Gcc mainline failed to build with texinfo 4.6

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 07:12:23PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Jonathan Lennox wrote:
> 
> > Would it work to just put the texinfo commands
> > 
> > @unmacro comma
> > @macro comma
> > ,
> > @end comma
> > 
> > somewhere in the header of sourcebuild.texi?  It seems like that should work
> > both for <=4.6 and for 4.7, from my reading of the 4.6 texinfo manual.
> 
> Maybe.  Given the warning in the manual
> 
>    * It is not advisable to redefine any TeX primitive, plain, or
>      Texinfo command name as a macro. Unfortunately this is a very large
>      set of names, and the possible resulting errors are completely
>      random.
> 
> I think doing so is best avoided.

So use @macro gcccomma?

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz