Merge branch 'msvc' into branch-1.11

* msvc:
  news: add entry about recent 'ar-lib' changes
  scripts: recognize the "q", "s" and "S" actions/modifiers in ar-lib
  vala: fix 'valac' calls for projects with mixed Vala/C
  vala: expose automake bug#10894
  dryrun: $(am__dry_run) not confused by metachars in $(MAKEFLAGS)
  update-copyright: don't touch files synced from external packages
  fixup: distribute 'lib/update-copyright'
  maint: add a rule to use gnulib's update-copyright
  fixup: do not tickle makefile-deps.test with the make_dryrun code

diff --cc NEWS
index 0b1e7a4,442b303..12beca9
--- 1/NEWS
--- 2/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@@ -25,25 -24,19 +25,33 @@@ New in 1.11.3a
      search path are looked up is probably going to be changed in the
      next Automake release (1.12).
  
 -  - The obsolescent AM_WITH_REGEX  macro has been deprecated (since the
 -    GNU rx library has been decommissioned), and will be removed in the
 -    next major Automake release (1.12).
 +  - The Automake support for automatic de-ANSI-fication will be removed
 +    in the next major Automake release (1.12).
  
 -* Changes to aclocal:
 +  - Starting from the next Automake release (1.12), warnings in the
 +    `extra-portability' category will be enabled by `-Wall' (right now,
 +    one has to use `-Wextra-portability' explicitly).
  
 -  - The `--acdir' option is deprecated.  Now you should use the new options
 -    `--automake-acdir' and `--system-acdir' instead.
++* Miscellaneous changes:
+ 
 -  - The `ACLOCAL_PATH' environment variable is now interpreted as a
 -    colon-separated list of additional directories to search after the
 -    automake internal acdir (by default ${prefix}/share/aclocal-APIVERSION)
 -    and before the system acdir (by default ${prefix}/share/aclocal).
++  - The 'ar-lib' script now ignores the "s" (symbol index) and "S" (no
++    symbol index) modifiers as well as the "s" action, as the symbol index
++    is created unconditionally by Microsoft lib.  Also, the "q" (quick)
++    action is now a synonym for "r" (replace).  Also, the script has been
++    ignoring the "v" (verbose) modifier already since Automake 1.11.3.
++
 +Bugs fixed in 1.11.3a:
 +
 +* Bugs introduced by 1.11.3:
 +
 +  - NONE YET
 +
 +* Long-standing bugs:
 +
 +  - NONE YET
 +
 +\f
 +New in 1.11.3:
  
  * Miscellaneous changes:
  

diff --cc tests/list-of-tests.mk
Simple merge