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* NEWS: one more minor fixletStefano Lattarini2013-06-201-3/+3
| | | | Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* NEWS: improve and update wordingStefano Lattarini2013-06-191-63/+87
| | | | Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* Merge branch 'micro' into maintStefano Lattarini2013-06-121-0/+11
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * micro: THANKS: update e-mall address for Ralf Corsepius lang, suffix rules: don't require C stuff needlessly tests: expose automake bug#14560 Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
| * lang, suffix rules: don't require C stuff needlesslyStefano Lattarini2013-06-121-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This change fixes automake bug#14560: when two or more user-defined suffix rules were present in a single Makefile.am, automake would needlessly include definition of some make variables related to C compilation in the generated Makefile.in. * automake.in (handle_languages): Fix logic to decide whether or not to include definitions of C compilation related variables in the generated Makefile.in: instead of doing so when two or more user-defined suffix rules are seen (which is a completely bogus criterion), do so when two or more compiled languages are used. * lib/Automake/Rule.pm (suffix_rules_count): Remove as no longer used. (@EXPORT): Adjust. * t/list-of-tests.mk (XFAIL_TESTS): No longer list the test script 'suffix-extra-c-stuff-pr14560.sh', which now passes. * NEWS: Update. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* | Merge branch 'micro' into maintStefano Lattarini2013-06-031-24/+25
|\ \ | |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | * micro: NEWS: minor fixlets, re-wording, and better text wrapping tests: slightly stricter checks in t/cxx-demo.sh tests: fix spurious failure when 'etags' program is Exuberant Ctags tests: fix spurious failure due to missing sleeps
| * NEWS: minor fixlets, re-wording, and better text wrappingStefano Lattarini2013-06-031-24/+25
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* | Merge branch 'micro' into maintStefano Lattarini2013-05-301-1/+5
|\ \ | |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | * micro: NEWS: document recent testsuite fixes (MinGW/MSYS related) depcomp: avoid trailing backslash in depfile for depmode=msvc7 tests: prune some weed in a non-POSIX test tests: avoid a spurious failure on MSYS
| * NEWS: document recent testsuite fixes (MinGW/MSYS related)Stefano Lattarini2013-05-301-1/+5
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* | Merge branch 'micro' into maintStefano Lattarini2013-05-291-5/+15
|\ \ | |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * micro: NEWS: fix typos and grammaros NEWS: document fix for bug#14441 Automake::Rule: consistently prepend underscore to private variables Automake::Rule: rename: suffix_rule() -> next_in_suffix_chain() Automake::Rule: adjust comments and POD according to previous changes Automake::Rule: make private variables lexically scoped suffix rules: better distinction between builtin and user-derived Automake::Rule: expose suffix rules as a function, not a scalar tests: expose automake bug#14441
| * NEWS: fix typos and grammarosStefano Lattarini2013-05-291-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | Reported-by: Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se> Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
| * Merge branch 'suffix-rules-work' into microStefano Lattarini2013-05-281-0/+10
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * suffix-rules-work: NEWS: document fix for bug#14441 Automake::Rule: consistently prepend underscore to private variables Automake::Rule: rename: suffix_rule() -> next_in_suffix_chain() Automake::Rule: adjust comments and POD according to previous changes Automake::Rule: make private variables lexically scoped suffix rules: better distinction between builtin and user-derived Automake::Rule: expose suffix rules as a function, not a scalar tests: expose automake bug#14441
| | * NEWS: document fix for bug#14441Stefano Lattarini2013-05-281-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* | | NEWS: fix typoStefano Lattarini2013-05-281-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Reported-by: Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se> Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* | | Merge branch 'micro' into maintStefano Lattarini2013-05-281-2/+8
|\ \ \ | |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * micro: NEWS: report recent documentation fix about AM_PROG_MKDIR_P NEWS: Automake 2.0 will assume "rm -f" without args work NEWS: fix a couple of typos in older entries
| * | NEWS: report recent documentation fix about AM_PROG_MKDIR_PStefano Lattarini2013-05-281-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
| * | NEWS: Automake 2.0 will assume "rm -f" without args workStefano Lattarini2013-05-281-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
| * | NEWS: fix a couple of typos in older entriesStefano Lattarini2013-05-281-2/+2
| |/ | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* | NEWS: on assuming "rm -f" without arguments workStefano Lattarini2013-05-281-1/+35
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* | NEWS: document deprecation of 'shar' and 'compress' dist formatsStefano Lattarini2013-05-261-0/+9
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* | Merge branch 'prog-cc-c-o-work' into maintStefano Lattarini2013-05-261-10/+19
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * prog-cc-c-o-work: tests: some tests make no sense if "$CC -c -o" doesn't work AM_PROG_CC_C_O: don't rely on AC_PROG_CC_C_O, re-implement similar logic compile: rewrite AC_PROG_CC with AM_PROG_CC_C_O contents
| * | AM_PROG_CC_C_O: don't rely on AC_PROG_CC_C_O, re-implement similar logicStefano Lattarini2013-05-241-10/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ** Theoretical problems of AC_PROG_CC_C_O: Both cc and $CC are checked to see if they support the '-c' and '-o' options together. This behaviour is highly inconsistent with that of the other macros related to C compiler checks -- which test only $CC. It can also cause unwarranted uses of the 'compile' script on systems where the default 'cc' is inferior, but the user is compiling with a proper, different compiler (e.g., gcc). ** Practical problems with our previous implementation of C support m4 macros in Automake: - AM_PROG_AR must now be called *before* AC_PROG_CC; this wasn't the case before, and it turns out there are packages in the wild that relied on the old behaviour. - The cross-referenced requirements and macro rewrites juggled among AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CC_C_O and AM_PROG_CC_C_O caused warnings in autoconf; for example, in our test 't/libobj3.sh', we could see warnings like these (here slightly tweaked for legibility): configure.ac:5: AC_REQUIRE: `AC_PROG_CC' expanded before required autoconf/c.m4:567: AC_PROG_CC_C_O is expanded from... autoconf/c.m4:429: AC_LANG_COMPILER(C) is expanded from... autoconf/lang.m4:329: AC_LANG_COMPILER_REQUIRE is expanded from... autoconf/general.m4:2606: AC_COMPILE_IFELSE is expanded from... m4sugar/m4sh.m4:639: AS_IF is expanded from... autoconf/general.m4:2031: AC_CACHE_VAL is expanded from... autoconf/general.m4:2052: AC_CACHE_CHECK is expanded from... aclocal.m4:70: AM_PROG_AR is expanded from... configure.ac:5: the top level ** Fix all of that: We fix all of the described issues with a new internal m4 macro _AM_PROG_CC_C_O (inspired to, but not based on, AC_PROG_CC_C_O) that gets tacked on to AC_PROG_CC automatically (this is done in the Automake-generated aclocal.m4) and that takes care of checking and adjusting '$CC' for "-c -o" support. The macro AM_PROG_CC_C_O is still present, but is now just a thin wrapper around such Automake-enhanced AC_PROG_CC. It is worth noting that the present patch causes three slight *backward-incompatibilities*: 1. The name cache variable used by AM_PROG_CC_C_O is no longer computed (at configure runtime!) from the content of '$CC', but is statically defined as 'am_cv_prog_cc_c_o'. 2. 'cc' is no longer checked by AM_PROG_CC_C_O, only '$CC' is. 3. AM_PROG_CC_C_O no longer AC_DEFINE the C preprocessor symbol 'NO_MINUS_C_MINUS_O'. Given however that the third change can easily be worked around, that the first two changes can be legitimately seen as bug fixes, and that the new semantics introduced by such changes will simplify the transition to Automake 2.0 (when the 'subdir-objects' will always be enabled unconditionally), we believe they are acceptable to be shipped with Automake 1.14. With this patch, we also revert some of the testsuite adjustments done in previous commit v1.13.2-178-g9877109 of 2013-05-24 (compile: rewrite AC_PROG_CC with AM_PROG_CC_C_O contents). Such adjustments are no longer needed. * m4/minuso.m4 (_AM_PROG_CC_C_O): New internal macro, basically and adjusted version of a merge between Autoconf-provided AC_PROG_CC_C_O and our old implementation of AM_PROG_CC_C_O. (AM_PROG_CC_C_O): Redefine as a simple wrapper around AC_PROG_CC. * m4/init.m4 (AC_PROG_CC): Append _AM_PROG_CC_C_O, not AM_PROG_CC_C_O, to the pre-existing expansion of this macro. * m4/ar-lib.m4 (AM_PROG_AR): No longer require it to be expanded after AC_PROG_CC. * t/aclocal-deps.sh: Move AC_PROG_CC invocation after AC_PROG_RANLIB and AM_PROG_AR invocations. Things should work this way too (as they used to). * t/subobj-clean-lt-pr10697.sh: Likewise. * t/alloca.sh: Move AC_PROG_CC invocation after AM_PROG_AR invocation. * t/condlib.sh: Likewise. * t/aclocal-deps.sh: Move AC_PROG_CC invocation after LT_INIT and AM_PROG_AR invocations. Make autoconf and autoheader warnings fatal. * t/am-prog-cc-c-o.sh: Adjust to the new semantics, enhance a little, and reduce code duplication. * t/ccnoco.sh: Make autoconf warnings fatal. * t/subpkg.sh: Likewise. * t/ccnoco-lib.sh: Likewise, and fix a comment. * t/link_cond.sh: Enhance a couple of error messages. * configure.ac: Drop "nullification" of AM_PROG_CC_C_O. * NEWS: Adjust. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* | | Merge branch 'micro' into maintStefano Lattarini2013-05-261-0/+20
|\ \ \ | |/ / |/| / | |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * micro: tests: avoid a couple of extra sleep with GNU make NEWS: document testsuite work for 1.13.3 lint: remove a couple of obsolete syntax checks lint: cosmetics: use #-comments, not ##-comments lint: cosmetics: some reordering lint: recipes of syntax check require GNU grep; ensure it is used lint: better name for a syntax check tests: rename $am_make_rc_got -> $am_make_rc tests: ensure $required is not set too late Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
| * NEWS: document testsuite work for 1.13.3Stefano Lattarini2013-05-261-0/+20
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* | Merge branch 'micro' into maintStefano Lattarini2013-05-181-0/+9
|\ \ | |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * micro: lisp: fix a failure with Solaris /usr/xpg4/bin/sh tests: sanitize 'unset' usages tests: fix some botched/outdated comments tests: use perl, not find+rm, to remove temporary directories Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
| * lisp: fix a failure with Solaris /usr/xpg4/bin/shStefano Lattarini2013-05-181-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * lib/am/lisp.am (.el.elc): By initializing the 'am__dir' properly here. For most shells, the lacking initialization, while technically incorrect, didn't cause any issue in practice, because in those shells "test -d" returns an exit status of 0. But with /usr/xpg4/bin/sh, the shell complains like this: "test: argument expected", and returns a non-zero exit status. This caused testsuite failures in several lisp tests. Also, while we are at it, use more proper quoting in the recipe, to ensure a missing initialization to now be caught by more forgiving shells as well. * NEWS: Update. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* | Merge branch 'micro' into maintStefano Lattarini2013-05-151-4/+4
|\ \ | |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * micro: post-release: micro version bump (1.13.2a) release: stable micro release 1.13.2 vala tests: skip in a cross compiler setup HACKING: miscellaneous fixes, updates and enhancements NEWS: minor improvements to wording (about new versioning scheme) Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
| * NEWS: minor improvements to wording (about new versioning scheme)Stefano Lattarini2013-05-151-4/+4
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* | NEWS: typofixStefano Lattarini2013-05-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Reported-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* | news: document new 'subdir-objects' warningStefano Lattarini2013-05-101-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * NEWS: Automake 1.14 will warn if a subdir source file is specified but the 'subdir-objects' option is not given. This is done to smooth the transition to Automake 2.0, which will unconditionally assume the behaviour now given only with the 'subdir-objects' option. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* | NEWS: fix a reference to Automake 1.14 where Automake 2.0 was intendedStefano Lattarini2013-05-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* | Merge branch 'branch-1.13.2' into maintStefano Lattarini2013-05-051-0/+10
|\ \ | |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * branch-1.13.2: maint: version bump after beta release 1.13.1d release: beta release 1.13.1d (will become 1.13.2) NEWS: document more robust handling/recognition of make options Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
| * NEWS: document more robust handling/recognition of make optionsStefano Lattarini2013-05-041-0/+10
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* | Merge branch 'branch-1.13.2' into maintStefano Lattarini2013-04-301-1/+1
|\ \ | |/ | | | | | | | | * branch-1.13.2: cosmetics: remove few trailing whitespace occurrences typofix: in NEWS (extra whitespace)
| * typofix: in NEWS (extra whitespace)Stefano Lattarini2013-04-301-1/+1
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* | Merge branch 'branch-1.13.2' into maintStefano Lattarini2013-04-301-0/+6
|\ \ | |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * branch-1.13.2: sync: update files from upstream with "make fetch" maintcheck: remove outdated whitelisting tar: format 'ustar' cannot support UID/GID longer than 21 bits Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
| * Merge branch 'fix-pr13588-pax-hangs' into branch-1.13.2Stefano Lattarini2013-04-301-0/+6
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | * fix-pr13588-pax-hangs: tar: format 'ustar' cannot support UID/GID longer than 21 bits
| | * tar: format 'ustar' cannot support UID/GID longer than 21 bitsStefano Lattarini2013-04-281-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | See automake bug#8343 and bug#13588. POSIX 1988 'ustar' format is defined with *fixed-size* fields. There is notably a 21 bits limit (2097151) for the UID and the GID. Tom Rini tom_rini@mentor.com says (in bug#8343): When the user has a UID or GID that is larger than the ustar format supports, pax does not error out gracefully in some cases (FC13). Marc Herbert <marc.herbert@intel.com> adds (in bug#8343): When "configure" is run by a user with an UID bigger than 21 bits, BSD pax 3.4 aborts when trying to create the 'conftest.tar' test archive and leaves an empty or corrupted conftest.tar file behind. In the next step, pax tries to extract this incomplete or corrupted archive and this *** hangs the whole ./configure script ***. Note: GNU cpio 2.9 pretends to pass the test but it is a LIE: it silently truncates any big UID to its lower 21 bits. I don't know what can be the consequences of this lie. I think there is currently a design issue in automake/m4/tar.m4 considering that a ustar archive should should *never* succeed when ./configure is run from a big user ID. Months later, Petr Hracek <phracek@redhat.com> reports a similar issue (in bug#13588) for Fedora 17: I am trying to solve problem in case a user is created with big UID and during configuration pax hangs with message ATTENTION! pax archive volume change required. Ready for archive volume: 1 Input archive name or "." to quit pax. Archive name > and needs user interaction. Reference: <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=843376> Time to fix this issue, on the line of a preliminary patch provided by Petr Hracek in bug#13588. The final patch ended up being remarkably different from that original proposition, though. * m4/tar.m4 (_AM_PROG_TAR): If the UID or GID of the current user is too high (> 2097151), the 'ustar' format cannot work. Adjust checks accordingly. Some related code reordering and clean-up. * t/tar-ustar-id-too-high.sh: New test. * t/list-of-tests.mk: Add it. * t/tar.sh: While at it, tweak and enhance a little. * t/tar2.sh: Likewise. * t/tar3.sh: Likewise. * t/tar-override.sh: Likewise. * NEWS: Update. * THANKS: Likewise. Helped-by: Pavel Raiskup <praiskup@redhat.com> Helped-by: Petr Hracek <phracek@redhat.com> Helped-by: Marc Herbert <marc.herbert@intel.com> Helped-by: Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com> Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* | | Merge branch 'branch-1.13.2' into maintStefano Lattarini2013-04-261-6/+17
|\ \ \ | |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * branch-1.13.2: docs: issues with configure substitutions in TESTS tests: avoid possible autotools caching issues (automake bug#13832) docs: add myself and Ralf Wildenhues as authors authors: add myself dry-run: don't get confused by '-I' option tests: avoid a spurious failure with the Korn Shell dry-run: with GNU make, prefer $(MFLAGS) over $(MAKEFLAGS) header vars: can determine whether we are running under GNU make NEWS: improve wording for automake bug#13514 fix NEWS: document fix for automake bug#13514
| * | NEWS: improve wording for automake bug#13514 fixStefano Lattarini2013-04-221-12/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Helped-by: Jack Kelly <jack@jackkelly.name> Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
| * | NEWS: document fix for automake bug#13514Stefano Lattarini2013-04-211-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It was fixed by commit v1.13.1b-5-g7a3d7ce. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* | | NEWS (mint): reflect new Automake versioning schemeStefano Lattarini2013-04-191-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The next minor Automake version will be 1.14, and *not* 1.13.2 -- that will be the next bug-fixing version. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* | | Merge branch 'preproc' into maintStefano Lattarini2013-03-051-0/+12
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * preproc: preproc: enhance and extend tests preproc: add support for relative names in included fragments Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
| * | | preproc: add support for relative names in included fragmentsPeter Rosin2013-02-141-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The rationale for this change is that it is annoying to have to repeat the directory name when including a Makefile fragment. For deep directory structures these repeats can generate a lot of bloat. It also hinders reuse and easy directory restructuring if all Makefile fragments have to know exactly where they live. Suggested by Bob Friesenhahn, and later discussed in bug#13524. In the course of discussion, the following notations were rejected: &{reldir}& - to hard to type, {reldir} - interferes with ${reldir}, {am_reldir} - short form {D} interferes with ${D}, @am_reldir@ - short form @D@ interferes with AC_SUBST([D]) as well as invading the config.status turf. Other notations were also suggested... * automake.in (read_am_file): Add third argument specifying the relative directory of this Makefile fragment compared to the main Makefile. Replace %reldir% and %canon_reldir% in the fragment with this relative directory (with slashes etc, or canonicalized). (read_main_am_file): Adjust. * t/preproc-reldir.sh: New test. * t/list-of-tests.mk: Augment. * doc/automake.texi (Include): Document the new feature. NEWS: Add new feature. Co-authored-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se> Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* | | | Merge branch 'branch-1.13.2' into maintStefano Lattarini2013-02-211-0/+7
|\ \ \ \ | | |/ / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | * branch-1.13.2: aclocal: fix for more-than-once specified directories aclocal: just warn if the primary local m4 dir doesn't exist (don't error)
| * | | Merge branch 'fix-pr13514' into branch-1.13.2Stefano Lattarini2013-02-211-0/+7
| |\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * fix-pr13514: aclocal: fix for more-than-once specified directories aclocal: just warn if the primary local m4 dir doesn't exist (don't error)
| | * | | aclocal: just warn if the primary local m4 dir doesn't exist (don't error)Pavel Raiskup2013-02-201-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Related to automake bug#13514. Every package which does not need to have the local m4 macro directory pre-existing in the version control system (because e.g., it does not have nor need any private m4 macros) would fail during the "autoreconf -vfi" phase if AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS([m4]) is specified in configure.ac (it could be to instruct tools like 'autopoint' and 'libtoolize' to use 'm4' as the local directory where to install definitions of their m4 macros, and to instruct aclocal to look into it). The failure would go like this: autoreconf: Entering directory `.' autoreconf: running: aclocal --force aclocal: error: couldn't open directory 'm4': No such file or directory autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1 The problem is that when 'aclocal' is run for the first time during 'autoreconf', the directory 'm4' does not exist yet. It will be created by e.g., 'libtoolize' or 'autopoint' later on. During the second 'aclocal' run, the 'm4' directory exists and aclocal does not complain. To work around this issue, we degrade the error to a simple warning. The warning is still quite useful when aclocal is run by hand - so we are not removing completely. See also: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-automake/2013-01/msg00115.html> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-02/msg00030.html> <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=565663> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=901333> * aclocal.in (SCAN_M4_DIRS_SILENT, SCAN_M4_DIRS_WARN) (SCAN_M4_DIRS_ERROR): New constants. (scan_m4_dirs): Change the second parameter name to $ERR_LEVEL to better reflect new semantic. Use new constants. (scan_m4_files): Adjust to reflect the new 'scan_m4_dirs' semantics. * t/aclocal-macrodir.tap: Adjust. * t/aclocal-macrodirs.tap: Likewise. * THANKS: Update. * NEWS: Likewise. Suggested-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* | | | | Merge branch 'branch-1.13.2' into maintStefano Lattarini2013-02-201-9/+50
|\ \ \ \ \ | |/ / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * branch-1.13.2: coverage: expose automake bug#13760 tests: refactor/enhance tests about make dry-run mode maint: describe new versioning and branching scheme, and adjust to it Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
| * | | | maint: describe new versioning and branching scheme, and adjust to itStefano Lattarini2013-02-171-9/+50
| | |_|/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | See discussion about automake bug#13578 for more details and background. Basically, for the versioning scheme: - micro versions only for bug and regression fixing; - minor versions for new backward-compatible features, and new non-fatal deprecations; - major versions for backward-incompatibilities, complex new features, and major refactoring. And for the git branching scheme: + branch 'next' is for the upcoming major version; + branch 'master' is now for the upcoming minor version; + branch 'maint' is for the upcoming micro (bug-fixing) version; + the merging hierarchy is: 'maint' -> 'master' -> 'next'. * HACKING (Automake versioning and compatibility scheme): New. (Working with git): Adjust. * NEWS: Update and fix. * aclocal.in: Adjust some "FIXME" messages. * automake.in: Likewise. * m4/mkdirp.m4: Likewise. * t/aclocal-acdir.sh: Likewise. * t/aclocal-macrodir.tap: Likewise. * t/aclocal-macrodirs.tap: Likewise. * lib/Automake/Options.pm: Likewise. * m4/internal/ac-config-macro-dirs.m4: Likewise. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* | | | Merge branch 'branch-1.13.2' into maintStefano Lattarini2013-02-151-4/+0
|\ \ \ \ | |/ / / | | | / | |_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * branch-1.13.2: typofix: in comments in 't/ax/test-lib.sh' tests on TAP: don't run the driver with perl unconditionally typofix: in comments in 'automake.in' tests: remove obsolete (and now wrong) comment typofix: in diagnostic in test 't/tap-realtime.sh' automake: fix reference to relevant tests in comments NEWS: we no longer plan to drop $(INCLUDES) support in next major version
| * | NEWS: we no longer plan to drop $(INCLUDES) support in next major versionStefano Lattarini2013-02-031-4/+0
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For a rationale and related discussion, see: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2013-02/msg00001.html> And note that support for INCLUDES has not been re-introduced in the master branch yet, at the moment of writing; but we plan to definitely do so before the next major release. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
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