Re: texinfo-7.2.90 on mingw [glob function missing]

On 1/17/26 4:13 AM, Patrice Dumas wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 17, 2026 at 11:13:59AM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 07:12:52AM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jan 11, 2026 at 11:36:19PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Jan 11, 2026 at 01:36:11PM +0100, Bruno Haible via Bug reports for the GNU Texinfo documentation system wrote:
>>>>> On mingw, there is a compilation error:
>>>>>
>>>>> $ make
>>>>> ...
>>>>>   #include <glob.h>
>>>>>                    ^
>>>>> compilation terminated.
>>>>> make[4]: *** [Makefile:3691: convert/libtexinfo_convert_la-html_prepare_converter.lo] Fehler 1
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> For comparison, version 7.1.90 did compile on mingw (but had test failures) [1].
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe all you need is to request the Gnulib module 'glob' [2] ?
>>>> Using the Gnulib 'glob' module would be ok for me.  Gavin, any objection?
>>> No objection.
>> I can't build Texinfo anymore now this 'glob' module has been added.
>>
>> make[4]: Entering directory '/home/g/src/texinfo/GIT/tta/gnulib/lib'
>> make[5]: Entering directory '/home/g/src/texinfo/GIT/tta/gnulib/lib'
>> /bin/bash ../../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=compile x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../C     -Wno-cast-qual -Wno-conversion -Wno-float-equal -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-undef -Wno-unused-function -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-float-conversion -Wimplicit-fallthrough -Wno-pedantic -Wno-sign-conversion -Wno-type-limits -Wno-unused-const-variable -Wno-unsuffixed-float-constants -Wno-error  -MT libgnu_la-getprogname.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libgnu_la-getprogname.Tpo -c -o libgnu_la-getprogname.lo `test -f 'getprogname.c' || echo './'`getprogname.c
>> libtool: compile:  x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../C -Wno-cast-qual -Wno-conversion -Wno-float-equal -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-undef -Wno-unused-function -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-float-conversion -Wimplicit-fallthrough -Wno-pedantic -Wno-sign-conversion -Wno-type-limits -Wno-unused-const-variable -Wno-unsuffixed-float-constants -Wno-error -MT libgnu_la-getprogname.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libgnu_la-getprogname.Tpo -c getprogname.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/libgnu_la-getprogname.o
>> getprogname.c: In function 'getprogname':
>> getprogname.c:255:4: error: #error "getprogname module not ported to this OS"
>>    255 | #  error "getprogname module not ported to this OS"
>>        |    ^~~~~
>> make[5]: *** [Makefile:3572: libgnu_la-getprogname.lo] Error 1
> I also got that error, but it went away after a make clean or make
> distclean, I do not remember well, and never came back.
I had the error too. I ran autogen.sh, reran configure, make clean, then 
make. No problem after that. (I built from git sources.)
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