Re: [Groff] new automake system

[Ingo Schwarze]

Hi Blake,

Blake McBride wrote on Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:01:15PM -0500:

> 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?

Exactly.  Type 2 users build from release tarballs, not from git
checkouts, so they never get to see ./bootstrap.

The same holds for group 2.5, that is, porters building packages
for downstream operating systems, by the way.
They use release tarballs and don't need ./bootstrap, either.

Yours,
  Ingo