1 2011-04-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3 test: self check subroutines for skipping/failing of tests
4 * tests/self-check-report.test: New test.
5 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
7 2011-04-23 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
8 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
10 test defs: new subroutines for test skipping/failing
11 * tests/defs.in (Exit): Move definition of this function earlier.
12 (warn_, skip_, fail_, framework_failure_): New functions, inspired
13 to the homonyms in gnulib's tests/init.sh.
14 ($stderr_fileno_): New global variable, used by the new functions
16 * tests/README: Updated.
17 From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
19 2011-04-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
21 tests: fix typo (copy & paste blunder) in heading comment
22 * tests/maintclean-vpath.test: Correctly refer to the sister test
23 as `maintclean.test', not as `maintclean-vpath.test'.
25 2011-04-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
27 tests: remove redundant test `mclean.test'
28 * tests/mclean.test: Remove, it's a weak grepping test completely
29 superseded by the much more complete `maintclean.test'.
30 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
32 2011-04-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
34 testsuite: more environment sanitization
35 * tests/defs.in: Sanity check: abort if any of `parallel_tests'
36 or `required' is in the environment.
37 ($sed_unindent_prog): Initialize to empty, to avoid interferences
39 * tests/self-check-me-in-env.test: Renamed to ...
40 * tests/self-check-env-sanitize.test: ... this, and extended.
41 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
42 (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset variables `parallel_tests' and
43 `required'. Adjust comments.
45 2011-04-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
47 tests: don't allow `$me' to be overridden from the environment
48 * tests/defs.in: Sanity check: abort if $me is in the environment.
49 * tests/self-check-me-in-env.test: New test.
50 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset variable `me'.
52 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
54 2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
56 test defs: allow overriding of `$me'
57 * tests/defs.in ($me): Allow overriding by the including test
58 script. Add some explicative comments.
60 2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
62 depcomp tests: don't reject slower dependency extractors
63 * tests/depcomp8b.test: Add the `--enable-dependency-tracking'
64 option to `configure' invocations, so that slower dependency
65 extractors are not rejected.
66 * tests/depcomp8b.test: Likewise. Also ...
67 (foo.c): ... since we are at it, fix spacing to be consistent
68 with GNU coding standards.
70 2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
72 m4: add missing serial numbers to a few files
73 Related to automake bug#8483.
74 * m4/amversion.in: Add serial number.
75 * m4/auxdir.m4: Likewise.
76 * m4/gcj.m4: Likewise.
77 * m4/install-sh.m4: Likewise.
78 * m4/mkdirp.m4: Likewise.
79 * m4/python.m4: Likewise.
80 * m4/runlog.m4: Likewise.
81 * m4/strip.m4: Likewise.
82 * m4/upc.m4: Likewise.
84 2011-04-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
86 depcomp: correct invalid sed invocation
87 * lib/depcomp: Insert missing -e before '/:$/d'.
88 Otherwise, that use of sed would treat '/:$/d' as a file name.
90 2011-04-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
92 maintainer check: quote literal `$' in Makefile rule
93 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_PATH_SEPARATOR): Escape literal `$'
94 character in double-quoted string. Fix a bug in which the rule
95 emitted an erroneously empty substring in its error message.
97 2011-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
99 coverage: test for automake bug#8485 (known regression)
100 * tests/yacc-dist-nobuild-subdir.test: New test.
101 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Update.
103 2011-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
105 test defs: define default $distdir (help reducing duplication)
106 * tests/defs.in ($distdir): New variable, might be used in
107 testcases checking distribution-related features.
108 * tests/pr9.test: Use it.
109 * tests/subdir9.test: Likewise.
110 * tests/vtexi3.test: Add comment explaining why we redefine
111 $distdir in this test.
113 2011-04-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
115 depcomp: fix bugs in tests and in the depcomp script
116 * lib/depcomp (gcc): Remove duplicated `-e' from sed invocation.
117 * tests/depcomp10.test: Make it executable. Fix a blunder that
118 has left part of an intended comment not prefixed by `#', thus
119 causing shell syntax errors. In this same comment, break a
120 too-long reported error message on multiple lines, for clarity.
121 Add reference to the relevant bug report. Add a comment which
122 explains why the test result 'skipped' if the first "make" call
123 fails. Add other useful comments.
124 * tests/depcomp9.test: Slightly improve comments.
126 2011-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
128 Fix hp depmode for VPATH builds with GNU make.
129 * lib/depcomp: Be sure to remove VPATH-prefixed object from
130 dependency output when creating stub rule.
131 * tests/depcomp10.test: New test.
132 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
134 Report by Bruno Haible.
136 2011-04-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
138 test defs: fix 'javac' requirement for older JDK versions
139 The Java compiler from JDK 1.5 (and presumably earlier versions)
140 cannot handle the `-version' option by itself; and while it does
141 print the version number, it then errors out with an usage error:
144 javac: no source files
145 Usage: javac <options> <source files>
147 Luckily, adding the `-help' option to the `javac' invocation
148 seems to fix this problem.
149 * tests/defs.in (javac): Pass also the `-help' option to the
150 `javac' program. Add a comment explaining why it is needed.
151 Report from Ralf Wildenhues.
153 2011-04-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
155 test defs: new requirement for the default java compiler
156 * tests/defs.in (for tool in $required): New requirement 'javac'.
157 * tests/java.test: Use it instead of ad-hoc configure check.
158 * tests/java-check.test: Likewise.
159 * tests/instfail-java.test: Likewise.
160 * tests/instdir-java.test: Likewise.
162 2011-04-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
164 java: check_JAVA does not cause compilation by "make all" anymore
165 Fixes automake bug#8234.
166 * automake.in (handle_java): Make stamp of class files built from
167 java sources in $(check_JAVA) a dependency of `check' target, not
169 * tests/java-check.test: New test.
170 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
173 Report from Petteri Räty.
175 2011-04-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
177 Clarify regex code in depcomp.
178 * lib/depcomp: Add comment why we don't need regex-escaping here.
179 Suggested by Stefano Lattarini.
181 2011-04-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
183 Fix makedepend depmode for VPATH builds.
184 * lib/depcomp [makedepend]: Remove any VPATH prefix from the
185 object file name, so a rebuild doesn't attempt to update the
186 .Po files in the source tree.
187 * tests/depcomp9.test: New test.
188 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
191 2011-04-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
193 tests: fix timestamp-related failures
194 Fixes automake bug#8365.
195 * tests/aclocal6.test: Sleep before modifying m4 files that should
196 trigger remake rules. Remove incorrect/obsoleted comments.
197 * tests/subdir5.test: Likewise, and extend a bit.
198 * tests/subdir8.test: Likewise.
199 * tests/pr8365-remake-timing.test: New xfailing test.
200 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
201 Report from Sam Steingold.
203 2011-04-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
205 Create subdirs for generated sources even when not dep tracking.
206 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): If $object is derived
207 and lands in subdir, be sure to output a dirstamp dependency.
208 * tests/yacc5.test: Avoid falsely matching the dirstamp
209 dependency when grepping for a rule.
210 * tests/lex-subobj-nodep.test: New test.
211 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
213 Report by Ignacy Gawedzki.
215 Fix locale issue in check-exported-srcdir.test.
216 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Reformulate glob to not fail
217 in a locale that ignores or interleaves character case.
219 2011-04-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
221 docs: better visibility for aclocal in the index
222 * doc/automake.texi (@menu): Rename title for entry 'configure'
223 from "Scanning configure.ac or configure.in" to the more precise
224 "Scanning configure.ac, using aclocal".
225 (@detailmenu): Adjust.
226 (@node configure): Adjust, and extend @cindex calls accordingly.
228 From a report by Maynard Johnson.
230 2011-03-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
232 tests: improve tests on "maintainer-clean" target
233 * tests/aclocal6.test: Move checks related to "maintainer-clean"
234 functionalities into ...
235 * tests/maintclean-vpath.test: ... this new test.
236 * tests/maintclean.test: Update heading comments. Extend to also
237 test subdirs. Remove useless disabling of YACC. Fix m4 quoting
238 in configure.in. Add a trailing `:' command. Remove extra blank
240 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
242 2011-03-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
244 tests: fix unindent to use printf not echo for script.
245 * tests/defs.in: Use printf rather than echo, as the latter may
246 interpret the backslashes in the sed script. Fixes test
247 failures with dash as /bin/sh.
249 2011-03-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
250 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
252 maintcheck: look for problematic names of testcases
253 The configure.in stub created by default by `tests/defs' obtains
254 the first argument of AC_INIT from the test name, and this can
255 cause some supported autoconf versions to fail with a spurious
256 error if that test name contains the name of an m4 or m4sugar
257 builtin or macro (e.g., `defn' or `m4_undefine').
258 See for example the bug fixed by commit v1.11-287-g1325a8a.
259 This change add a maintainer check that warns about test names
260 which are possibly problematic in this regard.
261 * Makefile.am (sc_test_names): New maintainer-check target.
262 (syntax_check_rules): Add it.
263 (m4_builtins): New helper variable.
264 (TESTS): Updated according to the following renamings.
265 * tests/include.test: Renamed ...
266 * tests/hdr-vars-defined-once.test: ... to this.
267 * tests/sinclude.test: Renamed ...
268 * tests/m4-inclusion.test: ... to this, and simplified
270 * tests/include2.test: Renamed ...
271 * tests/dist-included-parent-dir.test: ... to this, for
274 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
276 tests: fix bug in alloca*.test
277 * tests/alloca.test: Make grepping of automake stderr stricter,
278 add a trailing `:' command; also, add AC_PROG_CC to configure.in,
279 and create a dummy alloca.c file, to ensure that we fail for the
281 * tests/alloca2.test: Likewise. Also, look for LT_INIT, not
282 AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, in the error message (bug introduced with commit
283 v1.11-315-gd51e7b7 "libtool: suggest LT_INIT if LTLIBRARIES
285 From a report by Patrick Welche.
287 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
289 tests: fix bug (comments-in-var-defn.test + autoconf 2.62)
290 * tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: The configure.in stub created
291 by default, which has the AC_INIT first argument obtained by the
292 test name, causes autoconf 2.62 to fail with a spurious error
293 message like: "configure.in:1: error: defn: undefined macro:".
294 Thus, to prevent this, the test is renamed to ...
295 * tests/comments-in-var-def.test: ... this.
296 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
298 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
300 cosmetics: convert encoding from ISO-8859 to UTF-8
301 * ChangeLog.03: Convert encoding to UTF-8.
302 * ChangeLog.96: Likewise.
303 * ChangeLog.98: Likewise.
307 2011-03-01 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
309 test defs: unindent without temporary file
310 * tests/defs.in (commented_sed_unindent_prog): Commented Sed program
311 that strips the "proper" amount of leading whitespace.
312 (unindent): Lazily strip comments from the above program and use it
313 to unindent without using a temporary file.
315 2011-02-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
317 libtool: suggest LT_INIT if LTLIBRARIES primary is used
318 When the LTLIBRARIES primary was used, but $(LIBTOOL) wasn't
319 defined, automake suggested to add a call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
320 in configure.ac. But that macro is deprecated since Libtool
321 version 1.9b (2004-08-29), in favor of the newer LT_INIT. So
322 suggest the use of this latter macro instead.
323 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (%_am_macro_for_var): Pair 'LIBTOOL'
324 with 'LT_INIT', not with 'AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'.
325 * libtool4.test: Adjust and extend. Also, add a call to macro
326 AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, to help ensuring that automake does
327 not fail for the wrong reasons.
328 * ltinit.test: New test, ensure that automake's libtool support
329 works with LT_INIT-based interface.
330 Thanks to Jack Kelly for the suggestion.
332 2011-02-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
334 tests: tempdirs with restrictive permissions are cleaned correctly
335 Before this change, the removal of a temporary test directory
336 containing subdirectories with restrictive permissions (such as
337 'r--r--r--') could fail.
338 * tests/defs: Ensure that all the subdirectories of a temporary
339 test directory have the 'read', 'write' and 'execute' bits set,
340 before trying to remove it with `rm -rf'.
341 * tests/Makefile.am (clean-local-check): Likewise.
343 2011-02-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
344 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
346 test defs: add subroutine for input unindenting
347 * tests/defs.in (unindent): New subroutine.
349 2011-02-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
351 python: report the 'PYTHON' influential environment variable
352 * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Call AC_ARG_VAR on PYTHON.
353 * doc/automake.texi (Python): Update and extend.
354 * tests/help-python.test: New test.
355 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
356 * THANKS (Jack Kelly): Update e-mail address.
357 Suggestion by Jack Kelly.
359 2011-02-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
361 tests defs: clear TESTS_ENVIRONMENT variable
362 * tests/defs.in (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset it, so that values
363 from environment won't interfere with the testcases.
364 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
366 2011-02-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
368 tests: tweak few tests on simple and parallel test drivers
369 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Improve heading comments.
370 * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: Likewise. Also, unset the
371 `FOO_EXIT_STATUS' variable, so that any pre-existing value in the
372 environment won't risk to interfere with the test.
373 Suggestions by Ralf Wildenhues.
375 2011-02-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
377 coverage: more tests on simple and parallel test drivers
378 * tests/parallel-tests-subdir.test: New test.
379 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Likewise.
380 * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: Likewise.
381 * tests/check-tests_environment.test: Likewise.
382 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
384 2011-01-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
386 tests: fix spurious failures in lflags*.test
387 * tests/lflags.test: Remove 'LEX' from the environment, so
388 that it won't be erroneously picked up by `make -e'.
389 * tests/lflags2.test: Likewise.
391 2011-01-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
393 docs: color-tests issues with parallel make
394 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Document that automatic
395 recognition of a capable terminal attached to stdout can fail
396 with some make implementation when running in parallel mode,
397 thus causing colored test output not to be automatically
398 activated when it should.
400 2011-01-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
402 tests: avoid instspc.test failures due to make's whitespace trimming
403 * tests/instspc.test: Prepend './' when passing the test
404 characters, to avoid leading whitespace characters to be trimmed
405 from macros set from environment variables. Fixes testsuite
406 failures with HP-UX, IRIX, and Tru64/OSF make.
408 2011-01-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
410 coverage: test semantics of "dummy" per-target flags
411 * tests/specflg-dummy.test: New test, ensuring that even "dummy"
412 per-target flags triggers the use of renamed objects.
413 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
414 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
416 2011-01-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
418 tests defs: sanitize IFS
419 * tests/defs.in ($IFS): Define to <space>, <tab>, <newline>.
420 ($sp): New variable, holding a single whitespace character.
421 ($tab): New variable, holding a tabulation character.
422 ($nl): New variable, holding a newline character.
424 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
426 tests: fix VPATH auto-expansion workarounds.
427 * tests/parallel-tests8.test, tests/suffix13.test:
428 Ensure $< is not surrounded by white space, to prevent Solaris
429 make from applying automatic VPATH text expansion.
431 2011-01-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
433 tests: fix spurious failures in yflags*.test
434 * tests/yflags.test: Remove 'YACC' from the environment, so
435 that it won't be erroneously picked up by `make -e'.
436 * tests/yflags2.test: Likewise.
438 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
440 tests: avoid fn99*.test failures due to buggy AIX 5.3 cp -R.
441 * tests/fn99.test, tests/fn99subdir.test: Skip if an initial
442 `cp -R' of the subdir tree already fails; AIX 5.3 cp messes
443 up its internal memory when copying this tree.
445 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
446 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
448 Add comment to check-TESTS rule working around make 3.80 bug.
449 * lib/am/check.am (check-TESTS): Update comment.
451 2011-01-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
453 tests: less strict double-colon spy.test again.
454 * tests/spy.test: We know BSD make doesn't invoke more than one
455 double-colon rule, so no need to expose that failure.
457 2011-01-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
459 install-sh: avoid Tru64 sh `test' operator precedence issues.
460 * lib/install-sh: Protect file names and directory components
461 that consist of `=', `(', `)', or `!'. Move protection as early
462 as possible, to avoid errors such as with Tru64 sh `test -z ='.
463 * tests/instsh2.test: Extend test to cover more possibilities.
464 Fixes 1.12 instspc-equal-install.test failure on Tru64/OSF 5.1.
466 2011-01-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
467 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
469 docs: automake testsuite doesn't use TESTS_ENVIRONMENT anymore
470 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Do not claim Automake uses
471 TESTS_ENVIRONMENT for the perl driver. Instead, point to the
472 parallel-tests driver.
474 2011-01-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
476 Allow _AM_DEPENDENCIES to be used later in configure.
477 * m4/depend.m4 (_AM_DEPENDENCIES): Remove a previously existing
478 conftest.dir before recreating it.
480 Report by Eric Blake, from report by Scott McCreary against M4.
482 2011-01-18 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
484 tests: avoid failure on w32 file systems.
485 * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: SKIP if file cannot
486 be turned unreadable.
488 2011-01-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
490 tests: allow double-colon spy.test to work with HP-UX make.
491 * tests/spy.test: Fix comment typos. Ensure prerequisites we
492 do not want to depend on are strictly older than the target.
493 Also test with a target out of date wrt. more than one rule.
495 2011-01-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
497 tests: remove useless requirements from cond36.test
498 * tests/cond36.test ($required): Remove.
499 Since we are at it, add a trailing `:' command.
501 2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
502 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
504 parallel-tests: work around Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh read bugs.
505 * lib/am/check.am ($(TEST_SUITE_LOG), recheck, recheck-html):
506 Test file readability before redirecting input from it, to avoid
507 exiting Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh which treats read as special builtin.
508 * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: New test.
509 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
512 2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
514 * NEWS, README: Update copyright years.
516 Fix parallel-tests.test failure with HP-UX make.
517 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Sleep inside inner tests, so logs
518 are newer than logs of tests they depend on, for HP-UX make.
520 2011-01-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
522 docs: ensure example are separated with empty lines in the input
523 * doc/automake.texi (Extending aclocal, Emacs Lisp, Rebuilding)
524 (API Versioning, Renamed Objects, Multiple Outputs): Add empty
525 lines before `@example' and after `@end example' lines, so info
526 output is rendered correctly, and a following @noindent honored.
527 Report by Stefano Lattarini.
529 2011-01-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
531 tests: fix comment typo
532 * tests/substref.test: Fix grammar in a comment.
534 2011-01-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
536 tests: fix spurious failures in two texinfo tests
537 * tests/txinfo.test ($required): Add 'makeinfo'.
538 * tests/txinfo8.test: Create a dummy 'textutils.info' file, so
539 that make won't try to run makeinfo (which could be unavailable)
541 Found by NixOS Hydra, reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
543 2011-01-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
545 Avoid testsuite failures due to Autoconf Fortran change.
546 Autoconf v2.68-21-g727ce95 causes AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS to
547 require computing the canonical host name. Ensure config.guess
548 and config.sub files are present for respective checks.
549 * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Add stub files.
550 * tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
551 * tests/fort4.test: Use $AUTOMAKE -a for installing files.
553 2011-01-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
555 docs: clustered '-d' not recognized in YFLAGS
556 This change fixes automake bug#7828.
557 * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Document that automake
558 recognizes '-d' in AM_YFLAGS only if it's not clustered with
560 From a report by Юрий Пухальский.
562 2011-01-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
564 tests: add checks on automatically-distributed files
565 Related to automake bug#7819.
566 * tests/autodist.test: New test.
567 * tests/autodist-subdir.test: Likewise.
568 * tests/autodist-acconfig.test: Likewise.
569 * tests/autodist-acconfig-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
570 * tests/autodist-aclocal-m4.test: Likewise.
571 * tests/autodist-config-headers.test: Likewise.
572 * tests/autodist-configure-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
573 * tests/autodist-stamp-vti.test: Likewise.
574 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
576 2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
578 tests: work around a texi+cygnus bug causing a spurious XFAIL
579 * tests/txinfo5b.test: New test, like txinfo5.test but calling
580 automake with the `-Wno-override' option to work around a bug
581 in the texinfo + cygnus interaction.
582 * tests/txinfo5.test: Update heading comments.
583 * tests/Makefile.am (TEST): Updated.
585 2011-01-09 Dave Hart <davehart@gmail.com> (tiny change)
587 Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
588 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
590 2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
592 Improve, extend and tweak tests on Texinfo support.
593 * tests/instdir-texi.test: Add a call to `ls -l' after that to
594 `make', for debugging. When looking for required tools, do not
595 redirect the output of "$tool --help" to /dev/null, and do not
596 uselessly run it in a subshell.
597 * tests/txinfo.test: Rewritten to run autoconf, ./configure and
598 make. All checks moved into Makefile.am.
599 * tests/txinfo8.test: Likewise, and modernize the generated
601 * tests/txinfo2.test: Moved checks into Makefile.am, and other
603 * tests/txinfo5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
604 changes. Add trailing `:' command.
605 * tests/txinfo6.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
606 Makefile.in stricter.
607 * tests/txinfo7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
608 changes. Add trailing `:' command. Do not add unnecessary stuff
610 * tests/txinfo9.test: Verify that more targets which are expected
611 to be generated only once really are. Make grepping less strict,
612 to avoid exposing too much internal details. More minor changes.
613 * tests/txinfo16.test: Add trailing `:'. Prefer cat over echo
614 for appending to configure.in. Updated/fixed heading comments.
615 * tests/txinfo23.test: Likewise, and extended a little by making
616 it check that no info file is created in the $(srcdir).
617 * tests/txinfo24.test: Likewise.
618 * tests/txinfo25.test: Likewise.
619 * tests/txinfo18.test: Add trailing `:'. Prefer cat over echo
620 for appending to configure.in. Also, check that index files are
621 cleaned also by "make clean", not only by "make distclean".
622 * tests/txinfo22.test: Prefer `$me' over hard-coded test name,
623 and added trailing `:' command. This testcase also used to check
624 that automake ignores in-line comments when using variables, but
625 preserves them in the output; these checks (added in commit
626 "Release-1-7f-4-g9177ef8") do not really pertain to this test,
627 so they have been moved ...
628 * tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: ... into this new test.
629 * tests/txinfo4.test: Escape literal dots in grep regexps. Add
630 trailing `:' command.
631 * tests/txinfo29.test: Likewise. Relax grepping of generated
632 Makefile.in w.r.t. whitespaces. Prefer `cat' over `echo' to
633 append to configure.in.
634 * tests/txinfo3.test: Likewise.
635 * tests/vtexi.test: Improve grepping of Makefile.in (sometimes
636 make it stricter, sometimes laxer). Move `set -e' setting just
637 after the inclusion of ./defs. De-uglify a sed command. Other
638 minor cosmetic improvements.
639 * tests/vtexi2.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in stricter. Add
640 trailing `:' command.
641 * tests/vtexi3.test: New test on version.texi support.
642 * tests/vtexi4.test: Likewise.
643 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
645 2011-01-09 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
647 Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
648 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
650 2011-01-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
652 cosmetics: remove trailing whitespaces
653 * doc/automake.texi: Remove trailing whitespaces.
654 * tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
655 * tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
656 * tests/fort4.test: Likewise.
657 * tests/fort5.test: Likewise.
658 * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
659 * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
661 automake: minor fixes in comments
662 * automake.in: Some minor fixes and enhancements in comments.
664 2011-01-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
666 Add test coverage for deleted header files.
667 * tests/depcomp6.test, tests/depcomp7.test: Update tests to
668 also check for the deleted header bug. If no dependency
669 tracking mechanism could be found, SKIP rather than exit
670 successfully. Use GNU style spacing and ANSI C prototypes.
672 Fix typos in Rule.pm comments.
673 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typos in comments.
675 docs: split 'amhello Explained' node.
676 * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Split node ...
677 (amhello's configure.ac Setup Explained)
678 (amhello's Makefile.am Setup Explained) : ... into these two.
679 (Top, Hello World): Adjust, and add @anchor for stable URL links.
680 Suggestion by Karl Berry in automake bug#7766.
682 2011-01-08 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
683 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
685 docs: reference defining directories in amhello node.
686 * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Point to Autoconf
687 manual for how to convert directory values into macros.
688 (Optional): Fix grammar nit.
690 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
692 * NEWS: Fix typo (forgotten word).
694 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
695 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
697 docs: how to work around checks on invalid primary/directory couples
698 * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): Document the blessed idiom which can
699 be used to work around automake checks on invalid primary/directory
700 couples (such as `lib_PROGRAMS' or `doc_LIBRARIES').
702 2011-01-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
704 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
705 * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
708 Fix maintainer-check regression.
709 * tests/subobj11a.test: Pass DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS in the
712 Bump copyright years.
713 * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
714 * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
715 * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
717 2010-12-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
718 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
720 Work around a bug in file-inclusion mechanism of Solaris make.
721 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): In the name of the
722 dependency file: collapse multiple slash characters into a single
724 * tests/subobj11a.test: New test.
725 * tests/subobj11b.test: Likewise.
726 * tests/subobj11c.test: Likewise.
727 * tests/depcomp8a.test: Likewise.
728 * tests/depcomp8b.test: Likewise.
729 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
731 Report by Stefano Lattarini, quick fix by Ralf Wildenhues, final
732 patch and tests by Stefano Lattarini.
734 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
736 Fix two spurious testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5.
737 * tests/suffix13.test (Makefile.am): Account for VPATH issues on
738 weaker make implementations (e.g. IRIX 6.5).
739 * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise, plus a required related
741 Reported by Ralf Wildenhues. The bugs have been there from the
742 first versions of the affected test scripts.
744 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
746 docs: cygnus mode doesn't require AM_CYGWIN32 macro.
747 * doc/automake.texi (Cygnus): Mode 'cygnus' does not require
748 the AM_CYGWIN32 macro (and indeed hasn't required it since at
749 least commit Release-1-2-31-g3038064 "merged changes from
750 Cygnus" of 1997-08-25).
752 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
754 distlinksbrk.test: Work around botched "make -k".
755 * tests/distlinksbrk.test: Run "make" multiple times and grep
756 its output each time for a single error message, rather than
757 running "make -k" one single time and grepping its output for
758 all the expected error messages. This should work around make
759 implementations with limited (broken?) `-k' support; for more
760 information, see these subthreads on the automake-patches list:
761 - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on HP-UX 11.23",
762 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00162.html>
763 - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5",
764 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00166.html>
766 2010-12-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
768 Fix sed-related buglet in test "subdir5.test"
769 * tests/subdir5.test: Always terminate text passed to the
770 `i' sed command with a newline, to work around limitations
771 in e.g. older OpenBSD sed.
773 2010-12-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
775 docs: fix blunder in example about python extension modules
776 * doc/automake.texi (Python): Use `quaternion_la_SOURCES',
777 not `quaternion_SOURCES', to declare the sources of python
778 extension module `quaternion.la'.
780 2010-12-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
782 docs: list LTLIBRARIES among Automake primaries
783 * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): List `LTLIBRARIES' among
784 the Automake primaries.
786 2010-12-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
788 Improve tests on generated portions of configure help screen.
789 * tests/help-depend.test: Grepping of configure help screen
790 relaxed to cater for possible line wrapping, and tightened in
792 * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
793 * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
794 * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
795 * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
796 * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
797 * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
798 * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
799 * tests/help-init.test: Grepping of configure help screen
802 2010-12-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
804 Avoid running installed automake from 'libtool --help'.
805 * tests/subobj9.test: Export AUTOCONF and AUTOMAKE.
806 Together with fixed Libtool, this fixes check-coverage to not
807 invoke installed automake.
809 2010-11-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
811 Fix spurious failures in `silent*.test' for $CC != gcc
812 In some tests on automake-produced silent rules, we forced the
813 use of gcc depmode to improve testsuite coverage; but this has
814 unsurprisingly led to spurious failures when some non-GNU C
815 compilers were used. So we are now careful to require GCC in
816 tests that force gcc depmode.
817 From reports by Ralf Wildenhues.
818 * silent5.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
819 * silent-many-generic.test, silent-many-gcc.test: ... these new
820 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
822 * silentlex.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
823 * silent-lex-generic.test, silent-lex-gcc.test: ... these new
824 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
826 * silentyacc.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
827 * silent-yacc-generic.test, silent-yacc-gcc.test: ... these new
828 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
830 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
832 2010-11-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
834 Tests: consistently use "|| Exit 1" after ". ./defs".
835 * tests/autohdr.test: Use `. ./defs || Exit 1', not bare
836 `. ./defs', for consistency with other tests.
837 * tests/autohdr2.test: Likewise.
838 * tests/autohdr3.test: Likewise.
839 * tests/autohdr4.test: Likewise.
840 * tests/cond23.test: Likewise.
841 * tests/cond24.test: Likewise.
842 * tests/cond25.test: Likewise.
843 * tests/cond26.test: Likewise.
844 * tests/cond27.test: Likewise.
845 * tests/cond28.test: Likewise.
846 * tests/cond29.test: Likewise.
847 * tests/cond30.test: Likewise.
848 * tests/cond31.test: Likewise.
849 * tests/cond32.test: Likewise.
850 * tests/cond33.test: Likewise.
851 * tests/cond34.test: Likewise.
852 * tests/cond35.test: Likewise.
853 * tests/cond36.test: Likewise.
854 * tests/cond37.test: Likewise.
855 * tests/cond38.test: Likewise.
856 * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
857 * tests/cond40.test: Likewise.
858 * tests/cond41.test: Likewise.
859 * tests/cond42.test: Likewise.
860 * tests/cond43.test: Likewise.
861 * tests/cond44.test: Likewise.
862 * tests/cond45.test: Likewise.
863 * tests/dollarvar.test: Likewise.
864 * tests/dollarvar2.test: Likewise.
865 * tests/hfs.test: Likewise.
866 * tests/libobj14.test: Likewise.
867 * tests/percent.test: Likewise.
868 * tests/percent2.test: Likewise.
869 * tests/phony.test: Likewise.
870 * tests/silent.test: Likewise.
871 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
872 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
873 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
874 * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
875 * tests/silent6.test: Likewise.
876 * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
877 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
878 * tests/silentcxx.test: Likewise.
879 * tests/silentf77.test: Likewise.
880 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
881 * tests/silentlex.test: Likewise.
882 * tests/silentyacc.test: Likewise.
884 Avoid useless cleaning in some `silent*.test' tests.
885 * tests/silentf77.test: Removed useless calls to "make clean"
886 and "make maintainer-clean".
887 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
888 * tests/silent3.test: Removed useless call to "make distclean".
889 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
890 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
892 2010-11-19 Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
894 Sync config-ml.in from GCC.
895 * config-ml.in: Add Go support: treat GOC and GOCFLAGS like other
896 compiler/flag environment variables.
898 2010-11-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
900 Automake::Config: remove extra trailing semicolon.
901 * lib/Automake/Config.in: Remove extra trailing semicolon.
903 help4.test: fix botched heading comment.
904 * tests/help4.test: Fixed the heading comment, since it
905 didn't correctly describe what checks the testcase was
908 help2.test: add checks on aclocal too.
909 * tests/help2.test: Check that also `aclocal --version' and
910 `aclocal --help' work with configure.in and acinclude.m4 both
913 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
915 Fix spurious failures of silent-rules tests with Sun Fortran.
916 * tests/silentf77.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
917 messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers, to
918 avoid spurious failures. Add a trailing `:' command.
919 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
921 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
923 Fix spurious failures of silent5.test with Sun Fortran.
924 * tests/silent5.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
925 messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers,
926 to avoid spurious failures. This bug has been there from the
927 very first version of this test script.
929 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
931 Fix regression in colon{5,6}.test (failures on AIX 5.3).
932 * tests/colon5.test: Also substitute `@SHELL@' with `$SHELL' when
933 post-processing the generated Makefile.in, to work around a bug
934 of AIX 5.3 make which doesn't allow setting the `$(SHELL)' macro
935 on the commend line. Calls to `$MAKE' adjusted accordingly.
936 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
937 Regression introduced in commit v1.11-175-gf9fe878 "Modernize,
938 improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test", and reported by Ralf
941 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
943 Fix regression in ansi.test (failure on AIX 5.3).
944 * tests/ansi.test: Remove redundant hackish check done using a
945 hand-postprocessed Makefile.in. This check worked by setting
946 the `$(SHELL)' macro on the command line of make, but this is
947 not supported by the AIX 5.3 make implementation.
948 This bug has been lurking for a long time, and was activated by
949 commit v1.11-125-gc1f6cdb "Enable `errexit' shell flag in various
950 tests". Report by Ralf Wildenhues.
952 2010-11-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
954 tests: avoid '##'-style comments inside recipe commands.
955 * tests/confh.test, tests/confh8.test: Remove
956 double-hash comments from makefile rule commands, they
957 are not part of the Automake API.
959 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
961 tests: work around dash quoting issue in case statements.
962 * tests/color.test, tests/color2.test: Quote variable in case
963 pattern, to avoid skipping tests with dash 0.5.5.1.
965 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
967 Rebuild menus in the manual.
968 * doc/automake.texi: Rebuild menus (using ^C ^U ^A in emacs).
969 Thanks to Ian Lance Taylor for the suggestion.
971 Fix install-strip when $(STRIP) contains several words.
972 * lib/am/install.am (install-strip): Update comment. Use
973 separate sub-make invocations for empty and nonempty $(STRIP),
974 to fix quoting issues.
975 * tests/strip2.test, tests/strip3.test: New tests.
976 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Adjust.
978 2010-11-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
980 Fix yaccdry.test failure: require bison.
981 * tests/yaccdry.test: Require bison.
982 Found by NixOS Hydra.
984 2010-11-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
986 Fix a bug in variable concatenation with `+='.
987 * lib/Automake/VarDef.pm (append): Since the content of the
988 "appended-to" variable is going to be unconditionally normalized
989 later, simply separate the appended value with a single whitespace
990 character, instead of trying to be uselessly smarter by using
991 escaped newlines. This fixes a bug in which extra backslashes
992 where erroneously inserted in the variable's final value.
993 * tests/pluseq11.test: New test, exposing the bug.
994 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
995 Reported by Andy Wingo.
997 2010-11-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
999 Fix bug in rules for creating vala vapi/header files.
1000 * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Add forgotten "fi" in an
1001 if control structure in a generated make rules. Bug introduced
1002 by previous commit `v1.11-221-gd7c1679', and revealed by failure
1003 of test `vala2.test'.
1005 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1007 Fix and document rules to not touch the tree with `make -n'.
1008 * doc/automake.texi (Multiple Outputs): Document the problem of
1009 modifications during dry-run execution, propose solution.
1011 * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Split recipe so the
1012 stamp file is not removed with GNU `make -n'.
1013 (lang_yacc_target_hook): Separate removal of parser output file
1014 and header remaking.
1015 * lib/am/lisp.am ($(am__ELCFILES)): Determine whether -n was
1016 passed to make, take care not to remove any files in that case.
1017 * lib/am/remake-hdr.am (%CONFIG_H%): Separate removal of
1018 %STAMP% file from induced remaking of config header.
1019 * tests/autohdrdry.test, tests/lispdry.test, tests/yaccdry.test:
1021 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1023 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1025 Add FAQ entry for bug reporting instructions.
1026 * doc/automake.texi (Reporting Bugs): New section.
1027 (Introduction): Refer to it.
1029 2010-10-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1031 Add support for newer python versions.
1032 * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Add python2.7 and python3.2 to
1033 _AM_PYTHON_INTERPRETER_LIST. Since we are at it, break a long
1034 line and fix indentation.
1036 From a report by Thomas Klausner.
1038 Add test for `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' macro.
1039 * tests/dmalloc.test: New test.
1040 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1042 Fix nits and bugs in tests `help*.test'.
1043 * tests/help4.test: Fix broken sed commands used to strip `-W...'
1044 flags away from "$AUTOMAKE" and "$ACLOCAL".
1045 * tests/help3.test: Likewise, and fix a botched comment.
1046 * tests/help.test: Likewise. Also, use "AUTOMAKE_fails ..."
1047 instead of "$AUTOMAKE ... && Exit 1", for consistency and to
1048 please maintainer-check.
1049 * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
1051 2010-10-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1052 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1054 Improve tests `help*.test' (also fixes maintcheck failures).
1055 * tests/help.test: To run automake, use `$AUTOMAKE' with all `-W'
1056 flags stripped away rather than hard-coded `automake-$APIVERSION',
1057 to better honour user-overrides. Similarly for aclocal.
1058 * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
1059 * tests/help3.test: Likewise.
1060 * tests/help4.test: Likewise.
1062 2010-10-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1064 Document and fix expansion of variables before rules.
1065 * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Document that variables
1066 are expanded before rules.
1067 * lib/am/check.am (am__check_post): Reword a bit so it does not
1068 get matched as a rule.
1069 Suggestion by Ben Pfaff.
1071 2010-10-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1073 Revert "parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue."
1074 This reverts commit 24e3b4ee2f8cb9f72dd94a05a893f3d4e88b7835,
1075 because it re-opened the bug fixed by v1.11-10-g218e678.
1077 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1079 parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
1080 * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
1081 substitution %MAKEFILE%.
1082 (generate_makefile): Adjust.
1083 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
1084 sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
1085 input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
1088 Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
1090 2010-09-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1092 Extend tests on `--help' and `--version' options.
1093 * tests/help.test: Create a new empty directory and chdir into
1094 it, rather than removing already present files. Run the aclocal
1095 and automake wrapper scripts directly, instead of relying on
1096 $AUTOMAKE and $ACLOCAL. Be sure to correctly match literal dots
1097 in aclocal's and automake's stderr. Add a trailing `:' command.
1098 * tests/help2.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
1099 `--version' works in directories with broken `configure.in'.
1100 * tests/help3.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
1101 `--version' take precedence on the other options.
1102 * tests/help4.test: New test, checking that the first among the
1103 `--help' and `--version' options to be specified on the command
1105 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1107 2010-09-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1109 Testsuite: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when extending PATH.
1110 * tests/compile2.test: Do no uselessly (implicitly) repeat the
1111 computation of PATH_SEPARATOR again.
1112 * tests/instmany-mans.test: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when
1113 extending/redefining PATH.
1114 * tests/instmany-python.test: Likewise.
1115 * tests/instmany.test: Likewise.
1116 * tests/man4.test: Likewise.
1117 * tests/mkinst3.test: Likewise.
1118 * tests/mmodely.test: Likewise.
1119 * tests/multlib.test: Likewise.
1120 * tests/txinfo30.test: Likewise.
1121 * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
1123 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_PATH_SEPARATOR): New maintainer check.
1124 (syntax_check_rules): Updated.
1126 Testsuite: new variables `$PATH_SEPARATOR' and `$APIVERSION'.
1127 * tests/defs.in ($APIVERSION): New AC_SUBST'd variable.
1128 ($ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE): Use it.
1129 ($PATH_SEPARATOR): New AC_SUBST'd variables.
1132 2010-09-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1134 Manual: be more agnostic w.r.t. version control system used.
1135 * doc/automake.texi (Basics of Distribution): Also refer to `.svn'
1136 directories as a type of probably-unwanted files that are copied
1137 regardless when adding directories to EXTRA_DIST.
1138 (The dist Hook): Show a dist-hook example which removes Subversion
1139 `.svn' private directories from distdir, rather than CVS private
1141 (missing and AM_MAINTAINER_MODE): Try to be more agnostic w.r.t.
1142 the version control system used.
1144 Manual: index refer to target "git-dist", not "cvs-dist".
1145 * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Index the non-standard
1146 example about "git-dist" under the "git-dist" label, not under
1149 Perl modules: remove references to "Automake CVS repository".
1150 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Update comments to refer to "Automke's
1151 git repository" rather than to "Automake's CVS repository".
1152 * lib/Automake/Configure_ac.pm: Likewise.
1153 * lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm: Likewise.
1154 * lib/Automake/Struct.pm: Likewise.
1155 * lib/Automake/XFile.pm: Likewise.
1156 * lib/Automake/Version.pm (=head1 DESCRIPTION): Refer to "git
1157 branches" rather than "CVS branches".
1159 Remove obsolete .cvsignore files.
1160 * .cvsignore, doc/.cvsignore, lib/.cvsignore, lib/am/.cvsignore,
1161 lib/Automake/.cvsignore, lib/Automake/tests/.cvsignore,
1162 m4/.cvsignore, tests/.cvsignore: Files deleted. Even when using
1163 savannah's CVS readonly mirror there's no way to commit back to
1164 the real repository, so this files are not worth maintaining or
1167 2010-09-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1169 * m4/dmalloc.m4: Bump serial number and copyright years.
1171 2010-09-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1173 Fix broken link in `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' help screen.
1174 * m4/dmalloc.m4 (AM_WITH_DMALLOC): Refer only to the dmalloc site
1175 `http://www.dmalloc.com', not to the dmalloc tarball there (which
1176 seems to have been removed, substituted by multiple release
1179 2010-09-17 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
1181 Avoid triple-space after period.
1182 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): Avoid 3 spaces at
1184 * ChangeLog.03: Likewise.
1185 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Likewise.
1186 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (_print_message): Likewise.
1187 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm (rule): Likewise.
1188 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (var): Likewise.
1189 * lib/am/distdir.am: Likewise.
1190 * tests/insthook.test: Likewise.
1192 2010-09-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1194 Test automake-generated portions of configure help screen.
1195 * tests/help-depend.test: New test.
1196 * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
1197 * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
1198 * tests/help-init.test: Likewise.
1199 * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
1200 * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
1201 * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
1202 * tests/help-regex.test: Likewise.
1203 * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
1204 * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
1205 * tests/mmode.test: Remove tests on `configure --help' output,
1206 they are superseded by tests in `help-maintainer.test'.
1207 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1209 2010-09-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1211 * tests/README: Don't put GCS mandated tools in $required.
1213 2010-09-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1215 * HACKING: Hint at old commits with `git describe' output.
1217 2010-09-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1219 Fix regression in test `colon4.test'.
1220 * tests/colon4.test: Fix botched editing to `configure.in'
1221 that made the test useless. Since we are at it, improve
1222 comments and make grepping of generated Makefile.in slightly
1224 Regression introduced by change "Modernize, improve and/or
1225 extend tests `colon*.test" (Stefano Lattarini, 2010-08-08).
1227 2010-09-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1229 Do not require "gzip" explicitly in tests.
1230 The gzip utility is simply expected to be present on any decent
1231 target system for Automake. So it's pointless to put it in
1233 * tests/install2.test ($required): Do not require "gzip".
1234 * tests/lex3.test: Likewise.
1235 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
1236 From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
1238 Make some `confh*.test' tests more "semantic" (plus tweakings).
1239 * tests/confh.test: Run "autoconf", "configure" and "make check",
1240 instead of munging/grepping the generated `Makefile.in'.
1241 * tests/confh4.test: Relax the grepping of Makefile.in w.r.t.
1242 white spaces. Do not create useless dummy source file `foo.c'
1243 and useless dummy header file `acconfig.h'.
1244 (configure.in): Remove superfluous call to `AC_OUTPUT'.
1245 * tests/confh6.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1246 * tests/confh7.test: In comments, add reference to ...
1247 * tests/confh8.test: ... this new test, "semantic" sister
1249 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1250 Prompted by a report from Ralf Wildenhues.
1252 Remove useless whitespace padding in XFAIL_TESTS definition.
1253 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Remove whitespace padding.
1255 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1257 parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
1258 * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
1259 substitution %MAKEFILE%.
1260 (generate_makefile): Adjust.
1261 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
1262 sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
1263 input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
1266 Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
1268 Posix 2008 requires make to set errexit.
1269 * lib/am/check.am: Update comment.
1271 2010-08-27 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1273 Fix bug in test missing6.test.
1274 * tests/missing6.test: Fix the hack used to edit `configure.in',
1275 to avoid producing a configure script that breaks with shells
1276 that do not support $LINENO. Also throw in a couple of cosmetic
1279 2010-08-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1281 Improve robustness of mdate-sh script.
1282 * lib/mdate-sh: Sanitize zsh behavior on startup, to ensure
1283 $ls_command is word-split properly upon invocation.
1284 (error): New function.
1285 (main): Use it. Improve error checking to avoid endless loop
1286 in case $ls_command gave bogus output. Fix eval quotation.
1287 * tests/mdate6.test: New test, to expose eval quotation error.
1288 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
1290 2010-08-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1292 Fix potential regressions in depcomp{3,5}.test.
1293 * tests/depcomp3.test: Do not uselessly escape the character `$'
1294 in makefile rules, when it's used to expand a make macro.
1295 * tests/depcomp5.test: Likewise.
1297 2010-08-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1298 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1300 Docs: clarify how to avoid automatic dependencies tracking.
1301 * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Mention that
1302 automatic dependencies tracking is enabled by default, but that
1303 the package developer can disable it altogether. Add a reference
1304 to the proper section for a more in-depth explanation.
1306 Fix typo in manual (`Makefile.in' instead of `Makefile.am').
1307 * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Fix typo.
1309 2010-08-16 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
1311 Don't hide the table of contents.
1312 * doc/automake.texi: Move the table of contents to the beginning.
1314 2010-08-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1316 Tweak and/or extend some `acloca*.test' tests.
1317 * tests/aclocal8.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured
1319 * tests/aclocal.test: Likewise. Also, add trailing `:'
1321 * tests/acloca19.test: Likewise.
1322 * tests/aclocal5.test: Add trailing `:' command, and prefer
1323 `$me' over hard-coded test name.
1324 * tests/aclocal6.test: Likewise.
1325 * tests/aclocal18.test: Add trailing `:' command, and make
1326 some grepping slightly stricter.
1327 * tests/acloca14.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `diff' over
1328 `cmp', and add some "cosmetic" blank lines.
1330 2010-08-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1332 Tweak and extend tests `pr[!0-9]*.test'.
1333 * tests/primary3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1334 * tests/primary.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
1335 Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
1336 * tests/primary2.test: Likewise.
1337 * tests/prefix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
1338 changes. Add a trailing `:' command.
1339 * tests/proginst.test: Likewise.
1341 Modernize, improve and extend tests for PR (`pr[0-9]*.test').
1342 * tests/pr2.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1343 * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
1344 * tests/pr401.test: Likewise.
1345 * tests/pr401b.test: Likewise.
1346 * tests/pr401c.test: Likewise.
1347 * tests/pr300-prog.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic changes in
1349 * tests/pr300-lib.test: Likewise.
1350 * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise, and ensure verbose printing
1351 of captured make stdout.
1352 * tests/pr211.test: Add trailing `:' command. Also, use the
1353 `configure.in' stub created by ./defs, rather than writing it
1355 * tests/pr204.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic spacing changes.
1356 * tests/pr287.test: Likewise, and move setting of `errexit' shell
1357 flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs).
1358 * tests/pr220.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
1359 Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
1360 * tests/pr224.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1361 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Do not export
1362 `CC=gcc' to configure explicitly (it's already exported globally
1363 in ./defs, since we have "gcc" in $required). Use the stub for
1364 `configure.in' created by ./defs, rather than writing it from
1365 scratch. Do not create dummy files required by "gnu" mode (e.g.
1366 README, NEWS), since we run automake in foreign mode anyway.
1367 * tests/pr72.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
1368 changes. Extend existing checks a bit.
1369 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise. Also, avoid obsolescent constructs in
1370 the generated `configure.in', and extend existing checks over the
1371 generated tarball a bit.
1372 * tests/pr87.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
1373 changes. Add a trailing `:' command. Also, do not create dummy
1374 files required by "gnu" mode (e.g. README, NEWS), since we run
1375 automake in foreign mode anyway.
1376 * tests/pr243.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
1377 `configure.in'. Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
1378 changes. Cosmetic changes to spacing, add trailing `:' command,
1379 and add a "FIXME" comment.
1380 * tests/pr266.test: Likewise, and add explicit command line switch
1381 `--enable-dependecy-tracking' to the ./configure call.
1382 * tests/pr279.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
1383 `configure.in'; also, use the `configure.in' stub created by
1384 ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch. Enable `errexit'
1385 shell flag, and related changes. Add trailing `:' command.
1386 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
1388 * tests/pr307.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1389 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Escape literal
1390 dots in grep regular expressions. Also, add a trailing `:'
1391 command, and cosmetic changes to spacing.
1393 Tests for PR: add excerpts from original bug report, for clarity.
1394 * tests/pr2.test: Ditto.
1395 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
1396 * tests/pr72.test: Likewise.
1397 * tests/pr87.test: Likewise.
1398 * tests/pr211.test: Likewise.
1399 * tests/pr220.test: Likewise.
1400 * tests/pr224.test: Likewise.
1401 * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
1402 * tests/pr243.test: Likewise.
1403 * tests/pr266.test: Likewise.
1404 * tests/pr279.test: Likewise, and tell to keep it in sync
1405 with its sister test.
1406 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
1408 2010-08-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1410 Tweak, extend and improve tests `cond[a-z]*.test'.
1411 * tests/condd.test: Add trailing `:' command. Typofix in
1413 * tests/condhook.test: Make sure target `install-data-hook' is
1414 not called by `make install', but that data files are installed.
1415 Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in. Add trailing `:' command.
1416 * tests/condhook2.test: New test, sister test of condhook, with
1418 * tests/condinc2.test: Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
1419 Prefer trailing `:' command over trailing `Exit 0'.
1420 * tests/condman2.test: Enable errexit shell flag, and related
1421 changes. Add trailing `:' command.
1422 * tests/condman.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless
1423 dummy manpages, and use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
1424 * tests/condman3.test: New test, similar to condman.test, but
1425 it also runs ./configure and "make install", and check the
1427 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1429 Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test.
1430 * tests/colon.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
1431 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Do not create
1432 a useless dummy file. Add trailing `:' command.
1433 * tests/colon4.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
1434 related changes. Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
1435 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1436 * tests/colon7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1437 changes. Improve the generated `configure.in' file. Add
1438 trailing `:' command.
1439 * tests/colon2.test: Likewise. Also, add some new checks.
1440 * tests/colon5.test: Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
1441 Add new, much deeper checks. Add trailing `:' command.
1442 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
1443 * tests/colon3.test: Add trailing `:' command. Remove useless
1444 comments and echos. Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
1445 make some grepping tests stricter. Add a "FIXME" comments about
1446 planned improvements.
1448 Improve and extend tests `asm*.test'.
1449 * tests/asm.test: Use configure.in stub generated by ./defs,
1450 and avoid obsoleted autoconf constructs. Make grepping of
1451 Automake stderr stricter. Do not create useless source file.
1452 Improve verbose messages. Minor cosmetic changes. Tell to
1453 keep it in sync with other sister tests asm*.test.
1454 * tests/asm2.test: Likewise.
1455 * tests/asm3.test: Likewise.
1457 Modernize, improve and/or extend test scripts `conf*.test'.
1458 * tests/confh5.test: Cosmetic changes.
1459 * tests/conff.test: Likewise.
1460 * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise.
1461 * tests/conflnk.test: Likewise.
1462 * tests/conflnk2.test: Likewise.
1463 * tests/confsub.test: Likewise.
1464 * tests/confvar.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
1466 * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
1467 * tests/conflnk3.test: Cosmetic changes. Re-enable a temporarily
1468 disabled test (which didn't work with autoconf <= 2.59, but now we
1469 are requiring autoconf 2.62, so...)
1470 * tests/conflnk4.test: Cosmetic changes, and extend existing tests
1471 accordingly to "TODO" comments.
1472 * tests/conff2.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
1473 Add some comments explaining why we don't use the `configure.in'
1474 stub preset be ./defs.
1475 * tests/confh.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
1476 rather than writing one from scratch, and do not call AC_OUTPUT.
1477 Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related changes. Prefer diff over
1478 cmp to compare text files. Prefer perl over sed to fetch the value
1479 of $(DIST_COMMON) from Makefile.in. Make grepping of the contents
1480 of $(DIST_COMMON) stricter.
1481 * tests/confh4.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
1482 rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping of Makefile.in
1484 * tests/confh5.test: Make grepping of `config.h' stricter. Add a
1486 * tests/configure.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in generated
1487 `configure.ac'. Do not write `configure.in' two times. Escape
1488 literal dots in grep regular expressions.
1489 * tests/confincl.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1490 changes. Prefer fgrep over grep. Other cosmetic changes.
1491 * tests/config.test: Renamed to ...
1492 * tests/confh6.test: ... this. Fix m4 quoting in `configure.in',
1493 and make grepping of `config.h' and `config.h.in' stricter.
1494 * tests/conf2.test: Renamed ...
1495 * tests/confh7.test: ... to this. Use the `configure.in' stub
1496 created by ./defs, rather than writing one from scratch. Try to
1497 run the checks both with and without AC_PROG_CC and AC_OUTPUT in
1499 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1501 Minor improvements and fixes in tests `depcomp*.test'.
1502 * tests/depcomp.test: Do not create useless dummy source files.
1503 Add a trailing `:' command.
1504 * tests/depcomp2.test: Use `unset' on the CFLAG variable to ensure
1505 it's not in in the environment, rather than exporting it with an
1506 empty value. Do not pass CC=gcc to configure, as that's already
1507 done in ./defs since we have gcc in $required. Ensure verbose
1508 printing of captured stderr, and normalize its checking. Add a
1509 trailing `:' command.
1510 * tests/depcomp3.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
1511 grep regexps. Always use `: >' rather than `touch' to create empty
1512 files. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the created
1513 Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:' command.
1514 * tests/depcomp4.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
1515 grep regexp. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the
1516 created Makefile.am. Ensure verbose printing of captured makes'
1517 stoud/stderr. Add a trailing `:' command.
1518 * tests/depcomp5.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1519 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Quote literal dots
1520 and dollar characters in grep regexps. Explicitly declare phony
1521 targets as such in the created Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:'
1523 * tests/depcomp6.test: Consistently use m4 quoting in the generated
1524 configure.in. Cosmetic fixes to spacing. Make the "dummy" `if'
1525 statement required by OpenBSD's sh `set -e' more robust, and add
1526 explanatory comments to it.
1527 * tests/depcomp7.test: Likewise, and add a trailing `:' command.
1529 Separate failing part of test `all.test'.
1530 * tests/all.test: Keep only (x)failing part of the test. Working
1531 checks moved out to ...
1532 * tests/all2.test: ... this new test.
1533 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1535 Modernize, improve and extend tests `subobj*.test'.
1536 * tests/subobjname.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1537 * tests/subobj.test: Make grepping of `Makefile.in' stricter.
1538 Escape literal dots in grep regexps.
1539 * tests/subobj2.test: Add trailing `:' command. Do not use the
1540 unportable fgrep option `-e'.
1541 * tests/subobj3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1542 (configure.in): Use proper m4 quoting, and avoid obsolescent
1544 * tests/subobj8.test: Likewise. Also, enable `errexit' shell
1545 flag, with related changes
1546 * tests/subobj4.test: Likewise. Also, make grepping of
1547 `Makefile.in' stricter.
1548 * tests/subobj5.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of
1549 `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
1551 (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
1552 writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
1553 * tests/subobj6.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of
1554 `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
1555 of ./defs). Do not create useless dummy ac-init file `f'.
1556 * tests/subobj7.test: Do not create useless dummy ac-init file
1558 (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
1559 writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
1560 * tests/subobj9.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1561 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Fail the test if
1562 `make distcheck' fails. Ensure verbose printing of captured make
1563 stdout. Avoid useless fork by doing simple grep instead of using
1564 test -n "`COMMAND | grep ...`".
1565 (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
1566 (Makefile.am): Explicitly mark target "print" as phony.
1567 * tests/subobj10.test: Removed duplicated call to `set -e'. Add
1568 trailing `:' command.
1569 (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
1571 Remove a couple of obsoleted tests.
1572 * tests/fpinstall.test: Removed.
1573 * tests/fpinst2.test: Likewise.
1574 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1576 Bootstrap: updated HACKING entry.
1577 * HACKING ("Working with git"): Explain how to override the
1578 autoconf and autom4te programs used by the bootstrap process.
1581 * bootstrap: Do not remove `lib/Automake/Config.pm' anymore,
1582 since we don't generate it. Correctly quote arguments of
1583 `eval' builtin. Fixed a botched error message. Removed an
1586 Bootstrap: don't search perl in $PATH.
1587 * bootstrap: Do not explicitly search perl in $PATH anymore.
1588 ($PATH_SEPARATOR): Removed, it's no more needed.
1590 Bootstrap: let the user choose which autoconf to use.
1591 * bootstrap ($AUTOCONF): New variable, from the environment.
1592 ($AUTOM4TE): Likewise, for clarity.
1593 Use "$AUTOCONF" instead of calling "autoconf" directly.
1595 Minor improvements to tests ar*.test.
1596 * tests/ar.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1597 * tests/ar2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
1598 Makefile.in stricter.
1600 2010-08-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1602 Fix maintainer-check failure.
1603 * tests/cond5.test: Quote sleep argument, this isn't about
1604 time stamp differences.
1606 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
1607 * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
1610 2010-08-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1612 Work around a nasty bug (segfault) of Solaris make.
1613 * lib/am/check.am (recheck, recheck-html): Trim trailing spaces
1614 from $list, to avoid triggering a nasty bug (potential segfault)
1617 2010-08-06 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
1619 Make cond5.test more robust on MSYS.
1620 * tests/cond5.test: Add delay before the first kill attempt to
1621 cater for problems with MSYS bash.
1623 2010-07-31 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1625 Add example git work flow; discuss merge --log in HACKING.
1627 Suggestion by Stefano Lattarini.
1629 Add more hints for debugging make rules.
1630 * doc/automake.texi (Debugging Make Rules): Show command to find
1631 out expanded values of variables; point to makefile debugger.
1633 Prompted by suggestion from Ludovic Courtès and Andy Wingo.
1635 2010-07-27 Patrick Welche <prlw1@cam.ac.uk> (tiny change)
1637 Fix typo in the manual.
1638 * doc/automake.texi (Scripts): Fix typo.
1640 2010-07-27 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1642 Document current policy for development with git.
1643 * HACKING (Working with git): Overhaul.
1644 Prompted by suggestion from Stefano Lattarini.
1646 Fix AM_COND_IF for gone-invalid condition shell expression.
1647 * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): test contents of $COND_TRUE
1648 variable, rather than re-evaluating the shell expression for
1650 * tests/cond40.test: Extend test.
1653 Avoid syntax error if IF-TRUE part of AM_COND_IF expands empty.
1654 * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): Ensure IF-TRUE part is never empty
1655 to avoid shell syntax error if the m4 expansion is empty.
1656 * tests/cond40.test: Enhance test.
1658 Coverage: bogus option to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
1659 * tests/init2.test: New test.
1660 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
1662 2010-07-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1664 Modernize and improve test scripts `subdir*.test'.
1665 * tests/subdir.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1666 changes. Use the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs',
1667 rather than writing one from scratch.
1668 * tests/subdir2.test: Likewise.
1669 * tests/subdir4.test: Likewise.
1670 * tests/subdir3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1671 changes. Do not create useless dummy source files.
1672 * tests/subdir5.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in (in topdir
1673 and in subdirs) stricter. Some minor changes to keep it more
1674 in sync with the related test `subdir8.test'.
1675 * tests/subdir8.test: Likewise (but with the related test being
1676 `subdir5.test' here).
1677 * tests/subdir6.test: Cosmetic change in spacing.
1678 * tests/subdir9.test: Define and use new variable `$distdir'. Add
1679 trailing `:' command.
1680 * tests/subdir10.test: Cosmetic consistency-related change.
1681 * tests/subdirbuiltsources.test: Cosmetic changes in spacings.
1682 (configure.in): Use stub created by `./defs', rather than writing
1683 it from scratch. Do not use obsoleted and/or deprecated forms of
1684 autoconf/automake macros.
1686 Modernize and improve test scripts `dist*.test'.
1687 * tests/distcleancheck.test: Do not add useless `-e' option to
1688 a $MAKE call. Extend test by grepping stderr of make.
1689 * tests/distcom2.test: Do not run the same test script on the
1690 Makefile.in twice, but save its output in an intermediate file
1691 instead. Make grepping of DIST_COMMON definition stricter.
1692 Display the content of more files, to ease debugging. Add a
1693 trailing `:' command. Improved heading comments w.r.t. sister
1695 * tests/distcom6.test: Likewise, and avoid to uselessly run
1697 * tests/distcom3.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured stdout
1698 and stderr. Make grepping of captured stderr stricter. Also,
1699 add trailing `:' command.
1700 * tests/distcom4.test: Declare the target `test' in the generated
1701 Makefile.am as `.PHONY'. Display content of more files, to ease
1702 debugging. Add trailing `:' command.
1703 * tests/distcom5.test: Likewise. Also, factor out common sed
1704 script in subroutine `extract_distcommon'.
1705 * tests/distcom7.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to write
1706 test Makefile.am files. Add a trailing `:' command.
1707 * tests/distname.test: Prefer `gzip -d' over `gunzip'. Move the
1708 call to `set -e' earlier. Be stricter and more verbose in the
1709 checking of the generated tarball.
1710 (configure.in): Use the stub provided by ./defs, instead of
1711 writing it from scratch. Avoid obsoleted constructs. Remove
1712 useless call to `AM_PROG_CC_C_O'.
1713 * tests/distdir.test: Various minor improvements/normalizations.
1714 * tests/distlinks.test: Likewise.
1716 2010-07-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1718 Improve and extend test cond5.test.
1719 * tests/cond5.test: Do not blindly sleep 60 seconds before polling
1720 the background automake process, but poll it every 10 seconds for
1721 at most 30 times (this makes the test both faster on good machines,
1722 and more resilient to spurious timeout-due failures when in low
1723 priority or on heavily-loaded systems).
1724 Check also that automake writes the expected error messages on the
1726 Enable `errexit' flag, and related changes.
1727 Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs', rather than
1728 writing one from scratch.
1730 2010-06-26 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1732 Update program --help output to match current GCS.
1733 * configure.ac: Set and substitute PACKAGE_URL if AC_PACKAGE_URL
1734 is not defined, for compatibility to Autoconf < 2.64.
1735 * Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute PACKAGE_BUGREPORT and
1737 (sc_diff_automake_in_automake): Update number of diff lines for
1738 additional substitutions.
1739 * aclocal.in (usage): Use PACKAGE_BUGREPORT. Point to Automake
1740 home page and GNU general help page.
1741 * automake.in (usage): Likewise.
1742 * doc/automake.texi: New flag PACKAGE_BUGREPORT, to factor email
1744 (Introduction, Creating amhello, amhello Explained, Options):
1746 * lib/Automake/Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute
1748 * lib/Automake/Config.in ($PACKAGE_BUGREPORT): New global.
1749 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Use it for footer of fatal
1752 Clean up @var handling in the manual.
1753 * doc/automake.texi: Throughout the manual, lower-case @var
1754 names, replace a few one-character names.
1756 2010-06-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1758 Fix typo-related bug in test script silent5.test.
1759 * tests/silent5.test: Use $EGREP, not $GREP (which is not even
1762 Tests: remove useless repetitions of `foreign' automake option.
1763 * tests/multlib.test (configure.in): Remove useless use of
1764 `foreign' option in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (the `--foreign' option is
1765 already in $AUTOMAKE by default, so no point in repeating it).
1766 * tests/subobj10.test: Likewise.
1767 * tests/subobj9.test: Likewise.
1768 * tests/lex3.test (Makefile.am): Similarly, remove useless use
1769 of `foreign' option in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
1770 * tests/lex5.test: Likewise.
1771 * tests/pr279.test: Likewise.
1772 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
1773 * tests/specflg3.test: Likewise.
1774 * tests/target-cflags.test: Likewise.
1776 Drop useless requirement "gzip" in lex5.test.
1777 * tests/lex5.test ($required): Do not list "gzip", as it's
1780 2010-06-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1782 Fix bugs in test script silent5.test.
1783 * tests/silent5.test: Fixed a nasty bug (due to the use of grep
1784 instead of egrep) that could have led to false negatives.
1786 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1788 Add a test checking that distributed broken symlinks cause
1789 `make dist' to fail.
1790 * tests/distlinksbrk.test: New test.
1791 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1793 2010-06-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1795 Fix minor testsuite issues, update docs, for Yacc/Lex changes.
1796 * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Mention AM_YFLAGS, YFLAGS
1797 and AM_LFLAGS, LFLAGS in the order in which they now appear in
1800 * tests/lflags.test, tests/lflags2.test, tests/yflags.test,
1801 tests/yflags2.test: Prefer `make -e' over `make VAR=VAL', to
1802 please maintainer-check. Ensure generated C files contain a
1803 declaration, to please compilers.
1805 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1807 Fix bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t. $(AM_FLAGS) and
1808 $(FLAGS) precedence.
1809 * automake.in: Fix registration of languages "Lex", "Lex (C++)",
1810 "Yacc" and "Yacc (C++)", so that $(LFLAGS) has precedence over
1811 $(AM_LFLAGS) and $(YFLAGS) has precedence over $(AM_YFLAGS).
1812 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1815 New tests, exposing bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t.
1816 $(AM_FLAGS) and $(FLAGS) precedence.
1817 * tests/lflags.test: New test, check that user $(LFLAGS) takes
1818 precedence over automake (AM_LFLAGS) and (foo_LFLAGS). Still
1820 * tests/lflags2.test: Likewise.
1821 * tests/yflags.test: New test, check that user $(YFLAGS) takes
1822 precedence over automake (AM_YFLAGS) and (foo_YFLAGS). Still
1824 * tests/yflags2.test: Likewise.
1825 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Extended accordingly.
1827 2010-06-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1829 Modernize, improve and extend tests `suffix*.test'.
1830 * tests/suffix3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1832 * tests/suffix4.test: Likewise.
1833 * tests/suffix6.test: Likewise, and do not create a useless dummy
1835 * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
1836 * tests/suffix5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1837 changes. Make grepping of Makefile.in slightly stricter.
1838 * tests/suffix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1839 changes. Also, do not redirect grep output to /dev/null, as this
1840 might unmotivatedly hide useful information.
1841 * tests/suffix2.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1842 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Use a more
1843 idiomatic way to count text occurrences in Makefile.in with
1844 grep. Do not create useless dummy source files.
1845 * tests/suffix10.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured make
1846 stdout. Minor cosmetic changes.
1847 * tests/suffix8.test: Likewise. Also, drop useless call to the
1848 env(1) utility, and make grepping of make output stricter by using
1849 $FGREP rather than plain grep.
1850 * tests/suffix11.test: Likewise.
1851 * tests/suffix12.test: Likewise.
1852 * tests/suffix9.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to append to
1853 the `configure.in' stub. Cosmetic changes.
1854 * tests/suffix13.test: Cosmetic spacing change.
1856 2010-06-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1858 Add useful comment in test script ext.test.
1859 * tests/ext.test: Add a comment explaining why an apparently
1860 useless `if' statement is indeed required.
1862 Add useful comment in test script obsolete.test.
1863 * tests/obsolete.test: Add a comment explaining why we need
1864 an indirection in adding $AUTOUPDATE to $required.
1866 Normalize whitespaces in 'tests/Makefile.am'.
1867 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Use only spaces, not tabs, in the
1868 definition of this variable.
1870 2010-06-12 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1872 Remove a couple of unneeded conditionals from tests.
1873 * tests/pr243.test, tests/pr266.test, tests/strip.test: No need
1874 for the FOOTEST conditional.
1876 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1878 Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
1879 * tests/symlink3.test: Deleted, separated into two new, more
1881 * tests/forcemiss.test: ... this one ...
1882 * tests/forcemiss2.test: ... and this one.
1883 * tests/symlink2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, make test
1884 stricter, and skip it if symlink creation is not supported.
1885 * tests/postproc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, related
1886 changes, and a couple of unrelated cosmetic changes.
1887 * tests/recurs.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
1888 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping
1889 of Automake stderr slightly stricter.
1890 * tests/substtarg.test: Likewise.
1891 * tests/strip.test: Likewise, and move the call to `set -e'
1892 earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs'). Also, make sure
1893 that the script installed by `make install-script' is equal to
1895 * tests/substref.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
1896 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Move the call
1897 to `set -e' earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs').
1898 Avoid to explicitly export CC for configure (that's already done
1899 in ./defs). Avoid potential problems with unpredictable make
1900 output. Finally, make grepping of Makefile.in stricter.
1901 * tests/substre2.test: Ensure verbose printing of the captured
1902 make's output, and make its grepping slightly stricter.
1903 * tests/cygwin32.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1904 changes. Also, do not create useless dummy source/data files.
1905 * tests/scripts.test: Likewise.
1906 * tests/recurs2.test: Likewise. Also, use the `configure.in'
1907 stub created by `./defs'.
1908 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1910 Modernize, improve and/or fix tests `pluseq*.test.
1911 * tests/pluseq5.test: Append to configure.in using cat with an
1912 here-doc, not using echo.
1913 * tests/pluseq10.test: Make sure that the captured output of
1914 `make' command is always displayed. Where possible, use $FGREP
1915 instead of grep (this change makes some checks slightly stricter).
1916 * tests/pluseq8.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
1918 * tests/pluseq.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless dummy
1919 data files, and use better m4 quoting in generated configure.in.
1920 * tests/pluseq2.test: Likewise. Also, append to configure.in
1921 using cat with an here-doc, not using echo.
1922 * tests/pluseq3.test: Likewise.
1923 * tests/pluseq4.test: Likewise.
1924 * tests/pluseq6.test: Likewise.
1925 * tests/pluseq7.test: Do not create useless dummy source file.
1926 * tests/pluseq9.test: Slightly extended w.r.t. the grepping of
1927 Automake stderr. Some unrelated cosmetic changes.
1929 Testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured stderr.
1930 * tests/acloca18.test: Print captured stderr before either failing
1931 or grepping it. Be sure to send captured stderr to stderr, not to
1933 * tests/ansi3b.test: Likewise.
1934 * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
1935 * tests/configure.test: Likewise.
1936 * tests/missing3.test: Likewise.
1937 * tests/missing6.test: Likewise.
1938 * tests/output-order.test: Likewise.
1939 * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise.
1940 * tests/python6.test: Likewise.
1941 * tests/python7.test: Likewise.
1942 * tests/python8.test: Likewise.
1943 * tests/python9.test: Likewise.
1944 * tests/subobj.test: Likewise.
1945 * tests/vars3.test: Likewise.
1946 * tests/missing4.test: Likewise, and fix a call to grep not to use
1948 * tests/ansi3.test: Likewise, and rely on the `configure.in' stub
1949 created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1951 Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
1952 * tests/backsl.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
1954 * tests/backsl2.test: Likewise.
1955 * tests/block.test: Likewise.
1956 * tests/canon2.test: Likewise.
1957 * tests/canon4.test: Likewise.
1958 * tests/comment2.test: Likewise.
1959 * tests/condlib.test: Likewise.
1960 * tests/cond15.test: Likewise, and prefer $FGREP over grep.
1961 * tests/canon3.test: Likewise. Also, avoid to create an useless
1963 * tests/acoutpt2.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and some
1964 related changes. Do some cosmetic improvements in the generated
1965 `configure.in' file.
1966 * tests/cond4.test: Likewise.
1967 * tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
1968 * tests/condinc.test: Likewise.
1969 * tests/cond7.test: Likewise. Also, remove useless setting of
1970 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am.
1971 * tests/ansi.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
1972 changes. Extended, esp. by running autoconf, ./configure and
1973 make, and by looking into the distdir.
1975 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1976 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1978 Extend tests/README w.r.t. trailing `:' in test scripts.
1979 * tests/README (section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
1980 Explain why apparently redundant trailing `:' and `Exit 0' in
1981 test scripts can indeed be useful.
1983 2010-06-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1985 Improve determination of PATH separator in bootstrap script.
1986 * bootstrap: Determine what the PATH separator is the same way
1989 Minor improvements in bootstrap script.
1990 * bootstrap: Consistently use two-spaces indentation. Cosmetic
1991 improvement to comments.
1992 ($me): New variable, containing program basename.
1993 Prepend it to all error messages.
1995 Testsuite now works with BSD make in parallel mode.
1996 * tests/defs.in: Unset variables __MKLVL__ and MAKE_JOBS_FIFO,
1997 which are exported by BSD make when run in parallel mode, and
1998 which can confuse make processes spawned by our testsuite.
1999 This change fixes a lot of spurious failure when the testsuite
2000 is run with BSD make in parallel mode.
2002 2010-06-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2004 Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
2005 * tests/sanity.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
2006 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
2007 * tests/depend2.test: Likewise. Also, call `set -e' just after
2008 the inclusion of `./defs', instead that later in the script.
2009 * tests/canon5.test: Avoid a useless `|| Exit 1' after a call to
2010 $AUTOMAKE, and improve the positioning of an $ACLOCAL call.
2011 * tests/exeext4.test: Use $FGREP instead of grep, where possible.
2012 Make auxiliary rules in the generated Makefile more silent.
2013 These changes make some checks slightly stricter.
2014 * tests/ext2.test: Call `Exit 1' if inclusion of `./defs' fails.
2015 * tests/gettext2.test: Place final `:' at the end of the script,
2016 rather than in the middle.
2017 * tests/exeext.test: Call `set -e' just after the inclusion of
2018 `./defs', instead that later in the script.
2019 * tests/extra5.test: Likewise.
2020 * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `mv -f' over
2021 plain `mv', just to be sure.
2022 * tests/depcomp.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
2023 changes. Also, modernize the generated configure.in.
2024 * tests/cond9.test: Likewise. Also, rely on the `configure.in'
2025 stub created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
2026 * tests/cond10.test: Likewise.
2027 * tests/depcomp2.test: Likewise.
2028 * tests/depend3.test: Likewise.
2029 * tests/distcom7.test: Likewise.
2030 * tests/fortdep.test: Likewise. Also, remove definition of
2031 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am,
2032 since that flag is already provided by $AUTOMAKE.
2033 * tests/mdate.test: Made stricter, by checking that Automake
2034 actually failed, and by making a stricter grep on the error
2035 message. Also, set shell `errexit flag'.
2036 * tests/python2.test: Improved verbose messages.
2038 Make test `ammissing.test' stricter.
2039 * tests/ammissing.test: Fail if $ACLOCAL succeeds unexpectedly.
2040 Enable `errexit' shell flag.
2042 2010-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2044 Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
2045 * tests/subcond.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
2047 * tests/subst.test: Likewise.
2048 * tests/vars.test: Likewise.
2049 * tests/version4.test: Likewise.
2050 * tests/vpath.test: Likewise.
2051 * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
2052 * tests/werror.test: Likewise.
2053 * tests/whoami.test: Likewise.
2054 * tests/tags.test: Likewise, and avoid to crate an useless dummy
2056 * tests/acsilent.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
2057 command substitution.
2058 * tests/unused.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
2059 command substitution.
2060 * tests/version.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
2061 in the generated `configure.in'.
2062 * tests/version2.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
2063 in the generated `configure.in'.
2065 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2067 Prefer AUTOMAKE_fails over `$AUTOMAKE | grep' in tests.
2068 * tests/ldadd.test: Enable errexit. Use AUTOMAKE_fails so
2069 the verbose log contains all output.
2070 * tests/mdate.test: Likewise.
2071 Prompted by Stefano Lattarini's change to discover.test.
2073 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2075 Improve tests link*.test (enable `errexit' shell flag).
2076 * tests/link_c_cxx.test: Enable `errexit shell flag, and related
2077 changes. Also, do not create useless source files.
2078 * tests/link_dist.test: Likewise.
2079 * tests/link_f90_only.test: Likewise.
2080 * tests/link_f_only.test: Likewise.
2081 * tests/link_fc.test: Likewise.
2082 * tests/link_fccxx.test: Likewise.
2083 * tests/link_fcxx.test: Likewise.
2085 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2087 Improve ext.test semantics, avoid OpenBSD sh errexit issue.
2088 * tests/ext.test: Inside shell compound command, use
2089 `if $cmd; then Exit 1; fi' rather than `$cmd && Exit 1', to
2090 fix failure with OpenBSD sh introduced with last patch.
2091 Actually ensure that a rule for .EXT.o is created for each
2092 known extension EXT.
2094 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2096 Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
2097 * tests/dash.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
2099 * tests/defun.test: Likewise.
2100 * tests/defun2.test: Likewise.
2101 * tests/dejagnu.test: Likewise.
2102 * tests/double.test: Likewise.
2103 * tests/distcom2.test: Likewise.
2104 * tests/empty2.test: Likewise.
2105 * tests/empty3.test: Likewise.
2106 * tests/empty4.test: Likewise.
2107 * tests/exdir.test: Likewise.
2108 * tests/ext.test: Likewise.
2109 * tests/extra.test: Likewise.
2110 * tests/extra2.test: Likewise.
2111 * tests/extra3.test: Likewise.
2112 * tests/extra4.test: Likewise.
2113 * tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
2114 * tests/fnoc.test: Likewise.
2115 * tests/fo.test: Likewise.
2116 * tests/instexec.test: Likewise.
2117 * tests/ltdeps.test: Likewise.
2118 * tests/nodep.test: Likewise.
2119 * tests/nodepcomp.test: Likewise.
2120 * tests/f90only.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
2121 comments and unnecessary commands.
2122 * tests/fonly.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
2123 comments and unnecessary commands.
2124 * tests/discover.test: Likewise, and made stricter.
2126 Enable `errexit' shell flag in all tests cxx*.test.
2127 * tests/cxx.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
2129 * tests/cxxansi.test: Likewise.
2130 * tests/cxxcpp.test: Likewise.
2131 * tests/cxxlibobj.test: Likewise.
2132 * tests/cxxlink.test: Likewise.
2133 * tests/cxxo.test: Likewise.
2135 Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
2136 * tests/acoutnoq.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
2138 * tests/acoutpt.test: Likewise.
2139 * tests/acoutqnl.test: Likewise.
2140 * tests/amassign.test: Likewise.
2141 * tests/ansi2.test: Likewise.
2142 * tests/ansi4.test: Likewise.
2143 * tests/badprog.test: Likewise.
2144 * tests/checkall.test: Likewise.
2145 * tests/clean.test: Likewise.
2146 * tests/colneq2.test: Likewise.
2147 * tests/colon.test: Likewise.
2148 * tests/colon5.test: Likewise.
2149 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
2150 * tests/comment.test: Likewise.
2151 * tests/compile_f90_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
2152 * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
2153 * tests/cond3.test: Likewise.
2154 * tests/cond6.test: Likewise.
2155 * tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
2156 * tests/conf2.test: Likewise.
2157 * tests/confvar.test: Likewise.
2158 * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
2159 * tests/cond8.test: Likewise, plus a cosmetic change.
2160 * tests/confh4.test: Likewise. Also, add in the heading comments
2161 an excerpt from the original bug report which motivated the
2162 creation of this test, to make its purpose clearer.
2164 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2166 Rewrite manual to be gender-neutral.
2167 * doc/automake.texi (GNU Build System)
2168 (Standard Directory Variables, General Operation, CVS)
2169 (Hard-Coded Install Paths, Dependencies As Side Effects):
2170 Rewrite text to not contain gender-specific pronouns when
2171 speaking about developers or users, either by avoiding pronouns
2172 or by addressing them as `you' instead.
2174 Report by Christina Gratorp.
2178 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2180 Make tests on user extensibility of silent-rules mode stricter.
2181 * tests/silent6.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
2182 output produced by `make'.
2183 * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
2185 Tests on silent-mode for C/Libtool made stricter.
2186 * tests/silent.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
2187 output produced by `make'.
2188 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
2189 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
2190 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
2191 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise, and add a final `make distclean'
2192 command to keep it better in sync with tests/silent{4,9}.test.
2194 Improved test silent5.test.
2195 * tests/silent5.test: Remove by hand all generated C files after
2196 non-verbose builds, to ensure the following builds are clean.
2197 Try to clean and rebuild with the same verbosity and without
2198 removing generated sources in between, to check that this does
2199 not trigger a different set of rules. Make grepping of make's
2200 output stricter. Improved/added some comments.
2202 New tests for Automake silent-mode with Fortran.
2203 * tests/silentf77.test: New test.
2204 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
2205 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2207 New test `silentcxx.test' (Automake silent-mode with C++).
2208 * tests/silentcxx.test: New test.
2209 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2211 New test `silentyacc.test' (Automake silent-mode with Yacc).
2212 * tests/silentyacc.test: New test.
2213 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2215 New test `silentlex.test' (Automake silent-mode with Lex).
2216 * tests/silentlex.test: New test.
2217 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2219 Relax tests on silent-rules to cater to overly verbose makes.
2220 * tests/silent.test: When testing silent builds, don't fail if
2221 make's output simply contains the `mv' substring, but only if
2222 it contains the `mv ' substring (note the trailing space).
2223 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
2224 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
2225 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
2226 * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
2227 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
2229 2010-01-24 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2231 Fix silent-rules output for disabled dependency tracking.
2232 * lib/am/depend2.am [!%FASTDEP%]: Rework silent-rules variable
2233 expansion code to also work in the case where %AMDEP% expands
2234 to FALSE at config.status time, using new substitution string
2236 * automake.in (verbose_nodep_flag): New function, appending
2237 `@am__nodep@' to the verbose-variable name.
2238 (handle_languages): If dependencies are not disabled, use it to
2239 set %VERBOSE-NODEP%.
2240 * m4/depend.m4: Substitute am__nodep as '_no', so the second
2241 verbose-variable will always expand to an empty string, if
2242 dependencies are enabled.
2243 * tests/silent5.test: Also test --disable-dependency-tracking;
2244 also test per-target flags for non-C language files.
2245 * tests/silent9.test: New test, like silent4.test but disable
2246 dependency tracking.
2247 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
2248 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
2249 Report by Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>.
2251 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2253 Extend test on `nostdinc' automake option.
2254 * tests/nostdinc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Related and
2255 unrelated minor changes. Make the grepping of the generated
2256 Makefile.in slightly stricter. Generate and run configure, so that
2257 the generated Makefile can be grepped too.
2259 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2261 Make gnupload portable to EBCDIC hosts.
2262 * lib/gnupload: Use literal newline as argument for 'tr' rather
2263 than \015, for EBCDIC hosts. Also, avoid unportable nested
2264 double-quotes and backquotes.
2266 Report from Eric Blake and Steve Goetze via gnulib.
2268 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2270 Fix Autoconf version required by Automake's configure.
2271 Automake configure script used to tell that automake required
2272 autoconf 2.60 or later, but then it checked for autoconf >= 2.62,
2273 and if that was not found, it gave an error saying that Automake
2274 required configure 2.61a-341 or later. This change should
2275 eliminate such inconsistencies.
2276 * configure.ac ($required_autoconf_version): New variable.
2279 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2281 Fix unportable sed script in maintainer-check test.
2282 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_Exit_not_exit): Rewrite sed script to
2283 not contain semicolon after 'b' or brace commands, for NetBSD.
2285 Wildcards are not portable to NetBSD make.
2286 * doc/automake.texi (Wildcards): Document portability issue.
2287 * tests/extra10.test, tests/extra11.test, tests/extra12.test:
2290 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2292 Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
2293 * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
2294 an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
2296 Avoid possible false negatives in dejagnu7.test.
2297 * tests/dejagnu7.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Also, avoid
2298 unportable use of fgrep option `-e'.
2300 Fix conflnk3.test to work with Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
2301 * tests/conflnk3.test: Use `test -r FILE' and `test ! -r FILE'
2302 instead of respectively `test -e FILE' and `test ! -e FILE',
2303 since Solaris Sh doesn't grok the latter. Do not SKIP the test
2304 if the shell doesn't support `test -e'.
2306 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2309 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Add
2310 missing closing parenthesis.
2312 Fix leftover call to removed function macros_dump.
2313 * automake.in (read_main_am_file): Call variables_dump, not
2314 macros_dump. Print actual error before list of variables.
2316 2010-04-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2318 Minor improvements in comments of test `silent3.test'.
2319 * tests/silent3.test: Tell to keep it in sync with `silent9.test'
2322 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2324 testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured output.
2325 * tests/acloca14.test, tests/acloca18.test, tests/aclocal.test,
2326 tests/fort2.test, tests/help.test, tests/missing3.test,
2327 tests/missing6.test: Print captured stdout or stderr before
2330 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2332 Make test badopt.test stricter (by enabling `set -e').
2333 * tests/badopt.test: Add call to `set -e'. Due to this change,
2334 an unexpected failure in the call to `$ACLOCAL' (whose outcome
2335 was previously unchecked) would cause the whole test to fail.
2336 Also, bumped the copyright years.
2338 Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
2339 * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
2340 an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
2342 Use `set -e' in confsub.test (avoids possible false negatives).
2343 * tests/confsub.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and related
2344 changes (this helps avoiding some possible minor false negatives).
2345 Also, bumped copyright years.
2347 2010-04-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2349 Fix -Werror handling for presence of configure.in and configure.ac.
2350 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (Automake::Variable): Do not initialize
2351 $configure_ac at the global level, before command-line arguments
2353 (require_variables): Initialize it here.
2354 * tests/configure.test: New test.
2355 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
2356 Report by Stefano Lattarini.
2358 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2360 Avoid possible false negatives in confh5.test.
2361 * tests/confh5.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and bumped
2362 copyright years. Due to this change, any unexpected failure
2363 in calls to $ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE, $AUTOCONF or $AUTOHEADER, or
2364 a failure in grepping expected text in output files should now
2365 cause the whole test to fail.
2367 2010-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2369 Fixed typo in POD documentation of Automake::Channels.
2370 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Fixed typo in POD documentation:
2371 @<...> was used instead of C<...>.
2373 2010-04-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2375 Refactor tests on Automake TESTS color output.
2376 * tests/color.test: Tests using the expect program moved out to...
2377 * tests/color2.test: ... this new file.
2378 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Extended accordingly.
2380 2010-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2382 Fix typos in comments in test confh5.test
2383 * tests/confh5.test: Fix a couple of typos in comments.
2385 Avoid possible false negatives in canon-name.test.
2386 * tests/canon-name.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Improve
2389 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2391 Fix per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror.
2392 Before this patch, 'AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = -Werror' in one
2393 Makefile.am would carry over to other Makefile.am files
2394 treated afterwards by the same thread, causing inconsistent
2395 and unstable exit status values.
2396 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (dup_channel_setup)
2397 (drop_channel_setup): Save and restore the setting of
2398 $warnings_are_errors.
2399 * tests/werror3.test: New test.
2400 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
2403 2010-04-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2405 Bugfix in confh5.test w.r.t. Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
2406 * tests/confh5.test: In the generated Makefile.am: do not use
2407 `test ! -e FILE' to check for the non-existence of a file, since
2408 that is not supported by Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
2410 Make test `aclocal3.test' stricter.
2411 * tests/aclocal3.test: Add call to `set -e'. Fail if $ACLOCAL
2412 succeds unexpectedly.
2414 Add tests checking that symlinks are resolved by `make dist'.
2415 * tests/distlinks.test: New test.
2416 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2417 Suggested by observations from Ralf Wildenhues.
2419 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2421 Use -9 for maximum xz compression with dist-xz.
2422 * lib/am/distdir.am (dist-xz, dist, dist-all): Pass -9 to xz.
2423 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
2424 Report by Pavel Sanda.
2426 2010-03-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2428 Avoid an unportable use of `$status' shell variable.
2429 * Makefile.am (path-check): Don't use the `$status' shell variable
2430 in the target's rules, as it's special in Zsh (equivalent to `$?',
2433 Avoid another use of `chmod -R'.
2434 * Makefile.am (path-check): To be safe, do not use `chmod -R' on
2435 $(distdir) before removing it (as Solaris `chmod -R' touches
2436 symlink targets). Instead, use the cleanup strategy used in
2439 2010-03-28 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2441 Remove uses of @acronym and @sc.
2442 * doc/automake.texi (Public Macros, Limitations on File Names):
2443 Remove all usage of @acronym and @sc in the manual.
2444 Suggested by Karl Berry.
2446 2010-03-13 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
2448 GNU hello uses fdl.texi, not gpl.texi.
2449 * doc/automake.texi (Texinfo): Adjust example to upstream
2452 2010-03-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2454 Formatting cleanups in macro comments.
2455 * automake.in, lib/Automake/Channels.pm,
2456 lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm, lib/Automake/Options.pm,
2457 lib/Automake/Variable.pm, lib/Automake/XFile.pm,
2458 m4/options.m4, m4/substnot.m4: Fix macro comment format.
2460 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2461 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2463 Avoid generation of `tests/defs-p' file.
2464 * tests/defs.in: In the generated `configure.in' snippet: call
2465 `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' with the `parallel-tests' option if the shell
2466 variable `parallel_tests' is set to `yes'.
2467 * tests/Makefile.am (defs-p): Target removed.
2468 (check_SCRIPTS): Removed `defs-p'.
2469 (clean-local-check): Do not unlink `defs-p' anymore.
2470 ($(parallel_tests)): Transformation rules for the test scripts
2472 * tests/gen-parallel-tests: Selection rules for the test
2474 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Set `$parallel_tests' to `yes'
2475 then include `./defs' (rather than simply including `./defs-p').
2476 * tests/parallel-tests2.test: Likewise.
2477 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
2478 * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
2479 * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
2480 * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
2481 * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
2482 * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise.
2483 * tests/parallel-tests9.test: Likewise.
2484 * tests/parallel-tests10.test: Likewise.
2485 * tests/README (Section "Writing Test Cases" subsection "Do"):
2486 Adjusted the parts referring to tests checking `parallel-tests'
2487 behaviour. Some other minor related improvements.
2488 * tests/.gitignore (defs-p): Removed.
2490 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2492 Remove redundant unset of variable TESTS from some test scripts.
2493 * tests/color.test: Do not unset the `TESTS' variable, as it's
2494 already unset in the `defs' file.
2495 * tests/check5.test: Likewise.
2496 * tests/check8.test: Likewise.
2497 * tests/check9.test: Likewise.
2498 * tests/check10.test: Likewise.
2499 * tests/check11.test: Likewise.
2500 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Likewise.
2501 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
2502 * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
2503 * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
2504 * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
2505 * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
2507 2010-02-22 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
2509 Improve help message of mdate-sh.
2510 * mdate-sh: mention actual output format in help message.
2512 2010-02-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2514 Deprecate dist-lzma in favor of dist-xz.
2515 * doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions, Options):
2516 Adjust text to reflect renaming of lzma to xz.
2518 Missing deprecation noted by Antonio Diaz Diaz.
2520 2010-02-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2522 Add tests about support of wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
2523 * tests/extra10.test: New test, check basic support of wildcards
2525 * tests/extra11.test: New test, check more complex usage of
2526 wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
2527 * tests/extra12.test: New test, check usage of wildcards in
2528 EXTRA_DIST when $builddir != $srcdir.
2529 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2530 Necessity of these new tests suggested by Braden McDaniel
2531 and Ralf Wildenhues.
2533 2010-02-08 Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
2535 Fix copyright statement in gnupload script.
2536 * lib/gnupload: Fix copyright statement.
2538 2010-02-06 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> (tiny change)
2539 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2541 Fix exit status of signal handlers in shell scripts.
2542 The value of `$?' on entrance to signal handlers in shell scripts
2543 cannot be relied upon, so set the exit code explicitly to
2545 * lib/am/check.am (am__check_pre): Use `exit 143' in signal handler.
2546 * lib/elisp-comp: Likewise.
2547 * lib/install-sh: Likewise.
2548 * lib/ylwrap: Likewise. Also, fix script to trap signal 13, not 3.
2549 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
2550 Bug report, analysis, and initial patch by Dmitry V. Levin.
2552 2010-02-06 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
2554 Improve gnupload usage text.
2555 * gnupload (usage): Shorten to make more likely to fit on a tty
2556 line. Mention CMD in the synopsis. With ..., plural is implied.
2558 2010-01-28 Christos Kontas <xakon@yahoo.com> (tiny change)
2560 Fix some typos in the manual
2561 * doc/automake.texi (Nested Packages, Rebuilding): Fix typos.
2563 2010-01-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2565 Slighty improve tests acoutbs.test and acoutbs2.test.
2566 * tests/acoutbs2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Check that
2567 autoconf and configure work, that the file `zot' is created by
2568 configure, and that no file containing a backslash in its name is
2570 * tests/acoutbs.test: Likewise, plus updated copyright years.
2572 Fix test acoutbs2.test.
2573 * tests/acoutbs2: In the generated configure.in: add proper calls
2574 to AC_INIT and AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, and remove explicit definition of
2575 PACKAGE and VERSION. Add a call to aclocal before calling automake.
2576 Updated copyright years.
2577 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Removed acoutbs2.test.
2579 Add forgotten test scripts to $(TESTS).
2580 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Added test scripts present on the
2581 filesystem, which were erroneously left out from $(TESTS):
2582 acoutbs2.test, badopt.test, extra2.test.
2583 (XFAIL_TESTS): Added acoutbs2.test.
2585 2010-01-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2587 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
2588 * INSTALL, lib/INSTALL, lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub:
2591 Bump copyright years.
2592 * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
2593 * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
2594 * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
2597 * ChangeLog.09: New file, rotated from ...
2598 * ChangeLog: ... here.
2599 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute ChangeLog.09.
2603 Copyright (C) 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2605 Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are
2606 permitted provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved.
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