Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> 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.
I'm glad you're working on this.
I haven't looked at actual patches, but did try to parse the short summaries:
> Stefano Lattarini (8):
> tests: move most helper scripts and files in the 'ax' subdirectory
I presume you mean s/in/into/
> tests: remove recipes to run tests with 'prove'
this wording is ambiguous:
s/to/in order to/
s/to/that/
> 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
