Re: texinfo.tex change.

[Lute Kamstra]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> Jay Belanger <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

>> Sorry about that.  I knew @LaTeX{} was defined in texinfo; I didn't
>> realize that it was a recent addition.
>>
>> This would affect creation of dvi files; I'm surprised it affected
>> bootstrapping, though.  Before the texinfo.tex change, I ran 'makeinfo
>> calc.texi' and it worked fine.
>
> I just bootstrapped again after the 22.1 version number update, and it
> failed again in calc.texi like this
>
> calc.texi:740: Unknown command `LaTeX'.
> calc.texi:740: Misplaced {.
> calc.texi:740: Misplaced }.
>
> etc...
>
> so my change to texinfo.tex wasn't sufficient to get rid of this.
>
> If makeinfo doesn't use it, why do we include it?
>
> makeinfo --version says:
>
>  makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.3

@LaTeX{} was introduced in Texinfo 4.7 (9 April 2004).  I'll update
README that currently says that Texinfo 4.2 or later is needed.

Lute.