check-local: check-no-repeated-test-name
.PHONY: check-no-repeated-test-name
+ # Check that our test cases are syntactically correct.
+ # See automake bug#11898.
+ check-tests-syntax:
+ @st=0; \
+ err () { echo "$@: $$*" >&2; st=1; }; \
+ ## The user might do something like "make check TESTS=t/foo" or
+ ## "make check TESTS_LOGS=t/foo.log" and expect (say) the test
+ ## 't/foo.sh' to be run; this has worked well until today, and
+ ## we want to continue supporting this use case.
+ bases=`for log in : $(TEST_LOGS); do echo $$log; done \
+ | sed -e '/^:$$/d' -e 's/\.log$$//'`; \
+ for bas in $$bases; do \
+ for suf in sh tap pl; do \
+ tst=$$bas.$$suf; \
+ ## Emulate VPATH search.
+ if test -f $$tst; then \
+ break; \
+ elif test -f $(srcdir)/$$tst; then \
+ tst=$(srcdir)/$$tst; \
+ break; \
+ else \
+ tst=''; \
+ fi; \
+ done; \
+ test -n "$$tst" || err "couldn't find test '$$bas'"; \
+ ## Don't check that perl tests are valid shell scripts!
+ test $$suf = pl && continue; \
+ $(AM_V_P) && echo " $(AM_TEST_RUNNER_SHELL) -n $$tst"; \
+ $(AM_TEST_RUNNER_SHELL) -n "$$tst" \
+ || err "test '$$tst' syntactically invalid"; \
+ done; \
+ exit $$st
+ check-local: check-tests-syntax
+ .PHONY: check-tests-syntax
+
## Checking the list of tests.
-test_subdirs = t t/pm t/perf
+test_subdirs = t t/pm t/perf contrib/t
include $(srcdir)/t/CheckListOfTests.am
# Run the testsuite with the installed aclocal and automake.
of the now-removed automatic de-ANSI-fication
support of Automake)
- - All the "old alias" macros in 'm4/obsolete.m4' will be removed in
- the next major Automake version (1.13).
+ - All the "old alias" macros in 'm4/obsolete.m4' have been removed.
+
+* Changes to Automake-generated testsuite harnesses:
+
+ - The parallel testsuite harness (previously only enabled by the
+ 'parallel-tests' option) is the default one; the older serial
+ testsuite harness will still be available through the use of the
+ 'serial-tests' option (introduced in Automake 1.12).
+
+* Silent rules support:
+
+ - Support for silent rules is now always active in Automake-generated
+ Makefiles. So, although the verbose output is still the default,
+ the user can now always use "./configure --enable-silent-rules" or
+ "make V=0" to enable quieter output in the package he's building.
+
+ - The 'silent-rules' option has now become a no-op, preserved for
+ backward-compatibility only. In particular, its use does not disable
+ the warnings in the 'portability-recursive' category anymore.
+
+* Texinfo Support:
+
+ - The rules to build PDF and DVI files from Texinfo input now use the
+ ' --build-dir' option, to keep the auxiliary files used by texi2dvi
+ and texi2pdf around without cluttering the build directory, and to
+ make it possible to run the "dvi" and "pdf" recipes in parallel.
+
+* Automatic remake rules and 'missing' script:
+
+ - The 'missing' script does not try anymore to update the timestamp
+ of out-of-date files that require a maintainer-specific tool to be
+ remade, in case the user lacks such a tool (or has a too-old version
+ of it). It just give a useful warning, and in some cases also a tip
+ about how to obtain such a tool.
+
+ - The missing script has thus become useless as a (poor) way to work
+ around the sketched-timestamps issues that can happen for projects
+ that keep generated files committed in their VCS repository. Such
+ projects are now encouraged to write a custom "fix-timestamps.sh"
+ script to avoid such issues; a simple example is provided in the
+ "CVS and generated files" chapter of the automake manual.
+
+* Recursive targets:
+
+ The user can now define his own recursive targets that recurse
+ in the directories specified in $(SUBDIRS). This can be done by
+ specifying the name of such targets in invocations of the new
+ 'AM_EXTRA_RECURSIVE_TARGETS' m4 macro.
+
+* Improvements to aclocal and related rebuilds rules:
+
+ - The Autoconf-provided macro AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR is now traced by
+ aclocal, and can be used to declare the local m4 include directory.
+ Formerly, one had to specify it with an explicit '-I' option to the
+ 'aclocal' invocation.
+
+ - The special make variable ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS is deprecated; future
+ Automake versions will warn about its use, and later version will
+ remove support for it altogether.
+
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
- New in 1.12.2:
++New in 1.12.3:
+
+* WARNING: Future backward-incompatibilities!
+
+ - Future versions of Automake will likely drop support for the
+ long-deprecated 'configure.in' name for the Autoconf input file.
+ You are advised to use the recommended name 'configure.ac' instead.
+
+ - Starting from the next major Automake version (1.13), the rules to
+ build pdf, ps and dvi output from Texinfo input will use the '--tidy'
+ option by default. Since such an option was introduced in Texinfo
+ 4.9, this means that Makefiles generated by future Automake versions
+ will require at least that version of Texinfo.
+
+ - Starting from the next major Automake version (1.13), the parallel
+ testsuite harness (previously only enabled by the 'parallel-tests'
+ option) will become the default one; the older serial testsuite
+ harness will still be available through the use of the 'serial-tests'
+ option.
- Support for the two- and three-arguments invocation forms of the
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macro is deprecated, and will be removed in the
giving more useful warnings than a bare "command not found" from a
make recipe would.
+ * Automake Testsuite:
+
+ - Some testsuite weaknesses and spurious failures have been fixed.
+
++~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
++
+ New in 1.12.2:
+
* Warnings and deprecations:
- Automake now issues a warning (in the 'portability' category) if
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