Re: texinfo-4.13.90 pre-pre-test

[Patrice Dumas]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 09:31:59PM +0100, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> Hi Karl.
> 
> On 11/09/2012 07:14 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
> > If anyone here (especially you, Patrice :) has a chance to look ...
> > I've temporarily put a tarball for the pretest at:
> > http://freefriends.org/~karl/texinfo-4.13.90.xz
> >
> Typo here, BTW: s/.xz$/.tar.xz/
> 
> Also, I notice Texinfo is still using the old, much inferior serial testsuite
> harness provided by Automake.  I'd really advise you to switch to the parallel
> harness instead, by passing the 'parallel-tests' option to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
> (this harness will be the default starting from automake 1.13).

I'll leave that to Karl.

> NetBSD 5.1
> ==========
> 
>   The build hangs using /usr/bin/make:
> 
>     $ make
>     ...
>     gcc  -g -O2   -o infokey infokey.o key.o ../gnulib/lib/libgnu.a
>     Making all in po
>     Making all in po_document
>     Making all in tp
>     Making all in .
>     sed  -e 's,address@hidden@],4.13.90,g' ... ./ >texi2any
>     chmod a+x texi2any
>     ../build-aux/install-sh -c -d maintain
>     sed -e 's|address@hidden@]|/home/slattarini/tmp/texinfo-4.13.90|' \
>       > maintain/catalog.xml
>     [HANGS HERE]
> 
>   The problem disappears using GNU make though, so no big deal.

I can't see what's wrong with the rule above, but maybe it is a
following rule that hangs?  Can you use a debug feature of BSD make
to see what's going on?  If it is a bug of BSD make, it is not a big
deal, but it may also point to a real issue.

>   And spurious failures in tp/tests, due to an unportable use of mktemp:

Thanks, this should be fixed in cvs.

> Solaris 10
> ==========
> 
>   Build succeeds.
> 
>   At "make check" time, there are some warnings due to the use of the
>   unportable '-i' sed option in 'tp/tests/many_input_files/tex_l2h.sh'
>   and 'tp/tests/run_parser_all.sh'.

Removing -i everywhere is annoying.  Are there really platforms we care
about that don't have it?  If so, are there scripts to emulate it?

>     gmake[4]: Entering directory 
> `/scratch/latta/tmp/texinfo-4.13.90/tp/tests/many_input_files'
>     D: diffs/indices.diff
>     D: diffs/index_split.diff
>     FAIL: indices.sh

Could you please send diffs/indices.diff and diffs/index_split.diff
files?

>   D: layout/diffs/formatting_singular.diff

Could you please send the file too?

Thanks for the testing!

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Pat