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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> 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.

> Mixing two similar but distinct systems could have very confusing results.

It _is_ confusing at times (as this discussion clearly shows), but
it's a necessary evil: you cannot build GNU and Unix packages on
Windows without using MSYS2.

> 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.