1 2011-03-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
4 maintcheck: look for problematic names of testcases
5 The configure.in stub created by default by `tests/defs' obtains
6 the first argument of AC_INIT from the test name, and this can
7 cause some supported autoconf versions to fail with a spurious
8 error if that test name contains the name of an m4 or m4sugar
9 builtin or macro (e.g., `defn' or `m4_undefine').
10 See for example the bug fixed by commit v1.11-287-g1325a8a.
11 This change add a maintainer check that warns about test names
12 which are possibly problematic in this regard.
13 * Makefile.am (sc_test_names): New maintainer-check target.
14 (syntax_check_rules): Add it.
15 (m4_builtins): New helper variable.
16 (TESTS): Updated according to the following renamings.
17 * tests/include.test: Renamed ...
18 * tests/hdr-vars-defined-once.test: ... to this.
19 * tests/sinclude.test: Renamed ...
20 * tests/m4-inclusion.test: ... to this, and simplified
22 * tests/include2.test: Renamed ...
23 * tests/dist-included-parent-dir.test: ... to this, for
26 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
28 tests: fix bug in alloca*.test
29 * tests/alloca.test: Make grepping of automake stderr stricter,
30 add a trailing `:' command; also, add AC_PROG_CC to configure.in,
31 and create a dummy alloca.c file, to ensure that we fail for the
33 * tests/alloca2.test: Likewise. Also, look for LT_INIT, not
34 AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, in the error message (bug introduced with commit
35 v1.11-315-gd51e7b7 "libtool: suggest LT_INIT if LTLIBRARIES
37 From a report by Patrick Welche.
39 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
41 tests: fix bug (comments-in-var-defn.test + autoconf 2.62)
42 * tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: The configure.in stub created
43 by default, which has the AC_INIT first argument obtained by the
44 test name, causes autoconf 2.62 to fail with a spurious error
45 message like: "configure.in:1: error: defn: undefined macro:".
46 Thus, to prevent this, the test is renamed to ...
47 * tests/comments-in-var-def.test: ... this.
48 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
50 2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
52 cosmetics: convert encoding from ISO-8859 to UTF-8
53 * ChangeLog.03: Convert encoding to UTF-8.
54 * ChangeLog.96: Likewise.
55 * ChangeLog.98: Likewise.
59 2011-03-01 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
61 test defs: unindent without temporary file
62 * tests/defs.in (commented_sed_unindent_prog): Commented Sed program
63 that strips the "proper" amount of leading whitespace.
64 (unindent): Lazily strip comments from the above program and use it
65 to unindent without using a temporary file.
67 2011-02-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
69 libtool: suggest LT_INIT if LTLIBRARIES primary is used
70 When the LTLIBRARIES primary was used, but $(LIBTOOL) wasn't
71 defined, automake suggested to add a call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
72 in configure.ac. But that macro is deprecated since Libtool
73 version 1.9b (2004-08-29), in favor of the newer LT_INIT. So
74 suggest the use of this latter macro instead.
75 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (%_am_macro_for_var): Pair 'LIBTOOL'
76 with 'LT_INIT', not with 'AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'.
77 * libtool4.test: Adjust and extend. Also, add a call to macro
78 AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, to help ensuring that automake does
79 not fail for the wrong reasons.
80 * ltinit.test: New test, ensure that automake's libtool support
81 works with LT_INIT-based interface.
82 Thanks to Jack Kelly for the suggestion.
84 2011-02-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
86 tests: tempdirs with restrictive permissions are cleaned correctly
87 Before this change, the removal of a temporary test directory
88 containing subdirectories with restrictive permissions (such as
89 'r--r--r--') could fail.
90 * tests/defs: Ensure that all the subdirectories of a temporary
91 test directory have the 'read', 'write' and 'execute' bits set,
92 before trying to remove it with `rm -rf'.
93 * tests/Makefile.am (clean-local-check): Likewise.
95 2011-02-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
96 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
98 test defs: add subroutine for input unindenting
99 * tests/defs.in (unindent): New subroutine.
101 2011-02-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
103 python: report the 'PYTHON' influential environment variable
104 * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Call AC_ARG_VAR on PYTHON.
105 * doc/automake.texi (Python): Update and extend.
106 * tests/help-python.test: New test.
107 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
108 * THANKS (Jack Kelly): Update e-mail address.
109 Suggestion by Jack Kelly.
111 2011-02-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
113 tests defs: clear TESTS_ENVIRONMENT variable
114 * tests/defs.in (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset it, so that values
115 from environment won't interfere with the testcases.
116 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
118 2011-02-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
120 tests: tweak few tests on simple and parallel test drivers
121 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Improve heading comments.
122 * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: Likewise. Also, unset the
123 `FOO_EXIT_STATUS' variable, so that any pre-existing value in the
124 environment won't risk to interfere with the test.
125 Suggestions by Ralf Wildenhues.
127 2011-02-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
129 coverage: more tests on simple and parallel test drivers
130 * tests/parallel-tests-subdir.test: New test.
131 * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Likewise.
132 * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: Likewise.
133 * tests/check-tests_environment.test: Likewise.
134 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
136 2011-01-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
138 tests: fix spurious failures in lflags*.test
139 * tests/lflags.test: Remove 'LEX' from the environment, so
140 that it won't be erroneously picked up by `make -e'.
141 * tests/lflags2.test: Likewise.
143 2011-01-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
145 docs: color-tests issues with parallel make
146 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Document that automatic
147 recognition of a capable terminal attached to stdout can fail
148 with some make implementation when running in parallel mode,
149 thus causing colored test output not to be automatically
150 activated when it should.
152 2011-01-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
154 tests: avoid instspc.test failures due to make's whitespace trimming
155 * tests/instspc.test: Prepend './' when passing the test
156 characters, to avoid leading whitespace characters to be trimmed
157 from macros set from environment variables. Fixes testsuite
158 failures with HP-UX, IRIX, and Tru64/OSF make.
160 2011-01-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
162 coverage: test semantics of "dummy" per-target flags
163 * tests/specflg-dummy.test: New test, ensuring that even "dummy"
164 per-target flags triggers the use of renamed objects.
165 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
166 Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
168 2011-01-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
170 tests defs: sanitize IFS
171 * tests/defs.in ($IFS): Define to <space>, <tab>, <newline>.
172 ($sp): New variable, holding a single whitespace character.
173 ($tab): New variable, holding a tabulation character.
174 ($nl): New variable, holding a newline character.
176 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
178 tests: fix VPATH auto-expansion workarounds.
179 * tests/parallel-tests8.test, tests/suffix13.test:
180 Ensure $< is not surrounded by white space, to prevent Solaris
181 make from applying automatic VPATH text expansion.
183 2011-01-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
185 tests: fix spurious failures in yflags*.test
186 * tests/yflags.test: Remove 'YACC' from the environment, so
187 that it won't be erroneously picked up by `make -e'.
188 * tests/yflags2.test: Likewise.
190 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
192 tests: avoid fn99*.test failures due to buggy AIX 5.3 cp -R.
193 * tests/fn99.test, tests/fn99subdir.test: Skip if an initial
194 `cp -R' of the subdir tree already fails; AIX 5.3 cp messes
195 up its internal memory when copying this tree.
197 2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
198 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
200 Add comment to check-TESTS rule working around make 3.80 bug.
201 * lib/am/check.am (check-TESTS): Update comment.
203 2011-01-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
205 tests: less strict double-colon spy.test again.
206 * tests/spy.test: We know BSD make doesn't invoke more than one
207 double-colon rule, so no need to expose that failure.
209 2011-01-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
211 install-sh: avoid Tru64 sh `test' operator precedence issues.
212 * lib/install-sh: Protect file names and directory components
213 that consist of `=', `(', `)', or `!'. Move protection as early
214 as possible, to avoid errors such as with Tru64 sh `test -z ='.
215 * tests/instsh2.test: Extend test to cover more possibilities.
216 Fixes 1.12 instspc-equal-install.test failure on Tru64/OSF 5.1.
218 2011-01-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
219 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
221 docs: automake testsuite doesn't use TESTS_ENVIRONMENT anymore
222 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Do not claim Automake uses
223 TESTS_ENVIRONMENT for the perl driver. Instead, point to the
224 parallel-tests driver.
226 2011-01-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
228 Allow _AM_DEPENDENCIES to be used later in configure.
229 * m4/depend.m4 (_AM_DEPENDENCIES): Remove a previously existing
230 conftest.dir before recreating it.
232 Report by Eric Blake, from report by Scott McCreary against M4.
234 2011-01-18 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
236 tests: avoid failure on w32 file systems.
237 * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: SKIP if file cannot
238 be turned unreadable.
240 2011-01-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
242 tests: allow double-colon spy.test to work with HP-UX make.
243 * tests/spy.test: Fix comment typos. Ensure prerequisites we
244 do not want to depend on are strictly older than the target.
245 Also test with a target out of date wrt. more than one rule.
247 2011-01-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
249 tests: remove useless requirements from cond36.test
250 * tests/cond36.test ($required): Remove.
251 Since we are at it, add a trailing `:' command.
253 2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
254 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
256 parallel-tests: work around Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh read bugs.
257 * lib/am/check.am ($(TEST_SUITE_LOG), recheck, recheck-html):
258 Test file readability before redirecting input from it, to avoid
259 exiting Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh which treats read as special builtin.
260 * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: New test.
261 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
264 2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
266 * NEWS, README: Update copyright years.
268 Fix parallel-tests.test failure with HP-UX make.
269 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Sleep inside inner tests, so logs
270 are newer than logs of tests they depend on, for HP-UX make.
272 2011-01-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
274 docs: ensure example are separated with empty lines in the input
275 * doc/automake.texi (Extending aclocal, Emacs Lisp, Rebuilding)
276 (API Versioning, Renamed Objects, Multiple Outputs): Add empty
277 lines before `@example' and after `@end example' lines, so info
278 output is rendered correctly, and a following @noindent honored.
279 Report by Stefano Lattarini.
281 2011-01-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
283 tests: fix comment typo
284 * tests/substref.test: Fix grammar in a comment.
286 2011-01-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
288 tests: fix spurious failures in two texinfo tests
289 * tests/txinfo.test ($required): Add 'makeinfo'.
290 * tests/txinfo8.test: Create a dummy 'textutils.info' file, so
291 that make won't try to run makeinfo (which could be unavailable)
293 Found by NixOS Hydra, reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
295 2011-01-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
297 Avoid testsuite failures due to Autoconf Fortran change.
298 Autoconf v2.68-21-g727ce95 causes AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS to
299 require computing the canonical host name. Ensure config.guess
300 and config.sub files are present for respective checks.
301 * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Add stub files.
302 * tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
303 * tests/fort4.test: Use $AUTOMAKE -a for installing files.
305 2011-01-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
307 docs: clustered '-d' not recognized in YFLAGS
308 This change fixes automake bug#7828.
309 * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Document that automake
310 recognizes '-d' in AM_YFLAGS only if it's not clustered with
312 From a report by Юрий Пухальский.
314 2011-01-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
316 tests: add checks on automatically-distributed files
317 Related to automake bug#7819.
318 * tests/autodist.test: New test.
319 * tests/autodist-subdir.test: Likewise.
320 * tests/autodist-acconfig.test: Likewise.
321 * tests/autodist-acconfig-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
322 * tests/autodist-aclocal-m4.test: Likewise.
323 * tests/autodist-config-headers.test: Likewise.
324 * tests/autodist-configure-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
325 * tests/autodist-stamp-vti.test: Likewise.
326 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
328 2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
330 tests: work around a texi+cygnus bug causing a spurious XFAIL
331 * tests/txinfo5b.test: New test, like txinfo5.test but calling
332 automake with the `-Wno-override' option to work around a bug
333 in the texinfo + cygnus interaction.
334 * tests/txinfo5.test: Update heading comments.
335 * tests/Makefile.am (TEST): Updated.
337 2011-01-09 Dave Hart <davehart@gmail.com> (tiny change)
339 Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
340 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
342 2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
344 Improve, extend and tweak tests on Texinfo support.
345 * tests/instdir-texi.test: Add a call to `ls -l' after that to
346 `make', for debugging. When looking for required tools, do not
347 redirect the output of "$tool --help" to /dev/null, and do not
348 uselessly run it in a subshell.
349 * tests/txinfo.test: Rewritten to run autoconf, ./configure and
350 make. All checks moved into Makefile.am.
351 * tests/txinfo8.test: Likewise, and modernize the generated
353 * tests/txinfo2.test: Moved checks into Makefile.am, and other
355 * tests/txinfo5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
356 changes. Add trailing `:' command.
357 * tests/txinfo6.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
358 Makefile.in stricter.
359 * tests/txinfo7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
360 changes. Add trailing `:' command. Do not add unnecessary stuff
362 * tests/txinfo9.test: Verify that more targets which are expected
363 to be generated only once really are. Make grepping less strict,
364 to avoid exposing too much internal details. More minor changes.
365 * tests/txinfo16.test: Add trailing `:'. Prefer cat over echo
366 for appending to configure.in. Updated/fixed heading comments.
367 * tests/txinfo23.test: Likewise, and extended a little by making
368 it check that no info file is created in the $(srcdir).
369 * tests/txinfo24.test: Likewise.
370 * tests/txinfo25.test: Likewise.
371 * tests/txinfo18.test: Add trailing `:'. Prefer cat over echo
372 for appending to configure.in. Also, check that index files are
373 cleaned also by "make clean", not only by "make distclean".
374 * tests/txinfo22.test: Prefer `$me' over hard-coded test name,
375 and added trailing `:' command. This testcase also used to check
376 that automake ignores in-line comments when using variables, but
377 preserves them in the output; these checks (added in commit
378 "Release-1-7f-4-g9177ef8") do not really pertain to this test,
379 so they have been moved ...
380 * tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: ... into this new test.
381 * tests/txinfo4.test: Escape literal dots in grep regexps. Add
382 trailing `:' command.
383 * tests/txinfo29.test: Likewise. Relax grepping of generated
384 Makefile.in w.r.t. whitespaces. Prefer `cat' over `echo' to
385 append to configure.in.
386 * tests/txinfo3.test: Likewise.
387 * tests/vtexi.test: Improve grepping of Makefile.in (sometimes
388 make it stricter, sometimes laxer). Move `set -e' setting just
389 after the inclusion of ./defs. De-uglify a sed command. Other
390 minor cosmetic improvements.
391 * tests/vtexi2.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in stricter. Add
392 trailing `:' command.
393 * tests/vtexi3.test: New test on version.texi support.
394 * tests/vtexi4.test: Likewise.
395 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
397 2011-01-09 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
399 Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
400 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
402 2011-01-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
404 cosmetics: remove trailing whitespaces
405 * doc/automake.texi: Remove trailing whitespaces.
406 * tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
407 * tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
408 * tests/fort4.test: Likewise.
409 * tests/fort5.test: Likewise.
410 * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
411 * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
413 automake: minor fixes in comments
414 * automake.in: Some minor fixes and enhancements in comments.
416 2011-01-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
418 Add test coverage for deleted header files.
419 * tests/depcomp6.test, tests/depcomp7.test: Update tests to
420 also check for the deleted header bug. If no dependency
421 tracking mechanism could be found, SKIP rather than exit
422 successfully. Use GNU style spacing and ANSI C prototypes.
424 Fix typos in Rule.pm comments.
425 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typos in comments.
427 docs: split 'amhello Explained' node.
428 * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Split node ...
429 (amhello's configure.ac Setup Explained)
430 (amhello's Makefile.am Setup Explained) : ... into these two.
431 (Top, Hello World): Adjust, and add @anchor for stable URL links.
432 Suggestion by Karl Berry in automake bug#7766.
434 2011-01-08 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
435 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
437 docs: reference defining directories in amhello node.
438 * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Point to Autoconf
439 manual for how to convert directory values into macros.
440 (Optional): Fix grammar nit.
442 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
444 * NEWS: Fix typo (forgotten word).
446 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
447 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
449 docs: how to work around checks on invalid primary/directory couples
450 * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): Document the blessed idiom which can
451 be used to work around automake checks on invalid primary/directory
452 couples (such as `lib_PROGRAMS' or `doc_LIBRARIES').
454 2011-01-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
456 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
457 * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
460 Fix maintainer-check regression.
461 * tests/subobj11a.test: Pass DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS in the
464 Bump copyright years.
465 * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
466 * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
467 * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
469 2010-12-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
470 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
472 Work around a bug in file-inclusion mechanism of Solaris make.
473 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): In the name of the
474 dependency file: collapse multiple slash characters into a single
476 * tests/subobj11a.test: New test.
477 * tests/subobj11b.test: Likewise.
478 * tests/subobj11c.test: Likewise.
479 * tests/depcomp8a.test: Likewise.
480 * tests/depcomp8b.test: Likewise.
481 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
483 Report by Stefano Lattarini, quick fix by Ralf Wildenhues, final
484 patch and tests by Stefano Lattarini.
486 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
488 Fix two spurious testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5.
489 * tests/suffix13.test (Makefile.am): Account for VPATH issues on
490 weaker make implementations (e.g. IRIX 6.5).
491 * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise, plus a required related
493 Reported by Ralf Wildenhues. The bugs have been there from the
494 first versions of the affected test scripts.
496 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
498 docs: cygnus mode doesn't require AM_CYGWIN32 macro.
499 * doc/automake.texi (Cygnus): Mode 'cygnus' does not require
500 the AM_CYGWIN32 macro (and indeed hasn't required it since at
501 least commit Release-1-2-31-g3038064 "merged changes from
502 Cygnus" of 1997-08-25).
504 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
506 distlinksbrk.test: Work around botched "make -k".
507 * tests/distlinksbrk.test: Run "make" multiple times and grep
508 its output each time for a single error message, rather than
509 running "make -k" one single time and grepping its output for
510 all the expected error messages. This should work around make
511 implementations with limited (broken?) `-k' support; for more
512 information, see these subthreads on the automake-patches list:
513 - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on HP-UX 11.23",
514 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00162.html>
515 - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5",
516 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00166.html>
518 2010-12-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
520 Fix sed-related buglet in test "subdir5.test"
521 * tests/subdir5.test: Always terminate text passed to the
522 `i' sed command with a newline, to work around limitations
523 in e.g. older OpenBSD sed.
525 2010-12-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
527 docs: fix blunder in example about python extension modules
528 * doc/automake.texi (Python): Use `quaternion_la_SOURCES',
529 not `quaternion_SOURCES', to declare the sources of python
530 extension module `quaternion.la'.
532 2010-12-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
534 docs: list LTLIBRARIES among Automake primaries
535 * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): List `LTLIBRARIES' among
536 the Automake primaries.
538 2010-12-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
540 Improve tests on generated portions of configure help screen.
541 * tests/help-depend.test: Grepping of configure help screen
542 relaxed to cater for possible line wrapping, and tightened in
544 * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
545 * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
546 * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
547 * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
548 * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
549 * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
550 * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
551 * tests/help-init.test: Grepping of configure help screen
554 2010-12-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
556 Avoid running installed automake from 'libtool --help'.
557 * tests/subobj9.test: Export AUTOCONF and AUTOMAKE.
558 Together with fixed Libtool, this fixes check-coverage to not
559 invoke installed automake.
561 2010-11-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
563 Fix spurious failures in `silent*.test' for $CC != gcc
564 In some tests on automake-produced silent rules, we forced the
565 use of gcc depmode to improve testsuite coverage; but this has
566 unsurprisingly led to spurious failures when some non-GNU C
567 compilers were used. So we are now careful to require GCC in
568 tests that force gcc depmode.
569 From reports by Ralf Wildenhues.
570 * silent5.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
571 * silent-many-generic.test, silent-many-gcc.test: ... these new
572 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
574 * silentlex.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
575 * silent-lex-generic.test, silent-lex-gcc.test: ... these new
576 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
578 * silentyacc.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
579 * silent-yacc-generic.test, silent-yacc-gcc.test: ... these new
580 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
582 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
584 2010-11-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
586 Tests: consistently use "|| Exit 1" after ". ./defs".
587 * tests/autohdr.test: Use `. ./defs || Exit 1', not bare
588 `. ./defs', for consistency with other tests.
589 * tests/autohdr2.test: Likewise.
590 * tests/autohdr3.test: Likewise.
591 * tests/autohdr4.test: Likewise.
592 * tests/cond23.test: Likewise.
593 * tests/cond24.test: Likewise.
594 * tests/cond25.test: Likewise.
595 * tests/cond26.test: Likewise.
596 * tests/cond27.test: Likewise.
597 * tests/cond28.test: Likewise.
598 * tests/cond29.test: Likewise.
599 * tests/cond30.test: Likewise.
600 * tests/cond31.test: Likewise.
601 * tests/cond32.test: Likewise.
602 * tests/cond33.test: Likewise.
603 * tests/cond34.test: Likewise.
604 * tests/cond35.test: Likewise.
605 * tests/cond36.test: Likewise.
606 * tests/cond37.test: Likewise.
607 * tests/cond38.test: Likewise.
608 * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
609 * tests/cond40.test: Likewise.
610 * tests/cond41.test: Likewise.
611 * tests/cond42.test: Likewise.
612 * tests/cond43.test: Likewise.
613 * tests/cond44.test: Likewise.
614 * tests/cond45.test: Likewise.
615 * tests/dollarvar.test: Likewise.
616 * tests/dollarvar2.test: Likewise.
617 * tests/hfs.test: Likewise.
618 * tests/libobj14.test: Likewise.
619 * tests/percent.test: Likewise.
620 * tests/percent2.test: Likewise.
621 * tests/phony.test: Likewise.
622 * tests/silent.test: Likewise.
623 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
624 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
625 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
626 * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
627 * tests/silent6.test: Likewise.
628 * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
629 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
630 * tests/silentcxx.test: Likewise.
631 * tests/silentf77.test: Likewise.
632 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
633 * tests/silentlex.test: Likewise.
634 * tests/silentyacc.test: Likewise.
636 Avoid useless cleaning in some `silent*.test' tests.
637 * tests/silentf77.test: Removed useless calls to "make clean"
638 and "make maintainer-clean".
639 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
640 * tests/silent3.test: Removed useless call to "make distclean".
641 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
642 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
644 2010-11-19 Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
646 Sync config-ml.in from GCC.
647 * config-ml.in: Add Go support: treat GOC and GOCFLAGS like other
648 compiler/flag environment variables.
650 2010-11-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
652 Automake::Config: remove extra trailing semicolon.
653 * lib/Automake/Config.in: Remove extra trailing semicolon.
655 help4.test: fix botched heading comment.
656 * tests/help4.test: Fixed the heading comment, since it
657 didn't correctly describe what checks the testcase was
660 help2.test: add checks on aclocal too.
661 * tests/help2.test: Check that also `aclocal --version' and
662 `aclocal --help' work with configure.in and acinclude.m4 both
665 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
667 Fix spurious failures of silent-rules tests with Sun Fortran.
668 * tests/silentf77.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
669 messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers, to
670 avoid spurious failures. Add a trailing `:' command.
671 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
673 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
675 Fix spurious failures of silent5.test with Sun Fortran.
676 * tests/silent5.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
677 messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers,
678 to avoid spurious failures. This bug has been there from the
679 very first version of this test script.
681 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
683 Fix regression in colon{5,6}.test (failures on AIX 5.3).
684 * tests/colon5.test: Also substitute `@SHELL@' with `$SHELL' when
685 post-processing the generated Makefile.in, to work around a bug
686 of AIX 5.3 make which doesn't allow setting the `$(SHELL)' macro
687 on the commend line. Calls to `$MAKE' adjusted accordingly.
688 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
689 Regression introduced in commit v1.11-175-gf9fe878 "Modernize,
690 improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test", and reported by Ralf
693 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
695 Fix regression in ansi.test (failure on AIX 5.3).
696 * tests/ansi.test: Remove redundant hackish check done using a
697 hand-postprocessed Makefile.in. This check worked by setting
698 the `$(SHELL)' macro on the command line of make, but this is
699 not supported by the AIX 5.3 make implementation.
700 This bug has been lurking for a long time, and was activated by
701 commit v1.11-125-gc1f6cdb "Enable `errexit' shell flag in various
702 tests". Report by Ralf Wildenhues.
704 2010-11-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
706 tests: avoid '##'-style comments inside recipe commands.
707 * tests/confh.test, tests/confh8.test: Remove
708 double-hash comments from makefile rule commands, they
709 are not part of the Automake API.
711 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
713 tests: work around dash quoting issue in case statements.
714 * tests/color.test, tests/color2.test: Quote variable in case
715 pattern, to avoid skipping tests with dash 0.5.5.1.
717 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
719 Rebuild menus in the manual.
720 * doc/automake.texi: Rebuild menus (using ^C ^U ^A in emacs).
721 Thanks to Ian Lance Taylor for the suggestion.
723 Fix install-strip when $(STRIP) contains several words.
724 * lib/am/install.am (install-strip): Update comment. Use
725 separate sub-make invocations for empty and nonempty $(STRIP),
726 to fix quoting issues.
727 * tests/strip2.test, tests/strip3.test: New tests.
728 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Adjust.
730 2010-11-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
732 Fix yaccdry.test failure: require bison.
733 * tests/yaccdry.test: Require bison.
734 Found by NixOS Hydra.
736 2010-11-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
738 Fix a bug in variable concatenation with `+='.
739 * lib/Automake/VarDef.pm (append): Since the content of the
740 "appended-to" variable is going to be unconditionally normalized
741 later, simply separate the appended value with a single whitespace
742 character, instead of trying to be uselessly smarter by using
743 escaped newlines. This fixes a bug in which extra backslashes
744 where erroneously inserted in the variable's final value.
745 * tests/pluseq11.test: New test, exposing the bug.
746 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
747 Reported by Andy Wingo.
749 2010-11-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
751 Fix bug in rules for creating vala vapi/header files.
752 * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Add forgotten "fi" in an
753 if control structure in a generated make rules. Bug introduced
754 by previous commit `v1.11-221-gd7c1679', and revealed by failure
755 of test `vala2.test'.
757 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
759 Fix and document rules to not touch the tree with `make -n'.
760 * doc/automake.texi (Multiple Outputs): Document the problem of
761 modifications during dry-run execution, propose solution.
763 * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Split recipe so the
764 stamp file is not removed with GNU `make -n'.
765 (lang_yacc_target_hook): Separate removal of parser output file
767 * lib/am/lisp.am ($(am__ELCFILES)): Determine whether -n was
768 passed to make, take care not to remove any files in that case.
769 * lib/am/remake-hdr.am (%CONFIG_H%): Separate removal of
770 %STAMP% file from induced remaking of config header.
771 * tests/autohdrdry.test, tests/lispdry.test, tests/yaccdry.test:
773 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
775 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
777 Add FAQ entry for bug reporting instructions.
778 * doc/automake.texi (Reporting Bugs): New section.
779 (Introduction): Refer to it.
781 2010-10-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
783 Add support for newer python versions.
784 * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Add python2.7 and python3.2 to
785 _AM_PYTHON_INTERPRETER_LIST. Since we are at it, break a long
786 line and fix indentation.
788 From a report by Thomas Klausner.
790 Add test for `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' macro.
791 * tests/dmalloc.test: New test.
792 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
794 Fix nits and bugs in tests `help*.test'.
795 * tests/help4.test: Fix broken sed commands used to strip `-W...'
796 flags away from "$AUTOMAKE" and "$ACLOCAL".
797 * tests/help3.test: Likewise, and fix a botched comment.
798 * tests/help.test: Likewise. Also, use "AUTOMAKE_fails ..."
799 instead of "$AUTOMAKE ... && Exit 1", for consistency and to
800 please maintainer-check.
801 * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
803 2010-10-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
804 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
806 Improve tests `help*.test' (also fixes maintcheck failures).
807 * tests/help.test: To run automake, use `$AUTOMAKE' with all `-W'
808 flags stripped away rather than hard-coded `automake-$APIVERSION',
809 to better honour user-overrides. Similarly for aclocal.
810 * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
811 * tests/help3.test: Likewise.
812 * tests/help4.test: Likewise.
814 2010-10-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
816 Document and fix expansion of variables before rules.
817 * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Document that variables
818 are expanded before rules.
819 * lib/am/check.am (am__check_post): Reword a bit so it does not
820 get matched as a rule.
821 Suggestion by Ben Pfaff.
823 2010-10-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
825 Revert "parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue."
826 This reverts commit 24e3b4ee2f8cb9f72dd94a05a893f3d4e88b7835,
827 because it re-opened the bug fixed by v1.11-10-g218e678.
829 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
831 parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
832 * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
833 substitution %MAKEFILE%.
834 (generate_makefile): Adjust.
835 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
836 sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
837 input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
840 Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
842 2010-09-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
844 Extend tests on `--help' and `--version' options.
845 * tests/help.test: Create a new empty directory and chdir into
846 it, rather than removing already present files. Run the aclocal
847 and automake wrapper scripts directly, instead of relying on
848 $AUTOMAKE and $ACLOCAL. Be sure to correctly match literal dots
849 in aclocal's and automake's stderr. Add a trailing `:' command.
850 * tests/help2.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
851 `--version' works in directories with broken `configure.in'.
852 * tests/help3.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
853 `--version' take precedence on the other options.
854 * tests/help4.test: New test, checking that the first among the
855 `--help' and `--version' options to be specified on the command
857 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
859 2010-09-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
861 Testsuite: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when extending PATH.
862 * tests/compile2.test: Do no uselessly (implicitly) repeat the
863 computation of PATH_SEPARATOR again.
864 * tests/instmany-mans.test: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when
865 extending/redefining PATH.
866 * tests/instmany-python.test: Likewise.
867 * tests/instmany.test: Likewise.
868 * tests/man4.test: Likewise.
869 * tests/mkinst3.test: Likewise.
870 * tests/mmodely.test: Likewise.
871 * tests/multlib.test: Likewise.
872 * tests/txinfo30.test: Likewise.
873 * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
875 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_PATH_SEPARATOR): New maintainer check.
876 (syntax_check_rules): Updated.
878 Testsuite: new variables `$PATH_SEPARATOR' and `$APIVERSION'.
879 * tests/defs.in ($APIVERSION): New AC_SUBST'd variable.
880 ($ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE): Use it.
881 ($PATH_SEPARATOR): New AC_SUBST'd variables.
884 2010-09-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
886 Manual: be more agnostic w.r.t. version control system used.
887 * doc/automake.texi (Basics of Distribution): Also refer to `.svn'
888 directories as a type of probably-unwanted files that are copied
889 regardless when adding directories to EXTRA_DIST.
890 (The dist Hook): Show a dist-hook example which removes Subversion
891 `.svn' private directories from distdir, rather than CVS private
893 (missing and AM_MAINTAINER_MODE): Try to be more agnostic w.r.t.
894 the version control system used.
896 Manual: index refer to target "git-dist", not "cvs-dist".
897 * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Index the non-standard
898 example about "git-dist" under the "git-dist" label, not under
901 Perl modules: remove references to "Automake CVS repository".
902 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Update comments to refer to "Automke's
903 git repository" rather than to "Automake's CVS repository".
904 * lib/Automake/Configure_ac.pm: Likewise.
905 * lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm: Likewise.
906 * lib/Automake/Struct.pm: Likewise.
907 * lib/Automake/XFile.pm: Likewise.
908 * lib/Automake/Version.pm (=head1 DESCRIPTION): Refer to "git
909 branches" rather than "CVS branches".
911 Remove obsolete .cvsignore files.
912 * .cvsignore, doc/.cvsignore, lib/.cvsignore, lib/am/.cvsignore,
913 lib/Automake/.cvsignore, lib/Automake/tests/.cvsignore,
914 m4/.cvsignore, tests/.cvsignore: Files deleted. Even when using
915 savannah's CVS readonly mirror there's no way to commit back to
916 the real repository, so this files are not worth maintaining or
919 2010-09-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
921 * m4/dmalloc.m4: Bump serial number and copyright years.
923 2010-09-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
925 Fix broken link in `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' help screen.
926 * m4/dmalloc.m4 (AM_WITH_DMALLOC): Refer only to the dmalloc site
927 `http://www.dmalloc.com', not to the dmalloc tarball there (which
928 seems to have been removed, substituted by multiple release
931 2010-09-17 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
933 Avoid triple-space after period.
934 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): Avoid 3 spaces at
936 * ChangeLog.03: Likewise.
937 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Likewise.
938 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (_print_message): Likewise.
939 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm (rule): Likewise.
940 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (var): Likewise.
941 * lib/am/distdir.am: Likewise.
942 * tests/insthook.test: Likewise.
944 2010-09-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
946 Test automake-generated portions of configure help screen.
947 * tests/help-depend.test: New test.
948 * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
949 * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
950 * tests/help-init.test: Likewise.
951 * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
952 * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
953 * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
954 * tests/help-regex.test: Likewise.
955 * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
956 * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
957 * tests/mmode.test: Remove tests on `configure --help' output,
958 they are superseded by tests in `help-maintainer.test'.
959 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
961 2010-09-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
963 * tests/README: Don't put GCS mandated tools in $required.
965 2010-09-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
967 * HACKING: Hint at old commits with `git describe' output.
969 2010-09-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
971 Fix regression in test `colon4.test'.
972 * tests/colon4.test: Fix botched editing to `configure.in'
973 that made the test useless. Since we are at it, improve
974 comments and make grepping of generated Makefile.in slightly
976 Regression introduced by change "Modernize, improve and/or
977 extend tests `colon*.test" (Stefano Lattarini, 2010-08-08).
979 2010-09-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
981 Do not require "gzip" explicitly in tests.
982 The gzip utility is simply expected to be present on any decent
983 target system for Automake. So it's pointless to put it in
985 * tests/install2.test ($required): Do not require "gzip".
986 * tests/lex3.test: Likewise.
987 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
988 From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
990 Make some `confh*.test' tests more "semantic" (plus tweakings).
991 * tests/confh.test: Run "autoconf", "configure" and "make check",
992 instead of munging/grepping the generated `Makefile.in'.
993 * tests/confh4.test: Relax the grepping of Makefile.in w.r.t.
994 white spaces. Do not create useless dummy source file `foo.c'
995 and useless dummy header file `acconfig.h'.
996 (configure.in): Remove superfluous call to `AC_OUTPUT'.
997 * tests/confh6.test: Add trailing `:' command.
998 * tests/confh7.test: In comments, add reference to ...
999 * tests/confh8.test: ... this new test, "semantic" sister
1001 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1002 Prompted by a report from Ralf Wildenhues.
1004 Remove useless whitespace padding in XFAIL_TESTS definition.
1005 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Remove whitespace padding.
1007 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1009 parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
1010 * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
1011 substitution %MAKEFILE%.
1012 (generate_makefile): Adjust.
1013 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
1014 sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
1015 input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
1018 Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
1020 Posix 2008 requires make to set errexit.
1021 * lib/am/check.am: Update comment.
1023 2010-08-27 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1025 Fix bug in test missing6.test.
1026 * tests/missing6.test: Fix the hack used to edit `configure.in',
1027 to avoid producing a configure script that breaks with shells
1028 that do not support $LINENO. Also throw in a couple of cosmetic
1031 2010-08-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1033 Improve robustness of mdate-sh script.
1034 * lib/mdate-sh: Sanitize zsh behavior on startup, to ensure
1035 $ls_command is word-split properly upon invocation.
1036 (error): New function.
1037 (main): Use it. Improve error checking to avoid endless loop
1038 in case $ls_command gave bogus output. Fix eval quotation.
1039 * tests/mdate6.test: New test, to expose eval quotation error.
1040 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
1042 2010-08-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1044 Fix potential regressions in depcomp{3,5}.test.
1045 * tests/depcomp3.test: Do not uselessly escape the character `$'
1046 in makefile rules, when it's used to expand a make macro.
1047 * tests/depcomp5.test: Likewise.
1049 2010-08-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1050 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1052 Docs: clarify how to avoid automatic dependencies tracking.
1053 * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Mention that
1054 automatic dependencies tracking is enabled by default, but that
1055 the package developer can disable it altogether. Add a reference
1056 to the proper section for a more in-depth explanation.
1058 Fix typo in manual (`Makefile.in' instead of `Makefile.am').
1059 * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Fix typo.
1061 2010-08-16 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
1063 Don't hide the table of contents.
1064 * doc/automake.texi: Move the table of contents to the beginning.
1066 2010-08-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1068 Tweak and/or extend some `acloca*.test' tests.
1069 * tests/aclocal8.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured
1071 * tests/aclocal.test: Likewise. Also, add trailing `:'
1073 * tests/acloca19.test: Likewise.
1074 * tests/aclocal5.test: Add trailing `:' command, and prefer
1075 `$me' over hard-coded test name.
1076 * tests/aclocal6.test: Likewise.
1077 * tests/aclocal18.test: Add trailing `:' command, and make
1078 some grepping slightly stricter.
1079 * tests/acloca14.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `diff' over
1080 `cmp', and add some "cosmetic" blank lines.
1082 2010-08-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1084 Tweak and extend tests `pr[!0-9]*.test'.
1085 * tests/primary3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1086 * tests/primary.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
1087 Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
1088 * tests/primary2.test: Likewise.
1089 * tests/prefix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
1090 changes. Add a trailing `:' command.
1091 * tests/proginst.test: Likewise.
1093 Modernize, improve and extend tests for PR (`pr[0-9]*.test').
1094 * tests/pr2.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1095 * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
1096 * tests/pr401.test: Likewise.
1097 * tests/pr401b.test: Likewise.
1098 * tests/pr401c.test: Likewise.
1099 * tests/pr300-prog.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic changes in
1101 * tests/pr300-lib.test: Likewise.
1102 * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise, and ensure verbose printing
1103 of captured make stdout.
1104 * tests/pr211.test: Add trailing `:' command. Also, use the
1105 `configure.in' stub created by ./defs, rather than writing it
1107 * tests/pr204.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic spacing changes.
1108 * tests/pr287.test: Likewise, and move setting of `errexit' shell
1109 flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs).
1110 * tests/pr220.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
1111 Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
1112 * tests/pr224.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1113 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Do not export
1114 `CC=gcc' to configure explicitly (it's already exported globally
1115 in ./defs, since we have "gcc" in $required). Use the stub for
1116 `configure.in' created by ./defs, rather than writing it from
1117 scratch. Do not create dummy files required by "gnu" mode (e.g.
1118 README, NEWS), since we run automake in foreign mode anyway.
1119 * tests/pr72.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
1120 changes. Extend existing checks a bit.
1121 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise. Also, avoid obsolescent constructs in
1122 the generated `configure.in', and extend existing checks over the
1123 generated tarball a bit.
1124 * tests/pr87.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
1125 changes. Add a trailing `:' command. Also, do not create dummy
1126 files required by "gnu" mode (e.g. README, NEWS), since we run
1127 automake in foreign mode anyway.
1128 * tests/pr243.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
1129 `configure.in'. Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
1130 changes. Cosmetic changes to spacing, add trailing `:' command,
1131 and add a "FIXME" comment.
1132 * tests/pr266.test: Likewise, and add explicit command line switch
1133 `--enable-dependecy-tracking' to the ./configure call.
1134 * tests/pr279.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
1135 `configure.in'; also, use the `configure.in' stub created by
1136 ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch. Enable `errexit'
1137 shell flag, and related changes. Add trailing `:' command.
1138 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
1140 * tests/pr307.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1141 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Escape literal
1142 dots in grep regular expressions. Also, add a trailing `:'
1143 command, and cosmetic changes to spacing.
1145 Tests for PR: add excerpts from original bug report, for clarity.
1146 * tests/pr2.test: Ditto.
1147 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
1148 * tests/pr72.test: Likewise.
1149 * tests/pr87.test: Likewise.
1150 * tests/pr211.test: Likewise.
1151 * tests/pr220.test: Likewise.
1152 * tests/pr224.test: Likewise.
1153 * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
1154 * tests/pr243.test: Likewise.
1155 * tests/pr266.test: Likewise.
1156 * tests/pr279.test: Likewise, and tell to keep it in sync
1157 with its sister test.
1158 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
1160 2010-08-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1162 Tweak, extend and improve tests `cond[a-z]*.test'.
1163 * tests/condd.test: Add trailing `:' command. Typofix in
1165 * tests/condhook.test: Make sure target `install-data-hook' is
1166 not called by `make install', but that data files are installed.
1167 Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in. Add trailing `:' command.
1168 * tests/condhook2.test: New test, sister test of condhook, with
1170 * tests/condinc2.test: Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
1171 Prefer trailing `:' command over trailing `Exit 0'.
1172 * tests/condman2.test: Enable errexit shell flag, and related
1173 changes. Add trailing `:' command.
1174 * tests/condman.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless
1175 dummy manpages, and use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
1176 * tests/condman3.test: New test, similar to condman.test, but
1177 it also runs ./configure and "make install", and check the
1179 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1181 Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test.
1182 * tests/colon.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
1183 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Do not create
1184 a useless dummy file. Add trailing `:' command.
1185 * tests/colon4.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
1186 related changes. Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
1187 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1188 * tests/colon7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1189 changes. Improve the generated `configure.in' file. Add
1190 trailing `:' command.
1191 * tests/colon2.test: Likewise. Also, add some new checks.
1192 * tests/colon5.test: Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
1193 Add new, much deeper checks. Add trailing `:' command.
1194 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
1195 * tests/colon3.test: Add trailing `:' command. Remove useless
1196 comments and echos. Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
1197 make some grepping tests stricter. Add a "FIXME" comments about
1198 planned improvements.
1200 Improve and extend tests `asm*.test'.
1201 * tests/asm.test: Use configure.in stub generated by ./defs,
1202 and avoid obsoleted autoconf constructs. Make grepping of
1203 Automake stderr stricter. Do not create useless source file.
1204 Improve verbose messages. Minor cosmetic changes. Tell to
1205 keep it in sync with other sister tests asm*.test.
1206 * tests/asm2.test: Likewise.
1207 * tests/asm3.test: Likewise.
1209 Modernize, improve and/or extend test scripts `conf*.test'.
1210 * tests/confh5.test: Cosmetic changes.
1211 * tests/conff.test: Likewise.
1212 * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise.
1213 * tests/conflnk.test: Likewise.
1214 * tests/conflnk2.test: Likewise.
1215 * tests/confsub.test: Likewise.
1216 * tests/confvar.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
1218 * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
1219 * tests/conflnk3.test: Cosmetic changes. Re-enable a temporarily
1220 disabled test (which didn't work with autoconf <= 2.59, but now we
1221 are requiring autoconf 2.62, so...)
1222 * tests/conflnk4.test: Cosmetic changes, and extend existing tests
1223 accordingly to "TODO" comments.
1224 * tests/conff2.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
1225 Add some comments explaining why we don't use the `configure.in'
1226 stub preset be ./defs.
1227 * tests/confh.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
1228 rather than writing one from scratch, and do not call AC_OUTPUT.
1229 Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related changes. Prefer diff over
1230 cmp to compare text files. Prefer perl over sed to fetch the value
1231 of $(DIST_COMMON) from Makefile.in. Make grepping of the contents
1232 of $(DIST_COMMON) stricter.
1233 * tests/confh4.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
1234 rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping of Makefile.in
1236 * tests/confh5.test: Make grepping of `config.h' stricter. Add a
1238 * tests/configure.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in generated
1239 `configure.ac'. Do not write `configure.in' two times. Escape
1240 literal dots in grep regular expressions.
1241 * tests/confincl.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1242 changes. Prefer fgrep over grep. Other cosmetic changes.
1243 * tests/config.test: Renamed to ...
1244 * tests/confh6.test: ... this. Fix m4 quoting in `configure.in',
1245 and make grepping of `config.h' and `config.h.in' stricter.
1246 * tests/conf2.test: Renamed ...
1247 * tests/confh7.test: ... to this. Use the `configure.in' stub
1248 created by ./defs, rather than writing one from scratch. Try to
1249 run the checks both with and without AC_PROG_CC and AC_OUTPUT in
1251 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1253 Minor improvements and fixes in tests `depcomp*.test'.
1254 * tests/depcomp.test: Do not create useless dummy source files.
1255 Add a trailing `:' command.
1256 * tests/depcomp2.test: Use `unset' on the CFLAG variable to ensure
1257 it's not in in the environment, rather than exporting it with an
1258 empty value. Do not pass CC=gcc to configure, as that's already
1259 done in ./defs since we have gcc in $required. Ensure verbose
1260 printing of captured stderr, and normalize its checking. Add a
1261 trailing `:' command.
1262 * tests/depcomp3.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
1263 grep regexps. Always use `: >' rather than `touch' to create empty
1264 files. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the created
1265 Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:' command.
1266 * tests/depcomp4.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
1267 grep regexp. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the
1268 created Makefile.am. Ensure verbose printing of captured makes'
1269 stoud/stderr. Add a trailing `:' command.
1270 * tests/depcomp5.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1271 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Quote literal dots
1272 and dollar characters in grep regexps. Explicitly declare phony
1273 targets as such in the created Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:'
1275 * tests/depcomp6.test: Consistently use m4 quoting in the generated
1276 configure.in. Cosmetic fixes to spacing. Make the "dummy" `if'
1277 statement required by OpenBSD's sh `set -e' more robust, and add
1278 explanatory comments to it.
1279 * tests/depcomp7.test: Likewise, and add a trailing `:' command.
1281 Separate failing part of test `all.test'.
1282 * tests/all.test: Keep only (x)failing part of the test. Working
1283 checks moved out to ...
1284 * tests/all2.test: ... this new test.
1285 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1287 Modernize, improve and extend tests `subobj*.test'.
1288 * tests/subobjname.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1289 * tests/subobj.test: Make grepping of `Makefile.in' stricter.
1290 Escape literal dots in grep regexps.
1291 * tests/subobj2.test: Add trailing `:' command. Do not use the
1292 unportable fgrep option `-e'.
1293 * tests/subobj3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1294 (configure.in): Use proper m4 quoting, and avoid obsolescent
1296 * tests/subobj8.test: Likewise. Also, enable `errexit' shell
1297 flag, with related changes
1298 * tests/subobj4.test: Likewise. Also, make grepping of
1299 `Makefile.in' stricter.
1300 * tests/subobj5.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of
1301 `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
1303 (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
1304 writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
1305 * tests/subobj6.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of
1306 `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
1307 of ./defs). Do not create useless dummy ac-init file `f'.
1308 * tests/subobj7.test: Do not create useless dummy ac-init file
1310 (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
1311 writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
1312 * tests/subobj9.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1313 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Fail the test if
1314 `make distcheck' fails. Ensure verbose printing of captured make
1315 stdout. Avoid useless fork by doing simple grep instead of using
1316 test -n "`COMMAND | grep ...`".
1317 (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
1318 (Makefile.am): Explicitly mark target "print" as phony.
1319 * tests/subobj10.test: Removed duplicated call to `set -e'. Add
1320 trailing `:' command.
1321 (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
1323 Remove a couple of obsoleted tests.
1324 * tests/fpinstall.test: Removed.
1325 * tests/fpinst2.test: Likewise.
1326 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1328 Bootstrap: updated HACKING entry.
1329 * HACKING ("Working with git"): Explain how to override the
1330 autoconf and autom4te programs used by the bootstrap process.
1333 * bootstrap: Do not remove `lib/Automake/Config.pm' anymore,
1334 since we don't generate it. Correctly quote arguments of
1335 `eval' builtin. Fixed a botched error message. Removed an
1338 Bootstrap: don't search perl in $PATH.
1339 * bootstrap: Do not explicitly search perl in $PATH anymore.
1340 ($PATH_SEPARATOR): Removed, it's no more needed.
1342 Bootstrap: let the user choose which autoconf to use.
1343 * bootstrap ($AUTOCONF): New variable, from the environment.
1344 ($AUTOM4TE): Likewise, for clarity.
1345 Use "$AUTOCONF" instead of calling "autoconf" directly.
1347 Minor improvements to tests ar*.test.
1348 * tests/ar.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1349 * tests/ar2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
1350 Makefile.in stricter.
1352 2010-08-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1354 Fix maintainer-check failure.
1355 * tests/cond5.test: Quote sleep argument, this isn't about
1356 time stamp differences.
1358 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
1359 * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
1362 2010-08-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1364 Work around a nasty bug (segfault) of Solaris make.
1365 * lib/am/check.am (recheck, recheck-html): Trim trailing spaces
1366 from $list, to avoid triggering a nasty bug (potential segfault)
1369 2010-08-06 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
1371 Make cond5.test more robust on MSYS.
1372 * tests/cond5.test: Add delay before the first kill attempt to
1373 cater for problems with MSYS bash.
1375 2010-07-31 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1377 Add example git work flow; discuss merge --log in HACKING.
1379 Suggestion by Stefano Lattarini.
1381 Add more hints for debugging make rules.
1382 * doc/automake.texi (Debugging Make Rules): Show command to find
1383 out expanded values of variables; point to makefile debugger.
1385 Prompted by suggestion from Ludovic Courtès and Andy Wingo.
1387 2010-07-27 Patrick Welche <prlw1@cam.ac.uk> (tiny change)
1389 Fix typo in the manual.
1390 * doc/automake.texi (Scripts): Fix typo.
1392 2010-07-27 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1394 Document current policy for development with git.
1395 * HACKING (Working with git): Overhaul.
1396 Prompted by suggestion from Stefano Lattarini.
1398 Fix AM_COND_IF for gone-invalid condition shell expression.
1399 * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): test contents of $COND_TRUE
1400 variable, rather than re-evaluating the shell expression for
1402 * tests/cond40.test: Extend test.
1405 Avoid syntax error if IF-TRUE part of AM_COND_IF expands empty.
1406 * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): Ensure IF-TRUE part is never empty
1407 to avoid shell syntax error if the m4 expansion is empty.
1408 * tests/cond40.test: Enhance test.
1410 Coverage: bogus option to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
1411 * tests/init2.test: New test.
1412 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
1414 2010-07-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1416 Modernize and improve test scripts `subdir*.test'.
1417 * tests/subdir.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1418 changes. Use the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs',
1419 rather than writing one from scratch.
1420 * tests/subdir2.test: Likewise.
1421 * tests/subdir4.test: Likewise.
1422 * tests/subdir3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1423 changes. Do not create useless dummy source files.
1424 * tests/subdir5.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in (in topdir
1425 and in subdirs) stricter. Some minor changes to keep it more
1426 in sync with the related test `subdir8.test'.
1427 * tests/subdir8.test: Likewise (but with the related test being
1428 `subdir5.test' here).
1429 * tests/subdir6.test: Cosmetic change in spacing.
1430 * tests/subdir9.test: Define and use new variable `$distdir'. Add
1431 trailing `:' command.
1432 * tests/subdir10.test: Cosmetic consistency-related change.
1433 * tests/subdirbuiltsources.test: Cosmetic changes in spacings.
1434 (configure.in): Use stub created by `./defs', rather than writing
1435 it from scratch. Do not use obsoleted and/or deprecated forms of
1436 autoconf/automake macros.
1438 Modernize and improve test scripts `dist*.test'.
1439 * tests/distcleancheck.test: Do not add useless `-e' option to
1440 a $MAKE call. Extend test by grepping stderr of make.
1441 * tests/distcom2.test: Do not run the same test script on the
1442 Makefile.in twice, but save its output in an intermediate file
1443 instead. Make grepping of DIST_COMMON definition stricter.
1444 Display the content of more files, to ease debugging. Add a
1445 trailing `:' command. Improved heading comments w.r.t. sister
1447 * tests/distcom6.test: Likewise, and avoid to uselessly run
1449 * tests/distcom3.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured stdout
1450 and stderr. Make grepping of captured stderr stricter. Also,
1451 add trailing `:' command.
1452 * tests/distcom4.test: Declare the target `test' in the generated
1453 Makefile.am as `.PHONY'. Display content of more files, to ease
1454 debugging. Add trailing `:' command.
1455 * tests/distcom5.test: Likewise. Also, factor out common sed
1456 script in subroutine `extract_distcommon'.
1457 * tests/distcom7.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to write
1458 test Makefile.am files. Add a trailing `:' command.
1459 * tests/distname.test: Prefer `gzip -d' over `gunzip'. Move the
1460 call to `set -e' earlier. Be stricter and more verbose in the
1461 checking of the generated tarball.
1462 (configure.in): Use the stub provided by ./defs, instead of
1463 writing it from scratch. Avoid obsoleted constructs. Remove
1464 useless call to `AM_PROG_CC_C_O'.
1465 * tests/distdir.test: Various minor improvements/normalizations.
1466 * tests/distlinks.test: Likewise.
1468 2010-07-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1470 Improve and extend test cond5.test.
1471 * tests/cond5.test: Do not blindly sleep 60 seconds before polling
1472 the background automake process, but poll it every 10 seconds for
1473 at most 30 times (this makes the test both faster on good machines,
1474 and more resilient to spurious timeout-due failures when in low
1475 priority or on heavily-loaded systems).
1476 Check also that automake writes the expected error messages on the
1478 Enable `errexit' flag, and related changes.
1479 Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs', rather than
1480 writing one from scratch.
1482 2010-06-26 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1484 Update program --help output to match current GCS.
1485 * configure.ac: Set and substitute PACKAGE_URL if AC_PACKAGE_URL
1486 is not defined, for compatibility to Autoconf < 2.64.
1487 * Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute PACKAGE_BUGREPORT and
1489 (sc_diff_automake_in_automake): Update number of diff lines for
1490 additional substitutions.
1491 * aclocal.in (usage): Use PACKAGE_BUGREPORT. Point to Automake
1492 home page and GNU general help page.
1493 * automake.in (usage): Likewise.
1494 * doc/automake.texi: New flag PACKAGE_BUGREPORT, to factor email
1496 (Introduction, Creating amhello, amhello Explained, Options):
1498 * lib/Automake/Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute
1500 * lib/Automake/Config.in ($PACKAGE_BUGREPORT): New global.
1501 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Use it for footer of fatal
1504 Clean up @var handling in the manual.
1505 * doc/automake.texi: Throughout the manual, lower-case @var
1506 names, replace a few one-character names.
1508 2010-06-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1510 Fix typo-related bug in test script silent5.test.
1511 * tests/silent5.test: Use $EGREP, not $GREP (which is not even
1514 Tests: remove useless repetitions of `foreign' automake option.
1515 * tests/multlib.test (configure.in): Remove useless use of
1516 `foreign' option in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (the `--foreign' option is
1517 already in $AUTOMAKE by default, so no point in repeating it).
1518 * tests/subobj10.test: Likewise.
1519 * tests/subobj9.test: Likewise.
1520 * tests/lex3.test (Makefile.am): Similarly, remove useless use
1521 of `foreign' option in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
1522 * tests/lex5.test: Likewise.
1523 * tests/pr279.test: Likewise.
1524 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
1525 * tests/specflg3.test: Likewise.
1526 * tests/target-cflags.test: Likewise.
1528 Drop useless requirement "gzip" in lex5.test.
1529 * tests/lex5.test ($required): Do not list "gzip", as it's
1532 2010-06-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1534 Fix bugs in test script silent5.test.
1535 * tests/silent5.test: Fixed a nasty bug (due to the use of grep
1536 instead of egrep) that could have led to false negatives.
1538 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1540 Add a test checking that distributed broken symlinks cause
1541 `make dist' to fail.
1542 * tests/distlinksbrk.test: New test.
1543 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1545 2010-06-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1547 Fix minor testsuite issues, update docs, for Yacc/Lex changes.
1548 * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Mention AM_YFLAGS, YFLAGS
1549 and AM_LFLAGS, LFLAGS in the order in which they now appear in
1552 * tests/lflags.test, tests/lflags2.test, tests/yflags.test,
1553 tests/yflags2.test: Prefer `make -e' over `make VAR=VAL', to
1554 please maintainer-check. Ensure generated C files contain a
1555 declaration, to please compilers.
1557 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1559 Fix bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t. $(AM_FLAGS) and
1560 $(FLAGS) precedence.
1561 * automake.in: Fix registration of languages "Lex", "Lex (C++)",
1562 "Yacc" and "Yacc (C++)", so that $(LFLAGS) has precedence over
1563 $(AM_LFLAGS) and $(YFLAGS) has precedence over $(AM_YFLAGS).
1564 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1567 New tests, exposing bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t.
1568 $(AM_FLAGS) and $(FLAGS) precedence.
1569 * tests/lflags.test: New test, check that user $(LFLAGS) takes
1570 precedence over automake (AM_LFLAGS) and (foo_LFLAGS). Still
1572 * tests/lflags2.test: Likewise.
1573 * tests/yflags.test: New test, check that user $(YFLAGS) takes
1574 precedence over automake (AM_YFLAGS) and (foo_YFLAGS). Still
1576 * tests/yflags2.test: Likewise.
1577 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Extended accordingly.
1579 2010-06-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1581 Modernize, improve and extend tests `suffix*.test'.
1582 * tests/suffix3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1584 * tests/suffix4.test: Likewise.
1585 * tests/suffix6.test: Likewise, and do not create a useless dummy
1587 * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
1588 * tests/suffix5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1589 changes. Make grepping of Makefile.in slightly stricter.
1590 * tests/suffix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1591 changes. Also, do not redirect grep output to /dev/null, as this
1592 might unmotivatedly hide useful information.
1593 * tests/suffix2.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1594 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Use a more
1595 idiomatic way to count text occurrences in Makefile.in with
1596 grep. Do not create useless dummy source files.
1597 * tests/suffix10.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured make
1598 stdout. Minor cosmetic changes.
1599 * tests/suffix8.test: Likewise. Also, drop useless call to the
1600 env(1) utility, and make grepping of make output stricter by using
1601 $FGREP rather than plain grep.
1602 * tests/suffix11.test: Likewise.
1603 * tests/suffix12.test: Likewise.
1604 * tests/suffix9.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to append to
1605 the `configure.in' stub. Cosmetic changes.
1606 * tests/suffix13.test: Cosmetic spacing change.
1608 2010-06-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1610 Add useful comment in test script ext.test.
1611 * tests/ext.test: Add a comment explaining why an apparently
1612 useless `if' statement is indeed required.
1614 Add useful comment in test script obsolete.test.
1615 * tests/obsolete.test: Add a comment explaining why we need
1616 an indirection in adding $AUTOUPDATE to $required.
1618 Normalize whitespaces in 'tests/Makefile.am'.
1619 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Use only spaces, not tabs, in the
1620 definition of this variable.
1622 2010-06-12 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1624 Remove a couple of unneeded conditionals from tests.
1625 * tests/pr243.test, tests/pr266.test, tests/strip.test: No need
1626 for the FOOTEST conditional.
1628 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1630 Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
1631 * tests/symlink3.test: Deleted, separated into two new, more
1633 * tests/forcemiss.test: ... this one ...
1634 * tests/forcemiss2.test: ... and this one.
1635 * tests/symlink2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, make test
1636 stricter, and skip it if symlink creation is not supported.
1637 * tests/postproc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, related
1638 changes, and a couple of unrelated cosmetic changes.
1639 * tests/recurs.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
1640 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping
1641 of Automake stderr slightly stricter.
1642 * tests/substtarg.test: Likewise.
1643 * tests/strip.test: Likewise, and move the call to `set -e'
1644 earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs'). Also, make sure
1645 that the script installed by `make install-script' is equal to
1647 * tests/substref.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
1648 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Move the call
1649 to `set -e' earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs').
1650 Avoid to explicitly export CC for configure (that's already done
1651 in ./defs). Avoid potential problems with unpredictable make
1652 output. Finally, make grepping of Makefile.in stricter.
1653 * tests/substre2.test: Ensure verbose printing of the captured
1654 make's output, and make its grepping slightly stricter.
1655 * tests/cygwin32.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1656 changes. Also, do not create useless dummy source/data files.
1657 * tests/scripts.test: Likewise.
1658 * tests/recurs2.test: Likewise. Also, use the `configure.in'
1659 stub created by `./defs'.
1660 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1662 Modernize, improve and/or fix tests `pluseq*.test.
1663 * tests/pluseq5.test: Append to configure.in using cat with an
1664 here-doc, not using echo.
1665 * tests/pluseq10.test: Make sure that the captured output of
1666 `make' command is always displayed. Where possible, use $FGREP
1667 instead of grep (this change makes some checks slightly stricter).
1668 * tests/pluseq8.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
1670 * tests/pluseq.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless dummy
1671 data files, and use better m4 quoting in generated configure.in.
1672 * tests/pluseq2.test: Likewise. Also, append to configure.in
1673 using cat with an here-doc, not using echo.
1674 * tests/pluseq3.test: Likewise.
1675 * tests/pluseq4.test: Likewise.
1676 * tests/pluseq6.test: Likewise.
1677 * tests/pluseq7.test: Do not create useless dummy source file.
1678 * tests/pluseq9.test: Slightly extended w.r.t. the grepping of
1679 Automake stderr. Some unrelated cosmetic changes.
1681 Testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured stderr.
1682 * tests/acloca18.test: Print captured stderr before either failing
1683 or grepping it. Be sure to send captured stderr to stderr, not to
1685 * tests/ansi3b.test: Likewise.
1686 * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
1687 * tests/configure.test: Likewise.
1688 * tests/missing3.test: Likewise.
1689 * tests/missing6.test: Likewise.
1690 * tests/output-order.test: Likewise.
1691 * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise.
1692 * tests/python6.test: Likewise.
1693 * tests/python7.test: Likewise.
1694 * tests/python8.test: Likewise.
1695 * tests/python9.test: Likewise.
1696 * tests/subobj.test: Likewise.
1697 * tests/vars3.test: Likewise.
1698 * tests/missing4.test: Likewise, and fix a call to grep not to use
1700 * tests/ansi3.test: Likewise, and rely on the `configure.in' stub
1701 created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1703 Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
1704 * tests/backsl.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
1706 * tests/backsl2.test: Likewise.
1707 * tests/block.test: Likewise.
1708 * tests/canon2.test: Likewise.
1709 * tests/canon4.test: Likewise.
1710 * tests/comment2.test: Likewise.
1711 * tests/condlib.test: Likewise.
1712 * tests/cond15.test: Likewise, and prefer $FGREP over grep.
1713 * tests/canon3.test: Likewise. Also, avoid to create an useless
1715 * tests/acoutpt2.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and some
1716 related changes. Do some cosmetic improvements in the generated
1717 `configure.in' file.
1718 * tests/cond4.test: Likewise.
1719 * tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
1720 * tests/condinc.test: Likewise.
1721 * tests/cond7.test: Likewise. Also, remove useless setting of
1722 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am.
1723 * tests/ansi.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
1724 changes. Extended, esp. by running autoconf, ./configure and
1725 make, and by looking into the distdir.
1727 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1728 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1730 Extend tests/README w.r.t. trailing `:' in test scripts.
1731 * tests/README (section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
1732 Explain why apparently redundant trailing `:' and `Exit 0' in
1733 test scripts can indeed be useful.
1735 2010-06-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1737 Improve determination of PATH separator in bootstrap script.
1738 * bootstrap: Determine what the PATH separator is the same way
1741 Minor improvements in bootstrap script.
1742 * bootstrap: Consistently use two-spaces indentation. Cosmetic
1743 improvement to comments.
1744 ($me): New variable, containing program basename.
1745 Prepend it to all error messages.
1747 Testsuite now works with BSD make in parallel mode.
1748 * tests/defs.in: Unset variables __MKLVL__ and MAKE_JOBS_FIFO,
1749 which are exported by BSD make when run in parallel mode, and
1750 which can confuse make processes spawned by our testsuite.
1751 This change fixes a lot of spurious failure when the testsuite
1752 is run with BSD make in parallel mode.
1754 2010-06-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1756 Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
1757 * tests/sanity.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
1758 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1759 * tests/depend2.test: Likewise. Also, call `set -e' just after
1760 the inclusion of `./defs', instead that later in the script.
1761 * tests/canon5.test: Avoid a useless `|| Exit 1' after a call to
1762 $AUTOMAKE, and improve the positioning of an $ACLOCAL call.
1763 * tests/exeext4.test: Use $FGREP instead of grep, where possible.
1764 Make auxiliary rules in the generated Makefile more silent.
1765 These changes make some checks slightly stricter.
1766 * tests/ext2.test: Call `Exit 1' if inclusion of `./defs' fails.
1767 * tests/gettext2.test: Place final `:' at the end of the script,
1768 rather than in the middle.
1769 * tests/exeext.test: Call `set -e' just after the inclusion of
1770 `./defs', instead that later in the script.
1771 * tests/extra5.test: Likewise.
1772 * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `mv -f' over
1773 plain `mv', just to be sure.
1774 * tests/depcomp.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
1775 changes. Also, modernize the generated configure.in.
1776 * tests/cond9.test: Likewise. Also, rely on the `configure.in'
1777 stub created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1778 * tests/cond10.test: Likewise.
1779 * tests/depcomp2.test: Likewise.
1780 * tests/depend3.test: Likewise.
1781 * tests/distcom7.test: Likewise.
1782 * tests/fortdep.test: Likewise. Also, remove definition of
1783 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am,
1784 since that flag is already provided by $AUTOMAKE.
1785 * tests/mdate.test: Made stricter, by checking that Automake
1786 actually failed, and by making a stricter grep on the error
1787 message. Also, set shell `errexit flag'.
1788 * tests/python2.test: Improved verbose messages.
1790 Make test `ammissing.test' stricter.
1791 * tests/ammissing.test: Fail if $ACLOCAL succeeds unexpectedly.
1792 Enable `errexit' shell flag.
1794 2010-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1796 Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
1797 * tests/subcond.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
1799 * tests/subst.test: Likewise.
1800 * tests/vars.test: Likewise.
1801 * tests/version4.test: Likewise.
1802 * tests/vpath.test: Likewise.
1803 * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
1804 * tests/werror.test: Likewise.
1805 * tests/whoami.test: Likewise.
1806 * tests/tags.test: Likewise, and avoid to crate an useless dummy
1808 * tests/acsilent.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
1809 command substitution.
1810 * tests/unused.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
1811 command substitution.
1812 * tests/version.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
1813 in the generated `configure.in'.
1814 * tests/version2.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
1815 in the generated `configure.in'.
1817 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1819 Prefer AUTOMAKE_fails over `$AUTOMAKE | grep' in tests.
1820 * tests/ldadd.test: Enable errexit. Use AUTOMAKE_fails so
1821 the verbose log contains all output.
1822 * tests/mdate.test: Likewise.
1823 Prompted by Stefano Lattarini's change to discover.test.
1825 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1827 Improve tests link*.test (enable `errexit' shell flag).
1828 * tests/link_c_cxx.test: Enable `errexit shell flag, and related
1829 changes. Also, do not create useless source files.
1830 * tests/link_dist.test: Likewise.
1831 * tests/link_f90_only.test: Likewise.
1832 * tests/link_f_only.test: Likewise.
1833 * tests/link_fc.test: Likewise.
1834 * tests/link_fccxx.test: Likewise.
1835 * tests/link_fcxx.test: Likewise.
1837 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1839 Improve ext.test semantics, avoid OpenBSD sh errexit issue.
1840 * tests/ext.test: Inside shell compound command, use
1841 `if $cmd; then Exit 1; fi' rather than `$cmd && Exit 1', to
1842 fix failure with OpenBSD sh introduced with last patch.
1843 Actually ensure that a rule for .EXT.o is created for each
1844 known extension EXT.
1846 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1848 Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
1849 * tests/dash.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1851 * tests/defun.test: Likewise.
1852 * tests/defun2.test: Likewise.
1853 * tests/dejagnu.test: Likewise.
1854 * tests/double.test: Likewise.
1855 * tests/distcom2.test: Likewise.
1856 * tests/empty2.test: Likewise.
1857 * tests/empty3.test: Likewise.
1858 * tests/empty4.test: Likewise.
1859 * tests/exdir.test: Likewise.
1860 * tests/ext.test: Likewise.
1861 * tests/extra.test: Likewise.
1862 * tests/extra2.test: Likewise.
1863 * tests/extra3.test: Likewise.
1864 * tests/extra4.test: Likewise.
1865 * tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
1866 * tests/fnoc.test: Likewise.
1867 * tests/fo.test: Likewise.
1868 * tests/instexec.test: Likewise.
1869 * tests/ltdeps.test: Likewise.
1870 * tests/nodep.test: Likewise.
1871 * tests/nodepcomp.test: Likewise.
1872 * tests/f90only.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
1873 comments and unnecessary commands.
1874 * tests/fonly.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
1875 comments and unnecessary commands.
1876 * tests/discover.test: Likewise, and made stricter.
1878 Enable `errexit' shell flag in all tests cxx*.test.
1879 * tests/cxx.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
1881 * tests/cxxansi.test: Likewise.
1882 * tests/cxxcpp.test: Likewise.
1883 * tests/cxxlibobj.test: Likewise.
1884 * tests/cxxlink.test: Likewise.
1885 * tests/cxxo.test: Likewise.
1887 Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
1888 * tests/acoutnoq.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
1890 * tests/acoutpt.test: Likewise.
1891 * tests/acoutqnl.test: Likewise.
1892 * tests/amassign.test: Likewise.
1893 * tests/ansi2.test: Likewise.
1894 * tests/ansi4.test: Likewise.
1895 * tests/badprog.test: Likewise.
1896 * tests/checkall.test: Likewise.
1897 * tests/clean.test: Likewise.
1898 * tests/colneq2.test: Likewise.
1899 * tests/colon.test: Likewise.
1900 * tests/colon5.test: Likewise.
1901 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
1902 * tests/comment.test: Likewise.
1903 * tests/compile_f90_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
1904 * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
1905 * tests/cond3.test: Likewise.
1906 * tests/cond6.test: Likewise.
1907 * tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
1908 * tests/conf2.test: Likewise.
1909 * tests/confvar.test: Likewise.
1910 * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
1911 * tests/cond8.test: Likewise, plus a cosmetic change.
1912 * tests/confh4.test: Likewise. Also, add in the heading comments
1913 an excerpt from the original bug report which motivated the
1914 creation of this test, to make its purpose clearer.
1916 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1918 Rewrite manual to be gender-neutral.
1919 * doc/automake.texi (GNU Build System)
1920 (Standard Directory Variables, General Operation, CVS)
1921 (Hard-Coded Install Paths, Dependencies As Side Effects):
1922 Rewrite text to not contain gender-specific pronouns when
1923 speaking about developers or users, either by avoiding pronouns
1924 or by addressing them as `you' instead.
1926 Report by Christina Gratorp.
1930 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1932 Make tests on user extensibility of silent-rules mode stricter.
1933 * tests/silent6.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
1934 output produced by `make'.
1935 * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
1937 Tests on silent-mode for C/Libtool made stricter.
1938 * tests/silent.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
1939 output produced by `make'.
1940 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
1941 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
1942 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
1943 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise, and add a final `make distclean'
1944 command to keep it better in sync with tests/silent{4,9}.test.
1946 Improved test silent5.test.
1947 * tests/silent5.test: Remove by hand all generated C files after
1948 non-verbose builds, to ensure the following builds are clean.
1949 Try to clean and rebuild with the same verbosity and without
1950 removing generated sources in between, to check that this does
1951 not trigger a different set of rules. Make grepping of make's
1952 output stricter. Improved/added some comments.
1954 New tests for Automake silent-mode with Fortran.
1955 * tests/silentf77.test: New test.
1956 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
1957 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1959 New test `silentcxx.test' (Automake silent-mode with C++).
1960 * tests/silentcxx.test: New test.
1961 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1963 New test `silentyacc.test' (Automake silent-mode with Yacc).
1964 * tests/silentyacc.test: New test.
1965 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1967 New test `silentlex.test' (Automake silent-mode with Lex).
1968 * tests/silentlex.test: New test.
1969 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1971 Relax tests on silent-rules to cater to overly verbose makes.
1972 * tests/silent.test: When testing silent builds, don't fail if
1973 make's output simply contains the `mv' substring, but only if
1974 it contains the `mv ' substring (note the trailing space).
1975 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
1976 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
1977 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
1978 * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
1979 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
1981 2010-01-24 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1983 Fix silent-rules output for disabled dependency tracking.
1984 * lib/am/depend2.am [!%FASTDEP%]: Rework silent-rules variable
1985 expansion code to also work in the case where %AMDEP% expands
1986 to FALSE at config.status time, using new substitution string
1988 * automake.in (verbose_nodep_flag): New function, appending
1989 `@am__nodep@' to the verbose-variable name.
1990 (handle_languages): If dependencies are not disabled, use it to
1991 set %VERBOSE-NODEP%.
1992 * m4/depend.m4: Substitute am__nodep as '_no', so the second
1993 verbose-variable will always expand to an empty string, if
1994 dependencies are enabled.
1995 * tests/silent5.test: Also test --disable-dependency-tracking;
1996 also test per-target flags for non-C language files.
1997 * tests/silent9.test: New test, like silent4.test but disable
1998 dependency tracking.
1999 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
2000 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
2001 Report by Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>.
2003 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2005 Extend test on `nostdinc' automake option.
2006 * tests/nostdinc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Related and
2007 unrelated minor changes. Make the grepping of the generated
2008 Makefile.in slightly stricter. Generate and run configure, so that
2009 the generated Makefile can be grepped too.
2011 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2013 Make gnupload portable to EBCDIC hosts.
2014 * lib/gnupload: Use literal newline as argument for 'tr' rather
2015 than \015, for EBCDIC hosts. Also, avoid unportable nested
2016 double-quotes and backquotes.
2018 Report from Eric Blake and Steve Goetze via gnulib.
2020 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2022 Fix Autoconf version required by Automake's configure.
2023 Automake configure script used to tell that automake required
2024 autoconf 2.60 or later, but then it checked for autoconf >= 2.62,
2025 and if that was not found, it gave an error saying that Automake
2026 required configure 2.61a-341 or later. This change should
2027 eliminate such inconsistencies.
2028 * configure.ac ($required_autoconf_version): New variable.
2031 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2033 Fix unportable sed script in maintainer-check test.
2034 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_Exit_not_exit): Rewrite sed script to
2035 not contain semicolon after 'b' or brace commands, for NetBSD.
2037 Wildcards are not portable to NetBSD make.
2038 * doc/automake.texi (Wildcards): Document portability issue.
2039 * tests/extra10.test, tests/extra11.test, tests/extra12.test:
2042 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2044 Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
2045 * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
2046 an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
2048 Avoid possible false negatives in dejagnu7.test.
2049 * tests/dejagnu7.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Also, avoid
2050 unportable use of fgrep option `-e'.
2052 Fix conflnk3.test to work with Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
2053 * tests/conflnk3.test: Use `test -r FILE' and `test ! -r FILE'
2054 instead of respectively `test -e FILE' and `test ! -e FILE',
2055 since Solaris Sh doesn't grok the latter. Do not SKIP the test
2056 if the shell doesn't support `test -e'.
2058 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2061 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Add
2062 missing closing parenthesis.
2064 Fix leftover call to removed function macros_dump.
2065 * automake.in (read_main_am_file): Call variables_dump, not
2066 macros_dump. Print actual error before list of variables.
2068 2010-04-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2070 Minor improvements in comments of test `silent3.test'.
2071 * tests/silent3.test: Tell to keep it in sync with `silent9.test'
2074 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2076 testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured output.
2077 * tests/acloca14.test, tests/acloca18.test, tests/aclocal.test,
2078 tests/fort2.test, tests/help.test, tests/missing3.test,
2079 tests/missing6.test: Print captured stdout or stderr before
2082 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2084 Make test badopt.test stricter (by enabling `set -e').
2085 * tests/badopt.test: Add call to `set -e'. Due to this change,
2086 an unexpected failure in the call to `$ACLOCAL' (whose outcome
2087 was previously unchecked) would cause the whole test to fail.
2088 Also, bumped the copyright years.
2090 Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
2091 * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
2092 an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
2094 Use `set -e' in confsub.test (avoids possible false negatives).
2095 * tests/confsub.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and related
2096 changes (this helps avoiding some possible minor false negatives).
2097 Also, bumped copyright years.
2099 2010-04-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2101 Fix -Werror handling for presence of configure.in and configure.ac.
2102 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (Automake::Variable): Do not initialize
2103 $configure_ac at the global level, before command-line arguments
2105 (require_variables): Initialize it here.
2106 * tests/configure.test: New test.
2107 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
2108 Report by Stefano Lattarini.
2110 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2112 Avoid possible false negatives in confh5.test.
2113 * tests/confh5.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and bumped
2114 copyright years. Due to this change, any unexpected failure
2115 in calls to $ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE, $AUTOCONF or $AUTOHEADER, or
2116 a failure in grepping expected text in output files should now
2117 cause the whole test to fail.
2119 2010-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2121 Fixed typo in POD documentation of Automake::Channels.
2122 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Fixed typo in POD documentation:
2123 @<...> was used instead of C<...>.
2125 2010-04-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2127 Refactor tests on Automake TESTS color output.
2128 * tests/color.test: Tests using the expect program moved out to...
2129 * tests/color2.test: ... this new file.
2130 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Extended accordingly.
2132 2010-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2134 Fix typos in comments in test confh5.test
2135 * tests/confh5.test: Fix a couple of typos in comments.
2137 Avoid possible false negatives in canon-name.test.
2138 * tests/canon-name.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Improve
2141 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2143 Fix per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror.
2144 Before this patch, 'AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = -Werror' in one
2145 Makefile.am would carry over to other Makefile.am files
2146 treated afterwards by the same thread, causing inconsistent
2147 and unstable exit status values.
2148 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (dup_channel_setup)
2149 (drop_channel_setup): Save and restore the setting of
2150 $warnings_are_errors.
2151 * tests/werror3.test: New test.
2152 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
2155 2010-04-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2157 Bugfix in confh5.test w.r.t. Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
2158 * tests/confh5.test: In the generated Makefile.am: do not use
2159 `test ! -e FILE' to check for the non-existence of a file, since
2160 that is not supported by Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
2162 Make test `aclocal3.test' stricter.
2163 * tests/aclocal3.test: Add call to `set -e'. Fail if $ACLOCAL
2164 succeds unexpectedly.
2166 Add tests checking that symlinks are resolved by `make dist'.
2167 * tests/distlinks.test: New test.
2168 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2169 Suggested by observations from Ralf Wildenhues.
2171 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2173 Use -9 for maximum xz compression with dist-xz.
2174 * lib/am/distdir.am (dist-xz, dist, dist-all): Pass -9 to xz.
2175 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
2176 Report by Pavel Sanda.
2178 2010-03-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2180 Avoid an unportable use of `$status' shell variable.
2181 * Makefile.am (path-check): Don't use the `$status' shell variable
2182 in the target's rules, as it's special in Zsh (equivalent to `$?',
2185 Avoid another use of `chmod -R'.
2186 * Makefile.am (path-check): To be safe, do not use `chmod -R' on
2187 $(distdir) before removing it (as Solaris `chmod -R' touches
2188 symlink targets). Instead, use the cleanup strategy used in
2191 2010-03-28 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2193 Remove uses of @acronym and @sc.
2194 * doc/automake.texi (Public Macros, Limitations on File Names):
2195 Remove all usage of @acronym and @sc in the manual.
2196 Suggested by Karl Berry.
2198 2010-03-13 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
2200 GNU hello uses fdl.texi, not gpl.texi.
2201 * doc/automake.texi (Texinfo): Adjust example to upstream
2204 2010-03-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2206 Formatting cleanups in macro comments.
2207 * automake.in, lib/Automake/Channels.pm,
2208 lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm, lib/Automake/Options.pm,
2209 lib/Automake/Variable.pm, lib/Automake/XFile.pm,
2210 m4/options.m4, m4/substnot.m4: Fix macro comment format.
2212 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2213 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2215 Avoid generation of `tests/defs-p' file.
2216 * tests/defs.in: In the generated `configure.in' snippet: call
2217 `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' with the `parallel-tests' option if the shell
2218 variable `parallel_tests' is set to `yes'.
2219 * tests/Makefile.am (defs-p): Target removed.
2220 (check_SCRIPTS): Removed `defs-p'.
2221 (clean-local-check): Do not unlink `defs-p' anymore.
2222 ($(parallel_tests)): Transformation rules for the test scripts
2224 * tests/gen-parallel-tests: Selection rules for the test
2226 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Set `$parallel_tests' to `yes'
2227 then include `./defs' (rather than simply including `./defs-p').
2228 * tests/parallel-tests2.test: Likewise.
2229 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
2230 * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
2231 * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
2232 * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
2233 * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
2234 * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise.
2235 * tests/parallel-tests9.test: Likewise.
2236 * tests/parallel-tests10.test: Likewise.
2237 * tests/README (Section "Writing Test Cases" subsection "Do"):
2238 Adjusted the parts referring to tests checking `parallel-tests'
2239 behaviour. Some other minor related improvements.
2240 * tests/.gitignore (defs-p): Removed.
2242 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2244 Remove redundant unset of variable TESTS from some test scripts.
2245 * tests/color.test: Do not unset the `TESTS' variable, as it's
2246 already unset in the `defs' file.
2247 * tests/check5.test: Likewise.
2248 * tests/check8.test: Likewise.
2249 * tests/check9.test: Likewise.
2250 * tests/check10.test: Likewise.
2251 * tests/check11.test: Likewise.
2252 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Likewise.
2253 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
2254 * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
2255 * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
2256 * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
2257 * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
2259 2010-02-22 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
2261 Improve help message of mdate-sh.
2262 * mdate-sh: mention actual output format in help message.
2264 2010-02-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2266 Deprecate dist-lzma in favor of dist-xz.
2267 * doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions, Options):
2268 Adjust text to reflect renaming of lzma to xz.
2270 Missing deprecation noted by Antonio Diaz Diaz.
2272 2010-02-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2274 Add tests about support of wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
2275 * tests/extra10.test: New test, check basic support of wildcards
2277 * tests/extra11.test: New test, check more complex usage of
2278 wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
2279 * tests/extra12.test: New test, check usage of wildcards in
2280 EXTRA_DIST when $builddir != $srcdir.
2281 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2282 Necessity of these new tests suggested by Braden McDaniel
2283 and Ralf Wildenhues.
2285 2010-02-08 Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
2287 Fix copyright statement in gnupload script.
2288 * lib/gnupload: Fix copyright statement.
2290 2010-02-06 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> (tiny change)
2291 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2293 Fix exit status of signal handlers in shell scripts.
2294 The value of `$?' on entrance to signal handlers in shell scripts
2295 cannot be relied upon, so set the exit code explicitly to
2297 * lib/am/check.am (am__check_pre): Use `exit 143' in signal handler.
2298 * lib/elisp-comp: Likewise.
2299 * lib/install-sh: Likewise.
2300 * lib/ylwrap: Likewise. Also, fix script to trap signal 13, not 3.
2301 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
2302 Bug report, analysis, and initial patch by Dmitry V. Levin.
2304 2010-02-06 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
2306 Improve gnupload usage text.
2307 * gnupload (usage): Shorten to make more likely to fit on a tty
2308 line. Mention CMD in the synopsis. With ..., plural is implied.
2310 2010-01-28 Christos Kontas <xakon@yahoo.com> (tiny change)
2312 Fix some typos in the manual
2313 * doc/automake.texi (Nested Packages, Rebuilding): Fix typos.
2315 2010-01-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2317 Slighty improve tests acoutbs.test and acoutbs2.test.
2318 * tests/acoutbs2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Check that
2319 autoconf and configure work, that the file `zot' is created by
2320 configure, and that no file containing a backslash in its name is
2322 * tests/acoutbs.test: Likewise, plus updated copyright years.
2324 Fix test acoutbs2.test.
2325 * tests/acoutbs2: In the generated configure.in: add proper calls
2326 to AC_INIT and AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, and remove explicit definition of
2327 PACKAGE and VERSION. Add a call to aclocal before calling automake.
2328 Updated copyright years.
2329 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Removed acoutbs2.test.
2331 Add forgotten test scripts to $(TESTS).
2332 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Added test scripts present on the
2333 filesystem, which were erroneously left out from $(TESTS):
2334 acoutbs2.test, badopt.test, extra2.test.
2335 (XFAIL_TESTS): Added acoutbs2.test.
2337 2010-01-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2339 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
2340 * INSTALL, lib/INSTALL, lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub:
2343 Bump copyright years.
2344 * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
2345 * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
2346 * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
2349 * ChangeLog.09: New file, rotated from ...
2350 * ChangeLog: ... here.
2351 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute ChangeLog.09.
2355 Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2357 Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are
2358 permitted provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved.