Re: texinfo-7.2.90 on CentOS and Alpine Linux

On Sun, Jan 11, 2026 at 07:38:53PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> On
>   - CentOS 8
>   - CentOS 8 Stream
>   - CentOS Stream 9
>   - Alpine Linux 3.14
> the build fails because (according to config.log) the Perl module Devel/Peek.pm
> is not available.
> 
> The file tta/README says that
> "These modules and libraries are required (all have been standard
> parts of Perl for years, at least since 5.7.3):
>   Carp, Config, Data::Dumper, Encode, File::Basename, File::Spec
>   Getopt::Long, Unicode::Normalize, Storable, Devel::Peek"
> Well, it seems that Devel::Peek is a bit more recent than the other ones.
> 
> Bruno

Some distributions strip down the Perl installation and don't install some
"standard" modules.

I believe that Devel::Peek, as well as Devel::Refcount (missing for your
macOS report) are only used in texi2any for internal correctness checking,
and so it should not be a big deal for us not to require these modules.