> When I run configure, an error is returned saying that makeinfo is > too old (5,2). When I run sudo apt-get install texinfo, I'm told > that I have the latest version. makeinfo --version still returns > 5.2.
Ouch. `makeinfo` is part of texinfo. Version 5.2 was published
September 2013!
The current version is 6.6, published February 2019.
So please either use an add-on repository for your GNU/Linux
distribution to get a newer texinfo version, or install it directly
from the tarball.
Werner
