Re: texinfo-4.13.90 pretest available

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 23:48:57 +0100
> From: Patrice Dumas <address@hidden>
> 
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 04:26:59PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 
> > After building, I tried "make check".  This failed in every single
> > test script (at least the first 40, when I lost patience and
> > interrupted the run).  The reason seems to be that the test suite
> > requires a non-standard 'mktemp' command.  I wrote a clone of such a
> > command (and then all tests passed), but would it be possible to have
> > any non-standard commands as part of the distribution in the future?
> 
> What should be used instead of mktemp?

I have no idea.  Why do you need it at all?

> If I understand well you did a 
> 
>   ./configure --prefix d:/usr
> 
> and then
> 
>   make install-strip prefix=d:/usr/test

Yes.

> Indeed, the paths where texi2any searches for the modules are set up
> according to what was passed to ./configure.  But I can't see an obvious
> way to do otherwise.  Do you suggest that during install paths should be
> substituted as opposed as during build?

No, I suggest that the files are searched relative to where texi2any
is installed.  Which, I understand you already did.