Re: Bootstrapping issues with groff(1)

[Marcel Moolenaar]

Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 06:22:09PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> > Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > >
> > > The attached patches (p4 and p5) try to solve this bootstrapping
> > > problem with groff(1).
> >
> > Sorry, I missed this statement before. What exactly are the
> > bootstrapping problems you're seeing?
> >
> New groff(1) provides new versions of macro packages and device
> files.  When building, we should use THEM rather than installed
> (obsolete) ones.

Is the old groff(1) incompatible with the new groff(1) in the sense that
manpages created with the old groff(1) are visibly different from the
manpages created with the new groff(1)?

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