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        using the `-t' option.
        * tests/extradep2.test: Likewise.
 
+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.
+
+2011-05-03  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: add forgotten test scripts to $(TESTS)
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Added test scripts  man[678].test,
+       which have been present on the filesystem and in the repository,
+       but which had erroneously been left out from $(TESTS).
+
+2011-05-03  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: ensure verbose printing of captured make output
+       * tests/libtool7.test: Ensure verbose printing of captured
+       make output.
+       * tests/libtool9.test: Likewise.
+
+2011-05-03  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: fix spurious failure in 'color2.test'
+       * tests/color2.test: If $MAKE contains command-line arguments (as
+       in e.g., "make -j2"), expect's directive "spawn $env(MAKE)" fails
+       spuriously, because it tries to run "$MAKE" as a single command.
+       Fix this with proper uses of the TCL `eval' builtin.
+
+2011-05-01  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: fix self check spurious failure with older bash versions
+       * tests/self-check-cleanup.test: Add trailing `:' to the test code
+       passed to $SHELL, otherwise older versions of bash (at least 2.05
+       and 3.2.39) fail to correctly remove the temporary directory in
+       the exit trap.
+
+2011-04-29  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       testsuite: more environment sanitization
+       * tests/defs: Move the checks verifying that the variables `me',
+       `parallel_tests' and `required' aren't set in the environment ...
+       * tests/defs-static.in: ... in here, with some optimizations to
+       avoid useless forks.  Also, do the same checks for the variables
+       `original_AUTOMAKE' and `original_ACLOCAL' too.
+       * tests/self-check-env-sanitize.test: Update.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset also variables
+       `original_AUTOMAKE' and `original_ACLOCAL'.
+
+2011-04-24  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: fix spurious failure (non-renamed AM_TESTS_SETUP usage)
+       * tests/parallel-tests-reset-term.test: Use AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT
+       instead of AM_TESTS_SETUP (which has been removed in commit
+       v1.11-349-g12f48fa).
+       Fix spurious failure introduced by merge `v1.11-781-gfeed175'.
+
+2011-04-24  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: fix spurious failure in a test on TESTS (VPATH-related)
+       * 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.
+
+2011-04-24  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: fix spurious failure in self-check-env-sanitize.test
+       * tests/self-check-env-sanitize.test: Open file descriptor `5'
+       to stdout.
+       Fix spurious failure introduced by merge `v1.11-788-g3b0c8d5'.
+
+2011-04-23  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       test: self check subroutines for skipping/failing of tests
+       * tests/self-check-report.test: New test.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-04-23  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
+           Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       test defs: new subroutines for test skipping/failing
+       * tests/defs.in (Exit): Move definition of this function earlier.
+       (warn_, skip_, fail_, framework_failure_): New functions, inspired
+       to the homonyms in gnulib's tests/init.sh.
+       ($stderr_fileno_): New global variable, used by the new functions
+       above.
+       * tests/README: Updated.
+       From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+2011-04-23  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: fix typo (copy & paste blunder) in heading comment
+       * tests/maintclean-vpath.test: Correctly refer to the sister test
+       as `maintclean.test', not as `maintclean-vpath.test'.
+
+2011-04-23  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: remove redundant test `mclean.test'
+       * tests/mclean.test: Remove, it's a weak grepping test completely
+       superseded by the much more complete `maintclean.test'.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-04-22  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       testsuite: more environment sanitization
+       * tests/defs.in: Sanity check: abort if any of `parallel_tests'
+       or `required' is in the environment.
+       ($sed_unindent_prog): Initialize to empty, to avoid interferences
+       from the environment.
+       * tests/self-check-me-in-env.test: Renamed to ...
+       * tests/self-check-env-sanitize.test: ... this, and extended.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+       (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset variables `parallel_tests' and
+       `required'.  Adjust comments.
+
+2011-04-19  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: in self-checks, use $SHELL, not /bin/sh
+       * tests/self-check-me-in-env.test: Include `./defs-static' to get
+       the definition of `$SHELL'.  Use `$SHELL' instead of `/bin/sh' to
+       execute the tests.
+
+2011-04-19  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: prefer AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT to TESTS_ENVIRONMENT
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Renamed to ...
+       (AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): ... this.
+
+2011-04-18  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: don't allow `$me' to be overridden from the environment
+       * tests/defs.in: Sanity check: abort if $me is in the environment.
+       * tests/self-check-me-in-env.test: New test.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset variable `me'.
+       (TESTS): Update.
+       Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+2011-04-18  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       check: rename AM_TESTS_SETUP -> AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT
+       The AM_TESTS_SETUP naming was not a good one after all.  It may
+       be technically more correct than AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT, but the
+       latter is a better one simply because it is easier to remember,
+       and even if you've never heard of it and only know the semantics
+       of TESTS_ENVIRONMENT, you can have a straightforward way to
+       figure out how AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT would work.
+       * tests/check.am (am__check_pre): Update.
+       * doc/automake.in (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Update.
+       * tests/parallel-tests-am_tests_setup.test: Renamed ...
+       * tests/parallel-tests-am_tests_environment.test: ... to this,
+       and updated.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+       Suggestion and motivation by Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+2011-04-17  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       test defs: allow overriding of `$me'
+       * tests/defs.in ($me): Allow overriding by the including test
+       script.  Add some explicative comments.
+
+2011-04-17  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       coverage: more tests on the parallel-tests driver
+       * tests/parallel-tests-interrupt.test: New test.
+       * tests/parallel-tests-reset-term.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-04-17  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       check: new developer-reserved AM_TESTS_SETUP variable
+       For reference, see the discussion at:
+       <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2011-01/msg00213.html>
+       * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (am__check_pre): Pass also
+       $(AM_TESTS_SETUP).  Comments updated, and some typos fixed.
+       * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Document
+       AM_TESTS_SETUP.  Reorder some of the existing documentation a bit.
+       * tests/parallel-tests-am_tests_setup.test: New test.
+       From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+2011-04-17  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       depcomp tests: don't reject slower dependency extractors
+       * tests/depcomp8b.test: Add the `--enable-dependency-tracking'
+       option to `configure' invocations, so that slower dependency
+       extractors are not rejected.
+       * tests/depcomp8a.test: Likewise.  Also ...
+       (foo.c): ... since we are at it, fix spacing to be consistent
+       with GNU coding standards.
+
+2011-04-17  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       m4: add missing serial numbers to a few files
+       Fixes automake bug#8483.
+       * m4/amversion.in: Add serial number.
+       * m4/auxdir.m4: Likewise.
+       * m4/gcj.m4: Likewise.
+       * m4/install-sh.m4: Likewise.
+       * m4/mkdirp.m4: Likewise.
+       * m4/python.m4: Likewise.
+       * m4/runlog.m4: Likewise.
+       * m4/strip.m4: Likewise.
+       * m4/upc.m4: Likewise.
+
+2011-04-16  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: fix few bugs in self checks
+       Related to automake bug#8508.
+       * tests/self-check-cleanup.test: Be laxer when grepping output
+       from `ls -l', to account for ACLs and SELinux-only files.
+       * tests/self-check-dir.test: Source `defs-static' to read in the
+       correct definition for $SHELL.
+       * tests/self-check-me.test: Likewise, and extend a bit.
+       Report from Jim Meyering.
+
+2011-04-16  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
+
+       depcomp: correct invalid sed invocation
+       * lib/depcomp: Insert missing -e before '/:$/d'.
+       Otherwise, that use of sed would treat '/:$/d' as a file name.
+
+2011-04-14  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       maintainer check: quote literal `$' in Makefile rule
+       * Makefile.am (sc_tests_PATH_SEPARATOR): Escape literal `$'
+       character in double-quoted string.  Fix a bug in which the rule
+       emitted an erroneously empty substring in its error message.
+
+2011-04-14  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: fix typo in python5b.test
+       * tests/python5b.test: Remove extra `:' from $PATH redefinition.
+
+2011-04-14  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: remove redundant settings of `errexit' shell flag
+       * tests/autodist-acconfig.test: Do not set the `errexit'
+       shell flag, as it is already set by `tests/defs'.
+       * tests/autodist-acconfig-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/autodist-aclocal-m4.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/autodist-config-headers.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/autodist-configure-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/autodist-stamp-vti.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/autodist-subdir.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/autodist.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/check-tests_environment.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/help-python.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/java-check.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/java-extra.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/java-noinst.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/lex-subobj-nodep.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/ltinit.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/m4-inclusion.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/maintclean-vpath.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/parallel-tests-subdir.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/pr8365-remake-timing.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/python-dist.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/python-vars.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/python-virtualenv.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/python5b.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/specflg-dummy.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/yacc-dist-nobuild-subdir.test: Likewise.
+       
+2011-04-12  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       coverage: test for automake bug#8485 (known regression)
+       * tests/yacc-dist-nobuild-subdir.test: New test.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-04-12  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       test defs: define default $distdir (help reducing duplication)
+       * tests/defs ($distdir): New variable, might be used in
+       testcases checking distribution-related features.
+       * tests/pr9.test: Use it.
+       * tests/subdir9.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/lex3.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/lexvpath.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/remake-moved-m4-file.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/remake-renamed-m4-file.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/remake-renamed-m4-macro-and-file.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/yacc-basic.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/yacc-d-basic.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/yacc-d-vpath.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/yacc-dist-nobuild.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/vtexi3.test: Add comment explaining why we redefine
+       $distdir in this test.
+
+2011-04-11  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       depcomp: fix bugs in tests and in the depcomp script
+       * lib/depcomp (gcc): Remove duplicated `-e' from sed invocation.
+       * tests/depcomp10.test: Make it executable.  Fix a blunder that
+       has left part of an intended comment not prefixed by `#', thus
+       causing shell syntax errors.  In this same comment, break a
+       too-long reported error message on multiple lines, for clarity.
+       Add reference to the relevant bug report.  Add a comment which
+       explains why the test result 'skipped' if the first "make" call
+       fails.  Add other useful comments.
+       * tests/depcomp9.test: Slightly improve comments.
+
+2011-04-11  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       Fix hp depmode for VPATH builds with GNU make.
+       * lib/depcomp: Be sure to remove VPATH-prefixed object from
+       dependency output when creating stub rule.
+       * tests/depcomp10.test: New test.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+       * NEWS: Update.
+       Report by Bruno Haible.
+
+2011-04-10  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       test defs: fix 'javac' requirement for older JDK versions
+       The Java compiler from JDK 1.5 (and presumably earlier versions)
+       cannot handle the `-version' option by itself; and while it does
+       print the version number, it then errors out with an usage error:
+         $ javac -version
+         javac 1.5.0_22
+         javac: no source files
+         Usage: javac <options> <source files>
+         ...
+       Luckily, adding the `-help' option to the `javac' invocation
+       seems to fix this problem.
+       * tests/defs.in (javac): Pass also the `-help' option to the
+       `javac' program.  Add a comment explaining why it is needed.
+       Report from Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+2011-04-10  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       test defs: new requirement for the default java compiler
+       * tests/defs.in (for tool in $required): New requirement 'javac'.
+       * tests/java.test: Use it instead of ad-hoc configure check.
+       * tests/java-check.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/java-extra.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/java-noinst.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/instfail-java.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/instdir-java.test: Likewise.
+
+2011-04-09  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       java: check_JAVA does not cause compilation by "make all" anymore
+       Fixes automake bug#8234.
+       * automake.in (handle_java): Make stamp of class files built from
+       java sources in $(check_JAVA) a dependency of `check' target, not
+       `all' target.
+       * tests/java-check.test: New test.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+       * NEWS: Update.
+       * THANKS: Update.
+       Report from Petteri Räty.
+
+2011-04-09  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+           Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+       coverage: add tests on remake rules in more complex situations
+       * tests/defs (using_gmake): New function.
+       (for tool in $required): Use it when $tool is 'GNUmake'.
+       * tests/remake-moved-m4-file.test: New test.
+       * tests/remake-deleted-m4-file.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/remake-renamed-m4-file.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/remake-renamed-m4-macro-and-file.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/remake-renamed-m4-macro.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/remake-add-acsubst-gnulib.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/remake-add-header-gnulib.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/remake-remove-header-gnulib.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-04-09  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       typofix in 'tests/defs'
+       * tests/defs: Fix typo (`itslef' instead of `itself') in
+       comments.
+
+2011-04-06  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       coverage: more on java support EXTRA_ and noinst_ prefixes
+       * tests/java-extra.test: New test, checking support for the
+       prefix `EXTRA_' with the JAVA primary.
+       * tests/java-noinst.test: New test, checking support for the
+       prefix `noinst_' with the JAVA primary.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-04-09  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       Clarify regex code in depcomp.
+       * lib/depcomp: Add comment why we don't need regex-escaping here.
+       Suggested by Stefano Lattarini.
+
+2011-04-08  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       Fix makedepend depmode for VPATH builds.
+       * lib/depcomp [makedepend]: Remove any VPATH prefix from the
+       object file name, so a rebuild doesn't attempt to update the
+       .Po files in the source tree.
+       * tests/depcomp9.test: New test.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+       * NEWS: Update.
+
+2011-04-02  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: fix timestamp-related failures
+       Fixes automake bug#8365.
+       * tests/aclocal6.test: Sleep before modifying m4 files that should
+       trigger remake rules.  Remove incorrect/obsoleted comments.
+       * tests/subdir5.test: Likewise, and extend a bit.
+       * tests/subdir8.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/pr8365-remake-timing.test: New xfailing test.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+       Report from Sam Steingold.
+
+2011-04-02  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       Create subdirs for generated sources even when not dep tracking.
+       * automake.in (handle_single_transform): If $object is derived
+       and lands in subdir, be sure to output a dirstamp dependency.
+       * tests/yacc5.test: Avoid falsely matching the dirstamp
+       dependency when grepping for a rule.
+       * tests/lex-subobj-nodep.test: New test.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+       * THANKS: Update.
+       Report by Ignacy Gawedzki.
+
+       Fix locale issue in check-exported-srcdir.test.
+       * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Reformulate glob to not fail
+       in a locale that ignores or interleaves character case.
+
+2011-04-01  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       docs: better visibility for aclocal in the index
+       * doc/automake.texi (@menu): Rename title for entry 'configure'
+       from "Scanning configure.ac or configure.in" to the more precise
+       "Scanning configure.ac, using aclocal".
+       (@detailmenu): Adjust.
+       (@node configure): Adjust, and extend @cindex calls accordingly.
+       * THANKS: Update.
+       From a report by Maynard Johnson.
+
+2011-03-30  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: improve tests on "maintainer-clean" target
+       * tests/aclocal6.test: Move checks related to "maintainer-clean"
+       functionalities into ...
+       * tests/maintclean-vpath.test: ... this new test.
+       * tests/maintclean.test: Update heading comments.  Extend to also
+       test subdirs.  Remove useless disabling of YACC.  Fix m4 quoting
+       in configure.in.  Add a trailing `:' command.  Remove extra blank
+       lines.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-03-21  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       tests: fix unindent to use printf not echo for script.
+       * tests/defs.in: Use printf rather than echo, as the latter may
+       interpret the backslashes in the sed script.  Fixes test
+       failures with dash as /bin/sh.
+
+2011-03-17  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+           Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       maintcheck: look for problematic names of testcases
+       The configure.in stub created by default by `tests/defs' obtains
+       the first argument of AC_INIT from the test name, and this can
+       cause some supported autoconf versions to fail with a spurious
+       error if that test name contains the name of an m4 or m4sugar
+       builtin or macro (e.g., `defn' or `m4_undefine').
+       See for example the bug fixed by commit v1.11-287-g1325a8a.
+       This change add a maintainer check that warns about test names
+       which are possibly problematic in this regard.
+       * Makefile.am (sc_test_names): New maintainer-check target.
+       (syntax_check_rules): Add it.
+       (m4_builtins): New helper variable.
+       (TESTS): Updated according to the following renamings.
+       * tests/include.test: Renamed ...
+       * tests/hdr-vars-defined-once.test: ... to this.
+       * tests/sinclude.test: Renamed ...
+       * tests/m4-inclusion.test: ... to this, and simplified
+       accordingly.
+       * tests/include2.test: Renamed ...
+       * tests/dist-included-parent-dir.test: ... to this, for
+       consistency.
+
+2011-03-04  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: fix bug in alloca*.test
+       * tests/alloca.test: Make grepping of automake stderr stricter,
+       add a trailing `:' command; also, add AC_PROG_CC to configure.in,
+       and create a dummy alloca.c file, to ensure that we fail for the
+       proper reason.
+       * tests/alloca2.test: Likewise.  Also, look for LT_INIT, not
+       AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, in the error message (bug introduced with commit
+       v1.11-315-gd51e7b7 "libtool: suggest LT_INIT if LTLIBRARIES
+       primary is used").
+       From a report by Patrick Welche.
+
+2011-03-17  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       cosmetics: better use of m4 quoting and m4sugar macros
+       * m4/dmalloc.m4: Better use of m4 quoting.  Bump serial number.
+       * m4/gcj.m4: Likewise.
+       * m4/init.m4: Likewise.
+       * m4/install-sh.m4: Likewise.
+       * m4/lex.m4: Likewise.
+       * m4/multi.m4: Likewise.
+       * m4/option.m4: Likewise.
+       * m4/python.m4: Likewise.
+       * m4/sanity.m4: Likewise.
+       * m4/cond.m4: Likewise.  Also, prefer the m4sugar macro 'm4_if'
+       over the plain m4 macro 'ifelse'.
+       * m4/depend.m4: Likewise.
+
+2011-03-17  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: add test about deprecated use of AC_INIT
+       * tests/deprecated-acinit.test: New test, check that automake
+       and autoconf complain about an old-style AC_INIT call used with
+       a new-style AM_AUTOMAKE_INIT call.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-03-04  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: fix bug (comments-in-var-defn.test + autoconf 2.62)
+       * tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: The configure.in stub created
+       by default, which has the AC_INIT first argument obtained by the
+       test name, causes autoconf 2.62 to fail with a spurious error
+       message like: "configure.in:1: error: defn: undefined macro:".
+       Thus, to prevent this, the test is renamed to ...
+       * tests/comments-in-var-def.test: ... this.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
+
+2011-03-04  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       cosmetics: convert encoding from ISO-8859 to UTF-8
+       * ChangeLog.03: Convert encoding to UTF-8.
+       * ChangeLog.96: Likewise.
+       * ChangeLog.98: Likewise.
+       * NEWS: Likewise.
+       * TODO: Likewise.
+
+2011-03-01  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: extend checks on the 'unindent' shell function
+       * tests/self-check-unindent.test: Also check that multiple
+       instances of 'unindent' can run in parallel (this was not
+       the case when that function used temporary files).
+
+2011-03-01  Peter Rosin  <peda@lysator.liu.se>
+
+       test defs: unindent without temporary file
+       * tests/defs.in (commented_sed_unindent_prog): Commented Sed program
+       that strips the "proper" amount of leading whitespace.
+       (unindent): Lazily strip comments from the above program and use it
+       to unindent without using a temporary file.
+
+2011-02-26  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       libtool: suggest LT_INIT if LTLIBRARIES primary is used
+       When the LTLIBRARIES primary was used, but $(LIBTOOL) wasn't
+       defined, automake suggested to add a call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
+       in configure.ac.  But that macro is deprecated since Libtool
+       version 1.9b (2004-08-29), in favor of the newer LT_INIT.  So
+       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'.
+       * 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.
+
+2011-02-25  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: add testcases sanity-checking the testsuite
+       Helper subroutines, variables and other pieces of code defined
+       in the `tests/defs' and used by many testcases are non-obvious,
+       and tricky to get to work portably; but until now, they weren't
+       tested at all in a clear and self-contained way.
+       This change should remedy to the situation.
+       * tests/self-check-cleanup.test: New test, check removal of
+       temporary test working directory by `./defs'.
+       * tests/self-check-dir.test: New test, check that tests using
+       `./defs' create a proper temporary directory, and run in it.
+       * tests/self-check-exit.test: New test, check that, in case of
+       failing commands, the correct exit status is passed to the exit
+       trap installed by the `./defs' script.
+       * tests/self-check-is_newest.test: New test, checking the
+       `is_newest' subroutine.
+       * tests/self-check-me.test: New test, checking that $me gets
+       defined automatically by `tests/defs' if not set, and that it
+       can be overridden from either the shell or the environment.
+       * tests/self-check-sanity.test: New test, check that the sanity
+       checks performed by the `tests/defs' script works correctly.
+       * tests/self-check-unindent.test: New test, checking the
+       `unindent' subroutine.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-02-20  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: tempdirs with restrictive permissions are cleaned correctly
+       Before this change, the removal of a temporary test directory
+       containing subdirectories with restrictive permissions (such as
+       'r--r--r--') could fail.
+       * tests/defs: Ensure that all the subdirectories of a temporary
+       test directory have the 'read', 'write' and 'execute' bits set,
+       before trying to remove it with `rm -rf'.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (clean-local-check): Likewise.
+
+2011-02-16  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+           Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       test defs: add subroutine for input unindenting
+       * tests/defs.in (unindent): New subroutine.
+       * tests/instspc-tests.sh: Use it.
+
+2011-02-15  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       python: report the 'PYTHON' influential environment variable
+       * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Call AC_ARG_VAR on PYTHON.
+       * doc/automake.texi (Python): Update and extend.
+       * tests/help-python.test: New test.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+       * THANKS (Jack Kelly): Update e-mail address.
+       Suggestion by Jack Kelly.
+
+2011-02-10  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests defs: clear TESTS_ENVIRONMENT variable
+       * tests/defs.in (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset it, so that values
+       from environment won't interfere with the testcases.
+       Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+2011-02-15  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: `instspc-*.test': do not create useless source file
+       * tests/instspc-tests.sh (create_input_data): Do not create
+       unused source file `source2.c'.
+
+2011-02-15  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: optimize `instspc-*.test' for speed
+       After the split of `instspc.test' into various generated tests,
+       the running time of the testsuite has noticeably increased, since
+       all these new generated tests must run aclocal, autoconf and
+       automake, whereas previously they were run only once (at the
+       beginning of `instspc.test').  But luckily, since the new tests
+       share the same input files for the autotools, this situation can
+       be easily worked around (at the expenses of a slight increase of
+       complexity for the testsuite scaffolding).
+       * tests/instspc-data.test: New helper test, properly calling
+       the `instspc-tests.sh' script to generate input data for the
+       others `instspc-*.test' tests.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add `instspc-data.test'.
+       ($(instspc_tests:.test=.log)): Depend on its log file.
+       (instspc-data.log): Depend on `instspc-tests.sh'.
+       * tests/instspc-tests.sh: Recognize new action `generate-data',
+       and use it to create hand-written and autotools-generated static
+       files shared by all the `instspc-*.test' tests.
+       When sourced by the `instspc-*.test' tests, use those previously
+       created files instead of recreating them from scratch.
+       (unindent, create_input_data): New subroutines.
+       Some other related changes and refactorings.
+       From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+2011-02-14  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       python: fix spurious failure in tests
+       * tests/python-vars.test: Ignore cached values from config.site
+       by exporting CONFIG_SITE=/dev/null.  Be laxer in matching the
+       expected values of output variables `pythondir' and `pyexecdir',
+       since they can change quite unpredictably among different python
+       installations.  Also, avoid "hyping" debugging output, thus
+       offering smaller trace output and more informative diff.
+       Report and suggestions by Ralf Wildenhues.
+       * tests/python-virtualenv.test: Require python, since we call it
+       even after the virtualenv has been deactivated.  Ignore cached
+       values from config.site by exporting CONFIG_SITE=/dev/null.
+
+2011-02-06  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: tweak few tests on simple and parallel test drivers
+       * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Improve heading comments.
+       * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: Likewise.  Also, unset the
+       `FOO_EXIT_STATUS' variable, so that any pre-existing value in the
+       environment won't risk to interfere with the test.
+       Suggestions by Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+2011-02-06  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       python: extend and improve tests, fix minor glitches
+       * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Ensure the "checking ..." messages
+       from configure are always complete, even in case of failure.  Tiny
+       cosmetic improvement in info/error messages.
+       * tests/python.test: Also check that automake complains if the
+       PYTHON primary is used but the `py-compile' script is not present.
+       Make grepping of generated Makefile.in laxer w.r.t. whitespace.
+       Add trailing `:' command.
+       * tests/python2.test: Remove repeated calls aclocal: they are
+       useless because configure.in is never modified.  Make grepping
+       of automake stderr more comprehensive.  Remove the pre-existing
+       `py-compile' file before trying to install it with `--add-missing'.
+       Add trailing `:' command.
+       * tests/python3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
+       * tests/python11.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/python4.test: Likewise.  Also, try to pass PYTHON config
+       variable to configure from the environment, rather than only from
+       the command line.
+       * tests/python5.test: Ensure that the "checking ..." messages from
+       configure are always complete.  Use proper m4 quoting.  Add a
+       trailing `:' command.
+       * tests/python6.test: Simplify test logic, by checking for files
+       created by configure rather then grepping its output.
+       * tests/python7.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/python8.test: Also check that `$PYTHON' is meaningfully
+       set in the ACTION-IF-TRUE argument of AM_PATH_PYTHON.
+       * tests/python9.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/python10.test: Add trailing `:' command.
+       (Makefile.am): Declare `disttest' target as `.PHONY', and add
+       an `ls -l' to its recipe, for debugging.
+       * tests/nobase-python.test: In testing "make uninstall" and
+       "make install" results, prefer idioms that make verbose logs
+       more helpful.  Remove a couple of lines of dead code.  Add a
+       trailing `:' command.
+       * tests/python5b.test: New test, checking that configure performs
+       the check on the python version even when the choice of the python
+       interpreter is forced by the user.
+       * tests/python-dist.test: New test, checking the distribution of
+       *_PYTHON files.
+       * tests/python-vars.test: New test, checking that AM_PATH_PYTHON
+       correctly set all the output variables advertised in the manual.
+       * tests/python-virtualenv.test: New test, checking that python
+       support offered by automake works well with "virtual python
+       environments" created by the `virtualenv' program.
+       * tests/instdir-prog.test: Also check `$(pyexecdir)'.  Existing
+       checks made slightly stricter.
+       * tests/instdir-prog.test: Also check `$(pyexecdir)'.  Existing
+       * tests/instdir-ltlib.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-02-01  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       coverage: more tests on simple and parallel test drivers
+       * tests/parallel-tests-subdir.test: New test.
+       * tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/check-tests_environment.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-01-29  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: fix spurious failures in lflags*.test
+       * tests/lflags.test: Remove 'LEX' from the environment, so
+       that it won't be erroneously picked up by `make -e'.
+       * tests/lflags2.test: Likewise.
+
+2011-01-24  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       docs: color-tests issues with parallel make
+       * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Document that automatic
+       recognition of a capable terminal attached to stdout can fail
+       with some make implementation when running in parallel mode,
+       thus causing colored test output not to be automatically
+       activated when it should.
+
+2011-01-23  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       coverage: test semantics of "dummy" per-target flags
+       * tests/specflg-dummy.test: New test, ensuring that even "dummy"
+       per-target flags triggers the use of renamed objects.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+       Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+2011-01-23  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests defs: sanitize IFS
+       * tests/defs ($IFS): Define to <space>, <tab>, <newline>.
+       ($sp): New variable, holding a single whitespace character.
+       ($tab): New variable, holding a tabulation character.
+       ($nl): New variable, holding a newline character.
+
+2011-01-23  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       tests: avoid instspc* failures due to make's whitespace trimming
+       * tests/instspc-tests.sh: Prepend './' when passing the test
+       characters, to avoid leading whitespace characters to be trimmed
+       from macros set from environment variables.  Fixes testsuite
+       failures with HP-UX and Tru64/OSF make.
+
+2011-01-22  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       tests: fix VPATH auto-expansion workarounds.
+       * tests/suffix10.test, tests/suffix11.test, tests/suffix12.test,
+       tests/suffix3.test, tests/suffix5.test, tests/suffix8.test:
+       Ensure $< is not surrounded by white space, to prevent Solaris
+       make from applying automatic VPATH text expansion.
+
+       tests: fix VPATH auto-expansion workarounds.
+       * tests/parallel-tests8.test, tests/suffix13.test:
+       Ensure $< is not surrounded by white space, to prevent Solaris
+       make from applying automatic VPATH text expansion.
+
+2011-01-22  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: fix spurious failures in yflags*.test
+       * tests/yflags.test: Remove 'YACC' from the environment, so
+       that it won't be erroneously picked up by `make -e'.
+       * tests/yflags2.test: Likewise.
+
+2011-01-22  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       tests: avoid fn99*.test failures due to buggy AIX 5.3 cp -R.
+       * tests/fn99.test, tests/fn99subdir.test: Skip if an initial
+       `cp -R' of the subdir tree already fails; AIX 5.3 cp messes
+       up its internal memory when copying this tree.
+
+2011-01-22  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+           Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Add comment to check-TESTS rule working around make 3.80 bug.
+       * lib/am/check.am (check-TESTS): Update comment.
+
+2011-01-20  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       tests: less strict double-colon spy.test again.
+       * tests/spy.test: We know BSD make doesn't invoke more than one
+       double-colon rule, so no need to expose that failure.
+
+2011-01-19  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       install-sh: avoid Tru64 sh `test' operator precedence issues.
+       * lib/install-sh: Protect file names and directory components
+       that consist of `=', `(', `)', or `!'.  Move protection as early
+       as possible, to avoid errors such as with Tru64 sh `test -z ='.
+       * tests/instsh2.test: Extend test to cover more possibilities.
+       Fixes 1.12 instspc-equal-install.test failure on Tru64/OSF 5.1.
+
+2011-01-19  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+           Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       docs: automake testsuite doesn't use TESTS_ENVIRONMENT anymore
+       * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Do not claim Automake uses
+       TESTS_ENVIRONMENT for the perl driver.  Instead, point to the
+       parallel-tests driver.
+
+2011-01-21  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       tests: check for presence of cscope with redirected input.
+       * tests/defs: Add required test for cscope.
+       Fixes cscope3.test hang with Sun C 5.9 cscope.
+
+       tests: avoid false failure in cygnus-dependency-tracking.test.
+       * tests/cygnus-dependency-tracking.test: Be less restrictive
+       when grepping the compiler error message, GCC 3.4.6 on FreeBSD
+       does not mention an undefined symbol.
+
+2011-01-20  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       tests: revert not turning off errexit in instspc-test.sh
+       * tests/instspc-tests.sh: Turn off errexit while sourcing defs,
+       the scripts might still not be clean.
+
+2011-01-19  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       tests: work around Tru64 sh -e issues for instspc*.test.
+       Apparently, Tru64 sh does not like turning off errexit mode,
+       and gets confused.
+       * tests/defs: Document 'errexit' cleanliness requirement.
+       * tests/defs-static.in: Likewise.  Avoid error from command
+       substitution to abort instspc*.test with Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh.
+       * tests/instspc-tests.sh: Drop now-unneeded temporary errexit
+       dropping.  Add strategic '|| Exit' to let tests work on Tru64.
+
+2011-01-19  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       Allow _AM_DEPENDENCIES to be used later in configure.
+       * m4/depend.m4 (_AM_DEPENDENCIES): Remove a previously existing
+       conftest.dir before recreating it.
+       Fixes bug#7864.
+       Report by Eric Blake, from report by Scott McCreary against M4.
+
+2011-01-18  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       tests: avoid failure on w32 file systems.
+       * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: SKIP if file cannot
+       be turned unreadable.
+
+2011-01-17  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       tests: allow double-colon spy.test to work with HP-UX make.
+       * tests/spy.test: Fix comment typos.  Ensure prerequisites we
+       do not want to depend on are strictly older than the target.
+       Also test with a target out of date wrt. more than one rule.
+
+2011-01-17  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       Avoid local $_ perl variable, for Perl before 5.9.1.
+       * lib/Automake/Options.pm (_process_option_list): Do not
+       lexically localize $_.  Fixes bootstrap on AIX 5.1.
+       Bug introduced in commit `v1.11-622-gf90a06c'.
+
+2011-01-16  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: remove useless requirements from cond36.test
+       * tests/cond36.test ($required): Remove.
+       Since we are at it, add a trailing `:' command.
+
+2011-01-16  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       tests: avoid failing command substitution in errexit mode.
+       * tests/vartypo2.test, tests/vartypos.test: Rewrite to not use
+       a command substitution with a nonzero exit status, that causes
+       IRIX and Tru64/OSF sh to fail the whole test.
+
+2011-01-16  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+           Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       parallel-tests: work around Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh read bugs.
+       * lib/am/check.am ($(TEST_SUITE_LOG), recheck, recheck-html):
+       Test file readability before redirecting input from it, to avoid
+       exiting Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh which treats read as special builtin.
+       * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: New test.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+       * NEWS: Update.
+
+2011-01-16  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       * NEWS, README: Update copyright years.
+
+2011-01-15  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: hard error in case of internal failures or signal caught
+       * tests/defs: Exit with status 99 (hard error) rather than
+       1 (failure) on unexpected/internal errors, or when a signal
+       is caught by the client script.
+
+       Tests defs: don't let useless variables leak in test scripts.
+       * tests/defs ($priv_check_temp, $overwrite_status, $ro_dir_temp,
+       $create_status, $r2h, $libtool_found, $gettext_found, $aclocaldir,
+       $extra_includes): Unset once they've served their purpose.
+
+2011-01-16  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       Fix parallel-tests.test failure with HP-UX make.
+       * tests/parallel-tests.test: Sleep inside inner tests, so logs
+       are newer than logs of tests they depend on, for HP-UX make.
+
+2011-01-15  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       docs: ensure example are separated with empty lines in the input
+       * doc/automake.texi (Extending aclocal, Emacs Lisp, Rebuilding)
+       (API Versioning, Renamed Objects, Multiple Outputs): Add empty
+       lines before `@example' and after `@end example' lines, so info
+       output is rendered correctly, and a following @noindent honored.
+       Report by Stefano Lattarini.
+
+2011-01-15  Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
+
+       tests: fix comment typo
+       * tests/substref.test: Fix grammar in a comment.
+
+2011-01-13  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: fix spurious failures in two texinfo tests
+       * tests/txinfo.test ($required): Add 'makeinfo'.
+       * tests/txinfo8.test: Create a dummy 'textutils.info' file, so
+       that make won't try to run makeinfo (which could be unavailable)
+       to build it.
+       Found by NixOS Hydra, reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+2011-01-15  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Update docs w.r.t. warning and strictness options.
+       * doc/automake.texi (Strictness): Document that some warnings are
+       turned off by default in `foreign' strictness.
+       (Options): Divide into new sections "Options generalities" and
+       "List of Automake options".  Fix typo (colon instead of full
+       stop).  Document option precedence (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS wins over
+       AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE which wins over command line).  Also document
+       interactions between options specifying strictness and those
+       specifying warnings.
+
+       More tests on warnings/strictness precedence.
+       * tests/warning-groups-win-over-strictness.test: New test, similar
+       to `warnings-win-over-strictness.test', but checking the explicit
+       catch-all warning flags (like `-Wall' and `-Wnone').
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+       Update NEWS about the warnings-over-strictness precedence.
+       * NEWS: Automake explicit warning levels always take precedence
+       over the implicit warning levels implied by Automake strictness.
+
+       For PR automake/547:
+       Warnings win over strictness in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
+       Ensure that, for what concerns the options specified in
+       AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS, explicitly-defined warnings always take
+       precedence over implicit strictness-implied warnings.
+       This finally fixes Automake bug#7669 a.k.a. PR/547.
+       * automake.in (handle_options): Call 'process_option_list'
+       only once per set of options.
+       * lib/Automake/Options.pm (process_global_option_list,
+       process_option_list): Add sanity checks.
+       ($_options_processed, $_global_options_processed): New
+       internal variables, used by the sanity checks above.
+       * tests/warnings-win-over-strictness.test: Extend.
+
+       For PR automake/547:
+       Change signature of 'Automake::Options::_process_option_list()'.
+       This only modifies internal details in the automake implementation,
+       bearing no externally visible effect, but preparing the way for the
+       final fix of Automake bug#7669 a.k.a. PR/547.
+       * lib/Automake/Options.pm (_process_option_list): Accept as
+       arguments a list of hash references with keys 'option' and 'where',
+       where 'option' is an option as might occur in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS or
+       AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, and 'where' is the location where it occurred.
+       (process_option_list, process_global_option_list): Updated.
+       * automake.in (handle_options, scan_autoconf_traces): Update.
+
+       Add more tests about AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
+       In view of soon-to-follow refactorings (still in the pursuit of a
+       fix for Automake bug#7669 a.k.a. PR/547), add some more tests on
+       AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS support, to prevent obvious regressions.
+       * tests/amopts-variable-expansion.test: New test.
+       * tests/amopts-location.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+       For PR automake/547:
+       Warnings win over strictness in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
+       This change ensures that, for what concerns the options specified
+       in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE,  explicitly-defined warnings always take
+       precedence over implicit strictness-implied warnings.  Related to
+       Automake bug#7669 a.k.a. PR/547.
+       * lib/Automake/Options.pm (_process_option_list): Parse explicit
+       warnings only after the strictness level has been set.  Fix POD
+       documentation.
+       * tests/warnings-win-over-strictness.test: Extend.
+
+       For PR automake/547:
+       Warnings win over strictness on command line.
+       Ensure that, on the command line at least, explicitly defined
+       warnings always take precedence over implicit strictness-implied
+       warnings.  Related to Automake bug#7669 a.k.a. PR/547.
+       * automake.in (parse_arguments): Parse warnings only after the
+       strictness level has been processed.
+       * tests/gnuwarn.test: Update, plus miscellaneous improvements.
+       * tests/warnings-win-over-strictness.test: New test.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+       More tests on warnings and strictness.
+       * tests/warnings-strictness-interactions.test: New test.
+       * tests/warnings-unknown.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+       New test on silent-rules mode and portability warnings.
+       * tests/silent-nowarn.test: New test.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+       Add new tests on strictness and warnings precedence and overriding.
+       * tests/strictness-override.test: New test.
+       * tests/strictness-precedence.test: New test.
+       * tests/warnings-override.test: New test.
+       * tests/warnings-precedence.test: New test.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-01-15  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       Fix remake rule-induced test failures with HP-UX make.
+       * tests/remake1a.test: Require GNU make.
+
+2011-01-15  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       Fix remake rule-induced test failures with HP-UX make.
+       * tests/colon6.test: Update timestamp of subdir Makefile, so we
+       do not spuriously invoke the nonexistent toplevel am--refresh
+       rule.
+
+       tests: fix typos in colon6.test
+       * tests/colon6.test: Fix typos.
+
+2011-01-15  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+           Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: explain MSYS setup failure issue, improve test.
+       * tests/defs: Add comment and failure message, improve fail
+       logic.
+
+2011-01-15  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       Fix libobj2.test failure with non-GNU make: define $(AR).
+       * tests/libobj2.test: Ensure $(AR) is suitably defined.
+
+2011-01-15  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       tests: avoid spurious failures due to fork failure in test setup
+       * tests/defs: Ensure $me is always nonempty, to avoid spurious
+       failures on MinGW/MSYS in case the preceding sed command could
+       not be spawned.
+
+       Avoid configure warnings from wait about reused PIDs.
+       * m4/sanity.m4 (AM_SANITY_CHECK): Hide wait stderr output.
+       Fixes spurious failure of depcomp2.test.
+
+2011-01-13  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       Avoid testsuite failures due to Autoconf Fortran change.
+       Autoconf v2.68-21-g727ce95 causes AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS to
+       require computing the canonical host name.  Ensure config.guess
+       and config.sub files are present for respective checks.
+       * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Add stub files.
+       * tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/fort4.test: Use $AUTOMAKE -a for installing files.
+
+2011-01-12  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       docs: clustered '-d' not recognized in YFLAGS
+       This change fixes automake bug#7828.
+       * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Document that automake
+       recognizes '-d' in AM_YFLAGS only if it's not clustered with
+       other options.
+       From a report by Юрий Пухальский.
+
+2011-01-10  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: add checks on automatically-distributed files
+       Related to automake bug#7819.
+       * tests/autodist.test: New test.
+       * tests/autodist-subdir.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/autodist-acconfig.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/autodist-acconfig-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/autodist-aclocal-m4.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/autodist-config-headers.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/autodist-configure-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/autodist-stamp-vti.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-01-11  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: do not force yacc-requiring tests to use bison
+       * tests/defs.in: New required entry 'yacc'.  Remove old
+       required entry 'bison'.
+       * tests/cond35.test ($required): Require yacc, not bison.
+       * tests/cond36.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/pr204.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/silent-many-gcc.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/silent-many-generic.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/silent-yacc-gcc.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/silent-yacc-generic.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/subpkg.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/suffix10.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/yacc-basic.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/yacc-clean.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/yacc-d-basic.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/yacc-d-vpath.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/yacc-dist-nobuild.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/yacc-nodist.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/yacc4.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/yacc6.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/yacc7.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/yacc8.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/yaccdry.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/yaccvpath.test: Likewise.
+
+2011-01-11  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: more consistent checks about invalid options
+       * tests/aclocal.test: Grepping of automake stderr for messages
+       reporting invalid options made stricter.
+       * tests/no-outdir-option.test: Likewise.  Also, create a dummy
+       `Makefile.am', to ensure that the automake failures are really
+       caused only by unrecognized options.
+       * tests/automake.test: Added trailing `:' command.  Removed
+       redundant checks on `--help' and `--version' option (already
+       performed in the test `help*.test').
+
+2011-01-11  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: enable 'errexit' shell flag by default.
+       * tests/defs: Enable `errexit' shell flag (near the end).
+       Removed redundant comment about the enabling of shell traces.
+       * tests/README (Writing test cases): Update, and use nicer
+       formatting in a couple of places.
+       * All tests: Adjusted by removing now-redundant calls to
+       'set -e'.
+
+2011-01-11  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: work around a texi+cygnus bug causing a spurious XFAIL
+       * tests/txinfo5b.test: New test, like txinfo5.test but calling
+       automake with the `-Wno-override' option to work around a bug
+       in the texinfo + cygnus interaction.
+       * tests/txinfo5.test: Update heading comments.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TEST): Updated.
+
+2011-01-09  Dave Hart  <davehart@gmail.com>  (tiny change)
+
+       Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
+       * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
+
+2011-01-09  Peter Rosin  <peda@lysator.liu.se>
+
+       Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
+       * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
+
+2011-01-11  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: texinfo unrecognized extensions
+       * tests/txinfo-unrecognized-extension.test: New test.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+       Improve, extend and tweak tests on Texinfo support.
+       * tests/instdir-texi.test: Add a call to `ls -l' after that to
+       `make', for debugging.  When looking for required tools, do not
+       redirect the output of "$tool --help" to /dev/null, and do not
+       uselessly run it in a subshell.
+       * tests/txinfo.test: Rewritten to run autoconf, ./configure and
+       make.  All checks moved into Makefile.am.
+       * tests/txinfo8.test: Likewise, and modernize the generated
+       configure.in.
+       * tests/txinfo2.test: Moved checks into Makefile.am, and other
+       minor improvements.
+       * tests/txinfo5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
+       changes.  Add trailing `:' command.
+       * tests/txinfo6.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
+       Makefile.in stricter.
+       * tests/txinfo7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
+       changes.  Add trailing `:' command.  Do not add unnecessary stuff
+       to Makefile.am.
+       * tests/txinfo9.test: Verify that more targets which are expected
+       to be generated only once really are.  Make grepping less strict,
+       to avoid exposing too much internal details.  More minor changes.
+       * tests/txinfo16.test: Add trailing `:'.  Prefer cat over echo
+       for appending to configure.in.  Updated/fixed heading comments.
+       * tests/txinfo23.test: Likewise, and extended a little by making
+       it check that no info file is created in the $(srcdir).
+       * tests/txinfo24.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/txinfo25.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/txinfo18.test: Add trailing `:'.  Prefer cat over echo
+       for appending to configure.in.  Also, check that index files are
+       cleaned also by "make clean", not only by "make distclean".
+       * tests/txinfo22.test: Prefer `$me' over hard-coded test name,
+       and added trailing `:' command.  This testcase also used to check
+       that automake ignores in-line comments when using variables, but
+       preserves them in the output; these checks (added in commit
+       "Release-1-7f-4-g9177ef8") do not really pertain to this test,
+       so they have been moved ...
+       * tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: ... into this new test.
+       * tests/txinfo4.test: Escape literal dots in grep regexps.  Add
+       trailing `:' command.
+       * tests/txinfo29.test: Likewise.  Relax grepping of generated
+       Makefile.in w.r.t. whitespaces.  Prefer `cat' over `echo' to
+       append to configure.in.
+       * tests/txinfo3.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/vtexi.test: Improve grepping of Makefile.in (sometimes
+       make it stricter, sometimes laxer).  Move `set -e' setting just
+       after the inclusion of ./defs.  De-uglify a sed command.  Other
+       minor cosmetic improvements.
+       * tests/vtexi2.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in stricter.  Add
+       trailing `:' command.
+       * tests/vtexi3.test: New test on version.texi support.
+       * tests/vtexi4.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
+
+2011-01-11  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       tests: fix spurious failure in 'tests/yflags-conditional.test'
+       * tests/yflags-conditional.test: Filter out message "warnings are
+       treated as errors" from automake stderr, to avoid a false positive
+       when grepping for extraneous warning messages.
+
+2011-01-10  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       yacc: warn about conditional content in *YFLAGS variables
+       This change fixes automake bug#7804.
+       * automake.in (lang_yacc_target_hook): Warn if any of the relevant
+       *YFLAGS variables has conditional contents (not only a conditional
+       definition).  Related refactoring.
+       * NEWS: Updated.
+       * tests/yflags-conditional.test: Updated and extended.
+       * tests/yflags-conditional-force.test: New test.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
+
+2011-01-08  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       yacc: support variable expansions in *YFLAGS definition.
+       This change fixes automake bug#7800.
+       * automake.in (lang_yacc_target_hook): Use 'value_as_list_recursive'
+       instead of 'variable_value' to get the value of *YFLAGS variables.
+       Related changes.
+       ($DASH_D_PATTERN): Removed.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Remove yflags-var-expand.test.
+       * tests/yacc-clean.test: Remove workaround for now-fixed bug.
+       * NEWS: Update.
+
+2011-01-08  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       yacc: more tests on *YFLAGS support
+       * tests/yflags-var-expand.test: New test, still xfailing.  It
+       exposes automake bug#7800 -- "automake fails to honor `-d' in
+       AM_YFLAGS when variable expansions are involved".
+       * tests/yflags-d-false-positive.test: New test, checking that
+       automake do not spuriously see `-d' in *YFLAGS when that isn't
+       really there.
+       * tests/yflags-force-override.test: New test, checking that
+       automake can cope with definition of the YFLAGS variable in
+       Makefile.am (even if that is an extremely bad practice, as that
+       variable is user-reserved).
+       * tests/yflags-cmdline-override.test: New test, checking that
+       automake can cope with user-redefinition of YFLAGS at configure
+       time and/or at make time.
+       * tests/yflags-conditional.test: New test, checks that automake
+       warns on conditionally-defined *YFLAGS variables.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-01-08  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       yacc: extend and improve tests
+       * tests/yacc-basic.test: Also check that the intermediate C file
+       is mentioned in the generated Makefile.in, and that it is created
+       by the first make invocation.
+       * tests/yacc3.test: Test removed, superseded by ...
+       * tests/yacc-d-basic.test: ... this new test.
+       * tests/yacc2.test: Add reference to that new test in the heading
+       comments.
+       * tests/yacc-d-vpath.test: New test.
+       * tests/yaccvpath.test: Updated heading comments.  Do not require
+       gcc anymore, as any working C compiler should be enough.  Remove
+       redundant comments.
+       * tests/yacc-nodist.test: New test.
+       * tests/yacc-dist-nobuild.test: New test.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2010-12-13  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Extend, fix and improve tests on Lex and Yacc support.
+       * tests/lexcpp.test: New test script, on support for Lex + C++.
+       * tests/lexvpath.test: New test script, test build and rebuild
+       rules for lexers in VPATH setup.
+       * tests/yacc-basic.test: New test script, run simple "semantic"
+       checks on basic Yacc support (similarly to what lex3.test does
+       for Lex support).
+       * tests/lex.test: Don't create useless dummy source file joe.l.
+       Remove extra blank lines.
+       * tests/lex4.test: Add trailing `:' command.  Do not create dummy
+       useless lex source file.
+       * tests/lex2.test: Likewise.  Call automake with the `-a' option,
+       so that it doesn't fail for the absence of `ylwrap' script.  Make
+       grepping of automake stderr stricter.
+       * tests/yacc7.test: Add trailing `:' command.  Enable `errexit'
+       shell flag earlier (just after having sourced ./defs).
+       * tests/yacc4.test: Likewise.  Also ...
+       (configure.in): Use pre-populated skeleton set up by ./defs,
+       instead of writing one from scratch.
+       Other minor cosmetic changes.
+       * tests/yacc5.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/yaccvpath.test: Likewise. Also ...
+       ($distdir): New variable.
+       Use it throughout.
+       * tests/lex5.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/lex3.test: Likewise.  Check the distdir, rather than
+       grepping the distribution tarball.  Extend the test on the
+       created binary, and be sure to avoid hangs.  Add some comments.
+       * tests/yacc.test: Use stricter grepping.  Add trailing `:'.
+       * tests/yacc6.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/yacc3.test: Likewise.  Do not create the unused file
+       `Makefile.sed'.  Remove useless rules from Makefile.am.  Other
+       minor cosmetic changes.
+       * tests/yacc2.test: Make grepping of generated `Makefile.in' and
+       of automake error messages stricter.  Do not redirect output of
+       grep to /dev/null.  Move call to aclocal earlier.  Reduce the
+       number of empty blank lines.  Fix a typo in comments.
+       * tests/yacc8.test: Fixed bugs that reduced the completeness of
+       the tests.  Added trailing `:' command.
+       (configure.in): Use pre-populated skeleton set up by ./defs,
+       instead of writing one from scratch.
+       * tests/yaccpp.test: Test also extensions `.y++', `.ypp', and
+       `.yxx', rather than only `.yy'.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-01-09  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       cosmetics: remove trailing whitespaces
+       * doc/automake.texi: Remove trailing whitespaces.
+       * tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/fort4.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/fort5.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/libobj17.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
+
+       automake: minor fixes in comments
+       * automake.in: Some minor fixes and enhancements in comments.
+
+2011-01-09  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       Add test coverage for deleted header files.
+       * tests/depcomp6.test, tests/depcomp7.test: Update tests to
+       also check for the deleted header bug.  If no dependency
+       tracking mechanism could be found, SKIP rather than exit
+       successfully.  Use GNU style spacing and ANSI C prototypes.
+
+       Fix typos in Rule.pm comments.
+       * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typos in comments.
+
+       docs: split 'amhello Explained' node.
+       * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Split node ...
+       (amhello's configure.ac Setup Explained)
+       (amhello's Makefile.am Setup Explained) : ... into these two.
+       (Top, Hello World): Adjust, and add @anchor for stable URL links.
+       Suggestion by Karl Berry in automake bug#7766.
+
+2011-01-08  Karl Berry  <karl@freefriends.org>
+           Eric Blake  <eblake@redhat.com>
+
+       docs: reference defining directories in amhello node.
+       * doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Point to Autoconf
+       manual for how to convert directory values into macros.
+       (Optional): Fix grammar nit.
+
+2011-01-07  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       yacc: "make clean" removes .c and .h files from non-distributed .y
+       Previously, while automake did *not* distribute C source and header
+       files derived from non-distributed Yacc sources, it still caused
+       them to be removed only by "make maintainer-clean" only, and not by
+       simply "make clean" or "make distclean".
+       This caused "make distcheck" to fail, unless the developer put
+       those generated .c and .h files in CLEANFILES or in DISTCLEANFILES
+       by hand.
+       This change fixes this issue, by making non-distributed `.c' and
+       `.h' files generated by non-distributed Yacc sources cleaned by
+       "make clean".
+       * tests/automake.in (lang_yacc_target_hook): Make C source and
+       header files derived from non-distributed Yacc files cleaned by
+       "make clean", not only by "make maintainer-clean".
+       * tests/yacc-clean.test: New test.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+       * NEWS: Update.
+
+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>
+
+       docs: how to work around checks on invalid primary/directory couples
+       * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): Document the blessed idiom which can
+       be used to work around automake checks on invalid primary/directory
+       couples (such as `lib_PROGRAMS' or `doc_LIBRARIES').
+
+2010-01-03  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Tests: normalize use of the 'errexit' shell flag.
+       * tests/maken3.test (check_targets): Remove redundant call to
+       'set -e'.
+       * tests/maken4.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/ansi5.test: Call 'set -e' just after './defs' has been
+       sourced.
+       * tests/ansi6.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/ansi7.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/cond16.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/cond17.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/cond18.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/cond19.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/cond20.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/cond21.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/instdat2.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/instdir-texi.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/remake1a.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/ccnoco.test: Likewise, and add trailing `:' command.
+       * tests/comment4.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/gcj4.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/nodist2.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/nodist3.test: Enable 'errexit' shell flag (this should
+       have been done in commit v1.11-248-g317e17b, but the relevant
+       hunk has been forgotten somehow).
+       * tests/output.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/gnits2.test: Likewise, and display captured stderr to
+       script's stderr, not to script's stdout.
+       * tests/gnits3.test: Likewise.  Also, prefer 'cat' over 'echo'
+       to append to Makefile.am, and really check that the exit status
+       of "make installcheck" indicates failure.
+
+2011-01-02  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
+       * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
+       Sync from upstream.
+
+       Avoid caching bug in cygnus mode test.
+       * tests/cygnus-requires-maintainer-mode.test: Remove
+       autom4te.cache directory before rerunning aclocal, to
+       remove trace caches.
+
+       Fix maintainer-check regression.
+       * tests/subobj11a.test: Pass DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS in the
+       environment.
+
+       Bump copyright years.
+       * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
+       * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
+       * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
+
+2010-12-23  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       * NEWS: Add missing blank line between two entries.
+
+2010-12-23  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Improve and extend tests `suffix*.test'.
+       * tests/suffix.test: Check that suffix rules for C compilation are
+       only included once.  Try also with a static library.
+       * tests/suffix2.test: Add a new grep to help potential debugging.
+       Do not run automake with the `--add-missing' options, since we
+       already create all the needed auxiliary files.  Try also *without*
+       the `no-dependencies' automake option.
+       * tests/suffix4.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in stricter.
+       * tests/suffix3.test: Rewritten to run also autoconf, ./configure
+       and make.
+       * tests/suffix5.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/suffix6.test: Fix botched recipe indentation (eight spaces
+       were used instead of a tabulation character).  Extend to check
+       that `.obj' is handled like `.$(OBJEXT)' (as is done for `.o').
+       Improved parsing & grepping of generated Makefile.in.  Other minor
+       fixes and improvements.
+       * tests/suffix10.test: Move some checks in Makefile.am.  Also run
+       "make all".
+       * tests/suffix12.test: Likewise, and account for VPATH issues in
+       weaker make implementations.
+       * tests/suffix11.test: Likewise.  Also, run "make distcheck", for
+       completeness, and related changes.
+       * tests/suffix8.test: Likewise.  Also, do not put `gcc' anymore
+       in $required.
+       * tests/suffix13.test: Do not use the `--force-missing' automake
+       option unnecessarily.
+       * tests/suffix6b.test: New test, semantic sister of `suffix6.test'.
+       * tests/suffix6c.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
+
+2010-12-23  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+           Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Work around a bug in file-inclusion mechanism of Solaris make.
+       * automake.in (handle_single_transform): In the name of the
+       dependency file: collapse multiple slash characters into a single
+       one.
+       * tests/subobj11a.test: New test.
+       * tests/subobj11b.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/subobj11c.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/depcomp8a.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/depcomp8b.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
+       * NEWS: Updated.
+       Report by Stefano Lattarini, quick fix by Ralf Wildenhues, final
+       patch and tests by Stefano Lattarini.
+
+2010-12-22  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Fix two spurious testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5.
+       * tests/suffix13.test (Makefile.am): Account for VPATH issues on
+       weaker make implementations (e.g. IRIX 6.5).
+       * tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise, plus a required related
+       change.
+       Reported by Ralf Wildenhues.  The bugs have been there from the
+       first versions of the affected test scripts.
+
+2010-12-22  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       docs: cygnus mode doesn't require AM_CYGWIN32 macro.
+       * doc/automake.texi (Cygnus): Mode 'cygnus' does not require
+       the AM_CYGWIN32 macro (and indeed hasn't required it since at
+       least commit Release-1-2-31-g3038064 "merged changes from
+       Cygnus" of 1997-08-25).
+
+2010-12-22  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Add some tests on 'cygnus' mode.
+       * tests/clean2.test: Extend.
+       * tests/cygnus-check-without-all.test: New test.
+       * tests/cygnus-dependency-tracking.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/cygnus-distclean.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/cygnus-imply-foreign.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/cygnus-no-dist.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/cygnus-no-installinfo.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/cygnus-requires-maintainer-mode.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2010-12-22  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Fix parallel testsuite run with Zsh.
+       This change deals with a Zsh incompatibility in the handling
+       of the special shell variable `$0' in sourced files; this
+       incompatibility used to cause utter breakage when the
+       Automake testsuite was run in parallel mode with Zsh as
+       the $(TEST_LOG_COMPILER).
+       For more information, please refer to the thread "Fix parallel
+       testsuite run with zsh" on automake-patches, dated 2010-12-22:
+        <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-12/msg00135.html>
+       This change works around the problems described above for Zsh 4.3
+       or later, and offers better error messages (instead of random
+       failures) for earlier Zsh version.
+       * tests/README (Supported shells): When describing the manual
+       workaround about the Zsh incompatibility in the handling of `$0',
+       tell that it is now needed only with Zsh versions preceding 4.3.
+       Done also some minor rewordings.
+       * tests/defs-static.in ($argv0): New variable, offers a workaround
+       for the Zsh incompatibility in the handling of `$0'.
+       Abort if that variable cannot be correctly set (can happen only
+       in older Zsh version).
+       * tests/defs ($me): Define using `$argv0', not `$0'.
+
+2010-12-22  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Tests defs: keep track of original $AUTOMAKE and $ACLOCAL values.
+       This is especially useful for tests which might want to run
+       automake and aclocal without additional flags and warnings.
+       * tests/defs-static.in ($original_ACLOCAL): New variable.
+       ($original_AUTOMAKE): Likewise.
+       * tests/help.test: Use them.
+       * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/help3.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/help4.test: Likewise.
+       From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+2010-12-22  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       distlinksbrk.test: Work around botched "make -k".
+       * tests/distlinksbrk.test: Run "make" multiple times and grep
+       its output each time for a single error message, rather than
+       running "make -k" one single time and grepping its output for
+       all the expected error messages.  This should work around make
+       implementations with limited (broken?) `-k' support; for more
+       information, see these subthreads on the automake-patches list:
+         - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on HP-UX 11.23",
+           <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00162.html>
+         - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5",
+           <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00166.html>
+
+2010-12-21  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Minor improvements to test 'amopts.test'.
+       * tests/amopts.test: Remove botched comment.  Make grepping of
+       automake stderr slighty stricter.  Add trailing `:' command.
+
+2010-12-21  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       backcompat6.test: avoid comments inside recipe commands.
+       * tests/backcompat6.test: Remove shell comments from makefile rule
+       commands, as they are not portable to (at least) Tru64 make.
+
+2010-12-21  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       man8.test: avoid comments inside recipe commands.
+       * tests/man8.test: Remove shell comments from makefile rule
+       commands, as they are not portable to (at least) Tru64 make.
+
+2010-12-21  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Fix sed-related buglet in test "subdir5.test"
+       * tests/subdir5.test: Always terminate text passed to the
+       `i' sed command with a newline, to work around limitations
+       in e.g. older OpenBSD sed.
+
+2010-12-21  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Fix spurious failures in tests on AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR.
+       * tests/auxdir7.test: Do not try to needlessly overwrite the files
+       `install-sh' and `missing'.  This avoid spurious failures in "make
+       distcheck", when those files might be copied as read-only from the
+       `lib' directory.
+       * tests/auxdir8.test: Likewise.
+
+2010-12-18  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Make test 'posixsubst-script' portable to MinGW/MSYS.
+       * tests/posixsubst-script.test: Ensure that the generated dummy
+       scripts really start with a shebang line, to work around a
+       limitation of 'test -x' on MinGW/MSYS.
+       Reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+       Improve comments in tests `posixsubst*.test'.
+       * tests/posixsubst-data.test: Improve comment explaining why we
+       try also empty match suffix.
+       * tests/posixsubst-extradist.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/posixsubst-ldadd.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/posixsubst-libraries.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/posixsubst-ltlibraries.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/posixsubst-programs.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/posixsubst-scripts.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/posixsubst-sources.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/posixsubst-tests.test: Likewise.
+       Suggested by Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+2010-12-18  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       docs: fix blunder in example about python extension modules
+       * doc/automake.texi (Python): Use `quaternion_la_SOURCES',
+       not `quaternion_SOURCES', to declare the sources of python
+       extension module `quaternion.la'.
+
+2010-12-16  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       docs: list LTLIBRARIES among Automake primaries
+       * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): List `LTLIBRARIES' among
+       the Automake primaries.
+
+2010-12-13  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+           Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       Tests defs: requirement 'xsi-shell' must be synced with libtool.
+       * tests/defs (xsi-shell): Add comment telling to keep the
+       XSI-conformance checks in sync with libtool.
+
+2010-12-17  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Minor cleanups in canon7.test.
+       * tests/canon7.test (_foo_bar_SOURCES): Remove libs.c.
+       (configure.in): Remove AC_PROG_CXX.
+
+2010-12-16  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       Avoid false positive in sc_tests_plain_make maintainer-check.
+       * Makefile.am (sc_tests_plain_make): Ensure to only match full
+       `make' words.  Avoid false positive with remake11.test.
+
+2010-12-16  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       Fix canon7.test failure.
+       * tests/canon7.test (_foo_bar_SOURCES): Add foobar.c.
+       (lib.h, libd.c, libs.c): Use const for constant strings.
+
+2010-12-16  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       Fix typos in test comments.
+       * tests/posixsubst-data.test, tests/posixsubst-extradist.test,
+       tests/posixsubst-ldadd.test, tests/posixsubst-libraries.test,
+       tests/posixsubst-ltlibraries.test, tests/posixsubst-programs.test,
+       tests/posixsubst-scripts.test, tests/posixsubst-sources.test,
+       tests/posixsubst-tests.test: Fix typos.
+
+2010-12-14  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       More uses of AS_HELP_STRING in automake macros.
+       * m4/depend.m4 (AM_DEP_TRACK): Use `AS_HELP_STRING' to format
+       the help message added to the generated configure.
+       * m4/dmalloc.m4 (AM_WITH_DMALLOC): Likewise.
+       * m4/lispdir.m4 (AM_PATH_LISPDIR): Likewise.
+       * m4/maintainer.m4 (AM_MAINTAINER_MODE): Likewise.
+       * m4/multi.m4 (AM_ENABLE_MULTILIB): Likewise.
+       Also, bumped all serial numbers of the modified m4 files.
+
+2010-12-14  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Improve tests on generated portions of configure help screen.
+       * tests/help-depend.test: Grepping of configure help screen
+       relaxed to cater for possible line wrapping, and tightened in
+       other respects.
+       * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/help-init.test: Grepping of configure help screen
+       tightened.
+
+2010-12-15  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Extended tests on AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR.
+       * tests/auxdir.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag.  Prefer `$me'
+       over hard-coded test name.  Use proper m4 quoting.  Add trailing
+       `:' command.
+       * tests/auxdir2.test: Likewise.  Try to call automake also with
+       the `-a' option, so that it will not fail for spurious reasons.
+       * tests/auxdir3.test: Add an explanatory comment and a trailing
+       `:' command.
+       * tests/auxdir4.test: Prefer `$me' over hard-coded test name.
+       Make grepping of automake stderr slightly stricter.  Also, now
+       this test just checks about Automake's reaction to unportable
+       auxiliary directory names (and it has been extended in this
+       respect).  Moved the checks about non-existent auxiliary
+       directories to ...
+       * tests/auxdir5.test: ... this new test.
+       * tests/auxdir6.test: New test.
+       * tests/auxdir7.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/auxdir8.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/auxdir9.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
+
+2010-12-06  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Tests: extend checks on remake rules.
+       This adds proper semantical tests (i.e. run make to check the
+       rebuild rules are correctly triggered) in addition to tentative
+       grepping of the generated Makefile.in(s).
+       * tests/remake.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
+       changes.  Modernize `configure.in'.  Add trailing `:' command.
+       Improve heading comments, and add a reference to new sister test
+       remake1a.test.
+       * tests/remake3.test: Likewise (but with sister test being
+       remake3a.test).
+       * tests/remake2.test: Improve heading comments.  Enable `errexit'
+       shell flag, and related changes.  Modernize `configure.in'.  Make
+       grepping of `Makefile.in' slightly stricter.  Add trailing `:'
+       command.
+       * tests/remake5.test: Also run the `distcheck' target.  Add
+       trailing `:' command.  Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
+       * tests/remake4.test: Prefer `$me' over hard-coded test name.
+       * tests/remake7.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
+       ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch.
+       * tests/remake6.test: Likewise.  Also, add trailing `:' command,
+       and ensure verbose printing of captured make output.
+       * tests/remake1a.test: New test, sister of remake.test.
+       * tests/remake3a.test: New test, sister of remake3.test.
+       * tests/remake8a.test: New test.
+       * tests/remake8b.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/remake9a.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/remake9b.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/remake9c.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/remake9d.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/remake10a.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/remake10b.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/remake10c.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/remake11.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/remake12.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
+
+2010-12-11  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Improve and extend tests on canonicalization.
+       * tests/canon-name.test: Add trailing `:' command.  When writing
+       configure.in, prefer to use $me instead of hard-coding the test
+       name.
+       * tests/canon3.test: Prefer trailing `:' over trailing `Exit 0'.
+       * tests/canon4.test: Likewise.  Make grepping of Makefile.in
+       stricter.  Improve heading comment, and add reference to ...
+       * tests/canon6.test: ... this new test (sister test of the
+       previous one).
+       * tests/canon.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to append
+       text to configure.in.  Extend grepping of Automake stderr.  Add
+       trailing `:' command.
+       * tests/canon5.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/canon7.test: New file, stress test on canonicalization.
+       * tests/canon8.test: New test, for better coverage (check that
+       the `@' character is not transliterated in canonicalizations).
+       * tests/Makefile.am: Updated.
+
+2010-12-13  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Libobj tests: refer to automake bug tracker for limitations.
+       * tests/libobj15b.test (configure.in): In the comment explaining
+       why an apparently redundant AC_OUTPUT is indeed needed, refer
+       to the relevant entry in the Automake bug tracker rather than
+       describing the bug in detail with a FIXME-style comment.
+       * tests/libobj15c.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/libobj20b.test: Likewise.
+
+       Libobj tests: do not use `##' automake comments in-line.
+       * tests/libobj19.test (Makefile.am): Do not use inline `##'
+       comments in the definition of AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
+       * tests/libobj20c.test: Likewise.
+       Report by Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+2010-12-13  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       Fix testsuite failure of check12.test without DejaGNU.
+       * tests/check12.test: Require runtest.
+
+2010-12-12  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Tests defs: more uses of $top_testsrcdir.
+       * tests/compile6.test: Use `$top_testsrcdir' instead of
+       `$testsrcdir/..'.
+
+2010-11-12  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Tests required tools: also try `-v' option for GNU compilers.
+       * tests/defs.in: In the loop on "$required" tools, for gcc
+       and g++, also run "gcc -v" (resp. "g++ -v"), to get more
+       information, and for consistency with gcj.
+
+2010-11-12  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+           Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       Tests defs: avoid some useless subshells.
+       * tests/defs: In the loop on "$required" tools: avoid subshells
+       where not needed.
+
+2010-12-09  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Extend tests on AC_LIBOBJ and friends.
+       * tests/aclibobj.test: Removed, superseded by ...
+       * tests/libobj-basic.test: ... this new test, which runs autoconf,
+       ./configure and make, to ensure everything really works.
+       * tests/libobj3.test: Add trailing `:' command.  Escape literal
+       dot in grep regexp.
+       * tests/libobj4.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
+       changes.  Add trailing `:' command.  Use proper m4 quoting.
+       * tests/ltlibobjs.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/libobj5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
+       changes.  Add trailing `:' command.  Make more robust by using
+       longer filenames to be grepped.
+       * tests/libobj8.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
+       changes.  Add trailing `:' command.  Use the configure.in
+       stub provided by ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch.
+       * tests/libobj2.test: Likewise.  Also, add calls to autoconf,
+       ./configure and make, to ensure everything really works.
+       * tests/libobj7.test: Likewise, and ensure that at least one
+       function listed in AC_REPLACE_FUNCTIONS is truly replaced.
+       * tests/libobj13.test: Make grepping of Automake stderr slightly
+       stricter.  Add trailing `:' command.
+       * tests/libobj12.test: Likewise.  Also, prefer "cat + here-doc"
+       over "echo" to append to Makefile.am, and some cosmetic changes
+       in spacing.
+       * tests/libobj14.test: Call `Exit 1' if sourcing of ./defs fails.
+       Slighty improve m4 quoting.  Add trailing `:' command.
+       * tests/libobj10.test: Add calls to autoconf, ./configure and
+       make, to ensure everything really works.  Also, remove tests that
+       nonexistent source for AC_LIBOBJ cause an Automake failure: this
+       is already checked by ...
+       * tests/libobj15a.test: ... this new test.
+       * tests/libobj15b.test: New test, sister test of libobj15a.test,
+       checks AC_LIBSOURCE instead of AC_LIBOBJ.
+       * tests/libobj15c.test: New test, sister test of libobj15a.test,
+       checks AC_LIBSOURCES instead of AC_LIBOBJ.
+       * tests/libobj11.test: Removed, superseded by ...
+       * tests/libobj16a.test: ... this new test.
+       * tests/libobj16b.test: New test, sister test of libobj16a.test,
+       but using oldish/deprecated idioms.
+       * tests/libobj17.test: New test.
+       * tests/libobj18.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/libobj19.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/libobj20a.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/libobj20b.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/libobj20c.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
+
+2010-12-08  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Test `$(var:suf=rpl)' expansion in special automake variables.
+       * tests/posixsubst-data.test: New test.
+       * tests/posixsubst-extradist.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/posixsubst-ldadd.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/posixsubst-libraries.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/posixsubst-ltlibraries.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/posixsubst-programs.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/posixsubst-scripts.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/posixsubst-sources.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/posixsubst-tests.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2010-12-07  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Make tests `colon*.test' more "semantic".
+       Prefer running configure and make over grepping the generated
+       files; this is both more correct and less fragile.
+       * tests/colon.test: Made more "semantic", as described above.
+       * tests/colon5.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/colon7.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/colon2.test: Likewise, and improve syncing with sister
+       test `colon3.test'.
+       * tests/colon3.test: Likewise (but with the sister test being
+       `colon2.test' here).
+
+2010-12-10  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Extend and improve tests on DejaGnu support.
+       * tests/dejagnu.test: Do not create useless dummy test script.
+       Add trailing `:' command.  In heading comments, add reference
+       to ...
+       * tests/check12.test: ... this new "semantic" test, covering
+       concurrent use of dejagnu tests, simple tests and `check-local'
+       target.
+       * tests/dejagnu2.test: Make test more reliable, by avoid weak
+       grepping of make output.  Prefer `cat' over `echo' to append
+       to configure.in.  Quote literal dots in grep regexps.  Prefer
+       `grep -c ...' over `grep ... | wc -l'.  Make grepping of
+       automake stderr slightly stricter.  Add trailing `:' command.
+       * tests/dejagnu3.test: Prefer `cat' over `echo' to append to
+       configure.in.  Check stderr of expected-to-fail "make" call.
+       Remove extra blank lines from Makefile.am.
+       * tests/dejagnu4.test: Prefer `cat' over `echo' to append to
+       configure.in.  Prefer `mv -f' over plain `mv' when the target
+       file already exists.  Avoid extra mkdir calls by creating more
+       directories at once.  Better use of blank lines.  Check that
+       the `*.log' and `*.sum' files are created by runtest also when
+       "make check" fails.
+       * tests/dejagnu7.test: Prefer `cat' over `echo' to append to
+       configure.in.  Better use of blank lines.  Add a trailing `:'
+       command.
+       * tests/dejagnu6.test: Likewise, and give the dejagnu test a
+       more descriptive name.
+       * tests/dejagnu5.test: Likewise.  Also, simply define package
+       name to `$me' rather than using a non-obvious sed script to
+       extract it from `AC_INIT', and write the Makefile.am with only
+       one command.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
+
+2010-12-10  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       Avoid running installed automake from 'libtool --help'.
+       * tests/subobj9.test: Export AUTOCONF and AUTOMAKE.
+       Together with fixed Libtool, this fixes check-coverage to not
+       invoke installed automake.
+
+2010-12-06  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Separate checks on target overriding into multiple test scripts.
+       * tests/overrid.test: Deleted, its contents separated into ...
+       * tests/override-suggest-local.test: ... this new test ...
+       * tests/override-html.test: ... and this new test ...
+       * tests/override-conditional-1.test: ... and this new test ...
+       * tests/override-conditional-2.test: ... and this new test (still
+       xfailing).
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Updated.
+
+       Enable `set -e' in more tests (plus some tweakings).
+       * tests/implicit.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
+       changes.  Add trailing `:' command.
+       * tests/insh2.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/instman2.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/interp.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/interp2.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/library.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/mclean.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/info.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
+       changes.  Add trailing `:' command.  Remove useless chaff from
+       generated Makefile.am.  Add a "FIXME" comment.
+       * tests/include.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
+       changes.  Add trailing `:' command.  Prefer cat + here-doc over
+       echo to append to configure.in.  Make tests more robust by using
+       longer and less common names to grep.  Remove an useless call to
+       echo.  Remove an useless subshell.
+       * tests/header.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
+       changes.  Use proper m4 quoting.  Add excerpts from the original
+       report of the bug tested for by this script.
+       * tests/gcj.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
+       changes.  Use proper m4 quoting.  Add trailing `:' command.
+       * tests/gcj3.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/ldflags.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/libtool.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/listval.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/javaprim.test: Likewise, and prefer cat + here-doc over
+       echo to append to configure.in.
+       * tests/javasubst.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/discorver.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag.  Prefer
+       trailing `:' over trailing `Exit 0'.
+       * tests/instdat.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
+       changes.  Use proper m4 quoting.  Avoid useless subshell.  Prefer
+       cat + here-doc over echo to append to configure.in.
+       * tests/libtool2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
+       changes.  Add trailing `:' command.  Use the configure.in
+       stub provided by ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch.
+
+       Modernize, improve and/or tweak some test scripts.
+       * tests/maintclean.test: Use proper m4 quoting.  Add trailing `:'
+       command.
+       * tests/sinclude.test: Likewise, and add a couple of blank lines,
+       for clarity.
+       * tests/make.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier in
+       the script (just after inclusion of ./defs).  Use the configure.in
+       stub created by ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch.  Some
+       cosmetic changes in spacing.  Ensure we wait enough time before
+       touching configure.in to trigger the rebuild rules.
+       * tests/makej.test: Use `$me' instead of hard-coding the test
+       name.  Add trailing `:' command.
+       * tests/version7.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/space.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
+       changes.
+       * tests/makevars.test: Likewise.  Also, prefer trailing `:' over
+       trailing `Exit 0', and be more tolerant of white spaces when
+       grepping Makefile.in.
+
+2010-12-02  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       * tests/silent8.test: Use "|| Exit 1" after ". ./defs".
+
+       Enable `set -e' in more tests (plus some tweakings).
+       * tests/mkinstall.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
+       changes.  Add a trailing `:' command, if needed.
+       * tests/mdate2.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/objc.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/noinst.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/outdir.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/number.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/pluseq.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/req.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/rulepat.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/specflg6.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/spell3.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/parse.test: Likewise, and ...
+       (configure.in): Use the stub created by ./defs, rather than
+       writing it from scratch.  Remove useless calls to AC_PROG_RANLIB
+       and AC_OUTPUT.
+       * tests/mdate4.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/mkinstall.test: Likewise, and ...
+       (configure.in): ... drop useless call to `AC_OUTPUT'.
+       * tests/output.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
+       changes.  Add a trailing `:' command.
+       (configure.in): Modernize.
+       * tests/output2.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/output3.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/output4.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/mdate3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
+       changes.  Prefer `$me' over hard-coded test name.  Do not move
+       non-existent or useless files in the build auxiliary directory.
+       * tests/nodistdir.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
+       changes.  Prefer trailing `:' over trailing `Exit 0'.
+       * tests/nodist.test: Likewise.  Also, prefer cat + here-doc over
+       echo to create input test files, and do not create useless dummy
+       C source files.
+       * tests/nodist2.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/ppf77.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
+       changes.  Add a trailing `:' command.  Do not create useless
+       dummy source files.
+       * tests/spelling.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
+       changes.  Add a trailing `:' command.  Also, grep Automake error
+       message.
+       * tests/specflg3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
+       changes.  Avoid unportable use of `-e' option of fgrep.  Prefer
+       trailing `:' over trailing `Exit 0'.  Remove extra empty lines,
+       and cosmetic changes to whitespaces.
+       * tests/obsolete.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
+       changes.  Improve verbosity.  Other miscellaneous changes.
+
+2010-11-30  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Improve and extend tests on `:=' variable assignments.
+       * tests/colneq.test: Avoid redundant use of variable assignments
+       in Makefile.am.  Use command-line automake options instead of
+       editing AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS in Makefile.am.  Make grepping of the
+       generated Makefile.in slightly stricter.  Add a trailing `:'
+       command.
+       * tests/colneq2.test: Do not create unneeded dummy files.  Run
+       also autoconf, ./configure and make.  Add trailing `:' command.
+       * tests/colneq3.test: New test, similar to colneq.test, but
+       running also autoconf, ./configure and make.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2010-11-26  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Remove long-deprecated options --Werror and --Wno-error.
+       These options has been deprecated at least since commit
+       "Release-1-6-1b-35-gc037f20", dated 2002-07-06.
+       * automake.in (parse_arguments): Do not recognize anymore options
+       `--Werror' and `--Wno-error' as synonyms of respectively `-Werror'
+       and `-Wno-error'.
+       * tests/werror.test: Update: use `-Werror' instead of `--Werror'.
+       * NEWS: Update.
+
+2010-11-25  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Fix spurious failures in `silent*.test' for $CC != gcc
+       In some tests on automake-produced silent rules, we forced the
+       use of gcc depmode to improve testsuite coverage; but this has
+       unsurprisingly led to spurious failures when some non-GNU C
+       compilers were used.  So we are now careful to require GCC in
+       tests that force gcc depmode.
+       From reports by Ralf Wildenhues.
+       * 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>
+
+       Tests: consistently use "|| Exit 1" after ". ./defs".
+       * tests/autohdr.test: Use `. ./defs || Exit 1', not bare
+       `. ./defs', for consistency with other tests.
+       * tests/autohdr2.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/autohdr3.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/autohdr4.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/cond23.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/cond24.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/cond25.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/cond26.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/cond27.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/cond28.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/cond29.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/cond30.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/cond31.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/cond32.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/cond33.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/cond34.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/cond35.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/cond36.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/cond37.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/cond38.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/cond40.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/cond41.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/cond42.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/cond43.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/cond44.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/cond45.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/dollarvar.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/dollarvar2.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/hfs.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/libobj14.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/percent.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/percent2.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/phony.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/silent.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/silent6.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/silentcxx.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/silentf77.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/silentlex.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/silentyacc.test: Likewise.
+
+       Avoid useless cleaning in some `silent*.test' tests.
+       * tests/silentf77.test: Removed useless calls to "make clean"
+       and "make maintainer-clean".
+       * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/silent3.test: Removed useless call to "make distclean".
+       * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
+
+2010-11-19  Ian Lance Taylor  <iant@google.com>
+
+       Sync config-ml.in from GCC.
+       * config-ml.in: Add Go support: treat GOC and GOCFLAGS like other
+       compiler/flag environment variables.
+
+2010-11-20  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       release-stats: account for more generated tests.
+       * Makefile.am (release-stats): Be sure to take into account all
+       the generated tests, by grepping the test scripts to decide which
+       ones of them are automatically generated.
+
+2010-11-20  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Code cleanup after removal of option `--output-directory'.
+       * automake.in ($output_directory): Remove, it's unconditionally
+       defined to `.' and used only ...
+       (generate_makefile): ... in this subroutine, which now has been
+       edited and simplified accordingly.
+
+       Remove obsolete automake option `--output-directory'.
+       This option has been deprecated since version 1.7 (2002/2003).
+       * automake.in ($output_directory): Define to `.' unconditionally.
+       (parse_arguments): Remove handling of equivalent options `-o' and
+       `--output-directory'.
+       * tests/outdir.test: Removed.
+       * tests/no-outdir-option.test: New test.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
+       * NEWS: Updated.
+
+2010-11-19  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Automake::Config: remove extra trailing semicolon.
+       * lib/Automake/Config.in: Remove extra trailing semicolon.
+
+       help4.test: fix botched heading comment.
+       * tests/help4.test: Fixed the heading comment, since it
+       didn't correctly describe what checks the testcase was
+       supposed to perform.
+
+       help2.test: add checks on aclocal too.
+       * tests/help2.test: Check that also `aclocal --version' and
+       `aclocal --help' work with configure.in and acinclude.m4 both
+       broken.
+
+2010-11-19  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       New test on repeated automake options.
+       * tests/repeated-options.test: New test, check that automake
+       does not complain on repeated options, nor generate broken or
+       incorrect makefiles.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
+
+2010-11-17  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Fix spurious failures of silent-rules tests with Sun Fortran.
+       * tests/silentf77.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
+       messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers, to
+       avoid spurious failures.  Add a trailing `:' command.
+       * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
+
+2010-11-17  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Fix spurious failures of silent5.test with Sun Fortran.
+       * tests/silent5.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
+       messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers,
+       to avoid spurious failures.  This bug has been there from the
+       very first version of this test script.
+
+2010-11-16  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Fix regression in colon{5,6}.test (failures on AIX 5.3).
+       * tests/colon5.test: Also substitute `@SHELL@' with `$SHELL' when
+       post-processing the generated Makefile.in, to work around a bug
+       of AIX 5.3 make which doesn't allow setting the `$(SHELL)' macro
+       on the commend line.  Calls to `$MAKE' adjusted accordingly.
+       * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
+       Regression introduced in commit v1.11-175-gf9fe878 "Modernize,
+       improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test", and reported by Ralf
+       Wildenhues.
+
+2010-11-16  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Fix regression in ansi.test (failure on AIX 5.3).
+       * tests/ansi.test: Remove redundant hackish check done using a
+       hand-postprocessed Makefile.in.  This check worked by setting
+       the `$(SHELL)' macro on the command line of make, but this is
+       not supported by the AIX 5.3 make implementation.
+       This bug has been lurking for a long time, and was activated by
+       commit v1.11-125-gc1f6cdb "Enable `errexit' shell flag in various
+       tests".  Report by Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+2010-11-16  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       backcompat5.test: avoid '##'-style comments inside recipe commands.
+       * tests/backcompat5.test: Remove double-hash comments
+       from makefile rule commands, they are not part of the
+       Automake API.  Fixes testsuite failure with Tru64 make.
+
+       tests: avoid '##'-style comments inside recipe commands.
+       * tests/confh.test, tests/confh8.test: Remove
+       double-hash comments from makefile rule commands, they
+       are not part of the Automake API.
+
+2010-11-14  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       tests: work around dash quoting issue in case statements.
+       * tests/color.test, tests/color2.test: Quote variable in case
+       pattern, to avoid skipping tests with dash 0.5.5.1.
+
+2010-11-16  Peter Rosin  <peda@lysator.liu.se>
+
+       Skip MSVC oriented tests if the shell is not capable.
+       * tests/defs: New required entry 'xsi-shell'.
+       * tests/ar-lib.test, tests/compile3.test, tests/compile6.test:
+       Require a XSI capable shell.
+       Reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+2010-11-15  Peter Rosin  <peda@lysator.liu.se>
+
+       compile: clear the `eat' variable earlier.
+       * lib/compile: Clear the `eat' variable earlier.
+       ($scriptversion): Update.
+       * tests/compile3.test: Prevent regressions.
+
+2010-11-14  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       More stable configure output from sanity check.
+       * m4/sanity.m4 (AM_SANITY_CHECK): Always print check line
+       about ensuring newer files, even if we don't actually need
+       to wait any more.
+
+2010-11-14  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       Rebuild menus in the manual.
+       * doc/automake.texi: Rebuild menus (using ^C ^U ^A in emacs).
+       Thanks to Ian Lance Taylor for the suggestion.
+
+       Fix install-strip when $(STRIP) contains several words.
+       * lib/am/install.am (install-strip): Update comment.  Use
+       separate sub-make invocations for empty and nonempty $(STRIP),
+       to fix quoting issues.
+       * tests/strip2.test, tests/strip3.test: New tests.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Adjust.
+
+2010-11-10  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       Fix yaccdry.test failure: require bison.
+       * tests/yaccdry.test: Require bison.
+       Found by NixOS Hydra.
+
+2010-11-12  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Fix bug in test `backcompat6.test' (MSYS portability).
+       * tests/backcompat6.test (Makefile.am): Grep the output from the
+       test program, rather than diffing it, to avoid spurious failures
+       on MinGW/MSYS due to LF vs. CRLF line endings.
+       Reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+2010-11-13  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Deprecate obsolete macro AM_WITH_REGEX.
+       * m4/regex.m4: Document the `AM_WITH_REGEX' macro as obsolete,
+       and state that it should be removed two years from now.
+       (AM_WITH_REGEX): Raise an m4-time warning of the "obsolete"
+       category when this macro is used.
+       * doc/automake.texi (Public Macros): Move description of
+       `AM_WITH_REGEX' from here ...
+       (Obsolete Macros): ... to here, and declare it as obsolete
+       and "to be removed in a future version".
+       * tests/regex-obsolete.test: New test.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2010-11-08  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Improve and extend tests on man pages support.
+       * tests/man.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related changes.
+       Make grepping of generated Makefile.in slightly stricter.
+       * tests/man3.test:  Add trailing `:' command.
+       * tests/man5.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to append to
+       configure.in.
+       * tests/man2.test: Likewise, and add trailing `:' command.
+       * tests/man4.test: More thorough and consistent checking of make
+       error messages.  Place fake `help2man' program in a new `bin'
+       directory rather than in `.'.  Move the checks using the real
+       `help2man' program to ...
+       * tests/man6.test: ... this new test, and extend them.  This test
+       passes with GNU make and Solaris make, still fails with BSD make.
+       * tests/man7.test: New test, extracted from old man4.test, which
+       checks for a bug in maintainer-clean w.r.t. generated manpages.
+       * tests/man8.test: New test, extracted from old man4.test, which
+       checks for a bug in distcheck w.r.t. generated manpages.  Passes
+       with GNU make and Solaris make, still fails with BSD make.
+
+2010-11-08  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Minor improvements and extensions to various tests.
+       * tests/defun.test: Also run autoconf and grep the generated
+       configure to make sure that aclocal truly picks up all the
+       required macros.
+       * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Prefer trailing `:' over trailing
+       `Exit 0'.  Do not create useless dummy source files.  Do not set
+       useless `$(foo_LDADD)' variable in `Makefile.am'.  Do not call
+       useless macro `AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS' in `configure.in'.
+       * tests/compile_f90_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/suffix10.test: Slightly stricter grepping of make output.
+       * tests/compile.test: Add trailing `:' command.
+       * tests/defun2.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/vars3.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/vartar.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/vars.test: Likewise.  Also, extend test by checking
+       that the definition of `MY_FLAGS*' variables is preserved in
+       the generated `Makefile.in'.
+       * tests/stamph2.test: Prefer trailing `:' over trailing `Exit 0'.
+       Use proper m4 quoting in `configure.in'.
+
+2010-11-11  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Tests defs: improve messages for skipped tests.
+       * tests/defs: Give meaningful messages about the reasons of a
+       test skip; this is especially useful as this file is run without
+       verbose xtraces on.  Related reorderings in the code and new
+       comments.
+
+2010-11-10  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Tests defs: move static definitions in a new file `defs-static'.
+       The new file is meant to be idempotent w.r.t. multiple inclusions.
+       * tests/defs.in: Removed, its contents split among ...
+       * tests/defs-static.in: ... this new file ...
+       * tests/defs: ... and this new file, including the former.
+       * configure.ac (AC_CONFIG_FILES): Remove `tests/defs', add
+       `tests/defs-static'.
+       (AC_CONFIG_LINKS): Add `tests/defs'.
+       * tests/Makefile.am ($(parallel_tests)): Update.
+       ($(instspc_tests)): Likewise.
+       * tests/.gitignore: Update.
+
+       Tests defs: $testsbuilddir is now AC_SUBST'ed.
+       * tests/defs.in ($testsbuilddir): Substitute from @abs_builddir@.
+       Add sanity check on $testsbuilddir, similar to those on
+       $testsrcdir and $top_testsrcdir.
+
+       Tests defs: do not print message "Running test $0" anymore.
+       * tests/defs.in: Printing the message "=== Running test $0" at
+       the beginning of each tests made sense when Automake used the old
+       test-driver, which sent all the output directly to stdout/stderr.
+       Now that the parallel test-driver is used, which saves output of
+       each test in its corresponding log file, that old message is just
+       useless noise.
+
+       Tests defs: rename $curdir -> $testbuilddir
+       * tests/defs.in: Rename $curdir to $testbuildir, for clarity and
+       consistency with $testsrcdir and $top_testsrcdir.
+
+       Tests defs: prefer "$curdir" over "`pwd`".
+       * tests/defs.in: We already save the value of `pwd` in $curdir
+       early in the file, so there no need to recalculate it later, when
+       the current working directory is not changed.
+
+       Tests defs: use `$me' in more error messages.
+       * tests/defs.in: Also use `$me' in error messages referring to
+       missing `defs' or `defs.in', since that variable is now defined
+       before those checks.
+
+       Tests defs: do not use `Exit' where plain `exit' suffices.
+       * tests/defs.in: Use "exit 77" rather than "Exit 77" to skip the
+       test when required libtool/gettext macros are not found, since
+       such skips would take place before the exit trap is installed.
+
+       Tests defs: improve and extends comments.
+       * tests/defs.in: Improve and extends some comments, especially in
+       relation with the changes introduced by the previous reordering.
+
+       Tests defs: various reorderings.
+       * tests/defs.in: Reordered various snippets of code in a
+       clearer way.
+
+2010-11-09  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Fix bug in test `backcompat4.test' (stale autom4te cache).
+       * tests/backcompat4.test: Remove stale autom4te cache directory
+       before re-running aclocal and automake.  Also, since we are at
+       it, be more verbose in displaying contents of generated files,
+       to ease debuggability.
+       Reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+2010-11-07  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Fix a bug in variable concatenation with `+='.
+       * lib/Automake/VarDef.pm (append): Since the content of the
+       "appended-to" variable is going to be unconditionally normalized
+       later, simply separate the appended value with a single whitespace
+       character, instead of trying to be uselessly smarter by using
+       escaped newlines.  This fixes a bug in which extra backslashes
+       where erroneously inserted in the variable's final value.
+       * tests/pluseq11.test: New test, exposing the bug.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+       Reported by Andy Wingo.
+
+2010-11-07  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Modernize, improve and/or tweak various test scripts.
+       * tests/stamph2.test: Improve m4 quoting in `configure.in', and
+       prefer trailing `:' over trailing `Exit 0'.
+       * tests/syntax.test: Escape literal dots in grep regexps.
+       * tests/copy.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag.  Extend test by
+       checking with `test' utility that the script `install-sh' is
+       copied, but not symlinked.
+       * tests/depdist.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
+       in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs).  Avoid obsoleted
+       constructs in generated `configure.in'.  Prefer to do our checks
+       by running configure and make over grepping Makefile.in.
+       * tests/target-cflags: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag
+       earlier in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Use the
+       `configure.in' stub created by `./defs', rather than writing it
+       from scratch.
+       * tests/target-clash: Do not uselessly run autoconf.
+       * tests/ctarget1.test: Renamed ...
+       * tests/cond-basic.test: ... to this.  Use the `configure.in' stub
+       created by `./defs', rather than writing it from scratch.
+       Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just
+       after inclusion of ./defs).  Other minor cosmetic changes.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
+
+2010-11-06  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       New tests on obsoleted usages of automake/autoconf macros (such
+       as AC_INIT, AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE and AC_OUTPUT).
+       * tests/backcompat.test: New test script.
+       * tests/backcompat2.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/backcompat3.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/backcompat4.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/backcompat5.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/backcompat6.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/init.test: Extended and improved, esp. by trying more
+       combinations of calls to AC_INIT and AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE with few
+       arguments.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
+
+2010-11-06  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Fix bug in rules for creating vala vapi/header files.
+       * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Add forgotten "fi" in an
+       if control structure in a generated make rules.  Bug introduced
+       by previous commit `v1.11-221-gd7c1679', and revealed by failure
+       of test `vala2.test'.
+
+2010-11-01  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       Fix and document rules to not touch the tree with `make -n'.
+       * doc/automake.texi (Multiple Outputs): Document the problem of
+       modifications during dry-run execution, propose solution.
+       * NEWS: Update.
+       * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Split recipe so the
+       stamp file is not removed with GNU `make -n'.
+       (lang_yacc_target_hook): Separate removal of parser output file
+       and header remaking.
+       * lib/am/lisp.am ($(am__ELCFILES)): Determine whether -n was
+       passed to make, take care not to remove any files in that case.
+       * lib/am/remake-hdr.am (%CONFIG_H%): Separate removal of
+       %STAMP% file from induced remaking of config header.
+       * tests/autohdrdry.test, tests/lispdry.test, tests/yaccdry.test:
+       New tests.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2010-11-05  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Fix potential bug in generated tests `instpc-*.test'.
+       This bug is due to the changes introduced by the recently-merged
+       "tests-init" branch.  In that branch, `tests/defs' didn't define
+       anymore `$srcdir', instead defining directly `$testsrcdir'; but
+       the generated tests were using `$srcdir', hence the bug.
+       Luckily, since the Automake parallel test driver automatically
+       exports `srcdir' to a proper value, that prevented the bug from
+       manifesting itself.
+       * tests/Makefile.am ($(instspc_tests)): In the generated test
+       scripts, use `$testsrcdir', not `$srcdir'.
+
+2010-11-03  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Overhauled and modularized tests in `instspc.test'.
+       The test `instspc.test' was way too big and fragile.  Its running
+       time was very long.  It also produced a log that was nearly
+       unreadable due to its length, making it very difficult to find
+       out the reason for failures.
+       Also, it was too much monolithic, with a single (maybe spurious)
+       failure in a corner case causing the whole test to fail (even if
+       everything worked as expected in the other 99% of cases).
+       The present change should solve these problems, by separating
+       `instspc.test' into many smaller, self-contained, auto-generated
+       tests.
+       * tests/instspc.test: Removed.
+       * tests/instspc-tests.sh: New script, fulfilling a double role:
+       1. it generates a Makefile.am snippet `tests/instspc-tests.am',
+       containing the definition of a list of new tests which will take
+       over the older `instspc.test', and
+       2. it is sourced by said generated tests with proper parameters
+       pre-set, to run the "meat" of the checks.
+       This apparent abuse is indeed required because the test generation
+       code and test execution code are inevitably intertwined.
+       * tests/Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/instspc-tests.am): Include this
+       snippet, which (among the other things) defines ...
+       (instspc_tests): ... this new macro, containing the list of the
+       newly generated `instspc*.test' tests, and ...
+       (instspc_xfail_tests): ... this new macro, containing the list
+       of the `instspc*.test' tests expected to fail.
+       ($(instspc_tests)): New rule, generates the `instspc*.test' tests.
+       ($(instspc_tests:.test=.log)): New rule, registers the dependency
+       of all `instspc*.test' tests on the `instspc-tests.sh' script.
+       (TESTS): Add `$(instspc_tests)', remove `instspc.test'.
+       (XFAIL_TESTS): Add `$(xfail_instspc_tests)'.
+       (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute instspc-tests.sh.
+       (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Added $(instspc_tests).
+       Other minor cosmetic changes.
+       * bootstrap: Generate instspc-tests.am.
+       * tests/.gitignore: Updated.
+
+2010-11-01  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       Add FAQ entry for bug reporting instructions.
+       * doc/automake.texi (Reporting Bugs): New section.
+       (Introduction): Refer to it.
+
+2010-10-07  Peter Rosin  <peda@lysator.liu.se>
+
+       depcomp: add new one-pass depmode for MSVC 7 and later.
+       * lib/depcomp: Add new depmodes 'msvc7' and 'msvc7msys' which
+       make use of the -showIncludes option added in MSVC 7.
+       * m4/depend.m4 (_AM_DEPENDENCIES): Handle the new depmodes
+       similarly to 'msvisualcpp' and 'msvcmsys' as MSVC does not
+       support the -o option.
+
+2010-10-05  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
+
+       dist-xz, dist-bzip2: don't hard-code -9: honor envvar settings
+       * lib/am/distdir.am (dist-xz): Do not hard-code xz's -9: that
+       made it impossible to override.  Instead, use its XZ_OPT envvar,
+       defaulting to -9 if not defined.  Thus no change in behavior
+       when XZ_OPT is not set, and now, this rule honors the setting
+       of that envvar when it is set.  Suggested by Lasse Collin.
+       (dist-bzip2): Likewise for it's corresponding envvar: BZIP2.
+       * NEWS (Miscellaneous changes): Mention it.
+       * doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions): Describe the
+       newly enabled environment variables.
+
+2010-10-04  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Add support for newer python versions.
+       * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Add python2.7 and python3.2 to
+       _AM_PYTHON_INTERPRETER_LIST.  Since we are at it, break a long
+       line and fix indentation.
+       * THANKS: Updated.
+       From a report by Thomas Klausner.
+
+       Add test for `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' macro.
+       * tests/dmalloc.test: New test.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+       Fix nits and bugs in tests `help*.test'.
+       * tests/help4.test: Fix broken sed commands used to strip `-W...'
+       flags away from "$AUTOMAKE" and "$ACLOCAL".
+       * tests/help3.test: Likewise, and fix a botched comment.
+       * tests/help.test: Likewise.  Also, use "AUTOMAKE_fails ..."
+       instead of "$AUTOMAKE ... && Exit 1", for consistency and to
+       please maintainer-check.
+       * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
+
+2010-10-03  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+           Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       Improve tests `help*.test' (also fixes maintcheck failures).
+       * tests/help.test: To run automake, use `$AUTOMAKE' with all `-W'
+       flags stripped away rather than hard-coded `automake-$APIVERSION',
+       to better honour user-overrides.  Similarly for aclocal.
+       * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/help3.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/help4.test: Likewise.
+
+2010-10-03  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       tests: fix ar-lib.test for echo that interprets backslashes.
+       * tests/ar-lib.test: Use printf instead of echo.  Avoid test -a.
+       More robust quoting.
+
+2010-10-03  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+       maintainer-check coverage for variables before rules.
+       * Makefile.am (sc_ensure_testsuite_has_run): Suggest keeping
+       around the test directories.
+       (sc_tests_makefile_variable_order): New rule with a heuristic to
+       catch ordering violations.
+
+       Document and fix expansion of variables before rules.
+       * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Document that variables
+       are expanded before rules.
+       * lib/am/check.am (am__check_post): Reword a bit so it does not
+       get matched as a rule.
+       Suggestion by Ben Pfaff.
+
 2010-10-02  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 
+       Coverage and minor fixes for variable typo detection.
+       * automake.in (check_typos): Remove `EXTRA_' prefix when
+       computing canonical name.
+       * tests/vartypo2.test, tests/vartypos.test: New tests.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
        Implement EXTRA_maude_DEPENDENCIES for programs and libraries.
        * automake.in (handle_programs, handle_libraries)
        (handle_ltlibraries): Mark EXTRA_*_DEPENDENCIES as recognized.
        * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
        * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
        * tests/mmode.test: Remove tests on `configure --help' output,
-       they are supersed by tests in `help-maintainer.test'.
+       they are superseded by tests in `help-maintainer.test'.
        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
 
 2010-09-14  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
        Fix regression in test `colon4.test'.
        * tests/colon4.test: Fix botched editing to `configure.in'
        that made the test useless.  Since we are at it, improve
-       comments and make grepping of generated Makefile.in slighty
+       comments and make grepping of generated Makefile.in slightly
        stricter.
        Regression introduced by change "Modernize, improve and/or
        extend tests `colon*.test" (Stefano Lattarini, 2010-08-08).
        * tests/confh.test: Run "autoconf", "configure" and "make check",
        instead of munging/grepping the generated `Makefile.in'.
        * tests/confh4.test: Relax the grepping of Makefile.in w.r.t.
-       white spaces.  Do not create usless dummy source file `foo.c'
+       white spaces.  Do not create useless dummy source file `foo.c'
        and useless dummy header file `acconfig.h'.
        (configure.in): Remove superfluous call to `AC_OUTPUT'.
        * tests/confh6.test: Add trailing `:' command.
        Posix 2008 requires make to set errexit.
        * lib/am/check.am: Update comment.
 
+2010-09-06  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Tests defs: remove variable $testaclocaldir.
+       * tests/defs.in ($testaclocaldir): Removed.
+       * tests/aclocal.test: Use `$top_testsrcdir/m4' directly, not
+       `$testaclocaldir'.
+
+       Tests defs: $srcdir and $top_srcdir renaming.
+       * tests/defs.in ($srcdir): Remove, define $testsrcdir directly.
+       * tests/Makefile.am ($(parallel_tests)): Generation of derived
+       tests updated.
+
+       Tests defs: new variable $top_testsrcdir.
+       * tests/defs.in ($top_testsrcdir): Define unconditionally
+       to @abs_top_srcdir@.  Use it throughout.
+       * tests/ar-lib.test: Use `$top_testsrcdir' instead of
+       `$testsrcdir/..'.
+       * tests/auxdir.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/compile.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/compile2.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/compile3.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/compile5.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/mdate6.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/mkinst3.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/multlib.test: Likewise.
+       * tests/txinfo22.test: Likewise.
+
+       Tests defs: $srcdir is unconditionally substituted.
+       * tests/defs.in ($srcdir): Define unconditionally to @abs_srcdir@.
+       Remove code for $srcdir normalization, which is now useless.
+
+2010-09-02  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Tests defs: make spacing more consistent.
+       * tests/defs.in: Make spacing more consistent in indentation.
+       Especially, indent using only spaces, not tabs.  Also, move
+       a comment to a better position.
+
+       Improve code for requiring libtool and gettext in tests.
+       * tests/defs.in: Stricter (and more correct) detection of wheter
+       libtool, libtoolize and/or gettext are in $required.
+
+
 2010-08-27  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 
        Fix bug in test missing6.test.
        `$me' over hard-coded test name.
        * tests/aclocal6.test: Likewise.
        * tests/aclocal18.test: Add trailing `:' command, and make
-       some grepping slighty stricter.
+       some grepping slightly stricter.
        * tests/acloca14.test: Likewise.  Also, prefer `diff' over
        `cmp', and add some "cosmetic" blank lines.
 
        README, NEWS), since we run automake in foreign mode anyway.
        * tests/pr72.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
        changes.  Extend existing checks a bit.
-       * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.  Also, avoid obolescent constructs in
+       * tests/pr9.test: Likewise.  Also, avoid obsolescent constructs in
        the generated `configure.in', and extend existing checks over the
        generated tarball a bit.
        * tests/pr87.test: Enable `errexit' shell flags, and related
        changes.  Add a trailing `:' command.  Also, do not create dummy
        files required by "gnu" mode (e.g. README, NEWS), since we run
        automake in foreign mode anyway.
-       * tests/pr243.test: Avoid obolescent constructs in the generated
+       * tests/pr243.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
        `configure.in'.  Enable the `errexit' shell flag, and related
        changes.  Cosmetic changes to spacing, add trailing `:' command,
        and add a "FIXME" comment.
        * tests/pr266.test: Likewise, and add explicit command line switch
-       `--enable-dependecy-tracking' to the ./configure call.
-       * tests/pr279.test: Avoid obolescent constructs in the generated
+       `--enable-dependency-tracking' to the ./configure call.
+       * tests/pr279.test: Avoid obsolescent constructs in the generated
        `configure.in'; also, use the `configure.in' stub created by
        ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch.  Enable `errexit'
        shell flag, and related changes.  Add trailing `:' command.
        * tests/confvar.test: Likewise, and make grepping of Makefile.in
        stricter.
        * tests/confvar2.test: Likewise.
-       * tests/conflnk3.test: Cosmetic changes, and re-enable a temporarly
+       * tests/conflnk3.test: Cosmetic changes.  Re-enable a temporarily
        disabled test (which didn't work with autoconf <= 2.59, but now we
        are requiring autoconf 2.62, so...)
        * tests/conflnk4.test: Cosmetic changes, and extend existing tests
        Minor improvements and fixes in tests `depcomp*.test'.
        * tests/depcomp.test: Do not create useless dummy source files.
        Add a trailing `:' command.
-       * tests/depcomp2.test: Use `unset' on the CFLAG variable to ensure
-       it's not in in the environment, rather tthan exporting it with an
+       * tests/depcomp2.test: Use `unset' on the CFLAGS variable to ensure
+       it's not in in the environment, rather than exporting it with an
        empty value.  Do not pass CC=gcc to configure, as that's already
        done in ./defs since we have gcc in $required.  Ensure verbose
        printing of captured stderr, and normalize its checking.  Add a
        and dollar characters in grep regexps.  Explicitly declare phony
        targets as such in the created Makefile.am.  Add a trailing `:'
        command.
-       * tests/depcomp6.test: Consistenty use m4 quoting in the generated
+       * tests/depcomp6.test: Consistently use m4 quoting in the generated
        configure.in.  Cosmetic fixes to spacing.  Make the "dummy" `if'
        statement required by OpenBSD's sh `set -e' more robust, and add
        explanatory comments to it.
        * tests/subobj9.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
        in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs).  Fail the test if
        `make distcheck' fails.  Ensure verbose printing of captured make
-       stdout.  Avoid uselsss fork by doing simple grep instead of using
+       stdout.  Avoid useless fork by doing simple grep instead of using
        test -n "`COMMAND | grep ...`".
        (configure.in): Normalize the call to AC_INIT w.r.t. other tests.
        (Makefile.am): Explicitly mark target "print" as phony.
        source file.
        * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
        * tests/suffix5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
-       changes.  Make grepping of Makefile.in slighty stricter.
+       changes.  Make grepping of Makefile.in slightly stricter.
        * tests/suffix.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
        changes.  Also, do not redirect grep output to /dev/null, as this
        might unmotivatedly hide useful information.
        $FGREP rather than plain grep.
        * tests/suffix11.test: Likewise.
        * tests/suffix12.test: Likewise.
-       * tests/suffix9.test: Prefet cat + here-doc over echo to append to
+       * tests/suffix9.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to append to
        the `configure.in' stub.  Cosmetic changes.
        * tests/suffix13.test: Cosmetic spacing change.
 
 2010-06-13  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 
        Add useful comment in test script obsolete.test.
-       * tests/obsolte.test: Add a comment explaining why we need
+       * tests/obsolete.test: Add a comment explaining why we need
        an indirection in adding $AUTOUPDATE to $required.
 
        Normalize whitespaces in 'tests/Makefile.am'.
        changes, and a couple of unrelated cosmetic changes.
        * tests/recurs.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
        `./defs', rather than writing one from scratch.  Make grepping
-       of Automake stderr slighty stricter.
+       of Automake stderr slightly stricter.
        * tests/substtarg.test: Likewise.
        * tests/strip.test: Likewise, and move the call to `set -e'
        earlier (just after the inclusion of `./defs'). Also, make sure
        in ./defs).  Avoid potential problems with unpredictable make
        output.  Finally, make grepping of Makefile.in stricter.
        * tests/substre2.test: Ensure verbose printing of the captured
-       make's output, and make its grepping slighty stricter.
+       make's output, and make its grepping slightly stricter.
        * tests/cygwin32.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
        changes.  Also, do not create useless dummy source/data files.
        * tests/scripts.test: Likewise.
        here-doc, not using echo.
        * tests/pluseq10.test: Make sure that the captured output of
        `make' command is always displayed. Where possible, use $FGREP
-       instead of grep (this change makes some checks slighty stricter).
+       instead of grep (this change makes some checks slightly stricter).
        * tests/pluseq8.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
        changes.
        * tests/pluseq.test: Likewise.  Also, do not create useless dummy
        * tests/pluseq4.test: Likewise.
        * tests/pluseq6.test: Likewise.
        * tests/pluseq7.test: Do not create useless dummy source file.
-       * tests/pluseq9.test: Slighty extended w.r.t. the grepping of
+       * tests/pluseq9.test: Slightly extended w.r.t. the grepping of
        Automake stderr.  Some unrelated cosmetic changes.
 
 2010-06-12  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 2010-06-11  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 
        Improve determination of PATH separator in bootstrap script.
-       * bootstrap: Detemine what the PATH separator is the same way
+       * bootstrap: Determine what the PATH separator is the same way
        autoconf does.
 
        Minor improvements in bootstrap script.
        $AUTOMAKE, and improve the positioning of an $ACLOCAL call.
        * tests/exeext4.test: Use $FGREP instead of grep, where possible.
        Make auxiliary rules in the generated Makefile more silent.
-       These changes make some checks slighty stricter.
+       These changes make some checks slightly stricter.
        * tests/ext2.test: Call `Exit 1' if inclusion of `./defs' fails.
        * tests/gettext2.test: Place final `:' at the end of the script,
        rather than in the middle.
        * tests/python2.test: Improved verbose messages.
 
        Make test `ammissing.test' stricter.
-       * tests/ammissing.test: Fail if $ACLOCAL succeds unexpectedly.
+       * tests/ammissing.test: Fail if $ACLOCAL succeeds unexpectedly.
        Enable `errexit' shell flag.
 
 2010-06-08  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
        Fix distcheck failure with distributed generated parallel tests.
        * tests/Makefile.am ($(parallel_tests)): Cope with $(srcdir)
        being different from the value at developer `make dist' time.
-       * tests/defs.in: Protect against mutiple inclusion, by using ...
+       * tests/defs.in: Protect against multiple inclusion, by using ...
        ($am_defs_included): ... this new variable.
        ($srcdir): Do not compute, but simply define to `@abs_srcdir@'
        as substituted by configure.
        * tests/nodep.test: Likewise.
        * tests/nodepcomp.test: Likewise.
        * tests/f90only.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
-       comments and unecessary commands.
+       comments and unnecessary commands.
        * tests/fonly.test: Likewise, and remove botched/obsoleted
-       comments and unecessary commands.
+       comments and unnecessary commands.
        * tests/discover.test: Likewise, and made stricter.
 
        Enable `errexit' shell flag in all tests cxx*.test.
        Extend test on `nostdinc' automake option.
        * tests/nostdinc.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag.  Related and
        unrelated minor changes.  Make the grepping of the generated
-       Makefile.in slighty stricter.  Generate and run configure, so that
+       Makefile.in slightly stricter.  Generate and run configure, so that
        the generated Makefile can be grepped too.
 
 2010-05-23  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 
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