On Sun, Nov 05, 2023 at 09:59:44PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > The XS modules are installed in a directory which is usually not > looked into by the dynamic linker. Is that what you are talking > about? If so, we have been using "non-public libraries" since long > ago, no? Or what am I missing?
Yes. > > The file was being installed under /usr/local/lib/libtexinfo.so.1, as > > if to imply that a user could link it against their programs with -ltexinfo, > > or load it with dlopen, which would be completely inappropriate. > > I don't have any libtexinfo shared library here, and I don't see one > being built, let alone installed, as part of Texinfo. is this > something new in the development sources? If so, what code is linked > into libtexinfo? Yes, it was new in the development sources. Patrice would have to explain what the purpose was of "libtexinfo" as I haven't looked into it closely.
