On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 10:21:01PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 20:43:45 +0200 > > From: Patrice Dumas <pertu...@free.fr> > > > That's most probably the side effect of using Cygwin tools again: the > native port of info cannot run many of the tests because the test rig > uses features not supported by native Windows programs (emulation of > terminals and other such stuff). When running the tests with MSYS, > the test suite detects that and skips those tests, but since you run > them with Cygwin, I'm guessing that the way the test suite detects > Windows ports fails for some reason. > > My records from running the test suite in Texinfo-7.1 indicate that 56 > of the info tests were skipped, whereas above you say that none were > skipped. So I'm quite sure this is the reason.
Ok, thanks. I'll try to find a way to have the info tests similarily skipped for cygwin and MSYS/mingw. I am pretty sure that it is already done that way in some places in the code where both mingw and cygwin are treated the same. -- Pat
