Merged maint to branch-1.11 and master (JFTR, there were a couple of minor spurious conflicts in this last merge, easily solved).
Here is a synthesis of the commits applied to maint (generated by `git format-patch --cover-letter ...'): Stefano Lattarini (17): Minor improvements to tests ar*.test. Bootstrap: let the user choose which autoconf to use. Bootstrap: don't search perl in $PATH. Bootstrap: fixlet. Bootstrap: updated HACKING entry. Remove a couple of obsoleted tests. Modernize, improve and extend tests `subobj*.test'. Separate failing part of test `all.test'. Minor improvements and fixes in tests `depcomp*.test'. Modernize, improve and/or extend test scripts `conf*.test'. Improve and extend tests `asm*.test'. Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test. Tweak, extend and improve tests `cond[a-z]*.test'. PR tests: add excerpts from original bug reports, for clarity. Modernize, improve and extend tests for PR (`pr[0-9]*.test'). Tweak and extend tests `pr[!0-9]*.test'. Tweak and/or extend some `acloca*.test' tests. ChangeLog | 286 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ HACKING | 7 +- bootstrap | 42 +---- tests/Makefile.am | 9 +- tests/Makefile.in | 9 +- tests/acloca14.test | 16 ++- tests/acloca18.test | 6 +- tests/acloca19.test | 4 +- tests/aclocal.test | 8 +- tests/aclocal5.test | 4 +- tests/aclocal6.test | 8 +- tests/aclocal8.test | 4 +- tests/all.test | 25 +-- tests/{fpinst2.test => all2.test} | 27 ++-- tests/ar.test | 4 +- tests/ar2.test | 8 +- tests/asm.test | 77 ++++----- tests/asm2.test | 95 ++++------ tests/asm3.test | 90 ++++------ tests/colon.test | 10 +- tests/colon2.test | 26 ++- tests/colon3.test | 36 +++-- tests/colon4.test | 16 +- tests/colon5.test | 27 +++- tests/colon6.test | 27 +++- tests/colon7.test | 16 +- tests/condd.test | 6 +- tests/condhook.test | 13 +- tests/{fpinstall.test => condhook2.test} | 40 +++-- tests/condinc2.test | 4 +- tests/condman.test | 14 +- tests/condman2.test | 17 ++- tests/{config.test => condman3.test} | 53 ++++-- tests/confdeps.test | 2 +- tests/conff.test | 4 +- tests/conff2.test | 10 +- tests/confh.test | 50 +++--- tests/confh4.test | 13 +- tests/confh5.test | 15 +- tests/{config.test => confh6.test} | 9 +- tests/{conf2.test => confh7.test} | 20 ++- tests/configure.test | 31 ++-- tests/confincl.test | 19 +- tests/conflnk.test | 14 +- tests/conflnk2.test | 13 +- tests/conflnk3.test | 23 ++-- tests/conflnk4.test | 17 +- tests/confsub.test | 14 +- tests/confvar.test | 8 +- tests/confvar2.test | 8 +- tests/depcomp.test | 5 +- tests/depcomp2.test | 9 +- tests/depcomp3.test | 9 +- tests/depcomp4.test | 9 +- tests/depcomp5.test | 11 +- tests/depcomp6.test | 13 +- tests/depcomp7.test | 16 ++- tests/pr2.test | 16 ++- tests/pr204.test | 11 +- tests/pr211.test | 21 ++- tests/pr220.test | 15 ++- tests/pr224.test | 29 ++-- tests/pr229.test | 6 +- tests/pr243.test | 37 +++-- tests/pr266.test | 30 ++-- tests/pr279-2.test | 27 ++- tests/pr279.test | 21 ++- tests/pr287.test | 15 +- tests/pr300-lib.test | 6 +- tests/pr300-ltlib.test | 6 +- tests/pr300-prog.test | 6 +- tests/pr307.test | 27 +++- tests/pr401.test | 4 +- tests/pr401b.test | 4 +- tests/pr401c.test | 4 +- tests/pr72.test | 14 +- tests/pr87.test | 27 ++-- tests/pr9.test | 48 ++++-- tests/prefix.test | 8 +- tests/primary.test | 8 +- tests/primary2.test | 7 +- tests/primary3.test | 4 +- tests/proginst.test | 9 +- tests/subobj.test | 4 +- tests/subobj10.test | 8 +- tests/subobj2.test | 6 +- tests/subobj3.test | 17 +- tests/subobj4.test | 15 +- tests/subobj5.test | 17 +- tests/subobj6.test | 12 +- tests/subobj7.test | 8 +- tests/subobj8.test | 27 ++-- tests/subobj9.test | 23 ++-- tests/subobjname.test | 4 +- 94 files changed, 1253 insertions(+), 674 deletions(-) rename tests/{fpinst2.test => all2.test} (61%) rename tests/{fpinstall.test => condhook2.test} (57%) copy tests/{config.test => condman3.test} (51%) rename tests/{config.test => confh6.test} (84%) rename tests/{conf2.test => confh7.test} (83%) -*-*-*- Regards, Stefano