1 2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3 m4: add missing serial numbers to a few files
4 Related to automake bug#8483.
5 * m4/amversion.in: Add serial number.
6 * m4/auxdir.m4: Likewise.
8 * m4/install-sh.m4: Likewise.
9 * m4/mkdirp.m4: Likewise.
10 * m4/python.m4: Likewise.
11 * m4/runlog.m4: Likewise.
12 * m4/strip.m4: Likewise.
13 * m4/upc.m4: Likewise.
15 2011-04-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
17 depcomp: correct invalid sed invocation
18 * lib/depcomp: Insert missing -e before '/:$/d'.
19 Otherwise, that use of sed would treat '/:$/d' as a file name.
21 2011-04-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
23 maintainer check: quote literal `$' in Makefile rule
24 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_PATH_SEPARATOR): Escape literal `$'
25 character in double-quoted string. Fix a bug in which the rule
26 emitted an erroneously empty substring in its error message.
28 2011-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
30 coverage: test for automake bug#8485 (known regression)
31 * tests/yacc-dist-nobuild-subdir.test: New test.
32 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Update.
34 2011-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
36 test defs: define default $distdir (help reducing duplication)
37 * tests/defs.in ($distdir): New variable, might be used in
38 testcases checking distribution-related features.
39 * tests/pr9.test: Use it.
40 * tests/subdir9.test: Likewise.
41 * tests/vtexi3.test: Add comment explaining why we redefine
42 $distdir in this test.
44 2011-04-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
46 depcomp: fix bugs in tests and in the depcomp script
47 * lib/depcomp (gcc): Remove duplicated `-e' from sed invocation.
48 * tests/depcomp10.test: Make it executable. Fix a blunder that
49 has left part of an intended comment not prefixed by `#', thus
50 causing shell syntax errors. In this same comment, break a
51 too-long reported error message on multiple lines, for clarity.
52 Add reference to the relevant bug report. Add a comment which
53 explains why the test result 'skipped' if the first "make" call
54 fails. Add other useful comments.
55 * tests/depcomp9.test: Slightly improve comments.
57 2011-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
59 Fix hp depmode for VPATH builds with GNU make.
60 * lib/depcomp: Be sure to remove VPATH-prefixed object from
61 dependency output when creating stub rule.
62 * tests/depcomp10.test: New test.
63 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
65 Report by Bruno Haible.
67 2011-04-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
69 test defs: fix 'javac' requirement for older JDK versions
70 The Java compiler from JDK 1.5 (and presumably earlier versions)
71 cannot handle the `-version' option by itself; and while it does
72 print the version number, it then errors out with an usage error:
75 javac: no source files
76 Usage: javac <options> <source files>
78 Luckily, adding the `-help' option to the `javac' invocation
79 seems to fix this problem.
80 * tests/defs.in (javac): Pass also the `-help' option to the
81 `javac' program. Add a comment explaining why it is needed.
82 Report from Ralf Wildenhues.
84 2011-04-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
86 test defs: new requirement for the default java compiler
87 * tests/defs.in (for tool in $required): New requirement 'javac'.
88 * tests/java.test: Use it instead of ad-hoc configure check.
89 * tests/java-check.test: Likewise.
90 * tests/instfail-java.test: Likewise.
91 * tests/instdir-java.test: Likewise.
93 2011-04-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
95 java: check_JAVA does not cause compilation by "make all" anymore
96 Fixes automake bug#8234.
97 * automake.in (handle_java): Make stamp of class files built from
98 java sources in $(check_JAVA) a dependency of `check' target, not
100 * tests/java-check.test: New test.
101 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
104 Report from Petteri Räty.
106 2011-04-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
108 Clarify regex code in depcomp.
109 * lib/depcomp: Add comment why we don't need regex-escaping here.
110 Suggested by Stefano Lattarini.
112 2011-04-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
114 Fix makedepend depmode for VPATH builds.
115 * lib/depcomp [makedepend]: Remove any VPATH prefix from the
116 object file name, so a rebuild doesn't attempt to update the
117 .Po files in the source tree.
118 * tests/depcomp9.test: New test.
119 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
122 2011-04-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
124 tests: fix timestamp-related failures
125 Fixes automake bug#8365.
126 * tests/aclocal6.test: Sleep before modifying m4 files that should
127 trigger remake rules. Remove incorrect/obsoleted comments.
128 * tests/subdir5.test: Likewise, and extend a bit.
129 * tests/subdir8.test: Likewise.
130 * tests/pr8365-remake-timing.test: New xfailing test.
131 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
132 Report from Sam Steingold.
134 2011-04-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
136 Create subdirs for generated sources even when not dep tracking.
137 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): If $object is derived
138 and lands in subdir, be sure to output a dirstamp dependency.
139 * tests/yacc5.test: Avoid falsely matching the dirstamp
140 dependency when grepping for a rule.
141 * tests/lex-subobj-nodep.test: New test.
142 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
144 Report by Ignacy Gawedzki.
146 Fix locale issue in check-exported-srcdir.test.
147 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Reformulate glob to not fail
148 in a locale that ignores or interleaves character case.
150 2011-04-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
152 docs: better visibility for aclocal in the index
153 * doc/automake.texi (@menu): Rename title for entry 'configure'
154 from "Scanning configure.ac or configure.in" to the more precise
155 "Scanning configure.ac, using aclocal".
156 (@detailmenu): Adjust.
157 (@node configure): Adjust, and extend @cindex calls accordingly.
159 From a report by Maynard Johnson.
161 2011-03-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
163 tests: improve tests on "maintainer-clean" target
164 * tests/aclocal6.test: Move checks related to "maintainer-clean"
165 functionalities into ...
166 * tests/maintclean-vpath.test: ... this new test.
167 * tests/maintclean.test: Update heading comments. Extend to also
168 test subdirs. Remove useless disabling of YACC. Fix m4 quoting
169 in configure.in. Add a trailing `:' command. Remove extra blank
171 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
173 2011-03-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
175 tests: fix unindent to use printf not echo for script.
176 * tests/defs.in: Use printf rather than echo, as the latter may
177 interpret the backslashes in the sed script. Fixes test
178 failures with dash as /bin/sh.
180 2011-03-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
181 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
183 maintcheck: look for problematic names of testcases
184 The configure.in stub created by default by `tests/defs' obtains
185 the first argument of AC_INIT from the test name, and this can
186 cause some supported autoconf versions to fail with a spurious
187 error if that test name contains the name of an m4 or m4sugar
188 builtin or macro (e.g., `defn' or `m4_undefine').
189 See for example the bug fixed by commit v1.11-287-g1325a8a.
190 This change add a maintainer check that warns about test names
191 which are possibly problematic in this regard.
192 * Makefile.am (sc_test_names): New maintainer-check target.
193 (syntax_check_rules): Add it.
194 (m4_builtins): New helper variable.
195 (TESTS): Updated according to the following renamings.
196 * tests/include.test: Renamed ...
197 * tests/hdr-vars-defined-once.test: ... to this.
198 * tests/sinclude.test: Renamed ...
199 * tests/m4-inclusion.test: ... to this, and simplified
201 * tests/include2.test: Renamed ...
202 * tests/dist-included-parent-dir.test: ... to this, for
205 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
207 tests: fix bug in alloca*.test
208 * tests/alloca.test: Make grepping of automake stderr stricter,
209 add a trailing `:' command; also, add AC_PROG_CC to configure.in,
210 and create a dummy alloca.c file, to ensure that we fail for the
212 * tests/alloca2.test: Likewise. Also, look for LT_INIT, not
213 AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, in the error message (bug introduced with commit
214 v1.11-315-gd51e7b7 "libtool: suggest LT_INIT if LTLIBRARIES
216 From a report by Patrick Welche.
218 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
220 tests: fix bug (comments-in-var-defn.test + autoconf 2.62)
221 * tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: The configure.in stub created
222 by default, which has the AC_INIT first argument obtained by the
223 test name, causes autoconf 2.62 to fail with a spurious error
224 message like: "configure.in:1: error: defn: undefined macro:".
225 Thus, to prevent this, the test is renamed to ...
226 * tests/comments-in-var-def.test: ... this.
227 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
229 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
231 cosmetics: convert encoding from ISO-8859 to UTF-8
232 * ChangeLog.03: Convert encoding to UTF-8.
233 * ChangeLog.96: Likewise.
234 * ChangeLog.98: Likewise.
238 2011-03-01 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
240 test defs: unindent without temporary file
241 * tests/defs.in (commented_sed_unindent_prog): Commented Sed program
242 that strips the "proper" amount of leading whitespace.
243 (unindent): Lazily strip comments from the above program and use it
244 to unindent without using a temporary file.
246 2011-02-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
248 libtool: suggest LT_INIT if LTLIBRARIES primary is used
249 When the LTLIBRARIES primary was used, but $(LIBTOOL) wasn't
250 defined, automake suggested to add a call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
251 in configure.ac. But that macro is deprecated since Libtool
252 version 1.9b (2004-08-29), in favor of the newer LT_INIT. So
253 suggest the use of this latter macro instead.
254 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (%_am_macro_for_var): Pair 'LIBTOOL'
255 with 'LT_INIT', not with 'AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'.
256 * libtool4.test: Adjust and extend. Also, add a call to macro
257 AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, to help ensuring that automake does
258 not fail for the wrong reasons.
259 * ltinit.test: New test, ensure that automake's libtool support
260 works with LT_INIT-based interface.
261 Thanks to Jack Kelly for the suggestion.
263 2011-02-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
265 tests: tempdirs with restrictive permissions are cleaned correctly
266 Before this change, the removal of a temporary test directory
267 containing subdirectories with restrictive permissions (such as
268 'r--r--r--') could fail.
269 * tests/defs: Ensure that all the subdirectories of a temporary
270 test directory have the 'read', 'write' and 'execute' bits set,
271 before trying to remove it with `rm -rf'.
272 * tests/Makefile.am (clean-local-check): Likewise.
274 2011-02-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
275 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
277 test defs: add subroutine for input unindenting
278 * tests/defs.in (unindent): New subroutine.
280 2011-02-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
282 python: report the 'PYTHON' influential environment variable
283 * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Call AC_ARG_VAR on PYTHON.
284 * doc/automake.texi (Python): Update and extend.
285 * tests/help-python.test: New test.
286 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
287 * THANKS (Jack Kelly): Update e-mail address.
288 Suggestion by Jack Kelly.
290 2011-02-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
292 tests defs: clear TESTS_ENVIRONMENT variable
293 * tests/defs.in (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset it, so that values
294 from environment won't interfere with the testcases.
295 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
297 2011-02-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
299 tests: tweak few tests on simple and parallel test drivers
300 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Improve heading comments.
301 * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: Likewise. Also, unset the
302 `FOO_EXIT_STATUS' variable, so that any pre-existing value in the
303 environment won't risk to interfere with the test.
304 Suggestions by Ralf Wildenhues.
306 2011-02-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
308 coverage: more tests on simple and parallel test drivers
309 * tests/parallel-tests-subdir.test: New test.
310 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Likewise.
311 * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: Likewise.
312 * tests/check-tests_environment.test: Likewise.
313 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
315 2011-01-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
317 tests: fix spurious failures in lflags*.test
318 * tests/lflags.test: Remove 'LEX' from the environment, so
319 that it won't be erroneously picked up by `make -e'.
320 * tests/lflags2.test: Likewise.
322 2011-01-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
324 docs: color-tests issues with parallel make
325 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Document that automatic
326 recognition of a capable terminal attached to stdout can fail
327 with some make implementation when running in parallel mode,
328 thus causing colored test output not to be automatically
329 activated when it should.
331 2011-01-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
333 tests: avoid instspc.test failures due to make's whitespace trimming
334 * tests/instspc.test: Prepend './' when passing the test
335 characters, to avoid leading whitespace characters to be trimmed
336 from macros set from environment variables. Fixes testsuite
337 failures with HP-UX, IRIX, and Tru64/OSF make.
339 2011-01-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
341 coverage: test semantics of "dummy" per-target flags
342 * tests/specflg-dummy.test: New test, ensuring that even "dummy"
343 per-target flags triggers the use of renamed objects.
344 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
345 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
347 2011-01-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
349 tests defs: sanitize IFS
350 * tests/defs.in ($IFS): Define to <space>, <tab>, <newline>.
351 ($sp): New variable, holding a single whitespace character.
352 ($tab): New variable, holding a tabulation character.
353 ($nl): New variable, holding a newline character.
355 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
357 tests: fix VPATH auto-expansion workarounds.
358 * tests/parallel-tests8.test, tests/suffix13.test:
359 Ensure $< is not surrounded by white space, to prevent Solaris
360 make from applying automatic VPATH text expansion.
362 2011-01-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
364 tests: fix spurious failures in yflags*.test
365 * tests/yflags.test: Remove 'YACC' from the environment, so
366 that it won't be erroneously picked up by `make -e'.
367 * tests/yflags2.test: Likewise.
369 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
371 tests: avoid fn99*.test failures due to buggy AIX 5.3 cp -R.
372 * tests/fn99.test, tests/fn99subdir.test: Skip if an initial
373 `cp -R' of the subdir tree already fails; AIX 5.3 cp messes
374 up its internal memory when copying this tree.
376 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
377 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
379 Add comment to check-TESTS rule working around make 3.80 bug.
380 * lib/am/check.am (check-TESTS): Update comment.
382 2011-01-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
384 tests: less strict double-colon spy.test again.
385 * tests/spy.test: We know BSD make doesn't invoke more than one
386 double-colon rule, so no need to expose that failure.
388 2011-01-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
390 install-sh: avoid Tru64 sh `test' operator precedence issues.
391 * lib/install-sh: Protect file names and directory components
392 that consist of `=', `(', `)', or `!'. Move protection as early
393 as possible, to avoid errors such as with Tru64 sh `test -z ='.
394 * tests/instsh2.test: Extend test to cover more possibilities.
395 Fixes 1.12 instspc-equal-install.test failure on Tru64/OSF 5.1.
397 2011-01-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
398 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
400 docs: automake testsuite doesn't use TESTS_ENVIRONMENT anymore
401 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Do not claim Automake uses
402 TESTS_ENVIRONMENT for the perl driver. Instead, point to the
403 parallel-tests driver.
405 2011-01-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
407 Allow _AM_DEPENDENCIES to be used later in configure.
408 * m4/depend.m4 (_AM_DEPENDENCIES): Remove a previously existing
409 conftest.dir before recreating it.
411 Report by Eric Blake, from report by Scott McCreary against M4.
413 2011-01-18 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
415 tests: avoid failure on w32 file systems.
416 * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: SKIP if file cannot
417 be turned unreadable.
419 2011-01-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
421 tests: allow double-colon spy.test to work with HP-UX make.
422 * tests/spy.test: Fix comment typos. Ensure prerequisites we
423 do not want to depend on are strictly older than the target.
424 Also test with a target out of date wrt. more than one rule.
426 2011-01-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
428 tests: remove useless requirements from cond36.test
429 * tests/cond36.test ($required): Remove.
430 Since we are at it, add a trailing `:' command.
432 2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
433 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
435 parallel-tests: work around Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh read bugs.
436 * lib/am/check.am ($(TEST_SUITE_LOG), recheck, recheck-html):
437 Test file readability before redirecting input from it, to avoid
438 exiting Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh which treats read as special builtin.
439 * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: New test.
440 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
443 2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
445 * NEWS, README: Update copyright years.
447 Fix parallel-tests.test failure with HP-UX make.
448 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Sleep inside inner tests, so logs
449 are newer than logs of tests they depend on, for HP-UX make.
451 2011-01-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
453 docs: ensure example are separated with empty lines in the input
454 * doc/automake.texi (Extending aclocal, Emacs Lisp, Rebuilding)
455 (API Versioning, Renamed Objects, Multiple Outputs): Add empty
456 lines before `@example' and after `@end example' lines, so info
457 output is rendered correctly, and a following @noindent honored.
458 Report by Stefano Lattarini.
460 2011-01-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
462 tests: fix comment typo
463 * tests/substref.test: Fix grammar in a comment.
465 2011-01-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
467 tests: fix spurious failures in two texinfo tests
468 * tests/txinfo.test ($required): Add 'makeinfo'.
469 * tests/txinfo8.test: Create a dummy 'textutils.info' file, so
470 that make won't try to run makeinfo (which could be unavailable)
472 Found by NixOS Hydra, reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
474 2011-01-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
476 Avoid testsuite failures due to Autoconf Fortran change.
477 Autoconf v2.68-21-g727ce95 causes AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS to
478 require computing the canonical host name. Ensure config.guess
479 and config.sub files are present for respective checks.
480 * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Add stub files.
481 * tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
482 * tests/fort4.test: Use $AUTOMAKE -a for installing files.
484 2011-01-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
486 docs: clustered '-d' not recognized in YFLAGS
487 This change fixes automake bug#7828.
488 * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Document that automake
489 recognizes '-d' in AM_YFLAGS only if it's not clustered with
491 From a report by Юрий Пухальский.
493 2011-01-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
495 tests: add checks on automatically-distributed files
496 Related to automake bug#7819.
497 * tests/autodist.test: New test.
498 * tests/autodist-subdir.test: Likewise.
499 * tests/autodist-acconfig.test: Likewise.
500 * tests/autodist-acconfig-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
501 * tests/autodist-aclocal-m4.test: Likewise.
502 * tests/autodist-config-headers.test: Likewise.
503 * tests/autodist-configure-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
504 * tests/autodist-stamp-vti.test: Likewise.
505 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
507 2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
509 tests: work around a texi+cygnus bug causing a spurious XFAIL
510 * tests/txinfo5b.test: New test, like txinfo5.test but calling
511 automake with the `-Wno-override' option to work around a bug
512 in the texinfo + cygnus interaction.
513 * tests/txinfo5.test: Update heading comments.
514 * tests/Makefile.am (TEST): Updated.
516 2011-01-09 Dave Hart <davehart@gmail.com> (tiny change)
518 Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
519 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
521 2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
523 Improve, extend and tweak tests on Texinfo support.
524 * tests/instdir-texi.test: Add a call to `ls -l' after that to
525 `make', for debugging. When looking for required tools, do not
526 redirect the output of "$tool --help" to /dev/null, and do not
527 uselessly run it in a subshell.
528 * tests/txinfo.test: Rewritten to run autoconf, ./configure and
529 make. All checks moved into Makefile.am.
530 * tests/txinfo8.test: Likewise, and modernize the generated
532 * tests/txinfo2.test: Moved checks into Makefile.am, and other
534 * tests/txinfo5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
535 changes. Add trailing `:' command.
536 * tests/txinfo6.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
537 Makefile.in stricter.
538 * tests/txinfo7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
539 changes. Add trailing `:' command. Do not add unnecessary stuff
541 * tests/txinfo9.test: Verify that more targets which are expected
542 to be generated only once really are. Make grepping less strict,
543 to avoid exposing too much internal details. More minor changes.
544 * tests/txinfo16.test: Add trailing `:'. Prefer cat over echo
545 for appending to configure.in. Updated/fixed heading comments.
546 * tests/txinfo23.test: Likewise, and extended a little by making
547 it check that no info file is created in the $(srcdir).
548 * tests/txinfo24.test: Likewise.
549 * tests/txinfo25.test: Likewise.
550 * tests/txinfo18.test: Add trailing `:'. Prefer cat over echo
551 for appending to configure.in. Also, check that index files are
552 cleaned also by "make clean", not only by "make distclean".
553 * tests/txinfo22.test: Prefer `$me' over hard-coded test name,
554 and added trailing `:' command. This testcase also used to check
555 that automake ignores in-line comments when using variables, but
556 preserves them in the output; these checks (added in commit
557 "Release-1-7f-4-g9177ef8") do not really pertain to this test,
558 so they have been moved ...
559 * tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: ... into this new test.
560 * tests/txinfo4.test: Escape literal dots in grep regexps. Add
561 trailing `:' command.
562 * tests/txinfo29.test: Likewise. Relax grepping of generated
563 Makefile.in w.r.t. whitespaces. Prefer `cat' over `echo' to
564 append to configure.in.
565 * tests/txinfo3.test: Likewise.
566 * tests/vtexi.test: Improve grepping of Makefile.in (sometimes
567 make it stricter, sometimes laxer). Move `set -e' setting just
568 after the inclusion of ./defs. De-uglify a sed command. Other
569 minor cosmetic improvements.
570 * tests/vtexi2.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in stricter. Add
571 trailing `:' command.
572 * tests/vtexi3.test: New test on version.texi support.
573 * tests/vtexi4.test: Likewise.
574 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
576 2011-01-09 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
578 Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
579 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
581 2011-01-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
583 cosmetics: remove trailing whitespaces
584 * doc/automake.texi: Remove trailing whitespaces.
585 * tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
586 * tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
587 * tests/fort4.test: Likewise.
588 * tests/fort5.test: Likewise.
589 * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
590 * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
592 automake: minor fixes in comments
593 * automake.in: Some minor fixes and enhancements in comments.
595 2011-01-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
597 Add test coverage for deleted header files.
598 * tests/depcomp6.test, tests/depcomp7.test: Update tests to
599 also check for the deleted header bug. If no dependency
600 tracking mechanism could be found, SKIP rather than exit
601 successfully. Use GNU style spacing and ANSI C prototypes.
603 Fix typos in Rule.pm comments.
604 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typos in comments.
606 docs: split 'amhello Explained' node.
607 * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Split node ...
608 (amhello's configure.ac Setup Explained)
609 (amhello's Makefile.am Setup Explained) : ... into these two.
610 (Top, Hello World): Adjust, and add @anchor for stable URL links.
611 Suggestion by Karl Berry in automake bug#7766.
613 2011-01-08 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
614 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
616 docs: reference defining directories in amhello node.
617 * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Point to Autoconf
618 manual for how to convert directory values into macros.
619 (Optional): Fix grammar nit.
621 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
623 * NEWS: Fix typo (forgotten word).
625 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
626 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
628 docs: how to work around checks on invalid primary/directory couples
629 * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): Document the blessed idiom which can
630 be used to work around automake checks on invalid primary/directory
631 couples (such as `lib_PROGRAMS' or `doc_LIBRARIES').
633 2011-01-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
635 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
636 * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
639 Fix maintainer-check regression.
640 * tests/subobj11a.test: Pass DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS in the
643 Bump copyright years.
644 * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
645 * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
646 * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
648 2010-12-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
649 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
651 Work around a bug in file-inclusion mechanism of Solaris make.
652 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): In the name of the
653 dependency file: collapse multiple slash characters into a single
655 * tests/subobj11a.test: New test.
656 * tests/subobj11b.test: Likewise.
657 * tests/subobj11c.test: Likewise.
658 * tests/depcomp8a.test: Likewise.
659 * tests/depcomp8b.test: Likewise.
660 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
662 Report by Stefano Lattarini, quick fix by Ralf Wildenhues, final
663 patch and tests by Stefano Lattarini.
665 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
667 Fix two spurious testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5.
668 * tests/suffix13.test (Makefile.am): Account for VPATH issues on
669 weaker make implementations (e.g. IRIX 6.5).
670 * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise, plus a required related
672 Reported by Ralf Wildenhues. The bugs have been there from the
673 first versions of the affected test scripts.
675 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
677 docs: cygnus mode doesn't require AM_CYGWIN32 macro.
678 * doc/automake.texi (Cygnus): Mode 'cygnus' does not require
679 the AM_CYGWIN32 macro (and indeed hasn't required it since at
680 least commit Release-1-2-31-g3038064 "merged changes from
681 Cygnus" of 1997-08-25).
683 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
685 distlinksbrk.test: Work around botched "make -k".
686 * tests/distlinksbrk.test: Run "make" multiple times and grep
687 its output each time for a single error message, rather than
688 running "make -k" one single time and grepping its output for
689 all the expected error messages. This should work around make
690 implementations with limited (broken?) `-k' support; for more
691 information, see these subthreads on the automake-patches list:
692 - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on HP-UX 11.23",
693 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00162.html>
694 - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5",
695 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00166.html>
697 2010-12-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
699 Fix sed-related buglet in test "subdir5.test"
700 * tests/subdir5.test: Always terminate text passed to the
701 `i' sed command with a newline, to work around limitations
702 in e.g. older OpenBSD sed.
704 2010-12-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
706 docs: fix blunder in example about python extension modules
707 * doc/automake.texi (Python): Use `quaternion_la_SOURCES',
708 not `quaternion_SOURCES', to declare the sources of python
709 extension module `quaternion.la'.
711 2010-12-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
713 docs: list LTLIBRARIES among Automake primaries
714 * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): List `LTLIBRARIES' among
715 the Automake primaries.
717 2010-12-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
719 Improve tests on generated portions of configure help screen.
720 * tests/help-depend.test: Grepping of configure help screen
721 relaxed to cater for possible line wrapping, and tightened in
723 * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
724 * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
725 * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
726 * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
727 * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
728 * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
729 * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
730 * tests/help-init.test: Grepping of configure help screen
733 2010-12-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
735 Avoid running installed automake from 'libtool --help'.
736 * tests/subobj9.test: Export AUTOCONF and AUTOMAKE.
737 Together with fixed Libtool, this fixes check-coverage to not
738 invoke installed automake.
740 2010-11-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
742 Fix spurious failures in `silent*.test' for $CC != gcc
743 In some tests on automake-produced silent rules, we forced the
744 use of gcc depmode to improve testsuite coverage; but this has
745 unsurprisingly led to spurious failures when some non-GNU C
746 compilers were used. So we are now careful to require GCC in
747 tests that force gcc depmode.
748 From reports by Ralf Wildenhues.
749 * silent5.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
750 * silent-many-generic.test, silent-many-gcc.test: ... these new
751 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
753 * silentlex.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
754 * silent-lex-generic.test, silent-lex-gcc.test: ... these new
755 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
757 * silentyacc.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
758 * silent-yacc-generic.test, silent-yacc-gcc.test: ... these new
759 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
761 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
763 2010-11-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
765 Tests: consistently use "|| Exit 1" after ". ./defs".
766 * tests/autohdr.test: Use `. ./defs || Exit 1', not bare
767 `. ./defs', for consistency with other tests.
768 * tests/autohdr2.test: Likewise.
769 * tests/autohdr3.test: Likewise.
770 * tests/autohdr4.test: Likewise.
771 * tests/cond23.test: Likewise.
772 * tests/cond24.test: Likewise.
773 * tests/cond25.test: Likewise.
774 * tests/cond26.test: Likewise.
775 * tests/cond27.test: Likewise.
776 * tests/cond28.test: Likewise.
777 * tests/cond29.test: Likewise.
778 * tests/cond30.test: Likewise.
779 * tests/cond31.test: Likewise.
780 * tests/cond32.test: Likewise.
781 * tests/cond33.test: Likewise.
782 * tests/cond34.test: Likewise.
783 * tests/cond35.test: Likewise.
784 * tests/cond36.test: Likewise.
785 * tests/cond37.test: Likewise.
786 * tests/cond38.test: Likewise.
787 * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
788 * tests/cond40.test: Likewise.
789 * tests/cond41.test: Likewise.
790 * tests/cond42.test: Likewise.
791 * tests/cond43.test: Likewise.
792 * tests/cond44.test: Likewise.
793 * tests/cond45.test: Likewise.
794 * tests/dollarvar.test: Likewise.
795 * tests/dollarvar2.test: Likewise.
796 * tests/hfs.test: Likewise.
797 * tests/libobj14.test: Likewise.
798 * tests/percent.test: Likewise.
799 * tests/percent2.test: Likewise.
800 * tests/phony.test: Likewise.
801 * tests/silent.test: Likewise.
802 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
803 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
804 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
805 * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
806 * tests/silent6.test: Likewise.
807 * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
808 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
809 * tests/silentcxx.test: Likewise.
810 * tests/silentf77.test: Likewise.
811 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
812 * tests/silentlex.test: Likewise.
813 * tests/silentyacc.test: Likewise.
815 Avoid useless cleaning in some `silent*.test' tests.
816 * tests/silentf77.test: Removed useless calls to "make clean"
817 and "make maintainer-clean".
818 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
819 * tests/silent3.test: Removed useless call to "make distclean".
820 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
821 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
823 2010-11-19 Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
825 Sync config-ml.in from GCC.
826 * config-ml.in: Add Go support: treat GOC and GOCFLAGS like other
827 compiler/flag environment variables.
829 2010-11-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
831 Automake::Config: remove extra trailing semicolon.
832 * lib/Automake/Config.in: Remove extra trailing semicolon.
834 help4.test: fix botched heading comment.
835 * tests/help4.test: Fixed the heading comment, since it
836 didn't correctly describe what checks the testcase was
839 help2.test: add checks on aclocal too.
840 * tests/help2.test: Check that also `aclocal --version' and
841 `aclocal --help' work with configure.in and acinclude.m4 both
844 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
846 Fix spurious failures of silent-rules tests with Sun Fortran.
847 * tests/silentf77.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
848 messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers, to
849 avoid spurious failures. Add a trailing `:' command.
850 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
852 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
854 Fix spurious failures of silent5.test with Sun Fortran.
855 * tests/silent5.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
856 messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers,
857 to avoid spurious failures. This bug has been there from the
858 very first version of this test script.
860 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
862 Fix regression in colon{5,6}.test (failures on AIX 5.3).
863 * tests/colon5.test: Also substitute `@SHELL@' with `$SHELL' when
864 post-processing the generated Makefile.in, to work around a bug
865 of AIX 5.3 make which doesn't allow setting the `$(SHELL)' macro
866 on the commend line. Calls to `$MAKE' adjusted accordingly.
867 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
868 Regression introduced in commit v1.11-175-gf9fe878 "Modernize,
869 improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test", and reported by Ralf
872 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
874 Fix regression in ansi.test (failure on AIX 5.3).
875 * tests/ansi.test: Remove redundant hackish check done using a
876 hand-postprocessed Makefile.in. This check worked by setting
877 the `$(SHELL)' macro on the command line of make, but this is
878 not supported by the AIX 5.3 make implementation.
879 This bug has been lurking for a long time, and was activated by
880 commit v1.11-125-gc1f6cdb "Enable `errexit' shell flag in various
881 tests". Report by Ralf Wildenhues.
883 2010-11-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
885 tests: avoid '##'-style comments inside recipe commands.
886 * tests/confh.test, tests/confh8.test: Remove
887 double-hash comments from makefile rule commands, they
888 are not part of the Automake API.
890 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
892 tests: work around dash quoting issue in case statements.
893 * tests/color.test, tests/color2.test: Quote variable in case
894 pattern, to avoid skipping tests with dash 0.5.5.1.
896 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
898 Rebuild menus in the manual.
899 * doc/automake.texi: Rebuild menus (using ^C ^U ^A in emacs).
900 Thanks to Ian Lance Taylor for the suggestion.
902 Fix install-strip when $(STRIP) contains several words.
903 * lib/am/install.am (install-strip): Update comment. Use
904 separate sub-make invocations for empty and nonempty $(STRIP),
905 to fix quoting issues.
906 * tests/strip2.test, tests/strip3.test: New tests.
907 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Adjust.
909 2010-11-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
911 Fix yaccdry.test failure: require bison.
912 * tests/yaccdry.test: Require bison.
913 Found by NixOS Hydra.
915 2010-11-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
917 Fix a bug in variable concatenation with `+='.
918 * lib/Automake/VarDef.pm (append): Since the content of the
919 "appended-to" variable is going to be unconditionally normalized
920 later, simply separate the appended value with a single whitespace
921 character, instead of trying to be uselessly smarter by using
922 escaped newlines. This fixes a bug in which extra backslashes
923 where erroneously inserted in the variable's final value.
924 * tests/pluseq11.test: New test, exposing the bug.
925 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
926 Reported by Andy Wingo.
928 2010-11-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
930 Fix bug in rules for creating vala vapi/header files.
931 * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Add forgotten "fi" in an
932 if control structure in a generated make rules. Bug introduced
933 by previous commit `v1.11-221-gd7c1679', and revealed by failure
934 of test `vala2.test'.
936 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
938 Fix and document rules to not touch the tree with `make -n'.
939 * doc/automake.texi (Multiple Outputs): Document the problem of
940 modifications during dry-run execution, propose solution.
942 * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Split recipe so the
943 stamp file is not removed with GNU `make -n'.
944 (lang_yacc_target_hook): Separate removal of parser output file
946 * lib/am/lisp.am ($(am__ELCFILES)): Determine whether -n was
947 passed to make, take care not to remove any files in that case.
948 * lib/am/remake-hdr.am (%CONFIG_H%): Separate removal of
949 %STAMP% file from induced remaking of config header.
950 * tests/autohdrdry.test, tests/lispdry.test, tests/yaccdry.test:
952 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
954 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
956 Add FAQ entry for bug reporting instructions.
957 * doc/automake.texi (Reporting Bugs): New section.
958 (Introduction): Refer to it.
960 2010-10-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
962 Add support for newer python versions.
963 * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Add python2.7 and python3.2 to
964 _AM_PYTHON_INTERPRETER_LIST. Since we are at it, break a long
965 line and fix indentation.
967 From a report by Thomas Klausner.
969 Add test for `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' macro.
970 * tests/dmalloc.test: New test.
971 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
973 Fix nits and bugs in tests `help*.test'.
974 * tests/help4.test: Fix broken sed commands used to strip `-W...'
975 flags away from "$AUTOMAKE" and "$ACLOCAL".
976 * tests/help3.test: Likewise, and fix a botched comment.
977 * tests/help.test: Likewise. Also, use "AUTOMAKE_fails ..."
978 instead of "$AUTOMAKE ... && Exit 1", for consistency and to
979 please maintainer-check.
980 * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
982 2010-10-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
983 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
985 Improve tests `help*.test' (also fixes maintcheck failures).
986 * tests/help.test: To run automake, use `$AUTOMAKE' with all `-W'
987 flags stripped away rather than hard-coded `automake-$APIVERSION',
988 to better honour user-overrides. Similarly for aclocal.
989 * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
990 * tests/help3.test: Likewise.
991 * tests/help4.test: Likewise.
993 2010-10-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
995 Document and fix expansion of variables before rules.
996 * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Document that variables
997 are expanded before rules.
998 * lib/am/check.am (am__check_post): Reword a bit so it does not
999 get matched as a rule.
1000 Suggestion by Ben Pfaff.
1002 2010-10-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1004 Revert "parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue."
1005 This reverts commit 24e3b4ee2f8cb9f72dd94a05a893f3d4e88b7835,
1006 because it re-opened the bug fixed by v1.11-10-g218e678.
1008 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1010 parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
1011 * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
1012 substitution %MAKEFILE%.
1013 (generate_makefile): Adjust.
1014 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
1015 sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
1016 input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
1019 Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
1021 2010-09-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1023 Extend tests on `--help' and `--version' options.
1024 * tests/help.test: Create a new empty directory and chdir into
1025 it, rather than removing already present files. Run the aclocal
1026 and automake wrapper scripts directly, instead of relying on
1027 $AUTOMAKE and $ACLOCAL. Be sure to correctly match literal dots
1028 in aclocal's and automake's stderr. Add a trailing `:' command.
1029 * tests/help2.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
1030 `--version' works in directories with broken `configure.in'.
1031 * tests/help3.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
1032 `--version' take precedence on the other options.
1033 * tests/help4.test: New test, checking that the first among the
1034 `--help' and `--version' options to be specified on the command
1036 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1038 2010-09-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1040 Testsuite: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when extending PATH.
1041 * tests/compile2.test: Do no uselessly (implicitly) repeat the
1042 computation of PATH_SEPARATOR again.
1043 * tests/instmany-mans.test: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when
1044 extending/redefining PATH.
1045 * tests/instmany-python.test: Likewise.
1046 * tests/instmany.test: Likewise.
1047 * tests/man4.test: Likewise.
1048 * tests/mkinst3.test: Likewise.
1049 * tests/mmodely.test: Likewise.
1050 * tests/multlib.test: Likewise.
1051 * tests/txinfo30.test: Likewise.
1052 * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
1054 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_PATH_SEPARATOR): New maintainer check.
1055 (syntax_check_rules): Updated.
1057 Testsuite: new variables `$PATH_SEPARATOR' and `$APIVERSION'.
1058 * tests/defs.in ($APIVERSION): New AC_SUBST'd variable.
1059 ($ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE): Use it.
1060 ($PATH_SEPARATOR): New AC_SUBST'd variables.
1063 2010-09-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1065 Manual: be more agnostic w.r.t. version control system used.
1066 * doc/automake.texi (Basics of Distribution): Also refer to `.svn'
1067 directories as a type of probably-unwanted files that are copied
1068 regardless when adding directories to EXTRA_DIST.
1069 (The dist Hook): Show a dist-hook example which removes Subversion
1070 `.svn' private directories from distdir, rather than CVS private
1072 (missing and AM_MAINTAINER_MODE): Try to be more agnostic w.r.t.
1073 the version control system used.
1075 Manual: index refer to target "git-dist", not "cvs-dist".
1076 * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Index the non-standard
1077 example about "git-dist" under the "git-dist" label, not under
1080 Perl modules: remove references to "Automake CVS repository".
1081 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Update comments to refer to "Automke's
1082 git repository" rather than to "Automake's CVS repository".
1083 * lib/Automake/Configure_ac.pm: Likewise.
1084 * lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm: Likewise.
1085 * lib/Automake/Struct.pm: Likewise.
1086 * lib/Automake/XFile.pm: Likewise.
1087 * lib/Automake/Version.pm (=head1 DESCRIPTION): Refer to "git
1088 branches" rather than "CVS branches".
1090 Remove obsolete .cvsignore files.
1091 * .cvsignore, doc/.cvsignore, lib/.cvsignore, lib/am/.cvsignore,
1092 lib/Automake/.cvsignore, lib/Automake/tests/.cvsignore,
1093 m4/.cvsignore, tests/.cvsignore: Files deleted. Even when using
1094 savannah's CVS readonly mirror there's no way to commit back to
1095 the real repository, so this files are not worth maintaining or
1098 2010-09-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1100 * m4/dmalloc.m4: Bump serial number and copyright years.
1102 2010-09-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1104 Fix broken link in `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' help screen.
1105 * m4/dmalloc.m4 (AM_WITH_DMALLOC): Refer only to the dmalloc site
1106 `http://www.dmalloc.com', not to the dmalloc tarball there (which
1107 seems to have been removed, substituted by multiple release
1110 2010-09-17 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
1112 Avoid triple-space after period.
1113 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): Avoid 3 spaces at
1115 * ChangeLog.03: Likewise.
1116 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Likewise.
1117 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (_print_message): Likewise.
1118 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm (rule): Likewise.
1119 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (var): Likewise.
1120 * lib/am/distdir.am: Likewise.
1121 * tests/insthook.test: Likewise.
1123 2010-09-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1125 Test automake-generated portions of configure help screen.
1126 * tests/help-depend.test: New test.
1127 * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
1128 * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
1129 * tests/help-init.test: Likewise.
1130 * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
1131 * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
1132 * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
1133 * tests/help-regex.test: Likewise.
1134 * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
1135 * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
1136 * tests/mmode.test: Remove tests on `configure --help' output,
1137 they are superseded by tests in `help-maintainer.test'.
1138 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1140 2010-09-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1142 * tests/README: Don't put GCS mandated tools in $required.
1144 2010-09-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1146 * HACKING: Hint at old commits with `git describe' output.
1148 2010-09-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1150 Fix regression in test `colon4.test'.
1151 * tests/colon4.test: Fix botched editing to `configure.in'
1152 that made the test useless. Since we are at it, improve
1153 comments and make grepping of generated Makefile.in slightly
1155 Regression introduced by change "Modernize, improve and/or
1156 extend tests `colon*.test" (Stefano Lattarini, 2010-08-08).
1158 2010-09-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1160 Do not require "gzip" explicitly in tests.
1161 The gzip utility is simply expected to be present on any decent
1162 target system for Automake. So it's pointless to put it in
1164 * tests/install2.test ($required): Do not require "gzip".
1165 * tests/lex3.test: Likewise.
1166 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
1167 From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
1169 Make some `confh*.test' tests more "semantic" (plus tweakings).
1170 * tests/confh.test: Run "autoconf", "configure" and "make check",
1171 instead of munging/grepping the generated `Makefile.in'.
1172 * tests/confh4.test: Relax the grepping of Makefile.in w.r.t.
1173 white spaces. Do not create useless dummy source file `foo.c'
1174 and useless dummy header file `acconfig.h'.
1175 (configure.in): Remove superfluous call to `AC_OUTPUT'.
1176 * tests/confh6.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1177 * tests/confh7.test: In comments, add reference to ...
1178 * tests/confh8.test: ... this new test, "semantic" sister
1180 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1181 Prompted by a report from Ralf Wildenhues.
1183 Remove useless whitespace padding in XFAIL_TESTS definition.
1184 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Remove whitespace padding.
1186 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1188 parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
1189 * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
1190 substitution %MAKEFILE%.
1191 (generate_makefile): Adjust.
1192 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
1193 sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
1194 input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
1197 Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
1199 Posix 2008 requires make to set errexit.
1200 * lib/am/check.am: Update comment.
1202 2010-08-27 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1204 Fix bug in test missing6.test.
1205 * tests/missing6.test: Fix the hack used to edit `configure.in',
1206 to avoid producing a configure script that breaks with shells
1207 that do not support $LINENO. Also throw in a couple of cosmetic
1210 2010-08-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1212 Improve robustness of mdate-sh script.
1213 * lib/mdate-sh: Sanitize zsh behavior on startup, to ensure
1214 $ls_command is word-split properly upon invocation.
1215 (error): New function.
1216 (main): Use it. Improve error checking to avoid endless loop
1217 in case $ls_command gave bogus output. Fix eval quotation.
1218 * tests/mdate6.test: New test, to expose eval quotation error.
1219 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
1221 2010-08-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1223 Fix potential regressions in depcomp{3,5}.test.
1224 * tests/depcomp3.test: Do not uselessly escape the character `$'
1225 in makefile rules, when it's used to expand a make macro.
1226 * tests/depcomp5.test: Likewise.
1228 2010-08-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1229 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1231 Docs: clarify how to avoid automatic dependencies tracking.
1232 * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Mention that
1233 automatic dependencies tracking is enabled by default, but that
1234 the package developer can disable it altogether. Add a reference
1235 to the proper section for a more in-depth explanation.
1237 Fix typo in manual (`Makefile.in' instead of `Makefile.am').
1238 * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Fix typo.
1240 2010-08-16 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
1242 Don't hide the table of contents.
1243 * doc/automake.texi: Move the table of contents to the beginning.
1245 2010-08-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1247 Tweak and/or extend some `acloca*.test' tests.
1248 * tests/aclocal8.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured
1250 * tests/aclocal.test: Likewise. Also, add trailing `:'
1252 * tests/acloca19.test: Likewise.
1253 * tests/aclocal5.test: Add trailing `:' command, and prefer
1254 `$me' over hard-coded test name.
1255 * tests/aclocal6.test: Likewise.
1256 * tests/aclocal18.test: Add trailing `:' command, and make
1257 some grepping slightly stricter.
1258 * tests/acloca14.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `diff' over
1259 `cmp', and add some "cosmetic" blank lines.
1261 2010-08-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1263 Tweak and extend tests `pr[!0-9]*.test'.
1264 * tests/primary3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1265 * tests/primary.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
1266 Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
1267 * tests/primary2.test: Likewise.
1268 * tests/prefix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
1269 changes. Add a trailing `:' command.
1270 * tests/proginst.test: Likewise.
1272 Modernize, improve and extend tests for PR (`pr[0-9]*.test').
1273 * tests/pr2.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1274 * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
1275 * tests/pr401.test: Likewise.
1276 * tests/pr401b.test: Likewise.
1277 * tests/pr401c.test: Likewise.
1278 * tests/pr300-prog.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic changes in
1280 * tests/pr300-lib.test: Likewise.
1281 * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise, and ensure verbose printing
1282 of captured make stdout.
1283 * tests/pr211.test: Add trailing `:' command. Also, use the
1284 `configure.in' stub created by ./defs, rather than writing it
1286 * tests/pr204.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic spacing changes.
1287 * tests/pr287.test: Likewise, and move setting of `errexit' shell
1288 flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs).
1289 * tests/pr220.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
1290 Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
1291 * tests/pr224.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1292 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Do not export
1293 `CC=gcc' to configure explicitly (it's already exported globally
1294 in ./defs, since we have "gcc" in $required). Use the stub for
1295 `configure.in' created by ./defs, rather than writing it from
1296 scratch. Do not create dummy files required by "gnu" mode (e.g.
1297 README, NEWS), since we run automake in foreign mode anyway.
1298 * tests/pr72.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
1299 changes. Extend existing checks a bit.
1300 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise. Also, avoid obsolescent constructs in
1301 the generated `configure.in', and extend existing checks over the
1302 generated tarball a bit.
1303 * tests/pr87.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
1304 changes. Add a trailing `:' command. Also, do not create dummy
1305 files required by "gnu" mode (e.g. README, NEWS), since we run
1306 automake in foreign mode anyway.
1307 * tests/pr243.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
1308 `configure.in'. Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
1309 changes. Cosmetic changes to spacing, add trailing `:' command,
1310 and add a "FIXME" comment.
1311 * tests/pr266.test: Likewise, and add explicit command line switch
1312 `--enable-dependecy-tracking' to the ./configure call.
1313 * tests/pr279.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
1314 `configure.in'; also, use the `configure.in' stub created by
1315 ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch. Enable `errexit'
1316 shell flag, and related changes. Add trailing `:' command.
1317 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
1319 * tests/pr307.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1320 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Escape literal
1321 dots in grep regular expressions. Also, add a trailing `:'
1322 command, and cosmetic changes to spacing.
1324 Tests for PR: add excerpts from original bug report, for clarity.
1325 * tests/pr2.test: Ditto.
1326 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
1327 * tests/pr72.test: Likewise.
1328 * tests/pr87.test: Likewise.
1329 * tests/pr211.test: Likewise.
1330 * tests/pr220.test: Likewise.
1331 * tests/pr224.test: Likewise.
1332 * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
1333 * tests/pr243.test: Likewise.
1334 * tests/pr266.test: Likewise.
1335 * tests/pr279.test: Likewise, and tell to keep it in sync
1336 with its sister test.
1337 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
1339 2010-08-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1341 Tweak, extend and improve tests `cond[a-z]*.test'.
1342 * tests/condd.test: Add trailing `:' command. Typofix in
1344 * tests/condhook.test: Make sure target `install-data-hook' is
1345 not called by `make install', but that data files are installed.
1346 Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in. Add trailing `:' command.
1347 * tests/condhook2.test: New test, sister test of condhook, with
1349 * tests/condinc2.test: Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
1350 Prefer trailing `:' command over trailing `Exit 0'.
1351 * tests/condman2.test: Enable errexit shell flag, and related
1352 changes. Add trailing `:' command.
1353 * tests/condman.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless
1354 dummy manpages, and use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
1355 * tests/condman3.test: New test, similar to condman.test, but
1356 it also runs ./configure and "make install", and check the
1358 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1360 Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test.
1361 * tests/colon.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
1362 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Do not create
1363 a useless dummy file. Add trailing `:' command.
1364 * tests/colon4.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
1365 related changes. Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
1366 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1367 * tests/colon7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1368 changes. Improve the generated `configure.in' file. Add
1369 trailing `:' command.
1370 * tests/colon2.test: Likewise. Also, add some new checks.
1371 * tests/colon5.test: Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
1372 Add new, much deeper checks. Add trailing `:' command.
1373 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
1374 * tests/colon3.test: Add trailing `:' command. Remove useless
1375 comments and echos. Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
1376 make some grepping tests stricter. Add a "FIXME" comments about
1377 planned improvements.
1379 Improve and extend tests `asm*.test'.
1380 * tests/asm.test: Use configure.in stub generated by ./defs,
1381 and avoid obsoleted autoconf constructs. Make grepping of
1382 Automake stderr stricter. Do not create useless source file.
1383 Improve verbose messages. Minor cosmetic changes. Tell to
1384 keep it in sync with other sister tests asm*.test.
1385 * tests/asm2.test: Likewise.
1386 * tests/asm3.test: Likewise.
1388 Modernize, improve and/or extend test scripts `conf*.test'.
1389 * tests/confh5.test: Cosmetic changes.
1390 * tests/conff.test: Likewise.
1391 * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise.
1392 * tests/conflnk.test: Likewise.
1393 * tests/conflnk2.test: Likewise.
1394 * tests/confsub.test: Likewise.
1395 * tests/confvar.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
1397 * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
1398 * tests/conflnk3.test: Cosmetic changes. Re-enable a temporarily
1399 disabled test (which didn't work with autoconf <= 2.59, but now we
1400 are requiring autoconf 2.62, so...)
1401 * tests/conflnk4.test: Cosmetic changes, and extend existing tests
1402 accordingly to "TODO" comments.
1403 * tests/conff2.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
1404 Add some comments explaining why we don't use the `configure.in'
1405 stub preset be ./defs.
1406 * tests/confh.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
1407 rather than writing one from scratch, and do not call AC_OUTPUT.
1408 Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related changes. Prefer diff over
1409 cmp to compare text files. Prefer perl over sed to fetch the value
1410 of $(DIST_COMMON) from Makefile.in. Make grepping of the contents
1411 of $(DIST_COMMON) stricter.
1412 * tests/confh4.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
1413 rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping of Makefile.in
1415 * tests/confh5.test: Make grepping of `config.h' stricter. Add a
1417 * tests/configure.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in generated
1418 `configure.ac'. Do not write `configure.in' two times. Escape
1419 literal dots in grep regular expressions.
1420 * tests/confincl.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1421 changes. Prefer fgrep over grep. Other cosmetic changes.
1422 * tests/config.test: Renamed to ...
1423 * tests/confh6.test: ... this. Fix m4 quoting in `configure.in',
1424 and make grepping of `config.h' and `config.h.in' stricter.
1425 * tests/conf2.test: Renamed ...
1426 * tests/confh7.test: ... to this. Use the `configure.in' stub
1427 created by ./defs, rather than writing one from scratch. Try to
1428 run the checks both with and without AC_PROG_CC and AC_OUTPUT in
1430 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1432 Minor improvements and fixes in tests `depcomp*.test'.
1433 * tests/depcomp.test: Do not create useless dummy source files.
1434 Add a trailing `:' command.
1435 * tests/depcomp2.test: Use `unset' on the CFLAG variable to ensure
1436 it's not in in the environment, rather than exporting it with an
1437 empty value. Do not pass CC=gcc to configure, as that's already
1438 done in ./defs since we have gcc in $required. Ensure verbose
1439 printing of captured stderr, and normalize its checking. Add a
1440 trailing `:' command.
1441 * tests/depcomp3.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
1442 grep regexps. Always use `: >' rather than `touch' to create empty
1443 files. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the created
1444 Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:' command.
1445 * tests/depcomp4.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
1446 grep regexp. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the
1447 created Makefile.am. Ensure verbose printing of captured makes'
1448 stoud/stderr. Add a trailing `:' command.
1449 * tests/depcomp5.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1450 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Quote literal dots
1451 and dollar characters in grep regexps. Explicitly declare phony
1452 targets as such in the created Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:'
1454 * tests/depcomp6.test: Consistently use m4 quoting in the generated
1455 configure.in. Cosmetic fixes to spacing. Make the "dummy" `if'
1456 statement required by OpenBSD's sh `set -e' more robust, and add
1457 explanatory comments to it.
1458 * tests/depcomp7.test: Likewise, and add a trailing `:' command.
1460 Separate failing part of test `all.test'.
1461 * tests/all.test: Keep only (x)failing part of the test. Working
1462 checks moved out to ...
1463 * tests/all2.test: ... this new test.
1464 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1466 Modernize, improve and extend tests `subobj*.test'.
1467 * tests/subobjname.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1468 * tests/subobj.test: Make grepping of `Makefile.in' stricter.
1469 Escape literal dots in grep regexps.
1470 * tests/subobj2.test: Add trailing `:' command. Do not use the
1471 unportable fgrep option `-e'.
1472 * tests/subobj3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1473 (configure.in): Use proper m4 quoting, and avoid obsolescent
1475 * tests/subobj8.test: Likewise. Also, enable `errexit' shell
1476 flag, with related changes
1477 * tests/subobj4.test: Likewise. Also, make grepping of
1478 `Makefile.in' stricter.
1479 * tests/subobj5.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of
1480 `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
1482 (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
1483 writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
1484 * tests/subobj6.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of
1485 `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
1486 of ./defs). Do not create useless dummy ac-init file `f'.
1487 * tests/subobj7.test: Do not create useless dummy ac-init file
1489 (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
1490 writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
1491 * tests/subobj9.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1492 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Fail the test if
1493 `make distcheck' fails. Ensure verbose printing of captured make
1494 stdout. Avoid useless fork by doing simple grep instead of using
1495 test -n "`COMMAND | grep ...`".
1496 (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
1497 (Makefile.am): Explicitly mark target "print" as phony.
1498 * tests/subobj10.test: Removed duplicated call to `set -e'. Add
1499 trailing `:' command.
1500 (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
1502 Remove a couple of obsoleted tests.
1503 * tests/fpinstall.test: Removed.
1504 * tests/fpinst2.test: Likewise.
1505 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1507 Bootstrap: updated HACKING entry.
1508 * HACKING ("Working with git"): Explain how to override the
1509 autoconf and autom4te programs used by the bootstrap process.
1512 * bootstrap: Do not remove `lib/Automake/Config.pm' anymore,
1513 since we don't generate it. Correctly quote arguments of
1514 `eval' builtin. Fixed a botched error message. Removed an
1517 Bootstrap: don't search perl in $PATH.
1518 * bootstrap: Do not explicitly search perl in $PATH anymore.
1519 ($PATH_SEPARATOR): Removed, it's no more needed.
1521 Bootstrap: let the user choose which autoconf to use.
1522 * bootstrap ($AUTOCONF): New variable, from the environment.
1523 ($AUTOM4TE): Likewise, for clarity.
1524 Use "$AUTOCONF" instead of calling "autoconf" directly.
1526 Minor improvements to tests ar*.test.
1527 * tests/ar.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1528 * tests/ar2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
1529 Makefile.in stricter.
1531 2010-08-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1533 Fix maintainer-check failure.
1534 * tests/cond5.test: Quote sleep argument, this isn't about
1535 time stamp differences.
1537 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
1538 * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
1541 2010-08-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1543 Work around a nasty bug (segfault) of Solaris make.
1544 * lib/am/check.am (recheck, recheck-html): Trim trailing spaces
1545 from $list, to avoid triggering a nasty bug (potential segfault)
1548 2010-08-06 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
1550 Make cond5.test more robust on MSYS.
1551 * tests/cond5.test: Add delay before the first kill attempt to
1552 cater for problems with MSYS bash.
1554 2010-07-31 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1556 Add example git work flow; discuss merge --log in HACKING.
1558 Suggestion by Stefano Lattarini.
1560 Add more hints for debugging make rules.
1561 * doc/automake.texi (Debugging Make Rules): Show command to find
1562 out expanded values of variables; point to makefile debugger.
1564 Prompted by suggestion from Ludovic Courtès and Andy Wingo.
1566 2010-07-27 Patrick Welche <prlw1@cam.ac.uk> (tiny change)
1568 Fix typo in the manual.
1569 * doc/automake.texi (Scripts): Fix typo.
1571 2010-07-27 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1573 Document current policy for development with git.
1574 * HACKING (Working with git): Overhaul.
1575 Prompted by suggestion from Stefano Lattarini.
1577 Fix AM_COND_IF for gone-invalid condition shell expression.
1578 * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): test contents of $COND_TRUE
1579 variable, rather than re-evaluating the shell expression for
1581 * tests/cond40.test: Extend test.
1584 Avoid syntax error if IF-TRUE part of AM_COND_IF expands empty.
1585 * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): Ensure IF-TRUE part is never empty
1586 to avoid shell syntax error if the m4 expansion is empty.
1587 * tests/cond40.test: Enhance test.
1589 Coverage: bogus option to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
1590 * tests/init2.test: New test.
1591 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
1593 2010-07-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1595 Modernize and improve test scripts `subdir*.test'.
1596 * tests/subdir.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1597 changes. Use the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs',
1598 rather than writing one from scratch.
1599 * tests/subdir2.test: Likewise.
1600 * tests/subdir4.test: Likewise.
1601 * tests/subdir3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1602 changes. Do not create useless dummy source files.
1603 * tests/subdir5.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in (in topdir
1604 and in subdirs) stricter. Some minor changes to keep it more
1605 in sync with the related test `subdir8.test'.
1606 * tests/subdir8.test: Likewise (but with the related test being
1607 `subdir5.test' here).
1608 * tests/subdir6.test: Cosmetic change in spacing.
1609 * tests/subdir9.test: Define and use new variable `$distdir'. Add
1610 trailing `:' command.
1611 * tests/subdir10.test: Cosmetic consistency-related change.
1612 * tests/subdirbuiltsources.test: Cosmetic changes in spacings.
1613 (configure.in): Use stub created by `./defs', rather than writing
1614 it from scratch. Do not use obsoleted and/or deprecated forms of
1615 autoconf/automake macros.
1617 Modernize and improve test scripts `dist*.test'.
1618 * tests/distcleancheck.test: Do not add useless `-e' option to
1619 a $MAKE call. Extend test by grepping stderr of make.
1620 * tests/distcom2.test: Do not run the same test script on the
1621 Makefile.in twice, but save its output in an intermediate file
1622 instead. Make grepping of DIST_COMMON definition stricter.
1623 Display the content of more files, to ease debugging. Add a
1624 trailing `:' command. Improved heading comments w.r.t. sister
1626 * tests/distcom6.test: Likewise, and avoid to uselessly run
1628 * tests/distcom3.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured stdout
1629 and stderr. Make grepping of captured stderr stricter. Also,
1630 add trailing `:' command.
1631 * tests/distcom4.test: Declare the target `test' in the generated
1632 Makefile.am as `.PHONY'. Display content of more files, to ease
1633 debugging. Add trailing `:' command.
1634 * tests/distcom5.test: Likewise. Also, factor out common sed
1635 script in subroutine `extract_distcommon'.
1636 * tests/distcom7.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to write
1637 test Makefile.am files. Add a trailing `:' command.
1638 * tests/distname.test: Prefer `gzip -d' over `gunzip'. Move the
1639 call to `set -e' earlier. Be stricter and more verbose in the
1640 checking of the generated tarball.
1641 (configure.in): Use the stub provided by ./defs, instead of
1642 writing it from scratch. Avoid obsoleted constructs. Remove
1643 useless call to `AM_PROG_CC_C_O'.
1644 * tests/distdir.test: Various minor improvements/normalizations.
1645 * tests/distlinks.test: Likewise.
1647 2010-07-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1649 Improve and extend test cond5.test.
1650 * tests/cond5.test: Do not blindly sleep 60 seconds before polling
1651 the background automake process, but poll it every 10 seconds for
1652 at most 30 times (this makes the test both faster on good machines,
1653 and more resilient to spurious timeout-due failures when in low
1654 priority or on heavily-loaded systems).
1655 Check also that automake writes the expected error messages on the
1657 Enable `errexit' flag, and related changes.
1658 Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs', rather than
1659 writing one from scratch.
1661 2010-06-26 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1663 Update program --help output to match current GCS.
1664 * configure.ac: Set and substitute PACKAGE_URL if AC_PACKAGE_URL
1665 is not defined, for compatibility to Autoconf < 2.64.
1666 * Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute PACKAGE_BUGREPORT and
1668 (sc_diff_automake_in_automake): Update number of diff lines for
1669 additional substitutions.
1670 * aclocal.in (usage): Use PACKAGE_BUGREPORT. Point to Automake
1671 home page and GNU general help page.
1672 * automake.in (usage): Likewise.
1673 * doc/automake.texi: New flag PACKAGE_BUGREPORT, to factor email
1675 (Introduction, Creating amhello, amhello Explained, Options):
1677 * lib/Automake/Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute
1679 * lib/Automake/Config.in ($PACKAGE_BUGREPORT): New global.
1680 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Use it for footer of fatal
1683 Clean up @var handling in the manual.
1684 * doc/automake.texi: Throughout the manual, lower-case @var
1685 names, replace a few one-character names.
1687 2010-06-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1689 Fix typo-related bug in test script silent5.test.
1690 * tests/silent5.test: Use $EGREP, not $GREP (which is not even
1693 Tests: remove useless repetitions of `foreign' automake option.
1694 * tests/multlib.test (configure.in): Remove useless use of
1695 `foreign' option in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (the `--foreign' option is
1696 already in $AUTOMAKE by default, so no point in repeating it).
1697 * tests/subobj10.test: Likewise.
1698 * tests/subobj9.test: Likewise.
1699 * tests/lex3.test (Makefile.am): Similarly, remove useless use
1700 of `foreign' option in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
1701 * tests/lex5.test: Likewise.
1702 * tests/pr279.test: Likewise.
1703 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
1704 * tests/specflg3.test: Likewise.
1705 * tests/target-cflags.test: Likewise.
1707 Drop useless requirement "gzip" in lex5.test.
1708 * tests/lex5.test ($required): Do not list "gzip", as it's
1711 2010-06-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1713 Fix bugs in test script silent5.test.
1714 * tests/silent5.test: Fixed a nasty bug (due to the use of grep
1715 instead of egrep) that could have led to false negatives.
1717 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1719 Add a test checking that distributed broken symlinks cause
1720 `make dist' to fail.
1721 * tests/distlinksbrk.test: New test.
1722 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1724 2010-06-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1726 Fix minor testsuite issues, update docs, for Yacc/Lex changes.
1727 * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Mention AM_YFLAGS, YFLAGS
1728 and AM_LFLAGS, LFLAGS in the order in which they now appear in
1731 * tests/lflags.test, tests/lflags2.test, tests/yflags.test,
1732 tests/yflags2.test: Prefer `make -e' over `make VAR=VAL', to
1733 please maintainer-check. Ensure generated C files contain a
1734 declaration, to please compilers.
1736 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1738 Fix bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t. $(AM_FLAGS) and
1739 $(FLAGS) precedence.
1740 * automake.in: Fix registration of languages "Lex", "Lex (C++)",
1741 "Yacc" and "Yacc (C++)", so that $(LFLAGS) has precedence over
1742 $(AM_LFLAGS) and $(YFLAGS) has precedence over $(AM_YFLAGS).
1743 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1746 New tests, exposing bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t.
1747 $(AM_FLAGS) and $(FLAGS) precedence.
1748 * tests/lflags.test: New test, check that user $(LFLAGS) takes
1749 precedence over automake (AM_LFLAGS) and (foo_LFLAGS). Still
1751 * tests/lflags2.test: Likewise.
1752 * tests/yflags.test: New test, check that user $(YFLAGS) takes
1753 precedence over automake (AM_YFLAGS) and (foo_YFLAGS). Still
1755 * tests/yflags2.test: Likewise.
1756 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Extended accordingly.
1758 2010-06-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1760 Modernize, improve and extend tests `suffix*.test'.
1761 * tests/suffix3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1763 * tests/suffix4.test: Likewise.
1764 * tests/suffix6.test: Likewise, and do not create a useless dummy
1766 * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
1767 * tests/suffix5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1768 changes. Make grepping of Makefile.in slightly stricter.
1769 * tests/suffix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1770 changes. Also, do not redirect grep output to /dev/null, as this
1771 might unmotivatedly hide useful information.
1772 * tests/suffix2.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1773 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Use a more
1774 idiomatic way to count text occurrences in Makefile.in with
1775 grep. Do not create useless dummy source files.
1776 * tests/suffix10.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured make
1777 stdout. Minor cosmetic changes.
1778 * tests/suffix8.test: Likewise. Also, drop useless call to the
1779 env(1) utility, and make grepping of make output stricter by using
1780 $FGREP rather than plain grep.
1781 * tests/suffix11.test: Likewise.
1782 * tests/suffix12.test: Likewise.
1783 * tests/suffix9.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to append to
1784 the `configure.in' stub. Cosmetic changes.
1785 * tests/suffix13.test: Cosmetic spacing change.
1787 2010-06-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1789 Add useful comment in test script ext.test.
1790 * tests/ext.test: Add a comment explaining why an apparently
1791 useless `if' statement is indeed required.
1793 Add useful comment in test script obsolete.test.
1794 * tests/obsolete.test: Add a comment explaining why we need
1795 an indirection in adding $AUTOUPDATE to $required.
1797 Normalize whitespaces in 'tests/Makefile.am'.
1798 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Use only spaces, not tabs, in the
1799 definition of this variable.
1801 2010-06-12 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1803 Remove a couple of unneeded conditionals from tests.
1804 * tests/pr243.test, tests/pr266.test, tests/strip.test: No need
1805 for the FOOTEST conditional.
1807 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1809 Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
1810 * tests/symlink3.test: Deleted, separated into two new, more
1812 * tests/forcemiss.test: ... this one ...
1813 * tests/forcemiss2.test: ... and this one.
1814 * tests/symlink2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, make test
1815 stricter, and skip it if symlink creation is not supported.
1816 * tests/postproc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, related
1817 changes, and a couple of unrelated cosmetic changes.
1818 * tests/recurs.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
1819 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping
1820 of Automake stderr slightly stricter.
1821 * tests/substtarg.test: Likewise.
1822 * tests/strip.test: Likewise, and move the call to `set -e'
1823 earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs'). Also, make sure
1824 that the script installed by `make install-script' is equal to
1826 * tests/substref.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
1827 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Move the call
1828 to `set -e' earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs').
1829 Avoid to explicitly export CC for configure (that's already done
1830 in ./defs). Avoid potential problems with unpredictable make
1831 output. Finally, make grepping of Makefile.in stricter.
1832 * tests/substre2.test: Ensure verbose printing of the captured
1833 make's output, and make its grepping slightly stricter.
1834 * tests/cygwin32.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1835 changes. Also, do not create useless dummy source/data files.
1836 * tests/scripts.test: Likewise.
1837 * tests/recurs2.test: Likewise. Also, use the `configure.in'
1838 stub created by `./defs'.
1839 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1841 Modernize, improve and/or fix tests `pluseq*.test.
1842 * tests/pluseq5.test: Append to configure.in using cat with an
1843 here-doc, not using echo.
1844 * tests/pluseq10.test: Make sure that the captured output of
1845 `make' command is always displayed. Where possible, use $FGREP
1846 instead of grep (this change makes some checks slightly stricter).
1847 * tests/pluseq8.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
1849 * tests/pluseq.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless dummy
1850 data files, and use better m4 quoting in generated configure.in.
1851 * tests/pluseq2.test: Likewise. Also, append to configure.in
1852 using cat with an here-doc, not using echo.
1853 * tests/pluseq3.test: Likewise.
1854 * tests/pluseq4.test: Likewise.
1855 * tests/pluseq6.test: Likewise.
1856 * tests/pluseq7.test: Do not create useless dummy source file.
1857 * tests/pluseq9.test: Slightly extended w.r.t. the grepping of
1858 Automake stderr. Some unrelated cosmetic changes.
1860 Testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured stderr.
1861 * tests/acloca18.test: Print captured stderr before either failing
1862 or grepping it. Be sure to send captured stderr to stderr, not to
1864 * tests/ansi3b.test: Likewise.
1865 * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
1866 * tests/configure.test: Likewise.
1867 * tests/missing3.test: Likewise.
1868 * tests/missing6.test: Likewise.
1869 * tests/output-order.test: Likewise.
1870 * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise.
1871 * tests/python6.test: Likewise.
1872 * tests/python7.test: Likewise.
1873 * tests/python8.test: Likewise.
1874 * tests/python9.test: Likewise.
1875 * tests/subobj.test: Likewise.
1876 * tests/vars3.test: Likewise.
1877 * tests/missing4.test: Likewise, and fix a call to grep not to use
1879 * tests/ansi3.test: Likewise, and rely on the `configure.in' stub
1880 created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1882 Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
1883 * tests/backsl.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
1885 * tests/backsl2.test: Likewise.
1886 * tests/block.test: Likewise.
1887 * tests/canon2.test: Likewise.
1888 * tests/canon4.test: Likewise.
1889 * tests/comment2.test: Likewise.
1890 * tests/condlib.test: Likewise.
1891 * tests/cond15.test: Likewise, and prefer $FGREP over grep.
1892 * tests/canon3.test: Likewise. Also, avoid to create an useless
1894 * tests/acoutpt2.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and some
1895 related changes. Do some cosmetic improvements in the generated
1896 `configure.in' file.
1897 * tests/cond4.test: Likewise.
1898 * tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
1899 * tests/condinc.test: Likewise.
1900 * tests/cond7.test: Likewise. Also, remove useless setting of
1901 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am.
1902 * tests/ansi.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
1903 changes. Extended, esp. by running autoconf, ./configure and
1904 make, and by looking into the distdir.
1906 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1907 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1909 Extend tests/README w.r.t. trailing `:' in test scripts.
1910 * tests/README (section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
1911 Explain why apparently redundant trailing `:' and `Exit 0' in
1912 test scripts can indeed be useful.
1914 2010-06-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1916 Improve determination of PATH separator in bootstrap script.
1917 * bootstrap: Determine what the PATH separator is the same way
1920 Minor improvements in bootstrap script.
1921 * bootstrap: Consistently use two-spaces indentation. Cosmetic
1922 improvement to comments.
1923 ($me): New variable, containing program basename.
1924 Prepend it to all error messages.
1926 Testsuite now works with BSD make in parallel mode.
1927 * tests/defs.in: Unset variables __MKLVL__ and MAKE_JOBS_FIFO,
1928 which are exported by BSD make when run in parallel mode, and
1929 which can confuse make processes spawned by our testsuite.
1930 This change fixes a lot of spurious failure when the testsuite
1931 is run with BSD make in parallel mode.
1933 2010-06-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1935 Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
1936 * tests/sanity.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
1937 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1938 * tests/depend2.test: Likewise. Also, call `set -e' just after
1939 the inclusion of `./defs', instead that later in the script.
1940 * tests/canon5.test: Avoid a useless `|| Exit 1' after a call to
1941 $AUTOMAKE, and improve the positioning of an $ACLOCAL call.
1942 * tests/exeext4.test: Use $FGREP instead of grep, where possible.
1943 Make auxiliary rules in the generated Makefile more silent.
1944 These changes make some checks slightly stricter.
1945 * tests/ext2.test: Call `Exit 1' if inclusion of `./defs' fails.
1946 * tests/gettext2.test: Place final `:' at the end of the script,
1947 rather than in the middle.
1948 * tests/exeext.test: Call `set -e' just after the inclusion of
1949 `./defs', instead that later in the script.
1950 * tests/extra5.test: Likewise.
1951 * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `mv -f' over
1952 plain `mv', just to be sure.
1953 * tests/depcomp.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
1954 changes. Also, modernize the generated configure.in.
1955 * tests/cond9.test: Likewise. Also, rely on the `configure.in'
1956 stub created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1957 * tests/cond10.test: Likewise.
1958 * tests/depcomp2.test: Likewise.
1959 * tests/depend3.test: Likewise.
1960 * tests/distcom7.test: Likewise.
1961 * tests/fortdep.test: Likewise. Also, remove definition of
1962 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am,
1963 since that flag is already provided by $AUTOMAKE.
1964 * tests/mdate.test: Made stricter, by checking that Automake
1965 actually failed, and by making a stricter grep on the error
1966 message. Also, set shell `errexit flag'.
1967 * tests/python2.test: Improved verbose messages.
1969 Make test `ammissing.test' stricter.
1970 * tests/ammissing.test: Fail if $ACLOCAL succeeds unexpectedly.
1971 Enable `errexit' shell flag.
1973 2010-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1975 Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
1976 * tests/subcond.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
1978 * tests/subst.test: Likewise.
1979 * tests/vars.test: Likewise.
1980 * tests/version4.test: Likewise.
1981 * tests/vpath.test: Likewise.
1982 * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
1983 * tests/werror.test: Likewise.
1984 * tests/whoami.test: Likewise.
1985 * tests/tags.test: Likewise, and avoid to crate an useless dummy
1987 * tests/acsilent.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
1988 command substitution.
1989 * tests/unused.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
1990 command substitution.
1991 * tests/version.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
1992 in the generated `configure.in'.
1993 * tests/version2.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
1994 in the generated `configure.in'.
1996 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1998 Prefer AUTOMAKE_fails over `$AUTOMAKE | grep' in tests.
1999 * tests/ldadd.test: Enable errexit. Use AUTOMAKE_fails so
2000 the verbose log contains all output.
2001 * tests/mdate.test: Likewise.
2002 Prompted by Stefano Lattarini's change to discover.test.
2004 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2006 Improve tests link*.test (enable `errexit' shell flag).
2007 * tests/link_c_cxx.test: Enable `errexit shell flag, and related
2008 changes. Also, do not create useless source files.
2009 * tests/link_dist.test: Likewise.
2010 * tests/link_f90_only.test: Likewise.
2011 * tests/link_f_only.test: Likewise.
2012 * tests/link_fc.test: Likewise.
2013 * tests/link_fccxx.test: Likewise.
2014 * tests/link_fcxx.test: Likewise.
2016 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2018 Improve ext.test semantics, avoid OpenBSD sh errexit issue.
2019 * tests/ext.test: Inside shell compound command, use
2020 `if $cmd; then Exit 1; fi' rather than `$cmd && Exit 1', to
2021 fix failure with OpenBSD sh introduced with last patch.
2022 Actually ensure that a rule for .EXT.o is created for each
2023 known extension EXT.
2025 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2027 Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
2028 * tests/dash.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
2030 * tests/defun.test: Likewise.
2031 * tests/defun2.test: Likewise.
2032 * tests/dejagnu.test: Likewise.
2033 * tests/double.test: Likewise.
2034 * tests/distcom2.test: Likewise.
2035 * tests/empty2.test: Likewise.
2036 * tests/empty3.test: Likewise.
2037 * tests/empty4.test: Likewise.
2038 * tests/exdir.test: Likewise.
2039 * tests/ext.test: Likewise.
2040 * tests/extra.test: Likewise.
2041 * tests/extra2.test: Likewise.
2042 * tests/extra3.test: Likewise.
2043 * tests/extra4.test: Likewise.
2044 * tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
2045 * tests/fnoc.test: Likewise.
2046 * tests/fo.test: Likewise.
2047 * tests/instexec.test: Likewise.
2048 * tests/ltdeps.test: Likewise.
2049 * tests/nodep.test: Likewise.
2050 * tests/nodepcomp.test: Likewise.
2051 * tests/f90only.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
2052 comments and unnecessary commands.
2053 * tests/fonly.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
2054 comments and unnecessary commands.
2055 * tests/discover.test: Likewise, and made stricter.
2057 Enable `errexit' shell flag in all tests cxx*.test.
2058 * tests/cxx.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
2060 * tests/cxxansi.test: Likewise.
2061 * tests/cxxcpp.test: Likewise.
2062 * tests/cxxlibobj.test: Likewise.
2063 * tests/cxxlink.test: Likewise.
2064 * tests/cxxo.test: Likewise.
2066 Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
2067 * tests/acoutnoq.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
2069 * tests/acoutpt.test: Likewise.
2070 * tests/acoutqnl.test: Likewise.
2071 * tests/amassign.test: Likewise.
2072 * tests/ansi2.test: Likewise.
2073 * tests/ansi4.test: Likewise.
2074 * tests/badprog.test: Likewise.
2075 * tests/checkall.test: Likewise.
2076 * tests/clean.test: Likewise.
2077 * tests/colneq2.test: Likewise.
2078 * tests/colon.test: Likewise.
2079 * tests/colon5.test: Likewise.
2080 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
2081 * tests/comment.test: Likewise.
2082 * tests/compile_f90_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
2083 * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
2084 * tests/cond3.test: Likewise.
2085 * tests/cond6.test: Likewise.
2086 * tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
2087 * tests/conf2.test: Likewise.
2088 * tests/confvar.test: Likewise.
2089 * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
2090 * tests/cond8.test: Likewise, plus a cosmetic change.
2091 * tests/confh4.test: Likewise. Also, add in the heading comments
2092 an excerpt from the original bug report which motivated the
2093 creation of this test, to make its purpose clearer.
2095 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2097 Rewrite manual to be gender-neutral.
2098 * doc/automake.texi (GNU Build System)
2099 (Standard Directory Variables, General Operation, CVS)
2100 (Hard-Coded Install Paths, Dependencies As Side Effects):
2101 Rewrite text to not contain gender-specific pronouns when
2102 speaking about developers or users, either by avoiding pronouns
2103 or by addressing them as `you' instead.
2105 Report by Christina Gratorp.
2109 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2111 Make tests on user extensibility of silent-rules mode stricter.
2112 * tests/silent6.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
2113 output produced by `make'.
2114 * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
2116 Tests on silent-mode for C/Libtool made stricter.
2117 * tests/silent.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
2118 output produced by `make'.
2119 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
2120 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
2121 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
2122 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise, and add a final `make distclean'
2123 command to keep it better in sync with tests/silent{4,9}.test.
2125 Improved test silent5.test.
2126 * tests/silent5.test: Remove by hand all generated C files after
2127 non-verbose builds, to ensure the following builds are clean.
2128 Try to clean and rebuild with the same verbosity and without
2129 removing generated sources in between, to check that this does
2130 not trigger a different set of rules. Make grepping of make's
2131 output stricter. Improved/added some comments.
2133 New tests for Automake silent-mode with Fortran.
2134 * tests/silentf77.test: New test.
2135 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
2136 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2138 New test `silentcxx.test' (Automake silent-mode with C++).
2139 * tests/silentcxx.test: New test.
2140 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2142 New test `silentyacc.test' (Automake silent-mode with Yacc).
2143 * tests/silentyacc.test: New test.
2144 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2146 New test `silentlex.test' (Automake silent-mode with Lex).
2147 * tests/silentlex.test: New test.
2148 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2150 Relax tests on silent-rules to cater to overly verbose makes.
2151 * tests/silent.test: When testing silent builds, don't fail if
2152 make's output simply contains the `mv' substring, but only if
2153 it contains the `mv ' substring (note the trailing space).
2154 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
2155 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
2156 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
2157 * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
2158 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
2160 2010-01-24 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2162 Fix silent-rules output for disabled dependency tracking.
2163 * lib/am/depend2.am [!%FASTDEP%]: Rework silent-rules variable
2164 expansion code to also work in the case where %AMDEP% expands
2165 to FALSE at config.status time, using new substitution string
2167 * automake.in (verbose_nodep_flag): New function, appending
2168 `@am__nodep@' to the verbose-variable name.
2169 (handle_languages): If dependencies are not disabled, use it to
2170 set %VERBOSE-NODEP%.
2171 * m4/depend.m4: Substitute am__nodep as '_no', so the second
2172 verbose-variable will always expand to an empty string, if
2173 dependencies are enabled.
2174 * tests/silent5.test: Also test --disable-dependency-tracking;
2175 also test per-target flags for non-C language files.
2176 * tests/silent9.test: New test, like silent4.test but disable
2177 dependency tracking.
2178 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
2179 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
2180 Report by Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>.
2182 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2184 Extend test on `nostdinc' automake option.
2185 * tests/nostdinc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Related and
2186 unrelated minor changes. Make the grepping of the generated
2187 Makefile.in slightly stricter. Generate and run configure, so that
2188 the generated Makefile can be grepped too.
2190 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2192 Make gnupload portable to EBCDIC hosts.
2193 * lib/gnupload: Use literal newline as argument for 'tr' rather
2194 than \015, for EBCDIC hosts. Also, avoid unportable nested
2195 double-quotes and backquotes.
2197 Report from Eric Blake and Steve Goetze via gnulib.
2199 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2201 Fix Autoconf version required by Automake's configure.
2202 Automake configure script used to tell that automake required
2203 autoconf 2.60 or later, but then it checked for autoconf >= 2.62,
2204 and if that was not found, it gave an error saying that Automake
2205 required configure 2.61a-341 or later. This change should
2206 eliminate such inconsistencies.
2207 * configure.ac ($required_autoconf_version): New variable.
2210 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2212 Fix unportable sed script in maintainer-check test.
2213 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_Exit_not_exit): Rewrite sed script to
2214 not contain semicolon after 'b' or brace commands, for NetBSD.
2216 Wildcards are not portable to NetBSD make.
2217 * doc/automake.texi (Wildcards): Document portability issue.
2218 * tests/extra10.test, tests/extra11.test, tests/extra12.test:
2221 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2223 Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
2224 * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
2225 an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
2227 Avoid possible false negatives in dejagnu7.test.
2228 * tests/dejagnu7.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Also, avoid
2229 unportable use of fgrep option `-e'.
2231 Fix conflnk3.test to work with Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
2232 * tests/conflnk3.test: Use `test -r FILE' and `test ! -r FILE'
2233 instead of respectively `test -e FILE' and `test ! -e FILE',
2234 since Solaris Sh doesn't grok the latter. Do not SKIP the test
2235 if the shell doesn't support `test -e'.
2237 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2240 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Add
2241 missing closing parenthesis.
2243 Fix leftover call to removed function macros_dump.
2244 * automake.in (read_main_am_file): Call variables_dump, not
2245 macros_dump. Print actual error before list of variables.
2247 2010-04-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2249 Minor improvements in comments of test `silent3.test'.
2250 * tests/silent3.test: Tell to keep it in sync with `silent9.test'
2253 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2255 testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured output.
2256 * tests/acloca14.test, tests/acloca18.test, tests/aclocal.test,
2257 tests/fort2.test, tests/help.test, tests/missing3.test,
2258 tests/missing6.test: Print captured stdout or stderr before
2261 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2263 Make test badopt.test stricter (by enabling `set -e').
2264 * tests/badopt.test: Add call to `set -e'. Due to this change,
2265 an unexpected failure in the call to `$ACLOCAL' (whose outcome
2266 was previously unchecked) would cause the whole test to fail.
2267 Also, bumped the copyright years.
2269 Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
2270 * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
2271 an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
2273 Use `set -e' in confsub.test (avoids possible false negatives).
2274 * tests/confsub.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and related
2275 changes (this helps avoiding some possible minor false negatives).
2276 Also, bumped copyright years.
2278 2010-04-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2280 Fix -Werror handling for presence of configure.in and configure.ac.
2281 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (Automake::Variable): Do not initialize
2282 $configure_ac at the global level, before command-line arguments
2284 (require_variables): Initialize it here.
2285 * tests/configure.test: New test.
2286 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
2287 Report by Stefano Lattarini.
2289 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2291 Avoid possible false negatives in confh5.test.
2292 * tests/confh5.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and bumped
2293 copyright years. Due to this change, any unexpected failure
2294 in calls to $ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE, $AUTOCONF or $AUTOHEADER, or
2295 a failure in grepping expected text in output files should now
2296 cause the whole test to fail.
2298 2010-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2300 Fixed typo in POD documentation of Automake::Channels.
2301 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Fixed typo in POD documentation:
2302 @<...> was used instead of C<...>.
2304 2010-04-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2306 Refactor tests on Automake TESTS color output.
2307 * tests/color.test: Tests using the expect program moved out to...
2308 * tests/color2.test: ... this new file.
2309 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Extended accordingly.
2311 2010-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2313 Fix typos in comments in test confh5.test
2314 * tests/confh5.test: Fix a couple of typos in comments.
2316 Avoid possible false negatives in canon-name.test.
2317 * tests/canon-name.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Improve
2320 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2322 Fix per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror.
2323 Before this patch, 'AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = -Werror' in one
2324 Makefile.am would carry over to other Makefile.am files
2325 treated afterwards by the same thread, causing inconsistent
2326 and unstable exit status values.
2327 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (dup_channel_setup)
2328 (drop_channel_setup): Save and restore the setting of
2329 $warnings_are_errors.
2330 * tests/werror3.test: New test.
2331 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
2334 2010-04-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2336 Bugfix in confh5.test w.r.t. Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
2337 * tests/confh5.test: In the generated Makefile.am: do not use
2338 `test ! -e FILE' to check for the non-existence of a file, since
2339 that is not supported by Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
2341 Make test `aclocal3.test' stricter.
2342 * tests/aclocal3.test: Add call to `set -e'. Fail if $ACLOCAL
2343 succeds unexpectedly.
2345 Add tests checking that symlinks are resolved by `make dist'.
2346 * tests/distlinks.test: New test.
2347 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2348 Suggested by observations from Ralf Wildenhues.
2350 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2352 Use -9 for maximum xz compression with dist-xz.
2353 * lib/am/distdir.am (dist-xz, dist, dist-all): Pass -9 to xz.
2354 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
2355 Report by Pavel Sanda.
2357 2010-03-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2359 Avoid an unportable use of `$status' shell variable.
2360 * Makefile.am (path-check): Don't use the `$status' shell variable
2361 in the target's rules, as it's special in Zsh (equivalent to `$?',
2364 Avoid another use of `chmod -R'.
2365 * Makefile.am (path-check): To be safe, do not use `chmod -R' on
2366 $(distdir) before removing it (as Solaris `chmod -R' touches
2367 symlink targets). Instead, use the cleanup strategy used in
2370 2010-03-28 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2372 Remove uses of @acronym and @sc.
2373 * doc/automake.texi (Public Macros, Limitations on File Names):
2374 Remove all usage of @acronym and @sc in the manual.
2375 Suggested by Karl Berry.
2377 2010-03-13 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
2379 GNU hello uses fdl.texi, not gpl.texi.
2380 * doc/automake.texi (Texinfo): Adjust example to upstream
2383 2010-03-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2385 Formatting cleanups in macro comments.
2386 * automake.in, lib/Automake/Channels.pm,
2387 lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm, lib/Automake/Options.pm,
2388 lib/Automake/Variable.pm, lib/Automake/XFile.pm,
2389 m4/options.m4, m4/substnot.m4: Fix macro comment format.
2391 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2392 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2394 Avoid generation of `tests/defs-p' file.
2395 * tests/defs.in: In the generated `configure.in' snippet: call
2396 `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' with the `parallel-tests' option if the shell
2397 variable `parallel_tests' is set to `yes'.
2398 * tests/Makefile.am (defs-p): Target removed.
2399 (check_SCRIPTS): Removed `defs-p'.
2400 (clean-local-check): Do not unlink `defs-p' anymore.
2401 ($(parallel_tests)): Transformation rules for the test scripts
2403 * tests/gen-parallel-tests: Selection rules for the test
2405 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Set `$parallel_tests' to `yes'
2406 then include `./defs' (rather than simply including `./defs-p').
2407 * tests/parallel-tests2.test: Likewise.
2408 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
2409 * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
2410 * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
2411 * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
2412 * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
2413 * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise.
2414 * tests/parallel-tests9.test: Likewise.
2415 * tests/parallel-tests10.test: Likewise.
2416 * tests/README (Section "Writing Test Cases" subsection "Do"):
2417 Adjusted the parts referring to tests checking `parallel-tests'
2418 behaviour. Some other minor related improvements.
2419 * tests/.gitignore (defs-p): Removed.
2421 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2423 Remove redundant unset of variable TESTS from some test scripts.
2424 * tests/color.test: Do not unset the `TESTS' variable, as it's
2425 already unset in the `defs' file.
2426 * tests/check5.test: Likewise.
2427 * tests/check8.test: Likewise.
2428 * tests/check9.test: Likewise.
2429 * tests/check10.test: Likewise.
2430 * tests/check11.test: Likewise.
2431 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Likewise.
2432 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
2433 * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
2434 * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
2435 * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
2436 * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
2438 2010-02-22 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
2440 Improve help message of mdate-sh.
2441 * mdate-sh: mention actual output format in help message.
2443 2010-02-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2445 Deprecate dist-lzma in favor of dist-xz.
2446 * doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions, Options):
2447 Adjust text to reflect renaming of lzma to xz.
2449 Missing deprecation noted by Antonio Diaz Diaz.
2451 2010-02-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2453 Add tests about support of wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
2454 * tests/extra10.test: New test, check basic support of wildcards
2456 * tests/extra11.test: New test, check more complex usage of
2457 wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
2458 * tests/extra12.test: New test, check usage of wildcards in
2459 EXTRA_DIST when $builddir != $srcdir.
2460 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2461 Necessity of these new tests suggested by Braden McDaniel
2462 and Ralf Wildenhues.
2464 2010-02-08 Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
2466 Fix copyright statement in gnupload script.
2467 * lib/gnupload: Fix copyright statement.
2469 2010-02-06 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> (tiny change)
2470 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2472 Fix exit status of signal handlers in shell scripts.
2473 The value of `$?' on entrance to signal handlers in shell scripts
2474 cannot be relied upon, so set the exit code explicitly to
2476 * lib/am/check.am (am__check_pre): Use `exit 143' in signal handler.
2477 * lib/elisp-comp: Likewise.
2478 * lib/install-sh: Likewise.
2479 * lib/ylwrap: Likewise. Also, fix script to trap signal 13, not 3.
2480 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
2481 Bug report, analysis, and initial patch by Dmitry V. Levin.
2483 2010-02-06 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
2485 Improve gnupload usage text.
2486 * gnupload (usage): Shorten to make more likely to fit on a tty
2487 line. Mention CMD in the synopsis. With ..., plural is implied.
2489 2010-01-28 Christos Kontas <xakon@yahoo.com> (tiny change)
2491 Fix some typos in the manual
2492 * doc/automake.texi (Nested Packages, Rebuilding): Fix typos.
2494 2010-01-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2496 Slighty improve tests acoutbs.test and acoutbs2.test.
2497 * tests/acoutbs2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Check that
2498 autoconf and configure work, that the file `zot' is created by
2499 configure, and that no file containing a backslash in its name is
2501 * tests/acoutbs.test: Likewise, plus updated copyright years.
2503 Fix test acoutbs2.test.
2504 * tests/acoutbs2: In the generated configure.in: add proper calls
2505 to AC_INIT and AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, and remove explicit definition of
2506 PACKAGE and VERSION. Add a call to aclocal before calling automake.
2507 Updated copyright years.
2508 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Removed acoutbs2.test.
2510 Add forgotten test scripts to $(TESTS).
2511 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Added test scripts present on the
2512 filesystem, which were erroneously left out from $(TESTS):
2513 acoutbs2.test, badopt.test, extra2.test.
2514 (XFAIL_TESTS): Added acoutbs2.test.
2516 2010-01-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2518 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
2519 * INSTALL, lib/INSTALL, lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub:
2522 Bump copyright years.
2523 * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
2524 * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
2525 * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
2528 * ChangeLog.09: New file, rotated from ...
2529 * ChangeLog: ... here.
2530 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute ChangeLog.09.
2534 Copyright (C) 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2536 Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are
2537 permitted provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved.
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