From: Ralf Wildenhues Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 16:38:34 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Merge branch 'fix-tests-empty-regression' into maint X-Git-Tag: v1.11.1b~49^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9e126f15eef21b220cae7f1b3556c26ac19e29d0;p=thirdparty%2Fautomake.git Merge branch 'fix-tests-empty-regression' into maint * fix-tests-empty-regression: Revert "parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue." --- 9e126f15eef21b220cae7f1b3556c26ac19e29d0 diff --cc ChangeLog index b4d489043,00dd8c281..82044a347 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@@ -1,168 -1,22 +1,187 @@@ + 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. + * tests/compile2.test: Do no uselessly (implicitly) repeat the + computation of PATH_SEPARATOR again. + * tests/instmany-mans.test: Use `$PATH_SEPARATOR', not `:', when + extending/redefining PATH. + * tests/instmany-python.test: Likewise. + * tests/instmany.test: Likewise. + * tests/man4.test: Likewise. + * tests/mkinst3.test: Likewise. + * tests/mmodely.test: Likewise. + * tests/multlib.test: Likewise. + * tests/txinfo30.test: Likewise. + * tests/README (Section "Writing test cases" subsection "Do"): + Updated. + * Makefile.am (sc_tests_PATH_SEPARATOR): New maintainer check. + (syntax_check_rules): Updated. + + Testsuite: new variables `$PATH_SEPARATOR' and `$APIVERSION'. + * tests/defs.in ($APIVERSION): New AC_SUBST'd variable. + ($ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE): Use it. + ($PATH_SEPARATOR): New AC_SUBST'd variables. + ($PATH): Use it. + +2010-09-22 Stefano Lattarini + + Manual: be more agnostic w.r.t. version control system used. + * doc/automake.texi (Basics of Distribution): Also refer to `.svn' + directories as a type of probably-unwanted files that are copied + regardless when adding directories to EXTRA_DIST. + (The dist Hook): Show a dist-hook example which removes Subversion + `.svn' private directories from distdir, rather than CVS private + directories. + (missing and AM_MAINTAINER_MODE): Try to be more agnostic w.r.t. + the version control system used. + + Manual: index refer to target "git-dist", not "cvs-dist". + * doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Index the non-standard + example about "git-dist" under the "git-dist" label, not under + the "cvs-dist" one. + + Perl modules: remove references to "Automake CVS repository". + * lib/Automake/Channels.pm: Update comments to refer to "Automke's + git repository" rather than to "Automake's CVS repository". + * lib/Automake/Configure_ac.pm: Likewise. + * lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm: Likewise. + * lib/Automake/Struct.pm: Likewise. + * lib/Automake/XFile.pm: Likewise. + * lib/Automake/Version.pm (=head1 DESCRIPTION): Refer to "git + branches" rather than "CVS branches". + + Remove obsolete .cvsignore files. + * .cvsignore, doc/.cvsignore, lib/.cvsignore, lib/am/.cvsignore, + lib/Automake/.cvsignore, lib/Automake/tests/.cvsignore, + m4/.cvsignore, tests/.cvsignore: Files deleted. Even when using + savannah's CVS readonly mirror there's no way to commit back to + the real repository, so this files are not worth maintaining or + keeping around. + +2010-09-21 Stefano Lattarini + + * m4/dmalloc.m4: Bump serial number and copyright years. + +2010-09-20 Stefano Lattarini + + Fix broken link in `AM_WITH_DMALLOC' help screen. + * m4/dmalloc.m4 (AM_WITH_DMALLOC): Refer only to the dmalloc site + `http://www.dmalloc.com', not to the dmalloc tarball there (which + seems to have been removed, substituted by multiple release + tarballs now). + +2010-09-17 Eric Blake + + Avoid triple-space after period. + * automake.in (handle_single_transform): Avoid 3 spaces at + sentence end. + * ChangeLog.03: Likewise. + * lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm: Likewise. + * lib/Automake/Channels.pm (_print_message): Likewise. + * lib/Automake/Rule.pm (rule): Likewise. + * lib/Automake/Variable.pm (var): Likewise. + * lib/am/distdir.am: Likewise. + * tests/insthook.test: Likewise. + +2010-09-15 Stefano Lattarini + + Test automake-generated portions of configure help screen. + * tests/help-depend.test: New test. + * tests/help-depend2.test: Likewise. + * tests/help-dmalloc.test: Likewise. + * tests/help-init.test: Likewise. + * tests/help-lispdir.test: Likewise. + * tests/help-maintainer.test: Likewise. + * tests/help-multilib.test: Likewise. + * tests/help-regex.test: Likewise. + * tests/help-silent.test: Likewise. + * tests/help-upc.test: Likewise. + * tests/mmode.test: Remove tests on `configure --help' output, + they are supersed by tests in `help-maintainer.test'. + * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update. + +2010-09-14 Stefano Lattarini + + * tests/README: Don't put GCS mandated tools in $required. + +2010-09-13 Ralf Wildenhues + + * HACKING: Hint at old commits with `git describe' output. + +2010-09-12 Stefano Lattarini + + Fix regression in test `colon4.test'. + * tests/colon4.test: Fix botched editing to `configure.in' + that made the test useless. Since we are at it, improve + comments and make grepping of generated Makefile.in slighty + stricter. + Regression introduced by change "Modernize, improve and/or + extend tests `colon*.test" (Stefano Lattarini, 2010-08-08). + +2010-09-08 Stefano Lattarini + + Do not require "gzip" explicitly in tests. + The gzip utility is simply expected to be present on any decent + target system for Automake. So it's pointless to put it in + $required. + * tests/install2.test ($required): Do not require "gzip". + * tests/lex3.test: Likewise. + * tests/pr9.test: Likewise. + From a suggestion by Ralf Wildenhues. + + Make some `confh*.test' tests more "semantic" (plus tweakings). + * tests/confh.test: Run "autoconf", "configure" and "make check", + instead of munging/grepping the generated `Makefile.in'. + * tests/confh4.test: Relax the grepping of Makefile.in w.r.t. + white spaces. Do not create usless dummy source file `foo.c' + and useless dummy header file `acconfig.h'. + (configure.in): Remove superfluous call to `AC_OUTPUT'. + * tests/confh6.test: Add trailing `:' command. + * tests/confh7.test: In comments, add reference to ... + * tests/confh8.test: ... this new test, "semantic" sister + of `confh7.test'. + * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated. + Prompted by a report from Ralf Wildenhues. + + Remove useless whitespace padding in XFAIL_TESTS definition. + * tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Remove whitespace padding. + 2010-09-07 Ralf Wildenhues parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.