> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 17:45:20 +0200 > Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, gdb-patc...@sourceware.org, > binut...@sourceware.org > From: Jakub Jelinek via Gdb-patches <gdb-patc...@sourceware.org> > > On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 04:21:44PM +0100, Nick Clifton via Gcc-patches wrote: > > Currently the top level configure.ac file sets the minimum required > > version of texinfo to be 4.7. I would like to propose changing this > > to 6.8. > > > > The reason for the change is that the bfd documentation now needs at > > least version 6.8 in order to build[1][2]. Given that 4.7 is now > > almost 20 years old (it was released in April 2004), updating the > > requirement to a newer version does seem reasonable. On the other > > hand 6.8 is quite new (it was released in March 2021), so a lot of > > systems out there may not have it. > > > > Thoughts ? > > I think that is too new.
It _is_ new. But I also don't understand why Nick thinks he needs Texinfo 6.8. AFAIR, makeinfo supported @node lines without explicit pointers since at least version 4.8. I have on my disk the manual produced for Emacs 22.1, where the Texinfo sources have no pointers, e.g.: @node Abbrev Concepts and the corresponding Info file says: This is ../info/emacs, produced by makeinfo version 4.8 from emacs.texi. So I'm not sure what exactly is the feature that requires Texinfo 6.8. What am I missing?
