Re: How to build groff (was: Install hiccups with groff 1.23.0 tarball)

[Deri]

On Sunday, 23 May 2021 09:27:13 BST G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Yes.  The problem here is that you're neither bootstrapping _from a Git
> repository_, nor from a distribution tarball.  A snapshot archive is
> neither fish nor fowl and apparently we have no documentation
> instructing people how to build from it.  I'm a bit curious what the
> story is behind the prominence of Savannah's offering of this service
> given that probably next to no one builds software from the archives it
> produces.  (But see below.)


I thought the difference between the snapshots and a git clone was the former 
had no 
dependency on running bootstrap, the configure script had already been created 
before 
the snapshot was built. Certainly true for some of the snapshots on the 
download page 
referenced by Oliver.