RFC vgrind in base (and buildworld)

[Alexander Kabaev]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:11:43 +0100
Ulrich Spörlein <uqs at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 20.01.2011 at 15:31:03 -0500, Alexander Kabaev wrote:
> > 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
> > 
Just to respond to initial comment, I can live without vgrind in base
just fine, provided one cna be installed from ports (looks like that
is true). 

-- 
Alexander Kabaev
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