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

On Sun, Feb 08, 2026 at 01:56:52PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 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?

Yes, it is expected.

> 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?

This is expected too.

> Anything else I should be looking at after installation, or something
> you are interested in?

Nothing specifc come to my mind, other than having a manual that is
converted.

If you could test configuring with --enable-using-c-texi2any and check
if it works after installing, it would be nice.

-- 
Pat