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

[Graham Percival]

Rune Zedeler wrote:
> Am I the only one who thinks that requiring a texinfo that new is very 
> unfortunate?

Given how much it simplifies macros.texi, it's worth it.

> Especially when we try to get more users to contribute to the 
> documentation.

This is not a problem for GDP.  Trust me, I wrap my helpers in cotton. 
They don't even need to make their own diffs or find the source files 
themselves!

> 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

How odd.  I've built texinfo 4.11 on Debian/stable, OSX/fink, and 
Ubuntu/7.10  (which I'm using now), and I never had any problems.

Actually, now that I think about it, I had to install something like 
libncurses on Ubuntu... but it looked like a standard development 
library, so I didn't twice about it.

Cheers,
- Graham