On Sat, Jan 17, 2026 at 09:17:24PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> Mike Gran wrote:
> > Because when a MinGW DLL is installed by libtool, the libfoo.lib.a
> > goes into $libdir and the libfoo.dll goes into $libdir/../bin, which
> > happens to be $bindir
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2022-11/msg00000.html
>
> So e.g. /usr/lib/texi2any becomes /usr/lib/texi2any/../bin = /usr/lib/bin.
>
> If this is right, then one workaround is to use an extra layer of directories.
>
> If xsdir is instead /usr/lib/texi2any/lib, then this would lead to the
> directory /usr/lib/texi2any/bin being used instead, which is not so bad.
I checked that right now there are two things in $libdir/texinfo,
libraries like libtexinfo*.so*, and Perl XS compiled module files, like
Parser.so. It could be possible to put each of these in a separate
subdirectory, with
- lib/ for libtexinfo*.so*
- XS_extension/ for XS object files
I think that it would make sense conceptually, I would be in favor of
separating the two, but there is no strict need.
Any comment?
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Pat
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