# Maintainer checks for Automake. Requires GNU make.
# Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
# any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program. If not, see .
# We also have to take into account VPATH builds (where some generated
# tests might be in '$(builddir)' rather than in '$(srcdir)'), TAP-based
# tests script (which have a '.tap' extension) and helper scripts used
# by other test cases (which have a '.sh' extension).
xtests := $(shell \
if test $(srcdir) = .; then \
dirs=.; \
else \
dirs='$(srcdir) .'; \
fi; \
for d in $$dirs; do \
for s in tap sh; do \
ls $$d/t/ax/*.$$s $$d/t/*.$$s $$d/contrib/t/*.$$s 2>/dev/null; \
done; \
done | sort)
xdefs = $(srcdir)/t/ax/test-init.sh $(srcdir)/defs $(srcdir)/defs-static.in
ams := $(shell find $(srcdir) -name '*.dir' -prune -o -name '*.am' -print)
# Some simple checks, and then ordinary check. These are only really
# guaranteed to work on my machine.
syntax_check_rules = \
$(sc_tests_plain_check_rules) \
sc_diff_automake_in_automake \
sc_diff_aclocal_in_automake \
sc_perl_syntax \
sc_no_brace_variable_expansions \
sc_rm_minus_f \
sc_no_for_variable_in_macro \
sc_mkinstalldirs \
sc_pre_normal_post_install_uninstall \
sc_perl_no_undef \
sc_perl_no_split_regex_space \
sc_cd_in_backquotes \
sc_cd_relative_dir \
sc_perl_at_uscore_in_scalar_context \
sc_perl_local \
sc_AMDEP_TRUE_in_automake_in \
sc_tests_make_without_am_makeflags \
$(sc_obsolete_requirements_rules) \
sc_tests_obsolete_variables \
sc_tests_here_document_format \
sc_tests_command_subst \
sc_tests_Exit_not_exit \
sc_tests_automake_fails \
sc_tests_required_after_defs \
sc_tests_overriding_macros_on_cmdline \
sc_tests_plain_sleep \
sc_tests_ls_t \
sc_tests_executable \
sc_m4_am_plain_egrep_fgrep \
sc_tests_no_configure_in \
sc_tests_PATH_SEPARATOR \
sc_tests_logs_duplicate_prefixes \
sc_tests_makefile_variable_order \
sc_perl_at_substs \
sc_unquoted_DESTDIR \
sc_tabs_in_texi \
sc_at_in_texi
## These check avoids accidental configure substitutions in the source.
## There are exactly 9 lines that should be modified from automake.in to
## automake, and 10 lines that should be modified from aclocal.in to
## aclocal; these wors out to 32 and 34 lines of diffs, respectively.
sc_diff_automake_in_automake:
@if test `diff $(srcdir)/automake.in automake | wc -l` -ne 32; then \
echo "found too many diffs between automake.in and automake" 1>&2; \
diff -c $(srcdir)/automake.in automake; \
exit 1; \
fi
sc_diff_aclocal_in_aclocal:
@if test `diff $(srcdir)/aclocal.in aclocal | wc -l` -ne 34; then \
echo "found too many diffs between aclocal.in and aclocal" 1>&2; \
diff -c $(srcdir)/aclocal.in aclocal; \
exit 1; \
fi
## Syntax check with default Perl (on my machine, Perl 5).
sc_perl_syntax:
@perllibdir="./lib$(PATH_SEPARATOR)$(srcdir)/lib" $(PERL) -c -w automake
@perllibdir="./lib$(PATH_SEPARATOR)$(srcdir)/lib" $(PERL) -c -w aclocal
## Expect no instances of '${...}'. However, $${...} is ok, since that
## is a shell construct, not a Makefile construct.
sc_no_brace_variable_expansions:
@if grep -v '^ *#' $(ams) | grep -F '$${' | grep -F -v '$$$$'; then \
echo "Found too many uses of '\$${' in the lines above." 1>&2; \
exit 1; \
else :; fi
## Make sure 'rm' is called with '-f'.
sc_rm_minus_f:
@if grep -v '^#' $(ams) $(xtests) \
| grep -vE '/(spy-rm\.tap|subobj-clean.*-pr10697\.sh):' \
| grep -E '\)'; \
then \
echo "Suspicious 'rm' invocation." 1>&2; \
exit 1; \
else :; fi
## Never use something like "for file in $(FILES)", this doesn't work
## if FILES is empty or if it contains shell meta characters (e.g. $ is
## commonly used in Java filenames).
sc_no_for_variable_in_macro:
@if grep 'for .* in \$$(' $(ams) | grep -v '/Makefile\.am:'; then \
echo 'Use "list=$$(mumble); for var in $$$$list".' 1>&2 ; \
exit 1; \
else :; fi
## Make sure all invocations of mkinstalldirs are correct.
sc_mkinstalldirs:
@if grep -n 'mkinstalldirs' $(ams) \
| grep -F -v '$$(mkinstalldirs)' \
| grep -v '^\./Makefile.am:[0-9][0-9]*: *lib/mkinstalldirs \\$$'; \
then \
echo "Found incorrect use of mkinstalldirs in the lines above" 1>&2; \
exit 1; \
else :; fi
## Make sure all calls to PRE/NORMAL/POST_INSTALL/UNINSTALL
sc_pre_normal_post_install_uninstall:
@if grep -E -n '\((PRE|NORMAL|POST)_(|UN)INSTALL\)' $(ams) | \
grep -v ':##' | grep -v ': @\$$('; then \
echo "Found incorrect use of PRE/NORMAL/POST_INSTALL/UNINSTALL in the lines above" 1>&2; \
exit 1; \
else :; fi
## We never want to use "undef", only "delete", but for $/.
sc_perl_no_undef:
@if grep -n -w 'undef ' $(srcdir)/automake.in | \
grep -F -v 'undef $$/'; then \
echo "Found undef in automake.in; use delete instead" 1>&2; \
exit 1; \
fi
## We never want split (/ /,...), only split (' ', ...).
sc_perl_no_split_regex_space:
@if grep -n 'split (/ /' $(srcdir)/automake.in; then \
echo "Found bad split in the lines above." 1>&2; \
exit 1; \
fi
## Look for cd within backquotes
sc_cd_in_backquotes:
@if grep -n '^[^#]*` *cd ' $(srcdir)/automake.in $(ams); then \
echo "Consider using \$$(am__cd) in the lines above." 1>&2; \
exit 1; \
fi
## Look for cd to a relative directory (may be influenced by CDPATH).
## Skip some known directories that are OK.
sc_cd_relative_dir:
@if grep -n '^[^#]*cd ' $(srcdir)/automake.in $(ams) | \
grep -v 'echo.*cd ' | \
grep -v 'am__cd =' | \
grep -v '^[^#]*cd [./]' | \
grep -v '^[^#]*cd \$$(top_builddir)' | \
grep -v '^[^#]*cd "\$$\$$am__cwd' | \
grep -v '^[^#]*cd \$$(abs' | \
grep -v '^[^#]*cd "\$$(DESTDIR)'; then \
echo "Consider using \$$(am__cd) in the lines above." 1>&2; \
exit 1; \
fi
## Using @_ in a scalar context is most probably a programming error.
sc_perl_at_uscore_in_scalar_context:
@if grep -Hn '[^@_A-Za-z0-9][_A-Za-z0-9]*[^) ] *= *@_' $(srcdir)/automake.in; then \
echo "Using @_ in a scalar context in the lines above." 1>&2; \
exit 1; \
fi
## Allow only few variables to be localized in Automake.
sc_perl_local:
@if egrep -v '^[ \t]*local \$$[_~]( *=|;)' $(srcdir)/automake.in | \
grep '^[ \t]*local [^*]'; then \
echo "Please avoid 'local'." 1>&2; \
exit 1; \
fi
## Don't let AMDEP_TRUE substitution appear in automake.in.
sc_AMDEP_TRUE_in_automake_in:
@if grep '@AMDEP''_TRUE@' $(srcdir)/automake.in; then \
echo "Don't put AMDEP_TRUE substitution in automake.in" 1>&2; \
exit 1; \
fi
## Recursive make invocations should always pass $(AM_MAKEFLAGS)
## to $(MAKE), for portability to non-GNU make.
sc_tests_make_without_am_makeflags:
@if grep '^[^#].*(MAKE) ' $(ams) $(srcdir)/automake.in \
| grep -v 'AM_MAKEFLAGS' \
| grep -v '/am/header-vars\.am:.*am--echo.*| $$(MAKE) -f *-'; \
then \
echo 'Use $$(MAKE) $$(AM_MAKEFLAGS).' 1>&2; \
exit 1; \
fi
## Look out for some obsolete variables.
sc_tests_obsolete_variables:
@vars=" \
using_tap \
test_prefer_config_shell \
original_AUTOMAKE \
original_ACLOCAL \
parallel_tests \
am_parallel_tests \
"; \
seen=""; \
for v in $$vars; do \
if grep -E "\b$$v\b" $(xtests) $(xdefs); then \
seen="$$seen $$v"; \
fi; \
done; \
if test -n "$$seen"; then \
for v in $$seen; do \
case $$v in \
parallel_tests|am_parallel_tests) v2=am_serial_tests;; \
*) v2=am_$$v;; \
esac; \
echo "Variable '$$v' is obsolete, use '$$v2' instead." 1>&2; \
done; \
exit 1; \
else :; fi
## Look out for obsolete requirements specified in the test cases.
sc_obsolete_requirements_rules = sc_no_texi2dvi-o sc_no_makeinfo-html
modern-requirement.texi2dvi-o = texi2dvi
modern-requirement.makeinfo-html = makeinfo
$(sc_obsolete_requirements_rules): sc_no_% :
@if grep -E 'required=.*\b$*\b' $(xtests); then \
echo "Requirement '$*' is obsolete and shouldn't" \
"be used anymore." >&2; \
echo "You should use '$(modern-requirement.$*)' instead." >&2; \
exit 1; \
fi
## Tests should never call some programs directly, but only through the
## corresponding variable (e.g., '$MAKE', not 'make'). This will allow
## the programs to be overridden at configure time (for less brittleness)
## or by the user at make time (to allow better testsuite coverage).
sc_tests_plain_check_rules = \
sc_tests_plain_egrep \
sc_tests_plain_fgrep \
sc_tests_plain_make \
sc_tests_plain_perl \
sc_tests_plain_automake \
sc_tests_plain_aclocal \
sc_tests_plain_autoconf \
sc_tests_plain_autoupdate \
sc_tests_plain_autom4te \
sc_tests_plain_autoheader \
sc_tests_plain_autoreconf
toupper = $(shell echo $(1) | LC_ALL=C tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]')
$(sc_tests_plain_check_rules): sc_tests_plain_% :
@# The leading ':' in the grep below is what is printed by the
@# preceding 'grep -v' after the file name.
@# It works here as a poor man's substitute for beginning-of-line
@# marker.
@if grep -v '^[ ]*#' $(xtests) \
| $(EGREP) '(:|\bif|\bnot|[;!{\|\(]|&&|\|\|)[ ]*?$*\b'; \
then \
echo 'Do not run "$*" in the above tests.' \
'Use "$$$(call toupper,$*)" instead.' 1>&2; \
exit 1; \
fi
## Tests should only use END and EOF for here documents
## (so that the next test is effective).
sc_tests_here_document_format:
@if grep '<<' $(xtests) | grep -Ev '\b(END|EOF)\b|\bcout <<'; then \
echo 'Use here documents with "END" and "EOF" only, for greppability.' 1>&2; \
exit 1; \
fi
## Our test case should use the $(...) POSIX form for command substitution,
## rather than the older `...` form.
## The point of ignoring text on here-documents is that we want to exempt
## Makefile.am rules, configure.ac code and helper shell script created and
## used by out shell scripts, because Autoconf (as of version 2.69) does not
## yet ensure that $CONFIG_SHELL will be set to a proper POSIX shell.
sc_tests_command_subst:
@found=false; \
scan () { \
sed -n -e '/^#/d' \
-e '/<<.*END/,/^END/b' -e '/<<.*EOF/,/^EOF/b' \
-e 's/\\`/\\{backtick}/' \
-e "s/[^\\]'\([^']*\`[^']*\)*'/'{quoted-text}'/g" \
-e '/`/p' $$*; \
}; \
for file in $(xtests); do \
res=`scan $$file`; \
if test -n "$$res"; then \
echo "$$file:$$res"; \
found=true; \
fi; \
done; \
if $$found; then \
echo 'Use $$(...), not `...`, for command substitutions.' >&2; \
exit 1; \
fi
## Tests should no more call 'Exit', just 'exit'. That's because we
## now have in place a better workaround to ensure the exit status is
## transported correctly across the exit trap.
sc_tests_Exit_not_exit:
@if grep 'Exit' $(xtests) $(xdefs) | grep -Ev '^[^:]+: *#' | grep .; then \
echo "Use 'exit', not 'Exit'; it's obsolete now." 1>&2; \
exit 1; \
fi
## Use AUTOMAKE_fails when appropriate
sc_tests_automake_fails:
@if grep -v '^#' $(xtests) | grep '\$$AUTOMAKE.*&&.*exit'; then \
echo 'Use AUTOMAKE_fails + grep to catch automake failures in the above tests.' 1>&2; \
exit 1; \
fi
## Setting 'required' after sourcing './defs' is a bug.
sc_tests_required_after_defs:
@for file in $(xtests); do \
if out=`sed -n '/defs/,$${/required=/p;}' $$file`; test -n "$$out"; then \
echo 'Do not set "required" after sourcing "defs" in '"$$file: $$out" 1>&2; \
exit 1; \
fi; \
done
## Overriding a Makefile macro on the command line is not portable when
## recursive targets are used. Better use an envvar. SHELL is an
## exception, POSIX says it can't come from the environment. V, DESTDIR,
## DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS and DISABLE_HARD_ERRORS are exceptions, too,
## as package authors are urged not to initialize them anywhere.
## Finally, 'exp' is used by some ad-hoc checks, where we ensure it's
## ok to override it from the command line.
sc_tests_overriding_macros_on_cmdline:
@if grep -E '\$$MAKE .*(SHELL=.*=|=.*SHELL=)' $(xtests); then \
echo 'Rewrite "$$MAKE foo=bar SHELL=$$SHELL" as "foo=bar $$MAKE -e SHELL=$$SHELL"' 1>&2; \
echo ' in the above lines, it is more portable.' 1>&2; \
exit 1; \
fi
# The first s/// tries to account for usages like "$MAKE || st=$?".
# 'DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS' and 'exp' are allowed to contain whitespace in
# their definitions, hence the more complex last three substitutions below.
# Also, the 'make-dryrun.sh' is whitelisted, since there we need to
# override variables from the command line in order to cover the expected
# code paths.
@tests=`for t in $(xtests); do \
case $$t in */make-dryrun.sh);; *) echo $$t;; esac; \
done`; \
if sed -e 's/ || .*//' -e 's/ && .*//' \
-e 's/ DESTDIR=[^ ]*/ /' -e 's/ SHELL=[^ ]*/ /' \
-e 's/ V=[^ ]*/ /' -e 's/ DISABLE_HARD_ERRORS=[^ ]*/ /' \
-e "s/ DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS='[^']*'/ /" \
-e 's/ DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS="[^"]*"/ /' \
-e 's/ DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS=[^ ]/ /' \
-e "s/ exp='[^']*'/ /" \
-e 's/ exp="[^"]*"/ /' \
-e 's/ exp=[^ ]/ /' \
$$tests | grep '\$$MAKE .*='; then \
echo 'Rewrite "$$MAKE foo=bar" as "foo=bar $$MAKE -e" in the above lines,' 1>&2; \
echo 'it is more portable.' 1>&2; \
exit 1; \
fi
@if grep 'SHELL=.*\$$MAKE' $(xtests); then \
echo '$$MAKE ignores the SHELL envvar, use "$$MAKE SHELL=$$SHELL" in' 1>&2; \
echo 'the above lines.' 1>&2; \
exit 1; \
fi
## Prefer use of our 'is_newest' auxiliary script over the more hacky
## idiom "test $(ls -1t new old | sed 1q) = new", which is both more
## cumbersome and more fragile.
sc_tests_ls_t:
@if LC_ALL=C grep -E '\bls(\s+-[a-zA-Z0-9]+)*\s+-[a-zA-Z0-9]*t' \
$(xtests); then \
echo "Use 'is_newest' rather than hacks based on 'ls -t'" 1>&2; \
exit 1; \
fi
## Test scripts must be executable.
sc_tests_executable:
@st=0; \
for f in $(xtests); do \
case $$f in \
t/ax/*|./t/ax/*|$(srcdir)/t/ax/*);; \
*) test -x $$f || { echo "$$f: not executable" >&2; st=1; }; \
esac; \
done; \
test $$st -eq 0 || echo '$@: some test scripts are not executable' >&2; \
exit $$st;
## Never use 'sleep 1' to create files with different timestamps.
## Use '$sleep' instead. Some filesystems (e.g., Windows) have only
## a 2sec resolution.
sc_tests_plain_sleep:
@if grep -E '\bsleep +[12345]\b' $(xtests); then \
echo 'Do not use "sleep x" in the above tests. Use "$$sleep" instead.' 1>&2; \
exit 1; \
fi
## fgrep and egrep are not required by POSIX.
sc_m4_am_plain_egrep_fgrep:
@if grep -E '\b[ef]grep\b' $(ams) $(srcdir)/m4/*.m4; then \
echo 'Do not use egrep or fgrep in the above files,' \
'they are not portable.' 1>&2; \
exit 1; \
fi
## Prefer 'configure.ac' over the obsolescent 'configure.in' as the name
## for configure input files in our testsuite. The latter has been
## deprecated for several years (at least since autoconf 2.50).
sc_tests_no_configure_in:
@if grep -E '\bconfigure\\*\.in\b' $(xtests) $(xdefs) \
| grep -Ev '/backcompat.*\.(sh|tap):' \
| grep -Ev '/autodist-configure-no-subdir\.sh:' \
| grep -Ev '/(configure|help)\.sh:' \
| grep .; \
then \
echo "Use 'configure.ac', not 'configure.in', as the name" >&2; \
echo "for configure input files in the test cases above." >&2; \
exit 1; \
fi
## Rule to ensure that the testsuite has been run before. We don't depend
## on 'check' here, because that would be very wasteful in the common case.
## We could run "make check RECHECK_LOGS=" and avoid toplevel races with
## AM_RECURSIVE_TARGETS. Suggest keeping test directories around for
## greppability of the Makefile.in files.
sc_ensure_testsuite_has_run:
@if test ! -f '$(TEST_SUITE_LOG)'; then \
echo 'Run "env keep_testdirs=yes make check" before' \
'running "make maintainer-check"' >&2; \
exit 1; \
fi
.PHONY: sc_ensure_testsuite_has_run
## Ensure our warning and error messages do not contain duplicate 'warning:' prefixes.
## This test actually depends on the testsuite having been run before.
sc_tests_logs_duplicate_prefixes: sc_ensure_testsuite_has_run
@if grep -E '(warning|error):.*(warning|error):' t/*.log; then \
echo 'Duplicate warning/error message prefixes seen in above tests.' >&2; \
exit 1; \
fi
## Ensure variables are listed before rules in Makefile.in files we generate.
sc_tests_makefile_variable_order: sc_ensure_testsuite_has_run
@st=0; \
for file in `find t -name Makefile.in -print`; do \
latevars=`sed -n \
-e :x -e 's/#.*//' \
-e '/\\\\$$/{' -e N -e 'b x' -e '}' \
-e '# Literal TAB.' \
-e '1,/^ /d' \
-e '# Allow @ so we match conditionals.' \
-e '/^ *[a-zA-Z_@]\{1,\} *=/p' $$file`; \
if test -n "$$latevars"; then \
echo "Variables are expanded too late in $$file:" >&2; \
echo "$$latevars" | sed 's/^/ /' >&2; \
st=1; \
fi; \
done; \
test $$st -eq 0 || { \
echo 'Ensure variables are expanded before rules' >&2; \
exit 1; \
}
## Using ':' as a PATH separator is not portable.
sc_tests_PATH_SEPARATOR:
@if grep -E '\bPATH=.*:.*' $(xtests) ; then \
echo "Use '\$$PATH_SEPARATOR', not ':', in PATH definitions" \
"above." 1>&2; \
exit 1; \
fi
## Try to make sure all @...@ substitutions are covered by our
## substitution rule.
sc_perl_at_substs:
@if test `grep -E '^[^#]*@[A-Za-z_0-9]+@' aclocal | wc -l` -ne 0; then \
echo "Unresolved @...@ substitution in aclocal" 1>&2; \
exit 1; \
fi
@if test `grep -E '^[^#]*@[A-Za-z_0-9]+@' automake | wc -l` -ne 0; then \
echo "Unresolved @...@ substitution in automake" 1>&2; \
exit 1; \
fi
sc_unquoted_DESTDIR:
@if grep -E "[^\'\"]\\\$$\(DESTDIR" $(ams); then \
echo 'Suspicious unquoted DESTDIR uses.' 1>&2 ; \
exit 1; \
fi
sc_tabs_in_texi:
@if grep ' ' $(srcdir)/doc/automake.texi; then \
echo 'Do not use tabs in the manual.' 1>&2; \
exit 1; \
fi
sc_at_in_texi:
@if grep -E '([^@]|^)@([ ][^@]|$$)' $(srcdir)/doc/automake.texi; \
then \
echo 'Unescaped @.' 1>&2; \
exit 1; \
fi
$(syntax_check_rules): automake aclocal
maintainer-check: $(syntax_check_rules)
.PHONY: maintainer-check $(syntax_check_rules)
## Check that the list of tests given in the Makefile is equal to the
## list of all test scripts in the Automake testsuite.
maintainer-check: maintainer-check-list-of-tests