Re: texinfo-6.7.91 pretest

[Gavin Smith]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 04:07:23PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 21:44:54 +0100
> > 
> > The next pretest for the next Texinfo release has been uploaded to
> > 
> > https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-6.7.91.tar.xz
> > 
> > We hope to release this fairly soon barring the discovery of any major 
> > issues.
> 
> This pretest builds cleanly with MinGW on MS-Windows, and passes all
> the tests (with some tests skipped, as expected).

That's good to hear.  Did you check if all the XS modules are still
building and running okay?
> 
> The only compilation warning is this:
> 
>      gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..  -I..                               
> -I../gnulib/lib                         -I../gnulib/lib                       
>   -DLOCALEDIR=\"d:/usr/share/locale\"  -Id:/usr/include  -O2 -gdwarf-4 -g3 
> -MT install-info.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/install-info.Tpo -c -o install-info.o 
> install-info.c
>      install-info.c: In function 'split_entry.constprop':
>      install-info.c:1633:11: warning: 'strncat' specified bound depends on 
> the length of the source argument [-Wstringop-overflow=]
>       1633 |           strncat (*description, ptr, length);
>          |           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>      install-info.c:1632:27: note: length computed here
>       1632 |           size_t length = strlen (ptr);
>          |                           ^~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> This isn't new with this pretest, it was reported before.
> 
> Thanks.

Maybe we could change this after the official release as it is not
an important issue.