bug#11932: Remove "#serial" lines from Automake-provided *.m4 files

2012-07-13 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Severity: minor The "# serial" lines are only considered by aclocal for the system-wide third-party '.m4' files, not for the Automake-provided ones (and even in that case, they are considered only when the '--install' aclocal option is used). So they serve no real purpose in the Automake '.m4' fi

bug#11898: [PATCH] tests: verify the shell test scripts are syntactically valid

2012-07-13 Thread Stefano Lattarini
tags 11898 + patch close 11898 thanks On 07/11/2012 11:30 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > [PATCH] tests: verify the shell test scripts are syntactically valid > > This measure of extra safety is mostly motivated by the fact that some > shells (at least some versions of Bash in the 3.x release seri

bug#10766: bug#11893: Regression in automake 1.12.1 on Mac OS X

2012-07-13 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 07/12/2012 09:36 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 07/12/2012 12:42 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > >> >> In the light of our discussion, attached is the patch I'd finally like >> to push. WDYT? > > Looks fine to me (although I have not actually tested it). > Pushed now. Thanks, Stefano