Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 16 Feb 2013 23:04:28 +0000 (00:04 +0100)]
cosmetics: fix some "docstring-like" comments in automake
* automake.in: Here. And remove some redundant ones.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 16 Feb 2013 17:54:19 +0000 (18:54 +0100)]
Merge branch 'perl-sub-protos' into maint
* perl-sub-protos:
style: call perl functions 'like_this()', not '&like_this()'
maint: use more perl subroutines prototypes in the automake script
build: auto-generate perl subroutines prototypes for automake and aclocal
refactor: rip module Automake::Language out of automake script
Stefano Lattarini [Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:06:19 +0000 (15:06 +0100)]
Merge branch 'branch-1.13.2' into maint
* branch-1.13.2:
typofix: in comments in 't/ax/test-lib.sh'
tests on TAP: don't run the driver with perl unconditionally
typofix: in comments in 'automake.in'
tests: remove obsolete (and now wrong) comment
typofix: in diagnostic in test 't/tap-realtime.sh'
automake: fix reference to relevant tests in comments
NEWS: we no longer plan to drop $(INCLUDES) support in next major version
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:24:50 +0000 (13:24 +0100)]
typofix: in comments in 't/ax/test-lib.sh'
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:39:38 +0000 (19:39 +0100)]
style: call perl functions 'like_this()', not '&like_this()'
We can do so now that our build rules auto-generate a list of
prototypes for all functions ins our scripts.
* automake.in: Adjust throughout.
* HACKING: Adjust advises.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:32:27 +0000 (12:32 +0100)]
tests on TAP: don't run the driver with perl unconditionally
* t/ax/tap-setup.sh: When a 'Makefile.am' was pre-existent in the
test directory at the moment the client test script sourced this
file, said 'Makefile.am' was tweaked to provide it with a proper
definition of TEST_LOG_DRIVER. However, there was an error in this
automatic definition, since it caused the TAP test driver to be
unconditionally invoked with perl. This wasn't an issue in most
situations, since perl is smart enough to re-execute a given script
with the proper interpreter if it sees a she-bang line that doesn't
seem to point to perl itself. Still, there is no reason to do
something blatantly wrong even if our tools correct the dumb mistake
for us. So fix the TEST_LOG_DRIVER definition.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:09:43 +0000 (12:09 +0100)]
typofix: in comments in 'automake.in'
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:46:58 +0000 (11:46 +0100)]
tests: remove obsolete (and now wrong) comment
* t/ax/am-test-lib.sh: Here.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:46:49 +0000 (11:46 +0100)]
typofix: in diagnostic in test 't/tap-realtime.sh'
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 4 Feb 2013 22:37:23 +0000 (23:37 +0100)]
maint: use more perl subroutines prototypes in the automake script
* automake.in: Throughout this file. Note that these new prototypes
are not much useful, since many subroutine calls still use the old
'&foo' form; but we'll take care of that in later patches.
* lib/Automake/Language.pm (target_hook): Call the '_target_hook'
of the given language in a more modern form, avoiding '&'.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 4 Feb 2013 22:04:18 +0000 (23:04 +0100)]
build: auto-generate perl subroutines prototypes for automake and aclocal
This will allow us to avoid either using the '&foo' invocation form when
invoking a subroutine before its definition, or having to maintain the
list of prototypes by hand (with the risk of having it become incomplete
or fall out-of-sync when future edits to the automake and aclocal scripts
are done).
* Makefile.am (automake, aclocal): Automatically generate a list of
prototypes by looking at the subroutines definitions.
* bootstrap.sh: Likewise, when generating the temporary automake and
aclocal scripts used for bootstrapping.
* automake.in: Add a placeholder that will be tracked by the new recipes
and substituted with the computed prototypes. Remove existing prototypes,
that are now superfluous. Some adjustments required by the new, more
comprehensive prototypes declarations.
* aclocal.in: Likewise.
* maintainer/syntax-checks.mk (sc_diff_automake, sc_diff_aclocal): Adjust.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 4 Feb 2013 18:34:03 +0000 (19:34 +0100)]
refactor: rip module Automake::Language out of automake script
This is just a preparatory patch in view of future changes.
* lib/Automake/Language.pm: New module, ripped out from ...
* automake.in: ... here. Related adjustments.
* Makefile.am (dist_perllib_DATA): List the new module.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Sun, 3 Feb 2013 19:44:32 +0000 (20:44 +0100)]
automake: fix reference to relevant tests in comments
Some of those tests had been renamed in recent or less-recent changes.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Sun, 3 Feb 2013 19:16:01 +0000 (20:16 +0100)]
NEWS: we no longer plan to drop $(INCLUDES) support in next major version
For a rationale and related discussion, see:
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2013-02/msg00001.html>
And note that support for INCLUDES has not been re-introduced in the
master branch yet, at the moment of writing; but we plan to definitely
do so before the next major release.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:33:00 +0000 (13:33 +0100)]
Merge branch 'branch-1.13.2' into maint
* branch-1.13.2:
NEWS: IRIX is still supported; only SGI C compiler depcomp no longer is
maint: version bump after beta release 1.13.1b
NEWS: typofix
release: beta release 1.13.1b (will become 1.13.2)
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:22:12 +0000 (13:22 +0100)]
NEWS: IRIX is still supported; only SGI C compiler depcomp no longer is
This change is for the maint branch.
The only IRIX-specific support that is going to actually be removed in
the next major Automake versions is the depcomp support for the SGI
compiler. That means that automatic dependency tracking will no
longer work with that compiler, but "normal" compilation should still
work, at least until the compiler is supported by Autoconf.
So there is no point in alarming our users by stating in the NEWS file
that "support for IRIX and the SGI compilers is going to be removed";
after all, while we don't test on nor particularly care about IRIX
anymore, that doesn't mean we are deliberately breaking it, and the
likelihood of an intended breakage there is very low.
See:
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2013-01/msg00164.html>
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2013-01/msg00165.html>
* NEWS (Future backward-incompatibilities: Adjust. Improve explanation
of our rationale for dropping SGI support. Fix an unrelated typo while
at it.
Suggested-by: Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:38:33 +0000 (11:38 +0100)]
maint: version bump after beta release 1.13.1b
* configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump version number to 1.13.1c.
* m4/amversion.m4: Likewise (autoupdated by "make bootstrap").
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:33:09 +0000 (11:33 +0100)]
NEWS: typofix
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:05:01 +0000 (11:05 +0100)]
release: beta release 1.13.1b (will become 1.13.2)
* configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump version number to 1.13.1b.
* m4/amversion.m4: Likewise (auto-updated by "make bootstrap").
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:37:41 +0000 (13:37 +0100)]
Merge branch 'branch-1.13.2' into maint
* branch-1.13.2:
docs: '.txi' and '.texinfo' extensions are deprecated
NEWS: document recent documentation improvements
docs: more precise cross reference
docs: 'dist-shar' and 'dist-tarZ' are obsolescent today
docs: improve documentation of 'dist-*' targets slightly
docs: make even clearer 'dist-gzip' is the default.
docs: document 'dist-xz' together with the other 'dist-*' options
docs: 'no-define' option and AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE three-args usage: fixlets
warn: correct broken hyperlink in warning message
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:28:38 +0000 (13:28 +0100)]
docs: '.txi' and '.texinfo' extensions are deprecated
And Automake will warn about them (since commit 'v1.13.1-6-ge1ed314').
* doc/automake.texi (Texinfo): Adjust.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:14:41 +0000 (13:14 +0100)]
NEWS: document recent documentation improvements
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:02:25 +0000 (13:02 +0100)]
docs: more precise cross reference
See automake bug#13520.
* doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions): Here,
cross-reference "List of Automake options" rather then
the more generic node "Options". Improve wording while
at it.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:30:15 +0000 (12:30 +0100)]
docs: 'dist-shar' and 'dist-tarZ' are obsolescent today
Both the options and the formats; and they might be deprecated
and removed in future automake versions (see discussion on
automake bug#13324).
In any case, it's better if the documentation starts advising
against their use right now.
* doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions): Here.
(List of Automake options): And here.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:14:20 +0000 (12:14 +0100)]
docs: improve documentation of 'dist-*' targets slightly
* doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions): Here.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:08:43 +0000 (12:08 +0100)]
docs: make even clearer 'dist-gzip' is the default.
See automake bug#13520.
* doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions): Here.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:03:35 +0000 (12:03 +0100)]
docs: document 'dist-xz' together with the other 'dist-*' options
See automake bug#13520.
* doc/automake.texi (List of Automake options): Here.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:56:57 +0000 (10:56 +0100)]
docs: 'no-define' option and AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE three-args usage: fixlets
See automake bug#13519.
* doc/automake.texi: Adjust.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:49:17 +0000 (10:49 +0100)]
warn: correct broken hyperlink in warning message
* automake.in (scan_autoconf_traces): Here, when an use of the
deprecated two- and three-arguments forms of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
is detected.
Fixes automake bug#13519.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:45:17 +0000 (15:45 +0100)]
tests: more information about Lex and Yacc programs
* t/get-sysconf.sh: Try to also get the version of '$LEX' and '$YACC'.
This will help debugging of user-reported problems.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:35:48 +0000 (15:35 +0100)]
lint: fix spurious failure for 'sc_rm_minus_f' syntax check
* maintainer/syntax-checks.mk (sc_rm_minus_f): Also exempt
file 't/rm-f-probe.sh'.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:24:03 +0000 (15:24 +0100)]
maint: bump version 1.13.1a -> 1.13.2a
The 1.13.2 bug-fixing release will ship from the 'branch-1.13.2' git
branch, not from the 'maint' one, since the latter contains changes
that are non-trivial and hasn't cooked enough yet. The 'maint' branch
will give rise to the 1.13.3 release instead, eventually. Adjust the
version number to match.
* configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump version number to 1.13.2b.
* m4/amversion.m4: Likewise (auto-updated by "make bootstrap").
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:52:37 +0000 (14:52 +0100)]
Merge branch 'branch-1.13.2' into maint
That branch is for the "emergency" bug-fixing release 1.13.2.
* branch-1.13.2:
maint: update copyright in files generated by automake and aclocal
tests: avoid a spurious failure when running inside Emacs
tests: make two new test executable
m4: rename an m4 file to a more appropriate name
NEWS: update w.r.t. recent documentation fixes
compat: reinstate AM_CONFIG_HEADER and AM_PROG_CC_STDC
docs: parallel-tests is no longer experimental
docs: serial-tests are not deprecated, just discouraged
NEWS: we are not going to remove AM_PROG_MKDIR_P in Automake 1.14
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:47:00 +0000 (14:47 +0100)]
maint: update copyright in files generated by automake and aclocal
* bootstrap.sh ($RELEASE_YEAR): Bump top 2013.
* configure.ac ($RELEASE_YEAR): Likewise.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Thien-Thi Nguyen [Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:35:03 +0000 (13:35 +0100)]
tests: avoid a spurious failure when running inside Emacs
Some versions of Emacs set the environment variable 'EMACS' to 't'
for child processes. Thus, when running from inside Emacs, "$(MAKE) -e"
erroneously allows the 't' to override the one in the Makefile.
* t/lisp-flags.sh: Unset var 'EMACS', fixing the issue.
Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 3 Jan 2013 12:42:20 +0000 (13:42 +0100)]
tests: make two new test executable
* t/backslash-issues.sh: This.
* t/extra-data.sh: And this.
Issue revealed by the 'sc_tests_executable' maintainer check.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:39:38 +0000 (13:39 +0100)]
m4: rename an m4 file to a more appropriate name
* m4/obsolete-err.m4: Rename ...
* m4/obsolete.m4: ... like this.
* Makefile.am (dist_automake_ac_DATA): Adjust.
* t/ansi2knr-no-more.sh: Likewise.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:32:12 +0000 (13:32 +0100)]
NEWS: update w.r.t. recent documentation fixes
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:13:30 +0000 (13:13 +0100)]
compat: reinstate AM_CONFIG_HEADER and AM_PROG_CC_STDC
Make them give runtime warnings in the obsolete category, but apart
from that, make them behave as they did in Automake 1.12.x and earlier.
While removing those macros seemed quite harmless, because it didn't put
a real burden on the developers (requiring them just to do a quick edit
to configure.ac), it turned out to place an unsustainable burden (or at
least, a burden perceived as such) on distro packagers who use the latest
Automake to bootstrap existing packages. Many of those packages, while
having likely updated to AC_CONFIG_HEADERS in their development version,
still used AM_CONFIG_HEADER in their existing released versions, and the
removal of this macro would have thus forced the Fedora packagers to
patch all of them. References:
<http://www.mail-archive.com/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/msg52840.html>
<http://www.spinics.net/lists/fedora-devel/msg175922.html>
<http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2013/01/autotools-mythbuster-automake-pains>
In addition, the Fedora packagers have already decided to patch their
Automake 1.13.1 to reinstate the AM_CONFIG_HEADER and AM_PROG_CC_STDC
macros (plus other macros that I don't believe it's worth worrying about):
<http://www.spinics.net/lists/fedora-devel/msg176098.html>
<http://www.mail-archive.com/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/msg53030.html>
<http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/?id=
ffe6bc39>
So, rather than having one more incompatibility floating around, we
better mirror that change (or, actually, its relevant parts) in the
upstream.
* m4/obsolete-err.m4 (AM_CONFIG_HEADER, AM_PROG_CC_STDC): Revert to the
older semantics, plus a runtime warning in the 'obsolete' category.
* t/backcompat6.sh: Use AM_CONFIG_HEADER once again.
* t/am-config-header-no-more.sh: Rename ...
* t/am-config-header.sh: ... like this, and adjust.
* t/am-prog-cc-stdc-no-more.sh: Rename ...
* t/am-prog-cc-stdc.sh: ... like this, and adjust.
* t/list-of-tests.mk: Adjust.
* NEWS: Update.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:28:54 +0000 (16:28 +0100)]
Merge branch 'rm-f-probe' into maint
* rm-f-probe:
init.m4: add probe to check "rm -f" without args work
Stefano Lattarini [Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:02:23 +0000 (12:02 +0100)]
docs: parallel-tests is no longer experimental
So don't declare it as such in the documentation.
Reported by Brandon Black:
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2013-01/msg00052.html>
* doc/automake.texi: Adjust.
* THANKS: Update.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Fri, 18 Jan 2013 10:39:28 +0000 (11:39 +0100)]
docs: serial-tests are not deprecated, just discouraged
We don't plan to remove support for them, nor to have the serial-tests
option give any kind of runtime warning, so don't alarm the users
still using serial tests with pointless "deprecation" or "obsolescence"
warnings.
Fixes automake bug#13478.
See also:
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2013-01/msg00058.html>
* doc/automake.texi: Adjust.
* THANKS: Update.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Fri, 18 Jan 2013 10:22:01 +0000 (11:22 +0100)]
plans: we are not going to remove AM_PROG_MKDIR_P in Automake 1.14
See commit v1.13.1-109-g030ecb4 of 2013-01-16, "compat: restore
AM_PROG_MKDIR, again", for the rationale; that rationale is now
also copied...
* PLANS/obsolete-removed/am-prog-mkdir-p.txt: ... here.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Fri, 18 Jan 2013 10:04:25 +0000 (11:04 +0100)]
NEWS: we are not going to remove AM_PROG_MKDIR_P in Automake 1.14
See commit v1.13.1-109-g030ecb4 of 2013-01-16, "compat: restore
AM_PROG_MKDIR, again", for the rationale.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 12 Jan 2013 18:20:54 +0000 (19:20 +0100)]
init.m4: add probe to check "rm -f" without args work
See automake bug#10828.
POSIX will say in a future version that running "rm -f" with no argument
is OK: <http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=542>).
We want to be able to make that assumption in our Makefile recipes.
So we introduce an aggressive probe to check that the usage we want is
actually supported "in the wild" to an acceptable degree.
* m4/init.m4 (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Implement the probe. To make any issue
more visible, cause the running configure to be aborted by default if
the 'rm' program in use doesn't match our expectations; the user can
still override this though, by setting the ACCEPT_INFERIOR_RM_PROGRAM
environment variable to "yes".
* t/spy-rm.tap: Update heading comments.
* t/rm-f-probe.sh: New test.
* t/list-of-tests.mk: Add it.
* PLANS/rm-f-without-args.txt: Adjust.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:50:30 +0000 (17:50 +0100)]
subdir-objects: complain if it isn't enabled
Since the next major automake version will make the behaviour so far
only activated with the 'subdir-object' option mandatory, it's better
if we start warning users not using that option.
As suggested by Peter Johansson, we strive to avoid the warning when
it would be irrelevant, i.e., if all source files sit in "current"
directory.
See automake bug#13378.
* automake.in (handle_single_transform): Print the warning when
necessary.
* t/subobj.sh: Enhance.
* t/ax/depcomp.sh: Adjust.
* t/cscope.tap: Likewise.
* t/depcomp8a.sh: Likewise.
* t/depcomp8b.sh: Likewise.
* t/ext2.sh: Likewise.
* t/extra-portability.sh: Likewise.
* t/fort2.sh: Likewise.
* t/fort4.sh: Likewise.
* t/fort5.sh: Likewise.
* t/lex-line.sh: Likewise.
* t/libtool3.sh: Likewise.
* t/ltinstloc.sh: Likewise.
* t/ltlibsrc.sh: Likewise.
* t/ltorder.sh: Likewise.
* t/parallel-tests-suffix-prog.sh: Likewise.
* t/sourcefile-in-subdir.sh: Likewise.
* t/specflg9.sh: Likewise.
* t/subobj4.sh: Likewise.
* t/subobj7.sh: Likewise.
* t/subpkg-yacc.sh: Likewise.
* t/subpkg.sh: Likewise.
* t/suffix-custom-subobj-and-specflg.sh: Likewise.
* t/vala-libs.sh: Likewise.
* t/vala-non-recursive-setup.sh: Likewise.
* t/yacc-grepping2.sh: Likewise.
* t/yacc-line.sh: Likewise.
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 12 Jan 2013 17:42:43 +0000 (18:42 +0100)]
plans: update w.r.t. latest changes
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 12 Jan 2013 16:53:17 +0000 (17:53 +0100)]
ywrap: remove an obsolete FIXME comment
If it were still relevant, somebody would have complained by now.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 12 Jan 2013 16:52:44 +0000 (17:52 +0100)]
ywrap: style fixes (no semantic change intended)
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 12 Jan 2013 16:41:58 +0000 (17:41 +0100)]
convenience: "make lint" as an alias for "make maintainer-check"
* maintainer/syntax-checks.mk (lint): Here. I'm a lazy typist ...
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 12 Jan 2013 16:38:32 +0000 (17:38 +0100)]
docs: typofix in manual
* doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Here, don't write "automake -i"
where "automake -a" is actually intended. Re-wrap some text while
at it.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 12 Jan 2013 16:30:32 +0000 (17:30 +0100)]
coverage: using multiple lexers in a single program
Using Flex and Automake built-in support for lex, that is possible.
A little tricky, but not difficult.
See:
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2010-10/msg00081.html>
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2009-03/msg00061.html>
* t/lex-multiple.sh: New test.
* t/list-of-tests.mk: Add it.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 12 Jan 2013 11:53:21 +0000 (12:53 +0100)]
tests: remove most uses of the AM_PROG_CC_C_O obsolete macro
Our NEWS file says its use will no longer be required in Automake
1.13, so better make sure that is actually the case.
* Several tests: Adjust.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 12 Jan 2013 11:30:15 +0000 (12:30 +0100)]
coverage: obsolete macro AM_PROG_CC_C_O should cause no warning nor errors
Suggested by Eric Blake.
* t/am-prog-cc-c-o.sh: New test.
* t/list-of-tests.mk: Add it.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 12 Jan 2013 11:10:39 +0000 (12:10 +0100)]
INSTALL: update copyright years
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Mike Frysinger [Sat, 12 Jan 2013 05:19:40 +0000 (00:19 -0500)]
ithreads: use runtime (not configure time) detection of perl threads
I can't imagine the runtime checks being a big runtime penalty, so there
shouldn't be a need to do the checks at configure check and hardcode the
result in the generated automake.
With the current system, it means if you change your perl config (build
perl w/threads, build automake, build perl w/out threads), or deploy a
compiled automake package on a different system (build had threads, but
deployed system does not), you get errors when trying to run automake.
So take the logic from configure.ac and move it to the one place where
PERL_THREADS is used (lib/Automake/Config.in) and do the version/config
checking at runtime.
* bootstrap.sh (PERL_THREADS): Delete assignment and use in sed.
* configure.ac (am_cv_prog_PERL_ithreads, PERL_THREADS): Delete all code
related to these two variables.
* lib/Automake/Config.in (perl_threads): Initialize to 0, and only set to
1 if the perl version is at least 5.007_002, and useithreads is in Config.
Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 12 Jan 2013 10:26:36 +0000 (11:26 +0100)]
copyright: add few missing copyright notices
Issue revealed by warnings from "make update-copyright".
* maintainer/am-ft: Add copyright notice.
* maintainer/am-xft: Likewise.
* maintainer/rename-tests: Likewise.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 12 Jan 2013 10:22:10 +0000 (11:22 +0100)]
maint: files in PLANS are to be exempted from copyright notice
* maintainer/maint.mk (update-copyright): Adjust.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 12 Jan 2013 10:16:44 +0000 (11:16 +0100)]
maint: consistently honor the UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_YEAR environment variable
* maintainer/maint.mk (update-copyright): Here. The 'lib/update-copyright'
already honoured it, but some parts of our recipe didn't. This has caused
the incomplete copyright bump that was fixed by the previous patch.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 12 Jan 2013 10:09:14 +0000 (11:09 +0100)]
copyright: update some copyright years
With "make update-copyright". Apparently they were missed in the
last bump.
* bootstrap.sh, configure.ac, t/txinfo-builddir.sh: In these files.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Wed, 9 Jan 2013 22:16:53 +0000 (23:16 +0100)]
compile: use 'compile' script when "-c -o" is used with losing compilers
Do so seen when only source files in the "current" directory are present.
This commit is part of a series of related changes addressing automake
bug#13378 (see also the plan 'PLANS/subdir-objects.txt').
Before this change, Automake-generated C compilation rules mistakenly
passed the "-c -o" options combination unconditionally (even to losing
compiler) when the 'subdir-objects' was used but sources were only
present in the top-level directory. Issue spotted by Nick Bowler:
<http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13378#35>
<http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13378#44>
We fix this by having Automake redefine AC_PROG_CC to take over the role
of AM_PROG_CC_C_O and to require the 'compile' script unconditionally
(albeit that will continue to be invoked only when inferior compilers
are detected).
Among other things, this means AM_PROG_CC_C_O explicitly is no longer
required; that macro is still supported for backward-compatibility, but
calling it is basically a no-op now.
This change has some pros and some cons (obviously, we believe the former
outweighs the latter). Here are the most relevant ones:
+ Pros 1:
Some logic in the Automake script has been simplified.
+ Pros 2:
That simplification has automatically fixed an actual bug (see
Nick's mails referenced above; admittedly, that was present only in
corner-case situations, but still); the test 't/ccnoco4.sh', which
demonstrated the bug and has been failing so far, now passes.
+ Pros 3:
Things works more "automagically" now (no need to manually add the
AM_PROG_CC_C_O macro to configure.ac anymore).
* Cons 1:
The 'compile' script will be required in all projects using C
compilation; this will only be a problem for packages not using
'--add-missing'. However, such packages are definitely more rare
than the ones using '--add-missing', and adjusting them will be
trivial -- just copy the compile script over from the new Automake
installation.
* Cons 2:
The copy & paste of autoconf internals hack this change has introduced
in our "rewrite" of AC_PROG_CC is really an egregious abomination. It
can only be justified with the fact that we expect future versions of
autoconf to implement the semantics we need directly in AC_PROG_CC, so
that we'll be able to leverage that (since Automake 1.14 will require
the latest Autoconf version released).
Now, the detailed list of file-by-file changes ...
* automake.in ($seen_cc_c_o): Remove this global variable.
(scan_autoconf_traces): Don't set it, and do not trace the
'AM_PROG_CC_C_O' m4 macro.
(lang_c_rewrite): Remove, no longer needed.
* doc/automake.texi: Adjust expected "autoreconf --install" output
in the amhello example. Remove statements about the need for the
AM_PROG_CC_C_O macro. Report it is obsolete now.
* m4/init.m4: Re-write AC_PROG_CC to append checks about whether the
C compiler supports "-c -o" together. These checks have basically
been ripped out (with adaptations) from the 'AC_PROG_CC_C_O' macro
of Autoconf and ...
* m4/minuso.m4 (AM_PROG_CC_C_O): ... this macro of ours, which has
thus basically become a no-op.
* t/ax/am-test-lib.sh (am_setup_testdir): Also copy the 'compile'
script in the test directory; if we don't do so, every test using
AC_PROG_CC should call automake with the "--add-missing" option, or
copy the 'compile' script itself.
* t/cond11.sh: No need to create a dummy 'compile' script: that is
already brought in by 'am_setup_testdir()', that is automatically
invoked when 'test-lib.sh' is sourced.
* t/add-missing.tap: Adjust: we expect the 'compile' script to be
required by a mere AC_PROG_CC call now.
* t/dist-auxdir-many-subdirs.sh: Likewise.
* t/specflg6.sh: Likewise.
* t/subobj4.sh: Likewise.
* t/cxx-lt-demo.sh: Likewise, and update comments to match.
* t/distcom2.sh: Enhance a little.
* t/dollarvar2.sh: Adjust.
* t/extra-portability.sh: Likewise.
* t/libobj19.sh: Likewise.
* t/per-target-flags.sh: Likewise.
* t/repeated-options.sh: Likewise.
* t/subobj.sh: Likewise, and enhance a little.
* t/ccnoco2.sh: Remove as obsolete.
* t/list-of-tests.mk (handwritten_TESTS): Adjust.
(XFAIL_TESTS): Remove 't/ccnoco4.sh'.
* NEWS: Update.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:57:28 +0000 (18:57 +0100)]
HACKING: suggest more checks before releasing
In particular, "make check-no-trailing-backslash-in-recipes",
"make check-cc-no-c-o" and "make maintainer-check" should also
be run.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:26:03 +0000 (18:26 +0100)]
tests: can fake a compiler not grasping "-c -o" -- globally in all tests
The ability to easily do so will be quite important in upcoming changes
about C compilation handling and semantics of the 'subdir-objects'
option. Refer to the extensive discussion about automake bug#13378 for
more details: <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13378>.
See also commit 'v1.13.1-34-g744cd57' of 2013-01-08, "coverage: compile
rules used "-c -o" also with losing compilers".
* t/ax/cc-no-c-o.in: New, a "C compiler" that chokes when the '-c' and
'-o' options are passed together to it on the command line.
* Makefile.am (t/ax/cc-no-c-o): Generate this script from it.
(noinst_SCRIPTS, CLEANFILES): Add it.
(EXTRA_DIST): Add 't/ax/cc-no-c-o.in'.
(check-cc-no-c-o): New target, runs the whole testsuite with 'cc-no-c-o'
as the C compiler (bot GNU and non-GNU).
* .gitignore: Update.
* t/ccnoco.sh: Use the new script instead of duplicating it.
* t/ccnoco3.sh: Likewise.
* t/ccnoco4.sh: Likewise.
* t/self-check-cc-no-c-o.sh: New testsuite self-check.
* t/list-of-tests.mk: Adjust.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:38:58 +0000 (17:38 +0100)]
sync: update files from upstream with "make fetch"
* lib/INSTALL: Update.
* lib/config.guess: Likewise.
* lib/config.sub: Likewise.
* lib/gendocs_template: Likewise.
* lib/gitlog-to-changelog: Likewise.
* lib/gnupload: Likewise.
* lib/texinfo.tex: Likewise.
* lib/update-copyright: Likewise.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:44:33 +0000 (23:44 +0100)]
typofix: in comments in GNUmakefile
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:40:26 +0000 (23:40 +0100)]
Rename 'maint/' -> 'maintainer/', for Git's sake
Otherwise, Git gets confused by the fact that a directory ('maint')
is named like a branch, and forces me to tweak the command line to
resolve the ambiguity for it.
* maint/: Rename ...
* maintainer/: ... like this.
* Makefile.am, GNUmakefile: Adjust.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:28:45 +0000 (23:28 +0100)]
HACKING: minor typofix
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:27:21 +0000 (23:27 +0100)]
HACKING: bug-tracker, the PLANS directory, and how to plan "big" changes
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:16:37 +0000 (23:16 +0100)]
HACKING: rewindable branches should live in the 'experimental/*' namespace
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:10:58 +0000 (23:10 +0100)]
HACKING: fixlets about git branch rewinding policy
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:10:02 +0000 (23:10 +0100)]
HACKING: commit messages are not to follow GCS ChangeLog rules too strongly
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:06:27 +0000 (23:06 +0100)]
HACKING: "detailed explanation" in commit messages is almost mandatory
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:04:06 +0000 (23:04 +0100)]
HACKING: we use "merge --log" even when merging master
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:01:28 +0000 (23:01 +0100)]
HACKING: typofix
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Wed, 9 Jan 2013 21:17:53 +0000 (22:17 +0100)]
depend2.am: fix comments on verbosity of compilation rules
The situation and decisions described on those comments have become
quite outdated since the introduction of the silent-rules support.
Today, the general idea is to have nice, terse output if silent rules
are enabled, and complete, faithful, very verbose output if they are
not -- without trying to "massage" this verbose output in a more
pleasant form if that would cause complication in the affected code.
So it's better to just drop the obsolescent comments.
Note that we don't start simplifying the existing rules according
to this new philosophy; that will only be done when touching some
existing code (for the 'depend2.am' code, that will probably happen
on the master branch).
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Wed, 9 Jan 2013 21:01:45 +0000 (22:01 +0100)]
depend2.am: improve comments a little
* lib/am/depend2.am: The "fastdep" mode is supported not only for
gcc 3.x, but for gcc 3.x or later, in particular, for all gcc in
the 4.x series (at the time of writing, the latest release is 4.72).
Adjust the comments to match, and re-wrap them while at it.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Wed, 9 Jan 2013 19:11:31 +0000 (20:11 +0100)]
plans: automake 1.14 is to assume "rm -f" with no args is OK
See automake bug#10828.
* PLANS/rm-f-without-args.txt: New.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Wed, 9 Jan 2013 18:57:27 +0000 (19:57 +0100)]
plans: we want to active subdir-objects unconditionally in automake 1.14
See automake bug#13378.
* PLANS/subdir-objects.txt: New.
* t/ccnoco4.sh: Improve heading comments a little.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 8 Jan 2013 20:52:07 +0000 (21:52 +0100)]
tests: adjust stale references to old test names
* t/remake-renamed-m4-macro-and-file.sh: Adjust to reflect to old
"acloca22 -> t/aclocal-deleted-header.sh" test rename.
* t/aclocal-pr450.sh (configure.ac): Use '$me' in the AC_INIT call,
instead of hard-coding the old name of this test, i.e., "acloca19".
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 8 Jan 2013 20:47:40 +0000 (21:47 +0100)]
tests: rename the last aclocal test with dumb name
* t/acloca10.sh: Rename ...
* t/aclocal-I-install.sh: ... to this saner and slightly more
self-explanatory name.
* t/list-of-tests.mk: Adjust.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 8 Jan 2013 20:40:23 +0000 (21:40 +0100)]
tests: fix an old botched change to an aclocal test
* t/acloca10.sh (configure.ac): Here, invoke the m4 macro 'MACRO2'
before the macro 'MACRO1' (the related test 't/aclocal-I-order-2.sh'
does the opposite). This reverts a botched edit done (by myself,
oops) in commit 'v1.11-1335-gefdc3e1' of 2011-09-11, "tests: minor
optimizations/simplifications in some aclocal tests", and makes the
behaviour of the test match once again what is stated in the
heading comments. While at it, improve those same heading comments
a little.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 8 Jan 2013 19:42:28 +0000 (20:42 +0100)]
tests: fix some botched inter-test references in heading comments
* t/aclocal-I-order-2.sh: Here.
* t/aclocal-I-order-2.sh: And here.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 8 Jan 2013 19:19:04 +0000 (20:19 +0100)]
coverage: compile rules used "-c -o" also with losing compilers
If the 'subdir-objects' option is used, Automake-generated rules for
C compilation pass both the "-c" and "-o" options to the C compiler,
*unconditionally*. There are some compilers that choke on such an
usage, but the AM_PROG_CC_C_O macro takes care of them (it does so by
redefining $CC to use the Automake-provided 'compile' wrapper script
automatically, if a losing compiler is detected at configure runtime).
Unfortunately, in case the 'subdir-objects' option is specified in a
Makefile.am, but all the source files resided anyway in the top-level
directory (relative to the Makefile.am), Automake do *not* complain
if AM_PROG_CC_C_O wasn't invoked in 'configure.ac' -- all the while
still passing "-c -o" to the compiler invocations. This could cause
compilation failures with losing compilers if the user forget to call
AM_PROG_CC_C_O in 'configure.ac' (and Automake would not warn him of
the issue).
Expose this bug in the testsuite.
Issue identified by Nick Bowler in the discussion on automake bug#13378:
<http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13378#35>
<http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13378#44>
* t/ccnoco4.sh: New test.
* t/list-of-tests.mk (XFAIL_TESTS, handwritten_TESTS): List it.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 5 Jan 2013 11:12:56 +0000 (12:12 +0100)]
texi: remove extra verbosity in creation of dirstamp directory
* lib/am/texi-vers.am (%STAMPVTI%): Here.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 5 Jan 2013 11:00:36 +0000 (12:00 +0100)]
coverage: user can avoid distributing '.info' pages
Can be done like this:
AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = info-in-builddir
dist-info:
@:
Note that this usage is not yet documented: we might decide to go
for a fully-fledged 'no-dist-info' flag, or something like that, in
future automake version (this is not yet decided); in which case,
it's better not to have people start to rely on the hack above.
Still, there's no good reason to break it gratuitously, hence this
test coverage.
* t/txinfo-nodist-info.sh: New test.
* t/list-of-tests.mk: Add it.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Fri, 4 Jan 2013 17:03:50 +0000 (18:03 +0100)]
Merge branch 'plans' into maint
* plans:
plans: add some on-going plans (already registered on the bug tracker)
Stefano Lattarini [Fri, 4 Jan 2013 10:48:33 +0000 (11:48 +0100)]
plans: add some on-going plans (already registered on the bug tracker)
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Fri, 4 Jan 2013 09:23:36 +0000 (10:23 +0100)]
Merge branch 'plans' into maint
* plans:
plans: add the "PLANS" directory
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Conflicts:
Makefile.am
Karl Berry [Thu, 3 Jan 2013 23:09:23 +0000 (16:09 -0700)]
docs: mention dist-hook help for EXTRA_DIST
* automake.texi (Basics of Distribution): mention dist-hook
as working around the problems of whole directories in EXTRA_DIST.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 3 Jan 2013 22:10:42 +0000 (23:10 +0100)]
texi: remove workaround for older Texinfo (4.1)
* lib/am/texibuild.am: Here, in the rules generating HTML output.
We can do so because, since Automake 1.13, we require Texinfo >= 4.9
anyway.
Basically a backport of Automake-NG commit '1.12.2-879-ge6caf5e'.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 3 Jan 2013 18:02:52 +0000 (19:02 +0100)]
NEWS: improve wordings in entry deprecating suffix-less info files
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 3 Jan 2013 13:39:39 +0000 (14:39 +0100)]
build: don't enable 'color-tests' automake option explicitly
It's enabled by default since commit 'v1.12.2-136-g2d5571e' (this
change appeared in Automake 1.13).
* configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Drop 'color-tests'.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 3 Jan 2013 13:32:54 +0000 (14:32 +0100)]
build: enable all warnings as fatal in our own build system
Automake should of course be able to bootstrap itself in a
warning-free manner w.r.t. the Autotools. So make any failure
to do so fatal. Not doing so caused the regression fixed by
previous commit 'v1.13.1-22-ga790fae' to go unnoticed.
* configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Add '-Werror' and '-Wall'.
* bootstrap.sh: Pass the '-Wall -Werror' options to aclocal,
automake and autoconf invocations.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 3 Jan 2013 13:05:31 +0000 (14:05 +0100)]
texi: Texinfo sources and CLEANFILES definition should co-exist peacefully
But they don't now, due to a regression introduced in commit
'v1.13.1-4-gc1a8f56'. Fix it. The regression was hitting our
own build system!
* automake.in (handle_texinfo_helper): Only complain if the
'info-in-builddir' is not active and a '.info' file (not any
random file!) is listed in CLEANFILES or DISTCLEANFILES.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 3 Jan 2013 12:42:20 +0000 (13:42 +0100)]
tests: make two new test executable
* t/backslash-issues.sh: This.
* t/extra-data.sh: And this.
Issue revealed by the 'sc_tests_executable' maintainer check.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 3 Jan 2013 12:27:26 +0000 (13:27 +0100)]
Merge branch 'info-in-builddir' into maint
* info-in-builddir:
texi: deprecate hack about info files in CLEANFILES variables
texi: info files can be generated in the builddir
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 3 Jan 2013 12:16:14 +0000 (13:16 +0100)]
runtest: better command line API
* t/ax/runtest.in: Accept options '-k' and '--keep-testdirs' (same
as exporting '$keep_testdirs' to "yes"). To improve compatibility
with the "make check" interface, allow environment variables to be
passes on the command line. Minor adjustments while at it.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 3 Jan 2013 11:54:07 +0000 (12:54 +0100)]
tests: move runtest.in away from the top-lever directory
Not only this leaves the top-lever directory less cluttered, but
helps in keeping the testsuite-related files more "centralized".
* runtest.in: Move ...
* t/ax/runtest.in: ... here. While at it, add customary
'@configure_input@' comment line.
* Makefile.am (runtest, EXTRA_DIST): Adjust.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 3 Jan 2013 11:23:51 +0000 (12:23 +0100)]
maint: move more maintainer files in the 'maint/' subdir
* maint.mk: Move ...
* maint/maint.mk: ... here.
* syntax-checks.mk: Move ...
* maint/syntax-checks.mk: ... here.
* Makefile.am: Adjust.
* GNUmakefile: Likewise.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 3 Jan 2013 11:03:37 +0000 (12:03 +0100)]
plans: add the "PLANS" directory
Individual files or sub-directories about future and on-going
development plans in Automake will be added in follow-up commits.
This new set of documents is meant to help ensure a more controlled
and smooth development and evolution for Automake, in several ways.
- Having the plans clearly spelled out should will avoid messy
roadmaps with no clear way forward or with muddy or ill-defined
aims or purposes; a trap this is too easy to fall into.
- Keeping planned changes cooking and re-hashed for a while should
ensure rough edges are smoothed up, transitions are planned in a
proper way (hopefully avoiding debacles like the AM_MKDIR_PROG_P
deprecation and the AM_CONFIG_HEADER too-abrupt removal), and
"power users" have more chances of getting informed in due time,
thus having all the time to prepare for the changes or raise
objections against them.
- Having the plans clearly stated and registered in a "centralized"
location should make it more difficult to them to slip through
the cracks, getting forgotten or (worse) only half-implemented.
- Even for discussions and plans registered on the Bug Tracker
as well, a corresponding entry in the PLANS directory can help
in keeping main ideas summarized, and consensus and/or objections
registered and easily compared.
Motivation:
<http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2013/01/autotools-mythbuster-automake-pains>
Not a flatting picture for us (and maybe a little too harsh), but
basically true and even spot-on in some regards.
* PLANS/README: New.
* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute the whole PLANS directory.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>