Re: texinfo-5.9.90 pretest available

[Ken Brown]

On 2/24/2015 12:55 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 2/24/2015 11:39 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Next, "make check" fails because info/pseudotty.c cannot be possibly
> > compiled on Windows (and I'm not sure how portable it is to Posix
> > platforms, either).
>
> It compiles on Cygwin but apparently doesn't work the way it should. All
> the interactive tests either hang or time out.  I ended up editing
> info/Makefile.am and removing all the interactive tests, so that I could
> run "make check".
>
> I then found quite a few tests that failed, but I haven't yet had a
> chance to look into these failures.

I've now looked at the test failures, and most of them are in tp/tests 
and are due to the fact that I was using an out-of-tree build.  If you 
look at line 24 of tp/tests/test_scripts/formatting_texi_glossary.sh, 
for example, it calls ../"$srcdir"/"$command", which is not likely to 
exist if $srcdir is an absolute path (and in any case is not the right 
directory).

The remaining test failures are in install-info/tests, and are ii-0041, 
ii-0050, and ii-0054.  These are the ones that involve a gzipped dir 
file.  In all three cases the failure was

  gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file

Could the problem be the one discussed here?


http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/164870/why-i-get-unexpected-end-of-file-in-my-script-when-using-gzip

Ken