Re: texinfo-7.2.92 pretest available

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On Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 04:49:45PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>    . after copying the DLLs into the same directory as the .exe,
>      running texi2any.exe shows the error message:
> 
>       Can't open perl script "d:/usr/share/texi2any/load_txi_modules": No such file or directory
>       texi2any (C): bug: call_init_perl status: 2
> 
>      "d:/usr/" is the value of $prefix.  This means the installation
>      is not relocatable: it looks for load_txi_modules by absolute
>      file name, not relative to its installation directory.  This will
>      be fixed when installing the package in its actual place under
>      $prefix, but it would be nice to be able to move the whole
>      installation tree without breaking the package

I had a look, and indeed, ctexi2any is not relocatable.  Upon looking at
the code and testing, the Perl script is not fully relocatable either.
I think that it needs fixing, although it is annoying to do that kind of
changes so near from the release.

-- 
Pat
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