[RFC] Replace gnu groff in base by heirloom doctools

[David Chisnall]

On 14 May 2015, at 09:59, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 09:55:19AM +0100, David Chisnall wrote:
>> On 14 May 2015, at 01:02, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> - it is partially CDDL partially BSD license.
>> 
>> We currently have a WITHOUT_CDDL knob that some people use.  If we don’t build the CDDL parts, what will break?
>> 
> Exactly the same thing that breaks right now WITHOUT_GNU and/or WITHOUT_CXX aka
> you won't have the main part of the toolchain (aka troff/nroff)

But man pages will still work via mandoc?  WITHOUT_GNU is known not to work (though we’re trying to address that with 11).  WITHOUT_CDDL is generally expected to give a working system currently.

David