Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/maint'

* origin/maint:
  tests: do not output m4 set up.
  tests: use the generic yyerror function.
  tests: use assert instead of plain abort.
  tests: improve the generic yylex implementation.
  tests: generalize the compilation macros.
  tests: fix confusion between api.prefix and name-prefix.
  maint: gitignores.
  yacc: work around the ylwrap limitation.

Conflicts:
	NEWS
	tests/local.at

tests/named-refs.at

@@ -162,10 +162,8 @@ int main (int argc, const char **argv)
     }
   status = yyparse ();
   fclose (input);
-  if (global_result != result)
-    abort ();
-  if (global_count != count)
-    abort ();
+  assert (global_result == result);
+  assert (global_count == count);
   return status;
 }
 ]])