Andrew Ford wrote:
> Dave Cross wrote:
>
>> Andrew Ford wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> * fixed some of the tests that were failing if the dvitype program was
>>> not installed (now just skips those tests)
>>>
>>>
>> This fix doesn't seem to be working on Linux. There's something strange
>> about your TAP output - multiple plans from one test file.
>>
>> Let me know if there's anything I can do to help you fix this. I'd like
>> to start using it.
>>
>>
> I'll revisit those test scripts. What was happening was that some
> platforms seem to have TeX installed but do not have the dvitype program
> installed (or at least not in a directory on $ENV{PATH}). The test
> scripts use dvitype to extract text from the DVI files for comparison.
> I didn't want to fail on platforms without dvitype so I checked for the
> presence of the program in the test scripts and issued a "plan skip_all"
> (using Test::More). Looks like I can just invoke the skip_all()
> function from Template::Test.
>
> I'll put out an updated release this evening.
>
>
And indeed I have. Version 3.02 should skip tests gracefully if dvitype
is not installed (although "make test" will report "skipped: (no reason
given)" due to an incompatibility between Template::Test and TAP, as
reported on this list earlier this evening).
A bit of background: the test scripts use dvitype to extract text from
the generated (binary) dvi files and compare that with expected text. I
understand that Fedora includes dvitype in the texlive-dviutils package,
which may not be installed on some tester platforms that do have
texlive. TeX itself includes very rigorous tests to ensure that a given
input will always produce the expected typeset output, so if the other
tests indicate that LaTeX::Driver is generating the expected output
files, and the full test suite is running successfully on platforms that
do have dvitype, then I am quite confident that those platforms without
dvitype will behave the same as those with.
Andrew
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