platform/upstream/automake.git
13 years agotests: fix typo (copy & paste blunder) in heading comment
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 23 Apr 2011 08:55:49 +0000 (10:55 +0200)]
tests: fix typo (copy & paste blunder) in heading comment

* tests/maintclean-vpath.test: Correctly refer to the sister test
as `maintclean.test', not as `maintclean-vpath.test'.

13 years agotests: remove redundant test `mclean.test'
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 23 Apr 2011 08:48:34 +0000 (10:48 +0200)]
tests: remove redundant test `mclean.test'

* tests/mclean.test: Remove, it's a weak grepping test completely
superseded by the much more complete `maintclean.test'.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

13 years agotestsuite: more environment sanitization
Stefano Lattarini [Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:50:03 +0000 (23:50 +0200)]
testsuite: more environment sanitization

* tests/defs.in: Sanity check: abort if any of `parallel_tests'
or `required' is in the environment.
($sed_unindent_prog): Initialize to empty, to avoid interferences
from the environment.
* tests/self-check-me-in-env.test: Renamed to ...
* tests/self-check-env-sanitize.test: ... this, and extended.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
(TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset variables `parallel_tests' and
`required'.  Adjust comments.

13 years agoMerge branch 'me-override-fix' into maint
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:39:14 +0000 (22:39 +0200)]
Merge branch 'me-override-fix' into maint

13 years agotests: don't allow `$me' to be overridden from the environment
Stefano Lattarini [Sun, 17 Apr 2011 22:29:19 +0000 (00:29 +0200)]
tests: don't allow `$me' to be overridden from the environment

* tests/defs.in: Sanity check: abort if $me is in the environment.
* tests/self-check-me-in-env.test: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset variable `me'.
(TESTS): Update.

Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.

13 years agotest defs: allow overriding of `$me'
Stefano Lattarini [Sun, 17 Apr 2011 15:58:45 +0000 (17:58 +0200)]
test defs: allow overriding of `$me'

* tests/defs.in ($me): Allow overriding by the including test
script.  Add some explicative comments.

13 years agoMerge branch 'tests-depcomp-extend' into maint
Stefano Lattarini [Sun, 17 Apr 2011 12:53:00 +0000 (14:53 +0200)]
Merge branch 'tests-depcomp-extend' into maint

13 years agodepcomp tests: don't reject slower dependency extractors
Stefano Lattarini [Sun, 17 Apr 2011 11:43:16 +0000 (13:43 +0200)]
depcomp tests: don't reject slower dependency extractors

* tests/depcomp8b.test: Add the `--enable-dependency-tracking'
option to the ./configure invocation, so that slower dependency
extractors are not rejects.
* tests/depcomp8b.test: Likewise.  Also ...
(foo.c): ... since we are at it, fix spacing to be consistent
with GNU coding standards.

13 years agom4: add missing serial numbers to a few files
Stefano Lattarini [Sun, 17 Apr 2011 09:21:49 +0000 (11:21 +0200)]
m4: add missing serial numbers to a few files

Related to automake bug#8483.

* m4/amversion.in: Add serial number.
* m4/auxdir.m4: Likewise.
* m4/gcj.m4: Likewise.
* m4/install-sh.m4: Likewise.
* m4/mkdirp.m4: Likewise.
* m4/python.m4: Likewise.
* m4/runlog.m4: Likewise.
* m4/strip.m4: Likewise.
* m4/upc.m4: Likewise.

13 years agoMerge branch 'fix-depcomp' into maint
Ralf Wildenhues [Sat, 16 Apr 2011 10:49:35 +0000 (12:49 +0200)]
Merge branch 'fix-depcomp' into maint

* fix-depcomp:
  depcomp: correct invalid sed invocation

13 years agodepcomp: correct invalid sed invocation
Jim Meyering [Sat, 16 Apr 2011 09:55:46 +0000 (11:55 +0200)]
depcomp: correct invalid sed invocation

* lib/depcomp: Insert missing -e before '/:$/d'.
Otherwise, that use of sed would treat '/:$/d' as a file name.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
13 years agoMerge branch 'maintcheck-pathsep-fix' into maint
Stefano Lattarini [Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:09:32 +0000 (20:09 +0200)]
Merge branch 'maintcheck-pathsep-fix' into maint

13 years agomaintainer check: quote literal `$' in Makefile rule
Stefano Lattarini [Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:01:58 +0000 (20:01 +0200)]
maintainer check: quote literal `$' in Makefile rule

* Makefile.am (sc_tests_PATH_SEPARATOR): Escape literal `$'
character in double-quoted string.  Fix a bug in which the rule
emitted an erroneously empty substring in its error message.

13 years agoMerge branch 'expose-bug-8485' into maint
Stefano Lattarini [Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:23:03 +0000 (16:23 +0200)]
Merge branch 'expose-bug-8485' into maint

13 years agocoverage: test for automake bug#8485 (known regression)
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:11:04 +0000 (15:11 +0200)]
coverage: test for automake bug#8485 (known regression)

* tests/yacc-dist-nobuild-subdir.test: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Update.

Cherry-picked from 7ad822a39190682bc159c2f9c21c25a4273d037c.

13 years agotest defs: define default $distdir (help reducing duplication)
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:50:33 +0000 (16:50 +0200)]
test defs: define default $distdir (help reducing duplication)

* tests/defs.in ($distdir): New variable, might be used in
testcases checking distribution-related features.
* tests/pr9.test: Use it.
* tests/subdir9.test: Likewise.
* tests/vtexi3.test: Add comment explaining why we redefine
$distdir in this test.

13 years agoMerge branch 'fix-depcomp' into maint
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:06:05 +0000 (17:06 +0200)]
Merge branch 'fix-depcomp' into maint

13 years agodepcomp: fix bugs in tests and in the depcomp script
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:26:58 +0000 (12:26 +0200)]
depcomp: fix bugs in tests and in the depcomp script

* lib/depcomp (gcc): Remove duplicated `-e' from sed invocation.
* tests/depcomp10.test: Make it executable.  Fix a blunder that
has left part of an intended comment not prefixed by `#', thus
causing shell syntax errors.  In this same comment, break a
too-long reported error message on multiple lines, for clarity.
Add reference to the relevant bug report.  Add a comment which
explains why the test result 'skipped' if the first "make" call
fails.  Add other useful comments.
* tests/depcomp9.test: Slightly improve comments.

13 years agoFix hp depmode for VPATH builds with GNU make.
Ralf Wildenhues [Mon, 11 Apr 2011 05:06:08 +0000 (07:06 +0200)]
Fix hp depmode for VPATH builds with GNU make.

* lib/depcomp: Be sure to remove VPATH-prefixed object from
dependency output when creating stub rule.
* tests/depcomp10.test: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
* NEWS: Update.
Report by Bruno Haible.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
13 years agotest defs: fix 'javac' requirement for older JDK versions
Stefano Lattarini [Sun, 10 Apr 2011 11:38:47 +0000 (13:38 +0200)]
test defs: fix 'javac' requirement for older JDK versions

The Java compiler from JDK 1.5 (and presumably earlier versions)
cannot handle the `-version' option by itself; and while it does
print the version number, it then errors out with an usage error:
  $ javac -version
  javac 1.5.0_22
  javac: no source files
  Usage: javac <options> <source files>
  ...
Luckily, adding the `-help' option to the `javac' invocation
seems to fix this problem.

* tests/defs.in (javac): Pass also the `-help' option to the
`javac' program.  Add a comment explaining why it is needed.

Report from Ralf Wildenhues.

13 years agotest defs: new requirement for the default java compiler
Stefano Lattarini [Sun, 10 Apr 2011 07:01:37 +0000 (09:01 +0200)]
test defs: new requirement for the default java compiler

* tests/defs.in (for tool in $required): New requirement 'javac'.
* tests/java.test: Use it instead of ad-hoc configure check.
* tests/java-check.test: Likewise.
* tests/instfail-java.test: Likewise.
* tests/instdir-java.test: Likewise.

13 years agojava: check_JAVA does not cause compilation by "make all" anymore
Stefano Lattarini [Wed, 6 Apr 2011 16:49:44 +0000 (18:49 +0200)]
java: check_JAVA does not cause compilation by "make all" anymore

Fixes automake bug#8234.

* automake.in (handle_java): Make stamp of class files built from
java sources in $(check_JAVA) a dependency of `check' target, not
`all' target.
* tests/java-check.test: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
* NEWS: Update.
* THANKS: Update.

Report from Petteri Räty.

13 years agoClarify regex code in depcomp.
Ralf Wildenhues [Sat, 9 Apr 2011 10:38:11 +0000 (12:38 +0200)]
Clarify regex code in depcomp.

* lib/depcomp: Add comment why we don't need regex-escaping here.
Suggested by Stefano Lattarini.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
13 years agoFix makedepend depmode for VPATH builds.
Ralf Wildenhues [Wed, 6 Apr 2011 20:17:01 +0000 (22:17 +0200)]
Fix makedepend depmode for VPATH builds.

* lib/depcomp [makedepend]: Remove any VPATH prefix from the
object file name, so a rebuild doesn't attempt to update the
.Po files in the source tree.
* tests/depcomp9.test: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
* NEWS: Update.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
13 years agotests: fix timestamp-related failures
Stefano Lattarini [Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:06:29 +0000 (18:06 +0200)]
tests: fix timestamp-related failures

Fixes automake bug#8365.

* tests/aclocal6.test: Sleep before modifying m4 files that should
trigger remake rules.  Remove incorrect/obsoleted comments.
* tests/subdir5.test: Likewise, and extend a bit.
* tests/subdir8.test: Likewise.
* tests/pr8365-remake-timing.test: New xfailing test.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

Report from Sam Steingold.

13 years agoCreate subdirs for generated sources even when not dep tracking.
Ralf Wildenhues [Sat, 2 Apr 2011 09:09:10 +0000 (11:09 +0200)]
Create subdirs for generated sources even when not dep tracking.

* automake.in (handle_single_transform): If $object is derived
and lands in subdir, be sure to output a dirstamp dependency.
* tests/yacc5.test: Avoid falsely matching the dirstamp
dependency when grepping for a rule.
* tests/lex-subobj-nodep.test: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
* THANKS: Update.
Report by Ignacy Gawedzki.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
13 years agoMerge branch 'fix-check-exported-srcdir.test' into maint
Ralf Wildenhues [Sat, 2 Apr 2011 09:07:34 +0000 (11:07 +0200)]
Merge branch 'fix-check-exported-srcdir.test' into maint

* fix-check-exported-srcdir.test:
  Fix locale issue in check-exported-srcdir.test.

13 years agoFix locale issue in check-exported-srcdir.test.
Ralf Wildenhues [Sat, 2 Apr 2011 09:07:04 +0000 (11:07 +0200)]
Fix locale issue in check-exported-srcdir.test.

* tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Reformulate glob to not fail
in a locale that ignores or interleaves character case.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
13 years agodocs: better visibility for aclocal in the index
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:13:29 +0000 (11:13 +0100)]
docs: better visibility for aclocal in the index

* doc/automake.texi (@menu): Rename title for entry 'configure'
from "Scanning configure.ac or configure.in" to the more precise
"Scanning configure.ac, using aclocal".
(@detailmenu): Adjust.
(@node configure): Adjust, and extend @cindex calls accordingly.
* THANKS: Update.

From a report by Maynard Johnson.

13 years agotests: improve tests on "maintainer-clean" target
Stefano Lattarini [Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:48:42 +0000 (12:48 +0200)]
tests: improve tests on "maintainer-clean" target

* tests/aclocal6.test: Move checks related to "maintainer-clean"
functionalities into ...
* tests/maintclean-vpath.test: ... this new test.
* tests/maintclean.test: Update heading comments.  Extend to also
test subdirs.  Remove useless disabling of YACC.  Fix m4 quoting
in configure.in.  Add a trailing `:' command.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

13 years agoMerge branch 'fix-unindent' into maint
Ralf Wildenhues [Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:14:25 +0000 (22:14 +0100)]
Merge branch 'fix-unindent' into maint

* fix-unindent:
  tests: fix unindent to use printf not echo for script.

13 years agotests: fix unindent to use printf not echo for script.
Ralf Wildenhues [Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:12:07 +0000 (22:12 +0100)]
tests: fix unindent to use printf not echo for script.

* tests/defs.in: Use printf rather than echo, as the latter may
interpret the backslashes in the sed script.  Fixes test
failures with dash as /bin/sh.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
13 years agomaintcheck: look for problematic names of testcases
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:44:53 +0000 (12:44 +0100)]
maintcheck: look for problematic names of testcases

The configure.in stub created by default by `tests/defs' obtains
the first argument of AC_INIT from the test name, and this can
cause some supported autoconf versions to fail with a spurious
error if that test name contains the name of an m4 or m4sugar
builtin or macro (e.g., `defn' or `m4_undefine').

See for example the bug fixed by commit v1.11-287-g1325a8a.

This change add a maintainer check that warns about test names
which are possibly problematic in this regard.

* Makefile.am (sc_test_names): New maintainer-check target.
(syntax_check_rules): Add it.
(m4_builtins): New helper variable.
(TESTS): Updated according to the following renamings.
* tests/include.test: Renamed ...
* tests/hdr-vars-defined-once.test: ... to this.
* tests/sinclude.test: Renamed ...
* tests/m4-inclusion.test: ... to this, and simplified
accordingly.
* tests/include2.test: Renamed ...
* tests/dist-included-parent-dir.test: ... to this, for
consistency.

13 years agotests: fix bug in alloca*.test
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 5 Mar 2011 00:57:36 +0000 (01:57 +0100)]
tests: fix bug in alloca*.test

* tests/alloca.test: Make grepping of automake stderr stricter,
add a trailing `:' command; also, add AC_PROG_CC to configure.in,
and create a dummy alloca.c file, to ensure that we fail for the
proper reason.
* tests/alloca2.test: Likewise.  Also, look for LT_INIT, not
AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, in the error message (bug introduced with commit
v1.11-315-gd51e7b7 "libtool: suggest LT_INIT if LTLIBRARIES
primary is used").

From a report by Patrick Welche.

13 years agoMerge branch 'tests-texinfo' into maint
Stefano Lattarini [Fri, 4 Mar 2011 18:09:54 +0000 (19:09 +0100)]
Merge branch 'tests-texinfo' into maint

13 years agotests: fix bug (comments-in-var-defn.test + autoconf 2.62)
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 3 Mar 2011 18:22:55 +0000 (19:22 +0100)]
tests: fix bug (comments-in-var-defn.test + autoconf 2.62)

* tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: The configure.in stub created
by default, which has the AC_INIT first argument obtained by the
test name, causes autoconf 2.62 to fail with a spurious error
message like: "configure.in:1: error: defn: undefined macro:".
Thus, to prevent this, the test is renamed to ...
* tests/comments-in-var-def.test: ... this.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.

13 years agocosmetics: convert encoding from ISO-8859 to UTF-8
Stefano Lattarini [Fri, 4 Mar 2011 08:25:49 +0000 (09:25 +0100)]
cosmetics: convert encoding from ISO-8859 to UTF-8

* ChangeLog.03: Convert encoding to UTF-8.
* ChangeLog.96: Likewise.
* ChangeLog.98: Likewise.
* NEWS: Likewise.
* TODO: Likewise.

13 years agotest defs: unindent without temporary file
Peter Rosin [Tue, 1 Mar 2011 07:25:24 +0000 (08:25 +0100)]
test defs: unindent without temporary file

* tests/defs.in (commented_sed_unindent_prog): Commented Sed program
that strips the "proper" amount of leading whitespace.
(unindent): Lazily strip comments from the above program and use it
to unindent without using a temporary file.

Signed-off-by: Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
13 years agolibtool: suggest LT_INIT if LTLIBRARIES primary is used
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:21:19 +0000 (10:21 +0100)]
libtool: suggest LT_INIT if LTLIBRARIES primary is used

When the LTLIBRARIES primary was used, but $(LIBTOOL) wasn't
defined, automake suggested to add a call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
in configure.ac.  But that macro is deprecated since Libtool
version 1.9b (2004-08-29), in favor of the newer LT_INIT.  So
suggest the use of this latter macro instead.

* lib/Automake/Variable.pm (%_am_macro_for_var): Pair 'LIBTOOL'
with 'LT_INIT', not with 'AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'.
* libtool4.test: Adjust and extend.  Also, add a call to macro
AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, to help ensuring that automake does
not fail for the wrong reasons.
* ltinit.test: New test, ensure that automake's libtool support
works with LT_INIT-based interface.

Thanks to Jack Kelly for the suggestion.

13 years agotests: tempdirs with restrictive permissions are cleaned correctly
Stefano Lattarini [Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:43:22 +0000 (20:43 +0100)]
tests: tempdirs with restrictive permissions are cleaned correctly

Before this change, the removal of a temporary test directory
containing subdirectories with restrictive permissions (such as
'r--r--r--') could fail.

* tests/defs: Ensure that all the subdirectories of a temporary
test directory have the 'read', 'write' and 'execute' bits set,
before trying to remove it with `rm -rf'.
* tests/Makefile.am (clean-local-check): Likewise.

13 years agotest defs: add subroutine for input unindenting
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:45:28 +0000 (12:45 +0100)]
test defs: add subroutine for input unindenting

* tests/defs.in (unindent): New subroutine.

13 years agopython: report the 'PYTHON' influential environment variable
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:24:02 +0000 (21:24 +0100)]
python: report the 'PYTHON' influential environment variable

* m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Call AC_ARG_VAR on PYTHON.
* doc/automake.texi (Python): Update and extend.
* tests/help-python.test: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
* THANKS (Jack Kelly): Update e-mail address.

Suggestion by Jack Kelly.

13 years agotests defs: clear TESTS_ENVIRONMENT variable
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:46:21 +0000 (10:46 +0100)]
tests defs: clear TESTS_ENVIRONMENT variable

* tests/defs.in (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset it, so that values
from environment won't interfere with the testcases.

Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.

13 years agotests: tweak few tests on simple and parallel test drivers
Stefano Lattarini [Sun, 6 Feb 2011 18:43:22 +0000 (19:43 +0100)]
tests: tweak few tests on simple and parallel test drivers

* tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Improve heading comments.
* tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: Likewise.  Also, unset the
`FOO_EXIT_STATUS' variable, so that any pre-existing value in the
environment won't risk to interfere with the test.

Suggestions by Ralf Wildenhues.

13 years agocoverage: more tests on simple and parallel test drivers
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:56:52 +0000 (15:56 +0100)]
coverage: more tests on simple and parallel test drivers

* tests/parallel-tests-subdir.test: New test.
* tests/check-exported-srcdir.test: Likewise.
* tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: Likewise.
* tests/check-tests_environment.test: Likewise.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

13 years agoMerge branch 'lflags-test-fixes' into maint
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:47:39 +0000 (18:47 +0100)]
Merge branch 'lflags-test-fixes' into maint

13 years agotests: fix spurious failures in lflags*.test
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:35:45 +0000 (18:35 +0100)]
tests: fix spurious failures in lflags*.test

* tests/lflags.test: Remove 'LEX' from the environment, so
that it won't be erroneously picked up by `make -e'.
* tests/lflags2.test: Likewise.

13 years agodocs: color-tests issues with parallel make
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:26:55 +0000 (22:26 +0100)]
docs: color-tests issues with parallel make

* doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Document that automatic
recognition of a capable terminal attached to stdout can fail
with some make implementation when running in parallel mode,
thus causing colored test output not to be automatically
activated when it should.

13 years agotests: avoid instspc.test failures due to make's whitespace trimming
Ralf Wildenhues [Sun, 23 Jan 2011 10:26:50 +0000 (11:26 +0100)]
tests: avoid instspc.test failures due to make's whitespace trimming

* tests/instspc.test: Prepend './' when passing the test
characters, to avoid leading whitespace characters to be trimmed
from macros set from environment variables.  Fixes testsuite
failures with HP-UX, IRIX, and Tru64/OSF make.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
13 years agocoverage: test semantics of "dummy" per-target flags
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 22 Jan 2011 17:09:51 +0000 (18:09 +0100)]
coverage: test semantics of "dummy" per-target flags

* tests/specflg-dummy.test: New test, ensuring that even "dummy"
per-target flags triggers the use of renamed objects.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.

13 years agotests defs: sanitize IFS
Stefano Lattarini [Sun, 23 Jan 2011 11:54:35 +0000 (12:54 +0100)]
tests defs: sanitize IFS

* tests/defs.in ($IFS): Define to <space>, <tab>, <newline>.
($sp): New variable, holding a single whitespace character.
($tab): New variable, holding a tabulation character.
($nl): New variable, holding a newline character.

13 years agoMerge branch 'vpath-autoexp-fix-maint' into maint
Ralf Wildenhues [Sat, 22 Jan 2011 17:21:45 +0000 (18:21 +0100)]
Merge branch 'vpath-autoexp-fix-maint' into maint

* vpath-autoexp-fix-maint:
  tests: fix VPATH auto-expansion workarounds.

13 years agotests: fix VPATH auto-expansion workarounds.
Ralf Wildenhues [Sat, 22 Jan 2011 17:20:41 +0000 (18:20 +0100)]
tests: fix VPATH auto-expansion workarounds.

* tests/parallel-tests8.test, tests/suffix13.test:
Ensure $< is not surrounded by white space, to prevent Solaris
make from applying automatic VPATH text expansion.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
13 years agoMerge branch 'yflags-test-fixes' into maint
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 22 Jan 2011 13:50:20 +0000 (14:50 +0100)]
Merge branch 'yflags-test-fixes' into maint

13 years agotests: fix spurious failures in yflags*.test
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 22 Jan 2011 12:32:14 +0000 (13:32 +0100)]
tests: fix spurious failures in yflags*.test

* tests/yflags.test: Remove 'YACC' from the environment, so
that it won't be erroneously picked up by `make -e'.
* tests/yflags2.test: Likewise.

13 years agotests: avoid fn99*.test failures due to buggy AIX 5.3 cp -R.
Ralf Wildenhues [Sat, 22 Jan 2011 12:46:27 +0000 (13:46 +0100)]
tests: avoid fn99*.test failures due to buggy AIX 5.3 cp -R.

* tests/fn99.test, tests/fn99subdir.test: Skip if an initial
`cp -R' of the subdir tree already fails; AIX 5.3 cp messes
up its internal memory when copying this tree.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
13 years agoAdd comment to check-TESTS rule working around make 3.80 bug.
Ralf Wildenhues [Sat, 22 Jan 2011 10:16:06 +0000 (11:16 +0100)]
Add comment to check-TESTS rule working around make 3.80 bug.

* lib/am/check.am (check-TESTS): Update comment.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
13 years agotests: less strict double-colon spy.test again.
Ralf Wildenhues [Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:29:42 +0000 (21:29 +0100)]
tests: less strict double-colon spy.test again.

* tests/spy.test: We know BSD make doesn't invoke more than one
double-colon rule, so no need to expose that failure.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
13 years agoinstall-sh: avoid Tru64 sh `test' operator precedence issues.
Ralf Wildenhues [Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:50:02 +0000 (21:50 +0100)]
install-sh: avoid Tru64 sh `test' operator precedence issues.

* lib/install-sh: Protect file names and directory components
that consist of `=', `(', `)', or `!'.  Move protection as early
as possible, to avoid errors such as with Tru64 sh `test -z ='.
* tests/instsh2.test: Extend test to cover more possibilities.
Fixes 1.12 instspc-equal-install.test failure on Tru64/OSF 5.1.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
13 years agodocs: automake testsuite doesn't use TESTS_ENVIRONMENT anymore
Stefano Lattarini [Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:20:37 +0000 (20:20 +0100)]
docs: automake testsuite doesn't use TESTS_ENVIRONMENT anymore

* doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Do not claim Automake uses
TESTS_ENVIRONMENT for the perl driver.  Instead, point to the
parallel-tests driver.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
13 years agoAllow _AM_DEPENDENCIES to be used later in configure.
Ralf Wildenhues [Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:46:27 +0000 (19:46 +0100)]
Allow _AM_DEPENDENCIES to be used later in configure.

* m4/depend.m4 (_AM_DEPENDENCIES): Remove a previously existing
conftest.dir before recreating it.
Fixes bug#7864.
Report by Eric Blake, from report by Scott McCreary against M4.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
13 years agotests: avoid failure on w32 file systems.
Ralf Wildenhues [Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:11:54 +0000 (23:11 +0100)]
tests: avoid failure on w32 file systems.

* tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: SKIP if file cannot
be turned unreadable.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
13 years agotests: allow double-colon spy.test to work with HP-UX make.
Ralf Wildenhues [Sun, 16 Jan 2011 21:27:37 +0000 (22:27 +0100)]
tests: allow double-colon spy.test to work with HP-UX make.

* tests/spy.test: Fix comment typos.  Ensure prerequisites we
do not want to depend on are strictly older than the target.
Also test with a target out of date wrt. more than one rule.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
13 years agotests: remove useless requirements from cond36.test
Stefano Lattarini [Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:23:12 +0000 (19:23 +0100)]
tests: remove useless requirements from cond36.test

* tests/cond36.test ($required): Remove.
Since we are at it, add a trailing `:' command.

13 years agoparallel-tests: work around Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh read bugs.
Ralf Wildenhues [Sun, 16 Jan 2011 12:48:17 +0000 (13:48 +0100)]
parallel-tests: work around Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh read bugs.

* lib/am/check.am ($(TEST_SUITE_LOG), recheck, recheck-html):
Test file readability before redirecting input from it, to avoid
exiting Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh which treats read as special builtin.
* tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
* NEWS: Update.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
13 years ago* NEWS, README: Update copyright years.
Ralf Wildenhues [Sun, 16 Jan 2011 12:54:57 +0000 (13:54 +0100)]
* NEWS, README: Update copyright years.

13 years agoFix parallel-tests.test failure with HP-UX make.
Ralf Wildenhues [Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:12:51 +0000 (12:12 +0100)]
Fix parallel-tests.test failure with HP-UX make.

* tests/parallel-tests.test: Sleep inside inner tests, so logs
are newer than logs of tests they depend on, for HP-UX make.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
13 years agoRevert "tests: avoid new failures due to nonexistent makeinfo."
Ralf Wildenhues [Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:14:03 +0000 (12:14 +0100)]
Revert "tests: avoid new failures due to nonexistent makeinfo."

This reverts commit 7a42b52f626f3b713196b5946b9bfbb3e173226b.

13 years agoMerge branch 'tests-texinfo' into maint
Ralf Wildenhues [Sun, 16 Jan 2011 09:11:25 +0000 (10:11 +0100)]
Merge branch 'tests-texinfo' into maint

* tests-texinfo:
  tests: avoid new failures due to nonexistent makeinfo.

13 years agotests: avoid new failures due to nonexistent makeinfo.
Ralf Wildenhues [Sun, 16 Jan 2011 09:09:57 +0000 (10:09 +0100)]
tests: avoid new failures due to nonexistent makeinfo.

* tests/txinfo.test, tests/txinfo8.test: Create stub info files
so 'missing --run makeinfo' won't fail even if makeinfo is not
present.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
13 years agodocs: ensure example are separated with empty lines in the input
Ralf Wildenhues [Sat, 15 Jan 2011 13:54:51 +0000 (14:54 +0100)]
docs: ensure example are separated with empty lines in the input

* doc/automake.texi (Extending aclocal, Emacs Lisp, Rebuilding)
(API Versioning, Renamed Objects, Multiple Outputs): Add empty
lines before `@example' and after `@end example' lines, so info
output is rendered correctly, and a following @noindent honored.
Report by Stefano Lattarini.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
13 years agotests: fix comment typo
Jim Meyering [Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:39:22 +0000 (16:39 +0200)]
tests: fix comment typo

* tests/substref.test: Fix grammar in a comment.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
13 years agoMerge branch 'tests-texinfo' into maint
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:35:05 +0000 (21:35 +0100)]
Merge branch 'tests-texinfo' into maint

13 years agotests: fix spurious failures in two texinfo tests
Stefano Lattarini [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:56:04 +0000 (20:56 +0100)]
tests: fix spurious failures in two texinfo tests

* tests/txinfo.test ($required): Add 'makeinfo'.
* tests/txinfo8.test: Create a dummy 'textutils.info' file, so
that make won't try to run makeinfo (which could be unavailable)
to build it.
Found by NixOS Hydra, reported by Ralf Wildenhues.

13 years agoAvoid testsuite failures due to Autoconf Fortran change.
Ralf Wildenhues [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:21:39 +0000 (20:21 +0100)]
Avoid testsuite failures due to Autoconf Fortran change.

Autoconf v2.68-21-g727ce95 causes AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS to
require computing the canonical host name.  Ensure config.guess
and config.sub files are present for respective checks.

* tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Add stub files.
* tests/flibs.test: Likewise.
* tests/fort4.test: Use $AUTOMAKE -a for installing files.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
13 years agoMerge branch 'doc-yacc-d-improve' into maint
Stefano Lattarini [Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:44:02 +0000 (23:44 +0100)]
Merge branch 'doc-yacc-d-improve' into maint

13 years agodocs: clustered '-d' not recognized in YFLAGS
Stefano Lattarini [Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:23:59 +0000 (13:23 +0100)]
docs: clustered '-d' not recognized in YFLAGS

This commit fixes automake bug#7828.

* doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Document that automake
recognizes '-d' in AM_YFLAGS only if it's not clustered with
other options.
From a report by Юрий Пухальский.

13 years agoMerge branch 'tests-autodist' into maint
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:50:21 +0000 (22:50 +0100)]
Merge branch 'tests-autodist' into maint

13 years agotests: add checks on automatically-distributed files
Stefano Lattarini [Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:56:43 +0000 (23:56 +0100)]
tests: add checks on automatically-distributed files

Related to automake bug#7819.

* tests/autodist.test: New test.
* tests/autodist-subdir.test: Likewise.
* tests/autodist-acconfig.test: Likewise.
* tests/autodist-acconfig-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
* tests/autodist-aclocal-m4.test: Likewise.
* tests/autodist-config-headers.test: Likewise.
* tests/autodist-configure-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
* tests/autodist-stamp-vti.test: Likewise.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.

13 years agotests: work around a texi+cygnus bug causing a spurious XFAIL
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:12:05 +0000 (13:12 +0100)]
tests: work around a texi+cygnus bug causing a spurious XFAIL

* tests/txinfo5b.test: New test, like txinfo5.test but calling
automake with the `-Wno-override' option to work around a bug
in the texinfo + cygnus interaction.
* tests/txinfo5.test: Update heading comments.
* tests/Makefile.am (TEST): Updated.

13 years agoFix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
Dave Hart [Sun, 9 Jan 2011 18:05:07 +0000 (19:05 +0100)]
Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.

* lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
13 years agoMerge branch 'maint' of ssh://git.sv.gnu.org/srv/git/automake into maint
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 11 Jan 2011 01:27:30 +0000 (02:27 +0100)]
Merge branch 'maint' of ssh://git.sv.gnu.org/srv/git/automake into maint

Apparently I messed up doing a previous 'git pull', so that the "latest"
maint I've merged into master (and pushed!) wasn't a fast-forward from
origin/maint.  Yay for me.  This merge should help cleaning up the mess.

13 years agoMerge branch 'tests-texinfo' into maint
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:59:29 +0000 (01:59 +0100)]
Merge branch 'tests-texinfo' into maint

13 years agoImprove, extend and tweak tests on Texinfo support.
Stefano Lattarini [Fri, 24 Dec 2010 01:56:35 +0000 (02:56 +0100)]
Improve, extend and tweak tests on Texinfo support.

* tests/instdir-texi.test: Add a call to `ls -l' after that to
`make', for debugging.  When looking for required tools, do not
redirect the output of "$tool --help" to /dev/null, and do not
uselessly run it in a subshell.
* tests/txinfo.test: Rewritten to run autoconf, ./configure and
make.  All checks moved into Makefile.am.
* tests/txinfo8.test: Likewise, and modernize the generated
configure.in.
* tests/txinfo2.test: Moved checks into Makefile.am, and other
minor improvements.
* tests/txinfo5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
changes.  Add trailing `:' command.
* tests/txinfo6.test: Likewise, and make grepping of generated
Makefile.in stricter.
* tests/txinfo7.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
changes.  Add trailing `:' command.  Do not add unnecessary stuff
to Makefile.am.
* tests/txinfo9.test: Verify that more targets which are expected
to be generated only once really are.  Make grepping less strict,
to avoid exposing too much internal details.  More minor changes.
* tests/txinfo16.test: Add trailing `:'.  Prefer cat over echo
for appending to configure.in.  Updated/fixed heading comments.
* tests/txinfo23.test: Likewise, and extended a little by making
it check that no info file is created in the $(srcdir).
* tests/txinfo24.test: Likewise.
* tests/txinfo25.test: Likewise.
* tests/txinfo18.test: Add trailing `:'.  Prefer cat over echo
for appending to configure.in.  Also, check that index files are
cleaned also by "make clean", not only by "make distclean".
* tests/txinfo22.test: Prefer `$me' over hard-coded test name,
and added trailing `:' command.  This testcase also used to check
that automake ignores in-line comments when using variables, but
preserves them in the output; these checks (added in commit
"Release-1-7f-4-g9177ef8") do not really pertain to this test,
so they have been moved ...
* tests/comments-in-var-defn.test: ... into this new test.
* tests/txinfo4.test: Escape literal dots in grep regexps.  Add
trailing `:' command.
* tests/txinfo29.test: Likewise.  Relax grepping of generated
Makefile.in w.r.t. whitespaces.  Prefer `cat' over `echo' to
append to configure.in.
* tests/txinfo3.test: Likewise.
* tests/vtexi.test: Improve grepping of Makefile.in (sometimes
make it stricter, sometimes laxer).  Move `set -e' setting just
after the inclusion of ./defs.  De-uglify a sed command.  Other
minor cosmetic improvements.
* tests/vtexi2.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in stricter.  Add
trailing `:' command.
* tests/vtexi3.test: New test on version.texi support.
* tests/vtexi4.test: Likewise.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.

13 years agoFix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
Peter Rosin [Sun, 9 Jan 2011 17:54:36 +0000 (18:54 +0100)]
Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.

* lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
Report by Peter Rosin.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
13 years agocosmetics: remove trailing whitespaces
Stefano Lattarini [Sun, 9 Jan 2011 14:22:32 +0000 (15:22 +0100)]
cosmetics: remove trailing whitespaces

* doc/automake.texi: Remove trailing whitespaces.
* tests/cond13.test: Likewise.
* tests/cond14.test: Likewise.
* tests/fort4.test: Likewise.
* tests/fort5.test: Likewise.
* tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
* tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.

13 years agoautomake: minor fixes in comments
Stefano Lattarini [Sat, 8 Jan 2011 12:04:10 +0000 (13:04 +0100)]
automake: minor fixes in comments

* automake.in: Some minor fixes and enhancements in comments.

13 years agoAdd test coverage for deleted header files.
Ralf Wildenhues [Sun, 9 Jan 2011 11:06:24 +0000 (12:06 +0100)]
Add test coverage for deleted header files.

* tests/depcomp6.test, tests/depcomp7.test: Update tests to
also check for the deleted header bug.  If no dependency
tracking mechanism could be found, SKIP rather than exit
successfully.  Use GNU style spacing and ANSI C prototypes.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
13 years agoFix typos in Rule.pm comments.
Ralf Wildenhues [Sun, 9 Jan 2011 09:53:04 +0000 (10:53 +0100)]
Fix typos in Rule.pm comments.

* lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typos in comments.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
13 years agodocs: split 'amhello Explained' node.
Ralf Wildenhues [Sat, 8 Jan 2011 19:18:03 +0000 (20:18 +0100)]
docs: split 'amhello Explained' node.

* doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Split node ...
(amhello's configure.ac Setup Explained)
(amhello's Makefile.am Setup Explained) : ... into these two.
(Top, Hello World): Adjust, and add @anchor for stable URL links.
Suggestion by Karl Berry in automake bug#7766.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
13 years agodocs: reference defining directories in amhello node.
Karl Berry [Sat, 8 Jan 2011 09:04:17 +0000 (10:04 +0100)]
docs: reference defining directories in amhello node.

* doc/automake.texi (amhello Explained): Point to Autoconf
manual for how to convert directory values into macros.
(Optional): Fix grammar nit.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
13 years ago* NEWS: Fix typo (forgotten word).
Stefano Lattarini [Sun, 2 Jan 2011 13:17:12 +0000 (14:17 +0100)]
* NEWS: Fix typo (forgotten word).

13 years agodocs: how to work around checks on invalid primary/directory couples
Stefano Lattarini [Fri, 24 Dec 2010 21:00:40 +0000 (22:00 +0100)]
docs: how to work around checks on invalid primary/directory couples

* doc/automake.texi (Uniform): Document the blessed idiom which can
be used to work around automake checks on invalid primary/directory
couples (such as `lib_PROGRAMS' or `doc_LIBRARIES').

Suggested by Ralf Wildenhues.

13 years agoSync auxiliary files from upstream.
Ralf Wildenhues [Sun, 2 Jan 2011 05:11:28 +0000 (06:11 +0100)]
Sync auxiliary files from upstream.

* lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
Sync from upstream.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
13 years agoFix maintainer-check regression.
Ralf Wildenhues [Sun, 2 Jan 2011 04:36:20 +0000 (05:36 +0100)]
Fix maintainer-check regression.

* tests/subobj11a.test: Pass DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS in the
environment.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
13 years agoBump copyright years.
Ralf Wildenhues [Sun, 2 Jan 2011 04:31:41 +0000 (05:31 +0100)]
Bump copyright years.

* aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
* automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
* doc/automake.texi: Likewise.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
13 years agoWork around a bug in file-inclusion mechanism of Solaris make.
Stefano Lattarini [Fri, 14 May 2010 19:19:32 +0000 (21:19 +0200)]
Work around a bug in file-inclusion mechanism of Solaris make.

* automake.in (handle_single_transform): In the name of the
dependency file: collapse multiple slash characters into a single
one.
* tests/subobj11a.test: New test.
* tests/subobj11b.test: Likewise.
* tests/subobj11c.test: Likewise.
* tests/depcomp8a.test: Likewise.
* tests/depcomp8b.test: Likewise.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
* NEWS: Updated.

Report by Stefano Lattarini, quick fix by Ralf Wildenhues, final
patch and tests by Stefano Lattarini.

13 years agoFix two spurious testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5.
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 16 Nov 2010 21:28:26 +0000 (22:28 +0100)]
Fix two spurious testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5.

* tests/suffix13.test (Makefile.am): Account for VPATH issues on
weaker make implementations (e.g. IRIX 6.5).
* tests/parallel-tests8.test: Likewise, plus a required related
change.

Reported by Ralf Wildenhues.  The bugs have been there from the
first versions of the affected test scripts.

13 years agodocs: cygnus mode doesn't require AM_CYGWIN32 macro.
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:08:53 +0000 (00:08 +0100)]
docs: cygnus mode doesn't require AM_CYGWIN32 macro.

* doc/automake.texi (Cygnus): Mode 'cygnus' does not require
the AM_CYGWIN32 macro (and indeed hasn't required it since at
least commit Release-1-2-31-g3038064 "merged changes from
Cygnus" of 1997-08-25).

13 years agoMerge branch 'fix-test-distlinksbrk-botched-make-k' into maint
Stefano Lattarini [Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:39:37 +0000 (15:39 +0100)]
Merge branch 'fix-test-distlinksbrk-botched-make-k' into maint