Re: texinfo-4.13.93 pretest available

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2013 10:11:30 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> > Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 03:09:31 GMT
> > From: address@hidden (Karl Berry)
> > 
> > I've put up the next pretest:
> > 
> >   ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.13.93.tar.xz
> >  http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.13.93.tar.xz
> > 
> > As before, just fixing bugs of various sorts, no new features (since the
> > last pretest) to speak of.
> > 
> > Also as before, please send any feedback here, to bug-texinfo.
> 
> This pretest builds OK with MinGW, and "make install" does install the
> Windows batch files.  Thanks.
> 
> The only problem left is that the Windows batch files have a '+'
> character at the beginning of every line, probably some snafu while
> applying the patch I sent to introduce those files.  Please remove
> those '+' characters, as they will prevent the batch files from
> working.

One other thing: when I run the test suite on MS-Windows, it skips
some tests:

  make[5]: Entering directory `/d/gnu/texinfo-4.13.93/tp/tests'
  PASS: parser_base_tests
  SKIP: long_tests.sh
  SKIP: tex_html_tests.sh
  make[6]: Entering directory `/d/gnu/texinfo-4.13.93/tp/tests'
  Making all in .
  make[7]: Entering directory `/d/gnu/texinfo-4.13.93/tp/tests'
  make[7]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
  make[7]: Leaving directory `/d/gnu/texinfo-4.13.93/tp/tests'
  Making all in many_input_files
  make[7]: Entering directory `/d/gnu/texinfo-4.13.93/tp/tests/many_input_files'
  make[7]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
  make[7]: Leaving directory `/d/gnu/texinfo-4.13.93/tp/tests/many_input_files'
  make[6]: Leaving directory `/d/gnu/texinfo-4.13.93/tp/tests'
  ============================================================================
  Testsuite summary for GNU Texinfo 4.13.93
  ============================================================================
  # TOTAL: 3
  # PASS:  1
  # SKIP:  2
  # XFAIL: 0
  # FAIL:  0
  # XPASS: 0
  # ERROR: 0
  ============================================================================
  make[5]: Leaving directory `/d/gnu/texinfo-4.13.93/tp/tests'
  make[4]: Leaving directory `/d/gnu/texinfo-4.13.93/tp/tests'
  make[3]: Leaving directory `/d/gnu/texinfo-4.13.93/tp/tests'
  Making check in many_input_files
  make[3]: Entering directory `/d/gnu/texinfo-4.13.93/tp/tests/many_input_files'
  make  check-TESTS
  make[4]: Entering directory `/d/gnu/texinfo-4.13.93/tp/tests/many_input_files'
  make[5]: Entering directory `/d/gnu/texinfo-4.13.93/tp/tests/many_input_files'
  PASS: indices.sh
  SKIP: tex_l2h.sh
  SKIP: tex_t4ht.sh
  make[6]: Entering directory `/d/gnu/texinfo-4.13.93/tp/tests/many_input_files'
  make[6]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
  make[6]: Leaving directory `/d/gnu/texinfo-4.13.93/tp/tests/many_input_files'
  ============================================================================
  Testsuite summary for GNU Texinfo 4.13.93
  ============================================================================
  # TOTAL: 3
  # PASS:  1
  # SKIP:  2
  # XFAIL: 0
  # FAIL:  0
  # XPASS: 0
  # ERROR: 0

Why does it skip these tests?  Is this a problem I need to
investigate?