Re: texinfo-4.13a 53 of 53 tests failed

[Dennis Clarke]

> Hi Dennis,
> 
>     looks like the testsuite has a strange dependency on Linux coreutils
> 
> 1) For the record, it's GNU coreutils, there is no "Linux" coreutils.

You are quite right of course.  I was frustrated at the situation where I saw a 
flawless configure and compiler followed by every test fail.  I think when every
test fails, it isn't the software just compiled but something else is amiss.

> 
>     because the syntax to a simple "cp" is wrong.  
> 
> 2) The syntax is wrong because (it seems) mktemp is missing on your system,
> hence there is only one argument to the cp.  As the error messages say.
> no need to leap to conclusions about portability among Unixes :).

Yep .. right again.  This is an old Solaris server and mktemp is not to be 
found.  Unless 
of course we mean this : 

Standard C Library Functions                           mktemp(3C)
NAME
     mktemp - make a unique file name

SYNOPSIS

     #include <stdlib.h>
     char *mktemp(char *template);


Probably not. 

>     Will not work on UNIX systems with XPG4 or XPG6 compliance.
> 
> 3) I put checks into the tests for the current release (5.1) for a
> missing mktemp so it should not fail ... at least in the same way.

Well, I guess I am at a loss what to do here.  The software compiles fine and 
then simply
fails all its tests.  Perhaps I need to compile coreutils and then install that 
stuff and 
then return here?  Problem is that GNU coreutils is normally a nightmare to 
build on
Solaris and usually not worth the effort.  Is there a way I can edit all the 
test scripts 
to remove the need for that odd option to XPG4 cp ? 

Dennis