From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 12 19:54: 4 2000 From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 12 19:54:03 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2C2B37B400; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 19:54:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from newsguy.com (p27-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.92]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id MAA19957; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:51:28 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3A36BB19.16EB73AA@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 08:56:09 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Ruslan Ermilov , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bootstrapping issues with groff(1) 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> <3A369499.2EE5D529@cup.hp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > > 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. It is used to build the man pages, isn't it? Why, then, it is not a build tool? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.great.underground.bsdconpiracy.org "The bronze landed last, which canceled that method of impartial choice." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message