Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 02:14:08 -0400 From: Scott Kenney <saken+freebsd-stable@hotel.rmta.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world failing because of missing unroff Message-ID: <19991014021408.C87437@hotel.rmta.org> In-Reply-To: <12980.939814766@axl.noc.iafrica.com> References: <v04205507b42a1e181e61@[195.238.21.204]> <12980.939814766@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 01:39:26PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:35:03 +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: > > > That's fine, but you shouldn't need anything outside of the > > normal source tree to support those tools, right? > > Wrong. > > The doc tree isn't the src tree at all. Just because the source tree is > supplied with source for all the programs used to build it doesn't mean > it should be supplied with the source for the programs needed to build > the doc tree. I think Brad's point is that the tools needed to build the Doc tree should be included in the doc tree. At one point Nik was working on doing this, I don't know if he still has it on his todo list or not. -- Scott Kenney >|< saken@hotel.rmta.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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