> https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-6.7.90.tar.xz
A VPATH build on Solaris 10, with Solaris 'make', fails during "make check": Making check in texindex make check-TESTS FAIL: tests/ti-helpversion.sh Why is that? Because the 'texindex' script is not executable. How come that the 'texindex' script is not executable? The Makefile has built the 'texindex' script like this: Making all in texindex sed -e 's,[@]pkgdatadir[@],/home/haible/prefix-sparc64/share/texinfo,g' -e 's,[@]TI_AWK[@],awk,g' -e 's,[@]PACKAGE[@],texinfo,g' -e 's,[@][@]*VERSION[@][@]*,6.7.90,g' <../../texindex/texindex.in >texindex chmod +x ../../texindex/texindex As you can see, it has added the execution permission to 'texindex' in the source dir, not to 'texindex' in the build dir. If I remove the 'texindex' in the source dir, then the Makefile rule executes as expected: Making all in texindex sed -e 's,[@]pkgdatadir[@],/home/haible/prefix-sparc64/share/texinfo,g' -e 's,[@]TI_AWK[@],awk,g' -e 's,[@]PACKAGE[@],texinfo,g' -e 's,[@][@]*VERSION[@][@]*,6.7.90,g' <../../texindex/texindex.in >texindex chmod +x texindex So, the cause is that an autogenerated and platform-dependent 'texindex' script was included in the tarball. Removing it from the tarball will fix the issue. Bruno
