Re: Code from installed libtexinfo.so.0 run for non-installed texi2any

[Gavin Smith]

On Sun, Nov 05, 2023 at 09:59:44PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> The XS modules are installed in a directory which is usually not
> looked into by the dynamic linker.  Is that what you are talking
> about?  If so, we have been using "non-public libraries" since long
> ago, no?  Or what am I missing?

Yes.

> > The file was being installed under /usr/local/lib/libtexinfo.so.1, as
> > if to imply that a user could link it against their programs with -ltexinfo,
> > or load it with dlopen, which would be completely inappropriate.
> 
> I don't have any libtexinfo shared library here, and I don't see one
> being built, let alone installed, as part of Texinfo.  is this
> something new in the development sources?  If so, what code is linked
> into libtexinfo?

Yes, it was new in the development sources.

Patrice would have to explain what the purpose was of "libtexinfo" as I
haven't looked into it closely.