> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:26:38 GMT > From: [email protected] (Karl Berry) > > Finally, the first pretest for the next Texinfo release is available: > > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.13.90.tar.xz > http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.13.90.tar.xz
I've built this using MinGW. See my other mail about the changes I needed for that to work. After building, I tried "make check". This failed in every single test script (at least the first 40, when I lost patience and interrupted the run). The reason seems to be that the test suite requires a non-standard 'mktemp' command. I wrote a clone of such a command (and then all tests passed), but would it be possible to have any non-standard commands as part of the distribution in the future? My next gripe is about the new makeinfo: it seems to be built to only work from the configured --prefix directory. I did make install-strip prefix=d:/usr/test just to test the new version, but makeinfo refused to work from there, saying: Can't locate Texinfo/Convert/Texinfo.pm in @INC (@INC contains: D:\usr\share\texinfo D:/usr/lib D:/usr/site/lib .) at D:\usr\test\bin\\makeinfo line 128. (D:/usr is the value of --prefix with which I configured the package.) Is there any workaround for this? On MS-Windows, it is very customary to install precompiled binary distributions without building them. Since there's no standard /usr/local/ tree on Windows, end users install the packages in all kinds of places, and expect them to "just work". Is there a way of "relocating" the built package so that its root is not where --prefix said? If not, would it be possible to provide such a way in future pretests? If the package is not relocatable, I'm afraid it will be hated by Windows users. TIA
