On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 08:22:03AM -0800, Raymond Toy wrote: > I did a git clone of texinfo, changed to the texinfo-7.0 branch and tried > to build it. It didn't work. > > I ran autogen.sh and got the message: > > Preparing Texinfo development infrastructure: > ./tp/maintain/regenerate_file_lists.pl > (cd tp && ./maintain/regenerate_docstr.sh Makefile.docstr) > (cd tp/tests && ../maintain/regenerate_cmd_tests.sh Makefile.onetst . > -base 'formatting sectioning indices nested_formats contents layout' > -tex_html 'tex_html' -other 'other') > aclocal -I gnulib/m4 && autoconf && autoheader && automake > doc/Makefile.am: error: 'doc/texi2any_api.texi' missing @setfilename > > Afterwards, I run configure, but it fails: > config.status: error: cannot find input file: `doc/Makefile.in' > > However, if I download the texinfo-7.0 tarballs, everything works fine.
Can you check the output from "automake --version" as I believe older automake required "@setfilename" in Texinfo files.