1 2011-01-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3 tests: fix spurious failures in two texinfo tests
4 * tests/txinfo.test ($required): Add 'makeinfo'.
5 * tests/txinfo8.test: Create a dummy 'textutils.info' file, so
6 that make won't try to run makeinfo (which could be unavailable)
8 Found by NixOS Hydra, reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
10 2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
12 Improve, extend and tweak tests on Texinfo support.
13 * tests/instdir-texi.test: Add a call to `ls -l' after that to
14 `make', for debugging. When looking for required tools, do not
15 redirect the output of "$tool --help" to /dev/null, and do not
16 uselessly run it in a subshell.
17 * tests/txinfo.test: Rewritten to run autoconf, ./configure and
18 make. All checks moved into Makefile.am.
19 * tests/txinfo8.test: Likewise, and modernize the generated
21 * tests/txinfo2.test: Moved checks into Makefile.am, and other
23 * tests/txinfo5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
24 changes. Add trailing `:' command.
25 * tests/txinfo6.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
27 * tests/txinfo7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
28 changes. Add trailing `:' command. Do not add unnecessary stuff
30 * tests/txinfo9.test: Verify that more targets which are expected
31 to be generated only once really are. Make grepping less strict,
32 to avoid exposing too much internal details. More minor changes.
33 * tests/txinfo16.test: Add trailing `:'. Prefer cat over echo
34 for appending to configure.in. Updated/fixed heading comments.
35 * tests/txinfo23.test: Likewise, and extended a little by making
36 it check that no info file is created in the $(srcdir).
37 * tests/txinfo24.test: Likewise.
38 * tests/txinfo25.test: Likewise.
39 * tests/txinfo18.test: Add trailing `:'. Prefer cat over echo
40 for appending to configure.in. Also, check that index files are
41 cleaned also by "make clean", not only by "make distclean".
42 * tests/txinfo22.test: Prefer `$me' over hard-coded test name,
43 and added trailing `:' command. This testcase also used to check
44 that automake ignores in-line comments when using variables, but
45 preserves them in the output; these checks (added in commit
46 "Release-1-7f-4-g9177ef8") do not really pertain to this test,
47 so they have been moved ...
48 * tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: ... into this new test.
49 * tests/txinfo4.test: Escape literal dots in grep regexps. Add
51 * tests/txinfo29.test: Likewise. Relax grepping of generated
52 Makefile.in w.r.t. whitespaces. Prefer `cat' over `echo' to
53 append to configure.in.
54 * tests/txinfo3.test: Likewise.
55 * tests/vtexi.test: Improve grepping of Makefile.in (sometimes
56 make it stricter, sometimes laxer). Move `set -e' setting just
57 after the inclusion of ./defs. De-uglify a sed command. Other
58 minor cosmetic improvements.
59 * tests/vtexi2.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in stricter. Add
61 * tests/vtexi3.test: New test on version.texi support.
62 * tests/vtexi4.test: Likewise.
63 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
65 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
67 * NEWS: Fix typo (forgotten word).
69 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
70 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
72 docs: how to work around checks on invalid primary/directory couples
73 * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): Document the blessed idiom which can
74 be used to work around automake checks on invalid primary/directory
75 couples (such as `lib_PROGRAMS' or `doc_LIBRARIES').
77 2011-01-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
79 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
80 * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
83 Fix maintainer-check regression.
84 * tests/subobj11a.test: Pass DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS in the
88 * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
89 * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
90 * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
92 2010-12-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
93 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
95 Work around a bug in file-inclusion mechanism of Solaris make.
96 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): In the name of the
97 dependency file: collapse multiple slash characters into a single
99 * tests/subobj11a.test: New test.
100 * tests/subobj11b.test: Likewise.
101 * tests/subobj11c.test: Likewise.
102 * tests/depcomp8a.test: Likewise.
103 * tests/depcomp8b.test: Likewise.
104 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
106 Report by Stefano Lattarini, quick fix by Ralf Wildenhues, final
107 patch and tests by Stefano Lattarini.
109 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
111 Fix two spurious testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5.
112 * tests/suffix13.test (Makefile.am): Account for VPATH issues on
113 weaker make implementations (e.g. IRIX 6.5).
114 * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise, plus a required related
116 Reported by Ralf Wildenhues. The bugs have been there from the
117 first versions of the affected test scripts.
119 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
121 docs: cygnus mode doesn't require AM_CYGWIN32 macro.
122 * doc/automake.texi (Cygnus): Mode 'cygnus' does not require
123 the AM_CYGWIN32 macro (and indeed hasn't required it since at
124 least commit Release-1-2-31-g3038064 "merged changes from
125 Cygnus" of 1997-08-25).
127 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
129 distlinksbrk.test: Work around botched "make -k".
130 * tests/distlinksbrk.test: Run "make" multiple times and grep
131 its output each time for a single error message, rather than
132 running "make -k" one single time and grepping its output for
133 all the expected error messages. This should work around make
134 implementations with limited (broken?) `-k' support; for more
135 information, see these subthreads on the automake-patches list:
136 - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on HP-UX 11.23",
137 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00162.html>
138 - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5",
139 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00166.html>
141 2010-12-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
143 Fix sed-related buglet in test "subdir5.test"
144 * tests/subdir5.test: Always terminate text passed to the
145 `i' sed command with a newline, to work around limitations
146 in e.g. older OpenBSD sed.
148 2010-12-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
150 docs: fix blunder in example about python extension modules
151 * doc/automake.texi (Python): Use `quaternion_la_SOURCES',
152 not `quaternion_SOURCES', to declare the sources of python
153 extension module `quaternion.la'.
155 2010-12-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
157 docs: list LTLIBRARIES among Automake primaries
158 * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): List `LTLIBRARIES' among
159 the Automake primaries.
161 2010-12-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
163 Improve tests on generated portions of configure help screen.
164 * tests/help-depend.test: Grepping of configure help screen
165 relaxed to cater for possible line wrapping, and tightened in
167 * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
168 * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
169 * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
170 * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
171 * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
172 * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
173 * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
174 * tests/help-init.test: Grepping of configure help screen
177 2010-12-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
179 Avoid running installed automake from 'libtool --help'.
180 * tests/subobj9.test: Export AUTOCONF and AUTOMAKE.
181 Together with fixed Libtool, this fixes check-coverage to not
182 invoke installed automake.
184 2010-11-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
186 Fix spurious failures in `silent*.test' for $CC != gcc
187 In some tests on automake-produced silent rules, we forced the
188 use of gcc depmode to improve testsuite coverage; but this has
189 unsurprisingly led to spurious failures when some non-GNU C
190 compilers were used. So we are now careful to require GCC in
191 tests that force gcc depmode.
192 From reports by Ralf Wildenhues.
193 * silent5.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
194 * silent-many-generic.test, silent-many-gcc.test: ... these new
195 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
197 * silentlex.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
198 * silent-lex-generic.test, silent-lex-gcc.test: ... these new
199 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
201 * silentyacc.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
202 * silent-yacc-generic.test, silent-yacc-gcc.test: ... these new
203 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
205 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
207 2010-11-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
209 Tests: consistently use "|| Exit 1" after ". ./defs".
210 * tests/autohdr.test: Use `. ./defs || Exit 1', not bare
211 `. ./defs', for consistency with other tests.
212 * tests/autohdr2.test: Likewise.
213 * tests/autohdr3.test: Likewise.
214 * tests/autohdr4.test: Likewise.
215 * tests/cond23.test: Likewise.
216 * tests/cond24.test: Likewise.
217 * tests/cond25.test: Likewise.
218 * tests/cond26.test: Likewise.
219 * tests/cond27.test: Likewise.
220 * tests/cond28.test: Likewise.
221 * tests/cond29.test: Likewise.
222 * tests/cond30.test: Likewise.
223 * tests/cond31.test: Likewise.
224 * tests/cond32.test: Likewise.
225 * tests/cond33.test: Likewise.
226 * tests/cond34.test: Likewise.
227 * tests/cond35.test: Likewise.
228 * tests/cond36.test: Likewise.
229 * tests/cond37.test: Likewise.
230 * tests/cond38.test: Likewise.
231 * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
232 * tests/cond40.test: Likewise.
233 * tests/cond41.test: Likewise.
234 * tests/cond42.test: Likewise.
235 * tests/cond43.test: Likewise.
236 * tests/cond44.test: Likewise.
237 * tests/cond45.test: Likewise.
238 * tests/dollarvar.test: Likewise.
239 * tests/dollarvar2.test: Likewise.
240 * tests/hfs.test: Likewise.
241 * tests/libobj14.test: Likewise.
242 * tests/percent.test: Likewise.
243 * tests/percent2.test: Likewise.
244 * tests/phony.test: Likewise.
245 * tests/silent.test: Likewise.
246 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
247 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
248 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
249 * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
250 * tests/silent6.test: Likewise.
251 * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
252 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
253 * tests/silentcxx.test: Likewise.
254 * tests/silentf77.test: Likewise.
255 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
256 * tests/silentlex.test: Likewise.
257 * tests/silentyacc.test: Likewise.
259 Avoid useless cleaning in some `silent*.test' tests.
260 * tests/silentf77.test: Removed useless calls to "make clean"
261 and "make maintainer-clean".
262 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
263 * tests/silent3.test: Removed useless call to "make distclean".
264 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
265 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
267 2010-11-19 Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
269 Sync config-ml.in from GCC.
270 * config-ml.in: Add Go support: treat GOC and GOCFLAGS like other
271 compiler/flag environment variables.
273 2010-11-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
275 Automake::Config: remove extra trailing semicolon.
276 * lib/Automake/Config.in: Remove extra trailing semicolon.
278 help4.test: fix botched heading comment.
279 * tests/help4.test: Fixed the heading comment, since it
280 didn't correctly describe what checks the testcase was
283 help2.test: add checks on aclocal too.
284 * tests/help2.test: Check that also `aclocal --version' and
285 `aclocal --help' work with configure.in and acinclude.m4 both
288 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
290 Fix spurious failures of silent-rules tests with Sun Fortran.
291 * tests/silentf77.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
292 messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers, to
293 avoid spurious failures. Add a trailing `:' command.
294 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
296 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
298 Fix spurious failures of silent5.test with Sun Fortran.
299 * tests/silent5.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
300 messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers,
301 to avoid spurious failures. This bug has been there from the
302 very first version of this test script.
304 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
306 Fix regression in colon{5,6}.test (failures on AIX 5.3).
307 * tests/colon5.test: Also substitute `@SHELL@' with `$SHELL' when
308 post-processing the generated Makefile.in, to work around a bug
309 of AIX 5.3 make which doesn't allow setting the `$(SHELL)' macro
310 on the commend line. Calls to `$MAKE' adjusted accordingly.
311 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
312 Regression introduced in commit v1.11-175-gf9fe878 "Modernize,
313 improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test", and reported by Ralf
316 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
318 Fix regression in ansi.test (failure on AIX 5.3).
319 * tests/ansi.test: Remove redundant hackish check done using a
320 hand-postprocessed Makefile.in. This check worked by setting
321 the `$(SHELL)' macro on the command line of make, but this is
322 not supported by the AIX 5.3 make implementation.
323 This bug has been lurking for a long time, and was activated by
324 commit v1.11-125-gc1f6cdb "Enable `errexit' shell flag in various
325 tests". Report by Ralf Wildenhues.
327 2010-11-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
329 tests: avoid '##'-style comments inside recipe commands.
330 * tests/confh.test, tests/confh8.test: Remove
331 double-hash comments from makefile rule commands, they
332 are not part of the Automake API.
334 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
336 tests: work around dash quoting issue in case statements.
337 * tests/color.test, tests/color2.test: Quote variable in case
338 pattern, to avoid skipping tests with dash 0.5.5.1.
340 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
342 Rebuild menus in the manual.
343 * doc/automake.texi: Rebuild menus (using ^C ^U ^A in emacs).
344 Thanks to Ian Lance Taylor for the suggestion.
346 Fix install-strip when $(STRIP) contains several words.
347 * lib/am/install.am (install-strip): Update comment. Use
348 separate sub-make invocations for empty and nonempty $(STRIP),
349 to fix quoting issues.
350 * tests/strip2.test, tests/strip3.test: New tests.
351 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Adjust.
353 2010-11-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
355 Fix yaccdry.test failure: require bison.
356 * tests/yaccdry.test: Require bison.
357 Found by NixOS Hydra.
359 2010-11-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
361 Fix a bug in variable concatenation with `+='.
362 * lib/Automake/VarDef.pm (append): Since the content of the
363 "appended-to" variable is going to be unconditionally normalized
364 later, simply separate the appended value with a single whitespace
365 character, instead of trying to be uselessly smarter by using
366 escaped newlines. This fixes a bug in which extra backslashes
367 where erroneously inserted in the variable's final value.
368 * tests/pluseq11.test: New test, exposing the bug.
369 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
370 Reported by Andy Wingo.
372 2010-11-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
374 Fix bug in rules for creating vala vapi/header files.
375 * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Add forgotten "fi" in an
376 if control structure in a generated make rules. Bug introduced
377 by previous commit `v1.11-221-gd7c1679', and revealed by failure
378 of test `vala2.test'.
380 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
382 Fix and document rules to not touch the tree with `make -n'.
383 * doc/automake.texi (Multiple Outputs): Document the problem of
384 modifications during dry-run execution, propose solution.
386 * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Split recipe so the
387 stamp file is not removed with GNU `make -n'.
388 (lang_yacc_target_hook): Separate removal of parser output file
390 * lib/am/lisp.am ($(am__ELCFILES)): Determine whether -n was
391 passed to make, take care not to remove any files in that case.
392 * lib/am/remake-hdr.am (%CONFIG_H%): Separate removal of
393 %STAMP% file from induced remaking of config header.
394 * tests/autohdrdry.test, tests/lispdry.test, tests/yaccdry.test:
396 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
398 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
400 Add FAQ entry for bug reporting instructions.
401 * doc/automake.texi (Reporting Bugs): New section.
402 (Introduction): Refer to it.
404 2010-10-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
406 Add support for newer python versions.
407 * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Add python2.7 and python3.2 to
408 _AM_PYTHON_INTERPRETER_LIST. Since we are at it, break a long
409 line and fix indentation.
411 From a report by Thomas Klausner.
413 Add test for `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' macro.
414 * tests/dmalloc.test: New test.
415 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
417 Fix nits and bugs in tests `help*.test'.
418 * tests/help4.test: Fix broken sed commands used to strip `-W...'
419 flags away from "$AUTOMAKE" and "$ACLOCAL".
420 * tests/help3.test: Likewise, and fix a botched comment.
421 * tests/help.test: Likewise. Also, use "AUTOMAKE_fails ..."
422 instead of "$AUTOMAKE ... && Exit 1", for consistency and to
423 please maintainer-check.
424 * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
426 2010-10-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
427 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
429 Improve tests `help*.test' (also fixes maintcheck failures).
430 * tests/help.test: To run automake, use `$AUTOMAKE' with all `-W'
431 flags stripped away rather than hard-coded `automake-$APIVERSION',
432 to better honour user-overrides. Similarly for aclocal.
433 * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
434 * tests/help3.test: Likewise.
435 * tests/help4.test: Likewise.
437 2010-10-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
439 Document and fix expansion of variables before rules.
440 * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Document that variables
441 are expanded before rules.
442 * lib/am/check.am (am__check_post): Reword a bit so it does not
443 get matched as a rule.
444 Suggestion by Ben Pfaff.
446 2010-10-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
448 Revert "parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue."
449 This reverts commit 24e3b4ee2f8cb9f72dd94a05a893f3d4e88b7835,
450 because it re-opened the bug fixed by v1.11-10-g218e678.
452 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
454 parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
455 * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
456 substitution %MAKEFILE%.
457 (generate_makefile): Adjust.
458 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
459 sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
460 input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
463 Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
465 2010-09-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
467 Extend tests on `--help' and `--version' options.
468 * tests/help.test: Create a new empty directory and chdir into
469 it, rather than removing already present files. Run the aclocal
470 and automake wrapper scripts directly, instead of relying on
471 $AUTOMAKE and $ACLOCAL. Be sure to correctly match literal dots
472 in aclocal's and automake's stderr. Add a trailing `:' command.
473 * tests/help2.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
474 `--version' works in directories with broken `configure.in'.
475 * tests/help3.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
476 `--version' take precedence on the other options.
477 * tests/help4.test: New test, checking that the first among the
478 `--help' and `--version' options to be specified on the command
480 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
482 2010-09-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
484 Testsuite: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when extending PATH.
485 * tests/compile2.test: Do no uselessly (implicitly) repeat the
486 computation of PATH_SEPARATOR again.
487 * tests/instmany-mans.test: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when
488 extending/redefining PATH.
489 * tests/instmany-python.test: Likewise.
490 * tests/instmany.test: Likewise.
491 * tests/man4.test: Likewise.
492 * tests/mkinst3.test: Likewise.
493 * tests/mmodely.test: Likewise.
494 * tests/multlib.test: Likewise.
495 * tests/txinfo30.test: Likewise.
496 * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
498 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_PATH_SEPARATOR): New maintainer check.
499 (syntax_check_rules): Updated.
501 Testsuite: new variables `$PATH_SEPARATOR' and `$APIVERSION'.
502 * tests/defs.in ($APIVERSION): New AC_SUBST'd variable.
503 ($ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE): Use it.
504 ($PATH_SEPARATOR): New AC_SUBST'd variables.
507 2010-09-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
509 Manual: be more agnostic w.r.t. version control system used.
510 * doc/automake.texi (Basics of Distribution): Also refer to `.svn'
511 directories as a type of probably-unwanted files that are copied
512 regardless when adding directories to EXTRA_DIST.
513 (The dist Hook): Show a dist-hook example which removes Subversion
514 `.svn' private directories from distdir, rather than CVS private
516 (missing and AM_MAINTAINER_MODE): Try to be more agnostic w.r.t.
517 the version control system used.
519 Manual: index refer to target "git-dist", not "cvs-dist".
520 * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Index the non-standard
521 example about "git-dist" under the "git-dist" label, not under
524 Perl modules: remove references to "Automake CVS repository".
525 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Update comments to refer to "Automke's
526 git repository" rather than to "Automake's CVS repository".
527 * lib/Automake/Configure_ac.pm: Likewise.
528 * lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm: Likewise.
529 * lib/Automake/Struct.pm: Likewise.
530 * lib/Automake/XFile.pm: Likewise.
531 * lib/Automake/Version.pm (=head1 DESCRIPTION): Refer to "git
532 branches" rather than "CVS branches".
534 Remove obsolete .cvsignore files.
535 * .cvsignore, doc/.cvsignore, lib/.cvsignore, lib/am/.cvsignore,
536 lib/Automake/.cvsignore, lib/Automake/tests/.cvsignore,
537 m4/.cvsignore, tests/.cvsignore: Files deleted. Even when using
538 savannah's CVS readonly mirror there's no way to commit back to
539 the real repository, so this files are not worth maintaining or
542 2010-09-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
544 * m4/dmalloc.m4: Bump serial number and copyright years.
546 2010-09-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
548 Fix broken link in `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' help screen.
549 * m4/dmalloc.m4 (AM_WITH_DMALLOC): Refer only to the dmalloc site
550 `http://www.dmalloc.com', not to the dmalloc tarball there (which
551 seems to have been removed, substituted by multiple release
554 2010-09-17 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
556 Avoid triple-space after period.
557 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): Avoid 3 spaces at
559 * ChangeLog.03: Likewise.
560 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Likewise.
561 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (_print_message): Likewise.
562 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm (rule): Likewise.
563 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (var): Likewise.
564 * lib/am/distdir.am: Likewise.
565 * tests/insthook.test: Likewise.
567 2010-09-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
569 Test automake-generated portions of configure help screen.
570 * tests/help-depend.test: New test.
571 * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
572 * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
573 * tests/help-init.test: Likewise.
574 * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
575 * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
576 * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
577 * tests/help-regex.test: Likewise.
578 * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
579 * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
580 * tests/mmode.test: Remove tests on `configure --help' output,
581 they are superseded by tests in `help-maintainer.test'.
582 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
584 2010-09-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
586 * tests/README: Don't put GCS mandated tools in $required.
588 2010-09-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
590 * HACKING: Hint at old commits with `git describe' output.
592 2010-09-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
594 Fix regression in test `colon4.test'.
595 * tests/colon4.test: Fix botched editing to `configure.in'
596 that made the test useless. Since we are at it, improve
597 comments and make grepping of generated Makefile.in slightly
599 Regression introduced by change "Modernize, improve and/or
600 extend tests `colon*.test" (Stefano Lattarini, 2010-08-08).
602 2010-09-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
604 Do not require "gzip" explicitly in tests.
605 The gzip utility is simply expected to be present on any decent
606 target system for Automake. So it's pointless to put it in
608 * tests/install2.test ($required): Do not require "gzip".
609 * tests/lex3.test: Likewise.
610 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
611 From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
613 Make some `confh*.test' tests more "semantic" (plus tweakings).
614 * tests/confh.test: Run "autoconf", "configure" and "make check",
615 instead of munging/grepping the generated `Makefile.in'.
616 * tests/confh4.test: Relax the grepping of Makefile.in w.r.t.
617 white spaces. Do not create useless dummy source file `foo.c'
618 and useless dummy header file `acconfig.h'.
619 (configure.in): Remove superfluous call to `AC_OUTPUT'.
620 * tests/confh6.test: Add trailing `:' command.
621 * tests/confh7.test: In comments, add reference to ...
622 * tests/confh8.test: ... this new test, "semantic" sister
624 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
625 Prompted by a report from Ralf Wildenhues.
627 Remove useless whitespace padding in XFAIL_TESTS definition.
628 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Remove whitespace padding.
630 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
632 parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
633 * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
634 substitution %MAKEFILE%.
635 (generate_makefile): Adjust.
636 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
637 sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
638 input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
641 Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
643 Posix 2008 requires make to set errexit.
644 * lib/am/check.am: Update comment.
646 2010-08-27 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
648 Fix bug in test missing6.test.
649 * tests/missing6.test: Fix the hack used to edit `configure.in',
650 to avoid producing a configure script that breaks with shells
651 that do not support $LINENO. Also throw in a couple of cosmetic
654 2010-08-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
656 Improve robustness of mdate-sh script.
657 * lib/mdate-sh: Sanitize zsh behavior on startup, to ensure
658 $ls_command is word-split properly upon invocation.
659 (error): New function.
660 (main): Use it. Improve error checking to avoid endless loop
661 in case $ls_command gave bogus output. Fix eval quotation.
662 * tests/mdate6.test: New test, to expose eval quotation error.
663 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
665 2010-08-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
667 Fix potential regressions in depcomp{3,5}.test.
668 * tests/depcomp3.test: Do not uselessly escape the character `$'
669 in makefile rules, when it's used to expand a make macro.
670 * tests/depcomp5.test: Likewise.
672 2010-08-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
673 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
675 Docs: clarify how to avoid automatic dependencies tracking.
676 * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Mention that
677 automatic dependencies tracking is enabled by default, but that
678 the package developer can disable it altogether. Add a reference
679 to the proper section for a more in-depth explanation.
681 Fix typo in manual (`Makefile.in' instead of `Makefile.am').
682 * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Fix typo.
684 2010-08-16 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
686 Don't hide the table of contents.
687 * doc/automake.texi: Move the table of contents to the beginning.
689 2010-08-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
691 Tweak and/or extend some `acloca*.test' tests.
692 * tests/aclocal8.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured
694 * tests/aclocal.test: Likewise. Also, add trailing `:'
696 * tests/acloca19.test: Likewise.
697 * tests/aclocal5.test: Add trailing `:' command, and prefer
698 `$me' over hard-coded test name.
699 * tests/aclocal6.test: Likewise.
700 * tests/aclocal18.test: Add trailing `:' command, and make
701 some grepping slightly stricter.
702 * tests/acloca14.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `diff' over
703 `cmp', and add some "cosmetic" blank lines.
705 2010-08-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
707 Tweak and extend tests `pr[!0-9]*.test'.
708 * tests/primary3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
709 * tests/primary.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
710 Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
711 * tests/primary2.test: Likewise.
712 * tests/prefix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
713 changes. Add a trailing `:' command.
714 * tests/proginst.test: Likewise.
716 Modernize, improve and extend tests for PR (`pr[0-9]*.test').
717 * tests/pr2.test: Add trailing `:' command.
718 * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
719 * tests/pr401.test: Likewise.
720 * tests/pr401b.test: Likewise.
721 * tests/pr401c.test: Likewise.
722 * tests/pr300-prog.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic changes in
724 * tests/pr300-lib.test: Likewise.
725 * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise, and ensure verbose printing
726 of captured make stdout.
727 * tests/pr211.test: Add trailing `:' command. Also, use the
728 `configure.in' stub created by ./defs, rather than writing it
730 * tests/pr204.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic spacing changes.
731 * tests/pr287.test: Likewise, and move setting of `errexit' shell
732 flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs).
733 * tests/pr220.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
734 Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
735 * tests/pr224.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
736 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Do not export
737 `CC=gcc' to configure explicitly (it's already exported globally
738 in ./defs, since we have "gcc" in $required). Use the stub for
739 `configure.in' created by ./defs, rather than writing it from
740 scratch. Do not create dummy files required by "gnu" mode (e.g.
741 README, NEWS), since we run automake in foreign mode anyway.
742 * tests/pr72.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
743 changes. Extend existing checks a bit.
744 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise. Also, avoid obsolescent constructs in
745 the generated `configure.in', and extend existing checks over the
746 generated tarball a bit.
747 * tests/pr87.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
748 changes. Add a trailing `:' command. Also, do not create dummy
749 files required by "gnu" mode (e.g. README, NEWS), since we run
750 automake in foreign mode anyway.
751 * tests/pr243.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
752 `configure.in'. Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
753 changes. Cosmetic changes to spacing, add trailing `:' command,
754 and add a "FIXME" comment.
755 * tests/pr266.test: Likewise, and add explicit command line switch
756 `--enable-dependecy-tracking' to the ./configure call.
757 * tests/pr279.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
758 `configure.in'; also, use the `configure.in' stub created by
759 ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch. Enable `errexit'
760 shell flag, and related changes. Add trailing `:' command.
761 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
763 * tests/pr307.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
764 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Escape literal
765 dots in grep regular expressions. Also, add a trailing `:'
766 command, and cosmetic changes to spacing.
768 Tests for PR: add excerpts from original bug report, for clarity.
769 * tests/pr2.test: Ditto.
770 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
771 * tests/pr72.test: Likewise.
772 * tests/pr87.test: Likewise.
773 * tests/pr211.test: Likewise.
774 * tests/pr220.test: Likewise.
775 * tests/pr224.test: Likewise.
776 * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
777 * tests/pr243.test: Likewise.
778 * tests/pr266.test: Likewise.
779 * tests/pr279.test: Likewise, and tell to keep it in sync
780 with its sister test.
781 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
783 2010-08-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
785 Tweak, extend and improve tests `cond[a-z]*.test'.
786 * tests/condd.test: Add trailing `:' command. Typofix in
788 * tests/condhook.test: Make sure target `install-data-hook' is
789 not called by `make install', but that data files are installed.
790 Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in. Add trailing `:' command.
791 * tests/condhook2.test: New test, sister test of condhook, with
793 * tests/condinc2.test: Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
794 Prefer trailing `:' command over trailing `Exit 0'.
795 * tests/condman2.test: Enable errexit shell flag, and related
796 changes. Add trailing `:' command.
797 * tests/condman.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless
798 dummy manpages, and use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
799 * tests/condman3.test: New test, similar to condman.test, but
800 it also runs ./configure and "make install", and check the
802 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
804 Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test.
805 * tests/colon.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
806 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Do not create
807 a useless dummy file. Add trailing `:' command.
808 * tests/colon4.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
809 related changes. Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
810 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
811 * tests/colon7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
812 changes. Improve the generated `configure.in' file. Add
813 trailing `:' command.
814 * tests/colon2.test: Likewise. Also, add some new checks.
815 * tests/colon5.test: Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
816 Add new, much deeper checks. Add trailing `:' command.
817 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
818 * tests/colon3.test: Add trailing `:' command. Remove useless
819 comments and echos. Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
820 make some grepping tests stricter. Add a "FIXME" comments about
821 planned improvements.
823 Improve and extend tests `asm*.test'.
824 * tests/asm.test: Use configure.in stub generated by ./defs,
825 and avoid obsoleted autoconf constructs. Make grepping of
826 Automake stderr stricter. Do not create useless source file.
827 Improve verbose messages. Minor cosmetic changes. Tell to
828 keep it in sync with other sister tests asm*.test.
829 * tests/asm2.test: Likewise.
830 * tests/asm3.test: Likewise.
832 Modernize, improve and/or extend test scripts `conf*.test'.
833 * tests/confh5.test: Cosmetic changes.
834 * tests/conff.test: Likewise.
835 * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise.
836 * tests/conflnk.test: Likewise.
837 * tests/conflnk2.test: Likewise.
838 * tests/confsub.test: Likewise.
839 * tests/confvar.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
841 * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
842 * tests/conflnk3.test: Cosmetic changes. Re-enable a temporarily
843 disabled test (which didn't work with autoconf <= 2.59, but now we
844 are requiring autoconf 2.62, so...)
845 * tests/conflnk4.test: Cosmetic changes, and extend existing tests
846 accordingly to "TODO" comments.
847 * tests/conff2.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
848 Add some comments explaining why we don't use the `configure.in'
849 stub preset be ./defs.
850 * tests/confh.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
851 rather than writing one from scratch, and do not call AC_OUTPUT.
852 Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related changes. Prefer diff over
853 cmp to compare text files. Prefer perl over sed to fetch the value
854 of $(DIST_COMMON) from Makefile.in. Make grepping of the contents
855 of $(DIST_COMMON) stricter.
856 * tests/confh4.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
857 rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping of Makefile.in
859 * tests/confh5.test: Make grepping of `config.h' stricter. Add a
861 * tests/configure.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in generated
862 `configure.ac'. Do not write `configure.in' two times. Escape
863 literal dots in grep regular expressions.
864 * tests/confincl.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
865 changes. Prefer fgrep over grep. Other cosmetic changes.
866 * tests/config.test: Renamed to ...
867 * tests/confh6.test: ... this. Fix m4 quoting in `configure.in',
868 and make grepping of `config.h' and `config.h.in' stricter.
869 * tests/conf2.test: Renamed ...
870 * tests/confh7.test: ... to this. Use the `configure.in' stub
871 created by ./defs, rather than writing one from scratch. Try to
872 run the checks both with and without AC_PROG_CC and AC_OUTPUT in
874 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
876 Minor improvements and fixes in tests `depcomp*.test'.
877 * tests/depcomp.test: Do not create useless dummy source files.
878 Add a trailing `:' command.
879 * tests/depcomp2.test: Use `unset' on the CFLAG variable to ensure
880 it's not in in the environment, rather than exporting it with an
881 empty value. Do not pass CC=gcc to configure, as that's already
882 done in ./defs since we have gcc in $required. Ensure verbose
883 printing of captured stderr, and normalize its checking. Add a
884 trailing `:' command.
885 * tests/depcomp3.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
886 grep regexps. Always use `: >' rather than `touch' to create empty
887 files. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the created
888 Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:' command.
889 * tests/depcomp4.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
890 grep regexp. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the
891 created Makefile.am. Ensure verbose printing of captured makes'
892 stoud/stderr. Add a trailing `:' command.
893 * tests/depcomp5.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
894 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Quote literal dots
895 and dollar characters in grep regexps. Explicitly declare phony
896 targets as such in the created Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:'
898 * tests/depcomp6.test: Consistently use m4 quoting in the generated
899 configure.in. Cosmetic fixes to spacing. Make the "dummy" `if'
900 statement required by OpenBSD's sh `set -e' more robust, and add
901 explanatory comments to it.
902 * tests/depcomp7.test: Likewise, and add a trailing `:' command.
904 Separate failing part of test `all.test'.
905 * tests/all.test: Keep only (x)failing part of the test. Working
906 checks moved out to ...
907 * tests/all2.test: ... this new test.
908 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
910 Modernize, improve and extend tests `subobj*.test'.
911 * tests/subobjname.test: Add trailing `:' command.
912 * tests/subobj.test: Make grepping of `Makefile.in' stricter.
913 Escape literal dots in grep regexps.
914 * tests/subobj2.test: Add trailing `:' command. Do not use the
915 unportable fgrep option `-e'.
916 * tests/subobj3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
917 (configure.in): Use proper m4 quoting, and avoid obsolescent
919 * tests/subobj8.test: Likewise. Also, enable `errexit' shell
920 flag, with related changes
921 * tests/subobj4.test: Likewise. Also, make grepping of
922 `Makefile.in' stricter.
923 * tests/subobj5.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of
924 `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
926 (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
927 writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
928 * tests/subobj6.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of
929 `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
930 of ./defs). Do not create useless dummy ac-init file `f'.
931 * tests/subobj7.test: Do not create useless dummy ac-init file
933 (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
934 writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
935 * tests/subobj9.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
936 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Fail the test if
937 `make distcheck' fails. Ensure verbose printing of captured make
938 stdout. Avoid useless fork by doing simple grep instead of using
939 test -n "`COMMAND | grep ...`".
940 (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
941 (Makefile.am): Explicitly mark target "print" as phony.
942 * tests/subobj10.test: Removed duplicated call to `set -e'. Add
943 trailing `:' command.
944 (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
946 Remove a couple of obsoleted tests.
947 * tests/fpinstall.test: Removed.
948 * tests/fpinst2.test: Likewise.
949 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
951 Bootstrap: updated HACKING entry.
952 * HACKING ("Working with git"): Explain how to override the
953 autoconf and autom4te programs used by the bootstrap process.
956 * bootstrap: Do not remove `lib/Automake/Config.pm' anymore,
957 since we don't generate it. Correctly quote arguments of
958 `eval' builtin. Fixed a botched error message. Removed an
961 Bootstrap: don't search perl in $PATH.
962 * bootstrap: Do not explicitly search perl in $PATH anymore.
963 ($PATH_SEPARATOR): Removed, it's no more needed.
965 Bootstrap: let the user choose which autoconf to use.
966 * bootstrap ($AUTOCONF): New variable, from the environment.
967 ($AUTOM4TE): Likewise, for clarity.
968 Use "$AUTOCONF" instead of calling "autoconf" directly.
970 Minor improvements to tests ar*.test.
971 * tests/ar.test: Add trailing `:' command.
972 * tests/ar2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
973 Makefile.in stricter.
975 2010-08-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
977 Fix maintainer-check failure.
978 * tests/cond5.test: Quote sleep argument, this isn't about
979 time stamp differences.
981 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
982 * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
985 2010-08-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
987 Work around a nasty bug (segfault) of Solaris make.
988 * lib/am/check.am (recheck, recheck-html): Trim trailing spaces
989 from $list, to avoid triggering a nasty bug (potential segfault)
992 2010-08-06 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
994 Make cond5.test more robust on MSYS.
995 * tests/cond5.test: Add delay before the first kill attempt to
996 cater for problems with MSYS bash.
998 2010-07-31 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1000 Add example git work flow; discuss merge --log in HACKING.
1002 Suggestion by Stefano Lattarini.
1004 Add more hints for debugging make rules.
1005 * doc/automake.texi (Debugging Make Rules): Show command to find
1006 out expanded values of variables; point to makefile debugger.
1008 Prompted by suggestion from Ludovic Courtès and Andy Wingo.
1010 2010-07-27 Patrick Welche <prlw1@cam.ac.uk> (tiny change)
1012 Fix typo in the manual.
1013 * doc/automake.texi (Scripts): Fix typo.
1015 2010-07-27 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1017 Document current policy for development with git.
1018 * HACKING (Working with git): Overhaul.
1019 Prompted by suggestion from Stefano Lattarini.
1021 Fix AM_COND_IF for gone-invalid condition shell expression.
1022 * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): test contents of $COND_TRUE
1023 variable, rather than re-evaluating the shell expression for
1025 * tests/cond40.test: Extend test.
1028 Avoid syntax error if IF-TRUE part of AM_COND_IF expands empty.
1029 * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): Ensure IF-TRUE part is never empty
1030 to avoid shell syntax error if the m4 expansion is empty.
1031 * tests/cond40.test: Enhance test.
1033 Coverage: bogus option to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
1034 * tests/init2.test: New test.
1035 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
1037 2010-07-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1039 Modernize and improve test scripts `subdir*.test'.
1040 * tests/subdir.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1041 changes. Use the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs',
1042 rather than writing one from scratch.
1043 * tests/subdir2.test: Likewise.
1044 * tests/subdir4.test: Likewise.
1045 * tests/subdir3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1046 changes. Do not create useless dummy source files.
1047 * tests/subdir5.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in (in topdir
1048 and in subdirs) stricter. Some minor changes to keep it more
1049 in sync with the related test `subdir8.test'.
1050 * tests/subdir8.test: Likewise (but with the related test being
1051 `subdir5.test' here).
1052 * tests/subdir6.test: Cosmetic change in spacing.
1053 * tests/subdir9.test: Define and use new variable `$distdir'. Add
1054 trailing `:' command.
1055 * tests/subdir10.test: Cosmetic consistency-related change.
1056 * tests/subdirbuiltsources.test: Cosmetic changes in spacings.
1057 (configure.in): Use stub created by `./defs', rather than writing
1058 it from scratch. Do not use obsoleted and/or deprecated forms of
1059 autoconf/automake macros.
1061 Modernize and improve test scripts `dist*.test'.
1062 * tests/distcleancheck.test: Do not add useless `-e' option to
1063 a $MAKE call. Extend test by grepping stderr of make.
1064 * tests/distcom2.test: Do not run the same test script on the
1065 Makefile.in twice, but save its output in an intermediate file
1066 instead. Make grepping of DIST_COMMON definition stricter.
1067 Display the content of more files, to ease debugging. Add a
1068 trailing `:' command. Improved heading comments w.r.t. sister
1070 * tests/distcom6.test: Likewise, and avoid to uselessly run
1072 * tests/distcom3.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured stdout
1073 and stderr. Make grepping of captured stderr stricter. Also,
1074 add trailing `:' command.
1075 * tests/distcom4.test: Declare the target `test' in the generated
1076 Makefile.am as `.PHONY'. Display content of more files, to ease
1077 debugging. Add trailing `:' command.
1078 * tests/distcom5.test: Likewise. Also, factor out common sed
1079 script in subroutine `extract_distcommon'.
1080 * tests/distcom7.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to write
1081 test Makefile.am files. Add a trailing `:' command.
1082 * tests/distname.test: Prefer `gzip -d' over `gunzip'. Move the
1083 call to `set -e' earlier. Be stricter and more verbose in the
1084 checking of the generated tarball.
1085 (configure.in): Use the stub provided by ./defs, instead of
1086 writing it from scratch. Avoid obsoleted constructs. Remove
1087 useless call to `AM_PROG_CC_C_O'.
1088 * tests/distdir.test: Various minor improvements/normalizations.
1089 * tests/distlinks.test: Likewise.
1091 2010-07-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1093 Improve and extend test cond5.test.
1094 * tests/cond5.test: Do not blindly sleep 60 seconds before polling
1095 the background automake process, but poll it every 10 seconds for
1096 at most 30 times (this makes the test both faster on good machines,
1097 and more resilient to spurious timeout-due failures when in low
1098 priority or on heavily-loaded systems).
1099 Check also that automake writes the expected error messages on the
1101 Enable `errexit' flag, and related changes.
1102 Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs', rather than
1103 writing one from scratch.
1105 2010-06-26 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1107 Update program --help output to match current GCS.
1108 * configure.ac: Set and substitute PACKAGE_URL if AC_PACKAGE_URL
1109 is not defined, for compatibility to Autoconf < 2.64.
1110 * Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute PACKAGE_BUGREPORT and
1112 (sc_diff_automake_in_automake): Update number of diff lines for
1113 additional substitutions.
1114 * aclocal.in (usage): Use PACKAGE_BUGREPORT. Point to Automake
1115 home page and GNU general help page.
1116 * automake.in (usage): Likewise.
1117 * doc/automake.texi: New flag PACKAGE_BUGREPORT, to factor email
1119 (Introduction, Creating amhello, amhello Explained, Options):
1121 * lib/Automake/Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute
1123 * lib/Automake/Config.in ($PACKAGE_BUGREPORT): New global.
1124 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Use it for footer of fatal
1127 Clean up @var handling in the manual.
1128 * doc/automake.texi: Throughout the manual, lower-case @var
1129 names, replace a few one-character names.
1131 2010-06-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1133 Fix typo-related bug in test script silent5.test.
1134 * tests/silent5.test: Use $EGREP, not $GREP (which is not even
1137 Tests: remove useless repetitions of `foreign' automake option.
1138 * tests/multlib.test (configure.in): Remove useless use of
1139 `foreign' option in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (the `--foreign' option is
1140 already in $AUTOMAKE by default, so no point in repeating it).
1141 * tests/subobj10.test: Likewise.
1142 * tests/subobj9.test: Likewise.
1143 * tests/lex3.test (Makefile.am): Similarly, remove useless use
1144 of `foreign' option in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
1145 * tests/lex5.test: Likewise.
1146 * tests/pr279.test: Likewise.
1147 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
1148 * tests/specflg3.test: Likewise.
1149 * tests/target-cflags.test: Likewise.
1151 Drop useless requirement "gzip" in lex5.test.
1152 * tests/lex5.test ($required): Do not list "gzip", as it's
1155 2010-06-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1157 Fix bugs in test script silent5.test.
1158 * tests/silent5.test: Fixed a nasty bug (due to the use of grep
1159 instead of egrep) that could have led to false negatives.
1161 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1163 Add a test checking that distributed broken symlinks cause
1164 `make dist' to fail.
1165 * tests/distlinksbrk.test: New test.
1166 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1168 2010-06-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1170 Fix minor testsuite issues, update docs, for Yacc/Lex changes.
1171 * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Mention AM_YFLAGS, YFLAGS
1172 and AM_LFLAGS, LFLAGS in the order in which they now appear in
1175 * tests/lflags.test, tests/lflags2.test, tests/yflags.test,
1176 tests/yflags2.test: Prefer `make -e' over `make VAR=VAL', to
1177 please maintainer-check. Ensure generated C files contain a
1178 declaration, to please compilers.
1180 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1182 Fix bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t. $(AM_FLAGS) and
1183 $(FLAGS) precedence.
1184 * automake.in: Fix registration of languages "Lex", "Lex (C++)",
1185 "Yacc" and "Yacc (C++)", so that $(LFLAGS) has precedence over
1186 $(AM_LFLAGS) and $(YFLAGS) has precedence over $(AM_YFLAGS).
1187 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1190 New tests, exposing bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t.
1191 $(AM_FLAGS) and $(FLAGS) precedence.
1192 * tests/lflags.test: New test, check that user $(LFLAGS) takes
1193 precedence over automake (AM_LFLAGS) and (foo_LFLAGS). Still
1195 * tests/lflags2.test: Likewise.
1196 * tests/yflags.test: New test, check that user $(YFLAGS) takes
1197 precedence over automake (AM_YFLAGS) and (foo_YFLAGS). Still
1199 * tests/yflags2.test: Likewise.
1200 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Extended accordingly.
1202 2010-06-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1204 Modernize, improve and extend tests `suffix*.test'.
1205 * tests/suffix3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1207 * tests/suffix4.test: Likewise.
1208 * tests/suffix6.test: Likewise, and do not create a useless dummy
1210 * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
1211 * tests/suffix5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1212 changes. Make grepping of Makefile.in slightly stricter.
1213 * tests/suffix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1214 changes. Also, do not redirect grep output to /dev/null, as this
1215 might unmotivatedly hide useful information.
1216 * tests/suffix2.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1217 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Use a more
1218 idiomatic way to count text occurrences in Makefile.in with
1219 grep. Do not create useless dummy source files.
1220 * tests/suffix10.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured make
1221 stdout. Minor cosmetic changes.
1222 * tests/suffix8.test: Likewise. Also, drop useless call to the
1223 env(1) utility, and make grepping of make output stricter by using
1224 $FGREP rather than plain grep.
1225 * tests/suffix11.test: Likewise.
1226 * tests/suffix12.test: Likewise.
1227 * tests/suffix9.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to append to
1228 the `configure.in' stub. Cosmetic changes.
1229 * tests/suffix13.test: Cosmetic spacing change.
1231 2010-06-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1233 Add useful comment in test script ext.test.
1234 * tests/ext.test: Add a comment explaining why an apparently
1235 useless `if' statement is indeed required.
1237 Add useful comment in test script obsolete.test.
1238 * tests/obsolete.test: Add a comment explaining why we need
1239 an indirection in adding $AUTOUPDATE to $required.
1241 Normalize whitespaces in 'tests/Makefile.am'.
1242 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Use only spaces, not tabs, in the
1243 definition of this variable.
1245 2010-06-12 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1247 Remove a couple of unneeded conditionals from tests.
1248 * tests/pr243.test, tests/pr266.test, tests/strip.test: No need
1249 for the FOOTEST conditional.
1251 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1253 Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
1254 * tests/symlink3.test: Deleted, separated into two new, more
1256 * tests/forcemiss.test: ... this one ...
1257 * tests/forcemiss2.test: ... and this one.
1258 * tests/symlink2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, make test
1259 stricter, and skip it if symlink creation is not supported.
1260 * tests/postproc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, related
1261 changes, and a couple of unrelated cosmetic changes.
1262 * tests/recurs.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
1263 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping
1264 of Automake stderr slightly stricter.
1265 * tests/substtarg.test: Likewise.
1266 * tests/strip.test: Likewise, and move the call to `set -e'
1267 earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs'). Also, make sure
1268 that the script installed by `make install-script' is equal to
1270 * tests/substref.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
1271 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Move the call
1272 to `set -e' earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs').
1273 Avoid to explicitly export CC for configure (that's already done
1274 in ./defs). Avoid potential problems with unpredictable make
1275 output. Finally, make grepping of Makefile.in stricter.
1276 * tests/substre2.test: Ensure verbose printing of the captured
1277 make's output, and make its grepping slightly stricter.
1278 * tests/cygwin32.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1279 changes. Also, do not create useless dummy source/data files.
1280 * tests/scripts.test: Likewise.
1281 * tests/recurs2.test: Likewise. Also, use the `configure.in'
1282 stub created by `./defs'.
1283 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1285 Modernize, improve and/or fix tests `pluseq*.test.
1286 * tests/pluseq5.test: Append to configure.in using cat with an
1287 here-doc, not using echo.
1288 * tests/pluseq10.test: Make sure that the captured output of
1289 `make' command is always displayed. Where possible, use $FGREP
1290 instead of grep (this change makes some checks slightly stricter).
1291 * tests/pluseq8.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
1293 * tests/pluseq.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless dummy
1294 data files, and use better m4 quoting in generated configure.in.
1295 * tests/pluseq2.test: Likewise. Also, append to configure.in
1296 using cat with an here-doc, not using echo.
1297 * tests/pluseq3.test: Likewise.
1298 * tests/pluseq4.test: Likewise.
1299 * tests/pluseq6.test: Likewise.
1300 * tests/pluseq7.test: Do not create useless dummy source file.
1301 * tests/pluseq9.test: Slightly extended w.r.t. the grepping of
1302 Automake stderr. Some unrelated cosmetic changes.
1304 Testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured stderr.
1305 * tests/acloca18.test: Print captured stderr before either failing
1306 or grepping it. Be sure to send captured stderr to stderr, not to
1308 * tests/ansi3b.test: Likewise.
1309 * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
1310 * tests/configure.test: Likewise.
1311 * tests/missing3.test: Likewise.
1312 * tests/missing6.test: Likewise.
1313 * tests/output-order.test: Likewise.
1314 * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise.
1315 * tests/python6.test: Likewise.
1316 * tests/python7.test: Likewise.
1317 * tests/python8.test: Likewise.
1318 * tests/python9.test: Likewise.
1319 * tests/subobj.test: Likewise.
1320 * tests/vars3.test: Likewise.
1321 * tests/missing4.test: Likewise, and fix a call to grep not to use
1323 * tests/ansi3.test: Likewise, and rely on the `configure.in' stub
1324 created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1326 Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
1327 * tests/backsl.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
1329 * tests/backsl2.test: Likewise.
1330 * tests/block.test: Likewise.
1331 * tests/canon2.test: Likewise.
1332 * tests/canon4.test: Likewise.
1333 * tests/comment2.test: Likewise.
1334 * tests/condlib.test: Likewise.
1335 * tests/cond15.test: Likewise, and prefer $FGREP over grep.
1336 * tests/canon3.test: Likewise. Also, avoid to create an useless
1338 * tests/acoutpt2.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and some
1339 related changes. Do some cosmetic improvements in the generated
1340 `configure.in' file.
1341 * tests/cond4.test: Likewise.
1342 * tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
1343 * tests/condinc.test: Likewise.
1344 * tests/cond7.test: Likewise. Also, remove useless setting of
1345 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am.
1346 * tests/ansi.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
1347 changes. Extended, esp. by running autoconf, ./configure and
1348 make, and by looking into the distdir.
1350 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1351 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1353 Extend tests/README w.r.t. trailing `:' in test scripts.
1354 * tests/README (section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
1355 Explain why apparently redundant trailing `:' and `Exit 0' in
1356 test scripts can indeed be useful.
1358 2010-06-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1360 Improve determination of PATH separator in bootstrap script.
1361 * bootstrap: Determine what the PATH separator is the same way
1364 Minor improvements in bootstrap script.
1365 * bootstrap: Consistently use two-spaces indentation. Cosmetic
1366 improvement to comments.
1367 ($me): New variable, containing program basename.
1368 Prepend it to all error messages.
1370 Testsuite now works with BSD make in parallel mode.
1371 * tests/defs.in: Unset variables __MKLVL__ and MAKE_JOBS_FIFO,
1372 which are exported by BSD make when run in parallel mode, and
1373 which can confuse make processes spawned by our testsuite.
1374 This change fixes a lot of spurious failure when the testsuite
1375 is run with BSD make in parallel mode.
1377 2010-06-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1379 Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
1380 * tests/sanity.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
1381 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1382 * tests/depend2.test: Likewise. Also, call `set -e' just after
1383 the inclusion of `./defs', instead that later in the script.
1384 * tests/canon5.test: Avoid a useless `|| Exit 1' after a call to
1385 $AUTOMAKE, and improve the positioning of an $ACLOCAL call.
1386 * tests/exeext4.test: Use $FGREP instead of grep, where possible.
1387 Make auxiliary rules in the generated Makefile more silent.
1388 These changes make some checks slightly stricter.
1389 * tests/ext2.test: Call `Exit 1' if inclusion of `./defs' fails.
1390 * tests/gettext2.test: Place final `:' at the end of the script,
1391 rather than in the middle.
1392 * tests/exeext.test: Call `set -e' just after the inclusion of
1393 `./defs', instead that later in the script.
1394 * tests/extra5.test: Likewise.
1395 * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `mv -f' over
1396 plain `mv', just to be sure.
1397 * tests/depcomp.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
1398 changes. Also, modernize the generated configure.in.
1399 * tests/cond9.test: Likewise. Also, rely on the `configure.in'
1400 stub created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1401 * tests/cond10.test: Likewise.
1402 * tests/depcomp2.test: Likewise.
1403 * tests/depend3.test: Likewise.
1404 * tests/distcom7.test: Likewise.
1405 * tests/fortdep.test: Likewise. Also, remove definition of
1406 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am,
1407 since that flag is already provided by $AUTOMAKE.
1408 * tests/mdate.test: Made stricter, by checking that Automake
1409 actually failed, and by making a stricter grep on the error
1410 message. Also, set shell `errexit flag'.
1411 * tests/python2.test: Improved verbose messages.
1413 Make test `ammissing.test' stricter.
1414 * tests/ammissing.test: Fail if $ACLOCAL succeeds unexpectedly.
1415 Enable `errexit' shell flag.
1417 2010-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1419 Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
1420 * tests/subcond.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
1422 * tests/subst.test: Likewise.
1423 * tests/vars.test: Likewise.
1424 * tests/version4.test: Likewise.
1425 * tests/vpath.test: Likewise.
1426 * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
1427 * tests/werror.test: Likewise.
1428 * tests/whoami.test: Likewise.
1429 * tests/tags.test: Likewise, and avoid to crate an useless dummy
1431 * tests/acsilent.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
1432 command substitution.
1433 * tests/unused.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
1434 command substitution.
1435 * tests/version.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
1436 in the generated `configure.in'.
1437 * tests/version2.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
1438 in the generated `configure.in'.
1440 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1442 Prefer AUTOMAKE_fails over `$AUTOMAKE | grep' in tests.
1443 * tests/ldadd.test: Enable errexit. Use AUTOMAKE_fails so
1444 the verbose log contains all output.
1445 * tests/mdate.test: Likewise.
1446 Prompted by Stefano Lattarini's change to discover.test.
1448 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1450 Improve tests link*.test (enable `errexit' shell flag).
1451 * tests/link_c_cxx.test: Enable `errexit shell flag, and related
1452 changes. Also, do not create useless source files.
1453 * tests/link_dist.test: Likewise.
1454 * tests/link_f90_only.test: Likewise.
1455 * tests/link_f_only.test: Likewise.
1456 * tests/link_fc.test: Likewise.
1457 * tests/link_fccxx.test: Likewise.
1458 * tests/link_fcxx.test: Likewise.
1460 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1462 Improve ext.test semantics, avoid OpenBSD sh errexit issue.
1463 * tests/ext.test: Inside shell compound command, use
1464 `if $cmd; then Exit 1; fi' rather than `$cmd && Exit 1', to
1465 fix failure with OpenBSD sh introduced with last patch.
1466 Actually ensure that a rule for .EXT.o is created for each
1467 known extension EXT.
1469 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1471 Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
1472 * tests/dash.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1474 * tests/defun.test: Likewise.
1475 * tests/defun2.test: Likewise.
1476 * tests/dejagnu.test: Likewise.
1477 * tests/double.test: Likewise.
1478 * tests/distcom2.test: Likewise.
1479 * tests/empty2.test: Likewise.
1480 * tests/empty3.test: Likewise.
1481 * tests/empty4.test: Likewise.
1482 * tests/exdir.test: Likewise.
1483 * tests/ext.test: Likewise.
1484 * tests/extra.test: Likewise.
1485 * tests/extra2.test: Likewise.
1486 * tests/extra3.test: Likewise.
1487 * tests/extra4.test: Likewise.
1488 * tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
1489 * tests/fnoc.test: Likewise.
1490 * tests/fo.test: Likewise.
1491 * tests/instexec.test: Likewise.
1492 * tests/ltdeps.test: Likewise.
1493 * tests/nodep.test: Likewise.
1494 * tests/nodepcomp.test: Likewise.
1495 * tests/f90only.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
1496 comments and unnecessary commands.
1497 * tests/fonly.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
1498 comments and unnecessary commands.
1499 * tests/discover.test: Likewise, and made stricter.
1501 Enable `errexit' shell flag in all tests cxx*.test.
1502 * tests/cxx.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
1504 * tests/cxxansi.test: Likewise.
1505 * tests/cxxcpp.test: Likewise.
1506 * tests/cxxlibobj.test: Likewise.
1507 * tests/cxxlink.test: Likewise.
1508 * tests/cxxo.test: Likewise.
1510 Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
1511 * tests/acoutnoq.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
1513 * tests/acoutpt.test: Likewise.
1514 * tests/acoutqnl.test: Likewise.
1515 * tests/amassign.test: Likewise.
1516 * tests/ansi2.test: Likewise.
1517 * tests/ansi4.test: Likewise.
1518 * tests/badprog.test: Likewise.
1519 * tests/checkall.test: Likewise.
1520 * tests/clean.test: Likewise.
1521 * tests/colneq2.test: Likewise.
1522 * tests/colon.test: Likewise.
1523 * tests/colon5.test: Likewise.
1524 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
1525 * tests/comment.test: Likewise.
1526 * tests/compile_f90_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
1527 * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
1528 * tests/cond3.test: Likewise.
1529 * tests/cond6.test: Likewise.
1530 * tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
1531 * tests/conf2.test: Likewise.
1532 * tests/confvar.test: Likewise.
1533 * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
1534 * tests/cond8.test: Likewise, plus a cosmetic change.
1535 * tests/confh4.test: Likewise. Also, add in the heading comments
1536 an excerpt from the original bug report which motivated the
1537 creation of this test, to make its purpose clearer.
1539 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1541 Rewrite manual to be gender-neutral.
1542 * doc/automake.texi (GNU Build System)
1543 (Standard Directory Variables, General Operation, CVS)
1544 (Hard-Coded Install Paths, Dependencies As Side Effects):
1545 Rewrite text to not contain gender-specific pronouns when
1546 speaking about developers or users, either by avoiding pronouns
1547 or by addressing them as `you' instead.
1549 Report by Christina Gratorp.
1553 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1555 Make tests on user extensibility of silent-rules mode stricter.
1556 * tests/silent6.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
1557 output produced by `make'.
1558 * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
1560 Tests on silent-mode for C/Libtool made stricter.
1561 * tests/silent.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
1562 output produced by `make'.
1563 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
1564 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
1565 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
1566 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise, and add a final `make distclean'
1567 command to keep it better in sync with tests/silent{4,9}.test.
1569 Improved test silent5.test.
1570 * tests/silent5.test: Remove by hand all generated C files after
1571 non-verbose builds, to ensure the following builds are clean.
1572 Try to clean and rebuild with the same verbosity and without
1573 removing generated sources in between, to check that this does
1574 not trigger a different set of rules. Make grepping of make's
1575 output stricter. Improved/added some comments.
1577 New tests for Automake silent-mode with Fortran.
1578 * tests/silentf77.test: New test.
1579 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
1580 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1582 New test `silentcxx.test' (Automake silent-mode with C++).
1583 * tests/silentcxx.test: New test.
1584 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1586 New test `silentyacc.test' (Automake silent-mode with Yacc).
1587 * tests/silentyacc.test: New test.
1588 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1590 New test `silentlex.test' (Automake silent-mode with Lex).
1591 * tests/silentlex.test: New test.
1592 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1594 Relax tests on silent-rules to cater to overly verbose makes.
1595 * tests/silent.test: When testing silent builds, don't fail if
1596 make's output simply contains the `mv' substring, but only if
1597 it contains the `mv ' substring (note the trailing space).
1598 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
1599 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
1600 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
1601 * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
1602 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
1604 2010-01-24 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1606 Fix silent-rules output for disabled dependency tracking.
1607 * lib/am/depend2.am [!%FASTDEP%]: Rework silent-rules variable
1608 expansion code to also work in the case where %AMDEP% expands
1609 to FALSE at config.status time, using new substitution string
1611 * automake.in (verbose_nodep_flag): New function, appending
1612 `@am__nodep@' to the verbose-variable name.
1613 (handle_languages): If dependencies are not disabled, use it to
1614 set %VERBOSE-NODEP%.
1615 * m4/depend.m4: Substitute am__nodep as '_no', so the second
1616 verbose-variable will always expand to an empty string, if
1617 dependencies are enabled.
1618 * tests/silent5.test: Also test --disable-dependency-tracking;
1619 also test per-target flags for non-C language files.
1620 * tests/silent9.test: New test, like silent4.test but disable
1621 dependency tracking.
1622 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
1623 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
1624 Report by Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>.
1626 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1628 Extend test on `nostdinc' automake option.
1629 * tests/nostdinc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Related and
1630 unrelated minor changes. Make the grepping of the generated
1631 Makefile.in slightly stricter. Generate and run configure, so that
1632 the generated Makefile can be grepped too.
1634 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1636 Make gnupload portable to EBCDIC hosts.
1637 * lib/gnupload: Use literal newline as argument for 'tr' rather
1638 than \015, for EBCDIC hosts. Also, avoid unportable nested
1639 double-quotes and backquotes.
1641 Report from Eric Blake and Steve Goetze via gnulib.
1643 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1645 Fix Autoconf version required by Automake's configure.
1646 Automake configure script used to tell that automake required
1647 autoconf 2.60 or later, but then it checked for autoconf >= 2.62,
1648 and if that was not found, it gave an error saying that Automake
1649 required configure 2.61a-341 or later. This change should
1650 eliminate such inconsistencies.
1651 * configure.ac ($required_autoconf_version): New variable.
1654 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1656 Fix unportable sed script in maintainer-check test.
1657 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_Exit_not_exit): Rewrite sed script to
1658 not contain semicolon after 'b' or brace commands, for NetBSD.
1660 Wildcards are not portable to NetBSD make.
1661 * doc/automake.texi (Wildcards): Document portability issue.
1662 * tests/extra10.test, tests/extra11.test, tests/extra12.test:
1665 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1667 Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
1668 * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
1669 an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
1671 Avoid possible false negatives in dejagnu7.test.
1672 * tests/dejagnu7.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Also, avoid
1673 unportable use of fgrep option `-e'.
1675 Fix conflnk3.test to work with Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
1676 * tests/conflnk3.test: Use `test -r FILE' and `test ! -r FILE'
1677 instead of respectively `test -e FILE' and `test ! -e FILE',
1678 since Solaris Sh doesn't grok the latter. Do not SKIP the test
1679 if the shell doesn't support `test -e'.
1681 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1684 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Add
1685 missing closing parenthesis.
1687 Fix leftover call to removed function macros_dump.
1688 * automake.in (read_main_am_file): Call variables_dump, not
1689 macros_dump. Print actual error before list of variables.
1691 2010-04-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1693 Minor improvements in comments of test `silent3.test'.
1694 * tests/silent3.test: Tell to keep it in sync with `silent9.test'
1697 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1699 testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured output.
1700 * tests/acloca14.test, tests/acloca18.test, tests/aclocal.test,
1701 tests/fort2.test, tests/help.test, tests/missing3.test,
1702 tests/missing6.test: Print captured stdout or stderr before
1705 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1707 Make test badopt.test stricter (by enabling `set -e').
1708 * tests/badopt.test: Add call to `set -e'. Due to this change,
1709 an unexpected failure in the call to `$ACLOCAL' (whose outcome
1710 was previously unchecked) would cause the whole test to fail.
1711 Also, bumped the copyright years.
1713 Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
1714 * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
1715 an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
1717 Use `set -e' in confsub.test (avoids possible false negatives).
1718 * tests/confsub.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and related
1719 changes (this helps avoiding some possible minor false negatives).
1720 Also, bumped copyright years.
1722 2010-04-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1724 Fix -Werror handling for presence of configure.in and configure.ac.
1725 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (Automake::Variable): Do not initialize
1726 $configure_ac at the global level, before command-line arguments
1728 (require_variables): Initialize it here.
1729 * tests/configure.test: New test.
1730 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
1731 Report by Stefano Lattarini.
1733 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1735 Avoid possible false negatives in confh5.test.
1736 * tests/confh5.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and bumped
1737 copyright years. Due to this change, any unexpected failure
1738 in calls to $ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE, $AUTOCONF or $AUTOHEADER, or
1739 a failure in grepping expected text in output files should now
1740 cause the whole test to fail.
1742 2010-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1744 Fixed typo in POD documentation of Automake::Channels.
1745 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Fixed typo in POD documentation:
1746 @<...> was used instead of C<...>.
1748 2010-04-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1750 Refactor tests on Automake TESTS color output.
1751 * tests/color.test: Tests using the expect program moved out to...
1752 * tests/color2.test: ... this new file.
1753 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Extended accordingly.
1755 2010-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1757 Fix typos in comments in test confh5.test
1758 * tests/confh5.test: Fix a couple of typos in comments.
1760 Avoid possible false negatives in canon-name.test.
1761 * tests/canon-name.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Improve
1764 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1766 Fix per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror.
1767 Before this patch, 'AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = -Werror' in one
1768 Makefile.am would carry over to other Makefile.am files
1769 treated afterwards by the same thread, causing inconsistent
1770 and unstable exit status values.
1771 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (dup_channel_setup)
1772 (drop_channel_setup): Save and restore the setting of
1773 $warnings_are_errors.
1774 * tests/werror3.test: New test.
1775 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
1778 2010-04-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1780 Bugfix in confh5.test w.r.t. Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
1781 * tests/confh5.test: In the generated Makefile.am: do not use
1782 `test ! -e FILE' to check for the non-existence of a file, since
1783 that is not supported by Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
1785 Make test `aclocal3.test' stricter.
1786 * tests/aclocal3.test: Add call to `set -e'. Fail if $ACLOCAL
1787 succeds unexpectedly.
1789 Add tests checking that symlinks are resolved by `make dist'.
1790 * tests/distlinks.test: New test.
1791 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1792 Suggested by observations from Ralf Wildenhues.
1794 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1796 Use -9 for maximum xz compression with dist-xz.
1797 * lib/am/distdir.am (dist-xz, dist, dist-all): Pass -9 to xz.
1798 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
1799 Report by Pavel Sanda.
1801 2010-03-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1803 Avoid an unportable use of `$status' shell variable.
1804 * Makefile.am (path-check): Don't use the `$status' shell variable
1805 in the target's rules, as it's special in Zsh (equivalent to `$?',
1808 Avoid another use of `chmod -R'.
1809 * Makefile.am (path-check): To be safe, do not use `chmod -R' on
1810 $(distdir) before removing it (as Solaris `chmod -R' touches
1811 symlink targets). Instead, use the cleanup strategy used in
1814 2010-03-28 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1816 Remove uses of @acronym and @sc.
1817 * doc/automake.texi (Public Macros, Limitations on File Names):
1818 Remove all usage of @acronym and @sc in the manual.
1819 Suggested by Karl Berry.
1821 2010-03-13 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
1823 GNU hello uses fdl.texi, not gpl.texi.
1824 * doc/automake.texi (Texinfo): Adjust example to upstream
1827 2010-03-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1829 Formatting cleanups in macro comments.
1830 * automake.in, lib/Automake/Channels.pm,
1831 lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm, lib/Automake/Options.pm,
1832 lib/Automake/Variable.pm, lib/Automake/XFile.pm,
1833 m4/options.m4, m4/substnot.m4: Fix macro comment format.
1835 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1836 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1838 Avoid generation of `tests/defs-p' file.
1839 * tests/defs.in: In the generated `configure.in' snippet: call
1840 `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' with the `parallel-tests' option if the shell
1841 variable `parallel_tests' is set to `yes'.
1842 * tests/Makefile.am (defs-p): Target removed.
1843 (check_SCRIPTS): Removed `defs-p'.
1844 (clean-local-check): Do not unlink `defs-p' anymore.
1845 ($(parallel_tests)): Transformation rules for the test scripts
1847 * tests/gen-parallel-tests: Selection rules for the test
1849 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Set `$parallel_tests' to `yes'
1850 then include `./defs' (rather than simply including `./defs-p').
1851 * tests/parallel-tests2.test: Likewise.
1852 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
1853 * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
1854 * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
1855 * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
1856 * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
1857 * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise.
1858 * tests/parallel-tests9.test: Likewise.
1859 * tests/parallel-tests10.test: Likewise.
1860 * tests/README (Section "Writing Test Cases" subsection "Do"):
1861 Adjusted the parts referring to tests checking `parallel-tests'
1862 behaviour. Some other minor related improvements.
1863 * tests/.gitignore (defs-p): Removed.
1865 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1867 Remove redundant unset of variable TESTS from some test scripts.
1868 * tests/color.test: Do not unset the `TESTS' variable, as it's
1869 already unset in the `defs' file.
1870 * tests/check5.test: Likewise.
1871 * tests/check8.test: Likewise.
1872 * tests/check9.test: Likewise.
1873 * tests/check10.test: Likewise.
1874 * tests/check11.test: Likewise.
1875 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Likewise.
1876 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
1877 * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
1878 * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
1879 * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
1880 * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
1882 2010-02-22 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
1884 Improve help message of mdate-sh.
1885 * mdate-sh: mention actual output format in help message.
1887 2010-02-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1889 Deprecate dist-lzma in favor of dist-xz.
1890 * doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions, Options):
1891 Adjust text to reflect renaming of lzma to xz.
1893 Missing deprecation noted by Antonio Diaz Diaz.
1895 2010-02-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1897 Add tests about support of wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
1898 * tests/extra10.test: New test, check basic support of wildcards
1900 * tests/extra11.test: New test, check more complex usage of
1901 wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
1902 * tests/extra12.test: New test, check usage of wildcards in
1903 EXTRA_DIST when $builddir != $srcdir.
1904 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1905 Necessity of these new tests suggested by Braden McDaniel
1906 and Ralf Wildenhues.
1908 2010-02-08 Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
1910 Fix copyright statement in gnupload script.
1911 * lib/gnupload: Fix copyright statement.
1913 2010-02-06 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> (tiny change)
1914 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1916 Fix exit status of signal handlers in shell scripts.
1917 The value of `$?' on entrance to signal handlers in shell scripts
1918 cannot be relied upon, so set the exit code explicitly to
1920 * lib/am/check.am (am__check_pre): Use `exit 143' in signal handler.
1921 * lib/elisp-comp: Likewise.
1922 * lib/install-sh: Likewise.
1923 * lib/ylwrap: Likewise. Also, fix script to trap signal 13, not 3.
1924 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
1925 Bug report, analysis, and initial patch by Dmitry V. Levin.
1927 2010-02-06 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
1929 Improve gnupload usage text.
1930 * gnupload (usage): Shorten to make more likely to fit on a tty
1931 line. Mention CMD in the synopsis. With ..., plural is implied.
1933 2010-01-28 Christos Kontas <xakon@yahoo.com> (tiny change)
1935 Fix some typos in the manual
1936 * doc/automake.texi (Nested Packages, Rebuilding): Fix typos.
1938 2010-01-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1940 Slighty improve tests acoutbs.test and acoutbs2.test.
1941 * tests/acoutbs2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Check that
1942 autoconf and configure work, that the file `zot' is created by
1943 configure, and that no file containing a backslash in its name is
1945 * tests/acoutbs.test: Likewise, plus updated copyright years.
1947 Fix test acoutbs2.test.
1948 * tests/acoutbs2: In the generated configure.in: add proper calls
1949 to AC_INIT and AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, and remove explicit definition of
1950 PACKAGE and VERSION. Add a call to aclocal before calling automake.
1951 Updated copyright years.
1952 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Removed acoutbs2.test.
1954 Add forgotten test scripts to $(TESTS).
1955 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Added test scripts present on the
1956 filesystem, which were erroneously left out from $(TESTS):
1957 acoutbs2.test, badopt.test, extra2.test.
1958 (XFAIL_TESTS): Added acoutbs2.test.
1960 2010-01-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1962 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
1963 * INSTALL, lib/INSTALL, lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub:
1966 Bump copyright years.
1967 * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
1968 * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
1969 * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
1972 * ChangeLog.09: New file, rotated from ...
1973 * ChangeLog: ... here.
1974 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute ChangeLog.09.
1978 Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
1980 Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are
1981 permitted provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved.