[tlbuild] Tests failing in texk/mendexk

[Peter Breitenlohner]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2014, Marc Baudoin wrote:

> I didn't had the opportunity to test a build with the recent
> changes to the source tree following the 2014 release.  Just
> tried tnight on NetBSD/amd64 and I got this error with tests in
> texk/mendexk:
>
> This is mendex version 2.6f [14-Aug-2009] (utf8.euc) (TeX Live 2014).
> Scanning input file ../../../texk/mendexk/tests/foo.idx....done (3 entries accepted, 0 rejected).
> 3 entries accepted, 0 rejected.
> Sorting index....done(0 comparisons).
> Sorting pages....done(4 comparisons).
> Making index file....done.
> 0 warnings, written in foo.ilg1.
> Output written in foo.ind1.
> 3c3
> <   \item foo, \mac{1}, 1
> ---
>>   \item foo,
>
> I don't think this is platform specific.  Anybody has the same
> error?

Hi Marc,

this could well be platform specific, so please supply as mant details as
possible, in particular
   your compilation or from the 2014 release
   if your compilation
     which compiler
     is char signed or unsigned
   anything special in your environment?

Regards
Peter Breitenlohner <peb at mppmu.mpg.de>