https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=122638
--- Comment #7 from Eric Gallager <egallager at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to [email protected] from comment #6) > > --- Comment #5 from Eric Gallager <egallager at gcc dot gnu.org> --- > > (In reply to [email protected] from comment #2) > >> macOS is a different beast, though: 10.13 and 12 both have ancient 4.8 > >> bundled, while 26 apparently doesn't bundle makeinfo any longer. Given > >> that, I'd suggest 5.0 is fine since one has to build your own anyway. > >> It's Iain's call in the end. > >> > >> IIRC the makeinfo step is skipped if there's no makeinfo present. Maybe > >> we should check for a matching version somewhere instead of relying on > >> install.texi alone? > >> > >> So for me, 5.0 would be perfectly fine and quite reasonable. > > > > Not everyone is on 26 yet, though, so some people might still be on machines > > that have the shipped 4.8 on them. I think bumping the requirement from 4.7 > > to > > 4.8 would be as far as I'd be comfortable going for the next release. > > However, such a requirement and merely documenting it in install.texi is > meaningless unless it's enforced with a version check and makeinfo > treated as missing if too old True; I think I've seen an autoconf macro to perform just such a check somewhere before; I will see if I can track it down...
