Re: [PATCH] {maint} Improve, extend and tweak tests on Texinfo support.

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Stefano,

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 02:38:48PM CET:
> From f236e0eb21df62ff4e5c01ecfaefe75d2e3d3d9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 02:56:35 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] Improve, extend and tweak tests on Texinfo support.
> 
> * tests/instdir-texi.test: Add a call to `ls -l' after that to
> `make', for debugging.  When looking for required tools, do not
> redirect the output of "$tool --help" to /dev/null, and do not
> uselessly run it in a subshell.
> * tests/txinfo.test: Rewritten to run autoconf, ./configure and
> make.  All checks moved into Makefile.am.
> * tests/txinfo8.test: Likewise, and modernize the generated
> configure.in.
[...]

This patch has caused a couple of regressions, txinfo.test and
txinfo8.test now fail when makeinfo is not found.  See here:
<http://hydra.nixos.org/build/856303/log/raw>
How about not requiring makeinfo in these tests?

Thanks,
Ralf