1 2011-04-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3 test defs: new requirement for the default java compiler
4 * tests/defs.in (for tool in $required): New requirement 'javac'.
5 * tests/java.test: Use it instead of ad-hoc configure check.
6 * tests/java-check.test: Likewise.
7 * tests/instfail-java.test: Likewise.
8 * tests/instdir-java.test: Likewise.
10 2011-04-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
12 java: check_JAVA does not cause compilation by "make all" anymore
13 Fixes automake bug#8234.
14 * automake.in (handle_java): Make stamp of class files built from
15 java sources in $(check_JAVA) a dependency of `check' target, not
17 * tests/java-check.test: New test.
18 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
21 Report from Petteri Räty.
23 2011-04-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
25 Clarify regex code in depcomp.
26 * lib/depcomp: Add comment why we don't need regex-escaping here.
27 Suggested by Stefano Lattarini.
29 2011-04-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
31 Fix makedepend depmode for VPATH builds.
32 * lib/depcomp [makedepend]: Remove any VPATH prefix from the
33 object file name, so a rebuild doesn't attempt to update the
34 .Po files in the source tree.
35 * tests/depcomp9.test: New test.
36 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
39 2011-04-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
41 tests: fix timestamp-related failures
42 Fixes automake bug#8365.
43 * tests/aclocal6.test: Sleep before modifying m4 files that should
44 trigger remake rules. Remove incorrect/obsoleted comments.
45 * tests/subdir5.test: Likewise, and extend a bit.
46 * tests/subdir8.test: Likewise.
47 * tests/pr8365-remake-timing.test: New xfailing test.
48 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
49 Report from Sam Steingold.
51 2011-04-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
53 Create subdirs for generated sources even when not dep tracking.
54 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): If $object is derived
55 and lands in subdir, be sure to output a dirstamp dependency.
56 * tests/yacc5.test: Avoid falsely matching the dirstamp
57 dependency when grepping for a rule.
58 * tests/lex-subobj-nodep.test: New test.
59 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
61 Report by Ignacy Gawedzki.
63 Fix locale issue in check-exported-srcdir.test.
64 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Reformulate glob to not fail
65 in a locale that ignores or interleaves character case.
67 2011-04-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
69 docs: better visibility for aclocal in the index
70 * doc/automake.texi (@menu): Rename title for entry 'configure'
71 from "Scanning configure.ac or configure.in" to the more precise
72 "Scanning configure.ac, using aclocal".
73 (@detailmenu): Adjust.
74 (@node configure): Adjust, and extend @cindex calls accordingly.
76 From a report by Maynard Johnson.
78 2011-03-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
80 tests: improve tests on "maintainer-clean" target
81 * tests/aclocal6.test: Move checks related to "maintainer-clean"
82 functionalities into ...
83 * tests/maintclean-vpath.test: ... this new test.
84 * tests/maintclean.test: Update heading comments. Extend to also
85 test subdirs. Remove useless disabling of YACC. Fix m4 quoting
86 in configure.in. Add a trailing `:' command. Remove extra blank
88 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
90 2011-03-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
92 tests: fix unindent to use printf not echo for script.
93 * tests/defs.in: Use printf rather than echo, as the latter may
94 interpret the backslashes in the sed script. Fixes test
95 failures with dash as /bin/sh.
97 2011-03-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
98 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
100 maintcheck: look for problematic names of testcases
101 The configure.in stub created by default by `tests/defs' obtains
102 the first argument of AC_INIT from the test name, and this can
103 cause some supported autoconf versions to fail with a spurious
104 error if that test name contains the name of an m4 or m4sugar
105 builtin or macro (e.g., `defn' or `m4_undefine').
106 See for example the bug fixed by commit v1.11-287-g1325a8a.
107 This change add a maintainer check that warns about test names
108 which are possibly problematic in this regard.
109 * Makefile.am (sc_test_names): New maintainer-check target.
110 (syntax_check_rules): Add it.
111 (m4_builtins): New helper variable.
112 (TESTS): Updated according to the following renamings.
113 * tests/include.test: Renamed ...
114 * tests/hdr-vars-defined-once.test: ... to this.
115 * tests/sinclude.test: Renamed ...
116 * tests/m4-inclusion.test: ... to this, and simplified
118 * tests/include2.test: Renamed ...
119 * tests/dist-included-parent-dir.test: ... to this, for
122 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
124 tests: fix bug in alloca*.test
125 * tests/alloca.test: Make grepping of automake stderr stricter,
126 add a trailing `:' command; also, add AC_PROG_CC to configure.in,
127 and create a dummy alloca.c file, to ensure that we fail for the
129 * tests/alloca2.test: Likewise. Also, look for LT_INIT, not
130 AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, in the error message (bug introduced with commit
131 v1.11-315-gd51e7b7 "libtool: suggest LT_INIT if LTLIBRARIES
133 From a report by Patrick Welche.
135 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
137 tests: fix bug (comments-in-var-defn.test + autoconf 2.62)
138 * tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: The configure.in stub created
139 by default, which has the AC_INIT first argument obtained by the
140 test name, causes autoconf 2.62 to fail with a spurious error
141 message like: "configure.in:1: error: defn: undefined macro:".
142 Thus, to prevent this, the test is renamed to ...
143 * tests/comments-in-var-def.test: ... this.
144 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
146 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
148 cosmetics: convert encoding from ISO-8859 to UTF-8
149 * ChangeLog.03: Convert encoding to UTF-8.
150 * ChangeLog.96: Likewise.
151 * ChangeLog.98: Likewise.
155 2011-03-01 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
157 test defs: unindent without temporary file
158 * tests/defs.in (commented_sed_unindent_prog): Commented Sed program
159 that strips the "proper" amount of leading whitespace.
160 (unindent): Lazily strip comments from the above program and use it
161 to unindent without using a temporary file.
163 2011-02-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
165 libtool: suggest LT_INIT if LTLIBRARIES primary is used
166 When the LTLIBRARIES primary was used, but $(LIBTOOL) wasn't
167 defined, automake suggested to add a call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
168 in configure.ac. But that macro is deprecated since Libtool
169 version 1.9b (2004-08-29), in favor of the newer LT_INIT. So
170 suggest the use of this latter macro instead.
171 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (%_am_macro_for_var): Pair 'LIBTOOL'
172 with 'LT_INIT', not with 'AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'.
173 * libtool4.test: Adjust and extend. Also, add a call to macro
174 AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, to help ensuring that automake does
175 not fail for the wrong reasons.
176 * ltinit.test: New test, ensure that automake's libtool support
177 works with LT_INIT-based interface.
178 Thanks to Jack Kelly for the suggestion.
180 2011-02-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
182 tests: tempdirs with restrictive permissions are cleaned correctly
183 Before this change, the removal of a temporary test directory
184 containing subdirectories with restrictive permissions (such as
185 'r--r--r--') could fail.
186 * tests/defs: Ensure that all the subdirectories of a temporary
187 test directory have the 'read', 'write' and 'execute' bits set,
188 before trying to remove it with `rm -rf'.
189 * tests/Makefile.am (clean-local-check): Likewise.
191 2011-02-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
192 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
194 test defs: add subroutine for input unindenting
195 * tests/defs.in (unindent): New subroutine.
197 2011-02-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
199 python: report the 'PYTHON' influential environment variable
200 * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Call AC_ARG_VAR on PYTHON.
201 * doc/automake.texi (Python): Update and extend.
202 * tests/help-python.test: New test.
203 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
204 * THANKS (Jack Kelly): Update e-mail address.
205 Suggestion by Jack Kelly.
207 2011-02-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
209 tests defs: clear TESTS_ENVIRONMENT variable
210 * tests/defs.in (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset it, so that values
211 from environment won't interfere with the testcases.
212 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
214 2011-02-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
216 tests: tweak few tests on simple and parallel test drivers
217 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Improve heading comments.
218 * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: Likewise. Also, unset the
219 `FOO_EXIT_STATUS' variable, so that any pre-existing value in the
220 environment won't risk to interfere with the test.
221 Suggestions by Ralf Wildenhues.
223 2011-02-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
225 coverage: more tests on simple and parallel test drivers
226 * tests/parallel-tests-subdir.test: New test.
227 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Likewise.
228 * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: Likewise.
229 * tests/check-tests_environment.test: Likewise.
230 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
232 2011-01-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
234 tests: fix spurious failures in lflags*.test
235 * tests/lflags.test: Remove 'LEX' from the environment, so
236 that it won't be erroneously picked up by `make -e'.
237 * tests/lflags2.test: Likewise.
239 2011-01-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
241 docs: color-tests issues with parallel make
242 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Document that automatic
243 recognition of a capable terminal attached to stdout can fail
244 with some make implementation when running in parallel mode,
245 thus causing colored test output not to be automatically
246 activated when it should.
248 2011-01-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
250 tests: avoid instspc.test failures due to make's whitespace trimming
251 * tests/instspc.test: Prepend './' when passing the test
252 characters, to avoid leading whitespace characters to be trimmed
253 from macros set from environment variables. Fixes testsuite
254 failures with HP-UX, IRIX, and Tru64/OSF make.
256 2011-01-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
258 coverage: test semantics of "dummy" per-target flags
259 * tests/specflg-dummy.test: New test, ensuring that even "dummy"
260 per-target flags triggers the use of renamed objects.
261 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
262 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
264 2011-01-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
266 tests defs: sanitize IFS
267 * tests/defs.in ($IFS): Define to <space>, <tab>, <newline>.
268 ($sp): New variable, holding a single whitespace character.
269 ($tab): New variable, holding a tabulation character.
270 ($nl): New variable, holding a newline character.
272 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
274 tests: fix VPATH auto-expansion workarounds.
275 * tests/parallel-tests8.test, tests/suffix13.test:
276 Ensure $< is not surrounded by white space, to prevent Solaris
277 make from applying automatic VPATH text expansion.
279 2011-01-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
281 tests: fix spurious failures in yflags*.test
282 * tests/yflags.test: Remove 'YACC' from the environment, so
283 that it won't be erroneously picked up by `make -e'.
284 * tests/yflags2.test: Likewise.
286 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
288 tests: avoid fn99*.test failures due to buggy AIX 5.3 cp -R.
289 * tests/fn99.test, tests/fn99subdir.test: Skip if an initial
290 `cp -R' of the subdir tree already fails; AIX 5.3 cp messes
291 up its internal memory when copying this tree.
293 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
294 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
296 Add comment to check-TESTS rule working around make 3.80 bug.
297 * lib/am/check.am (check-TESTS): Update comment.
299 2011-01-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
301 tests: less strict double-colon spy.test again.
302 * tests/spy.test: We know BSD make doesn't invoke more than one
303 double-colon rule, so no need to expose that failure.
305 2011-01-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
307 install-sh: avoid Tru64 sh `test' operator precedence issues.
308 * lib/install-sh: Protect file names and directory components
309 that consist of `=', `(', `)', or `!'. Move protection as early
310 as possible, to avoid errors such as with Tru64 sh `test -z ='.
311 * tests/instsh2.test: Extend test to cover more possibilities.
312 Fixes 1.12 instspc-equal-install.test failure on Tru64/OSF 5.1.
314 2011-01-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
315 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
317 docs: automake testsuite doesn't use TESTS_ENVIRONMENT anymore
318 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Do not claim Automake uses
319 TESTS_ENVIRONMENT for the perl driver. Instead, point to the
320 parallel-tests driver.
322 2011-01-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
324 Allow _AM_DEPENDENCIES to be used later in configure.
325 * m4/depend.m4 (_AM_DEPENDENCIES): Remove a previously existing
326 conftest.dir before recreating it.
328 Report by Eric Blake, from report by Scott McCreary against M4.
330 2011-01-18 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
332 tests: avoid failure on w32 file systems.
333 * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: SKIP if file cannot
334 be turned unreadable.
336 2011-01-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
338 tests: allow double-colon spy.test to work with HP-UX make.
339 * tests/spy.test: Fix comment typos. Ensure prerequisites we
340 do not want to depend on are strictly older than the target.
341 Also test with a target out of date wrt. more than one rule.
343 2011-01-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
345 tests: remove useless requirements from cond36.test
346 * tests/cond36.test ($required): Remove.
347 Since we are at it, add a trailing `:' command.
349 2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
350 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
352 parallel-tests: work around Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh read bugs.
353 * lib/am/check.am ($(TEST_SUITE_LOG), recheck, recheck-html):
354 Test file readability before redirecting input from it, to avoid
355 exiting Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh which treats read as special builtin.
356 * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: New test.
357 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
360 2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
362 * NEWS, README: Update copyright years.
364 Fix parallel-tests.test failure with HP-UX make.
365 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Sleep inside inner tests, so logs
366 are newer than logs of tests they depend on, for HP-UX make.
368 2011-01-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
370 docs: ensure example are separated with empty lines in the input
371 * doc/automake.texi (Extending aclocal, Emacs Lisp, Rebuilding)
372 (API Versioning, Renamed Objects, Multiple Outputs): Add empty
373 lines before `@example' and after `@end example' lines, so info
374 output is rendered correctly, and a following @noindent honored.
375 Report by Stefano Lattarini.
377 2011-01-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
379 tests: fix comment typo
380 * tests/substref.test: Fix grammar in a comment.
382 2011-01-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
384 tests: fix spurious failures in two texinfo tests
385 * tests/txinfo.test ($required): Add 'makeinfo'.
386 * tests/txinfo8.test: Create a dummy 'textutils.info' file, so
387 that make won't try to run makeinfo (which could be unavailable)
389 Found by NixOS Hydra, reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
391 2011-01-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
393 Avoid testsuite failures due to Autoconf Fortran change.
394 Autoconf v2.68-21-g727ce95 causes AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS to
395 require computing the canonical host name. Ensure config.guess
396 and config.sub files are present for respective checks.
397 * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Add stub files.
398 * tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
399 * tests/fort4.test: Use $AUTOMAKE -a for installing files.
401 2011-01-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
403 docs: clustered '-d' not recognized in YFLAGS
404 This change fixes automake bug#7828.
405 * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Document that automake
406 recognizes '-d' in AM_YFLAGS only if it's not clustered with
408 From a report by Юрий Пухальский.
410 2011-01-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
412 tests: add checks on automatically-distributed files
413 Related to automake bug#7819.
414 * tests/autodist.test: New test.
415 * tests/autodist-subdir.test: Likewise.
416 * tests/autodist-acconfig.test: Likewise.
417 * tests/autodist-acconfig-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
418 * tests/autodist-aclocal-m4.test: Likewise.
419 * tests/autodist-config-headers.test: Likewise.
420 * tests/autodist-configure-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
421 * tests/autodist-stamp-vti.test: Likewise.
422 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
424 2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
426 tests: work around a texi+cygnus bug causing a spurious XFAIL
427 * tests/txinfo5b.test: New test, like txinfo5.test but calling
428 automake with the `-Wno-override' option to work around a bug
429 in the texinfo + cygnus interaction.
430 * tests/txinfo5.test: Update heading comments.
431 * tests/Makefile.am (TEST): Updated.
433 2011-01-09 Dave Hart <davehart@gmail.com> (tiny change)
435 Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
436 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
438 2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
440 Improve, extend and tweak tests on Texinfo support.
441 * tests/instdir-texi.test: Add a call to `ls -l' after that to
442 `make', for debugging. When looking for required tools, do not
443 redirect the output of "$tool --help" to /dev/null, and do not
444 uselessly run it in a subshell.
445 * tests/txinfo.test: Rewritten to run autoconf, ./configure and
446 make. All checks moved into Makefile.am.
447 * tests/txinfo8.test: Likewise, and modernize the generated
449 * tests/txinfo2.test: Moved checks into Makefile.am, and other
451 * tests/txinfo5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
452 changes. Add trailing `:' command.
453 * tests/txinfo6.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
454 Makefile.in stricter.
455 * tests/txinfo7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
456 changes. Add trailing `:' command. Do not add unnecessary stuff
458 * tests/txinfo9.test: Verify that more targets which are expected
459 to be generated only once really are. Make grepping less strict,
460 to avoid exposing too much internal details. More minor changes.
461 * tests/txinfo16.test: Add trailing `:'. Prefer cat over echo
462 for appending to configure.in. Updated/fixed heading comments.
463 * tests/txinfo23.test: Likewise, and extended a little by making
464 it check that no info file is created in the $(srcdir).
465 * tests/txinfo24.test: Likewise.
466 * tests/txinfo25.test: Likewise.
467 * tests/txinfo18.test: Add trailing `:'. Prefer cat over echo
468 for appending to configure.in. Also, check that index files are
469 cleaned also by "make clean", not only by "make distclean".
470 * tests/txinfo22.test: Prefer `$me' over hard-coded test name,
471 and added trailing `:' command. This testcase also used to check
472 that automake ignores in-line comments when using variables, but
473 preserves them in the output; these checks (added in commit
474 "Release-1-7f-4-g9177ef8") do not really pertain to this test,
475 so they have been moved ...
476 * tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: ... into this new test.
477 * tests/txinfo4.test: Escape literal dots in grep regexps. Add
478 trailing `:' command.
479 * tests/txinfo29.test: Likewise. Relax grepping of generated
480 Makefile.in w.r.t. whitespaces. Prefer `cat' over `echo' to
481 append to configure.in.
482 * tests/txinfo3.test: Likewise.
483 * tests/vtexi.test: Improve grepping of Makefile.in (sometimes
484 make it stricter, sometimes laxer). Move `set -e' setting just
485 after the inclusion of ./defs. De-uglify a sed command. Other
486 minor cosmetic improvements.
487 * tests/vtexi2.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in stricter. Add
488 trailing `:' command.
489 * tests/vtexi3.test: New test on version.texi support.
490 * tests/vtexi4.test: Likewise.
491 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
493 2011-01-09 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
495 Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
496 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
498 2011-01-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
500 cosmetics: remove trailing whitespaces
501 * doc/automake.texi: Remove trailing whitespaces.
502 * tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
503 * tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
504 * tests/fort4.test: Likewise.
505 * tests/fort5.test: Likewise.
506 * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
507 * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
509 automake: minor fixes in comments
510 * automake.in: Some minor fixes and enhancements in comments.
512 2011-01-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
514 Add test coverage for deleted header files.
515 * tests/depcomp6.test, tests/depcomp7.test: Update tests to
516 also check for the deleted header bug. If no dependency
517 tracking mechanism could be found, SKIP rather than exit
518 successfully. Use GNU style spacing and ANSI C prototypes.
520 Fix typos in Rule.pm comments.
521 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typos in comments.
523 docs: split 'amhello Explained' node.
524 * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Split node ...
525 (amhello's configure.ac Setup Explained)
526 (amhello's Makefile.am Setup Explained) : ... into these two.
527 (Top, Hello World): Adjust, and add @anchor for stable URL links.
528 Suggestion by Karl Berry in automake bug#7766.
530 2011-01-08 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
531 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
533 docs: reference defining directories in amhello node.
534 * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Point to Autoconf
535 manual for how to convert directory values into macros.
536 (Optional): Fix grammar nit.
538 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
540 * NEWS: Fix typo (forgotten word).
542 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
543 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
545 docs: how to work around checks on invalid primary/directory couples
546 * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): Document the blessed idiom which can
547 be used to work around automake checks on invalid primary/directory
548 couples (such as `lib_PROGRAMS' or `doc_LIBRARIES').
550 2011-01-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
552 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
553 * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
556 Fix maintainer-check regression.
557 * tests/subobj11a.test: Pass DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS in the
560 Bump copyright years.
561 * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
562 * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
563 * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
565 2010-12-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
566 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
568 Work around a bug in file-inclusion mechanism of Solaris make.
569 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): In the name of the
570 dependency file: collapse multiple slash characters into a single
572 * tests/subobj11a.test: New test.
573 * tests/subobj11b.test: Likewise.
574 * tests/subobj11c.test: Likewise.
575 * tests/depcomp8a.test: Likewise.
576 * tests/depcomp8b.test: Likewise.
577 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
579 Report by Stefano Lattarini, quick fix by Ralf Wildenhues, final
580 patch and tests by Stefano Lattarini.
582 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
584 Fix two spurious testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5.
585 * tests/suffix13.test (Makefile.am): Account for VPATH issues on
586 weaker make implementations (e.g. IRIX 6.5).
587 * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise, plus a required related
589 Reported by Ralf Wildenhues. The bugs have been there from the
590 first versions of the affected test scripts.
592 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
594 docs: cygnus mode doesn't require AM_CYGWIN32 macro.
595 * doc/automake.texi (Cygnus): Mode 'cygnus' does not require
596 the AM_CYGWIN32 macro (and indeed hasn't required it since at
597 least commit Release-1-2-31-g3038064 "merged changes from
598 Cygnus" of 1997-08-25).
600 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
602 distlinksbrk.test: Work around botched "make -k".
603 * tests/distlinksbrk.test: Run "make" multiple times and grep
604 its output each time for a single error message, rather than
605 running "make -k" one single time and grepping its output for
606 all the expected error messages. This should work around make
607 implementations with limited (broken?) `-k' support; for more
608 information, see these subthreads on the automake-patches list:
609 - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on HP-UX 11.23",
610 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00162.html>
611 - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5",
612 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00166.html>
614 2010-12-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
616 Fix sed-related buglet in test "subdir5.test"
617 * tests/subdir5.test: Always terminate text passed to the
618 `i' sed command with a newline, to work around limitations
619 in e.g. older OpenBSD sed.
621 2010-12-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
623 docs: fix blunder in example about python extension modules
624 * doc/automake.texi (Python): Use `quaternion_la_SOURCES',
625 not `quaternion_SOURCES', to declare the sources of python
626 extension module `quaternion.la'.
628 2010-12-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
630 docs: list LTLIBRARIES among Automake primaries
631 * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): List `LTLIBRARIES' among
632 the Automake primaries.
634 2010-12-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
636 Improve tests on generated portions of configure help screen.
637 * tests/help-depend.test: Grepping of configure help screen
638 relaxed to cater for possible line wrapping, and tightened in
640 * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
641 * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
642 * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
643 * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
644 * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
645 * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
646 * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
647 * tests/help-init.test: Grepping of configure help screen
650 2010-12-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
652 Avoid running installed automake from 'libtool --help'.
653 * tests/subobj9.test: Export AUTOCONF and AUTOMAKE.
654 Together with fixed Libtool, this fixes check-coverage to not
655 invoke installed automake.
657 2010-11-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
659 Fix spurious failures in `silent*.test' for $CC != gcc
660 In some tests on automake-produced silent rules, we forced the
661 use of gcc depmode to improve testsuite coverage; but this has
662 unsurprisingly led to spurious failures when some non-GNU C
663 compilers were used. So we are now careful to require GCC in
664 tests that force gcc depmode.
665 From reports by Ralf Wildenhues.
666 * silent5.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
667 * silent-many-generic.test, silent-many-gcc.test: ... these new
668 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
670 * silentlex.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
671 * silent-lex-generic.test, silent-lex-gcc.test: ... these new
672 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
674 * silentyacc.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
675 * silent-yacc-generic.test, silent-yacc-gcc.test: ... these new
676 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
678 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
680 2010-11-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
682 Tests: consistently use "|| Exit 1" after ". ./defs".
683 * tests/autohdr.test: Use `. ./defs || Exit 1', not bare
684 `. ./defs', for consistency with other tests.
685 * tests/autohdr2.test: Likewise.
686 * tests/autohdr3.test: Likewise.
687 * tests/autohdr4.test: Likewise.
688 * tests/cond23.test: Likewise.
689 * tests/cond24.test: Likewise.
690 * tests/cond25.test: Likewise.
691 * tests/cond26.test: Likewise.
692 * tests/cond27.test: Likewise.
693 * tests/cond28.test: Likewise.
694 * tests/cond29.test: Likewise.
695 * tests/cond30.test: Likewise.
696 * tests/cond31.test: Likewise.
697 * tests/cond32.test: Likewise.
698 * tests/cond33.test: Likewise.
699 * tests/cond34.test: Likewise.
700 * tests/cond35.test: Likewise.
701 * tests/cond36.test: Likewise.
702 * tests/cond37.test: Likewise.
703 * tests/cond38.test: Likewise.
704 * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
705 * tests/cond40.test: Likewise.
706 * tests/cond41.test: Likewise.
707 * tests/cond42.test: Likewise.
708 * tests/cond43.test: Likewise.
709 * tests/cond44.test: Likewise.
710 * tests/cond45.test: Likewise.
711 * tests/dollarvar.test: Likewise.
712 * tests/dollarvar2.test: Likewise.
713 * tests/hfs.test: Likewise.
714 * tests/libobj14.test: Likewise.
715 * tests/percent.test: Likewise.
716 * tests/percent2.test: Likewise.
717 * tests/phony.test: Likewise.
718 * tests/silent.test: Likewise.
719 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
720 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
721 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
722 * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
723 * tests/silent6.test: Likewise.
724 * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
725 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
726 * tests/silentcxx.test: Likewise.
727 * tests/silentf77.test: Likewise.
728 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
729 * tests/silentlex.test: Likewise.
730 * tests/silentyacc.test: Likewise.
732 Avoid useless cleaning in some `silent*.test' tests.
733 * tests/silentf77.test: Removed useless calls to "make clean"
734 and "make maintainer-clean".
735 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
736 * tests/silent3.test: Removed useless call to "make distclean".
737 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
738 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
740 2010-11-19 Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
742 Sync config-ml.in from GCC.
743 * config-ml.in: Add Go support: treat GOC and GOCFLAGS like other
744 compiler/flag environment variables.
746 2010-11-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
748 Automake::Config: remove extra trailing semicolon.
749 * lib/Automake/Config.in: Remove extra trailing semicolon.
751 help4.test: fix botched heading comment.
752 * tests/help4.test: Fixed the heading comment, since it
753 didn't correctly describe what checks the testcase was
756 help2.test: add checks on aclocal too.
757 * tests/help2.test: Check that also `aclocal --version' and
758 `aclocal --help' work with configure.in and acinclude.m4 both
761 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
763 Fix spurious failures of silent-rules tests with Sun Fortran.
764 * tests/silentf77.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
765 messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers, to
766 avoid spurious failures. Add a trailing `:' command.
767 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
769 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
771 Fix spurious failures of silent5.test with Sun Fortran.
772 * tests/silent5.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
773 messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers,
774 to avoid spurious failures. This bug has been there from the
775 very first version of this test script.
777 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
779 Fix regression in colon{5,6}.test (failures on AIX 5.3).
780 * tests/colon5.test: Also substitute `@SHELL@' with `$SHELL' when
781 post-processing the generated Makefile.in, to work around a bug
782 of AIX 5.3 make which doesn't allow setting the `$(SHELL)' macro
783 on the commend line. Calls to `$MAKE' adjusted accordingly.
784 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
785 Regression introduced in commit v1.11-175-gf9fe878 "Modernize,
786 improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test", and reported by Ralf
789 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
791 Fix regression in ansi.test (failure on AIX 5.3).
792 * tests/ansi.test: Remove redundant hackish check done using a
793 hand-postprocessed Makefile.in. This check worked by setting
794 the `$(SHELL)' macro on the command line of make, but this is
795 not supported by the AIX 5.3 make implementation.
796 This bug has been lurking for a long time, and was activated by
797 commit v1.11-125-gc1f6cdb "Enable `errexit' shell flag in various
798 tests". Report by Ralf Wildenhues.
800 2010-11-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
802 tests: avoid '##'-style comments inside recipe commands.
803 * tests/confh.test, tests/confh8.test: Remove
804 double-hash comments from makefile rule commands, they
805 are not part of the Automake API.
807 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
809 tests: work around dash quoting issue in case statements.
810 * tests/color.test, tests/color2.test: Quote variable in case
811 pattern, to avoid skipping tests with dash 0.5.5.1.
813 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
815 Rebuild menus in the manual.
816 * doc/automake.texi: Rebuild menus (using ^C ^U ^A in emacs).
817 Thanks to Ian Lance Taylor for the suggestion.
819 Fix install-strip when $(STRIP) contains several words.
820 * lib/am/install.am (install-strip): Update comment. Use
821 separate sub-make invocations for empty and nonempty $(STRIP),
822 to fix quoting issues.
823 * tests/strip2.test, tests/strip3.test: New tests.
824 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Adjust.
826 2010-11-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
828 Fix yaccdry.test failure: require bison.
829 * tests/yaccdry.test: Require bison.
830 Found by NixOS Hydra.
832 2010-11-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
834 Fix a bug in variable concatenation with `+='.
835 * lib/Automake/VarDef.pm (append): Since the content of the
836 "appended-to" variable is going to be unconditionally normalized
837 later, simply separate the appended value with a single whitespace
838 character, instead of trying to be uselessly smarter by using
839 escaped newlines. This fixes a bug in which extra backslashes
840 where erroneously inserted in the variable's final value.
841 * tests/pluseq11.test: New test, exposing the bug.
842 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
843 Reported by Andy Wingo.
845 2010-11-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
847 Fix bug in rules for creating vala vapi/header files.
848 * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Add forgotten "fi" in an
849 if control structure in a generated make rules. Bug introduced
850 by previous commit `v1.11-221-gd7c1679', and revealed by failure
851 of test `vala2.test'.
853 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
855 Fix and document rules to not touch the tree with `make -n'.
856 * doc/automake.texi (Multiple Outputs): Document the problem of
857 modifications during dry-run execution, propose solution.
859 * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Split recipe so the
860 stamp file is not removed with GNU `make -n'.
861 (lang_yacc_target_hook): Separate removal of parser output file
863 * lib/am/lisp.am ($(am__ELCFILES)): Determine whether -n was
864 passed to make, take care not to remove any files in that case.
865 * lib/am/remake-hdr.am (%CONFIG_H%): Separate removal of
866 %STAMP% file from induced remaking of config header.
867 * tests/autohdrdry.test, tests/lispdry.test, tests/yaccdry.test:
869 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
871 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
873 Add FAQ entry for bug reporting instructions.
874 * doc/automake.texi (Reporting Bugs): New section.
875 (Introduction): Refer to it.
877 2010-10-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
879 Add support for newer python versions.
880 * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Add python2.7 and python3.2 to
881 _AM_PYTHON_INTERPRETER_LIST. Since we are at it, break a long
882 line and fix indentation.
884 From a report by Thomas Klausner.
886 Add test for `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' macro.
887 * tests/dmalloc.test: New test.
888 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
890 Fix nits and bugs in tests `help*.test'.
891 * tests/help4.test: Fix broken sed commands used to strip `-W...'
892 flags away from "$AUTOMAKE" and "$ACLOCAL".
893 * tests/help3.test: Likewise, and fix a botched comment.
894 * tests/help.test: Likewise. Also, use "AUTOMAKE_fails ..."
895 instead of "$AUTOMAKE ... && Exit 1", for consistency and to
896 please maintainer-check.
897 * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
899 2010-10-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
900 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
902 Improve tests `help*.test' (also fixes maintcheck failures).
903 * tests/help.test: To run automake, use `$AUTOMAKE' with all `-W'
904 flags stripped away rather than hard-coded `automake-$APIVERSION',
905 to better honour user-overrides. Similarly for aclocal.
906 * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
907 * tests/help3.test: Likewise.
908 * tests/help4.test: Likewise.
910 2010-10-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
912 Document and fix expansion of variables before rules.
913 * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Document that variables
914 are expanded before rules.
915 * lib/am/check.am (am__check_post): Reword a bit so it does not
916 get matched as a rule.
917 Suggestion by Ben Pfaff.
919 2010-10-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
921 Revert "parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue."
922 This reverts commit 24e3b4ee2f8cb9f72dd94a05a893f3d4e88b7835,
923 because it re-opened the bug fixed by v1.11-10-g218e678.
925 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
927 parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
928 * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
929 substitution %MAKEFILE%.
930 (generate_makefile): Adjust.
931 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
932 sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
933 input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
936 Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
938 2010-09-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
940 Extend tests on `--help' and `--version' options.
941 * tests/help.test: Create a new empty directory and chdir into
942 it, rather than removing already present files. Run the aclocal
943 and automake wrapper scripts directly, instead of relying on
944 $AUTOMAKE and $ACLOCAL. Be sure to correctly match literal dots
945 in aclocal's and automake's stderr. Add a trailing `:' command.
946 * tests/help2.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
947 `--version' works in directories with broken `configure.in'.
948 * tests/help3.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
949 `--version' take precedence on the other options.
950 * tests/help4.test: New test, checking that the first among the
951 `--help' and `--version' options to be specified on the command
953 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
955 2010-09-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
957 Testsuite: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when extending PATH.
958 * tests/compile2.test: Do no uselessly (implicitly) repeat the
959 computation of PATH_SEPARATOR again.
960 * tests/instmany-mans.test: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when
961 extending/redefining PATH.
962 * tests/instmany-python.test: Likewise.
963 * tests/instmany.test: Likewise.
964 * tests/man4.test: Likewise.
965 * tests/mkinst3.test: Likewise.
966 * tests/mmodely.test: Likewise.
967 * tests/multlib.test: Likewise.
968 * tests/txinfo30.test: Likewise.
969 * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
971 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_PATH_SEPARATOR): New maintainer check.
972 (syntax_check_rules): Updated.
974 Testsuite: new variables `$PATH_SEPARATOR' and `$APIVERSION'.
975 * tests/defs.in ($APIVERSION): New AC_SUBST'd variable.
976 ($ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE): Use it.
977 ($PATH_SEPARATOR): New AC_SUBST'd variables.
980 2010-09-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
982 Manual: be more agnostic w.r.t. version control system used.
983 * doc/automake.texi (Basics of Distribution): Also refer to `.svn'
984 directories as a type of probably-unwanted files that are copied
985 regardless when adding directories to EXTRA_DIST.
986 (The dist Hook): Show a dist-hook example which removes Subversion
987 `.svn' private directories from distdir, rather than CVS private
989 (missing and AM_MAINTAINER_MODE): Try to be more agnostic w.r.t.
990 the version control system used.
992 Manual: index refer to target "git-dist", not "cvs-dist".
993 * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Index the non-standard
994 example about "git-dist" under the "git-dist" label, not under
997 Perl modules: remove references to "Automake CVS repository".
998 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Update comments to refer to "Automke's
999 git repository" rather than to "Automake's CVS repository".
1000 * lib/Automake/Configure_ac.pm: Likewise.
1001 * lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm: Likewise.
1002 * lib/Automake/Struct.pm: Likewise.
1003 * lib/Automake/XFile.pm: Likewise.
1004 * lib/Automake/Version.pm (=head1 DESCRIPTION): Refer to "git
1005 branches" rather than "CVS branches".
1007 Remove obsolete .cvsignore files.
1008 * .cvsignore, doc/.cvsignore, lib/.cvsignore, lib/am/.cvsignore,
1009 lib/Automake/.cvsignore, lib/Automake/tests/.cvsignore,
1010 m4/.cvsignore, tests/.cvsignore: Files deleted. Even when using
1011 savannah's CVS readonly mirror there's no way to commit back to
1012 the real repository, so this files are not worth maintaining or
1015 2010-09-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1017 * m4/dmalloc.m4: Bump serial number and copyright years.
1019 2010-09-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1021 Fix broken link in `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' help screen.
1022 * m4/dmalloc.m4 (AM_WITH_DMALLOC): Refer only to the dmalloc site
1023 `http://www.dmalloc.com', not to the dmalloc tarball there (which
1024 seems to have been removed, substituted by multiple release
1027 2010-09-17 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
1029 Avoid triple-space after period.
1030 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): Avoid 3 spaces at
1032 * ChangeLog.03: Likewise.
1033 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Likewise.
1034 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (_print_message): Likewise.
1035 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm (rule): Likewise.
1036 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (var): Likewise.
1037 * lib/am/distdir.am: Likewise.
1038 * tests/insthook.test: Likewise.
1040 2010-09-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1042 Test automake-generated portions of configure help screen.
1043 * tests/help-depend.test: New test.
1044 * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
1045 * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
1046 * tests/help-init.test: Likewise.
1047 * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
1048 * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
1049 * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
1050 * tests/help-regex.test: Likewise.
1051 * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
1052 * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
1053 * tests/mmode.test: Remove tests on `configure --help' output,
1054 they are superseded by tests in `help-maintainer.test'.
1055 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1057 2010-09-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1059 * tests/README: Don't put GCS mandated tools in $required.
1061 2010-09-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1063 * HACKING: Hint at old commits with `git describe' output.
1065 2010-09-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1067 Fix regression in test `colon4.test'.
1068 * tests/colon4.test: Fix botched editing to `configure.in'
1069 that made the test useless. Since we are at it, improve
1070 comments and make grepping of generated Makefile.in slightly
1072 Regression introduced by change "Modernize, improve and/or
1073 extend tests `colon*.test" (Stefano Lattarini, 2010-08-08).
1075 2010-09-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1077 Do not require "gzip" explicitly in tests.
1078 The gzip utility is simply expected to be present on any decent
1079 target system for Automake. So it's pointless to put it in
1081 * tests/install2.test ($required): Do not require "gzip".
1082 * tests/lex3.test: Likewise.
1083 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
1084 From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
1086 Make some `confh*.test' tests more "semantic" (plus tweakings).
1087 * tests/confh.test: Run "autoconf", "configure" and "make check",
1088 instead of munging/grepping the generated `Makefile.in'.
1089 * tests/confh4.test: Relax the grepping of Makefile.in w.r.t.
1090 white spaces. Do not create useless dummy source file `foo.c'
1091 and useless dummy header file `acconfig.h'.
1092 (configure.in): Remove superfluous call to `AC_OUTPUT'.
1093 * tests/confh6.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1094 * tests/confh7.test: In comments, add reference to ...
1095 * tests/confh8.test: ... this new test, "semantic" sister
1097 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1098 Prompted by a report from Ralf Wildenhues.
1100 Remove useless whitespace padding in XFAIL_TESTS definition.
1101 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Remove whitespace padding.
1103 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1105 parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
1106 * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
1107 substitution %MAKEFILE%.
1108 (generate_makefile): Adjust.
1109 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
1110 sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
1111 input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
1114 Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
1116 Posix 2008 requires make to set errexit.
1117 * lib/am/check.am: Update comment.
1119 2010-08-27 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1121 Fix bug in test missing6.test.
1122 * tests/missing6.test: Fix the hack used to edit `configure.in',
1123 to avoid producing a configure script that breaks with shells
1124 that do not support $LINENO. Also throw in a couple of cosmetic
1127 2010-08-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1129 Improve robustness of mdate-sh script.
1130 * lib/mdate-sh: Sanitize zsh behavior on startup, to ensure
1131 $ls_command is word-split properly upon invocation.
1132 (error): New function.
1133 (main): Use it. Improve error checking to avoid endless loop
1134 in case $ls_command gave bogus output. Fix eval quotation.
1135 * tests/mdate6.test: New test, to expose eval quotation error.
1136 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
1138 2010-08-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1140 Fix potential regressions in depcomp{3,5}.test.
1141 * tests/depcomp3.test: Do not uselessly escape the character `$'
1142 in makefile rules, when it's used to expand a make macro.
1143 * tests/depcomp5.test: Likewise.
1145 2010-08-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1146 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1148 Docs: clarify how to avoid automatic dependencies tracking.
1149 * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Mention that
1150 automatic dependencies tracking is enabled by default, but that
1151 the package developer can disable it altogether. Add a reference
1152 to the proper section for a more in-depth explanation.
1154 Fix typo in manual (`Makefile.in' instead of `Makefile.am').
1155 * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Fix typo.
1157 2010-08-16 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
1159 Don't hide the table of contents.
1160 * doc/automake.texi: Move the table of contents to the beginning.
1162 2010-08-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1164 Tweak and/or extend some `acloca*.test' tests.
1165 * tests/aclocal8.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured
1167 * tests/aclocal.test: Likewise. Also, add trailing `:'
1169 * tests/acloca19.test: Likewise.
1170 * tests/aclocal5.test: Add trailing `:' command, and prefer
1171 `$me' over hard-coded test name.
1172 * tests/aclocal6.test: Likewise.
1173 * tests/aclocal18.test: Add trailing `:' command, and make
1174 some grepping slightly stricter.
1175 * tests/acloca14.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `diff' over
1176 `cmp', and add some "cosmetic" blank lines.
1178 2010-08-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1180 Tweak and extend tests `pr[!0-9]*.test'.
1181 * tests/primary3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1182 * tests/primary.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
1183 Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
1184 * tests/primary2.test: Likewise.
1185 * tests/prefix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
1186 changes. Add a trailing `:' command.
1187 * tests/proginst.test: Likewise.
1189 Modernize, improve and extend tests for PR (`pr[0-9]*.test').
1190 * tests/pr2.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1191 * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
1192 * tests/pr401.test: Likewise.
1193 * tests/pr401b.test: Likewise.
1194 * tests/pr401c.test: Likewise.
1195 * tests/pr300-prog.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic changes in
1197 * tests/pr300-lib.test: Likewise.
1198 * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise, and ensure verbose printing
1199 of captured make stdout.
1200 * tests/pr211.test: Add trailing `:' command. Also, use the
1201 `configure.in' stub created by ./defs, rather than writing it
1203 * tests/pr204.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic spacing changes.
1204 * tests/pr287.test: Likewise, and move setting of `errexit' shell
1205 flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs).
1206 * tests/pr220.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
1207 Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
1208 * tests/pr224.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1209 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Do not export
1210 `CC=gcc' to configure explicitly (it's already exported globally
1211 in ./defs, since we have "gcc" in $required). Use the stub for
1212 `configure.in' created by ./defs, rather than writing it from
1213 scratch. Do not create dummy files required by "gnu" mode (e.g.
1214 README, NEWS), since we run automake in foreign mode anyway.
1215 * tests/pr72.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
1216 changes. Extend existing checks a bit.
1217 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise. Also, avoid obsolescent constructs in
1218 the generated `configure.in', and extend existing checks over the
1219 generated tarball a bit.
1220 * tests/pr87.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
1221 changes. Add a trailing `:' command. Also, do not create dummy
1222 files required by "gnu" mode (e.g. README, NEWS), since we run
1223 automake in foreign mode anyway.
1224 * tests/pr243.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
1225 `configure.in'. Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
1226 changes. Cosmetic changes to spacing, add trailing `:' command,
1227 and add a "FIXME" comment.
1228 * tests/pr266.test: Likewise, and add explicit command line switch
1229 `--enable-dependecy-tracking' to the ./configure call.
1230 * tests/pr279.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
1231 `configure.in'; also, use the `configure.in' stub created by
1232 ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch. Enable `errexit'
1233 shell flag, and related changes. Add trailing `:' command.
1234 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
1236 * tests/pr307.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1237 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Escape literal
1238 dots in grep regular expressions. Also, add a trailing `:'
1239 command, and cosmetic changes to spacing.
1241 Tests for PR: add excerpts from original bug report, for clarity.
1242 * tests/pr2.test: Ditto.
1243 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
1244 * tests/pr72.test: Likewise.
1245 * tests/pr87.test: Likewise.
1246 * tests/pr211.test: Likewise.
1247 * tests/pr220.test: Likewise.
1248 * tests/pr224.test: Likewise.
1249 * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
1250 * tests/pr243.test: Likewise.
1251 * tests/pr266.test: Likewise.
1252 * tests/pr279.test: Likewise, and tell to keep it in sync
1253 with its sister test.
1254 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
1256 2010-08-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1258 Tweak, extend and improve tests `cond[a-z]*.test'.
1259 * tests/condd.test: Add trailing `:' command. Typofix in
1261 * tests/condhook.test: Make sure target `install-data-hook' is
1262 not called by `make install', but that data files are installed.
1263 Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in. Add trailing `:' command.
1264 * tests/condhook2.test: New test, sister test of condhook, with
1266 * tests/condinc2.test: Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
1267 Prefer trailing `:' command over trailing `Exit 0'.
1268 * tests/condman2.test: Enable errexit shell flag, and related
1269 changes. Add trailing `:' command.
1270 * tests/condman.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless
1271 dummy manpages, and use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
1272 * tests/condman3.test: New test, similar to condman.test, but
1273 it also runs ./configure and "make install", and check the
1275 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1277 Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test.
1278 * tests/colon.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
1279 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Do not create
1280 a useless dummy file. Add trailing `:' command.
1281 * tests/colon4.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
1282 related changes. Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
1283 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1284 * tests/colon7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1285 changes. Improve the generated `configure.in' file. Add
1286 trailing `:' command.
1287 * tests/colon2.test: Likewise. Also, add some new checks.
1288 * tests/colon5.test: Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
1289 Add new, much deeper checks. Add trailing `:' command.
1290 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
1291 * tests/colon3.test: Add trailing `:' command. Remove useless
1292 comments and echos. Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
1293 make some grepping tests stricter. Add a "FIXME" comments about
1294 planned improvements.
1296 Improve and extend tests `asm*.test'.
1297 * tests/asm.test: Use configure.in stub generated by ./defs,
1298 and avoid obsoleted autoconf constructs. Make grepping of
1299 Automake stderr stricter. Do not create useless source file.
1300 Improve verbose messages. Minor cosmetic changes. Tell to
1301 keep it in sync with other sister tests asm*.test.
1302 * tests/asm2.test: Likewise.
1303 * tests/asm3.test: Likewise.
1305 Modernize, improve and/or extend test scripts `conf*.test'.
1306 * tests/confh5.test: Cosmetic changes.
1307 * tests/conff.test: Likewise.
1308 * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise.
1309 * tests/conflnk.test: Likewise.
1310 * tests/conflnk2.test: Likewise.
1311 * tests/confsub.test: Likewise.
1312 * tests/confvar.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
1314 * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
1315 * tests/conflnk3.test: Cosmetic changes. Re-enable a temporarily
1316 disabled test (which didn't work with autoconf <= 2.59, but now we
1317 are requiring autoconf 2.62, so...)
1318 * tests/conflnk4.test: Cosmetic changes, and extend existing tests
1319 accordingly to "TODO" comments.
1320 * tests/conff2.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
1321 Add some comments explaining why we don't use the `configure.in'
1322 stub preset be ./defs.
1323 * tests/confh.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
1324 rather than writing one from scratch, and do not call AC_OUTPUT.
1325 Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related changes. Prefer diff over
1326 cmp to compare text files. Prefer perl over sed to fetch the value
1327 of $(DIST_COMMON) from Makefile.in. Make grepping of the contents
1328 of $(DIST_COMMON) stricter.
1329 * tests/confh4.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
1330 rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping of Makefile.in
1332 * tests/confh5.test: Make grepping of `config.h' stricter. Add a
1334 * tests/configure.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in generated
1335 `configure.ac'. Do not write `configure.in' two times. Escape
1336 literal dots in grep regular expressions.
1337 * tests/confincl.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1338 changes. Prefer fgrep over grep. Other cosmetic changes.
1339 * tests/config.test: Renamed to ...
1340 * tests/confh6.test: ... this. Fix m4 quoting in `configure.in',
1341 and make grepping of `config.h' and `config.h.in' stricter.
1342 * tests/conf2.test: Renamed ...
1343 * tests/confh7.test: ... to this. Use the `configure.in' stub
1344 created by ./defs, rather than writing one from scratch. Try to
1345 run the checks both with and without AC_PROG_CC and AC_OUTPUT in
1347 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1349 Minor improvements and fixes in tests `depcomp*.test'.
1350 * tests/depcomp.test: Do not create useless dummy source files.
1351 Add a trailing `:' command.
1352 * tests/depcomp2.test: Use `unset' on the CFLAG variable to ensure
1353 it's not in in the environment, rather than exporting it with an
1354 empty value. Do not pass CC=gcc to configure, as that's already
1355 done in ./defs since we have gcc in $required. Ensure verbose
1356 printing of captured stderr, and normalize its checking. Add a
1357 trailing `:' command.
1358 * tests/depcomp3.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
1359 grep regexps. Always use `: >' rather than `touch' to create empty
1360 files. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the created
1361 Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:' command.
1362 * tests/depcomp4.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
1363 grep regexp. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the
1364 created Makefile.am. Ensure verbose printing of captured makes'
1365 stoud/stderr. Add a trailing `:' command.
1366 * tests/depcomp5.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1367 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Quote literal dots
1368 and dollar characters in grep regexps. Explicitly declare phony
1369 targets as such in the created Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:'
1371 * tests/depcomp6.test: Consistently use m4 quoting in the generated
1372 configure.in. Cosmetic fixes to spacing. Make the "dummy" `if'
1373 statement required by OpenBSD's sh `set -e' more robust, and add
1374 explanatory comments to it.
1375 * tests/depcomp7.test: Likewise, and add a trailing `:' command.
1377 Separate failing part of test `all.test'.
1378 * tests/all.test: Keep only (x)failing part of the test. Working
1379 checks moved out to ...
1380 * tests/all2.test: ... this new test.
1381 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1383 Modernize, improve and extend tests `subobj*.test'.
1384 * tests/subobjname.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1385 * tests/subobj.test: Make grepping of `Makefile.in' stricter.
1386 Escape literal dots in grep regexps.
1387 * tests/subobj2.test: Add trailing `:' command. Do not use the
1388 unportable fgrep option `-e'.
1389 * tests/subobj3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1390 (configure.in): Use proper m4 quoting, and avoid obsolescent
1392 * tests/subobj8.test: Likewise. Also, enable `errexit' shell
1393 flag, with related changes
1394 * tests/subobj4.test: Likewise. Also, make grepping of
1395 `Makefile.in' stricter.
1396 * tests/subobj5.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of
1397 `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
1399 (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
1400 writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
1401 * tests/subobj6.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of
1402 `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
1403 of ./defs). Do not create useless dummy ac-init file `f'.
1404 * tests/subobj7.test: Do not create useless dummy ac-init file
1406 (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
1407 writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
1408 * tests/subobj9.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1409 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Fail the test if
1410 `make distcheck' fails. Ensure verbose printing of captured make
1411 stdout. Avoid useless fork by doing simple grep instead of using
1412 test -n "`COMMAND | grep ...`".
1413 (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
1414 (Makefile.am): Explicitly mark target "print" as phony.
1415 * tests/subobj10.test: Removed duplicated call to `set -e'. Add
1416 trailing `:' command.
1417 (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
1419 Remove a couple of obsoleted tests.
1420 * tests/fpinstall.test: Removed.
1421 * tests/fpinst2.test: Likewise.
1422 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1424 Bootstrap: updated HACKING entry.
1425 * HACKING ("Working with git"): Explain how to override the
1426 autoconf and autom4te programs used by the bootstrap process.
1429 * bootstrap: Do not remove `lib/Automake/Config.pm' anymore,
1430 since we don't generate it. Correctly quote arguments of
1431 `eval' builtin. Fixed a botched error message. Removed an
1434 Bootstrap: don't search perl in $PATH.
1435 * bootstrap: Do not explicitly search perl in $PATH anymore.
1436 ($PATH_SEPARATOR): Removed, it's no more needed.
1438 Bootstrap: let the user choose which autoconf to use.
1439 * bootstrap ($AUTOCONF): New variable, from the environment.
1440 ($AUTOM4TE): Likewise, for clarity.
1441 Use "$AUTOCONF" instead of calling "autoconf" directly.
1443 Minor improvements to tests ar*.test.
1444 * tests/ar.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1445 * tests/ar2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
1446 Makefile.in stricter.
1448 2010-08-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1450 Fix maintainer-check failure.
1451 * tests/cond5.test: Quote sleep argument, this isn't about
1452 time stamp differences.
1454 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
1455 * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
1458 2010-08-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1460 Work around a nasty bug (segfault) of Solaris make.
1461 * lib/am/check.am (recheck, recheck-html): Trim trailing spaces
1462 from $list, to avoid triggering a nasty bug (potential segfault)
1465 2010-08-06 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
1467 Make cond5.test more robust on MSYS.
1468 * tests/cond5.test: Add delay before the first kill attempt to
1469 cater for problems with MSYS bash.
1471 2010-07-31 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1473 Add example git work flow; discuss merge --log in HACKING.
1475 Suggestion by Stefano Lattarini.
1477 Add more hints for debugging make rules.
1478 * doc/automake.texi (Debugging Make Rules): Show command to find
1479 out expanded values of variables; point to makefile debugger.
1481 Prompted by suggestion from Ludovic Courtès and Andy Wingo.
1483 2010-07-27 Patrick Welche <prlw1@cam.ac.uk> (tiny change)
1485 Fix typo in the manual.
1486 * doc/automake.texi (Scripts): Fix typo.
1488 2010-07-27 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1490 Document current policy for development with git.
1491 * HACKING (Working with git): Overhaul.
1492 Prompted by suggestion from Stefano Lattarini.
1494 Fix AM_COND_IF for gone-invalid condition shell expression.
1495 * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): test contents of $COND_TRUE
1496 variable, rather than re-evaluating the shell expression for
1498 * tests/cond40.test: Extend test.
1501 Avoid syntax error if IF-TRUE part of AM_COND_IF expands empty.
1502 * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): Ensure IF-TRUE part is never empty
1503 to avoid shell syntax error if the m4 expansion is empty.
1504 * tests/cond40.test: Enhance test.
1506 Coverage: bogus option to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
1507 * tests/init2.test: New test.
1508 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
1510 2010-07-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1512 Modernize and improve test scripts `subdir*.test'.
1513 * tests/subdir.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1514 changes. Use the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs',
1515 rather than writing one from scratch.
1516 * tests/subdir2.test: Likewise.
1517 * tests/subdir4.test: Likewise.
1518 * tests/subdir3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1519 changes. Do not create useless dummy source files.
1520 * tests/subdir5.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in (in topdir
1521 and in subdirs) stricter. Some minor changes to keep it more
1522 in sync with the related test `subdir8.test'.
1523 * tests/subdir8.test: Likewise (but with the related test being
1524 `subdir5.test' here).
1525 * tests/subdir6.test: Cosmetic change in spacing.
1526 * tests/subdir9.test: Define and use new variable `$distdir'. Add
1527 trailing `:' command.
1528 * tests/subdir10.test: Cosmetic consistency-related change.
1529 * tests/subdirbuiltsources.test: Cosmetic changes in spacings.
1530 (configure.in): Use stub created by `./defs', rather than writing
1531 it from scratch. Do not use obsoleted and/or deprecated forms of
1532 autoconf/automake macros.
1534 Modernize and improve test scripts `dist*.test'.
1535 * tests/distcleancheck.test: Do not add useless `-e' option to
1536 a $MAKE call. Extend test by grepping stderr of make.
1537 * tests/distcom2.test: Do not run the same test script on the
1538 Makefile.in twice, but save its output in an intermediate file
1539 instead. Make grepping of DIST_COMMON definition stricter.
1540 Display the content of more files, to ease debugging. Add a
1541 trailing `:' command. Improved heading comments w.r.t. sister
1543 * tests/distcom6.test: Likewise, and avoid to uselessly run
1545 * tests/distcom3.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured stdout
1546 and stderr. Make grepping of captured stderr stricter. Also,
1547 add trailing `:' command.
1548 * tests/distcom4.test: Declare the target `test' in the generated
1549 Makefile.am as `.PHONY'. Display content of more files, to ease
1550 debugging. Add trailing `:' command.
1551 * tests/distcom5.test: Likewise. Also, factor out common sed
1552 script in subroutine `extract_distcommon'.
1553 * tests/distcom7.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to write
1554 test Makefile.am files. Add a trailing `:' command.
1555 * tests/distname.test: Prefer `gzip -d' over `gunzip'. Move the
1556 call to `set -e' earlier. Be stricter and more verbose in the
1557 checking of the generated tarball.
1558 (configure.in): Use the stub provided by ./defs, instead of
1559 writing it from scratch. Avoid obsoleted constructs. Remove
1560 useless call to `AM_PROG_CC_C_O'.
1561 * tests/distdir.test: Various minor improvements/normalizations.
1562 * tests/distlinks.test: Likewise.
1564 2010-07-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1566 Improve and extend test cond5.test.
1567 * tests/cond5.test: Do not blindly sleep 60 seconds before polling
1568 the background automake process, but poll it every 10 seconds for
1569 at most 30 times (this makes the test both faster on good machines,
1570 and more resilient to spurious timeout-due failures when in low
1571 priority or on heavily-loaded systems).
1572 Check also that automake writes the expected error messages on the
1574 Enable `errexit' flag, and related changes.
1575 Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs', rather than
1576 writing one from scratch.
1578 2010-06-26 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1580 Update program --help output to match current GCS.
1581 * configure.ac: Set and substitute PACKAGE_URL if AC_PACKAGE_URL
1582 is not defined, for compatibility to Autoconf < 2.64.
1583 * Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute PACKAGE_BUGREPORT and
1585 (sc_diff_automake_in_automake): Update number of diff lines for
1586 additional substitutions.
1587 * aclocal.in (usage): Use PACKAGE_BUGREPORT. Point to Automake
1588 home page and GNU general help page.
1589 * automake.in (usage): Likewise.
1590 * doc/automake.texi: New flag PACKAGE_BUGREPORT, to factor email
1592 (Introduction, Creating amhello, amhello Explained, Options):
1594 * lib/Automake/Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute
1596 * lib/Automake/Config.in ($PACKAGE_BUGREPORT): New global.
1597 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Use it for footer of fatal
1600 Clean up @var handling in the manual.
1601 * doc/automake.texi: Throughout the manual, lower-case @var
1602 names, replace a few one-character names.
1604 2010-06-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1606 Fix typo-related bug in test script silent5.test.
1607 * tests/silent5.test: Use $EGREP, not $GREP (which is not even
1610 Tests: remove useless repetitions of `foreign' automake option.
1611 * tests/multlib.test (configure.in): Remove useless use of
1612 `foreign' option in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (the `--foreign' option is
1613 already in $AUTOMAKE by default, so no point in repeating it).
1614 * tests/subobj10.test: Likewise.
1615 * tests/subobj9.test: Likewise.
1616 * tests/lex3.test (Makefile.am): Similarly, remove useless use
1617 of `foreign' option in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
1618 * tests/lex5.test: Likewise.
1619 * tests/pr279.test: Likewise.
1620 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
1621 * tests/specflg3.test: Likewise.
1622 * tests/target-cflags.test: Likewise.
1624 Drop useless requirement "gzip" in lex5.test.
1625 * tests/lex5.test ($required): Do not list "gzip", as it's
1628 2010-06-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1630 Fix bugs in test script silent5.test.
1631 * tests/silent5.test: Fixed a nasty bug (due to the use of grep
1632 instead of egrep) that could have led to false negatives.
1634 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1636 Add a test checking that distributed broken symlinks cause
1637 `make dist' to fail.
1638 * tests/distlinksbrk.test: New test.
1639 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1641 2010-06-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1643 Fix minor testsuite issues, update docs, for Yacc/Lex changes.
1644 * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Mention AM_YFLAGS, YFLAGS
1645 and AM_LFLAGS, LFLAGS in the order in which they now appear in
1648 * tests/lflags.test, tests/lflags2.test, tests/yflags.test,
1649 tests/yflags2.test: Prefer `make -e' over `make VAR=VAL', to
1650 please maintainer-check. Ensure generated C files contain a
1651 declaration, to please compilers.
1653 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1655 Fix bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t. $(AM_FLAGS) and
1656 $(FLAGS) precedence.
1657 * automake.in: Fix registration of languages "Lex", "Lex (C++)",
1658 "Yacc" and "Yacc (C++)", so that $(LFLAGS) has precedence over
1659 $(AM_LFLAGS) and $(YFLAGS) has precedence over $(AM_YFLAGS).
1660 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1663 New tests, exposing bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t.
1664 $(AM_FLAGS) and $(FLAGS) precedence.
1665 * tests/lflags.test: New test, check that user $(LFLAGS) takes
1666 precedence over automake (AM_LFLAGS) and (foo_LFLAGS). Still
1668 * tests/lflags2.test: Likewise.
1669 * tests/yflags.test: New test, check that user $(YFLAGS) takes
1670 precedence over automake (AM_YFLAGS) and (foo_YFLAGS). Still
1672 * tests/yflags2.test: Likewise.
1673 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Extended accordingly.
1675 2010-06-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1677 Modernize, improve and extend tests `suffix*.test'.
1678 * tests/suffix3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1680 * tests/suffix4.test: Likewise.
1681 * tests/suffix6.test: Likewise, and do not create a useless dummy
1683 * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
1684 * tests/suffix5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1685 changes. Make grepping of Makefile.in slightly stricter.
1686 * tests/suffix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1687 changes. Also, do not redirect grep output to /dev/null, as this
1688 might unmotivatedly hide useful information.
1689 * tests/suffix2.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1690 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Use a more
1691 idiomatic way to count text occurrences in Makefile.in with
1692 grep. Do not create useless dummy source files.
1693 * tests/suffix10.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured make
1694 stdout. Minor cosmetic changes.
1695 * tests/suffix8.test: Likewise. Also, drop useless call to the
1696 env(1) utility, and make grepping of make output stricter by using
1697 $FGREP rather than plain grep.
1698 * tests/suffix11.test: Likewise.
1699 * tests/suffix12.test: Likewise.
1700 * tests/suffix9.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to append to
1701 the `configure.in' stub. Cosmetic changes.
1702 * tests/suffix13.test: Cosmetic spacing change.
1704 2010-06-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1706 Add useful comment in test script ext.test.
1707 * tests/ext.test: Add a comment explaining why an apparently
1708 useless `if' statement is indeed required.
1710 Add useful comment in test script obsolete.test.
1711 * tests/obsolete.test: Add a comment explaining why we need
1712 an indirection in adding $AUTOUPDATE to $required.
1714 Normalize whitespaces in 'tests/Makefile.am'.
1715 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Use only spaces, not tabs, in the
1716 definition of this variable.
1718 2010-06-12 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1720 Remove a couple of unneeded conditionals from tests.
1721 * tests/pr243.test, tests/pr266.test, tests/strip.test: No need
1722 for the FOOTEST conditional.
1724 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1726 Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
1727 * tests/symlink3.test: Deleted, separated into two new, more
1729 * tests/forcemiss.test: ... this one ...
1730 * tests/forcemiss2.test: ... and this one.
1731 * tests/symlink2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, make test
1732 stricter, and skip it if symlink creation is not supported.
1733 * tests/postproc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, related
1734 changes, and a couple of unrelated cosmetic changes.
1735 * tests/recurs.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
1736 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping
1737 of Automake stderr slightly stricter.
1738 * tests/substtarg.test: Likewise.
1739 * tests/strip.test: Likewise, and move the call to `set -e'
1740 earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs'). Also, make sure
1741 that the script installed by `make install-script' is equal to
1743 * tests/substref.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
1744 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Move the call
1745 to `set -e' earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs').
1746 Avoid to explicitly export CC for configure (that's already done
1747 in ./defs). Avoid potential problems with unpredictable make
1748 output. Finally, make grepping of Makefile.in stricter.
1749 * tests/substre2.test: Ensure verbose printing of the captured
1750 make's output, and make its grepping slightly stricter.
1751 * tests/cygwin32.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1752 changes. Also, do not create useless dummy source/data files.
1753 * tests/scripts.test: Likewise.
1754 * tests/recurs2.test: Likewise. Also, use the `configure.in'
1755 stub created by `./defs'.
1756 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1758 Modernize, improve and/or fix tests `pluseq*.test.
1759 * tests/pluseq5.test: Append to configure.in using cat with an
1760 here-doc, not using echo.
1761 * tests/pluseq10.test: Make sure that the captured output of
1762 `make' command is always displayed. Where possible, use $FGREP
1763 instead of grep (this change makes some checks slightly stricter).
1764 * tests/pluseq8.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
1766 * tests/pluseq.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless dummy
1767 data files, and use better m4 quoting in generated configure.in.
1768 * tests/pluseq2.test: Likewise. Also, append to configure.in
1769 using cat with an here-doc, not using echo.
1770 * tests/pluseq3.test: Likewise.
1771 * tests/pluseq4.test: Likewise.
1772 * tests/pluseq6.test: Likewise.
1773 * tests/pluseq7.test: Do not create useless dummy source file.
1774 * tests/pluseq9.test: Slightly extended w.r.t. the grepping of
1775 Automake stderr. Some unrelated cosmetic changes.
1777 Testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured stderr.
1778 * tests/acloca18.test: Print captured stderr before either failing
1779 or grepping it. Be sure to send captured stderr to stderr, not to
1781 * tests/ansi3b.test: Likewise.
1782 * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
1783 * tests/configure.test: Likewise.
1784 * tests/missing3.test: Likewise.
1785 * tests/missing6.test: Likewise.
1786 * tests/output-order.test: Likewise.
1787 * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise.
1788 * tests/python6.test: Likewise.
1789 * tests/python7.test: Likewise.
1790 * tests/python8.test: Likewise.
1791 * tests/python9.test: Likewise.
1792 * tests/subobj.test: Likewise.
1793 * tests/vars3.test: Likewise.
1794 * tests/missing4.test: Likewise, and fix a call to grep not to use
1796 * tests/ansi3.test: Likewise, and rely on the `configure.in' stub
1797 created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1799 Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
1800 * tests/backsl.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
1802 * tests/backsl2.test: Likewise.
1803 * tests/block.test: Likewise.
1804 * tests/canon2.test: Likewise.
1805 * tests/canon4.test: Likewise.
1806 * tests/comment2.test: Likewise.
1807 * tests/condlib.test: Likewise.
1808 * tests/cond15.test: Likewise, and prefer $FGREP over grep.
1809 * tests/canon3.test: Likewise. Also, avoid to create an useless
1811 * tests/acoutpt2.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and some
1812 related changes. Do some cosmetic improvements in the generated
1813 `configure.in' file.
1814 * tests/cond4.test: Likewise.
1815 * tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
1816 * tests/condinc.test: Likewise.
1817 * tests/cond7.test: Likewise. Also, remove useless setting of
1818 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am.
1819 * tests/ansi.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
1820 changes. Extended, esp. by running autoconf, ./configure and
1821 make, and by looking into the distdir.
1823 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1824 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1826 Extend tests/README w.r.t. trailing `:' in test scripts.
1827 * tests/README (section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
1828 Explain why apparently redundant trailing `:' and `Exit 0' in
1829 test scripts can indeed be useful.
1831 2010-06-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1833 Improve determination of PATH separator in bootstrap script.
1834 * bootstrap: Determine what the PATH separator is the same way
1837 Minor improvements in bootstrap script.
1838 * bootstrap: Consistently use two-spaces indentation. Cosmetic
1839 improvement to comments.
1840 ($me): New variable, containing program basename.
1841 Prepend it to all error messages.
1843 Testsuite now works with BSD make in parallel mode.
1844 * tests/defs.in: Unset variables __MKLVL__ and MAKE_JOBS_FIFO,
1845 which are exported by BSD make when run in parallel mode, and
1846 which can confuse make processes spawned by our testsuite.
1847 This change fixes a lot of spurious failure when the testsuite
1848 is run with BSD make in parallel mode.
1850 2010-06-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1852 Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
1853 * tests/sanity.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
1854 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1855 * tests/depend2.test: Likewise. Also, call `set -e' just after
1856 the inclusion of `./defs', instead that later in the script.
1857 * tests/canon5.test: Avoid a useless `|| Exit 1' after a call to
1858 $AUTOMAKE, and improve the positioning of an $ACLOCAL call.
1859 * tests/exeext4.test: Use $FGREP instead of grep, where possible.
1860 Make auxiliary rules in the generated Makefile more silent.
1861 These changes make some checks slightly stricter.
1862 * tests/ext2.test: Call `Exit 1' if inclusion of `./defs' fails.
1863 * tests/gettext2.test: Place final `:' at the end of the script,
1864 rather than in the middle.
1865 * tests/exeext.test: Call `set -e' just after the inclusion of
1866 `./defs', instead that later in the script.
1867 * tests/extra5.test: Likewise.
1868 * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `mv -f' over
1869 plain `mv', just to be sure.
1870 * tests/depcomp.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
1871 changes. Also, modernize the generated configure.in.
1872 * tests/cond9.test: Likewise. Also, rely on the `configure.in'
1873 stub created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1874 * tests/cond10.test: Likewise.
1875 * tests/depcomp2.test: Likewise.
1876 * tests/depend3.test: Likewise.
1877 * tests/distcom7.test: Likewise.
1878 * tests/fortdep.test: Likewise. Also, remove definition of
1879 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am,
1880 since that flag is already provided by $AUTOMAKE.
1881 * tests/mdate.test: Made stricter, by checking that Automake
1882 actually failed, and by making a stricter grep on the error
1883 message. Also, set shell `errexit flag'.
1884 * tests/python2.test: Improved verbose messages.
1886 Make test `ammissing.test' stricter.
1887 * tests/ammissing.test: Fail if $ACLOCAL succeeds unexpectedly.
1888 Enable `errexit' shell flag.
1890 2010-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1892 Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
1893 * tests/subcond.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
1895 * tests/subst.test: Likewise.
1896 * tests/vars.test: Likewise.
1897 * tests/version4.test: Likewise.
1898 * tests/vpath.test: Likewise.
1899 * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
1900 * tests/werror.test: Likewise.
1901 * tests/whoami.test: Likewise.
1902 * tests/tags.test: Likewise, and avoid to crate an useless dummy
1904 * tests/acsilent.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
1905 command substitution.
1906 * tests/unused.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
1907 command substitution.
1908 * tests/version.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
1909 in the generated `configure.in'.
1910 * tests/version2.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
1911 in the generated `configure.in'.
1913 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1915 Prefer AUTOMAKE_fails over `$AUTOMAKE | grep' in tests.
1916 * tests/ldadd.test: Enable errexit. Use AUTOMAKE_fails so
1917 the verbose log contains all output.
1918 * tests/mdate.test: Likewise.
1919 Prompted by Stefano Lattarini's change to discover.test.
1921 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1923 Improve tests link*.test (enable `errexit' shell flag).
1924 * tests/link_c_cxx.test: Enable `errexit shell flag, and related
1925 changes. Also, do not create useless source files.
1926 * tests/link_dist.test: Likewise.
1927 * tests/link_f90_only.test: Likewise.
1928 * tests/link_f_only.test: Likewise.
1929 * tests/link_fc.test: Likewise.
1930 * tests/link_fccxx.test: Likewise.
1931 * tests/link_fcxx.test: Likewise.
1933 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1935 Improve ext.test semantics, avoid OpenBSD sh errexit issue.
1936 * tests/ext.test: Inside shell compound command, use
1937 `if $cmd; then Exit 1; fi' rather than `$cmd && Exit 1', to
1938 fix failure with OpenBSD sh introduced with last patch.
1939 Actually ensure that a rule for .EXT.o is created for each
1940 known extension EXT.
1942 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1944 Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
1945 * tests/dash.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1947 * tests/defun.test: Likewise.
1948 * tests/defun2.test: Likewise.
1949 * tests/dejagnu.test: Likewise.
1950 * tests/double.test: Likewise.
1951 * tests/distcom2.test: Likewise.
1952 * tests/empty2.test: Likewise.
1953 * tests/empty3.test: Likewise.
1954 * tests/empty4.test: Likewise.
1955 * tests/exdir.test: Likewise.
1956 * tests/ext.test: Likewise.
1957 * tests/extra.test: Likewise.
1958 * tests/extra2.test: Likewise.
1959 * tests/extra3.test: Likewise.
1960 * tests/extra4.test: Likewise.
1961 * tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
1962 * tests/fnoc.test: Likewise.
1963 * tests/fo.test: Likewise.
1964 * tests/instexec.test: Likewise.
1965 * tests/ltdeps.test: Likewise.
1966 * tests/nodep.test: Likewise.
1967 * tests/nodepcomp.test: Likewise.
1968 * tests/f90only.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
1969 comments and unnecessary commands.
1970 * tests/fonly.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
1971 comments and unnecessary commands.
1972 * tests/discover.test: Likewise, and made stricter.
1974 Enable `errexit' shell flag in all tests cxx*.test.
1975 * tests/cxx.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
1977 * tests/cxxansi.test: Likewise.
1978 * tests/cxxcpp.test: Likewise.
1979 * tests/cxxlibobj.test: Likewise.
1980 * tests/cxxlink.test: Likewise.
1981 * tests/cxxo.test: Likewise.
1983 Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
1984 * tests/acoutnoq.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
1986 * tests/acoutpt.test: Likewise.
1987 * tests/acoutqnl.test: Likewise.
1988 * tests/amassign.test: Likewise.
1989 * tests/ansi2.test: Likewise.
1990 * tests/ansi4.test: Likewise.
1991 * tests/badprog.test: Likewise.
1992 * tests/checkall.test: Likewise.
1993 * tests/clean.test: Likewise.
1994 * tests/colneq2.test: Likewise.
1995 * tests/colon.test: Likewise.
1996 * tests/colon5.test: Likewise.
1997 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
1998 * tests/comment.test: Likewise.
1999 * tests/compile_f90_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
2000 * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
2001 * tests/cond3.test: Likewise.
2002 * tests/cond6.test: Likewise.
2003 * tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
2004 * tests/conf2.test: Likewise.
2005 * tests/confvar.test: Likewise.
2006 * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
2007 * tests/cond8.test: Likewise, plus a cosmetic change.
2008 * tests/confh4.test: Likewise. Also, add in the heading comments
2009 an excerpt from the original bug report which motivated the
2010 creation of this test, to make its purpose clearer.
2012 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2014 Rewrite manual to be gender-neutral.
2015 * doc/automake.texi (GNU Build System)
2016 (Standard Directory Variables, General Operation, CVS)
2017 (Hard-Coded Install Paths, Dependencies As Side Effects):
2018 Rewrite text to not contain gender-specific pronouns when
2019 speaking about developers or users, either by avoiding pronouns
2020 or by addressing them as `you' instead.
2022 Report by Christina Gratorp.
2026 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2028 Make tests on user extensibility of silent-rules mode stricter.
2029 * tests/silent6.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
2030 output produced by `make'.
2031 * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
2033 Tests on silent-mode for C/Libtool made stricter.
2034 * tests/silent.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
2035 output produced by `make'.
2036 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
2037 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
2038 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
2039 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise, and add a final `make distclean'
2040 command to keep it better in sync with tests/silent{4,9}.test.
2042 Improved test silent5.test.
2043 * tests/silent5.test: Remove by hand all generated C files after
2044 non-verbose builds, to ensure the following builds are clean.
2045 Try to clean and rebuild with the same verbosity and without
2046 removing generated sources in between, to check that this does
2047 not trigger a different set of rules. Make grepping of make's
2048 output stricter. Improved/added some comments.
2050 New tests for Automake silent-mode with Fortran.
2051 * tests/silentf77.test: New test.
2052 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
2053 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2055 New test `silentcxx.test' (Automake silent-mode with C++).
2056 * tests/silentcxx.test: New test.
2057 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2059 New test `silentyacc.test' (Automake silent-mode with Yacc).
2060 * tests/silentyacc.test: New test.
2061 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2063 New test `silentlex.test' (Automake silent-mode with Lex).
2064 * tests/silentlex.test: New test.
2065 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2067 Relax tests on silent-rules to cater to overly verbose makes.
2068 * tests/silent.test: When testing silent builds, don't fail if
2069 make's output simply contains the `mv' substring, but only if
2070 it contains the `mv ' substring (note the trailing space).
2071 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
2072 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
2073 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
2074 * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
2075 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
2077 2010-01-24 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2079 Fix silent-rules output for disabled dependency tracking.
2080 * lib/am/depend2.am [!%FASTDEP%]: Rework silent-rules variable
2081 expansion code to also work in the case where %AMDEP% expands
2082 to FALSE at config.status time, using new substitution string
2084 * automake.in (verbose_nodep_flag): New function, appending
2085 `@am__nodep@' to the verbose-variable name.
2086 (handle_languages): If dependencies are not disabled, use it to
2087 set %VERBOSE-NODEP%.
2088 * m4/depend.m4: Substitute am__nodep as '_no', so the second
2089 verbose-variable will always expand to an empty string, if
2090 dependencies are enabled.
2091 * tests/silent5.test: Also test --disable-dependency-tracking;
2092 also test per-target flags for non-C language files.
2093 * tests/silent9.test: New test, like silent4.test but disable
2094 dependency tracking.
2095 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
2096 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
2097 Report by Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>.
2099 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2101 Extend test on `nostdinc' automake option.
2102 * tests/nostdinc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Related and
2103 unrelated minor changes. Make the grepping of the generated
2104 Makefile.in slightly stricter. Generate and run configure, so that
2105 the generated Makefile can be grepped too.
2107 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2109 Make gnupload portable to EBCDIC hosts.
2110 * lib/gnupload: Use literal newline as argument for 'tr' rather
2111 than \015, for EBCDIC hosts. Also, avoid unportable nested
2112 double-quotes and backquotes.
2114 Report from Eric Blake and Steve Goetze via gnulib.
2116 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2118 Fix Autoconf version required by Automake's configure.
2119 Automake configure script used to tell that automake required
2120 autoconf 2.60 or later, but then it checked for autoconf >= 2.62,
2121 and if that was not found, it gave an error saying that Automake
2122 required configure 2.61a-341 or later. This change should
2123 eliminate such inconsistencies.
2124 * configure.ac ($required_autoconf_version): New variable.
2127 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2129 Fix unportable sed script in maintainer-check test.
2130 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_Exit_not_exit): Rewrite sed script to
2131 not contain semicolon after 'b' or brace commands, for NetBSD.
2133 Wildcards are not portable to NetBSD make.
2134 * doc/automake.texi (Wildcards): Document portability issue.
2135 * tests/extra10.test, tests/extra11.test, tests/extra12.test:
2138 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2140 Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
2141 * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
2142 an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
2144 Avoid possible false negatives in dejagnu7.test.
2145 * tests/dejagnu7.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Also, avoid
2146 unportable use of fgrep option `-e'.
2148 Fix conflnk3.test to work with Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
2149 * tests/conflnk3.test: Use `test -r FILE' and `test ! -r FILE'
2150 instead of respectively `test -e FILE' and `test ! -e FILE',
2151 since Solaris Sh doesn't grok the latter. Do not SKIP the test
2152 if the shell doesn't support `test -e'.
2154 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2157 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Add
2158 missing closing parenthesis.
2160 Fix leftover call to removed function macros_dump.
2161 * automake.in (read_main_am_file): Call variables_dump, not
2162 macros_dump. Print actual error before list of variables.
2164 2010-04-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2166 Minor improvements in comments of test `silent3.test'.
2167 * tests/silent3.test: Tell to keep it in sync with `silent9.test'
2170 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2172 testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured output.
2173 * tests/acloca14.test, tests/acloca18.test, tests/aclocal.test,
2174 tests/fort2.test, tests/help.test, tests/missing3.test,
2175 tests/missing6.test: Print captured stdout or stderr before
2178 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2180 Make test badopt.test stricter (by enabling `set -e').
2181 * tests/badopt.test: Add call to `set -e'. Due to this change,
2182 an unexpected failure in the call to `$ACLOCAL' (whose outcome
2183 was previously unchecked) would cause the whole test to fail.
2184 Also, bumped the copyright years.
2186 Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
2187 * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
2188 an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
2190 Use `set -e' in confsub.test (avoids possible false negatives).
2191 * tests/confsub.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and related
2192 changes (this helps avoiding some possible minor false negatives).
2193 Also, bumped copyright years.
2195 2010-04-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2197 Fix -Werror handling for presence of configure.in and configure.ac.
2198 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (Automake::Variable): Do not initialize
2199 $configure_ac at the global level, before command-line arguments
2201 (require_variables): Initialize it here.
2202 * tests/configure.test: New test.
2203 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
2204 Report by Stefano Lattarini.
2206 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2208 Avoid possible false negatives in confh5.test.
2209 * tests/confh5.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and bumped
2210 copyright years. Due to this change, any unexpected failure
2211 in calls to $ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE, $AUTOCONF or $AUTOHEADER, or
2212 a failure in grepping expected text in output files should now
2213 cause the whole test to fail.
2215 2010-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2217 Fixed typo in POD documentation of Automake::Channels.
2218 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Fixed typo in POD documentation:
2219 @<...> was used instead of C<...>.
2221 2010-04-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2223 Refactor tests on Automake TESTS color output.
2224 * tests/color.test: Tests using the expect program moved out to...
2225 * tests/color2.test: ... this new file.
2226 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Extended accordingly.
2228 2010-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2230 Fix typos in comments in test confh5.test
2231 * tests/confh5.test: Fix a couple of typos in comments.
2233 Avoid possible false negatives in canon-name.test.
2234 * tests/canon-name.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Improve
2237 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2239 Fix per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror.
2240 Before this patch, 'AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = -Werror' in one
2241 Makefile.am would carry over to other Makefile.am files
2242 treated afterwards by the same thread, causing inconsistent
2243 and unstable exit status values.
2244 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (dup_channel_setup)
2245 (drop_channel_setup): Save and restore the setting of
2246 $warnings_are_errors.
2247 * tests/werror3.test: New test.
2248 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
2251 2010-04-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2253 Bugfix in confh5.test w.r.t. Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
2254 * tests/confh5.test: In the generated Makefile.am: do not use
2255 `test ! -e FILE' to check for the non-existence of a file, since
2256 that is not supported by Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
2258 Make test `aclocal3.test' stricter.
2259 * tests/aclocal3.test: Add call to `set -e'. Fail if $ACLOCAL
2260 succeds unexpectedly.
2262 Add tests checking that symlinks are resolved by `make dist'.
2263 * tests/distlinks.test: New test.
2264 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2265 Suggested by observations from Ralf Wildenhues.
2267 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2269 Use -9 for maximum xz compression with dist-xz.
2270 * lib/am/distdir.am (dist-xz, dist, dist-all): Pass -9 to xz.
2271 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
2272 Report by Pavel Sanda.
2274 2010-03-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2276 Avoid an unportable use of `$status' shell variable.
2277 * Makefile.am (path-check): Don't use the `$status' shell variable
2278 in the target's rules, as it's special in Zsh (equivalent to `$?',
2281 Avoid another use of `chmod -R'.
2282 * Makefile.am (path-check): To be safe, do not use `chmod -R' on
2283 $(distdir) before removing it (as Solaris `chmod -R' touches
2284 symlink targets). Instead, use the cleanup strategy used in
2287 2010-03-28 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2289 Remove uses of @acronym and @sc.
2290 * doc/automake.texi (Public Macros, Limitations on File Names):
2291 Remove all usage of @acronym and @sc in the manual.
2292 Suggested by Karl Berry.
2294 2010-03-13 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
2296 GNU hello uses fdl.texi, not gpl.texi.
2297 * doc/automake.texi (Texinfo): Adjust example to upstream
2300 2010-03-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2302 Formatting cleanups in macro comments.
2303 * automake.in, lib/Automake/Channels.pm,
2304 lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm, lib/Automake/Options.pm,
2305 lib/Automake/Variable.pm, lib/Automake/XFile.pm,
2306 m4/options.m4, m4/substnot.m4: Fix macro comment format.
2308 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2309 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2311 Avoid generation of `tests/defs-p' file.
2312 * tests/defs.in: In the generated `configure.in' snippet: call
2313 `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' with the `parallel-tests' option if the shell
2314 variable `parallel_tests' is set to `yes'.
2315 * tests/Makefile.am (defs-p): Target removed.
2316 (check_SCRIPTS): Removed `defs-p'.
2317 (clean-local-check): Do not unlink `defs-p' anymore.
2318 ($(parallel_tests)): Transformation rules for the test scripts
2320 * tests/gen-parallel-tests: Selection rules for the test
2322 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Set `$parallel_tests' to `yes'
2323 then include `./defs' (rather than simply including `./defs-p').
2324 * tests/parallel-tests2.test: Likewise.
2325 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
2326 * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
2327 * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
2328 * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
2329 * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
2330 * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise.
2331 * tests/parallel-tests9.test: Likewise.
2332 * tests/parallel-tests10.test: Likewise.
2333 * tests/README (Section "Writing Test Cases" subsection "Do"):
2334 Adjusted the parts referring to tests checking `parallel-tests'
2335 behaviour. Some other minor related improvements.
2336 * tests/.gitignore (defs-p): Removed.
2338 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2340 Remove redundant unset of variable TESTS from some test scripts.
2341 * tests/color.test: Do not unset the `TESTS' variable, as it's
2342 already unset in the `defs' file.
2343 * tests/check5.test: Likewise.
2344 * tests/check8.test: Likewise.
2345 * tests/check9.test: Likewise.
2346 * tests/check10.test: Likewise.
2347 * tests/check11.test: Likewise.
2348 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Likewise.
2349 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
2350 * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
2351 * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
2352 * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
2353 * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
2355 2010-02-22 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
2357 Improve help message of mdate-sh.
2358 * mdate-sh: mention actual output format in help message.
2360 2010-02-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2362 Deprecate dist-lzma in favor of dist-xz.
2363 * doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions, Options):
2364 Adjust text to reflect renaming of lzma to xz.
2366 Missing deprecation noted by Antonio Diaz Diaz.
2368 2010-02-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2370 Add tests about support of wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
2371 * tests/extra10.test: New test, check basic support of wildcards
2373 * tests/extra11.test: New test, check more complex usage of
2374 wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
2375 * tests/extra12.test: New test, check usage of wildcards in
2376 EXTRA_DIST when $builddir != $srcdir.
2377 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2378 Necessity of these new tests suggested by Braden McDaniel
2379 and Ralf Wildenhues.
2381 2010-02-08 Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
2383 Fix copyright statement in gnupload script.
2384 * lib/gnupload: Fix copyright statement.
2386 2010-02-06 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> (tiny change)
2387 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2389 Fix exit status of signal handlers in shell scripts.
2390 The value of `$?' on entrance to signal handlers in shell scripts
2391 cannot be relied upon, so set the exit code explicitly to
2393 * lib/am/check.am (am__check_pre): Use `exit 143' in signal handler.
2394 * lib/elisp-comp: Likewise.
2395 * lib/install-sh: Likewise.
2396 * lib/ylwrap: Likewise. Also, fix script to trap signal 13, not 3.
2397 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
2398 Bug report, analysis, and initial patch by Dmitry V. Levin.
2400 2010-02-06 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
2402 Improve gnupload usage text.
2403 * gnupload (usage): Shorten to make more likely to fit on a tty
2404 line. Mention CMD in the synopsis. With ..., plural is implied.
2406 2010-01-28 Christos Kontas <xakon@yahoo.com> (tiny change)
2408 Fix some typos in the manual
2409 * doc/automake.texi (Nested Packages, Rebuilding): Fix typos.
2411 2010-01-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2413 Slighty improve tests acoutbs.test and acoutbs2.test.
2414 * tests/acoutbs2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Check that
2415 autoconf and configure work, that the file `zot' is created by
2416 configure, and that no file containing a backslash in its name is
2418 * tests/acoutbs.test: Likewise, plus updated copyright years.
2420 Fix test acoutbs2.test.
2421 * tests/acoutbs2: In the generated configure.in: add proper calls
2422 to AC_INIT and AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, and remove explicit definition of
2423 PACKAGE and VERSION. Add a call to aclocal before calling automake.
2424 Updated copyright years.
2425 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Removed acoutbs2.test.
2427 Add forgotten test scripts to $(TESTS).
2428 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Added test scripts present on the
2429 filesystem, which were erroneously left out from $(TESTS):
2430 acoutbs2.test, badopt.test, extra2.test.
2431 (XFAIL_TESTS): Added acoutbs2.test.
2433 2010-01-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2435 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
2436 * INSTALL, lib/INSTALL, lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub:
2439 Bump copyright years.
2440 * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
2441 * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
2442 * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
2445 * ChangeLog.09: New file, rotated from ...
2446 * ChangeLog: ... here.
2447 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute ChangeLog.09.
2451 Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2453 Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are
2454 permitted provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved.