29 failed tests in the Texinfo 7.1 testsuite on Debian with IBM POWER9

[Dennis Clarke]

I have no idea what this is such a terrible result :


============================================================================
Testsuite summary for GNU Texinfo 7.1
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 110
# PASS:  44
# SKIP:  37
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  29
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
============================================================================


That is just unusable.

A whole bucket of strange scripts fail :

FAIL: test_scripts/nested_formats_texi_nested_formats.sh
FAIL: test_scripts/nested_formats_nested_group.sh
FAIL: test_scripts/nested_formats_nested_itemize.sh
FAIL: test_scripts/nested_formats_nested_menu.sh
FAIL: test_scripts/nested_formats_nested_table.sh
FAIL: test_scripts/nested_formats_nested_flushright.sh
FAIL: test_scripts/nested_formats_nested_multitable.sh
FAIL: test_scripts/nested_formats_nested_cartouche.sh
FAIL: test_scripts/nested_formats_nested_enumerate.sh
FAIL: test_scripts/nested_formats_nested_deffn.sh
FAIL: test_scripts/nested_formats_nested_example.sh
FAIL: test_scripts/nested_formats_nested_quotation.sh
FAIL: test_scripts/coverage_formatting_html_no_split.sh
FAIL: test_scripts/coverage_formatting_epub.sh
FAIL: test_scripts/coverage_formatting_xhtml.sh
FAIL: test_scripts/coverage_formatting_chm.sh
FAIL: test_scripts/coverage_formatting_regions.sh
FAIL: test_scripts/layout_formatting_texi2html.sh
FAIL: test_scripts/layout_formatting_texi2html_nodes.sh
FAIL: test_scripts/layout_formatting_sort_element_counts.sh
FAIL: test_scripts/layout_formatting_mathjax.sh
FAIL: test_scripts/layout_formatting_weird_quotes.sh
FAIL: test_scripts/layout_formatting_numerical_entities.sh
FAIL: test_scripts/layout_formatting_enable_encoding.sh
FAIL: test_scripts/layout_formatting_exotic.sh
FAIL: test_scripts/layout_formatting_inline_css.sh
FAIL: test_scripts/layout_formatting_fr.sh
FAIL: test_scripts/layout_formatting_fr_icons.sh
FAIL: test_scripts/layout_formatting_epub_nodes.sh

Looking at the first script :

dax$
dax$ cat ./tp/tests/test_scripts/nested_formats_texi_nested_formats.sh
#! /bin/sh
# This file generated by maintain/regenerate_cmd_tests.sh

if test z"$srcdir" = "z"; then
  srcdir=.
fi

one_test_logs_dir=test_log


dir=nested_formats
name='texi_nested_formats'
mkdir -p $dir

"$srcdir"/run_parser_all.sh -dir $dir $name
exit_status=$?
cat $dir/$one_test_logs_dir/$name.log
exit $exit_status

dax$

Why fail? I have no idea.

This is Debian on an IBM POWER9 server :

dax$ cat /etc/debian_version
12.5
dax$
dax$ uname -a
Linux dax 6.1.86-mrw1 #1 SMP Sat Apr 13 20:47:03 PDT 2024 ppc64le GNU/Linux
dax$

With pretty recent tools :

dax$
dax$ gcc --version
gcc (GENUNIX Thu May 30 01:20:34 UTC 2024) 14.1.0
Copyright (C) 2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

dax$
dax$ gas --version
GNU assembler (GNU Binutils) 2.40
Copyright (C) 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License version 3 or later.
This program has absolutely no warranty.
This assembler was configured for a target of 
`powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu'.
dax$

Any insights ?



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Dennis Clarke
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