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Re: [Groff] new automake system
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Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] new automake system |
Date: |
Wed, 24 Sep 2014 18:26:44 +0200 (CEST) |
> Making it more dependent on versions of other software that are
> _currently_ available on the Internet means that older copies of
> groff will no longer build when those other repositories have moved,
> are no longer available, or old versions of those libraries are not
> where expected.
How on earth do you come to that conclusion? If you check out an old
version of groff, you simply regenerate the `configure' script, and
that's it.
> We are becoming increasingly dependent on a moving target.
> ./configure had a much less problem with this. This is a big issue.
This is *not* an issue at all. I have to repeat: The end-user will
*always* see `configure', and nothing else! *Nothing* changes.
Werner
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, (continued)
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Werner LEMBERG, 2014/09/25
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Blake McBride, 2014/09/23
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Bertrand Garrigues, 2014/09/23
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Blake McBride, 2014/09/23
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Bertrand Garrigues, 2014/09/23
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Blake McBride, 2014/09/23
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Werner LEMBERG, 2014/09/24
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Werner LEMBERG, 2014/09/24
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Blake McBride, 2014/09/24
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Blake McBride, 2014/09/24
- Re: [Groff] new automake system,
Werner LEMBERG <=
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Blake McBride, 2014/09/24
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Werner LEMBERG, 2014/09/24
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Ralph Corderoy, 2014/09/24
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Blake McBride, 2014/09/24
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Ralph Corderoy, 2014/09/25
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Werner LEMBERG, 2014/09/25
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Dave Kemper, 2014/09/27
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Werner LEMBERG, 2014/09/27
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Dave Kemper, 2014/09/27
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Ingo Schwarze, 2014/09/24