1Debian groff build process
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4People starting new ports of Debian should be aware that there is a circular
5build-dependency between the groff and xfree86 source packages. Fortunately,
6in both cases this is in order to build optional components: xfree86 needs
7groff to build some of its documentation, and groff needs xfree86 to build
8the gxditview display program.
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10To build groff without xfree86 installed, set the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS
11environment variable to include the string "no-groff-x11". Please do not
12upload packages to the Debian archive that have been built in this way.
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14The gs, netpbm, and psutils build-dependencies need not be satisfied while
15bootstrapping. They are only necessary to build HTML documentation.
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17Once a new port has been fully bootstrapped, there should be no problems
18building groff routinely as with any other package.
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20 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Tue, 22 Jan 2002 14:18:58 +0000
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