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Subject: Re: CVS HEAD: configure: error: makeinfo >= 4.6 is required on Mac
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> From: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>
> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:57:57 +0200
> Cc: Denis Bueno <dbueno@gmail.com>,
> 	"Emacs Dev \[emacs-devel\]" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> i see that "grep @indent man/*.texi" yields nine hits.
> so how about replacing the version check, like so:
> 
> + echo @indent > conftest.texi
> + if test "$MAKEINFO" != "no" ; then
> +    test $MAKEINFO conftest.texi >dev/null 2>&1 || MAKEINFO=no
> + fi
> + rm -f conftest.texi
> 
> such a construct is more in line w/ autoconf usage philosophy
> (ie, don't check version; check desired features directly).

Not good enough: we also use the --enable-encoding command-line switch
to makeinfo.  It was also introduced in Texinfo 4.6.