Re: texinfo-7.2.92 pretest available

On Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 07:08:52PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 05:53:15PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > > The problem is not a grave one, in any case.  The programs and
> > > libraries do build and pass all the tests.  A complication warning is
> > > not a problem, and I can fix it by adding an explicit prototype in
> > > that source file.  So the solution of this could be deferred to the
> > > next release, if you are okay with that.
> > 
> > Chances are if this code was actually run, there would be the "Free
> > to wrong pool" error (on MS-Windows), depending on where this strndup
> > function is actually coming from.  If it's a version defined by gnulib,
> > it would not be compatible with the 'free' function in the file as this
> > is Perl's version of 'free'.
> 
> There is a test using this function, so if the gnulib function was
> actually used, there would be the "Free to wrong pool" error triggered.

Thanks for fixing my broken commit.  After making the change, I ran "make"
under the tta/C subdirectory and saw a successful build, with no error
messages.  The tests all passed, as well.

What I hadn't realised was that I had configured with --disable-perl-xs (for
testing).  So some, but not all, of the code under tta/C was rebuilt, but
not the code I had just edited.  The test suite was running the non-XS code,
so again not the code I had edited. 

I'm not sure how I could avoid such mistakes, other than by experience.  It's
one of the downsides of having alternative implementations that are used in
different configurations.