> From: Gavin Smith <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:41:01 +0000
> Cc: [email protected]
>
> The next pretest distribution for the next Texinfo release has been
> uploaded to
>
> https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-7.2.92.tar.xz
>
> Many thanks to all those who have tested earlier pretests and reported
> the results. There have not been many changes since the previous pretest,
> and we hope to release this as Texinfo 7.3 in a few days' time.
>
> We make these pretests to help find any problems before we make an
> official release to a larger audience, so that the release will be
> as good as it can be.
>
> Please send any feedback to <[email protected]>. This could include
> problems building on particular platforms, or feedback on how new features
> work.
I've built this with MinGW on MS-Windows. It builds (almost) cleanly
and passes all the tests.
The "almost" part above is because I get the following compilation
warning:
convert/call_html_perl_function.c: In function
'call_file_id_setting_redirection_file_names':
convert/call_html_perl_function.c:606:27: warning: implicit declaration of
function 'strndup' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
606 | = strndup (file_ret, len);
| ^~~~~~~
convert/call_html_perl_function.c:606:27: warning: incompatible implicit
declaration of built-in function 'strndup'
AFAICT, this is new in this pretest (apologies if I missed it in the
previous pretest). The link step succeeds, so the function is
available, just its prototype is somehow not visible to the compiler.
I tried including <string.h>, but that didn't help, although the
Gnulib version of strndup is compiled and I see it in libgnu.a, and it
seems to be declared in Gnulib's string.h. Not sure what am I missing
here. Any ideas?
