Re: Texinfo 6.7 released

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Gavin Smith <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 20:28:46 +0100
> 
> We have released version 6.7 of Texinfo, the GNU documentation format.
> 
> This package contains tools to produce documentation in various
> formats, including HTML and PDF, from source files in the Texinfo
> format.  Texinfo is a text-based format with commands for marking text,
> document structuring and indexing.
> 
> The highlight of this release is improved indexing facilities.
> 
>   http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/texinfo/texinfo-6.7.tar.xz
>   http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/texinfo/texinfo-6.7.tar.gz

Did you make any changes since the last pretest?

Trying to build this on MS-Windows with MinGW, Perl crashes when
generating texinfo.info:

  if TEXINFO_DEV_SOURCE=1 ; export TEXINFO_DEV_SOURCE ;  top_srcdir=".." ; 
export top_srcdir ;  top_builddir=".." ; export top_builddir ; 
/d/usr/Perl/bin/perl ../tp/texi2any   -I . \
   -o texinfo.info `test -f 'texinfo.texi' || echo './'`texinfo.texi; \
  then \
    rc=0; \
  else \
    rc=$?; \
    $restore $backupdir/* `echo "./texinfo.info" | sed 's|[^/]*$||'`; \
  fi; \
  rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc
  Free to wrong pool 3f5d48 not 40f015b at ..\tp/Texinfo/XSLoader.pm line 224, 
<$fh> line 8.
  Makefile:1258: recipe for target `texinfo.info' failed
  make[3]: *** [texinfo.info] Error 5
  make[3]: Leaving directory `/d/gnu/texinfo-6.7/doc'
  Makefile:1461: recipe for target `all-recursive' failed

>From searching the Internet, it sounds like the "Free to wrong pool"
error message is related to multithreading in Perl and/or fork()?

This is a different system from the one where I built the pretest.
Here I have Perl v5.20.1, provided by ActiveState.  Could this be
related to this particular version of Perl?  Though I never had any
problems with this Perl version with previous Texinfo releases.

TIA