Merge branch 'minor' into micro after 1.15 release

And bump version number: 1.15 -> 1.15.0a

* minor:
  release: stable minor release 1.15
  NEWS: minor improvements and fixed some typos and grammaros
  docs: "make distcheck" implementation details are not to be abused
  NEWS: improve and adjust in light of the oncoming 1.15 release
  Fix dumb logic error preventing $install_sh from being be overridden
  Expose automake bug#19311
  build: fix race in parallel builds
  init: ensure $ac_aux_dir is defined before being used
  plans: enabling subdir-object by default is blocked on bug#13928
  maint: update copyright years
  maint: sync files from upstream ("make fetch")
  Typofixes in warning messages and manual
  NEWS: a typofix, and better word wrapping
  parallel-tests: avoid possible implicit "make all" in test-suite.log rule
  Allow user to extend .PRECIOUS target
  cosmetics: remove a couple of extra trailing white spaces
  tests: fix a spurious failure on Mac OS X
  docs: make clear the JAVA primary is frozen
  install-sh: a slightly better diagnostic, and tests enhancements
  install-sh: be stricter in catching invalid usages
  tests: more significant names for some tests
  tests: some cosmetic fixes
  tests: more significant names for a test
  docs: drop a few obsolescent FIXME/TODO comments, and associated text
  testsuite harness: report test exit status in log file
  TAP driver: no need to invoke AC_PROG_AWK directly
  TAP driver: remove perl implementation (move it into contrib/)
  NEWS: stop reporting "new" Automake versioning scheme
  cosmetics: untabify the install-sh script
  install-sh: assume that "set -f" and "set +f" work...
  install-sh: assume ${var:-value} works as expected
  install-sh: assume 'dirname' is available and working correctly
  post-release: micro version bump (1.14a)

Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 52 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/t/dist-with-unreadable-makefile-fails.sh b/t/dist-with-unreadable-makefile-fails.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..920c996e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/dist-with-unreadable-makefile-fails.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+#! /bin/sh
+# Copyright (C) 1999-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+# any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+# Test for bug in 'make dist'
+# From Pavel Roskin.
+
+am_create_testdir=empty
+. test-init.sh
+
+cat > configure.ac << END
+AC_INIT([$me], [1.0])
+dnl Prevent automake from looking in .. and ../..
+AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([.])
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
+AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])
+AC_OUTPUT
+END
+
+cat > Makefile.am << 'END'
+SUBDIRS = .
+END
+
+$ACLOCAL
+$AUTOCONF
+$AUTOMAKE -a
+
+chmod 000 Makefile.am
+
+# On some systems (like DOS and Windows), files are always readable.
+test ! -r Makefile.am || skip_ "cannot drop file read permissions"
+
+./configure
+
+# 'dist' should fail because we can't copy Makefile.am.
+if $MAKE dist; then
+  exit 1
+else
+  exit 0
+fi