2011-11-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+ tests: fix spurious failure in 'distcheck-override-infodir.test'
+ * tests/distcheck-override-infodir.test ($required): Add
+ 'install-info'.
+
++2011-11-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
++
+ tests: avoid another failure of 'uninstall-fail.test' on Solaris
+ * tests/uninstall-fail.test: On Solaris 10, if `/bin/rm' is run
+ with the `-f' option, it doesn't print any error message when
+ failing to remove a file (due to e.g., "Permission denied").
+ Yikes. Cater to this incompatibility, by relaxing the test when
+ a faulty `rm' is detected.
+
+2011-11-03 Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> (tiny change)
+ Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ maint-mode: fix botched configure messages
+ This change fixes automake bug#9890.
+ * m4/maintainer.m4 (AM_MAINTAINER_MODE): Fix the "checking ..."
+ configure message related to the enabling/disabling of maintainer
+ mode.
+ * tests/help-maintainer.test: Renamed ...
+ * tests/maintmode-configure-msg.test: ... to this, and extended
+ to cover the fixed bug. Also, since we are at it, make grepping
+ of configure help screens stricter, and throw in some few other
+ changes to reduce code duplication and enhance readability.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+ * THANKS: Update with Zack's new e-mail address.
+ Report and initial patch by Zack Weinberg, test cases added by
+ Stefano Lattarini.
+
+2011-10-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ info: allow user to inhibit creation/update of '${infodir}/dir'
+ With this change, we allow the user to request the install-info
+ rules not to update the `${infodir}/dir' file, by exporting the
+ environment variable `AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR' to the value "no".
+ This is especially useful to distro packagers, and is a definite
+ improvement over our previous hack of looking whether the
+ `install-info' program was the Debian or GNU version -- hack
+ which had been silently broken with recent versions of debian
+ install-info BTW (probably since dpkg 1.15.4, 2009-09-06).
+ This change fixes automake bug#9773. See also Debian Bug#543992.
+ * lib/am/texinfos.am: Don't look anymore at the output of
+ `install-info --version' to decide whether to use it to update
+ the `${infodir}/dir' or not; instead, honour the environment
+ variable `AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR'.
+ * tests/install-info-dir.test: New test.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
+ * tests/defs: Also unset `AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR', to avoid unwanted
+ interferences from the environment.
+ * doc/automake.texi (Texinfo): Update.
+ * NEWS: Likewise.
+ * THANKS: Likewise.
+ Report by Jonathan Nieder.
+
+2011-10-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ deps: partially revert commit `v1.11-512-geeee551'
+ This change partly reverts commit "Create subdirs for generated
+ sources even when not dep tracking", of 2011-04-02.
+ That commit had caused the bugs #8485 and #8526. Since we are
+ nearing the bug-fixing automake release 1.11.2, the safest policy
+ at the moment is to just revert the problematic hunks: an older,
+ known bug is better than a regression.
+ * automake.in (handle_single_transform): Don't add a dirstamp
+ dependency, even when $object is derived and lands in a subdir.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Add lex-subobj-nodep.test,
+ remove yacc-dist-nobuild-subdir.test.
+
+2011-10-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ dejagnu: allow the package developer to extend site.exp
+ Fixes automake bug#7873.
+ * lib/am/dejagnu.am (site.exp): Depend from the files listed in
+ $(EXTRA_DEJAGNU_SITE_CONFIG), if any. Append their contents to
+ the generated site.exp (still preserving user edits).
+ * doc/automake.texi (Dejagnu Tests): Update.
+ * tests/dejagnu-siteexp-append.test: New test.
+ * tests/dejagnu-siteexp-extend.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/dejagnu-siteexp-useredit.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+ * NEWS: Update.
+ Suggestion by Rainer Orth.
+
+2011-10-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ dejagnu: ensure 'srcdir' is defined as a relative directory
+ This change fixes automake bug#7833.
+ * lib/am/dejagnu.am (check-DEJAGNU): Prefer using plain $(srcdir)
+ over calculating and using the absolute path of $(srcdir).
+ * tests/dejagnu-relative-srcdir.test: New test.
+ * tests/dejagnu-absolute-builddir.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+ Report by Ian Lance Taylor. Suggestions by Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+2010-12-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ Fix testsuite failure of check12.test without DejaGNU.
+ * tests/check12.test: Require runtest.
+
+2010-12-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Extend and improve tests on DejaGnu support.
+ * tests/dejagnu.test: Do not create useless dummy test script.
+ Add trailing `:' command. In heading comments, add reference
+ to ...
+ * tests/check12.test: ... this new "semantic" test, covering
+ concurrent use of dejagnu tests, simple tests and `check-local'
+ target.
+ * tests/dejagnu2.test: Make test more reliable, by avoid weak
+ grepping of make output. Prefer `cat' over `echo' to append
+ to configure.in. Quote literal dots in grep regexps. Prefer
+ `grep -c ...' over `grep ... | wc -l'. Make grepping of
+ automake stderr slightly stricter. Add trailing `:' command.
+ * tests/dejagnu3.test: Prefer `cat' over `echo' to append to
+ configure.in. Check stderr of expected-to-fail "make" call.
+ Remove extra blank lines from Makefile.am.
+ * tests/dejagnu4.test: Prefer `cat' over `echo' to append to
+ configure.in. Prefer `mv -f' over plain `mv' when the target
+ file already exists. Avoid extra mkdir calls by creating more
+ directories at once. Better use of blank lines. Check that
+ the `*.log' and `*.sum' files are created by runtest also when
+ "make check" fails.
+ * tests/dejagnu7.test: Prefer `cat' over `echo' to append to
+ configure.in. Better use of blank lines. Add a trailing `:'
+ command.
+ * tests/dejagnu6.test: Likewise, and give the dejagnu test a
+ more descriptive name.
+ * tests/dejagnu5.test: Likewise. Also, simply define package
+ name to `$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.
+
+2011-10-21 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
+
+ * THANKS: Fix whitespace issue.
+
+2011-10-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: fix spurious failure with FreeBSD make and Yacc in VPATH
+ * tests/subpkg.test: Some cosmetic adjustments. Move the tests
+ checking that $(YLWRAP) is defined and installed properly when
+ ylwrap is in a default auxdir found in a parent package ...
+ * tests/subpkg-yacc.test: ... into this new test, which carefully
+ avoids to trigger the known bug#7884 (combo FreeBSD make plus Yacc
+ plus VPATH build).
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-10-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: avoid spurious failure in 'parallel-tests3.test'
+ This fixes automake bug#8788.
+ * tests/parallel-tests3.test: To ensure that the serial run of
+ the dummy testsuite is still ongoing when the parallel run has
+ terminated, use `kill -0', not a bare `kill'. This will prevent
+ a testsuite crash on NetBSD 5.1, and a testsuite hang on FreeBSD
+ 8.2. Also, since we are at it, try harder to avoid possible
+ hangs of the script in other unusual situations.
+
+2011-10-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: fix spurious failures with "chatty" make implementations
+ * tests/distcheck-missing-m4.test: On failure, some make
+ implementations (such as Solaris make) print the whole failed
+ recipe on standard output. This was causing a spurious failure
+ in the checks grepping the output from make. Work around this.
+ * tests/distcheck-outdated-m4.test: Likewise.
+
+2011-10-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: fix spurious failure on fast machines
+ * tests/aclocal-path-precedence.test: Also remove the `configure'
+ script between different test runs, to ensure it is always remade
+ by autoconf. Add proper explicative comments.
+
+2011-10-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: avoid spurious failure of 'uninstall-fail.test' on Solaris
+ * tests/uninstall-fail.test: All the Solaris 10 shells (/bin/sh,
+ /bin/ksh, and /usr/xpg4/bin/sh), upon failing to chdir to a
+ directory with the `cd' builtin, print a message like:
+ "sh: /root: permission denied"
+ which doesn't report the `cd' builtin anywhere. Relax the grepping
+ of the error message accordingly.
+
+2011-10-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: avoid spurious failure of 'uninstall-fail.test' on Cygwin
+ * tests/uninstall-fail.test: Be sure to really skip this test
+ on systems that allows files to be removed from unwritable
+ directories. Motivated by a spurious failure on Cygwin 1.5.
+
+2011-10-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: fix spurious failure with autoconf 2.62
+ * tests/aclocal-path-precedence.test: Rewrite configure.in,
+ rather than appending to it, to avoid spurious failures (at
+ least with autoconf 2.62) due to repeated calls to AC_INIT.
+ Also, add package name and version arguments to AC_INIT, to
+ avoid spurious errors from automake.
+
+2011-10-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ docs: avoid using colon character inside arguments of @pxref
+ Fixes automake bug#9753
+ * doc/automake.texi (VPATH Builds): Avoid using colon character
+ `:' inside arguments of @pxref, as this can cause problems in
+ the generated `.info' files, and such an usage will be explicitly
+ forbidden by future texinfo documentation.
+ * THANKS: Update.
+ Reported by Дилян Палаузов.
+
+2011-10-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ parallel-tests: warn on conditional TEST_EXTENSIONS definition
+ Before this change, automake would have still bailed out, but
+ with a confusing error message (about an invalid redefinition
+ of TEST_EXTENSIONS).
+ * automake.in (handle_tests): Warn explicitly if TEST_EXTENSIONS
+ has conditional contents.
+ * tests/test-extensions-con.test: New test.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
+ * NEWS: Update.
+
+2011-10-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ parallel-tests: don't allow @substitutions@ in TEST_EXTENSIONS
+ Even after the last commit `v1.11-476-g90bea64', the checks
+ performed by automake on entries in $(TEST_EXTENSIONS) tried to
+ allow for @substitited@ stuff. This however ends up allowing
+ quite brittle setups, which, most importantly, are of no real
+ practical usefulness anyway. So it's better to just disallow
+ @substitutions@ in TEST_EXTENSIONS altogether, offering a clear
+ error message, instead of risking weird bugs and unexpected
+ behaviors in the generated Makefile.in.
+ * automake.in ($TEST_EXTENSION_PATTERN): Turned from a regular
+ expression ...
+ (is_valid_test_extension): ... into this subroutine. Don't allow
+ generic @substitutions@ anymore (possibly making an exception for
+ `@EXEEXT@' under the proper circumstances).
+ * tests/test-extensions.test: Adjust and extend.
+
2011-10-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
tests: fix spurious failure in 'insthook.test'
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