Re: Skip filename recoding tests on MS-Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2022 14:13:55 +0200
> From: pertusus@free.fr
> 
> I eliminated the reference to "included_latîn1.texi" from the Makefile
> in
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/texinfo.git/commit/?id=d9a947dd76999d0f84499f4cac048363957305bc
> However, I do not know if the corresponding tests will be skipped,
> My guess is that the recoding to latin1 will succeed, but the copy of
> the file may fail, I don't know.  But maybe we should try to see if the
> tests fail or not and do it another way if the tests are not skipped,
> maybe not having thoses tests run with make check but with specific
> checks only.

Thanks.  Do you want me to try patching the current pretest and
testing the change, or should I wait for the next pretest?  If the
former, is it enough to apply only the changeset of commit
d9a947dd76999d0f84499f4cac048363957305bc, or does it depend on other
changes done recently?

> Also there is another accented file name in UTF-8 in the Makefile.am in
> EXTRA_DIST and in the tarball, included_akçentêd.texi:

Yes.

> EXTRA_DIST = run_parser_all.sh parser_tests.sh \
>  $(one_test_files_generated_list) coverage_macro.texi included_akçentêd.texi \
>  input/included_latin1.texi
> 
> I guess that 'make dist' on Windows or in any situation in which make
> does not consider the encoding of the Makefile to be UTF-8 could
> fail because of that, even before running the command that uses EXTRA_DIST
> are run.  It could also fail when the commands are run too.

There should be no reason to run "make dist" on Windows, so if that is
the only problem with that name, I think we are okay.