Re: Latest change does not compile!
Hi Vin,
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Vin Shelton <acs(a)alumni.princeton.edu> wrote:
From the point of view of the 21.4 maintainer, I don't mind
removing
the texinfo.texi file.
I don't think we need to do anything for 21.4.
I don't know how that would affect the Windows installation kit
(and I
don't have an easy way to test that at the moment), but I think I'm
still OK with the change.
From the big picture, though, we do not have an acceptable makeinfo
solution. I have used 4.13a forever and it still builds the 21.4 info
files, but 21.5 requires some flavor of texinfo 5. I find that
dichotomy acceptable, mostly because the rate of change in the 21.4
branch is, at fastest, glacial, and I am probably willing to fix
21.4's .texi files so they work with texinfo 5+.
The only files in core that require texinfo 5 at this point are the
texinfo info files themselves, the ones I want to remove (or not build
by default). Once those are gone, 4.13a should still work.
What is worse, IMO, is that the packages will not build with texinfo
5. I am currently using texinfo 4.13a to build the package info
files, and this is somewhat annoying, having to dance back and forth
between texinfo versions. If nobody beats me to it, I will probably
try to fix the packages' texi files so that they build with texinfo 5.
I have floated a patch a couple of times to fix the packages for
texinfo 5. I haven't yet committed it due to a few outstanding
problems I need to fix. I will try really hard to get those remaining
problems fixed in the next week. Is that acceptable?
--
Jerry James
http://www.jamezone.org/
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