2011-08-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+ maintcheck: fix maintainer-check failures, both real and spurious
+ * tests/amhello-binpkg.test: Use "$MAKE", not bare "make".
+ * Makefile.am (sc_perl_local): Also allow perl special variable
+ `$~' to be localized. And be slightly laxer in the regexp, to
+ allow for usages like "local $_ = $foo;".
+ (sc_tests_overriding_macros_on_cmdline): Also allow for command
+ line overriding of the `DISABLE_HARD_ERRORS' make variable. Try
+ to avoid false positives for usages like "$MAKE || st=$?".
+
+ 2011-08-03 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+ docs: how to use '-I' option in AM_CPPFLAGS for best VPATH support
+ * doc/automake.texi (Program Variables): Recommend -I options to
+ both the build directory and the source directory when needed.
+
+ 2011-07-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: relax a test on amhello examples to cater to Solaris tar
+ * tests/amhello-binpkg.test: When the tar implementation in use
+ is not GNU tar, relax the tests on tar output, to avoid spurious
+ failures. For example, "tar cvf ..." with GNU tar can output
+ lines like "./usr/bin/hello" on the standard output, while with
+ Solaris tar it can output lines like "a ./usr/bin/hello 8K" on
+ standard output, and with Heirloom tar it can output lines like
+ "a ./usr/bin/hello 15 tape blocks" on standard error.
+
+ 2011-07-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ test defs: function 'is_newest' now works also with directories
+ * tests/defs (is_newest): Call `find' with the `-prune' option,
+ so that it won't descend in the directories (which could cause
+ spurious results).
+ * tests/self-check-is_newest: Extend accordingly.
+ From a report by Jim Meyering, see automake bug#9147.
+
+ 2011-07-15 Benoit Sigoure <tsunanet@gmail.com>
+
+ docs: add references between the 2 sections on java support
+ * doc/automake.texi (Java Support, Java): Add cross-references.
+
+ 2011-07-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
+ * INSTALL, lib/INSTALL, lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub,
+ lib/texinfo.tex: Sync from upstream.
+
+ 2011-07-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: fix weakness in 'tests-environment-backcompat.test'
+ * tests/tests-environment-backcompat.test: Do not override the
+ content of xfailing test `baz.test' with a "weaker" version that
+ fails unconditionally: the test must fail only when the 'strict'
+ pragma is in use, in order not to reduce coverage.
+
+ 2011-07-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ docs, tests: synchronize examples on silent-rules from config.site
+ * doc/automake.texi (Automake silent-rules Option): Reference test
+ 'silent-configsite.test' in comments.
+
+ 2011-07-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: portability fixes in tests on amhello examples
+ * tests/amhello-binpkg.test: Don't use "tar xzf too.tag.gz" to
+ extract a gzip-compressed tarball, that's unportable to some
+ tar implementations; use the "gzip -dc fo.tar.gz | tar xf -"
+ idiom instead.
+ * tests/amhello-cflags.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/amhello-cross-compile.test: Likewise.
+ Suggestion from Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+ 2011-07-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ remake: add test ensuring that slower remakes don't hang
+ * tests/remake-subdir-long-time.test: New test.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+ Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+ 2011-07-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ remake: fix outdated comment in configure.am
+ * lib/am/configure.am: Fix comment falsified by changes in
+ commit `v1.11-366-gbee9871'.
+ Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+ 2011-07-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ docs, tests: synchronize examples from docs to tests
+ * tests/README (Writing test cases): Give suggestions on how to
+ keep test cases and examples in the documentation synchronized.
+ * doc/automake.texi: Improve or fix existing testcase-referencing
+ comments, and add many new ones.
+ * HACKING (Administrivia): Suggest to test complex examples and
+ idioms from the manual.
+ * tests/specflg8.test: Improve synchronization with the example
+ in the manual.
+ * tests/output11.test:Likewise.
+ * tests/txinfo21.test:Likewise.
+ * tests/interp.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/amhello-cflags.test: New test.
+ * tests/amhello-cross-compile.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/amhello-binpkg.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tests-environment-backcompat.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/parallel-tests-log-compiler-example.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+ 2011-06-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ coverage: new test on parallel-tests TESTS runtime overriding
+ * tests/parallel-tests-cmdline-override.test: New test, check that
+ we can use indirections when overriding TESTS and TEST_LOGS from
+ the command line.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
++2011-08-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
++
+ gitignore: ignore `*.trs' files in lib/Automake/tests
+ * lib/Automake/tests/.gitignore: Add `*.trs' pattern.
+
+2011-08-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ testsuite: list another "forgotten" test script in Makefile.am
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Also list test script
+ `test-driver-trs-suffix-registered.test'; it had been introduced
+ in commit `v1.11-910-g0c81b43', but by mistake it wasn't added
+ to the list of tests in the Makefile back then.
+
+2011-08-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ testsuite: list "forgotten" test script in Makefile.am
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Also list the test script
+ `parallel-tests-no-color-in-log.test'; it had been introduced in
+ commit `v1.11-899-geaac33f', but by mistake it wasn't added to
+ the list of tests in the Makefile back then.
+
+2011-08-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ testsuite: remove duplicated mention of a test in Makefile.am
+ * tests/Makefile.am (tap_other_tests): Remove `tap-empty.test',
+ it is already listed in `$(tap_with_common_setup_tests)'.
+
+2011-08-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ testsuite: one more use of TAP in our own tests
+ * tests/tap-bad-prog.test, tests/tap-bad-prog2.test: Merged
+ into ...
+ * tests/tap-bad-prog.tap: ... this TAP-generating test.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (tap_other_tests): Remove plan-bad-prog.test
+ and plan-bad-prog2.test.
+ (XFAIL_TESTS): Remove plan-bad-prog2.test.
+ (plan-bad-prog2.log): Remove.
+
+2011-08-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ testsuite: scaffolding to allow use of TAP in our own tests
+ Now that Automake has initial support for the TAP test protocol,
+ we can start "eating our own dog food" and rewrite some tests to
+ use TAP; this should allow for better granularity, especially in
+ the control of skips and expected failures. With this change, we
+ set up the initial scaffolding required by the planned TAP tests,
+ and convert few older tests to use TAP, mostly in order to verify
+ that there are no obvious errors. The tests in our testsuite that
+ use the TAP protocol will be marked by the new `.tap' extension.
+ * tests/plain-functions.sh: New file containing definition of
+ helper shell functions used by the "protocol-less" tests of the
+ Automake testsuite.
+ * tests/tap-functions.sh: New file containing definition of
+ helper shell functions used by the TAP-producing tests of the
+ Automake testsuite.
+ * tests/defs: Remove definitions of some functions that are
+ now defined in `plain-functions.sh'. Instead, source one of
+ `plain-functions.sh' or `tap-functions.sh', depending on whether
+ `$use_tap' is set to "no" or "yes".
+ (exit trap): Call `late_plan_' if `$use_tap' is true. Also,
+ unset shell traces before issuing the latest commands, to avoid
+ confusing the tap driver with spurious output.
+ * tests/defs-static.in ($use_tap): New variable, by default set
+ to "yes" if the calling test script has a `.tap' suffix, and to
+ "no" otherwise. The individual scripts can override it though.
+ In code sanity-checking the environment, verify that `$use_tap'
+ is not exported.
+ * tests/self-check-env-sanitize.test: Update, and small related
+ reformatting.
+ * tests/self-check-tap.test: New very minimal self test.
+ * tests/acoutbs.test, tests/acoutbs2.test, tests/acoutnoq.test,
+ tests/acoutpt.test, tests/acoutpt2.test, tests/acoutqnl.test:
+ Removed, merged into ...
+ * tests/ac-output-old.tap: ... this new test, that uses TAP.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TAP_LOG_DRIVER): Define to invoke our own
+ `tap-driver' script.
+ (TAP_LOG_DRIVER_FLAGS): Define to `--merge', so that the stdout
+ and stderr of the test scripts remains synced.
+ (TEST_EXTENSIONS): Define, to add the `.tap' suffix; also list
+ the `.test' suffix explicitly.
+ (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute the new files `plain-functions.sh' and
+ `tap-functions.sh'.
+ ($(TEST_LOGS)): Depends on them.
+ (AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Ensure that `use_tap' is not exported in
+ the environment of the tests.
+ (TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-08-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ * NEWS: Fix typo, and related reformatting.
+
+2011-08-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ * NEWS: add mention of new experimental TAP support
+
+2011-08-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ testsuite: rename some test scripts
+ * tests/parallel-tests-am_tests_environment.test: Renamed ...
+ * tests/am-tests-environment.test: ... to this.
+ * tests/check-tests_environment.test: Renamed ...
+ * tests/tests-environment.test: ... to this.
+ * tests/parallel-test-driver-install.test: Renamed ...
+ * tests/parallel-tests-driver-install.test: ... to this.
+ * tests/parallel-tests-make-n.test: Renamed ...
+ * tests/parallel-tests-dry-run.test: ... to this.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
+
+2011-08-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ coverage: parallel-tests and lazy dependencies on EXTRA_PROGRAMS
+ * tests/parallel-tests-extra-programs.test: New test.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+ * doc/automake.texi (Parallel Test Harness): Add a comment
+ pointing to the new test.
+
+2011-08-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ docs: improve, extend and fix documentation on TAP support
+ * doc/automake.texi ("Using the TAP test protocol"): Divide this
+ section into ...
+ ("Introduction to TAP", "Use TAP with the Automake test harness",
+ "Incompatibilities with other TAP parsers and drivers", "Links
+ and external resources"): ... these subsections, extend them by
+ adding more information and examples, and improve them by removing
+ incomplete and/or temporary wordings and TODO items.
+ ("Script-based Testsuites", "Parallel Test Harness"): Add a couple
+ of anchors to improve the granularity of cross-references.
+ * tests/tap-doc2.test: New test, verifying the correctness of the
+ new examples given in the manual.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (tap_other_tests): Add the new test.
+
+2011-08-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ testsuite: separate the only failing check of an xfailing test
+ * tests/plan-bad-prog.test: Move the only failing check of this
+ test (i.e., the one about the total number of "ERROR" outcomes)
+ into ...
+ * tests/plan-bad-prog2.test: ... this new test.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Remove `plan-bad-prog.test',
+ add `plan-bad-prog2.test'.
+ (tap_other_tests): Add `plan-bad-prog2.test'.
+ (plan-bad-prog2.log): Depend on `plan-bad-prog.test'.
+
+2011-08-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ testsuite: fix spurious errors in an xfailing test on TAP support
+ * tests/plan-bad-prog.test: Fix typo in the name of the test
+ being made unreadable. Correct the wording of the potential
+ skip message, and simplify the condition under which the test
+ is to be skipped. Escape literal dots in grep regexps.
+
+2011-08-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ testsuite: better granularity in a couple of tests on TAP support
+ * tests/tap-summary-aux.sh: New auxiliary script, filled with code
+ moved out from ...
+ * tests/tap-summary.test: ... this test, from which the checks on
+ colored testsuite have further been moved into ...
+ * tests/tap-summary-color.test: ... this new test, which in turn
+ * tests/Makefile.am (tap_other_tests): Add `tap-summary-color.test'.
+ (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute `tap-summary-aux.sh'
+ (tap-summary.log): Depend on `tap-summary-aux.sh'.
+ (tap-summary-color.log): Likewise.
+
+2011-08-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ testsuite: optimize tests on TAP for speed and against duplication
+ The creation and configuration of common files and data used by
+ many tests on TAP is, with this change, factored out into a new
+ dedicated auxiliary test, from which those tests will depend upon.
+ This reduces code duplication in tests and, more importantly,
+ offers a noticeable speedup in the involved tests (30-40%).
+ * tests/tap-common-setup.test: New test, setting up the common
+ files and data used by various tests on TAP support.
+ * tests/tap-setup.sh: New file, to be sourced by tests wanting to
+ bring in data generated by `tap-common-setup.test'.
+ * tests/tap-autonumber.test: Update to use the pre-computed data
+ files.
+ * tests/tap-bailout.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-color.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-deps.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-diagnostic.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-empty-diagnostic.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-empty.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-escape-directive.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-exit.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-signal.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-fancy.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-fancy2.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-global-log.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-global-result.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-html.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-log.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-merge-stdout-stderr.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-no-merge-stdout-stderr.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-message-0.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-no-disable-hard-error.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-no-spurious-summary.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-no-spurious.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-not-ok-skip.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-numeric-description.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-out-of-order.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-passthrough.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-passthrough-exit.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-plan.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-plan-corner.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-plan-corner2.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-plan-errors.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-realtime.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-recheck-logs.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-skip-whole.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-todo-skip-together.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-todo-skip-whitespace.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-todo-skip.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-unplanned.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-with-and-without-number.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-xfail-tests.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-skip-whole-whitespace.test: Likewise, and remove
+ redundant definitions of `$sp' and `$tab' (they are already
+ defined in `tests/defs').
+ * tests/tap-whitespace-normalization.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+ (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute `tap-setup.sh'.
+ (tap_with_common_setup_tests, tap_with_common_setup_logs)): New
+ variables, holding respectively the list of tests using the files
+ pre-computed by `tap-common-setup.test', and the list of their
+ corresponding log files.
+ (tap_other_tests): New variable, holding the list of other tests
+ on TAP support.
+ ($(tap_with_common_setup_logs)): Depend on `tap-common-setup.log'
+ and `tap-setup.sh'.
+
+2011-08-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ test harness: use new `.trs' files to hold test metadata
+ With this change, the test harness will keep test metadata in
+ dedicated `.trs' files, instead of having them embedded into the
+ `.log' files. This allows for easier forward-compatibility and
+ extension of test metadata, and for more flexibility in the
+ format of the `.log' files. Note that this change makes the
+ `:end-metadata:' field obsolete.
+ * doc/automake.texi (Parallel Test Harness, Log files generation
+ and test results recording): Document the new APIs and behaviour;
+ some related minor rewordings and fixlets.
+ * NEWS: Update.
+ * automake.in (handle_tests): When bringing in the content of
+ `check2.am', substitute %BASE% with the basename of the `.log'
+ file being created by a rule. Add the generated `.trs' files
+ to the list of files to be cleaned by "make mostlyclean".
+ * lib/am/check.am (am__test_driver_flags): Rename ...
+ (am__common_driver_flags): ... to this, and remove the flags
+ `--test-name' and `--log-file' from it: they are now define in
+ the proper rules in `check2.am'.
+ (am__TEST_BASES): New internal variable, holding the names of
+ the tests, with any registered extension removed.
+ (am__stealth_MAKE): New internal variable, can be used instead of
+ $(MAKE) in recipes requiring a recursive call to make, but which
+ are not intended to be executed by "make -n".
+ (.log.trs): New suffix rule, to recover from deletion of `.trs'
+ files.
+ ($(TEST_SUITE_LOG)): Almost completely rewritten to follow the
+ new API of "test logs in `.log' files, test metadata in `.trs'
+ files". It goes to some length to work correctly in face of
+ unreadable or missing `.log' and `.trs' files, and to error out
+ with proper error messages when this is not possible.
+ [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Also remove relevant "stale"
+ `.trs' files (in addition to `.log files) before remaking the
+ $(TEST_SUITE_LOG).
+ (recheck, recheck-html): Look for the `:recheck:' field in the
+ `.trs' files, not in the `.log' files.
+ * lib/am/check2.am (?GENERIC?%EXT%.log, ?!GENERIC?%OBJ%): Adjust
+ the call to the test driver, in particularly passing the new
+ option `--trs-file'.
+ [%am__EXEEXT%] (?GENERIC?%EXT%$(EXEEXT).log): Likewise.
+ * lib/tap-driver ($USAGE): Adjust the help screen.
+ (Getopt::Long::GetOptions): Handle the `--trs-file' option,
+ through the use of ...
+ ($trs_file): ... this new global variable.
+ (finish): Write metadata for the test run to `$trs_file' rather
+ then to `$log_file', through the use of ...
+ (write_test_results): ... this new function.
+ * lib/test-driver (print_usage): Update the help screen.
+ (Option parsing): Handle the `--trs-file' option, through the
+ use of ...
+ ($resfile): ... this new global variable.
+ (Main code): Write metadata for the test run to `$trsfile' rather
+ than to `$logfile'.
+ Minor related adjustments to comments.
+ * tests/.gitignore: Ignore `*.trs' files.
+ * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: Moved ...
+ * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable.test: ... to this, and extended
+ to also check the semantics for unreadable `.trs' files.
+ * tests/test-driver-end-metadata.test: Deleted as obsolete.
+ * tests/test-driver-metadata-no-leading-space.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/test-driver-global-log.test: Renamed ...
+ * tests/test-metadata-global-log.test: ... to this, and modified
+ as to verify the new APIs and semantics.
+ * tests/test-driver-recheck: Renamed ...
+ * tests/test-metadata-recheck.test: ... to this, and modified
+ likewise.
+ * tests/parallel-tests-once.test: New test.
+ * tests/parallel-tests-make-n.test: Likewise.
+ * test-metadata-results.test: Likewise.
+ * test-missing.test: Likewise.
+ * test-missing2.test: Likewise.
+ * test-trs-basic.test: Likewise.
+ * test-trs-recover.test: Likewise.
+ * test-trs-recover2.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-07-27 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ test harness: allow more metadata in log files
+ This change reworks and improves the parallel test harness to use
+ more specialized reStructuredText fields in the log files (instead
+ of relying on specially-placed of "magic lines" and more indirect
+ semantical formatting); the new fields are the following:
+ - ":recheck:": tell whether the associated test will have to be
+ re-run by "make recheck";
+ - ":copy-in-global-log:": tell whether the content of the log
+ file should be copied in the "global log" `test-suite.log';
+ - ":end-metadata:", which inhibits the scanning of the rest of
+ the log file (for what concerns test metadata).
+ Also, the special `:test-result:' value "END" has been removed,
+ superseded by the new `:end-metadata:' field.
+ * doc/automake.texi (Log files generation and test results
+ recording): Document the new API and semantics. Remove or fix
+ some obsolete comments.
+ * lib/am/check.am ($(TEST_SUITE_LOG), recheck, recheck-html):
+ Adjust comments and code.
+ * lib/tap-driver (finish): Adjust, with the help of ...
+ (must_recheck, copy_in_global_log): ... these new functions.
+ * lib/test-driver (Main code): Adjust, with the help of ...
+ ($recheck, $gcopy): ... these new variables.
+ * tests/trivial-test-driver: Update to obey the new APIs.
+ * tests/test-driver-recheck.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/test-driver-global-log.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-passthrough.test: Relax the test, avoiding to check
+ what is written in `test-suite.log'; such check has been moved ...
+ * tests/tap-global-log.test: ... in this new test, and extended.
+ * tests/test-driver-metadata-no-leading-space.test: New test.
+ * tests/test-driver-end-test-results.test: Removed, it checked
+ the old APIs; superseded by ...
+ * tests/test-driver-end-metadata.test: ... this new test.
+ * tests/tap-log.test: Improve syncing with ...
+ * tests/test-log.test: ... this new test.
+ * tests/parallel-tests.test: Remove some duplication w.r.t. this
+ last new test. Updated heading comments.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-07-27 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ testsuite: fix a spurious failure with non-bash shells
+ * tests/tap-fancy2.test: Remove an unportable use of backslashes
+ with the `echo' builtin, which was causing some shells (among them
+ bash and Debian /bin/ksh) to print a `\\' string, while other
+ shells (among them zsh, dash, and Solaris /bin/sh and /bin/ksh)
+ were unexpectedly printing a single `\' character. Since we are
+ at it, add a sanity check to ensure that this issue does not
+ resurface.
+
+2011-07-27 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ testsuite: fix spurious failures with Solaris /bin/sh
+ * tests/tap-more.test: Use `echo > file', not `: > file', to
+ create empty files in the "for" loops; this is required since,
+ as documented in the autoconf manual, Solaris 10 /bin/sh
+ "optimizes" away the `:' command after the first iteration,
+ even if it is redirected.
+ * tests/test-driver-custom-multitest-recheck2.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-numeric-description.test: Partial rewrite to avoid
+ using positional parameters from the 10th onward, which are
+ unportable to Solaris /bin/sh (using `${10}' causes the shell
+ to die with "bad substitution").
+
+2011-07-31 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ simple tests: support developer-defined fd redirections
+ Motivated by coreutils bug#8846, and related discussions:
+ <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8846>
+ <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2011-06/msg00002.html>
+ In those threads it has been shown how problematic it can be to do
+ portable file descriptor redirections in the testsuite when using
+ the Automake testsuite harness. This change should remedy to that
+ situation.
+ * lib/am/check2.am (?GENERIC?%EXT%$(EXEEXT).log,
+ ?GENERIC?%EXT%.log, ?!GENERIC?%OBJ%): Append redirection defined
+ in $(AM_TESTS_FD_REDIRECT) to the command-line invocations of the
+ test scripts.
+ * lib/am/check.am [!%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] $(check-TESTS): Likewise.
+ * NEWS: Update.
+ * doc/automake.texi (Script-based Testsuites): Document the new
+ feature.
+ * tests/check-fd-redirect.test: New test.
+ * tests/parallel-tests-fd-redirect.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/parallel-tests-am_tests_environment.test: Remove checks
+ about the use of redirections in AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT: they would
+ check deprecated (if not undefined) behaviour now. Strengthen a
+ couple of still valid checks, to keep the test more in sync with
+ the documentation. Improve debugging information.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
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+
+ docs: rework and extend documentation on testsuites support
+ * doc/automake.texi (Generalities about Testing): New section.
+ (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Section removed, merged
+ into ...
+ (Simple Tests): ... this one, which on the other hand has been
+ subdivided into ...
+ (Script-based Testsuites, Serial Test Harness, Parallel Test
+ Harness): ... these new subsection.
+ (DejaGnu Tests): Minor adjustments.
+ Other related typofixes and rewordings throughout the manual;
+ in particular, avoid to use the term "test driver" for three
+ different concepts (and use instead "test harness" and "test
+ runner" where appropriate).
+ * tests/tap-doc.test: New test.
+ * tests/tap-no-disable-hard-error.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
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+
+ tap: support colorization of testsuite progress output
+ * lib/tap-driver (%COLORS): New variable (definition extracted
+ from `lib/am/check.am:$(am__tty_colors)', with some obvious
+ adjustments.
+ (report): Adjust to colorize console output when required,
+ using ...
+ (decorate_result): ... this new function.
+ (colored): New function, used by the one above.
+ * tests/tap-summary.test: Also run the checks when `color-tests'
+ is in use.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Remove `tap-color.test'.
+
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+
+ tap: some preparatory refactoring (2)
+ This is a follow-up simplification.
+ * lib/tap-driver (console_output): Renamed ...
+ (report): ... to this, and extended to appropriately register
+ the test results when needed.
+ (testsuite_error, handle_tap_comment, handle_tap_test,
+ handle_tap_plan): Adjusted accordingly.
+
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+
+ tap: some preparatory refactoring (1)
+ This refactoring is aimed at simplifying the introduction of
+ colored console output for the TAP driver.
+ * lib/tap-driver (console_output): Now accept two arguments, the
+ first one indicating which kind of thing is to be displayed (for
+ now only a test result or a diagnostic comment), and the second
+ one (if present) the message associated to it.
+ (handle_tap_test, handle_tap_comment, handle_tap_plan,
+ testsuite_error): Adapt to the new `console_output' interface.
+
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+
+ tap: add experimental TAP-aware driver
+ * doc/automake.texi (Using the TAP test protocol): New section.
+ (Overview of Custom Test Drivers Support): Minor updates.
+ * lib/tap-driver: New script, TAP-aware test driver for Automake;
+ implemented in perl and based on TAP::Parser.
+ * lib/Makefile.am (dist_script_DATA): Add it.
+ * tests/tap-autonumber.test: New test.
+ * tests/tap-bailout.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-basic.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-deps.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-diagnostic.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-empty.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-empty-diagnostic.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-escape-directive.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-exit.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-fancy.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-fancy2.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-global-result.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-html.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-log.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-merge-stdout-stderr.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-more.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-more2.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-no-merge-stdout-stderr.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-no-spurious-summary.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-no-spurious.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-not-ok-skip.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-numeric-description.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-out-of-order.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-passthrough.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-plan.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-plan-errors.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-plan-corner.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-realtime.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-recheck-logs.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-recheck.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-skip-whole.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-summary.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-todo-skip.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-todo-skip-together.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-todo-skip-whitespace.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-skipall-whitespace.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-unplanned.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-whitespace-normalization.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-with-and-without-number.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-xfail-tests.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-bad-prog.test: New xfailing test.
+ * tests/tap-color.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-plan-corner2.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-message-0.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tap-signal.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Update.
+
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+
+ test defs: new auxiliary function 'count_test_results'
+ * tests/defs (count_test_results): New function.
+ * tests/check11.test: Use it.
+ * tests/test-driver-custom-multitest.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/test-driver-custom-multitest-recheck.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/test-driver-custom-multitest-recheck2.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/parallel-tests-log-override-recheck.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/parallel-tests-log-override-recheck.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/parallel-tests-no-spurious-summary.test: Likewise, and
+ slightly improve debugging output.
+ * tests/parallel-tests.test: Make use of `count_test_results'.
+ Also, make grepping of "make check" output slightly stricter
+ * tests/parallel-tests9.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/parallel-tests-log-override-2.test: Likewise, and throw
+ in a small optimization.
+
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+
+ parallel-tests: simplify testsuite summary
+ Prefer a more deterministic, "tabular" format for the testsuite
+ summary, always listing the numbers of passed, failed, xfailed,
+ xpassed, skipped and errored tests, even when these numbers are
+ zero. This simplify the logic of testsuite summary creation,
+ makes it more easily machine-parseable, and will probably allow
+ for easier addition of new kinds of test results in the future.
+ * lib/am/check.am (am__tty_colors_dummy): New make variable, to
+ reduce code duplication. Extracted from previous versions of
+ $(am__tty_colors), and extended by defining two new variables
+ `$mgn' and `$brg'.
+ [%?COLOR%, %!?COLOR%] (am__tty_colors): Use that new variable.
+ (am__text_box): Delete, is not needed anymore.
+ ($(TEST_SUITE_LOG)): Rewrite associated rules to implement the
+ new testsuite summary format.
+ * NEWS: Update.
+ * tests/check10.test: Don't run with the parallel-tests harness
+ too, that makes no sense anymore.
+ * tests/color.test: Update and adjust.
+ * tests/color2.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/parallel-tests.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/parallel-tests6.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/parallel-tests9.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/parallel-tests-empty-testlogs.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/parallel-tests-log-override-recheck.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/parallel-tests-no-spurious-summary.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/test-driver-custom-multitest.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/test-driver-end-test-results.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/parallel-tests-no-color-in-log.test: New test.
+ * tests/testsuite-summary-color.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/testsuite-summary-count.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/testsuite-summary-count-many.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/testsuite-summary-reference-log.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/testsuite-summary-checks.sh: New auxiliary script, used
+ by the new tests above.
+ * tests/extract-testsuite-summary: Likewise.
+ * tests/trivial-test-driver: Optimize for speed when there are
+ lots of of tests.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute them.
+ (testsuite-summary-color.log, testsuite-summary-count.log): Depend
+ on them.
+ (testsuite-summary-count-many.log): Depend on the auxiliary scripts
+ 'trivial-test-driver' and 'extract-testsuite-summary'.
+ (TESTS): Update.
+
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+
+ parallel-tests: new recognized test result 'ERROR'
+ * lib/am/check.am ($(TEST_SUITE_LOG)): Recognize a new test result
+ `ERROR'. Use it when encountering unreadable test logs (previously
+ a simple `FAIL' was used in this situations).
+ * lib/test-driver: Set the global test result to `ERROR' when the
+ test exit status is 99. When doing colorized output, color `ERROR'
+ results in magenta.
+ * doc/automake.texi (Log files generation and test results
+ recording): Update by listing `ERROR' too among the list of valid
+ `:test-results:' arguments.
+ * NEWS: Update.
+ * tests/trivial-test-driver: Update.
+ * tests/parallel-tests.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/parallel-tests-harderror.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/parallel-tests-no-spurious-summary.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/test-driver-global-log.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/test-driver-recheck.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/test-driver-custom-multitest-recheck.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/test-driver-custom-multitest-recheck2.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/test-driver-custom-multitest.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/test-driver-custom-no-html.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/test-driver-end-test-results.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/color.test: Likewise. Also, make stricter, and also test
+ from VPATH.
+ * tests/color2.test: Likewise, and improve syncing with color.test.
+ * tests/parallel-tests-exit-statuses.test: New test.
+ * tests/parallel-tests-console-output.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
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+
+ parallel-tests: make parsing of test results safer
+ The new code for parsing the testsuite-generated `.log' files,
+ as introduced in commit `v1.11-872-gc96b881', considers each
+ `:test-result:' field anywhere in a `.log' file as a declaration
+ of a test result, and accounts for it as such in the testsuite
+ summary. Unfortunately this could easily cause spurious test
+ failures being reported in the testsuite summary. This happened
+ in practice with the Automake's own testsuite; for example:
+ $ make check TESTS='check12-p.test'; echo exit: $?
+ ...
+ PASS: check12-p.test
+ =====================================
+ 4 of 5 tests failed
+ See tests/test-suite.log
+ Please report to bug-automake@gnu.org
+ =====================================
+ make[2]: *** [test-suite.log] Error 1
+ make: *** [check-am] Error 2
+ exit: 2
+ This change introduces a new special `:test-result:' "END", that,
+ when seen, prevents the rest of the log file from being parsed.
+ For more information, refer to the thread:
+ <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2011-06/msg00199.html>
+ * lib/am/check.am ($(TEST_SUITE_LOG)): Stop the parsing of a log
+ file as soon as the special ":test-result:END" directive is seen.
+ Related changes and enhancements.
+ * lib/test-driver: Protect the rest of the log after the result
+ lined with a ":test-result:END" directive.
+ * doc/automake.texi (Log files generation and test results
+ recording): Update, and related improvements.
+ * tests/parallel-tests-no-spurious-summary.test: New test.
+ * tests/test-driver-end-test-results.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
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+
+ docs: document custom test drivers and protocols
+ * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Note that the TESTS_ENVIRONMENT
+ use suggested here is not portable to 'parallel-tests'.
+ (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Document new restrictions on
+ the uses of TESTS_ENVIRONMENT and AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT.
+ (Custom Test Drivers): New section and node.
+ (Overview of Custom Test Drivers Support): New subsection.
+ (Declaring Custom Test Drivers in @file{Makefile.am}): Likewise.
+ (APIs for Custom Test Drivers): Likewise.
+ (Options): Update description of color-tests.
+ * lib/am/check ($(TEST_SUITE_LOG)): Remove comments that have been
+ moved into the manual.
+ (recheck, recheck-html): Minor adjustments to better conform to the
+ documentation (this should cause no semantic changes w.r.t. the
+ former behaviour); minor improvements and extensions to existing
+ comments.
+ * tests/test-driver-create-log-dir.test: New test.
+ * tests/test-driver-strip-vpath.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/test-driver-global-log.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/test-driver-recheck.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
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