Merge branch 'maint' into yacc-work
* maint: (34 commits)
tests: drop unnecessary requirement in 'subpkg.test'
gitlog-to-changelog: new auxiliary script, synced from gnulib
docs: "aclocal --install -I /abs/dir" actually copies files
docs: fix node names for automake and aclocal invocations
gitignore: use only one .gitignore file, in the top-level directory
tests: one more fixlet for gettext macros requirement
tests: fix handling of gettext macros requirement
tests: fix failure due to debugging code forgotten into a test
tests: avoid spurious failure of libtool and gettext tests
hacking: distribute it, and mention it in the ChangeLog
regex: deprecate the obsolete macro AM_WITH_REGEX
maint: distribute .xz tarballs, not .bz2 ones
maint: better use of autoconf 2.68 features
cosmetics: use proper m4 quoting in configure.ac
include: avoid "deleted .am file" problem
tests: better handling of gettext and libtool requirements
fix: typos and grammaros in comments of the new test
tests: report useful system information in 'test-suite.log'
python: remove relics for Python 1.5 support
configure: remove extraneous 'eval's from AM_RUN_LOG invocations
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