[tlbuild] FAIL: uptexdir/gkhuge.test

[Mojca Miklavec]

Hi,

On Sun, 2 Sep 2018 at 17:44, Hironobu Yamashita wrote:
>
> > $ cat gk2.txt
> > Input file is in YOKO-kumi kanji tfm format.
> > The fifth byte of the input file exceeds 127!
> > Sorry, but I can't go on; are you sure this is a TFM?
>
> That's the expected behavior, thus the test should never fail!
> I can't understand why it is failing.
>
> In more detail, (as you might have already looked into it,)
> gkhuge.test compares the stderr (= redirected to ygkhugeng.err,
> which is similar to gk2.txt above) and the distributed gkhugeng.err.
> If the test really fails with
>      ygkhugeng.err differ: char 1, line 1
> then the possibilities are:
>
> * the shell could not redirect stderr to a file ygkhugeng.err
> * there is one or more preceding (invisible?) characters inside it
> * (I can't think of others)

It looks like something else ends up in the file, maybe due to
differences in gnu tools:

$ cat ./Work/texk/web2c/uptests/ygkhugeng.err
+ TEXMFCNF=../../../texk/web2c/../kpathsea
Input file is in YOKO-kumi kanji tfm format.
The fifth byte of the input file exceeds 127!
Sorry, but I can't go on; are you sure this is a TFM?

Mojca