On Sun, Jan 18, 2026 at 12:27:15PM +0100, [email protected] wrote: > > Maybe this should be documented on some README or in the > > Texinfo/texi2any manual, including the logic used by Texinfo::XSLoader > > to find the libraries? I couldn't find it in the manuals, maybe I > > missed something. This information might be valuable for people who > > distribute the binaries and for people who install them. > > Gavin, any comment about that?
It is an internal detail of the implementation of Texinfo. I don't see why we need to write documentation on it. It's likely that distributors wouldn't look at documentation of Texinfo internals unless there was a problem. On one occasion, a distribution felt at liberty to remove files that Texinfo installed, with the expectation that it wouldn't break anything: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-texinfo/2025-01/msg00000.html We resolved that issue on that occasion, but the question is where we would put such documentation in a place that distributors were likely to look at it. So far, there has not been a problem, as far as am aware. It seems like Eli is just asking how the (private) dynamic libraries work with Texinfo.
