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

[Stefano Lattarini]

commit 661c89f60e696fb49b6678541e6816dcb225a378
Merge: 614c07f 7a56bed
Author: Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden>
Date:   Tue Mar 27 22:45:43 2012 +0200

    Merge branch 'master' into ng/master

    * master:
      depcomp: support tcc (Tiny C Compiler)
      tests: workaround for automatic linker determination and conditionals
      info: allow user to inhibit pruning of '${infodir}/dir'
      vala tests: fix spurious failures with older valac (<= 0.7.2)
      tests: fix a timestamp issue, and other minor buglets
      tests: fix spurious failure with older autoconf
      fixup: update THANKS
      docs: terminate unfinished sentence, fix reference to a test case
      docs: fix some small typos and grammaros
      build: remove duplicated entries in $(TESTS)
      maint: update TODO file