1 2011-04-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
3 test defs: fix 'javac' requirement for older JDK versions
4 The Java compiler from JDK 1.5 (and presumably earlier versions)
5 cannot handle the `-version' option by itself; and while it does
6 print the version number, it then errors out with an usage error:
10 Usage: javac <options> <source files>
12 Luckily, adding the `-help' option to the `javac' invocation
13 seems to fix this problem.
14 * tests/defs.in (javac): Pass also the `-help' option to the
15 `javac' program. Add a comment explaining why it is needed.
16 Report from Ralf Wildenhues.
18 2011-04-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
20 test defs: new requirement for the default java compiler
21 * tests/defs.in (for tool in $required): New requirement 'javac'.
22 * tests/java.test: Use it instead of ad-hoc configure check.
23 * tests/java-check.test: Likewise.
24 * tests/instfail-java.test: Likewise.
25 * tests/instdir-java.test: Likewise.
27 2011-04-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
29 java: check_JAVA does not cause compilation by "make all" anymore
30 Fixes automake bug#8234.
31 * automake.in (handle_java): Make stamp of class files built from
32 java sources in $(check_JAVA) a dependency of `check' target, not
34 * tests/java-check.test: New test.
35 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
38 Report from Petteri Räty.
40 2011-04-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
42 Clarify regex code in depcomp.
43 * lib/depcomp: Add comment why we don't need regex-escaping here.
44 Suggested by Stefano Lattarini.
46 2011-04-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
48 Fix makedepend depmode for VPATH builds.
49 * lib/depcomp [makedepend]: Remove any VPATH prefix from the
50 object file name, so a rebuild doesn't attempt to update the
51 .Po files in the source tree.
52 * tests/depcomp9.test: New test.
53 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
56 2011-04-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
58 tests: fix timestamp-related failures
59 Fixes automake bug#8365.
60 * tests/aclocal6.test: Sleep before modifying m4 files that should
61 trigger remake rules. Remove incorrect/obsoleted comments.
62 * tests/subdir5.test: Likewise, and extend a bit.
63 * tests/subdir8.test: Likewise.
64 * tests/pr8365-remake-timing.test: New xfailing test.
65 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
66 Report from Sam Steingold.
68 2011-04-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
70 Create subdirs for generated sources even when not dep tracking.
71 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): If $object is derived
72 and lands in subdir, be sure to output a dirstamp dependency.
73 * tests/yacc5.test: Avoid falsely matching the dirstamp
74 dependency when grepping for a rule.
75 * tests/lex-subobj-nodep.test: New test.
76 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
78 Report by Ignacy Gawedzki.
80 Fix locale issue in check-exported-srcdir.test.
81 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Reformulate glob to not fail
82 in a locale that ignores or interleaves character case.
84 2011-04-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
86 docs: better visibility for aclocal in the index
87 * doc/automake.texi (@menu): Rename title for entry 'configure'
88 from "Scanning configure.ac or configure.in" to the more precise
89 "Scanning configure.ac, using aclocal".
90 (@detailmenu): Adjust.
91 (@node configure): Adjust, and extend @cindex calls accordingly.
93 From a report by Maynard Johnson.
95 2011-03-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
97 tests: improve tests on "maintainer-clean" target
98 * tests/aclocal6.test: Move checks related to "maintainer-clean"
99 functionalities into ...
100 * tests/maintclean-vpath.test: ... this new test.
101 * tests/maintclean.test: Update heading comments. Extend to also
102 test subdirs. Remove useless disabling of YACC. Fix m4 quoting
103 in configure.in. Add a trailing `:' command. Remove extra blank
105 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
107 2011-03-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
109 tests: fix unindent to use printf not echo for script.
110 * tests/defs.in: Use printf rather than echo, as the latter may
111 interpret the backslashes in the sed script. Fixes test
112 failures with dash as /bin/sh.
114 2011-03-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
115 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
117 maintcheck: look for problematic names of testcases
118 The configure.in stub created by default by `tests/defs' obtains
119 the first argument of AC_INIT from the test name, and this can
120 cause some supported autoconf versions to fail with a spurious
121 error if that test name contains the name of an m4 or m4sugar
122 builtin or macro (e.g., `defn' or `m4_undefine').
123 See for example the bug fixed by commit v1.11-287-g1325a8a.
124 This change add a maintainer check that warns about test names
125 which are possibly problematic in this regard.
126 * Makefile.am (sc_test_names): New maintainer-check target.
127 (syntax_check_rules): Add it.
128 (m4_builtins): New helper variable.
129 (TESTS): Updated according to the following renamings.
130 * tests/include.test: Renamed ...
131 * tests/hdr-vars-defined-once.test: ... to this.
132 * tests/sinclude.test: Renamed ...
133 * tests/m4-inclusion.test: ... to this, and simplified
135 * tests/include2.test: Renamed ...
136 * tests/dist-included-parent-dir.test: ... to this, for
139 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
141 tests: fix bug in alloca*.test
142 * tests/alloca.test: Make grepping of automake stderr stricter,
143 add a trailing `:' command; also, add AC_PROG_CC to configure.in,
144 and create a dummy alloca.c file, to ensure that we fail for the
146 * tests/alloca2.test: Likewise. Also, look for LT_INIT, not
147 AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, in the error message (bug introduced with commit
148 v1.11-315-gd51e7b7 "libtool: suggest LT_INIT if LTLIBRARIES
150 From a report by Patrick Welche.
152 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
154 tests: fix bug (comments-in-var-defn.test + autoconf 2.62)
155 * tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: The configure.in stub created
156 by default, which has the AC_INIT first argument obtained by the
157 test name, causes autoconf 2.62 to fail with a spurious error
158 message like: "configure.in:1: error: defn: undefined macro:".
159 Thus, to prevent this, the test is renamed to ...
160 * tests/comments-in-var-def.test: ... this.
161 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
163 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
165 cosmetics: convert encoding from ISO-8859 to UTF-8
166 * ChangeLog.03: Convert encoding to UTF-8.
167 * ChangeLog.96: Likewise.
168 * ChangeLog.98: Likewise.
172 2011-03-01 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
174 test defs: unindent without temporary file
175 * tests/defs.in (commented_sed_unindent_prog): Commented Sed program
176 that strips the "proper" amount of leading whitespace.
177 (unindent): Lazily strip comments from the above program and use it
178 to unindent without using a temporary file.
180 2011-02-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
182 libtool: suggest LT_INIT if LTLIBRARIES primary is used
183 When the LTLIBRARIES primary was used, but $(LIBTOOL) wasn't
184 defined, automake suggested to add a call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
185 in configure.ac. But that macro is deprecated since Libtool
186 version 1.9b (2004-08-29), in favor of the newer LT_INIT. So
187 suggest the use of this latter macro instead.
188 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (%_am_macro_for_var): Pair 'LIBTOOL'
189 with 'LT_INIT', not with 'AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'.
190 * libtool4.test: Adjust and extend. Also, add a call to macro
191 AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, to help ensuring that automake does
192 not fail for the wrong reasons.
193 * ltinit.test: New test, ensure that automake's libtool support
194 works with LT_INIT-based interface.
195 Thanks to Jack Kelly for the suggestion.
197 2011-02-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
199 tests: tempdirs with restrictive permissions are cleaned correctly
200 Before this change, the removal of a temporary test directory
201 containing subdirectories with restrictive permissions (such as
202 'r--r--r--') could fail.
203 * tests/defs: Ensure that all the subdirectories of a temporary
204 test directory have the 'read', 'write' and 'execute' bits set,
205 before trying to remove it with `rm -rf'.
206 * tests/Makefile.am (clean-local-check): Likewise.
208 2011-02-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
209 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
211 test defs: add subroutine for input unindenting
212 * tests/defs.in (unindent): New subroutine.
214 2011-02-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
216 python: report the 'PYTHON' influential environment variable
217 * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Call AC_ARG_VAR on PYTHON.
218 * doc/automake.texi (Python): Update and extend.
219 * tests/help-python.test: New test.
220 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
221 * THANKS (Jack Kelly): Update e-mail address.
222 Suggestion by Jack Kelly.
224 2011-02-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
226 tests defs: clear TESTS_ENVIRONMENT variable
227 * tests/defs.in (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset it, so that values
228 from environment won't interfere with the testcases.
229 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
231 2011-02-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
233 tests: tweak few tests on simple and parallel test drivers
234 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Improve heading comments.
235 * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: Likewise. Also, unset the
236 `FOO_EXIT_STATUS' variable, so that any pre-existing value in the
237 environment won't risk to interfere with the test.
238 Suggestions by Ralf Wildenhues.
240 2011-02-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
242 coverage: more tests on simple and parallel test drivers
243 * tests/parallel-tests-subdir.test: New test.
244 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Likewise.
245 * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: Likewise.
246 * tests/check-tests_environment.test: Likewise.
247 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
249 2011-01-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
251 tests: fix spurious failures in lflags*.test
252 * tests/lflags.test: Remove 'LEX' from the environment, so
253 that it won't be erroneously picked up by `make -e'.
254 * tests/lflags2.test: Likewise.
256 2011-01-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
258 docs: color-tests issues with parallel make
259 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Document that automatic
260 recognition of a capable terminal attached to stdout can fail
261 with some make implementation when running in parallel mode,
262 thus causing colored test output not to be automatically
263 activated when it should.
265 2011-01-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
267 tests: avoid instspc.test failures due to make's whitespace trimming
268 * tests/instspc.test: Prepend './' when passing the test
269 characters, to avoid leading whitespace characters to be trimmed
270 from macros set from environment variables. Fixes testsuite
271 failures with HP-UX, IRIX, and Tru64/OSF make.
273 2011-01-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
275 coverage: test semantics of "dummy" per-target flags
276 * tests/specflg-dummy.test: New test, ensuring that even "dummy"
277 per-target flags triggers the use of renamed objects.
278 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
279 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
281 2011-01-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
283 tests defs: sanitize IFS
284 * tests/defs.in ($IFS): Define to <space>, <tab>, <newline>.
285 ($sp): New variable, holding a single whitespace character.
286 ($tab): New variable, holding a tabulation character.
287 ($nl): New variable, holding a newline character.
289 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
291 tests: fix VPATH auto-expansion workarounds.
292 * tests/parallel-tests8.test, tests/suffix13.test:
293 Ensure $< is not surrounded by white space, to prevent Solaris
294 make from applying automatic VPATH text expansion.
296 2011-01-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
298 tests: fix spurious failures in yflags*.test
299 * tests/yflags.test: Remove 'YACC' from the environment, so
300 that it won't be erroneously picked up by `make -e'.
301 * tests/yflags2.test: Likewise.
303 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
305 tests: avoid fn99*.test failures due to buggy AIX 5.3 cp -R.
306 * tests/fn99.test, tests/fn99subdir.test: Skip if an initial
307 `cp -R' of the subdir tree already fails; AIX 5.3 cp messes
308 up its internal memory when copying this tree.
310 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
311 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
313 Add comment to check-TESTS rule working around make 3.80 bug.
314 * lib/am/check.am (check-TESTS): Update comment.
316 2011-01-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
318 tests: less strict double-colon spy.test again.
319 * tests/spy.test: We know BSD make doesn't invoke more than one
320 double-colon rule, so no need to expose that failure.
322 2011-01-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
324 install-sh: avoid Tru64 sh `test' operator precedence issues.
325 * lib/install-sh: Protect file names and directory components
326 that consist of `=', `(', `)', or `!'. Move protection as early
327 as possible, to avoid errors such as with Tru64 sh `test -z ='.
328 * tests/instsh2.test: Extend test to cover more possibilities.
329 Fixes 1.12 instspc-equal-install.test failure on Tru64/OSF 5.1.
331 2011-01-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
332 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
334 docs: automake testsuite doesn't use TESTS_ENVIRONMENT anymore
335 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Do not claim Automake uses
336 TESTS_ENVIRONMENT for the perl driver. Instead, point to the
337 parallel-tests driver.
339 2011-01-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
341 Allow _AM_DEPENDENCIES to be used later in configure.
342 * m4/depend.m4 (_AM_DEPENDENCIES): Remove a previously existing
343 conftest.dir before recreating it.
345 Report by Eric Blake, from report by Scott McCreary against M4.
347 2011-01-18 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
349 tests: avoid failure on w32 file systems.
350 * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: SKIP if file cannot
351 be turned unreadable.
353 2011-01-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
355 tests: allow double-colon spy.test to work with HP-UX make.
356 * tests/spy.test: Fix comment typos. Ensure prerequisites we
357 do not want to depend on are strictly older than the target.
358 Also test with a target out of date wrt. more than one rule.
360 2011-01-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
362 tests: remove useless requirements from cond36.test
363 * tests/cond36.test ($required): Remove.
364 Since we are at it, add a trailing `:' command.
366 2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
367 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
369 parallel-tests: work around Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh read bugs.
370 * lib/am/check.am ($(TEST_SUITE_LOG), recheck, recheck-html):
371 Test file readability before redirecting input from it, to avoid
372 exiting Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh which treats read as special builtin.
373 * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: New test.
374 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
377 2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
379 * NEWS, README: Update copyright years.
381 Fix parallel-tests.test failure with HP-UX make.
382 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Sleep inside inner tests, so logs
383 are newer than logs of tests they depend on, for HP-UX make.
385 2011-01-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
387 docs: ensure example are separated with empty lines in the input
388 * doc/automake.texi (Extending aclocal, Emacs Lisp, Rebuilding)
389 (API Versioning, Renamed Objects, Multiple Outputs): Add empty
390 lines before `@example' and after `@end example' lines, so info
391 output is rendered correctly, and a following @noindent honored.
392 Report by Stefano Lattarini.
394 2011-01-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
396 tests: fix comment typo
397 * tests/substref.test: Fix grammar in a comment.
399 2011-01-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
401 tests: fix spurious failures in two texinfo tests
402 * tests/txinfo.test ($required): Add 'makeinfo'.
403 * tests/txinfo8.test: Create a dummy 'textutils.info' file, so
404 that make won't try to run makeinfo (which could be unavailable)
406 Found by NixOS Hydra, reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
408 2011-01-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
410 Avoid testsuite failures due to Autoconf Fortran change.
411 Autoconf v2.68-21-g727ce95 causes AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS to
412 require computing the canonical host name. Ensure config.guess
413 and config.sub files are present for respective checks.
414 * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Add stub files.
415 * tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
416 * tests/fort4.test: Use $AUTOMAKE -a for installing files.
418 2011-01-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
420 docs: clustered '-d' not recognized in YFLAGS
421 This change fixes automake bug#7828.
422 * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Document that automake
423 recognizes '-d' in AM_YFLAGS only if it's not clustered with
425 From a report by Юрий Пухальский.
427 2011-01-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
429 tests: add checks on automatically-distributed files
430 Related to automake bug#7819.
431 * tests/autodist.test: New test.
432 * tests/autodist-subdir.test: Likewise.
433 * tests/autodist-acconfig.test: Likewise.
434 * tests/autodist-acconfig-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
435 * tests/autodist-aclocal-m4.test: Likewise.
436 * tests/autodist-config-headers.test: Likewise.
437 * tests/autodist-configure-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
438 * tests/autodist-stamp-vti.test: Likewise.
439 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
441 2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
443 tests: work around a texi+cygnus bug causing a spurious XFAIL
444 * tests/txinfo5b.test: New test, like txinfo5.test but calling
445 automake with the `-Wno-override' option to work around a bug
446 in the texinfo + cygnus interaction.
447 * tests/txinfo5.test: Update heading comments.
448 * tests/Makefile.am (TEST): Updated.
450 2011-01-09 Dave Hart <davehart@gmail.com> (tiny change)
452 Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
453 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
455 2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
457 Improve, extend and tweak tests on Texinfo support.
458 * tests/instdir-texi.test: Add a call to `ls -l' after that to
459 `make', for debugging. When looking for required tools, do not
460 redirect the output of "$tool --help" to /dev/null, and do not
461 uselessly run it in a subshell.
462 * tests/txinfo.test: Rewritten to run autoconf, ./configure and
463 make. All checks moved into Makefile.am.
464 * tests/txinfo8.test: Likewise, and modernize the generated
466 * tests/txinfo2.test: Moved checks into Makefile.am, and other
468 * tests/txinfo5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
469 changes. Add trailing `:' command.
470 * tests/txinfo6.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
471 Makefile.in stricter.
472 * tests/txinfo7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
473 changes. Add trailing `:' command. Do not add unnecessary stuff
475 * tests/txinfo9.test: Verify that more targets which are expected
476 to be generated only once really are. Make grepping less strict,
477 to avoid exposing too much internal details. More minor changes.
478 * tests/txinfo16.test: Add trailing `:'. Prefer cat over echo
479 for appending to configure.in. Updated/fixed heading comments.
480 * tests/txinfo23.test: Likewise, and extended a little by making
481 it check that no info file is created in the $(srcdir).
482 * tests/txinfo24.test: Likewise.
483 * tests/txinfo25.test: Likewise.
484 * tests/txinfo18.test: Add trailing `:'. Prefer cat over echo
485 for appending to configure.in. Also, check that index files are
486 cleaned also by "make clean", not only by "make distclean".
487 * tests/txinfo22.test: Prefer `$me' over hard-coded test name,
488 and added trailing `:' command. This testcase also used to check
489 that automake ignores in-line comments when using variables, but
490 preserves them in the output; these checks (added in commit
491 "Release-1-7f-4-g9177ef8") do not really pertain to this test,
492 so they have been moved ...
493 * tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: ... into this new test.
494 * tests/txinfo4.test: Escape literal dots in grep regexps. Add
495 trailing `:' command.
496 * tests/txinfo29.test: Likewise. Relax grepping of generated
497 Makefile.in w.r.t. whitespaces. Prefer `cat' over `echo' to
498 append to configure.in.
499 * tests/txinfo3.test: Likewise.
500 * tests/vtexi.test: Improve grepping of Makefile.in (sometimes
501 make it stricter, sometimes laxer). Move `set -e' setting just
502 after the inclusion of ./defs. De-uglify a sed command. Other
503 minor cosmetic improvements.
504 * tests/vtexi2.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in stricter. Add
505 trailing `:' command.
506 * tests/vtexi3.test: New test on version.texi support.
507 * tests/vtexi4.test: Likewise.
508 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
510 2011-01-09 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
512 Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
513 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
515 2011-01-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
517 cosmetics: remove trailing whitespaces
518 * doc/automake.texi: Remove trailing whitespaces.
519 * tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
520 * tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
521 * tests/fort4.test: Likewise.
522 * tests/fort5.test: Likewise.
523 * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
524 * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
526 automake: minor fixes in comments
527 * automake.in: Some minor fixes and enhancements in comments.
529 2011-01-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
531 Add test coverage for deleted header files.
532 * tests/depcomp6.test, tests/depcomp7.test: Update tests to
533 also check for the deleted header bug. If no dependency
534 tracking mechanism could be found, SKIP rather than exit
535 successfully. Use GNU style spacing and ANSI C prototypes.
537 Fix typos in Rule.pm comments.
538 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typos in comments.
540 docs: split 'amhello Explained' node.
541 * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Split node ...
542 (amhello's configure.ac Setup Explained)
543 (amhello's Makefile.am Setup Explained) : ... into these two.
544 (Top, Hello World): Adjust, and add @anchor for stable URL links.
545 Suggestion by Karl Berry in automake bug#7766.
547 2011-01-08 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
548 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
550 docs: reference defining directories in amhello node.
551 * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Point to Autoconf
552 manual for how to convert directory values into macros.
553 (Optional): Fix grammar nit.
555 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
557 * NEWS: Fix typo (forgotten word).
559 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
560 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
562 docs: how to work around checks on invalid primary/directory couples
563 * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): Document the blessed idiom which can
564 be used to work around automake checks on invalid primary/directory
565 couples (such as `lib_PROGRAMS' or `doc_LIBRARIES').
567 2011-01-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
569 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
570 * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
573 Fix maintainer-check regression.
574 * tests/subobj11a.test: Pass DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS in the
577 Bump copyright years.
578 * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
579 * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
580 * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
582 2010-12-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
583 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
585 Work around a bug in file-inclusion mechanism of Solaris make.
586 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): In the name of the
587 dependency file: collapse multiple slash characters into a single
589 * tests/subobj11a.test: New test.
590 * tests/subobj11b.test: Likewise.
591 * tests/subobj11c.test: Likewise.
592 * tests/depcomp8a.test: Likewise.
593 * tests/depcomp8b.test: Likewise.
594 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
596 Report by Stefano Lattarini, quick fix by Ralf Wildenhues, final
597 patch and tests by Stefano Lattarini.
599 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
601 Fix two spurious testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5.
602 * tests/suffix13.test (Makefile.am): Account for VPATH issues on
603 weaker make implementations (e.g. IRIX 6.5).
604 * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise, plus a required related
606 Reported by Ralf Wildenhues. The bugs have been there from the
607 first versions of the affected test scripts.
609 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
611 docs: cygnus mode doesn't require AM_CYGWIN32 macro.
612 * doc/automake.texi (Cygnus): Mode 'cygnus' does not require
613 the AM_CYGWIN32 macro (and indeed hasn't required it since at
614 least commit Release-1-2-31-g3038064 "merged changes from
615 Cygnus" of 1997-08-25).
617 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
619 distlinksbrk.test: Work around botched "make -k".
620 * tests/distlinksbrk.test: Run "make" multiple times and grep
621 its output each time for a single error message, rather than
622 running "make -k" one single time and grepping its output for
623 all the expected error messages. This should work around make
624 implementations with limited (broken?) `-k' support; for more
625 information, see these subthreads on the automake-patches list:
626 - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on HP-UX 11.23",
627 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00162.html>
628 - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5",
629 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00166.html>
631 2010-12-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
633 Fix sed-related buglet in test "subdir5.test"
634 * tests/subdir5.test: Always terminate text passed to the
635 `i' sed command with a newline, to work around limitations
636 in e.g. older OpenBSD sed.
638 2010-12-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
640 docs: fix blunder in example about python extension modules
641 * doc/automake.texi (Python): Use `quaternion_la_SOURCES',
642 not `quaternion_SOURCES', to declare the sources of python
643 extension module `quaternion.la'.
645 2010-12-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
647 docs: list LTLIBRARIES among Automake primaries
648 * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): List `LTLIBRARIES' among
649 the Automake primaries.
651 2010-12-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
653 Improve tests on generated portions of configure help screen.
654 * tests/help-depend.test: Grepping of configure help screen
655 relaxed to cater for possible line wrapping, and tightened in
657 * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
658 * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
659 * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
660 * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
661 * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
662 * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
663 * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
664 * tests/help-init.test: Grepping of configure help screen
667 2010-12-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
669 Avoid running installed automake from 'libtool --help'.
670 * tests/subobj9.test: Export AUTOCONF and AUTOMAKE.
671 Together with fixed Libtool, this fixes check-coverage to not
672 invoke installed automake.
674 2010-11-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
676 Fix spurious failures in `silent*.test' for $CC != gcc
677 In some tests on automake-produced silent rules, we forced the
678 use of gcc depmode to improve testsuite coverage; but this has
679 unsurprisingly led to spurious failures when some non-GNU C
680 compilers were used. So we are now careful to require GCC in
681 tests that force gcc depmode.
682 From reports by Ralf Wildenhues.
683 * silent5.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
684 * silent-many-generic.test, silent-many-gcc.test: ... these new
685 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
687 * silentlex.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
688 * silent-lex-generic.test, silent-lex-gcc.test: ... these new
689 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
691 * silentyacc.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
692 * silent-yacc-generic.test, silent-yacc-gcc.test: ... these new
693 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
695 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
697 2010-11-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
699 Tests: consistently use "|| Exit 1" after ". ./defs".
700 * tests/autohdr.test: Use `. ./defs || Exit 1', not bare
701 `. ./defs', for consistency with other tests.
702 * tests/autohdr2.test: Likewise.
703 * tests/autohdr3.test: Likewise.
704 * tests/autohdr4.test: Likewise.
705 * tests/cond23.test: Likewise.
706 * tests/cond24.test: Likewise.
707 * tests/cond25.test: Likewise.
708 * tests/cond26.test: Likewise.
709 * tests/cond27.test: Likewise.
710 * tests/cond28.test: Likewise.
711 * tests/cond29.test: Likewise.
712 * tests/cond30.test: Likewise.
713 * tests/cond31.test: Likewise.
714 * tests/cond32.test: Likewise.
715 * tests/cond33.test: Likewise.
716 * tests/cond34.test: Likewise.
717 * tests/cond35.test: Likewise.
718 * tests/cond36.test: Likewise.
719 * tests/cond37.test: Likewise.
720 * tests/cond38.test: Likewise.
721 * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
722 * tests/cond40.test: Likewise.
723 * tests/cond41.test: Likewise.
724 * tests/cond42.test: Likewise.
725 * tests/cond43.test: Likewise.
726 * tests/cond44.test: Likewise.
727 * tests/cond45.test: Likewise.
728 * tests/dollarvar.test: Likewise.
729 * tests/dollarvar2.test: Likewise.
730 * tests/hfs.test: Likewise.
731 * tests/libobj14.test: Likewise.
732 * tests/percent.test: Likewise.
733 * tests/percent2.test: Likewise.
734 * tests/phony.test: Likewise.
735 * tests/silent.test: Likewise.
736 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
737 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
738 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
739 * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
740 * tests/silent6.test: Likewise.
741 * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
742 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
743 * tests/silentcxx.test: Likewise.
744 * tests/silentf77.test: Likewise.
745 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
746 * tests/silentlex.test: Likewise.
747 * tests/silentyacc.test: Likewise.
749 Avoid useless cleaning in some `silent*.test' tests.
750 * tests/silentf77.test: Removed useless calls to "make clean"
751 and "make maintainer-clean".
752 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
753 * tests/silent3.test: Removed useless call to "make distclean".
754 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
755 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
757 2010-11-19 Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
759 Sync config-ml.in from GCC.
760 * config-ml.in: Add Go support: treat GOC and GOCFLAGS like other
761 compiler/flag environment variables.
763 2010-11-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
765 Automake::Config: remove extra trailing semicolon.
766 * lib/Automake/Config.in: Remove extra trailing semicolon.
768 help4.test: fix botched heading comment.
769 * tests/help4.test: Fixed the heading comment, since it
770 didn't correctly describe what checks the testcase was
773 help2.test: add checks on aclocal too.
774 * tests/help2.test: Check that also `aclocal --version' and
775 `aclocal --help' work with configure.in and acinclude.m4 both
778 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
780 Fix spurious failures of silent-rules tests with Sun Fortran.
781 * tests/silentf77.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
782 messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers, to
783 avoid spurious failures. Add a trailing `:' command.
784 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
786 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
788 Fix spurious failures of silent5.test with Sun Fortran.
789 * tests/silent5.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
790 messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers,
791 to avoid spurious failures. This bug has been there from the
792 very first version of this test script.
794 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
796 Fix regression in colon{5,6}.test (failures on AIX 5.3).
797 * tests/colon5.test: Also substitute `@SHELL@' with `$SHELL' when
798 post-processing the generated Makefile.in, to work around a bug
799 of AIX 5.3 make which doesn't allow setting the `$(SHELL)' macro
800 on the commend line. Calls to `$MAKE' adjusted accordingly.
801 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
802 Regression introduced in commit v1.11-175-gf9fe878 "Modernize,
803 improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test", and reported by Ralf
806 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
808 Fix regression in ansi.test (failure on AIX 5.3).
809 * tests/ansi.test: Remove redundant hackish check done using a
810 hand-postprocessed Makefile.in. This check worked by setting
811 the `$(SHELL)' macro on the command line of make, but this is
812 not supported by the AIX 5.3 make implementation.
813 This bug has been lurking for a long time, and was activated by
814 commit v1.11-125-gc1f6cdb "Enable `errexit' shell flag in various
815 tests". Report by Ralf Wildenhues.
817 2010-11-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
819 tests: avoid '##'-style comments inside recipe commands.
820 * tests/confh.test, tests/confh8.test: Remove
821 double-hash comments from makefile rule commands, they
822 are not part of the Automake API.
824 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
826 tests: work around dash quoting issue in case statements.
827 * tests/color.test, tests/color2.test: Quote variable in case
828 pattern, to avoid skipping tests with dash 0.5.5.1.
830 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
832 Rebuild menus in the manual.
833 * doc/automake.texi: Rebuild menus (using ^C ^U ^A in emacs).
834 Thanks to Ian Lance Taylor for the suggestion.
836 Fix install-strip when $(STRIP) contains several words.
837 * lib/am/install.am (install-strip): Update comment. Use
838 separate sub-make invocations for empty and nonempty $(STRIP),
839 to fix quoting issues.
840 * tests/strip2.test, tests/strip3.test: New tests.
841 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Adjust.
843 2010-11-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
845 Fix yaccdry.test failure: require bison.
846 * tests/yaccdry.test: Require bison.
847 Found by NixOS Hydra.
849 2010-11-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
851 Fix a bug in variable concatenation with `+='.
852 * lib/Automake/VarDef.pm (append): Since the content of the
853 "appended-to" variable is going to be unconditionally normalized
854 later, simply separate the appended value with a single whitespace
855 character, instead of trying to be uselessly smarter by using
856 escaped newlines. This fixes a bug in which extra backslashes
857 where erroneously inserted in the variable's final value.
858 * tests/pluseq11.test: New test, exposing the bug.
859 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
860 Reported by Andy Wingo.
862 2010-11-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
864 Fix bug in rules for creating vala vapi/header files.
865 * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Add forgotten "fi" in an
866 if control structure in a generated make rules. Bug introduced
867 by previous commit `v1.11-221-gd7c1679', and revealed by failure
868 of test `vala2.test'.
870 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
872 Fix and document rules to not touch the tree with `make -n'.
873 * doc/automake.texi (Multiple Outputs): Document the problem of
874 modifications during dry-run execution, propose solution.
876 * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Split recipe so the
877 stamp file is not removed with GNU `make -n'.
878 (lang_yacc_target_hook): Separate removal of parser output file
880 * lib/am/lisp.am ($(am__ELCFILES)): Determine whether -n was
881 passed to make, take care not to remove any files in that case.
882 * lib/am/remake-hdr.am (%CONFIG_H%): Separate removal of
883 %STAMP% file from induced remaking of config header.
884 * tests/autohdrdry.test, tests/lispdry.test, tests/yaccdry.test:
886 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
888 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
890 Add FAQ entry for bug reporting instructions.
891 * doc/automake.texi (Reporting Bugs): New section.
892 (Introduction): Refer to it.
894 2010-10-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
896 Add support for newer python versions.
897 * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Add python2.7 and python3.2 to
898 _AM_PYTHON_INTERPRETER_LIST. Since we are at it, break a long
899 line and fix indentation.
901 From a report by Thomas Klausner.
903 Add test for `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' macro.
904 * tests/dmalloc.test: New test.
905 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
907 Fix nits and bugs in tests `help*.test'.
908 * tests/help4.test: Fix broken sed commands used to strip `-W...'
909 flags away from "$AUTOMAKE" and "$ACLOCAL".
910 * tests/help3.test: Likewise, and fix a botched comment.
911 * tests/help.test: Likewise. Also, use "AUTOMAKE_fails ..."
912 instead of "$AUTOMAKE ... && Exit 1", for consistency and to
913 please maintainer-check.
914 * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
916 2010-10-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
917 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
919 Improve tests `help*.test' (also fixes maintcheck failures).
920 * tests/help.test: To run automake, use `$AUTOMAKE' with all `-W'
921 flags stripped away rather than hard-coded `automake-$APIVERSION',
922 to better honour user-overrides. Similarly for aclocal.
923 * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
924 * tests/help3.test: Likewise.
925 * tests/help4.test: Likewise.
927 2010-10-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
929 Document and fix expansion of variables before rules.
930 * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Document that variables
931 are expanded before rules.
932 * lib/am/check.am (am__check_post): Reword a bit so it does not
933 get matched as a rule.
934 Suggestion by Ben Pfaff.
936 2010-10-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
938 Revert "parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue."
939 This reverts commit 24e3b4ee2f8cb9f72dd94a05a893f3d4e88b7835,
940 because it re-opened the bug fixed by v1.11-10-g218e678.
942 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
944 parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
945 * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
946 substitution %MAKEFILE%.
947 (generate_makefile): Adjust.
948 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
949 sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
950 input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
953 Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
955 2010-09-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
957 Extend tests on `--help' and `--version' options.
958 * tests/help.test: Create a new empty directory and chdir into
959 it, rather than removing already present files. Run the aclocal
960 and automake wrapper scripts directly, instead of relying on
961 $AUTOMAKE and $ACLOCAL. Be sure to correctly match literal dots
962 in aclocal's and automake's stderr. Add a trailing `:' command.
963 * tests/help2.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
964 `--version' works in directories with broken `configure.in'.
965 * tests/help3.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
966 `--version' take precedence on the other options.
967 * tests/help4.test: New test, checking that the first among the
968 `--help' and `--version' options to be specified on the command
970 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
972 2010-09-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
974 Testsuite: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when extending PATH.
975 * tests/compile2.test: Do no uselessly (implicitly) repeat the
976 computation of PATH_SEPARATOR again.
977 * tests/instmany-mans.test: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when
978 extending/redefining PATH.
979 * tests/instmany-python.test: Likewise.
980 * tests/instmany.test: Likewise.
981 * tests/man4.test: Likewise.
982 * tests/mkinst3.test: Likewise.
983 * tests/mmodely.test: Likewise.
984 * tests/multlib.test: Likewise.
985 * tests/txinfo30.test: Likewise.
986 * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
988 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_PATH_SEPARATOR): New maintainer check.
989 (syntax_check_rules): Updated.
991 Testsuite: new variables `$PATH_SEPARATOR' and `$APIVERSION'.
992 * tests/defs.in ($APIVERSION): New AC_SUBST'd variable.
993 ($ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE): Use it.
994 ($PATH_SEPARATOR): New AC_SUBST'd variables.
997 2010-09-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
999 Manual: be more agnostic w.r.t. version control system used.
1000 * doc/automake.texi (Basics of Distribution): Also refer to `.svn'
1001 directories as a type of probably-unwanted files that are copied
1002 regardless when adding directories to EXTRA_DIST.
1003 (The dist Hook): Show a dist-hook example which removes Subversion
1004 `.svn' private directories from distdir, rather than CVS private
1006 (missing and AM_MAINTAINER_MODE): Try to be more agnostic w.r.t.
1007 the version control system used.
1009 Manual: index refer to target "git-dist", not "cvs-dist".
1010 * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Index the non-standard
1011 example about "git-dist" under the "git-dist" label, not under
1014 Perl modules: remove references to "Automake CVS repository".
1015 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Update comments to refer to "Automke's
1016 git repository" rather than to "Automake's CVS repository".
1017 * lib/Automake/Configure_ac.pm: Likewise.
1018 * lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm: Likewise.
1019 * lib/Automake/Struct.pm: Likewise.
1020 * lib/Automake/XFile.pm: Likewise.
1021 * lib/Automake/Version.pm (=head1 DESCRIPTION): Refer to "git
1022 branches" rather than "CVS branches".
1024 Remove obsolete .cvsignore files.
1025 * .cvsignore, doc/.cvsignore, lib/.cvsignore, lib/am/.cvsignore,
1026 lib/Automake/.cvsignore, lib/Automake/tests/.cvsignore,
1027 m4/.cvsignore, tests/.cvsignore: Files deleted. Even when using
1028 savannah's CVS readonly mirror there's no way to commit back to
1029 the real repository, so this files are not worth maintaining or
1032 2010-09-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1034 * m4/dmalloc.m4: Bump serial number and copyright years.
1036 2010-09-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1038 Fix broken link in `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' help screen.
1039 * m4/dmalloc.m4 (AM_WITH_DMALLOC): Refer only to the dmalloc site
1040 `http://www.dmalloc.com', not to the dmalloc tarball there (which
1041 seems to have been removed, substituted by multiple release
1044 2010-09-17 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
1046 Avoid triple-space after period.
1047 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): Avoid 3 spaces at
1049 * ChangeLog.03: Likewise.
1050 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Likewise.
1051 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (_print_message): Likewise.
1052 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm (rule): Likewise.
1053 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (var): Likewise.
1054 * lib/am/distdir.am: Likewise.
1055 * tests/insthook.test: Likewise.
1057 2010-09-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1059 Test automake-generated portions of configure help screen.
1060 * tests/help-depend.test: New test.
1061 * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
1062 * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
1063 * tests/help-init.test: Likewise.
1064 * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
1065 * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
1066 * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
1067 * tests/help-regex.test: Likewise.
1068 * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
1069 * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
1070 * tests/mmode.test: Remove tests on `configure --help' output,
1071 they are superseded by tests in `help-maintainer.test'.
1072 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
1074 2010-09-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1076 * tests/README: Don't put GCS mandated tools in $required.
1078 2010-09-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1080 * HACKING: Hint at old commits with `git describe' output.
1082 2010-09-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1084 Fix regression in test `colon4.test'.
1085 * tests/colon4.test: Fix botched editing to `configure.in'
1086 that made the test useless. Since we are at it, improve
1087 comments and make grepping of generated Makefile.in slightly
1089 Regression introduced by change "Modernize, improve and/or
1090 extend tests `colon*.test" (Stefano Lattarini, 2010-08-08).
1092 2010-09-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1094 Do not require "gzip" explicitly in tests.
1095 The gzip utility is simply expected to be present on any decent
1096 target system for Automake. So it's pointless to put it in
1098 * tests/install2.test ($required): Do not require "gzip".
1099 * tests/lex3.test: Likewise.
1100 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
1101 From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
1103 Make some `confh*.test' tests more "semantic" (plus tweakings).
1104 * tests/confh.test: Run "autoconf", "configure" and "make check",
1105 instead of munging/grepping the generated `Makefile.in'.
1106 * tests/confh4.test: Relax the grepping of Makefile.in w.r.t.
1107 white spaces. Do not create useless dummy source file `foo.c'
1108 and useless dummy header file `acconfig.h'.
1109 (configure.in): Remove superfluous call to `AC_OUTPUT'.
1110 * tests/confh6.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1111 * tests/confh7.test: In comments, add reference to ...
1112 * tests/confh8.test: ... this new test, "semantic" sister
1114 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1115 Prompted by a report from Ralf Wildenhues.
1117 Remove useless whitespace padding in XFAIL_TESTS definition.
1118 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Remove whitespace padding.
1120 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1122 parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
1123 * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
1124 substitution %MAKEFILE%.
1125 (generate_makefile): Adjust.
1126 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
1127 sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
1128 input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
1131 Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
1133 Posix 2008 requires make to set errexit.
1134 * lib/am/check.am: Update comment.
1136 2010-08-27 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1138 Fix bug in test missing6.test.
1139 * tests/missing6.test: Fix the hack used to edit `configure.in',
1140 to avoid producing a configure script that breaks with shells
1141 that do not support $LINENO. Also throw in a couple of cosmetic
1144 2010-08-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1146 Improve robustness of mdate-sh script.
1147 * lib/mdate-sh: Sanitize zsh behavior on startup, to ensure
1148 $ls_command is word-split properly upon invocation.
1149 (error): New function.
1150 (main): Use it. Improve error checking to avoid endless loop
1151 in case $ls_command gave bogus output. Fix eval quotation.
1152 * tests/mdate6.test: New test, to expose eval quotation error.
1153 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
1155 2010-08-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1157 Fix potential regressions in depcomp{3,5}.test.
1158 * tests/depcomp3.test: Do not uselessly escape the character `$'
1159 in makefile rules, when it's used to expand a make macro.
1160 * tests/depcomp5.test: Likewise.
1162 2010-08-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1163 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1165 Docs: clarify how to avoid automatic dependencies tracking.
1166 * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Mention that
1167 automatic dependencies tracking is enabled by default, but that
1168 the package developer can disable it altogether. Add a reference
1169 to the proper section for a more in-depth explanation.
1171 Fix typo in manual (`Makefile.in' instead of `Makefile.am').
1172 * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Fix typo.
1174 2010-08-16 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
1176 Don't hide the table of contents.
1177 * doc/automake.texi: Move the table of contents to the beginning.
1179 2010-08-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1181 Tweak and/or extend some `acloca*.test' tests.
1182 * tests/aclocal8.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured
1184 * tests/aclocal.test: Likewise. Also, add trailing `:'
1186 * tests/acloca19.test: Likewise.
1187 * tests/aclocal5.test: Add trailing `:' command, and prefer
1188 `$me' over hard-coded test name.
1189 * tests/aclocal6.test: Likewise.
1190 * tests/aclocal18.test: Add trailing `:' command, and make
1191 some grepping slightly stricter.
1192 * tests/acloca14.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `diff' over
1193 `cmp', and add some "cosmetic" blank lines.
1195 2010-08-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1197 Tweak and extend tests `pr[!0-9]*.test'.
1198 * tests/primary3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1199 * tests/primary.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
1200 Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
1201 * tests/primary2.test: Likewise.
1202 * tests/prefix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
1203 changes. Add a trailing `:' command.
1204 * tests/proginst.test: Likewise.
1206 Modernize, improve and extend tests for PR (`pr[0-9]*.test').
1207 * tests/pr2.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1208 * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
1209 * tests/pr401.test: Likewise.
1210 * tests/pr401b.test: Likewise.
1211 * tests/pr401c.test: Likewise.
1212 * tests/pr300-prog.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic changes in
1214 * tests/pr300-lib.test: Likewise.
1215 * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise, and ensure verbose printing
1216 of captured make stdout.
1217 * tests/pr211.test: Add trailing `:' command. Also, use the
1218 `configure.in' stub created by ./defs, rather than writing it
1220 * tests/pr204.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic spacing changes.
1221 * tests/pr287.test: Likewise, and move setting of `errexit' shell
1222 flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs).
1223 * tests/pr220.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
1224 Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
1225 * tests/pr224.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1226 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Do not export
1227 `CC=gcc' to configure explicitly (it's already exported globally
1228 in ./defs, since we have "gcc" in $required). Use the stub for
1229 `configure.in' created by ./defs, rather than writing it from
1230 scratch. Do not create dummy files required by "gnu" mode (e.g.
1231 README, NEWS), since we run automake in foreign mode anyway.
1232 * tests/pr72.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
1233 changes. Extend existing checks a bit.
1234 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise. Also, avoid obsolescent constructs in
1235 the generated `configure.in', and extend existing checks over the
1236 generated tarball a bit.
1237 * tests/pr87.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
1238 changes. Add a trailing `:' command. Also, do not create dummy
1239 files required by "gnu" mode (e.g. README, NEWS), since we run
1240 automake in foreign mode anyway.
1241 * tests/pr243.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
1242 `configure.in'. Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
1243 changes. Cosmetic changes to spacing, add trailing `:' command,
1244 and add a "FIXME" comment.
1245 * tests/pr266.test: Likewise, and add explicit command line switch
1246 `--enable-dependecy-tracking' to the ./configure call.
1247 * tests/pr279.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
1248 `configure.in'; also, use the `configure.in' stub created by
1249 ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch. Enable `errexit'
1250 shell flag, and related changes. Add trailing `:' command.
1251 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
1253 * tests/pr307.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1254 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Escape literal
1255 dots in grep regular expressions. Also, add a trailing `:'
1256 command, and cosmetic changes to spacing.
1258 Tests for PR: add excerpts from original bug report, for clarity.
1259 * tests/pr2.test: Ditto.
1260 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
1261 * tests/pr72.test: Likewise.
1262 * tests/pr87.test: Likewise.
1263 * tests/pr211.test: Likewise.
1264 * tests/pr220.test: Likewise.
1265 * tests/pr224.test: Likewise.
1266 * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
1267 * tests/pr243.test: Likewise.
1268 * tests/pr266.test: Likewise.
1269 * tests/pr279.test: Likewise, and tell to keep it in sync
1270 with its sister test.
1271 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
1273 2010-08-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1275 Tweak, extend and improve tests `cond[a-z]*.test'.
1276 * tests/condd.test: Add trailing `:' command. Typofix in
1278 * tests/condhook.test: Make sure target `install-data-hook' is
1279 not called by `make install', but that data files are installed.
1280 Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in. Add trailing `:' command.
1281 * tests/condhook2.test: New test, sister test of condhook, with
1283 * tests/condinc2.test: Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
1284 Prefer trailing `:' command over trailing `Exit 0'.
1285 * tests/condman2.test: Enable errexit shell flag, and related
1286 changes. Add trailing `:' command.
1287 * tests/condman.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless
1288 dummy manpages, and use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
1289 * tests/condman3.test: New test, similar to condman.test, but
1290 it also runs ./configure and "make install", and check the
1292 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1294 Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test.
1295 * tests/colon.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
1296 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Do not create
1297 a useless dummy file. Add trailing `:' command.
1298 * tests/colon4.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
1299 related changes. Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
1300 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1301 * tests/colon7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1302 changes. Improve the generated `configure.in' file. Add
1303 trailing `:' command.
1304 * tests/colon2.test: Likewise. Also, add some new checks.
1305 * tests/colon5.test: Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
1306 Add new, much deeper checks. Add trailing `:' command.
1307 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
1308 * tests/colon3.test: Add trailing `:' command. Remove useless
1309 comments and echos. Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
1310 make some grepping tests stricter. Add a "FIXME" comments about
1311 planned improvements.
1313 Improve and extend tests `asm*.test'.
1314 * tests/asm.test: Use configure.in stub generated by ./defs,
1315 and avoid obsoleted autoconf constructs. Make grepping of
1316 Automake stderr stricter. Do not create useless source file.
1317 Improve verbose messages. Minor cosmetic changes. Tell to
1318 keep it in sync with other sister tests asm*.test.
1319 * tests/asm2.test: Likewise.
1320 * tests/asm3.test: Likewise.
1322 Modernize, improve and/or extend test scripts `conf*.test'.
1323 * tests/confh5.test: Cosmetic changes.
1324 * tests/conff.test: Likewise.
1325 * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise.
1326 * tests/conflnk.test: Likewise.
1327 * tests/conflnk2.test: Likewise.
1328 * tests/confsub.test: Likewise.
1329 * tests/confvar.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
1331 * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
1332 * tests/conflnk3.test: Cosmetic changes. Re-enable a temporarily
1333 disabled test (which didn't work with autoconf <= 2.59, but now we
1334 are requiring autoconf 2.62, so...)
1335 * tests/conflnk4.test: Cosmetic changes, and extend existing tests
1336 accordingly to "TODO" comments.
1337 * tests/conff2.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
1338 Add some comments explaining why we don't use the `configure.in'
1339 stub preset be ./defs.
1340 * tests/confh.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
1341 rather than writing one from scratch, and do not call AC_OUTPUT.
1342 Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related changes. Prefer diff over
1343 cmp to compare text files. Prefer perl over sed to fetch the value
1344 of $(DIST_COMMON) from Makefile.in. Make grepping of the contents
1345 of $(DIST_COMMON) stricter.
1346 * tests/confh4.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
1347 rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping of Makefile.in
1349 * tests/confh5.test: Make grepping of `config.h' stricter. Add a
1351 * tests/configure.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in generated
1352 `configure.ac'. Do not write `configure.in' two times. Escape
1353 literal dots in grep regular expressions.
1354 * tests/confincl.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1355 changes. Prefer fgrep over grep. Other cosmetic changes.
1356 * tests/config.test: Renamed to ...
1357 * tests/confh6.test: ... this. Fix m4 quoting in `configure.in',
1358 and make grepping of `config.h' and `config.h.in' stricter.
1359 * tests/conf2.test: Renamed ...
1360 * tests/confh7.test: ... to this. Use the `configure.in' stub
1361 created by ./defs, rather than writing one from scratch. Try to
1362 run the checks both with and without AC_PROG_CC and AC_OUTPUT in
1364 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1366 Minor improvements and fixes in tests `depcomp*.test'.
1367 * tests/depcomp.test: Do not create useless dummy source files.
1368 Add a trailing `:' command.
1369 * tests/depcomp2.test: Use `unset' on the CFLAG variable to ensure
1370 it's not in in the environment, rather than exporting it with an
1371 empty value. Do not pass CC=gcc to configure, as that's already
1372 done in ./defs since we have gcc in $required. Ensure verbose
1373 printing of captured stderr, and normalize its checking. Add a
1374 trailing `:' command.
1375 * tests/depcomp3.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
1376 grep regexps. Always use `: >' rather than `touch' to create empty
1377 files. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the created
1378 Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:' command.
1379 * tests/depcomp4.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
1380 grep regexp. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the
1381 created Makefile.am. Ensure verbose printing of captured makes'
1382 stoud/stderr. Add a trailing `:' command.
1383 * tests/depcomp5.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1384 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Quote literal dots
1385 and dollar characters in grep regexps. Explicitly declare phony
1386 targets as such in the created Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:'
1388 * tests/depcomp6.test: Consistently use m4 quoting in the generated
1389 configure.in. Cosmetic fixes to spacing. Make the "dummy" `if'
1390 statement required by OpenBSD's sh `set -e' more robust, and add
1391 explanatory comments to it.
1392 * tests/depcomp7.test: Likewise, and add a trailing `:' command.
1394 Separate failing part of test `all.test'.
1395 * tests/all.test: Keep only (x)failing part of the test. Working
1396 checks moved out to ...
1397 * tests/all2.test: ... this new test.
1398 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1400 Modernize, improve and extend tests `subobj*.test'.
1401 * tests/subobjname.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1402 * tests/subobj.test: Make grepping of `Makefile.in' stricter.
1403 Escape literal dots in grep regexps.
1404 * tests/subobj2.test: Add trailing `:' command. Do not use the
1405 unportable fgrep option `-e'.
1406 * tests/subobj3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1407 (configure.in): Use proper m4 quoting, and avoid obsolescent
1409 * tests/subobj8.test: Likewise. Also, enable `errexit' shell
1410 flag, with related changes
1411 * tests/subobj4.test: Likewise. Also, make grepping of
1412 `Makefile.in' stricter.
1413 * tests/subobj5.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of
1414 `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
1416 (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
1417 writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
1418 * tests/subobj6.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of
1419 `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
1420 of ./defs). Do not create useless dummy ac-init file `f'.
1421 * tests/subobj7.test: Do not create useless dummy ac-init file
1423 (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
1424 writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
1425 * tests/subobj9.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1426 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Fail the test if
1427 `make distcheck' fails. Ensure verbose printing of captured make
1428 stdout. Avoid useless fork by doing simple grep instead of using
1429 test -n "`COMMAND | grep ...`".
1430 (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
1431 (Makefile.am): Explicitly mark target "print" as phony.
1432 * tests/subobj10.test: Removed duplicated call to `set -e'. Add
1433 trailing `:' command.
1434 (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
1436 Remove a couple of obsoleted tests.
1437 * tests/fpinstall.test: Removed.
1438 * tests/fpinst2.test: Likewise.
1439 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1441 Bootstrap: updated HACKING entry.
1442 * HACKING ("Working with git"): Explain how to override the
1443 autoconf and autom4te programs used by the bootstrap process.
1446 * bootstrap: Do not remove `lib/Automake/Config.pm' anymore,
1447 since we don't generate it. Correctly quote arguments of
1448 `eval' builtin. Fixed a botched error message. Removed an
1451 Bootstrap: don't search perl in $PATH.
1452 * bootstrap: Do not explicitly search perl in $PATH anymore.
1453 ($PATH_SEPARATOR): Removed, it's no more needed.
1455 Bootstrap: let the user choose which autoconf to use.
1456 * bootstrap ($AUTOCONF): New variable, from the environment.
1457 ($AUTOM4TE): Likewise, for clarity.
1458 Use "$AUTOCONF" instead of calling "autoconf" directly.
1460 Minor improvements to tests ar*.test.
1461 * tests/ar.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1462 * tests/ar2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
1463 Makefile.in stricter.
1465 2010-08-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1467 Fix maintainer-check failure.
1468 * tests/cond5.test: Quote sleep argument, this isn't about
1469 time stamp differences.
1471 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
1472 * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
1475 2010-08-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1477 Work around a nasty bug (segfault) of Solaris make.
1478 * lib/am/check.am (recheck, recheck-html): Trim trailing spaces
1479 from $list, to avoid triggering a nasty bug (potential segfault)
1482 2010-08-06 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
1484 Make cond5.test more robust on MSYS.
1485 * tests/cond5.test: Add delay before the first kill attempt to
1486 cater for problems with MSYS bash.
1488 2010-07-31 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1490 Add example git work flow; discuss merge --log in HACKING.
1492 Suggestion by Stefano Lattarini.
1494 Add more hints for debugging make rules.
1495 * doc/automake.texi (Debugging Make Rules): Show command to find
1496 out expanded values of variables; point to makefile debugger.
1498 Prompted by suggestion from Ludovic Courtès and Andy Wingo.
1500 2010-07-27 Patrick Welche <prlw1@cam.ac.uk> (tiny change)
1502 Fix typo in the manual.
1503 * doc/automake.texi (Scripts): Fix typo.
1505 2010-07-27 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1507 Document current policy for development with git.
1508 * HACKING (Working with git): Overhaul.
1509 Prompted by suggestion from Stefano Lattarini.
1511 Fix AM_COND_IF for gone-invalid condition shell expression.
1512 * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): test contents of $COND_TRUE
1513 variable, rather than re-evaluating the shell expression for
1515 * tests/cond40.test: Extend test.
1518 Avoid syntax error if IF-TRUE part of AM_COND_IF expands empty.
1519 * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): Ensure IF-TRUE part is never empty
1520 to avoid shell syntax error if the m4 expansion is empty.
1521 * tests/cond40.test: Enhance test.
1523 Coverage: bogus option to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
1524 * tests/init2.test: New test.
1525 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
1527 2010-07-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1529 Modernize and improve test scripts `subdir*.test'.
1530 * tests/subdir.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1531 changes. Use the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs',
1532 rather than writing one from scratch.
1533 * tests/subdir2.test: Likewise.
1534 * tests/subdir4.test: Likewise.
1535 * tests/subdir3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1536 changes. Do not create useless dummy source files.
1537 * tests/subdir5.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in (in topdir
1538 and in subdirs) stricter. Some minor changes to keep it more
1539 in sync with the related test `subdir8.test'.
1540 * tests/subdir8.test: Likewise (but with the related test being
1541 `subdir5.test' here).
1542 * tests/subdir6.test: Cosmetic change in spacing.
1543 * tests/subdir9.test: Define and use new variable `$distdir'. Add
1544 trailing `:' command.
1545 * tests/subdir10.test: Cosmetic consistency-related change.
1546 * tests/subdirbuiltsources.test: Cosmetic changes in spacings.
1547 (configure.in): Use stub created by `./defs', rather than writing
1548 it from scratch. Do not use obsoleted and/or deprecated forms of
1549 autoconf/automake macros.
1551 Modernize and improve test scripts `dist*.test'.
1552 * tests/distcleancheck.test: Do not add useless `-e' option to
1553 a $MAKE call. Extend test by grepping stderr of make.
1554 * tests/distcom2.test: Do not run the same test script on the
1555 Makefile.in twice, but save its output in an intermediate file
1556 instead. Make grepping of DIST_COMMON definition stricter.
1557 Display the content of more files, to ease debugging. Add a
1558 trailing `:' command. Improved heading comments w.r.t. sister
1560 * tests/distcom6.test: Likewise, and avoid to uselessly run
1562 * tests/distcom3.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured stdout
1563 and stderr. Make grepping of captured stderr stricter. Also,
1564 add trailing `:' command.
1565 * tests/distcom4.test: Declare the target `test' in the generated
1566 Makefile.am as `.PHONY'. Display content of more files, to ease
1567 debugging. Add trailing `:' command.
1568 * tests/distcom5.test: Likewise. Also, factor out common sed
1569 script in subroutine `extract_distcommon'.
1570 * tests/distcom7.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to write
1571 test Makefile.am files. Add a trailing `:' command.
1572 * tests/distname.test: Prefer `gzip -d' over `gunzip'. Move the
1573 call to `set -e' earlier. Be stricter and more verbose in the
1574 checking of the generated tarball.
1575 (configure.in): Use the stub provided by ./defs, instead of
1576 writing it from scratch. Avoid obsoleted constructs. Remove
1577 useless call to `AM_PROG_CC_C_O'.
1578 * tests/distdir.test: Various minor improvements/normalizations.
1579 * tests/distlinks.test: Likewise.
1581 2010-07-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1583 Improve and extend test cond5.test.
1584 * tests/cond5.test: Do not blindly sleep 60 seconds before polling
1585 the background automake process, but poll it every 10 seconds for
1586 at most 30 times (this makes the test both faster on good machines,
1587 and more resilient to spurious timeout-due failures when in low
1588 priority or on heavily-loaded systems).
1589 Check also that automake writes the expected error messages on the
1591 Enable `errexit' flag, and related changes.
1592 Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs', rather than
1593 writing one from scratch.
1595 2010-06-26 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1597 Update program --help output to match current GCS.
1598 * configure.ac: Set and substitute PACKAGE_URL if AC_PACKAGE_URL
1599 is not defined, for compatibility to Autoconf < 2.64.
1600 * Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute PACKAGE_BUGREPORT and
1602 (sc_diff_automake_in_automake): Update number of diff lines for
1603 additional substitutions.
1604 * aclocal.in (usage): Use PACKAGE_BUGREPORT. Point to Automake
1605 home page and GNU general help page.
1606 * automake.in (usage): Likewise.
1607 * doc/automake.texi: New flag PACKAGE_BUGREPORT, to factor email
1609 (Introduction, Creating amhello, amhello Explained, Options):
1611 * lib/Automake/Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute
1613 * lib/Automake/Config.in ($PACKAGE_BUGREPORT): New global.
1614 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Use it for footer of fatal
1617 Clean up @var handling in the manual.
1618 * doc/automake.texi: Throughout the manual, lower-case @var
1619 names, replace a few one-character names.
1621 2010-06-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1623 Fix typo-related bug in test script silent5.test.
1624 * tests/silent5.test: Use $EGREP, not $GREP (which is not even
1627 Tests: remove useless repetitions of `foreign' automake option.
1628 * tests/multlib.test (configure.in): Remove useless use of
1629 `foreign' option in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (the `--foreign' option is
1630 already in $AUTOMAKE by default, so no point in repeating it).
1631 * tests/subobj10.test: Likewise.
1632 * tests/subobj9.test: Likewise.
1633 * tests/lex3.test (Makefile.am): Similarly, remove useless use
1634 of `foreign' option in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
1635 * tests/lex5.test: Likewise.
1636 * tests/pr279.test: Likewise.
1637 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
1638 * tests/specflg3.test: Likewise.
1639 * tests/target-cflags.test: Likewise.
1641 Drop useless requirement "gzip" in lex5.test.
1642 * tests/lex5.test ($required): Do not list "gzip", as it's
1645 2010-06-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1647 Fix bugs in test script silent5.test.
1648 * tests/silent5.test: Fixed a nasty bug (due to the use of grep
1649 instead of egrep) that could have led to false negatives.
1651 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1653 Add a test checking that distributed broken symlinks cause
1654 `make dist' to fail.
1655 * tests/distlinksbrk.test: New test.
1656 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1658 2010-06-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1660 Fix minor testsuite issues, update docs, for Yacc/Lex changes.
1661 * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Mention AM_YFLAGS, YFLAGS
1662 and AM_LFLAGS, LFLAGS in the order in which they now appear in
1665 * tests/lflags.test, tests/lflags2.test, tests/yflags.test,
1666 tests/yflags2.test: Prefer `make -e' over `make VAR=VAL', to
1667 please maintainer-check. Ensure generated C files contain a
1668 declaration, to please compilers.
1670 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1672 Fix bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t. $(AM_FLAGS) and
1673 $(FLAGS) precedence.
1674 * automake.in: Fix registration of languages "Lex", "Lex (C++)",
1675 "Yacc" and "Yacc (C++)", so that $(LFLAGS) has precedence over
1676 $(AM_LFLAGS) and $(YFLAGS) has precedence over $(AM_YFLAGS).
1677 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1680 New tests, exposing bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t.
1681 $(AM_FLAGS) and $(FLAGS) precedence.
1682 * tests/lflags.test: New test, check that user $(LFLAGS) takes
1683 precedence over automake (AM_LFLAGS) and (foo_LFLAGS). Still
1685 * tests/lflags2.test: Likewise.
1686 * tests/yflags.test: New test, check that user $(YFLAGS) takes
1687 precedence over automake (AM_YFLAGS) and (foo_YFLAGS). Still
1689 * tests/yflags2.test: Likewise.
1690 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Extended accordingly.
1692 2010-06-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1694 Modernize, improve and extend tests `suffix*.test'.
1695 * tests/suffix3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1697 * tests/suffix4.test: Likewise.
1698 * tests/suffix6.test: Likewise, and do not create a useless dummy
1700 * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
1701 * tests/suffix5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1702 changes. Make grepping of Makefile.in slightly stricter.
1703 * tests/suffix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1704 changes. Also, do not redirect grep output to /dev/null, as this
1705 might unmotivatedly hide useful information.
1706 * tests/suffix2.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1707 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Use a more
1708 idiomatic way to count text occurrences in Makefile.in with
1709 grep. Do not create useless dummy source files.
1710 * tests/suffix10.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured make
1711 stdout. Minor cosmetic changes.
1712 * tests/suffix8.test: Likewise. Also, drop useless call to the
1713 env(1) utility, and make grepping of make output stricter by using
1714 $FGREP rather than plain grep.
1715 * tests/suffix11.test: Likewise.
1716 * tests/suffix12.test: Likewise.
1717 * tests/suffix9.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to append to
1718 the `configure.in' stub. Cosmetic changes.
1719 * tests/suffix13.test: Cosmetic spacing change.
1721 2010-06-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1723 Add useful comment in test script ext.test.
1724 * tests/ext.test: Add a comment explaining why an apparently
1725 useless `if' statement is indeed required.
1727 Add useful comment in test script obsolete.test.
1728 * tests/obsolete.test: Add a comment explaining why we need
1729 an indirection in adding $AUTOUPDATE to $required.
1731 Normalize whitespaces in 'tests/Makefile.am'.
1732 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Use only spaces, not tabs, in the
1733 definition of this variable.
1735 2010-06-12 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1737 Remove a couple of unneeded conditionals from tests.
1738 * tests/pr243.test, tests/pr266.test, tests/strip.test: No need
1739 for the FOOTEST conditional.
1741 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1743 Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
1744 * tests/symlink3.test: Deleted, separated into two new, more
1746 * tests/forcemiss.test: ... this one ...
1747 * tests/forcemiss2.test: ... and this one.
1748 * tests/symlink2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, make test
1749 stricter, and skip it if symlink creation is not supported.
1750 * tests/postproc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, related
1751 changes, and a couple of unrelated cosmetic changes.
1752 * tests/recurs.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
1753 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping
1754 of Automake stderr slightly stricter.
1755 * tests/substtarg.test: Likewise.
1756 * tests/strip.test: Likewise, and move the call to `set -e'
1757 earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs'). Also, make sure
1758 that the script installed by `make install-script' is equal to
1760 * tests/substref.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
1761 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Move the call
1762 to `set -e' earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs').
1763 Avoid to explicitly export CC for configure (that's already done
1764 in ./defs). Avoid potential problems with unpredictable make
1765 output. Finally, make grepping of Makefile.in stricter.
1766 * tests/substre2.test: Ensure verbose printing of the captured
1767 make's output, and make its grepping slightly stricter.
1768 * tests/cygwin32.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1769 changes. Also, do not create useless dummy source/data files.
1770 * tests/scripts.test: Likewise.
1771 * tests/recurs2.test: Likewise. Also, use the `configure.in'
1772 stub created by `./defs'.
1773 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1775 Modernize, improve and/or fix tests `pluseq*.test.
1776 * tests/pluseq5.test: Append to configure.in using cat with an
1777 here-doc, not using echo.
1778 * tests/pluseq10.test: Make sure that the captured output of
1779 `make' command is always displayed. Where possible, use $FGREP
1780 instead of grep (this change makes some checks slightly stricter).
1781 * tests/pluseq8.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
1783 * tests/pluseq.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless dummy
1784 data files, and use better m4 quoting in generated configure.in.
1785 * tests/pluseq2.test: Likewise. Also, append to configure.in
1786 using cat with an here-doc, not using echo.
1787 * tests/pluseq3.test: Likewise.
1788 * tests/pluseq4.test: Likewise.
1789 * tests/pluseq6.test: Likewise.
1790 * tests/pluseq7.test: Do not create useless dummy source file.
1791 * tests/pluseq9.test: Slightly extended w.r.t. the grepping of
1792 Automake stderr. Some unrelated cosmetic changes.
1794 Testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured stderr.
1795 * tests/acloca18.test: Print captured stderr before either failing
1796 or grepping it. Be sure to send captured stderr to stderr, not to
1798 * tests/ansi3b.test: Likewise.
1799 * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
1800 * tests/configure.test: Likewise.
1801 * tests/missing3.test: Likewise.
1802 * tests/missing6.test: Likewise.
1803 * tests/output-order.test: Likewise.
1804 * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise.
1805 * tests/python6.test: Likewise.
1806 * tests/python7.test: Likewise.
1807 * tests/python8.test: Likewise.
1808 * tests/python9.test: Likewise.
1809 * tests/subobj.test: Likewise.
1810 * tests/vars3.test: Likewise.
1811 * tests/missing4.test: Likewise, and fix a call to grep not to use
1813 * tests/ansi3.test: Likewise, and rely on the `configure.in' stub
1814 created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1816 Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
1817 * tests/backsl.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
1819 * tests/backsl2.test: Likewise.
1820 * tests/block.test: Likewise.
1821 * tests/canon2.test: Likewise.
1822 * tests/canon4.test: Likewise.
1823 * tests/comment2.test: Likewise.
1824 * tests/condlib.test: Likewise.
1825 * tests/cond15.test: Likewise, and prefer $FGREP over grep.
1826 * tests/canon3.test: Likewise. Also, avoid to create an useless
1828 * tests/acoutpt2.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and some
1829 related changes. Do some cosmetic improvements in the generated
1830 `configure.in' file.
1831 * tests/cond4.test: Likewise.
1832 * tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
1833 * tests/condinc.test: Likewise.
1834 * tests/cond7.test: Likewise. Also, remove useless setting of
1835 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am.
1836 * tests/ansi.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
1837 changes. Extended, esp. by running autoconf, ./configure and
1838 make, and by looking into the distdir.
1840 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1841 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1843 Extend tests/README w.r.t. trailing `:' in test scripts.
1844 * tests/README (section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
1845 Explain why apparently redundant trailing `:' and `Exit 0' in
1846 test scripts can indeed be useful.
1848 2010-06-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1850 Improve determination of PATH separator in bootstrap script.
1851 * bootstrap: Determine what the PATH separator is the same way
1854 Minor improvements in bootstrap script.
1855 * bootstrap: Consistently use two-spaces indentation. Cosmetic
1856 improvement to comments.
1857 ($me): New variable, containing program basename.
1858 Prepend it to all error messages.
1860 Testsuite now works with BSD make in parallel mode.
1861 * tests/defs.in: Unset variables __MKLVL__ and MAKE_JOBS_FIFO,
1862 which are exported by BSD make when run in parallel mode, and
1863 which can confuse make processes spawned by our testsuite.
1864 This change fixes a lot of spurious failure when the testsuite
1865 is run with BSD make in parallel mode.
1867 2010-06-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1869 Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
1870 * tests/sanity.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
1871 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1872 * tests/depend2.test: Likewise. Also, call `set -e' just after
1873 the inclusion of `./defs', instead that later in the script.
1874 * tests/canon5.test: Avoid a useless `|| Exit 1' after a call to
1875 $AUTOMAKE, and improve the positioning of an $ACLOCAL call.
1876 * tests/exeext4.test: Use $FGREP instead of grep, where possible.
1877 Make auxiliary rules in the generated Makefile more silent.
1878 These changes make some checks slightly stricter.
1879 * tests/ext2.test: Call `Exit 1' if inclusion of `./defs' fails.
1880 * tests/gettext2.test: Place final `:' at the end of the script,
1881 rather than in the middle.
1882 * tests/exeext.test: Call `set -e' just after the inclusion of
1883 `./defs', instead that later in the script.
1884 * tests/extra5.test: Likewise.
1885 * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `mv -f' over
1886 plain `mv', just to be sure.
1887 * tests/depcomp.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
1888 changes. Also, modernize the generated configure.in.
1889 * tests/cond9.test: Likewise. Also, rely on the `configure.in'
1890 stub created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1891 * tests/cond10.test: Likewise.
1892 * tests/depcomp2.test: Likewise.
1893 * tests/depend3.test: Likewise.
1894 * tests/distcom7.test: Likewise.
1895 * tests/fortdep.test: Likewise. Also, remove definition of
1896 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am,
1897 since that flag is already provided by $AUTOMAKE.
1898 * tests/mdate.test: Made stricter, by checking that Automake
1899 actually failed, and by making a stricter grep on the error
1900 message. Also, set shell `errexit flag'.
1901 * tests/python2.test: Improved verbose messages.
1903 Make test `ammissing.test' stricter.
1904 * tests/ammissing.test: Fail if $ACLOCAL succeeds unexpectedly.
1905 Enable `errexit' shell flag.
1907 2010-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1909 Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
1910 * tests/subcond.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
1912 * tests/subst.test: Likewise.
1913 * tests/vars.test: Likewise.
1914 * tests/version4.test: Likewise.
1915 * tests/vpath.test: Likewise.
1916 * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
1917 * tests/werror.test: Likewise.
1918 * tests/whoami.test: Likewise.
1919 * tests/tags.test: Likewise, and avoid to crate an useless dummy
1921 * tests/acsilent.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
1922 command substitution.
1923 * tests/unused.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
1924 command substitution.
1925 * tests/version.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
1926 in the generated `configure.in'.
1927 * tests/version2.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
1928 in the generated `configure.in'.
1930 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1932 Prefer AUTOMAKE_fails over `$AUTOMAKE | grep' in tests.
1933 * tests/ldadd.test: Enable errexit. Use AUTOMAKE_fails so
1934 the verbose log contains all output.
1935 * tests/mdate.test: Likewise.
1936 Prompted by Stefano Lattarini's change to discover.test.
1938 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1940 Improve tests link*.test (enable `errexit' shell flag).
1941 * tests/link_c_cxx.test: Enable `errexit shell flag, and related
1942 changes. Also, do not create useless source files.
1943 * tests/link_dist.test: Likewise.
1944 * tests/link_f90_only.test: Likewise.
1945 * tests/link_f_only.test: Likewise.
1946 * tests/link_fc.test: Likewise.
1947 * tests/link_fccxx.test: Likewise.
1948 * tests/link_fcxx.test: Likewise.
1950 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1952 Improve ext.test semantics, avoid OpenBSD sh errexit issue.
1953 * tests/ext.test: Inside shell compound command, use
1954 `if $cmd; then Exit 1; fi' rather than `$cmd && Exit 1', to
1955 fix failure with OpenBSD sh introduced with last patch.
1956 Actually ensure that a rule for .EXT.o is created for each
1957 known extension EXT.
1959 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1961 Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
1962 * tests/dash.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1964 * tests/defun.test: Likewise.
1965 * tests/defun2.test: Likewise.
1966 * tests/dejagnu.test: Likewise.
1967 * tests/double.test: Likewise.
1968 * tests/distcom2.test: Likewise.
1969 * tests/empty2.test: Likewise.
1970 * tests/empty3.test: Likewise.
1971 * tests/empty4.test: Likewise.
1972 * tests/exdir.test: Likewise.
1973 * tests/ext.test: Likewise.
1974 * tests/extra.test: Likewise.
1975 * tests/extra2.test: Likewise.
1976 * tests/extra3.test: Likewise.
1977 * tests/extra4.test: Likewise.
1978 * tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
1979 * tests/fnoc.test: Likewise.
1980 * tests/fo.test: Likewise.
1981 * tests/instexec.test: Likewise.
1982 * tests/ltdeps.test: Likewise.
1983 * tests/nodep.test: Likewise.
1984 * tests/nodepcomp.test: Likewise.
1985 * tests/f90only.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
1986 comments and unnecessary commands.
1987 * tests/fonly.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
1988 comments and unnecessary commands.
1989 * tests/discover.test: Likewise, and made stricter.
1991 Enable `errexit' shell flag in all tests cxx*.test.
1992 * tests/cxx.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
1994 * tests/cxxansi.test: Likewise.
1995 * tests/cxxcpp.test: Likewise.
1996 * tests/cxxlibobj.test: Likewise.
1997 * tests/cxxlink.test: Likewise.
1998 * tests/cxxo.test: Likewise.
2000 Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
2001 * tests/acoutnoq.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
2003 * tests/acoutpt.test: Likewise.
2004 * tests/acoutqnl.test: Likewise.
2005 * tests/amassign.test: Likewise.
2006 * tests/ansi2.test: Likewise.
2007 * tests/ansi4.test: Likewise.
2008 * tests/badprog.test: Likewise.
2009 * tests/checkall.test: Likewise.
2010 * tests/clean.test: Likewise.
2011 * tests/colneq2.test: Likewise.
2012 * tests/colon.test: Likewise.
2013 * tests/colon5.test: Likewise.
2014 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
2015 * tests/comment.test: Likewise.
2016 * tests/compile_f90_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
2017 * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
2018 * tests/cond3.test: Likewise.
2019 * tests/cond6.test: Likewise.
2020 * tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
2021 * tests/conf2.test: Likewise.
2022 * tests/confvar.test: Likewise.
2023 * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
2024 * tests/cond8.test: Likewise, plus a cosmetic change.
2025 * tests/confh4.test: Likewise. Also, add in the heading comments
2026 an excerpt from the original bug report which motivated the
2027 creation of this test, to make its purpose clearer.
2029 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2031 Rewrite manual to be gender-neutral.
2032 * doc/automake.texi (GNU Build System)
2033 (Standard Directory Variables, General Operation, CVS)
2034 (Hard-Coded Install Paths, Dependencies As Side Effects):
2035 Rewrite text to not contain gender-specific pronouns when
2036 speaking about developers or users, either by avoiding pronouns
2037 or by addressing them as `you' instead.
2039 Report by Christina Gratorp.
2043 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2045 Make tests on user extensibility of silent-rules mode stricter.
2046 * tests/silent6.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
2047 output produced by `make'.
2048 * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
2050 Tests on silent-mode for C/Libtool made stricter.
2051 * tests/silent.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
2052 output produced by `make'.
2053 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
2054 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
2055 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
2056 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise, and add a final `make distclean'
2057 command to keep it better in sync with tests/silent{4,9}.test.
2059 Improved test silent5.test.
2060 * tests/silent5.test: Remove by hand all generated C files after
2061 non-verbose builds, to ensure the following builds are clean.
2062 Try to clean and rebuild with the same verbosity and without
2063 removing generated sources in between, to check that this does
2064 not trigger a different set of rules. Make grepping of make's
2065 output stricter. Improved/added some comments.
2067 New tests for Automake silent-mode with Fortran.
2068 * tests/silentf77.test: New test.
2069 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
2070 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2072 New test `silentcxx.test' (Automake silent-mode with C++).
2073 * tests/silentcxx.test: New test.
2074 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2076 New test `silentyacc.test' (Automake silent-mode with Yacc).
2077 * tests/silentyacc.test: New test.
2078 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2080 New test `silentlex.test' (Automake silent-mode with Lex).
2081 * tests/silentlex.test: New test.
2082 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2084 Relax tests on silent-rules to cater to overly verbose makes.
2085 * tests/silent.test: When testing silent builds, don't fail if
2086 make's output simply contains the `mv' substring, but only if
2087 it contains the `mv ' substring (note the trailing space).
2088 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
2089 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
2090 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
2091 * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
2092 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
2094 2010-01-24 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2096 Fix silent-rules output for disabled dependency tracking.
2097 * lib/am/depend2.am [!%FASTDEP%]: Rework silent-rules variable
2098 expansion code to also work in the case where %AMDEP% expands
2099 to FALSE at config.status time, using new substitution string
2101 * automake.in (verbose_nodep_flag): New function, appending
2102 `@am__nodep@' to the verbose-variable name.
2103 (handle_languages): If dependencies are not disabled, use it to
2104 set %VERBOSE-NODEP%.
2105 * m4/depend.m4: Substitute am__nodep as '_no', so the second
2106 verbose-variable will always expand to an empty string, if
2107 dependencies are enabled.
2108 * tests/silent5.test: Also test --disable-dependency-tracking;
2109 also test per-target flags for non-C language files.
2110 * tests/silent9.test: New test, like silent4.test but disable
2111 dependency tracking.
2112 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
2113 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
2114 Report by Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>.
2116 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2118 Extend test on `nostdinc' automake option.
2119 * tests/nostdinc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Related and
2120 unrelated minor changes. Make the grepping of the generated
2121 Makefile.in slightly stricter. Generate and run configure, so that
2122 the generated Makefile can be grepped too.
2124 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2126 Make gnupload portable to EBCDIC hosts.
2127 * lib/gnupload: Use literal newline as argument for 'tr' rather
2128 than \015, for EBCDIC hosts. Also, avoid unportable nested
2129 double-quotes and backquotes.
2131 Report from Eric Blake and Steve Goetze via gnulib.
2133 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2135 Fix Autoconf version required by Automake's configure.
2136 Automake configure script used to tell that automake required
2137 autoconf 2.60 or later, but then it checked for autoconf >= 2.62,
2138 and if that was not found, it gave an error saying that Automake
2139 required configure 2.61a-341 or later. This change should
2140 eliminate such inconsistencies.
2141 * configure.ac ($required_autoconf_version): New variable.
2144 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2146 Fix unportable sed script in maintainer-check test.
2147 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_Exit_not_exit): Rewrite sed script to
2148 not contain semicolon after 'b' or brace commands, for NetBSD.
2150 Wildcards are not portable to NetBSD make.
2151 * doc/automake.texi (Wildcards): Document portability issue.
2152 * tests/extra10.test, tests/extra11.test, tests/extra12.test:
2155 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2157 Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
2158 * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
2159 an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
2161 Avoid possible false negatives in dejagnu7.test.
2162 * tests/dejagnu7.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Also, avoid
2163 unportable use of fgrep option `-e'.
2165 Fix conflnk3.test to work with Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
2166 * tests/conflnk3.test: Use `test -r FILE' and `test ! -r FILE'
2167 instead of respectively `test -e FILE' and `test ! -e FILE',
2168 since Solaris Sh doesn't grok the latter. Do not SKIP the test
2169 if the shell doesn't support `test -e'.
2171 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2174 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Add
2175 missing closing parenthesis.
2177 Fix leftover call to removed function macros_dump.
2178 * automake.in (read_main_am_file): Call variables_dump, not
2179 macros_dump. Print actual error before list of variables.
2181 2010-04-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2183 Minor improvements in comments of test `silent3.test'.
2184 * tests/silent3.test: Tell to keep it in sync with `silent9.test'
2187 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2189 testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured output.
2190 * tests/acloca14.test, tests/acloca18.test, tests/aclocal.test,
2191 tests/fort2.test, tests/help.test, tests/missing3.test,
2192 tests/missing6.test: Print captured stdout or stderr before
2195 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2197 Make test badopt.test stricter (by enabling `set -e').
2198 * tests/badopt.test: Add call to `set -e'. Due to this change,
2199 an unexpected failure in the call to `$ACLOCAL' (whose outcome
2200 was previously unchecked) would cause the whole test to fail.
2201 Also, bumped the copyright years.
2203 Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
2204 * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
2205 an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
2207 Use `set -e' in confsub.test (avoids possible false negatives).
2208 * tests/confsub.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and related
2209 changes (this helps avoiding some possible minor false negatives).
2210 Also, bumped copyright years.
2212 2010-04-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2214 Fix -Werror handling for presence of configure.in and configure.ac.
2215 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (Automake::Variable): Do not initialize
2216 $configure_ac at the global level, before command-line arguments
2218 (require_variables): Initialize it here.
2219 * tests/configure.test: New test.
2220 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
2221 Report by Stefano Lattarini.
2223 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2225 Avoid possible false negatives in confh5.test.
2226 * tests/confh5.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and bumped
2227 copyright years. Due to this change, any unexpected failure
2228 in calls to $ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE, $AUTOCONF or $AUTOHEADER, or
2229 a failure in grepping expected text in output files should now
2230 cause the whole test to fail.
2232 2010-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2234 Fixed typo in POD documentation of Automake::Channels.
2235 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Fixed typo in POD documentation:
2236 @<...> was used instead of C<...>.
2238 2010-04-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2240 Refactor tests on Automake TESTS color output.
2241 * tests/color.test: Tests using the expect program moved out to...
2242 * tests/color2.test: ... this new file.
2243 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Extended accordingly.
2245 2010-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2247 Fix typos in comments in test confh5.test
2248 * tests/confh5.test: Fix a couple of typos in comments.
2250 Avoid possible false negatives in canon-name.test.
2251 * tests/canon-name.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Improve
2254 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2256 Fix per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror.
2257 Before this patch, 'AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = -Werror' in one
2258 Makefile.am would carry over to other Makefile.am files
2259 treated afterwards by the same thread, causing inconsistent
2260 and unstable exit status values.
2261 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (dup_channel_setup)
2262 (drop_channel_setup): Save and restore the setting of
2263 $warnings_are_errors.
2264 * tests/werror3.test: New test.
2265 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
2268 2010-04-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2270 Bugfix in confh5.test w.r.t. Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
2271 * tests/confh5.test: In the generated Makefile.am: do not use
2272 `test ! -e FILE' to check for the non-existence of a file, since
2273 that is not supported by Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
2275 Make test `aclocal3.test' stricter.
2276 * tests/aclocal3.test: Add call to `set -e'. Fail if $ACLOCAL
2277 succeds unexpectedly.
2279 Add tests checking that symlinks are resolved by `make dist'.
2280 * tests/distlinks.test: New test.
2281 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2282 Suggested by observations from Ralf Wildenhues.
2284 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2286 Use -9 for maximum xz compression with dist-xz.
2287 * lib/am/distdir.am (dist-xz, dist, dist-all): Pass -9 to xz.
2288 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
2289 Report by Pavel Sanda.
2291 2010-03-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2293 Avoid an unportable use of `$status' shell variable.
2294 * Makefile.am (path-check): Don't use the `$status' shell variable
2295 in the target's rules, as it's special in Zsh (equivalent to `$?',
2298 Avoid another use of `chmod -R'.
2299 * Makefile.am (path-check): To be safe, do not use `chmod -R' on
2300 $(distdir) before removing it (as Solaris `chmod -R' touches
2301 symlink targets). Instead, use the cleanup strategy used in
2304 2010-03-28 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2306 Remove uses of @acronym and @sc.
2307 * doc/automake.texi (Public Macros, Limitations on File Names):
2308 Remove all usage of @acronym and @sc in the manual.
2309 Suggested by Karl Berry.
2311 2010-03-13 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
2313 GNU hello uses fdl.texi, not gpl.texi.
2314 * doc/automake.texi (Texinfo): Adjust example to upstream
2317 2010-03-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2319 Formatting cleanups in macro comments.
2320 * automake.in, lib/Automake/Channels.pm,
2321 lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm, lib/Automake/Options.pm,
2322 lib/Automake/Variable.pm, lib/Automake/XFile.pm,
2323 m4/options.m4, m4/substnot.m4: Fix macro comment format.
2325 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2326 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2328 Avoid generation of `tests/defs-p' file.
2329 * tests/defs.in: In the generated `configure.in' snippet: call
2330 `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' with the `parallel-tests' option if the shell
2331 variable `parallel_tests' is set to `yes'.
2332 * tests/Makefile.am (defs-p): Target removed.
2333 (check_SCRIPTS): Removed `defs-p'.
2334 (clean-local-check): Do not unlink `defs-p' anymore.
2335 ($(parallel_tests)): Transformation rules for the test scripts
2337 * tests/gen-parallel-tests: Selection rules for the test
2339 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Set `$parallel_tests' to `yes'
2340 then include `./defs' (rather than simply including `./defs-p').
2341 * tests/parallel-tests2.test: Likewise.
2342 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
2343 * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
2344 * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
2345 * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
2346 * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
2347 * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise.
2348 * tests/parallel-tests9.test: Likewise.
2349 * tests/parallel-tests10.test: Likewise.
2350 * tests/README (Section "Writing Test Cases" subsection "Do"):
2351 Adjusted the parts referring to tests checking `parallel-tests'
2352 behaviour. Some other minor related improvements.
2353 * tests/.gitignore (defs-p): Removed.
2355 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2357 Remove redundant unset of variable TESTS from some test scripts.
2358 * tests/color.test: Do not unset the `TESTS' variable, as it's
2359 already unset in the `defs' file.
2360 * tests/check5.test: Likewise.
2361 * tests/check8.test: Likewise.
2362 * tests/check9.test: Likewise.
2363 * tests/check10.test: Likewise.
2364 * tests/check11.test: Likewise.
2365 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Likewise.
2366 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
2367 * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
2368 * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
2369 * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
2370 * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
2372 2010-02-22 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
2374 Improve help message of mdate-sh.
2375 * mdate-sh: mention actual output format in help message.
2377 2010-02-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2379 Deprecate dist-lzma in favor of dist-xz.
2380 * doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions, Options):
2381 Adjust text to reflect renaming of lzma to xz.
2383 Missing deprecation noted by Antonio Diaz Diaz.
2385 2010-02-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2387 Add tests about support of wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
2388 * tests/extra10.test: New test, check basic support of wildcards
2390 * tests/extra11.test: New test, check more complex usage of
2391 wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
2392 * tests/extra12.test: New test, check usage of wildcards in
2393 EXTRA_DIST when $builddir != $srcdir.
2394 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2395 Necessity of these new tests suggested by Braden McDaniel
2396 and Ralf Wildenhues.
2398 2010-02-08 Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
2400 Fix copyright statement in gnupload script.
2401 * lib/gnupload: Fix copyright statement.
2403 2010-02-06 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> (tiny change)
2404 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2406 Fix exit status of signal handlers in shell scripts.
2407 The value of `$?' on entrance to signal handlers in shell scripts
2408 cannot be relied upon, so set the exit code explicitly to
2410 * lib/am/check.am (am__check_pre): Use `exit 143' in signal handler.
2411 * lib/elisp-comp: Likewise.
2412 * lib/install-sh: Likewise.
2413 * lib/ylwrap: Likewise. Also, fix script to trap signal 13, not 3.
2414 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
2415 Bug report, analysis, and initial patch by Dmitry V. Levin.
2417 2010-02-06 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
2419 Improve gnupload usage text.
2420 * gnupload (usage): Shorten to make more likely to fit on a tty
2421 line. Mention CMD in the synopsis. With ..., plural is implied.
2423 2010-01-28 Christos Kontas <xakon@yahoo.com> (tiny change)
2425 Fix some typos in the manual
2426 * doc/automake.texi (Nested Packages, Rebuilding): Fix typos.
2428 2010-01-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2430 Slighty improve tests acoutbs.test and acoutbs2.test.
2431 * tests/acoutbs2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Check that
2432 autoconf and configure work, that the file `zot' is created by
2433 configure, and that no file containing a backslash in its name is
2435 * tests/acoutbs.test: Likewise, plus updated copyright years.
2437 Fix test acoutbs2.test.
2438 * tests/acoutbs2: In the generated configure.in: add proper calls
2439 to AC_INIT and AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, and remove explicit definition of
2440 PACKAGE and VERSION. Add a call to aclocal before calling automake.
2441 Updated copyright years.
2442 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Removed acoutbs2.test.
2444 Add forgotten test scripts to $(TESTS).
2445 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Added test scripts present on the
2446 filesystem, which were erroneously left out from $(TESTS):
2447 acoutbs2.test, badopt.test, extra2.test.
2448 (XFAIL_TESTS): Added acoutbs2.test.
2450 2010-01-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2452 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
2453 * INSTALL, lib/INSTALL, lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub:
2456 Bump copyright years.
2457 * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
2458 * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
2459 * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
2462 * ChangeLog.09: New file, rotated from ...
2463 * ChangeLog: ... here.
2464 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute ChangeLog.09.
2468 Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2470 Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are
2471 permitted provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved.