1 2011-05-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3 remake: behave better with non-GNU make in subdirectories
4 Currently, with every decent make program, it is possible to
5 rebuild out-of-date autotools-generated files with a simple
6 "make Makefile" -- but for this to work reliably with non-GNU
7 make implementations, the command must be issued from the
8 top-level directory. This patch removes such limitation.
9 * lib/am/configure.am (am--refresh): Depend on `%MAKEFILE%'.
10 * tests/defs.in (using_gmake): New function, backported from the
11 `master' branch (and simplified).
12 * tests/remake-subdir.test: New test.
13 * tests/remake-subdir2.test: Likewise.
14 * tests/remake-subdir-gnu.test: Likewise.
15 * tests/remake-subdir-from-subdir.test: Likewise.
16 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
18 2011-05-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
20 automake, aclocal: honour configure-time AUTOCONF and AUTOM4TE
21 Currently, the Automake's own configure script allow definition
22 of AUTOCONF and AUTOM4TE, expected to point respectively to an
23 autoconf and autom4te programs. But while these definitions are
24 honoured in the Automake's build systems and test suite, they
25 were *not* honoured in the generated `automake' and `aclocal'
26 scripts. This behaviour, apart from being wrong in that it does
27 not allow the user enough freedom in choosing his tools, also
28 caused inconsistencies in the test suite, brining to spurious
30 Problem reported by Graham Reitz on the automake list; see thread:
31 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2011-05/msg00022.html>
32 * automake.in ($traces): Use `@am_AUTOCONF', not simply `autoconf'.
33 * aclocal.in ($traces): Use `@am_AUTOM4TE', not simply `autom4te'.
34 * Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute also `@am_AUTOCONF' and
39 2011-05-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
41 build: the user can override AUTOM4TE, AUTORECONF and AUTOUPDATE too
42 Our build system allows the user to override AUTOCONF and AUTOHEADER
43 at configure time, and honours these overrides in our testsuite.
44 But it didn't do the same with AUTOM4TE, AUTORECONF and AUTOUPDATE.
45 This change fixes that inconsistency.
46 * configure.ac (am_AUTOM4TE, am_AUTOUPDATE, am_AUTORECONF): New
47 AC_SUBSTitutions. Update comments.
48 * tests/defs.in ($AUTOUPDATE): Default to `@am_AUTOUPDATE@' now.
49 ($AUTOM4TE): New variable, defaulting to `@am_AUTOM4TE@'.
50 ($AUTORECONF): New variable, defaulting to `@am_AUTORECONF@'.
51 * doc/Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/amhello-1.0.tar.gz): Update.
53 2011-05-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
54 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
56 tests/README: fix example about `make -e' usage
57 * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"): When
58 some variable is never initialized in the Makefile, `-e' is not
59 necessary in order to override it. DESTDIR is such a variable: we
60 ensure that we do not ever initialize it. And as such, it is quite
62 $ make DESTDIR=/foo/bar install
63 and in fact, quite widely used.
64 So our example about when `make -e' is required, which references
65 the `DESTDIR' variable, is poorly chosen, if not downright wrong.
66 Rewrite it to use `prefix' as the overridden variable instead.
68 2011-05-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
70 testsuite: avoid re-running few tests with 'parallel-tests' option
71 Some tests in our testsuite use the 'simple-tests' driver only
72 marginally, or simply as a mean to conveniently check unrelated
73 invariants. It makes little sense to force these tests to also
74 run with the 'parallel-tests' Automake option active, as doing so
75 offers no real gain in coverage, while often causing a measurable
76 overhead in execution time (for an already too-slow testsuite).
77 * tests/pr401.test (parallel_tests): Define to "no", to prevent
78 the generation of a sibling test script using the 'parallel-tests'
80 * tests/pr401b.test: Likewise.
81 * tests/pr401c.test: Likewise.
83 2011-05-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
85 testsuite: allow tests to avoid the use of 'parallel-tests' option
86 * tests/gen-parallel-tests: Do not generate "siblings" for tests
87 that explicitly define the `parallel_tests', whether to "yes" or
88 to any other value. Extend heading comments to give a rationale
90 * tests/README: Update.
92 2011-05-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
94 tests/README: update obsoleted advice
95 * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
96 Do not suggest to use the `*-p.test' pattern for the names of
97 hand-written tests which use the `parallel-tests' Automake option.
98 Not only is this not respected by the existing tests, but it is
99 more likely to cause conflicts with auto-generated tests.
100 So, suggest to *avoid* using the `*-p.test' pattern in names
101 of hand-written tests instead.
102 (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do not"): When
103 suggesting not to override Makefile variables using command
104 line arguments, do not use the badly outdated variables `U'
105 and 'ANSI2KNR' in the example; instead, use the more common
106 and typical `DESTDIR'.
108 2011-05-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
110 test defs: rename requirement 'non-cross' -> 'native'
111 * tests/defs.in (non-cross): Rename requirement ...
112 (native): ... to this, which is clearer and fits the
113 existing lingo better.
114 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
116 2011-05-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
118 testsuite: be more cross-compile friendly
119 * tests/defs.in (cross_compiling): New subroutine.
120 (am__tool_prefix): New internal variable.
121 (gcc, g++, gcj): Force the use of the correct "tool prefix"
122 when cross compiling.
123 (gfortran, g77, non-cross): New requirements.
125 2011-05-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
127 tests: fix spurious failure of txinfo21.test on FreeBSD
128 * tests/txinfo21.test: Use the `is_newest' subroutine instead of
129 the `ls -t' hack to to determine whether a file has been updated.
130 This is required because at least FreeBSD `ls' do not sort files
131 with the same timestamp in alphabetical order when using the `-t'
134 2011-05-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
136 tests defs: allow requirements for compilers (mostly dummy)
137 Most of the new requirements that are now accepted in `$required'
138 as consequence of this patch are still dummy. They are planned
139 to be implemented only in master (or in some derived branch), but
140 having them here (even just as no-op) will allow for an easier
141 integration/backporting of potential new testcases.
142 * tests/defs.in (cc, c++, fortran, fortran77): New requirements,
144 (flex): New requirement, picking LEX for configure.
145 (lex): New requirement, alias for `flex'. A more appropriate
146 implementation, looking for a generic `lex' program, will follow
148 (yacc): New requirement, alias for `bison'. A more appropriate
149 implementation, looking for a generic `yacc' program, will follow
152 2011-04-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
154 tests: fix spurious failure in a test on TESTS (VPATH-related)
155 * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: When not using the
156 parallel-tests option, do not check that VPATH components are
157 not present in the displayed test name, since the simple-tests
158 driver do not try to strip them.
160 2011-04-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
162 test: self check subroutines for skipping/failing of tests
163 * tests/self-check-report.test: New test.
164 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
166 2011-04-23 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
167 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
169 test defs: new subroutines for test skipping/failing
170 * tests/defs.in (Exit): Move definition of this function earlier.
171 (warn_, skip_, fail_, framework_failure_): New functions, inspired
172 to the homonyms in gnulib's tests/init.sh.
173 ($stderr_fileno_): New global variable, used by the new functions
175 * tests/README: Updated.
176 From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
178 2011-04-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
180 tests: fix typo (copy & paste blunder) in heading comment
181 * tests/maintclean-vpath.test: Correctly refer to the sister test
182 as `maintclean.test', not as `maintclean-vpath.test'.
184 2011-04-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
186 tests: remove redundant test `mclean.test'
187 * tests/mclean.test: Remove, it's a weak grepping test completely
188 superseded by the much more complete `maintclean.test'.
189 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
191 2011-04-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
193 testsuite: more environment sanitization
194 * tests/defs.in: Sanity check: abort if any of `parallel_tests'
195 or `required' is in the environment.
196 ($sed_unindent_prog): Initialize to empty, to avoid interferences
197 from the environment.
198 * tests/self-check-me-in-env.test: Renamed to ...
199 * tests/self-check-env-sanitize.test: ... this, and extended.
200 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
201 (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset variables `parallel_tests' and
202 `required'. Adjust comments.
204 2011-04-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
206 tests: don't allow `$me' to be overridden from the environment
207 * tests/defs.in: Sanity check: abort if $me is in the environment.
208 * tests/self-check-me-in-env.test: New test.
209 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset variable `me'.
211 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
213 2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
215 test defs: allow overriding of `$me'
216 * tests/defs.in ($me): Allow overriding by the including test
217 script. Add some explicative comments.
219 2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
221 depcomp tests: don't reject slower dependency extractors
222 * tests/depcomp8b.test: Add the `--enable-dependency-tracking'
223 option to `configure' invocations, so that slower dependency
224 extractors are not rejected.
225 * tests/depcomp8a.test: Likewise. Also ...
226 (foo.c): ... since we are at it, fix spacing to be consistent
227 with GNU coding standards.
229 2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
231 m4: add missing serial numbers to a few files
232 Related to automake bug#8483.
233 * m4/amversion.in: Add serial number.
234 * m4/auxdir.m4: Likewise.
235 * m4/gcj.m4: Likewise.
236 * m4/install-sh.m4: Likewise.
237 * m4/mkdirp.m4: Likewise.
238 * m4/python.m4: Likewise.
239 * m4/runlog.m4: Likewise.
240 * m4/strip.m4: Likewise.
241 * m4/upc.m4: Likewise.
243 2011-04-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
245 depcomp: correct invalid sed invocation
246 * lib/depcomp: Insert missing -e before '/:$/d'.
247 Otherwise, that use of sed would treat '/:$/d' as a file name.
249 2011-04-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
251 maintainer check: quote literal `$' in Makefile rule
252 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_PATH_SEPARATOR): Escape literal `$'
253 character in double-quoted string. Fix a bug in which the rule
254 emitted an erroneously empty substring in its error message.
256 2011-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
258 coverage: test for automake bug#8485 (known regression)
259 * tests/yacc-dist-nobuild-subdir.test: New test.
260 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Update.
262 2011-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
264 test defs: define default $distdir (help reducing duplication)
265 * tests/defs.in ($distdir): New variable, might be used in
266 testcases checking distribution-related features.
267 * tests/pr9.test: Use it.
268 * tests/subdir9.test: Likewise.
269 * tests/vtexi3.test: Add comment explaining why we redefine
270 $distdir in this test.
272 2011-04-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
274 depcomp: fix bugs in tests and in the depcomp script
275 * lib/depcomp (gcc): Remove duplicated `-e' from sed invocation.
276 * tests/depcomp10.test: Make it executable. Fix a blunder that
277 has left part of an intended comment not prefixed by `#', thus
278 causing shell syntax errors. In this same comment, break a
279 too-long reported error message on multiple lines, for clarity.
280 Add reference to the relevant bug report. Add a comment which
281 explains why the test result 'skipped' if the first "make" call
282 fails. Add other useful comments.
283 * tests/depcomp9.test: Slightly improve comments.
285 2011-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
287 Fix hp depmode for VPATH builds with GNU make.
288 * lib/depcomp: Be sure to remove VPATH-prefixed object from
289 dependency output when creating stub rule.
290 * tests/depcomp10.test: New test.
291 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
293 Report by Bruno Haible.
295 2011-04-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
297 test defs: fix 'javac' requirement for older JDK versions
298 The Java compiler from JDK 1.5 (and presumably earlier versions)
299 cannot handle the `-version' option by itself; and while it does
300 print the version number, it then errors out with an usage error:
303 javac: no source files
304 Usage: javac <options> <source files>
306 Luckily, adding the `-help' option to the `javac' invocation
307 seems to fix this problem.
308 * tests/defs.in (javac): Pass also the `-help' option to the
309 `javac' program. Add a comment explaining why it is needed.
310 Report from Ralf Wildenhues.
312 2011-04-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
314 test defs: new requirement for the default java compiler
315 * tests/defs.in (for tool in $required): New requirement 'javac'.
316 * tests/java.test: Use it instead of ad-hoc configure check.
317 * tests/java-check.test: Likewise.
318 * tests/instfail-java.test: Likewise.
319 * tests/instdir-java.test: Likewise.
321 2011-04-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
323 java: check_JAVA does not cause compilation by "make all" anymore
324 Fixes automake bug#8234.
325 * automake.in (handle_java): Make stamp of class files built from
326 java sources in $(check_JAVA) a dependency of `check' target, not
328 * tests/java-check.test: New test.
329 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
332 Report from Petteri Räty.
334 2011-04-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
336 Clarify regex code in depcomp.
337 * lib/depcomp: Add comment why we don't need regex-escaping here.
338 Suggested by Stefano Lattarini.
340 2011-04-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
342 Fix makedepend depmode for VPATH builds.
343 * lib/depcomp [makedepend]: Remove any VPATH prefix from the
344 object file name, so a rebuild doesn't attempt to update the
345 .Po files in the source tree.
346 * tests/depcomp9.test: New test.
347 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
350 2011-04-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
352 tests: fix timestamp-related failures
353 Fixes automake bug#8365.
354 * tests/aclocal6.test: Sleep before modifying m4 files that should
355 trigger remake rules. Remove incorrect/obsoleted comments.
356 * tests/subdir5.test: Likewise, and extend a bit.
357 * tests/subdir8.test: Likewise.
358 * tests/pr8365-remake-timing.test: New xfailing test.
359 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
360 Report from Sam Steingold.
362 2011-04-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
364 Create subdirs for generated sources even when not dep tracking.
365 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): If $object is derived
366 and lands in subdir, be sure to output a dirstamp dependency.
367 * tests/yacc5.test: Avoid falsely matching the dirstamp
368 dependency when grepping for a rule.
369 * tests/lex-subobj-nodep.test: New test.
370 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
372 Report by Ignacy Gawedzki.
374 Fix locale issue in check-exported-srcdir.test.
375 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Reformulate glob to not fail
376 in a locale that ignores or interleaves character case.
378 2011-04-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
380 docs: better visibility for aclocal in the index
381 * doc/automake.texi (@menu): Rename title for entry 'configure'
382 from "Scanning configure.ac or configure.in" to the more precise
383 "Scanning configure.ac, using aclocal".
384 (@detailmenu): Adjust.
385 (@node configure): Adjust, and extend @cindex calls accordingly.
387 From a report by Maynard Johnson.
389 2011-03-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
391 tests: improve tests on "maintainer-clean" target
392 * tests/aclocal6.test: Move checks related to "maintainer-clean"
393 functionalities into ...
394 * tests/maintclean-vpath.test: ... this new test.
395 * tests/maintclean.test: Update heading comments. Extend to also
396 test subdirs. Remove useless disabling of YACC. Fix m4 quoting
397 in configure.in. Add a trailing `:' command. Remove extra blank
399 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
401 2011-03-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
403 tests: fix unindent to use printf not echo for script.
404 * tests/defs.in: Use printf rather than echo, as the latter may
405 interpret the backslashes in the sed script. Fixes test
406 failures with dash as /bin/sh.
408 2011-03-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
409 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
411 maintcheck: look for problematic names of testcases
412 The configure.in stub created by default by `tests/defs' obtains
413 the first argument of AC_INIT from the test name, and this can
414 cause some supported autoconf versions to fail with a spurious
415 error if that test name contains the name of an m4 or m4sugar
416 builtin or macro (e.g., `defn' or `m4_undefine').
417 See for example the bug fixed by commit v1.11-287-g1325a8a.
418 This change add a maintainer check that warns about test names
419 which are possibly problematic in this regard.
420 * Makefile.am (sc_test_names): New maintainer-check target.
421 (syntax_check_rules): Add it.
422 (m4_builtins): New helper variable.
423 (TESTS): Updated according to the following renamings.
424 * tests/include.test: Renamed ...
425 * tests/hdr-vars-defined-once.test: ... to this.
426 * tests/sinclude.test: Renamed ...
427 * tests/m4-inclusion.test: ... to this, and simplified
429 * tests/include2.test: Renamed ...
430 * tests/dist-included-parent-dir.test: ... to this, for
433 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
435 tests: fix bug in alloca*.test
436 * tests/alloca.test: Make grepping of automake stderr stricter,
437 add a trailing `:' command; also, add AC_PROG_CC to configure.in,
438 and create a dummy alloca.c file, to ensure that we fail for the
440 * tests/alloca2.test: Likewise. Also, look for LT_INIT, not
441 AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, in the error message (bug introduced with commit
442 v1.11-315-gd51e7b7 "libtool: suggest LT_INIT if LTLIBRARIES
444 From a report by Patrick Welche.
446 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
448 tests: fix bug (comments-in-var-defn.test + autoconf 2.62)
449 * tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: The configure.in stub created
450 by default, which has the AC_INIT first argument obtained by the
451 test name, causes autoconf 2.62 to fail with a spurious error
452 message like: "configure.in:1: error: defn: undefined macro:".
453 Thus, to prevent this, the test is renamed to ...
454 * tests/comments-in-var-def.test: ... this.
455 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
457 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
459 cosmetics: convert encoding from ISO-8859 to UTF-8
460 * ChangeLog.03: Convert encoding to UTF-8.
461 * ChangeLog.96: Likewise.
462 * ChangeLog.98: Likewise.
466 2011-03-01 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
468 test defs: unindent without temporary file
469 * tests/defs.in (commented_sed_unindent_prog): Commented Sed program
470 that strips the "proper" amount of leading whitespace.
471 (unindent): Lazily strip comments from the above program and use it
472 to unindent without using a temporary file.
474 2011-02-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
476 libtool: suggest LT_INIT if LTLIBRARIES primary is used
477 When the LTLIBRARIES primary was used, but $(LIBTOOL) wasn't
478 defined, automake suggested to add a call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
479 in configure.ac. But that macro is deprecated since Libtool
480 version 1.9b (2004-08-29), in favor of the newer LT_INIT. So
481 suggest the use of this latter macro instead.
482 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (%_am_macro_for_var): Pair 'LIBTOOL'
483 with 'LT_INIT', not with 'AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'.
484 * tests/libtool4.test: Adjust and extend. Also, add a call to
485 macro AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, to help ensuring that automake
486 does not fail for the wrong reasons.
487 * tests/ltinit.test: New test, ensure that automake's libtool
488 support works with LT_INIT-based interface.
489 Thanks to Jack Kelly for the suggestion.
491 2011-02-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
493 tests: tempdirs with restrictive permissions are cleaned correctly
494 Before this change, the removal of a temporary test directory
495 containing subdirectories with restrictive permissions (such as
496 'r--r--r--') could fail.
497 * tests/defs: Ensure that all the subdirectories of a temporary
498 test directory have the 'read', 'write' and 'execute' bits set,
499 before trying to remove it with `rm -rf'.
500 * tests/Makefile.am (clean-local-check): Likewise.
502 2011-02-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
503 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
505 test defs: add subroutine for input unindenting
506 * tests/defs.in (unindent): New subroutine.
508 2011-02-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
510 python: report the 'PYTHON' influential environment variable
511 * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Call AC_ARG_VAR on PYTHON.
512 * doc/automake.texi (Python): Update and extend.
513 * tests/help-python.test: New test.
514 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
515 * THANKS (Jack Kelly): Update e-mail address.
516 Suggestion by Jack Kelly.
518 2011-02-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
520 tests defs: clear TESTS_ENVIRONMENT variable
521 * tests/defs.in (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset it, so that values
522 from environment won't interfere with the testcases.
523 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
525 2011-02-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
527 tests: tweak few tests on simple and parallel test drivers
528 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Improve heading comments.
529 * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: Likewise. Also, unset the
530 `FOO_EXIT_STATUS' variable, so that any pre-existing value in the
531 environment won't risk to interfere with the test.
532 Suggestions by Ralf Wildenhues.
534 2011-02-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
536 coverage: more tests on simple and parallel test drivers
537 * tests/parallel-tests-subdir.test: New test.
538 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Likewise.
539 * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: Likewise.
540 * tests/check-tests_environment.test: Likewise.
541 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
543 2011-01-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
545 tests: fix spurious failures in lflags*.test
546 * tests/lflags.test: Remove 'LEX' from the environment, so
547 that it won't be erroneously picked up by `make -e'.
548 * tests/lflags2.test: Likewise.
550 2011-01-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
552 docs: color-tests issues with parallel make
553 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Document that automatic
554 recognition of a capable terminal attached to stdout can fail
555 with some make implementation when running in parallel mode,
556 thus causing colored test output not to be automatically
557 activated when it should.
559 2011-01-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
561 tests: avoid instspc.test failures due to make's whitespace trimming
562 * tests/instspc.test: Prepend './' when passing the test
563 characters, to avoid leading whitespace characters to be trimmed
564 from macros set from environment variables. Fixes testsuite
565 failures with HP-UX, IRIX, and Tru64/OSF make.
567 2011-01-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
569 coverage: test semantics of "dummy" per-target flags
570 * tests/specflg-dummy.test: New test, ensuring that even "dummy"
571 per-target flags triggers the use of renamed objects.
572 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
573 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
575 2011-01-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
577 tests defs: sanitize IFS
578 * tests/defs.in ($IFS): Define to <space>, <tab>, <newline>.
579 ($sp): New variable, holding a single whitespace character.
580 ($tab): New variable, holding a tabulation character.
581 ($nl): New variable, holding a newline character.
583 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
585 tests: fix VPATH auto-expansion workarounds.
586 * tests/parallel-tests8.test, tests/suffix13.test:
587 Ensure $< is not surrounded by white space, to prevent Solaris
588 make from applying automatic VPATH text expansion.
590 2011-01-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
592 tests: fix spurious failures in yflags*.test
593 * tests/yflags.test: Remove 'YACC' from the environment, so
594 that it won't be erroneously picked up by `make -e'.
595 * tests/yflags2.test: Likewise.
597 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
599 tests: avoid fn99*.test failures due to buggy AIX 5.3 cp -R.
600 * tests/fn99.test, tests/fn99subdir.test: Skip if an initial
601 `cp -R' of the subdir tree already fails; AIX 5.3 cp messes
602 up its internal memory when copying this tree.
604 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
605 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
607 Add comment to check-TESTS rule working around make 3.80 bug.
608 * lib/am/check.am (check-TESTS): Update comment.
610 2011-01-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
612 tests: less strict double-colon spy.test again.
613 * tests/spy.test: We know BSD make doesn't invoke more than one
614 double-colon rule, so no need to expose that failure.
616 2011-01-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
618 install-sh: avoid Tru64 sh `test' operator precedence issues.
619 * lib/install-sh: Protect file names and directory components
620 that consist of `=', `(', `)', or `!'. Move protection as early
621 as possible, to avoid errors such as with Tru64 sh `test -z ='.
622 * tests/instsh2.test: Extend test to cover more possibilities.
623 Fixes 1.12 instspc-equal-install.test failure on Tru64/OSF 5.1.
625 2011-01-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
626 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
628 docs: automake testsuite doesn't use TESTS_ENVIRONMENT anymore
629 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Do not claim Automake uses
630 TESTS_ENVIRONMENT for the perl driver. Instead, point to the
631 parallel-tests driver.
633 2011-01-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
635 Allow _AM_DEPENDENCIES to be used later in configure.
636 * m4/depend.m4 (_AM_DEPENDENCIES): Remove a previously existing
637 conftest.dir before recreating it.
639 Report by Eric Blake, from report by Scott McCreary against M4.
641 2011-01-18 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
643 tests: avoid failure on w32 file systems.
644 * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: SKIP if file cannot
645 be turned unreadable.
647 2011-01-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
649 tests: allow double-colon spy.test to work with HP-UX make.
650 * tests/spy.test: Fix comment typos. Ensure prerequisites we
651 do not want to depend on are strictly older than the target.
652 Also test with a target out of date wrt. more than one rule.
654 2011-01-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
656 tests: remove useless requirements from cond36.test
657 * tests/cond36.test ($required): Remove.
658 Since we are at it, add a trailing `:' command.
660 2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
661 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
663 parallel-tests: work around Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh read bugs.
664 * lib/am/check.am ($(TEST_SUITE_LOG), recheck, recheck-html):
665 Test file readability before redirecting input from it, to avoid
666 exiting Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh which treats read as special builtin.
667 * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: New test.
668 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
671 2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
673 * NEWS, README: Update copyright years.
675 Fix parallel-tests.test failure with HP-UX make.
676 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Sleep inside inner tests, so logs
677 are newer than logs of tests they depend on, for HP-UX make.
679 2011-01-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
681 docs: ensure example are separated with empty lines in the input
682 * doc/automake.texi (Extending aclocal, Emacs Lisp, Rebuilding)
683 (API Versioning, Renamed Objects, Multiple Outputs): Add empty
684 lines before `@example' and after `@end example' lines, so info
685 output is rendered correctly, and a following @noindent honored.
686 Report by Stefano Lattarini.
688 2011-01-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
690 tests: fix comment typo
691 * tests/substref.test: Fix grammar in a comment.
693 2011-01-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
695 tests: fix spurious failures in two texinfo tests
696 * tests/txinfo.test ($required): Add 'makeinfo'.
697 * tests/txinfo8.test: Create a dummy 'textutils.info' file, so
698 that make won't try to run makeinfo (which could be unavailable)
700 Found by NixOS Hydra, reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
702 2011-01-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
704 Avoid testsuite failures due to Autoconf Fortran change.
705 Autoconf v2.68-21-g727ce95 causes AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS to
706 require computing the canonical host name. Ensure config.guess
707 and config.sub files are present for respective checks.
708 * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Add stub files.
709 * tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
710 * tests/fort4.test: Use $AUTOMAKE -a for installing files.
712 2011-01-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
714 docs: clustered '-d' not recognized in YFLAGS
715 This change fixes automake bug#7828.
716 * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Document that automake
717 recognizes '-d' in AM_YFLAGS only if it's not clustered with
719 From a report by Юрий Пухальский.
721 2011-01-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
723 tests: add checks on automatically-distributed files
724 Related to automake bug#7819.
725 * tests/autodist.test: New test.
726 * tests/autodist-subdir.test: Likewise.
727 * tests/autodist-acconfig.test: Likewise.
728 * tests/autodist-acconfig-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
729 * tests/autodist-aclocal-m4.test: Likewise.
730 * tests/autodist-config-headers.test: Likewise.
731 * tests/autodist-configure-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
732 * tests/autodist-stamp-vti.test: Likewise.
733 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
735 2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
737 tests: work around a texi+cygnus bug causing a spurious XFAIL
738 * tests/txinfo5b.test: New test, like txinfo5.test but calling
739 automake with the `-Wno-override' option to work around a bug
740 in the texinfo + cygnus interaction.
741 * tests/txinfo5.test: Update heading comments.
742 * tests/Makefile.am (TEST): Updated.
744 2011-01-09 Dave Hart <davehart@gmail.com> (tiny change)
746 Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
747 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
749 2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
751 Improve, extend and tweak tests on Texinfo support.
752 * tests/instdir-texi.test: Add a call to `ls -l' after that to
753 `make', for debugging. When looking for required tools, do not
754 redirect the output of "$tool --help" to /dev/null, and do not
755 uselessly run it in a subshell.
756 * tests/txinfo.test: Rewritten to run autoconf, ./configure and
757 make. All checks moved into Makefile.am.
758 * tests/txinfo8.test: Likewise, and modernize the generated
760 * tests/txinfo2.test: Moved checks into Makefile.am, and other
762 * tests/txinfo5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
763 changes. Add trailing `:' command.
764 * tests/txinfo6.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
765 Makefile.in stricter.
766 * tests/txinfo7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
767 changes. Add trailing `:' command. Do not add unnecessary stuff
769 * tests/txinfo9.test: Verify that more targets which are expected
770 to be generated only once really are. Make grepping less strict,
771 to avoid exposing too much internal details. More minor changes.
772 * tests/txinfo16.test: Add trailing `:'. Prefer cat over echo
773 for appending to configure.in. Updated/fixed heading comments.
774 * tests/txinfo23.test: Likewise, and extended a little by making
775 it check that no info file is created in the $(srcdir).
776 * tests/txinfo24.test: Likewise.
777 * tests/txinfo25.test: Likewise.
778 * tests/txinfo18.test: Add trailing `:'. Prefer cat over echo
779 for appending to configure.in. Also, check that index files are
780 cleaned also by "make clean", not only by "make distclean".
781 * tests/txinfo22.test: Prefer `$me' over hard-coded test name,
782 and added trailing `:' command. This testcase also used to check
783 that automake ignores in-line comments when using variables, but
784 preserves them in the output; these checks (added in commit
785 "Release-1-7f-4-g9177ef8") do not really pertain to this test,
786 so they have been moved ...
787 * tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: ... into this new test.
788 * tests/txinfo4.test: Escape literal dots in grep regexps. Add
789 trailing `:' command.
790 * tests/txinfo29.test: Likewise. Relax grepping of generated
791 Makefile.in w.r.t. whitespaces. Prefer `cat' over `echo' to
792 append to configure.in.
793 * tests/txinfo3.test: Likewise.
794 * tests/vtexi.test: Improve grepping of Makefile.in (sometimes
795 make it stricter, sometimes laxer). Move `set -e' setting just
796 after the inclusion of ./defs. De-uglify a sed command. Other
797 minor cosmetic improvements.
798 * tests/vtexi2.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in stricter. Add
799 trailing `:' command.
800 * tests/vtexi3.test: New test on version.texi support.
801 * tests/vtexi4.test: Likewise.
802 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
804 2011-01-09 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
806 Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
807 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
809 2011-01-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
811 cosmetics: remove trailing whitespaces
812 * doc/automake.texi: Remove trailing whitespaces.
813 * tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
814 * tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
815 * tests/fort4.test: Likewise.
816 * tests/fort5.test: Likewise.
817 * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
818 * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
820 automake: minor fixes in comments
821 * automake.in: Some minor fixes and enhancements in comments.
823 2011-01-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
825 Add test coverage for deleted header files.
826 * tests/depcomp6.test, tests/depcomp7.test: Update tests to
827 also check for the deleted header bug. If no dependency
828 tracking mechanism could be found, SKIP rather than exit
829 successfully. Use GNU style spacing and ANSI C prototypes.
831 Fix typos in Rule.pm comments.
832 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typos in comments.
834 docs: split 'amhello Explained' node.
835 * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Split node ...
836 (amhello's configure.ac Setup Explained)
837 (amhello's Makefile.am Setup Explained) : ... into these two.
838 (Top, Hello World): Adjust, and add @anchor for stable URL links.
839 Suggestion by Karl Berry in automake bug#7766.
841 2011-01-08 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
842 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
844 docs: reference defining directories in amhello node.
845 * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Point to Autoconf
846 manual for how to convert directory values into macros.
847 (Optional): Fix grammar nit.
849 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
851 * NEWS: Fix typo (forgotten word).
853 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
854 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
856 docs: how to work around checks on invalid primary/directory couples
857 * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): Document the blessed idiom which can
858 be used to work around automake checks on invalid primary/directory
859 couples (such as `lib_PROGRAMS' or `doc_LIBRARIES').
861 2011-01-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
863 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
864 * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
867 Fix maintainer-check regression.
868 * tests/subobj11a.test: Pass DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS in the
871 Bump copyright years.
872 * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
873 * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
874 * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
876 2010-12-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
877 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
879 Work around a bug in file-inclusion mechanism of Solaris make.
880 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): In the name of the
881 dependency file: collapse multiple slash characters into a single
883 * tests/subobj11a.test: New test.
884 * tests/subobj11b.test: Likewise.
885 * tests/subobj11c.test: Likewise.
886 * tests/depcomp8a.test: Likewise.
887 * tests/depcomp8b.test: Likewise.
888 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
890 Report by Stefano Lattarini, quick fix by Ralf Wildenhues, final
891 patch and tests by Stefano Lattarini.
893 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
895 Fix two spurious testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5.
896 * tests/suffix13.test (Makefile.am): Account for VPATH issues on
897 weaker make implementations (e.g. IRIX 6.5).
898 * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise, plus a required related
900 Reported by Ralf Wildenhues. The bugs have been there from the
901 first versions of the affected test scripts.
903 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
905 docs: cygnus mode doesn't require AM_CYGWIN32 macro.
906 * doc/automake.texi (Cygnus): Mode 'cygnus' does not require
907 the AM_CYGWIN32 macro (and indeed hasn't required it since at
908 least commit Release-1-2-31-g3038064 "merged changes from
909 Cygnus" of 1997-08-25).
911 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
913 distlinksbrk.test: Work around botched "make -k".
914 * tests/distlinksbrk.test: Run "make" multiple times and grep
915 its output each time for a single error message, rather than
916 running "make -k" one single time and grepping its output for
917 all the expected error messages. This should work around make
918 implementations with limited (broken?) `-k' support; for more
919 information, see these subthreads on the automake-patches list:
920 - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on HP-UX 11.23",
921 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00162.html>
922 - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5",
923 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00166.html>
925 2010-12-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
927 Fix sed-related buglet in test "subdir5.test"
928 * tests/subdir5.test: Always terminate text passed to the
929 `i' sed command with a newline, to work around limitations
930 in e.g. older OpenBSD sed.
932 2010-12-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
934 docs: fix blunder in example about python extension modules
935 * doc/automake.texi (Python): Use `quaternion_la_SOURCES',
936 not `quaternion_SOURCES', to declare the sources of python
937 extension module `quaternion.la'.
939 2010-12-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
941 docs: list LTLIBRARIES among Automake primaries
942 * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): List `LTLIBRARIES' among
943 the Automake primaries.
945 2010-12-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
947 Improve tests on generated portions of configure help screen.
948 * tests/help-depend.test: Grepping of configure help screen
949 relaxed to cater for possible line wrapping, and tightened in
951 * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
952 * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
953 * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
954 * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
955 * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
956 * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
957 * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
958 * tests/help-init.test: Grepping of configure help screen
961 2010-12-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
963 Avoid running installed automake from 'libtool --help'.
964 * tests/subobj9.test: Export AUTOCONF and AUTOMAKE.
965 Together with fixed Libtool, this fixes check-coverage to not
966 invoke installed automake.
968 2010-11-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
970 Fix spurious failures in `silent*.test' for $CC != gcc
971 In some tests on automake-produced silent rules, we forced the
972 use of gcc depmode to improve testsuite coverage; but this has
973 unsurprisingly led to spurious failures when some non-GNU C
974 compilers were used. So we are now careful to require GCC in
975 tests that force gcc depmode.
976 From reports by Ralf Wildenhues.
977 * tests/silent5.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
978 * tests/silent-many-generic.test, tests/silent-many-gcc.test: ...
979 these new sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode
980 and lists "gcc" in $required.
981 * tests/silentlex.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
982 * tests/silent-lex-generic.test, tests/silent-lex-gcc.test: ...
983 these new sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode
984 and lists "gcc" in $required.
985 * tests/silentyacc.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
986 * tests/silent-yacc-generic.test, tests/silent-yacc-gcc.test: ...
987 these new sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and
988 lists "gcc" in $required.
989 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
991 2010-11-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
993 Tests: consistently use "|| Exit 1" after ". ./defs".
994 * tests/autohdr.test: Use `. ./defs || Exit 1', not bare
995 `. ./defs', for consistency with other tests.
996 * tests/autohdr2.test: Likewise.
997 * tests/autohdr3.test: Likewise.
998 * tests/autohdr4.test: Likewise.
999 * tests/cond23.test: Likewise.
1000 * tests/cond24.test: Likewise.
1001 * tests/cond25.test: Likewise.
1002 * tests/cond26.test: Likewise.
1003 * tests/cond27.test: Likewise.
1004 * tests/cond28.test: Likewise.
1005 * tests/cond29.test: Likewise.
1006 * tests/cond30.test: Likewise.
1007 * tests/cond31.test: Likewise.
1008 * tests/cond32.test: Likewise.
1009 * tests/cond33.test: Likewise.
1010 * tests/cond34.test: Likewise.
1011 * tests/cond35.test: Likewise.
1012 * tests/cond36.test: Likewise.
1013 * tests/cond37.test: Likewise.
1014 * tests/cond38.test: Likewise.
1015 * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
1016 * tests/cond40.test: Likewise.
1017 * tests/cond41.test: Likewise.
1018 * tests/cond42.test: Likewise.
1019 * tests/cond43.test: Likewise.
1020 * tests/cond44.test: Likewise.
1021 * tests/cond45.test: Likewise.
1022 * tests/dollarvar.test: Likewise.
1023 * tests/dollarvar2.test: Likewise.
1024 * tests/hfs.test: Likewise.
1025 * tests/libobj14.test: Likewise.
1026 * tests/percent.test: Likewise.
1027 * tests/percent2.test: Likewise.
1028 * tests/phony.test: Likewise.
1029 * tests/silent.test: Likewise.
1030 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
1031 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
1032 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
1033 * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
1034 * tests/silent6.test: Likewise.
1035 * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
1036 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
1037 * tests/silentcxx.test: Likewise.
1038 * tests/silentf77.test: Likewise.
1039 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
1040 * tests/silentlex.test: Likewise.
1041 * tests/silentyacc.test: Likewise.
1043 Avoid useless cleaning in some `silent*.test' tests.
1044 * tests/silentf77.test: Removed useless calls to "make clean"
1045 and "make maintainer-clean".
1046 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
1047 * tests/silent3.test: Removed useless call to "make distclean".
1048 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
1049 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
1051 2010-11-19 Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
1053 Sync config-ml.in from GCC.
1054 * config-ml.in: Add Go support: treat GOC and GOCFLAGS like other
1055 compiler/flag environment variables.
1057 2010-11-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1059 Automake::Config: remove extra trailing semicolon.
1060 * lib/Automake/Config.in: Remove extra trailing semicolon.
1062 help4.test: fix botched heading comment.
1063 * tests/help4.test: Fixed the heading comment, since it
1064 didn't correctly describe what checks the testcase was
1065 supposed to perform.
1067 help2.test: add checks on aclocal too.
1068 * tests/help2.test: Check that also `aclocal --version' and
1069 `aclocal --help' work with configure.in and acinclude.m4 both
1072 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1074 Fix spurious failures of silent-rules tests with Sun Fortran.
1075 * tests/silentf77.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
1076 messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers, to
1077 avoid spurious failures. Add a trailing `:' command.
1078 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
1080 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1082 Fix spurious failures of silent5.test with Sun Fortran.
1083 * tests/silent5.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
1084 messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers,
1085 to avoid spurious failures. This bug has been there from the
1086 very first version of this test script.
1088 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1090 Fix regression in colon{5,6}.test (failures on AIX 5.3).
1091 * tests/colon5.test: Also substitute `@SHELL@' with `$SHELL' when
1092 post-processing the generated Makefile.in, to work around a bug
1093 of AIX 5.3 make which doesn't allow setting the `$(SHELL)' macro
1094 on the commend line. Calls to `$MAKE' adjusted accordingly.
1095 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
1096 Regression introduced in commit v1.11-175-gf9fe878 "Modernize,
1097 improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test", and reported by Ralf
1100 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1102 Fix regression in ansi.test (failure on AIX 5.3).
1103 * tests/ansi.test: Remove redundant hackish check done using a
1104 hand-postprocessed Makefile.in. This check worked by setting
1105 the `$(SHELL)' macro on the command line of make, but this is
1106 not supported by the AIX 5.3 make implementation.
1107 This bug has been lurking for a long time, and was activated by
1108 commit v1.11-125-gc1f6cdb "Enable `errexit' shell flag in various
1109 tests". Report by Ralf Wildenhues.
1111 2010-11-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1113 tests: avoid '##'-style comments inside recipe commands.
1114 * tests/confh.test, tests/confh8.test: Remove
1115 double-hash comments from makefile rule commands, they
1116 are not part of the Automake API.
1118 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1120 tests: work around dash quoting issue in case statements.
1121 * tests/color.test, tests/color2.test: Quote variable in case
1122 pattern, to avoid skipping tests with dash 0.5.5.1.
1124 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1126 Rebuild menus in the manual.
1127 * doc/automake.texi: Rebuild menus (using ^C ^U ^A in emacs).
1128 Thanks to Ian Lance Taylor for the suggestion.
1130 Fix install-strip when $(STRIP) contains several words.
1131 * lib/am/install.am (install-strip): Update comment. Use
1132 separate sub-make invocations for empty and nonempty $(STRIP),
1133 to fix quoting issues.
1134 * tests/strip2.test, tests/strip3.test: New tests.
1135 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Adjust.
1137 2010-11-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1139 Fix yaccdry.test failure: require bison.
1140 * tests/yaccdry.test: Require bison.
1141 Found by NixOS Hydra.
1143 2010-11-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1145 Fix a bug in variable concatenation with `+='.
1146 * lib/Automake/VarDef.pm (append): Since the content of the
1147 "appended-to" variable is going to be unconditionally normalized
1148 later, simply separate the appended value with a single whitespace
1149 character, instead of trying to be uselessly smarter by using
1150 escaped newlines. This fixes a bug in which extra backslashes
1151 where erroneously inserted in the variable's final value.
1152 * tests/pluseq11.test: New test, exposing the bug.
1153 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1154 Reported by Andy Wingo.
1156 2010-11-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1158 Fix bug in rules for creating vala vapi/header files.
1159 * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Add forgotten "fi" in an
1160 if control structure in a generated make rules. Bug introduced
1161 by previous commit `v1.11-221-gd7c1679', and revealed by failure
1162 of test `vala2.test'.
1164 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1166 Fix and document rules to not touch the tree with `make -n'.
1167 * doc/automake.texi (Multiple Outputs): Document the problem of
1168 modifications during dry-run execution, propose solution.
1170 * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Split recipe so the
1171 stamp file is not removed with GNU `make -n'.
1172 (lang_yacc_target_hook): Separate removal of parser output file
1173 and header remaking.
1174 * lib/am/lisp.am ($(am__ELCFILES)): Determine whether -n was
1175 passed to make, take care not to remove any files in that case.
1176 * lib/am/remake-hdr.am (%CONFIG_H%): Separate removal of
1177 %STAMP% file from induced remaking of config header.
1178 * tests/autohdrdry.test, tests/lispdry.test, tests/yaccdry.test:
1180 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1182 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1184 Add FAQ entry for bug reporting instructions.
1185 * doc/automake.texi (Reporting Bugs): New section.
1186 (Introduction): Refer to it.
1188 2010-10-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1190 Add support for newer python versions.
1191 * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Add python2.7 and python3.2 to
1192 _AM_PYTHON_INTERPRETER_LIST. Since we are at it, break a long
1193 line and fix indentation.
1195 From a report by Thomas Klausner.
1197 Add test for `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' macro.
1198 * tests/dmalloc.test: New test.
1199 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1201 Fix nits and bugs in tests `help*.test'.
1202 * tests/help4.test: Fix broken sed commands used to strip `-W...'
1203 flags away from "$AUTOMAKE" and "$ACLOCAL".
1204 * tests/help3.test: Likewise, and fix a botched comment.
1205 * tests/help.test: Likewise. Also, use "AUTOMAKE_fails ..."
1206 instead of "$AUTOMAKE ... && Exit 1", for consistency and to
1207 please maintainer-check.
1208 * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
1210 2010-10-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1211 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1213 Improve tests `help*.test' (also fixes maintcheck failures).
1214 * tests/help.test: To run automake, use `$AUTOMAKE' with all `-W'
1215 flags stripped away rather than hard-coded `automake-$APIVERSION',
1216 to better honour user-overrides. Similarly for aclocal.
1217 * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
1218 * tests/help3.test: Likewise.
1219 * tests/help4.test: Likewise.
1221 2010-10-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1223 Document and fix expansion of variables before rules.
1224 * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Document that variables
1225 are expanded before rules.
1226 * lib/am/check.am (am__check_post): Reword a bit so it does not
1227 get matched as a rule.
1228 Suggestion by Ben Pfaff.
1230 2010-10-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1232 Revert "parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue."
1233 This reverts commit 24e3b4ee2f8cb9f72dd94a05a893f3d4e88b7835,
1234 because it re-opened the bug fixed by v1.11-10-g218e678.
1236 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1238 parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
1239 * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
1240 substitution %MAKEFILE%.
1241 (generate_makefile): Adjust.
1242 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
1243 sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
1244 input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
1247 Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
1249 2010-09-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1251 Extend tests on `--help' and `--version' options.
1252 * tests/help.test: Create a new empty directory and chdir into
1253 it, rather than removing already present files. Run the aclocal
1254 and automake wrapper scripts directly, instead of relying on
1255 $AUTOMAKE and $ACLOCAL. Be sure to correctly match literal dots
1256 in aclocal's and automake's stderr. Add a trailing `:' command.
1257 * tests/help2.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
1258 `--version' works in directories with broken `configure.in'.
1259 * tests/help3.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
1260 `--version' take precedence on the other options.
1261 * tests/help4.test: New test, checking that the first among the
1262 `--help' and `--version' options to be specified on the command
1264 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1266 2010-09-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1268 Testsuite: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when extending PATH.
1269 * tests/compile2.test: Do no uselessly (implicitly) repeat the
1270 computation of PATH_SEPARATOR again.
1271 * tests/instmany-mans.test: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when
1272 extending/redefining PATH.
1273 * tests/instmany-python.test: Likewise.
1274 * tests/instmany.test: Likewise.
1275 * tests/man4.test: Likewise.
1276 * tests/mkinst3.test: Likewise.
1277 * tests/mmodely.test: Likewise.
1278 * tests/multlib.test: Likewise.
1279 * tests/txinfo30.test: Likewise.
1280 * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
1282 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_PATH_SEPARATOR): New maintainer check.
1283 (syntax_check_rules): Updated.
1285 Testsuite: new variables `$PATH_SEPARATOR' and `$APIVERSION'.
1286 * tests/defs.in ($APIVERSION): New AC_SUBST'd variable.
1287 ($ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE): Use it.
1288 ($PATH_SEPARATOR): New AC_SUBST'd variables.
1291 2010-09-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1293 Manual: be more agnostic w.r.t. version control system used.
1294 * doc/automake.texi (Basics of Distribution): Also refer to `.svn'
1295 directories as a type of probably-unwanted files that are copied
1296 regardless when adding directories to EXTRA_DIST.
1297 (The dist Hook): Show a dist-hook example which removes Subversion
1298 `.svn' private directories from distdir, rather than CVS private
1300 (missing and AM_MAINTAINER_MODE): Try to be more agnostic w.r.t.
1301 the version control system used.
1303 Manual: index refer to target "git-dist", not "cvs-dist".
1304 * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Index the non-standard
1305 example about "git-dist" under the "git-dist" label, not under
1308 Perl modules: remove references to "Automake CVS repository".
1309 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Update comments to refer to "Automke's
1310 git repository" rather than to "Automake's CVS repository".
1311 * lib/Automake/Configure_ac.pm: Likewise.
1312 * lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm: Likewise.
1313 * lib/Automake/Struct.pm: Likewise.
1314 * lib/Automake/XFile.pm: Likewise.
1315 * lib/Automake/Version.pm (=head1 DESCRIPTION): Refer to "git
1316 branches" rather than "CVS branches".
1318 Remove obsolete .cvsignore files.
1319 * .cvsignore, doc/.cvsignore, lib/.cvsignore, lib/am/.cvsignore,
1320 lib/Automake/.cvsignore, lib/Automake/tests/.cvsignore,
1321 m4/.cvsignore, tests/.cvsignore: Files deleted. Even when using
1322 savannah's CVS readonly mirror there's no way to commit back to
1323 the real repository, so this files are not worth maintaining or
1326 2010-09-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1328 * m4/dmalloc.m4: Bump serial number and copyright years.
1330 2010-09-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1332 Fix broken link in `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' help screen.
1333 * m4/dmalloc.m4 (AM_WITH_DMALLOC): Refer only to the dmalloc site
1334 `http://www.dmalloc.com', not to the dmalloc tarball there (which
1335 seems to have been removed, substituted by multiple release
1338 2010-09-17 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
1340 Avoid triple-space after period.
1341 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): Avoid 3 spaces at
1343 * ChangeLog.03: Likewise.
1344 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Likewise.
1345 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (_print_message): Likewise.
1346 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm (rule): Likewise.
1347 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (var): Likewise.
1348 * lib/am/distdir.am: Likewise.
1349 * tests/insthook.test: Likewise.
1351 2010-09-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1353 Test automake-generated portions of configure help screen.
1354 * tests/help-depend.test: New test.
1355 * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
1356 * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
1357 * tests/help-init.test: Likewise.
1358 * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
1359 * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
1360 * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
1361 * tests/help-regex.test: Likewise.
1362 * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
1363 * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
1364 * tests/mmode.test: Remove tests on `configure --help' output,
1365 they are superseded by tests in `help-maintainer.test'.
1366 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1368 2010-09-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1370 * tests/README: Don't put GCS mandated tools in $required.
1372 2010-09-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1374 * HACKING: Hint at old commits with `git describe' output.
1376 2010-09-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1378 Fix regression in test `colon4.test'.
1379 * tests/colon4.test: Fix botched editing to `configure.in'
1380 that made the test useless. Since we are at it, improve
1381 comments and make grepping of generated Makefile.in slightly
1383 Regression introduced by change "Modernize, improve and/or
1384 extend tests `colon*.test" (Stefano Lattarini, 2010-08-08).
1386 2010-09-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1388 Do not require "gzip" explicitly in tests.
1389 The gzip utility is simply expected to be present on any decent
1390 target system for Automake. So it's pointless to put it in
1392 * tests/install2.test ($required): Do not require "gzip".
1393 * tests/lex3.test: Likewise.
1394 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
1395 From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
1397 Make some `confh*.test' tests more "semantic" (plus tweakings).
1398 * tests/confh.test: Run "autoconf", "configure" and "make check",
1399 instead of munging/grepping the generated `Makefile.in'.
1400 * tests/confh4.test: Relax the grepping of Makefile.in w.r.t.
1401 white spaces. Do not create useless dummy source file `foo.c'
1402 and useless dummy header file `acconfig.h'.
1403 (configure.in): Remove superfluous call to `AC_OUTPUT'.
1404 * tests/confh6.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1405 * tests/confh7.test: In comments, add reference to ...
1406 * tests/confh8.test: ... this new test, "semantic" sister
1408 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1409 Prompted by a report from Ralf Wildenhues.
1411 Remove useless whitespace padding in XFAIL_TESTS definition.
1412 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Remove whitespace padding.
1414 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1416 parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
1417 * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
1418 substitution %MAKEFILE%.
1419 (generate_makefile): Adjust.
1420 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
1421 sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
1422 input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
1425 Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
1427 Posix 2008 requires make to set errexit.
1428 * lib/am/check.am: Update comment.
1430 2010-08-27 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1432 Fix bug in test missing6.test.
1433 * tests/missing6.test: Fix the hack used to edit `configure.in',
1434 to avoid producing a configure script that breaks with shells
1435 that do not support $LINENO. Also throw in a couple of cosmetic
1438 2010-08-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1440 Improve robustness of mdate-sh script.
1441 * lib/mdate-sh: Sanitize zsh behavior on startup, to ensure
1442 $ls_command is word-split properly upon invocation.
1443 (error): New function.
1444 (main): Use it. Improve error checking to avoid endless loop
1445 in case $ls_command gave bogus output. Fix eval quotation.
1446 * tests/mdate6.test: New test, to expose eval quotation error.
1447 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
1449 2010-08-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1451 Fix potential regressions in depcomp{3,5}.test.
1452 * tests/depcomp3.test: Do not uselessly escape the character `$'
1453 in makefile rules, when it's used to expand a make macro.
1454 * tests/depcomp5.test: Likewise.
1456 2010-08-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1457 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1459 Docs: clarify how to avoid automatic dependencies tracking.
1460 * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Mention that
1461 automatic dependencies tracking is enabled by default, but that
1462 the package developer can disable it altogether. Add a reference
1463 to the proper section for a more in-depth explanation.
1465 Fix typo in manual (`Makefile.in' instead of `Makefile.am').
1466 * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Fix typo.
1468 2010-08-16 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
1470 Don't hide the table of contents.
1471 * doc/automake.texi: Move the table of contents to the beginning.
1473 2010-08-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1475 Tweak and/or extend some `acloca*.test' tests.
1476 * tests/aclocal8.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured
1478 * tests/aclocal.test: Likewise. Also, add trailing `:'
1480 * tests/acloca19.test: Likewise.
1481 * tests/aclocal5.test: Add trailing `:' command, and prefer
1482 `$me' over hard-coded test name.
1483 * tests/aclocal6.test: Likewise.
1484 * tests/aclocal18.test: Add trailing `:' command, and make
1485 some grepping slightly stricter.
1486 * tests/acloca14.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `diff' over
1487 `cmp', and add some "cosmetic" blank lines.
1489 2010-08-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1491 Tweak and extend tests `pr[!0-9]*.test'.
1492 * tests/primary3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1493 * tests/primary.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
1494 Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
1495 * tests/primary2.test: Likewise.
1496 * tests/prefix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
1497 changes. Add a trailing `:' command.
1498 * tests/proginst.test: Likewise.
1500 Modernize, improve and extend tests for PR (`pr[0-9]*.test').
1501 * tests/pr2.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1502 * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
1503 * tests/pr401.test: Likewise.
1504 * tests/pr401b.test: Likewise.
1505 * tests/pr401c.test: Likewise.
1506 * tests/pr300-prog.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic changes in
1508 * tests/pr300-lib.test: Likewise.
1509 * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise, and ensure verbose printing
1510 of captured make stdout.
1511 * tests/pr211.test: Add trailing `:' command. Also, use the
1512 `configure.in' stub created by ./defs, rather than writing it
1514 * tests/pr204.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic spacing changes.
1515 * tests/pr287.test: Likewise, and move setting of `errexit' shell
1516 flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs).
1517 * tests/pr220.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
1518 Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
1519 * tests/pr224.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1520 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Do not export
1521 `CC=gcc' to configure explicitly (it's already exported globally
1522 in ./defs, since we have "gcc" in $required). Use the stub for
1523 `configure.in' created by ./defs, rather than writing it from
1524 scratch. Do not create dummy files required by "gnu" mode (e.g.
1525 README, NEWS), since we run automake in foreign mode anyway.
1526 * tests/pr72.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
1527 changes. Extend existing checks a bit.
1528 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise. Also, avoid obsolescent constructs in
1529 the generated `configure.in', and extend existing checks over the
1530 generated tarball a bit.
1531 * tests/pr87.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
1532 changes. Add a trailing `:' command. Also, do not create dummy
1533 files required by "gnu" mode (e.g. README, NEWS), since we run
1534 automake in foreign mode anyway.
1535 * tests/pr243.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
1536 `configure.in'. Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
1537 changes. Cosmetic changes to spacing, add trailing `:' command,
1538 and add a "FIXME" comment.
1539 * tests/pr266.test: Likewise, and add explicit command line switch
1540 `--enable-dependecy-tracking' to the ./configure call.
1541 * tests/pr279.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
1542 `configure.in'; also, use the `configure.in' stub created by
1543 ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch. Enable `errexit'
1544 shell flag, and related changes. Add trailing `:' command.
1545 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
1547 * tests/pr307.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1548 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Escape literal
1549 dots in grep regular expressions. Also, add a trailing `:'
1550 command, and cosmetic changes to spacing.
1552 Tests for PR: add excerpts from original bug report, for clarity.
1553 * tests/pr2.test: Ditto.
1554 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
1555 * tests/pr72.test: Likewise.
1556 * tests/pr87.test: Likewise.
1557 * tests/pr211.test: Likewise.
1558 * tests/pr220.test: Likewise.
1559 * tests/pr224.test: Likewise.
1560 * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
1561 * tests/pr243.test: Likewise.
1562 * tests/pr266.test: Likewise.
1563 * tests/pr279.test: Likewise, and tell to keep it in sync
1564 with its sister test.
1565 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
1567 2010-08-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1569 Tweak, extend and improve tests `cond[a-z]*.test'.
1570 * tests/condd.test: Add trailing `:' command. Typofix in
1572 * tests/condhook.test: Make sure target `install-data-hook' is
1573 not called by `make install', but that data files are installed.
1574 Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in. Add trailing `:' command.
1575 * tests/condhook2.test: New test, sister test of condhook, with
1577 * tests/condinc2.test: Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
1578 Prefer trailing `:' command over trailing `Exit 0'.
1579 * tests/condman2.test: Enable errexit shell flag, and related
1580 changes. Add trailing `:' command.
1581 * tests/condman.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless
1582 dummy manpages, and use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
1583 * tests/condman3.test: New test, similar to condman.test, but
1584 it also runs ./configure and "make install", and check the
1586 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1588 Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test.
1589 * tests/colon.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
1590 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Do not create
1591 a useless dummy file. Add trailing `:' command.
1592 * tests/colon4.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
1593 related changes. Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
1594 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1595 * tests/colon7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1596 changes. Improve the generated `configure.in' file. Add
1597 trailing `:' command.
1598 * tests/colon2.test: Likewise. Also, add some new checks.
1599 * tests/colon5.test: Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
1600 Add new, much deeper checks. Add trailing `:' command.
1601 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
1602 * tests/colon3.test: Add trailing `:' command. Remove useless
1603 comments and echos. Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
1604 make some grepping tests stricter. Add a "FIXME" comments about
1605 planned improvements.
1607 Improve and extend tests `asm*.test'.
1608 * tests/asm.test: Use configure.in stub generated by ./defs,
1609 and avoid obsoleted autoconf constructs. Make grepping of
1610 Automake stderr stricter. Do not create useless source file.
1611 Improve verbose messages. Minor cosmetic changes. Tell to
1612 keep it in sync with other sister tests asm*.test.
1613 * tests/asm2.test: Likewise.
1614 * tests/asm3.test: Likewise.
1616 Modernize, improve and/or extend test scripts `conf*.test'.
1617 * tests/confh5.test: Cosmetic changes.
1618 * tests/conff.test: Likewise.
1619 * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise.
1620 * tests/conflnk.test: Likewise.
1621 * tests/conflnk2.test: Likewise.
1622 * tests/confsub.test: Likewise.
1623 * tests/confvar.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
1625 * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
1626 * tests/conflnk3.test: Cosmetic changes. Re-enable a temporarily
1627 disabled test (which didn't work with autoconf <= 2.59, but now we
1628 are requiring autoconf 2.62, so...)
1629 * tests/conflnk4.test: Cosmetic changes, and extend existing tests
1630 accordingly to "TODO" comments.
1631 * tests/conff2.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
1632 Add some comments explaining why we don't use the `configure.in'
1633 stub preset be ./defs.
1634 * tests/confh.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
1635 rather than writing one from scratch, and do not call AC_OUTPUT.
1636 Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related changes. Prefer diff over
1637 cmp to compare text files. Prefer perl over sed to fetch the value
1638 of $(DIST_COMMON) from Makefile.in. Make grepping of the contents
1639 of $(DIST_COMMON) stricter.
1640 * tests/confh4.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
1641 rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping of Makefile.in
1643 * tests/confh5.test: Make grepping of `config.h' stricter. Add a
1645 * tests/configure.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in generated
1646 `configure.ac'. Do not write `configure.in' two times. Escape
1647 literal dots in grep regular expressions.
1648 * tests/confincl.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1649 changes. Prefer fgrep over grep. Other cosmetic changes.
1650 * tests/config.test: Renamed to ...
1651 * tests/confh6.test: ... this. Fix m4 quoting in `configure.in',
1652 and make grepping of `config.h' and `config.h.in' stricter.
1653 * tests/conf2.test: Renamed ...
1654 * tests/confh7.test: ... to this. Use the `configure.in' stub
1655 created by ./defs, rather than writing one from scratch. Try to
1656 run the checks both with and without AC_PROG_CC and AC_OUTPUT in
1658 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1660 Minor improvements and fixes in tests `depcomp*.test'.
1661 * tests/depcomp.test: Do not create useless dummy source files.
1662 Add a trailing `:' command.
1663 * tests/depcomp2.test: Use `unset' on the CFLAG variable to ensure
1664 it's not in in the environment, rather than exporting it with an
1665 empty value. Do not pass CC=gcc to configure, as that's already
1666 done in ./defs since we have gcc in $required. Ensure verbose
1667 printing of captured stderr, and normalize its checking. Add a
1668 trailing `:' command.
1669 * tests/depcomp3.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
1670 grep regexps. Always use `: >' rather than `touch' to create empty
1671 files. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the created
1672 Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:' command.
1673 * tests/depcomp4.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
1674 grep regexp. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the
1675 created Makefile.am. Ensure verbose printing of captured makes'
1676 stoud/stderr. Add a trailing `:' command.
1677 * tests/depcomp5.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1678 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Quote literal dots
1679 and dollar characters in grep regexps. Explicitly declare phony
1680 targets as such in the created Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:'
1682 * tests/depcomp6.test: Consistently use m4 quoting in the generated
1683 configure.in. Cosmetic fixes to spacing. Make the "dummy" `if'
1684 statement required by OpenBSD's sh `set -e' more robust, and add
1685 explanatory comments to it.
1686 * tests/depcomp7.test: Likewise, and add a trailing `:' command.
1688 Separate failing part of test `all.test'.
1689 * tests/all.test: Keep only (x)failing part of the test. Working
1690 checks moved out to ...
1691 * tests/all2.test: ... this new test.
1692 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1694 Modernize, improve and extend tests `subobj*.test'.
1695 * tests/subobjname.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1696 * tests/subobj.test: Make grepping of `Makefile.in' stricter.
1697 Escape literal dots in grep regexps.
1698 * tests/subobj2.test: Add trailing `:' command. Do not use the
1699 unportable fgrep option `-e'.
1700 * tests/subobj3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1701 (configure.in): Use proper m4 quoting, and avoid obsolescent
1703 * tests/subobj8.test: Likewise. Also, enable `errexit' shell
1704 flag, with related changes
1705 * tests/subobj4.test: Likewise. Also, make grepping of
1706 `Makefile.in' stricter.
1707 * tests/subobj5.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of
1708 `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
1710 (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
1711 writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
1712 * tests/subobj6.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of
1713 `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
1714 of ./defs). Do not create useless dummy ac-init file `f'.
1715 * tests/subobj7.test: Do not create useless dummy ac-init file
1717 (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
1718 writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
1719 * tests/subobj9.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1720 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Fail the test if
1721 `make distcheck' fails. Ensure verbose printing of captured make
1722 stdout. Avoid useless fork by doing simple grep instead of using
1723 test -n "`COMMAND | grep ...`".
1724 (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
1725 (Makefile.am): Explicitly mark target "print" as phony.
1726 * tests/subobj10.test: Removed duplicated call to `set -e'. Add
1727 trailing `:' command.
1728 (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
1730 Remove a couple of obsoleted tests.
1731 * tests/fpinstall.test: Removed.
1732 * tests/fpinst2.test: Likewise.
1733 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1735 Bootstrap: updated HACKING entry.
1736 * HACKING ("Working with git"): Explain how to override the
1737 autoconf and autom4te programs used by the bootstrap process.
1740 * bootstrap: Do not remove `lib/Automake/Config.pm' anymore,
1741 since we don't generate it. Correctly quote arguments of
1742 `eval' builtin. Fixed a botched error message. Removed an
1745 Bootstrap: don't search perl in $PATH.
1746 * bootstrap: Do not explicitly search perl in $PATH anymore.
1747 ($PATH_SEPARATOR): Removed, it's no more needed.
1749 Bootstrap: let the user choose which autoconf to use.
1750 * bootstrap ($AUTOCONF): New variable, from the environment.
1751 ($AUTOM4TE): Likewise, for clarity.
1752 Use "$AUTOCONF" instead of calling "autoconf" directly.
1754 Minor improvements to tests ar*.test.
1755 * tests/ar.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1756 * tests/ar2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
1757 Makefile.in stricter.
1759 2010-08-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1761 Fix maintainer-check failure.
1762 * tests/cond5.test: Quote sleep argument, this isn't about
1763 time stamp differences.
1765 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
1766 * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
1769 2010-08-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1771 Work around a nasty bug (segfault) of Solaris make.
1772 * lib/am/check.am (recheck, recheck-html): Trim trailing spaces
1773 from $list, to avoid triggering a nasty bug (potential segfault)
1776 2010-08-06 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
1778 Make cond5.test more robust on MSYS.
1779 * tests/cond5.test: Add delay before the first kill attempt to
1780 cater for problems with MSYS bash.
1782 2010-07-31 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1784 Add example git work flow; discuss merge --log in HACKING.
1786 Suggestion by Stefano Lattarini.
1788 Add more hints for debugging make rules.
1789 * doc/automake.texi (Debugging Make Rules): Show command to find
1790 out expanded values of variables; point to makefile debugger.
1792 Prompted by suggestion from Ludovic Courtès and Andy Wingo.
1794 2010-07-27 Patrick Welche <prlw1@cam.ac.uk> (tiny change)
1796 Fix typo in the manual.
1797 * doc/automake.texi (Scripts): Fix typo.
1799 2010-07-27 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1801 Document current policy for development with git.
1802 * HACKING (Working with git): Overhaul.
1803 Prompted by suggestion from Stefano Lattarini.
1805 Fix AM_COND_IF for gone-invalid condition shell expression.
1806 * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): test contents of $COND_TRUE
1807 variable, rather than re-evaluating the shell expression for
1809 * tests/cond40.test: Extend test.
1812 Avoid syntax error if IF-TRUE part of AM_COND_IF expands empty.
1813 * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): Ensure IF-TRUE part is never empty
1814 to avoid shell syntax error if the m4 expansion is empty.
1815 * tests/cond40.test: Enhance test.
1817 Coverage: bogus option to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
1818 * tests/init2.test: New test.
1819 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
1821 2010-07-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1823 Modernize and improve test scripts `subdir*.test'.
1824 * tests/subdir.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1825 changes. Use the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs',
1826 rather than writing one from scratch.
1827 * tests/subdir2.test: Likewise.
1828 * tests/subdir4.test: Likewise.
1829 * tests/subdir3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1830 changes. Do not create useless dummy source files.
1831 * tests/subdir5.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in (in topdir
1832 and in subdirs) stricter. Some minor changes to keep it more
1833 in sync with the related test `subdir8.test'.
1834 * tests/subdir8.test: Likewise (but with the related test being
1835 `subdir5.test' here).
1836 * tests/subdir6.test: Cosmetic change in spacing.
1837 * tests/subdir9.test: Define and use new variable `$distdir'. Add
1838 trailing `:' command.
1839 * tests/subdir10.test: Cosmetic consistency-related change.
1840 * tests/subdirbuiltsources.test: Cosmetic changes in spacings.
1841 (configure.in): Use stub created by `./defs', rather than writing
1842 it from scratch. Do not use obsoleted and/or deprecated forms of
1843 autoconf/automake macros.
1845 Modernize and improve test scripts `dist*.test'.
1846 * tests/distcleancheck.test: Do not add useless `-e' option to
1847 a $MAKE call. Extend test by grepping stderr of make.
1848 * tests/distcom2.test: Do not run the same test script on the
1849 Makefile.in twice, but save its output in an intermediate file
1850 instead. Make grepping of DIST_COMMON definition stricter.
1851 Display the content of more files, to ease debugging. Add a
1852 trailing `:' command. Improved heading comments w.r.t. sister
1854 * tests/distcom6.test: Likewise, and avoid to uselessly run
1856 * tests/distcom3.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured stdout
1857 and stderr. Make grepping of captured stderr stricter. Also,
1858 add trailing `:' command.
1859 * tests/distcom4.test: Declare the target `test' in the generated
1860 Makefile.am as `.PHONY'. Display content of more files, to ease
1861 debugging. Add trailing `:' command.
1862 * tests/distcom5.test: Likewise. Also, factor out common sed
1863 script in subroutine `extract_distcommon'.
1864 * tests/distcom7.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to write
1865 test Makefile.am files. Add a trailing `:' command.
1866 * tests/distname.test: Prefer `gzip -d' over `gunzip'. Move the
1867 call to `set -e' earlier. Be stricter and more verbose in the
1868 checking of the generated tarball.
1869 (configure.in): Use the stub provided by ./defs, instead of
1870 writing it from scratch. Avoid obsoleted constructs. Remove
1871 useless call to `AM_PROG_CC_C_O'.
1872 * tests/distdir.test: Various minor improvements/normalizations.
1873 * tests/distlinks.test: Likewise.
1875 2010-07-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1877 Improve and extend test cond5.test.
1878 * tests/cond5.test: Do not blindly sleep 60 seconds before polling
1879 the background automake process, but poll it every 10 seconds for
1880 at most 30 times (this makes the test both faster on good machines,
1881 and more resilient to spurious timeout-due failures when in low
1882 priority or on heavily-loaded systems).
1883 Check also that automake writes the expected error messages on the
1885 Enable `errexit' flag, and related changes.
1886 Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs', rather than
1887 writing one from scratch.
1889 2010-06-26 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1891 Update program --help output to match current GCS.
1892 * configure.ac: Set and substitute PACKAGE_URL if AC_PACKAGE_URL
1893 is not defined, for compatibility to Autoconf < 2.64.
1894 * Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute PACKAGE_BUGREPORT and
1896 (sc_diff_automake_in_automake): Update number of diff lines for
1897 additional substitutions.
1898 * aclocal.in (usage): Use PACKAGE_BUGREPORT. Point to Automake
1899 home page and GNU general help page.
1900 * automake.in (usage): Likewise.
1901 * doc/automake.texi: New flag PACKAGE_BUGREPORT, to factor email
1903 (Introduction, Creating amhello, amhello Explained, Options):
1905 * lib/Automake/Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute
1907 * lib/Automake/Config.in ($PACKAGE_BUGREPORT): New global.
1908 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Use it for footer of fatal
1911 Clean up @var handling in the manual.
1912 * doc/automake.texi: Throughout the manual, lower-case @var
1913 names, replace a few one-character names.
1915 2010-06-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1917 Fix typo-related bug in test script silent5.test.
1918 * tests/silent5.test: Use $EGREP, not $GREP (which is not even
1921 Tests: remove useless repetitions of `foreign' automake option.
1922 * tests/multlib.test (configure.in): Remove useless use of
1923 `foreign' option in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (the `--foreign' option is
1924 already in $AUTOMAKE by default, so no point in repeating it).
1925 * tests/subobj10.test: Likewise.
1926 * tests/subobj9.test: Likewise.
1927 * tests/lex3.test (Makefile.am): Similarly, remove useless use
1928 of `foreign' option in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
1929 * tests/lex5.test: Likewise.
1930 * tests/pr279.test: Likewise.
1931 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
1932 * tests/specflg3.test: Likewise.
1933 * tests/target-cflags.test: Likewise.
1935 Drop useless requirement "gzip" in lex5.test.
1936 * tests/lex5.test ($required): Do not list "gzip", as it's
1939 2010-06-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1941 Fix bugs in test script silent5.test.
1942 * tests/silent5.test: Fixed a nasty bug (due to the use of grep
1943 instead of egrep) that could have led to false negatives.
1945 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1947 Add a test checking that distributed broken symlinks cause
1948 `make dist' to fail.
1949 * tests/distlinksbrk.test: New test.
1950 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1952 2010-06-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1954 Fix minor testsuite issues, update docs, for Yacc/Lex changes.
1955 * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Mention AM_YFLAGS, YFLAGS
1956 and AM_LFLAGS, LFLAGS in the order in which they now appear in
1959 * tests/lflags.test, tests/lflags2.test, tests/yflags.test,
1960 tests/yflags2.test: Prefer `make -e' over `make VAR=VAL', to
1961 please maintainer-check. Ensure generated C files contain a
1962 declaration, to please compilers.
1964 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1966 Fix bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t. $(AM_FLAGS) and
1967 $(FLAGS) precedence.
1968 * automake.in: Fix registration of languages "Lex", "Lex (C++)",
1969 "Yacc" and "Yacc (C++)", so that $(LFLAGS) has precedence over
1970 $(AM_LFLAGS) and $(YFLAGS) has precedence over $(AM_YFLAGS).
1971 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1974 New tests, exposing bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t.
1975 $(AM_FLAGS) and $(FLAGS) precedence.
1976 * tests/lflags.test: New test, check that user $(LFLAGS) takes
1977 precedence over automake (AM_LFLAGS) and (foo_LFLAGS). Still
1979 * tests/lflags2.test: Likewise.
1980 * tests/yflags.test: New test, check that user $(YFLAGS) takes
1981 precedence over automake (AM_YFLAGS) and (foo_YFLAGS). Still
1983 * tests/yflags2.test: Likewise.
1984 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Extended accordingly.
1986 2010-06-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1988 Modernize, improve and extend tests `suffix*.test'.
1989 * tests/suffix3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1991 * tests/suffix4.test: Likewise.
1992 * tests/suffix6.test: Likewise, and do not create a useless dummy
1994 * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
1995 * tests/suffix5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1996 changes. Make grepping of Makefile.in slightly stricter.
1997 * tests/suffix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1998 changes. Also, do not redirect grep output to /dev/null, as this
1999 might unmotivatedly hide useful information.
2000 * tests/suffix2.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
2001 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Use a more
2002 idiomatic way to count text occurrences in Makefile.in with
2003 grep. Do not create useless dummy source files.
2004 * tests/suffix10.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured make
2005 stdout. Minor cosmetic changes.
2006 * tests/suffix8.test: Likewise. Also, drop useless call to the
2007 env(1) utility, and make grepping of make output stricter by using
2008 $FGREP rather than plain grep.
2009 * tests/suffix11.test: Likewise.
2010 * tests/suffix12.test: Likewise.
2011 * tests/suffix9.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to append to
2012 the `configure.in' stub. Cosmetic changes.
2013 * tests/suffix13.test: Cosmetic spacing change.
2015 2010-06-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2017 Add useful comment in test script ext.test.
2018 * tests/ext.test: Add a comment explaining why an apparently
2019 useless `if' statement is indeed required.
2021 Add useful comment in test script obsolete.test.
2022 * tests/obsolete.test: Add a comment explaining why we need
2023 an indirection in adding $AUTOUPDATE to $required.
2025 Normalize whitespaces in 'tests/Makefile.am'.
2026 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Use only spaces, not tabs, in the
2027 definition of this variable.
2029 2010-06-12 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2031 Remove a couple of unneeded conditionals from tests.
2032 * tests/pr243.test, tests/pr266.test, tests/strip.test: No need
2033 for the FOOTEST conditional.
2035 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2037 Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
2038 * tests/symlink3.test: Deleted, separated into two new, more
2040 * tests/forcemiss.test: ... this one ...
2041 * tests/forcemiss2.test: ... and this one.
2042 * tests/symlink2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, make test
2043 stricter, and skip it if symlink creation is not supported.
2044 * tests/postproc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, related
2045 changes, and a couple of unrelated cosmetic changes.
2046 * tests/recurs.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
2047 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping
2048 of Automake stderr slightly stricter.
2049 * tests/substtarg.test: Likewise.
2050 * tests/strip.test: Likewise, and move the call to `set -e'
2051 earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs'). Also, make sure
2052 that the script installed by `make install-script' is equal to
2054 * tests/substref.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
2055 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Move the call
2056 to `set -e' earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs').
2057 Avoid to explicitly export CC for configure (that's already done
2058 in ./defs). Avoid potential problems with unpredictable make
2059 output. Finally, make grepping of Makefile.in stricter.
2060 * tests/substre2.test: Ensure verbose printing of the captured
2061 make's output, and make its grepping slightly stricter.
2062 * tests/cygwin32.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
2063 changes. Also, do not create useless dummy source/data files.
2064 * tests/scripts.test: Likewise.
2065 * tests/recurs2.test: Likewise. Also, use the `configure.in'
2066 stub created by `./defs'.
2067 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
2069 Modernize, improve and/or fix tests `pluseq*.test.
2070 * tests/pluseq5.test: Append to configure.in using cat with an
2071 here-doc, not using echo.
2072 * tests/pluseq10.test: Make sure that the captured output of
2073 `make' command is always displayed. Where possible, use $FGREP
2074 instead of grep (this change makes some checks slightly stricter).
2075 * tests/pluseq8.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
2077 * tests/pluseq.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless dummy
2078 data files, and use better m4 quoting in generated configure.in.
2079 * tests/pluseq2.test: Likewise. Also, append to configure.in
2080 using cat with an here-doc, not using echo.
2081 * tests/pluseq3.test: Likewise.
2082 * tests/pluseq4.test: Likewise.
2083 * tests/pluseq6.test: Likewise.
2084 * tests/pluseq7.test: Do not create useless dummy source file.
2085 * tests/pluseq9.test: Slightly extended w.r.t. the grepping of
2086 Automake stderr. Some unrelated cosmetic changes.
2088 Testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured stderr.
2089 * tests/acloca18.test: Print captured stderr before either failing
2090 or grepping it. Be sure to send captured stderr to stderr, not to
2092 * tests/ansi3b.test: Likewise.
2093 * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
2094 * tests/configure.test: Likewise.
2095 * tests/missing3.test: Likewise.
2096 * tests/missing6.test: Likewise.
2097 * tests/output-order.test: Likewise.
2098 * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise.
2099 * tests/python6.test: Likewise.
2100 * tests/python7.test: Likewise.
2101 * tests/python8.test: Likewise.
2102 * tests/python9.test: Likewise.
2103 * tests/subobj.test: Likewise.
2104 * tests/vars3.test: Likewise.
2105 * tests/missing4.test: Likewise, and fix a call to grep not to use
2107 * tests/ansi3.test: Likewise, and rely on the `configure.in' stub
2108 created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
2110 Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
2111 * tests/backsl.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
2113 * tests/backsl2.test: Likewise.
2114 * tests/block.test: Likewise.
2115 * tests/canon2.test: Likewise.
2116 * tests/canon4.test: Likewise.
2117 * tests/comment2.test: Likewise.
2118 * tests/condlib.test: Likewise.
2119 * tests/cond15.test: Likewise, and prefer $FGREP over grep.
2120 * tests/canon3.test: Likewise. Also, avoid to create an useless
2122 * tests/acoutpt2.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and some
2123 related changes. Do some cosmetic improvements in the generated
2124 `configure.in' file.
2125 * tests/cond4.test: Likewise.
2126 * tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
2127 * tests/condinc.test: Likewise.
2128 * tests/cond7.test: Likewise. Also, remove useless setting of
2129 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am.
2130 * tests/ansi.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
2131 changes. Extended, esp. by running autoconf, ./configure and
2132 make, and by looking into the distdir.
2134 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2135 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2137 Extend tests/README w.r.t. trailing `:' in test scripts.
2138 * tests/README (section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
2139 Explain why apparently redundant trailing `:' and `Exit 0' in
2140 test scripts can indeed be useful.
2142 2010-06-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2144 Improve determination of PATH separator in bootstrap script.
2145 * bootstrap: Determine what the PATH separator is the same way
2148 Minor improvements in bootstrap script.
2149 * bootstrap: Consistently use two-spaces indentation. Cosmetic
2150 improvement to comments.
2151 ($me): New variable, containing program basename.
2152 Prepend it to all error messages.
2154 Testsuite now works with BSD make in parallel mode.
2155 * tests/defs.in: Unset variables __MKLVL__ and MAKE_JOBS_FIFO,
2156 which are exported by BSD make when run in parallel mode, and
2157 which can confuse make processes spawned by our testsuite.
2158 This change fixes a lot of spurious failure when the testsuite
2159 is run with BSD make in parallel mode.
2161 2010-06-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2163 Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
2164 * tests/sanity.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
2165 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
2166 * tests/depend2.test: Likewise. Also, call `set -e' just after
2167 the inclusion of `./defs', instead that later in the script.
2168 * tests/canon5.test: Avoid a useless `|| Exit 1' after a call to
2169 $AUTOMAKE, and improve the positioning of an $ACLOCAL call.
2170 * tests/exeext4.test: Use $FGREP instead of grep, where possible.
2171 Make auxiliary rules in the generated Makefile more silent.
2172 These changes make some checks slightly stricter.
2173 * tests/ext2.test: Call `Exit 1' if inclusion of `./defs' fails.
2174 * tests/gettext2.test: Place final `:' at the end of the script,
2175 rather than in the middle.
2176 * tests/exeext.test: Call `set -e' just after the inclusion of
2177 `./defs', instead that later in the script.
2178 * tests/extra5.test: Likewise.
2179 * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `mv -f' over
2180 plain `mv', just to be sure.
2181 * tests/depcomp.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
2182 changes. Also, modernize the generated configure.in.
2183 * tests/cond9.test: Likewise. Also, rely on the `configure.in'
2184 stub created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
2185 * tests/cond10.test: Likewise.
2186 * tests/depcomp2.test: Likewise.
2187 * tests/depend3.test: Likewise.
2188 * tests/distcom7.test: Likewise.
2189 * tests/fortdep.test: Likewise. Also, remove definition of
2190 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am,
2191 since that flag is already provided by $AUTOMAKE.
2192 * tests/mdate.test: Made stricter, by checking that Automake
2193 actually failed, and by making a stricter grep on the error
2194 message. Also, set shell `errexit flag'.
2195 * tests/python2.test: Improved verbose messages.
2197 Make test `ammissing.test' stricter.
2198 * tests/ammissing.test: Fail if $ACLOCAL succeeds unexpectedly.
2199 Enable `errexit' shell flag.
2201 2010-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2203 Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
2204 * tests/subcond.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
2206 * tests/subst.test: Likewise.
2207 * tests/vars.test: Likewise.
2208 * tests/version4.test: Likewise.
2209 * tests/vpath.test: Likewise.
2210 * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
2211 * tests/werror.test: Likewise.
2212 * tests/whoami.test: Likewise.
2213 * tests/tags.test: Likewise, and avoid to crate an useless dummy
2215 * tests/acsilent.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
2216 command substitution.
2217 * tests/unused.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
2218 command substitution.
2219 * tests/version.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
2220 in the generated `configure.in'.
2221 * tests/version2.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
2222 in the generated `configure.in'.
2224 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2226 Prefer AUTOMAKE_fails over `$AUTOMAKE | grep' in tests.
2227 * tests/ldadd.test: Enable errexit. Use AUTOMAKE_fails so
2228 the verbose log contains all output.
2229 * tests/mdate.test: Likewise.
2230 Prompted by Stefano Lattarini's change to discover.test.
2232 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2234 Improve tests link*.test (enable `errexit' shell flag).
2235 * tests/link_c_cxx.test: Enable `errexit shell flag, and related
2236 changes. Also, do not create useless source files.
2237 * tests/link_dist.test: Likewise.
2238 * tests/link_f90_only.test: Likewise.
2239 * tests/link_f_only.test: Likewise.
2240 * tests/link_fc.test: Likewise.
2241 * tests/link_fccxx.test: Likewise.
2242 * tests/link_fcxx.test: Likewise.
2244 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2246 Improve ext.test semantics, avoid OpenBSD sh errexit issue.
2247 * tests/ext.test: Inside shell compound command, use
2248 `if $cmd; then Exit 1; fi' rather than `$cmd && Exit 1', to
2249 fix failure with OpenBSD sh introduced with last patch.
2250 Actually ensure that a rule for .EXT.o is created for each
2251 known extension EXT.
2253 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2255 Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
2256 * tests/dash.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
2258 * tests/defun.test: Likewise.
2259 * tests/defun2.test: Likewise.
2260 * tests/dejagnu.test: Likewise.
2261 * tests/double.test: Likewise.
2262 * tests/distcom2.test: Likewise.
2263 * tests/empty2.test: Likewise.
2264 * tests/empty3.test: Likewise.
2265 * tests/empty4.test: Likewise.
2266 * tests/exdir.test: Likewise.
2267 * tests/ext.test: Likewise.
2268 * tests/extra.test: Likewise.
2269 * tests/extra2.test: Likewise.
2270 * tests/extra3.test: Likewise.
2271 * tests/extra4.test: Likewise.
2272 * tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
2273 * tests/fnoc.test: Likewise.
2274 * tests/fo.test: Likewise.
2275 * tests/instexec.test: Likewise.
2276 * tests/ltdeps.test: Likewise.
2277 * tests/nodep.test: Likewise.
2278 * tests/nodepcomp.test: Likewise.
2279 * tests/f90only.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
2280 comments and unnecessary commands.
2281 * tests/fonly.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
2282 comments and unnecessary commands.
2283 * tests/discover.test: Likewise, and made stricter.
2285 Enable `errexit' shell flag in all tests cxx*.test.
2286 * tests/cxx.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
2288 * tests/cxxansi.test: Likewise.
2289 * tests/cxxcpp.test: Likewise.
2290 * tests/cxxlibobj.test: Likewise.
2291 * tests/cxxlink.test: Likewise.
2292 * tests/cxxo.test: Likewise.
2294 Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
2295 * tests/acoutnoq.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
2297 * tests/acoutpt.test: Likewise.
2298 * tests/acoutqnl.test: Likewise.
2299 * tests/amassign.test: Likewise.
2300 * tests/ansi2.test: Likewise.
2301 * tests/ansi4.test: Likewise.
2302 * tests/badprog.test: Likewise.
2303 * tests/checkall.test: Likewise.
2304 * tests/clean.test: Likewise.
2305 * tests/colneq2.test: Likewise.
2306 * tests/colon.test: Likewise.
2307 * tests/colon5.test: Likewise.
2308 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
2309 * tests/comment.test: Likewise.
2310 * tests/compile_f90_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
2311 * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
2312 * tests/cond3.test: Likewise.
2313 * tests/cond6.test: Likewise.
2314 * tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
2315 * tests/conf2.test: Likewise.
2316 * tests/confvar.test: Likewise.
2317 * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
2318 * tests/cond8.test: Likewise, plus a cosmetic change.
2319 * tests/confh4.test: Likewise. Also, add in the heading comments
2320 an excerpt from the original bug report which motivated the
2321 creation of this test, to make its purpose clearer.
2323 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2325 Rewrite manual to be gender-neutral.
2326 * doc/automake.texi (GNU Build System)
2327 (Standard Directory Variables, General Operation, CVS)
2328 (Hard-Coded Install Paths, Dependencies As Side Effects):
2329 Rewrite text to not contain gender-specific pronouns when
2330 speaking about developers or users, either by avoiding pronouns
2331 or by addressing them as `you' instead.
2333 Report by Christina Gratorp.
2337 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2339 Make tests on user extensibility of silent-rules mode stricter.
2340 * tests/silent6.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
2341 output produced by `make'.
2342 * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
2344 Tests on silent-mode for C/Libtool made stricter.
2345 * tests/silent.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
2346 output produced by `make'.
2347 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
2348 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
2349 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
2350 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise, and add a final `make distclean'
2351 command to keep it better in sync with tests/silent{4,9}.test.
2353 Improved test silent5.test.
2354 * tests/silent5.test: Remove by hand all generated C files after
2355 non-verbose builds, to ensure the following builds are clean.
2356 Try to clean and rebuild with the same verbosity and without
2357 removing generated sources in between, to check that this does
2358 not trigger a different set of rules. Make grepping of make's
2359 output stricter. Improved/added some comments.
2361 New tests for Automake silent-mode with Fortran.
2362 * tests/silentf77.test: New test.
2363 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
2364 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2366 New test `silentcxx.test' (Automake silent-mode with C++).
2367 * tests/silentcxx.test: New test.
2368 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2370 New test `silentyacc.test' (Automake silent-mode with Yacc).
2371 * tests/silentyacc.test: New test.
2372 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2374 New test `silentlex.test' (Automake silent-mode with Lex).
2375 * tests/silentlex.test: New test.
2376 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2378 Relax tests on silent-rules to cater to overly verbose makes.
2379 * tests/silent.test: When testing silent builds, don't fail if
2380 make's output simply contains the `mv' substring, but only if
2381 it contains the `mv ' substring (note the trailing space).
2382 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
2383 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
2384 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
2385 * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
2386 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
2388 2010-01-24 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2390 Fix silent-rules output for disabled dependency tracking.
2391 * lib/am/depend2.am [!%FASTDEP%]: Rework silent-rules variable
2392 expansion code to also work in the case where %AMDEP% expands
2393 to FALSE at config.status time, using new substitution string
2395 * automake.in (verbose_nodep_flag): New function, appending
2396 `@am__nodep@' to the verbose-variable name.
2397 (handle_languages): If dependencies are not disabled, use it to
2398 set %VERBOSE-NODEP%.
2399 * m4/depend.m4: Substitute am__nodep as '_no', so the second
2400 verbose-variable will always expand to an empty string, if
2401 dependencies are enabled.
2402 * tests/silent5.test: Also test --disable-dependency-tracking;
2403 also test per-target flags for non-C language files.
2404 * tests/silent9.test: New test, like silent4.test but disable
2405 dependency tracking.
2406 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
2407 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
2408 Report by Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>.
2410 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2412 Extend test on `nostdinc' automake option.
2413 * tests/nostdinc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Related and
2414 unrelated minor changes. Make the grepping of the generated
2415 Makefile.in slightly stricter. Generate and run configure, so that
2416 the generated Makefile can be grepped too.
2418 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2420 Make gnupload portable to EBCDIC hosts.
2421 * lib/gnupload: Use literal newline as argument for 'tr' rather
2422 than \015, for EBCDIC hosts. Also, avoid unportable nested
2423 double-quotes and backquotes.
2425 Report from Eric Blake and Steve Goetze via gnulib.
2427 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2429 Fix Autoconf version required by Automake's configure.
2430 Automake configure script used to tell that automake required
2431 autoconf 2.60 or later, but then it checked for autoconf >= 2.62,
2432 and if that was not found, it gave an error saying that Automake
2433 required configure 2.61a-341 or later. This change should
2434 eliminate such inconsistencies.
2435 * configure.ac ($required_autoconf_version): New variable.
2438 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2440 Fix unportable sed script in maintainer-check test.
2441 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_Exit_not_exit): Rewrite sed script to
2442 not contain semicolon after 'b' or brace commands, for NetBSD.
2444 Wildcards are not portable to NetBSD make.
2445 * doc/automake.texi (Wildcards): Document portability issue.
2446 * tests/extra10.test, tests/extra11.test, tests/extra12.test:
2449 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2451 Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
2452 * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
2453 an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
2455 Avoid possible false negatives in dejagnu7.test.
2456 * tests/dejagnu7.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Also, avoid
2457 unportable use of fgrep option `-e'.
2459 Fix conflnk3.test to work with Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
2460 * tests/conflnk3.test: Use `test -r FILE' and `test ! -r FILE'
2461 instead of respectively `test -e FILE' and `test ! -e FILE',
2462 since Solaris Sh doesn't grok the latter. Do not SKIP the test
2463 if the shell doesn't support `test -e'.
2465 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2468 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Add
2469 missing closing parenthesis.
2471 Fix leftover call to removed function macros_dump.
2472 * automake.in (read_main_am_file): Call variables_dump, not
2473 macros_dump. Print actual error before list of variables.
2475 2010-04-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2477 Minor improvements in comments of test `silent3.test'.
2478 * tests/silent3.test: Tell to keep it in sync with `silent9.test'
2481 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2483 testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured output.
2484 * tests/acloca14.test, tests/acloca18.test, tests/aclocal.test,
2485 tests/fort2.test, tests/help.test, tests/missing3.test,
2486 tests/missing6.test: Print captured stdout or stderr before
2489 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2491 Make test badopt.test stricter (by enabling `set -e').
2492 * tests/badopt.test: Add call to `set -e'. Due to this change,
2493 an unexpected failure in the call to `$ACLOCAL' (whose outcome
2494 was previously unchecked) would cause the whole test to fail.
2495 Also, bumped the copyright years.
2497 Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
2498 * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
2499 an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
2501 Use `set -e' in confsub.test (avoids possible false negatives).
2502 * tests/confsub.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and related
2503 changes (this helps avoiding some possible minor false negatives).
2504 Also, bumped copyright years.
2506 2010-04-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2508 Fix -Werror handling for presence of configure.in and configure.ac.
2509 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (Automake::Variable): Do not initialize
2510 $configure_ac at the global level, before command-line arguments
2512 (require_variables): Initialize it here.
2513 * tests/configure.test: New test.
2514 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
2515 Report by Stefano Lattarini.
2517 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2519 Avoid possible false negatives in confh5.test.
2520 * tests/confh5.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and bumped
2521 copyright years. Due to this change, any unexpected failure
2522 in calls to $ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE, $AUTOCONF or $AUTOHEADER, or
2523 a failure in grepping expected text in output files should now
2524 cause the whole test to fail.
2526 2010-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2528 Fixed typo in POD documentation of Automake::Channels.
2529 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Fixed typo in POD documentation:
2530 @<...> was used instead of C<...>.
2532 2010-04-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2534 Refactor tests on Automake TESTS color output.
2535 * tests/color.test: Tests using the expect program moved out to...
2536 * tests/color2.test: ... this new file.
2537 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Extended accordingly.
2539 2010-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2541 Fix typos in comments in test confh5.test
2542 * tests/confh5.test: Fix a couple of typos in comments.
2544 Avoid possible false negatives in canon-name.test.
2545 * tests/canon-name.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Improve
2548 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2550 Fix per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror.
2551 Before this patch, 'AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = -Werror' in one
2552 Makefile.am would carry over to other Makefile.am files
2553 treated afterwards by the same thread, causing inconsistent
2554 and unstable exit status values.
2555 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (dup_channel_setup)
2556 (drop_channel_setup): Save and restore the setting of
2557 $warnings_are_errors.
2558 * tests/werror3.test: New test.
2559 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
2562 2010-04-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2564 Bugfix in confh5.test w.r.t. Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
2565 * tests/confh5.test: In the generated Makefile.am: do not use
2566 `test ! -e FILE' to check for the non-existence of a file, since
2567 that is not supported by Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
2569 Make test `aclocal3.test' stricter.
2570 * tests/aclocal3.test: Add call to `set -e'. Fail if $ACLOCAL
2571 succeds unexpectedly.
2573 Add tests checking that symlinks are resolved by `make dist'.
2574 * tests/distlinks.test: New test.
2575 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2576 Suggested by observations from Ralf Wildenhues.
2578 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2580 Use -9 for maximum xz compression with dist-xz.
2581 * lib/am/distdir.am (dist-xz, dist, dist-all): Pass -9 to xz.
2582 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
2583 Report by Pavel Sanda.
2585 2010-03-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2587 Avoid an unportable use of `$status' shell variable.
2588 * Makefile.am (path-check): Don't use the `$status' shell variable
2589 in the target's rules, as it's special in Zsh (equivalent to `$?',
2592 Avoid another use of `chmod -R'.
2593 * Makefile.am (path-check): To be safe, do not use `chmod -R' on
2594 $(distdir) before removing it (as Solaris `chmod -R' touches
2595 symlink targets). Instead, use the cleanup strategy used in
2598 2010-03-28 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2600 Remove uses of @acronym and @sc.
2601 * doc/automake.texi (Public Macros, Limitations on File Names):
2602 Remove all usage of @acronym and @sc in the manual.
2603 Suggested by Karl Berry.
2605 2010-03-13 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
2607 GNU hello uses fdl.texi, not gpl.texi.
2608 * doc/automake.texi (Texinfo): Adjust example to upstream
2611 2010-03-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2613 Formatting cleanups in macro comments.
2614 * automake.in, lib/Automake/Channels.pm,
2615 lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm, lib/Automake/Options.pm,
2616 lib/Automake/Variable.pm, lib/Automake/XFile.pm,
2617 m4/options.m4, m4/substnot.m4: Fix macro comment format.
2619 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2620 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2622 Avoid generation of `tests/defs-p' file.
2623 * tests/defs.in: In the generated `configure.in' snippet: call
2624 `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' with the `parallel-tests' option if the shell
2625 variable `parallel_tests' is set to `yes'.
2626 * tests/Makefile.am (defs-p): Target removed.
2627 (check_SCRIPTS): Removed `defs-p'.
2628 (clean-local-check): Do not unlink `defs-p' anymore.
2629 ($(parallel_tests)): Transformation rules for the test scripts
2631 * tests/gen-parallel-tests: Selection rules for the test
2633 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Set `$parallel_tests' to `yes'
2634 then include `./defs' (rather than simply including `./defs-p').
2635 * tests/parallel-tests2.test: Likewise.
2636 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
2637 * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
2638 * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
2639 * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
2640 * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
2641 * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise.
2642 * tests/parallel-tests9.test: Likewise.
2643 * tests/parallel-tests10.test: Likewise.
2644 * tests/README (Section "Writing Test Cases" subsection "Do"):
2645 Adjusted the parts referring to tests checking `parallel-tests'
2646 behaviour. Some other minor related improvements.
2647 * tests/.gitignore (defs-p): Removed.
2649 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2651 Remove redundant unset of variable TESTS from some test scripts.
2652 * tests/color.test: Do not unset the `TESTS' variable, as it's
2653 already unset in the `defs' file.
2654 * tests/check5.test: Likewise.
2655 * tests/check8.test: Likewise.
2656 * tests/check9.test: Likewise.
2657 * tests/check10.test: Likewise.
2658 * tests/check11.test: Likewise.
2659 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Likewise.
2660 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
2661 * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
2662 * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
2663 * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
2664 * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
2666 2010-02-22 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
2668 Improve help message of mdate-sh.
2669 * mdate-sh: mention actual output format in help message.
2671 2010-02-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2673 Deprecate dist-lzma in favor of dist-xz.
2674 * doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions, Options):
2675 Adjust text to reflect renaming of lzma to xz.
2677 Missing deprecation noted by Antonio Diaz Diaz.
2679 2010-02-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2681 Add tests about support of wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
2682 * tests/extra10.test: New test, check basic support of wildcards
2684 * tests/extra11.test: New test, check more complex usage of
2685 wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
2686 * tests/extra12.test: New test, check usage of wildcards in
2687 EXTRA_DIST when $builddir != $srcdir.
2688 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2689 Necessity of these new tests suggested by Braden McDaniel
2690 and Ralf Wildenhues.
2692 2010-02-08 Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
2694 Fix copyright statement in gnupload script.
2695 * lib/gnupload: Fix copyright statement.
2697 2010-02-06 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> (tiny change)
2698 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2700 Fix exit status of signal handlers in shell scripts.
2701 The value of `$?' on entrance to signal handlers in shell scripts
2702 cannot be relied upon, so set the exit code explicitly to
2704 * lib/am/check.am (am__check_pre): Use `exit 143' in signal handler.
2705 * lib/elisp-comp: Likewise.
2706 * lib/install-sh: Likewise.
2707 * lib/ylwrap: Likewise. Also, fix script to trap signal 13, not 3.
2708 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
2709 Bug report, analysis, and initial patch by Dmitry V. Levin.
2711 2010-02-06 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
2713 Improve gnupload usage text.
2714 * gnupload (usage): Shorten to make more likely to fit on a tty
2715 line. Mention CMD in the synopsis. With ..., plural is implied.
2717 2010-01-28 Christos Kontas <xakon@yahoo.com> (tiny change)
2719 Fix some typos in the manual
2720 * doc/automake.texi (Nested Packages, Rebuilding): Fix typos.
2722 2010-01-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2724 Slighty improve tests acoutbs.test and acoutbs2.test.
2725 * tests/acoutbs2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Check that
2726 autoconf and configure work, that the file `zot' is created by
2727 configure, and that no file containing a backslash in its name is
2729 * tests/acoutbs.test: Likewise, plus updated copyright years.
2731 Fix test acoutbs2.test.
2732 * tests/acoutbs2: In the generated configure.in: add proper calls
2733 to AC_INIT and AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, and remove explicit definition of
2734 PACKAGE and VERSION. Add a call to aclocal before calling automake.
2735 Updated copyright years.
2736 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Removed acoutbs2.test.
2738 Add forgotten test scripts to $(TESTS).
2739 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Added test scripts present on the
2740 filesystem, which were erroneously left out from $(TESTS):
2741 acoutbs2.test, badopt.test, extra2.test.
2742 (XFAIL_TESTS): Added acoutbs2.test.
2744 2010-01-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2746 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
2747 * INSTALL, lib/INSTALL, lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub:
2750 Bump copyright years.
2751 * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
2752 * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
2753 * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
2756 * ChangeLog.09: New file, rotated from ...
2757 * ChangeLog: ... here.
2758 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute ChangeLog.09.
2762 Copyright (C) 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2764 Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are
2765 permitted provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved.