+ 2011-10-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ dejagnu: ensure 'srcdir' is defined as a relative directory
+ This change fixes automake bug#7833.
+ * lib/am/dejagnu.am (check-DEJAGNU): Prefer using plain $(srcdir)
+ over calculating and using the absolute path of $(srcdir).
+ * tests/dejagnu-relative-srcdir.test: New test.
+ * tests/dejagnu-absolute-builddir.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+ Report by Ian Lance Taylor. Suggestions by Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+ 2010-12-13 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ Fix testsuite failure of check12.test without DejaGNU.
+ * tests/check12.test: Require runtest.
+
+ 2010-12-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Extend and improve tests on DejaGnu support.
+ * tests/dejagnu.test: Do not create useless dummy test script.
+ Add trailing `:' command. In heading comments, add reference
+ to ...
+ * tests/check12.test: ... this new "semantic" test, covering
+ concurrent use of dejagnu tests, simple tests and `check-local'
+ target.
+ * tests/dejagnu2.test: Make test more reliable, by avoid weak
+ grepping of make output. Prefer `cat' over `echo' to append
+ to configure.in. Quote literal dots in grep regexps. Prefer
+ `grep -c ...' over `grep ... | wc -l'. Make grepping of
+ automake stderr slightly stricter. Add trailing `:' command.
+ * tests/dejagnu3.test: Prefer `cat' over `echo' to append to
+ configure.in. Check stderr of expected-to-fail "make" call.
+ Remove extra blank lines from Makefile.am.
+ * tests/dejagnu4.test: Prefer `cat' over `echo' to append to
+ configure.in. Prefer `mv -f' over plain `mv' when the target
+ file already exists. Avoid extra mkdir calls by creating more
+ directories at once. Better use of blank lines. Check that
+ the `*.log' and `*.sum' files are created by runtest also when
+ "make check" fails.
+ * tests/dejagnu7.test: Prefer `cat' over `echo' to append to
+ configure.in. Better use of blank lines. Add a trailing `:'
+ command.
+ * tests/dejagnu6.test: Likewise, and give the dejagnu test a
+ more descriptive name.
+ * tests/dejagnu5.test: Likewise. Also, simply define package
+ name to `$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.
+
+2011-10-21 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
+
+ * THANKS: Fix whitespace issue.
+
+2011-10-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: fix spurious failure with FreeBSD make and Yacc in VPATH
+ * tests/subpkg.test: Some cosmetic adjustments. Move the tests
+ checking that $(YLWRAP) is defined and installed properly when
+ ylwrap is in a default auxdir found in a parent package ...
+ * tests/subpkg-yacc.test: ... into this new test, which carefully
+ avoids to trigger the known bug#7884 (combo FreeBSD make plus Yacc
+ plus VPATH build).
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-10-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: avoid spurious failure in 'parallel-tests3.test'
+ This fixes automake bug#8788.
+ * tests/parallel-tests3.test: To ensure that the serial run of
+ the dummy testsuite is still ongoing when the parallel run has
+ terminated, use `kill -0', not a bare `kill'. This will prevent
+ a testsuite crash on NetBSD 5.1, and a testsuite hang on FreeBSD
+ 8.2. Also, since we are at it, try harder to avoid possible
+ hangs of the script in other unusual situations.
+
+2011-10-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: fix spurious failures with "chatty" make implementations
+ * tests/distcheck-missing-m4.test: On failure, some make
+ implementations (such as Solaris make) print the whole failed
+ recipe on standard output. This was causing a spurious failure
+ in the checks grepping the output from make. Work around this.
+ * tests/distcheck-outdated-m4.test: Likewise.
+
+2011-10-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: fix spurious failure on fast machines
+ * tests/aclocal-path-precedence.test: Also remove the `configure'
+ script between different test runs, to ensure it is always remade
+ by autoconf. Add proper explicative comments.
+
+2011-10-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: avoid spurious failure of 'uninstall-fail.test' on Solaris
+ * tests/uninstall-fail.test: All the Solaris 10 shells (/bin/sh,
+ /bin/ksh, and /usr/xpg4/bin/sh), upon failing to chdir to a
+ directory with the `cd' builtin, print a message like:
+ "sh: /root: permission denied"
+ which doesn't report the `cd' builtin anywhere. Relax the grepping
+ of the error message accordingly.
+
+2011-10-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: avoid spurious failure of 'uninstall-fail.test' on Cygwin
+ * tests/uninstall-fail.test: Be sure to really skip this test
+ on systems that allows files to be removed from unwritable
+ directories. Motivated by a spurious failure on Cygwin 1.5.
+
+2011-10-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: fix spurious failure with autoconf 2.62
+ * tests/aclocal-path-precedence.test: Rewrite configure.in,
+ rather than appending to it, to avoid spurious failures (at
+ least with autoconf 2.62) due to repeated calls to AC_INIT.
+ Also, add package name and version arguments to AC_INIT, to
+ avoid spurious errors from automake.
+
+2011-10-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ docs: avoid using colon character inside arguments of @pxref
+ Fixes automake bug#9753
+ * doc/automake.texi (VPATH Builds): Avoid using colon character
+ `:' inside arguments of @pxref, as this can cause problems in
+ the generated `.info' files, and such an usage will be explicitly
+ forbidden by future texinfo documentation.
+ * THANKS: Update.
+ Reported by Дилян Палаузов.
+
+2011-10-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ parallel-tests: warn on conditional TEST_EXTENSIONS definition
+ Before this change, automake would have still bailed out, but
+ with a confusing error message (about an invalid redefinition
+ of TEST_EXTENSIONS).
+ * automake.in (handle_tests): Warn explicitly if TEST_EXTENSIONS
+ has conditional contents.
+ * tests/test-extensions-con.test: New test.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
+ * NEWS: Update.
+
+2011-10-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ parallel-tests: don't allow @substitutions@ in TEST_EXTENSIONS
+ Even after the last commit `v1.11-476-g90bea64', the checks
+ performed by automake on entries in $(TEST_EXTENSIONS) tried to
+ allow for @substitited@ stuff. This however ends up allowing
+ quite brittle setups, which, most importantly, are of no real
+ practical usefulness anyway. So it's better to just disallow
+ @substitutions@ in TEST_EXTENSIONS altogether, offering a clear
+ error message, instead of risking weird bugs and unexpected
+ behaviors in the generated Makefile.in.
+ * automake.in ($TEST_EXTENSION_PATTERN): Turned from a regular
+ expression ...
+ (is_valid_test_extension): ... into this subroutine. Don't allow
+ generic @substitutions@ anymore (possibly making an exception for
+ `@EXEEXT@' under the proper circumstances).
+ * tests/test-extensions.test: Adjust and extend.
+
+2011-10-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: fix spurious failure in 'insthook.test'
+ * tests/insthook.test (Makefile.am): Add a proper `uninstall-hook'
+ target to remove the symlink created by the `install-exec-hook'
+ target; this prevents "make distcheck" from failing spuriously.
+ Since we are at it, delete an extra blank line, and add a trailing
+ `:' command.
+
+2011-10-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ maintcheck: fix spurious failure
+ * lib/am/distdir.am: Use `$(infodir)', not `${infodir}', to avoid
+ complaints from the `sc_no_brace_variable_expansions' maintainer
+ check.
+
+2011-10-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ fix: make a test script executable
+ * tests/nobase-nodist.test: Make executable.
+
+2011-10-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ coverage: expose automake bug#9651
+ * tests/dist-auxfile.test: New test, xfailing.
+ * tests/dist-auxfile-2.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Add them.
+
+2011-10-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ parallel-tests: automake error our on invalid TEST_EXTENSIONS
+ This change fixes automake bug#9400.
+ * automake.in (handle_tests): Bail out if a suffix specified in
+ TEST_EXTENSIONS would produce an invalid `xxx_LOG_COMPILER'
+ variable or an invalid suffix rule. Before this change, automake
+ would have issued a confusing error messages (about invalid or
+ non-POSIX variables being defined), and in some situations would
+ have even produced a broken `Makefile.in' file.
+ ($TEST_EXTENSION_PATTERN): New helper variable.
+ * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Document
+ the limitations on TEST_EXTENSIONS explicitly.
+ * NEWS: Update.
+ * tests/test-extensions.test: New test.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-09-28 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ docs: don't suggest installing `.m4' files in hard-coded location
+ This change fixes automake bug#7988.
+ * doc/automake.texi (aclocal Options): State that the use of
+ the `--print-ac-dir' option to determine the directory where
+ third-party packages can install their `.m4' files is discouraged
+ now.
+ (Extending aclocal): Suggest telling the user about ACLOCAL_PATH.
+ * THANKS: Update.
+ Report by Peter Johansson.
+
+2011-09-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ distuninstallcheck: fail also when only one file is left installed
+ This change fixes automake bug#9579.
+ * lib/am/distdir.am (distuninstallcheck): Be stricter in ignoring
+ a potential `dir' file created by install-info and left installed.
+ Also, be more careful about "this can't happen" kind of errors.
+ (am__distuninstallcheck_listfiles): New internal helper macro.
+ * tests/distcheck-pr9579.test: New test.
+ * tests/distcheck-override-infodir.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add them.
+ * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
+ Report by Nick Bowler.
+
+2011-09-28 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ maintcheck: fix usage of `cd' instead of `$(am__cd)'
+ * lib/am/inst-vars.am (am__uninstall_files_from_dir): Use
+ `$(am__cd)', not plain `cd'.
+
+2011-09-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ uninstall: "make uninstall" before "make install" works
+ This change fixes automake bug#9578.
+ * lib/am/inst-vars.am (am__uninstall_files_from_dir): New internal
+ macro, that defines a shell code fragment to uninstall files from
+ a given directory.
+ * lib/am/data.am (uninstall-%DIR%%PRIMARY%): Use it, to reduce code
+ duplication and improve consistency and correctness.
+ * lib/am/libs.am (uninstall-%DIR%LIBRARIES): Likewise.
+ * lib/am/lisp.am (uninstall-%DIR%LISP): Likewise.
+ * lib/am/mans.am (uninstall-man%SECTION%): Likewise.
+ * lib/am/python.am (uninstall-%DIR%LIBRARIES): Likewise.
+ * lib/am/scripts.am (uninstall-%DIR%SCRIPTS): Likewise.
+ * tests/uninstall-pr9578.test: New test.
+ * tests/uninstall-fail.test: New test.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add them.
+ * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
+ Report by Nick Bowler.
+
+2011-09-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: fix tests on aclocal search path precedences
+ * tests/aclocal-path-precedence.test: Call `$ACLOCAL' with the
+ proper overridden system acdir.
+
+2011-09-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ * NEWS: Fix typo.
+
+2011-09-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ docs: document planned precedence changes in aclocal search path
+ * doc/automake.texi (Macro Search Path): Explicitly state that the
+ lookup order for extra directories of `.m4' files will be changed
+ in the next major release.
+ * NEWS: Likewise.
+
+2011-09-19 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
+ Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ aclocal: handle ACLOCAL_PATH environment variable
+ * aclocal.in (parse_ACLOCAL_PATH): New function, parse ACLOCAL_PATH
+ as a colon-separated list of directories to be included in the
+ search path.
+ * doc/automake.texi (Macro Search Path): Document new behavior and
+ the precedence rules for various elements of the search path.
+ * tests/aclocal-path.test: New test.
+ * tests/aclocal-path-install.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/aclocal-path-install-serial.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/aclocal-path-precedence.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/aclocal-path-nonexistent.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add them.
+ * NEWS: Update.
+ * tests/distcheck-missing-m4.test: Extend by also checking
+ interactions with ACLOCAL_PATH.
+ * tests/distcheck-outdated-m4.test: Likewise, and fix a couple
+ of botched comments since we are at it.
+
+2011-09-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: fix spurious failure in 'primary-prefix-valid-couples.test'
+ * tests/primary-prefix-valid-couples.test: After commit
+ v1.11-464-gc9dfc36, `java_JAVA' is not a valid prefix/primary
+ combination by default anymore: one has to explicitly define
+ $(javadir) to make it so. So just drop `java_JAVA' from our
+ Makefile.am Also, since we are at it, ...
+ (configure.in): ... remove AM_PROG_GCJ from here, as it's not
+ really required.
+
+2011-09-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ docs: deprecate JAVA primary
+ * doc/automake.texi (Java): Deprecate the JAVA primary, stating
+ that it will become obsolete in automake 1.12 and probably removed
+ altogether in automake 1.13. Reflect this in the section title,
+ by appending the string "(deprecated feature)".
+ (@menu, @detailmenu): Update.
+ (Java Support with gcj): The cross-referenced support for bytecode
+ compilation with the JAVA primary is rudimentary and deprecated.
+ State that explicitly.
+
+2011-09-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ docs: clearer distinction between `.java' with javac and with gcj
+ * doc/automake.texi (Java support): Rename this node ...
+ (Java support with gcj): ... to this, and change its title from
+ "Compiling Java sources" to "Compiling Java sources using gcj".
+ (@detailmenu, @menu, @cindex): Update and make more precise.
+ (Java): Change the title of this node from simply "Java" to
+ "Java bytecode compilation".
+ (@detailmenu, @menu, @cindex): Update and make more precise.
+
+2011-09-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ java: complain if java_JAVA is used but $(javadir) is undefined
+ Fixes automake bug#8461.
+ * automake.in (handle_java): Remove inappropriate "java" argument
+ from the calls to `&am_install_var' and `&am_primary_prefixes'.
+ * tests/instdir-java.test (Makefile.am): Define `$(javadir)'.
+ * tests/javadir-undefined.test: New test.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
+ * NEWS: Update.
+
+2011-09-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ cosmetics: fix various typos and grammaros
+ * NEWS: Fix typos.
+ * tests/py-compile-basic.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/py-compile-basedir.test: Fix botched wording in comments.
+ * tests/py-compile-option-terminate.test: Fix typo and incomplete
+ comment.
+ Suggestions by Peter Rosin.
+
+2011-09-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ coverage: test interactions of `nobase_' and `nodist_'
+ * tests/nobase-nodist.test: New test.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
+
+2011-09-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ java: fix various blunders in test 'java-mix.test'
+ * tests/java-mix.test: Add missing call to `set -e'. Fix inverted
+ semantics (`.java' files are expected *not* to be distributed by
+ default, not the other way round). Fix various typos in the name
+ of the `.java' files. Correct other minor blunders. Improve some
+ comments.
+
+2011-04-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ java: allow both JAVA and nobase_JAVA in the same Makefile.am
+ * automake.in (handle_java): Also strip `nobase_' from the given
+ prefix, when needed.
+ * tests/java-clean.test: Update and extend.
+ * tests/java-compile-install.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/java-no-duplicate.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/java-sources.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/java-noinst.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/java-mix-dist-nodist.test: Renamed to ...
+ * tests/java-mix.test: ... this, and extended.
+ * tests/java-nobase.test: New test, still xfailing due to
+ unrelated issues.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-04-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ java: allow both dist_JAVA and nodist_JAVA in the same Makefile.am
+ Fixes automake bug#8434.
+ * automake.in (handle_java): Strip `dist_' and `nodist_' from
+ the given prefix. Define a new internal Makefile variable
+ `am__java_sources'. Related adjustments.
+ * lib/am/java.am (JAVAC, JAVAROOT, CLASSPATH_ENV): Define only the
+ first time this am file is processed.
+ (class%DIR%.stamp): Stamp file renamed ...
+ (class%NDIR%.stamp): ... to this, so that the `dist_' and `nodist_'
+ prefixes are stripped from the name of the stampfile. Adjust
+ declaration of dependencies by using the new automake-generated
+ internal variable `$(am__java_sources)'. In the rule, use `$@'
+ as the name of the target, rather than hard-coding it.
+ * tests/java.test: Update and extend.
+ * tests/java-no-duplicate.test: New test.
+ * tests/java-mix-dist-nodist.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/java-compile-and-install.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/java-clean.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/java-sources.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-09-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: fix spurious failure on fast machines
+ * tests/aclocal-acdir.test: Avoid spurious failures due to caching
+ issues, by cleaning the autom4te cache between all the aclocal
+ invocations, and by always calling autoconf with the `--force'
+ flag.
+
+2011-09-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ aclocal: better URL reference in error message
+ * aclocal.in (scan_file): In the error message about underquoted
+ definitions, reference the automake page at `www.gnu.org', not
+ at `sources.redhat.com'.
+
+2011-09-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ coverage: distcheck-hook to catch missing/outdated *.m4 files
+ Related to automake bug#9037.
+ * tests/distcheck-missing-m4.test: New test.
+ * tests/distcheck-outdated-m4.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/distcheck-hook-m4.am: New data file, used by the new
+ tests.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (distcheck-m4-missing.log,
+ distcheck-m4-outdated.log): Depend on it.
+ (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute it.
+ (TESTS): Add the new tests.
+
+2011-09-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ aclocal: more granularity in acdir overriding
+ Before this change, using the `--acdir' option caused aclocal to
+ redefine both the directory of automake-provided m4 macros and the
+ directory of third-party system-wide m4 macros. With this change,
+ we deprecate the `--acdir' aclocal option, and introduce two new
+ options `--automake-acdir' and `--system-acdir', to allow for more
+ granularity.
+ * aclocal.in (@automake_includes, @system_includes,
+ @user_includes): Fix and extend comments.
+ (usage): Update.
+ (handle_acdir_option): New function.
+ (parse_arguments): Recognize new options `--system-acdir' and
+ `automake-acdir', and handle `--acdir' using the new function
+ above. Simplify logic by assuming that the directory of
+ third-party system-wide m4 files always exists.
+ * tests/aclocal.in: Update to use the new options, instead of
+ the deprecated. `--acdir'.
+ * m4/dirlist: Move ...
+ * m4/acdir/dirlist: ... here.
+ * m4/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Update.
+ (m4datadir): Rename ...
+ (automake_acdir): ... to this. Accordingly, ...
+ (dist_m4data_DATA): ... rename this ...
+ (dist_automake_ac_DATA): ... to this.
+ (system_acdir): New, directory.
+ (dist_system_ac_DATA): New, defined to an empty value; this will
+ ensure that the $(system_acdir) directory will be created by
+ "make install".
+ * tests/aclocal.test: Remove check about the `--print-ac-dir'
+ option of aclocal, it has been moved into ...
+ * tests/aclocal-print-acdir.test: ... this new test, and quite
+ extended.
+ * tests/aclocal-acdir.test: New test.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add the new tests.
+ * NEWS, bootstrap: Update.
+ * doc/automake.texi (aclocal Options, Macro Search Path): Update.
+
+2011-09-05 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
+
+ * tests/amhello-binpkg.test: Add missing $EXEEXT usage.
+
+2011-09-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ fix: list test 'vala-vpath.test' in XFAIL_TESTS
+ * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-09-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: simplify wrapper for aclocal
+ * tests/aclocal.in: Remove use of $ACLOCAL_TESTSUITE_FLAGS and
+ extra `-I' flags; they are not really required, since the file
+ `m4/amversion.m4' is generated in the srcdir anyway.
+ * tests/acloca10.test: Remove use of $ACLOCAL_TESTSUITE_FLAGS.
+ * tests/acloca18.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/defs.in: Don't nullify $ACLOCAL_TESTSUITE_FLAGS, and do
+ not export it.
+
+2011-09-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ coverage: vala support failing for VPATH from-scratch builds
+ * tests/vala-vpath.test: New test, xfailing.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+ * THANKS: Update.
+ From a report by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek.
+ Related to automake bug#8753.
+
+2011-09-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ docs: report few more automake parsing limitations
+ Partly motivated by automake bug#8360.
+ * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Report few more automake
+ limitations w.r.t. parsing of unusual makefile constructs. Related
+ minor reorderings.
+ * tests/doc-parsing-buglets-colneq-subst.test: New test.
+ * tests/doc-parsing-buglets-tabs.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-08-25 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: list "forgotten" test script in TESTS
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Also list ...
+ * tests/java-empty-classpath.test: ... this test. Since we are
+ at it, remove trailing whitespace from a couple of lines.
+
+2011-08-25 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
+
+ ylwrap: fix unusual indentation whitespace
+ * lib/ylwrap: Convert tabs to spaces.
+ Reported by Karl Berry.
+
+2011-08-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ * THANKS (Daniel Richard G.): Update e-mail address.
+
+2011-08-16 Daniel Richard G. <skunk@iskunk.org> (tiny change)
+ Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ java: avoid compilation errors when CLASSPATH is empty
+ * lib/am/java.am (CLASSPATH_ENV): When redefining `$CLASSPATH',
+ do not append an empty component in case the previous value of
+ CLASSPATH is empty or unset.
+ * tests/java-empty-classpath.test: New test.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+ Fixes automake bug#9306.
+
+2011-08-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ parallel-tests: no more spurious successes for FreeBSD make
+ Work around a bug of FreeBSD make bug that was causing the
+ automake-generated "check" target to complete with success
+ even if some tests failed; this happened only when FreeBSD
+ make was run in concurrent mode (as in, e.g., "make -j2
+ check"). The bug is not present in NetBSD make.
+ This change fixes automake bug#9245:
+ <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=9245>
+ See also FreeBSD PR bin/159730:
+ <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=159730>
+ * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] $(TEST_SUITE_LOG): Use a
+ more "safe" (and apparently redundant) idiom to exit with error,
+ so that the non-zero exit status is picked up also by FreeBSD
+ make when it's running in concurrent mode.
+ * NEWS: Update.
+ * tests/check-concurrency-bug9245.test: New test.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-08-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ hacking: we now require autoconf 2.68
+ * HACKING ("Working in git"): Use autoconf and autom4te 2.68,
+ not 2.67, in the examples.
+
+2011-08-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ test defs: more environment cleanup
+ * tests/defs.in: Also unset variables AM_COLOR_TESTS and
+ AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT.
+
+2011-08-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: fix spurious failure with Solaris make
+ * tests/distcheck-configure-flags-am.test: Avoid using `+=' too
+ liberally with AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS, since the line breaks
+ so introduced, in conjunction with single quotes, might confuse
+ Solaris make.
+
+2011-08-03 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ maintcheck: fix maintainer-check failures, both real and spurious
+ * tests/amhello-binpkg.test: Use "$MAKE", not bare "make".
+ * Makefile.am (sc_perl_local): Also allow perl special variable
+ `$~' to be localized. And be slightly laxer in the regexp, to
+ allow for usages like "local $_ = $foo;".
+ (sc_tests_overriding_macros_on_cmdline): Also allow for command
+ line overriding of the `DISABLE_HARD_ERRORS' make variable. Try
+ to avoid false positives for usages like "$MAKE || st=$?".
+
+2011-08-03 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+ docs: how to use '-I' option in AM_CPPFLAGS for best VPATH support
+ * doc/automake.texi (Program Variables): Recommend -I options to
+ both the build directory and the source directory when needed.
+
+2011-07-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: relax a test on amhello examples to cater to Solaris tar
+ * tests/amhello-binpkg.test: When the tar implementation in use
+ is not GNU tar, relax the tests on tar output, to avoid spurious
+ failures. For example, "tar cvf ..." with GNU tar can output
+ lines like "./usr/bin/hello" on the standard output, while with
+ Solaris tar it can output lines like "a ./usr/bin/hello 8K" on
+ standard output, and with Heirloom tar it can output lines like
+ "a ./usr/bin/hello 15 tape blocks" on standard error.
+
+2011-07-15 Benoit Sigoure <tsunanet@gmail.com>
+
+ docs: add references between the 2 sections on java support
+ * doc/automake.texi (Java Support, Java): Add cross-references.
+
+2011-07-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
+ * INSTALL, lib/INSTALL, lib/config.guess, lib/config.sub,
+ lib/texinfo.tex: Sync from upstream.
+
+2011-07-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: fix weakness in 'tests-environment-backcompat.test'
+ * tests/tests-environment-backcompat.test: Do not override the
+ content of xfailing test `baz.test' with a "weaker" version that
+ fails unconditionally: the test must fail only when the 'strict'
+ pragma is in use, in order not to reduce coverage.
+
+2011-07-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ docs, tests: synchronize examples on silent-rules from config.site
+ * doc/automake.texi (Automake silent-rules Option): Reference test
+ 'silent-configsite.test' in comments.
+
+2011-07-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: portability fixes in tests on amhello examples
+ * tests/amhello-binpkg.test: Don't use "tar xzf too.tag.gz" to
+ extract a gzip-compressed tarball, that's unportable to some
+ tar implementations; use the "gzip -dc fo.tar.gz | tar xf -"
+ idiom instead.
+ * tests/amhello-cflags.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/amhello-cross-compile.test: Likewise.
+ Suggestion from Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+2011-07-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ remake: add test ensuring that slower remakes don't hang
+ * tests/remake-subdir-long-time.test: New test.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+ Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+2011-07-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ remake: fix outdated comment in configure.am
+ * lib/am/configure.am: Fix comment falsified by changes in
+ commit `v1.11-366-gbee9871'.
+ Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+2011-07-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ docs, tests: synchronize examples from docs to tests
+ * tests/README (Writing test cases): Give suggestions on how to
+ keep test cases and examples in the documentation synchronized.
+ * doc/automake.texi: Improve or fix existing testcase-referencing
+ comments, and add many new ones.
+ * HACKING (Administrivia): Suggest to test complex examples and
+ idioms from the manual.
+ * tests/specflg8.test: Improve synchronization with the example
+ in the manual.
+ * tests/output11.test:Likewise.
+ * tests/txinfo21.test:Likewise.
+ * tests/interp.test: Likewise. Since we are at it, and enable
+ the `errexit' shell flag, do related changes, and add trailing
+ `:'command.
+ * tests/amhello-cflags.test: New test.
+ * tests/amhello-cross-compile.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/amhello-binpkg.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/tests-environment-backcompat.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/parallel-tests-log-compiler-example.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-06-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ docs: avoid a footnote, some related rewordings and improvements
+ * doc/automake.texi (Dist): Reword the part about automatically
+ distributed files to avoid a footnote. Since we are at it, extend
+ a bit, and add an example and a reference to a relevant test case.
+
+2011-06-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ docs: minor cosmetic fixes
+ * doc/automake.texi: Break few overly long lines, throughout the
+ file.
+ ("Simple Tests"): Move @vindex for XFAIL_TESTS to the correct
+ position, i.e., before and not after the paragraph where it is
+ introduced.
+ ("Options" @item ansi2knr): Use @pxref instead of @xref. This
+ fixes a texinfo warning.
+ ("Other things Automake recognizes" @item AM_C_PROTOTYPES): Use
+ @pxref instead of @ref.
+
+2011-06-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ help: improve text about automatically-distributed files
+ This change fixes automake bug#7819.
+ * automake.in (usage): Distinguish between files that are always
+ automatically distributed when found, and those which are only
+ "under certain conditions".
+ * doc/automake.texi (Basics of Distribution): Update accordingly.
+ * tests/autodist-subdir.test: Update.
+ * tests/autodist-no-duplicate.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/autodist.test: Likewise.
+ (configure.in): Remove useless call to AM_MAINTAINER_MODE.
+
+2011-06-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ refactor: split 'usage' subroutine in automake
+ This change is related to automake bug#7819.
+ * automake.in (print_autodist_files): New subroutine,
+ extracted from ...
+ (usage): ... this, which now uses it.
+ * tests/autodist-no-duplicate.test: New test.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-06-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: fix bug in 'autodist.test'
+ * tests/autodist.test: Avoid spurious failure due to no
+ `defs-static' file being found in the parent directory.
+
+2011-06-21 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ maintcheck: extend 'sc_tests_plain_*' checks
+ * Makefile.am (sc_tests_plain_autom4te): New check.
+ (sc_tests_plain_autoreconf): Likewise.
+ (sc_tests_plain_autoheader): Likewise.
+ (syntax_check_rules): Update.
+
+2011-06-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ maintcheck: avoid few spurious failures
+ * Makefile.am (sc_tests_plain_aclocal, sc_tests_plain_perl,
+ sc_tests_plain_autoconf, sc_tests_plain_automake,
+ sc_tests_plain_autoupate): Be stricter in matching an erroneous
+ literal command, i.e., `aclocal', `automake', `perl', etc.
+
+2011-06-20 Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com> (tiny change)
+
+ check: don't use multi-line coloring for the report
+ "less -R" can't handle multi-line coloring as it is done for the
+ check reports of the serial and parallel testsuite, because of
+ performance reasons. Thus, color each line of the check report
+ by its own.
+ * lib/am/check.am (am__text_box): Accept colors for lines, and
+ color each line by its own.
+ [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] $(TEST_SUITE_LOG): Let am__text_box handle
+ the line coloring.
+ [!%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] $(check-TESTS): Color each report line by
+ its own.
+ * THANKS: Update.
+
+2011-06-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ docs: AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS is for corner cases
+ * doc/automake.texi (Checking the Distribution): Explain that the
+ developers should take care of making their code buildable without
+ requiring any special configure options, so that in general
+ AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS shouldn't be used. Give an example
+ of where its use is legitimate.
+ Suggestions from Ralf Wildenhues and Eric Blake.
+
+2011-06-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ ansi2knr: deprecate, it will go away in the next major release
+ * doc/automake.texi: Loudly and repeatedly state that the old
+ de-ANSI-fication features are now deprecated and will be removed
+ in the next major Automake release. Other related adjustments.
+ * lib/Automake/Options.pm (_process_option_list ): Give a warning
+ in the `obsolete' category when the `ansi2knr' option is used.
+ * m4/protos.m4 (AM_C_PROTOTYPES): Deprecate this macro: a warning
+ in the `obsolete' category will be emitted it if is used.
+ * tests/ansi2knr-deprecation.test: New test.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+ * tests/ansi.test: Adjust, by calling autoconf and/or automake
+ with the `-Wno-obsolete' flag.
+ * tests/ansi10.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/ansi2.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/ansi3.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/ansi3b.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/ansi4.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/ansi5.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/ansi6.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/ansi7.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/ansi8.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/ansi9.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/cxxansi.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/libobj8.test: Likewise.
+ * NEWS: Update about the future planned backward-incompatibility
+ due to the removal of de-ANSI-fication feature.
+
+2011-06-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ docs: primary/prefix combination "pkglib_PROGRAMS" is now invalid
+ * doc/automake.texi (Program Sources): pkglib_PROGRAMS is not a
+ valid combination anymore, so don't document it. Inconsistency
+ introduced in commit `v1.11-373-g9ca6326'.
+
+2011-06-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
+
+ docs: replace obsolete @vindex entry with a useful one
+ * doc/automake.texi (Program Sources): Do not index obsolete
+ pkglib_PROGRAMS here. Do index pkglibexec_PROGRAMS.
+
+2011-06-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: optimize tests on primary/prefix mismatch for speed
+ * tests/primary-prefix-invalid-couples.test: Partial rewrite, in
+ order to use just a single automake invocation rather than one
+ invocation for each invalid primary/prefix couple. This improves
+ the test script execution time by an order of magnitude.
+ Since we are at it, throw in some other improvements to avoid
+ unrelated automake warnings and failures that could potentially
+ cause false positives w.r.t. the automake exit status.
+
+2011-06-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ news: update w.r.t. introduction of AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS
+ * NEWS (Miscellaneous changes): Update.
+
+2011-06-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ maintcheck: DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS can be defined on make cmdline
+ * Makefile.am (sc_tests_overriding_macros_on_cmdline): It's now
+ acceptable that the test scripts override DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS
+ on the make command line. Update comments accordingly. Since we
+ are at it, make the relevant grepping rules slightly tighter.
+
+2011-06-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ distcheck: add support for AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS
+ * doc/automake.texi (Checking the Distribution): Suggest to use
+ AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS, not DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS, to
+ define (in the top-level Makefile.am) extra flags to be passed
+ to configure at "make distcheck" time; DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS
+ should be reserved for the user. Add proper `@vindex' directive.
+ Document that AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS is not honoured in a
+ subpackage Makefile.am, but the flags in it are passed down to
+ the configure script of the subpackage.
+ * lib/am/distdir.am (distcheck): Also pass the flags in
+ $(AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS) to the configure invocation.
+ Update comments.
+ * tests/defs.in.test (AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS,
+ DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS): Unset in case they are exported in
+ the environment, they might improperly influence our testsuite.
+ * tests/distcheck-configure-flags.test: New test.
+ * tests/distcheck-configure-flags-am.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/distcheck-configure-flags-subpkg.test: Likewise.
+ * distcheck-hook.test: Likewise.
+ * distcheck-hook2.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+ Closes automake bug#8784.
+
+2010-06-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ docs: better documentation for silent make rules
+ * doc/automake.texi (Options): Detailed description of the
+ automake option `silent-rules' moved from here ...
+ (Silent Make): ... into this new chapter, expanded, improved,
+ and subdivided into ...
+ (Make verbosity, Tricks For Silencing Make,
+ Automake silent-rules Option): ... these new sections.
+ (@menu, @detailmenu): Update.
+ * tests/silent-configsite.test: New test, checking that the
+ user can control default mode of silent-rules from config.site,
+ as is documented in the manual.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
+
+2011-06-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Warnings about primary/prefix mismatch fixed and extended.
+ * automake.in (%standard_prefix): Add `doc' and `locale'.
+ Rename `pkgdatadir' to `pkgdata'. Similarly for`pkglibdir',
+ `pkgincludedir' and `pkglibexecdir'.
+ (handle_programs): List `pkglibexec', not `pkglib', among the
+ prefixes valid for the `PROGRAMS' primary.
+ (handle_data): List also `doc' among the prefixes valid for
+ the `DATA' primary. This is required by automake's own build
+ system.
+ * tests/dirforbid.test: Test removed, superseded by ...
+ * tests/primary-prefix-invalid-couples.test: ... this new test.
+ * tests/primary-prefix-valid-couples.test: New test.
+ * tests/primary-prefix-couples-documented-valid.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/primary-prefix-couples-force-valid.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/java3.test: Adjusted, and extended a bit.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.
+ * NEWS: Updated.
+ From a report by Eric Blake.
+
+2011-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ test defs: new function 'fatal_', for hard errors
+ Before this patch, the only way offered by tests/defs to
+ properly signal a hard error was the `framework_failure_'
+ function. But the error message issued by that function,
+ as its name would suggest, refers to a set-up failure in the
+ testsuite, while hard errors can obviously also be due to
+ other reasons. The best way to fix this inconsistency is to
+ introduce a new function with a more general error message.
+ Inspired by a recent similar change to Gnulib's tests/init.sh.
+ * tests/defs.in (fatal_): New function.
+ * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
+ Suggest the use of `fatal_', not of `framework_failure_', for
+ generic hard errors. The latter should be reserved for "real"
+ set-up failures.
+
+2011-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ py-compile: '--' and non-option arguments terminate the option list
+ * lib/py-compile: Any non-option argument, or the special `--'
+ argument, now explicitly terminates the list of options.
+ * tests/py-compile-option-terminate.test: New test.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+ * NEWS: Update.
+
+2011-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ py-compile: complain on unrecognized options
+ * lib/py-compile: Complain on unrecognized options. Don't be too
+ lax in matching `--help' and `--version' options.
+ * tests/py-compile-usage.test: Extend accordingly.
+ * NEWS: Update.
+
+2011-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ py-compile: normalize error and help messages
+ * lib/py-compile: Now error messages do not begin with a capital
+ letter, nor end with a period, as per GNU standards. Prepend the
+ error messages with the name of the script, not with its path.
+ When an invalid usage is recognized, always display the customary
+ message "Try `py-compile --help' ..." on a line of its own.
+ ($me): New variable, containing the name of the
+ program, i.e., `py-compile'. Use it throughout.
+ (usage_error): New function, used to display error messages about
+ invalid usage.
+ * tests/py-compile-usage.test: Extend and tighten accordingly.
+
+2011-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ python tests: add "unit tests" on py-compile
+ * tests/py-compile-basic.test: New test.
+ * tests/py-compile-basic2.test: New test.
+ * tests/py-compile-basedir.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/py-compile-destdir.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/py-compile-env.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/py-compile-usage.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+ Tested with python 2.0.1, 2.4.6, 2.6.6, 2.7.1, and 3.1.3.
+
+2011-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ py-compile: the '--destdir' option now accepts a blank argument
+ * lib/py-compile (Option parsing): Do not count an empty argument
+ to `--destdir' or `--basedir' as a missing argument.
+ * lib/python.am: Simplify accordingly, passing the `--destdir'
+ option to py-compile unconditionally, even if `$(DESTDIR)' is
+ empty.
+ * NEWS: Update.
+
+2011-06-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ python: run the 'py-compile' script with $(SHELL)
+ * lib/python.am (install-%DIR%PYTHON): Run each instance of
+ py-compile using $(SHELL). Since we are at it, break overly
+ long lines.
+ (am__py_compile): New variable, to reduce code duplication.
+
+2011-06-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ maintcheck: fix some failures, extend some checks
+ * Makefile.am (sc_diff_automake_in_automake): Update, as we
+ now expect 9 lines, not 8, to be changed from `automake.in'
+ to `automake'.
+ (sc_diff_aclocal_in_aclocal): New maintainer check, similar to
+ the above, and checking that only 10 lines are changed from
+ `aclocal.in' to `aclocal'.
+ (syntax_check_rules): Update.
+ (sc_tests_Exit_not_exit): Exempt self tests `self-check-*.test'
+ from this check, as they can legitimately use the bare `exit'
+ builtin in various places.
+ * doc/automake.texi (Python): Remove stray `@' from the end of
+ a line. Typo introduced in commit `v1.11-312-g5bf7af6'.
+ * tests/depcomp8a.test: Pass DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS to make
+ from the environment rather than from the command line, to
+ pacify the `sc_tests_overriding_macros_on_cmdline' maintainer
+ check.
+ * tests/depcomp8b.test: Likewise.
+
+2011-05-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ remake: behave better with non-GNU make in subdirectories
+ Currently, with every decent make program, it is possible to
+ rebuild out-of-date autotools-generated files with a simple
+ "make Makefile" -- but for this to work reliably with non-GNU
+ make implementations, the command must be issued from the
+ top-level directory. This patch removes such limitation.
+ * lib/am/configure.am (am--refresh): Depend on `%MAKEFILE%'.
+ * tests/defs.in (using_gmake): New function, backported from the
+ `master' branch (and simplified).
+ * tests/remake-subdir.test: New test.
+ * tests/remake-subdir2.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/remake-subdir-gnu.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/remake-subdir-from-subdir.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-05-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ automake, aclocal: honour configure-time AUTOCONF and AUTOM4TE
+ Currently, the Automake's own configure script allow definition
+ of AUTOCONF and AUTOM4TE, expected to point respectively to an
+ autoconf and autom4te programs. But while these definitions are
+ honoured in the Automake's build systems and test suite, they
+ were *not* honoured in the generated `automake' and `aclocal'
+ scripts. This behaviour, apart from being wrong in that it does
+ not allow the user enough freedom in choosing his tools, also
+ caused inconsistencies in the test suite, brining to spurious
+ failures.
+ Problem reported by Graham Reitz on the automake list; see thread:
+ <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2011-05/msg00022.html>
+ * automake.in ($traces): Use `@am_AUTOCONF', not simply `autoconf'.
+ * aclocal.in ($traces): Use `@am_AUTOM4TE', not simply `autom4te'.
+ * Makefile.am (do_subst): Substitute also `@am_AUTOCONF' and
+ `@am_AUTOM4TE'.
+ * NEWS: Update.
+ * THANKS: Update.
+
+2011-05-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ build: the user can override AUTOM4TE, AUTORECONF and AUTOUPDATE too
+ Our build system allows the user to override AUTOCONF and AUTOHEADER
+ at configure time, and honours these overrides in our testsuite.
+ But it didn't do the same with AUTOM4TE, AUTORECONF and AUTOUPDATE.
+ This change fixes that inconsistency.
+ * configure.ac (am_AUTOM4TE, am_AUTOUPDATE, am_AUTORECONF): New
+ AC_SUBSTitutions. Update comments.
+ * tests/defs.in ($AUTOUPDATE): Default to `@am_AUTOUPDATE@' now.
+ ($AUTOM4TE): New variable, defaulting to `@am_AUTOM4TE@'.
+ ($AUTORECONF): New variable, defaulting to `@am_AUTORECONF@'.
+ * doc/Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/amhello-1.0.tar.gz): Update.
+
+2011-05-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+ Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests/README: fix example about `make -e' usage
+ * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"): When
+ some variable is never initialized in the Makefile, `-e' is not
+ necessary in order to override it. DESTDIR is such a variable: we
+ ensure that we do not ever initialize it. And as such, it is quite
+ portable to use:
+ $ make DESTDIR=/foo/bar install
+ and in fact, quite widely used.
+ So our example about when `make -e' is required, which references
+ the `DESTDIR' variable, is poorly chosen, if not downright wrong.
+ Rewrite it to use `prefix' as the overridden variable instead.
+
+2011-05-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ parallel-tests: stricter checks on DISABLE_HARD_ERRORS support
+ * tests/parallel-tests-harderror.test: New test, doing more
+ in-depth checks on DISABLE_HARD_ERRORS.
+ * tests/parallel-tests.test: Remove tests on DISABLE_HARD_ERRORS,
+ now redundant.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-05-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ testsuite: avoid re-running few tests with 'parallel-tests' option
+ Some tests in our testsuite use the 'simple-tests' driver only
+ marginally, or simply as a mean to conveniently check unrelated
+ invariants. It makes little sense to force these tests to also
+ run with the 'parallel-tests' Automake option active, as doing so
+ offers no real gain in coverage, while often causing a measurable
+ overhead in execution time (for an already too-slow testsuite).
+ * tests/pr401.test (parallel_tests): Define to "no", to prevent
+ the generation of a sibling test script using the 'parallel-tests'
+ driver.
+ * tests/pr401b.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/pr401c.test: Likewise.
+
+2011-05-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ testsuite: allow tests to avoid the use of 'parallel-tests' option
+ * tests/gen-parallel-tests: Do not generate "siblings" for tests
+ that explicitly define the `parallel_tests', whether to "yes" or
+ to any other value. Extend heading comments to give a rationale
+ for this behaviour.
+ * tests/README: Update.
+
+2011-05-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests/README: update obsoleted advice
+ * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"):
+ Do not suggest to use the `*-p.test' pattern for the names of
+ hand-written tests which use the `parallel-tests' Automake option.
+ Not only is this not respected by the existing tests, but it is
+ more likely to cause conflicts with auto-generated tests.
+ So, suggest to *avoid* using the `*-p.test' pattern in names
+ of hand-written tests instead.
+ (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do not"): When
+ suggesting not to override Makefile variables using command
+ line arguments, do not use the badly outdated variables `U'
+ and 'ANSI2KNR' in the example; instead, use the more common
+ and typical `DESTDIR'.
+
+2011-05-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ test defs: rename requirement 'non-cross' -> 'native'
+ * tests/defs.in (non-cross): Rename requirement ...
+ (native): ... to this, which is clearer and fits the
+ existing lingo better.
+ Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+2011-05-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ testsuite: be more cross-compile friendly
+ * tests/defs.in (cross_compiling): New subroutine.
+ (am__tool_prefix): New internal variable.
+ (gcc, g++, gcj): Force the use of the correct "tool prefix"
+ when cross compiling.
+ (gfortran, g77, non-cross): New requirements.
+
+2011-05-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ check: document and test $(TEST_SUITE_LOG) overriding
+ * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Explain
+ how and why TEST_SUITE_LOG can be overridden at runtime.
+ * tests/parallel-tests-log-override-1.test: New test, check that
+ the newly documented idiom and similar usages are truly supported.
+ * tests/parallel-tests-log-override-2.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/parallel-tests-log-override-recheck.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-05-07 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: fix spurious failure of txinfo21.test on FreeBSD
+ * tests/txinfo21.test: Use the `is_newest' subroutine instead of
+ the `ls -t' hack to to determine whether a file has been updated.
+ This is required because at least FreeBSD `ls' do not sort files
+ with the same timestamp in alphabetical order when using the `-t'
+ option.
+
+2011-05-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests defs: allow requirements for compilers (mostly dummy)
+ Most of the new requirements that are now accepted in `$required'
+ as consequence of this patch are still dummy. They are planned
+ to be implemented only in master (or in some derived branch), but
+ having them here (even just as no-op) will allow for an easier
+ integration/backporting of potential new testcases.
+ * tests/defs.in (cc, c++, fortran, fortran77): New requirements,
+ still dummy.
+ (flex): New requirement, picking LEX for configure.
+ (lex): New requirement, alias for `flex'. A more appropriate
+ implementation, looking for a generic `lex' program, will follow
+ in the future.
+ (yacc): New requirement, alias for `bison'. A more appropriate
+ implementation, looking for a generic `yacc' program, will follow
+ in the future.
+
+2011-04-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: fix spurious failure in a test on TESTS (VPATH-related)
+ * tests/check-tests-in-builddir.test: When not using the
+ parallel-tests option, do not check that VPATH components are
+ not present in the displayed test name, since the simple-tests
+ driver do not try to strip them.
+
+2011-04-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ test: self check subroutines for skipping/failing of tests
+ * tests/self-check-report.test: New test.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-04-23 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
+ Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ test defs: new subroutines for test skipping/failing
+ * tests/defs.in (Exit): Move definition of this function earlier.
+ (warn_, skip_, fail_, framework_failure_): New functions, inspired
+ to the homonyms in gnulib's tests/init.sh.
+ ($stderr_fileno_): New global variable, used by the new functions
+ above.
+ * tests/README: Updated.
+ From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+2011-04-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: fix typo (copy & paste blunder) in heading comment
+ * tests/maintclean-vpath.test: Correctly refer to the sister test
+ as `maintclean.test', not as `maintclean-vpath.test'.
+
+2011-04-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: remove redundant test `mclean.test'
+ * tests/mclean.test: Remove, it's a weak grepping test completely
+ superseded by the much more complete `maintclean.test'.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-04-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ testsuite: more environment sanitization
+ * tests/defs.in: Sanity check: abort if any of `parallel_tests'
+ or `required' is in the environment.
+ ($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.
+
+2011-04-18 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: don't allow `$me' to be overridden from the environment
+ * tests/defs.in: Sanity check: abort if $me is in the environment.
+ * tests/self-check-me-in-env.test: New test.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Unset variable `me'.
+ (TESTS): Update.
+ Suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues.
+
+2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ test defs: allow overriding of `$me'
+ * tests/defs.in ($me): Allow overriding by the including test
+ script. Add some explicative comments.
+
+2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ depcomp tests: don't reject slower dependency extractors
+ * tests/depcomp8b.test: Add the `--enable-dependency-tracking'
+ option to `configure' invocations, so that slower dependency
+ extractors are not rejected.
+ * tests/depcomp8a.test: Likewise. Also ...
+ (foo.c): ... since we are at it, fix spacing to be consistent
+ with GNU coding standards.
+
+2011-04-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ m4: add missing serial numbers to a few files
+ Related to automake bug#8483.
+ * m4/amversion.in: Add serial number.
+ * m4/auxdir.m4: Likewise.
+ * m4/gcj.m4: Likewise.
+ * m4/install-sh.m4: Likewise.
+ * m4/mkdirp.m4: Likewise.
+ * m4/python.m4: Likewise.
+ * m4/runlog.m4: Likewise.
+ * m4/strip.m4: Likewise.
+ * m4/upc.m4: Likewise.
+
+2011-04-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
+
+ depcomp: correct invalid sed invocation
+ * lib/depcomp: Insert missing -e before '/:$/d'.
+ Otherwise, that use of sed would treat '/:$/d' as a file name.
+
+2011-04-14 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ maintainer check: quote literal `$' 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.
+
+2011-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ coverage: test for automake bug#8485 (known regression)
+ * tests/yacc-dist-nobuild-subdir.test: New test.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-04-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-04-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-04-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-04-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-04-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-04-09 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-04-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ Clarify regex code in depcomp.
+ * lib/depcomp: Add comment why we don't need regex-escaping here.
+ Suggested by Stefano Lattarini.
+
+2011-04-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-04-02 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-04-02 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ 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.
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-04-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-03-30 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ 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. Remove extra blank
+ lines.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-03-21 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-03-17 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+ Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-03-04 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-03-01 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-02-26 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ 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'.
+ * tests/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.
+ * tests/ltinit.test: New test, ensure that automake's libtool
+ support works with LT_INIT-based interface.
+ Thanks to Jack Kelly for the suggestion.
+
+2011-02-20 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-02-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+ Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ test defs: add subroutine for input unindenting
+ * tests/defs.in (unindent): New subroutine.
+
+2011-02-15 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-02-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-02-06 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-02-01 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-01-29 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-01-24 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-01-23 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-01-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-01-23 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-01-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+ Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Add comment to check-TESTS rule working around make 3.80 bug.
+ * lib/am/check.am (check-TESTS): Update comment.
+
+2011-01-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-01-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-01-19 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+ Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-01-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-01-18 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ tests: avoid failure on w32 file systems.
+ * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: SKIP if file cannot
+ be turned unreadable.
+
+2011-01-17 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ 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.
+
+2011-01-16 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: remove useless requirements from cond36.test
+ * tests/cond36.test ($required): Remove.
+ Since we are at it, add a trailing `:' command.
+
+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 ($(TEST_SUITE_LOG), recheck, recheck-html):
+ Test file readability before redirecting input from it, to avoid
+ exiting Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh which treats read as special builtin.
+ * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: New test.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+ * NEWS: Update.
+
+2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ * NEWS, README: Update copyright years.
+
+ Fix parallel-tests.test failure with HP-UX make.
+ * tests/parallel-tests.test: Sleep inside inner tests, so logs
+ are newer than logs of tests they depend on, for HP-UX make.
+
+2011-01-15 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+ docs: ensure example are separated with empty lines in the input
+ * doc/automake.texi (Extending aclocal, Emacs Lisp, Rebuilding)
+ (API Versioning, Renamed Objects, Multiple Outputs): Add empty
+ lines before `@example' and after `@end example' lines, so info
+ output is rendered correctly, and a following @noindent honored.
+ Report by Stefano Lattarini.
+
+2011-01-15 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
+
+ tests: fix comment typo
+ * tests/substref.test: Fix grammar in a comment.
+
+2011-01-13 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: fix spurious failures in two texinfo tests
+ * tests/txinfo.test ($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.
+
+2011-01-13 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 $AUTOMAKE -a for installing files.
+
+2011-01-12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ docs: clustered '-d' not recognized in YFLAGS
+ This change fixes automake bug#7828.
+ * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Document that automake
+ recognizes '-d' in AM_YFLAGS only if it's not clustered with
+ other options.
+ From a report by Юрий Пухальский.
+
+2011-01-10 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: add checks on automatically-distributed files
+ Related to automake bug#7819.
+ * tests/autodist.test: New test.
+ * tests/autodist-subdir.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/autodist-acconfig.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/autodist-acconfig-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/autodist-aclocal-m4.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/autodist-config-headers.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/autodist-configure-no-subdir.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/autodist-stamp-vti.test: Likewise.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+
+2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ tests: work around a texi+cygnus bug causing a spurious XFAIL
+ * tests/txinfo5b.test: New test, like txinfo5.test but calling
+ automake with the `-Wno-override' option to work around a bug
+ in the texinfo + cygnus interaction.
+ * tests/txinfo5.test: Update heading comments.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (TEST): Updated.
+
+2011-01-09 Dave Hart <davehart@gmail.com> (tiny change)
+
+ Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
+ * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
+
+2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+ Improve, extend and tweak tests on Texinfo support.
+ * tests/instdir-texi.test: Add a call to `ls -l' after that to
+ `make', for debugging. When looking for required tools, do not
+ redirect the output of "$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.
+
+2011-01-09 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
+
+ Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment.
+ * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo.
+
+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/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.
+
+2011-01-02 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').
+
+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.
+
+ 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 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>
+
+ 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>
+
+ 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.
+
+2010-12-18 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.
+
+2010-12-14 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.
+
2010-12-10 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Avoid running installed automake from 'libtool --help'.
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