1 2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3 test defs: allow overriding of `$me'
4 * tests/defs.in ($me): Allow overriding by the including test
5 script. Add some explicative comments.
7 2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
9 depcomp tests: don't reject slower dependency extractors
10 * tests/depcomp8b.test: Add the `--enable-dependency-tracking'
11 option to `configure' invocations, so that slower dependency
12 extractors are not rejected.
13 * tests/depcomp8b.test: Likewise. Also ...
14 (foo.c): ... since we are at it, fix spacing to be consistent
15 with GNU coding standards.
17 2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
19 m4: add missing serial numbers to a few files
20 Related to automake bug#8483.
21 * m4/amversion.in: Add serial number.
22 * m4/auxdir.m4: Likewise.
23 * m4/gcj.m4: Likewise.
24 * m4/install-sh.m4: Likewise.
25 * m4/mkdirp.m4: Likewise.
26 * m4/python.m4: Likewise.
27 * m4/runlog.m4: Likewise.
28 * m4/strip.m4: Likewise.
29 * m4/upc.m4: Likewise.
31 2011-04-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
33 depcomp: correct invalid sed invocation
34 * lib/depcomp: Insert missing -e before '/:$/d'.
35 Otherwise, that use of sed would treat '/:$/d' as a file name.
37 2011-04-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
39 maintainer check: quote literal `$' in Makefile rule
40 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_PATH_SEPARATOR): Escape literal `$'
41 character in double-quoted string. Fix a bug in which the rule
42 emitted an erroneously empty substring in its error message.
44 2011-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
46 coverage: test for automake bug#8485 (known regression)
47 * tests/yacc-dist-nobuild-subdir.test: New test.
48 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Update.
50 2011-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
52 test defs: define default $distdir (help reducing duplication)
53 * tests/defs.in ($distdir): New variable, might be used in
54 testcases checking distribution-related features.
55 * tests/pr9.test: Use it.
56 * tests/subdir9.test: Likewise.
57 * tests/vtexi3.test: Add comment explaining why we redefine
58 $distdir in this test.
60 2011-04-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
62 depcomp: fix bugs in tests and in the depcomp script
63 * lib/depcomp (gcc): Remove duplicated `-e' from sed invocation.
64 * tests/depcomp10.test: Make it executable. Fix a blunder that
65 has left part of an intended comment not prefixed by `#', thus
66 causing shell syntax errors. In this same comment, break a
67 too-long reported error message on multiple lines, for clarity.
68 Add reference to the relevant bug report. Add a comment which
69 explains why the test result 'skipped' if the first "make" call
70 fails. Add other useful comments.
71 * tests/depcomp9.test: Slightly improve comments.
73 2011-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
75 Fix hp depmode for VPATH builds with GNU make.
76 * lib/depcomp: Be sure to remove VPATH-prefixed object from
77 dependency output when creating stub rule.
78 * tests/depcomp10.test: New test.
79 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
81 Report by Bruno Haible.
83 2011-04-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
85 test defs: fix 'javac' requirement for older JDK versions
86 The Java compiler from JDK 1.5 (and presumably earlier versions)
87 cannot handle the `-version' option by itself; and while it does
88 print the version number, it then errors out with an usage error:
91 javac: no source files
92 Usage: javac <options> <source files>
94 Luckily, adding the `-help' option to the `javac' invocation
95 seems to fix this problem.
96 * tests/defs.in (javac): Pass also the `-help' option to the
97 `javac' program. Add a comment explaining why it is needed.
98 Report from Ralf Wildenhues.
100 2011-04-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
102 test defs: new requirement for the default java compiler
103 * tests/defs.in (for tool in $required): New requirement 'javac'.
104 * tests/java.test: Use it instead of ad-hoc configure check.
105 * tests/java-check.test: Likewise.
106 * tests/instfail-java.test: Likewise.
107 * tests/instdir-java.test: Likewise.
109 2011-04-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
111 java: check_JAVA does not cause compilation by "make all" anymore
112 Fixes automake bug#8234.
113 * automake.in (handle_java): Make stamp of class files built from
114 java sources in $(check_JAVA) a dependency of `check' target, not
116 * tests/java-check.test: New test.
117 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
120 Report from Petteri Räty.
122 2011-04-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
124 Clarify regex code in depcomp.
125 * lib/depcomp: Add comment why we don't need regex-escaping here.
126 Suggested by Stefano Lattarini.
128 2011-04-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
130 Fix makedepend depmode for VPATH builds.
131 * lib/depcomp [makedepend]: Remove any VPATH prefix from the
132 object file name, so a rebuild doesn't attempt to update the
133 .Po files in the source tree.
134 * tests/depcomp9.test: New test.
135 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
138 2011-04-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
140 tests: fix timestamp-related failures
141 Fixes automake bug#8365.
142 * tests/aclocal6.test: Sleep before modifying m4 files that should
143 trigger remake rules. Remove incorrect/obsoleted comments.
144 * tests/subdir5.test: Likewise, and extend a bit.
145 * tests/subdir8.test: Likewise.
146 * tests/pr8365-remake-timing.test: New xfailing test.
147 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
148 Report from Sam Steingold.
150 2011-04-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
152 Create subdirs for generated sources even when not dep tracking.
153 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): If $object is derived
154 and lands in subdir, be sure to output a dirstamp dependency.
155 * tests/yacc5.test: Avoid falsely matching the dirstamp
156 dependency when grepping for a rule.
157 * tests/lex-subobj-nodep.test: New test.
158 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
160 Report by Ignacy Gawedzki.
162 Fix locale issue in check-exported-srcdir.test.
163 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Reformulate glob to not fail
164 in a locale that ignores or interleaves character case.
166 2011-04-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
168 docs: better visibility for aclocal in the index
169 * doc/automake.texi (@menu): Rename title for entry 'configure'
170 from "Scanning configure.ac or configure.in" to the more precise
171 "Scanning configure.ac, using aclocal".
172 (@detailmenu): Adjust.
173 (@node configure): Adjust, and extend @cindex calls accordingly.
175 From a report by Maynard Johnson.
177 2011-03-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
179 tests: improve tests on "maintainer-clean" target
180 * tests/aclocal6.test: Move checks related to "maintainer-clean"
181 functionalities into ...
182 * tests/maintclean-vpath.test: ... this new test.
183 * tests/maintclean.test: Update heading comments. Extend to also
184 test subdirs. Remove useless disabling of YACC. Fix m4 quoting
185 in configure.in. Add a trailing `:' command. Remove extra blank
187 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
189 2011-03-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
191 tests: fix unindent to use printf not echo for script.
192 * tests/defs.in: Use printf rather than echo, as the latter may
193 interpret the backslashes in the sed script. Fixes test
194 failures with dash as /bin/sh.
196 2011-03-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
197 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
199 maintcheck: look for problematic names of testcases
200 The configure.in stub created by default by `tests/defs' obtains
201 the first argument of AC_INIT from the test name, and this can
202 cause some supported autoconf versions to fail with a spurious
203 error if that test name contains the name of an m4 or m4sugar
204 builtin or macro (e.g., `defn' or `m4_undefine').
205 See for example the bug fixed by commit v1.11-287-g1325a8a.
206 This change add a maintainer check that warns about test names
207 which are possibly problematic in this regard.
208 * Makefile.am (sc_test_names): New maintainer-check target.
209 (syntax_check_rules): Add it.
210 (m4_builtins): New helper variable.
211 (TESTS): Updated according to the following renamings.
212 * tests/include.test: Renamed ...
213 * tests/hdr-vars-defined-once.test: ... to this.
214 * tests/sinclude.test: Renamed ...
215 * tests/m4-inclusion.test: ... to this, and simplified
217 * tests/include2.test: Renamed ...
218 * tests/dist-included-parent-dir.test: ... to this, for
221 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
223 tests: fix bug in alloca*.test
224 * tests/alloca.test: Make grepping of automake stderr stricter,
225 add a trailing `:' command; also, add AC_PROG_CC to configure.in,
226 and create a dummy alloca.c file, to ensure that we fail for the
228 * tests/alloca2.test: Likewise. Also, look for LT_INIT, not
229 AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, in the error message (bug introduced with commit
230 v1.11-315-gd51e7b7 "libtool: suggest LT_INIT if LTLIBRARIES
232 From a report by Patrick Welche.
234 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
236 tests: fix bug (comments-in-var-defn.test + autoconf 2.62)
237 * tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: The configure.in stub created
238 by default, which has the AC_INIT first argument obtained by the
239 test name, causes autoconf 2.62 to fail with a spurious error
240 message like: "configure.in:1: error: defn: undefined macro:".
241 Thus, to prevent this, the test is renamed to ...
242 * tests/comments-in-var-def.test: ... this.
243 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
245 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
247 cosmetics: convert encoding from ISO-8859 to UTF-8
248 * ChangeLog.03: Convert encoding to UTF-8.
249 * ChangeLog.96: Likewise.
250 * ChangeLog.98: Likewise.
254 2011-03-01 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
256 test defs: unindent without temporary file
257 * tests/defs.in (commented_sed_unindent_prog): Commented Sed program
258 that strips the "proper" amount of leading whitespace.
259 (unindent): Lazily strip comments from the above program and use it
260 to unindent without using a temporary file.
262 2011-02-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
264 libtool: suggest LT_INIT if LTLIBRARIES primary is used
265 When the LTLIBRARIES primary was used, but $(LIBTOOL) wasn't
266 defined, automake suggested to add a call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
267 in configure.ac. But that macro is deprecated since Libtool
268 version 1.9b (2004-08-29), in favor of the newer LT_INIT. So
269 suggest the use of this latter macro instead.
270 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (%_am_macro_for_var): Pair 'LIBTOOL'
271 with 'LT_INIT', not with 'AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'.
272 * libtool4.test: Adjust and extend. Also, add a call to macro
273 AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, to help ensuring that automake does
274 not fail for the wrong reasons.
275 * ltinit.test: New test, ensure that automake's libtool support
276 works with LT_INIT-based interface.
277 Thanks to Jack Kelly for the suggestion.
279 2011-02-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
281 tests: tempdirs with restrictive permissions are cleaned correctly
282 Before this change, the removal of a temporary test directory
283 containing subdirectories with restrictive permissions (such as
284 'r--r--r--') could fail.
285 * tests/defs: Ensure that all the subdirectories of a temporary
286 test directory have the 'read', 'write' and 'execute' bits set,
287 before trying to remove it with `rm -rf'.
288 * tests/Makefile.am (clean-local-check): Likewise.
290 2011-02-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
291 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
293 test defs: add subroutine for input unindenting
294 * tests/defs.in (unindent): New subroutine.
296 2011-02-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
298 python: report the 'PYTHON' influential environment variable
299 * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Call AC_ARG_VAR on PYTHON.
300 * doc/automake.texi (Python): Update and extend.
301 * tests/help-python.test: New test.
302 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
303 * THANKS (Jack Kelly): Update e-mail address.
304 Suggestion by Jack Kelly.
306 2011-02-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
308 tests defs: clear TESTS_ENVIRONMENT variable
309 * tests/defs.in (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset it, so that values
310 from environment won't interfere with the testcases.
311 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
313 2011-02-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
315 tests: tweak few tests on simple and parallel test drivers
316 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Improve heading comments.
317 * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: Likewise. Also, unset the
318 `FOO_EXIT_STATUS' variable, so that any pre-existing value in the
319 environment won't risk to interfere with the test.
320 Suggestions by Ralf Wildenhues.
322 2011-02-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
324 coverage: more tests on simple and parallel test drivers
325 * tests/parallel-tests-subdir.test: New test.
326 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Likewise.
327 * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: Likewise.
328 * tests/check-tests_environment.test: Likewise.
329 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
331 2011-01-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
333 tests: fix spurious failures in lflags*.test
334 * tests/lflags.test: Remove 'LEX' from the environment, so
335 that it won't be erroneously picked up by `make -e'.
336 * tests/lflags2.test: Likewise.
338 2011-01-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
340 docs: color-tests issues with parallel make
341 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Document that automatic
342 recognition of a capable terminal attached to stdout can fail
343 with some make implementation when running in parallel mode,
344 thus causing colored test output not to be automatically
345 activated when it should.
347 2011-01-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
349 tests: avoid instspc.test failures due to make's whitespace trimming
350 * tests/instspc.test: Prepend './' when passing the test
351 characters, to avoid leading whitespace characters to be trimmed
352 from macros set from environment variables. Fixes testsuite
353 failures with HP-UX, IRIX, and Tru64/OSF make.
355 2011-01-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
357 coverage: test semantics of "dummy" per-target flags
358 * tests/specflg-dummy.test: New test, ensuring that even "dummy"
359 per-target flags triggers the use of renamed objects.
360 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
361 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
363 2011-01-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
365 tests defs: sanitize IFS
366 * tests/defs.in ($IFS): Define to <space>, <tab>, <newline>.
367 ($sp): New variable, holding a single whitespace character.
368 ($tab): New variable, holding a tabulation character.
369 ($nl): New variable, holding a newline character.
371 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
373 tests: fix VPATH auto-expansion workarounds.
374 * tests/parallel-tests8.test, tests/suffix13.test:
375 Ensure $< is not surrounded by white space, to prevent Solaris
376 make from applying automatic VPATH text expansion.
378 2011-01-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
380 tests: fix spurious failures in yflags*.test
381 * tests/yflags.test: Remove 'YACC' from the environment, so
382 that it won't be erroneously picked up by `make -e'.
383 * tests/yflags2.test: Likewise.
385 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
387 tests: avoid fn99*.test failures due to buggy AIX 5.3 cp -R.
388 * tests/fn99.test, tests/fn99subdir.test: Skip if an initial
389 `cp -R' of the subdir tree already fails; AIX 5.3 cp messes
390 up its internal memory when copying this tree.
392 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
393 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
395 Add comment to check-TESTS rule working around make 3.80 bug.
396 * lib/am/check.am (check-TESTS): Update comment.
398 2011-01-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
400 tests: less strict double-colon spy.test again.
401 * tests/spy.test: We know BSD make doesn't invoke more than one
402 double-colon rule, so no need to expose that failure.
404 2011-01-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
406 install-sh: avoid Tru64 sh `test' operator precedence issues.
407 * lib/install-sh: Protect file names and directory components
408 that consist of `=', `(', `)', or `!'. Move protection as early
409 as possible, to avoid errors such as with Tru64 sh `test -z ='.
410 * tests/instsh2.test: Extend test to cover more possibilities.
411 Fixes 1.12 instspc-equal-install.test failure on Tru64/OSF 5.1.
413 2011-01-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
414 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
416 docs: automake testsuite doesn't use TESTS_ENVIRONMENT anymore
417 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Do not claim Automake uses
418 TESTS_ENVIRONMENT for the perl driver. Instead, point to the
419 parallel-tests driver.
421 2011-01-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
423 Allow _AM_DEPENDENCIES to be used later in configure.
424 * m4/depend.m4 (_AM_DEPENDENCIES): Remove a previously existing
425 conftest.dir before recreating it.
427 Report by Eric Blake, from report by Scott McCreary against M4.
429 2011-01-18 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
431 tests: avoid failure on w32 file systems.
432 * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: SKIP if file cannot
433 be turned unreadable.
435 2011-01-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
437 tests: allow double-colon spy.test to work with HP-UX make.
438 * tests/spy.test: Fix comment typos. Ensure prerequisites we
439 do not want to depend on are strictly older than the target.
440 Also test with a target out of date wrt. more than one rule.
442 2011-01-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
444 tests: remove useless requirements from cond36.test
445 * tests/cond36.test ($required): Remove.
446 Since we are at it, add a trailing `:' command.
448 2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
449 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
451 parallel-tests: work around Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh read bugs.
452 * lib/am/check.am ($(TEST_SUITE_LOG), recheck, recheck-html):
453 Test file readability before redirecting input from it, to avoid
454 exiting Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh which treats read as special builtin.
455 * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: New test.
456 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
459 2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
461 * NEWS, README: Update copyright years.
463 Fix parallel-tests.test failure with HP-UX make.
464 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Sleep inside inner tests, so logs
465 are newer than logs of tests they depend on, for HP-UX make.
467 2011-01-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
469 docs: ensure example are separated with empty lines in the input
470 * doc/automake.texi (Extending aclocal, Emacs Lisp, Rebuilding)
471 (API Versioning, Renamed Objects, Multiple Outputs): Add empty
472 lines before `@example' and after `@end example' lines, so info
473 output is rendered correctly, and a following @noindent honored.
474 Report by Stefano Lattarini.
476 2011-01-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
478 tests: fix comment typo
479 * tests/substref.test: Fix grammar in a comment.
481 2011-01-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
483 tests: fix spurious failures in two texinfo tests
484 * tests/txinfo.test ($required): Add 'makeinfo'.
485 * tests/txinfo8.test: Create a dummy 'textutils.info' file, so
486 that make won't try to run makeinfo (which could be unavailable)
488 Found by NixOS Hydra, reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
490 2011-01-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
492 Avoid testsuite failures due to Autoconf Fortran change.
493 Autoconf v2.68-21-g727ce95 causes AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS to
494 require computing the canonical host name. Ensure config.guess
495 and config.sub files are present for respective checks.
496 * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Add stub files.
497 * tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
498 * tests/fort4.test: Use $AUTOMAKE -a for installing files.
500 2011-01-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
502 docs: clustered '-d' not recognized in YFLAGS
503 This change fixes automake bug#7828.
504 * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Document that automake
505 recognizes '-d' in AM_YFLAGS only if it's not clustered with
507 From a report by Юрий Пухальский.
509 2011-01-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
511 tests: add checks on automatically-distributed files
512 Related to automake bug#7819.
513 * tests/autodist.test: New test.
514 * tests/autodist-subdir.test: Likewise.
515 * tests/autodist-acconfig.test: Likewise.
516 * tests/autodist-acconfig-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
517 * tests/autodist-aclocal-m4.test: Likewise.
518 * tests/autodist-config-headers.test: Likewise.
519 * tests/autodist-configure-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
520 * tests/autodist-stamp-vti.test: Likewise.
521 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
523 2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
525 tests: work around a texi+cygnus bug causing a spurious XFAIL
526 * tests/txinfo5b.test: New test, like txinfo5.test but calling
527 automake with the `-Wno-override' option to work around a bug
528 in the texinfo + cygnus interaction.
529 * tests/txinfo5.test: Update heading comments.
530 * tests/Makefile.am (TEST): Updated.
532 2011-01-09 Dave Hart <davehart@gmail.com> (tiny change)
534 Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
535 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
537 2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
539 Improve, extend and tweak tests on Texinfo support.
540 * tests/instdir-texi.test: Add a call to `ls -l' after that to
541 `make', for debugging. When looking for required tools, do not
542 redirect the output of "$tool --help" to /dev/null, and do not
543 uselessly run it in a subshell.
544 * tests/txinfo.test: Rewritten to run autoconf, ./configure and
545 make. All checks moved into Makefile.am.
546 * tests/txinfo8.test: Likewise, and modernize the generated
548 * tests/txinfo2.test: Moved checks into Makefile.am, and other
550 * tests/txinfo5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
551 changes. Add trailing `:' command.
552 * tests/txinfo6.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
553 Makefile.in stricter.
554 * tests/txinfo7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
555 changes. Add trailing `:' command. Do not add unnecessary stuff
557 * tests/txinfo9.test: Verify that more targets which are expected
558 to be generated only once really are. Make grepping less strict,
559 to avoid exposing too much internal details. More minor changes.
560 * tests/txinfo16.test: Add trailing `:'. Prefer cat over echo
561 for appending to configure.in. Updated/fixed heading comments.
562 * tests/txinfo23.test: Likewise, and extended a little by making
563 it check that no info file is created in the $(srcdir).
564 * tests/txinfo24.test: Likewise.
565 * tests/txinfo25.test: Likewise.
566 * tests/txinfo18.test: Add trailing `:'. Prefer cat over echo
567 for appending to configure.in. Also, check that index files are
568 cleaned also by "make clean", not only by "make distclean".
569 * tests/txinfo22.test: Prefer `$me' over hard-coded test name,
570 and added trailing `:' command. This testcase also used to check
571 that automake ignores in-line comments when using variables, but
572 preserves them in the output; these checks (added in commit
573 "Release-1-7f-4-g9177ef8") do not really pertain to this test,
574 so they have been moved ...
575 * tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: ... into this new test.
576 * tests/txinfo4.test: Escape literal dots in grep regexps. Add
577 trailing `:' command.
578 * tests/txinfo29.test: Likewise. Relax grepping of generated
579 Makefile.in w.r.t. whitespaces. Prefer `cat' over `echo' to
580 append to configure.in.
581 * tests/txinfo3.test: Likewise.
582 * tests/vtexi.test: Improve grepping of Makefile.in (sometimes
583 make it stricter, sometimes laxer). Move `set -e' setting just
584 after the inclusion of ./defs. De-uglify a sed command. Other
585 minor cosmetic improvements.
586 * tests/vtexi2.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in stricter. Add
587 trailing `:' command.
588 * tests/vtexi3.test: New test on version.texi support.
589 * tests/vtexi4.test: Likewise.
590 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
592 2011-01-09 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
594 Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
595 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
597 2011-01-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
599 cosmetics: remove trailing whitespaces
600 * doc/automake.texi: Remove trailing whitespaces.
601 * tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
602 * tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
603 * tests/fort4.test: Likewise.
604 * tests/fort5.test: Likewise.
605 * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
606 * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
608 automake: minor fixes in comments
609 * automake.in: Some minor fixes and enhancements in comments.
611 2011-01-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
613 Add test coverage for deleted header files.
614 * tests/depcomp6.test, tests/depcomp7.test: Update tests to
615 also check for the deleted header bug. If no dependency
616 tracking mechanism could be found, SKIP rather than exit
617 successfully. Use GNU style spacing and ANSI C prototypes.
619 Fix typos in Rule.pm comments.
620 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typos in comments.
622 docs: split 'amhello Explained' node.
623 * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Split node ...
624 (amhello's configure.ac Setup Explained)
625 (amhello's Makefile.am Setup Explained) : ... into these two.
626 (Top, Hello World): Adjust, and add @anchor for stable URL links.
627 Suggestion by Karl Berry in automake bug#7766.
629 2011-01-08 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
630 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
632 docs: reference defining directories in amhello node.
633 * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Point to Autoconf
634 manual for how to convert directory values into macros.
635 (Optional): Fix grammar nit.
637 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
639 * NEWS: Fix typo (forgotten word).
641 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
642 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
644 docs: how to work around checks on invalid primary/directory couples
645 * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): Document the blessed idiom which can
646 be used to work around automake checks on invalid primary/directory
647 couples (such as `lib_PROGRAMS' or `doc_LIBRARIES').
649 2011-01-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
651 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
652 * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
655 Fix maintainer-check regression.
656 * tests/subobj11a.test: Pass DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS in the
659 Bump copyright years.
660 * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
661 * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
662 * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
664 2010-12-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
665 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
667 Work around a bug in file-inclusion mechanism of Solaris make.
668 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): In the name of the
669 dependency file: collapse multiple slash characters into a single
671 * tests/subobj11a.test: New test.
672 * tests/subobj11b.test: Likewise.
673 * tests/subobj11c.test: Likewise.
674 * tests/depcomp8a.test: Likewise.
675 * tests/depcomp8b.test: Likewise.
676 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
678 Report by Stefano Lattarini, quick fix by Ralf Wildenhues, final
679 patch and tests by Stefano Lattarini.
681 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
683 Fix two spurious testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5.
684 * tests/suffix13.test (Makefile.am): Account for VPATH issues on
685 weaker make implementations (e.g. IRIX 6.5).
686 * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise, plus a required related
688 Reported by Ralf Wildenhues. The bugs have been there from the
689 first versions of the affected test scripts.
691 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
693 docs: cygnus mode doesn't require AM_CYGWIN32 macro.
694 * doc/automake.texi (Cygnus): Mode 'cygnus' does not require
695 the AM_CYGWIN32 macro (and indeed hasn't required it since at
696 least commit Release-1-2-31-g3038064 "merged changes from
697 Cygnus" of 1997-08-25).
699 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
701 distlinksbrk.test: Work around botched "make -k".
702 * tests/distlinksbrk.test: Run "make" multiple times and grep
703 its output each time for a single error message, rather than
704 running "make -k" one single time and grepping its output for
705 all the expected error messages. This should work around make
706 implementations with limited (broken?) `-k' support; for more
707 information, see these subthreads on the automake-patches list:
708 - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on HP-UX 11.23",
709 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00162.html>
710 - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5",
711 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00166.html>
713 2010-12-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
715 Fix sed-related buglet in test "subdir5.test"
716 * tests/subdir5.test: Always terminate text passed to the
717 `i' sed command with a newline, to work around limitations
718 in e.g. older OpenBSD sed.
720 2010-12-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
722 docs: fix blunder in example about python extension modules
723 * doc/automake.texi (Python): Use `quaternion_la_SOURCES',
724 not `quaternion_SOURCES', to declare the sources of python
725 extension module `quaternion.la'.
727 2010-12-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
729 docs: list LTLIBRARIES among Automake primaries
730 * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): List `LTLIBRARIES' among
731 the Automake primaries.
733 2010-12-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
735 Improve tests on generated portions of configure help screen.
736 * tests/help-depend.test: Grepping of configure help screen
737 relaxed to cater for possible line wrapping, and tightened in
739 * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
740 * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
741 * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
742 * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
743 * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
744 * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
745 * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
746 * tests/help-init.test: Grepping of configure help screen
749 2010-12-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
751 Avoid running installed automake from 'libtool --help'.
752 * tests/subobj9.test: Export AUTOCONF and AUTOMAKE.
753 Together with fixed Libtool, this fixes check-coverage to not
754 invoke installed automake.
756 2010-11-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
758 Fix spurious failures in `silent*.test' for $CC != gcc
759 In some tests on automake-produced silent rules, we forced the
760 use of gcc depmode to improve testsuite coverage; but this has
761 unsurprisingly led to spurious failures when some non-GNU C
762 compilers were used. So we are now careful to require GCC in
763 tests that force gcc depmode.
764 From reports by Ralf Wildenhues.
765 * silent5.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
766 * silent-many-generic.test, silent-many-gcc.test: ... these new
767 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
769 * silentlex.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
770 * silent-lex-generic.test, silent-lex-gcc.test: ... these new
771 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
773 * silentyacc.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
774 * silent-yacc-generic.test, silent-yacc-gcc.test: ... these new
775 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
777 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
779 2010-11-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
781 Tests: consistently use "|| Exit 1" after ". ./defs".
782 * tests/autohdr.test: Use `. ./defs || Exit 1', not bare
783 `. ./defs', for consistency with other tests.
784 * tests/autohdr2.test: Likewise.
785 * tests/autohdr3.test: Likewise.
786 * tests/autohdr4.test: Likewise.
787 * tests/cond23.test: Likewise.
788 * tests/cond24.test: Likewise.
789 * tests/cond25.test: Likewise.
790 * tests/cond26.test: Likewise.
791 * tests/cond27.test: Likewise.
792 * tests/cond28.test: Likewise.
793 * tests/cond29.test: Likewise.
794 * tests/cond30.test: Likewise.
795 * tests/cond31.test: Likewise.
796 * tests/cond32.test: Likewise.
797 * tests/cond33.test: Likewise.
798 * tests/cond34.test: Likewise.
799 * tests/cond35.test: Likewise.
800 * tests/cond36.test: Likewise.
801 * tests/cond37.test: Likewise.
802 * tests/cond38.test: Likewise.
803 * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
804 * tests/cond40.test: Likewise.
805 * tests/cond41.test: Likewise.
806 * tests/cond42.test: Likewise.
807 * tests/cond43.test: Likewise.
808 * tests/cond44.test: Likewise.
809 * tests/cond45.test: Likewise.
810 * tests/dollarvar.test: Likewise.
811 * tests/dollarvar2.test: Likewise.
812 * tests/hfs.test: Likewise.
813 * tests/libobj14.test: Likewise.
814 * tests/percent.test: Likewise.
815 * tests/percent2.test: Likewise.
816 * tests/phony.test: Likewise.
817 * tests/silent.test: Likewise.
818 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
819 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
820 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
821 * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
822 * tests/silent6.test: Likewise.
823 * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
824 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
825 * tests/silentcxx.test: Likewise.
826 * tests/silentf77.test: Likewise.
827 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
828 * tests/silentlex.test: Likewise.
829 * tests/silentyacc.test: Likewise.
831 Avoid useless cleaning in some `silent*.test' tests.
832 * tests/silentf77.test: Removed useless calls to "make clean"
833 and "make maintainer-clean".
834 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
835 * tests/silent3.test: Removed useless call to "make distclean".
836 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
837 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
839 2010-11-19 Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
841 Sync config-ml.in from GCC.
842 * config-ml.in: Add Go support: treat GOC and GOCFLAGS like other
843 compiler/flag environment variables.
845 2010-11-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
847 Automake::Config: remove extra trailing semicolon.
848 * lib/Automake/Config.in: Remove extra trailing semicolon.
850 help4.test: fix botched heading comment.
851 * tests/help4.test: Fixed the heading comment, since it
852 didn't correctly describe what checks the testcase was
855 help2.test: add checks on aclocal too.
856 * tests/help2.test: Check that also `aclocal --version' and
857 `aclocal --help' work with configure.in and acinclude.m4 both
860 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
862 Fix spurious failures of silent-rules tests with Sun Fortran.
863 * tests/silentf77.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
864 messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers, to
865 avoid spurious failures. Add a trailing `:' command.
866 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
868 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
870 Fix spurious failures of silent5.test with Sun Fortran.
871 * tests/silent5.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
872 messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers,
873 to avoid spurious failures. This bug has been there from the
874 very first version of this test script.
876 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
878 Fix regression in colon{5,6}.test (failures on AIX 5.3).
879 * tests/colon5.test: Also substitute `@SHELL@' with `$SHELL' when
880 post-processing the generated Makefile.in, to work around a bug
881 of AIX 5.3 make which doesn't allow setting the `$(SHELL)' macro
882 on the commend line. Calls to `$MAKE' adjusted accordingly.
883 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
884 Regression introduced in commit v1.11-175-gf9fe878 "Modernize,
885 improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test", and reported by Ralf
888 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
890 Fix regression in ansi.test (failure on AIX 5.3).
891 * tests/ansi.test: Remove redundant hackish check done using a
892 hand-postprocessed Makefile.in. This check worked by setting
893 the `$(SHELL)' macro on the command line of make, but this is
894 not supported by the AIX 5.3 make implementation.
895 This bug has been lurking for a long time, and was activated by
896 commit v1.11-125-gc1f6cdb "Enable `errexit' shell flag in various
897 tests". Report by Ralf Wildenhues.
899 2010-11-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
901 tests: avoid '##'-style comments inside recipe commands.
902 * tests/confh.test, tests/confh8.test: Remove
903 double-hash comments from makefile rule commands, they
904 are not part of the Automake API.
906 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
908 tests: work around dash quoting issue in case statements.
909 * tests/color.test, tests/color2.test: Quote variable in case
910 pattern, to avoid skipping tests with dash 0.5.5.1.
912 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
914 Rebuild menus in the manual.
915 * doc/automake.texi: Rebuild menus (using ^C ^U ^A in emacs).
916 Thanks to Ian Lance Taylor for the suggestion.
918 Fix install-strip when $(STRIP) contains several words.
919 * lib/am/install.am (install-strip): Update comment. Use
920 separate sub-make invocations for empty and nonempty $(STRIP),
921 to fix quoting issues.
922 * tests/strip2.test, tests/strip3.test: New tests.
923 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Adjust.
925 2010-11-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
927 Fix yaccdry.test failure: require bison.
928 * tests/yaccdry.test: Require bison.
929 Found by NixOS Hydra.
931 2010-11-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
933 Fix a bug in variable concatenation with `+='.
934 * lib/Automake/VarDef.pm (append): Since the content of the
935 "appended-to" variable is going to be unconditionally normalized
936 later, simply separate the appended value with a single whitespace
937 character, instead of trying to be uselessly smarter by using
938 escaped newlines. This fixes a bug in which extra backslashes
939 where erroneously inserted in the variable's final value.
940 * tests/pluseq11.test: New test, exposing the bug.
941 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
942 Reported by Andy Wingo.
944 2010-11-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
946 Fix bug in rules for creating vala vapi/header files.
947 * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Add forgotten "fi" in an
948 if control structure in a generated make rules. Bug introduced
949 by previous commit `v1.11-221-gd7c1679', and revealed by failure
950 of test `vala2.test'.
952 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
954 Fix and document rules to not touch the tree with `make -n'.
955 * doc/automake.texi (Multiple Outputs): Document the problem of
956 modifications during dry-run execution, propose solution.
958 * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Split recipe so the
959 stamp file is not removed with GNU `make -n'.
960 (lang_yacc_target_hook): Separate removal of parser output file
962 * lib/am/lisp.am ($(am__ELCFILES)): Determine whether -n was
963 passed to make, take care not to remove any files in that case.
964 * lib/am/remake-hdr.am (%CONFIG_H%): Separate removal of
965 %STAMP% file from induced remaking of config header.
966 * tests/autohdrdry.test, tests/lispdry.test, tests/yaccdry.test:
968 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
970 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
972 Add FAQ entry for bug reporting instructions.
973 * doc/automake.texi (Reporting Bugs): New section.
974 (Introduction): Refer to it.
976 2010-10-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
978 Add support for newer python versions.
979 * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Add python2.7 and python3.2 to
980 _AM_PYTHON_INTERPRETER_LIST. Since we are at it, break a long
981 line and fix indentation.
983 From a report by Thomas Klausner.
985 Add test for `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' macro.
986 * tests/dmalloc.test: New test.
987 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
989 Fix nits and bugs in tests `help*.test'.
990 * tests/help4.test: Fix broken sed commands used to strip `-W...'
991 flags away from "$AUTOMAKE" and "$ACLOCAL".
992 * tests/help3.test: Likewise, and fix a botched comment.
993 * tests/help.test: Likewise. Also, use "AUTOMAKE_fails ..."
994 instead of "$AUTOMAKE ... && Exit 1", for consistency and to
995 please maintainer-check.
996 * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
998 2010-10-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
999 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1001 Improve tests `help*.test' (also fixes maintcheck failures).
1002 * tests/help.test: To run automake, use `$AUTOMAKE' with all `-W'
1003 flags stripped away rather than hard-coded `automake-$APIVERSION',
1004 to better honour user-overrides. Similarly for aclocal.
1005 * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
1006 * tests/help3.test: Likewise.
1007 * tests/help4.test: Likewise.
1009 2010-10-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1011 Document and fix expansion of variables before rules.
1012 * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Document that variables
1013 are expanded before rules.
1014 * lib/am/check.am (am__check_post): Reword a bit so it does not
1015 get matched as a rule.
1016 Suggestion by Ben Pfaff.
1018 2010-10-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1020 Revert "parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue."
1021 This reverts commit 24e3b4ee2f8cb9f72dd94a05a893f3d4e88b7835,
1022 because it re-opened the bug fixed by v1.11-10-g218e678.
1024 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1026 parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
1027 * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
1028 substitution %MAKEFILE%.
1029 (generate_makefile): Adjust.
1030 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
1031 sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
1032 input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
1035 Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
1037 2010-09-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1039 Extend tests on `--help' and `--version' options.
1040 * tests/help.test: Create a new empty directory and chdir into
1041 it, rather than removing already present files. Run the aclocal
1042 and automake wrapper scripts directly, instead of relying on
1043 $AUTOMAKE and $ACLOCAL. Be sure to correctly match literal dots
1044 in aclocal's and automake's stderr. Add a trailing `:' command.
1045 * tests/help2.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
1046 `--version' works in directories with broken `configure.in'.
1047 * tests/help3.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
1048 `--version' take precedence on the other options.
1049 * tests/help4.test: New test, checking that the first among the
1050 `--help' and `--version' options to be specified on the command
1052 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1054 2010-09-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1056 Testsuite: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when extending PATH.
1057 * tests/compile2.test: Do no uselessly (implicitly) repeat the
1058 computation of PATH_SEPARATOR again.
1059 * tests/instmany-mans.test: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when
1060 extending/redefining PATH.
1061 * tests/instmany-python.test: Likewise.
1062 * tests/instmany.test: Likewise.
1063 * tests/man4.test: Likewise.
1064 * tests/mkinst3.test: Likewise.
1065 * tests/mmodely.test: Likewise.
1066 * tests/multlib.test: Likewise.
1067 * tests/txinfo30.test: Likewise.
1068 * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
1070 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_PATH_SEPARATOR): New maintainer check.
1071 (syntax_check_rules): Updated.
1073 Testsuite: new variables `$PATH_SEPARATOR' and `$APIVERSION'.
1074 * tests/defs.in ($APIVERSION): New AC_SUBST'd variable.
1075 ($ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE): Use it.
1076 ($PATH_SEPARATOR): New AC_SUBST'd variables.
1079 2010-09-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1081 Manual: be more agnostic w.r.t. version control system used.
1082 * doc/automake.texi (Basics of Distribution): Also refer to `.svn'
1083 directories as a type of probably-unwanted files that are copied
1084 regardless when adding directories to EXTRA_DIST.
1085 (The dist Hook): Show a dist-hook example which removes Subversion
1086 `.svn' private directories from distdir, rather than CVS private
1088 (missing and AM_MAINTAINER_MODE): Try to be more agnostic w.r.t.
1089 the version control system used.
1091 Manual: index refer to target "git-dist", not "cvs-dist".
1092 * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Index the non-standard
1093 example about "git-dist" under the "git-dist" label, not under
1096 Perl modules: remove references to "Automake CVS repository".
1097 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Update comments to refer to "Automke's
1098 git repository" rather than to "Automake's CVS repository".
1099 * lib/Automake/Configure_ac.pm: Likewise.
1100 * lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm: Likewise.
1101 * lib/Automake/Struct.pm: Likewise.
1102 * lib/Automake/XFile.pm: Likewise.
1103 * lib/Automake/Version.pm (=head1 DESCRIPTION): Refer to "git
1104 branches" rather than "CVS branches".
1106 Remove obsolete .cvsignore files.
1107 * .cvsignore, doc/.cvsignore, lib/.cvsignore, lib/am/.cvsignore,
1108 lib/Automake/.cvsignore, lib/Automake/tests/.cvsignore,
1109 m4/.cvsignore, tests/.cvsignore: Files deleted. Even when using
1110 savannah's CVS readonly mirror there's no way to commit back to
1111 the real repository, so this files are not worth maintaining or
1114 2010-09-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1116 * m4/dmalloc.m4: Bump serial number and copyright years.
1118 2010-09-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1120 Fix broken link in `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' help screen.
1121 * m4/dmalloc.m4 (AM_WITH_DMALLOC): Refer only to the dmalloc site
1122 `http://www.dmalloc.com', not to the dmalloc tarball there (which
1123 seems to have been removed, substituted by multiple release
1126 2010-09-17 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
1128 Avoid triple-space after period.
1129 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): Avoid 3 spaces at
1131 * ChangeLog.03: Likewise.
1132 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Likewise.
1133 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (_print_message): Likewise.
1134 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm (rule): Likewise.
1135 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (var): Likewise.
1136 * lib/am/distdir.am: Likewise.
1137 * tests/insthook.test: Likewise.
1139 2010-09-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1141 Test automake-generated portions of configure help screen.
1142 * tests/help-depend.test: New test.
1143 * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
1144 * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
1145 * tests/help-init.test: Likewise.
1146 * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
1147 * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
1148 * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
1149 * tests/help-regex.test: Likewise.
1150 * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
1151 * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
1152 * tests/mmode.test: Remove tests on `configure --help' output,
1153 they are superseded by tests in `help-maintainer.test'.
1154 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1156 2010-09-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1158 * tests/README: Don't put GCS mandated tools in $required.
1160 2010-09-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1162 * HACKING: Hint at old commits with `git describe' output.
1164 2010-09-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1166 Fix regression in test `colon4.test'.
1167 * tests/colon4.test: Fix botched editing to `configure.in'
1168 that made the test useless. Since we are at it, improve
1169 comments and make grepping of generated Makefile.in slightly
1171 Regression introduced by change "Modernize, improve and/or
1172 extend tests `colon*.test" (Stefano Lattarini, 2010-08-08).
1174 2010-09-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1176 Do not require "gzip" explicitly in tests.
1177 The gzip utility is simply expected to be present on any decent
1178 target system for Automake. So it's pointless to put it in
1180 * tests/install2.test ($required): Do not require "gzip".
1181 * tests/lex3.test: Likewise.
1182 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
1183 From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
1185 Make some `confh*.test' tests more "semantic" (plus tweakings).
1186 * tests/confh.test: Run "autoconf", "configure" and "make check",
1187 instead of munging/grepping the generated `Makefile.in'.
1188 * tests/confh4.test: Relax the grepping of Makefile.in w.r.t.
1189 white spaces. Do not create useless dummy source file `foo.c'
1190 and useless dummy header file `acconfig.h'.
1191 (configure.in): Remove superfluous call to `AC_OUTPUT'.
1192 * tests/confh6.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1193 * tests/confh7.test: In comments, add reference to ...
1194 * tests/confh8.test: ... this new test, "semantic" sister
1196 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1197 Prompted by a report from Ralf Wildenhues.
1199 Remove useless whitespace padding in XFAIL_TESTS definition.
1200 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Remove whitespace padding.
1202 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1204 parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
1205 * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
1206 substitution %MAKEFILE%.
1207 (generate_makefile): Adjust.
1208 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
1209 sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
1210 input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
1213 Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
1215 Posix 2008 requires make to set errexit.
1216 * lib/am/check.am: Update comment.
1218 2010-08-27 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1220 Fix bug in test missing6.test.
1221 * tests/missing6.test: Fix the hack used to edit `configure.in',
1222 to avoid producing a configure script that breaks with shells
1223 that do not support $LINENO. Also throw in a couple of cosmetic
1226 2010-08-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1228 Improve robustness of mdate-sh script.
1229 * lib/mdate-sh: Sanitize zsh behavior on startup, to ensure
1230 $ls_command is word-split properly upon invocation.
1231 (error): New function.
1232 (main): Use it. Improve error checking to avoid endless loop
1233 in case $ls_command gave bogus output. Fix eval quotation.
1234 * tests/mdate6.test: New test, to expose eval quotation error.
1235 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
1237 2010-08-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1239 Fix potential regressions in depcomp{3,5}.test.
1240 * tests/depcomp3.test: Do not uselessly escape the character `$'
1241 in makefile rules, when it's used to expand a make macro.
1242 * tests/depcomp5.test: Likewise.
1244 2010-08-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1245 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1247 Docs: clarify how to avoid automatic dependencies tracking.
1248 * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Mention that
1249 automatic dependencies tracking is enabled by default, but that
1250 the package developer can disable it altogether. Add a reference
1251 to the proper section for a more in-depth explanation.
1253 Fix typo in manual (`Makefile.in' instead of `Makefile.am').
1254 * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Fix typo.
1256 2010-08-16 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
1258 Don't hide the table of contents.
1259 * doc/automake.texi: Move the table of contents to the beginning.
1261 2010-08-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1263 Tweak and/or extend some `acloca*.test' tests.
1264 * tests/aclocal8.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured
1266 * tests/aclocal.test: Likewise. Also, add trailing `:'
1268 * tests/acloca19.test: Likewise.
1269 * tests/aclocal5.test: Add trailing `:' command, and prefer
1270 `$me' over hard-coded test name.
1271 * tests/aclocal6.test: Likewise.
1272 * tests/aclocal18.test: Add trailing `:' command, and make
1273 some grepping slightly stricter.
1274 * tests/acloca14.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `diff' over
1275 `cmp', and add some "cosmetic" blank lines.
1277 2010-08-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1279 Tweak and extend tests `pr[!0-9]*.test'.
1280 * tests/primary3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1281 * tests/primary.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
1282 Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
1283 * tests/primary2.test: Likewise.
1284 * tests/prefix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
1285 changes. Add a trailing `:' command.
1286 * tests/proginst.test: Likewise.
1288 Modernize, improve and extend tests for PR (`pr[0-9]*.test').
1289 * tests/pr2.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1290 * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
1291 * tests/pr401.test: Likewise.
1292 * tests/pr401b.test: Likewise.
1293 * tests/pr401c.test: Likewise.
1294 * tests/pr300-prog.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic changes in
1296 * tests/pr300-lib.test: Likewise.
1297 * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise, and ensure verbose printing
1298 of captured make stdout.
1299 * tests/pr211.test: Add trailing `:' command. Also, use the
1300 `configure.in' stub created by ./defs, rather than writing it
1302 * tests/pr204.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic spacing changes.
1303 * tests/pr287.test: Likewise, and move setting of `errexit' shell
1304 flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs).
1305 * tests/pr220.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
1306 Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
1307 * tests/pr224.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1308 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Do not export
1309 `CC=gcc' to configure explicitly (it's already exported globally
1310 in ./defs, since we have "gcc" in $required). Use the stub for
1311 `configure.in' created by ./defs, rather than writing it from
1312 scratch. Do not create dummy files required by "gnu" mode (e.g.
1313 README, NEWS), since we run automake in foreign mode anyway.
1314 * tests/pr72.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
1315 changes. Extend existing checks a bit.
1316 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise. Also, avoid obsolescent constructs in
1317 the generated `configure.in', and extend existing checks over the
1318 generated tarball a bit.
1319 * tests/pr87.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
1320 changes. Add a trailing `:' command. Also, do not create dummy
1321 files required by "gnu" mode (e.g. README, NEWS), since we run
1322 automake in foreign mode anyway.
1323 * tests/pr243.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
1324 `configure.in'. Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
1325 changes. Cosmetic changes to spacing, add trailing `:' command,
1326 and add a "FIXME" comment.
1327 * tests/pr266.test: Likewise, and add explicit command line switch
1328 `--enable-dependecy-tracking' to the ./configure call.
1329 * tests/pr279.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
1330 `configure.in'; also, use the `configure.in' stub created by
1331 ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch. Enable `errexit'
1332 shell flag, and related changes. Add trailing `:' command.
1333 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
1335 * tests/pr307.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1336 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Escape literal
1337 dots in grep regular expressions. Also, add a trailing `:'
1338 command, and cosmetic changes to spacing.
1340 Tests for PR: add excerpts from original bug report, for clarity.
1341 * tests/pr2.test: Ditto.
1342 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
1343 * tests/pr72.test: Likewise.
1344 * tests/pr87.test: Likewise.
1345 * tests/pr211.test: Likewise.
1346 * tests/pr220.test: Likewise.
1347 * tests/pr224.test: Likewise.
1348 * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
1349 * tests/pr243.test: Likewise.
1350 * tests/pr266.test: Likewise.
1351 * tests/pr279.test: Likewise, and tell to keep it in sync
1352 with its sister test.
1353 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
1355 2010-08-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1357 Tweak, extend and improve tests `cond[a-z]*.test'.
1358 * tests/condd.test: Add trailing `:' command. Typofix in
1360 * tests/condhook.test: Make sure target `install-data-hook' is
1361 not called by `make install', but that data files are installed.
1362 Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in. Add trailing `:' command.
1363 * tests/condhook2.test: New test, sister test of condhook, with
1365 * tests/condinc2.test: Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
1366 Prefer trailing `:' command over trailing `Exit 0'.
1367 * tests/condman2.test: Enable errexit shell flag, and related
1368 changes. Add trailing `:' command.
1369 * tests/condman.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless
1370 dummy manpages, and use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
1371 * tests/condman3.test: New test, similar to condman.test, but
1372 it also runs ./configure and "make install", and check the
1374 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1376 Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test.
1377 * tests/colon.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
1378 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Do not create
1379 a useless dummy file. Add trailing `:' command.
1380 * tests/colon4.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
1381 related changes. Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
1382 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1383 * tests/colon7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1384 changes. Improve the generated `configure.in' file. Add
1385 trailing `:' command.
1386 * tests/colon2.test: Likewise. Also, add some new checks.
1387 * tests/colon5.test: Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
1388 Add new, much deeper checks. Add trailing `:' command.
1389 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
1390 * tests/colon3.test: Add trailing `:' command. Remove useless
1391 comments and echos. Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
1392 make some grepping tests stricter. Add a "FIXME" comments about
1393 planned improvements.
1395 Improve and extend tests `asm*.test'.
1396 * tests/asm.test: Use configure.in stub generated by ./defs,
1397 and avoid obsoleted autoconf constructs. Make grepping of
1398 Automake stderr stricter. Do not create useless source file.
1399 Improve verbose messages. Minor cosmetic changes. Tell to
1400 keep it in sync with other sister tests asm*.test.
1401 * tests/asm2.test: Likewise.
1402 * tests/asm3.test: Likewise.
1404 Modernize, improve and/or extend test scripts `conf*.test'.
1405 * tests/confh5.test: Cosmetic changes.
1406 * tests/conff.test: Likewise.
1407 * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise.
1408 * tests/conflnk.test: Likewise.
1409 * tests/conflnk2.test: Likewise.
1410 * tests/confsub.test: Likewise.
1411 * tests/confvar.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
1413 * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
1414 * tests/conflnk3.test: Cosmetic changes. Re-enable a temporarily
1415 disabled test (which didn't work with autoconf <= 2.59, but now we
1416 are requiring autoconf 2.62, so...)
1417 * tests/conflnk4.test: Cosmetic changes, and extend existing tests
1418 accordingly to "TODO" comments.
1419 * tests/conff2.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
1420 Add some comments explaining why we don't use the `configure.in'
1421 stub preset be ./defs.
1422 * tests/confh.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
1423 rather than writing one from scratch, and do not call AC_OUTPUT.
1424 Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related changes. Prefer diff over
1425 cmp to compare text files. Prefer perl over sed to fetch the value
1426 of $(DIST_COMMON) from Makefile.in. Make grepping of the contents
1427 of $(DIST_COMMON) stricter.
1428 * tests/confh4.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
1429 rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping of Makefile.in
1431 * tests/confh5.test: Make grepping of `config.h' stricter. Add a
1433 * tests/configure.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in generated
1434 `configure.ac'. Do not write `configure.in' two times. Escape
1435 literal dots in grep regular expressions.
1436 * tests/confincl.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1437 changes. Prefer fgrep over grep. Other cosmetic changes.
1438 * tests/config.test: Renamed to ...
1439 * tests/confh6.test: ... this. Fix m4 quoting in `configure.in',
1440 and make grepping of `config.h' and `config.h.in' stricter.
1441 * tests/conf2.test: Renamed ...
1442 * tests/confh7.test: ... to this. Use the `configure.in' stub
1443 created by ./defs, rather than writing one from scratch. Try to
1444 run the checks both with and without AC_PROG_CC and AC_OUTPUT in
1446 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1448 Minor improvements and fixes in tests `depcomp*.test'.
1449 * tests/depcomp.test: Do not create useless dummy source files.
1450 Add a trailing `:' command.
1451 * tests/depcomp2.test: Use `unset' on the CFLAG variable to ensure
1452 it's not in in the environment, rather than exporting it with an
1453 empty value. Do not pass CC=gcc to configure, as that's already
1454 done in ./defs since we have gcc in $required. Ensure verbose
1455 printing of captured stderr, and normalize its checking. Add a
1456 trailing `:' command.
1457 * tests/depcomp3.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
1458 grep regexps. Always use `: >' rather than `touch' to create empty
1459 files. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the created
1460 Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:' command.
1461 * tests/depcomp4.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
1462 grep regexp. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the
1463 created Makefile.am. Ensure verbose printing of captured makes'
1464 stoud/stderr. Add a trailing `:' command.
1465 * tests/depcomp5.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1466 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Quote literal dots
1467 and dollar characters in grep regexps. Explicitly declare phony
1468 targets as such in the created Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:'
1470 * tests/depcomp6.test: Consistently use m4 quoting in the generated
1471 configure.in. Cosmetic fixes to spacing. Make the "dummy" `if'
1472 statement required by OpenBSD's sh `set -e' more robust, and add
1473 explanatory comments to it.
1474 * tests/depcomp7.test: Likewise, and add a trailing `:' command.
1476 Separate failing part of test `all.test'.
1477 * tests/all.test: Keep only (x)failing part of the test. Working
1478 checks moved out to ...
1479 * tests/all2.test: ... this new test.
1480 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1482 Modernize, improve and extend tests `subobj*.test'.
1483 * tests/subobjname.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1484 * tests/subobj.test: Make grepping of `Makefile.in' stricter.
1485 Escape literal dots in grep regexps.
1486 * tests/subobj2.test: Add trailing `:' command. Do not use the
1487 unportable fgrep option `-e'.
1488 * tests/subobj3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1489 (configure.in): Use proper m4 quoting, and avoid obsolescent
1491 * tests/subobj8.test: Likewise. Also, enable `errexit' shell
1492 flag, with related changes
1493 * tests/subobj4.test: Likewise. Also, make grepping of
1494 `Makefile.in' stricter.
1495 * tests/subobj5.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of
1496 `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
1498 (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
1499 writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
1500 * tests/subobj6.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of
1501 `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
1502 of ./defs). Do not create useless dummy ac-init file `f'.
1503 * tests/subobj7.test: Do not create useless dummy ac-init file
1505 (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
1506 writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
1507 * tests/subobj9.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1508 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Fail the test if
1509 `make distcheck' fails. Ensure verbose printing of captured make
1510 stdout. Avoid useless fork by doing simple grep instead of using
1511 test -n "`COMMAND | grep ...`".
1512 (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
1513 (Makefile.am): Explicitly mark target "print" as phony.
1514 * tests/subobj10.test: Removed duplicated call to `set -e'. Add
1515 trailing `:' command.
1516 (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
1518 Remove a couple of obsoleted tests.
1519 * tests/fpinstall.test: Removed.
1520 * tests/fpinst2.test: Likewise.
1521 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1523 Bootstrap: updated HACKING entry.
1524 * HACKING ("Working with git"): Explain how to override the
1525 autoconf and autom4te programs used by the bootstrap process.
1528 * bootstrap: Do not remove `lib/Automake/Config.pm' anymore,
1529 since we don't generate it. Correctly quote arguments of
1530 `eval' builtin. Fixed a botched error message. Removed an
1533 Bootstrap: don't search perl in $PATH.
1534 * bootstrap: Do not explicitly search perl in $PATH anymore.
1535 ($PATH_SEPARATOR): Removed, it's no more needed.
1537 Bootstrap: let the user choose which autoconf to use.
1538 * bootstrap ($AUTOCONF): New variable, from the environment.
1539 ($AUTOM4TE): Likewise, for clarity.
1540 Use "$AUTOCONF" instead of calling "autoconf" directly.
1542 Minor improvements to tests ar*.test.
1543 * tests/ar.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1544 * tests/ar2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
1545 Makefile.in stricter.
1547 2010-08-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1549 Fix maintainer-check failure.
1550 * tests/cond5.test: Quote sleep argument, this isn't about
1551 time stamp differences.
1553 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
1554 * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
1557 2010-08-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1559 Work around a nasty bug (segfault) of Solaris make.
1560 * lib/am/check.am (recheck, recheck-html): Trim trailing spaces
1561 from $list, to avoid triggering a nasty bug (potential segfault)
1564 2010-08-06 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
1566 Make cond5.test more robust on MSYS.
1567 * tests/cond5.test: Add delay before the first kill attempt to
1568 cater for problems with MSYS bash.
1570 2010-07-31 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1572 Add example git work flow; discuss merge --log in HACKING.
1574 Suggestion by Stefano Lattarini.
1576 Add more hints for debugging make rules.
1577 * doc/automake.texi (Debugging Make Rules): Show command to find
1578 out expanded values of variables; point to makefile debugger.
1580 Prompted by suggestion from Ludovic Courtès and Andy Wingo.
1582 2010-07-27 Patrick Welche <prlw1@cam.ac.uk> (tiny change)
1584 Fix typo in the manual.
1585 * doc/automake.texi (Scripts): Fix typo.
1587 2010-07-27 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1589 Document current policy for development with git.
1590 * HACKING (Working with git): Overhaul.
1591 Prompted by suggestion from Stefano Lattarini.
1593 Fix AM_COND_IF for gone-invalid condition shell expression.
1594 * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): test contents of $COND_TRUE
1595 variable, rather than re-evaluating the shell expression for
1597 * tests/cond40.test: Extend test.
1600 Avoid syntax error if IF-TRUE part of AM_COND_IF expands empty.
1601 * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): Ensure IF-TRUE part is never empty
1602 to avoid shell syntax error if the m4 expansion is empty.
1603 * tests/cond40.test: Enhance test.
1605 Coverage: bogus option to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
1606 * tests/init2.test: New test.
1607 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
1609 2010-07-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1611 Modernize and improve test scripts `subdir*.test'.
1612 * tests/subdir.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1613 changes. Use the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs',
1614 rather than writing one from scratch.
1615 * tests/subdir2.test: Likewise.
1616 * tests/subdir4.test: Likewise.
1617 * tests/subdir3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1618 changes. Do not create useless dummy source files.
1619 * tests/subdir5.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in (in topdir
1620 and in subdirs) stricter. Some minor changes to keep it more
1621 in sync with the related test `subdir8.test'.
1622 * tests/subdir8.test: Likewise (but with the related test being
1623 `subdir5.test' here).
1624 * tests/subdir6.test: Cosmetic change in spacing.
1625 * tests/subdir9.test: Define and use new variable `$distdir'. Add
1626 trailing `:' command.
1627 * tests/subdir10.test: Cosmetic consistency-related change.
1628 * tests/subdirbuiltsources.test: Cosmetic changes in spacings.
1629 (configure.in): Use stub created by `./defs', rather than writing
1630 it from scratch. Do not use obsoleted and/or deprecated forms of
1631 autoconf/automake macros.
1633 Modernize and improve test scripts `dist*.test'.
1634 * tests/distcleancheck.test: Do not add useless `-e' option to
1635 a $MAKE call. Extend test by grepping stderr of make.
1636 * tests/distcom2.test: Do not run the same test script on the
1637 Makefile.in twice, but save its output in an intermediate file
1638 instead. Make grepping of DIST_COMMON definition stricter.
1639 Display the content of more files, to ease debugging. Add a
1640 trailing `:' command. Improved heading comments w.r.t. sister
1642 * tests/distcom6.test: Likewise, and avoid to uselessly run
1644 * tests/distcom3.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured stdout
1645 and stderr. Make grepping of captured stderr stricter. Also,
1646 add trailing `:' command.
1647 * tests/distcom4.test: Declare the target `test' in the generated
1648 Makefile.am as `.PHONY'. Display content of more files, to ease
1649 debugging. Add trailing `:' command.
1650 * tests/distcom5.test: Likewise. Also, factor out common sed
1651 script in subroutine `extract_distcommon'.
1652 * tests/distcom7.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to write
1653 test Makefile.am files. Add a trailing `:' command.
1654 * tests/distname.test: Prefer `gzip -d' over `gunzip'. Move the
1655 call to `set -e' earlier. Be stricter and more verbose in the
1656 checking of the generated tarball.
1657 (configure.in): Use the stub provided by ./defs, instead of
1658 writing it from scratch. Avoid obsoleted constructs. Remove
1659 useless call to `AM_PROG_CC_C_O'.
1660 * tests/distdir.test: Various minor improvements/normalizations.
1661 * tests/distlinks.test: Likewise.
1663 2010-07-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1665 Improve and extend test cond5.test.
1666 * tests/cond5.test: Do not blindly sleep 60 seconds before polling
1667 the background automake process, but poll it every 10 seconds for
1668 at most 30 times (this makes the test both faster on good machines,
1669 and more resilient to spurious timeout-due failures when in low
1670 priority or on heavily-loaded systems).
1671 Check also that automake writes the expected error messages on the
1673 Enable `errexit' flag, and related changes.
1674 Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs', rather than
1675 writing one from scratch.
1677 2010-06-26 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1679 Update program --help output to match current GCS.
1680 * configure.ac: Set and substitute PACKAGE_URL if AC_PACKAGE_URL
1681 is not defined, for compatibility to Autoconf < 2.64.
1682 * Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute PACKAGE_BUGREPORT and
1684 (sc_diff_automake_in_automake): Update number of diff lines for
1685 additional substitutions.
1686 * aclocal.in (usage): Use PACKAGE_BUGREPORT. Point to Automake
1687 home page and GNU general help page.
1688 * automake.in (usage): Likewise.
1689 * doc/automake.texi: New flag PACKAGE_BUGREPORT, to factor email
1691 (Introduction, Creating amhello, amhello Explained, Options):
1693 * lib/Automake/Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute
1695 * lib/Automake/Config.in ($PACKAGE_BUGREPORT): New global.
1696 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Use it for footer of fatal
1699 Clean up @var handling in the manual.
1700 * doc/automake.texi: Throughout the manual, lower-case @var
1701 names, replace a few one-character names.
1703 2010-06-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1705 Fix typo-related bug in test script silent5.test.
1706 * tests/silent5.test: Use $EGREP, not $GREP (which is not even
1709 Tests: remove useless repetitions of `foreign' automake option.
1710 * tests/multlib.test (configure.in): Remove useless use of
1711 `foreign' option in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (the `--foreign' option is
1712 already in $AUTOMAKE by default, so no point in repeating it).
1713 * tests/subobj10.test: Likewise.
1714 * tests/subobj9.test: Likewise.
1715 * tests/lex3.test (Makefile.am): Similarly, remove useless use
1716 of `foreign' option in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
1717 * tests/lex5.test: Likewise.
1718 * tests/pr279.test: Likewise.
1719 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
1720 * tests/specflg3.test: Likewise.
1721 * tests/target-cflags.test: Likewise.
1723 Drop useless requirement "gzip" in lex5.test.
1724 * tests/lex5.test ($required): Do not list "gzip", as it's
1727 2010-06-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1729 Fix bugs in test script silent5.test.
1730 * tests/silent5.test: Fixed a nasty bug (due to the use of grep
1731 instead of egrep) that could have led to false negatives.
1733 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1735 Add a test checking that distributed broken symlinks cause
1736 `make dist' to fail.
1737 * tests/distlinksbrk.test: New test.
1738 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1740 2010-06-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1742 Fix minor testsuite issues, update docs, for Yacc/Lex changes.
1743 * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Mention AM_YFLAGS, YFLAGS
1744 and AM_LFLAGS, LFLAGS in the order in which they now appear in
1747 * tests/lflags.test, tests/lflags2.test, tests/yflags.test,
1748 tests/yflags2.test: Prefer `make -e' over `make VAR=VAL', to
1749 please maintainer-check. Ensure generated C files contain a
1750 declaration, to please compilers.
1752 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1754 Fix bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t. $(AM_FLAGS) and
1755 $(FLAGS) precedence.
1756 * automake.in: Fix registration of languages "Lex", "Lex (C++)",
1757 "Yacc" and "Yacc (C++)", so that $(LFLAGS) has precedence over
1758 $(AM_LFLAGS) and $(YFLAGS) has precedence over $(AM_YFLAGS).
1759 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1762 New tests, exposing bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t.
1763 $(AM_FLAGS) and $(FLAGS) precedence.
1764 * tests/lflags.test: New test, check that user $(LFLAGS) takes
1765 precedence over automake (AM_LFLAGS) and (foo_LFLAGS). Still
1767 * tests/lflags2.test: Likewise.
1768 * tests/yflags.test: New test, check that user $(YFLAGS) takes
1769 precedence over automake (AM_YFLAGS) and (foo_YFLAGS). Still
1771 * tests/yflags2.test: Likewise.
1772 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Extended accordingly.
1774 2010-06-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1776 Modernize, improve and extend tests `suffix*.test'.
1777 * tests/suffix3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1779 * tests/suffix4.test: Likewise.
1780 * tests/suffix6.test: Likewise, and do not create a useless dummy
1782 * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
1783 * tests/suffix5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1784 changes. Make grepping of Makefile.in slightly stricter.
1785 * tests/suffix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1786 changes. Also, do not redirect grep output to /dev/null, as this
1787 might unmotivatedly hide useful information.
1788 * tests/suffix2.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1789 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Use a more
1790 idiomatic way to count text occurrences in Makefile.in with
1791 grep. Do not create useless dummy source files.
1792 * tests/suffix10.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured make
1793 stdout. Minor cosmetic changes.
1794 * tests/suffix8.test: Likewise. Also, drop useless call to the
1795 env(1) utility, and make grepping of make output stricter by using
1796 $FGREP rather than plain grep.
1797 * tests/suffix11.test: Likewise.
1798 * tests/suffix12.test: Likewise.
1799 * tests/suffix9.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to append to
1800 the `configure.in' stub. Cosmetic changes.
1801 * tests/suffix13.test: Cosmetic spacing change.
1803 2010-06-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1805 Add useful comment in test script ext.test.
1806 * tests/ext.test: Add a comment explaining why an apparently
1807 useless `if' statement is indeed required.
1809 Add useful comment in test script obsolete.test.
1810 * tests/obsolete.test: Add a comment explaining why we need
1811 an indirection in adding $AUTOUPDATE to $required.
1813 Normalize whitespaces in 'tests/Makefile.am'.
1814 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Use only spaces, not tabs, in the
1815 definition of this variable.
1817 2010-06-12 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1819 Remove a couple of unneeded conditionals from tests.
1820 * tests/pr243.test, tests/pr266.test, tests/strip.test: No need
1821 for the FOOTEST conditional.
1823 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1825 Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
1826 * tests/symlink3.test: Deleted, separated into two new, more
1828 * tests/forcemiss.test: ... this one ...
1829 * tests/forcemiss2.test: ... and this one.
1830 * tests/symlink2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, make test
1831 stricter, and skip it if symlink creation is not supported.
1832 * tests/postproc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, related
1833 changes, and a couple of unrelated cosmetic changes.
1834 * tests/recurs.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
1835 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping
1836 of Automake stderr slightly stricter.
1837 * tests/substtarg.test: Likewise.
1838 * tests/strip.test: Likewise, and move the call to `set -e'
1839 earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs'). Also, make sure
1840 that the script installed by `make install-script' is equal to
1842 * tests/substref.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
1843 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Move the call
1844 to `set -e' earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs').
1845 Avoid to explicitly export CC for configure (that's already done
1846 in ./defs). Avoid potential problems with unpredictable make
1847 output. Finally, make grepping of Makefile.in stricter.
1848 * tests/substre2.test: Ensure verbose printing of the captured
1849 make's output, and make its grepping slightly stricter.
1850 * tests/cygwin32.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1851 changes. Also, do not create useless dummy source/data files.
1852 * tests/scripts.test: Likewise.
1853 * tests/recurs2.test: Likewise. Also, use the `configure.in'
1854 stub created by `./defs'.
1855 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1857 Modernize, improve and/or fix tests `pluseq*.test.
1858 * tests/pluseq5.test: Append to configure.in using cat with an
1859 here-doc, not using echo.
1860 * tests/pluseq10.test: Make sure that the captured output of
1861 `make' command is always displayed. Where possible, use $FGREP
1862 instead of grep (this change makes some checks slightly stricter).
1863 * tests/pluseq8.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
1865 * tests/pluseq.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless dummy
1866 data files, and use better m4 quoting in generated configure.in.
1867 * tests/pluseq2.test: Likewise. Also, append to configure.in
1868 using cat with an here-doc, not using echo.
1869 * tests/pluseq3.test: Likewise.
1870 * tests/pluseq4.test: Likewise.
1871 * tests/pluseq6.test: Likewise.
1872 * tests/pluseq7.test: Do not create useless dummy source file.
1873 * tests/pluseq9.test: Slightly extended w.r.t. the grepping of
1874 Automake stderr. Some unrelated cosmetic changes.
1876 Testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured stderr.
1877 * tests/acloca18.test: Print captured stderr before either failing
1878 or grepping it. Be sure to send captured stderr to stderr, not to
1880 * tests/ansi3b.test: Likewise.
1881 * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
1882 * tests/configure.test: Likewise.
1883 * tests/missing3.test: Likewise.
1884 * tests/missing6.test: Likewise.
1885 * tests/output-order.test: Likewise.
1886 * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise.
1887 * tests/python6.test: Likewise.
1888 * tests/python7.test: Likewise.
1889 * tests/python8.test: Likewise.
1890 * tests/python9.test: Likewise.
1891 * tests/subobj.test: Likewise.
1892 * tests/vars3.test: Likewise.
1893 * tests/missing4.test: Likewise, and fix a call to grep not to use
1895 * tests/ansi3.test: Likewise, and rely on the `configure.in' stub
1896 created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1898 Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
1899 * tests/backsl.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
1901 * tests/backsl2.test: Likewise.
1902 * tests/block.test: Likewise.
1903 * tests/canon2.test: Likewise.
1904 * tests/canon4.test: Likewise.
1905 * tests/comment2.test: Likewise.
1906 * tests/condlib.test: Likewise.
1907 * tests/cond15.test: Likewise, and prefer $FGREP over grep.
1908 * tests/canon3.test: Likewise. Also, avoid to create an useless
1910 * tests/acoutpt2.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and some
1911 related changes. Do some cosmetic improvements in the generated
1912 `configure.in' file.
1913 * tests/cond4.test: Likewise.
1914 * tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
1915 * tests/condinc.test: Likewise.
1916 * tests/cond7.test: Likewise. Also, remove useless setting of
1917 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am.
1918 * tests/ansi.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
1919 changes. Extended, esp. by running autoconf, ./configure and
1920 make, and by looking into the distdir.
1922 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1923 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1925 Extend tests/README w.r.t. trailing `:' in test scripts.
1926 * tests/README (section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
1927 Explain why apparently redundant trailing `:' and `Exit 0' in
1928 test scripts can indeed be useful.
1930 2010-06-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1932 Improve determination of PATH separator in bootstrap script.
1933 * bootstrap: Determine what the PATH separator is the same way
1936 Minor improvements in bootstrap script.
1937 * bootstrap: Consistently use two-spaces indentation. Cosmetic
1938 improvement to comments.
1939 ($me): New variable, containing program basename.
1940 Prepend it to all error messages.
1942 Testsuite now works with BSD make in parallel mode.
1943 * tests/defs.in: Unset variables __MKLVL__ and MAKE_JOBS_FIFO,
1944 which are exported by BSD make when run in parallel mode, and
1945 which can confuse make processes spawned by our testsuite.
1946 This change fixes a lot of spurious failure when the testsuite
1947 is run with BSD make in parallel mode.
1949 2010-06-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1951 Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
1952 * tests/sanity.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
1953 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1954 * tests/depend2.test: Likewise. Also, call `set -e' just after
1955 the inclusion of `./defs', instead that later in the script.
1956 * tests/canon5.test: Avoid a useless `|| Exit 1' after a call to
1957 $AUTOMAKE, and improve the positioning of an $ACLOCAL call.
1958 * tests/exeext4.test: Use $FGREP instead of grep, where possible.
1959 Make auxiliary rules in the generated Makefile more silent.
1960 These changes make some checks slightly stricter.
1961 * tests/ext2.test: Call `Exit 1' if inclusion of `./defs' fails.
1962 * tests/gettext2.test: Place final `:' at the end of the script,
1963 rather than in the middle.
1964 * tests/exeext.test: Call `set -e' just after the inclusion of
1965 `./defs', instead that later in the script.
1966 * tests/extra5.test: Likewise.
1967 * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `mv -f' over
1968 plain `mv', just to be sure.
1969 * tests/depcomp.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
1970 changes. Also, modernize the generated configure.in.
1971 * tests/cond9.test: Likewise. Also, rely on the `configure.in'
1972 stub created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1973 * tests/cond10.test: Likewise.
1974 * tests/depcomp2.test: Likewise.
1975 * tests/depend3.test: Likewise.
1976 * tests/distcom7.test: Likewise.
1977 * tests/fortdep.test: Likewise. Also, remove definition of
1978 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am,
1979 since that flag is already provided by $AUTOMAKE.
1980 * tests/mdate.test: Made stricter, by checking that Automake
1981 actually failed, and by making a stricter grep on the error
1982 message. Also, set shell `errexit flag'.
1983 * tests/python2.test: Improved verbose messages.
1985 Make test `ammissing.test' stricter.
1986 * tests/ammissing.test: Fail if $ACLOCAL succeeds unexpectedly.
1987 Enable `errexit' shell flag.
1989 2010-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1991 Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
1992 * tests/subcond.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
1994 * tests/subst.test: Likewise.
1995 * tests/vars.test: Likewise.
1996 * tests/version4.test: Likewise.
1997 * tests/vpath.test: Likewise.
1998 * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
1999 * tests/werror.test: Likewise.
2000 * tests/whoami.test: Likewise.
2001 * tests/tags.test: Likewise, and avoid to crate an useless dummy
2003 * tests/acsilent.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
2004 command substitution.
2005 * tests/unused.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
2006 command substitution.
2007 * tests/version.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
2008 in the generated `configure.in'.
2009 * tests/version2.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
2010 in the generated `configure.in'.
2012 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2014 Prefer AUTOMAKE_fails over `$AUTOMAKE | grep' in tests.
2015 * tests/ldadd.test: Enable errexit. Use AUTOMAKE_fails so
2016 the verbose log contains all output.
2017 * tests/mdate.test: Likewise.
2018 Prompted by Stefano Lattarini's change to discover.test.
2020 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2022 Improve tests link*.test (enable `errexit' shell flag).
2023 * tests/link_c_cxx.test: Enable `errexit shell flag, and related
2024 changes. Also, do not create useless source files.
2025 * tests/link_dist.test: Likewise.
2026 * tests/link_f90_only.test: Likewise.
2027 * tests/link_f_only.test: Likewise.
2028 * tests/link_fc.test: Likewise.
2029 * tests/link_fccxx.test: Likewise.
2030 * tests/link_fcxx.test: Likewise.
2032 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2034 Improve ext.test semantics, avoid OpenBSD sh errexit issue.
2035 * tests/ext.test: Inside shell compound command, use
2036 `if $cmd; then Exit 1; fi' rather than `$cmd && Exit 1', to
2037 fix failure with OpenBSD sh introduced with last patch.
2038 Actually ensure that a rule for .EXT.o is created for each
2039 known extension EXT.
2041 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2043 Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
2044 * tests/dash.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
2046 * tests/defun.test: Likewise.
2047 * tests/defun2.test: Likewise.
2048 * tests/dejagnu.test: Likewise.
2049 * tests/double.test: Likewise.
2050 * tests/distcom2.test: Likewise.
2051 * tests/empty2.test: Likewise.
2052 * tests/empty3.test: Likewise.
2053 * tests/empty4.test: Likewise.
2054 * tests/exdir.test: Likewise.
2055 * tests/ext.test: Likewise.
2056 * tests/extra.test: Likewise.
2057 * tests/extra2.test: Likewise.
2058 * tests/extra3.test: Likewise.
2059 * tests/extra4.test: Likewise.
2060 * tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
2061 * tests/fnoc.test: Likewise.
2062 * tests/fo.test: Likewise.
2063 * tests/instexec.test: Likewise.
2064 * tests/ltdeps.test: Likewise.
2065 * tests/nodep.test: Likewise.
2066 * tests/nodepcomp.test: Likewise.
2067 * tests/f90only.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
2068 comments and unnecessary commands.
2069 * tests/fonly.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
2070 comments and unnecessary commands.
2071 * tests/discover.test: Likewise, and made stricter.
2073 Enable `errexit' shell flag in all tests cxx*.test.
2074 * tests/cxx.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
2076 * tests/cxxansi.test: Likewise.
2077 * tests/cxxcpp.test: Likewise.
2078 * tests/cxxlibobj.test: Likewise.
2079 * tests/cxxlink.test: Likewise.
2080 * tests/cxxo.test: Likewise.
2082 Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
2083 * tests/acoutnoq.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
2085 * tests/acoutpt.test: Likewise.
2086 * tests/acoutqnl.test: Likewise.
2087 * tests/amassign.test: Likewise.
2088 * tests/ansi2.test: Likewise.
2089 * tests/ansi4.test: Likewise.
2090 * tests/badprog.test: Likewise.
2091 * tests/checkall.test: Likewise.
2092 * tests/clean.test: Likewise.
2093 * tests/colneq2.test: Likewise.
2094 * tests/colon.test: Likewise.
2095 * tests/colon5.test: Likewise.
2096 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
2097 * tests/comment.test: Likewise.
2098 * tests/compile_f90_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
2099 * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
2100 * tests/cond3.test: Likewise.
2101 * tests/cond6.test: Likewise.
2102 * tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
2103 * tests/conf2.test: Likewise.
2104 * tests/confvar.test: Likewise.
2105 * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
2106 * tests/cond8.test: Likewise, plus a cosmetic change.
2107 * tests/confh4.test: Likewise. Also, add in the heading comments
2108 an excerpt from the original bug report which motivated the
2109 creation of this test, to make its purpose clearer.
2111 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2113 Rewrite manual to be gender-neutral.
2114 * doc/automake.texi (GNU Build System)
2115 (Standard Directory Variables, General Operation, CVS)
2116 (Hard-Coded Install Paths, Dependencies As Side Effects):
2117 Rewrite text to not contain gender-specific pronouns when
2118 speaking about developers or users, either by avoiding pronouns
2119 or by addressing them as `you' instead.
2121 Report by Christina Gratorp.
2125 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2127 Make tests on user extensibility of silent-rules mode stricter.
2128 * tests/silent6.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
2129 output produced by `make'.
2130 * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
2132 Tests on silent-mode for C/Libtool made stricter.
2133 * tests/silent.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
2134 output produced by `make'.
2135 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
2136 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
2137 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
2138 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise, and add a final `make distclean'
2139 command to keep it better in sync with tests/silent{4,9}.test.
2141 Improved test silent5.test.
2142 * tests/silent5.test: Remove by hand all generated C files after
2143 non-verbose builds, to ensure the following builds are clean.
2144 Try to clean and rebuild with the same verbosity and without
2145 removing generated sources in between, to check that this does
2146 not trigger a different set of rules. Make grepping of make's
2147 output stricter. Improved/added some comments.
2149 New tests for Automake silent-mode with Fortran.
2150 * tests/silentf77.test: New test.
2151 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
2152 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2154 New test `silentcxx.test' (Automake silent-mode with C++).
2155 * tests/silentcxx.test: New test.
2156 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2158 New test `silentyacc.test' (Automake silent-mode with Yacc).
2159 * tests/silentyacc.test: New test.
2160 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2162 New test `silentlex.test' (Automake silent-mode with Lex).
2163 * tests/silentlex.test: New test.
2164 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2166 Relax tests on silent-rules to cater to overly verbose makes.
2167 * tests/silent.test: When testing silent builds, don't fail if
2168 make's output simply contains the `mv' substring, but only if
2169 it contains the `mv ' substring (note the trailing space).
2170 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
2171 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
2172 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
2173 * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
2174 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
2176 2010-01-24 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2178 Fix silent-rules output for disabled dependency tracking.
2179 * lib/am/depend2.am [!%FASTDEP%]: Rework silent-rules variable
2180 expansion code to also work in the case where %AMDEP% expands
2181 to FALSE at config.status time, using new substitution string
2183 * automake.in (verbose_nodep_flag): New function, appending
2184 `@am__nodep@' to the verbose-variable name.
2185 (handle_languages): If dependencies are not disabled, use it to
2186 set %VERBOSE-NODEP%.
2187 * m4/depend.m4: Substitute am__nodep as '_no', so the second
2188 verbose-variable will always expand to an empty string, if
2189 dependencies are enabled.
2190 * tests/silent5.test: Also test --disable-dependency-tracking;
2191 also test per-target flags for non-C language files.
2192 * tests/silent9.test: New test, like silent4.test but disable
2193 dependency tracking.
2194 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
2195 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
2196 Report by Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>.
2198 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2200 Extend test on `nostdinc' automake option.
2201 * tests/nostdinc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Related and
2202 unrelated minor changes. Make the grepping of the generated
2203 Makefile.in slightly stricter. Generate and run configure, so that
2204 the generated Makefile can be grepped too.
2206 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2208 Make gnupload portable to EBCDIC hosts.
2209 * lib/gnupload: Use literal newline as argument for 'tr' rather
2210 than \015, for EBCDIC hosts. Also, avoid unportable nested
2211 double-quotes and backquotes.
2213 Report from Eric Blake and Steve Goetze via gnulib.
2215 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2217 Fix Autoconf version required by Automake's configure.
2218 Automake configure script used to tell that automake required
2219 autoconf 2.60 or later, but then it checked for autoconf >= 2.62,
2220 and if that was not found, it gave an error saying that Automake
2221 required configure 2.61a-341 or later. This change should
2222 eliminate such inconsistencies.
2223 * configure.ac ($required_autoconf_version): New variable.
2226 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2228 Fix unportable sed script in maintainer-check test.
2229 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_Exit_not_exit): Rewrite sed script to
2230 not contain semicolon after 'b' or brace commands, for NetBSD.
2232 Wildcards are not portable to NetBSD make.
2233 * doc/automake.texi (Wildcards): Document portability issue.
2234 * tests/extra10.test, tests/extra11.test, tests/extra12.test:
2237 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2239 Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
2240 * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
2241 an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
2243 Avoid possible false negatives in dejagnu7.test.
2244 * tests/dejagnu7.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Also, avoid
2245 unportable use of fgrep option `-e'.
2247 Fix conflnk3.test to work with Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
2248 * tests/conflnk3.test: Use `test -r FILE' and `test ! -r FILE'
2249 instead of respectively `test -e FILE' and `test ! -e FILE',
2250 since Solaris Sh doesn't grok the latter. Do not SKIP the test
2251 if the shell doesn't support `test -e'.
2253 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2256 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Add
2257 missing closing parenthesis.
2259 Fix leftover call to removed function macros_dump.
2260 * automake.in (read_main_am_file): Call variables_dump, not
2261 macros_dump. Print actual error before list of variables.
2263 2010-04-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2265 Minor improvements in comments of test `silent3.test'.
2266 * tests/silent3.test: Tell to keep it in sync with `silent9.test'
2269 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2271 testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured output.
2272 * tests/acloca14.test, tests/acloca18.test, tests/aclocal.test,
2273 tests/fort2.test, tests/help.test, tests/missing3.test,
2274 tests/missing6.test: Print captured stdout or stderr before
2277 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2279 Make test badopt.test stricter (by enabling `set -e').
2280 * tests/badopt.test: Add call to `set -e'. Due to this change,
2281 an unexpected failure in the call to `$ACLOCAL' (whose outcome
2282 was previously unchecked) would cause the whole test to fail.
2283 Also, bumped the copyright years.
2285 Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
2286 * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
2287 an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
2289 Use `set -e' in confsub.test (avoids possible false negatives).
2290 * tests/confsub.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and related
2291 changes (this helps avoiding some possible minor false negatives).
2292 Also, bumped copyright years.
2294 2010-04-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2296 Fix -Werror handling for presence of configure.in and configure.ac.
2297 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (Automake::Variable): Do not initialize
2298 $configure_ac at the global level, before command-line arguments
2300 (require_variables): Initialize it here.
2301 * tests/configure.test: New test.
2302 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
2303 Report by Stefano Lattarini.
2305 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2307 Avoid possible false negatives in confh5.test.
2308 * tests/confh5.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and bumped
2309 copyright years. Due to this change, any unexpected failure
2310 in calls to $ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE, $AUTOCONF or $AUTOHEADER, or
2311 a failure in grepping expected text in output files should now
2312 cause the whole test to fail.
2314 2010-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2316 Fixed typo in POD documentation of Automake::Channels.
2317 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Fixed typo in POD documentation:
2318 @<...> was used instead of C<...>.
2320 2010-04-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2322 Refactor tests on Automake TESTS color output.
2323 * tests/color.test: Tests using the expect program moved out to...
2324 * tests/color2.test: ... this new file.
2325 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Extended accordingly.
2327 2010-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2329 Fix typos in comments in test confh5.test
2330 * tests/confh5.test: Fix a couple of typos in comments.
2332 Avoid possible false negatives in canon-name.test.
2333 * tests/canon-name.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Improve
2336 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2338 Fix per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror.
2339 Before this patch, 'AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = -Werror' in one
2340 Makefile.am would carry over to other Makefile.am files
2341 treated afterwards by the same thread, causing inconsistent
2342 and unstable exit status values.
2343 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (dup_channel_setup)
2344 (drop_channel_setup): Save and restore the setting of
2345 $warnings_are_errors.
2346 * tests/werror3.test: New test.
2347 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
2350 2010-04-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2352 Bugfix in confh5.test w.r.t. Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
2353 * tests/confh5.test: In the generated Makefile.am: do not use
2354 `test ! -e FILE' to check for the non-existence of a file, since
2355 that is not supported by Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
2357 Make test `aclocal3.test' stricter.
2358 * tests/aclocal3.test: Add call to `set -e'. Fail if $ACLOCAL
2359 succeds unexpectedly.
2361 Add tests checking that symlinks are resolved by `make dist'.
2362 * tests/distlinks.test: New test.
2363 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2364 Suggested by observations from Ralf Wildenhues.
2366 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2368 Use -9 for maximum xz compression with dist-xz.
2369 * lib/am/distdir.am (dist-xz, dist, dist-all): Pass -9 to xz.
2370 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
2371 Report by Pavel Sanda.
2373 2010-03-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2375 Avoid an unportable use of `$status' shell variable.
2376 * Makefile.am (path-check): Don't use the `$status' shell variable
2377 in the target's rules, as it's special in Zsh (equivalent to `$?',
2380 Avoid another use of `chmod -R'.
2381 * Makefile.am (path-check): To be safe, do not use `chmod -R' on
2382 $(distdir) before removing it (as Solaris `chmod -R' touches
2383 symlink targets). Instead, use the cleanup strategy used in
2386 2010-03-28 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2388 Remove uses of @acronym and @sc.
2389 * doc/automake.texi (Public Macros, Limitations on File Names):
2390 Remove all usage of @acronym and @sc in the manual.
2391 Suggested by Karl Berry.
2393 2010-03-13 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
2395 GNU hello uses fdl.texi, not gpl.texi.
2396 * doc/automake.texi (Texinfo): Adjust example to upstream
2399 2010-03-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2401 Formatting cleanups in macro comments.
2402 * automake.in, lib/Automake/Channels.pm,
2403 lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm, lib/Automake/Options.pm,
2404 lib/Automake/Variable.pm, lib/Automake/XFile.pm,
2405 m4/options.m4, m4/substnot.m4: Fix macro comment format.
2407 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2408 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2410 Avoid generation of `tests/defs-p' file.
2411 * tests/defs.in: In the generated `configure.in' snippet: call
2412 `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' with the `parallel-tests' option if the shell
2413 variable `parallel_tests' is set to `yes'.
2414 * tests/Makefile.am (defs-p): Target removed.
2415 (check_SCRIPTS): Removed `defs-p'.
2416 (clean-local-check): Do not unlink `defs-p' anymore.
2417 ($(parallel_tests)): Transformation rules for the test scripts
2419 * tests/gen-parallel-tests: Selection rules for the test
2421 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Set `$parallel_tests' to `yes'
2422 then include `./defs' (rather than simply including `./defs-p').
2423 * tests/parallel-tests2.test: Likewise.
2424 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
2425 * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
2426 * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
2427 * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
2428 * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
2429 * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise.
2430 * tests/parallel-tests9.test: Likewise.
2431 * tests/parallel-tests10.test: Likewise.
2432 * tests/README (Section "Writing Test Cases" subsection "Do"):
2433 Adjusted the parts referring to tests checking `parallel-tests'
2434 behaviour. Some other minor related improvements.
2435 * tests/.gitignore (defs-p): Removed.
2437 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2439 Remove redundant unset of variable TESTS from some test scripts.
2440 * tests/color.test: Do not unset the `TESTS' variable, as it's
2441 already unset in the `defs' file.
2442 * tests/check5.test: Likewise.
2443 * tests/check8.test: Likewise.
2444 * tests/check9.test: Likewise.
2445 * tests/check10.test: Likewise.
2446 * tests/check11.test: Likewise.
2447 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Likewise.
2448 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
2449 * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
2450 * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
2451 * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
2452 * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
2454 2010-02-22 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
2456 Improve help message of mdate-sh.
2457 * mdate-sh: mention actual output format in help message.
2459 2010-02-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2461 Deprecate dist-lzma in favor of dist-xz.
2462 * doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions, Options):
2463 Adjust text to reflect renaming of lzma to xz.
2465 Missing deprecation noted by Antonio Diaz Diaz.
2467 2010-02-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2469 Add tests about support of wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
2470 * tests/extra10.test: New test, check basic support of wildcards
2472 * tests/extra11.test: New test, check more complex usage of
2473 wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
2474 * tests/extra12.test: New test, check usage of wildcards in
2475 EXTRA_DIST when $builddir != $srcdir.
2476 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2477 Necessity of these new tests suggested by Braden McDaniel
2478 and Ralf Wildenhues.
2480 2010-02-08 Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
2482 Fix copyright statement in gnupload script.
2483 * lib/gnupload: Fix copyright statement.
2485 2010-02-06 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> (tiny change)
2486 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2488 Fix exit status of signal handlers in shell scripts.
2489 The value of `$?' on entrance to signal handlers in shell scripts
2490 cannot be relied upon, so set the exit code explicitly to
2492 * lib/am/check.am (am__check_pre): Use `exit 143' in signal handler.
2493 * lib/elisp-comp: Likewise.
2494 * lib/install-sh: Likewise.
2495 * lib/ylwrap: Likewise. Also, fix script to trap signal 13, not 3.
2496 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
2497 Bug report, analysis, and initial patch by Dmitry V. Levin.
2499 2010-02-06 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
2501 Improve gnupload usage text.
2502 * gnupload (usage): Shorten to make more likely to fit on a tty
2503 line. Mention CMD in the synopsis. With ..., plural is implied.
2505 2010-01-28 Christos Kontas <xakon@yahoo.com> (tiny change)
2507 Fix some typos in the manual
2508 * doc/automake.texi (Nested Packages, Rebuilding): Fix typos.
2510 2010-01-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2512 Slighty improve tests acoutbs.test and acoutbs2.test.
2513 * tests/acoutbs2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Check that
2514 autoconf and configure work, that the file `zot' is created by
2515 configure, and that no file containing a backslash in its name is
2517 * tests/acoutbs.test: Likewise, plus updated copyright years.
2519 Fix test acoutbs2.test.
2520 * tests/acoutbs2: In the generated configure.in: add proper calls
2521 to AC_INIT and AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, and remove explicit definition of
2522 PACKAGE and VERSION. Add a call to aclocal before calling automake.
2523 Updated copyright years.
2524 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Removed acoutbs2.test.
2526 Add forgotten test scripts to $(TESTS).
2527 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Added test scripts present on the
2528 filesystem, which were erroneously left out from $(TESTS):
2529 acoutbs2.test, badopt.test, extra2.test.
2530 (XFAIL_TESTS): Added acoutbs2.test.
2532 2010-01-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2534 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
2535 * INSTALL, lib/INSTALL, lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub:
2538 Bump copyright years.
2539 * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
2540 * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
2541 * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
2544 * ChangeLog.09: New file, rotated from ...
2545 * ChangeLog: ... here.
2546 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute ChangeLog.09.
2550 Copyright (C) 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2552 Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are
2553 permitted provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved.
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