1 2011-04-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3 tests: fix spurious failure in a test on TESTS (VPATH-related)
4 * check-tests-in-builddir.test: When not using the parallel-tests
5 option, do not check that VPATH components are not present in the
6 displayed test name, since the simple-tests driver do not try to
9 2011-04-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
11 test: self check subroutines for skipping/failing of tests
12 * tests/self-check-report.test: New test.
13 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
15 2011-04-23 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
18 test defs: new subroutines for test skipping/failing
19 * tests/defs.in (Exit): Move definition of this function earlier.
20 (warn_, skip_, fail_, framework_failure_): New functions, inspired
21 to the homonyms in gnulib's tests/init.sh.
22 ($stderr_fileno_): New global variable, used by the new functions
24 * tests/README: Updated.
25 From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
27 2011-04-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
29 tests: fix typo (copy & paste blunder) in heading comment
30 * tests/maintclean-vpath.test: Correctly refer to the sister test
31 as `maintclean.test', not as `maintclean-vpath.test'.
33 2011-04-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
35 tests: remove redundant test `mclean.test'
36 * tests/mclean.test: Remove, it's a weak grepping test completely
37 superseded by the much more complete `maintclean.test'.
38 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
40 2011-04-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
42 testsuite: more environment sanitization
43 * tests/defs.in: Sanity check: abort if any of `parallel_tests'
44 or `required' is in the environment.
45 ($sed_unindent_prog): Initialize to empty, to avoid interferences
47 * tests/self-check-me-in-env.test: Renamed to ...
48 * tests/self-check-env-sanitize.test: ... this, and extended.
49 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
50 (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset variables `parallel_tests' and
51 `required'. Adjust comments.
53 2011-04-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
55 tests: don't allow `$me' to be overridden from the environment
56 * tests/defs.in: Sanity check: abort if $me is in the environment.
57 * tests/self-check-me-in-env.test: New test.
58 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset variable `me'.
60 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
62 2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
64 test defs: allow overriding of `$me'
65 * tests/defs.in ($me): Allow overriding by the including test
66 script. Add some explicative comments.
68 2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
70 depcomp tests: don't reject slower dependency extractors
71 * tests/depcomp8b.test: Add the `--enable-dependency-tracking'
72 option to `configure' invocations, so that slower dependency
73 extractors are not rejected.
74 * tests/depcomp8b.test: Likewise. Also ...
75 (foo.c): ... since we are at it, fix spacing to be consistent
76 with GNU coding standards.
78 2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
80 m4: add missing serial numbers to a few files
81 Related to automake bug#8483.
82 * m4/amversion.in: Add serial number.
83 * m4/auxdir.m4: Likewise.
84 * m4/gcj.m4: Likewise.
85 * m4/install-sh.m4: Likewise.
86 * m4/mkdirp.m4: Likewise.
87 * m4/python.m4: Likewise.
88 * m4/runlog.m4: Likewise.
89 * m4/strip.m4: Likewise.
90 * m4/upc.m4: Likewise.
92 2011-04-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
94 depcomp: correct invalid sed invocation
95 * lib/depcomp: Insert missing -e before '/:$/d'.
96 Otherwise, that use of sed would treat '/:$/d' as a file name.
98 2011-04-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
100 maintainer check: quote literal `$' in Makefile rule
101 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_PATH_SEPARATOR): Escape literal `$'
102 character in double-quoted string. Fix a bug in which the rule
103 emitted an erroneously empty substring in its error message.
105 2011-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
107 coverage: test for automake bug#8485 (known regression)
108 * tests/yacc-dist-nobuild-subdir.test: New test.
109 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Update.
111 2011-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
113 test defs: define default $distdir (help reducing duplication)
114 * tests/defs.in ($distdir): New variable, might be used in
115 testcases checking distribution-related features.
116 * tests/pr9.test: Use it.
117 * tests/subdir9.test: Likewise.
118 * tests/vtexi3.test: Add comment explaining why we redefine
119 $distdir in this test.
121 2011-04-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
123 depcomp: fix bugs in tests and in the depcomp script
124 * lib/depcomp (gcc): Remove duplicated `-e' from sed invocation.
125 * tests/depcomp10.test: Make it executable. Fix a blunder that
126 has left part of an intended comment not prefixed by `#', thus
127 causing shell syntax errors. In this same comment, break a
128 too-long reported error message on multiple lines, for clarity.
129 Add reference to the relevant bug report. Add a comment which
130 explains why the test result 'skipped' if the first "make" call
131 fails. Add other useful comments.
132 * tests/depcomp9.test: Slightly improve comments.
134 2011-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
136 Fix hp depmode for VPATH builds with GNU make.
137 * lib/depcomp: Be sure to remove VPATH-prefixed object from
138 dependency output when creating stub rule.
139 * tests/depcomp10.test: New test.
140 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
142 Report by Bruno Haible.
144 2011-04-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
146 test defs: fix 'javac' requirement for older JDK versions
147 The Java compiler from JDK 1.5 (and presumably earlier versions)
148 cannot handle the `-version' option by itself; and while it does
149 print the version number, it then errors out with an usage error:
152 javac: no source files
153 Usage: javac <options> <source files>
155 Luckily, adding the `-help' option to the `javac' invocation
156 seems to fix this problem.
157 * tests/defs.in (javac): Pass also the `-help' option to the
158 `javac' program. Add a comment explaining why it is needed.
159 Report from Ralf Wildenhues.
161 2011-04-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
163 test defs: new requirement for the default java compiler
164 * tests/defs.in (for tool in $required): New requirement 'javac'.
165 * tests/java.test: Use it instead of ad-hoc configure check.
166 * tests/java-check.test: Likewise.
167 * tests/instfail-java.test: Likewise.
168 * tests/instdir-java.test: Likewise.
170 2011-04-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
172 java: check_JAVA does not cause compilation by "make all" anymore
173 Fixes automake bug#8234.
174 * automake.in (handle_java): Make stamp of class files built from
175 java sources in $(check_JAVA) a dependency of `check' target, not
177 * tests/java-check.test: New test.
178 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
181 Report from Petteri Räty.
183 2011-04-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
185 Clarify regex code in depcomp.
186 * lib/depcomp: Add comment why we don't need regex-escaping here.
187 Suggested by Stefano Lattarini.
189 2011-04-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
191 Fix makedepend depmode for VPATH builds.
192 * lib/depcomp [makedepend]: Remove any VPATH prefix from the
193 object file name, so a rebuild doesn't attempt to update the
194 .Po files in the source tree.
195 * tests/depcomp9.test: New test.
196 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
199 2011-04-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
201 tests: fix timestamp-related failures
202 Fixes automake bug#8365.
203 * tests/aclocal6.test: Sleep before modifying m4 files that should
204 trigger remake rules. Remove incorrect/obsoleted comments.
205 * tests/subdir5.test: Likewise, and extend a bit.
206 * tests/subdir8.test: Likewise.
207 * tests/pr8365-remake-timing.test: New xfailing test.
208 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
209 Report from Sam Steingold.
211 2011-04-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
213 Create subdirs for generated sources even when not dep tracking.
214 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): If $object is derived
215 and lands in subdir, be sure to output a dirstamp dependency.
216 * tests/yacc5.test: Avoid falsely matching the dirstamp
217 dependency when grepping for a rule.
218 * tests/lex-subobj-nodep.test: New test.
219 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
221 Report by Ignacy Gawedzki.
223 Fix locale issue in check-exported-srcdir.test.
224 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Reformulate glob to not fail
225 in a locale that ignores or interleaves character case.
227 2011-04-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
229 docs: better visibility for aclocal in the index
230 * doc/automake.texi (@menu): Rename title for entry 'configure'
231 from "Scanning configure.ac or configure.in" to the more precise
232 "Scanning configure.ac, using aclocal".
233 (@detailmenu): Adjust.
234 (@node configure): Adjust, and extend @cindex calls accordingly.
236 From a report by Maynard Johnson.
238 2011-03-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
240 tests: improve tests on "maintainer-clean" target
241 * tests/aclocal6.test: Move checks related to "maintainer-clean"
242 functionalities into ...
243 * tests/maintclean-vpath.test: ... this new test.
244 * tests/maintclean.test: Update heading comments. Extend to also
245 test subdirs. Remove useless disabling of YACC. Fix m4 quoting
246 in configure.in. Add a trailing `:' command. Remove extra blank
248 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
250 2011-03-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
252 tests: fix unindent to use printf not echo for script.
253 * tests/defs.in: Use printf rather than echo, as the latter may
254 interpret the backslashes in the sed script. Fixes test
255 failures with dash as /bin/sh.
257 2011-03-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
258 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
260 maintcheck: look for problematic names of testcases
261 The configure.in stub created by default by `tests/defs' obtains
262 the first argument of AC_INIT from the test name, and this can
263 cause some supported autoconf versions to fail with a spurious
264 error if that test name contains the name of an m4 or m4sugar
265 builtin or macro (e.g., `defn' or `m4_undefine').
266 See for example the bug fixed by commit v1.11-287-g1325a8a.
267 This change add a maintainer check that warns about test names
268 which are possibly problematic in this regard.
269 * Makefile.am (sc_test_names): New maintainer-check target.
270 (syntax_check_rules): Add it.
271 (m4_builtins): New helper variable.
272 (TESTS): Updated according to the following renamings.
273 * tests/include.test: Renamed ...
274 * tests/hdr-vars-defined-once.test: ... to this.
275 * tests/sinclude.test: Renamed ...
276 * tests/m4-inclusion.test: ... to this, and simplified
278 * tests/include2.test: Renamed ...
279 * tests/dist-included-parent-dir.test: ... to this, for
282 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
284 tests: fix bug in alloca*.test
285 * tests/alloca.test: Make grepping of automake stderr stricter,
286 add a trailing `:' command; also, add AC_PROG_CC to configure.in,
287 and create a dummy alloca.c file, to ensure that we fail for the
289 * tests/alloca2.test: Likewise. Also, look for LT_INIT, not
290 AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, in the error message (bug introduced with commit
291 v1.11-315-gd51e7b7 "libtool: suggest LT_INIT if LTLIBRARIES
293 From a report by Patrick Welche.
295 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
297 tests: fix bug (comments-in-var-defn.test + autoconf 2.62)
298 * tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: The configure.in stub created
299 by default, which has the AC_INIT first argument obtained by the
300 test name, causes autoconf 2.62 to fail with a spurious error
301 message like: "configure.in:1: error: defn: undefined macro:".
302 Thus, to prevent this, the test is renamed to ...
303 * tests/comments-in-var-def.test: ... this.
304 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
306 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
308 cosmetics: convert encoding from ISO-8859 to UTF-8
309 * ChangeLog.03: Convert encoding to UTF-8.
310 * ChangeLog.96: Likewise.
311 * ChangeLog.98: Likewise.
315 2011-03-01 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
317 test defs: unindent without temporary file
318 * tests/defs.in (commented_sed_unindent_prog): Commented Sed program
319 that strips the "proper" amount of leading whitespace.
320 (unindent): Lazily strip comments from the above program and use it
321 to unindent without using a temporary file.
323 2011-02-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
325 libtool: suggest LT_INIT if LTLIBRARIES primary is used
326 When the LTLIBRARIES primary was used, but $(LIBTOOL) wasn't
327 defined, automake suggested to add a call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
328 in configure.ac. But that macro is deprecated since Libtool
329 version 1.9b (2004-08-29), in favor of the newer LT_INIT. So
330 suggest the use of this latter macro instead.
331 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (%_am_macro_for_var): Pair 'LIBTOOL'
332 with 'LT_INIT', not with 'AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'.
333 * libtool4.test: Adjust and extend. Also, add a call to macro
334 AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, to help ensuring that automake does
335 not fail for the wrong reasons.
336 * ltinit.test: New test, ensure that automake's libtool support
337 works with LT_INIT-based interface.
338 Thanks to Jack Kelly for the suggestion.
340 2011-02-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
342 tests: tempdirs with restrictive permissions are cleaned correctly
343 Before this change, the removal of a temporary test directory
344 containing subdirectories with restrictive permissions (such as
345 'r--r--r--') could fail.
346 * tests/defs: Ensure that all the subdirectories of a temporary
347 test directory have the 'read', 'write' and 'execute' bits set,
348 before trying to remove it with `rm -rf'.
349 * tests/Makefile.am (clean-local-check): Likewise.
351 2011-02-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
352 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
354 test defs: add subroutine for input unindenting
355 * tests/defs.in (unindent): New subroutine.
357 2011-02-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
359 python: report the 'PYTHON' influential environment variable
360 * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Call AC_ARG_VAR on PYTHON.
361 * doc/automake.texi (Python): Update and extend.
362 * tests/help-python.test: New test.
363 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
364 * THANKS (Jack Kelly): Update e-mail address.
365 Suggestion by Jack Kelly.
367 2011-02-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
369 tests defs: clear TESTS_ENVIRONMENT variable
370 * tests/defs.in (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset it, so that values
371 from environment won't interfere with the testcases.
372 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
374 2011-02-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
376 tests: tweak few tests on simple and parallel test drivers
377 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Improve heading comments.
378 * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: Likewise. Also, unset the
379 `FOO_EXIT_STATUS' variable, so that any pre-existing value in the
380 environment won't risk to interfere with the test.
381 Suggestions by Ralf Wildenhues.
383 2011-02-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
385 coverage: more tests on simple and parallel test drivers
386 * tests/parallel-tests-subdir.test: New test.
387 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Likewise.
388 * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: Likewise.
389 * tests/check-tests_environment.test: Likewise.
390 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
392 2011-01-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
394 tests: fix spurious failures in lflags*.test
395 * tests/lflags.test: Remove 'LEX' from the environment, so
396 that it won't be erroneously picked up by `make -e'.
397 * tests/lflags2.test: Likewise.
399 2011-01-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
401 docs: color-tests issues with parallel make
402 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Document that automatic
403 recognition of a capable terminal attached to stdout can fail
404 with some make implementation when running in parallel mode,
405 thus causing colored test output not to be automatically
406 activated when it should.
408 2011-01-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
410 tests: avoid instspc.test failures due to make's whitespace trimming
411 * tests/instspc.test: Prepend './' when passing the test
412 characters, to avoid leading whitespace characters to be trimmed
413 from macros set from environment variables. Fixes testsuite
414 failures with HP-UX, IRIX, and Tru64/OSF make.
416 2011-01-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
418 coverage: test semantics of "dummy" per-target flags
419 * tests/specflg-dummy.test: New test, ensuring that even "dummy"
420 per-target flags triggers the use of renamed objects.
421 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
422 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
424 2011-01-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
426 tests defs: sanitize IFS
427 * tests/defs.in ($IFS): Define to <space>, <tab>, <newline>.
428 ($sp): New variable, holding a single whitespace character.
429 ($tab): New variable, holding a tabulation character.
430 ($nl): New variable, holding a newline character.
432 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
434 tests: fix VPATH auto-expansion workarounds.
435 * tests/parallel-tests8.test, tests/suffix13.test:
436 Ensure $< is not surrounded by white space, to prevent Solaris
437 make from applying automatic VPATH text expansion.
439 2011-01-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
441 tests: fix spurious failures in yflags*.test
442 * tests/yflags.test: Remove 'YACC' from the environment, so
443 that it won't be erroneously picked up by `make -e'.
444 * tests/yflags2.test: Likewise.
446 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
448 tests: avoid fn99*.test failures due to buggy AIX 5.3 cp -R.
449 * tests/fn99.test, tests/fn99subdir.test: Skip if an initial
450 `cp -R' of the subdir tree already fails; AIX 5.3 cp messes
451 up its internal memory when copying this tree.
453 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
454 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
456 Add comment to check-TESTS rule working around make 3.80 bug.
457 * lib/am/check.am (check-TESTS): Update comment.
459 2011-01-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
461 tests: less strict double-colon spy.test again.
462 * tests/spy.test: We know BSD make doesn't invoke more than one
463 double-colon rule, so no need to expose that failure.
465 2011-01-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
467 install-sh: avoid Tru64 sh `test' operator precedence issues.
468 * lib/install-sh: Protect file names and directory components
469 that consist of `=', `(', `)', or `!'. Move protection as early
470 as possible, to avoid errors such as with Tru64 sh `test -z ='.
471 * tests/instsh2.test: Extend test to cover more possibilities.
472 Fixes 1.12 instspc-equal-install.test failure on Tru64/OSF 5.1.
474 2011-01-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
475 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
477 docs: automake testsuite doesn't use TESTS_ENVIRONMENT anymore
478 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Do not claim Automake uses
479 TESTS_ENVIRONMENT for the perl driver. Instead, point to the
480 parallel-tests driver.
482 2011-01-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
484 Allow _AM_DEPENDENCIES to be used later in configure.
485 * m4/depend.m4 (_AM_DEPENDENCIES): Remove a previously existing
486 conftest.dir before recreating it.
488 Report by Eric Blake, from report by Scott McCreary against M4.
490 2011-01-18 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
492 tests: avoid failure on w32 file systems.
493 * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: SKIP if file cannot
494 be turned unreadable.
496 2011-01-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
498 tests: allow double-colon spy.test to work with HP-UX make.
499 * tests/spy.test: Fix comment typos. Ensure prerequisites we
500 do not want to depend on are strictly older than the target.
501 Also test with a target out of date wrt. more than one rule.
503 2011-01-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
505 tests: remove useless requirements from cond36.test
506 * tests/cond36.test ($required): Remove.
507 Since we are at it, add a trailing `:' command.
509 2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
510 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
512 parallel-tests: work around Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh read bugs.
513 * lib/am/check.am ($(TEST_SUITE_LOG), recheck, recheck-html):
514 Test file readability before redirecting input from it, to avoid
515 exiting Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh which treats read as special builtin.
516 * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: New test.
517 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
520 2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
522 * NEWS, README: Update copyright years.
524 Fix parallel-tests.test failure with HP-UX make.
525 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Sleep inside inner tests, so logs
526 are newer than logs of tests they depend on, for HP-UX make.
528 2011-01-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
530 docs: ensure example are separated with empty lines in the input
531 * doc/automake.texi (Extending aclocal, Emacs Lisp, Rebuilding)
532 (API Versioning, Renamed Objects, Multiple Outputs): Add empty
533 lines before `@example' and after `@end example' lines, so info
534 output is rendered correctly, and a following @noindent honored.
535 Report by Stefano Lattarini.
537 2011-01-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
539 tests: fix comment typo
540 * tests/substref.test: Fix grammar in a comment.
542 2011-01-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
544 tests: fix spurious failures in two texinfo tests
545 * tests/txinfo.test ($required): Add 'makeinfo'.
546 * tests/txinfo8.test: Create a dummy 'textutils.info' file, so
547 that make won't try to run makeinfo (which could be unavailable)
549 Found by NixOS Hydra, reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
551 2011-01-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
553 Avoid testsuite failures due to Autoconf Fortran change.
554 Autoconf v2.68-21-g727ce95 causes AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS to
555 require computing the canonical host name. Ensure config.guess
556 and config.sub files are present for respective checks.
557 * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Add stub files.
558 * tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
559 * tests/fort4.test: Use $AUTOMAKE -a for installing files.
561 2011-01-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
563 docs: clustered '-d' not recognized in YFLAGS
564 This change fixes automake bug#7828.
565 * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Document that automake
566 recognizes '-d' in AM_YFLAGS only if it's not clustered with
568 From a report by Юрий Пухальский.
570 2011-01-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
572 tests: add checks on automatically-distributed files
573 Related to automake bug#7819.
574 * tests/autodist.test: New test.
575 * tests/autodist-subdir.test: Likewise.
576 * tests/autodist-acconfig.test: Likewise.
577 * tests/autodist-acconfig-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
578 * tests/autodist-aclocal-m4.test: Likewise.
579 * tests/autodist-config-headers.test: Likewise.
580 * tests/autodist-configure-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
581 * tests/autodist-stamp-vti.test: Likewise.
582 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
584 2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
586 tests: work around a texi+cygnus bug causing a spurious XFAIL
587 * tests/txinfo5b.test: New test, like txinfo5.test but calling
588 automake with the `-Wno-override' option to work around a bug
589 in the texinfo + cygnus interaction.
590 * tests/txinfo5.test: Update heading comments.
591 * tests/Makefile.am (TEST): Updated.
593 2011-01-09 Dave Hart <davehart@gmail.com> (tiny change)
595 Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
596 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
598 2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
600 Improve, extend and tweak tests on Texinfo support.
601 * tests/instdir-texi.test: Add a call to `ls -l' after that to
602 `make', for debugging. When looking for required tools, do not
603 redirect the output of "$tool --help" to /dev/null, and do not
604 uselessly run it in a subshell.
605 * tests/txinfo.test: Rewritten to run autoconf, ./configure and
606 make. All checks moved into Makefile.am.
607 * tests/txinfo8.test: Likewise, and modernize the generated
609 * tests/txinfo2.test: Moved checks into Makefile.am, and other
611 * tests/txinfo5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
612 changes. Add trailing `:' command.
613 * tests/txinfo6.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
614 Makefile.in stricter.
615 * tests/txinfo7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
616 changes. Add trailing `:' command. Do not add unnecessary stuff
618 * tests/txinfo9.test: Verify that more targets which are expected
619 to be generated only once really are. Make grepping less strict,
620 to avoid exposing too much internal details. More minor changes.
621 * tests/txinfo16.test: Add trailing `:'. Prefer cat over echo
622 for appending to configure.in. Updated/fixed heading comments.
623 * tests/txinfo23.test: Likewise, and extended a little by making
624 it check that no info file is created in the $(srcdir).
625 * tests/txinfo24.test: Likewise.
626 * tests/txinfo25.test: Likewise.
627 * tests/txinfo18.test: Add trailing `:'. Prefer cat over echo
628 for appending to configure.in. Also, check that index files are
629 cleaned also by "make clean", not only by "make distclean".
630 * tests/txinfo22.test: Prefer `$me' over hard-coded test name,
631 and added trailing `:' command. This testcase also used to check
632 that automake ignores in-line comments when using variables, but
633 preserves them in the output; these checks (added in commit
634 "Release-1-7f-4-g9177ef8") do not really pertain to this test,
635 so they have been moved ...
636 * tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: ... into this new test.
637 * tests/txinfo4.test: Escape literal dots in grep regexps. Add
638 trailing `:' command.
639 * tests/txinfo29.test: Likewise. Relax grepping of generated
640 Makefile.in w.r.t. whitespaces. Prefer `cat' over `echo' to
641 append to configure.in.
642 * tests/txinfo3.test: Likewise.
643 * tests/vtexi.test: Improve grepping of Makefile.in (sometimes
644 make it stricter, sometimes laxer). Move `set -e' setting just
645 after the inclusion of ./defs. De-uglify a sed command. Other
646 minor cosmetic improvements.
647 * tests/vtexi2.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in stricter. Add
648 trailing `:' command.
649 * tests/vtexi3.test: New test on version.texi support.
650 * tests/vtexi4.test: Likewise.
651 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
653 2011-01-09 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
655 Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
656 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
658 2011-01-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
660 cosmetics: remove trailing whitespaces
661 * doc/automake.texi: Remove trailing whitespaces.
662 * tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
663 * tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
664 * tests/fort4.test: Likewise.
665 * tests/fort5.test: Likewise.
666 * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
667 * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
669 automake: minor fixes in comments
670 * automake.in: Some minor fixes and enhancements in comments.
672 2011-01-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
674 Add test coverage for deleted header files.
675 * tests/depcomp6.test, tests/depcomp7.test: Update tests to
676 also check for the deleted header bug. If no dependency
677 tracking mechanism could be found, SKIP rather than exit
678 successfully. Use GNU style spacing and ANSI C prototypes.
680 Fix typos in Rule.pm comments.
681 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typos in comments.
683 docs: split 'amhello Explained' node.
684 * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Split node ...
685 (amhello's configure.ac Setup Explained)
686 (amhello's Makefile.am Setup Explained) : ... into these two.
687 (Top, Hello World): Adjust, and add @anchor for stable URL links.
688 Suggestion by Karl Berry in automake bug#7766.
690 2011-01-08 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
691 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
693 docs: reference defining directories in amhello node.
694 * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Point to Autoconf
695 manual for how to convert directory values into macros.
696 (Optional): Fix grammar nit.
698 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
700 * NEWS: Fix typo (forgotten word).
702 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
703 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
705 docs: how to work around checks on invalid primary/directory couples
706 * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): Document the blessed idiom which can
707 be used to work around automake checks on invalid primary/directory
708 couples (such as `lib_PROGRAMS' or `doc_LIBRARIES').
710 2011-01-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
712 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
713 * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
716 Fix maintainer-check regression.
717 * tests/subobj11a.test: Pass DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS in the
720 Bump copyright years.
721 * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
722 * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
723 * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
725 2010-12-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
726 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
728 Work around a bug in file-inclusion mechanism of Solaris make.
729 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): In the name of the
730 dependency file: collapse multiple slash characters into a single
732 * tests/subobj11a.test: New test.
733 * tests/subobj11b.test: Likewise.
734 * tests/subobj11c.test: Likewise.
735 * tests/depcomp8a.test: Likewise.
736 * tests/depcomp8b.test: Likewise.
737 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
739 Report by Stefano Lattarini, quick fix by Ralf Wildenhues, final
740 patch and tests by Stefano Lattarini.
742 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
744 Fix two spurious testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5.
745 * tests/suffix13.test (Makefile.am): Account for VPATH issues on
746 weaker make implementations (e.g. IRIX 6.5).
747 * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise, plus a required related
749 Reported by Ralf Wildenhues. The bugs have been there from the
750 first versions of the affected test scripts.
752 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
754 docs: cygnus mode doesn't require AM_CYGWIN32 macro.
755 * doc/automake.texi (Cygnus): Mode 'cygnus' does not require
756 the AM_CYGWIN32 macro (and indeed hasn't required it since at
757 least commit Release-1-2-31-g3038064 "merged changes from
758 Cygnus" of 1997-08-25).
760 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
762 distlinksbrk.test: Work around botched "make -k".
763 * tests/distlinksbrk.test: Run "make" multiple times and grep
764 its output each time for a single error message, rather than
765 running "make -k" one single time and grepping its output for
766 all the expected error messages. This should work around make
767 implementations with limited (broken?) `-k' support; for more
768 information, see these subthreads on the automake-patches list:
769 - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on HP-UX 11.23",
770 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00162.html>
771 - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5",
772 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00166.html>
774 2010-12-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
776 Fix sed-related buglet in test "subdir5.test"
777 * tests/subdir5.test: Always terminate text passed to the
778 `i' sed command with a newline, to work around limitations
779 in e.g. older OpenBSD sed.
781 2010-12-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
783 docs: fix blunder in example about python extension modules
784 * doc/automake.texi (Python): Use `quaternion_la_SOURCES',
785 not `quaternion_SOURCES', to declare the sources of python
786 extension module `quaternion.la'.
788 2010-12-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
790 docs: list LTLIBRARIES among Automake primaries
791 * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): List `LTLIBRARIES' among
792 the Automake primaries.
794 2010-12-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
796 Improve tests on generated portions of configure help screen.
797 * tests/help-depend.test: Grepping of configure help screen
798 relaxed to cater for possible line wrapping, and tightened in
800 * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
801 * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
802 * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
803 * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
804 * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
805 * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
806 * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
807 * tests/help-init.test: Grepping of configure help screen
810 2010-12-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
812 Avoid running installed automake from 'libtool --help'.
813 * tests/subobj9.test: Export AUTOCONF and AUTOMAKE.
814 Together with fixed Libtool, this fixes check-coverage to not
815 invoke installed automake.
817 2010-11-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
819 Fix spurious failures in `silent*.test' for $CC != gcc
820 In some tests on automake-produced silent rules, we forced the
821 use of gcc depmode to improve testsuite coverage; but this has
822 unsurprisingly led to spurious failures when some non-GNU C
823 compilers were used. So we are now careful to require GCC in
824 tests that force gcc depmode.
825 From reports by Ralf Wildenhues.
826 * silent5.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
827 * silent-many-generic.test, silent-many-gcc.test: ... these new
828 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
830 * silentlex.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
831 * silent-lex-generic.test, silent-lex-gcc.test: ... these new
832 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
834 * silentyacc.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
835 * silent-yacc-generic.test, silent-yacc-gcc.test: ... these new
836 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
838 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
840 2010-11-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
842 Tests: consistently use "|| Exit 1" after ". ./defs".
843 * tests/autohdr.test: Use `. ./defs || Exit 1', not bare
844 `. ./defs', for consistency with other tests.
845 * tests/autohdr2.test: Likewise.
846 * tests/autohdr3.test: Likewise.
847 * tests/autohdr4.test: Likewise.
848 * tests/cond23.test: Likewise.
849 * tests/cond24.test: Likewise.
850 * tests/cond25.test: Likewise.
851 * tests/cond26.test: Likewise.
852 * tests/cond27.test: Likewise.
853 * tests/cond28.test: Likewise.
854 * tests/cond29.test: Likewise.
855 * tests/cond30.test: Likewise.
856 * tests/cond31.test: Likewise.
857 * tests/cond32.test: Likewise.
858 * tests/cond33.test: Likewise.
859 * tests/cond34.test: Likewise.
860 * tests/cond35.test: Likewise.
861 * tests/cond36.test: Likewise.
862 * tests/cond37.test: Likewise.
863 * tests/cond38.test: Likewise.
864 * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
865 * tests/cond40.test: Likewise.
866 * tests/cond41.test: Likewise.
867 * tests/cond42.test: Likewise.
868 * tests/cond43.test: Likewise.
869 * tests/cond44.test: Likewise.
870 * tests/cond45.test: Likewise.
871 * tests/dollarvar.test: Likewise.
872 * tests/dollarvar2.test: Likewise.
873 * tests/hfs.test: Likewise.
874 * tests/libobj14.test: Likewise.
875 * tests/percent.test: Likewise.
876 * tests/percent2.test: Likewise.
877 * tests/phony.test: Likewise.
878 * tests/silent.test: Likewise.
879 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
880 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
881 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
882 * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
883 * tests/silent6.test: Likewise.
884 * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
885 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
886 * tests/silentcxx.test: Likewise.
887 * tests/silentf77.test: Likewise.
888 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
889 * tests/silentlex.test: Likewise.
890 * tests/silentyacc.test: Likewise.
892 Avoid useless cleaning in some `silent*.test' tests.
893 * tests/silentf77.test: Removed useless calls to "make clean"
894 and "make maintainer-clean".
895 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
896 * tests/silent3.test: Removed useless call to "make distclean".
897 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
898 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
900 2010-11-19 Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
902 Sync config-ml.in from GCC.
903 * config-ml.in: Add Go support: treat GOC and GOCFLAGS like other
904 compiler/flag environment variables.
906 2010-11-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
908 Automake::Config: remove extra trailing semicolon.
909 * lib/Automake/Config.in: Remove extra trailing semicolon.
911 help4.test: fix botched heading comment.
912 * tests/help4.test: Fixed the heading comment, since it
913 didn't correctly describe what checks the testcase was
916 help2.test: add checks on aclocal too.
917 * tests/help2.test: Check that also `aclocal --version' and
918 `aclocal --help' work with configure.in and acinclude.m4 both
921 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
923 Fix spurious failures of silent-rules tests with Sun Fortran.
924 * tests/silentf77.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
925 messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers, to
926 avoid spurious failures. Add a trailing `:' command.
927 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
929 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
931 Fix spurious failures of silent5.test with Sun Fortran.
932 * tests/silent5.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
933 messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers,
934 to avoid spurious failures. This bug has been there from the
935 very first version of this test script.
937 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
939 Fix regression in colon{5,6}.test (failures on AIX 5.3).
940 * tests/colon5.test: Also substitute `@SHELL@' with `$SHELL' when
941 post-processing the generated Makefile.in, to work around a bug
942 of AIX 5.3 make which doesn't allow setting the `$(SHELL)' macro
943 on the commend line. Calls to `$MAKE' adjusted accordingly.
944 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
945 Regression introduced in commit v1.11-175-gf9fe878 "Modernize,
946 improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test", and reported by Ralf
949 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
951 Fix regression in ansi.test (failure on AIX 5.3).
952 * tests/ansi.test: Remove redundant hackish check done using a
953 hand-postprocessed Makefile.in. This check worked by setting
954 the `$(SHELL)' macro on the command line of make, but this is
955 not supported by the AIX 5.3 make implementation.
956 This bug has been lurking for a long time, and was activated by
957 commit v1.11-125-gc1f6cdb "Enable `errexit' shell flag in various
958 tests". Report by Ralf Wildenhues.
960 2010-11-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
962 tests: avoid '##'-style comments inside recipe commands.
963 * tests/confh.test, tests/confh8.test: Remove
964 double-hash comments from makefile rule commands, they
965 are not part of the Automake API.
967 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
969 tests: work around dash quoting issue in case statements.
970 * tests/color.test, tests/color2.test: Quote variable in case
971 pattern, to avoid skipping tests with dash 0.5.5.1.
973 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
975 Rebuild menus in the manual.
976 * doc/automake.texi: Rebuild menus (using ^C ^U ^A in emacs).
977 Thanks to Ian Lance Taylor for the suggestion.
979 Fix install-strip when $(STRIP) contains several words.
980 * lib/am/install.am (install-strip): Update comment. Use
981 separate sub-make invocations for empty and nonempty $(STRIP),
982 to fix quoting issues.
983 * tests/strip2.test, tests/strip3.test: New tests.
984 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Adjust.
986 2010-11-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
988 Fix yaccdry.test failure: require bison.
989 * tests/yaccdry.test: Require bison.
990 Found by NixOS Hydra.
992 2010-11-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
994 Fix a bug in variable concatenation with `+='.
995 * lib/Automake/VarDef.pm (append): Since the content of the
996 "appended-to" variable is going to be unconditionally normalized
997 later, simply separate the appended value with a single whitespace
998 character, instead of trying to be uselessly smarter by using
999 escaped newlines. This fixes a bug in which extra backslashes
1000 where erroneously inserted in the variable's final value.
1001 * tests/pluseq11.test: New test, exposing the bug.
1002 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1003 Reported by Andy Wingo.
1005 2010-11-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1007 Fix bug in rules for creating vala vapi/header files.
1008 * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Add forgotten "fi" in an
1009 if control structure in a generated make rules. Bug introduced
1010 by previous commit `v1.11-221-gd7c1679', and revealed by failure
1011 of test `vala2.test'.
1013 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1015 Fix and document rules to not touch the tree with `make -n'.
1016 * doc/automake.texi (Multiple Outputs): Document the problem of
1017 modifications during dry-run execution, propose solution.
1019 * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Split recipe so the
1020 stamp file is not removed with GNU `make -n'.
1021 (lang_yacc_target_hook): Separate removal of parser output file
1022 and header remaking.
1023 * lib/am/lisp.am ($(am__ELCFILES)): Determine whether -n was
1024 passed to make, take care not to remove any files in that case.
1025 * lib/am/remake-hdr.am (%CONFIG_H%): Separate removal of
1026 %STAMP% file from induced remaking of config header.
1027 * tests/autohdrdry.test, tests/lispdry.test, tests/yaccdry.test:
1029 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1031 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1033 Add FAQ entry for bug reporting instructions.
1034 * doc/automake.texi (Reporting Bugs): New section.
1035 (Introduction): Refer to it.
1037 2010-10-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1039 Add support for newer python versions.
1040 * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Add python2.7 and python3.2 to
1041 _AM_PYTHON_INTERPRETER_LIST. Since we are at it, break a long
1042 line and fix indentation.
1044 From a report by Thomas Klausner.
1046 Add test for `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' macro.
1047 * tests/dmalloc.test: New test.
1048 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1050 Fix nits and bugs in tests `help*.test'.
1051 * tests/help4.test: Fix broken sed commands used to strip `-W...'
1052 flags away from "$AUTOMAKE" and "$ACLOCAL".
1053 * tests/help3.test: Likewise, and fix a botched comment.
1054 * tests/help.test: Likewise. Also, use "AUTOMAKE_fails ..."
1055 instead of "$AUTOMAKE ... && Exit 1", for consistency and to
1056 please maintainer-check.
1057 * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
1059 2010-10-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1060 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1062 Improve tests `help*.test' (also fixes maintcheck failures).
1063 * tests/help.test: To run automake, use `$AUTOMAKE' with all `-W'
1064 flags stripped away rather than hard-coded `automake-$APIVERSION',
1065 to better honour user-overrides. Similarly for aclocal.
1066 * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
1067 * tests/help3.test: Likewise.
1068 * tests/help4.test: Likewise.
1070 2010-10-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1072 Document and fix expansion of variables before rules.
1073 * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Document that variables
1074 are expanded before rules.
1075 * lib/am/check.am (am__check_post): Reword a bit so it does not
1076 get matched as a rule.
1077 Suggestion by Ben Pfaff.
1079 2010-10-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1081 Revert "parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue."
1082 This reverts commit 24e3b4ee2f8cb9f72dd94a05a893f3d4e88b7835,
1083 because it re-opened the bug fixed by v1.11-10-g218e678.
1085 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1087 parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
1088 * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
1089 substitution %MAKEFILE%.
1090 (generate_makefile): Adjust.
1091 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
1092 sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
1093 input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
1096 Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
1098 2010-09-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1100 Extend tests on `--help' and `--version' options.
1101 * tests/help.test: Create a new empty directory and chdir into
1102 it, rather than removing already present files. Run the aclocal
1103 and automake wrapper scripts directly, instead of relying on
1104 $AUTOMAKE and $ACLOCAL. Be sure to correctly match literal dots
1105 in aclocal's and automake's stderr. Add a trailing `:' command.
1106 * tests/help2.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
1107 `--version' works in directories with broken `configure.in'.
1108 * tests/help3.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
1109 `--version' take precedence on the other options.
1110 * tests/help4.test: New test, checking that the first among the
1111 `--help' and `--version' options to be specified on the command
1113 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1115 2010-09-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1117 Testsuite: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when extending PATH.
1118 * tests/compile2.test: Do no uselessly (implicitly) repeat the
1119 computation of PATH_SEPARATOR again.
1120 * tests/instmany-mans.test: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when
1121 extending/redefining PATH.
1122 * tests/instmany-python.test: Likewise.
1123 * tests/instmany.test: Likewise.
1124 * tests/man4.test: Likewise.
1125 * tests/mkinst3.test: Likewise.
1126 * tests/mmodely.test: Likewise.
1127 * tests/multlib.test: Likewise.
1128 * tests/txinfo30.test: Likewise.
1129 * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
1131 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_PATH_SEPARATOR): New maintainer check.
1132 (syntax_check_rules): Updated.
1134 Testsuite: new variables `$PATH_SEPARATOR' and `$APIVERSION'.
1135 * tests/defs.in ($APIVERSION): New AC_SUBST'd variable.
1136 ($ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE): Use it.
1137 ($PATH_SEPARATOR): New AC_SUBST'd variables.
1140 2010-09-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1142 Manual: be more agnostic w.r.t. version control system used.
1143 * doc/automake.texi (Basics of Distribution): Also refer to `.svn'
1144 directories as a type of probably-unwanted files that are copied
1145 regardless when adding directories to EXTRA_DIST.
1146 (The dist Hook): Show a dist-hook example which removes Subversion
1147 `.svn' private directories from distdir, rather than CVS private
1149 (missing and AM_MAINTAINER_MODE): Try to be more agnostic w.r.t.
1150 the version control system used.
1152 Manual: index refer to target "git-dist", not "cvs-dist".
1153 * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Index the non-standard
1154 example about "git-dist" under the "git-dist" label, not under
1157 Perl modules: remove references to "Automake CVS repository".
1158 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Update comments to refer to "Automke's
1159 git repository" rather than to "Automake's CVS repository".
1160 * lib/Automake/Configure_ac.pm: Likewise.
1161 * lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm: Likewise.
1162 * lib/Automake/Struct.pm: Likewise.
1163 * lib/Automake/XFile.pm: Likewise.
1164 * lib/Automake/Version.pm (=head1 DESCRIPTION): Refer to "git
1165 branches" rather than "CVS branches".
1167 Remove obsolete .cvsignore files.
1168 * .cvsignore, doc/.cvsignore, lib/.cvsignore, lib/am/.cvsignore,
1169 lib/Automake/.cvsignore, lib/Automake/tests/.cvsignore,
1170 m4/.cvsignore, tests/.cvsignore: Files deleted. Even when using
1171 savannah's CVS readonly mirror there's no way to commit back to
1172 the real repository, so this files are not worth maintaining or
1175 2010-09-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1177 * m4/dmalloc.m4: Bump serial number and copyright years.
1179 2010-09-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1181 Fix broken link in `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' help screen.
1182 * m4/dmalloc.m4 (AM_WITH_DMALLOC): Refer only to the dmalloc site
1183 `http://www.dmalloc.com', not to the dmalloc tarball there (which
1184 seems to have been removed, substituted by multiple release
1187 2010-09-17 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
1189 Avoid triple-space after period.
1190 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): Avoid 3 spaces at
1192 * ChangeLog.03: Likewise.
1193 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Likewise.
1194 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (_print_message): Likewise.
1195 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm (rule): Likewise.
1196 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (var): Likewise.
1197 * lib/am/distdir.am: Likewise.
1198 * tests/insthook.test: Likewise.
1200 2010-09-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1202 Test automake-generated portions of configure help screen.
1203 * tests/help-depend.test: New test.
1204 * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
1205 * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
1206 * tests/help-init.test: Likewise.
1207 * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
1208 * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
1209 * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
1210 * tests/help-regex.test: Likewise.
1211 * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
1212 * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
1213 * tests/mmode.test: Remove tests on `configure --help' output,
1214 they are superseded by tests in `help-maintainer.test'.
1215 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1217 2010-09-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1219 * tests/README: Don't put GCS mandated tools in $required.
1221 2010-09-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1223 * HACKING: Hint at old commits with `git describe' output.
1225 2010-09-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1227 Fix regression in test `colon4.test'.
1228 * tests/colon4.test: Fix botched editing to `configure.in'
1229 that made the test useless. Since we are at it, improve
1230 comments and make grepping of generated Makefile.in slightly
1232 Regression introduced by change "Modernize, improve and/or
1233 extend tests `colon*.test" (Stefano Lattarini, 2010-08-08).
1235 2010-09-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1237 Do not require "gzip" explicitly in tests.
1238 The gzip utility is simply expected to be present on any decent
1239 target system for Automake. So it's pointless to put it in
1241 * tests/install2.test ($required): Do not require "gzip".
1242 * tests/lex3.test: Likewise.
1243 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
1244 From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
1246 Make some `confh*.test' tests more "semantic" (plus tweakings).
1247 * tests/confh.test: Run "autoconf", "configure" and "make check",
1248 instead of munging/grepping the generated `Makefile.in'.
1249 * tests/confh4.test: Relax the grepping of Makefile.in w.r.t.
1250 white spaces. Do not create useless dummy source file `foo.c'
1251 and useless dummy header file `acconfig.h'.
1252 (configure.in): Remove superfluous call to `AC_OUTPUT'.
1253 * tests/confh6.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1254 * tests/confh7.test: In comments, add reference to ...
1255 * tests/confh8.test: ... this new test, "semantic" sister
1257 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1258 Prompted by a report from Ralf Wildenhues.
1260 Remove useless whitespace padding in XFAIL_TESTS definition.
1261 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Remove whitespace padding.
1263 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1265 parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
1266 * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
1267 substitution %MAKEFILE%.
1268 (generate_makefile): Adjust.
1269 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
1270 sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
1271 input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
1274 Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
1276 Posix 2008 requires make to set errexit.
1277 * lib/am/check.am: Update comment.
1279 2010-08-27 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1281 Fix bug in test missing6.test.
1282 * tests/missing6.test: Fix the hack used to edit `configure.in',
1283 to avoid producing a configure script that breaks with shells
1284 that do not support $LINENO. Also throw in a couple of cosmetic
1287 2010-08-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1289 Improve robustness of mdate-sh script.
1290 * lib/mdate-sh: Sanitize zsh behavior on startup, to ensure
1291 $ls_command is word-split properly upon invocation.
1292 (error): New function.
1293 (main): Use it. Improve error checking to avoid endless loop
1294 in case $ls_command gave bogus output. Fix eval quotation.
1295 * tests/mdate6.test: New test, to expose eval quotation error.
1296 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
1298 2010-08-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1300 Fix potential regressions in depcomp{3,5}.test.
1301 * tests/depcomp3.test: Do not uselessly escape the character `$'
1302 in makefile rules, when it's used to expand a make macro.
1303 * tests/depcomp5.test: Likewise.
1305 2010-08-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1306 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1308 Docs: clarify how to avoid automatic dependencies tracking.
1309 * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Mention that
1310 automatic dependencies tracking is enabled by default, but that
1311 the package developer can disable it altogether. Add a reference
1312 to the proper section for a more in-depth explanation.
1314 Fix typo in manual (`Makefile.in' instead of `Makefile.am').
1315 * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Fix typo.
1317 2010-08-16 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
1319 Don't hide the table of contents.
1320 * doc/automake.texi: Move the table of contents to the beginning.
1322 2010-08-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1324 Tweak and/or extend some `acloca*.test' tests.
1325 * tests/aclocal8.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured
1327 * tests/aclocal.test: Likewise. Also, add trailing `:'
1329 * tests/acloca19.test: Likewise.
1330 * tests/aclocal5.test: Add trailing `:' command, and prefer
1331 `$me' over hard-coded test name.
1332 * tests/aclocal6.test: Likewise.
1333 * tests/aclocal18.test: Add trailing `:' command, and make
1334 some grepping slightly stricter.
1335 * tests/acloca14.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `diff' over
1336 `cmp', and add some "cosmetic" blank lines.
1338 2010-08-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1340 Tweak and extend tests `pr[!0-9]*.test'.
1341 * tests/primary3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1342 * tests/primary.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
1343 Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
1344 * tests/primary2.test: Likewise.
1345 * tests/prefix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
1346 changes. Add a trailing `:' command.
1347 * tests/proginst.test: Likewise.
1349 Modernize, improve and extend tests for PR (`pr[0-9]*.test').
1350 * tests/pr2.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1351 * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
1352 * tests/pr401.test: Likewise.
1353 * tests/pr401b.test: Likewise.
1354 * tests/pr401c.test: Likewise.
1355 * tests/pr300-prog.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic changes in
1357 * tests/pr300-lib.test: Likewise.
1358 * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise, and ensure verbose printing
1359 of captured make stdout.
1360 * tests/pr211.test: Add trailing `:' command. Also, use the
1361 `configure.in' stub created by ./defs, rather than writing it
1363 * tests/pr204.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic spacing changes.
1364 * tests/pr287.test: Likewise, and move setting of `errexit' shell
1365 flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs).
1366 * tests/pr220.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
1367 Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
1368 * tests/pr224.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1369 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Do not export
1370 `CC=gcc' to configure explicitly (it's already exported globally
1371 in ./defs, since we have "gcc" in $required). Use the stub for
1372 `configure.in' created by ./defs, rather than writing it from
1373 scratch. Do not create dummy files required by "gnu" mode (e.g.
1374 README, NEWS), since we run automake in foreign mode anyway.
1375 * tests/pr72.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
1376 changes. Extend existing checks a bit.
1377 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise. Also, avoid obsolescent constructs in
1378 the generated `configure.in', and extend existing checks over the
1379 generated tarball a bit.
1380 * tests/pr87.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
1381 changes. Add a trailing `:' command. Also, do not create dummy
1382 files required by "gnu" mode (e.g. README, NEWS), since we run
1383 automake in foreign mode anyway.
1384 * tests/pr243.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
1385 `configure.in'. Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
1386 changes. Cosmetic changes to spacing, add trailing `:' command,
1387 and add a "FIXME" comment.
1388 * tests/pr266.test: Likewise, and add explicit command line switch
1389 `--enable-dependecy-tracking' to the ./configure call.
1390 * tests/pr279.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
1391 `configure.in'; also, use the `configure.in' stub created by
1392 ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch. Enable `errexit'
1393 shell flag, and related changes. Add trailing `:' command.
1394 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
1396 * tests/pr307.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1397 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Escape literal
1398 dots in grep regular expressions. Also, add a trailing `:'
1399 command, and cosmetic changes to spacing.
1401 Tests for PR: add excerpts from original bug report, for clarity.
1402 * tests/pr2.test: Ditto.
1403 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
1404 * tests/pr72.test: Likewise.
1405 * tests/pr87.test: Likewise.
1406 * tests/pr211.test: Likewise.
1407 * tests/pr220.test: Likewise.
1408 * tests/pr224.test: Likewise.
1409 * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
1410 * tests/pr243.test: Likewise.
1411 * tests/pr266.test: Likewise.
1412 * tests/pr279.test: Likewise, and tell to keep it in sync
1413 with its sister test.
1414 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
1416 2010-08-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1418 Tweak, extend and improve tests `cond[a-z]*.test'.
1419 * tests/condd.test: Add trailing `:' command. Typofix in
1421 * tests/condhook.test: Make sure target `install-data-hook' is
1422 not called by `make install', but that data files are installed.
1423 Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in. Add trailing `:' command.
1424 * tests/condhook2.test: New test, sister test of condhook, with
1426 * tests/condinc2.test: Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
1427 Prefer trailing `:' command over trailing `Exit 0'.
1428 * tests/condman2.test: Enable errexit shell flag, and related
1429 changes. Add trailing `:' command.
1430 * tests/condman.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless
1431 dummy manpages, and use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
1432 * tests/condman3.test: New test, similar to condman.test, but
1433 it also runs ./configure and "make install", and check the
1435 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1437 Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test.
1438 * tests/colon.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
1439 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Do not create
1440 a useless dummy file. Add trailing `:' command.
1441 * tests/colon4.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
1442 related changes. Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
1443 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1444 * tests/colon7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1445 changes. Improve the generated `configure.in' file. Add
1446 trailing `:' command.
1447 * tests/colon2.test: Likewise. Also, add some new checks.
1448 * tests/colon5.test: Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
1449 Add new, much deeper checks. Add trailing `:' command.
1450 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
1451 * tests/colon3.test: Add trailing `:' command. Remove useless
1452 comments and echos. Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
1453 make some grepping tests stricter. Add a "FIXME" comments about
1454 planned improvements.
1456 Improve and extend tests `asm*.test'.
1457 * tests/asm.test: Use configure.in stub generated by ./defs,
1458 and avoid obsoleted autoconf constructs. Make grepping of
1459 Automake stderr stricter. Do not create useless source file.
1460 Improve verbose messages. Minor cosmetic changes. Tell to
1461 keep it in sync with other sister tests asm*.test.
1462 * tests/asm2.test: Likewise.
1463 * tests/asm3.test: Likewise.
1465 Modernize, improve and/or extend test scripts `conf*.test'.
1466 * tests/confh5.test: Cosmetic changes.
1467 * tests/conff.test: Likewise.
1468 * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise.
1469 * tests/conflnk.test: Likewise.
1470 * tests/conflnk2.test: Likewise.
1471 * tests/confsub.test: Likewise.
1472 * tests/confvar.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
1474 * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
1475 * tests/conflnk3.test: Cosmetic changes. Re-enable a temporarily
1476 disabled test (which didn't work with autoconf <= 2.59, but now we
1477 are requiring autoconf 2.62, so...)
1478 * tests/conflnk4.test: Cosmetic changes, and extend existing tests
1479 accordingly to "TODO" comments.
1480 * tests/conff2.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
1481 Add some comments explaining why we don't use the `configure.in'
1482 stub preset be ./defs.
1483 * tests/confh.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
1484 rather than writing one from scratch, and do not call AC_OUTPUT.
1485 Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related changes. Prefer diff over
1486 cmp to compare text files. Prefer perl over sed to fetch the value
1487 of $(DIST_COMMON) from Makefile.in. Make grepping of the contents
1488 of $(DIST_COMMON) stricter.
1489 * tests/confh4.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
1490 rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping of Makefile.in
1492 * tests/confh5.test: Make grepping of `config.h' stricter. Add a
1494 * tests/configure.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in generated
1495 `configure.ac'. Do not write `configure.in' two times. Escape
1496 literal dots in grep regular expressions.
1497 * tests/confincl.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1498 changes. Prefer fgrep over grep. Other cosmetic changes.
1499 * tests/config.test: Renamed to ...
1500 * tests/confh6.test: ... this. Fix m4 quoting in `configure.in',
1501 and make grepping of `config.h' and `config.h.in' stricter.
1502 * tests/conf2.test: Renamed ...
1503 * tests/confh7.test: ... to this. Use the `configure.in' stub
1504 created by ./defs, rather than writing one from scratch. Try to
1505 run the checks both with and without AC_PROG_CC and AC_OUTPUT in
1507 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1509 Minor improvements and fixes in tests `depcomp*.test'.
1510 * tests/depcomp.test: Do not create useless dummy source files.
1511 Add a trailing `:' command.
1512 * tests/depcomp2.test: Use `unset' on the CFLAG variable to ensure
1513 it's not in in the environment, rather than exporting it with an
1514 empty value. Do not pass CC=gcc to configure, as that's already
1515 done in ./defs since we have gcc in $required. Ensure verbose
1516 printing of captured stderr, and normalize its checking. Add a
1517 trailing `:' command.
1518 * tests/depcomp3.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
1519 grep regexps. Always use `: >' rather than `touch' to create empty
1520 files. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the created
1521 Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:' command.
1522 * tests/depcomp4.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
1523 grep regexp. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the
1524 created Makefile.am. Ensure verbose printing of captured makes'
1525 stoud/stderr. Add a trailing `:' command.
1526 * tests/depcomp5.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1527 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Quote literal dots
1528 and dollar characters in grep regexps. Explicitly declare phony
1529 targets as such in the created Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:'
1531 * tests/depcomp6.test: Consistently use m4 quoting in the generated
1532 configure.in. Cosmetic fixes to spacing. Make the "dummy" `if'
1533 statement required by OpenBSD's sh `set -e' more robust, and add
1534 explanatory comments to it.
1535 * tests/depcomp7.test: Likewise, and add a trailing `:' command.
1537 Separate failing part of test `all.test'.
1538 * tests/all.test: Keep only (x)failing part of the test. Working
1539 checks moved out to ...
1540 * tests/all2.test: ... this new test.
1541 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1543 Modernize, improve and extend tests `subobj*.test'.
1544 * tests/subobjname.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1545 * tests/subobj.test: Make grepping of `Makefile.in' stricter.
1546 Escape literal dots in grep regexps.
1547 * tests/subobj2.test: Add trailing `:' command. Do not use the
1548 unportable fgrep option `-e'.
1549 * tests/subobj3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1550 (configure.in): Use proper m4 quoting, and avoid obsolescent
1552 * tests/subobj8.test: Likewise. Also, enable `errexit' shell
1553 flag, with related changes
1554 * tests/subobj4.test: Likewise. Also, make grepping of
1555 `Makefile.in' stricter.
1556 * tests/subobj5.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of
1557 `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
1559 (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
1560 writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
1561 * tests/subobj6.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of
1562 `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
1563 of ./defs). Do not create useless dummy ac-init file `f'.
1564 * tests/subobj7.test: Do not create useless dummy ac-init file
1566 (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
1567 writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
1568 * tests/subobj9.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1569 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Fail the test if
1570 `make distcheck' fails. Ensure verbose printing of captured make
1571 stdout. Avoid useless fork by doing simple grep instead of using
1572 test -n "`COMMAND | grep ...`".
1573 (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
1574 (Makefile.am): Explicitly mark target "print" as phony.
1575 * tests/subobj10.test: Removed duplicated call to `set -e'. Add
1576 trailing `:' command.
1577 (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
1579 Remove a couple of obsoleted tests.
1580 * tests/fpinstall.test: Removed.
1581 * tests/fpinst2.test: Likewise.
1582 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1584 Bootstrap: updated HACKING entry.
1585 * HACKING ("Working with git"): Explain how to override the
1586 autoconf and autom4te programs used by the bootstrap process.
1589 * bootstrap: Do not remove `lib/Automake/Config.pm' anymore,
1590 since we don't generate it. Correctly quote arguments of
1591 `eval' builtin. Fixed a botched error message. Removed an
1594 Bootstrap: don't search perl in $PATH.
1595 * bootstrap: Do not explicitly search perl in $PATH anymore.
1596 ($PATH_SEPARATOR): Removed, it's no more needed.
1598 Bootstrap: let the user choose which autoconf to use.
1599 * bootstrap ($AUTOCONF): New variable, from the environment.
1600 ($AUTOM4TE): Likewise, for clarity.
1601 Use "$AUTOCONF" instead of calling "autoconf" directly.
1603 Minor improvements to tests ar*.test.
1604 * tests/ar.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1605 * tests/ar2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
1606 Makefile.in stricter.
1608 2010-08-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1610 Fix maintainer-check failure.
1611 * tests/cond5.test: Quote sleep argument, this isn't about
1612 time stamp differences.
1614 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
1615 * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
1618 2010-08-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1620 Work around a nasty bug (segfault) of Solaris make.
1621 * lib/am/check.am (recheck, recheck-html): Trim trailing spaces
1622 from $list, to avoid triggering a nasty bug (potential segfault)
1625 2010-08-06 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
1627 Make cond5.test more robust on MSYS.
1628 * tests/cond5.test: Add delay before the first kill attempt to
1629 cater for problems with MSYS bash.
1631 2010-07-31 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1633 Add example git work flow; discuss merge --log in HACKING.
1635 Suggestion by Stefano Lattarini.
1637 Add more hints for debugging make rules.
1638 * doc/automake.texi (Debugging Make Rules): Show command to find
1639 out expanded values of variables; point to makefile debugger.
1641 Prompted by suggestion from Ludovic Courtès and Andy Wingo.
1643 2010-07-27 Patrick Welche <prlw1@cam.ac.uk> (tiny change)
1645 Fix typo in the manual.
1646 * doc/automake.texi (Scripts): Fix typo.
1648 2010-07-27 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1650 Document current policy for development with git.
1651 * HACKING (Working with git): Overhaul.
1652 Prompted by suggestion from Stefano Lattarini.
1654 Fix AM_COND_IF for gone-invalid condition shell expression.
1655 * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): test contents of $COND_TRUE
1656 variable, rather than re-evaluating the shell expression for
1658 * tests/cond40.test: Extend test.
1661 Avoid syntax error if IF-TRUE part of AM_COND_IF expands empty.
1662 * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): Ensure IF-TRUE part is never empty
1663 to avoid shell syntax error if the m4 expansion is empty.
1664 * tests/cond40.test: Enhance test.
1666 Coverage: bogus option to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
1667 * tests/init2.test: New test.
1668 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
1670 2010-07-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1672 Modernize and improve test scripts `subdir*.test'.
1673 * tests/subdir.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1674 changes. Use the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs',
1675 rather than writing one from scratch.
1676 * tests/subdir2.test: Likewise.
1677 * tests/subdir4.test: Likewise.
1678 * tests/subdir3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1679 changes. Do not create useless dummy source files.
1680 * tests/subdir5.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in (in topdir
1681 and in subdirs) stricter. Some minor changes to keep it more
1682 in sync with the related test `subdir8.test'.
1683 * tests/subdir8.test: Likewise (but with the related test being
1684 `subdir5.test' here).
1685 * tests/subdir6.test: Cosmetic change in spacing.
1686 * tests/subdir9.test: Define and use new variable `$distdir'. Add
1687 trailing `:' command.
1688 * tests/subdir10.test: Cosmetic consistency-related change.
1689 * tests/subdirbuiltsources.test: Cosmetic changes in spacings.
1690 (configure.in): Use stub created by `./defs', rather than writing
1691 it from scratch. Do not use obsoleted and/or deprecated forms of
1692 autoconf/automake macros.
1694 Modernize and improve test scripts `dist*.test'.
1695 * tests/distcleancheck.test: Do not add useless `-e' option to
1696 a $MAKE call. Extend test by grepping stderr of make.
1697 * tests/distcom2.test: Do not run the same test script on the
1698 Makefile.in twice, but save its output in an intermediate file
1699 instead. Make grepping of DIST_COMMON definition stricter.
1700 Display the content of more files, to ease debugging. Add a
1701 trailing `:' command. Improved heading comments w.r.t. sister
1703 * tests/distcom6.test: Likewise, and avoid to uselessly run
1705 * tests/distcom3.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured stdout
1706 and stderr. Make grepping of captured stderr stricter. Also,
1707 add trailing `:' command.
1708 * tests/distcom4.test: Declare the target `test' in the generated
1709 Makefile.am as `.PHONY'. Display content of more files, to ease
1710 debugging. Add trailing `:' command.
1711 * tests/distcom5.test: Likewise. Also, factor out common sed
1712 script in subroutine `extract_distcommon'.
1713 * tests/distcom7.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to write
1714 test Makefile.am files. Add a trailing `:' command.
1715 * tests/distname.test: Prefer `gzip -d' over `gunzip'. Move the
1716 call to `set -e' earlier. Be stricter and more verbose in the
1717 checking of the generated tarball.
1718 (configure.in): Use the stub provided by ./defs, instead of
1719 writing it from scratch. Avoid obsoleted constructs. Remove
1720 useless call to `AM_PROG_CC_C_O'.
1721 * tests/distdir.test: Various minor improvements/normalizations.
1722 * tests/distlinks.test: Likewise.
1724 2010-07-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1726 Improve and extend test cond5.test.
1727 * tests/cond5.test: Do not blindly sleep 60 seconds before polling
1728 the background automake process, but poll it every 10 seconds for
1729 at most 30 times (this makes the test both faster on good machines,
1730 and more resilient to spurious timeout-due failures when in low
1731 priority or on heavily-loaded systems).
1732 Check also that automake writes the expected error messages on the
1734 Enable `errexit' flag, and related changes.
1735 Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs', rather than
1736 writing one from scratch.
1738 2010-06-26 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1740 Update program --help output to match current GCS.
1741 * configure.ac: Set and substitute PACKAGE_URL if AC_PACKAGE_URL
1742 is not defined, for compatibility to Autoconf < 2.64.
1743 * Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute PACKAGE_BUGREPORT and
1745 (sc_diff_automake_in_automake): Update number of diff lines for
1746 additional substitutions.
1747 * aclocal.in (usage): Use PACKAGE_BUGREPORT. Point to Automake
1748 home page and GNU general help page.
1749 * automake.in (usage): Likewise.
1750 * doc/automake.texi: New flag PACKAGE_BUGREPORT, to factor email
1752 (Introduction, Creating amhello, amhello Explained, Options):
1754 * lib/Automake/Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute
1756 * lib/Automake/Config.in ($PACKAGE_BUGREPORT): New global.
1757 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Use it for footer of fatal
1760 Clean up @var handling in the manual.
1761 * doc/automake.texi: Throughout the manual, lower-case @var
1762 names, replace a few one-character names.
1764 2010-06-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1766 Fix typo-related bug in test script silent5.test.
1767 * tests/silent5.test: Use $EGREP, not $GREP (which is not even
1770 Tests: remove useless repetitions of `foreign' automake option.
1771 * tests/multlib.test (configure.in): Remove useless use of
1772 `foreign' option in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (the `--foreign' option is
1773 already in $AUTOMAKE by default, so no point in repeating it).
1774 * tests/subobj10.test: Likewise.
1775 * tests/subobj9.test: Likewise.
1776 * tests/lex3.test (Makefile.am): Similarly, remove useless use
1777 of `foreign' option in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
1778 * tests/lex5.test: Likewise.
1779 * tests/pr279.test: Likewise.
1780 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
1781 * tests/specflg3.test: Likewise.
1782 * tests/target-cflags.test: Likewise.
1784 Drop useless requirement "gzip" in lex5.test.
1785 * tests/lex5.test ($required): Do not list "gzip", as it's
1788 2010-06-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1790 Fix bugs in test script silent5.test.
1791 * tests/silent5.test: Fixed a nasty bug (due to the use of grep
1792 instead of egrep) that could have led to false negatives.
1794 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1796 Add a test checking that distributed broken symlinks cause
1797 `make dist' to fail.
1798 * tests/distlinksbrk.test: New test.
1799 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1801 2010-06-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1803 Fix minor testsuite issues, update docs, for Yacc/Lex changes.
1804 * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Mention AM_YFLAGS, YFLAGS
1805 and AM_LFLAGS, LFLAGS in the order in which they now appear in
1808 * tests/lflags.test, tests/lflags2.test, tests/yflags.test,
1809 tests/yflags2.test: Prefer `make -e' over `make VAR=VAL', to
1810 please maintainer-check. Ensure generated C files contain a
1811 declaration, to please compilers.
1813 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1815 Fix bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t. $(AM_FLAGS) and
1816 $(FLAGS) precedence.
1817 * automake.in: Fix registration of languages "Lex", "Lex (C++)",
1818 "Yacc" and "Yacc (C++)", so that $(LFLAGS) has precedence over
1819 $(AM_LFLAGS) and $(YFLAGS) has precedence over $(AM_YFLAGS).
1820 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1823 New tests, exposing bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t.
1824 $(AM_FLAGS) and $(FLAGS) precedence.
1825 * tests/lflags.test: New test, check that user $(LFLAGS) takes
1826 precedence over automake (AM_LFLAGS) and (foo_LFLAGS). Still
1828 * tests/lflags2.test: Likewise.
1829 * tests/yflags.test: New test, check that user $(YFLAGS) takes
1830 precedence over automake (AM_YFLAGS) and (foo_YFLAGS). Still
1832 * tests/yflags2.test: Likewise.
1833 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Extended accordingly.
1835 2010-06-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1837 Modernize, improve and extend tests `suffix*.test'.
1838 * tests/suffix3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1840 * tests/suffix4.test: Likewise.
1841 * tests/suffix6.test: Likewise, and do not create a useless dummy
1843 * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
1844 * tests/suffix5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1845 changes. Make grepping of Makefile.in slightly stricter.
1846 * tests/suffix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1847 changes. Also, do not redirect grep output to /dev/null, as this
1848 might unmotivatedly hide useful information.
1849 * tests/suffix2.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1850 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Use a more
1851 idiomatic way to count text occurrences in Makefile.in with
1852 grep. Do not create useless dummy source files.
1853 * tests/suffix10.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured make
1854 stdout. Minor cosmetic changes.
1855 * tests/suffix8.test: Likewise. Also, drop useless call to the
1856 env(1) utility, and make grepping of make output stricter by using
1857 $FGREP rather than plain grep.
1858 * tests/suffix11.test: Likewise.
1859 * tests/suffix12.test: Likewise.
1860 * tests/suffix9.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to append to
1861 the `configure.in' stub. Cosmetic changes.
1862 * tests/suffix13.test: Cosmetic spacing change.
1864 2010-06-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1866 Add useful comment in test script ext.test.
1867 * tests/ext.test: Add a comment explaining why an apparently
1868 useless `if' statement is indeed required.
1870 Add useful comment in test script obsolete.test.
1871 * tests/obsolete.test: Add a comment explaining why we need
1872 an indirection in adding $AUTOUPDATE to $required.
1874 Normalize whitespaces in 'tests/Makefile.am'.
1875 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Use only spaces, not tabs, in the
1876 definition of this variable.
1878 2010-06-12 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1880 Remove a couple of unneeded conditionals from tests.
1881 * tests/pr243.test, tests/pr266.test, tests/strip.test: No need
1882 for the FOOTEST conditional.
1884 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1886 Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
1887 * tests/symlink3.test: Deleted, separated into two new, more
1889 * tests/forcemiss.test: ... this one ...
1890 * tests/forcemiss2.test: ... and this one.
1891 * tests/symlink2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, make test
1892 stricter, and skip it if symlink creation is not supported.
1893 * tests/postproc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, related
1894 changes, and a couple of unrelated cosmetic changes.
1895 * tests/recurs.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
1896 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping
1897 of Automake stderr slightly stricter.
1898 * tests/substtarg.test: Likewise.
1899 * tests/strip.test: Likewise, and move the call to `set -e'
1900 earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs'). Also, make sure
1901 that the script installed by `make install-script' is equal to
1903 * tests/substref.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
1904 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Move the call
1905 to `set -e' earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs').
1906 Avoid to explicitly export CC for configure (that's already done
1907 in ./defs). Avoid potential problems with unpredictable make
1908 output. Finally, make grepping of Makefile.in stricter.
1909 * tests/substre2.test: Ensure verbose printing of the captured
1910 make's output, and make its grepping slightly stricter.
1911 * tests/cygwin32.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1912 changes. Also, do not create useless dummy source/data files.
1913 * tests/scripts.test: Likewise.
1914 * tests/recurs2.test: Likewise. Also, use the `configure.in'
1915 stub created by `./defs'.
1916 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1918 Modernize, improve and/or fix tests `pluseq*.test.
1919 * tests/pluseq5.test: Append to configure.in using cat with an
1920 here-doc, not using echo.
1921 * tests/pluseq10.test: Make sure that the captured output of
1922 `make' command is always displayed. Where possible, use $FGREP
1923 instead of grep (this change makes some checks slightly stricter).
1924 * tests/pluseq8.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
1926 * tests/pluseq.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless dummy
1927 data files, and use better m4 quoting in generated configure.in.
1928 * tests/pluseq2.test: Likewise. Also, append to configure.in
1929 using cat with an here-doc, not using echo.
1930 * tests/pluseq3.test: Likewise.
1931 * tests/pluseq4.test: Likewise.
1932 * tests/pluseq6.test: Likewise.
1933 * tests/pluseq7.test: Do not create useless dummy source file.
1934 * tests/pluseq9.test: Slightly extended w.r.t. the grepping of
1935 Automake stderr. Some unrelated cosmetic changes.
1937 Testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured stderr.
1938 * tests/acloca18.test: Print captured stderr before either failing
1939 or grepping it. Be sure to send captured stderr to stderr, not to
1941 * tests/ansi3b.test: Likewise.
1942 * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
1943 * tests/configure.test: Likewise.
1944 * tests/missing3.test: Likewise.
1945 * tests/missing6.test: Likewise.
1946 * tests/output-order.test: Likewise.
1947 * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise.
1948 * tests/python6.test: Likewise.
1949 * tests/python7.test: Likewise.
1950 * tests/python8.test: Likewise.
1951 * tests/python9.test: Likewise.
1952 * tests/subobj.test: Likewise.
1953 * tests/vars3.test: Likewise.
1954 * tests/missing4.test: Likewise, and fix a call to grep not to use
1956 * tests/ansi3.test: Likewise, and rely on the `configure.in' stub
1957 created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1959 Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
1960 * tests/backsl.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
1962 * tests/backsl2.test: Likewise.
1963 * tests/block.test: Likewise.
1964 * tests/canon2.test: Likewise.
1965 * tests/canon4.test: Likewise.
1966 * tests/comment2.test: Likewise.
1967 * tests/condlib.test: Likewise.
1968 * tests/cond15.test: Likewise, and prefer $FGREP over grep.
1969 * tests/canon3.test: Likewise. Also, avoid to create an useless
1971 * tests/acoutpt2.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and some
1972 related changes. Do some cosmetic improvements in the generated
1973 `configure.in' file.
1974 * tests/cond4.test: Likewise.
1975 * tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
1976 * tests/condinc.test: Likewise.
1977 * tests/cond7.test: Likewise. Also, remove useless setting of
1978 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am.
1979 * tests/ansi.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
1980 changes. Extended, esp. by running autoconf, ./configure and
1981 make, and by looking into the distdir.
1983 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1984 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1986 Extend tests/README w.r.t. trailing `:' in test scripts.
1987 * tests/README (section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
1988 Explain why apparently redundant trailing `:' and `Exit 0' in
1989 test scripts can indeed be useful.
1991 2010-06-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1993 Improve determination of PATH separator in bootstrap script.
1994 * bootstrap: Determine what the PATH separator is the same way
1997 Minor improvements in bootstrap script.
1998 * bootstrap: Consistently use two-spaces indentation. Cosmetic
1999 improvement to comments.
2000 ($me): New variable, containing program basename.
2001 Prepend it to all error messages.
2003 Testsuite now works with BSD make in parallel mode.
2004 * tests/defs.in: Unset variables __MKLVL__ and MAKE_JOBS_FIFO,
2005 which are exported by BSD make when run in parallel mode, and
2006 which can confuse make processes spawned by our testsuite.
2007 This change fixes a lot of spurious failure when the testsuite
2008 is run with BSD make in parallel mode.
2010 2010-06-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2012 Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
2013 * tests/sanity.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
2014 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
2015 * tests/depend2.test: Likewise. Also, call `set -e' just after
2016 the inclusion of `./defs', instead that later in the script.
2017 * tests/canon5.test: Avoid a useless `|| Exit 1' after a call to
2018 $AUTOMAKE, and improve the positioning of an $ACLOCAL call.
2019 * tests/exeext4.test: Use $FGREP instead of grep, where possible.
2020 Make auxiliary rules in the generated Makefile more silent.
2021 These changes make some checks slightly stricter.
2022 * tests/ext2.test: Call `Exit 1' if inclusion of `./defs' fails.
2023 * tests/gettext2.test: Place final `:' at the end of the script,
2024 rather than in the middle.
2025 * tests/exeext.test: Call `set -e' just after the inclusion of
2026 `./defs', instead that later in the script.
2027 * tests/extra5.test: Likewise.
2028 * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `mv -f' over
2029 plain `mv', just to be sure.
2030 * tests/depcomp.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
2031 changes. Also, modernize the generated configure.in.
2032 * tests/cond9.test: Likewise. Also, rely on the `configure.in'
2033 stub created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
2034 * tests/cond10.test: Likewise.
2035 * tests/depcomp2.test: Likewise.
2036 * tests/depend3.test: Likewise.
2037 * tests/distcom7.test: Likewise.
2038 * tests/fortdep.test: Likewise. Also, remove definition of
2039 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am,
2040 since that flag is already provided by $AUTOMAKE.
2041 * tests/mdate.test: Made stricter, by checking that Automake
2042 actually failed, and by making a stricter grep on the error
2043 message. Also, set shell `errexit flag'.
2044 * tests/python2.test: Improved verbose messages.
2046 Make test `ammissing.test' stricter.
2047 * tests/ammissing.test: Fail if $ACLOCAL succeeds unexpectedly.
2048 Enable `errexit' shell flag.
2050 2010-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2052 Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
2053 * tests/subcond.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
2055 * tests/subst.test: Likewise.
2056 * tests/vars.test: Likewise.
2057 * tests/version4.test: Likewise.
2058 * tests/vpath.test: Likewise.
2059 * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
2060 * tests/werror.test: Likewise.
2061 * tests/whoami.test: Likewise.
2062 * tests/tags.test: Likewise, and avoid to crate an useless dummy
2064 * tests/acsilent.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
2065 command substitution.
2066 * tests/unused.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
2067 command substitution.
2068 * tests/version.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
2069 in the generated `configure.in'.
2070 * tests/version2.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
2071 in the generated `configure.in'.
2073 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2075 Prefer AUTOMAKE_fails over `$AUTOMAKE | grep' in tests.
2076 * tests/ldadd.test: Enable errexit. Use AUTOMAKE_fails so
2077 the verbose log contains all output.
2078 * tests/mdate.test: Likewise.
2079 Prompted by Stefano Lattarini's change to discover.test.
2081 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2083 Improve tests link*.test (enable `errexit' shell flag).
2084 * tests/link_c_cxx.test: Enable `errexit shell flag, and related
2085 changes. Also, do not create useless source files.
2086 * tests/link_dist.test: Likewise.
2087 * tests/link_f90_only.test: Likewise.
2088 * tests/link_f_only.test: Likewise.
2089 * tests/link_fc.test: Likewise.
2090 * tests/link_fccxx.test: Likewise.
2091 * tests/link_fcxx.test: Likewise.
2093 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2095 Improve ext.test semantics, avoid OpenBSD sh errexit issue.
2096 * tests/ext.test: Inside shell compound command, use
2097 `if $cmd; then Exit 1; fi' rather than `$cmd && Exit 1', to
2098 fix failure with OpenBSD sh introduced with last patch.
2099 Actually ensure that a rule for .EXT.o is created for each
2100 known extension EXT.
2102 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2104 Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
2105 * tests/dash.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
2107 * tests/defun.test: Likewise.
2108 * tests/defun2.test: Likewise.
2109 * tests/dejagnu.test: Likewise.
2110 * tests/double.test: Likewise.
2111 * tests/distcom2.test: Likewise.
2112 * tests/empty2.test: Likewise.
2113 * tests/empty3.test: Likewise.
2114 * tests/empty4.test: Likewise.
2115 * tests/exdir.test: Likewise.
2116 * tests/ext.test: Likewise.
2117 * tests/extra.test: Likewise.
2118 * tests/extra2.test: Likewise.
2119 * tests/extra3.test: Likewise.
2120 * tests/extra4.test: Likewise.
2121 * tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
2122 * tests/fnoc.test: Likewise.
2123 * tests/fo.test: Likewise.
2124 * tests/instexec.test: Likewise.
2125 * tests/ltdeps.test: Likewise.
2126 * tests/nodep.test: Likewise.
2127 * tests/nodepcomp.test: Likewise.
2128 * tests/f90only.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
2129 comments and unnecessary commands.
2130 * tests/fonly.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
2131 comments and unnecessary commands.
2132 * tests/discover.test: Likewise, and made stricter.
2134 Enable `errexit' shell flag in all tests cxx*.test.
2135 * tests/cxx.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
2137 * tests/cxxansi.test: Likewise.
2138 * tests/cxxcpp.test: Likewise.
2139 * tests/cxxlibobj.test: Likewise.
2140 * tests/cxxlink.test: Likewise.
2141 * tests/cxxo.test: Likewise.
2143 Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
2144 * tests/acoutnoq.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
2146 * tests/acoutpt.test: Likewise.
2147 * tests/acoutqnl.test: Likewise.
2148 * tests/amassign.test: Likewise.
2149 * tests/ansi2.test: Likewise.
2150 * tests/ansi4.test: Likewise.
2151 * tests/badprog.test: Likewise.
2152 * tests/checkall.test: Likewise.
2153 * tests/clean.test: Likewise.
2154 * tests/colneq2.test: Likewise.
2155 * tests/colon.test: Likewise.
2156 * tests/colon5.test: Likewise.
2157 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
2158 * tests/comment.test: Likewise.
2159 * tests/compile_f90_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
2160 * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
2161 * tests/cond3.test: Likewise.
2162 * tests/cond6.test: Likewise.
2163 * tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
2164 * tests/conf2.test: Likewise.
2165 * tests/confvar.test: Likewise.
2166 * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
2167 * tests/cond8.test: Likewise, plus a cosmetic change.
2168 * tests/confh4.test: Likewise. Also, add in the heading comments
2169 an excerpt from the original bug report which motivated the
2170 creation of this test, to make its purpose clearer.
2172 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2174 Rewrite manual to be gender-neutral.
2175 * doc/automake.texi (GNU Build System)
2176 (Standard Directory Variables, General Operation, CVS)
2177 (Hard-Coded Install Paths, Dependencies As Side Effects):
2178 Rewrite text to not contain gender-specific pronouns when
2179 speaking about developers or users, either by avoiding pronouns
2180 or by addressing them as `you' instead.
2182 Report by Christina Gratorp.
2186 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2188 Make tests on user extensibility of silent-rules mode stricter.
2189 * tests/silent6.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
2190 output produced by `make'.
2191 * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
2193 Tests on silent-mode for C/Libtool made stricter.
2194 * tests/silent.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
2195 output produced by `make'.
2196 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
2197 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
2198 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
2199 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise, and add a final `make distclean'
2200 command to keep it better in sync with tests/silent{4,9}.test.
2202 Improved test silent5.test.
2203 * tests/silent5.test: Remove by hand all generated C files after
2204 non-verbose builds, to ensure the following builds are clean.
2205 Try to clean and rebuild with the same verbosity and without
2206 removing generated sources in between, to check that this does
2207 not trigger a different set of rules. Make grepping of make's
2208 output stricter. Improved/added some comments.
2210 New tests for Automake silent-mode with Fortran.
2211 * tests/silentf77.test: New test.
2212 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
2213 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2215 New test `silentcxx.test' (Automake silent-mode with C++).
2216 * tests/silentcxx.test: New test.
2217 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2219 New test `silentyacc.test' (Automake silent-mode with Yacc).
2220 * tests/silentyacc.test: New test.
2221 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2223 New test `silentlex.test' (Automake silent-mode with Lex).
2224 * tests/silentlex.test: New test.
2225 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2227 Relax tests on silent-rules to cater to overly verbose makes.
2228 * tests/silent.test: When testing silent builds, don't fail if
2229 make's output simply contains the `mv' substring, but only if
2230 it contains the `mv ' substring (note the trailing space).
2231 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
2232 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
2233 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
2234 * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
2235 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
2237 2010-01-24 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2239 Fix silent-rules output for disabled dependency tracking.
2240 * lib/am/depend2.am [!%FASTDEP%]: Rework silent-rules variable
2241 expansion code to also work in the case where %AMDEP% expands
2242 to FALSE at config.status time, using new substitution string
2244 * automake.in (verbose_nodep_flag): New function, appending
2245 `@am__nodep@' to the verbose-variable name.
2246 (handle_languages): If dependencies are not disabled, use it to
2247 set %VERBOSE-NODEP%.
2248 * m4/depend.m4: Substitute am__nodep as '_no', so the second
2249 verbose-variable will always expand to an empty string, if
2250 dependencies are enabled.
2251 * tests/silent5.test: Also test --disable-dependency-tracking;
2252 also test per-target flags for non-C language files.
2253 * tests/silent9.test: New test, like silent4.test but disable
2254 dependency tracking.
2255 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
2256 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
2257 Report by Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>.
2259 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2261 Extend test on `nostdinc' automake option.
2262 * tests/nostdinc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Related and
2263 unrelated minor changes. Make the grepping of the generated
2264 Makefile.in slightly stricter. Generate and run configure, so that
2265 the generated Makefile can be grepped too.
2267 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2269 Make gnupload portable to EBCDIC hosts.
2270 * lib/gnupload: Use literal newline as argument for 'tr' rather
2271 than \015, for EBCDIC hosts. Also, avoid unportable nested
2272 double-quotes and backquotes.
2274 Report from Eric Blake and Steve Goetze via gnulib.
2276 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2278 Fix Autoconf version required by Automake's configure.
2279 Automake configure script used to tell that automake required
2280 autoconf 2.60 or later, but then it checked for autoconf >= 2.62,
2281 and if that was not found, it gave an error saying that Automake
2282 required configure 2.61a-341 or later. This change should
2283 eliminate such inconsistencies.
2284 * configure.ac ($required_autoconf_version): New variable.
2287 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2289 Fix unportable sed script in maintainer-check test.
2290 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_Exit_not_exit): Rewrite sed script to
2291 not contain semicolon after 'b' or brace commands, for NetBSD.
2293 Wildcards are not portable to NetBSD make.
2294 * doc/automake.texi (Wildcards): Document portability issue.
2295 * tests/extra10.test, tests/extra11.test, tests/extra12.test:
2298 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2300 Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
2301 * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
2302 an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
2304 Avoid possible false negatives in dejagnu7.test.
2305 * tests/dejagnu7.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Also, avoid
2306 unportable use of fgrep option `-e'.
2308 Fix conflnk3.test to work with Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
2309 * tests/conflnk3.test: Use `test -r FILE' and `test ! -r FILE'
2310 instead of respectively `test -e FILE' and `test ! -e FILE',
2311 since Solaris Sh doesn't grok the latter. Do not SKIP the test
2312 if the shell doesn't support `test -e'.
2314 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2317 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Add
2318 missing closing parenthesis.
2320 Fix leftover call to removed function macros_dump.
2321 * automake.in (read_main_am_file): Call variables_dump, not
2322 macros_dump. Print actual error before list of variables.
2324 2010-04-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2326 Minor improvements in comments of test `silent3.test'.
2327 * tests/silent3.test: Tell to keep it in sync with `silent9.test'
2330 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2332 testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured output.
2333 * tests/acloca14.test, tests/acloca18.test, tests/aclocal.test,
2334 tests/fort2.test, tests/help.test, tests/missing3.test,
2335 tests/missing6.test: Print captured stdout or stderr before
2338 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2340 Make test badopt.test stricter (by enabling `set -e').
2341 * tests/badopt.test: Add call to `set -e'. Due to this change,
2342 an unexpected failure in the call to `$ACLOCAL' (whose outcome
2343 was previously unchecked) would cause the whole test to fail.
2344 Also, bumped the copyright years.
2346 Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
2347 * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
2348 an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
2350 Use `set -e' in confsub.test (avoids possible false negatives).
2351 * tests/confsub.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and related
2352 changes (this helps avoiding some possible minor false negatives).
2353 Also, bumped copyright years.
2355 2010-04-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2357 Fix -Werror handling for presence of configure.in and configure.ac.
2358 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (Automake::Variable): Do not initialize
2359 $configure_ac at the global level, before command-line arguments
2361 (require_variables): Initialize it here.
2362 * tests/configure.test: New test.
2363 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
2364 Report by Stefano Lattarini.
2366 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2368 Avoid possible false negatives in confh5.test.
2369 * tests/confh5.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and bumped
2370 copyright years. Due to this change, any unexpected failure
2371 in calls to $ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE, $AUTOCONF or $AUTOHEADER, or
2372 a failure in grepping expected text in output files should now
2373 cause the whole test to fail.
2375 2010-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2377 Fixed typo in POD documentation of Automake::Channels.
2378 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Fixed typo in POD documentation:
2379 @<...> was used instead of C<...>.
2381 2010-04-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2383 Refactor tests on Automake TESTS color output.
2384 * tests/color.test: Tests using the expect program moved out to...
2385 * tests/color2.test: ... this new file.
2386 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Extended accordingly.
2388 2010-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2390 Fix typos in comments in test confh5.test
2391 * tests/confh5.test: Fix a couple of typos in comments.
2393 Avoid possible false negatives in canon-name.test.
2394 * tests/canon-name.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Improve
2397 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2399 Fix per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror.
2400 Before this patch, 'AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = -Werror' in one
2401 Makefile.am would carry over to other Makefile.am files
2402 treated afterwards by the same thread, causing inconsistent
2403 and unstable exit status values.
2404 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (dup_channel_setup)
2405 (drop_channel_setup): Save and restore the setting of
2406 $warnings_are_errors.
2407 * tests/werror3.test: New test.
2408 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
2411 2010-04-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2413 Bugfix in confh5.test w.r.t. Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
2414 * tests/confh5.test: In the generated Makefile.am: do not use
2415 `test ! -e FILE' to check for the non-existence of a file, since
2416 that is not supported by Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
2418 Make test `aclocal3.test' stricter.
2419 * tests/aclocal3.test: Add call to `set -e'. Fail if $ACLOCAL
2420 succeds unexpectedly.
2422 Add tests checking that symlinks are resolved by `make dist'.
2423 * tests/distlinks.test: New test.
2424 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2425 Suggested by observations from Ralf Wildenhues.
2427 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2429 Use -9 for maximum xz compression with dist-xz.
2430 * lib/am/distdir.am (dist-xz, dist, dist-all): Pass -9 to xz.
2431 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
2432 Report by Pavel Sanda.
2434 2010-03-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2436 Avoid an unportable use of `$status' shell variable.
2437 * Makefile.am (path-check): Don't use the `$status' shell variable
2438 in the target's rules, as it's special in Zsh (equivalent to `$?',
2441 Avoid another use of `chmod -R'.
2442 * Makefile.am (path-check): To be safe, do not use `chmod -R' on
2443 $(distdir) before removing it (as Solaris `chmod -R' touches
2444 symlink targets). Instead, use the cleanup strategy used in
2447 2010-03-28 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2449 Remove uses of @acronym and @sc.
2450 * doc/automake.texi (Public Macros, Limitations on File Names):
2451 Remove all usage of @acronym and @sc in the manual.
2452 Suggested by Karl Berry.
2454 2010-03-13 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
2456 GNU hello uses fdl.texi, not gpl.texi.
2457 * doc/automake.texi (Texinfo): Adjust example to upstream
2460 2010-03-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2462 Formatting cleanups in macro comments.
2463 * automake.in, lib/Automake/Channels.pm,
2464 lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm, lib/Automake/Options.pm,
2465 lib/Automake/Variable.pm, lib/Automake/XFile.pm,
2466 m4/options.m4, m4/substnot.m4: Fix macro comment format.
2468 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2469 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2471 Avoid generation of `tests/defs-p' file.
2472 * tests/defs.in: In the generated `configure.in' snippet: call
2473 `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' with the `parallel-tests' option if the shell
2474 variable `parallel_tests' is set to `yes'.
2475 * tests/Makefile.am (defs-p): Target removed.
2476 (check_SCRIPTS): Removed `defs-p'.
2477 (clean-local-check): Do not unlink `defs-p' anymore.
2478 ($(parallel_tests)): Transformation rules for the test scripts
2480 * tests/gen-parallel-tests: Selection rules for the test
2482 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Set `$parallel_tests' to `yes'
2483 then include `./defs' (rather than simply including `./defs-p').
2484 * tests/parallel-tests2.test: Likewise.
2485 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
2486 * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
2487 * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
2488 * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
2489 * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
2490 * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise.
2491 * tests/parallel-tests9.test: Likewise.
2492 * tests/parallel-tests10.test: Likewise.
2493 * tests/README (Section "Writing Test Cases" subsection "Do"):
2494 Adjusted the parts referring to tests checking `parallel-tests'
2495 behaviour. Some other minor related improvements.
2496 * tests/.gitignore (defs-p): Removed.
2498 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2500 Remove redundant unset of variable TESTS from some test scripts.
2501 * tests/color.test: Do not unset the `TESTS' variable, as it's
2502 already unset in the `defs' file.
2503 * tests/check5.test: Likewise.
2504 * tests/check8.test: Likewise.
2505 * tests/check9.test: Likewise.
2506 * tests/check10.test: Likewise.
2507 * tests/check11.test: Likewise.
2508 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Likewise.
2509 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
2510 * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
2511 * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
2512 * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
2513 * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
2515 2010-02-22 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
2517 Improve help message of mdate-sh.
2518 * mdate-sh: mention actual output format in help message.
2520 2010-02-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2522 Deprecate dist-lzma in favor of dist-xz.
2523 * doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions, Options):
2524 Adjust text to reflect renaming of lzma to xz.
2526 Missing deprecation noted by Antonio Diaz Diaz.
2528 2010-02-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2530 Add tests about support of wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
2531 * tests/extra10.test: New test, check basic support of wildcards
2533 * tests/extra11.test: New test, check more complex usage of
2534 wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
2535 * tests/extra12.test: New test, check usage of wildcards in
2536 EXTRA_DIST when $builddir != $srcdir.
2537 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2538 Necessity of these new tests suggested by Braden McDaniel
2539 and Ralf Wildenhues.
2541 2010-02-08 Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
2543 Fix copyright statement in gnupload script.
2544 * lib/gnupload: Fix copyright statement.
2546 2010-02-06 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> (tiny change)
2547 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2549 Fix exit status of signal handlers in shell scripts.
2550 The value of `$?' on entrance to signal handlers in shell scripts
2551 cannot be relied upon, so set the exit code explicitly to
2553 * lib/am/check.am (am__check_pre): Use `exit 143' in signal handler.
2554 * lib/elisp-comp: Likewise.
2555 * lib/install-sh: Likewise.
2556 * lib/ylwrap: Likewise. Also, fix script to trap signal 13, not 3.
2557 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
2558 Bug report, analysis, and initial patch by Dmitry V. Levin.
2560 2010-02-06 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
2562 Improve gnupload usage text.
2563 * gnupload (usage): Shorten to make more likely to fit on a tty
2564 line. Mention CMD in the synopsis. With ..., plural is implied.
2566 2010-01-28 Christos Kontas <xakon@yahoo.com> (tiny change)
2568 Fix some typos in the manual
2569 * doc/automake.texi (Nested Packages, Rebuilding): Fix typos.
2571 2010-01-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2573 Slighty improve tests acoutbs.test and acoutbs2.test.
2574 * tests/acoutbs2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Check that
2575 autoconf and configure work, that the file `zot' is created by
2576 configure, and that no file containing a backslash in its name is
2578 * tests/acoutbs.test: Likewise, plus updated copyright years.
2580 Fix test acoutbs2.test.
2581 * tests/acoutbs2: In the generated configure.in: add proper calls
2582 to AC_INIT and AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, and remove explicit definition of
2583 PACKAGE and VERSION. Add a call to aclocal before calling automake.
2584 Updated copyright years.
2585 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Removed acoutbs2.test.
2587 Add forgotten test scripts to $(TESTS).
2588 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Added test scripts present on the
2589 filesystem, which were erroneously left out from $(TESTS):
2590 acoutbs2.test, badopt.test, extra2.test.
2591 (XFAIL_TESTS): Added acoutbs2.test.
2593 2010-01-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2595 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
2596 * INSTALL, lib/INSTALL, lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub:
2599 Bump copyright years.
2600 * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
2601 * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
2602 * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
2605 * ChangeLog.09: New file, rotated from ...
2606 * ChangeLog: ... here.
2607 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute ChangeLog.09.
2611 Copyright (C) 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2613 Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are
2614 permitted provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved.
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