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Re: Texinfo 4.13.91 on Solaris 9 with perl 5.6 (was: texinfo-4.13.91 pre


From: Patrice Dumas
Subject: Re: Texinfo 4.13.91 on Solaris 9 with perl 5.6 (was: texinfo-4.13.91 pretest available)
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:24:21 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10)

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:33:53AM +0100, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> 
> Perl version is 5.6.1.  Maybe the Encode module should be bundled
> within the Texinfo tarball, for better compatibility?

I don't think so, for the reason you state, Encode should be
present when the corresponding perl is present.

> So the new Texinfo is not going to work with older perls apparently.
> Given that, I think you should add a configure-time check on the perl
> version, so that the user will be warned if his perl is too old,
> instead of just seeing a misterious failure at build time.

In fact, running texi2any from the build tree should only be needed to
regenerate info files, doc/tp_api texis, man pages and for tests.  
For some of those there are automake conditionals, for man pages, we
distribute results so there should not be a need for running texi2any.

We could avoid regenerating info files if we shipped them.  Or we could
add a test for perl with Encode similarly with the checks used to set
automake conditionals.

Karl, what would you prefer?

-- 
Pat



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