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!
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 thenbrew ln texinfo --force
and now itmakeinfo --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 installedbrew
.