texinfo 4.11 breaks binutils (at least)

[Chris MacGregor]

Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 11:16:52AM -0800, Chris MacGregor wrote:
>
>   
>> Building on Fedora 7, a relatively recent update brought texinfo 4.11 
>> (Fedora's 4.11-1, though 4.11-2 is no better), replacing the 4.8-15 
>> previously in place.  This broke building binutils (2.17).
>>     
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=345621
>   
Thanks for the pointer, Lennert - I guess I should have looked there. 
That's funny. (For those who are curious but not enough so to read the 
bug: the check for a high-enough makeinfo broke because the regexp 
wasn't expecting a double-digit minor version number. Not like such 
versions are unusual in GNU software...)

Chris

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