Re: texinfo-7.0.1 on OpenSolaris

[Gavin Smith]

On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 12:57:21PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Building GNU texinfo 7.0.1 on OpenSolaris 2022.10, I get the same failure
> as reported in
>   <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2022-10/msg00187.html>:
> 
> FAIL: t/dir-file-sloppily.sh
> 
> Gavin Smith wrote:
> > I don't know what is causing this and would need access to a system with
> > either of those OS's installed to investigate further.
> 
> It is straightforward to install in VirtualBox, using a download from
> https://www.openindiana.org/download/ .
> Just make sure to allocate
>   - at least 15 GB for the disk,
>   - at least 3 GB of RAM.

Not exactly straightforward but it could have been worse.  I only
gave it 2GB of RAM because I only have under 4GB to start with.
I will be deleting the disk image as soon as this is finished due
to the amount of space it takes up.  I will not be testing routinely
on OpenIndiana using VirtualBox.

> 
> After the system it set up, do
>   $ sudo pkg install developer/gcc-11
>   $ sudo pkg install system/header
>   $ sudo pkg install developer/debug/gdb
>   $ sudo pkg install editor/gnu-emacs
> (See also https://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster/en/index.shtml .)
> Then you can build various GNU packages, as usual.

sudo wasn't a command but I got a root shell with "su".  I am
using the image "OI-hipster-minimal-20221123.iso".

"uname -a" reports
SunOS openindiana 5.11 illumos-b8af4a8966 i86pc i386 i86pc

I only found the first package was necessary to install to build
Texinfo 7.0.1, and I replicated the test failure.

After installing gdb I stepped through the execution and found
the problem appears with check_manpage_node (which was changed fairly
recently, in October 2022).  info runs "man -w FiLe-M" and find it was
successful, with exit status 0, even though it prints errors:

man: /usr/share/man/whatis.tmp: Permission denied
man: /usr/gnu/share/man/whatis.tmp: Permission denied

The man page for man on this virtual system says that -w updates
the whatis database.

Changing the check in check_manpage_node to use "man --where" instead
of "man -w" makes the test pass.  "man --where" has a non-zero exit
status.  I've made this change in git commit 36877b7b9fd51.  I may
add this commit to the release branch once things have settled down.

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After that, the next failure comes from running "make check" at the top
level.

Making check in tests
mksh: Fatal error: The string `included_la<A7>n1.texi' is not valid in current 
locale
Current working directory: /export/home/g/texinfo-7.0.1/tp/tests

(<A7> is a single byte).

This is in a UTF-8 locate.

A file with this name exists under tp/tests.

I haven't got anywhere with investigating this latter failure.