1 2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
3 Fix parallel-tests.test failure with HP-UX make.
4 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Sleep inside inner tests, so logs
5 are newer than logs of tests they depend on, for HP-UX make.
7 2011-01-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
9 docs: ensure example are separated with empty lines in the input
10 * doc/automake.texi (Extending aclocal, Emacs Lisp, Rebuilding)
11 (API Versioning, Renamed Objects, Multiple Outputs): Add empty
12 lines before `@example' and after `@end example' lines, so info
13 output is rendered correctly, and a following @noindent honored.
14 Report by Stefano Lattarini.
16 2011-01-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
18 tests: fix comment typo
19 * tests/substref.test: Fix grammar in a comment.
21 2011-01-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
23 tests: fix spurious failures in two texinfo tests
24 * tests/txinfo.test ($required): Add 'makeinfo'.
25 * tests/txinfo8.test: Create a dummy 'textutils.info' file, so
26 that make won't try to run makeinfo (which could be unavailable)
28 Found by NixOS Hydra, reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
30 2011-01-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
32 Avoid testsuite failures due to Autoconf Fortran change.
33 Autoconf v2.68-21-g727ce95 causes AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS to
34 require computing the canonical host name. Ensure config.guess
35 and config.sub files are present for respective checks.
36 * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Add stub files.
37 * tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
38 * tests/fort4.test: Use $AUTOMAKE -a for installing files.
40 2011-01-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
42 docs: clustered '-d' not recognized in YFLAGS
43 This change fixes automake bug#7828.
44 * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Document that automake
45 recognizes '-d' in AM_YFLAGS only if it's not clustered with
47 From a report by Юрий Пухальский.
49 2011-01-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
51 tests: add checks on automatically-distributed files
52 Related to automake bug#7819.
53 * tests/autodist.test: New test.
54 * tests/autodist-subdir.test: Likewise.
55 * tests/autodist-acconfig.test: Likewise.
56 * tests/autodist-acconfig-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
57 * tests/autodist-aclocal-m4.test: Likewise.
58 * tests/autodist-config-headers.test: Likewise.
59 * tests/autodist-configure-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
60 * tests/autodist-stamp-vti.test: Likewise.
61 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
63 2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
65 tests: work around a texi+cygnus bug causing a spurious XFAIL
66 * tests/txinfo5b.test: New test, like txinfo5.test but calling
67 automake with the `-Wno-override' option to work around a bug
68 in the texinfo + cygnus interaction.
69 * tests/txinfo5.test: Update heading comments.
70 * tests/Makefile.am (TEST): Updated.
72 2011-01-09 Dave Hart <davehart@gmail.com> (tiny change)
74 Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
75 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
77 2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
79 Improve, extend and tweak tests on Texinfo support.
80 * tests/instdir-texi.test: Add a call to `ls -l' after that to
81 `make', for debugging. When looking for required tools, do not
82 redirect the output of "$tool --help" to /dev/null, and do not
83 uselessly run it in a subshell.
84 * tests/txinfo.test: Rewritten to run autoconf, ./configure and
85 make. All checks moved into Makefile.am.
86 * tests/txinfo8.test: Likewise, and modernize the generated
88 * tests/txinfo2.test: Moved checks into Makefile.am, and other
90 * tests/txinfo5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
91 changes. Add trailing `:' command.
92 * tests/txinfo6.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
94 * tests/txinfo7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
95 changes. Add trailing `:' command. Do not add unnecessary stuff
97 * tests/txinfo9.test: Verify that more targets which are expected
98 to be generated only once really are. Make grepping less strict,
99 to avoid exposing too much internal details. More minor changes.
100 * tests/txinfo16.test: Add trailing `:'. Prefer cat over echo
101 for appending to configure.in. Updated/fixed heading comments.
102 * tests/txinfo23.test: Likewise, and extended a little by making
103 it check that no info file is created in the $(srcdir).
104 * tests/txinfo24.test: Likewise.
105 * tests/txinfo25.test: Likewise.
106 * tests/txinfo18.test: Add trailing `:'. Prefer cat over echo
107 for appending to configure.in. Also, check that index files are
108 cleaned also by "make clean", not only by "make distclean".
109 * tests/txinfo22.test: Prefer `$me' over hard-coded test name,
110 and added trailing `:' command. This testcase also used to check
111 that automake ignores in-line comments when using variables, but
112 preserves them in the output; these checks (added in commit
113 "Release-1-7f-4-g9177ef8") do not really pertain to this test,
114 so they have been moved ...
115 * tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: ... into this new test.
116 * tests/txinfo4.test: Escape literal dots in grep regexps. Add
117 trailing `:' command.
118 * tests/txinfo29.test: Likewise. Relax grepping of generated
119 Makefile.in w.r.t. whitespaces. Prefer `cat' over `echo' to
120 append to configure.in.
121 * tests/txinfo3.test: Likewise.
122 * tests/vtexi.test: Improve grepping of Makefile.in (sometimes
123 make it stricter, sometimes laxer). Move `set -e' setting just
124 after the inclusion of ./defs. De-uglify a sed command. Other
125 minor cosmetic improvements.
126 * tests/vtexi2.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in stricter. Add
127 trailing `:' command.
128 * tests/vtexi3.test: New test on version.texi support.
129 * tests/vtexi4.test: Likewise.
130 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
132 2011-01-09 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
134 Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
135 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
137 2011-01-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
139 cosmetics: remove trailing whitespaces
140 * doc/automake.texi: Remove trailing whitespaces.
141 * tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
142 * tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
143 * tests/fort4.test: Likewise.
144 * tests/fort5.test: Likewise.
145 * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
146 * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
148 automake: minor fixes in comments
149 * automake.in: Some minor fixes and enhancements in comments.
151 2011-01-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
153 Add test coverage for deleted header files.
154 * tests/depcomp6.test, tests/depcomp7.test: Update tests to
155 also check for the deleted header bug. If no dependency
156 tracking mechanism could be found, SKIP rather than exit
157 successfully. Use GNU style spacing and ANSI C prototypes.
159 Fix typos in Rule.pm comments.
160 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typos in comments.
162 docs: split 'amhello Explained' node.
163 * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Split node ...
164 (amhello's configure.ac Setup Explained)
165 (amhello's Makefile.am Setup Explained) : ... into these two.
166 (Top, Hello World): Adjust, and add @anchor for stable URL links.
167 Suggestion by Karl Berry in automake bug#7766.
169 2011-01-08 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
170 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
172 docs: reference defining directories in amhello node.
173 * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Point to Autoconf
174 manual for how to convert directory values into macros.
175 (Optional): Fix grammar nit.
177 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
179 * NEWS: Fix typo (forgotten word).
181 2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
182 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
184 docs: how to work around checks on invalid primary/directory couples
185 * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): Document the blessed idiom which can
186 be used to work around automake checks on invalid primary/directory
187 couples (such as `lib_PROGRAMS' or `doc_LIBRARIES').
189 2011-01-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
191 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
192 * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
195 Fix maintainer-check regression.
196 * tests/subobj11a.test: Pass DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS in the
199 Bump copyright years.
200 * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
201 * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
202 * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
204 2010-12-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
205 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
207 Work around a bug in file-inclusion mechanism of Solaris make.
208 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): In the name of the
209 dependency file: collapse multiple slash characters into a single
211 * tests/subobj11a.test: New test.
212 * tests/subobj11b.test: Likewise.
213 * tests/subobj11c.test: Likewise.
214 * tests/depcomp8a.test: Likewise.
215 * tests/depcomp8b.test: Likewise.
216 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
218 Report by Stefano Lattarini, quick fix by Ralf Wildenhues, final
219 patch and tests by Stefano Lattarini.
221 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
223 Fix two spurious testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5.
224 * tests/suffix13.test (Makefile.am): Account for VPATH issues on
225 weaker make implementations (e.g. IRIX 6.5).
226 * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise, plus a required related
228 Reported by Ralf Wildenhues. The bugs have been there from the
229 first versions of the affected test scripts.
231 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
233 docs: cygnus mode doesn't require AM_CYGWIN32 macro.
234 * doc/automake.texi (Cygnus): Mode 'cygnus' does not require
235 the AM_CYGWIN32 macro (and indeed hasn't required it since at
236 least commit Release-1-2-31-g3038064 "merged changes from
237 Cygnus" of 1997-08-25).
239 2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
241 distlinksbrk.test: Work around botched "make -k".
242 * tests/distlinksbrk.test: Run "make" multiple times and grep
243 its output each time for a single error message, rather than
244 running "make -k" one single time and grepping its output for
245 all the expected error messages. This should work around make
246 implementations with limited (broken?) `-k' support; for more
247 information, see these subthreads on the automake-patches list:
248 - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on HP-UX 11.23",
249 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00162.html>
250 - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5",
251 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00166.html>
253 2010-12-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
255 Fix sed-related buglet in test "subdir5.test"
256 * tests/subdir5.test: Always terminate text passed to the
257 `i' sed command with a newline, to work around limitations
258 in e.g. older OpenBSD sed.
260 2010-12-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
262 docs: fix blunder in example about python extension modules
263 * doc/automake.texi (Python): Use `quaternion_la_SOURCES',
264 not `quaternion_SOURCES', to declare the sources of python
265 extension module `quaternion.la'.
267 2010-12-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
269 docs: list LTLIBRARIES among Automake primaries
270 * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): List `LTLIBRARIES' among
271 the Automake primaries.
273 2010-12-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
275 Improve tests on generated portions of configure help screen.
276 * tests/help-depend.test: Grepping of configure help screen
277 relaxed to cater for possible line wrapping, and tightened in
279 * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
280 * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
281 * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
282 * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
283 * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
284 * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
285 * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
286 * tests/help-init.test: Grepping of configure help screen
289 2010-12-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
291 Avoid running installed automake from 'libtool --help'.
292 * tests/subobj9.test: Export AUTOCONF and AUTOMAKE.
293 Together with fixed Libtool, this fixes check-coverage to not
294 invoke installed automake.
296 2010-11-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
298 Fix spurious failures in `silent*.test' for $CC != gcc
299 In some tests on automake-produced silent rules, we forced the
300 use of gcc depmode to improve testsuite coverage; but this has
301 unsurprisingly led to spurious failures when some non-GNU C
302 compilers were used. So we are now careful to require GCC in
303 tests that force gcc depmode.
304 From reports by Ralf Wildenhues.
305 * silent5.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
306 * silent-many-generic.test, silent-many-gcc.test: ... these new
307 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
309 * silentlex.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
310 * silent-lex-generic.test, silent-lex-gcc.test: ... these new
311 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
313 * silentyacc.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
314 * silent-yacc-generic.test, silent-yacc-gcc.test: ... these new
315 sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
317 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
319 2010-11-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
321 Tests: consistently use "|| Exit 1" after ". ./defs".
322 * tests/autohdr.test: Use `. ./defs || Exit 1', not bare
323 `. ./defs', for consistency with other tests.
324 * tests/autohdr2.test: Likewise.
325 * tests/autohdr3.test: Likewise.
326 * tests/autohdr4.test: Likewise.
327 * tests/cond23.test: Likewise.
328 * tests/cond24.test: Likewise.
329 * tests/cond25.test: Likewise.
330 * tests/cond26.test: Likewise.
331 * tests/cond27.test: Likewise.
332 * tests/cond28.test: Likewise.
333 * tests/cond29.test: Likewise.
334 * tests/cond30.test: Likewise.
335 * tests/cond31.test: Likewise.
336 * tests/cond32.test: Likewise.
337 * tests/cond33.test: Likewise.
338 * tests/cond34.test: Likewise.
339 * tests/cond35.test: Likewise.
340 * tests/cond36.test: Likewise.
341 * tests/cond37.test: Likewise.
342 * tests/cond38.test: Likewise.
343 * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
344 * tests/cond40.test: Likewise.
345 * tests/cond41.test: Likewise.
346 * tests/cond42.test: Likewise.
347 * tests/cond43.test: Likewise.
348 * tests/cond44.test: Likewise.
349 * tests/cond45.test: Likewise.
350 * tests/dollarvar.test: Likewise.
351 * tests/dollarvar2.test: Likewise.
352 * tests/hfs.test: Likewise.
353 * tests/libobj14.test: Likewise.
354 * tests/percent.test: Likewise.
355 * tests/percent2.test: Likewise.
356 * tests/phony.test: Likewise.
357 * tests/silent.test: Likewise.
358 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
359 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
360 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
361 * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
362 * tests/silent6.test: Likewise.
363 * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
364 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
365 * tests/silentcxx.test: Likewise.
366 * tests/silentf77.test: Likewise.
367 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
368 * tests/silentlex.test: Likewise.
369 * tests/silentyacc.test: Likewise.
371 Avoid useless cleaning in some `silent*.test' tests.
372 * tests/silentf77.test: Removed useless calls to "make clean"
373 and "make maintainer-clean".
374 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
375 * tests/silent3.test: Removed useless call to "make distclean".
376 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
377 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
379 2010-11-19 Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
381 Sync config-ml.in from GCC.
382 * config-ml.in: Add Go support: treat GOC and GOCFLAGS like other
383 compiler/flag environment variables.
385 2010-11-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
387 Automake::Config: remove extra trailing semicolon.
388 * lib/Automake/Config.in: Remove extra trailing semicolon.
390 help4.test: fix botched heading comment.
391 * tests/help4.test: Fixed the heading comment, since it
392 didn't correctly describe what checks the testcase was
395 help2.test: add checks on aclocal too.
396 * tests/help2.test: Check that also `aclocal --version' and
397 `aclocal --help' work with configure.in and acinclude.m4 both
400 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
402 Fix spurious failures of silent-rules tests with Sun Fortran.
403 * tests/silentf77.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
404 messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers, to
405 avoid spurious failures. Add a trailing `:' command.
406 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
408 2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
410 Fix spurious failures of silent5.test with Sun Fortran.
411 * tests/silent5.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
412 messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers,
413 to avoid spurious failures. This bug has been there from the
414 very first version of this test script.
416 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
418 Fix regression in colon{5,6}.test (failures on AIX 5.3).
419 * tests/colon5.test: Also substitute `@SHELL@' with `$SHELL' when
420 post-processing the generated Makefile.in, to work around a bug
421 of AIX 5.3 make which doesn't allow setting the `$(SHELL)' macro
422 on the commend line. Calls to `$MAKE' adjusted accordingly.
423 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
424 Regression introduced in commit v1.11-175-gf9fe878 "Modernize,
425 improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test", and reported by Ralf
428 2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
430 Fix regression in ansi.test (failure on AIX 5.3).
431 * tests/ansi.test: Remove redundant hackish check done using a
432 hand-postprocessed Makefile.in. This check worked by setting
433 the `$(SHELL)' macro on the command line of make, but this is
434 not supported by the AIX 5.3 make implementation.
435 This bug has been lurking for a long time, and was activated by
436 commit v1.11-125-gc1f6cdb "Enable `errexit' shell flag in various
437 tests". Report by Ralf Wildenhues.
439 2010-11-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
441 tests: avoid '##'-style comments inside recipe commands.
442 * tests/confh.test, tests/confh8.test: Remove
443 double-hash comments from makefile rule commands, they
444 are not part of the Automake API.
446 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
448 tests: work around dash quoting issue in case statements.
449 * tests/color.test, tests/color2.test: Quote variable in case
450 pattern, to avoid skipping tests with dash 0.5.5.1.
452 2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
454 Rebuild menus in the manual.
455 * doc/automake.texi: Rebuild menus (using ^C ^U ^A in emacs).
456 Thanks to Ian Lance Taylor for the suggestion.
458 Fix install-strip when $(STRIP) contains several words.
459 * lib/am/install.am (install-strip): Update comment. Use
460 separate sub-make invocations for empty and nonempty $(STRIP),
461 to fix quoting issues.
462 * tests/strip2.test, tests/strip3.test: New tests.
463 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Adjust.
465 2010-11-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
467 Fix yaccdry.test failure: require bison.
468 * tests/yaccdry.test: Require bison.
469 Found by NixOS Hydra.
471 2010-11-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
473 Fix a bug in variable concatenation with `+='.
474 * lib/Automake/VarDef.pm (append): Since the content of the
475 "appended-to" variable is going to be unconditionally normalized
476 later, simply separate the appended value with a single whitespace
477 character, instead of trying to be uselessly smarter by using
478 escaped newlines. This fixes a bug in which extra backslashes
479 where erroneously inserted in the variable's final value.
480 * tests/pluseq11.test: New test, exposing the bug.
481 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
482 Reported by Andy Wingo.
484 2010-11-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
486 Fix bug in rules for creating vala vapi/header files.
487 * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Add forgotten "fi" in an
488 if control structure in a generated make rules. Bug introduced
489 by previous commit `v1.11-221-gd7c1679', and revealed by failure
490 of test `vala2.test'.
492 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
494 Fix and document rules to not touch the tree with `make -n'.
495 * doc/automake.texi (Multiple Outputs): Document the problem of
496 modifications during dry-run execution, propose solution.
498 * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Split recipe so the
499 stamp file is not removed with GNU `make -n'.
500 (lang_yacc_target_hook): Separate removal of parser output file
502 * lib/am/lisp.am ($(am__ELCFILES)): Determine whether -n was
503 passed to make, take care not to remove any files in that case.
504 * lib/am/remake-hdr.am (%CONFIG_H%): Separate removal of
505 %STAMP% file from induced remaking of config header.
506 * tests/autohdrdry.test, tests/lispdry.test, tests/yaccdry.test:
508 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
510 2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
512 Add FAQ entry for bug reporting instructions.
513 * doc/automake.texi (Reporting Bugs): New section.
514 (Introduction): Refer to it.
516 2010-10-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
518 Add support for newer python versions.
519 * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Add python2.7 and python3.2 to
520 _AM_PYTHON_INTERPRETER_LIST. Since we are at it, break a long
521 line and fix indentation.
523 From a report by Thomas Klausner.
525 Add test for `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' macro.
526 * tests/dmalloc.test: New test.
527 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
529 Fix nits and bugs in tests `help*.test'.
530 * tests/help4.test: Fix broken sed commands used to strip `-W...'
531 flags away from "$AUTOMAKE" and "$ACLOCAL".
532 * tests/help3.test: Likewise, and fix a botched comment.
533 * tests/help.test: Likewise. Also, use "AUTOMAKE_fails ..."
534 instead of "$AUTOMAKE ... && Exit 1", for consistency and to
535 please maintainer-check.
536 * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
538 2010-10-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
539 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
541 Improve tests `help*.test' (also fixes maintcheck failures).
542 * tests/help.test: To run automake, use `$AUTOMAKE' with all `-W'
543 flags stripped away rather than hard-coded `automake-$APIVERSION',
544 to better honour user-overrides. Similarly for aclocal.
545 * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
546 * tests/help3.test: Likewise.
547 * tests/help4.test: Likewise.
549 2010-10-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
551 Document and fix expansion of variables before rules.
552 * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Document that variables
553 are expanded before rules.
554 * lib/am/check.am (am__check_post): Reword a bit so it does not
555 get matched as a rule.
556 Suggestion by Ben Pfaff.
558 2010-10-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
560 Revert "parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue."
561 This reverts commit 24e3b4ee2f8cb9f72dd94a05a893f3d4e88b7835,
562 because it re-opened the bug fixed by v1.11-10-g218e678.
564 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
566 parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
567 * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
568 substitution %MAKEFILE%.
569 (generate_makefile): Adjust.
570 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
571 sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
572 input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
575 Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
577 2010-09-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
579 Extend tests on `--help' and `--version' options.
580 * tests/help.test: Create a new empty directory and chdir into
581 it, rather than removing already present files. Run the aclocal
582 and automake wrapper scripts directly, instead of relying on
583 $AUTOMAKE and $ACLOCAL. Be sure to correctly match literal dots
584 in aclocal's and automake's stderr. Add a trailing `:' command.
585 * tests/help2.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
586 `--version' works in directories with broken `configure.in'.
587 * tests/help3.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
588 `--version' take precedence on the other options.
589 * tests/help4.test: New test, checking that the first among the
590 `--help' and `--version' options to be specified on the command
592 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
594 2010-09-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
596 Testsuite: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when extending PATH.
597 * tests/compile2.test: Do no uselessly (implicitly) repeat the
598 computation of PATH_SEPARATOR again.
599 * tests/instmany-mans.test: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when
600 extending/redefining PATH.
601 * tests/instmany-python.test: Likewise.
602 * tests/instmany.test: Likewise.
603 * tests/man4.test: Likewise.
604 * tests/mkinst3.test: Likewise.
605 * tests/mmodely.test: Likewise.
606 * tests/multlib.test: Likewise.
607 * tests/txinfo30.test: Likewise.
608 * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
610 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_PATH_SEPARATOR): New maintainer check.
611 (syntax_check_rules): Updated.
613 Testsuite: new variables `$PATH_SEPARATOR' and `$APIVERSION'.
614 * tests/defs.in ($APIVERSION): New AC_SUBST'd variable.
615 ($ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE): Use it.
616 ($PATH_SEPARATOR): New AC_SUBST'd variables.
619 2010-09-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
621 Manual: be more agnostic w.r.t. version control system used.
622 * doc/automake.texi (Basics of Distribution): Also refer to `.svn'
623 directories as a type of probably-unwanted files that are copied
624 regardless when adding directories to EXTRA_DIST.
625 (The dist Hook): Show a dist-hook example which removes Subversion
626 `.svn' private directories from distdir, rather than CVS private
628 (missing and AM_MAINTAINER_MODE): Try to be more agnostic w.r.t.
629 the version control system used.
631 Manual: index refer to target "git-dist", not "cvs-dist".
632 * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Index the non-standard
633 example about "git-dist" under the "git-dist" label, not under
636 Perl modules: remove references to "Automake CVS repository".
637 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Update comments to refer to "Automke's
638 git repository" rather than to "Automake's CVS repository".
639 * lib/Automake/Configure_ac.pm: Likewise.
640 * lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm: Likewise.
641 * lib/Automake/Struct.pm: Likewise.
642 * lib/Automake/XFile.pm: Likewise.
643 * lib/Automake/Version.pm (=head1 DESCRIPTION): Refer to "git
644 branches" rather than "CVS branches".
646 Remove obsolete .cvsignore files.
647 * .cvsignore, doc/.cvsignore, lib/.cvsignore, lib/am/.cvsignore,
648 lib/Automake/.cvsignore, lib/Automake/tests/.cvsignore,
649 m4/.cvsignore, tests/.cvsignore: Files deleted. Even when using
650 savannah's CVS readonly mirror there's no way to commit back to
651 the real repository, so this files are not worth maintaining or
654 2010-09-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
656 * m4/dmalloc.m4: Bump serial number and copyright years.
658 2010-09-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
660 Fix broken link in `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' help screen.
661 * m4/dmalloc.m4 (AM_WITH_DMALLOC): Refer only to the dmalloc site
662 `http://www.dmalloc.com', not to the dmalloc tarball there (which
663 seems to have been removed, substituted by multiple release
666 2010-09-17 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
668 Avoid triple-space after period.
669 * automake.in (handle_single_transform): Avoid 3 spaces at
671 * ChangeLog.03: Likewise.
672 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Likewise.
673 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (_print_message): Likewise.
674 * lib/Automake/Rule.pm (rule): Likewise.
675 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (var): Likewise.
676 * lib/am/distdir.am: Likewise.
677 * tests/insthook.test: Likewise.
679 2010-09-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
681 Test automake-generated portions of configure help screen.
682 * tests/help-depend.test: New test.
683 * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
684 * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
685 * tests/help-init.test: Likewise.
686 * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
687 * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
688 * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
689 * tests/help-regex.test: Likewise.
690 * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
691 * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
692 * tests/mmode.test: Remove tests on `configure --help' output,
693 they are superseded by tests in `help-maintainer.test'.
694 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
696 2010-09-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
698 * tests/README: Don't put GCS mandated tools in $required.
700 2010-09-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
702 * HACKING: Hint at old commits with `git describe' output.
704 2010-09-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
706 Fix regression in test `colon4.test'.
707 * tests/colon4.test: Fix botched editing to `configure.in'
708 that made the test useless. Since we are at it, improve
709 comments and make grepping of generated Makefile.in slightly
711 Regression introduced by change "Modernize, improve and/or
712 extend tests `colon*.test" (Stefano Lattarini, 2010-08-08).
714 2010-09-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
716 Do not require "gzip" explicitly in tests.
717 The gzip utility is simply expected to be present on any decent
718 target system for Automake. So it's pointless to put it in
720 * tests/install2.test ($required): Do not require "gzip".
721 * tests/lex3.test: Likewise.
722 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
723 From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
725 Make some `confh*.test' tests more "semantic" (plus tweakings).
726 * tests/confh.test: Run "autoconf", "configure" and "make check",
727 instead of munging/grepping the generated `Makefile.in'.
728 * tests/confh4.test: Relax the grepping of Makefile.in w.r.t.
729 white spaces. Do not create useless dummy source file `foo.c'
730 and useless dummy header file `acconfig.h'.
731 (configure.in): Remove superfluous call to `AC_OUTPUT'.
732 * tests/confh6.test: Add trailing `:' command.
733 * tests/confh7.test: In comments, add reference to ...
734 * tests/confh8.test: ... this new test, "semantic" sister
736 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
737 Prompted by a report from Ralf Wildenhues.
739 Remove useless whitespace padding in XFAIL_TESTS definition.
740 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Remove whitespace padding.
742 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
744 parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
745 * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
746 substitution %MAKEFILE%.
747 (generate_makefile): Adjust.
748 * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
749 sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
750 input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
753 Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
755 Posix 2008 requires make to set errexit.
756 * lib/am/check.am: Update comment.
758 2010-08-27 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
760 Fix bug in test missing6.test.
761 * tests/missing6.test: Fix the hack used to edit `configure.in',
762 to avoid producing a configure script that breaks with shells
763 that do not support $LINENO. Also throw in a couple of cosmetic
766 2010-08-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
768 Improve robustness of mdate-sh script.
769 * lib/mdate-sh: Sanitize zsh behavior on startup, to ensure
770 $ls_command is word-split properly upon invocation.
771 (error): New function.
772 (main): Use it. Improve error checking to avoid endless loop
773 in case $ls_command gave bogus output. Fix eval quotation.
774 * tests/mdate6.test: New test, to expose eval quotation error.
775 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
777 2010-08-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
779 Fix potential regressions in depcomp{3,5}.test.
780 * tests/depcomp3.test: Do not uselessly escape the character `$'
781 in makefile rules, when it's used to expand a make macro.
782 * tests/depcomp5.test: Likewise.
784 2010-08-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
785 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
787 Docs: clarify how to avoid automatic dependencies tracking.
788 * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Mention that
789 automatic dependencies tracking is enabled by default, but that
790 the package developer can disable it altogether. Add a reference
791 to the proper section for a more in-depth explanation.
793 Fix typo in manual (`Makefile.in' instead of `Makefile.am').
794 * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Fix typo.
796 2010-08-16 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
798 Don't hide the table of contents.
799 * doc/automake.texi: Move the table of contents to the beginning.
801 2010-08-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
803 Tweak and/or extend some `acloca*.test' tests.
804 * tests/aclocal8.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured
806 * tests/aclocal.test: Likewise. Also, add trailing `:'
808 * tests/acloca19.test: Likewise.
809 * tests/aclocal5.test: Add trailing `:' command, and prefer
810 `$me' over hard-coded test name.
811 * tests/aclocal6.test: Likewise.
812 * tests/aclocal18.test: Add trailing `:' command, and make
813 some grepping slightly stricter.
814 * tests/acloca14.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `diff' over
815 `cmp', and add some "cosmetic" blank lines.
817 2010-08-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
819 Tweak and extend tests `pr[!0-9]*.test'.
820 * tests/primary3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
821 * tests/primary.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
822 Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
823 * tests/primary2.test: Likewise.
824 * tests/prefix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
825 changes. Add a trailing `:' command.
826 * tests/proginst.test: Likewise.
828 Modernize, improve and extend tests for PR (`pr[0-9]*.test').
829 * tests/pr2.test: Add trailing `:' command.
830 * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
831 * tests/pr401.test: Likewise.
832 * tests/pr401b.test: Likewise.
833 * tests/pr401c.test: Likewise.
834 * tests/pr300-prog.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic changes in
836 * tests/pr300-lib.test: Likewise.
837 * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise, and ensure verbose printing
838 of captured make stdout.
839 * tests/pr211.test: Add trailing `:' command. Also, use the
840 `configure.in' stub created by ./defs, rather than writing it
842 * tests/pr204.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic spacing changes.
843 * tests/pr287.test: Likewise, and move setting of `errexit' shell
844 flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs).
845 * tests/pr220.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
846 Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
847 * tests/pr224.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
848 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Do not export
849 `CC=gcc' to configure explicitly (it's already exported globally
850 in ./defs, since we have "gcc" in $required). Use the stub for
851 `configure.in' created by ./defs, rather than writing it from
852 scratch. Do not create dummy files required by "gnu" mode (e.g.
853 README, NEWS), since we run automake in foreign mode anyway.
854 * tests/pr72.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
855 changes. Extend existing checks a bit.
856 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise. Also, avoid obsolescent constructs in
857 the generated `configure.in', and extend existing checks over the
858 generated tarball a bit.
859 * tests/pr87.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
860 changes. Add a trailing `:' command. Also, do not create dummy
861 files required by "gnu" mode (e.g. README, NEWS), since we run
862 automake in foreign mode anyway.
863 * tests/pr243.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
864 `configure.in'. Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
865 changes. Cosmetic changes to spacing, add trailing `:' command,
866 and add a "FIXME" comment.
867 * tests/pr266.test: Likewise, and add explicit command line switch
868 `--enable-dependecy-tracking' to the ./configure call.
869 * tests/pr279.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
870 `configure.in'; also, use the `configure.in' stub created by
871 ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch. Enable `errexit'
872 shell flag, and related changes. Add trailing `:' command.
873 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
875 * tests/pr307.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
876 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Escape literal
877 dots in grep regular expressions. Also, add a trailing `:'
878 command, and cosmetic changes to spacing.
880 Tests for PR: add excerpts from original bug report, for clarity.
881 * tests/pr2.test: Ditto.
882 * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
883 * tests/pr72.test: Likewise.
884 * tests/pr87.test: Likewise.
885 * tests/pr211.test: Likewise.
886 * tests/pr220.test: Likewise.
887 * tests/pr224.test: Likewise.
888 * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
889 * tests/pr243.test: Likewise.
890 * tests/pr266.test: Likewise.
891 * tests/pr279.test: Likewise, and tell to keep it in sync
892 with its sister test.
893 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
895 2010-08-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
897 Tweak, extend and improve tests `cond[a-z]*.test'.
898 * tests/condd.test: Add trailing `:' command. Typofix in
900 * tests/condhook.test: Make sure target `install-data-hook' is
901 not called by `make install', but that data files are installed.
902 Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in. Add trailing `:' command.
903 * tests/condhook2.test: New test, sister test of condhook, with
905 * tests/condinc2.test: Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
906 Prefer trailing `:' command over trailing `Exit 0'.
907 * tests/condman2.test: Enable errexit shell flag, and related
908 changes. Add trailing `:' command.
909 * tests/condman.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless
910 dummy manpages, and use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
911 * tests/condman3.test: New test, similar to condman.test, but
912 it also runs ./configure and "make install", and check the
914 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
916 Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test.
917 * tests/colon.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
918 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Do not create
919 a useless dummy file. Add trailing `:' command.
920 * tests/colon4.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
921 related changes. Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
922 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
923 * tests/colon7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
924 changes. Improve the generated `configure.in' file. Add
925 trailing `:' command.
926 * tests/colon2.test: Likewise. Also, add some new checks.
927 * tests/colon5.test: Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
928 Add new, much deeper checks. Add trailing `:' command.
929 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
930 * tests/colon3.test: Add trailing `:' command. Remove useless
931 comments and echos. Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
932 make some grepping tests stricter. Add a "FIXME" comments about
933 planned improvements.
935 Improve and extend tests `asm*.test'.
936 * tests/asm.test: Use configure.in stub generated by ./defs,
937 and avoid obsoleted autoconf constructs. Make grepping of
938 Automake stderr stricter. Do not create useless source file.
939 Improve verbose messages. Minor cosmetic changes. Tell to
940 keep it in sync with other sister tests asm*.test.
941 * tests/asm2.test: Likewise.
942 * tests/asm3.test: Likewise.
944 Modernize, improve and/or extend test scripts `conf*.test'.
945 * tests/confh5.test: Cosmetic changes.
946 * tests/conff.test: Likewise.
947 * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise.
948 * tests/conflnk.test: Likewise.
949 * tests/conflnk2.test: Likewise.
950 * tests/confsub.test: Likewise.
951 * tests/confvar.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
953 * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
954 * tests/conflnk3.test: Cosmetic changes. Re-enable a temporarily
955 disabled test (which didn't work with autoconf <= 2.59, but now we
956 are requiring autoconf 2.62, so...)
957 * tests/conflnk4.test: Cosmetic changes, and extend existing tests
958 accordingly to "TODO" comments.
959 * tests/conff2.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
960 Add some comments explaining why we don't use the `configure.in'
961 stub preset be ./defs.
962 * tests/confh.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
963 rather than writing one from scratch, and do not call AC_OUTPUT.
964 Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related changes. Prefer diff over
965 cmp to compare text files. Prefer perl over sed to fetch the value
966 of $(DIST_COMMON) from Makefile.in. Make grepping of the contents
967 of $(DIST_COMMON) stricter.
968 * tests/confh4.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
969 rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping of Makefile.in
971 * tests/confh5.test: Make grepping of `config.h' stricter. Add a
973 * tests/configure.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in generated
974 `configure.ac'. Do not write `configure.in' two times. Escape
975 literal dots in grep regular expressions.
976 * tests/confincl.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
977 changes. Prefer fgrep over grep. Other cosmetic changes.
978 * tests/config.test: Renamed to ...
979 * tests/confh6.test: ... this. Fix m4 quoting in `configure.in',
980 and make grepping of `config.h' and `config.h.in' stricter.
981 * tests/conf2.test: Renamed ...
982 * tests/confh7.test: ... to this. Use the `configure.in' stub
983 created by ./defs, rather than writing one from scratch. Try to
984 run the checks both with and without AC_PROG_CC and AC_OUTPUT in
986 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
988 Minor improvements and fixes in tests `depcomp*.test'.
989 * tests/depcomp.test: Do not create useless dummy source files.
990 Add a trailing `:' command.
991 * tests/depcomp2.test: Use `unset' on the CFLAG variable to ensure
992 it's not in in the environment, rather than exporting it with an
993 empty value. Do not pass CC=gcc to configure, as that's already
994 done in ./defs since we have gcc in $required. Ensure verbose
995 printing of captured stderr, and normalize its checking. Add a
996 trailing `:' command.
997 * tests/depcomp3.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
998 grep regexps. Always use `: >' rather than `touch' to create empty
999 files. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the created
1000 Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:' command.
1001 * tests/depcomp4.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
1002 grep regexp. Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the
1003 created Makefile.am. Ensure verbose printing of captured makes'
1004 stoud/stderr. Add a trailing `:' command.
1005 * tests/depcomp5.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1006 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Quote literal dots
1007 and dollar characters in grep regexps. Explicitly declare phony
1008 targets as such in the created Makefile.am. Add a trailing `:'
1010 * tests/depcomp6.test: Consistently use m4 quoting in the generated
1011 configure.in. Cosmetic fixes to spacing. Make the "dummy" `if'
1012 statement required by OpenBSD's sh `set -e' more robust, and add
1013 explanatory comments to it.
1014 * tests/depcomp7.test: Likewise, and add a trailing `:' command.
1016 Separate failing part of test `all.test'.
1017 * tests/all.test: Keep only (x)failing part of the test. Working
1018 checks moved out to ...
1019 * tests/all2.test: ... this new test.
1020 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1022 Modernize, improve and extend tests `subobj*.test'.
1023 * tests/subobjname.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1024 * tests/subobj.test: Make grepping of `Makefile.in' stricter.
1025 Escape literal dots in grep regexps.
1026 * tests/subobj2.test: Add trailing `:' command. Do not use the
1027 unportable fgrep option `-e'.
1028 * tests/subobj3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1029 (configure.in): Use proper m4 quoting, and avoid obsolescent
1031 * tests/subobj8.test: Likewise. Also, enable `errexit' shell
1032 flag, with related changes
1033 * tests/subobj4.test: Likewise. Also, make grepping of
1034 `Makefile.in' stricter.
1035 * tests/subobj5.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of
1036 `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
1038 (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
1039 writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
1040 * tests/subobj6.test: Add trailing `:' command. Move setting of
1041 `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
1042 of ./defs). Do not create useless dummy ac-init file `f'.
1043 * tests/subobj7.test: Do not create useless dummy ac-init file
1045 (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
1046 writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
1047 * tests/subobj9.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1048 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Fail the test if
1049 `make distcheck' fails. Ensure verbose printing of captured make
1050 stdout. Avoid useless fork by doing simple grep instead of using
1051 test -n "`COMMAND | grep ...`".
1052 (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
1053 (Makefile.am): Explicitly mark target "print" as phony.
1054 * tests/subobj10.test: Removed duplicated call to `set -e'. Add
1055 trailing `:' command.
1056 (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
1058 Remove a couple of obsoleted tests.
1059 * tests/fpinstall.test: Removed.
1060 * tests/fpinst2.test: Likewise.
1061 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1063 Bootstrap: updated HACKING entry.
1064 * HACKING ("Working with git"): Explain how to override the
1065 autoconf and autom4te programs used by the bootstrap process.
1068 * bootstrap: Do not remove `lib/Automake/Config.pm' anymore,
1069 since we don't generate it. Correctly quote arguments of
1070 `eval' builtin. Fixed a botched error message. Removed an
1073 Bootstrap: don't search perl in $PATH.
1074 * bootstrap: Do not explicitly search perl in $PATH anymore.
1075 ($PATH_SEPARATOR): Removed, it's no more needed.
1077 Bootstrap: let the user choose which autoconf to use.
1078 * bootstrap ($AUTOCONF): New variable, from the environment.
1079 ($AUTOM4TE): Likewise, for clarity.
1080 Use "$AUTOCONF" instead of calling "autoconf" directly.
1082 Minor improvements to tests ar*.test.
1083 * tests/ar.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1084 * tests/ar2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
1085 Makefile.in stricter.
1087 2010-08-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1089 Fix maintainer-check failure.
1090 * tests/cond5.test: Quote sleep argument, this isn't about
1091 time stamp differences.
1093 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
1094 * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
1097 2010-08-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1099 Work around a nasty bug (segfault) of Solaris make.
1100 * lib/am/check.am (recheck, recheck-html): Trim trailing spaces
1101 from $list, to avoid triggering a nasty bug (potential segfault)
1104 2010-08-06 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
1106 Make cond5.test more robust on MSYS.
1107 * tests/cond5.test: Add delay before the first kill attempt to
1108 cater for problems with MSYS bash.
1110 2010-07-31 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1112 Add example git work flow; discuss merge --log in HACKING.
1114 Suggestion by Stefano Lattarini.
1116 Add more hints for debugging make rules.
1117 * doc/automake.texi (Debugging Make Rules): Show command to find
1118 out expanded values of variables; point to makefile debugger.
1120 Prompted by suggestion from Ludovic Courtès and Andy Wingo.
1122 2010-07-27 Patrick Welche <prlw1@cam.ac.uk> (tiny change)
1124 Fix typo in the manual.
1125 * doc/automake.texi (Scripts): Fix typo.
1127 2010-07-27 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1129 Document current policy for development with git.
1130 * HACKING (Working with git): Overhaul.
1131 Prompted by suggestion from Stefano Lattarini.
1133 Fix AM_COND_IF for gone-invalid condition shell expression.
1134 * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): test contents of $COND_TRUE
1135 variable, rather than re-evaluating the shell expression for
1137 * tests/cond40.test: Extend test.
1140 Avoid syntax error if IF-TRUE part of AM_COND_IF expands empty.
1141 * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): Ensure IF-TRUE part is never empty
1142 to avoid shell syntax error if the m4 expansion is empty.
1143 * tests/cond40.test: Enhance test.
1145 Coverage: bogus option to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
1146 * tests/init2.test: New test.
1147 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
1149 2010-07-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1151 Modernize and improve test scripts `subdir*.test'.
1152 * tests/subdir.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1153 changes. Use the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs',
1154 rather than writing one from scratch.
1155 * tests/subdir2.test: Likewise.
1156 * tests/subdir4.test: Likewise.
1157 * tests/subdir3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1158 changes. Do not create useless dummy source files.
1159 * tests/subdir5.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in (in topdir
1160 and in subdirs) stricter. Some minor changes to keep it more
1161 in sync with the related test `subdir8.test'.
1162 * tests/subdir8.test: Likewise (but with the related test being
1163 `subdir5.test' here).
1164 * tests/subdir6.test: Cosmetic change in spacing.
1165 * tests/subdir9.test: Define and use new variable `$distdir'. Add
1166 trailing `:' command.
1167 * tests/subdir10.test: Cosmetic consistency-related change.
1168 * tests/subdirbuiltsources.test: Cosmetic changes in spacings.
1169 (configure.in): Use stub created by `./defs', rather than writing
1170 it from scratch. Do not use obsoleted and/or deprecated forms of
1171 autoconf/automake macros.
1173 Modernize and improve test scripts `dist*.test'.
1174 * tests/distcleancheck.test: Do not add useless `-e' option to
1175 a $MAKE call. Extend test by grepping stderr of make.
1176 * tests/distcom2.test: Do not run the same test script on the
1177 Makefile.in twice, but save its output in an intermediate file
1178 instead. Make grepping of DIST_COMMON definition stricter.
1179 Display the content of more files, to ease debugging. Add a
1180 trailing `:' command. Improved heading comments w.r.t. sister
1182 * tests/distcom6.test: Likewise, and avoid to uselessly run
1184 * tests/distcom3.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured stdout
1185 and stderr. Make grepping of captured stderr stricter. Also,
1186 add trailing `:' command.
1187 * tests/distcom4.test: Declare the target `test' in the generated
1188 Makefile.am as `.PHONY'. Display content of more files, to ease
1189 debugging. Add trailing `:' command.
1190 * tests/distcom5.test: Likewise. Also, factor out common sed
1191 script in subroutine `extract_distcommon'.
1192 * tests/distcom7.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to write
1193 test Makefile.am files. Add a trailing `:' command.
1194 * tests/distname.test: Prefer `gzip -d' over `gunzip'. Move the
1195 call to `set -e' earlier. Be stricter and more verbose in the
1196 checking of the generated tarball.
1197 (configure.in): Use the stub provided by ./defs, instead of
1198 writing it from scratch. Avoid obsoleted constructs. Remove
1199 useless call to `AM_PROG_CC_C_O'.
1200 * tests/distdir.test: Various minor improvements/normalizations.
1201 * tests/distlinks.test: Likewise.
1203 2010-07-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1205 Improve and extend test cond5.test.
1206 * tests/cond5.test: Do not blindly sleep 60 seconds before polling
1207 the background automake process, but poll it every 10 seconds for
1208 at most 30 times (this makes the test both faster on good machines,
1209 and more resilient to spurious timeout-due failures when in low
1210 priority or on heavily-loaded systems).
1211 Check also that automake writes the expected error messages on the
1213 Enable `errexit' flag, and related changes.
1214 Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs', rather than
1215 writing one from scratch.
1217 2010-06-26 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1219 Update program --help output to match current GCS.
1220 * configure.ac: Set and substitute PACKAGE_URL if AC_PACKAGE_URL
1221 is not defined, for compatibility to Autoconf < 2.64.
1222 * Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute PACKAGE_BUGREPORT and
1224 (sc_diff_automake_in_automake): Update number of diff lines for
1225 additional substitutions.
1226 * aclocal.in (usage): Use PACKAGE_BUGREPORT. Point to Automake
1227 home page and GNU general help page.
1228 * automake.in (usage): Likewise.
1229 * doc/automake.texi: New flag PACKAGE_BUGREPORT, to factor email
1231 (Introduction, Creating amhello, amhello Explained, Options):
1233 * lib/Automake/Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute
1235 * lib/Automake/Config.in ($PACKAGE_BUGREPORT): New global.
1236 * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Use it for footer of fatal
1239 Clean up @var handling in the manual.
1240 * doc/automake.texi: Throughout the manual, lower-case @var
1241 names, replace a few one-character names.
1243 2010-06-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1245 Fix typo-related bug in test script silent5.test.
1246 * tests/silent5.test: Use $EGREP, not $GREP (which is not even
1249 Tests: remove useless repetitions of `foreign' automake option.
1250 * tests/multlib.test (configure.in): Remove useless use of
1251 `foreign' option in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (the `--foreign' option is
1252 already in $AUTOMAKE by default, so no point in repeating it).
1253 * tests/subobj10.test: Likewise.
1254 * tests/subobj9.test: Likewise.
1255 * tests/lex3.test (Makefile.am): Similarly, remove useless use
1256 of `foreign' option in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
1257 * tests/lex5.test: Likewise.
1258 * tests/pr279.test: Likewise.
1259 * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
1260 * tests/specflg3.test: Likewise.
1261 * tests/target-cflags.test: Likewise.
1263 Drop useless requirement "gzip" in lex5.test.
1264 * tests/lex5.test ($required): Do not list "gzip", as it's
1267 2010-06-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1269 Fix bugs in test script silent5.test.
1270 * tests/silent5.test: Fixed a nasty bug (due to the use of grep
1271 instead of egrep) that could have led to false negatives.
1273 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1275 Add a test checking that distributed broken symlinks cause
1276 `make dist' to fail.
1277 * tests/distlinksbrk.test: New test.
1278 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1280 2010-06-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1282 Fix minor testsuite issues, update docs, for Yacc/Lex changes.
1283 * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Mention AM_YFLAGS, YFLAGS
1284 and AM_LFLAGS, LFLAGS in the order in which they now appear in
1287 * tests/lflags.test, tests/lflags2.test, tests/yflags.test,
1288 tests/yflags2.test: Prefer `make -e' over `make VAR=VAL', to
1289 please maintainer-check. Ensure generated C files contain a
1290 declaration, to please compilers.
1292 2010-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1294 Fix bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t. $(AM_FLAGS) and
1295 $(FLAGS) precedence.
1296 * automake.in: Fix registration of languages "Lex", "Lex (C++)",
1297 "Yacc" and "Yacc (C++)", so that $(LFLAGS) has precedence over
1298 $(AM_LFLAGS) and $(YFLAGS) has precedence over $(AM_YFLAGS).
1299 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1302 New tests, exposing bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t.
1303 $(AM_FLAGS) and $(FLAGS) precedence.
1304 * tests/lflags.test: New test, check that user $(LFLAGS) takes
1305 precedence over automake (AM_LFLAGS) and (foo_LFLAGS). Still
1307 * tests/lflags2.test: Likewise.
1308 * tests/yflags.test: New test, check that user $(YFLAGS) takes
1309 precedence over automake (AM_YFLAGS) and (foo_YFLAGS). Still
1311 * tests/yflags2.test: Likewise.
1312 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Extended accordingly.
1314 2010-06-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1316 Modernize, improve and extend tests `suffix*.test'.
1317 * tests/suffix3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1319 * tests/suffix4.test: Likewise.
1320 * tests/suffix6.test: Likewise, and do not create a useless dummy
1322 * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
1323 * tests/suffix5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1324 changes. Make grepping of Makefile.in slightly stricter.
1325 * tests/suffix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1326 changes. Also, do not redirect grep output to /dev/null, as this
1327 might unmotivatedly hide useful information.
1328 * tests/suffix2.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1329 in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Use a more
1330 idiomatic way to count text occurrences in Makefile.in with
1331 grep. Do not create useless dummy source files.
1332 * tests/suffix10.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured make
1333 stdout. Minor cosmetic changes.
1334 * tests/suffix8.test: Likewise. Also, drop useless call to the
1335 env(1) utility, and make grepping of make output stricter by using
1336 $FGREP rather than plain grep.
1337 * tests/suffix11.test: Likewise.
1338 * tests/suffix12.test: Likewise.
1339 * tests/suffix9.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to append to
1340 the `configure.in' stub. Cosmetic changes.
1341 * tests/suffix13.test: Cosmetic spacing change.
1343 2010-06-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1345 Add useful comment in test script ext.test.
1346 * tests/ext.test: Add a comment explaining why an apparently
1347 useless `if' statement is indeed required.
1349 Add useful comment in test script obsolete.test.
1350 * tests/obsolete.test: Add a comment explaining why we need
1351 an indirection in adding $AUTOUPDATE to $required.
1353 Normalize whitespaces in 'tests/Makefile.am'.
1354 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Use only spaces, not tabs, in the
1355 definition of this variable.
1357 2010-06-12 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1359 Remove a couple of unneeded conditionals from tests.
1360 * tests/pr243.test, tests/pr266.test, tests/strip.test: No need
1361 for the FOOTEST conditional.
1363 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1365 Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
1366 * tests/symlink3.test: Deleted, separated into two new, more
1368 * tests/forcemiss.test: ... this one ...
1369 * tests/forcemiss2.test: ... and this one.
1370 * tests/symlink2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, make test
1371 stricter, and skip it if symlink creation is not supported.
1372 * tests/postproc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, related
1373 changes, and a couple of unrelated cosmetic changes.
1374 * tests/recurs.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
1375 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Make grepping
1376 of Automake stderr slightly stricter.
1377 * tests/substtarg.test: Likewise.
1378 * tests/strip.test: Likewise, and move the call to `set -e'
1379 earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs'). Also, make sure
1380 that the script installed by `make install-script' is equal to
1382 * tests/substref.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
1383 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch. Move the call
1384 to `set -e' earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs').
1385 Avoid to explicitly export CC for configure (that's already done
1386 in ./defs). Avoid potential problems with unpredictable make
1387 output. Finally, make grepping of Makefile.in stricter.
1388 * tests/substre2.test: Ensure verbose printing of the captured
1389 make's output, and make its grepping slightly stricter.
1390 * tests/cygwin32.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1391 changes. Also, do not create useless dummy source/data files.
1392 * tests/scripts.test: Likewise.
1393 * tests/recurs2.test: Likewise. Also, use the `configure.in'
1394 stub created by `./defs'.
1395 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1397 Modernize, improve and/or fix tests `pluseq*.test.
1398 * tests/pluseq5.test: Append to configure.in using cat with an
1399 here-doc, not using echo.
1400 * tests/pluseq10.test: Make sure that the captured output of
1401 `make' command is always displayed. Where possible, use $FGREP
1402 instead of grep (this change makes some checks slightly stricter).
1403 * tests/pluseq8.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
1405 * tests/pluseq.test: Likewise. Also, do not create useless dummy
1406 data files, and use better m4 quoting in generated configure.in.
1407 * tests/pluseq2.test: Likewise. Also, append to configure.in
1408 using cat with an here-doc, not using echo.
1409 * tests/pluseq3.test: Likewise.
1410 * tests/pluseq4.test: Likewise.
1411 * tests/pluseq6.test: Likewise.
1412 * tests/pluseq7.test: Do not create useless dummy source file.
1413 * tests/pluseq9.test: Slightly extended w.r.t. the grepping of
1414 Automake stderr. Some unrelated cosmetic changes.
1416 Testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured stderr.
1417 * tests/acloca18.test: Print captured stderr before either failing
1418 or grepping it. Be sure to send captured stderr to stderr, not to
1420 * tests/ansi3b.test: Likewise.
1421 * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
1422 * tests/configure.test: Likewise.
1423 * tests/missing3.test: Likewise.
1424 * tests/missing6.test: Likewise.
1425 * tests/output-order.test: Likewise.
1426 * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise.
1427 * tests/python6.test: Likewise.
1428 * tests/python7.test: Likewise.
1429 * tests/python8.test: Likewise.
1430 * tests/python9.test: Likewise.
1431 * tests/subobj.test: Likewise.
1432 * tests/vars3.test: Likewise.
1433 * tests/missing4.test: Likewise, and fix a call to grep not to use
1435 * tests/ansi3.test: Likewise, and rely on the `configure.in' stub
1436 created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1438 Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
1439 * tests/backsl.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
1441 * tests/backsl2.test: Likewise.
1442 * tests/block.test: Likewise.
1443 * tests/canon2.test: Likewise.
1444 * tests/canon4.test: Likewise.
1445 * tests/comment2.test: Likewise.
1446 * tests/condlib.test: Likewise.
1447 * tests/cond15.test: Likewise, and prefer $FGREP over grep.
1448 * tests/canon3.test: Likewise. Also, avoid to create an useless
1450 * tests/acoutpt2.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and some
1451 related changes. Do some cosmetic improvements in the generated
1452 `configure.in' file.
1453 * tests/cond4.test: Likewise.
1454 * tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
1455 * tests/condinc.test: Likewise.
1456 * tests/cond7.test: Likewise. Also, remove useless setting of
1457 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am.
1458 * tests/ansi.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
1459 changes. Extended, esp. by running autoconf, ./configure and
1460 make, and by looking into the distdir.
1462 2010-06-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1463 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1465 Extend tests/README w.r.t. trailing `:' in test scripts.
1466 * tests/README (section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
1467 Explain why apparently redundant trailing `:' and `Exit 0' in
1468 test scripts can indeed be useful.
1470 2010-06-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1472 Improve determination of PATH separator in bootstrap script.
1473 * bootstrap: Determine what the PATH separator is the same way
1476 Minor improvements in bootstrap script.
1477 * bootstrap: Consistently use two-spaces indentation. Cosmetic
1478 improvement to comments.
1479 ($me): New variable, containing program basename.
1480 Prepend it to all error messages.
1482 Testsuite now works with BSD make in parallel mode.
1483 * tests/defs.in: Unset variables __MKLVL__ and MAKE_JOBS_FIFO,
1484 which are exported by BSD make when run in parallel mode, and
1485 which can confuse make processes spawned by our testsuite.
1486 This change fixes a lot of spurious failure when the testsuite
1487 is run with BSD make in parallel mode.
1489 2010-06-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1491 Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
1492 * tests/sanity.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
1493 `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1494 * tests/depend2.test: Likewise. Also, call `set -e' just after
1495 the inclusion of `./defs', instead that later in the script.
1496 * tests/canon5.test: Avoid a useless `|| Exit 1' after a call to
1497 $AUTOMAKE, and improve the positioning of an $ACLOCAL call.
1498 * tests/exeext4.test: Use $FGREP instead of grep, where possible.
1499 Make auxiliary rules in the generated Makefile more silent.
1500 These changes make some checks slightly stricter.
1501 * tests/ext2.test: Call `Exit 1' if inclusion of `./defs' fails.
1502 * tests/gettext2.test: Place final `:' at the end of the script,
1503 rather than in the middle.
1504 * tests/exeext.test: Call `set -e' just after the inclusion of
1505 `./defs', instead that later in the script.
1506 * tests/extra5.test: Likewise.
1507 * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise. Also, prefer `mv -f' over
1508 plain `mv', just to be sure.
1509 * tests/depcomp.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
1510 changes. Also, modernize the generated configure.in.
1511 * tests/cond9.test: Likewise. Also, rely on the `configure.in'
1512 stub created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1513 * tests/cond10.test: Likewise.
1514 * tests/depcomp2.test: Likewise.
1515 * tests/depend3.test: Likewise.
1516 * tests/distcom7.test: Likewise.
1517 * tests/fortdep.test: Likewise. Also, remove definition of
1518 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am,
1519 since that flag is already provided by $AUTOMAKE.
1520 * tests/mdate.test: Made stricter, by checking that Automake
1521 actually failed, and by making a stricter grep on the error
1522 message. Also, set shell `errexit flag'.
1523 * tests/python2.test: Improved verbose messages.
1525 Make test `ammissing.test' stricter.
1526 * tests/ammissing.test: Fail if $ACLOCAL succeeds unexpectedly.
1527 Enable `errexit' shell flag.
1529 2010-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1531 Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
1532 * tests/subcond.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
1534 * tests/subst.test: Likewise.
1535 * tests/vars.test: Likewise.
1536 * tests/version4.test: Likewise.
1537 * tests/vpath.test: Likewise.
1538 * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
1539 * tests/werror.test: Likewise.
1540 * tests/whoami.test: Likewise.
1541 * tests/tags.test: Likewise, and avoid to crate an useless dummy
1543 * tests/acsilent.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
1544 command substitution.
1545 * tests/unused.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
1546 command substitution.
1547 * tests/version.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
1548 in the generated `configure.in'.
1549 * tests/version2.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
1550 in the generated `configure.in'.
1552 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1554 Prefer AUTOMAKE_fails over `$AUTOMAKE | grep' in tests.
1555 * tests/ldadd.test: Enable errexit. Use AUTOMAKE_fails so
1556 the verbose log contains all output.
1557 * tests/mdate.test: Likewise.
1558 Prompted by Stefano Lattarini's change to discover.test.
1560 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1562 Improve tests link*.test (enable `errexit' shell flag).
1563 * tests/link_c_cxx.test: Enable `errexit shell flag, and related
1564 changes. Also, do not create useless source files.
1565 * tests/link_dist.test: Likewise.
1566 * tests/link_f90_only.test: Likewise.
1567 * tests/link_f_only.test: Likewise.
1568 * tests/link_fc.test: Likewise.
1569 * tests/link_fccxx.test: Likewise.
1570 * tests/link_fcxx.test: Likewise.
1572 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1574 Improve ext.test semantics, avoid OpenBSD sh errexit issue.
1575 * tests/ext.test: Inside shell compound command, use
1576 `if $cmd; then Exit 1; fi' rather than `$cmd && Exit 1', to
1577 fix failure with OpenBSD sh introduced with last patch.
1578 Actually ensure that a rule for .EXT.o is created for each
1579 known extension EXT.
1581 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1583 Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
1584 * tests/dash.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1586 * tests/defun.test: Likewise.
1587 * tests/defun2.test: Likewise.
1588 * tests/dejagnu.test: Likewise.
1589 * tests/double.test: Likewise.
1590 * tests/distcom2.test: Likewise.
1591 * tests/empty2.test: Likewise.
1592 * tests/empty3.test: Likewise.
1593 * tests/empty4.test: Likewise.
1594 * tests/exdir.test: Likewise.
1595 * tests/ext.test: Likewise.
1596 * tests/extra.test: Likewise.
1597 * tests/extra2.test: Likewise.
1598 * tests/extra3.test: Likewise.
1599 * tests/extra4.test: Likewise.
1600 * tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
1601 * tests/fnoc.test: Likewise.
1602 * tests/fo.test: Likewise.
1603 * tests/instexec.test: Likewise.
1604 * tests/ltdeps.test: Likewise.
1605 * tests/nodep.test: Likewise.
1606 * tests/nodepcomp.test: Likewise.
1607 * tests/f90only.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
1608 comments and unnecessary commands.
1609 * tests/fonly.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
1610 comments and unnecessary commands.
1611 * tests/discover.test: Likewise, and made stricter.
1613 Enable `errexit' shell flag in all tests cxx*.test.
1614 * tests/cxx.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
1616 * tests/cxxansi.test: Likewise.
1617 * tests/cxxcpp.test: Likewise.
1618 * tests/cxxlibobj.test: Likewise.
1619 * tests/cxxlink.test: Likewise.
1620 * tests/cxxo.test: Likewise.
1622 Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
1623 * tests/acoutnoq.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
1625 * tests/acoutpt.test: Likewise.
1626 * tests/acoutqnl.test: Likewise.
1627 * tests/amassign.test: Likewise.
1628 * tests/ansi2.test: Likewise.
1629 * tests/ansi4.test: Likewise.
1630 * tests/badprog.test: Likewise.
1631 * tests/checkall.test: Likewise.
1632 * tests/clean.test: Likewise.
1633 * tests/colneq2.test: Likewise.
1634 * tests/colon.test: Likewise.
1635 * tests/colon5.test: Likewise.
1636 * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
1637 * tests/comment.test: Likewise.
1638 * tests/compile_f90_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
1639 * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
1640 * tests/cond3.test: Likewise.
1641 * tests/cond6.test: Likewise.
1642 * tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
1643 * tests/conf2.test: Likewise.
1644 * tests/confvar.test: Likewise.
1645 * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
1646 * tests/cond8.test: Likewise, plus a cosmetic change.
1647 * tests/confh4.test: Likewise. Also, add in the heading comments
1648 an excerpt from the original bug report which motivated the
1649 creation of this test, to make its purpose clearer.
1651 2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1653 Rewrite manual to be gender-neutral.
1654 * doc/automake.texi (GNU Build System)
1655 (Standard Directory Variables, General Operation, CVS)
1656 (Hard-Coded Install Paths, Dependencies As Side Effects):
1657 Rewrite text to not contain gender-specific pronouns when
1658 speaking about developers or users, either by avoiding pronouns
1659 or by addressing them as `you' instead.
1661 Report by Christina Gratorp.
1665 2010-06-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1667 Make tests on user extensibility of silent-rules mode stricter.
1668 * tests/silent6.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
1669 output produced by `make'.
1670 * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
1672 Tests on silent-mode for C/Libtool made stricter.
1673 * tests/silent.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
1674 output produced by `make'.
1675 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
1676 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
1677 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
1678 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise, and add a final `make distclean'
1679 command to keep it better in sync with tests/silent{4,9}.test.
1681 Improved test silent5.test.
1682 * tests/silent5.test: Remove by hand all generated C files after
1683 non-verbose builds, to ensure the following builds are clean.
1684 Try to clean and rebuild with the same verbosity and without
1685 removing generated sources in between, to check that this does
1686 not trigger a different set of rules. Make grepping of make's
1687 output stricter. Improved/added some comments.
1689 New tests for Automake silent-mode with Fortran.
1690 * tests/silentf77.test: New test.
1691 * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
1692 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1694 New test `silentcxx.test' (Automake silent-mode with C++).
1695 * tests/silentcxx.test: New test.
1696 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1698 New test `silentyacc.test' (Automake silent-mode with Yacc).
1699 * tests/silentyacc.test: New test.
1700 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1702 New test `silentlex.test' (Automake silent-mode with Lex).
1703 * tests/silentlex.test: New test.
1704 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1706 Relax tests on silent-rules to cater to overly verbose makes.
1707 * tests/silent.test: When testing silent builds, don't fail if
1708 make's output simply contains the `mv' substring, but only if
1709 it contains the `mv ' substring (note the trailing space).
1710 * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
1711 * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
1712 * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
1713 * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
1714 * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
1716 2010-01-24 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1718 Fix silent-rules output for disabled dependency tracking.
1719 * lib/am/depend2.am [!%FASTDEP%]: Rework silent-rules variable
1720 expansion code to also work in the case where %AMDEP% expands
1721 to FALSE at config.status time, using new substitution string
1723 * automake.in (verbose_nodep_flag): New function, appending
1724 `@am__nodep@' to the verbose-variable name.
1725 (handle_languages): If dependencies are not disabled, use it to
1726 set %VERBOSE-NODEP%.
1727 * m4/depend.m4: Substitute am__nodep as '_no', so the second
1728 verbose-variable will always expand to an empty string, if
1729 dependencies are enabled.
1730 * tests/silent5.test: Also test --disable-dependency-tracking;
1731 also test per-target flags for non-C language files.
1732 * tests/silent9.test: New test, like silent4.test but disable
1733 dependency tracking.
1734 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
1735 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
1736 Report by Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>.
1738 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1740 Extend test on `nostdinc' automake option.
1741 * tests/nostdinc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Related and
1742 unrelated minor changes. Make the grepping of the generated
1743 Makefile.in slightly stricter. Generate and run configure, so that
1744 the generated Makefile can be grepped too.
1746 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1748 Make gnupload portable to EBCDIC hosts.
1749 * lib/gnupload: Use literal newline as argument for 'tr' rather
1750 than \015, for EBCDIC hosts. Also, avoid unportable nested
1751 double-quotes and backquotes.
1753 Report from Eric Blake and Steve Goetze via gnulib.
1755 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1757 Fix Autoconf version required by Automake's configure.
1758 Automake configure script used to tell that automake required
1759 autoconf 2.60 or later, but then it checked for autoconf >= 2.62,
1760 and if that was not found, it gave an error saying that Automake
1761 required configure 2.61a-341 or later. This change should
1762 eliminate such inconsistencies.
1763 * configure.ac ($required_autoconf_version): New variable.
1766 2010-05-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1768 Fix unportable sed script in maintainer-check test.
1769 * Makefile.am (sc_tests_Exit_not_exit): Rewrite sed script to
1770 not contain semicolon after 'b' or brace commands, for NetBSD.
1772 Wildcards are not portable to NetBSD make.
1773 * doc/automake.texi (Wildcards): Document portability issue.
1774 * tests/extra10.test, tests/extra11.test, tests/extra12.test:
1777 2010-05-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1779 Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
1780 * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
1781 an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
1783 Avoid possible false negatives in dejagnu7.test.
1784 * tests/dejagnu7.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Also, avoid
1785 unportable use of fgrep option `-e'.
1787 Fix conflnk3.test to work with Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
1788 * tests/conflnk3.test: Use `test -r FILE' and `test ! -r FILE'
1789 instead of respectively `test -e FILE' and `test ! -e FILE',
1790 since Solaris Sh doesn't grok the latter. Do not SKIP the test
1791 if the shell doesn't support `test -e'.
1793 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1796 * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Add
1797 missing closing parenthesis.
1799 Fix leftover call to removed function macros_dump.
1800 * automake.in (read_main_am_file): Call variables_dump, not
1801 macros_dump. Print actual error before list of variables.
1803 2010-04-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1805 Minor improvements in comments of test `silent3.test'.
1806 * tests/silent3.test: Tell to keep it in sync with `silent9.test'
1809 2010-04-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1811 testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured output.
1812 * tests/acloca14.test, tests/acloca18.test, tests/aclocal.test,
1813 tests/fort2.test, tests/help.test, tests/missing3.test,
1814 tests/missing6.test: Print captured stdout or stderr before
1817 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1819 Make test badopt.test stricter (by enabling `set -e').
1820 * tests/badopt.test: Add call to `set -e'. Due to this change,
1821 an unexpected failure in the call to `$ACLOCAL' (whose outcome
1822 was previously unchecked) would cause the whole test to fail.
1823 Also, bumped the copyright years.
1825 Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
1826 * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
1827 an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
1829 Use `set -e' in confsub.test (avoids possible false negatives).
1830 * tests/confsub.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and related
1831 changes (this helps avoiding some possible minor false negatives).
1832 Also, bumped copyright years.
1834 2010-04-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1836 Fix -Werror handling for presence of configure.in and configure.ac.
1837 * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (Automake::Variable): Do not initialize
1838 $configure_ac at the global level, before command-line arguments
1840 (require_variables): Initialize it here.
1841 * tests/configure.test: New test.
1842 * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
1843 Report by Stefano Lattarini.
1845 2010-04-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1847 Avoid possible false negatives in confh5.test.
1848 * tests/confh5.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and bumped
1849 copyright years. Due to this change, any unexpected failure
1850 in calls to $ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE, $AUTOCONF or $AUTOHEADER, or
1851 a failure in grepping expected text in output files should now
1852 cause the whole test to fail.
1854 2010-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1856 Fixed typo in POD documentation of Automake::Channels.
1857 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Fixed typo in POD documentation:
1858 @<...> was used instead of C<...>.
1860 2010-04-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1862 Refactor tests on Automake TESTS color output.
1863 * tests/color.test: Tests using the expect program moved out to...
1864 * tests/color2.test: ... this new file.
1865 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Extended accordingly.
1867 2010-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1869 Fix typos in comments in test confh5.test
1870 * tests/confh5.test: Fix a couple of typos in comments.
1872 Avoid possible false negatives in canon-name.test.
1873 * tests/canon-name.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag. Improve
1876 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1878 Fix per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror.
1879 Before this patch, 'AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = -Werror' in one
1880 Makefile.am would carry over to other Makefile.am files
1881 treated afterwards by the same thread, causing inconsistent
1882 and unstable exit status values.
1883 * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (dup_channel_setup)
1884 (drop_channel_setup): Save and restore the setting of
1885 $warnings_are_errors.
1886 * tests/werror3.test: New test.
1887 * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
1890 2010-04-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1892 Bugfix in confh5.test w.r.t. Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
1893 * tests/confh5.test: In the generated Makefile.am: do not use
1894 `test ! -e FILE' to check for the non-existence of a file, since
1895 that is not supported by Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
1897 Make test `aclocal3.test' stricter.
1898 * tests/aclocal3.test: Add call to `set -e'. Fail if $ACLOCAL
1899 succeds unexpectedly.
1901 Add tests checking that symlinks are resolved by `make dist'.
1902 * tests/distlinks.test: New test.
1903 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1904 Suggested by observations from Ralf Wildenhues.
1906 2010-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1908 Use -9 for maximum xz compression with dist-xz.
1909 * lib/am/distdir.am (dist-xz, dist, dist-all): Pass -9 to xz.
1910 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
1911 Report by Pavel Sanda.
1913 2010-03-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1915 Avoid an unportable use of `$status' shell variable.
1916 * Makefile.am (path-check): Don't use the `$status' shell variable
1917 in the target's rules, as it's special in Zsh (equivalent to `$?',
1920 Avoid another use of `chmod -R'.
1921 * Makefile.am (path-check): To be safe, do not use `chmod -R' on
1922 $(distdir) before removing it (as Solaris `chmod -R' touches
1923 symlink targets). Instead, use the cleanup strategy used in
1926 2010-03-28 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1928 Remove uses of @acronym and @sc.
1929 * doc/automake.texi (Public Macros, Limitations on File Names):
1930 Remove all usage of @acronym and @sc in the manual.
1931 Suggested by Karl Berry.
1933 2010-03-13 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
1935 GNU hello uses fdl.texi, not gpl.texi.
1936 * doc/automake.texi (Texinfo): Adjust example to upstream
1939 2010-03-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1941 Formatting cleanups in macro comments.
1942 * automake.in, lib/Automake/Channels.pm,
1943 lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm, lib/Automake/Options.pm,
1944 lib/Automake/Variable.pm, lib/Automake/XFile.pm,
1945 m4/options.m4, m4/substnot.m4: Fix macro comment format.
1947 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1948 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1950 Avoid generation of `tests/defs-p' file.
1951 * tests/defs.in: In the generated `configure.in' snippet: call
1952 `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' with the `parallel-tests' option if the shell
1953 variable `parallel_tests' is set to `yes'.
1954 * tests/Makefile.am (defs-p): Target removed.
1955 (check_SCRIPTS): Removed `defs-p'.
1956 (clean-local-check): Do not unlink `defs-p' anymore.
1957 ($(parallel_tests)): Transformation rules for the test scripts
1959 * tests/gen-parallel-tests: Selection rules for the test
1961 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Set `$parallel_tests' to `yes'
1962 then include `./defs' (rather than simply including `./defs-p').
1963 * tests/parallel-tests2.test: Likewise.
1964 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
1965 * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
1966 * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
1967 * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
1968 * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
1969 * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise.
1970 * tests/parallel-tests9.test: Likewise.
1971 * tests/parallel-tests10.test: Likewise.
1972 * tests/README (Section "Writing Test Cases" subsection "Do"):
1973 Adjusted the parts referring to tests checking `parallel-tests'
1974 behaviour. Some other minor related improvements.
1975 * tests/.gitignore (defs-p): Removed.
1977 2010-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1979 Remove redundant unset of variable TESTS from some test scripts.
1980 * tests/color.test: Do not unset the `TESTS' variable, as it's
1981 already unset in the `defs' file.
1982 * tests/check5.test: Likewise.
1983 * tests/check8.test: Likewise.
1984 * tests/check9.test: Likewise.
1985 * tests/check10.test: Likewise.
1986 * tests/check11.test: Likewise.
1987 * tests/parallel-tests.test: Likewise.
1988 * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
1989 * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
1990 * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
1991 * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
1992 * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
1994 2010-02-22 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
1996 Improve help message of mdate-sh.
1997 * mdate-sh: mention actual output format in help message.
1999 2010-02-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2001 Deprecate dist-lzma in favor of dist-xz.
2002 * doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions, Options):
2003 Adjust text to reflect renaming of lzma to xz.
2005 Missing deprecation noted by Antonio Diaz Diaz.
2007 2010-02-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2009 Add tests about support of wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
2010 * tests/extra10.test: New test, check basic support of wildcards
2012 * tests/extra11.test: New test, check more complex usage of
2013 wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
2014 * tests/extra12.test: New test, check usage of wildcards in
2015 EXTRA_DIST when $builddir != $srcdir.
2016 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2017 Necessity of these new tests suggested by Braden McDaniel
2018 and Ralf Wildenhues.
2020 2010-02-08 Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
2022 Fix copyright statement in gnupload script.
2023 * lib/gnupload: Fix copyright statement.
2025 2010-02-06 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> (tiny change)
2026 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2028 Fix exit status of signal handlers in shell scripts.
2029 The value of `$?' on entrance to signal handlers in shell scripts
2030 cannot be relied upon, so set the exit code explicitly to
2032 * lib/am/check.am (am__check_pre): Use `exit 143' in signal handler.
2033 * lib/elisp-comp: Likewise.
2034 * lib/install-sh: Likewise.
2035 * lib/ylwrap: Likewise. Also, fix script to trap signal 13, not 3.
2036 * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
2037 Bug report, analysis, and initial patch by Dmitry V. Levin.
2039 2010-02-06 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
2041 Improve gnupload usage text.
2042 * gnupload (usage): Shorten to make more likely to fit on a tty
2043 line. Mention CMD in the synopsis. With ..., plural is implied.
2045 2010-01-28 Christos Kontas <xakon@yahoo.com> (tiny change)
2047 Fix some typos in the manual
2048 * doc/automake.texi (Nested Packages, Rebuilding): Fix typos.
2050 2010-01-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2052 Slighty improve tests acoutbs.test and acoutbs2.test.
2053 * tests/acoutbs2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Check that
2054 autoconf and configure work, that the file `zot' is created by
2055 configure, and that no file containing a backslash in its name is
2057 * tests/acoutbs.test: Likewise, plus updated copyright years.
2059 Fix test acoutbs2.test.
2060 * tests/acoutbs2: In the generated configure.in: add proper calls
2061 to AC_INIT and AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, and remove explicit definition of
2062 PACKAGE and VERSION. Add a call to aclocal before calling automake.
2063 Updated copyright years.
2064 * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Removed acoutbs2.test.
2066 Add forgotten test scripts to $(TESTS).
2067 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Added test scripts present on the
2068 filesystem, which were erroneously left out from $(TESTS):
2069 acoutbs2.test, badopt.test, extra2.test.
2070 (XFAIL_TESTS): Added acoutbs2.test.
2072 2010-01-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2074 Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
2075 * INSTALL, lib/INSTALL, lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub:
2078 Bump copyright years.
2079 * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
2080 * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
2081 * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
2084 * ChangeLog.09: New file, rotated from ...
2085 * ChangeLog: ... here.
2086 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute ChangeLog.09.
2090 Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2092 Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are
2093 permitted provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved.