Re: texinfo-6.8.90 pretest

[Patrice Dumas]

On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 11:57:36AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> And now for the final blow: while building texinfo.info, I get this
> error message:
> 
>      Can't locate I18N/Langinfo.pm in @INC (you may need to install the 
> I18N::Langinfo module) (@INC contains: d:/usr/Perl/site/lib d:/usr/Perl/lib 
> .) at ../tp/texi2any line 29.
>      BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ../tp/texi2any line 29.
>      Makefile:1547: recipe for target `texinfo.info' failed
>      make[3]: *** [texinfo.info] Error 2
> 
> My Perl version is 5.20.1, and I cannot install a newer version here.
> It sounds like I18N::Langinfo is a core module in later versions of
> Perl.  I very much hope that a solution can be found for my version,

It is strange, from what I gather on metacpan/perldoc, it is in perl
since a long time, in particular there in 5.8.1 which is our requirement
on perl release and in particular in 5.20.1:
https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.20.1/source/ext/I18N-Langinfo
https://perldoc.perl.org/5.20.1/I18N::Langinfo

> either if you tell me where to find this module that I can install
> locally (and then please help me with detailed installation
> instructions, as I'm basically Perl-illiterate), or by providing
> fallback code in texi2any for when this module is not available.
> (What is Langinfo used for in texi2any?)

To obtain the locale encoding.  From what I understand, I18N::Langinfo
is a wrapper around nl_langinfo.

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Pat