Richard Hansen [Wed, 9 Apr 2025 17:00:05 +0000 (10:00 -0700)]
test: force Autoconf config.site to /dev/null.
From https://bugs.gnu.org/76622 (automake-patches).
* t/ax/test-defs.in: Set `CONFIG_SITE' to `/dev/null' to avoid
the local system's Autoconf site defaults from breaking the test
environment. Original report from Nelson Beebe, 26 Feb 2025.
* NEWS: mention this.
Karl Berry [Thu, 13 Mar 2025 21:39:59 +0000 (14:39 -0700)]
dist: document bzip3 support.
More from https://bugs.gnu.org/73795 (automake-patches).
* doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions): add item for bzip3.
Analogous changes throughout.
* lib/am/distdir.am (dist-bzip3): bzip3 does not read any envvars;
don't set BZIP2.
Karl Berry [Tue, 25 Feb 2025 22:39:11 +0000 (14:39 -0800)]
maint: doc and maintainer-check in preparation for 1.17.90.
* HACKING: mention thanks to individuals.
* NEWS: update for 1.17.90.
* configure.ac (AC_INIT): now 1.17.90.
* m4/amversion.m4 (AM_AUTOMAKE_VERSION): 1.17.90 (auto-update).
* maintainer/syntax-checks.mk (sc_tests_command_subst): allow
whitespace before # shell comment line.
(sc_tests_plain_sleep): emphasize using $sleep without a number;
only replace sleep 1 or sleep 2; longer than that would be fine.
* t/tap-stderr-prefix.tap: use $sleep instead of sleep 1.
Karl Berry [Mon, 24 Feb 2025 23:35:09 +0000 (15:35 -0800)]
automake: warn about install.sh being found, rather than error.
Report from https://bugs.gnu.org/19964.
* bin/automake.in (scan_autoconf_files): give a msg 'obsolete'
rather than err_am. Mention where install.sh was found.
(En passant, fix some doubled words.)
* NEWS: mention this.
Karl Berry [Mon, 24 Feb 2025 22:41:48 +0000 (14:41 -0800)]
dist: change tar format default to ustar.
Suggested in https://bugs.gnu.org74847.
* m4/init.m4 (tar-ustar): make ustar the default instead of tar-v7.
* doc/automake.texi (tar-formats): document this.
* NEWS: mention this.
* t/tar-override.sh: force tar-v7 for purposes of this test.
Richard Hansen [Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:21:23 +0000 (19:21 -0500)]
tests: test TAP stdout/stderr order with --merge --stderr-prefix
* t/tap-stderr-prefix.tap: Add a test checking the processing order of stdout
lines relative to stderr lines when the TAP driver is passed `--merge' and
`--stderr-prefix'.
Richard Hansen [Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:21:17 +0000 (19:21 -0500)]
tests: add shell function support to `command_ok_'
* t/ax/tap-functions.sh (command_ok_): Run the command without testing
the exit status with `||' in case the command is a shell function.
This avoids unintentionally disabling `set -e' inside the shell
function.
Bogdan [Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:30:42 +0000 (10:30 -0800)]
dist: correct sense of no-dist-built-sources option.
Primarily from https://bugs.gnu.org/69908.
* bin/automake.in (preprocess_file) <DIST_BUILT_SOURCES>:
make the option name be "no-dist-built-sources",
per Options.pm and automake.texi; then set it with a single !.
* lib/am/distdir.am (distdir) [DIST_BUILT_SOURCES]: insert the
dependency on $(BUILT_SOURCES) when DIST_BUILT_SOURCES is true,
not false; i.e., sense was reversed.
* t/dist-no-built-sources.sh: edit the test configure.ac
in the no-dist-built-sources case. Rename the testopt value to
match the Automake option.
* NEWS: mention this.
Karl Berry [Sun, 23 Feb 2025 17:57:47 +0000 (09:57 -0800)]
doc: move --stderr-prefix doc details to a new subsubsection.
Still in https://bugs.gnu.org/72536.
* doc/automake.texi (TAP setup and examples):
(TAP stderr examples),
TAP stderr prefixing): split TAP examples
into new subsubsections. Add discussion of race condition and
other reordering from the open bug.
* NEWS: mention --stderr-prefix.
Richard Hansen [Mon, 3 Feb 2025 23:26:59 +0000 (18:26 -0500)]
tests: use `--stderr-prefix' for TAP tests
* t/local.mk: Pass `--stderr-prefix' to `lib/tap-driver.sh' when
running TAP tests to prevent stderr lines from being confused with
test results and to improve the readability of the test log files.
Richard Hansen [Mon, 3 Feb 2025 23:26:58 +0000 (18:26 -0500)]
tap: include malformed output in error message to aid with debugging
* lib/tap-driver.sh: If the line that should contain the test script's exit
status is not an integer (which would indicate a bug with the driver, not the
code under test), include the line in the error message to help with
debugging.
Richard Hansen [Mon, 3 Feb 2025 23:26:57 +0000 (18:26 -0500)]
tap: new `--stderr-prefix' option to prefix test script's stderr
* lib/tap-driver.sh: Add a new `--stderr-prefix' option to instruct
the TAP driver to prefix each line of the test script's standard error
with the given string. This is useful when `--merge' is enabled and
standard error lines might be confused with test results.
* doc/automake.texi: Document the new `--stderr-prefix' option.
* t/tap-stderr-prefix.tap: New test.
* t/list-of-tests.mk (handwritten_TESTS): Add it.
Richard Hansen [Mon, 3 Feb 2025 23:26:54 +0000 (18:26 -0500)]
tests: move space from `diag_()' to `$diag_string_'
* t/ax/tap-functions.sh (diag_): Moved the space separating
`$diag_string_' from the diagnostic message to `$diag_string_' so that
callers can eliminate the space.
Karl Berry [Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:58:12 +0000 (09:58 -0800)]
m4: force newline after AM_SILENT_RULES, as before 1.17.
From https://bugs.gnu.org/72267.
* m4/silent.m4 (AM_SILENT_RULES): m4_newline() after the assignment.
Report from Francis Dupont, suggestions from Francis and Nick Bowler.
* NEWS: mention this.
* THANKS: add Francis.
Richard Hansen [Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:43:49 +0000 (15:43 -0800)]
automake: add missing AC_MSG_RESULT calls to AM_SANITY_CHECK.
From https://bugs.gnu.org/76448 (automake-patches).
* m4/sanity.m4 (AM_SANITY_CHECK): Call AC_MSG_RESULT before erroring
out so that a complete line is printed to stdout before the error
message is written to stderr.
* NEWS: mention this.
* THANKS: add Richard.
Karl Berry [Sun, 9 Feb 2025 17:36:24 +0000 (09:36 -0800)]
python: restore more compatible behavior for $PYTHON.
For https://bugs.gnu.org/74434.
* lib/py-compile: if $PYTHON -V does not include the
string "python" (case-insensitive), consider the support
intentionally disabled and exit successfully, unless PYTHON is set
to false, in which case exit unsuccessfully. This is closer to
the old behavior. Mention this in the help message.
* t/py-compile-env.sh: add test for PYTHON=:.
* NEWS: mention this. (And, en passant, add some past bug#s and
clarify that only RCS/SCCS pattern rules were disabled, not all.)
Karl Berry [Tue, 4 Feb 2025 16:22:26 +0000 (08:22 -0800)]
test: allow running with fatal warnings given in PERL5OPT.
* HACKING: mention running the test suite with
PERL5OPT=-Mwarnings=FATAL,all in the environment at new Perl (and
Automake releases), to try to keep up with new Perl warnings.
Suggestion from Jacob Bachmeyer,
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2025-02/msg00001.html
* t/parallel-tests-log-compiler-example.sh: explicitly use warnings
so that this PERL5OPT setting won't be a fatal error.
* NEWS: formatting.
Bruno Haible [Mon, 3 Feb 2025 22:16:42 +0000 (14:16 -0800)]
compile: Distinguish various MinGW, MSYS, MSYS2 environments correctly.
* lib/compile (func_file_conv): Use not only "uname -s", but also
$MSYSTEM and the presence of cygpath, in order to distinguish the
original MinGW and MSYS2.
* lib/ar-lib (func_file_conv): Likewise.
Jose Marchesi [Sun, 2 Feb 2025 18:11:24 +0000 (10:11 -0800)]
Add support for the Algol 68 programming language.
* bin/automake.in: Call register_language for Algol 68.
(resolve_linker): handle A68LINK.
(%_am_macro_for_cond): Add entry for am__fastdepGA68.
* configure.ac: Look for ga68 and set GNU_GA68 and GNU_A68FLAGS
if found.
* lib/Automake/Variable.pm (%_ac_macro_for_var): Add entries for GA68
and GA68FLAGS.
* t/a68-demo.sh: New test.
* doc/automake.texi (Algol 68 Support): New section.
* NEWS: Add entry for Algol 68.
Karl Berry [Fri, 31 Jan 2025 17:20:47 +0000 (09:20 -0800)]
automake: just use warnings, with no => FATAL.
Per Perl recommendation:
https://perldoc.perl.org/warnings#Fatal-Warnings
Suggested by Collin Funk:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2025-01/msg00003.html
And in the Perl discussion:
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/22954#issuecomment-2622966302
Paul Eggert [Wed, 1 Jan 2025 22:37:27 +0000 (14:37 -0800)]
Rename file to fix copyright update glitch
* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST), NEWS: Adjust to file renaming.
* NEWS-future: Rename from NEWS-2.0, so that "make update-copyright"
does not think this is a man page and use \(en rather than - in year
ranges. Change \(en back to -.
* HACKING: more doc on version numbers.
* configure.ac (AC_INIT): 1.17.0.91, since we want (I guess)
to retain odd numbers for development and even numbers for pretests.
* m4/amversion.m4 (AM_AUTOMAKE_VERSION): 1.17.0.91 (auto-update).
(AM_SET_CURRENT_AUTOMAKE_VERSION): likewise.
* lib/Automake/Options.pm (_process_option_list): recognize
four-part numeric versions as Automake options.
* lib/Automake/Version.pm (split): recognize four-part numeric
versions.
* t/pm/Version.pl (@tests, @bad_versions): update test
to check (not reject) four-part numeric versions.
Karl Berry [Tue, 9 Jul 2024 22:35:13 +0000 (15:35 -0700)]
test: explanation of MTIME_RESOLUTION resetting.
* t/ax/test-defs.in (MTIME_RESOLUTION): separate the case
where am_cv_filesystem_timestamp_resolution is not set for
more explanations, but still reset MTIME_RESOLUTION to 1
even if it is already set. Which it should be when running
tests, because config.status is sourced. But it's too late in
the release process to change this now; after the release,
can try keeping a non-empty MTIME_RESOLUTION.
Karl Berry [Mon, 8 Jul 2024 22:04:48 +0000 (15:04 -0700)]
automake: info about Automake and Libtool being in different prefixes.
In response to https://bugs.gnu.org/71847.
* doc/automake.texi (Libtool library used but LIBTOOL is undefined):
new node. Tweak aclocal section.
* lib/Automake/Variable.pm (require_variables): refer to the
new node in the message for LT_INIT.
* maintainer/maint.mk (announcement) <AO>: new fn; use it
to output a link to the new node for test releases only.
* HACKING: mention M-x texinfo-master-menu, et al.
* doc/amhello/README: mention that the package is named amhello.
* m4/sanity.m4 (_AM_SLEEP_FRACTIONAL_SECONDS): Set
am_cv_sleep_fractional_seconds to yes/no, not true/false,
for consistency with other results.
Also "quote" this and other $am_cv values.
(_AM_FILESYSTEM_TIMESTAMP_RESOLUTION): Test for yes/no.
* t/ax/test-defs.in: Set am_cv_sleep_fractional_seconds to 'no',
not 'false'.
* lib/Automake/Variable.pm (scan_variable_expansions): recognize
and do nothing if the variable name is empty: $().
* t/varempty.sh: new test.
* t/list-of-tests.mk (handwritten_TESTS): add it.
Karl Berry [Thu, 20 Jun 2024 17:04:55 +0000 (10:04 -0700)]
test: sync list-of-tests.
* t/list-of-tests.mk (handwritten_TESTS): add back t/instdir-ltlib.sh;
turns out all tests need to be listed there, XFAIL_TESTS is not
included, and that seems ok.
* t/CheckListOfTests.am (maintainer-check-list-of-tests): only
delete temp files if result is successful.
Karl Berry [Wed, 19 Jun 2024 16:41:22 +0000 (09:41 -0700)]
doc: rewrite subsecond NEWS entry, sanity.m4 "make" testing wrong, etc.
* m4/sanity.m4 (_AM_FILESYSTEM_TIMESTAMP_RESOLUTION): mention
that testing of "make" is wrong here; but $(MAKE) is not available?
Do some special pleading that it won't matter in practice; we'll see.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2024-06/msg00051.html
(AM_SANITY_CHECK): use $[]* instead of $[*]2 to avoid
the confusing apparent (but not) use of shell arrays; the square
brackets are parsed off by m4.
* lib/am/check.am (output_system_information): en passant, mention
that $(AWK) should always be defined since AC_PROG_AWK is part of
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE nowadays.
* NEWS: rewrite subsecond NEWS entry:workaround, more references.
Karl Berry [Wed, 19 Jun 2024 16:01:51 +0000 (09:01 -0700)]
doc: original purpose of $sleep is when AC_OUTPUT is not used.
* t/ax/test-defs.in (sleep): mention original purpose of $sleep,
namely when AC_OUTPUT is not used and hence the sleep done in
AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_* is not done:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-automake/2010-10/msg00000.html
Discovered by Bruno in his rearch on the "sleep" history:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2024-06/msg00054.html
Mike Frysinger [Tue, 18 Jun 2024 17:32:09 +0000 (10:32 -0700)]
aclocal: add --aclocal-path option to override ACLOCAL_PATH envvar.
From https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2022-01/msg00029.html
(plus wording tweaks from Karl; and thanks to Bogdan for research).
* bin/aclocal.in (usage): relabel output of m4 search path
components to be somewhat more correct (Karl), although it's still
a mess.
(parse_arguments): add new option --aclocal-path=s.
(parse_ACLOCAL_PATH): use $aclocal_path instead of hardwiring envvar.
* doc/automake.texi (aclocal Options): document it.
(dirlist): new anchor so we can reference it.
(Modifying the Macro Search Path: @file{ACLOCAL_PATH}): mention
the option.
(Possible future incompatibility): tone down; it might never happen.
* t/aclocal-path-precedence.sh: test the option.
* NEWS: mention the new option.
Bruno Haible [Mon, 17 Jun 2024 22:38:11 +0000 (15:38 -0700)]
automake: omit 1s test in _AM_FILESYSTEM_TIMESTAMP_RESOLUTION, for speed.
From https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2024-06/msg00055.html
plus https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2024-06/msg00054.html.
* m4/sanity.m4 (_AM_FILESYSTEM_TIMESTAMP_RESOLUTION): Don't test
whether 1 sec works; instead just accept the 2 sec delay in the
Automake test $sleep in exchange for not incurring the 2s delay of
running the test for all packages on 1s-resolution platforms.
Platforms that support subsecond mtimes will still use them.
Collin Funk [Mon, 17 Jun 2024 21:44:28 +0000 (14:44 -0700)]
test: Improve output of system information in test-suite.log.
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/71421.
* lib/am/check.am ($(TEST_SUITE_LOG): Use $(AWK) instead of 'awk'.
Remove an extra space in uname output. Start the line with
"System information", and other sections with "Distribution
information".
* NEWS: add reference to #71421.
Bruno Haible [Mon, 17 Jun 2024 17:06:25 +0000 (10:06 -0700)]
automake: allow omitting logs of skipped tests from test-suite.log.
* doc/automake.texi (Parallel Test Harness): Describe the contents of
test-suite.log. Mention IGNORE_SKIPPED_LOGS.
(Command-line arguments for test drivers): Document the
--collect-skipped-logs option.
* lib/test-driver (print_usage): Document --collect-skipped-logs.
(collect_skipped_logs): New variable.
(gcopy): Use collect_skipped_logs.
* lib/am/check.am (am__common_driver_flags): Add the contents of
am__collect_skipped_logs.
(am__check_pre): Set am__collect_skipped_logs.
* t/parallel-tests-without-skipped-logs.sh: New file, based on
t/parallel-tests-no-color-in-log.sh.
* t/list-of-tests.mk (handwritten_TESTS): Add it.
* NEWS: Mention the change.
Karl Berry [Sun, 16 Jun 2024 16:20:29 +0000 (09:20 -0700)]
test: the instdir-ltlib test is expected to fail.
Discussed in https://bugs.gnu.org/71596.
* t/list-of-tests.mk (handwritten_TESTS): move t/instdir-ltlib.sh
(XFAIL_TESTS): to here. It previously worked by accident
because lib_LTLIBRARIES was misspelled as lib_LTIBRARIES;
Paul Eggert fixed that on June 7,
commit 1d35638b23e95fe6f41c828a3442f6d7f242f4c4, and the
test started failing as a result.
* t/instdir-ltlib.sh: add some doc.
* t/all.sh: likewise. (Another xfail test, which is mysterious to me.)
Paul Eggert [Fri, 7 Jun 2024 15:41:45 +0000 (08:41 -0700)]
maint: spelling and whitespace fixes
Most of these spelling fixes are just to comments and documentation.
However, some affect tests as follows:
* t/cond36.sh (tparse.h): Fix misspelling of dependency.
* t/disthook.sh: Fix misspelling of file.
* t/help3.sh: Fix misspelling of long option.
* t/instdir-ltlib.sh: Fix misspellings of macro names.
This causes the test to fail, so someone with libtool
expertise needs to look into this.
* t/tap-no-spurious-numbers.sh (highno): Fix misspelling of shell var.
* t/dist-missing-m4.sh: Accommodate a slightly different diagnostic
("undefined or overquoted macro" rather than "possibly undefined macro")
in autoconf as of v2.72-9-g7a6347d1.
Karl Berry [Sun, 2 Jun 2024 17:47:20 +0000 (10:47 -0700)]
maint: support test releases numbered from .90 for announcements.
* maintainer/maint.mk (beta_version_rx, alpha_version_rx):
update to use MAJOR.MINOR.90, .92, ..., for "beta" (test) releases,
and .91, .93, ... for "alpha" (development). Follows the
2024-01-21 change.
* HACKING: typo en passant.
Karl Berry [Fri, 31 May 2024 15:55:10 +0000 (08:55 -0700)]
maint: prepare for next pretest.
* HACKING: typo, tweak release info.
* maintainer/maint.mk: typo.
* maintainer/syntax-checks.mk: typo, and exclude test-defs.sh
(actually .in) from the `...` test because I can't figure out how
to get the same results with $(...).
Karl Berry [Mon, 27 May 2024 19:34:35 +0000 (12:34 -0700)]
test: check that subsecond mtime works with make.
Trying to fix https://bugs.gnu.org/68808.
* m4/sanity.m4 (_AM_FILESYSTEM_TIMESTAMP_RESOLUTION): check
that make works with subsecond mtimes, as well as sleep and ls.
(Known to fail with the make 3.81 that ships with macOS.)
* configure.ac (MTIME_RESOLUTION): notice if it erroneously
expands to the empty string, i.e., fall back to 1 if
$am_cv_filesystem_timestamp_resolution ended up being unset.
* t/ax/test-defs.in (MTIME_RESOLUTION): also fall back to 1
if the variable to not set, with a message.
Fix other typos en passant.
* HACKING: tweak.
Bogdan [Sun, 26 May 2024 22:35:58 +0000 (15:35 -0700)]
test: objc tests on openbsd.
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/68179.
* t/objcxx-deps.sh: test for objc_getProperty and other
functions in the objc library.
* t/objcxx-minidemo.sh: likewise.
* t/strip2.sh (STRIP): use -x instead of --verbose to test
strip with multiple words, to work with openbsd (and aix) strip.
Mark Wooding [Tue, 21 May 2024 16:54:35 +0000 (09:54 -0700)]
doc: test-driver option args are separate words.
For https://bugs.gnu.org/70638.
As now mentioned in the manual, the description of the
test-driver command-line interface has been wrong since 2011
when it was first added. The manual, and the driver usage
messages themselves, have consistently shown option arguments
joined to the option name with `=' characters, while the
implementation of Automake has always provided option arguments
in the following argument word, and the provided test drivers
only accepted option arguments in the following argument word.
Because Automake has never used the `=' syntax, there can't
possibly be a working driver which actually follows the
specification as written, so, despite the fierce language of the
manual, we agreed that changing the specification was the right
approach. The `test-driver' program's usage message has already
been fixed (#22445), but the full extent of the problem wasn't
noticed at that time.
* doc/automake.texi (Command-line arguments for test drivers): Fix the
table of options to show arguments passed as separate words; add
footnote explaining this rather sorry situation.
* doc/automake.texi (Use TAP with the Automake test harness):
Remove `=' from documentation of `--diagnostic-string', because
that was never acceptable either.
* lib/tap-driver.sh: Fix usage message.
* contrib/tap-driver.pl: Change usage message to match the defined
protocol. (This implementation parses options using Perl's
`Getopt::Long' module, so it accepts the `=' syntax as specified, but
this program isn't actually used.)
Reuben Thomas [Mon, 6 May 2024 15:16:40 +0000 (08:16 -0700)]
doc: update Vala documentation
From https://bugs.gnu.org/70557#29.
* doc/automake.texi (Vala Support): Update the URL for Vala.
Drop the mention of a version requirement, as no current system
will have a too-old version of Vala.
Note the restriction on conditional inclusion of source files in
*_SOURCES.
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