Re: makeinfo 4.7

[Miles Bader]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>> 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).
>
> Why would you not upgrade the server?  It has reached end of service
> long ago.  There are not even security updates anymore.

When I have to install emacs on an old machine, and feel too annoyed to
update makeinfo, I just don't install the manuals!  Usually I only use
emacs casually on those machines anyway...

Doesn't seem like a big deal to me.

-Miles
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