Autotest doesn't provide a lot of benefit by itself but it does allow us
to easily put a wrapper around each test by using a macro to invoke it.
(To do that with the built-in Automake test framework you need to write
or generate a separate wrapper script for each test, which is a pain.)
The next commit will take advantage of this possibility by adding support
for code coverage analysis.
We've gone through a couple of iterations for names of these mailing
lists. Currently, there are three: announce, discuss, and git. There
are aliases that point "bugs" and "dev" to the "discuss" mailing list.
This commit drops the "ovs-" prefix to mailing lists, since we're not
using them.
The glibc 2.7 headers contain a bug that causes strtok_r() to segfault
in some circumstances. Until now, we have been working around this
problem at each invocation, but this depends on the programmer to remember
to do so each time.
This commit instead adds a shim that adds a work-around to the string.h
header itself, so that it is much more difficult to miss the workaround.
Now the Debian packaging is regularly tested via the autobuilder, so there
is less need to do it from "make distcheck", and not doing it saves time
there.
