I did a git clone of texinfo, changed to the texinfo-7.0 branch and tried to build it. It didn't work.
I ran autogen.sh and got the message:
Preparing Texinfo development infrastructure:
./tp/maintain/
regenerate_file_lists.pl (cd tp && ./maintain/regenerate_docstr.sh Makefile.docstr)
(cd tp/tests && ../maintain/regenerate_cmd_tests.sh Makefile.onetst . -base 'formatting sectioning indices nested_formats contents layout' -tex_html 'tex_html' -other 'other')
aclocal -I gnulib/m4 && autoconf && autoheader && automake
doc/Makefile.am: error: 'doc/texi2any_api.texi' missing @setfilename
Afterwards, I run configure, but it fails:
config.status: error: cannot find input file: `doc/Makefile.in'
However, if I download the texinfo-7.0 tarballs, everything works fine.
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