[RFC] New experimental, rewindable branch `compilers-for-testsuite'

[Stefano Lattarini]

Hello automakers.

I've pushed a handful of patches aimed at improving support for non-GNU
compilers in the automake testsuite to the new rewindable branch
`experimental/compilers-for-testsuite'.  I've decide to keep this branch
rewindable for now since getting it right is proving to be more tricky
than I had expected.

Attached are the patches I've pushed so far.  As usual, comments welcome.

Regards,
  Stefano

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Stefano Lattarini (4):
  configure: search generic compilers for use in the tests
  test defs: setup `*FLAGS' variables for GNU compilers
  test defs: substitute compilers and flags found at configure time
  test defs: allow compilers to be auto-selected on user's request

 ChangeLog                      |   60 +
 Makefile.in                    |   45 +-
 aclocal.m4                     |    1 +
 configure                      | 2696 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 configure.ac                   |  110 ++-
 doc/Makefile.in                |   41 +-
 lib/Automake/Makefile.in       |   41 +-
 lib/Automake/tests/Makefile.in |   51 +-
 lib/Makefile.in                |   41 +-
 lib/am/Makefile.in             |   41 +-
 m4/Makefile.in                 |   41 +-
 tests/Makefile.am              |   13 +
 tests/Makefile.in              |   71 +-
 tests/defs                     |   83 +-
 tests/defs-static.in           |   18 +
 15 files changed, 3110 insertions(+), 243 deletions(-)

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