Re: multiple failures for info tests on cygwin

[Ken Brown]

On 9/21/2024 8:07 AM, Gavin Smith wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 21, 2024 at 12:10:33PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > This platform does not test the native Windows Info reader, it is the
> > cygwin info reader.  So these tests fail in a 'pure' Cygwin setup, there
> > is no mingw here, the comparison with mingw was in order to explain why
> > the tests are skipped with mingw (on MSYS or on Cygwin) and not on
> > 'pure' Cygwin.
>
> It's hard for me to know what the problem is without building on Cygwin
> myself, which I am not able or willing to do at the current time.  The
> log files you sent appear to show that the pseudotty program is built
> and used in the tests, but all the tests time out.
I'm Cygwin's Texinfo maintainer, and I have two comments about this thread.

1. According to the OP, these failures occurred on 32-bit Cygwin.  This 
platform has been unsupported by the Cygwin project for about 3 years. 
In particular, Cygwin will never provide recent Texinfo packages for the 
32-bit case, so I don't think the Texinfo maintainers should waste time 
worrying about this.

2. Cygwin provides its own build service (based on GitHub actions) for 
use by package maintainers.  When I've used this with recent versions of 
Texinfo, I have found that many tests fail; but they all pass when I run 
them locally.  I've never been able to figure out what's different about 
the GitHub actions setup that causes these failures, but I haven't 
worried about it since all tests pass on my system.

Ken