[Automake-NG] [PATCH 00/26] Several improvements and partial rewriting of Texinfo support

[Stefano Lattarini]

I will push these series in a couple of days.  Reviews are welcome.

Regards,
  Stefano

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Stefano Lattarini (26):
  [01] texi: simplify by always assuming generic rules
  [02] texi: tweak rules for HTML generation to spawn only one shell
  [03] texi: reimplement '.info' build using target-specific variables
  [04] texi: more target-specific variables use in '.info' build rules
  [05] texi: drop support for suffix-less info files
  [06] texi: be sure to only emit generic pattern rules once
  [07] texi: read 'texbuild' rules more verbatim
  [08] texi: reduce code duplication in texibuild.am
  [09] texi: refactoring in texibuild.am
  [10] texi: reduce code duplication in output Makefile
  [11] texi: reorganize '.am' fragments a bit
  [12] texi: reorganize '.am' fragments even more
  [13] texi: drop transforms when reading texibuild.am
  [14] texi: adjust names of vars used for silent rules support
  [15] texi: drop a useless transform when processing texinfos.am
  [16] refactor: more proper name for a subroutine in automake
  [17] texi: always look for mdate-sh in the build-aux directory
  [18] coverage: texinfo input files using @include directives
  [19] automake: remove two unused variables from '&handle_texinfo_source'
  [20] texi: in texi-spec.am, assume suffix for info files is always '.info'
  [21] texi: move some more knowledge from automake to texi-spec.am
  [22] texi: simplify handle_texinfo_source by assuming '.info' suffix
  [23] automake: merge handle_texinfo_source() -> handle_texinfo_helper()
  [24] texi: "de-prettify" makeinfo command line
  [25] texi: move more code from automake to Makefile
  [26] texi: remove some crufty code to support obsolete environment

 Makefile.am                                        |    1 +
 automake.in                                        |  128 +++------------
 lib/am/texi-spec.am                                |   28 ++++
 lib/am/texi-vers.am                                |   14 +-
 lib/am/texibuild.am                                |  110 +++++++------
 lib/am/texinfos.am                                 |   19 ---
 t/mdate2.sh                                        |    2 +-
 t/primary-prefix-valid-couples.sh                  |    2 +-
 t/reqd.sh                                          |   10 +-
 t/silent8.sh                                       |   38 +++--
 t/txinfo-include.sh                                |  164 ++++++++++++++++++++
 ...date4.sh => txinfo-unrecognized-extension-2.sh} |   34 ++--
 t/txinfo17.sh                                      |    4 +-
 t/txinfo20.sh                                      |   22 +--
 t/txinfo3.sh                                       |   72 ---------
 t/txinfo6.sh                                       |   20 ++-
 t/vtexi.sh                                         |    6 -
 t/vtexi2.sh                                        |    2 +-
 18 files changed, 350 insertions(+), 326 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 lib/am/texi-spec.am
 create mode 100755 t/txinfo-include.sh
 rename t/{mdate4.sh => txinfo-unrecognized-extension-2.sh} (55%)
 delete mode 100755 t/txinfo3.sh

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