Re: texinfo-4.13.91 pretest available

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:06:57 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> 
> > Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 22:35:23 GMT
> > From: address@hidden (Karl Berry)
> > 
> >     I attach below a patch to install Windows batch files 
> > 
> > I installed it.
> > 
> >     If you could send me the modified configury files produced by
> >     Automake and Autoconf, I could then test them here.
> > 
> > Let's just wait for the next pretest, which should be soon.  That way we
> > can be sure the whole thing is consistent.
> 
> OK, thanks.

I tested the latest pretest.  There are two problems:

 . The test in configure that decides whether to install the *.bat
   files looks at the $target variable:


     tgt_is_windows=no
     case "$target" in
        *-mingw32 | *-mingw64 | *-msdosdjgpp )  tgt_is_windows=yes ;;
     esac
      if test "x$tgt_is_windows" = "xyes"; then
       TGT_IS_WINDOWS_TRUE=
       TGT_IS_WINDOWS_FALSE='#'
     else
       TGT_IS_WINDOWS_TRUE='#'
       TGT_IS_WINDOWS_FALSE=
     fi

   However, this doesn't work as intended, because $target is empty,
   unless I explicitly invoke the configure script with --target=; if
   I invoke with --build=i686-pc-mingw32, as I normally do, the value
   is empty.  Did I use an incorrect variable?

 . If I use --target=, the test works, but "make install" fails
   because the *.bat files were not included in the tarball.