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

Gavin Smith <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.bugs
Message-ID <aW5nNPl5XMDTgdzl@orangestar>
On Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 06:03:04PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> No, it's much simpler and sillier: the problem was with
> manual-not-found hook.  That file is a Unix shell script, which
> MS-Windows 'popen' cannot run, because the Windows shell cmd.exe
> doesn't know how to run Unix shell scripts.
> 
> So we need to have a Windows variant of manual-not-found hook, and
> we need to look for it when running on Windows.

I've commited a change to add the .cmd extension if __MINGW32__ is
defined.

I made the change in run_info_hook so it will apply to all uses
of this function (currently, there is also one other use of it,
in session-cmd.c:info-select-reference.
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