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.
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.
* 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Paolo Bonzini [Tue, 9 Nov 2010 19:14:38 +0000 (20:14 +0100)]
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.
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.
* 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.
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.
* python-work:
cosmetics: fix various typos and grammaros
py-compile: '--' and non-option arguments terminate the option list
py-compile: complain on unrecognized options
py-compile: normalize error and help messages
python tests: add "unit tests" on py-compile
py-compile: the '--destdir' option now accepts a blank argument
python: run the 'py-compile' script with $(SHELL)
java: fix various blunders in test 'java-mix.test'
* tests/java-mix.test: Add missing call to `set -e'. Fix inverted
semantics (`.java' files are expected *not* to be distributed by
default, not the other way round). Fix various typos in the name
of the `.java' files. Correct other minor blunders. Improve some
comments.
java: allow both JAVA and nobase_JAVA in the same Makefile.am
* automake.in (handle_java): Also strip `nobase_' from the given
prefix, when needed.
* tests/java-clean.test: Update and extend.
* tests/java-compile-install.test: Likewise.
* tests/java-no-duplicate.test: Likewise.
* tests/java-sources.test: Likewise.
* tests/java-noinst.test: Likewise.
* tests/java-mix-dist-nodist.test: Renamed to ...
* tests/java-mix.test: ... this, and extended.
* tests/java-nobase.test: New test, still xfailing due to
unrelated issues.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS, XFAIL_TESTS): Update.
java: allow both dist_JAVA and nodist_JAVA in the same Makefile.am
Fixes automake bug#8434.
* automake.in (handle_java): Strip `dist_' and `nodist_' from
the given prefix. Define a new internal Makefile variable
`am__java_sources'. Related adjustments.
* lib/am/java.am (JAVAC, JAVAROOT, CLASSPATH_ENV): Define only the
first time this am file is processed.
(class%DIR%.stamp): Stamp file renamed ...
(class%NDIR%.stamp): ... to this, so that the `dist_' and `nodist_'
prefixes are stripped from the name of the stampfile. Adjust
declaration of dependencies by using the new automake-generated
internal variable `$(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.
* maint:
tests: fix spurious failure on fast machines
aclocal: better URL reference in error message
coverage: distcheck-hook to catch missing/outdated *.m4 files
aclocal: more granularity in acdir overriding
* tests/amhello-binpkg.test: Add missing $EXEEXT usage.
fix: list test 'vala-vpath.test' in XFAIL_TESTS
tests: simplify wrapper for aclocal
fix: minor typo in ChangeLog
coverage: vala support failing for VPATH from-scratch builds
docs: report few more automake parsing limitations
tests: list "forgotten" test script in TESTS
ylwrap: fix unusual indentation whitespace
* 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.
* aclocal.in (scan_file): In the error message about underquoted
definitions, reference the automake page at `www.gnu.org', not
at `sources.redhat.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.
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.
* 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 $ACLOCAL_TESTSUITE_FLAGS, and do
not export it.
docs: report few more automake parsing limitations
Partly motivated by automake bug#8360.
* doc/automake.texi (General Operation): Report few more automake
limitations w.r.t. parsing of unusual makefile constructs. Related
minor reorderings.
* tests/doc-parsing-buglets-colneq-subst.test: New test.
* tests/doc-parsing-buglets-tabs.test: Likewise.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Also list ...
* tests/java-empty-classpath.test: ... this test. Since we are
at it, remove trailing whitespace from a couple of lines.
* maint:
* THANKS (Daniel Richard G.): Update e-mail address.
java: avoid compilation errors when CLASSPATH is empty
parallel-tests: no more spurious successes for FreeBSD make
hacking: we now require autoconf 2.68
test defs: more environment cleanup
tests: fix spurious failure with Solaris make
maintcheck: fix maintainer-check failures, both real and spurious
docs: how to use '-I' option in AM_CPPFLAGS for best VPATH support
tests: relax a test on amhello examples to cater to Solaris tar
docs: add references between the 2 sections on java support
Sync auxiliary files from upstream.
Daniel Richard G [Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:19:14 +0000 (15:19 +0200)]
java: avoid compilation errors when CLASSPATH is empty
* lib/am/java.am (CLASSPATH_ENV): When redefining `$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.
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%] $(TEST_SUITE_LOG): Use a
more "safe" (and apparently redundant) idiom to exit with error,
so that the non-zero exit status is picked up also by FreeBSD
make when it's running in concurrent mode.
* NEWS: Update.
* tests/check-concurrency-bug9245.test: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
* tests/distcheck-configure-flags-am.test: Avoid using `+=' too
liberally with AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS, since the line breaks
so introduced, in conjunction with single quotes, might confuse
Solaris make.
maintcheck: fix maintainer-check failures, both real and spurious
* tests/amhello-binpkg.test: Use "$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=$?".
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.
* maint:
fix typo in recent ChangeLog entry
docs, tests: synchronize examples on silent-rules from config.site
tests: fix weakness in 'tests-environment-backcompat.test'
tests: portability fixes in tests on amhello examples
remake: add test ensuring that slower remakes don't hang
remake: fix outdated comment in configure.am
docs, tests: synchronize examples from docs to tests
cosmetics: fix typos in recent ChangeLog entries
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.
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.
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: Likewise.
* tests/parallel-tests-log-compiler-example.test: Likewise.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
* maint:
docs: avoid a footnote, some related rewordings and improvements
Revert "docs: parallel-tests is not experimental anymore"
docs: minor cosmetic fixes
help: improve text about automatically-distributed files
refactor: split 'usage' subroutine in automake
tests: fix bug in 'autodist.test'
maintcheck: extend 'sc_tests_plain_*' checks
maintcheck: avoid few spurious failures
check: don't use multi-line coloring for the report
ansi2knr: deprecate, it will go away in the next major release
docs: primary/prefix combination "pkglib_PROGRAMS" is now invalid
docs: replace obsolete @vindex entry with a useful one
docs: AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS is for corner cases
parallel-tests: stricter checks on DISABLE_HARD_ERRORS support
docs: parallel-tests is not experimental anymore
check: document and test $(TEST_SUITE_LOG) overriding
* parallel-tests-maint:
Revert "docs: parallel-tests is not experimental anymore"
parallel-tests: stricter checks on DISABLE_HARD_ERRORS support
docs: parallel-tests is not experimental anymore
check: document and test $(TEST_SUITE_LOG) overriding
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.
It turned out that the current work to introduce TAP and SubUnit
support in Automake-generated testsuite harnesses will probably
require the introduction of slight incompatibilities in the
'parallel-tests' behaviour, starting from release 1.12 onward.
So it's advisable to continue to characterize the 'parallel-tests'
support as "experimental" in maintenance release 1.11.2.
* 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.
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.
* 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.
* 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.
* maint:
check: don't use multi-line coloring for the report
ansi2knr: deprecate, it will go away in the next major release
docs: primary/prefix combination "pkglib_PROGRAMS" is now invalid
docs: replace obsolete @vindex entry with a useful one
docs: AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS is for corner cases
Bert Wesarg [Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:59:52 +0000 (21:59 +0200)]
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.
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.
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'.
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