Re: ffmpeg documentation no longer builds after Texinfo 7.1 (due to --init-file=)

[Gavin Smith]

On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 07:20:05PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > I don't know how ffmpeg or other packages are supposed to adapt to the
> > new interface.  Perhaps we could put special case code in get_conf to
> > check for "PACKAGE_VERSION" and redirect to the new interface?
> 
> That seems complicated.  To adapt to the change in name of the variable,
> they can try both PACKAGE_VERSION and PACKAGE_VERSION_OPTION with
> get_conf, that seems ok to me?

If there is still a customization variable to access for this, then
I don't see why the name has to be changed.  I haven't had any new thoughts
on this since my previous emails on the topic, I'm afraid.  I remember
that not using PACKAGE_VERSION was mainly due to a clash with a symbol
defined by automake or autoconf, which is an implementation problem that
we could try to work around, rather than changing our public interface.
I'll try to propose a change once I've had time to look at it.