On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 10:18:48AM +1000, grant beattie wrote:

> providing a whole suite. there is probably no reason why you couldn't
> add tbl to the list of tools and pull in groff if tbl isn't available,
> but I'm not sure I can think of a situation where that would be
> needed.

actually now that I think about it, it does make sense if the system is
Linux/BSD/similar where groff provides tbl(1) but groff is not
installed.

Jeremy Reed's PR 23010 covers this problem in a more specific way, and
the functionality should be added to tools.mk so every package can use
it.

grant.