[FYI] {master} tests: remove obsoleted "icc" requirement

2012-02-21 Thread Stefano Lattarini
* tests/defs (icc): This requirement is not used anymore by any test case, so remove it. --- tests/defs | 10 -- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/tests/defs b/tests/defs index 505a43f..a6eab90 100644 --- a/tests/defs +++ b/tests/defs @@ -856,16 +856,6 @@ do

[FYI] {master} readme: fix typo in tests/README

2012-02-21 Thread Stefano Lattarini
--- tests/README |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/tests/README b/tests/README index bfd5562..529bc59 100644 --- a/tests/README +++ b/tests/README @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ Do that configure.in registers Makefile.in but do not output anything by default. If

Re: [FYI] {master} news: minor fixlets and reorganization

2012-02-21 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 02/21/2012 02:14 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > > Picking another character would work as a compromise. Even a line > of '---' is a visual separator; only '<', '=', and '>' give me > heartburn in the context of merge conflict resolution. > OK, I went for the "~" character, that is the one that pr

Re: [FYI] {master} news: minor fixlets and reorganization

2012-02-21 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/21/2012 06:05 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On 02/21/2012 01:39 PM, Eric Blake wrote: >> On 02/21/2012 05:34 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >>> * NEWS: Get rid of form-feed characters (^L) throughout the file. >>> Use separator lines instead (composed by 76 '=' characters), or >>> just an extr

[FYI] {master} tests: "make installcheck" shouldn't run the testsuite twice

2012-02-21 Thread Stefano Lattarini
* Makefile.am (installcheck-local): Remove. The "installcheck" target provided by automake is already a recursive target, so there's no need to have an 'installcheck-local' recipe that manually recurse into 'tests/'. In fact, such a manual recursion was causing the testsuite to be run twice by "m

Re: [FYI] {master} news: minor fixlets and reorganization

2012-02-21 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 02/21/2012 01:39 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 02/21/2012 05:34 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> * NEWS: Get rid of form-feed characters (^L) throughout the file. >> Use separator lines instead (composed by 76 '=' characters), or >> just an extra blank lines for older less verbose entries (those >>

Re: [FYI] {master} news: minor fixlets and reorganization

2012-02-21 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/21/2012 05:34 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > * NEWS: Get rid of form-feed characters (^L) throughout the file. > Use separator lines instead (composed by 76 '=' characters), or > just an extra blank lines for older less verbose entries (those > predating the 1.8 release). Why? I _like_ ^L a

[FYI] {master} news: minor fixlets and reorganization

2012-02-21 Thread Stefano Lattarini
* NEWS: Get rid of form-feed characters (^L) throughout the file. Use separator lines instead (composed by 76 '=' characters), or just an extra blank lines for older less verbose entries (those predating the 1.8 release). (New in 1.11.3): Move description of planned future backward incompatibilitie

[FYI] {master} cosmetics: few typofixes

2012-02-21 Thread Stefano Lattarini
--- ChangeLog.09 |2 +- ChangeLog.11 |2 +- NEWS |6 +++--- contrib/multilib/config-ml.in |2 +- 4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog.09 b/ChangeLog.09 index 2238005..02a1e33 100644 --- a

Re: [PATCH] {master} automake: new option 'serial-tests'

2012-02-21 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 02/20/2012 06:42 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Currently, automake offers a 'parallel-tests' option to enable the > use of the parallel testsuite harness in the generated Makefiles, > but no option to explicitly state the intention of using the older > serial testsuite driver (which is currentl