Re: texinfo-6.1.90 build feedback

[Gavin Smith]

On 16 August 2016 at 00:56, Nelson H. F. Beebe <address@hidden> wrote:
> Earlier today, I did 113 builds of texinfo-6.1.90 in our extensive
> test farm of scores of versions of Unix-like systems using CC=cc.  Of
> those builds, 101 succeeded and passed all tests.
>
> Of the remaining failures, the Solaris, OpenIndiana, and Hipster
> (Illumos) ones were repaired by using CC=c99.
>
> On two old Mac OS X systems, I got a few test failures:
>
>         Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L30) PowerPC and 10.7.5 (11G63) x86:
>                 FAIL: t/c-u-m-x-scroll-forward.sh
>                 FAIL: t/inc-sea-forward.sh
>                 FAIL: t/inc-sea-forward-nonregex.sh
>                 FAIL: t/inc-sea-insensitive.sh
>                 FAIL: t/inc-sea-history.sh
>
> In my view, this test release is ready to go!

Thank you very much for testing it.

The failures on the Mac OS X systems are for the "info" program. These
tests have produced failures before and it's hard to know why: my
guess is that either something is going wrong with control characters
being sent from a pseudoterminal (e.g. C-s for stop transmission), or
that the tests are timing out.