[PATCH] doc/ctf-spec.texi: Remove "@validatemenus off"

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Wed Nov 10 18:48:55 GMT 2021


On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 8:33 AM Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> On 10 Nov 2021, H. J. Lu stated:
>
> > On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 3:51 PM Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com> wrote:
> >> But it looks like we'll at least need to bump the texinfo requirement
> >> for ctf-spec.texi generation further, until some version that generates
> >> menus even in the absence of @validatemenus. The total lack of menution
> >> of all the refactorings in this area (or even the removal of
> >> @validatemenus) in the NEWS makes it quite hard to tell what version
> >> that might be... given that this is only a specfile it's probably
> >> acceptable to go all the way to 6.8 (iff I find that works).
> >
> > You can check with and without "@validatemenus off" using an older
> > textinfo.
>
> It seems to autogenerate menus fine all the way back to 6.3. I guess
> @validatemenus off was completely unnecessary after all and I don't need
> to change the minimum Texinfo version in libctf/configure.ac either :)
> so thanks for removing it!

Glad things worked out well.

-- 
H.J.


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