> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:00:07 +0200 > From: Patrice Dumas <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2026 at 01:22:15PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2026 21:55:34 +0200 > > > From: Patrice Dumas <[email protected]> > > > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>, [email protected] > > > > > > > Patrice Dumas wrote: > > > > > > Eli reported that texi2any in C cannot find the dll in windows and > > > > > > proposed to have the dll also installed in bindir: > > > > > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2026-02/msg00090.html > > > > > > > > This sounds like a weird solution. How about making sure that, in the > > > > case > > > > of texi2any, where libraries are installed in > > > > $(prefix)/lib/texi2any/lib/, > > > > $PATH contains the directory $(prefix)/lib/texi2any/bin/ ? > > > > > > That does not seems to me to be straightforward, this bin directory is > > > not on the PATH, and if it was, texi2any is not there either. A > > > possibility could be to have it there and have a wrapper in bin, but it > > > is somewhat complicated. > > > > Where is the .exe file in the above tree? > > Here is the simplified tree with the binary and one library: > bin/texi2any > lib/texi2any/lib/libtexinfo.la > > I passed -bindir $(librarydir)/../../../bin
Thanks, but I have difficulty understanding how these relative file names are related to the ones mentioned above, those which start with "$(prefix)/". Can you clarify, or show more of the tree?
