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How to upgrade / update makeinfo / texinfo from 4.8 to 4.13 on macOSX terminal command line?

I already have makeinfo 4.8 installed. Command input $ makeinfo --version

returns makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.8

.

I want to update the version to the latest 4.13. I found relevant information here and here . I'm new to command line / bash / git ... Please help me, really appreciate!

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In this case, you don't need the dragonfly (or git) commands:

configure: error: You do not seem to have makeinfo >= 4.13, and your
source tree does not seem to have pre-built manuals in the 'info' directory.
Either install a suitable version of makeinfo, or re-run configure
with the '--without-makeinfo' option to build without the manuals.

I tried brew install texinfo

and then brew ln texinfo --force

and now it makeinfo --version

showstexi2any (GNU texinfo) 6.3



Note what jmq commented ::

If you are using brew

to install, make sure you have it /usr/local/opt/texinfo/bin

in your path and it is up /usr/bin

.
Version 4.8 of this tool on Mac (10.12.6) is in /usr/bin/makeinfo

.
If this path is before the last one, then it will not find the latest version installed brew

.

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