1 2011-01-09 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
3 Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
4 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
6 2011-01-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
8 cosmetics: remove trailing whitespaces
9 * doc/automake.texi: Remove trailing whitespaces.
10 * tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
11 * tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
12 * tests/fort4.test: Likewise.
13 * tests/fort5.test: Likewise.
14 * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
15 * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
17 automake: minor fixes in comments
18 * automake.in: Some minor fixes and enhancements in comments.
20 2011-01-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
22 Add test coverage for deleted header files.
23 * tests/depcomp6.test, tests/depcomp7.test: Update tests to
24 also check for the deleted header bug. If no dependency
25 tracking mechanism could be found, SKIP rather than exit
26 successfully. Use GNU style spacing and ANSI C prototypes.
28 Fix typos in Rule.pm comments.
29 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typos in comments.
31 docs: split 'amhello Explained' node.
32 * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Split node ...
33 (amhello's configure.ac Setup Explained)
34 (amhello's Makefile.am Setup Explained) : ... into these two.
35 (Top, Hello World): Adjust, and add @anchor for stable URL links.
36 Suggestion by Karl Berry in automake bug#7766.
38 2011-01-08 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
39 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
41 docs: reference defining directories in amhello node.
42 * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Point to Autoconf
43 manual for how to convert directory values into macros.
44 (Optional): Fix grammar nit.
46 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
48 * NEWS: Fix typo (forgotten word).
50 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
51 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
53 docs: how to work around checks on invalid primary/directory couples
54 * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): Document the blessed idiom which can
55 be used to work around automake checks on invalid primary/directory
56 couples (such as `lib_PROGRAMS' or `doc_LIBRARIES').
58 2011-01-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
60 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
61 * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
64 Fix maintainer-check regression.
65 * tests/subobj11a.test: Pass DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS in the
69 * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
70 * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
71 * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
73 2010-12-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
74 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
76 Work around a bug in file-inclusion mechanism of Solaris make.
77 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): In the name of the
78 dependency file: collapse multiple slash characters into a single
80 * tests/subobj11a.test: New test.
81 * tests/subobj11b.test: Likewise.
82 * tests/subobj11c.test: Likewise.
83 * tests/depcomp8a.test: Likewise.
84 * tests/depcomp8b.test: Likewise.
85 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
87 Report by Stefano Lattarini, quick fix by Ralf Wildenhues, final
88 patch and tests by Stefano Lattarini.
90 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
92 Fix two spurious testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5.
93 * tests/suffix13.test (Makefile.am): Account for VPATH issues on
94 weaker make implementations (e.g. IRIX 6.5).
95 * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise, plus a required related
97 Reported by Ralf Wildenhues. The bugs have been there from the
98 first versions of the affected test scripts.
100 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
102 docs: cygnus mode doesn't require AM_CYGWIN32 macro.
103 * doc/automake.texi (Cygnus): Mode 'cygnus' does not require
104 the AM_CYGWIN32 macro (and indeed hasn't required it since at
105 least commit Release-1-2-31-g3038064 "merged changes from
106 Cygnus" of 1997-08-25).
108 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
110 distlinksbrk.test: Work around botched "make -k".
111 * tests/distlinksbrk.test: Run "make" multiple times and grep
112 its output each time for a single error message, rather than
113 running "make -k" one single time and grepping its output for
114 all the expected error messages. This should work around make
115 implementations with limited (broken?) `-k' support; for more
116 information, see these subthreads on the automake-patches list:
117 - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on HP-UX 11.23",
118 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00162.html>
119 - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5",
120 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00166.html>
122 2010-12-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
124 Fix sed-related buglet in test "subdir5.test"
125 * tests/subdir5.test: Always terminate text passed to the
126 `i' sed command with a newline, to work around limitations
127 in e.g. older OpenBSD sed.
129 2010-12-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
131 docs: fix blunder in example about python extension modules
132 * doc/automake.texi (Python): Use `quaternion_la_SOURCES',
133 not `quaternion_SOURCES', to declare the sources of python
134 extension module `quaternion.la'.
136 2010-12-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
138 docs: list LTLIBRARIES among Automake primaries
139 * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): List `LTLIBRARIES' among
140 the Automake primaries.
142 2010-12-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
144 Improve tests on generated portions of configure help screen.
145 * tests/help-depend.test: Grepping of configure help screen
146 relaxed to cater for possible line wrapping, and tightened in
148 * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
149 * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
150 * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
151 * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
152 * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
153 * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
154 * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
155 * tests/help-init.test: Grepping of configure help screen
158 2010-12-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
160 Avoid running installed automake from 'libtool --help'.
161 * tests/subobj9.test: Export AUTOCONF and AUTOMAKE.
162 Together with fixed Libtool, this fixes check-coverage to not
163 invoke installed automake.
165 2010-11-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
167 Fix spurious failures in `silent*.test' for $CC != gcc
168 In some tests on automake-produced silent rules, we forced the
169 use of gcc depmode to improve testsuite coverage; but this has
170 unsurprisingly led to spurious failures when some non-GNU C
171 compilers were used. So we are now careful to require GCC in
172 tests that force gcc depmode.
173 From reports by Ralf Wildenhues.
174 * silent5.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
175 * silent-many-generic.test, silent-many-gcc.test: ... these new
176 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
178 * silentlex.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
179 * silent-lex-generic.test, silent-lex-gcc.test: ... these new
180 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
182 * silentyacc.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
183 * silent-yacc-generic.test, silent-yacc-gcc.test: ... these new
184 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
186 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
188 2010-11-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
190 Tests: consistently use "|| Exit 1" after ". ./defs".
191 * tests/autohdr.test: Use `. ./defs || Exit 1', not bare
192 `. ./defs', for consistency with other tests.
193 * tests/autohdr2.test: Likewise.
194 * tests/autohdr3.test: Likewise.
195 * tests/autohdr4.test: Likewise.
196 * tests/cond23.test: Likewise.
197 * tests/cond24.test: Likewise.
198 * tests/cond25.test: Likewise.
199 * tests/cond26.test: Likewise.
200 * tests/cond27.test: Likewise.
201 * tests/cond28.test: Likewise.
202 * tests/cond29.test: Likewise.
203 * tests/cond30.test: Likewise.
204 * tests/cond31.test: Likewise.
205 * tests/cond32.test: Likewise.
206 * tests/cond33.test: Likewise.
207 * tests/cond34.test: Likewise.
208 * tests/cond35.test: Likewise.
209 * tests/cond36.test: Likewise.
210 * tests/cond37.test: Likewise.
211 * tests/cond38.test: Likewise.
212 * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
213 * tests/cond40.test: Likewise.
214 * tests/cond41.test: Likewise.
215 * tests/cond42.test: Likewise.
216 * tests/cond43.test: Likewise.
217 * tests/cond44.test: Likewise.
218 * tests/cond45.test: Likewise.
219 * tests/dollarvar.test: Likewise.
220 * tests/dollarvar2.test: Likewise.
221 * tests/hfs.test: Likewise.
222 * tests/libobj14.test: Likewise.
223 * tests/percent.test: Likewise.
224 * tests/percent2.test: Likewise.
225 * tests/phony.test: Likewise.
226 * tests/silent.test: Likewise.
227 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
228 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
229 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
230 * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
231 * tests/silent6.test: Likewise.
232 * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
233 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
234 * tests/silentcxx.test: Likewise.
235 * tests/silentf77.test: Likewise.
236 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
237 * tests/silentlex.test: Likewise.
238 * tests/silentyacc.test: Likewise.
240 Avoid useless cleaning in some `silent*.test' tests.
241 * tests/silentf77.test: Removed useless calls to "make clean"
242 and "make maintainer-clean".
243 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
244 * tests/silent3.test: Removed useless call to "make distclean".
245 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
246 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
248 2010-11-19 Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
250 Sync config-ml.in from GCC.
251 * config-ml.in: Add Go support: treat GOC and GOCFLAGS like other
252 compiler/flag environment variables.
254 2010-11-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
256 Automake::Config: remove extra trailing semicolon.
257 * lib/Automake/Config.in: Remove extra trailing semicolon.
259 help4.test: fix botched heading comment.
260 * tests/help4.test: Fixed the heading comment, since it
261 didn't correctly describe what checks the testcase was
264 help2.test: add checks on aclocal too.
265 * tests/help2.test: Check that also `aclocal --version' and
266 `aclocal --help' work with configure.in and acinclude.m4 both
269 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
271 Fix spurious failures of silent-rules tests with Sun Fortran.
272 * tests/silentf77.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
273 messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers, to
274 avoid spurious failures. Add a trailing `:' command.
275 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
277 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
279 Fix spurious failures of silent5.test with Sun Fortran.
280 * tests/silent5.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
281 messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers,
282 to avoid spurious failures. This bug has been there from the
283 very first version of this test script.
285 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
287 Fix regression in colon{5,6}.test (failures on AIX 5.3).
288 * tests/colon5.test: Also substitute `@SHELL@' with `$SHELL' when
289 post-processing the generated Makefile.in, to work around a bug
290 of AIX 5.3 make which doesn't allow setting the `$(SHELL)' macro
291 on the commend line. Calls to `$MAKE' adjusted accordingly.
292 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
293 Regression introduced in commit v1.11-175-gf9fe878 "Modernize,
294 improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test", and reported by Ralf
297 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
299 Fix regression in ansi.test (failure on AIX 5.3).
300 * tests/ansi.test: Remove redundant hackish check done using a
301 hand-postprocessed Makefile.in. This check worked by setting
302 the `$(SHELL)' macro on the command line of make, but this is
303 not supported by the AIX 5.3 make implementation.
304 This bug has been lurking for a long time, and was activated by
305 commit v1.11-125-gc1f6cdb "Enable `errexit' shell flag in various
306 tests". Report by Ralf Wildenhues.
308 2010-11-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
310 tests: avoid '##'-style comments inside recipe commands.
311 * tests/confh.test, tests/confh8.test: Remove
312 double-hash comments from makefile rule commands, they
313 are not part of the Automake API.
315 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
317 tests: work around dash quoting issue in case statements.
318 * tests/color.test, tests/color2.test: Quote variable in case
319 pattern, to avoid skipping tests with dash 0.5.5.1.
321 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
323 Rebuild menus in the manual.
324 * doc/automake.texi: Rebuild menus (using ^C ^U ^A in emacs).
325 Thanks to Ian Lance Taylor for the suggestion.
327 Fix install-strip when $(STRIP) contains several words.
328 * lib/am/install.am (install-strip): Update comment. Use
329 separate sub-make invocations for empty and nonempty $(STRIP),
330 to fix quoting issues.
331 * tests/strip2.test, tests/strip3.test: New tests.
332 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Adjust.
334 2010-11-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
336 Fix yaccdry.test failure: require bison.
337 * tests/yaccdry.test: Require bison.
338 Found by NixOS Hydra.
340 2010-11-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
342 Fix a bug in variable concatenation with `+='.
343 * lib/Automake/VarDef.pm (append): Since the content of the
344 "appended-to" variable is going to be unconditionally normalized
345 later, simply separate the appended value with a single whitespace
346 character, instead of trying to be uselessly smarter by using
347 escaped newlines. This fixes a bug in which extra backslashes
348 where erroneously inserted in the variable's final value.
349 * tests/pluseq11.test: New test, exposing the bug.
350 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
351 Reported by Andy Wingo.
353 2010-11-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
355 Fix bug in rules for creating vala vapi/header files.
356 * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Add forgotten "fi" in an
357 if control structure in a generated make rules. Bug introduced
358 by previous commit `v1.11-221-gd7c1679', and revealed by failure
359 of test `vala2.test'.
361 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
363 Fix and document rules to not touch the tree with `make -n'.
364 * doc/automake.texi (Multiple Outputs): Document the problem of
365 modifications during dry-run execution, propose solution.
367 * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Split recipe so the
368 stamp file is not removed with GNU `make -n'.
369 (lang_yacc_target_hook): Separate removal of parser output file
371 * lib/am/lisp.am ($(am__ELCFILES)): Determine whether -n was
372 passed to make, take care not to remove any files in that case.
373 * lib/am/remake-hdr.am (%CONFIG_H%): Separate removal of
374 %STAMP% file from induced remaking of config header.
375 * tests/autohdrdry.test, tests/lispdry.test, tests/yaccdry.test:
377 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
379 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
381 Add FAQ entry for bug reporting instructions.
382 * doc/automake.texi (Reporting Bugs): New section.
383 (Introduction): Refer to it.
385 2010-10-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
387 Add support for newer python versions.
388 * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Add python2.7 and python3.2 to
389 _AM_PYTHON_INTERPRETER_LIST. Since we are at it, break a long
390 line and fix indentation.
392 From a report by Thomas Klausner.
394 Add test for `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' macro.
395 * tests/dmalloc.test: New test.
396 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
398 Fix nits and bugs in tests `help*.test'.
399 * tests/help4.test: Fix broken sed commands used to strip `-W...'
400 flags away from "$AUTOMAKE" and "$ACLOCAL".
401 * tests/help3.test: Likewise, and fix a botched comment.
402 * tests/help.test: Likewise. Also, use "AUTOMAKE_fails ..."
403 instead of "$AUTOMAKE ... && Exit 1", for consistency and to
404 please maintainer-check.
405 * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
407 2010-10-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
408 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
410 Improve tests `help*.test' (also fixes maintcheck failures).
411 * tests/help.test: To run automake, use `$AUTOMAKE' with all `-W'
412 flags stripped away rather than hard-coded `automake-$APIVERSION',
413 to better honour user-overrides. Similarly for aclocal.
414 * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
415 * tests/help3.test: Likewise.
416 * tests/help4.test: Likewise.
418 2010-10-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
420 Document and fix expansion of variables before rules.
421 * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Document that variables
422 are expanded before rules.
423 * lib/am/check.am (am__check_post): Reword a bit so it does not
424 get matched as a rule.
425 Suggestion by Ben Pfaff.
427 2010-10-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
429 Revert "parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue."
430 This reverts commit 24e3b4ee2f8cb9f72dd94a05a893f3d4e88b7835,
431 because it re-opened the bug fixed by v1.11-10-g218e678.
433 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
435 parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
436 * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
437 substitution %MAKEFILE%.
438 (generate_makefile): Adjust.
439 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
440 sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
441 input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
444 Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
446 2010-09-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
448 Extend tests on `--help' and `--version' options.
449 * tests/help.test: Create a new empty directory and chdir into
450 it, rather than removing already present files. Run the aclocal
451 and automake wrapper scripts directly, instead of relying on
452 $AUTOMAKE and $ACLOCAL. Be sure to correctly match literal dots
453 in aclocal's and automake's stderr. Add a trailing `:' command.
454 * tests/help2.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
455 `--version' works in directories with broken `configure.in'.
456 * tests/help3.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
457 `--version' take precedence on the other options.
458 * tests/help4.test: New test, checking that the first among the
459 `--help' and `--version' options to be specified on the command
461 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
463 2010-09-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
465 Testsuite: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when extending PATH.
466 * tests/compile2.test: Do no uselessly (implicitly) repeat the
467 computation of PATH_SEPARATOR again.
468 * tests/instmany-mans.test: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when
469 extending/redefining PATH.
470 * tests/instmany-python.test: Likewise.
471 * tests/instmany.test: Likewise.
472 * tests/man4.test: Likewise.
473 * tests/mkinst3.test: Likewise.
474 * tests/mmodely.test: Likewise.
475 * tests/multlib.test: Likewise.
476 * tests/txinfo30.test: Likewise.
477 * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
479 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_PATH_SEPARATOR): New maintainer check.
480 (syntax_check_rules): Updated.
482 Testsuite: new variables `$PATH_SEPARATOR' and `$APIVERSION'.
483 * tests/defs.in ($APIVERSION): New AC_SUBST'd variable.
484 ($ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE): Use it.
485 ($PATH_SEPARATOR): New AC_SUBST'd variables.
488 2010-09-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
490 Manual: be more agnostic w.r.t. version control system used.
491 * doc/automake.texi (Basics of Distribution): Also refer to `.svn'
492 directories as a type of probably-unwanted files that are copied
493 regardless when adding directories to EXTRA_DIST.
494 (The dist Hook): Show a dist-hook example which removes Subversion
495 `.svn' private directories from distdir, rather than CVS private
497 (missing and AM_MAINTAINER_MODE): Try to be more agnostic w.r.t.
498 the version control system used.
500 Manual: index refer to target "git-dist", not "cvs-dist".
501 * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Index the non-standard
502 example about "git-dist" under the "git-dist" label, not under
505 Perl modules: remove references to "Automake CVS repository".
506 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Update comments to refer to "Automke's
507 git repository" rather than to "Automake's CVS repository".
508 * lib/Automake/Configure_ac.pm: Likewise.
509 * lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm: Likewise.
510 * lib/Automake/Struct.pm: Likewise.
511 * lib/Automake/XFile.pm: Likewise.
512 * lib/Automake/Version.pm (=head1 DESCRIPTION): Refer to "git
513 branches" rather than "CVS branches".
515 Remove obsolete .cvsignore files.
516 * .cvsignore, doc/.cvsignore, lib/.cvsignore, lib/am/.cvsignore,
517 lib/Automake/.cvsignore, lib/Automake/tests/.cvsignore,
518 m4/.cvsignore, tests/.cvsignore: Files deleted. Even when using
519 savannah's CVS readonly mirror there's no way to commit back to
520 the real repository, so this files are not worth maintaining or
523 2010-09-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
525 * m4/dmalloc.m4: Bump serial number and copyright years.
527 2010-09-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
529 Fix broken link in `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' help screen.
530 * m4/dmalloc.m4 (AM_WITH_DMALLOC): Refer only to the dmalloc site
531 `http://www.dmalloc.com', not to the dmalloc tarball there (which
532 seems to have been removed, substituted by multiple release
535 2010-09-17 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
537 Avoid triple-space after period.
538 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): Avoid 3 spaces at
540 * ChangeLog.03: Likewise.
541 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Likewise.
542 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (_print_message): Likewise.
543 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm (rule): Likewise.
544 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (var): Likewise.
545 * lib/am/distdir.am: Likewise.
546 * tests/insthook.test: Likewise.
548 2010-09-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
550 Test automake-generated portions of configure help screen.
551 * tests/help-depend.test: New test.
552 * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
553 * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
554 * tests/help-init.test: Likewise.
555 * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
556 * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
557 * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
558 * tests/help-regex.test: Likewise.
559 * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
560 * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
561 * tests/mmode.test: Remove tests on `configure --help' output,
562 they are superseded by tests in `help-maintainer.test'.
563 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
565 2010-09-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
567 * tests/README: Don't put GCS mandated tools in $required.
569 2010-09-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
571 * HACKING: Hint at old commits with `git describe' output.
573 2010-09-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
575 Fix regression in test `colon4.test'.
576 * tests/colon4.test: Fix botched editing to `configure.in'
577 that made the test useless. Since we are at it, improve
578 comments and make grepping of generated Makefile.in slightly
580 Regression introduced by change "Modernize, improve and/or
581 extend tests `colon*.test" (Stefano Lattarini, 2010-08-08).
583 2010-09-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
585 Do not require "gzip" explicitly in tests.
586 The gzip utility is simply expected to be present on any decent
587 target system for Automake. So it's pointless to put it in
589 * tests/install2.test ($required): Do not require "gzip".
590 * tests/lex3.test: Likewise.
591 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
592 From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
594 Make some `confh*.test' tests more "semantic" (plus tweakings).
595 * tests/confh.test: Run "autoconf", "configure" and "make check",
596 instead of munging/grepping the generated `Makefile.in'.
597 * tests/confh4.test: Relax the grepping of Makefile.in w.r.t.
598 white spaces. Do not create useless dummy source file `foo.c'
599 and useless dummy header file `acconfig.h'.
600 (configure.in): Remove superfluous call to `AC_OUTPUT'.
601 * tests/confh6.test: Add trailing `:' command.
602 * tests/confh7.test: In comments, add reference to ...
603 * tests/confh8.test: ... this new test, "semantic" sister
605 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
606 Prompted by a report from Ralf Wildenhues.
608 Remove useless whitespace padding in XFAIL_TESTS definition.
609 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Remove whitespace padding.
611 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
613 parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
614 * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
615 substitution %MAKEFILE%.
616 (generate_makefile): Adjust.
617 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
618 sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
619 input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
622 Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
624 Posix 2008 requires make to set errexit.
625 * lib/am/check.am: Update comment.
627 2010-08-27 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
629 Fix bug in test missing6.test.
630 * tests/missing6.test: Fix the hack used to edit `configure.in',
631 to avoid producing a configure script that breaks with shells
632 that do not support $LINENO. Also throw in a couple of cosmetic
635 2010-08-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
637 Improve robustness of mdate-sh script.
638 * lib/mdate-sh: Sanitize zsh behavior on startup, to ensure
639 $ls_command is word-split properly upon invocation.
640 (error): New function.
641 (main): Use it. Improve error checking to avoid endless loop
642 in case $ls_command gave bogus output. Fix eval quotation.
643 * tests/mdate6.test: New test, to expose eval quotation error.
644 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
646 2010-08-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
648 Fix potential regressions in depcomp{3,5}.test.
649 * tests/depcomp3.test: Do not uselessly escape the character `$'
650 in makefile rules, when it's used to expand a make macro.
651 * tests/depcomp5.test: Likewise.
653 2010-08-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
654 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
656 Docs: clarify how to avoid automatic dependencies tracking.
657 * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Mention that
658 automatic dependencies tracking is enabled by default, but that
659 the package developer can disable it altogether. Add a reference
660 to the proper section for a more in-depth explanation.
662 Fix typo in manual (`Makefile.in' instead of `Makefile.am').
663 * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Fix typo.
665 2010-08-16 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
667 Don't hide the table of contents.
668 * doc/automake.texi: Move the table of contents to the beginning.
670 2010-08-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
672 Tweak and/or extend some `acloca*.test' tests.
673 * tests/aclocal8.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured
675 * tests/aclocal.test: Likewise. Also, add trailing `:'
677 * tests/acloca19.test: Likewise.
678 * tests/aclocal5.test: Add trailing `:' command, and prefer
679 `$me' over hard-coded test name.
680 * tests/aclocal6.test: Likewise.
681 * tests/aclocal18.test: Add trailing `:' command, and make
682 some grepping slightly stricter.
683 * tests/acloca14.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `diff' over
684 `cmp', and add some "cosmetic" blank lines.
686 2010-08-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
688 Tweak and extend tests `pr[!0-9]*.test'.
689 * tests/primary3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
690 * tests/primary.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
691 Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
692 * tests/primary2.test: Likewise.
693 * tests/prefix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
694 changes. Add a trailing `:' command.
695 * tests/proginst.test: Likewise.
697 Modernize, improve and extend tests for PR (`pr[0-9]*.test').
698 * tests/pr2.test: Add trailing `:' command.
699 * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
700 * tests/pr401.test: Likewise.
701 * tests/pr401b.test: Likewise.
702 * tests/pr401c.test: Likewise.
703 * tests/pr300-prog.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic changes in
705 * tests/pr300-lib.test: Likewise.
706 * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise, and ensure verbose printing
707 of captured make stdout.
708 * tests/pr211.test: Add trailing `:' command. Also, use the
709 `configure.in' stub created by ./defs, rather than writing it
711 * tests/pr204.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic spacing changes.
712 * tests/pr287.test: Likewise, and move setting of `errexit' shell
713 flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs).
714 * tests/pr220.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
715 Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
716 * tests/pr224.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
717 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Do not export
718 `CC=gcc' to configure explicitly (it's already exported globally
719 in ./defs, since we have "gcc" in $required). Use the stub for
720 `configure.in' created by ./defs, rather than writing it from
721 scratch. Do not create dummy files required by "gnu" mode (e.g.
722 README, NEWS), since we run automake in foreign mode anyway.
723 * tests/pr72.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
724 changes. Extend existing checks a bit.
725 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise. Also, avoid obsolescent constructs in
726 the generated `configure.in', and extend existing checks over the
727 generated tarball a bit.
728 * tests/pr87.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
729 changes. Add a trailing `:' command. Also, do not create dummy
730 files required by "gnu" mode (e.g. README, NEWS), since we run
731 automake in foreign mode anyway.
732 * tests/pr243.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
733 `configure.in'. Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
734 changes. Cosmetic changes to spacing, add trailing `:' command,
735 and add a "FIXME" comment.
736 * tests/pr266.test: Likewise, and add explicit command line switch
737 `--enable-dependecy-tracking' to the ./configure call.
738 * tests/pr279.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
739 `configure.in'; also, use the `configure.in' stub created by
740 ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch. Enable `errexit'
741 shell flag, and related changes. Add trailing `:' command.
742 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
744 * tests/pr307.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
745 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Escape literal
746 dots in grep regular expressions. Also, add a trailing `:'
747 command, and cosmetic changes to spacing.
749 Tests for PR: add excerpts from original bug report, for clarity.
750 * tests/pr2.test: Ditto.
751 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
752 * tests/pr72.test: Likewise.
753 * tests/pr87.test: Likewise.
754 * tests/pr211.test: Likewise.
755 * tests/pr220.test: Likewise.
756 * tests/pr224.test: Likewise.
757 * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
758 * tests/pr243.test: Likewise.
759 * tests/pr266.test: Likewise.
760 * tests/pr279.test: Likewise, and tell to keep it in sync
761 with its sister test.
762 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
764 2010-08-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
766 Tweak, extend and improve tests `cond[a-z]*.test'.
767 * tests/condd.test: Add trailing `:' command. Typofix in
769 * tests/condhook.test: Make sure target `install-data-hook' is
770 not called by `make install', but that data files are installed.
771 Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in. Add trailing `:' command.
772 * tests/condhook2.test: New test, sister test of condhook, with
774 * tests/condinc2.test: Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
775 Prefer trailing `:' command over trailing `Exit 0'.
776 * tests/condman2.test: Enable errexit shell flag, and related
777 changes. Add trailing `:' command.
778 * tests/condman.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless
779 dummy manpages, and use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
780 * tests/condman3.test: New test, similar to condman.test, but
781 it also runs ./configure and "make install", and check the
783 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
785 Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test.
786 * tests/colon.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
787 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Do not create
788 a useless dummy file. Add trailing `:' command.
789 * tests/colon4.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
790 related changes. Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
791 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
792 * tests/colon7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
793 changes. Improve the generated `configure.in' file. Add
794 trailing `:' command.
795 * tests/colon2.test: Likewise. Also, add some new checks.
796 * tests/colon5.test: Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
797 Add new, much deeper checks. Add trailing `:' command.
798 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
799 * tests/colon3.test: Add trailing `:' command. Remove useless
800 comments and echos. Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
801 make some grepping tests stricter. Add a "FIXME" comments about
802 planned improvements.
804 Improve and extend tests `asm*.test'.
805 * tests/asm.test: Use configure.in stub generated by ./defs,
806 and avoid obsoleted autoconf constructs. Make grepping of
807 Automake stderr stricter. Do not create useless source file.
808 Improve verbose messages. Minor cosmetic changes. Tell to
809 keep it in sync with other sister tests asm*.test.
810 * tests/asm2.test: Likewise.
811 * tests/asm3.test: Likewise.
813 Modernize, improve and/or extend test scripts `conf*.test'.
814 * tests/confh5.test: Cosmetic changes.
815 * tests/conff.test: Likewise.
816 * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise.
817 * tests/conflnk.test: Likewise.
818 * tests/conflnk2.test: Likewise.
819 * tests/confsub.test: Likewise.
820 * tests/confvar.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
822 * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
823 * tests/conflnk3.test: Cosmetic changes. Re-enable a temporarily
824 disabled test (which didn't work with autoconf <= 2.59, but now we
825 are requiring autoconf 2.62, so...)
826 * tests/conflnk4.test: Cosmetic changes, and extend existing tests
827 accordingly to "TODO" comments.
828 * tests/conff2.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
829 Add some comments explaining why we don't use the `configure.in'
830 stub preset be ./defs.
831 * tests/confh.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
832 rather than writing one from scratch, and do not call AC_OUTPUT.
833 Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related changes. Prefer diff over
834 cmp to compare text files. Prefer perl over sed to fetch the value
835 of $(DIST_COMMON) from Makefile.in. Make grepping of the contents
836 of $(DIST_COMMON) stricter.
837 * tests/confh4.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
838 rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping of Makefile.in
840 * tests/confh5.test: Make grepping of `config.h' stricter. Add a
842 * tests/configure.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in generated
843 `configure.ac'. Do not write `configure.in' two times. Escape
844 literal dots in grep regular expressions.
845 * tests/confincl.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
846 changes. Prefer fgrep over grep. Other cosmetic changes.
847 * tests/config.test: Renamed to ...
848 * tests/confh6.test: ... this. Fix m4 quoting in `configure.in',
849 and make grepping of `config.h' and `config.h.in' stricter.
850 * tests/conf2.test: Renamed ...
851 * tests/confh7.test: ... to this. Use the `configure.in' stub
852 created by ./defs, rather than writing one from scratch. Try to
853 run the checks both with and without AC_PROG_CC and AC_OUTPUT in
855 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
857 Minor improvements and fixes in tests `depcomp*.test'.
858 * tests/depcomp.test: Do not create useless dummy source files.
859 Add a trailing `:' command.
860 * tests/depcomp2.test: Use `unset' on the CFLAG variable to ensure
861 it's not in in the environment, rather than exporting it with an
862 empty value. Do not pass CC=gcc to configure, as that's already
863 done in ./defs since we have gcc in $required. Ensure verbose
864 printing of captured stderr, and normalize its checking. Add a
865 trailing `:' command.
866 * tests/depcomp3.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
867 grep regexps. Always use `: >' rather than `touch' to create empty
868 files. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the created
869 Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:' command.
870 * tests/depcomp4.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
871 grep regexp. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the
872 created Makefile.am. Ensure verbose printing of captured makes'
873 stoud/stderr. Add a trailing `:' command.
874 * tests/depcomp5.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
875 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Quote literal dots
876 and dollar characters in grep regexps. Explicitly declare phony
877 targets as such in the created Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:'
879 * tests/depcomp6.test: Consistently use m4 quoting in the generated
880 configure.in. Cosmetic fixes to spacing. Make the "dummy" `if'
881 statement required by OpenBSD's sh `set -e' more robust, and add
882 explanatory comments to it.
883 * tests/depcomp7.test: Likewise, and add a trailing `:' command.
885 Separate failing part of test `all.test'.
886 * tests/all.test: Keep only (x)failing part of the test. Working
887 checks moved out to ...
888 * tests/all2.test: ... this new test.
889 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
891 Modernize, improve and extend tests `subobj*.test'.
892 * tests/subobjname.test: Add trailing `:' command.
893 * tests/subobj.test: Make grepping of `Makefile.in' stricter.
894 Escape literal dots in grep regexps.
895 * tests/subobj2.test: Add trailing `:' command. Do not use the
896 unportable fgrep option `-e'.
897 * tests/subobj3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
898 (configure.in): Use proper m4 quoting, and avoid obsolescent
900 * tests/subobj8.test: Likewise. Also, enable `errexit' shell
901 flag, with related changes
902 * tests/subobj4.test: Likewise. Also, make grepping of
903 `Makefile.in' stricter.
904 * tests/subobj5.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of
905 `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
907 (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
908 writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
909 * tests/subobj6.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of
910 `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
911 of ./defs). Do not create useless dummy ac-init file `f'.
912 * tests/subobj7.test: Do not create useless dummy ac-init file
914 (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
915 writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
916 * tests/subobj9.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
917 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Fail the test if
918 `make distcheck' fails. Ensure verbose printing of captured make
919 stdout. Avoid useless fork by doing simple grep instead of using
920 test -n "`COMMAND | grep ...`".
921 (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
922 (Makefile.am): Explicitly mark target "print" as phony.
923 * tests/subobj10.test: Removed duplicated call to `set -e'. Add
924 trailing `:' command.
925 (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
927 Remove a couple of obsoleted tests.
928 * tests/fpinstall.test: Removed.
929 * tests/fpinst2.test: Likewise.
930 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
932 Bootstrap: updated HACKING entry.
933 * HACKING ("Working with git"): Explain how to override the
934 autoconf and autom4te programs used by the bootstrap process.
937 * bootstrap: Do not remove `lib/Automake/Config.pm' anymore,
938 since we don't generate it. Correctly quote arguments of
939 `eval' builtin. Fixed a botched error message. Removed an
942 Bootstrap: don't search perl in $PATH.
943 * bootstrap: Do not explicitly search perl in $PATH anymore.
944 ($PATH_SEPARATOR): Removed, it's no more needed.
946 Bootstrap: let the user choose which autoconf to use.
947 * bootstrap ($AUTOCONF): New variable, from the environment.
948 ($AUTOM4TE): Likewise, for clarity.
949 Use "$AUTOCONF" instead of calling "autoconf" directly.
951 Minor improvements to tests ar*.test.
952 * tests/ar.test: Add trailing `:' command.
953 * tests/ar2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
954 Makefile.in stricter.
956 2010-08-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
958 Fix maintainer-check failure.
959 * tests/cond5.test: Quote sleep argument, this isn't about
960 time stamp differences.
962 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
963 * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
966 2010-08-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
968 Work around a nasty bug (segfault) of Solaris make.
969 * lib/am/check.am (recheck, recheck-html): Trim trailing spaces
970 from $list, to avoid triggering a nasty bug (potential segfault)
973 2010-08-06 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
975 Make cond5.test more robust on MSYS.
976 * tests/cond5.test: Add delay before the first kill attempt to
977 cater for problems with MSYS bash.
979 2010-07-31 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
981 Add example git work flow; discuss merge --log in HACKING.
983 Suggestion by Stefano Lattarini.
985 Add more hints for debugging make rules.
986 * doc/automake.texi (Debugging Make Rules): Show command to find
987 out expanded values of variables; point to makefile debugger.
989 Prompted by suggestion from Ludovic Courtès and Andy Wingo.
991 2010-07-27 Patrick Welche <prlw1@cam.ac.uk> (tiny change)
993 Fix typo in the manual.
994 * doc/automake.texi (Scripts): Fix typo.
996 2010-07-27 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
998 Document current policy for development with git.
999 * HACKING (Working with git): Overhaul.
1000 Prompted by suggestion from Stefano Lattarini.
1002 Fix AM_COND_IF for gone-invalid condition shell expression.
1003 * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): test contents of $COND_TRUE
1004 variable, rather than re-evaluating the shell expression for
1006 * tests/cond40.test: Extend test.
1009 Avoid syntax error if IF-TRUE part of AM_COND_IF expands empty.
1010 * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): Ensure IF-TRUE part is never empty
1011 to avoid shell syntax error if the m4 expansion is empty.
1012 * tests/cond40.test: Enhance test.
1014 Coverage: bogus option to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
1015 * tests/init2.test: New test.
1016 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
1018 2010-07-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1020 Modernize and improve test scripts `subdir*.test'.
1021 * tests/subdir.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1022 changes. Use the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs',
1023 rather than writing one from scratch.
1024 * tests/subdir2.test: Likewise.
1025 * tests/subdir4.test: Likewise.
1026 * tests/subdir3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1027 changes. Do not create useless dummy source files.
1028 * tests/subdir5.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in (in topdir
1029 and in subdirs) stricter. Some minor changes to keep it more
1030 in sync with the related test `subdir8.test'.
1031 * tests/subdir8.test: Likewise (but with the related test being
1032 `subdir5.test' here).
1033 * tests/subdir6.test: Cosmetic change in spacing.
1034 * tests/subdir9.test: Define and use new variable `$distdir'. Add
1035 trailing `:' command.
1036 * tests/subdir10.test: Cosmetic consistency-related change.
1037 * tests/subdirbuiltsources.test: Cosmetic changes in spacings.
1038 (configure.in): Use stub created by `./defs', rather than writing
1039 it from scratch. Do not use obsoleted and/or deprecated forms of
1040 autoconf/automake macros.
1042 Modernize and improve test scripts `dist*.test'.
1043 * tests/distcleancheck.test: Do not add useless `-e' option to
1044 a $MAKE call. Extend test by grepping stderr of make.
1045 * tests/distcom2.test: Do not run the same test script on the
1046 Makefile.in twice, but save its output in an intermediate file
1047 instead. Make grepping of DIST_COMMON definition stricter.
1048 Display the content of more files, to ease debugging. Add a
1049 trailing `:' command. Improved heading comments w.r.t. sister
1051 * tests/distcom6.test: Likewise, and avoid to uselessly run
1053 * tests/distcom3.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured stdout
1054 and stderr. Make grepping of captured stderr stricter. Also,
1055 add trailing `:' command.
1056 * tests/distcom4.test: Declare the target `test' in the generated
1057 Makefile.am as `.PHONY'. Display content of more files, to ease
1058 debugging. Add trailing `:' command.
1059 * tests/distcom5.test: Likewise. Also, factor out common sed
1060 script in subroutine `extract_distcommon'.
1061 * tests/distcom7.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to write
1062 test Makefile.am files. Add a trailing `:' command.
1063 * tests/distname.test: Prefer `gzip -d' over `gunzip'. Move the
1064 call to `set -e' earlier. Be stricter and more verbose in the
1065 checking of the generated tarball.
1066 (configure.in): Use the stub provided by ./defs, instead of
1067 writing it from scratch. Avoid obsoleted constructs. Remove
1068 useless call to `AM_PROG_CC_C_O'.
1069 * tests/distdir.test: Various minor improvements/normalizations.
1070 * tests/distlinks.test: Likewise.
1072 2010-07-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1074 Improve and extend test cond5.test.
1075 * tests/cond5.test: Do not blindly sleep 60 seconds before polling
1076 the background automake process, but poll it every 10 seconds for
1077 at most 30 times (this makes the test both faster on good machines,
1078 and more resilient to spurious timeout-due failures when in low
1079 priority or on heavily-loaded systems).
1080 Check also that automake writes the expected error messages on the
1082 Enable `errexit' flag, and related changes.
1083 Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs', rather than
1084 writing one from scratch.
1086 2010-06-26 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1088 Update program --help output to match current GCS.
1089 * configure.ac: Set and substitute PACKAGE_URL if AC_PACKAGE_URL
1090 is not defined, for compatibility to Autoconf < 2.64.
1091 * Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute PACKAGE_BUGREPORT and
1093 (sc_diff_automake_in_automake): Update number of diff lines for
1094 additional substitutions.
1095 * aclocal.in (usage): Use PACKAGE_BUGREPORT. Point to Automake
1096 home page and GNU general help page.
1097 * automake.in (usage): Likewise.
1098 * doc/automake.texi: New flag PACKAGE_BUGREPORT, to factor email
1100 (Introduction, Creating amhello, amhello Explained, Options):
1102 * lib/Automake/Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute
1104 * lib/Automake/Config.in ($PACKAGE_BUGREPORT): New global.
1105 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Use it for footer of fatal
1108 Clean up @var handling in the manual.
1109 * doc/automake.texi: Throughout the manual, lower-case @var
1110 names, replace a few one-character names.
1112 2010-06-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1114 Fix typo-related bug in test script silent5.test.
1115 * tests/silent5.test: Use $EGREP, not $GREP (which is not even
1118 Tests: remove useless repetitions of `foreign' automake option.
1119 * tests/multlib.test (configure.in): Remove useless use of
1120 `foreign' option in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (the `--foreign' option is
1121 already in $AUTOMAKE by default, so no point in repeating it).
1122 * tests/subobj10.test: Likewise.
1123 * tests/subobj9.test: Likewise.
1124 * tests/lex3.test (Makefile.am): Similarly, remove useless use
1125 of `foreign' option in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
1126 * tests/lex5.test: Likewise.
1127 * tests/pr279.test: Likewise.
1128 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
1129 * tests/specflg3.test: Likewise.
1130 * tests/target-cflags.test: Likewise.
1132 Drop useless requirement "gzip" in lex5.test.
1133 * tests/lex5.test ($required): Do not list "gzip", as it's
1136 2010-06-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1138 Fix bugs in test script silent5.test.
1139 * tests/silent5.test: Fixed a nasty bug (due to the use of grep
1140 instead of egrep) that could have led to false negatives.
1142 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1144 Add a test checking that distributed broken symlinks cause
1145 `make dist' to fail.
1146 * tests/distlinksbrk.test: New test.
1147 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1149 2010-06-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1151 Fix minor testsuite issues, update docs, for Yacc/Lex changes.
1152 * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Mention AM_YFLAGS, YFLAGS
1153 and AM_LFLAGS, LFLAGS in the order in which they now appear in
1156 * tests/lflags.test, tests/lflags2.test, tests/yflags.test,
1157 tests/yflags2.test: Prefer `make -e' over `make VAR=VAL', to
1158 please maintainer-check. Ensure generated C files contain a
1159 declaration, to please compilers.
1161 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1163 Fix bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t. $(AM_FLAGS) and
1164 $(FLAGS) precedence.
1165 * automake.in: Fix registration of languages "Lex", "Lex (C++)",
1166 "Yacc" and "Yacc (C++)", so that $(LFLAGS) has precedence over
1167 $(AM_LFLAGS) and $(YFLAGS) has precedence over $(AM_YFLAGS).
1168 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1171 New tests, exposing bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t.
1172 $(AM_FLAGS) and $(FLAGS) precedence.
1173 * tests/lflags.test: New test, check that user $(LFLAGS) takes
1174 precedence over automake (AM_LFLAGS) and (foo_LFLAGS). Still
1176 * tests/lflags2.test: Likewise.
1177 * tests/yflags.test: New test, check that user $(YFLAGS) takes
1178 precedence over automake (AM_YFLAGS) and (foo_YFLAGS). Still
1180 * tests/yflags2.test: Likewise.
1181 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Extended accordingly.
1183 2010-06-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1185 Modernize, improve and extend tests `suffix*.test'.
1186 * tests/suffix3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1188 * tests/suffix4.test: Likewise.
1189 * tests/suffix6.test: Likewise, and do not create a useless dummy
1191 * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
1192 * tests/suffix5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1193 changes. Make grepping of Makefile.in slightly stricter.
1194 * tests/suffix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1195 changes. Also, do not redirect grep output to /dev/null, as this
1196 might unmotivatedly hide useful information.
1197 * tests/suffix2.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1198 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Use a more
1199 idiomatic way to count text occurrences in Makefile.in with
1200 grep. Do not create useless dummy source files.
1201 * tests/suffix10.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured make
1202 stdout. Minor cosmetic changes.
1203 * tests/suffix8.test: Likewise. Also, drop useless call to the
1204 env(1) utility, and make grepping of make output stricter by using
1205 $FGREP rather than plain grep.
1206 * tests/suffix11.test: Likewise.
1207 * tests/suffix12.test: Likewise.
1208 * tests/suffix9.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to append to
1209 the `configure.in' stub. Cosmetic changes.
1210 * tests/suffix13.test: Cosmetic spacing change.
1212 2010-06-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1214 Add useful comment in test script ext.test.
1215 * tests/ext.test: Add a comment explaining why an apparently
1216 useless `if' statement is indeed required.
1218 Add useful comment in test script obsolete.test.
1219 * tests/obsolete.test: Add a comment explaining why we need
1220 an indirection in adding $AUTOUPDATE to $required.
1222 Normalize whitespaces in 'tests/Makefile.am'.
1223 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Use only spaces, not tabs, in the
1224 definition of this variable.
1226 2010-06-12 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1228 Remove a couple of unneeded conditionals from tests.
1229 * tests/pr243.test, tests/pr266.test, tests/strip.test: No need
1230 for the FOOTEST conditional.
1232 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1234 Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
1235 * tests/symlink3.test: Deleted, separated into two new, more
1237 * tests/forcemiss.test: ... this one ...
1238 * tests/forcemiss2.test: ... and this one.
1239 * tests/symlink2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, make test
1240 stricter, and skip it if symlink creation is not supported.
1241 * tests/postproc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, related
1242 changes, and a couple of unrelated cosmetic changes.
1243 * tests/recurs.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
1244 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping
1245 of Automake stderr slightly stricter.
1246 * tests/substtarg.test: Likewise.
1247 * tests/strip.test: Likewise, and move the call to `set -e'
1248 earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs'). Also, make sure
1249 that the script installed by `make install-script' is equal to
1251 * tests/substref.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
1252 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Move the call
1253 to `set -e' earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs').
1254 Avoid to explicitly export CC for configure (that's already done
1255 in ./defs). Avoid potential problems with unpredictable make
1256 output. Finally, make grepping of Makefile.in stricter.
1257 * tests/substre2.test: Ensure verbose printing of the captured
1258 make's output, and make its grepping slightly stricter.
1259 * tests/cygwin32.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1260 changes. Also, do not create useless dummy source/data files.
1261 * tests/scripts.test: Likewise.
1262 * tests/recurs2.test: Likewise. Also, use the `configure.in'
1263 stub created by `./defs'.
1264 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1266 Modernize, improve and/or fix tests `pluseq*.test.
1267 * tests/pluseq5.test: Append to configure.in using cat with an
1268 here-doc, not using echo.
1269 * tests/pluseq10.test: Make sure that the captured output of
1270 `make' command is always displayed. Where possible, use $FGREP
1271 instead of grep (this change makes some checks slightly stricter).
1272 * tests/pluseq8.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
1274 * tests/pluseq.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless dummy
1275 data files, and use better m4 quoting in generated configure.in.
1276 * tests/pluseq2.test: Likewise. Also, append to configure.in
1277 using cat with an here-doc, not using echo.
1278 * tests/pluseq3.test: Likewise.
1279 * tests/pluseq4.test: Likewise.
1280 * tests/pluseq6.test: Likewise.
1281 * tests/pluseq7.test: Do not create useless dummy source file.
1282 * tests/pluseq9.test: Slightly extended w.r.t. the grepping of
1283 Automake stderr. Some unrelated cosmetic changes.
1285 Testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured stderr.
1286 * tests/acloca18.test: Print captured stderr before either failing
1287 or grepping it. Be sure to send captured stderr to stderr, not to
1289 * tests/ansi3b.test: Likewise.
1290 * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
1291 * tests/configure.test: Likewise.
1292 * tests/missing3.test: Likewise.
1293 * tests/missing6.test: Likewise.
1294 * tests/output-order.test: Likewise.
1295 * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise.
1296 * tests/python6.test: Likewise.
1297 * tests/python7.test: Likewise.
1298 * tests/python8.test: Likewise.
1299 * tests/python9.test: Likewise.
1300 * tests/subobj.test: Likewise.
1301 * tests/vars3.test: Likewise.
1302 * tests/missing4.test: Likewise, and fix a call to grep not to use
1304 * tests/ansi3.test: Likewise, and rely on the `configure.in' stub
1305 created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1307 Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
1308 * tests/backsl.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
1310 * tests/backsl2.test: Likewise.
1311 * tests/block.test: Likewise.
1312 * tests/canon2.test: Likewise.
1313 * tests/canon4.test: Likewise.
1314 * tests/comment2.test: Likewise.
1315 * tests/condlib.test: Likewise.
1316 * tests/cond15.test: Likewise, and prefer $FGREP over grep.
1317 * tests/canon3.test: Likewise. Also, avoid to create an useless
1319 * tests/acoutpt2.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and some
1320 related changes. Do some cosmetic improvements in the generated
1321 `configure.in' file.
1322 * tests/cond4.test: Likewise.
1323 * tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
1324 * tests/condinc.test: Likewise.
1325 * tests/cond7.test: Likewise. Also, remove useless setting of
1326 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am.
1327 * tests/ansi.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
1328 changes. Extended, esp. by running autoconf, ./configure and
1329 make, and by looking into the distdir.
1331 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1332 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1334 Extend tests/README w.r.t. trailing `:' in test scripts.
1335 * tests/README (section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
1336 Explain why apparently redundant trailing `:' and `Exit 0' in
1337 test scripts can indeed be useful.
1339 2010-06-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1341 Improve determination of PATH separator in bootstrap script.
1342 * bootstrap: Determine what the PATH separator is the same way
1345 Minor improvements in bootstrap script.
1346 * bootstrap: Consistently use two-spaces indentation. Cosmetic
1347 improvement to comments.
1348 ($me): New variable, containing program basename.
1349 Prepend it to all error messages.
1351 Testsuite now works with BSD make in parallel mode.
1352 * tests/defs.in: Unset variables __MKLVL__ and MAKE_JOBS_FIFO,
1353 which are exported by BSD make when run in parallel mode, and
1354 which can confuse make processes spawned by our testsuite.
1355 This change fixes a lot of spurious failure when the testsuite
1356 is run with BSD make in parallel mode.
1358 2010-06-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1360 Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
1361 * tests/sanity.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
1362 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1363 * tests/depend2.test: Likewise. Also, call `set -e' just after
1364 the inclusion of `./defs', instead that later in the script.
1365 * tests/canon5.test: Avoid a useless `|| Exit 1' after a call to
1366 $AUTOMAKE, and improve the positioning of an $ACLOCAL call.
1367 * tests/exeext4.test: Use $FGREP instead of grep, where possible.
1368 Make auxiliary rules in the generated Makefile more silent.
1369 These changes make some checks slightly stricter.
1370 * tests/ext2.test: Call `Exit 1' if inclusion of `./defs' fails.
1371 * tests/gettext2.test: Place final `:' at the end of the script,
1372 rather than in the middle.
1373 * tests/exeext.test: Call `set -e' just after the inclusion of
1374 `./defs', instead that later in the script.
1375 * tests/extra5.test: Likewise.
1376 * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `mv -f' over
1377 plain `mv', just to be sure.
1378 * tests/depcomp.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
1379 changes. Also, modernize the generated configure.in.
1380 * tests/cond9.test: Likewise. Also, rely on the `configure.in'
1381 stub created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1382 * tests/cond10.test: Likewise.
1383 * tests/depcomp2.test: Likewise.
1384 * tests/depend3.test: Likewise.
1385 * tests/distcom7.test: Likewise.
1386 * tests/fortdep.test: Likewise. Also, remove definition of
1387 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am,
1388 since that flag is already provided by $AUTOMAKE.
1389 * tests/mdate.test: Made stricter, by checking that Automake
1390 actually failed, and by making a stricter grep on the error
1391 message. Also, set shell `errexit flag'.
1392 * tests/python2.test: Improved verbose messages.
1394 Make test `ammissing.test' stricter.
1395 * tests/ammissing.test: Fail if $ACLOCAL succeeds unexpectedly.
1396 Enable `errexit' shell flag.
1398 2010-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1400 Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
1401 * tests/subcond.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
1403 * tests/subst.test: Likewise.
1404 * tests/vars.test: Likewise.
1405 * tests/version4.test: Likewise.
1406 * tests/vpath.test: Likewise.
1407 * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
1408 * tests/werror.test: Likewise.
1409 * tests/whoami.test: Likewise.
1410 * tests/tags.test: Likewise, and avoid to crate an useless dummy
1412 * tests/acsilent.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
1413 command substitution.
1414 * tests/unused.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
1415 command substitution.
1416 * tests/version.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
1417 in the generated `configure.in'.
1418 * tests/version2.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
1419 in the generated `configure.in'.
1421 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1423 Prefer AUTOMAKE_fails over `$AUTOMAKE | grep' in tests.
1424 * tests/ldadd.test: Enable errexit. Use AUTOMAKE_fails so
1425 the verbose log contains all output.
1426 * tests/mdate.test: Likewise.
1427 Prompted by Stefano Lattarini's change to discover.test.
1429 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1431 Improve tests link*.test (enable `errexit' shell flag).
1432 * tests/link_c_cxx.test: Enable `errexit shell flag, and related
1433 changes. Also, do not create useless source files.
1434 * tests/link_dist.test: Likewise.
1435 * tests/link_f90_only.test: Likewise.
1436 * tests/link_f_only.test: Likewise.
1437 * tests/link_fc.test: Likewise.
1438 * tests/link_fccxx.test: Likewise.
1439 * tests/link_fcxx.test: Likewise.
1441 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1443 Improve ext.test semantics, avoid OpenBSD sh errexit issue.
1444 * tests/ext.test: Inside shell compound command, use
1445 `if $cmd; then Exit 1; fi' rather than `$cmd && Exit 1', to
1446 fix failure with OpenBSD sh introduced with last patch.
1447 Actually ensure that a rule for .EXT.o is created for each
1448 known extension EXT.
1450 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1452 Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
1453 * tests/dash.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1455 * tests/defun.test: Likewise.
1456 * tests/defun2.test: Likewise.
1457 * tests/dejagnu.test: Likewise.
1458 * tests/double.test: Likewise.
1459 * tests/distcom2.test: Likewise.
1460 * tests/empty2.test: Likewise.
1461 * tests/empty3.test: Likewise.
1462 * tests/empty4.test: Likewise.
1463 * tests/exdir.test: Likewise.
1464 * tests/ext.test: Likewise.
1465 * tests/extra.test: Likewise.
1466 * tests/extra2.test: Likewise.
1467 * tests/extra3.test: Likewise.
1468 * tests/extra4.test: Likewise.
1469 * tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
1470 * tests/fnoc.test: Likewise.
1471 * tests/fo.test: Likewise.
1472 * tests/instexec.test: Likewise.
1473 * tests/ltdeps.test: Likewise.
1474 * tests/nodep.test: Likewise.
1475 * tests/nodepcomp.test: Likewise.
1476 * tests/f90only.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
1477 comments and unnecessary commands.
1478 * tests/fonly.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
1479 comments and unnecessary commands.
1480 * tests/discover.test: Likewise, and made stricter.
1482 Enable `errexit' shell flag in all tests cxx*.test.
1483 * tests/cxx.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
1485 * tests/cxxansi.test: Likewise.
1486 * tests/cxxcpp.test: Likewise.
1487 * tests/cxxlibobj.test: Likewise.
1488 * tests/cxxlink.test: Likewise.
1489 * tests/cxxo.test: Likewise.
1491 Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
1492 * tests/acoutnoq.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
1494 * tests/acoutpt.test: Likewise.
1495 * tests/acoutqnl.test: Likewise.
1496 * tests/amassign.test: Likewise.
1497 * tests/ansi2.test: Likewise.
1498 * tests/ansi4.test: Likewise.
1499 * tests/badprog.test: Likewise.
1500 * tests/checkall.test: Likewise.
1501 * tests/clean.test: Likewise.
1502 * tests/colneq2.test: Likewise.
1503 * tests/colon.test: Likewise.
1504 * tests/colon5.test: Likewise.
1505 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
1506 * tests/comment.test: Likewise.
1507 * tests/compile_f90_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
1508 * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
1509 * tests/cond3.test: Likewise.
1510 * tests/cond6.test: Likewise.
1511 * tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
1512 * tests/conf2.test: Likewise.
1513 * tests/confvar.test: Likewise.
1514 * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
1515 * tests/cond8.test: Likewise, plus a cosmetic change.
1516 * tests/confh4.test: Likewise. Also, add in the heading comments
1517 an excerpt from the original bug report which motivated the
1518 creation of this test, to make its purpose clearer.
1520 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1522 Rewrite manual to be gender-neutral.
1523 * doc/automake.texi (GNU Build System)
1524 (Standard Directory Variables, General Operation, CVS)
1525 (Hard-Coded Install Paths, Dependencies As Side Effects):
1526 Rewrite text to not contain gender-specific pronouns when
1527 speaking about developers or users, either by avoiding pronouns
1528 or by addressing them as `you' instead.
1530 Report by Christina Gratorp.
1534 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1536 Make tests on user extensibility of silent-rules mode stricter.
1537 * tests/silent6.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
1538 output produced by `make'.
1539 * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
1541 Tests on silent-mode for C/Libtool made stricter.
1542 * tests/silent.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
1543 output produced by `make'.
1544 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
1545 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
1546 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
1547 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise, and add a final `make distclean'
1548 command to keep it better in sync with tests/silent{4,9}.test.
1550 Improved test silent5.test.
1551 * tests/silent5.test: Remove by hand all generated C files after
1552 non-verbose builds, to ensure the following builds are clean.
1553 Try to clean and rebuild with the same verbosity and without
1554 removing generated sources in between, to check that this does
1555 not trigger a different set of rules. Make grepping of make's
1556 output stricter. Improved/added some comments.
1558 New tests for Automake silent-mode with Fortran.
1559 * tests/silentf77.test: New test.
1560 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
1561 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1563 New test `silentcxx.test' (Automake silent-mode with C++).
1564 * tests/silentcxx.test: New test.
1565 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1567 New test `silentyacc.test' (Automake silent-mode with Yacc).
1568 * tests/silentyacc.test: New test.
1569 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1571 New test `silentlex.test' (Automake silent-mode with Lex).
1572 * tests/silentlex.test: New test.
1573 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1575 Relax tests on silent-rules to cater to overly verbose makes.
1576 * tests/silent.test: When testing silent builds, don't fail if
1577 make's output simply contains the `mv' substring, but only if
1578 it contains the `mv ' substring (note the trailing space).
1579 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
1580 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
1581 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
1582 * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
1583 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
1585 2010-01-24 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1587 Fix silent-rules output for disabled dependency tracking.
1588 * lib/am/depend2.am [!%FASTDEP%]: Rework silent-rules variable
1589 expansion code to also work in the case where %AMDEP% expands
1590 to FALSE at config.status time, using new substitution string
1592 * automake.in (verbose_nodep_flag): New function, appending
1593 `@am__nodep@' to the verbose-variable name.
1594 (handle_languages): If dependencies are not disabled, use it to
1595 set %VERBOSE-NODEP%.
1596 * m4/depend.m4: Substitute am__nodep as '_no', so the second
1597 verbose-variable will always expand to an empty string, if
1598 dependencies are enabled.
1599 * tests/silent5.test: Also test --disable-dependency-tracking;
1600 also test per-target flags for non-C language files.
1601 * tests/silent9.test: New test, like silent4.test but disable
1602 dependency tracking.
1603 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
1604 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
1605 Report by Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>.
1607 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1609 Extend test on `nostdinc' automake option.
1610 * tests/nostdinc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Related and
1611 unrelated minor changes. Make the grepping of the generated
1612 Makefile.in slightly stricter. Generate and run configure, so that
1613 the generated Makefile can be grepped too.
1615 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1617 Make gnupload portable to EBCDIC hosts.
1618 * lib/gnupload: Use literal newline as argument for 'tr' rather
1619 than \015, for EBCDIC hosts. Also, avoid unportable nested
1620 double-quotes and backquotes.
1622 Report from Eric Blake and Steve Goetze via gnulib.
1624 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1626 Fix Autoconf version required by Automake's configure.
1627 Automake configure script used to tell that automake required
1628 autoconf 2.60 or later, but then it checked for autoconf >= 2.62,
1629 and if that was not found, it gave an error saying that Automake
1630 required configure 2.61a-341 or later. This change should
1631 eliminate such inconsistencies.
1632 * configure.ac ($required_autoconf_version): New variable.
1635 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1637 Fix unportable sed script in maintainer-check test.
1638 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_Exit_not_exit): Rewrite sed script to
1639 not contain semicolon after 'b' or brace commands, for NetBSD.
1641 Wildcards are not portable to NetBSD make.
1642 * doc/automake.texi (Wildcards): Document portability issue.
1643 * tests/extra10.test, tests/extra11.test, tests/extra12.test:
1646 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1648 Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
1649 * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
1650 an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
1652 Avoid possible false negatives in dejagnu7.test.
1653 * tests/dejagnu7.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Also, avoid
1654 unportable use of fgrep option `-e'.
1656 Fix conflnk3.test to work with Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
1657 * tests/conflnk3.test: Use `test -r FILE' and `test ! -r FILE'
1658 instead of respectively `test -e FILE' and `test ! -e FILE',
1659 since Solaris Sh doesn't grok the latter. Do not SKIP the test
1660 if the shell doesn't support `test -e'.
1662 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1665 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Add
1666 missing closing parenthesis.
1668 Fix leftover call to removed function macros_dump.
1669 * automake.in (read_main_am_file): Call variables_dump, not
1670 macros_dump. Print actual error before list of variables.
1672 2010-04-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1674 Minor improvements in comments of test `silent3.test'.
1675 * tests/silent3.test: Tell to keep it in sync with `silent9.test'
1678 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1680 testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured output.
1681 * tests/acloca14.test, tests/acloca18.test, tests/aclocal.test,
1682 tests/fort2.test, tests/help.test, tests/missing3.test,
1683 tests/missing6.test: Print captured stdout or stderr before
1686 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1688 Make test badopt.test stricter (by enabling `set -e').
1689 * tests/badopt.test: Add call to `set -e'. Due to this change,
1690 an unexpected failure in the call to `$ACLOCAL' (whose outcome
1691 was previously unchecked) would cause the whole test to fail.
1692 Also, bumped the copyright years.
1694 Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
1695 * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
1696 an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
1698 Use `set -e' in confsub.test (avoids possible false negatives).
1699 * tests/confsub.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and related
1700 changes (this helps avoiding some possible minor false negatives).
1701 Also, bumped copyright years.
1703 2010-04-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1705 Fix -Werror handling for presence of configure.in and configure.ac.
1706 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (Automake::Variable): Do not initialize
1707 $configure_ac at the global level, before command-line arguments
1709 (require_variables): Initialize it here.
1710 * tests/configure.test: New test.
1711 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
1712 Report by Stefano Lattarini.
1714 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1716 Avoid possible false negatives in confh5.test.
1717 * tests/confh5.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and bumped
1718 copyright years. Due to this change, any unexpected failure
1719 in calls to $ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE, $AUTOCONF or $AUTOHEADER, or
1720 a failure in grepping expected text in output files should now
1721 cause the whole test to fail.
1723 2010-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1725 Fixed typo in POD documentation of Automake::Channels.
1726 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Fixed typo in POD documentation:
1727 @<...> was used instead of C<...>.
1729 2010-04-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1731 Refactor tests on Automake TESTS color output.
1732 * tests/color.test: Tests using the expect program moved out to...
1733 * tests/color2.test: ... this new file.
1734 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Extended accordingly.
1736 2010-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1738 Fix typos in comments in test confh5.test
1739 * tests/confh5.test: Fix a couple of typos in comments.
1741 Avoid possible false negatives in canon-name.test.
1742 * tests/canon-name.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Improve
1745 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1747 Fix per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror.
1748 Before this patch, 'AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = -Werror' in one
1749 Makefile.am would carry over to other Makefile.am files
1750 treated afterwards by the same thread, causing inconsistent
1751 and unstable exit status values.
1752 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (dup_channel_setup)
1753 (drop_channel_setup): Save and restore the setting of
1754 $warnings_are_errors.
1755 * tests/werror3.test: New test.
1756 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
1759 2010-04-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1761 Bugfix in confh5.test w.r.t. Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
1762 * tests/confh5.test: In the generated Makefile.am: do not use
1763 `test ! -e FILE' to check for the non-existence of a file, since
1764 that is not supported by Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
1766 Make test `aclocal3.test' stricter.
1767 * tests/aclocal3.test: Add call to `set -e'. Fail if $ACLOCAL
1768 succeds unexpectedly.
1770 Add tests checking that symlinks are resolved by `make dist'.
1771 * tests/distlinks.test: New test.
1772 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1773 Suggested by observations from Ralf Wildenhues.
1775 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1777 Use -9 for maximum xz compression with dist-xz.
1778 * lib/am/distdir.am (dist-xz, dist, dist-all): Pass -9 to xz.
1779 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
1780 Report by Pavel Sanda.
1782 2010-03-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1784 Avoid an unportable use of `$status' shell variable.
1785 * Makefile.am (path-check): Don't use the `$status' shell variable
1786 in the target's rules, as it's special in Zsh (equivalent to `$?',
1789 Avoid another use of `chmod -R'.
1790 * Makefile.am (path-check): To be safe, do not use `chmod -R' on
1791 $(distdir) before removing it (as Solaris `chmod -R' touches
1792 symlink targets). Instead, use the cleanup strategy used in
1795 2010-03-28 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1797 Remove uses of @acronym and @sc.
1798 * doc/automake.texi (Public Macros, Limitations on File Names):
1799 Remove all usage of @acronym and @sc in the manual.
1800 Suggested by Karl Berry.
1802 2010-03-13 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
1804 GNU hello uses fdl.texi, not gpl.texi.
1805 * doc/automake.texi (Texinfo): Adjust example to upstream
1808 2010-03-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1810 Formatting cleanups in macro comments.
1811 * automake.in, lib/Automake/Channels.pm,
1812 lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm, lib/Automake/Options.pm,
1813 lib/Automake/Variable.pm, lib/Automake/XFile.pm,
1814 m4/options.m4, m4/substnot.m4: Fix macro comment format.
1816 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1817 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1819 Avoid generation of `tests/defs-p' file.
1820 * tests/defs.in: In the generated `configure.in' snippet: call
1821 `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' with the `parallel-tests' option if the shell
1822 variable `parallel_tests' is set to `yes'.
1823 * tests/Makefile.am (defs-p): Target removed.
1824 (check_SCRIPTS): Removed `defs-p'.
1825 (clean-local-check): Do not unlink `defs-p' anymore.
1826 ($(parallel_tests)): Transformation rules for the test scripts
1828 * tests/gen-parallel-tests: Selection rules for the test
1830 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Set `$parallel_tests' to `yes'
1831 then include `./defs' (rather than simply including `./defs-p').
1832 * tests/parallel-tests2.test: Likewise.
1833 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
1834 * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
1835 * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
1836 * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
1837 * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
1838 * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise.
1839 * tests/parallel-tests9.test: Likewise.
1840 * tests/parallel-tests10.test: Likewise.
1841 * tests/README (Section "Writing Test Cases" subsection "Do"):
1842 Adjusted the parts referring to tests checking `parallel-tests'
1843 behaviour. Some other minor related improvements.
1844 * tests/.gitignore (defs-p): Removed.
1846 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1848 Remove redundant unset of variable TESTS from some test scripts.
1849 * tests/color.test: Do not unset the `TESTS' variable, as it's
1850 already unset in the `defs' file.
1851 * tests/check5.test: Likewise.
1852 * tests/check8.test: Likewise.
1853 * tests/check9.test: Likewise.
1854 * tests/check10.test: Likewise.
1855 * tests/check11.test: Likewise.
1856 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Likewise.
1857 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
1858 * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
1859 * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
1860 * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
1861 * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
1863 2010-02-22 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
1865 Improve help message of mdate-sh.
1866 * mdate-sh: mention actual output format in help message.
1868 2010-02-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1870 Deprecate dist-lzma in favor of dist-xz.
1871 * doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions, Options):
1872 Adjust text to reflect renaming of lzma to xz.
1874 Missing deprecation noted by Antonio Diaz Diaz.
1876 2010-02-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1878 Add tests about support of wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
1879 * tests/extra10.test: New test, check basic support of wildcards
1881 * tests/extra11.test: New test, check more complex usage of
1882 wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
1883 * tests/extra12.test: New test, check usage of wildcards in
1884 EXTRA_DIST when $builddir != $srcdir.
1885 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1886 Necessity of these new tests suggested by Braden McDaniel
1887 and Ralf Wildenhues.
1889 2010-02-08 Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
1891 Fix copyright statement in gnupload script.
1892 * lib/gnupload: Fix copyright statement.
1894 2010-02-06 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> (tiny change)
1895 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1897 Fix exit status of signal handlers in shell scripts.
1898 The value of `$?' on entrance to signal handlers in shell scripts
1899 cannot be relied upon, so set the exit code explicitly to
1901 * lib/am/check.am (am__check_pre): Use `exit 143' in signal handler.
1902 * lib/elisp-comp: Likewise.
1903 * lib/install-sh: Likewise.
1904 * lib/ylwrap: Likewise. Also, fix script to trap signal 13, not 3.
1905 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
1906 Bug report, analysis, and initial patch by Dmitry V. Levin.
1908 2010-02-06 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
1910 Improve gnupload usage text.
1911 * gnupload (usage): Shorten to make more likely to fit on a tty
1912 line. Mention CMD in the synopsis. With ..., plural is implied.
1914 2010-01-28 Christos Kontas <xakon@yahoo.com> (tiny change)
1916 Fix some typos in the manual
1917 * doc/automake.texi (Nested Packages, Rebuilding): Fix typos.
1919 2010-01-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1921 Slighty improve tests acoutbs.test and acoutbs2.test.
1922 * tests/acoutbs2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Check that
1923 autoconf and configure work, that the file `zot' is created by
1924 configure, and that no file containing a backslash in its name is
1926 * tests/acoutbs.test: Likewise, plus updated copyright years.
1928 Fix test acoutbs2.test.
1929 * tests/acoutbs2: In the generated configure.in: add proper calls
1930 to AC_INIT and AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, and remove explicit definition of
1931 PACKAGE and VERSION. Add a call to aclocal before calling automake.
1932 Updated copyright years.
1933 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Removed acoutbs2.test.
1935 Add forgotten test scripts to $(TESTS).
1936 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Added test scripts present on the
1937 filesystem, which were erroneously left out from $(TESTS):
1938 acoutbs2.test, badopt.test, extra2.test.
1939 (XFAIL_TESTS): Added acoutbs2.test.
1941 2010-01-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1943 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
1944 * INSTALL, lib/INSTALL, lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub:
1947 Bump copyright years.
1948 * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
1949 * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
1950 * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
1953 * ChangeLog.09: New file, rotated from ...
1954 * ChangeLog: ... here.
1955 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute ChangeLog.09.
1959 Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
1961 Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are
1962 permitted provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved.