Re: [platform-testers] texinfo-6.3.90 pretest

[Gavin Smith]

On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 08:20:20PM -0400, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > On Apr 23, 2017, at 13:00, Gavin Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-6.3.90.tar.xz
> 
> The test 'tests/texi2dvi_empty_text.sh' requires the 'tex' binary to
> be installed. This results in failures on many systems:
> ====
> FAIL: tests/texi2dvi_empty_text.sh
> ==================================
> 
> + filename=foo-77511
> + texi2dvi=./texi2dvi
> + trap 'rm -f foo-77511.texi foo-77511.dvi foo-77511.log' EXIT
> + cat
> + ./texi2dvi -o foo-77511.dvi foo-77511.texi
> You don't have a working TeX binary (tex) installed anywhere in
> your PATH, and texi2dvi cannot proceed without one.  If you want to use
> this script, you'll need to install TeX (if you don't have it) or change
> your PATH or TEX environment variable (if you do).  See the --help
> output for more details.

I've removed the test for now.