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Re: texinfo-6.3.90 pretest


From: Gavin Smith
Subject: Re: texinfo-6.3.90 pretest
Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 20:21:03 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)

On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 05:41:10PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Gavin Smith <address@hidden>
> > Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2017 09:44:49 +0100
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > 
> > Do you know if the tests still pass with Texinfo 6.3 on your system?
> 
> I looked into Texinfo 6.3, and the explanation why this failure didn't
> happen before is very simple: this test was skipped on my system in
> all prior versions of Texinfo.  I don't know why it was skipped; I
> always assumed that tests under tp/ are skipped because some Perl
> modules are missing.  But I see that 6.3.90 skips much fewer tests, so
> I guess there was some other reason for skipping that is now resolved?

For the record, the reason was that several tests were skipped by 
default ("make long-checks" ran them), but they are all run now.



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