Re: texinfo-6.7.90 pretest on Solaris

[Jacob Bachmeyer]

Gavin Smith wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 12:22:33PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
>   
> > > 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
> >     
>
> I don't understand how that is possible as
> "chmod +x texindex" is hard-coded in the Makefile.
>   

VPATH can bring along quite a bit of magic in some makes.  From 
(make)Missing:

  * In System V and 4.3 BSD `make', files found by `VPATH' search
    (*note Searching Directories for Prerequisites: Directory Search.)
    have their names changed inside command strings.  We feel it is
    much cleaner to always use automatic variables and thus make this
    feature obsolete.



-- Jacob