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

On Sun, Jan 18, 2026 at 12:27:15PM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> > Maybe this should be documented on some README or in the
> > Texinfo/texi2any manual, including the logic used by Texinfo::XSLoader
> > to find the libraries?  I couldn't find it in the manuals, maybe I
> > missed something.  This information might be valuable for people who
> > distribute the binaries and for people who install them.
> 
> Gavin, any comment about that?

It is an internal detail of the implementation of Texinfo.  I don't see
why we need to write documentation on it.  It's likely that distributors
wouldn't look at documentation of Texinfo internals unless there was a
problem.

On one occasion, a distribution felt at liberty to remove files that
Texinfo installed, with the expectation that it wouldn't break anything:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-texinfo/2025-01/msg00000.html

We resolved that issue on that occasion, but the question is where we
would put such documentation in a place that distributors were likely
to look at it.

So far, there has not been a problem, as far as am aware.  It seems like
Eli is just asking how the (private) dynamic libraries work with Texinfo.