ChangeLog

   1 2011-01-18  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
   2
   3         tests: avoid failure on w32 file systems.
   4         * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: SKIP if file cannot
   5         be turned unreadable.
   6
   7 2011-01-17  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
   8
   9         tests: allow double-colon spy.test to work with HP-UX make.
  10         * tests/spy.test: Fix comment typos.  Ensure prerequisites we
  11         do not want to depend on are strictly older than the target.
  12         Also test with a target out of date wrt. more than one rule.
  13
  14 2011-01-16  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
  15
  16         tests: remove useless requirements from cond36.test
  17         * tests/cond36.test ($required): Remove.
  18         Since we are at it, add a trailing `:' command.
  19
  20 2011-01-16  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
  21             Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
  22
  23         parallel-tests: work around Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh read bugs.
  24         * lib/am/check.am ($(TEST_SUITE_LOG), recheck, recheck-html):
  25         Test file readability before redirecting input from it, to avoid
  26         exiting Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh which treats read as special builtin.
  27         * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: New test.
  28         * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
  29         * NEWS: Update.
  30
  31 2011-01-16  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
  32
  33         * NEWS, README: Update copyright years.
  34
  35         Fix parallel-tests.test failure with HP-UX make.
  36         * tests/parallel-tests.test: Sleep inside inner tests, so logs
  37         are newer than logs of tests they depend on, for HP-UX make.
  38
  39 2011-01-15  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
  40
  41         docs: ensure example are separated with empty lines in the input
  42         * doc/automake.texi (Extending aclocal, Emacs Lisp, Rebuilding)
  43         (API Versioning, Renamed Objects, Multiple Outputs): Add empty
  44         lines before `@example' and after `@end example' lines, so info
  45         output is rendered correctly, and a following @noindent honored.
  46         Report by Stefano Lattarini.
  47
  48 2011-01-15  Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
  49
  50         tests: fix comment typo
  51         * tests/substref.test: Fix grammar in a comment.
  52
  53 2011-01-13  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
  54
  55         tests: fix spurious failures in two texinfo tests
  56         * tests/txinfo.test ($required): Add 'makeinfo'.
  57         * tests/txinfo8.test: Create a dummy 'textutils.info' file, so
  58         that make won't try to run makeinfo (which could be unavailable)
  59         to build it.
  60         Found by NixOS Hydra, reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
  61
  62 2011-01-13  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
  63
  64         Avoid testsuite failures due to Autoconf Fortran change.
  65         Autoconf v2.68-21-g727ce95 causes AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS to
  66         require computing the canonical host name.  Ensure config.guess
  67         and config.sub files are present for respective checks.
  68         * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Add stub files.
  69         * tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
  70         * tests/fort4.test: Use $AUTOMAKE -a for installing files.
  71
  72 2011-01-12   Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
  73
  74         docs: clustered '-d' not recognized in YFLAGS
  75         This change fixes automake bug#7828.
  76         * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Document that automake
  77         recognizes '-d' in AM_YFLAGS only if it's not clustered with
  78         other options.
  79         From a report by Юрий Пухальский.
  80
  81 2011-01-10   Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
  82
  83         tests: add checks on automatically-distributed files
  84         Related to automake bug#7819.
  85         * tests/autodist.test: New test.
  86         * tests/autodist-subdir.test: Likewise.
  87         * tests/autodist-acconfig.test: Likewise.
  88         * tests/autodist-acconfig-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
  89         * tests/autodist-aclocal-m4.test: Likewise.
  90         * tests/autodist-config-headers.test: Likewise.
  91         * tests/autodist-configure-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
  92         * tests/autodist-stamp-vti.test: Likewise.
  93         * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
  94
  95 2011-01-11  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
  96
  97         tests: work around a texi+cygnus bug causing a spurious XFAIL
  98         * tests/txinfo5b.test: New test, like txinfo5.test but calling
  99         automake with the `-Wno-override' option to work around a bug
 100         in the texinfo + cygnus interaction.
 101         * tests/txinfo5.test: Update heading comments.
 102         * tests/Makefile.am (TEST): Updated.
 103
 104 2011-01-09  Dave Hart  <davehart@gmail.com>  (tiny change)
 105
 106         Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
 107         * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
 108
 109 2011-01-11  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 110
 111         Improve, extend and tweak tests on Texinfo support.
 112         * tests/instdir-texi.test: Add a call to `ls -l' after that to
 113         `make', for debugging.  When looking for required tools, do not
 114         redirect the output of "$tool --help" to /dev/null, and do not
 115         uselessly run it in a subshell.
 116         * tests/txinfo.test: Rewritten to run autoconf, ./configure and
 117         make.  All checks moved into Makefile.am.
 118         * tests/txinfo8.test: Likewise, and modernize the generated
 119         configure.in.
 120         * tests/txinfo2.test: Moved checks into Makefile.am, and other
 121         minor improvements.
 122         * tests/txinfo5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
 123         changes.  Add trailing `:' command.
 124         * tests/txinfo6.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
 125         Makefile.in stricter.
 126         * tests/txinfo7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
 127         changes.  Add trailing `:' command.  Do not add unnecessary stuff
 128         to Makefile.am.
 129         * tests/txinfo9.test: Verify that more targets which are expected
 130         to be generated only once really are.  Make grepping less strict,
 131         to avoid exposing too much internal details.  More minor changes.
 132         * tests/txinfo16.test: Add trailing `:'.  Prefer cat over echo
 133         for appending to configure.in.  Updated/fixed heading comments.
 134         * tests/txinfo23.test: Likewise, and extended a little by making
 135         it check that no info file is created in the $(srcdir).
 136         * tests/txinfo24.test: Likewise.
 137         * tests/txinfo25.test: Likewise.
 138         * tests/txinfo18.test: Add trailing `:'.  Prefer cat over echo
 139         for appending to configure.in.  Also, check that index files are
 140         cleaned also by "make clean", not only by "make distclean".
 141         * tests/txinfo22.test: Prefer `$me' over hard-coded test name,
 142         and added trailing `:' command.  This testcase also used to check
 143         that automake ignores in-line comments when using variables, but
 144         preserves them in the output; these checks (added in commit
 145         "Release-1-7f-4-g9177ef8") do not really pertain to this test,
 146         so they have been moved ...
 147         * tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: ... into this new test.
 148         * tests/txinfo4.test: Escape literal dots in grep regexps.  Add
 149         trailing `:' command.
 150         * tests/txinfo29.test: Likewise.  Relax grepping of generated
 151         Makefile.in w.r.t. whitespaces.  Prefer `cat' over `echo' to
 152         append to configure.in.
 153         * tests/txinfo3.test: Likewise.
 154         * tests/vtexi.test: Improve grepping of Makefile.in (sometimes
 155         make it stricter, sometimes laxer).  Move `set -e' setting just
 156         after the inclusion of ./defs.  De-uglify a sed command.  Other
 157         minor cosmetic improvements.
 158         * tests/vtexi2.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in stricter.  Add
 159         trailing `:' command.
 160         * tests/vtexi3.test: New test on version.texi support.
 161         * tests/vtexi4.test: Likewise.
 162         * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
 163
 164 2011-01-09  Peter Rosin  <peda@lysator.liu.se>
 165
 166         Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
 167         * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
 168
 169 2011-01-09   Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 170
 171         cosmetics: remove trailing whitespaces
 172         * doc/automake.texi: Remove trailing whitespaces.
 173         * tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
 174         * tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
 175         * tests/fort4.test: Likewise.
 176         * tests/fort5.test: Likewise.
 177         * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
 178         * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
 179
 180         automake: minor fixes in comments
 181         * automake.in: Some minor fixes and enhancements in comments.
 182
 183 2011-01-09  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 184
 185         Add test coverage for deleted header files.
 186         * tests/depcomp6.test, tests/depcomp7.test: Update tests to
 187         also check for the deleted header bug.  If no dependency
 188         tracking mechanism could be found, SKIP rather than exit
 189         successfully.  Use GNU style spacing and ANSI C prototypes.
 190
 191         Fix typos in Rule.pm comments.
 192         * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typos in comments.
 193
 194         docs: split 'amhello Explained' node.
 195         * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Split node ...
 196         (amhello's configure.ac Setup Explained)
 197         (amhello's Makefile.am Setup Explained) : ... into these two.
 198         (Top, Hello World): Adjust, and add @anchor for stable URL links.
 199         Suggestion by Karl Berry in automake bug#7766.
 200
 201 2011-01-08  Karl Berry  <karl@freefriends.org>
 202             Eric Blake  <eblake@redhat.com>
 203
 204         docs: reference defining directories in amhello node.
 205         * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Point to Autoconf
 206         manual for how to convert directory values into macros.
 207         (Optional): Fix grammar nit.
 208
 209 2011-01-02   Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 210
 211         * NEWS: Fix typo (forgotten word).
 212
 213 2011-01-02   Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 214              Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 215
 216         docs: how to work around checks on invalid primary/directory couples
 217         * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): Document the blessed idiom which can
 218         be used to work around automake checks on invalid primary/directory
 219         couples (such as `lib_PROGRAMS' or `doc_LIBRARIES').
 220
 221 2011-01-02  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 222
 223         Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
 224         * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
 225         Sync from upstream.
 226
 227         Fix maintainer-check regression.
 228         * tests/subobj11a.test: Pass DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS in the
 229         environment.
 230
 231         Bump copyright years.
 232         * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
 233         * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
 234         * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
 235
 236 2010-12-23  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 237             Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 238
 239         Work around a bug in file-inclusion mechanism of Solaris make.
 240         * automake.in (handle_single_transform): In the name of the
 241         dependency file: collapse multiple slash characters into a single
 242         one.
 243         * tests/subobj11a.test: New test.
 244         * tests/subobj11b.test: Likewise.
 245         * tests/subobj11c.test: Likewise.
 246         * tests/depcomp8a.test: Likewise.
 247         * tests/depcomp8b.test: Likewise.
 248         * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
 249         * NEWS: Updated.
 250         Report by Stefano Lattarini, quick fix by Ralf Wildenhues, final
 251         patch and tests by Stefano Lattarini.
 252
 253 2010-12-22  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 254
 255         Fix two spurious testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5.
 256         * tests/suffix13.test (Makefile.am): Account for VPATH issues on
 257         weaker make implementations (e.g. IRIX 6.5).
 258         * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise, plus a required related
 259         change.
 260         Reported by Ralf Wildenhues.  The bugs have been there from the
 261         first versions of the affected test scripts.
 262
 263 2010-12-22  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 264
 265         docs: cygnus mode doesn't require AM_CYGWIN32 macro.
 266         * doc/automake.texi (Cygnus): Mode 'cygnus' does not require
 267         the AM_CYGWIN32 macro (and indeed hasn't required it since at
 268         least commit Release-1-2-31-g3038064 "merged changes from
 269         Cygnus" of 1997-08-25).
 270
 271 2010-12-22  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 272
 273         distlinksbrk.test: Work around botched "make -k".
 274         * tests/distlinksbrk.test: Run "make" multiple times and grep
 275         its output each time for a single error message, rather than
 276         running "make -k" one single time and grepping its output for
 277         all the expected error messages.  This should work around make
 278         implementations with limited (broken?) `-k' support; for more
 279         information, see these subthreads on the automake-patches list:
 280           - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on HP-UX 11.23",
 281             <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00162.html>
 282           - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5",
 283             <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00166.html>
 284
 285 2010-12-21  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 286
 287         Fix sed-related buglet in test "subdir5.test"
 288         * tests/subdir5.test: Always terminate text passed to the
 289         `i' sed command with a newline, to work around limitations
 290         in e.g. older OpenBSD sed.
 291
 292 2010-12-18  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 293
 294         docs: fix blunder in example about python extension modules
 295         * doc/automake.texi (Python): Use `quaternion_la_SOURCES',
 296         not `quaternion_SOURCES', to declare the sources of python
 297         extension module `quaternion.la'.
 298
 299 2010-12-16  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 300
 301         docs: list LTLIBRARIES among Automake primaries
 302         * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): List `LTLIBRARIES' among
 303         the Automake primaries.
 304
 305 2010-12-14  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 306
 307         Improve tests on generated portions of configure help screen.
 308         * tests/help-depend.test: Grepping of configure help screen
 309         relaxed to cater for possible line wrapping, and tightened in
 310         other respects.
 311         * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
 312         * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
 313         * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
 314         * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
 315         * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
 316         * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
 317         * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
 318         * tests/help-init.test: Grepping of configure help screen
 319         tightened.
 320
 321 2010-12-10  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 322
 323         Avoid running installed automake from 'libtool --help'.
 324         * tests/subobj9.test: Export AUTOCONF and AUTOMAKE.
 325         Together with fixed Libtool, this fixes check-coverage to not
 326         invoke installed automake.
 327
 328 2010-11-25  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 329
 330         Fix spurious failures in `silent*.test' for $CC != gcc
 331         In some tests on automake-produced silent rules, we forced the
 332         use of gcc depmode to improve testsuite coverage; but this has
 333         unsurprisingly led to spurious failures when some non-GNU C
 334         compilers were used.  So we are now careful to require GCC in
 335         tests that force gcc depmode.
 336         From reports by Ralf Wildenhues.
 337         * silent5.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
 338         * silent-many-generic.test, silent-many-gcc.test: ... these new
 339         sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
 340         "gcc" in $required.
 341         * silentlex.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
 342         * silent-lex-generic.test, silent-lex-gcc.test: ... these new
 343         sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
 344         "gcc" in $required.
 345         * silentyacc.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
 346         * silent-yacc-generic.test, silent-yacc-gcc.test: ... these new
 347         sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
 348         "gcc" in $required.
 349         * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
 350
 351 2010-11-21  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 352
 353         Tests: consistently use "|| Exit 1" after ". ./defs".
 354         * tests/autohdr.test: Use `. ./defs || Exit 1', not bare
 355         `. ./defs', for consistency with other tests.
 356         * tests/autohdr2.test: Likewise.
 357         * tests/autohdr3.test: Likewise.
 358         * tests/autohdr4.test: Likewise.
 359         * tests/cond23.test: Likewise.
 360         * tests/cond24.test: Likewise.
 361         * tests/cond25.test: Likewise.
 362         * tests/cond26.test: Likewise.
 363         * tests/cond27.test: Likewise.
 364         * tests/cond28.test: Likewise.
 365         * tests/cond29.test: Likewise.
 366         * tests/cond30.test: Likewise.
 367         * tests/cond31.test: Likewise.
 368         * tests/cond32.test: Likewise.
 369         * tests/cond33.test: Likewise.
 370         * tests/cond34.test: Likewise.
 371         * tests/cond35.test: Likewise.
 372         * tests/cond36.test: Likewise.
 373         * tests/cond37.test: Likewise.
 374         * tests/cond38.test: Likewise.
 375         * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
 376         * tests/cond40.test: Likewise.
 377         * tests/cond41.test: Likewise.
 378         * tests/cond42.test: Likewise.
 379         * tests/cond43.test: Likewise.
 380         * tests/cond44.test: Likewise.
 381         * tests/cond45.test: Likewise.
 382         * tests/dollarvar.test: Likewise.
 383         * tests/dollarvar2.test: Likewise.
 384         * tests/hfs.test: Likewise.
 385         * tests/libobj14.test: Likewise.
 386         * tests/percent.test: Likewise.
 387         * tests/percent2.test: Likewise.
 388         * tests/phony.test: Likewise.
 389         * tests/silent.test: Likewise.
 390         * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
 391         * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
 392         * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
 393         * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
 394         * tests/silent6.test: Likewise.
 395         * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
 396         * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
 397         * tests/silentcxx.test: Likewise.
 398         * tests/silentf77.test: Likewise.
 399         * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
 400         * tests/silentlex.test: Likewise.
 401         * tests/silentyacc.test: Likewise.
 402
 403         Avoid useless cleaning in some `silent*.test' tests.
 404         * tests/silentf77.test: Removed useless calls to "make clean"
 405         and "make maintainer-clean".
 406         * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
 407         * tests/silent3.test: Removed useless call to "make distclean".
 408         * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
 409         * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
 410
 411 2010-11-19  Ian Lance Taylor  <iant@google.com>
 412
 413         Sync config-ml.in from GCC.
 414         * config-ml.in: Add Go support: treat GOC and GOCFLAGS like other
 415         compiler/flag environment variables.
 416
 417 2010-11-19  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 418
 419         Automake::Config: remove extra trailing semicolon.
 420         * lib/Automake/Config.in: Remove extra trailing semicolon.
 421
 422         help4.test: fix botched heading comment.
 423         * tests/help4.test: Fixed the heading comment, since it
 424         didn't correctly describe what checks the testcase was
 425         supposed to perform.
 426
 427         help2.test: add checks on aclocal too.
 428         * tests/help2.test: Check that also `aclocal --version' and
 429         `aclocal --help' work with configure.in and acinclude.m4 both
 430         broken.
 431
 432 2010-11-17  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 433
 434         Fix spurious failures of silent-rules tests with Sun Fortran.
 435         * tests/silentf77.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
 436         messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers, to
 437         avoid spurious failures.  Add a trailing `:' command.
 438         * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
 439
 440 2010-11-17  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 441
 442         Fix spurious failures of silent5.test with Sun Fortran.
 443         * tests/silent5.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
 444         messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers,
 445         to avoid spurious failures.  This bug has been there from the
 446         very first version of this test script.
 447
 448 2010-11-16  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 449
 450         Fix regression in colon{5,6}.test (failures on AIX 5.3).
 451         * tests/colon5.test: Also substitute `@SHELL@' with `$SHELL' when
 452         post-processing the generated Makefile.in, to work around a bug
 453         of AIX 5.3 make which doesn't allow setting the `$(SHELL)' macro
 454         on the commend line.  Calls to `$MAKE' adjusted accordingly.
 455         * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
 456         Regression introduced in commit v1.11-175-gf9fe878 "Modernize,
 457         improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test", and reported by Ralf
 458         Wildenhues.
 459
 460 2010-11-16  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 461
 462         Fix regression in ansi.test (failure on AIX 5.3).
 463         * tests/ansi.test: Remove redundant hackish check done using a
 464         hand-postprocessed Makefile.in.  This check worked by setting
 465         the `$(SHELL)' macro on the command line of make, but this is
 466         not supported by the AIX 5.3 make implementation.
 467         This bug has been lurking for a long time, and was activated by
 468         commit v1.11-125-gc1f6cdb "Enable `errexit' shell flag in various
 469         tests".  Report by Ralf Wildenhues.
 470
 471 2010-11-16  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 472
 473         tests: avoid '##'-style comments inside recipe commands.
 474         * tests/confh.test, tests/confh8.test: Remove
 475         double-hash comments from makefile rule commands, they
 476         are not part of the Automake API.
 477
 478 2010-11-14  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 479
 480         tests: work around dash quoting issue in case statements.
 481         * tests/color.test, tests/color2.test: Quote variable in case
 482         pattern, to avoid skipping tests with dash 0.5.5.1.
 483
 484 2010-11-14  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 485
 486         Rebuild menus in the manual.
 487         * doc/automake.texi: Rebuild menus (using ^C ^U ^A in emacs).
 488         Thanks to Ian Lance Taylor for the suggestion.
 489
 490         Fix install-strip when $(STRIP) contains several words.
 491         * lib/am/install.am (install-strip): Update comment.  Use
 492         separate sub-make invocations for empty and nonempty $(STRIP),
 493         to fix quoting issues.
 494         * tests/strip2.test, tests/strip3.test: New tests.
 495         * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Adjust.
 496
 497 2010-11-10  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 498
 499         Fix yaccdry.test failure: require bison.
 500         * tests/yaccdry.test: Require bison.
 501         Found by NixOS Hydra.
 502
 503 2010-11-07  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 504
 505         Fix a bug in variable concatenation with `+='.
 506         * lib/Automake/VarDef.pm (append): Since the content of the
 507         "appended-to" variable is going to be unconditionally normalized
 508         later, simply separate the appended value with a single whitespace
 509         character, instead of trying to be uselessly smarter by using
 510         escaped newlines.  This fixes a bug in which extra backslashes
 511         where erroneously inserted in the variable's final value.
 512         * tests/pluseq11.test: New test, exposing the bug.
 513         * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
 514         Reported by Andy Wingo.
 515
 516 2010-11-06  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 517
 518         Fix bug in rules for creating vala vapi/header files.
 519         * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Add forgotten "fi" in an
 520         if control structure in a generated make rules.  Bug introduced
 521         by previous commit `v1.11-221-gd7c1679', and revealed by failure
 522         of test `vala2.test'.
 523
 524 2010-11-01  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 525
 526         Fix and document rules to not touch the tree with `make -n'.
 527         * doc/automake.texi (Multiple Outputs): Document the problem of
 528         modifications during dry-run execution, propose solution.
 529         * NEWS: Update.
 530         * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Split recipe so the
 531         stamp file is not removed with GNU `make -n'.
 532         (lang_yacc_target_hook): Separate removal of parser output file
 533         and header remaking.
 534         * lib/am/lisp.am ($(am__ELCFILES)): Determine whether -n was
 535         passed to make, take care not to remove any files in that case.
 536         * lib/am/remake-hdr.am (%CONFIG_H%): Separate removal of
 537         %STAMP% file from induced remaking of config header.
 538         * tests/autohdrdry.test, tests/lispdry.test, tests/yaccdry.test:
 539         New tests.
 540         * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
 541
 542 2010-11-01  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 543
 544         Add FAQ entry for bug reporting instructions.
 545         * doc/automake.texi (Reporting Bugs): New section.
 546         (Introduction): Refer to it.
 547
 548 2010-10-04  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 549
 550         Add support for newer python versions.
 551         * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Add python2.7 and python3.2 to
 552         _AM_PYTHON_INTERPRETER_LIST.  Since we are at it, break a long
 553         line and fix indentation.
 554         * THANKS: Updated.
 555         From a report by Thomas Klausner.
 556
 557         Add test for `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' macro.
 558         * tests/dmalloc.test: New test.
 559         * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
 560
 561         Fix nits and bugs in tests `help*.test'.
 562         * tests/help4.test: Fix broken sed commands used to strip `-W...'
 563         flags away from "$AUTOMAKE" and "$ACLOCAL".
 564         * tests/help3.test: Likewise, and fix a botched comment.
 565         * tests/help.test: Likewise.  Also, use "AUTOMAKE_fails ..."
 566         instead of "$AUTOMAKE ... && Exit 1", for consistency and to
 567         please maintainer-check.
 568         * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
 569
 570 2010-10-03  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 571             Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 572
 573         Improve tests `help*.test' (also fixes maintcheck failures).
 574         * tests/help.test: To run automake, use `$AUTOMAKE' with all `-W'
 575         flags stripped away rather than hard-coded `automake-$APIVERSION',
 576         to better honour user-overrides.  Similarly for aclocal.
 577         * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
 578         * tests/help3.test: Likewise.
 579         * tests/help4.test: Likewise.
 580
 581 2010-10-03  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 582
 583         Document and fix expansion of variables before rules.
 584         * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Document that variables
 585         are expanded before rules.
 586         * lib/am/check.am (am__check_post): Reword a bit so it does not
 587         get matched as a rule.
 588         Suggestion by Ben Pfaff.
 589
 590 2010-10-02  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 591
 592         Revert "parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue."
 593         This reverts commit 24e3b4ee2f8cb9f72dd94a05a893f3d4e88b7835,
 594         because it re-opened the bug fixed by v1.11-10-g218e678.
 595
 596         2010-09-07  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 597
 598         parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
 599         * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
 600         substitution %MAKEFILE%.
 601         (generate_makefile): Adjust.
 602         * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
 603         sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
 604         input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
 605         w32 (MSYS).
 606         * NEWS: Update.
 607         Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
 608
 609 2010-09-26  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 610
 611         Extend tests on `--help' and `--version' options.
 612         * tests/help.test: Create a new empty directory and chdir into
 613         it, rather than removing already present files.  Run the aclocal
 614         and automake wrapper scripts directly, instead of relying on
 615         $AUTOMAKE and $ACLOCAL.  Be sure to correctly match literal dots
 616         in aclocal's and automake's stderr.  Add a trailing `:' command.
 617         * tests/help2.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
 618         `--version' works in directories with broken `configure.in'.
 619         * tests/help3.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and
 620         `--version' take precedence on the other options.
 621         * tests/help4.test: New test, checking that the first among the
 622         `--help' and `--version' options to be specified on the command
 623         line wins.
 624         * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
 625
 626 2010-09-25  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 627
 628         Testsuite: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when extending PATH.
 629         * tests/compile2.test: Do no uselessly (implicitly) repeat the
 630         computation of PATH_SEPARATOR again.
 631         * tests/instmany-mans.test: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when
 632         extending/redefining PATH.
 633         * tests/instmany-python.test: Likewise.
 634         * tests/instmany.test: Likewise.
 635         * tests/man4.test: Likewise.
 636         * tests/mkinst3.test: Likewise.
 637         * tests/mmodely.test: Likewise.
 638         * tests/multlib.test: Likewise.
 639         * tests/txinfo30.test: Likewise.
 640         * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
 641         Updated.
 642         * Makefile.am (sc_tests_PATH_SEPARATOR): New maintainer check.
 643         (syntax_check_rules): Updated.
 644
 645         Testsuite: new variables `$PATH_SEPARATOR' and `$APIVERSION'.
 646         * tests/defs.in ($APIVERSION):  New AC_SUBST'd variable.
 647         ($ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE): Use it.
 648         ($PATH_SEPARATOR):  New AC_SUBST'd variables.
 649         ($PATH): Use it.
 650
 651 2010-09-22  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 652
 653         Manual: be more agnostic w.r.t. version control system used.
 654         * doc/automake.texi (Basics of Distribution): Also refer to `.svn'
 655         directories as a type of probably-unwanted files that are copied
 656         regardless when adding directories to EXTRA_DIST.
 657         (The dist Hook): Show a dist-hook example which removes Subversion
 658         `.svn' private directories from distdir, rather than CVS private
 659         directories.
 660         (missing and AM_MAINTAINER_MODE): Try to be more agnostic w.r.t.
 661         the version control system used.
 662
 663         Manual: index refer to target "git-dist", not "cvs-dist".
 664         * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Index the non-standard
 665         example about "git-dist" under the "git-dist" label, not under
 666         the "cvs-dist" one.
 667
 668         Perl modules: remove references to "Automake CVS repository".
 669         * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Update comments to refer to "Automke's
 670         git repository" rather than to "Automake's CVS repository".
 671         * lib/Automake/Configure_ac.pm: Likewise.
 672         * lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm: Likewise.
 673         * lib/Automake/Struct.pm: Likewise.
 674         * lib/Automake/XFile.pm: Likewise.
 675         * lib/Automake/Version.pm (=head1 DESCRIPTION): Refer to "git
 676         branches" rather than "CVS branches".
 677
 678         Remove obsolete .cvsignore files.
 679         * .cvsignore, doc/.cvsignore, lib/.cvsignore, lib/am/.cvsignore,
 680         lib/Automake/.cvsignore, lib/Automake/tests/.cvsignore,
 681         m4/.cvsignore, tests/.cvsignore: Files deleted.  Even when using
 682         savannah's CVS readonly mirror there's no way to commit back to
 683         the real repository, so this files are not worth maintaining or
 684         keeping around.
 685
 686 2010-09-21  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 687
 688         * m4/dmalloc.m4: Bump serial number and copyright years.
 689
 690 2010-09-20  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 691
 692         Fix broken link in `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' help screen.
 693         * m4/dmalloc.m4 (AM_WITH_DMALLOC): Refer only to the dmalloc site
 694         `http://www.dmalloc.com', not to the dmalloc tarball there (which
 695         seems to have been removed, substituted by multiple release
 696         tarballs now).
 697
 698 2010-09-17  Eric Blake  <eblake@redhat.com>
 699
 700         Avoid triple-space after period.
 701         * automake.in (handle_single_transform): Avoid 3 spaces at
 702         sentence end.
 703         * ChangeLog.03: Likewise.
 704         * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Likewise.
 705         * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (_print_message): Likewise.
 706         * lib/Automake/Rule.pm (rule): Likewise.
 707         * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (var): Likewise.
 708         * lib/am/distdir.am: Likewise.
 709         * tests/insthook.test: Likewise.
 710
 711 2010-09-15  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 712
 713         Test automake-generated portions of configure help screen.
 714         * tests/help-depend.test: New test.
 715         * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
 716         * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
 717         * tests/help-init.test: Likewise.
 718         * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
 719         * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
 720         * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
 721         * tests/help-regex.test: Likewise.
 722         * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
 723         * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
 724         * tests/mmode.test: Remove tests on `configure --help' output,
 725         they are superseded by tests in `help-maintainer.test'.
 726         * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
 727
 728 2010-09-14  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 729
 730         * tests/README: Don't put GCS mandated tools in $required.
 731
 732 2010-09-13  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 733
 734         * HACKING: Hint at old commits with `git describe' output.
 735
 736 2010-09-12  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 737
 738         Fix regression in test `colon4.test'.
 739         * tests/colon4.test: Fix botched editing to `configure.in'
 740         that made the test useless.  Since we are at it, improve
 741         comments and make grepping of generated Makefile.in slightly
 742         stricter.
 743         Regression introduced by change "Modernize, improve and/or
 744         extend tests `colon*.test" (Stefano Lattarini, 2010-08-08).
 745
 746 2010-09-08  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 747
 748         Do not require "gzip" explicitly in tests.
 749         The gzip utility is simply expected to be present on any decent
 750         target system for Automake.  So it's pointless to put it in
 751         $required.
 752         * tests/install2.test ($required): Do not require "gzip".
 753         * tests/lex3.test: Likewise.
 754         * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
 755         From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
 756
 757         Make some `confh*.test' tests more "semantic" (plus tweakings).
 758         * tests/confh.test: Run "autoconf", "configure" and "make check",
 759         instead of munging/grepping the generated `Makefile.in'.
 760         * tests/confh4.test: Relax the grepping of Makefile.in w.r.t.
 761         white spaces.  Do not create useless dummy source file `foo.c'
 762         and useless dummy header file `acconfig.h'.
 763         (configure.in): Remove superfluous call to `AC_OUTPUT'.
 764         * tests/confh6.test: Add trailing `:' command.
 765         * tests/confh7.test: In comments, add reference to ...
 766         * tests/confh8.test: ... this new test, "semantic" sister
 767         of `confh7.test'.
 768         * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
 769         Prompted by a report from Ralf Wildenhues.
 770
 771         Remove useless whitespace padding in XFAIL_TESTS definition.
 772         * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Remove whitespace padding.
 773
 774 2010-09-07  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 775
 776         parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
 777         * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new
 778         substitution %MAKEFILE%.
 779         (generate_makefile): Adjust.
 780         * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
 781         sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
 782         input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
 783         w32 (MSYS).
 784         * NEWS: Update.
 785         Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
 786
 787         Posix 2008 requires make to set errexit.
 788         * lib/am/check.am: Update comment.
 789
 790 2010-08-27  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 791
 792         Fix bug in test missing6.test.
 793         * tests/missing6.test: Fix the hack used to edit `configure.in',
 794         to avoid producing a configure script that breaks with shells
 795         that do not support $LINENO.  Also throw in a couple of cosmetic
 796         changes.
 797
 798 2010-08-21  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 799
 800         Improve robustness of mdate-sh script.
 801         * lib/mdate-sh: Sanitize zsh behavior on startup, to ensure
 802         $ls_command is word-split properly upon invocation.
 803         (error): New function.
 804         (main): Use it.  Improve error checking to avoid endless loop
 805         in case $ls_command gave bogus output.  Fix eval quotation.
 806         * tests/mdate6.test: New test, to expose eval quotation error.
 807         * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
 808
 809 2010-08-18  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 810
 811         Fix potential regressions in depcomp{3,5}.test.
 812         * tests/depcomp3.test: Do not uselessly escape the character `$'
 813         in makefile rules, when it's used to expand a make macro.
 814         * tests/depcomp5.test: Likewise.
 815
 816 2010-08-17  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 817             Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 818
 819         Docs: clarify how to avoid automatic dependencies tracking.
 820         * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Mention that
 821         automatic dependencies tracking is enabled by default, but that
 822         the package developer can disable it altogether.  Add a reference
 823         to the proper section for a more in-depth explanation.
 824
 825         Fix typo in manual (`Makefile.in' instead of `Makefile.am').
 826         * doc/automake.texi (Automatic dependency tracking): Fix typo.
 827
 828 2010-08-16  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 829
 830         Don't hide the table of contents.
 831         * doc/automake.texi: Move the table of contents to the beginning.
 832
 833 2010-08-10  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 834
 835         Tweak and/or extend some `acloca*.test' tests.
 836         * tests/aclocal8.test:  Ensure verbose printing of captured
 837         output.
 838         * tests/aclocal.test: Likewise.  Also, add trailing `:'
 839         command.
 840         * tests/acloca19.test: Likewise.
 841         * tests/aclocal5.test: Add trailing `:' command, and prefer
 842         `$me' over hard-coded test name.
 843         * tests/aclocal6.test: Likewise.
 844         * tests/aclocal18.test: Add trailing `:' command, and make
 845         some grepping slightly stricter.
 846         * tests/acloca14.test: Likewise.  Also, prefer `diff' over
 847         `cmp', and add some "cosmetic" blank lines.
 848
 849 2010-08-09  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 850
 851         Tweak and extend tests `pr[!0-9]*.test'.
 852         * tests/primary3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
 853         * tests/primary.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
 854         Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
 855         * tests/primary2.test: Likewise.
 856         * tests/prefix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
 857         changes.  Add a trailing `:' command.
 858         * tests/proginst.test: Likewise.
 859
 860         Modernize, improve and extend tests for PR (`pr[0-9]*.test').
 861         * tests/pr2.test: Add trailing `:' command.
 862         * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
 863         * tests/pr401.test: Likewise.
 864         * tests/pr401b.test: Likewise.
 865         * tests/pr401c.test: Likewise.
 866         * tests/pr300-prog.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic changes in
 867         spacing.
 868         * tests/pr300-lib.test: Likewise.
 869         * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise, and ensure verbose printing
 870         of captured make stdout.
 871         * tests/pr211.test: Add trailing `:' command.  Also, use the
 872         `configure.in' stub created by ./defs, rather than writing it
 873         from scratch.
 874         * tests/pr204.test: Likewise, plus cosmetic spacing changes.
 875         * tests/pr287.test: Likewise, and move setting of `errexit' shell
 876         flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs).
 877         * tests/pr220.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
 878         Also, add trailing `:' command, and cosmetic changes in spacing.
 879         * tests/pr224.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
 880         in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs).  Do not export
 881         `CC=gcc' to configure explicitly (it's already exported globally
 882         in ./defs, since we have "gcc" in $required).  Use the stub for
 883         `configure.in' created by ./defs, rather than writing it from
 884         scratch.  Do not create dummy files required by "gnu" mode (e.g.
 885         README, NEWS), since we run automake in foreign mode anyway.
 886         * tests/pr72.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
 887         changes.  Extend existing checks a bit.
 888         * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.  Also, avoid obsolescent constructs in
 889         the generated `configure.in', and extend existing checks over the
 890         generated tarball a bit.
 891         * tests/pr87.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
 892         changes.  Add a trailing `:' command.  Also, do not create dummy
 893         files required by "gnu" mode (e.g. README, NEWS), since we run
 894         automake in foreign mode anyway.
 895         * tests/pr243.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
 896         `configure.in'.  Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
 897         changes.  Cosmetic changes to spacing, add trailing `:' command,
 898         and add a "FIXME" comment.
 899         * tests/pr266.test: Likewise, and add explicit command line switch
 900         `--enable-dependecy-tracking' to the ./configure call.
 901         * tests/pr279.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
 902         `configure.in'; also, use the `configure.in' stub created by
 903         ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch.  Enable `errexit'
 904         shell flag, and related changes.  Add trailing `:' command.
 905         * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
 906         stricter.
 907         * tests/pr307.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
 908         in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs).  Escape literal
 909         dots in grep regular expressions.  Also, add a trailing `:'
 910         command, and cosmetic changes to spacing.
 911
 912         Tests for PR: add excerpts from original bug report, for clarity.
 913         * tests/pr2.test: Ditto.
 914         * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.
 915         * tests/pr72.test: Likewise.
 916         * tests/pr87.test: Likewise.
 917         * tests/pr211.test: Likewise.
 918         * tests/pr220.test: Likewise.
 919         * tests/pr224.test: Likewise.
 920         * tests/pr229.test: Likewise.
 921         * tests/pr243.test: Likewise.
 922         * tests/pr266.test: Likewise.
 923         * tests/pr279.test: Likewise, and tell to keep it in sync
 924         with its sister test.
 925         * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
 926
 927 2010-08-08  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 928
 929         Tweak, extend and improve tests `cond[a-z]*.test'.
 930         * tests/condd.test: Add trailing `:' command.  Typofix in
 931         comment.
 932         * tests/condhook.test: Make sure target `install-data-hook' is
 933         not called by `make install', but that data files are installed.
 934         Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in. Add trailing `:' command.
 935         * tests/condhook2.test: New test, sister test of condhook, with
 936         inverted semantic.
 937         * tests/condinc2.test: Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
 938         Prefer trailing `:' command over trailing `Exit 0'.
 939         * tests/condman2.test: Enable errexit shell flag, and related
 940         changes.  Add trailing `:' command.
 941         * tests/condman.test: Likewise.  Also, do not create useless
 942         dummy manpages, and use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
 943         * tests/condman3.test: New test, similar to condman.test, but
 944         it also runs ./configure and "make install", and check the
 945         installed files.
 946         * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
 947
 948         Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test.
 949         * tests/colon.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
 950         `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.  Do not create
 951         a useless dummy file.  Add trailing `:' command.
 952         * tests/colon4.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
 953         related changes.  Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
 954         `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
 955         * tests/colon7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
 956         changes.  Improve the generated `configure.in' file.  Add
 957         trailing `:' command.
 958         * tests/colon2.test: Likewise.  Also, add some new checks.
 959         * tests/colon5.test: Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
 960         Add new, much deeper checks.  Add trailing `:' command.
 961         * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
 962         * tests/colon3.test: Add trailing `:' command.  Remove useless
 963         comments and echos.  Improve the generated `configure.in' file.
 964         make some grepping tests stricter.  Add a "FIXME" comments about
 965         planned improvements.
 966
 967         Improve and extend tests `asm*.test'.
 968         * tests/asm.test: Use configure.in stub generated by ./defs,
 969         and avoid obsoleted autoconf constructs.  Make grepping of
 970         Automake stderr stricter.  Do not create useless source file.
 971         Improve verbose messages.  Minor cosmetic changes.  Tell to
 972         keep it in sync with other sister tests asm*.test.
 973         * tests/asm2.test: Likewise.
 974         * tests/asm3.test: Likewise.
 975
 976         Modernize, improve and/or extend test scripts `conf*.test'.
 977         * tests/confh5.test: Cosmetic changes.
 978         * tests/conff.test: Likewise.
 979         * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise.
 980         * tests/conflnk.test: Likewise.
 981         * tests/conflnk2.test: Likewise.
 982         * tests/confsub.test: Likewise.
 983         * tests/confvar.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
 984         stricter.
 985         * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
 986         * tests/conflnk3.test: Cosmetic changes.  Re-enable a temporarily
 987         disabled test (which didn't work with autoconf <= 2.59, but now we
 988         are requiring autoconf 2.62, so...)
 989         * tests/conflnk4.test: Cosmetic changes, and extend existing tests
 990         accordingly to "TODO" comments.
 991         * tests/conff2.test: Make grepping of Automake's stderr stricter.
 992         Add some comments explaining why we don't use the `configure.in'
 993         stub preset be ./defs.
 994         * tests/confh.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
 995         rather than writing one from scratch, and do not call AC_OUTPUT.
 996         Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related changes.  Prefer diff over
 997         cmp to compare text files. Prefer perl over sed to fetch the value
 998         of $(DIST_COMMON) from Makefile.in.  Make grepping of the contents
 999         of $(DIST_COMMON) stricter.
1000         * tests/confh4.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by ./defs,
1001         rather than writing one from scratch.  Make grepping of Makefile.in
1002         stricter.
1003         * tests/confh5.test: Make grepping of `config.h' stricter.  Add a
1004         comment.
1005         * tests/configure.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in generated
1006         `configure.ac'.  Do not write `configure.in' two times.  Escape
1007         literal dots in grep regular expressions.
1008         * tests/confincl.test:  Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1009         changes.  Prefer fgrep over grep.  Other cosmetic changes.
1010         * tests/config.test: Renamed to ...
1011         * tests/confh6.test: ... this.  Fix m4 quoting in `configure.in',
1012         and make grepping of `config.h' and `config.h.in' stricter.
1013         * tests/conf2.test: Renamed ...
1014         * tests/confh7.test: ... to this.  Use the `configure.in' stub
1015         created by ./defs, rather than writing one from scratch.  Try to
1016         run the checks both with and without AC_PROG_CC and AC_OUTPUT in
1017         `configure.in'.
1018         * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1019
1020         Minor improvements and fixes in tests `depcomp*.test'.
1021         * tests/depcomp.test: Do not create useless dummy source files.
1022         Add a trailing `:' command.
1023         * tests/depcomp2.test: Use `unset' on the CFLAG variable to ensure
1024         it's not in in the environment, rather than exporting it with an
1025         empty value.  Do not pass CC=gcc to configure, as that's already
1026         done in ./defs since we have gcc in $required.  Ensure verbose
1027         printing of captured stderr, and normalize its checking.  Add a
1028         trailing `:' command.
1029         * tests/depcomp3.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
1030         grep regexps.  Always use `: >' rather than `touch' to create empty
1031         files.  Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the created
1032         Makefile.am.  Add a trailing `:' command.
1033         * tests/depcomp4.test: Quote literal dots and dollar characters in
1034         grep regexp.  Explicitly declare phony targets as such in the
1035         created Makefile.am.  Ensure verbose printing of captured makes'
1036         stoud/stderr.  Add a trailing `:' command.
1037         * tests/depcomp5.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1038         in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs).  Quote literal dots
1039         and dollar characters in grep regexps.  Explicitly declare phony
1040         targets as such in the created Makefile.am.  Add a trailing `:'
1041         command.
1042         * tests/depcomp6.test: Consistently use m4 quoting in the generated
1043         configure.in.  Cosmetic fixes to spacing.  Make the "dummy" `if'
1044         statement required by OpenBSD's sh `set -e' more robust, and add
1045         explanatory comments to it.
1046         * tests/depcomp7.test: Likewise, and add  a trailing `:' command.
1047
1048         Separate failing part of test `all.test'.
1049         * tests/all.test: Keep only (x)failing part of the test.  Working
1050         checks moved out to ...
1051         * tests/all2.test: ... this new test.
1052         * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1053
1054         Modernize, improve and extend tests `subobj*.test'.
1055         * tests/subobjname.test:  Add trailing `:' command.
1056         * tests/subobj.test: Make grepping of `Makefile.in' stricter.
1057         Escape literal dots in grep regexps.
1058         * tests/subobj2.test:  Add trailing `:' command.  Do not use the
1059         unportable fgrep option `-e'.
1060         * tests/subobj3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1061         (configure.in): Use proper m4 quoting, and avoid obsolescent
1062         constructs.
1063         * tests/subobj8.test: Likewise.  Also, enable `errexit' shell
1064         flag, with related changes
1065         * tests/subobj4.test: Likewise.  Also, make grepping of
1066         `Makefile.in' stricter.
1067         * tests/subobj5.test: Add trailing `:' command.  Move setting of
1068         `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
1069         of ./defs).
1070         (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
1071         writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
1072         * tests/subobj6.test: Add trailing `:' command.  Move setting of
1073         `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just after inclusion
1074         of ./defs).  Do not create useless dummy ac-init file `f'.
1075         * tests/subobj7.test: Do not create useless dummy ac-init file
1076         `f'.
1077         (configure.in): Use the stub created by `./defs', rather than
1078         writing it from scratch, and avoid obsolescent constructs.
1079         * tests/subobj9.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1080         in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs).  Fail the test if
1081         `make distcheck' fails.  Ensure verbose printing of captured make
1082         stdout.  Avoid useless fork by doing simple grep instead of using
1083         test -n "`COMMAND | grep ...`".
1084         (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
1085         (Makefile.am): Explicitly mark target "print" as phony.
1086         * tests/subobj10.test: Removed duplicated call to `set -e'.  Add
1087         trailing `:' command.
1088         (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
1089
1090         Remove a couple of obsoleted tests.
1091         * tests/fpinstall.test: Removed.
1092         * tests/fpinst2.test: Likewise.
1093         * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1094
1095         Bootstrap: updated HACKING entry.
1096         * HACKING ("Working with git"): Explain how to override the
1097         autoconf and autom4te programs used by the bootstrap process.
1098
1099         Bootstrap: fixlet.
1100         * bootstrap: Do not remove `lib/Automake/Config.pm' anymore,
1101         since we don't generate it.  Correctly quote arguments of
1102         `eval' builtin.  Fixed a botched error message.  Removed an
1103         extra blank line.
1104
1105         Bootstrap: don't search perl in $PATH.
1106         * bootstrap: Do not explicitly search perl in $PATH anymore.
1107         ($PATH_SEPARATOR): Removed, it's no more needed.
1108
1109         Bootstrap: let the user choose which autoconf to use.
1110         * bootstrap ($AUTOCONF): New variable, from the environment.
1111         ($AUTOM4TE): Likewise, for clarity.
1112         Use "$AUTOCONF" instead of calling "autoconf" directly.
1113
1114         Minor improvements to tests ar*.test.
1115         * tests/ar.test: Add trailing `:' command.
1116         * tests/ar2.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
1117         Makefile.in stricter.
1118
1119 2010-08-08  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1120
1121         Fix maintainer-check failure.
1122         * tests/cond5.test: Quote sleep argument, this isn't about
1123         time stamp differences.
1124
1125         Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
1126         * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
1127         Sync from upstream.
1128
1129 2010-08-06  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1130
1131         Work around a nasty bug (segfault) of Solaris make.
1132         * lib/am/check.am (recheck, recheck-html): Trim trailing spaces
1133         from $list, to avoid triggering a nasty bug (potential segfault)
1134         on Solaris make.
1135
1136 2010-08-06  Peter Rosin  <peda@lysator.liu.se>
1137
1138         Make cond5.test more robust on MSYS.
1139         * tests/cond5.test: Add delay before the first kill attempt to
1140         cater for problems with MSYS bash.
1141
1142 2010-07-31  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1143
1144         Add example git work flow; discuss merge --log in HACKING.
1145         * HACKING: Update.
1146         Suggestion by Stefano Lattarini.
1147
1148         Add more hints for debugging make rules.
1149         * doc/automake.texi (Debugging Make Rules): Show command to find
1150         out expanded values of variables; point to makefile debugger.
1151         * THANKS: Update.
1152         Prompted by suggestion from Ludovic Courtès and Andy Wingo.
1153
1154 2010-07-27  Patrick Welche  <prlw1@cam.ac.uk>  (tiny change)
1155
1156         Fix typo in the manual.
1157         * doc/automake.texi (Scripts): Fix typo.
1158
1159 2010-07-27  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1160
1161         Document current policy for development with git.
1162         * HACKING (Working with git): Overhaul.
1163         Prompted by suggestion from Stefano Lattarini.
1164
1165         Fix AM_COND_IF for gone-invalid condition shell expression.
1166         * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): test contents of $COND_TRUE
1167         variable, rather than re-evaluating the shell expression for
1168         the condition.
1169         * tests/cond40.test: Extend test.
1170         * NEWS: Update.
1171
1172         Avoid syntax error if IF-TRUE part of AM_COND_IF expands empty.
1173         * m4/cond-if.m4 (AM_COND_IF): Ensure IF-TRUE part is never empty
1174         to avoid shell syntax error if the m4 expansion is empty.
1175         * tests/cond40.test: Enhance test.
1176
1177         Coverage: bogus option to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
1178         * tests/init2.test: New test.
1179         * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
1180
1181 2010-07-21  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1182
1183         Modernize and improve test scripts `subdir*.test'.
1184         * tests/subdir.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1185         changes.  Use the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs',
1186         rather than writing one from scratch.
1187         * tests/subdir2.test: Likewise.
1188         * tests/subdir4.test: Likewise.
1189         * tests/subdir3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1190         changes.  Do not create useless dummy source files.
1191         * tests/subdir5.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in (in topdir
1192         and in subdirs) stricter.  Some minor changes to keep it more
1193         in sync with the related test `subdir8.test'.
1194         * tests/subdir8.test: Likewise (but with the related test being
1195         `subdir5.test' here).
1196         * tests/subdir6.test: Cosmetic change in spacing.
1197         * tests/subdir9.test: Define and use new variable `$distdir'.  Add
1198         trailing `:' command.
1199         * tests/subdir10.test: Cosmetic consistency-related change.
1200         * tests/subdirbuiltsources.test: Cosmetic changes in spacings.
1201         (configure.in): Use stub created by `./defs', rather than writing
1202         it from scratch.  Do not use obsoleted and/or deprecated forms of
1203         autoconf/automake macros.
1204
1205         Modernize and improve test scripts `dist*.test'.
1206         * tests/distcleancheck.test: Do not add useless `-e' option to
1207         a $MAKE call.  Extend test by grepping stderr of make.
1208         * tests/distcom2.test: Do not run the same test script on the
1209         Makefile.in twice, but save its output in an intermediate file
1210         instead.  Make grepping of DIST_COMMON definition stricter.
1211         Display the content of more files, to ease debugging.  Add a
1212         trailing `:' command.  Improved heading comments w.r.t. sister
1213         test(s).
1214         * tests/distcom6.test: Likewise, and avoid to uselessly run
1215         autoconf.
1216         * tests/distcom3.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured stdout
1217         and stderr.  Make grepping of captured stderr stricter.  Also,
1218         add trailing `:' command.
1219         * tests/distcom4.test: Declare the target `test' in the generated
1220         Makefile.am as `.PHONY'.  Display content of more files, to ease
1221         debugging.  Add trailing `:' command.
1222         * tests/distcom5.test: Likewise.  Also, factor out common sed
1223         script in subroutine `extract_distcommon'.
1224         * tests/distcom7.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to write
1225         test Makefile.am files.  Add a trailing `:' command.
1226         * tests/distname.test: Prefer `gzip -d' over `gunzip'.  Move the
1227         call to `set -e' earlier.  Be stricter and more verbose in the
1228         checking of the generated tarball.
1229         (configure.in): Use the stub provided by ./defs, instead of
1230         writing it from scratch.  Avoid obsoleted constructs.  Remove
1231         useless call to `AM_PROG_CC_C_O'.
1232         * tests/distdir.test: Various minor improvements/normalizations.
1233         * tests/distlinks.test: Likewise.
1234
1235 2010-07-18  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1236
1237         Improve and extend test cond5.test.
1238         * tests/cond5.test: Do not blindly sleep 60 seconds before polling
1239         the background automake process, but poll it every 10 seconds for
1240         at most 30 times (this makes the test both faster on good machines,
1241         and more resilient to spurious timeout-due failures when in low
1242         priority or on heavily-loaded systems).
1243         Check also that automake writes the expected error messages on the
1244         standard error.
1245         Enable `errexit' flag, and related changes.
1246         Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by `./defs', rather than
1247         writing one from scratch.
1248
1249 2010-06-26  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1250
1251         Update program --help output to match current GCS.
1252         * configure.ac: Set and substitute PACKAGE_URL if AC_PACKAGE_URL
1253         is not defined, for compatibility to Autoconf < 2.64.
1254         * Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute PACKAGE_BUGREPORT and
1255         PACKAGE_URL.
1256         (sc_diff_automake_in_automake): Update number of diff lines for
1257         additional substitutions.
1258         * aclocal.in (usage): Use PACKAGE_BUGREPORT.  Point to Automake
1259         home page and GNU general help page.
1260         * automake.in (usage): Likewise.
1261         * doc/automake.texi: New flag PACKAGE_BUGREPORT, to factor email
1262         address.
1263         (Introduction, Creating amhello, amhello Explained, Options):
1264         Use it throughout.
1265         * lib/Automake/Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute
1266         PACKAGE_BUGREPORT.
1267         * lib/Automake/Config.in ($PACKAGE_BUGREPORT): New global.
1268         * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Use it for footer of fatal
1269         messages.
1270
1271         Clean up @var handling in the manual.
1272         * doc/automake.texi: Throughout the manual, lower-case @var
1273         names, replace a few one-character names.
1274
1275 2010-06-26  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1276
1277         Fix typo-related bug in test script silent5.test.
1278         * tests/silent5.test: Use $EGREP, not $GREP (which is not even
1279         defined).
1280
1281         Tests: remove useless repetitions of `foreign' automake option.
1282         * tests/multlib.test (configure.in): Remove useless use of
1283         `foreign' option in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (the `--foreign' option is
1284         already in $AUTOMAKE by default, so no point in repeating it).
1285         * tests/subobj10.test: Likewise.
1286         * tests/subobj9.test: Likewise.
1287         * tests/lex3.test (Makefile.am): Similarly, remove useless use
1288         of `foreign' option in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
1289         * tests/lex5.test: Likewise.
1290         * tests/pr279.test: Likewise.
1291         * tests/pr279-2.test: Likewise.
1292         * tests/specflg3.test: Likewise.
1293         * tests/target-cflags.test: Likewise.
1294
1295         Drop useless requirement "gzip" in lex5.test.
1296         * tests/lex5.test ($required): Do not list "gzip", as it's
1297         never used.
1298
1299 2010-06-24  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1300
1301         Fix bugs in test script silent5.test.
1302         * tests/silent5.test: Fixed a nasty bug (due to the use of grep
1303         instead of egrep) that could have led to false negatives.
1304
1305 2010-06-21  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1306
1307         Add a test checking that distributed broken symlinks cause
1308         `make dist' to fail.
1309         * tests/distlinksbrk.test: New test.
1310         * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1311
1312 2010-06-21  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1313
1314         Fix minor testsuite issues, update docs, for Yacc/Lex changes.
1315         * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Mention AM_YFLAGS, YFLAGS
1316         and AM_LFLAGS, LFLAGS in the order in which they now appear in
1317         the rules.
1318         * NEWS: Update.
1319         * tests/lflags.test, tests/lflags2.test, tests/yflags.test,
1320         tests/yflags2.test: Prefer `make -e' over `make VAR=VAL', to
1321         please maintainer-check.  Ensure generated C files contain a
1322         declaration, to please compilers.
1323
1324 2010-06-21  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1325
1326         Fix bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t. $(AM_FLAGS) and
1327         $(FLAGS) precedence.
1328         * automake.in: Fix registration of languages "Lex", "Lex (C++)",
1329         "Yacc" and "Yacc (C++)", so that $(LFLAGS) has precedence over
1330         $(AM_LFLAGS) and $(YFLAGS) has precedence over $(AM_YFLAGS).
1331         * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1332         * NEWS: Updated.
1333
1334         New tests, exposing bugs in Automake Yacc/Lex support w.r.t.
1335         $(AM_FLAGS) and $(FLAGS) precedence.
1336         * tests/lflags.test: New test, check that user $(LFLAGS) takes
1337         precedence over automake (AM_LFLAGS) and (foo_LFLAGS).  Still
1338         xfailing.
1339         * tests/lflags2.test: Likewise.
1340         * tests/yflags.test: New test, check that user $(YFLAGS) takes
1341         precedence over automake (AM_YFLAGS) and (foo_YFLAGS).  Still
1342         xfailing.
1343         * tests/yflags2.test: Likewise.
1344         * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Extended accordingly.
1345
1346 2010-06-20  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1347
1348         Modernize, improve and extend tests `suffix*.test'.
1349         * tests/suffix3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1350         changes.
1351         * tests/suffix4.test: Likewise.
1352         * tests/suffix6.test: Likewise, and do not create a useless dummy
1353         source file.
1354         * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
1355         * tests/suffix5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1356         changes.  Make grepping of Makefile.in slightly stricter.
1357         * tests/suffix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1358         changes.  Also, do not redirect grep output to /dev/null, as this
1359         might unmotivatedly hide useful information.
1360         * tests/suffix2.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
1361         in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs).  Use a more
1362         idiomatic way to count text occurrences in Makefile.in with
1363         grep.  Do not create useless dummy source files.
1364         * tests/suffix10.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured make
1365         stdout.  Minor cosmetic changes.
1366         * tests/suffix8.test: Likewise.  Also, drop useless call to the
1367         env(1) utility, and make grepping of make output stricter by using
1368         $FGREP rather than plain grep.
1369         * tests/suffix11.test: Likewise.
1370         * tests/suffix12.test: Likewise.
1371         * tests/suffix9.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to append to
1372         the `configure.in' stub.  Cosmetic changes.
1373         * tests/suffix13.test: Cosmetic spacing change.
1374
1375 2010-06-13  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1376
1377         Add useful comment in test script ext.test.
1378         * tests/ext.test: Add a comment explaining why an apparently
1379         useless `if' statement is indeed required.
1380
1381         Add useful comment in test script obsolete.test.
1382         * tests/obsolete.test: Add a comment explaining why we need
1383         an indirection in adding $AUTOUPDATE to $required.
1384
1385         Normalize whitespaces in 'tests/Makefile.am'.
1386         * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Use only spaces, not tabs, in the
1387         definition of this variable.
1388
1389 2010-06-12  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1390
1391         Remove a couple of unneeded conditionals from tests.
1392         * tests/pr243.test, tests/pr266.test, tests/strip.test: No need
1393         for the FOOTEST conditional.
1394
1395 2010-06-12  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1396
1397         Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
1398         * tests/symlink3.test: Deleted, separated into two new, more
1399         complete tests ...
1400         * tests/forcemiss.test: ... this one ...
1401         * tests/forcemiss2.test: ... and this one.
1402         * tests/symlink2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, make test
1403         stricter, and skip it if symlink creation is not supported.
1404         * tests/postproc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, related
1405         changes, and a couple of unrelated cosmetic changes.
1406         * tests/recurs.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
1407         `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.  Make grepping
1408         of Automake stderr slightly stricter.
1409         * tests/substtarg.test: Likewise.
1410         * tests/strip.test: Likewise, and move the call to `set -e'
1411         earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs'). Also, make sure
1412         that the script installed by `make install-script' is equal to
1413         the original one.
1414         * tests/substref.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
1415         `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.  Move the call
1416         to `set -e' earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs').
1417         Avoid to explicitly export CC for configure (that's already done
1418         in ./defs).  Avoid potential problems with unpredictable make
1419         output.  Finally, make grepping of Makefile.in stricter.
1420         * tests/substre2.test: Ensure verbose printing of the captured
1421         make's output, and make its grepping slightly stricter.
1422         * tests/cygwin32.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1423         changes.  Also, do not create useless dummy source/data files.
1424         * tests/scripts.test: Likewise.
1425         * tests/recurs2.test: Likewise.  Also, use the `configure.in'
1426         stub created by `./defs'.
1427         * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
1428
1429         Modernize, improve and/or fix tests `pluseq*.test.
1430         * tests/pluseq5.test: Append to configure.in using cat with an
1431         here-doc, not using echo.
1432         * tests/pluseq10.test: Make sure that the captured output of
1433         `make' command is always displayed. Where possible, use $FGREP
1434         instead of grep (this change makes some checks slightly stricter).
1435         * tests/pluseq8.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
1436         changes.
1437         * tests/pluseq.test: Likewise.  Also, do not create useless dummy
1438         data files, and use better m4 quoting in generated configure.in.
1439         * tests/pluseq2.test: Likewise.  Also, append to configure.in
1440         using cat with an here-doc, not using echo.
1441         * tests/pluseq3.test: Likewise.
1442         * tests/pluseq4.test: Likewise.
1443         * tests/pluseq6.test: Likewise.
1444         * tests/pluseq7.test: Do not create useless dummy source file.
1445         * tests/pluseq9.test: Slightly extended w.r.t. the grepping of
1446         Automake stderr.  Some unrelated cosmetic changes.
1447
1448         Testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured stderr.
1449         * tests/acloca18.test: Print captured stderr before either failing
1450         or grepping it.  Be sure to send captured stderr to stderr, not to
1451         stdout.
1452         * tests/ansi3b.test: Likewise.
1453         * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
1454         * tests/configure.test: Likewise.
1455         * tests/missing3.test: Likewise.
1456         * tests/missing6.test: Likewise.
1457         * tests/output-order.test: Likewise.
1458         * tests/pr300-ltlib.test: Likewise.
1459         * tests/python6.test: Likewise.
1460         * tests/python7.test: Likewise.
1461         * tests/python8.test: Likewise.
1462         * tests/python9.test: Likewise.
1463         * tests/subobj.test: Likewise.
1464         * tests/vars3.test: Likewise.
1465         * tests/missing4.test: Likewise, and fix a call to grep not to use
1466         the `-c' flag.
1467         * tests/ansi3.test: Likewise, and rely on the `configure.in' stub
1468         created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1469
1470         Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
1471         * tests/backsl.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and
1472         related changes.
1473         * tests/backsl2.test: Likewise.
1474         * tests/block.test: Likewise.
1475         * tests/canon2.test: Likewise.
1476         * tests/canon4.test: Likewise.
1477         * tests/comment2.test: Likewise.
1478         * tests/condlib.test: Likewise.
1479         * tests/cond15.test: Likewise, and prefer $FGREP over grep.
1480         * tests/canon3.test: Likewise.  Also, avoid to create an useless
1481         dummy source file.
1482         * tests/acoutpt2.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and some
1483         related changes.  Do some cosmetic improvements in the generated
1484         `configure.in' file.
1485         * tests/cond4.test: Likewise.
1486         * tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
1487         * tests/condinc.test: Likewise.
1488         * tests/cond7.test: Likewise.  Also, remove useless setting of
1489         AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am.
1490         * tests/ansi.test: Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
1491         changes.  Extended, esp. by running autoconf, ./configure and
1492         make, and by looking into the distdir.
1493
1494 2010-06-12  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1495             Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1496
1497         Extend tests/README w.r.t. trailing `:' in test scripts.
1498         * tests/README (section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
1499         Explain why apparently redundant trailing `:' and `Exit 0' in
1500         test scripts can indeed be useful.
1501
1502 2010-06-11  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1503
1504         Improve determination of PATH separator in bootstrap script.
1505         * bootstrap: Determine what the PATH separator is the same way
1506         autoconf does.
1507
1508         Minor improvements in bootstrap script.
1509         * bootstrap: Consistently use two-spaces indentation.  Cosmetic
1510         improvement to comments.
1511         ($me): New variable, containing program basename.
1512         Prepend it to all error messages.
1513
1514         Testsuite now works with BSD make in parallel mode.
1515         * tests/defs.in: Unset variables __MKLVL__ and MAKE_JOBS_FIFO,
1516         which are exported by BSD make when run in parallel mode, and
1517         which can confuse make processes spawned by our testsuite.
1518         This change fixes a lot of spurious failure when the testsuite
1519         is run with BSD make in parallel mode.
1520
1521 2010-06-09  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1522
1523         Modernize, improve and/or fix various test scripts.
1524         * tests/sanity.test: Rely on the `configure.in' stub created by
1525         `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1526         * tests/depend2.test: Likewise.  Also, call `set -e' just after
1527         the inclusion of `./defs', instead that later in the script.
1528         * tests/canon5.test: Avoid a useless `|| Exit 1' after a call to
1529         $AUTOMAKE, and improve the positioning of an $ACLOCAL call.
1530         * tests/exeext4.test: Use $FGREP instead of grep, where possible.
1531         Make auxiliary rules in the generated Makefile more silent.
1532         These changes make some checks slightly stricter.
1533         * tests/ext2.test: Call `Exit 1' if inclusion of `./defs' fails.
1534         * tests/gettext2.test: Place final `:' at the end of the script,
1535         rather than in the middle.
1536         * tests/exeext.test: Call `set -e' just after the inclusion of
1537         `./defs', instead that later in the script.
1538         * tests/extra5.test: Likewise.
1539         * tests/confdeps.test: Likewise.  Also, prefer `mv -f' over
1540         plain `mv', just to be sure.
1541         * tests/depcomp.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
1542         changes.  Also, modernize the generated configure.in.
1543         * tests/cond9.test: Likewise.  Also, rely on the `configure.in'
1544         stub created by `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.
1545         * tests/cond10.test: Likewise.
1546         * tests/depcomp2.test: Likewise.
1547         * tests/depend3.test: Likewise.
1548         * tests/distcom7.test: Likewise.
1549         * tests/fortdep.test: Likewise.  Also, remove definition of
1550         AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS to `foreign' in the generated Makefile.am,
1551         since that flag is already provided by $AUTOMAKE.
1552         * tests/mdate.test: Made stricter, by checking that Automake
1553         actually failed, and by making a stricter grep on the error
1554         message.  Also, set shell `errexit flag'.
1555         * tests/python2.test: Improved verbose messages.
1556
1557         Make test `ammissing.test' stricter.
1558         * tests/ammissing.test: Fail if $ACLOCAL succeeds unexpectedly.
1559         Enable `errexit' shell flag.
1560
1561 2010-06-08  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1562
1563         Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
1564         * tests/subcond.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
1565         minor changes.
1566         * tests/subst.test: Likewise.
1567         * tests/vars.test: Likewise.
1568         * tests/version4.test: Likewise.
1569         * tests/vpath.test: Likewise.
1570         * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
1571         * tests/werror.test: Likewise.
1572         * tests/whoami.test: Likewise.
1573         * tests/tags.test: Likewise, and avoid to crate an useless dummy
1574         header file.
1575         * tests/acsilent.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
1576         command substitution.
1577         * tests/unused.test: Likewise, and don't use an easily-avoided
1578         command substitution.
1579         * tests/version.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
1580         in the generated `configure.in'.
1581         * tests/version2.test: Likewise, and avoid deprecated constructs
1582         in the generated `configure.in'.
1583
1584 2010-06-06  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1585
1586         Prefer AUTOMAKE_fails over `$AUTOMAKE | grep' in tests.
1587         * tests/ldadd.test: Enable errexit.  Use AUTOMAKE_fails so
1588         the verbose log contains all output.
1589         * tests/mdate.test: Likewise.
1590         Prompted by Stefano Lattarini's change to discover.test.
1591
1592 2010-06-06  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1593
1594         Improve tests link*.test (enable `errexit' shell flag).
1595         * tests/link_c_cxx.test: Enable `errexit shell flag, and related
1596         changes.  Also, do not create useless source files.
1597         * tests/link_dist.test: Likewise.
1598         * tests/link_f90_only.test: Likewise.
1599         * tests/link_f_only.test: Likewise.
1600         * tests/link_fc.test: Likewise.
1601         * tests/link_fccxx.test: Likewise.
1602         * tests/link_fcxx.test: Likewise.
1603
1604 2010-06-06  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1605
1606         Improve ext.test semantics, avoid OpenBSD sh errexit issue.
1607         * tests/ext.test: Inside shell compound command, use
1608         `if $cmd; then Exit 1; fi' rather than `$cmd && Exit 1', to
1609         fix failure with OpenBSD sh introduced with last patch.
1610         Actually ensure that a rule for .EXT.o is created for each
1611         known extension EXT.
1612
1613 2010-06-06  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1614
1615         Enable `errexit' shell flag in some test scripts.
1616         * tests/dash.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
1617         changes.
1618         * tests/defun.test: Likewise.
1619         * tests/defun2.test: Likewise.
1620         * tests/dejagnu.test: Likewise.
1621         * tests/double.test: Likewise.
1622         * tests/distcom2.test: Likewise.
1623         * tests/empty2.test: Likewise.
1624         * tests/empty3.test: Likewise.
1625         * tests/empty4.test: Likewise.
1626         * tests/exdir.test: Likewise.
1627         * tests/ext.test: Likewise.
1628         * tests/extra.test: Likewise.
1629         * tests/extra2.test: Likewise.
1630         * tests/extra3.test: Likewise.
1631         * tests/extra4.test: Likewise.
1632         * tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
1633         * tests/fnoc.test: Likewise.
1634         * tests/fo.test: Likewise.
1635         * tests/instexec.test: Likewise.
1636         * tests/ltdeps.test: Likewise.
1637         * tests/nodep.test: Likewise.
1638         * tests/nodepcomp.test: Likewise.
1639         * tests/f90only.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
1640         comments and unnecessary commands.
1641         * tests/fonly.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
1642         comments and unnecessary commands.
1643         * tests/discover.test: Likewise, and made stricter.
1644
1645         Enable `errexit' shell flag in all tests cxx*.test.
1646         * tests/cxx.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
1647         minor changes.
1648         * tests/cxxansi.test: Likewise.
1649         * tests/cxxcpp.test: Likewise.
1650         * tests/cxxlibobj.test: Likewise.
1651         * tests/cxxlink.test: Likewise.
1652         * tests/cxxo.test: Likewise.
1653
1654         Enable `errexit' shell flag in various tests.
1655         * tests/acoutnoq.test: Enabled `errexit' shell flag, and related
1656         minor changes.
1657         * tests/acoutpt.test: Likewise.
1658         * tests/acoutqnl.test: Likewise.
1659         * tests/amassign.test: Likewise.
1660         * tests/ansi2.test: Likewise.
1661         * tests/ansi4.test: Likewise.
1662         * tests/badprog.test: Likewise.
1663         * tests/checkall.test: Likewise.
1664         * tests/clean.test: Likewise.
1665         * tests/colneq2.test: Likewise.
1666         * tests/colon.test: Likewise.
1667         * tests/colon5.test: Likewise.
1668         * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
1669         * tests/comment.test: Likewise.
1670         * tests/compile_f90_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
1671         * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
1672         * tests/cond3.test: Likewise.
1673         * tests/cond6.test: Likewise.
1674         * tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
1675         * tests/conf2.test: Likewise.
1676         * tests/confvar.test: Likewise.
1677         * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
1678         * tests/cond8.test: Likewise, plus a cosmetic change.
1679         * tests/confh4.test: Likewise.  Also, add in the heading comments
1680         an excerpt from the original bug report which motivated the
1681         creation of this test, to make its purpose clearer.
1682
1683 2010-06-06  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1684
1685         Rewrite manual to be gender-neutral.
1686         * doc/automake.texi (GNU Build System)
1687         (Standard Directory Variables, General Operation, CVS)
1688         (Hard-Coded Install Paths, Dependencies As Side Effects):
1689         Rewrite text to not contain gender-specific pronouns when
1690         speaking about developers or users, either by avoiding pronouns
1691         or by addressing them as `you' instead.
1692         * THANKS: Update.
1693         Report by Christina Gratorp.
1694
1695         * AUTHORS: Update.
1696
1697 2010-06-06  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1698
1699         Make tests on user extensibility of silent-rules mode stricter.
1700         * tests/silent6.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
1701         output produced by `make'.
1702         * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
1703
1704         Tests on silent-mode for C/Libtool made stricter.
1705         * tests/silent.test: Made stricter w.r.t. the grepping of the
1706         output produced by `make'.
1707         * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
1708         * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
1709         * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
1710         * tests/silent3.test: Likewise, and add a final `make distclean'
1711         command to keep it better in sync with tests/silent{4,9}.test.
1712
1713         Improved test silent5.test.
1714         * tests/silent5.test: Remove by hand all generated C files after
1715         non-verbose builds, to ensure the following builds are clean.
1716         Try to clean and rebuild with the same verbosity and without
1717         removing generated sources in between, to check that this does
1718         not trigger a different set of rules.  Make grepping of make's
1719         output stricter.  Improved/added some comments.
1720
1721         New tests for Automake silent-mode with Fortran.
1722         * tests/silentf77.test: New test.
1723         * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
1724         * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1725
1726         New test `silentcxx.test' (Automake silent-mode with C++).
1727         * tests/silentcxx.test: New test.
1728         * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1729
1730         New test `silentyacc.test' (Automake silent-mode with Yacc).
1731         * tests/silentyacc.test: New test.
1732         * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1733
1734         New test `silentlex.test' (Automake silent-mode with Lex).
1735         * tests/silentlex.test: New test.
1736         * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1737
1738         Relax tests on silent-rules to cater to overly verbose makes.
1739         * tests/silent.test: When testing silent builds, don't fail if
1740         make's output simply contains the `mv' substring, but only if
1741         it contains the `mv ' substring (note the trailing space).
1742         * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
1743         * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
1744         * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
1745         * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
1746         * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
1747
1748 2010-01-24  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1749
1750         Fix silent-rules output for disabled dependency tracking.
1751         * lib/am/depend2.am [!%FASTDEP%]: Rework silent-rules variable
1752         expansion code to also work in the case where %AMDEP% expands
1753         to FALSE at config.status time, using new substitution string
1754         %VERBOSE-NODEP%.
1755         * automake.in (verbose_nodep_flag): New function, appending
1756         `@am__nodep@' to the verbose-variable name.
1757         (handle_languages): If dependencies are not disabled, use it to
1758         set %VERBOSE-NODEP%.
1759         * m4/depend.m4: Substitute am__nodep as '_no', so the second
1760         verbose-variable will always expand to an empty string, if
1761         dependencies are enabled.
1762         * tests/silent5.test: Also test --disable-dependency-tracking;
1763         also test per-target flags for non-C language files.
1764         * tests/silent9.test: New test, like silent4.test but disable
1765         dependency tracking.
1766         * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
1767         * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
1768         Report by Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>.
1769
1770 2010-05-23  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1771
1772         Extend test on `nostdinc' automake option.
1773         * tests/nostdinc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag.  Related and
1774         unrelated minor changes.  Make the grepping of the generated
1775         Makefile.in slightly stricter.  Generate and run configure, so that
1776         the generated Makefile can be grepped too.
1777
1778 2010-05-23  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1779
1780         Make gnupload portable to EBCDIC hosts.
1781         * lib/gnupload: Use literal newline as argument for 'tr' rather
1782         than \015, for EBCDIC hosts.  Also, avoid unportable nested
1783         double-quotes and backquotes.
1784         * THANKS: Update.
1785         Report from Eric Blake and Steve Goetze via gnulib.
1786
1787 2010-05-23  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1788
1789         Fix Autoconf version required by Automake's configure.
1790         Automake configure script used to tell that automake required
1791         autoconf 2.60 or later, but then it checked for autoconf >= 2.62,
1792         and if that was not found, it gave an error saying that Automake
1793         required configure 2.61a-341 or later.  This change should
1794         eliminate such inconsistencies.
1795         * configure.ac ($required_autoconf_version): New variable.
1796         Use it throughout.
1797
1798 2010-05-23  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1799
1800         Fix unportable sed script in maintainer-check test.
1801         * Makefile.am (sc_tests_Exit_not_exit): Rewrite sed script to
1802         not contain semicolon after 'b' or brace commands, for NetBSD.
1803
1804         Wildcards are not portable to NetBSD make.
1805         * doc/automake.texi (Wildcards): Document portability issue.
1806         * tests/extra10.test, tests/extra11.test, tests/extra12.test:
1807         Require GNU make.
1808
1809 2010-05-23  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1810
1811         Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
1812         * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
1813         an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
1814
1815         Avoid possible false negatives in dejagnu7.test.
1816         * tests/dejagnu7.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag.  Also, avoid
1817         unportable use of fgrep option `-e'.
1818
1819         Fix conflnk3.test to work with Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
1820         * tests/conflnk3.test: Use `test -r FILE' and `test ! -r FILE'
1821         instead of respectively `test -e FILE' and `test ! -e FILE',
1822         since Solaris Sh doesn't grok the latter.  Do not SKIP the test
1823         if the shell doesn't support `test -e'.
1824
1825 2010-04-25  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1826
1827         Fix typo in manual.
1828         * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Add
1829         missing closing parenthesis.
1830
1831         Fix leftover call to removed function macros_dump.
1832         * automake.in (read_main_am_file): Call variables_dump, not
1833         macros_dump.  Print actual error before list of variables.
1834
1835 2010-04-25  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1836
1837         Minor improvements in comments of test `silent3.test'.
1838         * tests/silent3.test: Tell to keep it in sync with `silent9.test'
1839         too.
1840
1841 2010-04-25  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1842
1843         testsuite: ensure verbose printing of captured output.
1844         * tests/acloca14.test, tests/acloca18.test, tests/aclocal.test,
1845         tests/fort2.test, tests/help.test, tests/missing3.test,
1846         tests/missing6.test: Print captured stdout or stderr before
1847         grepping it.
1848
1849 2010-04-20  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1850
1851         Make test badopt.test stricter (by enabling `set -e').
1852         * tests/badopt.test: Add call to `set -e'.  Due to this change,
1853         an unexpected failure in the call to `$ACLOCAL' (whose outcome
1854         was previously unchecked) would cause the whole test to fail.
1855         Also, bumped the copyright years.
1856
1857         Make test for configure.in vs. configure.ac stricter.
1858         * tests/configure.test: Use a configure.in file that provokes
1859         an automake error, to ensure configure.ac is preferred.
1860
1861         Use `set -e' in confsub.test (avoids possible false negatives).
1862         * tests/confsub.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and related
1863         changes (this helps avoiding some possible minor false negatives).
1864         Also, bumped copyright years.
1865
1866 2010-04-20  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1867
1868         Fix -Werror handling for presence of configure.in and configure.ac.
1869         * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (Automake::Variable): Do not initialize
1870         $configure_ac at the global level, before command-line arguments
1871         have been parsed.
1872         (require_variables): Initialize it here.
1873         * tests/configure.test: New test.
1874         * tests/Makefile.am: Update.
1875         Report by Stefano Lattarini.
1876
1877 2010-04-20  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1878
1879         Avoid possible false negatives in confh5.test.
1880         * tests/confh5.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag, and bumped
1881         copyright years.  Due to this change, any unexpected failure
1882         in calls to $ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE, $AUTOCONF or $AUTOHEADER, or
1883         a failure in grepping expected text in output files should now
1884         cause the whole test to fail.
1885
1886 2010-04-17  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1887
1888         Fixed typo in POD documentation of Automake::Channels.
1889         * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Fixed typo in POD documentation:
1890         @<...> was used instead of C<...>.
1891
1892 2010-04-14  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1893
1894         Refactor tests on Automake TESTS color output.
1895         * tests/color.test: Tests using the expect program moved out to...
1896         * tests/color2.test: ... this new file.
1897         * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Extended accordingly.
1898
1899 2010-04-12  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1900
1901         Fix typos in comments in test confh5.test
1902         * tests/confh5.test: Fix a couple of typos in comments.
1903
1904         Avoid possible false negatives in canon-name.test.
1905         * tests/canon-name.test: Enable shell `errexit' flag.  Improve
1906         test description.
1907
1908 2010-04-11  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1909
1910         Fix per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror.
1911         Before this patch, 'AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = -Werror' in one
1912         Makefile.am would carry over to other Makefile.am files
1913         treated afterwards by the same thread, causing inconsistent
1914         and unstable exit status values.
1915         * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (dup_channel_setup)
1916         (drop_channel_setup): Save and restore the setting of
1917         $warnings_are_errors.
1918         * tests/werror3.test: New test.
1919         * tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
1920         * NEWS: Update.
1921
1922 2010-04-11  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1923
1924         Bugfix in confh5.test w.r.t. Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
1925         * tests/confh5.test: In the generated Makefile.am: do not use
1926         `test ! -e FILE' to check for the non-existence of a file, since
1927         that is not supported by Solaris/Heirloom Sh.
1928
1929         Make test `aclocal3.test' stricter.
1930         * tests/aclocal3.test: Add call to `set -e'.  Fail if $ACLOCAL
1931         succeds unexpectedly.
1932
1933         Add tests checking that symlinks are resolved by `make dist'.
1934         * tests/distlinks.test: New test.
1935         * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
1936         Suggested by observations from Ralf Wildenhues.
1937
1938 2010-04-11  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1939
1940         Use -9 for maximum xz compression with dist-xz.
1941         * lib/am/distdir.am (dist-xz, dist, dist-all): Pass -9 to xz.
1942         * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
1943         Report by Pavel Sanda.
1944
1945 2010-03-30  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1946
1947         Avoid an unportable use of `$status' shell variable.
1948         * Makefile.am (path-check): Don't use the `$status' shell variable
1949         in the target's rules, as it's special in Zsh (equivalent to `$?',
1950         and readonly).
1951
1952         Avoid another use of `chmod -R'.
1953         * Makefile.am (path-check): To be safe, do not use `chmod -R' on
1954         $(distdir) before removing it (as Solaris `chmod -R' touches
1955         symlink targets).  Instead, use the cleanup strategy used in
1956         distdir.am.
1957
1958 2010-03-28  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1959
1960         Remove uses of @acronym and @sc.
1961         * doc/automake.texi (Public Macros, Limitations on File Names):
1962         Remove all usage of @acronym and @sc in the manual.
1963         Suggested by Karl Berry.
1964
1965 2010-03-13  Karl Berry  <karl@freefriends.org>
1966
1967         GNU hello uses fdl.texi, not gpl.texi.
1968         * doc/automake.texi (Texinfo): Adjust example to upstream
1969         change.
1970
1971 2010-03-06  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1972
1973         Formatting cleanups in macro comments.
1974         * automake.in, lib/Automake/Channels.pm,
1975         lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm, lib/Automake/Options.pm,
1976         lib/Automake/Variable.pm, lib/Automake/XFile.pm,
1977         m4/options.m4, m4/substnot.m4: Fix macro comment format.
1978
1979 2010-03-04  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
1980             Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
1981
1982         Avoid generation of `tests/defs-p' file.
1983         * tests/defs.in: In the generated `configure.in' snippet: call
1984         `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' with the `parallel-tests' option if the shell
1985         variable `parallel_tests' is set to `yes'.
1986         * tests/Makefile.am (defs-p): Target removed.
1987         (check_SCRIPTS): Removed `defs-p'.
1988         (clean-local-check): Do not unlink `defs-p' anymore.
1989         ($(parallel_tests)): Transformation rules for the test scripts
1990         adjusted.
1991         * tests/gen-parallel-tests: Selection rules for the test
1992         scripts adjusted.
1993         * tests/parallel-tests.test: Set `$parallel_tests' to `yes'
1994         then include `./defs' (rather than simply including `./defs-p').
1995         * tests/parallel-tests2.test: Likewise.
1996         * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
1997         * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
1998         * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
1999         * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
2000         * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
2001         * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise.
2002         * tests/parallel-tests9.test: Likewise.
2003         * tests/parallel-tests10.test: Likewise.
2004         * tests/README (Section "Writing Test Cases" subsection "Do"):
2005         Adjusted the parts referring to tests checking `parallel-tests'
2006         behaviour.  Some other minor related improvements.
2007         * tests/.gitignore (defs-p): Removed.
2008
2009 2010-03-04  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2010
2011         Remove redundant unset of variable TESTS from some test scripts.
2012         * tests/color.test: Do not unset the `TESTS' variable, as it's
2013         already unset in the `defs' file.
2014         * tests/check5.test: Likewise.
2015         * tests/check8.test: Likewise.
2016         * tests/check9.test: Likewise.
2017         * tests/check10.test: Likewise.
2018         * tests/check11.test: Likewise.
2019         * tests/parallel-tests.test: Likewise.
2020         * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
2021         * tests/parallel-tests4.test: Likewise.
2022         * tests/parallel-tests5.test: Likewise.
2023         * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
2024         * tests/parallel-tests7.test: Likewise.
2025
2026 2010-02-22  Karl Berry  <karl@gnu.org>
2027
2028         Improve help message of mdate-sh.
2029         * mdate-sh: mention actual output format in help message.
2030
2031 2010-02-22  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2032
2033         Deprecate dist-lzma in favor of dist-xz.
2034         * doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions, Options):
2035         Adjust text to reflect renaming of lzma to xz.
2036         * NEWS: Update.
2037         Missing deprecation noted by Antonio Diaz Diaz.
2038
2039 2010-02-20  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2040
2041         Add tests about support of wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
2042         * tests/extra10.test: New test, check basic support of wildcards
2043         in EXTRA_DIST.
2044         * tests/extra11.test: New test, check more complex usage of
2045         wildcards in EXTRA_DIST.
2046         * tests/extra12.test: New test, check usage of wildcards in
2047         EXTRA_DIST when $builddir != $srcdir.
2048         * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
2049         Necessity of these new tests suggested by Braden McDaniel
2050         and Ralf Wildenhues.
2051
2052 2010-02-08  Simon Josefsson  <simon@josefsson.org>
2053
2054         Fix copyright statement in gnupload script.
2055         * lib/gnupload: Fix copyright statement.
2056
2057 2010-02-06  Dmitry V. Levin  <ldv@altlinux.org>  (tiny change)
2058             Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2059
2060         Fix exit status of signal handlers in shell scripts.
2061         The value of `$?' on entrance to signal handlers in shell scripts
2062         cannot be relied upon, so set the exit code explicitly to
2063         128 + SIG<SIGNAL>.
2064         * lib/am/check.am (am__check_pre): Use `exit 143' in signal handler.
2065         * lib/elisp-comp: Likewise.
2066         * lib/install-sh: Likewise.
2067         * lib/ylwrap: Likewise.  Also, fix script to trap signal 13, not 3.
2068         * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
2069         Bug report, analysis, and initial patch by Dmitry V. Levin.
2070
2071 2010-02-06  Karl Berry  <karl@gnu.org>
2072
2073         Improve gnupload usage text.
2074         * gnupload (usage): Shorten to make more likely to fit on a tty
2075         line.  Mention CMD in the synopsis.  With ..., plural is implied.
2076
2077 2010-01-28  Christos Kontas  <xakon@yahoo.com>  (tiny change)
2078
2079         Fix some typos in the manual
2080         * doc/automake.texi (Nested Packages, Rebuilding): Fix typos.
2081
2082 2010-01-17  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
2083
2084         Slighty improve tests acoutbs.test and acoutbs2.test.
2085         * tests/acoutbs2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag.  Check that
2086         autoconf and configure work, that the file `zot' is created by
2087         configure, and that no file containing a backslash in its name is
2088         created.
2089         * tests/acoutbs.test: Likewise, plus updated copyright years.
2090
2091         Fix test acoutbs2.test.
2092         * tests/acoutbs2: In the generated configure.in: add proper calls
2093         to AC_INIT and AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, and remove explicit definition of
2094         PACKAGE and VERSION. Add a call to aclocal before calling automake.
2095         Updated copyright years.
2096         * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Removed acoutbs2.test.
2097
2098         Add forgotten test scripts to $(TESTS).
2099         * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Added test scripts present on the
2100         filesystem, which were erroneously left out from $(TESTS):
2101         acoutbs2.test, badopt.test, extra2.test.
2102         (XFAIL_TESTS): Added acoutbs2.test.
2103
2104 2010-01-17  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2105
2106         Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
2107         * INSTALL, lib/INSTALL, lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub:
2108         Sync from upstream.
2109
2110         Bump copyright years.
2111         * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
2112         * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
2113         * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
2114
2115         Rotate ChangeLog.
2116         * ChangeLog.09: New file, rotated from ...
2117         * ChangeLog: ... here.
2118         * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute ChangeLog.09.
2119
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2121
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2123
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2126
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2128 ;; coding: utf-8
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