1Debian groff build process 2-------------------------- 3 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. 9 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. 13 14The gs, netpbm, and psutils build-dependencies need not be satisfied while 15bootstrapping. They are only necessary to build HTML documentation. 16 17Once a new port has been fully bootstrapped, there should be no problems 18building groff routinely as with any other package. 19 20 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jan 2002 14:18:58 +0000 21