Re: typesetting.{mom,pdf} and the groff build system (was: proposed "headline" items for groff 1.24.0)

"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.printing.groff.general
Message-ID <20260203112939.vd3rx3lgzn67hp6c@illithid>
[self-follow-up]

At 2026-02-01T14:31:40-0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
[...]
> So, action items for me:
[...]
> B.  Report a summary line for ps2ps, which only grohtml uses.

I changed my mind on this one, and no longer see a need to do it.

The groff build is not complexly parameterized in the presence or
absence of "ps2ps"; we don't AC_SUBST it, for example.  Further, ps2ps
is just one of several host commands that we handle the same way (along
with several from NetPBM/PNMtools); the absence of any of them has the
same result: grohtml can't be used, which we consider an abnormal (not
to say erroneous) configuration.

https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/m4/groff.m4?h=1.24.0.rc2#n202

Those facts distinguish it from gropdf's 3 supported configurations.

Regards,
Branden
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