On 12/26/2016 11:19 AM, Eric Botcazou wrote:
This is very strange; I didn't get that error. We've got makeinfo 6.1
(Feb 2016) installed here. Are you using a newer or older version?
It's makeinfo 4.13 (from the vendor).
Hmmm, that's 8 years old, the last release from before the
reimplementation into Perl (starting with version 5).
Meanwhile install.texi documents (and configure.ac checks for) version
4.7 as the earliest supported version. That's a release from 2004, and
the GCC requirement has been in place since 2008. I guess it is OK to
leave it like that unless/until we make an explicit decision to use some
features only supported in newer versions, but I do worry that we won't
be testing compatibility with such old Texinfo versions as developers
shift to newer versions in their own environments.
-Sandra
