Re: problems with info version when compiling latest emacs

Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.apple.fink.general
Organization Snaggled Works
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 4/8/22 1:33 AM, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> As we discussed some weeks ago, I want to look into how to upgrade the
> current fink emacs version (26) to the current (28).
> 
> As a starting point I tried to compile the current master.
> 
> While this worked last year, now emacs refuses because of an outdated
> info version (fink provides)
> 
> Fink ships 4.8 while GNU emacs now requires 4.13. Maybe emacs 28 does
> not, still require 4.13 and I can also talk with the Emacs folks, but
> maybe it would not be bad to upgrade finks info version?

Can you provide the actual error you're seeing?
We have texinfo-6.8, which provides info v6.8 (we also have 
texinfo-legacy 4.13 in case something needs the older texinfo).

$ /sw/bin/info --version
info (GNU texinfo) 6.8
$ dpkg -S /sw/bin/info
info: /sw/bin/info

Hanspeter
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