Re: Texinfo 7.2.90 build with mingw.org's MinGW: libtool installation location

> From: Gavin Smith <[email protected]>
> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2026 10:05:07 +0000
> Cc: Bruno Haible <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected]
> 
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2026 at 08:33:53AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > I've read in an email on the libtool mailing list archives that
> > > the path $libdir/../bin is used:
> > > 
> > > Mike Gran wrote:
> > > > Because when a MinGW DLL is installed by libtool, the libfoo.lib.a
> > > > goes into $libdir and the libfoo.dll goes into $libdir/../bin, which
> > > > happens to be $bindir
> > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2022-11/msg00000.html
> > > 
> > > So e.g.  /usr/lib/texi2any becomes /usr/lib/texi2any/../bin = /usr/lib/bin.
> > > 
> > > If this is right, then one workaround is to use an extra layer of directories.
> > > 
> > > If xsdir is instead /usr/lib/texi2any/lib, then this would lead to the
> > > directory /usr/lib/texi2any/bin being used instead, which is not so bad.
> > 
> > Right, but these directories are unlikely to be on PATH.  $prefix/bin
> > is usually on PATH, so if, as Patrice says, SWIG needs to load the
> > libtexinfo*.dll DLLs without reading the *.la files, it is better to
> > install them in $prefix/bin.
> 
> SWIG is not a necessary part of Texinfo.  We keep on tripping over these
> non-essential features.  The modules are loaded in Texinfo::XSLoader by
> DynaLoader, a Perl module, not by SWIG.

Patrice said that SWIG will also need to load them.  Apologies if I
misunderstood.