I vote a mistake in qemu patch. I was able to build qemu-git (I own the package qemu-git on AUR) with texinfo 5.0 before the documentation patch was added.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1130533 Title: Documentation cannot be build since commit c70a01e449536c616c85ab820c6fbad7d7e9cf39 Status in QEMU: New Bug description: I tried to build git -based qemu and when documentation is processed I got this error : ./qemu-options.texi:1526: unknown command `list' ./qemu-options.texi:1526: table requires an argument: the formatter for @item ./qemu-options.texi:1526: warning: @table has text but no @item Looks like commit c70a01e449536c616c85ab820c6fbad7d7e9cf39 is guilty ?! Or any modification related to documentation, I think. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1130533/+subscriptions