Re: textinfo-6.8: Test failing

[Gavin Smith]

On Sun, Jul 04, 2021 at 10:34:23AM +0100, Chris Clayton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to build the latest texinfo release. The compile/link phase ends 
> OK, but make test fails thusly:
> 
> SKIP: test_scripts/tex_html_math_not_closed.sh
> SKIP: test_scripts/tex_html_tex_not_closed.sh
> PASS: test_scripts/layout_formatting_html_nodes.sh
> SKIP: test_scripts/tex_html_tex_in_copying.sh
> PASS: test_scripts/layout_formatting_weird_quotes.sh
> SKIP: test_scripts/tex_html_formatting_singular.sh
> PASS: test_scripts/layout_formatting_html.sh
> PASS: test_scripts/layout_formatting_exotic.sh
> PASS: test_scripts/layout_formatting_mathjax.sh
> PASS: test_scripts/layout_formatting_regions.sh
> PASS: test_scripts/layout_formatting_html32.sh
> PASS: test_scripts/layout_formatting_chm.sh
> FAIL: test_scripts/layout_formatting_fr_icons.sh
> PASS: test_scripts/layout_formatting_nodes.sh
> PASS: test_scripts/layout_formatting.sh
> ============================================================================
> Testsuite summary for GNU Texinfo 6.8
> ============================================================================
> # TOTAL: 106
> # PASS:  88
> # SKIP:  17
> # XFAIL: 0
> # FAIL:  1
> # XPASS: 0
> # ERROR: 0
> ============================================================================
> See tp/tests/test-suite.log
> Please report to bug-texinfo@gnu.org
> ============================================================================
> 
> 

That test has been a cause of a lot of failures.  Could you check what
locales are installed on your system and send the results, e.g. by running
"locale" and "locale -a".  The test needs to switch to a particular locale
for translations of document strings to work as the gettext implementation
doesn't translate strings in some locales (the C and/or POSIX locales I
recall).