Changeset 8790467

Timestamp:

03/17/2024 09:13:36 PM (3 months ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@…>

Branches:

ken/TL2024, lazarus, trunk

Children:

2e099a8

Parents:

0c60ebd9

Message:

texlive - document why psutils test fails.

File:

• pst/typesetting/texlive.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

pst/typesetting/texlive.xml

@@ -286 +286 @@
     <para>
       To test the results, issue: <command>make -k check</command>.
-      <!-- It started to fail with libpaper-2.0.10 which rounds differently
-           in the 6th place of decimals, causing diff to fail -->
-      Two tests, <filename>psutils.test</filename> and
-      <!-- Upstream say that encoding conversion procedure Encode::from_to()
-      failed in fn-generate.perl, test now skips if that errors: possibly
-      related to changes in perl-5.36 since I understand current slackware
-      also sees this - ken -->
-      <filename>eptexdir/wcfname.test</filename> are known to fail.
+      <!-- https://github.com/rrthomas/libpaper/issues/43 -->
+      One test <filename>psutils.test</filename> is known to fail if
+      using system libpaper because TeX Live includes old versions of both
+      <application>psutils</application> and <application>libpaper</application>
+      which result in a difference in the final decimal places of the psresize
+      test. The <application>libpaper</application> developer does not think
+      this is significant.
     </para>
 
@@ -301 +300 @@
 
 <!-- Editors, you can run 'make texlinks' in a DESTDIR by passing
-DESTDIR#some/where -->
+DESTDIR=some/where -->
 <screen role="root"><userinput>make install-strip &amp;&amp;
 make texlinks      &amp;&amp;