GNU bug report logs - #29188
texi2dvi usage doesn't work with <texinfo-4.9

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From: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org>
To: Barry Anderson <z3ndrag0n <at> me.com>
Cc: 29188 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29188: Test suite failures on macOS High Sierra 10.13
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2018 03:36:36 +0100

Hello,

Barry Anderson <z3ndrag0n <at> me.com> writes:

> FAIL: t/distcheck-override-infodir
> ==================================
>
> distcheck-override-infodir: running makeinfo --version
> makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.8

All the build failures are related to the same issue caused by some
command line handling from this old 'texi2dvi' script (released in 2005)

> make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> TEXINPUTS="../..:$TEXINPUTS" \
> 	MAKEINFO='/bin/sh /Users/bwa/Downloads/automake-1.15.1/t/distcheck-override-infodir.dir/distcheck-override-infodir-1.0/missing makeinfo   -I ../..' \
> 	texi2dvi  --build-dir=main.t2d -o main.dvi  \
> 	../../main.texi
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: Can't use option `--output' with more than one argument.

Since the behavior has been fixed in more recent texinfo releases, I am
not sure how to properly handle this for now.  More investigation would
be needed. 

Thanks for the report.

-- 
Mathieu Lirzin
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