bug#9050: coreutils-8.12 problem with creating coreutils.info

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake wrote:
> On 07/11/2011 06:38 AM, Joachim Schmitz wrote:
>> coreutils.texi:1032: Unknown command
>> `/www.validlab.com/@/goldberg/@/paper.pdf)'.
>
> @/ is a recently added texinfo command for optional line-break, and
> since it is not understood by makeinfo 4.2 that explains your error
> message.  We ought to patch bootstrap.conf to list the minimum
> prerequisite makeinfo that we actually do support during bootstrap
> (right now bootstrap.conf doesn't have any version check on makeinfo).
>
> Meanwhile, as Paul said, makeinfo should only be required during
> bootstrap, not when building from a tarball.

Good idea.
Anything you'd change, before I push it in your name?

>From 7a8e474feb04e5753052b01c461bbca0c966ad88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:05:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] build: list makeinfo 4.13 as a build-from-git requirement

* bootstrap.conf (buildreq): List 4.13 as minimum makeinfo version,
now that we use its new "@/" command for optional line-break.
Prompted by Joachim Schmitz's report in http://debbugs.gnu.org/9050.
---
 THANKS.in      |    1 +
 bootstrap.conf |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/THANKS.in b/THANKS.in
index 4bbee80..90d04d8 100644
--- a/THANKS.in
+++ b/THANKS.in
@@ -278,6 +278,7 @@ Jesse Thilo                         address@hidden
 Jie Xu                              address@hidden
 Jim Blandy                          address@hidden
 Jim Dennis                          address@hidden
+Joachim Schmitz                     address@hidden
 Joakim Rosqvist                     address@hidden
 Jochen Hein                         address@hidden
 Joe Orton                           address@hidden
diff --git a/bootstrap.conf b/bootstrap.conf
index 08bfc21..d91bee0 100644
--- a/bootstrap.conf
+++ b/bootstrap.conf
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ gettext    0.17
 git        1.4.4
 gperf      -
 gzip       -
-makeinfo   -
+makeinfo   4.13
 patch      -
 perl       5.5
 rsync      -
--
1.7.6.430.g34be2