diff --git a/MagickCore/version.h b/MagickCore/version.h
index 1c4c72f..5795bcb 100644
--- a/MagickCore/version.h
+++ b/MagickCore/version.h
@@ -27,14 +27,14 @@
 */
 #define MagickPackageName "ImageMagick"
 #define MagickCopyright  "Copyright (C) 1999-2012 ImageMagick Studio LLC"
-#define MagickSVNRevision  "8934:8953M"
+#define MagickSVNRevision  "8980:8995M"
 #define MagickLibVersion  0x700
 #define MagickLibVersionText  "7.0.0"
 #define MagickLibVersionNumber  7,0,0
 #define MagickLibAddendum  "-0"
 #define MagickLibInterface  7
 #define MagickLibMinInterface  7
-#define MagickReleaseDate  "2012-08-14"
+#define MagickReleaseDate  "2012-08-17"
 #define MagickChangeDate   "20120808"
 #define MagickAuthoritativeURL  "http://www.imagemagick.org"
 #if defined(MAGICKCORE_OPENMP_SUPPORT)
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index fd95d53..749d5c6 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@
 SRCDIR="$(srcdir)/"
 endif
 
+# Tests with .tap extensions use the TAP protocol and TAP driver
+TAP_LOG_DRIVER = env AM_TAP_AWK='$(AWK)' $(SHELL) \
+	$(top_srcdir)/config/tap-driver.sh
+
 # Environment parameters to be used during tests
 TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = \
 	COMPARE="$(MEMCHECK) @abs_top_builddir@/utilities/compare" \
@@ -84,7 +88,7 @@
 	SRCDIR=$(SRCDIR)
 
 # Test extensions
-TEST_EXTENSIONS = .sh
+TEST_EXTENSIONS = .sh .tap
 
 # Tests to run
 TESTS = \
diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
index 9cee0b5..4168d8d 100644
--- a/Makefile.in
+++ b/Makefile.in
@@ -270,6 +270,7 @@
 	$(top_srcdir)/config/depcomp $(top_srcdir)/config/install-sh \
 	$(top_srcdir)/config/ltmain.sh $(top_srcdir)/config/missing \
 	$(top_srcdir)/config/mkinstalldirs \
+	$(top_srcdir)/config/tap-driver.sh \
 	$(top_srcdir)/config/test-driver \
 	$(top_srcdir)/config/type-dejavu.xml.in \
 	$(top_srcdir)/config/type-ghostscript.xml.in \
@@ -2452,7 +2453,7 @@
 TEST_SUITE_LOG = test-suite.log
 am__test_logs1 = $(TESTS:=.log)
 am__test_logs2 = $(am__test_logs1:@EXEEXT@.log=.log)
-TEST_LOGS = $(am__test_logs2:.sh.log=.log)
+am__test_logs3 = $(am__test_logs2:.sh.log=.log)
 SH_LOG_DRIVER = $(SHELL) $(top_srcdir)/config/test-driver
 SH_LOG_COMPILE = $(SH_LOG_COMPILER) $(AM_SH_LOG_FLAGS) $(SH_LOG_FLAGS)
 am__set_b = \
@@ -2465,6 +2466,9 @@
     *) \
       b='$*';; \
   esac
+TEST_LOGS = $(am__test_logs3:.tap.log=.log)
+TAP_LOG_COMPILE = $(TAP_LOG_COMPILER) $(AM_TAP_LOG_FLAGS) \
+	$(TAP_LOG_FLAGS)
 DISTFILES = $(DIST_COMMON) $(DIST_SOURCES) $(TEXINFOS) $(EXTRA_DIST)
 distdir = $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION)
 top_distdir = $(distdir)
@@ -2895,6 +2899,11 @@
 @WIN32_NATIVE_BUILD_FALSE@SRCDIR = "$(srcdir)/"
 @WIN32_NATIVE_BUILD_TRUE@SRCDIR = '$(shell @WinPathScript@ $(srcdir)/)'
 
+# Tests with .tap extensions use the TAP protocol and TAP driver
+TAP_LOG_DRIVER = env AM_TAP_AWK='$(AWK)' $(SHELL) \
+	$(top_srcdir)/config/tap-driver.sh
+
+
 # Environment parameters to be used during tests
 TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = \
 	COMPARE="$(MEMCHECK) @abs_top_builddir@/utilities/compare" \
@@ -2918,7 +2927,7 @@
 
 
 # Test extensions
-TEST_EXTENSIONS = .sh
+TEST_EXTENSIONS = .sh .tap
 TOP_EXTRA_DIST = \
   AUTHORS.txt \
 	ChangeLog \
@@ -5091,7 +5100,7 @@
 	$(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) all-am
 
 .SUFFIXES:
-.SUFFIXES: .c .cpp .lo .log .o .obj .sh .sh$(EXEEXT) .trs
+.SUFFIXES: .c .cpp .lo .log .o .obj .sh .sh$(EXEEXT) .tap .tap$(EXEEXT) .trs
 am--refresh: Makefile
 	@:
 $(srcdir)/Makefile.in: @MAINTAINER_MODE_TRUE@ $(srcdir)/Makefile.am $(srcdir)/m4/Makefile.am $(srcdir)/config/Makefile.am $(srcdir)/ltdl/Makefile.inc $(srcdir)/coders/Makefile.am $(srcdir)/MagickCore/Makefile.am $(srcdir)/MagickWand/Makefile.am $(srcdir)/Magick++/Makefile.am $(srcdir)/filters/Makefile.am $(srcdir)/utilities/Makefile.am $(srcdir)/tests/Makefile.am $(srcdir)/PerlMagick/Makefile.am $(am__configure_deps)
@@ -10446,6 +10455,20 @@
 @am__EXEEXT_TRUE@	--log-file $$b.log --trs-file $$b.trs \
 @am__EXEEXT_TRUE@	$(am__common_driver_flags) $(AM_SH_LOG_DRIVER_FLAGS) $(SH_LOG_DRIVER_FLAGS) -- $(SH_LOG_COMPILE) \
 @am__EXEEXT_TRUE@	"$$tst" $(AM_TESTS_FD_REDIRECT)
+.tap.log:
+	@p='$<'; \
+	$(am__set_b); \
+	$(am__check_pre) $(TAP_LOG_DRIVER) --test-name "$$f" \
+	--log-file $$b.log --trs-file $$b.trs \
+	$(am__common_driver_flags) $(AM_TAP_LOG_DRIVER_FLAGS) $(TAP_LOG_DRIVER_FLAGS) -- $(TAP_LOG_COMPILE) \
+	"$$tst" $(AM_TESTS_FD_REDIRECT)
+@am__EXEEXT_TRUE@.tap$(EXEEXT).log:
+@am__EXEEXT_TRUE@	@p='$<'; \
+@am__EXEEXT_TRUE@	$(am__set_b); \
+@am__EXEEXT_TRUE@	$(am__check_pre) $(TAP_LOG_DRIVER) --test-name "$$f" \
+@am__EXEEXT_TRUE@	--log-file $$b.log --trs-file $$b.trs \
+@am__EXEEXT_TRUE@	$(am__common_driver_flags) $(AM_TAP_LOG_DRIVER_FLAGS) $(TAP_LOG_DRIVER_FLAGS) -- $(TAP_LOG_COMPILE) \
+@am__EXEEXT_TRUE@	"$$tst" $(AM_TESTS_FD_REDIRECT)
 
 distdir: $(DISTFILES)
 	@list='$(MANS)'; if test -n "$$list"; then \
diff --git a/config/ImageMagick.rdf b/config/ImageMagick.rdf
index 0089475..d429bd5 100644
--- a/config/ImageMagick.rdf
+++ b/config/ImageMagick.rdf
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     <name>ImageMagick</name>
     <shortdesc xml:lang="en">ImageMagick: convert, edit, and compose images.</shortdesc>
     <homepage rdf:resource="http://www.imagemagick.org/"/>
-    <created>2012-08-14</created>
+    <created>2012-08-17</created>
 
     <description xml:lang="en">
 ImageMagick® is a software suite to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images. It can read and write images in a variety of formats (over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF. Use ImageMagick to resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves.
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
     <release>
       <Version>
           <name>stable</name>
-          <created>2012-08-14</created>
+          <created>2012-08-17</created>
           <revision>7.0.0</revision>
           <patch-level>-0</patch-level>
       </Version>
diff --git a/config/configure.xml b/config/configure.xml
index e64a693..9d2bd6c 100644
--- a/config/configure.xml
+++ b/config/configure.xml
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
   <configure name="VERSION" value="7.0.0"/>
   <configure name="LIB_VERSION" value="0x700"/>
   <configure name="LIB_VERSION_NUMBER" value="7,0,0,0"/>
-  <configure name="SVN_REVISION" value="8934:8953M" />
-  <configure name="RELEASE_DATE" value="2012-08-14"/>
+  <configure name="SVN_REVISION" value="8980:8995M" />
+  <configure name="RELEASE_DATE" value="2012-08-17"/>
   <configure name="CONFIGURE" value="./configure "/>
   <configure name="PREFIX" value="/usr/local"/>
   <configure name="EXEC-PREFIX" value="/usr/local"/>
diff --git a/config/delegates.xml b/config/delegates.xml
index cc62787..1ce2287 100644
--- a/config/delegates.xml
+++ b/config/delegates.xml
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@
   <delegate decode="miff" encode="show" spawn="True" command="&quot;/usr/local/bin/display&quot; -delay 0 -window-group %[group] -title &quot;%l &quot; &quot;ephemeral:%i&quot;"/>
   <delegate decode="shtml" command="&quot;html2ps&quot; -U -o &quot;%o&quot; &quot;%i&quot;"/>
   <delegate decode="svg" command="&quot;rsvg-convert&quot; -o &quot;%o&quot; &quot;%i&quot;"/>
-  <delegate decode="svg:decode" stealth="True" command="&quot;inkscape&quot; &quot;%s&quot; --export-png=&quot;%s&quot; --export-dpi=&quot;%s&quot; --export-background=&quot;%s&quot; --export-background-opacity=&quot;%s&quot; &gt; &quot;%s&quot;"/>
+  <delegate decode="svg:decode" stealth="True" command="&quot;inkscape&quot; &quot;%s&quot; --export-png=&quot;%s&quot; --export-dpi=&quot;%s&quot; --export-background=&quot;%s&quot; --export-background-opacity=&quot;%s&quot; &gt; &quot;%s&quot; 2&gt;&amp;1"/>
   <delegate decode="txt" encode="ps" mode="bi" command="&quot;enscript&quot; -o &quot;%o&quot; &quot;%i&quot;"/>
   <delegate decode="miff" encode="win" stealth="True" spawn="True" command="&quot;/usr/local/bin/display&quot; -immutable -delay 0 -window-group %[group] -title &quot;%l &quot; &quot;ephemeral:%i&quot;"/>
   <delegate decode="wmf" command="&quot;wmf2eps&quot; -o &quot;%o&quot; &quot;%i&quot;"/>
diff --git a/config/tap-driver.sh b/config/tap-driver.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..259ca0d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/tap-driver.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,652 @@
+#! /bin/sh
+# Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+# any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+# As a special exception to the GNU General Public License, if you
+# distribute this file as part of a program that contains a
+# configuration script generated by Autoconf, you may include it under
+# the same distribution terms that you use for the rest of that program.
+
+# This file is maintained in Automake, please report
+# bugs to <bug-automake@gnu.org> or send patches to
+# <automake-patches@gnu.org>.
+
+scriptversion=2011-12-27.17; # UTC
+
+# Make unconditional expansion of undefined variables an error.  This
+# helps a lot in preventing typo-related bugs.
+set -u
+
+me=tap-driver.sh
+
+fatal ()
+{
+  echo "$me: fatal: $*" >&2
+  exit 1
+}
+
+usage_error ()
+{
+  echo "$me: $*" >&2
+  print_usage >&2
+  exit 2
+}
+
+print_usage ()
+{
+  cat <<END
+Usage:
+  tap-driver.sh --test-name=NAME --log-file=PATH --trs-file=PATH
+                [--expect-failure={yes|no}] [--color-tests={yes|no}]
+                [--enable-hard-errors={yes|no}] [--ignore-exit]
+                [--diagnostic-string=STRING] [--merge|--no-merge]
+                [--comments|--no-comments] [--] TEST-COMMAND
+The \`--test-name', \`--log-file' and \`--trs-file' options are mandatory.
+END
+}
+
+# TODO: better error handling in option parsing (in particular, ensure
+# TODO: $log_file, $trs_file and $test_name are defined).
+test_name= # Used for reporting.
+log_file=  # Where to save the result and output of the test script.
+trs_file=  # Where to save the metadata of the test run.
+expect_failure=0
+color_tests=0
+merge=0
+ignore_exit=0
+comments=0
+diag_string='#'
+while test $# -gt 0; do
+  case $1 in
+  --help) print_usage; exit $?;;
+  --version) echo "$me $scriptversion"; exit $?;;
+  --test-name) test_name=$2; shift;;
+  --log-file) log_file=$2; shift;;
+  --trs-file) trs_file=$2; shift;;
+  --color-tests) color_tests=$2; shift;;
+  --expect-failure) expect_failure=$2; shift;;
+  --enable-hard-errors) shift;; # No-op.
+  --merge) merge=1;;
+  --no-merge) merge=0;;
+  --ignore-exit) ignore_exit=1;;
+  --comments) comments=1;;
+  --no-comments) comments=0;;
+  --diagnostic-string) diag_string=$2; shift;;
+  --) shift; break;;
+  -*) usage_error "invalid option: '$1'";;
+  esac
+  shift
+done
+
+test $# -gt 0 || usage_error "missing test command"
+
+case $expect_failure in
+  yes) expect_failure=1;;
+    *) expect_failure=0;;
+esac
+
+if test $color_tests = yes; then
+  init_colors='
+    color_map["red"]="" # Red.
+    color_map["grn"]="" # Green.
+    color_map["lgn"]="" # Light green.
+    color_map["blu"]="" # Blue.
+    color_map["mgn"]="" # Magenta.
+    color_map["std"]=""     # No color.
+    color_for_result["ERROR"] = "mgn"
+    color_for_result["PASS"]  = "grn"
+    color_for_result["XPASS"] = "red"
+    color_for_result["FAIL"]  = "red"
+    color_for_result["XFAIL"] = "lgn"
+    color_for_result["SKIP"]  = "blu"'
+else
+  init_colors=''
+fi
+
+# :; is there to work around a bug in bash 3.2 (and earlier) which
+# does not always set '$?' properly on redirection failure.
+# See the Autoconf manual for more details.
+:;{
+  (
+    # Ignore common signals (in this subshell only!), to avoid potential
+    # problems with Korn shells.  Some Korn shells are known to propagate
+    # to themselves signals that have killed a child process they were
+    # waiting for; this is done at least for SIGINT (and usually only for
+    # it, in truth).  Without the `trap' below, such a behaviour could
+    # cause a premature exit in the current subshell, e.g., in case the
+    # test command it runs gets terminated by a SIGINT.  Thus, the awk
+    # script we are piping into would never seen the exit status it
+    # expects on its last input line (which is displayed below by the
+    # last `echo $?' statement), and would thus die reporting an internal
+    # error.
+    # For more information, see the Autoconf manual and the threads:
+    # <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2011-09/msg00004.html>
+    # <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ksh93-integration-discuss/2009-February/004121.html>
+    trap : 1 3 2 13 15
+    if test $merge -gt 0; then
+      exec 2>&1
+    else
+      exec 2>&3
+    fi
+    "$@"
+    echo $?
+  ) | LC_ALL=C ${AM_TAP_AWK-awk} \
+        -v me="$me" \
+        -v test_script_name="$test_name" \
+        -v log_file="$log_file" \
+        -v trs_file="$trs_file" \
+        -v expect_failure="$expect_failure" \
+        -v merge="$merge" \
+        -v ignore_exit="$ignore_exit" \
+        -v comments="$comments" \
+        -v diag_string="$diag_string" \
+'
+# FIXME: the usages of "cat >&3" below could be optimized when using
+# FIXME: GNU awk, and/on on systems that supports /dev/fd/.
+
+# Implementation note: in what follows, `result_obj` will be an
+# associative array that (partly) simulates a TAP result object
+# from the `TAP::Parser` perl module.
+
+## ----------- ##
+##  FUNCTIONS  ##
+## ----------- ##
+
+function fatal(msg)
+{
+  print me ": " msg | "cat >&2"
+  exit 1
+}
+
+function abort(where)
+{
+  fatal("internal error " where)
+}
+
+# Convert a boolean to a "yes"/"no" string.
+function yn(bool)
+{
+  return bool ? "yes" : "no";
+}
+
+function add_test_result(result)
+{
+  if (!test_results_index)
+    test_results_index = 0
+  test_results_list[test_results_index] = result
+  test_results_index += 1
+  test_results_seen[result] = 1;
+}
+
+# Whether the test script should be re-run by "make recheck".
+function must_recheck()
+{
+  for (k in test_results_seen)
+    if (k != "XFAIL" && k != "PASS" && k != "SKIP")
+      return 1
+  return 0
+}
+
+# Whether the content of the log file associated to this test should
+# be copied into the "global" test-suite.log.
+function copy_in_global_log()
+{
+  for (k in test_results_seen)
+    if (k != "PASS")
+      return 1
+  return 0
+}
+
+# FIXME: this can certainly be improved ...
+function get_global_test_result()
+{
+    if ("ERROR" in test_results_seen)
+      return "ERROR"
+    if ("FAIL" in test_results_seen || "XPASS" in test_results_seen)
+      return "FAIL"
+    all_skipped = 1
+    for (k in test_results_seen)
+      if (k != "SKIP")
+        all_skipped = 0
+    if (all_skipped)
+      return "SKIP"
+    return "PASS";
+}
+
+function stringify_result_obj(result_obj)
+{
+  if (result_obj["is_unplanned"] || result_obj["number"] != testno)
+    return "ERROR"
+
+  if (plan_seen == LATE_PLAN)
+    return "ERROR"
+
+  if (result_obj["directive"] == "TODO")
+    return result_obj["is_ok"] ? "XPASS" : "XFAIL"
+
+  if (result_obj["directive"] == "SKIP")
+    return result_obj["is_ok"] ? "SKIP" : COOKED_FAIL;
+
+  if (length(result_obj["directive"]))
+      abort("in function stringify_result_obj()")
+
+  return result_obj["is_ok"] ? COOKED_PASS : COOKED_FAIL
+}
+
+function decorate_result(result)
+{
+  color_name = color_for_result[result]
+  if (color_name)
+    return color_map[color_name] "" result "" color_map["std"]
+  # If we are not using colorized output, or if we do not know how
+  # to colorize the given result, we should return it unchanged.
+  return result
+}
+
+function report(result, details)
+{
+  if (result ~ /^(X?(PASS|FAIL)|SKIP|ERROR)/)
+    {
+      msg = ": " test_script_name
+      add_test_result(result)
+    }
+  else if (result == "#")
+    {
+      msg = " " test_script_name ":"
+    }
+  else
+    {
+      abort("in function report()")
+    }
+  if (length(details))
+    msg = msg " " details
+  # Output on console might be colorized.
+  print decorate_result(result) msg
+  # Log the result in the log file too, to help debugging (this is
+  # especially true when said result is a TAP error or "Bail out!").
+  print result msg | "cat >&3";
+}
+
+function testsuite_error(error_message)
+{
+  report("ERROR", "- " error_message)
+}
+
+function handle_tap_result()
+{
+  details = result_obj["number"];
+  if (length(result_obj["description"]))
+    details = details " " result_obj["description"]
+
+  if (plan_seen == LATE_PLAN)
+    {
+      details = details " # AFTER LATE PLAN";
+    }
+  else if (result_obj["is_unplanned"])
+    {
+       details = details " # UNPLANNED";
+    }
+  else if (result_obj["number"] != testno)
+    {
+       details = sprintf("%s # OUT-OF-ORDER (expecting %d)",
+                         details, testno);
+    }
+  else if (result_obj["directive"])
+    {
+      details = details " # " result_obj["directive"];
+      if (length(result_obj["explanation"]))
+        details = details " " result_obj["explanation"]
+    }
+
+  report(stringify_result_obj(result_obj), details)
+}
+
+# `skip_reason` should be empty whenever planned > 0.
+function handle_tap_plan(planned, skip_reason)
+{
+  planned += 0 # Avoid getting confused if, say, `planned` is "00"
+  if (length(skip_reason) && planned > 0)
+    abort("in function handle_tap_plan()")
+  if (plan_seen)
+    {
+      # Error, only one plan per stream is acceptable.
+      testsuite_error("multiple test plans")
+      return;
+    }
+  planned_tests = planned
+  # The TAP plan can come before or after *all* the TAP results; we speak
+  # respectively of an "early" or a "late" plan.  If we see the plan line
+  # after at least one TAP result has been seen, assume we have a late
+  # plan; in this case, any further test result seen after the plan will
+  # be flagged as an error.
+  plan_seen = (testno >= 1 ? LATE_PLAN : EARLY_PLAN)
+  # If testno > 0, we have an error ("too many tests run") that will be
+  # automatically dealt with later, so do not worry about it here.  If
+  # $plan_seen is true, we have an error due to a repeated plan, and that
+  # has already been dealt with above.  Otherwise, we have a valid "plan
+  # with SKIP" specification, and should report it as a particular kind
+  # of SKIP result.
+  if (planned == 0 && testno == 0)
+    {
+      if (length(skip_reason))
+        skip_reason = "- "  skip_reason;
+      report("SKIP", skip_reason);
+    }
+}
+
+function extract_tap_comment(line)
+{
+  if (index(line, diag_string) == 1)
+    {
+      # Strip leading `diag_string` from `line`.
+      line = substr(line, length(diag_string) + 1)
+      # And strip any leading and trailing whitespace left.
+      sub("^[ \t]*", "", line)
+      sub("[ \t]*$", "", line)
+      # Return what is left (if any).
+      return line;
+    }
+  return "";
+}
+
+# When this function is called, we know that line is a TAP result line,
+# so that it matches the (perl) RE "^(not )?ok\b".
+function setup_result_obj(line)
+{
+  # Get the result, and remove it from the line.
+  result_obj["is_ok"] = (substr(line, 1, 2) == "ok" ? 1 : 0)
+  sub("^(not )?ok[ \t]*", "", line)
+
+  # If the result has an explicit number, get it and strip it; otherwise,
+  # automatically assing the next progresive number to it.
+  if (line ~ /^[0-9]+$/ || line ~ /^[0-9]+[^a-zA-Z0-9_]/)
+    {
+      match(line, "^[0-9]+")
+      # The final `+ 0` is to normalize numbers with leading zeros.
+      result_obj["number"] = substr(line, 1, RLENGTH) + 0
+      line = substr(line, RLENGTH + 1)
+    }
+  else
+    {
+      result_obj["number"] = testno
+    }
+
+  if (plan_seen == LATE_PLAN)
+    # No further test results are acceptable after a "late" TAP plan
+    # has been seen.
+    result_obj["is_unplanned"] = 1
+  else if (plan_seen && testno > planned_tests)
+    result_obj["is_unplanned"] = 1
+  else
+    result_obj["is_unplanned"] = 0
+
+  # Strip trailing and leading whitespace.
+  sub("^[ \t]*", "", line)
+  sub("[ \t]*$", "", line)
+
+  # This will have to be corrected if we have a "TODO"/"SKIP" directive.
+  result_obj["description"] = line
+  result_obj["directive"] = ""
+  result_obj["explanation"] = ""
+
+  if (index(line, "#") == 0)
+    return # No possible directive, nothing more to do.
+
+  # Directives are case-insensitive.
+  rx = "[ \t]*#[ \t]*([tT][oO][dD][oO]|[sS][kK][iI][pP])[ \t]*"
+
+  # See whether we have the directive, and if yes, where.
+  pos = match(line, rx "$")
+  if (!pos)
+    pos = match(line, rx "[^a-zA-Z0-9_]")
+
+  # If there was no TAP directive, we have nothing more to do.
+  if (!pos)
+    return
+
+  # Let`s now see if the TAP directive has been escaped.  For example:
+  #  escaped:     ok \# SKIP
+  #  not escaped: ok \\# SKIP
+  #  escaped:     ok \\\\\# SKIP
+  #  not escaped: ok \ # SKIP
+  if (substr(line, pos, 1) == "#")
+    {
+      bslash_count = 0
+      for (i = pos; i > 1 && substr(line, i - 1, 1) == "\\"; i--)
+        bslash_count += 1
+      if (bslash_count % 2)
+        return # Directive was escaped.
+    }
+
+  # Strip the directive and its explanation (if any) from the test
+  # description.
+  result_obj["description"] = substr(line, 1, pos - 1)
+  # Now remove the test description from the line, that has been dealt
+  # with already.
+  line = substr(line, pos)
+  # Strip the directive, and save its value (normalized to upper case).
+  sub("^[ \t]*#[ \t]*", "", line)
+  result_obj["directive"] = toupper(substr(line, 1, 4))
+  line = substr(line, 5)
+  # Now get the explanation for the directive (if any), with leading
+  # and trailing whitespace removed.
+  sub("^[ \t]*", "", line)
+  sub("[ \t]*$", "", line)
+  result_obj["explanation"] = line
+}
+
+function get_test_exit_message(status)
+{
+  if (status == 0)
+    return ""
+  if (status !~ /^[1-9][0-9]*$/)
+    abort("getting exit status")
+  if (status < 127)
+    exit_details = ""
+  else if (status == 127)
+    exit_details = " (command not found?)"
+  else if (status >= 128 && status <= 255)
+    exit_details = sprintf(" (terminated by signal %d?)", status - 128)
+  else if (status > 256 && status <= 384)
+    # We used to report an "abnormal termination" here, but some Korn
+    # shells, when a child process die due to signal number n, can leave
+    # in $? an exit status of 256+n instead of the more standard 128+n.
+    # Apparently, both behaviours are allowed by POSIX (2008), so be
+    # prepared to handle them both.  See also Austing Group report ID
+    # 0000051 <http://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=51>
+    exit_details = sprintf(" (terminated by signal %d?)", status - 256)
+  else
+    # Never seen in practice.
+    exit_details = " (abnormal termination)"
+  return sprintf("exited with status %d%s", status, exit_details)
+}
+
+function write_test_results()
+{
+  print ":global-test-result: " get_global_test_result() > trs_file
+  print ":recheck: "  yn(must_recheck()) > trs_file
+  print ":copy-in-global-log: " yn(copy_in_global_log()) > trs_file
+  for (i = 0; i < test_results_index; i += 1)
+    print ":test-result: " test_results_list[i] > trs_file
+  close(trs_file);
+}
+
+BEGIN {
+
+## ------- ##
+##  SETUP  ##
+## ------- ##
+
+'"$init_colors"'
+
+# Properly initialized once the TAP plan is seen.
+planned_tests = 0
+
+COOKED_PASS = expect_failure ? "XPASS": "PASS";
+COOKED_FAIL = expect_failure ? "XFAIL": "FAIL";
+
+# Enumeration-like constants to remember which kind of plan (if any)
+# has been seen.  It is important that NO_PLAN evaluates "false" as
+# a boolean.
+NO_PLAN = 0
+EARLY_PLAN = 1
+LATE_PLAN = 2
+
+testno = 0     # Number of test results seen so far.
+bailed_out = 0 # Whether a "Bail out!" directive has been seen.
+
+# Whether the TAP plan has been seen or not, and if yes, which kind
+# it is ("early" is seen before any test result, "late" otherwise).
+plan_seen = NO_PLAN
+
+## --------- ##
+##  PARSING  ##
+## --------- ##
+
+is_first_read = 1
+
+while (1)
+  {
+    # Involutions required so that we are able to read the exit status
+    # from the last input line.
+    st = getline
+    if (st < 0) # I/O error.
+      fatal("I/O error while reading from input stream")
+    else if (st == 0) # End-of-input
+      {
+        if (is_first_read)
+          abort("in input loop: only one input line")
+        break
+      }
+    if (is_first_read)
+      {
+        is_first_read = 0
+        nextline = $0
+        continue
+      }
+    else
+      {
+        curline = nextline
+        nextline = $0
+        $0 = curline
+      }
+    # Copy any input line verbatim into the log file.
+    print | "cat >&3"
+    # Parsing of TAP input should stop after a "Bail out!" directive.
+    if (bailed_out)
+      continue
+
+    # TAP test result.
+    if ($0 ~ /^(not )?ok$/ || $0 ~ /^(not )?ok[^a-zA-Z0-9_]/)
+      {
+        testno += 1
+        setup_result_obj($0)
+        handle_tap_result()
+      }
+    # TAP plan (normal or "SKIP" without explanation).
+    else if ($0 ~ /^1\.\.[0-9]+[ \t]*$/)
+      {
+        # The next two lines will put the number of planned tests in $0.
+        sub("^1\\.\\.", "")
+        sub("[^0-9]*$", "")
+        handle_tap_plan($0, "")
+        continue
+      }
+    # TAP "SKIP" plan, with an explanation.
+    else if ($0 ~ /^1\.\.0+[ \t]*#/)
+      {
+        # The next lines will put the skip explanation in $0, stripping
+        # any leading and trailing whitespace.  This is a little more
+        # tricky in truth, since we want to also strip a potential leading
+        # "SKIP" string from the message.
+        sub("^[^#]*#[ \t]*(SKIP[: \t][ \t]*)?", "")
+        sub("[ \t]*$", "");
+        handle_tap_plan(0, $0)
+      }
+    # "Bail out!" magic.
+    # Older versions of prove and TAP::Harness (e.g., 3.17) did not
+    # recognize a "Bail out!" directive when preceded by leading
+    # whitespace, but more modern versions (e.g., 3.23) do.  So we
+    # emulate the latter, "more modern" behaviour.
+    else if ($0 ~ /^[ \t]*Bail out!/)
+      {
+        bailed_out = 1
+        # Get the bailout message (if any), with leading and trailing
+        # whitespace stripped.  The message remains stored in `$0`.
+        sub("^[ \t]*Bail out![ \t]*", "");
+        sub("[ \t]*$", "");
+        # Format the error message for the
+        bailout_message = "Bail out!"
+        if (length($0))
+          bailout_message = bailout_message " " $0
+        testsuite_error(bailout_message)
+      }
+    # Maybe we have too look for dianogtic comments too.
+    else if (comments != 0)
+      {
+        comment = extract_tap_comment($0);
+        if (length(comment))
+          report("#", comment);
+      }
+  }
+
+## -------- ##
+##  FINISH  ##
+## -------- ##
+
+# A "Bail out!" directive should cause us to ignore any following TAP
+# error, as well as a non-zero exit status from the TAP producer.
+if (!bailed_out)
+  {
+    if (!plan_seen)
+      {
+        testsuite_error("missing test plan")
+      }
+    else if (planned_tests != testno)
+      {
+        bad_amount = testno > planned_tests ? "many" : "few"
+        testsuite_error(sprintf("too %s tests run (expected %d, got %d)",
+                                bad_amount, planned_tests, testno))
+      }
+    if (!ignore_exit)
+      {
+        # Fetch exit status from the last line.
+        exit_message = get_test_exit_message(nextline)
+        if (exit_message)
+          testsuite_error(exit_message)
+      }
+  }
+
+write_test_results()
+
+exit 0
+
+} # End of "BEGIN" block.
+'
+
+# TODO: document that we consume the file descriptor 3 :-(
+} 3>"$log_file"
+
+test $? -eq 0 || fatal "I/O or internal error"
+
+# Local Variables:
+# mode: shell-script
+# sh-indentation: 2
+# eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp)
+# time-stamp-start: "scriptversion="
+# time-stamp-format: "%:y-%02m-%02d.%02H"
+# time-stamp-time-zone: "UTC"
+# time-stamp-end: "; # UTC"
+# End:
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index e93a855..7cc1acd 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -3495,6 +3495,7 @@
 
 
 
+
 ac_config_headers="$ac_config_headers config/config.h"
 
 
@@ -3667,7 +3668,7 @@
 
 MAGICK_LIBRARY_VERSION_INFO=$MAGICK_LIBRARY_CURRENT:$MAGICK_LIBRARY_REVISION:$MAGICK_LIBRARY_AGE
 
-MAGICK_SVN_REVISION=8934:8953M
+MAGICK_SVN_REVISION=8980:8995M
 
 
 
@@ -8082,6 +8083,48 @@
 $as_echo "no, using $LN_S" >&6; }
 fi
 
+for ac_prog in gawk mawk nawk awk
+do
+  # Extract the first word of "$ac_prog", so it can be a program name with args.
+set dummy $ac_prog; ac_word=$2
+{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for $ac_word" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking for $ac_word... " >&6; }
+if ${ac_cv_prog_AWK+:} false; then :
+  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
+else
+  if test -n "$AWK"; then
+  ac_cv_prog_AWK="$AWK" # Let the user override the test.
+else
+as_save_IFS=$IFS; IFS=$PATH_SEPARATOR
+for as_dir in $PATH
+do
+  IFS=$as_save_IFS
+  test -z "$as_dir" && as_dir=.
+    for ac_exec_ext in '' $ac_executable_extensions; do
+  if as_fn_executable_p "$as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext"; then
+    ac_cv_prog_AWK="$ac_prog"
+    $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: found $as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext" >&5
+    break 2
+  fi
+done
+  done
+IFS=$as_save_IFS
+
+fi
+fi
+AWK=$ac_cv_prog_AWK
+if test -n "$AWK"; then
+  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $AWK" >&5
+$as_echo "$AWK" >&6; }
+else
+  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: no" >&5
+$as_echo "no" >&6; }
+fi
+
+
+  test -n "$AWK" && break
+done
+
 { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking if malloc debugging is wanted" >&5
 $as_echo_n "checking if malloc debugging is wanted... " >&6; }
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 2d7268d..0ee2127 100755
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 AC_INIT([ImageMagick],[magick_version],[http://www.imagemagick.org],[ImageMagick])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([MagickCore/MagickCore.h])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([config])
+AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE([tap-driver.sh])
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
 AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR([ltdl])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config/config.h])
@@ -268,6 +269,7 @@
 AC_PROG_INSTALL
 AC_PROG_MAKE_SET
 AC_PROG_LN_S
+AC_PROG_AWK
 AM_WITH_DMALLOC
 AX_C___ATTRIBUTE__
 AX_GCC_ARCHFLAG([no])