Re: Texinfo 7.0.94 pretest available

[Gavin Smith]

On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 03:17:17PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2023 12:57:46 +0100
> > Cc: bug-texinfo@gnu.org
> > 
> > On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 12:00:47PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Thanks.
> > > 
> > > This doesn't compile with MinGW, because some of the dTHX additions I
> > > needed for the previous pretest were not installed(?), and are still
> > > missing.  The patch I needed is below.
> > 
> > I hadn't installed those changes because I hadn't understood why they
> > were necessary.  Looking at the code, I expect that it was due to the
> > use of fprintf in those functions which the Perl headers must be doing
> > something funny with.  Presumably you got an error message when compiling
> > indicating this?
> 
> I show two such error messages below, I hope it will help you
> understand the reason.

Yes, it is 'stderr' that needs dTHX, not the 'fprintf'.