Re: [PATCH 6/6] aclocal: avoid spurious warnings from autom4te with AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS

2012-11-07 Thread Eric Blake
On 11/07/2012 04:23 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> Allowing file inclusion as the witness of whether to warn would work >> even for older autoconf (where including the file has no effect), rather >> than the current situation of warning about an unknown option. >> > Good thinking. And since acloc

Re: [PATCH 6/6] aclocal: avoid spurious warnings from autom4te with AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS

2012-11-07 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Eric, sorry for the delay. On 11/07/2012 09:33 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 11/07/2012 01:08 PM, Nick Bowler wrote: >> >> I really think this test needs to be done at runtime. Two reasons: >> >> (1) A user may first ugprade Automake, then upgrade Autoconf. They >> will then get the spur

[FYI] {master} tests: remove mostly-redundant tests on silent rules

2012-11-07 Thread Stefano Lattarini
We used to have several couples of tests named like 'silent-foo-gcc.sh' and 'silent-foo-generic.sh'. Differently from what the names suggest, the first test in such a couple (that is, "silent-foo-gcc.sh") was not meant to check specific GCC-related features, but rather to check how the silent rule

[FYI] Merge branch 'maint' into master

2012-11-07 Thread Stefano Lattarini
commit 93c2c33e04e4e5b78da45ec8c251899acce5d322 Merge: dd3fb7e bd0d41d Author: Stefano Lattarini Date: Wed Nov 7 21:51:01 2012 +0100 Merge branch 'maint' * maint: tests: new variable $am_testaux_builddir tests: rename $am_testauxdir -> $am_testaux_srcdir

Re: [PATCH 6/6] aclocal: avoid spurious warnings from autom4te with AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS

2012-11-07 Thread Eric Blake
On 11/07/2012 01:08 PM, Nick Bowler wrote: > > I really think this test needs to be done at runtime. Two reasons: > > (1) A user may first ugprade Automake, then upgrade Autoconf. They > will then get the spurious warnings even though they have > sufficiently recent versions of bo

Re: [PATCH 6/6] aclocal: avoid spurious warnings from autom4te with AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS

2012-11-07 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2012-11-03 13:36 +0100, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > To allow us to work around this issue, autom4te has introduced a new > "singleton" warning category, 'm4require-without-m4defun', that allow > us to silence that particular kind of warnings (and only it). [...] > diff --git a/configure.ac b/conf

[PATCH 1/2] {maint} tests: rename $am_testauxdir -> $am_testaux_srcdir

2012-11-07 Thread Stefano Lattarini
This is just a preparatory change in view of a future commit. * t/ax/test-defs.in: Here. * t/ax/tap-summary-aux.sh: And here. * t/ax/testsuite-summary-checks.sh: And here. * t/distcheck-missing-m4.sh: And here. * t/distcheck-outdated-m4.sh: And here. * t/self-check-shell-no-trail-bslash.sh: And he

[FYI 0/2] {maint} tests: fix a spurious failure when run in a VPATH build

2012-11-07 Thread Stefano Lattarini
This failure was breaking "make distcheck". Not a big deal, but I want to release 1.12.5 soon enough, so better fix it now. Stefano Lattarini (2): tests: rename $am_testauxdir -> $am_testaux_srcdir tests: new variable $am_testaux_builddir t/ax/tap-summary-aux.sh| 2 +- t