On Sat, Feb 17 2018 at 03:43:53 PM, Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 12:40:57PM +0000, Ralph Corderoy wrote: >> Hi Bertrand, >> >> > git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/groff.git >> > cd groff >> > git checkout 1.22.3.rc1 >> > ./bootstrap >> >> ./bootstrap fails here. autoconf 2.69-11 on Ubuntu 17.10. It seems >> ./configure has unexpanded m4 macros. > > This should just be a matter of amending INSTALL.REPO (and maybe > doc/automake.mom?) to note that you need pkg-config installed in order > to run ./bootstrap (because the .m4 file it ships must be available to > autoconf).
I'll add a check on the presence of pkg-config in m4/groff.m4 and update the doc. It should be documented in INSTALL.extra rather then INSTALL.REPO as INSTALL.REPO described the specificities of buildin from git. Regards, Bertrand
