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

On Sun, Jan 18, 2026 at 10:38:48AM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2026 at 08:26:41AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > > > So I guess this calls for some Makefile wizardry, to make sure
> > > > > libtexinfo*.dll libraries end up in lib/texi2any/ instead.
> > > > 
> > > > Ok.  I guess we have to bypass libtool on that.
> > > 
> > > 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.

In a 2024-11-21 commit there was this change, no idea if it could be
related:
LT_INIT([disable-static])
was replaced by
LT_INIT([disable-static dlopen])

But it was before Texinfo 7.2 release.

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Pat