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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2023 14:25:20 +0100
> From: pertusus@free.fr
> Cc: gavinsmith0123@gmail.com, bug-texinfo@gnu.org
> 
> > Do these two replace the several *XS shared libraries we had until
> > Texinfo 7.1, or are they in addition to them?
> 
> There are new *XS shared libraries in additions to those in 7.1,
> StructuringTransfo.la, TranslationsXS.la (which will most likely be
> merged in another one), ConvertXS.la.  The two libraries libtexinfoxs
> and libtexinfo contain the code common for those new *XS shared
> libraries and also code common with Parsetexi.la, which is an XS shared
> library existing in 7.1.
> 
> > In any case, it sounds like these libraries should be installed where
> > we were installing the *XS shared libraries till now.
> 
> It is pkglibdir.  Would be easy to change Makefile.am to put them there,
> but are we sure that the linker will find them when the dlopened *XS
> files are loaded by perl?

I don't know enough about search for shared libraries on Posix
systems, but at least on Windows the linker looks first in the
directory from which the calling shared library was loaded, so it
should work.  Loading by an absolute file name should also work, I
think, and is probably more reliable.