Subject: Re: CVS commit: sharesrc
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@netbsd.org>
From: Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net>
List: source-changes
Date: 03/05/2001 02:59:03
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 08:52:12AM +0200, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> 
> Module Name:	sharesrc
> Committed By:	tron
> Date:		Mon Mar  5 06:52:12 UTC 2001
> 
> Modified Files:
> 	sharesrc/share/mk: bsd.man.mk
> 
> Log Message:
> Invoke "groff" directly when building manual pages, "nroff" is just a
> shell script wrapper. This saves at least one fork(2) and one exec(2)
> while creating each manual page and should thus speed up builds.

Uh, am I the only one who thinks this is really Just Going The Wrong
Direction?  Man pages have always been built with nroff, and this HACK
will have little or no effect other than making the .mk file depend on
groff.

Did you even *measure* the alleged performance gain?