Ralf Wildenhues [Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:00:02 +0000 (08:00 +0200)]
dist: allow running several compressors in parallel.
* lib/am/distdir.am (am__post_remove_distdir): New internal
variable.
(DIST_TARGETS): New variable, set to list of chosen distribution
formats. Order formats by expected duration, slowest first, for
better parallelism.
(dist-gzip, dist-bzip2, dist-lzma, dist-xz, dist-tarZ)
(dist-shar, dist-zip): Use $(am__post_remove_distdir).
(dist, dist-all): Do not depend on distdir. Instead of
replicating each compression command, use a recursive invocation
to allow running all $(DIST_TARGETS) in parallel.
* NEWS: Update.
Report by Peter Breitenlohner.
Ralf Wildenhues [Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:58:27 +0000 (16:58 +0200)]
Fix race condition in werror2.test due to sanity sleep change.
* tests/werror2.test: Generate Makefile.in before configure so
that a Makefile.am update after configure has run is guaranteed
to be newer than Makefile.in.
* tests/subdir5.test: Document why this test does not need to be
fixed.
* tests/subdir8.test: Likewise.
Ralf Wildenhues [Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:44:37 +0000 (13:44 +0200)]
Improve description of the various *LINK variables.
* doc/automake.texi (Program and Library Variables): _LINK also
receives libraries to link against. _LINK may be generated.
(Program Variables): Document reasons when per-target _LINK is
used instead of LINK.
(How the Linker is Chosen): Document how a per-target _LINK
variable and per-target link flags override linker selection.
* THANKS: Update.
Report by Dave Korn against gcc/libstdc++-v3.
Ralf Wildenhues [Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:33:43 +0000 (13:33 +0200)]
Allow variable override of, rather than by, silent variables.
When overriding variables, check the VAR_SILENT status of the
old condition, not the new one: we allow non-silent overrides
of silent variables (these do not hit ordering bugs in the
automake output), but there is no use case for doing so the
other way round. Fixes conditional overrides of variables
annotated AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE in configure.ac.
* lib/Automake/Variable.pm (_check_ambiguous_condition): Check
for VAR_SILENT in $ambig_cond not $cond.
* tests/cond44.test, tests/cond45.test: New tests, analogous to
cond23.test and cond24.test.
* tests/Makefile.am: Update.
Spotted originally in binutils/bfd.
Ralf Wildenhues [Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:23:11 +0000 (13:23 +0200)]
Fix in-tree `recheck' after failed test that runs `check'.
If a test like pr401b-p.test fails for some reason, a `make
recheck' would cause another reason for failure because it sets
AM_MAKEFLAGS which gets propagated into the test and causes its
`make check' to fail.
Testsuite: do not use `chmod -R' when cleaning up.
* tests/Makefile.am (clean-local-check): Do not use `chmod -R' on
the test directories, as that may change or try to change the mode
of installed files: the test directory may contain symlinks to
ltmain.sh files from a Libtool installation, and Solaris `chmod -R'
touches symlink targets. Instead, use the cleanup strategy used
in distdir.am (which is also employed in tests/defs.in).
Bruno Haible [Tue, 6 Oct 2009 20:03:33 +0000 (22:03 +0200)]
Fix 'compile' script to not call mv when target equals source.
* lib/compile: Don't attempt to move the generated file to its
target destination when it is already at the target destination.
Avoids an mv failure with subdir-objects.
* tests/ccnoco3.test: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
* tests/README (Supported shells): Changed the recommended way
to run automake's test scripts with Zsh. Now we tell to use
the Zsh's command line option `-o no_function_argzero', not
`--no-function-argzero', since the latter does not work with
versions 3.x of Zsh.
It seems cscope is not able to take into account relative
file names of included cscope.files files, but it is able to
canonicalize file names containing '../' sequences.
This patch makes the cscope references relative again, and
fixes some corner cases.
* .gitignore: Ignore files generated by `make cscope'.
* NEWS: Reword a bit.
* THANKS: Update.
* automake.in (handle_tags): Use $(am__cd). Provide default
empty rule for the `cscope' target, for empty sources.
* lib/am/tags.am (cscopelist): Construct relative path to files
in $(srcdir) if $(srcdir) is relative.
[TOPDIR_P] (cscope): Do not depend on cscope-clean. Only invoke
$(CSCOPE) if cscope.files is nonemtpy.
(clean-cscope): Rename from ...
(cscopeclean): ... this.
(cscope.files): Depend on clean-cscope.
(distclean-tags) [!TOPDIR_P]: No need to remove cscope files
here.
* tests/cscope.test, tests/cscope2.test, tests/cscope3.test: New
tests.
* tests/Makefile.am: Adjust.
Avoid sleeping for one second most of the time in sanity check.
* m4/sanity.m4 (AM_SANITY_CHECK): Try sanity check first without
sleeping for a second, and only if that failed, sleep and try
again, to avoid the delay in the common case of a configure
script that is older than a second, or a system with sub-second
time stamp granularity.
Report and different patch by Jim Meyering.
* tests/README (User interface, Getting details from failures):
Explicitly state that every test is a "shell script", not just
a "script", and that it's run by `/bin/sh' by default.
* tests/README (User interface, Supported shells): New subsection,
telling about expected portability of the automake test scripts,
describing a zsh incompatibility (w.r.t. $0), and a workaround to
it (with the `--no-function-argzero' option).
Ralf Wildenhues [Sun, 24 May 2009 07:03:00 +0000 (09:03 +0200)]
parallel-tests: avoid GNU make 3.80 substitution bug.
* lib/am/check.am [PARALLEL_TESTS] (check-TESTS): Remove any
`.log' entries from `$(TEST_LOGS)' even if the list is nonempty,
to work around GNU make 3.80 substitution reference issue with
trailing white space in the variable.
* tests/parallel-tests10.test: New test.
* tests/parallel-tests6.test: Update comment.
* tests/Makefile.am: Update.
* NEWS: Update.
Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
* tests/defs.in: Before test execution, be sure to unset all
installation directory variables, so they cannot have an effect
on a `make -e install' command within a test.
Report by Dagobert Michelsen.
Ralf Wildenhues [Sat, 23 May 2009 21:05:17 +0000 (23:05 +0200)]
testsuite: do not change the mode of installed Libtool files.
* tests/defs.in: Do not use `chmod -R' on the test directory, as
that may change or try to change the mode of installed files:
the test directory may contain symlinks to ltmain.sh files from
a Libtool installation, and Solaris `chmod -R' touches symlink
targets. Instead, use the cleanup strategy used in distdir.am.
* NEWS: Update.
Report by Dagobert Michelsen.
Ralf Wildenhues [Sat, 23 May 2009 20:54:15 +0000 (22:54 +0200)]
testsuite: do not fail in cleanup code.
* tests/defs.in: Turn off errexit in the cleanup trap, to avoid
a test failure due to a nonzero command.
* THANKS: Update.
Report by Dagobert Michelsen.
Peter O'Gorman [Sat, 23 May 2009 20:13:14 +0000 (22:13 +0200)]
python: do not install in system directories on Darwin 9.
On Darwin 9, get_python_lib returns a path below `/Library/Python'
regardless of the `prefix' argument it was passed, causing `make
install' to target the system directories regardless of `--prefix'
argument used. Work around this Darwin bug by ignoring the result
of get_python_lib if it points outside of the passed prefix, and
the prefix was not a system directory.
* m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): If the prefix does not match the
initial portion of the pythondir returned by get_python_lib, then
ignore it unless the configured prefix is `/usr' or starts with
`/System'. Fixes instmany-python.test failure on Mac OS X 10.5.7.
* NEWS: Update.
Ralf Wildenhues [Sat, 23 May 2009 20:06:07 +0000 (22:06 +0200)]
Clarify how to enable `silent-rules' and other global options.
* doc/automake.texi (Options): When introducing options, be more
careful to note that not all of them can be specified in
AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS statements, and that some do not make sense in
subdirectories. Note more prominently that `silent-rules' can
only be specified in configure.ac.
* lib/Automake/Options.pm (_process_option_list): Improve error
message for `silent-rules', `tar-v7', `tar-ustar', `tar-pax'
options specified in Makefile.am files.
Report by Bruno Haible.
Ralf Wildenhues [Mon, 18 May 2009 18:57:05 +0000 (20:57 +0200)]
testsuite: also try `jot' as `seq' replacement.
* tests/instmany-mans.test: Try BSD `jot' before resorting to a
slow but portable shell loop.
* tests/instmany-python.test: Likewise.
* tests/instmany.test: Likewise.
Suggestion by Peter O'Gorman.
Ralf Wildenhues [Mon, 18 May 2009 18:52:59 +0000 (20:52 +0200)]
Fix test failure when pkg.m4 is not found, only pkg-config.
* tests/vala5.test: Update comment, this test is not expected to
fail any more. Require valac version 0.7.0. Skip if configure
fails, could be due to unexpanded PKG_CHECK_MODULES or too old
valac.
Report by Simon Josefsson.
Ralf Wildenhues [Sun, 17 May 2009 13:32:40 +0000 (15:32 +0200)]
Revert Automake license to GPLv2+.
Automake will move to GPLv3+ once the Exception statement has
been rewritten to use the new GPLv3 exception language. This
change does not impact the COPYING file that may be installed
by `automake --add-missing'.
* COPYING: Revert to GPLv2. All uses changed.
* NEWS: Update.
* Makefile.am (release-stats): Output stderr of pstops in
addition to catching it, for better debugging.
* doc/automake.texi (Releases): Add line for 1.10.2.
Ralf Wildenhues [Sun, 17 May 2009 10:03:47 +0000 (12:03 +0200)]
Cope with parallel BSD make -jN semantics.
When BSD `make -jN' is used without `-B' which enables backwards
compatible semantics, it may reuse the same shell for several
commands within a rule; so ensure we do not leave it in a
different directory, nor `exit 0' early in a multi-command rule.
* lib/am/distdir.am (distcheck): After running `distcleancheck',
change back to original working directory.
* lib/am/remake-hdr.am (%CONFIG_HIN%): Run autoheader in a
subshell.
* lib/am/mans.am (uninstall-man%SECTION%): Do not `exit 0' early
in a rule that consists of several shell invocations. Parallel
NetBSD `make -jN' without `-B' will use only one shell for all
commands, but won't respawn one after `exit 0'. Fixes
notrans.test failure.
* tests/makej2.test: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am: Update.
Matthias Klose [Sun, 17 May 2009 09:29:16 +0000 (11:29 +0200)]
Let AM_PATH_PYTHON honor python's idea about the site directory.
* m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): When computing pythondir and
pyexecdir, pass the expanded prefix resp. exec_prefix as `prefix'
to get_python_lib, so python can determine the name of the site
directory depending on the install location. Afterwards, replace
the directory names with the unexpanded values of $PYTHON_PREFIX
resp. $PYTHON_EXEC_PREFIX again, to allow override according to
the documentation. Fixes site directory computation for Debian
and Ubuntu (`dist-packages' for a prefix of `/usr' or `/usr/local',
`site-packages' elsewhere).
* NEWS, THANKS: Update.
Ralf Wildenhues [Sun, 17 May 2009 08:26:15 +0000 (10:26 +0200)]
Vala: for now, require GNU make.
* doc/automake.texi (Vala Support): GNU make is currently
required for Vala sources.
* tests/vala2.test, tests/vala3.test, tests/vala5.test: Require
GNU make.
Jürg Billeter [Fri, 15 May 2009 13:51:03 +0000 (15:51 +0200)]
Vala: Use $(srcdir) in rebuild rules.
valac is always run in srcdir as the generated files are distributed.
So srcdir needs to be taken into account in the rebuild rules to not
wrongly trigger a rebuild in the wrong directory.
* automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Rebuild files in
$(srcdir).
* tests/vala2.test: Test rebuild rules from VPATH build.
Jürg Billeter [Fri, 15 May 2009 13:50:59 +0000 (15:50 +0200)]
Vala: Add and test rebuild rules for generated header and vapi files.
valac will generate additional files when using, for example, -H in
VALAFLAGS. We need to recognize these options and add appropriate
rebuild rules to fix parallel build.
* automake.in (lang_vala_finish_target): Recognize -H, -h,
--header, --internal-header, --vapi, --internal-api, --gir flags
to valac and rebuild rules for generated headers; distribute
and maintainer-clean them.
* tests/vala2.test: Test rebuild rules.
Jürg Billeter [Sun, 17 May 2009 08:14:13 +0000 (10:14 +0200)]
Vala: Fix build when using per-target VALAFLAGS.
This does not yet implement full per-target support for VALAFLAGS,
however, this change at least fixes building when there is only one
target per source file, which is the most common situation.
* automake.in: Remove `VALAFLAGS' from `flags' in language struct.
(lang_vala_finish_target): Handle `*_VALAFLAGS rewriting' manually
here; check `VALAFLAGS' user variables.
* tests/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Remove vala5.test.
* doc/automake.texi (Vala Support): Document per-target flag
limitations.
Ralf Wildenhues [Mon, 11 May 2009 22:15:43 +0000 (00:15 +0200)]
Document some formatting restrictions for Makefile.am files.
For PR automake/540:
* doc/automake.texi (General Operation, Usage of Conditionals):
Variable assignments should not be indented by TABs, rule commands
should. Conditional keyword statements should not be indented.
Report by luoyi.ly@gmail.com.
Ralf Wildenhues [Sun, 3 May 2009 07:47:58 +0000 (09:47 +0200)]
distdir: avoid duplicate `find' traversal with subpackages.
* lib/am/distdir.am (distdir) [%?SUBDIRS%]: When recursing, set
`am__skip_mode_fix'.
[%?TOPDIR_P%]: When `$(am__skip_mode_fix)' is set, avoid tree
walk.
* tests/subpkg4.test: New test, to ensure that we still walk the
whole tree while fixing permissions. We don't ensure it is
walked once only.
* tests/Makefile.am: Update.
Ralf Wildenhues [Sun, 3 May 2009 07:32:44 +0000 (09:32 +0200)]
Disable test cleanup trap with OSF1/Tru64 sh.
* configure.ac: Test whether /bin/sh has working 'set -e'
in conjunction with an exit trap. Set $am_cv_sh_errexit_works
accordingly, substitute sh_errexit_works, and warn about
leftover test directories with broken shells like Tru64 /bin/sh.
* tests/defs.in: Do not install any traps with broken shells.
Bruno Haible [Sat, 2 May 2009 07:26:58 +0000 (09:26 +0200)]
Recommend *-local hooks without commands, for extensibility.
* doc/automake.texi (Clean): Show how to write the clean-local
extension with separate phony target.
* tests/Makefile.am (clean-local-check): Practice what we preach
by marking this phony. For consistency, rename from ...
(check-clean-local): ... this.
silent-rules: fix alignment of less verbose output.
* automake.in (define_verbose_var): Define `$silent_var' as
VAR_ASIS, not VAR_PRETTY, to avoid squashing of multiple
adjacent spaces.
* tests/silent.test: Amend test.
Report by Jan Engelhardt.
* doc/automake.texi (Subpackages, Vala Support, Java)
(Checking the Distribution, Timeline): Fix `a' vs. `an' errors
and duplicate `the'.
Report by Eric Blake.
* lib/am/check.am ($(TEST_SUITE_LOG)): Consistently use TAB, not
spaces, for indentation of commands, even if indentation may not
be needed at all.
* lib/am/texinfos.am (install-info-am): Likewise.
* THANKS: Update.
Prompted by report from John Calcote.
parallel-tests: fix recheck* targets for non-GNU make.
* lib/am/check.am (recheck recheck-html): Override AM_MAKEFLAGS
to portably transport the TEST_LOGS settings through the
recursive `make' invocations. Fixes parallel-tests9.test
failure with Solaris make.
* tests/parallel-tests9.test: Also ensure that the test
summary is correct for `recheck'.
Suggestion by Akim Demaille.
* m4/depend.m4 (_AM_DEPENDENCIES): If universal builds are used,
avoid racy depmodes.
* lib/depcomp: Ignore `-arch' argument for makedepend depmode.
Report by Bruno Haible, analysis by Bruno Haible, Peter O'Gorman,
and Eric Blake.
* tests/depend5.test: Don't fail if the system or file system
cannot handle weird characters, instead just try a few.
* tests/parallel-tests3.test: Really wait until the serial test
has finished, before letting the cleanup trap do its work.
Report by Bruno Haible.
Avoid nonportable `./FILE' instead of `FILE' in test.
* tests/libtool3.test: Do not use `$(top_builddir)/sub/libname.la'
in *_LDADD entry if `$(top_builddir)' is `.'. Fixes test failure
with parallel NetBSD make.
Detect make `include' style also with parallel non-GNU make.
Parallel NetBSD make outputs `--- $target ---' messages,
parallel HP-UX make outputs `Making target"$target"'. Just
ignore all additional output for the include test.
* m4/make.m4 (AM_MAKE_INCLUDE): Ignore additional output
produced by `make' to relax `include' style detection.
* doc/automake.texi (Debugging Make Rules): New FAQ section.
(Top, FAQ): Adjust menus, and capitalization of the description
of the `Hard-Coded Install Paths' node.
(Multiple Outputs): Add comment to restore font-lock for vim.
Suggestion by Karl Berry.
* m4/vala.m4 (AM_PROG_VALAC): Remove `Vala ' from valac
--version string before comparing versions.
* tests/vala2.test: Require version 0.7.0 for the test.
Fixes failures of vala2.test and vala3.test with older valac.
Correctly treat all assignments with bogus trailing comments.
Before this patch, automake would silently fail to diagnose and
to copy into the output those variable assignments which are
preceded by a comment, and end in backslash newline comment.
* automake.in (read_am_file): When determining whether an
escaped newline followed by a comment is an error, correctly use
the parser state, not the contents of a saved comment, which
could still be carried over from a comment before an assignment.
* NEWS: Update.
* tests/commen11.test: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am: Update.
Report by Karl Berry.
* next: (64 commits)
More minor fixups to vala support.
Improve Vala support.
testsuite: do not fail on systems without read permissions.
testsuite: parallel make fixes.
silent-rules reorganization, --enable-silent-rules switch.
manual: Add note about parallelism and tests ordering.
Fix maintainer-check failure.
parallel-tests: more testsuite exposure.
parallel-tests: let VERBOSE=yes output appear before summary.
parallel-tests: `clean recheck' should not rerun all tests.
parallel-tests: Fix driver for nonempty executable extension.
Fix a couple of $(EXEEXT)-related testsuite failure.
Document last change in NEWS.
Fix renamed objects with subdir-objects and other languages.
Do not remove texinfo outputs upon mostlyclean.
testsuite: unset TESTS, TEST_LOGS, to avoid interference.
testsuite: generate $(parallel_tests) just when needed.
Remove superfluous line from recheck recheck-html.
parallel-tests: redo check-html, recheck, recheck-html.
parallel-tests: LOG_COMPILER for tests without known extension.
...
* mh-vala-support:
More minor fixups to vala support.
Improve Vala support.
Minor fixups for Vala support.
Support Vala in non-recursive builds; more tests and fixes.
Initial support for the vala programming language.
* automake.in: Update to Vala 0.7.0 semantics, recover from removal
of built sources, support silent-rules, drop _PKGNAME variables
* doc/automake.texi, NEWS: Update.
* lib/am/vala.am: Bump copyright years.
* m4/vala.m4: Likewise.
* tests/vala.test: Remove obsolete grep tests.
* tests/vala1.test: Likewise.
* tests/vala2.test: Test full build, distcheck, and distclean.
* tests/vala3.test: Likewise, also test with subdir-objects.
* tests/vala4.test: Bump copyright years.
* tests/vala5.test: New test for per-target flags, expected to fail.
* tests/Makefile.am: Update.
* THANKS: Update.
Merge branch 'next' (early part) into mh-vala-support
* 'next' (early part): (135 commits)
parallel-tests: LOG_COMPILER for tests without known extension.
More node renaming in the manual.
Fix instdir-java.test failure.
Fix testsuite failures due to nonexistent `dirlist' entries.
Fix typo in manual.
Avoid test failure due to paranoid TAR_OPTIONS envvar setting.
Use more common spelling in diagnostic: s/canonic/canonical/.
Post-release version bump.
Version 1.10b.
Minor NEWS update.
Reorganize nodes in the manual.
Update AM_RECURSIVE_TARGETS for parallel-tests.
parallel-tests: New target recheck-html.
Rewrite maintainer-check in separate tests, parallelizable.
Fix maintainer-check failure.
Fix latex warning in manual.
Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
parallel-tests: redo lazy checking: recheck and RECHECK_LOGS.
parallel-tests: do not mark check-TESTS as `.MAKE'.
parallel-tests: warn about $(srcdir), $(top_srcdir) in TESTS.
...
testsuite: do not fail on systems without read permissions.
* tests/instfail-info.test: Do not use the `non-root'
requirement for testing whether files may be made unreadable;
instead use `test -r' and skip the test if that still works.
* tests/instfail-java.test: Likewise.
* tests/instfail-libtool.test: Likewise.
* tests/instfail.test: Likewise.
* tests/instmany-mans.test: Likewise.
* tests/instmany-python.test: Likewise.
* tests/instmany.test: Likewise.
* tests/parallel-tests9.test: Likewise.
This patch fixes a couple of testsuite bugs exposed with
`MAKE=make\ -jN make check'.
* tests/libtoo10.test: Do not run `clean' in same $MAKE
invocation as `all check'. Fixes test failure with parallel
NetBSD `make -jN'.
* tests/nobase.test: Be sure to create a directory before
creating files in it. Fixes test failure with MAKE=`make -jN'
for NetBSD make. This issue is hidden with parallel GNU make
due to its parallel breadth first update order.
* tests/parallel-tests3.test: Skip if $MAKE contains `-j',
GNU make will use the environment variable $MAKE for recursion
and thus run in parallel even if `$MAKE -j1' was used on the
command line in the test. Also, after running the test proper,
wait long enough so that background jobs have finished and there
are no open files left when the cleanup code runs.
This patch introduces a configure-time option to set the default
verbosity. Since configure now needs to know whether the
`silent-rules' automake option was set, the latter can only be
set within AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, or with a new AM_SILENT_RULES macro
but not any more through AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS or the automake
command line option `--silent-rules'.
* automake.in (define_verbose_var): Define the default verbose
variable in terms of `$(AM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY)'.
(handle_configure): Do not pass `--silent-rules' to automake.
(scan_autoconf_traces): Trace `AM_SILENT_RULES'. If seen,
enable global `silent-rules' option.
(usage): Do not document `--silent-rules'.
(parse_arguments): Do not accept `--silent-rules'.
* doc/automake.texi (Options): Overhaul. Document
AM_SILENT_RULES, --enable-silent-rules, --disable-silent-rules,
AM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY. Show an example for user-added variables
for less verbose output.
(Invoking Automake): Remove documentation for `--silent-rules'.
(Public Macros): Document `AM_SILENT_RULES'.
* NEWS: Update.
* lib/Automake/Options.pm (_process_option_list): Accept
`silent-rules' only as option in configure.ac.
* m4/init.m4 (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): If the `silent-rules' option
was enabled, require `AM_SILENT_RULES'; move AM_BACKSLASH
initialization to ...
* m4/silent.m4 (AM_SILENT_RULES): ... this new file, new macro.
Deal with `--enable-silent-rules' switch; define
AM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY.
* m4/Makefile.am (dist_m4data_DATA): Add silent.m4.
* tests/dollarvar.test: Remove tests for `--silent-rules', use
`AM_SILENT_RULES'.
* tests/flavor.test: Remove test for `--silent-rules'.
* tests/silent.test: Use `AM_SILENT_RULES' instead of
`AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = silent-rules'; use `--enable-silent-rules'.
* tests/silent2.test: Likewise.
* tests/silent3.test: Likewise.
* tests/silent4.test: Likewise.
* tests/silent5.test: Likewise.
* tests/silent6.test: Likewise. Test `AM_SILENT_RULES' as well
as `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([silent-rules])' instead of
`--silent-rules'.
* tests/silent7.test: Use `AM_SILENT_RULES' instead of
`AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = silent-rules'; ensure the latter is rejected.
Test combinations of --enable-silent-rules and
--disable-silent-rules with `make V=0' and `make V=1'.
Suggestion for configure-time switch by Bob Friesenhahn.
manual: Add note about parallelism and tests ordering.
* doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests):
Dependencies between test logs work for tests with known
extensions only. Hint that tests should be prepared to be run
in parallel.
* automake.in (am_install_var): For `PROGRAMS' primary, strip
`$(EXEEXT)' here already, so the name uniquifying works even
when we look at names repeatedly, with inconsistent executable
extension; through variable references, we might have added
the extension ourselves earlier.
(handle_programs): No need to strip `$(EXEEXT)' here any more.
* tests/extra8.test: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am: Update.
* THANKS: Update.
Report by Daniel Richard G.