Bug#889647: mpfr 4.0 branch fails to build with texinfo.tex from automake
Hi Vincent,
I cannot add much to your email, all correct.
> > I assume texinfo's version of texinfo.tex is too old as well for the
> > mpfr4 build,
>
> Probably, but maybe for a different reason. The current version
> from the texinfo package does not support @var in exponent or
> subscript as it yields a "\scriptfont 5 is undefined" error:
Indeed. That is fixed (partially) in the current SVN version, and an
updated texinfo files can be downloaded from the fnu server.
If you think it is worth it, I can patch the texinfo package to update
texinfo.tex
-\def\texinfoversion{2017-08-23.19}
+\def\texinfoversion{2018-01-09.11}
> (possibly patched, which would be the case now, but otherwise it seems
> that in general, this file is up-to-date as upstream texinfo has quite
See above, I can patch it.
> the symlink target, or it should be a separate package with the
> /usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo files, similar to autotools-dev.
I don't see the need for a separate package, though.
Best
Norbert
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