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
