RFC vgrind in base (and buildworld)

[Alexander Kabaev]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:17:40 +0100
Ulrich Spörlein <uqs at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Currently our buildworld relies on groff(1) and vgrind(1) being
> present in the host system. I have a patch ready that at least makes
> sure these are built during bootstrap-tools and completes the
> WITHOUT_GROFF flag.
> 
> vgrind(1) is only used for two papers under share/doc and we could
> easily expand the results and commit them to svn directly, alleviating
> the need to run vgrind(1) during buildworld.
> 
> OTOH, there are much more useful tools to vgrind(1) for source code
> formatting. So do we still have vgrind(1) users out there?
> 
> Regards,
> Uli

Why it needs to be in bootsrap tools at all? We have build tools for
this exact purpose.

-- 
Alexander Kabaev
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