Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 09:07:53 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Bootstrapping issues with groff(1) Message-ID: <3A3509E9.F1D19305@cup.hp.com> References: <20001208181908.A12716@sunbay.com> <3A319751.D2C9E5AB@cup.hp.com> <20001209154347.A78374@sunbay.com> <3A329641.CC6D8447@cup.hp.com> <20001211094815.D96665@sunbay.com>
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Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 12:29:54PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 06:22:09PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > > > Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > > > > > > > The attached patches (p4 and p5) try to solve this bootstrapping > > > > > problem with groff(1). > > > > > > > > Sorry, I missed this statement before. What exactly are the > > > > bootstrapping problems you're seeing? > > > > > > > New groff(1) provides new versions of macro packages and device > > > files. When building, we should use THEM rather than installed > > > (obsolete) ones. > > > > Is the old groff(1) incompatible with the new groff(1) in the sense that > > manpages created with the old groff(1) are visibly different from the > > manpages created with the new groff(1)? > > > Once again. groff(1) supplies macro packages and device description > files. New groff is likely to provide modified files. This, I don't care about. We're never going to use an old groff(1) with the new files or vice versa. From a usage point of view, I don't care about the implementation, just the interface. Let me rephrase the question: Did you modify the manpages to get it to work with the new groff(1) or is the new groff(1) backward compatible with the old groff(1)? -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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