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

> From: Gavin Smith <[email protected]>
> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2026 12:29:15 +0000
> Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
> 
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2026 at 02:15:01PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > 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=."?

No, it's just because I obtained the lists of files by running 'find'
in the installation directory, as in

   find . -name '*.dll'

So instead of "." please read "$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.

Right.