Re: [FYI] {maint} tests: work around a texi+cygnus bug causing a spurious XFAIL

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Stefano,

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 01:30:28PM CET:
> I've applied the patch below to maint as obvious, merged maint
> into master, and pushed.

Obvious to you maybe, but not obvious to me.  What is the bug
you are working around?  And if there was an XFAIL before, wouldn't
there be an XPASS now?

Thank you,
Ralf

> tests: work around a texi+cygnus bug causing a spurious XFAIL
> 
> * tests/txinfo5b.test: New test, like txinfo5.test but calling
> automake with the `-Wno-override' option to work around a bug
> in the texinfo + cygnus interaction.
> * tests/txinfo5.test: Update heading comments.

> --- a/tests/txinfo5.test
> +++ b/tests/txinfo5.test
> @@ -16,6 +16,9 @@
>  # along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
>  
>  # Test to make sure that texinfo.tex is not required by --cygnus.
> +# Also check that TEXINFOS + cygnus work without requiring the
> +# `-Wno-override' option.
> +# See also sister test txinfo5b.test.
>  # Report from Ian Taylor.
>  
>  . ./defs || Exit 1

> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tests/txinfo5b.test

> +# Test to make sure that texinfo.tex is not required by --cygnus.
> +# See also sister test txinfo5.test.
> +# Report from Ian Taylor.
> +
> +. ./defs || Exit 1
> +
> +set -e
> +
> +cat >> configure.in << 'END'
> +AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
> +END
> +
> +cat > Makefile.am << 'END'
> +# Disable `override' warning to work around an unrelated
> +# texi+cygnus bug.
> +AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = -Wno-override
> +info_TEXINFOS = ian.texi
> +END
> +
> +echo '@setfilename ian.info' > ian.texi
> +
> +$ACLOCAL
> +$AUTOMAKE --cygnus
> +$AUTOMAKE -a --cygnus
> +test ! -f texinfo.tex
> +
> +: