Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 16:11:53 -0500 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bootstrapping issues with groff(1) Message-ID: <3A369499.2EE5D529@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> <3A3509E9.F1D19305@cup.hp.com> <20001212102344.B92312@sunbay.com> <20001212123054.A14459@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 10:23:44AM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > OK, I will augment the USRDIRS then, add the groff to bootstrap-tools, > > and leave the better (if one exists) implementation to someone else. > > Why does groff need to be a bootstrap-tool? Its not like we need to > build manpages that early in the build. There's no other place. Only bootstrap tools, cross tools and build tools are build in such a way that they can run on the build machine. You can't build it later than cross-tools. It's not a cross tool itself and definitely not a build tool. It must be a bootstrap tool then. -- 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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