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

[Stefano Lattarini]

commit 1490961b7bfcb4a5bba24925ff45e2ff32fa93f0
Merge: 5edc5fc e306fb5
Author: Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden>
Date:   Wed Apr 11 16:35:09 2012 +0200

    Merge branch 'master' into ng/master

    * master:
      vala tests: force the use of automatic dependency tracking
      tests: avoid spurious failures in tests on C++ and lex
      tests: avoid spurious failures with non-flex 'lex' programs and C++
      tests: avoid a spurious failures for shells with busted 'set -e'
      maint: simplify generation of files with @substed@ stuff
      tests: remove redundant requirement
      tests: make two test scripts executable
      t/README: update w.r.t. recent overhaul (non-recursive build system)
      docs: fix names of relevant test cases in comments
      NEWS: automake build systems avoids make recursion
      maint: no more make recursion in Automake's build system
      tests: rename 'tests/' => 't/', '*.test' => '*.sh'
      tests: remove recipes that run tests with 'prove'
      tests: move most helper scripts and files into the 'ax' subdirectory
      maint: remove most recursion in automake's own build system
      tests: fix a spurious failures with non-GNU make

    + Extra non-trivial edits:

    * Makefile.am: Remove new uses of 'AM_MAKEFLAGS' throughout.
    (dist_automake_ac_DATA): Do not list 'm4/depout.m4' nor
    'm4/make.m4'.
    * syntax-checks.m4: Use '$(xdefs)' instead of hard-coding the
    older paths of 'defs' and 'defs-static.in'.  Use 't/README'
    instead of 'tests/README'.
    * t/instdir-no-empty.sh: Remove uses of 'AM_MAKEFLAGS'.
    * tests/depcomp-recover.test: Renamed ...
    * t/depcomp-recover.sh: ... to this.
    * tests/gmake-vars.test: Renamed ...
    * t/gmake-vars.sh: ... to this.
    * tests/interp3.test: Renamed ...
    * t/interp3.sh: ... to this.
    * tests/objdir.test: Renamed ...
    * t/objdir.sh: ... to this.
    * tests/spy-vpath-rewrite.test: Renamed ...
    * t/spy-vpath-rewrite.sh: ... to this.
    * tests/vpath-rewrite.test: Renamed ...
    * t/vpath-rewrite.sh: ... to this.
    * tests/yacc-subobj-nodep.test: Renamed ...
    * t/yacc-subobj-nodep.sh: ... to this.
    * tests/depcomp-shuffle.sh: Renamed ...
    * t/ax/depcomp-shuffle.sh: ... to this, and removed executable bit.
    * t/depcomp-shuffle-sub-vpath.sh: Adjust.
    * t/depcomp-shuffle-sub.sh: Likewise.
    * t/depcomp-shuffle-vpath.sh: Likewise.
    * t/depcomp-shuffle.sh: Likewise.
    * gen-testsuite-part: Likewise.
    * t/list-of-tests.mk: Do not list tests that had been already
    removed from the Automake-NG testsuite.  Take into account the
    renames above.