Re: texinfo-7.2.90 on GNU/Hurd

Bruno Haible via Bug reports for the GNU Texinfo documentation system <[email protected]> Sun, 18 Jan 2026 12:11:11 +0100

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Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > On Debian 13 GNU/Hurd x86_64 I see 4 test failures:
> > 
> > FAIL: test_scripts/formatting_documentlanguage_cmdline.sh
> > FAIL: test_scripts/layout_formatting_fr.sh
> > FAIL: test_scripts/layout_formatting_fr_info.sh
> > FAIL: test_scripts/layout_formatting_fr_icons.sh
> 
> I setup a VM and could not reproduce these failures.  One possible issue
> could be that there are no locales at all in your host, maybe?

Oh, indeed: In my VM, there is no French locale.

  $ locale -a
  C
  C.utf8
  POSIX

I guess the desired outcome in this situation is that the 4 tests get
SKIPed, not FAIL ?

Bruno