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

On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 11:00:29PM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2026 at 11:49:58AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 
> > Since the tests run with Terxinfo uninstalled, I wonder whether the
> > test suite harness sets things up so as to find and load the DLLs
> > just built.  Showing that as part of the test would go a long way
> > towards flagging any issues with finding the DLLs, and will also
> > indicate which parts of the code were actually tested -- the Perl code
> > or the equivalent C code.  Right now, I have no idea.  And looking in
> > config.log and Makefile's doesn't help, because I already know the
> > configure script concluded the extensions could be built, and I also
> > know that they were in fact built.  I just don't know whether they
> > were used when running the test suite.
> 
> On that subject, I think that the best way to go is first to improve the 
> TEXINFO_XS=requiredifenabled such that it can be set for tests.  That
> would remove most if not all ambiguity on the code used.  This will have
> to wait for the next release.
> 
> Once this is done, we could think again whether we want to give some
> information somewhere.

See my other email - I think it should be possible to do easily now.