1 2011-04-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3 tests: remove redundant test `mclean.test'
4 * tests/mclean.test: Remove, it's a weak grepping test completely
5 superseded by the much more complete `maintclean.test'.
6 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
8 2011-04-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
10 testsuite: more environment sanitization
11 * tests/defs.in: Sanity check: abort if any of `parallel_tests'
12 or `required' is in the environment.
13 ($sed_unindent_prog): Initialize to empty, to avoid interferences
15 * tests/self-check-me-in-env.test: Renamed to ...
16 * tests/self-check-env-sanitize.test: ... this, and extended.
17 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
18 (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset variables `parallel_tests' and
19 `required'. Adjust comments.
21 2011-04-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
23 tests: don't allow `$me' to be overridden from the environment
24 * tests/defs.in: Sanity check: abort if $me is in the environment.
25 * tests/self-check-me-in-env.test: New test.
26 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset variable `me'.
28 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
30 2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
32 test defs: allow overriding of `$me'
33 * tests/defs.in ($me): Allow overriding by the including test
34 script. Add some explicative comments.
36 2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
38 depcomp tests: don't reject slower dependency extractors
39 * tests/depcomp8b.test: Add the `--enable-dependency-tracking'
40 option to `configure' invocations, so that slower dependency
41 extractors are not rejected.
42 * tests/depcomp8b.test: Likewise. Also ...
43 (foo.c): ... since we are at it, fix spacing to be consistent
44 with GNU coding standards.
46 2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
48 m4: add missing serial numbers to a few files
49 Related to automake bug#8483.
50 * m4/amversion.in: Add serial number.
51 * m4/auxdir.m4: Likewise.
52 * m4/gcj.m4: Likewise.
53 * m4/install-sh.m4: Likewise.
54 * m4/mkdirp.m4: Likewise.
55 * m4/python.m4: Likewise.
56 * m4/runlog.m4: Likewise.
57 * m4/strip.m4: Likewise.
58 * m4/upc.m4: Likewise.
60 2011-04-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
62 depcomp: correct invalid sed invocation
63 * lib/depcomp: Insert missing -e before '/:$/d'.
64 Otherwise, that use of sed would treat '/:$/d' as a file name.
66 2011-04-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
68 maintainer check: quote literal `$' in Makefile rule
69 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_PATH_SEPARATOR): Escape literal `$'
70 character in double-quoted string. Fix a bug in which the rule
71 emitted an erroneously empty substring in its error message.
73 2011-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
75 coverage: test for automake bug#8485 (known regression)
76 * tests/yacc-dist-nobuild-subdir.test: New test.
77 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Update.
79 2011-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
81 test defs: define default $distdir (help reducing duplication)
82 * tests/defs.in ($distdir): New variable, might be used in
83 testcases checking distribution-related features.
84 * tests/pr9.test: Use it.
85 * tests/subdir9.test: Likewise.
86 * tests/vtexi3.test: Add comment explaining why we redefine
87 $distdir in this test.
89 2011-04-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
91 depcomp: fix bugs in tests and in the depcomp script
92 * lib/depcomp (gcc): Remove duplicated `-e' from sed invocation.
93 * tests/depcomp10.test: Make it executable. Fix a blunder that
94 has left part of an intended comment not prefixed by `#', thus
95 causing shell syntax errors. In this same comment, break a
96 too-long reported error message on multiple lines, for clarity.
97 Add reference to the relevant bug report. Add a comment which
98 explains why the test result 'skipped' if the first "make" call
99 fails. Add other useful comments.
100 * tests/depcomp9.test: Slightly improve comments.
102 2011-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
104 Fix hp depmode for VPATH builds with GNU make.
105 * lib/depcomp: Be sure to remove VPATH-prefixed object from
106 dependency output when creating stub rule.
107 * tests/depcomp10.test: New test.
108 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
110 Report by Bruno Haible.
112 2011-04-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
114 test defs: fix 'javac' requirement for older JDK versions
115 The Java compiler from JDK 1.5 (and presumably earlier versions)
116 cannot handle the `-version' option by itself; and while it does
117 print the version number, it then errors out with an usage error:
120 javac: no source files
121 Usage: javac <options> <source files>
123 Luckily, adding the `-help' option to the `javac' invocation
124 seems to fix this problem.
125 * tests/defs.in (javac): Pass also the `-help' option to the
126 `javac' program. Add a comment explaining why it is needed.
127 Report from Ralf Wildenhues.
129 2011-04-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
131 test defs: new requirement for the default java compiler
132 * tests/defs.in (for tool in $required): New requirement 'javac'.
133 * tests/java.test: Use it instead of ad-hoc configure check.
134 * tests/java-check.test: Likewise.
135 * tests/instfail-java.test: Likewise.
136 * tests/instdir-java.test: Likewise.
138 2011-04-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
140 java: check_JAVA does not cause compilation by "make all" anymore
141 Fixes automake bug#8234.
142 * automake.in (handle_java): Make stamp of class files built from
143 java sources in $(check_JAVA) a dependency of `check' target, not
145 * tests/java-check.test: New test.
146 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
149 Report from Petteri Räty.
151 2011-04-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
153 Clarify regex code in depcomp.
154 * lib/depcomp: Add comment why we don't need regex-escaping here.
155 Suggested by Stefano Lattarini.
157 2011-04-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
159 Fix makedepend depmode for VPATH builds.
160 * lib/depcomp [makedepend]: Remove any VPATH prefix from the
161 object file name, so a rebuild doesn't attempt to update the
162 .Po files in the source tree.
163 * tests/depcomp9.test: New test.
164 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
167 2011-04-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
169 tests: fix timestamp-related failures
170 Fixes automake bug#8365.
171 * tests/aclocal6.test: Sleep before modifying m4 files that should
172 trigger remake rules. Remove incorrect/obsoleted comments.
173 * tests/subdir5.test: Likewise, and extend a bit.
174 * tests/subdir8.test: Likewise.
175 * tests/pr8365-remake-timing.test: New xfailing test.
176 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
177 Report from Sam Steingold.
179 2011-04-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
181 Create subdirs for generated sources even when not dep tracking.
182 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): If $object is derived
183 and lands in subdir, be sure to output a dirstamp dependency.
184 * tests/yacc5.test: Avoid falsely matching the dirstamp
185 dependency when grepping for a rule.
186 * tests/lex-subobj-nodep.test: New test.
187 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
189 Report by Ignacy Gawedzki.
191 Fix locale issue in check-exported-srcdir.test.
192 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Reformulate glob to not fail
193 in a locale that ignores or interleaves character case.
195 2011-04-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
197 docs: better visibility for aclocal in the index
198 * doc/automake.texi (@menu): Rename title for entry 'configure'
199 from "Scanning configure.ac or configure.in" to the more precise
200 "Scanning configure.ac, using aclocal".
201 (@detailmenu): Adjust.
202 (@node configure): Adjust, and extend @cindex calls accordingly.
204 From a report by Maynard Johnson.
206 2011-03-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
208 tests: improve tests on "maintainer-clean" target
209 * tests/aclocal6.test: Move checks related to "maintainer-clean"
210 functionalities into ...
211 * tests/maintclean-vpath.test: ... this new test.
212 * tests/maintclean.test: Update heading comments. Extend to also
213 test subdirs. Remove useless disabling of YACC. Fix m4 quoting
214 in configure.in. Add a trailing `:' command. Remove extra blank
216 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
218 2011-03-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
220 tests: fix unindent to use printf not echo for script.
221 * tests/defs.in: Use printf rather than echo, as the latter may
222 interpret the backslashes in the sed script. Fixes test
223 failures with dash as /bin/sh.
225 2011-03-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
226 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
228 maintcheck: look for problematic names of testcases
229 The configure.in stub created by default by `tests/defs' obtains
230 the first argument of AC_INIT from the test name, and this can
231 cause some supported autoconf versions to fail with a spurious
232 error if that test name contains the name of an m4 or m4sugar
233 builtin or macro (e.g., `defn' or `m4_undefine').
234 See for example the bug fixed by commit v1.11-287-g1325a8a.
235 This change add a maintainer check that warns about test names
236 which are possibly problematic in this regard.
237 * Makefile.am (sc_test_names): New maintainer-check target.
238 (syntax_check_rules): Add it.
239 (m4_builtins): New helper variable.
240 (TESTS): Updated according to the following renamings.
241 * tests/include.test: Renamed ...
242 * tests/hdr-vars-defined-once.test: ... to this.
243 * tests/sinclude.test: Renamed ...
244 * tests/m4-inclusion.test: ... to this, and simplified
246 * tests/include2.test: Renamed ...
247 * tests/dist-included-parent-dir.test: ... to this, for
250 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
252 tests: fix bug in alloca*.test
253 * tests/alloca.test: Make grepping of automake stderr stricter,
254 add a trailing `:' command; also, add AC_PROG_CC to configure.in,
255 and create a dummy alloca.c file, to ensure that we fail for the
257 * tests/alloca2.test: Likewise. Also, look for LT_INIT, not
258 AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, in the error message (bug introduced with commit
259 v1.11-315-gd51e7b7 "libtool: suggest LT_INIT if LTLIBRARIES
261 From a report by Patrick Welche.
263 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
265 tests: fix bug (comments-in-var-defn.test + autoconf 2.62)
266 * tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: The configure.in stub created
267 by default, which has the AC_INIT first argument obtained by the
268 test name, causes autoconf 2.62 to fail with a spurious error
269 message like: "configure.in:1: error: defn: undefined macro:".
270 Thus, to prevent this, the test is renamed to ...
271 * tests/comments-in-var-def.test: ... this.
272 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
274 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
276 cosmetics: convert encoding from ISO-8859 to UTF-8
277 * ChangeLog.03: Convert encoding to UTF-8.
278 * ChangeLog.96: Likewise.
279 * ChangeLog.98: Likewise.
283 2011-03-01 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
285 test defs: unindent without temporary file
286 * tests/defs.in (commented_sed_unindent_prog): Commented Sed program
287 that strips the "proper" amount of leading whitespace.
288 (unindent): Lazily strip comments from the above program and use it
289 to unindent without using a temporary file.
291 2011-02-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
293 libtool: suggest LT_INIT if LTLIBRARIES primary is used
294 When the LTLIBRARIES primary was used, but $(LIBTOOL) wasn't
295 defined, automake suggested to add a call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
296 in configure.ac. But that macro is deprecated since Libtool
297 version 1.9b (2004-08-29), in favor of the newer LT_INIT. So
298 suggest the use of this latter macro instead.
299 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (%_am_macro_for_var): Pair 'LIBTOOL'
300 with 'LT_INIT', not with 'AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'.
301 * libtool4.test: Adjust and extend. Also, add a call to macro
302 AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, to help ensuring that automake does
303 not fail for the wrong reasons.
304 * ltinit.test: New test, ensure that automake's libtool support
305 works with LT_INIT-based interface.
306 Thanks to Jack Kelly for the suggestion.
308 2011-02-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
310 tests: tempdirs with restrictive permissions are cleaned correctly
311 Before this change, the removal of a temporary test directory
312 containing subdirectories with restrictive permissions (such as
313 'r--r--r--') could fail.
314 * tests/defs: Ensure that all the subdirectories of a temporary
315 test directory have the 'read', 'write' and 'execute' bits set,
316 before trying to remove it with `rm -rf'.
317 * tests/Makefile.am (clean-local-check): Likewise.
319 2011-02-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
320 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
322 test defs: add subroutine for input unindenting
323 * tests/defs.in (unindent): New subroutine.
325 2011-02-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
327 python: report the 'PYTHON' influential environment variable
328 * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Call AC_ARG_VAR on PYTHON.
329 * doc/automake.texi (Python): Update and extend.
330 * tests/help-python.test: New test.
331 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
332 * THANKS (Jack Kelly): Update e-mail address.
333 Suggestion by Jack Kelly.
335 2011-02-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
337 tests defs: clear TESTS_ENVIRONMENT variable
338 * tests/defs.in (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset it, so that values
339 from environment won't interfere with the testcases.
340 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
342 2011-02-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
344 tests: tweak few tests on simple and parallel test drivers
345 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Improve heading comments.
346 * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: Likewise. Also, unset the
347 `FOO_EXIT_STATUS' variable, so that any pre-existing value in the
348 environment won't risk to interfere with the test.
349 Suggestions by Ralf Wildenhues.
351 2011-02-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
353 coverage: more tests on simple and parallel test drivers
354 * tests/parallel-tests-subdir.test: New test.
355 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Likewise.
356 * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: Likewise.
357 * tests/check-tests_environment.test: Likewise.
358 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
360 2011-01-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
362 tests: fix spurious failures in lflags*.test
363 * tests/lflags.test: Remove 'LEX' from the environment, so
364 that it won't be erroneously picked up by `make -e'.
365 * tests/lflags2.test: Likewise.
367 2011-01-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
369 docs: color-tests issues with parallel make
370 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Document that automatic
371 recognition of a capable terminal attached to stdout can fail
372 with some make implementation when running in parallel mode,
373 thus causing colored test output not to be automatically
374 activated when it should.
376 2011-01-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
378 tests: avoid instspc.test failures due to make's whitespace trimming
379 * tests/instspc.test: Prepend './' when passing the test
380 characters, to avoid leading whitespace characters to be trimmed
381 from macros set from environment variables. Fixes testsuite
382 failures with HP-UX, IRIX, and Tru64/OSF make.
384 2011-01-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
386 coverage: test semantics of "dummy" per-target flags
387 * tests/specflg-dummy.test: New test, ensuring that even "dummy"
388 per-target flags triggers the use of renamed objects.
389 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
390 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
392 2011-01-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
394 tests defs: sanitize IFS
395 * tests/defs.in ($IFS): Define to <space>, <tab>, <newline>.
396 ($sp): New variable, holding a single whitespace character.
397 ($tab): New variable, holding a tabulation character.
398 ($nl): New variable, holding a newline character.
400 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
402 tests: fix VPATH auto-expansion workarounds.
403 * tests/parallel-tests8.test, tests/suffix13.test:
404 Ensure $< is not surrounded by white space, to prevent Solaris
405 make from applying automatic VPATH text expansion.
407 2011-01-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
409 tests: fix spurious failures in yflags*.test
410 * tests/yflags.test: Remove 'YACC' from the environment, so
411 that it won't be erroneously picked up by `make -e'.
412 * tests/yflags2.test: Likewise.
414 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
416 tests: avoid fn99*.test failures due to buggy AIX 5.3 cp -R.
417 * tests/fn99.test, tests/fn99subdir.test: Skip if an initial
418 `cp -R' of the subdir tree already fails; AIX 5.3 cp messes
419 up its internal memory when copying this tree.
421 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
422 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
424 Add comment to check-TESTS rule working around make 3.80 bug.
425 * lib/am/check.am (check-TESTS): Update comment.
427 2011-01-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
429 tests: less strict double-colon spy.test again.
430 * tests/spy.test: We know BSD make doesn't invoke more than one
431 double-colon rule, so no need to expose that failure.
433 2011-01-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
435 install-sh: avoid Tru64 sh `test' operator precedence issues.
436 * lib/install-sh: Protect file names and directory components
437 that consist of `=', `(', `)', or `!'. Move protection as early
438 as possible, to avoid errors such as with Tru64 sh `test -z ='.
439 * tests/instsh2.test: Extend test to cover more possibilities.
440 Fixes 1.12 instspc-equal-install.test failure on Tru64/OSF 5.1.
442 2011-01-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
443 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
445 docs: automake testsuite doesn't use TESTS_ENVIRONMENT anymore
446 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Do not claim Automake uses
447 TESTS_ENVIRONMENT for the perl driver. Instead, point to the
448 parallel-tests driver.
450 2011-01-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
452 Allow _AM_DEPENDENCIES to be used later in configure.
453 * m4/depend.m4 (_AM_DEPENDENCIES): Remove a previously existing
454 conftest.dir before recreating it.
456 Report by Eric Blake, from report by Scott McCreary against M4.
458 2011-01-18 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
460 tests: avoid failure on w32 file systems.
461 * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: SKIP if file cannot
462 be turned unreadable.
464 2011-01-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
466 tests: allow double-colon spy.test to work with HP-UX make.
467 * tests/spy.test: Fix comment typos. Ensure prerequisites we
468 do not want to depend on are strictly older than the target.
469 Also test with a target out of date wrt. more than one rule.
471 2011-01-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
473 tests: remove useless requirements from cond36.test
474 * tests/cond36.test ($required): Remove.
475 Since we are at it, add a trailing `:' command.
477 2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
478 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
480 parallel-tests: work around Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh read bugs.
481 * lib/am/check.am ($(TEST_SUITE_LOG), recheck, recheck-html):
482 Test file readability before redirecting input from it, to avoid
483 exiting Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh which treats read as special builtin.
484 * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: New test.
485 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
488 2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
490 * NEWS, README: Update copyright years.
492 Fix parallel-tests.test failure with HP-UX make.
493 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Sleep inside inner tests, so logs
494 are newer than logs of tests they depend on, for HP-UX make.
496 2011-01-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
498 docs: ensure example are separated with empty lines in the input
499 * doc/automake.texi (Extending aclocal, Emacs Lisp, Rebuilding)
500 (API Versioning, Renamed Objects, Multiple Outputs): Add empty
501 lines before `@example' and after `@end example' lines, so info
502 output is rendered correctly, and a following @noindent honored.
503 Report by Stefano Lattarini.
505 2011-01-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
507 tests: fix comment typo
508 * tests/substref.test: Fix grammar in a comment.
510 2011-01-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
512 tests: fix spurious failures in two texinfo tests
513 * tests/txinfo.test ($required): Add 'makeinfo'.
514 * tests/txinfo8.test: Create a dummy 'textutils.info' file, so
515 that make won't try to run makeinfo (which could be unavailable)
517 Found by NixOS Hydra, reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
519 2011-01-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
521 Avoid testsuite failures due to Autoconf Fortran change.
522 Autoconf v2.68-21-g727ce95 causes AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS to
523 require computing the canonical host name. Ensure config.guess
524 and config.sub files are present for respective checks.
525 * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Add stub files.
526 * tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
527 * tests/fort4.test: Use $AUTOMAKE -a for installing files.
529 2011-01-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
531 docs: clustered '-d' not recognized in YFLAGS
532 This change fixes automake bug#7828.
533 * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Document that automake
534 recognizes '-d' in AM_YFLAGS only if it's not clustered with
536 From a report by Юрий Пухальский.
538 2011-01-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
540 tests: add checks on automatically-distributed files
541 Related to automake bug#7819.
542 * tests/autodist.test: New test.
543 * tests/autodist-subdir.test: Likewise.
544 * tests/autodist-acconfig.test: Likewise.
545 * tests/autodist-acconfig-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
546 * tests/autodist-aclocal-m4.test: Likewise.
547 * tests/autodist-config-headers.test: Likewise.
548 * tests/autodist-configure-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
549 * tests/autodist-stamp-vti.test: Likewise.
550 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
552 2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
554 tests: work around a texi+cygnus bug causing a spurious XFAIL
555 * tests/txinfo5b.test: New test, like txinfo5.test but calling
556 automake with the `-Wno-override' option to work around a bug
557 in the texinfo + cygnus interaction.
558 * tests/txinfo5.test: Update heading comments.
559 * tests/Makefile.am (TEST): Updated.
561 2011-01-09 Dave Hart <davehart@gmail.com> (tiny change)
563 Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
564 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
566 2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
568 Improve, extend and tweak tests on Texinfo support.
569 * tests/instdir-texi.test: Add a call to `ls -l' after that to
570 `make', for debugging. When looking for required tools, do not
571 redirect the output of "$tool --help" to /dev/null, and do not
572 uselessly run it in a subshell.
573 * tests/txinfo.test: Rewritten to run autoconf, ./configure and
574 make. All checks moved into Makefile.am.
575 * tests/txinfo8.test: Likewise, and modernize the generated
577 * tests/txinfo2.test: Moved checks into Makefile.am, and other
579 * tests/txinfo5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
580 changes. Add trailing `:' command.
581 * tests/txinfo6.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
582 Makefile.in stricter.
583 * tests/txinfo7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
584 changes. Add trailing `:' command. Do not add unnecessary stuff
586 * tests/txinfo9.test: Verify that more targets which are expected
587 to be generated only once really are. Make grepping less strict,
588 to avoid exposing too much internal details. More minor changes.
589 * tests/txinfo16.test: Add trailing `:'. Prefer cat over echo
590 for appending to configure.in. Updated/fixed heading comments.
591 * tests/txinfo23.test: Likewise, and extended a little by making
592 it check that no info file is created in the $(srcdir).
593 * tests/txinfo24.test: Likewise.
594 * tests/txinfo25.test: Likewise.
595 * tests/txinfo18.test: Add trailing `:'. Prefer cat over echo
596 for appending to configure.in. Also, check that index files are
597 cleaned also by "make clean", not only by "make distclean".
598 * tests/txinfo22.test: Prefer `$me' over hard-coded test name,
599 and added trailing `:' command. This testcase also used to check
600 that automake ignores in-line comments when using variables, but
601 preserves them in the output; these checks (added in commit
602 "Release-1-7f-4-g9177ef8") do not really pertain to this test,
603 so they have been moved ...
604 * tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: ... into this new test.
605 * tests/txinfo4.test: Escape literal dots in grep regexps. Add
606 trailing `:' command.
607 * tests/txinfo29.test: Likewise. Relax grepping of generated
608 Makefile.in w.r.t. whitespaces. Prefer `cat' over `echo' to
609 append to configure.in.
610 * tests/txinfo3.test: Likewise.
611 * tests/vtexi.test: Improve grepping of Makefile.in (sometimes
612 make it stricter, sometimes laxer). Move `set -e' setting just
613 after the inclusion of ./defs. De-uglify a sed command. Other
614 minor cosmetic improvements.
615 * tests/vtexi2.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in stricter. Add
616 trailing `:' command.
617 * tests/vtexi3.test: New test on version.texi support.
618 * tests/vtexi4.test: Likewise.
619 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
621 2011-01-09 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
623 Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
624 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
626 2011-01-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
628 cosmetics: remove trailing whitespaces
629 * doc/automake.texi: Remove trailing whitespaces.
630 * tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
631 * tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
632 * tests/fort4.test: Likewise.
633 * tests/fort5.test: Likewise.
634 * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
635 * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
637 automake: minor fixes in comments
638 * automake.in: Some minor fixes and enhancements in comments.
640 2011-01-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
642 Add test coverage for deleted header files.
643 * tests/depcomp6.test, tests/depcomp7.test: Update tests to
644 also check for the deleted header bug. If no dependency
645 tracking mechanism could be found, SKIP rather than exit
646 successfully. Use GNU style spacing and ANSI C prototypes.
648 Fix typos in Rule.pm comments.
649 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typos in comments.
651 docs: split 'amhello Explained' node.
652 * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Split node ...
653 (amhello's configure.ac Setup Explained)
654 (amhello's Makefile.am Setup Explained) : ... into these two.
655 (Top, Hello World): Adjust, and add @anchor for stable URL links.
656 Suggestion by Karl Berry in automake bug#7766.
658 2011-01-08 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
659 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
661 docs: reference defining directories in amhello node.
662 * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Point to Autoconf
663 manual for how to convert directory values into macros.
664 (Optional): Fix grammar nit.
666 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
668 * NEWS: Fix typo (forgotten word).
670 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
671 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
673 docs: how to work around checks on invalid primary/directory couples
674 * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): Document the blessed idiom which can
675 be used to work around automake checks on invalid primary/directory
676 couples (such as `lib_PROGRAMS' or `doc_LIBRARIES').
678 2011-01-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
680 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
681 * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
684 Fix maintainer-check regression.
685 * tests/subobj11a.test: Pass DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS in the
688 Bump copyright years.
689 * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
690 * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
691 * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
693 2010-12-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
694 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
696 Work around a bug in file-inclusion mechanism of Solaris make.
697 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): In the name of the
698 dependency file: collapse multiple slash characters into a single
700 * tests/subobj11a.test: New test.
701 * tests/subobj11b.test: Likewise.
702 * tests/subobj11c.test: Likewise.
703 * tests/depcomp8a.test: Likewise.
704 * tests/depcomp8b.test: Likewise.
705 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
707 Report by Stefano Lattarini, quick fix by Ralf Wildenhues, final
708 patch and tests by Stefano Lattarini.
710 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
712 Fix two spurious testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5.
713 * tests/suffix13.test (Makefile.am): Account for VPATH issues on
714 weaker make implementations (e.g. IRIX 6.5).
715 * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise, plus a required related
717 Reported by Ralf Wildenhues. The bugs have been there from the
718 first versions of the affected test scripts.
720 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
722 docs: cygnus mode doesn't require AM_CYGWIN32 macro.
723 * doc/automake.texi (Cygnus): Mode 'cygnus' does not require
724 the AM_CYGWIN32 macro (and indeed hasn't required it since at
725 least commit Release-1-2-31-g3038064 "merged changes from
726 Cygnus" of 1997-08-25).
728 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
730 distlinksbrk.test: Work around botched "make -k".
731 * tests/distlinksbrk.test: Run "make" multiple times and grep
732 its output each time for a single error message, rather than
733 running "make -k" one single time and grepping its output for
734 all the expected error messages. This should work around make
735 implementations with limited (broken?) `-k' support; for more
736 information, see these subthreads on the automake-patches list:
737 - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on HP-UX 11.23",
738 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00162.html>
739 - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5",
740 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00166.html>
742 2010-12-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
744 Fix sed-related buglet in test "subdir5.test"
745 * tests/subdir5.test: Always terminate text passed to the
746 `i' sed command with a newline, to work around limitations
747 in e.g. older OpenBSD sed.
749 2010-12-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
751 docs: fix blunder in example about python extension modules
752 * doc/automake.texi (Python): Use `quaternion_la_SOURCES',
753 not `quaternion_SOURCES', to declare the sources of python
754 extension module `quaternion.la'.
756 2010-12-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
758 docs: list LTLIBRARIES among Automake primaries
759 * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): List `LTLIBRARIES' among
760 the Automake primaries.
762 2010-12-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
764 Improve tests on generated portions of configure help screen.
765 * tests/help-depend.test: Grepping of configure help screen
766 relaxed to cater for possible line wrapping, and tightened in
768 * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
769 * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
770 * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
771 * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
772 * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
773 * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
774 * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
775 * tests/help-init.test: Grepping of configure help screen
778 2010-12-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
780 Avoid running installed automake from 'libtool --help'.
781 * tests/subobj9.test: Export AUTOCONF and AUTOMAKE.
782 Together with fixed Libtool, this fixes check-coverage to not
783 invoke installed automake.
785 2010-11-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
787 Fix spurious failures in `silent*.test' for $CC != gcc
788 In some tests on automake-produced silent rules, we forced the
789 use of gcc depmode to improve testsuite coverage; but this has
790 unsurprisingly led to spurious failures when some non-GNU C
791 compilers were used. So we are now careful to require GCC in
792 tests that force gcc depmode.
793 From reports by Ralf Wildenhues.
794 * silent5.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
795 * silent-many-generic.test, silent-many-gcc.test: ... these new
796 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
798 * silentlex.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
799 * silent-lex-generic.test, silent-lex-gcc.test: ... these new
800 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
802 * silentyacc.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
803 * silent-yacc-generic.test, silent-yacc-gcc.test: ... these new
804 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
806 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
808 2010-11-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
810 Tests: consistently use "|| Exit 1" after ". ./defs".
811 * tests/autohdr.test: Use `. ./defs || Exit 1', not bare
812 `. ./defs', for consistency with other tests.
813 * tests/autohdr2.test: Likewise.
814 * tests/autohdr3.test: Likewise.
815 * tests/autohdr4.test: Likewise.
816 * tests/cond23.test: Likewise.
817 * tests/cond24.test: Likewise.
818 * tests/cond25.test: Likewise.
819 * tests/cond26.test: Likewise.
820 * tests/cond27.test: Likewise.
821 * tests/cond28.test: Likewise.
822 * tests/cond29.test: Likewise.
823 * tests/cond30.test: Likewise.
824 * tests/cond31.test: Likewise.
825 * tests/cond32.test: Likewise.
826 * tests/cond33.test: Likewise.
827 * tests/cond34.test: Likewise.
828 * tests/cond35.test: Likewise.
829 * tests/cond36.test: Likewise.
830 * tests/cond37.test: Likewise.
831 * tests/cond38.test: Likewise.
832 * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
833 * tests/cond40.test: Likewise.
834 * tests/cond41.test: Likewise.
835 * tests/cond42.test: Likewise.
836 * tests/cond43.test: Likewise.
837 * tests/cond44.test: Likewise.
838 * tests/cond45.test: Likewise.
839 * tests/dollarvar.test: Likewise.
840 * tests/dollarvar2.test: Likewise.
841 * tests/hfs.test: Likewise.
842 * tests/libobj14.test: Likewise.
843 * tests/percent.test: Likewise.
844 * tests/percent2.test: Likewise.
845 * tests/phony.test: Likewise.
846 * tests/silent.test: Likewise.
847 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
848 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
849 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
850 * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
851 * tests/silent6.test: Likewise.
852 * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
853 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
854 * tests/silentcxx.test: Likewise.
855 * tests/silentf77.test: Likewise.
856 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
857 * tests/silentlex.test: Likewise.
858 * tests/silentyacc.test: Likewise.
860 Avoid useless cleaning in some `silent*.test' tests.
861 * tests/silentf77.test: Removed useless calls to "make clean"
862 and "make maintainer-clean".
863 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
864 * tests/silent3.test: Removed useless call to "make distclean".
865 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
866 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
868 2010-11-19 Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
870 Sync config-ml.in from GCC.
871 * config-ml.in: Add Go support: treat GOC and GOCFLAGS like other
872 compiler/flag environment variables.
874 2010-11-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
876 Automake::Config: remove extra trailing semicolon.
877 * lib/Automake/Config.in: Remove extra trailing semicolon.
879 help4.test: fix botched heading comment.
880 * tests/help4.test: Fixed the heading comment, since it
881 didn't correctly describe what checks the testcase was
884 help2.test: add checks on aclocal too.
885 * tests/help2.test: Check that also `aclocal --version' and
886 `aclocal --help' work with configure.in and acinclude.m4 both
889 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
891 Fix spurious failures of silent-rules tests with Sun Fortran.
892 * tests/silentf77.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
893 messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers, to
894 avoid spurious failures. Add a trailing `:' command.
895 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
897 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
899 Fix spurious failures of silent5.test with Sun Fortran.
900 * tests/silent5.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
901 messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers,
902 to avoid spurious failures. This bug has been there from the
903 very first version of this test script.
905 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
907 Fix regression in colon{5,6}.test (failures on AIX 5.3).
908 * tests/colon5.test: Also substitute `@SHELL@' with `$SHELL' when
909 post-processing the generated Makefile.in, to work around a bug
910 of AIX 5.3 make which doesn't allow setting the `$(SHELL)' macro
911 on the commend line. Calls to `$MAKE' adjusted accordingly.
912 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
913 Regression introduced in commit v1.11-175-gf9fe878 "Modernize,
914 improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test", and reported by Ralf
917 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
919 Fix regression in ansi.test (failure on AIX 5.3).
920 * tests/ansi.test: Remove redundant hackish check done using a
921 hand-postprocessed Makefile.in. This check worked by setting
922 the `$(SHELL)' macro on the command line of make, but this is
923 not supported by the AIX 5.3 make implementation.
924 This bug has been lurking for a long time, and was activated by
925 commit v1.11-125-gc1f6cdb "Enable `errexit' shell flag in various
926 tests". Report by Ralf Wildenhues.
928 2010-11-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
930 tests: avoid '##'-style comments inside recipe commands.
931 * tests/confh.test, tests/confh8.test: Remove
932 double-hash comments from makefile rule commands, they
933 are not part of the Automake API.
935 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
937 tests: work around dash quoting issue in case statements.
938 * tests/color.test, tests/color2.test: Quote variable in case
939 pattern, to avoid skipping tests with dash 0.5.5.1.
941 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
943 Rebuild menus in the manual.
944 * doc/automake.texi: Rebuild menus (using ^C ^U ^A in emacs).
945 Thanks to Ian Lance Taylor for the suggestion.
947 Fix install-strip when $(STRIP) contains several words.
948 * lib/am/install.am (install-strip): Update comment. Use
949 separate sub-make invocations for empty and nonempty $(STRIP),
950 to fix quoting issues.
951 * tests/strip2.test, tests/strip3.test: New tests.
952 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Adjust.
954 2010-11-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
956 Fix yaccdry.test failure: require bison.
957 * tests/yaccdry.test: Require bison.
958 Found by NixOS Hydra.
960 2010-11-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
962 Fix a bug in variable concatenation with `+='.
963 * lib/Automake/VarDef.pm (append): Since the content of the
964 "appended-to" variable is going to be unconditionally normalized
965 later, simply separate the appended value with a single whitespace
966 character, instead of trying to be uselessly smarter by using
967 escaped newlines. This fixes a bug in which extra backslashes
968 where erroneously inserted in the variable's final value.
969 * tests/pluseq11.test: New test, exposing the bug.
970 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
971 Reported by Andy Wingo.
973 2010-11-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
975 Fix bug in rules for creating vala vapi/header files.
976 * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Add forgotten "fi" in an
977 if control structure in a generated make rules. Bug introduced
978 by previous commit `v1.11-221-gd7c1679', and revealed by failure
979 of test `vala2.test'.
981 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
983 Fix and document rules to not touch the tree with `make -n'.
984 * doc/automake.texi (Multiple Outputs): Document the problem of
985 modifications during dry-run execution, propose solution.
987 * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Split recipe so the
988 stamp file is not removed with GNU `make -n'.
989 (lang_yacc_target_hook): Separate removal of parser output file
991 * lib/am/lisp.am ($(am__ELCFILES)): Determine whether -n was
992 passed to make, take care not to remove any files in that case.
993 * lib/am/remake-hdr.am (%CONFIG_H%): Separate removal of
994 %STAMP% file from induced remaking of config header.
995 * tests/autohdrdry.test, tests/lispdry.test, tests/yaccdry.test:
997 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
999 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1001 Add FAQ entry for bug reporting instructions.
1002 * doc/automake.texi (Reporting Bugs): New section.
1003 (Introduction): Refer to it.
1005 2010-10-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1007 Add support for newer python versions.
1008 * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Add python2.7 and python3.2 to
1009 _AM_PYTHON_INTERPRETER_LIST. Since we are at it, break a long
1010 line and fix indentation.
1012 From a report by Thomas Klausner.
1014 Add test for `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' macro.
1015 * tests/dmalloc.test: New test.
1016 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1018 Fix nits and bugs in tests `help*.test'.
1019 * tests/help4.test: Fix broken sed commands used to strip `-W...'
1020 flags away from "$AUTOMAKE" and "$ACLOCAL".
1021 * tests/help3.test: Likewise, and fix a botched comment.
1022 * tests/help.test: Likewise. Also, use "AUTOMAKE_fails ..."
1023 instead of "$AUTOMAKE ... && Exit 1", for consistency and to
1024 please maintainer-check.
1025 * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
1027 2010-10-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1028 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1030 Improve tests `help*.test' (also fixes maintcheck failures).
1031 * tests/help.test: To run automake, use `$AUTOMAKE' with all `-W'
1032 flags stripped away rather than hard-coded `automake-$APIVERSION',
1033 to better honour user-overrides. Similarly for aclocal.
1034 * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
1035 * tests/help3.test: Likewise.
1036 * tests/help4.test: Likewise.
1038 2010-10-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1040 Document and fix expansion of variables before rules.
1041 * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Document that variables
1042 are expanded before rules.
1043 * lib/am/check.am (am__check_post): Reword a bit so it does not
1044 get matched as a rule.
1045 Suggestion by Ben Pfaff.
1047 2010-10-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1049 Revert "parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue."
1050 This reverts commit 24e3b4ee2f8cb9f72dd94a05a893f3d4e88b7835,
1051 because it re-opened the bug fixed by v1.11-10-g218e678.
1053 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1055 parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
1056 * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
1057 substitution %MAKEFILE%.
1058 (generate_makefile): Adjust.
1059 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
1060 sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
1061 input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
1064 Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
1066 2010-09-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1068 Extend tests on `--help' and `--version' options.
1069 * tests/help.test: Create a new empty directory and chdir into
1070 it, rather than removing already present files. Run the aclocal
1071 and automake wrapper scripts directly, instead of relying on
1072 $AUTOMAKE and $ACLOCAL. Be sure to correctly match literal dots
1073 in aclocal's and automake's stderr. Add a trailing `:' command.
1074 * tests/help2.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
1075 `--version' works in directories with broken `configure.in'.
1076 * tests/help3.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
1077 `--version' take precedence on the other options.
1078 * tests/help4.test: New test, checking that the first among the
1079 `--help' and `--version' options to be specified on the command
1081 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1083 2010-09-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1085 Testsuite: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when extending PATH.
1086 * tests/compile2.test: Do no uselessly (implicitly) repeat the
1087 computation of PATH_SEPARATOR again.
1088 * tests/instmany-mans.test: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when
1089 extending/redefining PATH.
1090 * tests/instmany-python.test: Likewise.
1091 * tests/instmany.test: Likewise.
1092 * tests/man4.test: Likewise.
1093 * tests/mkinst3.test: Likewise.
1094 * tests/mmodely.test: Likewise.
1095 * tests/multlib.test: Likewise.
1096 * tests/txinfo30.test: Likewise.
1097 * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
1099 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_PATH_SEPARATOR): New maintainer check.
1100 (syntax_check_rules): Updated.
1102 Testsuite: new variables `$PATH_SEPARATOR' and `$APIVERSION'.
1103 * tests/defs.in ($APIVERSION): New AC_SUBST'd variable.
1104 ($ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE): Use it.
1105 ($PATH_SEPARATOR): New AC_SUBST'd variables.
1108 2010-09-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1110 Manual: be more agnostic w.r.t. version control system used.
1111 * doc/automake.texi (Basics of Distribution): Also refer to `.svn'
1112 directories as a type of probably-unwanted files that are copied
1113 regardless when adding directories to EXTRA_DIST.
1114 (The dist Hook): Show a dist-hook example which removes Subversion
1115 `.svn' private directories from distdir, rather than CVS private
1117 (missing and AM_MAINTAINER_MODE): Try to be more agnostic w.r.t.
1118 the version control system used.
1120 Manual: index refer to target "git-dist", not "cvs-dist".
1121 * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Index the non-standard
1122 example about "git-dist" under the "git-dist" label, not under
1125 Perl modules: remove references to "Automake CVS repository".
1126 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Update comments to refer to "Automke's
1127 git repository" rather than to "Automake's CVS repository".
1128 * lib/Automake/Configure_ac.pm: Likewise.
1129 * lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm: Likewise.
1130 * lib/Automake/Struct.pm: Likewise.
1131 * lib/Automake/XFile.pm: Likewise.
1132 * lib/Automake/Version.pm (=head1 DESCRIPTION): Refer to "git
1133 branches" rather than "CVS branches".
1135 Remove obsolete .cvsignore files.
1136 * .cvsignore, doc/.cvsignore, lib/.cvsignore, lib/am/.cvsignore,
1137 lib/Automake/.cvsignore, lib/Automake/tests/.cvsignore,
1138 m4/.cvsignore, tests/.cvsignore: Files deleted. Even when using
1139 savannah's CVS readonly mirror there's no way to commit back to
1140 the real repository, so this files are not worth maintaining or
1143 2010-09-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1145 * m4/dmalloc.m4: Bump serial number and copyright years.
1147 2010-09-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1149 Fix broken link in `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' help screen.
1150 * m4/dmalloc.m4 (AM_WITH_DMALLOC): Refer only to the dmalloc site
1151 `http://www.dmalloc.com', not to the dmalloc tarball there (which
1152 seems to have been removed, substituted by multiple release
1155 2010-09-17 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
1157 Avoid triple-space after period.
1158 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): Avoid 3 spaces at
1160 * ChangeLog.03: Likewise.
1161 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Likewise.
1162 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (_print_message): Likewise.
1163 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm (rule): Likewise.
1164 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (var): Likewise.
1165 * lib/am/distdir.am: Likewise.
1166 * tests/insthook.test: Likewise.
1168 2010-09-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1170 Test automake-generated portions of configure help screen.
1171 * tests/help-depend.test: New test.
1172 * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
1173 * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
1174 * tests/help-init.test: Likewise.
1175 * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
1176 * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
1177 * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
1178 * tests/help-regex.test: Likewise.
1179 * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
1180 * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
1181 * tests/mmode.test: Remove tests on `configure --help' output,
1182 they are superseded by tests in `help-maintainer.test'.
1183 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1185 2010-09-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1187 * tests/README: Don't put GCS mandated tools in $required.
1189 2010-09-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1191 * HACKING: Hint at old commits with `git describe' output.
1193 2010-09-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1195 Fix regression in test `colon4.test'.
1196 * tests/colon4.test: Fix botched editing to `configure.in'
1197 that made the test useless. Since we are at it, improve
1198 comments and make grepping of generated Makefile.in slightly
1200 Regression introduced by change "Modernize, improve and/or
1201 extend tests `colon*.test" (Stefano Lattarini, 2010-08-08).
1203 2010-09-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1205 Do not require "gzip" explicitly in tests.
1206 The gzip utility is simply expected to be present on any decent
1207 target system for Automake. So it's pointless to put it in
1209 * tests/install2.test ($required): Do not require "gzip".
1210 * tests/lex3.test: Likewise.
1211 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
1212 From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
1214 Make some `confh*.test' tests more "semantic" (plus tweakings).
1215 * tests/confh.test: Run "autoconf", "configure" and "make check",
1216 instead of munging/grepping the generated `Makefile.in'.
1217 * tests/confh4.test: Relax the grepping of Makefile.in w.r.t.
1218 white spaces. Do not create useless dummy source file `foo.c'
1219 and useless dummy header file `acconfig.h'.
1220 (configure.in): Remove superfluous call to `AC_OUTPUT'.
1221 * tests/confh6.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1222 * tests/confh7.test: In comments, add reference to ...
1223 * tests/confh8.test: ... this new test, "semantic" sister
1225 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1226 Prompted by a report from Ralf Wildenhues.
1228 Remove useless whitespace padding in XFAIL_TESTS definition.
1229 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Remove whitespace padding.
1231 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1233 parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
1234 * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
1235 substitution %MAKEFILE%.
1236 (generate_makefile): Adjust.
1237 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
1238 sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
1239 input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
1242 Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
1244 Posix 2008 requires make to set errexit.
1245 * lib/am/check.am: Update comment.
1247 2010-08-27 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1249 Fix bug in test missing6.test.
1250 * tests/missing6.test: Fix the hack used to edit `configure.in',
1251 to avoid producing a configure script that breaks with shells
1252 that do not support $LINENO. Also throw in a couple of cosmetic
1255 2010-08-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1257 Improve robustness of mdate-sh script.
1258 * lib/mdate-sh: Sanitize zsh behavior on startup, to ensure
1259 $ls_command is word-split properly upon invocation.
1260 (error): New function.
1261 (main): Use it. Improve error checking to avoid endless loop
1262 in case $ls_command gave bogus output. Fix eval quotation.
1263 * tests/mdate6.test: New test, to expose eval quotation error.
1264 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
1266 2010-08-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1268 Fix potential regressions in depcomp{3,5}.test.
1269 * tests/depcomp3.test: Do not uselessly escape the character `$'
1270 in makefile rules, when it's used to expand a make macro.
1271 * tests/depcomp5.test: Likewise.
1273 2010-08-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1274 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1276 Docs: clarify how to avoid automatic dependencies tracking.
1277 * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Mention that
1278 automatic dependencies tracking is enabled by default, but that
1279 the package developer can disable it altogether. Add a reference
1280 to the proper section for a more in-depth explanation.
1282 Fix typo in manual (`Makefile.in' instead of `Makefile.am').
1283 * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Fix typo.
1285 2010-08-16 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
1287 Don't hide the table of contents.
1288 * doc/automake.texi: Move the table of contents to the beginning.
1290 2010-08-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1292 Tweak and/or extend some `acloca*.test' tests.
1293 * tests/aclocal8.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured
1295 * tests/aclocal.test: Likewise. Also, add trailing `:'
1297 * tests/acloca19.test: Likewise.
1298 * tests/aclocal5.test: Add trailing `:' command, and prefer
1299 `$me' over hard-coded test name.
1300 * tests/aclocal6.test: Likewise.
1301 * tests/aclocal18.test: Add trailing `:' command, and make
1302 some grepping slightly stricter.
1303 * tests/acloca14.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `diff' over
1304 `cmp', and add some "cosmetic" blank lines.
1306 2010-08-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1308 Tweak and extend tests `pr[!0-9]*.test'.
1309 * tests/primary3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1310 * tests/primary.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
1311 Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
1312 * tests/primary2.test: Likewise.
1313 * tests/prefix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
1314 changes. Add a trailing `:' command.
1315 * tests/proginst.test: Likewise.
1317 Modernize, improve and extend tests for PR (`pr[0-9]*.test').
1318 * tests/pr2.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1319 * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
1320 * tests/pr401.test: Likewise.
1321 * tests/pr401b.test: Likewise.
1322 * tests/pr401c.test: Likewise.
1323 * tests/pr300-prog.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic changes in
1325 * tests/pr300-lib.test: Likewise.
1326 * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise, and ensure verbose printing
1327 of captured make stdout.
1328 * tests/pr211.test: Add trailing `:' command. Also, use the
1329 `configure.in' stub created by ./defs, rather than writing it
1331 * tests/pr204.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic spacing changes.
1332 * tests/pr287.test: Likewise, and move setting of `errexit' shell
1333 flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs).
1334 * tests/pr220.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
1335 Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
1336 * tests/pr224.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1337 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Do not export
1338 `CC=gcc' to configure explicitly (it's already exported globally
1339 in ./defs, since we have "gcc" in $required). Use the stub for
1340 `configure.in' created by ./defs, rather than writing it from
1341 scratch. Do not create dummy files required by "gnu" mode (e.g.
1342 README, NEWS), since we run automake in foreign mode anyway.
1343 * tests/pr72.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
1344 changes. Extend existing checks a bit.
1345 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise. Also, avoid obsolescent constructs in
1346 the generated `configure.in', and extend existing checks over the
1347 generated tarball a bit.
1348 * tests/pr87.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
1349 changes. Add a trailing `:' command. Also, do not create dummy
1350 files required by "gnu" mode (e.g. README, NEWS), since we run
1351 automake in foreign mode anyway.
1352 * tests/pr243.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
1353 `configure.in'. Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
1354 changes. Cosmetic changes to spacing, add trailing `:' command,
1355 and add a "FIXME" comment.
1356 * tests/pr266.test: Likewise, and add explicit command line switch
1357 `--enable-dependecy-tracking' to the ./configure call.
1358 * tests/pr279.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
1359 `configure.in'; also, use the `configure.in' stub created by
1360 ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch. Enable `errexit'
1361 shell flag, and related changes. Add trailing `:' command.
1362 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
1364 * tests/pr307.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1365 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Escape literal
1366 dots in grep regular expressions. Also, add a trailing `:'
1367 command, and cosmetic changes to spacing.
1369 Tests for PR: add excerpts from original bug report, for clarity.
1370 * tests/pr2.test: Ditto.
1371 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
1372 * tests/pr72.test: Likewise.
1373 * tests/pr87.test: Likewise.
1374 * tests/pr211.test: Likewise.
1375 * tests/pr220.test: Likewise.
1376 * tests/pr224.test: Likewise.
1377 * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
1378 * tests/pr243.test: Likewise.
1379 * tests/pr266.test: Likewise.
1380 * tests/pr279.test: Likewise, and tell to keep it in sync
1381 with its sister test.
1382 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
1384 2010-08-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1386 Tweak, extend and improve tests `cond[a-z]*.test'.
1387 * tests/condd.test: Add trailing `:' command. Typofix in
1389 * tests/condhook.test: Make sure target `install-data-hook' is
1390 not called by `make install', but that data files are installed.
1391 Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in. Add trailing `:' command.
1392 * tests/condhook2.test: New test, sister test of condhook, with
1394 * tests/condinc2.test: Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
1395 Prefer trailing `:' command over trailing `Exit 0'.
1396 * tests/condman2.test: Enable errexit shell flag, and related
1397 changes. Add trailing `:' command.
1398 * tests/condman.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless
1399 dummy manpages, and use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
1400 * tests/condman3.test: New test, similar to condman.test, but
1401 it also runs ./configure and "make install", and check the
1403 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1405 Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test.
1406 * tests/colon.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
1407 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Do not create
1408 a useless dummy file. Add trailing `:' command.
1409 * tests/colon4.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
1410 related changes. Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
1411 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1412 * tests/colon7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1413 changes. Improve the generated `configure.in' file. Add
1414 trailing `:' command.
1415 * tests/colon2.test: Likewise. Also, add some new checks.
1416 * tests/colon5.test: Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
1417 Add new, much deeper checks. Add trailing `:' command.
1418 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
1419 * tests/colon3.test: Add trailing `:' command. Remove useless
1420 comments and echos. Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
1421 make some grepping tests stricter. Add a "FIXME" comments about
1422 planned improvements.
1424 Improve and extend tests `asm*.test'.
1425 * tests/asm.test: Use configure.in stub generated by ./defs,
1426 and avoid obsoleted autoconf constructs. Make grepping of
1427 Automake stderr stricter. Do not create useless source file.
1428 Improve verbose messages. Minor cosmetic changes. Tell to
1429 keep it in sync with other sister tests asm*.test.
1430 * tests/asm2.test: Likewise.
1431 * tests/asm3.test: Likewise.
1433 Modernize, improve and/or extend test scripts `conf*.test'.
1434 * tests/confh5.test: Cosmetic changes.
1435 * tests/conff.test: Likewise.
1436 * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise.
1437 * tests/conflnk.test: Likewise.
1438 * tests/conflnk2.test: Likewise.
1439 * tests/confsub.test: Likewise.
1440 * tests/confvar.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
1442 * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
1443 * tests/conflnk3.test: Cosmetic changes. Re-enable a temporarily
1444 disabled test (which didn't work with autoconf <= 2.59, but now we
1445 are requiring autoconf 2.62, so...)
1446 * tests/conflnk4.test: Cosmetic changes, and extend existing tests
1447 accordingly to "TODO" comments.
1448 * tests/conff2.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
1449 Add some comments explaining why we don't use the `configure.in'
1450 stub preset be ./defs.
1451 * tests/confh.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
1452 rather than writing one from scratch, and do not call AC_OUTPUT.
1453 Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related changes. Prefer diff over
1454 cmp to compare text files. Prefer perl over sed to fetch the value
1455 of $(DIST_COMMON) from Makefile.in. Make grepping of the contents
1456 of $(DIST_COMMON) stricter.
1457 * tests/confh4.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
1458 rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping of Makefile.in
1460 * tests/confh5.test: Make grepping of `config.h' stricter. Add a
1462 * tests/configure.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in generated
1463 `configure.ac'. Do not write `configure.in' two times. Escape
1464 literal dots in grep regular expressions.
1465 * tests/confincl.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1466 changes. Prefer fgrep over grep. Other cosmetic changes.
1467 * tests/config.test: Renamed to ...
1468 * tests/confh6.test: ... this. Fix m4 quoting in `configure.in',
1469 and make grepping of `config.h' and `config.h.in' stricter.
1470 * tests/conf2.test: Renamed ...
1471 * tests/confh7.test: ... to this. Use the `configure.in' stub
1472 created by ./defs, rather than writing one from scratch. Try to
1473 run the checks both with and without AC_PROG_CC and AC_OUTPUT in
1475 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1477 Minor improvements and fixes in tests `depcomp*.test'.
1478 * tests/depcomp.test: Do not create useless dummy source files.
1479 Add a trailing `:' command.
1480 * tests/depcomp2.test: Use `unset' on the CFLAG variable to ensure
1481 it's not in in the environment, rather than exporting it with an
1482 empty value. Do not pass CC=gcc to configure, as that's already
1483 done in ./defs since we have gcc in $required. Ensure verbose
1484 printing of captured stderr, and normalize its checking. Add a
1485 trailing `:' command.
1486 * tests/depcomp3.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
1487 grep regexps. Always use `: >' rather than `touch' to create empty
1488 files. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the created
1489 Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:' command.
1490 * tests/depcomp4.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
1491 grep regexp. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the
1492 created Makefile.am. Ensure verbose printing of captured makes'
1493 stoud/stderr. Add a trailing `:' command.
1494 * tests/depcomp5.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1495 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Quote literal dots
1496 and dollar characters in grep regexps. Explicitly declare phony
1497 targets as such in the created Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:'
1499 * tests/depcomp6.test: Consistently use m4 quoting in the generated
1500 configure.in. Cosmetic fixes to spacing. Make the "dummy" `if'
1501 statement required by OpenBSD's sh `set -e' more robust, and add
1502 explanatory comments to it.
1503 * tests/depcomp7.test: Likewise, and add a trailing `:' command.
1505 Separate failing part of test `all.test'.
1506 * tests/all.test: Keep only (x)failing part of the test. Working
1507 checks moved out to ...
1508 * tests/all2.test: ... this new test.
1509 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1511 Modernize, improve and extend tests `subobj*.test'.
1512 * tests/subobjname.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1513 * tests/subobj.test: Make grepping of `Makefile.in' stricter.
1514 Escape literal dots in grep regexps.
1515 * tests/subobj2.test: Add trailing `:' command. Do not use the
1516 unportable fgrep option `-e'.
1517 * tests/subobj3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1518 (configure.in): Use proper m4 quoting, and avoid obsolescent
1520 * tests/subobj8.test: Likewise. Also, enable `errexit' shell
1521 flag, with related changes
1522 * tests/subobj4.test: Likewise. Also, make grepping of
1523 `Makefile.in' stricter.
1524 * tests/subobj5.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of
1525 `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
1527 (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
1528 writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
1529 * tests/subobj6.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of
1530 `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
1531 of ./defs). Do not create useless dummy ac-init file `f'.
1532 * tests/subobj7.test: Do not create useless dummy ac-init file
1534 (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
1535 writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
1536 * tests/subobj9.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1537 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Fail the test if
1538 `make distcheck' fails. Ensure verbose printing of captured make
1539 stdout. Avoid useless fork by doing simple grep instead of using
1540 test -n "`COMMAND | grep ...`".
1541 (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
1542 (Makefile.am): Explicitly mark target "print" as phony.
1543 * tests/subobj10.test: Removed duplicated call to `set -e'. Add
1544 trailing `:' command.
1545 (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
1547 Remove a couple of obsoleted tests.
1548 * tests/fpinstall.test: Removed.
1549 * tests/fpinst2.test: Likewise.
1550 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1552 Bootstrap: updated HACKING entry.
1553 * HACKING ("Working with git"): Explain how to override the
1554 autoconf and autom4te programs used by the bootstrap process.
1557 * bootstrap: Do not remove `lib/Automake/Config.pm' anymore,
1558 since we don't generate it. Correctly quote arguments of
1559 `eval' builtin. Fixed a botched error message. Removed an
1562 Bootstrap: don't search perl in $PATH.
1563 * bootstrap: Do not explicitly search perl in $PATH anymore.
1564 ($PATH_SEPARATOR): Removed, it's no more needed.
1566 Bootstrap: let the user choose which autoconf to use.
1567 * bootstrap ($AUTOCONF): New variable, from the environment.
1568 ($AUTOM4TE): Likewise, for clarity.
1569 Use "$AUTOCONF" instead of calling "autoconf" directly.
1571 Minor improvements to tests ar*.test.
1572 * tests/ar.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1573 * tests/ar2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
1574 Makefile.in stricter.
1576 2010-08-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1578 Fix maintainer-check failure.
1579 * tests/cond5.test: Quote sleep argument, this isn't about
1580 time stamp differences.
1582 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
1583 * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
1586 2010-08-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1588 Work around a nasty bug (segfault) of Solaris make.
1589 * lib/am/check.am (recheck, recheck-html): Trim trailing spaces
1590 from $list, to avoid triggering a nasty bug (potential segfault)
1593 2010-08-06 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
1595 Make cond5.test more robust on MSYS.
1596 * tests/cond5.test: Add delay before the first kill attempt to
1597 cater for problems with MSYS bash.
1599 2010-07-31 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1601 Add example git work flow; discuss merge --log in HACKING.
1603 Suggestion by Stefano Lattarini.
1605 Add more hints for debugging make rules.
1606 * doc/automake.texi (Debugging Make Rules): Show command to find
1607 out expanded values of variables; point to makefile debugger.
1609 Prompted by suggestion from Ludovic Courtès and Andy Wingo.
1611 2010-07-27 Patrick Welche <prlw1@cam.ac.uk> (tiny change)
1613 Fix typo in the manual.
1614 * doc/automake.texi (Scripts): Fix typo.
1616 2010-07-27 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1618 Document current policy for development with git.
1619 * HACKING (Working with git): Overhaul.
1620 Prompted by suggestion from Stefano Lattarini.
1622 Fix AM_COND_IF for gone-invalid condition shell expression.
1623 * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): test contents of $COND_TRUE
1624 variable, rather than re-evaluating the shell expression for
1626 * tests/cond40.test: Extend test.
1629 Avoid syntax error if IF-TRUE part of AM_COND_IF expands empty.
1630 * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): Ensure IF-TRUE part is never empty
1631 to avoid shell syntax error if the m4 expansion is empty.
1632 * tests/cond40.test: Enhance test.
1634 Coverage: bogus option to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
1635 * tests/init2.test: New test.
1636 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
1638 2010-07-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1640 Modernize and improve test scripts `subdir*.test'.
1641 * tests/subdir.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1642 changes. Use the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs',
1643 rather than writing one from scratch.
1644 * tests/subdir2.test: Likewise.
1645 * tests/subdir4.test: Likewise.
1646 * tests/subdir3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1647 changes. Do not create useless dummy source files.
1648 * tests/subdir5.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in (in topdir
1649 and in subdirs) stricter. Some minor changes to keep it more
1650 in sync with the related test `subdir8.test'.
1651 * tests/subdir8.test: Likewise (but with the related test being
1652 `subdir5.test' here).
1653 * tests/subdir6.test: Cosmetic change in spacing.
1654 * tests/subdir9.test: Define and use new variable `$distdir'. Add
1655 trailing `:' command.
1656 * tests/subdir10.test: Cosmetic consistency-related change.
1657 * tests/subdirbuiltsources.test: Cosmetic changes in spacings.
1658 (configure.in): Use stub created by `./defs', rather than writing
1659 it from scratch. Do not use obsoleted and/or deprecated forms of
1660 autoconf/automake macros.
1662 Modernize and improve test scripts `dist*.test'.
1663 * tests/distcleancheck.test: Do not add useless `-e' option to
1664 a $MAKE call. Extend test by grepping stderr of make.
1665 * tests/distcom2.test: Do not run the same test script on the
1666 Makefile.in twice, but save its output in an intermediate file
1667 instead. Make grepping of DIST_COMMON definition stricter.
1668 Display the content of more files, to ease debugging. Add a
1669 trailing `:' command. Improved heading comments w.r.t. sister
1671 * tests/distcom6.test: Likewise, and avoid to uselessly run
1673 * tests/distcom3.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured stdout
1674 and stderr. Make grepping of captured stderr stricter. Also,
1675 add trailing `:' command.
1676 * tests/distcom4.test: Declare the target `test' in the generated
1677 Makefile.am as `.PHONY'. Display content of more files, to ease
1678 debugging. Add trailing `:' command.
1679 * tests/distcom5.test: Likewise. Also, factor out common sed
1680 script in subroutine `extract_distcommon'.
1681 * tests/distcom7.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to write
1682 test Makefile.am files. Add a trailing `:' command.
1683 * tests/distname.test: Prefer `gzip -d' over `gunzip'. Move the
1684 call to `set -e' earlier. Be stricter and more verbose in the
1685 checking of the generated tarball.
1686 (configure.in): Use the stub provided by ./defs, instead of
1687 writing it from scratch. Avoid obsoleted constructs. Remove
1688 useless call to `AM_PROG_CC_C_O'.
1689 * tests/distdir.test: Various minor improvements/normalizations.
1690 * tests/distlinks.test: Likewise.
1692 2010-07-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1694 Improve and extend test cond5.test.
1695 * tests/cond5.test: Do not blindly sleep 60 seconds before polling
1696 the background automake process, but poll it every 10 seconds for
1697 at most 30 times (this makes the test both faster on good machines,
1698 and more resilient to spurious timeout-due failures when in low
1699 priority or on heavily-loaded systems).
1700 Check also that automake writes the expected error messages on the
1702 Enable `errexit' flag, and related changes.
1703 Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs', rather than
1704 writing one from scratch.
1706 2010-06-26 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1708 Update program --help output to match current GCS.
1709 * configure.ac: Set and substitute PACKAGE_URL if AC_PACKAGE_URL
1710 is not defined, for compatibility to Autoconf < 2.64.
1711 * Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute PACKAGE_BUGREPORT and
1713 (sc_diff_automake_in_automake): Update number of diff lines for
1714 additional substitutions.
1715 * aclocal.in (usage): Use PACKAGE_BUGREPORT. Point to Automake
1716 home page and GNU general help page.
1717 * automake.in (usage): Likewise.
1718 * doc/automake.texi: New flag PACKAGE_BUGREPORT, to factor email
1720 (Introduction, Creating amhello, amhello Explained, Options):
1722 * lib/Automake/Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute
1724 * lib/Automake/Config.in ($PACKAGE_BUGREPORT): New global.
1725 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Use it for footer of fatal
1728 Clean up @var handling in the manual.
1729 * doc/automake.texi: Throughout the manual, lower-case @var
1730 names, replace a few one-character names.
1732 2010-06-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1734 Fix typo-related bug in test script silent5.test.
1735 * tests/silent5.test: Use $EGREP, not $GREP (which is not even
1738 Tests: remove useless repetitions of `foreign' automake option.
1739 * tests/multlib.test (configure.in): Remove useless use of
1740 `foreign' option in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (the `--foreign' option is
1741 already in $AUTOMAKE by default, so no point in repeating it).
1742 * tests/subobj10.test: Likewise.
1743 * tests/subobj9.test: Likewise.
1744 * tests/lex3.test (Makefile.am): Similarly, remove useless use
1745 of `foreign' option in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
1746 * tests/lex5.test: Likewise.
1747 * tests/pr279.test: Likewise.
1748 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
1749 * tests/specflg3.test: Likewise.
1750 * tests/target-cflags.test: Likewise.
1752 Drop useless requirement "gzip" in lex5.test.
1753 * tests/lex5.test ($required): Do not list "gzip", as it's
1756 2010-06-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1758 Fix bugs in test script silent5.test.
1759 * tests/silent5.test: Fixed a nasty bug (due to the use of grep
1760 instead of egrep) that could have led to false negatives.
1762 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1764 Add a test checking that distributed broken symlinks cause
1765 `make dist' to fail.
1766 * tests/distlinksbrk.test: New test.
1767 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1769 2010-06-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1771 Fix minor testsuite issues, update docs, for Yacc/Lex changes.
1772 * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Mention AM_YFLAGS, YFLAGS
1773 and AM_LFLAGS, LFLAGS in the order in which they now appear in
1776 * tests/lflags.test, tests/lflags2.test, tests/yflags.test,
1777 tests/yflags2.test: Prefer `make -e' over `make VAR=VAL', to
1778 please maintainer-check. Ensure generated C files contain a
1779 declaration, to please compilers.
1781 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1783 Fix bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t. $(AM_FLAGS) and
1784 $(FLAGS) precedence.
1785 * automake.in: Fix registration of languages "Lex", "Lex (C++)",
1786 "Yacc" and "Yacc (C++)", so that $(LFLAGS) has precedence over
1787 $(AM_LFLAGS) and $(YFLAGS) has precedence over $(AM_YFLAGS).
1788 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1791 New tests, exposing bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t.
1792 $(AM_FLAGS) and $(FLAGS) precedence.
1793 * tests/lflags.test: New test, check that user $(LFLAGS) takes
1794 precedence over automake (AM_LFLAGS) and (foo_LFLAGS). Still
1796 * tests/lflags2.test: Likewise.
1797 * tests/yflags.test: New test, check that user $(YFLAGS) takes
1798 precedence over automake (AM_YFLAGS) and (foo_YFLAGS). Still
1800 * tests/yflags2.test: Likewise.
1801 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Extended accordingly.
1803 2010-06-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1805 Modernize, improve and extend tests `suffix*.test'.
1806 * tests/suffix3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1808 * tests/suffix4.test: Likewise.
1809 * tests/suffix6.test: Likewise, and do not create a useless dummy
1811 * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
1812 * tests/suffix5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1813 changes. Make grepping of Makefile.in slightly stricter.
1814 * tests/suffix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1815 changes. Also, do not redirect grep output to /dev/null, as this
1816 might unmotivatedly hide useful information.
1817 * tests/suffix2.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1818 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Use a more
1819 idiomatic way to count text occurrences in Makefile.in with
1820 grep. Do not create useless dummy source files.
1821 * tests/suffix10.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured make
1822 stdout. Minor cosmetic changes.
1823 * tests/suffix8.test: Likewise. Also, drop useless call to the
1824 env(1) utility, and make grepping of make output stricter by using
1825 $FGREP rather than plain grep.
1826 * tests/suffix11.test: Likewise.
1827 * tests/suffix12.test: Likewise.
1828 * tests/suffix9.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to append to
1829 the `configure.in' stub. Cosmetic changes.
1830 * tests/suffix13.test: Cosmetic spacing change.
1832 2010-06-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1834 Add useful comment in test script ext.test.
1835 * tests/ext.test: Add a comment explaining why an apparently
1836 useless `if' statement is indeed required.
1838 Add useful comment in test script obsolete.test.
1839 * tests/obsolete.test: Add a comment explaining why we need
1840 an indirection in adding $AUTOUPDATE to $required.
1842 Normalize whitespaces in 'tests/Makefile.am'.
1843 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Use only spaces, not tabs, in the
1844 definition of this variable.
1846 2010-06-12 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1848 Remove a couple of unneeded conditionals from tests.
1849 * tests/pr243.test, tests/pr266.test, tests/strip.test: No need
1850 for the FOOTEST conditional.
1852 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1854 Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
1855 * tests/symlink3.test: Deleted, separated into two new, more
1857 * tests/forcemiss.test: ... this one ...
1858 * tests/forcemiss2.test: ... and this one.
1859 * tests/symlink2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, make test
1860 stricter, and skip it if symlink creation is not supported.
1861 * tests/postproc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, related
1862 changes, and a couple of unrelated cosmetic changes.
1863 * tests/recurs.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
1864 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping
1865 of Automake stderr slightly stricter.
1866 * tests/substtarg.test: Likewise.
1867 * tests/strip.test: Likewise, and move the call to `set -e'
1868 earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs'). Also, make sure
1869 that the script installed by `make install-script' is equal to
1871 * tests/substref.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
1872 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Move the call
1873 to `set -e' earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs').
1874 Avoid to explicitly export CC for configure (that's already done
1875 in ./defs). Avoid potential problems with unpredictable make
1876 output. Finally, make grepping of Makefile.in stricter.
1877 * tests/substre2.test: Ensure verbose printing of the captured
1878 make's output, and make its grepping slightly stricter.
1879 * tests/cygwin32.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1880 changes. Also, do not create useless dummy source/data files.
1881 * tests/scripts.test: Likewise.
1882 * tests/recurs2.test: Likewise. Also, use the `configure.in'
1883 stub created by `./defs'.
1884 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1886 Modernize, improve and/or fix tests `pluseq*.test.
1887 * tests/pluseq5.test: Append to configure.in using cat with an
1888 here-doc, not using echo.
1889 * tests/pluseq10.test: Make sure that the captured output of
1890 `make' command is always displayed. Where possible, use $FGREP
1891 instead of grep (this change makes some checks slightly stricter).
1892 * tests/pluseq8.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
1894 * tests/pluseq.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless dummy
1895 data files, and use better m4 quoting in generated configure.in.
1896 * tests/pluseq2.test: Likewise. Also, append to configure.in
1897 using cat with an here-doc, not using echo.
1898 * tests/pluseq3.test: Likewise.
1899 * tests/pluseq4.test: Likewise.
1900 * tests/pluseq6.test: Likewise.
1901 * tests/pluseq7.test: Do not create useless dummy source file.
1902 * tests/pluseq9.test: Slightly extended w.r.t. the grepping of
1903 Automake stderr. Some unrelated cosmetic changes.
1905 Testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured stderr.
1906 * tests/acloca18.test: Print captured stderr before either failing
1907 or grepping it. Be sure to send captured stderr to stderr, not to
1909 * tests/ansi3b.test: Likewise.
1910 * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
1911 * tests/configure.test: Likewise.
1912 * tests/missing3.test: Likewise.
1913 * tests/missing6.test: Likewise.
1914 * tests/output-order.test: Likewise.
1915 * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise.
1916 * tests/python6.test: Likewise.
1917 * tests/python7.test: Likewise.
1918 * tests/python8.test: Likewise.
1919 * tests/python9.test: Likewise.
1920 * tests/subobj.test: Likewise.
1921 * tests/vars3.test: Likewise.
1922 * tests/missing4.test: Likewise, and fix a call to grep not to use
1924 * tests/ansi3.test: Likewise, and rely on the `configure.in' stub
1925 created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1927 Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
1928 * tests/backsl.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
1930 * tests/backsl2.test: Likewise.
1931 * tests/block.test: Likewise.
1932 * tests/canon2.test: Likewise.
1933 * tests/canon4.test: Likewise.
1934 * tests/comment2.test: Likewise.
1935 * tests/condlib.test: Likewise.
1936 * tests/cond15.test: Likewise, and prefer $FGREP over grep.
1937 * tests/canon3.test: Likewise. Also, avoid to create an useless
1939 * tests/acoutpt2.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and some
1940 related changes. Do some cosmetic improvements in the generated
1941 `configure.in' file.
1942 * tests/cond4.test: Likewise.
1943 * tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
1944 * tests/condinc.test: Likewise.
1945 * tests/cond7.test: Likewise. Also, remove useless setting of
1946 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am.
1947 * tests/ansi.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
1948 changes. Extended, esp. by running autoconf, ./configure and
1949 make, and by looking into the distdir.
1951 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1952 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1954 Extend tests/README w.r.t. trailing `:' in test scripts.
1955 * tests/README (section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
1956 Explain why apparently redundant trailing `:' and `Exit 0' in
1957 test scripts can indeed be useful.
1959 2010-06-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1961 Improve determination of PATH separator in bootstrap script.
1962 * bootstrap: Determine what the PATH separator is the same way
1965 Minor improvements in bootstrap script.
1966 * bootstrap: Consistently use two-spaces indentation. Cosmetic
1967 improvement to comments.
1968 ($me): New variable, containing program basename.
1969 Prepend it to all error messages.
1971 Testsuite now works with BSD make in parallel mode.
1972 * tests/defs.in: Unset variables __MKLVL__ and MAKE_JOBS_FIFO,
1973 which are exported by BSD make when run in parallel mode, and
1974 which can confuse make processes spawned by our testsuite.
1975 This change fixes a lot of spurious failure when the testsuite
1976 is run with BSD make in parallel mode.
1978 2010-06-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1980 Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
1981 * tests/sanity.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
1982 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1983 * tests/depend2.test: Likewise. Also, call `set -e' just after
1984 the inclusion of `./defs', instead that later in the script.
1985 * tests/canon5.test: Avoid a useless `|| Exit 1' after a call to
1986 $AUTOMAKE, and improve the positioning of an $ACLOCAL call.
1987 * tests/exeext4.test: Use $FGREP instead of grep, where possible.
1988 Make auxiliary rules in the generated Makefile more silent.
1989 These changes make some checks slightly stricter.
1990 * tests/ext2.test: Call `Exit 1' if inclusion of `./defs' fails.
1991 * tests/gettext2.test: Place final `:' at the end of the script,
1992 rather than in the middle.
1993 * tests/exeext.test: Call `set -e' just after the inclusion of
1994 `./defs', instead that later in the script.
1995 * tests/extra5.test: Likewise.
1996 * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `mv -f' over
1997 plain `mv', just to be sure.
1998 * tests/depcomp.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
1999 changes. Also, modernize the generated configure.in.
2000 * tests/cond9.test: Likewise. Also, rely on the `configure.in'
2001 stub created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
2002 * tests/cond10.test: Likewise.
2003 * tests/depcomp2.test: Likewise.
2004 * tests/depend3.test: Likewise.
2005 * tests/distcom7.test: Likewise.
2006 * tests/fortdep.test: Likewise. Also, remove definition of
2007 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am,
2008 since that flag is already provided by $AUTOMAKE.
2009 * tests/mdate.test: Made stricter, by checking that Automake
2010 actually failed, and by making a stricter grep on the error
2011 message. Also, set shell `errexit flag'.
2012 * tests/python2.test: Improved verbose messages.
2014 Make test `ammissing.test' stricter.
2015 * tests/ammissing.test: Fail if $ACLOCAL succeeds unexpectedly.
2016 Enable `errexit' shell flag.
2018 2010-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2020 Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
2021 * tests/subcond.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
2023 * tests/subst.test: Likewise.
2024 * tests/vars.test: Likewise.
2025 * tests/version4.test: Likewise.
2026 * tests/vpath.test: Likewise.
2027 * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
2028 * tests/werror.test: Likewise.
2029 * tests/whoami.test: Likewise.
2030 * tests/tags.test: Likewise, and avoid to crate an useless dummy
2032 * tests/acsilent.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
2033 command substitution.
2034 * tests/unused.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
2035 command substitution.
2036 * tests/version.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
2037 in the generated `configure.in'.
2038 * tests/version2.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
2039 in the generated `configure.in'.
2041 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2043 Prefer AUTOMAKE_fails over `$AUTOMAKE | grep' in tests.
2044 * tests/ldadd.test: Enable errexit. Use AUTOMAKE_fails so
2045 the verbose log contains all output.
2046 * tests/mdate.test: Likewise.
2047 Prompted by Stefano Lattarini's change to discover.test.
2049 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2051 Improve tests link*.test (enable `errexit' shell flag).
2052 * tests/link_c_cxx.test: Enable `errexit shell flag, and related
2053 changes. Also, do not create useless source files.
2054 * tests/link_dist.test: Likewise.
2055 * tests/link_f90_only.test: Likewise.
2056 * tests/link_f_only.test: Likewise.
2057 * tests/link_fc.test: Likewise.
2058 * tests/link_fccxx.test: Likewise.
2059 * tests/link_fcxx.test: Likewise.
2061 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2063 Improve ext.test semantics, avoid OpenBSD sh errexit issue.
2064 * tests/ext.test: Inside shell compound command, use
2065 `if $cmd; then Exit 1; fi' rather than `$cmd && Exit 1', to
2066 fix failure with OpenBSD sh introduced with last patch.
2067 Actually ensure that a rule for .EXT.o is created for each
2068 known extension EXT.
2070 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2072 Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
2073 * tests/dash.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
2075 * tests/defun.test: Likewise.
2076 * tests/defun2.test: Likewise.
2077 * tests/dejagnu.test: Likewise.
2078 * tests/double.test: Likewise.
2079 * tests/distcom2.test: Likewise.
2080 * tests/empty2.test: Likewise.
2081 * tests/empty3.test: Likewise.
2082 * tests/empty4.test: Likewise.
2083 * tests/exdir.test: Likewise.
2084 * tests/ext.test: Likewise.
2085 * tests/extra.test: Likewise.
2086 * tests/extra2.test: Likewise.
2087 * tests/extra3.test: Likewise.
2088 * tests/extra4.test: Likewise.
2089 * tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
2090 * tests/fnoc.test: Likewise.
2091 * tests/fo.test: Likewise.
2092 * tests/instexec.test: Likewise.
2093 * tests/ltdeps.test: Likewise.
2094 * tests/nodep.test: Likewise.
2095 * tests/nodepcomp.test: Likewise.
2096 * tests/f90only.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
2097 comments and unnecessary commands.
2098 * tests/fonly.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
2099 comments and unnecessary commands.
2100 * tests/discover.test: Likewise, and made stricter.
2102 Enable `errexit' shell flag in all tests cxx*.test.
2103 * tests/cxx.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
2105 * tests/cxxansi.test: Likewise.
2106 * tests/cxxcpp.test: Likewise.
2107 * tests/cxxlibobj.test: Likewise.
2108 * tests/cxxlink.test: Likewise.
2109 * tests/cxxo.test: Likewise.
2111 Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
2112 * tests/acoutnoq.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
2114 * tests/acoutpt.test: Likewise.
2115 * tests/acoutqnl.test: Likewise.
2116 * tests/amassign.test: Likewise.
2117 * tests/ansi2.test: Likewise.
2118 * tests/ansi4.test: Likewise.
2119 * tests/badprog.test: Likewise.
2120 * tests/checkall.test: Likewise.
2121 * tests/clean.test: Likewise.
2122 * tests/colneq2.test: Likewise.
2123 * tests/colon.test: Likewise.
2124 * tests/colon5.test: Likewise.
2125 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
2126 * tests/comment.test: Likewise.
2127 * tests/compile_f90_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
2128 * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
2129 * tests/cond3.test: Likewise.
2130 * tests/cond6.test: Likewise.
2131 * tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
2132 * tests/conf2.test: Likewise.
2133 * tests/confvar.test: Likewise.
2134 * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
2135 * tests/cond8.test: Likewise, plus a cosmetic change.
2136 * tests/confh4.test: Likewise. Also, add in the heading comments
2137 an excerpt from the original bug report which motivated the
2138 creation of this test, to make its purpose clearer.
2140 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2142 Rewrite manual to be gender-neutral.
2143 * doc/automake.texi (GNU Build System)
2144 (Standard Directory Variables, General Operation, CVS)
2145 (Hard-Coded Install Paths, Dependencies As Side Effects):
2146 Rewrite text to not contain gender-specific pronouns when
2147 speaking about developers or users, either by avoiding pronouns
2148 or by addressing them as `you' instead.
2150 Report by Christina Gratorp.
2154 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2156 Make tests on user extensibility of silent-rules mode stricter.
2157 * tests/silent6.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
2158 output produced by `make'.
2159 * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
2161 Tests on silent-mode for C/Libtool made stricter.
2162 * tests/silent.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
2163 output produced by `make'.
2164 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
2165 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
2166 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
2167 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise, and add a final `make distclean'
2168 command to keep it better in sync with tests/silent{4,9}.test.
2170 Improved test silent5.test.
2171 * tests/silent5.test: Remove by hand all generated C files after
2172 non-verbose builds, to ensure the following builds are clean.
2173 Try to clean and rebuild with the same verbosity and without
2174 removing generated sources in between, to check that this does
2175 not trigger a different set of rules. Make grepping of make's
2176 output stricter. Improved/added some comments.
2178 New tests for Automake silent-mode with Fortran.
2179 * tests/silentf77.test: New test.
2180 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
2181 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2183 New test `silentcxx.test' (Automake silent-mode with C++).
2184 * tests/silentcxx.test: New test.
2185 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2187 New test `silentyacc.test' (Automake silent-mode with Yacc).
2188 * tests/silentyacc.test: New test.
2189 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2191 New test `silentlex.test' (Automake silent-mode with Lex).
2192 * tests/silentlex.test: New test.
2193 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2195 Relax tests on silent-rules to cater to overly verbose makes.
2196 * tests/silent.test: When testing silent builds, don't fail if
2197 make's output simply contains the `mv' substring, but only if
2198 it contains the `mv ' substring (note the trailing space).
2199 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
2200 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
2201 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
2202 * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
2203 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
2205 2010-01-24 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2207 Fix silent-rules output for disabled dependency tracking.
2208 * lib/am/depend2.am [!%FASTDEP%]: Rework silent-rules variable
2209 expansion code to also work in the case where %AMDEP% expands
2210 to FALSE at config.status time, using new substitution string
2212 * automake.in (verbose_nodep_flag): New function, appending
2213 `@am__nodep@' to the verbose-variable name.
2214 (handle_languages): If dependencies are not disabled, use it to
2215 set %VERBOSE-NODEP%.
2216 * m4/depend.m4: Substitute am__nodep as '_no', so the second
2217 verbose-variable will always expand to an empty string, if
2218 dependencies are enabled.
2219 * tests/silent5.test: Also test --disable-dependency-tracking;
2220 also test per-target flags for non-C language files.
2221 * tests/silent9.test: New test, like silent4.test but disable
2222 dependency tracking.
2223 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
2224 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
2225 Report by Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>.
2227 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2229 Extend test on `nostdinc' automake option.
2230 * tests/nostdinc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Related and
2231 unrelated minor changes. Make the grepping of the generated
2232 Makefile.in slightly stricter. Generate and run configure, so that
2233 the generated Makefile can be grepped too.
2235 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2237 Make gnupload portable to EBCDIC hosts.
2238 * lib/gnupload: Use literal newline as argument for 'tr' rather
2239 than \015, for EBCDIC hosts. Also, avoid unportable nested
2240 double-quotes and backquotes.
2242 Report from Eric Blake and Steve Goetze via gnulib.
2244 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2246 Fix Autoconf version required by Automake's configure.
2247 Automake configure script used to tell that automake required
2248 autoconf 2.60 or later, but then it checked for autoconf >= 2.62,
2249 and if that was not found, it gave an error saying that Automake
2250 required configure 2.61a-341 or later. This change should
2251 eliminate such inconsistencies.
2252 * configure.ac ($required_autoconf_version): New variable.
2255 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2257 Fix unportable sed script in maintainer-check test.
2258 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_Exit_not_exit): Rewrite sed script to
2259 not contain semicolon after 'b' or brace commands, for NetBSD.
2261 Wildcards are not portable to NetBSD make.
2262 * doc/automake.texi (Wildcards): Document portability issue.
2263 * tests/extra10.test, tests/extra11.test, tests/extra12.test:
2266 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2268 Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
2269 * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
2270 an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
2272 Avoid possible false negatives in dejagnu7.test.
2273 * tests/dejagnu7.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Also, avoid
2274 unportable use of fgrep option `-e'.
2276 Fix conflnk3.test to work with Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
2277 * tests/conflnk3.test: Use `test -r FILE' and `test ! -r FILE'
2278 instead of respectively `test -e FILE' and `test ! -e FILE',
2279 since Solaris Sh doesn't grok the latter. Do not SKIP the test
2280 if the shell doesn't support `test -e'.
2282 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2285 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Add
2286 missing closing parenthesis.
2288 Fix leftover call to removed function macros_dump.
2289 * automake.in (read_main_am_file): Call variables_dump, not
2290 macros_dump. Print actual error before list of variables.
2292 2010-04-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2294 Minor improvements in comments of test `silent3.test'.
2295 * tests/silent3.test: Tell to keep it in sync with `silent9.test'
2298 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2300 testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured output.
2301 * tests/acloca14.test, tests/acloca18.test, tests/aclocal.test,
2302 tests/fort2.test, tests/help.test, tests/missing3.test,
2303 tests/missing6.test: Print captured stdout or stderr before
2306 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2308 Make test badopt.test stricter (by enabling `set -e').
2309 * tests/badopt.test: Add call to `set -e'. Due to this change,
2310 an unexpected failure in the call to `$ACLOCAL' (whose outcome
2311 was previously unchecked) would cause the whole test to fail.
2312 Also, bumped the copyright years.
2314 Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
2315 * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
2316 an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
2318 Use `set -e' in confsub.test (avoids possible false negatives).
2319 * tests/confsub.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and related
2320 changes (this helps avoiding some possible minor false negatives).
2321 Also, bumped copyright years.
2323 2010-04-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2325 Fix -Werror handling for presence of configure.in and configure.ac.
2326 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (Automake::Variable): Do not initialize
2327 $configure_ac at the global level, before command-line arguments
2329 (require_variables): Initialize it here.
2330 * tests/configure.test: New test.
2331 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
2332 Report by Stefano Lattarini.
2334 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2336 Avoid possible false negatives in confh5.test.
2337 * tests/confh5.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and bumped
2338 copyright years. Due to this change, any unexpected failure
2339 in calls to $ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE, $AUTOCONF or $AUTOHEADER, or
2340 a failure in grepping expected text in output files should now
2341 cause the whole test to fail.
2343 2010-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2345 Fixed typo in POD documentation of Automake::Channels.
2346 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Fixed typo in POD documentation:
2347 @<...> was used instead of C<...>.
2349 2010-04-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2351 Refactor tests on Automake TESTS color output.
2352 * tests/color.test: Tests using the expect program moved out to...
2353 * tests/color2.test: ... this new file.
2354 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Extended accordingly.
2356 2010-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2358 Fix typos in comments in test confh5.test
2359 * tests/confh5.test: Fix a couple of typos in comments.
2361 Avoid possible false negatives in canon-name.test.
2362 * tests/canon-name.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Improve
2365 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2367 Fix per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror.
2368 Before this patch, 'AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = -Werror' in one
2369 Makefile.am would carry over to other Makefile.am files
2370 treated afterwards by the same thread, causing inconsistent
2371 and unstable exit status values.
2372 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (dup_channel_setup)
2373 (drop_channel_setup): Save and restore the setting of
2374 $warnings_are_errors.
2375 * tests/werror3.test: New test.
2376 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
2379 2010-04-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2381 Bugfix in confh5.test w.r.t. Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
2382 * tests/confh5.test: In the generated Makefile.am: do not use
2383 `test ! -e FILE' to check for the non-existence of a file, since
2384 that is not supported by Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
2386 Make test `aclocal3.test' stricter.
2387 * tests/aclocal3.test: Add call to `set -e'. Fail if $ACLOCAL
2388 succeds unexpectedly.
2390 Add tests checking that symlinks are resolved by `make dist'.
2391 * tests/distlinks.test: New test.
2392 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2393 Suggested by observations from Ralf Wildenhues.
2395 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2397 Use -9 for maximum xz compression with dist-xz.
2398 * lib/am/distdir.am (dist-xz, dist, dist-all): Pass -9 to xz.
2399 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
2400 Report by Pavel Sanda.
2402 2010-03-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2404 Avoid an unportable use of `$status' shell variable.
2405 * Makefile.am (path-check): Don't use the `$status' shell variable
2406 in the target's rules, as it's special in Zsh (equivalent to `$?',
2409 Avoid another use of `chmod -R'.
2410 * Makefile.am (path-check): To be safe, do not use `chmod -R' on
2411 $(distdir) before removing it (as Solaris `chmod -R' touches
2412 symlink targets). Instead, use the cleanup strategy used in
2415 2010-03-28 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2417 Remove uses of @acronym and @sc.
2418 * doc/automake.texi (Public Macros, Limitations on File Names):
2419 Remove all usage of @acronym and @sc in the manual.
2420 Suggested by Karl Berry.
2422 2010-03-13 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
2424 GNU hello uses fdl.texi, not gpl.texi.
2425 * doc/automake.texi (Texinfo): Adjust example to upstream
2428 2010-03-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2430 Formatting cleanups in macro comments.
2431 * automake.in, lib/Automake/Channels.pm,
2432 lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm, lib/Automake/Options.pm,
2433 lib/Automake/Variable.pm, lib/Automake/XFile.pm,
2434 m4/options.m4, m4/substnot.m4: Fix macro comment format.
2436 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2437 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2439 Avoid generation of `tests/defs-p' file.
2440 * tests/defs.in: In the generated `configure.in' snippet: call
2441 `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' with the `parallel-tests' option if the shell
2442 variable `parallel_tests' is set to `yes'.
2443 * tests/Makefile.am (defs-p): Target removed.
2444 (check_SCRIPTS): Removed `defs-p'.
2445 (clean-local-check): Do not unlink `defs-p' anymore.
2446 ($(parallel_tests)): Transformation rules for the test scripts
2448 * tests/gen-parallel-tests: Selection rules for the test
2450 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Set `$parallel_tests' to `yes'
2451 then include `./defs' (rather than simply including `./defs-p').
2452 * tests/parallel-tests2.test: Likewise.
2453 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
2454 * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
2455 * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
2456 * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
2457 * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
2458 * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise.
2459 * tests/parallel-tests9.test: Likewise.
2460 * tests/parallel-tests10.test: Likewise.
2461 * tests/README (Section "Writing Test Cases" subsection "Do"):
2462 Adjusted the parts referring to tests checking `parallel-tests'
2463 behaviour. Some other minor related improvements.
2464 * tests/.gitignore (defs-p): Removed.
2466 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2468 Remove redundant unset of variable TESTS from some test scripts.
2469 * tests/color.test: Do not unset the `TESTS' variable, as it's
2470 already unset in the `defs' file.
2471 * tests/check5.test: Likewise.
2472 * tests/check8.test: Likewise.
2473 * tests/check9.test: Likewise.
2474 * tests/check10.test: Likewise.
2475 * tests/check11.test: Likewise.
2476 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Likewise.
2477 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
2478 * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
2479 * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
2480 * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
2481 * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
2483 2010-02-22 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
2485 Improve help message of mdate-sh.
2486 * mdate-sh: mention actual output format in help message.
2488 2010-02-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2490 Deprecate dist-lzma in favor of dist-xz.
2491 * doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions, Options):
2492 Adjust text to reflect renaming of lzma to xz.
2494 Missing deprecation noted by Antonio Diaz Diaz.
2496 2010-02-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2498 Add tests about support of wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
2499 * tests/extra10.test: New test, check basic support of wildcards
2501 * tests/extra11.test: New test, check more complex usage of
2502 wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
2503 * tests/extra12.test: New test, check usage of wildcards in
2504 EXTRA_DIST when $builddir != $srcdir.
2505 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2506 Necessity of these new tests suggested by Braden McDaniel
2507 and Ralf Wildenhues.
2509 2010-02-08 Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
2511 Fix copyright statement in gnupload script.
2512 * lib/gnupload: Fix copyright statement.
2514 2010-02-06 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> (tiny change)
2515 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2517 Fix exit status of signal handlers in shell scripts.
2518 The value of `$?' on entrance to signal handlers in shell scripts
2519 cannot be relied upon, so set the exit code explicitly to
2521 * lib/am/check.am (am__check_pre): Use `exit 143' in signal handler.
2522 * lib/elisp-comp: Likewise.
2523 * lib/install-sh: Likewise.
2524 * lib/ylwrap: Likewise. Also, fix script to trap signal 13, not 3.
2525 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
2526 Bug report, analysis, and initial patch by Dmitry V. Levin.
2528 2010-02-06 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
2530 Improve gnupload usage text.
2531 * gnupload (usage): Shorten to make more likely to fit on a tty
2532 line. Mention CMD in the synopsis. With ..., plural is implied.
2534 2010-01-28 Christos Kontas <xakon@yahoo.com> (tiny change)
2536 Fix some typos in the manual
2537 * doc/automake.texi (Nested Packages, Rebuilding): Fix typos.
2539 2010-01-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2541 Slighty improve tests acoutbs.test and acoutbs2.test.
2542 * tests/acoutbs2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Check that
2543 autoconf and configure work, that the file `zot' is created by
2544 configure, and that no file containing a backslash in its name is
2546 * tests/acoutbs.test: Likewise, plus updated copyright years.
2548 Fix test acoutbs2.test.
2549 * tests/acoutbs2: In the generated configure.in: add proper calls
2550 to AC_INIT and AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, and remove explicit definition of
2551 PACKAGE and VERSION. Add a call to aclocal before calling automake.
2552 Updated copyright years.
2553 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Removed acoutbs2.test.
2555 Add forgotten test scripts to $(TESTS).
2556 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Added test scripts present on the
2557 filesystem, which were erroneously left out from $(TESTS):
2558 acoutbs2.test, badopt.test, extra2.test.
2559 (XFAIL_TESTS): Added acoutbs2.test.
2561 2010-01-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2563 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
2564 * INSTALL, lib/INSTALL, lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub:
2567 Bump copyright years.
2568 * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
2569 * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
2570 * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
2573 * ChangeLog.09: New file, rotated from ...
2574 * ChangeLog: ... here.
2575 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute ChangeLog.09.
2579 Copyright (C) 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2581 Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are
2582 permitted provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved.