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>
Stefano Lattarini [Wed, 2 Jan 2013 20:59:43 +0000 (21:59 +0100)]
tests: more significant names for some tests
* t/spy.sh: Rename...
* t/spy-double-colon.sh: ... like this.
* t/yacc4.sh: Rename...
* t/yacc-misc.sh: ... like this.
* t/yaccdry.sh: Rename...
* t/yacc-dry.sh: ... like this.
* t/yaccpp.sh: Rename...
* t/yacc-cxx-grepping.sh: ... like this.
* t/yaccvpath.sh: Rename...
* t/yacc-vpath.sh: ... like this.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Wed, 2 Jan 2013 20:08:27 +0000 (21:08 +0100)]
maint: add some of my maintainer-specific scripts
They are likely not general enough for widespread use, but they
are useful nonetheless.
In the best-case scenario, they will start to be used by other
people, and thus accordingly improved and made more general and
flexible.
In the worst case scenario, well, I still get to keep them in a
centralized, blessed place, simplifying the deployment and use
of them; so still a win for me :-)
* maint/am-ft: New script.
* maint/am-xft: Likewise.
* maint/rename-tests: Likewise.
* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add them.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Wed, 2 Jan 2013 13:29:46 +0000 (14:29 +0100)]
tests: reorganize tests on backslash issues
* t/backsl.sh, t/backsl2.sh, t/backsl3.sh: Merge ...
* t/backslash-issues.sh: ... into this test.
* t/backsl4.sh: Rename ...
* t/backslash-before-trailing-whitespace.sh: ... like this.
* t/list-of-tests.mk: Adjust.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Wed, 2 Jan 2013 12:55:13 +0000 (13:55 +0100)]
style: add trailing ':' to some test cases
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Wed, 2 Jan 2013 12:35:58 +0000 (13:35 +0100)]
tests: tweak tests on obsolete EXTRA_DATA variable
* t/extra3.sh, t/extra4.sh: Merge ....
* t/extra-data.sh: ... into this, with updated comments.
* t/list-of-tests.mk: Adjust. Also Tweak the order in
which some other tests are listed.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Wed, 2 Jan 2013 12:31:31 +0000 (13:31 +0100)]
tests: more significant names for some tests
* t/extra5.sh: Rename ....
* t/extra-dist-vpath-dir.sh: ... like this.
* t/extra6.sh: Rename ....
* t/extra-dist-dirs-and-subdirs.sh: ... like this.
* t/extra7.sh: Rename ....
* t/extra-dist-vpath-dir-merge.sh: ... like this.
* t/extra8.sh: Rename ....
* t/extra-programs-misc.sh: ... like this.
* t/extra9.sh: Rename ....
* t/extra-programs-and-libs.sh: ... like this.
* t/extra10.sh: Rename ....
* t/extra-dist-wildcards.sh: ... like this.
* t/extra11.sh: Rename ....
* t/extra-dist-wildcards-gnu.sh: ... like this.
* t/extra12.sh: Rename ....
* t/extra-dist-wildcards-vpath.sh: ... like this.
* t/extradep.sh: Rename ....
* t/extra-deps.sh: ... like this, and adjust heading comments.
* t/extradep2.sh: Rename ....
* t/extra-deps-lt.sh: ... like this, and adjust heading comments.
* t/list-of-tests.mk: Adjust.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 1 Jan 2013 22:29:02 +0000 (23:29 +0100)]
cosmetics: remove few occurrences of trailing whitespace
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 1 Jan 2013 22:06:36 +0000 (23:06 +0100)]
docs: re-introduce mention of two-args AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE invocation
Albeit obsolescent and raising warnings in the 'obsolete' category,
that usage is still supported, and will need to be until Autoconf
improves its handling of configure-time-generated package version
numbers. So it's better to explicitly document it again, stating
that it is obsoleted but still working (and why), rather then leaving
it as Yet Another Undocumented Feature (that will mysteriously and
suddenly break some random day in the future).
It's worth giving some background about how we ended up in the
situation that this patch fixes.
We had originally removed support for the long-deprecated two-args
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE invocation (see commit v1.12-67-ge186355). Before
that removal could land in a released Automake version, Bob Friesenhahn
made a quite compelling point that the two-args AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
invocation could still be useful for modern, maintained packages like
GraphicsMagick, at least until Autoconf is fixed to offer better support
for "dynamic" package versions (see commit v1.12.2-245-g2abe183 for more
in-depth rationales and references). However, in that commit we didn't
revert the removal of the *documentation* for this two-arguments
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE invocation (and no rationale for not doing so was given
in the commit message). Time to remedy that.
Indirectly suggested by Diego Elio Pattenò:
<http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2013/01/autotools-mythbuster-automake-pains>
* doc/automake.texi: Adjust.
* NEWS: Update.
* THANKS: Likewise.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 1 Jan 2013 21:34:15 +0000 (22:34 +0100)]
texi: warn against '.txi' and '.texinfo' input suffixes
The warning being in the 'obsolete' category. This is mostly to
ease transition to Automake-NG (see commit v1.12.1-416-gd5459b9),
and to discourage use of seldom-tested setups.
* automake.in (handle_texinfo_helper): Warn against Texinfo input
files with '.txi' or '.texinfo' suffixes.
* NEWS: Update.
* t/txinfo-other-suffixes.sh: Adjust and enhance.
* t/txinfo-no-repeated-targets.sh: No longer use '.txi' and
'.texinfo' extensions.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 1 Jan 2013 20:31:01 +0000 (21:31 +0100)]
cleanup: remove two lines of dead code in automake
* automake.in (scan_texinfo_file): Here, the definition and
munging of '$infobase'.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 1 Jan 2013 19:59:53 +0000 (20:59 +0100)]
texi: warn against suffix-less info files
The warning being in the 'obsolete' category. This is mostly to
ease transition to Automake-NG (see commit v1.12.1-392-ga0c7b6a),
and to discourage use of seldom-tested setups.
* automake.in (scan_texinfo_file): Warn against '@setfilename'
directives that specify suffix-less output info files.
* t/txinfo-without-info-suffix.sh: Adjust and enhance.
* t/txinfo-makeinfo-error-no-clobber.sh: No longer use suffix-less
info files in '@setfilename' directives.
* t/primary-prefix-valid-couples.sh: Likewise.
* t/txinfo-setfilename-repeated.sh: Likewise.
* t/txinfo-vtexi2.sh : Likewise.
* t/mdate2.sh: Likewise.
* NEWS: Update.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 1 Jan 2013 23:33:42 +0000 (00:33 +0100)]
texi: deprecate hack about info files in CLEANFILES variables
For quite a long time, Automake has been implementing an undocumented
hack which ensured that '.info' files which appeared to be cleaned (by
e.g. being listed in the CLEANFILES or DISTCLEANFILES variables) were
built in the builddir rather than in the srcdir; this hack was introduced
to ensure better backward-compatibility with packages such as Texinfo,
which did things like:
info_TEXINFOS = texinfo.txi info-stnd.texi info.texi
DISTCLEANFILES = texinfo texinfo-* info*.info*
# Do not create info files for distribution.
dist-info:
@:
in order not to distribute .info files.
Now that we have the 'info-in-builddir' option that explicitly causes
generated '.info' files to be placed in the builddir, this hack should
be longer necessary, so we deprecate it with runtime warnings. It is
scheduled to be removed altogether in Automake 1.14.
* automake.in (handle_texinfo_helper): Raise proper runtime warnings
if the hack is triggered.
* NEWS: Update.
* t/txinfo28.sh: Adjust.
* t/txinfo23.sh: Likewise.
* t/txinfo25.sh: Adjust and extend.
* t/txinfo24.sh: Likewise.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 3 Apr 2012 20:02:55 +0000 (22:02 +0200)]
texi: info files can be generated in the builddir
User can now ask info files to be built in the $(builddir), rather than
the $(srcdir), by specifying the Automake option 'info-in-builddir'.
This feature was requested by the developers of GCC, GDB, GNU binutils
and the GNU bfd library. See the extensive discussion about automake
bug#11034 for more details.
OK, to be honest, having '.info' files built in the builddir was
*already* possible, but only using ugly and undocumented hacks involving
definition of the CLEANFILES and/or DISTCLEANFILES. For example, the
binutils project did something like this in the relevant 'Makefile.am':
# Automake 1.9 will only build info files in the objdir if they are
# mentioned in DISTCLEANFILES. It doesn't have to be unconditional,
# though, so we use a bogus condition.
if GENINSRC_NEVER
DISTCLEANFILES = binutils.info
endif
See also the extensive discussion about automake bug#11034; in
particular, the following messages:
<http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=11034#65>
<http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=11034#80>
<http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=11034#86>
<http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=11034#101>
* lib/Automake/Options.pm (_is_valid_easy_option): Recognize the
new 'info-in-builddir' option.
* automake.in (handle_texinfo_helper): If that option is set,
initialize '$insrc' to '0', so that info files will be generated
in the builddir. Adjust comments to match.
* t/txinfo-builddir.sh: New test.
* t/list-of-tests.mk: Add it.
* NEWS: Update.
* doc/automake.texi: Document the new options.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 1 Jan 2013 17:03:53 +0000 (18:03 +0100)]
build: respect silent rules in generation of "amhello" example tarball
* Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/doc/amhello-1.0.tar.gz): Here.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 1 Jan 2013 12:56:32 +0000 (13:56 +0100)]
NEWS: fixlets and updates
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 1 Jan 2013 12:33:27 +0000 (13:33 +0100)]
post-release: minor version bump (1.13.1a)
* configure.ac, m4/amversion.m4: Bump version to 1.13.1a.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 1 Jan 2013 11:57:10 +0000 (12:57 +0100)]
release: stable minor release 1.13.1
* configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump version number to 1.13.1.
* m4/amversion.m4: Likewise (auto-updated by "make bootstrap").
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 1 Jan 2013 00:20:49 +0000 (01:20 +0100)]
tests: don't always look for a C++ compiler named 'RCC'
On MacOS X (10.8), since the file system is case-insensitive, RCC
can point to the "Resource Compiler" of the Qt4 Toolkit:
<http://doc.qt.digia.com/4.2/rcc.html>
That mismatch causes our configure script to erroneously think that
no working C++ compiler is present, and that is thus necessary to
skip all the test cases requiring such a compiler.
So only look for a compiler named 'RCC' if the file system is
case-sensible.
Issue spotted analyzing the testsuite logs reported in bug#13317.
* configure.ac: Adjust.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 31 Dec 2012 23:51:37 +0000 (00:51 +0100)]
tests: fix bug in pkg-config-macros.sh, could cause spurious SKIPs
Issue spotted perusing the testsuite logs reported in bug#13317.
* t/pkg-config-macros.sh: Don't use (uninitialized) '$dir' where '$d'
should have been used instead. Set IFS to ':' before looping on the
$PATH expansion. Fix typo: 'alocal' instead of 'aclocal'. These
issues were causing the location in PATH of the 'pkg-config' program
not to be found even when the program was present.
* THANKS: Update.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 31 Dec 2012 23:47:33 +0000 (00:47 +0100)]
docs: autom4te cache can break CONFIGURE_DEPENDENCIES
In fact, the new test 'remake-configure-dependencies.sh' only
works because it disables the autom4te cache :-( That is more
of an AUtotools design issue than an Automake bug, so better
just document it ...
* doc/automake.texi (Rebuilding): ... here.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 31 Dec 2012 23:32:34 +0000 (00:32 +0100)]
coverage: test CONFIGURE_DEPENDENCIES
* t/remake-configure-dependencies.sh: New test.
* t/list-of-tests.mk: Add it.
* doc/automake.texi: Reference it in comments.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 31 Dec 2012 22:29:24 +0000 (23:29 +0100)]
coverage: test CONFIG_STATUS_DEPENDENCIES
* t/remake-config-status-dependencies.sh: New test.
* t/list-of-tests.mk: Add it.
* doc/automake.texi: Reference it in comments.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 31 Dec 2012 20:11:00 +0000 (21:11 +0100)]
tests: fix reference to related tests in some comments
* t/acloca10.sh: Here.
* t/check2.sh: And here.
* t/remake-deleted-m4-file.sh: And here.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:18:42 +0000 (19:18 +0100)]
tests: some enhancements to texinfo tests (from Automake-NG)
* t/txinfo-many-output-formats.sh: Backport improvements, almost verbatim,
from Automake-NG commit 'v1.13-768-gb434acc' (plus minor tweaks for the
sake of non-GNU make implementation).
* t/txinfo-many-output-formats-vpath.sh: New test, backported almost
verbatim from that same Automake-NG commit (again, with minor tweaks for
the sake of non-GNU make implementations).
* t/lsit-of-tests.mk: Adjust.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:54:24 +0000 (19:54 +0100)]
tests: fix reference to sister tests in two heading comments
* t/color-tests.sh: Here.
* t/color-tests2.sh: And here.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:18:37 +0000 (18:18 +0100)]
maint: update copyright year for 2013 (in branch maint)
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 31 Dec 2012 13:16:01 +0000 (14:16 +0100)]
docs: adjust comment w.r.t. recent tests renaming
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 31 Dec 2012 12:57:29 +0000 (13:57 +0100)]
tests: some more renames for texinfo tests
* t/txinfo.sh: Rename ...
* t/txinfo-tex-dist.sh: ... like this.
* t/txinfo10.sh: Rename ...
* t/txinfo-dvi-recurs.sh: ... like this.
* t/txinfo20.sh: Rename ...
* t/txinfo-makeinfo-error-no-clobber.sh: ... like this.
* t/txinfo-setfilename-suffix-match.sh: Rename ...
* t/txinfo-setfilename-suffix-strip.sh: ... like this.
* t/txinfo-suffix-less-info.sh: Rename ...
* t/txinfo-without-info-suffix.sh: ... like this.
* t/vtexi.sh: Rename ...
* t/txinfo-vtexi.sh: ... like this.
* t/vtexi2.sh: Rename ...
* t/txinfo-vtexi2.sh: ... like this.
* t/vtexi3.sh: Rename ...
* t/txinfo-vtexi3.sh: ... like this, and adjust heading comments.
* t/vtexi4.sh: Rename ...
* t/txinfo-vtexi4.sh: ... like this, and adjust heading comments.
* t/list-of-tests.mk: Adjust.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 31 Dec 2012 12:30:51 +0000 (13:30 +0100)]
tests: enhance and tweak some texinfo tests
* t/txinfo-subdir-pr343.sh: Move the tests checking that '.info.bak'
files in subdirs are not unduly distributed into ...
* t/txinfo-no-extra-dist.sh: ... in here. Enhance a little while
at it.
* t/txinfo-other-suffixes.sh: Also check that the '.texinfo' suffix
is accepted and works.
* t/txinfo-setfilename-suffix-match.sh: Remove useless call to
autoconf, enhance a little.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>