On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 4:01 AM Patrice Dumas <pertu...@free.fr> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 02:02:46PM -0800, Raymond Toy wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 8:34 AM Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Can you check the output from "automake --version" as I believe older
> > > automake required "@setfilename" in Texinfo files.
> > >
> >
> > It says 1.15.1. On a different linux box, I have 1.16.2, but I haven't
> > tried building texinfo there yet.
>
> I checked the automake NEWS, and indeed,
> New in 1.16.2:
>   - automake no longer requires a @setfilename in each .texi file
>
> I started removing @setfilename everywhere to be in line with the
> evolutions of Texinfo, but I can readd to the texi2any_api and
> texi2anay_internals manuals.  Alternatively, we may bump the requirement
> of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE to 1.16.2.
>

Not sure what is best, but on my up-to-date openSuSE Leap 15.4 system,
automake version is 1.15.1.  My Fedora 35 system has 1.16.2.  Don't know
what other up-to-date releases have, but if there are many current distros
with 1.15.1, perhaps the requirement for 1.16.2 is premature?

>
> --
> Pat
>


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Ray

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