Re: texinfo-4.13.91 pretest available

[Patrice Dumas]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 07:55:12AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Di, 27 Nov 2012, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > Did you run the tests as part of the build?
> 
> No. Here on my computer I run it maually, though, and get all PASS
> or SKIP (a few tests are skipped).
> 
> My feeling (but not tried) is that in the minimal environment of
> Debian build-daemons there will be quite some failures due to
> something missing.

But you can still add these as build requires.  I guess that you have
all the dependencies.  Actually it looks like Unicode::EastAsianWidth
is not packaged in debian, I guess the internal copy is used.  The 
other libtext-unidecode-perl libintl-perl are available.  All the
additional modules needed for tests are in debian, libdata-compare-perl
libtest-deep-perl, and Test::More which is in perl-modules.  For the
Pod-Simple-Texinfo module you need Pod::Simple::PullParser which is
also in perl-modules.

You also need sed, awk, diff (with -u), mktemp, and prove but I guess
they are all there in your minimal build root.

(As a side note, in case it still was not obvious, I use a Debian
testing...)

> Do you have a recommendation? Should I run the tests on all archs
> during build time? No problem - if you let me know, then I can send
> you the build logs and errors if necessary.

It really depends on what you do usually.  If you usually run tests
as part of your packaging build, then you should do it, and it would
even be better to check with 

make check ALL_TESTS=yes

But if it is not customary to run tests as part of the debian build
process then you don't need to.

I don't know if it helps answering your question, but if I was still 
involved in the texinfo packaging in Fedora I would propose to run 
the tests as part of the build.



As a side note, I would also suggest installing util/txixml2texi, which
depends on XML::LibXML::Reader in libxml-libxml-perl.

-- 
Pat