Re: texinfo-4.13.93 pretest available

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 22:54:13 +0100
> From: Patrice Dumas <address@hidden>
> 
> Indeed, it skips the long tests and the tests that requires latex2html
> or tex4ht and are not reproducible.
> 
> To run the long tests, you can launch the tests with
> 
>   make check ALL_TESTS=yes
> 
> I advise against running the latex2html/tex4ht related tests.

Then what's the purpose of having them in the distribution?

> But it also seems that the tests in tp/ were not run, I guess because
> you don't have the prerequisites.  This should be visible in the 
> configure output.

Is this that output:

  checking parser tests requirements... no
  checking Perl Texinfo API texinfo documentation build requirements... yes
  checking Pod::Simple::Texinfo tests requirements... no

If so, may I suggest that "no" be replaced with something like "no,
tests in tp/ will be skipped"?

Finally, a question: if those components are missing, what parts or
features of makeinfo or texi2any will be left untested?  (I'm trying
to figure out whether it's worth my while to install those missing
components.)  TIA.