On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 10:47:29PM -0500, Dave Kemper wrote: > On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 5:31 AM Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> wrote: > > I've omitted README.git to ensure that we still warn people who don't > > know what they're doing that running "./bootstrap" may not be the right > > place to start. > > *raises hand* I am one of those who don't know what they're doing -- > at least as regards the build system. When I build groff from git, I > blindly follow the recipe Bertrand posted a few years ago > (http://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2020-11/msg00068.html), which starts > with the "./bootstrap" step. Is the above saying this step should be > removed, or replaced with something else?
No, it's still the right thing to do when building from git. > Or does this change only apply to tarballs, not git pulls? That. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]
