Re: texinfo-6.3.90 pretest

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden
> From: Hans-Bernhard Bröker <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2017 21:31:44 +0200
> 
> I re-tried with MSys2, MinGW64 and ActiveState Perl instead.  Again, no 
> problem like the above:
> 
> libtool: link: C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/gcc.exe -shared 
> .libs/TestXS_la-TestXS.o   -LC:/Perl64/lib/CORE -lperl524  -O2 
> -mms-bitfields   -o .libs/TestXS.dll -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base 
> -Xlinker --out-implib -Xlinker .libs/TestXS.dll.a
> libtool: link: ar cru .libs/TestXS.a  TestXS_la-TestXS.o
> libtool: link: ranlib .libs/TestXS.a
> libtool: link: ( cd ".libs" && rm -f "TestXS.la" && cp -pR 
> "../TestXS.la" "TestXS.la" )
> message from XS module
> checking whether we can build Perl extension (XS) modules... yes

I will have to look closer at the problem.

> The build itself fails because of the conflict between xspara.c and 
> gnulib headers:

I didn't get to that yet, since the configure script decided the
extensions aren't needed in my case.

> Oh, and BTW: 'info.exe' fails to build because some of the dummy 
> functions in pcterm.c::1685 ff. have the wrong prototypes:

Didn't happen to me: the Info reader compiled cleanly and passed the
tests.

> In file included from C:/prg/gnu/texinfo/svn/info/terminal.c:1299:0:
> C:/prg/gnu/texinfo/svn/info/pcterm.c:1685:11: error: conflicting types 
> for 'tputs'
>   int       tputs (const char *a, int b, int (*c)(int))
>             ^~~~~
> In file included from C:/prg/gnu/texinfo/svn/info/terminal.c:40:0:
> C:/msys64/mingw64/include/termcap.h:31:13: note: previous declaration of 
> 'tputs' was here
>   extern void tputs (const char *string, int nlines, int (*outfun) (int));
>               ^~~~~
> 
> and once those are fixed, they collide with actual ncurses functions at 
> link time:
> 
> C:/msys64/mingw64/lib/libncurses.a(lib_termcap.o):(.text+0x870): 
> multiple definition of `tgetent'
> terminal.o:C:/prg/gnu/texinfo/svn/info/pcterm.c:1711: first defined here
> C:/msys64/mingw64/lib/libncurses.a(lib_termcap.o):(.text+0x9a0): 
> multiple definition of `tgetflag'

Why is ncurses being linked in?  It shouldn't.