Re: [Groff] new automake system

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> A regular, nightly?, tarball produced from git with `make
>> distcheck' would package up a ./configure so that you could use it
>> and not git and need less installed/downloaded.  But I don't know
>> if one exists, or if anyone has the time to set it up as a
>> contribution.
> 
> This existed until the move from CVS to git.  [...]

This is not correct.  Those were simple tarballs, just packing
whatever the CVS contained.  In case `configure.ac' was newer than the
`configure' script in CVS, the buildscript wouldn't update `configure'
automatically.

> Does whatever script created these daily tarballs from CVS require
> major reconstruction to use git to do the same thing?

You need an environment with all the necessary tools to run
`./bootstrap && ./configure && make dist'.  To run this series of
commands, a separate host is necessary – savannah.gnu.org isn't the
right place for that.

> It does seem there's a bit of a gulf between "user who wants to
> build from the latest source" and "developer."

It's not rocket science.  Running `bootstrap' will tell you exactly
what you need in case something is still missing, IIRC.


    Werner