Stefano Lattarini [Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:22:57 +0000 (01:22 +0100)]
tests: make two test scripts executable
* tests/remake-am-pr10111.test: Make executable.
* tests/remake-m4-pr10111.test: Likewise.
Stefano Lattarini [Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:14:04 +0000 (21:14 +0100)]
readme: reference webpages for automake mailing lists
* README: Rationalize and reorganize the (brief) description of
the automake mailing lists. In particular, instead of suggesting
the reader to write to the `-request' addresses to subscribe to
mailing lists, point him to the relevant webpages, where he can
also subscribe via a web form.
Stefano Lattarini [Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:10:20 +0000 (21:10 +0100)]
readme: update advice about testsuite execution
* README: Now that the automake testsuite uses the parallel-tests
driver, there is no need for the user to capture the stdout of
"make check" to determine which tests have failed: a detailed log
is automatically saved into the `tests/test-suite.log' file.
Since we are at it, improve the wording by dropping an extra
"please".
Stefano Lattarini [Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:53:10 +0000 (20:53 +0100)]
readme: don't reference the old homepage at sources.redhat.com
* README: Don't reference the old homepage at sources.redhat.com,
which is no longer active; reference the homepage on www.gnu.org
instead. See also automake bug#10157 and bug#10248.
* tests/README: Likewise, and remove related extra-pedantic advice
about copyright papers for test cases (we'll ask for those papers
explicitly when we think they are warranted).
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:20:00 +0000 (10:20 +0100)]
hacking: some more fixlets
* HACKING (Release Procedure): Place the list of pre-release
bootstrap-and-test commands on a line of its own, so it's easy to
select and then paste it into a terminal window.
Fix the explanation of "make git-release", as, since the previous
change, "make git-release" would simply run "make dist" rather
than "make distcheck".
Suggestion from Jim Meyering.
Peter Rosin [Mon, 12 Dec 2011 08:10:56 +0000 (09:10 +0100)]
* NEWS: Fix typo in 'make dist-bzip2' description.
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:26:52 +0000 (18:26 +0100)]
release: don't run "make distcheck" automatically
* Makefile.am (git-dist): The developers should test extensively
before finally creating the release tarball; so don't run "make
distcheck" on their behalf here; instead ...
* HACKING (Release procedure): ... state here that "make check"
and "make distcheck" should be run before calling "make git-dist".
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 5 Dec 2011 19:18:00 +0000 (20:18 +0100)]
hacking: update on-line documentation for stable releases only
* HACKING (Release procedure): On-line documentation at www.gnu.org
should be updated for stable releases only.
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 5 Dec 2011 19:15:46 +0000 (20:15 +0100)]
hacking: described release procedure applies to beta releases too
* HACKING (Release procedure): Explicitly state that the described
procedure is valid for alpha/beta versions as well.
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 5 Dec 2011 19:10:18 +0000 (20:10 +0100)]
readme: the documentation is production quality now
* README-alpha: The documentation is now quite mature, no need
to decry it.
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 5 Dec 2011 18:57:07 +0000 (19:57 +0100)]
hacking: tell about platform-testers mailing list
* HACKING (Release procedure): Announces for alpha and beta releases
should be sent to the `platform-testers@gnu.org' mailing list. Some
related rewording.
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 5 Dec 2011 18:48:34 +0000 (19:48 +0100)]
hacking: we don't use sources.redhat.com anymore
* HACKING (Release procedure): Don't explain how to upload the
web pages at sources.redhat.com; we don't use that anymore.
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 5 Dec 2011 18:41:19 +0000 (19:41 +0100)]
hacking: miscellaneous minor fixes
* HACKING (Administrivia): If a commit fixes a bug registered at GNU
debbugs, its bug number be reported in the ChangeLog entry. Re-order
the entries to give more visibility to the advice on how to verify
that a commit really fixes a bug.
(Working with git): Improve advice about which pre-existing branch
a topic branch should be based on.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 9 Dec 2011 22:17:18 +0000 (23:17 +0100)]
dist-xz, dist-bzip2: don't hard-code -9, honor envvar settings
Before the present change, automake-generated `dist-xz' rule used
a hard-coded `xz -9'. That was a problem because on this front,
xz differs from gzip and bzip2. While the latter two don't incur
any run-time decompression penalty for using a higher compression
level, specifying -9 with xz imposes a potentially fatal virtual
memory requirement on any client that wants to decompress your
tar.xz file.
People have complained that a tarball compressed with -9 cannot
be uncompressed in a low-memory environment (wrt-based embedded).
Hence, instead of defaulting to -9, which is useful only for very
large tarballs, it defaults to -e (equivalent to -6e). This
limits the default memory requirements imposed on decompressors,
yet still gives very good compression ratios.
* lib/am/distdir.am (dist-xz): Do not hard-code xz's -9: that made
it impossible to override. Actually don't default to -9, either,
since that induced inordinately large virtual memory usage when
merely decompressing. Instead, use its XZ_OPT envvar, defaulting
to -e if not defined. Suggested by Lasse Collin.
(dist, dist-all) [?XZ?]: Likewise
(dist-bzip2): Similarly, do not hard-code -9, but do continue to
use -9 by default. Honor the BZIP2 envvar.
(dist, dist-all) [?BZIP2?]: Likewise
* NEWS: Update.
* doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions): Describe the
newly enabled environment variables.
This is inspired to commit v1.11-389-g6da46f3, with additional
changes to reflect that the xz compression level should default
to -e, not -9.
Stefano Lattarini [Fri, 9 Dec 2011 11:47:53 +0000 (12:47 +0100)]
news: fix typos, grammaros and suboptimal wording
* NEWS: Fix typos, grammaros and suboptimal wording.
Reported by Jim Meyering.
Stefano Lattarini [Wed, 7 Dec 2011 20:02:39 +0000 (21:02 +0100)]
maint: sync auxiliary files from upstream
* lib/texinfo.tex: Synced from upstream, by "make fetch".
* lib/config.guess: Likewise.
* lib/config.sub: Likewise.
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:18:34 +0000 (23:18 +0200)]
tests: fix spurious failures due to missing 'yywrap()' function
The AC_PROG_LEX Autoconf macro does not diagnose a failure to find
the "lex library" expected to provide a `yywrap' function (function
which is required to link most lex-generated programs). On the
contrary, when all the link attempts (i.e., with `-ll' and `-lfl')
fail, configure declares that no lex library is needed, and simply
proceeds with the configuration process -- only for the build to
possibly fail later, at make time.
This behaviour is intended; the Autoconf manual reads:
``You are encouraged to use Flex in your sources, since it is
both more pleasant to use than plain Lex and the C source it
produces is portable. In order to ensure portability, however,
you must either provide a function `yywrap' or, if you don't use
it (e.g., your scanner has no `#include'-like feature), simply
include a `%noyywrap' statement in the scanner's source.''
This AC_PROG_LEX behaviour is causing some spurious failures of
the Automake testsuite in environments which lack a proper library
providing `yywrap' (this happens for example on Fedora-based
systems). The proper workaround is to simply provide a fall-back
implementation of `yywrap' in our lexers.
* tests/cond35.test: Provide a dummy `yywrap' function.
* tests/lex3.test: Likewise.
* tests/silent-lex-generic.test: Likewise.
* tests/silent-lex-gcc.test: Likewise.
* tests/silent-many-generic.test: Likewise.
* tests/silent-many-gcc.test: Likewise.
Reported by Jim Meyering:
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2011-10/msg00092.html>
Cherry-picked (with some edits) from commits `v1.11-1085-gb5c3968'
(master) and `v1.11-871-geb147a1' (testsuite-work).
Paul Eggert [Sun, 4 Dec 2011 11:11:30 +0000 (12:11 +0100)]
depcomp: spelling fix
* lib/depcomp (-h): Fix misspelling in usage diagnostic.
Peter Rosin [Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:54:00 +0000 (14:54 +0100)]
tests: fix 'distcheck-override-infodir.test' on Cygwin
* tests/distcheck-override-infodir.test (Makefile.am): Do not add
any `/' between $(DESTDIR) and the following paths. Otherwise,
when $(DESTDIR) is empty, the recipes will try to access files
with a leading double slash, which have an implementation-defined
interpretation (e.g., for Cygwin, they mean UNC paths).
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:14:49 +0000 (12:14 +0100)]
cosmetics: typofix in comments
* tests/remake-am-pr10111.test (Makefile.am): Fix typo in comments.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Krzysztof Żelechowski.
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:55:01 +0000 (11:55 +0200)]
coverage: undistributed '.am' and '.m4' files are diagnosed
The stub rules emitted to work around the "deleted header problem"
for `.m4' files (included by autoconf in e.g., configure.ac) and
for `.am' files (included by automake in e.g., Makefile.am) should
not prevent "make" from correctly complaining when such a required
file is missing from a distribution tarball.
* tests/dist-missing-am.test: New test.
* tests/dist-missing-m4.test: Likewise.
* tests/dist-missing-included-m4.test: Likewise.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add them.
Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
Stefano Lattarini [Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:07:19 +0000 (17:07 +0200)]
coverage: required but missing '.am' and '.m4' files are diagnosed
The stub rules emitted to work around the "deleted header problem"
for `.m4' files (included by autoconf in e.g., configure.ac) and
for `.am' files (included by automake in e.g., Makefile.am) should
not prevent the remake rules from correctly erroring out when a
still-required file is missing.
* tests/deleted-am.test: New test.
* tests/deleted-m4.test: Likewise.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add them.
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:50:53 +0000 (20:50 +0100)]
coverage: expose automake bug#10111 in the testsuite
* tests/remake-am-pr10111.test: New test, xfailing.
* tests/remake-m4-pr10111.test: Likewise.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Add them.
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:52:40 +0000 (11:52 +0100)]
fix: regenerate doc/Makefile
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 19 Nov 2011 18:53:57 +0000 (19:53 +0100)]
texinfo: work around Solaris 10 xpg4 shell bug in install rules
* lib/am/texinfos.am (install-html-am): Use an extra variable
indirection to work around a bug in Solaris 10 /usr/xpg4/bin/sh.
Bug revealed by a failure of `txinfo21.test'. See also:
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2011-11/msg00005.html>
<http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=10026#23>
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:04:10 +0000 (09:04 +0100)]
configure: report perl version in config.log
* configure.ac: Report the version of the selected perl interpreter
in config.log; this should render the logs more informative.
Stefano Lattarini [Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:25:43 +0000 (10:25 +0100)]
tests: fix spurious failure with older install-info
* tests/install-info-dir.test (foo.texi): Also add proper
`@settitle', `@dircategory' and `@direntry' directive, otherwise
older versions of `install-info' (e.g., 4.8) will fail to create
the `dir' index file in ${infodir}.
Problem revealed by a failure on NetBSD 5.1.
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 12 Nov 2011 21:24:36 +0000 (22:24 +0100)]
maintcheck: fix spurious failure in 'color2.test'
* tests/color2.test: Avoid creative quoting to avoid a spurious
failure of the `sc_tests_Exit_not_exit' maintainer check.
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 12 Nov 2011 17:41:53 +0000 (18:41 +0100)]
tests: fix spurious error in 'uninstall-fail.test' on Solaris
* tests/uninstall-fail.test: Solaris 10 /usr/xpg4/bin/sh can add
a line number before the `:' in the error messages issued by shell
builtins. Account for that in our grepping of make output.
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 12 Nov 2011 17:25:38 +0000 (18:25 +0100)]
tests: fix typo in 'uninstall-fail.test'
* tests/uninstall-fail.test: Always use `$rm_f_is_silent_on_error'
instead of the bogus `$rm_f_is_silent_on_failure'.
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:43:54 +0000 (12:43 +0100)]
tests: avoid a spurious failure of 'ltinit.test' MinGW
* tests/ltinit.test: Be laxer in grepping configure output, to
avoid spurious failures on systems which lack POSIX dynamic
linking (e.g., MinGW), or when cross-compiling for such systems.
See also commit `v1.11-855-ge9e5d4a'.
Report and suggestion from Peter Rosin.
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 8 Nov 2011 18:50:29 +0000 (19:50 +0100)]
tests: testsuite is now safe to run with dmake in parallel mode
* tests/defs.in: Unset variables DMAKE_CHILD, DMAKE_DEF_PRINTED
and DMAKE_MAX_JOBS, which are exported by Solaris dmake when run
in parallel mode, and which might confuse make processes spawned
by our testsuite.
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 8 Nov 2011 17:41:30 +0000 (18:41 +0100)]
tests: fix spurious failures w.r.t. parallel make and colorization
* tests/color2.test: Skip the test if the $MAKE program fails to
consider the standard output as a tty when spawned by `expect'.
This is required for make implementations, like FreeBSD make and
Solaris dmake, that redirect the output of recipes to temporary
files or pipes when run in parallel mode. Since we are at it,
simplify the detection of a working `expect' program, and throw
in other minor simplifications.
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 7 Nov 2011 15:07:25 +0000 (16:07 +0100)]
Merge branch 'fix-pr9579' into maint
* fix-pr9579:
tests: fix spurious failure in 'distcheck-override-infodir.test'
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 7 Nov 2011 15:05:48 +0000 (16:05 +0100)]
tests: fix spurious failure in 'distcheck-override-infodir.test'
* tests/distcheck-override-infodir.test ($required): Add
'install-info'.
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 7 Nov 2011 14:59:43 +0000 (15:59 +0100)]
tests: avoid another failure of 'uninstall-fail.test' on Solaris
* tests/uninstall-fail.test: On Solaris 10, if `/bin/rm' is run
with the `-f' option, it doesn't print any error message when
failing to remove a file (due to e.g., "Permission denied").
Yikes. Cater to this incompatibility, by relaxing the test when
a faulty `rm' is detected.
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 3 Nov 2011 10:28:56 +0000 (11:28 +0100)]
Merge branch 'fix-pr9890' into maint
* fix-pr9890:
maint-mode: fix botched configure messages
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 29 Oct 2011 10:15:59 +0000 (12:15 +0200)]
maint-mode: fix botched configure messages
This change fixes automake bug#9890.
* m4/maintainer.m4 (AM_MAINTAINER_MODE): Fix the "checking ..."
configure message related to the enabling/disabling of maintainer
mode.
* tests/help-maintainer.test: Renamed ...
* tests/maintmode-configure-msg.test: ... to this, and extended
to cover the fixed bug. Also, since we are at it, make grepping
of configure help screens stricter, and throw in some few other
changes to reduce code duplication and enhance readability.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
* THANKS: Update with Zack's new e-mail address.
Report and initial patch by Zack Weinberg, test cases added by
Stefano Lattarini.
Stefano Lattarini [Sun, 30 Oct 2011 10:58:23 +0000 (11:58 +0100)]
Merge branch 'fix-pr9773' into maint
* fix-pr9773:
fix: regenerate Makefiles
Stefano Lattarini [Sun, 30 Oct 2011 10:58:06 +0000 (11:58 +0100)]
fix: regenerate Makefiles
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 29 Oct 2011 10:22:50 +0000 (12:22 +0200)]
Merge branch 'fix-pr9773' into maint
* fix-pr9773:
info: allow user to inhibit creation/update of '${infodir}/dir'
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:45:42 +0000 (19:45 +0200)]
Merge branch 'fix-pr8485-and-pr8526' into maint
* fix-pr8485-and-pr8526:
deps: partially revert commit `v1.11-512-geeee551'
Stefano Lattarini [Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:19:21 +0000 (13:19 +0200)]
info: allow user to inhibit creation/update of '${infodir}/dir'
With this change, we allow the user to request the install-info
rules not to update the `${infodir}/dir' file, by exporting the
environment variable `AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR' to the value "no".
This is especially useful to distro packagers, and is a definite
improvement over our previous hack of looking whether the
`install-info' program was the Debian or GNU version -- hack
which had been silently broken with recent versions of debian
install-info BTW (probably since dpkg 1.15.4, 2009-09-06).
This change fixes automake bug#9773. See also Debian Bug#543992.
* lib/am/texinfos.am: Don't look anymore at the output of
`install-info --version' to decide whether to use it to update
the `${infodir}/dir' or not; instead, honour the environment
variable `AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR'.
* tests/install-info-dir.test: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
* tests/defs: Also unset `AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR', to avoid unwanted
interferences from the environment.
* doc/automake.texi (Texinfo): Update.
* NEWS: Likewise.
* THANKS: Likewise.
Report by Jonathan Nieder.
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:51:43 +0000 (20:51 +0200)]
Merge branch 'dejagnu-siteexp-extend' into maint
* dejagnu-siteexp-extend:
dejagnu: allow the package developer to extend site.exp
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 1 Feb 2011 08:52:43 +0000 (09:52 +0100)]
dejagnu: allow the package developer to extend site.exp
Fixes automake bug#7873.
* lib/am/dejagnu.am (site.exp): Depend from the files listed in
$(EXTRA_DEJAGNU_SITE_CONFIG), if any. Append their contents to
the generated site.exp (still preserving user edits).
* doc/automake.texi (Dejagnu Tests): Update.
* tests/dejagnu-siteexp-append.test: New test.
* tests/dejagnu-siteexp-extend.test: Likewise.
* tests/dejagnu-siteexp-useredit.test: Likewise.ù
* NEWS: Update.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
Suggestion by Rainer Orth.
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:42:17 +0000 (20:42 +0200)]
Merge branch 'dejagnu-srcdir-discrepancy' into maint
* dejagnu-srcdir-discrepancy:
dejagnu: ensure 'srcdir' is defined as a relative directory
Fix testsuite failure of check12.test without DejaGNU.
Extend and improve tests on DejaGnu support.
Peter Rosin [Fri, 21 Oct 2011 06:39:48 +0000 (08:39 +0200)]
* THANKS: Fix whitespace issue.
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:25:45 +0000 (22:25 +0200)]
deps: partially revert commit `v1.11-512-geeee551'
This change partly reverts commit "Create subdirs for generated
sources even when not dep tracking", of 2011-04-02.
That commit had caused the bugs #8485 and #8526. Since we are
nearing the bug-fixing automake release 1.11.2, the safest policy
at the moment is to just revert the problematic hunks: an older,
known bug is better than a regression.
* automake.in (handle_single_transform): Don't add a dirstamp
dependency, even when $object is derived and lands in a subdir.
* tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Add lex-subobj-nodep.test,
remove yacc-dist-nobuild-subdir.test.
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:44:23 +0000 (21:44 +0200)]
Merge branch 'test-subpkg-fix-spurious-freebsd-fail' into maint
* test-subpkg-fix-spurious-freebsd-fail:
tests: fix spurious failure with FreeBSD make and Yacc in VPATH
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:38:52 +0000 (21:38 +0200)]
Merge branch 'fix-pr8788' into maint
* fix-pr8788:
tests: avoid spurious failure in 'parallel-tests3.test'
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:31:09 +0000 (21:31 +0200)]
tests: fix spurious failures with "chatty" make implementations
* tests/distcheck-missing-m4.test: On failure, some make
implementations (such as Solaris make) print the whole failed
recipe on standard output. This was causing a spurious failure
in the checks grepping the output from make. Work around this.
* tests/distcheck-outdated-m4.test: Likewise.
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:45:12 +0000 (17:45 +0200)]
Merge branch 'aclocal-path' into maint
* aclocal-path:
tests: fix spurious failure on fast machines
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:44:04 +0000 (17:44 +0200)]
tests: fix spurious failure on fast machines
* tests/aclocal-path-precedence.test: Also remove the `configure'
script between different test runs, to ensure it is always remade
by autoconf. Add proper explicative comments.
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:31:11 +0000 (17:31 +0200)]
tests: avoid spurious failure of 'uninstall-fail.test' on Solaris
* tests/uninstall-fail.test: All the Solaris 10 shells (/bin/sh,
/bin/ksh, and /usr/xpg4/bin/sh), upon failing to chdir to a
directory with the `cd' builtin, print a message like:
"sh: /root: permission denied"
which doesn't report the `cd' builtin anywhere. Relax the grepping
of the error message accordingly.
Stefano Lattarini [Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:43:46 +0000 (13:43 +0200)]
Merge branch 'fix-pr9578' into maint
* fix-pr9578:
tests: avoid spurious failure of 'uninstall-fail.test' on Cygwin
Stefano Lattarini [Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:42:40 +0000 (13:42 +0200)]
tests: avoid spurious failure of 'uninstall-fail.test' on Cygwin
* tests/uninstall-fail.test: Be sure to really skip this test
on systems that allows files to be removed from unwritable
directories. Motivated by a spurious failure on Cygwin 1.5.
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:33:26 +0000 (20:33 +0100)]
dejagnu: ensure 'srcdir' is defined as a relative directory
This change fixes automake bug#7833.
* lib/am/dejagnu.am (check-DEJAGNU): Prefer using plain $(srcdir)
over calculating and using the absolute path of $(srcdir).
* tests/dejagnu-relative-srcdir.test: New test.
* tests/dejagnu-absolute-builddir.test: Likewise.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
Report by Ian Lance Taylor. Suggestions by Ralf Wildenhues.
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:05:24 +0000 (21:05 +0200)]
tests: avoid spurious failure in 'parallel-tests3.test'
This fixes automake bug#8788.
* tests/parallel-tests3.test: To ensure that the serial run of
the dummy testsuite is still ongoing when the parallel run has
terminated, use `kill -0', not a bare `kill'. This will prevent
a testsuite crash on NetBSD 5.1, and a testsuite hang on FreeBSD
8.2. Also, since we are at it, try harder to avoid possible
hangs of the script in other unusual situations.
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:53:21 +0000 (17:53 +0200)]
tests: fix spurious failure with FreeBSD make and Yacc in VPATH
* tests/subpkg.test: Some cosmetic adjustments. Move the tests
checking that $(YLWRAP) is defined and installed properly when
ylwrap is in a default auxdir found in a parent package ...
* tests/subpkg-yacc.test: ... into this new test, which carefully
avoids to trigger the known bug#7884 (combo FreeBSD make plus Yacc
plus VPATH build).
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:46:05 +0000 (17:46 +0200)]
Merge branch 'aclocal-path' into maint
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:45:41 +0000 (17:45 +0200)]
tests: fix spurious failure with autoconf 2.62
* tests/aclocal-path-precedence.test: Rewrite configure.in,
rather than appending to it, to avoid spurious failures (at
least with autoconf 2.62) due to repeated calls to AC_INIT.
Also, add package name and version arguments to AC_INIT, to
avoid spurious errors from automake.
Stefano Lattarini [Sun, 16 Oct 2011 08:50:47 +0000 (10:50 +0200)]
docs: avoid using colon character inside arguments of @pxref
Fixes automake bug#9753
* doc/automake.texi (VPATH Builds): Avoid using colon character
`:' inside arguments of @pxref, as this can cause problems in
the generated `.info' files, and such an usage will be explicitly
forbidden by future texinfo documentation.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Дилян Палаузов.
Stefano Lattarini [Fri, 7 Oct 2011 09:08:15 +0000 (11:08 +0200)]
parallel-tests: warn on conditional TEST_EXTENSIONS definition
Before this change, automake would have still bailed out, but
with a confusing error message (about an invalid redefinition
of TEST_EXTENSIONS).
* automake.in (handle_tests): Warn explicitly if TEST_EXTENSIONS
has conditional contents.
* tests/test-extensions-con.test: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
* NEWS: Update.
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 6 Oct 2011 19:40:17 +0000 (21:40 +0200)]
Merge branch 'fix-pr9400' into maint
* fix-pr9400:
parallel-tests: don't allow @substitutions@ in TEST_EXTENSIONS
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 6 Oct 2011 19:30:04 +0000 (21:30 +0200)]
parallel-tests: don't allow @substitutions@ in TEST_EXTENSIONS
Even after the last commit `v1.11-476-g90bea64', the checks
performed by automake on entries in $(TEST_EXTENSIONS) tried to
allow for @substitited@ stuff. This however ends up allowing
quite brittle setups, which, most importantly, are of no real
practical usefulness anyway. So it's better to just disallow
@substitutions@ in TEST_EXTENSIONS altogether, offering a clear
error message, instead of risking weird bugs and unexpected
behaviors in the generated Makefile.in.
* automake.in ($TEST_EXTENSION_PATTERN): Turned from a regular
expression ...
(is_valid_test_extension): ... into this subroutine. Don't allow
generic @substitutions@ anymore (possibly making an exception for
`@EXEEXT@' under the proper circumstances).
* tests/test-extensions.test: Adjust and extend.
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 6 Oct 2011 14:22:25 +0000 (16:22 +0200)]
Merge branch 'fix-pr9579' into maint
* fix-pr9579:
tests: fix spurious failure in 'insthook.test'
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 6 Oct 2011 14:21:16 +0000 (16:21 +0200)]
tests: fix spurious failure in 'insthook.test'
* tests/insthook.test (Makefile.am): Add a proper `uninstall-hook'
target to remove the symlink created by the `install-exec-hook'
target; this prevents "make distcheck" from failing spuriously.
Since we are at it, delete an extra blank line, and add a trailing
`:' command.
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 6 Oct 2011 14:14:46 +0000 (16:14 +0200)]
Merge branch 'fix-pr9579' into maint
* fix-pr9579:
maintcheck: fix spurious failure
regenerate Makefile.in
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 6 Oct 2011 14:10:40 +0000 (16:10 +0200)]
maintcheck: fix spurious failure
* lib/am/distdir.am: Use `$(infodir)', not `${infodir}', to avoid
complaints from the `sc_no_brace_variable_expansions' maintainer
check.
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 6 Oct 2011 14:10:23 +0000 (16:10 +0200)]
regenerate Makefile.in
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 6 Oct 2011 11:42:11 +0000 (13:42 +0200)]
fix: make a test script executable
* tests/nobase-nodist.test: Make executable.
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 6 Oct 2011 11:26:58 +0000 (13:26 +0200)]
coverage: expose automake bug#9651
* tests/dist-auxfile.test: New test, xfailing.
* tests/dist-auxfile-2.test: Likewise.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Add them.
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 6 Oct 2011 08:45:25 +0000 (10:45 +0200)]
Merge branch 'fix-pr9400' into maint
* fix-pr9400:
parallel-tests: automake error our on invalid TEST_EXTENSIONS
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 1 Oct 2011 19:31:07 +0000 (21:31 +0200)]
parallel-tests: automake error our on invalid TEST_EXTENSIONS
This change fixes automake bug#9400.
* automake.in (handle_tests): Bail out if a suffix specified in
TEST_EXTENSIONS would produce an invalid `xxx_LOG_COMPILER'
variable or an invalid suffix rule. Before this change, automake
would have issued a confusing error messages (about invalid or
non-POSIX variables being defined), and in some situations would
have even produced a broken `Makefile.in' file.
($TEST_EXTENSION_PATTERN): New helper variable.
* doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Document
the limitations on TEST_EXTENSIONS explicitly.
* NEWS: Update.
* tests/test-extensions.test: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 1 Oct 2011 17:31:22 +0000 (19:31 +0200)]
fix: regenerate Makefile
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 1 Oct 2011 17:28:24 +0000 (19:28 +0200)]
Merge branch 'fix-pr7988' into maint
* fix-pr7988:
docs: don't suggest installing `.m4' files in hard-coded location
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 1 Oct 2011 17:22:37 +0000 (19:22 +0200)]
Merge branch 'fix-pr9579' into maint
* fix-pr9579:
distuninstallcheck: fail also when only one file is left installed
Stefano Lattarini [Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:49:35 +0000 (16:49 +0200)]
Merge branch 'fix-pr9578' into maint
* fix-pr9578:
fix: regenerate Makefile.in files
Stefano Lattarini [Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:46:58 +0000 (16:46 +0200)]
fix: regenerate Makefile.in files
Stefano Lattarini [Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:21:11 +0000 (13:21 +0200)]
Merge branch 'fix-pr9578' into maint
* fix-pr9578:
maintcheck: fix usage of `cd' instead of `$(am__cd)'
Stefano Lattarini [Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:17:13 +0000 (13:17 +0200)]
maintcheck: fix usage of `cd' instead of `$(am__cd)'
* lib/am/inst-vars.am (am__uninstall_files_from_dir): Use
`$(am__cd)', not plain `cd'.
Stefano Lattarini [Sun, 25 Sep 2011 12:29:19 +0000 (14:29 +0200)]
docs: don't suggest installing `.m4' files in hard-coded location
This change fixes automake bug#7988.
* doc/automake.texi (aclocal Options): State that the use of
the `--print-ac-dir' option to determine the directory where
third-party packages can install their `.m4' files is discouraged
now.
(Extending aclocal): Suggest telling the user about ACLOCAL_PATH.
* THANKS: Update.
Report by Peter Johansson.
Stefano Lattarini [Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:06:59 +0000 (16:06 +0200)]
distuninstallcheck: fail also when only one file is left installed
This change fixes automake bug#9579.
* lib/am/distdir.am (distuninstallcheck): Be stricter in ignoring
a potential `dir' file created by install-info and left installed.
Also, be more careful about "this can't happen" kind of errors.
(am__distuninstallcheck_listfiles): New internal helper macro.
* tests/distcheck-pr9579.test: New test.
* tests/distcheck-override-infodir.test: Likewise.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add them.
* NEWS, THANKS: Update.
Report by Nick Bowler.
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:50:37 +0000 (21:50 +0200)]
Merge branch 'fix-pr9578' into maint
* fix-pr9578:
uninstall: "make uninstall" before "make install" works
Stefano Lattarini [Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:50:14 +0000 (22:50 +0200)]
uninstall: "make uninstall" before "make install" works
This change fixes automake bug#9578.
* lib/am/inst-vars.am (am__uninstall_files_from_dir): New internal
macro, that defines a shell code fragment to uninstall files from
a given directory.
* lib/am/data.am (uninstall-%DIR%%PRIMARY%): Use it, to reduce code
duplication and improve consistency and correctness.
* lib/am/libs.am (uninstall-%DIR%LIBRARIES): Likewise.
* lib/am/lisp.am (uninstall-%DIR%LISP): Likewise.
* lib/am/mans.am (uninstall-man%SECTION%): Likewise.
* lib/am/python.am (uninstall-%DIR%LIBRARIES): Likewise.
* lib/am/scripts.am (uninstall-%DIR%SCRIPTS): Likewise.
* tests/uninstall-pr9578.test: New test.
* tests/uninstall-fail.test: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add them.
* NEWS, THANKS: Update.
Report by Nick Bowler.
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:40:32 +0000 (16:40 +0200)]
Merge branch 'aclocal-path' into maint
* aclocal-path:
tests: fix tests on aclocal search path precedences
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:40:03 +0000 (16:40 +0200)]
tests: fix tests on aclocal search path precedences
* tests/aclocal-path-precedence.test: Call `$ACLOCAL' with the
proper overridden system acdir.
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:20:53 +0000 (20:20 +0200)]
fix: typo in NEWS
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:15:55 +0000 (20:15 +0200)]
Merge branch 'aclocal-path' into maint
* aclocal-path:
docs: document planned precedence changes in aclocal search path
aclocal: handle ACLOCAL_PATH environment variable
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:42:01 +0000 (17:42 +0200)]
docs: document planned precedence changes in aclocal search path
* doc/automake.texi (Macro Search Path): Explicitly state that the
lookup order for extra directories of `.m4' files will be changed
in the next major release.
* NEWS: Likewise.
Paolo Bonzini [Tue, 9 Nov 2010 19:14:38 +0000 (20:14 +0100)]
aclocal: handle ACLOCAL_PATH environment variable
* aclocal.in (parse_ACLOCAL_PATH): New function, parse ACLOCAL_PATH
as a colon-separated list of directories to be included in the
search path.
* doc/automake.texi (Macro Search Path): Document new behavior and
the precedence rules for various elements of the search path.
* tests/aclocal-path.test: New test.
* tests/aclocal-path-install.test: Likewise.
* tests/aclocal-path-install-serial.test: Likewise.
* tests/aclocal-path-precedence.test: Likewise.
* tests/aclocal-path-nonexistent.test: Likewise.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add them.
* NEWS: Update.
* tests/distcheck-missing-m4.test: Extend by also checking
interactions with ACLOCAL_PATH.
* tests/distcheck-outdated-m4.test: Likewise, and fix a couple
of botched comments since we are at it.
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:24:44 +0000 (18:24 +0200)]
Merge branch 'fix-java-prefix-is-unexpected' into maint
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:21:25 +0000 (18:21 +0200)]
tests: fix spurious failure in 'primary-prefix-valid-couples.test'
* tests/primary-prefix-valid-couples.test: After commit
v1.11-464-gc9dfc36, `java_JAVA' is not a valid prefix/primary
combination by default anymore: one has to explicitly define
$(javadir) to make it so. So just drop `java_JAVA' from our
Makefile.am Also, since we are at it, ...
(configure.in): ... remove AM_PROG_GCJ from here, as it's not
really required.
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:30:30 +0000 (13:30 +0200)]
Merge branch 'deprecate-java-primary' into maint
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:28:42 +0000 (11:28 +0200)]
docs: deprecate JAVA primary
* doc/automake.texi (Java): Deprecate the JAVA primary, stating
that it will become obsolete in automake 1.12 and probably removed
altogether in automake 1.13. Reflect this in the section title,
by appending the string "(deprecated feature)".
(@menu, @detailmenu): Update.
(Java Support with gcj): The cross-referenced support for bytecode
compilation with the JAVA primary is rudimentary and deprecated.
State that explicitly.
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:16:12 +0000 (11:16 +0200)]
docs: clearer distinction between `.java' with javac and with gcj
* doc/automake.texi (Java support): Rename this node ...
(Java support with gcj): ... to this, and change its title from
"Compiling Java sources" to "Compiling Java sources using gcj".
(@detailmenu, @menu, @cindex): Update and make more precise.
(Java): Change the title of this node from simply "Java" to
"Java bytecode compilation".
(@detailmenu, @menu, @cindex): Update and make more precise.
Stefano Lattarini [Sun, 18 Sep 2011 21:32:38 +0000 (23:32 +0200)]
java: complain if java_JAVA is used but $(javadir) is undefined
Fixes automake bug#8461.
* automake.in (handle_java): Remove inappropriate "java" argument
from the calls to `&am_install_var' and `&am_primary_prefixes'.
* tests/instdir-java.test (Makefile.am): Define `$(javadir)'.
* tests/javadir-undefined.test: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
* NEWS: Update.
Stefano Lattarini [Sun, 18 Sep 2011 16:05:43 +0000 (18:05 +0200)]
Merge branch 'python-work' into maint
* python-work:
cosmetics: fix various typos and grammaros
py-compile: '--' and non-option arguments terminate the option list
py-compile: complain on unrecognized options
py-compile: normalize error and help messages
python tests: add "unit tests" on py-compile
py-compile: the '--destdir' option now accepts a blank argument
python: run the 'py-compile' script with $(SHELL)
Stefano Lattarini [Sun, 18 Sep 2011 15:51:31 +0000 (17:51 +0200)]
coverage: test interactions of `nobase_' and `nodist_'
* tests/nobase-nodist.test: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
Stefano Lattarini [Sun, 18 Sep 2011 15:32:50 +0000 (17:32 +0200)]
java: fix various blunders in test 'java-mix.test'
* tests/java-mix.test: Add missing call to `set -e'. Fix inverted
semantics (`.java' files are expected *not* to be distributed by
default, not the other way round). Fix various typos in the name
of the `.java' files. Correct other minor blunders. Improve some
comments.