Today I did the exercise of running ./configure, make and then make check. The abbreviated output from make check was:
============================================================================ Testsuite summary for GNU Texinfo 5.2 ============================================================================ # TOTAL: 53 # PASS: 51 # SKIP: 0 # XFAIL: 0 # FAIL: 2 # XPASS: 0 # ERROR: 0 ============================================================================ See install-info/tests/test-suite.log Please report to [email protected] ============================================================================ make[4]: *** [test-suite.log] Error 1 make[3]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 2 make[2]: *** [check-am] Error 2 make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1 I can supply "install-info/tests/test-suite.log" separately. I then used the newly created "ginstall-info", as follows: bash-3.2$ /Users/alanwehmann/Downloads/texinfo-5.2/install-info/ginstall-info --debug tar.info dir debug: reading dir file dir debug: reading input file tar.info Abort trap: 6 bash-3.2$ pwd /Users/alanwehmann/Downloads/tar-1.28/doc I did all of this in the Emacs shell buffer. I have tested running of "install-info" in the terminal window on my Mac & that gave a similar result, so the limitations of the shell buffer versus a terminal window make no difference. Alan Wehmann [email protected] On Oct 30, 2015, at 6:11 PM, Karl Berry <[email protected]> wrote: * Tar: (tar). Making tape (or disk) archives. The node name is missing (after the closing parenthesis), which is allowed, although less common. Hmm. It's standard practice for dir file entries, as far as I can see (not counting "Individual utilities"). Maybe the second set of parens causes the error, although I see that coreutils, gzip, bison, and others also have that, so probably not. E.g., * Coreutils: (coreutils). Core GNU (file, text, shell) utilities. The other weird thing is that i-i has extensive tests. I'm surprised the problem was not found there. If it wasn't, another test should be added. Alan, did you run make check? k
