Re: Texinfo 7.2.90 build with mingw.org's MinGW: testing

> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:54:32 +0100
> From: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
> 
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 03:48:19PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 
> >      FAIL: test_scripts/formatting_reuse_macro_expand_file.sh
> > 
> > The first one has its diffs say just this:
> > 
> >   -texi2any: warning: overwriting file: formatting/out_parser/reuse_macro_expand_file/simplest.info
> > 
> > IOW, this warning was expected, but was missing.  I see that this
> > warning comes from texi2any.c:merge_opened_files, but I don't know how
> > to investigate the reason(s) -- any hints?
> 
> First thing to do would be to go to tta/tests and run the test script to
> see if there is something wrong in the texi2any.pl call command line.
> It is possible, because this test is specified by:
> 
>   reuse_macro_expand_file simplest.texi --macro-expand=@[email protected]
> 
> and @OUT_DIR@ should be substituted by
> formatting/out_parser/reuse_macro_expand_file/
> but something may have gone wrong there.
> 
> To run that test, simply call, in tta/tests: 
> ./test_scripts/formatting_reuse_macro_expand_file.sh
> 
> I show below the output of such a call, you can see the command-line
> used to call texi2any.pl, this would be the first thing to check.
> 
> For me, the output is:
> 
> testdir: formatting
> driving_file: ./formatting/list-of-tests
> made result dir: ./formatting/res_parser/
> 
> doing test reuse_macro_expand_file, src_file ./formatting/simplest.texi
> format_option: 
> perl/texi2any.pl reuse_macro_expand_file -> formatting/out_parser/reuse_macro_expand_file
>  /usr/bin/perl -w ./..//perl/texi2any.pl  --force --conf-dir ./../perl/t/init/ --conf-dir ./../perl/init --conf-dir ./../perl/ext -I ./formatting -I formatting/ -I ./ -I . -I built_input -I built_input/non_ascii --error-limit=1000 -c TEST=2  --output formatting/out_parser/reuse_macro_expand_file/ --macro-expand=formatting/out_parser/reuse_macro_expand_file/simplest.info ./formatting/simplest.texi > formatting/out_parser/reuse_macro_expand_file/simplest.1 2>formatting/out_parser/reuse_macro_expand_file/simplest.2
> 
> all done, exiting with status 0

Here's my output:

  $ ./test_scripts/formatting_reuse_macro_expand_file.sh
  D: formatting/diffs/reuse_macro_expand_file.diff (printed below)
  diff --strip-trailing-cr -a -u --strip-trailing-cr -r ./formatting/res_parser/reuse_macro_expand_file/simplest.2 formatting/out_parser/reuse_macro_expand_file/simplest.2
  --- ./formatting/res_parser/reuse_macro_expand_file/simplest.2  2026-01-02 00:38:09 +0200
  +++ formatting/out_parser/reuse_macro_expand_file/simplest.2    2026-01-17 12:27:21 +0200
  @@ -1 +0,0 @@
  -texi2any: warning: overwriting file: formatting/out_parser/reuse_macro_expand_file/simplest.info
  D: formatting/diffs/reuse_macro_expand_file.diff (printed above)
  testdir: formatting
  driving_file: ./formatting/list-of-tests
  made result dir: ./formatting/res_parser/

  doing test reuse_macro_expand_file, src_file ./formatting/simplest.texi
  format_option:
  perl/texi2any.pl reuse_macro_expand_file -> formatting/out_parser/reuse_macro_expand_file
   /d/usr/Perl/bin/perl -w ./..//perl/texi2any.pl  --force --conf-dir ./../perl/t/init/ --conf-dir ./../perl/init --conf-dir ./../perl/ext -I ./formatting -I formatting/ -I ./ -I . -I built_input -I built_input/non_ascii --error-limit=1000 -c TEST=1  --output formatting/out_parser/reuse_macro_expand_file/ --macro-expand=formatting/out_parser/reuse_macro_expand_file/simplest.info ./formatting/simplest.texi > formatting/out_parser/reuse_macro_expand_file/simplest.1 2>formatting/out_parser/reuse_macro_expand_file/simplest.2

  all done, exiting with status 1

AFAICT, the only differences are:

  . I get diffs, whereas you don't
  . in my case the command says TEST=1, not TEST=2
  . the exit status is 1 and not 0

Does this give any clues as to what is going on?