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

[Gavin Smith]

On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 03:17:41PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2023 10:56:28 +0100
> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, bug-texinfo@gnu.org
> > 
> > The other thing that I am confused about is that you said you were
> > building on "Win10, Msys2/MinGW64".   Would Msys2 and MinGW64 not
> > be two different architectures?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > Is it appropriate to be running (or building) Msys2 programs in an
> > MinGW64 shell?
> 
> Yes.  It's actually MSYS2' raison d'être.  MSYS2 is a set of tools and
> builds of GNU software intended to allow you to build MinGW programs
> using Unix shell scripts, Autoconf, and Makefiles that assume Unix
> shells and Unix semantics.  The programs you build using MSYS2 will be
> MinGW (a.k.a. "native Windows) programs if the compiler and linker you
> invoke are MinGW compiler and linker.

I think I understand.

Ok, so assuming that this is all correct, we know that it is possible
to build Texinfo for MSYS2 because it was done officially, and Arash
had the official MSYS2 info program installed.

https://packages.msys2.org/base/texinfo

There must be some difference in the way it was built.

Or am I getting confused here between an MSYS2 Texinfo and a Texinfo built
with MSYS2 (which would be a MinGW Texinfo)?  Are these two different
things?

> > The MSYS2 website tells me they have their own terminal program called
> > "mintty"; have you tried building or running in that terminal?
> 
> The problem (at least the problem with Info showing Unicode quotes) is
> not during the build, it's when Arash runs the Info he produced.  That
> should work first and foremost on the Command Prompt window, which is
> the native Windows terminal emulator.  Whether it also works inside
> mintty, I don't know, but that could be a separate problem, and
> making it work would be a bonus, because the MinGW build of Info
> supports the Command Prompt as its main terminal.

Would this Info be expected to behave the same way as the Info program
provided by the MSYS2 project?