Re: Texinfo 7.0.90 pretest on CentOS 8-stream (Unicode::Collate)

[Gavin Smith]

On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 10:31:38AM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
> I've started investigating whether texi2any could provide a stub 
> implementation
> of the Unicode::Collate interface for use if Unicode::Collate is not 
> available,
> using simply the builtin Perl cmp operator for sorting.  (As a reminder for
> anybody reading this discussion, this affects the sorting of document indices,
> and may be significant for documents written in languages other than English,
> but wouldn't make a noticeable difference in most cases.)  This would help
> keep the dependencies of Texinfo small.

I've added such a stub and added a test to configure, so that a visible
warning will be printed at the end of a configure run warning about missing
Unicode::Collate.