Re: gettext gnulib-tool test case failures

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Collin,

> Some of the gettext tests fail with GNULIB_TOOL_IMPL=sh due to
> "Creating directory ..." messages. I ran into this while looking into
> a separate issue with gnulib-tool.py.
> 
> Here is a list of them:
> 
> ./test-gettext-1.sh
> +Creating directory gettext-runtime/doc
> 
> ./test-gettext-4.sh
> +Creating directory gettext-tools/gnulib-lib
> +Creating directory gettext-tools/doc
> +Creating directory gettext-tools/gnulib-tests
> 
> ./test-gettext-5.sh
> +Creating directory gettext-tools/libgrep
> 
> ./test-gettext-6.sh
> +Creating directory gettext-tools/libgettextpo
> +Creating directory gettext-tools/doc
> 
> ./test-gettext-7.sh
> +Creating directory gettext-tools/tests/gnulib-lib
> 
> ./test-gettext-8.sh
> +Creating directory ./lib
> +Creating directory ./tests

Thanks, it's fixed now.

> I assume this was caused by splitting the gnulib-tool invocations into
> separate test cases or something?

It was caused by empty directories, which cannot be committed into git.
Thus in your checkout these directories are gone, while in my work
directory, they were still present.

Bruno