Re: New tramp build fails in tramp.info
On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 22:30, Adrian Aichner wrote:
Ville> Oops! You're absolutely right. Just didn't
catch my eye,
Ville> sorry about the noise. I guess texinfo 4.2 requirement is
Ville> acceptable (though it's kind of a PITA, major OS vendors
Ville> seem to distribute 4.1), it just has to be documented
Ville> somewhere.
Even 21.5 still states this in /INSTALL (that's where the requirement
is documented):
XEmacs requires an ANSI C compiler, such as GCC. If you wish to build
the documentation yourself, you will need at least version 1.68 of
makeinfo (GNU texinfo-3.11).
I just got a report from Amir, that 3.12 no longer works on
man/xemacs/xemacs.texi.
This is due to a change of mine, using ifnottex, which requires at
least 3.12f.
D'oh.
I feel uneasy about jumping our requirement up all the way to 4.2
over
night.
Peter reports FreeBSD does not have 4.2 yet.
Any ideas?
Not in any specific order:
- Require texinfo 4.2.
- Don't generate documentation for tramp by default.
- Detect texinfo version, and generate tramp docs only if it's >= 4.2.
- Work around the requirement in tramp some other way.
I wonder what's the minimum version of texinfo required to build/use
docs in other packages nowadays...
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\/ille Skyttä
ville.skytta at xemacs.org