Merge branch 'master' into ng/master

Merge branch 'master' into ng/master

* master:
  Fix stupid typo in test, causing spurious failure
  sync: update third-part files from upstream
  Make sure AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE has a trailing newline
  dist: adjust warning messages about shar and tarZ deprecation
  docs: improve description of ${PACKAGE}, ${VERSION}, and similar variables
  Fix dumb logic error preventing $install_sh from being be overridden
  Automake docs: fix typos and use of British English
  Expose automake bug#19311
  build: fix race in parallel builds
  build: fix race in parallel builds
  init: ensure $ac_aux_dir is defined before being used
  plans: enabling subdir-object by default is blocked on bug#13928
  maint: update copyright (for files in 'master' only)
  maint: update copyright years
  maint: sync files from upstream ("make fetch")
  Typofixes in warning messages and manual
  doc: fix encoding error with UTF-8 characters
  NEWS: a typofix, and better word wrapping
  parallel-tests: avoid possible implicit "make all" in test-suite.log rule
  Allow user to extend .PRECIOUS target
  cosmetics: remove a couple of extra trailing white spaces
  tests: fix a spurious failure on Mac OS X
  docs: make clear the JAVA primary is frozen
  install-sh: a slightly better diagnostic, and tests enhancements
  install-sh: be stricter in catching invalid usages
  tests: more significant names for some tests
  tests: some cosmetic fixes
  tests: more significant names for a test
  docs: drop a few obsolescent FIXME/TODO comments, and associated text
  testsuite harness: report test exit status in log file
  TAP driver: no need to invoke AC_PROG_AWK directly
  TAP driver: remove perl implementation (move it into contrib/)
  NEWS: stop reporting "new" Automake versioning scheme
  post-release: micro version bump to 1.14.1a devel version
  release: stable micro release 1.14.1
  HACKING: minor clarification
  tests: make install-info-dir.sh print more debugging info
  tests: remove too-brittle test tap-realtime.sh
  maintainer: am-ft: add option to cater to clock skews
  sync: update INSTALL, config.guess and config.sub from upstream
  TAP driver: cosmetic fixes
  cosmetics: fix typo in a user-facing message in tests
  automake: account for perl hash order randomization
  tests: avoid use of intervals to capitalize letters
  cosmetics: untabify the install-sh script
  install-sh: assume that "set -f" and "set +f" work...
  install-sh: assume ${var:-value} works as expected
  install-sh: assume 'dirname' is available and working correctly
  distcheck: don't allow overriding of --prefix and --srcdir by the user
  tests: expose bug#14991 (relates to 'distcheck')
  tests: fix spurious failure when zip is present but unzip is not
  tests: fix spurious failure due to localization issues
  NEWS: update with the changes since v1.14
  docs: correct typos in the fix-timestamp.sh script
  python: byte-compile nobase_*_PYTHON files only once
  cosmetics: typofix in the 'missing' script
  test: avoid false positives in 'cc-no-c-o' script
  test harness: improve catching of usage errors in script 'test-driver'
  tests: fix a spurious failure on NetBSD-current
  am-ft: make the environment available earlier
  NEWS: post-release tweaks (for 1.14.x series)
  tests: avoid a spurious failure on MacOS X 10.6.8
  tests: don't risk hanging on the 'cl' requirement
  post-release: micro version bump (1.14a)
  post-release: micro version bump (1.14.0a)
  release: stable minor release 1.14

Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>