Re: texinfo-4.13.93 pretest available

[Patrice Dumas]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 12:16:31AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 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?

They may be used to check for regressions.  But one should regenerate
the results first.

> > 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:

Yes, the following one:

>   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"?

Karl?

> 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.

Most of the makeinfo/texi2any features are untested if you don't run tp/
tests, as the bulk of the tests are done there.  The "normal" tests in
tp/tests only test for features that requires running the command (such
as command line options).

-- 
Pat