Re: Texinfo 7.2.90 build with mingw.org's MinGW: testing and installation

> From: Gavin Smith <[email protected]>
> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2026 10:38:48 +0000
> Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
> 
> > > Is this a new problem?
> > 
> > Yes.
> > 
> > > Were the libraries installed in the wrong place with Texinfo 7.2?
> > 
> > No, they were installed together with the XS DLLs.  But Texinfo 7.2
> > didn't use libtool for that, did it?
> 
> It did.  We've always used libtool for the XS modules.  I don't know
> what would have changed.  We moved from libtool 2.5.3 to libtool 2.5.4
> but the use of "../bin" for library locations is much older than that.

Then I don't know what changed.

> You haven't reported whether texi2any can find these installed libraries
> in "d:/usr/lib/bin".  You could check this by setting the TEXINFO_XS
> environment variable to "debug" when running installed Texinfo.

I didn't yet install Texinfo 7.2.90 in a way that I can use it.  I
just ran "make install prefix=..." to see what the installation
procedure does, but I used a temporary directory for prefix.

However, if these libraries are all loaded via XSLoader.pm, I see no
reason why it could fail to find them.  The problems I had in mind are
only relevant to when a DLL is loaded without its leading directories,
which then causes Windows to look for it in the places I described.  I
understand now that this should basically never happen, so I guess I
just confused you guys for no good reason, sorry.