Re: [Groff] new automake system

[Blake McBride]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:

>
> > 2.  users who build groff from source
>
> This is, they are using officially distributed `.tar.gz' archives for
> compilation and installation (snapshots tarballs of the git repository
> don't belong to this type).
>

Actually, I belong to this type (users who build groff from source), but I
always use the latest git version, and not any official release, because it
often contains corrections that are important to me.



> > 3.  users who modify or enhance groff source code - groff developers
>
> Such people compile directly from the git repository, or they use
> tarball snapshots of it.
>
> > The type of user I am referring to is number 2.
>
> OK.
>
> > Are you saying that type 2 users are still supposed to use
> > ./configure and not ./bootstrap?
>
> Yes.  The distributed tarballs will have a `configure' script as
> before, and the necessary tools for building will be exactly the same.
>
>
>     Werner
>