Re: Texinfo on FreeBSD - Test errors

[Unga]

--- On Mon, 6/30/08, Karl Berry <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Karl Berry <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Texinfo on FreeBSD - Test errors
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Monday, June 30, 2008, 6:04 AM
> I have compiled and installed texinfo-4.12 on i386 FreeBSD
> 7.0.
>     The gmake check fails on 48 of 50 tests.
> 
> Thanks for the report.
> 
>     usage: mktemp [-d] [-q] [-t prefix] [-u] template ...
>            mktemp [-d] [-q] [-u] -t prefix
> 
> Indeed, nearly every test case simply uses mktemp with no
> argument.
> GNU/Linux is ok with having an explicit template. 
> Hopefully all other
> systems are too.  Yikes.
> 
>     usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-alpv]
> source_file target_file
>            cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-alpv]
> source_file ... target_directory
> 
> Can you please tell me what cp invocation(s), specifically,
> fail?  At a
> first look, I don't see what's being done that
> don't fit this usage.
>

Hi Karl

I had a look at the ./install-info/tests/ii-0002-test.

1. The mktemp invocation is wrong as per FreeBSD syntax, it should be corrected 
as follows:
ORIG: outputdirfile=`mktemp`
NEW: outputdirfile=`mktemp XXXXXX`

2. What does ${install_info} want to do? Overwrite what was already copied, 
append, etc?

Regards
Unga