Re: Texinfo 7.0.92 pretest on NetBSD 9.0

[Patrice Dumas]

On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 08:33:08PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
> 
> This shows how using new gnulib modules can lead to problems, especially
> under the tp/Texinfo/XS directory.

We need to use libunistring quite a bit to be on par with the perl code
on everything related to unicode.

> I don't know what problem the libunistring module was supposed
> to fix.  Commit 3ded9f090 (2023-09-01) adds the module but it's not
> clear how or why it's used - I couldn't see anything in nearby commits.

It is needed, it was an oversight of me not to add it previously, it has
been needed since I added uniconv/u8-strconv-from-enc unistr/u8-mbsnlen
in 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/texinfo.git/commit/?id=0bfbc74287b9b85c63f9fc850d17b035e8aa32fb

I added a retrospective Changelog more recently in
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/texinfo.git/commit/?id=0e484c586858de92a8ec7850d96472d3c22d6afa

> Could we not just revert adding the module and that would fix the
> problem?

No, and it would even fail if the system libunistring is used, it is
that failure that made me realize that this module was needed.

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Pat