From: Stefano Lattarini Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:09:32 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Merge branch 'maintcheck-pathsep-fix' into maint X-Git-Tag: ng-0.5a~206^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=82a10984a75107c2b06f71e69c482bbb0c62f84b;p=thirdparty%2Fautomake.git Merge branch 'maintcheck-pathsep-fix' into maint --- 82a10984a75107c2b06f71e69c482bbb0c62f84b diff --cc ChangeLog index 1c883ac0c,0ef291013..4346a0c28 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@@ -1,1013 -1,10 +1,1020 @@@ + 2011-04-14 Stefano Lattarini + + 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 + + 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 + + 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 + + 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 + + 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 + + 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 + ... + 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 + + 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 + + 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 + + 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 + + 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 + + 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 + + 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 + + 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 + + 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 + + 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 + Ralf Wildenhues + + 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 + + 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 + + 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 + + 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 + + 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 + + libtool: suggest LT_INIT if LTLIBRARIES primary is used + When the LTLIBRARIES primary was used, but $(LIBTOOL) wasn't + defined, automake suggested to add a call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL + in configure.ac. But that macro is deprecated since Libtool + version 1.9b (2004-08-29), in favor of the newer LT_INIT. So + suggest the use of this latter macro instead. + * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (%_am_macro_for_var): Pair 'LIBTOOL' + with 'LT_INIT', not with 'AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'. + * libtool4.test: Adjust and extend. Also, add a call to macro + AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, to help ensuring that automake does + not fail for the wrong reasons. + * ltinit.test: New test, ensure that automake's libtool support + works with LT_INIT-based interface. + Thanks to Jack Kelly for the suggestion. + +2011-02-20 Stefano Lattarini + + 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 + Ralf Wildenhues + + test defs: add subroutine for input unindenting + * tests/defs.in (unindent): New subroutine. + +2011-02-15 Stefano Lattarini + + 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 + + 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 + + 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 + + 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 + + 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 + + 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 + + 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 + + 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 + + tests defs: sanitize IFS + * tests/defs.in ($IFS): Define to , , . + ($sp): New variable, holding a single whitespace character. + ($tab): New variable, holding a tabulation character. + ($nl): New variable, holding a newline character. + +2011-01-22 Ralf Wildenhues + + 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 + + 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 + + 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 + Stefano Lattarini + + 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 + + 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 + + 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 + Ralf Wildenhues + + 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 + + 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 + + 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 + + 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 + + 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 + Stefano Lattarini + + parallel-tests: work around Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh read bugs. + * lib/am/check.am ($(TEST_SUITE_LOG), recheck, recheck-html): + Test file readability before redirecting input from it, to avoid + exiting Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh which treats read as special builtin. + * tests/parallel-tests-unreadable-log.test: New test. + * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update. + * NEWS: Update. + +2011-01-16 Ralf Wildenhues + + * NEWS, README: Update copyright years. + + Fix parallel-tests.test failure with HP-UX make. + * tests/parallel-tests.test: Sleep inside inner tests, so logs + are newer than logs of tests they depend on, for HP-UX make. + +2011-01-15 Ralf Wildenhues + + docs: ensure example are separated with empty lines in the input + * doc/automake.texi (Extending aclocal, Emacs Lisp, Rebuilding) + (API Versioning, Renamed Objects, Multiple Outputs): Add empty + lines before `@example' and after `@end example' lines, so info + output is rendered correctly, and a following @noindent honored. + Report by Stefano Lattarini. + +2011-01-15 Jim Meyering + + tests: fix comment typo + * tests/substref.test: Fix grammar in a comment. + +2011-01-13 Stefano Lattarini + + tests: fix spurious failures in two texinfo tests + * tests/txinfo.test ($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 + + 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 $AUTOMAKE -a for installing files. + +2011-01-12 Stefano Lattarini + + docs: clustered '-d' not recognized in YFLAGS + This change fixes automake bug#7828. + * doc/automake.texi (Yacc and Lex): Document that automake + recognizes '-d' in AM_YFLAGS only if it's not clustered with + other options. + From a report by Юрий Пухальский. + +2011-01-10 Stefano Lattarini + + tests: add checks on automatically-distributed files + Related to automake bug#7819. + * tests/autodist.test: New test. + * tests/autodist-subdir.test: Likewise. + * tests/autodist-acconfig.test: Likewise. + * tests/autodist-acconfig-no-subdir.test: Likewise. + * tests/autodist-aclocal-m4.test: Likewise. + * tests/autodist-config-headers.test: Likewise. + * tests/autodist-configure-no-subdir.test: Likewise. + * tests/autodist-stamp-vti.test: Likewise. + * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update. + +2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini + + tests: work around a texi+cygnus bug causing a spurious XFAIL + * tests/txinfo5b.test: New test, like txinfo5.test but calling + automake with the `-Wno-override' option to work around a bug + in the texinfo + cygnus interaction. + * tests/txinfo5.test: Update heading comments. + * tests/Makefile.am (TEST): Updated. + +2011-01-09 Dave Hart (tiny change) + + Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment. + * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo. + +2011-01-11 Stefano Lattarini + + Improve, extend and tweak tests on Texinfo support. + * tests/instdir-texi.test: Add a call to `ls -l' after that to + `make', for debugging. When looking for required tools, do not + redirect the output of "$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 + + Fix another typo in Rule.pm comment. + * lib/Automake/Rule.pm: Fix typo. + +2011-01-09 Stefano Lattarini + + 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 + + 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 + Eric Blake + + 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 + + * NEWS: Fix typo (forgotten word). + +2011-01-02 Stefano Lattarini + Ralf Wildenhues + + 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 + + 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 + Stefano Lattarini + + 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 + + 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 + + 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 + + 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", + + - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5", + + +2010-12-21 Stefano Lattarini + + 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 + + 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 + + docs: list LTLIBRARIES among Automake primaries + * doc/automake.texi (Uniform): List `LTLIBRARIES' among + the Automake primaries. + +2010-12-14 Stefano Lattarini + + 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 + + Avoid running installed automake from 'libtool --help'. + * tests/subobj9.test: Export AUTOCONF and AUTOMAKE. + Together with fixed Libtool, this fixes check-coverage to not + invoke installed automake. + +2010-11-25 Stefano Lattarini + + Fix spurious failures in `silent*.test' for $CC != gcc + In some tests on automake-produced silent rules, we forced the + use of gcc depmode to improve testsuite coverage; but this has + unsurprisingly led to spurious failures when some non-GNU C + compilers were used. So we are now careful to require GCC in + tests that force gcc depmode. + From reports by Ralf Wildenhues. + * silent5.test: Test removed, its content split into ... + * silent-many-generic.test, silent-many-gcc.test: ... these new + sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists + "gcc" in $required. + * silentlex.test: Test removed, its content split into ... + * silent-lex-generic.test, silent-lex-gcc.test: ... these new + sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists + "gcc" in $required. + * silentyacc.test: Test removed, its content split into ... + * silent-yacc-generic.test, silent-yacc-gcc.test: ... these new + sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists + "gcc" in $required. + * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated. + +2010-11-21 Stefano Lattarini + + Tests: consistently use "|| Exit 1" after ". ./defs". + * tests/autohdr.test: Use `. ./defs || Exit 1', not bare + `. ./defs', for consistency with other tests. + * tests/autohdr2.test: Likewise. + * tests/autohdr3.test: Likewise. + * tests/autohdr4.test: Likewise. + * tests/cond23.test: Likewise. + * tests/cond24.test: Likewise. + * tests/cond25.test: Likewise. + * tests/cond26.test: Likewise. + * tests/cond27.test: Likewise. + * tests/cond28.test: Likewise. + * tests/cond29.test: Likewise. + * tests/cond30.test: Likewise. + * tests/cond31.test: Likewise. + * tests/cond32.test: Likewise. + * tests/cond33.test: Likewise. + * tests/cond34.test: Likewise. + * tests/cond35.test: Likewise. + * tests/cond36.test: Likewise. + * tests/cond37.test: Likewise. + * tests/cond38.test: Likewise. + * tests/cond39.test: Likewise. + * tests/cond40.test: Likewise. + * tests/cond41.test: Likewise. + * tests/cond42.test: Likewise. + * tests/cond43.test: Likewise. + * tests/cond44.test: Likewise. + * tests/cond45.test: Likewise. + * tests/dollarvar.test: Likewise. + * tests/dollarvar2.test: Likewise. + * tests/hfs.test: Likewise. + * tests/libobj14.test: Likewise. + * tests/percent.test: Likewise. + * tests/percent2.test: Likewise. + * tests/phony.test: Likewise. + * tests/silent.test: Likewise. + * tests/silent2.test: Likewise. + * tests/silent3.test: Likewise. + * tests/silent4.test: Likewise. + * tests/silent5.test: Likewise. + * tests/silent6.test: Likewise. + * tests/silent7.test: Likewise. + * tests/silent9.test: Likewise. + * tests/silentcxx.test: Likewise. + * tests/silentf77.test: Likewise. + * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise. + * tests/silentlex.test: Likewise. + * tests/silentyacc.test: Likewise. + + Avoid useless cleaning in some `silent*.test' tests. + * tests/silentf77.test: Removed useless calls to "make clean" + and "make maintainer-clean". + * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise. + * tests/silent3.test: Removed useless call to "make distclean". + * tests/silent4.test: Likewise. + * tests/silent9.test: Likewise. + +2010-11-19 Ian Lance Taylor + + Sync config-ml.in from GCC. + * config-ml.in: Add Go support: treat GOC and GOCFLAGS like other + compiler/flag environment variables. + +2010-11-19 Stefano Lattarini + + Automake::Config: remove extra trailing semicolon. + * lib/Automake/Config.in: Remove extra trailing semicolon. + + help4.test: fix botched heading comment. + * tests/help4.test: Fixed the heading comment, since it + didn't correctly describe what checks the testcase was + supposed to perform. + + help2.test: add checks on aclocal too. + * tests/help2.test: Check that also `aclocal --version' and + `aclocal --help' work with configure.in and acinclude.m4 both + broken. + +2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini + + Fix spurious failures of silent-rules tests with Sun Fortran. + * tests/silentf77.test: Strip from the make output some verbose + messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers, to + avoid spurious failures. Add a trailing `:' command. + * tests/silentf90.test: Likewise. + +2010-11-17 Stefano Lattarini + + Fix spurious failures of silent5.test with Sun Fortran. + * tests/silent5.test: Strip from the make output some verbose + messages possibly printed by the SunStudio fortran compilers, + to avoid spurious failures. This bug has been there from the + very first version of this test script. + +2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini + + Fix regression in colon{5,6}.test (failures on AIX 5.3). + * tests/colon5.test: Also substitute `@SHELL@' with `$SHELL' when + post-processing the generated Makefile.in, to work around a bug + of AIX 5.3 make which doesn't allow setting the `$(SHELL)' macro + on the commend line. Calls to `$MAKE' adjusted accordingly. + * tests/colon6.test: Likewise. + Regression introduced in commit v1.11-175-gf9fe878 "Modernize, + improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test", and reported by Ralf + Wildenhues. + +2010-11-16 Stefano Lattarini + + Fix regression in ansi.test (failure on AIX 5.3). + * tests/ansi.test: Remove redundant hackish check done using a + hand-postprocessed Makefile.in. This check worked by setting + the `$(SHELL)' macro on the command line of make, but this is + not supported by the AIX 5.3 make implementation. + This bug has been lurking for a long time, and was activated by + commit v1.11-125-gc1f6cdb "Enable `errexit' shell flag in various + tests". Report by Ralf Wildenhues. + +2010-11-16 Ralf Wildenhues + + tests: avoid '##'-style comments inside recipe commands. + * tests/confh.test, tests/confh8.test: Remove + double-hash comments from makefile rule commands, they + are not part of the Automake API. + +2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues + + tests: work around dash quoting issue in case statements. + * tests/color.test, tests/color2.test: Quote variable in case + pattern, to avoid skipping tests with dash 0.5.5.1. + +2010-11-14 Ralf Wildenhues + + Rebuild menus in the manual. + * doc/automake.texi: Rebuild menus (using ^C ^U ^A in emacs). + Thanks to Ian Lance Taylor for the suggestion. + + Fix install-strip when $(STRIP) contains several words. + * lib/am/install.am (install-strip): Update comment. Use + separate sub-make invocations for empty and nonempty $(STRIP), + to fix quoting issues. + * tests/strip2.test, tests/strip3.test: New tests. + * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Adjust. + +2010-11-10 Ralf Wildenhues + + Fix yaccdry.test failure: require bison. + * tests/yaccdry.test: Require bison. + Found by NixOS Hydra. + +2010-11-07 Stefano Lattarini + + Fix a bug in variable concatenation with `+='. + * lib/Automake/VarDef.pm (append): Since the content of the + "appended-to" variable is going to be unconditionally normalized + later, simply separate the appended value with a single whitespace + character, instead of trying to be uselessly smarter by using + escaped newlines. This fixes a bug in which extra backslashes + where erroneously inserted in the variable's final value. + * tests/pluseq11.test: New test, exposing the bug. + * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update. + Reported by Andy Wingo. + +2010-11-06 Stefano Lattarini + + Fix bug in rules for creating vala vapi/header files. + * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Add forgotten "fi" in an + if control structure in a generated make rules. Bug introduced + by previous commit `v1.11-221-gd7c1679', and revealed by failure + of test `vala2.test'. + +2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues + + Fix and document rules to not touch the tree with `make -n'. + * doc/automake.texi (Multiple Outputs): Document the problem of + modifications during dry-run execution, propose solution. + * NEWS: Update. + * automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Split recipe so the + stamp file is not removed with GNU `make -n'. + (lang_yacc_target_hook): Separate removal of parser output file + and header remaking. + * lib/am/lisp.am ($(am__ELCFILES)): Determine whether -n was + passed to make, take care not to remove any files in that case. + * lib/am/remake-hdr.am (%CONFIG_H%): Separate removal of + %STAMP% file from induced remaking of config header. + * tests/autohdrdry.test, tests/lispdry.test, tests/yaccdry.test: + New tests. + * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update. + +2010-11-01 Ralf Wildenhues + + Add FAQ entry for bug reporting instructions. + * doc/automake.texi (Reporting Bugs): New section. + (Introduction): Refer to it. + +2010-10-04 Stefano Lattarini + + Add support for newer python versions. + * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Add python2.7 and python3.2 to + _AM_PYTHON_INTERPRETER_LIST. Since we are at it, break a long + line and fix indentation. + * THANKS: Updated. + From a report by Thomas Klausner. + + Add test for `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' macro. + * tests/dmalloc.test: New test. + * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update. + + Fix nits and bugs in tests `help*.test'. + * tests/help4.test: Fix broken sed commands used to strip `-W...' + flags away from "$AUTOMAKE" and "$ACLOCAL". + * tests/help3.test: Likewise, and fix a botched comment. + * tests/help.test: Likewise. Also, use "AUTOMAKE_fails ..." + instead of "$AUTOMAKE ... && Exit 1", for consistency and to + please maintainer-check. + * tests/help2.test: Likewise. + +2010-10-03 Stefano Lattarini + Ralf Wildenhues + + Improve tests `help*.test' (also fixes maintcheck failures). + * tests/help.test: To run automake, use `$AUTOMAKE' with all `-W' + flags stripped away rather than hard-coded `automake-$APIVERSION', + to better honour user-overrides. Similarly for aclocal. + * tests/help2.test: Likewise. + * tests/help3.test: Likewise. + * tests/help4.test: Likewise. + +2010-10-03 Ralf Wildenhues + + Document and fix expansion of variables before rules. + * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Document that variables + are expanded before rules. + * lib/am/check.am (am__check_post): Reword a bit so it does not + get matched as a rule. + Suggestion by Ben Pfaff. + +2010-10-02 Ralf Wildenhues + + Revert "parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue." + This reverts commit 24e3b4ee2f8cb9f72dd94a05a893f3d4e88b7835, + because it re-opened the bug fixed by v1.11-10-g218e678. + + 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues + + parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue. + * automake.in (handle_tests): New argument $makefile, new + substitution %MAKEFILE%. + (generate_makefile): Adjust. + * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass + sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard + input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on + w32 (MSYS). + * NEWS: Update. + Report by Bob Friesenhahn. + +2010-09-26 Stefano Lattarini + + Extend tests on `--help' and `--version' options. + * tests/help.test: Create a new empty directory and chdir into + it, rather than removing already present files. Run the aclocal + and automake wrapper scripts directly, instead of relying on + $AUTOMAKE and $ACLOCAL. Be sure to correctly match literal dots + in aclocal's and automake's stderr. Add a trailing `:' command. + * tests/help2.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and + `--version' works in directories with broken `configure.in'. + * tests/help3.test: New test, checking that options `--help' and + `--version' take precedence on the other options. + * tests/help4.test: New test, checking that the first among the + `--help' and `--version' options to be specified on the command + line wins. + * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated. + 2010-09-25 Stefano Lattarini Testsuite: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when extending PATH.