texinfo

Downgrade texinfo on CentOS 7.0 (64bit) to version 4.13

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Recently we had to download texinfo from version 5.1 to any version less than version 5 series.
We used texinfo version 4.13 which is the latest in the version 4 series.

We were trying to compile some tools using an older version of gcc. Instead of using 4.8.5, we used 4.8.2 to achieve our goal and that caused a problem with some .texi files.

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#Making sure we are not missing any 32bit libraries since we are on a 64bit machine
yum install glibc.i686 ncurses-libs.i686;
#Download the source code
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.13.tar.gz;
#Extract the files
tar -zxf texinfo-4.13.tar.gz;
#Navigate to the folder
cd texinfo-4.13;
#Configure the installation and make all necessary checks
./configure;
#Build
make;
#Install
sudo make install;