Fwd: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/automake

[John Marino]

On 6/4/2012 22:51, Justin Sherrill wrote:
> We have texinfo 4.13 in DragonFly 3.0; automake 1.13, which is not yet
> in pkgsrc, requires 4.9, from what I'm reading in the forwarded note
> below.  Anyone want to update texinfo?
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Bernd Ernesti<netbsd at lists.veego.de>
> Date: Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 4:43 PM
> Subject: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/automake
> To: pkgsrc-users at netbsd.org
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 09:18:30PM +0000, Thomas Klausner wrote:
>> Module Name:  pkgsrc
>> Committed By: wiz
>> Date:         Sun Jun  3 21:18:30 UTC 2012
>>
>> Modified Files:
>>        pkgsrc/devel/automake: Makefile distinfo
>>
>> Log Message:
>> Update to 1.12.1:
>>
>> New in 1.12.1:
>>
>> * WARNING: Future backward-incompatibilities!
>>
> [..]
>
>>    - Starting from the next major Automake version (1.13), the rules to
>>      build pdf, ps and dvi output from Texinfo input will use the '--tidy'
>>      option by default.  Since such an option was introduced in Texinfo
>>      4.9, this means that Makefiles generated by future Automake versions
>>      will require at least that version of Texinfo.
>
> That will be an issue with the texinfo version in NetBSD which is still 4.8.
>
> Bernd
>


The way I read this, DragonFly has no problem.
Texinfo 4.9 is required, DragonFly has texinfo 4.13.  No need to update.
Also, texinfo 4.13 is the latest.

John