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Re: texinfo10 prob
- From: Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g at lrde dot epita dot fr>
- To: Patrick Welche <prlw1 at newn dot cam dot ac dot uk>
- Cc: automake at gnu dot org
- Date: 25 Sep 2002 20:45:00 +0200
- Subject: Re: texinfo10 prob
- References: <20020925181619.A2331@quartz.newn.cam.ac.uk>
>>> "Patrick" == Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk> writes:
Patrick> On the computers without TeX installed, all tests pass
Patrick> fine, but the one with TeX hangs at
Patrick> PASS: texinfo10.test
Patrick> [1] + Stopped (tty input) gmake check
Patrick> (is it running texinfo10, or texinfo13?)
texinfo13
Patrick> apparently because it is running "tex --version". On
Patrick> my version of TeX, that gets:
Patrick> % tex --version
Patrick> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (C version 6.1)
Patrick> ! I can't find file `--version'.
Patrick> <*> --version
Patrick> Please type another input file name:
Patrick> so obviously it won't get very far ;)
Ouch! Ok, let's assume the worse (i.e., that "tex -version"
won't work either) and check for "tex" in configure.
I'm installing the following patch. Thanks for reporting this.
2002-09-25 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>
* configure.in: Check for 'tex'.
* tests/defs.in: Handle required=tex using configure's result.
Reported by Patrick Welche.
Index: configure.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/automake/automake/configure.in,v
retrieving revision 1.118
diff -u -r1.118 configure.in
--- configure.in 22 Sep 2002 15:06:44 -0000 1.118
+++ configure.in 25 Sep 2002 18:39:04 -0000
@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@
AC_MSG_ERROR([perl 5.005 or better is required])
}
+# The test suite will skip some tests if tex is absent.
+AC_CHECK_PROG([TEX], [tex], [tex])
+
# Test for Autoconf. We run Autoconf in a subdirectory to ease
# deletion of any files created (such as those added to
# autom4te.cache).
Index: tests/defs.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/automake/automake/tests/defs.in,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 defs.in
--- tests/defs.in 24 Sep 2002 08:05:58 -0000 1.3
+++ tests/defs.in 25 Sep 2002 18:39:06 -0000
@@ -102,6 +102,11 @@
rm -f $priv_check_temp
test $overwrite_status = 0 && exit 77
;;
+ tex)
+ # No all versions of Tex support `--version', so we use
+ # a configure check.
+ test -n "@TEX@" || exit 77
+ ;;
# Generic case: the tool must support --version.
*)
echo "$me: running $tool --version"
--
Alexandre Duret-Lutz