Re: make dist after make maintainer-clean no XS for pod2texi

On Sat, Aug 08, 2026 at 12:24:14AM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > I remember there was unresolved business with the TEXINFO_XS variable.
> 
> I think that it is resolved.  (Except for this new issue I describe
> above that popped up recently).

I'll try to replicate the problem.

> > As I remember, we were considering making the XS modules mandatory if it
> > was detected that they worked at configure-time, in order to reduce the
> > number of possible conditions the tests could run under.  We were calling
> > the value for this "requiredifenabled".
> > 
> > However, for some reasons I did not understand at the time, using this
> > setting didn't work:
> > 
> >   I propose to remove the reference to TEXINFO_XS=requiredifenabled in
> >   INSTALL since it does not work as expected for now.  Ok?
> > 
> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2026-02/msg00004.html
> > 
> > So I am unsure what the status of the TEXINFO_XS variable is now.
> 
> I do not remember the details, but I remember that I fixed that after
> the release.  This is fixed now, all the modules depending on the
> libraries have a fallback.
> 

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> 
> > Texinfo/XSLoader.pm does not contain the string "requiredifenabled"
> > - is that because that behaviour is obtained by default if TEXINFO_XS
> > is not set to "omit"?
> 
> This is the reason, yes.

OK great, it all makes sense now.