Re: Texinfo-7.2.91 with mingw.org's MinGW: installation

On Sat, Feb 14, 2026 at 02:15:01PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2026 13:56:52 +0200
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > 
> > > From: Gavin Smith <[email protected]>
> > > Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2026 17:32:16 +0000
> > > Cc: [email protected]
> > > 
> > > The next pretest distribution for the next Texinfo release (7.3) has been
> > > uploaded to
> > > 
> > > https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-7.2.91.tar.xz
> > 
> > Running "make install" installs the shared libraries as follows:
> > 
> >   ./lib/texi2any/bin/libtexinfo-1.dll
> >   ./lib/texi2any/bin/libtexinfo-convert-1.dll
> >   ./lib/texi2any/bin/libtexinfo-convertxs-1.dll
> >   ./lib/texi2any/bin/libtexinfo-main-0.dll
> >   ./lib/texi2any/bin/libtexinfoxs-1.dll
> >   ./lib/texi2any/XS_extension/ConfigXS.dll
> >   ./lib/texi2any/XS_extension/ConvertToTexinfoXS.dll
> >   ./lib/texi2any/XS_extension/ConvertXS.dll
> >   ./lib/texi2any/XS_extension/DocumentXS.dll
> >   ./lib/texi2any/XS_extension/IndicesXS.dll
> >   ./lib/texi2any/XS_extension/MiscXS.dll
> >   ./lib/texi2any/XS_extension/Parsetexi.dll
> >   ./lib/texi2any/XS_extension/ReaderXS.dll
> >   ./lib/texi2any/XS_extension/StructuringTransfoXS.dll
> >   ./lib/texi2any/XS_extension/TreeElementConverterXS.dll
> >   ./lib/texi2any/XS_extension/TreeElementXS.dll
> >   ./lib/texi2any/XS_extension/XSParagraph.dll
> > 
> > Is this the expected result?
> > 
> > The corresponding *.la files are installed as follows:
> > 
> >   ./lib/texi2any/lib/libtexinfo-convert.la
> >   ./lib/texi2any/lib/libtexinfo-convertxs.la
> >   ./lib/texi2any/lib/libtexinfo-main.la
> >   ./lib/texi2any/lib/libtexinfo.la
> >   ./lib/texi2any/lib/libtexinfoxs.la
> >   ./lib/texi2any/XS_extension/ConfigXS.la
> >   ./lib/texi2any/XS_extension/ConvertToTexinfoXS.la
> >   ./lib/texi2any/XS_extension/ConvertXS.la
> >   ./lib/texi2any/XS_extension/DocumentXS.la
> >   ./lib/texi2any/XS_extension/IndicesXS.la
> >   ./lib/texi2any/XS_extension/MiscXS.la
> >   ./lib/texi2any/XS_extension/Parsetexi.la
> >   ./lib/texi2any/XS_extension/ReaderXS.la
> >   ./lib/texi2any/XS_extension/StructuringTransfoXS.la
> >   ./lib/texi2any/XS_extension/TreeElementConverterXS.la
> >   ./lib/texi2any/XS_extension/TreeElementXS.la
> >   ./lib/texi2any/XS_extension/XSParagraph.la
> > 
> > Expected?
> > 
> > Anything else I should be looking at after installation, or something
> > you are interested in?
> 
> Ping!

Is it expected that all the paths begin with ".", so you specified
DESTDIR=. when installing, or configured with "--prefix=."?

I believe Patrice made the changes to split installed files into
lib and bin so I was hoping he would comment if this was what he
expected to see.

I notice the files under XS_extension are not split, but again I don't
know if that is expected.