[RFC] Replace gnu groff in base by heirloom doctools

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 10:13:18AM +0100, David Chisnall wrote:
> 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.

Yes since I switched the default manpage renderer to mandoc(1) :) (meaning that
WITHOUT_GNU is also not blocking manpage rendering)

Best regards,
Bapt
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