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

[Gavin Smith]

On Sat, Jun 01, 2024 at 01:17:59AM -0400, Dennis Clarke via Bug reports for the 
GNU Texinfo documentation system wrote:
> 
> 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 :

As well as checking the log files as Patrice said, you could try running
the scripts from the commad line:

$ test_scripts/nested_formats_texi_nested_formats.sh

This will run texi2any for the test case and should also print the reason
for the test failure.

Any extra output printed by the program, e.g. warnings, can lead to a
test failure with these tests.

> Looking at the first script :

The reason for the failure is certain to be elsewhere, not inside this
file itself.  These scripts are automatically generated and are all very
similar.