Dear All, I wanted to have a better understanding of the current state of groff, and downloaded groff-1.23.0 from https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git, following the link from https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/#downloading.
So far so good, I downloaded the tarball, unpacked it, wanted to configure everything, found no ./configure file. Found no INSTALL instructions either. It did not come to my mind that the necessary information is contained in INSTALL.REPO (my usual experience being that all suffixed INSTALL.{xxx} files only contain typically platform-specific information). That hurdle taken, I ./bootstrap -ped, duly installing all missing software which was required (among others, git and libtool; I haven't done any compiling of source code since around 2005, exactly when git entered the scene, so I completely missed that). Finally, no more complaints about missing pieces of software, but ... : ./bootstrap: Bootstrapping from checked-out troff sources... ./bootstrap: getting gnulib files... fatal: not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /) Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set). Here I've reached the end of my road. Dave suggested that I post this message here. Best regards, Oliver.