Re: Texinfo 7.1.90 on Solaris 11 OmniOS

[Gavin Smith]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 10:37:51PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> On Solaris 11 OmniOS, there is 1 test failure:
> 
> 
> FAIL: test_scripts/encoded_non_ascii_test_epub.sh
> =================================================
> 
> D: encoded/diffs/non_ascii_test_epub.diff (printed below)
> Common subdirectories: 
> ../../../tp/tests/encoded/res_parser/non_ascii_test_epub/osé_utf8_epub_package
>  and encoded/out_parser/non_ascii_test_epub/osé_utf8_epub_package
> Common subdirectories: 
> ../../../tp/tests/encoded/res_parser/non_ascii_test_epub/osé_utf8_epub_package/EPUB
>  and encoded/out_parser/non_ascii_test_epub/osé_utf8_epub_package/EPUB
> Common subdirectories: 
> ../../../tp/tests/encoded/res_parser/non_ascii_test_epub/osé_utf8_epub_package/META-INF
>  and encoded/out_parser/non_ascii_test_epub/osé_utf8_epub_package/META-INF
> Only in 
> ../../../tp/tests/encoded/res_parser/non_ascii_test_epub/osé_utf8_epub_package/EPUB:
>  0

Thanks for running the tests.  This appears to be a similar error to
that which you reported earlier for Solaris 11 OmniOS for an earlier
version of the code, Texinfo pretest 7.1.0.90, with an extra "0" file
being created:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2024-06/msg00027.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2024-06/msg00028.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2024-06/msg00044.html

We never managed to solve this mystery at the time.  The string "0"
can be a source of bugs in Perl programs as it is considered false.
It's possible that there is a variable that is supposed to have the
name of a file in it, but instead is false or has the value 0, which
is then changed into a string automatically.  It seems like something
that it would be fairly straightforward to track down for someone with
access to such a system.