Re: Texinfo 7.0.90 pretest on CentOS 8-stream (Unicode::Collate)

[Gavin Smith]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 05:11:07PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > It's possible that a distribution does something to install fewer packages,
> 
> The packaging source code for this module is here:
> https://git.centos.org/rpms/perl/blob/c8s/f/SPECS/perl.spec
> lines 2816..2832. Apparently they intended Unicode::Collate to be packaged
> as a separate dnf package.

I found some pages that might give some background (CentOS is related
to Red Hat distributions):

https://lwn.net/Articles/348090/ "Re: Redhat perl != perl"
https://lwn.net/Articles/348084/ "On properly packaging perl"
 

> For comparison, here are the results for older CentOS distributions:
>   - CentOS 8: The same 52 test failures.
>   - CentOS 7: "make check" passes.
>   - CentOS 6: "make check" passes.
> 


> You could, at configure time, test what's the exit code of 'perl' when
> run with 1-line input:
>   use Unicode::Collate;
> 

That would be okay as long as missing Unicode::Collate was the only
missing module.  Does the test suite pass if that module is installed?