From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: makeinfo 4.7 Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:42:34 +0900 Message-ID: References: <200608261711.k7QHBUS15318@f7.net> <85lkpaywjk.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85irkd3j86.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87y7t5x4ur.fsf@jurta.org> <85lkp5kdcq.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156992337 5826 80.91.229.2 (31 Aug 2006 02:45:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 02:45:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , karl@freefriends.org, Eli Zaretskii , storm@cua.dk, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 31 04:45:34 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GIcYW-0000Ei-30 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 04:45:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GIcYV-0001Nw-8Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:45:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GIcYH-0001LR-8Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:45:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GIcYE-0001G9-Qg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:45:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GIcYE-0001Fy-NJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:45:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [203.180.232.81] (helo=mgate01.necel.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GIchg-0001WJ-Rx; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:54:53 -0400 Original-Received: from relay21.aps.necel.com (relay21 [10.29.19.50]) by mgate01.necel.com (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k7V2JkvY027924; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:44:22 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay21.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.16] [10.29.19.16]) by relay21.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:44:22 +0900 Original-Received: from dhapc248.dev.necel.com ([10.114.97.235] [10.114.97.235]) by relay21.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:44:22 +0900 Original-Received: by dhapc248.dev.necel.com (Postfix, from userid 31295) id C18E93B0; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:42:34 +0900 (JST) Original-To: David Kastrup System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <85lkp5kdcq.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Thu, 31 Aug 2006 01:33:57 +0200") Original-Lines: 17 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:59141 Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: >> Just today these new Texinfo directives caused trouble for me. I >> successfully compiled CVS Emacs on quite an old GNU/Linux server >> (Red Hat 9.0). > > Why would you not upgrade the server? It has reached end of service > long ago. There are not even security updates anymore. When I have to install emacs on an old machine, and feel too annoyed to update makeinfo, I just don't install the manuals! Usually I only use emacs casually on those machines anyway... Doesn't seem like a big deal to me. -Miles -- Saa, shall we dance? (from a dance-class advertisement)