Re: texinfo-4.13a 53 of 53 tests failed

[Karl Berry]

    Well, I guess I am at a loss what to do here.

Simplest: since the test failures are completely spurious, just ignore
them and install the software.

Another possibility: Install Texinfo 5.1 instead of 4.13a.

The most time-consuming: if you insist on making the tests work in
4.13a, create a trivial mktemp shell script and put it in your PATH.
Here is the mktemp function that is in 5.1's defs[.in].  I leave the
exercise of making it a standalone script to you :).

# Our mktemp substitute doesn't need all the features of real mktemp;
# our tests here only use it in the most simplistic way, to create a
# temp file.  The autoconf manual suggests doing it in a temporary
# directory (mode 700).  ($RANDOM may expand to nothing, but that's ok.)
# We do not even bother to expand the X's in the template ...
mktemp ()
{
  dir=$TMPDIR/iimktemp$$-$RANDOM
  (umask 077 && mkdir "$dir")
  touch "$dir/$1" || return 1
  echo "$dir/$1"
}

    GNU coreutils is normally a nightmare to build on Solaris

I've never had a problem with it, but can easily imagine that mileages vary.
Anyway, any mktemp will do, it doesn't have to be coreutils'.

Hope this helps,
Karl