Re: Texinfo 4.11 required [Re: Autotester: FAIL make -f lilypond.make LILYPOND_BRANCH=master doc-build]

[Rune Zedeler]

John Mandereau skrev:

> that's why
> building docs in lilypond/gdp and master branch now require Texinfo
> 4.11.
>
> This was already discussed on -devel,

Was it?
I cannot find any discussion about this in the archive.
The latest ubuntu - 7.10 - less than one month old - is still at texinfo 
4.8.
Am I the only one who thinks that requiring a texinfo that new is very 
unfortunate?
Especially when we try to get more users to contribute to the documentation.

And ESPECIALLY because I find texinfo difficult to build.
Here, it barks with

...
terminal.o: In function `terminal_delete_lines':
/tmp/texinfo-4.11/info/terminal.c:365: undefined reference to `tgoto'
/tmp/texinfo-4.11/info/terminal.c:365: undefined reference to `tputs'
/tmp/texinfo-4.11/info/terminal.c:369: undefined reference to `tputs'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [ginfo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/texinfo-4.11/info'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/texinfo-4.11/info'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/texinfo-4.11'
make: *** [all] Error 2
$

-Rune