From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: makeinfo 4.7 Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 01:59:08 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87y7t5x4ur.fsf@jurta.org> References: <200608261711.k7QHBUS15318@f7.net> <85lkpaywjk.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85irkd3j86.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156979711 8373 80.91.229.2 (30 Aug 2006 23:15:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:15:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: karl@freefriends.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, storm@cua.dk Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 31 01:15:10 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 1GIZGv-0002zr-Rq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 01:15:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GIZGv-0006n0-Ai for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:15:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GIZGh-0006lQ-Bi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:14:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GIZGg-0006kF-2D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:14:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GIZGf-0006jp-PJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:14:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [62.64.120.200] (helo=relay01.kiev.sovam.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GIZQ9-0004ae-K2; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:24:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay01.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GIZGc-000EgG-7f; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 02:14:42 +0300 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 30 Aug 2006 12:57:22 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 4204c266f86c3e9b1e0231505dd73b85 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 230 [August 29 2006] X-SpamTest-Info: {received from trusted relay: not dialup} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Method: Local Lists X-SpamTest-Rate: 0 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0242], KAS30/Release 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:59133 Archived-At: >> Just like we prefer that users upgrade to the latest version of emacs >> (to avoid spending time on bug reports for older versions), I'm sure >> the maintainers of makeinfo also prefer people to use the latest >> version. >> >> So why should emacs (of all projects) not use an up-to-date version of >> makeinfo? I don't see the problem at all. 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). But there were only two errors in the whole build process: in two Info files cc-mode.texi and rcirc.texi, since the version of Texinfo on this server is 4.3: makeinfo --force cc-mode.texi cc-mode.texi:1628: Unknown command `headitem'. cc-mode.texi:1661: Unknown command `headitem'. make[1]: *** [../info/ccmode] Error 2 makeinfo --force rcirc.texi rcirc.texi:122: Unknown command `indicateurl'. rcirc.texi:122: Misplaced {. rcirc.texi:122: Misplaced }. rcirc.texi:428: Unknown command `indicateurl'. rcirc.texi:428: Misplaced {. rcirc.texi:428: Misplaced }. make[1]: *** [../info/rcirc] Error 2 Due to these errors I was unable to consult the Info documentation from the rest of Info files that should be created after the compilation that was interrupted by makeinfo errors. And I had no time/need to update Texinfo on this server. Please change back these two directives to backward-compatible ones. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/