Texinfo 4.13.91 on Solaris 9 with perl 5.6 (was: texinfo-4.13.91 pretest available)

2012-11-27 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 11/27/2012 02:13 AM, Karl Berry wrote: I've put up the next pretest: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.13.91.tar.xz http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.13.91.tar.xz Same deal as before, please send any feedback here, to bug-texinfo. I'm seeing this error trying to

Re: Texinfo 4.13.91 on Solaris 9 with perl 5.6

2012-11-27 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 11/27/2012 10:33 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Perl version is 5.6.1. Then, looking at http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/DANKOGAI/Encode-2.47/Encode/README.e2x I see: DEPENDENCIES This module requires perl version 5.7.3 or later. So the new Texinfo is not going to work

Re: texinfo-4.13.91 pretest available

2012-11-27 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Is there interest to bomb you with bugs in the info viewer? (that are still present, like some misplaced cursors, or remaining droppings - incomplete redraws, ...) I use info all the time! Actually, it's my preferred `browser' for reading info documents. So yes, I'm interested in getting

Re: texinfo-4.13.91 pretest available

2012-11-27 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 08:57:43PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: Hi Karl, hi all, On Di, 27 Nov 2012, Karl Berry wrote: http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.13.91.tar.xz Short sucess story: I have uploaded 4.13.91 (debian release -1) to Debian/experimental, and it has been

Re: texinfo-4.13.91 pretest available

2012-11-27 Thread Norbert Preining
On Di, 27 Nov 2012, Patrice Dumas wrote: Did you run the tests as part of the build? No. Here on my computer I run it maually, though, and get all PASS or SKIP (a few tests are skipped). My feeling (but not tried) is that in the minimal environment of Debian build-daemons there will be quite

Re: Texinfo 4.13.91 on Solaris 9 with perl 5.6 (was: texinfo-4.13.91 pretest available)

2012-11-27 Thread Karl Berry
Karl, what would you prefer? I'm not sure I fully understand the choices. I intentionally made the Texinfo build create the info files for the Texinfo manuals, because if the newly-built Texinfo can't even manage to do that, what good is it? Pregenerating the info files would just paper

[bug #37822] incomplete redraw - droppings on screen

2012-11-27 Thread Norbert Preining
URL: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?37822 Summary: incomplete redraw - droppings on screen Project: texinfo - GNU documentation system Submitted by: norbusan Submitted on: Wed 28 Nov 2012 12:30:13 AM GMT Category: info

[bug #37823] Search prompt cursor wrongly positioned

2012-11-27 Thread Norbert Preining
URL: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?37823 Summary: Search prompt cursor wrongly positioned Project: texinfo - GNU documentation system Submitted by: norbusan Submitted on: Wed 28 Nov 2012 12:33:09 AM GMT Category: info

Re: texinfo-4.13.91 pretest available

2012-11-27 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 07:55:12AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: On Di, 27 Nov 2012, Patrice Dumas wrote: Did you run the tests as part of the build? No. Here on my computer I run it maually, though, and get all PASS or SKIP (a few tests are skipped). My feeling (but not tried) is that

Re: Texinfo 4.13.91 on Solaris 9 with perl 5.6 (was: texinfo-4.13.91 pretest available)

2012-11-27 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:02:44AM +, Karl Berry wrote: Karl, what would you prefer? I'm not sure I fully understand the choices. In fact, what I have in mind (but it may make no sense) was to allow to build texinfo without ever running the perl programs being built. One could even

Re: texinfo-4.13.91 pretest available

2012-11-27 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Patrice, thanks for your email! On Mi, 28 Nov 2012, Patrice Dumas wrote: all the dependencies. Actually it looks like Unicode::EastAsianWidth is not packaged in debian, I guess the internal copy is used. The Yes, I call --with-system-... only for the other two, this one is not in

Re: texinfo-4.13.91 pretest available

2012-11-27 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mi, 28 Nov 2012, Norbert Preining wrote: I guess I will activate that by default and let us see how the build daemons crumble ... at least we get some reports what needs to be fixed ;-) Done that now, new version -2 which runs all checks during build uploaded to Debian/experimental, will