1 2011-01-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3 docs: clustered '-d' not recognized in YFLAGS
4 This change fixes automake bug#7828.
5 * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Document that automake
6 recognizes '-d' in AM_YFLAGS only if it's not clustered with
8 From a report by Юрий Пухальский.
10 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
12 * NEWS: Fix typo (forgotten word).
14 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
17 docs: how to work around checks on invalid primary/directory couples
18 * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): Document the blessed idiom which can
19 be used to work around automake checks on invalid primary/directory
20 couples (such as `lib_PROGRAMS' or `doc_LIBRARIES').
22 2011-01-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
24 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
25 * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
28 Fix maintainer-check regression.
29 * tests/subobj11a.test: Pass DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS in the
33 * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
34 * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
35 * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
37 2010-12-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
38 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
40 Work around a bug in file-inclusion mechanism of Solaris make.
41 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): In the name of the
42 dependency file: collapse multiple slash characters into a single
44 * tests/subobj11a.test: New test.
45 * tests/subobj11b.test: Likewise.
46 * tests/subobj11c.test: Likewise.
47 * tests/depcomp8a.test: Likewise.
48 * tests/depcomp8b.test: Likewise.
49 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
51 Report by Stefano Lattarini, quick fix by Ralf Wildenhues, final
52 patch and tests by Stefano Lattarini.
54 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
56 Fix two spurious testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5.
57 * tests/suffix13.test (Makefile.am): Account for VPATH issues on
58 weaker make implementations (e.g. IRIX 6.5).
59 * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise, plus a required related
61 Reported by Ralf Wildenhues. The bugs have been there from the
62 first versions of the affected test scripts.
64 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
66 docs: cygnus mode doesn't require AM_CYGWIN32 macro.
67 * doc/automake.texi (Cygnus): Mode 'cygnus' does not require
68 the AM_CYGWIN32 macro (and indeed hasn't required it since at
69 least commit Release-1-2-31-g3038064 "merged changes from
70 Cygnus" of 1997-08-25).
72 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
74 distlinksbrk.test: Work around botched "make -k".
75 * tests/distlinksbrk.test: Run "make" multiple times and grep
76 its output each time for a single error message, rather than
77 running "make -k" one single time and grepping its output for
78 all the expected error messages. This should work around make
79 implementations with limited (broken?) `-k' support; for more
80 information, see these subthreads on the automake-patches list:
81 - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on HP-UX 11.23",
82 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00162.html>
83 - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5",
84 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00166.html>
86 2010-12-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
88 Fix sed-related buglet in test "subdir5.test"
89 * tests/subdir5.test: Always terminate text passed to the
90 `i' sed command with a newline, to work around limitations
91 in e.g. older OpenBSD sed.
93 2010-12-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
95 docs: fix blunder in example about python extension modules
96 * doc/automake.texi (Python): Use `quaternion_la_SOURCES',
97 not `quaternion_SOURCES', to declare the sources of python
98 extension module `quaternion.la'.
100 2010-12-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
102 docs: list LTLIBRARIES among Automake primaries
103 * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): List `LTLIBRARIES' among
104 the Automake primaries.
106 2010-12-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
108 Improve tests on generated portions of configure help screen.
109 * tests/help-depend.test: Grepping of configure help screen
110 relaxed to cater for possible line wrapping, and tightened in
112 * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
113 * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
114 * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
115 * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
116 * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
117 * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
118 * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
119 * tests/help-init.test: Grepping of configure help screen
122 2010-12-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
124 Avoid running installed automake from 'libtool --help'.
125 * tests/subobj9.test: Export AUTOCONF and AUTOMAKE.
126 Together with fixed Libtool, this fixes check-coverage to not
127 invoke installed automake.
129 2010-11-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
131 Fix spurious failures in `silent*.test' for $CC != gcc
132 In some tests on automake-produced silent rules, we forced the
133 use of gcc depmode to improve testsuite coverage; but this has
134 unsurprisingly led to spurious failures when some non-GNU C
135 compilers were used. So we are now careful to require GCC in
136 tests that force gcc depmode.
137 From reports by Ralf Wildenhues.
138 * silent5.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
139 * silent-many-generic.test, silent-many-gcc.test: ... these new
140 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
142 * silentlex.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
143 * silent-lex-generic.test, silent-lex-gcc.test: ... these new
144 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
146 * silentyacc.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
147 * silent-yacc-generic.test, silent-yacc-gcc.test: ... these new
148 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
150 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
152 2010-11-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
154 Tests: consistently use "|| Exit 1" after ". ./defs".
155 * tests/autohdr.test: Use `. ./defs || Exit 1', not bare
156 `. ./defs', for consistency with other tests.
157 * tests/autohdr2.test: Likewise.
158 * tests/autohdr3.test: Likewise.
159 * tests/autohdr4.test: Likewise.
160 * tests/cond23.test: Likewise.
161 * tests/cond24.test: Likewise.
162 * tests/cond25.test: Likewise.
163 * tests/cond26.test: Likewise.
164 * tests/cond27.test: Likewise.
165 * tests/cond28.test: Likewise.
166 * tests/cond29.test: Likewise.
167 * tests/cond30.test: Likewise.
168 * tests/cond31.test: Likewise.
169 * tests/cond32.test: Likewise.
170 * tests/cond33.test: Likewise.
171 * tests/cond34.test: Likewise.
172 * tests/cond35.test: Likewise.
173 * tests/cond36.test: Likewise.
174 * tests/cond37.test: Likewise.
175 * tests/cond38.test: Likewise.
176 * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
177 * tests/cond40.test: Likewise.
178 * tests/cond41.test: Likewise.
179 * tests/cond42.test: Likewise.
180 * tests/cond43.test: Likewise.
181 * tests/cond44.test: Likewise.
182 * tests/cond45.test: Likewise.
183 * tests/dollarvar.test: Likewise.
184 * tests/dollarvar2.test: Likewise.
185 * tests/hfs.test: Likewise.
186 * tests/libobj14.test: Likewise.
187 * tests/percent.test: Likewise.
188 * tests/percent2.test: Likewise.
189 * tests/phony.test: Likewise.
190 * tests/silent.test: Likewise.
191 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
192 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
193 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
194 * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
195 * tests/silent6.test: Likewise.
196 * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
197 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
198 * tests/silentcxx.test: Likewise.
199 * tests/silentf77.test: Likewise.
200 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
201 * tests/silentlex.test: Likewise.
202 * tests/silentyacc.test: Likewise.
204 Avoid useless cleaning in some `silent*.test' tests.
205 * tests/silentf77.test: Removed useless calls to "make clean"
206 and "make maintainer-clean".
207 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
208 * tests/silent3.test: Removed useless call to "make distclean".
209 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
210 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
212 2010-11-19 Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
214 Sync config-ml.in from GCC.
215 * config-ml.in: Add Go support: treat GOC and GOCFLAGS like other
216 compiler/flag environment variables.
218 2010-11-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
220 Automake::Config: remove extra trailing semicolon.
221 * lib/Automake/Config.in: Remove extra trailing semicolon.
223 help4.test: fix botched heading comment.
224 * tests/help4.test: Fixed the heading comment, since it
225 didn't correctly describe what checks the testcase was
228 help2.test: add checks on aclocal too.
229 * tests/help2.test: Check that also `aclocal --version' and
230 `aclocal --help' work with configure.in and acinclude.m4 both
233 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
235 Fix spurious failures of silent-rules tests with Sun Fortran.
236 * tests/silentf77.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
237 messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers, to
238 avoid spurious failures. Add a trailing `:' command.
239 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
241 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
243 Fix spurious failures of silent5.test with Sun Fortran.
244 * tests/silent5.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
245 messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers,
246 to avoid spurious failures. This bug has been there from the
247 very first version of this test script.
249 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
251 Fix regression in colon{5,6}.test (failures on AIX 5.3).
252 * tests/colon5.test: Also substitute `@SHELL@' with `$SHELL' when
253 post-processing the generated Makefile.in, to work around a bug
254 of AIX 5.3 make which doesn't allow setting the `$(SHELL)' macro
255 on the commend line. Calls to `$MAKE' adjusted accordingly.
256 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
257 Regression introduced in commit v1.11-175-gf9fe878 "Modernize,
258 improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test", and reported by Ralf
261 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
263 Fix regression in ansi.test (failure on AIX 5.3).
264 * tests/ansi.test: Remove redundant hackish check done using a
265 hand-postprocessed Makefile.in. This check worked by setting
266 the `$(SHELL)' macro on the command line of make, but this is
267 not supported by the AIX 5.3 make implementation.
268 This bug has been lurking for a long time, and was activated by
269 commit v1.11-125-gc1f6cdb "Enable `errexit' shell flag in various
270 tests". Report by Ralf Wildenhues.
272 2010-11-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
274 tests: avoid '##'-style comments inside recipe commands.
275 * tests/confh.test, tests/confh8.test: Remove
276 double-hash comments from makefile rule commands, they
277 are not part of the Automake API.
279 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
281 tests: work around dash quoting issue in case statements.
282 * tests/color.test, tests/color2.test: Quote variable in case
283 pattern, to avoid skipping tests with dash 0.5.5.1.
285 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
287 Rebuild menus in the manual.
288 * doc/automake.texi: Rebuild menus (using ^C ^U ^A in emacs).
289 Thanks to Ian Lance Taylor for the suggestion.
291 Fix install-strip when $(STRIP) contains several words.
292 * lib/am/install.am (install-strip): Update comment. Use
293 separate sub-make invocations for empty and nonempty $(STRIP),
294 to fix quoting issues.
295 * tests/strip2.test, tests/strip3.test: New tests.
296 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Adjust.
298 2010-11-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
300 Fix yaccdry.test failure: require bison.
301 * tests/yaccdry.test: Require bison.
302 Found by NixOS Hydra.
304 2010-11-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
306 Fix a bug in variable concatenation with `+='.
307 * lib/Automake/VarDef.pm (append): Since the content of the
308 "appended-to" variable is going to be unconditionally normalized
309 later, simply separate the appended value with a single whitespace
310 character, instead of trying to be uselessly smarter by using
311 escaped newlines. This fixes a bug in which extra backslashes
312 where erroneously inserted in the variable's final value.
313 * tests/pluseq11.test: New test, exposing the bug.
314 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
315 Reported by Andy Wingo.
317 2010-11-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
319 Fix bug in rules for creating vala vapi/header files.
320 * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Add forgotten "fi" in an
321 if control structure in a generated make rules. Bug introduced
322 by previous commit `v1.11-221-gd7c1679', and revealed by failure
323 of test `vala2.test'.
325 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
327 Fix and document rules to not touch the tree with `make -n'.
328 * doc/automake.texi (Multiple Outputs): Document the problem of
329 modifications during dry-run execution, propose solution.
331 * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Split recipe so the
332 stamp file is not removed with GNU `make -n'.
333 (lang_yacc_target_hook): Separate removal of parser output file
335 * lib/am/lisp.am ($(am__ELCFILES)): Determine whether -n was
336 passed to make, take care not to remove any files in that case.
337 * lib/am/remake-hdr.am (%CONFIG_H%): Separate removal of
338 %STAMP% file from induced remaking of config header.
339 * tests/autohdrdry.test, tests/lispdry.test, tests/yaccdry.test:
341 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
343 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
345 Add FAQ entry for bug reporting instructions.
346 * doc/automake.texi (Reporting Bugs): New section.
347 (Introduction): Refer to it.
349 2010-10-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
351 Add support for newer python versions.
352 * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Add python2.7 and python3.2 to
353 _AM_PYTHON_INTERPRETER_LIST. Since we are at it, break a long
354 line and fix indentation.
356 From a report by Thomas Klausner.
358 Add test for `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' macro.
359 * tests/dmalloc.test: New test.
360 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
362 Fix nits and bugs in tests `help*.test'.
363 * tests/help4.test: Fix broken sed commands used to strip `-W...'
364 flags away from "$AUTOMAKE" and "$ACLOCAL".
365 * tests/help3.test: Likewise, and fix a botched comment.
366 * tests/help.test: Likewise. Also, use "AUTOMAKE_fails ..."
367 instead of "$AUTOMAKE ... && Exit 1", for consistency and to
368 please maintainer-check.
369 * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
371 2010-10-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
372 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
374 Improve tests `help*.test' (also fixes maintcheck failures).
375 * tests/help.test: To run automake, use `$AUTOMAKE' with all `-W'
376 flags stripped away rather than hard-coded `automake-$APIVERSION',
377 to better honour user-overrides. Similarly for aclocal.
378 * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
379 * tests/help3.test: Likewise.
380 * tests/help4.test: Likewise.
382 2010-10-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
384 Document and fix expansion of variables before rules.
385 * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Document that variables
386 are expanded before rules.
387 * lib/am/check.am (am__check_post): Reword a bit so it does not
388 get matched as a rule.
389 Suggestion by Ben Pfaff.
391 2010-10-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
393 Revert "parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue."
394 This reverts commit 24e3b4ee2f8cb9f72dd94a05a893f3d4e88b7835,
395 because it re-opened the bug fixed by v1.11-10-g218e678.
397 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
399 parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
400 * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
401 substitution %MAKEFILE%.
402 (generate_makefile): Adjust.
403 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
404 sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
405 input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
408 Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
410 2010-09-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
412 Extend tests on `--help' and `--version' options.
413 * tests/help.test: Create a new empty directory and chdir into
414 it, rather than removing already present files. Run the aclocal
415 and automake wrapper scripts directly, instead of relying on
416 $AUTOMAKE and $ACLOCAL. Be sure to correctly match literal dots
417 in aclocal's and automake's stderr. Add a trailing `:' command.
418 * tests/help2.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
419 `--version' works in directories with broken `configure.in'.
420 * tests/help3.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
421 `--version' take precedence on the other options.
422 * tests/help4.test: New test, checking that the first among the
423 `--help' and `--version' options to be specified on the command
425 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
427 2010-09-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
429 Testsuite: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when extending PATH.
430 * tests/compile2.test: Do no uselessly (implicitly) repeat the
431 computation of PATH_SEPARATOR again.
432 * tests/instmany-mans.test: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when
433 extending/redefining PATH.
434 * tests/instmany-python.test: Likewise.
435 * tests/instmany.test: Likewise.
436 * tests/man4.test: Likewise.
437 * tests/mkinst3.test: Likewise.
438 * tests/mmodely.test: Likewise.
439 * tests/multlib.test: Likewise.
440 * tests/txinfo30.test: Likewise.
441 * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
443 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_PATH_SEPARATOR): New maintainer check.
444 (syntax_check_rules): Updated.
446 Testsuite: new variables `$PATH_SEPARATOR' and `$APIVERSION'.
447 * tests/defs.in ($APIVERSION): New AC_SUBST'd variable.
448 ($ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE): Use it.
449 ($PATH_SEPARATOR): New AC_SUBST'd variables.
452 2010-09-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
454 Manual: be more agnostic w.r.t. version control system used.
455 * doc/automake.texi (Basics of Distribution): Also refer to `.svn'
456 directories as a type of probably-unwanted files that are copied
457 regardless when adding directories to EXTRA_DIST.
458 (The dist Hook): Show a dist-hook example which removes Subversion
459 `.svn' private directories from distdir, rather than CVS private
461 (missing and AM_MAINTAINER_MODE): Try to be more agnostic w.r.t.
462 the version control system used.
464 Manual: index refer to target "git-dist", not "cvs-dist".
465 * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Index the non-standard
466 example about "git-dist" under the "git-dist" label, not under
469 Perl modules: remove references to "Automake CVS repository".
470 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Update comments to refer to "Automke's
471 git repository" rather than to "Automake's CVS repository".
472 * lib/Automake/Configure_ac.pm: Likewise.
473 * lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm: Likewise.
474 * lib/Automake/Struct.pm: Likewise.
475 * lib/Automake/XFile.pm: Likewise.
476 * lib/Automake/Version.pm (=head1 DESCRIPTION): Refer to "git
477 branches" rather than "CVS branches".
479 Remove obsolete .cvsignore files.
480 * .cvsignore, doc/.cvsignore, lib/.cvsignore, lib/am/.cvsignore,
481 lib/Automake/.cvsignore, lib/Automake/tests/.cvsignore,
482 m4/.cvsignore, tests/.cvsignore: Files deleted. Even when using
483 savannah's CVS readonly mirror there's no way to commit back to
484 the real repository, so this files are not worth maintaining or
487 2010-09-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
489 * m4/dmalloc.m4: Bump serial number and copyright years.
491 2010-09-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
493 Fix broken link in `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' help screen.
494 * m4/dmalloc.m4 (AM_WITH_DMALLOC): Refer only to the dmalloc site
495 `http://www.dmalloc.com', not to the dmalloc tarball there (which
496 seems to have been removed, substituted by multiple release
499 2010-09-17 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
501 Avoid triple-space after period.
502 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): Avoid 3 spaces at
504 * ChangeLog.03: Likewise.
505 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Likewise.
506 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (_print_message): Likewise.
507 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm (rule): Likewise.
508 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (var): Likewise.
509 * lib/am/distdir.am: Likewise.
510 * tests/insthook.test: Likewise.
512 2010-09-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
514 Test automake-generated portions of configure help screen.
515 * tests/help-depend.test: New test.
516 * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
517 * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
518 * tests/help-init.test: Likewise.
519 * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
520 * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
521 * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
522 * tests/help-regex.test: Likewise.
523 * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
524 * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
525 * tests/mmode.test: Remove tests on `configure --help' output,
526 they are superseded by tests in `help-maintainer.test'.
527 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
529 2010-09-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
531 * tests/README: Don't put GCS mandated tools in $required.
533 2010-09-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
535 * HACKING: Hint at old commits with `git describe' output.
537 2010-09-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
539 Fix regression in test `colon4.test'.
540 * tests/colon4.test: Fix botched editing to `configure.in'
541 that made the test useless. Since we are at it, improve
542 comments and make grepping of generated Makefile.in slightly
544 Regression introduced by change "Modernize, improve and/or
545 extend tests `colon*.test" (Stefano Lattarini, 2010-08-08).
547 2010-09-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
549 Do not require "gzip" explicitly in tests.
550 The gzip utility is simply expected to be present on any decent
551 target system for Automake. So it's pointless to put it in
553 * tests/install2.test ($required): Do not require "gzip".
554 * tests/lex3.test: Likewise.
555 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
556 From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
558 Make some `confh*.test' tests more "semantic" (plus tweakings).
559 * tests/confh.test: Run "autoconf", "configure" and "make check",
560 instead of munging/grepping the generated `Makefile.in'.
561 * tests/confh4.test: Relax the grepping of Makefile.in w.r.t.
562 white spaces. Do not create useless dummy source file `foo.c'
563 and useless dummy header file `acconfig.h'.
564 (configure.in): Remove superfluous call to `AC_OUTPUT'.
565 * tests/confh6.test: Add trailing `:' command.
566 * tests/confh7.test: In comments, add reference to ...
567 * tests/confh8.test: ... this new test, "semantic" sister
569 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
570 Prompted by a report from Ralf Wildenhues.
572 Remove useless whitespace padding in XFAIL_TESTS definition.
573 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Remove whitespace padding.
575 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
577 parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
578 * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
579 substitution %MAKEFILE%.
580 (generate_makefile): Adjust.
581 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
582 sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
583 input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
586 Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
588 Posix 2008 requires make to set errexit.
589 * lib/am/check.am: Update comment.
591 2010-08-27 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
593 Fix bug in test missing6.test.
594 * tests/missing6.test: Fix the hack used to edit `configure.in',
595 to avoid producing a configure script that breaks with shells
596 that do not support $LINENO. Also throw in a couple of cosmetic
599 2010-08-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
601 Improve robustness of mdate-sh script.
602 * lib/mdate-sh: Sanitize zsh behavior on startup, to ensure
603 $ls_command is word-split properly upon invocation.
604 (error): New function.
605 (main): Use it. Improve error checking to avoid endless loop
606 in case $ls_command gave bogus output. Fix eval quotation.
607 * tests/mdate6.test: New test, to expose eval quotation error.
608 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
610 2010-08-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
612 Fix potential regressions in depcomp{3,5}.test.
613 * tests/depcomp3.test: Do not uselessly escape the character `$'
614 in makefile rules, when it's used to expand a make macro.
615 * tests/depcomp5.test: Likewise.
617 2010-08-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
618 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
620 Docs: clarify how to avoid automatic dependencies tracking.
621 * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Mention that
622 automatic dependencies tracking is enabled by default, but that
623 the package developer can disable it altogether. Add a reference
624 to the proper section for a more in-depth explanation.
626 Fix typo in manual (`Makefile.in' instead of `Makefile.am').
627 * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Fix typo.
629 2010-08-16 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
631 Don't hide the table of contents.
632 * doc/automake.texi: Move the table of contents to the beginning.
634 2010-08-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
636 Tweak and/or extend some `acloca*.test' tests.
637 * tests/aclocal8.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured
639 * tests/aclocal.test: Likewise. Also, add trailing `:'
641 * tests/acloca19.test: Likewise.
642 * tests/aclocal5.test: Add trailing `:' command, and prefer
643 `$me' over hard-coded test name.
644 * tests/aclocal6.test: Likewise.
645 * tests/aclocal18.test: Add trailing `:' command, and make
646 some grepping slightly stricter.
647 * tests/acloca14.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `diff' over
648 `cmp', and add some "cosmetic" blank lines.
650 2010-08-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
652 Tweak and extend tests `pr[!0-9]*.test'.
653 * tests/primary3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
654 * tests/primary.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
655 Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
656 * tests/primary2.test: Likewise.
657 * tests/prefix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
658 changes. Add a trailing `:' command.
659 * tests/proginst.test: Likewise.
661 Modernize, improve and extend tests for PR (`pr[0-9]*.test').
662 * tests/pr2.test: Add trailing `:' command.
663 * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
664 * tests/pr401.test: Likewise.
665 * tests/pr401b.test: Likewise.
666 * tests/pr401c.test: Likewise.
667 * tests/pr300-prog.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic changes in
669 * tests/pr300-lib.test: Likewise.
670 * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise, and ensure verbose printing
671 of captured make stdout.
672 * tests/pr211.test: Add trailing `:' command. Also, use the
673 `configure.in' stub created by ./defs, rather than writing it
675 * tests/pr204.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic spacing changes.
676 * tests/pr287.test: Likewise, and move setting of `errexit' shell
677 flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs).
678 * tests/pr220.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
679 Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
680 * tests/pr224.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
681 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Do not export
682 `CC=gcc' to configure explicitly (it's already exported globally
683 in ./defs, since we have "gcc" in $required). Use the stub for
684 `configure.in' created by ./defs, rather than writing it from
685 scratch. Do not create dummy files required by "gnu" mode (e.g.
686 README, NEWS), since we run automake in foreign mode anyway.
687 * tests/pr72.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
688 changes. Extend existing checks a bit.
689 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise. Also, avoid obsolescent constructs in
690 the generated `configure.in', and extend existing checks over the
691 generated tarball a bit.
692 * tests/pr87.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
693 changes. Add a trailing `:' command. Also, do not create dummy
694 files required by "gnu" mode (e.g. README, NEWS), since we run
695 automake in foreign mode anyway.
696 * tests/pr243.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
697 `configure.in'. Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
698 changes. Cosmetic changes to spacing, add trailing `:' command,
699 and add a "FIXME" comment.
700 * tests/pr266.test: Likewise, and add explicit command line switch
701 `--enable-dependecy-tracking' to the ./configure call.
702 * tests/pr279.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
703 `configure.in'; also, use the `configure.in' stub created by
704 ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch. Enable `errexit'
705 shell flag, and related changes. Add trailing `:' command.
706 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
708 * tests/pr307.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
709 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Escape literal
710 dots in grep regular expressions. Also, add a trailing `:'
711 command, and cosmetic changes to spacing.
713 Tests for PR: add excerpts from original bug report, for clarity.
714 * tests/pr2.test: Ditto.
715 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
716 * tests/pr72.test: Likewise.
717 * tests/pr87.test: Likewise.
718 * tests/pr211.test: Likewise.
719 * tests/pr220.test: Likewise.
720 * tests/pr224.test: Likewise.
721 * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
722 * tests/pr243.test: Likewise.
723 * tests/pr266.test: Likewise.
724 * tests/pr279.test: Likewise, and tell to keep it in sync
725 with its sister test.
726 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
728 2010-08-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
730 Tweak, extend and improve tests `cond[a-z]*.test'.
731 * tests/condd.test: Add trailing `:' command. Typofix in
733 * tests/condhook.test: Make sure target `install-data-hook' is
734 not called by `make install', but that data files are installed.
735 Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in. Add trailing `:' command.
736 * tests/condhook2.test: New test, sister test of condhook, with
738 * tests/condinc2.test: Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
739 Prefer trailing `:' command over trailing `Exit 0'.
740 * tests/condman2.test: Enable errexit shell flag, and related
741 changes. Add trailing `:' command.
742 * tests/condman.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless
743 dummy manpages, and use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
744 * tests/condman3.test: New test, similar to condman.test, but
745 it also runs ./configure and "make install", and check the
747 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
749 Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test.
750 * tests/colon.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
751 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Do not create
752 a useless dummy file. Add trailing `:' command.
753 * tests/colon4.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
754 related changes. Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
755 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
756 * tests/colon7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
757 changes. Improve the generated `configure.in' file. Add
758 trailing `:' command.
759 * tests/colon2.test: Likewise. Also, add some new checks.
760 * tests/colon5.test: Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
761 Add new, much deeper checks. Add trailing `:' command.
762 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
763 * tests/colon3.test: Add trailing `:' command. Remove useless
764 comments and echos. Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
765 make some grepping tests stricter. Add a "FIXME" comments about
766 planned improvements.
768 Improve and extend tests `asm*.test'.
769 * tests/asm.test: Use configure.in stub generated by ./defs,
770 and avoid obsoleted autoconf constructs. Make grepping of
771 Automake stderr stricter. Do not create useless source file.
772 Improve verbose messages. Minor cosmetic changes. Tell to
773 keep it in sync with other sister tests asm*.test.
774 * tests/asm2.test: Likewise.
775 * tests/asm3.test: Likewise.
777 Modernize, improve and/or extend test scripts `conf*.test'.
778 * tests/confh5.test: Cosmetic changes.
779 * tests/conff.test: Likewise.
780 * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise.
781 * tests/conflnk.test: Likewise.
782 * tests/conflnk2.test: Likewise.
783 * tests/confsub.test: Likewise.
784 * tests/confvar.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
786 * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
787 * tests/conflnk3.test: Cosmetic changes. Re-enable a temporarily
788 disabled test (which didn't work with autoconf <= 2.59, but now we
789 are requiring autoconf 2.62, so...)
790 * tests/conflnk4.test: Cosmetic changes, and extend existing tests
791 accordingly to "TODO" comments.
792 * tests/conff2.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
793 Add some comments explaining why we don't use the `configure.in'
794 stub preset be ./defs.
795 * tests/confh.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
796 rather than writing one from scratch, and do not call AC_OUTPUT.
797 Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related changes. Prefer diff over
798 cmp to compare text files. Prefer perl over sed to fetch the value
799 of $(DIST_COMMON) from Makefile.in. Make grepping of the contents
800 of $(DIST_COMMON) stricter.
801 * tests/confh4.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
802 rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping of Makefile.in
804 * tests/confh5.test: Make grepping of `config.h' stricter. Add a
806 * tests/configure.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in generated
807 `configure.ac'. Do not write `configure.in' two times. Escape
808 literal dots in grep regular expressions.
809 * tests/confincl.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
810 changes. Prefer fgrep over grep. Other cosmetic changes.
811 * tests/config.test: Renamed to ...
812 * tests/confh6.test: ... this. Fix m4 quoting in `configure.in',
813 and make grepping of `config.h' and `config.h.in' stricter.
814 * tests/conf2.test: Renamed ...
815 * tests/confh7.test: ... to this. Use the `configure.in' stub
816 created by ./defs, rather than writing one from scratch. Try to
817 run the checks both with and without AC_PROG_CC and AC_OUTPUT in
819 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
821 Minor improvements and fixes in tests `depcomp*.test'.
822 * tests/depcomp.test: Do not create useless dummy source files.
823 Add a trailing `:' command.
824 * tests/depcomp2.test: Use `unset' on the CFLAG variable to ensure
825 it's not in in the environment, rather than exporting it with an
826 empty value. Do not pass CC=gcc to configure, as that's already
827 done in ./defs since we have gcc in $required. Ensure verbose
828 printing of captured stderr, and normalize its checking. Add a
829 trailing `:' command.
830 * tests/depcomp3.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
831 grep regexps. Always use `: >' rather than `touch' to create empty
832 files. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the created
833 Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:' command.
834 * tests/depcomp4.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
835 grep regexp. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the
836 created Makefile.am. Ensure verbose printing of captured makes'
837 stoud/stderr. Add a trailing `:' command.
838 * tests/depcomp5.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
839 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Quote literal dots
840 and dollar characters in grep regexps. Explicitly declare phony
841 targets as such in the created Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:'
843 * tests/depcomp6.test: Consistently use m4 quoting in the generated
844 configure.in. Cosmetic fixes to spacing. Make the "dummy" `if'
845 statement required by OpenBSD's sh `set -e' more robust, and add
846 explanatory comments to it.
847 * tests/depcomp7.test: Likewise, and add a trailing `:' command.
849 Separate failing part of test `all.test'.
850 * tests/all.test: Keep only (x)failing part of the test. Working
851 checks moved out to ...
852 * tests/all2.test: ... this new test.
853 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
855 Modernize, improve and extend tests `subobj*.test'.
856 * tests/subobjname.test: Add trailing `:' command.
857 * tests/subobj.test: Make grepping of `Makefile.in' stricter.
858 Escape literal dots in grep regexps.
859 * tests/subobj2.test: Add trailing `:' command. Do not use the
860 unportable fgrep option `-e'.
861 * tests/subobj3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
862 (configure.in): Use proper m4 quoting, and avoid obsolescent
864 * tests/subobj8.test: Likewise. Also, enable `errexit' shell
865 flag, with related changes
866 * tests/subobj4.test: Likewise. Also, make grepping of
867 `Makefile.in' stricter.
868 * tests/subobj5.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of
869 `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
871 (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
872 writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
873 * tests/subobj6.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of
874 `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
875 of ./defs). Do not create useless dummy ac-init file `f'.
876 * tests/subobj7.test: Do not create useless dummy ac-init file
878 (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
879 writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
880 * tests/subobj9.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
881 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Fail the test if
882 `make distcheck' fails. Ensure verbose printing of captured make
883 stdout. Avoid useless fork by doing simple grep instead of using
884 test -n "`COMMAND | grep ...`".
885 (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
886 (Makefile.am): Explicitly mark target "print" as phony.
887 * tests/subobj10.test: Removed duplicated call to `set -e'. Add
888 trailing `:' command.
889 (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
891 Remove a couple of obsoleted tests.
892 * tests/fpinstall.test: Removed.
893 * tests/fpinst2.test: Likewise.
894 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
896 Bootstrap: updated HACKING entry.
897 * HACKING ("Working with git"): Explain how to override the
898 autoconf and autom4te programs used by the bootstrap process.
901 * bootstrap: Do not remove `lib/Automake/Config.pm' anymore,
902 since we don't generate it. Correctly quote arguments of
903 `eval' builtin. Fixed a botched error message. Removed an
906 Bootstrap: don't search perl in $PATH.
907 * bootstrap: Do not explicitly search perl in $PATH anymore.
908 ($PATH_SEPARATOR): Removed, it's no more needed.
910 Bootstrap: let the user choose which autoconf to use.
911 * bootstrap ($AUTOCONF): New variable, from the environment.
912 ($AUTOM4TE): Likewise, for clarity.
913 Use "$AUTOCONF" instead of calling "autoconf" directly.
915 Minor improvements to tests ar*.test.
916 * tests/ar.test: Add trailing `:' command.
917 * tests/ar2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
918 Makefile.in stricter.
920 2010-08-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
922 Fix maintainer-check failure.
923 * tests/cond5.test: Quote sleep argument, this isn't about
924 time stamp differences.
926 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
927 * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
930 2010-08-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
932 Work around a nasty bug (segfault) of Solaris make.
933 * lib/am/check.am (recheck, recheck-html): Trim trailing spaces
934 from $list, to avoid triggering a nasty bug (potential segfault)
937 2010-08-06 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
939 Make cond5.test more robust on MSYS.
940 * tests/cond5.test: Add delay before the first kill attempt to
941 cater for problems with MSYS bash.
943 2010-07-31 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
945 Add example git work flow; discuss merge --log in HACKING.
947 Suggestion by Stefano Lattarini.
949 Add more hints for debugging make rules.
950 * doc/automake.texi (Debugging Make Rules): Show command to find
951 out expanded values of variables; point to makefile debugger.
953 Prompted by suggestion from Ludovic Courtès and Andy Wingo.
955 2010-07-27 Patrick Welche <prlw1@cam.ac.uk> (tiny change)
957 Fix typo in the manual.
958 * doc/automake.texi (Scripts): Fix typo.
960 2010-07-27 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
962 Document current policy for development with git.
963 * HACKING (Working with git): Overhaul.
964 Prompted by suggestion from Stefano Lattarini.
966 Fix AM_COND_IF for gone-invalid condition shell expression.
967 * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): test contents of $COND_TRUE
968 variable, rather than re-evaluating the shell expression for
970 * tests/cond40.test: Extend test.
973 Avoid syntax error if IF-TRUE part of AM_COND_IF expands empty.
974 * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): Ensure IF-TRUE part is never empty
975 to avoid shell syntax error if the m4 expansion is empty.
976 * tests/cond40.test: Enhance test.
978 Coverage: bogus option to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
979 * tests/init2.test: New test.
980 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
982 2010-07-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
984 Modernize and improve test scripts `subdir*.test'.
985 * tests/subdir.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
986 changes. Use the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs',
987 rather than writing one from scratch.
988 * tests/subdir2.test: Likewise.
989 * tests/subdir4.test: Likewise.
990 * tests/subdir3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
991 changes. Do not create useless dummy source files.
992 * tests/subdir5.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in (in topdir
993 and in subdirs) stricter. Some minor changes to keep it more
994 in sync with the related test `subdir8.test'.
995 * tests/subdir8.test: Likewise (but with the related test being
996 `subdir5.test' here).
997 * tests/subdir6.test: Cosmetic change in spacing.
998 * tests/subdir9.test: Define and use new variable `$distdir'. Add
999 trailing `:' command.
1000 * tests/subdir10.test: Cosmetic consistency-related change.
1001 * tests/subdirbuiltsources.test: Cosmetic changes in spacings.
1002 (configure.in): Use stub created by `./defs', rather than writing
1003 it from scratch. Do not use obsoleted and/or deprecated forms of
1004 autoconf/automake macros.
1006 Modernize and improve test scripts `dist*.test'.
1007 * tests/distcleancheck.test: Do not add useless `-e' option to
1008 a $MAKE call. Extend test by grepping stderr of make.
1009 * tests/distcom2.test: Do not run the same test script on the
1010 Makefile.in twice, but save its output in an intermediate file
1011 instead. Make grepping of DIST_COMMON definition stricter.
1012 Display the content of more files, to ease debugging. Add a
1013 trailing `:' command. Improved heading comments w.r.t. sister
1015 * tests/distcom6.test: Likewise, and avoid to uselessly run
1017 * tests/distcom3.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured stdout
1018 and stderr. Make grepping of captured stderr stricter. Also,
1019 add trailing `:' command.
1020 * tests/distcom4.test: Declare the target `test' in the generated
1021 Makefile.am as `.PHONY'. Display content of more files, to ease
1022 debugging. Add trailing `:' command.
1023 * tests/distcom5.test: Likewise. Also, factor out common sed
1024 script in subroutine `extract_distcommon'.
1025 * tests/distcom7.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to write
1026 test Makefile.am files. Add a trailing `:' command.
1027 * tests/distname.test: Prefer `gzip -d' over `gunzip'. Move the
1028 call to `set -e' earlier. Be stricter and more verbose in the
1029 checking of the generated tarball.
1030 (configure.in): Use the stub provided by ./defs, instead of
1031 writing it from scratch. Avoid obsoleted constructs. Remove
1032 useless call to `AM_PROG_CC_C_O'.
1033 * tests/distdir.test: Various minor improvements/normalizations.
1034 * tests/distlinks.test: Likewise.
1036 2010-07-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1038 Improve and extend test cond5.test.
1039 * tests/cond5.test: Do not blindly sleep 60 seconds before polling
1040 the background automake process, but poll it every 10 seconds for
1041 at most 30 times (this makes the test both faster on good machines,
1042 and more resilient to spurious timeout-due failures when in low
1043 priority or on heavily-loaded systems).
1044 Check also that automake writes the expected error messages on the
1046 Enable `errexit' flag, and related changes.
1047 Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs', rather than
1048 writing one from scratch.
1050 2010-06-26 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1052 Update program --help output to match current GCS.
1053 * configure.ac: Set and substitute PACKAGE_URL if AC_PACKAGE_URL
1054 is not defined, for compatibility to Autoconf < 2.64.
1055 * Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute PACKAGE_BUGREPORT and
1057 (sc_diff_automake_in_automake): Update number of diff lines for
1058 additional substitutions.
1059 * aclocal.in (usage): Use PACKAGE_BUGREPORT. Point to Automake
1060 home page and GNU general help page.
1061 * automake.in (usage): Likewise.
1062 * doc/automake.texi: New flag PACKAGE_BUGREPORT, to factor email
1064 (Introduction, Creating amhello, amhello Explained, Options):
1066 * lib/Automake/Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute
1068 * lib/Automake/Config.in ($PACKAGE_BUGREPORT): New global.
1069 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Use it for footer of fatal
1072 Clean up @var handling in the manual.
1073 * doc/automake.texi: Throughout the manual, lower-case @var
1074 names, replace a few one-character names.
1076 2010-06-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1078 Fix typo-related bug in test script silent5.test.
1079 * tests/silent5.test: Use $EGREP, not $GREP (which is not even
1082 Tests: remove useless repetitions of `foreign' automake option.
1083 * tests/multlib.test (configure.in): Remove useless use of
1084 `foreign' option in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (the `--foreign' option is
1085 already in $AUTOMAKE by default, so no point in repeating it).
1086 * tests/subobj10.test: Likewise.
1087 * tests/subobj9.test: Likewise.
1088 * tests/lex3.test (Makefile.am): Similarly, remove useless use
1089 of `foreign' option in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
1090 * tests/lex5.test: Likewise.
1091 * tests/pr279.test: Likewise.
1092 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
1093 * tests/specflg3.test: Likewise.
1094 * tests/target-cflags.test: Likewise.
1096 Drop useless requirement "gzip" in lex5.test.
1097 * tests/lex5.test ($required): Do not list "gzip", as it's
1100 2010-06-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1102 Fix bugs in test script silent5.test.
1103 * tests/silent5.test: Fixed a nasty bug (due to the use of grep
1104 instead of egrep) that could have led to false negatives.
1106 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1108 Add a test checking that distributed broken symlinks cause
1109 `make dist' to fail.
1110 * tests/distlinksbrk.test: New test.
1111 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1113 2010-06-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1115 Fix minor testsuite issues, update docs, for Yacc/Lex changes.
1116 * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Mention AM_YFLAGS, YFLAGS
1117 and AM_LFLAGS, LFLAGS in the order in which they now appear in
1120 * tests/lflags.test, tests/lflags2.test, tests/yflags.test,
1121 tests/yflags2.test: Prefer `make -e' over `make VAR=VAL', to
1122 please maintainer-check. Ensure generated C files contain a
1123 declaration, to please compilers.
1125 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1127 Fix bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t. $(AM_FLAGS) and
1128 $(FLAGS) precedence.
1129 * automake.in: Fix registration of languages "Lex", "Lex (C++)",
1130 "Yacc" and "Yacc (C++)", so that $(LFLAGS) has precedence over
1131 $(AM_LFLAGS) and $(YFLAGS) has precedence over $(AM_YFLAGS).
1132 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1135 New tests, exposing bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t.
1136 $(AM_FLAGS) and $(FLAGS) precedence.
1137 * tests/lflags.test: New test, check that user $(LFLAGS) takes
1138 precedence over automake (AM_LFLAGS) and (foo_LFLAGS). Still
1140 * tests/lflags2.test: Likewise.
1141 * tests/yflags.test: New test, check that user $(YFLAGS) takes
1142 precedence over automake (AM_YFLAGS) and (foo_YFLAGS). Still
1144 * tests/yflags2.test: Likewise.
1145 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Extended accordingly.
1147 2010-06-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1149 Modernize, improve and extend tests `suffix*.test'.
1150 * tests/suffix3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1152 * tests/suffix4.test: Likewise.
1153 * tests/suffix6.test: Likewise, and do not create a useless dummy
1155 * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
1156 * tests/suffix5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1157 changes. Make grepping of Makefile.in slightly stricter.
1158 * tests/suffix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1159 changes. Also, do not redirect grep output to /dev/null, as this
1160 might unmotivatedly hide useful information.
1161 * tests/suffix2.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1162 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Use a more
1163 idiomatic way to count text occurrences in Makefile.in with
1164 grep. Do not create useless dummy source files.
1165 * tests/suffix10.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured make
1166 stdout. Minor cosmetic changes.
1167 * tests/suffix8.test: Likewise. Also, drop useless call to the
1168 env(1) utility, and make grepping of make output stricter by using
1169 $FGREP rather than plain grep.
1170 * tests/suffix11.test: Likewise.
1171 * tests/suffix12.test: Likewise.
1172 * tests/suffix9.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to append to
1173 the `configure.in' stub. Cosmetic changes.
1174 * tests/suffix13.test: Cosmetic spacing change.
1176 2010-06-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1178 Add useful comment in test script ext.test.
1179 * tests/ext.test: Add a comment explaining why an apparently
1180 useless `if' statement is indeed required.
1182 Add useful comment in test script obsolete.test.
1183 * tests/obsolete.test: Add a comment explaining why we need
1184 an indirection in adding $AUTOUPDATE to $required.
1186 Normalize whitespaces in 'tests/Makefile.am'.
1187 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Use only spaces, not tabs, in the
1188 definition of this variable.
1190 2010-06-12 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1192 Remove a couple of unneeded conditionals from tests.
1193 * tests/pr243.test, tests/pr266.test, tests/strip.test: No need
1194 for the FOOTEST conditional.
1196 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1198 Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
1199 * tests/symlink3.test: Deleted, separated into two new, more
1201 * tests/forcemiss.test: ... this one ...
1202 * tests/forcemiss2.test: ... and this one.
1203 * tests/symlink2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, make test
1204 stricter, and skip it if symlink creation is not supported.
1205 * tests/postproc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, related
1206 changes, and a couple of unrelated cosmetic changes.
1207 * tests/recurs.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
1208 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping
1209 of Automake stderr slightly stricter.
1210 * tests/substtarg.test: Likewise.
1211 * tests/strip.test: Likewise, and move the call to `set -e'
1212 earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs'). Also, make sure
1213 that the script installed by `make install-script' is equal to
1215 * tests/substref.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
1216 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Move the call
1217 to `set -e' earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs').
1218 Avoid to explicitly export CC for configure (that's already done
1219 in ./defs). Avoid potential problems with unpredictable make
1220 output. Finally, make grepping of Makefile.in stricter.
1221 * tests/substre2.test: Ensure verbose printing of the captured
1222 make's output, and make its grepping slightly stricter.
1223 * tests/cygwin32.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1224 changes. Also, do not create useless dummy source/data files.
1225 * tests/scripts.test: Likewise.
1226 * tests/recurs2.test: Likewise. Also, use the `configure.in'
1227 stub created by `./defs'.
1228 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1230 Modernize, improve and/or fix tests `pluseq*.test.
1231 * tests/pluseq5.test: Append to configure.in using cat with an
1232 here-doc, not using echo.
1233 * tests/pluseq10.test: Make sure that the captured output of
1234 `make' command is always displayed. Where possible, use $FGREP
1235 instead of grep (this change makes some checks slightly stricter).
1236 * tests/pluseq8.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
1238 * tests/pluseq.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless dummy
1239 data files, and use better m4 quoting in generated configure.in.
1240 * tests/pluseq2.test: Likewise. Also, append to configure.in
1241 using cat with an here-doc, not using echo.
1242 * tests/pluseq3.test: Likewise.
1243 * tests/pluseq4.test: Likewise.
1244 * tests/pluseq6.test: Likewise.
1245 * tests/pluseq7.test: Do not create useless dummy source file.
1246 * tests/pluseq9.test: Slightly extended w.r.t. the grepping of
1247 Automake stderr. Some unrelated cosmetic changes.
1249 Testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured stderr.
1250 * tests/acloca18.test: Print captured stderr before either failing
1251 or grepping it. Be sure to send captured stderr to stderr, not to
1253 * tests/ansi3b.test: Likewise.
1254 * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
1255 * tests/configure.test: Likewise.
1256 * tests/missing3.test: Likewise.
1257 * tests/missing6.test: Likewise.
1258 * tests/output-order.test: Likewise.
1259 * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise.
1260 * tests/python6.test: Likewise.
1261 * tests/python7.test: Likewise.
1262 * tests/python8.test: Likewise.
1263 * tests/python9.test: Likewise.
1264 * tests/subobj.test: Likewise.
1265 * tests/vars3.test: Likewise.
1266 * tests/missing4.test: Likewise, and fix a call to grep not to use
1268 * tests/ansi3.test: Likewise, and rely on the `configure.in' stub
1269 created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1271 Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
1272 * tests/backsl.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
1274 * tests/backsl2.test: Likewise.
1275 * tests/block.test: Likewise.
1276 * tests/canon2.test: Likewise.
1277 * tests/canon4.test: Likewise.
1278 * tests/comment2.test: Likewise.
1279 * tests/condlib.test: Likewise.
1280 * tests/cond15.test: Likewise, and prefer $FGREP over grep.
1281 * tests/canon3.test: Likewise. Also, avoid to create an useless
1283 * tests/acoutpt2.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and some
1284 related changes. Do some cosmetic improvements in the generated
1285 `configure.in' file.
1286 * tests/cond4.test: Likewise.
1287 * tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
1288 * tests/condinc.test: Likewise.
1289 * tests/cond7.test: Likewise. Also, remove useless setting of
1290 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am.
1291 * tests/ansi.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
1292 changes. Extended, esp. by running autoconf, ./configure and
1293 make, and by looking into the distdir.
1295 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1296 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1298 Extend tests/README w.r.t. trailing `:' in test scripts.
1299 * tests/README (section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
1300 Explain why apparently redundant trailing `:' and `Exit 0' in
1301 test scripts can indeed be useful.
1303 2010-06-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1305 Improve determination of PATH separator in bootstrap script.
1306 * bootstrap: Determine what the PATH separator is the same way
1309 Minor improvements in bootstrap script.
1310 * bootstrap: Consistently use two-spaces indentation. Cosmetic
1311 improvement to comments.
1312 ($me): New variable, containing program basename.
1313 Prepend it to all error messages.
1315 Testsuite now works with BSD make in parallel mode.
1316 * tests/defs.in: Unset variables __MKLVL__ and MAKE_JOBS_FIFO,
1317 which are exported by BSD make when run in parallel mode, and
1318 which can confuse make processes spawned by our testsuite.
1319 This change fixes a lot of spurious failure when the testsuite
1320 is run with BSD make in parallel mode.
1322 2010-06-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1324 Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
1325 * tests/sanity.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
1326 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1327 * tests/depend2.test: Likewise. Also, call `set -e' just after
1328 the inclusion of `./defs', instead that later in the script.
1329 * tests/canon5.test: Avoid a useless `|| Exit 1' after a call to
1330 $AUTOMAKE, and improve the positioning of an $ACLOCAL call.
1331 * tests/exeext4.test: Use $FGREP instead of grep, where possible.
1332 Make auxiliary rules in the generated Makefile more silent.
1333 These changes make some checks slightly stricter.
1334 * tests/ext2.test: Call `Exit 1' if inclusion of `./defs' fails.
1335 * tests/gettext2.test: Place final `:' at the end of the script,
1336 rather than in the middle.
1337 * tests/exeext.test: Call `set -e' just after the inclusion of
1338 `./defs', instead that later in the script.
1339 * tests/extra5.test: Likewise.
1340 * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `mv -f' over
1341 plain `mv', just to be sure.
1342 * tests/depcomp.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
1343 changes. Also, modernize the generated configure.in.
1344 * tests/cond9.test: Likewise. Also, rely on the `configure.in'
1345 stub created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1346 * tests/cond10.test: Likewise.
1347 * tests/depcomp2.test: Likewise.
1348 * tests/depend3.test: Likewise.
1349 * tests/distcom7.test: Likewise.
1350 * tests/fortdep.test: Likewise. Also, remove definition of
1351 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am,
1352 since that flag is already provided by $AUTOMAKE.
1353 * tests/mdate.test: Made stricter, by checking that Automake
1354 actually failed, and by making a stricter grep on the error
1355 message. Also, set shell `errexit flag'.
1356 * tests/python2.test: Improved verbose messages.
1358 Make test `ammissing.test' stricter.
1359 * tests/ammissing.test: Fail if $ACLOCAL succeeds unexpectedly.
1360 Enable `errexit' shell flag.
1362 2010-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1364 Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
1365 * tests/subcond.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
1367 * tests/subst.test: Likewise.
1368 * tests/vars.test: Likewise.
1369 * tests/version4.test: Likewise.
1370 * tests/vpath.test: Likewise.
1371 * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
1372 * tests/werror.test: Likewise.
1373 * tests/whoami.test: Likewise.
1374 * tests/tags.test: Likewise, and avoid to crate an useless dummy
1376 * tests/acsilent.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
1377 command substitution.
1378 * tests/unused.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
1379 command substitution.
1380 * tests/version.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
1381 in the generated `configure.in'.
1382 * tests/version2.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
1383 in the generated `configure.in'.
1385 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1387 Prefer AUTOMAKE_fails over `$AUTOMAKE | grep' in tests.
1388 * tests/ldadd.test: Enable errexit. Use AUTOMAKE_fails so
1389 the verbose log contains all output.
1390 * tests/mdate.test: Likewise.
1391 Prompted by Stefano Lattarini's change to discover.test.
1393 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1395 Improve tests link*.test (enable `errexit' shell flag).
1396 * tests/link_c_cxx.test: Enable `errexit shell flag, and related
1397 changes. Also, do not create useless source files.
1398 * tests/link_dist.test: Likewise.
1399 * tests/link_f90_only.test: Likewise.
1400 * tests/link_f_only.test: Likewise.
1401 * tests/link_fc.test: Likewise.
1402 * tests/link_fccxx.test: Likewise.
1403 * tests/link_fcxx.test: Likewise.
1405 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1407 Improve ext.test semantics, avoid OpenBSD sh errexit issue.
1408 * tests/ext.test: Inside shell compound command, use
1409 `if $cmd; then Exit 1; fi' rather than `$cmd && Exit 1', to
1410 fix failure with OpenBSD sh introduced with last patch.
1411 Actually ensure that a rule for .EXT.o is created for each
1412 known extension EXT.
1414 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1416 Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
1417 * tests/dash.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1419 * tests/defun.test: Likewise.
1420 * tests/defun2.test: Likewise.
1421 * tests/dejagnu.test: Likewise.
1422 * tests/double.test: Likewise.
1423 * tests/distcom2.test: Likewise.
1424 * tests/empty2.test: Likewise.
1425 * tests/empty3.test: Likewise.
1426 * tests/empty4.test: Likewise.
1427 * tests/exdir.test: Likewise.
1428 * tests/ext.test: Likewise.
1429 * tests/extra.test: Likewise.
1430 * tests/extra2.test: Likewise.
1431 * tests/extra3.test: Likewise.
1432 * tests/extra4.test: Likewise.
1433 * tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
1434 * tests/fnoc.test: Likewise.
1435 * tests/fo.test: Likewise.
1436 * tests/instexec.test: Likewise.
1437 * tests/ltdeps.test: Likewise.
1438 * tests/nodep.test: Likewise.
1439 * tests/nodepcomp.test: Likewise.
1440 * tests/f90only.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
1441 comments and unnecessary commands.
1442 * tests/fonly.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
1443 comments and unnecessary commands.
1444 * tests/discover.test: Likewise, and made stricter.
1446 Enable `errexit' shell flag in all tests cxx*.test.
1447 * tests/cxx.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
1449 * tests/cxxansi.test: Likewise.
1450 * tests/cxxcpp.test: Likewise.
1451 * tests/cxxlibobj.test: Likewise.
1452 * tests/cxxlink.test: Likewise.
1453 * tests/cxxo.test: Likewise.
1455 Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
1456 * tests/acoutnoq.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
1458 * tests/acoutpt.test: Likewise.
1459 * tests/acoutqnl.test: Likewise.
1460 * tests/amassign.test: Likewise.
1461 * tests/ansi2.test: Likewise.
1462 * tests/ansi4.test: Likewise.
1463 * tests/badprog.test: Likewise.
1464 * tests/checkall.test: Likewise.
1465 * tests/clean.test: Likewise.
1466 * tests/colneq2.test: Likewise.
1467 * tests/colon.test: Likewise.
1468 * tests/colon5.test: Likewise.
1469 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
1470 * tests/comment.test: Likewise.
1471 * tests/compile_f90_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
1472 * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
1473 * tests/cond3.test: Likewise.
1474 * tests/cond6.test: Likewise.
1475 * tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
1476 * tests/conf2.test: Likewise.
1477 * tests/confvar.test: Likewise.
1478 * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
1479 * tests/cond8.test: Likewise, plus a cosmetic change.
1480 * tests/confh4.test: Likewise. Also, add in the heading comments
1481 an excerpt from the original bug report which motivated the
1482 creation of this test, to make its purpose clearer.
1484 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1486 Rewrite manual to be gender-neutral.
1487 * doc/automake.texi (GNU Build System)
1488 (Standard Directory Variables, General Operation, CVS)
1489 (Hard-Coded Install Paths, Dependencies As Side Effects):
1490 Rewrite text to not contain gender-specific pronouns when
1491 speaking about developers or users, either by avoiding pronouns
1492 or by addressing them as `you' instead.
1494 Report by Christina Gratorp.
1498 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1500 Make tests on user extensibility of silent-rules mode stricter.
1501 * tests/silent6.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
1502 output produced by `make'.
1503 * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
1505 Tests on silent-mode for C/Libtool made stricter.
1506 * tests/silent.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
1507 output produced by `make'.
1508 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
1509 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
1510 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
1511 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise, and add a final `make distclean'
1512 command to keep it better in sync with tests/silent{4,9}.test.
1514 Improved test silent5.test.
1515 * tests/silent5.test: Remove by hand all generated C files after
1516 non-verbose builds, to ensure the following builds are clean.
1517 Try to clean and rebuild with the same verbosity and without
1518 removing generated sources in between, to check that this does
1519 not trigger a different set of rules. Make grepping of make's
1520 output stricter. Improved/added some comments.
1522 New tests for Automake silent-mode with Fortran.
1523 * tests/silentf77.test: New test.
1524 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
1525 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1527 New test `silentcxx.test' (Automake silent-mode with C++).
1528 * tests/silentcxx.test: New test.
1529 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1531 New test `silentyacc.test' (Automake silent-mode with Yacc).
1532 * tests/silentyacc.test: New test.
1533 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1535 New test `silentlex.test' (Automake silent-mode with Lex).
1536 * tests/silentlex.test: New test.
1537 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1539 Relax tests on silent-rules to cater to overly verbose makes.
1540 * tests/silent.test: When testing silent builds, don't fail if
1541 make's output simply contains the `mv' substring, but only if
1542 it contains the `mv ' substring (note the trailing space).
1543 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
1544 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
1545 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
1546 * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
1547 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
1549 2010-01-24 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1551 Fix silent-rules output for disabled dependency tracking.
1552 * lib/am/depend2.am [!%FASTDEP%]: Rework silent-rules variable
1553 expansion code to also work in the case where %AMDEP% expands
1554 to FALSE at config.status time, using new substitution string
1556 * automake.in (verbose_nodep_flag): New function, appending
1557 `@am__nodep@' to the verbose-variable name.
1558 (handle_languages): If dependencies are not disabled, use it to
1559 set %VERBOSE-NODEP%.
1560 * m4/depend.m4: Substitute am__nodep as '_no', so the second
1561 verbose-variable will always expand to an empty string, if
1562 dependencies are enabled.
1563 * tests/silent5.test: Also test --disable-dependency-tracking;
1564 also test per-target flags for non-C language files.
1565 * tests/silent9.test: New test, like silent4.test but disable
1566 dependency tracking.
1567 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
1568 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
1569 Report by Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>.
1571 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1573 Extend test on `nostdinc' automake option.
1574 * tests/nostdinc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Related and
1575 unrelated minor changes. Make the grepping of the generated
1576 Makefile.in slightly stricter. Generate and run configure, so that
1577 the generated Makefile can be grepped too.
1579 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1581 Make gnupload portable to EBCDIC hosts.
1582 * lib/gnupload: Use literal newline as argument for 'tr' rather
1583 than \015, for EBCDIC hosts. Also, avoid unportable nested
1584 double-quotes and backquotes.
1586 Report from Eric Blake and Steve Goetze via gnulib.
1588 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1590 Fix Autoconf version required by Automake's configure.
1591 Automake configure script used to tell that automake required
1592 autoconf 2.60 or later, but then it checked for autoconf >= 2.62,
1593 and if that was not found, it gave an error saying that Automake
1594 required configure 2.61a-341 or later. This change should
1595 eliminate such inconsistencies.
1596 * configure.ac ($required_autoconf_version): New variable.
1599 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1601 Fix unportable sed script in maintainer-check test.
1602 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_Exit_not_exit): Rewrite sed script to
1603 not contain semicolon after 'b' or brace commands, for NetBSD.
1605 Wildcards are not portable to NetBSD make.
1606 * doc/automake.texi (Wildcards): Document portability issue.
1607 * tests/extra10.test, tests/extra11.test, tests/extra12.test:
1610 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1612 Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
1613 * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
1614 an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
1616 Avoid possible false negatives in dejagnu7.test.
1617 * tests/dejagnu7.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Also, avoid
1618 unportable use of fgrep option `-e'.
1620 Fix conflnk3.test to work with Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
1621 * tests/conflnk3.test: Use `test -r FILE' and `test ! -r FILE'
1622 instead of respectively `test -e FILE' and `test ! -e FILE',
1623 since Solaris Sh doesn't grok the latter. Do not SKIP the test
1624 if the shell doesn't support `test -e'.
1626 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1629 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Add
1630 missing closing parenthesis.
1632 Fix leftover call to removed function macros_dump.
1633 * automake.in (read_main_am_file): Call variables_dump, not
1634 macros_dump. Print actual error before list of variables.
1636 2010-04-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1638 Minor improvements in comments of test `silent3.test'.
1639 * tests/silent3.test: Tell to keep it in sync with `silent9.test'
1642 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1644 testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured output.
1645 * tests/acloca14.test, tests/acloca18.test, tests/aclocal.test,
1646 tests/fort2.test, tests/help.test, tests/missing3.test,
1647 tests/missing6.test: Print captured stdout or stderr before
1650 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1652 Make test badopt.test stricter (by enabling `set -e').
1653 * tests/badopt.test: Add call to `set -e'. Due to this change,
1654 an unexpected failure in the call to `$ACLOCAL' (whose outcome
1655 was previously unchecked) would cause the whole test to fail.
1656 Also, bumped the copyright years.
1658 Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
1659 * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
1660 an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
1662 Use `set -e' in confsub.test (avoids possible false negatives).
1663 * tests/confsub.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and related
1664 changes (this helps avoiding some possible minor false negatives).
1665 Also, bumped copyright years.
1667 2010-04-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1669 Fix -Werror handling for presence of configure.in and configure.ac.
1670 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (Automake::Variable): Do not initialize
1671 $configure_ac at the global level, before command-line arguments
1673 (require_variables): Initialize it here.
1674 * tests/configure.test: New test.
1675 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
1676 Report by Stefano Lattarini.
1678 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1680 Avoid possible false negatives in confh5.test.
1681 * tests/confh5.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and bumped
1682 copyright years. Due to this change, any unexpected failure
1683 in calls to $ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE, $AUTOCONF or $AUTOHEADER, or
1684 a failure in grepping expected text in output files should now
1685 cause the whole test to fail.
1687 2010-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1689 Fixed typo in POD documentation of Automake::Channels.
1690 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Fixed typo in POD documentation:
1691 @<...> was used instead of C<...>.
1693 2010-04-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1695 Refactor tests on Automake TESTS color output.
1696 * tests/color.test: Tests using the expect program moved out to...
1697 * tests/color2.test: ... this new file.
1698 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Extended accordingly.
1700 2010-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1702 Fix typos in comments in test confh5.test
1703 * tests/confh5.test: Fix a couple of typos in comments.
1705 Avoid possible false negatives in canon-name.test.
1706 * tests/canon-name.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Improve
1709 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1711 Fix per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror.
1712 Before this patch, 'AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = -Werror' in one
1713 Makefile.am would carry over to other Makefile.am files
1714 treated afterwards by the same thread, causing inconsistent
1715 and unstable exit status values.
1716 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (dup_channel_setup)
1717 (drop_channel_setup): Save and restore the setting of
1718 $warnings_are_errors.
1719 * tests/werror3.test: New test.
1720 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
1723 2010-04-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1725 Bugfix in confh5.test w.r.t. Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
1726 * tests/confh5.test: In the generated Makefile.am: do not use
1727 `test ! -e FILE' to check for the non-existence of a file, since
1728 that is not supported by Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
1730 Make test `aclocal3.test' stricter.
1731 * tests/aclocal3.test: Add call to `set -e'. Fail if $ACLOCAL
1732 succeds unexpectedly.
1734 Add tests checking that symlinks are resolved by `make dist'.
1735 * tests/distlinks.test: New test.
1736 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1737 Suggested by observations from Ralf Wildenhues.
1739 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1741 Use -9 for maximum xz compression with dist-xz.
1742 * lib/am/distdir.am (dist-xz, dist, dist-all): Pass -9 to xz.
1743 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
1744 Report by Pavel Sanda.
1746 2010-03-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1748 Avoid an unportable use of `$status' shell variable.
1749 * Makefile.am (path-check): Don't use the `$status' shell variable
1750 in the target's rules, as it's special in Zsh (equivalent to `$?',
1753 Avoid another use of `chmod -R'.
1754 * Makefile.am (path-check): To be safe, do not use `chmod -R' on
1755 $(distdir) before removing it (as Solaris `chmod -R' touches
1756 symlink targets). Instead, use the cleanup strategy used in
1759 2010-03-28 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1761 Remove uses of @acronym and @sc.
1762 * doc/automake.texi (Public Macros, Limitations on File Names):
1763 Remove all usage of @acronym and @sc in the manual.
1764 Suggested by Karl Berry.
1766 2010-03-13 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
1768 GNU hello uses fdl.texi, not gpl.texi.
1769 * doc/automake.texi (Texinfo): Adjust example to upstream
1772 2010-03-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1774 Formatting cleanups in macro comments.
1775 * automake.in, lib/Automake/Channels.pm,
1776 lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm, lib/Automake/Options.pm,
1777 lib/Automake/Variable.pm, lib/Automake/XFile.pm,
1778 m4/options.m4, m4/substnot.m4: Fix macro comment format.
1780 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1781 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1783 Avoid generation of `tests/defs-p' file.
1784 * tests/defs.in: In the generated `configure.in' snippet: call
1785 `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' with the `parallel-tests' option if the shell
1786 variable `parallel_tests' is set to `yes'.
1787 * tests/Makefile.am (defs-p): Target removed.
1788 (check_SCRIPTS): Removed `defs-p'.
1789 (clean-local-check): Do not unlink `defs-p' anymore.
1790 ($(parallel_tests)): Transformation rules for the test scripts
1792 * tests/gen-parallel-tests: Selection rules for the test
1794 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Set `$parallel_tests' to `yes'
1795 then include `./defs' (rather than simply including `./defs-p').
1796 * tests/parallel-tests2.test: Likewise.
1797 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
1798 * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
1799 * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
1800 * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
1801 * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
1802 * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise.
1803 * tests/parallel-tests9.test: Likewise.
1804 * tests/parallel-tests10.test: Likewise.
1805 * tests/README (Section "Writing Test Cases" subsection "Do"):
1806 Adjusted the parts referring to tests checking `parallel-tests'
1807 behaviour. Some other minor related improvements.
1808 * tests/.gitignore (defs-p): Removed.
1810 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1812 Remove redundant unset of variable TESTS from some test scripts.
1813 * tests/color.test: Do not unset the `TESTS' variable, as it's
1814 already unset in the `defs' file.
1815 * tests/check5.test: Likewise.
1816 * tests/check8.test: Likewise.
1817 * tests/check9.test: Likewise.
1818 * tests/check10.test: Likewise.
1819 * tests/check11.test: Likewise.
1820 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Likewise.
1821 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
1822 * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
1823 * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
1824 * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
1825 * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
1827 2010-02-22 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
1829 Improve help message of mdate-sh.
1830 * mdate-sh: mention actual output format in help message.
1832 2010-02-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1834 Deprecate dist-lzma in favor of dist-xz.
1835 * doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions, Options):
1836 Adjust text to reflect renaming of lzma to xz.
1838 Missing deprecation noted by Antonio Diaz Diaz.
1840 2010-02-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1842 Add tests about support of wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
1843 * tests/extra10.test: New test, check basic support of wildcards
1845 * tests/extra11.test: New test, check more complex usage of
1846 wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
1847 * tests/extra12.test: New test, check usage of wildcards in
1848 EXTRA_DIST when $builddir != $srcdir.
1849 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1850 Necessity of these new tests suggested by Braden McDaniel
1851 and Ralf Wildenhues.
1853 2010-02-08 Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
1855 Fix copyright statement in gnupload script.
1856 * lib/gnupload: Fix copyright statement.
1858 2010-02-06 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> (tiny change)
1859 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1861 Fix exit status of signal handlers in shell scripts.
1862 The value of `$?' on entrance to signal handlers in shell scripts
1863 cannot be relied upon, so set the exit code explicitly to
1865 * lib/am/check.am (am__check_pre): Use `exit 143' in signal handler.
1866 * lib/elisp-comp: Likewise.
1867 * lib/install-sh: Likewise.
1868 * lib/ylwrap: Likewise. Also, fix script to trap signal 13, not 3.
1869 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
1870 Bug report, analysis, and initial patch by Dmitry V. Levin.
1872 2010-02-06 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
1874 Improve gnupload usage text.
1875 * gnupload (usage): Shorten to make more likely to fit on a tty
1876 line. Mention CMD in the synopsis. With ..., plural is implied.
1878 2010-01-28 Christos Kontas <xakon@yahoo.com> (tiny change)
1880 Fix some typos in the manual
1881 * doc/automake.texi (Nested Packages, Rebuilding): Fix typos.
1883 2010-01-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1885 Slighty improve tests acoutbs.test and acoutbs2.test.
1886 * tests/acoutbs2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Check that
1887 autoconf and configure work, that the file `zot' is created by
1888 configure, and that no file containing a backslash in its name is
1890 * tests/acoutbs.test: Likewise, plus updated copyright years.
1892 Fix test acoutbs2.test.
1893 * tests/acoutbs2: In the generated configure.in: add proper calls
1894 to AC_INIT and AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, and remove explicit definition of
1895 PACKAGE and VERSION. Add a call to aclocal before calling automake.
1896 Updated copyright years.
1897 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Removed acoutbs2.test.
1899 Add forgotten test scripts to $(TESTS).
1900 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Added test scripts present on the
1901 filesystem, which were erroneously left out from $(TESTS):
1902 acoutbs2.test, badopt.test, extra2.test.
1903 (XFAIL_TESTS): Added acoutbs2.test.
1905 2010-01-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1907 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
1908 * INSTALL, lib/INSTALL, lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub:
1911 Bump copyright years.
1912 * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
1913 * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
1914 * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
1917 * ChangeLog.09: New file, rotated from ...
1918 * ChangeLog: ... here.
1919 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute ChangeLog.09.
1923 Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
1925 Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are
1926 permitted provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved.
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