Re: [Groff] Bugs in grohtml

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > I was frustrated a while back trying to compile the CVS groff for
> > Mac OS X, when fink (unix utils for OS X) had not yet upgraded to
> > the latest texinfo, and the texinfo source itself would not
>       ^^^^^^
> > compile without
>
> "Latest" is the keyword here.  It's frustrating that groff needs a
> bleeding edge version (as in "not in Debian Woody" ;-) of texinfo.

I don't think so.  Tell me a reason why I should use old versions of
tools which eventually don't show up at all in a release tarball!  CVS
is always something for developers; the list of prerequisites is given
in README.CVS:

  the netpbm package
  texinfo >= 4.3
  bison >= 1.875b or byacc
  ghostscript


    Werner