[Automake-ng] [FYI] Merge branch 'master' into ng/master

[Stefano Lattarini]

commit 7b9e075e1df434a298d2f1f9aabc6eff677fcb34
Merge: e5b964c 9ac0278
Author:     Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden>
AuthorDate: Thu Feb 9 20:07:06 2012 +0100
Commit:     Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden>
CommitDate: Thu Feb 9 20:07:06 2012 +0100

    Merge branch 'master' into ng/master

    * master: (29 commits)
      tests: avoid wrong skips in dist-formats.tap
      tests: few tweakings and cosmetic changes
      tests: remove a couple of redundant 'set -e' calls
      tests: check if 'compress' is real or fake
      depcomp tests: avoid spurious failures with 'dashXmstdout' depmode
      depcomp: try to prevent whitespace regressions
      depcomp: recognize tabs as whitespace in the dashmstdout mode
      depcomp: quote 'like this', not `like this'
      tests: check the depmodes 'msvisualcpp' and 'msvcmsys'
      tests: better way to compare lists in Makefile rules
      tests: improve and rework tests on dependency tracking
      tests: fix a timestamp-related spurious failures
      dryrun: fix regression with '$(am__make_dryrun)'
      test defs: avoid spurious XPASS results with NetBSD make
      cosmetics: few whitespace fixlets
      cosmetics: various typofixes
      cosmetics: convert encoding from ISO-8859 to UTF-8 in some tests
      test defs: remove obsolete requirement 'rst2html'
      tests: workaround for shells with broken 'set -e'
      cosmetics: fix a typo in comments
      ...