On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> wrote:
> > > 2. users who build groff from source > > This is, they are using officially distributed `.tar.gz' archives for > compilation and installation (snapshots tarballs of the git repository > don't belong to this type). > Actually, I belong to this type (users who build groff from source), but I always use the latest git version, and not any official release, because it often contains corrections that are important to me. > > 3. users who modify or enhance groff source code - groff developers > > Such people compile directly from the git repository, or they use > tarball snapshots of it. > > > The type of user I am referring to is number 2. > > OK. > > > Are you saying that type 2 users are still supposed to use > > ./configure and not ./bootstrap? > > Yes. The distributed tarballs will have a `configure' script as > before, and the necessary tools for building will be exactly the same. > > > Werner >