Re: texinfo-6.1.90 pretest

[Gavin Smith]

On 15 August 2016 at 02:54, Assaf Gordon <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>> On Aug 13, 2016, at 07:28, Gavin Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> The first pretest for the next Texinfo release has been uploaded to
>>
>> http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-6.1.90.tar.xz
>> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-6.1.90.tar.xz
>>
>> Please send bug reports and general feedback to address@hidden
>
> On various Mac OS X versions, 2 "install-info/tests" failed.
> Log below.

> +zdiff ../../install-info/tests/ii-0041-expected-dir-file.gz ii41-vWTpvt7p.gz
> /usr/bin/zdiff: line 49: setvar: command not found
> /usr/bin/zdiff: line 50: setvar: command not found
> /usr/bin/zdiff: line 49: setvar: command not found
> /usr/bin/zdiff: line 50: setvar: command not found
> Binary files ../../install-info/tests/ii-0041-expected-dir-file.gz and 
> ii41-vWTpvt7p.gz differ

Thanks for testing. Appears to be a zdiff issue. A Google search
brought me to this page:
https://github.com/lionheart/openradar-mirror/issues/1640 which has
the following text:

>the shell /bin/sh on OS X, is a link to /bin/bash, the GNU Bourne Again Shell 
>(GNU Bash-3.2). On FreeBSD /bin/sh's manpage states that it's version is the 
>rewritten version modeled after Bourne shell from AT&T System V Release 4 
>UNIX. FreeBSD's sh manpage reference a "setvar" command, where as GNU's BASH 
>does not.

If we want to stop this error, I think the way would be not to use
zdiff. Looking at the zdiff program installed on my system it looks
like quite a simple shell script and most of it is handling options
and help message text.