Hi Bertrand, Excellent to see you back! Please excuse the GMail-compromised response, but I wanted to venture a guess about the test failures you're seeing, in hopes I can hasten the problem toward resolution.
On Sat, Apr 23, 2022, 11:10 Bertrand Garrigues < bertrand.garrig...@laposte.net> wrote: > Hi Branden, > > On Fri, Apr 22 2022 at 01:30:54 AM, "G. Branden Robinson" < > g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > Just wanted to advise that I'll be traveling for a few days so my usual > > periodic burst of commits to groff Git's repo will be delayed. > > > > I'm attaching the work that I have pending, in the event I should be > > eaten by a grue and don't return. :P It's just a snapshot; usually > > these things see some rebasing and modification before a real push. > > > > These are all/mostly documentation fix-ups; when I return I want to > > continue the build tidying process as the slog toward 1.23.0.rc2 > > continues. > > I had a little bit of time to test; I see 3 fails (I'm testing on > Archlinux) that block the release: > > FAIL: tmac/tests/e_chapter-titles-work.sh > FAIL: tmac/tests/e_ld-works.sh > FAIL: tmac/tests/localization-works.sh > > For the 1st one we try to do: > > grep -Fqx '$C: "Chapter" "1" "The Boy Sickens"' > > however the output I have is: > > $C: \$@ $C: \$@ $C: \$@ Chapter 1 The Boy Sickens Chapter 2 The Boy > Dies Appendix A Pathology of Boy Aged 11 Years > > I haven't checked the 2 other ones yet. > Something all 3 of these tests have in common is that they populate a shell variable with embedded multiple backslashes, then pass that variable (double-quoted) as an argument to 'echo'. It might be necessary to use printf(1) here instead. > Probably need to bite the bullet and update the gnulib submodule to > > something relatively current. Bjarni has I think already tried this; if > > someone else would like to give it a spin, too, I'd appreciate it. > > I've updated the gnulib to their latest sha and updated our bootstrap > script, no issue, so it's on master now. > Thank you! Regards, Branden (without ready access to his GPG key)