1 2011-05-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3 tests defs: allow requirements for compilers (mostly dummy)
4 Most of the new requirements that are now accepted in `$required'
5 as consequence of this patch are still dummy. They are planned
6 to be implemented only in master (or in some derived branch), but
7 having them here (even just as no-op) will allow for an easier
8 integration/backporting of potential new testcases.
9 * tests/defs.in (cc, c++, fortran, fortran77): New requirements,
11 (flex): New requirement, picking LEX for configure.
12 (lex): New requirement, alias for `flex'. A more appropriate
13 implementation, looking for a generic `lex' program, will follow
15 (yacc): New requirement, alias for `bison'. A more appropriate
16 implementation, looking for a generic `yacc' program, will follow
19 2011-04-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
21 tests: fix spurious failure in a test on TESTS (VPATH-related)
22 * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: When not using the
23 parallel-tests option, do not check that VPATH components are
24 not present in the displayed test name, since the simple-tests
25 driver do not try to strip them.
27 2011-04-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
29 test: self check subroutines for skipping/failing of tests
30 * tests/self-check-report.test: New test.
31 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
33 2011-04-23 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
34 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
36 test defs: new subroutines for test skipping/failing
37 * tests/defs.in (Exit): Move definition of this function earlier.
38 (warn_, skip_, fail_, framework_failure_): New functions, inspired
39 to the homonyms in gnulib's tests/init.sh.
40 ($stderr_fileno_): New global variable, used by the new functions
42 * tests/README: Updated.
43 From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
45 2011-04-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
47 tests: fix typo (copy & paste blunder) in heading comment
48 * tests/maintclean-vpath.test: Correctly refer to the sister test
49 as `maintclean.test', not as `maintclean-vpath.test'.
51 2011-04-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
53 tests: remove redundant test `mclean.test'
54 * tests/mclean.test: Remove, it's a weak grepping test completely
55 superseded by the much more complete `maintclean.test'.
56 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
58 2011-04-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
60 testsuite: more environment sanitization
61 * tests/defs.in: Sanity check: abort if any of `parallel_tests'
62 or `required' is in the environment.
63 ($sed_unindent_prog): Initialize to empty, to avoid interferences
65 * tests/self-check-me-in-env.test: Renamed to ...
66 * tests/self-check-env-sanitize.test: ... this, and extended.
67 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
68 (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset variables `parallel_tests' and
69 `required'. Adjust comments.
71 2011-04-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
73 tests: don't allow `$me' to be overridden from the environment
74 * tests/defs.in: Sanity check: abort if $me is in the environment.
75 * tests/self-check-me-in-env.test: New test.
76 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset variable `me'.
78 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
80 2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
82 test defs: allow overriding of `$me'
83 * tests/defs.in ($me): Allow overriding by the including test
84 script. Add some explicative comments.
86 2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
88 depcomp tests: don't reject slower dependency extractors
89 * tests/depcomp8b.test: Add the `--enable-dependency-tracking'
90 option to `configure' invocations, so that slower dependency
91 extractors are not rejected.
92 * tests/depcomp8a.test: Likewise. Also ...
93 (foo.c): ... since we are at it, fix spacing to be consistent
94 with GNU coding standards.
96 2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
98 m4: add missing serial numbers to a few files
99 Related to automake bug#8483.
100 * m4/amversion.in: Add serial number.
101 * m4/auxdir.m4: Likewise.
102 * m4/gcj.m4: Likewise.
103 * m4/install-sh.m4: Likewise.
104 * m4/mkdirp.m4: Likewise.
105 * m4/python.m4: Likewise.
106 * m4/runlog.m4: Likewise.
107 * m4/strip.m4: Likewise.
108 * m4/upc.m4: Likewise.
110 2011-04-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
112 depcomp: correct invalid sed invocation
113 * lib/depcomp: Insert missing -e before '/:$/d'.
114 Otherwise, that use of sed would treat '/:$/d' as a file name.
116 2011-04-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
118 maintainer check: quote literal `$' in Makefile rule
119 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_PATH_SEPARATOR): Escape literal `$'
120 character in double-quoted string. Fix a bug in which the rule
121 emitted an erroneously empty substring in its error message.
123 2011-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
125 coverage: test for automake bug#8485 (known regression)
126 * tests/yacc-dist-nobuild-subdir.test: New test.
127 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Update.
129 2011-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
131 test defs: define default $distdir (help reducing duplication)
132 * tests/defs.in ($distdir): New variable, might be used in
133 testcases checking distribution-related features.
134 * tests/pr9.test: Use it.
135 * tests/subdir9.test: Likewise.
136 * tests/vtexi3.test: Add comment explaining why we redefine
137 $distdir in this test.
139 2011-04-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
141 depcomp: fix bugs in tests and in the depcomp script
142 * lib/depcomp (gcc): Remove duplicated `-e' from sed invocation.
143 * tests/depcomp10.test: Make it executable. Fix a blunder that
144 has left part of an intended comment not prefixed by `#', thus
145 causing shell syntax errors. In this same comment, break a
146 too-long reported error message on multiple lines, for clarity.
147 Add reference to the relevant bug report. Add a comment which
148 explains why the test result 'skipped' if the first "make" call
149 fails. Add other useful comments.
150 * tests/depcomp9.test: Slightly improve comments.
152 2011-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
154 Fix hp depmode for VPATH builds with GNU make.
155 * lib/depcomp: Be sure to remove VPATH-prefixed object from
156 dependency output when creating stub rule.
157 * tests/depcomp10.test: New test.
158 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
160 Report by Bruno Haible.
162 2011-04-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
164 test defs: fix 'javac' requirement for older JDK versions
165 The Java compiler from JDK 1.5 (and presumably earlier versions)
166 cannot handle the `-version' option by itself; and while it does
167 print the version number, it then errors out with an usage error:
170 javac: no source files
171 Usage: javac <options> <source files>
173 Luckily, adding the `-help' option to the `javac' invocation
174 seems to fix this problem.
175 * tests/defs.in (javac): Pass also the `-help' option to the
176 `javac' program. Add a comment explaining why it is needed.
177 Report from Ralf Wildenhues.
179 2011-04-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
181 test defs: new requirement for the default java compiler
182 * tests/defs.in (for tool in $required): New requirement 'javac'.
183 * tests/java.test: Use it instead of ad-hoc configure check.
184 * tests/java-check.test: Likewise.
185 * tests/instfail-java.test: Likewise.
186 * tests/instdir-java.test: Likewise.
188 2011-04-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
190 java: check_JAVA does not cause compilation by "make all" anymore
191 Fixes automake bug#8234.
192 * automake.in (handle_java): Make stamp of class files built from
193 java sources in $(check_JAVA) a dependency of `check' target, not
195 * tests/java-check.test: New test.
196 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
199 Report from Petteri Räty.
201 2011-04-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
203 Clarify regex code in depcomp.
204 * lib/depcomp: Add comment why we don't need regex-escaping here.
205 Suggested by Stefano Lattarini.
207 2011-04-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
209 Fix makedepend depmode for VPATH builds.
210 * lib/depcomp [makedepend]: Remove any VPATH prefix from the
211 object file name, so a rebuild doesn't attempt to update the
212 .Po files in the source tree.
213 * tests/depcomp9.test: New test.
214 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
217 2011-04-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
219 tests: fix timestamp-related failures
220 Fixes automake bug#8365.
221 * tests/aclocal6.test: Sleep before modifying m4 files that should
222 trigger remake rules. Remove incorrect/obsoleted comments.
223 * tests/subdir5.test: Likewise, and extend a bit.
224 * tests/subdir8.test: Likewise.
225 * tests/pr8365-remake-timing.test: New xfailing test.
226 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
227 Report from Sam Steingold.
229 2011-04-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
231 Create subdirs for generated sources even when not dep tracking.
232 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): If $object is derived
233 and lands in subdir, be sure to output a dirstamp dependency.
234 * tests/yacc5.test: Avoid falsely matching the dirstamp
235 dependency when grepping for a rule.
236 * tests/lex-subobj-nodep.test: New test.
237 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
239 Report by Ignacy Gawedzki.
241 Fix locale issue in check-exported-srcdir.test.
242 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Reformulate glob to not fail
243 in a locale that ignores or interleaves character case.
245 2011-04-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
247 docs: better visibility for aclocal in the index
248 * doc/automake.texi (@menu): Rename title for entry 'configure'
249 from "Scanning configure.ac or configure.in" to the more precise
250 "Scanning configure.ac, using aclocal".
251 (@detailmenu): Adjust.
252 (@node configure): Adjust, and extend @cindex calls accordingly.
254 From a report by Maynard Johnson.
256 2011-03-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
258 tests: improve tests on "maintainer-clean" target
259 * tests/aclocal6.test: Move checks related to "maintainer-clean"
260 functionalities into ...
261 * tests/maintclean-vpath.test: ... this new test.
262 * tests/maintclean.test: Update heading comments. Extend to also
263 test subdirs. Remove useless disabling of YACC. Fix m4 quoting
264 in configure.in. Add a trailing `:' command. Remove extra blank
266 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
268 2011-03-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
270 tests: fix unindent to use printf not echo for script.
271 * tests/defs.in: Use printf rather than echo, as the latter may
272 interpret the backslashes in the sed script. Fixes test
273 failures with dash as /bin/sh.
275 2011-03-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
276 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
278 maintcheck: look for problematic names of testcases
279 The configure.in stub created by default by `tests/defs' obtains
280 the first argument of AC_INIT from the test name, and this can
281 cause some supported autoconf versions to fail with a spurious
282 error if that test name contains the name of an m4 or m4sugar
283 builtin or macro (e.g., `defn' or `m4_undefine').
284 See for example the bug fixed by commit v1.11-287-g1325a8a.
285 This change add a maintainer check that warns about test names
286 which are possibly problematic in this regard.
287 * Makefile.am (sc_test_names): New maintainer-check target.
288 (syntax_check_rules): Add it.
289 (m4_builtins): New helper variable.
290 (TESTS): Updated according to the following renamings.
291 * tests/include.test: Renamed ...
292 * tests/hdr-vars-defined-once.test: ... to this.
293 * tests/sinclude.test: Renamed ...
294 * tests/m4-inclusion.test: ... to this, and simplified
296 * tests/include2.test: Renamed ...
297 * tests/dist-included-parent-dir.test: ... to this, for
300 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
302 tests: fix bug in alloca*.test
303 * tests/alloca.test: Make grepping of automake stderr stricter,
304 add a trailing `:' command; also, add AC_PROG_CC to configure.in,
305 and create a dummy alloca.c file, to ensure that we fail for the
307 * tests/alloca2.test: Likewise. Also, look for LT_INIT, not
308 AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, in the error message (bug introduced with commit
309 v1.11-315-gd51e7b7 "libtool: suggest LT_INIT if LTLIBRARIES
311 From a report by Patrick Welche.
313 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
315 tests: fix bug (comments-in-var-defn.test + autoconf 2.62)
316 * tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: The configure.in stub created
317 by default, which has the AC_INIT first argument obtained by the
318 test name, causes autoconf 2.62 to fail with a spurious error
319 message like: "configure.in:1: error: defn: undefined macro:".
320 Thus, to prevent this, the test is renamed to ...
321 * tests/comments-in-var-def.test: ... this.
322 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
324 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
326 cosmetics: convert encoding from ISO-8859 to UTF-8
327 * ChangeLog.03: Convert encoding to UTF-8.
328 * ChangeLog.96: Likewise.
329 * ChangeLog.98: Likewise.
333 2011-03-01 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
335 test defs: unindent without temporary file
336 * tests/defs.in (commented_sed_unindent_prog): Commented Sed program
337 that strips the "proper" amount of leading whitespace.
338 (unindent): Lazily strip comments from the above program and use it
339 to unindent without using a temporary file.
341 2011-02-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
343 libtool: suggest LT_INIT if LTLIBRARIES primary is used
344 When the LTLIBRARIES primary was used, but $(LIBTOOL) wasn't
345 defined, automake suggested to add a call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
346 in configure.ac. But that macro is deprecated since Libtool
347 version 1.9b (2004-08-29), in favor of the newer LT_INIT. So
348 suggest the use of this latter macro instead.
349 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (%_am_macro_for_var): Pair 'LIBTOOL'
350 with 'LT_INIT', not with 'AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'.
351 * tests/libtool4.test: Adjust and extend. Also, add a call to
352 macro AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, to help ensuring that automake
353 does not fail for the wrong reasons.
354 * tests/ltinit.test: New test, ensure that automake's libtool
355 support works with LT_INIT-based interface.
356 Thanks to Jack Kelly for the suggestion.
358 2011-02-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
360 tests: tempdirs with restrictive permissions are cleaned correctly
361 Before this change, the removal of a temporary test directory
362 containing subdirectories with restrictive permissions (such as
363 'r--r--r--') could fail.
364 * tests/defs: Ensure that all the subdirectories of a temporary
365 test directory have the 'read', 'write' and 'execute' bits set,
366 before trying to remove it with `rm -rf'.
367 * tests/Makefile.am (clean-local-check): Likewise.
369 2011-02-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
370 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
372 test defs: add subroutine for input unindenting
373 * tests/defs.in (unindent): New subroutine.
375 2011-02-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
377 python: report the 'PYTHON' influential environment variable
378 * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Call AC_ARG_VAR on PYTHON.
379 * doc/automake.texi (Python): Update and extend.
380 * tests/help-python.test: New test.
381 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
382 * THANKS (Jack Kelly): Update e-mail address.
383 Suggestion by Jack Kelly.
385 2011-02-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
387 tests defs: clear TESTS_ENVIRONMENT variable
388 * tests/defs.in (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset it, so that values
389 from environment won't interfere with the testcases.
390 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
392 2011-02-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
394 tests: tweak few tests on simple and parallel test drivers
395 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Improve heading comments.
396 * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: Likewise. Also, unset the
397 `FOO_EXIT_STATUS' variable, so that any pre-existing value in the
398 environment won't risk to interfere with the test.
399 Suggestions by Ralf Wildenhues.
401 2011-02-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
403 coverage: more tests on simple and parallel test drivers
404 * tests/parallel-tests-subdir.test: New test.
405 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Likewise.
406 * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: Likewise.
407 * tests/check-tests_environment.test: Likewise.
408 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
410 2011-01-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
412 tests: fix spurious failures in lflags*.test
413 * tests/lflags.test: Remove 'LEX' from the environment, so
414 that it won't be erroneously picked up by `make -e'.
415 * tests/lflags2.test: Likewise.
417 2011-01-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
419 docs: color-tests issues with parallel make
420 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Document that automatic
421 recognition of a capable terminal attached to stdout can fail
422 with some make implementation when running in parallel mode,
423 thus causing colored test output not to be automatically
424 activated when it should.
426 2011-01-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
428 tests: avoid instspc.test failures due to make's whitespace trimming
429 * tests/instspc.test: Prepend './' when passing the test
430 characters, to avoid leading whitespace characters to be trimmed
431 from macros set from environment variables. Fixes testsuite
432 failures with HP-UX, IRIX, and Tru64/OSF make.
434 2011-01-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
436 coverage: test semantics of "dummy" per-target flags
437 * tests/specflg-dummy.test: New test, ensuring that even "dummy"
438 per-target flags triggers the use of renamed objects.
439 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
440 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
442 2011-01-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
444 tests defs: sanitize IFS
445 * tests/defs.in ($IFS): Define to <space>, <tab>, <newline>.
446 ($sp): New variable, holding a single whitespace character.
447 ($tab): New variable, holding a tabulation character.
448 ($nl): New variable, holding a newline character.
450 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
452 tests: fix VPATH auto-expansion workarounds.
453 * tests/parallel-tests8.test, tests/suffix13.test:
454 Ensure $< is not surrounded by white space, to prevent Solaris
455 make from applying automatic VPATH text expansion.
457 2011-01-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
459 tests: fix spurious failures in yflags*.test
460 * tests/yflags.test: Remove 'YACC' from the environment, so
461 that it won't be erroneously picked up by `make -e'.
462 * tests/yflags2.test: Likewise.
464 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
466 tests: avoid fn99*.test failures due to buggy AIX 5.3 cp -R.
467 * tests/fn99.test, tests/fn99subdir.test: Skip if an initial
468 `cp -R' of the subdir tree already fails; AIX 5.3 cp messes
469 up its internal memory when copying this tree.
471 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
472 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
474 Add comment to check-TESTS rule working around make 3.80 bug.
475 * lib/am/check.am (check-TESTS): Update comment.
477 2011-01-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
479 tests: less strict double-colon spy.test again.
480 * tests/spy.test: We know BSD make doesn't invoke more than one
481 double-colon rule, so no need to expose that failure.
483 2011-01-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
485 install-sh: avoid Tru64 sh `test' operator precedence issues.
486 * lib/install-sh: Protect file names and directory components
487 that consist of `=', `(', `)', or `!'. Move protection as early
488 as possible, to avoid errors such as with Tru64 sh `test -z ='.
489 * tests/instsh2.test: Extend test to cover more possibilities.
490 Fixes 1.12 instspc-equal-install.test failure on Tru64/OSF 5.1.
492 2011-01-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
493 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
495 docs: automake testsuite doesn't use TESTS_ENVIRONMENT anymore
496 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Do not claim Automake uses
497 TESTS_ENVIRONMENT for the perl driver. Instead, point to the
498 parallel-tests driver.
500 2011-01-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
502 Allow _AM_DEPENDENCIES to be used later in configure.
503 * m4/depend.m4 (_AM_DEPENDENCIES): Remove a previously existing
504 conftest.dir before recreating it.
506 Report by Eric Blake, from report by Scott McCreary against M4.
508 2011-01-18 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
510 tests: avoid failure on w32 file systems.
511 * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: SKIP if file cannot
512 be turned unreadable.
514 2011-01-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
516 tests: allow double-colon spy.test to work with HP-UX make.
517 * tests/spy.test: Fix comment typos. Ensure prerequisites we
518 do not want to depend on are strictly older than the target.
519 Also test with a target out of date wrt. more than one rule.
521 2011-01-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
523 tests: remove useless requirements from cond36.test
524 * tests/cond36.test ($required): Remove.
525 Since we are at it, add a trailing `:' command.
527 2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
528 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
530 parallel-tests: work around Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh read bugs.
531 * lib/am/check.am ($(TEST_SUITE_LOG), recheck, recheck-html):
532 Test file readability before redirecting input from it, to avoid
533 exiting Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh which treats read as special builtin.
534 * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: New test.
535 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
538 2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
540 * NEWS, README: Update copyright years.
542 Fix parallel-tests.test failure with HP-UX make.
543 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Sleep inside inner tests, so logs
544 are newer than logs of tests they depend on, for HP-UX make.
546 2011-01-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
548 docs: ensure example are separated with empty lines in the input
549 * doc/automake.texi (Extending aclocal, Emacs Lisp, Rebuilding)
550 (API Versioning, Renamed Objects, Multiple Outputs): Add empty
551 lines before `@example' and after `@end example' lines, so info
552 output is rendered correctly, and a following @noindent honored.
553 Report by Stefano Lattarini.
555 2011-01-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
557 tests: fix comment typo
558 * tests/substref.test: Fix grammar in a comment.
560 2011-01-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
562 tests: fix spurious failures in two texinfo tests
563 * tests/txinfo.test ($required): Add 'makeinfo'.
564 * tests/txinfo8.test: Create a dummy 'textutils.info' file, so
565 that make won't try to run makeinfo (which could be unavailable)
567 Found by NixOS Hydra, reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
569 2011-01-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
571 Avoid testsuite failures due to Autoconf Fortran change.
572 Autoconf v2.68-21-g727ce95 causes AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS to
573 require computing the canonical host name. Ensure config.guess
574 and config.sub files are present for respective checks.
575 * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Add stub files.
576 * tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
577 * tests/fort4.test: Use $AUTOMAKE -a for installing files.
579 2011-01-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
581 docs: clustered '-d' not recognized in YFLAGS
582 This change fixes automake bug#7828.
583 * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Document that automake
584 recognizes '-d' in AM_YFLAGS only if it's not clustered with
586 From a report by Юрий Пухальский.
588 2011-01-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
590 tests: add checks on automatically-distributed files
591 Related to automake bug#7819.
592 * tests/autodist.test: New test.
593 * tests/autodist-subdir.test: Likewise.
594 * tests/autodist-acconfig.test: Likewise.
595 * tests/autodist-acconfig-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
596 * tests/autodist-aclocal-m4.test: Likewise.
597 * tests/autodist-config-headers.test: Likewise.
598 * tests/autodist-configure-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
599 * tests/autodist-stamp-vti.test: Likewise.
600 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
602 2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
604 tests: work around a texi+cygnus bug causing a spurious XFAIL
605 * tests/txinfo5b.test: New test, like txinfo5.test but calling
606 automake with the `-Wno-override' option to work around a bug
607 in the texinfo + cygnus interaction.
608 * tests/txinfo5.test: Update heading comments.
609 * tests/Makefile.am (TEST): Updated.
611 2011-01-09 Dave Hart <davehart@gmail.com> (tiny change)
613 Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
614 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
616 2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
618 Improve, extend and tweak tests on Texinfo support.
619 * tests/instdir-texi.test: Add a call to `ls -l' after that to
620 `make', for debugging. When looking for required tools, do not
621 redirect the output of "$tool --help" to /dev/null, and do not
622 uselessly run it in a subshell.
623 * tests/txinfo.test: Rewritten to run autoconf, ./configure and
624 make. All checks moved into Makefile.am.
625 * tests/txinfo8.test: Likewise, and modernize the generated
627 * tests/txinfo2.test: Moved checks into Makefile.am, and other
629 * tests/txinfo5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
630 changes. Add trailing `:' command.
631 * tests/txinfo6.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
632 Makefile.in stricter.
633 * tests/txinfo7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
634 changes. Add trailing `:' command. Do not add unnecessary stuff
636 * tests/txinfo9.test: Verify that more targets which are expected
637 to be generated only once really are. Make grepping less strict,
638 to avoid exposing too much internal details. More minor changes.
639 * tests/txinfo16.test: Add trailing `:'. Prefer cat over echo
640 for appending to configure.in. Updated/fixed heading comments.
641 * tests/txinfo23.test: Likewise, and extended a little by making
642 it check that no info file is created in the $(srcdir).
643 * tests/txinfo24.test: Likewise.
644 * tests/txinfo25.test: Likewise.
645 * tests/txinfo18.test: Add trailing `:'. Prefer cat over echo
646 for appending to configure.in. Also, check that index files are
647 cleaned also by "make clean", not only by "make distclean".
648 * tests/txinfo22.test: Prefer `$me' over hard-coded test name,
649 and added trailing `:' command. This testcase also used to check
650 that automake ignores in-line comments when using variables, but
651 preserves them in the output; these checks (added in commit
652 "Release-1-7f-4-g9177ef8") do not really pertain to this test,
653 so they have been moved ...
654 * tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: ... into this new test.
655 * tests/txinfo4.test: Escape literal dots in grep regexps. Add
656 trailing `:' command.
657 * tests/txinfo29.test: Likewise. Relax grepping of generated
658 Makefile.in w.r.t. whitespaces. Prefer `cat' over `echo' to
659 append to configure.in.
660 * tests/txinfo3.test: Likewise.
661 * tests/vtexi.test: Improve grepping of Makefile.in (sometimes
662 make it stricter, sometimes laxer). Move `set -e' setting just
663 after the inclusion of ./defs. De-uglify a sed command. Other
664 minor cosmetic improvements.
665 * tests/vtexi2.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in stricter. Add
666 trailing `:' command.
667 * tests/vtexi3.test: New test on version.texi support.
668 * tests/vtexi4.test: Likewise.
669 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
671 2011-01-09 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
673 Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
674 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
676 2011-01-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
678 cosmetics: remove trailing whitespaces
679 * doc/automake.texi: Remove trailing whitespaces.
680 * tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
681 * tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
682 * tests/fort4.test: Likewise.
683 * tests/fort5.test: Likewise.
684 * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
685 * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
687 automake: minor fixes in comments
688 * automake.in: Some minor fixes and enhancements in comments.
690 2011-01-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
692 Add test coverage for deleted header files.
693 * tests/depcomp6.test, tests/depcomp7.test: Update tests to
694 also check for the deleted header bug. If no dependency
695 tracking mechanism could be found, SKIP rather than exit
696 successfully. Use GNU style spacing and ANSI C prototypes.
698 Fix typos in Rule.pm comments.
699 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typos in comments.
701 docs: split 'amhello Explained' node.
702 * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Split node ...
703 (amhello's configure.ac Setup Explained)
704 (amhello's Makefile.am Setup Explained) : ... into these two.
705 (Top, Hello World): Adjust, and add @anchor for stable URL links.
706 Suggestion by Karl Berry in automake bug#7766.
708 2011-01-08 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
709 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
711 docs: reference defining directories in amhello node.
712 * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Point to Autoconf
713 manual for how to convert directory values into macros.
714 (Optional): Fix grammar nit.
716 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
718 * NEWS: Fix typo (forgotten word).
720 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
721 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
723 docs: how to work around checks on invalid primary/directory couples
724 * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): Document the blessed idiom which can
725 be used to work around automake checks on invalid primary/directory
726 couples (such as `lib_PROGRAMS' or `doc_LIBRARIES').
728 2011-01-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
730 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
731 * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
734 Fix maintainer-check regression.
735 * tests/subobj11a.test: Pass DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS in the
738 Bump copyright years.
739 * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
740 * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
741 * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
743 2010-12-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
744 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
746 Work around a bug in file-inclusion mechanism of Solaris make.
747 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): In the name of the
748 dependency file: collapse multiple slash characters into a single
750 * tests/subobj11a.test: New test.
751 * tests/subobj11b.test: Likewise.
752 * tests/subobj11c.test: Likewise.
753 * tests/depcomp8a.test: Likewise.
754 * tests/depcomp8b.test: Likewise.
755 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
757 Report by Stefano Lattarini, quick fix by Ralf Wildenhues, final
758 patch and tests by Stefano Lattarini.
760 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
762 Fix two spurious testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5.
763 * tests/suffix13.test (Makefile.am): Account for VPATH issues on
764 weaker make implementations (e.g. IRIX 6.5).
765 * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise, plus a required related
767 Reported by Ralf Wildenhues. The bugs have been there from the
768 first versions of the affected test scripts.
770 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
772 docs: cygnus mode doesn't require AM_CYGWIN32 macro.
773 * doc/automake.texi (Cygnus): Mode 'cygnus' does not require
774 the AM_CYGWIN32 macro (and indeed hasn't required it since at
775 least commit Release-1-2-31-g3038064 "merged changes from
776 Cygnus" of 1997-08-25).
778 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
780 distlinksbrk.test: Work around botched "make -k".
781 * tests/distlinksbrk.test: Run "make" multiple times and grep
782 its output each time for a single error message, rather than
783 running "make -k" one single time and grepping its output for
784 all the expected error messages. This should work around make
785 implementations with limited (broken?) `-k' support; for more
786 information, see these subthreads on the automake-patches list:
787 - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on HP-UX 11.23",
788 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00162.html>
789 - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5",
790 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00166.html>
792 2010-12-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
794 Fix sed-related buglet in test "subdir5.test"
795 * tests/subdir5.test: Always terminate text passed to the
796 `i' sed command with a newline, to work around limitations
797 in e.g. older OpenBSD sed.
799 2010-12-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
801 docs: fix blunder in example about python extension modules
802 * doc/automake.texi (Python): Use `quaternion_la_SOURCES',
803 not `quaternion_SOURCES', to declare the sources of python
804 extension module `quaternion.la'.
806 2010-12-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
808 docs: list LTLIBRARIES among Automake primaries
809 * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): List `LTLIBRARIES' among
810 the Automake primaries.
812 2010-12-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
814 Improve tests on generated portions of configure help screen.
815 * tests/help-depend.test: Grepping of configure help screen
816 relaxed to cater for possible line wrapping, and tightened in
818 * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
819 * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
820 * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
821 * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
822 * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
823 * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
824 * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
825 * tests/help-init.test: Grepping of configure help screen
828 2010-12-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
830 Avoid running installed automake from 'libtool --help'.
831 * tests/subobj9.test: Export AUTOCONF and AUTOMAKE.
832 Together with fixed Libtool, this fixes check-coverage to not
833 invoke installed automake.
835 2010-11-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
837 Fix spurious failures in `silent*.test' for $CC != gcc
838 In some tests on automake-produced silent rules, we forced the
839 use of gcc depmode to improve testsuite coverage; but this has
840 unsurprisingly led to spurious failures when some non-GNU C
841 compilers were used. So we are now careful to require GCC in
842 tests that force gcc depmode.
843 From reports by Ralf Wildenhues.
844 * tests/silent5.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
845 * tests/silent-many-generic.test, tests/silent-many-gcc.test: ...
846 these new sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode
847 and lists "gcc" in $required.
848 * tests/silentlex.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
849 * tests/silent-lex-generic.test, tests/silent-lex-gcc.test: ...
850 these new sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode
851 and lists "gcc" in $required.
852 * tests/silentyacc.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
853 * tests/silent-yacc-generic.test, tests/silent-yacc-gcc.test: ...
854 these new sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and
855 lists "gcc" in $required.
856 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
858 2010-11-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
860 Tests: consistently use "|| Exit 1" after ". ./defs".
861 * tests/autohdr.test: Use `. ./defs || Exit 1', not bare
862 `. ./defs', for consistency with other tests.
863 * tests/autohdr2.test: Likewise.
864 * tests/autohdr3.test: Likewise.
865 * tests/autohdr4.test: Likewise.
866 * tests/cond23.test: Likewise.
867 * tests/cond24.test: Likewise.
868 * tests/cond25.test: Likewise.
869 * tests/cond26.test: Likewise.
870 * tests/cond27.test: Likewise.
871 * tests/cond28.test: Likewise.
872 * tests/cond29.test: Likewise.
873 * tests/cond30.test: Likewise.
874 * tests/cond31.test: Likewise.
875 * tests/cond32.test: Likewise.
876 * tests/cond33.test: Likewise.
877 * tests/cond34.test: Likewise.
878 * tests/cond35.test: Likewise.
879 * tests/cond36.test: Likewise.
880 * tests/cond37.test: Likewise.
881 * tests/cond38.test: Likewise.
882 * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
883 * tests/cond40.test: Likewise.
884 * tests/cond41.test: Likewise.
885 * tests/cond42.test: Likewise.
886 * tests/cond43.test: Likewise.
887 * tests/cond44.test: Likewise.
888 * tests/cond45.test: Likewise.
889 * tests/dollarvar.test: Likewise.
890 * tests/dollarvar2.test: Likewise.
891 * tests/hfs.test: Likewise.
892 * tests/libobj14.test: Likewise.
893 * tests/percent.test: Likewise.
894 * tests/percent2.test: Likewise.
895 * tests/phony.test: Likewise.
896 * tests/silent.test: Likewise.
897 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
898 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
899 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
900 * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
901 * tests/silent6.test: Likewise.
902 * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
903 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
904 * tests/silentcxx.test: Likewise.
905 * tests/silentf77.test: Likewise.
906 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
907 * tests/silentlex.test: Likewise.
908 * tests/silentyacc.test: Likewise.
910 Avoid useless cleaning in some `silent*.test' tests.
911 * tests/silentf77.test: Removed useless calls to "make clean"
912 and "make maintainer-clean".
913 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
914 * tests/silent3.test: Removed useless call to "make distclean".
915 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
916 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
918 2010-11-19 Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
920 Sync config-ml.in from GCC.
921 * config-ml.in: Add Go support: treat GOC and GOCFLAGS like other
922 compiler/flag environment variables.
924 2010-11-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
926 Automake::Config: remove extra trailing semicolon.
927 * lib/Automake/Config.in: Remove extra trailing semicolon.
929 help4.test: fix botched heading comment.
930 * tests/help4.test: Fixed the heading comment, since it
931 didn't correctly describe what checks the testcase was
934 help2.test: add checks on aclocal too.
935 * tests/help2.test: Check that also `aclocal --version' and
936 `aclocal --help' work with configure.in and acinclude.m4 both
939 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
941 Fix spurious failures of silent-rules tests with Sun Fortran.
942 * tests/silentf77.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
943 messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers, to
944 avoid spurious failures. Add a trailing `:' command.
945 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
947 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
949 Fix spurious failures of silent5.test with Sun Fortran.
950 * tests/silent5.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
951 messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers,
952 to avoid spurious failures. This bug has been there from the
953 very first version of this test script.
955 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
957 Fix regression in colon{5,6}.test (failures on AIX 5.3).
958 * tests/colon5.test: Also substitute `@SHELL@' with `$SHELL' when
959 post-processing the generated Makefile.in, to work around a bug
960 of AIX 5.3 make which doesn't allow setting the `$(SHELL)' macro
961 on the commend line. Calls to `$MAKE' adjusted accordingly.
962 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
963 Regression introduced in commit v1.11-175-gf9fe878 "Modernize,
964 improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test", and reported by Ralf
967 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
969 Fix regression in ansi.test (failure on AIX 5.3).
970 * tests/ansi.test: Remove redundant hackish check done using a
971 hand-postprocessed Makefile.in. This check worked by setting
972 the `$(SHELL)' macro on the command line of make, but this is
973 not supported by the AIX 5.3 make implementation.
974 This bug has been lurking for a long time, and was activated by
975 commit v1.11-125-gc1f6cdb "Enable `errexit' shell flag in various
976 tests". Report by Ralf Wildenhues.
978 2010-11-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
980 tests: avoid '##'-style comments inside recipe commands.
981 * tests/confh.test, tests/confh8.test: Remove
982 double-hash comments from makefile rule commands, they
983 are not part of the Automake API.
985 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
987 tests: work around dash quoting issue in case statements.
988 * tests/color.test, tests/color2.test: Quote variable in case
989 pattern, to avoid skipping tests with dash 0.5.5.1.
991 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
993 Rebuild menus in the manual.
994 * doc/automake.texi: Rebuild menus (using ^C ^U ^A in emacs).
995 Thanks to Ian Lance Taylor for the suggestion.
997 Fix install-strip when $(STRIP) contains several words.
998 * lib/am/install.am (install-strip): Update comment. Use
999 separate sub-make invocations for empty and nonempty $(STRIP),
1000 to fix quoting issues.
1001 * tests/strip2.test, tests/strip3.test: New tests.
1002 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Adjust.
1004 2010-11-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1006 Fix yaccdry.test failure: require bison.
1007 * tests/yaccdry.test: Require bison.
1008 Found by NixOS Hydra.
1010 2010-11-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1012 Fix a bug in variable concatenation with `+='.
1013 * lib/Automake/VarDef.pm (append): Since the content of the
1014 "appended-to" variable is going to be unconditionally normalized
1015 later, simply separate the appended value with a single whitespace
1016 character, instead of trying to be uselessly smarter by using
1017 escaped newlines. This fixes a bug in which extra backslashes
1018 where erroneously inserted in the variable's final value.
1019 * tests/pluseq11.test: New test, exposing the bug.
1020 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1021 Reported by Andy Wingo.
1023 2010-11-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1025 Fix bug in rules for creating vala vapi/header files.
1026 * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Add forgotten "fi" in an
1027 if control structure in a generated make rules. Bug introduced
1028 by previous commit `v1.11-221-gd7c1679', and revealed by failure
1029 of test `vala2.test'.
1031 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1033 Fix and document rules to not touch the tree with `make -n'.
1034 * doc/automake.texi (Multiple Outputs): Document the problem of
1035 modifications during dry-run execution, propose solution.
1037 * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Split recipe so the
1038 stamp file is not removed with GNU `make -n'.
1039 (lang_yacc_target_hook): Separate removal of parser output file
1040 and header remaking.
1041 * lib/am/lisp.am ($(am__ELCFILES)): Determine whether -n was
1042 passed to make, take care not to remove any files in that case.
1043 * lib/am/remake-hdr.am (%CONFIG_H%): Separate removal of
1044 %STAMP% file from induced remaking of config header.
1045 * tests/autohdrdry.test, tests/lispdry.test, tests/yaccdry.test:
1047 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1049 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1051 Add FAQ entry for bug reporting instructions.
1052 * doc/automake.texi (Reporting Bugs): New section.
1053 (Introduction): Refer to it.
1055 2010-10-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1057 Add support for newer python versions.
1058 * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Add python2.7 and python3.2 to
1059 _AM_PYTHON_INTERPRETER_LIST. Since we are at it, break a long
1060 line and fix indentation.
1062 From a report by Thomas Klausner.
1064 Add test for `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' macro.
1065 * tests/dmalloc.test: New test.
1066 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1068 Fix nits and bugs in tests `help*.test'.
1069 * tests/help4.test: Fix broken sed commands used to strip `-W...'
1070 flags away from "$AUTOMAKE" and "$ACLOCAL".
1071 * tests/help3.test: Likewise, and fix a botched comment.
1072 * tests/help.test: Likewise. Also, use "AUTOMAKE_fails ..."
1073 instead of "$AUTOMAKE ... && Exit 1", for consistency and to
1074 please maintainer-check.
1075 * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
1077 2010-10-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1078 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1080 Improve tests `help*.test' (also fixes maintcheck failures).
1081 * tests/help.test: To run automake, use `$AUTOMAKE' with all `-W'
1082 flags stripped away rather than hard-coded `automake-$APIVERSION',
1083 to better honour user-overrides. Similarly for aclocal.
1084 * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
1085 * tests/help3.test: Likewise.
1086 * tests/help4.test: Likewise.
1088 2010-10-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1090 Document and fix expansion of variables before rules.
1091 * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Document that variables
1092 are expanded before rules.
1093 * lib/am/check.am (am__check_post): Reword a bit so it does not
1094 get matched as a rule.
1095 Suggestion by Ben Pfaff.
1097 2010-10-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1099 Revert "parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue."
1100 This reverts commit 24e3b4ee2f8cb9f72dd94a05a893f3d4e88b7835,
1101 because it re-opened the bug fixed by v1.11-10-g218e678.
1103 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1105 parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
1106 * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
1107 substitution %MAKEFILE%.
1108 (generate_makefile): Adjust.
1109 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
1110 sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
1111 input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
1114 Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
1116 2010-09-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1118 Extend tests on `--help' and `--version' options.
1119 * tests/help.test: Create a new empty directory and chdir into
1120 it, rather than removing already present files. Run the aclocal
1121 and automake wrapper scripts directly, instead of relying on
1122 $AUTOMAKE and $ACLOCAL. Be sure to correctly match literal dots
1123 in aclocal's and automake's stderr. Add a trailing `:' command.
1124 * tests/help2.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
1125 `--version' works in directories with broken `configure.in'.
1126 * tests/help3.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
1127 `--version' take precedence on the other options.
1128 * tests/help4.test: New test, checking that the first among the
1129 `--help' and `--version' options to be specified on the command
1131 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1133 2010-09-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1135 Testsuite: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when extending PATH.
1136 * tests/compile2.test: Do no uselessly (implicitly) repeat the
1137 computation of PATH_SEPARATOR again.
1138 * tests/instmany-mans.test: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when
1139 extending/redefining PATH.
1140 * tests/instmany-python.test: Likewise.
1141 * tests/instmany.test: Likewise.
1142 * tests/man4.test: Likewise.
1143 * tests/mkinst3.test: Likewise.
1144 * tests/mmodely.test: Likewise.
1145 * tests/multlib.test: Likewise.
1146 * tests/txinfo30.test: Likewise.
1147 * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
1149 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_PATH_SEPARATOR): New maintainer check.
1150 (syntax_check_rules): Updated.
1152 Testsuite: new variables `$PATH_SEPARATOR' and `$APIVERSION'.
1153 * tests/defs.in ($APIVERSION): New AC_SUBST'd variable.
1154 ($ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE): Use it.
1155 ($PATH_SEPARATOR): New AC_SUBST'd variables.
1158 2010-09-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1160 Manual: be more agnostic w.r.t. version control system used.
1161 * doc/automake.texi (Basics of Distribution): Also refer to `.svn'
1162 directories as a type of probably-unwanted files that are copied
1163 regardless when adding directories to EXTRA_DIST.
1164 (The dist Hook): Show a dist-hook example which removes Subversion
1165 `.svn' private directories from distdir, rather than CVS private
1167 (missing and AM_MAINTAINER_MODE): Try to be more agnostic w.r.t.
1168 the version control system used.
1170 Manual: index refer to target "git-dist", not "cvs-dist".
1171 * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Index the non-standard
1172 example about "git-dist" under the "git-dist" label, not under
1175 Perl modules: remove references to "Automake CVS repository".
1176 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Update comments to refer to "Automke's
1177 git repository" rather than to "Automake's CVS repository".
1178 * lib/Automake/Configure_ac.pm: Likewise.
1179 * lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm: Likewise.
1180 * lib/Automake/Struct.pm: Likewise.
1181 * lib/Automake/XFile.pm: Likewise.
1182 * lib/Automake/Version.pm (=head1 DESCRIPTION): Refer to "git
1183 branches" rather than "CVS branches".
1185 Remove obsolete .cvsignore files.
1186 * .cvsignore, doc/.cvsignore, lib/.cvsignore, lib/am/.cvsignore,
1187 lib/Automake/.cvsignore, lib/Automake/tests/.cvsignore,
1188 m4/.cvsignore, tests/.cvsignore: Files deleted. Even when using
1189 savannah's CVS readonly mirror there's no way to commit back to
1190 the real repository, so this files are not worth maintaining or
1193 2010-09-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1195 * m4/dmalloc.m4: Bump serial number and copyright years.
1197 2010-09-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1199 Fix broken link in `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' help screen.
1200 * m4/dmalloc.m4 (AM_WITH_DMALLOC): Refer only to the dmalloc site
1201 `http://www.dmalloc.com', not to the dmalloc tarball there (which
1202 seems to have been removed, substituted by multiple release
1205 2010-09-17 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
1207 Avoid triple-space after period.
1208 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): Avoid 3 spaces at
1210 * ChangeLog.03: Likewise.
1211 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Likewise.
1212 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (_print_message): Likewise.
1213 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm (rule): Likewise.
1214 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (var): Likewise.
1215 * lib/am/distdir.am: Likewise.
1216 * tests/insthook.test: Likewise.
1218 2010-09-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1220 Test automake-generated portions of configure help screen.
1221 * tests/help-depend.test: New test.
1222 * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
1223 * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
1224 * tests/help-init.test: Likewise.
1225 * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
1226 * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
1227 * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
1228 * tests/help-regex.test: Likewise.
1229 * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
1230 * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
1231 * tests/mmode.test: Remove tests on `configure --help' output,
1232 they are superseded by tests in `help-maintainer.test'.
1233 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1235 2010-09-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1237 * tests/README: Don't put GCS mandated tools in $required.
1239 2010-09-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1241 * HACKING: Hint at old commits with `git describe' output.
1243 2010-09-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1245 Fix regression in test `colon4.test'.
1246 * tests/colon4.test: Fix botched editing to `configure.in'
1247 that made the test useless. Since we are at it, improve
1248 comments and make grepping of generated Makefile.in slightly
1250 Regression introduced by change "Modernize, improve and/or
1251 extend tests `colon*.test" (Stefano Lattarini, 2010-08-08).
1253 2010-09-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1255 Do not require "gzip" explicitly in tests.
1256 The gzip utility is simply expected to be present on any decent
1257 target system for Automake. So it's pointless to put it in
1259 * tests/install2.test ($required): Do not require "gzip".
1260 * tests/lex3.test: Likewise.
1261 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
1262 From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
1264 Make some `confh*.test' tests more "semantic" (plus tweakings).
1265 * tests/confh.test: Run "autoconf", "configure" and "make check",
1266 instead of munging/grepping the generated `Makefile.in'.
1267 * tests/confh4.test: Relax the grepping of Makefile.in w.r.t.
1268 white spaces. Do not create useless dummy source file `foo.c'
1269 and useless dummy header file `acconfig.h'.
1270 (configure.in): Remove superfluous call to `AC_OUTPUT'.
1271 * tests/confh6.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1272 * tests/confh7.test: In comments, add reference to ...
1273 * tests/confh8.test: ... this new test, "semantic" sister
1275 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1276 Prompted by a report from Ralf Wildenhues.
1278 Remove useless whitespace padding in XFAIL_TESTS definition.
1279 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Remove whitespace padding.
1281 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1283 parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
1284 * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
1285 substitution %MAKEFILE%.
1286 (generate_makefile): Adjust.
1287 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
1288 sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
1289 input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
1292 Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
1294 Posix 2008 requires make to set errexit.
1295 * lib/am/check.am: Update comment.
1297 2010-08-27 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1299 Fix bug in test missing6.test.
1300 * tests/missing6.test: Fix the hack used to edit `configure.in',
1301 to avoid producing a configure script that breaks with shells
1302 that do not support $LINENO. Also throw in a couple of cosmetic
1305 2010-08-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1307 Improve robustness of mdate-sh script.
1308 * lib/mdate-sh: Sanitize zsh behavior on startup, to ensure
1309 $ls_command is word-split properly upon invocation.
1310 (error): New function.
1311 (main): Use it. Improve error checking to avoid endless loop
1312 in case $ls_command gave bogus output. Fix eval quotation.
1313 * tests/mdate6.test: New test, to expose eval quotation error.
1314 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
1316 2010-08-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1318 Fix potential regressions in depcomp{3,5}.test.
1319 * tests/depcomp3.test: Do not uselessly escape the character `$'
1320 in makefile rules, when it's used to expand a make macro.
1321 * tests/depcomp5.test: Likewise.
1323 2010-08-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1324 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1326 Docs: clarify how to avoid automatic dependencies tracking.
1327 * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Mention that
1328 automatic dependencies tracking is enabled by default, but that
1329 the package developer can disable it altogether. Add a reference
1330 to the proper section for a more in-depth explanation.
1332 Fix typo in manual (`Makefile.in' instead of `Makefile.am').
1333 * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Fix typo.
1335 2010-08-16 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
1337 Don't hide the table of contents.
1338 * doc/automake.texi: Move the table of contents to the beginning.
1340 2010-08-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1342 Tweak and/or extend some `acloca*.test' tests.
1343 * tests/aclocal8.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured
1345 * tests/aclocal.test: Likewise. Also, add trailing `:'
1347 * tests/acloca19.test: Likewise.
1348 * tests/aclocal5.test: Add trailing `:' command, and prefer
1349 `$me' over hard-coded test name.
1350 * tests/aclocal6.test: Likewise.
1351 * tests/aclocal18.test: Add trailing `:' command, and make
1352 some grepping slightly stricter.
1353 * tests/acloca14.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `diff' over
1354 `cmp', and add some "cosmetic" blank lines.
1356 2010-08-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1358 Tweak and extend tests `pr[!0-9]*.test'.
1359 * tests/primary3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1360 * tests/primary.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
1361 Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
1362 * tests/primary2.test: Likewise.
1363 * tests/prefix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
1364 changes. Add a trailing `:' command.
1365 * tests/proginst.test: Likewise.
1367 Modernize, improve and extend tests for PR (`pr[0-9]*.test').
1368 * tests/pr2.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1369 * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
1370 * tests/pr401.test: Likewise.
1371 * tests/pr401b.test: Likewise.
1372 * tests/pr401c.test: Likewise.
1373 * tests/pr300-prog.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic changes in
1375 * tests/pr300-lib.test: Likewise.
1376 * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise, and ensure verbose printing
1377 of captured make stdout.
1378 * tests/pr211.test: Add trailing `:' command. Also, use the
1379 `configure.in' stub created by ./defs, rather than writing it
1381 * tests/pr204.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic spacing changes.
1382 * tests/pr287.test: Likewise, and move setting of `errexit' shell
1383 flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs).
1384 * tests/pr220.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
1385 Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
1386 * tests/pr224.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1387 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Do not export
1388 `CC=gcc' to configure explicitly (it's already exported globally
1389 in ./defs, since we have "gcc" in $required). Use the stub for
1390 `configure.in' created by ./defs, rather than writing it from
1391 scratch. Do not create dummy files required by "gnu" mode (e.g.
1392 README, NEWS), since we run automake in foreign mode anyway.
1393 * tests/pr72.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
1394 changes. Extend existing checks a bit.
1395 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise. Also, avoid obsolescent constructs in
1396 the generated `configure.in', and extend existing checks over the
1397 generated tarball a bit.
1398 * tests/pr87.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
1399 changes. Add a trailing `:' command. Also, do not create dummy
1400 files required by "gnu" mode (e.g. README, NEWS), since we run
1401 automake in foreign mode anyway.
1402 * tests/pr243.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
1403 `configure.in'. Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
1404 changes. Cosmetic changes to spacing, add trailing `:' command,
1405 and add a "FIXME" comment.
1406 * tests/pr266.test: Likewise, and add explicit command line switch
1407 `--enable-dependecy-tracking' to the ./configure call.
1408 * tests/pr279.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
1409 `configure.in'; also, use the `configure.in' stub created by
1410 ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch. Enable `errexit'
1411 shell flag, and related changes. Add trailing `:' command.
1412 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
1414 * tests/pr307.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1415 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Escape literal
1416 dots in grep regular expressions. Also, add a trailing `:'
1417 command, and cosmetic changes to spacing.
1419 Tests for PR: add excerpts from original bug report, for clarity.
1420 * tests/pr2.test: Ditto.
1421 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
1422 * tests/pr72.test: Likewise.
1423 * tests/pr87.test: Likewise.
1424 * tests/pr211.test: Likewise.
1425 * tests/pr220.test: Likewise.
1426 * tests/pr224.test: Likewise.
1427 * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
1428 * tests/pr243.test: Likewise.
1429 * tests/pr266.test: Likewise.
1430 * tests/pr279.test: Likewise, and tell to keep it in sync
1431 with its sister test.
1432 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
1434 2010-08-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1436 Tweak, extend and improve tests `cond[a-z]*.test'.
1437 * tests/condd.test: Add trailing `:' command. Typofix in
1439 * tests/condhook.test: Make sure target `install-data-hook' is
1440 not called by `make install', but that data files are installed.
1441 Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in. Add trailing `:' command.
1442 * tests/condhook2.test: New test, sister test of condhook, with
1444 * tests/condinc2.test: Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
1445 Prefer trailing `:' command over trailing `Exit 0'.
1446 * tests/condman2.test: Enable errexit shell flag, and related
1447 changes. Add trailing `:' command.
1448 * tests/condman.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless
1449 dummy manpages, and use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
1450 * tests/condman3.test: New test, similar to condman.test, but
1451 it also runs ./configure and "make install", and check the
1453 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1455 Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test.
1456 * tests/colon.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
1457 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Do not create
1458 a useless dummy file. Add trailing `:' command.
1459 * tests/colon4.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
1460 related changes. Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
1461 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1462 * tests/colon7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1463 changes. Improve the generated `configure.in' file. Add
1464 trailing `:' command.
1465 * tests/colon2.test: Likewise. Also, add some new checks.
1466 * tests/colon5.test: Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
1467 Add new, much deeper checks. Add trailing `:' command.
1468 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
1469 * tests/colon3.test: Add trailing `:' command. Remove useless
1470 comments and echos. Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
1471 make some grepping tests stricter. Add a "FIXME" comments about
1472 planned improvements.
1474 Improve and extend tests `asm*.test'.
1475 * tests/asm.test: Use configure.in stub generated by ./defs,
1476 and avoid obsoleted autoconf constructs. Make grepping of
1477 Automake stderr stricter. Do not create useless source file.
1478 Improve verbose messages. Minor cosmetic changes. Tell to
1479 keep it in sync with other sister tests asm*.test.
1480 * tests/asm2.test: Likewise.
1481 * tests/asm3.test: Likewise.
1483 Modernize, improve and/or extend test scripts `conf*.test'.
1484 * tests/confh5.test: Cosmetic changes.
1485 * tests/conff.test: Likewise.
1486 * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise.
1487 * tests/conflnk.test: Likewise.
1488 * tests/conflnk2.test: Likewise.
1489 * tests/confsub.test: Likewise.
1490 * tests/confvar.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
1492 * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
1493 * tests/conflnk3.test: Cosmetic changes. Re-enable a temporarily
1494 disabled test (which didn't work with autoconf <= 2.59, but now we
1495 are requiring autoconf 2.62, so...)
1496 * tests/conflnk4.test: Cosmetic changes, and extend existing tests
1497 accordingly to "TODO" comments.
1498 * tests/conff2.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
1499 Add some comments explaining why we don't use the `configure.in'
1500 stub preset be ./defs.
1501 * tests/confh.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
1502 rather than writing one from scratch, and do not call AC_OUTPUT.
1503 Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related changes. Prefer diff over
1504 cmp to compare text files. Prefer perl over sed to fetch the value
1505 of $(DIST_COMMON) from Makefile.in. Make grepping of the contents
1506 of $(DIST_COMMON) stricter.
1507 * tests/confh4.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
1508 rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping of Makefile.in
1510 * tests/confh5.test: Make grepping of `config.h' stricter. Add a
1512 * tests/configure.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in generated
1513 `configure.ac'. Do not write `configure.in' two times. Escape
1514 literal dots in grep regular expressions.
1515 * tests/confincl.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1516 changes. Prefer fgrep over grep. Other cosmetic changes.
1517 * tests/config.test: Renamed to ...
1518 * tests/confh6.test: ... this. Fix m4 quoting in `configure.in',
1519 and make grepping of `config.h' and `config.h.in' stricter.
1520 * tests/conf2.test: Renamed ...
1521 * tests/confh7.test: ... to this. Use the `configure.in' stub
1522 created by ./defs, rather than writing one from scratch. Try to
1523 run the checks both with and without AC_PROG_CC and AC_OUTPUT in
1525 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1527 Minor improvements and fixes in tests `depcomp*.test'.
1528 * tests/depcomp.test: Do not create useless dummy source files.
1529 Add a trailing `:' command.
1530 * tests/depcomp2.test: Use `unset' on the CFLAG variable to ensure
1531 it's not in in the environment, rather than exporting it with an
1532 empty value. Do not pass CC=gcc to configure, as that's already
1533 done in ./defs since we have gcc in $required. Ensure verbose
1534 printing of captured stderr, and normalize its checking. Add a
1535 trailing `:' command.
1536 * tests/depcomp3.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
1537 grep regexps. Always use `: >' rather than `touch' to create empty
1538 files. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the created
1539 Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:' command.
1540 * tests/depcomp4.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
1541 grep regexp. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the
1542 created Makefile.am. Ensure verbose printing of captured makes'
1543 stoud/stderr. Add a trailing `:' command.
1544 * tests/depcomp5.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1545 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Quote literal dots
1546 and dollar characters in grep regexps. Explicitly declare phony
1547 targets as such in the created Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:'
1549 * tests/depcomp6.test: Consistently use m4 quoting in the generated
1550 configure.in. Cosmetic fixes to spacing. Make the "dummy" `if'
1551 statement required by OpenBSD's sh `set -e' more robust, and add
1552 explanatory comments to it.
1553 * tests/depcomp7.test: Likewise, and add a trailing `:' command.
1555 Separate failing part of test `all.test'.
1556 * tests/all.test: Keep only (x)failing part of the test. Working
1557 checks moved out to ...
1558 * tests/all2.test: ... this new test.
1559 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1561 Modernize, improve and extend tests `subobj*.test'.
1562 * tests/subobjname.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1563 * tests/subobj.test: Make grepping of `Makefile.in' stricter.
1564 Escape literal dots in grep regexps.
1565 * tests/subobj2.test: Add trailing `:' command. Do not use the
1566 unportable fgrep option `-e'.
1567 * tests/subobj3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1568 (configure.in): Use proper m4 quoting, and avoid obsolescent
1570 * tests/subobj8.test: Likewise. Also, enable `errexit' shell
1571 flag, with related changes
1572 * tests/subobj4.test: Likewise. Also, make grepping of
1573 `Makefile.in' stricter.
1574 * tests/subobj5.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of
1575 `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
1577 (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
1578 writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
1579 * tests/subobj6.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of
1580 `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
1581 of ./defs). Do not create useless dummy ac-init file `f'.
1582 * tests/subobj7.test: Do not create useless dummy ac-init file
1584 (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
1585 writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
1586 * tests/subobj9.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1587 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Fail the test if
1588 `make distcheck' fails. Ensure verbose printing of captured make
1589 stdout. Avoid useless fork by doing simple grep instead of using
1590 test -n "`COMMAND | grep ...`".
1591 (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
1592 (Makefile.am): Explicitly mark target "print" as phony.
1593 * tests/subobj10.test: Removed duplicated call to `set -e'. Add
1594 trailing `:' command.
1595 (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
1597 Remove a couple of obsoleted tests.
1598 * tests/fpinstall.test: Removed.
1599 * tests/fpinst2.test: Likewise.
1600 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1602 Bootstrap: updated HACKING entry.
1603 * HACKING ("Working with git"): Explain how to override the
1604 autoconf and autom4te programs used by the bootstrap process.
1607 * bootstrap: Do not remove `lib/Automake/Config.pm' anymore,
1608 since we don't generate it. Correctly quote arguments of
1609 `eval' builtin. Fixed a botched error message. Removed an
1612 Bootstrap: don't search perl in $PATH.
1613 * bootstrap: Do not explicitly search perl in $PATH anymore.
1614 ($PATH_SEPARATOR): Removed, it's no more needed.
1616 Bootstrap: let the user choose which autoconf to use.
1617 * bootstrap ($AUTOCONF): New variable, from the environment.
1618 ($AUTOM4TE): Likewise, for clarity.
1619 Use "$AUTOCONF" instead of calling "autoconf" directly.
1621 Minor improvements to tests ar*.test.
1622 * tests/ar.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1623 * tests/ar2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
1624 Makefile.in stricter.
1626 2010-08-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1628 Fix maintainer-check failure.
1629 * tests/cond5.test: Quote sleep argument, this isn't about
1630 time stamp differences.
1632 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
1633 * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
1636 2010-08-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1638 Work around a nasty bug (segfault) of Solaris make.
1639 * lib/am/check.am (recheck, recheck-html): Trim trailing spaces
1640 from $list, to avoid triggering a nasty bug (potential segfault)
1643 2010-08-06 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
1645 Make cond5.test more robust on MSYS.
1646 * tests/cond5.test: Add delay before the first kill attempt to
1647 cater for problems with MSYS bash.
1649 2010-07-31 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1651 Add example git work flow; discuss merge --log in HACKING.
1653 Suggestion by Stefano Lattarini.
1655 Add more hints for debugging make rules.
1656 * doc/automake.texi (Debugging Make Rules): Show command to find
1657 out expanded values of variables; point to makefile debugger.
1659 Prompted by suggestion from Ludovic Courtès and Andy Wingo.
1661 2010-07-27 Patrick Welche <prlw1@cam.ac.uk> (tiny change)
1663 Fix typo in the manual.
1664 * doc/automake.texi (Scripts): Fix typo.
1666 2010-07-27 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1668 Document current policy for development with git.
1669 * HACKING (Working with git): Overhaul.
1670 Prompted by suggestion from Stefano Lattarini.
1672 Fix AM_COND_IF for gone-invalid condition shell expression.
1673 * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): test contents of $COND_TRUE
1674 variable, rather than re-evaluating the shell expression for
1676 * tests/cond40.test: Extend test.
1679 Avoid syntax error if IF-TRUE part of AM_COND_IF expands empty.
1680 * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): Ensure IF-TRUE part is never empty
1681 to avoid shell syntax error if the m4 expansion is empty.
1682 * tests/cond40.test: Enhance test.
1684 Coverage: bogus option to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
1685 * tests/init2.test: New test.
1686 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
1688 2010-07-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1690 Modernize and improve test scripts `subdir*.test'.
1691 * tests/subdir.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1692 changes. Use the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs',
1693 rather than writing one from scratch.
1694 * tests/subdir2.test: Likewise.
1695 * tests/subdir4.test: Likewise.
1696 * tests/subdir3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1697 changes. Do not create useless dummy source files.
1698 * tests/subdir5.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in (in topdir
1699 and in subdirs) stricter. Some minor changes to keep it more
1700 in sync with the related test `subdir8.test'.
1701 * tests/subdir8.test: Likewise (but with the related test being
1702 `subdir5.test' here).
1703 * tests/subdir6.test: Cosmetic change in spacing.
1704 * tests/subdir9.test: Define and use new variable `$distdir'. Add
1705 trailing `:' command.
1706 * tests/subdir10.test: Cosmetic consistency-related change.
1707 * tests/subdirbuiltsources.test: Cosmetic changes in spacings.
1708 (configure.in): Use stub created by `./defs', rather than writing
1709 it from scratch. Do not use obsoleted and/or deprecated forms of
1710 autoconf/automake macros.
1712 Modernize and improve test scripts `dist*.test'.
1713 * tests/distcleancheck.test: Do not add useless `-e' option to
1714 a $MAKE call. Extend test by grepping stderr of make.
1715 * tests/distcom2.test: Do not run the same test script on the
1716 Makefile.in twice, but save its output in an intermediate file
1717 instead. Make grepping of DIST_COMMON definition stricter.
1718 Display the content of more files, to ease debugging. Add a
1719 trailing `:' command. Improved heading comments w.r.t. sister
1721 * tests/distcom6.test: Likewise, and avoid to uselessly run
1723 * tests/distcom3.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured stdout
1724 and stderr. Make grepping of captured stderr stricter. Also,
1725 add trailing `:' command.
1726 * tests/distcom4.test: Declare the target `test' in the generated
1727 Makefile.am as `.PHONY'. Display content of more files, to ease
1728 debugging. Add trailing `:' command.
1729 * tests/distcom5.test: Likewise. Also, factor out common sed
1730 script in subroutine `extract_distcommon'.
1731 * tests/distcom7.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to write
1732 test Makefile.am files. Add a trailing `:' command.
1733 * tests/distname.test: Prefer `gzip -d' over `gunzip'. Move the
1734 call to `set -e' earlier. Be stricter and more verbose in the
1735 checking of the generated tarball.
1736 (configure.in): Use the stub provided by ./defs, instead of
1737 writing it from scratch. Avoid obsoleted constructs. Remove
1738 useless call to `AM_PROG_CC_C_O'.
1739 * tests/distdir.test: Various minor improvements/normalizations.
1740 * tests/distlinks.test: Likewise.
1742 2010-07-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1744 Improve and extend test cond5.test.
1745 * tests/cond5.test: Do not blindly sleep 60 seconds before polling
1746 the background automake process, but poll it every 10 seconds for
1747 at most 30 times (this makes the test both faster on good machines,
1748 and more resilient to spurious timeout-due failures when in low
1749 priority or on heavily-loaded systems).
1750 Check also that automake writes the expected error messages on the
1752 Enable `errexit' flag, and related changes.
1753 Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs', rather than
1754 writing one from scratch.
1756 2010-06-26 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1758 Update program --help output to match current GCS.
1759 * configure.ac: Set and substitute PACKAGE_URL if AC_PACKAGE_URL
1760 is not defined, for compatibility to Autoconf < 2.64.
1761 * Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute PACKAGE_BUGREPORT and
1763 (sc_diff_automake_in_automake): Update number of diff lines for
1764 additional substitutions.
1765 * aclocal.in (usage): Use PACKAGE_BUGREPORT. Point to Automake
1766 home page and GNU general help page.
1767 * automake.in (usage): Likewise.
1768 * doc/automake.texi: New flag PACKAGE_BUGREPORT, to factor email
1770 (Introduction, Creating amhello, amhello Explained, Options):
1772 * lib/Automake/Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute
1774 * lib/Automake/Config.in ($PACKAGE_BUGREPORT): New global.
1775 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Use it for footer of fatal
1778 Clean up @var handling in the manual.
1779 * doc/automake.texi: Throughout the manual, lower-case @var
1780 names, replace a few one-character names.
1782 2010-06-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1784 Fix typo-related bug in test script silent5.test.
1785 * tests/silent5.test: Use $EGREP, not $GREP (which is not even
1788 Tests: remove useless repetitions of `foreign' automake option.
1789 * tests/multlib.test (configure.in): Remove useless use of
1790 `foreign' option in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (the `--foreign' option is
1791 already in $AUTOMAKE by default, so no point in repeating it).
1792 * tests/subobj10.test: Likewise.
1793 * tests/subobj9.test: Likewise.
1794 * tests/lex3.test (Makefile.am): Similarly, remove useless use
1795 of `foreign' option in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
1796 * tests/lex5.test: Likewise.
1797 * tests/pr279.test: Likewise.
1798 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
1799 * tests/specflg3.test: Likewise.
1800 * tests/target-cflags.test: Likewise.
1802 Drop useless requirement "gzip" in lex5.test.
1803 * tests/lex5.test ($required): Do not list "gzip", as it's
1806 2010-06-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1808 Fix bugs in test script silent5.test.
1809 * tests/silent5.test: Fixed a nasty bug (due to the use of grep
1810 instead of egrep) that could have led to false negatives.
1812 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1814 Add a test checking that distributed broken symlinks cause
1815 `make dist' to fail.
1816 * tests/distlinksbrk.test: New test.
1817 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1819 2010-06-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1821 Fix minor testsuite issues, update docs, for Yacc/Lex changes.
1822 * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Mention AM_YFLAGS, YFLAGS
1823 and AM_LFLAGS, LFLAGS in the order in which they now appear in
1826 * tests/lflags.test, tests/lflags2.test, tests/yflags.test,
1827 tests/yflags2.test: Prefer `make -e' over `make VAR=VAL', to
1828 please maintainer-check. Ensure generated C files contain a
1829 declaration, to please compilers.
1831 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1833 Fix bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t. $(AM_FLAGS) and
1834 $(FLAGS) precedence.
1835 * automake.in: Fix registration of languages "Lex", "Lex (C++)",
1836 "Yacc" and "Yacc (C++)", so that $(LFLAGS) has precedence over
1837 $(AM_LFLAGS) and $(YFLAGS) has precedence over $(AM_YFLAGS).
1838 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1841 New tests, exposing bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t.
1842 $(AM_FLAGS) and $(FLAGS) precedence.
1843 * tests/lflags.test: New test, check that user $(LFLAGS) takes
1844 precedence over automake (AM_LFLAGS) and (foo_LFLAGS). Still
1846 * tests/lflags2.test: Likewise.
1847 * tests/yflags.test: New test, check that user $(YFLAGS) takes
1848 precedence over automake (AM_YFLAGS) and (foo_YFLAGS). Still
1850 * tests/yflags2.test: Likewise.
1851 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Extended accordingly.
1853 2010-06-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1855 Modernize, improve and extend tests `suffix*.test'.
1856 * tests/suffix3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1858 * tests/suffix4.test: Likewise.
1859 * tests/suffix6.test: Likewise, and do not create a useless dummy
1861 * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
1862 * tests/suffix5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1863 changes. Make grepping of Makefile.in slightly stricter.
1864 * tests/suffix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1865 changes. Also, do not redirect grep output to /dev/null, as this
1866 might unmotivatedly hide useful information.
1867 * tests/suffix2.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1868 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Use a more
1869 idiomatic way to count text occurrences in Makefile.in with
1870 grep. Do not create useless dummy source files.
1871 * tests/suffix10.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured make
1872 stdout. Minor cosmetic changes.
1873 * tests/suffix8.test: Likewise. Also, drop useless call to the
1874 env(1) utility, and make grepping of make output stricter by using
1875 $FGREP rather than plain grep.
1876 * tests/suffix11.test: Likewise.
1877 * tests/suffix12.test: Likewise.
1878 * tests/suffix9.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to append to
1879 the `configure.in' stub. Cosmetic changes.
1880 * tests/suffix13.test: Cosmetic spacing change.
1882 2010-06-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1884 Add useful comment in test script ext.test.
1885 * tests/ext.test: Add a comment explaining why an apparently
1886 useless `if' statement is indeed required.
1888 Add useful comment in test script obsolete.test.
1889 * tests/obsolete.test: Add a comment explaining why we need
1890 an indirection in adding $AUTOUPDATE to $required.
1892 Normalize whitespaces in 'tests/Makefile.am'.
1893 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Use only spaces, not tabs, in the
1894 definition of this variable.
1896 2010-06-12 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1898 Remove a couple of unneeded conditionals from tests.
1899 * tests/pr243.test, tests/pr266.test, tests/strip.test: No need
1900 for the FOOTEST conditional.
1902 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1904 Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
1905 * tests/symlink3.test: Deleted, separated into two new, more
1907 * tests/forcemiss.test: ... this one ...
1908 * tests/forcemiss2.test: ... and this one.
1909 * tests/symlink2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, make test
1910 stricter, and skip it if symlink creation is not supported.
1911 * tests/postproc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, related
1912 changes, and a couple of unrelated cosmetic changes.
1913 * tests/recurs.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
1914 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping
1915 of Automake stderr slightly stricter.
1916 * tests/substtarg.test: Likewise.
1917 * tests/strip.test: Likewise, and move the call to `set -e'
1918 earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs'). Also, make sure
1919 that the script installed by `make install-script' is equal to
1921 * tests/substref.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
1922 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Move the call
1923 to `set -e' earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs').
1924 Avoid to explicitly export CC for configure (that's already done
1925 in ./defs). Avoid potential problems with unpredictable make
1926 output. Finally, make grepping of Makefile.in stricter.
1927 * tests/substre2.test: Ensure verbose printing of the captured
1928 make's output, and make its grepping slightly stricter.
1929 * tests/cygwin32.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1930 changes. Also, do not create useless dummy source/data files.
1931 * tests/scripts.test: Likewise.
1932 * tests/recurs2.test: Likewise. Also, use the `configure.in'
1933 stub created by `./defs'.
1934 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1936 Modernize, improve and/or fix tests `pluseq*.test.
1937 * tests/pluseq5.test: Append to configure.in using cat with an
1938 here-doc, not using echo.
1939 * tests/pluseq10.test: Make sure that the captured output of
1940 `make' command is always displayed. Where possible, use $FGREP
1941 instead of grep (this change makes some checks slightly stricter).
1942 * tests/pluseq8.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
1944 * tests/pluseq.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless dummy
1945 data files, and use better m4 quoting in generated configure.in.
1946 * tests/pluseq2.test: Likewise. Also, append to configure.in
1947 using cat with an here-doc, not using echo.
1948 * tests/pluseq3.test: Likewise.
1949 * tests/pluseq4.test: Likewise.
1950 * tests/pluseq6.test: Likewise.
1951 * tests/pluseq7.test: Do not create useless dummy source file.
1952 * tests/pluseq9.test: Slightly extended w.r.t. the grepping of
1953 Automake stderr. Some unrelated cosmetic changes.
1955 Testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured stderr.
1956 * tests/acloca18.test: Print captured stderr before either failing
1957 or grepping it. Be sure to send captured stderr to stderr, not to
1959 * tests/ansi3b.test: Likewise.
1960 * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
1961 * tests/configure.test: Likewise.
1962 * tests/missing3.test: Likewise.
1963 * tests/missing6.test: Likewise.
1964 * tests/output-order.test: Likewise.
1965 * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise.
1966 * tests/python6.test: Likewise.
1967 * tests/python7.test: Likewise.
1968 * tests/python8.test: Likewise.
1969 * tests/python9.test: Likewise.
1970 * tests/subobj.test: Likewise.
1971 * tests/vars3.test: Likewise.
1972 * tests/missing4.test: Likewise, and fix a call to grep not to use
1974 * tests/ansi3.test: Likewise, and rely on the `configure.in' stub
1975 created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1977 Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
1978 * tests/backsl.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
1980 * tests/backsl2.test: Likewise.
1981 * tests/block.test: Likewise.
1982 * tests/canon2.test: Likewise.
1983 * tests/canon4.test: Likewise.
1984 * tests/comment2.test: Likewise.
1985 * tests/condlib.test: Likewise.
1986 * tests/cond15.test: Likewise, and prefer $FGREP over grep.
1987 * tests/canon3.test: Likewise. Also, avoid to create an useless
1989 * tests/acoutpt2.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and some
1990 related changes. Do some cosmetic improvements in the generated
1991 `configure.in' file.
1992 * tests/cond4.test: Likewise.
1993 * tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
1994 * tests/condinc.test: Likewise.
1995 * tests/cond7.test: Likewise. Also, remove useless setting of
1996 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am.
1997 * tests/ansi.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
1998 changes. Extended, esp. by running autoconf, ./configure and
1999 make, and by looking into the distdir.
2001 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2002 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2004 Extend tests/README w.r.t. trailing `:' in test scripts.
2005 * tests/README (section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
2006 Explain why apparently redundant trailing `:' and `Exit 0' in
2007 test scripts can indeed be useful.
2009 2010-06-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2011 Improve determination of PATH separator in bootstrap script.
2012 * bootstrap: Determine what the PATH separator is the same way
2015 Minor improvements in bootstrap script.
2016 * bootstrap: Consistently use two-spaces indentation. Cosmetic
2017 improvement to comments.
2018 ($me): New variable, containing program basename.
2019 Prepend it to all error messages.
2021 Testsuite now works with BSD make in parallel mode.
2022 * tests/defs.in: Unset variables __MKLVL__ and MAKE_JOBS_FIFO,
2023 which are exported by BSD make when run in parallel mode, and
2024 which can confuse make processes spawned by our testsuite.
2025 This change fixes a lot of spurious failure when the testsuite
2026 is run with BSD make in parallel mode.
2028 2010-06-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2030 Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
2031 * tests/sanity.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
2032 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
2033 * tests/depend2.test: Likewise. Also, call `set -e' just after
2034 the inclusion of `./defs', instead that later in the script.
2035 * tests/canon5.test: Avoid a useless `|| Exit 1' after a call to
2036 $AUTOMAKE, and improve the positioning of an $ACLOCAL call.
2037 * tests/exeext4.test: Use $FGREP instead of grep, where possible.
2038 Make auxiliary rules in the generated Makefile more silent.
2039 These changes make some checks slightly stricter.
2040 * tests/ext2.test: Call `Exit 1' if inclusion of `./defs' fails.
2041 * tests/gettext2.test: Place final `:' at the end of the script,
2042 rather than in the middle.
2043 * tests/exeext.test: Call `set -e' just after the inclusion of
2044 `./defs', instead that later in the script.
2045 * tests/extra5.test: Likewise.
2046 * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `mv -f' over
2047 plain `mv', just to be sure.
2048 * tests/depcomp.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
2049 changes. Also, modernize the generated configure.in.
2050 * tests/cond9.test: Likewise. Also, rely on the `configure.in'
2051 stub created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
2052 * tests/cond10.test: Likewise.
2053 * tests/depcomp2.test: Likewise.
2054 * tests/depend3.test: Likewise.
2055 * tests/distcom7.test: Likewise.
2056 * tests/fortdep.test: Likewise. Also, remove definition of
2057 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am,
2058 since that flag is already provided by $AUTOMAKE.
2059 * tests/mdate.test: Made stricter, by checking that Automake
2060 actually failed, and by making a stricter grep on the error
2061 message. Also, set shell `errexit flag'.
2062 * tests/python2.test: Improved verbose messages.
2064 Make test `ammissing.test' stricter.
2065 * tests/ammissing.test: Fail if $ACLOCAL succeeds unexpectedly.
2066 Enable `errexit' shell flag.
2068 2010-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2070 Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
2071 * tests/subcond.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
2073 * tests/subst.test: Likewise.
2074 * tests/vars.test: Likewise.
2075 * tests/version4.test: Likewise.
2076 * tests/vpath.test: Likewise.
2077 * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
2078 * tests/werror.test: Likewise.
2079 * tests/whoami.test: Likewise.
2080 * tests/tags.test: Likewise, and avoid to crate an useless dummy
2082 * tests/acsilent.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
2083 command substitution.
2084 * tests/unused.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
2085 command substitution.
2086 * tests/version.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
2087 in the generated `configure.in'.
2088 * tests/version2.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
2089 in the generated `configure.in'.
2091 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2093 Prefer AUTOMAKE_fails over `$AUTOMAKE | grep' in tests.
2094 * tests/ldadd.test: Enable errexit. Use AUTOMAKE_fails so
2095 the verbose log contains all output.
2096 * tests/mdate.test: Likewise.
2097 Prompted by Stefano Lattarini's change to discover.test.
2099 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2101 Improve tests link*.test (enable `errexit' shell flag).
2102 * tests/link_c_cxx.test: Enable `errexit shell flag, and related
2103 changes. Also, do not create useless source files.
2104 * tests/link_dist.test: Likewise.
2105 * tests/link_f90_only.test: Likewise.
2106 * tests/link_f_only.test: Likewise.
2107 * tests/link_fc.test: Likewise.
2108 * tests/link_fccxx.test: Likewise.
2109 * tests/link_fcxx.test: Likewise.
2111 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2113 Improve ext.test semantics, avoid OpenBSD sh errexit issue.
2114 * tests/ext.test: Inside shell compound command, use
2115 `if $cmd; then Exit 1; fi' rather than `$cmd && Exit 1', to
2116 fix failure with OpenBSD sh introduced with last patch.
2117 Actually ensure that a rule for .EXT.o is created for each
2118 known extension EXT.
2120 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2122 Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
2123 * tests/dash.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
2125 * tests/defun.test: Likewise.
2126 * tests/defun2.test: Likewise.
2127 * tests/dejagnu.test: Likewise.
2128 * tests/double.test: Likewise.
2129 * tests/distcom2.test: Likewise.
2130 * tests/empty2.test: Likewise.
2131 * tests/empty3.test: Likewise.
2132 * tests/empty4.test: Likewise.
2133 * tests/exdir.test: Likewise.
2134 * tests/ext.test: Likewise.
2135 * tests/extra.test: Likewise.
2136 * tests/extra2.test: Likewise.
2137 * tests/extra3.test: Likewise.
2138 * tests/extra4.test: Likewise.
2139 * tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
2140 * tests/fnoc.test: Likewise.
2141 * tests/fo.test: Likewise.
2142 * tests/instexec.test: Likewise.
2143 * tests/ltdeps.test: Likewise.
2144 * tests/nodep.test: Likewise.
2145 * tests/nodepcomp.test: Likewise.
2146 * tests/f90only.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
2147 comments and unnecessary commands.
2148 * tests/fonly.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
2149 comments and unnecessary commands.
2150 * tests/discover.test: Likewise, and made stricter.
2152 Enable `errexit' shell flag in all tests cxx*.test.
2153 * tests/cxx.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
2155 * tests/cxxansi.test: Likewise.
2156 * tests/cxxcpp.test: Likewise.
2157 * tests/cxxlibobj.test: Likewise.
2158 * tests/cxxlink.test: Likewise.
2159 * tests/cxxo.test: Likewise.
2161 Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
2162 * tests/acoutnoq.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
2164 * tests/acoutpt.test: Likewise.
2165 * tests/acoutqnl.test: Likewise.
2166 * tests/amassign.test: Likewise.
2167 * tests/ansi2.test: Likewise.
2168 * tests/ansi4.test: Likewise.
2169 * tests/badprog.test: Likewise.
2170 * tests/checkall.test: Likewise.
2171 * tests/clean.test: Likewise.
2172 * tests/colneq2.test: Likewise.
2173 * tests/colon.test: Likewise.
2174 * tests/colon5.test: Likewise.
2175 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
2176 * tests/comment.test: Likewise.
2177 * tests/compile_f90_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
2178 * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
2179 * tests/cond3.test: Likewise.
2180 * tests/cond6.test: Likewise.
2181 * tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
2182 * tests/conf2.test: Likewise.
2183 * tests/confvar.test: Likewise.
2184 * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
2185 * tests/cond8.test: Likewise, plus a cosmetic change.
2186 * tests/confh4.test: Likewise. Also, add in the heading comments
2187 an excerpt from the original bug report which motivated the
2188 creation of this test, to make its purpose clearer.
2190 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2192 Rewrite manual to be gender-neutral.
2193 * doc/automake.texi (GNU Build System)
2194 (Standard Directory Variables, General Operation, CVS)
2195 (Hard-Coded Install Paths, Dependencies As Side Effects):
2196 Rewrite text to not contain gender-specific pronouns when
2197 speaking about developers or users, either by avoiding pronouns
2198 or by addressing them as `you' instead.
2200 Report by Christina Gratorp.
2204 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2206 Make tests on user extensibility of silent-rules mode stricter.
2207 * tests/silent6.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
2208 output produced by `make'.
2209 * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
2211 Tests on silent-mode for C/Libtool made stricter.
2212 * tests/silent.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
2213 output produced by `make'.
2214 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
2215 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
2216 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
2217 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise, and add a final `make distclean'
2218 command to keep it better in sync with tests/silent{4,9}.test.
2220 Improved test silent5.test.
2221 * tests/silent5.test: Remove by hand all generated C files after
2222 non-verbose builds, to ensure the following builds are clean.
2223 Try to clean and rebuild with the same verbosity and without
2224 removing generated sources in between, to check that this does
2225 not trigger a different set of rules. Make grepping of make's
2226 output stricter. Improved/added some comments.
2228 New tests for Automake silent-mode with Fortran.
2229 * tests/silentf77.test: New test.
2230 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
2231 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2233 New test `silentcxx.test' (Automake silent-mode with C++).
2234 * tests/silentcxx.test: New test.
2235 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2237 New test `silentyacc.test' (Automake silent-mode with Yacc).
2238 * tests/silentyacc.test: New test.
2239 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2241 New test `silentlex.test' (Automake silent-mode with Lex).
2242 * tests/silentlex.test: New test.
2243 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2245 Relax tests on silent-rules to cater to overly verbose makes.
2246 * tests/silent.test: When testing silent builds, don't fail if
2247 make's output simply contains the `mv' substring, but only if
2248 it contains the `mv ' substring (note the trailing space).
2249 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
2250 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
2251 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
2252 * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
2253 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
2255 2010-01-24 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2257 Fix silent-rules output for disabled dependency tracking.
2258 * lib/am/depend2.am [!%FASTDEP%]: Rework silent-rules variable
2259 expansion code to also work in the case where %AMDEP% expands
2260 to FALSE at config.status time, using new substitution string
2262 * automake.in (verbose_nodep_flag): New function, appending
2263 `@am__nodep@' to the verbose-variable name.
2264 (handle_languages): If dependencies are not disabled, use it to
2265 set %VERBOSE-NODEP%.
2266 * m4/depend.m4: Substitute am__nodep as '_no', so the second
2267 verbose-variable will always expand to an empty string, if
2268 dependencies are enabled.
2269 * tests/silent5.test: Also test --disable-dependency-tracking;
2270 also test per-target flags for non-C language files.
2271 * tests/silent9.test: New test, like silent4.test but disable
2272 dependency tracking.
2273 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
2274 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
2275 Report by Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>.
2277 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2279 Extend test on `nostdinc' automake option.
2280 * tests/nostdinc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Related and
2281 unrelated minor changes. Make the grepping of the generated
2282 Makefile.in slightly stricter. Generate and run configure, so that
2283 the generated Makefile can be grepped too.
2285 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2287 Make gnupload portable to EBCDIC hosts.
2288 * lib/gnupload: Use literal newline as argument for 'tr' rather
2289 than \015, for EBCDIC hosts. Also, avoid unportable nested
2290 double-quotes and backquotes.
2292 Report from Eric Blake and Steve Goetze via gnulib.
2294 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2296 Fix Autoconf version required by Automake's configure.
2297 Automake configure script used to tell that automake required
2298 autoconf 2.60 or later, but then it checked for autoconf >= 2.62,
2299 and if that was not found, it gave an error saying that Automake
2300 required configure 2.61a-341 or later. This change should
2301 eliminate such inconsistencies.
2302 * configure.ac ($required_autoconf_version): New variable.
2305 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2307 Fix unportable sed script in maintainer-check test.
2308 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_Exit_not_exit): Rewrite sed script to
2309 not contain semicolon after 'b' or brace commands, for NetBSD.
2311 Wildcards are not portable to NetBSD make.
2312 * doc/automake.texi (Wildcards): Document portability issue.
2313 * tests/extra10.test, tests/extra11.test, tests/extra12.test:
2316 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2318 Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
2319 * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
2320 an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
2322 Avoid possible false negatives in dejagnu7.test.
2323 * tests/dejagnu7.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Also, avoid
2324 unportable use of fgrep option `-e'.
2326 Fix conflnk3.test to work with Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
2327 * tests/conflnk3.test: Use `test -r FILE' and `test ! -r FILE'
2328 instead of respectively `test -e FILE' and `test ! -e FILE',
2329 since Solaris Sh doesn't grok the latter. Do not SKIP the test
2330 if the shell doesn't support `test -e'.
2332 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2335 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Add
2336 missing closing parenthesis.
2338 Fix leftover call to removed function macros_dump.
2339 * automake.in (read_main_am_file): Call variables_dump, not
2340 macros_dump. Print actual error before list of variables.
2342 2010-04-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2344 Minor improvements in comments of test `silent3.test'.
2345 * tests/silent3.test: Tell to keep it in sync with `silent9.test'
2348 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2350 testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured output.
2351 * tests/acloca14.test, tests/acloca18.test, tests/aclocal.test,
2352 tests/fort2.test, tests/help.test, tests/missing3.test,
2353 tests/missing6.test: Print captured stdout or stderr before
2356 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2358 Make test badopt.test stricter (by enabling `set -e').
2359 * tests/badopt.test: Add call to `set -e'. Due to this change,
2360 an unexpected failure in the call to `$ACLOCAL' (whose outcome
2361 was previously unchecked) would cause the whole test to fail.
2362 Also, bumped the copyright years.
2364 Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
2365 * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
2366 an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
2368 Use `set -e' in confsub.test (avoids possible false negatives).
2369 * tests/confsub.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and related
2370 changes (this helps avoiding some possible minor false negatives).
2371 Also, bumped copyright years.
2373 2010-04-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2375 Fix -Werror handling for presence of configure.in and configure.ac.
2376 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (Automake::Variable): Do not initialize
2377 $configure_ac at the global level, before command-line arguments
2379 (require_variables): Initialize it here.
2380 * tests/configure.test: New test.
2381 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
2382 Report by Stefano Lattarini.
2384 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2386 Avoid possible false negatives in confh5.test.
2387 * tests/confh5.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and bumped
2388 copyright years. Due to this change, any unexpected failure
2389 in calls to $ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE, $AUTOCONF or $AUTOHEADER, or
2390 a failure in grepping expected text in output files should now
2391 cause the whole test to fail.
2393 2010-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2395 Fixed typo in POD documentation of Automake::Channels.
2396 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Fixed typo in POD documentation:
2397 @<...> was used instead of C<...>.
2399 2010-04-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2401 Refactor tests on Automake TESTS color output.
2402 * tests/color.test: Tests using the expect program moved out to...
2403 * tests/color2.test: ... this new file.
2404 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Extended accordingly.
2406 2010-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2408 Fix typos in comments in test confh5.test
2409 * tests/confh5.test: Fix a couple of typos in comments.
2411 Avoid possible false negatives in canon-name.test.
2412 * tests/canon-name.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Improve
2415 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2417 Fix per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror.
2418 Before this patch, 'AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = -Werror' in one
2419 Makefile.am would carry over to other Makefile.am files
2420 treated afterwards by the same thread, causing inconsistent
2421 and unstable exit status values.
2422 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (dup_channel_setup)
2423 (drop_channel_setup): Save and restore the setting of
2424 $warnings_are_errors.
2425 * tests/werror3.test: New test.
2426 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
2429 2010-04-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2431 Bugfix in confh5.test w.r.t. Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
2432 * tests/confh5.test: In the generated Makefile.am: do not use
2433 `test ! -e FILE' to check for the non-existence of a file, since
2434 that is not supported by Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
2436 Make test `aclocal3.test' stricter.
2437 * tests/aclocal3.test: Add call to `set -e'. Fail if $ACLOCAL
2438 succeds unexpectedly.
2440 Add tests checking that symlinks are resolved by `make dist'.
2441 * tests/distlinks.test: New test.
2442 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2443 Suggested by observations from Ralf Wildenhues.
2445 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2447 Use -9 for maximum xz compression with dist-xz.
2448 * lib/am/distdir.am (dist-xz, dist, dist-all): Pass -9 to xz.
2449 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
2450 Report by Pavel Sanda.
2452 2010-03-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2454 Avoid an unportable use of `$status' shell variable.
2455 * Makefile.am (path-check): Don't use the `$status' shell variable
2456 in the target's rules, as it's special in Zsh (equivalent to `$?',
2459 Avoid another use of `chmod -R'.
2460 * Makefile.am (path-check): To be safe, do not use `chmod -R' on
2461 $(distdir) before removing it (as Solaris `chmod -R' touches
2462 symlink targets). Instead, use the cleanup strategy used in
2465 2010-03-28 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2467 Remove uses of @acronym and @sc.
2468 * doc/automake.texi (Public Macros, Limitations on File Names):
2469 Remove all usage of @acronym and @sc in the manual.
2470 Suggested by Karl Berry.
2472 2010-03-13 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
2474 GNU hello uses fdl.texi, not gpl.texi.
2475 * doc/automake.texi (Texinfo): Adjust example to upstream
2478 2010-03-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2480 Formatting cleanups in macro comments.
2481 * automake.in, lib/Automake/Channels.pm,
2482 lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm, lib/Automake/Options.pm,
2483 lib/Automake/Variable.pm, lib/Automake/XFile.pm,
2484 m4/options.m4, m4/substnot.m4: Fix macro comment format.
2486 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2487 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2489 Avoid generation of `tests/defs-p' file.
2490 * tests/defs.in: In the generated `configure.in' snippet: call
2491 `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' with the `parallel-tests' option if the shell
2492 variable `parallel_tests' is set to `yes'.
2493 * tests/Makefile.am (defs-p): Target removed.
2494 (check_SCRIPTS): Removed `defs-p'.
2495 (clean-local-check): Do not unlink `defs-p' anymore.
2496 ($(parallel_tests)): Transformation rules for the test scripts
2498 * tests/gen-parallel-tests: Selection rules for the test
2500 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Set `$parallel_tests' to `yes'
2501 then include `./defs' (rather than simply including `./defs-p').
2502 * tests/parallel-tests2.test: Likewise.
2503 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
2504 * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
2505 * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
2506 * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
2507 * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
2508 * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise.
2509 * tests/parallel-tests9.test: Likewise.
2510 * tests/parallel-tests10.test: Likewise.
2511 * tests/README (Section "Writing Test Cases" subsection "Do"):
2512 Adjusted the parts referring to tests checking `parallel-tests'
2513 behaviour. Some other minor related improvements.
2514 * tests/.gitignore (defs-p): Removed.
2516 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2518 Remove redundant unset of variable TESTS from some test scripts.
2519 * tests/color.test: Do not unset the `TESTS' variable, as it's
2520 already unset in the `defs' file.
2521 * tests/check5.test: Likewise.
2522 * tests/check8.test: Likewise.
2523 * tests/check9.test: Likewise.
2524 * tests/check10.test: Likewise.
2525 * tests/check11.test: Likewise.
2526 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Likewise.
2527 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
2528 * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
2529 * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
2530 * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
2531 * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
2533 2010-02-22 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
2535 Improve help message of mdate-sh.
2536 * mdate-sh: mention actual output format in help message.
2538 2010-02-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2540 Deprecate dist-lzma in favor of dist-xz.
2541 * doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions, Options):
2542 Adjust text to reflect renaming of lzma to xz.
2544 Missing deprecation noted by Antonio Diaz Diaz.
2546 2010-02-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2548 Add tests about support of wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
2549 * tests/extra10.test: New test, check basic support of wildcards
2551 * tests/extra11.test: New test, check more complex usage of
2552 wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
2553 * tests/extra12.test: New test, check usage of wildcards in
2554 EXTRA_DIST when $builddir != $srcdir.
2555 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2556 Necessity of these new tests suggested by Braden McDaniel
2557 and Ralf Wildenhues.
2559 2010-02-08 Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
2561 Fix copyright statement in gnupload script.
2562 * lib/gnupload: Fix copyright statement.
2564 2010-02-06 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> (tiny change)
2565 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2567 Fix exit status of signal handlers in shell scripts.
2568 The value of `$?' on entrance to signal handlers in shell scripts
2569 cannot be relied upon, so set the exit code explicitly to
2571 * lib/am/check.am (am__check_pre): Use `exit 143' in signal handler.
2572 * lib/elisp-comp: Likewise.
2573 * lib/install-sh: Likewise.
2574 * lib/ylwrap: Likewise. Also, fix script to trap signal 13, not 3.
2575 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
2576 Bug report, analysis, and initial patch by Dmitry V. Levin.
2578 2010-02-06 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
2580 Improve gnupload usage text.
2581 * gnupload (usage): Shorten to make more likely to fit on a tty
2582 line. Mention CMD in the synopsis. With ..., plural is implied.
2584 2010-01-28 Christos Kontas <xakon@yahoo.com> (tiny change)
2586 Fix some typos in the manual
2587 * doc/automake.texi (Nested Packages, Rebuilding): Fix typos.
2589 2010-01-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2591 Slighty improve tests acoutbs.test and acoutbs2.test.
2592 * tests/acoutbs2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Check that
2593 autoconf and configure work, that the file `zot' is created by
2594 configure, and that no file containing a backslash in its name is
2596 * tests/acoutbs.test: Likewise, plus updated copyright years.
2598 Fix test acoutbs2.test.
2599 * tests/acoutbs2: In the generated configure.in: add proper calls
2600 to AC_INIT and AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, and remove explicit definition of
2601 PACKAGE and VERSION. Add a call to aclocal before calling automake.
2602 Updated copyright years.
2603 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Removed acoutbs2.test.
2605 Add forgotten test scripts to $(TESTS).
2606 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Added test scripts present on the
2607 filesystem, which were erroneously left out from $(TESTS):
2608 acoutbs2.test, badopt.test, extra2.test.
2609 (XFAIL_TESTS): Added acoutbs2.test.
2611 2010-01-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2613 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
2614 * INSTALL, lib/INSTALL, lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub:
2617 Bump copyright years.
2618 * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
2619 * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
2620 * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
2623 * ChangeLog.09: New file, rotated from ...
2624 * ChangeLog: ... here.
2625 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute ChangeLog.09.
2629 Copyright (C) 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2631 Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are
2632 permitted provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved.
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