On a system where man and notmuch are both already installed, i tried to ./configure --without-docs to avoid the delays during development associated with id:87r29wwgq2....@fifthhorseman.net.
The configuration succeeds, but now these tests fail:
0 dkg@alice:~/src/notmuch/notmuch$ make check NOTMUCH_TESTS=T010-help-test.sh
V=1
Missing sphinx or makeinfo, not building info pages
INFO: using 2 minute timeout for tests
T010-help-test: Testing online help
PASS notmuch --help
PASS notmuch help
PASS notmuch --version
FAIL notmuch --help tag (man pages not available)
test_must_fail notmuch --help tag >/dev/null
FAIL notmuch help tag (man pages not available)
test_must_fail notmuch help tag >/dev/null
Notmuch test suite complete.
3/5 tests passed.
2 tests failed.
make: *** [test/Makefile.local:75: test] Error 1
[1]+ Done gitk --all
2 dkg@alice:~/src/notmuch/notmuch$
It seems likely that they're "failing to fail" because the main system
i'm building on has both notmuch and man installed -- so maybe the
locally-built notmuch is successfully opening the manual pages from the
system instead of the development manpages.
I did a bit of digging to try to understand the issue, and noticed that
the comments about test_must_fail in test/test-lib.sh seem out of date
(they assume two arguments instead of one, and they refer to their
earlier provenance in git, rather than notmuch). But i think the
problem isn't with test_must_fail itself, even though the function's
documentation appears to be out of date.
--dkg
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