+2011-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ py-compile: normalize error and help messages
+ * lib/py-compile: Now error messages do not begin with a capital
+ letter, nor end with a period, as per GNU standards. Prepend the
+ error messages with the name of the script, not with its path.
+ When an invalid usage is recognized, always display the customary
+ message "Try `py-compile --help' ..." on a line of its own.
+ ($me): New variable, containing the name of the
+ program, i.e., `py-compile'. Use it throughout.
+ (usage_error): New function, used to display error messages about
+ invalid usage.
+ * tests/py-compile-usage.test: Extend and tighten accordingly.
+
+2011-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ python tests: add "unit tests" on py-compile
+ * tests/py-compile-basic.test: New test.
+ * tests/py-compile-basic2.test: New test.
+ * tests/py-compile-basedir.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/py-compile-destdir.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/py-compile-env.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/py-compile-usage.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+ Tested with python 2.0.1, 2.4.6, 2.6.6, 2.7.1, and 3.1.3.
+
+2011-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ py-compile: the '--destdir' option now accepts a blank argument
+ * lib/py-compile (Option parsing): Do not count an empty argument
+ to `--destdir' or `--basedir' as a missing argument.
+ * lib/python.am: Simplify accordingly, passing the `--destdir'
+ option to py-compile unconditionally, even if `$(DESTDIR)' is
+ empty.
+ * NEWS: Update.
+
+2011-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ python: run the 'py-compile' script with $(SHELL)
+ * lib/python.am (install-%DIR%PYTHON): Run each instance of
+ py-compile using $(SHELL). Since we are at it, break overly
+ long lines.
+ (am__py_compile): New variable, to reduce code duplication.
+
+2011-06-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ maintcheck: fix some failures, extend some checks
+ * Makefile.am (sc_diff_automake_in_automake): Update, as we
+ now expect 9 lines, not 8, to be changed from `automake.in'
+ to `automake'.
+ (sc_diff_aclocal_in_aclocal): New maintainer check, similar to
+ the above, and checking that only 10 lines are changed from
+ `aclocal.in' to `aclocal'.
+ (syntax_check_rules): Update.
+ (sc_tests_Exit_not_exit): Exempt self tests `self-check-*.test'
+ from this check, as they can legitimately use the bare `exit'
+ builtin in various places.
+ * doc/automake.texi (Python): Remove stray `@' from the end of
+ a line. Typo introduced in commit `v1.11-312-g5bf7af6'.
+ * tests/depcomp8a.test: Pass DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS to make
+ from the environment rather than from the command line, to
+ pacify the `sc_tests_overriding_macros_on_cmdline' maintainer
+ check.
+ * tests/depcomp8b.test: Likewise.
+
+2011-05-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ remake: behave better with non-GNU make in subdirectories
+ Currently, with every decent make program, it is possible to
+ rebuild out-of-date autotools-generated files with a simple
+ "make Makefile" -- but for this to work reliably with non-GNU
+ make implementations, the command must be issued from the
+ top-level directory. This patch removes such limitation.
+ * lib/am/configure.am (am--refresh): Depend on `%MAKEFILE%'.
+ * tests/defs.in (using_gmake): New function, backported from the
+ `master' branch (and simplified).
+ * tests/remake-subdir.test: New test.
+ * tests/remake-subdir2.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/remake-subdir-gnu.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/remake-subdir-from-subdir.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-05-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ automake, aclocal: honour configure-time AUTOCONF and AUTOM4TE
+ Currently, the Automake's own configure script allow definition
+ of AUTOCONF and AUTOM4TE, expected to point respectively to an
+ autoconf and autom4te programs. But while these definitions are
+ honoured in the Automake's build systems and test suite, they
+ were *not* honoured in the generated `automake' and `aclocal'
+ scripts. This behaviour, apart from being wrong in that it does
+ not allow the user enough freedom in choosing his tools, also
+ caused inconsistencies in the test suite, brining to spurious
+ failures.
+ Problem reported by Graham Reitz on the automake list; see thread:
+ <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2011-05/msg00022.html>
+ * automake.in ($traces): Use `@am_AUTOCONF', not simply `autoconf'.
+ * aclocal.in ($traces): Use `@am_AUTOM4TE', not simply `autom4te'.
+ * Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute also `@am_AUTOCONF' and
+ `@am_AUTOM4TE'.
+ * NEWS: Update.
+ * THANKS: Update.
+
+2011-05-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ build: the user can override AUTOM4TE, AUTORECONF and AUTOUPDATE too
+ Our build system allows the user to override AUTOCONF and AUTOHEADER
+ at configure time, and honours these overrides in our testsuite.
+ But it didn't do the same with AUTOM4TE, AUTORECONF and AUTOUPDATE.
+ This change fixes that inconsistency.
+ * configure.ac (am_AUTOM4TE, am_AUTOUPDATE, am_AUTORECONF): New
+ AC_SUBSTitutions. Update comments.
+ * tests/defs.in ($AUTOUPDATE): Default to `@am_AUTOUPDATE@' now.
+ ($AUTOM4TE): New variable, defaulting to `@am_AUTOM4TE@'.
+ ($AUTORECONF): New variable, defaulting to `@am_AUTORECONF@'.
+ * doc/Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/amhello-1.0.tar.gz): Update.
+
+2011-05-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+ Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests/README: fix example about `make -e' usage
+ * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"): When
+ some variable is never initialized in the Makefile, `-e' is not
+ necessary in order to override it. DESTDIR is such a variable: we
+ ensure that we do not ever initialize it. And as such, it is quite
+ portable to use:
+ $ make DESTDIR=/foo/bar install
+ and in fact, quite widely used.
+ So our example about when `make -e' is required, which references
+ the `DESTDIR' variable, is poorly chosen, if not downright wrong.
+ Rewrite it to use `prefix' as the overridden variable instead.
+
+2011-05-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ testsuite: avoid re-running few tests with 'parallel-tests' option
+ Some tests in our testsuite use the 'simple-tests' driver only
+ marginally, or simply as a mean to conveniently check unrelated
+ invariants. It makes little sense to force these tests to also
+ run with the 'parallel-tests' Automake option active, as doing so
+ offers no real gain in coverage, while often causing a measurable
+ overhead in execution time (for an already too-slow testsuite).
+ * tests/pr401.test (parallel_tests): Define to "no", to prevent
+ the generation of a sibling test script using the 'parallel-tests'
+ driver.
+ * tests/pr401b.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/pr401c.test: Likewise.
+
+2011-05-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ testsuite: allow tests to avoid the use of 'parallel-tests' option
+ * tests/gen-parallel-tests: Do not generate "siblings" for tests
+ that explicitly define the `parallel_tests', whether to "yes" or
+ to any other value. Extend heading comments to give a rationale
+ for this behaviour.
+ * tests/README: Update.
+
+2011-05-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests/README: update obsoleted advice
+ * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
+ Do not suggest to use the `*-p.test' pattern for the names of
+ hand-written tests which use the `parallel-tests' Automake option.
+ Not only is this not respected by the existing tests, but it is
+ more likely to cause conflicts with auto-generated tests.
+ So, suggest to *avoid* using the `*-p.test' pattern in names
+ of hand-written tests instead.
+ (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do not"): When
+ suggesting not to override Makefile variables using command
+ line arguments, do not use the badly outdated variables `U'
+ and 'ANSI2KNR' in the example; instead, use the more common
+ and typical `DESTDIR'.
+
+2011-05-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ test defs: rename requirement 'non-cross' -> 'native'
+ * tests/defs.in (non-cross): Rename requirement ...
+ (native): ... to this, which is clearer and fits the
+ existing lingo better.
+ Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+2011-05-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ testsuite: be more cross-compile friendly
+ * tests/defs.in (cross_compiling): New subroutine.
+ (am__tool_prefix): New internal variable.
+ (gcc, g++, gcj): Force the use of the correct "tool prefix"
+ when cross compiling.
+ (gfortran, g77, non-cross): New requirements.
+
+2011-05-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: fix spurious failure of txinfo21.test on FreeBSD
+ * tests/txinfo21.test: Use the `is_newest' subroutine instead of
+ the `ls -t' hack to to determine whether a file has been updated.
+ This is required because at least FreeBSD `ls' do not sort files
+ with the same timestamp in alphabetical order when using the `-t'
+ option.
+
+2011-05-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests defs: allow requirements for compilers (mostly dummy)
+ Most of the new requirements that are now accepted in `$required'
+ as consequence of this patch are still dummy. They are planned
+ to be implemented only in master (or in some derived branch), but
+ having them here (even just as no-op) will allow for an easier
+ integration/backporting of potential new testcases.
+ * tests/defs.in (cc, c++, fortran, fortran77): New requirements,
+ still dummy.
+ (flex): New requirement, picking LEX for configure.
+ (lex): New requirement, alias for `flex'. A more appropriate
+ implementation, looking for a generic `lex' program, will follow
+ in the future.
+ (yacc): New requirement, alias for `bison'. A more appropriate
+ implementation, looking for a generic `yacc' program, will follow
+ in the future.
+
2011-04-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
tests: fix spurious failure in a test on TESTS (VPATH-related)
- * check-tests-in-builddir.test: When not using the parallel-tests
- option, do not check that VPATH components are not present in the
- displayed test name, since the simple-tests driver do not try to
- strip them.
+ * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: When not using the
+ parallel-tests option, do not check that VPATH components are
+ not present in the displayed test name, since the simple-tests
+ driver do not try to strip them.
2011-04-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* tests/depcomp8b.test: Add the `--enable-dependency-tracking'
option to `configure' invocations, so that slower dependency
extractors are not rejected.
- * tests/depcomp8b.test: Likewise. Also ...
+ * tests/depcomp8a.test: Likewise. Also ...
(foo.c): ... since we are at it, fix spacing to be consistent
with GNU coding standards.
suggest the use of this latter macro instead.
* lib/Automake/Variable.pm (%_am_macro_for_var): Pair 'LIBTOOL'
with 'LT_INIT', not with 'AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'.
- * libtool4.test: Adjust and extend. Also, add a call to macro
- AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, to help ensuring that automake does
- not fail for the wrong reasons.
- * ltinit.test: New test, ensure that automake's libtool support
- works with LT_INIT-based interface.
+ * tests/libtool4.test: Adjust and extend. Also, add a call to
+ macro AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, to help ensuring that automake
+ does not fail for the wrong reasons.
+ * tests/ltinit.test: New test, ensure that automake's libtool
+ support works with LT_INIT-based interface.
Thanks to Jack Kelly for the suggestion.
2011-02-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
* tests/fort4.test: Use $AUTOMAKE -a for installing files.
-2011-01-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+2011-01-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
docs: clustered '-d' not recognized in YFLAGS
This change fixes automake bug#7828.
other options.
From a report by Юрий Пухальский.
-2011-01-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+2011-01-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
tests: add checks on automatically-distributed files
Related to automake bug#7819.
Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
* lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
-2011-01-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+2011-01-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
cosmetics: remove trailing whitespaces
* doc/automake.texi: Remove trailing whitespaces.
manual for how to convert directory values into macros.
(Optional): Fix grammar nit.
-2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* NEWS: Fix typo (forgotten word).
-2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
- Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+ Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
docs: how to work around checks on invalid primary/directory couples
* doc/automake.texi (Uniform): Document the blessed idiom which can
compilers were used. So we are now careful to require GCC in
tests that force gcc depmode.
From reports by Ralf Wildenhues.
- * silent5.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
- * silent-many-generic.test, silent-many-gcc.test: ... these new
- sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
- "gcc" in $required.
- * silentlex.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
- * silent-lex-generic.test, silent-lex-gcc.test: ... these new
- sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
- "gcc" in $required.
- * silentyacc.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
- * silent-yacc-generic.test, silent-yacc-gcc.test: ... these new
- sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
- "gcc" in $required.
+ * tests/silent5.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
+ * tests/silent-many-generic.test, tests/silent-many-gcc.test: ...
+ these new sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode
+ and lists "gcc" in $required.
+ * tests/silentlex.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
+ * tests/silent-lex-generic.test, tests/silent-lex-gcc.test: ...
+ these new sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode
+ and lists "gcc" in $required.
+ * tests/silentyacc.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
+ * tests/silent-yacc-generic.test, tests/silent-yacc-gcc.test: ...
+ these new sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and
+ lists "gcc" in $required.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
2010-11-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>