On Mon, Feb 02, 2026 at 11:47:03PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: > > The whole point of the BUILD_C_CODE condition was not to build C code > > under tta/ if it was not necessary. > > Ok. I also propose for that condition to be used to build some code > that depends on the code build by BUILD_C_CODE. > > > There may be some reason that some other condition is also needed just > > for the auxiliary, non-XS dynamic libraries (libtexinfo and so on) but > > that was not the main point of the change. > > > > > To me it is clearer. Indeed, the HAVE_ICONV was used to mean that some > > > code depends indirectly on the iconv library through the shared > > > libraries. A conditional like SHARED_TXI_LIBRARIES_BUILT is clearer to > > > me as it the texinfo shared libraries are a direct dependency of the > > > code that may not use iconv directly. > > > > I agree that SHARED_TXI_LIBRARIES_BUILT (or whatever it's called) would > > be better at expressing this dependency than HAVE_ICONV. > > But are you ok to use SHARED_TXI_LIBRARIES_BUILT instead of > BUILD_C_CODE?
I think I've explained my opinion as clearly as I can. I will try to work out a patch.
