Re: texinfo-7.2.90 on CentOS and Alpine Linux

On Sun, Jan 11, 2026 at 06:55:22PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> 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.

it is not actually that easy to avoid a hard dependency on Devel::Peek,
since loading it in an eval does not work.  I'll investigate more,
a possibility could be to reimplement the Devel::Peek::SvREFCNT function
used from Devel::Peek as it should be a very simple wrapper around the
SvREFCNT C function.

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Pat