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

Question

I have makeinfo 4.8 already installed. Command line typing $ makeinfo --version returns makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.8.

I'd like to update the version to the latest 4.13. I've found relevant info here and here. I'm new to command line/bash/git... Please help me out, much appreciated!

Answer 1

Looking at this issue, you shouldn't need 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've tried brew install texinfo and then brew ln texinfo --force and now makeinfo --version shows texi2any (GNU texinfo) 6.3

Note, as commented by jmq::

If you use brew to install, make sure you have /usr/local/opt/texinfo/bin in your path, and it is before /usr/bin.
Version 4.8 of this tool on the Mac (10.12.6) is located in /usr/bin/makeinfo.
If this path is in front of the latter, then it will not find the latest version installed by brew.