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* maint: Update copyright years to 2017.Mathieu Lirzin2017-03-0235-35/+35
| | | | This update has been made with 'make update-copyright'.
* python: add python3.5, python3.4Paul Eggert2016-04-201-1/+2
| | | | * m4/python.m4 (AM_PATH_PYTHON): Add python3.5, python3.4.
* maint: update copyright years to 2015 (branch 'micro')Stefano Lattarini2015-01-0535-35/+35
| | | | Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* Merge branch 'minor' into micro after 1.15 releaseStefano Lattarini2015-01-0535-45/+44
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
| * release: stable minor release 1.15v1.15Stefano Lattarini2014-12-311-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump version number to 1.15. * m4/amversion.m4: Likewise (auto-updated by "make bootstrap"). Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
| * Merge branch 'micro' into minorStefano Lattarini2014-12-221-1/+1
| |\ | |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * micro: cleanup: refactor code to initialize DIST_COMMON dist: ordering of files in DIST_COMMON is deterministic now tests: refactor some tests on DIST_COMMON maint: make output of 'gen-testsuite-part' deterministic When computing lispdir, don't load emacs site wide init file. PATH: quote $(PATH_SEPARATOR) as well Improve detection of GNU make, avoiding "Arg list too long" errors.
| * Merge branch 'micro' into minorStefano Lattarini2014-12-191-1/+5
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * micro: sync: update third-part files from upstream Make sure AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE has a trailing newline dist: adjust warning messages about shar and tarZ deprecation docs: improve description of ${PACKAGE}, ${VERSION}, and similar variables Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
| * | Fix dumb logic error preventing $install_sh from being be overriddenThomas Jahns2014-12-171-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * m4/install-sh.m4: Here. * THANKS: Update. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
| * | init: ensure $ac_aux_dir is defined before being usedStefano Lattarini2014-04-221-4/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since we use '$ac_aux_dir' to define '$am_aux_dir', we need to ensure the former has been initialized before we try to define the latter, otherwise the definition: am_aux_dir=`cd $ac_aux_dir && pwd` will set '$am_aux_dir' to '$HOME', likely causing weird and unexpected behaviours. This change fixes automake bug#15981. * m4/auxdir.m4 (AM_AUX_DIR_EXPAND): AC_REQUIRE expansion of 'AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR_DEFAULT'. Fix redundant comment and AC_PREREQ, add extra quoting around '$ac_aux_dir'. * t/auxdir-pr15981.sh: New test. * t/auxdir-cc-pr15981.sh: Likewise. * t/list-of-tests.mk (handwritten_TESTS): Add them. * THANKS, NEWS: Update. * bin/automake.in: Fix a harmless typo in comments, that I happened to notice while writing this patch. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
| * | maint: update copyright yearsStefano Lattarini2014-04-2135-35/+35
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We've been in 2014 already for few months now... Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
| * | TAP driver: no need to invoke AC_PROG_AWK directlyStefano Lattarini2013-12-241-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It is already required by AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE anyway. * doc/automake.texi: Adjust examples. * t/tap-doc2.sh: Adjust documentation-tracking test. * m4/init.m4 (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Explicitly tell that the AC_PROG_AWK requirement is also needed whenever the TAP driver is used. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
| * | post-release: micro version bump (1.14a)Stefano Lattarini2013-06-211-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * configure.ac: Bump version: 1.14 -> 1.14a * m4/amversion.m4: Likewise (auto-updated by "make bootstrap"). Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* | | When computing lispdir, don't load emacs site wide init file.Andrew Burgess2014-12-191-1/+1
| |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When computing the lispdir emacs was previously invoked with the '-q' option to avoid loading the users initialisation files, however, the site wide initialisation file was still loaded, in some cases this can cause emacs to hang, with the result that a configure can also hang. The lisp code that aclocal causes to be executed reduces the load-path list (in emacs) to empty. The load-path is used by emacs to find packages which it wants to load. Currently, if emacs tries to auto load a package during shut down, and the package is not found, then emacs will hang. This does seem like an emacs bug, but protecting against this in aclocal is simply a case of not loading the site wide initialisation file. In this patch then the '-q' option to emacs is replaced with '-Q', this has the same, the '-Q' option is similar to '-q --no-site-file --no-splash'. * doc/automake.texi (Hard-Coded Install Paths): Update explanation of emacs code used to get lispdir. * m4/lispdir.m4 (AM_PATH_LISPDIR): Update emacs flags. Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* | Make sure AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE has a trailing newlineStefano Lattarini2014-12-191-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This used to be the case until Automke 1.13, but we broke it in Automake 1.14 (see commit v1.13.1-71-gf78b0f0). This caused issues like http://debbugs.gnu.org/16841 * m4/init.m4 (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Adjust. * t/aminit-trailing-dnl-comment-pr16841.sh: New test. * t/list-of-tests.mk: Add it. * NEWS, THANKS: Update. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* | post-release: micro version bump to 1.14.1a devel versionStefano Lattarini2013-12-241-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump version number to 1.14.1a. * m4/amversion.m4: Likewise (auto-updated by "make bootstrap"). Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* | release: stable micro release 1.14.1v1.14.1Stefano Lattarini2013-12-241-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump version number to 1.14.1. * m4/amversion.m4: Likewise (auto-updated by "make bootstrap"). Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* | post-release: micro version bump (1.14.0a)Stefano Lattarini2013-06-211-2/+2
|/ | | | | | | * configure.ac: Bump version: 1.14 -> 1.14.0a * m4/amversion.m4: Likewise (auto-updated by "make bootstrap"). Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* release: stable minor release 1.14v1.14Stefano Lattarini2013-06-201-3/+3
| | | | | | | * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump version number to 1.14. * m4/amversion.m4: Likewise (auto-updated by "make bootstrap"). Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* maint: version bump after beta release 1.13bStefano Lattarini2013-05-311-3/+3
| | | | | | | * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump version number to 1.13c. * m4/amversion.m4: Likewise (auto-updated by "make bootstrap"). Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* release: beta release 1.13b (will become 1.14)v1.13bStefano Lattarini2013-05-311-3/+3
| | | | | | | * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump version number to 1.13b. * m4/amversion.m4: Likewise (auto-updated by "make bootstrap"). Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* Merge branch 'prog-cc-c-o-work' into maintStefano Lattarini2013-05-263-25/+41
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | * 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 Lattarini2013-05-243-22/+36
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ** 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>
| * compile: rewrite AC_PROG_CC with AM_PROG_CC_C_O contentsStefano Lattarini2013-05-243-9/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a much simpler rewrite than the one we attempted in the past, and that was later removed by commit 'v1.13.1d-137-g32eb770' of 2013-05-11 (compile: avoid AC_PROG_CC messy rewrite). Not only this change simplifies the code a little, but has the welcome collateral effect of making automatic dependency tracking work better with compilers that doesn't grasp the '-c' and '-o' options together. Issues in that setup have been caught by several failures in the target 'check-no-cc-c-o'. Unfortunately, this change has less welcome collateral effects: 1. AM_PROG_AR must now be called *after* AC_PROG_CC; 2. Autoconf emits extra warnings when used with Automake-generated aclocal.m4. These are unacceptable regressions for a release, but since we are going to fix them soon enough in a follow-up patch (surely to be applied before Automake 1.14 is released) we don't worry too much. * m4/init.m4: Redefine AC_PROG_CC early, to automatically invoke AM_PROG_CC_C_O as well. Accordingly, drop now-unneeded "automagical" AM_PROG_CC_C_O expansion at later time (which took place thanks to a AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE call). * m4/minuso.m4 (AM_PROG_CC_C_O): Ensure the expansion of the body of this macro takes place with C as "current Autoconf language" (use AC_LANG_PUSH/AC_LANG_POP). * m4/ar-lib.m4 (AM_PROG_AR): Likewise. Also, require this macro to be expanded *after* AC_PROG_CC (so that any rewrite of $CC, if required, has already taken place). * t/add-missing.tap: Adjust to avoid spurious failures. * t/aclocal-deps.sh: Likewise, by having AM_PROG_AR called *after* AC_PROG_CC. * t/subobj-clean-lt-pr10697.sh: Likewise. * t/alloca.sh: Likewise. * t/condlib.sh: Likewise. * t/discover.sh: Likewise. * t/objc-megademo.sh: Likewise. * t/ccnoco.sh: Extend a little. * t/ccnoco-deps.sh: New test. * t/ccnoco-lib.sh: Likewise. * t/ccnoco-lt.sh: Likewise. * t/list-of-tests.mk: Add them. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* | m4: rename minuso.m4 -> prog-cc-c-o.m4Stefano Lattarini2013-05-262-1/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | The new name is much clearer. * m4/minuso.m4: Rename ... * m4/prog-cc-c-o.m4: ... like this. * m4/Makefile.in (dist_automake_DATA): Adjust. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* Use AC_DEFUN_ONCE to define AM_PROG_CC_C_ONick Bowler2013-05-111-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If AM_PROG_CC_C_O is expanded multiple times, and the compiler does not support -c and -o together, each expansion of the macro will prepend the compile script to CC. This can result in the compile script invoking the compile script, which at best pointless and silly. Fortunately, there does not appear to be any serious problems as the first compile invocation strips out -o options, causing subsequent invocations of the script to merely exec their arguments. Other than fixing the above, this should not normally cause any changes to the resulting configure script, except in the (hopefully rare) case where AM_PROG_CC_C_O is directly expanded (i.e., *not* using AC_REQUIRE) in the body of a macro defined with AC_DEFUN. In that case, the use of AC_DEFUN_ONCE may cause the expansion of AM_PROG_CC_C_O to appear earlier in the configure script. * m4/minuso.m4: Change the definition of AM_PROG_CC_C_O to use AC_DEFUN_ONCE, avoiding problems caused by multiple expansions. Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* compile: avoid AC_PROG_CC messy rewriteStefano Lattarini2013-05-112-56/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Instead, add an hook to AC_OUTPUT to have AM_PROG_CC_C_O invoked automatically. See also the long-winded discussion about automake bug#13378. * m4/minuso.m4 (AM_PROG_CC_C_O): Bring back the old implementation, from commit v1.13.1-55-g1ab8fb6. * m4/init.m4 (AC_PROG_CC): Remove this horrible, hacky re-write. * (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Arrange for AM_PROG_CC_C_O to be called if necessary. * t/am-prog-cc-c-o.sh: Adjust to avoid spurious failure. * t/subobj.sh: Likewise. Suggested-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com> Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* build: break up monolithic Makefile.am in subdir-specific fragmentsStefano Lattarini2013-05-091-0/+79
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is convenient to do, now that we have improved "relative directory" support with the '%reladir%' (a.k.a. '%D%') and '%canon_reladir%' (a.k.a. '%C%') Automake-time substitutions for included makefile fragments. This move also satisfy our philosophy of using new Automake features in our own build system, as a way of facilitating early discovery of possible bugs or interface warts. * Makefile.am: Break up ... * doc/Makefile.inc, lib/Automake/Makefile.inc, lib/Makefile.inc, lib/am/Makefile.inc, m4/Makefile.inc, t/Makefile.inc): ... in this new included fragments. Adjust as needed, and make deliberate use of the '%D%' substitution. * contrib/t/local.am: Rename ... * contrib/t/Makefile.inc: ... like this. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* maint branch: we are going to become Automake 1.14Stefano Lattarini2013-05-051-3/+3
| | | | | | | | * configure.ac (AC_INIT): So adjust beta version in here, from 1.13.2a to 1.13a. * m4/amversion.m4: Regenerate. 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)
| * cosmetics: remove few trailing whitespace occurrencesStefano Lattarini2013-04-301-1/+1
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* | Merge branch 'branch-1.13.2' into maintStefano Lattarini2013-04-301-61/+99
|\ \ | |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 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 Lattarini2013-04-301-61/+99
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | * 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 Lattarini2013-04-281-61/+99
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 Lattarini2013-04-191-1/+1
|\ \ \ | |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | * branch-1.13.2: Add missing '$' for variable expansion in depout.m4 fixup: one stray reference to older versioning scheme
| * | Add missing '$' for variable expansion in depout.m4Gavin Smith2013-04-191-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * m4/depout.m4: "am__include" appeared where "$am__include" was meant. Reference: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2013-04/msg00000.html> Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* | | Merge branch 'branch-1.13.2' into maintStefano Lattarini2013-02-202-2/+3
|\ \ \ | |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 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 Lattarini2013-02-172-2/+3
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
| * maint: version bump after beta release 1.13.1bStefano Lattarini2013-01-231-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump version number to 1.13.1c. * m4/amversion.m4: Likewise (autoupdated by "make bootstrap"). Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
| * release: beta release 1.13.1b (will become 1.13.2)v1.13.1bStefano Lattarini2013-01-231-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump version number to 1.13.1b. * m4/amversion.m4: Likewise (auto-updated by "make bootstrap"). Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* | maint: bump version 1.13.1a -> 1.13.2aStefano Lattarini2013-01-211-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The 1.13.2 bug-fixing release will ship from the 'branch-1.13.2' git branch, not from the 'maint' one, since the latter contains changes that are non-trivial and hasn't cooked enough yet. The 'maint' branch will give rise to the 1.13.3 release instead, eventually. Adjust the version number to match. * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump version number to 1.13.2b. * m4/amversion.m4: Likewise (auto-updated by "make bootstrap"). Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* | Merge branch 'branch-1.13.2' into maintStefano Lattarini2013-01-211-9/+11
|\ \ | |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | That branch is for the "emergency" bug-fixing release 1.13.2. * branch-1.13.2: maint: update copyright in files generated by automake and aclocal tests: avoid a spurious failure when running inside Emacs tests: make two new test executable m4: rename an m4 file to a more appropriate name NEWS: update w.r.t. recent documentation fixes compat: reinstate AM_CONFIG_HEADER and AM_PROG_CC_STDC docs: parallel-tests is no longer experimental docs: serial-tests are not deprecated, just discouraged NEWS: we are not going to remove AM_PROG_MKDIR_P in Automake 1.14 Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
| * m4: rename an m4 file to a more appropriate nameStefano Lattarini2013-01-191-0/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * m4/obsolete-err.m4: Rename ... * m4/obsolete.m4: ... like this. * Makefile.am (dist_automake_ac_DATA): Adjust. * t/ansi2knr-no-more.sh: Likewise. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
| * compat: reinstate AM_CONFIG_HEADER and AM_PROG_CC_STDCStefano Lattarini2013-01-191-9/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make them give runtime warnings in the obsolete category, but apart from that, make them behave as they did in Automake 1.12.x and earlier. While removing those macros seemed quite harmless, because it didn't put a real burden on the developers (requiring them just to do a quick edit to configure.ac), it turned out to place an unsustainable burden (or at least, a burden perceived as such) on distro packagers who use the latest Automake to bootstrap existing packages. Many of those packages, while having likely updated to AC_CONFIG_HEADERS in their development version, still used AM_CONFIG_HEADER in their existing released versions, and the removal of this macro would have thus forced the Fedora packagers to patch all of them. References: <http://www.mail-archive.com/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/msg52840.html> <http://www.spinics.net/lists/fedora-devel/msg175922.html> <http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2013/01/autotools-mythbuster-automake-pains> In addition, the Fedora packagers have already decided to patch their Automake 1.13.1 to reinstate the AM_CONFIG_HEADER and AM_PROG_CC_STDC macros (plus other macros that I don't believe it's worth worrying about): <http://www.spinics.net/lists/fedora-devel/msg176098.html> <http://www.mail-archive.com/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/msg53030.html> <http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/?id=ffe6bc39> So, rather than having one more incompatibility floating around, we better mirror that change (or, actually, its relevant parts) in the upstream. * m4/obsolete-err.m4 (AM_CONFIG_HEADER, AM_PROG_CC_STDC): Revert to the older semantics, plus a runtime warning in the 'obsolete' category. * t/backcompat6.sh: Use AM_CONFIG_HEADER once again. * t/am-config-header-no-more.sh: Rename ... * t/am-config-header.sh: ... like this, and adjust. * t/am-prog-cc-stdc-no-more.sh: Rename ... * t/am-prog-cc-stdc.sh: ... like this, and adjust. * t/list-of-tests.mk: Adjust. * NEWS: Update. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* | init.m4: add probe to check "rm -f" without args workStefano Lattarini2013-01-161-1/+42
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | See automake bug#10828. POSIX will say in a future version that running "rm -f" with no argument is OK: <http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=542>). We want to be able to make that assumption in our Makefile recipes. So we introduce an aggressive probe to check that the usage we want is actually supported "in the wild" to an acceptable degree. * m4/init.m4 (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Implement the probe. To make any issue more visible, cause the running configure to be aborted by default if the 'rm' program in use doesn't match our expectations; the user can still override this though, by setting the ACCEPT_INFERIOR_RM_PROGRAM environment variable to "yes". * t/spy-rm.tap: Update heading comments. * t/rm-f-probe.sh: New test. * t/list-of-tests.mk: Add it. * PLANS/rm-f-without-args.txt: Adjust. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* | compile: use 'compile' script when "-c -o" is used with losing compilersStefano Lattarini2013-01-112-17/+55
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Do so seen when only source files in the "current" directory are present. This commit is part of a series of related changes addressing automake bug#13378 (see also the plan 'PLANS/subdir-objects.txt'). Before this change, Automake-generated C compilation rules mistakenly passed the "-c -o" options combination unconditionally (even to losing compiler) when the 'subdir-objects' was used but sources were only present in the top-level directory. Issue spotted by Nick Bowler: <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13378#35> <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13378#44> We fix this by having Automake redefine AC_PROG_CC to take over the role of AM_PROG_CC_C_O and to require the 'compile' script unconditionally (albeit that will continue to be invoked only when inferior compilers are detected). Among other things, this means AM_PROG_CC_C_O explicitly is no longer required; that macro is still supported for backward-compatibility, but calling it is basically a no-op now. This change has some pros and some cons (obviously, we believe the former outweighs the latter). Here are the most relevant ones: + Pros 1: Some logic in the Automake script has been simplified. + Pros 2: That simplification has automatically fixed an actual bug (see Nick's mails referenced above; admittedly, that was present only in corner-case situations, but still); the test 't/ccnoco4.sh', which demonstrated the bug and has been failing so far, now passes. + Pros 3: Things works more "automagically" now (no need to manually add the AM_PROG_CC_C_O macro to configure.ac anymore). * Cons 1: The 'compile' script will be required in all projects using C compilation; this will only be a problem for packages not using '--add-missing'. However, such packages are definitely more rare than the ones using '--add-missing', and adjusting them will be trivial -- just copy the compile script over from the new Automake installation. * Cons 2: The copy & paste of autoconf internals hack this change has introduced in our "rewrite" of AC_PROG_CC is really an egregious abomination. It can only be justified with the fact that we expect future versions of autoconf to implement the semantics we need directly in AC_PROG_CC, so that we'll be able to leverage that (since Automake 1.14 will require the latest Autoconf version released). Now, the detailed list of file-by-file changes ... * automake.in ($seen_cc_c_o): Remove this global variable. (scan_autoconf_traces): Don't set it, and do not trace the 'AM_PROG_CC_C_O' m4 macro. (lang_c_rewrite): Remove, no longer needed. * doc/automake.texi: Adjust expected "autoreconf --install" output in the amhello example. Remove statements about the need for the AM_PROG_CC_C_O macro. Report it is obsolete now. * m4/init.m4: Re-write AC_PROG_CC to append checks about whether the C compiler supports "-c -o" together. These checks have basically been ripped out (with adaptations) from the 'AC_PROG_CC_C_O' macro of Autoconf and ... * m4/minuso.m4 (AM_PROG_CC_C_O): ... this macro of ours, which has thus basically become a no-op. * t/ax/am-test-lib.sh (am_setup_testdir): Also copy the 'compile' script in the test directory; if we don't do so, every test using AC_PROG_CC should call automake with the "--add-missing" option, or copy the 'compile' script itself. * t/cond11.sh: No need to create a dummy 'compile' script: that is already brought in by 'am_setup_testdir()', that is automatically invoked when 'test-lib.sh' is sourced. * t/add-missing.tap: Adjust: we expect the 'compile' script to be required by a mere AC_PROG_CC call now. * t/dist-auxdir-many-subdirs.sh: Likewise. * t/specflg6.sh: Likewise. * t/subobj4.sh: Likewise. * t/cxx-lt-demo.sh: Likewise, and update comments to match. * t/distcom2.sh: Enhance a little. * t/dollarvar2.sh: Adjust. * t/extra-portability.sh: Likewise. * t/libobj19.sh: Likewise. * t/per-target-flags.sh: Likewise. * t/repeated-options.sh: Likewise. * t/subobj.sh: Likewise, and enhance a little. * t/ccnoco2.sh: Remove as obsolete. * t/list-of-tests.mk (handwritten_TESTS): Adjust. (XFAIL_TESTS): Remove 't/ccnoco4.sh'. * NEWS: Update. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* post-release: minor version bump (1.13.1a)Stefano Lattarini2013-01-011-2/+2
| | | | | | * configure.ac, m4/amversion.m4: Bump version to 1.13.1a. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* release: stable minor release 1.13.1v1.13.1Stefano Lattarini2013-01-011-2/+2
| | | | | | | * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump version number to 1.13.1. * m4/amversion.m4: Likewise (auto-updated by "make bootstrap"). Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* maint: update copyright year for 2013 (in branch maint)Stefano Lattarini2012-12-3134-34/+34
| | | | Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* maint: state when compatibility cruft should be removed or warned aboutStefano Lattarini2012-12-311-0/+3
| | | | | | | | * automake.in: Here. * lib/Automake/Options.pm: And here. * m4/obsolete-err.m4: And here. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* obsolete: fixup: don't use AU_DEFUN where AC_DEFUN is requiredStefano Lattarini2012-12-301-1/+1
| | | | | | * m4/obsolete-err.m4: Here, for the definition of 'AM_PROG_CC_STDC' Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
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