1 2011-09-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3 automake: fix regression due to de-ansification support removal
4 The last change `v1.11-947-g136b489' removed code that automake
5 was using to decide whether binary objects were built by the
6 generated Makefile.in, so that it could avoid to emit unneeded
7 code when this was not the case. Re-introduce such code in a
8 less-obfuscated form, and add a test to ensure we don't regress
10 * automake.in ($must_handle_compiled_objects): New global
11 variable, telling whether the generated Makefile has to build
13 (initialize_per_input): Reset it.
14 (handle_programs, handle_libraries, handle_ltlibraries): Set
15 it to a true value when required.
16 (handle_compile): Don't generate any code if the variable
17 `$must_handle_compiled_objects' is not set to a true value.
18 * tests/no-extra-makefile-code.test: New test.
19 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
21 2011-08-28 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
23 automake: cleanups after de-ansification support removal (2)
24 * automake.in ($get_object_extension_was_run): Remove, it's not
25 really needed anymore.
26 (&get_object_extension): Remove, it's a no-op now.
29 2011-08-28 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
31 automake: cleanups after de-ansification support removal (1)
32 * automake.in (lang_c_rewrite, handle_single_transform): Rename
33 variable `$nonansi_obj' to `$obj'.
35 2011-08-28 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
37 ansi: remove obsolete code/files for de-ANSI-fication support
38 * lib/ansi2knr.1, lib/ansi2knr.c: Deleted.
39 * lib/Makefile.am (dist_pkgvdata_DATA): Do not list them anymore.
40 * lib/am/ansi2knr.am: Delete.
41 * lib/am/Makefile.am (dist_am_DATA): Do not list it anymore.
42 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (%_am_macro_for_var): Remove entries for
44 * m4/depout.m4 (_AM_OUTPUT_DEPENDENCY_COMMANDS): Don't care anymore
45 about possible definition of the `$U' variable.
46 * automake.in (@common_files): Drop `ansi2knr.1' and `ansi2knr.c'.
47 (struct): Remove scalar field `ansi'.
49 (&lang_c_finish, %de_ansi_files): Remove, they're not required
52 ($get_object_extension_was_run): Fix typo in comment.
53 (&get_object_extension): Drop code dealing with de-ansification;
54 this function basically a no-op now, but is required to properly
55 initialize `$get_object_extension_was_run' variable.
56 (&handle_languages, &handle_compile, &lang_c_rewrite): Drop code
57 dealing with de-ansification.
59 2011-08-28 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
61 ansi: reject attempts to use automatic de-ANSI-fication support
62 * tests/protos.m4 (AM_C_PROTOTYPES): Error out whenever called.
63 * lib/Automake/Options.pm (_process_option_list ): Error out
64 with a proper error message when the `ansi2knr' option is used.
65 Related updates to comments.
66 * tests/depacl2.test: Update.
67 * tests/ansi2knr-no-more.test: New test.
68 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
71 2011-08-28 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
73 tests: remove tests about obsolete de-ANSI-fication support
74 * tests/ansi.test: Delete.
75 * tests/ansi10.test: Likewise.
76 * tests/ansi2.test: Likewise.
77 * tests/ansi2knr-deprecation.test: Likewise.
78 * tests/ansi3.test: Likewise.
79 * tests/ansi3b.test: Likewise.
80 * tests/ansi4.test: Likewise.
81 * tests/ansi5.test: Likewise.
82 * tests/ansi6.test: Likewise.
83 * tests/ansi7.test: Likewise.
84 * tests/ansi8.test: Likewise.
85 * tests/ansi9.test: Likewise.
86 * tests/cxxansi.test: Likewise.
87 * tests/libobj8.test: Likewise.
88 * tests/subobj3.test: Likewise.
89 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
91 2011-08-28 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
93 docs: remove description of de-ANSI-fication support from manual
94 * doc/automake.texi (Auxiliary Programs): Remove mention of
95 `ansi2knr.c' and `ansi2knr.1'.
96 (Obsolete Macros): Remove mention of `AM_C_PROTOTYPES'. Do not
97 index it nor variables `ANSI2KNR' and `U' anymore.
98 (List of Automake options): Remove mention of `ansi2knr' option,
99 and obsolete entries for concept and option indexes.
100 (Optional): Remove entry about `AM_C_PROTOTYPES'.
101 (@c LocalWords): Remove `ansi' and `knr'.
102 (@menu, @detailmenu): Remove entries about de-ANSI-fication
105 2011-08-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
107 tests: list "forgotten" test script in TESTS
108 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Also list ...
109 * tests/java-empty-classpath.test: ... this test. Since we are
110 at it, remove trailing whitespace from a couple of lines.
112 2011-08-25 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
114 ylwrap: fix unusual indentation whitespace
115 * lib/ylwrap: Convert tabs to spaces.
116 Reported by Karl Berry.
118 2011-08-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
120 * THANKS (Daniel Richard G.): Update e-mail address.
122 2011-08-16 Daniel Richard G. <skunk@iskunk.org> (tiny change)
123 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
125 java: avoid compilation errors when CLASSPATH is empty
126 * lib/am/java.am (CLASSPATH_ENV): When redefining `$CLASSPATH',
127 do not append an empty component in case the previous value of
128 CLASSPATH is empty or unset.
129 * tests/java-empty-classpath.test: New test.
130 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
131 Fixes automake bug#9306.
133 2011-08-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
135 parallel-tests: no more spurious successes for FreeBSD make
136 Work around a bug of FreeBSD make bug that was causing the
137 automake-generated "check" target to complete with success
138 even if some tests failed; this happened only when FreeBSD
139 make was run in concurrent mode (as in, e.g., "make -j2
140 check"). The bug is not present in NetBSD make.
141 This change fixes automake bug#9245:
142 <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=9245>
143 See also FreeBSD PR bin/159730:
144 <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=159730>
145 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] $(TEST_SUITE_LOG): Use a
146 more "safe" (and apparently redundant) idiom to exit with error,
147 so that the non-zero exit status is picked up also by FreeBSD
148 make when it's running in concurrent mode.
150 * tests/check-concurrency-bug9245.test: New test.
151 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
153 2011-08-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
155 hacking: we now require autoconf 2.68
156 * HACKING ("Working in git"): Use autoconf and autom4te 2.68,
157 not 2.67, in the examples.
159 2011-08-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
161 coverage: possible infinite recursion in the test harness
162 Motivated by a regression in the 'test-protocols' branch.
163 * tests/parallel-tests-fork-bomb.test: New test, checking that
164 if $(TEST_SUITE_LOG) is in $(TEST_LOGS), we obtain a diagnosed
165 error rather than a make hang or a fork bomb.
166 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
168 2011-08-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
170 test defs: yet more environment cleanup
171 * tests/defs: Also unset the TEST_SUITE_LOG variable.
173 2011-08-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
175 tests: fix various blunders in 'suffix-chain.test'
176 * tests/suffix-chain.test: Fix various blunders that were causing
177 this test to fail spuriously: append to `configure.in', not to
178 `configure.ac'; add a `;' character after the `return' statement
179 in an input file; use tabs, not spaces, to indent Makefile recipes;
180 and use more uncommon suffixes that don't trigger built-in recipes
183 2011-08-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
185 tests: don't let a known Solaris make bug poison too many tests
186 See automake bug#7670 and bug#7824.
187 * tests/defs (make_can_chain_suffix_rules): New function, tell
188 whether the make implementation in use can chain suffix rules
189 automatically or not.
190 * tests/suffix3.test: Use it to avoid issuing calls to make that
191 are unportable to make implementations that are not smart enough
192 to chain suffix rules automatically.
193 * tests/suffix8.test: Use it to avoid issuing calls to make that
194 * tests/suffix10.test: Use it to avoid issuing calls to make that
195 * tests/suffix11.test: Use it to avoid issuing calls to make that
196 * tests/suffix-chain.test: New test, exposes the limitation that
197 we have papered over in the tests above.
199 2011-08-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
201 gitignore: more use of anchors
202 * .gitignore: Anchor files that are intended to be ignored only
203 if found in the same directory of the `.gitignore' file, not also
204 in its subdirectories.
205 * doc/.gitignore, doc/amhello/.gitignore, lib/Automake/.gitignore,
206 lib/Automake/tests/.gitignore, tests/.gitignore: Likewise. Also,
207 where needed, add new entries that were once implied by the
208 non-anchored entries in the upper-level `.gitignore' files.
210 2011-08-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
212 testsuite: avoid spurious failure of self checks on Solaris
213 This is just a quick workaround to prevent having too much noise
214 in the testsuite; more proper fixes have been committed into the
215 'testsuite-work' branch.
216 * tests/self-check-dir.test: Relax a test to avoid unimportant
217 failure on Solaris 10.
218 * tests/self-check-exit.test: Likewise.
220 2011-08-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
222 test defs: more environment cleanup
223 * tests/defs: Also unset variables AM_COLOR_TESTS and
224 AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT.
226 2011-08-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
228 tests: fix spurious failure with Solaris make
229 * tests/distcheck-configure-flags-am.test: Avoid using `+=' too
230 liberally with AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS, since the line breaks
231 so introduced, in conjunction with single quotes, might confuse
234 2011-08-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
236 maintcheck: fix maintainer-check failures, both real and spurious
237 * tests/amhello-binpkg.test: Use "$MAKE", not bare "make".
238 * Makefile.am (sc_perl_local): Also allow perl special variable
239 `$~' to be localized. And be slightly laxer in the regexp, to
240 allow for usages like "local $_ = $foo;".
241 (sc_tests_overriding_macros_on_cmdline): Also allow for command
242 line overriding of the `DISABLE_HARD_ERRORS' make variable. Try
243 to avoid false positives for usages like "$MAKE || st=$?".
245 2011-08-03 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
247 docs: how to use '-I' option in AM_CPPFLAGS for best VPATH support
248 * doc/automake.texi (Program Variables): Recommend -I options to
249 both the build directory and the source directory when needed.
251 2011-07-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
253 tests: relax a test on amhello examples to cater to Solaris tar
254 * tests/amhello-binpkg.test: When the tar implementation in use
255 is not GNU tar, relax the tests on tar output, to avoid spurious
256 failures. For example, "tar cvf ..." with GNU tar can output
257 lines like "./usr/bin/hello" on the standard output, while with
258 Solaris tar it can output lines like "a ./usr/bin/hello 8K" on
259 standard output, and with Heirloom tar it can output lines like
260 "a ./usr/bin/hello 15 tape blocks" on standard error.
262 2011-07-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
264 test defs: function 'is_newest' now works also with directories
265 * tests/defs (is_newest): Call `find' with the `-prune' option,
266 so that it won't descend in the directories (which could cause
268 * tests/self-check-is_newest: Extend accordingly.
269 From a report by Jim Meyering, see automake bug#9147.
271 2011-07-15 Benoit Sigoure <tsunanet@gmail.com>
273 docs: add references between the 2 sections on java support
274 * doc/automake.texi (Java Support, Java): Add cross-references.
276 2011-07-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
278 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
279 * INSTALL, lib/INSTALL, lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub,
280 lib/texinfo.tex: Sync from upstream.
282 2011-07-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
284 tests: fix weakness in 'tests-environment-backcompat.test'
285 * tests/tests-environment-backcompat.test: Do not override the
286 content of xfailing test `baz.test' with a "weaker" version that
287 fails unconditionally: the test must fail only when the 'strict'
288 pragma is in use, in order not to reduce coverage.
290 2011-07-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
292 docs, tests: synchronize examples on silent-rules from config.site
293 * doc/automake.texi (Automake silent-rules Option): Reference test
294 'silent-configsite.test' in comments.
296 2011-07-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
298 tests: portability fixes in tests on amhello examples
299 * tests/amhello-binpkg.test: Don't use "tar xzf too.tag.gz" to
300 extract a gzip-compressed tarball, that's unportable to some
301 tar implementations; use the "gzip -dc fo.tar.gz | tar xf -"
303 * tests/amhello-cflags.test: Likewise.
304 * tests/amhello-cross-compile.test: Likewise.
305 Suggestion from Ralf Wildenhues.
307 2011-07-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
309 remake: add test ensuring that slower remakes don't hang
310 * tests/remake-subdir-long-time.test: New test.
311 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
312 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
314 2011-07-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
316 remake: fix outdated comment in configure.am
317 * lib/am/configure.am: Fix comment falsified by changes in
318 commit `v1.11-366-gbee9871'.
319 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
321 2011-07-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
323 docs, tests: synchronize examples from docs to tests
324 * tests/README (Writing test cases): Give suggestions on how to
325 keep test cases and examples in the documentation synchronized.
326 * doc/automake.texi: Improve or fix existing testcase-referencing
327 comments, and add many new ones.
328 * HACKING (Administrivia): Suggest to test complex examples and
329 idioms from the manual.
330 * tests/specflg8.test: Improve synchronization with the example
332 * tests/output11.test:Likewise.
333 * tests/txinfo21.test:Likewise.
334 * tests/interp.test: Likewise.
335 * tests/amhello-cflags.test: New test.
336 * tests/amhello-cross-compile.test: Likewise.
337 * tests/amhello-binpkg.test: Likewise.
338 * tests/tests-environment-backcompat.test: Likewise.
339 * tests/parallel-tests-log-compiler-example.test: Likewise.
340 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
342 2011-06-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
344 coverage: new test on parallel-tests TESTS runtime overriding
345 * tests/parallel-tests-cmdline-override.test: New test, check that
346 we can use indirections when overriding TESTS and TEST_LOGS from
348 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
350 2011-06-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
352 docs: explain why AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT must be semicolon-terminated
353 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Ditto, and
355 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
357 2011-06-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
359 docs: fix unportable example of AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT usage
360 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): The
361 old example on AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT relied on unportable shell
362 features, and in particular didn't work with various Korn
363 Shells (see also commit `v1.11-925-g29ca903'). Give another
364 example, simpler this time, but still inspired to real-world
365 usage (the GNU coreutils testsuite).
367 2011-06-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
369 docs: avoid a footnote, some related rewordings and improvements
370 * doc/automake.texi (Dist): Reword the part about automatically
371 distributed files to avoid a footnote. Since we are at it, extend
372 a bit, and add an example and a reference to a relevant test case.
374 2011-06-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
376 docs: minor cosmetic fixes
377 * doc/automake.texi: Break few overly long lines, throughout the
379 ("Simple Tests"): Move @vindex for XFAIL_TESTS to the correct
380 position, i.e., before and not after the paragraph where it is
382 ("Options" @item ansi2knr): Use @pxref instead of @xref. This
383 fixes a texinfo warning.
384 ("Other things Automake recognizes" @item AM_C_PROTOTYPES): Use
385 @pxref instead of @ref.
387 2011-06-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
389 help: improve text about automatically-distributed files
390 This change fixes automake bug#7819.
391 * automake.in (usage): Distinguish between files that are always
392 automatically distributed when found, and those which are only
393 "under certain conditions".
394 * doc/automake.texi (Basics of Distribution): Update accordingly.
395 * tests/autodist-subdir.test: Update.
396 * tests/autodist-no-duplicate.test: Likewise.
397 * tests/autodist.test: Likewise.
398 (configure.in): Remove useless call to AM_MAINTAINER_MODE.
400 2011-06-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
402 refactor: split 'usage' subroutine in automake
403 This change is related to automake bug#7819.
404 * automake.in (print_autodist_files): New subroutine,
406 (usage): ... this, which now uses it.
407 * tests/autodist-no-duplicate.test: New test.
408 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
410 2011-06-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
412 tests: fix bug in 'autodist.test'
413 * tests/autodist.test: Avoid spurious failure due to no
414 `defs-static' file being found in the parent directory.
416 2011-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
418 maintcheck: extend 'sc_tests_plain_*' checks
419 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_plain_autom4te): New check.
420 (sc_tests_plain_autoreconf): Likewise.
421 (sc_tests_plain_autoheader): Likewise.
422 (syntax_check_rules): Update.
424 2011-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
426 tests: interactions between TESTS_ENVIRONMENT and LOG_COMPILER
427 * tests/tests-environment-and-log-compiler.test: New test,
428 checking that we can use variables and functions set by
429 TESTS_ENVIRONMENT and AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT in LOG_COMPILER
430 and LOG_FLAGS (for tests both with and without registered
432 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
434 2011-06-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
436 maintcheck: avoid few spurious failures
437 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_plain_aclocal, sc_tests_plain_perl,
438 sc_tests_plain_autoconf, sc_tests_plain_automake,
439 sc_tests_plain_autoupate): Be stricter in matching an erroneous
440 literal command, i.e., `aclocal', `automake', `perl', etc.
442 2011-06-20 Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com> (tiny change)
444 check: don't use multi-line coloring for the report
445 "less -R" can't handle multi-line coloring as it is done for the
446 check reports of the serial and parallel testsuite, because of
447 performance reasons. Thus, color each line of the check report
449 * lib/am/check.am (am__text_box): Accept colors for lines, and
450 color each line by its own.
451 [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] $(TEST_SUITE_LOG): Let am__text_box handle
453 [!%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] $(check-TESTS): Color each report line by
457 2011-06-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
459 docs: AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS is for corner cases
460 * doc/automake.texi (Checking the Distribution): Explain that the
461 developers should take care of making their code buildable without
462 requiring any special configure options, so that in general
463 AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS shouldn't be used. Give an example
464 of where its use is legitimate.
465 Suggestions from Ralf Wildenhues and Eric Blake.
467 2011-06-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
469 ansi2knr: deprecate, it will go away in the next major release
470 * doc/automake.texi: Loudly and repeatedly state that the old
471 de-ANSI-fication features are now deprecated and will be removed
472 in the next major Automake release. Other related adjustments.
473 * lib/Automake/Options.pm (_process_option_list ): Give a warning
474 in the `obsolete' category when the `ansi2knr' option is used.
475 * m4/protos.m4 (AM_C_PROTOTYPES): Deprecate this macro: a warning
476 in the `obsolete' category will be emitted it if is used.
477 * tests/ansi2knr-deprecation.test: New test.
478 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
479 * tests/ansi.test: Adjust, by calling autoconf and/or automake
480 with the `-Wno-obsolete' flag.
481 * tests/ansi10.test: Likewise.
482 * tests/ansi2.test: Likewise.
483 * tests/ansi3.test: Likewise.
484 * tests/ansi3b.test: Likewise.
485 * tests/ansi4.test: Likewise.
486 * tests/ansi5.test: Likewise.
487 * tests/ansi6.test: Likewise.
488 * tests/ansi7.test: Likewise.
489 * tests/ansi8.test: Likewise.
490 * tests/ansi9.test: Likewise.
491 * tests/cxxansi.test: Likewise.
492 * tests/libobj8.test: Likewise.
493 * NEWS: Update about the future planned backward-incompatibility
494 due to the removal of de-ANSI-fication feature.
496 2011-06-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
498 docs: primary/prefix combination "pkglib_PROGRAMS" is now invalid
499 * doc/automake.texi (Program Sources): pkglib_PROGRAMS is not a
500 valid combination anymore, so don't document it. Inconsistency
501 introduced in commit `v1.11-373-g9ca6326'.
503 2011-06-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
505 docs: replace obsolete @vindex entry with a useful one
506 * doc/automake.texi (Program Sources): Do not index obsolete
507 pkglib_PROGRAMS here. Do index pkglibexec_PROGRAMS.
509 2011-06-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
511 tests: more checks on portable fd redirection in TESTS_ENVIRONMENT
512 * tests/tests-environment-fd-redirect.test: Extend by also using
513 a perl script among the tests. Run the test shell script with
514 the `errexit' flag active. Export `VERBOSE' to yes when running
515 "make check", to give more debugging information in case of
516 failures. Look for a Korn Shell also in `/usr/bin', not on only
519 2011-06-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
521 tests: optimize tests on primary/prefix mismatch for speed
522 * tests/primary-prefix-invalid-couples.test: Partial rewrite, in
523 order to use just a single automake invocation rather than one
524 invocation for each invalid primary/prefix couple. This improves
525 the test script execution time by an order of magnitude.
526 Since we are at it, throw in some other improvements to avoid
527 unrelated automake warnings and failures that could potentially
528 cause false positives w.r.t. the automake exit status.
530 2011-06-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
532 news: update w.r.t. introduction of AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS
533 * NEWS (Miscellaneous changes): Update.
535 2011-06-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
537 maintcheck: DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS can be defined on make cmdline
538 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_overriding_macros_on_cmdline): It's now
539 acceptable that the test scripts override DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS
540 on the make command line. Update comments accordingly. Since we
541 are at it, make the relevant grepping rules slightly tighter.
543 2011-06-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
545 distcheck: add support for AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS
546 * doc/automake.texi (Checking the Distribution): Suggest to use
547 AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS, not DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS, to
548 define (in the top-level Makefile.am) extra flags to be passed
549 to configure at "make distcheck" time; DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS
550 should be reserved for the user. Add proper `@vindex' directive.
551 Document that AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS is not honoured in a
552 subpackage Makefile.am, but the flags in it are passed down to
553 the configure script of the subpackage.
554 * lib/am/distdir.am (distcheck): Also pass the flags in
555 $(AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS) to the configure invocation.
557 * tests/defs.in.test (AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS,
558 DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS): Unset in case they are exported in
559 the environment, they might improperly influence our testsuite.
560 * tests/distcheck-configure-flags.test: New test.
561 * tests/distcheck-configure-flags-am.test: Likewise.
562 * tests/distcheck-configure-flags-subpkg.test: Likewise.
563 * distcheck-hook.test: Likewise.
564 * distcheck-hook2.test: Likewise.
565 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
566 Closes automake bug#8784.
568 2010-06-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
570 docs: better documentation for silent make rules
571 * doc/automake.texi (Options): Detailed description of the
572 automake option `silent-rules' moved from here ...
573 (Silent Make): ... into this new chapter, expanded, improved,
574 and subdivided into ...
575 (Make verbosity, Tricks For Silencing Make,
576 Automake silent-rules Option): ... these new sections.
577 (@menu, @detailmenu): Update.
578 * tests/silent-configsite.test: New test, checking that the
579 user can control default mode of silent-rules from config.site,
580 as is documented in the manual.
581 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
583 2011-06-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
585 Warnings about primary/prefix mismatch fixed and extended.
586 * automake.in (%standard_prefix): Add `doc' and `locale'.
587 Rename `pkgdatadir' to `pkgdata'. Similarly for`pkglibdir',
588 `pkgincludedir' and `pkglibexecdir'.
589 (handle_programs): List `pkglibexec', not `pkglib', among the
590 prefixes valid for the `PROGRAMS' primary.
591 (handle_data): List also `doc' among the prefixes valid for
592 the `DATA' primary. This is required by automake's own build
594 * tests/dirforbid.test: Test removed, superseded by ...
595 * tests/primary-prefix-invalid-couples.test: ... this new test.
596 * tests/primary-prefix-valid-couples.test: New test.
597 * tests/primary-prefix-couples-documented-valid.test: Likewise.
598 * tests/primary-prefix-couples-force-valid.test: Likewise.
599 * tests/java3.test: Adjusted, and extended a bit.
600 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
602 From a report by Eric Blake.
604 2011-06-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
606 tests: check portable fd redirection in TESTS_ENVIRONMENT
607 * tests/tests-environment-fd-redirect.test: New test.
608 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
609 Motivated by coreutils bug#8846:
610 <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8846>
611 See also following CC:ed thread on bug-autoconf list:
612 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2011-06/msg00002.html>
614 2011-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
616 test defs: new function 'fatal_', for hard errors
617 Before this patch, the only way offered by tests/defs to
618 properly signal a hard error was the `framework_failure_'
619 function. But the error message issued by that function,
620 as its name would suggest, refers to a set-up failure in the
621 testsuite, while hard errors can obviously also be due to
622 other reasons. The best way to fix this inconsistency is to
623 introduce a new function with a more general error message.
624 Inspired by a recent similar change to Gnulib's tests/init.sh.
625 * tests/defs.in (fatal_): New function.
626 * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
627 Suggest the use of `fatal_', not of `framework_failure_', for
628 generic hard errors. The latter should be reserved for "real"
631 2011-06-05 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
633 tests: fix typo-related error in auxdir2.test
634 * tests/auxdir2.test (configure.in): Close m4 quoting in the
635 argument to AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR. Without this, aclocal fails with
636 "ERROR: end of file in string". This problem hasn't been exposed
637 by the testsuite before because this test is in XFAIL_TESTS, so
638 its failure went unnoticed, even if it was due to a wrong cause.
639 Bug introduced in commit v1.11-249-g49ac3de.
641 2011-06-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
643 maintcheck: fix some more failures
644 * tests/instdir-ltlib.test: Use creative quoting to avoid
645 spuriously triggering the `sc_rm_minus_f' maintainer check.
646 * tests/instdir-prog.test: Likewise.
647 * tests/instspc-data.test: Use creative quoting to avoid
648 spuriously triggering the `sc_tests_Exit_not_exit' maintainer
651 2011-06-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
653 maintcheck: fix some failures, extend some checks
654 * Makefile.am (sc_diff_automake_in_automake): Update, as we
655 now expect 9 lines, not 8, to be changed from `automake.in'
657 (sc_diff_aclocal_in_aclocal): New maintainer check, similar to
658 the above, and checking that only 10 lines are changed from
659 `aclocal.in' to `aclocal'.
660 (syntax_check_rules): Update.
661 (sc_tests_Exit_not_exit): Exempt self tests `self-check-*.test'
662 from this check, as they can legitimately use the bare `exit'
663 builtin in various places.
664 * doc/automake.texi (Python): Remove stray `@' from the end of
665 a line. Typo introduced in commit `v1.11-312-g5bf7af6'.
666 * tests/depcomp8a.test: Pass DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS to make
667 from the environment rather than from the command line, to
668 pacify the `sc_tests_overriding_macros_on_cmdline' maintainer
670 * tests/depcomp8b.test: Likewise.
672 2011-05-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
674 remake: behave better with non-GNU make in subdirectories
675 Currently, with every decent make program, it is possible to
676 rebuild out-of-date autotools-generated files with a simple
677 "make Makefile" -- but for this to work reliably with non-GNU
678 make implementations, the command must be issued from the
679 top-level directory. This patch removes such limitation.
680 * lib/am/configure.am (am--refresh): Depend on `%MAKEFILE%'.
681 * tests/remake-subdir.test: New test.
682 * tests/remake-subdir2.test: Likewise.
683 * tests/remake-subdir-gnu.test: Likewise.
684 * tests/remake-subdir-from-subdir.test: Likewise.
685 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
687 2011-05-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
689 automake, aclocal: honour configure-time AUTOCONF and AUTOM4TE
690 Currently, the Automake's own configure script allow definition
691 of AUTOCONF and AUTOM4TE, expected to point respectively to an
692 autoconf and autom4te programs. But while these definitions are
693 honoured in the Automake's build systems and test suite, they
694 were *not* honoured in the generated `automake' and `aclocal'
695 scripts. This behaviour, apart from being wrong in that it does
696 not allow the user enough freedom in choosing his tools, also
697 caused inconsistencies in the test suite, brining to spurious
699 Problem reported by Graham Reitz on the automake list; see thread:
700 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2011-05/msg00022.html>
701 * automake.in ($traces): Use `@am_AUTOCONF', not simply `autoconf'.
702 * aclocal.in ($traces): Use `@am_AUTOM4TE', not simply `autom4te'.
703 * Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute also `@am_AUTOCONF' and
708 2011-05-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
710 build: the user can override AUTOM4TE, AUTORECONF and AUTOUPDATE too
711 Our build system allows the user to override AUTOCONF and AUTOHEADER
712 at configure time, and honours these overrides in our testsuite.
713 But it didn't do the same with AUTOM4TE, AUTORECONF and AUTOUPDATE.
714 This change fixes that inconsistency.
715 * configure.ac (am_AUTOM4TE, am_AUTOUPDATE, am_AUTORECONF): New
716 AC_SUBSTitutions. Update comments.
717 * tests/defs.in ($AUTOUPDATE): Default to `@am_AUTOUPDATE@' now.
718 ($AUTOM4TE): New variable, defaulting to `@am_AUTOM4TE@'.
719 ($AUTORECONF): New variable, defaulting to `@am_AUTORECONF@'.
720 * doc/Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/amhello-1.0.tar.gz): Update.
722 2011-05-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
724 parallel-tests: stricter checks on DISABLE_HARD_ERRORS support
725 * tests/parallel-tests-harderror.test: New test, doing more
726 in-depth checks on DISABLE_HARD_ERRORS.
727 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Remove tests on DISABLE_HARD_ERRORS,
729 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
731 2011-05-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
732 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
734 tests/README: fix example about `make -e' usage
735 * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"): When
736 some variable is never initialized in the Makefile, `-e' is not
737 necessary in order to override it. DESTDIR is such a variable: we
738 ensure that we do not ever initialize it. And as such, it is quite
740 $ make DESTDIR=/foo/bar install
741 and in fact, quite widely used.
742 So our example about when `make -e' is required, which references
743 the `DESTDIR' variable, is poorly chosen, if not downright wrong.
744 Rewrite it to use `prefix' as the overridden variable instead.
746 2011-05-27 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
748 testsuite: each test case depends on `defs-static'
749 * tests/Makefile.am ($(TEST_LOGS)): Depends on `defs-static' too.
752 2011-05-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
754 testsuite: avoid re-running few tests with 'parallel-tests' option
755 Some tests in our testsuite use the 'simple-tests' driver only
756 marginally, or simply as a mean to conveniently check unrelated
757 invariants. It makes little sense to force these tests to also
758 run with the 'parallel-tests' Automake option active, as doing so
759 offers no real gain in coverage, while often causing a measurable
760 overhead in execution time (for an already too-slow testsuite).
761 * tests/pr401.test (parallel_tests): Define to "no", to prevent
762 the generation of a sibling test script using the 'parallel-tests'
764 * tests/pr401b.test: Likewise.
765 * tests/pr401c.test: Likewise.
767 2011-05-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
769 testsuite: allow tests to avoid the use of 'parallel-tests' option
770 * tests/gen-parallel-tests: Do not generate "siblings" for tests
771 that explicitly define the `parallel_tests', whether to "yes" or
772 to any other value. Extend heading comments to give a rationale
774 * tests/README: Update.
776 2011-05-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
778 tests/README: update obsoleted advice
779 * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
780 Do not suggest to use the `*-p.test' pattern for the names of
781 hand-written tests which use the `parallel-tests' Automake option.
782 Not only is this not respected by the existing tests, but it is
783 more likely to cause conflicts with auto-generated tests.
784 So, suggest to *avoid* using the `*-p.test' pattern in names
785 of hand-written tests instead.
786 (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do not"): When
787 suggesting not to override Makefile variables using command
788 line arguments, do not use the badly outdated variables `U'
789 and 'ANSI2KNR' in the example; instead, use the more common
790 and typical `DESTDIR'.
792 2011-05-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
794 test defs: rename requirement 'non-cross' -> 'native'
795 * tests/defs.in (non-cross): Rename requirement ...
796 (native): ... to this, which is clearer and fits the
797 existing lingo better.
798 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
800 2011-05-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
802 testsuite: be more cross-compile friendly
803 * tests/defs.in (cross_compiling): New subroutine.
804 (am__tool_prefix): New internal variable.
805 (gcc, g++, gcj): Force the use of the correct "tool prefix"
806 when cross compiling.
807 (gfortran, g77, non-cross): New requirements.
809 2011-05-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
811 tests: fix portability issues in 'repeated-options.test'
812 * tests/repeated-options.test: Do not assume that object files
813 have `.o' suffix and executables have no default suffix; instead,
814 use `$(OBJEXT)' and `$(EXEEXT)'.
816 2011-05-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
818 check: document and test $(TEST_SUITE_LOG) overriding
819 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Explain
820 how and why TEST_SUITE_LOG can be overridden at runtime.
821 * tests/parallel-tests-log-override-1.test: New test, check that
822 the newly documented idiom and similar usages are truly supported.
823 * tests/parallel-tests-log-override-2.test: Likewise.
824 * tests/parallel-tests-log-override-recheck.test: Likewise.
825 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
827 2011-05-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
829 tests: fix spurious failure of txinfo21.test on FreeBSD
830 * tests/txinfo21.test: Use the `is_newest' subroutine instead of
831 the `ls -t' hack to to determine whether a file has been updated.
832 This is required because at least FreeBSD `ls' do not sort files
833 with the same timestamp in alphabetical order when using the `-t'
836 2011-05-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
838 tests: fix spurious failure of extradep.test on FreeBSD
839 * tests/extradep.test: When using `ls -t' to determine whether a
840 file has been updated, make sure to use as reference a file whose
841 timestamp is expected to be *strictly* older that that of the file
842 being checked. This is required because at least FreeBSD `ls' do
843 not sort files with the same timestamp in alphabetical order when
844 using the `-t' option.
845 * tests/extradep2.test: Likewise.
847 2011-05-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
849 tests defs: allow requirements for compilers (mostly dummy)
850 Most of the new requirements that are now accepted in `$required'
851 as consequence of this patch are still dummy. They are planned
852 to be implemented only in master (or in some derived branch), but
853 having them here (even just as no-op) will allow for an easier
854 integration/backporting of potential new testcases.
855 * tests/defs.in (cc, c++, fortran, fortran77): New requirements,
857 (flex): New requirement, picking LEX for configure.
858 (lex): New requirement, alias for `flex'. A more appropriate
859 implementation, looking for a generic `lex' program, will follow
862 2011-05-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
864 tests: add forgotten test scripts to $(TESTS)
865 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Added test scripts man[678].test,
866 which have been present on the filesystem and in the repository,
867 but which had erroneously been left out from $(TESTS).
869 2011-05-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
871 tests: ensure verbose printing of captured make output
872 * tests/libtool7.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured
874 * tests/libtool9.test: Likewise.
876 2011-05-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
878 tests: fix spurious failure in 'color2.test'
879 * tests/color2.test: If $MAKE contains command-line arguments (as
880 in e.g., "make -j2"), expect's directive "spawn $env(MAKE)" fails
881 spuriously, because it tries to run "$MAKE" as a single command.
882 Fix this with proper uses of the TCL `eval' builtin.
884 2011-05-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
886 tests: fix self check spurious failure with older bash versions
887 * tests/self-check-cleanup.test: Add trailing `:' to the test code
888 passed to $SHELL, otherwise older versions of bash (at least 2.05
889 and 3.2.39) fail to correctly remove the temporary directory in
892 2011-04-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
894 testsuite: more environment sanitization
895 * tests/defs: Move the checks verifying that the variables `me',
896 `parallel_tests' and `required' aren't set in the environment ...
897 * tests/defs-static.in: ... in here, with some optimizations to
898 avoid useless forks. Also, do the same checks for the variables
899 `original_AUTOMAKE' and `original_ACLOCAL' too.
900 * tests/self-check-env-sanitize.test: Update.
901 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset also variables
902 `original_AUTOMAKE' and `original_ACLOCAL'.
904 2011-04-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
906 tests: fix spurious failure (non-renamed AM_TESTS_SETUP usage)
907 * tests/parallel-tests-reset-term.test: Use AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT
908 instead of AM_TESTS_SETUP (which has been removed in commit
910 Fix spurious failure introduced by merge `v1.11-781-gfeed175'.
912 2011-04-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
914 tests: fix spurious failure in a test on TESTS (VPATH-related)
915 * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: When not using the
916 parallel-tests option, do not check that VPATH components are
917 not present in the displayed test name, since the simple-tests
918 driver do not try to strip them.
920 2011-04-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
922 tests: fix spurious failure in self-check-env-sanitize.test
923 * tests/self-check-env-sanitize.test: Open file descriptor `5'
925 Fix spurious failure introduced by merge `v1.11-788-g3b0c8d5'.
927 2011-04-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
929 test: self check subroutines for skipping/failing of tests
930 * tests/self-check-report.test: New test.
931 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
933 2011-04-23 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
934 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
936 test defs: new subroutines for test skipping/failing
937 * tests/defs.in (Exit): Move definition of this function earlier.
938 (warn_, skip_, fail_, framework_failure_): New functions, inspired
939 to the homonyms in gnulib's tests/init.sh.
940 ($stderr_fileno_): New global variable, used by the new functions
942 * tests/README: Updated.
943 From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
945 2011-04-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
947 tests: fix typo (copy & paste blunder) in heading comment
948 * tests/maintclean-vpath.test: Correctly refer to the sister test
949 as `maintclean.test', not as `maintclean-vpath.test'.
951 2011-04-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
953 tests: remove redundant test `mclean.test'
954 * tests/mclean.test: Remove, it's a weak grepping test completely
955 superseded by the much more complete `maintclean.test'.
956 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
958 2011-04-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
960 testsuite: more environment sanitization
961 * tests/defs.in: Sanity check: abort if any of `parallel_tests'
962 or `required' is in the environment.
963 ($sed_unindent_prog): Initialize to empty, to avoid interferences
964 from the environment.
965 * tests/self-check-me-in-env.test: Renamed to ...
966 * tests/self-check-env-sanitize.test: ... this, and extended.
967 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
968 (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset variables `parallel_tests' and
969 `required'. Adjust comments.
971 2011-04-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
973 tests: in self-checks, use $SHELL, not /bin/sh
974 * tests/self-check-me-in-env.test: Include `./defs-static' to get
975 the definition of `$SHELL'. Use `$SHELL' instead of `/bin/sh' to
978 2011-04-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
980 tests: prefer AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT to TESTS_ENVIRONMENT
981 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Renamed to ...
982 (AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): ... this.
984 2011-04-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
986 tests: don't allow `$me' to be overridden from the environment
987 * tests/defs.in: Sanity check: abort if $me is in the environment.
988 * tests/self-check-me-in-env.test: New test.
989 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset variable `me'.
991 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
993 2011-04-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
995 check: rename AM_TESTS_SETUP -> AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT
996 The AM_TESTS_SETUP naming was not a good one after all. It may
997 be technically more correct than AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT, but the
998 latter is a better one simply because it is easier to remember,
999 and even if you've never heard of it and only know the semantics
1000 of TESTS_ENVIRONMENT, you can have a straightforward way to
1001 figure out how AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT would work.
1002 * tests/check.am (am__check_pre): Update.
1003 * doc/automake.in (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Update.
1004 * tests/parallel-tests-am_tests_setup.test: Renamed ...
1005 * tests/parallel-tests-am_tests_environment.test: ... to this,
1007 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1008 Suggestion and motivation by Ralf Wildenhues.
1010 2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1012 test defs: allow overriding of `$me'
1013 * tests/defs.in ($me): Allow overriding by the including test
1014 script. Add some explicative comments.
1016 2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1018 coverage: more tests on the parallel-tests driver
1019 * tests/parallel-tests-interrupt.test: New test.
1020 * tests/parallel-tests-reset-term.test: Likewise.
1021 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1023 2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1025 check: new developer-reserved AM_TESTS_SETUP variable
1026 For reference, see the discussion at:
1027 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2011-01/msg00213.html>
1028 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (am__check_pre): Pass also
1029 $(AM_TESTS_SETUP). Comments updated, and some typos fixed.
1030 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Document
1031 AM_TESTS_SETUP. Reorder some of the existing documentation a bit.
1032 * tests/parallel-tests-am_tests_setup.test: New test.
1033 From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
1035 2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1037 depcomp tests: don't reject slower dependency extractors
1038 * tests/depcomp8b.test: Add the `--enable-dependency-tracking'
1039 option to `configure' invocations, so that slower dependency
1040 extractors are not rejected.
1041 * tests/depcomp8a.test: Likewise. Also ...
1042 (foo.c): ... since we are at it, fix spacing to be consistent
1043 with GNU coding standards.
1045 2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1047 m4: add missing serial numbers to a few files
1048 Fixes automake bug#8483.
1049 * m4/amversion.in: Add serial number.
1050 * m4/auxdir.m4: Likewise.
1051 * m4/gcj.m4: Likewise.
1052 * m4/install-sh.m4: Likewise.
1053 * m4/mkdirp.m4: Likewise.
1054 * m4/python.m4: Likewise.
1055 * m4/runlog.m4: Likewise.
1056 * m4/strip.m4: Likewise.
1057 * m4/upc.m4: Likewise.
1059 2011-04-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1061 tests: fix few bugs in self checks
1062 Related to automake bug#8508.
1063 * tests/self-check-cleanup.test: Be laxer when grepping output
1064 from `ls -l', to account for ACLs and SELinux-only files.
1065 * tests/self-check-dir.test: Source `defs-static' to read in the
1066 correct definition for $SHELL.
1067 * tests/self-check-me.test: Likewise, and extend a bit.
1068 Report from Jim Meyering.
1070 2011-04-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
1072 depcomp: correct invalid sed invocation
1073 * lib/depcomp: Insert missing -e before '/:$/d'.
1074 Otherwise, that use of sed would treat '/:$/d' as a file name.
1076 2011-04-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1078 maintainer check: quote literal `$' in Makefile rule
1079 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_PATH_SEPARATOR): Escape literal `$'
1080 character in double-quoted string. Fix a bug in which the rule
1081 emitted an erroneously empty substring in its error message.
1083 2011-04-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1085 tests: fix typo in python5b.test
1086 * tests/python5b.test: Remove extra `:' from $PATH redefinition.
1088 2011-04-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1090 tests: remove redundant settings of `errexit' shell flag
1091 * tests/autodist-acconfig.test: Do not set the `errexit'
1092 shell flag, as it is already set by `tests/defs'.
1093 * tests/autodist-acconfig-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
1094 * tests/autodist-aclocal-m4.test: Likewise.
1095 * tests/autodist-config-headers.test: Likewise.
1096 * tests/autodist-configure-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
1097 * tests/autodist-stamp-vti.test: Likewise.
1098 * tests/autodist-subdir.test: Likewise.
1099 * tests/autodist.test: Likewise.
1100 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Likewise.
1101 * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: Likewise.
1102 * tests/check-tests_environment.test: Likewise.
1103 * tests/help-python.test: Likewise.
1104 * tests/java-check.test: Likewise.
1105 * tests/java-extra.test: Likewise.
1106 * tests/java-noinst.test: Likewise.
1107 * tests/lex-subobj-nodep.test: Likewise.
1108 * tests/ltinit.test: Likewise.
1109 * tests/m4-inclusion.test: Likewise.
1110 * tests/maintclean-vpath.test: Likewise.
1111 * tests/parallel-tests-subdir.test: Likewise.
1112 * tests/pr8365-remake-timing.test: Likewise.
1113 * tests/python-dist.test: Likewise.
1114 * tests/python-vars.test: Likewise.
1115 * tests/python-virtualenv.test: Likewise.
1116 * tests/python5b.test: Likewise.
1117 * tests/specflg-dummy.test: Likewise.
1118 * tests/yacc-dist-nobuild-subdir.test: Likewise.
1120 2011-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1122 coverage: test for automake bug#8485 (known regression)
1123 * tests/yacc-dist-nobuild-subdir.test: New test.
1124 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Update.
1126 2011-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1128 test defs: define default $distdir (help reducing duplication)
1129 * tests/defs ($distdir): New variable, might be used in
1130 testcases checking distribution-related features.
1131 * tests/pr9.test: Use it.
1132 * tests/subdir9.test: Likewise.
1133 * tests/lex3.test: Likewise.
1134 * tests/lexvpath.test: Likewise.
1135 * tests/remake-moved-m4-file.test: Likewise.
1136 * tests/remake-renamed-m4-file.test: Likewise.
1137 * tests/remake-renamed-m4-macro-and-file.test: Likewise.
1138 * tests/yacc-basic.test: Likewise.
1139 * tests/yacc-d-basic.test: Likewise.
1140 * tests/yacc-d-vpath.test: Likewise.
1141 * tests/yacc-dist-nobuild.test: Likewise.
1142 * tests/vtexi3.test: Add comment explaining why we redefine
1143 $distdir in this test.
1145 2011-04-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1147 depcomp: fix bugs in tests and in the depcomp script
1148 * lib/depcomp (gcc): Remove duplicated `-e' from sed invocation.
1149 * tests/depcomp10.test: Make it executable. Fix a blunder that
1150 has left part of an intended comment not prefixed by `#', thus
1151 causing shell syntax errors. In this same comment, break a
1152 too-long reported error message on multiple lines, for clarity.
1153 Add reference to the relevant bug report. Add a comment which
1154 explains why the test result 'skipped' if the first "make" call
1155 fails. Add other useful comments.
1156 * tests/depcomp9.test: Slightly improve comments.
1158 2011-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1160 Fix hp depmode for VPATH builds with GNU make.
1161 * lib/depcomp: Be sure to remove VPATH-prefixed object from
1162 dependency output when creating stub rule.
1163 * tests/depcomp10.test: New test.
1164 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1166 Report by Bruno Haible.
1168 2011-04-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1170 test defs: fix 'javac' requirement for older JDK versions
1171 The Java compiler from JDK 1.5 (and presumably earlier versions)
1172 cannot handle the `-version' option by itself; and while it does
1173 print the version number, it then errors out with an usage error:
1176 javac: no source files
1177 Usage: javac <options> <source files>
1179 Luckily, adding the `-help' option to the `javac' invocation
1180 seems to fix this problem.
1181 * tests/defs.in (javac): Pass also the `-help' option to the
1182 `javac' program. Add a comment explaining why it is needed.
1183 Report from Ralf Wildenhues.
1185 2011-04-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1187 test defs: new requirement for the default java compiler
1188 * tests/defs.in (for tool in $required): New requirement 'javac'.
1189 * tests/java.test: Use it instead of ad-hoc configure check.
1190 * tests/java-check.test: Likewise.
1191 * tests/java-extra.test: Likewise.
1192 * tests/java-noinst.test: Likewise.
1193 * tests/instfail-java.test: Likewise.
1194 * tests/instdir-java.test: Likewise.
1196 2011-04-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1198 java: check_JAVA does not cause compilation by "make all" anymore
1199 Fixes automake bug#8234.
1200 * automake.in (handle_java): Make stamp of class files built from
1201 java sources in $(check_JAVA) a dependency of `check' target, not
1203 * tests/java-check.test: New test.
1204 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1207 Report from Petteri Räty.
1209 2011-04-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1210 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
1212 coverage: add tests on remake rules in more complex situations
1213 * tests/defs (using_gmake): New function.
1214 (for tool in $required): Use it when $tool is 'GNUmake'.
1215 * tests/remake-moved-m4-file.test: New test.
1216 * tests/remake-deleted-m4-file.test: Likewise.
1217 * tests/remake-renamed-m4-file.test: Likewise.
1218 * tests/remake-renamed-m4-macro-and-file.test: Likewise.
1219 * tests/remake-renamed-m4-macro.test: Likewise.
1220 * tests/remake-add-acsubst-gnulib.test: Likewise.
1221 * tests/remake-add-header-gnulib.test: Likewise.
1222 * tests/remake-remove-header-gnulib.test: Likewise.
1223 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1225 2011-04-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1227 typofix in 'tests/defs'
1228 * tests/defs: Fix typo (`itslef' instead of `itself') in
1231 2011-04-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1233 coverage: more on java support EXTRA_ and noinst_ prefixes
1234 * tests/java-extra.test: New test, checking support for the
1235 prefix `EXTRA_' with the JAVA primary.
1236 * tests/java-noinst.test: New test, checking support for the
1237 prefix `noinst_' with the JAVA primary.
1238 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1240 2011-04-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1242 Clarify regex code in depcomp.
1243 * lib/depcomp: Add comment why we don't need regex-escaping here.
1244 Suggested by Stefano Lattarini.
1246 2011-04-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1248 Fix makedepend depmode for VPATH builds.
1249 * lib/depcomp [makedepend]: Remove any VPATH prefix from the
1250 object file name, so a rebuild doesn't attempt to update the
1251 .Po files in the source tree.
1252 * tests/depcomp9.test: New test.
1253 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1256 2011-04-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1258 tests: fix timestamp-related failures
1259 Fixes automake bug#8365.
1260 * tests/aclocal6.test: Sleep before modifying m4 files that should
1261 trigger remake rules. Remove incorrect/obsoleted comments.
1262 * tests/subdir5.test: Likewise, and extend a bit.
1263 * tests/subdir8.test: Likewise.
1264 * tests/pr8365-remake-timing.test: New xfailing test.
1265 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1266 Report from Sam Steingold.
1268 2011-04-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1270 Create subdirs for generated sources even when not dep tracking.
1271 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): If $object is derived
1272 and lands in subdir, be sure to output a dirstamp dependency.
1273 * tests/yacc5.test: Avoid falsely matching the dirstamp
1274 dependency when grepping for a rule.
1275 * tests/lex-subobj-nodep.test: New test.
1276 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1278 Report by Ignacy Gawedzki.
1280 Fix locale issue in check-exported-srcdir.test.
1281 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Reformulate glob to not fail
1282 in a locale that ignores or interleaves character case.
1284 2011-04-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1286 docs: better visibility for aclocal in the index
1287 * doc/automake.texi (@menu): Rename title for entry 'configure'
1288 from "Scanning configure.ac or configure.in" to the more precise
1289 "Scanning configure.ac, using aclocal".
1290 (@detailmenu): Adjust.
1291 (@node configure): Adjust, and extend @cindex calls accordingly.
1293 From a report by Maynard Johnson.
1295 2011-03-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1297 tests: improve tests on "maintainer-clean" target
1298 * tests/aclocal6.test: Move checks related to "maintainer-clean"
1299 functionalities into ...
1300 * tests/maintclean-vpath.test: ... this new test.
1301 * tests/maintclean.test: Update heading comments. Extend to also
1302 test subdirs. Remove useless disabling of YACC. Fix m4 quoting
1303 in configure.in. Add a trailing `:' command. Remove extra blank
1305 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1307 2011-03-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1309 tests: fix unindent to use printf not echo for script.
1310 * tests/defs.in: Use printf rather than echo, as the latter may
1311 interpret the backslashes in the sed script. Fixes test
1312 failures with dash as /bin/sh.
1314 2011-03-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1315 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1317 maintcheck: look for problematic names of testcases
1318 The configure.in stub created by default by `tests/defs' obtains
1319 the first argument of AC_INIT from the test name, and this can
1320 cause some supported autoconf versions to fail with a spurious
1321 error if that test name contains the name of an m4 or m4sugar
1322 builtin or macro (e.g., `defn' or `m4_undefine').
1323 See for example the bug fixed by commit v1.11-287-g1325a8a.
1324 This change add a maintainer check that warns about test names
1325 which are possibly problematic in this regard.
1326 * Makefile.am (sc_test_names): New maintainer-check target.
1327 (syntax_check_rules): Add it.
1328 (m4_builtins): New helper variable.
1329 (TESTS): Updated according to the following renamings.
1330 * tests/include.test: Renamed ...
1331 * tests/hdr-vars-defined-once.test: ... to this.
1332 * tests/sinclude.test: Renamed ...
1333 * tests/m4-inclusion.test: ... to this, and simplified
1335 * tests/include2.test: Renamed ...
1336 * tests/dist-included-parent-dir.test: ... to this, for
1339 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1341 tests: fix bug in alloca*.test
1342 * tests/alloca.test: Make grepping of automake stderr stricter,
1343 add a trailing `:' command; also, add AC_PROG_CC to configure.in,
1344 and create a dummy alloca.c file, to ensure that we fail for the
1346 * tests/alloca2.test: Likewise. Also, look for LT_INIT, not
1347 AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, in the error message (bug introduced with commit
1348 v1.11-315-gd51e7b7 "libtool: suggest LT_INIT if LTLIBRARIES
1350 From a report by Patrick Welche.
1352 2011-03-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1354 cosmetics: better use of m4 quoting and m4sugar macros
1355 * m4/dmalloc.m4: Better use of m4 quoting. Bump serial number.
1356 * m4/gcj.m4: Likewise.
1357 * m4/init.m4: Likewise.
1358 * m4/install-sh.m4: Likewise.
1359 * m4/lex.m4: Likewise.
1360 * m4/multi.m4: Likewise.
1361 * m4/option.m4: Likewise.
1362 * m4/python.m4: Likewise.
1363 * m4/sanity.m4: Likewise.
1364 * m4/cond.m4: Likewise. Also, prefer the m4sugar macro 'm4_if'
1365 over the plain m4 macro 'ifelse'.
1366 * m4/depend.m4: Likewise.
1368 2011-03-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1370 tests: add test about deprecated use of AC_INIT
1371 * tests/deprecated-acinit.test: New test, check that automake
1372 and autoconf complain about an old-style AC_INIT call used with
1373 a new-style AM_AUTOMAKE_INIT call.
1374 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1376 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1378 tests: fix bug (comments-in-var-defn.test + autoconf 2.62)
1379 * tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: The configure.in stub created
1380 by default, which has the AC_INIT first argument obtained by the
1381 test name, causes autoconf 2.62 to fail with a spurious error
1382 message like: "configure.in:1: error: defn: undefined macro:".
1383 Thus, to prevent this, the test is renamed to ...
1384 * tests/comments-in-var-def.test: ... this.
1385 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1387 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1389 cosmetics: convert encoding from ISO-8859 to UTF-8
1390 * ChangeLog.03: Convert encoding to UTF-8.
1391 * ChangeLog.96: Likewise.
1392 * ChangeLog.98: Likewise.
1396 2011-03-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1398 tests: extend checks on the 'unindent' shell function
1399 * tests/self-check-unindent.test: Also check that multiple
1400 instances of 'unindent' can run in parallel (this was not
1401 the case when that function used temporary files).
1403 2011-03-01 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
1405 test defs: unindent without temporary file
1406 * tests/defs.in (commented_sed_unindent_prog): Commented Sed program
1407 that strips the "proper" amount of leading whitespace.
1408 (unindent): Lazily strip comments from the above program and use it
1409 to unindent without using a temporary file.
1411 2011-02-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1413 libtool: suggest LT_INIT if LTLIBRARIES primary is used
1414 When the LTLIBRARIES primary was used, but $(LIBTOOL) wasn't
1415 defined, automake suggested to add a call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
1416 in configure.ac. But that macro is deprecated since Libtool
1417 version 1.9b (2004-08-29), in favor of the newer LT_INIT. So
1418 suggest the use of this latter macro instead.
1419 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (%_am_macro_for_var): Pair 'LIBTOOL'
1420 with 'LT_INIT', not with 'AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'.
1421 * tests/libtool4.test: Adjust and extend. Also, add a call to
1422 macro AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, to help ensuring that automake
1423 does not fail for the wrong reasons.
1424 * tests/ltinit.test: New test, ensure that automake's libtool
1425 support works with LT_INIT-based interface.
1426 Thanks to Jack Kelly for the suggestion.
1428 2011-02-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1430 tests: add testcases sanity-checking the testsuite
1431 Helper subroutines, variables and other pieces of code defined
1432 in the `tests/defs' and used by many testcases are non-obvious,
1433 and tricky to get to work portably; but until now, they weren't
1434 tested at all in a clear and self-contained way.
1435 This change should remedy to the situation.
1436 * tests/self-check-cleanup.test: New test, check removal of
1437 temporary test working directory by `./defs'.
1438 * tests/self-check-dir.test: New test, check that tests using
1439 `./defs' create a proper temporary directory, and run in it.
1440 * tests/self-check-exit.test: New test, check that, in case of
1441 failing commands, the correct exit status is passed to the exit
1442 trap installed by the `./defs' script.
1443 * tests/self-check-is_newest.test: New test, checking the
1444 `is_newest' subroutine.
1445 * tests/self-check-me.test: New test, checking that $me gets
1446 defined automatically by `tests/defs' if not set, and that it
1447 can be overridden from either the shell or the environment.
1448 * tests/self-check-sanity.test: New test, check that the sanity
1449 checks performed by the `tests/defs' script works correctly.
1450 * tests/self-check-unindent.test: New test, checking the
1451 `unindent' subroutine.
1452 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1454 2011-02-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1456 tests: tempdirs with restrictive permissions are cleaned correctly
1457 Before this change, the removal of a temporary test directory
1458 containing subdirectories with restrictive permissions (such as
1459 'r--r--r--') could fail.
1460 * tests/defs: Ensure that all the subdirectories of a temporary
1461 test directory have the 'read', 'write' and 'execute' bits set,
1462 before trying to remove it with `rm -rf'.
1463 * tests/Makefile.am (clean-local-check): Likewise.
1465 2011-02-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1466 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1468 test defs: add subroutine for input unindenting
1469 * tests/defs.in (unindent): New subroutine.
1470 * tests/instspc-tests.sh: Use it.
1472 2011-02-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1474 python: report the 'PYTHON' influential environment variable
1475 * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Call AC_ARG_VAR on PYTHON.
1476 * doc/automake.texi (Python): Update and extend.
1477 * tests/help-python.test: New test.
1478 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1479 * THANKS (Jack Kelly): Update e-mail address.
1480 Suggestion by Jack Kelly.
1482 2011-02-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1484 tests defs: clear TESTS_ENVIRONMENT variable
1485 * tests/defs.in (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset it, so that values
1486 from environment won't interfere with the testcases.
1487 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
1489 2011-02-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1491 tests: `instspc-*.test': do not create useless source file
1492 * tests/instspc-tests.sh (create_input_data): Do not create
1493 unused source file `source2.c'.
1495 2011-02-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1497 tests: optimize `instspc-*.test' for speed
1498 After the split of `instspc.test' into various generated tests,
1499 the running time of the testsuite has noticeably increased, since
1500 all these new generated tests must run aclocal, autoconf and
1501 automake, whereas previously they were run only once (at the
1502 beginning of `instspc.test'). But luckily, since the new tests
1503 share the same input files for the autotools, this situation can
1504 be easily worked around (at the expenses of a slight increase of
1505 complexity for the testsuite scaffolding).
1506 * tests/instspc-data.test: New helper test, properly calling
1507 the `instspc-tests.sh' script to generate input data for the
1508 others `instspc-*.test' tests.
1509 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add `instspc-data.test'.
1510 ($(instspc_tests:.test=.log)): Depend on its log file.
1511 (instspc-data.log): Depend on `instspc-tests.sh'.
1512 * tests/instspc-tests.sh: Recognize new action `generate-data',
1513 and use it to create hand-written and autotools-generated static
1514 files shared by all the `instspc-*.test' tests.
1515 When sourced by the `instspc-*.test' tests, use those previously
1516 created files instead of recreating them from scratch.
1517 (unindent, create_input_data): New subroutines.
1518 Some other related changes and refactorings.
1519 From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
1521 2011-02-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1523 python: fix spurious failure in tests
1524 * tests/python-vars.test: Ignore cached values from config.site
1525 by exporting CONFIG_SITE=/dev/null. Be laxer in matching the
1526 expected values of output variables `pythondir' and `pyexecdir',
1527 since they can change quite unpredictably among different python
1528 installations. Also, avoid "hyping" debugging output, thus
1529 offering smaller trace output and more informative diff.
1530 Report and suggestions by Ralf Wildenhues.
1531 * tests/python-virtualenv.test: Require python, since we call it
1532 even after the virtualenv has been deactivated. Ignore cached
1533 values from config.site by exporting CONFIG_SITE=/dev/null.
1535 2011-02-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1537 tests: tweak few tests on simple and parallel test drivers
1538 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Improve heading comments.
1539 * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: Likewise. Also, unset the
1540 `FOO_EXIT_STATUS' variable, so that any pre-existing value in the
1541 environment won't risk to interfere with the test.
1542 Suggestions by Ralf Wildenhues.
1544 2011-02-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1546 python: extend and improve tests, fix minor glitches
1547 * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Ensure the "checking ..." messages
1548 from configure are always complete, even in case of failure. Tiny
1549 cosmetic improvement in info/error messages.
1550 * tests/python.test: Also check that automake complains if the
1551 PYTHON primary is used but the `py-compile' script is not present.
1552 Make grepping of generated Makefile.in laxer w.r.t. whitespace.
1553 Add trailing `:' command.
1554 * tests/python2.test: Remove repeated calls aclocal: they are
1555 useless because configure.in is never modified. Make grepping
1556 of automake stderr more comprehensive. Remove the pre-existing
1557 `py-compile' file before trying to install it with `--add-missing'.
1558 Add trailing `:' command.
1559 * tests/python3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1560 * tests/python11.test: Likewise.
1561 * tests/python4.test: Likewise. Also, try to pass PYTHON config
1562 variable to configure from the environment, rather than only from
1564 * tests/python5.test: Ensure that the "checking ..." messages from
1565 configure are always complete. Use proper m4 quoting. Add a
1566 trailing `:' command.
1567 * tests/python6.test: Simplify test logic, by checking for files
1568 created by configure rather then grepping its output.
1569 * tests/python7.test: Likewise.
1570 * tests/python8.test: Also check that `$PYTHON' is meaningfully
1571 set in the ACTION-IF-TRUE argument of AM_PATH_PYTHON.
1572 * tests/python9.test: Likewise.
1573 * tests/python10.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1574 (Makefile.am): Declare `disttest' target as `.PHONY', and add
1575 an `ls -l' to its recipe, for debugging.
1576 * tests/nobase-python.test: In testing "make uninstall" and
1577 "make install" results, prefer idioms that make verbose logs
1578 more helpful. Remove a couple of lines of dead code. Add a
1579 trailing `:' command.
1580 * tests/python5b.test: New test, checking that configure performs
1581 the check on the python version even when the choice of the python
1582 interpreter is forced by the user.
1583 * tests/python-dist.test: New test, checking the distribution of
1585 * tests/python-vars.test: New test, checking that AM_PATH_PYTHON
1586 correctly set all the output variables advertised in the manual.
1587 * tests/python-virtualenv.test: New test, checking that python
1588 support offered by automake works well with "virtual python
1589 environments" created by the `virtualenv' program.
1590 * tests/instdir-prog.test: Also check `$(pyexecdir)'. Existing
1591 checks made slightly stricter.
1592 * tests/instdir-prog.test: Also check `$(pyexecdir)'. Existing
1593 * tests/instdir-ltlib.test: Likewise.
1594 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1596 2011-02-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1598 coverage: more tests on simple and parallel test drivers
1599 * tests/parallel-tests-subdir.test: New test.
1600 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Likewise.
1601 * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: Likewise.
1602 * tests/check-tests_environment.test: Likewise.
1603 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1605 2011-01-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1607 tests: fix spurious failures in lflags*.test
1608 * tests/lflags.test: Remove 'LEX' from the environment, so
1609 that it won't be erroneously picked up by `make -e'.
1610 * tests/lflags2.test: Likewise.
1612 2011-01-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1614 docs: color-tests issues with parallel make
1615 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Document that automatic
1616 recognition of a capable terminal attached to stdout can fail
1617 with some make implementation when running in parallel mode,
1618 thus causing colored test output not to be automatically
1619 activated when it should.
1621 2011-01-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1623 coverage: test semantics of "dummy" per-target flags
1624 * tests/specflg-dummy.test: New test, ensuring that even "dummy"
1625 per-target flags triggers the use of renamed objects.
1626 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1627 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
1629 2011-01-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1631 tests defs: sanitize IFS
1632 * tests/defs ($IFS): Define to <space>, <tab>, <newline>.
1633 ($sp): New variable, holding a single whitespace character.
1634 ($tab): New variable, holding a tabulation character.
1635 ($nl): New variable, holding a newline character.
1637 2011-01-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1639 tests: avoid instspc* failures due to make's whitespace trimming
1640 * tests/instspc-tests.sh: Prepend './' when passing the test
1641 characters, to avoid leading whitespace characters to be trimmed
1642 from macros set from environment variables. Fixes testsuite
1643 failures with HP-UX and Tru64/OSF make.
1645 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1647 tests: fix VPATH auto-expansion workarounds.
1648 * tests/suffix10.test, tests/suffix11.test, tests/suffix12.test,
1649 tests/suffix3.test, tests/suffix5.test, tests/suffix8.test:
1650 Ensure $< is not surrounded by white space, to prevent Solaris
1651 make from applying automatic VPATH text expansion.
1653 tests: fix VPATH auto-expansion workarounds.
1654 * tests/parallel-tests8.test, tests/suffix13.test:
1655 Ensure $< is not surrounded by white space, to prevent Solaris
1656 make from applying automatic VPATH text expansion.
1658 2011-01-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1660 tests: fix spurious failures in yflags*.test
1661 * tests/yflags.test: Remove 'YACC' from the environment, so
1662 that it won't be erroneously picked up by `make -e'.
1663 * tests/yflags2.test: Likewise.
1665 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1667 tests: avoid fn99*.test failures due to buggy AIX 5.3 cp -R.
1668 * tests/fn99.test, tests/fn99subdir.test: Skip if an initial
1669 `cp -R' of the subdir tree already fails; AIX 5.3 cp messes
1670 up its internal memory when copying this tree.
1672 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1673 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1675 Add comment to check-TESTS rule working around make 3.80 bug.
1676 * lib/am/check.am (check-TESTS): Update comment.
1678 2011-01-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1680 tests: less strict double-colon spy.test again.
1681 * tests/spy.test: We know BSD make doesn't invoke more than one
1682 double-colon rule, so no need to expose that failure.
1684 2011-01-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1686 install-sh: avoid Tru64 sh `test' operator precedence issues.
1687 * lib/install-sh: Protect file names and directory components
1688 that consist of `=', `(', `)', or `!'. Move protection as early
1689 as possible, to avoid errors such as with Tru64 sh `test -z ='.
1690 * tests/instsh2.test: Extend test to cover more possibilities.
1691 Fixes 1.12 instspc-equal-install.test failure on Tru64/OSF 5.1.
1693 2011-01-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1694 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1696 docs: automake testsuite doesn't use TESTS_ENVIRONMENT anymore
1697 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Do not claim Automake uses
1698 TESTS_ENVIRONMENT for the perl driver. Instead, point to the
1699 parallel-tests driver.
1701 2011-01-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1703 tests: check for presence of cscope with redirected input.
1704 * tests/defs: Add required test for cscope.
1705 Fixes cscope3.test hang with Sun C 5.9 cscope.
1707 tests: avoid false failure in cygnus-dependency-tracking.test.
1708 * tests/cygnus-dependency-tracking.test: Be less restrictive
1709 when grepping the compiler error message, GCC 3.4.6 on FreeBSD
1710 does not mention an undefined symbol.
1712 2011-01-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1714 tests: revert not turning off errexit in instspc-test.sh
1715 * tests/instspc-tests.sh: Turn off errexit while sourcing defs,
1716 the scripts might still not be clean.
1718 2011-01-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1720 tests: work around Tru64 sh -e issues for instspc*.test.
1721 Apparently, Tru64 sh does not like turning off errexit mode,
1723 * tests/defs: Document 'errexit' cleanliness requirement.
1724 * tests/defs-static.in: Likewise. Avoid error from command
1725 substitution to abort instspc*.test with Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh.
1726 * tests/instspc-tests.sh: Drop now-unneeded temporary errexit
1727 dropping. Add strategic '|| Exit' to let tests work on Tru64.
1729 2011-01-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1731 Allow _AM_DEPENDENCIES to be used later in configure.
1732 * m4/depend.m4 (_AM_DEPENDENCIES): Remove a previously existing
1733 conftest.dir before recreating it.
1735 Report by Eric Blake, from report by Scott McCreary against M4.
1737 2011-01-18 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1739 tests: avoid failure on w32 file systems.
1740 * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: SKIP if file cannot
1741 be turned unreadable.
1743 2011-01-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1745 tests: allow double-colon spy.test to work with HP-UX make.
1746 * tests/spy.test: Fix comment typos. Ensure prerequisites we
1747 do not want to depend on are strictly older than the target.
1748 Also test with a target out of date wrt. more than one rule.
1750 2011-01-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1752 Avoid local $_ perl variable, for Perl before 5.9.1.
1753 * lib/Automake/Options.pm (_process_option_list): Do not
1754 lexically localize $_. Fixes bootstrap on AIX 5.1.
1755 Bug introduced in commit `v1.11-622-gf90a06c'.
1757 2011-01-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1759 tests: remove useless requirements from cond36.test
1760 * tests/cond36.test ($required): Remove.
1761 Since we are at it, add a trailing `:' command.
1763 2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1765 tests: avoid failing command substitution in errexit mode.
1766 * tests/vartypo2.test, tests/vartypos.test: Rewrite to not use
1767 a command substitution with a nonzero exit status, that causes
1768 IRIX and Tru64/OSF sh to fail the whole test.
1770 2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1771 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1773 parallel-tests: work around Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh read bugs.
1774 * lib/am/check.am ($(TEST_SUITE_LOG), recheck, recheck-html):
1775 Test file readability before redirecting input from it, to avoid
1776 exiting Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh which treats read as special builtin.
1777 * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: New test.
1778 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1781 2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1783 * NEWS, README: Update copyright years.
1785 2011-01-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1787 tests: hard error in case of internal failures or signal caught
1788 * tests/defs: Exit with status 99 (hard error) rather than
1789 1 (failure) on unexpected/internal errors, or when a signal
1790 is caught by the client script.
1792 Tests defs: don't let useless variables leak in test scripts.
1793 * tests/defs ($priv_check_temp, $overwrite_status, $ro_dir_temp,
1794 $create_status, $r2h, $libtool_found, $gettext_found, $aclocaldir,
1795 $extra_includes): Unset once they've served their purpose.
1797 2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1799 Fix parallel-tests.test failure with HP-UX make.
1800 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Sleep inside inner tests, so logs
1801 are newer than logs of tests they depend on, for HP-UX make.
1803 2011-01-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1805 docs: ensure example are separated with empty lines in the input
1806 * doc/automake.texi (Extending aclocal, Emacs Lisp, Rebuilding)
1807 (API Versioning, Renamed Objects, Multiple Outputs): Add empty
1808 lines before `@example' and after `@end example' lines, so info
1809 output is rendered correctly, and a following @noindent honored.
1810 Report by Stefano Lattarini.
1812 2011-01-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
1814 tests: fix comment typo
1815 * tests/substref.test: Fix grammar in a comment.
1817 2011-01-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1819 tests: fix spurious failures in two texinfo tests
1820 * tests/txinfo.test ($required): Add 'makeinfo'.
1821 * tests/txinfo8.test: Create a dummy 'textutils.info' file, so
1822 that make won't try to run makeinfo (which could be unavailable)
1824 Found by NixOS Hydra, reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
1826 2011-01-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1828 Update docs w.r.t. warning and strictness options.
1829 * doc/automake.texi (Strictness): Document that some warnings are
1830 turned off by default in `foreign' strictness.
1831 (Options): Divide into new sections "Options generalities" and
1832 "List of Automake options". Fix typo (colon instead of full
1833 stop). Document option precedence (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS wins over
1834 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE which wins over command line). Also document
1835 interactions between options specifying strictness and those
1836 specifying warnings.
1838 More tests on warnings/strictness precedence.
1839 * tests/warning-groups-win-over-strictness.test: New test, similar
1840 to `warnings-win-over-strictness.test', but checking the explicit
1841 catch-all warning flags (like `-Wall' and `-Wnone').
1842 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1844 Update NEWS about the warnings-over-strictness precedence.
1845 * NEWS: Automake explicit warning levels always take precedence
1846 over the implicit warning levels implied by Automake strictness.
1848 For PR automake/547:
1849 Warnings win over strictness in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
1850 Ensure that, for what concerns the options specified in
1851 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS, explicitly-defined warnings always take
1852 precedence over implicit strictness-implied warnings.
1853 This finally fixes Automake bug#7669 a.k.a. PR/547.
1854 * automake.in (handle_options): Call 'process_option_list'
1855 only once per set of options.
1856 * lib/Automake/Options.pm (process_global_option_list,
1857 process_option_list): Add sanity checks.
1858 ($_options_processed, $_global_options_processed): New
1859 internal variables, used by the sanity checks above.
1860 * tests/warnings-win-over-strictness.test: Extend.
1862 For PR automake/547:
1863 Change signature of 'Automake::Options::_process_option_list()'.
1864 This only modifies internal details in the automake implementation,
1865 bearing no externally visible effect, but preparing the way for the
1866 final fix of Automake bug#7669 a.k.a. PR/547.
1867 * lib/Automake/Options.pm (_process_option_list): Accept as
1868 arguments a list of hash references with keys 'option' and 'where',
1869 where 'option' is an option as might occur in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS or
1870 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, and 'where' is the location where it occurred.
1871 (process_option_list, process_global_option_list): Updated.
1872 * automake.in (handle_options, scan_autoconf_traces): Update.
1874 Add more tests about AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
1875 In view of soon-to-follow refactorings (still in the pursuit of a
1876 fix for Automake bug#7669 a.k.a. PR/547), add some more tests on
1877 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS support, to prevent obvious regressions.
1878 * tests/amopts-variable-expansion.test: New test.
1879 * tests/amopts-location.test: Likewise.
1880 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1882 For PR automake/547:
1883 Warnings win over strictness in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
1884 This change ensures that, for what concerns the options specified
1885 in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, explicitly-defined warnings always take
1886 precedence over implicit strictness-implied warnings. Related to
1887 Automake bug#7669 a.k.a. PR/547.
1888 * lib/Automake/Options.pm (_process_option_list): Parse explicit
1889 warnings only after the strictness level has been set. Fix POD
1891 * tests/warnings-win-over-strictness.test: Extend.
1893 For PR automake/547:
1894 Warnings win over strictness on command line.
1895 Ensure that, on the command line at least, explicitly defined
1896 warnings always take precedence over implicit strictness-implied
1897 warnings. Related to Automake bug#7669 a.k.a. PR/547.
1898 * automake.in (parse_arguments): Parse warnings only after the
1899 strictness level has been processed.
1900 * tests/gnuwarn.test: Update, plus miscellaneous improvements.
1901 * tests/warnings-win-over-strictness.test: New test.
1902 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1904 More tests on warnings and strictness.
1905 * tests/warnings-strictness-interactions.test: New test.
1906 * tests/warnings-unknown.test: Likewise.
1907 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1909 New test on silent-rules mode and portability warnings.
1910 * tests/silent-nowarn.test: New test.
1911 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1913 Add new tests on strictness and warnings precedence and overriding.
1914 * tests/strictness-override.test: New test.
1915 * tests/strictness-precedence.test: New test.
1916 * tests/warnings-override.test: New test.
1917 * tests/warnings-precedence.test: New test.
1918 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1920 2011-01-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1922 Fix remake rule-induced test failures with HP-UX make.
1923 * tests/remake1a.test: Require GNU make.
1925 2011-01-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1927 Fix remake rule-induced test failures with HP-UX make.
1928 * tests/colon6.test: Update timestamp of subdir Makefile, so we
1929 do not spuriously invoke the nonexistent toplevel am--refresh
1932 tests: fix typos in colon6.test
1933 * tests/colon6.test: Fix typos.
1935 2011-01-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1936 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1938 tests: explain MSYS setup failure issue, improve test.
1939 * tests/defs: Add comment and failure message, improve fail
1942 2011-01-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1944 Fix libobj2.test failure with non-GNU make: define $(AR).
1945 * tests/libobj2.test: Ensure $(AR) is suitably defined.
1947 2011-01-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1949 tests: avoid spurious failures due to fork failure in test setup
1950 * tests/defs: Ensure $me is always nonempty, to avoid spurious
1951 failures on MinGW/MSYS in case the preceding sed command could
1954 Avoid configure warnings from wait about reused PIDs.
1955 * m4/sanity.m4 (AM_SANITY_CHECK): Hide wait stderr output.
1956 Fixes spurious failure of depcomp2.test.
1958 2011-01-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1960 Avoid testsuite failures due to Autoconf Fortran change.
1961 Autoconf v2.68-21-g727ce95 causes AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS to
1962 require computing the canonical host name. Ensure config.guess
1963 and config.sub files are present for respective checks.
1964 * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Add stub files.
1965 * tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
1966 * tests/fort4.test: Use $AUTOMAKE -a for installing files.
1968 2011-01-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1970 docs: clustered '-d' not recognized in YFLAGS
1971 This change fixes automake bug#7828.
1972 * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Document that automake
1973 recognizes '-d' in AM_YFLAGS only if it's not clustered with
1975 From a report by Юрий Пухальский.
1977 2011-01-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1979 tests: add checks on automatically-distributed files
1980 Related to automake bug#7819.
1981 * tests/autodist.test: New test.
1982 * tests/autodist-subdir.test: Likewise.
1983 * tests/autodist-acconfig.test: Likewise.
1984 * tests/autodist-acconfig-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
1985 * tests/autodist-aclocal-m4.test: Likewise.
1986 * tests/autodist-config-headers.test: Likewise.
1987 * tests/autodist-configure-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
1988 * tests/autodist-stamp-vti.test: Likewise.
1989 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1991 2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1993 tests: do not force yacc-requiring tests to use bison
1994 * tests/defs.in: New required entry 'yacc'. Remove old
1995 required entry 'bison'.
1996 * tests/cond35.test ($required): Require yacc, not bison.
1997 * tests/cond36.test: Likewise.
1998 * tests/pr204.test: Likewise.
1999 * tests/silent-many-gcc.test: Likewise.
2000 * tests/silent-many-generic.test: Likewise.
2001 * tests/silent-yacc-gcc.test: Likewise.
2002 * tests/silent-yacc-generic.test: Likewise.
2003 * tests/subpkg.test: Likewise.
2004 * tests/suffix10.test: Likewise.
2005 * tests/yacc-basic.test: Likewise.
2006 * tests/yacc-clean.test: Likewise.
2007 * tests/yacc-d-basic.test: Likewise.
2008 * tests/yacc-d-vpath.test: Likewise.
2009 * tests/yacc-dist-nobuild.test: Likewise.
2010 * tests/yacc-nodist.test: Likewise.
2011 * tests/yacc4.test: Likewise.
2012 * tests/yacc6.test: Likewise.
2013 * tests/yacc7.test: Likewise.
2014 * tests/yacc8.test: Likewise.
2015 * tests/yaccdry.test: Likewise.
2016 * tests/yaccvpath.test: Likewise.
2018 2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2020 tests: more consistent checks about invalid options
2021 * tests/aclocal.test: Grepping of automake stderr for messages
2022 reporting invalid options made stricter.
2023 * tests/no-outdir-option.test: Likewise. Also, create a dummy
2024 `Makefile.am', to ensure that the automake failures are really
2025 caused only by unrecognized options.
2026 * tests/automake.test: Added trailing `:' command. Removed
2027 redundant checks on `--help' and `--version' option (already
2028 performed in the test `help*.test').
2030 2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2032 tests: enable 'errexit' shell flag by default.
2033 * tests/defs: Enable `errexit' shell flag (near the end).
2034 Removed redundant comment about the enabling of shell traces.
2035 * tests/README (Writing test cases): Update, and use nicer
2036 formatting in a couple of places.
2037 * All tests: Adjusted by removing now-redundant calls to
2040 2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2042 tests: work around a texi+cygnus bug causing a spurious XFAIL
2043 * tests/txinfo5b.test: New test, like txinfo5.test but calling
2044 automake with the `-Wno-override' option to work around a bug
2045 in the texinfo + cygnus interaction.
2046 * tests/txinfo5.test: Update heading comments.
2047 * tests/Makefile.am (TEST): Updated.
2049 2011-01-09 Dave Hart <davehart@gmail.com> (tiny change)
2051 Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
2052 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
2054 2011-01-09 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
2056 Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
2057 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
2059 2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2061 tests: texinfo unrecognized extensions
2062 * tests/txinfo-unrecognized-extension.test: New test.
2063 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
2065 Improve, extend and tweak tests on Texinfo support.
2066 * tests/instdir-texi.test: Add a call to `ls -l' after that to
2067 `make', for debugging. When looking for required tools, do not
2068 redirect the output of "$tool --help" to /dev/null, and do not
2069 uselessly run it in a subshell.
2070 * tests/txinfo.test: Rewritten to run autoconf, ./configure and
2071 make. All checks moved into Makefile.am.
2072 * tests/txinfo8.test: Likewise, and modernize the generated
2074 * tests/txinfo2.test: Moved checks into Makefile.am, and other
2076 * tests/txinfo5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
2077 changes. Add trailing `:' command.
2078 * tests/txinfo6.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
2079 Makefile.in stricter.
2080 * tests/txinfo7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
2081 changes. Add trailing `:' command. Do not add unnecessary stuff
2083 * tests/txinfo9.test: Verify that more targets which are expected
2084 to be generated only once really are. Make grepping less strict,
2085 to avoid exposing too much internal details. More minor changes.
2086 * tests/txinfo16.test: Add trailing `:'. Prefer cat over echo
2087 for appending to configure.in. Updated/fixed heading comments.
2088 * tests/txinfo23.test: Likewise, and extended a little by making
2089 it check that no info file is created in the $(srcdir).
2090 * tests/txinfo24.test: Likewise.
2091 * tests/txinfo25.test: Likewise.
2092 * tests/txinfo18.test: Add trailing `:'. Prefer cat over echo
2093 for appending to configure.in. Also, check that index files are
2094 cleaned also by "make clean", not only by "make distclean".
2095 * tests/txinfo22.test: Prefer `$me' over hard-coded test name,
2096 and added trailing `:' command. This testcase also used to check
2097 that automake ignores in-line comments when using variables, but
2098 preserves them in the output; these checks (added in commit
2099 "Release-1-7f-4-g9177ef8") do not really pertain to this test,
2100 so they have been moved ...
2101 * tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: ... into this new test.
2102 * tests/txinfo4.test: Escape literal dots in grep regexps. Add
2103 trailing `:' command.
2104 * tests/txinfo29.test: Likewise. Relax grepping of generated
2105 Makefile.in w.r.t. whitespaces. Prefer `cat' over `echo' to
2106 append to configure.in.
2107 * tests/txinfo3.test: Likewise.
2108 * tests/vtexi.test: Improve grepping of Makefile.in (sometimes
2109 make it stricter, sometimes laxer). Move `set -e' setting just
2110 after the inclusion of ./defs. De-uglify a sed command. Other
2111 minor cosmetic improvements.
2112 * tests/vtexi2.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in stricter. Add
2113 trailing `:' command.
2114 * tests/vtexi3.test: New test on version.texi support.
2115 * tests/vtexi4.test: Likewise.
2116 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
2118 2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2120 tests: fix spurious failure in 'tests/yflags-conditional.test'
2121 * tests/yflags-conditional.test: Filter out message "warnings are
2122 treated as errors" from automake stderr, to avoid a false positive
2123 when grepping for extraneous warning messages.
2125 2011-01-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2127 yacc: warn about conditional content in *YFLAGS variables
2128 This change fixes automake bug#7804.
2129 * automake.in (lang_yacc_target_hook): Warn if any of the relevant
2130 *YFLAGS variables has conditional contents (not only a conditional
2131 definition). Related refactoring.
2133 * tests/yflags-conditional.test: Updated and extended.
2134 * tests/yflags-conditional-force.test: New test.
2135 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
2137 2011-01-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2139 yacc: support variable expansions in *YFLAGS definition.
2140 This change fixes automake bug#7800.
2141 * automake.in (lang_yacc_target_hook): Use 'value_as_list_recursive'
2142 instead of 'variable_value' to get the value of *YFLAGS variables.
2144 ($DASH_D_PATTERN): Removed.
2145 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Remove yflags-var-expand.test.
2146 * tests/yacc-clean.test: Remove workaround for now-fixed bug.
2149 2011-01-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2151 yacc: more tests on *YFLAGS support
2152 * tests/yflags-var-expand.test: New test, still xfailing. It
2153 exposes automake bug#7800 -- "automake fails to honor `-d' in
2154 AM_YFLAGS when variable expansions are involved".
2155 * tests/yflags-d-false-positive.test: New test, checking that
2156 automake do not spuriously see `-d' in *YFLAGS when that isn't
2158 * tests/yflags-force-override.test: New test, checking that
2159 automake can cope with definition of the YFLAGS variable in
2160 Makefile.am (even if that is an extremely bad practice, as that
2161 variable is user-reserved).
2162 * tests/yflags-cmdline-override.test: New test, checking that
2163 automake can cope with user-redefinition of YFLAGS at configure
2164 time and/or at make time.
2165 * tests/yflags-conditional.test: New test, checks that automake
2166 warns on conditionally-defined *YFLAGS variables.
2167 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Update.
2169 2011-01-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2171 yacc: extend and improve tests
2172 * tests/yacc-basic.test: Also check that the intermediate C file
2173 is mentioned in the generated Makefile.in, and that it is created
2174 by the first make invocation.
2175 * tests/yacc3.test: Test removed, superseded by ...
2176 * tests/yacc-d-basic.test: ... this new test.
2177 * tests/yacc2.test: Add reference to that new test in the heading
2179 * tests/yacc-d-vpath.test: New test.
2180 * tests/yaccvpath.test: Updated heading comments. Do not require
2181 gcc anymore, as any working C compiler should be enough. Remove
2183 * tests/yacc-nodist.test: New test.
2184 * tests/yacc-dist-nobuild.test: New test.
2185 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
2187 2010-12-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2189 Extend, fix and improve tests on Lex and Yacc support.
2190 * tests/lexcpp.test: New test script, on support for Lex + C++.
2191 * tests/lexvpath.test: New test script, test build and rebuild
2192 rules for lexers in VPATH setup.
2193 * tests/yacc-basic.test: New test script, run simple "semantic"
2194 checks on basic Yacc support (similarly to what lex3.test does
2196 * tests/lex.test: Don't create useless dummy source file joe.l.
2197 Remove extra blank lines.
2198 * tests/lex4.test: Add trailing `:' command. Do not create dummy
2199 useless lex source file.
2200 * tests/lex2.test: Likewise. Call automake with the `-a' option,
2201 so that it doesn't fail for the absence of `ylwrap' script. Make
2202 grepping of automake stderr stricter.
2203 * tests/yacc7.test: Add trailing `:' command. Enable `errexit'
2204 shell flag earlier (just after having sourced ./defs).
2205 * tests/yacc4.test: Likewise. Also ...
2206 (configure.in): Use pre-populated skeleton set up by ./defs,
2207 instead of writing one from scratch.
2208 Other minor cosmetic changes.
2209 * tests/yacc5.test: Likewise.
2210 * tests/yaccvpath.test: Likewise. Also ...
2211 ($distdir): New variable.
2213 * tests/lex5.test: Likewise.
2214 * tests/lex3.test: Likewise. Check the distdir, rather than
2215 grepping the distribution tarball. Extend the test on the
2216 created binary, and be sure to avoid hangs. Add some comments.
2217 * tests/yacc.test: Use stricter grepping. Add trailing `:'.
2218 * tests/yacc6.test: Likewise.
2219 * tests/yacc3.test: Likewise. Do not create the unused file
2220 `Makefile.sed'. Remove useless rules from Makefile.am. Other
2221 minor cosmetic changes.
2222 * tests/yacc2.test: Make grepping of generated `Makefile.in' and
2223 of automake error messages stricter. Do not redirect output of
2224 grep to /dev/null. Move call to aclocal earlier. Reduce the
2225 number of empty blank lines. Fix a typo in comments.
2226 * tests/yacc8.test: Fixed bugs that reduced the completeness of
2227 the tests. Added trailing `:' command.
2228 (configure.in): Use pre-populated skeleton set up by ./defs,
2229 instead of writing one from scratch.
2230 * tests/yaccpp.test: Test also extensions `.y++', `.ypp', and
2231 `.yxx', rather than only `.yy'.
2232 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
2234 2011-01-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2236 cosmetics: remove trailing whitespaces
2237 * doc/automake.texi: Remove trailing whitespaces.
2238 * tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
2239 * tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
2240 * tests/fort4.test: Likewise.
2241 * tests/fort5.test: Likewise.
2242 * tests/libobj17.test: Likewise.
2243 * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
2244 * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
2246 automake: minor fixes in comments
2247 * automake.in: Some minor fixes and enhancements in comments.
2249 2011-01-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2251 Add test coverage for deleted header files.
2252 * tests/depcomp6.test, tests/depcomp7.test: Update tests to
2253 also check for the deleted header bug. If no dependency
2254 tracking mechanism could be found, SKIP rather than exit
2255 successfully. Use GNU style spacing and ANSI C prototypes.
2257 Fix typos in Rule.pm comments.
2258 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typos in comments.
2260 docs: split 'amhello Explained' node.
2261 * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Split node ...
2262 (amhello's configure.ac Setup Explained)
2263 (amhello's Makefile.am Setup Explained) : ... into these two.
2264 (Top, Hello World): Adjust, and add @anchor for stable URL links.
2265 Suggestion by Karl Berry in automake bug#7766.
2267 2011-01-08 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
2268 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2270 docs: reference defining directories in amhello node.
2271 * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Point to Autoconf
2272 manual for how to convert directory values into macros.
2273 (Optional): Fix grammar nit.
2275 2011-01-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2277 yacc: "make clean" removes .c and .h files from non-distributed .y
2278 Previously, while automake did *not* distribute C source and header
2279 files derived from non-distributed Yacc sources, it still caused
2280 them to be removed only by "make maintainer-clean" only, and not by
2281 simply "make clean" or "make distclean".
2282 This caused "make distcheck" to fail, unless the developer put
2283 those generated .c and .h files in CLEANFILES or in DISTCLEANFILES
2285 This change fixes this issue, by making non-distributed `.c' and
2286 `.h' files generated by non-distributed Yacc sources cleaned by
2288 * tests/automake.in (lang_yacc_target_hook): Make C source and
2289 header files derived from non-distributed Yacc files cleaned by
2290 "make clean", not only by "make maintainer-clean".
2291 * tests/yacc-clean.test: New test.
2292 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
2295 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2297 * NEWS: Fix typo (forgotten word).
2299 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2300 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2302 docs: how to work around checks on invalid primary/directory couples
2303 * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): Document the blessed idiom which can
2304 be used to work around automake checks on invalid primary/directory
2305 couples (such as `lib_PROGRAMS' or `doc_LIBRARIES').
2307 2010-01-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2309 Tests: normalize use of the 'errexit' shell flag.
2310 * tests/maken3.test (check_targets): Remove redundant call to
2312 * tests/maken4.test: Likewise.
2313 * tests/ansi5.test: Call 'set -e' just after './defs' has been
2315 * tests/ansi6.test: Likewise.
2316 * tests/ansi7.test: Likewise.
2317 * tests/cond16.test: Likewise.
2318 * tests/cond17.test: Likewise.
2319 * tests/cond18.test: Likewise.
2320 * tests/cond19.test: Likewise.
2321 * tests/cond20.test: Likewise.
2322 * tests/cond21.test: Likewise.
2323 * tests/instdat2.test: Likewise.
2324 * tests/instdir-texi.test: Likewise.
2325 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
2326 * tests/remake1a.test: Likewise.
2327 * tests/ccnoco.test: Likewise, and add trailing `:' command.
2328 * tests/comment4.test: Likewise.
2329 * tests/gcj4.test: Likewise.
2330 * tests/nodist2.test: Likewise.
2331 * tests/nodist3.test: Enable 'errexit' shell flag (this should
2332 have been done in commit v1.11-248-g317e17b, but the relevant
2333 hunk has been forgotten somehow).
2334 * tests/output.test: Likewise.
2335 * tests/gnits2.test: Likewise, and display captured stderr to
2336 script's stderr, not to script's stdout.
2337 * tests/gnits3.test: Likewise. Also, prefer 'cat' over 'echo'
2338 to append to Makefile.am, and really check that the exit status
2339 of "make installcheck" indicates failure.
2341 2011-01-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2343 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
2344 * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
2347 Avoid caching bug in cygnus mode test.
2348 * tests/cygnus-requires-maintainer-mode.test: Remove
2349 autom4te.cache directory before rerunning aclocal, to
2350 remove trace caches.
2352 Fix maintainer-check regression.
2353 * tests/subobj11a.test: Pass DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS in the
2356 Bump copyright years.
2357 * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
2358 * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
2359 * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
2361 2010-12-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2363 * NEWS: Add missing blank line between two entries.
2365 2010-12-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2367 Improve and extend tests `suffix*.test'.
2368 * tests/suffix.test: Check that suffix rules for C compilation are
2369 only included once. Try also with a static library.
2370 * tests/suffix2.test: Add a new grep to help potential debugging.
2371 Do not run automake with the `--add-missing' options, since we
2372 already create all the needed auxiliary files. Try also *without*
2373 the `no-dependencies' automake option.
2374 * tests/suffix4.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in stricter.
2375 * tests/suffix3.test: Rewritten to run also autoconf, ./configure
2377 * tests/suffix5.test: Likewise.
2378 * tests/suffix6.test: Fix botched recipe indentation (eight spaces
2379 were used instead of a tabulation character). Extend to check
2380 that `.obj' is handled like `.$(OBJEXT)' (as is done for `.o').
2381 Improved parsing & grepping of generated Makefile.in. Other minor
2382 fixes and improvements.
2383 * tests/suffix10.test: Move some checks in Makefile.am. Also run
2385 * tests/suffix12.test: Likewise, and account for VPATH issues in
2386 weaker make implementations.
2387 * tests/suffix11.test: Likewise. Also, run "make distcheck", for
2388 completeness, and related changes.
2389 * tests/suffix8.test: Likewise. Also, do not put `gcc' anymore
2391 * tests/suffix13.test: Do not use the `--force-missing' automake
2392 option unnecessarily.
2393 * tests/suffix6b.test: New test, semantic sister of `suffix6.test'.
2394 * tests/suffix6c.test: Likewise.
2395 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
2397 2010-12-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2398 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2400 Work around a bug in file-inclusion mechanism of Solaris make.
2401 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): In the name of the
2402 dependency file: collapse multiple slash characters into a single
2404 * tests/subobj11a.test: New test.
2405 * tests/subobj11b.test: Likewise.
2406 * tests/subobj11c.test: Likewise.
2407 * tests/depcomp8a.test: Likewise.
2408 * tests/depcomp8b.test: Likewise.
2409 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
2411 Report by Stefano Lattarini, quick fix by Ralf Wildenhues, final
2412 patch and tests by Stefano Lattarini.
2414 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2416 Fix two spurious testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5.
2417 * tests/suffix13.test (Makefile.am): Account for VPATH issues on
2418 weaker make implementations (e.g. IRIX 6.5).
2419 * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise, plus a required related
2421 Reported by Ralf Wildenhues. The bugs have been there from the
2422 first versions of the affected test scripts.
2424 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2426 docs: cygnus mode doesn't require AM_CYGWIN32 macro.
2427 * doc/automake.texi (Cygnus): Mode 'cygnus' does not require
2428 the AM_CYGWIN32 macro (and indeed hasn't required it since at
2429 least commit Release-1-2-31-g3038064 "merged changes from
2430 Cygnus" of 1997-08-25).
2432 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2434 Add some tests on 'cygnus' mode.
2435 * tests/clean2.test: Extend.
2436 * tests/cygnus-check-without-all.test: New test.
2437 * tests/cygnus-dependency-tracking.test: Likewise.
2438 * tests/cygnus-distclean.test: Likewise.
2439 * tests/cygnus-imply-foreign.test: Likewise.
2440 * tests/cygnus-no-dist.test: Likewise.
2441 * tests/cygnus-no-installinfo.test: Likewise.
2442 * tests/cygnus-requires-maintainer-mode.test: Likewise.
2443 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
2445 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2447 Fix parallel testsuite run with Zsh.
2448 This change deals with a Zsh incompatibility in the handling
2449 of the special shell variable `$0' in sourced files; this
2450 incompatibility used to cause utter breakage when the
2451 Automake testsuite was run in parallel mode with Zsh as
2452 the $(TEST_LOG_COMPILER).
2453 For more information, please refer to the thread "Fix parallel
2454 testsuite run with zsh" on automake-patches, dated 2010-12-22:
2455 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-12/msg00135.html>
2456 This change works around the problems described above for Zsh 4.3
2457 or later, and offers better error messages (instead of random
2458 failures) for earlier Zsh version.
2459 * tests/README (Supported shells): When describing the manual
2460 workaround about the Zsh incompatibility in the handling of `$0',
2461 tell that it is now needed only with Zsh versions preceding 4.3.
2462 Done also some minor rewordings.
2463 * tests/defs-static.in ($argv0): New variable, offers a workaround
2464 for the Zsh incompatibility in the handling of `$0'.
2465 Abort if that variable cannot be correctly set (can happen only
2466 in older Zsh version).
2467 * tests/defs ($me): Define using `$argv0', not `$0'.
2469 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2471 Tests defs: keep track of original $AUTOMAKE and $ACLOCAL values.
2472 This is especially useful for tests which might want to run
2473 automake and aclocal without additional flags and warnings.
2474 * tests/defs-static.in ($original_ACLOCAL): New variable.
2475 ($original_AUTOMAKE): Likewise.
2476 * tests/help.test: Use them.
2477 * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
2478 * tests/help3.test: Likewise.
2479 * tests/help4.test: Likewise.
2480 From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
2482 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2484 distlinksbrk.test: Work around botched "make -k".
2485 * tests/distlinksbrk.test: Run "make" multiple times and grep
2486 its output each time for a single error message, rather than
2487 running "make -k" one single time and grepping its output for
2488 all the expected error messages. This should work around make
2489 implementations with limited (broken?) `-k' support; for more
2490 information, see these subthreads on the automake-patches list:
2491 - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on HP-UX 11.23",
2492 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00162.html>
2493 - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5",
2494 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00166.html>
2496 2010-12-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2498 Minor improvements to test 'amopts.test'.
2499 * tests/amopts.test: Remove botched comment. Make grepping of
2500 automake stderr slighty stricter. Add trailing `:' command.
2502 2010-12-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2504 backcompat6.test: avoid comments inside recipe commands.
2505 * tests/backcompat6.test: Remove shell comments from makefile rule
2506 commands, as they are not portable to (at least) Tru64 make.
2508 2010-12-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2510 man8.test: avoid comments inside recipe commands.
2511 * tests/man8.test: Remove shell comments from makefile rule
2512 commands, as they are not portable to (at least) Tru64 make.
2514 2010-12-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2516 Fix sed-related buglet in test "subdir5.test"
2517 * tests/subdir5.test: Always terminate text passed to the
2518 `i' sed command with a newline, to work around limitations
2519 in e.g. older OpenBSD sed.
2521 2010-12-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2523 Fix spurious failures in tests on AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR.
2524 * tests/auxdir7.test: Do not try to needlessly overwrite the files
2525 `install-sh' and `missing'. This avoid spurious failures in "make
2526 distcheck", when those files might be copied as read-only from the
2528 * tests/auxdir8.test: Likewise.
2530 2010-12-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2532 Make test 'posixsubst-script' portable to MinGW/MSYS.
2533 * tests/posixsubst-script.test: Ensure that the generated dummy
2534 scripts really start with a shebang line, to work around a
2535 limitation of 'test -x' on MinGW/MSYS.
2536 Reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
2538 Improve comments in tests `posixsubst*.test'.
2539 * tests/posixsubst-data.test: Improve comment explaining why we
2540 try also empty match suffix.
2541 * tests/posixsubst-extradist.test: Likewise.
2542 * tests/posixsubst-ldadd.test: Likewise.
2543 * tests/posixsubst-libraries.test: Likewise.
2544 * tests/posixsubst-ltlibraries.test: Likewise.
2545 * tests/posixsubst-programs.test: Likewise.
2546 * tests/posixsubst-scripts.test: Likewise.
2547 * tests/posixsubst-sources.test: Likewise.
2548 * tests/posixsubst-tests.test: Likewise.
2549 Suggested by Ralf Wildenhues.
2551 2010-12-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2553 docs: fix blunder in example about python extension modules
2554 * doc/automake.texi (Python): Use `quaternion_la_SOURCES',
2555 not `quaternion_SOURCES', to declare the sources of python
2556 extension module `quaternion.la'.
2558 2010-12-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2560 docs: list LTLIBRARIES among Automake primaries
2561 * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): List `LTLIBRARIES' among
2562 the Automake primaries.
2564 2010-12-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2565 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2567 Tests defs: requirement 'xsi-shell' must be synced with libtool.
2568 * tests/defs (xsi-shell): Add comment telling to keep the
2569 XSI-conformance checks in sync with libtool.
2571 2010-12-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2573 Minor cleanups in canon7.test.
2574 * tests/canon7.test (_foo_bar_SOURCES): Remove libs.c.
2575 (configure.in): Remove AC_PROG_CXX.
2577 2010-12-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2579 Avoid false positive in sc_tests_plain_make maintainer-check.
2580 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_plain_make): Ensure to only match full
2581 `make' words. Avoid false positive with remake11.test.
2583 2010-12-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2585 Fix canon7.test failure.
2586 * tests/canon7.test (_foo_bar_SOURCES): Add foobar.c.
2587 (lib.h, libd.c, libs.c): Use const for constant strings.
2589 2010-12-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2591 Fix typos in test comments.
2592 * tests/posixsubst-data.test, tests/posixsubst-extradist.test,
2593 tests/posixsubst-ldadd.test, tests/posixsubst-libraries.test,
2594 tests/posixsubst-ltlibraries.test, tests/posixsubst-programs.test,
2595 tests/posixsubst-scripts.test, tests/posixsubst-sources.test,
2596 tests/posixsubst-tests.test: Fix typos.
2598 2010-12-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2600 More uses of AS_HELP_STRING in automake macros.
2601 * m4/depend.m4 (AM_DEP_TRACK): Use `AS_HELP_STRING' to format
2602 the help message added to the generated configure.
2603 * m4/dmalloc.m4 (AM_WITH_DMALLOC): Likewise.
2604 * m4/lispdir.m4 (AM_PATH_LISPDIR): Likewise.
2605 * m4/maintainer.m4 (AM_MAINTAINER_MODE): Likewise.
2606 * m4/multi.m4 (AM_ENABLE_MULTILIB): Likewise.
2607 Also, bumped all serial numbers of the modified m4 files.
2609 2010-12-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2611 Improve tests on generated portions of configure help screen.
2612 * tests/help-depend.test: Grepping of configure help screen
2613 relaxed to cater for possible line wrapping, and tightened in
2615 * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
2616 * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
2617 * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
2618 * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
2619 * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
2620 * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
2621 * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
2622 * tests/help-init.test: Grepping of configure help screen
2625 2010-12-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2627 Extended tests on AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR.
2628 * tests/auxdir.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Prefer `$me'
2629 over hard-coded test name. Use proper m4 quoting. Add trailing
2631 * tests/auxdir2.test: Likewise. Try to call automake also with
2632 the `-a' option, so that it will not fail for spurious reasons.
2633 * tests/auxdir3.test: Add an explanatory comment and a trailing
2635 * tests/auxdir4.test: Prefer `$me' over hard-coded test name.
2636 Make grepping of automake stderr slightly stricter. Also, now
2637 this test just checks about Automake's reaction to unportable
2638 auxiliary directory names (and it has been extended in this
2639 respect). Moved the checks about non-existent auxiliary
2641 * tests/auxdir5.test: ... this new test.
2642 * tests/auxdir6.test: New test.
2643 * tests/auxdir7.test: Likewise.
2644 * tests/auxdir8.test: Likewise.
2645 * tests/auxdir9.test: Likewise.
2646 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
2648 2010-12-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2650 Tests: extend checks on remake rules.
2651 This adds proper semantical tests (i.e. run make to check the
2652 rebuild rules are correctly triggered) in addition to tentative
2653 grepping of the generated Makefile.in(s).
2654 * tests/remake.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
2655 changes. Modernize `configure.in'. Add trailing `:' command.
2656 Improve heading comments, and add a reference to new sister test
2658 * tests/remake3.test: Likewise (but with sister test being
2660 * tests/remake2.test: Improve heading comments. Enable `errexit'
2661 shell flag, and related changes. Modernize `configure.in'. Make
2662 grepping of `Makefile.in' slightly stricter. Add trailing `:'
2664 * tests/remake5.test: Also run the `distcheck' target. Add
2665 trailing `:' command. Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
2666 * tests/remake4.test: Prefer `$me' over hard-coded test name.
2667 * tests/remake7.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
2668 ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch.
2669 * tests/remake6.test: Likewise. Also, add trailing `:' command,
2670 and ensure verbose printing of captured make output.
2671 * tests/remake1a.test: New test, sister of remake.test.
2672 * tests/remake3a.test: New test, sister of remake3.test.
2673 * tests/remake8a.test: New test.
2674 * tests/remake8b.test: Likewise.
2675 * tests/remake9a.test: Likewise.
2676 * tests/remake9b.test: Likewise.
2677 * tests/remake9c.test: Likewise.
2678 * tests/remake9d.test: Likewise.
2679 * tests/remake10a.test: Likewise.
2680 * tests/remake10b.test: Likewise.
2681 * tests/remake10c.test: Likewise.
2682 * tests/remake11.test: Likewise.
2683 * tests/remake12.test: Likewise.
2684 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
2686 2010-12-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2688 Improve and extend tests on canonicalization.
2689 * tests/canon-name.test: Add trailing `:' command. When writing
2690 configure.in, prefer to use $me instead of hard-coding the test
2692 * tests/canon3.test: Prefer trailing `:' over trailing `Exit 0'.
2693 * tests/canon4.test: Likewise. Make grepping of Makefile.in
2694 stricter. Improve heading comment, and add reference to ...
2695 * tests/canon6.test: ... this new test (sister test of the
2697 * tests/canon.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to append
2698 text to configure.in. Extend grepping of Automake stderr. Add
2699 trailing `:' command.
2700 * tests/canon5.test: Likewise.
2701 * tests/canon7.test: New file, stress test on canonicalization.
2702 * tests/canon8.test: New test, for better coverage (check that
2703 the `@' character is not transliterated in canonicalizations).
2704 * tests/Makefile.am: Updated.
2706 2010-12-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2708 Libobj tests: refer to automake bug tracker for limitations.
2709 * tests/libobj15b.test (configure.in): In the comment explaining
2710 why an apparently redundant AC_OUTPUT is indeed needed, refer
2711 to the relevant entry in the Automake bug tracker rather than
2712 describing the bug in detail with a FIXME-style comment.
2713 * tests/libobj15c.test: Likewise.
2714 * tests/libobj20b.test: Likewise.
2716 Libobj tests: do not use `##' automake comments in-line.
2717 * tests/libobj19.test (Makefile.am): Do not use inline `##'
2718 comments in the definition of AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
2719 * tests/libobj20c.test: Likewise.
2720 Report by Ralf Wildenhues.
2722 2010-12-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2724 Fix testsuite failure of check12.test without DejaGNU.
2725 * tests/check12.test: Require runtest.
2727 2010-12-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2729 Tests defs: more uses of $top_testsrcdir.
2730 * tests/compile6.test: Use `$top_testsrcdir' instead of
2733 2010-11-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2735 Tests required tools: also try `-v' option for GNU compilers.
2736 * tests/defs.in: In the loop on "$required" tools, for gcc
2737 and g++, also run "gcc -v" (resp. "g++ -v"), to get more
2738 information, and for consistency with gcj.
2740 2010-11-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2741 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2743 Tests defs: avoid some useless subshells.
2744 * tests/defs: In the loop on "$required" tools: avoid subshells
2747 2010-12-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2749 Extend tests on AC_LIBOBJ and friends.
2750 * tests/aclibobj.test: Removed, superseded by ...
2751 * tests/libobj-basic.test: ... this new test, which runs autoconf,
2752 ./configure and make, to ensure everything really works.
2753 * tests/libobj3.test: Add trailing `:' command. Escape literal
2755 * tests/libobj4.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
2756 changes. Add trailing `:' command. Use proper m4 quoting.
2757 * tests/ltlibobjs.test: Likewise.
2758 * tests/libobj5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
2759 changes. Add trailing `:' command. Make more robust by using
2760 longer filenames to be grepped.
2761 * tests/libobj8.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
2762 changes. Add trailing `:' command. Use the configure.in
2763 stub provided by ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch.
2764 * tests/libobj2.test: Likewise. Also, add calls to autoconf,
2765 ./configure and make, to ensure everything really works.
2766 * tests/libobj7.test: Likewise, and ensure that at least one
2767 function listed in AC_REPLACE_FUNCTIONS is truly replaced.
2768 * tests/libobj13.test: Make grepping of Automake stderr slightly
2769 stricter. Add trailing `:' command.
2770 * tests/libobj12.test: Likewise. Also, prefer "cat + here-doc"
2771 over "echo" to append to Makefile.am, and some cosmetic changes
2773 * tests/libobj14.test: Call `Exit 1' if sourcing of ./defs fails.
2774 Slighty improve m4 quoting. Add trailing `:' command.
2775 * tests/libobj10.test: Add calls to autoconf, ./configure and
2776 make, to ensure everything really works. Also, remove tests that
2777 nonexistent source for AC_LIBOBJ cause an Automake failure: this
2778 is already checked by ...
2779 * tests/libobj15a.test: ... this new test.
2780 * tests/libobj15b.test: New test, sister test of libobj15a.test,
2781 checks AC_LIBSOURCE instead of AC_LIBOBJ.
2782 * tests/libobj15c.test: New test, sister test of libobj15a.test,
2783 checks AC_LIBSOURCES instead of AC_LIBOBJ.
2784 * tests/libobj11.test: Removed, superseded by ...
2785 * tests/libobj16a.test: ... this new test.
2786 * tests/libobj16b.test: New test, sister test of libobj16a.test,
2787 but using oldish/deprecated idioms.
2788 * tests/libobj17.test: New test.
2789 * tests/libobj18.test: Likewise.
2790 * tests/libobj19.test: Likewise.
2791 * tests/libobj20a.test: Likewise.
2792 * tests/libobj20b.test: Likewise.
2793 * tests/libobj20c.test: Likewise.
2794 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
2796 2010-12-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2798 Test `$(var:suf=rpl)' expansion in special automake variables.
2799 * tests/posixsubst-data.test: New test.
2800 * tests/posixsubst-extradist.test: Likewise.
2801 * tests/posixsubst-ldadd.test: Likewise.
2802 * tests/posixsubst-libraries.test: Likewise.
2803 * tests/posixsubst-ltlibraries.test: Likewise.
2804 * tests/posixsubst-programs.test: Likewise.
2805 * tests/posixsubst-scripts.test: Likewise.
2806 * tests/posixsubst-sources.test: Likewise.
2807 * tests/posixsubst-tests.test: Likewise.
2808 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
2810 2010-12-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2812 Make tests `colon*.test' more "semantic".
2813 Prefer running configure and make over grepping the generated
2814 files; this is both more correct and less fragile.
2815 * tests/colon.test: Made more "semantic", as described above.
2816 * tests/colon5.test: Likewise.
2817 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
2818 * tests/colon7.test: Likewise.
2819 * tests/colon2.test: Likewise, and improve syncing with sister
2821 * tests/colon3.test: Likewise (but with the sister test being
2822 `colon2.test' here).
2824 2010-12-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2826 Extend and improve tests on DejaGnu support.
2827 * tests/dejagnu.test: Do not create useless dummy test script.
2828 Add trailing `:' command. In heading comments, add reference
2830 * tests/check12.test: ... this new "semantic" test, covering
2831 concurrent use of dejagnu tests, simple tests and `check-local'
2833 * tests/dejagnu2.test: Make test more reliable, by avoid weak
2834 grepping of make output. Prefer `cat' over `echo' to append
2835 to configure.in. Quote literal dots in grep regexps. Prefer
2836 `grep -c ...' over `grep ... | wc -l'. Make grepping of
2837 automake stderr slightly stricter. Add trailing `:' command.
2838 * tests/dejagnu3.test: Prefer `cat' over `echo' to append to
2839 configure.in. Check stderr of expected-to-fail "make" call.
2840 Remove extra blank lines from Makefile.am.
2841 * tests/dejagnu4.test: Prefer `cat' over `echo' to append to
2842 configure.in. Prefer `mv -f' over plain `mv' when the target
2843 file already exists. Avoid extra mkdir calls by creating more
2844 directories at once. Better use of blank lines. Check that
2845 the `*.log' and `*.sum' files are created by runtest also when
2847 * tests/dejagnu7.test: Prefer `cat' over `echo' to append to
2848 configure.in. Better use of blank lines. Add a trailing `:'
2850 * tests/dejagnu6.test: Likewise, and give the dejagnu test a
2851 more descriptive name.
2852 * tests/dejagnu5.test: Likewise. Also, simply define package
2853 name to `$me' rather than using a non-obvious sed script to
2854 extract it from `AC_INIT', and write the Makefile.am with only
2856 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
2858 2010-12-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2860 Avoid running installed automake from 'libtool --help'.
2861 * tests/subobj9.test: Export AUTOCONF and AUTOMAKE.
2862 Together with fixed Libtool, this fixes check-coverage to not
2863 invoke installed automake.
2865 2010-12-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2867 Separate checks on target overriding into multiple test scripts.
2868 * tests/overrid.test: Deleted, its contents separated into ...
2869 * tests/override-suggest-local.test: ... this new test ...
2870 * tests/override-html.test: ... and this new test ...
2871 * tests/override-conditional-1.test: ... and this new test ...
2872 * tests/override-conditional-2.test: ... and this new test (still
2874 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Updated.
2876 Enable `set -e' in more tests (plus some tweakings).
2877 * tests/implicit.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
2878 changes. Add trailing `:' command.
2879 * tests/insh2.test: Likewise.
2880 * tests/instman2.test: Likewise.
2881 * tests/interp.test: Likewise.
2882 * tests/interp2.test: Likewise.
2883 * tests/library.test: Likewise.
2884 * tests/mclean.test: Likewise.
2885 * tests/info.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
2886 changes. Add trailing `:' command. Remove useless chaff from
2887 generated Makefile.am. Add a "FIXME" comment.
2888 * tests/include.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
2889 changes. Add trailing `:' command. Prefer cat + here-doc over
2890 echo to append to configure.in. Make tests more robust by using
2891 longer and less common names to grep. Remove an useless call to
2892 echo. Remove an useless subshell.
2893 * tests/header.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
2894 changes. Use proper m4 quoting. Add excerpts from the original
2895 report of the bug tested for by this script.
2896 * tests/gcj.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
2897 changes. Use proper m4 quoting. Add trailing `:' command.
2898 * tests/gcj3.test: Likewise.
2899 * tests/ldflags.test: Likewise.
2900 * tests/libtool.test: Likewise.
2901 * tests/listval.test: Likewise.
2902 * tests/javaprim.test: Likewise, and prefer cat + here-doc over
2903 echo to append to configure.in.
2904 * tests/javasubst.test: Likewise.
2905 * tests/discorver.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Prefer
2906 trailing `:' over trailing `Exit 0'.
2907 * tests/instdat.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
2908 changes. Use proper m4 quoting. Avoid useless subshell. Prefer
2909 cat + here-doc over echo to append to configure.in.
2910 * tests/libtool2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
2911 changes. Add trailing `:' command. Use the configure.in
2912 stub provided by ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch.
2914 Modernize, improve and/or tweak some test scripts.
2915 * tests/maintclean.test: Use proper m4 quoting. Add trailing `:'
2917 * tests/sinclude.test: Likewise, and add a couple of blank lines,
2919 * tests/make.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier in
2920 the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Use the configure.in
2921 stub created by ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch. Some
2922 cosmetic changes in spacing. Ensure we wait enough time before
2923 touching configure.in to trigger the rebuild rules.
2924 * tests/makej.test: Use `$me' instead of hard-coding the test
2925 name. Add trailing `:' command.
2926 * tests/version7.test: Likewise.
2927 * tests/space.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
2929 * tests/makevars.test: Likewise. Also, prefer trailing `:' over
2930 trailing `Exit 0', and be more tolerant of white spaces when
2931 grepping Makefile.in.
2933 2010-12-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2935 * tests/silent8.test: Use "|| Exit 1" after ". ./defs".
2937 Enable `set -e' in more tests (plus some tweakings).
2938 * tests/mkinstall.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
2939 changes. Add a trailing `:' command, if needed.
2940 * tests/mdate2.test: Likewise.
2941 * tests/objc.test: Likewise.
2942 * tests/noinst.test: Likewise.
2943 * tests/outdir.test: Likewise.
2944 * tests/number.test: Likewise.
2945 * tests/pluseq.test: Likewise.
2946 * tests/req.test: Likewise.
2947 * tests/rulepat.test: Likewise.
2948 * tests/specflg6.test: Likewise.
2949 * tests/spell3.test: Likewise.
2950 * tests/parse.test: Likewise, and ...
2951 (configure.in): Use the stub created by ./defs, rather than
2952 writing it from scratch. Remove useless calls to AC_PROG_RANLIB
2954 * tests/mdate4.test: Likewise.
2955 * tests/mkinstall.test: Likewise, and ...
2956 (configure.in): ... drop useless call to `AC_OUTPUT'.
2957 * tests/output.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
2958 changes. Add a trailing `:' command.
2959 (configure.in): Modernize.
2960 * tests/output2.test: Likewise.
2961 * tests/output3.test: Likewise.
2962 * tests/output4.test: Likewise.
2963 * tests/mdate3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
2964 changes. Prefer `$me' over hard-coded test name. Do not move
2965 non-existent or useless files in the build auxiliary directory.
2966 * tests/nodistdir.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
2967 changes. Prefer trailing `:' over trailing `Exit 0'.
2968 * tests/nodist.test: Likewise. Also, prefer cat + here-doc over
2969 echo to create input test files, and do not create useless dummy
2971 * tests/nodist2.test: Likewise.
2972 * tests/ppf77.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
2973 changes. Add a trailing `:' command. Do not create useless
2975 * tests/spelling.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
2976 changes. Add a trailing `:' command. Also, grep Automake error
2978 * tests/specflg3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
2979 changes. Avoid unportable use of `-e' option of fgrep. Prefer
2980 trailing `:' over trailing `Exit 0'. Remove extra empty lines,
2981 and cosmetic changes to whitespaces.
2982 * tests/obsolete.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
2983 changes. Improve verbosity. Other miscellaneous changes.
2985 2010-11-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2987 Improve and extend tests on `:=' variable assignments.
2988 * tests/colneq.test: Avoid redundant use of variable assignments
2989 in Makefile.am. Use command-line automake options instead of
2990 editing AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS in Makefile.am. Make grepping of the
2991 generated Makefile.in slightly stricter. Add a trailing `:'
2993 * tests/colneq2.test: Do not create unneeded dummy files. Run
2994 also autoconf, ./configure and make. Add trailing `:' command.
2995 * tests/colneq3.test: New test, similar to colneq.test, but
2996 running also autoconf, ./configure and make.
2997 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
2999 2010-11-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3001 Remove long-deprecated options --Werror and --Wno-error.
3002 These options has been deprecated at least since commit
3003 "Release-1-6-1b-35-gc037f20", dated 2002-07-06.
3004 * automake.in (parse_arguments): Do not recognize anymore options
3005 `--Werror' and `--Wno-error' as synonyms of respectively `-Werror'
3007 * tests/werror.test: Update: use `-Werror' instead of `--Werror'.
3010 2010-11-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3012 Fix spurious failures in `silent*.test' for $CC != gcc
3013 In some tests on automake-produced silent rules, we forced the
3014 use of gcc depmode to improve testsuite coverage; but this has
3015 unsurprisingly led to spurious failures when some non-GNU C
3016 compilers were used. So we are now careful to require GCC in
3017 tests that force gcc depmode.
3018 From reports by Ralf Wildenhues.
3019 * tests/silent5.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
3020 * tests/silent-many-generic.test, tests/silent-many-gcc.test: ...
3021 these new sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode
3022 and lists "gcc" in $required.
3023 * tests/silentlex.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
3024 * tests/silent-lex-generic.test, tests/silent-lex-gcc.test: ...
3025 these new sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode
3026 and lists "gcc" in $required.
3027 * tests/silentyacc.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
3028 * tests/silent-yacc-generic.test, tests/silent-yacc-gcc.test: ...
3029 these new sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and
3030 lists "gcc" in $required.
3031 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
3033 2010-11-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3035 Tests: consistently use "|| Exit 1" after ". ./defs".
3036 * tests/autohdr.test: Use `. ./defs || Exit 1', not bare
3037 `. ./defs', for consistency with other tests.
3038 * tests/autohdr2.test: Likewise.
3039 * tests/autohdr3.test: Likewise.
3040 * tests/autohdr4.test: Likewise.
3041 * tests/cond23.test: Likewise.
3042 * tests/cond24.test: Likewise.
3043 * tests/cond25.test: Likewise.
3044 * tests/cond26.test: Likewise.
3045 * tests/cond27.test: Likewise.
3046 * tests/cond28.test: Likewise.
3047 * tests/cond29.test: Likewise.
3048 * tests/cond30.test: Likewise.
3049 * tests/cond31.test: Likewise.
3050 * tests/cond32.test: Likewise.
3051 * tests/cond33.test: Likewise.
3052 * tests/cond34.test: Likewise.
3053 * tests/cond35.test: Likewise.
3054 * tests/cond36.test: Likewise.
3055 * tests/cond37.test: Likewise.
3056 * tests/cond38.test: Likewise.
3057 * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
3058 * tests/cond40.test: Likewise.
3059 * tests/cond41.test: Likewise.
3060 * tests/cond42.test: Likewise.
3061 * tests/cond43.test: Likewise.
3062 * tests/cond44.test: Likewise.
3063 * tests/cond45.test: Likewise.
3064 * tests/dollarvar.test: Likewise.
3065 * tests/dollarvar2.test: Likewise.
3066 * tests/hfs.test: Likewise.
3067 * tests/libobj14.test: Likewise.
3068 * tests/percent.test: Likewise.
3069 * tests/percent2.test: Likewise.
3070 * tests/phony.test: Likewise.
3071 * tests/silent.test: Likewise.
3072 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
3073 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
3074 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
3075 * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
3076 * tests/silent6.test: Likewise.
3077 * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
3078 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
3079 * tests/silentcxx.test: Likewise.
3080 * tests/silentf77.test: Likewise.
3081 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
3082 * tests/silentlex.test: Likewise.
3083 * tests/silentyacc.test: Likewise.
3085 Avoid useless cleaning in some `silent*.test' tests.
3086 * tests/silentf77.test: Removed useless calls to "make clean"
3087 and "make maintainer-clean".
3088 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
3089 * tests/silent3.test: Removed useless call to "make distclean".
3090 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
3091 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
3093 2010-11-19 Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
3095 Sync config-ml.in from GCC.
3096 * config-ml.in: Add Go support: treat GOC and GOCFLAGS like other
3097 compiler/flag environment variables.
3099 2010-11-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3101 release-stats: account for more generated tests.
3102 * Makefile.am (release-stats): Be sure to take into account all
3103 the generated tests, by grepping the test scripts to decide which
3104 ones of them are automatically generated.
3106 2010-11-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3108 Code cleanup after removal of option `--output-directory'.
3109 * automake.in ($output_directory): Remove, it's unconditionally
3110 defined to `.' and used only ...
3111 (generate_makefile): ... in this subroutine, which now has been
3112 edited and simplified accordingly.
3114 Remove obsolete automake option `--output-directory'.
3115 This option has been deprecated since version 1.7 (2002/2003).
3116 * automake.in ($output_directory): Define to `.' unconditionally.
3117 (parse_arguments): Remove handling of equivalent options `-o' and
3118 `--output-directory'.
3119 * tests/outdir.test: Removed.
3120 * tests/no-outdir-option.test: New test.
3121 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
3124 2010-11-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3126 Automake::Config: remove extra trailing semicolon.
3127 * lib/Automake/Config.in: Remove extra trailing semicolon.
3129 help4.test: fix botched heading comment.
3130 * tests/help4.test: Fixed the heading comment, since it
3131 didn't correctly describe what checks the testcase was
3132 supposed to perform.
3134 help2.test: add checks on aclocal too.
3135 * tests/help2.test: Check that also `aclocal --version' and
3136 `aclocal --help' work with configure.in and acinclude.m4 both
3139 2010-11-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3141 New test on repeated automake options.
3142 * tests/repeated-options.test: New test, check that automake
3143 does not complain on repeated options, nor generate broken or
3144 incorrect makefiles.
3145 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
3147 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3149 Fix spurious failures of silent-rules tests with Sun Fortran.
3150 * tests/silentf77.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
3151 messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers, to
3152 avoid spurious failures. Add a trailing `:' command.
3153 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
3155 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3157 Fix spurious failures of silent5.test with Sun Fortran.
3158 * tests/silent5.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
3159 messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers,
3160 to avoid spurious failures. This bug has been there from the
3161 very first version of this test script.
3163 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3165 Fix regression in colon{5,6}.test (failures on AIX 5.3).
3166 * tests/colon5.test: Also substitute `@SHELL@' with `$SHELL' when
3167 post-processing the generated Makefile.in, to work around a bug
3168 of AIX 5.3 make which doesn't allow setting the `$(SHELL)' macro
3169 on the commend line. Calls to `$MAKE' adjusted accordingly.
3170 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
3171 Regression introduced in commit v1.11-175-gf9fe878 "Modernize,
3172 improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test", and reported by Ralf
3175 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3177 Fix regression in ansi.test (failure on AIX 5.3).
3178 * tests/ansi.test: Remove redundant hackish check done using a
3179 hand-postprocessed Makefile.in. This check worked by setting
3180 the `$(SHELL)' macro on the command line of make, but this is
3181 not supported by the AIX 5.3 make implementation.
3182 This bug has been lurking for a long time, and was activated by
3183 commit v1.11-125-gc1f6cdb "Enable `errexit' shell flag in various
3184 tests". Report by Ralf Wildenhues.
3186 2010-11-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3188 backcompat5.test: avoid '##'-style comments inside recipe commands.
3189 * tests/backcompat5.test: Remove double-hash comments
3190 from makefile rule commands, they are not part of the
3191 Automake API. Fixes testsuite failure with Tru64 make.
3193 tests: avoid '##'-style comments inside recipe commands.
3194 * tests/confh.test, tests/confh8.test: Remove
3195 double-hash comments from makefile rule commands, they
3196 are not part of the Automake API.
3198 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3200 tests: work around dash quoting issue in case statements.
3201 * tests/color.test, tests/color2.test: Quote variable in case
3202 pattern, to avoid skipping tests with dash 0.5.5.1.
3204 2010-11-16 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
3206 Skip MSVC oriented tests if the shell is not capable.
3207 * tests/defs: New required entry 'xsi-shell'.
3208 * tests/ar-lib.test, tests/compile3.test, tests/compile6.test:
3209 Require a XSI capable shell.
3210 Reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
3212 2010-11-15 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
3214 compile: clear the `eat' variable earlier.
3215 * lib/compile: Clear the `eat' variable earlier.
3216 ($scriptversion): Update.
3217 * tests/compile3.test: Prevent regressions.
3219 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3221 More stable configure output from sanity check.
3222 * m4/sanity.m4 (AM_SANITY_CHECK): Always print check line
3223 about ensuring newer files, even if we don't actually need
3226 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3228 Rebuild menus in the manual.
3229 * doc/automake.texi: Rebuild menus (using ^C ^U ^A in emacs).
3230 Thanks to Ian Lance Taylor for the suggestion.
3232 Fix install-strip when $(STRIP) contains several words.
3233 * lib/am/install.am (install-strip): Update comment. Use
3234 separate sub-make invocations for empty and nonempty $(STRIP),
3235 to fix quoting issues.
3236 * tests/strip2.test, tests/strip3.test: New tests.
3237 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Adjust.
3239 2010-11-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3241 Fix yaccdry.test failure: require bison.
3242 * tests/yaccdry.test: Require bison.
3243 Found by NixOS Hydra.
3245 2010-11-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3247 Fix bug in test `backcompat6.test' (MSYS portability).
3248 * tests/backcompat6.test (Makefile.am): Grep the output from the
3249 test program, rather than diffing it, to avoid spurious failures
3250 on MinGW/MSYS due to LF vs. CRLF line endings.
3251 Reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
3253 2010-11-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3255 Deprecate obsolete macro AM_WITH_REGEX.
3256 * m4/regex.m4: Document the `AM_WITH_REGEX' macro as obsolete,
3257 and state that it should be removed two years from now.
3258 (AM_WITH_REGEX): Raise an m4-time warning of the "obsolete"
3259 category when this macro is used.
3260 * doc/automake.texi (Public Macros): Move description of
3261 `AM_WITH_REGEX' from here ...
3262 (Obsolete Macros): ... to here, and declare it as obsolete
3263 and "to be removed in a future version".
3264 * tests/regex-obsolete.test: New test.
3265 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
3267 2010-11-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3269 Improve and extend tests on man pages support.
3270 * tests/man.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related changes.
3271 Make grepping of generated Makefile.in slightly stricter.
3272 * tests/man3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
3273 * tests/man5.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to append to
3275 * tests/man2.test: Likewise, and add trailing `:' command.
3276 * tests/man4.test: More thorough and consistent checking of make
3277 error messages. Place fake `help2man' program in a new `bin'
3278 directory rather than in `.'. Move the checks using the real
3279 `help2man' program to ...
3280 * tests/man6.test: ... this new test, and extend them. This test
3281 passes with GNU make and Solaris make, still fails with BSD make.
3282 * tests/man7.test: New test, extracted from old man4.test, which
3283 checks for a bug in maintainer-clean w.r.t. generated manpages.
3284 * tests/man8.test: New test, extracted from old man4.test, which
3285 checks for a bug in distcheck w.r.t. generated manpages. Passes
3286 with GNU make and Solaris make, still fails with BSD make.
3288 2010-11-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3290 Minor improvements and extensions to various tests.
3291 * tests/defun.test: Also run autoconf and grep the generated
3292 configure to make sure that aclocal truly picks up all the
3294 * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Prefer trailing `:' over trailing
3295 `Exit 0'. Do not create useless dummy source files. Do not set
3296 useless `$(foo_LDADD)' variable in `Makefile.am'. Do not call
3297 useless macro `AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS' in `configure.in'.
3298 * tests/compile_f90_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
3299 * tests/suffix10.test: Slightly stricter grepping of make output.
3300 * tests/compile.test: Add trailing `:' command.
3301 * tests/defun2.test: Likewise.
3302 * tests/vars3.test: Likewise.
3303 * tests/vartar.test: Likewise.
3304 * tests/vars.test: Likewise. Also, extend test by checking
3305 that the definition of `MY_FLAGS*' variables is preserved in
3306 the generated `Makefile.in'.
3307 * tests/stamph2.test: Prefer trailing `:' over trailing `Exit 0'.
3308 Use proper m4 quoting in `configure.in'.
3310 2010-11-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3312 Tests defs: improve messages for skipped tests.
3313 * tests/defs: Give meaningful messages about the reasons of a
3314 test skip; this is especially useful as this file is run without
3315 verbose xtraces on. Related reorderings in the code and new
3318 2010-11-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3320 Tests defs: move static definitions in a new file `defs-static'.
3321 The new file is meant to be idempotent w.r.t. multiple inclusions.
3322 * tests/defs.in: Removed, its contents split among ...
3323 * tests/defs-static.in: ... this new file ...
3324 * tests/defs: ... and this new file, including the former.
3325 * configure.ac (AC_CONFIG_FILES): Remove `tests/defs', add
3326 `tests/defs-static'.
3327 (AC_CONFIG_LINKS): Add `tests/defs'.
3328 * tests/Makefile.am ($(parallel_tests)): Update.
3329 ($(instspc_tests)): Likewise.
3330 * tests/.gitignore: Update.
3332 Tests defs: $testsbuilddir is now AC_SUBST'ed.
3333 * tests/defs.in ($testsbuilddir): Substitute from @abs_builddir@.
3334 Add sanity check on $testsbuilddir, similar to those on
3335 $testsrcdir and $top_testsrcdir.
3337 Tests defs: do not print message "Running test $0" anymore.
3338 * tests/defs.in: Printing the message "=== Running test $0" at
3339 the beginning of each tests made sense when Automake used the old
3340 test-driver, which sent all the output directly to stdout/stderr.
3341 Now that the parallel test-driver is used, which saves output of
3342 each test in its corresponding log file, that old message is just
3345 Tests defs: rename $curdir -> $testbuilddir
3346 * tests/defs.in: Rename $curdir to $testbuildir, for clarity and
3347 consistency with $testsrcdir and $top_testsrcdir.
3349 Tests defs: prefer "$curdir" over "`pwd`".
3350 * tests/defs.in: We already save the value of `pwd` in $curdir
3351 early in the file, so there no need to recalculate it later, when
3352 the current working directory is not changed.
3354 Tests defs: use `$me' in more error messages.
3355 * tests/defs.in: Also use `$me' in error messages referring to
3356 missing `defs' or `defs.in', since that variable is now defined
3357 before those checks.
3359 Tests defs: do not use `Exit' where plain `exit' suffices.
3360 * tests/defs.in: Use "exit 77" rather than "Exit 77" to skip the
3361 test when required libtool/gettext macros are not found, since
3362 such skips would take place before the exit trap is installed.
3364 Tests defs: improve and extends comments.
3365 * tests/defs.in: Improve and extends some comments, especially in
3366 relation with the changes introduced by the previous reordering.
3368 Tests defs: various reorderings.
3369 * tests/defs.in: Reordered various snippets of code in a
3372 2010-11-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3374 Fix bug in test `backcompat4.test' (stale autom4te cache).
3375 * tests/backcompat4.test: Remove stale autom4te cache directory
3376 before re-running aclocal and automake. Also, since we are at
3377 it, be more verbose in displaying contents of generated files,
3378 to ease debuggability.
3379 Reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
3381 2010-11-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3383 Fix a bug in variable concatenation with `+='.
3384 * lib/Automake/VarDef.pm (append): Since the content of the
3385 "appended-to" variable is going to be unconditionally normalized
3386 later, simply separate the appended value with a single whitespace
3387 character, instead of trying to be uselessly smarter by using
3388 escaped newlines. This fixes a bug in which extra backslashes
3389 where erroneously inserted in the variable's final value.
3390 * tests/pluseq11.test: New test, exposing the bug.
3391 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
3392 Reported by Andy Wingo.
3394 2010-11-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3396 Modernize, improve and/or tweak various test scripts.
3397 * tests/stamph2.test: Improve m4 quoting in `configure.in', and
3398 prefer trailing `:' over trailing `Exit 0'.
3399 * tests/syntax.test: Escape literal dots in grep regexps.
3400 * tests/copy.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Extend test by
3401 checking with `test' utility that the script `install-sh' is
3402 copied, but not symlinked.
3403 * tests/depdist.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
3404 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Avoid obsoleted
3405 constructs in generated `configure.in'. Prefer to do our checks
3406 by running configure and make over grepping Makefile.in.
3407 * tests/target-cflags: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag
3408 earlier in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Use the
3409 `configure.in' stub created by `./defs', rather than writing it
3411 * tests/target-clash: Do not uselessly run autoconf.
3412 * tests/ctarget1.test: Renamed ...
3413 * tests/cond-basic.test: ... to this. Use the `configure.in' stub
3414 created by `./defs', rather than writing it from scratch.
3415 Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just
3416 after inclusion of ./defs). Other minor cosmetic changes.
3417 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
3419 2010-11-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3421 New tests on obsoleted usages of automake/autoconf macros (such
3422 as AC_INIT, AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE and AC_OUTPUT).
3423 * tests/backcompat.test: New test script.
3424 * tests/backcompat2.test: Likewise.
3425 * tests/backcompat3.test: Likewise.
3426 * tests/backcompat4.test: Likewise.
3427 * tests/backcompat5.test: Likewise.
3428 * tests/backcompat6.test: Likewise.
3429 * tests/init.test: Extended and improved, esp. by trying more
3430 combinations of calls to AC_INIT and AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE with few
3432 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
3434 2010-11-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3436 Fix bug in rules for creating vala vapi/header files.
3437 * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Add forgotten "fi" in an
3438 if control structure in a generated make rules. Bug introduced
3439 by previous commit `v1.11-221-gd7c1679', and revealed by failure
3440 of test `vala2.test'.
3442 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3444 Fix and document rules to not touch the tree with `make -n'.
3445 * doc/automake.texi (Multiple Outputs): Document the problem of
3446 modifications during dry-run execution, propose solution.
3448 * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Split recipe so the
3449 stamp file is not removed with GNU `make -n'.
3450 (lang_yacc_target_hook): Separate removal of parser output file
3451 and header remaking.
3452 * lib/am/lisp.am ($(am__ELCFILES)): Determine whether -n was
3453 passed to make, take care not to remove any files in that case.
3454 * lib/am/remake-hdr.am (%CONFIG_H%): Separate removal of
3455 %STAMP% file from induced remaking of config header.
3456 * tests/autohdrdry.test, tests/lispdry.test, tests/yaccdry.test:
3458 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
3460 2010-11-05 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3462 Fix potential bug in generated tests `instpc-*.test'.
3463 This bug is due to the changes introduced by the recently-merged
3464 "tests-init" branch. In that branch, `tests/defs' didn't define
3465 anymore `$srcdir', instead defining directly `$testsrcdir'; but
3466 the generated tests were using `$srcdir', hence the bug.
3467 Luckily, since the Automake parallel test driver automatically
3468 exports `srcdir' to a proper value, that prevented the bug from
3470 * tests/Makefile.am ($(instspc_tests)): In the generated test
3471 scripts, use `$testsrcdir', not `$srcdir'.
3473 2010-11-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3475 Overhauled and modularized tests in `instspc.test'.
3476 The test `instspc.test' was way too big and fragile. Its running
3477 time was very long. It also produced a log that was nearly
3478 unreadable due to its length, making it very difficult to find
3479 out the reason for failures.
3480 Also, it was too much monolithic, with a single (maybe spurious)
3481 failure in a corner case causing the whole test to fail (even if
3482 everything worked as expected in the other 99% of cases).
3483 The present change should solve these problems, by separating
3484 `instspc.test' into many smaller, self-contained, auto-generated
3486 * tests/instspc.test: Removed.
3487 * tests/instspc-tests.sh: New script, fulfilling a double role:
3488 1. it generates a Makefile.am snippet `tests/instspc-tests.am',
3489 containing the definition of a list of new tests which will take
3490 over the older `instspc.test', and
3491 2. it is sourced by said generated tests with proper parameters
3492 pre-set, to run the "meat" of the checks.
3493 This apparent abuse is indeed required because the test generation
3494 code and test execution code are inevitably intertwined.
3495 * tests/Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/instspc-tests.am): Include this
3496 snippet, which (among the other things) defines ...
3497 (instspc_tests): ... this new macro, containing the list of the
3498 newly generated `instspc*.test' tests, and ...
3499 (instspc_xfail_tests): ... this new macro, containing the list
3500 of the `instspc*.test' tests expected to fail.
3501 ($(instspc_tests)): New rule, generates the `instspc*.test' tests.
3502 ($(instspc_tests:.test=.log)): New rule, registers the dependency
3503 of all `instspc*.test' tests on the `instspc-tests.sh' script.
3504 (TESTS): Add `$(instspc_tests)', remove `instspc.test'.
3505 (XFAIL_TESTS): Add `$(xfail_instspc_tests)'.
3506 (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute instspc-tests.sh.
3507 (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Added $(instspc_tests).
3508 Other minor cosmetic changes.
3509 * bootstrap: Generate instspc-tests.am.
3510 * tests/.gitignore: Updated.
3512 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3514 Add FAQ entry for bug reporting instructions.
3515 * doc/automake.texi (Reporting Bugs): New section.
3516 (Introduction): Refer to it.
3518 2010-10-07 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
3520 depcomp: add new one-pass depmode for MSVC 7 and later.
3521 * lib/depcomp: Add new depmodes 'msvc7' and 'msvc7msys' which
3522 make use of the -showIncludes option added in MSVC 7.
3523 * m4/depend.m4 (_AM_DEPENDENCIES): Handle the new depmodes
3524 similarly to 'msvisualcpp' and 'msvcmsys' as MSVC does not
3525 support the -o option.
3527 2010-10-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
3529 dist-xz, dist-bzip2: don't hard-code -9: honor envvar settings
3530 * lib/am/distdir.am (dist-xz): Do not hard-code xz's -9: that
3531 made it impossible to override. Instead, use its XZ_OPT envvar,
3532 defaulting to -9 if not defined. Thus no change in behavior
3533 when XZ_OPT is not set, and now, this rule honors the setting
3534 of that envvar when it is set. Suggested by Lasse Collin.
3535 (dist-bzip2): Likewise for it's corresponding envvar: BZIP2.
3536 * NEWS (Miscellaneous changes): Mention it.
3537 * doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions): Describe the
3538 newly enabled environment variables.
3540 2010-10-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3542 Add support for newer python versions.
3543 * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Add python2.7 and python3.2 to
3544 _AM_PYTHON_INTERPRETER_LIST. Since we are at it, break a long
3545 line and fix indentation.
3547 From a report by Thomas Klausner.
3549 Add test for `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' macro.
3550 * tests/dmalloc.test: New test.
3551 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
3553 Fix nits and bugs in tests `help*.test'.
3554 * tests/help4.test: Fix broken sed commands used to strip `-W...'
3555 flags away from "$AUTOMAKE" and "$ACLOCAL".
3556 * tests/help3.test: Likewise, and fix a botched comment.
3557 * tests/help.test: Likewise. Also, use "AUTOMAKE_fails ..."
3558 instead of "$AUTOMAKE ... && Exit 1", for consistency and to
3559 please maintainer-check.
3560 * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
3562 2010-10-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3563 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3565 Improve tests `help*.test' (also fixes maintcheck failures).
3566 * tests/help.test: To run automake, use `$AUTOMAKE' with all `-W'
3567 flags stripped away rather than hard-coded `automake-$APIVERSION',
3568 to better honour user-overrides. Similarly for aclocal.
3569 * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
3570 * tests/help3.test: Likewise.
3571 * tests/help4.test: Likewise.
3573 2010-10-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3575 tests: fix ar-lib.test for echo that interprets backslashes.
3576 * tests/ar-lib.test: Use printf instead of echo. Avoid test -a.
3577 More robust quoting.
3579 2010-10-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3581 maintainer-check coverage for variables before rules.
3582 * Makefile.am (sc_ensure_testsuite_has_run): Suggest keeping
3583 around the test directories.
3584 (sc_tests_makefile_variable_order): New rule with a heuristic to
3585 catch ordering violations.
3587 Document and fix expansion of variables before rules.
3588 * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Document that variables
3589 are expanded before rules.
3590 * lib/am/check.am (am__check_post): Reword a bit so it does not
3591 get matched as a rule.
3592 Suggestion by Ben Pfaff.
3594 2010-10-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3596 Coverage and minor fixes for variable typo detection.
3597 * automake.in (check_typos): Remove `EXTRA_' prefix when
3598 computing canonical name.
3599 * tests/vartypo2.test, tests/vartypos.test: New tests.
3600 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
3602 Implement EXTRA_maude_DEPENDENCIES for programs and libraries.
3603 * automake.in (handle_programs, handle_libraries)
3604 (handle_ltlibraries): Mark EXTRA_*_DEPENDENCIES as recognized.
3605 * doc/automake.texi (Linking, Program and Library Variables)
3606 (LIBOBJS): Document EXTRA_*_DEPENDENCIES.
3607 * lib/am/library.am (%LIBRARY%): Also depend on
3608 $(EXTRA_%XLIBRARY%_DEPENDENCIES).
3609 * lib/am/ltlibrary.am (%LTLIBRARY%): Also depend on
3610 (%XLTLIBRARY%_DEPENDENCIES).
3611 * lib/am/program.am (%PROGRAM%%EXEEXT%): Also depend on
3612 $(EXTRA_%XPROGRAM%_DEPENDENCIES).
3613 * tests/extradep.test, tests/extradep2.test: New tests.
3614 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
3616 Suggested by Eric Blake.
3618 tests: avoid running into timing issues due to sanity change.
3619 * tests/acloca10.test, tests/acloca18.test, tests/aclocal9.test:
3620 Insert strategic sleep before aclocal reruns, to ensure files
3622 * tests/python11.test: Use --force for repeated autotools runs.
3623 Reports from the NixOS Hydra build daemon via Ludovic Courtès.
3625 Fix timestamp issues by ensuring configure takes at least a second.
3626 * m4/sanity.m4 (AM_SANITY_CHECK): If we didn't sleep here,
3627 start a sleep in the background and wait for it to finish
3628 before creating config.status, hopefully fixing all spurious
3629 testsuite failures involving botched time stamps.
3631 Reports by Ludovic Courtès, Peter Breitenlohner, and others.
3633 2010-10-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3635 Revert "parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue."
3636 This reverts commit 24e3b4ee2f8cb9f72dd94a05a893f3d4e88b7835,
3637 because it re-opened the bug fixed by v1.11-10-g218e678.
3639 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3641 parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
3642 * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
3643 substitution %MAKEFILE%.
3644 (generate_makefile): Adjust.
3645 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
3646 sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
3647 input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
3650 Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
3652 2010-09-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3654 Extend tests on `--help' and `--version' options.
3655 * tests/help.test: Create a new empty directory and chdir into
3656 it, rather than removing already present files. Run the aclocal
3657 and automake wrapper scripts directly, instead of relying on
3658 $AUTOMAKE and $ACLOCAL. Be sure to correctly match literal dots
3659 in aclocal's and automake's stderr. Add a trailing `:' command.
3660 * tests/help2.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
3661 `--version' works in directories with broken `configure.in'.
3662 * tests/help3.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
3663 `--version' take precedence on the other options.
3664 * tests/help4.test: New test, checking that the first among the
3665 `--help' and `--version' options to be specified on the command
3667 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
3669 2010-09-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3671 Testsuite: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when extending PATH.
3672 * tests/compile2.test: Do no uselessly (implicitly) repeat the
3673 computation of PATH_SEPARATOR again.
3674 * tests/instmany-mans.test: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when
3675 extending/redefining PATH.
3676 * tests/instmany-python.test: Likewise.
3677 * tests/instmany.test: Likewise.
3678 * tests/man4.test: Likewise.
3679 * tests/mkinst3.test: Likewise.
3680 * tests/mmodely.test: Likewise.
3681 * tests/multlib.test: Likewise.
3682 * tests/txinfo30.test: Likewise.
3683 * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
3685 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_PATH_SEPARATOR): New maintainer check.
3686 (syntax_check_rules): Updated.
3688 Testsuite: new variables `$PATH_SEPARATOR' and `$APIVERSION'.
3689 * tests/defs.in ($APIVERSION): New AC_SUBST'd variable.
3690 ($ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE): Use it.
3691 ($PATH_SEPARATOR): New AC_SUBST'd variables.
3694 2010-09-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3696 Manual: be more agnostic w.r.t. version control system used.
3697 * doc/automake.texi (Basics of Distribution): Also refer to `.svn'
3698 directories as a type of probably-unwanted files that are copied
3699 regardless when adding directories to EXTRA_DIST.
3700 (The dist Hook): Show a dist-hook example which removes Subversion
3701 `.svn' private directories from distdir, rather than CVS private
3703 (missing and AM_MAINTAINER_MODE): Try to be more agnostic w.r.t.
3704 the version control system used.
3706 Manual: index refer to target "git-dist", not "cvs-dist".
3707 * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Index the non-standard
3708 example about "git-dist" under the "git-dist" label, not under
3711 Perl modules: remove references to "Automake CVS repository".
3712 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Update comments to refer to "Automke's
3713 git repository" rather than to "Automake's CVS repository".
3714 * lib/Automake/Configure_ac.pm: Likewise.
3715 * lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm: Likewise.
3716 * lib/Automake/Struct.pm: Likewise.
3717 * lib/Automake/XFile.pm: Likewise.
3718 * lib/Automake/Version.pm (=head1 DESCRIPTION): Refer to "git
3719 branches" rather than "CVS branches".
3721 Remove obsolete .cvsignore files.
3722 * .cvsignore, doc/.cvsignore, lib/.cvsignore, lib/am/.cvsignore,
3723 lib/Automake/.cvsignore, lib/Automake/tests/.cvsignore,
3724 m4/.cvsignore, tests/.cvsignore: Files deleted. Even when using
3725 savannah's CVS readonly mirror there's no way to commit back to
3726 the real repository, so this files are not worth maintaining or
3729 2010-09-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3731 * m4/dmalloc.m4: Bump serial number and copyright years.
3733 2010-09-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3735 Fix broken link in `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' help screen.
3736 * m4/dmalloc.m4 (AM_WITH_DMALLOC): Refer only to the dmalloc site
3737 `http://www.dmalloc.com', not to the dmalloc tarball there (which
3738 seems to have been removed, substituted by multiple release
3741 2010-09-21 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
3743 compile: implement library search to support MSVC static linking
3744 * lib/compile (func_cl_wrapper): Implement library search and
3745 -static option so that the user can select whether to prefer
3746 dll import libraries or static libraries. This enables MSVC to
3747 link against dlls generated by libtool without requiring libtool
3748 or workarounds such as -lfoo.dll etc. Makes the tests/static.at
3749 test case in libtool pass.
3750 * tests/compile3.test: Don't trip up if there happens to exist
3751 a "foo" library in the library search path.
3752 * tests/compile6.test: New test, verifying the library search.
3753 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
3755 2010-09-17 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
3757 Avoid triple-space after period.
3758 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): Avoid 3 spaces at
3760 * ChangeLog.03: Likewise.
3761 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Likewise.
3762 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (_print_message): Likewise.
3763 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm (rule): Likewise.
3764 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (var): Likewise.
3765 * lib/am/distdir.am: Likewise.
3766 * tests/insthook.test: Likewise.
3768 2010-09-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3770 Test automake-generated portions of configure help screen.
3771 * tests/help-depend.test: New test.
3772 * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
3773 * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
3774 * tests/help-init.test: Likewise.
3775 * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
3776 * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
3777 * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
3778 * tests/help-regex.test: Likewise.
3779 * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
3780 * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
3781 * tests/mmode.test: Remove tests on `configure --help' output,
3782 they are superseded by tests in `help-maintainer.test'.
3783 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
3785 2010-09-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3787 * tests/README: Don't put GCS mandated tools in $required.
3789 2010-09-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3791 * HACKING: Hint at old commits with `git describe' output.
3793 2010-09-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3795 Prefer `$(am__cd)' to plain `cd' in our Makefiles.
3796 * Makefile.am (recheck, dist-hook, git-dist, path-check, fetch)
3797 (release-stats): Use `$(am__cd)' rather than plain `cd'.
3798 * tests/Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/parallel-tests.am): Likewise.
3800 2010-09-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3802 Fix regression in test `colon4.test'.
3803 * tests/colon4.test: Fix botched editing to `configure.in'
3804 that made the test useless. Since we are at it, improve
3805 comments and make grepping of generated Makefile.in slightly
3807 Regression introduced by change "Modernize, improve and/or
3808 extend tests `colon*.test" (Stefano Lattarini, 2010-08-08).
3810 2010-09-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3812 Do not require "gzip" explicitly in tests.
3813 The gzip utility is simply expected to be present on any decent
3814 target system for Automake. So it's pointless to put it in
3816 * tests/install2.test ($required): Do not require "gzip".
3817 * tests/lex3.test: Likewise.
3818 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
3819 From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
3821 2010-09-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3823 Use AS_HELP_STRING in AM_SILENT_RULES.
3824 * m4/silent.m4 (AM_SILENT_RULES): Use `AS_HELP_STRING' to format
3825 help message regarding configure options `--enable-silent-rules'
3826 and `--disable-silent-rules'. Also throw in a couple of cosmetic
3827 changes in the related `case' statement (indentation, balancing
3830 From a report by Jeff A. Daily.
3832 2010-09-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3834 Make some `confh*.test' tests more "semantic" (plus tweakings).
3835 * tests/confh.test: Run "autoconf", "configure" and "make check",
3836 instead of munging/grepping the generated `Makefile.in'.
3837 * tests/confh4.test: Relax the grepping of Makefile.in w.r.t.
3838 white spaces. Do not create useless dummy source file `foo.c'
3839 and useless dummy header file `acconfig.h'.
3840 (configure.in): Remove superfluous call to `AC_OUTPUT'.
3841 * tests/confh6.test: Add trailing `:' command.
3842 * tests/confh7.test: In comments, add reference to ...
3843 * tests/confh8.test: ... this new test, "semantic" sister
3845 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
3846 Prompted by a report from Ralf Wildenhues.
3848 2010-09-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3850 Remove useless whitespace padding in XFAIL_TESTS definition.
3851 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Remove whitespace padding.
3853 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3855 parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
3856 * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
3857 substitution %MAKEFILE%.
3858 (generate_makefile): Adjust.
3859 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
3860 sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
3861 input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
3864 Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
3866 Posix 2008 requires make to set errexit.
3867 * lib/am/check.am: Update comment.
3869 2010-09-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3871 Tests defs: remove variable $testaclocaldir.
3872 * tests/defs.in ($testaclocaldir): Removed.
3873 * tests/aclocal.test: Use `$top_testsrcdir/m4' directly, not
3876 Tests defs: $srcdir and $top_srcdir renaming.
3877 * tests/defs.in ($srcdir): Remove, define $testsrcdir directly.
3878 * tests/Makefile.am ($(parallel_tests)): Generation of derived
3881 Tests defs: new variable $top_testsrcdir.
3882 * tests/defs.in ($top_testsrcdir): Define unconditionally
3883 to @abs_top_srcdir@. Use it throughout.
3884 * tests/ar-lib.test: Use `$top_testsrcdir' instead of
3886 * tests/auxdir.test: Likewise.
3887 * tests/compile.test: Likewise.
3888 * tests/compile2.test: Likewise.
3889 * tests/compile3.test: Likewise.
3890 * tests/compile5.test: Likewise.
3891 * tests/mdate6.test: Likewise.
3892 * tests/mkinst3.test: Likewise.
3893 * tests/multlib.test: Likewise.
3894 * tests/txinfo22.test: Likewise.
3896 Tests defs: $srcdir is unconditionally substituted.
3897 * tests/defs.in ($srcdir): Define unconditionally to @abs_srcdir@.
3898 Remove code for $srcdir normalization, which is now useless.
3900 2010-09-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3902 Tests defs: make spacing more consistent.
3903 * tests/defs.in: Make spacing more consistent in indentation.
3904 Especially, indent using only spaces, not tabs. Also, move
3905 a comment to a better position.
3907 Improve code for requiring libtool and gettext in tests.
3908 * tests/defs.in: Stricter (and more correct) detection of wheter
3909 libtool, libtoolize and/or gettext are in $required.
3912 2010-08-27 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3914 Fix bug in test missing6.test.
3915 * tests/missing6.test: Fix the hack used to edit `configure.in',
3916 to avoid producing a configure script that breaks with shells
3917 that do not support $LINENO. Also throw in a couple of cosmetic
3920 2010-09-02 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
3922 Make ar-lib support backslashed files in archives.
3923 * lib/ar-lib: If an archive member contains a backslash, make sure
3924 it is escaped when the archive member is extracted.
3925 * tests/ar-lib.test: Test the above.
3927 2010-08-31 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
3929 Do file name conversion for object files in the compile wrapper.
3930 * lib/compile (func_cl_wrapper): Do file name conversion for object
3931 files (i.e. extensions .obj, .OBJ, .o and .O) if needed.
3932 * tests/compile4.test: Test the above.
3934 2010-08-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3936 Speed up removal of auxiliary linker output files for ltlibraries.
3937 * lib/am/ltlib.am (clean-%DIR%LTLIBRARIES): Rewrite using just
3938 one `rm' invocation.
3939 Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
3941 Improve robustness of mdate-sh script.
3942 * lib/mdate-sh: Sanitize zsh behavior on startup, to ensure
3943 $ls_command is word-split properly upon invocation.
3944 (error): New function.
3945 (main): Use it. Improve error checking to avoid endless loop
3946 in case $ls_command gave bogus output. Fix eval quotation.
3947 * tests/mdate6.test: New test, to expose eval quotation error.
3948 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
3950 2010-08-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3952 Fix potential regressions in depcomp{3,5}.test.
3953 * tests/depcomp3.test: Do not uselessly escape the character `$'
3954 in makefile rules, when it's used to expand a make macro.
3955 * tests/depcomp5.test: Likewise.
3957 2010-08-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3958 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3960 Docs: clarify how to avoid automatic dependencies tracking.
3961 * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Mention that
3962 automatic dependencies tracking is enabled by default, but that
3963 the package developer can disable it altogether. Add a reference
3964 to the proper section for a more in-depth explanation.
3966 Fix typo in manual (`Makefile.in' instead of `Makefile.am').
3967 * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Fix typo.
3969 2010-08-16 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
3971 Don't hide the table of contents.
3972 * doc/automake.texi: Move the table of contents to the beginning.
3974 2010-08-16 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
3976 Optimize compile script on MSYS.
3977 * lib/compile (func_file_conv): Add new argument 'lazy' which
3978 takes an optional list of conversion types where the requested
3979 conversion isn't needed.
3980 (func_cl_wrapper): Take advantage of the above for cases where
3981 MSYS is doing the conversion for us.
3982 Suggested by Ralf Wildenhues.
3984 2010-08-16 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
3986 Support more C++ file extensions for MSVC in the compile script.
3987 * lib/compile (func_cl_wrapper): MSVC only recognizes the .cpp
3988 file extension as C++, unless it's given a hint. So hint about
3989 .cc, .CC, .cxx, .CXX, c++ and C++. Also do path conversion on
3990 .c, .cpp, .CPP, .lib, .LIB and .Lib files.
3991 * tests/compile3.test: Test the C++ hinting.
3993 2010-08-12 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
3995 Enable the use of "link -lib" as the wrapped archiver.
3996 * lib/ar-lib: Enable the use of "link -lib" as the wrapped
3997 archiver, as well as allowing some other options to be passed
3998 through to the wrapped archiver.
3999 * tests/ar-lib.test: Test the above.
4001 2010-08-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4003 Tweak and/or extend some `acloca*.test' tests.
4004 * tests/aclocal8.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured
4006 * tests/aclocal.test: Likewise. Also, add trailing `:'
4008 * tests/acloca19.test: Likewise.
4009 * tests/aclocal5.test: Add trailing `:' command, and prefer
4010 `$me' over hard-coded test name.
4011 * tests/aclocal6.test: Likewise.
4012 * tests/aclocal18.test: Add trailing `:' command, and make
4013 some grepping slightly stricter.
4014 * tests/acloca14.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `diff' over
4015 `cmp', and add some "cosmetic" blank lines.
4017 2010-08-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4019 Tweak and extend tests `pr[!0-9]*.test'.
4020 * tests/primary3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
4021 * tests/primary.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
4022 Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
4023 * tests/primary2.test: Likewise.
4024 * tests/prefix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
4025 changes. Add a trailing `:' command.
4026 * tests/proginst.test: Likewise.
4028 Modernize, improve and extend tests for PR (`pr[0-9]*.test').
4029 * tests/pr2.test: Add trailing `:' command.
4030 * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
4031 * tests/pr401.test: Likewise.
4032 * tests/pr401b.test: Likewise.
4033 * tests/pr401c.test: Likewise.
4034 * tests/pr300-prog.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic changes in
4036 * tests/pr300-lib.test: Likewise.
4037 * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise, and ensure verbose printing
4038 of captured make stdout.
4039 * tests/pr211.test: Add trailing `:' command. Also, use the
4040 `configure.in' stub created by ./defs, rather than writing it
4042 * tests/pr204.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic spacing changes.
4043 * tests/pr287.test: Likewise, and move setting of `errexit' shell
4044 flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs).
4045 * tests/pr220.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
4046 Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
4047 * tests/pr224.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
4048 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Do not export
4049 `CC=gcc' to configure explicitly (it's already exported globally
4050 in ./defs, since we have "gcc" in $required). Use the stub for
4051 `configure.in' created by ./defs, rather than writing it from
4052 scratch. Do not create dummy files required by "gnu" mode (e.g.
4053 README, NEWS), since we run automake in foreign mode anyway.
4054 * tests/pr72.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
4055 changes. Extend existing checks a bit.
4056 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise. Also, avoid obsolescent constructs in
4057 the generated `configure.in', and extend existing checks over the
4058 generated tarball a bit.
4059 * tests/pr87.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
4060 changes. Add a trailing `:' command. Also, do not create dummy
4061 files required by "gnu" mode (e.g. README, NEWS), since we run
4062 automake in foreign mode anyway.
4063 * tests/pr243.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
4064 `configure.in'. Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
4065 changes. Cosmetic changes to spacing, add trailing `:' command,
4066 and add a "FIXME" comment.
4067 * tests/pr266.test: Likewise, and add explicit command line switch
4068 `--enable-dependency-tracking' to the ./configure call.
4069 * tests/pr279.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
4070 `configure.in'; also, use the `configure.in' stub created by
4071 ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch. Enable `errexit'
4072 shell flag, and related changes. Add trailing `:' command.
4073 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
4075 * tests/pr307.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
4076 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Escape literal
4077 dots in grep regular expressions. Also, add a trailing `:'
4078 command, and cosmetic changes to spacing.
4080 Tests for PR: add excerpts from original bug report, for clarity.
4081 * tests/pr2.test: Ditto.
4082 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
4083 * tests/pr72.test: Likewise.
4084 * tests/pr87.test: Likewise.
4085 * tests/pr211.test: Likewise.
4086 * tests/pr220.test: Likewise.
4087 * tests/pr224.test: Likewise.
4088 * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
4089 * tests/pr243.test: Likewise.
4090 * tests/pr266.test: Likewise.
4091 * tests/pr279.test: Likewise, and tell to keep it in sync
4092 with its sister test.
4093 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
4095 2010-08-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4097 Tweak, extend and improve tests `cond[a-z]*.test'.
4098 * tests/condd.test: Add trailing `:' command. Typofix in
4100 * tests/condhook.test: Make sure target `install-data-hook' is
4101 not called by `make install', but that data files are installed.
4102 Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in. Add trailing `:' command.
4103 * tests/condhook2.test: New test, sister test of condhook, with
4105 * tests/condinc2.test: Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
4106 Prefer trailing `:' command over trailing `Exit 0'.
4107 * tests/condman2.test: Enable errexit shell flag, and related
4108 changes. Add trailing `:' command.
4109 * tests/condman.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless
4110 dummy manpages, and use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
4111 * tests/condman3.test: New test, similar to condman.test, but
4112 it also runs ./configure and "make install", and check the
4114 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
4116 Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test.
4117 * tests/colon.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
4118 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Do not create
4119 a useless dummy file. Add trailing `:' command.
4120 * tests/colon4.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
4121 related changes. Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
4122 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
4123 * tests/colon7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
4124 changes. Improve the generated `configure.in' file. Add
4125 trailing `:' command.
4126 * tests/colon2.test: Likewise. Also, add some new checks.
4127 * tests/colon5.test: Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
4128 Add new, much deeper checks. Add trailing `:' command.
4129 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
4130 * tests/colon3.test: Add trailing `:' command. Remove useless
4131 comments and echos. Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
4132 make some grepping tests stricter. Add a "FIXME" comments about
4133 planned improvements.
4135 Improve and extend tests `asm*.test'.
4136 * tests/asm.test: Use configure.in stub generated by ./defs,
4137 and avoid obsoleted autoconf constructs. Make grepping of
4138 Automake stderr stricter. Do not create useless source file.
4139 Improve verbose messages. Minor cosmetic changes. Tell to
4140 keep it in sync with other sister tests asm*.test.
4141 * tests/asm2.test: Likewise.
4142 * tests/asm3.test: Likewise.
4144 Modernize, improve and/or extend test scripts `conf*.test'.
4145 * tests/confh5.test: Cosmetic changes.
4146 * tests/conff.test: Likewise.
4147 * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise.
4148 * tests/conflnk.test: Likewise.
4149 * tests/conflnk2.test: Likewise.
4150 * tests/confsub.test: Likewise.
4151 * tests/confvar.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
4153 * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
4154 * tests/conflnk3.test: Cosmetic changes. Re-enable a temporarily
4155 disabled test (which didn't work with autoconf <= 2.59, but now we
4156 are requiring autoconf 2.62, so...)
4157 * tests/conflnk4.test: Cosmetic changes, and extend existing tests
4158 accordingly to "TODO" comments.
4159 * tests/conff2.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
4160 Add some comments explaining why we don't use the `configure.in'
4161 stub preset be ./defs.
4162 * tests/confh.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
4163 rather than writing one from scratch, and do not call AC_OUTPUT.
4164 Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related changes. Prefer diff over
4165 cmp to compare text files. Prefer perl over sed to fetch the value
4166 of $(DIST_COMMON) from Makefile.in. Make grepping of the contents
4167 of $(DIST_COMMON) stricter.
4168 * tests/confh4.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
4169 rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping of Makefile.in
4171 * tests/confh5.test: Make grepping of `config.h' stricter. Add a
4173 * tests/configure.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in generated
4174 `configure.ac'. Do not write `configure.in' two times. Escape
4175 literal dots in grep regular expressions.
4176 * tests/confincl.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
4177 changes. Prefer fgrep over grep. Other cosmetic changes.
4178 * tests/config.test: Renamed to ...
4179 * tests/confh6.test: ... this. Fix m4 quoting in `configure.in',
4180 and make grepping of `config.h' and `config.h.in' stricter.
4181 * tests/conf2.test: Renamed ...
4182 * tests/confh7.test: ... to this. Use the `configure.in' stub
4183 created by ./defs, rather than writing one from scratch. Try to
4184 run the checks both with and without AC_PROG_CC and AC_OUTPUT in
4186 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
4188 Minor improvements and fixes in tests `depcomp*.test'.
4189 * tests/depcomp.test: Do not create useless dummy source files.
4190 Add a trailing `:' command.
4191 * tests/depcomp2.test: Use `unset' on the CFLAGS variable to ensure
4192 it's not in in the environment, rather than exporting it with an
4193 empty value. Do not pass CC=gcc to configure, as that's already
4194 done in ./defs since we have gcc in $required. Ensure verbose
4195 printing of captured stderr, and normalize its checking. Add a
4196 trailing `:' command.
4197 * tests/depcomp3.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
4198 grep regexps. Always use `: >' rather than `touch' to create empty
4199 files. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the created
4200 Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:' command.
4201 * tests/depcomp4.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
4202 grep regexp. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the
4203 created Makefile.am. Ensure verbose printing of captured makes'
4204 stoud/stderr. Add a trailing `:' command.
4205 * tests/depcomp5.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
4206 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Quote literal dots
4207 and dollar characters in grep regexps. Explicitly declare phony
4208 targets as such in the created Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:'
4210 * tests/depcomp6.test: Consistently use m4 quoting in the generated
4211 configure.in. Cosmetic fixes to spacing. Make the "dummy" `if'
4212 statement required by OpenBSD's sh `set -e' more robust, and add
4213 explanatory comments to it.
4214 * tests/depcomp7.test: Likewise, and add a trailing `:' command.
4216 Separate failing part of test `all.test'.
4217 * tests/all.test: Keep only (x)failing part of the test. Working
4218 checks moved out to ...
4219 * tests/all2.test: ... this new test.
4220 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
4222 Modernize, improve and extend tests `subobj*.test'.
4223 * tests/subobjname.test: Add trailing `:' command.
4224 * tests/subobj.test: Make grepping of `Makefile.in' stricter.
4225 Escape literal dots in grep regexps.
4226 * tests/subobj2.test: Add trailing `:' command. Do not use the
4227 unportable fgrep option `-e'.
4228 * tests/subobj3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
4229 (configure.in): Use proper m4 quoting, and avoid obsolescent
4231 * tests/subobj8.test: Likewise. Also, enable `errexit' shell
4232 flag, with related changes
4233 * tests/subobj4.test: Likewise. Also, make grepping of
4234 `Makefile.in' stricter.
4235 * tests/subobj5.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of
4236 `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
4238 (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
4239 writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
4240 * tests/subobj6.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of
4241 `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
4242 of ./defs). Do not create useless dummy ac-init file `f'.
4243 * tests/subobj7.test: Do not create useless dummy ac-init file
4245 (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
4246 writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
4247 * tests/subobj9.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
4248 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Fail the test if
4249 `make distcheck' fails. Ensure verbose printing of captured make
4250 stdout. Avoid useless fork by doing simple grep instead of using
4251 test -n "`COMMAND | grep ...`".
4252 (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
4253 (Makefile.am): Explicitly mark target "print" as phony.
4254 * tests/subobj10.test: Removed duplicated call to `set -e'. Add
4255 trailing `:' command.
4256 (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
4258 Remove a couple of obsoleted tests.
4259 * tests/fpinstall.test: Removed.
4260 * tests/fpinst2.test: Likewise.
4261 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
4263 Bootstrap: updated HACKING entry.
4264 * HACKING ("Working with git"): Explain how to override the
4265 autoconf and autom4te programs used by the bootstrap process.
4268 * bootstrap: Do not remove `lib/Automake/Config.pm' anymore,
4269 since we don't generate it. Correctly quote arguments of
4270 `eval' builtin. Fixed a botched error message. Removed an
4273 Bootstrap: don't search perl in $PATH.
4274 * bootstrap: Do not explicitly search perl in $PATH anymore.
4275 ($PATH_SEPARATOR): Removed, it's no more needed.
4277 Bootstrap: let the user choose which autoconf to use.
4278 * bootstrap ($AUTOCONF): New variable, from the environment.
4279 ($AUTOM4TE): Likewise, for clarity.
4280 Use "$AUTOCONF" instead of calling "autoconf" directly.
4282 Minor improvements to tests ar*.test.
4283 * tests/ar.test: Add trailing `:' command.
4284 * tests/ar2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
4285 Makefile.in stricter.
4287 2010-08-06 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
4289 Add new auxiliary 'ar-lib' script, wrapping Microsoft lib.
4290 * lib/ar-lib: New auxiliary script.
4291 * lib/Makefile.am: Add above.
4292 * tests/ar-lib.test: New test.
4293 * tests/Makefile.am: Add above.
4294 * automake.in (@common_files): Distribute the 'ar-lib' script.
4295 * doc/automake.texi (Auxiliary Programs): Mention the new
4297 (Optional): Mention 'ar-lib' in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR.
4300 2010-08-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4302 Fix shell pattern negation in compile script.
4303 * lib/compile (func_file_conv): Use `!' not `^' for pattern
4306 2010-08-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4308 Fix maintainer-check failure.
4309 * tests/cond5.test: Quote sleep argument, this isn't about
4310 time stamp differences.
4312 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
4313 * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
4316 2010-08-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4318 Work around a nasty bug (segfault) of Solaris make.
4319 * lib/am/check.am (recheck, recheck-html): Trim trailing spaces
4320 from $list, to avoid triggering a nasty bug (potential segfault)
4323 2010-08-06 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
4325 Make cond5.test more robust on MSYS.
4326 * tests/cond5.test: Add delay before the first kill attempt to
4327 cater for problems with MSYS bash.
4329 2010-08-01 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
4331 Wrap some MSVC options in the compile script.
4332 * lib/compile: MSVC supports naming the output file, the option
4333 is just not called -o, so transform -o into the appropriate form
4334 for MSVC. Also wrap some other options while at it (-L, -l, -Wl,
4335 -Xlinker and -I) and convert file names to windows form where
4336 needed for those options to make MSVC more usable in an
4337 autotooled environment.
4338 * doc/automake.texi (Auxiliary Programs): Document the above
4339 extension of the compile script.
4341 * tests/defs.in: New required entry 'cl'.
4342 * tests/compile3.test: New test.
4343 * tests/compile4.test: New test.
4344 * tests/compile5.test: New test.
4345 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
4347 2010-07-31 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4349 Add example git work flow; discuss merge --log in HACKING.
4351 Suggestion by Stefano Lattarini.
4353 Add more hints for debugging make rules.
4354 * doc/automake.texi (Debugging Make Rules): Show command to find
4355 out expanded values of variables; point to makefile debugger.
4357 Prompted by suggestion from Ludovic Courtès and Andy Wingo.
4359 2010-07-27 Patrick Welche <prlw1@cam.ac.uk> (tiny change)
4361 Fix typo in the manual.
4362 * doc/automake.texi (Scripts): Fix typo.
4364 2010-07-27 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4366 Document current policy for development with git.
4367 * HACKING (Working with git): Overhaul.
4368 Prompted by suggestion from Stefano Lattarini.
4370 Fix AM_COND_IF for gone-invalid condition shell expression.
4371 * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): test contents of $COND_TRUE
4372 variable, rather than re-evaluating the shell expression for
4374 * tests/cond40.test: Extend test.
4377 Avoid syntax error if IF-TRUE part of AM_COND_IF expands empty.
4378 * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): Ensure IF-TRUE part is never empty
4379 to avoid shell syntax error if the m4 expansion is empty.
4380 * tests/cond40.test: Enhance test.
4382 Coverage: bogus option to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
4383 * tests/init2.test: New test.
4384 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
4386 2010-07-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4388 Modernize and improve test scripts `subdir*.test'.
4389 * tests/subdir.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
4390 changes. Use the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs',
4391 rather than writing one from scratch.
4392 * tests/subdir2.test: Likewise.
4393 * tests/subdir4.test: Likewise.
4394 * tests/subdir3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
4395 changes. Do not create useless dummy source files.
4396 * tests/subdir5.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in (in topdir
4397 and in subdirs) stricter. Some minor changes to keep it more
4398 in sync with the related test `subdir8.test'.
4399 * tests/subdir8.test: Likewise (but with the related test being
4400 `subdir5.test' here).
4401 * tests/subdir6.test: Cosmetic change in spacing.
4402 * tests/subdir9.test: Define and use new variable `$distdir'. Add
4403 trailing `:' command.
4404 * tests/subdir10.test: Cosmetic consistency-related change.
4405 * tests/subdirbuiltsources.test: Cosmetic changes in spacings.
4406 (configure.in): Use stub created by `./defs', rather than writing
4407 it from scratch. Do not use obsoleted and/or deprecated forms of
4408 autoconf/automake macros.
4410 Modernize and improve test scripts `dist*.test'.
4411 * tests/distcleancheck.test: Do not add useless `-e' option to
4412 a $MAKE call. Extend test by grepping stderr of make.
4413 * tests/distcom2.test: Do not run the same test script on the
4414 Makefile.in twice, but save its output in an intermediate file
4415 instead. Make grepping of DIST_COMMON definition stricter.
4416 Display the content of more files, to ease debugging. Add a
4417 trailing `:' command. Improved heading comments w.r.t. sister
4419 * tests/distcom6.test: Likewise, and avoid to uselessly run
4421 * tests/distcom3.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured stdout
4422 and stderr. Make grepping of captured stderr stricter. Also,
4423 add trailing `:' command.
4424 * tests/distcom4.test: Declare the target `test' in the generated
4425 Makefile.am as `.PHONY'. Display content of more files, to ease
4426 debugging. Add trailing `:' command.
4427 * tests/distcom5.test: Likewise. Also, factor out common sed
4428 script in subroutine `extract_distcommon'.
4429 * tests/distcom7.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to write
4430 test Makefile.am files. Add a trailing `:' command.
4431 * tests/distname.test: Prefer `gzip -d' over `gunzip'. Move the
4432 call to `set -e' earlier. Be stricter and more verbose in the
4433 checking of the generated tarball.
4434 (configure.in): Use the stub provided by ./defs, instead of
4435 writing it from scratch. Avoid obsoleted constructs. Remove
4436 useless call to `AM_PROG_CC_C_O'.
4437 * tests/distdir.test: Various minor improvements/normalizations.
4438 * tests/distlinks.test: Likewise.
4440 2010-07-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4442 Improve and extend test cond5.test.
4443 * tests/cond5.test: Do not blindly sleep 60 seconds before polling
4444 the background automake process, but poll it every 10 seconds for
4445 at most 30 times (this makes the test both faster on good machines,
4446 and more resilient to spurious timeout-due failures when in low
4447 priority or on heavily-loaded systems).
4448 Check also that automake writes the expected error messages on the
4450 Enable `errexit' flag, and related changes.
4451 Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs', rather than
4452 writing one from scratch.
4454 2010-06-26 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4456 Update program --help output to match current GCS.
4457 * configure.ac: Set and substitute PACKAGE_URL if AC_PACKAGE_URL
4458 is not defined, for compatibility to Autoconf < 2.64.
4459 * Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute PACKAGE_BUGREPORT and
4461 (sc_diff_automake_in_automake): Update number of diff lines for
4462 additional substitutions.
4463 * aclocal.in (usage): Use PACKAGE_BUGREPORT. Point to Automake
4464 home page and GNU general help page.
4465 * automake.in (usage): Likewise.
4466 * doc/automake.texi: New flag PACKAGE_BUGREPORT, to factor email
4468 (Introduction, Creating amhello, amhello Explained, Options):
4470 * lib/Automake/Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute
4472 * lib/Automake/Config.in ($PACKAGE_BUGREPORT): New global.
4473 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Use it for footer of fatal
4476 Clean up @var handling in the manual.
4477 * doc/automake.texi: Throughout the manual, lower-case @var
4478 names, replace a few one-character names.
4480 2010-06-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4482 Fix typo-related bug in test script silent5.test.
4483 * tests/silent5.test: Use $EGREP, not $GREP (which is not even
4486 Tests: remove useless repetitions of `foreign' automake option.
4487 * tests/multlib.test (configure.in): Remove useless use of
4488 `foreign' option in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (the `--foreign' option is
4489 already in $AUTOMAKE by default, so no point in repeating it).
4490 * tests/subobj10.test: Likewise.
4491 * tests/subobj9.test: Likewise.
4492 * tests/lex3.test (Makefile.am): Similarly, remove useless use
4493 of `foreign' option in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
4494 * tests/lex5.test: Likewise.
4495 * tests/pr279.test: Likewise.
4496 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
4497 * tests/specflg3.test: Likewise.
4498 * tests/target-cflags.test: Likewise.
4500 Drop useless requirement "gzip" in lex5.test.
4501 * tests/lex5.test ($required): Do not list "gzip", as it's
4504 2010-06-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4506 Fix bugs in test script silent5.test.
4507 * tests/silent5.test: Fixed a nasty bug (due to the use of grep
4508 instead of egrep) that could have led to false negatives.
4510 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4512 Add a test checking that distributed broken symlinks cause
4513 `make dist' to fail.
4514 * tests/distlinksbrk.test: New test.
4515 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
4517 2010-06-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4519 Fix minor testsuite issues, update docs, for Yacc/Lex changes.
4520 * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Mention AM_YFLAGS, YFLAGS
4521 and AM_LFLAGS, LFLAGS in the order in which they now appear in
4524 * tests/lflags.test, tests/lflags2.test, tests/yflags.test,
4525 tests/yflags2.test: Prefer `make -e' over `make VAR=VAL', to
4526 please maintainer-check. Ensure generated C files contain a
4527 declaration, to please compilers.
4529 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4531 Fix bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t. $(AM_FLAGS) and
4532 $(FLAGS) precedence.
4533 * automake.in: Fix registration of languages "Lex", "Lex (C++)",
4534 "Yacc" and "Yacc (C++)", so that $(LFLAGS) has precedence over
4535 $(AM_LFLAGS) and $(YFLAGS) has precedence over $(AM_YFLAGS).
4536 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Updated accordingly.
4539 New tests, exposing bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t.
4540 $(AM_FLAGS) and $(FLAGS) precedence.
4541 * tests/lflags.test: New test, check that user $(LFLAGS) takes
4542 precedence over automake (AM_LFLAGS) and (foo_LFLAGS). Still
4544 * tests/lflags2.test: Likewise.
4545 * tests/yflags.test: New test, check that user $(YFLAGS) takes
4546 precedence over automake (AM_YFLAGS) and (foo_YFLAGS). Still
4548 * tests/yflags2.test: Likewise.
4549 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Extended accordingly.
4551 2010-06-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4553 Modernize, improve and extend tests `suffix*.test'.
4554 * tests/suffix3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
4556 * tests/suffix4.test: Likewise.
4557 * tests/suffix6.test: Likewise, and do not create a useless dummy
4559 * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
4560 * tests/suffix5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
4561 changes. Make grepping of Makefile.in slightly stricter.
4562 * tests/suffix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
4563 changes. Also, do not redirect grep output to /dev/null, as this
4564 might unmotivatedly hide useful information.
4565 * tests/suffix2.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
4566 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Use a more
4567 idiomatic way to count text occurrences in Makefile.in with
4568 grep. Do not create useless dummy source files.
4569 * tests/suffix10.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured make
4570 stdout. Minor cosmetic changes.
4571 * tests/suffix8.test: Likewise. Also, drop useless call to the
4572 env(1) utility, and make grepping of make output stricter by using
4573 $FGREP rather than plain grep.
4574 * tests/suffix11.test: Likewise.
4575 * tests/suffix12.test: Likewise.
4576 * tests/suffix9.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to append to
4577 the `configure.in' stub. Cosmetic changes.
4578 * tests/suffix13.test: Cosmetic spacing change.
4580 2010-06-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4582 Add useful comment in test script ext.test.
4583 * tests/ext.test: Add a comment explaining why an apparently
4584 useless `if' statement is indeed required.
4586 2010-06-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4588 Add useful comment in test script obsolete.test.
4589 * tests/obsolete.test: Add a comment explaining why we need
4590 an indirection in adding $AUTOUPDATE to $required.
4592 Normalize whitespaces in 'tests/Makefile.am'.
4593 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Use only spaces, not tabs, in the
4594 definition of this variable.
4596 Parallel tests generation: improve comments (tiny change).
4597 * tests/Makefile.am ($(parallel_tests)): Added useful comment to
4600 Tests defs: truly get rid of `$am_defs_included' (unused variable)
4601 * tests/defs.in ($am_defs_included): Remove, its now unused. It
4602 should have been removed in a previous changeset, but the removal
4603 was done only partially (oversight).
4605 2010-06-12 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4607 Remove a couple of unneeded conditionals from tests.
4608 * tests/pr243.test, tests/pr266.test, tests/strip.test: No need
4609 for the FOOTEST conditional.
4611 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4613 Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
4614 * tests/symlink3.test: Deleted, separated into two new, more
4616 * tests/forcemiss.test: ... this one ...
4617 * tests/forcemiss2.test: ... and this one.
4618 * tests/symlink2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, make test
4619 stricter, and skip it if symlink creation is not supported.
4620 * tests/postproc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, related
4621 changes, and a couple of unrelated cosmetic changes.
4622 * tests/recurs.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
4623 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping
4624 of Automake stderr slightly stricter.
4625 * tests/substtarg.test: Likewise.
4626 * tests/strip.test: Likewise, and move the call to `set -e'
4627 earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs'). Also, make sure
4628 that the script installed by `make install-script' is equal to
4630 * tests/substref.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
4631 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Move the call
4632 to `set -e' earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs').
4633 Avoid to explicitly export CC for configure (that's already done
4634 in ./defs). Avoid potential problems with unpredictable make
4635 output. Finally, make grepping of Makefile.in stricter.
4636 * tests/substre2.test: Ensure verbose printing of the captured
4637 make's output, and make its grepping slightly stricter.
4638 * tests/cygwin32.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
4639 changes. Also, do not create useless dummy source/data files.
4640 * tests/scripts.test: Likewise.
4641 * tests/recurs2.test: Likewise. Also, use the `configure.in'
4642 stub created by `./defs'.
4643 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
4645 Modernize, improve and/or fix tests `pluseq*.test.
4646 * tests/pluseq5.test: Append to configure.in using cat with an
4647 here-doc, not using echo.
4648 * tests/pluseq10.test: Make sure that the captured output of
4649 `make' command is always displayed. Where possible, use $FGREP
4650 instead of grep (this change makes some checks slightly stricter).
4651 * tests/pluseq8.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
4653 * tests/pluseq.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless dummy
4654 data files, and use better m4 quoting in generated configure.in.
4655 * tests/pluseq2.test: Likewise. Also, append to configure.in
4656 using cat with an here-doc, not using echo.
4657 * tests/pluseq3.test: Likewise.
4658 * tests/pluseq4.test: Likewise.
4659 * tests/pluseq6.test: Likewise.
4660 * tests/pluseq7.test: Do not create useless dummy source file.
4661 * tests/pluseq9.test: Slightly extended w.r.t. the grepping of
4662 Automake stderr. Some unrelated cosmetic changes.
4664 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4666 cscope.test: ensure verbose printing of captured stderr.
4667 * tests/cscope.test: Print captured stderr before failing.
4669 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4671 Testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured stderr.
4672 * tests/acloca18.test: Print captured stderr before either failing
4673 or grepping it. Be sure to send captured stderr to stderr, not to
4675 * tests/ansi3b.test: Likewise.
4676 * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
4677 * tests/configure.test: Likewise.
4678 * tests/missing3.test: Likewise.
4679 * tests/missing6.test: Likewise.
4680 * tests/output-order.test: Likewise.
4681 * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise.
4682 * tests/python6.test: Likewise.
4683 * tests/python7.test: Likewise.
4684 * tests/python8.test: Likewise.
4685 * tests/python9.test: Likewise.
4686 * tests/subobj.test: Likewise.
4687 * tests/vars3.test: Likewise.
4688 * tests/missing4.test: Likewise, and fix a call to grep not to use
4690 * tests/ansi3.test: Likewise, and rely on the `configure.in' stub
4691 created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
4693 Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
4694 * tests/backsl.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
4696 * tests/backsl2.test: Likewise.
4697 * tests/block.test: Likewise.
4698 * tests/canon2.test: Likewise.
4699 * tests/canon4.test: Likewise.
4700 * tests/comment2.test: Likewise.
4701 * tests/condlib.test: Likewise.
4702 * tests/cond15.test: Likewise, and prefer $FGREP over grep.
4703 * tests/canon3.test: Likewise. Also, avoid to create an useless
4705 * tests/acoutpt2.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and some
4706 related changes. Do some cosmetic improvements in the generated
4707 `configure.in' file.
4708 * tests/cond4.test: Likewise.
4709 * tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
4710 * tests/condinc.test: Likewise.
4711 * tests/cond7.test: Likewise. Also, remove useless setting of
4712 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am.
4713 * tests/ansi.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
4714 changes. Extended, esp. by running autoconf, ./configure and
4715 make, and by looking into the distdir.
4717 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4718 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4720 Extend tests/README w.r.t. trailing `:' in test scripts.
4721 * tests/README (section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
4722 Explain why apparently redundant trailing `:' and `Exit 0' in
4723 test scripts can indeed be useful.
4725 2010-06-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4727 Improve determination of PATH separator in bootstrap script.
4728 * bootstrap: Determine what the PATH separator is the same way
4731 Minor improvements in bootstrap script.
4732 * bootstrap: Consistently use two-spaces indentation. Cosmetic
4733 improvement to comments.
4734 ($me): New variable, containing program basename.
4735 Prepend it to all error messages.
4737 Testsuite now works with BSD make in parallel mode.
4738 * tests/defs.in: Unset variables __MKLVL__ and MAKE_JOBS_FIFO,
4739 which are exported by BSD make when run in parallel mode, and
4740 which can confuse make processes spawned by our testsuite.
4741 This change fixes a lot of spurious failure when the testsuite
4742 is run with BSD make in parallel mode.
4744 2010-06-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4746 Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
4747 * tests/sanity.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
4748 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
4749 * tests/depend2.test: Likewise. Also, call `set -e' just after
4750 the inclusion of `./defs', instead that later in the script.
4751 * tests/canon5.test: Avoid a useless `|| Exit 1' after a call to
4752 $AUTOMAKE, and improve the positioning of an $ACLOCAL call.
4753 * tests/exeext4.test: Use $FGREP instead of grep, where possible.
4754 Make auxiliary rules in the generated Makefile more silent.
4755 These changes make some checks slightly stricter.
4756 * tests/ext2.test: Call `Exit 1' if inclusion of `./defs' fails.
4757 * tests/gettext2.test: Place final `:' at the end of the script,
4758 rather than in the middle.
4759 * tests/exeext.test: Call `set -e' just after the inclusion of
4760 `./defs', instead that later in the script.
4761 * tests/extra5.test: Likewise.
4762 * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `mv -f' over
4763 plain `mv', just to be sure.
4764 * tests/depcomp.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
4765 changes. Also, modernize the generated configure.in.
4766 * tests/cond9.test: Likewise. Also, rely on the `configure.in'
4767 stub created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
4768 * tests/cond10.test: Likewise.
4769 * tests/depcomp2.test: Likewise.
4770 * tests/depend3.test: Likewise.
4771 * tests/distcom7.test: Likewise.
4772 * tests/fortdep.test: Likewise. Also, remove definition of
4773 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am,
4774 since that flag is already provided by $AUTOMAKE.
4775 * tests/mdate.test: Made stricter, by checking that Automake
4776 actually failed, and by making a stricter grep on the error
4777 message. Also, set shell `errexit flag'.
4778 * tests/python2.test: Improved verbose messages.
4780 Make test `ammissing.test' stricter.
4781 * tests/ammissing.test: Fail if $ACLOCAL succeeds unexpectedly.
4782 Enable `errexit' shell flag.
4784 2010-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4785 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4787 Fix error in generation of parallel tests.
4788 * tests/defs.in ($am_skip_defs): New variable, to be used when
4789 ./defs must be sourced multiple times. If set, unset it and
4790 only define $srcdir; otherwise, also go through the rest of
4792 ($am_defs_included): Remove, no more needed.
4793 * tests/Makefile.am ($(parallel_tests)): Update accordingly,
4794 using only $srcdir from defs.
4795 Fixes potential test failures of tests that use $required.
4797 2010-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4799 Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
4800 * tests/subcond.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
4802 * tests/subst.test: Likewise.
4803 * tests/vars.test: Likewise.
4804 * tests/version4.test: Likewise.
4805 * tests/vpath.test: Likewise.
4806 * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
4807 * tests/werror.test: Likewise.
4808 * tests/whoami.test: Likewise.
4809 * tests/tags.test: Likewise, and avoid to crate an useless dummy
4811 * tests/acsilent.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
4812 command substitution.
4813 * tests/unused.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
4814 command substitution.
4815 * tests/version.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
4816 in the generated `configure.in'.
4817 * tests/version2.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
4818 in the generated `configure.in'.
4820 2010-06-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4821 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4823 Improve declaration of dependencies in the testsuite.
4824 * tests/Makefile.am (check_SCRIPTS): Remove. Instead, let ...
4825 ($(TEST_LOGS)): ... all test logs depend on the scripts.
4826 * test/gen-parallel-tests: For each parallel test foo-p.test,
4827 let `foo-p.log' also depend on `foo.test', since it is sourced.
4829 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4831 Coverage for TAGS_DEPENDENCIES warning.
4832 * tests/tags2.test: New test.
4833 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
4835 Coverage for use of anachronistic variables.
4836 * tests/oldvars.test: New test.
4837 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
4839 Testsuite coverage for bogus macro file serial numbers.
4840 * tests/acloca18.test: Also test ill-formed serial numbers
4841 and serial numbers after macro definitions.
4843 Coverage for aclocal diagnosing underquoted macros.
4844 * tests/acloca23.test: New test.
4845 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
4847 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4849 Prefer AUTOMAKE_fails over `$AUTOMAKE | grep' in tests.
4850 * tests/ldadd.test: Enable errexit. Use AUTOMAKE_fails so
4851 the verbose log contains all output.
4852 * tests/mdate.test: Likewise.
4853 Prompted by Stefano Lattarini's change to discover.test.
4855 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4857 More minor message fixes.
4858 * aclocal.in (scan_file): Fix recommended info command line.
4859 * automake.in (handle_lib_objects): No need to prepend function
4860 name to prog_error message.
4861 (handle_tags): Add missing word and missing space in error
4863 (handle_dist): Add missing closing single quote in message.
4864 Line-wrap one long message for readability.
4866 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4867 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4869 Fix distcheck failure with distributed generated parallel tests.
4870 * tests/Makefile.am ($(parallel_tests)): Cope with $(srcdir)
4871 being different from the value at developer `make dist' time.
4872 * tests/defs.in: Protect against multiple inclusion, by using ...
4873 ($am_defs_included): ... this new variable.
4874 ($srcdir): Do not compute, but simply define to `@abs_srcdir@'
4875 as substituted by configure.
4876 Report, suggestions and first fix by Ralf Wildenhues, final
4877 patch by Stefano Lattarini.
4879 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4881 Improve tests link*.test (enable `errexit' shell flag).
4882 * tests/link_c_cxx.test: Enable `errexit shell flag, and related
4883 changes. Also, do not create useless source files.
4884 * tests/link_dist.test: Likewise.
4885 * tests/link_f90_only.test: Likewise.
4886 * tests/link_f_only.test: Likewise.
4887 * tests/link_fc.test: Likewise.
4888 * tests/link_fccxx.test: Likewise.
4889 * tests/link_fcxx.test: Likewise.
4891 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4893 Improve ext.test semantics, avoid OpenBSD sh errexit issue.
4894 * tests/ext.test: Inside shell compound command, use
4895 `if $cmd; then Exit 1; fi' rather than `$cmd && Exit 1', to
4896 fix failure with OpenBSD sh introduced with last patch.
4897 Actually ensure that a rule for .EXT.o is created for each
4898 known extension EXT.
4900 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4902 Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
4903 * tests/dash.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
4905 * tests/defun.test: Likewise.
4906 * tests/defun2.test: Likewise.
4907 * tests/dejagnu.test: Likewise.
4908 * tests/double.test: Likewise.
4909 * tests/distcom2.test: Likewise.
4910 * tests/empty2.test: Likewise.
4911 * tests/empty3.test: Likewise.
4912 * tests/empty4.test: Likewise.
4913 * tests/exdir.test: Likewise.
4914 * tests/ext.test: Likewise.
4915 * tests/extra.test: Likewise.
4916 * tests/extra2.test: Likewise.
4917 * tests/extra3.test: Likewise.
4918 * tests/extra4.test: Likewise.
4919 * tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
4920 * tests/fnoc.test: Likewise.
4921 * tests/fo.test: Likewise.
4922 * tests/instexec.test: Likewise.
4923 * tests/ltdeps.test: Likewise.
4924 * tests/nodep.test: Likewise.
4925 * tests/nodepcomp.test: Likewise.
4926 * tests/f90only.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
4927 comments and unnecessary commands.
4928 * tests/fonly.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
4929 comments and unnecessary commands.
4930 * tests/discover.test: Likewise, and made stricter.
4932 Enable `errexit' shell flag in all tests cxx*.test.
4933 * tests/cxx.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
4935 * tests/cxxansi.test: Likewise.
4936 * tests/cxxcpp.test: Likewise.
4937 * tests/cxxlibobj.test: Likewise.
4938 * tests/cxxlink.test: Likewise.
4939 * tests/cxxo.test: Likewise.
4941 Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
4942 * tests/acoutnoq.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
4944 * tests/acoutpt.test: Likewise.
4945 * tests/acoutqnl.test: Likewise.
4946 * tests/amassign.test: Likewise.
4947 * tests/ansi2.test: Likewise.
4948 * tests/ansi4.test: Likewise.
4949 * tests/badprog.test: Likewise.
4950 * tests/checkall.test: Likewise.
4951 * tests/clean.test: Likewise.
4952 * tests/colneq2.test: Likewise.
4953 * tests/colon.test: Likewise.
4954 * tests/colon5.test: Likewise.
4955 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
4956 * tests/comment.test: Likewise.
4957 * tests/compile_f90_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
4958 * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
4959 * tests/cond3.test: Likewise.
4960 * tests/cond6.test: Likewise.
4961 * tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
4962 * tests/conf2.test: Likewise.
4963 * tests/confvar.test: Likewise.
4964 * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
4965 * tests/cond8.test: Likewise, plus a cosmetic change.
4966 * tests/confh4.test: Likewise. Also, add in the heading comments
4967 an excerpt from the original bug report which motivated the
4968 creation of this test, to make its purpose clearer.
4970 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4972 Rewrite manual to be gender-neutral.
4973 * doc/automake.texi (GNU Build System)
4974 (Standard Directory Variables, General Operation, CVS)
4975 (Hard-Coded Install Paths, Dependencies As Side Effects):
4976 Rewrite text to not contain gender-specific pronouns when
4977 speaking about developers or users, either by avoiding pronouns
4978 or by addressing them as `you' instead.
4980 Report by Christina Gratorp.
4984 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
4986 Tiny fix in silent8.test (display output of `make' command).
4987 * tests/silent8.test: Make sure that the captured output of `make'
4988 command is always displayed.
4990 Make tests on user extensibility of silent-rules mode stricter.
4991 * tests/silent6.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
4992 output produced by `make'.
4993 * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
4995 Tests on silent-mode for C/Libtool made stricter.
4996 * tests/silent.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
4997 output produced by `make'.
4998 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
4999 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
5000 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
5001 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise, and add a final `make distclean'
5002 command to keep it better in sync with tests/silent{4,9}.test.
5004 Improved test silent5.test.
5005 * tests/silent5.test: Remove by hand all generated C files after
5006 non-verbose builds, to ensure the following builds are clean.
5007 Try to clean and rebuild with the same verbosity and without
5008 removing generated sources in between, to check that this does
5009 not trigger a different set of rules. Make grepping of make's
5010 output stricter. Improved/added some comments.
5012 New tests for Automake silent-mode with Fortran.
5013 * tests/silentf77.test: New test.
5014 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
5015 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
5017 New test `silentcxx.test' (Automake silent-mode with C++).
5018 * tests/silentcxx.test: New test.
5019 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
5021 New test `silentyacc.test' (Automake silent-mode with Yacc).
5022 * tests/silentyacc.test: New test.
5023 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
5025 New test `silentlex.test' (Automake silent-mode with Lex).
5026 * tests/silentlex.test: New test.
5027 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
5029 Relax tests on silent-rules to cater to overly verbose makes.
5030 * tests/silent.test: When testing silent builds, don't fail if
5031 make's output simply contains the `mv' substring, but only if
5032 it contains the `mv ' substring (note the trailing space).
5033 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
5034 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
5035 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
5036 * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
5037 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
5039 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
5041 Extend test on `nostdinc' automake option.
5042 * tests/nostdinc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Related and
5043 unrelated minor changes. Make the grepping of the generated
5044 Makefile.in slightly stricter. Generate and run configure, so that
5045 the generated Makefile can be grepped too.
5047 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
5049 Make gnupload portable to EBCDIC hosts.
5050 * lib/gnupload: Use literal newline as argument for 'tr' rather
5051 than \015, for EBCDIC hosts. Also, avoid unportable nested
5052 double-quotes and backquotes.
5054 Report from Eric Blake and Steve Goetze via gnulib.
5056 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
5058 Fix Autoconf version required by Automake's configure.
5059 Automake configure script used to tell that automake required
5060 autoconf 2.60 or later, but then it checked for autoconf >= 2.62,
5061 and if that was not found, it gave an error saying that Automake
5062 required configure 2.61a-341 or later. This change should
5063 eliminate such inconsistencies.
5064 * configure.ac ($required_autoconf_version): New variable.
5067 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
5069 Fix truncated comment in Makefile.am.
5070 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_logs_duplicate_prefixes): Fix unfinished
5071 sentence in comment.
5072 Report by Stefano Lattarini.
5074 Relax silent8.test for NetBSD make.
5075 * tests/silent8.test: Accept ./foo.info in output as well.
5077 Fix unportable sed script in maintainer-check test.
5078 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_Exit_not_exit): Rewrite sed script to
5079 not contain semicolon after 'b' or brace commands, for NetBSD.
5081 Wildcards are not portable to NetBSD make.
5082 * doc/automake.texi (Wildcards): Document portability issue.
5083 * tests/extra10.test, tests/extra11.test, tests/extra12.test:
5086 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
5088 Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
5089 * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
5090 an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
5092 Avoid possible false negatives in dejagnu7.test.
5093 * tests/dejagnu7.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Also, avoid
5094 unportable use of fgrep option `-e'.
5096 Fix conflnk3.test to work with Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
5097 * tests/conflnk3.test: Use `test -r FILE' and `test ! -r FILE'
5098 instead of respectively `test -e FILE' and `test ! -e FILE',
5099 since Solaris Sh doesn't grok the latter. Do not SKIP the test
5100 if the shell doesn't support `test -e'.
5102 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
5104 Warning and error message formatting cleanups.
5105 * aclocal.in (parse_arguments, main): Remove trailing period or
5106 newline in error or warning messages, avoid capitalization of
5107 the first word of a message.
5108 * automake.in (check_user_variables, handle_languages)
5109 (handle_ltlibraries, scan_aclocal_m4, scan_autoconf_config_files)
5110 (scan_autoconf_files, cond_stack_if, require_file_internal)
5111 (usage, generate_makefile, parse_arguments): Likewise.
5112 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm (set_strictness): Likewise.
5113 * lib/Automake/Configure_ac.pm (find_configure_ac): Likewise.
5114 * lib/Automake/Options.pm (set_strictness): Likewise.
5115 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm (define): Likewise.
5116 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (define, variables_dump): Likewise.
5117 * tests/ltinstloc.test, tests/suffix11.test: Adjust expected
5119 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (setup_channel): Reword error message
5120 to be the same as in msg.
5122 Fix placing of ellipses in English text and synopses.
5123 * Makefile.am: Be sure to add a space before `...' in natural
5125 * automake.in (scan_autoconf_traces): Likewise.
5126 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm (define): Likewise.
5127 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (define): Likewise.
5128 * lib/am/dejagnu.am: Likewise.
5129 * lib/am/progs.am: Likewise.
5130 * lib/gnupload (dprint, upload): Likewise.
5131 * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise.
5132 * tests/location.test: Adjust expected output.
5133 * automake.in (usage): In synopsis, use singular for OPTION,
5134 * remove space before ellipsis.
5135 * aclocal.in (usage): Likewise. Also, fix indentation.
5137 Fix more duplicate message prefixes.
5138 * lib/Automake/XFile.pm (seek): Do not prepend $me.
5139 ($me): Remove now-unused package-global.
5140 * aclocal.in (check_acinclude): Remove duplicate 'warning: '
5144 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Add
5145 missing closing parenthesis.
5147 Fix leftover call to removed function macros_dump.
5148 * automake.in (read_main_am_file): Call variables_dump, not
5149 macros_dump. Print actual error before list of variables.
5151 2010-04-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
5153 Minor improvements in comments of test `silent3.test'.
5154 * tests/silent3.test: Tell to keep it in sync with `silent9.test'
5157 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
5159 testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured output.
5160 * tests/acloca14.test, tests/acloca18.test, tests/aclocal.test,
5161 tests/fort2.test, tests/help.test, tests/missing3.test,
5162 tests/missing6.test: Print captured stdout or stderr before
5165 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
5167 Make test badopt.test stricter (by enabling `set -e').
5168 * tests/badopt.test: Add call to `set -e'. Due to this change,
5169 an unexpected failure in the call to `$ACLOCAL' (whose outcome
5170 was previously unchecked) would cause the whole test to fail.
5171 Also, bumped the copyright years.
5173 Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
5174 * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
5175 an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
5177 Use `set -e' in confsub.test (avoids possible false negatives).
5178 * tests/confsub.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and related
5179 changes (this helps avoiding some possible minor false negatives).
5180 Also, bumped copyright years.
5182 2010-04-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
5184 Fix -Werror handling for presence of configure.in and configure.ac.
5185 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (Automake::Variable): Do not initialize
5186 $configure_ac at the global level, before command-line arguments
5188 (require_variables): Initialize it here.
5189 * tests/configure.test: New test.
5190 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
5191 Report by Stefano Lattarini.
5193 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
5195 Avoid possible false negatives in confh5.test.
5196 * tests/confh5.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and bumped
5197 copyright years. Due to this change, any unexpected failure
5198 in calls to $ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE, $AUTOCONF or $AUTOHEADER, or
5199 a failure in grepping expected text in output files should now
5200 cause the whole test to fail.
5202 2010-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
5204 Fixed typo in POD documentation of Automake::Channels.
5205 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Fixed typo in POD documentation:
5206 @<...> was used instead of C<...>.
5208 2010-04-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
5210 Refactor tests on Automake TESTS color output.
5211 * tests/color.test: Tests using the expect program moved out to...
5212 * tests/color2.test: ... this new file.
5213 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Extended accordingly.
5215 2010-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
5217 Fix typos in comments in test confh5.test
5218 * tests/confh5.test: Fix a couple of typos in comments.
5220 Avoid possible false negatives in canon-name.test.
5221 * tests/canon-name.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Improve
5224 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
5226 Print 'warnings are treated as errors' note if needed.
5227 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Fix typo in comment.
5228 (_print_message): If -Werror is enabled, print a 'warnings are
5229 treated as errors' note before the first such warning.
5230 * tests/warnopts.test: Adjust comment to mention expected warning.
5231 Adjust code to ignore 'warnings are treated as errors' note.
5232 * tests/location.test: Adjust expected output with -Werror.
5233 * tests/werror4.test: New test.
5234 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
5237 Ensure we don't print 'warning:' or 'error:' twice.
5238 * Makefile.am (sc_ensure_testsuite_has_run): New helper rule.
5239 (sc_tests_logs_duplicate_prefixes): New rule, to check for
5240 wrong-looking warning and error messages in the test suite logs.
5241 * aclocal.in (scan_configure_dep, scan_file): Remove duplicate
5243 * tests/vars3.test: Rename variable to avoid false positive.
5245 Prepend type to warning, error, and fatal messages.
5246 For the first part of messages of types `error' or `fatal',
5247 prepend `error: ' to the message. Prepend `warning: ' to
5248 warning messages, whatever the setting of -Werror.
5249 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (partial): Move up definition.
5250 (_format_message): Emit `header' and `footer' strings only with
5251 the first resp. last part of a set of partial messages.
5252 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Add missing '1;' statement at the
5254 (Automake::ChannelDefs): Setup warning channels with header
5255 `warning: ', error and fatal messages with header `error: '.
5256 * tests/condinc2.test, tests/ltinstloc.test: Adjust expected
5258 * tests/comment5.test: Likewise. Also, include stack notes
5259 should not start with `error:'.
5260 * tests/location.test: Likewise. Also, try both -Werror and
5263 Report by Bruno Haible.
5265 Fix capitalization of error messages, reword one message.
5266 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (define): Do not capitalize the first
5267 word in the error message.
5268 * automake.in (require_file_internal): Likewise. Also, reword
5269 and line-wrap for better readability.
5270 * tests/distcom7.test, tests/pluseq5.test, tests/pluseq9.test:
5273 Fix connected warnings about obsolete exeext override.
5274 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm (define): Merge two warnings that belong
5275 together, by setting the 'partial' flag for the first one.
5277 Fix per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror.
5278 Before this patch, 'AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = -Werror' in one
5279 Makefile.am would carry over to other Makefile.am files
5280 treated afterwards by the same thread, causing inconsistent
5281 and unstable exit status values.
5282 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (dup_channel_setup)
5283 (drop_channel_setup): Save and restore the setting of
5284 $warnings_are_errors.
5285 * tests/werror3.test: New test.
5286 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
5289 2010-04-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
5291 Bugfix in confh5.test w.r.t. Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
5292 * tests/confh5.test: In the generated Makefile.am: do not use
5293 `test ! -e FILE' to check for the non-existence of a file, since
5294 that is not supported by Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
5296 Make test `aclocal3.test' stricter.
5297 * tests/aclocal3.test: Add call to `set -e'. Fail if $ACLOCAL
5298 succeds unexpectedly.
5300 Add tests checking that symlinks are resolved by `make dist'.
5301 * tests/distlinks.test: New test.
5302 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
5303 Suggested by observations from Ralf Wildenhues.
5305 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
5307 Use -9 for maximum xz compression with dist-xz.
5308 * lib/am/distdir.am (dist-xz, dist, dist-all): Pass -9 to xz.
5309 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
5310 Report by Pavel Sanda.
5312 2010-04-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
5314 Avoid possible false negatives in cond46.test.
5315 * tests/cond46.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag (and bumped
5316 copyright years). Due to this change, the testcase should now
5317 fail on unexpected failures in calls to $ACLOCAL/$AUTOMAKE (whose
5318 outcomes were previously unchecked), and on failures in grepping
5319 the expected diagnostic in Automake stderr.
5321 2010-04-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
5323 Generated tests are now just a thin layer around other tests.
5324 * tests/Makefile.am: Rewrite the rule to generate the `*-p.test'
5325 test scripts so that any of them simply includes the corresponding
5326 `*.test' script (after setting `$parallel_tests' to `yes').
5327 * tests/.gitignore: Add wildcard for temporary files used in the
5328 generation of `*-p.test' tests.
5330 2010-03-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
5332 Avoid an unportable use of `$status' shell variable.
5333 * Makefile.am (path-check): Don't use the `$status' shell variable
5334 in the target's rules, as it's special in Zsh (equivalent to `$?',
5337 Avoid another use of `chmod -R'.
5338 * Makefile.am (path-check): To be safe, do not use `chmod -R' on
5339 $(distdir) before removing it (as Solaris `chmod -R' touches
5340 symlink targets). Instead, use the cleanup strategy used in
5343 2010-03-28 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
5345 Remove uses of @acronym and @sc.
5346 * doc/automake.texi (Public Macros, Limitations on File Names):
5347 Remove all usage of @acronym and @sc in the manual.
5348 Suggested by Karl Berry.
5350 2010-03-13 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
5352 GNU hello uses fdl.texi, not gpl.texi.
5353 * doc/automake.texi (Texinfo): Adjust example to upstream
5356 2010-03-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
5358 Formatting cleanups in macro comments.
5359 * automake.in, lib/Automake/Channels.pm,
5360 lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm, lib/Automake/Options.pm,
5361 lib/Automake/Variable.pm, lib/Automake/XFile.pm,
5362 m4/options.m4, m4/substnot.m4: Fix macro comment format.
5364 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
5365 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
5367 Avoid generation of `tests/defs-p' file.
5368 * tests/defs.in: In the generated `configure.in' snippet: call
5369 `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' with the `parallel-tests' option if the shell
5370 variable `parallel_tests' is set to `yes'.
5371 * tests/Makefile.am (defs-p): Target removed.
5372 (check_SCRIPTS): Removed `defs-p'.
5373 (clean-local-check): Do not unlink `defs-p' anymore.
5374 ($(parallel_tests)): Transformation rules for the test scripts
5376 * tests/gen-parallel-tests: Selection rules for the test
5378 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Set `$parallel_tests' to `yes'
5379 then include `./defs' (rather than simply including `./defs-p').
5380 * tests/parallel-tests2.test: Likewise.
5381 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
5382 * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
5383 * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
5384 * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
5385 * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
5386 * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise.
5387 * tests/parallel-tests9.test: Likewise.
5388 * tests/parallel-tests10.test: Likewise.
5389 * tests/README (Section "Writing Test Cases" subsection "Do"):
5390 Adjusted the parts referring to tests checking `parallel-tests'
5391 behaviour. Some other minor related improvements.
5392 * tests/.gitignore (defs-p): Removed.
5394 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
5396 Remove redundant unset of variable TESTS from some test scripts.
5397 * tests/color.test: Do not unset the `TESTS' variable, as it's
5398 already unset in the `defs' file.
5399 * tests/check5.test: Likewise.
5400 * tests/check8.test: Likewise.
5401 * tests/check9.test: Likewise.
5402 * tests/check10.test: Likewise.
5403 * tests/check11.test: Likewise.
5404 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Likewise.
5405 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
5406 * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
5407 * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
5408 * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
5409 * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
5411 2010-03-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
5413 Fix cscope test on systems without working Fortran compiler.
5414 * tests/cscope.test: Skip remainder of test if `$MAKE all' fails.
5416 Report by Peter Johansson.
5418 2010-02-24 Antonio Diaz Diaz <ant_diaz@teleline.es> (tiny change)
5419 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
5421 Add lzip compression support.
5422 * automake.in (handle_dist): Recognize dist-lzip.
5423 (make_paragraphs): Map LZIP to dist-lzip.
5424 * doc/automake.texi (Dist): Add dist-lzip.
5425 (Options): Likewise.
5426 * lib/Automake/Options.pm (_process_option_list): Add dist-lzip.
5428 (dist dist-all): Add command to create an lzip-compressed tarball.
5429 (distcheck): Handle lzip-compressed tarballs just like the others.
5430 * tests/defs.in: Test for lzip, too.
5431 * tests/lzip.test: New file, based on nogzip.test.
5432 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add lzip.test.
5435 2010-02-22 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
5437 Improve help message of mdate-sh.
5438 * mdate-sh: mention actual output format in help message.
5440 2010-02-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
5442 Deprecate dist-lzma in favor of dist-xz.
5443 * doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions, Options):
5444 Adjust text to reflect renaming of lzma to xz.
5446 Missing deprecation noted by Antonio Diaz Diaz.
5448 2010-02-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
5450 Add tests about support of wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
5451 * tests/extra10.test: New test, check basic support of wildcards
5453 * tests/extra11.test: New test, check more complex usage of
5454 wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
5455 * tests/extra12.test: New test, check usage of wildcards in
5456 EXTRA_DIST when $builddir != $srcdir.
5457 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
5458 Necessity of these new tests suggested by Braden McDaniel
5459 and Ralf Wildenhues.
5461 2010-02-08 Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
5463 Fix copyright statement in gnupload script.
5464 * lib/gnupload: Fix copyright statement.
5466 2010-02-06 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> (tiny change)
5467 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
5469 Fix exit status of signal handlers in shell scripts.
5470 The value of `$?' on entrance to signal handlers in shell scripts
5471 cannot be relied upon, so set the exit code explicitly to
5473 * lib/am/check.am (am__check_pre): Use `exit 143' in signal handler.
5474 * lib/elisp-comp: Likewise.
5475 * lib/install-sh: Likewise.
5476 * lib/ylwrap: Likewise. Also, fix script to trap signal 13, not 3.
5477 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
5478 Bug report, analysis, and initial patch by Dmitry V. Levin.
5480 2010-02-06 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
5482 Improve gnupload usage text.
5483 * gnupload (usage): Shorten to make more likely to fit on a tty
5484 line. Mention CMD in the synopsis. With ..., plural is implied.
5486 2010-01-28 Christos Kontas <xakon@yahoo.com> (tiny change)
5488 Fix some typos in the manual
5489 * doc/automake.texi (Nested Packages, Rebuilding): Fix typos.
5491 2010-01-24 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
5493 Fix silent-rules output for disabled dependency tracking.
5494 * lib/am/depend2.am [!%FASTDEP%]: Rework silent-rules variable
5495 expansion code to also work in the case where %AMDEP% expands
5496 to FALSE at config.status time, using new substitution string
5498 * automake.in (verbose_nodep_flag): New function, appending
5499 `@am__nodep@' to the verbose-variable name.
5500 (handle_languages): If dependencies are not disabled, use it to
5501 set %VERBOSE-NODEP%.
5502 * m4/depend.m4: Substitute am__nodep as '_no', so the second
5503 verbose-variable will always expand to an empty string, if
5504 dependencies are enabled.
5505 * tests/silent5.test: Also test --disable-dependency-tracking;
5506 also test per-target flags for non-C language files.
5507 * tests/silent9.test: New test, like silent4.test but disable
5508 dependency tracking.
5509 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
5510 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
5511 Report by Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>.
5513 2010-01-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
5515 Slighty improve tests acoutbs.test and acoutbs2.test.
5516 * tests/acoutbs2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Check that
5517 autoconf and configure work, that the file `zot' is created by
5518 configure, and that no file containing a backslash in its name is
5520 * tests/acoutbs.test: Likewise, plus updated copyright years.
5522 Fix test acoutbs2.test.
5523 * tests/acoutbs2: In the generated configure.in: add proper calls
5524 to AC_INIT and AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, and remove explicit definition of
5525 PACKAGE and VERSION. Add a call to aclocal before calling automake.
5526 Updated copyright years.
5527 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Removed acoutbs2.test.
5529 Add forgotten test scripts to $(TESTS).
5530 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Added test scripts present on the
5531 filesystem, which were erroneously left out from $(TESTS):
5532 acoutbs2.test, badopt.test, extra2.test.
5533 (XFAIL_TESTS): Added acoutbs2.test.
5535 2010-01-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
5537 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
5538 * INSTALL, lib/INSTALL, lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub:
5541 Bump copyright years.
5542 * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
5543 * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
5544 * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
5547 * ChangeLog.09: New file, rotated from ...
5548 * ChangeLog: ... here.
5549 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute ChangeLog.09.
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