[Bug binutils/30703] bfd doc doesn't build anymore with makeinfo 4.12

[jbeulich at suse dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30703

--- Comment #4 from Jan Beulich <jbeulich at suse dot com> ---
(In reply to Nick Clifton from comment #3)
>   So the next question is - are you asking that commit 8bb23cdbb498 be
>   reverted, so that the docs will build with older versions of texinfo,
>   or that the top level configure.ac be updated to check for at least
>   texinfo 6.8 ?

Well, reverting is what I'm doing locally right now, but I don't view this as a
good option. Whether to encode the higher version requirement in the top level
configury I'm also not sure of - that largely depends if other sub-components'
doc would also soon require newer versions. Plus of course wouldn't that
require sync-ing with at least gcc? Would it be possible to limit this to bfd's
doc for now?

But of course all I really care about is that things build cleanly when
configure claims to be happy. I'm not sure what the policy is - it would of
course be nice for configure to not fail with too old makeinfo, but for it to
instead simply disable doc building (with an appropriate warning).

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