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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


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