Thanks for the response. IMO, if the new make system requires a download of something that is already built and installed on my machine, then the new make system is significantly worse than using the standard ./configure.
Thanks. Blake On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Bertrand Garrigues < bertrand.garrig...@laposte.net> wrote: > Hello Blake, > > On Tue, Sep 23 2014 at 09:04:33 PM, Blake McBride <bl...@mcbride.name> > wrote: > > I am using 64 bit Linux Mint 16. I can build groff just fine. When I > > try the new build system as shown below, bootstrap starts downloading > > gnulib. It shouldn't need it. I already have what groff needs to > > build. > > Well, that's how gnulib works when it is integrated. You download its > git repository as a git submodule. However you only have to do this > once, and in the distributed tarball only the files that are needed are > added (in gnulib_m4 and in lib). > > Regards, > > -- > Bertrand Garrigues > >
