests/python7.test: Likewise.
4408 * tests/python8.test: Likewise.
4409 * tests/python9.test: Likewise.
4410 * tests/subobj.test: Likewise.
4411 * tests/vars3.test: Likewise.
4412 * tests/missing4.test: Likewise, and fix a call to grep not to use
4414 * tests/ansi3.test: Likewise, and rely on the `configure.in' stub
4415 created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
4417 Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
4418 * tests/backsl.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
4420 * tests/backsl2.test: Likewise.
4421 * tests/block.test: Likewise.
4422 * tests/canon2.test: Likewise.
4423 * tests/canon4.test: Likewise.
4424 * tests/comment2.test: Likewise.
4425 * tests/condlib.test: Likewise.
4426 * tests/cond15.test: Likewise, and prefer $FGREP over grep.
4427 * tests/canon3.test: Likewise. Also, avoid to create an useless
4429 * tests/acoutpt2.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and some
4430 related changes. Do some cosmetic improvements in the generated
4431 `configure.in' file.
4432 * tests/cond4.test: Likewise.
4433 * tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
4434 * tests/condinc.test: Likewise.
4435 * tests/cond7.test: Likewise. Also, remove useless setting of
4436 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am.
4437 * tests/ansi.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
4438 changes. Extended, esp. by running autoconf, ./configure and
4439 make, and by looking into the distdir.
4441 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4442 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4444 Extend tests/README w.r.t. trailing `:' in test scripts.
4445 * tests/README (section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
4446 Explain why apparently redundant trailing `:' and `Exit 0' in
4447 test scripts can indeed be useful.
4449 2010-06-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4451 Improve determination of PATH separator in bootstrap script.
4452 * bootstrap: Determine what the PATH separator is the same way
4455 Minor improvements in bootstrap script.
4456 * bootstrap: Consistently use two-spaces indentation. Cosmetic
4457 improvement to comments.
4458 ($me): New variable, containing program basename.
4459 Prepend it to all error messages.
4461 Testsuite now works with BSD make in parallel mode.
4462 * tests/defs.in: Unset variables __MKLVL__ and MAKE_JOBS_FIFO,
4463 which are exported by BSD make when run in parallel mode, and
4464 which can confuse make processes spawned by our testsuite.
4465 This change fixes a lot of spurious failure when the testsuite
4466 is run with BSD make in parallel mode.
4468 2010-06-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4470 Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
4471 * tests/sanity.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
4472 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
4473 * tests/depend2.test: Likewise. Also, call `set -e' just after
4474 the inclusion of `./defs', instead that later in the script.
4475 * tests/canon5.test: Avoid a useless `|| Exit 1' after a call to
4476 $AUTOMAKE, and improve the positioning of an $ACLOCAL call.
4477 * tests/exeext4.test: Use $FGREP instead of grep, where possible.
4478 Make auxiliary rules in the generated Makefile more silent.
4479 These changes make some checks slightly stricter.
4480 * tests/ext2.test: Call `Exit 1' if inclusion of `./defs' fails.
4481 * tests/gettext2.test: Place final `:' at the end of the script,
4482 rather than in the middle.
4483 * tests/exeext.test: Call `set -e' just after the inclusion of
4484 `./defs', instead that later in the script.
4485 * tests/extra5.test: Likewise.
4486 * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `mv -f' over
4487 plain `mv', just to be sure.
4488 * tests/depcomp.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
4489 changes. Also, modernize the generated configure.in.
4490 * tests/cond9.test: Likewise. Also, rely on the `configure.in'
4491 stub created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
4492 * tests/cond10.test: Likewise.
4493 * tests/depcomp2.test: Likewise.
4494 * tests/depend3.test: Likewise.
4495 * tests/distcom7.test: Likewise.
4496 * tests/fortdep.test: Likewise. Also, remove definition of
4497 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am,
4498 since that flag is already provided by $AUTOMAKE.
4499 * tests/mdate.test: Made stricter, by checking that Automake
4500 actually failed, and by making a stricter grep on the error
4501 message. Also, set shell `errexit flag'.
4502 * tests/python2.test: Improved verbose messages.
4504 Make test `ammissing.test' stricter.
4505 * tests/ammissing.test: Fail if $ACLOCAL succeeds unexpectedly.
4506 Enable `errexit' shell flag.
4508 2010-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4510 Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
4511 * tests/subcond.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
4513 * tests/subst.test: Likewise.
4514 * tests/vars.test: Likewise.
4515 * tests/version4.test: Likewise.
4516 * tests/vpath.test: Likewise.
4517 * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
4518 * tests/werror.test: Likewise.
4519 * tests/whoami.test: Likewise.
4520 * tests/tags.test: Likewise, and avoid to crate an useless dummy
4522 * tests/acsilent.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
4523 command substitution.
4524 * tests/unused.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
4525 command substitution.
4526 * tests/version.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
4527 in the generated `configure.in'.
4528 * tests/version2.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
4529 in the generated `configure.in'.
4531 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4533 Prefer AUTOMAKE_fails over `$AUTOMAKE | grep' in tests.
4534 * tests/ldadd.test: Enable errexit. Use AUTOMAKE_fails so
4535 the verbose log contains all output.
4536 * tests/mdate.test: Likewise.
4537 Prompted by Stefano Lattarini's change to discover.test.
4539 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4541 Improve tests link*.test (enable `errexit' shell flag).
4542 * tests/link_c_cxx.test: Enable `errexit shell flag, and related
4543 changes. Also, do not create useless source files.
4544 * tests/link_dist.test: Likewise.
4545 * tests/link_f90_only.test: Likewise.
4546 * tests/link_f_only.test: Likewise.
4547 * tests/link_fc.test: Likewise.
4548 * tests/link_fccxx.test: Likewise.
4549 * tests/link_fcxx.test: Likewise.
4551 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4553 Improve ext.test semantics, avoid OpenBSD sh errexit issue.
4554 * tests/ext.test: Inside shell compound command, use
4555 `if $cmd; then Exit 1; fi' rather than `$cmd && Exit 1', to
4556 fix failure with OpenBSD sh introduced with last patch.
4557 Actually ensure that a rule for .EXT.o is created for each
4558 known extension EXT.
4560 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4562 Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
4563 * tests/dash.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
4565 * tests/defun.test: Likewise.
4566 * tests/defun2.test: Likewise.
4567 * tests/dejagnu.test: Likewise.
4568 * tests/double.test: Likewise.
4569 * tests/distcom2.test: Likewise.
4570 * tests/empty2.test: Likewise.
4571 * tests/empty3.test: Likewise.
4572 * tests/empty4.test: Likewise.
4573 * tests/exdir.test: Likewise.
4574 * tests/ext.test: Likewise.
4575 * tests/extra.test: Likewise.
4576 * tests/extra2.test: Likewise.
4577 * tests/extra3.test: Likewise.
4578 * tests/extra4.test: Likewise.
4579 * tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
4580 * tests/fnoc.test: Likewise.
4581 * tests/fo.test: Likewise.
4582 * tests/instexec.test: Likewise.
4583 * tests/ltdeps.test: Likewise.
4584 * tests/nodep.test: Likewise.
4585 * tests/nodepcomp.test: Likewise.
4586 * tests/f90only.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
4587 comments and unnecessary commands.
4588 * tests/fonly.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
4589 comments and unnecessary commands.
4590 * tests/discover.test: Likewise, and made stricter.
4592 Enable `errexit' shell flag in all tests cxx*.test.
4593 * tests/cxx.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
4595 * tests/cxxansi.test: Likewise.
4596 * tests/cxxcpp.test: Likewise.
4597 * tests/cxxlibobj.test: Likewise.
4598 * tests/cxxlink.test: Likewise.
4599 * tests/cxxo.test: Likewise.
4601 Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
4602 * tests/acoutnoq.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
4604 * tests/acoutpt.test: Likewise.
4605 * tests/acoutqnl.test: Likewise.
4606 * tests/amassign.test: Likewise.
4607 * tests/ansi2.test: Likewise.
4608 * tests/ansi4.test: Likewise.
4609 * tests/badprog.test: Likewise.
4610 * tests/checkall.test: Likewise.
4611 * tests/clean.test: Likewise.
4612 * tests/colneq2.test: Likewise.
4613 * tests/colon.test: Likewise.
4614 * tests/colon5.test: Likewise.
4615 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
4616 * tests/comment.test: Likewise.
4617 * tests/compile_f90_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
4618 * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
4619 * tests/cond3.test: Likewise.
4620 * tests/cond6.test: Likewise.
4621 * tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
4622 * tests/conf2.test: Likewise.
4623 * tests/confvar.test: Likewise.
4624 * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
4625 * tests/cond8.test: Likewise, plus a cosmetic change.
4626 * tests/confh4.test: Likewise. Also, add in the heading comments
4627 an excerpt from the original bug report which motivated the
4628 creation of this test, to make its purpose clearer.
4630 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4632 Rewrite manual to be gender-neutral.
4633 * doc/automake.texi (GNU Build System)
4634 (Standard Directory Variables, General Operation, CVS)
4635 (Hard-Coded Install Paths, Dependencies As Side Effects):
4636 Rewrite text to not contain gender-specific pronouns when
4637 speaking about developers or users, either by avoiding pronouns
4638 or by addressing them as `you' instead.
4640 Report by Christina Gratorp.
4644 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4646 Make tests on user extensibility of silent-rules mode stricter.
4647 * tests/silent6.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
4648 output produced by `make'.
4649 * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
4651 Tests on silent-mode for C/Libtool made stricter.
4652 * tests/silent.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
4653 output produced by `make'.
4654 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
4655 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
4656 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
4657 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise, and add a final `make distclean'
4658 command to keep it better in sync with tests/silent{4,9}.test.
4660 Improved test silent5.test.
4661 * tests/silent5.test: Remove by hand all generated C files after
4662 non-verbose builds, to ensure the following builds are clean.
4663 Try to clean and rebuild with the same verbosity and without
4664 removing generated sources in between, to check that this does
4665 not trigger a different set of rules. Make grepping of make's
4666 output stricter. Improved/added some comments.
4668 New tests for Automake silent-mode with Fortran.
4669 * tests/silentf77.test: New test.
4670 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
4671 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
4673 New test `silentcxx.test' (Automake silent-mode with C++).
4674 * tests/silentcxx.test: New test.
4675 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
4677 New test `silentyacc.test' (Automake silent-mode with Yacc).
4678 * tests/silentyacc.test: New test.
4679 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
4681 New test `silentlex.test' (Automake silent-mode with Lex).
4682 * tests/silentlex.test: New test.
4683 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
4685 Relax tests on silent-rules to cater to overly verbose makes.
4686 * tests/silent.test: When testing silent builds, don't fail if
4687 make's output simply contains the `mv' substring, but only if
4688 it contains the `mv ' substring (note the trailing space).
4689 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
4690 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
4691 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
4692 * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
4693 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
4695 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4697 Extend test on `nostdinc' automake option.
4698 * tests/nostdinc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Related and
4699 unrelated minor changes. Make the grepping of the generated
4700 Makefile.in slightly stricter. Generate and run configure, so that
4701 the generated Makefile can be grepped too.
4703 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4705 Make gnupload portable to EBCDIC hosts.
4706 * lib/gnupload: Use literal newline as argument for 'tr' rather
4707 than \015, for EBCDIC hosts. Also, avoid unportable nested
4708 double-quotes and backquotes.
4710 Report from Eric Blake and Steve Goetze via gnulib.
4712 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4714 Fix Autoconf version required by Automake's configure.
4715 Automake configure script used to tell that automake required
4716 autoconf 2.60 or later, but then it checked for autoconf >= 2.62,
4717 and if that was not found, it gave an error saying that Automake
4718 required configure 2.61a-341 or later. This change should
4719 eliminate such inconsistencies.
4720 * configure.ac ($required_autoconf_version): New variable.
4723 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4725 Fix unportable sed script in maintainer-check test.
4726 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_Exit_not_exit): Rewrite sed script to
4727 not contain semicolon after 'b' or brace commands, for NetBSD.
4729 Wildcards are not portable to NetBSD make.
4730 * doc/automake.texi (Wildcards): Document portability issue.
4731 * tests/extra10.test, tests/extra11.test, tests/extra12.test:
4734 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4736 Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
4737 * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
4738 an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
4740 Avoid possible false negatives in dejagnu7.test.
4741 * tests/dejagnu7.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Also, avoid
4742 unportable use of fgrep option `-e'.
4744 Fix conflnk3.test to work with Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
4745 * tests/conflnk3.test: Use `test -r FILE' and `test ! -r FILE'
4746 instead of respectively `test -e FILE' and `test ! -e FILE',
4747 since Solaris Sh doesn't grok the latter. Do not SKIP the test
4748 if the shell doesn't support `test -e'.
4750 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4753 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Add
4754 missing closing parenthesis.
4756 Fix leftover call to removed function macros_dump.
4757 * automake.in (read_main_am_file): Call variables_dump, not
4758 macros_dump. Print actual error before list of variables.
4760 2010-04-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4762 Minor improvements in comments of test `silent3.test'.
4763 * tests/silent3.test: Tell to keep it in sync with `silent9.test'
4766 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4768 testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured output.
4769 * tests/acloca14.test, tests/acloca18.test, tests/aclocal.test,
4770 tests/fort2.test, tests/help.test, tests/missing3.test,
4771 tests/missing6.test: Print captured stdout or stderr before
4774 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4776 Make test badopt.test stricter (by enabling `set -e').
4777 * tests/badopt.test: Add call to `set -e'. Due to this change,
4778 an unexpected failure in the call to `$ACLOCAL' (whose outcome
4779 was previously unchecked) would cause the whole test to fail.
4780 Also, bumped the copyright years.
4782 Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
4783 * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
4784 an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
4786 Use `set -e' in confsub.test (avoids possible false negatives).
4787 * tests/confsub.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and related
4788 changes (this helps avoiding some possible minor false negatives).
4789 Also, bumped copyright years.
4791 2010-04-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4793 Fix -Werror handling for presence of configure.in and configure.ac.
4794 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (Automake::Variable): Do not initialize
4795 $configure_ac at the global level, before command-line arguments
4797 (require_variables): Initialize it here.
4798 * tests/configure.test: New test.
4799 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
4800 Report by Stefano Lattarini.
4802 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4804 Avoid possible false negatives in confh5.test.
4805 * tests/confh5.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and bumped
4806 copyright years. Due to this change, any unexpected failure
4807 in calls to $ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE, $AUTOCONF or $AUTOHEADER, or
4808 a failure in grepping expected text in output files should now
4809 cause the whole test to fail.
4811 2010-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4813 Fixed typo in POD documentation of Automake::Channels.
4814 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Fixed typo in POD documentation:
4815 @<...> was used instead of C<...>.
4817 2010-04-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4819 Refactor tests on Automake TESTS color output.
4820 * tests/color.test: Tests using the expect program moved out to...
4821 * tests/color2.test: ... this new file.
4822 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Extended accordingly.
4824 2010-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4826 Fix typos in comments in test confh5.test
4827 * tests/confh5.test: Fix a couple of typos in comments.
4829 Avoid possible false negatives in canon-name.test.
4830 * tests/canon-name.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Improve
4833 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4835 Fix per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror.
4836 Before this patch, 'AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = -Werror' in one
4837 Makefile.am would carry over to other Makefile.am files
4838 treated afterwards by the same thread, causing inconsistent
4839 and unstable exit status values.
4840 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (dup_channel_setup)
4841 (drop_channel_setup): Save and restore the setting of
4842 $warnings_are_errors.
4843 * tests/werror3.test: New test.
4844 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
4847 2010-04-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4849 Bugfix in confh5.test w.r.t. Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
4850 * tests/confh5.test: In the generated Makefile.am: do not use
4851 `test ! -e FILE' to check for the non-existence of a file, since
4852 that is not supported by Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
4854 Make test `aclocal3.test' stricter.
4855 * tests/aclocal3.test: Add call to `set -e'. Fail if $ACLOCAL
4856 succeds unexpectedly.
4858 Add tests checking that symlinks are resolved by `make dist'.
4859 * tests/distlinks.test: New test.
4860 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
4861 Suggested by observations from Ralf Wildenhues.
4863 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4865 Use -9 for maximum xz compression with dist-xz.
4866 * lib/am/distdir.am (dist-xz, dist, dist-all): Pass -9 to xz.
4867 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
4868 Report by Pavel Sanda.
4870 2010-03-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4872 Avoid an unportable use of `$status' shell variable.
4873 * Makefile.am (path-check): Don't use the `$status' shell variable
4874 in the target's rules, as it's special in Zsh (equivalent to `$?',
4877 Avoid another use of `chmod -R'.
4878 * Makefile.am (path-check): To be safe, do not use `chmod -R' on
4879 $(distdir) before removing it (as Solaris `chmod -R' touches
4880 symlink targets). Instead, use the cleanup strategy used in
4883 2010-03-28 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4885 Remove uses of @acronym and @sc.
4886 * doc/automake.texi (Public Macros, Limitations on File Names):
4887 Remove all usage of @acronym and @sc in the manual.
4888 Suggested by Karl Berry.
4890 2010-03-13 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
4892 GNU hello uses fdl.texi, not gpl.texi.
4893 * doc/automake.texi (Texinfo): Adjust example to upstream
4896 2010-03-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4898 Formatting cleanups in macro comments.
4899 * automake.in, lib/Automake/Channels.pm,
4900 lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm, lib/Automake/Options.pm,
4901 lib/Automake/Variable.pm, lib/Automake/XFile.pm,
4902 m4/options.m4, m4/substnot.m4: Fix macro comment format.
4904 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4905 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4907 Avoid generation of `tests/defs-p' file.
4908 * tests/defs.in: In the generated `configure.in' snippet: call
4909 `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' with the `parallel-tests' option if the shell
4910 variable `parallel_tests' is set to `yes'.
4911 * tests/Makefile.am (defs-p): Target removed.
4912 (check_SCRIPTS): Removed `defs-p'.
4913 (clean-local-check): Do not unlink `defs-p' anymore.
4914 ($(parallel_tests)): Transformation rules for the test scripts
4916 * tests/gen-parallel-tests: Selection rules for the test
4918 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Set `$parallel_tests' to `yes'
4919 then include `./defs' (rather than simply including `./defs-p').
4920 * tests/parallel-tests2.test: Likewise.
4921 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
4922 * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
4923 * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
4924 * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
4925 * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
4926 * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise.
4927 * tests/parallel-tests9.test: Likewise.
4928 * tests/parallel-tests10.test: Likewise.
4929 * tests/README (Section "Writing Test Cases" subsection "Do"):
4930 Adjusted the parts referring to tests checking `parallel-tests'
4931 behaviour. Some other minor related improvements.
4932 * tests/.gitignore (defs-p): Removed.
4934 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4936 Remove redundant unset of variable TESTS from some test scripts.
4937 * tests/color.test: Do not unset the `TESTS' variable, as it's
4938 already unset in the `defs' file.
4939 * tests/check5.test: Likewise.
4940 * tests/check8.test: Likewise.
4941 * tests/check9.test: Likewise.
4942 * tests/check10.test: Likewise.
4943 * tests/check11.test: Likewise.
4944 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Likewise.
4945 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
4946 * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
4947 * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
4948 * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
4949 * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
4951 2010-02-22 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
4953 Improve help message of mdate-sh.
4954 * mdate-sh: mention actual output format in help message.
4956 2010-02-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4958 Deprecate dist-lzma in favor of dist-xz.
4959 * doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions, Options):
4960 Adjust text to reflect renaming of lzma to xz.
4962 Missing deprecation noted by Antonio Diaz Diaz.
4964 2010-02-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4966 Add tests about support of wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
4967 * tests/extra10.test: New test, check basic support of wildcards
4969 * tests/extra11.test: New test, check more complex usage of
4970 wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
4971 * tests/extra12.test: New test, check usage of wildcards in
4972 EXTRA_DIST when $builddir != $srcdir.
4973 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
4974 Necessity of these new tests suggested by Braden McDaniel
4975 and Ralf Wildenhues.
4977 2010-02-08 Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
4979 Fix copyright statement in gnupload script.
4980 * lib/gnupload: Fix copyright statement.
4982 2010-02-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4984 Merge NEWS entry correctly.
4985 * NEWS: Fix mis-merge.
4987 2010-02-06 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> (tiny change)
4988 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4990 Fix exit status of signal handlers in shell scripts.
4991 The value of `$?' on entrance to signal handlers in shell scripts
4992 cannot be relied upon, so set the exit code explicitly to
4994 * lib/am/check.am (am__check_pre): Use `exit 143' in signal handler.
4995 * lib/elisp-comp: Likewise.
4996 * lib/install-sh: Likewise.
4997 * lib/ylwrap: Likewise. Also, fix script to trap signal 13, not 3.
4998 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
4999 Bug report, analysis, and initial patch by Dmitry V. Levin.
5001 2010-02-06 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
5003 Improve gnupload usage text.
5004 * gnupload (usage): Shorten to make more likely to fit on a tty
5005 line. Mention CMD in the synopsis. With ..., plural is implied.
5007 2010-01-28 Christos Kontas <xakon@yahoo.com> (tiny change)
5009 Fix some typos in the manual
5010 * doc/automake.texi (Nested Packages, Rebuilding): Fix typos.
5012 2010-01-24 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
5014 Fix silent-rules output for disabled dependency tracking.
5015 * lib/am/depend2.am [!%FASTDEP%]: Rework silent-rules variable
5016 expansion code to also work in the case where %AMDEP% expands
5017 to FALSE at config.status time, using new substitution string
5019 * automake.in (verbose_nodep_flag): New function, appending
5020 `@am__nodep@' to the verbose-variable name.
5021 (handle_languages): If dependencies are not disabled, use it to
5022 set %VERBOSE-NODEP%.
5023 * m4/depend.m4: Substitute am__nodep as '_no', so the second
5024 verbose-variable will always expand to an empty string, if
5025 dependencies are enabled.
5026 * tests/silent5.test: Also test --disable-dependency-tracking;
5027 also test per-target flags for non-C language files.
5028 * tests/silent9.test: New test, like silent4.test but disable
5029 dependency tracking.
5030 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
5031 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
5032 Report by Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>.
5034 2010-01-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
5036 Slighty improve tests acoutbs.test and acoutbs2.test.
5037 * tests/acoutbs2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Check that
5038 autoconf and configure work, that the file `zot' is created by
5039 configure, and that no file containing a backslash in its name is
5041 * tests/acoutbs.test: Likewise, plus updated copyright years.
5043 Fix test acoutbs2.test.
5044 * tests/acoutbs2: In the generated configure.in: add proper calls
5045 to AC_INIT and AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, and remove explicit definition of
5046 PACKAGE and VERSION. Add a call to aclocal before calling automake.
5047 Updated copyright years.
5048 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Removed acoutbs2.test.
5050 Add forgotten test scripts to $(TESTS).
5051 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Added test scripts present on the
5052 filesystem, which were erroneously left out from $(TESTS):
5053 acoutbs2.test, badopt.test, extra2.test.
5054 (XFAIL_TESTS): Added acoutbs2.test.
5056 2010-01-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
5058 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
5059 * INSTALL, lib/INSTALL, lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub:
5062 Bump copyright years.
5063 * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
5064 * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
5065 * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
5068 * ChangeLog.09: New file, rotated from ...
5069 * ChangeLog: ... here.
5070 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute ChangeLog.09.
5074 Copyright (C) 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5076 Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are
5077 permitted provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved.