Eli Zaretskii wrote in the thread starting at <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2026-01/msg00185.html>: > > > > > I think the reason is libtool. It "knows" that shared libraries on > > > > > Windows need to be installed in the 'bin' subdirectory, not in the > > > > > 'lib' subdirectory as on Posix systems. > > > > > > > > > > So I guess this calls for some Makefile wizardry, to make sure > > > > > libtexinfo*.dll libraries end up in lib/texi2any/ instead. > > > > > > > > Ok. I guess we have to bypass libtool on that. > > > > > > Is this a new problem? Were the libraries installed in the wrong place > > > with Texinfo 7.2? > > > > > > > I've read in an email on the libtool mailing list archives that > > the path $libdir/../bin is used: > > > > Mike Gran wrote: > > > Because when a MinGW DLL is installed by libtool, the libfoo.lib.a > > > goes into $libdir and the libfoo.dll goes into $libdir/../bin, which > > > happens to be $bindir > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2022-11/msg00000.html > > > > So e.g. /usr/lib/texi2any becomes /usr/lib/texi2any/../bin = /usr/lib/bin. > > > > If this is right, then one workaround is to use an extra layer of > > directories. > > > > If xsdir is instead /usr/lib/texi2any/lib, then this would lead to the > > directory /usr/lib/texi2any/bin being used instead, which is not so bad. > > Right, but these directories are unlikely to be on PATH. $prefix/bin > is usually on PATH, so if, as Patrice says, SWIG needs to load the > libtexinfo*.dll DLLs without reading the *.la files, it is better to > install them in $prefix/bin. > > The libtool's "../bin" trick for Windows is just for the default case > of installing libraries in $prefix/lib, but it doesn't work well when > the directory structure is more complex. I'm not a libtool expert, > but maybe there are ways of telling it to use a different arrangement?
The libtool manual [1] says that during linking, the option '-bindir' (I guess, that means an option "-bindir DIRECTORY") can be used to specify this directory. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Link-mode.html Ileana, I'd suggest this doc patch: diff --git a/doc/libtool.texi b/doc/libtool.texi index 084fce40..d9f1a22c 100644 --- a/doc/libtool.texi +++ b/doc/libtool.texi @@ -1515,7 +1515,7 @@ Tries to avoid versioning (@pxref{Versioning}) for libraries and modules, i.e.@: no version information is stored and no symbolic links are created. If the platform requires versioning, this option has no effect. -@item -bindir +@item -bindir @var{directory} Pass the absolute name of the directory for installing executable programs (@pxref{Directory Variables, , Directory Variables, standards, The GNU Coding Standards}). @command{libtool} may use this value to
