Re: texinfo-6.7.90 pretest on Solaris

[Bruno Haible]

> https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-6.7.90.tar.xz

A VPATH build on Solaris 10, with Solaris 'make', fails during "make check":

Making check in texindex
make  check-TESTS
FAIL: tests/ti-helpversion.sh

Why is that? Because the 'texindex' script is not executable.

How come that the 'texindex' script is not executable? The Makefile has
built the 'texindex' script like this:

Making all in texindex
sed -e 's,[@]pkgdatadir[@],/home/haible/prefix-sparc64/share/texinfo,g'  -e 
's,[@]TI_AWK[@],awk,g'  -e 's,[@]PACKAGE[@],texinfo,g'  -e 
's,[@][@]*VERSION[@][@]*,6.7.90,g' <../../texindex/texindex.in >texindex
chmod +x ../../texindex/texindex

As you can see, it has added the execution permission to 'texindex'
in the source dir, not to 'texindex' in the build dir.

If I remove the 'texindex' in the source dir, then the Makefile rule
executes as expected:

Making all in texindex
sed -e 's,[@]pkgdatadir[@],/home/haible/prefix-sparc64/share/texinfo,g'  -e 
's,[@]TI_AWK[@],awk,g'  -e 's,[@]PACKAGE[@],texinfo,g'  -e 
's,[@][@]*VERSION[@][@]*,6.7.90,g' <../../texindex/texindex.in >texindex
chmod +x texindex

So, the cause is that an autogenerated and platform-dependent 'texindex'
script was included in the tarball. Removing it from the tarball will fix
the issue.

Bruno