Re: info '(latex2e)\indent & \noindent' doesn't work with Msys2

[Arash Esbati]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> This is known, see
>
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2022-10/msg00365.html
>
> In my port I did this:
>
> --- tp/Texinfo/XS/misc.c.~1~ 2022-11-30 19:06:28.000000000 +0
> 200
> +++ tp/Texinfo/XS/misc.c     2022-12-03 14:05:33.735000000 +0
> 200
> @@ -37,6 +37,9 @@
>
>  #include "EXTERN.h"
>  #include "perl.h"
> +#if defined _WIN32 && !defined __CYGWIN__
> +# undef free
> +#endif
>  #include "XSUB.h"
>
>  #include "ppport.h"

Thanks.  I wanted to give it a try, so in a MINGW64 shell I cloned the
Texinfo repo, ran ./autogen.sh (works), ./configure (works) and make -j8
which stops with:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
In file included from terminal.c:1143:
pcterm.c: In function 'pc_up_line':
pcterm.c:959:20: warning: implicit declaration of function 'MAX' 
[-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
  959 |   ScreenSetCursor (MAX (y-1, 0), x);
      |                    ^~~
mv -f .deps/window.Tpo .deps/window.Po
mv -f .deps/terminal.Tpo .deps/terminal.Po
mv -f .deps/session.Tpo .deps/session.Po
gcc  -g -O2   -o ginfo.exe dir.o display.o dribble.o echo-area.o filesys.o 
footnotes.o indices.o info.o infodoc.o infokey.o infomap.o infopath.o m-x.o 
man.o nodemenu.o nodes.o scan.o search.o session.o signals.o tag.o terminal.o 
tilde.o util.o variables.o window.o doc.o ../gnulib/lib/libgnu.a -lncurses 
/mingw64/lib/libintl.dll.a -L/mingw64/lib /mingw64/lib/libiconv.dll.a 
-L/mingw64/lib
C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/12.2.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe:
 terminal.o: in function `pc_up_line':
Z:/texinfo/info/pcterm.c:959: undefined reference to `MAX'
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [Makefile:1827: ginfo.exe] Error 1
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Is this also a known issue?  I can't test your patch above with this
issue at hand.

Best, Arash