Re: TeXInfo file fails to compile

[Hilmar Preusse]

On 10/7/26 8:00 PM, Gavin Smith wrote:

Hello Gavin,

I've attempted a fix for this particular manual in commit a6b8cc724e1a3b11f,
texinfo.tex version 2026-10-07.17.

First, I don't understand how this texinfo.tex is actually the one being
used.  I checked at https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo.tex and the
currently uploaded version is version "2026-06-01.16", which is from
before the date where you found the problem started (July 23rd).  I can
only guess that the Automake developers pulled in the version from the Texinfo
git repository to use.

As discussed in [1] automake will probably return to the officially

released texinfo.tex. However in the latest commit, they just pulled in the \def\texinfoversion{2026-10-07.17}.

Anyway. Many thanks for your extensive explanation, it was helpful!

Hilmar

[1] https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=82017

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