Re: Minimum Texinfo version for creating the documentation

[Carnë Draug]

On 4 January 2018 at 22:01, Mike Miller <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 16:33:19 -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:
>> If we decide to do something like this, then in the name of autoconf and all
>> that is good, could we please do it using feature tests instead of a version
>> number?
>
> +1
>
> Can someone describe exactly what features of Texinfo 5 or 6 we are
> using that won't work with an older version of Texinfo 4?
>
> If we are only talking about the existence of the macros
> @codequoteundirected and @sortas, those are defined in the texinfo.tex
> file which we inherit from gnulib, so there might not be a problem at
> all.

Not sure if this is true.  Building in Debian jessie (version 8) which
has texinfo version 5.2 is currently failing due to "unknown command
`sortas'".

Carnë