Re: texi2any C code still built even though XS modules were disabled

On Sat, Jan 17, 2026 at 08:08:11PM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2026 at 06:42:53PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > > I just commited changes to avoid loading XS overrides when XS modules
> > > are disabled at configure time.  I believe that the issue you reported
> > > was there for a long time, maybe even since the first MiscXS modules.
> > > It never showed in practice because the situation do not often arises,
> > > and maybe we just did make clean when it happened, and because before
> > > some point, with the C codes in libraries, the modules could be loaded
> > > and used even if XS modules were disabled, and it would not have been
> > > noticed unless one had TEXINFO_XS=debug set.
> > 
> > I thought it was disabled in Texinfo::XSLoader.  texi2any.pl sets
> > $Texinfo::XSLoader::disable_XS if XS modules are disabled.  However,
> > the tests under tta/perl/t don't use texi2any.pl.
> 
> For t/z_misc/*.t tests, I plan to add the same BEGIN block that I just
> added to t/test_utils.pl.  Should I proceed or do you have a better
> idea?

The only other idea I have is that Texinfo::XSLoader could get the value
itself in its own BEGIN { } block.