1 2011-06-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3 maintcheck: fix some failures, extend some checks
4 * Makefile.am (sc_diff_automake_in_automake): Update, as we
5 now expect 9 lines, not 8, to be changed from `automake.in'
7 (sc_diff_aclocal_in_aclocal): New maintainer check, similar to
8 the above, and checking that only 10 lines are changed from
9 `aclocal.in' to `aclocal'.
10 (syntax_check_rules): Update.
11 (sc_tests_Exit_not_exit): Exempt self tests `self-check-*.test'
12 from this check, as they can legitimately use the bare `exit'
13 builtin in various places.
14 * doc/automake.texi (Python): Remove stray `@' from the end of
15 a line. Typo introduced in commit `v1.11-312-g5bf7af6'.
16 * tests/depcomp8a.test: Pass DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS to make
17 from the environment rather than from the command line, to
18 pacify the `sc_tests_overriding_macros_on_cmdline' maintainer
20 * tests/depcomp8b.test: Likewise.
22 2011-05-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
24 remake: behave better with non-GNU make in subdirectories
25 Currently, with every decent make program, it is possible to
26 rebuild out-of-date autotools-generated files with a simple
27 "make Makefile" -- but for this to work reliably with non-GNU
28 make implementations, the command must be issued from the
29 top-level directory. This patch removes such limitation.
30 * lib/am/configure.am (am--refresh): Depend on `%MAKEFILE%'.
31 * tests/defs.in (using_gmake): New function, backported from the
32 `master' branch (and simplified).
33 * tests/remake-subdir.test: New test.
34 * tests/remake-subdir2.test: Likewise.
35 * tests/remake-subdir-gnu.test: Likewise.
36 * tests/remake-subdir-from-subdir.test: Likewise.
37 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
39 2011-05-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
41 automake, aclocal: honour configure-time AUTOCONF and AUTOM4TE
42 Currently, the Automake's own configure script allow definition
43 of AUTOCONF and AUTOM4TE, expected to point respectively to an
44 autoconf and autom4te programs. But while these definitions are
45 honoured in the Automake's build systems and test suite, they
46 were *not* honoured in the generated `automake' and `aclocal'
47 scripts. This behaviour, apart from being wrong in that it does
48 not allow the user enough freedom in choosing his tools, also
49 caused inconsistencies in the test suite, brining to spurious
51 Problem reported by Graham Reitz on the automake list; see thread:
52 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2011-05/msg00022.html>
53 * automake.in ($traces): Use `@am_AUTOCONF', not simply `autoconf'.
54 * aclocal.in ($traces): Use `@am_AUTOM4TE', not simply `autom4te'.
55 * Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute also `@am_AUTOCONF' and
60 2011-05-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
62 build: the user can override AUTOM4TE, AUTORECONF and AUTOUPDATE too
63 Our build system allows the user to override AUTOCONF and AUTOHEADER
64 at configure time, and honours these overrides in our testsuite.
65 But it didn't do the same with AUTOM4TE, AUTORECONF and AUTOUPDATE.
66 This change fixes that inconsistency.
67 * configure.ac (am_AUTOM4TE, am_AUTOUPDATE, am_AUTORECONF): New
68 AC_SUBSTitutions. Update comments.
69 * tests/defs.in ($AUTOUPDATE): Default to `@am_AUTOUPDATE@' now.
70 ($AUTOM4TE): New variable, defaulting to `@am_AUTOM4TE@'.
71 ($AUTORECONF): New variable, defaulting to `@am_AUTORECONF@'.
72 * doc/Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/amhello-1.0.tar.gz): Update.
74 2011-05-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
75 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
77 tests/README: fix example about `make -e' usage
78 * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"): When
79 some variable is never initialized in the Makefile, `-e' is not
80 necessary in order to override it. DESTDIR is such a variable: we
81 ensure that we do not ever initialize it. And as such, it is quite
83 $ make DESTDIR=/foo/bar install
84 and in fact, quite widely used.
85 So our example about when `make -e' is required, which references
86 the `DESTDIR' variable, is poorly chosen, if not downright wrong.
87 Rewrite it to use `prefix' as the overridden variable instead.
89 2011-05-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
91 testsuite: avoid re-running few tests with 'parallel-tests' option
92 Some tests in our testsuite use the 'simple-tests' driver only
93 marginally, or simply as a mean to conveniently check unrelated
94 invariants. It makes little sense to force these tests to also
95 run with the 'parallel-tests' Automake option active, as doing so
96 offers no real gain in coverage, while often causing a measurable
97 overhead in execution time (for an already too-slow testsuite).
98 * tests/pr401.test (parallel_tests): Define to "no", to prevent
99 the generation of a sibling test script using the 'parallel-tests'
101 * tests/pr401b.test: Likewise.
102 * tests/pr401c.test: Likewise.
104 2011-05-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
106 testsuite: allow tests to avoid the use of 'parallel-tests' option
107 * tests/gen-parallel-tests: Do not generate "siblings" for tests
108 that explicitly define the `parallel_tests', whether to "yes" or
109 to any other value. Extend heading comments to give a rationale
111 * tests/README: Update.
113 2011-05-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
115 tests/README: update obsoleted advice
116 * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
117 Do not suggest to use the `*-p.test' pattern for the names of
118 hand-written tests which use the `parallel-tests' Automake option.
119 Not only is this not respected by the existing tests, but it is
120 more likely to cause conflicts with auto-generated tests.
121 So, suggest to *avoid* using the `*-p.test' pattern in names
122 of hand-written tests instead.
123 (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do not"): When
124 suggesting not to override Makefile variables using command
125 line arguments, do not use the badly outdated variables `U'
126 and 'ANSI2KNR' in the example; instead, use the more common
127 and typical `DESTDIR'.
129 2011-05-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
131 test defs: rename requirement 'non-cross' -> 'native'
132 * tests/defs.in (non-cross): Rename requirement ...
133 (native): ... to this, which is clearer and fits the
134 existing lingo better.
135 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
137 2011-05-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
139 testsuite: be more cross-compile friendly
140 * tests/defs.in (cross_compiling): New subroutine.
141 (am__tool_prefix): New internal variable.
142 (gcc, g++, gcj): Force the use of the correct "tool prefix"
143 when cross compiling.
144 (gfortran, g77, non-cross): New requirements.
146 2011-05-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
148 tests: fix spurious failure of txinfo21.test on FreeBSD
149 * tests/txinfo21.test: Use the `is_newest' subroutine instead of
150 the `ls -t' hack to to determine whether a file has been updated.
151 This is required because at least FreeBSD `ls' do not sort files
152 with the same timestamp in alphabetical order when using the `-t'
155 2011-05-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
157 tests defs: allow requirements for compilers (mostly dummy)
158 Most of the new requirements that are now accepted in `$required'
159 as consequence of this patch are still dummy. They are planned
160 to be implemented only in master (or in some derived branch), but
161 having them here (even just as no-op) will allow for an easier
162 integration/backporting of potential new testcases.
163 * tests/defs.in (cc, c++, fortran, fortran77): New requirements,
165 (flex): New requirement, picking LEX for configure.
166 (lex): New requirement, alias for `flex'. A more appropriate
167 implementation, looking for a generic `lex' program, will follow
169 (yacc): New requirement, alias for `bison'. A more appropriate
170 implementation, looking for a generic `yacc' program, will follow
173 2011-04-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
175 tests: fix spurious failure in a test on TESTS (VPATH-related)
176 * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: When not using the
177 parallel-tests option, do not check that VPATH components are
178 not present in the displayed test name, since the simple-tests
179 driver do not try to strip them.
181 2011-04-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
183 test: self check subroutines for skipping/failing of tests
184 * tests/self-check-report.test: New test.
185 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
187 2011-04-23 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
188 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
190 test defs: new subroutines for test skipping/failing
191 * tests/defs.in (Exit): Move definition of this function earlier.
192 (warn_, skip_, fail_, framework_failure_): New functions, inspired
193 to the homonyms in gnulib's tests/init.sh.
194 ($stderr_fileno_): New global variable, used by the new functions
196 * tests/README: Updated.
197 From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
199 2011-04-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
201 tests: fix typo (copy & paste blunder) in heading comment
202 * tests/maintclean-vpath.test: Correctly refer to the sister test
203 as `maintclean.test', not as `maintclean-vpath.test'.
205 2011-04-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
207 tests: remove redundant test `mclean.test'
208 * tests/mclean.test: Remove, it's a weak grepping test completely
209 superseded by the much more complete `maintclean.test'.
210 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
212 2011-04-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
214 testsuite: more environment sanitization
215 * tests/defs.in: Sanity check: abort if any of `parallel_tests'
216 or `required' is in the environment.
217 ($sed_unindent_prog): Initialize to empty, to avoid interferences
218 from the environment.
219 * tests/self-check-me-in-env.test: Renamed to ...
220 * tests/self-check-env-sanitize.test: ... this, and extended.
221 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
222 (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset variables `parallel_tests' and
223 `required'. Adjust comments.
225 2011-04-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
227 tests: don't allow `$me' to be overridden from the environment
228 * tests/defs.in: Sanity check: abort if $me is in the environment.
229 * tests/self-check-me-in-env.test: New test.
230 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset variable `me'.
232 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
234 2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
236 test defs: allow overriding of `$me'
237 * tests/defs.in ($me): Allow overriding by the including test
238 script. Add some explicative comments.
240 2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
242 depcomp tests: don't reject slower dependency extractors
243 * tests/depcomp8b.test: Add the `--enable-dependency-tracking'
244 option to `configure' invocations, so that slower dependency
245 extractors are not rejected.
246 * tests/depcomp8a.test: Likewise. Also ...
247 (foo.c): ... since we are at it, fix spacing to be consistent
248 with GNU coding standards.
250 2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
252 m4: add missing serial numbers to a few files
253 Related to automake bug#8483.
254 * m4/amversion.in: Add serial number.
255 * m4/auxdir.m4: Likewise.
256 * m4/gcj.m4: Likewise.
257 * m4/install-sh.m4: Likewise.
258 * m4/mkdirp.m4: Likewise.
259 * m4/python.m4: Likewise.
260 * m4/runlog.m4: Likewise.
261 * m4/strip.m4: Likewise.
262 * m4/upc.m4: Likewise.
264 2011-04-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
266 depcomp: correct invalid sed invocation
267 * lib/depcomp: Insert missing -e before '/:$/d'.
268 Otherwise, that use of sed would treat '/:$/d' as a file name.
270 2011-04-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
272 maintainer check: quote literal `$' in Makefile rule
273 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_PATH_SEPARATOR): Escape literal `$'
274 character in double-quoted string. Fix a bug in which the rule
275 emitted an erroneously empty substring in its error message.
277 2011-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
279 coverage: test for automake bug#8485 (known regression)
280 * tests/yacc-dist-nobuild-subdir.test: New test.
281 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Update.
283 2011-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
285 test defs: define default $distdir (help reducing duplication)
286 * tests/defs.in ($distdir): New variable, might be used in
287 testcases checking distribution-related features.
288 * tests/pr9.test: Use it.
289 * tests/subdir9.test: Likewise.
290 * tests/vtexi3.test: Add comment explaining why we redefine
291 $distdir in this test.
293 2011-04-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
295 depcomp: fix bugs in tests and in the depcomp script
296 * lib/depcomp (gcc): Remove duplicated `-e' from sed invocation.
297 * tests/depcomp10.test: Make it executable. Fix a blunder that
298 has left part of an intended comment not prefixed by `#', thus
299 causing shell syntax errors. In this same comment, break a
300 too-long reported error message on multiple lines, for clarity.
301 Add reference to the relevant bug report. Add a comment which
302 explains why the test result 'skipped' if the first "make" call
303 fails. Add other useful comments.
304 * tests/depcomp9.test: Slightly improve comments.
306 2011-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
308 Fix hp depmode for VPATH builds with GNU make.
309 * lib/depcomp: Be sure to remove VPATH-prefixed object from
310 dependency output when creating stub rule.
311 * tests/depcomp10.test: New test.
312 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
314 Report by Bruno Haible.
316 2011-04-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
318 test defs: fix 'javac' requirement for older JDK versions
319 The Java compiler from JDK 1.5 (and presumably earlier versions)
320 cannot handle the `-version' option by itself; and while it does
321 print the version number, it then errors out with an usage error:
324 javac: no source files
325 Usage: javac <options> <source files>
327 Luckily, adding the `-help' option to the `javac' invocation
328 seems to fix this problem.
329 * tests/defs.in (javac): Pass also the `-help' option to the
330 `javac' program. Add a comment explaining why it is needed.
331 Report from Ralf Wildenhues.
333 2011-04-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
335 test defs: new requirement for the default java compiler
336 * tests/defs.in (for tool in $required): New requirement 'javac'.
337 * tests/java.test: Use it instead of ad-hoc configure check.
338 * tests/java-check.test: Likewise.
339 * tests/instfail-java.test: Likewise.
340 * tests/instdir-java.test: Likewise.
342 2011-04-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
344 java: check_JAVA does not cause compilation by "make all" anymore
345 Fixes automake bug#8234.
346 * automake.in (handle_java): Make stamp of class files built from
347 java sources in $(check_JAVA) a dependency of `check' target, not
349 * tests/java-check.test: New test.
350 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
353 Report from Petteri Räty.
355 2011-04-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
357 Clarify regex code in depcomp.
358 * lib/depcomp: Add comment why we don't need regex-escaping here.
359 Suggested by Stefano Lattarini.
361 2011-04-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
363 Fix makedepend depmode for VPATH builds.
364 * lib/depcomp [makedepend]: Remove any VPATH prefix from the
365 object file name, so a rebuild doesn't attempt to update the
366 .Po files in the source tree.
367 * tests/depcomp9.test: New test.
368 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
371 2011-04-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
373 tests: fix timestamp-related failures
374 Fixes automake bug#8365.
375 * tests/aclocal6.test: Sleep before modifying m4 files that should
376 trigger remake rules. Remove incorrect/obsoleted comments.
377 * tests/subdir5.test: Likewise, and extend a bit.
378 * tests/subdir8.test: Likewise.
379 * tests/pr8365-remake-timing.test: New xfailing test.
380 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
381 Report from Sam Steingold.
383 2011-04-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
385 Create subdirs for generated sources even when not dep tracking.
386 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): If $object is derived
387 and lands in subdir, be sure to output a dirstamp dependency.
388 * tests/yacc5.test: Avoid falsely matching the dirstamp
389 dependency when grepping for a rule.
390 * tests/lex-subobj-nodep.test: New test.
391 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
393 Report by Ignacy Gawedzki.
395 Fix locale issue in check-exported-srcdir.test.
396 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Reformulate glob to not fail
397 in a locale that ignores or interleaves character case.
399 2011-04-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
401 docs: better visibility for aclocal in the index
402 * doc/automake.texi (@menu): Rename title for entry 'configure'
403 from "Scanning configure.ac or configure.in" to the more precise
404 "Scanning configure.ac, using aclocal".
405 (@detailmenu): Adjust.
406 (@node configure): Adjust, and extend @cindex calls accordingly.
408 From a report by Maynard Johnson.
410 2011-03-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
412 tests: improve tests on "maintainer-clean" target
413 * tests/aclocal6.test: Move checks related to "maintainer-clean"
414 functionalities into ...
415 * tests/maintclean-vpath.test: ... this new test.
416 * tests/maintclean.test: Update heading comments. Extend to also
417 test subdirs. Remove useless disabling of YACC. Fix m4 quoting
418 in configure.in. Add a trailing `:' command. Remove extra blank
420 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
422 2011-03-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
424 tests: fix unindent to use printf not echo for script.
425 * tests/defs.in: Use printf rather than echo, as the latter may
426 interpret the backslashes in the sed script. Fixes test
427 failures with dash as /bin/sh.
429 2011-03-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
430 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
432 maintcheck: look for problematic names of testcases
433 The configure.in stub created by default by `tests/defs' obtains
434 the first argument of AC_INIT from the test name, and this can
435 cause some supported autoconf versions to fail with a spurious
436 error if that test name contains the name of an m4 or m4sugar
437 builtin or macro (e.g., `defn' or `m4_undefine').
438 See for example the bug fixed by commit v1.11-287-g1325a8a.
439 This change add a maintainer check that warns about test names
440 which are possibly problematic in this regard.
441 * Makefile.am (sc_test_names): New maintainer-check target.
442 (syntax_check_rules): Add it.
443 (m4_builtins): New helper variable.
444 (TESTS): Updated according to the following renamings.
445 * tests/include.test: Renamed ...
446 * tests/hdr-vars-defined-once.test: ... to this.
447 * tests/sinclude.test: Renamed ...
448 * tests/m4-inclusion.test: ... to this, and simplified
450 * tests/include2.test: Renamed ...
451 * tests/dist-included-parent-dir.test: ... to this, for
454 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
456 tests: fix bug in alloca*.test
457 * tests/alloca.test: Make grepping of automake stderr stricter,
458 add a trailing `:' command; also, add AC_PROG_CC to configure.in,
459 and create a dummy alloca.c file, to ensure that we fail for the
461 * tests/alloca2.test: Likewise. Also, look for LT_INIT, not
462 AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, in the error message (bug introduced with commit
463 v1.11-315-gd51e7b7 "libtool: suggest LT_INIT if LTLIBRARIES
465 From a report by Patrick Welche.
467 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
469 tests: fix bug (comments-in-var-defn.test + autoconf 2.62)
470 * tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: The configure.in stub created
471 by default, which has the AC_INIT first argument obtained by the
472 test name, causes autoconf 2.62 to fail with a spurious error
473 message like: "configure.in:1: error: defn: undefined macro:".
474 Thus, to prevent this, the test is renamed to ...
475 * tests/comments-in-var-def.test: ... this.
476 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
478 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
480 cosmetics: convert encoding from ISO-8859 to UTF-8
481 * ChangeLog.03: Convert encoding to UTF-8.
482 * ChangeLog.96: Likewise.
483 * ChangeLog.98: Likewise.
487 2011-03-01 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
489 test defs: unindent without temporary file
490 * tests/defs.in (commented_sed_unindent_prog): Commented Sed program
491 that strips the "proper" amount of leading whitespace.
492 (unindent): Lazily strip comments from the above program and use it
493 to unindent without using a temporary file.
495 2011-02-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
497 libtool: suggest LT_INIT if LTLIBRARIES primary is used
498 When the LTLIBRARIES primary was used, but $(LIBTOOL) wasn't
499 defined, automake suggested to add a call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
500 in configure.ac. But that macro is deprecated since Libtool
501 version 1.9b (2004-08-29), in favor of the newer LT_INIT. So
502 suggest the use of this latter macro instead.
503 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (%_am_macro_for_var): Pair 'LIBTOOL'
504 with 'LT_INIT', not with 'AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'.
505 * tests/libtool4.test: Adjust and extend. Also, add a call to
506 macro AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, to help ensuring that automake
507 does not fail for the wrong reasons.
508 * tests/ltinit.test: New test, ensure that automake's libtool
509 support works with LT_INIT-based interface.
510 Thanks to Jack Kelly for the suggestion.
512 2011-02-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
514 tests: tempdirs with restrictive permissions are cleaned correctly
515 Before this change, the removal of a temporary test directory
516 containing subdirectories with restrictive permissions (such as
517 'r--r--r--') could fail.
518 * tests/defs: Ensure that all the subdirectories of a temporary
519 test directory have the 'read', 'write' and 'execute' bits set,
520 before trying to remove it with `rm -rf'.
521 * tests/Makefile.am (clean-local-check): Likewise.
523 2011-02-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
524 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
526 test defs: add subroutine for input unindenting
527 * tests/defs.in (unindent): New subroutine.
529 2011-02-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
531 python: report the 'PYTHON' influential environment variable
532 * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Call AC_ARG_VAR on PYTHON.
533 * doc/automake.texi (Python): Update and extend.
534 * tests/help-python.test: New test.
535 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
536 * THANKS (Jack Kelly): Update e-mail address.
537 Suggestion by Jack Kelly.
539 2011-02-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
541 tests defs: clear TESTS_ENVIRONMENT variable
542 * tests/defs.in (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset it, so that values
543 from environment won't interfere with the testcases.
544 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
546 2011-02-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
548 tests: tweak few tests on simple and parallel test drivers
549 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Improve heading comments.
550 * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: Likewise. Also, unset the
551 `FOO_EXIT_STATUS' variable, so that any pre-existing value in the
552 environment won't risk to interfere with the test.
553 Suggestions by Ralf Wildenhues.
555 2011-02-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
557 coverage: more tests on simple and parallel test drivers
558 * tests/parallel-tests-subdir.test: New test.
559 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Likewise.
560 * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: Likewise.
561 * tests/check-tests_environment.test: Likewise.
562 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
564 2011-01-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
566 tests: fix spurious failures in lflags*.test
567 * tests/lflags.test: Remove 'LEX' from the environment, so
568 that it won't be erroneously picked up by `make -e'.
569 * tests/lflags2.test: Likewise.
571 2011-01-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
573 docs: color-tests issues with parallel make
574 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Document that automatic
575 recognition of a capable terminal attached to stdout can fail
576 with some make implementation when running in parallel mode,
577 thus causing colored test output not to be automatically
578 activated when it should.
580 2011-01-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
582 tests: avoid instspc.test failures due to make's whitespace trimming
583 * tests/instspc.test: Prepend './' when passing the test
584 characters, to avoid leading whitespace characters to be trimmed
585 from macros set from environment variables. Fixes testsuite
586 failures with HP-UX, IRIX, and Tru64/OSF make.
588 2011-01-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
590 coverage: test semantics of "dummy" per-target flags
591 * tests/specflg-dummy.test: New test, ensuring that even "dummy"
592 per-target flags triggers the use of renamed objects.
593 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
594 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
596 2011-01-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
598 tests defs: sanitize IFS
599 * tests/defs.in ($IFS): Define to <space>, <tab>, <newline>.
600 ($sp): New variable, holding a single whitespace character.
601 ($tab): New variable, holding a tabulation character.
602 ($nl): New variable, holding a newline character.
604 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
606 tests: fix VPATH auto-expansion workarounds.
607 * tests/parallel-tests8.test, tests/suffix13.test:
608 Ensure $< is not surrounded by white space, to prevent Solaris
609 make from applying automatic VPATH text expansion.
611 2011-01-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
613 tests: fix spurious failures in yflags*.test
614 * tests/yflags.test: Remove 'YACC' from the environment, so
615 that it won't be erroneously picked up by `make -e'.
616 * tests/yflags2.test: Likewise.
618 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
620 tests: avoid fn99*.test failures due to buggy AIX 5.3 cp -R.
621 * tests/fn99.test, tests/fn99subdir.test: Skip if an initial
622 `cp -R' of the subdir tree already fails; AIX 5.3 cp messes
623 up its internal memory when copying this tree.
625 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
626 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
628 Add comment to check-TESTS rule working around make 3.80 bug.
629 * lib/am/check.am (check-TESTS): Update comment.
631 2011-01-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
633 tests: less strict double-colon spy.test again.
634 * tests/spy.test: We know BSD make doesn't invoke more than one
635 double-colon rule, so no need to expose that failure.
637 2011-01-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
639 install-sh: avoid Tru64 sh `test' operator precedence issues.
640 * lib/install-sh: Protect file names and directory components
641 that consist of `=', `(', `)', or `!'. Move protection as early
642 as possible, to avoid errors such as with Tru64 sh `test -z ='.
643 * tests/instsh2.test: Extend test to cover more possibilities.
644 Fixes 1.12 instspc-equal-install.test failure on Tru64/OSF 5.1.
646 2011-01-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
647 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
649 docs: automake testsuite doesn't use TESTS_ENVIRONMENT anymore
650 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Do not claim Automake uses
651 TESTS_ENVIRONMENT for the perl driver. Instead, point to the
652 parallel-tests driver.
654 2011-01-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
656 Allow _AM_DEPENDENCIES to be used later in configure.
657 * m4/depend.m4 (_AM_DEPENDENCIES): Remove a previously existing
658 conftest.dir before recreating it.
660 Report by Eric Blake, from report by Scott McCreary against M4.
662 2011-01-18 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
664 tests: avoid failure on w32 file systems.
665 * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: SKIP if file cannot
666 be turned unreadable.
668 2011-01-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
670 tests: allow double-colon spy.test to work with HP-UX make.
671 * tests/spy.test: Fix comment typos. Ensure prerequisites we
672 do not want to depend on are strictly older than the target.
673 Also test with a target out of date wrt. more than one rule.
675 2011-01-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
677 tests: remove useless requirements from cond36.test
678 * tests/cond36.test ($required): Remove.
679 Since we are at it, add a trailing `:' command.
681 2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
682 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
684 parallel-tests: work around Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh read bugs.
685 * lib/am/check.am ($(TEST_SUITE_LOG), recheck, recheck-html):
686 Test file readability before redirecting input from it, to avoid
687 exiting Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh which treats read as special builtin.
688 * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: New test.
689 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
692 2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
694 * NEWS, README: Update copyright years.
696 Fix parallel-tests.test failure with HP-UX make.
697 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Sleep inside inner tests, so logs
698 are newer than logs of tests they depend on, for HP-UX make.
700 2011-01-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
702 docs: ensure example are separated with empty lines in the input
703 * doc/automake.texi (Extending aclocal, Emacs Lisp, Rebuilding)
704 (API Versioning, Renamed Objects, Multiple Outputs): Add empty
705 lines before `@example' and after `@end example' lines, so info
706 output is rendered correctly, and a following @noindent honored.
707 Report by Stefano Lattarini.
709 2011-01-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
711 tests: fix comment typo
712 * tests/substref.test: Fix grammar in a comment.
714 2011-01-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
716 tests: fix spurious failures in two texinfo tests
717 * tests/txinfo.test ($required): Add 'makeinfo'.
718 * tests/txinfo8.test: Create a dummy 'textutils.info' file, so
719 that make won't try to run makeinfo (which could be unavailable)
721 Found by NixOS Hydra, reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
723 2011-01-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
725 Avoid testsuite failures due to Autoconf Fortran change.
726 Autoconf v2.68-21-g727ce95 causes AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS to
727 require computing the canonical host name. Ensure config.guess
728 and config.sub files are present for respective checks.
729 * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Add stub files.
730 * tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
731 * tests/fort4.test: Use $AUTOMAKE -a for installing files.
733 2011-01-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
735 docs: clustered '-d' not recognized in YFLAGS
736 This change fixes automake bug#7828.
737 * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Document that automake
738 recognizes '-d' in AM_YFLAGS only if it's not clustered with
740 From a report by Юрий Пухальский.
742 2011-01-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
744 tests: add checks on automatically-distributed files
745 Related to automake bug#7819.
746 * tests/autodist.test: New test.
747 * tests/autodist-subdir.test: Likewise.
748 * tests/autodist-acconfig.test: Likewise.
749 * tests/autodist-acconfig-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
750 * tests/autodist-aclocal-m4.test: Likewise.
751 * tests/autodist-config-headers.test: Likewise.
752 * tests/autodist-configure-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
753 * tests/autodist-stamp-vti.test: Likewise.
754 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
756 2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
758 tests: work around a texi+cygnus bug causing a spurious XFAIL
759 * tests/txinfo5b.test: New test, like txinfo5.test but calling
760 automake with the `-Wno-override' option to work around a bug
761 in the texinfo + cygnus interaction.
762 * tests/txinfo5.test: Update heading comments.
763 * tests/Makefile.am (TEST): Updated.
765 2011-01-09 Dave Hart <davehart@gmail.com> (tiny change)
767 Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
768 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
770 2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
772 Improve, extend and tweak tests on Texinfo support.
773 * tests/instdir-texi.test: Add a call to `ls -l' after that to
774 `make', for debugging. When looking for required tools, do not
775 redirect the output of "$tool --help" to /dev/null, and do not
776 uselessly run it in a subshell.
777 * tests/txinfo.test: Rewritten to run autoconf, ./configure and
778 make. All checks moved into Makefile.am.
779 * tests/txinfo8.test: Likewise, and modernize the generated
781 * tests/txinfo2.test: Moved checks into Makefile.am, and other
783 * tests/txinfo5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
784 changes. Add trailing `:' command.
785 * tests/txinfo6.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
786 Makefile.in stricter.
787 * tests/txinfo7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
788 changes. Add trailing `:' command. Do not add unnecessary stuff
790 * tests/txinfo9.test: Verify that more targets which are expected
791 to be generated only once really are. Make grepping less strict,
792 to avoid exposing too much internal details. More minor changes.
793 * tests/txinfo16.test: Add trailing `:'. Prefer cat over echo
794 for appending to configure.in. Updated/fixed heading comments.
795 * tests/txinfo23.test: Likewise, and extended a little by making
796 it check that no info file is created in the $(srcdir).
797 * tests/txinfo24.test: Likewise.
798 * tests/txinfo25.test: Likewise.
799 * tests/txinfo18.test: Add trailing `:'. Prefer cat over echo
800 for appending to configure.in. Also, check that index files are
801 cleaned also by "make clean", not only by "make distclean".
802 * tests/txinfo22.test: Prefer `$me' over hard-coded test name,
803 and added trailing `:' command. This testcase also used to check
804 that automake ignores in-line comments when using variables, but
805 preserves them in the output; these checks (added in commit
806 "Release-1-7f-4-g9177ef8") do not really pertain to this test,
807 so they have been moved ...
808 * tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: ... into this new test.
809 * tests/txinfo4.test: Escape literal dots in grep regexps. Add
810 trailing `:' command.
811 * tests/txinfo29.test: Likewise. Relax grepping of generated
812 Makefile.in w.r.t. whitespaces. Prefer `cat' over `echo' to
813 append to configure.in.
814 * tests/txinfo3.test: Likewise.
815 * tests/vtexi.test: Improve grepping of Makefile.in (sometimes
816 make it stricter, sometimes laxer). Move `set -e' setting just
817 after the inclusion of ./defs. De-uglify a sed command. Other
818 minor cosmetic improvements.
819 * tests/vtexi2.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in stricter. Add
820 trailing `:' command.
821 * tests/vtexi3.test: New test on version.texi support.
822 * tests/vtexi4.test: Likewise.
823 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
825 2011-01-09 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
827 Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
828 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
830 2011-01-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
832 cosmetics: remove trailing whitespaces
833 * doc/automake.texi: Remove trailing whitespaces.
834 * tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
835 * tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
836 * tests/fort4.test: Likewise.
837 * tests/fort5.test: Likewise.
838 * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
839 * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
841 automake: minor fixes in comments
842 * automake.in: Some minor fixes and enhancements in comments.
844 2011-01-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
846 Add test coverage for deleted header files.
847 * tests/depcomp6.test, tests/depcomp7.test: Update tests to
848 also check for the deleted header bug. If no dependency
849 tracking mechanism could be found, SKIP rather than exit
850 successfully. Use GNU style spacing and ANSI C prototypes.
852 Fix typos in Rule.pm comments.
853 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typos in comments.
855 docs: split 'amhello Explained' node.
856 * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Split node ...
857 (amhello's configure.ac Setup Explained)
858 (amhello's Makefile.am Setup Explained) : ... into these two.
859 (Top, Hello World): Adjust, and add @anchor for stable URL links.
860 Suggestion by Karl Berry in automake bug#7766.
862 2011-01-08 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
863 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
865 docs: reference defining directories in amhello node.
866 * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Point to Autoconf
867 manual for how to convert directory values into macros.
868 (Optional): Fix grammar nit.
870 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
872 * NEWS: Fix typo (forgotten word).
874 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
875 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
877 docs: how to work around checks on invalid primary/directory couples
878 * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): Document the blessed idiom which can
879 be used to work around automake checks on invalid primary/directory
880 couples (such as `lib_PROGRAMS' or `doc_LIBRARIES').
882 2011-01-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
884 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
885 * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
888 Fix maintainer-check regression.
889 * tests/subobj11a.test: Pass DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS in the
892 Bump copyright years.
893 * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
894 * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
895 * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
897 2010-12-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
898 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
900 Work around a bug in file-inclusion mechanism of Solaris make.
901 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): In the name of the
902 dependency file: collapse multiple slash characters into a single
904 * tests/subobj11a.test: New test.
905 * tests/subobj11b.test: Likewise.
906 * tests/subobj11c.test: Likewise.
907 * tests/depcomp8a.test: Likewise.
908 * tests/depcomp8b.test: Likewise.
909 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
911 Report by Stefano Lattarini, quick fix by Ralf Wildenhues, final
912 patch and tests by Stefano Lattarini.
914 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
916 Fix two spurious testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5.
917 * tests/suffix13.test (Makefile.am): Account for VPATH issues on
918 weaker make implementations (e.g. IRIX 6.5).
919 * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise, plus a required related
921 Reported by Ralf Wildenhues. The bugs have been there from the
922 first versions of the affected test scripts.
924 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
926 docs: cygnus mode doesn't require AM_CYGWIN32 macro.
927 * doc/automake.texi (Cygnus): Mode 'cygnus' does not require
928 the AM_CYGWIN32 macro (and indeed hasn't required it since at
929 least commit Release-1-2-31-g3038064 "merged changes from
930 Cygnus" of 1997-08-25).
932 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
934 distlinksbrk.test: Work around botched "make -k".
935 * tests/distlinksbrk.test: Run "make" multiple times and grep
936 its output each time for a single error message, rather than
937 running "make -k" one single time and grepping its output for
938 all the expected error messages. This should work around make
939 implementations with limited (broken?) `-k' support; for more
940 information, see these subthreads on the automake-patches list:
941 - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on HP-UX 11.23",
942 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00162.html>
943 - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5",
944 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00166.html>
946 2010-12-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
948 Fix sed-related buglet in test "subdir5.test"
949 * tests/subdir5.test: Always terminate text passed to the
950 `i' sed command with a newline, to work around limitations
951 in e.g. older OpenBSD sed.
953 2010-12-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
955 docs: fix blunder in example about python extension modules
956 * doc/automake.texi (Python): Use `quaternion_la_SOURCES',
957 not `quaternion_SOURCES', to declare the sources of python
958 extension module `quaternion.la'.
960 2010-12-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
962 docs: list LTLIBRARIES among Automake primaries
963 * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): List `LTLIBRARIES' among
964 the Automake primaries.
966 2010-12-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
968 Improve tests on generated portions of configure help screen.
969 * tests/help-depend.test: Grepping of configure help screen
970 relaxed to cater for possible line wrapping, and tightened in
972 * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
973 * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
974 * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
975 * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
976 * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
977 * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
978 * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
979 * tests/help-init.test: Grepping of configure help screen
982 2010-12-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
984 Avoid running installed automake from 'libtool --help'.
985 * tests/subobj9.test: Export AUTOCONF and AUTOMAKE.
986 Together with fixed Libtool, this fixes check-coverage to not
987 invoke installed automake.
989 2010-11-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
991 Fix spurious failures in `silent*.test' for $CC != gcc
992 In some tests on automake-produced silent rules, we forced the
993 use of gcc depmode to improve testsuite coverage; but this has
994 unsurprisingly led to spurious failures when some non-GNU C
995 compilers were used. So we are now careful to require GCC in
996 tests that force gcc depmode.
997 From reports by Ralf Wildenhues.
998 * tests/silent5.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
999 * tests/silent-many-generic.test, tests/silent-many-gcc.test: ...
1000 these new sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode
1001 and lists "gcc" in $required.
1002 * tests/silentlex.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
1003 * tests/silent-lex-generic.test, tests/silent-lex-gcc.test: ...
1004 these new sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode
1005 and lists "gcc" in $required.
1006 * tests/silentyacc.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
1007 * tests/silent-yacc-generic.test, tests/silent-yacc-gcc.test: ...
1008 these new sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and
1009 lists "gcc" in $required.
1010 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1012 2010-11-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1014 Tests: consistently use "|| Exit 1" after ". ./defs".
1015 * tests/autohdr.test: Use `. ./defs || Exit 1', not bare
1016 `. ./defs', for consistency with other tests.
1017 * tests/autohdr2.test: Likewise.
1018 * tests/autohdr3.test: Likewise.
1019 * tests/autohdr4.test: Likewise.
1020 * tests/cond23.test: Likewise.
1021 * tests/cond24.test: Likewise.
1022 * tests/cond25.test: Likewise.
1023 * tests/cond26.test: Likewise.
1024 * tests/cond27.test: Likewise.
1025 * tests/cond28.test: Likewise.
1026 * tests/cond29.test: Likewise.
1027 * tests/cond30.test: Likewise.
1028 * tests/cond31.test: Likewise.
1029 * tests/cond32.test: Likewise.
1030 * tests/cond33.test: Likewise.
1031 * tests/cond34.test: Likewise.
1032 * tests/cond35.test: Likewise.
1033 * tests/cond36.test: Likewise.
1034 * tests/cond37.test: Likewise.
1035 * tests/cond38.test: Likewise.
1036 * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
1037 * tests/cond40.test: Likewise.
1038 * tests/cond41.test: Likewise.
1039 * tests/cond42.test: Likewise.
1040 * tests/cond43.test: Likewise.
1041 * tests/cond44.test: Likewise.
1042 * tests/cond45.test: Likewise.
1043 * tests/dollarvar.test: Likewise.
1044 * tests/dollarvar2.test: Likewise.
1045 * tests/hfs.test: Likewise.
1046 * tests/libobj14.test: Likewise.
1047 * tests/percent.test: Likewise.
1048 * tests/percent2.test: Likewise.
1049 * tests/phony.test: Likewise.
1050 * tests/silent.test: Likewise.
1051 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
1052 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
1053 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
1054 * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
1055 * tests/silent6.test: Likewise.
1056 * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
1057 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
1058 * tests/silentcxx.test: Likewise.
1059 * tests/silentf77.test: Likewise.
1060 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
1061 * tests/silentlex.test: Likewise.
1062 * tests/silentyacc.test: Likewise.
1064 Avoid useless cleaning in some `silent*.test' tests.
1065 * tests/silentf77.test: Removed useless calls to "make clean"
1066 and "make maintainer-clean".
1067 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
1068 * tests/silent3.test: Removed useless call to "make distclean".
1069 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
1070 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
1072 2010-11-19 Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
1074 Sync config-ml.in from GCC.
1075 * config-ml.in: Add Go support: treat GOC and GOCFLAGS like other
1076 compiler/flag environment variables.
1078 2010-11-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1080 Automake::Config: remove extra trailing semicolon.
1081 * lib/Automake/Config.in: Remove extra trailing semicolon.
1083 help4.test: fix botched heading comment.
1084 * tests/help4.test: Fixed the heading comment, since it
1085 didn't correctly describe what checks the testcase was
1086 supposed to perform.
1088 help2.test: add checks on aclocal too.
1089 * tests/help2.test: Check that also `aclocal --version' and
1090 `aclocal --help' work with configure.in and acinclude.m4 both
1093 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1095 Fix spurious failures of silent-rules tests with Sun Fortran.
1096 * tests/silentf77.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
1097 messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers, to
1098 avoid spurious failures. Add a trailing `:' command.
1099 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
1101 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1103 Fix spurious failures of silent5.test with Sun Fortran.
1104 * tests/silent5.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
1105 messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers,
1106 to avoid spurious failures. This bug has been there from the
1107 very first version of this test script.
1109 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1111 Fix regression in colon{5,6}.test (failures on AIX 5.3).
1112 * tests/colon5.test: Also substitute `@SHELL@' with `$SHELL' when
1113 post-processing the generated Makefile.in, to work around a bug
1114 of AIX 5.3 make which doesn't allow setting the `$(SHELL)' macro
1115 on the commend line. Calls to `$MAKE' adjusted accordingly.
1116 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
1117 Regression introduced in commit v1.11-175-gf9fe878 "Modernize,
1118 improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test", and reported by Ralf
1121 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1123 Fix regression in ansi.test (failure on AIX 5.3).
1124 * tests/ansi.test: Remove redundant hackish check done using a
1125 hand-postprocessed Makefile.in. This check worked by setting
1126 the `$(SHELL)' macro on the command line of make, but this is
1127 not supported by the AIX 5.3 make implementation.
1128 This bug has been lurking for a long time, and was activated by
1129 commit v1.11-125-gc1f6cdb "Enable `errexit' shell flag in various
1130 tests". Report by Ralf Wildenhues.
1132 2010-11-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1134 tests: avoid '##'-style comments inside recipe commands.
1135 * tests/confh.test, tests/confh8.test: Remove
1136 double-hash comments from makefile rule commands, they
1137 are not part of the Automake API.
1139 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1141 tests: work around dash quoting issue in case statements.
1142 * tests/color.test, tests/color2.test: Quote variable in case
1143 pattern, to avoid skipping tests with dash 0.5.5.1.
1145 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1147 Rebuild menus in the manual.
1148 * doc/automake.texi: Rebuild menus (using ^C ^U ^A in emacs).
1149 Thanks to Ian Lance Taylor for the suggestion.
1151 Fix install-strip when $(STRIP) contains several words.
1152 * lib/am/install.am (install-strip): Update comment. Use
1153 separate sub-make invocations for empty and nonempty $(STRIP),
1154 to fix quoting issues.
1155 * tests/strip2.test, tests/strip3.test: New tests.
1156 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Adjust.
1158 2010-11-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1160 Fix yaccdry.test failure: require bison.
1161 * tests/yaccdry.test: Require bison.
1162 Found by NixOS Hydra.
1164 2010-11-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1166 Fix a bug in variable concatenation with `+='.
1167 * lib/Automake/VarDef.pm (append): Since the content of the
1168 "appended-to" variable is going to be unconditionally normalized
1169 later, simply separate the appended value with a single whitespace
1170 character, instead of trying to be uselessly smarter by using
1171 escaped newlines. This fixes a bug in which extra backslashes
1172 where erroneously inserted in the variable's final value.
1173 * tests/pluseq11.test: New test, exposing the bug.
1174 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1175 Reported by Andy Wingo.
1177 2010-11-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1179 Fix bug in rules for creating vala vapi/header files.
1180 * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Add forgotten "fi" in an
1181 if control structure in a generated make rules. Bug introduced
1182 by previous commit `v1.11-221-gd7c1679', and revealed by failure
1183 of test `vala2.test'.
1185 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1187 Fix and document rules to not touch the tree with `make -n'.
1188 * doc/automake.texi (Multiple Outputs): Document the problem of
1189 modifications during dry-run execution, propose solution.
1191 * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Split recipe so the
1192 stamp file is not removed with GNU `make -n'.
1193 (lang_yacc_target_hook): Separate removal of parser output file
1194 and header remaking.
1195 * lib/am/lisp.am ($(am__ELCFILES)): Determine whether -n was
1196 passed to make, take care not to remove any files in that case.
1197 * lib/am/remake-hdr.am (%CONFIG_H%): Separate removal of
1198 %STAMP% file from induced remaking of config header.
1199 * tests/autohdrdry.test, tests/lispdry.test, tests/yaccdry.test:
1201 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1203 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1205 Add FAQ entry for bug reporting instructions.
1206 * doc/automake.texi (Reporting Bugs): New section.
1207 (Introduction): Refer to it.
1209 2010-10-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1211 Add support for newer python versions.
1212 * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Add python2.7 and python3.2 to
1213 _AM_PYTHON_INTERPRETER_LIST. Since we are at it, break a long
1214 line and fix indentation.
1216 From a report by Thomas Klausner.
1218 Add test for `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' macro.
1219 * tests/dmalloc.test: New test.
1220 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1222 Fix nits and bugs in tests `help*.test'.
1223 * tests/help4.test: Fix broken sed commands used to strip `-W...'
1224 flags away from "$AUTOMAKE" and "$ACLOCAL".
1225 * tests/help3.test: Likewise, and fix a botched comment.
1226 * tests/help.test: Likewise. Also, use "AUTOMAKE_fails ..."
1227 instead of "$AUTOMAKE ... && Exit 1", for consistency and to
1228 please maintainer-check.
1229 * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
1231 2010-10-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1232 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1234 Improve tests `help*.test' (also fixes maintcheck failures).
1235 * tests/help.test: To run automake, use `$AUTOMAKE' with all `-W'
1236 flags stripped away rather than hard-coded `automake-$APIVERSION',
1237 to better honour user-overrides. Similarly for aclocal.
1238 * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
1239 * tests/help3.test: Likewise.
1240 * tests/help4.test: Likewise.
1242 2010-10-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1244 Document and fix expansion of variables before rules.
1245 * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Document that variables
1246 are expanded before rules.
1247 * lib/am/check.am (am__check_post): Reword a bit so it does not
1248 get matched as a rule.
1249 Suggestion by Ben Pfaff.
1251 2010-10-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1253 Revert "parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue."
1254 This reverts commit 24e3b4ee2f8cb9f72dd94a05a893f3d4e88b7835,
1255 because it re-opened the bug fixed by v1.11-10-g218e678.
1257 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1259 parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
1260 * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
1261 substitution %MAKEFILE%.
1262 (generate_makefile): Adjust.
1263 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
1264 sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
1265 input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
1268 Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
1270 2010-09-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1272 Extend tests on `--help' and `--version' options.
1273 * tests/help.test: Create a new empty directory and chdir into
1274 it, rather than removing already present files. Run the aclocal
1275 and automake wrapper scripts directly, instead of relying on
1276 $AUTOMAKE and $ACLOCAL. Be sure to correctly match literal dots
1277 in aclocal's and automake's stderr. Add a trailing `:' command.
1278 * tests/help2.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
1279 `--version' works in directories with broken `configure.in'.
1280 * tests/help3.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
1281 `--version' take precedence on the other options.
1282 * tests/help4.test: New test, checking that the first among the
1283 `--help' and `--version' options to be specified on the command
1285 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1287 2010-09-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1289 Testsuite: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when extending PATH.
1290 * tests/compile2.test: Do no uselessly (implicitly) repeat the
1291 computation of PATH_SEPARATOR again.
1292 * tests/instmany-mans.test: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when
1293 extending/redefining PATH.
1294 * tests/instmany-python.test: Likewise.
1295 * tests/instmany.test: Likewise.
1296 * tests/man4.test: Likewise.
1297 * tests/mkinst3.test: Likewise.
1298 * tests/mmodely.test: Likewise.
1299 * tests/multlib.test: Likewise.
1300 * tests/txinfo30.test: Likewise.
1301 * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
1303 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_PATH_SEPARATOR): New maintainer check.
1304 (syntax_check_rules): Updated.
1306 Testsuite: new variables `$PATH_SEPARATOR' and `$APIVERSION'.
1307 * tests/defs.in ($APIVERSION): New AC_SUBST'd variable.
1308 ($ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE): Use it.
1309 ($PATH_SEPARATOR): New AC_SUBST'd variables.
1312 2010-09-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1314 Manual: be more agnostic w.r.t. version control system used.
1315 * doc/automake.texi (Basics of Distribution): Also refer to `.svn'
1316 directories as a type of probably-unwanted files that are copied
1317 regardless when adding directories to EXTRA_DIST.
1318 (The dist Hook): Show a dist-hook example which removes Subversion
1319 `.svn' private directories from distdir, rather than CVS private
1321 (missing and AM_MAINTAINER_MODE): Try to be more agnostic w.r.t.
1322 the version control system used.
1324 Manual: index refer to target "git-dist", not "cvs-dist".
1325 * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Index the non-standard
1326 example about "git-dist" under the "git-dist" label, not under
1329 Perl modules: remove references to "Automake CVS repository".
1330 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Update comments to refer to "Automke's
1331 git repository" rather than to "Automake's CVS repository".
1332 * lib/Automake/Configure_ac.pm: Likewise.
1333 * lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm: Likewise.
1334 * lib/Automake/Struct.pm: Likewise.
1335 * lib/Automake/XFile.pm: Likewise.
1336 * lib/Automake/Version.pm (=head1 DESCRIPTION): Refer to "git
1337 branches" rather than "CVS branches".
1339 Remove obsolete .cvsignore files.
1340 * .cvsignore, doc/.cvsignore, lib/.cvsignore, lib/am/.cvsignore,
1341 lib/Automake/.cvsignore, lib/Automake/tests/.cvsignore,
1342 m4/.cvsignore, tests/.cvsignore: Files deleted. Even when using
1343 savannah's CVS readonly mirror there's no way to commit back to
1344 the real repository, so this files are not worth maintaining or
1347 2010-09-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1349 * m4/dmalloc.m4: Bump serial number and copyright years.
1351 2010-09-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1353 Fix broken link in `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' help screen.
1354 * m4/dmalloc.m4 (AM_WITH_DMALLOC): Refer only to the dmalloc site
1355 `http://www.dmalloc.com', not to the dmalloc tarball there (which
1356 seems to have been removed, substituted by multiple release
1359 2010-09-17 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
1361 Avoid triple-space after period.
1362 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): Avoid 3 spaces at
1364 * ChangeLog.03: Likewise.
1365 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Likewise.
1366 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (_print_message): Likewise.
1367 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm (rule): Likewise.
1368 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (var): Likewise.
1369 * lib/am/distdir.am: Likewise.
1370 * tests/insthook.test: Likewise.
1372 2010-09-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1374 Test automake-generated portions of configure help screen.
1375 * tests/help-depend.test: New test.
1376 * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
1377 * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
1378 * tests/help-init.test: Likewise.
1379 * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
1380 * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
1381 * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
1382 * tests/help-regex.test: Likewise.
1383 * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
1384 * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
1385 * tests/mmode.test: Remove tests on `configure --help' output,
1386 they are superseded by tests in `help-maintainer.test'.
1387 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1389 2010-09-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1391 * tests/README: Don't put GCS mandated tools in $required.
1393 2010-09-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1395 * HACKING: Hint at old commits with `git describe' output.
1397 2010-09-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1399 Fix regression in test `colon4.test'.
1400 * tests/colon4.test: Fix botched editing to `configure.in'
1401 that made the test useless. Since we are at it, improve
1402 comments and make grepping of generated Makefile.in slightly
1404 Regression introduced by change "Modernize, improve and/or
1405 extend tests `colon*.test" (Stefano Lattarini, 2010-08-08).
1407 2010-09-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1409 Do not require "gzip" explicitly in tests.
1410 The gzip utility is simply expected to be present on any decent
1411 target system for Automake. So it's pointless to put it in
1413 * tests/install2.test ($required): Do not require "gzip".
1414 * tests/lex3.test: Likewise.
1415 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
1416 From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
1418 Make some `confh*.test' tests more "semantic" (plus tweakings).
1419 * tests/confh.test: Run "autoconf", "configure" and "make check",
1420 instead of munging/grepping the generated `Makefile.in'.
1421 * tests/confh4.test: Relax the grepping of Makefile.in w.r.t.
1422 white spaces. Do not create useless dummy source file `foo.c'
1423 and useless dummy header file `acconfig.h'.
1424 (configure.in): Remove superfluous call to `AC_OUTPUT'.
1425 * tests/confh6.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1426 * tests/confh7.test: In comments, add reference to ...
1427 * tests/confh8.test: ... this new test, "semantic" sister
1429 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1430 Prompted by a report from Ralf Wildenhues.
1432 Remove useless whitespace padding in XFAIL_TESTS definition.
1433 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Remove whitespace padding.
1435 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1437 parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
1438 * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
1439 substitution %MAKEFILE%.
1440 (generate_makefile): Adjust.
1441 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
1442 sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
1443 input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
1446 Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
1448 Posix 2008 requires make to set errexit.
1449 * lib/am/check.am: Update comment.
1451 2010-08-27 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1453 Fix bug in test missing6.test.
1454 * tests/missing6.test: Fix the hack used to edit `configure.in',
1455 to avoid producing a configure script that breaks with shells
1456 that do not support $LINENO. Also throw in a couple of cosmetic
1459 2010-08-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1461 Improve robustness of mdate-sh script.
1462 * lib/mdate-sh: Sanitize zsh behavior on startup, to ensure
1463 $ls_command is word-split properly upon invocation.
1464 (error): New function.
1465 (main): Use it. Improve error checking to avoid endless loop
1466 in case $ls_command gave bogus output. Fix eval quotation.
1467 * tests/mdate6.test: New test, to expose eval quotation error.
1468 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
1470 2010-08-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1472 Fix potential regressions in depcomp{3,5}.test.
1473 * tests/depcomp3.test: Do not uselessly escape the character `$'
1474 in makefile rules, when it's used to expand a make macro.
1475 * tests/depcomp5.test: Likewise.
1477 2010-08-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1478 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1480 Docs: clarify how to avoid automatic dependencies tracking.
1481 * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Mention that
1482 automatic dependencies tracking is enabled by default, but that
1483 the package developer can disable it altogether. Add a reference
1484 to the proper section for a more in-depth explanation.
1486 Fix typo in manual (`Makefile.in' instead of `Makefile.am').
1487 * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Fix typo.
1489 2010-08-16 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
1491 Don't hide the table of contents.
1492 * doc/automake.texi: Move the table of contents to the beginning.
1494 2010-08-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1496 Tweak and/or extend some `acloca*.test' tests.
1497 * tests/aclocal8.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured
1499 * tests/aclocal.test: Likewise. Also, add trailing `:'
1501 * tests/acloca19.test: Likewise.
1502 * tests/aclocal5.test: Add trailing `:' command, and prefer
1503 `$me' over hard-coded test name.
1504 * tests/aclocal6.test: Likewise.
1505 * tests/aclocal18.test: Add trailing `:' command, and make
1506 some grepping slightly stricter.
1507 * tests/acloca14.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `diff' over
1508 `cmp', and add some "cosmetic" blank lines.
1510 2010-08-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1512 Tweak and extend tests `pr[!0-9]*.test'.
1513 * tests/primary3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1514 * tests/primary.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
1515 Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
1516 * tests/primary2.test: Likewise.
1517 * tests/prefix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
1518 changes. Add a trailing `:' command.
1519 * tests/proginst.test: Likewise.
1521 Modernize, improve and extend tests for PR (`pr[0-9]*.test').
1522 * tests/pr2.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1523 * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
1524 * tests/pr401.test: Likewise.
1525 * tests/pr401b.test: Likewise.
1526 * tests/pr401c.test: Likewise.
1527 * tests/pr300-prog.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic changes in
1529 * tests/pr300-lib.test: Likewise.
1530 * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise, and ensure verbose printing
1531 of captured make stdout.
1532 * tests/pr211.test: Add trailing `:' command. Also, use the
1533 `configure.in' stub created by ./defs, rather than writing it
1535 * tests/pr204.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic spacing changes.
1536 * tests/pr287.test: Likewise, and move setting of `errexit' shell
1537 flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs).
1538 * tests/pr220.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
1539 Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
1540 * tests/pr224.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1541 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Do not export
1542 `CC=gcc' to configure explicitly (it's already exported globally
1543 in ./defs, since we have "gcc" in $required). Use the stub for
1544 `configure.in' created by ./defs, rather than writing it from
1545 scratch. Do not create dummy files required by "gnu" mode (e.g.
1546 README, NEWS), since we run automake in foreign mode anyway.
1547 * tests/pr72.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
1548 changes. Extend existing checks a bit.
1549 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise. Also, avoid obsolescent constructs in
1550 the generated `configure.in', and extend existing checks over the
1551 generated tarball a bit.
1552 * tests/pr87.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
1553 changes. Add a trailing `:' command. Also, do not create dummy
1554 files required by "gnu" mode (e.g. README, NEWS), since we run
1555 automake in foreign mode anyway.
1556 * tests/pr243.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
1557 `configure.in'. Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
1558 changes. Cosmetic changes to spacing, add trailing `:' command,
1559 and add a "FIXME" comment.
1560 * tests/pr266.test: Likewise, and add explicit command line switch
1561 `--enable-dependecy-tracking' to the ./configure call.
1562 * tests/pr279.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
1563 `configure.in'; also, use the `configure.in' stub created by
1564 ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch. Enable `errexit'
1565 shell flag, and related changes. Add trailing `:' command.
1566 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
1568 * tests/pr307.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1569 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Escape literal
1570 dots in grep regular expressions. Also, add a trailing `:'
1571 command, and cosmetic changes to spacing.
1573 Tests for PR: add excerpts from original bug report, for clarity.
1574 * tests/pr2.test: Ditto.
1575 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
1576 * tests/pr72.test: Likewise.
1577 * tests/pr87.test: Likewise.
1578 * tests/pr211.test: Likewise.
1579 * tests/pr220.test: Likewise.
1580 * tests/pr224.test: Likewise.
1581 * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
1582 * tests/pr243.test: Likewise.
1583 * tests/pr266.test: Likewise.
1584 * tests/pr279.test: Likewise, and tell to keep it in sync
1585 with its sister test.
1586 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
1588 2010-08-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1590 Tweak, extend and improve tests `cond[a-z]*.test'.
1591 * tests/condd.test: Add trailing `:' command. Typofix in
1593 * tests/condhook.test: Make sure target `install-data-hook' is
1594 not called by `make install', but that data files are installed.
1595 Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in. Add trailing `:' command.
1596 * tests/condhook2.test: New test, sister test of condhook, with
1598 * tests/condinc2.test: Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
1599 Prefer trailing `:' command over trailing `Exit 0'.
1600 * tests/condman2.test: Enable errexit shell flag, and related
1601 changes. Add trailing `:' command.
1602 * tests/condman.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless
1603 dummy manpages, and use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
1604 * tests/condman3.test: New test, similar to condman.test, but
1605 it also runs ./configure and "make install", and check the
1607 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1609 Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test.
1610 * tests/colon.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
1611 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Do not create
1612 a useless dummy file. Add trailing `:' command.
1613 * tests/colon4.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
1614 related changes. Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
1615 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1616 * tests/colon7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1617 changes. Improve the generated `configure.in' file. Add
1618 trailing `:' command.
1619 * tests/colon2.test: Likewise. Also, add some new checks.
1620 * tests/colon5.test: Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
1621 Add new, much deeper checks. Add trailing `:' command.
1622 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
1623 * tests/colon3.test: Add trailing `:' command. Remove useless
1624 comments and echos. Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
1625 make some grepping tests stricter. Add a "FIXME" comments about
1626 planned improvements.
1628 Improve and extend tests `asm*.test'.
1629 * tests/asm.test: Use configure.in stub generated by ./defs,
1630 and avoid obsoleted autoconf constructs. Make grepping of
1631 Automake stderr stricter. Do not create useless source file.
1632 Improve verbose messages. Minor cosmetic changes. Tell to
1633 keep it in sync with other sister tests asm*.test.
1634 * tests/asm2.test: Likewise.
1635 * tests/asm3.test: Likewise.
1637 Modernize, improve and/or extend test scripts `conf*.test'.
1638 * tests/confh5.test: Cosmetic changes.
1639 * tests/conff.test: Likewise.
1640 * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise.
1641 * tests/conflnk.test: Likewise.
1642 * tests/conflnk2.test: Likewise.
1643 * tests/confsub.test: Likewise.
1644 * tests/confvar.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
1646 * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
1647 * tests/conflnk3.test: Cosmetic changes. Re-enable a temporarily
1648 disabled test (which didn't work with autoconf <= 2.59, but now we
1649 are requiring autoconf 2.62, so...)
1650 * tests/conflnk4.test: Cosmetic changes, and extend existing tests
1651 accordingly to "TODO" comments.
1652 * tests/conff2.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
1653 Add some comments explaining why we don't use the `configure.in'
1654 stub preset be ./defs.
1655 * tests/confh.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
1656 rather than writing one from scratch, and do not call AC_OUTPUT.
1657 Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related changes. Prefer diff over
1658 cmp to compare text files. Prefer perl over sed to fetch the value
1659 of $(DIST_COMMON) from Makefile.in. Make grepping of the contents
1660 of $(DIST_COMMON) stricter.
1661 * tests/confh4.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
1662 rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping of Makefile.in
1664 * tests/confh5.test: Make grepping of `config.h' stricter. Add a
1666 * tests/configure.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in generated
1667 `configure.ac'. Do not write `configure.in' two times. Escape
1668 literal dots in grep regular expressions.
1669 * tests/confincl.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1670 changes. Prefer fgrep over grep. Other cosmetic changes.
1671 * tests/config.test: Renamed to ...
1672 * tests/confh6.test: ... this. Fix m4 quoting in `configure.in',
1673 and make grepping of `config.h' and `config.h.in' stricter.
1674 * tests/conf2.test: Renamed ...
1675 * tests/confh7.test: ... to this. Use the `configure.in' stub
1676 created by ./defs, rather than writing one from scratch. Try to
1677 run the checks both with and without AC_PROG_CC and AC_OUTPUT in
1679 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1681 Minor improvements and fixes in tests `depcomp*.test'.
1682 * tests/depcomp.test: Do not create useless dummy source files.
1683 Add a trailing `:' command.
1684 * tests/depcomp2.test: Use `unset' on the CFLAG variable to ensure
1685 it's not in in the environment, rather than exporting it with an
1686 empty value. Do not pass CC=gcc to configure, as that's already
1687 done in ./defs since we have gcc in $required. Ensure verbose
1688 printing of captured stderr, and normalize its checking. Add a
1689 trailing `:' command.
1690 * tests/depcomp3.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
1691 grep regexps. Always use `: >' rather than `touch' to create empty
1692 files. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the created
1693 Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:' command.
1694 * tests/depcomp4.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
1695 grep regexp. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the
1696 created Makefile.am. Ensure verbose printing of captured makes'
1697 stoud/stderr. Add a trailing `:' command.
1698 * tests/depcomp5.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1699 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Quote literal dots
1700 and dollar characters in grep regexps. Explicitly declare phony
1701 targets as such in the created Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:'
1703 * tests/depcomp6.test: Consistently use m4 quoting in the generated
1704 configure.in. Cosmetic fixes to spacing. Make the "dummy" `if'
1705 statement required by OpenBSD's sh `set -e' more robust, and add
1706 explanatory comments to it.
1707 * tests/depcomp7.test: Likewise, and add a trailing `:' command.
1709 Separate failing part of test `all.test'.
1710 * tests/all.test: Keep only (x)failing part of the test. Working
1711 checks moved out to ...
1712 * tests/all2.test: ... this new test.
1713 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1715 Modernize, improve and extend tests `subobj*.test'.
1716 * tests/subobjname.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1717 * tests/subobj.test: Make grepping of `Makefile.in' stricter.
1718 Escape literal dots in grep regexps.
1719 * tests/subobj2.test: Add trailing `:' command. Do not use the
1720 unportable fgrep option `-e'.
1721 * tests/subobj3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1722 (configure.in): Use proper m4 quoting, and avoid obsolescent
1724 * tests/subobj8.test: Likewise. Also, enable `errexit' shell
1725 flag, with related changes
1726 * tests/subobj4.test: Likewise. Also, make grepping of
1727 `Makefile.in' stricter.
1728 * tests/subobj5.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of
1729 `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
1731 (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
1732 writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
1733 * tests/subobj6.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of
1734 `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
1735 of ./defs). Do not create useless dummy ac-init file `f'.
1736 * tests/subobj7.test: Do not create useless dummy ac-init file
1738 (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
1739 writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
1740 * tests/subobj9.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1741 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Fail the test if
1742 `make distcheck' fails. Ensure verbose printing of captured make
1743 stdout. Avoid useless fork by doing simple grep instead of using
1744 test -n "`COMMAND | grep ...`".
1745 (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
1746 (Makefile.am): Explicitly mark target "print" as phony.
1747 * tests/subobj10.test: Removed duplicated call to `set -e'. Add
1748 trailing `:' command.
1749 (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
1751 Remove a couple of obsoleted tests.
1752 * tests/fpinstall.test: Removed.
1753 * tests/fpinst2.test: Likewise.
1754 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1756 Bootstrap: updated HACKING entry.
1757 * HACKING ("Working with git"): Explain how to override the
1758 autoconf and autom4te programs used by the bootstrap process.
1761 * bootstrap: Do not remove `lib/Automake/Config.pm' anymore,
1762 since we don't generate it. Correctly quote arguments of
1763 `eval' builtin. Fixed a botched error message. Removed an
1766 Bootstrap: don't search perl in $PATH.
1767 * bootstrap: Do not explicitly search perl in $PATH anymore.
1768 ($PATH_SEPARATOR): Removed, it's no more needed.
1770 Bootstrap: let the user choose which autoconf to use.
1771 * bootstrap ($AUTOCONF): New variable, from the environment.
1772 ($AUTOM4TE): Likewise, for clarity.
1773 Use "$AUTOCONF" instead of calling "autoconf" directly.
1775 Minor improvements to tests ar*.test.
1776 * tests/ar.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1777 * tests/ar2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
1778 Makefile.in stricter.
1780 2010-08-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1782 Fix maintainer-check failure.
1783 * tests/cond5.test: Quote sleep argument, this isn't about
1784 time stamp differences.
1786 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
1787 * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
1790 2010-08-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1792 Work around a nasty bug (segfault) of Solaris make.
1793 * lib/am/check.am (recheck, recheck-html): Trim trailing spaces
1794 from $list, to avoid triggering a nasty bug (potential segfault)
1797 2010-08-06 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
1799 Make cond5.test more robust on MSYS.
1800 * tests/cond5.test: Add delay before the first kill attempt to
1801 cater for problems with MSYS bash.
1803 2010-07-31 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1805 Add example git work flow; discuss merge --log in HACKING.
1807 Suggestion by Stefano Lattarini.
1809 Add more hints for debugging make rules.
1810 * doc/automake.texi (Debugging Make Rules): Show command to find
1811 out expanded values of variables; point to makefile debugger.
1813 Prompted by suggestion from Ludovic Courtès and Andy Wingo.
1815 2010-07-27 Patrick Welche <prlw1@cam.ac.uk> (tiny change)
1817 Fix typo in the manual.
1818 * doc/automake.texi (Scripts): Fix typo.
1820 2010-07-27 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1822 Document current policy for development with git.
1823 * HACKING (Working with git): Overhaul.
1824 Prompted by suggestion from Stefano Lattarini.
1826 Fix AM_COND_IF for gone-invalid condition shell expression.
1827 * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): test contents of $COND_TRUE
1828 variable, rather than re-evaluating the shell expression for
1830 * tests/cond40.test: Extend test.
1833 Avoid syntax error if IF-TRUE part of AM_COND_IF expands empty.
1834 * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): Ensure IF-TRUE part is never empty
1835 to avoid shell syntax error if the m4 expansion is empty.
1836 * tests/cond40.test: Enhance test.
1838 Coverage: bogus option to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
1839 * tests/init2.test: New test.
1840 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
1842 2010-07-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1844 Modernize and improve test scripts `subdir*.test'.
1845 * tests/subdir.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1846 changes. Use the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs',
1847 rather than writing one from scratch.
1848 * tests/subdir2.test: Likewise.
1849 * tests/subdir4.test: Likewise.
1850 * tests/subdir3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1851 changes. Do not create useless dummy source files.
1852 * tests/subdir5.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in (in topdir
1853 and in subdirs) stricter. Some minor changes to keep it more
1854 in sync with the related test `subdir8.test'.
1855 * tests/subdir8.test: Likewise (but with the related test being
1856 `subdir5.test' here).
1857 * tests/subdir6.test: Cosmetic change in spacing.
1858 * tests/subdir9.test: Define and use new variable `$distdir'. Add
1859 trailing `:' command.
1860 * tests/subdir10.test: Cosmetic consistency-related change.
1861 * tests/subdirbuiltsources.test: Cosmetic changes in spacings.
1862 (configure.in): Use stub created by `./defs', rather than writing
1863 it from scratch. Do not use obsoleted and/or deprecated forms of
1864 autoconf/automake macros.
1866 Modernize and improve test scripts `dist*.test'.
1867 * tests/distcleancheck.test: Do not add useless `-e' option to
1868 a $MAKE call. Extend test by grepping stderr of make.
1869 * tests/distcom2.test: Do not run the same test script on the
1870 Makefile.in twice, but save its output in an intermediate file
1871 instead. Make grepping of DIST_COMMON definition stricter.
1872 Display the content of more files, to ease debugging. Add a
1873 trailing `:' command. Improved heading comments w.r.t. sister
1875 * tests/distcom6.test: Likewise, and avoid to uselessly run
1877 * tests/distcom3.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured stdout
1878 and stderr. Make grepping of captured stderr stricter. Also,
1879 add trailing `:' command.
1880 * tests/distcom4.test: Declare the target `test' in the generated
1881 Makefile.am as `.PHONY'. Display content of more files, to ease
1882 debugging. Add trailing `:' command.
1883 * tests/distcom5.test: Likewise. Also, factor out common sed
1884 script in subroutine `extract_distcommon'.
1885 * tests/distcom7.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to write
1886 test Makefile.am files. Add a trailing `:' command.
1887 * tests/distname.test: Prefer `gzip -d' over `gunzip'. Move the
1888 call to `set -e' earlier. Be stricter and more verbose in the
1889 checking of the generated tarball.
1890 (configure.in): Use the stub provided by ./defs, instead of
1891 writing it from scratch. Avoid obsoleted constructs. Remove
1892 useless call to `AM_PROG_CC_C_O'.
1893 * tests/distdir.test: Various minor improvements/normalizations.
1894 * tests/distlinks.test: Likewise.
1896 2010-07-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1898 Improve and extend test cond5.test.
1899 * tests/cond5.test: Do not blindly sleep 60 seconds before polling
1900 the background automake process, but poll it every 10 seconds for
1901 at most 30 times (this makes the test both faster on good machines,
1902 and more resilient to spurious timeout-due failures when in low
1903 priority or on heavily-loaded systems).
1904 Check also that automake writes the expected error messages on the
1906 Enable `errexit' flag, and related changes.
1907 Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs', rather than
1908 writing one from scratch.
1910 2010-06-26 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1912 Update program --help output to match current GCS.
1913 * configure.ac: Set and substitute PACKAGE_URL if AC_PACKAGE_URL
1914 is not defined, for compatibility to Autoconf < 2.64.
1915 * Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute PACKAGE_BUGREPORT and
1917 (sc_diff_automake_in_automake): Update number of diff lines for
1918 additional substitutions.
1919 * aclocal.in (usage): Use PACKAGE_BUGREPORT. Point to Automake
1920 home page and GNU general help page.
1921 * automake.in (usage): Likewise.
1922 * doc/automake.texi: New flag PACKAGE_BUGREPORT, to factor email
1924 (Introduction, Creating amhello, amhello Explained, Options):
1926 * lib/Automake/Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute
1928 * lib/Automake/Config.in ($PACKAGE_BUGREPORT): New global.
1929 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Use it for footer of fatal
1932 Clean up @var handling in the manual.
1933 * doc/automake.texi: Throughout the manual, lower-case @var
1934 names, replace a few one-character names.
1936 2010-06-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1938 Fix typo-related bug in test script silent5.test.
1939 * tests/silent5.test: Use $EGREP, not $GREP (which is not even
1942 Tests: remove useless repetitions of `foreign' automake option.
1943 * tests/multlib.test (configure.in): Remove useless use of
1944 `foreign' option in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (the `--foreign' option is
1945 already in $AUTOMAKE by default, so no point in repeating it).
1946 * tests/subobj10.test: Likewise.
1947 * tests/subobj9.test: Likewise.
1948 * tests/lex3.test (Makefile.am): Similarly, remove useless use
1949 of `foreign' option in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
1950 * tests/lex5.test: Likewise.
1951 * tests/pr279.test: Likewise.
1952 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
1953 * tests/specflg3.test: Likewise.
1954 * tests/target-cflags.test: Likewise.
1956 Drop useless requirement "gzip" in lex5.test.
1957 * tests/lex5.test ($required): Do not list "gzip", as it's
1960 2010-06-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1962 Fix bugs in test script silent5.test.
1963 * tests/silent5.test: Fixed a nasty bug (due to the use of grep
1964 instead of egrep) that could have led to false negatives.
1966 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1968 Add a test checking that distributed broken symlinks cause
1969 `make dist' to fail.
1970 * tests/distlinksbrk.test: New test.
1971 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1973 2010-06-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1975 Fix minor testsuite issues, update docs, for Yacc/Lex changes.
1976 * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Mention AM_YFLAGS, YFLAGS
1977 and AM_LFLAGS, LFLAGS in the order in which they now appear in
1980 * tests/lflags.test, tests/lflags2.test, tests/yflags.test,
1981 tests/yflags2.test: Prefer `make -e' over `make VAR=VAL', to
1982 please maintainer-check. Ensure generated C files contain a
1983 declaration, to please compilers.
1985 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1987 Fix bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t. $(AM_FLAGS) and
1988 $(FLAGS) precedence.
1989 * automake.in: Fix registration of languages "Lex", "Lex (C++)",
1990 "Yacc" and "Yacc (C++)", so that $(LFLAGS) has precedence over
1991 $(AM_LFLAGS) and $(YFLAGS) has precedence over $(AM_YFLAGS).
1992 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1995 New tests, exposing bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t.
1996 $(AM_FLAGS) and $(FLAGS) precedence.
1997 * tests/lflags.test: New test, check that user $(LFLAGS) takes
1998 precedence over automake (AM_LFLAGS) and (foo_LFLAGS). Still
2000 * tests/lflags2.test: Likewise.
2001 * tests/yflags.test: New test, check that user $(YFLAGS) takes
2002 precedence over automake (AM_YFLAGS) and (foo_YFLAGS). Still
2004 * tests/yflags2.test: Likewise.
2005 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Extended accordingly.
2007 2010-06-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2009 Modernize, improve and extend tests `suffix*.test'.
2010 * tests/suffix3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
2012 * tests/suffix4.test: Likewise.
2013 * tests/suffix6.test: Likewise, and do not create a useless dummy
2015 * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
2016 * tests/suffix5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
2017 changes. Make grepping of Makefile.in slightly stricter.
2018 * tests/suffix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
2019 changes. Also, do not redirect grep output to /dev/null, as this
2020 might unmotivatedly hide useful information.
2021 * tests/suffix2.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
2022 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Use a more
2023 idiomatic way to count text occurrences in Makefile.in with
2024 grep. Do not create useless dummy source files.
2025 * tests/suffix10.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured make
2026 stdout. Minor cosmetic changes.
2027 * tests/suffix8.test: Likewise. Also, drop useless call to the
2028 env(1) utility, and make grepping of make output stricter by using
2029 $FGREP rather than plain grep.
2030 * tests/suffix11.test: Likewise.
2031 * tests/suffix12.test: Likewise.
2032 * tests/suffix9.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to append to
2033 the `configure.in' stub. Cosmetic changes.
2034 * tests/suffix13.test: Cosmetic spacing change.
2036 2010-06-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2038 Add useful comment in test script ext.test.
2039 * tests/ext.test: Add a comment explaining why an apparently
2040 useless `if' statement is indeed required.
2042 Add useful comment in test script obsolete.test.
2043 * tests/obsolete.test: Add a comment explaining why we need
2044 an indirection in adding $AUTOUPDATE to $required.
2046 Normalize whitespaces in 'tests/Makefile.am'.
2047 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Use only spaces, not tabs, in the
2048 definition of this variable.
2050 2010-06-12 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2052 Remove a couple of unneeded conditionals from tests.
2053 * tests/pr243.test, tests/pr266.test, tests/strip.test: No need
2054 for the FOOTEST conditional.
2056 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2058 Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
2059 * tests/symlink3.test: Deleted, separated into two new, more
2061 * tests/forcemiss.test: ... this one ...
2062 * tests/forcemiss2.test: ... and this one.
2063 * tests/symlink2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, make test
2064 stricter, and skip it if symlink creation is not supported.
2065 * tests/postproc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, related
2066 changes, and a couple of unrelated cosmetic changes.
2067 * tests/recurs.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
2068 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping
2069 of Automake stderr slightly stricter.
2070 * tests/substtarg.test: Likewise.
2071 * tests/strip.test: Likewise, and move the call to `set -e'
2072 earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs'). Also, make sure
2073 that the script installed by `make install-script' is equal to
2075 * tests/substref.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
2076 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Move the call
2077 to `set -e' earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs').
2078 Avoid to explicitly export CC for configure (that's already done
2079 in ./defs). Avoid potential problems with unpredictable make
2080 output. Finally, make grepping of Makefile.in stricter.
2081 * tests/substre2.test: Ensure verbose printing of the captured
2082 make's output, and make its grepping slightly stricter.
2083 * tests/cygwin32.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
2084 changes. Also, do not create useless dummy source/data files.
2085 * tests/scripts.test: Likewise.
2086 * tests/recurs2.test: Likewise. Also, use the `configure.in'
2087 stub created by `./defs'.
2088 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
2090 Modernize, improve and/or fix tests `pluseq*.test.
2091 * tests/pluseq5.test: Append to configure.in using cat with an
2092 here-doc, not using echo.
2093 * tests/pluseq10.test: Make sure that the captured output of
2094 `make' command is always displayed. Where possible, use $FGREP
2095 instead of grep (this change makes some checks slightly stricter).
2096 * tests/pluseq8.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
2098 * tests/pluseq.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless dummy
2099 data files, and use better m4 quoting in generated configure.in.
2100 * tests/pluseq2.test: Likewise. Also, append to configure.in
2101 using cat with an here-doc, not using echo.
2102 * tests/pluseq3.test: Likewise.
2103 * tests/pluseq4.test: Likewise.
2104 * tests/pluseq6.test: Likewise.
2105 * tests/pluseq7.test: Do not create useless dummy source file.
2106 * tests/pluseq9.test: Slightly extended w.r.t. the grepping of
2107 Automake stderr. Some unrelated cosmetic changes.
2109 Testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured stderr.
2110 * tests/acloca18.test: Print captured stderr before either failing
2111 or grepping it. Be sure to send captured stderr to stderr, not to
2113 * tests/ansi3b.test: Likewise.
2114 * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
2115 * tests/configure.test: Likewise.
2116 * tests/missing3.test: Likewise.
2117 * tests/missing6.test: Likewise.
2118 * tests/output-order.test: Likewise.
2119 * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise.
2120 * tests/python6.test: Likewise.
2121 * tests/python7.test: Likewise.
2122 * tests/python8.test: Likewise.
2123 * tests/python9.test: Likewise.
2124 * tests/subobj.test: Likewise.
2125 * tests/vars3.test: Likewise.
2126 * tests/missing4.test: Likewise, and fix a call to grep not to use
2128 * tests/ansi3.test: Likewise, and rely on the `configure.in' stub
2129 created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
2131 Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
2132 * tests/backsl.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
2134 * tests/backsl2.test: Likewise.
2135 * tests/block.test: Likewise.
2136 * tests/canon2.test: Likewise.
2137 * tests/canon4.test: Likewise.
2138 * tests/comment2.test: Likewise.
2139 * tests/condlib.test: Likewise.
2140 * tests/cond15.test: Likewise, and prefer $FGREP over grep.
2141 * tests/canon3.test: Likewise. Also, avoid to create an useless
2143 * tests/acoutpt2.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and some
2144 related changes. Do some cosmetic improvements in the generated
2145 `configure.in' file.
2146 * tests/cond4.test: Likewise.
2147 * tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
2148 * tests/condinc.test: Likewise.
2149 * tests/cond7.test: Likewise. Also, remove useless setting of
2150 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am.
2151 * tests/ansi.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
2152 changes. Extended, esp. by running autoconf, ./configure and
2153 make, and by looking into the distdir.
2155 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2156 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2158 Extend tests/README w.r.t. trailing `:' in test scripts.
2159 * tests/README (section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
2160 Explain why apparently redundant trailing `:' and `Exit 0' in
2161 test scripts can indeed be useful.
2163 2010-06-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2165 Improve determination of PATH separator in bootstrap script.
2166 * bootstrap: Determine what the PATH separator is the same way
2169 Minor improvements in bootstrap script.
2170 * bootstrap: Consistently use two-spaces indentation. Cosmetic
2171 improvement to comments.
2172 ($me): New variable, containing program basename.
2173 Prepend it to all error messages.
2175 Testsuite now works with BSD make in parallel mode.
2176 * tests/defs.in: Unset variables __MKLVL__ and MAKE_JOBS_FIFO,
2177 which are exported by BSD make when run in parallel mode, and
2178 which can confuse make processes spawned by our testsuite.
2179 This change fixes a lot of spurious failure when the testsuite
2180 is run with BSD make in parallel mode.
2182 2010-06-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2184 Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
2185 * tests/sanity.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
2186 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
2187 * tests/depend2.test: Likewise. Also, call `set -e' just after
2188 the inclusion of `./defs', instead that later in the script.
2189 * tests/canon5.test: Avoid a useless `|| Exit 1' after a call to
2190 $AUTOMAKE, and improve the positioning of an $ACLOCAL call.
2191 * tests/exeext4.test: Use $FGREP instead of grep, where possible.
2192 Make auxiliary rules in the generated Makefile more silent.
2193 These changes make some checks slightly stricter.
2194 * tests/ext2.test: Call `Exit 1' if inclusion of `./defs' fails.
2195 * tests/gettext2.test: Place final `:' at the end of the script,
2196 rather than in the middle.
2197 * tests/exeext.test: Call `set -e' just after the inclusion of
2198 `./defs', instead that later in the script.
2199 * tests/extra5.test: Likewise.
2200 * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `mv -f' over
2201 plain `mv', just to be sure.
2202 * tests/depcomp.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
2203 changes. Also, modernize the generated configure.in.
2204 * tests/cond9.test: Likewise. Also, rely on the `configure.in'
2205 stub created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
2206 * tests/cond10.test: Likewise.
2207 * tests/depcomp2.test: Likewise.
2208 * tests/depend3.test: Likewise.
2209 * tests/distcom7.test: Likewise.
2210 * tests/fortdep.test: Likewise. Also, remove definition of
2211 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am,
2212 since that flag is already provided by $AUTOMAKE.
2213 * tests/mdate.test: Made stricter, by checking that Automake
2214 actually failed, and by making a stricter grep on the error
2215 message. Also, set shell `errexit flag'.
2216 * tests/python2.test: Improved verbose messages.
2218 Make test `ammissing.test' stricter.
2219 * tests/ammissing.test: Fail if $ACLOCAL succeeds unexpectedly.
2220 Enable `errexit' shell flag.
2222 2010-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2224 Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
2225 * tests/subcond.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
2227 * tests/subst.test: Likewise.
2228 * tests/vars.test: Likewise.
2229 * tests/version4.test: Likewise.
2230 * tests/vpath.test: Likewise.
2231 * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
2232 * tests/werror.test: Likewise.
2233 * tests/whoami.test: Likewise.
2234 * tests/tags.test: Likewise, and avoid to crate an useless dummy
2236 * tests/acsilent.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
2237 command substitution.
2238 * tests/unused.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
2239 command substitution.
2240 * tests/version.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
2241 in the generated `configure.in'.
2242 * tests/version2.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
2243 in the generated `configure.in'.
2245 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2247 Prefer AUTOMAKE_fails over `$AUTOMAKE | grep' in tests.
2248 * tests/ldadd.test: Enable errexit. Use AUTOMAKE_fails so
2249 the verbose log contains all output.
2250 * tests/mdate.test: Likewise.
2251 Prompted by Stefano Lattarini's change to discover.test.
2253 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2255 Improve tests link*.test (enable `errexit' shell flag).
2256 * tests/link_c_cxx.test: Enable `errexit shell flag, and related
2257 changes. Also, do not create useless source files.
2258 * tests/link_dist.test: Likewise.
2259 * tests/link_f90_only.test: Likewise.
2260 * tests/link_f_only.test: Likewise.
2261 * tests/link_fc.test: Likewise.
2262 * tests/link_fccxx.test: Likewise.
2263 * tests/link_fcxx.test: Likewise.
2265 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2267 Improve ext.test semantics, avoid OpenBSD sh errexit issue.
2268 * tests/ext.test: Inside shell compound command, use
2269 `if $cmd; then Exit 1; fi' rather than `$cmd && Exit 1', to
2270 fix failure with OpenBSD sh introduced with last patch.
2271 Actually ensure that a rule for .EXT.o is created for each
2272 known extension EXT.
2274 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2276 Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
2277 * tests/dash.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
2279 * tests/defun.test: Likewise.
2280 * tests/defun2.test: Likewise.
2281 * tests/dejagnu.test: Likewise.
2282 * tests/double.test: Likewise.
2283 * tests/distcom2.test: Likewise.
2284 * tests/empty2.test: Likewise.
2285 * tests/empty3.test: Likewise.
2286 * tests/empty4.test: Likewise.
2287 * tests/exdir.test: Likewise.
2288 * tests/ext.test: Likewise.
2289 * tests/extra.test: Likewise.
2290 * tests/extra2.test: Likewise.
2291 * tests/extra3.test: Likewise.
2292 * tests/extra4.test: Likewise.
2293 * tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
2294 * tests/fnoc.test: Likewise.
2295 * tests/fo.test: Likewise.
2296 * tests/instexec.test: Likewise.
2297 * tests/ltdeps.test: Likewise.
2298 * tests/nodep.test: Likewise.
2299 * tests/nodepcomp.test: Likewise.
2300 * tests/f90only.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
2301 comments and unnecessary commands.
2302 * tests/fonly.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
2303 comments and unnecessary commands.
2304 * tests/discover.test: Likewise, and made stricter.
2306 Enable `errexit' shell flag in all tests cxx*.test.
2307 * tests/cxx.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
2309 * tests/cxxansi.test: Likewise.
2310 * tests/cxxcpp.test: Likewise.
2311 * tests/cxxlibobj.test: Likewise.
2312 * tests/cxxlink.test: Likewise.
2313 * tests/cxxo.test: Likewise.
2315 Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
2316 * tests/acoutnoq.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
2318 * tests/acoutpt.test: Likewise.
2319 * tests/acoutqnl.test: Likewise.
2320 * tests/amassign.test: Likewise.
2321 * tests/ansi2.test: Likewise.
2322 * tests/ansi4.test: Likewise.
2323 * tests/badprog.test: Likewise.
2324 * tests/checkall.test: Likewise.
2325 * tests/clean.test: Likewise.
2326 * tests/colneq2.test: Likewise.
2327 * tests/colon.test: Likewise.
2328 * tests/colon5.test: Likewise.
2329 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
2330 * tests/comment.test: Likewise.
2331 * tests/compile_f90_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
2332 * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
2333 * tests/cond3.test: Likewise.
2334 * tests/cond6.test: Likewise.
2335 * tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
2336 * tests/conf2.test: Likewise.
2337 * tests/confvar.test: Likewise.
2338 * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
2339 * tests/cond8.test: Likewise, plus a cosmetic change.
2340 * tests/confh4.test: Likewise. Also, add in the heading comments
2341 an excerpt from the original bug report which motivated the
2342 creation of this test, to make its purpose clearer.
2344 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2346 Rewrite manual to be gender-neutral.
2347 * doc/automake.texi (GNU Build System)
2348 (Standard Directory Variables, General Operation, CVS)
2349 (Hard-Coded Install Paths, Dependencies As Side Effects):
2350 Rewrite text to not contain gender-specific pronouns when
2351 speaking about developers or users, either by avoiding pronouns
2352 or by addressing them as `you' instead.
2354 Report by Christina Gratorp.
2358 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2360 Make tests on user extensibility of silent-rules mode stricter.
2361 * tests/silent6.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
2362 output produced by `make'.
2363 * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
2365 Tests on silent-mode for C/Libtool made stricter.
2366 * tests/silent.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
2367 output produced by `make'.
2368 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
2369 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
2370 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
2371 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise, and add a final `make distclean'
2372 command to keep it better in sync with tests/silent{4,9}.test.
2374 Improved test silent5.test.
2375 * tests/silent5.test: Remove by hand all generated C files after
2376 non-verbose builds, to ensure the following builds are clean.
2377 Try to clean and rebuild with the same verbosity and without
2378 removing generated sources in between, to check that this does
2379 not trigger a different set of rules. Make grepping of make's
2380 output stricter. Improved/added some comments.
2382 New tests for Automake silent-mode with Fortran.
2383 * tests/silentf77.test: New test.
2384 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
2385 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2387 New test `silentcxx.test' (Automake silent-mode with C++).
2388 * tests/silentcxx.test: New test.
2389 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2391 New test `silentyacc.test' (Automake silent-mode with Yacc).
2392 * tests/silentyacc.test: New test.
2393 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2395 New test `silentlex.test' (Automake silent-mode with Lex).
2396 * tests/silentlex.test: New test.
2397 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2399 Relax tests on silent-rules to cater to overly verbose makes.
2400 * tests/silent.test: When testing silent builds, don't fail if
2401 make's output simply contains the `mv' substring, but only if
2402 it contains the `mv ' substring (note the trailing space).
2403 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
2404 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
2405 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
2406 * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
2407 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
2409 2010-01-24 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2411 Fix silent-rules output for disabled dependency tracking.
2412 * lib/am/depend2.am [!%FASTDEP%]: Rework silent-rules variable
2413 expansion code to also work in the case where %AMDEP% expands
2414 to FALSE at config.status time, using new substitution string
2416 * automake.in (verbose_nodep_flag): New function, appending
2417 `@am__nodep@' to the verbose-variable name.
2418 (handle_languages): If dependencies are not disabled, use it to
2419 set %VERBOSE-NODEP%.
2420 * m4/depend.m4: Substitute am__nodep as '_no', so the second
2421 verbose-variable will always expand to an empty string, if
2422 dependencies are enabled.
2423 * tests/silent5.test: Also test --disable-dependency-tracking;
2424 also test per-target flags for non-C language files.
2425 * tests/silent9.test: New test, like silent4.test but disable
2426 dependency tracking.
2427 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
2428 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
2429 Report by Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>.
2431 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2433 Extend test on `nostdinc' automake option.
2434 * tests/nostdinc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Related and
2435 unrelated minor changes. Make the grepping of the generated
2436 Makefile.in slightly stricter. Generate and run configure, so that
2437 the generated Makefile can be grepped too.
2439 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2441 Make gnupload portable to EBCDIC hosts.
2442 * lib/gnupload: Use literal newline as argument for 'tr' rather
2443 than \015, for EBCDIC hosts. Also, avoid unportable nested
2444 double-quotes and backquotes.
2446 Report from Eric Blake and Steve Goetze via gnulib.
2448 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2450 Fix Autoconf version required by Automake's configure.
2451 Automake configure script used to tell that automake required
2452 autoconf 2.60 or later, but then it checked for autoconf >= 2.62,
2453 and if that was not found, it gave an error saying that Automake
2454 required configure 2.61a-341 or later. This change should
2455 eliminate such inconsistencies.
2456 * configure.ac ($required_autoconf_version): New variable.
2459 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2461 Fix unportable sed script in maintainer-check test.
2462 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_Exit_not_exit): Rewrite sed script to
2463 not contain semicolon after 'b' or brace commands, for NetBSD.
2465 Wildcards are not portable to NetBSD make.
2466 * doc/automake.texi (Wildcards): Document portability issue.
2467 * tests/extra10.test, tests/extra11.test, tests/extra12.test:
2470 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2472 Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
2473 * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
2474 an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
2476 Avoid possible false negatives in dejagnu7.test.
2477 * tests/dejagnu7.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Also, avoid
2478 unportable use of fgrep option `-e'.
2480 Fix conflnk3.test to work with Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
2481 * tests/conflnk3.test: Use `test -r FILE' and `test ! -r FILE'
2482 instead of respectively `test -e FILE' and `test ! -e FILE',
2483 since Solaris Sh doesn't grok the latter. Do not SKIP the test
2484 if the shell doesn't support `test -e'.
2486 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2489 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Add
2490 missing closing parenthesis.
2492 Fix leftover call to removed function macros_dump.
2493 * automake.in (read_main_am_file): Call variables_dump, not
2494 macros_dump. Print actual error before list of variables.
2496 2010-04-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2498 Minor improvements in comments of test `silent3.test'.
2499 * tests/silent3.test: Tell to keep it in sync with `silent9.test'
2502 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2504 testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured output.
2505 * tests/acloca14.test, tests/acloca18.test, tests/aclocal.test,
2506 tests/fort2.test, tests/help.test, tests/missing3.test,
2507 tests/missing6.test: Print captured stdout or stderr before
2510 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2512 Make test badopt.test stricter (by enabling `set -e').
2513 * tests/badopt.test: Add call to `set -e'. Due to this change,
2514 an unexpected failure in the call to `$ACLOCAL' (whose outcome
2515 was previously unchecked) would cause the whole test to fail.
2516 Also, bumped the copyright years.
2518 Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
2519 * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
2520 an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
2522 Use `set -e' in confsub.test (avoids possible false negatives).
2523 * tests/confsub.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and related
2524 changes (this helps avoiding some possible minor false negatives).
2525 Also, bumped copyright years.
2527 2010-04-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2529 Fix -Werror handling for presence of configure.in and configure.ac.
2530 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (Automake::Variable): Do not initialize
2531 $configure_ac at the global level, before command-line arguments
2533 (require_variables): Initialize it here.
2534 * tests/configure.test: New test.
2535 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
2536 Report by Stefano Lattarini.
2538 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2540 Avoid possible false negatives in confh5.test.
2541 * tests/confh5.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and bumped
2542 copyright years. Due to this change, any unexpected failure
2543 in calls to $ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE, $AUTOCONF or $AUTOHEADER, or
2544 a failure in grepping expected text in output files should now
2545 cause the whole test to fail.
2547 2010-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2549 Fixed typo in POD documentation of Automake::Channels.
2550 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Fixed typo in POD documentation:
2551 @<...> was used instead of C<...>.
2553 2010-04-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2555 Refactor tests on Automake TESTS color output.
2556 * tests/color.test: Tests using the expect program moved out to...
2557 * tests/color2.test: ... this new file.
2558 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Extended accordingly.
2560 2010-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2562 Fix typos in comments in test confh5.test
2563 * tests/confh5.test: Fix a couple of typos in comments.
2565 Avoid possible false negatives in canon-name.test.
2566 * tests/canon-name.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Improve
2569 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2571 Fix per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror.
2572 Before this patch, 'AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = -Werror' in one
2573 Makefile.am would carry over to other Makefile.am files
2574 treated afterwards by the same thread, causing inconsistent
2575 and unstable exit status values.
2576 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (dup_channel_setup)
2577 (drop_channel_setup): Save and restore the setting of
2578 $warnings_are_errors.
2579 * tests/werror3.test: New test.
2580 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
2583 2010-04-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2585 Bugfix in confh5.test w.r.t. Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
2586 * tests/confh5.test: In the generated Makefile.am: do not use
2587 `test ! -e FILE' to check for the non-existence of a file, since
2588 that is not supported by Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
2590 Make test `aclocal3.test' stricter.
2591 * tests/aclocal3.test: Add call to `set -e'. Fail if $ACLOCAL
2592 succeds unexpectedly.
2594 Add tests checking that symlinks are resolved by `make dist'.
2595 * tests/distlinks.test: New test.
2596 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2597 Suggested by observations from Ralf Wildenhues.
2599 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2601 Use -9 for maximum xz compression with dist-xz.
2602 * lib/am/distdir.am (dist-xz, dist, dist-all): Pass -9 to xz.
2603 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
2604 Report by Pavel Sanda.
2606 2010-03-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2608 Avoid an unportable use of `$status' shell variable.
2609 * Makefile.am (path-check): Don't use the `$status' shell variable
2610 in the target's rules, as it's special in Zsh (equivalent to `$?',
2613 Avoid another use of `chmod -R'.
2614 * Makefile.am (path-check): To be safe, do not use `chmod -R' on
2615 $(distdir) before removing it (as Solaris `chmod -R' touches
2616 symlink targets). Instead, use the cleanup strategy used in
2619 2010-03-28 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2621 Remove uses of @acronym and @sc.
2622 * doc/automake.texi (Public Macros, Limitations on File Names):
2623 Remove all usage of @acronym and @sc in the manual.
2624 Suggested by Karl Berry.
2626 2010-03-13 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
2628 GNU hello uses fdl.texi, not gpl.texi.
2629 * doc/automake.texi (Texinfo): Adjust example to upstream
2632 2010-03-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2634 Formatting cleanups in macro comments.
2635 * automake.in, lib/Automake/Channels.pm,
2636 lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm, lib/Automake/Options.pm,
2637 lib/Automake/Variable.pm, lib/Automake/XFile.pm,
2638 m4/options.m4, m4/substnot.m4: Fix macro comment format.
2640 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2641 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2643 Avoid generation of `tests/defs-p' file.
2644 * tests/defs.in: In the generated `configure.in' snippet: call
2645 `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' with the `parallel-tests' option if the shell
2646 variable `parallel_tests' is set to `yes'.
2647 * tests/Makefile.am (defs-p): Target removed.
2648 (check_SCRIPTS): Removed `defs-p'.
2649 (clean-local-check): Do not unlink `defs-p' anymore.
2650 ($(parallel_tests)): Transformation rules for the test scripts
2652 * tests/gen-parallel-tests: Selection rules for the test
2654 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Set `$parallel_tests' to `yes'
2655 then include `./defs' (rather than simply including `./defs-p').
2656 * tests/parallel-tests2.test: Likewise.
2657 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
2658 * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
2659 * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
2660 * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
2661 * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
2662 * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise.
2663 * tests/parallel-tests9.test: Likewise.
2664 * tests/parallel-tests10.test: Likewise.
2665 * tests/README (Section "Writing Test Cases" subsection "Do"):
2666 Adjusted the parts referring to tests checking `parallel-tests'
2667 behaviour. Some other minor related improvements.
2668 * tests/.gitignore (defs-p): Removed.
2670 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2672 Remove redundant unset of variable TESTS from some test scripts.
2673 * tests/color.test: Do not unset the `TESTS' variable, as it's
2674 already unset in the `defs' file.
2675 * tests/check5.test: Likewise.
2676 * tests/check8.test: Likewise.
2677 * tests/check9.test: Likewise.
2678 * tests/check10.test: Likewise.
2679 * tests/check11.test: Likewise.
2680 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Likewise.
2681 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
2682 * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
2683 * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
2684 * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
2685 * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
2687 2010-02-22 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
2689 Improve help message of mdate-sh.
2690 * mdate-sh: mention actual output format in help message.
2692 2010-02-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2694 Deprecate dist-lzma in favor of dist-xz.
2695 * doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions, Options):
2696 Adjust text to reflect renaming of lzma to xz.
2698 Missing deprecation noted by Antonio Diaz Diaz.
2700 2010-02-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2702 Add tests about support of wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
2703 * tests/extra10.test: New test, check basic support of wildcards
2705 * tests/extra11.test: New test, check more complex usage of
2706 wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
2707 * tests/extra12.test: New test, check usage of wildcards in
2708 EXTRA_DIST when $builddir != $srcdir.
2709 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2710 Necessity of these new tests suggested by Braden McDaniel
2711 and Ralf Wildenhues.
2713 2010-02-08 Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
2715 Fix copyright statement in gnupload script.
2716 * lib/gnupload: Fix copyright statement.
2718 2010-02-06 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> (tiny change)
2719 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2721 Fix exit status of signal handlers in shell scripts.
2722 The value of `$?' on entrance to signal handlers in shell scripts
2723 cannot be relied upon, so set the exit code explicitly to
2725 * lib/am/check.am (am__check_pre): Use `exit 143' in signal handler.
2726 * lib/elisp-comp: Likewise.
2727 * lib/install-sh: Likewise.
2728 * lib/ylwrap: Likewise. Also, fix script to trap signal 13, not 3.
2729 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
2730 Bug report, analysis, and initial patch by Dmitry V. Levin.
2732 2010-02-06 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
2734 Improve gnupload usage text.
2735 * gnupload (usage): Shorten to make more likely to fit on a tty
2736 line. Mention CMD in the synopsis. With ..., plural is implied.
2738 2010-01-28 Christos Kontas <xakon@yahoo.com> (tiny change)
2740 Fix some typos in the manual
2741 * doc/automake.texi (Nested Packages, Rebuilding): Fix typos.
2743 2010-01-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2745 Slighty improve tests acoutbs.test and acoutbs2.test.
2746 * tests/acoutbs2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Check that
2747 autoconf and configure work, that the file `zot' is created by
2748 configure, and that no file containing a backslash in its name is
2750 * tests/acoutbs.test: Likewise, plus updated copyright years.
2752 Fix test acoutbs2.test.
2753 * tests/acoutbs2: In the generated configure.in: add proper calls
2754 to AC_INIT and AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, and remove explicit definition of
2755 PACKAGE and VERSION. Add a call to aclocal before calling automake.
2756 Updated copyright years.
2757 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Removed acoutbs2.test.
2759 Add forgotten test scripts to $(TESTS).
2760 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Added test scripts present on the
2761 filesystem, which were erroneously left out from $(TESTS):
2762 acoutbs2.test, badopt.test, extra2.test.
2763 (XFAIL_TESTS): Added acoutbs2.test.
2765 2010-01-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2767 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
2768 * INSTALL, lib/INSTALL, lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub:
2771 Bump copyright years.
2772 * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
2773 * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
2774 * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
2777 * ChangeLog.09: New file, rotated from ...
2778 * ChangeLog: ... here.
2779 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute ChangeLog.09.
2783 Copyright (C) 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2785 Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are
2786 permitted provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved.
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