Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Eric Bavier <ericbavier@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>>
>>> As a stop-gap measure, I’ve worked around the problem in commit d759cf6,
>>> which removes the dependency from texinfo to gettext.
>>>
>>> (Éric: I see one test failure in texi2html, which is a priori unrelated
>>> to the change.  Could you check what’s going on?)
>>
>> The problem is that texi2html does actually require gettext.
>
> No, it really only needed it because texi2html.pl was modified by the
> patch, which triggered a rule to re-compute PO files.

After reseting the timestamp, the makefile still wants to run msgexec
for some reason. This doesn't appear to be fatal...

> I just tried with current master with #:tests? #f, and it does pass.

Yes, with #:tests? #f it builds succesfully; I did not try that.  It
appears the resulting texi2html tool is even functional::

  $ /gnu/store/...-texi2html/bin/texi2html doc/guix.texi
  $ echo $?
  0a

> Perhaps that’s an intermittent test failure?  Can you reproduce it?

The test failures are reproducible on my end.  The attached patch allows
the tests to run successfully.  Let me know if this seems like a
reasonable solution.