03/07: gnu: commencement: Disable Texinfo tests during bootstrap.

[Ludovic Courtès]

civodul pushed a commit to branch core-updates
in repository guix.

commit 5d6c4d3794b8c77effcd9eeab22adc4e2c0d2c24
Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
Date:   Wed Apr 6 22:22:36 2016 +0200

    gnu: commencement: Disable Texinfo tests during bootstrap.
    
    * gnu/packages/commencement.scm (texinfo-boot0): Add #:tests? #f.
---
 gnu/packages/commencement.scm |    7 ++++++-
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/commencement.scm b/gnu/packages/commencement.scm
index 6dfe5c9..59a7c77 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/commencement.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/commencement.scm
@@ -306,7 +306,12 @@
   ;; Also, use %BOOT0-INPUTS to avoid building Perl once more.
   (let ((texinfo (package (inherit texinfo)
                    (native-inputs '())
-                   (inputs `(("perl" ,perl-boot0))))))
+                   (inputs `(("perl" ,perl-boot0)))
+
+                   ;; Some of Texinfo 6.1's tests would fail with "Couldn't
+                   ;; set UTF-8 character type in locale" but we don't have a
+                   ;; UTF-8 locale at this stage, so skip them.
+                   (arguments '(#:tests? #f)))))
     (package-with-bootstrap-guile
      (package-with-explicit-inputs texinfo %boot0-inputs
                                    (current-source-location)