Re: texinfo-6.3.90 pretest

[Gavin Smith]

On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 05:37:53PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2017 11:18:33 +0300
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > 
> > > From: Gavin Smith <address@hidden>
> > > Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2017 08:57:12 +0100
> > > Cc: address@hidden
> > > 
> > > > I cannote figure out why it reaches this conclusion: the TestXS module
> > > > is built successfully.  How can I find out why the detection fails?
> > > 
> > > You could try going into the tp/Texinfo/Convert/XSParagraph subdirectory
> > > and running
> > > 
> > > TEXINFO_XS=debug ${PERL} -I ../../../ -I . fail.pl
> > > 
> > > where ${PERL} is the path to your Perl executable.
> > 
> > Thanks, will do.
> 
> Heh, when I run the above, everything is OK:
> 
>      cd tp/Texinfo/Convert/XSParagraph/
>      TEXINFO_XS=debug /C/Perl/bin/perl -I ../../.. -I . fail.pl
>      checking ../../../TestXS.la
>      checking ./TestXS.la
>      found ./TestXS.la
>      ./.libs/TestXS.dll loaded
>      looking for boot_TestXS
>      trying to call boot_TestXS...
>        ...succeeded
>      message from XS module
> 
> which is identical to your output.
> 
> Moreover, re-running the configure script with TEXINFO_XS=debug on the
> command line causes it to successfully detect that XS extensions can
> be built!

This is weird indeed. Just to confirm, running

/C/Perl/bin/perl -I ../../.. -I . fail.pl

doesn't load the module either?  What about

TEXINFO_XS=default /C/Perl/bin/perl -I ../../.. -I . fail.pl

The only idea I have is that you have TEXINFO_XS already set to
"omit" in your environment.