> 6. Some time ago I bumped our minimum required Texinfo version to > 5.0 (for a few reasons[5]), and this is too new for stock Mac OS > X (makeinfo 4.8). However, it should be possible to make > generated *.info files part of the distribution archive and > thereby reduce the dependency load for people who _don't_ care > about running "make doc" (which demands an entire working TeX > installation).
+1 Werner