Re: [RFC] Docs: document silent make rules in a new chapter

2010-11-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 09:22:48PM CET: On Thursday 18 November 2010, Nick Bowler wrote: On 2010-11-18 20:31 +0100, Stefano Lattarini wrote: +...@vindex @code{AM_V_GEN} +...@c FIXME: wouldn't $(AM_V_SILENT) be clearer? Should we deprecate +...@c $(AM_V_at)?

libtool --help: honor $AUTOCONF, $AUTOMAKE

2010-11-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
I came across an interesting bug: the perl coverage output for a full run of the Automake test suite was showing a single invocation of the installed automake program, rather than the uninstalled $builddir/tests/automake-1.11a which should have been run. Some tracking revealed that this

Re: [PATCH] {maint} Improve and extend tests on de-ansification support.

2010-11-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:15:12AM CET: On Monday 15 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Well then we should adjust maintainer-check to not complain. Either way, maintainer-check results should not deteriorate. I'm not keen on meddling with the current

Re: [PATCH] {master} release-stats: account for generated `instspc-*.test' tests.

2010-11-20 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Saturday 20 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 09:18:33PM CET: I've realized that my patch on instspc.test split refactoring has broken the release-stats target, since now there are other generated tests besides the `*-p.test' tests.

Re: [PATCH] {master} release-stats: account for generated `instspc-*.test' tests.

2010-11-20 Thread Stefano Lattarini
I pushed this: -*-*-*- release-stats: account for more generated tests. * Makefile.am (release-stats): Be sure to take into account all the generated tests, by grepping the test scripts to decide which ones of them are automatically generated. --- ChangeLog |7 +++ Makefile.am |2

Re: [PATCH 0/2] {master} Remove long-deprecated `--output-dir' automake option.

2010-11-20 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Saturday 20 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 06:29:57PM CET: On Thursday 18 November 2010, Stefano Lattarini wrote: The `--output-dir' option of automake has been deprecated since versions 1.6.1 and 1.7, but then never removed.

Re: [RFC] Docs: document silent make rules in a new chapter

2010-11-20 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Saturday 20 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 09:22:48PM CET: On Thursday 18 November 2010, Nick Bowler wrote: On 2010-11-18 20:31 +0100, Stefano Lattarini wrote: +...@vindex @code{AM_V_GEN} +...@c FIXME: wouldn't

Re: [PATCH 4/5] Tests defs: avoid some useless subshells.

2010-11-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 06:26:05PM CET: * tests/defs: In the loop on $required tools: avoid subshells where not neded. OK except for the last hunk: --- a/tests/defs +++ b/tests/defs @@ -297,12 +297,12 @@ do *) # Generic case: the tool must support

Re: [PATCH 5/5] Tests required tools: also try `-v' option for GNU compilers.

2010-11-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 06:27:43PM CET: * tests/defs.in: In the loop on $required tools, for gcc and g++, also run gcc -v (resp. g++ -v), to get more information, and for consistency with gcj. Did this help you for anything in any way? Patch is OK. Thanks, Ralf

Re: [PATCH 0/5] More patches for the tests-init branch

2010-11-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 06:18:15PM CET: Tests defs: don't let useless variables leak in test scripts. Tests defs: new subroutine `skip' for test skipping. Tests defs: some cleanup and minor fixes. No ticking clock for this patches at the moment; the clock will

Re: [PATCH 4/5] Tests defs: avoid some useless subshells.

2010-11-20 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Saturday 20 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 06:26:05PM CET: * tests/defs: In the loop on $required tools: avoid subshells where not neded. OK except for the last hunk: --- a/tests/defs +++ b/tests/defs @@ -297,12 +297,12

Re: [PATCH 5/5] Tests required tools: also try `-v' option for GNU compilers.

2010-11-20 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Saturday 20 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 06:27:43PM CET: * tests/defs.in: In the loop on $required tools, for gcc and g++, also run gcc -v (resp. g++ -v), to get more information, and for consistency with gcj. Did this help

Re: [PATCH 0/5] More patches for the tests-init branch

2010-11-20 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Saturday 20 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 06:18:15PM CET: Tests defs: don't let useless variables leak in test scripts. Tests defs: new subroutine `skip' for test skipping. Tests defs: some cleanup and minor fixes. No

Re: [PATCH 4/5] Tests defs: avoid some useless subshells.

2010-11-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 02:14:57PM CET: On Saturday 20 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 06:26:05PM CET: # Generic case: the tool must support --version. echo $me: running $tool --version -

maintainer checks (was: Re: [PATCH] {maint} Improve and extend tests on de-ansification support.)

2010-11-20 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Saturday 20 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:15:12AM CET: On Monday 15 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Well then we should adjust maintainer-check to not complain. Either way, maintainer-check results should not