Re: [FYI] {maint} tests: work around a texi+cygnus bug causing a spurious XFAIL

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Tuesday 11 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hi Stefano,
> 
> * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 01:30:28PM CET:
> > I've applied the patch below to maint as obvious, merged maint
> > into master, and pushed.
> 
> Obvious to you maybe, but not obvious to me.
>
Sorry.

> What is the bug you are working around?
>
When in cygnus mode, $(MAKEINFO) is redefined by lib/am/texinfos.am
(after being already AC_SUBST'd by AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE), which causes an
'override' warning.  While this is a real bug, it was masking the
"real" checks in txinfo5.test ("texinfo.tex is not required in cygnus
mode, even when info_TEXINFOS is defined").

> And if there was an XFAIL before, wouldn't there be an XPASS now?
>
No, I left the old test in place to avoid removing exposure for the
(still unfixed) bug described above.  The workaround is in the new
test `txinfo5b.test' only.

> Thank you,
> Ralf
>

I hope I've made myself clearer now.

Regards,
  Stefano