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

[Stefano Lattarini]

commit 01797e0cf1e633d76e4cdf6015f185164590898d
Merge: f50c470 a537fbe
Author:     Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden>
AuthorDate: Tue Feb 21 15:42:17 2012 +0100
Commit:     Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden>
CommitDate: Tue Feb 21 15:42:17 2012 +0100

    Merge branch 'master' into ng/master

    * master: (28 commits)
      tests: "make installcheck" shouldn't run the testsuite twice
      news: minor fixlets and reorganization
      cosmetics: few typofixes
      automake: new option 'serial-tests'
      tests: fix a timestamp issue, and other minor buglets
      automake: new option to print location of scripts and data files
      docs: prefer the awk+sh TAP driver over the perl one
      tests: be stricter in determining whether "make -jN" works
      tests: don't trust exit status of "make -k"
      tests: fix race condition in 'self-check-dir.tap'
      parallel-tests: fix another BSD parallel make issue
      tests: avoid FreeBSD make VPATH issues in more tests (see bug#7884)
      cosmetics: remove extra trailing whitespace in configure.ac
      tests: avoid spurious failure with FreeBSD make
      tests: fix broken quoting in the generated yacc grammar
      fixup: always use correct path for automake/aclocal wrappers
      tests: fix spurious failure in VPATH build
      tests: fix many spurious failures in VPATH builds
      tests: relax a test to cater to NetBSD make
      dryrun: $(am__dry_run) not confused by metachars in $(MAKEFLAGS)
      ...