Gcc mainline failed to build with texinfo 4.6

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> > 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?

It might work.  The macros we have have been a bit fragile (note that one
has different implementations for TeX and makeinfo), and given there are
three different macro implementations to work with (TeX, eTeX as used by
texi2dvi >= 4.7 and makeinfo) I'd be wary of adding macros as an
alternative to requiring a makeinfo version that avoids the need for those
macros.

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