Re: [PATCH] maint: remove most recursion in automake's own build system

[Stefano Lattarini]

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.

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Stefano Lattarini (8):
  tests: move most helper scripts and files in the 'ax' subdirectory
  tests: remove recipes to run tests with 'prove'
  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

 1244 files changed, 1796 insertions(+), 2015 deletions(-)