Re: Tests fail - $format_indices_sorted_sort_strings not defined

Patrice Dumas <[email protected]> Mon, 6 Jul 2026 00:24:21 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, Jul 05, 2026 at 10:28:13PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
> Tested commit: 5d6dcdd507ecd7e (today's date)
> 
> "make check" currently fails under tta/:
> 
> ke[3]: Entering directory '/home/g/src/texinfo/GIT/tta/perl'
> make[4]: Entering directory '/home/g/src/texinfo/GIT/tta/perl'
> ERROR: t/02coverage.t - missing test plan
> ERROR: t/02coverage.t - exited with status 255 (terminated by signal 127?)
> ERROR: t/03coverage_braces.t - missing test plan
> ERROR: t/03coverage_braces.t - exited with status 255 (terminated by signal 127?)
> ERROR: t/04verb.t - missing test plan
> ERROR: t/04verb.t - exited with status 255 (terminated by signal 127?)
> 
> Running just one of the tests gives an error message about an undefined
> variable:
> 
> $ perl -w t/02coverage.t
> Global symbol "$format_indices_sorted_sort_strings" requires explicit package name (did you forget to declare "my $format_indices_sorted_sort_strings"?) at t//../../perl/t/test_utils.pl line 1185.
> Compilation failed in require at t/02coverage.t line 6.
> 
> This appears to have been introduced recently.

Just fixed it, for some reason I had not tested, normally I always
test...

Thanks for the report.

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Pat