[20158] in Athena Bugs
Re: update texinfo
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Stone)
Tue Feb 5 21:13:42 2002
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 21:13:39 EST
From: Larry Stone <lcs@MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: <lcs@MIT.EDU>
To: <yandros@MIT.EDU>
Cc: gnu@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:38:39 -0500
Message-ID: <CMM.0.90.4.1012961619.lcs@defiant.mit.edu>
> Many modern packages (including emacs) require texinfo 4.0, which is available
> in /usr/bin on athena linux machines, but the /usr/athena/bin and gnu locker
> versions are both 3.12. Unlike my recent request for gnu tar, texinfo 4.0 is
> `released' already. :-)
Yeah, it's long past time. I've installed texinfo-4.0 on the
supported 9.0 platforms: Solaris, Irix, Linux (i386_linux24).
They will appear with the nightly volume release tonight.
Note that texinfo includes a bunch of TeX macrology which I've installed
in /mit/gnu/share/texmf (and configured texi2dvi so it uses these files);
anyone using raw TeX to process texi files should put that in the TEXINPUTS
path. The copy of texinfo.tex in /usr/athena/share/texmf is fairly old.
Anyone inspired to build on other platforms should see the
relevant NOTES file and be sure to use the latest build-std script
from the writable volume if you do it before tomorrow.
-- Larry
