+ 2011-12-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: fix handling of gettext macros requirement
+
+ The code introduced in the earlier change `v1.11-581-gb7d67d5'
+ and aimed at automatically fetching all the .m4 files provided by
+ gettext has proven inadequate, since it hasn't managed to truly
+ and always get *all* the required .m4 files. For example, it has
+ failed to fetch the file `intldir.m4' (present in gettext 0.18.1,
+ and where the macro `AM_GNU_GETTEXT_INTL_SUBDIR' is defined),
+ which in turn has caused spurious SKIPs of at least the test
+ `gettext3.test'.
+
+ The reason for this debacle is that autopoint looks at the version
+ specified in AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION to decide which version of the
+ gettext infrastructure to bring in; since we were unconditionally
+ specifying the older 0.10.35 version, the newer `.m4' files weren't
+ brought in.
+
+ * tests/gettext-macros.test: In AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION, instead
+ of unconditionally specifying the older 0.10.35 version, specify
+ the version of the available `gettextize' or `autopoint' program,
+ dynamically extracted with the help of ...
+ (extract_program_version):... this new function, and saved ...
+ ($autopoint_version): ... in this new variable.
+
+2011-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: fix failure due to debugging code forgotten into a test
+ * tests/missing-tar.test: Don't ever call the `missing' script
+ with `sh -x'; this was used for debugging, but an instance of
+ it slipped into the committed test case. Bug revealed by a
+ failure on a Solaris 10 system with GNU tar installed as `gtar'.
+
+2011-12-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: avoid spurious failure of libtool and gettext tests
+
+ On Solaris 10 (and presumably earlier), /bin/sh trips up on
+ here-documents that contains a command substitution *and* are
+ fed to a shell function:
+
+ # All as expected.
+ $ cat <<END
+ `pwd`
+ END
+ /home/stefano
+ $ echo status = $?
+ status = 0
+
+ # An apparently innocuous function ...
+ $ kitty () { cat; }
+ # ... but hilarity ensues!
+ $ kitty <<END
+ `pwd`
+ END
+ /tmp/sh137723: cannot open
+ $ echo status = $?
+ status = 1
+
+ We need to work around this misbehaviour in a couple of our
+ tests (whose failures where causing cascading failures in a
+ lot of other tests).
+
+ * tests/gettext-macros.test: Avoid the use of command substitution
+ in a here-document passed to the `indent' function, by using the
+ `echo' builtin instead.
+ * tests/libtool-macros.test: Likewise.
+
+ See also:
+ <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2011-12/msg00001.html>
+
+2011-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ hacking: distribute it, and mention it in the ChangeLog
+ Not distributing the HACKING file might make it more difficult,
+ for some random curious user, to get informed about or interested
+ in the Automake development process, or to send us patches.
+ * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add HACKING.
+ * HACKING: It's OK to distribute this file, and to mention it in
+ the ChangeLog.
+
+2011-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ regex: deprecate the obsolete macro AM_WITH_REGEX
+ This is a backport of commit v1.11-433-g37b0aee.
+ Today, practically nobody uses the GNU rx library, which, according
+ to its own website <http://www.gnu.org/software/rx/rx.html>, has
+ been "decommissioned". Consequently, the automake-provided macro
+ AM_WITH_REGEX is not used nor required anymore. Deprecate it, so
+ that it will be possible to safely remove it in the next major
+ automake version.
+ * m4/regex.m4 (AM_WITH_REGEX): Give a warning of the class
+ `obsolete' 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): Add it.
+ * NEWS: Update.
+ See also:
+ <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00131.html>
+
+2011-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ maint: distribute .xz tarballs, not .bz2 ones
+ Many GNU packages are moving towards xz-compressed tarballs, so
+ let's follow suit, by dropping the creation and distribution of
+ a bzip2-compressed tarball and switching to xz instead.
+ For compatibility and safeness, we will continue to create and
+ distribute a gzip-compressed tarball as well.
+ * configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Drop `dist-bzip2', add
+ `dist-xz'.
+ * NEWS: Update
+ Suggested by Jim Meyering.
+
+2011-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ include: avoid "deleted .am file" problem
+ * automake.in (handle_configure): When processing `configure.am',
+ also expand `HAVE-MAKEFILE-IN-DEPS' to a boolean telling whether
+ `MAKEFILE-IN-DEPS' is empty or not.
+ * lib/am/configure.am [?HAVE-MAKEFILE-IN-DEPS?]
+ (%MAKEFILE-IN-DEPS%): New target without dependencies, to
+ avoid the "deleted .am file" problem. Emit this only when
+ `?HAVE-MAKEFILE-IN-DEPS?' is true, to avoid generating an
+ "empty" dependency declaration.
+ * tests/deleted-am.test: Make grepping of error message stricter.
+ * tests/dist-missing-am.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/remake-deleted-am.test: New test.
+ * tests/remake-deleted-am-2.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/remake-deleted-am-subdir.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/remake-renamed-am.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/makefile-deps.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add the new tests.
+ * NEWS: Update.
+ Fixes automake bug#9768.
+ Report by Peter Johansson.
+ See also commit `Release-1-10-40-gd0ebf71', which fixed a similar
+ problem for .m4 files included by configure.ac.
+
+2011-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ maint: better use of autoconf 2.68 features
+ * configure.ac: Now that Automake requires autoconf 2.68 for its
+ own bootstrapping and build system, we can assume that PACKAGE_URL
+ gets automatically AC_SUBT'd.
+
+2011-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ cosmetics: use proper m4 quoting in configure.ac
+ * configure.ac (AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR): Use proper m4 quoting
+ for its arguments.
+ (AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR): Likewise.
+ (AC_PROG_PATH): Likewise.
+
2011-12-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
tests: better handling of gettext and libtool requirements
projects / platform / upstream / automake.git / commitdiff