Re: Automake (was Re: testing things in the groff project?)

[G. Branden Robinson]

At 2024-11-21T23:57:07-0600, Dave Kemper wrote:
> One can find documentation essential but also realize it doesn't have
> to live on every system that one might want to build the software
> itself on.  We've had these things called "networks" for a couple
> years now that free us of the necessity of having separate copies of
> documentation everywhere.
> 
> Sure, there's plenty to be said for having locally available
> documentation that's guaranteed to reflect the version of the software
> on that machine.  But there's also plenty to be said for allowing
> groff to be installed on tiny systems using a bare minimum of
> prerequisite packages.

We used to support this, but it bit-rotted to the point that it became
difficult to reliably build the documentation when it _was_ desired.

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=3805d2a0e4aebb84d896f86285fd565488e849bb

Regards,
Branden

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