Re: [Groff] Documentation for -mom

2014-10-15 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Ups, hello, Ingo Schwarze wrote: |Peter Schaffter wrote on Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 08:26:45PM -0400: |> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014, Ingo Schwarze wrote: | |>> Given that the build systems disables building HTML documentation |>> when some support software is missing on the target system and |>> that

Re: [Groff] Documentation for -mom

2014-10-15 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: |Ups, hello, Ups ups, the new symbols also need to become exported down the Makefile chain (via MDEFINES, but don't ask me GNU auto*), which i had forgotten in the first patch. Identical otherwise. P.S.: i dislike that the list manager removes committer addresses in Cc:

Re: [Groff] Documentation for -mom

2014-10-15 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Ingo, > > Remember the bad old days of FVWM, with its humungous, unindexed, > > un-cross-linked manpage? It was correct, complete, concise (despite > > its length), easy to access--and pure, off-putting hell to wade > > through. > > Heh, i'm using fvwm right as i'm typing here. It just works

Re: [Groff] new automake system

2014-10-15 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Werner, Werner LEMBERG wrote on Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:35:26AM +0200: > Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> - it prefers /usr/local/bin/gsed over /usr/bin/sed >> - it prefers /usr/local/bin/bison over /usr/bin/yacc >> >> Prefering the GNU versions over the native POSIX versions >> is bad because it ca

Re: [Groff] new automake system

2014-10-15 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> In the GNU/Linux world, many systems (apart from the kernel and > maybe the coreutils and maybe a very small number of other > components) consist of a variable set of packages, and each > distribution, and to a certain extent each user, is free to assemble > their system from whatever component

Re: [Groff] Documentation for -mom

2014-10-15 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Ups ups, the new symbols also need to become exported down the > Makefile chain (via MDEFINES, but don't ask me GNU auto*), which i > had forgotten in the first patch. Identical otherwise. Peter, please take care of that. Werner

Re: [Groff] new automake system

2014-10-15 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Werner, Werner LEMBERG wrote on Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 05:28:47PM +0200: >> In the GNU/Linux world, many systems (apart from the kernel and >> maybe the coreutils and maybe a very small number of other >> components) consist of a variable set of packages, and each >> distribution, and to a certa

Re: [Groff] release ready

2014-10-15 Thread Dave Kemper
The content of TODO and tmac/TODO was last touched over ten years ago. Last year, Werner wrote (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2013-11/msg00105.html) that the top-level TODO was obsolete. Is the best approach to delete the file, or replace its content with a pointer to the bug tracker?