Hello automakers.
Here is the (hopefully) final patch series providing a more correct and
consistent overriding of autoconf and autom4te at configure-time (for use
in automake-generated rebuild rules).
This is what the individual patches do, in detail:
1. Add a tests (`remake0.test') that fails if the autoconf used by
aclocal and the autoconf used by the testsuite don't match; this
test is expected to fail with my current setup (bootstrap-time and
configure-time overridden $AUTOCONF and $AUTOMA4TE, but no AUTOCONF
nor AUTOM4TE in the environment).
2. Fix tests `missing.test' and `missing2.test', to avoid spurious
failures due to configure-time value of $AUTOCONF being an absolute
path.
3. Add the tests intoduced by the previous version of the patch, checking
the support for bootstrap-time/configure-time overriding of autoconf
and autom4te. Some of these tests still fail at this point (they will
be temporarly declared xfailing).
4. Apply the changes to `m4/init.m4' and `lib/am/configure.am' introduced
the previous version of the patch. The changes are quite tricky and
somewhat hackish, but seem necessary to deal correctly with all the
scenarios where a bootstrap-time/configure-time overriding of autoconf
and autom4te is in effect. At this point, the new tests introduced in
step 3 should pass. However, this change also expose a bug (well,
technically a limitation) in already-existing tests `missing.test' and
`missing2.test'; they are declared as xfailing, and will be fixed by
the next patch.
5. Fix the tests `missing.test' and `missing2.test'. This requires moving
some of the checks in `missing.test' into a new test `missing7.test'.
Since I was at it, I deepened and extended these checks.
6. Be more correct in the definition and exporting of $AUTOCONF and
$AUTOMAKE in `tests/defs.in', to better honour configure-time overrides.
This change fixes failures of test `remake0.test' (introduced in step 1)
in setups where autoconf and autom4te are overriden at configure time
(this has been tested with my present setup).
-*-*-*-
Stefano Lattarini (6):
1. Test that autoconf(s) used by the testsuite and by aclocal match.
2. Testsuite: fix missing*.test for non-default autotools.
3. Add tests for non-default autotools in rebuild rules.
4. Improve support for non-default autotools in rebuild rules.
5. Fix tests missing.test and missing2.test.
6. Testsuite: improve support for non-default autotools.
ChangeLog | 64 ++++++++++++++
Makefile.in | 40 ++++++++-
configure | 16 ++++-
configure.ac | 4 +-
doc/Makefile.in | 15 +++-
lib/Automake/Makefile.in | 15 +++-
lib/Automake/tests/Makefile.in | 15 +++-
lib/Makefile.in | 15 +++-
lib/am/Makefile.in | 15 +++-
lib/am/configure.am | 49 ++++++++++--
m4/Makefile.in | 15 +++-
m4/init.m4 | 16 +++-
tests/Makefile.am | 10 ++
tests/Makefile.in | 25 ++++++-
tests/defs.in | 31 ++++++-
tests/missing.test | 46 ++++++----
tests/missing2.test | 40 +++++++---
tests/missing7.test | 73 ++++++++++++++++
tests/remake0.test | 38 +++++++++
tests/remake8a.test | 94 +++++++++++++++++++++
tests/remake8b.test | 98 ++++++++++++++++++++++
tests/remake8c.test | 111 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
tests/remake8d.test | 179 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
tests/remake8e.test | 175 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
tests/remake8f.test | 119 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
tests/remake8g.test | 139 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
tests/remake8h.test | 59 +++++++++++++
27 files changed, 1462 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
create mode 100755 tests/missing7.test
create mode 100755 tests/remake0.test
create mode 100755 tests/remake8a.test
create mode 100755 tests/remake8b.test
create mode 100755 tests/remake8c.test
create mode 100755 tests/remake8d.test
create mode 100755 tests/remake8e.test
create mode 100755 tests/remake8f.test
create mode 100755 tests/remake8g.test
create mode 100755 tests/remake8h.test
