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Compatibility with older Info browsers
- To: ac131313 at cygnus dot com, shebs at apple dot com
- Subject: Compatibility with older Info browsers
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at delorie dot com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 16:43:18 -0400 (EDT)
- CC: gdb-patches at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
It turns out that makeinfo from Texinfo 4.0 produces Info files that
are incompatible with older Info readers, even if the Texinfo sources
don't use any features introduced with Texinfo 4.0.
The problem happens because Texinfo 4.0 uses the new Ref: tag for
footnote nodes, and old Info readers choke when they see Ref:.
The only way out of this mess is to use makeinfo 3.12 when preparing
the distribution :-(.