2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ tests: avoid failing command substitution in errexit mode.
+ * tests/vartypo2.test, tests/vartypos.test: Rewrite to not use
+ a command substitution with a nonzero exit status, that causes
+ IRIX and Tru64/OSF sh to fail the whole test.
+
++2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+ Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ parallel-tests: work around Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh read bugs.
+ * lib/am/check.am ($(TEST_SUITE_LOG), recheck, recheck-html):
+ Test file readability before redirecting input from it, to avoid
+ exiting Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh which treats read as special builtin.
+ * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: New test.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+ * NEWS: Update.
+
+2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ * NEWS, README: Update copyright years.
+
+2011-01-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: hard error in case of internal failures or signal caught
+ * tests/defs: Exit with status 99 (hard error) rather than
+ 1 (failure) on unexpected/internal errors, or when a signal
+ is caught by the client script.
+
+ Tests defs: don't let useless variables leak in test scripts.
+ * tests/defs ($priv_check_temp, $overwrite_status, $ro_dir_temp,
+ $create_status, $r2h, $libtool_found, $gettext_found, $aclocaldir,
+ $extra_includes): Unset once they've served their purpose.
+
+2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ Fix parallel-tests.test failure with HP-UX make.
+ * tests/parallel-tests.test: Sleep inside inner tests, so logs
+ are newer than logs of tests they depend on, for HP-UX make.
+
+2011-01-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ docs: ensure example are separated with empty lines in the input
+ * doc/automake.texi (Extending aclocal, Emacs Lisp, Rebuilding)
+ (API Versioning, Renamed Objects, Multiple Outputs): Add empty
+ lines before `@example' and after `@end example' lines, so info
+ output is rendered correctly, and a following @noindent honored.
+ Report by Stefano Lattarini.
+
+2011-01-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
+
+ tests: fix comment typo
+ * tests/substref.test: Fix grammar in a comment.
+
+2011-01-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: fix spurious failures in two texinfo tests
+ * tests/txinfo.test ($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.
+
+2011-01-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Update docs w.r.t. warning and strictness options.
+ * doc/automake.texi (Strictness): Document that some warnings are
+ turned off by default in `foreign' strictness.
+ (Options): Divide into new sections "Options generalities" and
+ "List of Automake options". Fix typo (colon instead of full
+ stop). Document option precedence (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS wins over
+ AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE which wins over command line). Also document
+ interactions between options specifying strictness and those
+ specifying warnings.
+
+ More tests on warnings/strictness precedence.
+ * tests/warning-groups-win-over-strictness.test: New test, similar
+ to `warnings-win-over-strictness.test', but checking the explicit
+ catch-all warning flags (like `-Wall' and `-Wnone').
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+ Update NEWS about the warnings-over-strictness precedence.
+ * NEWS: Automake explicit warning levels always take precedence
+ over the implicit warning levels implied by Automake strictness.
+
+ For PR automake/547:
+ Warnings win over strictness in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
+ Ensure that, for what concerns the options specified in
+ AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS, explicitly-defined warnings always take
+ precedence over implicit strictness-implied warnings.
+ This finally fixes Automake bug#7669 a.k.a. PR/547.
+ * automake.in (handle_options): Call 'process_option_list'
+ only once per set of options.
+ * lib/Automake/Options.pm (process_global_option_list,
+ process_option_list): Add sanity checks.
+ ($_options_processed, $_global_options_processed): New
+ internal variables, used by the sanity checks above.
+ * tests/warnings-win-over-strictness.test: Extend.
+
+ For PR automake/547:
+ Change signature of 'Automake::Options::_process_option_list()'.
+ This only modifies internal details in the automake implementation,
+ bearing no externally visible effect, but preparing the way for the
+ final fix of Automake bug#7669 a.k.a. PR/547.
+ * lib/Automake/Options.pm (_process_option_list): Accept as
+ arguments a list of hash references with keys 'option' and 'where',
+ where 'option' is an option as might occur in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS or
+ AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, and 'where' is the location where it occurred.
+ (process_option_list, process_global_option_list): Updated.
+ * automake.in (handle_options, scan_autoconf_traces): Update.
+
+ Add more tests about AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
+ In view of soon-to-follow refactorings (still in the pursuit of a
+ fix for Automake bug#7669 a.k.a. PR/547), add some more tests on
+ AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS support, to prevent obvious regressions.
+ * tests/amopts-variable-expansion.test: New test.
+ * tests/amopts-location.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+ For PR automake/547:
+ Warnings win over strictness in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
+ This change ensures that, for what concerns the options specified
+ in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, explicitly-defined warnings always take
+ precedence over implicit strictness-implied warnings. Related to
+ Automake bug#7669 a.k.a. PR/547.
+ * lib/Automake/Options.pm (_process_option_list): Parse explicit
+ warnings only after the strictness level has been set. Fix POD
+ documentation.
+ * tests/warnings-win-over-strictness.test: Extend.
+
+ For PR automake/547:
+ Warnings win over strictness on command line.
+ Ensure that, on the command line at least, explicitly defined
+ warnings always take precedence over implicit strictness-implied
+ warnings. Related to Automake bug#7669 a.k.a. PR/547.
+ * automake.in (parse_arguments): Parse warnings only after the
+ strictness level has been processed.
+ * tests/gnuwarn.test: Update, plus miscellaneous improvements.
+ * tests/warnings-win-over-strictness.test: New test.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+ More tests on warnings and strictness.
+ * tests/warnings-strictness-interactions.test: New test.
+ * tests/warnings-unknown.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+ New test on silent-rules mode and portability warnings.
+ * tests/silent-nowarn.test: New test.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+ Add new tests on strictness and warnings precedence and overriding.
+ * tests/strictness-override.test: New test.
+ * tests/strictness-precedence.test: New test.
+ * tests/warnings-override.test: New test.
+ * tests/warnings-precedence.test: New test.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-01-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ Fix remake rule-induced test failures with HP-UX make.
+ * tests/remake1a.test: Require GNU make.
+
+2011-01-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ Fix remake rule-induced test failures with HP-UX make.
+ * tests/colon6.test: Update timestamp of subdir Makefile, so we
+ do not spuriously invoke the nonexistent toplevel am--refresh
+ rule.
+
+ tests: fix typos in colon6.test
+ * tests/colon6.test: Fix typos.
+
+2011-01-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+ Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: explain MSYS setup failure issue, improve test.
+ * tests/defs: Add comment and failure message, improve fail
+ logic.
+
+2011-01-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ Fix libobj2.test failure with non-GNU make: define $(AR).
+ * tests/libobj2.test: Ensure $(AR) is suitably defined.
+
+2011-01-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ tests: avoid spurious failures due to fork failure in test setup
+ * tests/defs: Ensure $me is always nonempty, to avoid spurious
+ failures on MinGW/MSYS in case the preceding sed command could
+ not be spawned.
+
+ Avoid configure warnings from wait about reused PIDs.
+ * m4/sanity.m4 (AM_SANITY_CHECK): Hide wait stderr output.
+ Fixes spurious failure of depcomp2.test.
+
+2011-01-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ 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 $AUTOMAKE -a for installing files.
+
+2011-01-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ docs: clustered '-d' not recognized in YFLAGS
+ This change fixes automake bug#7828.
+ * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Document that automake
+ recognizes '-d' in AM_YFLAGS only if it's not clustered with
+ other options.
+ From a report by Юрий Пухальский.
+
+2011-01-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: add checks on automatically-distributed files
+ Related to automake bug#7819.
+ * tests/autodist.test: New test.
+ * tests/autodist-subdir.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/autodist-acconfig.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/autodist-acconfig-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/autodist-aclocal-m4.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/autodist-config-headers.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/autodist-configure-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/autodist-stamp-vti.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: do not force yacc-requiring tests to use bison
+ * tests/defs.in: New required entry 'yacc'. Remove old
+ required entry 'bison'.
+ * tests/cond35.test ($required): Require yacc, not bison.
+ * tests/cond36.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/pr204.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/silent-many-gcc.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/silent-many-generic.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/silent-yacc-gcc.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/silent-yacc-generic.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/subpkg.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/suffix10.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/yacc-basic.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/yacc-clean.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/yacc-d-basic.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/yacc-d-vpath.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/yacc-dist-nobuild.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/yacc-nodist.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/yacc4.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/yacc6.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/yacc7.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/yacc8.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/yaccdry.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/yaccvpath.test: Likewise.
+
+2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: more consistent checks about invalid options
+ * tests/aclocal.test: Grepping of automake stderr for messages
+ reporting invalid options made stricter.
+ * tests/no-outdir-option.test: Likewise. Also, create a dummy
+ `Makefile.am', to ensure that the automake failures are really
+ caused only by unrecognized options.
+ * tests/automake.test: Added trailing `:' command. Removed
+ redundant checks on `--help' and `--version' option (already
+ performed in the test `help*.test').
+
+2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: enable 'errexit' shell flag by default.
+ * tests/defs: Enable `errexit' shell flag (near the end).
+ Removed redundant comment about the enabling of shell traces.
+ * tests/README (Writing test cases): Update, and use nicer
+ formatting in a couple of places.
+ * All tests: Adjusted by removing now-redundant calls to
+ 'set -e'.
+
+2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-01-09 Dave Hart <davehart@gmail.com> (tiny change)
+
+ Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
+ * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
+
+2011-01-09 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
+
+ Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
+ * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
+
+2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: texinfo unrecognized extensions
+ * tests/txinfo-unrecognized-extension.test: New test.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: fix spurious failure in 'tests/yflags-conditional.test'
+ * tests/yflags-conditional.test: Filter out message "warnings are
+ treated as errors" from automake stderr, to avoid a false positive
+ when grepping for extraneous warning messages.
+
+2011-01-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ yacc: warn about conditional content in *YFLAGS variables
+ This change fixes automake bug#7804.
+ * automake.in (lang_yacc_target_hook): Warn if any of the relevant
+ *YFLAGS variables has conditional contents (not only a conditional
+ definition). Related refactoring.
+ * NEWS: Updated.
+ * tests/yflags-conditional.test: Updated and extended.
+ * tests/yflags-conditional-force.test: New test.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
+
+2011-01-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ yacc: support variable expansions in *YFLAGS definition.
+ This change fixes automake bug#7800.
+ * automake.in (lang_yacc_target_hook): Use 'value_as_list_recursive'
+ instead of 'variable_value' to get the value of *YFLAGS variables.
+ Related changes.
+ ($DASH_D_PATTERN): Removed.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Remove yflags-var-expand.test.
+ * tests/yacc-clean.test: Remove workaround for now-fixed bug.
+ * NEWS: Update.
+
+2011-01-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ yacc: more tests on *YFLAGS support
+ * tests/yflags-var-expand.test: New test, still xfailing. It
+ exposes automake bug#7800 -- "automake fails to honor `-d' in
+ AM_YFLAGS when variable expansions are involved".
+ * tests/yflags-d-false-positive.test: New test, checking that
+ automake do not spuriously see `-d' in *YFLAGS when that isn't
+ really there.
+ * tests/yflags-force-override.test: New test, checking that
+ automake can cope with definition of the YFLAGS variable in
+ Makefile.am (even if that is an extremely bad practice, as that
+ variable is user-reserved).
+ * tests/yflags-cmdline-override.test: New test, checking that
+ automake can cope with user-redefinition of YFLAGS at configure
+ time and/or at make time.
+ * tests/yflags-conditional.test: New test, checks that automake
+ warns on conditionally-defined *YFLAGS variables.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-01-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ yacc: extend and improve tests
+ * tests/yacc-basic.test: Also check that the intermediate C file
+ is mentioned in the generated Makefile.in, and that it is created
+ by the first make invocation.
+ * tests/yacc3.test: Test removed, superseded by ...
+ * tests/yacc-d-basic.test: ... this new test.
+ * tests/yacc2.test: Add reference to that new test in the heading
+ comments.
+ * tests/yacc-d-vpath.test: New test.
+ * tests/yaccvpath.test: Updated heading comments. Do not require
+ gcc anymore, as any working C compiler should be enough. Remove
+ redundant comments.
+ * tests/yacc-nodist.test: New test.
+ * tests/yacc-dist-nobuild.test: New test.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2010-12-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Extend, fix and improve tests on Lex and Yacc support.
+ * tests/lexcpp.test: New test script, on support for Lex + C++.
+ * tests/lexvpath.test: New test script, test build and rebuild
+ rules for lexers in VPATH setup.
+ * tests/yacc-basic.test: New test script, run simple "semantic"
+ checks on basic Yacc support (similarly to what lex3.test does
+ for Lex support).
+ * tests/lex.test: Don't create useless dummy source file joe.l.
+ Remove extra blank lines.
+ * tests/lex4.test: Add trailing `:' command. Do not create dummy
+ useless lex source file.
+ * tests/lex2.test: Likewise. Call automake with the `-a' option,
+ so that it doesn't fail for the absence of `ylwrap' script. Make
+ grepping of automake stderr stricter.
+ * tests/yacc7.test: Add trailing `:' command. Enable `errexit'
+ shell flag earlier (just after having sourced ./defs).
+ * tests/yacc4.test: Likewise. Also ...
+ (configure.in): Use pre-populated skeleton set up by ./defs,
+ instead of writing one from scratch.
+ Other minor cosmetic changes.
+ * tests/yacc5.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/yaccvpath.test: Likewise. Also ...
+ ($distdir): New variable.
+ Use it throughout.
+ * tests/lex5.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/lex3.test: Likewise. Check the distdir, rather than
+ grepping the distribution tarball. Extend the test on the
+ created binary, and be sure to avoid hangs. Add some comments.
+ * tests/yacc.test: Use stricter grepping. Add trailing `:'.
+ * tests/yacc6.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/yacc3.test: Likewise. Do not create the unused file
+ `Makefile.sed'. Remove useless rules from Makefile.am. Other
+ minor cosmetic changes.
+ * tests/yacc2.test: Make grepping of generated `Makefile.in' and
+ of automake error messages stricter. Do not redirect output of
+ grep to /dev/null. Move call to aclocal earlier. Reduce the
+ number of empty blank lines. Fix a typo in comments.
+ * tests/yacc8.test: Fixed bugs that reduced the completeness of
+ the tests. Added trailing `:' command.
+ (configure.in): Use pre-populated skeleton set up by ./defs,
+ instead of writing one from scratch.
+ * tests/yaccpp.test: Test also extensions `.y++', `.ypp', and
+ `.yxx', rather than only `.yy'.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-01-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ 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/libobj17.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/suffix7.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/vtexi2.test: Likewise.
+
+ automake: minor fixes in comments
+ * automake.in: Some minor fixes and enhancements in comments.
+
+2011-01-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ 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.
+
+ Fix typos in Rule.pm comments.
+ * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typos in comments.
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-01-08 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
+ Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-01-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ yacc: "make clean" removes .c and .h files from non-distributed .y
+ Previously, while automake did *not* distribute C source and header
+ files derived from non-distributed Yacc sources, it still caused
+ them to be removed only by "make maintainer-clean" only, and not by
+ simply "make clean" or "make distclean".
+ This caused "make distcheck" to fail, unless the developer put
+ those generated .c and .h files in CLEANFILES or in DISTCLEANFILES
+ by hand.
+ This change fixes this issue, by making non-distributed `.c' and
+ `.h' files generated by non-distributed Yacc sources cleaned by
+ "make clean".
+ * tests/automake.in (lang_yacc_target_hook): Make C source and
+ header files derived from non-distributed Yacc files cleaned by
+ "make clean", not only by "make maintainer-clean".
+ * tests/yacc-clean.test: New test.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+ * NEWS: Update.
+
+2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ * NEWS: Fix typo (forgotten word).
+
+2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+ Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ 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').
+
+2010-01-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Tests: normalize use of the 'errexit' shell flag.
+ * tests/maken3.test (check_targets): Remove redundant call to
+ 'set -e'.
+ * tests/maken4.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/ansi5.test: Call 'set -e' just after './defs' has been
+ sourced.
+ * tests/ansi6.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/ansi7.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/cond16.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/cond17.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/cond18.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/cond19.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/cond20.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/cond21.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/instdat2.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/instdir-texi.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/parallel-tests3.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/remake1a.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/ccnoco.test: Likewise, and add trailing `:' command.
+ * tests/comment4.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/gcj4.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/nodist2.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/nodist3.test: Enable 'errexit' shell flag (this should
+ have been done in commit v1.11-248-g317e17b, but the relevant
+ hunk has been forgotten somehow).
+ * tests/output.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/gnits2.test: Likewise, and display captured stderr to
+ script's stderr, not to script's stdout.
+ * tests/gnits3.test: Likewise. Also, prefer 'cat' over 'echo'
+ to append to Makefile.am, and really check that the exit status
+ of "make installcheck" indicates failure.
+
+2011-01-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
+ * lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub, lib/texinfo.tex:
+ Sync from upstream.
+
+ Avoid caching bug in cygnus mode test.
+ * tests/cygnus-requires-maintainer-mode.test: Remove
+ autom4te.cache directory before rerunning aclocal, to
+ remove trace caches.
+
+ Fix maintainer-check regression.
+ * tests/subobj11a.test: Pass DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS in the
+ environment.
+
+ Bump copyright years.
+ * aclocal.in (write_aclocal, version): Bump copyright years.
+ * automake.in (gen_copyright, version): Likewise.
+ * doc/automake.texi: Likewise.
+
+2010-12-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ * NEWS: Add missing blank line between two entries.
+
+2010-12-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Improve and extend tests `suffix*.test'.
+ * tests/suffix.test: Check that suffix rules for C compilation are
+ only included once. Try also with a static library.
+ * tests/suffix2.test: Add a new grep to help potential debugging.
+ Do not run automake with the `--add-missing' options, since we
+ already create all the needed auxiliary files. Try also *without*
+ the `no-dependencies' automake option.
+ * tests/suffix4.test: Make grepping of Makefile.in stricter.
+ * tests/suffix3.test: Rewritten to run also autoconf, ./configure
+ and make.
+ * tests/suffix5.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/suffix6.test: Fix botched recipe indentation (eight spaces
+ were used instead of a tabulation character). Extend to check
+ that `.obj' is handled like `.$(OBJEXT)' (as is done for `.o').
+ Improved parsing & grepping of generated Makefile.in. Other minor
+ fixes and improvements.
+ * tests/suffix10.test: Move some checks in Makefile.am. Also run
+ "make all".
+ * tests/suffix12.test: Likewise, and account for VPATH issues in
+ weaker make implementations.
+ * tests/suffix11.test: Likewise. Also, run "make distcheck", for
+ completeness, and related changes.
+ * tests/suffix8.test: Likewise. Also, do not put `gcc' anymore
+ in $required.
+ * tests/suffix13.test: Do not use the `--force-missing' automake
+ option unnecessarily.
+ * tests/suffix6b.test: New test, semantic sister of `suffix6.test'.
+ * tests/suffix6c.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
+
+2010-12-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+ Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ 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.
+
+2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ 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.
+
+2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ 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).
+
+2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Add some tests on 'cygnus' mode.
+ * tests/clean2.test: Extend.
+ * tests/cygnus-check-without-all.test: New test.
+ * tests/cygnus-dependency-tracking.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/cygnus-distclean.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/cygnus-imply-foreign.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/cygnus-no-dist.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/cygnus-no-installinfo.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/cygnus-requires-maintainer-mode.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Fix parallel testsuite run with Zsh.
+ This change deals with a Zsh incompatibility in the handling
+ of the special shell variable `$0' in sourced files; this
+ incompatibility used to cause utter breakage when the
+ Automake testsuite was run in parallel mode with Zsh as
+ the $(TEST_LOG_COMPILER).
+ For more information, please refer to the thread "Fix parallel
+ testsuite run with zsh" on automake-patches, dated 2010-12-22:
+ <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-12/msg00135.html>
+ This change works around the problems described above for Zsh 4.3
+ or later, and offers better error messages (instead of random
+ failures) for earlier Zsh version.
+ * tests/README (Supported shells): When describing the manual
+ workaround about the Zsh incompatibility in the handling of `$0',
+ tell that it is now needed only with Zsh versions preceding 4.3.
+ Done also some minor rewordings.
+ * tests/defs-static.in ($argv0): New variable, offers a workaround
+ for the Zsh incompatibility in the handling of `$0'.
+ Abort if that variable cannot be correctly set (can happen only
+ in older Zsh version).
+ * tests/defs ($me): Define using `$argv0', not `$0'.
+
+2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Tests defs: keep track of original $AUTOMAKE and $ACLOCAL values.
+ This is especially useful for tests which might want to run
+ automake and aclocal without additional flags and warnings.
+ * tests/defs-static.in ($original_ACLOCAL): New variable.
+ ($original_AUTOMAKE): Likewise.
+ * tests/help.test: Use them.
+ * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/help3.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/help4.test: Likewise.
+ From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+2010-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ distlinksbrk.test: Work around botched "make -k".
+ * tests/distlinksbrk.test: Run "make" multiple times and grep
+ its output each time for a single error message, rather than
+ running "make -k" one single time and grepping its output for
+ all the expected error messages. This should work around make
+ implementations with limited (broken?) `-k' support; for more
+ information, see these subthreads on the automake-patches list:
+ - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on HP-UX 11.23",
+ <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00162.html>
+ - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5",
+ <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00166.html>
+
+2010-12-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Minor improvements to test 'amopts.test'.
+ * tests/amopts.test: Remove botched comment. Make grepping of
+ automake stderr slighty stricter. Add trailing `:' command.
+
+2010-12-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ backcompat6.test: avoid comments inside recipe commands.
+ * tests/backcompat6.test: Remove shell comments from makefile rule
+ commands, as they are not portable to (at least) Tru64 make.
+
+2010-12-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ man8.test: avoid comments inside recipe commands.
+ * tests/man8.test: Remove shell comments from makefile rule
+ commands, as they are not portable to (at least) Tru64 make.
+
+2010-12-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Fix sed-related buglet in test "subdir5.test"
+ * tests/subdir5.test: Always terminate text passed to the
+ `i' sed command with a newline, to work around limitations
+ in e.g. older OpenBSD sed.
+
+2010-12-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Fix spurious failures in tests on AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR.
+ * tests/auxdir7.test: Do not try to needlessly overwrite the files
+ `install-sh' and `missing'. This avoid spurious failures in "make
+ distcheck", when those files might be copied as read-only from the
+ `lib' directory.
+ * tests/auxdir8.test: Likewise.
+
+2010-12-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Make test 'posixsubst-script' portable to MinGW/MSYS.
+ * tests/posixsubst-script.test: Ensure that the generated dummy
+ scripts really start with a shebang line, to work around a
+ limitation of 'test -x' on MinGW/MSYS.
+ Reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+ Improve comments in tests `posixsubst*.test'.
+ * tests/posixsubst-data.test: Improve comment explaining why we
+ try also empty match suffix.
+ * tests/posixsubst-extradist.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/posixsubst-ldadd.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/posixsubst-libraries.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/posixsubst-ltlibraries.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/posixsubst-programs.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/posixsubst-scripts.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/posixsubst-sources.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/posixsubst-tests.test: Likewise.
+ Suggested by Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+2010-12-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ docs: fix blunder in example about python extension modules
+ * doc/automake.texi (Python): Use `quaternion_la_SOURCES',
+ not `quaternion_SOURCES', to declare the sources of python
+ extension module `quaternion.la'.
+
+2010-12-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ docs: list LTLIBRARIES among Automake primaries
+ * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): List `LTLIBRARIES' among
+ the Automake primaries.
+
+2010-12-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+ Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ Tests defs: requirement 'xsi-shell' must be synced with libtool.
+ * tests/defs (xsi-shell): Add comment telling to keep the
+ XSI-conformance checks in sync with libtool.
+
+2010-12-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Minor cleanups in canon7.test.
+ * tests/canon7.test (_foo_bar_SOURCES): Remove libs.c.
+ (configure.in): Remove AC_PROG_CXX.
+
+2010-12-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ Avoid false positive in sc_tests_plain_make maintainer-check.
+ * Makefile.am (sc_tests_plain_make): Ensure to only match full
+ `make' words. Avoid false positive with remake11.test.
+
+2010-12-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ Fix canon7.test failure.
+ * tests/canon7.test (_foo_bar_SOURCES): Add foobar.c.
+ (lib.h, libd.c, libs.c): Use const for constant strings.
+
+2010-12-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ Fix typos in test comments.
+ * tests/posixsubst-data.test, tests/posixsubst-extradist.test,
+ tests/posixsubst-ldadd.test, tests/posixsubst-libraries.test,
+ tests/posixsubst-ltlibraries.test, tests/posixsubst-programs.test,
+ tests/posixsubst-scripts.test, tests/posixsubst-sources.test,
+ tests/posixsubst-tests.test: Fix typos.
+
+2010-12-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ More uses of AS_HELP_STRING in automake macros.
+ * m4/depend.m4 (AM_DEP_TRACK): Use `AS_HELP_STRING' to format
+ the help message added to the generated configure.
+ * m4/dmalloc.m4 (AM_WITH_DMALLOC): Likewise.
+ * m4/lispdir.m4 (AM_PATH_LISPDIR): Likewise.
+ * m4/maintainer.m4 (AM_MAINTAINER_MODE): Likewise.
+ * m4/multi.m4 (AM_ENABLE_MULTILIB): Likewise.
+ Also, bumped all serial numbers of the modified m4 files.
+
+2010-12-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Improve tests on generated portions of configure help screen.
+ * tests/help-depend.test: Grepping of configure help screen
+ relaxed to cater for possible line wrapping, and tightened in
+ other respects.
+ * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/help-init.test: Grepping of configure help screen
+ tightened.
+
+2010-12-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Extended tests on AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR.
+ * tests/auxdir.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Prefer `$me'
+ over hard-coded test name. Use proper m4 quoting. Add trailing
+ `:' command.
+ * tests/auxdir2.test: Likewise. Try to call automake also with
+ the `-a' option, so that it will not fail for spurious reasons.
+ * tests/auxdir3.test: Add an explanatory comment and a trailing
+ `:' command.
+ * tests/auxdir4.test: Prefer `$me' over hard-coded test name.
+ Make grepping of automake stderr slightly stricter. Also, now
+ this test just checks about Automake's reaction to unportable
+ auxiliary directory names (and it has been extended in this
+ respect). Moved the checks about non-existent auxiliary
+ directories to ...
+ * tests/auxdir5.test: ... this new test.
+ * tests/auxdir6.test: New test.
+ * tests/auxdir7.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/auxdir8.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/auxdir9.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
+
+2010-12-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Tests: extend checks on remake rules.
+ This adds proper semantical tests (i.e. run make to check the
+ rebuild rules are correctly triggered) in addition to tentative
+ grepping of the generated Makefile.in(s).
+ * tests/remake.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
+ changes. Modernize `configure.in'. Add trailing `:' command.
+ Improve heading comments, and add a reference to new sister test
+ remake1a.test.
+ * tests/remake3.test: Likewise (but with sister test being
+ remake3a.test).
+ * tests/remake2.test: Improve heading comments. Enable `errexit'
+ shell flag, and related changes. Modernize `configure.in'. Make
+ grepping of `Makefile.in' slightly stricter. Add trailing `:'
+ command.
+ * tests/remake5.test: Also run the `distcheck' target. Add
+ trailing `:' command. Use proper m4 quoting in configure.in.
+ * tests/remake4.test: Prefer `$me' over hard-coded test name.
+ * tests/remake7.test: Use the `configure.in' stub created by
+ ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch.
+ * tests/remake6.test: Likewise. Also, add trailing `:' command,
+ and ensure verbose printing of captured make output.
+ * tests/remake1a.test: New test, sister of remake.test.
+ * tests/remake3a.test: New test, sister of remake3.test.
+ * tests/remake8a.test: New test.
+ * tests/remake8b.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/remake9a.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/remake9b.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/remake9c.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/remake9d.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/remake10a.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/remake10b.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/remake10c.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/remake11.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/remake12.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
+
+2010-12-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Improve and extend tests on canonicalization.
+ * tests/canon-name.test: Add trailing `:' command. When writing
+ configure.in, prefer to use $me instead of hard-coding the test
+ name.
+ * tests/canon3.test: Prefer trailing `:' over trailing `Exit 0'.
+ * tests/canon4.test: Likewise. Make grepping of Makefile.in
+ stricter. Improve heading comment, and add reference to ...
+ * tests/canon6.test: ... this new test (sister test of the
+ previous one).
+ * tests/canon.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to append
+ text to configure.in. Extend grepping of Automake stderr. Add
+ trailing `:' command.
+ * tests/canon5.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/canon7.test: New file, stress test on canonicalization.
+ * tests/canon8.test: New test, for better coverage (check that
+ the `@' character is not transliterated in canonicalizations).
+ * tests/Makefile.am: Updated.
+
+2010-12-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Libobj tests: refer to automake bug tracker for limitations.
+ * tests/libobj15b.test (configure.in): In the comment explaining
+ why an apparently redundant AC_OUTPUT is indeed needed, refer
+ to the relevant entry in the Automake bug tracker rather than
+ describing the bug in detail with a FIXME-style comment.
+ * tests/libobj15c.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/libobj20b.test: Likewise.
+
+ Libobj tests: do not use `##' automake comments in-line.
+ * tests/libobj19.test (Makefile.am): Do not use inline `##'
+ comments in the definition of AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.
+ * tests/libobj20c.test: Likewise.
+ Report by Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+2010-12-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ Fix testsuite failure of check12.test without DejaGNU.
+ * tests/check12.test: Require runtest.
+
+2010-12-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Tests defs: more uses of $top_testsrcdir.
+ * tests/compile6.test: Use `$top_testsrcdir' instead of
+ `$testsrcdir/..'.
+
+2010-11-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Tests required tools: also try `-v' option for GNU compilers.
+ * tests/defs.in: In the loop on "$required" tools, for gcc
+ and g++, also run "gcc -v" (resp. "g++ -v"), to get more
+ information, and for consistency with gcj.
+
+2010-11-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+ Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ Tests defs: avoid some useless subshells.
+ * tests/defs: In the loop on "$required" tools: avoid subshells
+ where not needed.
+
+2010-12-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Extend tests on AC_LIBOBJ and friends.
+ * tests/aclibobj.test: Removed, superseded by ...
+ * tests/libobj-basic.test: ... this new test, which runs autoconf,
+ ./configure and make, to ensure everything really works.
+ * tests/libobj3.test: Add trailing `:' command. Escape literal
+ dot in grep regexp.
+ * tests/libobj4.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
+ changes. Add trailing `:' command. Use proper m4 quoting.
+ * tests/ltlibobjs.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/libobj5.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
+ changes. Add trailing `:' command. Make more robust by using
+ longer filenames to be grepped.
+ * tests/libobj8.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
+ changes. Add trailing `:' command. Use the configure.in
+ stub provided by ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch.
+ * tests/libobj2.test: Likewise. Also, add calls to autoconf,
+ ./configure and make, to ensure everything really works.
+ * tests/libobj7.test: Likewise, and ensure that at least one
+ function listed in AC_REPLACE_FUNCTIONS is truly replaced.
+ * tests/libobj13.test: Make grepping of Automake stderr slightly
+ stricter. Add trailing `:' command.
+ * tests/libobj12.test: Likewise. Also, prefer "cat + here-doc"
+ over "echo" to append to Makefile.am, and some cosmetic changes
+ in spacing.
+ * tests/libobj14.test: Call `Exit 1' if sourcing of ./defs fails.
+ Slighty improve m4 quoting. Add trailing `:' command.
+ * tests/libobj10.test: Add calls to autoconf, ./configure and
+ make, to ensure everything really works. Also, remove tests that
+ nonexistent source for AC_LIBOBJ cause an Automake failure: this
+ is already checked by ...
+ * tests/libobj15a.test: ... this new test.
+ * tests/libobj15b.test: New test, sister test of libobj15a.test,
+ checks AC_LIBSOURCE instead of AC_LIBOBJ.
+ * tests/libobj15c.test: New test, sister test of libobj15a.test,
+ checks AC_LIBSOURCES instead of AC_LIBOBJ.
+ * tests/libobj11.test: Removed, superseded by ...
+ * tests/libobj16a.test: ... this new test.
+ * tests/libobj16b.test: New test, sister test of libobj16a.test,
+ but using oldish/deprecated idioms.
+ * tests/libobj17.test: New test.
+ * tests/libobj18.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/libobj19.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/libobj20a.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/libobj20b.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/libobj20c.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
+
+2010-12-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Test `$(var:suf=rpl)' expansion in special automake variables.
+ * tests/posixsubst-data.test: New test.
+ * tests/posixsubst-extradist.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/posixsubst-ldadd.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/posixsubst-libraries.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/posixsubst-ltlibraries.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/posixsubst-programs.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/posixsubst-scripts.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/posixsubst-sources.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/posixsubst-tests.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2010-12-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Make tests `colon*.test' more "semantic".
+ Prefer running configure and make over grepping the generated
+ files; this is both more correct and less fragile.
+ * tests/colon.test: Made more "semantic", as described above.
+ * tests/colon5.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/colon7.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/colon2.test: Likewise, and improve syncing with sister
+ test `colon3.test'.
+ * tests/colon3.test: Likewise (but with the sister test being
+ `colon2.test' here).
+
+2010-12-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Extend and improve tests on DejaGnu support.
+ * tests/dejagnu.test: Do not create useless dummy test script.
+ Add trailing `:' command. In heading comments, add reference
+ to ...
+ * tests/check12.test: ... this new "semantic" test, covering
+ concurrent use of dejagnu tests, simple tests and `check-local'
+ target.
+ * tests/dejagnu2.test: Make test more reliable, by avoid weak
+ grepping of make output. Prefer `cat' over `echo' to append
+ to configure.in. Quote literal dots in grep regexps. Prefer
+ `grep -c ...' over `grep ... | wc -l'. Make grepping of
+ automake stderr slightly stricter. Add trailing `:' command.
+ * tests/dejagnu3.test: Prefer `cat' over `echo' to append to
+ configure.in. Check stderr of expected-to-fail "make" call.
+ Remove extra blank lines from Makefile.am.
+ * tests/dejagnu4.test: Prefer `cat' over `echo' to append to
+ configure.in. Prefer `mv -f' over plain `mv' when the target
+ file already exists. Avoid extra mkdir calls by creating more
+ directories at once. Better use of blank lines. Check that
+ the `*.log' and `*.sum' files are created by runtest also when
+ "make check" fails.
+ * tests/dejagnu7.test: Prefer `cat' over `echo' to append to
+ configure.in. Better use of blank lines. Add a trailing `:'
+ command.
+ * tests/dejagnu6.test: Likewise, and give the dejagnu test a
+ more descriptive name.
+ * tests/dejagnu5.test: Likewise. Also, simply define package
+ name to `$me' rather than using a non-obvious sed script to
+ extract it from `AC_INIT', and write the Makefile.am with only
+ one command.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
+
+2010-12-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ Avoid running installed automake from 'libtool --help'.
+ * tests/subobj9.test: Export AUTOCONF and AUTOMAKE.
+ Together with fixed Libtool, this fixes check-coverage to not
+ invoke installed automake.
+
+2010-12-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Separate checks on target overriding into multiple test scripts.
+ * tests/overrid.test: Deleted, its contents separated into ...
+ * tests/override-suggest-local.test: ... this new test ...
+ * tests/override-html.test: ... and this new test ...
+ * tests/override-conditional-1.test: ... and this new test ...
+ * tests/override-conditional-2.test: ... and this new test (still
+ xfailing).
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Updated.
+
+ Enable `set -e' in more tests (plus some tweakings).
+ * tests/implicit.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
+ changes. Add trailing `:' command.
+ * tests/insh2.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/instman2.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/interp.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/interp2.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/library.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/mclean.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/info.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
+ changes. Add trailing `:' command. Remove useless chaff from
+ generated Makefile.am. Add a "FIXME" comment.
+ * tests/include.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
+ changes. Add trailing `:' command. Prefer cat + here-doc over
+ echo to append to configure.in. Make tests more robust by using
+ longer and less common names to grep. Remove an useless call to
+ echo. Remove an useless subshell.
+ * tests/header.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
+ changes. Use proper m4 quoting. Add excerpts from the original
+ report of the bug tested for by this script.
+ * tests/gcj.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
+ changes. Use proper m4 quoting. Add trailing `:' command.
+ * tests/gcj3.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/ldflags.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/libtool.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/listval.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/javaprim.test: Likewise, and prefer cat + here-doc over
+ echo to append to configure.in.
+ * tests/javasubst.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/discorver.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Prefer
+ trailing `:' over trailing `Exit 0'.
+ * tests/instdat.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
+ changes. Use proper m4 quoting. Avoid usless subshell. Prefer
+ cat + here-doc over echo to append to configure.in.
+ * tests/libtool2.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
+ changes. Add trailing `:' command. Use the configure.in
+ stub provided by ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch.
+
+ Modernize, improve and/or tweak some test scripts.
+ * tests/maintclean.test: Use proper m4 quoting. Add trailing `:'
+ command.
+ * tests/sinclude.test: Likewise, and add a couple of blank lines,
+ for clarity.
+ * tests/make.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier in
+ the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Use the configure.in
+ stub created by ./defs, rather than writing it from scratch. Some
+ cosmetic changes in spacing. Ensure we wait enough time before
+ touching configure.in to trigger the rebuild rules.
+ * tests/makej.test: Use `$me' instead of hard-coding the test
+ name. Add trailing `:' command.
+ * tests/version7.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/space.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
+ changes.
+ * tests/makevars.test: Likewise. Also, prefer trailing `:' over
+ trailing `Exit 0', and be more tolerant of white spaces when
+ grepping Makefile.in.
+
+2010-12-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ * tests/silent8.test: Use "|| Exit 1" after ". ./defs".
+
+ Enable `set -e' in more tests (plus some tweakings).
+ * tests/mkinstall.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
+ changes. Add a trailing `:' command, if needed.
+ * tests/mdate2.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/objc.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/noinst.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/outdir.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/number.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/pluseq.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/req.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/rulepat.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/specflg6.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/spell3.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/parse.test: Likewise, and ...
+ (configure.in): Use the stub created by ./defs, rather than
+ writing it from scratch. Remove useless calls to AC_PROG_RANLIB
+ and AC_OUTPUT.
+ * tests/mdate4.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/mkinstall.test: Likewise, and ...
+ (configure.in): ... drop useless call to `AC_OUTPUT'.
+ * tests/output.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
+ changes. Add a trailing `:' command.
+ (configure.in): Modernize.
+ * tests/output2.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/output3.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/output4.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/mdate3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
+ changes. Prefer `$me' over hard-coded test name. Do not move
+ non-existent or useless files in the build auxiliary directory.
+ * tests/nodistdir.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related
+ changes. Prefer trailing `:' over trailing `Exit 0'.
+ * tests/nodist.test: Likewise. Also, prefer cat + here-doc over
+ echo to create input test files, and do not create useless dummy
+ C source files.
+ * tests/nodist2.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/ppf77.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
+ changes. Add a trailing `:' command. Do not create useless
+ dummy source files.
+ * tests/spelling.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
+ changes. Add a trailing `:' command. Also, grep Automake error
+ message.
+ * tests/specflg3.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
+ changes. Avoid unportable use of `-e' option of fgrep. Prefer
+ trailing `:' over trailing `Exit 0'. Remove extra empty lines,
+ and cosmetic changes to whitespaces.
+ * tests/obsolete.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, with related
+ changes. Improve verbosity. Other miscellanous changes.
+
+2010-11-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Improve and extend tests on `:=' variable assignments.
+ * tests/colneq.test: Avoid redundant use of variable assignments
+ in Makefile.am. Use command-line automake options instead of
+ editing AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS in Makefile.am. Make grepping of the
+ generated Makefile.in slightly stricter. Add a trailing `:'
+ command.
+ * tests/colneq2.test: Do not create unneeded dummy files. Run
+ also autoconf, ./configure and make. Add trailing `:' command.
+ * tests/colneq3.test: New test, similar to colneq.test, but
+ running also autoconf, ./configure and make.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2010-11-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Remove long-deprecated options --Werror and --Wno-error.
+ These options has been deprecated at least since commit
+ "Release-1-6-1b-35-gc037f20", dated 2002-07-06.
+ * automake.in (parse_arguments): Do not recognize anymore options
+ `--Werror' and `--Wno-error' as synonyms of respectively `-Werror'
+ and `-Wno-error'.
+ * tests/werror.test: Update: use `-Werror' instead of `--Werror'.
+ * NEWS: Update.
+
+2010-11-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Fix spurious failures in `silent*.test' for $CC != gcc
+ In some tests on automake-produced silent rules, we forced the
+ use of gcc depmode to improve testsuite coverage; but this has
+ unsurprisingly led to spurious failures when some non-GNU C
+ compilers were used. So we are now careful to require GCC in
+ tests that force gcc depmode.
+ From reports by Ralf Wildenhues.
+ * silent5.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
+ * silent-many-generic.test, silent-many-gcc.test: ... these new
+ sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
+ "gcc" in $required.
+ * silentlex.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
+ * silent-lex-generic.test, silent-lex-gcc.test: ... these new
+ sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
+ "gcc" in $required.
+ * silentyacc.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
+ * silent-yacc-generic.test, silent-yacc-gcc.test: ... these new
+ sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
+ "gcc" in $required.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
+
+2010-11-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Tests: consistently use "|| Exit 1" after ". ./defs".
+ * tests/autohdr.test: Use `. ./defs || Exit 1', not bare
+ `. ./defs', for consistency with other tests.
+ * tests/autohdr2.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/autohdr3.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/autohdr4.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/cond23.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/cond24.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/cond25.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/cond26.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/cond27.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/cond28.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/cond29.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/cond30.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/cond31.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/cond32.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/cond33.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/cond34.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/cond35.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/cond36.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/cond37.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/cond38.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/cond39.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/cond40.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/cond41.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/cond42.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/cond43.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/cond44.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/cond45.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/dollarvar.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/dollarvar2.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/hfs.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/libobj14.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/percent.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/percent2.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/phony.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/silent.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/silent6.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/silent7.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/silentcxx.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/silentf77.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/silentlex.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/silentyacc.test: Likewise.
+
+ Avoid useless cleaning in some `silent*.test' tests.
+ * tests/silentf77.test: Removed useless calls to "make clean"
+ and "make maintainer-clean".
+ * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/silent3.test: Removed useless call to "make distclean".
+ * tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/silent9.test: Likewise.
+
+2010-11-19 Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
+
+ Sync config-ml.in from GCC.
+ * config-ml.in: Add Go support: treat GOC and GOCFLAGS like other
+ compiler/flag environment variables.
+
+2010-11-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ release-stats: account for more generated tests.
+ * Makefile.am (release-stats): Be sure to take into account all
+ the generated tests, by grepping the test scripts to decide which
+ ones of them are automatically generated.
+
+2010-11-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Code cleanup after removal of option `--output-directory'.
+ * automake.in ($output_directory): Remove, it's unconditionally
+ defined to `.' and used only ...
+ (generate_makefile): ... in this subroutine, which now has been
+ edited and simplified accordingly.
+
+ Remove obsolete automake option `--output-directory'.
+ This option has been deprecated since version 1.7 (2002/2003).
+ * automake.in ($output_directory): Define to `.' unconditionally.
+ (parse_arguments): Remove handling of equivalent options `-o' and
+ `--output-directory'.
+ * tests/outdir.test: Removed.
+ * tests/no-outdir-option.test: New test.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
+ * NEWS: Updated.
+
+2010-11-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Automake::Config: remove extra trailing semicolon.
+ * lib/Automake/Config.in: Remove extra trailing semicolon.
+
+ help4.test: fix botched heading comment.
+ * tests/help4.test: Fixed the heading comment, since it
+ didn't correctly describe what checks the testcase was
+ supposed to perform.
+
+ help2.test: add checks on aclocal too.
+ * tests/help2.test: Check that also `aclocal --version' and
+ `aclocal --help' work with configure.in and acinclude.m4 both
+ broken.
+
+2010-11-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ New test on repeated automake options.
+ * tests/repeated-options.test: New test, check that automake
+ does not complain on repeated options, nor generate broken or
+ incorrect makefiles.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
+
+2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Fix spurious failures of silent-rules tests with Sun Fortran.
+ * tests/silentf77.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
+ messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers, to
+ avoid spurious failures. Add a trailing `:' command.
+ * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise.
+
+2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Fix spurious failures of silent5.test with Sun Fortran.
+ * tests/silent5.test: Strip from the make output some verbose
+ messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers,
+ to avoid spurious failures. This bug has been there from the
+ very first version of this test script.
+
+2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Fix regression in colon{5,6}.test (failures on AIX 5.3).
+ * tests/colon5.test: Also substitute `@SHELL@' with `$SHELL' when
+ post-processing the generated Makefile.in, to work around a bug
+ of AIX 5.3 make which doesn't allow setting the `$(SHELL)' macro
+ on the commend line. Calls to `$MAKE' adjusted accordingly.
+ * tests/colon6.test: Likewise.
+ Regression introduced in commit v1.11-175-gf9fe878 "Modernize,
+ improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test", and reported by Ralf
+ Wildenhues.
+
+2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Fix regression in ansi.test (failure on AIX 5.3).
+ * tests/ansi.test: Remove redundant hackish check done using a
+ hand-postprocessed Makefile.in. This check worked by setting
+ the `$(SHELL)' macro on the command line of make, but this is
+ not supported by the AIX 5.3 make implementation.
+ This bug has been lurking for a long time, and was activated by
+ commit v1.11-125-gc1f6cdb "Enable `errexit' shell flag in various
+ tests". Report by Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+2010-11-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ backcompat5.test: avoid '##'-style comments inside recipe commands.
+ * tests/backcompat5.test: Remove double-hash comments
+ from makefile rule commands, they are not part of the
+ Automake API. Fixes testsuite failure with Tru64 make.
+
+ tests: avoid '##'-style comments inside recipe commands.
+ * tests/confh.test, tests/confh8.test: Remove
+ double-hash comments from makefile rule commands, they
+ are not part of the Automake API.
+
+2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ tests: work around dash quoting issue in case statements.
+ * tests/color.test, tests/color2.test: Quote variable in case
+ pattern, to avoid skipping tests with dash 0.5.5.1.
+
+2010-11-16 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
+
+ Skip MSVC oriented tests if the shell is not capable.
+ * tests/defs: New required entry 'xsi-shell'.
+ * tests/ar-lib.test, tests/compile3.test, tests/compile6.test:
+ Require a XSI capable shell.
+ Reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+2010-11-15 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
+
+ compile: clear the `eat' variable earlier.
+ * lib/compile: Clear the `eat' variable earlier.
+ ($scriptversion): Update.
+ * tests/compile3.test: Prevent regressions.
+
+2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ More stable configure output from sanity check.
+ * m4/sanity.m4 (AM_SANITY_CHECK): Always print check line
+ about ensuring newer files, even if we don't actually need
+ to wait any more.
+
+2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ Rebuild menus in the manual.
+ * doc/automake.texi: Rebuild menus (using ^C ^U ^A in emacs).
+ Thanks to Ian Lance Taylor for the suggestion.
+
+ Fix install-strip when $(STRIP) contains several words.
+ * lib/am/install.am (install-strip): Update comment. Use
+ separate sub-make invocations for empty and nonempty $(STRIP),
+ to fix quoting issues.
+ * tests/strip2.test, tests/strip3.test: New tests.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Adjust.
+
+2010-11-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ Fix yaccdry.test failure: require bison.
+ * tests/yaccdry.test: Require bison.
+ Found by NixOS Hydra.
+
+2010-11-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Fix bug in test `backcompat6.test' (MSYS portability).
+ * tests/backcompat6.test (Makefile.am): Grep the output from the
+ test program, rather than diffing it, to avoid spurious failures
+ on MinGW/MSYS due to LF vs. CRLF line endings.
+ Reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+2010-11-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Deprecate obsolete macro AM_WITH_REGEX.
+ * m4/regex.m4: Document the `AM_WITH_REGEX' macro as obsolete,
+ and state that it should be removed two years from now.
+ (AM_WITH_REGEX): Raise an m4-time warning of the "obsolete"
+ category when this macro is used.
+ * doc/automake.texi (Public Macros): Move description of
+ `AM_WITH_REGEX' from here ...
+ (Obsolete Macros): ... to here, and declare it as obsolete
+ and "to be removed in a future version".
+ * tests/regex-obsolete.test: New test.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2010-11-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Improve and extend tests on man pages support.
+ * tests/man.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag, and related changes.
+ Make grepping of generated Makefile.in slightly stricter.
+ * tests/man3.test: Add trailing `:' command.
+ * tests/man5.test: Prefer cat + here-doc over echo to append to
+ configure.in.
+ * tests/man2.test: Likewise, and add trailing `:' command.
+ * tests/man4.test: More thorough and consistent checking of make
+ error messages. Place fake `help2man' program in a new `bin'
+ directory rather than in `.'. Move the checks using the real
+ `help2man' program to ...
+ * tests/man6.test: ... this new test, and extend them. This test
+ passes with GNU make and Solaris make, still fails with BSD make.
+ * tests/man7.test: New test, extracted from old man4.test, which
+ checks for a bug in maintainer-clean w.r.t. generated manpages.
+ * tests/man8.test: New test, extracted from old man4.test, which
+ checks for a bug in distcheck w.r.t. generated manpages. Passes
+ with GNU make and Solaris make, still fails with BSD make.
+
+2010-11-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Minor improvements and extensions to various tests.
+ * tests/defun.test: Also run autoconf and grep the generated
+ configure to make sure that aclocal truly picks up all the
+ required macros.
+ * tests/compile_f_c_cxx.test: Prefer trailing `:' over trailing
+ `Exit 0'. Do not create useless dummy source files. Do not set
+ useless `$(foo_LDADD)' variable in `Makefile.am'. Do not call
+ useless macro `AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS' in `configure.in'.
+ * tests/compile_f90_c_cxx.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/suffix10.test: Slightly stricter grepping of make output.
+ * tests/compile.test: Add trailing `:' command.
+ * tests/defun2.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/vars3.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/vartar.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/vars.test: Likewise. Also, extend test by checking
+ that the definition of `MY_FLAGS*' variables is preserved in
+ the generated `Makefile.in'.
+ * tests/stamph2.test: Prefer trailing `:' over trailing `Exit 0'.
+ Use proper m4 quoting in `configure.in'.
+
+2010-11-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Tests defs: improve messages for skipped tests.
+ * tests/defs: Give meaningful messages about the reasons of a
+ test skip; this is especially useful as this file is run without
+ verbose xtraces on. Related reorderings in the code and new
+ comments.
+
+2010-11-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Tests defs: move static definitions in a new file `defs-static'.
+ The new file is meant to be idempotent w.r.t. multiple inclusions.
+ * tests/defs.in: Removed, its contents split among ...
+ * tests/defs-static.in: ... this new file ...
+ * tests/defs: ... and this new file, including the former.
+ * configure.ac (AC_CONFIG_FILES): Remove `tests/defs', add
+ `tests/defs-static'.
+ (AC_CONFIG_LINKS): Add `tests/defs'.
+ * tests/Makefile.am ($(parallel_tests)): Update.
+ ($(instspc_tests)): Likewise.
+ * tests/.gitignore: Update.
+
+ Tests defs: $testsbuilddir is now AC_SUBST'ed.
+ * tests/defs.in ($testsbuilddir): Substitute from @abs_builddir@.
+ Add sanity check on $testsbuilddir, similar to those on
+ $testsrcdir and $top_testsrcdir.
+
+ Tests defs: do not print message "Running test $0" anymore.
+ * tests/defs.in: Printing the message "=== Running test $0" at
+ the beginning of each tests made sense when Automake used the old
+ test-driver, which sent all the output directly to stdout/stderr.
+ Now that the parallel test-driver is used, which saves output of
+ each test in its corresponding log file, that old message is just
+ useless noise.
+
+ Tests defs: rename $curdir -> $testbuilddir
+ * tests/defs.in: Rename $curdir to $testbuildir, for clarity and
+ consistency with $testsrcdir and $top_testsrcdir.
+
+ Tests defs: prefer "$curdir" over "`pwd`".
+ * tests/defs.in: We already save the value of `pwd` in $curdir
+ early in the file, so there no need to recalculate it later, when
+ the current working directory is not changed.
+
+ Tests defs: use `$me' in more error messages.
+ * tests/defs.in: Also use `$me' in error messages referring to
+ missing `defs' or `defs.in', since that variable is now defined
+ before those checks.
+
+ Tests defs: do not use `Exit' where plain `exit' suffices.
+ * tests/defs.in: Use "exit 77" rather than "Exit 77" to skip the
+ test when required libtool/gettext macros are not found, since
+ such skips would take place before the exit trap is installed.
+
+ Tests defs: improve and extends comments.
+ * tests/defs.in: Improve and extends some comments, especially in
+ relation with the changes introduced by the previous reordering.
+
+ Tests defs: various reorderings.
+ * tests/defs.in: Reordered various snippets of code in a
+ clearer way.
+
+2010-11-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Fix bug in test `backcompat4.test' (stale autom4te cache).
+ * tests/backcompat4.test: Remove stale autom4te cache directory
+ before re-running aclocal and automake. Also, since we are at
+ it, be more verbose in displaying contents of generated files,
+ to ease debuggability.
+ Reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+2010-11-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Fix a bug in variable concatenation with `+='.
+ * lib/Automake/VarDef.pm (append): Since the content of the
+ "appended-to" variable is going to be unconditionally normalized
+ later, simply separate the appended value with a single whitespace
+ character, instead of trying to be uselessly smarter by using
+ escaped newlines. This fixes a bug in which extra backslashes
+ where erroneously inserted in the variable's final value.
+ * tests/pluseq11.test: New test, exposing the bug.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+ Reported by Andy Wingo.
+
+2010-11-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Modernize, improve and/or tweak various test scripts.
+ * tests/stamph2.test: Improve m4 quoting in `configure.in', and
+ prefer trailing `:' over trailing `Exit 0'.
+ * tests/syntax.test: Escape literal dots in grep regexps.
+ * tests/copy.test: Enable `errexit' shell flag. Extend test by
+ checking with `test' utility that the script `install-sh' is
+ copied, but not symlinked.
+ * tests/depdist.test: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier
+ in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Avoid obsoleted
+ constructs in generated `configure.in'. Prefer to do our checks
+ by running configure and make over grepping Makefile.in.
+ * tests/target-cflags: Move setting of `errexit' shell flag
+ earlier in the script (just after inclusion of ./defs). Use the
+ `configure.in' stub created by `./defs', rather than writing it
+ from scratch.
+ * tests/target-clash: Do not uselessly run autoconf.
+ * tests/ctarget1.test: Renamed ...
+ * tests/cond-basic.test: ... to this. Use the `configure.in' stub
+ created by `./defs', rather than writing it from scratch.
+ Move setting of `errexit' shell flag earlier in the script (just
+ after inclusion of ./defs). Other minor cosmetic changes.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
+
+2010-11-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ New tests on obsoleted usages of automake/autoconf macros (such
+ as AC_INIT, AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE and AC_OUTPUT).
+ * tests/backcompat.test: New test script.
+ * tests/backcompat2.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/backcompat3.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/backcompat4.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/backcompat5.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/backcompat6.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/init.test: Extended and improved, esp. by trying more
+ combinations of calls to AC_INIT and AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE with few
+ arguments.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
+
+2010-11-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Fix bug in rules for creating vala vapi/header files.
+ * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Add forgotten "fi" in an
+ if control structure in a generated make rules. Bug introduced
+ by previous commit `v1.11-221-gd7c1679', and revealed by failure
+ of test `vala2.test'.
+
+2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ Fix and document rules to not touch the tree with `make -n'.
+ * doc/automake.texi (Multiple Outputs): Document the problem of
+ modifications during dry-run execution, propose solution.
+ * NEWS: Update.
+ * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Split recipe so the
+ stamp file is not removed with GNU `make -n'.
+ (lang_yacc_target_hook): Separate removal of parser output file
+ and header remaking.
+ * lib/am/lisp.am ($(am__ELCFILES)): Determine whether -n was
+ passed to make, take care not to remove any files in that case.
+ * lib/am/remake-hdr.am (%CONFIG_H%): Separate removal of
+ %STAMP% file from induced remaking of config header.
+ * tests/autohdrdry.test, tests/lispdry.test, tests/yaccdry.test:
+ New tests.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2010-11-05 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Fix potential bug in generated tests `instpc-*.test'.
+ This bug is due to the changes introduced by the recently-merged
+ "tests-init" branch. In that branch, `tests/defs' didn't define
+ anymore `$srcdir', instead defining directly `$testsrcdir'; but
+ the generated tests were using `$srcdir', hence the bug.
+ Luckily, since the Automake parallel test driver automatically
+ exports `srcdir' to a proper value, that prevented the bug from
+ manifesting itself.
+ * tests/Makefile.am ($(instspc_tests)): In the generated test
+ scripts, use `$testsrcdir', not `$srcdir'.
+
+2010-11-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Overhauled and modularized tests in `instspc.test'.
+ The test `instspc.test' was way too big and fragile. Its running
+ time was very long. It also produced a log that was nearly
+ unreadable due to its length, making it very difficult to find
+ out the reason for failures.
+ Also, it was too much monolithic, with a single (maybe spurious)
+ failure in a corner case causing the whole test to fail (even if
+ everything worked as expected in the other 99% of cases).
+ The present change should solve these problems, by separating
+ `instspc.test' into many smaller, self-contained, auto-generated
+ tests.
+ * tests/instspc.test: Removed.
+ * tests/instspc-tests.sh: New script, fulfilling a double role:
+ 1. it generates a Makefile.am snippet `tests/instspc-tests.am',
+ containing the definition of a list of new tests which will take
+ over the older `instspc.test', and
+ 2. it is sourced by said generated tests with proper parameters
+ pre-set, to run the "meat" of the checks.
+ This apparent abuse is indeed required because the test generation
+ code and test execution code are inevitably intertwined.
+ * tests/Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/instspc-tests.am): Include this
+ snippet, which (among the other things) defines ...
+ (instspc_tests): ... this new macro, containing the list of the
+ newly generated `instspc*.test' tests, and ...
+ (instspc_xfail_tests): ... this new macro, containing the list
+ of the `instspc*.test' tests expected to fail.
+ ($(instspc_tests)): New rule, generates the `instspc*.test' tests.
+ ($(instspc_tests:.test=.log)): New rule, registers the dependency
+ of all `instspc*.test' tests on the `instspc-tests.sh' script.
+ (TESTS): Add `$(instspc_tests)', remove `instspc.test'.
+ (XFAIL_TESTS): Add `$(xfail_instspc_tests)'.
+ (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute instspc-tests.sh.
+ (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Added $(instspc_tests).
+ Other minor cosmetic changes.
+ * bootstrap: Generate instspc-tests.am.
+ * tests/.gitignore: Updated.
+
+2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ Add FAQ entry for bug reporting instructions.
+ * doc/automake.texi (Reporting Bugs): New section.
+ (Introduction): Refer to it.
+
+2010-10-07 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
+
+ depcomp: add new one-pass depmode for MSVC 7 and later.
+ * lib/depcomp: Add new depmodes 'msvc7' and 'msvc7msys' which
+ make use of the -showIncludes option added in MSVC 7.
+ * m4/depend.m4 (_AM_DEPENDENCIES): Handle the new depmodes
+ similarly to 'msvisualcpp' and 'msvcmsys' as MSVC does not
+ support the -o option.
+
+2010-10-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
+
+ dist-xz, dist-bzip2: don't hard-code -9: honor envvar settings
+ * lib/am/distdir.am (dist-xz): Do not hard-code xz's -9: that
+ made it impossible to override. Instead, use its XZ_OPT envvar,
+ defaulting to -9 if not defined. Thus no change in behavior
+ when XZ_OPT is not set, and now, this rule honors the setting
+ of that envvar when it is set. Suggested by Lasse Collin.
+ (dist-bzip2): Likewise for it's corresponding envvar: BZIP2.
+ * NEWS (Miscellaneous changes): Mention it.
+ * doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions): Describe the
+ newly enabled environment variables.
+
+2010-10-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Add support for newer python versions.
+ * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Add python2.7 and python3.2 to
+ _AM_PYTHON_INTERPRETER_LIST. Since we are at it, break a long
+ line and fix indentation.
+ * THANKS: Updated.
+ From a report by Thomas Klausner.
+
+ Add test for `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' macro.
+ * tests/dmalloc.test: New test.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+ Fix nits and bugs in tests `help*.test'.
+ * tests/help4.test: Fix broken sed commands used to strip `-W...'
+ flags away from "$AUTOMAKE" and "$ACLOCAL".
+ * tests/help3.test: Likewise, and fix a botched comment.
+ * tests/help.test: Likewise. Also, use "AUTOMAKE_fails ..."
+ instead of "$AUTOMAKE ... && Exit 1", for consistency and to
+ please maintainer-check.
+ * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
+
+2010-10-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+ Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ Improve tests `help*.test' (also fixes maintcheck failures).
+ * tests/help.test: To run automake, use `$AUTOMAKE' with all `-W'
+ flags stripped away rather than hard-coded `automake-$APIVERSION',
+ to better honour user-overrides. Similarly for aclocal.
+ * tests/help2.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/help3.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/help4.test: Likewise.
+
+2010-10-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ tests: fix ar-lib.test for echo that interprets backslashes.
+ * tests/ar-lib.test: Use printf instead of echo. Avoid test -a.
+ More robust quoting.
+
+2010-10-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ maintainer-check coverage for variables before rules.
+ * Makefile.am (sc_ensure_testsuite_has_run): Suggest keeping
+ around the test directories.
+ (sc_tests_makefile_variable_order): New rule with a heuristic to
+ catch ordering violations.
+
+ Document and fix expansion of variables before rules.
+ * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Document that variables
+ are expanded before rules.
+ * lib/am/check.am (am__check_post): Reword a bit so it does not
+ get matched as a rule.
+ Suggestion by Ben Pfaff.
+
2010-10-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Coverage and minor fixes for variable typo detection.