Re: [GNU texinfo 6.5] testsuite: all tests failed

[William Li]

Sorry, I should have sent the log.

However, it seems that you're right. It was probably Perl warning that failed the check suite. Everything went well with Texinfo 6.6. I should bring this up to the LFS team.

Building TexInfo 6.6 solved the problem.

I guess you won't need the logs since Perl was the issue.

Thanks for your help.

Sincerely

William.

Gavin Smith <address@hidden> 于2019年3月10日周日 上午10:29写道：

On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 03:55:31AM -0600, William Li wrote:
> To GNU Texinfo Bug Team,
>
> I am using Linux From Scratch 8.3. In chapter 5.32, I ran the test suite
> and all 172 tests failed. To my knowledge, all preceding instructions
> should have been executed correctly.
>
> In order to reproduce the bug, no input file is needed. I have carried out
> all steps indicated by the LFS 8.3 book before chapter 5.32. I issued
> exactly these four commands for chapter 5.32.
> (working directory is inside texinfo-6.5, the unpacked tarball)
> ./configure --prefix=/tools
> make
> make check
> I skipped the installing of texinfo since make check was errorneous.
>
> Please notify me for workarounds to this problem. I'll just skip installing
> texinfo for now.

I can't suggest workarounds without more information.  Could you send
the contents of tp/tests/test-suite.log?  Any failures should lead to a
line beginning with "D:" in that file which is followed by the name of a
file that shows why the test failed.  For example,

D: layout//diffs/formatting.diff

would mean there is a file tp/tests/layout/diffs/formatting.diff.  Could
you have a look at some of those files too?

If I had to guess, it is probably a Perl warning message that is being
output and leading to test failures.  There were changes in Perl that
were incompatible with Texinfo 6.5.  Maybe you could Texinfo 6.6 where
these issues have been fixed.