Re: Texinfo 6.2 released

[Gavin Smith]

On 10 September 2016 at 15:31, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Gavin Smith <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 14:55:44 +0100
>> Cc: Texinfo <address@hidden>
>>
>> We have released version 6.2 of Texinfo, the GNU documentation system.
>
> This doesn't build the Perl extensions on my system, because:
>
>   checking ./TestXS.la
>   found ./TestXS.la
>   TestXS object version 6.2 does not match bootstrap parameter 6.0 at 
> TestXS.pm line 173, <$fh> line 8. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>   BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at TestXS.pm line 183.
>   Compilation failed in require at ./fail.pl line 1.
>   checking whether we can build Perl extension (XS) modules... no
>
> And indeed TestXS.pm states 6.0 instead of 6.2.  If I change that to
> 6.2, the extensions are built just fine, and pass all the tests.
>
> Both pretests I tried did build the extensions.
>
> Thanks.

Yes, that was a mistake. I guess we'll have to issue a 6.3 release
with this fixed.