Re: [Groff] new automake system

[Blake McBride]

Dear Werner,

Perhaps I am confused.  Let's group users into three categories:

1.  users who create documents with an already built groff

2.  users who build groff from source

3.  users who modify or enhance groff source code - groff developers

The type of user I am referring to is number 2.

Are you saying that type 2 users are still supposed to use ./configure and
not ./bootstrap?

Thanks.

Blake


On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:

>
> > Making it more dependent on versions of other software that are
> > _currently_ available on the Internet means that older copies of
> > groff will no longer build when those other repositories have moved,
> > are no longer available, or old versions of those libraries are not
> > where expected.
>
> How on earth do you come to that conclusion?  If you check out an old
> version of groff, you simply regenerate the `configure' script, and
> that's it.
>
> > We are becoming increasingly dependent on a moving target.
> > ./configure had a much less problem with this.  This is a big issue.
>
> This is *not* an issue at all.  I have to repeat: The end-user will
> *always* see `configure', and nothing else!  *Nothing* changes.
>
>
>     Werner
>