Re: tests: avoid new failures due to nonexistent makeinfo.

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 12:05:33PM CET:
> I have serious doubts about this patch ...
> 
> On Sunday 16 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > http://hydra.nixos.org/build/858836/log/raw and other logs show new
> > testsuite failures of txinfo.test and txinfo8.test:
> > 

> > I'm pushing the fix below to tests-texinfo and merging to maint.

> >     tests: avoid new failures due to nonexistent makeinfo.
> >     
> >     * tests/txinfo.test, tests/txinfo8.test: Create stub info files
> >     so 'missing --run makeinfo' won't fail even if makeinfo is not
> >     present.

> Wait, wait, how can that happen?  Currently, due to a patch I've
> applied Thursday (based on a report of yours, and committed as
> v1.11-264-g21fec67), 'txinfo.tex' *requires* makeinfo, while
> 'txinfo8.tex' already creates textutils.info (and ensures it's
> newer than textutils.texi, so that make won't try to rebuild it
> with "missing --run makeinfo" or similar).

Ouch.  I actually had a vague memory of something like this, but then I
couldn't find the patch that fixed this, and saw the log from yesterday
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/858836/
I somehow figured the bug wasn't fixed after all.

The underlying reason is that we haven't merged maint to branch-1.11 and
master since.

Apologies.  I am going to revert my patch and do the merges.

Thanks for spotting this,
Ralf