Gavin Smith wrote:
On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 12:22:33PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
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
I don't understand how that is possible as
"chmod +x texindex" is hard-coded in the Makefile.
VPATH can bring along quite a bit of magic in some makes. From
(make)Missing:
* In System V and 4.3 BSD `make', files found by `VPATH' search
(*note Searching Directories for Prerequisites: Directory Search.)
have their names changed inside command strings. We feel it is
much cleaner to always use automatic variables and thus make this
feature obsolete.
-- Jacob
