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

On Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 06:03:04PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Here's the patch to fix all that, after which all Info tests pass.  I
> will see about writing a Windows batch file that works like
> info/info-hooks-default/manual-not-found, so that "make install" could
> install it.

I've commited a change to the documentation to mention the name with 
the .cmd extension on MS-Windows.

I didn't use your exact wording as we don't consider the non-MS-Windows
case as an exception to the MS-Windows case, rather the opposite.


> --- doc/info-stnd.texi~0	2026-01-06 23:22:00.000000000 +0200
> +++ doc/info-stnd.texi	2026-01-16 17:52:23.431100600 +0200
> @@ -2603,6 +2603,7 @@
>  
>  Currently, Info has the following hook:
>  
> +@cindex @file{manual-not-found} script
>  @table @code
>  @item manual-not-found [--interactive] @var{manual}
>  This hook runs if a manual is not found.  The program is
> @@ -2677,7 +2678,9 @@
>  this to be useful in practice.)
>  
>  Texinfo installs a default sample @code{manual-not-found} hook program
> -and data file in its compile-time data directory.
> +and data file in its compile-time data directory.  It's a shell script
> +whose name is @file{manual-not-found.cmd} on MS-Windows and
> +@file{manual-not-found} on other systems.
>  @end table
>  
>  Hooks are run with the full file name used to run them in the