Re: [FYI] {maint} Tests: fix spurious failures in silent*.test for $CC != gcc

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 11:00:41PM CET:
> I pushed the attached patch to maint, and merged into master and
> branch-1.11.

Thank you, that looks good.  I haven't had a chance to test this,
though, with Savannah still down (see
<http://identi.ca/group/fsfstatus>).

Cheers,
Ralf

> See "real-world" motivations for this patch at:
>  <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00222.html>
>  <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00223.html>

> -*-*-*-
> 
> Fix spurious silent*.test failures for $CC != gcc
> 
> In some tests on automake-produced silent rules, we forced the
> use of gcc depmode to improve testsuite coverage; but this has
> unsurprisingly led to spurious failures when some non-GNU C
> compilers were used.  So we are now careful to require GCC in
> tests that force gcc depmode.
> 
> From reports by Ralf Wildenhues.
> 
> * silent5.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
> * silent-many-generic.test, silent-many-gcc.test: ... these new
> sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
> "gcc" in $required.
> * silentlex.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
> * silent-lex-generic.test, silent-lex-gcc.test: ... these new
> sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
> "gcc" in $required.
> * silentyacc.test: Test removed, its content split into ...
> * silent-yacc-generic.test, silent-yacc-gcc.test: ... these new
> sister tests, the latter of which forces gcc depmode and lists
> "gcc" in $required.
> * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated.