Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 10:15:17 -0800 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@googlemail.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org, Ulrich Sp?rlein <uqs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RFC vgrind in base (and buildworld) Message-ID: <20110122181517.GA30908@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20110122105825.71abfd71@ernst.jennejohn.org> References: <20110120201740.GE24444@acme.spoerlein.net> <20110121222008.GB65811@acme.spoerlein.net> <20110122105825.71abfd71@ernst.jennejohn.org>
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On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:58:25AM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 23:20:09 +0100 > Ulrich Sp?rlein <uqs@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > On Thu, 20.01.2011 at 21:17:40 +0100, Ulrich Sp?rlein wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > Currently our buildworld relies on groff(1) and vgrind(1) being present > > > in the host system. I have a patch ready that at least makes sure these > > > are built during bootstrap-tools and completes the WITHOUT_GROFF flag. > > > > > > vgrind(1) is only used for two papers under share/doc and we could > > > easily expand the results and commit them to svn directly, alleviating > > > the need to run vgrind(1) during buildworld. > > > > > > OTOH, there are much more useful tools to vgrind(1) for source code > > > formatting. So do we still have vgrind(1) users out there? > > > > > > Regards, > > > Uli > > > > [trying to get this thread back on track] > > > > Does anyone actually care about vgrind in base? Will people be angry if > > I unroll the 2 cases where it is used under share/doc? > > > > I personally have never used vgrind, but since it's available as part of > /usr/ports/textproc/heirloom-doctools IMO it would be safe to remove it > from base, maybe with a note in UPDATING. AFAICT, heirloom-doctools does not work on 64-bit platforms. vgrind may be ok but nroff and troff die rather quickly with a segfault when it tries to use a macro package such as mdoc. -- Steve
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