Re: texinfo-7.2.90 on CentOS and Alpine Linux

> From: Gavin Smith <[email protected]>
> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:55:22 +0000
> Cc: [email protected]
> 
> 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.

Devel::Refcount is also not available here, and I have Perl 5.20.

Does it mean my build (that I didn't yet try) will fail?