On Wed, 8 Mar 2023, Sandra Loosemore wrote:
> I personally do not know how the manuals for the GCC web site are built

gcc.gnu.org has texinfo 6.5. (It's a RHEL 8.7 system.)

> If we do update the version, there's a version check in configure.ac and 
> some hack for "makeinfo 4.7 brokenness" in doc/install.texi2html that 
> need to be changed, as well as install.texi.

The note in doc/install.texi2html isn't specific to version 4.7. Rather 
it's about a design decision made then to encode dashes as _002d which
essentially solved a non-issue and isn't practial at all.

Good point - I'll see to update that comment.

Gerald

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