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

[Stefano Lattarini]

commit 70545cdb4b088ebeabe08785ec75647bd27f0f72
Merge: 1595c2b bd34a47
Author:     Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden>
AuthorDate: Wed Jan 25 23:51:11 2012 +0100
Commit:     Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden>
CommitDate: Wed Jan 25 23:51:11 2012 +0100

    Merge branch 'master' into ng/master

    * master:
      multilib: move to contrib
      tests: improve diagnostics when write(2) fails
      readme: how to run the testsuite with cross-compilers
      tests: no need to unset CFLAGS in tests requiring 'gcc' anymore
      test defs: allow compilers to be auto-selected on user's request
      test defs: substitute compilers and flags found at configure time
      test defs: setup `*FLAGS' variables for GNU compilers
      configure: search generic compilers for use in the tests
      tests: remove redundant 'set -e' calls
      tests: fix spurious failure due to autom4te caching
      dist tests: missing 'compress' program was causing spurious failures
      vala: fix name of temporary file used in vala rules
      vala tests: add missing 'valac' requirement, and other minor fixlets
      news: fix grammaro
      fixup: distribute 'contrib/multilib/multi.m4'
      multilib: deprecate, will be moved to contrib
      fixlet: flags for Fortran77 compiler are in FFLAGS, not F77FLAGS
      cosmetics: fix a botched comment in a maintainer check

    + Extra edits:

    * contrib/multilib/multilib.am: Don't use $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) in
    recursive make invocations.