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

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> Sun, 18 Jan 2026 22:21:39 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.bugs
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2026 21:01:51 +0100
> From: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
> 
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2026 at 09:43:05PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2026 19:12:37 +0100
> > > From: [email protected]
> > > Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
> > > 
> > > Could you please apply the attached patch, and rerun the same command as
> > > above, and report the output, please?  I added some printout of the
> > > directories name to try to narrow down where the backslash appear.
> > 
> > This produces:
> > 
> >   III './formatting/simplest.texi' './formatting/' 'formatting'
> >   DFD SUBDIR: 'formatting\out_parser\reuse_macro_expand_file'
> >   DFD dir 'formatting\out_parser\reuse_macro_expand_file/' 'formatting\out_parser\reuse_macro_expand_file'
> >   Output file formatting\out_parser\reuse_macro_expand_file/simplest.info
> 
> I couldn't find anything obvious, here is a patch that shows directly
> the option value, please apply and report the value.

Here:

  OPT OUTFILE: 'formatting/out_parser/reuse_macro_expand_file/'
  III './formatting/simplest.texi' './formatting/' 'formatting'
  DFD SUBDIR: 'formatting\out_parser\reuse_macro_expand_file'
  DFD dir 'formatting\out_parser\reuse_macro_expand_file/' 'formatting\out_parser\reuse_macro_expand_file'
  Output file formatting\out_parser\reuse_macro_expand_file/simplest.info