Re: make error: please check usage.makeinfo.log for errors

[David Kastrup]

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:

>>> All the error and warning messages you are getting deserve fixes,
>>> but given that 5.1 is about 20 or more times slower than 4.13,
>>> there's currently no gain to update.
>> 
>> [...] for a normal "make" which builds documentation without images,
>> the added time at the end is already a slight nuisance now.  Factor
>> 20 would definitely make this larger.
>
> Indeed.
>
>> Maybe Texinfo 5 would provide a better path into our indexing
>> problems.  But that's pure speculation.
>
> Well, texinfo 5 is certainly superior to 4.13.  However, it is
> completely written in Perl, and unless some parts of it are rewritten
> in a compiled language, the lack of speed will stay.  Patrice will
> probably work on it after the TeXLive 2013 release, and I hope that
> there are improvements soon w.r.t. velocity – maybe we can do the
> transition next year.

As we don't distribute makeinfo, we don't have much of a choice in that.
The only thing we pick ourselves is the version of texinfo.tex.  And of
course, what we put into GUB.  As distributions move on to Texinfo 5, we
are going to get a rather awkward transitioning problem.

-- 
David Kastrup