On 04/05/2012 08:41 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Thanks to you for being flexible and patient. I've committed the patch > now. Soon more to follow, to remove the last make recursion (the one for > the testsuite). > Sigh, this is harder than I thought. For the moment, I've pushed the work in progress to a temporary, rewindable branch ('experimental/rmch'). It has eight commits, whose summary lines are listed above. The testsuite passes with GNU make in an in-tree setup, but fails in a VPATH setup, and I've not tested it properly with non-GNU make implementations.
-*-*- Stefano Lattarini (8): tests: move most helper scripts and files in the 'ax' subdirectory tests: remove recipes to run tests with 'prove' tests: rename 'tests/' => 't/', '*.test' => '*.sh' maint: no more make recursion in Automake's build system NEWS: automake build systems avoids make recursion docs: fix names of relevant test cases in comments t/README: update w.r.t. recent overhaul (non-recursive build system) maint: simplify generation of files with @substed@ stuff 1244 files changed, 1796 insertions(+), 2015 deletions(-)