Re: texinfo-6.8.91 pretest

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 19:59:44 +0100
> 
> We have uploaded the next pretest for the Texinfo 7.0 release to
> 
> https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-6.8.91.tar.xz
> 
> There have been many changes since the previous release (see below),
> but among the most notable are the addition of LaTeX and EPUB 3 as
> texi2any output formats.  This release should build easily with
> glibc 2.34, and the 'info' program does not crash immediately in a
> Brazilian Portuguese locale.
> 
> We make these pretest releases to encourage wider testing before a
> release.
> 
> Many thanks to those who tested and reported problems for the previous
> pretest, as well as to the translators at the Translation Project.
> 
> Please send any comments to <bug-texinfo@gnu.org>.

I've built this pretest with mingw.org's MinGW on MS-Windows.

The build is basically clean, with the sole exception of 3 warnings
about Gnulib's redefinition of 'free':

     libtool: compile:  d:/usr/bin/gcc.exe -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. 
-I./gnulib/lib -I./gnulib/lib -DDATADIR=\"d:/usr/share\" -s -O2 -DWIN32 
-DPERL_TEXTMODE_SCRIPTS -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT 
-DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -mms-bitfields -s 
-O2 -DVERSION=\"0\" -DXS_VERSION=\"0\" -ID:/usr/Perl/lib/CORE -MT xspara.lo -MD 
-MP -MF .deps/xspara.Tpo -c xspara.c -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC -o .libs/xspara.o
     In file included from xspara.c:40:
     D:/usr/Perl/lib/CORE/XSUB.h:565: warning: "free" redefined
       565 | #    define free  PerlMem_free
           |
     In file included from xspara.c:19:
     ./gnulib/lib/stdlib.h:737: note: this is the location of the previous 
definition
       737 | #   define free rpl_free
           |

Similar warnings are issued in MiscXS.xs, in misc.c, and in
Parsetexi.xs.  I guess more Gnulib-related magic in the configury is
needed to avoid that?

The tests all pass (with some of them skipped).  The stand-alone Info
reader works as expected, both for viewing Info manuals (including
Gzip-compressed ones) and for man pages.

Thanks.