Hi Guys, 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 ? Cheers Nick [1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30703 [2] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2023-February/125943.html Suggested patch: diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 01cfd017273..10bfef1c6c5 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -3678,10 +3678,10 @@ case " $build_configdirs " in *" texinfo "*) MAKEINFO='$$r/$(BUILD_SUBDIR)/texinfo/makeinfo/makeinfo' ;; *) changequote(,) - # For an installed makeinfo, we require it to be from texinfo 4.7 or + # For an installed makeinfo, we require it to be from texinfo 6.8 or # higher, else we use the "missing" dummy. if ${MAKEINFO} --version \ - | egrep 'texinfo[^0-9]*(4\.([7-9]|[1-9][0-9])|[5-9]|[1-9][0-9])' >/dev/null 2>&1; then + | egrep 'texinfo[^0-9]*(6\.([8-9]|[1-9][0-9])|[7-9]|[1-9][0-9])' >/dev/null 2>&1; then : else MAKEINFO="$MISSING makeinfo"
