Hi Branden, G. Branden Robinson wrote on Sat, Jun 04, 2022 at 08:58:14PM -0500:
> While I have you, Deri raised a point in Savannah #62251 that I'd like As you correctly say below, #62551. > your feedback on. He feels the weight of a TeX installation; other > people probably will too. It involved re-complexifying doc/doc.am a > little bit, but I assuredly don't want to resurrect '--with-doc'. > > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62551 FWIW, i don't object to making "make all" and "make install" work from a git checkout if the tools for building groff.pdf are unavailable, and simply skip building and installing groff.pdf in that case. I expect that will cause very little complexity, not at all comparable to the bygone --with-doc horror show. Of course, that implies that subsequently, "make dist" will inevitably fail, so it won't help much for a serious developer who wants to do complete testing of whatever changes they are considering. Then again, maybe it helps some end-users who want to run groff-current without having to bother with TeX, and who are content with "info groff" and feel comfortable without groff.pdf. Yours, Ingo P.S. I'm posting this here rather than in #62551 because it would really be badly misplaced there.
