Re: [PATCH] maint: remove most recursion in automake's own build system

[Jim Meyering]

Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> On 04/05/2012 08:41 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>> Thanks to you for being flexible and patient.  I've committed the patch
>> now.  Soon more to follow, to remove the last make recursion (the one for
>> the testsuite).
>>
> Sigh, this is harder than I thought.  For the moment, I've pushed the work
> in progress to a temporary, rewindable branch ('experimental/rmch').  It has
> eight commits, whose summary lines are listed above.  The testsuite passes
> with GNU make in an in-tree setup, but fails in a VPATH setup, and I've not
> tested it properly with non-GNU make implementations.

I'm glad you're working on this.
I haven't looked at actual patches, but did try to parse the short summaries:

> Stefano Lattarini (8):
>   tests: move most helper scripts and files in the 'ax' subdirectory

I presume you mean s/in/into/

>   tests: remove recipes to run tests with 'prove'

this wording is ambiguous:
  s/to/in order to/
  s/to/that/

>   tests: rename 'tests/' => 't/', '*.test' => '*.sh'
>   maint: no more make recursion in Automake's build system
>   NEWS: automake build systems avoids make recursion
>   docs: fix names of relevant test cases in comments
>   t/README: update w.r.t. recent overhaul (non-recursive build system)
>   maint: simplify generation of files with @substed@ stuff