Required texinfo version?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Adam Sjøgren writes:
 > Since the commit 3fe8358ad59a (Merge, restoring Ben's GPLv3 manual
 > changes.) the buildbots on *BSD and OpenSolaris fail with texinfo
 > errors¹.
 > 
 > It seems that XEmacs now requires a texinfo newer than 4.13, the version
 > available on, for instance, FreeBSD and NetBSD².

I don't think so.  AFAIK, 4.13 is the newest, and in any case I can
confirm that that is what is installed on my Gentoo system and it
works fine.  So something else is going on.

 > Is this on purpose, or would it be possible to stay compatible with
 > texinfo 4.13?

The changes to use more modern texinfo constructs were deliberate,
yes.  I believe this was discussed on this list a few weeks ago, but
if not, I apologize and we'll try to be more careful in the future.
For more information you'll have to wait for Aidan to comment.