Re: `make info' fails on cc-mode.texi with Texinfo 4.3

[Ralf Angeli]

* Eli Zaretskii (2006-01-24) writes:

>> From: Ralf Angeli <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:10:30 +0100
>> 
>> The build process aborts if `make info' is called with Texinfo 4.3.
[...]
>> This version comes with current MSYS and does not know @headitem which
>> was introduced with Texinfo 4.7.
>
> Texinfo 4.3 is 3 years old, which is very old.  Why don't you install
> a Texinfo port from GnuWin32, they have v4.8 there.

If it can be avoided ... (c;

> CC Mode says quite explicitly:
>
>     @comment Note that Texinfo 4.7 (or later) is needed.

So the answer to my (implicit) question about which versions of
Texinfo the build process of Emacs should be compatible with is "The
version any Texinfo file in the distribution dictates."?

If that's the case, no problem, I'll update my Texinfo installation.
And I'll assume that a recent version of Texinfo can be compiled on
any platform supported by Emacs.

-- 
Ralf