Merge branch 'maint' into 'yacc-work'

Extra edits:
  * tests/silent-lex.test: Provide a dummy `yywrap()' function, to
  avoid link errors on systems that doesn't provide a "lex library".
  See also commit `v1.11-546-gca0ba5d'.

Commits merged from maint (34 commits):
  readme: reference webpages for automake mailing lists
  readme: update advice about testsuite execution
  readme: don't reference the old homepage at sources.redhat.com
  hacking: some more fixlets
  * NEWS: Fix typo in 'make dist-bzip2' description.
  release: don't run "make distcheck" automatically
  hacking: update on-line documentation for stable releases only
  hacking: described release procedure applies to beta releases too
  readme: the documentation is production quality now
  hacking: tell about platform-testers mailing list
  hacking: we don't use sources.redhat.com anymore
  hacking: miscellaneous minor fixes
  dist-xz, dist-bzip2: don't hard-code -9, honor envvar settings
  news: fix typos, grammaros and suboptimal wording
  maint: sync auxiliary files from upstream
  tests: fix spurious failures due to missing 'yywrap()' function
  depcomp: spelling fix
  tests: fix 'distcheck-override-infodir.test' on Cygwin
  cosmetics: typofix in comments
  coverage: undistributed '.am' and '.m4' files are diagnosed
  coverage: required but missing '.am' and '.m4' files are diagnosed
  coverage: expose automake bug#10111 in the testsuite
  fix: regenerate doc/Makefile
  texinfo: work around Solaris 10 xpg4 shell bug in install rules
  configure: report perl version in config.log
  tests: fix spurious failure with older install-info
  maintcheck: fix spurious failure in 'color2.test'
  tests: fix spurious error in 'uninstall-fail.test' on Solaris
  tests: fix typo in 'uninstall-fail.test'
  tests: avoid a spurious failure of 'ltinit.test' MinGW
  tests: testsuite is now safe to run with dmake in parallel mode
  tests: fix spurious failures w.r.t. parallel make and colorization
  Merge branch 'fix-pr9579' into maint
  tests: fix spurious failure in 'distcheck-override-infodir.test'
  tests: avoid another failure of 'uninstall-fail.test' on Solaris

1 files changed, 32 insertions, 30 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 130d2447d..e707c74ab 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -27,17 +27,22 @@ New in 1.11.0a:
   - The `lzma' compression scheme and associated automake option `dist-lzma'
     is obsoleted by `xz' and `dist-xz' due to upstream changes.
 
+  - You may adjust the compression options used in dist-xz and dist-bzip2.
+    The default is now merely -e for xz, but still -9 for bzip;  you may
+    specify a different level via the XZ_OPT and BZIP2 envvars respectively.
+    E.g., "make dist-xz XZ_OPT=-7" or "make dist-bzip2 BZIP2=-5"
+
   - The py-compile script now accepts empty arguments passed to the options
     `--destdir' and `--basedir', and complains about unrecognized options.
     Moreover, a non-option argument or a special `--' argument terminates
     the list of options.
 
   - A developer that needs to pass specific flags to configure at "make
-    distcheck" time can now, and indeed he's advised to, do so by defining
+    distcheck" time can now, and indeed is advised to, do so by defining
     the developer-reserved makefile variable AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS,
     instead of the old DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS.
     The DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS variable should now be reserved for the
-    user; still, the old Makefile.am files that used to define it should
+    user; still, the old Makefile.am files that used to define it will
     still continue to work as before.
 
   - When using DejaGnu-based testsuites, the user can extend the `site.exp'
@@ -78,17 +83,15 @@ Bugs fixed in 1.11.0a:
     or "redefinition of TEST_EXTENSIONS), or even, in some situations,
     silently producing broken `Makefile.in' files.
 
-  - The `silent-rules' option now also silences all compile rules if dependency
-    tracking is disabled.  Also, when `silent-rules' is not used, the output from
-    `make' does not contain spurious extra lines with only a backslash in them
-    any more; it now again matches that from pre-1.11 Automake.
-
-  - The `dist-xz' option now uses `xz -9' for maximum compression.
+  - The `silent-rules' option now truly silences all compile rules, even
+    when dependency tracking is disabled.  Also, when `silent-rules' is
+    not used, `make' output no longer contains spurious backslash-only
+    lines, thus once again matching what Automake did before 1.11.
 
   - The AM_COND_IF macro also works if the shell expression for the conditional
     is no longer valid for the condition.
 
-* Long standing bugs:
+* Long-standing bugs:
 
   - "make distcheck" now correctly complains also when "make uninstall"
     leaves one and only one file installed in $(prefix).
@@ -112,17 +115,17 @@ Bugs fixed in 1.11.0a:
   - AM_PROG_GCJ uses AC_CHECK_TOOLS to look for `gcj' now, so that prefixed
     tools are preferred in a cross-compile setup.
 
-  - Several scripts as well as the parallel-tests testsuite driver now
-    exit with the right exit status upon receiving a signal.
+  - Several scripts and the parallel-tests testsuite driver now exit with
+    the right exit status upon receiving a signal.
 
-  - A per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror does not carry over to the
-    handling of other Makefile.am files any more.
+  - A per-Makefile.am setting of -Werror does not erroneously carry over
+    to the handling of other Makefile.am files.
 
-  - The order of Yacc and Lex flags is fixed to be consistent with other
+  - The order of Yacc and Lex flags is now consistent with that of other
     languages: $(AM_YFLAGS) comes before $(YFLAGS), and $(AM_LFLAGS) before
     $(LFLAGS), so that the user variables override the developer variables.
 
-  - Rules generated by Automake now try harder to not change any files when
+  - Rules generated by Automake now try harder not to change any files when
     `make -n' is invoked.  Fixes include compilation of Emacs Lisp, Vala, or
     Yacc source files and the rule to update config.h.
 
@@ -130,13 +133,13 @@ Bugs fixed in 1.11.0a:
     make bug triggered by sources containing repeated slashes when the
     `subdir-objects' option was used.
 
-  - The parallel-tests driver now does not produce erroneous results
-    with Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh upon unreadable log files any more.
+  - The parallel-tests driver no longer produces erroneous results with
+    Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh upon unreadable log files.
 
-  - The makedepend and hp depmodes now works better with VPATH builds.
+  - The makedepend and hp depmodes now work better with VPATH builds.
 
-  - Java sources specified with check_JAVA are not compiled anymore upon
-    "make all", but only upon "make check".
+  - Java sources specified with check_JAVA are no longer compiled for
+    "make all", but only for "make check".
 
   - Automake now detects the presence of the `-d' flag in the various
     `*YFLAGS' variables even when their definitions involve indirections
@@ -151,14 +154,13 @@ Bugs fixed in 1.11.0a:
     and error out if `javadir' is undefined, instead of silently producing
     a broken Makefile.in.
 
-  - Now aclocal and automake, when they've to spawn autoconf or autom4te
-    processes, honour the configure-time definitions of AUTOCONF and
-    AUTOM4TE.
+  - aclocal and automake now honour the configure-time definitions of
+    AUTOCONF and AUTOM4TE when they spawn autoconf or autom4te processes.
 
-  - The `install-info' recipe does not try anymore to guess whether the
+  - The `install-info' recipe no longer tries to guess whether the
     `install-info' program is from Debian or from GNU, and adaptively
-    change its behaviour; this has proven to be frail and easy to regress.
-
+    change its behaviour; this has proven to be frail and easy to
+    regress.
 
 New in 1.11:
 
@@ -330,7 +332,7 @@ New in 1.11:
 
 Bugs fixed in 1.11:
 
-* Long standing bugs:
+* Long-standing bugs:
 
   - Fix aix dependency tracking for libtool objects.
 
@@ -663,7 +665,7 @@ New in 1.9:
 
 Bugs fixed in 1.8.5:
 
-* Long standing bugs:
+* Long-standing bugs:
 
   - Define DIST_SUBDIRS even when the `no-dist' or `cygnus' options are used
     so that `make distclean' and `make maintainer-clean' can work.
@@ -676,7 +678,7 @@ Bugs fixed in 1.8.5:
 
 Bugs fixed in 1.8.4:
 
-* Long standing bugs:
+* Long-standing bugs:
 
   - Fix AM_PATH_PYTHON to correctly display $PYTHON when it has been
     overridden by the user.
@@ -703,7 +705,7 @@ Bugs fixed in 1.8.4:
 
 Bugs fixed in 1.8.3:
 
-* Long standing bugs:
+* Long-standing bugs:
 
   - Quote filenames in installation rules, in case $DESTDIR, $prefix,
     or any of the other *dir variables contain a space.