On Fri, Mar 10, 2023, 14:00 Gerald Pfeifer <ger...@pfeifer.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2023, Sandra Loosemore wrote: > > AFAIK we have not knowingly changed any specific requirements beyond the > > stated 4.7 and 4.9 for PDF output, but it concerns me that nobody is > > likely to be using versions that old on a regular basis to make sure > > they continue to work and we haven't unknowingly introduced dependencies > > on newer Texinfo features. > > I'm generally very interested in ensuring we do not hurt users who do not > have the latest and greatest of the day. On the other hand, if there's a > few people using (more or less deliberately abandonware) we should not > feel too bad if something breaks. > Can you include texinfo in a top-level directory and have it built with the build, like you can with dejagnu? That's generally a decent path for building new gcc on older systems. >
