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Re: [Groff] new automake system


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: [Groff] new automake system
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 19:13:32 +0200 (CEST)

> 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).

> 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



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